CALLOWAY COUNT, KY (KFVS) - Murray-Calloway County Hospital's Health Express will be offering blood pressure checks, pulse and pulmonary function screenings during June.

The screenings will be at Weaks Senior Center in Murray on June 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.

They are free to the communities visited by Health Express and are help detect diseases in the earliest stages when there are often no symptoms. The hospital says pulmonary function tests evaluate how well the lungs work. The screening determines how much air lungs can hold, how quickly the body can move air in and out of your lungs and how well the lungs put oxygen into and remove carbon dioxide from the bloodstream. The test can screen for lung diseases, measure the severity of lung problems and monitor how well treatment for a lung disease is working.

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - The Superintendent of Calloway County Schools, Kennith Bargo, has announced the appointment of Brian Wilmurth, principal of Calloway County High School, to fill the recently created position of district assessment coordinator.

Bargo says Wilmurth will take over many of the same responsibilities previously held by Assistant Superintendent Randy McCallon, who has been named as the next Superintendent of Carlisle County Schools.

“We are excited to have Brian join us on the Central Office Team”, said Bargo. “His vast knowledge of Calloway County Schools, the learning process, and the needs of our students are a good fit tor the job.”

Wilmurth has served as CCHS Principal for the past four years.

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - The National FFA Organization has awarded a $1,000 Archer Daniels Midland Company scholarship to Jay Green of Calloway County High School FFA.

Green plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at Murray State University. ADM is sponsoring a total of 80 scholarships through a special project of the National FFA Foundation and is also providing a $250 grant to the Calloway County High School FFA to assist in its continued educational excellence.

Scholarship recipients were selected from 8,050 applicants from across the country. Selections were based on the applicant’s academic record, FFA and other community activities, supervised agricultural experience in agricultural education and future goals.