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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was a popular television drama series that ran for 15 years on CBS. The show centered on using physical evidence to solve murders.

Parkers Chapel alum Lauren (OPry) McDonald said those shows, while entertaining, arent always realistic. McDonald is a Chief Forensic Chemist of the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory in Little Rock.

These shows have shaped the expectation of the public. Theres always a fingerprint, DNA, or something there. Sometimes prints are there but are not of sufficient value to be usable to identify a person, McDonald said. Even though DNA is present, sometimes an association to a specific person cannot be made, whether it is due to complexity of the sample matrix or lack of a known source of DNA for comparison. We as forensic scientists do not leave the laboratory and question suspects. Our area of expertise is science. We leave the investigations to law enforcement. These television shows depict laboratory analysts getting results within an hour or two of the submission to the laboratory. This is rarely the reality, as forensic testing takes longer than a few hours and each case must undergo peer review to ensure we have followed proper procedures and reached an appropriate conclusion based on the results of testing.

So, while Abby Sciuto on the TV series NCIS might be a quirky, loveable forensic scientist, she's also very much a fictional character.

McDonald, who graduated from Parkers Chapel in 1998, has worked for the crime lab for 15 years. She started as a forensic chemist and progressed to Assistant Chief Forensic Chemist in 2016 and then to Chief Forensic Chemist in 2018.

As a Chief Forensic Chemist, I manage a team of Forensic Drug Chemists and work closely with the other Chief Forensic Chemist. Drug Chemistrys size necessitates two managers. When fully staffed, we have a total of 30 analysts across three locations. We have satellite laboratories in Hope (Drug Chemistry) and Lowell (Drug Chemistry and Toxicology), said McDonald.

The routine duties of the Chief Forensic Chemist include: case work management, policy and procedure writing and review, instruction to analysts on difficult casework samples, ensuring quality and safety policies are followed, communication with attorneys and law enforcement, education of law enforcement and the public, and working with administration in many ways to grow the agency.

McDonald said she also still works as a forensic chemist when time permits. That role uses multiple testing schemes to analyze evidence submitted to the agency to determine of it contains controlled substances. An official report of the findings is produced and testimony may be called into court.

Whats it like having a job that half of the network television schedule imitates?

Getting to say you work at a crime lab definitely brings the cool factor, but Id say the biggest pro for me is knowing my work is essential in the criminal justice process and contributes to society as a whole, said McDonald. As a manager my favorite part of the job is seeing individual analysts grow in their careers. Forensic scientist jobs are typically stable government jobs with normal Monday-Friday daytime hours, good benefits, and paid time off. Probably everyone in forensics will give you the same con, dont go into this field looking to get rich. You are paid fairly, but most government positions do not have the same leeway for raises and salary increases that private companies do.

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He was a school teacher who didnt want to be a cop. He was a cop who never wanted to be sheriff.

But Mike Hawley turned out to be the right person for both jobs. Before retiring last week, he spent 32 years in law enforcement on Whidbey Island, including 10 years as the political head of the Island County Sheriffs Office during a time of personnel crises and transformations in law enforcement.

Mike Hawleys list of accomplishments is near legendary. He put up with politics and bureaucratic mindsets, brought community policing into country neighborhoods, and helped establish the local Juvenile Justice Center, said Jan Smith, who was chief administrative deputy and de facto undersheriff when Hawley was in office.

Then he gave up running for the elected position, went back on the road as a lieutenant and dedicated more of his time to helping his wife MLiss, who passed away last year, with her international career as a quilt and fabric designer, entrepreneur and author.

WHIDBEY ISLAND law enforcement will undoubtedly miss Hawleys knowledge of the web of relationships among the people on the island and his ability to find people.

Mike never lost the curiosity that is essential to top quality investigative work, Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks said. He never stopped asking, What, exactly, went on here? Whether it was a minor criminal trespass case, or a complicated white collar crime, Mike would dig in and get us what we needed as prosecutors.

Over the years, Hawley has also found the time to write police detective novels that were published by Penguin and is working on another in the series.

Hawley grew up in Seattle and taught high school history here. His father-in-law had encouraged him to consider law enforcement, but he wasnt all that interested until he was laid off from the school. He chose to work as a deputy on Whidbey Island.

His years as a patrol deputy informed his calm, respectful manner of law enforcement where deescalation comes naturally.

