See BUDGET, A10 Meade County's Meade County's Award-Winning Award-Winning Paper for the People Paper for the People See RESCUE, A10 See FINALE, A5 5/7 85/51 5/8 64/44 5/9 68/47 The amphitheatre in downtown Branden- burg was swallowed by the rising water of the Ohio River. 5/10 65/53 5/11 77/60 Meade County EMS cordially invited Meade Countians to the union of Ms. Lamartha Jones and Mr. Mammo Graham. It was a night where two people pledged them- selves to each other with Mon Sun Tue Sat Fri
Casey Tolliver The News Standard Local weather over the weekend turned soggy as storms drenched the county with rain. A few Meade County roads near rivers and creeks flood- ed, but those roads typically flood and there were no un- usual or major flood related issues in Meade County ac- cording to Director of Meade County Emergency Manage- ment Agency Ron Dodson. 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Tue 5/11 77/60 Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Meade County's Meade County's Award-Winning Award-Winning Paper for the People Paper for the People T The he N News ews S Standard tandard By Jennifer Corbett The News Standard Meade County EMS cordially invited Meade Countians to the union of Ms. Lamartha Jones and Mr. Mammo Graham. It was a night where two people pledged them- selves to each other with eternal happiness … with men in dresses? Meade County EMS held its first “A Womanless Wedding: Joining in Wed- lock” last Thursday, at the Farm Bureau Building. There was not an empty seat in the house as people piled in by the dozens to see “Ms. Lamartha Jones and Mr. Mammo Graham” show their love for each other, along with many of their friends and family members. Considered Jeanne Wise’s “brainchild,” the event had everything a usual wedding would have, except this time people didn’t have to pay as much money. Decora- tions at the event were donated by Teresa Pe- ters and Nancy Basham from Personal Touch De- signs, Edna Johnson de- signed the bride’s dress, Jerry Greenwell taped the event, Rodney Shelton Wedding fun creates big laughs for a great cause See WEDDING, A2 THE NEWS STANDARD/JENNIFER CORBETT A shotgun was on hand to make the wedding move forward. See BUDGET, A10 Casey Tolliver The News Standard Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced last week the possibility that crucial state programs may be shut down after mem- bers of the General Assembly failed to pass a state budget. In a press release last week, Gov. Beshear cautioned that the closures would happen if state lawmakers failed to agree on a state budget by July 1. The governor warned all Kentucky State Parks, all tourism programs, the Cabinet for Economic Development and Office of the Medical Examiner could be stifled, By Jennifer Corbett The News Standard Bruce Soderstrom has accomplished a lot in 33 years, leaving behind a leg- acy in Meade County that not many people can compare to. By the last day of school, Soderstrom will retire as band director at for Meade County schools after shaping almost 3,000 young minds. One of his co-workers, Assistant Band Director Matthew Williams, along with the band boosters, felt that Soderstrom should be honored for his time and dedication to Meade County. So they planned a reception for him May 12 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Stuart Pepper Middle School. He will also help conduct an alumni concert May 9 at Meade County High School’s audi- torium starting at 3 p.m. “The alumni concert on Sunday is really an opportunity to just get ev- eryone back and a chance to see each other and play with each other one last Meade County bids farewell to a familiar face See FINALE, A5 Several inches of rainfall over weekend makes region soggy Budget troubles loom over state THE NEWS STANDARD/CHARLOTTE FACKLER The amphitheatre in downtown Branden- burg was swallowed by the rising water of the Ohio River. Casey Tolliver The News Standard A new law enacted last week could po- tentially further protect victims of domestic violence. Last Wednesday, Gov. Beshear signed House Bill 1, or “Amanda’s Bill,” into law. Under the law, judges will now be al- lowed to require domestic violence order violators to wear global positioning sys- tems, or GPS, tracking devices. The law will also increase the continuation of unserved 90-day emergency protection Ky. law aimed to track domestic violence offenders See VIOLENCE, A5 By Jennifer Corbett The News Standard Alex Dougherty has always thought to go into a field where he could help people. Though when his father was hospitalized, he knew immediately which path he want- ed to take in life. “If it weren’t for the paramedics, he prob- ably wouldn’t be alive today,” Dougherty said. Students earn while they learn Meade County High School Band Director, Mr. Bruce Sodertrom plays the National Anthem at his final home basketball game. FILE PHOTO See RESCUE, A10 THE NEWS STANDARD/BEN ACHTABOWSKI The Rescue professionals instruct students at Meade County Vocational School. See SOGGY, A5
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Local weather over the weekend turned soggy as storms drenched the county with rain.
A few Meade County roads near rivers and creeks fl ood-ed, but those roads typically fl ood and there were no un-usual or major fl ood related issues in Meade County ac-cording to Director of Meade County Emergency Manage-ment Agency Ron Dodson.
Parts of Meade County, north of Payneville, received nearly
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•FFA holds annual ban-quet and say goodbye to seniors, A11•Brandenburg Pharmacy fi ll Rx needs, A12
WHAT’S INSIDE
INDEX
WEATHERFri5/7 85/51
Windy with a possible thunder-storm.
Sat5/8 64/44
Abundant sunshine. Highs in themid 60s and lows in the mid 40s.
Sun5/9 68/47
Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper60s and lows in the upper 40s.
Mon5/10 65/53
Showers possible. Highs in themid 60s and lows in the low 50s.
Tue5/11 77/60
Slight chance of a thunderstorm.
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By Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Meade County EMS cordially invited Meade Countians to the union of Ms. Lamartha Jones and Mr. Mammo Graham.
It was a night where two people pledged them-selves to each other with
eternal happiness … with men in dresses?
Meade County EMS held its first “A Womanless Wedding: Joining in Wed-lock” last Thursday, at the Farm Bureau Building.
There was not an empty seat in the house as people piled in by the dozens to see “Ms. Lamartha Jones
and Mr. Mammo Graham” show their love for each other, along with many of their friends and family members.
Considered Jeanne Wise’s “brainchild,” the event had everything a usual wedding would have, except this time people didn’t have to pay
as much money. Decora-tions at the event were donated by Teresa Pe-ters and Nancy Basham from Personal Touch De-signs, Edna Johnson de-signed the bride’s dress, Jerry Greenwell taped the event, Rodney Shelton
Wedding fun creates big laughs for a great cause
See WEDDING, A2THE NEWS STANDARD/JENNIFER CORBETT
A shotgun was on hand to make the wedding move forward.
See BUDGET, A10
Casey TolliverThe News Standard
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced last week the possibility that crucial state programs may be shut down after mem-bers of the General Assembly failed to pass a state budget.
In a press release last week, Gov. Beshear cautioned that the closures would happen if state lawmakers failed to agree on a state budget by July 1.
The governor warned all Kentucky State Parks, all tourism programs, the Cabinet for Economic Development and Offi ce of the Medical Examiner could be stifl ed,
By Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Bruce Soderstrom has accomplished a lot in 33 years, leaving behind a leg-acy in Meade County that not many people can compare to.
By the last day of school, Soderstrom will retire as band director at for Meade County schools after shaping almost 3,000 young minds.
One of his co-workers, Assistant Band Director Matthew Williams, along with the band boosters, felt that Soderstrom should be honored for his time and dedication to Meade County. So they planned a reception for him May 12 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at Stuart Pepper Middle School. He will also help conduct an alumni concert May 9 at Meade County High School’s audi-torium starting at 3 p.m.
“The alumni concert on Sunday is really an opportunity to just get ev-eryone back and a chance to see each other and play with each other one last
Meade County bidsfarewell to a familiar face
See FINALE, A5
Several inches of rainfall over weekend makes region soggy
Budget troubles loom over state
THE NEWS STANDARD/CHARLOTTE FACKLER
The amphitheatre in downtown Branden-burg was swallowed by the rising water of the Ohio River.
Casey TolliverThe News Standard
A new law enacted last week could po-tentially further protect victims of domestic violence.
Last Wednesday, Gov. Beshear signed House Bill 1, or “Amanda’s Bill,” into law.
Under the law, judges will now be al-lowed to require domestic violence order violators to wear global positioning sys-tems, or GPS, tracking devices.
The law will also increase the continuation of unserved 90-day emergency protection
Ky. law aimed totrack domestic violence offenders
See VIOLENCE, A5
By Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Alex Dougherty has always thought to go into a fi eld where he could help people. Though when his father was hospitalized, he knew immediately which path he want-ed to take in life.
“If it weren’t for the paramedics, he prob-ably wouldn’t be alive today,” Dougherty said.
Students earn while they learn
Meade County High School Band Director, Mr. Bruce Sodertrom plays the National Anthem at his fi nal home basketball game.
FILE PHOTO
See RESCUE, A10
THE NEWS STANDARD/BEN ACHTABOWSKI
The Rescue professionals instruct students at Meade County Vocational School.
See SOGGY, A5
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provided the music for the night, and Martin Bosimer donated catering dishes.
Wise said she got the idea for this event from attend-ing a womanless wedding in Irvington, Ky., which was put on by her friend David Alexander.
Besides watching such a unique wedding, guests were able to participate in a cake auction, sign-in on a guest-book, eat food, drink refresh-ments and donate money for luminaries.
At first, people told Wise the idea wouldn’t be a success.
“I thought OK, lets have a womanless wedding,” Wise said. “Several people told me it wouldn’t work and no one will come.”
Wise, along with her fellow co-workers at Meade County EMS, put on this event in or-der to raise money for their Relay for Life team.
This event is especially im-portant to them since one of their own, Larry Singleton, has recently begun his battle with cancer.
“We started this team be-
cause we’ve always wanted to be apart of relay,” said Dawn Wise. “This is personal for us.”
Fellow team member and paramedic Becki Miller thought this wedding would be a fun event for Meade County.
“This is a really cool event,” Miller said. “We really have tremendous support from the community.”
That support also equated to numerous local offi cials and business owners who decided to give their time in a little different way.
Many men tossed their tuxedos and uniforms aside to don dresses, heels, daisy dukes and wigs.
Lamar Jones, a sergeant with the Radcliff Police De-partment, played the role of “Ms. Lamartha Jones,” and he said he wasn’t the least bit nervous of people seeing him in a wedding dress.
“I’m just glad to do it for a good cause,” Jones said. “Anything for Relay for Life.”
Jones had to go through two fi ttings to make sure his dress, which was made of lace curtains, fi t him. He admitted that the process of getting ev-erything together was a lot of work.
“I really don’t like the
makeup,” Jones said laugh-ing. “Women go through a lot to get married.”
The full wedding party included:
MC: Mike Cummings; DJ: “Rocking Rod” Rodney Shel-ton; Guest Registrar: Digger Adams (Billy Adams); Justice of the Peace: Brother “Savem” Robbins (Steve Robbins); Bride: Ms. Lamartha Jones (Lamar Jones).
Mother of the Bride: Pookie Joy Joyner (Ronnie Joyner)
Father of the Bride: Big Daddy Papa Barr (Pat Barr); Groom: Mr. Mammo Graham (Mike Wise).
Mother of the Groom: Ger-aldine Chapman (Gary Chap-man); Father of the Groom: Ol’ Tom Tilly (Thomas Young).
Ring Bearer: Nugget Wil-liams (Dr. Mike Williams); Flower Girls: “The Biopsy Twins” Mary Kate and Ash-ley (Dr. Bill Denton and Larry Naser).
Best Man: Crusher Mul-lins (Cole Mullins); Maid of Honor: Twinkie Staples (Tony Staples); Bridesmaids: Scarlet Bogard (Scott Bogard); Jowl-ene Johnston (Dr. Jason John-ston); Tee-Z Robinson (Dr. Adam Robinson); Grooms-men: Pimp Daddy Matti (Todd Matti); Barney Fife Rogers (Bryan Rogers); Skee-
Special Guests: Lady Gaga (George Harper); Beyonce (David Harper).
Out of town guests: Dolly Parton (Curtis Kelley); Sonny and Cher (Mike Robinson and Shannon Simpson); Paris Hilton (R.J. Stephens); Daisy Duke (John Stinebruner).
Participants in the event got to choose whom they wanted to dress up as and politicians set their campaigns aside.
“Everybody has been such
a trooper,” Wise said. Even Wise’s son Adam was
involved in the event as a bridesmaid.
“I always wanted a daugh-ter,” Wise said jokingly. “I guess I could have one for a few hours.”
Thus far, Meade County EMS has raised $1,390 from the cake auction and $3,600 from ticket sales alone.
As of right now, Wise said she doesn’t know if they will have this event again in the future. But she did say there are talks of a possible “man-less wedding.”
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By Casey TolliverThe News Standard
Irish eyes were smil-ing in Meade County last weekend after a local tav-ern received a makeover.
O’Connor’s Irish Pub, which opened its doors for the fi rst time on April 7, had a grand opening last Saturday on Derby day.
The pub, formerly Ce-dar Grove Tavern, is the culmination of owners Becky O’Connor and Todd Richardson, who was an employee of Cedar Grove Tavern.
The bar, which was closed for six weeks as construction crews over-hauled the entire structure, received an upgraded new look.
“It’s kind of different for everyone,” O’Connor said. “It’s a lot more comfort-able setting.”
The building, which was completely renovated, was at one point stripped down to only four walls.
The day of the grand opening, Kentucky Derby activities were playing on the fi ve large, fl at-screen televisions hung on the walls in nearly every cor-ner of the bar.
Like many other bars, the pub features pool ta-bles and electronic games.
The bar offers several Irish beers, such as Kil-lian’s, Smithwick’s and Guiness, as well as many domestic beers.
In traditional pub fash-ion, a menu of hearty meals will be offered, although
they haven’t decided whether to serve authentic Irish food.
