Sarah - Health Wellness & Quality of Life

Sarah Wimer

Blog number 4

March 28, 2012

Today’s blog is about Health and wellness & Quality of life. I enjoyed how we started the day off with a fun and healthy breakfast at Hy-vee, learning a very helpful way to make life easier, healthier, and happier. Being shown, NuVal, a scoring system that helps you pick out a better nutritional meal that will benefit you and your family. I find this system well thought out and very useful. Thanks to my morning at Hy-vee I now use the system and have shown others in my family the easier way to make better choices on the things we place in our bodies. We had also toured the Fremont Family YMCA where we all had a blast “working out” with some super fun senior citizens who truly made my day showing us how burning those calories can be fun and not to difficult. Its always good to see not only the young but the elder still up and busting a move!:) We then finished are day at the FAMC with a tour and better understand of what Fremont has to offer us. Today was a success and am happy to say, I had enjoyed it!

Sarah - Education Day

Sarah Wimer

Blog number 3

October 26, 2001

Today my blog is about Education. Today I thought was a really good day! Being that we are all juniors in high school education is the only thing that is what is really important and should be our main focused. We had gone to Midland when we started with really funny games that we all really enjoyed. It was something good to start the day plus it got us closer together, bonding moments are always cute. After that the tour I thought was beneficial do to a lot of us may be going to not only midland but to any college and its important to see what everything will be like. Also it was nice to hear what college also has to offer instead of just sitting in classes. The best part of the day was going to the elementary school. I love talking to little kids, I find a great enjoyment in them. Playing the games where fun and you know they had the time of their lives with us which just made it all more the fun! Plus a cookie with a juice box was a perfect way to end the day! Over all it was a great day and I think we all enjoyed it!  

Sarah - City/County Governmet Day

Sarah Wimer

Blog number 2

December 28, 2011

Today my blog is about city/county government, law, legal and media. What I like about this program is that we all learn not only something about are community about it’s a step closer to learning about who/what we are meant to be. To be completely blunt this day I found rather boring. I do believe that every class we have everyone is beneficial in some way. This one was beneficial because in now know that I never want to be a part of any of what they do, unless I was a part of a youth council board of some sort. Honestly I don’t think many of us as a class found this day to be too exciting in anyway, but having the class we do we, we all trooped through it rather well together. I can say its safe to say that it there were times that we well, the whole day wasn’t a complete disaster in anyway but something that may what to be changed a little. Over all I think we got through it well and we all grew in a way, learned about ourselves and finished strong J

Sarah - Community and social services

Sarah Wimer

Blog number 1

November 23, 2011

Today my blog is about Community and social services. The Youth Leadership academy of Fremont went around to different places in Fremont to see what are community offers to people who may need a little more help than others. This is by far one of my favorite day, that as a group was a part of. I love the fact that I was able to see and understand what Fremont dose for others. I know now thank you to this that there are many things that I can, and will be a part of to help others in my community. I find true enjoyment in helping others and it made my day better when I was able to see the opportunities. One thing that I would like to see that if you take us as a group to see what we can do to help, a lot of organizations didn’t what are help because of our age. When I am show fun and exciting things its kind of a downer when I am unable to do the job. Over all I found this day a good help to what I plan to do in the future and I find it beneficial to the rest of my classmates also.

Abby's post about Ag Literacy

On May 23rd the Youth Leadership Academy went to hooper and meet with different farmers. The first farmer grew crops and the told us about the new technology that is coming for the tractors. They bought a GPS that can remeber were they sprayed or planted and it also can drive it self.The GPS cost more than what most GPS's would cost but it was wourth every pennie.The second farmer was a farmer of a dairy farm he showed you how a cow gets milked with a machine instead of hand milking. He showed us the baby cows that was old enough to wean from it's mother. We saw how the mix the food and what they mix together. We got to go into a barn that had a cow in it the just got born. i never seen a newborn cow before that was the first time that I seen that. For the last farm that we went to was in dogde. That farm was a person that bought cattle from actions and other places and then the kept them until they were able to get killed for its meat.

By: Abby Tunender

Final Note From the Director of Programs

What a way to end the session, the Youth had a great experience on their Ag Literacy tour!


We would like to thank the Dodge County Farm Bureau for sponsoring the lunch!
Bernie & Sandy at Hilltop Lanes in Dodge did an amazing job with the catering!!  YUM!

Tracy from UNL Extension in Dodge County  did a fabulous job arranging the session and we value her expertise!


Below are several links to the many programs who presented information to the students about their organizations.

Become A-FAN of Sustainable Agriculture in Nebraska

Nebraska Corn Board


Nebraska Soybean Board


J & S Feedlot, Inc.


Common Ground Nebraska




Finally, the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and the Leadership Fremont Alumni Association would like to thank the YLA Curriculum Committee members for donating their time to organizing such wonderful sessions for the youth for the 2011-2012 year.

