“Utah’s Top Youth Volunteers Of 2020 Selected By National Program

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honors Salem and Bountiful students with $1,000, medallions and trip to nation’s capital Finalists also named in Provo, Salt Lake City, Lehi and Saint George.

The program judges also recognized four other Utah students as Distinguished Finalists for their impressive community service activities. Each will receive an engraved bronze medallion. These are Utah’s Distinguished Finalists for 2020:

Ashlyn Anderson, 17, of Provo, Utah, a senior at Timpview High School, has spent hundreds of hours helping refugees around the world by soliciting donations from local businesses, making and selling baked goods, and assembling hygiene kits to send to refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Ashlyn also educates others in her community about the international refugee crisis, and arranged for a refugee and author to share his story at a lunch event.”

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