Local youth places second in district essay contest

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Thirteen-year-old Hadley Hilburn, daughter of Charlie and Charolyn Hilburn of Kennett, is an eighth-grade student at Kennett Middle School (KMS) where she recently finished first place in the 2012-2013 "Patriot's Pen Essay Contest," which is sponsored nationally by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States and, locally by the Kennett Memorial VFW Post No. 5443. The contest theme of this year's contest was, "What I Would Tell America's Founding Fathers."

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