Optimist Award at E.O. Young
Stephanie Pegram, a fifth-grade student at E.O. Young Jr. Elementary School, was honored on May 6 as the top reader in the school through the Read & Win program sponsored by the Henderson Optimist Club. Pegram is shown at center in the photo as she accepts the bird house given to her as a gift for the recognition by John Pecora, president of the Henderson Optimist Club, right, as Principal Marylaura McKoon joins them. Members of the club have worked closely with students and teachers at E.O. Young Jr. Elementary to encourage and motivate students to attend each day of school and to read. The classrooms with the highest attendance and top readers for each nine-week grading period were treated to a pizza party.