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Whitley County 4-Her earns Honors Award

Kori Sears, a sophomore 4-Her at Whitley County High School, has been recognized for completing the Bronze level of the Kentucky 4-H Honors Program.

The 4-H Honors Program is intended to recognize 4-H par-ticipants who have outstanding accomplishments and to provide incentive for youth to increase their knowledge, skills, and abili-ties. To reach the Bronze level, a 4-Her must have accumulated at least 200 points in the following areas – Programs/project complet-ed, communication events, project and other exhibits, participation in other 4-H events, leader-ship/citizenship, and community service.

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Students in Mrs. Crystal Lyttle’s 5th grade class at Whitley Central Intermediate have been getting a lesson in old fashioned pen pal writ-ing.

To introduce the class to writing this year, students have been writing to kids living in Great Britain. Each student had the opportunity to write to a child studying at The American School in England or TASIS. TASIS is a leading independent, co-educational university and college preparatory school located just outside London in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the activity is for students to write for a real authentic audience.

“This is great practice for our students to learn how to brainstorm, draft, edit and publish letters that some-one will actually be reading, not to mention an opportu-nity for the students to share their culture with one anoth-er.” said Mrs. Lyttle.

TASIS England students represent over 40 nations and more than a dozen lan-

guages. Many of the students they wrote to were American born and living over in Great Britain, but several were from other countries too.

The students were so excited and wanted to be sure to give their best effort. It took several weeks to complete the project but in the end this was a worth-while experience students will remember.

Student Sarah Plato said “I think writing the pen pal letters was fun, they are cool and interesting. I also like the fact that I could write and tell the other person about me!”

In January the students heard back from their pen pals. The students exchanged pictures and interesting facts about London’s famous landmarks such as Big Ben and the London Eye. Mrs. Lyttle’s class is currently working on their respons-es back to the students at TASIS. Our class would like to thank 4th grade teacher Erica Moore and her class for participating with us.

Whitley Intermediate students write pen pals in Great Britain

Cumberlands Mentoring Program teams up with AT&TU n i v e r s i t y o f t h e

C u m b e r l a n d s ( U C ) Mentoring Program has been teamed up with the AT&T Grant Mentoring Program for several years.The program has played a major part in children’s lives, encouraging the par-ticipants known as mentees to reach for success. It even provides the materials and various workshops to help students reach their goals.

“The series of career related workshops and visits range to three types of uni-versities (private, communi-ty college and regional state university) which enhanced our mentees learning expe-riences,” said Director of Career Services and UC Mentoring Program Debbie Harp. “They were able to learn about business/indus-try, government careers, individual career interests, dining etiquette, résumé writing, and interview skills while also experiencing some Kentucky history.”

The Mentoring Program at UC works with students who are in middle school looking to transition to high school. The AT&T Program has been working with youth since 1994 and states, “our main focus is to iden-tify mentees who have the ability to be academically successful and encourage those students to strive for success.”

In the previous year, the AT&T Mentoring Program has held various workshops and teaching skills. Some of the activities have dealt with writing a resume, com-

pleting a job application, dining etiquette, dressing professionally, and applying to a college amongst other things. Students left the workshops feeling informed and another step closer to reaching their full potential.

While participating in the Mentoring Program, students have the opportu-nity to win prizes, each one related to the mission of the program. Current men-tees in the program include Zachary Newman, Kendra Johnson, Ashley Collette, and Laura Dani Campbell.

Each has won prizes that ranged from a laptop to a Nook. Other mentees in the program include Kaitlyn Bussey, Mahalia Lawson, Tanner Pomraning, Destinee Shriner, Maylan Hunter, and Nathaniel Walter, each win-ners of $50.00 gift cards.The students’ names were entered in drawings based on the number of Career/College Workshops they attended as part of the SUCCESS, which is funded by the AT&T Foundation Grant.

Before and after work-

shops, mentees are asked to complete evaluation sum-maries and provide com-ments pertaining to what they have learned during the particular workshop they attended. Before a lot of the workshops mentees had the mindset of not finishing high school, but once they completed the workshops that number starts to drasti-cally decrease.

“Our mentees had a won-derful experience this past year because of the grant made possible by the AT&T Foundation,” said Harp.

Photo submittedThose pictured above include: Mr. Alan Sweet, Principal; Judy Petrey, WC Middle School Youth Service Center Director; Margie Centers, WC High School Youth Service Center Director; and Debbie Harp, UC Mentoring Program Director. Students: Zachary Newman (Laptop winner), Kendra Johnson (Tablet winner), Ashley Collette (Nook winner), and Laura Dani Campbell (Nook winner). Students who won $50 WalMart Gift Cards: Kaitlyn Bussey, Mahalia Lawson, Tanner Pomraning, Destinee Shriner, Maylan Hunter, and Nathaniel Walter.

Rep. Jim Stewart welcomes South Laurel High School student as Legislative Page

Rep. Jim Stewart (left), R-Flat Lick (left) welcomed Rhyana Barker (center) as his personal legislative page during the Feb. 2nd session of the Kentucky House of Representatives. Barker is a student at South Laurel High School and is the daughter Gary and Velva Barker of Lily. Joining Rep. Stewart and Barker in the photo is House Speaker Greg Stumbo (right).

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