"Spotlight Series": Nicholas County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Nicholas County

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of education programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Nicholas County where the County Extension Homemakers support local troops and their families by sponsoring meals for spouses and their children during military support meetings. They also started an adopt-a-soldier program in which each homemaker sponsored one soldier in the 2nd Battalion and sent weekly care packages. During special holidays, Extension Homemakers sent each soldier a phone card allowing him/her to talk to loved ones. The project created the demand for another truck to pick up the mail. The Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery made national headlines because they received more mail and care packages in army history, according to the USA Today and the Lexington Herald Leader.

For more information about the needs of families in Nicholas County and how UK Cooperative Extension Service is providing services, please click here to see the full Nicholas County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Profile.