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Licking Valley Courier - 4.10.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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Speaker 1: We now turn to the Lincoln Valley Courier to bring
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new news from in and around West Liberty, your reader.
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Today's janets. We begin with the addition dated Thursday April ninth,
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twenty twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI is a reading
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service intended for people who are blind or have other
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disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material. Our
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first article today is Rotary Club set to host political
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form tonight. Join us for the West Liberty Rotary Club's
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political form on Thursday, April ninth at the Morgan County
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Board of Education Building. Registration will be at five thirty
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p m and the event will be at six p m.
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All candidates have been invited to attend. There is no
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charge for admission. A cake pie auction will be held
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during the event. Please take this opportunity to hear the
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platforms of your candidates. Contact Rotitarian Cheryl J McGraw at
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six six three five nine twenty seven nineteen for additional information.
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Our next article is artist reception at Wellness Center set
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for tonight. Art created by students from Morgan County High
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School is currently featured in the gallery as the Morgan
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County Wellness and Youth Center. The public is invited to
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stop by and see drawings and paintings created by these
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talented young artists. The exhibit will be on display until
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the end of April. An artist reception will be held
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from four to six pm Thursday, April nineteenth, I Mean
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I'm Sorry, April ninth at the Wellness Center. Everybody is
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invited to come out and support your local, our local artist.
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Our next article is Blood drive is slated for Thursday,
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April sixteenth, Lexington, Kentucky the Kentucky Blood Center. The KBC
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helps save local lives, but it is only possible through
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the gin donation of blood from its donors. Donors support
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is needed at the upcoming blood drive in this area.
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Donation at drives like this one provides life saving blood
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products to more than seventy hospitals in Kentucky. KBC will
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recognize your support with a kb C T shirt while
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supplies last. The Morgan County Community Blood Drive will be
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from one to six pm Thursday, April sixteenth at the
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West Liberty Christian Church Fellowship Hall located at three oh
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four Prestonburg Street in West Liberty. KBC needs four hundred
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donors a day. To maintain a healthy blood supply for
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its local hospitals. Support at drives like this one is
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critical to meet the daily demand for blood. The need
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is considerable and consistent. One in four people will need
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a blood transfusion in their lifetime for a wide range
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of treatments, including cancer, trauma, diseases, organ transplant surgeries, childbirth,
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and more. Blood donors must be at least seventeen years
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old sixteen with parental consent, weigh at least one hundred
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and ten pounds, be in good health, show a photo ID,
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and meet additional requirements. Appointments hawk preferred, but walkins are welcome.
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To schedule a donation, Please visit the Kentucky Blood Center
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dot org or call eight hundred seven seventy five twenty
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five twenty two. KBC is the largest independent, full service,
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nonprofit blood center in Kentucky has been saving local lives
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since nineteen sixty eight. Licensed by the FDA, kbc's sole
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purpose is to collect, process, and distribute blood for patients
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in Kentucky. KBC provides services in ninety Kentucky counties and
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has donor centers in Lexington, Louisville, Frankfort, Pikewell Somerset and
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the Tri City Corbin area. Her next article is woman
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is seriously injured in car crash involving log truck. Collision
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occurred on the evening of Thursday, April the second, near
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West Liberty Fire Department. Bailey Terrell, twenty two was airlifted
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to the University of Kentucky Medical Center. Editor's note. The
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following is a press release from West Liberty Police Department
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regarding an automobile collision that occurred on the evening of Thursday,
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April second, on Index Hill. Though the release does not
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name the driver of the cheep Cherokee who was airlifted
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to the University of Kentucky Medical Center, her family has
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identified her on social media as Bailey Terrell, twenty two
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of West Liberty. Terrell is expected to recover from multiple
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injuries she sustained in the crash. Additionally, West Liberty Police
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Department Chief Wayne Lewis has identified the driver of the
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disabled log truck mentioned in the release of Winford Terry's
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seventy of Elliott County. Terry, as noted in the release,
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was not injured in the crash. West Liberty, Kentucky. A
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twenty two year old West Liberty woman was airlifted to
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the hospital Thursday night after her SUV collided with a
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disabled log truck on West Main Street. According to emergency
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officials and dispatch records, the two vehicle crash occurred at
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approximately eight seventeen pm on April second, twenty twenty six,
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in the eight hundred block of the West Main Street
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near West Liberty. Fire Department dispatch records list the incident
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as an injury collision and indicate emergency crews were unseen
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within minutes. A white GMC log truck driven by a
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seventy year old man has become disabled near the top
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of the hill in a slow lane. A gray Cheep
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Cherokee travel uphill then struck the rear of the disabled truck.