They want to keep the place as classy yet authen-tic as possible. The beer companies aren’t allowed to garnish the walls with the typical neon signs found in other bars. Only Irish themed or tastefully rustic signs to fi t the am-biance are allowed on the walls.
One of the pub’s several unique features is the rea-son it exists.
Becky’s husband Michael O’Connor, who at one time operated Cedar Grove Tavern with Becky, passed away last December.
Becky and Michael, who met at the bar when it was still Cedar Grove Tavern, ended up running the tav-ern together for nearly fi ve years.
Michael, who was proud of his Irish ancestry, had a fondness for Irish-themed pubs.
O’Connor and Richard-son, who was a close friend of Michael’s, decided that transforming Cedar Grove Tavern into an Irish pub would be the best way to pay tribute.
The message “Dedicat-ed to the loving memory of Michael O’Connor”, painted on one of the walls, reminds people that each beer served and each meal ordered helps keep the memory of Michael alive.
“It’s something I know he would be proud of,” Becky said. “It’s what he
wanted.” O’Connor, who taught
algebra at North Hardin High School for 12 and a half years, dedicated the bar to her husband’s mem-ory the day of the grand opening.
Richardson, who works on the river, was not al-ways able to be there to see the construction process in its entirety.
O’Connor would send him updated photos throughout the build-ing process, but stopped just short of sending him a photo of the completed building in order to give the element of surprise.
“There was that ‘wow’ factor,” Richardson said. “When I walked in, I was like ‘whoa.’ It’s something to be proud of.”
Buffalo Spring Construc-tion, of Brandenburg, was one of several companies involved in the reconstruc-tion of the pub. Todd’s brother, Jack Richardson, owns the company.
Patrons of Cedar Grove Tavern are returning to their old stomping ground after the construction dust has settled and admiring the building’s new look.
“There has not been a single person who hasn’t walked through that door and said how awesome it is,” O’Connor said.
O’Connor ’s Irish Pub is located at 3875 Branden-burg Rd., and is open 11 a.m. to midnight, Mon-day through Friday and 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday.
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ABOVE: O’Connor’s Irish Pub, formerly Cedar Grove Tavern, unveiled its new look after a grand opening on Saturday
LEFT: Becky O’Connor, co-owner of the pub, places keepsakes of her husband on a table before a ceremony dedicating the pub to his memory.
BOTTOM LEFT: Employ-ees of O’Connor’s Irish Pub mingle with patrons at the grand opening after their shift ended.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Jason Sutton (Sassy Secret Sutton) and Scott Bogard (Scarlet Bogard). David Pace (Davida Pace) and Matt Pike (Mitzy Pike). R. J. Stephens (Paris Hilton). Ray Cottrell, Jr., Gary Chapman and Gerry Lynn (act as lady guests). Mike Wise as the groom saying his oath to Lamar Jones, Steve Robbins act as the pastor. Bryan Rog-ers (Barnie Fife Rogers) and Jason Johnston (Jowlene Johnston).
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EditorialSometimes publishing an article is a hard decision for
a newspaper to make. It’s the duty of a newspaper to inform its readers,
but occasionally we are teetering between informing and encouraging.
In last week’s issue of The News Standard, an article was ran about a new law banning the use, possession and cultivation of the plant salvia divinorum. We took the risk of possibly teaching people a new way to get high.
We decided the bill was too important not to report. The newsworthiness of the article took precedence over the chance of stimulating a few unscrupulous people.
Reading a newspaper article about a new drug that has recently been banned may encourage somebody to try that drug, but that’s not our intention. Many more people have been informed about the fact that the drug is out there, the dangers of the drug and the punishments that await those found with the drug.
Walking the tightrope between informing readers and encouraging degenerate or unsocial behavior is a dan-gerous game.
But if the good outweighs the bad, it has to be done.Sure, unwitting people now know that a drug is out
there, but parents and police are no longer in the dark about a dangerous substance and know to be on the lookout.
The media takes the heat for many things, and some-times deservedly.
But the fact remains, newspapers still are an informa-tion outlet and have responsibility.
When an article like the salvia bill runs, there’s the chance that someone may break the law and try the drug.
However, the media shouldn’t be blamed for mis-guided decisions made by an individual who gained information about something taboo.
Instead, the actions of an individual are based on com-mon sense, and that gained from just one article.
Once again, Mother Nature has tested our re-solve.
At least four people are dead and families and busi-nesses across Kentucky are beginning the diffi cult task of cleaning up after thunderstorms last week-end caused widespread fl ooding and damage. My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost loved ones and as a result of these storms.
On May 3, Gov. Steve Beshear declared a state of emergency in response to the storms. The emer-gency declaration triggers several consumer protec-tion measures that will be in place for 30 days.
It also empowers me to investigate and prosecute, where appropriate, those who sell gasoline, gen-erators, building supplies, chain saws, hotel rooms and other necessary goods
and services at exorbitant prices in a time of disaster.
I have put Kentucky businesses on notice that price gouging will not be tolerated in Kentucky. I will not allow families that have been hurt by this storm to be victimized a second time by unscrupu-lous individuals who prey on their vulnerability.
In fact, I launched a price-gouging investigation in the wake of Hurricane Ike and the subsequent wind-storm that swept across Kentucky in September 2009 that resulted in recov-eries of more than $100,000 involving eight retail gaso-line stations in seven Ken-tucky counties.
I encourage anyone with specifi c information regarding possible price gouging to e-mail [email protected] or call my Consumer Protec-tion Hotline at 888-432-9257.
I also urge Kentuckians who have suffered storm damage to follow these im-portant tips:
·Never pay in advance for repair work or materi-
als. Scam artists often take advance payments from consumers and never re-turn to complete the work.
•Use local, reputable contractors for repairs, if possible.
•Ask if the contractor is licensed, bonded and insured.
•Check unknown com-panies out with the Better Business Bureau.
•Demand a written contract.
If your vehicle has suf-fered water damage, please keep the following tips in mind:
•Check your oil. A read-ing of an oil level that is too high may indicate water in the engine.
•If you have a car loan, notify your lender of the damage.
•Act quickly to deter-mine the vehicle’s current NADA average prior to the fl ood damage. You will need to know this when dealing with an insurance provider or lender.Combating Election Fraud
With the May 18 prima-ry election just two weeks away, I want Kentucky
voters to know that my of-fi ce will do everything inits power to ensure an hon-est and fair election.
My offi ce has been work-ing closely with the Secre-tary of State and U.S. At-torney’s offi ce to preparefor the upcoming election.
I’ll have investigatorsfrom my offi ce on theground patrolling pre-cincts and polling placesacross the Commonwealthlooking for election lawviolations. We will inves-tigate any such violationsand take the appropriateenforcement action.
But we also need yourhelp. We need the eyes andears of Kentucky voters tomake sure election lawsare being upheld.
If you notice any suspi-cious activity or votingirregularities on ElectionDay, please call my Elec-tion Fraud Hotline at 800-328-VOTE (8683).
Working together, Iknow we can ensure thatKentuckians across theCommonwealth will havetheir voices heard whenthey cast their ballots onMay 18th.
Jack Conway
Ky. Attorney General
While speaking at a re-cent Bluegrass Institute re-ception in Lexington, U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner ex-pressed sadness about — and a determination to fi ght — congressional efforts to trash the Constitution.
Getting rid of a govern-ment agency after it’s up and running is hopeless. Likewise, once unconstitu-tional laws such as the re-cent health care mandates get forced upon people, it’s “impossible to put the genie back into the bottle,” said Boehner, R-Ohio.
It’s not that Boehner isn’t doing his part to try and stuff the genie back into the bottle. He’s just being brutally honest.
How can the Constitution be re-assembled once it’s been shredded to bits by an administration that thinks we need a “new” Declara-tion of Independence? My 5-year-old will tell you: “Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again,”
despite valiant efforts of “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men.”
Am I giving up? No. I told the TEA partiers in Owens-boro, Henderson, Madison-ville and Paducah during the past few weeks that “I only have one fl ag, and it’s not a white one.”
Rather, consider this warning: America is at a crossroads.
Could that great Kentuck-ian and President Abraham Lincoln have been peer-ing into the future when he spoke words about the civil war that claimed more American lives than any foreign confl ict in which we have become entangled?
Now we are engaged in a great ideological civil war, “testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure?”
On one side: those who would not hesitate to take bread from the mouths of those who earn it to give it to those who don’t – known as “wealth redis-tribution.” Many on this side really believe they are compassionately doing “God’s work.”
Remember, regimes built on such philosophies have
fallen into the ash heap of history.
Add to the mix consti-tutionally illiterate leaders who claim the tyrannical health care legislation is policy that would make our founders proud, and you have a dangerous precedent.
On the other side are those fueled by freedom’s fi re, committed to being good citizens, engaged par-ents, responsible stewards of limited fi scal resources and helping those in need out of personal choice, not government coercion.
Their approach has led to the most prosperous nation in history with the icing-on-the-cake residual effects of breaking chains of totali-tarian enslavement world-wide. If anyone does “God’s work,” it’s them.
You want to help those in need? A Chinese prov-erb offers a much better an-swer than any government program in Washington or Frankfort and the enslav-ing, entitlement mentality permeating the citizenry: “Give a man a fi sh and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fi sh and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Maybe the genie can’t be
stuffed back into the bottle, but it usually gives you three wishes.
Here are mine: Voters will sound the
trumpet this May and No-vember. The message will be loud and clear: Replace earmarks with balanced budgets, “educrats” with great schools and passionate teachers and out-of-touch politicians with representa-tives who don’t see taxpay-ers as their gravy train for a lifetime.
Constitutionality of bills would become the norm rather than the exception. Our founding document has been maligned, ignored or just plain forgotten.
Yet, citizens naively won-der why we now have a federal government out of control and sovereign states so addicted to money they receive from Washington that they lack all strength to resist.
We as a country and com-monwealth would “have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
As Lincoln said, we still have “unfi nished work” to do.
Jim Waters
Bluegrass Beacon
Nature tests people’s patience once again
Dreaming of a genie who fi ghts for freedom
In the case of the new Arizona immigration law, the reductio ad hitlerum occurred instantly.
Cardinal Roger Mahony wrote in a blog post, “I can’t imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques.” The president of the Hispanic Federation said the law “reminded me of Nazi Germany.” Cooler heads merely compared it to apartheid or 1960s-era civil-rights abuses.
And here I thought the tea partiers were befoul-ing America’s political dis-course with their overheat-ed words. They don’t hold a candle to his eminence or the assorted other hysterics decrying the rise of totali-tarianism in the American Southwest.
Arizona’s offense is to attempt to enforce the na-tion’s immigration laws, in the absence of any seri-ous commitment to do so on the part of the federal government or our politi-cal class.
The Arizona law makes it a state crime for aliens not to have immigration docu-ments on their person. This sounds draconian, except it’s been a federal crime for more than half a century — U.S.C. 1304(e). Has the open-borders crowd for-gotten that it calls illegal aliens “undocumented” for a reason?
Police offi cers asking for papers may be redolent of old World War II movies. But consider the offending provision: “For any lawful contact made by a law en-forcement offi cial or agen-cy of this state ... where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a rea-sonable attempt shall be
made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person.”
Hitler would be crestfall-en. This hardly reeks of ex-tremism. It means the vast majority of requests for documentation will occur in the course of other police business, like traffi c stops.
The police already have the power to stop illegal aliens, which the Arizona courts have upheld; they already can ask about someone’s legal status (the U.S. Supreme Court noted in 2005 that it has “held re-peatedly that mere police questioning does not con-stitute a seizure” under the Fourth Amendment); and they already can detain ille-gal aliens. The Arizona law strengthens these existing authorities.
Will they be abused? Upon signing the law, Ari-zona Gov. Jan Brewer is-sued an executive order for a training program on how to implement it without racial profi ling. No mat-ter what her intentions, of course, it’s unavoidable that Latino citizens will be questioned disproportion-al; nationwide, 80 percent of illegal aliens are Latino, and the proportion in Ari-zona must be higher.
Arizona has an estimated 460,000 illegal aliens out of a population of 6.6 million. They impose countless mil-lions in schooling, health care and incarceration costs, more than $1 billion a year in one estimate.
Arizonians needn’t, and shouldn’t, tolerate this. Critics accuse the state of unconstitutionally devis-ing its own immigration policy. If it had unilaterally declared its border open to the poor, violence-plagued country to its south, this charge might have force. Instead, it seeks only to enforce the nominal immi-gration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.
Hysterics against Arizona new law
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Bonnie Barr, aka Viola Y. Barr, by and through her attorney-in-fact Thomas B. Barr, to Wilma R. Rine-hart, aka Wilma L. Rinehart, lot 27 of Longview Estates, deed tax $15.
Joe Bewley, aka Joseph Bewley, and Traci Bewley, to Lee Bewley and Victoria Bewley, lots 1 and 2 of Hager Subdivision.
The Ronald L. and Barbara J. Greenwell Trust, to Paul D. Wilson and Martha W. Wilson, lot 11 of Gob-blers Knob.
Sam Richardson and Rebecca Rich-ardson, to Tom Vittitow, lot 2 of Mead-ow Woods Estates, deed tax $15.
Larry Raley and Joy Raley, to Da-vid Raley and Tabitha Raley, lot 59 of Patchwork Estates, deed tax $20.
Gladys I. Carrico, to Terry Lee Car-rico and Earl P. Carrico, Jr., property located in Meade County.
Kentucky Neighborhood Bank, Inc., a Kentucky Corporation, to Brad-ley K. Lovin and Leslie Lovin, lot 6 of John Swan Estates, deed tax $180.
