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The News Standard Straightforward • Steadfast • Solid Friday, December 1, 2006 Volume 1 No. 8 Meade County, Kentucky U.S. Postal Customer Standard Mail Permit No. 5 Postage Paid at Battletown, KY Maya Luney,11, shows her friend Taylor Wardrip, 12, a closet in her new room. The Luney family received a home on Ruthie Court in Brandenburg dur- ing a ceremony last Sunday. The News Standard/ MATTHEW LEE MILLER ‘There are still good people in this world’ BY MATTHEW LEE MILLER BRANDENBURG — Habitat for Humanity dedicated its ninth house in Meade County last Sunday, and no one was happier than new homeowner Tawana Luney. “I want to thank everybody,” Luney said. “It’s hard work but in the end, it’s worth it.” Luney, 32, was a gracious host, giving tours to friends and family as her daugh- ters LeAnna, 12, Maya, 11, and Abrianne, 7, made plans for their new home. Tawana Luney works at Solectron in Louisville and has lived in Meade County since 1990. The Luneys’ home, on Ruthie Court in Brandenburg, is simple, with three bed- rooms and two baths, a large porch, and yellow siding with burgundy shutters. Mature trees provide shade to a modest front yard, and a gravel driveway runs along the side of the house. The ribbon-cutting ceremony put the finishing touch on what was a long jour- ney for Tawana Luney. The Luneys’ new neighbor, Christina Russell, attended the ceremony not only as a friend but also as a fellow participant in the Habitat for Humanity program. Russell, 44, moved into her home across the street in August with her daughter Caitlyn, 13, after renting for nearly 22 years. Christina Russell said that despite the long wait, she is grateful for the sup- port system Habitat offers. “It reminds you that there are still good people in this world,” she said. The application process for assistance from Habitat is rigorous, and qualifying involves a multi-tiered process. Applicants must first be screened by a family selection committee, and then are passed on to the local volunteer board for final approval. Those selected to be a “partner” with Habitat must have sub- standard housing, but be able to put a down payment on the house and pay a monthly mortgage. Applicants also are required to accu- mulate “sweat equity” to be eligible for County readies for BRAC attack Trash board’s future murky BY CHARLES L. WESTMORELAND Fiscal Court voted unanimously last week to begin dissolving the 109 Board, Meade County Solid Waste’s board of directors, but the future of Solid Waste is anything but definite with five new magistrates taking office next month. Incoming magistrates have mixed feelings about the direction of Solid Waste, which needed a $250,000 loan from Fiscal Court last week just to pay its bills. All agree changes are needed and that Fiscal Court should look into contracting trash collection by reviewing bids, but the future of the 109 Board is still hazy. Magistrate-elect Steve Wardrip thinks Fiscal Court needs more con- trol over the 109 Board — regard- less of who pro- vides trash collec- tion — to avoid a similar situation in the future. “I don’t agree with having no control,” he said. “Fiscal Court needs more control over (the 109 Board) than they have now. They’ve turned boards loose and can’t do anything about it.” Wardrip said dissolving the 109 Board would probably mean fewer headaches for Fiscal Court members, but he’s open to the idea of having the county continue trash collection, if equipment can hold up and he sees proof that continuing trash col- lection would be the cheaper route. Magistrate-elect Mark Hubbard, who sits on the 109 Board, said at the last Fiscal Court meeting that it is too early to decide a course of action, but a decision will have to be made soon. Hubbard said magis- trates should compare private collec- tors to the cost of continuing trash pickup by the county before making a decision. Magistrates-elect Tom Goddard, Tony Staples and Randall Hardesty could not be reached for comment. BY CHARLES L. WESTMORELAND The Meade County Fire Department is seeing divi- dends of a new billing method started last summer that ulti- mately may help firefighters save lives when responding to automobile accidents. If a driver who lives out- side the fire district causes an auto accident, the fire depart- ment bills his or her insurance company enabling the depart- ment to recover costs for serv- ices, while also providing extra money to replace and update equipment. Meade County Fire Chief Larry Naser recently received the first check of more than $2,000, allowing his department to repair damaged rescue tools. “The cost to provide that service would normally have to come out of our general operating fund budget,” Naser said. “Not everyone should have to pay for services for a small group of people. For years we’ve taken the cost of tools out of our budget, but we don’t have a mechanism to replace them.” One set of rescue tools costs $14,000, and mainte- nance on those tools costs $1,000 annually. Naser said 35 percent of his department’s runs are to auto- mobile accidents, and having the right tool and being able to extract injured persons quickly is all that matters. “We were using old tools and technology,” Naser said. “When we get dispatched to an automobile accident where someone is trapped in a car, time is very precious to that patient. If it takes us 30 min- utes to get them out, then that’s 30 minutes they’ve lost getting to a hospital. If we can get them out in 10 minutes, then we can get them to a hos- pital that much quicker.” Several years ago, Naser was called to assist a woman trapped inside a car after she was hit head-on by a log truck. It took Naser and his crew 40 minutes to extract the woman from the vehicle. That was a half-hour too long, Naser said, except his crew didn’t have the tools needed, so his men had to improvise. “As a fire chief that was very frustrating. My guys were pulling their hair out because they didn’t have the Viewpoints ......4 Faith & Values.6 Business ..........7 Fun & Games...8 Sports ..............9 Classifieds .....11 Obituaries ........5 Elberta Beeler, 86 William E. Benock, 91 Adasyn Burgess, infant Magdalene Carwile, 81 Daniel Counterman, 45 Billy Jack Dozier, 73 David French, 76 Susan Powell, 52 Charles Sexton, 61 Stephen Turner, 55 INSIDE T OSS-UP Meade County boys win, girls lose season basketball openers ............... 9 BY CHARLES L. WESTMORELAND Local officials, educators and resi- dents have a little more than a year to prepare for a military transition that is expected to flood Meade County and other areas neighboring Fort Knox with new residents. The military’s Base Realignment and Closures Commission of 2005, also known as BRAC, will transform Fort Knox from a training center to a combat and command base and, in the process, place as many as 1,400 new families in surrounding counties. Military officials expect the majority to settle in Hardin County, but Meade County also will likely see a drastic increase in popula- tion over the next year. According to the 1990 Base Realignment and Closures Act, all BRAC Commission actions must begin within two years of approval and be completed within six years, meaning the transition of soldiers to Fort Knox must begin no later than 2007 and be completed no later than 2011. Military officials say the transi- tion will be completed in four years. Members of the Meade County BRAC Action Group met Tuesday with officials from Breckinridge, Hardin and LaRue counties in Elizabethtown to discuss the impact of BRAC and how they can prepare. When the BRAC transition ends in 2011, Fort Knox will be home to 4,000 more sol- diers and civilian employees. What will impact Meade County most, how- ever, is not the number of personnel relocating to Fort Knox but the type. Fort Knox will close its doors as a training installation and send its armor school to Fort Benning, Ga., and move its regional corrections facility to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. In their place will be an infantry brigade combat team consisting of about 3,500 soldiers, and the human resources command, which is composed of Billing change helps firefighters The News Standard/PHILLIP STITH Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive at Christmas by the River in Brandenburg Sunday night. Brandenburg Mayor Ronnie Joyner announces the arrival of Santa to “Light up Brandenburg,” begining the Holiday Season. ’ ’ T T i i s s t t h h e e S S e e a a s s o o n n As soon as he arrived, Santa Claus lit up the eyes of dozens of children Sunday night at Christmas by the River in Brandenburg. Minutes later he flipped the switch that lit up Brandenburg, officially signaling the start of the holiday season. This is the ninth year for Christmas by the River. The show continues to grow each year and attracts thousands of cars to downtown Brandenburg. Tim Brown, 23, of Louisville, attended the opening festivities while in Meade County for the Thanksgiving holiday. “It is my first time here and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was impressed by the atmos- phere,” Brown said. “The people here are friendly and welcoming.” The light displays will be open every evening until mid- night through Jan. 2. Habitat for Humanity dedicates ninth home in Meade County PLEASE SEE HABITAT , PAGE 2 PLEASE SEE BRAC, PAGE 2 STEVE WARDRIP PLEASE SEE TRASH, PAGE 2 PLEASE SEE CHANGE, PAGE 3
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The News StandardS t r a i g h t f o r w a r d • S t e a d f a s t • S o l i d
Friday, December 1, 2006
Volume 1No. 8
Meade County,Kentucky
U.S. Postal CustomerStandard MailPermit No. 5
Postage Paid at Battletown, KY
Maya Luney,11,shows her friendTaylor Wardrip, 12,a closet in her newroom. The Luneyfamily received ahome on RuthieCourt inBrandenburg dur-ing a ceremonylast Sunday.
The News Standard/MATTHEW LEE MILLER
‘There are still good people in this world’
BY MATTHEW LEE MILLER
BRANDENBURG — Habitat forHumanity dedicated its ninth house inMeade County last Sunday, and no onewas happier than new homeownerTawana Luney.
“I want to thank everybody,” Luneysaid. “It’s hard work but in the end, it’sworth it.”
Luney, 32, was a gracious host, givingtours to friends and family as her daugh-ters LeAnna, 12, Maya, 11, and Abrianne,7, made plans for their new home. Tawana
Luney works at Solectron in Louisville andhas lived in Meade County since 1990.
The Luneys’ home, on Ruthie Court inBrandenburg, is simple, with three bed-rooms and two baths, a large porch, andyellow siding with burgundy shutters.Mature trees provide shade to a modestfront yard, and a gravel driveway runsalong the side of the house.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony put thefinishing touch on what was a long jour-ney for Tawana Luney.
The Luneys’ new neighbor, ChristinaRussell, attended the ceremony not onlyas a friend but also as a fellow participantin the Habitat for Humanity program.Russell, 44, moved into her home acrossthe street in August with her daughterCaitlyn, 13, after renting for nearly 22years. Christina Russell said that despite
the long wait, she is grateful for the sup-port system Habitat offers.
“It reminds you that there are stillgood people in this world,” she said.
The application process for assistancefrom Habitat is rigorous, and qualifyinginvolves a multi-tiered process.
Applicants must first be screened by afamily selection committee, and then arepassed on to the local volunteer board forfinal approval. Those selected to be a“partner” with Habitat must have sub-standard housing, but be able to put adown payment on the house and pay amonthly mortgage.
Applicants also are required to accu-mulate “sweat equity” to be eligible for
CountyreadiesforBRACattack
Trashboard’sfuturemurky BY CHARLES L. WESTMORELAND
Fiscal Court voted unanimouslylast week to begin dissolving the 109Board, Meade County Solid Waste’sboard of directors, but the future ofSolid Waste is anything but definitewith five new magistrates takingoffice next month.
Incoming magistrates have mixedfeelings about the direction of SolidWaste, which needed a $250,000 loanfrom Fiscal Court last week just topay its bills. All agree changes areneeded and that Fiscal Court shouldlook into contracting trash collectionby reviewing bids, but the future ofthe 109 Board is still hazy.
Magistrate-elect Steve Wardripthinks Fiscal Court needs more con-trol over the 109Board — regard-less of who pro-vides trash collec-tion — to avoid asimilar situation inthe future.
“I don’t agreewith having nocontrol,” he said.“Fiscal Courtneeds more control over (the 109Board) than they have now. They’veturned boards loose and can’t doanything about it.”
Wardrip said dissolving the 109Board would probably mean fewerheadaches for Fiscal Court members,but he’s open to the idea of havingthe county continue trash collection,if equipment can hold up and hesees proof that continuing trash col-lection would be the cheaper route.
Magistrate-elect Mark Hubbard,who sits on the 109 Board, said atthe last Fiscal Court meeting that itis too early to decide a course ofaction, but a decision will have to bemade soon. Hubbard said magis-trates should compare private collec-tors to the cost of continuing trashpickup by the county before makinga decision.
Magistrates-elect Tom Goddard,Tony Staples and Randall Hardestycould not be reached for comment.
BY CHARLES L.WESTMORELAND
The Meade County FireDepartment is seeing divi-dends of a new billing methodstarted last summer that ulti-mately may help firefighterssave lives when responding toautomobile accidents.
