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By Sandy Powell

Henry County     Public Schools
When school begins in August, students at Henry County High School who dream of a career in the medical field will have a golden opportunity to enroll in the Health Science Program--a stepping stone to many careers in the health care industry.

When Mona Huff began her weight-loss journey, she started with adjusting her diet.

But diet only got her so far. She realized she had to do more.

“I realized how important walking was to my own personal health,” she said. “As I started losing weight, I got to a certain level, and got my blood sugar to a certain level, but it wouldn’t get any better.”

So she started researching what she could do to get her blood sugar to more healthy levels.

200 Years Ago

James B. Richards was released by the court from his indenture to James Hobbs.   Richards was to learn the hatter’s trade while apprenticed to Hobbs.

On June 1, 1812, Thomas Moore posted a bond of 50 pounds in order to secure a marriage license to wed Lucy Underwood, daughter of James Underwood.  The marriage was officiated by Henry Brinton, Minister of the Gospel, on June 4, 1812.

Kaylee Tingle, 11, competed in the KYQHA show in Casey County, winning multiple 1st and 2nd place awards. She was the top points winner in the Small Fry division, and was crowned the KYQHA Princess for 2012. She is the daughter of Michael and Kristi Tingle of New Castle; and the granddaughter of Evelyn and the late Tommy Stivers, James Tingle, and Keith and Linda Baker.

Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Mason Jr. of Eminence will celebrate their 72 wedding anniversary on Sunday April 8, 2012. They were married on April 8, 1939.

The Masons have four children, Mrs. Dorothy J. Fero and husband, John of Rochester, Mich., Mrs. Shirley J. Smith of Carrollton, Marian McNeal Mason and wife Deborah of Jamaica, New York and the late William H. Mason III.

They have six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

They say timing is everything, and so it was for Eminence High School senior Alyssa Jones.

Jones, who has been involved in her church choir since she was very young and began taking voice lessons from Ruth Ann Mills-Moore in New Castle as a fourth-grader, participated in the music program during her three years at Henry County High School.

Last summer, she and her family moved to the house in Eminence where her late grandmother lived. That meant transferring from HCHS to EHS for her senior year.

Pulmonary fibrosis.

The diagnosis three years ago was tantamount to a death sentence for Bonnie Kidwell of Eminence.
For some time, Kidwell, now 57, had had problems breathing. When the situation worsened, she was treated for pneumonia. When that treatment failed to work, she was hospitalized. The doctors still believed she was fighting pneumonia, but after a week with no improvement, the tests began.

Continuous tiny tastes of food throughout the coming days from now through the New Year can result in unwelcome weight gains.  Alice Henneman from the University of Nebraska has a short video, “Tiny Tastes Can Total Big Calories over the Winter Holidays,” that shows how bites can add up to excess pounds.  You will enjoy watching it if you can here on YouTube.com.

But if you can’t here is the jist of the video.

Amber Nicole Nelson and Jeremy Joseph Silvers were united in marriage on June 11, 2011, at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville.

The bride is the daughter of Ricky and Denise Nelson of Louisville. She attended Fern Creek High School and is a graduate of Indiana University Southeast. She is a teacher with Jefferson County Public Schools.

The groom is the son of Greg and Sharon Silvers of Bethlehem. He attended Henry County High School and is a graduate of University of Louisville Speed Engineering School. He is an Engineer at United Parcel Service.