New chapter begins for Community Foundation
Students from five Knox County high schools and their parents gathered with Community Foundation of Mount Vernon & Knox County officers and school administrators to launch the foundation’s first-ever youth advisory council. Named the Youth Philanthropy Initiative, the group will focus on community philanthropy from a youth perspective, and will award its first grants next fall, after conducting its own needs assessment process and developing grant-making criteria. Pictured are, front row, from left, Bruce Hawkins, foundation chair; YPI Advisor Ellen Blanchard, Kenyon College junior; Monica Honabarger, Danville High School freshman; Paige Arthur, DHS junior; Amanda Tier, Mount Vernon High School freshman; Rachel Shaffer, Fredericktown High School sophomore; Kayla Stephenson, East Knox High School junior; Sally Nelson, foundation treasurer. Back row, from left, are Daniel Schuster, Centerburg High School sophomore; Matthew Pozderac, CHS junior; Brendan Urban, DHS sophomore; Zachary Sawicki, EKHS junior; Daniel Tharp, MVHS sophomore; Jonathan Levi Zolman, MVHS junior; and Matthew Omahan, MVHS junior. (Submitted photo)
Yellow Jacket softball team needs to overcome losses
Mount Vernon catcher Abby Lyons is one of six letterwinners returning to the softball field in 2011. (News file photo)
Former Girl Scouts crave chefs’ cookie creations
Attending the “Dazzling Desserts” Girl Scouts fundraiser recently are Danville Girl Scout alumni, front row from left, Jo Shrimplin, Pat Ferry, Tammy Armentrout, Paula Nourse and Kathy Byers. Back row, from left, Kay Sigman, Melissa Mickley, Mary Jo Looney, Helen Kaylor, Carolyn Addair, Amy Mickley, Cheryl Sheldon and Roxanne Reiheld. Not pictured is Barbara Smith. (Submitted photo)
Veterans honored, prizes awarded at annual Wild Turkey banquet
Local resident Ron Strong, top left, poses with a painting he won from a free veterans’ drawing at the National Wild Turkey Federation Kokosing Chapter banquet on Saturday. With him are his nephews Kody, bottom left, and Kole. The painter, Rebecca Roberts, top right, from Centerburg, won the group’s annual scholarship. (Geoff Cowles)
