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 Artwork created by alocal teen will soon be

on display in Washing-ton, D.C.

Carolyn May, a Wash-ington Community High School reshman,won the CongressionalArts Competition April9. Her colored-pencildrawing o MadameLillian Evanti, a Wash-ington, D.C.-born operasinger, will hang in thepassageway between theHouse oce buildingsand the United StatesCapitol or the next year.

May, 15, said she has

always loved drawing.“My mom would al-

 ways cart around my older sisters, and so I would just bring a pencil

and paper and draw. Ihonestly can’t remembernot drawing.”

“We always had asketch pad with us,” herather, Tim May said.

May saw the photo o Madame Lillian Evantiin Smithsonian Maga- zine.

“I saw the picture andI really liked it,” May said. “When my teachergave the assignment, Iautomatically thought o that photo.”

The assignment was to

create a grid drawing.“Each square is a di-

erent geometric shape,”her mother, DonnaMay, said. “One o them

might have triangles,one might have swirls,one might have paisleys.So up close there’s a loto detail, but as you step back it makes the im-age.”

“It’s pretty ascinat-ing,” her ather said.

Carolyn, who spent“an hour here and there”over the course o two weeks working on thedrawing, said the nalsquare is ull o balloonsto celebrate the act thatthe piece was nished.

“I was so excited thatI was nally going tohave it done and that I wouldn’t have to carry it around anymore,” she

said.The competition, host-

ed by U.S. Rep. AaronSchock, is held nation- wide each spring. Itserves as an opportunity to recognize and encour-age the artistic talentin the nation, as well asin each congressionaldistrict.

“I am always amazed by the artwork submit-ted or the art show andcompetition. I was very 

BY BRAndon scHAtsiEk

TmesNewsaers

The storm last Tuesday brought more than rain to Washington; lightning posed problems or a ew busi-nesses on the Washington Square.

“Everybody on the north side (o the square) wasafected and a lot o people on the west side were a-ected,” Denhart Baking Co. Manager Mark O’Connellsaid.

 According to Washington Fire Chie Mike Vaughn,lightning struck something on the square, which ledto the melting o Denhart’s re alarm system box and blew smoke throughout the building.

BY BRAndon scHAtsiEk

TmesNewsaers

 What began more

than 100 years ago asa grassroots volunteerorganization centered onissues concerning agri-culture and community outreach, the HopewellGrange innorthernTazewellCounty is stilldoing its partto educateand assistothers in thecommunity.

“TheGrange wasabout help-ing the community, butat the time, the com-munity was made up o armers who needed to band together or difer-ent things,” said JaniceDavid with HopewellGrange. “It’s always beenabout the idea o helpingone another.”

The latest volunteerprogram or HopewellGrange is its Words orThirds program through

the project’s parent orga-nization, The Dictionary Project.

 What Hopewell

Grange started doing in2009, has been a parto the national Grange’soutreach repertoire longenough to donate closeto 400,000 dictionar-

ies to third-grade stu-dents acrossthe nation.

David said while thisparticularproject is justone o many HopewellGrange par-ticipates in,

“as ar as money towardone project, (this is) oneo the bigger projects o the year.”

The project — which isdone in conjunction withThe Dictionary Project— prints and hands outdictionaries to third-grade students acrossthe country.

“We started with

BY HollY RicHRAtH

TmesNewsaers

Crisis journalism in Ugandawas the topic a Washing-ton native recently pre-sented at what he calledthe “biggest undergradu-ate research conerence inthe country.”

Ryan Piers, a 2007

Washington Community High School graduate,now attends North Cen-tral College in Naperville.The 22-year-old broadcast com-munications major was one o 38

NCC students selected to pres-ent at the National Conerenceon Undergraduate Research

in Ithaca, N.Y., March30–April 2.

“We had one o the big-gest representations o any college, which was really cool,” Piers said. “It wasdenitely an honor to rep-resent my college.”

Last year, Piers usedunds he received roma Richter Grant to travelto Kampala, Uganda, or

two weeks. While in Uganda, heinterviewed about 15 journal-

ists and gained inormation onpractices they used while report-ing on a crisis that took place inUganda rom 1986 to 2006.

He asked local and interna-tional journalists in Ugandaquestions based on a book by renowned journalist Susan D.Moeller called “Compassion Fa-tigue: How the Media Sell Dis-ease, Famine, War and Death.”

“In it she outlines her bestpractices to crisis journalism,”Piers said. “Basically I asked the journalists questions based on

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Lightning strike zaps businesses on Square

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