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I recently listed all of my values. I was surprised by the number of them. I would encourage you to write down all the values you hold dear. Then select the five most important values from the list. See how your list compares with mine.

Mary Anne Liter, 89, from Madison, Ind., came and spoke to Ms. Gerber’s 7th grade Language Arts class at South Oldham Middle School. The class had been reading a novel based on events during World War II and Mrs. Liter came and shared about her life and experience having lived through that time in history. Mrs. Liter’s great-granddaughter, Leah Searcy, is a student in Ms. Gerber’s class.

The Oldham County Emergency Management Services donated CPR Kits to every La Grange fifth grade student. OCEMS staff along with OCBE School Nurse Melanie Dowdy, RN, demonstrated life-saving CPR procedures during Related Arts time. Not only did technicians instruct Compression-Only CPR to students, but each student received practice kits containing a dummy, a DVD, and a homework assignment to share their learned CPR skills with friends and family. Above, La Grange P.E. teacher Alyson Stamper introduces guest speakers and CPR demonstrators.

People run for different reasons: to lose weight, to relieve stress, to compete. Last month, some 36,000 runners ran for all those reasons, plus one: to show America’s oldest marathon could not be stopped by an act of terrorism.

The courage of those 264 people who were injured, many of them losing their own ability to walk or run, not to mention the courage of those who died, certainly added to the inspiration each Boston Marathon runner felt this year.