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Speaker 1: We now turn to the Ashland Independent to bring you
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news from in and around Ashland and Boyd County. Your
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reader today is Jane. We begin with the edition dated
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June thirtieth, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, Radio I
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Our first article, body of missing woman found,
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search for Marley Kenny ends after five days at Grayson Lake.
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The five day search for a missing woman ended Sunday
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after noon as a body recovered from Grayson Lake was
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identified as Marley Kenny. The Kentucky Department of Fish and
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Wildlife Resources announced Sunday at three forty five the body
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had been identified as Kenny, nineteen, of Ashland, who had
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been missing since Wednesday. The case remains under investigation. The
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release said the family was notified. The Carter County Coroner
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responded to the scene. The State Medical Examiner's office in
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Frankfurt will determine the cause of death. Game wardens with
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the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources conducted an
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exhaustive search for Kenny following a missing persons report that
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indicated a female passenger did not return with a group
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of friends on a rented pontoon boat at Grayson Lake Marina.
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Kdrw F said search efforts focused on the water and
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shoreline with assistants multiple county and state law enforcement agencies,
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first responders, and volunteers that included boats, Ashland Fire Department divers, sonar,
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Kentucky State Police, helicopters, drone, UTVs, ATVs and K nine,
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and cadaver dogs. Board County High School posted on social
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media about Kenny, who was a twenty twenty four graduate
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during this time. We ask our Boyd County family and
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community to keep Marlee's family, friends, and all who loved
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her in your thoughts and prayers, The school posted. We
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also lift up her classmates, former teachers, and everyone grieving
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this heartbreaking loss. Smoking Jay's Rib and brew House posted
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on its page about Kenny, who it called a model employee,
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loved by all, always with a friendly smile and a
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kind word. She was loved by her fellow co workers
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and friends. The restaurant said it was making arrangements to
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provide grief counseling to its staff. Agencies assisting Kentucky Fish
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and Wildlife in the search in included Kentucky State Police,
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Ashland Fire Department, Grayson Fire Department, Carter County Emergency Management,
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Boyd County Emergency Management, Elliott County Sheriff's Office, Elliott County
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Emergency Management, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kentucky State
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Parks Rangers, Lexington Fire Department, Sandy Hook Fire Department, England
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Hill Fire Department, and more than fifty local volunteers. The
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release added anyone with information regarding the investigation is asked
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to contact Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement at eight
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hundred twenty five alert or Kentucky State Police Post fourteen
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at area code six oh six nine two eight six
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four two one. Our next article. Rudy Fest Rings in
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twenty fifth year by Hallie Adams for The Daily Independent.
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Bluegrass music rang from the top of Poppy Mountain Campgrounds
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last week as Rudy Fest celebrated its twenty fifth year.
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The week long bluegrass festival kicked off Saturday, June twentieth
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with Charlie Woods and Deep Hollow and wrapped up Saturday
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night with Lonesome River Band and Brandon Rickman. Traditional bluegrass
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and southern gospel musician Doyle Lawson announced his retirement in
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twenty twenty one. Lawson said he came out of retirement
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this year and was excited to be back on the
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rudy Fest stage. One of my favorite places to appear
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was at Rudy Fest, and the folks that do this
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are just so easy and good to work with, said Lawson.
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I am only doing a handful of concerts this year,
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and this was one of the seven that I chose
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to do. Of musical performances, rudy Fest raffled Hailey's Hailey
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Bays Live painting of Hannah Harper Saturday Night, and all
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proceeds raised go toward fostering possibilities and memory of Tim Baldwin.
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The bluegrass community lost two Rudy Fest legends this year,
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Alan Styx Hicks and Chris Bradford twitch On Tuesday, June
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twenty third, the festival paid tribute to both Hicks and
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Bradford to honor the impact they had on the festival.
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Paula Hinton, creator of Years of Farming Bluegrass Show in Flemingsburg,
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attended several years of Rudy Fest alongside Hicks and Bradford.
