American Legion Howe Harvey Carper Post 30 Commander Richard Lyckman (left) honors Boys State participants Charlie Davis and Dawson Martin, and Girl’s State Representative Lillie Hurst (not pictured is Boys State participant Thomas Grant) along with American Legion member Max Mottesheard at a recent American Legion meeting. Post 30 sponsored the students’ participation in the program. Virginia Boys State is a “leadership action program, designed to develop a working knowledge of the structure of government and to impress upon the citizen the fact that our government is just what we make it. Along the way they will have the opportunity to learn the political process. Each level of government will be run by those delegates who are elected to serve. Instruction will be presented on the law and court system, parliamentary procedure and Virginia political history,” according to the American Legion.
