LaCENTER – The Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks ‘Trust For Life’ organ, tissue, and cor-nea donation program was the subject of June’s Chamber Breakfast on the 10th. Ballard Circuit Court Clerk Holly Dunker was the first speaker of the morning. Dunker said Kentucky was the first state in the US to begin an organ donation program. TFL began in 1992 and has become a ‘mission’

and just a program to her and her staff. The program went cyber in 2006 and in 2010 turned around when TFL brought Executive Director Shelly Snyder on board. Dunker introduced Snyder as a “little ray of sunshine” for the donation program.

Snyder is personally fa-miliar with organ and tis-sue donation. Snyder said it was a passion to her; it touched her life when she

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LaCENTER, Ky. – About a dozen teams made up of cancer survivors, families, caregivers, local churches and businesses walked into the night to support the American Cancer Society ‘s Relay For Life of Ballard Coun-ty on Friday, June 13, and raised more than $59,837.

The evening began with rec-ognition and celebration of can-cer survivors in the community. Forty-five survivors took part in the opening lap around the bus loop behind Ballard Memorial High School, carrying balloons which represented a particular

cancer awareness color (pink for breast cancer, blue for co-lon cancer, etc.). After the lap’s completion, the survivors then let their cancer balloon go into the early evening sky.

The release went along with the 2014 event theme of “Colors of Cancer; Colors of Hope.”

Teams set up campsites and witnessed the luminaria ceremo-ny at 9:30 p.m. Bags were filled with glow sticks and names of those lost to cancer, cancer survivors and caregivers were read.

Closing ceremonies were fol-

lowed by the last lap with a pur-ple balloon lift off, marking the start of Relay 2015. Awards will be announced Monday, June 23.

The funds raised by the lo-cal Relay For Life event and others help support the work of the American Cancer Society, which involves providing edu-cation on cancer prevention and early detection screening impor-tance, programs and services for cancer patients and caregivers, and research grant funding to discover new and better ways to detect, treat and prevent can-cers.

Since its beginning in 1985, Relay For Life has developed from one man running around a track for 24 hours to a full-fledged international event tak-ing place in more than 5,000 communities and 20 countries across the globe with nearly 4 million walkers in the United States alone.

For more information on the American Cancer Society or Relay For Life, or for cancer information or connections to local, available resources, call anytime, day or night, to 1-800-227-2345.

Upcoming EventsJune 18

The food pantry at New Liberty United Methodist Church in Kevil will be open on Wednesday, June 18, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. A community supper will start at 6 p.m. All are welcome! Take New Liberty Church Rd. off Hwy 60, church at second stop sign.

July 15The Ballard Foot-

ball Boosters are of-fering stainless steel memorial plaques to family members or friends for loved ones who were part of the Ballard Memorial High School football program and who have passed away.

Deadline to order plaques for this year is Friday, July 15. For more information or to obtain an order form, please contact Vicki Gough at 665-8400, ext. 2201, or e-mail vicki.gough@ballard.kyschools.us.

Plaques will be dedicated in a cer-emony at the Aug. 29 BMHS home game versus Fulton City

Relay For Life raises $59,837

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LaCENTER – “These people up here elect us” and we should “conduct the business that we think is appropriate the way they want it done.” “So there’s no confusion I would be against it any place in La center, and I think we would use what ever options we’ve got to keep it from coming to

pass” was the response from La Center Mayor Jamie Hack.

Although, not on the agenda for the city commission’s regular monthly meeting last Tuesday the 10th the sale of the former city hall was the main focus. During last month’s meeting Zack Hodges

of the Good Samaritans of Kentucky (GSK) had requested the property to be declared surplus and sold to the organization for $1 to be used as a location for a proposed residential half-way house. The commission’s answer to Hodges was to discuss the proposal.

What was scheduled

for this month’s meeting were three guest; Joe Cooper, Dick Moore, and Darrell Butler. Surrounded by about forty residents that showed up to voice a united protest against the possible sale.

Moore was the first to speak saying he would like to voice his

opinion. He began with a series of questions: what kind of prisoners are coming; who’s responsible for them; if the people running it has background checks; who pays the bills?

