11:09 a.m. EDT, June 6, 2012

Jessamine County students receive EKU scholarships

Hundreds of additional incoming freshmen and transfer students have accepted merit-based scholarships to attend Eastern Kentucky University, including nine from Jessamine County.

Jessamine County recipients include Brandon Back, Nicholasville, East Jessamine High School, Presidential Scholarship; Darkess Faulkner, Nicholasville, Maroon Scholarship; Eliot Howington, Nicholasville, East Jessamine High School, Music Department Scholarship; Rachel Muir, Nicholasville, Lexington Catholic High School, Regents Scholarship; Chelsee Neal, Nicholasville, Mercer County Sr High School Maroon Scholarship; David Prewitt, Nicholasville, East Jessamine High School, Presidential Scholarship; Tierria Rafia, Nicholasville, Colonel Scholarship; Edomoni Young, Wilmore, West Jessamine High School, Dr. Rodney Gross Minority Scholarship; and Dongxue Zhang,  West Jessamine High School, Presidential Honor Scholarship.

The first group of scholarship recipients was announced March 20.

The Excellence Award, Founders Award, Regents Scholarship, Presidential Scholarship and Merit Scholarship are for incoming high-school freshmen. The Colonel, Colonel Plus, Maroon and Maroon Plus scholarships are for incoming transfer students.

Stryker makes Berry dean’s list

Annika Stryker has been placed on the dean’s list at Berry College for the spring 2012 semester.
Stryker, the daughter of Jeff and Barbara Stryker, is a 2011 graduate of West Jessamine High School and just finished her freshman year at the Georgia college. She is currently studying abroad in Italy.

Locals make Transy dean’s list

Ten Jessamine County residents and Transylvania University students have been named to the dean’s list for the 2012 winter term. Those making the list were Lafayette Senior High School graduate junior Kelly Hieronymus; Lexington Catholic High School graduates first-year student Shane Metzger and senior Lee Richardson; Paul Laurence Dunbar High School graduate junior Cameron Lindsey; Lexington Christian Academy graduates junior Alyson Cox and senior Julia Sebastian; Trinity Christian Academy graduate sophomore Ashley Keating; and West Jessamine High School graduates junior Lyman Stone, senior Lesley Strong and sophomore Mason Williams.

To be named to the dean’s list, a student must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average during the term.

Voting on East High photo club project goes through June

East Jessamine High School’s photography club is creating a video telling the rescue stories of the residents of Jessamine County’s Primate Rescue Center in an online competition to win an award from a nonprofit organization. Voting ends June 30.

The True Hero organization awards money for high schools’ and colleges’ community-service projects based on online voting. East teacher Gina Lyons volunteers at the primate center and recruited the photography club to help with the project.

Votes can be cast at www.truehero.org/projects/index.cfm?id=734, and they are not counted unless the voter opens the e-mail confirmation received after voting.

School district announces summer feeding schedule

Jessamine County Schools is participating in the summer food-service program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service.

Meals will be provided Monday through Friday from June 4 to July 31 at the following locations and times:

• Wilmore Elementary School, 150 Campground Lane, Wilmore, noon to 1 p.m.

• Warner Elementary School, 821 Wilmore Road, 11:30 a.m. to noon

• Rosenwald-Dunbar Elementary School, 1500 Wilmore Road, 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.