South Point High School student Shannon Molenda represented the state during Youth Art Month in March 1999. She was chosen after her flag design was chosen to be the state’s youth flag and was displayed in Washington, D.C. It was the second time Molenda had been chosen for this honor. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo)

Students from the Christian Day Care Center in Ironton got to see elephants and horses from the Shrine Circus at the Ironton High School in March 1999. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | S. Lance Denee)

Three-year-old Macknezie Kestner plays with his older sister, Whitney Lawson, on the slides at the Open Door School in Ironton in this 2005 photo. Lawson said they come to play on the slides every day. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Jessica St. James)

Open Door student Ashley Hawthorne waters a row of petunias inside the school’s new greenhouse on the grounds of the school in this May 2005 photo. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Jessica St. James)

Chesapeake student Bessie Carver rereads “Martha’s New Daddy,” which was the subject of a book report she read on WOSU’s “Read On” program in 1992. (The Ironton Tribune | File Photo | Mike James)