Lucetta Jane Adams Raynor was loved by all, especially the children whose lives she touched every day for more than four decades as a primary school teacher. Keeping with the family tradition of helping the youth, Reginald Raynor Jr. has been employing the Island’s youth every summer to work at the service station.

But there is a catch - you have to have good grades.

Mr. Raynor explains how important it is to reach out and help the youth by offering them employment during the summer. Employment, he says, which helps develop a life-long job mentality.

“Over the last few years, we’ve found working with the youth to be very rewarding,” he adds. “It develops their conversing skills with the public, but also helps them mature and develop skills they need as adults.”

Co-owner Pamela Raynor stresses the importance of grades to being employed at Raynor’s Service Station: “They have to be students who participate at school and are passing the grade.”

She adds that this was the incentive they gave the students and in two cases, students’ grades improved in order for them to be employed.

“We don’t want this to be their last stop, we just want to help them develop their potential,” Mrs. Raynor concludes.