To better prepare rural communities for the threat of rail car incidents, the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC) offers AWR 147 Rail Car Incident Response, an eight-hour, awareness-level training program…
sdodsonAugust 19, 2013
Sixty incoming high school freshmen from Southern and Eastern Kentucky have been at Eastern Kentucky University and Morehead State University this week for the final two summer sessions of the…
sdodsonJuly 25, 2013
Pre-registration forms are now available online for The Center for Rural Development’s first-ever “Dollars for Scholars” 5K Walk/Run to support the Rogers Scholars summer youth leadership program. The event will…
sdodsonJuly 25, 2013
Earlier this month, the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC) delivered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-certified course AWR 147- Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents: Partnering Rural Law Enforcement & Local…
sdodsonJuly 19, 2013
Rogers Scholars graduate Donald Damron, a student at East Carter High School, accepts the Doug Reece Memorial Award. Thirty-two rising high school juniors from Southern and Eastern Kentucky graduated Friday…
sdodsonJuly 15, 2013
U.S. Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers (KY-05) (at right) draws the winning ticket for a Houseboat Vacation on Lake Cumberland in a regional fund-raising campaign to support Rogers Scholars. A Pulaski…
sdodsonJuly 12, 2013
The top 30 photographs in the Redbud Trails Photography Contest sponsored by TOUR Southern and Eastern Kentucky (TOUR SEKY) are on display in a new visual arts exhibit at The…
sdodsonJuly 3, 2013
Youth programs coordinator Delaney Stephens, left, and Lonnie Lawson, right, president and CEO of The Center for Rural Development, present Chandler Hutchinson with the Doug Reece Memorial Award. Rogers Scholars…
sdodsonJuly 1, 2013
Former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins spoke to Rogers Scholars Wednesday on the campus of Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia. Collins, the only woman ever elected to the highest office…
sdodsonJune 27, 2013