It was not unusual to work the entire island by yourself, he said. You learn to use communication skills effectively.

HAWLEY WORKED just about every commissioned position in the department, including detective, lieutenant and undersheriff. He was named as jail commander and manager of emergency dispatch, which was an outdated system located in the jail; each agency on the island at the time had its own dispatchers.

Hawley was charged with helping to create a new, coordinated dispatch system for the county and ICOM was the result.

Its still considered state of the art, he said of the facility. The way we set up the board of directors, every agency has an equal say.

But at around that time, the sheriffs office was imploding. A series of sexual harassment lawsuits, counter lawsuits and countless allegations led Sheriff Owen Burt to resign.

Hawley said he and Edd Proft were the only people in administrative positions in the office who were untouched by the scandal. Burt took them into a room and asked if either one of them wanted to be appointed sheriff. They both quickly declined. Burt insisted that one of them had to fill the role, so the two men ended up flipping a quarter.

Hawley lost.

He was appointed Nov. 1, 1996 to complete Burts term and subsequently ran two more times.

HAWLEY FOCUSED on upgrading and modernizing the office to keep up with a world in which law enforcement was becoming computerized and digitized, crime scene investigation was being revolutionized by DNA testing and other techniques, and rules were changing about sex offenses and domestic violence. He was part of the process of building a new Law and Justice building and the Juvenile Justice Center. He started the precincts.

Mike has made tremendous contributions to the modernization and professionalism of the Island County Sheriffs Office, current Sheriff Rick Felici said. He has also supported and encouraged me personally throughout my career. I will miss his counsel.

Hawley found ways to put more deputies on the roads instead of administrators in offices. As Smith said, he ran a lean department.

Hawley said he also focused on bridging the gap between the community and police.

We held at least 500 community meetings during my time in office, he said. At least one each week.

AFTER 10 years as sheriff, his wifes business, MLisss Quilting World, was skyrocketing. She had spent so much time supporting his career, Hawley felt it was only fair for him to reciprocate. Plus, the business proved to be very profitable and involved travel around the world.

I got to tag along and carry her luggage, he joked.

But in fact, Hawley learned to design fabric and is continuing the business. MLiss Design fabric is still selling in Hobby Lobby.

Tragically, MLiss was diagnosed with a rare heart disease. Hawley was her caregiver for five years.

It was the most difficult thing I will ever have to do, he said, and the most gratifying.

Hawley said he was thankful for the support he received from his friends in the department and the county.

He said he loved going to work nearly every day, but it is a job that comes with violence and tragedy. Over the years, Hawley was involved with more than 20 murder cases.

Some stick with you, he said. Some I am still processing.

ONE OF the most difficult and tragic cases was the murder of Marjie Monnett, a well-known housing advocate, and her daughter Holly Swartz in an act of domestic violence in 2002. Swartzs boyfriend killed them both with a shotgun in a quiet Freeland neighborhood, injured two other people, shot 20 to 30 rounds into neighbors houses and then killed himself.

Hawley was sheriff at the time but lived nearby and was the second officer at the scene at around 2 a.m.

I had no idea what had happened, he said. There were three blown-apart bodies right in front of me. He didnt leave the scene for the next 42 hours as law enforcement, crime scene investigators and media from across the region came and went.

HAWLEY WAS known for his ability to find people. He said he earned his 20 minutes of world fame when he rather nonchalantly caught the Cascade Mall shooter in Oak Harbor in 2016.

Hawley explained that his son Alex, a detective in King County, called him after hearing the news about the shooting and asked his father if he thought the shooter could be from Whidbey. He said he doubted it. Not long afterward, Hawley learned the shooter was Arcan Cetin and realized that he knew him from a previous gun-related call. He called his son back to tell him.

Then Hawley got a call that the shooters car was found parked in Oak Harbor. Hawley and the other deputies drove to the area. As Hawley was driving down Oak Harbor Road, he saw Cetin and locked eyes with him. He took him into custody without a problem.

No big deal, he said.

Hawley called his son back.

Guess what? he said. I got him.

Cetin committed suicide in Snohomish County jail before trial.

Not so long after that, Hawley was at the Sunnyside Cemetery in Oak Harbor, where his family members own a series of plots. He looked at his own and realized that Cetin is buried next to it.

