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1. Two 1970s-era high school rings take an un-likely journey from Viet-nam to Kentucky. 5A

2. Congress spares pro-gram that gives tuition aid to active duty military. 7A

3. American nuns see a glimmer of hope after ac-cusations of focusing too much on social justice. 1C

4. Bill to shield water from fracking damage hits delay. 7B

5 . 39 m i l l i o n pounds of old elec-tronics have been re-cycled in the first year of a statewide ban on throwing away the ma-terials in Illinois land-fills. 1D

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Thieves may have ruined up to $50,000 of bridge navi-gational lighting on the Canal Bridge at Grand Rivers.

Nearly 1,800 feet of wire used on the Ky. 453 Canal Bridge was been stolen during the winter, Transportation Cabinet spokes-man Keith Todd said Thursday. In the process of cutting the

wire, the thieves tore down in-frastructure and damaged navi-gational lights. While fi xing the entire system could run up to $50,000, Todd said, bridge en-gineers spent Thursday install-ing solar-powered lighting to mark the bridge’s piers.

Todd said some commercial boat traffi c goes under the Ca-nal Bridge — which runs over a canal that connects Kentucky

and Barkley lakes — along with recreational traffi c. Authorities from Lyon County, the Ken-tucky State Police, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Kentucky Department Homeland security are investigating the theft.

Lyon County Sheriff Kent Murphy said police believe the thieves used a bike trail that

Repair of navigation lights, wiring may cost $50,000BY CORIANNE [email protected]

The McCracken County Board of Education will draw on mem-bers of the school district and the public in considering install-ing metal detectors at the con-solidated high school.

The board agreed Thursday at its regular monthly meeting to look into installing the safety de-vices at the school, which opens in August. Board member Jerry Shemwell moved for a feasibility study to review the cost and lo-gistics for students going in and out of the school if it is equipped with metal detectors.

“I think the risk is so great — with the merging of three high schools — that we can’t afford not to do it,” Shemwell said. “It’s much more important to take prevention in this situation, I think. That’s my opinion. My opinion is only one out of fi ve opinions.”

Holly King of Sherman-Cart-er-Barnhart, the architectural fi rm for the high school, attend-ed Thursday’s meeting.

“Almost every system consid-ers it; we rarely see it imple-mented because of different constraints,” King said.

The board agreed to involve school resource offi cer Larry Zacheretti, Sherman-Carter-Barnhart, district administra-tors, local law enforcement and parents.

The board also agreed to host a basketball tournament in con-junction with Marshall County’s Hoop Fest. The unnamed event will be held in mid-January next year at the Strawberry Hills Pharmacy Arena at McCracken County High School.

Kris Garrett, activities di-rector for McCracken County Schools, said the date was cho-sen so it would complement and not confl ict with Hoop Fest.

“Around the region our ath-letic directors have started to

Detectors in school proposed

BY JODY [email protected]

The fi rst public reception at Pa-ducah’s new Commerce Center on Thursday was historic, mark-ing the groundbreaking for Mc-Cracken County’s biggest jobs an-nouncement in at least a decade.

Colorado-based customer ser-vice company Teletech Holdings announced plans in November to develop two customer experience centers — handling not just calls, but chat, email and data analyt-ics — in Paducah. The company plans a $9 million investment that promises a total of 450 jobs, with average salaries of $9.50 an hour.

Gov. Steve Beshear joined company representatives and city and county leaders Thursday for

the groundbreaking ceremony, where he welcomed the compa-ny. The McCracken County cen-ters will be the second and third Teletech locations in Kentucky. The fi rst was a 700-job center in Hopkinsville set to open during the third quarter of this year.

Beshear applauded Paducah Economic Development offi cials and other community leaders for attracting the company to the commonwealth for a second time.

“Teletech came because of Ken-tucky and because of the hard-working people in these commu-nities,” he said.

Todd Baxter, senior vice presi-dent of global operations for the customer service company, said many factors can eliminate a

potential community during the company’s intricate, fi ve-phase recruiting process. He said that Paducah and McCracken County won company offi cials over not with incentives, but with charm and a quality work force pool.

“At the end of the day, it’s the people and the community,” Bax-ter said.

The company is slated to bring 150 jobs to the former Commerce Center at Fourth Street and Ken-tucky Avenue, set for renovation, and 300 jobs to a new, 30,000 square-foot building set for con-struction inside the Paducah Commerce Park. Formerly known as the Information Age Park, the industrial park is located behind

Beshear, local leaders welcome 450 jobsBY MALLORY [email protected]

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Gov. Steve Beshear and Paducah Mayor Gayle Kaler laugh during a conversation before the groundbreaking for Teletech on Thursday afternoon at the new Paducah Commerce Center. Teletech is bring-ing 450 customer service center jobs to two locations in McCracken County. Please see JOBS | 8A

CORIANNE EGAN | The Sun

Workers with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet work under the Canal Bridge on Thursday to install solar lights that will take the place of navigational lights on the bridge. The original lighting was damaged when 1,800 feet of wire was stolen in February.

Thefts damage bridge

Please see BRIDGE | 8A

It would have been understand-able for Ashley Storie to cry and go through extreme emotions when told she had a golf ball-sized can-cerous tumor in her brain. Instead, when she was diagnosed, Storie said she was eerily calm.

“I was surprised, yes, but I had almost a peace fall over me,” Storie said. “I knew everything was going to be OK and it was going to work out.”

Three years later, Storie is in remission. Doctors diagnosed her with medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer that rarely is diag-nosed in anyone older than 15. Storie was 25 when they found the tumor. She is also the fi rst ever “super star” for Lourdes’ Danc-ing With Our Stars fundraiser at Harrah’s in Metropolis on Satur-day.

“We have a lot of fun and the night is a blast,” organizer Rita Bailey said. “But we don’t want to lose sight of the fact that this is about helping people with cancer.”

Storie was working on plan-ning two major fundraisers for the Starfi sh Orphan Ministry in 2009 — where she works as a volunteer director of development now — when she began having headaches. She thought she was just stressed, she said, and after the fi rst charity auction she began working on a 5k race that the ministry was plan-ning. That day, she felt dizzy and lightheaded, but it was summer and she blamed the heat.

