Heading into 1994, Henrietta Parker had the good fortune of working in an industry that was teetering on the brink of collapse. That’s right, good fortune, because it was that precarious situation that led Parker to change her life for the better – along with the lives of countless others in her community. “I had been working for an employment agency, which in the early-to-mid-’90s  was an industry that had fallen on hard times,” recalled Parker. “At the same time, because my husband was an educator, I was very aware of the growing number of children in our community who were at risk. So when I’d read an ad that AmeriCorps was looking for someone to work on a mentoring project, I jumped at the chance.” What resulted from that ad was the Wicomico Mentoring Project, and 17 years later, the future of the county’s at-risk children looks brighter than ever. Formed under the direction of the Wicomico County Board of Education, the... » Click here for the full story.