Apr 10, 2022 7:56 am
4th July 1983.
At the breakfast table of Alana, Johnny and Logan's houses, a similar scene takes place. A fresh copy of the Washington County Chronicle is spread open on the table, and an article pointed out.
"Hey, spirited girl, check this out!"
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"Say Johnny, isn't this the girl you brought at the cinema yesterday?"
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"Oh, Loey! You and Anna are in the paper! I am SO proud of you, dears!"
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At the breakfast table of Alana, Johnny and Logan's houses, a similar scene takes place. A fresh copy of the Washington County Chronicle is spread open on the table, and an article pointed out.
Jack, A's Dad
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Aunt Mary
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Ellen, L's Gramma
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[ +- ] The Article
LOCAL SCHOOL KIDS FIND MISSING BOY
by Chuck Lafayette
Readers will certainly remember our coverage of the disappearance of young Davey Jenkins, aged 10, a few days ago, from his house in Gulf Haven.
[Photo of Davey Jenkins, from the School Yearbook]
The story found a happy ending thanks to the courage and commitment of three local young heroes, Cody Brewster (12), Logan Henry (11), and Alana Patterson (11). We went to meet the young heroes on the scene of the rescue (Cody Brewster was not there, injured in an unrelated fall - to him, our best wishes for a speedy recovery!).
Concerned about the missing friend, who attended their same Booker T. Washington Elementary School, the group decided to run their own search, asking Logan's older sister Anna (17) to drive them to Donner Lake, where they had last seen Davey.
"Basically, my brother and his friends had a hunch Davey could be here, as they had seen him recently around the lake. They really insisted I drive them here," says Anna.
They were able to find Davey's bicycle tracks in the surrounding woods and followed them to the bike itself, that was hidden in a hole in the ground under an old tree.
[Photo of the rescuers around the hole under the tree, with their dog]
"I went inside and it was creepy and it seems like the perfect home for a creepy crawly monster," said Alana, a spirited girl with a fervid imagination, "but then we heard Davey from over there where he was on top of a tree."
From there, the brave quartet found a scared Davey Jenkins in the branches of said tree, where he had climbed - apparently scared by some noises - and from where he was afraid of climbing down for the height.
"He was stuck on that branch there," said Logan, who climbed up to help Davey down. Logan demonstrated this by nimbly climbing to the high branch for us.
[Photo of Logan on the tree branch]
"Then the police also came and we saved the day," Alana concluded.
And the day they saved indeed, as Davey was reunited with his Mom, to her great relief. Mrs. Jenkins commented how grateful she is to the four brave searchers for returning her son. Davey was missing for a total of nine hours.
Our newspaper joins Mrs. Jenkins in celebrating these young brave Gulf Haven heroes. What wonderful news to share with our readers on Independence Day!
by Chuck Lafayette
Readers will certainly remember our coverage of the disappearance of young Davey Jenkins, aged 10, a few days ago, from his house in Gulf Haven.
[Photo of Davey Jenkins, from the School Yearbook]
The story found a happy ending thanks to the courage and commitment of three local young heroes, Cody Brewster (12), Logan Henry (11), and Alana Patterson (11). We went to meet the young heroes on the scene of the rescue (Cody Brewster was not there, injured in an unrelated fall - to him, our best wishes for a speedy recovery!).
Concerned about the missing friend, who attended their same Booker T. Washington Elementary School, the group decided to run their own search, asking Logan's older sister Anna (17) to drive them to Donner Lake, where they had last seen Davey.
"Basically, my brother and his friends had a hunch Davey could be here, as they had seen him recently around the lake. They really insisted I drive them here," says Anna.
They were able to find Davey's bicycle tracks in the surrounding woods and followed them to the bike itself, that was hidden in a hole in the ground under an old tree.
[Photo of the rescuers around the hole under the tree, with their dog]
"I went inside and it was creepy and it seems like the perfect home for a creepy crawly monster," said Alana, a spirited girl with a fervid imagination, "but then we heard Davey from over there where he was on top of a tree."
From there, the brave quartet found a scared Davey Jenkins in the branches of said tree, where he had climbed - apparently scared by some noises - and from where he was afraid of climbing down for the height.
"He was stuck on that branch there," said Logan, who climbed up to help Davey down. Logan demonstrated this by nimbly climbing to the high branch for us.
[Photo of Logan on the tree branch]
"Then the police also came and we saved the day," Alana concluded.
And the day they saved indeed, as Davey was reunited with his Mom, to her great relief. Mrs. Jenkins commented how grateful she is to the four brave searchers for returning her son. Davey was missing for a total of nine hours.
Our newspaper joins Mrs. Jenkins in celebrating these young brave Gulf Haven heroes. What wonderful news to share with our readers on Independence Day!