He continued by saying he doesn’t think any one is against half-

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Hillbilly Stills of Barlow and Two Rivers Fisheries of Wick-liffe were recently honored by the Paducah Area Chamber of Com-merce and Ballard County Eco-nomic and Industrial Develop-ment Board. The recognition was held during a Paducah Chamber Breakfast focusing on exporting and entrepreneurship. Both Bal-lard County businesses were rec-ognized as the Entrepreneurs of the Month for excellence in their entrepreneurial and exporting ven-tures. Terry Simmons, President/CEO of the Ballard County Eco-nomic and Industrial Development Board, spoke to the approximately 275 in attendance and presented the awards. Pictured are: Sandra Wilson, President of the Paducah

Area Chamber of Commerce; Mike Haney and Matt Haney, President and Vice President, of Hillbilly Stills; Paducah Chamber Board Chair Deborah Edmonds; Angie Yu, President, Two Rivers Fisheries; and Terry Simmons, President/CEO, Ballard County Economic and Industrial Develop-ment Board.

Established in 2011, Hillbilly Stills manufactures copper distill-ers that are sold nationally and internationally for home brewers and small craft distilleries (web-site: www.hillbillystills.com). Since 2012 Two Rivers Fisheries has processed Kentucky white fish, also known as Asian carp, for ship-ment to Asian countries (website: www.tworiversfisheries.com)

By Kay PressonLate one night, when

my family lived at Elm-wood Court, my sleep was interrupted by a knocking at our down-stairs back door. This was right below my bedroom window, and in the summertime. We had no air conditioners...no fans, and the window was open. Looking out the window, I saw my Aunt Polly Hayden and knew something terrible had happened. She spot-ted me and asked me to come downstairs and let her in. This I did, trying to be quiet and not wake my five siblings who were asleep.

When I unlocked the door and let Aunt Polly

in, I could tell she had been crying. “Kay, your Mother and Daddy have been in a really bad car wreck and are in the hos-pital. Please wake up the little kids; get some clothes together, for I am going to take you all to Mother and Dad’s. Don’t scare the other children, and lock the door.”

Mama and Daddy had left earlier that night, af-ter Daddy had returned home from his job as a bartender at Frank’s Bar in Paducah. He wanted Mama to go with him to the home of her brother, Raymond Barry Menser, “Uncle Bear,” where Daddy would drink alco-hol. This was customary, and Mama came upstairs,

sat down on the side of my bed, gave me the house key and told me that Daddy wanted her to go with him to Uncle Bear’s. She assured me that everything would be alright and they would be back later.

However, things were vastly different, for Daddy, who was high-ly intoxicated, driving back to our home, had a wreck. Mama’s nephew, Freddy Menser (Buddy), had been at Uncle Bear’s and Daddy was going to take him home first, then come back to Elmwood Court. The wreck was almost fatal, for Daddy’s throat was cut from ear to ear, both Mamas’ legs were broken, and Buddy had a burst spleen, and they were all three hospi-talized.

We six children were taken by Aunt Polly to the home of our paternal grandparents, who lived on Hovekamp Road in Paducah. Although we were not told of the de-tails of the accident, me, being a nosy, 12-year old, listened to the conversa-tion of the family when they thought we were asleep. Daddy’s family had a meeting, and my siblings and I overheard that there was a possibil-ity that Mama and Daddy might not live, and that we would be orphaned. In fact, they were plan-ning on which of Dad-dy’s brothers and sisters would get each of us six kids.

It was a miracle that Mama, Daddy, and Bud-dy survived the accident. Mama was confined to a wheelchair the rest of the summer, and when I was older, she told me the doctors had told her she would never walk again. Her response was typi-cal of my Mama’s quiet strength....”I’ve got to walk again...I have six kids to rise.” And, she did indeed walk again.

The summer of my 12th year, I will always remember, and would discourage anyone from drinking and driving. For, we six kids came very close to being orphaned because of my father drinking and driving.

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WICKLIFFE – Wade Garrett, 58 of Wickliffe, passed away at 7:19 p.m. Monday, June 16, 2014 at St. Thomas - West Hospi-tal in Nashville, TN.

