Youth

Contact your local Kentucky State Police Post to purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a 2012 Dodge Challenger R/T Classic, and help send kids to camp.

Locust Trace Veterinary Clinic, a local non-profit, public vet clinic that works in collaboration with Locust Trace AgriScience Farm, Lexington’s newest career and technical high school, won second place and $5,000 in a national contest.

Join Debra's Social Stimulus for this great event and explore the 6th block of North Lime Stone Street and all the great things going on there, including The Broke Spoke Community, Home Grown Press, and Al's Bar who will be serving great local food and libations. 5:30-9:00pm

By Alex Simon, Citizen Journalist

The Lexington School is special in that it provides an education of the highest quality to students in preschool through middle school and does this through instilling integrity, a life-long enthusiasm for learning, and a strong work ethic.

The Lexington Children’s Theater has a longstanding history in this town. From its roots that reach back as far as 1938 with its first performance in ’39 of “Noah’s Flood”, the Lexington Children’s Theater is in an exciting era. What should the Lexington community be most excited about? The upcoming production of “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type” – a stage adaptation of Doreen Cronin’s children’s book by the same name.

By Anne Marie Sanderson, Citizen Journalist

During the spring semester at UK a group of student from an undergraduate sociology class have been learning the ins and outs of God’s Pantry Food Bank.

Several different aspects were taken on through this project; history, purpose, volunteers, and mission of the organization. During last Wednesday’s presentation the students shared their views and experiences with this organization.

Article by Emilie Rymer, Citizen Journalist
Photos by Geoff Maddock

Seedleaf began as a gift when an area landowner approached a small community, and offered the use of land to grow food. The area of land was off of Clay’s Mill Road that was ploughed, installed and maintained by a group of volunteers. This quarter acre garden grows vegetables and flowers and at the end of the season it was clear that more food could be grown with a little more structure.

Article by Brittany Culp, Citizen Journalist
Photo by Laura Klumb, Executive Director Kentucky Horse Park Foundation

The Kentucky Horse Park Foundation (KHPF) was founded in 1985 by Nina Bonnie whose goal was to help raise private support for the Horse Park. Bonnie had been active in and a supporter of the Kentucky Horse Park Commission since its creation in 1978. Seeing the need to improve and expand the Horse Park she took it into her own hands and founded the KHPF; its main purpose being to raise money to help improve and expand the Horse Park.

By: Erin Shea, Citizen Journalist

The acronym could be misleading. LYSA stands for Lexington Youth Soccer Association, but the organization has much more to offer central Kentucky than just a sport for the youth.