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Grant application deadline for Hardin and LaRue County teachers this Saturday

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The deadline is approaching for Hardin and LaRue County teachers to apply for Nolin RECC’s Be a Light Teacher Grants.

“Teachers really bear a lot of expense out of their personal funds to outfit their classroom, to provide things for their students, and this is a way for us to give back to those individuals,” said Nolin RECC Operation Round-Up Board Chair Price Smith. 

30 $200 grants will be awarded. The grants are made possible by the Operation Round-Up program that is supported by co-op members.

“Operation Round-Up is a voluntary program where Nolin members can round up their electric bills to the next highest dollar,” Smith said. “Those funds are aggregated together and given out in the form of impact grants in the year.”

Nolin RECC says more than $400,000 has been awarded in Operation Round-Up grants since 2006. The application deadline for the Be a Light Teacher Grants is August 31. Find the application at www.nolinrecc.com.

Learn more about Hardin County Teen Court at open house Thursday

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The Hardin County Teen Court is inviting all area high school students and their parents to attend an open house and mock trial at the Hardin County Justice Center Thursday night beginning at 6:30 p.m.

“Teen Court is an arm of the Administrative Office of Courts for Juvenile Court,” said Hardin District Judge Kimberly Winkenhofer Schumate. “We train local high school students, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors to be the attorneys, the bailiffs, the clerks and the jury in the sentencing phase of actual juvenile cases.”

While Thursday night’s event will show a demonstration, actual Teen Court proceedings are real cases with individuals facing delinquent charges.

“Traditionally, Juvenile Court has no jury of your peers, but in Teen Court, you can actually have the opportunity to have other teens decide what are consequences, and how can you learn from those mistakes and be able to grow and move forward,” Judge Schumate said.

Judge Schumate says all area students willing to put in the required time are welcome.

“Teen Court is a chance for students from all of our area high schools, both public and private, and homeschool students to gather together, and we generally train about 100 local area students, and it’s just an opportunity to do something that you may not have ever had a chance to do before,” Judge Schumate said.

Interested students unable to attend the open house may also sign up at the first Teen Court training session, which will also be held at the justice center on September 5. Contact Judge Schumate’s office at 270-766-5004 for more information.

United Way hosting Skydive for Change event Saturday

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The United Way of Central Kentucky will be hosting their Skydive for Change event at the Elizabethtown Regional Airport from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Skydivers were required to raise $1,500 in order to participate. United Way of Central Kentucky Director of Development Andrea Hill says that participants have come from all over. 

“We have business owners, small businesses here,” Hill said. “We have Brian Smith, our county clerk, and his wife, Brianne Smith. You know, she works for us, and Brianne is actually committed to do that because it meant that other women would sign up.”

All funds raised support the United Way’s Good Neighbor Program, which helps at-risk community members stay in their homes by organizing home renovation projects.

“The first project we’re doing, we need to raise at least $5,000, which we have,” Hill said. “We have a woman that is in need of a bathroom repair. It’s her only bathroom in her home and the floor is about to cave in.”

The link to donate to the event can be found on the United Way of Central Kentucky Facebook page.