Thursday's Community News: Brenda Lucas

STACK 'EM: Pancakes stacked high or low and side dishes are served from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12, at Max and Erma's at Pullman Square. Tickets, available at the door, are $5. Proceeds help support the Barnett Childcare Center.

DEAN'S LIST: Meghan Conaty has been named to the dean's list for the spring semester at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind. She is daughter of Mary and Thomas J. Conaty Jr. of Huntington. Keep up the good work, Meghan.

TRAVELER: Molly Scott Taylor Russell is a traveler of sorts. The Spring Valley High senior with a 4.0 GPA her entire school years is attending the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at Emery University, Atlanta, Ga. Already a John Marshall Scholar with a full scholarship to Marshall University, Molly has been inducted into National Society of High School Scholars. The Booth Scholar travels to Boston this month with the Booth Scholars to visit Harvard, where she hopes to attend after studying forensic science at Marshall University. Molly has returned from a trip to Hershey, Pa., with MU's HATS Program. She has also been invited to attend the inauguration of the president and vice president of the United States in January and one of the black tie gala inaugural balls.

MORE PANCAKES: A donation of your choice can buy a breakfast of pancakes, sausage, bacon, coffee or juice at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 12, at Milton's Lighthouse Baptist Church.

MILITARY: Army National Guard Sgt. Greg Skeens has been mobilized and activated at Fort McCoy, near Sparta, Wis., for deployment to an overseas forward operating base to support the mission of Operation Enduring Freedom. Greg, combat engineer with the 206th Engineer Battalion in Prestonsburg, Ky., has served in the military 19 years. Greg, a 1989 grad of Prestonsburg High, is son of Paul Skeens and Sharon Skeens of Prestonsburg. His wife, Mary, is daughter of Bobby Baldridge and Faye Baldridge of Eastern, Ky.

RECOGNIZED: The recipient of the first Knowlton Center Executive Residency in Association Management and Leadership by American Pharmacists Association Foundation is Brian Lawson, PharmD., who serves as the executive resident. An intern at CVS Pharmacy from 2005 until graduating from West Virginia University, he began his year-long residency at the foundation headquarters in Washington.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Jordawn Deanna Dunfee is a new teenager at 13, Shawn Ward is 5 from 40 (35), Anne Blake, Cabell Huntington Hospital PBX operator, Josephine McCormick with The Herald-Dispatch mailroom, Sharon Frazier, Kaitlin May, Judy Rogers, Oma Ferguson, Abby Raines, Suzanne Compton, Bessie Powers, Marlene Fetty, Jennifer Ingram is almost 25 (24) and Jamie Dzierzak, assistant scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 762 and senior psych major at MU, is one over the adult age of 21 (22).

TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES: It's 15 years for John and Helen Jarrell, Chad and Mary Krouse, Herbert and Becky Lyons.

FRIDAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Kerry "K.K." Adkins, retired postal worker, becomes 2 under 70 (68); Jeramey Wentz who heads the IT department at The Herald-Dispatch, Larry Mankins, Bob Bondurant, Ryan Dayton, Ralph Elmore, Barbara E. Rayburn, Dawn Romans, Sam Collins, Phyllis Kiser, Jason Ferguson, Pat Meredith, Lynnette Simms, Ruby Wright, Leo Savilisky, D.J. Scarberry, America Aliff, Betty Amis, Bonnie Copley, Connie Wilds.

FRIDAY'S ANNIVERSARIES: Damon and Kelly Williamson. It's number 55 for James and Florence Boster.

CHUCKLE: An older man dating an older woman chose a bench in a lovely park to propose to her. In the old-fashioned style, he got on his knees in front of her and said, "I have two questions. First, will you marry me?" "Yes, I will," she answered. "And what is your second question?" The older gentleman replied, "Will you help me up?"

Send items to Brenda Lucas, in care of The Herald-Dispatch, P.O. Box 2017, Huntington, WV 25720; fax to (304) 526-2857; or e-mail to bklucas53@aol.com.