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The collision caused severe damage to the jeep. Fire and
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rescue personnel responded to the scene and had to extradite
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the driver from the cheep from the wreckage, the injured
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driver sustained injuries to her head and ear. Emergency medical
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crew transported the injured driver from the crash scene to
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a nearby helicopter landing zone, where she was blown by
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AIRVAK one eighteen to the University of Kentucky Hospital for treatment.
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The driver of the white GMC log truck was not
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injured in the collision. The collision investigation is being conducted
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by the Canaan Officer Jonathan Holbrook of West Liberty Police Department.
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Multiple agencies responded to the scene, including West Liberty Fire Department,
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West Liberty Police Department, Morgan County Ambulance Service, Rescue personnel,
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and AIRVAK one eighteen. Oadway was temporarily shut down while
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Cruz worked the scene to remove the daming to Vehiggles.
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Our next article is DAV Chapter one thirty two installs
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officers Morgan County DAV Chapter one thirty two, at its
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April third meeting elected officials I mean elected officers for
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the upcoming year. Chapters one thirty two's current officers in
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a picture above from the left agreed to maintain a
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second term and were installed. They are Chaplain Woody Ball,
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Sergeant of Arms, Carl Cassidy, First Junior Vice Commander and
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Officer of the Day, Gary Banks, Junior Vice Commander and
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Judge Advocate, Darlene Crouch Commander, Jerry Cable, Senior Vice, Raleigh Jenkins,
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First Senior Vice John Falkes Treasurer Wayne Brown and adjunct
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Emily Elam photo at the right. There's chaplain woodrow Ball
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was awarded his fifteen year membership pen. He was congratulated
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by Command Jerry Cable of the left on the left
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all right. Our next article is Extension Homemakers Scholarship offered
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initiated thirty six years ago by the Morgan County Extension
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Homemakers Executive Council. A county wide fundraising project of selling
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fresh crop pecans has made moneies available for special scholarships.
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Proceeds from the coon sales are used to offer five
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hundred dollars scholarships each year to a Morgan County High
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School senior. In addition to having fresh pacons for holiday
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giving and baking, Purchasing the pacans from the Extension Homemakers
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has provided some financial assistance to deserving Morgan County students annually.
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This scholarship may be applied to any post high school
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training corpse, trade school, vocational tech school, as well as
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any two or four year college. It is not limited
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to those in family and consumer sciences related studies. Any
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Morgan County High School senior, male or female is eligible.
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Scholarship ability is just one of the criteria used in
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selecting the recipient. Each applicant must also give a teacher
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reference who submits a letter to the student to the
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student's attitude, honesty, perseverance, and the likelihood for success. These
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are important factors in selecting the recipient. A transcript, five
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hundred word autobiography and photograph must be submitted with the application.
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Each applicant may be interviewed by the members of the
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Scholarship Committee and Morgan Homemaker Executive Council representatives at the
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time to be determined after applications are received at the
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Morgan County Extension Service Local in one thousand and two
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Prestonburg Street. Any student interested in applying for this Extension
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Homemaker Scholarship may obtain the application from the Morgan County
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co Operative exect Extension Service, Morgan County Public Library, or
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the Morgan County High School Guidance Office. Deadlines for applications
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is May the first, twenty twenty six. For further information
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pertaining to this scholarship, contact Morgan County Extension Office at
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seven oh I mean at seven four three thirty two
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ninety two, or stopped by the office located at one
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thousand and two Prestonburg Street. Our next article is Farm
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Bureau Board Memorial Scholarship. The Morgan County Farm Bureau Board
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of Directors are now taking applications for the Morgan County
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Farm Bureau Memorial Scholarship. Applications are available with Vocational and
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Ag teacher Chris Lindon and or the High School councilor
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Each scholarship is worth two hundred and fifty dollars a
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semester for eight semesters. All applicants must be a member
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of the Morgan County Farm Bureau family and a graduate
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of Morgan County High School or have a ged by
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the end of twenty twenty six springs semester Spring school semester.