Mr. Garrett was a member of Faith Mis-sionary Baptist Church in Wickliffe and former officer of the Wickliffe Eagles Club. He was a pi-lot for CGB Waterfront in Cairo, IL.

He is survived by his wife, Kathy Garrett; two daughters, Melissa Moore of Milburn and Chrissy Garrett of Cape Girardeau; one son, Da-vid Garrett of Barlow; five grandchildren; five sisters, Judy Phillips of Wickliffe, Gayle Jennings of Bardwell, Vickie Cun-ningham of Lone Oak, Nancy Riggs of German-

town, TN, and Jill Harris of Wickliffe; and three brothers, Rodney Garrett of Joliet, IL, Tony Gar-rett of Arlington, and Tim Garrett of Wickliffe.

Mr. Garrett was pre-ceded in death by his par-ents, Clifford and Willie Alice Carpenter Garrett.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, June 20, 2014 at the Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home of Wickliffe with Rev. Dee Hazlewood officiat-ing. Burial will follow in Bethlehem Church Cem-etery. Visitation will be held after 5 p.m. Thurs-day, June 19, 2014 at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to Buzzard’s Roost, 246 Dunbar Drive, Wickliffe, KY 42087.

BARLOW – Christina Evelyn Duncan, age 94, died at Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitaiton in Pad-ucah Monday Evening.

She was a member of Barlow United Methodist Church. Christina was for-merly of Cairo, Illinois.

Christina is survived by two sons Carl Tanksley of Granite City, Illinois, and Kenneth Tanksley of Quitman, Texas. Five Daughters Carlene Haney of Paducah, Ky, Estella Hoover of

Largo, Florida, Donna Purvis of West Paducah, Ky. Janet Evans of Kevil, Ky.and Deborah Staples of Benton, Ky. Two Broth-ers Ernest Marrs of West Union, West Virginia and Carl Marrs of Aurora, Colorado, one sister Edna

Hipps of Cape Giradeau, Missouri. Thirteen Grand-children, 24Great Grand-children and Seven Great Great Grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband H.M. Duncan, one daugh-ter Mary Tanksley, Three brothers, three sisters, and three Grandchildren. Her parents were John and Hattie Marr.

Funeral Services will be Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at Morrow Funeral Chapel in LaCenter with the Rev. Tony Schaeffer officiat-ing. Interment will follow at the Barlow Cemetery. Visitation will begin after 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Morrow Funeral Chapel.

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ObituariesWade Garrett

Christina Evelyn Duncan

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way houses, the area churches already support those types of programs. He went on to say he personally feels the facility just should not be on Broadway and it shouldn’t be that close to the school, City Park, or the bank. He said he was an old man and he walks up and down the street and would hate to have to start carrying a gun. Moore continued by saying he understands that it is a non-profit organization but that he doesn’t personally think that Hodges or GSK partner attorney Mark Medlin would be involved in any thing that’s non-profit, to which the crowd burst into applause.

Cooper said the biggest concern for him is location; it doesn’t belong in the city. Butler on the other hand came prepared, armed with information, but before he began he took the opportunity to thank the mayor and commission on the choice of Kevin Green as city police chief.

Butler started by saying “I question some times the motives of anything, especially some thing like this when it’s being put right in our down town area.” To back up his suspicions for motive and argument against the facility Butler presented some interesting facts:

Dismas House is a non-profit organization operating seven half-way houses in Kentucky alone; in 2009, the latest numbers available, total contributions were $46 million, the state provided $8million and the remaining $38million was from private contributions; the president/ceo received a $603,000 salary- the vice president/coo received $470,000- vice president/cfo received $298,000- there were four other officers receiving six digit salaries also- Dismas House was the exclusive sponsor of the Bellarmine University ( an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville) basketball team and made a four-year “commitment of support” to U of L for a total of $600,000.

As far as institutional and community p r o g r a m m i n g

participation and completion for Fiscal Year 2012 the numbers were not impressive: only 603 of 2,594 completed the academic programs- a little more then 10% completed Vocational Technology programs- Substance Abuse Treatment, 618 of 1,761 completed the program- sex offender treatment/-community only seen around a 25% or less completion rate. Inside/Out, Pathfinders, and Thinking Ahead were bright spots for programming but only had 272 total participants.