Two days later, she had gotten so dizzy that she fell. Once Storie was on the fl oor, she could barely lift her head. She went to her doc-tor, Dr. Polly Lebuhn, who sent her to Lourdes to see her husband, Dr. Carl Lebuhn. A CAT scan found her tumor, but it took another day to fi nd out it was a tumor and not

Survivor becomes dancing ‘super star’

BY CORIANNE [email protected]

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Gayle Kaler received many emails from Paducah residents after being elected mayor in November. But she was taken back when one of those emails was from a 10-year-old boy.

Nic Beyer, a fourth-grader at McNabb El-ementary, emailed Kal-er with the help of his grandmother shortly af-ter her election. He want-ed to let her know that he supported her stance on

recycling, and that he believed with the help of his super hero alter ego he could help her tackle some important issues.

Beyer and Kaler con-tinued emailing back and forth discussing the is-sues and learning about one another. When the mayor learned that Bey-er, who was diagnosed with autism at age 2, loved science, she pro-posed bringing “Science Guy” Jason Lindsey to McNabb for an experi-ment assembly. Thrilled

with the idea, Nic con-curred.

“I noticed right away that Nic was very articu-late and a great commu-nicator,” Kaler said. “I wanted to bring Jason Lindsey here for Nic, but for all the children as well. The more things you can expose a child to, the more it stimu-lates their brains and gets them out of their ev-eryday world and into a much larger one.”

Nic was in for an even more exciting day than

he had expected, not knowing that he would be assisting Lindsey in all of his experiments.

“It was a really big surprise,” Nic said with a grin on his face. Nic shined in his 15 minutes of fame, helping pick members of the audi-ence, and hamming it up with the “Science Guy.”

“I like inventions, but I haven’t invented anything yet,” Nic said. “Maybe after this I can. I could be the country’s future scientist.”

Lindsey, who teaches children to love science through broadcast and live programs, said it was rewarding to make Nic so happy.

“It’s always fun to help any child love science as I do, but it was espe-cially great to see Nic’s eyes light up and see his love for the subject.” said Lindsey.

Call Allie Douglass, a Paducah Sun staff writ-er and photographer, at 270-575-8617.

‘Science Guy’ gets a sidekickBY ALLIE DOUGLASS

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Nic Beyer 10 (right), laughs as he touches the nose of classmate Jordon Elifritz to complete a science experiment while ‘Science Guy’ Jason Lindsey supervises on Thursday morning at McNabb Elementary. Lindsey put on a science assembly with fourth grad-ers and surprised Beyer with the opportunity to act as his assistant.

Paducah police arrested four people on drug charges and seized more than $18,000 during an investigation Wednesday and Thursday morning.

After receiving a tip from the Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement/Special Investigations Unit, Paducah police obtained a warrant for a house in the 900 block of North 21st Street.

Offi cers found several grams of methamphetamine and ar-rested resident Henry Wilkey, 34, and Savannah Travis, 28, of Calvert City. Offi cers also found various items of drug paraphernalia, including scales, pipes and plastic bags and approximately $18,000 hidden throughout the house.

The investigation led of-fi cers to a hotel at Interstate

24 and Hinkleville Road, and they obtained a search war-rant. Police arrested Shaun Hunter, 29, of Smithland and Destry Carter, 18, of Paducah and seized 3 grams of meth, pharmaceuticals and mari-juana and found $520 linked to Hunter.

Wilkey is charged with traf-fi cking in a controlled sub-stance. Travis is charged with possession of a controlled sub-stance. Hunter is charged with traffi cking in a controlled sub-stance and possession of mari-juana. Carter is charged with possession of a controlled sub-stance and possession of mari-juana. All four were jailed.

Detective Sgt. Will Gilbert, commander of the Drug and Vice Enforcement Unit, said he suspects the meth was man-ufactured in Mexico, based on the appearance and quality.

Gilbert said local meth

manufacturers sometimes use a one-step process involving a 2-liter bottle which creates a smaller and less pure yield. Manufacturers across the bor-der create it in extravagant labs using a multiple-step pro-cess.

Gilbert said the estimated $18,520 was a good seizure for police.

“All of it was illegally ob-tained money,” Gilbert said. “That’s money that taxes aren’t being paid on.”

Hunter was arrested six weeks previously on drug charges after an offi cer pulled him over for speeding on U.S. 60. After a K-9 alerted the of-fi cer, 3 ounces of meth was found in the vehicle.

Contact Nicholas Reside, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8667 or follow @NicholasReside on Twitter.

Police seize Mexican meth, arrest 4BY NICHOLAS [email protected]

Friday

Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive, Call 442-8993. Protect yourself from Medicare errors, fraud and abuse. Learn to detect potential errors, fraud and abuse. Report errors or suspected fraud to SMP.

St. John Knights of Columbus fish fry from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at St. John Knights of Columbus Hall, 6725 U.S. 45 South. 554-0700.

Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River City Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919 Cairo Road.

Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Le-gion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. Band: Just Breakin’ Even. $5.

Dance, 7-10 p.m., Grand Rivers Community Center, 155 W. Cum-berland. Stanley Walker Band. $5. 362-8272.

Saturday

4-Rivers Military Officers As-sociation of America, 8:30 a.m., Lone Oak Little Castle Restaurant. 415-9959.

Dance, 7-10 p.m., American Le-

gion Post 26 Hall, Mayfield. Just Friends. $5.

Six local nurseries will sell dogwood trees Saturday in preparation for the Dogwood Trail’s 50th anniversary in 2014.

Ro Morse with the Paducah Civic Beautifi cation Board said that Blooms & Gardens, Eads, Edwards, James Sanders Lawn & Garden, Montgomery Gar-dens and Wahl’s will sell the trees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each tree will come with a tag that includes planting guide-lines. One dollar of each sale goes to plant dogwoods at the Children’s Memorial Garden in Noble Park.

Last year, more than 120 dogwood trees were sold at the fundraiser, bringing in $368 for the garden.

