Perfect Score

Jessamine County Fiscal Court announced that the Jessamine County E-911 Central Communications agency passed its June 2012 Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) audit with a 0.00 percent serious-error rate, thereby earning the agency a score of 100 percent. By comparison, the serious-error rate statewide during 2008-2010 was 2.12 percent. The CJIS audit is conducted every three years, with data quality and policy compliance being the major components of the audit.  This is the first time since the inception of the Jessamine County 911 Central Communications Agency that Jessamine County 911 Central Communications has passed the audit with absolutely no serious errors.

Jessamine Countian wins mock trial award Sullivan University's Mock Trial teams won awards at the Middle Tennessee State University Mid-South Invitational on Nov. 11-12. Mock Trial is a nationwide competition sponsored by the American Mock Trial Association. Melinda Harpe of Jessamine County, a paralegal student at Sullivan University, won an outstanding attorney award with a perfect score. This year's case was a kidnapping. The MTSU tournament is one of the largest in the nation, with 66 teams competing.

The Clark Middle Speech Team opened its competitive season recently at the Marquis Junior Speech Invitational. The speech tournament was held in Lexington at Lafayette High School. Approximately 200 students from the area competed in the event. Cheyenne Ashworth led Clark Middle with a perfect score of 100 and a first-place finish in round one of Prose Interpretation. Dakota Brown received a score of 96 in Prose. Also competing in Prose was Haley Spurlock. John Dixon received a score of 94 and 95 in Broadcasting.

Aug. 5, 1984 The 1984 Miss Clark County Fair will be chosen tonight from among six contestants at a program at the Clark County Fairgrounds. The winner will succeed Jo Ellen Stamper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Stamper of 32 Hays St., the 1983 Miss Clark County Fair. Contestants are Angela Himes, Carolyn Johnson, Stephanie Sewell, Jennifer Marie Smith, Angela Stapleton and Michelle Van Cleve. Wendy Lary, 15, will represent Deanna's Merle Norman and Ladies Apparel in the Labor Day Committee's fashion show at 8 p.m. Saturday at Shearer Elementary School.

The George Rogers Clark cross country team captured the sixth annual "Run for the Water Barrel" at Lykins Park earlier this week. The boys and girls teams finished first in a six-team field with a perfect score of 15. Montgomery County placed second with a score of 60 followed by Lee County third with a score of 72 and Powell County fourth with a team score of 95. Bourbon County and Morgan County tied for fifth place. Morgan County took second place honors at the meet with a girls team score of 48. Clark's Alex White led the field of 34 runners with a meet record time of 18:50.

DANVILLE (AP) - A Danville teen received a perfect score on two college entrance exams. John Liu, 17, a senior at Danville High School, scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT and a perfect 36 on the ACT. The feat is unusual, education officials said. Kristin Crouse, a spokeswoman with ACT, said scoring perfectly on one exam is hard enough, but to score perfectly on both exams is a "remarkable achievement. " During the 2006-07 school year, more than 2.2 million ACT tests were administered.

Northpoint Training Center received a perfect score during its re-accreditation audit with the American Correctional Association. The 100-percent score is the highest the medium-security prison in Boyle County has ever received. “It is obvious teamwork functions very well here,” said Richard Faulkner, head of the audit team. “You have earned the score of 100 percent, and you have earned our respect as both auditors and fellow corrections professionals.” Department of Corrections public information officer Todd Henson said ACA review teams are made up of corrections officials from other states who verify a facility's compliance with more than 500 national standards.

LIBERTY - A report card shows that Casey County school Superintendent Linda Hatter either meets or exceeds most requirements, and needs little improvement. The evaluation was released Tuesday almost a month after the county Board of Education did the evaluation. Hatter exceeds requirements in community relationships, according to the report card. Her performance is exceptional and reflects a high degree of professionalism and accountability, consistently exceeds expectations, and in comparison to similar districts, performance is truly above the norm.

Children's choir to present holiday concert The Danville Children's Choir will present its 15th annual holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary of First Christian Church, Lexington Road. The 30-voice choir will present carols from around the world as well as a selection from Handel's "Messiah. " The choir is made up of select singers representing 17 schools from across central Kentucky. It is under the direction of the choir's founder, Bruce Richardson, and accompanied by Elizabeth Wolfe.

