20 THE WOODFORD SUN, Versailles, Ky. April 26, 2012

Paid for by Carl P. Rollins for State Representative, William K. Moore Treasurer, 126 S. Main Street, Versailles, KY 40383

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Supporting Education - Our Teachers, Our Students and Our Retirees

Carl Rollins continues to work tirelessly as your state representative to improve Kentucky’s educational system. In the last few sessions of the Kentucky General Assembly, Carl Rollins has sponsored and successfully passed vital

pieces of legislation to enhance educational opportunities while working to protect students and retired teachers.

This year, Carl Rollins fought to protect Kentucky’s students from the misleading and unscrupulous practices whichhave been reported at some of the for-profit colleges in Kentucky. As chairman of the House Education Committee,

he sponsored and worked to build consensus to insure passage of House Bill 308. This legislation toughens the oversight of the state’s for-profit colleges and universities and strengthens the ability of students to file grievances.

When it comes to education, Carl Rollins understands that teachers and school districts need flexibility and the proper tools to succeed. That is why Carl Rollins sponsored and provided the leadership to give Kentucky’s

school districts the option to establish districts of innovation. HB 37 will allow school districts the freedom to pursue curriculum and instructional methods outside the normal parameters to meet their students’ needs.

The Carl Rollins record reflects not only his commitment to education, but his track record of success! In 2010, Carl Rollins sponsored and passed HB 160 to enhance the ability of Kentucky students to transfer credits earned from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to Kentucky’s four-year universities and colleges.

Also in 2010, Carl Rollins worked to protect Kentucky’s retired teachers by helping develop a plan to allow their health insurance fund to remain solvent. Carl Rollins worked with teachers, school administrators and fellow

legislators to pass HB 540 to provide a long-term method for funding health insurance for retired teachers.

ATTENTION WCHS SENIORS!!

The following students have NOT turned in a senior photo to be

included in The Woodford Sun’s Graduation Issue. Please turn in

your senior picture to: The Woodford Sun, 184 S. Main St.

by 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012.Skyler Paul AlsabrookSummer Storm AlsabrookJarrod Alan BatesTia’Juana BrooksMarcus Diquan CarrMcCabe M. CordellCody L. CorumJoseph Aaron CreechKendal Anne CurtisKaylie Elizabeth RaeAnn DarbyAngel David Discua RodriguezLindsey EcklarHaley Nelson EnglandJesse Carl EvansMahogany Lakei FishbackZachary Ray GoodpasterZackary Ray Alvin HackerSteven Dale HayesElise Michele HeigleWilliam Tyler HornbuckleAddison Robert HorsleyMary Li JacksonKendrick Landrum KelleyAshley Autumn McHughChris MullinsJoe Stefun OllervidezDavid Nathan O’Nan

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America and Europe. Annual sales are approximately $4.8 billion.Other variance requests

Melvin E. Hardy has ap-plied for front-, rear- and side-yard variances in order to construct a one-story single-family residence at 126 East Higgins Street in Midway.

Paul Branham has applied for a 20-foot setback variance in order to construct a pool in the side yard of 390 South Main Street.

Walter and Loretta Johnson have applied for a 30-foot front-yard variance at 132 Laurel Way in order to place a six-foot-high privacy fence 10 feet from the Woodlark Road right-of-way.

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students say, “Gosh, I never knew how much my parents spent on me.”

About 60 volunteers, in-cluding local business people and professionals from a variety of careers, added their real-world experiences to Reality Store, organized by Woodford County Community Education.

“It does show the kids that people in the community care about what we’re doing and it’s not just a school thing,” said Sebastian. “So I think that certainly has value.”

First-time volunteer Mi-caela Rowland, an Adult Education instructor, said she appreciates the life skills be-ing taught to students during Reality Store.

Woodford County Judge-

ABBEY COCHRAN, 13, purchased furniture for her home during this year’s Reality Store on April 20. Ab-bey and other seventh-graders from Woodford County Middle School purchased cars and homes, while also paying utility bills and insurance costs at this year’s Reality Store. (Photo by Bob Vlach)

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executive John Coyle, a long-time volunteer, described Reality Store as an opportunity for students to learn the impor-tance of getting an education if they want a better-paying job. He said the program gives students a broader understand-ing of life’s expenses when they realize they should have purchased that pickup truck instead of a Jaguar.

“It’s a lot of fun for them and I think they learn a lot about the importance of living within your budget,” said Coyle. “I have to do that at my house. You have to do that at your house. The county (government) has to do it. If the state and federal folks lived within their means we’d all be better off.”

WCMS students talk about what they learned during Real-ity Store with teachers in their academic leadership classes, Sebastian said.

garden tour press release.On a smaller scale, an en-

tryway garden features ferns, shrubs and woodland ground covers to complement the owner’s taste for hikes in the woods.

Another stop gives tour par-ticipants an opportunity to see a garden that surrounds a home on all sides including a large berm planted with specimens of fl owering shrubs, trees and perennials.