Hodges was able to voice his stance and make pitch for the sale of the property. He brought a newspaper clipping from the day’s Paducah Sun that showed a 30% rehabilitation success rate for half way houses. Hodges said the concern GSK was in helping to reintroduce inmates to society and contrary to opinion it was not a get rich scheme.

The commission voted unanimously to decline the sale.

The fire department will not be doing Boston Butts for La Center Days this year. The commission approved the replacement of lights in the fire station. There will be ten at a cost of $160 each.

A resolution to accept municipal road aid was approved and a special called meeting was scheduled for the 17th at 5:30 pm for the second reading of the 2014-2915 budget.

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Ballard County Elementary School has an-nounced the winners of the last bikes for perfect attendance for the 2014-15 school year. Shown above is Dalton Reno. Not shown is Aaliyah Houston. Student names are drawn at the end of each quarter; the gifts are provided by the Ballard County Board of Education.

was 17. Her father passed away suddenly, he went to take a nap and his heart stopped and he never woke up. He was unable to be an organ donor but he was able to be tissue and cornea donor. She said she still remembers her mother saying the do-nation was “one piece of light in a day of complete darkness.” He was able to give sight to a 22 and a 29 year-old by the gift of his corneas.

She said when she looked at the calendar the day he died it said ‘you make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give.’ Snyder said “we have two hands, one to help ourselves and one to help others.”

Guest speaker Kyleen Kelly shared with the group her experience with organ donation. While on vacation in Canada she received a call from her son, Mark, from a hospi-tal emergency room. At age 30 his liver had failed. Two days later, Kelly said, the doctor told them Mark would need a transplant or he would die in just a cou-ple of months. The next seven months were spent in-and-out of the hospital till one day, according to Kelly, Marks body just simply broke down and the doctor said he would be dead in 48 hours with-out the new liver.

Kelly said they called their minister and elders of the church and they prayed and left the situa-

tion in God’s control. On the second day of the 48 hours the nurse finally told them to go home and if there were any changes in Mark’s condition they would call and let them know. At the time pag-ers were in use to notify people on transplant lists, before the use of cell phones was common. Kelly continued by say-ing that when they opened the door to their home the phone was ringing. On the other end was a transplant the transplant nurse. She said the pager never went off and she thought there must have been some thing wrong with it. She said she will never for-get what the nurse said, “we’ve found a transplant for Mark.”

The liver was a per-fect match, according to Kelly, some thing that’s very rare in the transplant world. She went on to say that what that means is the donor has the same body characteristics; height, weight, chest size, and blood type. She said “little did we know that Mark’s donor was going to be a 22 year-old young man from Ballard County.”

Macon Giles was the son of Jack and Rita Giles, who according to Monica Giles Lindsey daughter of the Giles’ and spokes-person for the family, sus-tained fatal injuries during a 4-wheeler in 2000. Mon-ica said she remembered the drive to the hospital, after that midnight call on May 14, “thinking surely he would be alright.” After

hearing the words of the doctor saying he was in grave condition, she said it began t sink in. Macon had received several in-juries to his body but had received head trauma that had left him brain dead.

She said they began to pray, literally plead-ing to God for a miracle. She said they knew they served a sovereign God and wanted his will to be done. After the first day nothing was better. Con-sultants from Kentucky Organ Donation Affiliates (KODA) come in and ex-plain the process of organ donation. She said she had mentioned to her husband that she had an interest in being an organ donor herself but as a family it wasn’t some thing they had discussed and didn’t know how Macon would have felt. After seeking the direction of the Lord they felt compelled that Macon would have cho-sen to donate his organs.

Lindsey said that while they were praying for a miracle there was an-other family praying for a miracle also, without a liver transplant he would die too. She continued by saying that when they wrap there arms around Mark Kelly they are em-bracing a part of their loved one that never died. She said that the Kelly’s are like family and they enjoy getting together a couple of times a year to celebrate another year of Marks life. Three other people were recipients of Macon’s organs.