If a driver who lives out-side the fire district causes anauto accident, the fire depart-ment bills his or her insurancecompany enabling the depart-ment to recover costs for serv-ices, while also providingextra money to replace andupdate equipment. Meade
County Fire Chief Larry Naserrecently received the firstcheck of more than $2,000,allowing his department torepair damaged rescue tools.
“The cost to provide thatservice would normally haveto come out of our generaloperating fund budget,” Nasersaid. “Not everyone shouldhave to pay for services for asmall group of people. Foryears we’ve taken the cost oftools out of our budget, butwe don’t have a mechanism toreplace them.”
One set of rescue toolscosts $14,000, and mainte-nance on those tools costs
$1,000 annually.Naser said 35 percent of his
department’s runs are to auto-mobile accidents, and havingthe right tool and being ableto extract injured personsquickly is all that matters.
“We were using old toolsand technology,” Naser said.“When we get dispatched toan automobile accident wheresomeone is trapped in a car,time is very precious to thatpatient. If it takes us 30 min-utes to get them out, thenthat’s 30 minutes they’ve lostgetting to a hospital. If we canget them out in 10 minutes,then we can get them to a hos-
pital that much quicker.”Several years ago, Naser
was called to assist a womantrapped inside a car after shewas hit head-on by a logtruck. It took Naser and hiscrew 40 minutes to extract thewoman from the vehicle. Thatwas a half-hour too long,Naser said, except his crewdidn’t have the tools needed,so his men had to improvise.
“As a fire chief that wasvery frustrating. My guyswere pulling their hair outbecause they didn’t have the
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Local officials, educators and resi-dents have a little more than a year toprepare for a military transition that isexpected to flood Meade County andother areas neighboring Fort Knoxwith new residents.
The military’s Base Realignment andClosures Commission of 2005, alsoknown as BRAC, will transform FortKnox from a training center to a combatand command base and, in the process,place as many as 1,400 new families insurrounding counties. Military officialsexpect the majority to settle in HardinCounty, but Meade County also willlikely see a drastic increase in popula-tion over the next year.
According to the 1990 BaseRealignment and Closures Act, allBRAC Commission actions mustbegin within two years of approvaland be completed within six years,meaning the transition of soldiers toFort Knox must begin no later than2007 and be completed no later than2011. Military officials say the transi-tion will be completed in four years.
Members of the Meade CountyBRAC Action Group met Tuesday withofficials from Breckinridge, Hardinand LaRue counties in Elizabethtownto discuss the impact of BRAC andhow they can prepare. When theBRAC transition ends in 2011, FortKnox will be home to 4,000 more sol-diers and civilian employees. Whatwill impact Meade County most, how-ever, is not the number of personnelrelocating to Fort Knox but the type.
Fort Knox will close its doors as atraining installation and send itsarmor school to Fort Benning, Ga.,and move its regional correctionsfacility to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Intheir place will be an infantry brigadecombat team consisting of about 3,500soldiers, and the human resourcescommand, which is composed of
Billing change helps firefighters
The News Standard/PHILLIP STITH
Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive at Christmas by the River in Brandenburg Sunday night.
Brandenburg Mayor Ronnie Joyner announces the arrival ofSanta to “Light up Brandenburg,” begining the Holiday Season.
’’TTiiss tthhee SSeeaassoonnAs soon as he arrived,
Santa Claus lit up the eyes ofdozens of children Sundaynight at Christmas by the Riverin Brandenburg. Minutes laterhe flipped the switch that lit upBrandenburg, officially signalingthe start of the holiday season.
This is the ninth year forChristmas by the River. Theshow continues to grow eachyear and attracts thousands ofcars to downtown Brandenburg.
Tim Brown, 23, of Louisville,attended the opening festivitieswhile in Meade County for theThanksgiving holiday.
“It is my first time here and Iwasn’t sure what to expect, but Iwas impressed by the atmos-phere,” Brown said. “The peoplehere are friendly and welcoming.”
The light displays will beopen every evening until mid-night through Jan. 2.
Habitat for Humanitydedicates ninth homein Meade County
PLEASE SEE HABITAT,PAGE 2
PLEASE SEE BRAC,PAGE 2
STEVE
WARDRIP
PLEASE SEE TRASH,PAGE 2
PLEASE SEE CHANGE,PAGE 3
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mostly civilian employees.Fort Knox is building newbarracks to house soldiers, butmany of the incoming person-nel and their families will liveoff base.
“What’s important eco-nomically is a lot of peoplepass through Fort Knox fortraining, but they stay onpost,” said Russ Powell, exec-utive director of the MeadeCounty Area Chamber ofCommerce. “The people in theCombat Infantry Brigade andHuman Resources Commandwill be shopping and livinghere. They’ll be puttingmoney in the community.These people will come withtheir families and some willlive on base, but many willlive in Meade County andothers in Hardin County.”
Brandenburg Mayor-electDavid Pace, who also servesas chairman of the MeadeCounty-BrandenburgIndustrial Authority, saidBRAC already has generated abuzz among potential devel-opers, retailers and restau-rants looking to set up shop inMeade County.
“We see service-orientedcompanies being better able tolocate in Meade County andserve Fort Knox and thehomes being built around theinstallation more from thiscommunity than from HardinCounty,” Pace said, addingthat Hardin County will likelygain more restaurants andretail stores. “Since we’vechanged the industrial park tomore of a commerce park, wecan sell 1- or 2-acre tracts andput businesses in there thatserve a need.”
Pace said a computer com-pany called Build Max, whichhelps customers build homesover the Internet, has alreadybought a 3-acre lot. Also, hesaid a heating and air condi-tioning company is looking toexpand by buying land at theindustrial park.
Pace will meet with Armyand local officials in Januaryto continue preparing for thetransition. Even though manydetails have not been dis-closed, Pace said he and othercounty officials are reviewingevery angle of the transition,including the possibility ofexpanding By-Pass Road tofive lanes.
“The city has been veryaggressive in knowing thatgrowth is coming, and we’vebuilt large enough that wewon’t have to start fromscratch. We’ll just have toremodel,” he said. “There willbe so much growth, so fast,that we can’t let it run overus. We’re trying to make surewe have … everything inplace.”
The large influx of newfamilies means more childrenin the Meade County schoolsystem, somethingSuperintendent Mitch Crumpalso is prepar-ing for.
The mili-tary estimates20 percent ofthe childrenrelocatingthrough BRACwill attendMeade Countyschools, total-ing about 600new students.
Crumpexpected enrollment toincrease this year, but so farthe influx of new studentshasn’t happened.
“If we get 600 students,we’ll be behind the eight-ball,” he said. “So far, no onehas come forth with addition-al money for facilities andstaffing. We’re looking to the
federal government for assis-tance since they’re the onessending BRAC to us. No oneis helping us with the moneyit will cost to provide these
kids with aquality educa-tion and thefacilities wewant our chil-dren to have.”
MeadeCountySchoolsbought sevenbuses, hiredmore staff andteachers —who are cur-
rently being used as long-term substitutes — and islooking into building anotherelementary and middle schoolin the Flaherty/Ekron area,Crump said.
Some school constructionis already under way. A newelementary school for kinder-garten through third grade, to
be named BrandenburgPrimary School, is under con-struction. James R. AllenElementary will become aninth-grade academy, freeingmore room in Meade CountyHigh School. David T. WilsonElementary will become anintermediate school for grades4-6.
“We feel like we’re out infront, and we’re thinking inthe scenario of 600 students,”he said.
Crump said another priori-ty will be to educate coun-selors and administrators onhow to work with childrenwhose parents are deployedto war, something educatorshave not had to deal withsince Fort Knox has alwaysbeen a non-deployable train-ing station.
For more informationabout BRAC, visitwww.knox.army.mil/center/pao/index.htm oroneknox.com.
the program, which manytimes involves working onother houses as well as theirown. Habitat also offersclasses to participants toeducate them on issues thatcome with being a home-owner, such as creating aworkable budget.
Tawana Luney said thatwhile the experience wastrying, she was glad for theopportunity to own her ownhome.
“Actually building it istotally different,” she said.“You learn a lot.”
Mark Jones, the presidentof Meade County Habitat,said Habitat is the mortgageholder for its partners andoffers a rate that is usuallylower than standard loans.Homes are sold at cost andall labor is donated. Luney’sand Russell’s homes wereframed in one weekend by ayouth group from Michigan,underscoring Habitat’s con-stant need for volunteers.
“We couldn’t do thiswithout folks in the commu-nity,” said Jones, 45. “Don’tbe afraid to contactHabitat.”
Although the mission of
Habitat is to provide afford-able homes for those inneed, fund-raising coordina-tor Pat Niederst, 62, empha-sized that participants donot get a free ride.
“We give a hand up, nota handout,” Niederst said.
Niederst said an obstacleto fund raising in a ruralarea like Meade County isthe lack of industry.Donations come mostlyfrom individuals, churchesand local businesses, butfunding is always in shortsupply.
“We have two empty lotsand a list of people,”Niederst said. “We just needmoney.”
Habitat for Humanity isan international organiza-tion based in Georgia andwas founded in 1976 byMillard and Linda Fuller.While being a Christianministry, Habitat does notrequire participants to beaffiliated with any religiousorganization.
Since its inception,Habitat has built more than200,000 homes worldwideand 50,000 in the UnitedStates. For more informa-tion, please call the MeadeCounty chapter of Habitatfor Humanity at (270) 422-5445.
They reportedly have saidthey need more time to makea decision, but each agrees acomparison between countytrash pick up and privatizedcollection is needed beforemaking a decision.
Hardesty, Steve Wardripand Magistrate Herbie Chism,who is the only returningmember of Fiscal Court, areopen to restructuring the 109Board and placing controlback in the hands of FiscalCourt.
“I think we’ll continue todissolve (the 109 Board),”Steve Wardrip said. “Fromwhat I’ve seen so far — proba-bly our best shot at it is to get(Solid Waste) under control ofthe court.”
Judge/Executive-electHarry Craycroft shares themixed emotions and said hecan only make a decisionregarding the future of SolidWaste and the 109 Board after
reviewing more information.But what can’t happen,Craycroft said, is for the coun-ty to continue wasting money.
“The best way to godepends on what the figuresshow,” he said. “We need tofind out how to do it cheapest.What we can’t do is continueto throw money into a darkhole.”
This isn’t the first time thefuture of the 109 Board hasbeen on shaky ground.Magistrates voted to dissolvethe 109 Board in 2003, just toreverse their decision severalmonths later.
Outgoing Magistrate DonCallecod spoke with stateSolid Waste officials this weekand said solid waste depart-ments must have some sort ofan advisory board, accordingto state law. However, the
power of the advisory boarddepends on the limitationsplaced by Fiscal Court.
“The 109 Board is as potentas Fiscal Court makes them,”he said. “What can be done isthe board can be turned intoan advisory committee.”
109 Board Chairman BimWardrip believes the currentsystem can function if magis-trates approve the necessaryfee increase, but agreed withCallecod that the 109 Boardmight be better off as an advi-sory committee.
“Personally, I think it needsto go to an advisory board,”he said. “It’s like what(Harold) Davidson said, FiscalCourt is in charge and shouldrun things. Common sensetells me that if they’re lookingat it and see (Solid Waste)needs a rate increase, they’ll
do it.” Bim Wardrip said contract-
ing services would likely bethe easiest to manage but notnecessarily the cheapest. Ifservices are contracted out, asmany as a dozen Solid Wasteemployees would be laid off.Regardless of the steps taken,everyone needs to worktogether and stop arguing tofind a solution, he said.
“I’d like to see us all getalong and work together tohelp Meade County,” BimWardrip said. “There’s somuch turmoil right now itseems like a constant battleand there’s no need for it.”
Liaison committees forSolid Waste and Fiscal Courtwill meet at 5 p.m. Wednesdayat the courthouse to discussfinances and future methodsof solid waste collection.
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TRASHCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“I think we’ll continue to dissolve (the 109Board). Probably our best shot ... is to get(Solid Waste) under control of the court.”