That literally freaked me out, he said. I have an appointment for a spot right next to him.

But before that day, Hawley will be enjoying retirement. He said he plans to continue running the fabric business, writing more crime fiction and doing a lot of traveling, especially now that his daughter Adrienne and her wife have moved to Ireland.

He will be missed, Animal Control Officer Carol Barnes said. Whether or not you have a badge, everyone likes Mike Hawley.

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BRICK, NJ A Brick Township woman who has been charged with the murder of her wife has been extradited to New Jersey to face the charges against her, authorities said Tuesday.

Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus, 48, of Brick, has been returned to Ocean County from Houston, Texas, where she was apprehended May 20 by FBI officers, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Houston Police Department, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Brick Township Police Chief James Riccio announced.

She was charged May 18 with the murder of her wife, Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus, 32, who was found dead May 16 in an upstairs bedroom of their Creek Road home, authorities said. She had been beaten to death with a wine chiller, the prosecutor's office said. Read more: Brick Woman Sought In Killing Of Her Wife: Prosecutor

"The defendant was processed this afternoon at the Brick Township Police Department and is currently lodged in the Ocean County Jail," Billhimer said. She had traveled to Houston from New York City by bus, he said when Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus was arrested.

The warrant for Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus's arrest was issued after an investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office Major Crime Unit, Brick Township Police Department Detective Bureau, and Ocean County Sheriff's Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit determined that she was responsible for the death of Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus.

Investigators found Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus had injuries consistent with a cylinder, and found she had been killed with a cylindrical container used for chilling wine, the prosecutor's office said. Further investigation ultimately determined Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus caused Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus's death.

In addition to the murder charge, Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus is charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, the proscutor's office said.

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Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.

This transcript has been edited for clarity.

Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr William Li, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation. Welcome, Dr Li.

William W. Li, MD: Thank you, Dr Wilner. It's a pleasure to be here.

Wilner: Thanks for joining us. I saw that you are one of the coauthors of a paper this month in the New England Journal of Medicine that has to do with angiogenesis and COVID-19. This is a pretty hot topic. Because you're one of the authors, you know more about it than anybody else. I'm glad to have you here to speak with us. So tell us about the paper. What did you find?

Li: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I, like many scientists, immediately started to pivot from whatever we were doing at the time to trying to tackle this enigma which, in 200,000 years of human history, humans have never encountered.

There's been so much confusion and some misinformation. I think that this is where medical science really steps in to take command and control, because while we don't know everything about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, every layer of the onion we peel back gives us an additional piton on a rock wall to understanding this disease.

In modern medicine, that's what we really try to do. Before we can develop effective treatments, we really need to understand the pathophysiology.

As a vascular biologist, I teamed up with my colleagues who study pathology and angiogenesis, the microcirculation, to ask what is actually happening in the lungs of these people who are infected with COVID-19. We felt that to get at the answer, we'd start at the end to understand that beginning.

We were able to obtain autopsy tissue from people who died of COVID-19 and compare their lungs with those from people who had died almost 20 years ago from the SARS-CoV-1 pandemic.

We also looked at H1N1 and at normal lungs donated by people who were providing tissue for lung transplants. We started to do a deep dive to look at what was actually happening. What we found and reported in the New England Journal Medicine was really interesting because this respiratory virus, which we breathe in, does get down to our pulmonary tree. It does cause respiratory infections, so we saw intense inflammation and the acute respiratory distress syndrome pathologic signs.

We also found something surprising, which is that this respiratory virus makes a beeline for the vascular, or endothelial, cells, where gas exchange takes place. As the vascular cells and endothelium are infected, it damages them.

We actually saw the damaged cell membranes using transmission electron microscopy. This was directly associated with the microthrombi, which we've now recognized to be a hallmark of COVID-19not in every patient, but in many patients that winds up becoming a significant problem.

As we dove deeper, we realized that this respiratory virus actually causes a vascular disease as well as a pulmonary disease. We then dove deeper to really ask what is happening at the gene-expression level. How do the blood vessels respond to it, which actually is a form of new blood vessel growth, a kind of an emergency response or panic response to microthrombi.

We speculated that if this is happening in the lung, could it be happening in other organs of the body as well?yielding some explanation for some of these other vexing clinical signs that we've seen in COVID-19.

