News Follow Up - July 8, 2010

 

A video of Chelsey Kipping of Valmeyer setting the world record of 32 consecutive back handsprings is on the YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk8Gj91lN9U. Or just go to youtube.com and search for Chelsey Kipping. She set the record Monday at Luhr Field in old town Valmeyer prior to the start of the championship game of the Mid-Summer Classic. The previous record was 26, which Kipping had unofficially broke with 28 during last year’s baseball tournament. Chelsey’s mother, Vicki Rednour, and father, Dennis Kipping, are now collecting the required video tape, pictures and witness statements to be sent to Guinness to have the feat certified as a world record.

 

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Today's News - July 8, 2010

 

One Injured In Rollover Along Bluff Road: A Shiloh woman was injured Thursday morning when her GMC Jimmy rolled several times along Bluff Road in rural Fountain. According to the police report, Diamond Cotten, 27, was traveling southbound on Bluff Road at 8 a.m. when she went off the roadway near Herbst Road. She overcorrected, crossed over the center line and rolled several times before landing in the middle of the roadway on all four wheels.

Steve Wayland of Waterloo was also driving along Bluff Road at the time and witnessed the accident. He ran to the vehicle to check on Cotten’s condition. He said she was conscious and did not appear to be seriously injured. Valmeyer first responders and firefighters, along with a Monroe County ambulance and sheriff’s deputies, soon arrived on the scene. Cotten was transported by ambulance to St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis. Her current condition is not known, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Valmeyer First Responders work with Monroe County Ambulance Service personnel in removing Diamond Cotten from her GMC Jimmy. Debris which fell out of the vehicle involved in Thursday morning’s accident lines Bluff Road.