Milestones

Girl Scouts of Kentucky’s Wilderness Road Council, in collaboration with the Grant County Library will host the free “It’s a Girl’s Life” program beginning at 1 p.m. on July 2 at the Grant County Public Library.

The program is open to all girls in the Grant County area that will be in grades K-5 in the fall of 2012.  “It’s a Girl’s Life” will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on July 2, July 9, July 16 and July 23.

David Beach has been named the new executive director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the cabinet’s Department of Workforce Investment. He has been serving as acting director there since December 2011 and assumed his permanent duties with the cabinet April 16. Dr. Beach previously worked as a Vocational Rehabilitation administrator in the Program Planning and Development Branch of OVR and he is the former Director for Residential Services, Job Placement and Research at the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Training Center.

I’ve never considered myself to be a smart person. Perhaps, if I were I would have chosen a different career path. One that required a whole lot less hours and paid me a whole pile of money.

But, I discovered at a young age that I had a knack for jotting down bits of information and crafting them into a story. My advanced English teacher told me that I had talent for writing.

It was that love of the written word and finding just the right word to make a sentence combined with curiosity that prompted me to go into journalism.