Wilner: That was a great explanation. First of all, I read the paper just before we started this interview, and it is a fantastic paper. It is clear. I love the images. It brought back memories of when I was on my pathology rotation in medical school, and I could actually understand it! I read all these papers and they have an image and there's different blue and red and greenI never know what they are, but these images were very clear.

I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the neurologic complications [of COVID-19]. A big question has been, is this virus neurotrophic? In fact, there's an article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago that's on Medscape that reviews all of this.

My conclusion was that it doesn't seem to be, but one of the thorny points was, how come so many patients are having strokes? At first we said it's because they're old, sick, they're in the ICU, and they're going to have strokes. But then there have been reports of young, otherwise healthy patients having strokes.

It looks like you may have the explanation: that there is a hypercoagulable state because of damage to the blood vessels that causes not only lung but also vascular disease in the brain and causes strokes. What do you think?

Li: Well, our paper focused on the lung as a starting point, but I think it opens the door to future investigations, which we're actually in the middle of right now ourselves. We are looking at brain. Within a few weeks, we should have the first detailed comparison of whether or not the endothelium is similarly infected and injured in the people who actually died of stroke.

We actually are interested in comparing COVID-19 stroke with other forms of strokeischemic stroke, or classic strokesto look for those differences. Stay tuned for that.

I think that the other issue is that if this is a vascular disease that could be extrapolated from the lungs throughout the body, is this also happening within the myocardium? We are actually getting capillary endothelialitis within the heart muscle, within brain tissue, and maybe even within peripheral nerve as well.

An interesting finding is COVID toe, which has actually been the presenting sign in people who don't have a cough or fever, and they go to their podiatrist or vascular surgeon with this beefy red toe and a lot of pain. It turns out that later on they test positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Are we looking at a systemic vasculitic type of syndrome that can affect everything from the toe to the brain? If we are, how do we understand, number one, how the virus transmits from the lung to those distal organs? Are they circulating and disseminating as an infection or are they actually finding another way to crawl cell to cell and Tarzan-ing their way into our organs?

Once they get to those organs, how do they cause damage? Why don't they cause damage in every patient? How much is actually due to coagulopathy versus other potential effects? Don't forget, the coagulopathy is on the inward-facing side of endothelial cells to the blood. Endothelial cells have two sides, including the abluminal side, or the side that actually faces the tissue.

When I started to look at some of the neurologic manifestations of COVID-19, I noticed that there were some patients who presented with bilateral encephalitis. I started to wonder how that works, because that's not a classic ischemic stroke.

You would be a much better judge of this than I would, but as an internist, I started thinking, how many things go to both sides of the brain? And why would that actually happen? Are there telltale clinical symptoms or signs that might allow us to actually do early detection, early diagnosis of people who might be more vulnerable or might go on to develop more serious neurologic symptoms?

Wilner: Let's jump to the ICU, where we have patients with COVID. Should they be anticoagulated?

Li: A really important paper came out in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology just a couple of weeks before our paper, looking at patients who had been hospitalized and discharged or expired, and looking at their coagulation or anticoagulation status.

It was pretty clear from that studyDr Valentin Fuster, a colleague of mine, was one of the coauthors of that paperthat those patients who were anticoagulated actually had a better outcome or higher rate of discharge from the hospital. Now, that's not necessarily a cause and effect, but it's a pretty compelling association if you take a look at the fact that these microthromboses could be happening not only in the lung but everywhere in the body.

I think an even bigger question would be, if you test positive and you're not hospitalized, should you be discharged from the emergency room home with anticoagulation? Would that be something we should be doing? Should you be on low-molecular-weight heparin? Should you be on aspirin? How should you be monitored post discharge home?

Are there other ways that we should be doing follow-up on these patients other than the classic "You're not sick enough with an infectious disease to be hospitalized; lets send you home"? Maybe in some of the people who go home and then drop a few weeks later, there is a propagating coagulopathy that really could have been managed from the time of sending them home from the emergency room.

Wilner: Maybe after a positive COVID test, you need a D-dimer test or some other assessment of coagulation to see if you're high-risk in at least a moment in time.

Now, let's just turn this upside down a little bit. One of the things you've told us is that this virus causes the blood vessels to react and actually increases angiogenesis. Could that ever be a good thing?

Li: Right. Don't forget, this is an autopsy study. This is not a real-time study. Think of it as a crime scene investigation; we're collecting the clues and trying to put together the pieces of what's happening.

