Episode 50 Dylan Holmes - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Dylan Holmes, Huntington High School Senior, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:28 1. Dylan, you are a senior at Huntington High School, greatly involved at school both as a student and an athlete.

 

Let’s start here today.

 

You are very active in Kappa League. Tell me what Kappa League is and some of the different things you do as part of Kappa League.

 

2:27 2. You are also a member of Raider Court and I believe you recently went to Washington DC for Close Up as part of Raider Court. Tell me about Raider Court, what it is and some of the different skills you learn as part of the program.

 

5:31 3. We have a long history in Shreveport-Bossier of exporting many of our community’s best and brightest talents. They grow up here, go away to college, accumulate great knowledge, build powerful networks, and end up never returning to live here. With all of that said, would you ever consider living here after college? If not, how would Shreveport-Bossier have to change from what you see today to be a place you would want to return to, to live after college?

 

6:56 4. Let’s talk hypothetically for a second. You are in Washington DC for another trip and you start up a conversation with a group of students from the east coast who have never heard of Shreveport-Bossier. They say, “Dylan, what’s it like where you live?” What do you tell them?

 

7:46 5. As you look around the Shreveport-Bossier community, what are the things you see that make you most hopeful that life is getting better here and that we are making progress as a community?

 

13:25 6. Lastly, what’s the community you want to see here?