TELL CITY — Tell City’s wrestling team on Friday and Saturday will be traveling to Evansville Mater Dei for the Wildcats’ Holiday Classic that includes numerous teams from Illinois, Indiana
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Twenty-year-old Kansas native Tom Nguyen has made history by becoming the first Vietnamese American and the first person of Asian descent to serve as a city commissioner in Garden City since 1949. Breaking barriers: Nguyen, elected to the position on Nov. 7, has since garnered recognition nationally and internationally, with calls from other Asian American city commissioners and media coverage in Vietnam. “I’ve felt such an honor that people placed their trust in me to lead them and that has garnered a recognition that I would’ve never imagined,” Nguyen told The Journal.
An adult man once hailed as a child prodigy in China has decided to depend on his parents and live his entire life without a regular job. Rise of the “prodigy”: Born in 1995, Zhang Xinyang first gained acclaim as the “little prodigy” when he was 2.5 years old for being able to read over 2,000 Chinese characters. At age 5, Zhang was enrolled in a primary school but was bumped to second grade in less than a month.