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The deadline for submitting applications is Wednesday, April the fifteenth.
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Our next article is MCMs Junior Honor Society visits Washington,
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d C. Student slay wreath at the tomb of the
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unknown Soldier. Morgan County Middle School National Junior Honor Society
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students recently traveled to Washington, d C. Where they saw
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several historical landmarks and monuments. The five day trip included
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an extensive itinerary of numerous historical site Day one smith
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Sis Pardon Me, Smithsonian Museum, Pentagon Memorial, Lincoln, Vietnam and
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Korea Korean Memorials. Day two, Marine Corps War Memorial, EWA, Jima,
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Arlington National Cemetery and the Reflamed at the Tomb of
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the Unknown Soldier. US Holocaust Museum and Jefferson Frd and
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Martin Luther King Memorials. Day three for Theater, National Museum
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of African American History, Washington Monument, and the Kennedy Center,
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Roof Talk Rooftop walk Through. Day four US Capital at
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Grant Memorial Tour of the Capital, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
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National Archive in Ghost Tour, Old Town Alexandria. Day five
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Washington Pardon Me George, Washington, Mount Vernon Estate Tour. One
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of the highlights of the trip was the student's lane
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of wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
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Arlington National Cemetery. As noted by the middle school principal,
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Amber Adams on Facebook, Our National Society Junior Our National
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Junior Honor Society, students had the opportunity to lay a
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wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an incredible
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honor that our students will carry with them forever, from
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monuments to museums. Every moment has been filled with meeting, reflection,
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and pride. We are proud of our students representing Morgan
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County Middle School, respectful, engaged in making memories that will
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last a lifetime. Thank you to Morgan County Middle School
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Junior National Honor Society students for your great representation of
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Morgan County in Washington, d C. Our next article is
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Conservration District Tree Seedling Giveaway Friday, April the tenth. The
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Morgan County Conservation District will be having a tree seedling
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giveaway on Friday, April tenth at Morgan County Extension Service
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from nine thirty am to two thirty pm. Tree seedlings
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and bags will be available and the bags will be labeled.
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Tree seedling species available will be red shue, marock oak,
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Northern red oak, white oak, bacon, black wallnut, per simon
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in white pine. Our next article will be Morgan County
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Extension Service Upcoming Events Tuesday, April to seventh. Lunch and
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Learn Hazardous Weather Preparedness Class twelveth from I'm Sorry The
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Weather Preparedness Class from twelve to one thirty pm. Four
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H Sewing Group at four pm Wednesday, April eighth. The
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four H Poultry Club is at four pm Thursday April ninth.
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Mushrooming one oh one with the Appalachian Forager West Liberty
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Homemakers at seven pm Saturday April. The eleventh High can
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Learn Horn Hall Trail at Carter Caves at one pm
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Friday April. The tenth Sole Conversation Conservation Tree Giveaway Monday April.
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The thirteenth County Extension Council at Blackwater Fire Department IZEL
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at six pm. Beekeepers at six thirty pm Tuesday April,
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the fourteenth Homemaker Council Noon cooking through the calendar of
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five pm, Country Cousins seven pm, Woods Spin Homemaker six
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thirty pm at Woodsbin Church. Wednesday April fifteenth, The four
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hteen Club at four pm. District Board meetings five pm.
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Piece by Piece Quilts of Valor. Friday, April seventeenth, Laugh
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and Learn at Morgan Camare Public Library ten am. Four
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h Spring Breaking Baking Class five pm Monday April twentieth,
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for H Environmental Club Towny Country five pm at the
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Country Club. Solid Rock of Azel four pm at Blackwater
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Fire Department, Tuesday, April twenty first, four H Sewing Group
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four pm Wednesday, April twenty second for H Poultry Club
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at four pm Wednesday, April twenty ninth, Youth ag Day.
