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52-year-old Debbie Pitman, of Sunnyside Estates and her 84-year-old mother, Susie Stokes, were slightly injured onSunday afternoon, after Pittman lost control of the above Jeep Grand Cherokee as she attempted to back out of theroad that leads to the low water ford in the Rockcastle River, just outside Livingston. The vehicle overturned once,completely totaling the vehicle. The two were attending a a group baptism being held by the Calloway HolinessChurch. The Jeep Grand Cherokee was totaled in the accident.

The departure of approximately 100 people, who attended a baptism for 16 people from the Calloway HolinessChurch on Sunday afternoon in the Rockcastle River, was delayed after an accident in which two local women wereinjured. Members of the Livingston Volunteer Fire Department and the Rockcastle Ambulance Service were calledto the scene.

Prepare for Spring clean-up

Livingston andMt. Vernon winPRIDE Awards

Two injured afterattending baptismceremony Sunday

Two Mt. Vernon womenwere slightly injured Sundayafternoon after they were in-volved in an accident whichoccurred as they were leav-ing a baptism ceremony at thelow water ford in theRockcastle River nearLivingston.

Livingston Fire Chief SamStallsworth said DebbiePittman, 52, of Mt. Vernonlost control of her 1993 JeepGrand Cherokee as shebacked up the hill from theriver.

“She just got too close tothe bank and the shoulder wassoft and it fell in from theweight of the vehicle,”Stallsworth said.

Stallsworth said the ve-

hicle turned over once, as itwent over a 25 foot bank, be-fore coming to rest uprightnear the edge of the river.

Pittman and her mother,Susie Stokes, 84, were takento Rockcastle Regional Hos-pital and treated for minor in-juries.

Steve Pittman said hiswife and mother-in-law hadgone to the baptism ceremonyin support of a friend.

16 people from theCalloway Holiness Churchwere baptized on Sundaywith about 100 people in at-tendance.

Livingston firefighters andEMTs with the RockcastleAmbulance Service workedthe accident.

Livingston Mayor J.C. Griffin accepts the city’s Road-side PRIDE Award from PRIDE’s Karen Engle.

Jill Medley, the Mt. Vernon PRIDE Coordinator, ac-cepts the city’s Roadside PRIDE Award from KarenEngle of PRIDE.

While preparing to givethe area a spring cleaning,Livingston and Mt. Vernonbrought home trophies fortheir fall cleanup campaigns.The cities’ Roadside PRIDEAwards were handed out dur-ing a regional planning work-shop for PRIDE SpringCleanup Month.

The Roadside PRIDEAwards were presented to thecities and counties that re-cruited the most volunteersand collected the most trashlast October, which wasRoadside PRIDE Month in 38counties of southern and east-ern Kentucky.

Livingston was the 1stPlace winner in Class 1,which included cities withless than 500 residents.Livingston recruited 39 vol-unteers who picked up litterfor 205 hours during Road-side PRIDE Month. The cityremoved one appliance, fivetires and 291 bags of trashfrom the ditches, just as tour-ists arrived to see the area’scolorful fall foliage.

Mt. Vernon won the 1stPlace trophy in Class 3 forcities with populations be-tween 1,501 and 3,000. Forty-eight volunteers picked up lit-ter for 281 hours. Three ap-pliances, 16 tires and 497bags of trash were collected.

“I congratulate you onyour winning effort in Octo-

ber, and I encourage you totake your game to the nextlevel during April’s SpringCleanup,” said Karen Engle,who heads PRIDE, the spon-sor of Roadside PRIDEMonth and PRIDE SpringCleanup Month.

“You can win another tro-phy for a successful SpringCleanup,” Engle added. “But,more importantly, you cancreate a clean, healthy envi-ronment for your residentsand tourists to enjoy.”

Roadside PRIDE Month isan annual anti-litter campaignthat features a friendly com-petition among communitiesof similar size. PRIDE, whichis the region’s environmentalcleanup and education initia-tive, provides cleanup sup-plies to volunteers and reim-burses local governments fortheir trash disposal expenses.

During PRIDE SpringCleanup Month in April, lo-cal PRIDE Coordinators re-cruit volunteers to pick uproadside litter. PRIDE willprovide free T-shirts, trashbags and gloves for the vol-unteers, as well as funding forlocal governments to disposeof litter, remove dumps andoffer free trash drop-offevents.

To volunteer for the SpringCleanup, please contact your

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