Fox Pest Control Awards Scholarship to College Student Changing Lives with Post-It Notes

 

While volunteering for Hope for NH Recovery — a nonprofit that helps people with substance abuse issues recover — Cote and her father created what they called the Post-It Project. In an effort to make each person in recovery feel loved and appreciated, they purchased close to 600 post-it notes, wrote inspirational messages on them, and posted them over three walls in the organization. Delia wrote a separate note of instruction next to the display: “Take what you need or leave one behind.” 

 

Since that day, the walls have grown exponentially with notes from visitors seeking help and encouragement.

 

“It was such an impactful project and I believe it has a lot of potential in any area,” Cote said. “You never know what anybody’s going through, what they’re dealing with, or maybe they’re just having a rough day. It’s just something that they need.”

 

Cote plans on using the funds from the scholarship to help her complete this semester of college, as money for school has been difficult to obtain for her family due to medical debt from her father’s double transplant and quintuple bypass years ago. 

 

“We were unfortunately unable to get a student loan for a really long time, so I’ve been paying semester by semester out of pocket,” she said. “This semester we were able to get a loan, but there’s still some missing, and that’s what the scholarship is going to  —   to finish off the balance for this year.”

 

Keith Howard, president of Hope for NH Recovery, said Cote’s project helps calm the nerves of the people that come to the organization seeking help.

 

“People walking in here for the first time typically have some amount of anxiety and nervousness,” Howard shared. “So when a staff person has them walk over to that wall, it gives them a chance to take 30 seconds or a minute to look over all the positive messages.” 

 

Fox Pest Control CEOs Mike Romney and Bryant White expressed gratitude for all the applicants’ hard work and congratulated Delia on winning the scholarship.

 

“Delia embodies Fox’s core values, specifically those of Relationships First, Lift Where You Stand, and Excellence in the Ordinary. She used her time as a volunteer to make the biggest impact in a way that can be passed on through all of our communities. We are honored to grant her this scholarship and look forward to seeing where she takes the world as a leader of tomorrow.”

 

For more information about Fox Pest Control, visit the company’s website. To learn more about Hope for NH Recovery or to donate, visit https://recoverynh.org/.