NEWS readers invited to follow along

Those two Kentucky pups, Woody and Chloe, are off on another adventure and our readers are invited to ride along for the next 10 weeks.

Once again, the Clinton County News, in conjunction with the Kentucky Press Association and the Lexington Herald Leader/Newspaper in Eduction project, is one of about 60 Kentucky newspapers of all sizes that will be participating in the Newspaper in Education Project this fall.

The local effort will benefit nearly 150 students who attend the third grade at Albany Elementary School in six classes.

The Clinton County News, in addition to publishing the 10 chapter, 10 week-long adventure, is also once again providing the third grade students with workbooks to be used during their work with the adventure, as well as a scheduled list of activities for the students and classroom teachers to participate in.

Chloe and Woody will be in Frankfort for this series focusing on the legislature.

The Missing Page has nothing to do with a newspaper missing one of its pages or a legislative bill minus a page.

Woody is serving the legislature as a page, helping legislators and along the way learning all about elections, and laws and how legislation becomes laws.

You can only imagine that if Woody is a page, and he’s always at the center of something going wrong, well, the title should give you a clue of what’s going to take place.

In addition to being studied by the elementary school students, adult readers are invited to tag along on the adventure as well by enjoying the continuing story each week.

The Missing Page is a story written by Kentucky author Leigh Anne Florence and is the latest volume in the story The Misadventures of Woody and Chloe.

Florence is Kentucky born, Kentucky bred, Kentucky educated, a Kentucky Colonel, and the Kentucky author of the popular series, Woody, The Kentucky Wiener. A native of Murray, Kentucky, Florence is a 1990 graduate of Calloway County High School. In 1996 she received her Masters of Music Education from Murray State University.

She now resides in Shepherdsville, Kentucky with husband Ron and a host of animals, most notably her black and tan miniature dachshund, Woody, who is the star character in her children’s series, Woody, The Kentucky Wiener.

After seven years as a public school music teacher, Florence resigned from her teaching duties to concentrate on writing and public speaking. Leigh Anne, accompanied by Ron and the entire wiener dog gang, spends her days in schools, libraries, and other venues speaking on Woody’s Five Ways to Be Successful. In addition to schools and libraries, Leigh Anne has become an in-demand speaker for church events, women’s groups, and community organizations.

The Missing Page is illustrated by Kentucky artist Chris Ware, who works as an illustrator for the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper and has also had his work published in a host of national publications.

Ware, being the father of seven, and consequently a part-time small animal wrangler (snakes, frogs, hedge hogs, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, baby birds, turtles and fish), it is inevitable that kids and critters are his favorite things to illustrate. Family dogs Stella and Moose were consulted on each and every drawing of Woody and Chloe, and they have given their highest accolades… five (out of five) barks!

In the program, each of the third grade students at Albany Elementary School, in addition to the structured activities that are designed to heighten their weekly experience, will also be given a copy of that week’s Clinton County News to use for the activities each week and to take home during the 10 week duration of the program.