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She said, seeing hicks chair placed on the side of
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the stage in his honor was a bittersweet moment. When
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I have left festivals, I think, wow, I need to
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tell Styx or that's a song he likes. Hinton said,
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there's moments when it is really sad, but we just
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have to think that things are better for both of
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them now. Hinton said, Rudy Fest is more than just
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a festival. To her, it is a family reunion. You
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see somebody that you have seen at another one festival,
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or maybe you have not seen them since this time
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last year. Hinton said, I just think it's wonderful the
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friendships and the fellowships that we have with it. Grammy
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winning vocalist and musician Dan Taminsky played his first Rudy
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Fest when he was a member of Alison Kraus's band
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Union Station. Taminsky said, the most important part about music
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is to come and experience it live. I know there's
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all the room for recorded music, and there's so much
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of that that I know is a big part of
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people's lives, but it doesn't touch you in the same
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way as when you actually get off your butt and
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come to see live music. Tamtski said, the people that
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you meet, the experiences that you have in the process
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of chasing the music means everything, and that's what I
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encourage people to do. Rudy Fest has started planning for
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next year's festival and will release more information at a
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later date. To keep up to date with Rudy Fest,
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visit rudyfest dot com or find them on Facebook. Next,
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Americans exhibit to close with free concert, guests can get
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one final look at Americans, a Smithsonian traveling exhibit currently
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on display at the Highlands Duseum. On Friday, July third,
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the main floor of the museum will be open from
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five to seven pm for any who still haven't had
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a chance to see it. Americans, developed by the National
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Museum the American Indian, is part of Museum on Main Street,
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a collaboration between the Smithsonian and Kentucky Humanities. Americans studies
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the influence of Native Americans on American history, culture, and identity.
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This will conclude the exhibits tour of Kentucky. To commemorate
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the closing of this exhibit, the Museum is honored to
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welcome internationally acclaimed award winning song singer songwriter Steve Free Free,
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whose music is drawn from his native American Appalachian roots
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will perform at five thirty pm on the museum's main floor.
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In two thousand and nine, he was named an Official
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Ohio Treasure by the Ohio Arts Council. Free is an
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accomplished Native American flute player and an Ohio Arts Council
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Ohio Artist on tour participant with an AWA Award winning
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school program. His Christmas song just a Baby Boy has
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become a worldwide Christmas classic, performed around the world every holiday.
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His album Ship of Dreams was named one of the
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top fifty albums of twenty fifteen by Roots Music Report
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and received a Grammy nomination. His CD There for You
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hit the top ten on the international charts in twenty
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twenty one. He was named by lux Life International magazine
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of London Best American Folk Artists in twenty nineteen. He
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remains one of the most popular folk Americana artists on
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European and Australian radio. In twenty twenty six, he received
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the Appalachian Heritage Award from his home state of Ohio.
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This concert and Last Chance Exhibit viewing are free and
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open to the public. Highland's Museum is at sixteen twenty
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Winchester Avenue in Ashland. In other news, Beg's Tribute turning
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Summer Motion into discothech by Tammy Hetzer Womack for The
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Daily Independent. No drive talking here. The New York Beg's
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Tribute band is happily headed to Ashland's summer motion pad.
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It is time to boogie down. What happens when you
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place the most faceted, sharpest tax fashionably flashy, technically trained
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musicians on Long Island with the far out of this
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world musical catalog of big shot brilliant Begs locomote a
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few nineteen seventies flower children South Ashland beat Nix along
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with a handful of Travolta talented dancers who remember the
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hustle glides from Tomcat's Gym Class Matter with Bahamian wannabes.
