Achievements

DALLAS, Texas – Western Kentucky-based specialized transporter First Class Services, Inc. was awarded its second national championship recently at the Overdrive-Custom Rigs National Championship.

INDIANAPOLIS – Master Sgt. Jerry W. Weatherholt Jr. retired March 1, 2012, after serving 24 years in the United States Air Force.

He was born in Tell City in 1968, and graduated from Tell City High School in 1986. He entered the military in February 1988, when he reported for basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Upon completion, he attended technical training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., where he graduated in 1989 as a B-52H electronic warfare systems apprentice.

INDIANAPOLIS – Haley Machen of Sebree, Ky., was one of more than 80 delegates who attended the 81st State 4-H Junior Leader Conference at the University of Indianapolis.

During the conference, the delegates participated in leadership development skill sessions, small group discussions, group recreation and team building activities. Each delegate will now be able to return home and implement some of these ideas into their local communities, a news release said. Additional information about the conference can be found at www.four-h.purdue.edu/sjlcindex.html.

TELL CITY – Tell City photographer Danny Bolin has been named one of two staff photographers for events held at the new KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. Bolin and Louisville photographer Linda Doane will share duties of photographing larger venue events, working around regular schedules of their own professional studios.
Bolin and his wife, April, operate Bolin Photography at 607 9th Street in Tell City and he was recently named Perry County’s No. 1 photographer in The News readers choice awards.