Madison Courier

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Conner Maginn, left, and Kyle Chambers practice a song and dance number in front of a chorus line during a rehearsal for the upcoming Madison Theatre production of Irving Berlin�s musical �White Christmas� at Madison Consolidated High School. Before the rehearsal, Maginn, Chambers and co-stars Katie Walters and Kacie Rowlett presented a check for $500 to Amy Perkins, executive director of Pathways Youth Shelter and Family Services. The donation was from the theater parents group. Other characters in the �White Christmas� cast include Claire Schell in an Oxydol detergent box.
11/20/2009
Album ID: 893129
Photos by Ken Ritchie

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Sally Staley, left, talks with her friend Rebecca Tull after Staley was awarded the Mildred Cadle Outstanding Volunteer Award at the R.S.V.P. annual volunteer recognition dinner at the Venture Out Business Center on Wednesday. Staley has been with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program for 16 years. R.S.V.P. program director Vickie Copeland said the Mildred Cadle Outstanding Volunteer Award goes to a volunteer chosen by a vote of the volunteer�s peers.
11/19/2009
Album ID: 892667
Photos by Ken Ritchie

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Paul E. Reece sits near a string of paper cranes while folding others for an International Club project at Southwestern High School. The small cranes are being �adopted� at 25 cents each to students, faculty and staff at the middle and high schools to fund books, clothing and food for students at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School for AIDS orphans. The Catholic school serves students affected by HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie)
11/19/2009
Album ID: 892666
Photos by Ken Ritchie

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A 1969 Mercury that was smashed when it overturned on Hanging Rock Hill on Wednesday awaits towing while the tow truck driver cleans up the roadway. Police said Shane Rowlett, 16, of 1664 Telegraph Hill Road, was northbound on Cragmont Street around 8:40 a.m. and crossed the double yellow line to pass another car. When he went back into his lane, he lost control of his car and went up the embankment on the east side of the road, police said. His car rolled onto its top in the road, police said. Bark was stripped from a tree next to the road by his car. Rowlett was taken to King�s Daughters� Hospital for treatment of injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, police said. (Staff photo by Peggy Vlerebome)
11/19/2009
Album ID: 892659
Photos by By Peggy Vlerebome

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Anderson Elementary students out-spelled seven other teams at the Intermediate Spell Bowl Competition on Tuesday by finishing with 48 correctly spelled words out of 56.
11/18/2009
Album ID: 891687
Photos by By Brandi Baldwin

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David Cart of Vintage Restorations paints the pressed tin ceiling in the sanctuary of Kent United Methodist Church on Monday. Cart�s work, which included repair near the church bell tower in addition to painting, should be done in about two weeks. Cart does most of his work with churches and other nonprofit organizations. He helped with a major restoration project at Deputy United Methodist Church several years ago, worked on the Historic Madison Inc. restoration of the Francis Costigan House and will work on another church outside the county this winter. The Kent church ceiling had been painted a flat white years ago. Cart found traces of the original colors while scraping the tin and is restoring those colors. He said the depth and complexity of the ceiling tile design had been lost in its all-white coating. �Now the detail will be hard to miss,� Cart said.
11/18/2009
Album ID: 891684
Photos by Ken Ritchie