Diverse speakers attend Kiwanis Meeting

Photos by MARK WHITE
The Williamsburg Kiwanis Club heard from two speakers during its regular monthly meeting on July 12, which was held at the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center. Melissa Douglas, a Whitley County teacher, spoke about a 5-K race she organized last year, The Whitley Warriors, which generated $1,069 that was donated to the Ronald McDonald House. She is planning to hold the race again this year.

The Kiwanis club also heard from Jennifer K. Perkins, a summer intern at the News Journal and student at Eastern Kentucky University, who is raising money for a study abroad trip that she has planned in St. Andrews, Scotland, from Sept. 8 – Dec. 21. The purpose of the trip is to conduct research for a senior history thesis analyzing the Tudor and Stuart Dynasties’ impacts on the religious culture of the clans of Scotland. Perkins is a journalism and history double major. Find out more about her project at https://jenniferperkins84.wixsite.com/goingscottish.