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Man Posthumously Awarded Medal For Heroism

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published March 14, 2014 at 7:18 AM EDT

A Columbus man who drowned trying to save a boy from a frozen pond has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for heroism. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has honored 30-year-old James Jenkins for risking his life to dive into a pond at an East side apartment complex to rescue 5-year-old Elijah Walker last year. Neither Jenkins nor Walker survived.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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