Education

Grant County Marching Band traveled to Dixie High School to participate in their last Kentucky Music Educators Association’s regular season sanctioned competition of the season on Oct. 9.

In preliminary competition, Grant County was facing two competitors in Class AAAA competition, South Oldham and East Jessamine. Grant County surprised the crowd with a show ending performance with the “Capture the Flag” game ending with the brass team capturing the flag, instead of a tie between the brass and woodwinds that the crowd had seen at previous events.

“Drunk” drivers killed several people and injured many more Sept. 16 in a parking lot near Northern Kentucky University Grant County Center.

Fortunately, those hit by the impaired drivers were only orange cones representing pedestrians and the drivers weren’t really drunk.

The hands-on lesson was part of the NKY Grant County Center’s University 101- Orientation to College and Beyond class.

The Fatal Experience Driving Simulation allows teens to gain real-life exposure to the dangers of impaired driving without being at risk.

The Grant County High School JROTC hosted the fourth Annual Raider and Drill Team Challenge on Sept. 18, with four states, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana,  represented.

GCHS did not participate in the competition. Their job was much greater.

More than 3,000  children ride buses to school, on 53 regular bus routes, in Grant County and safety is the number one issue. That is why Buster the Bus is visiting each elementary school teaching the children about bus safety.

Roxanna Traft and Jackie St. Amour, both school bus drivers and driver trainers, are Buster’s chaperons as he makes his school rounds.

Although safety is of utmost importance, the two say there is another qualification for the high stress job.

“You’ve got to like kids to be a bus driver,” St. Amour said.