Dogwood tree sale to benefit memorial garden

Staff Report

Thursday’s lotteryKentucky

Pick 3-midday: 0-8-9Pick 3-evening: 8-6-2Pick 4-midday: 3-8-6-3Pick 4-evening: 2-2-9-7Cash Ball: 2-4-8-12 CB 29 Cash Ball Kicker: 6-8-7-3-2Decades of Dollars: 5-7-15-18-35-42

IllinoisPick 3-midday: 5-7-6Pick 3-evening: 0-9-3Pick 4-midday: 7-4-7-5Pick 4-evening: 4-8-1-6Lucky Day Lotto: 03-15-23-33-34

The Go Guide that appeared in Thursday’s Current section incor-rectly listed an event. The Paducah Improv Studio Series will be held Saturday, March 30, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Market House Studio Theatre, 120 Market House Square. Tickets cost $5 at the door.

Correction

Wednesday’s lotteryKentucky

Pick 3-midday: 5-5-5Pick 3-evening: 9-0-1Pick 4-midday: 5-5-1-2Pick 4-evening: 0-7-5-6Cash Ball: 02-14-15-26 CB 03 Cash Ball Kicker: 4-4-5-3-4Powerball: 13-14-17-43-54 PB 15

IllinoisPick 3-midday: 6-1-5Pick 3-evening: 0-8-0Pick 4-midday: 2-1-0-8Pick 4-evening: 3-1-7-6Little Lotto: 05-21-25-33-35Lotto: 01-08-23-33-39-43Powerball: 13-14-17-43-54 PB 15

paducahsun.com Local/From Page One The Paducah Sun • Friday, March 22, 2013 • 3A

The United Way of Pa-ducah-McCracken County celebrated its 78th annual campaign with a luncheon and award ceremony Thursday.

“We continue to be amazed at the generos-ity and support from our community,” said Ashley Wright, executive direc-tor for United Way of Pa-ducah-McCracken County. “The Victory Celebration is an opportunity to cel-

ebrate and thank all those individuals and companies that help make our com-munity a better place to live and work.”

The United Way raised $988,324 during the cam-paign season, a $13,000 increase over last year. In addition to celebrating a successful fundraising year, the United Way Vic-tory Celebration highlight-ed the businesses and indi-viduals who helped.

This year’s award win-

ners are:■ Largest Campaign In-

crease: PEBCO■ Employee Campaign

Coordinator of the Year: Ashley Johnson, US Bank.

■ Small Business of the Year: UBS Financial Ser-vices Inc.

■ Overall Campaign of the Year: B&W Conver-sions

■ LIVE UNITED Corpo-rate Partner: USEC

■ Ladd Mathis Award: Debora Jolly

United Way campaign brings in $988,324

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Attendees of the United Way of Paducah-McCracken County annual Victory Cel-ebration luncheon watch a video presentation Thursday at Walker Hall. The campaign raised $988,384 this year.

An 80-year-old Tennes-see man suffered an ap-parent medical problem Thursday and collided with two cars before strik-ing a utility pole on Ken-tucky Avenue.

Paducah police said wit-nesses told them a car driv-en by Vernon L. Crockett, of Franklin, Tenn., side-swiped a parked car on Fourth Street at 1:10 p.m. Witnesses said Crockett’s SUV accelerated after hit-ting the parked car, hitting a car driven by Lashae D. Taylor, 22, of Paducah, which was stopped at the light at Kentucky Avenue and Fourth Street. Crock-ett’s truck then continued, breaking off a fi re hydrant and a metal traffi c light

pole.Crockett was uncon-

scious and unresponsive at the scene, police said. He was taken to Baptist Health, where medical

staff reported they per-formed CPR and lost his pulse. Emergency person-nel revived Crockett, and he was in critical but stable condition Thursday night.

Wreck critically injures driverStaff Report

LEDBETTER — Markets totaled 664 head. Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers traded $5 to $8 lower. Supply in-cluded 46 percent feeder heifers and 30 percent of feeders over 600 lbs. Slaughter cows steady. Slaughter bulls steady.

Slaughter cows: breaker, 75 to 80 percent lean, 1210 to 1600 lbs., $72 to $78; low dressing, $65 to $70; high dressing, $80; boner, 80 to 85 percent lean, 1110 to 1510 lbs., $72 to $79; high dressing, $80; low dress-ing, $65 to $71; lean, 85 to 90 percent lean, 1150 to 1360 lbs., $67 to $73; high dressing, $78; low dressing, $60 to $65.

Slaughter bulls yield grade 1-2: 1565 to 1970 lbs., $95 to $104; high dressing, $107; low dress-ing, $92 to $94.

Feeder steers medium and large 1-2: 100 to 200 lbs., $195; 200 to 300 lbs., $172 to $192; 300 to 400 lbs., $173 to $192; 400 to 500 lbs., $160 to $167; 500 to 600 lbs., $141 to $148; 600 to 700 lbs., $131 to $138; 700 to 800 lbs., $116 to $125; 800 to 900 lbs., $109 to $111.

Feeder heifers medium and large 1-2: 100 to 200 lbs., $186; 200 to 300 lbs., $161 to $175; 300 to 400 lbs., $144 to $156; 400 to 500 lbs., $136 to $143; 500 to 600 lbs., $129 to $141; 600 to 700 lbs., $116 to $122; 700 to 800 lbs., $108 to $110; 1000 to 1100 lbs., $85.

Feeder bulls medium and large 1-2: 300 to 400 lbs., $169 to $172; 400 to 500 lbs., $150 to $160; 500 to 600 lbs., $130 to $140; 600 to 700 lbs., $115

to $125; 700 to 800 lbs., $119; 800 to 900 lbs., $84.

Stock cows: cows 4 to 9 years old, 5 to 8 months bred, $800 to $1,050 per head.

Stock cows/calf pairs: cows 3 to 9 years old with calves at side, $1,020 to $1,400 per pair.

Stock cows/calf pairs: Cows 3 to 7 years old with calves at side, $1,150 to $1,350 per pair.

Baby calves: $170 to $230 per head.


