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Wealth Management, Inc. was recognized for its achievements in wealth management at 1st Global's Sixteenth Annual National Conference. Kevin Counts and Steve Wheeler were honored for their achievements with the Three Star Eagle award. Kelly Keltner received the Wealth Management Services Award. Wealth Management, Inc. is owned by the same owners as Holland CPAs and provides financial and investment services.
Holland CPAs welcomes Alana M. Orr as Staff Accountant. Orr is a graduate of WKU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. She will be working in audit and accounting areas. Holland also welcomes Kathryn Church as Staff Accountant. She is a WKU graduate, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. Kathryn will be working in tax and audit areas.
From the City of Russellville: At the February 5th council meeting, Mayor Zick presented Kaitlyn and Adam Scales of Russellville with Good Samaritan awards. The awards were for their unselfish act of helping to extract an infant from a Jeep that was crushed by a fallen tree on Ninth Street during the storm on January 29th. Congratulations and thank you to the Scales!
From the City of Russellville: On Feb 3rd the mayor awarded five local Girl Scouts the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Girl Scouts receiving this award were Amy Embry, Caitlyn Mason, Jessica Stuart, Kimberly Baugh and Lyndsey Ison. The girls were all from Troop #825.
On Feb 12-13th representatives from the city attended the Ky Legislative dinner in Frankfort. Wayne Thomas got Gov. Steve Bashear to sign an old class picture.
City department heads will be speaking at Rotary during the month of February.
The I&I, Water and Cemetery Depts helped the Street Dept clean-up and haul off 80 loads of branches left by the storms.
Central City and Greenville lost their ability to produce potable water for their citizens as a result of the tornado knocking out their electric soft start for running their water pumps. They placed an order for a new soft start, but it would not arrive for 3 weeks and they were down a to 3 day supply of potable water. The City of Russellville had a soft start on our old backwash lagoon pumps that would work so we loaned it Central City and Greenville until they received the one on order. And, with the help of long time Logan Aluminum employee Tommy Nelson, the City of Russellville was able to lend a helping hand to a neighboring county and community.
Mayor Gene Zick, Russellville, presented an commendation to Patrol Officer Ed Higgins of the police department for his work in returing a 13 year old runaway girl back to her home at the April 22 Council meeting. The Council also approved a reimbursement agreement in the amount of $325,000 with the Transportation Cabinet for Russellville's Streetscape Phase II project.
Russellville Independent Schools wins KSBA PEAK Award
In Russellville Independent Schools, it’s not unusual to find elementary students attending a middle school social studies class or to see middle schoolers taking algebra at the high school. Which student you see in what classroom depends largely on the individual student’s ability and desire to learn. It is all part of Russellville’s districtwide performance-based education program, which is this spring’s winner of KSBA’s Public Education Achieves in Kentucky (PEAK) Award.
KSBA Executive Director Bill Scott will present the PEAK Award at 12:30 p.m., May 6 at the Russellville High school library following an 11:10 a.m. demonstration of the district’s award-winning program.
Performance-based education is not a new idea, but what sets Russellville’s approach apart is that it is offered at all grade levels, not just high school. The goal of the program is to challenge students daily
and allow them to progress at a rate that suits their individual needs, regardless of seat time.
Cyndi Young, a teacher at Russellville’s Stevenson Elementary school, said not only does this allow students to learn at their own pace, it is also an effective tool for improving attendance and behavior. “Instead of sitting in a classroom in which (a bored student) has clearly mastered the content, he is now able to move to a classroom in which the content in that area is more challenging,” she wrote in a letter nominating the program. “The student can accelerate through the content at a pace that is more
comfortable but also more challenging for him. School becomes more engaging and satisfying for this student.”
The program has yielded tangible results, with the district ranking eighth on the list of those with the most improved Cats scores in the state in 2006 following five years of stagnant results. During the 2006-07 school year, every student at the middle school also earned at least one high school credit in Algebra I, Geometry, P.E., keyboarding or music.
PEAK judge Vearl Pennington, who is a Bath County school board member, praised Russellville Independent for its systemwide approach and tangible results. “There appears to be a communitywide excitement for the program, even though it would appear very difficult to truly implement a performance-based system throughout all grade levels,” he said. “This
highly visionary approach to learning has already shown success, as validated by hard data, and promises to be a major success.”
Technology has been one key to the program. Russellville created its own virtual learning academy to give students access to the internet to take college classes through universities and the Kentucky Virtual High school.
The district also invested in laptops for every teacher, which gave them “the tools and the desire to discover new ways of engaging students and motivating them to work at a level commensurate with their abilities,” said Donna Leach, the district’s Community Education Director.
The PEAK Award was established in 1997 by the KSBA board of directors to bring about greater attention to noteworthy efforts by public schools aimed specifically at enhancing the learning skills of students, and to promote the positive impact of public elementary and secondary education in this state.
2008 Ribbon Cuttings
Bliss Beauty Salon & Day Spa, Russellville
Dr. Joseph Zehner, Orthopedic Surgeon, Russellville
