No Limits, Nebraska's youth-led tobacco prevention movement, has announced its new board members for the 2011-2012 year.

Members of the 2011-2012 No Limits Youth Board include:

Alena Hejl of Lincoln Southeast High School; Kashandra Jones of Omaha North High School; Erica Pribil of Lincoln East High School; Shaquan Abram of Omaha Benson High School; Bridget Hamata of Ralston, Mercy High School; Lisa Brune of Lincoln Southeast High School; Skyler May of Lincoln Southeast High School; Victoria Shum of LIncoln Southeast High School; Brooklyn Swantek of McCool Junction High School; Dalton Meier of Elm Creek High School; Kenzee Kucera of Lawrence/Nelson High School; Monika Root of McCool Junction High School; Reyna Raymundo of Grand Island High School; and Sky Oldham of Kearney High School.

No Limits Nebraska is Nebraska's first youth-led and youth-driven tobacco prevention movement. By using activism, Nebraska teens are coming together to minimize the tobacco industry's influence in Nebraska.

The Buffalo County Youth Advisory Board has announced its board members for the 2011-2012 year.

The board members include: Saul Auilar, Madison Hyde and Olivia Hyde of Gibbon; Trenton Hoffman of Elm Creek; Armando Tapia of Pleasanton; Clayton Stoppkotte of Shelton; Maranda Kegley of Amherst; Chase Erwin of Summer-Eddyville-Miller; Michael Steele and Katie Schambach of Ravenna; Justine Bauer and Dalton Meier of Elm Creek; Jenna Martin, Adam Ripp and Kaden Zwiener of Pleasanton; Maria Henninger and David Mueller of Shelton; Zane Peterson and Brian Wietjes of Amherst; Lance English and Audrey Gallegos of Summer-Eddyville-Miller; Garrison Lowe, Molly Klingingsmith, Alex Lowe and Spencer Lowe of Kearney Catholic; Griffin Mims, Hanna Loeske, Rosamond Thalken, Jack Anderson and Isabel Thalken of Kearney High.

Buffalo County Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is a program and a philosophy that recognizes youth as valuable resources in their community and empowers them as equal community partners to bring about positive community change. Buffalo County YAB, governed by a board of youth and adults and supported by local funders, provide grants for youth-initiated and youth-led community projects. Youth tackle a range of social problems that concern them from our economy and environment to safety, tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs.


The Buffalo County Youth Advisory Board began in 2000 with over 50 Buffalo County youth engaged in building a model youth board that would encompass all Buffalo County communities. Youth in 7th-12th grade, from the following communities can serve on the board: Amherst, Pleasanton, Elm Creek, Ravenna, Gibbon, Shelton, Kearney, Kearney Catholic, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller.

A Grand Island teen has been recognized for her efforts in reducing tobacco use in a story in the Grand Island Independent.

Reyna Raymundo, a member of the No Limits youth board, is actively involved in a number of other organizations: SADD, Key Club, marching band, GISH Multicultural Club, Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions and Tobacco Free Hall County, as well as No Limits. And Grand Island Senior High counselor Dave Woods says she can be counted on to give her all.