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Thursday, January 26, 2012 THE DAWSON SPRINGS PROGRESS A3 Shake my paw— pleased to meet your acquaintance. The name’s Charles Tyler Bundebar, but you can call me Chuck. My pal Walt and I share a rambling two- story in a riverside Missouri town, a house with a wide front porch, great for tail thumpin’ and enjoying tall glasses of lemonade. Just lately, the master and I’ve been out there a lot, Walt reading and recollect- ing facts in a journal he’s keeping on the Civil War. Walt’s a true-blue reenactor, outfitted like a Union soldier, complete with a Springfield rifle, flat-topped cap with a badge, and me by his side, a black and white Border Collie, which is entirely fitting because Missouri was a Border state. I’ll fill you in about that Border state business later, along with other tidbits I’ve picked up visiting battle sites with Walt and meeting folks who reen- act Civil War life. They make history come alive, which is what I hope to do for you. So gather round the campfire, share a bite of Johnny Cake and listen up, cause you’re about to hear some stuff that’s doggone extraordinary—tales about man’s best friend during the Civil War, canine mascots, fetching hounds that astound. The stories I’m about to relate are brimming with turncoats and heroes, mayhem and miracles, plenty of rowdy excitement, and not one whit of sappy ro- mance. Let’s kick the story off right, and if I fail to deliver, you can cut my rations down to Pekingese portions. The Civil War (1861-1865) was a four-year tragedy, a dog-eat-dog war that divided our country and forced neighbor to fight against neighbor. It began for a number of reasons, one of which con- cerned slavery. Some states thought it fit- ting to own slaves while others believed the practice should be “abolished,” which is a fancy way of saying “va- moosed,” and doesn’t refer to a moose away at Scout camp or a mouse in the past-present tense twice removed. Ruff! Initially, the pro-slavery states acted like a bunch of kids in a scrap. They thumbed their noses at the Union and seceded, broke away to establish a new country, the Confederate States of America. This wasn’t something our just-elected Presi- dent, Abraham Lincoln, took kindly to. Honest Abe felt this was kind of rebel- lious of the South—and that’s how I remember the Rebels made up the Confederacy. The rest of the states were “unified,” which means they were all chummy with each other. These states stayed in the United States of America as one Union. Trust you now have a better understand- ing of the primary reason for the war— and can identify the two sides that did battle. With that we’ll set our story aside for a bit. Enough yapping, I need a quick bite to sustain life, and a nap next to Walt’s creaky rocker. Hope you’ll tune in for the next chapter. You’re sure to lap up the tale passed down through the years by the family of Sergeant Dick, a mascot of the St. Louis Grays. That pooch weathered quite a time in St. Louis in 1861, just a month after the first cannons fired on Fort Sum- ter in South Carolina. Lots of people have heard about Camp Jackson, in St. Louis, but not many real- ize its importance. The incident deter- mined that St. Louis, though in the slave state of Missouri, would remain loyal to the Union and continue to fly Old Glory. Patriotic Pals Differences of opinion on slavery and other issues split the north and south. These conflicts led to war. Find three types of conflict in the newspaper, man vs. man, man vs. nature and man vs. self. Paper Training LEARN MORE! Companion activities can be found at www.mo-nie.com using code: teachmo12. ©2012, Missouri Press Foundation FLAGS OF THE CIVIL WAR “The Stars and Bars” (top) was the official flag of the Confederacy from March 5, 1861, to May 26, 1863. It first appeared with seven stars, then nine, 11, and finally 13, to indicate the number of states in the Confederacy. The Confederacy claimed Kentucky and Missouri, but they were never actually in the Confederacy. The second flag is the United States flag and was in use from July 4, 1863 to July, 1865. There were six official flags in use during the Civil War, but the 35-star flag is the one most recognized. Each star represents a state in the Union. CHAPTER 