Christina Hadley El-legood shared her experi-ence with the donation of her sister’s, Nichole Had-ley, organ donation. Nic-hole was a victim of the Heath High School shoot-ing that impacted her fam-ily for the negative and the positive. Ellegood said she was a sad but excited about telling the story of her sister. She described her as a slender, six-foot tall, 14 year-old, super out-going funny person that loved to be the life of the party. Just a little while before the shooting she had seen a show about organ donation and was excited about it and would tell every one about organ donation so there was no question what to do. She said Nichole wanted to touch people’s lives and make a difference in the world and was ultimately able to make a huge dif-ference in many people’s lives. With all the media attention the family con-sidered the best way to take advantage was to dis-cuss organ donation.

All of Nichole’s major organs were donated. The doctors in Louisville said they had never seen a set of lungs fit into some one’s body the way Nichole’s fit into her recipient’s. The

family has been able to meet a woman from the Philadelphia area whose life was saved by one of Nichole’s organs. They have also met the man who received her heart.

Deann Logsdon from Barlow completed the speakers list for the day. In July of 1999 she said she had had an infection and was given an antibi-otic and had an allergic reaction to it. The reaction sent her into liver failure. In the Hospital she slipped into a coma and her kid-neys failed. Eventually they called her family in told them she would prob-ably not make it through the night. At that time she had gone to the top of the transplant list and that same night received a liver.

She says she often thinks of the man and his family who donated his organs and is so thankful that they made the deci-sion and gave her life, and a second chance. “I know because of God too and a whole lot of prayers I’m standing here today,” add-ed Logsdon.

Ballard Chamber direc-tor Myra Hook concluded by saying she hadn’t real-ized how many times her life had been touched by

organ donation. Her first husband was killed in 1984 at age 30 by a drunk driver. There wasn’t a pro-gram like TFL at the time, she said if she could have known that through his death others could have lived she thinks it would have helped her through that time a lot.

Hook’s brother’s grand-child was born with a hole in his heart and there wasn’t a lot of hope for him but he miraculously received a heart and now doing well.

There are more then 50% of Ballard County resident on the donor reg-istry; more than the state average and more then the national goal: Bal-lard is normally in the top ten counties in the state that collect $1 for TFL: in May 75% of Ballard resi-dents visiting the Clerks office gave a dollar to TFL: any one regardless of age can be a donor; the oldest donor for Ky was 84 year-old and nation-ally was 91: donation of organs should not delay or impact funeral arrange-ments: there should never be any cost associated to the donor family: there are more than 122,000 people nationally on an organ transplant list.

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Although common in this area the Western Mud Snake, or Francia aba-cura reinwardtii, is rarely seen due to their nocturnal habits but may sometimes be found under debris near water or crossing roadways during rain.

The back is colored a shiny blue-black to black above, with the sides al-ternating this color with shiny salmon pink to or-ange bars. The belly al-

ternates dark with pinkish bars. The tail ends with a single terminal scale that forms an awl-like tip. The bright colors of this snake make it easy to identify. Average length is 36 to 54 inches. Mud Snakes may lay from 10 to more than 50 eggs. The female frequently stays with the eggs, coiled around them. Young snakes are similar to adults but the orange bars may be more pro-

nounced.Confined in Kentucky

to the purchase area this snake is rarely encoun-tered far from water and cypress swamps due mostly to its preferred diet of amphiumas and sirens.

Mud Snakes are non-poisonous and as a mat-ter of fact when captured, they are one of only a few snake species that will never offer to bite.

Profiles in Nature By Jack Glisson

Photo courtesy www.kentuckyupclose.com

Mud Snakes are non-poisonous and as a matter of fact when captured, they are one of only a few snake species that will never offer to bite.

Mud snakes a familiar site to western Kentucky residents

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I saw my first Japa-nese beetles hatching out this past week. In the past several years, they have gone from a major pest, devouring every-thing across the county to a more occasional pest damaging plant in pock-ets around the county. This is the way their in-vasion has played out in other parts of the coun-try. As more native ani-mals recognize them as a food source, their num-bers will continue to go down.