Steve Wardrip, magistrate-elect
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tool that was needed,” hesaid. “In a 25-year career, youmay have a chance to savesomeone in a house firemaybe once. Every time youroll up to an automobile acci-dent and someone is trapped,you have an opportunity tosave a life.”
State Fire Marshal ChrisCrawford referred to the timeframe between an accidentand when treatment is essen-tial as the “golden hour,”meaning those who are seri-ously injured have about 60minutes to receive treatmentbefore the injuries becomefatal. The nearest trauma cen-ter is 50 miles away inLouisville, so saving evenfive minutes when extracting
someone could mean the dif-ference between life anddeath.
The fire department previ-ously was funded solely onautomobile and property taxescollected once a year from resi-dents within the district. Butthe annual $300,000 budgetwas spread thin for the depart-ment, which makes nearly 350runs a year, Naser said.
Naser said the newmethod has received somecriticism, but the concept offire departments billing indi-viduals is not new.
“It’s not that unreasonable
to go out and ask the peoplewho are the responsible par-ties for these wrecks to helppay for the cost,” he said.
Naser spoke with mem-bers of the Elizabethtownand Jefferson County firedepartments, who use thesame method of billing.Other fire departments inMeade County, includingMuldraugh, Flaherty andEkron, also bill this way.
Ekron Fire Chief LloydClaycomb said his firedepartment has used thebilling method for more thana decade.
“It helps us since we’re ona limited budget,” he said.“We can’t just raise taxes.”
Claycomb said the extramoney is used for rescue toolsand other rescue-relateditems. The Ekron FireDepartment purchased a secu-rity system and used moneycollected from billing to helppay off the loan, freeing upmoney for other expenses.
“It helps us pay for proj-ects we can’t put into budg-et,” he said. “Without it,there would be a few thingswe would have to do with-out.”
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“It’s not that unreasonable to go out and askthe people who are the responsible party forthese wrecks to help pay for the cost.”
Larry Naser, Meade County Fire Chief
FRANKFORT — Cabinetfor Health and FamilyServices (CHFS) SecretaryMark D. Birdwhistellannounced an innovative newprogram to offer nicotinereplacement therapy toMedicaid members who takeadvantage of the KentuckyTobacco Quit Line beginningDec. 15.
“We are extremely pleasedto offer smoking cessationsupport to Medicaid recipi-ents, whose smoking ratetends to be higher than that ofthe general population,”Birdwhistell said. “This newprogram represents a uniquepartnership between GetHealthy Kentucky, PublicHealth and Medicaid. This isa crucial step in our fight toreduce smoking rates andimprove the health status ofour fellow Kentuckians.”
Through the initiative, theDepartment for PublicHealth’s Tobacco Preventionand Cessation Program will
provide coverage of nicotinereplacement products at nocost to Medicaid memberswho enroll in Quit Line coun-seling.
Products will be providedto all KyHealth Choices mem-bers. Those under 18 yearsold must obtain parental con-sent to enroll in Quit Linecounseling and a doctor’s pre-scription for nicotine replace-ment products.
“Encouraging more peopleto quit smoking is one of thecore pieces of the Get HealthyKentucky program and of theCabinet’s overall focus,”Birdwhistell said. “Throughthis program, we stress theimportance of prevention andawareness, key components ofGovernor Fletcher’s Medicaidmodernization initiative.”
Medicaid members outsidethe Passport region who wantto take advantage of the pro-gram can do so by calling 1-800-QUIT NOW. Nicotinereplacement therapy (NRT)
products — including nicotinepatches, gum and lozenges —will be supplied throughfunding from additionaltobacco settlement funds ear-marked in the 2006 statebudget for smoking preven-tion and cessation programs.
Once the member calls theQuit Line, a Quit Line coun-selor will work with the mem-ber to complete an individualassessment and develop aplan. The counselor also willbe responsible for determin-ing whether the caller isMedicaid-eligible and assign-ing appropriate NRT prod-ucts. After this is complete,the member should receiveNRT products within twobusiness days.
The counselors will con-duct follow-up calls at threemonths, six months and oneyear to track participants’progress and success rates.Additionally, DMS will com-pare current claims for respi-ratory illness, ear infections,
heart attacks, stroke and can-cer after the program has beenin place one year.
According to a recentCenters for Disease Controland Prevention report,Medicaid recipients have anapproximately 38 percentgreater smoking prevalencethan the overall U.S. adultpopulation and they are dis-proportionately affected bytobacco-related disease anddisability.
“We are so pleased to beable to offer this service to theMedicaid population,” saidIrene Centers, manager ofDPH’s Tobacco Preventionand Cessation Program. “Becoming a nonsmoker isone of the single greatest ben-efits a person can do for theirhealth. We encourage peopleto call Kentucky’s TobaccoQuit Line or contact theirlocal health department aboutcessation resources in theircommunity.”
New products available to helpMedicaid members stop smoking
NEWS
BRIEFSWoman dies inBattletown house fire
BATTLETOWN — TheBattletown Fire Departmentresponded to a house fireSaturday, where a woman wasfound dead inside.
Kentucky State Police werecontacted by family membersof Susan Powell, 52, who wasfound dead inside her homeon Haynes Cemetery Road.Several small fires were burn-ing, which are presumed to bethe cause of death, state policereported.
Detective Jason Propes saidthere were no signs of foulplay or trauma, and itappeared Powell died ofsmoke inhalation and carbonmonoxide poisoning, althoughan investigation is still underway.
Frankfort — In an effort toprovide better prenatal careto inmates, the KentuckyDepartment of Correctionslaunched a pregnancy screen-ing program a few monthsago that officials say alreadyis having a significant andpositive impact.
Jailers in Kentucky werenotified in September that theDepartment was requiringand paying for the pregnancytest of every female stateinmate that was of childbearing age.
Now, if that test is posi-tive, the woman is trans-ferred quickly to theKentucky CorrectionalInstitution for Women toensure they receive properprenatal care.
According to DOCMedical Director Dr. ScottHaas, the screening programwas CorrectionsCommissioner John Rees’idea.
“He told me his idea and Iwas able to work with a ven-dor to get a good price on thetests,” Rees said. “The whole
plan, from initial discussionto implementation, took lessthan three months to put intoplace.”
Since the program began,about 25 women have beentransferred into KCIW forprenatal care and to servetheir sentences.
“At KCIW, a women’shealth practitioner takes care
of all the OB patients,” saidHaas. “I believe it is in thebest interest of the unbornchild, the mother and theCommonwealth to initiateprenatal care to our inmatesat the earliest point in theirpregnancy. Providingprompt, continuous monitor-ing and care to our pregnantinmate population decreases
complications in high-riskpregnancies and provides thegreatest opportunity for asuccessful, healthy delivery.”
Department of Corrections launchesprenatal care program for inmates
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Meade County magistrates and members of the 109Board, who oversee solid-waste management, havebeen finger-pointing over who is to blame for the mess
they have created of county garbage collection.But they are unanimous in pointing out who gets hurt by their
bad decisions.“The taxpayers are the ones who are going to bear the brunt
of this thing. One of the biggest mistakes this county ever madewas going into the garbage-pickup business,” is how MagistrateHarold Davidson put it.
Magistrates abdicated their responsibility over garbage collec-tion more than six years ago when they created the 109 Board.Now a different set of magistrates have voted to disband thesolid-waste board. Yet a third set of magistrates — those beingsworn onto the Fiscal Court in January — will be charged withfiguring out how to fix a system that is hemorrhaging money.
The lame-duck Fiscal Court had to loan the 109 Board$250,000 just to pay its bills through March.
The 109 Board blames Fiscal Court for much of its problems,saying magistrates should have approved a requested $4 feeincrease three years ago. Magistrates instead approved $2.
But the 109 Board has not helped itself by doing a poor job ofmaintaining its equipment and collecting its debts.
The proposed solution is to let private companies bid for theright to collect garbage in Meade County — the same systemthat was in place originally. Only now the solid-waste depart-ment is $700,000 in debt.
So that means rural residents now will pay not only whateverthe winning bidder charges, but an additional fee to pay off thedebt. Residents get to pay for a failed experiment of magistratesand 109 Board members who can no longer be held accountable.Isn’t that convenient?
Hopefully the new group of magistrates will learn from themistakes of the past six years. Incoming magistrates shouldshow the political strength to follow through on dissolving the109 Board — this group has so much infighting, the best it cando is talk trash.
The solid-waste department should be accountable to FiscalCourt and be required to make a monthly presentation so magis-trates — and the public — can hear the financial prognosis onthis sick organization. For it is the public that suffers whenpoliticians make bad decisions, and this incoming group of mag-istrates will be held accountable for how it resolves this fiasco.
I had a hamster named Smokeywhen I was a kid. One day, Smokeyhad nearly a dozen babies, but aweek later half of them disappearedwith no traces to be found. It wasthen, at the tender age of eight, that Ilearned hamsters eat their young.
Now — nearly 20 years later — I’vecome to the harsh realization that ham-sters aren’t alone in this odd behavior.Governments also eat their young.
After being humiliated a few yearsago at Abu-Graib by weekend war-riors toting cameras and with workingknowledge of human-pyramid forma-tions (and too much free time), andthen again at Camp X-Ray, the detain-ment camp in Guantanamo Bay whereU.S. soldiers mistakenly beat one oftheir own into a coma during a train-ing exercise in 2005. The U.S. govern-ment now hopes to save face by eatingits young to demonstrate fairness tothe world. But is it fair to send ayoung man to war and then prosecutehim for doing his job? Army specialistCory Clagett doesn’t think so.
Some of you might remember astory we printed a few weeks agoabout Clagett, a young soldier who
currently rots in a jail cell at Fort Knoxawaiting court-martial on charges ofpre-mediated murder. The same gov-ernment that sent Clagett to war is nowthreatening his livelihood. Clagett faceslife in prison at Fort Leavenworth iffound guilty of the charges. It’s notquite the homecoming reception one ofAmerica’s bravest would expect afterdutifully following orders in a war-rav-aged country where sectarian violenceis the staple of daily activity.
During a military operation toshut down a suspected insurgenttraining camp, Clagett’s unit tookfire. During the firefight, several cap-tives tried to escape and Clagett,along with the three other soldiersbeing tried, opened fire on thedetainees attempting to escape. Afterbeing cleared of any wrong-doing,the Army insisted upon further inves-tigation, proposing the theory thatClagett and the others released thedetainees to justify shooting them.
Clagett’s mother said her son’sorders were to “shoot any males of mil-itary age” except those attempting tosurrender. Running from coalitionforces hardly constitutes surrendering,
but regardless, Uncle Sam’s vestedinterest in this case is one of self-preser-vation, and Clagett is the scapegoat.
Were the men harmless Iraqi civil-ians just hanging out at a closed chemi-cal plant as though it were a mini-mall,or were they dangerous terrorists look-ing to reopen a facility closed down bythe United Nations three years ago? Wemay never know. But how is it that halfa dozen out-of-uniform, undercoverNew York police officers who unload
50 rounds into a car with threeunarmed passengers, killing one in theprocess, are placed on administrativeleave, but an American soldier fightingin Iraq who does the same thing is con-demned as a murderer? Police acciden-tally shoot civilians on American soilevery year, but none to my knowledgehave been sentenced to death. That iswhat you call hypocrisy.
Clagett was doing what he wastrained to do by the Army. He wasthinking quick and acting quicker.Clagett’s actions were proactive, some-thing the military teaches its soldiers.Soldiers who are reactive to being shotat don’t last long in war-zones.
If military officials find Clagettand the other soldiers guilty, is life inprison the way to go? Let’s sayClagett is guilty; a better alternativethan the death penalty for those fight-ing is mental treatment. The men andwomen overseas will carry emotionalscars with them the rest of their lives.Perhaps we shouldn’t absolve themof any and all wrongdoing, but wecan at least show compassion and ahint of empathy for what they’ve suf-fered. Many are serving their second,
third and even fourth tours of duty.How long can a person fight in a warbefore losing a grip on sanity and thedefinition of what is right? Should weexpect them to leave the comfort andsafety of home for years, watch thoseclosest to them die each day, and theneuthanize our mentally unfit troopslike rabid dogs?
