These students completed a three-day welding and woodworking workshop at Union Hill School recently. Pictured, from left, are: (front row) Wyatt Holmes, Jared Holmes, Jonathan Holmes and Cole Maples; (back row) Tyler Shaddix, Blake Golden, Haden Holmes, Jake Cantrell and Zachary Benefield. The instructor was Perry Holmes, agribusiness instructor at Union Hill School. | Clif Knight

“We decided to start this as a pilot project and were pleased to have nine students sign up,” he added. “Most of them were unfamiliar with the shop equipment we use but they proved to be fast learners. All of them did a great job making their gun racks.”

The workshop was the focus of a tour and a smoked chicken dinner on Thursday. Guests included Morgan County Schools Supt. Bill Hopkins and school board members Jeff McLemore and Paul Holmes and school principals Robert Elliot of Union Hill, Patrick Patterson of Eva and Lane Alexander of Lacey’s Spring.

Union Hill School’s agribusiness instructor Perry Holmes gives Morgan County Schools Superintendent Bill Hopkins a sneak peek of the smoked chicken, which was served at a welding and woodworking Workshop last week. | Clif Knight