Six area middle schools from Albany, Corbin, London, Monticello and Whitley City participated in the regional MathCounts competition, held on the Somerset Campus of Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2.
The first-place team award went to North Laurel Middle School. Second place was awarded to McCreary County Middle School. Third place went to Monticello Middle School and fourth place was awarded to Corbin Middle School.
The top student and scholarship winner of the Feb. 2 event was Layne Gaynor of North Laurel Middle School. The scholarship pays tuition for one semester at Somerset Community College, with the Cumberland Falls Engineers, the sponsor of the event, contributing $500 and SCC providing the rest.
According to SCC Mathematics Professor Arthur Dawson, MathCounts is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program. Dawson has coordinated the annual regional MathCounts at SCC for many years.
Co-coordinators Neil Mosley and Ed Manning honored Dawson with a plaque in recognition of Dawson’s many years of service to the MathCounts program.
“MathCounts participants are ‘Mathletes,’” Dawson explained. “While there are plenty of opportunities for athletes to earn recognition, there are very few opportunities for students who excel in math to win awards and be recognized.”
The top two teams from the SCC Regional Math-Counts event will advance to the state level.
The advancing schools are North Laurel Middle School and McCreary County Middle School.
Three individual students also qualified to advance to the state level. They are Joe West of Monticello Middle School, Tommy Rally of Corbin Middle School and Amy Lair of Monticello Middle School.
The top 11 students in order of their final placement were Layne Gaynor of North Laurel Middle School; Pooja Kanthawar of North Laurel Middle School; Joe West of Monticello Middle School; Tyler Perry of McCreary County Middle School; Tommy Rally of Corbin Middle School; Donald Parriman of McCreary County Middle School; Amy Lair of Monticello Middle School; James Staton of Clinton County Middle School; Renee Bell of Monticello Middle School; Levon Combs of McCreary County Middle School; and Wayne Logan of Corbin Middle School.
Schools participating in the 2008 Regional Math-Counts event were North Laurel Middle School, Corbin Middle School, Monticello Independent Middle School, St. Camillus Academy in Corbin, Clinton County Middle School and McCreary County Middle School. Approximately 50 students participated in this year’s competition.
The following faculty and staff of Somerset Community College participated in the MathCounts contest on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008: David Behrman, Arthur Dawson, Martha Deitz, Billy Dobbs, Carrie Fitzpatrick, Clinton Hayes, Debra House, Joseph Lynch, Richard Matika, Raymond McDonnell, Virginia Metcalf, Roger Osborne, Cecilia Ramilo, Gary Sherman, Loris Sherman, Gail Stringer, Anita Walker and Sharon Whitehead.
Math Counts is sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the CNA Foundation. National sponsors include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Northrop Grumman, 3M and General Motors.
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The team from North Laurel Middle School took home first place at the Regional MathCounts competition held on the Somerset Campus of Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. Pictured, back row, from left, are Layne Gaynor, Hunter Riley, Elaina McPhetridge, coach Linette McPhetridge; front row, Pooja Kanthawar, Hayden Riley, Kathryn Wilkerson and Sawyer Holcomb. Layne Gaynor was honored as the top student and scholarship winner of the 2008 regional event.
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Monticello Independent Middle School won third place in the 2008 Regional MathCounts competition held at Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. Team members, from left, are Jessica Hardin, Adam Shelton, Alia Barrier, Amy Lair, Renee Bell, Sarah Angelle, Bethany Latham, and Joe West. Absent from photo are team member John Ogle and coach Jennifer Chaplin.
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The team from McCreary County Middle School won second place in the 2008 Regional MathCounts competition held on the Somerset Campus of Somerset Community College on Feb. 2. Team members, from left, are Levon Combs, Breanna Duncan, Kyle Ball, Andrea Cooper, Steven King, Tyler Perry, Donald Parriman, Dylan Jones and coach Tanya Jones.
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The team from Corbin Middle School won fourth place overall during the 2008 Regional MathCounts competition held on the Somerset Campus of Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. Team members, back row, from left, are Chad Brown, Cassidy Phipps, Tommy Rally, Caleb Dunn, Austin Powers, coach Jennifer Phipps; second row, coach Jane Wages, Malerie McDowell, Alex Chumbley, Wayne Logan, Paul Parsons, Skyler Mills; front row, Myriah Rich, Alyssa Emmett and August Fox.
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A team from St. Camillus Academy competed in the 2008 Regional MathCounts event held at Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. Team members, from left, are coach Terry Newquist, Elizabeth Jackson, Gloria Hensley, Ghazal Jawed, Shelby Phillips, Abby Newquist, Katherine Devers, Nitin Krishna, Monisha Rekhraj and Savannah Durham.
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A team from Clinton County Middle School competed in the 2008 Regional MathCounts event held at Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. Team members, from left, are coach Jake Staton, Evan Shelley, James Staton, Jordan Vincent, Ellis Shelley, Destiny Guffey and coach Shirley Williams.
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MathCount Co-coordinators Neil Mosley (left) and Ed Manning (right) present a plaque to Arthur Dawson (center), SCC math professor, during the annual event at Somerset Community College on Saturday, Feb. 2. The plaque honors Dawson’s many years of service to the MathCounts program.
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Pulaski County is not at war. The booming you may hear at dusk is mock cannon fire to scare away birds.
Stuart Spillman, environmental director for the Lake Cumberland Health Department, said at least three cannons are on loan from the department to residents who want to scare away swarms of starlings and blackbirds settling in to roost.
He said a cannon is being used by a resident on Laura Lane off Ky. 39; another is in the Oak Hill Road area and a third is on Ashurst Street in the eastern part of Somerset.
Spillman said a timer on each cannon allows it to “fire” at whatever frequency is desired. The cannons must be used as the birds circle before going to roost. “After they settle in, nothing will chase them out,” Spillman said.
The Health Department doesn’t operate the cannons unless there is a specific complaint in an area where there are lots of birds, Spillman noted. He said so far this year the birds are not as bad as in the past. -
Boil water advisory is lifted countywide
The water controversy that Pulaski County has been boiling over — so to speak — for the last week is finally over.
At 10 minutes after noon Wednesday, the “boil water” advisory for the Western Pulaski Water District was lifted — almost a full week after the problems began around 1 p.m. last Thursday.
Prior to that, the Somerset Water Service — along with the other water providers in its system, including Science Hill Water, Southeastern Water, and Eubank Water — lifted their advisories, with Somerset on Saturday afternoon and the last, Southeastern, by Monday morning. Western Pulaski was the last in the system to complete sample testing for potential contaminants, due to not being able to access its Pikeville-based testing lab until Monday.
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler thanked the public for its patience and understanding during the duration of the boil water advisory — put in place to keep citizens from drinking water that could have been contaminated after an accident last Thursday at the water plant site — and also thanked all the city employees for their hard work during this time.
“The boil water advisory went about as well as would be expected,” said Girdler.
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