Guests at a recent Mountain Home Rotary Club meeting were three area high school students who were sponsored by the club for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp in Oklahoma. They are: (from left) Perrine Piccioli, Mountain Home High School Rotary Youth Exchange student, Karli Leisey, and Emily Cowart, both from Cotter High School. Juniors in high school who attend Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp have shown potential in leadership in their school or community. RYLA camp was held at the Salvation Army Heart O’ the Hills Campground and Conference Center at Tahlequah, Okla.

Ninth-grade members of Rotary Club Youth Leadership Programs from Cotter, Mountain Home and Norfork Schools are shown at the James A. Gaston Visitor Center in Bull Shoals where they worked briefly on the butterfly garden. With the help of Marion County Master Gardener volunteers, the group planted almost 200 pansies, dianthus and snapdragons, 45 daffodil bulbs, helped pull weeds, and lay new mulch. While they were in the garden, they encountered various butterflies and caterpillars and a few even found some eggs and chrysalis.