HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Usually the Reno County 4-H youth work on community projects throughout the year, but due to the pandemic they have been unable to do a lot of the projects they normally would work on to help others or help the community.
So a plan was made to take all the clubs in Reno County and ask them about doing gifts for the residents in the rest homes. Seven clubs participated throughout Reno County. The club was told it would take 1000 gifts to cover the 11 nursing homes in the county. All presents have or will be wrapped with a card and some will have ornaments with the presents also. The homes are coming to the Reno County Extension office and hand-picking items for each of the residents, so it makes it a little more to the residents' liking.
Donna Phillips with the Extension Service says that along with the residents the youth have had so much taken away from them this year because of the pandemic that it was nice to be able to do this for area citizens.