1: Chat with Chuck By Chris Stuckenschneider Tails of the Civil War Design by Sharpe Design First Grade 4.00 Michael Blanton, Avaleigh Bour- land, Grayson Brewer, Melina Harper, Kaleigh Haulk, Desiree Hunt, Christian Jones, Natalee Oldham, Landon Smiley, Lillian Sunderland, Abigail Ward 3.50–3.99 Caden Alfred, Robert Bullock, Mary Burns, Brooklynn Clark, Madison Guill, Christopher Jones, Joseph Joslin, Brittany Mabry, Bryden Mann, Yosiyah McCune, Alex Mitchell, Jordan Opalek 3.00–3.49 Kianna Berry, Kimberly Burbage, Nicolas Conners, Grace Davis, Elijah Dickerson, Kyrie Ealy, Tim- othy Ellis, Keyle Forsythe, Tyler Hale, Logan Halverson, Saman- tha Hendrix, Jay Laxton, Michaela McBride, Kensley Norvell, Ethan Osborne, Zachary Peters, Rylee Purdy, Andrew Spurlin, Katelen Young, Rachael Young Second Grade 4.00 Daniel Back, Dylan Baker, Skye Bratcher, Avery Buntin, Zach- ary Caudill, Calob Davis, Justin Dukes, Landen Dukes, Abigail Garrett, Madelyn Huddleston, Alex- andria Jones, Taylor Keyes, Cam- ryn LaGrange, Austin McCutchen, David Moore, Lyndsie Morse, Mad- ison Purdy, Natasha Wigley, Gabe Workman 3.50–3.99 Ivan Childers, Joshua Cross, Mathew Cunningham, Marissa Foe, Ashley Jennings, Courtney Menser, Trenton Miller, Cameron Morris, Trinity Randolph, Kamryn Sizemore, Ryan Sunderland 3.00–3.49 Ben Bivins, Nathan Carson, Adri- an Edmonson, Brendan Harper, Autum Loshe, Shayla Martin, Shaylea Mitchell, Amber Putman, Riley Rawlins, Vanessa Tackett, Jordan Thomas, Shevonne Weaver Third Grade 4.00 Cydney Collins, Jackson Creek- mur, Ayden Davis, Dylan Dawson, Wanda DeTalente, Caleb Garrett, Linsey Hoard, Jaidan Hunter, Ken- drick Leibenguth, Logan McK- night, Wesley Oden, Landon Pace, Chancie Robinson, Chloe Shrum, Savannah Smith 3.50–3.99 Emily Abbott, Madison Asher, Alexandria Bean, Alexis Blanton, Jacob Brasher, Ricky Camplin, Caden Hickerson, Gabriele Lax- ton, William Simons 3.00–3.49 Michael Burgess, Matalie Fain, Madysen Furgerson, Haley Hart, Colton Henry, Ethan Jones, Robert McCuiston, Chloe Pick, Bailey Suttle, Ivory Tackett, Kara Trover Fourth Grade 4.00 Courtney Bayer, Daniel Garrett, Ethan Huddleston, Sloane Parker, Emma Thorp 3.50–3.99 Reilly Andrews, Makayla Bean, Bethany Burbage, Zoe Howton, Cameron McKnight, Talan Moore, Brandon Mosbey, Slade Ramsey, Dalton Simons, Cynthia Solomon 3.00–3.49 Andrew Barnhart, Trey Blanchard, Braxton Cotton, Brennen Cun- ningham, Kaitlynn Dearing, Jacob Drake, Aubrie Gunn, Jalynn Hoop- er, Justin Knight, Angela Latham, Lindey Lipe, Abigail McGregor, Baylee Peek, Denisha Randolph, Ethan Stuart, Ethan Vincent Fifth Grade 4.00 James Davis, Leah Davis, Kate- linn Green, Hannah Greenfield, Kylie Littlejohn, Mikah Whisler 3.50–3.99 Ty Akin, Carlyann Alexander, Heaven Bratcher, Marlee Burden, Hayden Cunningham, Mallory Hall, Mikayla Jackson, Madison Laffoon, Kayla Nichols, Caro- lann Oakley, Erin Orten, Ricardo Perez, Sabreyn Pleasant, Kaylee Simpson, Justin Vincent, Tyler Weir, Shyann Wilken 3.00–3.49 Christian Abbott, Kyler Andrews, Alyssa Dismang, Riley Howton, Skyler Lohse, Brooke Purdy, James Thomas, Erica Williams Sixth Grade 4.00 Catherine Alexander, Alysta Butts, Colton Collins, Lauren Davenport, Madison Garrett, Caleb Hickerson, Nathaniel Jennings, Raiden Purdy, Jacob Vaughn, Brooklyn Walls, Josephine Witherspoon 3.50–3.99 Amber Asher, Kevin Brooks, Jelayna Earl, Ethan Garrison, Heather Genseal, Kiana Hooper, Ashlee Laxton, Peyton Lipe, Kim- berly McDaniel, Hunter McGee, Macy Merrell, Kameron Orten, Abigail Parker, Reagan Riggs 3.00–3.49 Devan Baker, Zachary Bivins, Ellie Blake, Mary Bullock, Ariel Childers, Austin Clark, Brittany Cummins, Andrew Davis, Seth Dismang, Brandon Ford, Elizabeth Hendrix, Jennifer McCraw, Tyler Rogers Seventh Grade 4.00 Courtney Copeland, Haylie Cun- ningham, Kristian Ford, Bai- ley Moore, Kayla Purdy, Dylan Simpson, Michael Weir, Jillian Witherspoon, Erin Woolsey 3.50–3.99 Trysten Dillingham, Emily Gar- rett, Kaitlyn Huddleston, Malaia Miller, Eric Cotton, Adriana Coy 3.00–3.49 Sara Brandon, James Burns, Ash- ton Mitchell, John Price, Schyuler Storms, Nathan Bearden, Victoria Hooper, James Guill, Isiah Abbott, Amanda Lussier, Tanner Adams, Keyli Burden, Kori Caldwell, Kierra Vanderveer Eighth Grade 4.00 Celebrity Duncan, Allison Gordon, Andie