Clagett didn’t ask for this waranymore than the others fightingoverseas. In fact, he didn’t ask for thiswar anymore than the rest of us. Forbetter or worse, we, the Americanpeople, need to stand behind ourmen and women in uniform who areusing their best judgement whilefighting in a gruesome, and oftenconfusing, war on our behalf.
If you agree, call your senator andstate representative and express howyou feel. Since Clagett and otherslike him have fought and died forour freedom, to include our freedomof speech, it’s time we put it to gooduse. If we allow our government tomake an example of Clagett thenwhat example will we, as a nation, bemaking to the world?
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CharlesWestmoreland
Military shouldn’t prosecute soldiers for following orders
This year marks the 10th anniver-sary of the most extraordinary cul-tural and policy shift in recentAmerican life — the revolutionwrought by President Clinton’s sign-ing of a welfare-reform bill in August1996. Pro-work reforms of welfarehad been bubbling up from the statessince the early 1990s, but the federallegislation completed a change inphilosophy that rippled into the livesof single mothers, changing themdramatically for the better.
If the kind of social progressbrought by welfare reform had beencaused by a liberal policy, its archi-tects would be enjoying KennedySchool sinecures. But the rebels whochanged the welfare status quo wereconservative intellectuals and office-holders. The only tribute to them isthe facts, recounted in congressionaltestimony by the HeritageFoundation’s Robert Rector, the intel-lectual godfather of reform, and in anew book, “Work Over Welfare,” byRon Haskins, a former staffer on akey congressional committee.
Welfare caseloads have dropped60 percent since the passage of wel-fare reform. Was that just the resultof a strong economy? No. Caseloadsdidn’t decline significantly in any ofthe eight periods of economic expan-
sion from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.From 1953 to 1994, the number offamilies on welfare dropped in onlyfive years, and two years in a rowonly once. By 2005, welfare caseloadshad been declining for a stunning 11straight years.
Work requirements, and the mes-sage sent by reform that dependenceis unacceptable, got former recipientsinto the work force. “From 1993 to2000 the portion of single motherswho were employed grew from 58percent to nearly 75 percent,”Haskins writes. Among never-mar-ried mothers, the most disadvan-taged group, employment grew by50 percent. “Employment changes ofthis magnitude over such a shortperiod for an entire demographicgroup are unprecedented in CensusBureau records,” he adds.
If a mother is on welfare, it basi-cally guarantees that she will bepoor. If she has a job, she will proba-bly have more income, and her chil-dren will be better off. So, childpoverty dropped every year between1994 and 2000. In 1995, the blackchild poverty rate was a little higher
(41.5 percent) than it had been in1971 (40.4 percent). Welfare reformsent it plummeting to 30 percent by2001, when “the poverty rate forblack children was at the lowestpoint in national history,” Rectorwrites.
Welfare reform, then, has affectedthe lives of millions of people. If the1999 poverty rate had still been at1990 levels, there would have beenanother 4.2 million poor mothers andchildren. If the illegitimacy rate hadcontinued at its pre-reform pace,another 1.4 million children wouldhave been born out of wedlock.Welfare reform has created a funda-mentally different and better dynam-ic in the nation’s anti-poverty policy.
More worrisome is that the suc-cess of the 1996 law has relievedpressure on policymakers to keepstates from backsliding on enforcingwork requirements. And the ultimatereform in poverty policy won’t comeuntil government encourages mar-riage among the women who nowbecome single mothers. If that seemsa hopelessly ambitious cause, a littlemore than a decade ago people saidthe same about reforming welfare.
Elberta Thomas BeelerElberta Thomas Beeler, 86, Louisville, died Nov. 19, 2006, at
Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital.A Meade County native, she lived here until 1966, attending Buck
Grove Elementary School as a child and old Rock Haven BaptistChurch. She was a member of Riverport Community Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Beeler.Mrs. Beeler is survived by five sons, Ronnie, Greg, Eric and
Danny Beeler, all of Louisville, and Paul Beeler of Elizabeth,Ind.; three daughters, Myrtle Massie, Carolyn Kerfoot and TracyBeeler, all of Louisville; a sister, Nell Morgan, of Louisville; 14grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Graveside rites were held in Highland Memory Garden inMt. Washington, directed by Chapman Funeral Home ofClarksville, Ind. Expressions of sympathy may take the form ofcontributions to the Arthritis Foundation.
William E. Benock William E. Benock, 91, of Battletown,
died Nov. 21, 2006. He was born inLouisville on Aug. 7, 1915, the son of thelate William Joseph and Carrie (Everhart)Benock.
He served in the United States Armyand was a World War II veteran. He was alifelong produce farmer, a KentuckyColonel, and a member of St. MaryMagdalen Catholic Church.
He was preceded in death by a son,Robert Benock; a daughter, SharonMooser; a great-granddaughter, HeidiGlotzbach; and a brother, Henry Benock.
Mr. Benock is survived by his wife of65 years, Helen Catherine (Kiefer) Benock;four children, Beverly (Bill) Cole andDolores Jean (Garnie) Ray, both ofBattletown; Gerald (Theresa) Benock ofPort Charlotte, Fla., and Gary (Lisa)Bencok of Vincennes, Ind.; 13 grandchil-dren; 30 great-grandchildren; and onegreat-great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held Nov. 25 from St. Mary MagdalenChurch in Payneville. Burial was in St. Mary MagdalenCemetery, directed by Bruington-Jenkins-Sturgeon FuneralHome. Pallbearers were Cletus Taylor, Bob Marengo, GeorgeKing, Joe Lockhard, John Biddle, and William Biddle.
Adasyn Lynne BurgessAdasyn Lynne Burgess, infant daughter of Drew and
Catherine Burgess, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006.She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather,
Dwight Burgess.She is survived by her parents, Drew and Catherine Burgess
of Vine Grove; one sister, Ashtyn Cundiff; paternal grandmoth-er, Regina Burgess of Rineyville; maternal grandparents, Alanand Robin Gilley Howard Sr. of Vine Grove; maternal great-grandmother Catherine Watts of Vine Grove; three uncles, AllanHoward Jr. of Vine Grove, Dexter Burgess of Radcliff, and DougJenkins of Radcliff; and one aunt, Kim Jenkins of Radcliff.
A graveside service was held Tuesday, Nov. 28, at St. BrigidCemetery in Vine Grove with Leo Craycroft officiating.
Visitation was held at Coffey & Chism Funeral Home onMonday, Nov. 27.
Expressions of sympathy can be made at First Federal SavingsBank in Radcliff, in memory of Adasyn Lynne Burgess.
Condolences can be expressed online at www.coffeyand-chism.com.
Magdalene TheresaCritchelow Carwile
Magdalene Theresa Critchelow Carwile, 81, of McDaniels,Ky., died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006 at Medco Center inHardinsburg. She was born in Roff, Ky., on July 26, 1925, thedaughter of the late Raymond and Nettie Poole Critchelow.
She was a homemaker and member of St. Anthony CatholicChurch.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Carwile;and two brothers, Leo and Hobart Critchelow.
She is survived by five sons and daughters-in-law; Russelland Jean Carwile of Caneyville, Ky., Rudy and Lois Carwile ofWestview, Ky., Gary and Patty Carwile of Hardinsburg, Ky.,Ralph and Linda Carwile of Westview, Ky., Warren and WandaP. Carwile of McDaniels, Ky.; 21 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 25, at St. AnthonyCatholic Church with Tom Buckman officiating. Burial was inthe St. Anthony Cemetery.
Memorial contributions are requested to be sent to St.Romuald School or St. Anthony Cemetery.
Online guest register: www.trentdowell.com
Daniel Elroy CountermanDaniel Elroy Counterman, 45, of Battletown, died Sunday,
Nov. 26, 2006, at Harrison County Hospital, Corydon. He is survived by his wife, Charlene Counterman of West
Lafayette, Ind.; a son, Danny Counterman of Lanesville, Ind.; asister, Corlis Counterman of Bakersfield, Calif.; a brother, DanaCounterman of Daytona Beach, Fla.; an aunt, Wanda Mehler ofBattletown; and an uncle, Ray Counterman of Battletown.Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, fromthe Chapel of the Hager Funeral Home. Friends may call at thefuneral home after 12 noon Saturday.
Billy Jack DozierBilly Jack Dozier, 73, of Radcliff, passed away Wednesday,
Nov. 22, 2006, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.Mr. Dozier’s memberships include:
Radcliff United Methodist Church, VineGrove United Methodist Church, WilliamR. Burns FOP #39, Vine Grove MasonicLodge #603 F. & A.M., and CentralKentucky Electrical Association. He was aformer Radcliff police officer for almost 15years and a former member of RadcliffVolunteer Fire Department for 30 years.
He was preceded in death by his par-ents, Everett and Sudie Dozier; two broth-ers, James Dozier and Everett Dozier; andone sister, Maxine Grogan.
He is survived by his wife, Doris Dozier of Radcliff; one son,Jack Dozier (Sharlia) of Radcliff; one daughter, Janet Dozier ofRadcliff; four grandchildren; six great grandchildren; threebrothers, Pat Dozier of Fla., Jim Dozier of Radcliff, and BennyDozier; and five sisters, Imogene Edmonds, Bobbie Moore, andPhyllis Robbins, all of Shawneetown, Ill., Sharon Robbins ofToledo, Ohio, and Margie Grogan of Covington, Ky.
Funeral Services were held Saturday, Nov. 25, at Coffey &Chism Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry Vickers officiating.Burial was in North Hardin Memorial Gardens, Radcliff.
Expressions of sympathy can be made to the Crusade forChildren, P.O. Box 1100, Louisville, KY 40201.
Condolences can be expressed online at www.coffeyand-chism.com
David Anthony French David Anthony French, 76, Vine Grove,
Mr. French was a member of D.A.V.Chapter 156 and Fleet Reserve.
He was preceded in death by his par-ents, Bernard and Anna French; two sons,David Anthony French and Mark WayneFrench; two brothers, Bill French andDonald French; and two sisters, LoisFrench and Marie French.
He is survived by his wife, BarbaraFrench of Vine Grove; one son, LucasBernard French (Deveney) of Louisville;two daughters, Rachel French ofLouisville, and Sarah French of VineGrove; two step-children, Carolyn Kishof Prairie DuRocher, Ill., and David Heilof Valley Center, Calif.; one grandson,Johnny Kish; one sister, Patricia Burnsof Lauderdale, Miss; and one brother,Kenneth French of Brenham, Texas.
A funeral mass was held on Saturday, Nov. 25, at St. BrigidCatholic Church in Vine Grove, with the Rev. Dennis Cousensofficiating. Burial was in the St. Brigid Cemetery with militaryhonors, directed by Coffee and Chism Funeral Home.
Expressions of sympathy can be made to Hospice &Palliative Care of Central Kentucky, P.O. Box 2149,Elizabethtown, KY 42702.
Condolences can be expressed online at www.coffeyand-chism.com
Susan Martine PowellSusan Martine Powell, 52, Battletown, died Nov. 25, 2006, at
her residence. She was born Aug. 19, 1954, in Brandenburg.Ms. Powell is survived by her parents, Nevitt and Kathleen
O’Bryan Powell of Brandenburg; three brothers, Michael (Sally)Powell of Lexington, Timothy Powell of Louisville, andMatthew (Jan) Powell of Brandenburg; two sisters, Kathy(Gayle) Clemons of Prospect, and Amy (David) Stankiewicz of
Brandenburg; and nine nieces and nephews.A memorial mass was held Nov. 28 from St. John the Apostle
Catholic Church with the Rev. Paul Beach officiating. Burial wasin St. George Cemetery, directed by Hager Funeral Home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributionsto the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, 730 N. FranklinStreet, Suite 501, Chicago, IL 60610-7224, or to the KentuckyHumane Society, 241 Steedly Drive, Louisville, KY 40214.
Charles Edward “Buck”Sexton
Charles Edward “Buck” Sexton, 61, Irvington, died Nov. 25,2006, at Hardin Memorial Hospital, Elizabethtown. He was bornMay 4, 1945, the son of Frank Taff and Bessie Lee SalsmanSexton.