Neil Pike and Mark K. Pike, to Don-nie E. Webb and Alice J. Webb, lot 18 of Doehaven Subdivision in Meade County, deed tax $146.
Marty Claycomb and Cathy Clay-comb, to Gene McGehee and Connie McGehee, lot 19 of Buckler Knobs, deed tax $8.
Anne Roberts Herrington and Glenn Herrington, Robert H. Roberts and Victoria S. Roberts, to Judy Tighe and Robert C. Tighe, property located in Meade County, deed tax $15.
John W. Pirtle, Jr., and Brenda Pirtle, to William D. Kent and Judy C. Kent, property located in Meade County, deed tax $30.
Matthew A. Barnhill, to Nathan W. Sexton and Heather D. Sexton, lot 21 of Ashcraft Estates, deed tax $26.
Marty Claycomb and Cathy Clay-comb, to Nancy E. Davis, lot 23 of Coyote Forest Subdivision, deed tax $22.
Dianna Rapier, fka Dianna Hoe-fi eld, to Bryon D. Butler and Melissa Butler, tract 57 of Creek View Estates, deed tax $117.
Quitclaim DeedsEric Mills and Crystal G. Mills, to
Joseph Eric Mills and Betty S. Mills, property located in Meade County.
Amanda J. Fourhman, to Joseph Myers, property located in Meade County, deed tax $78.
Building Permits4/22/10 Daniel Collins, DW’10,
$100.4/22/10 William and Jacqueline
Wheeler, SFD, $261.36.4/23/10 Ron Henry, storage,
$82.50.4/23/10 James and Lois Harrison,
shed, $35.4/23/10 Rodger Hannah, garage,
$82.50.4/26/10 David and Gwen Wal-
decker, modular ‘10, $100.4/26/10 William Loyall, SFD,
$266.4/27/10 Cheryl Broussard, deck,
$35.
Septic Permits4/26/10 David Waldecker/James
Warren, Wise Road in Brandenburg, Ky.
4/26/10 Frank Mattingly/Amos Claycomb, 3636 Midway Rd in Bran-denburg, Ky.
Retail Food4/27/10 Domino’s Pizza, 757 By-
Pass Rd in Brandenburg. 100 percent food.
4/27/10 Fox and the Hound, 193 Payne Rd in Ekron. 100 percent food.
4/28/10 River Ridge Marathon, 630 River Ridge Plaza in Brandenburg. 94 percent food. 100 percent retail. Food: cleaning utensils stored on absorbent towel and hot case was at 137 de-grees.
4/28/10 Huddle House, 751 By-Pass Rd in Brandenburg. 92 percent food. 97 percent follow-up score. Food: gravy at 140 degrees, green beans 160 degrees, grits 140 degrees, personal drink cups not covered, not test strips for chlorine sanitizer, build up on fl oors, mops improperly stored.
4/28/10 Mr. Gatti’s, 584 By-Pass Rd in Brandenburg. 89 percent food. Food: sausage 42 degrees, onions 30 degrees, cheese 40 degrees on pizza prep table, dishwasher to 130 degrees, hair restraints needed in food prep area, dumpster lids missing, fl oors around food equipment unclean, some walls have build up, ceiling tiles stained, shelving observed with build up in walk in cooler, and sink by dish-washer leaking.
4/28/10 Clark’s Tavern, 8440 Rho-delia Rd in Payneville. 93 percent food. Food: well chlorenator not work-ing, fl oors unclean by ice machine and cold units in food prep area, wall behind three comp sink unclean, ceil-ing about three comp sink stained.
4/28/10 Meade County Senior Cen-ter, 1200 Old Ekron Rd in Branden-burg. 99 percent food. Food: table top used in prep area has chipped spots, which is not easily cleanable.
Brandenburg Police4/24/10 12:51 p.m. Nathaniel C.
Keith, of Payneville, was driving a
1999 Ford F150. Brandon C. Saylor, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2006 Ford Ranger. Saylor was traveling on Old Ekron Road. Keith states that he was going straight across the road from Ar-mory Place to Kroger access road and pulled into the path of Saylor. No inju-ries were reported. Report BPD10034 was fi led by Offi cer Singleton.
4/24/10 3:23 p.m. William L. Mob-ley, of Brandenburg, was driving a 1988 Chevrolet Caprice. Gregory R. Strobel, of Brandenburg, was driving a 2008 Dodge. Strobel was traveling on KY 448. Mobley was coming out of the Anchor House parking lot. Strobel stated that he tried to avoid Mobley by steering into the center turn lane. Mobley continued and collided into the side of Strobel. First aid was given at the scene by Meade County EMS. Report BPD10035 was fi led by Offi cer Singleton.
4/26/10 3:46 p.m. Todd C. Saylor, of Brandenburg, was driving a 2001 Toyota Camry. Michael S. McCol-lum, of Corydon, was driving a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado. McCollum was parked in the Kroger parking lot. Say-lor hit McCollum and left the scene. An unknown witness provided Mc-Collum with the license plate number of the other vehicle. Saylor was later located. Saylor said he was pulling into the parking space next to McCol-lum. Saylor stated that he brushed into McCollum, but did not think he had done any damage. Saylor then left the scene. No injuries were reported. Re-port BPD10036 was fi led by Offi cer Singleton.
4/22/10 3:16 p.m. Holly C. Poole, of Brandenburg, was driving a 1996 Honda Accord. John P. Wilson, of Brandenburg, was driving a 1999 Saturn LS-Sedan. Poole stated that she had turned to look at city work-ers to see what they were doing with a fi re hydrant. She stated that when she turned back around, she noticed Wilson was stopped in front of her and was unable to stop before collid-ing into the rear of Wilson. No injuries were reported. Report BPD10037 was fi led by Offi cer Whited.
4/29/10 1:05 p.m. Joshua B. Curt-singer, of Vine Grove, was driving a 1984 Chevrolet S10. A witness states that a white pick up backed up and struck the right rear of Curtsinger and fl ed the scene. The license plate num-ber she got was 968 KYJ. No injuries were reported. Report BPD10038 was fi led by Offi cer Whited.
Meade County Sheriff4/16/10 5:02 p.m. Freida R. Brown,
of Brandenburg, was driving a 2001 Lincoln Continental. Bridget N. West, of Brandenburg, was driving a 2003 Dodge Stratus. West was south on KY 933 at Buttermilk Falls Road in a construction area. Brown was operat-ing south on KY 933. A fl agman had stopped West, and Brown failed to see West and struck her in the rear. No in-juries were reported. Report 10-0079 was fi led by Offi cer Hendley.
4/20/10 7:01 a.m. Troy A. Wilson, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2004 Ford Ranger. Wilson was south on Hobbs Reesor Road and a deer ran into the roadway. Wilson struck the deer, which caused minor damage to his vehicle. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0081 was fi led by Offi cer Hendley.
4/16/10 3:07 p.m. Edward Fields, of Brandenburg, was driving a 1990 Nissan Axxess. Fields was east on KY 1638 and a vehicle was stopped to make a left turn onto KY 933. Fields failed to see the vehicle stopped and when he noticed the vehicle he hit his brakes and slid off the roadway and struck two road signs. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0082 was fi led by Offi cer Hendley.
4/21/10 4:47 p.m. Lisa J. Rowan, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2001 Mitsubishi. Gregory J. Rainey, of Big Clifty, Ky., was driving a 2000 Dodge. Rainey was slowing to make a left turn from east KY 144 into a parking lot. Rowan was east bound on KY 144 behind Rainey. Rowan struck Rainey in the rear. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0083 was fi led by Offi cer Wright.
4/22/10 12:58 p.m. Joann J. Abbott, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2007 Lincoln town car. Abbott was east on Flaherty Road, approaching the drive of 1566 Flaherty Road. An unknown vehicle exited 1566 Flaherty Rd failing to yield the right of way to Abbott. Ab-bott maneuvered her vehicle to avoid collision —causing Abbott to run off the roadway and strike an earth em-bankment. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0084 was fi led by Offi cer Ponder.
4/23/10 3:27 p.m. Clifford T. Gold-smith, of Louisville, was driving a 2001 Hyundai Sonata. Richard A. Little, of Brandenburg, was driving a 1995 Pon-tiac Bonneville. Goldsmith and Little were both being operated westbound on Owensboro Highway. Little was overtaking several vehicles in a pass-ing zone. While Little was in the east-bound lane, Goldsmith attempted to change lanes into the eastbound lane to pass slow moving traffi c. Goldsmith then struck Little causing Little to spin off the road and strike an earth em-bakement. Goldsmith then continued down the road and pulled off approxi-
mately two miles from the accident. A passerby told Little that Goldsmith was down the road. Little and the wit-ness stated that Goldsmith returned to the scene just prior to the arrival of an offi cer. The witness confi rmed this ac-count of the collision. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0086 was fi led by Offi cer Rogers.
4/24/10 10:29 a.m. Branden S. Nevitt, of Brandenburg, was driving a 2007 Pontiac G6. Nevitt was east on KY 1638 when a piece of metal had fallen off of a white Ford F-250 pull-ing a trailer. Nevitt swerved to miss the piece of metal and lost control and slid across the roadway and struck a mail-box at 4100 Old Mill Road. The Ford truck that was pulling the trailer did not stop. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0087 was fi led by Offi cer Hendley.
4/24/10 3:43 p.m. Janay C. Mclain, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2007 Sat-urn. Brandon L. Owen, of Vine Grove, was driving a 2006 Chevrolet. Owen was backing into a parking space at the Flaherty Service Center. Mclain was backing out of a parking place and backed into the left side of Owen. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0088 was fi led by Offi cer Wright.
4/24/10 7:36 p.m. An unidentifi ed vehicle was south bound on KY 941. The vehicle traveled off the right side of the roadway in a right curve. The driver went through a fence and left the scene before an offi cer arrived. According to the property owner, the vehicle was a newer model red Chev-rolet truck. No injuries were reported. Report 10-0089 was fi led by Offi cer Wright.
4/26/10 7:30 a.m. Robert D. Logs-don, of Payneville, was driving a 1996 Buick Electra. Logsdon was operating north on KY 79. Logsdon stated he swerved to avoid a dog in the road. Logsdon lost control and went off the road to the left and hit a guide wire. Logsdon then hit an earth embakment at a private drive before coming to a fi nal rest. First aid was given at the scene and the injured were trans-ported to Hardin Memorial Hospital. Report 10-0090 was fi led by Offi cer McCubbin.
4/28/10 7:30 a.m. James W. Straney, of Vine Grove, was driving a 1988 Chevrolet C/K 1500. Justin B. Morgan, of Brandenburg, was driv-ing a 1998 Chevrolet Beretta. Straney was operating south from a private drive onto KY 144 East making a left turn. Straney was under the infl uence. Morgan was operating west on KY 144 at an unsafe speed. Straney failed to yield to the right of way by pulling out in front of Morgan. Morgan struck Straney in the left side with his front doing damage to both vehicles. No in-juries were reported. Report 10-0092 was fi led by Offi cer McCubbin.
District Court 4/21/10Carol Ammons Ford, 39, unau-
thorized use of motor vehicle-1st of-fense- pled not guilty, pretrial confer-ence 4/28/10.
Justin W. Henry, 18, theft by un-lawful taking/disp-all others; receiving stolen property under $500- pled not guilty, preliminary hearing 4/28/10
Justin W. Henry, 18, truancy –
student 18 but not yet 21- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Karen R. Schork, 45, burglary, 3rd degree; receiving stolen property under $500- pled not guilty, prelimi-nary hearing 4/28/10.
Karen R. Schork, 45, theft by un-lawful taking/disp-all others- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Terry W. Stewart, 38, burglary, 3rd degree; possession of marijuana- pled not guilty, preliminary hearing 4/28/10.
Ryan A. Williams, 18, theft by unlawful taking/disp- all others; re-ceiving stolen property under $500- preliminary hearing 5/12/10.
Michael Edward Kurtz, 32, 4 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 5/26/10.
Mary E. Bishop, 22, alcohol in-toxication in a public place-1st and 2nd offense- pled guilty, $25 fi ne.
Danny C. Ashby Jr., 36, dogs to be vaccinated against rabies; dogs to be licensed; local county ordinance- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
John Denny Barnes, 35, posses-sion of marijuana; use/possess drug paraphernalia, 1st offense- pled guilty, pretrial conference 5/19/10.
Christine M. Galuszka, 41, driv-ing on DUI suspended license-1st of-fense; use/possess drug paraphernalia, 1st offense, 1st offense- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 5/19/10.
Joseph Dwayne Salle, 33, theft by unlawful taking/disp-all others- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Tammy Lanette Smiddy, 39, theft of services- failure to appear, send court notice 4/28/10.
James Michael Strasshofer, 25, speeding 15mph over limit; disregard-ing traffi c control device, traffi c light; fl eeing or evading police, 2nd degree; carrying a concealed deadly weapon- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 5/12/10.
Douglas L. Long, 22, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, 1st offense- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Joshua Michael Higgins, 29, speeding 15mph over limit; failure of non-owner to operator to maintain required insurance, 1st offense; no/expired registration plates.
Richard Lee Robinson, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/security, 1st offense- pled guilty, 90 days probated for 2 years, $100 fi ne; no/expired registration plates- dismiss with proof.
Douglas L. Long, 22, improper start from parked position; failure of owner to maintain required insur-ance/security, 2nd or greater offense- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Kory R. Medley, 19, speeding 26mph over limit/greater- defer 12 months; reckless driving- amend to improper equipment, $150 fi ne.