Mills, Allie Mills, Bailey Palmer, Shatiki Robinson, Benja- min Workman 3.50–3.99 Brandon Carroll, David Thorp, Brittney Davis, Madison Riggs, Cole Parker, Connor Prow, Kayla Bigham, Carly Bruce, Jessica Earl, Sydney Menser, Cameron Riley, Savannah Bean, Presley Stevens, Candice Foster 3.00–3.49 Joshua Castle, Jacob Messamore, Hannah Winters, Kaitlyn Menser, Alyssa Gilland, Jon Williams, Jordan Adams, Lynsee Patterson, Dakota Ford, Austin Workman, Collin Harryman, Shelby Ladd Ninth Grade 4.00 Ashley Collier, Savannah Robin- son, Tracy Thomas 3.50–3.99 Brittany Stallins, CJ Merideth, Christina Norris, Patricia Tabor 3.00–3.49 Seth Parker, Abagail Hubbell, Tessa Morton, Rose Dunbar, Stephanie Johnson, Michelle Reaume, Hannah Childers, Ben Giffin, Brandon Hayes, Callie Menser, Caitlyn Moore, Chelsey Sherrill, Elijah Witherspoon Tenth Grade 4.00 Christina Hamby, Bradley Puck- ett, Katherine Crider, Sarah Hud- dleston, Kaila Purdy 3.50–3.99 Logan Davenport, Trace Menser, Amber Yeisley, Zach Miller 3.00–3.49 David Cosby, Rachel Akin, Laura McDaniel, Allison Adams, Abby Coy, Brittany Orten, Laurel Win- ters, Gage Brewer, Hayley Jones, Brandi Nash, Amber Crook, Dal- ton Dulin, Levi Wiggins Eleventh Grade 4.00 McCade Freeman, Ryan Caudill, Elizabeth Black, Tayler Mills, Lauren Menser, Matthew Snell, Jalyn Walls 3.50–3.99 Sarah Allen, Alan Black, Everli Mitchell, Kendel Mitchell, India Robinson, Katlyn Adams, Bianca Stallins, Whitney Copeland, Eric Brown, Alexis Smith, Kristin Peek, Alyssa Reece, Bethany Winters 3.00–3.49 Melody Cotton, Paige Dunkerson, Thomas Moore, Timothy Puck- ett, James Cummins, Julia Earl, Megan Mahaney, Trevor Woolsey, Devin Ladd, Aaron Blue, Colton Chapple, Gunnar Laffoon Twelfth Grade 5.00-4.00 Brad Overby, Forrest Winters, Whitley Dillingham, Hailey Riley, Rihana McKnight, Todd Bullock, Ashley Beecham, Nikki Castle, Kayla Dearing, Ben Puckett, Bobbi Jo Watson 3.50–3.99 Hannah Ivy, Brittany Potts, Ryan McKnight, Whitney Alexander, Lauren Dowd, Travis Giffin, Andrew Moore, Ben Coy, Ashley Hart, Halee VanVactor 3.00–3.49 Ryan Anglin, Cory Dunkerson, Casey Lussier, Amber Genseal, Trey Miller, Karissa Purdy, Tyler Sutton, Kristen Austin, Jacob Skimehorn, Cora Watkins DAWSON SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL HONOR ROLL FOR SECOND QUARTER By Al Cross Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues University of Kentucky In a state that has led the na- tion in deaths of children from abuse and neglect, Kentucky journalists and the officials who must protect children agree that more public attention needs to be focused on the issue. But they don’t agree on how to do it, and have been fighting expensive battles in court over it, because their professions have sharply divergent views on what kind of information the state should have to re- lease. “The profession of social work is based on confidential- ity,” the state’s top child-pro- tection official told reporters, editors and publishers during a panel discussion at the Ken- tucky Press Association con- vention in Lexington Friday afternoon. Confidentiality “was drilled into us just as openness was drilled into you” in profession- al education, said Teresa James, who became acting commis- sioner of the Department for Community-Based Services in December after 25 years as a social worker. “Just as passion- ate as you are about the First Amendment, I am passionate about confidentiality.” Social workers argue that without being able to assure in- formants of confidentiality, the system that protects children won’t get some of the informa- tion it needs. But journalists, their em- ployers and their lawyers say the state has been much more secretive than the law allows about cases in which children died or nearly died, circum- stances in which state law makes otherwise confidential information available. Three times a Frankfort judge has agreed, most recently ordering the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to turn over its reviews of 90 deaths or near-deaths of children from abuse or neglect in 2009-10, and ordering the cabinet to pay more than $57,000 in legal fees for newspapers that sought the files. Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd also told the cabinet to pay $16,000 in civil penalties for violating the state Open Records Act by prolong- ing litigation, subverting an earlier ruling and telling the Todd County Standard that it had no file on a 9-year-old killed by an abusive stepbroth- er, when it did. Tina Heavrin, the cabinet’s general counsel, wouldn’t say during the panel discussion if the agency will appeal the rul- ing, which also covered a case pushed by The Courier-Journal of Louisville and the Lexington Herald-Leader. Jon Fleischaker, counsel for The Courier-Journal and Ken- tucky Press Association, said he believed it was the first time that a judge had fined a state agency for violating the records law, enacted in 1976. That may be a reflection of what Shepherd and Fleischaker have called “the culture of se- crecy” at the cabinet, and of social workers’ depth of feel- ing about the need for confi- dentiality. But during the panel discussion, they and journalists found some common ground in a desire to help the public un- derstand the seriousness of the problem. “I have long been deter- mined to expose the problem of child abuse . . . because I don’t think it is going to get better until it is exposed,” Courier-Journal reporter Deb- orah Yetter said. The average Kentuckian needs a sense of the depth of the problem and its causes – the role of fami- lies and the history of poverty, drug abuse and other social problems – and that cannot be done without better access to records, she said. Earlier, Heavrin asked if journalists could do stories on abuse-case files without the names, but Fleischaker said that without names, “You can’t do your own investigation.” He said the intent of the law is to release enough informa- tion so the public can judge the cabinet’s performance, and while officials argue that con- fidentiality protects children, “I think transparency protects the kids.” Reporters can write a lot about statistics, Yetter said, but stories about one person or family have more impact. She said the file of 9-year-old mur- der victim Amy Dye of Todd County, which Shepherd made public in the Standard’s law- suit, “shocked a lot of people, and the reaction was extraordi- nary.” Standard Editor-Publisher Ryan Craig said his paper start- ed covering the Dye case “as a terrible murder,” but after a feature story about her “made it seem she had a good life,” the paper got calls from nurs- es, teachers and two sources he couldn’t divulge saying the story “was wrong in ways you can’t possibly imagine. . . . We learned that Amy Dye didn’t have a great life.” The file showed the state had lost track of Amy after she was sent out of state and returned to a home where abuse had been reported. “If you hang on to secrecy as much as we hang on to the First Amendment, I don’t see this battle ending,” Craig told the cabinet officials. “Ryan has set a great exam- ple for us” as smaller newspa- pers, outgoing KPA President Jamie Sizemore, publisher of The Kentucky Standard in Bardstown, said from the audi- ence near the end of the discus- sion. “We have to do our part, too.” Sizemore and Jamie Baker- Nantz of the Grant County News complained that the cabinet’s local offices won’t respond to calls seeking the most innocuous information or “the good stories,” such as abused children who have been adopted. Cabinet officials sug- gested calling the main office in Frankfort so it could give orders to local offices. James, who started her re- marks by saying she was not there to second-guess anyone, ultimately said, “Maybe there are things that could have been done differently” in the Dye case, and “I do second-guess the whole way” in the job she has, including reviewing Amy’s file the day after she died. “If Amy Dye’s death, as tragic as it was — and it was painful for me — if it makes our child welfare system in this state stronger . . . I don’t regret anything,” she said. CHILD ABUSE IS BIG ISSUE IN STATE Journalists Debate With Child-Protection Officials
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 THE DAWSON SPRINGS PROGRESS A3
Shake my paw—
pleased to meet your acquaintance.
The name’s Charles
Tyler Bundebar, but you can call me Chuck.
My pal Walt and I share a rambling two-story in a riverside Missouri town, a house with a wide front porch, great for tail thumpin’ and enjoying tall glasses of lemonade.
