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May 25, 2021
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2020 Rogers Scholar and Corbin High School student Spencer Hays, right, and Ashton Noyes practice martial arts. | Photo contributed
CORBIN â 2020 Rogers Scholar and Corbin High School student Spencer Hays partnered with Jeremy Patton of United Martial Arts to develop a social media anti-bullying campaign for males and females, ages 5-18, in Laurel, Knox, and Whitley counties. The goal was to demonstrate ways to combat bullying while teaching morals to children and teens.
During the course of the nine-month project, Hays was able to reach 1,700 people with nearly 25 social media anti-bullying posts.
âThis project means a lot to me because I was once an uncoordinated, chubby kid. I was shy and bullied into doing things I didnât want to do,â he said. âUnited Marital Arts gave me a place to be myself, and once I learned self-defense, that confidence bled over into other places, such as school. Bullying is awful and by camp
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A Bolingbrook man was ordered held on $400,000 bail after he allegedly burned down a martial arts studio where he used to be a student.
Andrew Wagner, 28, allegedly broke into the United Martial Arts studio, at 1260 Chicago Ave., and started a fire, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.
Naperville police and fire departments responded to an alarm at 9:40 p.m. March 26 and saw flames and smoke coming from the building, prosecutors said. The building was uninhabitable after the fire.
Investigators found that an accelerant was used in the fire, prosecutors said. Officers identified Wagner, a former student of the studio, as the person who allegedly started the fire. On April 6, Wagner went to the Naperville Police Department for an interview and was arrested. Prosecutors did not offer a motive behind the arson.
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