A Daughter’s Appreciation to her Mother, a Friend of Workers

by James Parks, May 20, 2007

Penny Adams and her daughter Nichi.

Some parents aren’t exactly sure what their children think of them. But Penny Adams, who works with the AFL-CIO Community Services program in Missouri, knows now.

Her daughter, Nichi Yeager, wrote an article in the May edition of Josephine Magazine, a supplement of the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, which lays out how she sees her mother. In the article, Nichi says:

For more than 15 years, she has been involved in the AFL-CIO Community Services in one facet or another.

Once, she told me she helps other people because “it’s the right thing to do.”

Now she searches for furniture to fill barren homes, clothes for empty closets and funds for shallow wallets that need to pay the bills.

She has one of those jobs that doesn’t sound like much when you hear it. Her title doesn’t include “Red Cross” or “United Way,” but the company she works for has an incredible impact on this community.

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