Just lately, the master and I’ve been out there a lot, Walt reading and recollect-ing facts in a journal he’s keeping on the Civil War. Walt’s a true-blue reenactor, outfitted like a Union soldier, complete with a Springfield rifle, flat-topped cap with a badge, and me by his side, a black and white Border Collie, which is entirely fitting because Missouri was a Border state.
I’ll fill you in about that Border state business later, along with other tidbits I’ve picked up visiting battle sites with Walt and meeting folks who reen- act Civil War life. They
make history come alive, which is what I hope to do
for you.
So gather round the campfire, share a bite of Johnny Cake and
listen up, cause you’re about to hear some stuff
that’s doggone extraordinary—tales about man’s best friend during the Civil War, canine mascots, fetching hounds that astound.
The stories I’m about to relate are brimming with turncoats and heroes, mayhem and miracles, plenty of rowdy
excitement, and not one whit of sappy ro-mance. Let’s kick the story off right, and if I fail to deliver, you can cut my rations down to Pekingese portions.
The Civil War (1861-1865) was a four-year tragedy, a dog-eat-dog war that divided our country and forced neighbor to fight against neighbor. It began for a number of reasons, one of which con-cerned slavery. Some states thought it fit-ting to own slaves while others believed the practice should be “abolished,” which is a fancy way of saying “va-moosed,” and doesn’t refer to a moose away at Scout camp or a mouse in the past-present tense twice removed. Ruff!
Initially, the pro-slavery states acted like a bunch of kids in a scrap. They thumbed their noses at the Union and seceded, broke away to establish a new country, the Confederate States of America. This
wasn’t something our just-elected Presi-dent, Abraham Lincoln, took kindly to.
Honest Abe felt this was kind of rebel-lious of the South—and that’s how I remember the Rebels made up the Confederacy. The rest of the states were “unified,” which means they were all chummy with each other. These states stayed in the United States of America as one Union.
Trust you now have a better understand-ing of the primary reason for the war—and can identify the two sides that did battle. With that we’ll set our story aside for a bit. Enough yapping, I need a quick bite to sustain life, and a nap next to Walt’s creaky rocker.
Hope you’ll tune in for the next chapter. You’re sure to lap up the tale passed down through the years by the family of Sergeant Dick, a mascot of the St. Louis Grays. That pooch weathered quite a time in St. Louis in 1861, just a month after the first cannons fired on Fort Sum-ter in South Carolina.
Lots of people have heard about Camp Jackson, in St. Louis, but not many real-ize its importance. The incident deter-mined that St. Louis, though in the slave state of Missouri, would remain loyal to the Union and continue to fly Old Glory.
PatrioticPals
Differences of opinion on slavery and other issues split the north and south. These conflicts led to war. Find three types of conflict in the newspaper, man vs. man, man vs. nature and man vs. self.
The Civil War (1861-1865) was a four-year
- Differences of opinion on
Paper Training
LEARN MORE!Companion activities can be found at www.mo-nie.com using code: teachmo12.
©2012, Missouri Press Foundation
Walt and meeting folks who reen- act Civil War life. They
make history come alive, which is what I hope to do
for you.
So gather round the campfire, share a bite of Johnny Cake and
listen up, cause you’re about to hear some stuff hear some stuff
listen up, cause you’re about to hear some stuff
FLAGS OF THE CIVIL WAR“The Stars and Bars” (top) was the official flag of the Confederacy from March 5, 1861, to May 26, 1863. It first appeared with seven stars, then nine, 11, and finally 13, to indicate the number of states in the Confederacy. The Confederacy claimed Kentucky and Missouri, but they were never actually in the Confederacy.
The second flag is the United States flag and was in use from July 4, 1863 to July, 1865.There were six official flags in use during the Civil War, but the 35-star flag is the one most recognized. Each star represents a state in the Union.
FLAGS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Shake my paw—
pleased to meet your acquaintance.
The name’s Charles
Tyler Bundebar, but you can call me Chuck.