Emergency personnel and road workers surround the car of Vernon L. Crockett on Thursday afternoon. Medi-cal responders believe Crockett suffered a medical problem before hitting two cars, a fire hydrant and a utility pole.

Livingston Livestock

General manager Glen Anderson (right) shows off the new boardroom to Roger Tru-itt (left) during an open house at Paducah Water at 1800 N. Eighth St. on Thursday. The boardroom is named after Bob Johnston, a board member from 1980-2013 and board chairman from 2009-2013. The expanded operation now includes the new office building resulting from a recent move from Washington and South Fourth streets, as well as water treatment facilities, distribution and engineering depart-ments, and a 3-million gallon water storage tank.

Paducah Water celebrates expanded siteALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

The Kentucky State Police seeks the public’s help in an investigation into the death of man in Fulton this month.

State police opened their investigation March 12 after receiving a call from Fulton police regarding a decomposed body in a house on Mar-tin Luther King Drive. An autopsy identifi ed the remains as Forrest Dan-iel Sommerfi eld, 39, of Las Vegas, Nev.

State police spokes-man Trooper Jay Thom-as said that the agency is treating it as an open,

routine death investiga-tion and has no reason to believe foul play was in-volved. He said Sommer-fi eld purchased prop-erty on Burnett Street in Paducah and the home on Martin Luther King Drive in Fulton in the fall and winter of 2010.

State police seek in-formation on Sommer-fi eld’s dealings since 2010. Anyone with infor-mation or recollections of meeting Sommerfi eld between October 2010 and December 2011 can contact state police at 270-856-3721 or 1-800-222-5555.

State police continuedeath investigation

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look at working together and scheduling events, but not scheduling the same events or at the same time,” Garrett said. “We’re looking at a collaboration instead of a competition. Now that the board’s ap-proved a date, we can go out and see what teams can play at the event. We’re defi nitely looking at Jan. 10th and 11th.”

Trent Lovett, Marshall County Schools superin-tendent, said he discussed the agreement with the Marshall County Board of Education at its most re-cent meeting. Lovett said the two districts work well together.

Call Jody Norwood, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8658 or fol-low @jgnorwood on Twit-ter.

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Karah Braboy, a Reidland High School sophomore, plays the clarinet at the McCracken County Board of Education meeting Thursday. Braboy was one of four students playing in the marching band’s new uniforms.

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When you fill up your gas tank this summer and curse Big Oil for the high prices, your anger might be misdirected.

Oh, there’s no denying the oil companies are making a tidy profit. But they aren’t responsible for the coming spike in pump prices. The blame falls squarely at the feet of the government.

We’re not talking about taxes, although taxes are a major reason for the chronically high gas prices. Exxon-Mobil’s profit at the pump is about 7.4 cents a gallon, but the government’s take is typically 10 times that. The federal excise tax is 18.4 cents a gallon. The state of Kentucky imposes a tax of 46.2 cents per gallon, and Illinois socks consumers for 62.8 cents a gallon.

The taxes are bad enough, but at least that revenue goes for a public purpose. This summer you could pay another 10 cents per gallon that neither the oil companies nor the government will collect. The money will go to energy traders and hedge funds exploiting excessive and unnecessary federal environmental regulations.

Lower-than-projected gasoline consumption has pushed the federal

government’s increasing ethanol-use mandate beyond the 10-percent threshold the market will bear. Concentrations of ethanol higher than 10 percent in fuel can damage car engines, and some auto makers won’t warranty vehicles if drivers use it.

So, instead of buying ethanol they know they can’t use, refineries take the only other option the government gives them — buying biofuel credits

called Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs).

RINs are like carbon credits, which is to say they are not real products but just a way to generate revenue, ostensibly for environmental protection. In reality it just offers investors a means to exploit misguided environmental regulations for profit. It’s the Al Gore Investment Strategy.

After the EPA’s 2013 mandates went into effect, forcing refineries to

purchase ethanol credits in lieu of increasing ethanol use, the price of RINs jumped 1,000 percent from January to March.

Biofuel credits have become an instant profit center for energy traders, thanks to a government mandate that serves no constructive purpose. Ethanol burns no cleaner than regular gasoline, and it causes more wear and tear on engines.

The ethanol mandate hits consumers not only at the pump but in the grocery store. Directing so much of the nation’s corn crop into fuel production drives up prices for corn and corn products.

Bloomberg News quotes an analyst saying the rising cost of credits “in the worst case could take down both the U.S. consumer and the domestic economy.”

But even in the best case, you’ll pay more at the pump. When you fill up in the months to come, remember that $2 of a typical tank of gas — more than Big Oil makes — benefits no one but a handful of traders. And it’s all because of wrong-headed environmental regulations.

A remarkable book titled “Gifted Hands” tells the personal story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on to become a renowned neurosur-geon.

At one time young Ben Carson had the lowest grades in his middle school class and was the butt of teasing by his white classmates. Worse yet, he himself believed that he was just not smart enough to do the work.

Fortunately for him, his mother, whose own education went no further than the third grade, insisted that he was smart. She cut off the televi-sion set and made him and his brother hit the books — books that she herself could scarcely read.

As young Ben’s school work began to catch up with that of his classmates and then began to surpass that of his classmates, his whole view of himself and of the wider world around him began to change. He began to think that he wanted to become a doctor.

There were a lot of obstacles to overcome along the way, including the fact that his mother had to be away from time to time for psychiatric treatment, as she tried to cope with the heavy pressures of trying to raise two boys whose father had deserted the family that she now had to support on a maid’s wages.

In many ways the obstacles facing young Ben Carson were like those faced by so many other youngsters in the ghetto. What was different was that he overcame those obstacles with the help of a truly heroic mother and the values she instilled in him.

It is an inspiring personal story, told plainly and un-

pretentiously, including the continuing challenges he faced later as a neurosurgeon oper-ating on the brains of people with life-threatening medical problems, often with the odds against them.

To me it was a personal story in another sense, that some of his experiences as a youngster brought back ex-periences that I went through growing up in Harlem many years earlier.