This winter was also colder than normal. Cer-tain plants, like Bermuda grass, had a very hard time making it through this winter. I know many of you think I’m kidding when you have tried ev-erything to control Ber-muda grass where it was not wanted in the past and couldn’t kill it, but this winter has wiped it out. I don’t think the winter had much of an effect on these beetles as they are well protected in cocoon like structures underground until they hatch out with the onset of warmer weather.

I mention them main-ly as a warning to begin looking at target plants to see if they might be a problem in your yard this summer. The first places I would look are any of the purple leaf plum trees, these seem to be a big draw. Rose of Sharon is also a plant that seems to draw them for miles around. When you see them on these plants it is time to think about protecting some of the other plants in your yard. Where they can

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I look for these beetles to be much less of a prob-lem this year than in the past. That does not mean that everyone will be safe. There may still be pocket this summer that suffer severe infestations. Now is the time to get out there and look at your yard as the beetle hatch is just beginning.Pro-grams of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, age, sex, color, religion, dis-ability or national origin. For additional informa-tion, contact the Ballard County Extension Office, 110 Broadway, LaCenter, 665-9118.

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BCES marks 20th ...Ballard County Elementary School marked its 20th anniversary on June 4 with a luncheon for current and former employees. Shown from left are current Assistant Principal Angie Woods; the first BCES assistant principal, Chan Case; the first BCES principal, Gracie Nichols; current Principal Vicki Gough; former BCES guidance counselor, Pam Gabbard; and current Guidance Counselor Vicki Fowler.

Ballard County Middle School held its Awards Day ceremonies for sixth and seventh grade on May 27, and immediately preceding eighth-grade promotions on May 30 in the school gym. Recognitions were as follows:

Principals’ AwardsThese awardees are cho-

sen by Principal Kevin Estes and Assistant Principal Amber Parker for the boy and girl in each class that they consider to show the characteristics of stu-dent ambassadors for BCMS and their grade level. Those qualities include being depend-able, honest, well-rounded (both in academics and extra-curricular activities), promoters of BCMS in school and outside school; having gone above and beyond in the classroom, and with teacher and administra-tors’ requests, administrators requests. This year’s winners are Colton Baker and Anna Thompson in sixth grade, Syd-ney Leigh and Drake Walsh in seventh grade, and Morgan Graves and Blake Sanders in eighth grade.

Holly Adams, 6th language arts, reading

MAZE: Dalton Hawes, Brandon Rodgers, improved 11 points.

Fluency: Brady Parrott im-proved 45 words.

STAR: Dillion Hollon went up 2.4 grade levels.

Language arts awards: Anna Thompson, Ryan Reh-kemper, Slade Donner, Zoie Overby

Cindy White, 6th mathFirst block, Kylie Koontz;

third block, Jacob Howle; fifth block, Alex Overby; sixth block, Eli Johnson; seventh block, Brighton Cooper and Bre Rush-ing

Dana Donner, 6th science, keyboarding

Science: Colton Baker, Katana Byas, Hannah Dixon, Slade Donner, Peyton Leh-mann, Ryan Rehkemper, Shel-by Taylor, Anna Thompson

Keyboarding: Daegon By-ers, Reece Joles, Faye O’Brien,

Bre RushingCathey Seaton, 6th social

studies, study skillsSocial studies:3rd block,

Alex Ferren, Faye O’Brien; 5th block, Ryan Rehkemper, Zoie Overby; 6th block, Colby Dome’, Abby Gates; 7th block, Colton Baker, Abby Tyson

Study skills: first quarter, Hannah Dixon; second quarter, Brittany Rudolph; third quarter, Ella Waldon; fourth quarter, Brighton Cooper

Holly Kelly, 7th language arts, reading lab

First block, Emma LeFevre; second block, Logan Scott; third block, Alex Russell; sixth block, Madison Frye.

Reading lab: Bryan Allen, Tyler Chandler, Will Mathis, Christian Wallace

Sherry Bertram, 7th mathFirst block: Right-Hand

Man, Lance Colson; outstand-ing students, Joseph Pegram, Cehara Griffin; second block, Steven Seaton, Chase Run-dles; third block pre-algebra: Madison Frye, Jimmy Horn; sixth block pre-algebra: Tristen Hammond, Chloe Irvin, Taryn Hamilton, Ben Fithen.