Co-Chairs:
Jessica Heineman, Anytime Fitness
Shawn Shanahan, Fremont Area United Way

Lindsey Adams, Midland University - Education Day
Tracy J. Behnken, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Dodge County - Ag Literacy Day
Eric Bremers, Metropolitan Community College - Fremont Area Center - Business & Economic Development Day
Jeff Hoffman, John C. Fremont Days, Inc. - History & Cultural Heritage Day
Valerie Prenzlow, Fremont Family YMCA/Sidner Ice Arena - Health, Wellness & Quality of Life Day
John Schmitz, City of Fremont - City & County Government Day
Sheila Sookram, Eakes Office Plus -  Community Social Services Day
Ron Tillery, Fremont Chamber of Commerce - State & Federal Government Day
Bill Vobejda, Fremont Tribune - Business & Economic Development Day
Maggie Zarate, Nebraska Department of Labor - History & Cultural Heritage Day

And again, a special thank you to the Fremont Tribune for their Title Sponsorship for the 2011-2012 YLA session!

Alexis's post about Ag. Literacy

May 23, 2012

Today has been pretty interesting.  We went to a farm where they talked to us about agriculture and how much wil be needed in the near future.  It really surprised me how the population of the earth right now is about 7billion and I think we will eventually reach 9billion within a few years. If that's the case we will need more farmers to grow crops and raise live stock to feed the growing population.

Abby's Experience on the Business & Economic Development Day

I didn't know that a lot of brownies was out of her kitchen and then moved to the space that she is now. She told us about how she started little and became bigger and has more orders than what she make in one day. When we went to the tribune I was surprise that they were going to ship the printer to another state after they just bought it not very long ago. I didn't know that the tribune helped different companies to help them get their business out in the web world.

Alexis's post on Business & Economic Development Session

April 25, 2012

The Economics day was very interesting.  I got to see a lot of businesses I didn't even know existed.  I also had no idea that Fremont had businesses that sent their products all over the world.  It was very enlightening that Fremont has places that do that.  I think the best part of the day was Alotta Brownies, their food is amazing and it seems like a very well respected business.

~Alexis Robeson

Ryan C's Post on Heath, Wellness & Quality of Life Day

My favorite YLA day so far was the Health, Wellness & Quality of Life Day.  I think this was my favorite because I want to be involved in a health care career one day.  I am leaning toward a degree in physical therapy so learning more about health care services was very important to me. We have excellent health and wellness facilities in Fremont.  FAMC and the Fremont Family YMCA are really great.  I enjoyed hearing Brett Richmond from FAMC talk about leadership in the health care field.  The tour of the FAMC rehab facility was also very interesting.  This is the type of place I might work in someday.

Ryan C's Post on Community & Social Services Day

On November 23, 2011 we toured some of the facilities in Fremont that provide community services.  We toured Salvation Army, Low Income Ministry, Care Corps, Habitat for Humanity, Lutheran Family Services, Jefferson House, Red Cross and Crisis Center.  We also learned about the Teammates mentoring program.  I really liked this day because all these services are so important to many people in Fremont.  It is important for communities to have these services available.  If we didn't have them the people in need would have no one to turn to for help.  By helping those less fortunate we will make our community stronger as a whole.

Ryan C's Post about State & Fed Government Day

On February 15, 2012 we were able to take a tour of the State Capitol Building in Lincoln.  If you have never seen it before it is a really cool building.  I really liked going up all the way to the top of the building.  I had been in the Capitol before but I never got to go all the way to the top of it.  It was interesting to hear some of our state senators talk and to hear how things work in the state government.  I think Governor Heineman is a good leader for our State.

Ryan C's First Blog Attempt

I have never blogged before so this will be a new experience for me.  But, I guess that is what Youth Leadership Academy has been teaching us...all about new experiences.  I would just like to say that I have enjoyed being a part of YLA and I feel like I have learned a lot about many different areas of my community.  I think it is important to take a closer look at some of the areas we sort of take for granted.  I have learned that a community doesn't function just by one or two people running it, it functions by MANY people doing their jobs and working together to make us a stronger community.  We have toured businesses, state and local government, health care facilities, community service opportunities and educational institutions.  All of these are what make our community what it is and they all work together for the common good.

Abby's Post About the Health, Wellness & Quality of Life Session

My blog about Health and Wellness day

I liked how we got to go upstairs in Hyvee I didn't know that there was a upstairs.

I had fun going on the scavenger hunt for are breakfast. It was a challenge for me because I don't go to Hyvee I go to Walmart.

I liked the dietitian that told us about the way that you could find healthy foods in Hyvee.

I liked how the boss had told all the jobs that he did when he worked for Hyvee.

When we went to the YMCA I didn't know that the ice rink was that hard to make the ice on the rink.

I was surprise that there Zamboni was a refinished Zamboni.

I didn't know that they did curling in the ice rink.

I was surprised when we went to the active adults class that all the people that was their was able to keep up.

I got a exercise trying to keep up with the adults.

I liked the speakers that talked to us during lunch.

I didn't like the physical therapy tour it was a little boring.

I liked the radiology tour I didn't know about all the machines.

I liked this day it was a very educational day for me about health and wellness.