Newport News-Times: Blazers Community Builders program empowers local youth

Newport News-Times: Blazers Community Builders program empowers local youth: "Blazers Community Builders program empowers local youth
By Laura Eberly Of the News-Times

Carmen Lara of Newport and Jennifer Reis of Yachats, members of the 2004-05 Lincoln County Youth Leadership Team, served as 2005 Blazers Ambassadors recently through the Blazers Community Builders Youth Corps, a program of the Portland Trail Blazers National Basketball Association franchise, Camp Fire U.S.A., and Hands On Portland. Program participants work to promote youth voice and advocacy in arenas throughout the Northwest, including the state legislature, and this year worked together in dividing $40,000 in philanthropic grant monies among regional organizations working to engage young people in their communities."