Sam Pocock, 31, unauthorized use of motor vehiclue-1st offense- pled not guilty, pretrial conference 4/28/10.
Shawna A. Patterson, 30, speeding 10mph over limit- con-tinue 5/19/10; failure of owner to
maintain required insurance/secu-rity, 1st offense- dismiss with proof.
Leslie Lyn King, 52, 5 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $300- pretrial confer-ence 4/28/10.
Leslie Lyn King, 52, non-pay-ment of fi nes- show cause hearing continue 4/28/10.
Leslie Lyn King, 52, 2 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pretrial confer-
ence 4/28/10.Richard E. Swink, 46, 7 counts
of theft by deception include coldcheck under $500- pretrial conference10/20/10.
Terry L. Keith, 46, possession of marijuana; use/possess drug para-phernalia, 1st offense- pled guilty, 6months probated after 10 days jail, 2years probation.
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When you travel down the roads of the 1st District and see a Chris Cottrell campaign sign, it is only because I was asked to give them one. Signs don’t vote – People vote. Because of this, you will not see any of my signs located in the right-of-way of our county roads. I prefer to speak to you face-to-face and shake your hand. If I miss you and do not get that opportunity, ask someone who has and
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I, William, “Butch” Kerrick, Sheriff of Meade County, am running for re-election as the Republican candidate for your Sheriff of Meade County. I have stated throughout my campaign that I am not a “politician”; I am a career “Law Enforcement Officer” with over 38 years experience.
I have worked hard during my term as Sheriff, to take the politics out of the Sheriff’s office. I feel that I have succeeded in my efforts to accomplish that. My policy is that if you break the law, you should pay the consequences, no matter whom you are. I have proven that, even though it has not been “politically cor-
rect” to some individuals.
Politicians make promises that they can’t or don’t keep. Some politicians think if you throw enough money at a problem that will fix it. I made promises dur-ing my election bid and I have fulfilled those promises while remaining fiscally responsible with your tax dollars.
I ran my previous campaign with the slogan “It’s Time for a Change”. I promised to change the Sheriff’s department, and that I have done. These are some of the changes and programs I have implemented during my term:
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• Community Block Watch Programs.• Confidential Drug Tip Line.• Drug Tip Web Site.• Meade County High School Drug Awareness Scholarship Fund. (Paid for with Drug Forfeiture Money)• Sheriff Inventory Auditing System.• Enhanced Office Computer System.• Returned over Forty Thousand Dollars in Excess Fees to Fiscal Court.
I hope that you, the Citizens of Meade County, feel that myself and my department have served you with fairness, integrity, and professionalism. I would like to thank you for allowing me to serve as your Sheriff for the past three years. I hope that I have proven myself to you and I am asking for your vote in my effort for re-election as your Sheriff of Meade County.
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located in Brandenburg justoff the ByPass (HWY 1051) on Shamrock Road at Light #1
422-4251
orders by six months.Alleged abusers will also
be required to stay at least 500 feet from victims.
The law also states that DVO violators who attempt to remove court-ordered tracking devices could face felony charges.
Police and victims will be alerted if alleged abus-ers get within 500 feet from their victims.
The bill, which was sponsored by Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo, was named after former Kentucky state employee Amanda Ross.
Ross, who was allegedly shot outside of her house last fall by her fi ancée, for-mer Kentucky state Repre-sentative and gubernatorial candidate Steven Nunn.
Nunn, who is the son of former governor Louie Nunn, has been charged with murder and violating an emergency protective order.
two inches of rain, while ar-eas of Meade County south of Payneville were hit with more than fi ve inches of rain.
Almost every riv-er over central Ken-tucky is fl ooding or is going to fl ood. The Ohio River and several rivers over south centralIndiana will rise but stay below fl ood stage, accord-ing to the National Weather Service.
time,” Williams said. “It’s a nice musical tribute to the career of Mr. Soderstrom.”
Once he lays down the title of band director, Sod-erstrom said the one thing he is looking forward to the most is having more time to participate in activities he hasn’t been able to do.
For example, Soderstrom said he looks forward to doing a bit of traveling with his wife Valerie and even helping out his daughter Jessie, who is set to attend Western Kentucky Univer-sity in the fall.
Soderstrom’s love of mu-sic began at fi ve-years-old, when his mother taught him how to play a scale. They were also active members in the Salvation Army band and numerous other groups.
Once that spark was lit, he knew he wanted to pur-sue music as a career and didn’t give any other fi elds a thought.
“It was probably more of a given that I would be in music,” Soderstrom said. “I was just involved with it most of my life.”
Once he graduated col-lege, Soderstrom was im-mediately hired in Meade County. He started out as the Assistant Band Director and would teach kids all around the county.
Looking back at all his ex-periences in this fi eld, Sod-erstrom said the one thing he loved most about his job was not winning a trophy or winning a contest. It was the fact that everyday was different.
“It was never the same,” he said. “It’s the day in and day out things that really make a difference.”
Whenever Soderstrom steps down as Band Direc-tor, the one thing he hopes for is that the program is left in good hands.
“Whoever takes over the job, I want to make sure they have a quality program to start with,” he said.
Williams thinks Soder-strom’s legacy speaks for itself.
“I think he is always go-ing to be remembered as an incredible teacher and an incredible person,” he said.
One of the things Wil-liams said he will miss about Soderstrom is his quirky personality and how he genuinely cares for his students.
“I think they can pick up on that. That’s one thing students can tell about their teachers,” Williams said. “He’s always very realistic and has the best interest at heart. I think that’s what made such an incredible impact over the years.”
When Williams began as assistant band director at SPMS, Soderstrom took
him under his wing and showed him the ropes of the job.
“There are some things you can’t learn aside from experience and I feel very fortunate to have someone who’s in that position and knows the ropes,” he said.
Throughout his experi-ence working with Soder-strom, Williams said one of the main things he learned was how to remain calm in tense situations.
“You know there is no situation that can’t be fi xed or can’t be handled,” he said. “I learned not to panic and that getting stressed doesn’t help anything.”
Looking back at his time with Soderstrom, one memory sticks out to Wil-liams. It was during his fi rst year as assistant band director and they had taken the band down to Florida. The whole group went to the beach and Soderstrom lost his glasses.
So he had to wear goggles until they found a replace-ment pair. It wasn’t until about an hour later, that Soderstrom mentioned to a student to keep a lookout for the glasses and once the student moved their feet, the glasses showed up right behind him.
“He has always been full of humored stories and it’s good to hear,” Williams said. “That’s probably one thing I’ll miss. is his stories.”
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Submitted bySecretary of State
Kentucky will have 2,851,996 citizens appear on its voter rolls for the May 18th primary election.
That is slightly lower than the record set during the 2008 general election, which totaled 2,906,809.
There were 2,857,231 cit-izens registered to vote in the 2008 primary election and 2,709,959 in the 2006 primary, the most recent comparable election cycle.
We are confident that Kentucky has one of the best voter registration databases in the country, and these registration fig-ures reflect our efforts to ensure a fair and honest election in the Common-wealth, Secretary of State Trey Grayson stated.
While we would like to see these numbers in-
crease to historic levels, we must also be mindful that our voter rolls must be continually updated to reflect those voters who are deceased, have moved away, or must be removed from the rolls for other lawful reasons.
The registration totals are a net decrease of 54,843 voters from those who were registered to vote in the 2008 general election, decreasing the voter rolls by 1.89 percent.
In comparison, voter registration figures in-creased by a net of 16,333, or 0.58 percent, from the 2007 general election to the 2008 primary.
Registration figures continued to show little change in the percentage of male and female voters with females representing nearly 53 percent of the registration population
and males representing 47 percent.
In terms of party reg-istration, Democrats, Re-publicans, and others de-creased their number of registered voters by 2.65 percent, 0.85 percent, and 0.91 percent since Novem-ber of 2008, respectively.
Democrats decreased their voters by 44,082 to 1,618,011.
Republicans decreased their voters by 8,999 to 1,044,872. Others de-creased their voters by 1,732 to 189,113.
Republicans and others increased their percent-ages of the Kentucky vot-er rolls, as they now com-prise 36.64 percent and 6.63 percent of Kentucky voters, respectively.
That is an increase of 0.38 percent and 0.06 per-cent since the 2008 general election, respectively.
Democrats saw their
percentage decrease 0.41 percent since the 2008 gen-eral election to 56.77 per-cent. Those percentages have set records in mod-ern Kentucky history with Republicans and Indepen-dents being higher than ever before and Democrats being lower.
Compared to the 2006 primary election regis-tration figures, there has been a net increase of 142,007 in total voters, or 5.24 percent; 69,568 in Democratic voters, or 4.49 percent; 55,373 in Republi-can voters, or 5.60 percent; and 17,096 other voters, or 9.94 percent.
Democrats, Republi-cans, and others repre-sented 57.14 percent, 36.51 percent, and 6.35 percent of the electorate in May of 2006, respectively.
Since May 2006, the per-centage of the electorate has changed -0.37 percent for Democrats, 0.13 per-cent for Republicans, and 0.28 percent for others as compared to current per-centages of Kentucky reg-istered voters.
Secretary Grayson not-ed that the election’s focus now shifts to getting peo-ple to the polls on Election Day.
Now that the registra-
tion books are closed, we must work diligently to see that every registered Kentuckian votes in the May 18 primary.
Grayson encouraged citizens to utilize the Vot-er Information Center on the State Board of Elec-tion’s Web site to confirm their voter registration status, determine whether they are eligible to vote in the primary, and to locate their polling place.
For complete registra-tion statistics and addi-tional election informa-tion or to access the VIC, please visit www.elect.ky.gov.
Voter registration figures set for primary election
A6 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010OBITUARIESOBITUARIES
Community Calendar
James A PalmquistJames A. “Tank” Palmquist, 58 of Vinegrove Ky., died
on April 14, 2010, at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
He was born on July 3, 1951, and was a member of the Old Meade County General Baptist Church in Branden-burg, Ky.
Those who preceded him in death are his parents, Mau-rice and Isabell Plamquist and Deborah Kay Palmquist.
Survivors include his sons Todd Palmquist of Litchfield, Ky., James Kenneth Fritsch; two grandsons; close friends Patty and Charlie Nelson of Payneville, Ky.; and Todd and Carol Ratliff of Akron, Ohio.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 20, at Arch L. Heady at Resthaven in Louisville, Ky. Burial was in Soldier ’s Circle, next to his wife Deborah Kay Palmquist, with military honors.
The service was officiated by Rev. Fuller.
Margaret JohnsonMargaret Johns Johnson, 83, of Brandenburg, Ky., for-
merly of Orlando, Fla., died May 2, 2010. She was born Jan. 5, 1927, in Jacksonville, Fla., the
daughter of Condra Walter Johns and Alma Gordon Johns.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Anthony J. Johnson; a brother, Walter “Bubby Johns”; and five sisters, Louise Johns, Eloise Johns, Lois Bishop, Gerry Cantrell and Jean Levins.
Johnson is survived by two daughters, Sandra (Doug) Stone of Brandenburg, Ky., and Sheryl Johnson of Jack-sonville, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.
A memorial service was held May 5 at 6 p.m. at Bran-denburg United Methodist Church.
Rev. Janet Carden and Rev. Jim Robinson officiated the ceremony.
The family chose cremation. Burial will take place in Orlando, Fla., at a later date. Bruington-Jenkins-Sturgeon Funeral Home is han-
dling local arrangements.
Dorothy Stribling Dorothy Stribling, 85, of Radcliff, Ky., died Saturday,
May 01, 2010, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Eliza-bethtown, Ky.
She was a U. S. Army veteran of World War II. She is survived by her husband, Lesley E. Stribling
of Radcliff, Ky.; a daughter and son-in-law, Leslie and Lane Baehre of Haslett, Mich.; a son and daughter-in-law, Gerald and Phyllis Stribling of Louisville; one brother, Frank Heidenger of South Carolina; two grandsons, David Hill and Zachary (Judie)
Stribling; two granddaughters, Karly (R. B. Morris) Stri-bling and Jolaine (Jeremy) Davis; and two great-grand-sons, Dominick Davis and Oona Pearl Morris.
The memorial service was held at 11 a.m. Wednes-day, May 5, at Nelson-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home in Radcliff.
The burial will be private at North Hardin Memorial Gardens in Radcliff, Ky.
Shermon L. MitchellRetired SFC Shermon L. Mitchell, 67, of Vine Grove,
Ky., died Monday, May 3, 2010, at the VA Hospital in Louisville, Ky.
He was a Kentucky Colonel and a lifetime member of the VFW Post #10281 in Vine Grove, Ky.
He served honorably in the U.S. Army for 21 years; serv-ing in Korea and two tours in Vietnam where he received numerous awards and deco-rations.
Mitch also served in the capacity of a civil servant at Fort Gordon, Fort Ruck-er, and Fort Knox for many years.
Mitch enjoyed his service as a Master Mason.
His last formal lodge as-sociation was with the HUB City Lodge in Elizabeth-town, Ky.
Mitch was preceded in death by his parents, Van-zeleen Kight and Buster Mitchell and adoptive par-ents Duncan and Ora Baker
Mitchell and a brother Ervin D. Kight.He is survived by his wife, Retired (LTC) Evelenia
James Mitchell of Vine Grove, Ky.; five daughters, Sher-mona and Sherlenia Mitchell, Evangelia Jordon, Mi-chelle Burns and Cynthia Mitchell; three sons, Doug, Chuck, and Alphonso Mitchell; and a host of grandchil-dren.
The funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Friday, May 7, 2010, at the Sign of the Dove Church in Radcliff, Ky., with Pastor Edward Palmer and Brother Michael Riley officiating.
