School board honors staff for heroic actions

7 LCMS employees saved co-worker’s life after accident.

  • Columbia County school district staffers were honored after they saved maintenance department worker Jim Osburn last year after he fell off a ladder. The brief recognition ceremony took place Tuesday night during the school board meeting. Narrie Smith (front row, from left) Osburn and Keith Hudson. (Back row, from left) Lex Carswell, Stephanie Johns, Phyllisteen Reese, Casey Starling, Sandra Bing, Steve Nelson, Robert Cooper and Dana Brady-Giddens. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Columbia County school district staffers were honored after they saved maintenance department worker Jim Osburn last year after he fell off a ladder. The brief recognition ceremony took place Tuesday night during the school board meeting. Narrie Smith (front row, from left) Osburn and Keith Hudson. (Back row, from left) Lex Carswell, Stephanie Johns, Phyllisteen Reese, Casey Starling, Sandra Bing, Steve Nelson, Robert Cooper and Dana Brady-Giddens. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
Exactly a year ago, Jim Osburn, was lying on his back fighting for his life while a team of staff members from Lake City Middle School worked feverishly to keep him alive after he was involved in a…

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