Student volunteers took to the stage at Owensboro High School on Saturday afternoon to walk in a fashion show to benefit the local NAACP’s Travis Leon Jackson Scholarship award.
“We got here around 9 a.m. to practice, which was good because I’ve never done anything like this,” said senior Anthony “Akariee” Stokley, 18.
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