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IN THE NEWS A brief look at what’s happen-ing in Marion County this week. Read this and more, including breaking news, on the web!
Graduation set for 11
a.m., Saturday, May 19
The Class of 2012 will graduate at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at Marion County High School.
The Marion County Board of Education unanimously approved the change during its meeting Tuesday evening at Lebanon Middle School.
High School Principal Stacey Hall said he’d received multiple complaints about graduation being rescheduled from May 12 to May 19, but the change was nec-essary when the last day of school was moved to May 15.
Hall said under the state law, they can’t have graduation before the last day of school.
Board member Bernard Miles asked about moving the start time to 11 a.m.
Hall said the gym would be cooler in the morning rather than in the evening, and he also thought having the ceremony earlier would give graduates more time to spend with their families before Project Graduation that evening.
Grand opening of the
Cecil L. Gorley Naturalist
Trail is Friday, April 13
The Lebanon Tourist & Convention Commission will host the grand opening of the renovat-ed Cecil L. Gorley Naturalist Trail at Fagan Branch Reservoir, at noon on Friday, April 13.
This 3.2-mile hiking trail around the 140-acre Fagan Branch Reservoir just outside downtown Lebanon is unique and beautiful, with rolling hills and steep climbs.
Noted for the 47 bridges one crosses as he traverses this foot tour of nature and wildlife, the trail has been expanded into an additional 30 acres and offers sig-nage, viewing areas, educational materials on-site, picnic tables, benches, and markers identifying natural occurrences.
There is paved parking at both ends, and a portion of the trail crosses the dam.
Cecil L. Gorley was a Marion County Fish and Wildlife Department Game Warden for more than 30 years.
In 2009, a devastating ice storm prompted a rehabilitation project. The trail and bridges are also wide enough for BMX biking.
OBITUARIESClara “Renee” Donahue, 44
Mary Aileen Ferrell, 104
Mary Margie Salerno, 90
Chad Everett Thurman 40
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 • 75 CENTS • VOL. 126, NO. 3 • MARION COUNTY, KYwww.lebanone
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See Trail, page A16
By Stevie [email protected]
Beautiful barn quilts are sprinkled throughout Marion County, and the author of a book devoted to those unique pieces of barnyard art will be making a stop in Lebanon soon.
Suzi Parron, the author of “Barn Quilts And the American Quilt Trail
Movement,” will be giving a presenta-tion at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5, at The Stillhouse in Lebanon. She will also be having a book signing until 6 p.m. that day.
Parron, a high school English
teacher in Stone Mountain, Ga., is also a writer and got to know Donna Sue Groves, the original barn quilter. She was asked by Ohio University
■ TOURISM
Just follow the Marion County quilt trailAuthor to speak in Lebanon about the American Quilt Trail
Visit to Ecuador ‘eye-opening’ for student
Egg-straction
The City of Lebanon hosted its annual Eas-ter egg hunt at
Graham Memorial Park on Saturday. Hundreds of children (and their fami-lies) swarmed through the park gathering plastic eggs fi lled with goodies. Above, Kaylee McEl-roy, 2, of Lebanon takes the egg hunt very seri-ously as she protects her treasure. Left, Jamaruie Walker, 2, of Lebanon gathers eggs as his aunt, Christina Furmon, offers some guidance. See more photos on our website, www.lebanonenterprise.com.
Photos by Stephen Lega
Let go my egg, yo!
■ EASTER
■ EDUCATION
2 weeks and some teeth
By Stephen [email protected]
Madison Beach went to Ecuador hoping for some education and a little entertainment. Instead, she came back inspired.
“I originally went over there to study before I got into dental school,” Beach said. “But when I got over there it ended up being so different. I got to see how they lived and how they went to school. It made me appreciate what I have.”
Beach is a junior majoring in biology at Western Kentucky University. She took the two-week study abroad class with professor David Coffey through WKU’s Department of Agriculture during the winter term in January.
Beach and the other 26 students in the class first arrived in Quito. Ecuador is considered a developing country, and the poverty in the country (compared to the United States) created some “culture shock” for Beach.
She said there is a big disparity in wealth between Ecuador’s richest and poorest citizens. The country’s middle class is virtually non-existent, according to Beach.
“Most people live in one-room metal shacks, basi-cally,” she said.
Beach and her classmates worked with Dr. Rankin Douglas Skinner, a dentist from Winchester, Ky., who participates in the Partners of the Americas pro-gram. In Ecuador, they visited two orphanages and four schools, where they provided 3,325 applications of Premier Dental’s flouride varnish, all of which had been donated. The varnish provides six months of protection from cavities and tooth decay, Beach explained.
Beach said the schools were quite different from what she experienced growing up in Marion County.
See Teeth, page A16
Photo provided by Madison Beach
Madison Beach, a Marion County native and a student at Western Kentucky University, applies a flouride varnish to the teeth of a student in Ecuador. The varnish protects teeth from cavi-ties and decay for six months.
Marion County Quilt TrailCurrently, there are 60 quilt block paintings hanging on barns and other struc-tures throughout Marion County. A free colorful brochure with the trail map, descriptions and GPS locations of the quilts is available at the Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission’s office located at Centre Square in Lebanon. Or, call (270) 692-0021 to request one.
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