Outstanding sixth-grader in seventh-grade advanced pre-algebra: Slade Donner.

Sue Morris, 7th scienceOutstanding science

awards, based on overall ex-cellence: Cody Howard, Mad-eline Kimbro, Mason Purcell, Tryn Hamilton, Braden Nich-ols, Preston Reno, Parker Fe-ezor, Jayden Anderson; special award to Charida Robinson

Science lab: Tyler Chan-dler, Colson Ivitts, Brandon Myatt, Christian Wallace, Erick Marinelli, Ben Thomas

Adam Solomon, 7th social studies

Awards based on grade point average, classroom par-ticipation, and class insight.

First block, Abby Phelps, Chase Rundles; second block, Wyatt laPradd, Chloe Irvin; third block, Ben Fithen, Jordan Wood; fourth block, Mason Purcell, Kierstan Guynn

Economics: first quarter, Ben Thomas, Katie Garner; second quarter, Erick Marinelli, Hanna Abernathy; third quarter, Preston Reno, Kiley Moore; fourth quarter, Christian Wal-lace, Charlie Steinbrink

Kayla Vance, 8th language arts:

Best writers: Cassidy Thompson, Grace Travis, Jack-son Abell, Candice Durr, Peter Green

Hardest workers: Makayla Kearney, Cacey Holt, Anna Cruse, Connor Brooking, Ma-kayla Dowdy

Best skit performer: Khalil Griffin

Most helpful: Sabrina Doyle, Morgan Graves

Highest GPA: language arts first block, Lindsey Miller; sec-ond block, Hayden Roberts; third block, Grant Dunning; seventh block, Jordan Pickett; sixth block reading lab, Jessica Plumley.

Sherry Queen, 8th math:Awards given not solely on

basis of academic excellence, but also on good attitude in class, good work ethic, and improvement throughout the year.

First block, Austin Dowdy; second block, Bethany Fadely, Ryan Hall; third block, Jonnah McManus, Madi Williams; sev-enth block, Kenzie Blackford, Zach Frensley.

Tyler Burgess, 8th science:Highest GPA: first block,

Morgan Hunt; second block, Meghan Walker; third block, Slader Sullivan; seventh block, Lauren Wheeler

Best science lab com-petitors: Will Allcock and Ree Fields

Best individual labs: Grace Travis, Drake Blevins

Best lab team: Ross Jones, Peter Green

Hard workers in lab: Austin Dowdy, Trey Baucom

Carol Wiggins, 8th social studies

Outstanding performance awards: Jonnah McManus, Sam Paul.

Social studies awards: Kameron Howle, Alisa White, first block; Leah Shelley, Con-nor Brooking, second block; Courtney Spees, Jack Davey, third block; McKenna Hall, Caleb Bliss, seventh block; Rianah Fields, Hannah Partain, Ross Jones, Randy Harper, ad-

vanced history.Academic TeamGovernor’s Cup par-

ticipants: Parker Feezor, Eli Johnson, Reese Joles, Wyatt LaPradd, Rayanne Lindblad, Zoie Overby, Mason Purcell, Ryan Rehkemper, Shelby Tay-lor.

Eighth grade academic team members are Cassidy Thompson, Grace Travis and Jackson Abell.

Mitch Kimball, art6th grade, Jade Artis, Chloe

Mowery, Brighton Cooper, Ivy Mowery; 7th grade, Isaac Pigg, Sydney Leigh, Colson Ivitts, Chloe Irvin; 8th grade, Grant Dunning, Grace Travis, Meghan Walker, Jason Wells.

Kristin Sickling, media cen-ter

6th grade, Shelby Taylor, 18+ hours of faithful service; 7th grade, Alex Russell, Te-anna Rushing, 6+ hours; Bryan Allen, 7+ hours; Chase Run-dles, 18+ hours; Cody Howard, 27+ hours; 8th grade, Hayden Roberts, Tyler Smith, 5+ hours; Jackson Abell, 10+ hours; Meghan Walker, 13+ hours; Sam Paul, 17+ hours.