CHAPTER 1: Chat with Chuck
By Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris StuckenschneiderBy Chris Stuckenschneider
Tails of the Civil War
Design by Sharpe Design
First Grade4.00Michael Blanton, Avaleigh Bour-land, Grayson Brewer, Melina Harper, Kaleigh Haulk, Desiree Hunt, Christian Jones, Natalee Oldham, Landon Smiley, Lillian Sunderland, Abigail Ward3.50–3.99Caden Alfred, Robert Bullock, Mary Burns, Brooklynn Clark, Madison Guill, Christopher Jones, Joseph Joslin, Brittany Mabry, Bryden Mann, Yosiyah McCune, Alex Mitchell, Jordan Opalek3.00–3.49Kianna Berry, Kimberly Burbage, Nicolas Conners, Grace Davis, Elijah Dickerson, Kyrie Ealy, Tim-othy Ellis, Keyle Forsythe, Tyler Hale, Logan Halverson, Saman-tha Hendrix, Jay Laxton, Michaela McBride, Kensley Norvell, Ethan Osborne, Zachary Peters, Rylee Purdy, Andrew Spurlin, Katelen Young, Rachael Young
Second Grade4.00Daniel Back, Dylan Baker, Skye Bratcher, Avery Buntin, Zach-ary Caudill, Calob Davis, Justin Dukes, Landen Dukes, Abigail Garrett, Madelyn Huddleston, Alex-andria Jones, Taylor Keyes, Cam-ryn LaGrange, Austin McCutchen, David Moore, Lyndsie Morse, Mad-ison Purdy, Natasha Wigley, Gabe Workman3.50–3.99Ivan Childers, Joshua Cross, Mathew Cunningham, Marissa Foe, Ashley Jennings, Courtney
Menser, Trenton Miller, Cameron Morris, Trinity Randolph, Kamryn Sizemore, Ryan Sunderland3.00–3.49Ben Bivins, Nathan Carson, Adri-an Edmonson, Brendan Harper, Autum Loshe, Shayla Martin, Shaylea Mitchell, Amber Putman, Riley Rawlins, Vanessa Tackett, Jordan Thomas, Shevonne Weaver
Third Grade4.00Cydney Collins, Jackson Creek-mur, Ayden Davis, Dylan Dawson, Wanda DeTalente, Caleb Garrett, Linsey Hoard, Jaidan Hunter, Ken-drick Leibenguth, Logan McK-night, Wesley Oden, Landon Pace, Chancie Robinson, Chloe Shrum, Savannah Smith3.50–3.99Emily Abbott, Madison Asher, Alexandria Bean, Alexis Blanton, Jacob Brasher, Ricky Camplin, Caden Hickerson, Gabriele Lax-ton, William Simons3.00–3.49Michael Burgess, Matalie Fain, Madysen Furgerson, Haley Hart, Colton Henry, Ethan Jones, Robert McCuiston, Chloe Pick, Bailey Suttle, Ivory Tackett, Kara Trover
Fourth Grade4.00Courtney Bayer, Daniel Garrett, Ethan Huddleston, Sloane Parker, Emma Thorp3.50–3.99Reilly Andrews, Makayla Bean, Bethany Burbage, Zoe Howton, Cameron McKnight, Talan Moore,
Brandon Mosbey, Slade Ramsey, Dalton Simons, Cynthia Solomon3.00–3.49Andrew Barnhart, Trey Blanchard, Braxton Cotton, Brennen Cun-ningham, Kaitlynn Dearing, Jacob Drake, Aubrie Gunn, Jalynn Hoop-er, Justin Knight, Angela Latham, Lindey Lipe, Abigail McGregor, Baylee Peek, Denisha Randolph, Ethan Stuart, Ethan Vincent
Fifth Grade4.00James Davis, Leah Davis, Kate-linn Green, Hannah Greenfield, Kylie Littlejohn, Mikah Whisler3.50–3.99Ty Akin, Carlyann Alexander, Heaven Bratcher, Marlee Burden, Hayden Cunningham, Mallory Hall, Mikayla Jackson, Madison Laffoon, Kayla Nichols, Caro-lann Oakley, Erin Orten, Ricardo Perez, Sabreyn Pleasant, Kaylee Simpson, Justin Vincent, Tyler Weir, Shyann Wilken3.00–3.49Christian Abbott, Kyler Andrews, Alyssa Dismang, Riley Howton, Skyler Lohse, Brooke Purdy, James Thomas, Erica Williams
Sixth Grade4.00Catherine Alexander, Alysta Butts, Colton Collins, Lauren Davenport, Madison Garrett, Caleb Hickerson, Nathaniel Jennings, Raiden Purdy, Jacob Vaughn, Brooklyn Walls, Josephine Witherspoon3.50–3.99Amber Asher, Kevin Brooks,
