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Frank Rose and his wife, Candy Clarke, the king and queen of North Pole, Alaska, pose for pictures on a sleigh with Thorn Hill Learning Center’s After School Kare students Thursday. The couple were deemed king and queen of the North Pole as the city’s form of honoring its outstanding community service leaders. The couple, who have been married nearly 34 years, are originally from Kentucky but moved to Alaska 15 years ago. They are building a winter home on Flat Creek Road. They will be riding in the 61st Annual Frankfort Jaycees Christmas Parade on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Mayor Gippy Graham presented them with a key to the city as the couple stopped by to talk with the students at Thorn Hill Learning Center.

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December 4, 2009

Trail-cutting is Saturday

To wind down the first phase of the Buffalo Trace Walking Trail, a fourth and final fall work session will be held Saturday.

Walk/Bike Frankfort and Buffalo Trace are hosting the trail-cutting work party from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to offer a new riverside walking trail to the public. Volunteers are welcome.

Tools will be provided, but anyone who has a mattock is urged to bring it. Volunteers should wear old clothes, work boots and gloves.

Meet in the back of the parking lot behind the rear office building at 200 Fair Oaks Lane. Enter from Wilkinson Boulevard by the BP station.

For more information, contact Jim Call at 330-9627 or sjcall@fewpb.net.

Church open house Sunday

First Presbyterian Church, 416 W. Main St., will host an open house from 12:15-2 p.m. Sunday to rededicate its Christian Education Building, which was constructed in 1959 and renovated during 2009. The building will be open for tours and refreshments will be served.

For more information visit www.firstpresbyterianfrankfort.org.

Holiday care packages collected

The Kentucky Historical Society and other Frankfort businesses and organizations are sending holiday care packages to deployed military personnel this year.

Working in partnership with Military Missions Inc,, a nonprofit group in Lexington, KHS organized the project.

Suggested donations included travel games, cards, books, gift cards redeemable online and Kentucky-related gifts.

In total, the monthlong project produced more than 15 large boxes filled with small gift items to be added to care packages, which Military Missions will compile and distribute in December.

KHS began the project as part of the organization’s Candlelight Tour activities.

“We appreciate the tremendous support of local organizations and businesses, which helped make this project a success,” said Kent Whitworth, KHS executive director.

Collection boxes were donated by Rumpke and decorated by local students from the King Center, Paul Sawyier Public Library, Western Hills High School and Franklin County High School.

To find out more about the Military Missions, visit http://www.militarymissionsonline.com.

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