Accelerated Reader award: Jackson Abell, 340.7 points, accuracy rate of 98.3 percent.

Heather Waters, instrumen-tal music

Distinguished solo per-formances: Elly Travis, Abby Gates, Peyton Lehmann, Kol-ton Pearson, Colby Dome, Shelby Taylor, Dallas Smith, Joey LaPoint, 6th grade; Emma LaFevre, Emma Kimbro, Mad-die Kimbro, 7th grade; Tyler Smith, 8th grade

Most Outstanding Band Students: Abby Gates, Colby Dome’, 6th grade; Emma LeFe-vre, 7th grade; Tyler Smith, 8th grade

Most Improved Middle School Band Student : Bryan Allen, 7th grade

All District Honor Band: Tyler Smith, 8th grade; Mason Purcell, Emma LeFevre, Mad-die Kimbro, 7th grade

Quad State Honor Band: Ben Fithen, Braden Nichols, Emma LeFevre, Alex Russell, 7th grade, Mason LeFevre 8th grade

Samantha Veal, vocal mu-sic, 8th arts and humanities

6th grade choir: Outstand-ing musicianship, Colton Baker; Most improved: Katana Byas.

7th grade general music, highest grades: first quarter, Alex Russell; second, Madison Frye; third, Connor Carneal; fourth, Emma LeFevre

8th grade general mu-sic, highest grades: first nine weeks, Leah Shelley; second, Madi Williams; third, Connor Carneal; fourth, Emma LeFe-vre.

7th/8th grade choir, Most Improved: Taryn Hamilton; Outstanding section leaders: Morgan Graves, Jason Naas, Michaela Nutt

Distinguished solo and en-semble: Wyatt LaPradd, Taryn Hamilton

8th grade arts and humani-ties, highest grades: First quar-ter, Leah Shelley; second, Madi Williams; third, Jonnah Mc-Manus; fourth, Michaela Nutt

Stephen Queen, PE, teen issues/health

Awards given based overall average, class participation, work ethic, and sportsmanship.

Health and PE: 6th trade, Slade Donner, Alex Overby, Emmie Garner; 7th grade, Grace Webster, Sydney leigh, Joseph Pegram; 8th grade, Meghan Walker, Landon Wick-er, Leah Shelly, Ross Jones.

Teen issues: 6th grade, Ryan Rehkemper, Shelby Tay-lor, Colby Dome’, Chloe Mow-ery; 7th grade, Erick Marinelli, Jimmy Horn, Drake Walsh, Hanna Abernathy

Kim Grogan, 8th SpanishCandice Durr, Lindsey

Miller, Hayden Roberts, Grace Travis, Jayson Wells, Rianah Fields, Hannah Partain, Ross Jones.

Tricia Baumer, writing6th grade: Colton Baker,

Jade Artis, Abby Gates, Katana Byas, Faye O’Brien, Olivia Bai-ley, Macy Lanier, Shelby Taylor

7th grade: Madeline Kim-bro, Jordan Wood, Mason Pur-cell, Parker Feezor

8th grade: Jayson Wells, Hannah Partain, Bradley Chan-dler, Khalil Griffin, Jackson Abell

BCMS recognizes students at Awards Day

Students of the MonthBallard County Elementary School has announced its Students of the Month for May. Students are selected by their teachers as good examples of the positive attitude, behavior and effort that is expected of every-one at BCES. Shown above (from left to right) are stu-dents in the primary (grades K-2) wing of the school: (front row) Jackson Rollins, Luke Colson, Savara Cant-rell, Kasey Chandler, (mid-dle row) Whitney Bridges, Elliana Jones, Westin Whip-ple, Allison Weeks, (back row) Nevaeh Yates, Rachel Moss, Daniel Meinschein and Alexis Alderson. Kendra Ruggles is not pictured. At right, students in the inter-mediate (grades 3-5) wing of the school are (front row) Marissa Griffin, Leah Doke, (middle row) Addy Gossom, Ella Cate Downing, (back row) Chloe Glisson and Katelyn Sanderfer.