NEW ORLEANS – Shalie Logan, agricultural educator at Ohio Hi-Point Career Center at Kenton High School, is a recipient of a 2015 Teachers Turn the Key professional development scholarship.

Third grader Cailyn Hopkins places a strip of duct tape on Kenton Elementary School custodian Robert Ashbrook on Tuesday morning. As a reward for selling tickets for the school’s fall fundraiser, students were invited to place strips of duct tape on either Principal Angela Butterman or Ashbrook, sticking them to the brick columns in the school’s cafeteria.

When it comes to working with young people, things are not always what they seem. An innocent tube of lipstick or a bracelet may be a front for what is really a pot pipe. A pom-pom might be covering a flask of alcohol. A soft drink can may be slipped over a container of beer.

Members of the Longbeards delivered 30 frozen turkeys to the Helping Hands Outreach Monday evening. The organization is part of the National Wild Turkey Federation and has provided the turkeys as a donation to Helping Hands.

As a former preschool teacher, Kenton City Schools psychologist Heather Hoppe savors the time she gets to spend back in the classrooms. Hoppe is in her first year as school psychologist for KCS, but she’s now in her 12th year overall at the job, having previously worked for Allen County’s and Hardin County’s educational service centers.

ADA — To call Harvest Pride a Hardin County family business might be an understatement. The tortilla chips which are showing up on store shelves throughout the area are products of the Denny Hensel family.

For the past 25 years, members of the Hardin County community have donned their black ties and formal dresses and enjoyed a gala evening while raising funds for Hardin Memorial Hospital. Three familiar faces have been there from the first Mistletoe Ball to this year’s event.