He was an Army veteran of the Korean Conflict.He was preceded in death by his parents; a stepdaughter,
Martha Drury; two grandchildren, Davidand Kenny Drury Jr.; and three great-grandchildren, Shain Drury, David Druryand Courtney Drury.
Mr. Sexton is survived by his belovedcompanion, Mary Drury of Irvington;three stepsons, William Drury Sr. ofBrandenburg, Kenneth Drury Sr. ofGuston, and Garry Drury Sr. of Flaherty;two stepdaughters, Barbara Musser ofElkton, and Tammy Ross of Brandenburg;a sister, Fanny Cundiff of Irvington; threebrothers, Gene Sexton, Harned, Joe Sexton, Louisville, andDonnie Sexton, Irvington; nine grandchildren, William Drury Jr.,Kenitha Drury, Marlaina Drury, Cameron Perry, Rachel Smith,Jeremy Musser, James Smith, Garry Drury Jr., and MitchellDrury; two great-grandfather, Ashley and Ryan Drury; and sev-eral nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held Nov. 29, from the Chapel of HagerFuneral Home with Chaplain Peggy Holthaus officiating. Burialwas in Ekron Baptist Church Cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributionsto the family in care of Hager Funeral Home.
Stephen Richard TurnerStephen Richard Turner, 55, of Flaherty, died Wednesday,
Nov. 22, 2006, at the home of his sister, Brenda Lemakos.Cremation was chosen.The guest register may be signed at www.nebfh.com.Nelson-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
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at the VFW Post 11404 Building at770 By-Pass Road, Brandenburg, KY.
Guest speakers will be State Representative Gerry Lynn
andState Senator Carroll Gibson
All outgoing and newly elected officials aswell as all interested citizens are cordially
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• Shrimp and Fish Fry (cor-rection) at Holy GuardianAngels Catholic Church.Serving from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.EST. Everyone is invited. Formore info call 270-547-2361
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Closet and Food PantryChristmas open house from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. Cookies and
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Respecting religious differences important“God looked at everything he had
made, and he found it very good.”— Genesis
When I was invited to write a col-umn for this paper every once in awhile, I was hesitant. For the lastfour years, I have been writing aweekly column for our Catholicpaper, The Record.
This invitation was such anopportunity to reach more people ofMeade County that I looked for away to do both, without addingmore to my already busy schedule.
I have decided to republish someof those columns that might speak topeople outside my own religion andeven to people with no religious affil-iation at all. After all, I have spentmy whole life trying to look for thegoodness in other people and other
religions. I am proud to be from Rhodelia. I
went to the now-closed Cross RoadsSchool (formerly St. Theresa School).It was my dream, from early child-hood, to be a priest someday so I leftRhodelia to attend St. ThomasSeminary High School and JuniorCollege in Louisville in 1958 to beginmy 12-year study for the priesthood.
Very few people expected me tomake it. I was even discouraged by afew to even attempt it at such ayoung age, but after finishing sixyears at St. Thomas Seminary, I con-tinued six more years at St. MeinradSeminary in Indiana, where I nowteach. I was finally ordained in thespring of 1970.
One of the things I am mostproud of during those and the yearssince, is my love and respect for peo-
ple of other faiths. In grade school,one of my best friends was “Stevie”Chism of Wolf Creek. He was aMethodist. I always envied his color-ful Sunday School material.
Another of my childhood memo-ries was attending a funeral of a dis-tant relative at the Stephensport
Baptist Church. In my heart, I secret-ly loved the gospel-style singing at atime we used Latin in our services.
While in the seminary at St.Meinrad, we had a couple of profes-sors from other faiths. One of mycounselors was a Disciple of Christminister. While in the seminary, Iwas allowed to work one summer asa campground minister for theUnited Church of Christ in CraterLake National Park in Oregon.
After ordination, while being sta-tioned in Monticello, Ky., I worked ona Doctor of Ministry degree in parishrevitalization from McCormick(Presbyterian) Seminary in Chicago. Ialso started an interdenominationalcampus ministry program at SomersetCommunity College and had an inter-denominational radio program onSunday mornings.
As pastor of the Cathedral of theAssumption in Louisville, I helpedstart an ecumenical and interfaithorganization that is now nationallyrecognized.
I am a committed Catholic, yes,but I can see goodness in other peo-ple of faith and even those who haveno religious affiliation. You don’thave to agree on everything torespect other people. God knows theworld needs this kind of respect.
Rev. J. Ronald Knott, a periodiccolumnist, is the son of Jim and EthelKnott of Rhodelia. He is presently serv-ing as a Campus Minister at BellarmineUniversity and Director of the Institutefor Priests and Presbyterates at St.Meinrad School of Theology. He is also aweekly columnist for THE RECORD,author of several books and a nationalmotivational speaker.
J. Ronald Knott
BY WILSON CASEY
1. Is the book of 3 Chronicles in the Old or New Testament orneither?
2. What “holy” thing did Paul tell Timothy that Christiansshould lift up in prayer? Hearts, Hands, Voices, Children
3. From 2 Kings 9, what king of Israel drove his chariots likea madman? Manasseh, Ahasuerus, Darius, Jehu
4. What place was known as the “Land of Promise”? Israel,Canaan, Babylon, New Jerusalem
5. Where was the birth of Methodism? Switzerland, Germany,England, Egypt
6. Who was the brother of Moses? Noah, Aaron, Eli, SethANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Hands; 3) Jehu; 4) Canaan; 5)
England; 6) AaronFor more teasers, log on to www.TriviaGuy.com
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based company. There are 11guys in our office, all betweenthe ages of 24 and 33. We’relike a fraternity. Many of ushave known each other sincehigh school.
One of the crew, “Rufus,”recently had both his legsamputated at the knee. He hadbeen living with undiagnoseddiabetes for years. News ofRufus’s amputation rocked ourgroup. We all took shifts to bewith him at the hospital.
Once we heard that Rufuswas going to be in a wheel-chair, we wanted to makeRufus’s return to work evenmore smooth. We wanted tolet him know that just becausehe had a serious physicalchange,that he was still ourbrother and nothing haschanged — emotionally andfriendship-wise — for us.
So we went out and“pimped” a brand-new wheel-chair. We put mag wheels andspinnin’ rims on it. Wepadded the chair with velourto look like a recliner andattached several flat-screen TVpanels to it, along with wire-less Internet access. Rufus is abig fan of the show “Pimp MyRide,” so we thought thispimped-out chair would be acool “Welcome Back Bro” gift.
Boy, were we wrong. WhenRufus saw the chair, hefreaked out. He thought thatsomehow we were makingfun of his disability. Thiscouldn’t be further from thetruth. We tried to explain thatwe were just trying to makehis return to work easier andto maybe relieve some of thestress he’s been through.Rufus didn’t want to listen.He stormed out of the officeand hasn’t been back to workfor nearly a week.
Were we wrong?— TEN CONFUSED AND
CONCERNED GUYS
DEAR GUYS:Your hearts were in the
right place, but your timing
was off. Rufus is still trying tocope with a serious life-and-death event. He hasn’t hadenough time to catch hisbreath and gain a little per-spective.
I would suggest speakingwith his doctor about Rufus’scondition and how you canhelp him readjust to his newlife. Maybe the doctor canrefer you to a support groupthat you and Rufus can join.
In time, Rufus will under-stand that even though he hasdiabetes and is now confined toa wheelchair, he is still the samegreat man you guys love as abrother. Keep the chair handy.Eventually, he’ll ask for it.
DEAR DIANE:My best friend, “Verna,”
and I attend church togetherseveral times a week. I loveVerna, but bless her heart, shecannot carry a tune if youwrapped it in tin foil and putit in her purse. Needless tosay, whenever it is time to singthe hymns, I get an atonal ear-ful. What would be a tactfulway of asking Verna to notsing and simply mouth thewords?
— PERFECT PITCH INPENNSYLVANIA
DEAR PENNSYLVANIA:I thought the reason for
singing hymns was to lift upone’s voice to praise God insong, not entertain the personnext to me in the pew. Silly me.
DEAR DIANE:My fiance, “Fred,” and I are
to be married in December. Ihave been planning this wed-ding for a year, and I want myday to be perfect. It will costmy father close to $80,000.
I will arrive in a horse-drawn carriage — a replica ofthe one in “Sleeping Beauty.”We’ve hired an orchestra andchoir; 100 doves will bereleased as I exit the cathedralfollowing the ceremony. Fivehundred of my friends andrelatives will be in attendance.
My parents have been
extremely supportive of myneed for my day to be perfect,but Fred has been nothing but abuzzkill. He has more thanonce questioned the cost of thewedding. Now he is refusing towear the white tuxedo I pickedout for him, calling it “tacky.”He insists upon wearing a sim-ple dark suit with a white rosein the lapel. How boring!
Diane, I have too muchplanning yet to do to dealwith Fred’s immaturity. Couldyou write something that willpersuade him to see things myway and not ruin my day?
— PRINCESS IN ST.PETERSBURG
DEAR PRINCESS:Sorry to burst your bubble,
Your Highness, but I’m onFred’s side. Wearing a tuxedo toa wedding is tacky — althoughnot as tacky as the princess car-riage you’ll be tooling up in.And then you compound thetackiness of the tuxedo byinsisting that it be white. Awhite dinner jacket is only to beworn after 6 p.m. in tropicallocales (like the Bahamas) orbetween Memorial Day andLabor Day — not on aDecember afternoon in Florida.
If you want Fred to wearformal clothes, the proper suitwould be a morning coat withstriped trousers. However, Ithink Fred’s choice of wearinga dark suit is a perfect, classic,understated fashion choice.
And one final comment.Even though your daddyindulges your princess fanta-sy, don’t expect the rest of theworld (including Fred) to playalong. Despite what you think,this is NOT your day. It takestwo people to get married.
I think you’d best learn towork with Fred or you will loseyour prince. Honestly, I would-n’t be surprised if he decides tobreak off the engagement.
Kentucky’s seasonallyadjusted unemployment ratefell from 5.3 percent inSeptember 2006 to 5.2 percent inOctober 2006, according to theOffice of Employment andTraining, an agency of theEducation Cabinet. October’sjobless rate was more than apercentage point below October2005’s rate of 6.4 percent.
The U.S. seasonally adjust-ed jobless rate decreased from4.6 percent in September 2006to 4.4 percent in October 2006,according to the U.S.Department of Labor.
“Kentucky’s unemploy-ment rate of 5.2 percent inOctober 2006 is the lowest raterecorded for the state inalmost two years.Unemployment rates in thecommonwealth have beenbelow 6 percent in five of thepast six months,” said CarlosCracraft, the department’schief labor market analyst.“Kentucky was one of 43states that had a lower unem-ployment rate in October 2006than in October 2005, and oneof 32 states that had a lowerunemployment rate in October2006 than in September 2006.”
Three of the 11 major non-farm job North AmericanIndustry Classification System(NAICS) sectors had employ-ment increases in October,while seven decreased, andone remained the same,Cracraft said. The decrease of4,800 jobs brought Kentucky’snonfarm employment to a sea-sonally adjusted total of1,846,200 in October 2006.
“The two federal surveysthat produce employmentindicators, the household sur-vey and the employer survey,moved in opposite directionsin October, which happensoccasionally. The householdsurvey counts the number ofKentuckians employed, whilethe employer survey counts
the number of jobs. ThisOctober loss of jobs was pri-marily due to sizeable lossesof jobs in the manufacturing,government, and leisure andhospitality industry sectors,”said Cracraft. “Kentucky’snonfarm employment hasincreased in 12 of the past 15months, and has jumped by12,800 since October 2005.”
According to the seasonallyadjusted employment data,Kentucky’s construction sectorgained 700 jobs in October2006. Since October 2005,employment in this sector hasadded 1,800 jobs. Most of thehires have been in specialtytrades, such as contractorsinvolved in pouring concrete,site preparation, plumbing,painting and electrical work,said Cracraft.
The natural resources andmining sector had 200 morejobs in October 2006 comparedto September 2006. SinceOctober 2005, the sector hasrisen by 1,400 jobs, mainly inthe coal mining industry.