Burial will be in the Kentucky Veteran’s Cemetery Central in Radcliff, Ky., with military honors.
Hazel DaughertyHazel Dell Daugherty, 86, of Irvington, Ky., died Tues-
day May 4, 2010.She was born February 12, 1924, to the late Charlie
Glenn & Goldie Mae (Vandergrift) Cundiff.She was preceded in death by her husband Ova Lee
“Pete” Daugherty; sister Ruby Daugherty and brother Sam Cundiff.
She is survived by her sisters Eva Daugherty of Lou-isville, Ky., Mary Drury of Brandenburg, Ky.; brothers Elby, Oscar and Charles Cundiff all of Irvington, Ky.; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 8 at Alexander Funeral Home in Irvington, Ky.
Burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Irving-ton, Ky.
The Community Calendar is a free service to community groups and organizations for event announcements. To sub-mit event information, please call The News Standard offi ce at 270-422-4542, visit us at 1065 Old Ekron Road, Bran-denburg, or e-mail us at [email protected]
Friday, May 7•33RD ANNUAL WAVE
REVUE – 7 p.m. at Meade County High School. Visit www.etix.com (keyword: meade) for ticket information.
•COOK-OUT – First Feder-al Savings Bank’s 11th Annual Relay for Life cookout will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. or until food is gone.
•SPRING FLING/AUC-TION – 5-8 p.m. at Muldraugh Elementary School. Fish din-ner, games, prizes, and more. Auctioning tickets to Holiday World, Kings Island, Dol-lywood, merchandise, and much more.
•PARR-FRANS CEM-ETARY ANNUAL BAKE SALE – 9a.m.-3 p.m. at Webb’s Butcher Block and Stull’s Gro-cery in Payneville.
•PULLED PORK BBQ DINNER – 4-8 p.m. at Holy Guardian Angel Catholic Church. 301 High St., Irving-ton, Ky. Free.
Saturday, May 8•MEMORIAL YARD SALE
– The Danny Bennett Memo-rial Scholarship Fund will be at Battletown Elem. School from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
•33RD ANNUAL WAVE REVUE – 3 and 7 p.m. at Meade County High School. Visit www.etix.com (key-word: meade) for ticket infor-mation.
•VINE GROVE SPRING FLING – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Optimist Park in Vine Grove, Ky. Craft show, fl ea market, yard sale. “Fit 4 A King” will perform.
•TAX ASSISTANCE – 9a.m.-1p.m. at Muldraugh United Methodist Church. Free income tax assistance for families. Call Dan Molnar at 270-828-2606 for more infor-mation.
•PARR-FRANS CEM-ETARY ANNUAL BAKE SALE AND COOK OUT – Bake Sale 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Webb’s Butcher Block and Stull’s Grocery in Payneville and cook out 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Webb’s Butcher Block in Payneville.
Sunday, May 9•MCHS BAND ALUMNI
CONCERT – 3 p.m. in the MCHS auditorium. All for-mer band members are en-couraged to attend and play a ‘lite’ concert with the high school band.
•CLASSIC CORVETTS KY MEETING – 2 p.m. in the conference room at Nolin RECC at 411 Ring Road West, Elizabethtown, Ky. Corvette enthusiasts are welcome to come and fi nd out about our family-oriented club. Plans include contributions to local charities and fun events. Call Bob Schramm at 270-763-8439 or email him at [email protected] for more informa-tion.
Monday, May 10•MC COUNTY BOARD
OF HEALTH ANNUAL MEETING – 7 p.m. in the community room of the MC Health Dept.
•LET’S PLAY! – 6-7 p.m. at the MC Public Library. 270-422-2094
•ZUMBA CLASS – 6:30 p.m. on Mondays and 10 a.m. on Saturdays at Fire Station No. 1 on Armory Place Road in Brandenburg. $5 per class. Call 270-668-7284 for more information.
•STORY HOUR – 10:30 a.m. at the MC Public Li-brary on Mondays and Tuesdays. For ages 2-6. 270-422-2094
•CARDIO X – 3:45-4:30 p.m. at the MC Public Li-brary Annex. 270-422-2094
•BUNCO – 6:30-8:30 p.m. at P.L. Kasey Center, 303 Hillview Drive, Irvington, Ky. $5.00. Concessions sold. Every 2nd Monday of the month. 270-547-7648
•ARCHEOLOGICAL SO-CIETY – 1st Monday of the month. 270-828-5169
Tuesday, May 11•SPRING CONCERT –
7 p.m. in the MCHS gym. Spring concert featuring the SPMS and MCHS bands. Ev-eryone is welcome.
•WOMEN’S HEALTH FO-RUM – 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Har-din Memorial Hospital, 5th fl oor auditorium. Free. Call 270-737-4464 to register.
Wednesday, May 12•HEALTH CLASS- 1 p.m.
at the MC Health Dept. “Man-aging Your Meals” Registra-tion is required. 800-280-1601 ext. 1035.
•OPEN-HOUSE RETIRE-MENT RECEPTION HON-ORING MR. BRUCE W. SODERSTROM – 3:30-6 p.m. in the SPMS commons area. Mr. Soderstrom has given 33 years of service to Meade County Schools. Join us in this open house. Call 270-422-3120 for more information.
•LINE DANCING – 7-8:30 p.m. at the Colvin Communi-ty Center, 230 Freedom Way, Radcliff, Ky. Every Wednes-day. 270-668-7228
Thursday, May 13•SPRUCE UP YOUR OUT-
DOOR FURNITURE – 6 p.m. at the MC Extension Offi ce. Pre-registration is requested 270-422-4958
•COMMUNITY DINNER – 5:30 to 7 p.m. at P.L. Kasey Center, 303 Hillview Drive, Irvington, Ky. Carryout avail-able at 5 p.m. $6 for adults. $4 for children 10 and under. Every Thursday. All times are eastern. 270-547-7648
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 15 – 1st Annual US 60 Nostalgia Drag, Hardins-burg, Ky.
May 22 – CRUZ AID FOR CRUSADE CAR SHOW, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Meade Olin Park, Brandenburg for Cru-sade for Children. Music, food, and fun for all. Call Ernie Morris at 270-945-6154 for more information.
Friday, May 7, 2010 The News Standard - A7FAITH & VALUESFAITH & VALUES
VOTE WITH CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR EXPERIENCEVOTE STAN HESLEP
MEADE COUNTY SHERIFFDemocratic Primary, May 18, 2010
Compare my training and experience with the other candidatesEagle scout, Boy Scouts of America• US Army Combat Veteran of Vietnam• 40 yrs federal, state, local police training and experience• Worked all areas of police work, dispatch, accident investigation, road patrol, crime-theft prevention,• crime scene investigations, drug investigations, crimes against elderly and children, and established community policing programs28 yrs with Meade County Sheriff Dept, as Deputy and Chief Deputy• Over 10 yrs experience in local and state disaster response •
I have a plan for your Sheriff’s DepartmentI will establish a citizens committee to interview, review, and recommend Sheriff Department staffing• I invite members of our younger generation, male and female, to apply to come on the department to ensure a sound future• I will increase deputies trained in drug awareness resistance education program in county schools• I will establish programs that will focus the full force of the department on the removal of drugs from our county• I will fully support neighborhood crime watch programs• I will pursue federal grants to fund new programs•
With your help and your vote, I will establish a county Sheriff’s Department we will all be very proud of!
No one else measures up! If you have questions, call me at 828-3880Respectfully, Stan Heslep, Democrat Candidate for Sheriff Paid for by candidate
1. Is the book of Lamentations in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. From Daniel 5, who was holding a feast for 1,000 guests when handwriting appeared on the wall? Job, Belshazzar, Hagar, Hanun
3. Where did Jesus cause demons to go out of two men into a herd of pigs? Appii, Assos, Damascus, Gadarenes
ANSWERS: 1) Old; 2) Belshazzar; 3) Gadarenes;(c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
Young children thrive in loving, disciplined homes
QUESTION: If you had to choose between a very authoritarian style of par-enting versus one that is permissive and lax, which would you prefer?
Which is healthier for kids?
DR. DOBSON: Both ex-tremes leave their charac-
teristic scars on children, and I would be hard-pressed to say which is more damaging.
At the oppressive end of the continuum, a child suffers the humiliation of total domination.
The atmosphere is icy and rigid, and he lives in constant fear.
He is unable to make his own decisions, and his personality is squelched beneath the hobnailed boot of parental authority.
Lasting characteristics of
dependency, deep abiding anger and serious adoles-cent rebellion often result from this domination.
But the opposite extreme is also damaging to kids.
In the absence of adult leadership the child is her own master from her ear-liest babyhood.
She thinks the world re-volves around her heady empire, and she often has utter contempt and disre-spect for those closest to her.
Anarchy and chaos reign
in her home. Her mother is often the most frazzled and frustrated woman on her block.
It would be worth the hardship and embar-rassment she endures if her passivity produced healthy, secure children.
It typically does not.The healthiest approach
to child rearing is found in the safety of the middle ground between disciplin-ary extremes.
I attempted to illustrate that reasonable parenting
style on the cover of my first book, “Dare to Disci-pline,” which included a little diagram much like a child’s seesaw, with “love” on one end and “control” on the other and the ful-crum balancing the two.
Children tend to thrive best in an environment where these two ingredi-ents, love and control, are present in balanced pro-portions.
When the scale tips in either direction, problems usually begin to develop
at home. Unfortunately, parent-
ing styles in a culture tendto sweep back and forthlike a pendulum from oneextreme to the other.
Dr. Dobson is founder andchairman of the board of thenonprofit organization Fo-cus on the Family, ColoradoSprings, CO 80995 (www.family.org).
Questions and answersare excerpted from “SolidAnswers” and “BringingUp Boys,” both published byTyndale House.
JamesDobsonFocus on the Family
Building a good marriage is like creating a good bon fi re
As a young boy growing up in the rural mountains of West Virginia I had the opportunity to camp out with some of my boyhood friends.
We would build a fire at night and sleep close by it.
There was a certain knack to building a good fire that will last all night.
Just throwing some wood together and setting
it on fire usually didn’t get it.
Later in life I discov-ered that building a good marriage and building a good log fire are similar in many ways.
You build a fire with pa-per and kindling, and all at once it goes up in a bril-liantly burning blaze.
Then the primary blaze burns down, and you wonder if the fire will fizzle out and leave you in the dark. You blow on it and fan it for all you are worth.
Sometimes smoke bil-lows out and almost chokes you, but if the materials are good and if
you invest enough energy and interest in maintain-ing it, soon the big solid logs catch, and your fire takes on new quality that will last through even the darkest of nights.
Proverbs 18:20 “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.”
The home is your castle, but it is not a castle with-out a king, and no king is complete without his queen.
Your wife will be de-lighted to be your queen if you treat her like one.
Randy Johnson is the pas-tor at Brandenburg Church of God.
RandyJohnson
Pastor’sSpotlight
Followers of the Holy Spirit must fi ll his presence, be encouraging
Acts 11: 23 says, “ When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. ( NKJV ).
The Holy Spirit is the Encourager. Anyone who wants to be an encourager of others must be fi lled with the Encourager as Barnabas was because of the Spirit’s presence in him, he could readily yield to the leading of God.
Our own ego and drive for self-promotion is so strong that only the Spirit can bring about the trans-formation needed to accom-plish God’s purposes.
When we build up and encourage others, we know that God is at work in and through us.
The fact that Barnabas was good, generous, gracious, and godly was not because of his upbringing or his educa-tion or his heritage.
It was because he was fi lled with the Holy Spirit.
The same Holy Spirit who indwelt Barnabas is the Spirit who is given to every believer in Jesus. We receive the Holy Spirit when we are born again, and we remain fi lled with the Holy Spirit
as we confess our sins and yield to His leading in our lives.
God wants every Chris-tian to be fi lled with the En-courager so that we might become encouragers as Barnabas was.
The same glory brought to God through Barnabas’ life can be brought to Him through our lives.
If you just moved to our area, we invite you to visit with us at Grace Baptist Church. Our Sunday morn-ing service starts at 11 a.m.
We invite you to listen to our weekly Sunday radio program on WMMG from 9:30 to 10 a.m.
Reverend Dan Newton is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church.
Dan Newton
Divine Guidance
Designs By MaryOpen Mother’s Day
May 9th, 10am - 2pmSpecially Designed • Delivery Available608 Old State Rd. • Brandenburg • 422-4020
Friday, May 7, 2010 The News Standard - A7FAITH & VALUESFAITH & VALUES
VOTE WITH CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR EXPERIENCEVOTE STAN HESLEP
MEADE COUNTY SHERIFFDemocratic Primary, May 18, 2010
Compare my training and experience with the other candidatesEagle scout, Boy Scouts of America• US Army Combat Veteran of Vietnam• 40 yrs federal, state, local police training and experience• Worked all areas of police work, dispatch, accident investigation, road patrol, crime-theft prevention,• crime scene investigations, drug investigations, crimes against elderly and children, and established community policing programs28 yrs with Meade County Sheriff Dept, as Deputy and Chief Deputy• Over 10 yrs experience in local and state disaster response •
I have a plan for your Sheriff’s DepartmentI will establish a citizens committee to interview, review, and recommend Sheriff Department staffing• I invite members of our younger generation, male and female, to apply to come on the department to ensure a sound future• I will increase deputies trained in drug awareness resistance education program in county schools• I will establish programs that will focus the full force of the department on the removal of drugs from our county• I will fully support neighborhood crime watch programs• I will pursue federal grants to fund new programs•
With your help and your vote, I will establish a county Sheriff’s Department we will all be very proud of!
