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Music has been a part of Helen Mumphrey’s life since she began “piddling around on the piano” at age 3.

At age 9, she began taking piano lessons with Mrs. Dewey Akers.

“At that time, it was 75 cents a half hour,” Mumphrey recalls. “It was still hard to come up with it, but my mother did. She made sure I got that training.”

Though she learned to read music, she initially learned to play the songs she was taught by memorizing the movements of Mrs. Akers’ hands when she introduced each piece of music.

“He’s tougher than a pine knot.”

That’s John Boots’ assessment of his grandson, Colston, 11, who lives with his family in their Harbor Point home in Carrollton.

Colston Boots, a sixth-grader at Carroll County Middle School, is a rising star on the dirt-bike racing circuit, competing in – and winning – competitions on tracks throughout Kentuckiana.

Ben Collette sees his future in Carrollton’s past.

Though a native of Fairfield, Ohio, Collette, who works as a teller at River Valley Financial Bank’s Carrollton branch, is an avid history buff and has adopted the city’s heritage as his own.

Adventure, truly, is the spice of Hazel Ray’s life.

Ray, who was born and raised in Minnesota, lived in Hawaii and California while her late husband, John T. Ray, who originally was from Carroll County, served in the U.S. Navy. The couple moved to Carrollton after John Ray retired.

“This was his home, and I made it mine,” she said.