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8C RUGION MESSENQER-INQUIRER, Friday, March 17, 1995 Analyst who owes fines fired Group turns out to support student punished for missing KIRIS testing Walker did not return a phone Associated Press HAZARD A state mine safety analyst who has failed to pay $180,000 in fines against his own coal mining companies will be terminated from his job next week, a Department of Mines and Minerals spokesman said. Johnny Walker of Hazard was hired last fall. He will be terminat ed effective March 25, department spokesman Gene Attkisson said Wednesday. Attkisson wouldn't say why Walker was being fired. But the fact that he apparently has violated mining laws and now is enforcing them creates a perception problem, Attkisson said.

message left at his office. In the early and mid-1980s, Walker operated several coal companies in Perry County, records show. Two of those companies, Lotts Creek Coal and Walker Coal Sales, were fined because of problems with the reclamation of mine sites. City school board approves facilities plan; Jeremy Myers missed school to attend a church youth function By Steve Vied Messenger-Inquirer If you drove past the Daviess County schools' central office late Thursday afternoon, you probably saw people praying and singing around the flagpole. The crowd, which eventually numbered more than 100, was there to support Daviess County High School student Jeremy Myers.

While they sang and prayed, Myers' fathers, the Rev. Jim Myers was inside the building, where the school board was holding its monthly meeting. In his statement to the board, the elder Myers objected to punishment given his son by the school for an unexcused absence during the week DCHS juniors and seniors took the KIRIS test in February. Jeremy Myers, in defiance of Principal Waymond Morris, missed school that day to attend a Chrysalis weekend, also known as the Youth Walk for Christ, an interdenominational religious event for young people. His punishment, in addition to being given an unexcused absence for day, was that he would not be allowed to participate in graduation exercises, the school prom or the senior picnic, based on a new policy passed by the school board requiring demonstrated effort by students on KIRIS tests.

The punishment was appealed and subse-quently overturned by Superintendent Ed Allen, providing Jeremy tutors other students for six hours. While he said he was thankful for and satisfied with Allen's action, Rev. Myers called on the board to ensure that other students who attend Chrysalis events not be punished as his son was. He claimed that Daviess County High is the only high school in the nation that does not excuse students to attend Chrysalis weekends. "This is a decision we can live with, but we don't want this to happen to other children, and we want the board to see how many of us support Chrysalis," Rev.

Myers said. Jeremy Myers, an honors students, said in an interview it was not his intention to defy Morris or be a rebel. "I feel the board and Mr. Allen has been really fair. They made the best compromise they could, but the policy was unfair to begin with," he said.

I was under the authority of someone higher, which is Christ. I felt I was called to go to Chrysalis." Morris, who was not at the said he was simply enforcing a new board and school policy that holds students accountable for their effort on the state tests. Morris said Rev. Myers has consistently objected to the policy and to the Kentucky Education Reform Act in general. "Mr.

Myers and his wife knew what the policy said and the consequences," Morris said. "He (Jeremy Myers) was the only student in the school with an unsatisfactory excuse. I was simply enforcing a board-approved policy." Morris said if the situation comes up again, he will handle it the same way. aren't expected to be completed in the four years. The plan also says all schools would undergo renovation of their heating and cooling systems, electrical service, plumbing, windows, doors, floors, roofs, ceilings and accessibility to disabled people.

The plan places a priority on addressing preschool building needs. The plan now goes to the state Department of Education for preliminary approval, after which it will be the subject of a local public hearing and final approval by the school board. Eventually it will go before the state school board for approval. Messenger-Inquirer The Owensboro Board of Education on Thursday approved a four-year facilities and educational plan developed by the district's Local Planning Committee. The plan identifies many needs in the school system but says the district's buildings are basically in good shape and do not have a lot of pressing needs.

The plan also notes that the district will have little borrowing capacity for construction projects over the next four years after current projects are completed. The plan includes a long list of renovation projects and construction of libraries, gyms and auditoriums throughout the district, although most of the projects Girls Incorporated Owensboro-Daviess County MARCH 17, 18, 19, 1995 Executive Inn Rireimont" BRIEFS OS? f2Z Friday, March 17, 7-9 p.m. $15 per person Open To The Public The preview party will feature 28 dealers from the Southern region presenting a wide variety of antique items. San Destin, Florida Condo. One Week.

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Wade Lecture will feature Donna Gabaccia at 7 p.m. Thursday at the college's Tapscott Chapel. Gabaccia, a professor of American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will talk about immigration to the United States. She received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.

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