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Volume 11, No. 13
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All of the events we have streamed are archived at www.greenupbeacon.com or on our Facebook pages: Greenup Beacon, The Greenup Beacon Streaming Follow us on Twitter @ greenupbeacon for daily programming updates. The Beacon Media Group is assembling video clips and live interviews to stream as part of our media package and presentation. We now are presenting Beacon Bits as part of what we do. It is an assembly of video clips and messages. We hope to expand this very soon. Like and follow our page for notifications. Thank you for watching. ACTC Profiles This is the fifth submission in a series of employee spotlights for Ashland Community and Technical College to highlight how faculty and staff are helping students while working remotely. Despite the change in delivery method, ACTC’s employees are dedicated to providing the best support possible to its students. Name: Kathy Tucci Edwards (Kathryn) City of Residence: Huntington, W.Va. Education: Morris Harvey College/University of Charleston, 1973-1977– business administration hours (no degree,
went to Marshall in 1978) (also worked full time while attending college); B.A. Sociology, 1981, with Minors in Religion, Psychology, Philosophy, BusinessMarshall University / (also worked part time while attending college); M.A. Sociology, 1991, with Minors in Philosophy, Humanities, Political Science (I worked full and part time while attending college) I was also a graduate assistant and taught classes. Role(s) at ACTC and how you interact with students: Professor; teaching sociology, philosophy, political science -interact through on campus, phone, before and after class, in office, hallways (before COVID-19) now as well as before: email, course messages, discussion boards, podcasts and Facebook. See News On Page 2
April 28, 2020
Russell/Flatwoods/Greenup, KY
Khoudoud achieves Top ACT Score Sara Abul-Khoudoud, daughter of Dr. Omran and Souad Abul-Khoudoud and a junior at Russell High School, earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36. Fewer than half of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2019, only 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36. Sara is a participant on the Russell High School Governor’s Cup team. The team has excelled for several years. She also takes part on the Science Olympiad team at RHS. Sara also has an athletic side participating on the
school’s Girls’ Tennis team. Sara scored a 35 on the ACT and dedicated her academic plan to reach the top number, reaching it two years later. As a junior, she has not selected a post-secondary education. The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores. The score for ACT’s optional writing test is reported separately and is not included within the ACT composite score. In a letter to the student recognizing this exceptional achievement, ACT CEO
Marten Roorda said, “Your achievement on the ACT is significant and rare. Your exceptional scores will provide any college or university with ample evidence of your readiness for the academic rigors that lie ahead.” The ACT is a curriculumbased achievement exam that measures what students have learned in school. Students who earn a 36 composite score have likely mastered all of the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in first-year college courses in the core subject areas. ACT scores are accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities across the US.
Emma Boggs
Aleah Grayson
Tate Duncan
Sara Abul-Khoudoud
Gage Potter
Congratulations GCHS students
Gracie Terry
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Greenup County High School juniors, Emma Boggs, Aleah Grayson, Tate Duncan and Gage Potter, have been accepted to the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program. These students will participate in the summer residential program for outstanding high school students who are rising seniors. Greenup County High School junior, Gracie Terry, has been accepted to the Governor’s School for the Arts.
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A Roman lesson then a party with lunch
Dr. Holly Ross taught a Zoom class featuring Ancient Rome. Then students had a toga party based on what they learned in the lesson, including a pet and a delicious lunch.
Tim Hanner remains positive and hopeful By Judy Clabes NKyTribune editor Special to The Greenup Beacon By now we thought Tim Hanner — teacher, superintendent, and founder of NaviGo career-prep — would have had his kidney transplant and be far along on the road to recovery. But COVID-19 had other, sinister ideas, and its pandemic put a hold on “elective” surgeries just a few weeks before Hanner and his donor, Alyssa Vanderpool, were scheduled for the long-awaited surgery. Hanner has been in lockdown, like the rest of us, but for obviously more serious reasons, as an extremely vulnerable transplant-recip-
ient-in-waiting. Alyssa Vanderpool, a teacher at Johnson Elementary, has been waiting, too, while teaching her students virtually, NonTraditional Instruction style. Nothing has progressed the way it was supposed to. But these two positive spirits just won’t let anything get them down Today, Hanner is weeks away from a new date for his transplant at Christ Hospital. Though Kentucky is starting to relax some rules related to healthcare, elective surgeries are not yet on the list. Christ is submitting its own phase-in plan to the state of Ohio — but that’s a work in progress with no quick remedy.
Hanner is on dialysis three days a week, is keeping his weight goal, and reports that all his caregivers are “incredible,” including wife Marlene with whom he is homebound. He misses his grandchildren — and sees them only from afar beyond the window. His sanctuary when the weather is sunny is his backyard where he enjoys the extensive landscaping and the redbuds — and a lounge where he can fall asleep. He misses no opportunity to be grateful — and to stay positive. He does mow his own grass, though admits it takes him a lot longer these days given the time-outs he needs.
Hanner has no patience for doing nothing, so he had to do something. He started a Facebook group, Putting a Face on the Vulnerable, which now has over 2100 members, so that people most vulnerable to COVID-19 could gather to “get through this together.” People share pictures and stories and laughter and tears and advice — and hope. “There are many people regardless of age, who fall into these (vulnerable — elderly, heart disease, diabetes, lung disease compromised immune systems) categories,” he wrote in establishing the site. “It is important that everyone takes
all of the precautions necessary to help protect those highest at-risk. Please post pictures of yourself if you fall into these categories — or post pictures of ones you love. The positive approach to showing the faces of who we are working to protect, save and honor can make a difference! Please share this page and invite friends to start a movement. It is public! We will get through this together with courage, prayers, and action. Be blessed.” In addition, he stays in touch with his friends, keeps up with current events, and binge-watches movies with Marlene. And he never gives up hope.