News from June 9, 2005 issue



Hurricane Camp Meeting next week
Cars full of eager children with sleeping bags and Bibles in hand will again crowd the campgrounds of Hurricane Camp, a nondenominational religious youth camp near Tolu.

While some of next week's campers will be tacking another year onto a series of local experiences, many will be stepping onto the grounds for the first time.

This year, Hurricane's Youth Camp Meeting will be run by Pastor Jamie Baker of Marion and the youth ministry team from Deer Creek Baptist Church.

Baker said he and his team will try to teach the children the Christian message by daily Bible study, chapel services, puppet shows, games, crafts, music and some sign language.

"Those who are believers, we want to encourage to be more Christlike in everything they do and in every aspect of their lives," he said. "And for those who aren't believers, we want to try to plant the seed that Christ came to die for everyone - even kids."

The youth missionary team consists of about 14 students ranging from sixth grade to 12th grade.
The team will be responsible for a lot of the teaching, as well as interacting and mingling with the children, Baker said. In that way, they may be living witnesses for Christianity at the camp.

"We just want to love these kids, and we want to tell them about the wonderful gift of his son that God has given them," he said.

The Hurricane Camp board of directors asked the pastor and his team to fill the position left by a staff that had served in that capacity for the last two years.

Last year, the team led a vacation Bible school at Hillman's Ferry in the Land Between the Lakes.
Ken Cummins, the association missionary for the Ohio River Baptist Association, will be the featured evangelist.

The camp will run from Monday until June 19.

Nightly worship services will be open to the public at 7 p.m., from Monday to Saturday and at 11 a.m., on Sunday. Meals will be open to the public for a fee at 5:30 p.m., from Monday to Saturday and at noon on Sunday.

 

Carter leaving CCHS for Union
Crittenden County High School Principal Steve Carter will resign at the end of this month to take a new post with the Union County School System.

Carter, 31, has accepted the position as deputy superintendent under Dr. Gerald Novak. His duties will include oversight of academics, including professional development, Title I and district assessment.
The recently-completed school year marks Carter's ninth at Crittenden County. He began teaching and coaching here following graduation from Western Kentucky University.

"It was a very difficult decision to leave here, because of the quality people that make up the school and the fact that this has been home," Carter said.

However, he looks at the move as a career opportunity and one that is also good for his family.
He will begin working in Union County July 1. In the meantime, the Crittenden County School District will search for Carter's replacement.

CCHS has seen quite a bit of turnover in its top post with five different principals in the last 11 years, including Carter the last two years.

Many of the issues he will deal with in his new position are ones he handled on a smaller scale as principal.

"The biggest challenge will be the learning curve, getting to know all of the programs," he said.
While principal, Carter instituted a new type of scheduling that prescribed five year-long classes for high school students, which improved skills in core subjects like math, English, social studies and science. He also developed an annual academic banquet to honor high-achieving students. That program was a very big success.

"Any or all of the success is relative to the work the staff put in," he said.

Carter was also a very successful middle school football coach and defensive coordinator for the varsity team that won a couple of district championships.

 

Slain deputy buried Tuesday
Members of the Livingston County Sheriff's Department were pallbearers Tuesday at the funeral and burial of Deputy Roger Lynch.

Lynch, 51, was killed in the line of duty late last week in a shootout at a home in Ledbetter. Hundreds of people attended the funeral, including law enforcement officers from all across Kentucky. The procession leading to the gravesite, at Ross Cemetery between Smithland and Tiline off Vicksburg Road, included more than 500 vehicles. The funeral was at Potter's House Baptist Worship Center where Sheriff Tommy Williams was among those who eulogized Lynch.

Several officers from the Marion Police Department and Crittenden County Sheriff's Department attended the funeral.

Deputy Lynch was killed last Thursday after he responded to a domestic violence complaint at a home off U.S. 60 owned by Joseph Calendar.

Calendar, 48, and Lynch met in a stairwell and exchanged gunfire. Both men died at the scene. It was unclear who fired first, said Trooper Mark Applin, a state police spokesman. Police said Calender was armed with a loaded semiautomatic assault rifle, a loaded handgun and three additional clips of ammunition when Lynch arrived. He fired eight shots.

The deputy was hit twice in the belt, once in the hand and once in the face. Calendar was shot once in the chest. For more on this story, see this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press.