Jelayna Earl, Ethan Garrison, Heather Genseal, Kiana Hooper, Ashlee Laxton, Peyton Lipe, Kim-berly McDaniel, Hunter McGee, Macy Merrell, Kameron Orten, Abigail Parker, Reagan Riggs3.00–3.49Devan Baker, Zachary Bivins, Ellie Blake, Mary Bullock, Ariel Childers, Austin Clark, Brittany Cummins, Andrew Davis, Seth Dismang, Brandon Ford, Elizabeth Hendrix, Jennifer McCraw, Tyler Rogers
Seventh Grade4.00Courtney Copeland, Haylie Cun-ningham, Kristian Ford, Bai-ley Moore, Kayla Purdy, Dylan Simpson, Michael Weir, Jillian Witherspoon, Erin Woolsey3.50–3.99Trysten Dillingham, Emily Gar-rett, Kaitlyn Huddleston, Malaia Miller, Eric Cotton, Adriana Coy3.00–3.49Sara Brandon, James Burns, Ash-ton Mitchell, John Price, Schyuler Storms, Nathan Bearden, Victoria Hooper, James Guill, Isiah Abbott, Amanda Lussier, Tanner Adams, Keyli Burden, Kori Caldwell, Kierra Vanderveer
Eighth Grade4.00Celebrity Duncan, Allison Gordon, Andie Mills, Allie Mills, Bailey Palmer, Shatiki Robinson, Benja-min Workman3.50–3.99Brandon Carroll, David Thorp, Brittney Davis, Madison Riggs,
Cole Parker, Connor Prow, Kayla Bigham, Carly Bruce, Jessica Earl, Sydney Menser, Cameron Riley, Savannah Bean, Presley Stevens, Candice Foster3.00–3.49Joshua Castle, Jacob Messamore, Hannah Winters, Kaitlyn Menser, Alyssa Gilland, Jon Williams, Jordan Adams, Lynsee Patterson, Dakota Ford, Austin Workman, Collin Harryman, Shelby Ladd
Ninth Grade4.00Ashley Collier, Savannah Robin-son, Tracy Thomas3.50–3.99Brittany Stallins, CJ Merideth, Christina Norris, Patricia Tabor3.00–3.49Seth Parker, Abagail Hubbell, Tessa Morton, Rose Dunbar, Stephanie Johnson, Michelle Reaume, Hannah Childers, Ben Giffin, Brandon Hayes, Callie Menser, Caitlyn Moore, Chelsey Sherrill, Elijah Witherspoon
Tenth Grade4.00Christina Hamby, Bradley Puck-ett, Katherine Crider, Sarah Hud-dleston, Kaila Purdy3.50–3.99Logan Davenport, Trace Menser, Amber Yeisley, Zach Miller3.00–3.49David Cosby, Rachel Akin, Laura McDaniel, Allison Adams, Abby Coy, Brittany Orten, Laurel Win-ters, Gage Brewer, Hayley Jones, Brandi Nash, Amber Crook, Dal-
ton Dulin, Levi Wiggins
Eleventh Grade4.00McCade Freeman, Ryan Caudill, Elizabeth Black, Tayler Mills, Lauren Menser, Matthew Snell, Jalyn Walls3.50–3.99Sarah Allen, Alan Black, Everli Mitchell, Kendel Mitchell, India Robinson, Katlyn Adams, Bianca Stallins, Whitney Copeland, Eric Brown, Alexis Smith, Kristin Peek, Alyssa Reece, Bethany Winters3.00–3.49Melody Cotton, Paige Dunkerson, Thomas Moore, Timothy Puck-ett, James Cummins, Julia Earl, Megan Mahaney, Trevor Woolsey, Devin Ladd, Aaron Blue, Colton Chapple, Gunnar Laffoon
Twelfth Grade5.00-4.00Brad Overby, Forrest Winters, Whitley Dillingham, Hailey Riley, Rihana McKnight, Todd Bullock, Ashley Beecham, Nikki Castle, Kayla Dearing, Ben Puckett, Bobbi Jo Watson3.50–3.99Hannah Ivy, Brittany Potts, Ryan McKnight, Whitney Alexander, Lauren Dowd, Travis Giffin, Andrew Moore, Ben Coy, Ashley Hart, Halee VanVactor3.00–3.49Ryan Anglin, Cory Dunkerson, Casey Lussier, Amber Genseal, Trey Miller, Karissa Purdy, Tyler Sutton, Kristen Austin, Jacob Skimehorn, Cora Watkins
DAWSON SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL HONOR ROLL FOR SECOND QUARTER
ByAl Cross
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community IssuesUniversity of Kentucky
In a state that has led the na-tion in deaths of children from abuse and neglect, Kentucky journalists and the offi cials who must protect children agree that more public attention needs to be focused on the issue.
But they don’t agree on how to do it, and have been fi ghting expensive battles in court over it, because their professions have sharply divergent views on what kind of information the state should have to re-lease.
