Students celebrate achievements with ice cream
Bringing Up Grades brings sweet rewards at Centerburg Elementary School — a customized ice cream sundae, to be exact. Third-graders Luke Holsopple, left, Tyler Edwards and Morgan Mead get special toppings from parent volunteer Sally Noble. (Pam Schehl)
Teen Advisory Council awarded grant
DELTA Teen Advisory Council members are, back row, from left, Cody Mills, East Knox High School; Tyra Brown, Mount Vernon High School; Stephanie Chapman, MVHS; Allyn Frye, Danville High School. Front row, from left, Cadi Fisher, EK; Kia Dye, Centerburg High School; Alyssa Hoffman, DHS; and Katherine Frye, DHS. (Photo Submitted)
KCCC students shooting for success
Knox County Career Center students, from left, Sara Hill, Rachael Stephen and Stevie Keen, will attend the Business Professionals of America 2010 National Leadership Conference in California. Not pictured is Ashley Vess. (Submitted photo)
Columbia sets blood drive record
Pint-size heroes at Columbia Elementary school recently collaborated with the Red Cross to host a successful blood drive. Red Cross volunteer Vicki Meeker, left, gives instructions to blood donor Paula Rudrick as her son Travis, grade two, lends support and encouragement. (Pam Schehl)
Repairing damage from the storm
The brief Friday night storm blew over a big tree on North Park Street, taking down wires and three 50-year-old AEP power poles. The outage affected 122 customers. In the buckets replacing a transformer are, left, linemen Eric Doup and Jeff Robertson. Service was restored late Saturday. Lineman George Daley said there were other scattered outages from the storm. (Virgil Shipley)
Drive-in business
A front window was shattered and the frame was damaged when a car drove into the Clips-N-Snips salon at 500 S. Main St., Saturday at 12:27 p.m. Mount Vernon Police officials said Jacklyn Gloyd, 24, Mount Vernon, was attempting to back out of the area in front of the salon and drove forward into the window. She was charged with reckless operation off the street. (Virgil Shipley)
