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Ellie Ross of Pembroke Elementary School proudly shows her diploma to fam-

ily and friends at the PES kindergarten graduation ceremony at the Pembroke

Ruritan Community Center Monday night. See the story on Page A-5.

Mayor talksabout buildingbusiness park

With its close proxim-ity to Interstate 24, OakGrove gets a lot of itsbusiness from tractor-trailers and other ship-ping vehicles makingthe haul betweenNashville and Paducah.Oak Grove Mayor DanPotter wants to take ad-vantage of the unusedland near I-24’s Exit 89for the benefit of thecity.

Potter said his plan isto extend the pavementnear the former OakGrove Tourism Commis-

sion building on WalterGarrett Lane and extendthat road, then beginbuilding a business parkone building at a time.

“We’re going to startbuilding spec build-ings,” he said, “but we’reonly going to build oneuntil it’s leased, thenbuild another. Then,we’re basically going touse the funds off of oneto build another, and soon. That way, we won’thave an extremeamount of money tiedup into it.

“It’s going to cost a lit-tle on the infrastructure.

By DAVID SNOWThe Eagle Post

See Park, Page A-7

160th SOAR makes rare dedicationThe 160th Special Opera-

tions Aviation Regiment (Air-borne) held a ceremony onpost on Monday to dedicateits compound to Gen. Bryan“Doug” Brown (ret.), whoserved as the third colonel ofthe regiment.

The dedication held a raredistinction as being a military

area named for a living per-son.

“It is only — and I quote —under narrow conditions andat the sole discretion of theSecretary of the Army, endquote, that we gather heretoday to name the 160th com-pound in honor of someonestill consuming oxygen,”smiled Col. John W. Thomp-son, commander of the 160thSOAR (Airborne), “and for

that, we are very grateful.”Authorization for naming a

military areafor a living per-son was not au-thorized untilOct. 20, 2008.There are onlya few individu-als who havehad such an

honor bestowed on them.Brown served as regiment

commander, battalion com-mander and company com-mander with the 160th SOAR(Airborne). He also served asthe operations and planningofficer for the regiment.

Brown’s history with the160th trace back to the foun-dation of the regiment. Heserved with the 158th Avia-tion Battalion, which wouldlater become the 160th Avia-

Brown

By DAVID SNOWThe Eagle Post

See Brown, Page A-4

Churches come together for veteransWhen the churches that

usually place flags at the bur-ial sites at Kentucky VeteransCemetery West on MemorialDay were unable to performthat duty this year, three OakGrove churches stepped in tohelp, and they are inviting thepublic to come and help.

On May 25, members ofThe Carpenter’s House, FirstBaptist Church and LivingWaters Fellowship and theirfriends will meet at the veter-ans’ cemetery to gather flagsto place on the burial sitesthere.

“I have several people that Iserved with overseas who areburied there,” said ShadMcBride, the prayer for the

troops ministry leader at TheCarpenter’s House. “This isjust something that I wantedto do, and I brought it to (theother churches), and theyliked the idea.”

McBride said that anyonewanting to come out and helpplace flags at burial sites mayjoin them at 9 a.m. on May 25at the cemetery.

Leading the charge to deco-

rate the burial sites are thepastors at the three churches:Tim May, the pastor at TheCarpenter’s House; ToddGray, the pastor at the FirstBaptist Church; and DavidCoram, the pastor at LivingWaters Fellowship.

“The cemetery said thatthey were going to provide uswith the flags, and they were

By DAVID SNOWThe Eagle Post

See Vets, Page A-7

Military spouses honored at Valor Hall

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Mikie Ridenour, a student in chef Wendell Hensley’s culinary program at Austin

Peay State University, serves the soup course of the luncheon to military spouses.

A luncheon honoringmilitary spouses washeld Thursday at ValorHall featuring dishesprepared by students inthe culinary programrun by renowned chefWendell Hensley ofAustin Peay State Uni-versity.

The luncheon was apart of Military SpouseAppreciation Week,which was celebratedMay 7-11 as part of theChristian County Cham-ber of Commerce Mili-tary Affairs Committee’scelebration during Mili-tary AppreciationMonth.

MAC director KensleyMcLellan hosted the

luncheon, saying thiswas a way for the Mili-tary Affairs Committeeto give back to thespouses of the soldiers.

Hensley serves as theprogram coordinator forthe APSU culinaryschool, and he broughtsome of his students togain hands-on experi-ence in preparing andserving quality meals.

“We started out with acold soup,” Hensleysaid. “We’ve got anapple squash soup, andthen we’re going to goto a smoked chickenbreast with a barley-quinoa risotto in a gar-den vegetable blend.Then, we’ve got a littlepastry, a peach andblueberry puff pastry

By DAVID SNOWThe Eagle Post

See MAC, Page A-3

SCES students

enjoy Field Day

fun and recreation

n Page B-1

AmVets issues

39 scholarships

valued at $1,000

to area students

n Page A-3

FCHS track teams

have ouststanding

showing at

regional meet

n Page B-2

AUSA holds

fundraising tourney

at Cole Park on post

n Page B-4