People and achievements, Jan. 7

SCHOOLS

PELION HIGH JROTC DRILL AND RIFLE TEAMS recently competed in the Greater Midlands Area Drill and Rifle Team Championships. The Drill Team won four categories, and the Rifle Team members won first in four categories. Both teams won the League Championship titles as well.

TRI-DISTRICT ARTS CONSORTIUM is accepting nominations for the 2013 Summer Program through Jan. 14. The program will be from 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m. July 1-20. http://www.tridac.org

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AIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL will accept nominations for their Alumni Wall of Honor through Feb. 11. E-mail Jcoleman@lex2.org for an application.

COMMUNITY

AUTHOR MCKENDREE LONG III of Blythewood has been awarded a 2012 Stars and Flags Book Award Program finalist medal in the Historical Fiction category for his book Dog Soldier Moon.

RONNIE EARRON STURGES has received the 2012 Officer of the Year award. Sturges started with the Lexington Police Department in 2005 as a patrol officer, he was assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division in 2008 and promoted to corporal in the Patrol Division in 2009.

THE NEWCOMERS CLUB OF GREATER COLUMBIA has made a donation of $800 to the Free Medical Clinic to help the clinic provide free healthcare to community residents.

ALISON ESPINOSA has earned the highly prestigious certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Espinosa is a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Teaching Fellowship alumna and mathematics teacher at A.C. Flora High School.

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People and achievements, Jan. 7

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