Beech Tree News Network

Recently the members of the Boys & Girls Club of Butler County signed and sent over 100 Christmas cards to active duty military members in hospitals and installations around the world. Each card was signed by several club members. This was done in conjunction with the American Red Cross.

The Butler County High School Chamber Choir, under the direction of Mr. Travis Lowe, visited the Butler County Courthouse on Friday morning.The choir sung a variety of Christmas carols for the county employees. 

The choir will be in concert at Morgantown First Baptist Church on Tuesday, December 17th at 7:00pm.

Cookies, juice, and Santa, all a part of the annual “Polar Express” night held at the library on Tuesday night.  The program, organized by Children’s Librarian Tammy Suggs, is in its third year. 

North Butler Elementary  student Jo Jo Jennings recently won the privilege of becoming Butler County Judge Executive for a day. Jennings arrived dressed for the job, took his seat in the executive office and signed in his first proclamation mere moments after arriving. The proclamation declared hat day at North Butler Elementary School. Following this, David Fields gave Jennings a tour of the Butler County  Courthouse.  

Butler County Middle School 6th grade students have been working diligently for the last few weeks on writing pieces for the 2013 Conservation Writing Contest sponsored by the Kentucky Division of Conservation. This years Writing Contest was entitled Mission: H2O and challenged the students to consider an area of water that was important to them, their families and community.
Students completed research about water and its importance in everyday life and wrote persuasive letters encouraging others to conserve and preserve the water supply.

Beech Tree News reader Cynthia Barrow shared this act of kindness she witnessed...

This is 'V'. We think she is a full stock Blue Heeler. She needs a loving home. Everybody at the Shelter loves her. She was brought in with a gun shot wound by a Good Samaritan. She still doesn't put her leg down but should in time. She never meets a stranger! For more information please call the Butler County Animal Shelter at 526-2694.

 The Winter Wonderland, a.k.a Festival of Trees, hosted a luncheon and dinner last week.  The ladies of the Butler County Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted a luncheon on Tuesday to welcome DAR State Regent Barbara Glass Zink to Morgantown.

When Jayme Pharis happened across a four-leaf clover on an October morning earlier this fall, she had a feeling a wave of good luck was coming her way.
Moments later, she got a phone call with life-changing implications.
Pharis, a Leitchfield senior, didn’t recognize the number but felt compelled to answer anyway.
The caller asked Pharis for her birthdate and if she remembered signing up for the bone marrow registry in April 2012.
“I thought she was going to ask me if I wanted to donate a dollar,” Pharis laughed.

The spirit of Christmas is never as evident as it is in the words of children. Each year Beech Tree News prints letters to Santa written by students.  The letters are posted in the BtN Community Section. Letters to Santa reaffirm the message of the holiday season as they brim with a sense of hope and innocence. Enjoy the read and Merry Christmas!

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