Several Beechwood High School students learned a lot about golf and volunteering at the Redwood Rehabilitation Center's seventh annual golf outing June 18.

More than 100 golfers participated at Hickory Sticks Golf Course in Campbell County.

Students included Liz Bushey, 13; Bert McMath, 14; Kate Menkhaus, 13; Taylor Prewitt, 13; Danielle Pugh, 13, and Alex Weibel, 12, all of Fort Mitchell.

The students helped with golf bags and carts and did a little caddying.

"I really enjoyed volunteering for the outing. It was like recess," said Liz. "Now I know what my dad does when he plays golf."

Sponsors included Duke Realty, Delta Air Lines, Morgan Stanley and Huntington Bank.

The event raised $26,000 for Redwood, a United Way agency in Fort Mitchell. Redwood provides educational, therapeutic and vocational services to more than 600 children and adults with disabilities, said Susan Bushey, volunteer coordinator at Redwood.

Nurse pushes for funding

A nurse from California, Ky., has called on Congress for continued funding from the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.

Marlene Lutkenhoff visited with Congressman Ken Lucas, a Boone County Democrat; Congresswoman Judy Biggert, R-Ill.; Congresswoman Anne Northup, R-Ky.; and Congresswoman Diana DeGette, D-Colo., in Washington, D.C., during the 31st annual Spina Bifida Association of America national conference.

Lutkenhoff is a spina bifida nurse at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and is on the board of directors of the national spina bifida association.

"No one thinks it could happen in your family, but they are wrong," Lutkenhoff said. "In fact, 95 percent of spina bifida births occur in women with no personal or family history."

Spina bifida is a congenital defect which causes paralysis. It can also cause learning disabilities, behavioral abnormalities and brain dysfunction.

Rumpke driver competition

Rumpke driver Tommy Wells of Morningview has been named a finalist in the Environmental Industry Association National Drivers of the Year competition.

Wells, a 29-year employee with Rumpke, is a front-loader driver for Rumpke Consolidated Cos. in Butler.

As of June 30, Wells had 25 years of driving without an accident.

Off to Boys Nation

Daniel Johnson, 17, a senior at Holmes High School, is one of 96 students nationwide chosen to attend the American Legion Boys Nation from July 23-31 at Marymount University, Arlington, Va.

Daniel was selected as a delegate based on his academic record, leadership potential and previous activities with the American Legion Boys State program in Kentucky.

The American Legion Boys Nation program is a week of government training in the nation's capital, including lectures, forums and visits to federal agencies, institutions, memorials and historical sites.

The youths represent their home state as a "senator.''

They meet in a caucus at the beginning of the session and organize into committees and hold hearings on bills, allowing them to learn the rules and procedures of the U.S. Senate.

Study in Germany

Alicia Marie Miller, 20, of Erlanger, has been awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Support Grant for 2004.

The Western Kentucky University sophomore will study in Regensburg, Germany.

The program is designed to assist undergraduates in their academic fields by studying abroad.