“You’re helping bring back something that is beginning to get lost in this nation in recent years. You’re helping to restore the spirit of cooperation, the spirit of volunteerism,” U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford told attendees at Thursday night’s annual meeting of the Kentucky River Foothills Development Council.

Bryan A. Hager, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hager, 3580 Combs Ferry Road, will graduate from the Eastern Kentucky University College of Physical Education Saturday.