I could understand all too well what it was like to be the lowest performing child in a class. That was my situation in the fourth grade, after my family had moved up from the South, where I had been one of the best students in the third grade — but in a grossly inferior school system.

Now I sometimes found myself in tears because it was so hard to try to get through my homework.

But in one sense I was much more fortunate than Ben Car-son and other black young-sters today. The shock of being in a school, whose standards were higher than I was able to meet at fi rst, took place in an all-black school in Harlem, so that there were none of the additional complications that such an experience can have for a black youngster in a pre-dominantly white school.

By the time I fi rst entered a predominantly white school, I had already caught up and

had no trouble with the school work. Decades later, in the course of running a research project, I learned that the Harlem school, where I had so much trouble catching up, had an average IQ of 84 back when I was there.

In the predominantly white school to which I later went, I was put in a class for children with IQs of 120 and up, and had no trouble competing with them. But I would have been totally wiped out if I had gone there two years earlier — and who knows what racial hang-ups that might have led to?

Chance plays a large part in everyone’s life. The home in which you are raised is often a big part of luck being on your side or against you. But you don’t need parents with Ph.D.s to make sure that you make the most of your educa-tion.

The kinds of things that statisticians can measure, such as family income or parents’ education, are not the crucial things. The family’s attitude toward education and toward life can make all the difference.

Virtually everything was against young Ben Carson, except for his mother’s at-titudes and values. But, armed with her outlook, he was able to fi ght his way through many battles, including battles to control his own temper, as well as external obstacles.

Today, Dr. Benjamin Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon at a renowned institution, Johns Hopkins University. But what got him there was wholly different from what is being offered to many ghetto youths today, much of which is not merely futile but coun-terproductive.

The last thing someone diagnosed with a serious cancer wants to hear about is politics. It’s bad enough to think that whether or not you will live to see your child graduate from college may depend on your grandmother’s genes, or the cigarettes you smoked before you knew better, or work and living decisions you made before you knew the risks involved.

But politics? How well organized your fellow sufferers have managed to be? Whether there are enough folks who get the disease, survive it, feel well enough and possess the skills to raise money and launch a movement?

It shouldn’t matter. This should be about science and professionalism, about national standards that can be followed even by more isolated doctors in rural areas. Yes, we all know that when it comes to surgery, it’s important to fi nd doctors who have performed more and not fewer, who are up on the latest advances, who practice at hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment. But the least you can expect to know, or fi nd out, is that you should be looking for such a person.

For many years, women, underrepre-sented in government and business and science and the rest, were also underrep-resented in the machinations of determin-

ing, when it comes to can-cer research, the answer to the essential question of politics: Who gets what, when, where and how? “Men fund what they fear,” former Congress-woman Pat Schroeder so famously said. And they didn’t fear mastectomy — at least they didn’t until voters put the fear of God in them.

Politics worked. One thing all women — conservative and liberal, Democratic and Republican — could agree on is that breast cancer is a scourge that touches all of us, in increasing numbers. We were mad as hell and determined that someone — everyone — do something about it. And we vote. So, too, for AIDS activists. Does anyone doubt that so many of our friends and loved ones would be with us today, living full and productive lives, without politics?

So what happened to ovarian cancer?A report out this week, which hopefully

will receive the attention it deserves (one reason among many that I am writing this), discusses the fi ndings of a study analyzing the treatment and results of

13,000 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer be-tween 1999 and 2006. Only 37 percent were given the care recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

The network is an alliance of 21 leading cancer centers. The care I’m talking about here is not the “pushing the envelope type.” It’s not the

experimental clinical trials that you only expect to fi nd at major medical centers and that haven’t yet been confi rmed as safe and effective. No, I’m talking about the basic protocols, the “standard op-erating procedure,” the care that every woman with such a diagnosis has a right to get and should get, the care that might allow her to see her children grow up.

Consider the numbers. Women who receive the care they should get are 30 percent more likely to survive than those who don’t. Thirty percent. Among those (sadly the majority) whose cancer is not found until it reaches an advanced stage, 35 percent of the women who received the proper care survived at least fi ve years, as compared with 25 percent who did not.

Your wife? Your sister? You?

These numbers are simply unaccept-able.

I pay attention to ovarian cancer because a friend had it in her 30s. Most doctors don’t recognize it at fi rst. I pay attention to those stories: How do we get doctors to see that the kind of symptoms so often seen as typically female — the bloating and discomfort and cramping and the like — can be deadly? But the very notion that once diagnosed these women don’t even get the standard treatment is nothing short of horrifying.

Do we really need another color of ribbon? Do we need someone to do for ovarian cancer what Michael Milken did for prostate cancer — that is, create a political movement around it? Why isn’t it enough to hope that doctors doing their jobs, aided by a new health care act that will encourage electronic health records and allow for easier monitoring and com-parisons on a large-scale basis, will solve the problem?

We headed to the barricades for breast cancer. Today, the experts are debat-ing whether too many women are being screened and not too few. In my mind, that’s progress.

It’s time to do the same for ovarian cancer. Yesterday.

Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961

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LOUISVILLE — They could have been lost forev-er, long-forgotten memen-toes from home perhaps worn on a fi nger or carried in a pocket for good luck.

Somehow, the two 1970s-era high school rings found their way into the hands of jewelry merchants in Viet-nam. Now, they are wait-ing in Kentucky for their original owners.

“My fi rst thought that crossed my mind was, ‘You know, this ring might have come off a dead American soldier.’ That’s the fi rst thing I thought about,” said Dan Cherry, a retired Air Force brigadier general who has one of the rings at his home in Bowling Green.

“You stop and think all the places this ring has been? From the begin-ning? It’s amazing.”

The other ring has been sitting on the desk of Don-na McGuire, spokeswoman for the Montgomery Coun-ty school system, for more than a year.

McGuire recently post-

ed a note on the system’s Facebook page in search of the owner of the 1970 Montgomery County High School ring. The note at-tracted attention from lo-cal media outlets, but no

clues.That ring was languish-

ing in a Vietnam store when a U.S. contractor working in Thai Binh City spotted it in February 2012.

