ROYAL CITY — Most parents who have had children in 4-H will tell you it’s one of the best programs for helping children develop and work their way to successful lives.

Allison Joslin, president of the Liberty Livestock 4-H Club, is a good example. The Royal High senior is in her tenth year of 4-H, and she is already on a remarkable path.

Allison participates in the Big Bend Community College Running Start Program. At graduation from Royal High this spring she will receive an AA degree as well as her diploma.

Having participated in Running Start will allow Allison to earn a bachelor’s in three years. She will attend BBCC one year for her sciences, then move on to Eastern Washington University. She plans to be a dental hygienist.

Allison will graduate with a better than 3.80 grade point average. She believes it could have been higher if not for the “tougher classes” at BBCC.Allison, who has served as secretary before, runs the club’s monthly meetings. She also puts herself in front of people showing pigs at the Grant County and Adams County Fairs. She has save $10,000 for college from the sale of those pigs.

As soon as the application season start she will for additional scholarships.

Allison participates in volleybal at the high school, playing in the back row from the libero position.

Allison started 4-H at the age of seven. She has always wanted to be a part of it.

“I like helping the younger kids who have never done 4-H,” she said.

She does that by working with them individually and by leading the club meetings are held from October through August.

Liberty Livestock members do a yearly clean-up at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, where people who came here as early as the 1800s are buried. They do a city clean-up and wash fire trucks, and they raise donations for charitable causes.

Allison and the club members live by a 4-H motto: To make the best better.