Jun 12, 2019
A Lincoln High School graduate has joined the Peace Corps, an international volunteer program operated by the U.S. government.
Jeffery Mund, a member of the Lincoln High School class of 2015, will serve two years in the west African nation of Benin.
Mund graduated magna cum laude this spring from...
Sep 19, 2018
A Plainview native and original Peace Corps member will unveil a marker and discuss his memoir at an event in Plainview on Sept. 22.
At age 19, Ken Flies was one of the first 3,000 volunteers (chosen out of 58,000 applicants) sent abroad after Congress passed the Peace Corps Act in 1961.
Flies was...