Paris, Tenn.—Thanks to the No Limits Livestock Show organization, 144 gifts were delivered to students in every special education classroom in both Paris Special Schools and Henry County Schools Friday.
No Limits Livestock Show is the brainchild of Sarah Cate Orr, who said it was started as a way to give the special education students of Henry County an opportunity to exhibit small livestock at the Henry County Fair in their own show and to give them the opportunity to work with mentors to prepare for the school.
She explained her inspiration for starting No Limits stems from when she was in kindergarten and her aunt was a special education teacher at her school. “I spent a lot of time in her classroom, so from an early age, I have enjoyed the unconditional friendship that those children were quick to give,” she said, explaining that she also worked as a peer tutor in the special education classrooms as she got older. She said the idea came to her when she showed her first steer at the Henry County Fair in 2019.
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, No Limits was forced to think outside the box this year and Orr delivered goody bags to every special education student in the county. The goody bags contained toys, books and activity packs on agriculture.
Next semester, she said the No Limits program will be making visits to each school to let students interact with small livestock, like a mobile petting zoo. “We do still plan to have an actual livestock show, but for now we have to think of safe ways to expose these students to the world of agriculture without exposing them to COVID,” she said.