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Piece by piece. Quilts of Valor for H Camp Applications
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are now available and due by May seventh. Our next
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article is Lady Cooper's Top Buckcorn. For the first win
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of the season, Hayley Purves played the best game of
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her young varsity career, collecting four hits, four runs, score
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two RBIs as Morgan County recorded in impressive sixteen to
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fourteen Rodde win versus buck Horn. Among the freshman four
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hits was a home run as she placed a nineteen
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hit Lady Cougar attack. Morgan came into the game having
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only scored a combined six runs through the first four
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outings of the spring. Purvis had plenty of help at
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the plate, with Chloe Dye also having four hits along
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three runs scored in A Ron knocked in Mac McKenna
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Spencer and Braylean Carpenter had three hits apiece, with Spencer
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also driving in three runs. Carly Dyell finished with two hits,
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a Ron scored in and an RBI, while Olivia Ferguson
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and jay Len Franklin and Mattie Osborn each had a
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base hit. Ferguson's hit was one of the three triples
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in the game for Morgan On The Mound Carpenter pitch
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a complete game six hitter, allowing ten earned runs with
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eight walks in nine strikeouts. The sophomore handed buckhorn is
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six consecutive loss to open the new season. The Lady
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Cougars take the field again on Friday when they host
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Elliott County with a six pm first pitch. Then it's
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back to the road Saturday versus Mentafee at five pm,
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before traveling to Raceland on Monday for the sixteenth Region
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all A tournament. Our next article is morgan O's Pardon me.
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Morgan County baseball Cougar's raised six run deficit of fall
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short against rival Rowan. Rowan County scored six runs in
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the first two innings, then added the go ahead tally
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in the seventh to beat Morgan County seven to six
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on Monday night in West Liberty. The loss was a
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sixth straight for the Cougars, fourth coming in Saint Petersburg
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Florida being shut out six to zero at Clay County
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on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Vikings won for the seventh time
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in the last nine games after opening the schedule with
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five consecutive losses. Rail And put up four runs in
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the first inning, highlighted by two run double to left
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field by freshman Mason Havens. The visitor ated two more
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in the second when Brodylychen's single was misplaced in the
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Cougar outfield, plating Ross Banks and Aaron Pennington, but Morgan
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rallied with a five spot in the second, ignited by
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three consecutive singles by Parker Trusting, Alex Lee and Paxton Miller.
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Cooper Fleming delivered the big blow with a two run
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double to the left, scoring Miller and Ryan Leigh. Connor.
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Fleming followed with a single to center to bring home
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his brother. Morgan tied it in the fifth when Cooper
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Fleming eraced home on an infield era. It stayed that
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way until the seventh inning, when Braxton Smith single to
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center to Chase Holme Lichens in a seven to six
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Viking League. The Cougars had an opportunity in the seventh
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to tie or even take the lead, when Hunter, Cantrell
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and Trustee opened the frame with singles. However, the next
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three batters were retired, with Grayson Hackton grounding out to
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the second to end the game. Pitching wise, Hagen's about
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to start for Rowing, allowing seven hints, six runs, five
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eard in one walk while striking out three. Elijah Miller
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gave up four hints over two innings prior to Pennington's
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retiring all three batters he faced in the seventh to
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earn the victory. Legs started on the hill for Morgan,
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giving up eight hits and six runs while walking one
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and striking out four. Copper Fleming was outstanding in relief,
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collecting seven k's over four innings, surrendering a pair of
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hits and as many walks. Our next article is Morgan
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Track competes at Menefee by Jamie Bronck. This past Saturday,
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Morgan County track and field team competed in a seven
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school meet at Menefee County. The warm weather helped produce
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some nineteen season best marks despite the windy conditions. The
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lone first place outing on the day was in the
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girls four times two hundred relay, recorded at the foursome
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of jay Lee Ferguson Ali ingall Serenity Roberts and Jamie Age.
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Other leading efforts for the Lady Cougars include second places
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by Eliza Vance, Discuss and Serenity Roberts four hundred. Serenity
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and jay Lee went three to four in the girls
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two hundred, while Allie notched a third in the one
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hundred hurdles and a fourth in the four hundred meters.