One of the things that we did see that was surprising is that the blood vessels that had thrombi actually underwent a reactive form of angiogenesis, new blood vessel growth. That type of reactive angiogenesis was different from the regular sprouting that you would see in the heart, in wounds that are healing, and granulation tissue. Even following a typical ischemic stroke, you wind up getting some sprouting angiogenesis around these focal points of ischemia.

Here, what we saw is a different form of angiogenesis called intussusception. Now, this is not the pediatric intussusception where you think about the intestines. This is a form where a single blood vessel divides into two blood vessels by actually dropping drywall in and splitting into two.

Think about what this means. Why is it a reactive form? When you actually have all these microthrombi occurring everywhere, you don't have time for the 2 or 3 days it takes to sprout. You need immediate splitting in an effort to deliver better blood flow.

Now think about yourself as a car driving in a one-lane tunnel. Your car is an erythrocyte, and you're driving in a one-lane tunnel and the blood vessel is trying to react, and it drops drywall in from the ceiling to the floor. Where is the car going to go? You suddenly have turbulent blood flow in this emergency reactive form of angiogenesis, which probably contributes to the thrombotic setting in the context of endothelial damage.

The third strike for coagulopathy is really this intense inflammatory response. We saw tons of T cells wrapped around these thrombotic, reactive, angiogenic small blood vessels, and that makes total sense. The T cells are trying to clear the virus from the endothelial cells, but our normal circulation is in the way.

These were three smoking guns that we saw that might help us understand the microthrombosis, leading us to ask what is happening in other organs. That's really where we are todaytaking this crime scene investigation into the heart, into the brain, into the toes, into the kidneys, and into other organ systems so we can really try to put together a more systemic view of the role of endothelialitis and angiogenesis in COVID-19.

Wilner: Dr Li, this has been a fantastic illumination of what is happening inside the human body with COVID-19. I think it's also a message to all of those who think it's okay to give up social distancing. I think it's a reinforcement to say, hey, you don't want to get COVID-19 now. Why don't you keep social distancing, wear that mask, keep 6 feet away, and don't get the disease.

In 6 months or a year, we may understand this disease well enough that we will have a therapy. You don't want to be sick in the ICU orworsenext weekend when we're both on call, right? I think this is really great.

Li: One concluding point that I will tell you that this raises a specter upon is that after the virus is cleared from the body, after one has recovered from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we don't know yet what the long-term damage is that may occur and may persist in the vascular endothelium. If it turns out that there was widespread systemic damage to endothelial cells, then that could persist much longer than the actual infectious component of the virus.

I think that one of the red flags that got sent up as we looked at this is to ask the question in long-term survivors of COVID-19, of which there will be many because this virus doesn't kill most people. It kills some, but many people actually recover. What might be the long-term manifestations of this novel coronavirus? I think time will tell, but this is where medical research is just beginning to chip away at the enigma of COVID-19.

Wilner: Where can people find more information about the Angiogenesis Foundation?

Li: You can find out about the Angiogenesis Foundation on our website at http://www.angio.org or you can find me pretty easily on the Internet at drwilliamli.com.

I've also written a book called Eat to Beat Disease. There's quite a lot of interest in this because I'm also interested in the impact of healthy lifestyles and diet on endothelial health.

Wilner: That's great. Thank you very much for joining us on Medscape, Dr Li. I look forward to your next set of discoveries.

Li: Thank you, Dr Wilner.

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Editors note Were continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from back in the day.

This week in 1886, the Hillsboro News Herald, in news from Lynchburg, reported several citizens visited the Queen City, the school board met to take action on a proposal to form a new district in the township and a gang of workmen went down to the swamps on the Hannah land to do battle with a regiment of rattle snakes.

H.W. Wolfe & Co. promised $10 in gold to the farmers wife who sold them the most pounds in turkeys, and $5 in gold to the largest turkey of their own raising.

It was reported that the observance of Memorial Day in Hillsboro brought solemn ceremonies in the surrounding towns, with the Decoration Address being delivered by Albert Douglass, Jr. of Chillicothe. The paper pointed out it was proper to pay homage to those who fought so nobly in the War of the Rebellion some 20 years ago.

A.W. Keys had a six-room house for rent at Hoaglands Crossing, and Asa Haynes had pure German carp for sale at his Spring Lake Farm for $8 per hundred.

