Guthrie 8th grader, Baylee Horn, has been working for the past five weeks restoring photos for the King County Historical Society. Baylee received over 1,200 historic photos from the museum that had been scanned from negatives and needed digital enhancement. She used Adobe Lightroom professional photo editing software to perform color corrections, noise reduction, spot removal and image cropping to restore these photos back to their original beauty. Over the past five weeks, she processed one photo at a time, applying these corrections and enhancements to over 1,000 photos. 

Congratulations Baylee on a job well done. The photos look great! Thanks for contributing to our community. Baylee's photos are now featured on the home page of the new King County Museum website. You can see the photos at:

With all this musical influences, Mr. Ballard has spawned his own musical history. He was a trombone player all through junior high and high school  He claims his experience with the trombone was one of his more enjoyable high school experiences. He’s even had multiple experiences in the musical work force, being a stereo salesman as well as being a DJ at KBST out of Big Spring, Texas. 


Mr. Ballard shared some details about his DJ experience, and told us that this was the most “formatted” job he had. “They were very picky about what songs you played, the order you played them in, when you took commercial breaks, did weather updates, etc.  We had program charts for every hour of the day and every day of the week.  The station's music director put all the songs into categories. Then he put little colored dots on the label of each record.  The program charts had the same type of dots, so you knew what type of song you were supposed to play next.  One day I came in and the secretary had written the word "red" on every red dot, the word "blue" on every blue dot, etc.  The bins where we kept the records were also labeled with the words for each color.  When I asked the program director about it, he said, ‘You know that part timer, Mark, we just hired - he's color blind!’”


Nowadays, Mr. Ballard is the disk jockey for Guthrie CSD. He often announces at the football games and peprallies, and made the playlist for the football and basketball games with a rockin’ sound. He’s helped build multiple students playlist, and often promotes the musicians who came from Guthrie themselves. Several students have talked about how he’s helped them with any music challenge, whether it be finding some new tunes or getting the perfect song for an event. Guthrie has become one of the most musically diverse schools in the region, and we have Mr. Ballard to thank for it.

Attention seniors and senior parents, Guthrie CSD will be hosting an informational meeting about FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) presented by Courtney Adams on Wednesday, January 21, from 7:00-8:30pm. The meeting will be in the auditorium. Form more information, contact Lynn Hill. 

The Guthrie JH Basketball Tournament will be on Saturday, January 10, 2015. Click the graphic below to view/print. 

Guthrie's basketball games against Crosbyton on January 2nd have been canceled due to icy road conditions.  Stay warm and have a Happy New Year!