“After several years ofgradual decline in miningjobs, about 4,200 jobs haveadded in this sector during thepast two-and-a-half years,”Cracraft said.
Kentucky’s professionaland business services sectoremployment rose by 100 jobsin October 2006. This sectorhad 2,800 more employees inOctober 2006 than in October2005. The professional andbusiness services sectorincludes professional, scientif-ic and technical services, andmanagement of companiesand administrative and sup-port management, includingtemporary help agencies.
The information sectorrecorded the same employ-ment in September 2006 andOctober 2006. This sector,which includes firms involvedin publishing, Internet activi-
ties and broadcasting andnews syndication, had 100more jobs in October 2006than October 2005.
On the negative side of theledger, Kentucky’s manufac-turing sector recorded 2,000fewer jobs in October 2006than in September 2006.Compared to October 2005,the sector had 7,000 fewerpositions in October 2006.
“The manufacturing sectorhas lost employment in six ofthe past eight months. Some ofthose have been permanent joblosses, but many have been tem-porary in nature that occurredduring the survey period forthat month,” said Cracraft.
Employment in the govern-ment sector, which includespublic education, fell by 1,600jobs in October 2006. SinceOctober 2005, this sector hasgained 2,100 jobs.
“The public education por-tion of this sector tends tocause sharp counter-move-ments in the seasonal adjust-ment employment numbers.”
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BRANDENBURG – TheNews Standard, one of theweekly newspapers thatserves Meade County, is invit-ing the public to a ribbon-cut-ting ceremony to mark theopening of its new offices.
The ceremony will takeplace at noon Friday, Dec. 8, atthe newspaper’s new home at1065 Old Ekron Road, wherethe building that once housedPizza Tonight restaurant hasbeen extensively remodeled.
The move to the new loca-tion took place earlier thisweek, according to MatthewTungate, the newspaper’smanaging editor. When itbegan publication in mid-October, the newspaper’s
offices were located in thestore-office complex at 2025ByPass Road.
“This is an important stepfor The News Standard,”Tungate said. “It gives us thespace we need to serve ourreaders and advertisers and ittells the community that we’rehere to stay. We’re confidentthat if we publish a goodnewspaper, readers and adver-tisers will follow.”
Owners of The NewsStandard are Sue Cummings,of Ekron, who is the publisher;Bruce and Rita Williams, ofDoe Valley; and David andTheresa Padgett, ofBrandenburg.
The News Standard’s
offices are open from 8 a.m. to5 p.m. Monday throughFriday. Its telephone numberis 270-422-4542, and its faxnumber is 270-422-4575.
According to Tungate, thenewspaper plans to have whathe characterized as a “full-service” web site online dur-ing the first quarter of 2007. Itsaddress will be www.thenews-standard.com.
The Meade County AreaChamber of Commerce isassisting with the ribbon-cut-ting ceremony – a service itprovides at the request of anynew or relocating business inthe community, according toRuss Powell, its executivedirector.
The News Standardto host open house
Unemployment down in October
Fun & GamesPage 8 Friday, December 1, 2006
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Keep those sharp Sheepeyes focused on a hazy situation. As things begin to clear up,you’ll find a sharper picture emerging, showing something youwill need to know.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Watch your expensesthrough the end of the month. Later, you’ll be glad to have extramoney to pay for something that will make an acquisitiveBovine’s heart beat faster.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re now ready to makethat oft-deferred commitment, if you still believe it’s what youwant. Don’t be afraid to change your mind if you feel youshould go in another direction.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Now that you are mov-ing on with your life after that recent disappointment, howabout reactivating your travel plans and taking someone specialalong with you.
LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Many new friends come intoyour personal life, which suits all of you social Lions just fine.However, one new friend might make demands that you couldfind difficult to deal with.
VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Communication doesn’texist unless it’s two-way. So if you’re getting no replies to thesignals you’re sending, it could be time to look for someonemore receptive.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) A workplace complicationthat you thought was ironed out develops new wrinkles thatneed attention. Meanwhile, expect continuing improvement inyour home life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) A tense personal problemneeds to be talked out before someone decides to walk out.Resist making decisions until full explanations are offered fromboth sides.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) A technologicalglitch that caused problems recently will soon be repaired, andlife can return to normal. A colleague has a surprising messageto deliver.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Your partner mightfeel that you haven’t been as open with him or her as you shouldbe. Deal with this now, before it turns into something more diffi-cult to handle.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Good news: Many ofthe stumbling blocks that affected the progress of some of yourcareer projects are fading away. Things also start to look up onthe home front.
PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) You’ll need that strongPiscean pluck to get through waters that will be turbulent for awhile. A more positive aspect soon emerges, along with somewelcome news.
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Claus!Every child's letter will be published,
unedited, Friday, December 22. This is a great way to let children express
themselves and see their work in thenewspaper, which is distributed free to
every postal address in the county.
Letters to Santa should be no more than100 words and should include each child’sname, age, school and class. We would
prefer letters to be typed and submitted viae-mail to letters@the news standard. Theymay also be put on a CD-ROM or a USB
storage device and delivered to The NewsStandard office. Letters should be saved ina “.txt” format, which is an option for almost
every word processing program. Lettersmay be sent individually or as one large
document per class. Typed letters are dueto The News Standard by 5 o’clock p.m.
Friday, December 15th. We also will acceptneatly handwritten letters as well, but thedeadline is December 8th. Hand-drawnpictures for Santa can be substituted for
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SportsFriday, December 1, 2006 Page 9
This year’s edition ofLouisville basketball looks tobe much improved with aninflux of talented newcomers.
After finishing 21-13 overalland tied for 11th in the BigEast at 6-10 last season, theCards appear to be deeper atnearly every position and willlook more like a prototypicalrunning-and-pressing RickPitino team.
Last year, the Cards beganthe season ranked in the top10, but the freshmen didn’t liveup to their lofty billing andUofL had some key injuries.The Cards also lost a lot ofclose games, couldn’t reboundor defend the way Pitino likes,and couldn’t shoot consistentlyfrom the perimeter.
Injuries could play a factoragain this season as sopho-more point guard AndreMcGee will be out until confer-ence play begins due to aminor knee injury. Junior for-ward David Padgett also isrecovering from major kneesurgery — which he had onlyeight months ago — and lonesenior guard Brandon Jenkinsbroke his leg over the summerand is not yet at 100 percent.
Louisville lost its best play-er to graduation in guardTaquan Dean, but UofL has thesixth-ranked recruiting class byRivals.com coming into thisseason, and the freshmenshould play a lot. Edgar Sosahas taken the starting pointguard job for now, and guardJerry Smith has played fantas-tic early as the least ballyhooedof the freshmen. The Cardsalso reeled in two five-starprospects in 6-9 DerrickCaracter and 6-8 Earl Clark,although Caracter must serve athree-game suspension andClark is still recovering from astress fracture.
Athletic sophomore wingTerrence Williams will look toimprove on a good first sea-son. Williams is a promisingall-around player and shouldbe a big part of everything theCards do this season on bothends of the court.
Junior forward JuanPalacios also does a lot ofthings well and looks to beinjury-free after being slowedby a foot injury last season.Palacios should be the Cards’go-to-guy this season and apossible Player of the Year can-didate in the conference.
Pitino placed a lot ofemphasis on conditioning thisoff-season and, if healthy, histeams have always been ableto score in bunches. Look forUofL to really turn up thepress and get its transitiongame going again this season.
The Big East lost 11 playersto the NBA draft last seasonand Pittsburgh center AaronGray is the lone returnee fromlast season’s all-conferenceteam. The league reportedlywill be much more post-domi-nated than in recent years, andthe Cards will need Caracter,Padgett, 6-10 Terrance Farleyand 7-0 center JonathanHuffman to match up againstplayers like the 7-foot Gray,Georgetown’s 7-2 Roy Hibbert,Syracuse’s 6-11 Darryl Watkins,Providence’s 6-11 RandallHanke, and Connecticut’s 7-3Hasheem Thabeet.
For the Cards to become acontender, they must learn todefend better in the half-courtand they MUST rebound bet-ter. UofL finished 15th in the
The News Standard/SHAUN T. COX
Junior guard Mindy Oliver, who scored 25 points, goes for a layup against Bullitt East.
Senior guard Jasmine Newby drivesby Bullitt East’s Kayla Thacker duringthe Lady Chargers’ 63-58 win over theLady Waves. Newby finished withseven points in Tuesday’s home game.
Lady Waves fall, 63-58BY SHAUN T. COX
BRANDENBURG — TheLady Waves lost their homeopener Tuesday to the LadyChargers of Bullitt East inwhat Coach Josh Hurt termedas one of the most physicalgames you’ll see on the highschool level — on both sidesof the ball.
The game was marred byconstant pushing and shov-ing, bodies hitting the floorand, of course, foul trouble asthe Lady Waves lost 63-58.
“It was rough and tumble,no doubt about it,” Hurt said.“But Bullitt East plays thatway, and I was really happywith our kids because I felt
like we matched that. We’reOK with it because I think wecan play that kind of game.We didn’t back down and wehung in there with them.”
The Lady Waves led 23-14midway through the secondquarter, but then fouls startedtaking their toll. MeadeCounty senior guard JasmineNewby — the quickest playeron the floor — got her fourthfoul in the second quarterand had to go to the bench.Junior guard KimMontgomery also had tospend extended time on thebench, and Bullitt East made
WavewinsopenerBY SHAUN T. COX
The Greenwave basketball team went toLouisville Butler on Tuesday and foughtthrough some early sloppiness to pull outthe first win of the new season, 46-39.
Coach Jerry Garris said the way his teamplayed was typical for a first game with somany fresh faces.
“I think we made a lot of mistakes earlyand had the first-game jitters,” he said. “Wehad four new starters out there and itshowed. We got off to a shaky start andturned the ball over five or six times in ourfirst seven possessions and got down 8-2.”
After the early Butler run, theGreenwave gained its composure and begana run of its own.
“Once we settled down, we playeddecently and I was pleased,” Garris said.“We were down four at the end of the firstquarter and then tied it at 16. We took thelead at 18-16 and wenever trailed, and anytimeyou go to Louisville andwin on the road, you’veplayed pretty well.”
Junior forward EricWhelan said Meade wasforced to play a tempo thatmay not best suit its game.
“I think we got hur-ried,” he said. “We’re notgoing to run and gun thewhole time, and we like to slow it down alittle bit. We were playing too fast and turn-ing it over.”
Garris said he expected Butler to starthot, but his team kept its composure.
“The main thing was we got settleddown a little bit,” he said. “They were out intheir home opener and came out hot andmade a couple of shots early, which gotthem going. Most of the turnovers we hadwere not anything they did to us; it wasreally our own demise. We ended up withquite a few turnovers for the game, butmost of them came early.”
Senior guard Riley Benock is one of thetop guards in the state and was the leadingscorer and rebounder with 13 and nine,respectively. According to Whelan, the key toa good season will be getting the 6-5 Benockthe ball to create, and hitting the glass.
“As a team, I think we need to get theball in Riley’s hands more,” he said. “Hedidn’t have that many points and he needsto get more shots off. Even if he takes moreand misses, that’s fine because we’ve gotme, Nick Stinnett and Chris Roe to hit theboards and put some shots back up.”
Whelan said rebounding and defense werethe keys for Meade County against Butler.
“We played a tight zone and they werehaving trouble getting the ball inside and Ithink that really hurt them because theyhave a pretty good post player, but theycouldn’t really get him the ball and we got alot of defensive rebounds,” he said. “Wereally try to go to the boards hard and thatwas the key to our success.”
Garris was pleased with the overall playof the team, especially the contributionsfrom the reserves.
“We’ve got a lot to work on, which isnormal for the beginning of the year,” hesaid. “But I liked our effort. We got goodplay out of a lot of kids and especially fromour bench. Eric Whelan had a really goodgame with nine points and seven rebounds,and Johnathan Ives had eight points and
Six classes a ‘distraction’
Mears out, Montoya inBY BUDDY SHACKLETTE
It’s been a drivers’ carousel atChip Ganassi Racing with FelixSabates the last couple of years.
