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No body wants to be the last person picked for any team. I know, I was usually the scrawny, freckle-faced, redhead who was the left-over player.
I wasn’t ever really “picked” because I was what was left.
It’s all about being “liked.”
Now, nearly 50 years later, being liked has a new avenue of validation. It’s called facebook.
I don’t spend a lot of time on facebook with the whole social networking thing, but it has proven a great way to catch up with some old friends and to stay in touch with new ones.

By Ashley O’Brien, Guest writer
High on a hill, above the Licking River* is a college truly making a wonderful name for itself.  I am a student at Maysville Community & Technical College’s Licking Valley Campus and am in my second semester. This semester, I wanted to get more involved with school.  
I am the accompanist for the Campus Choir, which is directed by Bill Webber, but that wasn’t enough for me. I woke up one morning on fire for school. I started making plans of how I could do more, be involved, and make a difference.

With the city spending money on City Hall gym, I think it is time to bring back some of the winter sports to Cynthiana.
All summer long I have enjoyed learning the game of volleyball.
From the diving and spiking in the sand to the occasional, “accidental” shots I took toward my wife’s head.
Yeah, nothing is better than getting off work on a Monday afternoon and heading back the long gravel trail to the front-yard, sand volleyball court.

The arts are strong in the community, just ask anyone who goes to the theater.
I have always enjoyed theater and watching plays and musicals.
I was into theater, especially in high school when Laura Stephens cornered me and told me how I WAS going to be in her first musical “State Fair.”
Stephens, a former student of the well-known drama coach Bill Caywood, looked to bring theater and arts back to Harrison County High School after a long drought of no student plays.