Wurtland —
The inaugural Wurtland School and Community Reunion is slated for early September.
Organizers hope the event will start an annual tradition, bringing together classmates, teachers, neighbors and old friends who have Wurtland ties.
The reunion will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 8 at Wurtland Elementary. It is free, but donations are welcome. Everyone with Wurtland ties is welcome, too. Attendees may want to bring their own seating, and musicians are invited to bring their instruments as well. Cornhole games are also wanted and needed, organizers said.
The event sprung out of a Facebook page titled “I grew up in Wurtland Ky, 60s -90s.”
“People got on there and were reminiscing; people you haven’t heard from in 100 years,” said Dee Dee Scythes, who is Wurtland’s city clerk. “Everybody was saying we need to have a reunion,” she explained, noting a small group of Wurtland natives and residents, including herself, Charlene Snoddy, Earl Ray Hanshaw, Connie Crum and Vickie Jo Little Hensley resolved to make it happen.
They are keeping the reunion simple and informal. They want everyone who has Wurtland ties to come, which is why the event is free.
“The Wurtland community is just a family,” said Snoddy. “Everybody that lived here knew everybody.”
The hope, Hanshaw added, is that old friends will reunite and that the reunion will grow every year because of that rekindling of ties.
Wurtland was a very closer-knit community when it had its own high school, explained organizers. After the school consolidated with others to form Greenup County High School in 1973, some of those ties were loosened, as Wurtlanders no longer went to school just with one another but hundreds of other Greenup Countians.
Over the years, many Wurtland natives have simply moved away or lost touch with others they haven’t gotten to see in a long time. Planners hope the reunion will be a way to reconnect and strengthen those old bonds.
To date, about 70 are expected to attend, ranging in age from 90 to small children.
Photographs of the “years” and “decades” will be taken at the reunion and posted on Facebook, said Scythes.
For more information about the reunion, contact Scythes at the Wurtland City Building at (606) 836-9116 or Snoddy at (606) 836-5339.
CARRIE STAMBAUGH can be reached at cstambaugh@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2653.
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