“The profession of social work is based on confi dential-ity,” the state’s top child-pro-tection offi cial told reporters, editors and publishers during a panel discussion at the Ken-tucky Press Association con-vention in Lexington Friday afternoon.
Confi dentiality “was drilled into us just as openness was drilled into you” in profession-al education, said Teresa James, who became acting commis-sioner of the Department for Community-Based Services in December after 25 years as a social worker. “Just as passion-ate as you are about the First Amendment, I am passionate about confi dentiality.”
Social workers argue that without being able to assure in-formants of confi dentiality, the system that protects children won’t get some of the informa-tion it needs.
But journalists, their em-ployers and their lawyers say the state has been much more secretive than the law allows about cases in which children died or nearly died, circum-stances in which state law makes otherwise confi dential information available.
Three times a Frankfort judge has agreed, most recently ordering the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to turn over its reviews of 90 deaths or near-deaths of children from abuse or neglect in 2009-10, and ordering the cabinet to pay more than $57,000 in legal fees for newspapers that sought the fi les.
Franklin Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd also told the cabinet to pay $16,000 in civil penalties for violating the state Open Records Act by prolong-ing litigation, subverting an earlier ruling and telling the Todd County Standard that it had no fi le on a 9-year-old killed by an abusive stepbroth-er, when it did.
Tina Heavrin, the cabinet’s general counsel, wouldn’t say during the panel discussion if the agency will appeal the rul-ing, which also covered a case pushed by The Courier-Journal
of Louisville and the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Jon Fleischaker, counsel for The Courier-Journal and Ken-tucky Press Association, said he believed it was the fi rst time that a judge had fi ned a state agency for violating the records law, enacted in 1976.
That may be a refl ection of what Shepherd and Fleischaker have called “the culture of se-crecy” at the cabinet, and of social workers’ depth of feel-ing about the need for confi -dentiality. But during the panel discussion, they and journalists found some common ground in a desire to help the public un-derstand the seriousness of the problem.
“I have long been deter-mined to expose the problem of child abuse . . . because I don’t think it is going to get better until it is exposed,” Courier-Journal reporter Deb-orah Yetter said. The average Kentuckian needs a sense of the depth of the problem and its causes – the role of fami-lies and the history of poverty, drug abuse and other social problems – and that cannot be done without better access to records, she said.
Earlier, Heavrin asked if journalists could do stories on abuse-case fi les without the names, but Fleischaker said that without names, “You can’t do your own investigation.” He said the intent of the law is to release enough informa-tion so the public can judge the cabinet’s performance, and while offi cials argue that con-fi dentiality protects children, “I think transparency protects the kids.”
Reporters can write a lot about statistics, Yetter said, but stories about one person or family have more impact. She said the fi le of 9-year-old mur-der victim Amy Dye of Todd County, which Shepherd made public in the Standard’s law-suit, “shocked a lot of people, and the reaction was extraordi-nary.”
Standard Editor-Publisher Ryan Craig said his paper start-ed covering the Dye case “as a terrible murder,” but after a feature story about her “made it seem she had a good life,” the paper got calls from nurs-es, teachers and two sources he couldn’t divulge saying the story “was wrong in ways you can’t possibly imagine. . . . We learned that Amy Dye didn’t have a great life.”
The fi le showed the state had lost track of Amy after she was sent out of state and returned to a home where abuse had been reported.
“If you hang on to secrecy as much as we hang on to the First Amendment, I don’t see this battle ending,” Craig told the cabinet offi cials.
“Ryan has set a great exam-
ple for us” as smaller newspa-pers, outgoing KPA President Jamie Sizemore, publisher of The Kentucky Standard in Bardstown, said from the audi-ence near the end of the discus-sion. “We have to do our part, too.”
Sizemore and Jamie Baker-
Nantz of the Grant County News complained that the cabinet’s local offi ces won’t respond to calls seeking the most innocuous information or “the good stories,” such as abused children who have been adopted. Cabinet offi cials sug-gested calling the main offi ce
in Frankfort so it could give orders to local offi ces.
James, who started her re-marks by saying she was not there to second-guess anyone, ultimately said, “Maybe there are things that could have been done differently” in the Dye case, and “I do second-guess
the whole way” in the job she has, including reviewing Amy’s fi le the day after she died.
“If Amy Dye’s death, as tragic as it was — and it was painful for me — if it makes our child welfare system in this state stronger . . . I don’t regret anything,” she said.
CHILD ABUSE IS BIG ISSUE IN STATE
Journalists Debate With Child-Protection Officials
