June 25th, 2025
Yancy’s Year of Yes’s
Yancy is a lady filled with artistic talents and love of baking, horror movies, and adventure. This past year, Yancy has used her gifts and interests to connect to the community. Yancy has joined a craft group where she is noticed, known, and she is missed when she is absent. She started doing her drawings at the craft group and the facilitator later suggested Yancy try looming. She is learning the loom one stitch at a time, while stitching strong relationships through the shared love of crafting. As a part of this group, each member shares baked goods during their birthday month. Yancy did this and took it a step further, making two desserts throughout the year and themed them for Halloween as well, because ‘who doesn’t love a good theme?’
Yancy also has a love of animals and has a few pets of her own; a dog, two birds and a fish. She has skills in cleaning and being organized. The idea came up for Yancy to get connected with the Humane Society. Yancy went for the interview and got a role as a shelter helper where she does laundry and dishes, ensuring the animals have clean things in their temporary home. Her contributions have