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A Kentucky soldier who was declared missing in action during World War II will be laid to rest in Muhlenberg County Wednesday.

The U.S. Army Human Resources Command says U.S. Army PFC Kenneth Dunbar Burgess of Central City will be interred at the Rose Hill Cemetery on May 7. Tuckers Funeral Home will host visitation at 9 a.m. with services at 11 and burial with full military honors to follow.

Burgess was assigned to Company B, Fourth Ranger Battalion, “Darby’s Rangers,” in the Mediterranean Theater. During Operation AVALANCHE, he was reported MIA on September 25, 1943, following a patrol toward the village of Sala, Italy. Burgess was 29 years-old.

The HRC says “Burgess was accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on September 13, 2024, after his remains were exhumed in March 2022 from the U.S. Military Cemetery, Nettuno – now Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Rome, Italy, for laboratory analysis and identification.” A rosette will be placed next to Burgess’s name on the Wall of the Missings at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery to note that he has been accounted for.

Burgess’s obituary can be found on the Tuckers Funeral Home website.

The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of a reported scam attempt. 

The sheriff’s office says several area residents have reported scam text messages claiming to be from Chase Bank. The messages often say there is a payment pending or an account issue and includes a link for the user to log in.

The sheriff’s office says these messages are phishing scams meant to steal personal and banking information. If you receive such a message, never click the link. Do not respond to the message and delete it immediately.

If you do have a Chase account, log in directly through the official website or app, not through a text link. If you notice anything suspicious, contact the bank’s fraud department. 

The sheriff’s office says these scams largely originate outside of the United States, which means they are difficult to track. 

More information on ongoing scams can be found on the Better Business Bureau’s Scam Tracker.

CASA of the Heartland will celebrate local heroes and raise funds and awareness for vulnerable children in the community at their Light the Night Superhero 5K, to be held at the Elizabethtown Sports Park on Friday, May 9.

“We feel like our CASA volunteers are heroes within our community, and we’re also going to have some fire trucks and some police cars out there helping us light the night because they are our local heroes as well and we want to celebrate everybody who helps keep the kiddos in our community safe,” said CASA of the Heartland Executive Director Michelle Kail. 

The family-friendly fun walk and run is for people of all ages and abilities. Pre-race festivities begin at 7 p.m.

“The race itself will start at 8:42 p.m.,” Kail said. “That probably seems like a weird time, but that is, as I’ve been told, what time it’s supposed to get dark, so that way we can put on all of our light up gear and truly light the night this year.”

Court-appointed special advocates are volunteers that advocate for the best interests of abused or neglected children in family court and the foster system. The organization serves Hardin, LaRue, Breckinridge, Meade, and Grayson counties, and is looking for volunteers.

“We are really looking for community members who are just really interested in helping children, and maybe just want to sit down and have a conversation about what does it look like to volunteer, because our judges typically appoint us to the most egregious cases to be that extra set of eyes and ears in the homes and for the courts,” Kail said.

Learn more about the organization and find the Light the Night Superhero 5K registration link on the CASA of the Heartland website or Facebook page.