CGR, a company that haswon on nearly every majorlevel of oval-track racing, canclaim over 50 wins and fivechampionships over the last12 years. But, driver longevityhasn’t exactly been at the topof the list as of late.
Jamie McMurray, formerdriver of the No. 42Texaco/Havoline Dodge,started the ball rolling lastyear when he announced hewould be leaving CGR tobegin driving for RoushRacing in 2006.
Veteran driver SterlingMarlin was already replacedby rookie David Stremme inthe No. 40 CGR entry, and
rookie Reed Sorenson was setto take over the driving dutiesof the No. 41 Target Dodge.
The No. 41 had been occu-pied the past three seasons byCasey Mears, but Mearsjumped to the No. 42, leavingSorenson to wheel both of theNo. 41 entries in the NASCARNEXTEL Cup Series andBusch Series.
“It’s not a tight driver mar-ket across the board. It’s atight driver market when youwant good drivers, qualitydrivers who have the experi-ence. That’s what you’re look-ing for,’’ said team ownerChip Ganassi. “These days,there are plenty of guys outthere that can drive these cars,but can they do the job on thetrack? Can they do the job offthe track? Can they have thematurity level to deal with all
the scenarios they’re going tobe faced with throughout theseason? These are the thingsthe team owners are lookingfor these days.”
The veteran driver shortagecoming into the 2006 NEXTELCup season left CGR only onedriver, Mears, with legitimateCup experience and two driv-ers competing for RaybestosRookie of the Year.
CGR went from recoverymode to survival mode atmidseason when Mearsannounced he would be leav-ing CGR at the end of the sea-son to wheel the No. 25Chevrolet of HendrickMotorsports in 2007.
“I’ve learned a lot. I reallyowe Ganassi Racing andeverybody here a lot with theknowledge I’ve gained overthe last few years.”
BY SHAUN T. COX
Kentucky’s move from four divi-sion for football to six next year isjust is just a way for the KentuckyHigh School Athletic Association totake people’s attention away fromthe biggest problem at hand: private-school recruiting, Meade County’sfootball coach said.
“All that is, is a distraction from thereal issue,” Head Coach Larry Mofieldsaid. “Honestly, the people who thinkit’s a level playing field have nevercoached before. It’s not a level playing
field, and anytimeyou have no bound-aries and you cantake players fromanywhere you want,that right thereshould tell you it’snot a level playingfield.”
Meade Countyfootball will moveup to Class 6A, as the Kentucky HighSchool Athletics Association voted tochange the entire classification systemin the state.
The KHSAA’s Board of Controlvoted earlier this year to expand theplayoffs for the 2007 and 2008 sea-sons, which will boost the number ofteams in the playoffs from 128 to 192— about more than 85 percent of theteams in the state.
Mofield said the reclassification isdue to the battle public and privateschools have been waging overalleged recruiting allegations fromthe public schools.
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Freshman Joey Carter, right, tries to reverse ahold by sophomore John Paul Huffines duringWednesday night’s intrasquad scrimmage.
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league last year in reboundingmargin and, to be a Big Eastbig-dog, the Cards have got toget physical. If the Cards canrun and press more like Pitinowants, that will ease the bur-den on their half-court defen-sive sets.
The Cards’ non-conferenceschedule is incredibly weak,but there are still some goodgames against Arizona onDec. 5, Pitino protégé TravisFord and UMass on Dec. 13and of course, Kentucky onDec. 16.
As Dickie V. would say, therest of the UofL non-confer-ence schedule is cup-cake city.If the two schools were smart,UofL would set up a seriesagainst border rival Indiana —something that would be ahuge game and a lot of fun towatch.
The conference schedulewill, however, be a beast. Inone five-game stretch, theCards will face Connecticut,Syracuse, Cincinnati,Villanova and Georgetown —all top 25 teams except UC,which could be at some point.
The bottom line is the
Cards are still very young, asnine of 12 scholarship playersare in their first or secondyears. But Pitino now has thequality depth to play his style— even though it may not besuch a great fit for the rugged,physical Big East Conference. Four of five starters return,and getting senior leaderBrandon Jenkins to 100 per-cent will be a big key.
Look for the Cards to finishin the top half of the Big Eastand go back to the NCAAtournament as a five seed.Don’t expect UofL to makemuch noise in March untilnext year, when another tripto the Final Four is a definitepossibility.
Player ProfilesGUARDSEdgar Sosa6-1, 175, freshman Sosa is starting right now and isa passionate, high-energy play-er. Pitino is trying to convincehim to turn some of that fire intoworking harder on defense.Sosa is a playmaker whoexcels around the hoop, buthe’s inconsistent from longrange.Brandon Jenkins6-3, 185, seniorJenkins is the lone senior onthis team and losing him to an
injury will be tough. Jenkins’ability to pass and shoot willsorely be missed. He aver-aged 11.2 points, 3.4rebounds and 2.9 assists lastyear and shot 38.7 percentfrom three-point range.Brad Gianiny6-1, 170, senior Gianiny played sparingly lastyear and averaged less than apoint per game in less thanseven minutes per contest.Will Scott6-3, 185, sophomore Smith may have supplantedScott, but he will play a lotminutes as a backup. Scottsees the floor well and getshimself into good position. Hecan really hit the open shotand gets rid of the ball in ahurry.Chris Current6-4, 185, seniorCurrent is a walk-on humanvictory cigar, as Pitino likes tocall these players. Currentaveraged 1 point in 16 gameslast year.Andre McGee5-10, 180, sophomore McGee had a promising firstseason but will sit out until atleast conference play afterhaving knee surgery inOctober. McGee averaged 5.5points and 2.1 assists in 20.2minutes per game last year
and is a solid defender,although undersized. McGeescored 16 points in 23 minutesin the Cards’ opener and hisloss will hurt an already inex-perienced backcourt.Jerry Smith6-1, 200, freshmanSmith was the least heraldedof the incoming freshmen buthas been great so far. He tookover the starting two-guardrole after the first game, whenhe led the team in scoring with24 points in 27 minutes. Smithalso can really do some dam-age in Pitino’s full-court press.Stuart Miller5-10, 170, freshman guardMiller is a walk-on who won’tlikely play much unless it’s ablow out.FORWARDSTerrence Williams6-6, 210, sophomore Sensational freshman year inwhich he started 21 gamesand scored in double figures15 times.Earl Clark6-8, 220, freshmanClark is five-star prospect whowill play a lot more later on inthe season after suffering astress fracture. Clark will playon the wing and is a highlyskilled player who needs toadd strength. He is long andcan really run the floor and
has good handles. Pitino com-pared him to Antoine Walker,but said he really needs tolearn the system.Perrin Johnson6-5, 215, senior Johnson played in 20 gamesas a junior and averaged 1.9points per game in just lessthan eight minutes. Don’t lookfor Johnson to play muchmore this seasonJuan Palacios6-8, 250, junior Palacios should be the go-to-guy for the Cards — especial-ly if he’s finally healthy.Palacios has the ability to getthe Cards a double-doublenearly every night out and canplay on the wing or at powerforward. Derrick Caracter6-9, 275, freshman Caracter could be a big-timeplayer, although he does havesome issues with his weight.He reportedly showed up oncampus weighing more than300 pounds and has hadissues with his conditioning.Caracter has great hands,good footwork and is unstop-pable down low. Doubters sayhe doesn’t have the work ethicto play for Pitino, but he isyoung. Look for Caracter to bea beast down low by the endof the season.
David Padgett6-11, 245, junior Padgett may be the Cardsmost reliable post player ifhe’s healthy enough. He hadsurgery eight months ago andhas played well so far thisseason in limited action. As hebecomes more confident in hisknee, he will play more andmore and will be a big help tothe Cardinals’ offense. Padgettaveraged 11.8 points, 6.1boards and 1.5 blocks in 24games last season. CENTERSJonathan Huffman7-0, 230, sophomore centerHuffman played sparingly inhis first season. He has goodhands, but obviously needs toget stronger and learn todefend and rebound better.Pitino has said Huffman hasimproved dramatically and heexpects him to play a lot morethis season. Terrance Farley6-10, 245, junior centerFarley can be the Cards’defensive specialist this sea-son, and Pitino will need himto play well in the conferencebecause so many teams havelegitimate big men. Farleyaveraged 2.9 points, 2.2boards and one block in 10.6minutes per game as a sopho-more.
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“What this was is a knee-jerkreaction to a public and privatesplit,” he said. “Athletic directorsvoted along with the coaches tosplit public and private schools.The KHSAA did not honor whatthe schools voted for, so to me,what they did was put a littlesmoke screen out there.”
The issue got so bad inLexington that public schoolsrefuse to play private LexingtonCatholic in the regular season.
Mofield said the realignmentwill go unnoticed by most localfans and players alike.
“It won’t be a big differencefor us,” he said. “We’ll lose JohnHardin and Bullitt Central fromthe district, but we’ll still playJohn Hardin as a non-districtopponent.”
Coach Mark Nelson ofBowling Green Greenwood, thenew team in Meade County’sdistrict, is pleased with themove because it cuts down onthe amount of time his teamwill spend on the road.
“I don’t think there are anybad things about the switch,” hesaid. “The worst part about ourold district was the distance wehad to travel, and that’s beenshortened for us. Our longestgames before were over threehours away, and now they’reabout two hours.”
Nelson said the quality andtalent level of teams inGreenwood’s new district is
comparable to its old. “If you look at the class of
football teams, it will be just astough for us,” he said. “WarrenCentral and Christian Countyare both tough, and Meademade it as far as WarrenCentral. There are good athletesin the new district, especially atNorth Hardin and NelsonCounty. I was at the Meadeplayoff game against JohnHardin, and it looked like thesame caliber of kids and athletesthat we’re used to.
“The kids at Meade Countyare tough and hardnosed, justlike ours. I was really impressedwith the way Meade Countyplayed against John Hardin,and I especially like their line-backer, (Chris) Roe.”
Next year, Meade Countywill play several new teams inaddition to some old rivals.
Gone from the schedule isBullitt Central. John Hardin willonly move up to 5A, but willkeep playing Meade County.New teams include Fern Creek,Conner (Northern Kentucky),Woodford County, Owensboro,Apollo (Owensboro) andGreenwood. Greenwood andFern Creek did not make theplayoffs this year, but WoodfordCounty, Owensboro and Apollodid. Conner High School fin-ished 3-7 the last two seasons.
“We lose John Hardin fromthe district, which is a goodfootball team, and we loseBullitt (Central), which has beenone of the weaker teams the lastfew years,” Mofield said. “ButGreenwood is a tough team, so
the district won’t be any easier.“I think what we have is a
tough schedule against all 5Aand 6A teams. When it’s all saidand done, if you can get to theplayoffs, then you have a shot.Ultimately, if you go deep,you’re still going to run into St.X, Trinity or Male and year in,year out, they’re the top pro-grams in the state.”
Nelson was pleased with histeam’s new schedule becausedistrict and non-district gamesrotate weekly.
“We have Meade at homenext year, and I like how theschedule is set up with a districtgame every other week,” hesaid. “That way, a minor injurywon’t kill you in the standingsby having a kid miss a bunch ofdistrict games.”
The playoff scenarioschanged this past season, asteams played district rivals inthe first two rounds, somethingMofield decided he liked after it
was all over.“I didn’t know if I’d like it or
not at first,” he said. “This year,it was exciting from the stand-point of our fans. If we wereplaying North Hardin inCalifornia, they’d have beenthere. I think that will continueto be good, and I think it’s goodfor us to play those traditionalrivals early in the playoffs.”
The realignment effectivelycreates 20 four-team districts, 23five-team districts and five six-team districts. The top fourteams from each district willqualify for the playoffs, so 20entire districts will make it, nomatter the record of its teams,which is something neitherMofield nor Nelson like.
“It absolutely waters downthe playoffs because a districtwith only four teams gets themall in,” Nelson said. “If you’reNo. 1 in your district and youplay an 0-10 team in the firstround, what good does that doyou? What happens if one ofyour kids gets hurt in thatgame? In a district like ours(five teams), you have to win atleast one game to come infourth, so a team can go 1-9 andstill get in.”