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Well you get the recipe for Summer Motion. Thursday, July second,
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at nine pm. The New York Begs is a hand
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pick phenomenon singing enduring rubric of songs you remember from
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acclimated Gibbs Brothers, a simpler time when Staying Alive was
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not the Red Cross CPR educational national anthem. Growing up
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on Long Island a classically trained musician like Peter Mazio
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could form a garage band and make a career following
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his dreams of playing in the finest Manhattan clubs alongside
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the best boys on the block, Mazzio and kids he
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grew up with making music and the noise New Yorker
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neighbors complained about way back Whip. Then Peter Mazio and
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the Hit Squad rocked all the best bars and bar
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Mitzvah's in the greater Tri State area. Long Island had
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this incredible thriving music scene, electric and we were an
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extremely popular band. Everyone knew us. We were able to
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express ourselves, play the crowd favorites or our own music.
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Reminiscence Mazio from his Florida home. We had a wide
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range of talents, but what made it great all of
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us are friends. The band was offshoot for many of
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its instrumentalist members playing studio gigs or backgrounds for big
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name music makers and nineteen sixties favorites. Wistfully, Just like
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anything in life, pop music enjoys highs and lows, and
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Mazio longed for a new set to engage the band.
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He mused a wild idea to a bandmate form a
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b G's tribute show. The American East Coast did not
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really have a consistent group playing the megastar songs like
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Stayin Alive, power ballad, love songs like how Deep Is
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Your Love and More Than a Woman, or mainstream radio
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hit night Fever. I went home and hit the internet.
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Mazzio detailed and I learned there was room to make
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some money forming a Beg's tribute show. A friend mentioned
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the Beg's brainstorm to general manager of former b B
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King Blues Club and Grill. He loved the concept and
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immediately booked Mazio's unformed band to perform within the month
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at their sprawling, touristy Times Square location. He quickly gathered
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a group from every acquaintance and genre of music, with
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Mazzio planning to personify falsetto Fay frontman Barry Gibb. It
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was not his typical vocal range, but there was not
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time to worry about. The Stridents members have since included
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legendary bandmates of the Alan Parsons Project, Happy Together, Tour,
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Meat Loaf, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Riot Hermann's, Hermit's, Enrique Iglesias,
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the Rippington's and Moore. The band sold out bb Kings
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to rave reviews. It took fire this little idea put
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into motion. Mazzio said. It all started as one set
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of the Beg's best. Now it is a ninety minute
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show that's still commercially relevant even today, decades since the
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Beg's gained popularity. Mazio learned to hit the high notes
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via muscle memory. Un honed act Summer Motion expects a
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fast moving playlist of Beg's you recall and enjoyed double
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takes of the glossy posters girls Scotch taped to childhood
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bedroom walls. Mazio pauses during the show to offer small
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antidotes of his street behind the songs, tidbits of Beg's
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by gone times. Mazio never met Barry Gibb, but it
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is common for fans to approach him saying they know
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GiB They tell me he would be enormously proud of
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our presentation. My goal is to always display the Begs
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in the most positive, professional light, Mazio said as he
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takes opening spotlight. Mazio's purposeuy hits the high notes to
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set the table for fun ahead, filling the footlights with
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enthusiastic performers full of faculty. In Forte we see smiles
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coming right back at us, an ocean of bell bottoms,
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all the clothing of the nineteen seventies and the disco era,
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said Mazzio, who relocated from Long Island to Florida during
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the COVID pandemic. With the city's widespread shut down, he
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thinks listeners take to the show do to his slight
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resemblance to Barry Gibb. Yes, his dirty, blonde, feathered and
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koffed hair do is his real hair? That is the
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most asked question of Mazio after playing casinos, season seasonal festivals,
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and big parties since their twenty fourteen inception, mirroring the
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Gibbs family into his sixties. Expect to see them after
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the show, milling about the carnival midway before summer motions
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show time. They plan to paint the town. We are
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friendly people and we want to become familiar with your hometown.
