Adair led the eventual Regional Champions at the half, but they were edged out in a tough-fought match in the 2nd half. The ever-unpredictable Quick Recall draw, however, then pitted them against recent Final Four State Quick Recall finalists South Warren. The team notched a win over Barren County in Round One. In addition, the Quick Recall team had an applause-worthy showing at the Region Championships.

Team members competing at Region in FPS were Abigail Kemp, Abby Claywell, Trina Nguyen, and Cameron Yarberry. This marks another year in which the team has climbed the ladder to advance to the Kentucky State Championships, extending their 4th Region record number of State Finalist appearances to 16. The Adair County Future Problem Solvers, members of the ACHS Academic Team, are among the state's list of elite teams once again as the team captured 2nd Place overall at the Governor's Cup Regional Championships on Saturday, February 18, 2023. 16:28:51 | Comments | See topic Jim: HistoryĪCHS Academic Team Award Winners at Region Championships click here to read the whole article, or to share, print, or bookmark it. His letter, published in the Adair County News, read in part,Īrticle continues.

Pvt Beard was first reported as missing in action, but not until the forepart of May did his mother hear directly from him via a letter dated several weeks earlier. troops to land in North Africa in the fall of '42. He had volunteered for armed service in June 1940 and was in the first wave of U.S. There were over 10,000 Allied casualties (killed, wounded, missing in action, and prisoners of war) with well over half of that number coming from the American troops.Īmong the multitude of soldiers taken as prisoners of war was 29-year-old Pvt (later Sgt) Charlie Beard of the Milltown section. This conflict, the Battle of Kasserine Pass, finally ended on the 25th with the Allied troops in control of the area, but at such a horrific cost it could hardly be deemed a victory. Eighty years ago this month - Valentine's Day, 1943 - the Allied and German armies met in their first major engagement of the war in a bloody, days-long battle in the rugged North African hills of western Tunisia.

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