Rick Dunn of Easton, Penn., haggled a bit with the merchant, then bought it for about $30.

“For me, this is only about returning the ring to its owner especially if it was tied to the war back in the early, ‘70s,” he wrote in an email to The Associated Press earlier this week.

The silver-toned ring with a red stone sported an image of an Indian on the side — the mascot at Montgomery County High.

“One thing you will say when you fi nish this is that you don’t get this kind of email every day,” Dunn wrote in an email that month McGuire, telling her of his discovery.

School rings remain mysteriesBY JANET CAPPIELLO

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Mayors from communities along the Mississippi River said Thursday that they would work with federal lawmak-ers to sharpen the nation-al focus on the waterway after two years in which shipping has been threat-ened by fl ooding and then drought.

Looking to wield more clout on river matters, about a dozen mayors from Minnesota to Loui-siana gathered in Wash-ington to announce the formation of their Mis-sissippi River Platform, which will focus on water quality, community devel-opment and drought and fl ood preparation.

The Mississippi River’s importance is undeniable, as it supplies millions of people with drinking wa-ter and serves as a vital shipping corridor for ev-erything from corn and grain to coal, petroleum and manufactured goods.

“The Mississippi River supports the highest level of commercial traffi c in the world, but it’s in trou-ble and needs our help,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said.

As members of the Mis-sissippi River Cities & Towns Initiative, the may-ors will collaborate with the new Mississippi River Caucus — a bi-partisan group of Capitol Hill law-

makers — on issues relat-ed to the river.

“You have mayors with cities along the river who will speak with one voice,” A.C. Wharton, the mayor of Memphis, Tenn., told The Associated Press by phone. “What we’re say-ing is there may be a few differences, but for every difference there are 99 commonalities.”

The river attracted at-tention over the winter as the stubborn drought reduced water levels to near-record lows between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill. Barges cut their loads so they could ride higher in the water, and there were worries that shipping would be halted altogeth-er.

Several local, state and federal lawmakers ex-pressed dismay in Novem-ber when the Army Corps of Engineers reduced the fl ow from an upper Mis-souri River dam.

The move helped main-tain water levels in the upper Missouri River but worsened the plight of the Mississippi, which the Missouri feeds into at St. Louis.

At that time, the corps said it was required to act in the Missouri River’s interest to comply with a congressionally autho-rized document known as the Missouri River Master Manual. No similar docu-ment exists for the Missis-sippi.

Mayors suggest Mississippi Rivergets federal focus

BY JIM SALTER AND JIM SUHR

Associated Press

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The 1972 class ring from the former Mackin Catholic High School in Washinton, D.C. was purchased in a jewelry store in Vietnam. Cherry, a former Air Force brigadier general from Bowling Green, has been trying for several years to find its owner.

FRANKFORT — Ken-tucky’s jobless rate is hold-ing steady at 7.9 percent even though about 150 fewer people overall had jobs in the state in Febru-ary.

The Kentucky Offi ce of Employment and Train-ing released those fi nd-ings Thursday.

State economist Manoj Shanker said the report shows “considerable im-provement” in gaining back jobs lost during the recession.

Kentucky’s manufac-turing sector added 3,100

jobs in February, besting all others. The leisure and hospitality sector grew by 2,300 jobs. And the educa-tional and health services

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JERUSALEM — Insist-ing “peace is possible,” President Barack Obama on Thursday prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled nego-tiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory.

The president made his appeal just hours after rockets fi red from Hamas-controlled Gaza landed in a southern Israeli border town, a fresh reminder of the severe security risks and tensions that have stymied peace efforts for decades.

Obama, on his second day in the Middle East, shuttled between Jerusalem and Ra-mallah, reaching out to the public as well as political leaders.

He offered no new poli-cies or plans for reopen-ing peace talks but urged both sides to “think anew” about the intractable con-fl ict and break out of the “formulas and habits that have blocked progress for so long.”

“Peace is possible,” Obama declared during an impassioned speech to young people in Jerusalem. “I’m not saying it’s guaran-teed. I can’t even say that it

is more likely than not. But it is possible.”

The deep disputes divid-ing the Israelis and Pal-estinians have remained much the same over the years, and include decid-ing the status of Jerusa-lem, defi ning borders and resolving refugee issues. Palestinians have been particularly incensed over Israeli settlements in dis-puted territories, and the

Israelis’ continued con-struction has also drawn the condemnation of the United States and other nations.

Further settlement activ-ity is “counterproductive to the cause of peace,” Obama

said. But in a notable shift, he did not repeat his ad-ministration’s previous de-mands that Israel halt con-struction. Instead he urged the Palestinians to stop us-ing the disagreement as an “excuse” to avoid talks.

Obama: ‘Peace is possible’BY JULIE PACEAssociated Press

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President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres toast after Obama received the Israeli Medal of Distinction from Peres on Thursday during a state din-ner at the president’s residence in Jerusalem.

WASHINGTON — Sen-ate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will include a requirement for expanded background checks for fire-arms buyers in a gun con-trol bill the Senate debates next month.

The Nevada Democrat says he hopes that during Congress’ upcoming two-week break, senators will reach compromise on back-ground check language with bipartisan support. If not, Reid says in a statement that the Senate will vote on a stricter measure expand-ing the checks to virtually all private gun transactions, with few exceptions.

Gun control forces push for background checks

—Associated Press

NEW YORK — A com-pany that relays excerpts of Internet news articles to its customers violates copyright laws, a judge said Thursday in a decision that gave The Associated Press a victory in its at-tempts to protect its online news content.

U.S. District Judge De-nise Cote rejected claims by Meltwater U.S. Hold-ings Inc. and its Meltwater

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GATESVILLE, Texas — Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire.

Two investigators used photos of the shed’s re-mains to persuade jurors that Graf had started the fire intentionally.

By today’s standards of fire analysis, though, the investigators may have been mistaken.

Authorities in Texas and in other states are begin-ning to re-examine cases in which defendants were sent to prison for setting fires based on expert testimony about burn pat-terns and charring that today is considered sus-pect.

Nine years after Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for killing his three children in a fire.