This week in 1935, the Hillsboro News Herald reported that in terms of new car and truck sales in the county, 62 passenger cars and three trucks had been sold to this point in the year, and that Chevrolet led the way over Plymouth and Ford.

At Bells Theatre, women whispered her namemen laughed but remembered in The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack Larue. Then next Saturday, it was another tale of the old West as Tim McCoy and Joyce Compton starred in Fighting for Justice.

Meanwhile, at the Forum Theatre, it was billed as the most exciting picture he ever made, as George O Brien and Maureen OSullivan starred in Zane Greys Robbers Roost.

At Lisciandro Bros. on North High Street in Hillsboro, specials for the weekend included Mother Hubbard genuine egg noodles, with 8-ounce cellophane bags selling two for 19 cents, the five-pound sack of Gold Medal flour was 23 cents and two pounds of robust, full-body Santo coffee was freshly ground daily and 33 cents.

A minor earthquake caused plaster to fall from walls and windows to crack in Brown and Adams County homes. Residents in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky described it as a low rumble, with a child from Ripley being thrown from his swing but uninjured.

In news from Pricetown, 126 attended Bible school on Sunday with an offering of $2.89, Homer Purdy and family from Akron were visiting relatives and Elvin Jones and family visited relatives in Kentucky.

A blue and gold tent theatre was going up in the parking lot of the Texaco filling station on West Main Street in Hillsboro for the arrival of Billroys Comedians for one big show on June 8, 1935. It was billed as positively, emphatically, the largest, prettiest, fastest stepping and best costumed chorus in America!

This week in 1974, The Greenfield Daily Times reported a jam-packed crowd at the Greenfield Recreation and Civic Center heard a grim tale of drug dealing and addiction from a narcotics agent.

It was a record crowd at the Fruitdale Sportsman grounds on Moxley Road for a motocross sporting event. A crowd estimated at between 1,000 to 1,500 watched 261 riders vie for cash and prizes.

At Big Lu & Dairy Queen in Greenfield, the mid-week special was the Big Lu sausage sandwich for 39 cents. For a big mans appetite, the two-pattie deluxe was 69 cents.

An advertisement for Hop in the Woods Furniture invited customers to stop in for a chance to win a new 1974 Cadillac to be given away during its 50th anniversary sale in August.

The Greenfield office of the Hillsboro Bank & Savings Co. asked if your money was earning as much as it should in its ad. A $1,000 deposit in a three-year certificate of deposit would earn a 6.66 percent annual yield, while the same amount in a 90-day CD would yield 5.56 percent.

Clint Eastwood was back in the role of Det. Harry Callahan in Magnum Force, and then it was Steve McQueen teaming up with Ali MacGraw in The Getaway, both showing at The Ranch Drive-In Theatre.

Highlander Ford was offering to pay for customers gas to get them to take a scenic drive to Bainbridge and test drive its large selection of Ford cars and trucks.

This week in 2002, The Times Gazette reported that eight Highland County seniors were each named recipients of the Ernie Blankenship scholarships. Todd Ford, Scott Morgan, Missy Marsh and Lauren Schad from Hillsboro, Emily Gossett from Greenfield, Brittany Allen from Lynchburg-Clay, Rachel Bellamy from Whiteoak and Lynette Kiesling from Fairfield each received $1,000.

Appearing on the front page was FFA member Tessa Eply demonstrating to a kindergarten student the proper way to milk a cow.

The obituary for the woman in whose honor the Bainbridge Fall Festival of Leaves scholarship pageant is held appeared in the paper. Loraine Granger, who was a retired and beloved school teacher in the Paint Valley School district, passed away at the age of 81 on May 30, 2002.

The Greenfield Police Department hosted Student Police Academy 02 for students in the Greenfield Middle School, allowing them over the course of six weeks to experience different aspects of crime scene investigation.

Volunteers who donated their time to instill in students a love for reading were recognized in the end of school year edition of The Lions Corner. Ruth Hussy, Donica Collier, Deanne Link, Colleen Lewis, Rebecca Heckathorn, Carole Davidson, Nancy Holliday and Carol Gustin were all acknowledged for their work.

In sports, Whiteoaks Chris Arant qualified for the state track meet by placing second in the regional long jump.

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