Today's News

Vincent and Priscilla Jackson of Elizabethtown announce the birth of a son, Perry Christopher Jackson, on Aug. 25, 2008, at Hardin Memorial Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 18.5 inches long.

Siblings are Chasity Goia, Samantha Simonette, Ashley, Zach, Hannah, Abbi and Gregory Jack-son, all of Elizabethtown.

Grandparents are Joe L. Jackson Sr. of Elizabethtown and Karen Prince of Beech Grove, Ind.

MR. AND MRS. HATMAKER

  Elizabethtown’s Tumbleweed Restaurant Manager George Durham, right, presents Post 113 American Legion Riders Director Bob Fulkerson with a donation of $500, proceeds from the Heartland Festival food booth. Tumbleweed and the American Legion Riders teamed up to raise money for the American Legion Legacy Scholarship program. The proceeds will help provide educational assistance for the dependents of America’s soldiers, who have died in combat since Sept. 11.

At the Sept. 23 meeting of the Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club, polio survivor Rick Green shared some of his experiences with the disease. The International Rotary Club has been a major factor in the mission to eradicate polio from the planet through the development of the Polio Plus program. Green was able to put a personal face on a disease that has slipped from the public consciousne