Mofield said he doesn’t likethe reclassification becauseKentucky doesn’t have thenumber of players necessary fora six-class system. KHSAA rep-resentatives have said addingmore classes cuts down the dis-parity between the number ofstudents at the largest andsmallest schools in each class.
“Some coaches will say that
it gets more kids recognitionand, to me, that’s kind of aweak argument,” he said. “Ourstate’s not big enough for sixclasses, and I think we ought tojust have four. I see where ithelps some of the smallerschools where there’s really abig discrepancy, but I still don’tbuy that.”
Mofield said additionalclasses cheapen the title games.
“Who’s to say three yearsfrom now we won’t go to eightclasses, and in 10 years we go to10 classes?” he asked. “Who’s tosay who the true state champi-on is? That’s just my opinionand other people will probablydisagree, but I’m old school. I’ma traditionalist and I think ourstate’s too small for that.”
Response to the reclassifica-tion was reportedly overwhelm-ingly in favor of it, likely due tothe fact more teams will get intothe playoffs.
The realignment will beeffective for two years as a sortof probationary period. Theoriginal plan was for four years.Having a shorter period willallow schools to change classifi-cations starting in 2009 asopposed to 2011.
According to Mofield, theonly way Meade County wouldmove down a class is if the highschool got too big.
“We’re only going to growand the only way we’d ever godown (a class) is if we split highschools,” he said. “I would real-ly hate to ever see that happen.The spirit of this communityand the passion they have for
football, I think I’d rather stay in6A and face the Trinitys andMales than to see a split andhave two different schools. I justthink there’s a lot of spirit and alot of community pride, and theschool has a lot to do with that.”
With so many teams makingthe playoffs, it might lessen theimportance of playing well inthe regular season, but Mofielddoesn’t see it that way.
“Football is such a short sea-son anyway, and had we donebetter in the regular season, wecould have gotten a home play-off game or two,” he said. “Sothe incentive is there to try andwin your district so you can bethe top seed and get at least onehome game and maybe more.
“That’s enough incentiveright there. I played that out inmy mind — wondering if itdiminished the regular season— but I think there’s stillenough to play for. It’s stillabout competing and winningas many games as you can.”
Nelson also felt there is stillenough incentive to play well inthe regular season.
“I think everybody’s goingto go into the new districtexcited, and our main goal is togo to the playoffs, and that’sour goal every year,” he said.“The new setup does lenditself more to that goal, but ourkids are still going to workhard. We were in the playoffstwo years in a row and missedthem these last two years. Iwould like to think that all thekids want to be 10-0, so theurge to play well is still there.”
Swimmers set new marksThere were 30 personal
records and four schoolrecords set during MeadeCounty’s Nov. 28 swim meetagainst Fort Knox.
School records: senior JakeBaldwin swam the 100-yardfreestyle in 55.87 seconds,sophomore Troy Jobe swam the500-yard free in 5:52.34, Jobealso swam the 100-yard back-
stroke in 1:02.57, and the boys400-yard freestyle relay team —consisting of senior CodyBaldwin, senior Daniel Silva,Jake Baldwin and Troy Jobe —finished with a time 3:52.73.
A Western Hills HighSchool student had to begiven CPR during the Nov. 17swim meet against theGreenwave.
According to coach J.P.
Lavertu, Mathew Spicer wasextracted from the pool and adoctor on the scene immedi-ately acted to revive him.
Spicer was taken to theIntensive Care Unit of theUniversity of Kentucky’sPediatric Care Center, and wasreleased Nov. 24.
Lavertu said the rest of themeet was canceled and isrescheduled for tomorrow at
TK Stone Middle School inElizabethtown.
Stuart Pepper Middlebasketball results
Nov. 27: Seventh grade lostto East Hardin 42-34; Eighthgrade beat East Hardin 51-46
Last season’s 4A Region 2alignment:District 3: J. Hardin, MeadeCo., N. Hardin, C. Hardin,Bullitt Central, Nelson Co.District 4: Male, St. Xavier,Pleasure Ridge Park,DuPont Manual, Butler andIroquois.
Next season’s 6A District 2alignment: Central Hardin,Bowling Green Greenwood,Meade Co., Nelson Co.,North Hardin.
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a run.“When Jasmine and Kim
are both on the bench, thattakes away our two primaryball handlers, and that makesit tough on us,” Hurt said.“We have kids that I think canbe outstanding ball handlersvery soon, but right now thatgame was so physical, and ithurt us to lose those two.”
Junior guard/forwardMindy Oliver, the team’s lead-ing scorer with 25 points,agreed.
“We had to play some ofthe younger ones who aren’tready to play this kind ofgame yet,” Oliver said.
Despite trailing by nine,Bullitt East Coach ChrisStallings told his team therewas a lot of time left.
“I told them, ‘You just haveto keep playing hard andaggressive,’ and that’s whatwe did to stem the tide,” hesaid. “I was really proud ofthem at halftime. Then in thethird quarter, I thought wemade a left and let them go ona run, and we didn’t play wellthat third quarter.”
Hurt said he liked the over-all speed of the game, butwanted to see his team get outand run more. But BullittEast’s play doesn’t lend itselfto an up-and-down game.
“It was hard to establishmuch of a pace because of theway they switched defenses.They switched almost everypossession and it’s hard toestablish a pace against a teamthat plays like that.”
The story of the game mayhave been three Meade play-ers fouling out (Newby,Montgomery and senior for-ward Kayla Stull), butturnovers also played a bigpart as Meade finished with31 to Bullitt East’s 17.
“We need to get a littlemore crisp with our passing,”Hurt said. “We replaced ourpoint guard from last year,and it takes a little while forsomeone new to step up andhave the confidence to handlethe ball. Turnovers definitelykilled us in that spurt. It washard for us to get it acrosshalf-court there for a while.
Once we adjusted, I thoughtwe did OK.”
Hurt said he will place anemphasis on moving the ballin practice.
“We’ll work on our pressoffense and our floor spacing,”he said. “I thought sometimeswe hid behind people anddidn’t cut to the ball verywell, so we’ll work on that,but a lot of that stuff is cor-rectable and we’ll get it fixed.”
Junior forward KaylaFackler said the team alsoneeds to work on hitting theglass so it won’t suffer somuch when Stull gets intofuture foul trouble.
“We really need to work onrebounding and shooting,”she said. “Coach teaches us inpractice to play physicalbecause we’re not a very bigteam.”
According to Hurt, keepingNewby on the floor is a bigpriority because she does somany things well.
“Jasmine is so quick in get-ting to the basket,” he said.“She’s an offensive and adefensive weapon. She played20 minutes and still had fivesteals because she gets herhand on the ball a lot. I’vetalked to her before and she’sgot to stay out of foul trouble.If she can play 26 or 27 min-utes, then we’re in pretty goodshape.”
Another thing that wouldgreatly benefit Meade is get-ting its bench to contribute,something Hurt thinks is onthe horizon.
“Before the season is over,I think they’re going to bedynamite. (Tuesday) nightwas just such a brutal, push-and-shove kind of game thatthey aren’t ready for. It was abloodbath in a lot of ways,and younger kids just aren’tready to excel in those kindsof games.”
Newby fouled out with6:10 left in the game, and Stullhad to sit for the last 4:26 afterpicking up two quick third-quarter fouls. Stull’s fifth foulcame after she was called foran offensive foul when shedidn’t have the ball.
“It was 40 feet away fromthe ball and she got called fora push,” Hurt said. “Therewas some post play in therethat could have been cleanedup in the first quarter, but it
wasn’t, and there was somepushing and shoving goingon. But foul trouble is a part ofbasketball and we’ve got tolearn from it.”
Oliver said getting Meadeinto foul trouble was the keyto the game for Bullitt East.
“Kayla’s our best rebound-er and Jasmine’s our bestdefender, so it was veryimportant for them to getthem in foul trouble,” shesaid. “We needed Jasmine andKayla for their scoring as well.We have to keep workingtogether to stay out of foultrouble.”
Even after losing so manykey players, the Lady Waveswere close to tying the game.Oliver had a chance at a three-pointer from the top of the keybut was called for travelingwith less than 25 seconds left.Bullitt East scored once moreunder the basket and Meadehad to foul.
The Lady Waves’ nextgame is at home at 7 tonightagainst Muhlenberg North.
“Muhlenberg North is thedefending region championsand they’ve lost three seniors,so they’re a little bit in arebuilding mode, but they’llstill be one of the favoritesagain,” Hurt said.
Muhlenberg North playssimilarly to Meade in manyways, he said.
“They play a five-guardsystem with five out on theperimeter, and they pass andpick away. Their staple in thepast has been outstandingman-to-man defense. They’relike us in that they only playsix or seven kids, and theymay play more zone this timebecause of that.”
Hurt said Muhlenberg’spoint guard would be a toughdefensive test for Newby.
“They have a guard who isone of the quickest kids you’llsee, and she handles the balllike a college player,” he said.“She’s not a great shooter, butshe can really get to the bas-ket. They have a couple ofother nice kids, too. One of
their players hit six three-pointers against Owensborothe other night, so they’re real-ly talented. Our schedule onlygets tougher.”
On Monday, the LadyWaves take their act on theroad for the first time this sea-son against Grayson County.
“Grayson County is alsovery guard-oriented and theylive and die by the three,”Hurt said. “If they’re makingthem, they’ll be tough. Ifthey’re not making them, theycan struggle. They also have agreat point guard who is anall-regional type player.They’re athletic and play a lotof man-to-man defense. Thethird region has a lot of verysimilar teams.”
“We really need to work onour rebounding and shooting.”
Kayla Fackler, junior forward three rebounds. So right there,that’s 17 and 10 we got off ourbench with those two kids,and that was good to see. Ifwe can get that kind of pro-duction out of those guys,we’re going to be OK.”
Tomorrow, the Greenwavewill tip off at 2 p.m. againstHenderson County in the 11thDistrict Tip-Off Classic inCloverport, the site of thisyear’s district tournament.
“All four teams get a chanceto play on the district tourna-ment floor and next year, it willbe here at home for us,” Garrissaid. “We play HendersonCounty, Breck County playsValley, Hancock plays BullittCentral, and Cloverport is play-ing Providence. So it’s just aone-game quadruple-headerand everyone can see the dis-trict teams.”
Then the Greenwave willplay at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday atHancock County.
“That’s going to be a bigtest because they’ve got fourstarters coming back and a lotof experience,” Garris said.“They really started playingpretty well at the end of theseason last year.”
Garris said Hancock is abalanced team that can reallyscore the ball.
“They had three kids indouble figures (Monday) night,and they have a kid in the mid-dle who’s about 6-3 and he’spretty good, so they don’t haveany problem scoring.” he said.
Garris thinks the key tobeating Hancock will be con-taining its scorers.
“I’m hoping we can defendthem a little bit — we defend-ed them pretty well last yearand I hope we can do thatagain,” he said. “It will reallybe a tough game down there,and we need to get off to agood start in the district. Wewant that No. 1 seed becausethat’s always a big plus, and weneed to get off to a good start tokeep us in position to get it.”
On Thursday, theGreenwave will play its homeopener against archrival
Breckinridge County at 6 p.m. “We can look back in history
and it’s always a heck of agame. The year that they wonthe state tournament in ’95, wewere the last team to beatthem,” Garris said. “In the fouryears that I’ve coached, we’vehad two overtime games. Webeat them in OT and they beatus in double-OT.”
Garris said BreckinridgeCounty will have a lot of moti-vation because Meade beat itthree times last year.
“I’m sure they rememberwhat happened last year,” hesaid. “It’s always a big gameand it’s our home opener nextThursday. We had some reallygood crowds in here last year,and that was probably thebiggest. The gym was full andwe had people four- or five-deep on the baseline, so it wasa great atmosphere.”
Garris said the communityand entire school really getfired up for games againstBreckinridge.
“Our kids here at theschool really relish that,” hesaid. “The community likes itbecause we have a lot of peo-ple with ties to Breck County,and that’s why it’s always afun, close game.”
