Many children cannot handle being away from parental figures for even a few hours, such is their devotion to one another. Since October, Rayn Scott has shown immense maturity in waiting for her mother to return from her Navy deployment, as the eight-year-old soon-to-be-third-grader at Delaplaine McDaniel School, 1801 S. 22nd St., has excelled in her studies and has devoted herself to exploring her talent as a dancer.
The resident of the 2600 block of Latona Street showed her fancy footwork through praise dance participation at the St. Paul Chapel Baptist Church and enrollment at Chantel Price Dance School. The Grays Ferry occupant, whom nominator/grandmother Donna Brown described as “a very outgoing person who would, even at a young age, give you the shirt off her back,” has also raised spirits through cheerleading endeavors while living in Harrisburg and by volunteering for Second District Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, 186th district state Rep. Jordan Harris, and the Young Chances Foundation. Like her patriotic matriarch, Rayn wishes to serve her country through the Navy. May the Lord bless and protect her as that dream takes shape. – Joseph Myers