No one else measures up! If you have questions, call me at 828-3880Respectfully, Stan Heslep, Democrat Candidate for Sheriff Paid for by candidate
1. Is the book of Lamentations in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. From Daniel 5, who was holding a feast for 1,000 guests when handwriting appeared on the wall? Job, Belshazzar, Hagar, Hanun
3. Where did Jesus cause demons to go out of two men into a herd of pigs? Appii, Assos, Damascus, Gadarenes
ANSWERS: 1) Old; 2) Belshazzar; 3) Gadarenes;(c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
Young children thrive in loving, disciplined homes
QUESTION: If you had to choose between a very authoritarian style of par-enting versus one that is permissive and lax, which would you prefer?
Which is healthier for kids?
DR. DOBSON: Both ex-tremes leave their charac-
teristic scars on children, and I would be hard-pressed to say which is more damaging.
At the oppressive end of the continuum, a child suffers the humiliation of total domination.
The atmosphere is icy and rigid, and he lives in constant fear.
He is unable to make his own decisions, and his personality is squelched beneath the hobnailed boot of parental authority.
Lasting characteristics of
dependency, deep abiding anger and serious adoles-cent rebellion often result from this domination.
But the opposite extreme is also damaging to kids.
In the absence of adult leadership the child is her own master from her ear-liest babyhood.
She thinks the world re-volves around her heady empire, and she often has utter contempt and disre-spect for those closest to her.
Anarchy and chaos reign
in her home. Her mother is often the most frazzled and frustrated woman on her block.
It would be worth the hardship and embar-rassment she endures if her passivity produced healthy, secure children.
It typically does not.The healthiest approach
to child rearing is found in the safety of the middle ground between disciplin-ary extremes.
I attempted to illustrate that reasonable parenting
style on the cover of my first book, “Dare to Disci-pline,” which included a little diagram much like a child’s seesaw, with “love” on one end and “control” on the other and the ful-crum balancing the two.
Children tend to thrive best in an environment where these two ingredi-ents, love and control, are present in balanced pro-portions.
When the scale tips in either direction, problems usually begin to develop
at home. Unfortunately, parent-
ing styles in a culture tend to sweep back and forth like a pendulum from one extreme to the other.
Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Fo-cus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO 80995 (www.family.org).
Questions and answers are excerpted from “Solid Answers” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House.
JamesDobsonFocus on the Family
Building a good marriage is like creating a good bon fi re
As a young boy growing up in the rural mountains of West Virginia I had the opportunity to camp out with some of my boyhood friends.
We would build a fire at night and sleep close by it.
There was a certain knack to building a good fire that will last all night.
Just throwing some wood together and setting
it on fire usually didn’t get it.
Later in life I discov-ered that building a good marriage and building a good log fire are similar in many ways.
You build a fire with pa-per and kindling, and all at once it goes up in a bril-liantly burning blaze.
Then the primary blaze burns down, and you wonder if the fire will fizzle out and leave you in the dark. You blow on it and fan it for all you are worth.
Sometimes smoke bil-lows out and almost chokes you, but if the materials are good and if
you invest enough energy and interest in maintain-ing it, soon the big solid logs catch, and your fire takes on new quality that will last through even the darkest of nights.
Proverbs 18:20 “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.”
The home is your castle, but it is not a castle with-out a king, and no king is complete without his queen.
Your wife will be de-lighted to be your queen if you treat her like one.
Randy Johnson is the pas-tor at Brandenburg Church of God.
RandyJohnson
Pastor’sSpotlight
Followers of the Holy Spirit must fi ll his presence, be encouraging
Acts 11: 23 says, “ When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. ( NKJV ).
The Holy Spirit is the Encourager. Anyone who wants to be an encourager of others must be fi lled with the Encourager as Barnabas was because of the Spirit’s presence in him, he could readily yield to the leading of God.
Our own ego and drive for self-promotion is so strong that only the Spirit can bring about the trans-formation needed to accom-plish God’s purposes.
When we build up and encourage others, we know that God is at work in and through us.
The fact that Barnabas was good, generous, gracious, and godly was not because of his upbringing or his educa-tion or his heritage.
It was because he was fi lled with the Holy Spirit.
The same Holy Spirit who indwelt Barnabas is the Spirit who is given to every believer in Jesus. We receive the Holy Spirit when we are born again, and we remain fi lled with the Holy Spirit
as we confess our sins and yield to His leading in our lives.
God wants every Chris-tian to be fi lled with the En-courager so that we might become encouragers as Barnabas was.
The same glory brought to God through Barnabas’ life can be brought to Him through our lives.
If you just moved to our area, we invite you to visit with us at Grace Baptist Church. Our Sunday morn-ing service starts at 11 a.m.
We invite you to listen to our weekly Sunday radio program on WMMG from 9:30 to 10 a.m.
Reverend Dan Newton is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church.
Dan Newton
Divine Guidance
Designs By MaryOpen Mother’s Day
May 9th, 10am - 2pmSpecially Designed • Delivery Available608 Old State Rd. • Brandenburg • 422-4020
Home schooling has tak-en on a whole new mean-ing in Irvine.
That’s because what used to be their school is now home for three residents of Irvine School Apartments.And they love it.
“This has got to be the best place to live in Ken-tucky,” 90-year-old Mar-guerite Thomas Witt said, while sitting in the school’s old auditorium with two of her closest friends and neighbors.
Witt, Wilma Calmes, 83, and Peggy Powell, 76, are not only surrounded by friends in the renovated 17-unit building, but by fond memories as well.
“We used to love coming to assemblies here,” Calmes said as she looks out over the huge seating area that all agree is little changed.
The most signifi cant changes are to their for-mer classrooms, where chalkboards and school desks have been replaced by modern ap-pliances, gleaming painted walls and lush carpet.
When the large brick building was opened to students in 1920, there was reason for immediate confusion.
According to the name chiseled in stone above the front door, it was called Irvine High School, but al-ways served only grades one through eight.
“We’re told it was named
Irvine High due to this part of Irvine being known as the High Grounds,” Powell said, noting wings were
added to each end of the building in 1939.
Powell added that one of her
classrooms was next door to the lunch-
room in the basement, a location causing great dis-comfort.
“Only the underprivi-leged students were al-lowed to eat in the cafete-ria, and it smelled so good we all wanted to eat there,” she said.
Students not qualifying for the school lunch pro-gram either brought their food, went home or walked to nearby Maupin’s Gro-
cery Store.Some would visit a store
in the basement offering snacks alongside pencils, tablets and other assorted goods. It was operated by Arthur Durbin.
“We were always say-ing we were ‘Going to Mr. Durbin’s‘” Calmes re-called.
Each school day started with Bible reading and the saying of the Pledge of Al-legiance to the fl ag, they recalled.
Wednesday assembly programs were highly an-ticipated due to such per-formances as a man with a traveling show featuring monkeys.
Recess was special as students gathered to play a game of ring around the
roses or jump rope, weath-er permitting, on every day but Election Day.
They recalled the vot-ing house being near the playground and an area that was off limits to the youngsters.
“There were always boot-leggers hanging around, trading liquor for votes,” Powell said.
Fire drills –the siren re-mains attached to the front of the building–and days the furnace was inoperable were also highlights.
“As much as we loved go-ing to school, it was always special when the furnace wasn’t working because that’s the only time school was called off,” Calmes said.
“We prayed a lot that it
would break,” Powell said, noting that allowed them to stay home and listen to radio programs like Amos & Andy and Lowell Thom-as.
There were dreaded days too, such as the times when a student had to be reprimanded by Principal Robert Frederick Flege, a tall man who lived to be 96.
“We were all scared to death of him, and we didn’t get over our fears until after we graduated, then we loved him,” Pow-ell said, laughing.
Another authority fig-ure commanding attention was Landon McDowell, a math teacher noted for having holes in his often-used paddle.
“He was very strict and had these piercing brown eyes. When he raised his eyebrows and bit his lower lip, you knew he meant business,” recalls Calmes.
These stories and more are shared daily by the for-mer students as they gath-er upstairs in what they call their “chat room”, or on benches under a large tree out front.
The daily meetings have taken on added importance for Calmes, who became a widow last November.
“I didn’t need to go look-ing for a support group. I had it here,” she says.
The trio of good friends, often joined by three or four more residents, also have a routine that includes going
out for breakfast together every Saturday.
Seldom does a day pass when they don’t keep each other posted on their plans, which always make for interesting conversa-tion because none act their age.
Witt, who took up golf after turning 50, still longs to return to the course.
“I’ve got lots of balls, but I need a set of clubs,” the former mail carrier said, also noting she would like to visit Peru and is always ready to go anywhere, anytime.
Calmes is scheduled to leave soon for a vacation in Hawaii, and Powell looks forward to having guests come by who know how to play the piano sitting in the auditorium.
“None of us can sing or play piano, but we all know how to dance,” Pow-ell said, who also serves as the unofficial jokester of the group and is fast with a quip.
Positioning themselves for a group photo after being interviewed for this story, Calmes told every-one to say “sexy” because saying the word will make a person smile.
“It just tickles me to death,” Powell said.
A8 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010FEATUREFEATURE
Columnist Don White has served as editor at several newspapers in Kentucky. His Kentucky Traveler fea-tures are published through-out the state. Contact him at thekytraveler.com
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By Angela Shelf MedearisThe Kitchen Diva
My husband’s culinary skills begin and end with making a great pot of coffee.
With that in mind, I’ve created a simple Mother’s Day dinner recipe that even a non-cook can successfully follow.
Preparing a meal is one of the best ways to show some-one you love them. After all, the origin of Mother’s Day is rooted in a daughter’s love and respect for her mother.
In 1905, after her mother’s death, Anna M. Jarvis began a campaign to recognize her mother’s work as a com-munity activist and peace advocate, and to honor her memory. It took several years, but in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.
The House of Represen-tatives also adopted a reso-lution recommending that offi cials of the federal gov-ernment wear white carna-tions on Mother’s Day.
Here’s a simple recipe for pasta with spinach. The step-by-step directions will ensure a successful result for even the most unskilled cook, and create the perfect meal for the Moms we love.
Beginner’s pasta with spinach
8 ounces Angel Hair pasta1 gallon cold water4 teaspoons salt (for the
water)2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 can (14.5 ounce size) diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon Italian sea-soning spice
1 package (10-ounce) pre-washed baby spinach
1/2 cup sour cream or feta cheese
2 tablespoons prepared basil pesto
To cook the pasta:1. Fill a large, tall stockpot
with the water, turn heat to high and bring water to a boil.
2. When water begins to boil, add the salt. (Adding the salt to the water now is necessary because it’s the time when the pasta ab-sorbs it best. Do not add oil of any kind. Oil will coat the pasta, and the sauce will not stick.)
3. Hold the pasta verti-cally over the boiling water and carefully slide it into the pot. Lower the heat to medium so the pasta water doesn’t foam up and boil over the sides. As the pasta begins to soften, use a long fork or wooden spoon to push the pasta into the wa-ter until it’s submerged.
4. Turn the heat back up to high. Stir the pasta to keep it from clumping together. Stir every few minutes as needed to keep the pasta separated.
5. After 6 to 8 minutes, use the fork or spoon to pull out a piece of pasta. Taste it to see if it is soft, not raw or starchy-tasting. The pasta is done when it is “al dente,” which is Italian for “when it
is right for the tooth,” and refers to the correct cooking point of pasta. If the pasta isn’t done, let it continue to cook another 2 or 3 minutes until it’s soft but fi rm–not mushy or overcooked.
6. Fill a coffee cup with some of the pasta water and set it aside to use when making the sauce.
7. Place a large colander in the sink. Using pothold-ers to protect your hands, carefully move the pot to the sink. Carefully drain the pasta into the colander.
8. Pick up the colander with the potholders and shake it well to remove any excess water from the pasta. Do not rinse the pasta.
9. Place the drained pasta back into the large pot and start making the sauce.
To make the sauce:1. Using a large sauce-
pan, over medium-high heat, melt the butter and add the olive oil. Add the tomatoes, Italian seasoning and spinach, a few hand-fuls at a time, and stir to combine.
2. When the spinach be-gins to wilt, stir in the sour cream or feta cheese and the pesto.
3. Pour the sauce into the large pot containing the drained pasta. Turn the heat to low.
4. Mix the sauce and the pasta together until well-combined.
5. Use a 1 or 2 tablespoons of the pasta water to thin out the sauce, as needed.
6. Place the fi nished pas-ta in a large bowl and serve immediately with garlic bread or rolls. Serves 6.
Angela Shelf Medearis is the executive producer and host of “The Kitchen Diva!” cooking show on Hulu.com. Visit her Web site at www.divapro.com. Her new inspirational book is “Ten Ingredients for a Joyous Life and a Peaceful Home – A Spiritual Mem-oir,” co-written with Pastor Salem Robinson, Jr. (www.dunnsmemorial.com).
Honor thy mother with a tasty, simple to cook meal
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It has been a privilege to serve as your Property Valuation Administrator. I’m proud to be a part of the PVA team currently serving the citizens of Meade County.
As Meade County’s incumbent PVA I am commited to:• Providing fair and courteous service• Open door policy• Communication of assessment information• Utilizing current PVA office deputies• Updating to improve efficiency
I ask for your VOTE and SUPPORT May 18, 2010, in order to continue serving Meade County citizens professionally and fairly.