More than 300 people visited the gardens on last

IN HISTORIC MIDWAY, garden tour participants will see an 1870s cottage garden that refl ects the owners’ love of the outdoors. Adorned with perennials from neighbors and nature, this garden’s beauty changes with the seasons. (Photo by Bob Vlach)

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year’s Spring Garden Tour. Attendance grew despite a rainy day.

The Woodford County Woman’s Club Garden De-partment organizes a garden tour each spring to support its Coats and Shoes for Kids pro-gram, which provides winter clothing for students in Wood-ford County schools. “So it’s a good fundraiser for kids,” said Fordon. She noted the annual garden tour also supports an annual scholarship awarded to a graduating Woodford County High School senior.

Advance tickets to the up-coming Spring Garden Tour are $15 and available at Cor-

nerstone Pharmacy, Market-place on Main, MacDougal’s Garden Center and Woodford Feed in Versailles as well as Damselfl y and May & Com-pany in Midway. Tickets are also available by mail – Wood-ford County Woman’s Club, P.O. Box 1135, Versailles, KY 40383 – through May 5.

Tickets on the day of the tour will be available for $20 at the Little House, 247 Lexington Street in Versailles, beginning at 9:30 on the morn-ing of the spring garden tour.

For more information ac-cess woodfordcountywoman-sclub.org on the Web, click on Garden Tour.

student enrollment numbers, Chief Operating Offi cer Gail Binder said the district will not have suffi cient bonding capac-ity to pay the cost of building a new high school until 2028. However, changes in property values, tax rates and student enrollment could allow the dis-trict to build a new high school before then.Athletic trainer contract

The board approved a three-year athletic training services

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contract with the University of Kentucky Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. The cost of providing a certifi ed trainer for athletic practices and home events will rise from $21,947 next school year to $26,336 in 2013-14 to $30,725 in 2014-15.

WCHS greenhouseThe board approved an

owner-architect agreement with Lucas-Schwering Architects on the construction of a new green-house at Woodford County High School. The project is projected to begin on May 1, with an Aug. 31 substantial completion date.

developed a preference for be-ing injected in the backs of his arms, Angela said.

He took another medication, Methotrexate, for 24 months. The immune system suppres-sor, often used by leukemia patients, is in pill form and injection form, and Cameron needed the latter. But just last December he needed to stop taking that; the side effects were simply too much. “He would see the vial and start vomiting,” Angela said.

Despite his remission sta-tus, Cameron’s feet pains continue. He requires special inserts to walk, and still has trouble during activities at his school, Northside Elementary in Midway.

But Cameron and Angela have stayed active as Arthritis Foundation ambassadors for Kentucky, where, according to Angela, about 4,000 children in the state have only three doctors — two in Louisville, one in Lexington — who are trained to treat the problem. In Cameron’s case, due to inevitable delays with other pediatric rheumatologists, they had to go to Cincinnati for quicker treatment. Nationwide, with about 300,000 children af-fl icted with arthritis, only about 200 such doctors are available, Angela added.

“The Arthritis Ambassador program is an advocacy pro-gram, where they have people

who contact their congress-men regularly,” she continued. “They have a face to go with the name, and you know, a constituent who is on them all the time for arthritis (issues).”

In D.C., she added, they hoped to advocate specific prescription drug-related leg-islation.

Meanwhile, back in Ken-tucky, the family has contin-ued to meet with others who are fighting the disease in their children. Support groups help, whether on the Internet or in person, and the Youngs have met others with similar struggles.

In Versailles, they’ve co-operated in awareness-raising with the Baker family, whose 13-year-old daughter, McE-wen, is affl icted with arthritis that has especially affl icted her eyesight. Both Cameron and McEwen will be honorees, and

McEwen will sing the National Anthem at this year’s Arthritis Foundation’s Arthritis Walk in Lexington on Saturday, May 12. (To learn more about that event, visit www.arthritis.org and search for events in Kentucky.)

But those at Northside who support Cameron’s struggle need not go to D.C., or even to Lexington, to do something to help. Angela plans to make presentations at the school about arthritis and how it af-fects children. “Kids don’t realize that things like this are out there,” she said. “Especially when they look at him — they can’t tell that he’s sick. Then they see him sitting out, not able to eat, or sitting out at recess. … He can’t run as fast.”

That presentation will ac-company a week of activities at the school, such as wearing goofy glasses on Monday as a

reminder that arthritis affects children’s eyes, or unique shoes and socks on Tuesday as a reminder of foot arthritis. Whichever class raises the most money for arthritis research will get a pizza party, Angela said.

“We want awareness, fi rst and foremost, that kids do getarthritis too,” she continued. “We would like to ask for sup-port by funding the arthritisfoundation’s research to fi nd a cure, and we’d love to have people come out to the walk and make sure to stop by and say hello to us.”

Once a news reporter asked Cameron what the possibilityof research meant to him. AsCameron answered, Angela re-called, his own eyes fi lled with tears. “He said, ‘Research to me means that there’s a possibility there will be a cure, and I won’t have to live my life in pain.’”

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