Feb. 9, 2012
- Owen County High School and Centre College graduate Adam Clark is now competing with the U.S. bobsledding team and preparing for the 2014 winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., reports the News-Herald. Clark said to the News-Herald, "Bobsled is definitely a blue-collar sport and I feel like coming from a farming community like Owen County better prepared me for the hard work it takes to make it to the top." Two other Centre graduates, Adam Blandford and Jeremy Ware, are also preparing for the national trials of the U.S. bobsledding and skeleton teams, according to a press release from Centre.
- University of Kentucky School of Music faculty member Nancy Clauter is the subject of a documentary about her diagnosis in 2008 with multiple myeloma, according to a press release from the university. Clauter is "taking others on her journey through cancer treatment and her fight to continue to play," in The Ascending Journey, which will premiere today (Feb. 9), at 4 p.m., at the Davis Marksbury Theater on campus.
- The Filson Historical Society decribes the documents in their collection about York, an African American who was enslaved by explorer William Clark. York was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the west to the Pacific Ocean from 1803 to 1806.
