National 4-H Week is declared each year to recognize youths and the impact they have on their community, and on Monday morning, Alfalfa County commissioners did just that. Student 4-H president Taryn Miller was on hand with the county officials (Jay Hague, Stan Tucker and Marvin Woodall) to hand in a proclamation for this year's National 4-H Week (Oct. 6-12). Hague read the proclamation aloud and followed with a motion for its acceptance that the other two men endorsed.

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