Zach Pickard
August 18, 2008
Zach Pickard has progeria, one of the rarest diseases on earth. There are only 13 cases of the disease in the United States, 46 worldwide. Progeria causes children’s bodies to age far more rapidly than they should. The disease is caused by a mutation in the gene called LMNA (commonly called lamin-A); cells become unstable.By the time children with progeris hit 18 to 24 months old, the accelerated aging is unmistakeable. Zach is 19 months old.
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Woodland Art Fair 2008
August 18, 2008
Artists and art lovers filled Lexington’s Woodland Park this weekend for the 33rd Annual Woodland Art Fair, featuring more than 200 vendors from around the country as well as music and dance from area artists. Most participants said you couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful weekend of sun and highs in the low 80s.
“Yesterday was superb,” John Hart, an artist from Louisville, said Sunday afternoon. “Any day’s good when you have beautiful weather like this, and financially it was good too.”
Photographs by Pablo Alcala and Rich Copley / Audio and production by Rich Copley
A storybook achievement
August 9, 2008
Clay County builds a reading program, and CATS scores zoom.
UK Football Media Day
August 5, 2008
The University of Kentucky held their annual football media day at Commonwealth Stadium. Kentucky opens the season on August 31 against in-state rival Louisville. Photos by Charles Bertram | Staff
Cadets learn about life, army values
August 2, 2008
The stories of Corey Thompson and Amber Sparks
Photography by Emily Spence, Audio by Anna Tong & Emily Spence | Staff
Leader’s Training, a month-long Reserve Officer Training Corps program is held each year at the Fort Knox U.S. Army post. The program draws college students from all over the United States and the world. These students are late-comers to the army—they decided after several years of regular college to try the military. However, those involved with the Leader’s Training have no obligation to enlist afterward, though many do.
Corey Thompson, 20, of Louisville, Ky., has come dropped many leadership roles back home to participate in the program. To him, the program is challenging, but he considers it a sort of vacation from every day life.
Amber Sparks, 23, of Radcliff, Ky., has taken a month off of being a mom and girlfriend to carry on her family’s tradition of being in the military. Sparks discusses her passion for the army, her fear of heights and her views on life.