Paid for by Rebecca Richardson for PVA
During Fiscal Court we have had differences of opinions. I welcome and respect these differences. By open discussion we have been able to accomplish the following for all citizens of Meade County:
• Have not raised your taxes• Solid Waste Debt has gone from over $700,000 to ZERO• Reverse 911 to warn citizens of potential severe weather has been implemented• Standard and Poor A+ credit rating for Meade County when reissuing Jail Bonds that saved the taxpayers $304,400• Saved $100,000 by changing the way ambulances are purchased• $5.5 million of water lines installed or being installed• Received $34 million for BRAC related projects in Meade County for waste water in Muldraugh, for roads and school building• Implemented an emergency public information line 270-422-1082• Animal ordinance passed• E-911 almost ready to go to cell phones• 7 satellite recycling centers established throughout the county• Highway 933 to Industrial Park and Arch Chemicals• Road and waer through industrial park• Sewer lines in Riverport• Provided office space for Director of Emergency Sevices• Worked with BRAC on visits to Alexandria, Indianapolis, and St. Louis to promote Meade County• Established a good working relationship with Fort Knox through participation in their programs• Fiscal Court received ARCH Chemicals Award for Helping Tourism. Chamber of Commerce and promoting BRAC• Added an additional dispatcher on duty most of the time• Have been through 3 major disaters without having to borrow money• Secured a Tri-County Recycling agreement with Breckinridge and Hancock counties• Paved or chip-and-sealed over 40 miles of roads• Worked to bring Brandenburg Diagnostic Center here• Maintained an open door policy and returned phone calls in a timely manner• Strived to treat all Meade County citizens fairly• Outstanding work of Road Department in cleaning roads during inclement weather• Provided ambulance director with office space and training facility• Provided secured storage space for voting machines• Placed emergency generators on radio communication towers to allow our first responders dependable communication• Secured generators for EMS Station 1 and the Road Department• Adopted a Comprehensive Plan for Planning and Zoning• Highway 313 about to become a reality!
There is more to be done!Let’s keep Meade County moving forward in a positive direction for ALL citizens!
I humbly ask you to cast your vote on May 18th for
Harry S. Craycroft for Meade County Judge ExecutiveTogether We Can Continue to Make It Better
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I am Charles Coghill, running for magistrate of District 1, which includes Muldraugh, Woodland, and Grahampton.
I previously served as mag-istrate from 1994 through 2002. Many things were ac-complished during this time.
I am looking forward to serving my community again and working with the others of fi scal court.
I have lived in Meade County all my life. I was born in Rock Haven and I am a member of Rock Have Bap-tist Church.
I am a certifi ed ombudsman for our local nursing homes.
I worked for Louisville Gas and Electric at Muldraugh for 42 years, am now a retiree of 14 years, proud father of two — Jody Coghill and Ellen Hardesty — proud grandpa of three, Erica Coghill, Chase and Luke Hardesty.
I am ready to serve my community — working full-time with the citizens getting road approvals, waterlines laid and working hard to get Otter Creek Park reopened.
I am willing to do what I can for Meade County and would appreciate your support.
Feel free to contact me at 270-828-8415.
I, Chris Cottrell, am announcing my candi-dacy for magistrate in the 1st District. Hav-ing always been an active citizen here in the county, I felt the need to do more. The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few, and it is my opinion that I, as an individual, can do more for my fellow Meade Countians who reside in the 1st District, as well as the rest of the county.
Effective and active representation is the goal of any public servant, and I believe that we can do better. Working for the citizens in my district as well as working with the other members of fi scal court to address their needs is my number one priority. As a 31-year-old man, I have the energy, the drive, and the de-sire to take the extra time, and the extra steps to pay attention to the small as well as the large issues we will face in the future.
The 1st District is the closest to Fort Knox and because of this has seen many new resi-dents move into this very accessible area of Meade County, while still maintaining the peaceful, rural setting. With the Base Realign-ment and Closure (BRAC) now in full swing, it is vital to the future of my district to be ad-equately represented by an individual with the time and resources to fi ll the needs of the residents.
As one of those residents, I have witnessed many times when I felt that, “I can do better than that.” After much consideration, as well as encouragement from my friends, neigh-bors, and family, I made the decision to run for magistrate. I will make one and only one promise-to do my very best to represent you, to answer your questions, and at the end of the day, make you proud that you chose me as your magistrate.
Coghill and Cottrell to run for the District 1 Magistrate seat
Charles Coghill Chris Cottrell
Mike MoroneGive Your Stuff Away Day
Free stuff will be avail-able in neighborhoods all over America on May 15. It’s an event Mike Mo-rone is hoping to establish world-wide twice annu-ally.
The event could eventu-ally help millions, while diminishing landfills, reducing clutter, and boosting the economy. Many of us own valuable stuff we just don’t want anymore.
But instead of giving it away or selling it, we al-low it to clutter our house-holds and businesses. Bil-lions of great items are just wasting away, taking up space.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could magically shift ownership of this stuff, in one weekend, coast to coast, with zero effort, lit-tle time, and at no cost.
Cool happens on May 15. It’s called Give Your Stuff Away Day and it will work almost like magic, as long as we promote the idea and follow common sense procedures.
On May 15, bring your valuable, but unwanted stuff to your curb.
Some guidelines: no trash, recyclables, illegal or dangerous items. No food, drugs, chemicals, or weapons.
Just safe, valuable items we would like to be do-nated. Then watch the fun — or better yet, take
a walk and find some free stuff you can use. A few warnings: Give Your Stuff Away Day can get a bit messy, but it’s worth it.
Trash hauling expenses could spike that week. But in the long run, fewer items in landfills equate to lower hauling expenses. Local governments won’t like it — until they under-stand how beneficial it can be.
Last month, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell be-came the first elected offi-cial to understand that.
Read about it here, and please call Mike Morone if you would like to discuss this event.
Find out more at www.giveyourstuffaway.com.
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A10 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010NEWSNEWS
To the Voters of Meade County,This year, when you go to your voting location on Election Day
you will see a new voting machine which uses a paper ballot called the
eScan voting machine. This voting machine has replaced the old stand-
up model 1242. When it is your turn to vote, you will be asked if you want a
paper ballot or want to vote on the sit-down eSlate voting machine. If you select
the paper ballot, you will be handed a ballot and sent to a privacy booth to vote. While
in your privacy booth, you can either put an “X” by your choice or blacken in the square.
When you are done, you then proceed to the eScan machine and insert the ballot yourself.
Once that is done you will get a message saying “thank you for voting” and you are done –
it’s that simple. As I have mentioned, your other option is the sit down eSlate voting machine
we have been using since 2006, and nothing has changed on that machine.
Both of these voting machines are on display here in my office during regular business hours
if you would like to stop by and have a demonstration on either machine.
If you have any election questions, please feel free to call me at 270-422-2152. Our office
hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until
noon.
Thank you,
Katrina Fitzgerald
Meade County Clerk
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Chad M. Hall, 24, cultivation of marijuana, less than 5 plants, 1st offense; use/possess drug parapher-nalia, 1st offense; possession of mari-juana- pretrial conference 5/12/10.
Jason Patrick Thomas, 29, operating motor vehicle under/infl u-ence of alcohol/drugs, aggravator, 4th offense- amend to DUI, 1st offense; operating on suspended/revoked operators license; possess controlled substance, 1st offense; possession of marijuana; controlled substance pre-scription not in original container, 1st offense.
Kathryn M. Swenson, 22, pos-session of marijuana; possess con-trolled substance-3rd degree-1st of-fense, drug unspecifi ed; controlled substance prescription not in original container, 1st offense- pretrial confer-ence 4/28/10.
Dennis William Webb, 47, 4 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pled guilty, 10 days probated after 1 hour jail.
Lionel A. Ditto, 24, disorderly conduct, 2nd degree- pled guilty, 30 days probated after 2 years probation, $100 fi ne, stay out of Dodge Store; al-cohol intoxication in a public place-1st and 2nd offense- dismissed.
Tamara Carpenter, 26, theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pretrial conference 5/26/10.
Julie Ann Beard, 40, unlawful transaction with minor-3rd degree- 12 months defer order, KAPS with conditions.
Steven W. Henderson, 44, possession of marijuana; use/possess drug paraphernalia, 1st offense- pled guilty, 6 months probated after 10 days jail, 2 years probation; operat-ing motor vehicle under /infl uence of alcohol/drugs, etc. 1st offense- pled guilty, 30 days probated after 2 days jail, 2 years probation, KAPS/ADE, $200 fi ne.
Jefferey James Thomas, 27, operating motor vehicle under/in-
fl uence of alcohol/drugs, etc. 1st offense; speeding 19mph over limit- pled guilty, 30 days probated after 2 days jail, 2 years probation.
Larry R. Ginn, 62, operating motor vehicle under/infl uence of al-cohol/drugs, etc. 1st offense- pretrial conference 5/12/10.
Eugene Michael Harrington, 50, operating motor vehicle under/infl uence of alcohol/drugs, etc. 3rd offense- pretrial conference 5/19/10.
Jeremy Eugene Medley, 34, fl eeing or evading police, 2nd de-gree; operating vehicle with expired operators license; reckless driving; speeding 15mph over limit- pretrial conference 5/12/10.
Matthew Allen Teeter, 29, 3 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500-failure to ap-pear.
Andy Lee Rogers, 30, assault, 4th degree domestic violence, minor injury- pretrial conference 5/12/10, no contact or communication with Ashley Rogers.
Billie Jean Mitchell, 28, speed-ing 19mph over limit; failure to pro-duce insurance card- pretrial confer-ence 5/26/10.
Billie Jean Mitchell, 28, pos-session of marijuana; controlled substance prescription not in original container, 1st offense- pretrial confer-ence 5/26/10.
Marissa D. Kaelin, 23, 3 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pretrial confer-ence 6/2/10.
Charles Ray Settles, 31, proba-tion violation for misdemeanor of-fense- probation revocation hearing, remand.
Michael D. McAnallen, 20, probation violation for misdemeanor offense- probation revocation hearing 4/28/10.
David Allen Taulbee, 25, pro-bation violation for misdemeanor of-fense- probation revocation hearing 4/28/10.
Larry Paul Scott, 42, probation violation for misdemeanor offense- probation revocation hearing, failure to appear.
Pedro P. Medina, 25, probation violation for misdemeanor offense- probation revocation hearing, failure
to appear.Robert Rivera, 25, probation vi-
olation for misdemeanor offense- pro-bation revocation hearing 5/26/10.
Ashley Nicole Rogers vs. Andy Lee Rogers, domestic vio-lence- DVO dismissed on request of petitimer.
Amanda Sue Blanton vs. Wil-liam Alexander Blanton, domes-tic violence- EPO issued, continued to 5/5/10.
Michael Paul Hudson, 32, fl a-grant non support- amend to non sup-port, pled guilty, 12 months probated for 2 years.
Helen Cannon Griffi th, 54, theft of controlled substance, 1st offense, less than $300- amend to attempt to theft controlled substance; possess controlled substance-3rd degree-1st offense, drug unspecifi ed- pled guilty, 12 months probated after 10 days jail, 2 years probation, KAPS.
Jessica Druckenmuller, theft by unlawful taking/disp-auto- pre-liminary hearing 5/5/10.
Sean Ryan Stiles, 22, 3 counts of theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pretrial confer-ence 5/26/10.
Ronald Lee Chain, 45, failure to illuminate head lamps- pled guilty, $25 fi ne; no license in possession- pled guilty, $50 fi ne; possession of marijuana; use/possess drug para-phernalia, 1st offense- pled guilty, 6 months probated after 10 days jail, 2 years probation, KAPS; 1st degree possession of controlled substance/drug unspecifi ed, 2nd offense; pos-sess controlled substance-3rd degree-1st offense, drug unspecifi ed- pled guilty, 12 months probated after 10 days jail, 2 years probation.
Michael D. Hack, 47, theft by deception include cold checks under $500- pretrial conference 5/12/10.
Wayne Junior Little, 50, care-less driving- dismiss/merged; operat-ing motor vehicle under/infl uence of alcohol/drugs, etc. 1st offense- pled guilty, 30 days probated after 2 days jail, 2 years probation, $200 fi ne, KAPS.
Nicole Marie Perry, 35, proba-tion violation for misdemeanor of-fense- probation revocation hearing 5/5/10.
CourtFrom page A4
That situation inspired Dougherty, a senior at Meade County High School, to pursue a career as an Emergency Medical Technician. He is currently enrolled in an EMT/Basic course at Meade County Area Technical School.
To Dougherty, his love of this career is more than saving people’s lives.
“I’m an adrenaline junk-ie, I’ll tell you that straight up,” he said. “To be able to run code 3 — to me it’s defi -nitely an adrenaline rush. You get to see everything.”
Dougherty said his ulti-mate dream job would be to work as a fl ight paramedic.
“It’s like taking a little kid in a candy shop,” he said.
Dougherty is just one of many students enrolled in EMT/Basic course at MCATC. The course is taught by Nancy Wheeler, who isn’t a stranger to this line of work.
Wheeler began her career as an EMT almost 15 years ago at another vocational school in Elizabethtown, Ky. She has been working in Meade County for almost three years now.
For Wheeler, her love of this fi eld began through a simple fi rst aid class.
“My instructors told me I did such an incredible job in class and they thought I should pursue it,” she said.
Next thing she knew, Wheeler was enrolled in school to become an EMT. She has experience in both real life EMT and teaching the aspects of being an EMT in a classroom.
But for Wheeler, she would prefer to teach than be out in the fi eld.
“I prefer the teaching as-pect because I have such a passion for it and like to share that with my stu-dents,” she said. “Hope-fully, I can pass that passion
onto them just like Alex.”When it comes to what
classes they can take, Wheel-er noted that students can come in as freshmen, take intro classes and work their way up. Or they can pick and choose what classes they would like to take. But it’s all about starting with the basics and moving up from that.
