SCOTT CITY STUDENTS HELP RAISE MONEY FOR SIGNS

SCOTT CITY -- Despite the rainy, cold weather Saturday, 32 students from Scott City High School collected more than $1,100 to be used to erect new welcome signs for the city.

The students set up "roadblocks" throughout the city, stopping passing traffic to ask for donations. Each donor was entered into a drawing for $75 in meat, and a $50 and a $25 savings bond.

Shirley Young, president of the Scott City Chamber of Commerce, said that the chamber is continuing to solicit funds in private donations for the sign, prior to the next chamber meeting, May 18.

At the meeting, the chamber will look into what they can purchase with the funds that have been raised.

The chamber has been considering the notion of replacing the aging welcome signs for years. But when Nichole Wadlington stepped forward and volunteered her services to the effort, the sign campaign got its second wind.

Wadlington encouraged her fellow high schoolers to get involved with the project and help the city raise the needed money for the signs.

Wadlington, a senior at Scott City High School, organized the fund drive and furnished the poster board and supplies for signs posted throughout the schools and city.