This winter, Kentucky high-school students will have another opportunity to compete in a championship sport as archery was made the newest sport-activity to join the championship ranks. Archery is nothing new to high schools - especially in Jessamine County - but archers will now have the chance to win a state championship. Kentucky is one of the first states nationally to offer archery as a varsity sport-activity, KHSAA said in an August press release. Eric Sowers, a teacher at The Providence School who has coached Providence's archery team for a number of years, will also coach the East and West programs.

Jessamine County Fiscal Court announced that the Jessamine County E-911 Central Communications agency passed its June 2012 Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) audit with a 0.00 percent serious-error rate, thereby earning the agency a score of 100 percent. By comparison, the serious-error rate statewide during 2008-2010 was 2.12 percent. The CJIS audit is conducted every three years, with data quality and policy compliance being the major components of the audit.  This is the first time since the inception of the Jessamine County 911 Central Communications Agency that Jessamine County 911 Central Communications has passed the audit with absolutely no serious errors.

One of the first questions people ask when a family has experienced a tragedy is, “What can I do to help?” For Brandon Hardin, 16, the answer was to raise money for the family of his friend and bowling team member, Joe Herndon, 20, who died in a car crash in mid-January, leaving his family and a multitude of friends to grieve the loss in the best way each knows how. For Hardin and his team, this means bowling. Hardin's mom, Lisa, said her son came up with the idea of “The Herndon Classic” scheduled for  6 p.m. Monday at Bowlarama at 1050 E. Lexington Ave. “He wanted to do something,” she said.

Northpoint Training Center received a perfect score during its re-accreditation audit with the American Correctional Association. The 100-percent score is the highest the medium-security prison in Boyle County has ever received. “It is obvious teamwork functions very well here,” said Richard Faulkner, head of the audit team. “You have earned the score of 100 percent, and you have earned our respect as both auditors and fellow corrections professionals.” Department of Corrections public information officer Todd Henson said ACA review teams are made up of corrections officials from other states who verify a facility's compliance with more than 500 national standards.

The Clark Middle School Speech team opened its season at the Marquis Junior Speech Invitational Nov. 20 at Lafayette High School in Lexington. About 200 students from central Kentucky schools participated in the event. Cheyenne Ashworth led Clark Middle with a perfect score of 100 to take first place in round one of the prose interpretation competition. Dakota Brown earned a score of 96 in prose while John Dixon received a score of 94 and 95 in broadcasting. Haley Spurlock also competed in prose, Audre Yates and Taylor Amburgey competed in declamation and Delany Holt competed in the poetry division.

The Garrard County Health Department makes routine inspections on food service establishments. They are inspected for food storage and handling, food temperatures, utensil washing, rest rooms and general sanitation. They are graded on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being a perfect score. Violations of the food service code carry values of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 points depending on the seriousness of the violation. Items marked that are worth 4 or 5 points are considered “critical items” and require immediate attention and must be corrected within 10 days.

Byron Hempel took the tests, wrote the papers and did the homework that made him one of the top students at Danville. But he said he didn't act alone. Hempel compiled an impressive academic resume, and he did it while finding time for four sports and a long list of other activities and interests. But he said his success was the result of a collective effort, a combination of parental influence, effective teachers and engaging classmates who have helped him learn. "It's a culmination of everybody," he said.

The George Rogers Clark boys cross country team pulled off a three-peat in the conference meet Thursday night at Wolfe County. The Cardinals coasted to a near perfect score of 16 to Powell County's 55 and Wolfe County's 59. Clark placed six runners ? Alex White, Brandon Bailey, William Pope, Colton Lewis, Clay Dixon and Amos Gapp ? on the all-conference team. Powell County's Austin Monnett also was an all-conference selection. In girls competition, the Lady Cardinals captured their second straight conference title with a perfect score of 15. Tiffany Toler received the conference GPA award in a four-way tie with teammate Taylor Welch, Powell County's Kasey Reed and Terri Spencer of Wolfe County.

LANCASTER ? The Garrard County Health Department makes routine inspections on food service establishments. They are inspected for food storage and handling, food temperatures, utensil washing, rest rooms and general sanitation. They are graded on a scale of one to 100 with 100 being a perfect score. Violations of the food service code carry values of 1, 2, 4 or 5 points depending on the seriousness of the violation. Items marked that are worth 4 or 5 points are considered critical items and require immediate attention, and must be corrected within 10 days.