VERGENNES UNION HIGH School junior Kelsey Howard stands in the school near the map she has hung that shows where recent graduates are serving in the armed forces. Howard was recently named Youth of the Year by the Boys’ & Girls’ Club of Greater Vergennes.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
VERGENNES — When Ferrisburgh’s Kelsey Howard first came to the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes five years ago, she was an 11-year-old so shy she admits she spent a year doing little more than sitting in a corner with club supervisor Kathy Ciociola.