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We want to eat in your restaurants, rest in your hotel,
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look out the hotel window and see the stage we
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will play on later, enjoy the local environment, and then
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leave knowing we've made a bunch of new friends. He
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is thrilled to spoon out the smooth sounds of the
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generations younger people introduced to the songs through dreaming. Some
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recent obituaries claudein Dyke ninety eight formerly of Ashland, Turley
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Randall Cooper eighty five of Ashland, Rose Jannette Teams ninety
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four of Salt Lick. Next sex crimes result in twenty
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year sentence by Aaron Snyder of The Daily Independent. A
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twenty eight year old Greenep man was sentenced to twenty
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years in prison on multiple sex crimes Thursday. Matthew Beavis
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have pleaded guilty in Greenop County to three counts of
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third degree rape, third degree sodomy, and procuring or promoting
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the use of a minor via electronic means. According to
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the twentieth Judicial Circuit Commonwealth Attorney's Office. Beavis also pleaded
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guilty to third degree rape, first degree sodomy, and third
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degree terroristic threatening in Lewis County. The Commonwealth said the
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victim was the same in both counties. One of the
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victim's parents wrote an impact statement read aloud Thursday by
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Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Eleah Hensley of Beavis. They said he
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got out of jail and then enticed their special needs
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daughter who did not have the ability to recognize danger,
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by luring her with alcohol and running around. Any child
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predator should be behind bars for a very long time,
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they wrote. You Beavis hurt us, but God makes a
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way to heal. This is the hardest thing I've done,
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but I'm going to forgive you. I hope and pray
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you find the Lord. Beavis was previously convicted of second
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degree rape in twenty nineteen. All of the sentences in
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both green Up and Lewis Counties on all charge charges
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will run concurrently for a total of twenty years. You've
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hurt people, said Judge Brian McLeod. That hurt will go
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on for a long period of time. Shame on you.
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Moving on. One House of Horrors trial set for late August.
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By Aaron Snyder of The Daily Independent, the trial for
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a national man accused of horrific child abuse is scheduled
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to begin Monday, August thirty first. According to the Boyd
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County Common Weals Attorney's Office, Austin Adam Fraser, twenty eight,
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faces a long list of charges, including two charges of
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sexual abuse of a victim under twelve years of age
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performing female genitale genital mutilation, thirteen counts of first degree
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criminal abuse, kidnapping, two counts of first degree strangulation animal cruelty.
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The charges occurred after the victim escaped a house in
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January twenty twenty four and ran to a neighbour's residence.
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Kayla Marie Fraser, thirty three, is also accused of similar charges.
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Kirk Mount and Edward Gowans are each facing charges connected
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to the case. Each faces first agree criminal abuse of
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a child twelve or under, kidnapping a minor in failure
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to report child neglect or abuse status. Hearings for Kayla Fraser,
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Mount and Goens are set for Friday, September eleventh in
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Judge George George Davis's courtroom. Next, Greenop County man gets
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ten years for sex abuse sodomy. By Aaron Snyder of
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The Daily Independent, a Greenop County man will spend ten
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years in prison four sex crimes. Floyd Kelly, sixty four,
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pleaded guilty in Aid April to first degree sexual abuse
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and second degree sodomy. He was sentenced on Thursday in
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Greenough County Circuit Court. The victim and victim's family, who
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are from West Virginia, agreed to the ten year sentence.
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Shame on you, Judge Brian McLeod said to Kelly, you've
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caused great harm to people. I hope you sit in
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prison and wallow in shame. In other news, local dealership
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donates van to Shoes for Kids. By Allison Scott for
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the Daily Independent. More than five thousand cars rolled off
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Mark Porter's lot last year, but this week, a customed
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pink mini van covered in pairs of shoes rolled out
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of his lot for free. With a different purpose, Mark
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Porter Chevrolet of Ashland donated a mini van to Shoes
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for Kids, a non profit organization that provides shoes to
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children in need throughout the tri State. I was approached
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about five months ago from Shoes for Kids and they
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needed a vehicle to help transport the shoes because their
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own vehicle broke down. We decided we were going to
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help them. Porter said, we got a van done up
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for them and we donated the van to them to
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take their shoes around all the different schools and areas
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they go to give the kids shoes that don't have them.