Convictions challenged over fire science

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WASHINGTON — Con-gress has spared a pro-gram that provides tuition aid to active duty military from the budget knife.

The House cleared a massive spending bill on Thursday that includes a provision restoring the program for the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps. The legislation, passed on a bipartisan 318-109 vote, now goes to President

Barack Obama for his sig-nature.

Faced with some $43 bil-lion in automatic, across-the-board cuts that kicked in March 1, the military had suspended the pro-gram in a budget-cutting move, saying they could save $250 million to $300 million. Two senators — Republican Jim Inhofe and Democrat Kay Hagan — fought to preserve the program that allows active military to attend school

part time while serving.The two argued that it

was vital for recruitment and retention in the all-volunteer force.

The Senate, on a voice vote Wednesday, backed an amendment instruct-ing the Pentagon to fi nd money elsewhere in the defense budget to keep the program alive.

“This is something I have talked about to our troops in the fi eld,” Inhofe, the top Republican on the

Armed Services Commit-tee, said during a brief debate in the Senate on Wednesday.

“Many of them were so alarmed that it was even suggested they would take away the very thing that caused them to enlist in the fi rst place.”

Last year, members of the active military took 870,000 courses and earned 50,500 degrees, diplomas and certifi cates, according to the senators.

Congress spares military tuition aidDONNA CASSATA

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WASHINGTON — The number of people seek-ing U.S. unemployment aid barely changed last week, while the average over the past month fell to a fresh fi ve-year low. The decline in layoffs is helping strengthen the job market.

Weekly unemployment benefi t applications rose just 2,000 to a season-ally adjusted 336,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Over the past four weeks, the average number of ap-plications has dropped by 7,500 to 339,750. That’s the lowest since February 2008, just three months into the recession.

Separately, sales of previ-ously occupied homes rose last month to their highest level in more than three years, the National As-sociation of Realtors said Thursday. And a measure of future U.S. economic growth increased in Feb-ruary for the third straight month, according to the Conference Board, a busi-

ness research group.The three reports Thurs-

day supported other recent data that show the econo-my is improving after stall-ing at the end of last year.

Economists pay close at-tention to the four-week average of applications because it can smooth out week to week fl uctuations. The steady decline in un-employment claims signals that companies are laying off fewer workers. That

suggests many aren’t wor-ried about economic con-ditions in the near future.

The four-week average has fallen nearly 15 percent since November. The trend has coincided with acceler-ation in the job market.

“Improvement in labor market conditions contin-ues,” Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas, said in a note to clients.

Applications spiked in the recession as companies

slashed millions of workers from their payrolls. The number of people seek-ing benefi ts averaged only 320,000 a week in 2007, before the recession be-gan. That fi gure soared to 418,000 in 2008 and 574,000 in 2009.

Average for jobless claims hits 5-year lowBY CHRISTOPHER

S. RUGABERAssociated Press

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Job seekers line up to speak with a State Dept. em-ployee about job opportunities in the federal govern-ment during a job fair Feb. 25 in Boston. market. Weekly unemployment benefit applications rose just 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

NEW YORK — A driver pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter on Thursday in a crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband. The cou-ple’s premature baby was delivered after the wreck but died as well.

Julio Acevedo also pleaded not guilty Thurs-day to criminally negligent homicide. A lesser charge, announced earlier this month, accuses him of leaving the scene of the accident in Brooklyn. He could face up to life in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors say Acevedo was traveling nearly 70 miles per hour — more than twice the speed limit — on March 3 when he crashed into a hired car carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber, who were on their way to a hospital because she wasn’t feel-ing well.

Suspect pleads not guilty to manslaughter

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — The protesters gather at noon every Friday in front of the Montpelier post office, sharing signs made up years ago to tell their little part of the world why they oppose the latest war in-volving the United States.

There might be as few as two people in the midwin-ter cold, or as many as 20 at the height of summer. But a decade after the in-vasion of Iraq, protesters there and at similar dem-onstrations coast to coast still show up, determined to remind people that the U.S. is at war.

US pockets of protest persist after years of war

—Associated Press

“I believe there are many, many people who know in their conscience that we are at war, that we aren’t really in any danger of being invaded by the terrorists,” said David Con-nor, 76, of East Montpe-lier, a Vietnam-era objector who’s been a Montpelier protest regular for years. “There’s more terror in the world for fear of what we can do and have done than there is fear that there are terrorists going to take over countries like this.”

BEIRUT — A suicide bombing tore through a mosque in the Syrian capi-tal Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and longtime supporter of President Bashar Assad along with at least 13 other people. The assassination of Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti removes one of the few remaining pillars of support for the Alawite leader among the majority sect that has risen up against him.

The powerful explo-sion struck as al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric and reli-gious scholar who appeared often on TV, was giving a religious lesson in the Eman Mosque in the central Maz-raa district of Damascus, according to state TV.

Suicide bombings blamed on Islamic extremists fighting with the rebels have become common in Syria’s 2-year-old civil war. But Thursday’s explosion marked the first time a sui-cide bomber detonated his explosives inside a mosque.

Bombing kills leading pro-Assad preacher

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the new McCracken County High School between U.S. 60 and U.S. 62.

The PED, Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce and EntrePaducah moved from the former Com-merce Center to newly renovated headquarters at 300 S. Third St., the former Paducah Freight House, last month. The PED plans to buy the old city-owned Commerce Center for $1 and rent it to Teletech.

The company will hire for a variety of positions, including trainers, human capital managers, talent acquisition specialists, fa-cilities managers, senior desktop support techni-cians, team leads, busi-nesses analysts, service delivery managers and customer service represen-tatives.

Baxter said he hopes for the centers to open dur-ing the fi rst quarter of next year.

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president, said the project is expected to cost about $4.25 million in incen-tives, with the PED to con-tribute $1.5 million and the city and county to split the remainder. The company is slated to produce an an-nual payroll of roughly $9 million under the agree-ment.

After Thursday’s cer-emony, Chancellor joined Beshear, Baxter, Teletech vice president of govern-ment relations Mike Ste-fanski, PED board chair-man Tony Reck, and city and county elected offi cials for the groundbreaking simulation with golden shovels in front of the old Commerce Center.

