The Butler County Coalition for Healty, Safe, and Drug-Free Communities as a part of the county-wide effort to promote a safe prom and graduation season for our local youth produced a lip dub video to Katy Perry's hit "Firework". A lip dub is a trendy video shot without stopping the camera. Collaborating with the locally based Little Chicago Productions group the video was shot on April 3, 2011 at Miami University Hamilton. Local high school students representing the J. Kyle Braid Foundation were the stars of the video. The students are featured lip syncing, dancing, tumbling, and holding signs encouraging their peers to have a game plan to stay safe. There is also a reminder to parents that they have a lot to lose if they host prom and graduation parties and provide alcohol to minors. Hamilton High School student Kristen Smallwood said, "It is important to show people that you can have fun without alcohol and other drugs". J'aime Murray, Hamilton High Junior, was excited to be in the video and she said, "This is suppose to be an exciting time of the year. You don't want to come to school on Monday after prom or graduation and hear something bad happened to a friend, negative consequences from alcohol and other drugs abuse effects everyone". The video will air on You Tube April 6, 2011.
SAN AIR BASE, South KoreaEver wonder what it would be like to drop 1,200 golf balls out of a helicopter?
Come to the Kewanee Dunes on Saturday, April 17 at 10 a.m. and see for yourself.
The Henry County Chapter of the J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation is holding a fundraiser for the Henry County sophomores who will be attending the leadership ranch in Colorado this summer.
Twelve-hundred golf balls will be dropped from a helicopter piloted by Kewanee’s Dan Johnson over a hole in the driving range.
The “owner” of the first golf ball to land in the hole will win $1,000.
To purchase a golf ball “chance” for $10, call Wethersfield High School at 853-4205, or Kewanee High School at 853-3328. Chances are also available at Annawan, Cambridge, Geneseo, AlWood and Orion high schools.
Each high school sends two to four delegates to spend a week at the 160-acre ranch near Villa Grove, Colo., each summer.
The local chapters raise funds through events such as the recent dance and auction at Lavender Crest in Colona. The Rotary Club of Kewanee is a major sponsor of delegates from Kewanee and Wethersfield high schools.
Jordan Hicks is the second player to receive the Butkus Award for high school linebackers, following Manti Te'o from Punahou High School in Hawaii, who started for Notre Dame this fall as a true freshman linebacker.
After struggling for days to find an essay topic for his All-State Academic scholarship application, David A. Dreiser decided on a tale in which his father's eyebrows come to life, pop off his face and spin into an alternative universe known as "the infinite forehead."
