For Larissa Anderson, the Ithaca Youth Bureau brings back many fond memories of summers swimming at Cass Park and working outside in the sun with children half her age. Since she was 14, Anderson has been a part of the Ithaca Youth Bureau. Her first job was acting as a junior counselor at Cass Park.

Anderson went from being a quiet, shy 14-year-old to boldly talking about her new life as a junior at Ohio Wesleyan University and showing off her new industrial piercing she got last year in her left ear. Wearing an OWU T-shirt, Anderson fondly talked about filling out an application to be a part of the YES program and the "crazy" nerves she felt coursing through her body on her first day of work at her first job.

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