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Operated by the Oak Street Chapel in flat Woods. The
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volunteer organization began in twenty twenty one, providing seventy five
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pairs of shoes to three schools in Greenop County. Expanding
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each year through the help of fundraisers and donations, The
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organization provided twenty five hundred plus pairs of shoes to
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children from fifty eight schools across six counties last school year.
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The vehicle is custom wrapped in bright pink with pairs
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of shoes along with Porter's name, the Shoes for Kids logo,
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and in lovery loving memory of Dorothy Spilman wrote out
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across the side. Porter was approached with the idea by Spilman,
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a volunteer of the organization, who was unable to see
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the vehicle before she passed last month. I wish she
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could have seen this dream come true. Porter said it
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was her dream. Spilman's son, Jim, was at the dealership
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with the organization while they all reflected on Spilman's legacy
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and her dream. Dorothy would be jumping up and down
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right now, said Serri Sherry Archie. Prior to receiving the minivan,
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Archie had used her personal vehicle to shop and deliver
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shoes before it broke down. We came and met with
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Mark Porter and told him we needed a vehicle, and
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he didn't hesitate, said Barbara Littrell. He has been a
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wonderful help to our organization. We appreciate it more than
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he could. We could ever say this donation will really
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help our program. Porter explained the donation was personal as
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he remembers what it was like to be a child
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in need of new shoes. As a nonprofit, they all
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said the biggest payoff from what they do is seeing
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the children's reactions to getting new shoes. It's their hugs
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and their reactions. They'll jump up and down, show you
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how fast they can run. They'll skip up and down
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the hall. Littrell said, I love it. Another volunteer agreed.
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We've had kids ask can I keep these? Do I
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have to give them back at the end of the day,
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or now I don't have to wear my brother's shoes.
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One little boy said, I can mark it off my
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Christmas list. Now those are the things that make us
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go back over the summer. The organization will work toward
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fundraising money to put toward purchasing new shoes in the
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ear upcoming school year. Next Bellefonte Fourth of July tradition
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to honor Fuller family. The City of Bellefonte is inviting residents, families,
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and visitors to gather in patriotic speriit spirit for the
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thirty second annual Fourth of July celebration Saturday, July fourth.
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The tradition is full of fellowship, food and fireworks. The
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event will pay tribute to a local family whose courage
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and advocacy have inspired many throughout the region. According to
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a news release, participants will line up for the annual
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hometown parade at eleven thirty am at Community Presbyterian Church.
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Following the parade, attendees are invited to enjoy a cookout
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featuring hot dogs, chips, and drinks. The City of Bellefonte
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will recognize the Fuller family as grand Marshals of the parade.
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Lucas Luke Fuller was diagnosed with mel Meldoza blastoma with
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metastasis to his spine just four days after he and
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his identical twin brother, Chase, celebrated their eleventh birthday. Through
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surgery's treatments, medications, scans, and countless appointments, Luke focused on
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doing what was required to keep moving forward. Luke is
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nearing five years of being off of treatment. The Fuller
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family chose to homeschool Luke and Chase to allow greater
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flexibility for travel, family experiences, and learning at a pace
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that best meets Luke's needs. Luke is known for his
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quick wit, intelligence and thoughtful personality. According to those who
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know him well, he has a passionate basketball fan, loves
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video games, and likes to take comic con adventures. The
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Fullers are dedicated advocates for pediatric brain cancer research through
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their involvement with the Cure Starts Now Foundation, an organization
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committed to finding the home run cure for cancer by
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advancing research into pediatric brain tumors and other aggressive childhood cancers.
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This concludes excerpts from recent editions of the Ashland Daily Independent.
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Your reader has been Jane On behalf of everyone here
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at radio. I thank you for listening, Keep on listening
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and have a good day.