Beshear said the Teletech project is one of several in the works that may be see-ing an announcement in the near future.

Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8684 or follow @MalloryPanuska on Twitter.

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Gov. Steve Beshear joins Teletech Holdings representa-tives and officials from Paducah, McCracken County and Paducah Economic Development in front of the old Commerce Center at Fourth Street and Kentucky Av-enue on Thursday they simulated a groundbreaking for a new Teletech location.


Ashley Storie, a volunteer development coordinator at Starfish Orphan Ministries, sorts through toys at the ministry’s headquarters on Thursday. Storie is the first super star for Lourdes’ Dancing With Our Stars fundraiser, which raises money for the Ameri-can Cancer Society.

an infection. Doctors told Storie the tumor probably was not in her brain longer than the four weeks she had symptoms.

After she was diagnosed, Storie went to Vanderbilt. Her tumor was removed a week later, and 18 months of radiation and chemo-therapy pushed the cancer into remission. She still suffers from migraines, minor balance problems and memory issues, but volunteers with the minis-try as much as she used to before her bout with can-cer.

Last summer, Bailey asked Storie to dance in the Dancing With Our Stars fundraiser, but with her problems with mem-ory and balance, Storie decided it was not a good idea. She was looking for someone to dance in her place, and turned to friend and owner of bbQ & More David Boggs.

“I had always wanted to

dance,” Boggs said. “I nev-er had someone to dance for. When Ashley asked me, I was truly honored to do it. I am glad to dance for someone who went up against cancer and won.”

Storie’s role as Danc-ing With Our Stars super star will include a speech, which Bailey said will take place before the annual survivors dance, when audience members who have survived cancer take the fl oor for a public mo-ment with their families. Storie is staying mum on the content of that speech.

“I am just grateful I have the opportunity to thank everyone who helped me get through it,” Storie said. “And I am looking forward to showing the audience that survival is possible and everyone can help in the fi ght against cancer.”

Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or fol-low @CoriEgan on Twitter.

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runs under the bridge. They think the theft occurred sometime in February.

This is the second theft on the Canal Bridge, Todd said. Another 25 feet of wire was stolen last year.

Murphy said the depart-ment has contacted scrap metal sites around the area where the wire may have been dropped off, but haven’t gotten any leads.

“When you chop up the 1,800 feet into 4- or 5-foot sections, it doesn’t draw as much attention,” Murphy said.

The solar-powered light-ing was installed on a trial basis. If the lights don’t get enough sun and do not function well on the Canal

Bridge, a more complete re-structuring of the electrical system will have to be done. The cabinet has already announced it would seek felony charges on the theft. Todd said the repair money will come out of the trans-portation cabinet budget.

“If we had to rebuild the entire electrical system on the Canal Bridge,” KTC Dis-trict 1 Chief Engineer Jim Lefevre said, “we could be looking at up to $50,000 in time and materials — a criminal theft of taxpayer money — to restore naviga-tion lighting over this busy waterway.”

Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

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Organizers hope for bigger, better dancing

Lourdes’ Dancing With Our Stars fundraiser for the American Cancer Society grew from Madison Hall to the giant ballroom of Harrah’s Casi-no in Metropolis in four years. Last year, the event raised $220,000, which totaled 40 percent more than the previous year and the highest dollar amount ever tallied at the annual fundraiser. Those numbers, organizer Rita Bailey said, are hard to beat.

“We sell out every year,” Bailey said. “We can’t put more people into the ballroom, so we had to start looking for other ways to grow.”

In its seventh year, Lourdes has changed some parts of Dancing with Our Stars to stimulate con-tinued growth. While Bailey said it would be hard to outdo last year’s fundraising, staying on par is impor-tant. Dancing With Our Stars has become the top-performing Ameri-can Cancer Society Relay For Life fundraiser in the state and in the top five in the world, Bailey said.

It is in the spirit of reaching those highs again that Lourdes has taken

the celebration online — to acsd-wos.org — where people can bid on the 268 items offered in the silent auction. The site can be accessed on computers, tablets mobile de-vices, broadening the way others can donate to the American Cancer Society.

“Even people at the event, they tend to go look and bid once, then forget because the festivities have started,” Bailey said. “Getting it on-line can allow them to bid from their seats, and will also push people who can’t come but want to help to donate as well.”

While fundraising is a priority, the quality of entertainment associated with the show can’t be ignored. Jack Johnson, owner of Paducah Dance Academy, spends hours each week working with each of the 18 participants in this year’s fund-raiser. Taking dancing beginners and turning them into high-energy, show-stopping performers starts in the fall.

“We started with some people as early as September,” Johnson said. “They come in for one hour a week, some come in for more. But we work every year on making the show

better. From a dancer’s perspec-tive, to show boring dancing doesn’t work well. We want to make it excit-ing and smooth, something that shocks everyone who watches it.”

Most of the dancers at Dancing With Our Stars have been directly affected by cancer, either by losing a loved one or by dealing with the disease themselves. Dia Canter, for example, will take the floor for a waltz on Saturday night. Canter’s list of family members and friends — which includes her mother and sister-in-law, who both died or breast cancer, and her father-in-law, who lost a battle with lung cancer — reminds her daily of the need for more cancer research.

“I hate this disease,” Canter said. “But yet, I continue to see it and it continues to pop up in my life. This is the perfect opportunity for me to do something. It’s lovely to have fun, but to have fun and be able to raise money to stop cancer is something I am very excited for.”

Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652 or follow @CoriEgan on Twitter.

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An Easter egg hunt for special needs children will be held 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Heartland Worship Center. Children of all ages are invited.

Bryan Phelps, pastor to children, said the hunt will be catered toward specifi c disabilities. For example, blind or visually impaired

children will have audible eggs while children in wheelchairs or with crutch-es will have eggs placed in easy-to-reach spots.

Phelps said special-needs children often avoid regular social activities re-gardless of the type of dis-ability. He said the event is made not to be stressful for kids.

Easter egg hunt heldfor special-needs kids

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