Weekly rewards, 6/14/2012

Thumbs up to Seymour High School’s Iman Tucker, who qualified for the Indiana High School Athletic Association state track meet, which took place earlier this month at Indiana University in Bloomington. He finished first in the 300 hurdles and second in the 110 hurdles during the regional at Bloomington to qualify for state.

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Thumbs up to Gold Star Mothers, an organization of women who have lost a son or daughter serving in the military. The group sponsors Gold Star Honor Flights, which send World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. One of the most recent beneficiaries of the program was Ben Emkes of Seymour.

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Thumbs up to the graduates of the 30th Leadership Jackson County Class. The men and women who made up this year’s class presented their projects to the public during a recent program at Seymour City Hall. This year’s projects tackled texting and driving by teens, honored the history behind the current City Hall building, brought local arts organizations together for collaborative marketing efforts and attempted to install a traffic signal numbering system along Tipton Street through Seymour. We urge the graudates to continue the program’s history of seeing graduates take leadership roles in all walks of life across our community.

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Thumbs up to students at Seymour-Jackson Elementary School for their work on creating a sensory garden in the school’s Wildcat Habitat. The 1.5-acre Wildcat Habitat serves as an outdoor oasis of learning for students and outdoor nature lab.