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On the boy side of the ledger, the four by
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eight hundred relay comprised of Tayvan Arnette, aj Chase Blank,
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Blake Patten, and BIG's Ben Skags place second. They were
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also several individual and third place finishes Skags two hundred,
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Arnette sixteen hundred, and Tristan Frederick shotputt Ethan Wells led
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the elementary boys' effort in the one hundred to four hundred,
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while Elena Patton topped the younger Lady Cougars with her
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finish in the one hundred and the long jump. Morgan
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Track will tackle two meets this week back to back.
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The first is in All Comers at Magoffin on Thursday tonight,
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while the second is a home meet on Friday with
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Morgan hosting Eastern Kentucky Conference Track and Field competition meet.
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Each time is on Friday at six p m at
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the Earl Reed Athletic Complex, located at the Morgan County
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High School campus. The girls results one hundred Dodge nineteen
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point five, two hundred Roberts thirty one point eight, Ferguson
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thirty one point nine, Ingle thirty five point seven, Dodge
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forty one point zero, four hundred Roberts one minute fifteen seconds,
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Ingle one minute twenty seven seconds. The one hundred age
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Ingle twenty three point seventy one four times. The two
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hundred is two point one two Ferguson, Ingle, Roberts, age LJ,
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Dodge eight DH four h J Age four Dash two shot,
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A dvance eighteen to ten, discus advance sixty five to two.
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Boys results one hundred, Dalton fourteen to zero, Patten fourteen
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point seven, Brown fourteen point eight, Snyder sixteen point seven,
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two hundred Skags twenty five point two, Chase twenty eight
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point two, Brown thirty point seven, Snyder thirty six point two,
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four hundred Arnett one and ten chase one in ten,
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Patten one and thirteen six hundred, sixteen hundred Barnette five.
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It looks like five minutes forty seconds, Chase six minutes
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twenty five seconds, four times, eight hundred, ten minutes and
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twenty seconds, Arnett, Chase, Patent and Skags shot Frederick thirty
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two to two, Elementary one hundred Wells sixteen point nine,
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Patten seventeen to zero, Lyndon eighteen point two, McKnight nineteen
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point zero, Flannery nineteen point two, Ferguson twenty point five,
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four hundred Wells one minute thirty four seconds, Lendon one
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minute forty six seconds, McKnight one minute forty eight seconds,
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Flannery one minute forty eight seconds, Ferguson one minute fifty
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two seconds, eight hundred Ferguson four minutes and five seconds,
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Lendon four minutes twenty one seconds, l J. Patten nine
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to zero, Lendon seven to five, and Ferguson seven to five.
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Our next article is Parker Trusty Sons with Union Commonwealth
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University by David Patrick. He's been one of the top
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players in the sixteenth region for the last two decades
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and now it's official. Parker Trustee will take baseball talent
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to Barberville, Kentucky to join Union Commonwealth Bulldogs. Trust He
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signed his national letter of intent in front of family, friends, coaches,
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and teammates on Monday afternoon at Morgan County High School,
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fulfilling a lifelong dream to play at the next level.
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I want to thank head coach Chris Lewis, coach Dalton Coopner,
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and the rest of the staff for this amazing opportunity.
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Trust He said. The coaches see me as a utility guy.
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So wherever the team needs me and the coaches see
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my best fit is where I'll be. I'm ready to
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give them one hundred ten percent. Trusty caught the attention
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of several college coaches last season by becoming the only
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region player to tall a thirty or more hits, runs,
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and steals during the season. He closed the campaign with
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team highs in the average of point four zero two hits,
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thirty three, runs thirty seven, and steals thirty. In his
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varsity career, Trusty has stolen and impressed seventy six bases
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in eighty attempts at ninety five percent. Trusty is the
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son of Chris and Christie Trusty of West Liberty. This
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concludes the excerpts from the recent editions of The Licking
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Valley Courier. Your reader has been jans On behalf of
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everyone here at radiois thank you for listening, keep on listening,
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and I hope you have a very good day