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A staggering number of 397 students from 27 chapters were present at this year’s Kentucky FFA Leadership Center (LTC) week five with Henry County, according to Jordan Jackson, FFA reporter from the Henry County High School group.
During their stay, campers learned multiple life skills such as leadership, career success and personal growth. Fourteen students from Henry County High School were in attendance, along with advisor Lindsey Davie.    

A revival first brought Eminence United Pentecostal Church’s latest preacher here, and he recently resigned from that pulpit to hit the road again.
When Robert Eades arrived here in 2000 with wife Sherri and their children Kaitlyn and Brennen, it was at the invitation of his predecessor, who was soon to retire, to evangelize and to sing, after hearing him during a camp choir. At first, they didn’t intend to stay.

The original vision for buying a hog farm in Defoe involved having a place to teach his son the value of hard work, said the owner and founder of Patriot Brands. That changed after Damien Prather researched the old Low Dutch barn that came with the property.
The idea to create Six-Mile Creek Distillery — a $5 million investment in an 8,000-square-foot facility that will employ 15 when it opens in 2017 — sprang from what Prather learned about the early Kentucky settlers.