For example, Wheeler said in Intro to Fire, stu-dents learn the basics of putting on their gear, un-derstand how fi re works, what it takes to create a fi re, what it takes to put out a fi re, how to approach fi re extinguishers, etc.
The structure of classes is very similar to a college cur-riculum and what people go through at a fi re academy.
Though at MCATC, no students will actually go in-side a burning building.
“We try to create a con-trolled environment where they can still learn on a level that’s more safe,” Wheeler said. “If we burn something, they are at an adequate dis-tance away from it.”
In Fire II, students start to learn more about build-
ing construction and un-derstand how buildings are put together. Wheeler said students work with hazard-ous materials and work in scenarios such as a gasoline tanker overturning. Wheel-er works with the students and asks them how they would respond to the scene and how they plan to keep the community safe.
Some of the other classes involved in the curriculum include: Basic, Basic II, In-termediate Fire, EMT Basics and EMT First Responder.
Overall, students get a lot of hands-on work, Wheeler said.
“The intro is more book related because there is a lot of facts they must under-stand before I let them start with the tools,” Wheeler said. “A lot of safety goes into it and a lot of things they need to understand.”
Since the curriculum is similar to college, students are able to use the hours they gain at MCATC and apply them to their college degree.
When it comes to the high-light of her job, it’s all about the impact she had made on
her students, Wheeler said.“Over the years, I’ve had
a couple of students who have returned and told me that because of the knowl-edge they gained in my class they were able to save a family member’s life,” she said. “You know often times being a teacher, you’re not just teaching them about the subject, you’re helping them with life in general.”
RescueFrom page A1
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY NANCY WHEELER
Pictured above is Nancy Wheeler’s EMT class. The students pictured are Alisha Toney, Stephanie Mudd, Marissa Simmons, Chelsey Noyes, TeYowna Goldbach, Alex Dough-erty, Charles Tustin, Tyler Brown, Tayler McMahan, and instructor Nancy Wheeler. The helicopter is KY-06 out of Elizabethtown, Ky.
state–provided mine safety inspections, and mine res-cue teams may cease.
State funding for the State Police, Vehicle Enforcement,
veteran’s nursing homes and existing road projects could have their budgets lopped, Beshear added.
State funding for public colleges, universities, Med-icaid, mental health hospi-tals, public health depart-ments and aging services could also face the chop-
ping block.Gov. Beshear told state
lawmakers in a letter if a state budget wasn’t passed a month before the July deadline, significant debt service and other savings used in budget drafts by both chambers would be lost.
BudgetFrom page A1
NRI fi ghts erosion in Kentucky
Insects pollinate a large per-centage of food crops grown in the U.S. and all over the world.
Many different species of pollinators exist, but the in-sect best equipped for this job is the honeybee.
Honeybees are exception-ally effi cient at collecting and transferring pollen among the fl owers of a particular crop.
In a practice known as “fl ower fi delity” groups of foraging bees will visit just one type of fl ower, collecting and storing pollen in baskets located on their legs.
As the bees fl y from fl ower to fl ower, pollen particles are transformed between male and female parts triggering the plant’s reproduction cy-
cle, which results in a fruit or vegetable that may eventually fi nd its way to a dinner table.
A growing concern for U.S. agricultural producers is the continuing decline of honey-bee populations.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of colonies in Kentucky has dropped dra-matically over the last century from 152,900 in 1909 to just 5,000 in 2009.
Many studies are underway to try to pinpoint the cause for this decline, and so far several factors have emerged as detri-mental to honey bee health.
One of these involves the use of pesticides and insec-ticides, which can produce harmful effects in other pol-linators, too.
Approximately 4,000 spe-cies of native or wild bees as-sist the honeybee in making a large contribution to the pol-lination task.
They include everything from large bumblebees to tiny
sweat bees. There are miner bees, carpenter bees, mason bees, plaster bees and orchard bees -- all named for the types of nests they build.
Butterfl ies and some fl ies also pollinate certain plants.
You can help promote and protect insect pollinators by following a few simple rules. Never spray plants with in-secticides when the plants are actively blooming.
If chemical applications are necessary, strive for infre-quent use and choose selec-tive products with minimal impact on natural resources, especially bees.
Promote pollinators and in-vite them into your environ-ment by planting a diverse landscape with fl owers, trees and other greenery that bloom in succession from spring into fall.
For more information about insects found in your land-scape and garden, contact the Meade County Cooperative Extension Service.
By McKayla PhillipsMCHS FFA Reporter
This is the first part of a two part series. Check next week’s issue of the News Standard for part two.
Out of all the things I’ve learned this year, the most important would have to be that FFA is my life.
It means everything to me; along with all the competitions, friends
I’ve met, and the second family I’ve acquired and grown to love.
I think that for me, this year will always be one I will hold dear to my heart, and never forget.
At this year’s Meade County FFA banquet, I’ll be the first to admit it was very emotional, yet I had a blast and will never for-get it.
Whether it be the retir-ing of the senior officers, that are going on to live in the real world and take the winding path that their lifes may take them.
Or maybe it was wel-coming in the new officers and executive team, who are eager to start their new year, but are going to be sad that it will be a year without their senior mentors.
Whatever it may be, one thing is for sure: many awards were handed out that night, with a table filled to the edges with plaques and awards, which at the end of the night, were all gone.
Also, I’m sure that many of us Meade County kids were excited to see the ap-pearance of past Meade County FFA officers as well; including Callie Hobbs and Alex Medley.
So let me break it down for you:
The clock had just turned to 6:30 p.m., and it was time for the banquet to begin.
It all started in the caf-eteria, where we all had a lovely meal and an even better cake with all the fixings.
As soon as everybody’s belly was full, guests, par-ents, members, offi cers, and advisors, all made the long walk to the auditorium.
The officers greeted ev-eryone at the door, wel-coming their guests with smiling faces and “thanks for coming” attitudes.
I guess it was around 7:15 p.m., and the lights dimmed, when all the of-ficers, including myself gathered into a huddle at
the entrance under one light.
“Let it Rock” was boom-ing from the sound booth, and emcee B Lee wel-comed all the officers with astonishing passion.
We skipped, we walked, and we ran, down the long aisles for our “big” entrance, and walked on stage.
We all gathered together on the stage, super excited about the giant gavel sit-ting on the table, waiting to be tapped once, then twice by all of us, together.
It was moving, the teamwork that we all put into making a great officer team like ours.
All I could think about was, “how did I end up, up here, with the best peo-ple I knew?”
As soon as we were all seated by the giant gavel, the ceremony began for the final time.
It started with remarks by state officer, Callie Hobbs, who gave a warm and heartfelt welcome to all the parents and guests that attended the banquet.
It ended with a story about a man who accom-plished his lifelong dream in finishing the construc-tion on the Brooklyn
Bridge, by tapping out messages to his wife, on her arm, with the only body part he could still move, his finger.
With his one finger, he made the accomplishment of a lifetime.
The night wasn’t even close to ending, with the next item of business be-ing the awards ceremony.
I could tell from look-ing out into the audience, people were tense.
Many people were there for awards they knew they were going to receive, and others, just there for sup-port.
The first awards were given to the FFA mem-bers who participated in the Lincoln Trail Regional Speaking Contest.
Impromptu speechwrit-ers are given 20 minutes to prepare a five–minute speech on a topic in a spe-cific area.
In prepared public speaking, one member, that would be me, is re-quired to write a six to eight minute speech about any topic they choose, and then memorize it com-pletely.
Out of 13 FFA members, 11 of them made a superi-or rating on their speech.
A superior rating is the highest rating a speech can receive.
Also, out of the 13 mem-bers who went, 4 have been selected to represent Meade County at State Convention in June.
Those members are Ash-ley Carter, Aurora Laslie, Brian Chism, and Dalton Waters.
Various other members who participated in the speaking contest.
Those members include: Chris Cornelius, Taylor De Wit, Ashely Funk, Aman-da Jarboe, Kylie Tucker, Joy Straney, Heather Dar-nall, Brittany Lancaster, and McKayla Phillips.
The next award was pro-ficiencies.
FFA members keep re-cords of their supervised agricultural experience.
They then enter it in a proficiency area based on their SAE and then go on to compete at the regional level.
The following members had proficiencies: Alex Richardson, Callie Hobbs, Ashley Carter, Jeremy Mattingly, Travis Hard-castle, Brady Vessels, Tif-fany Hood, Alex Brangers, Brian Chism, Joy Straney, as well as Kelli Eden.
In December, members participated in the Meade County FFA Crop Show.
These entries will move on to the county fair in July and the state fair in August.
The overall high indi-vidual was Jeremy Mat-tingly.
Every year an elite group of individuals from the chapter are selected to be on the Chapter Meeting team.
They are required to demonstrate knowledge of parliamentary proce-dure and Roberts Rule of Order.
A lot of time and effort went into making this team the eventual success that it was.
Starting in January, the team practiced three times a week until the March contest.
At the Regional level they attained a superior, which is the highest rating you can get.
This year’s members were: Ashley Carter, Amanda Jarboe, Chris Cornelius, McKayla Phil-lips, Shane Greenwell, Ty Adams, Joey Wardrip, Heather Darnall, Aurora Laslie, Brian Chism, as well as Taylor De Witt.
Friday, May 7, 2010 The News Standard - A11AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE
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Kentuckian Livestock Market - Owensboro, KY • KY Dept of Ag-USDA Market News • Monday, April 26, 2010
Receipts: 224 Last week: 330 Last year: 249 ***AD-Average Dressing, HD-High Dressing, LD-Low Dressing
Compared to last week: Slaughter cows were steady to 2.00 higher. Slaughter bulls steady Feeder steers and heifers steady on light testSlaughter cows were 16 percent of supply: Slaughter bulls 04 percent: Replacement cows 08 percent and feeders 68 percent: The feeder supply included 33 percent steers, 00 percent holstein steers, 39 percent heifers and 28 percent bulls. 14 percent weighed over 600 lbs.Feeder Steers: Medium and Large 1-2 200-300 lbs 122.00-128.00; 300-400 lbs 127.00-134.00; 400-500 lbs 125.00;
500-600 lbs 121.00 122.00; Medium and Large 2 300-400 lbs 116.00-119.50Large 3 Holsteins: No TestFeeder Heifers: Medium and Large 1-2 200-300 115.00-116.00; 300-400 lbs 109.50-123.00; 400-500 lbs 107.00-114.00; 500-600 lbs 98.50-105.00. Medium and Large 2 500-600 lbs 91.00.Feeder Bulls Medium and Large: 1-2 200-300 lbs 131.00; 300-400 lbs 120.00-125.00; 400-500 lbs 114.50-122.00; 500-600 lbs 110.00-118.00 600-700 lbs 91.50-100.00. Slaughter Cows: %Lean Weight AD HD LDBreaker 75-80 900-1720 58.00-65.50 66.50-67.50 48.00-55.50 Boner 80-85 970-1050 53.00-56.00 62.00
Lean 85-90 740-1010 50.50-52.50 43.50Slaughter Bulls:Yield Grd Weight Carcass Boning% AD HD1 1410-1985 79-81 71.00-73.002 1460-2230 74-78 66.50-68.00 60.00Stock Cow Calf Pairs: Medium and Large 1-2 3-8 years old 905-1050 lbs with 100-300 lbs calves at side 775.00-960.00 per pair.Stock Bulls: 1 Angus bull 1375 lbs 74.00 per cwt. 1 Angus bull 1315 lbs 75.00 per cwt.Baby Calves: Beef 150.00-195.00 per head
Flying pests play crucial role in pollinating many food crops
FFA says goodbye to seniors at tearful banquet
By Lois Jackson State Public Affairs
New data on soil ero-sion and development of private lands has been re-leased by the USDA.
National Resource In-ventory information is used by state and local governments to calculate the land use in areas.
Many times this infor-mation is used by the na-tional office to determine which conservation pro-grams are appropriate and
applied to land areas.“The collection of data
for the National Resource Inventory has been in the works since the 1950’s. With the use of databases and computers, people can now access this in-formation much easier,” USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service state soil scientist Bill Craddock said.
Here are Kentucky’s numbers:
Cropland erosion has been reduced from 42 mil-
lion tons to less than 15 million tons during the period of 1982 – 2007.
Cropland decreased from 5.9 million acres in 1982 to 5.1 million acres in 2007.
Prime farmland decreased from 5.9 million acres in 1982 to 5.5 million acres in 2007.
Between 1982 and 2007 newly developed land in Kentucky totaled almost 1 million acres.
For more information, feel free to visit www.nrcs.usda.gov.
The News Standard supports Meade County agriculture by profiling local farmers, vegetable producers,
horse groups, and other agricultural-based groups and individuals each week on the Agriculture Page.
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By Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Adam Robinson grew up around the medical fi eld. It was something he knew early on he wanted to be his path in life.
“(My mom) showed me how important it was to help others,” Robinson said. “Along with the fact that my best friend’s father was a pharmacist and I worked for him growing up, I found a happy median where I get to help people with their medical needs, associate with people and be there for them when no one else will.”
That passion eventually led Robinson to being own-er and operator of Bran-denburg Pharmacy. The business opened in 1994, and then reopened in 2000. Robinson took over in 2007 after graduating with his pharmacy license from the University of Kentucky in June 2007.
Brandenburg Pharmacy currently has a staff of four certifi ed technicians, two college students, a high school student, a delivery person, a primary pharma-cist and two other owners besides Robinson: Jonathan and Gabe Van Lahr.
Instead of being commer-cialized, Brandenburg Phar-macy gives off a hometown feeling. Workers there know names and grab clients or-ders before they ask for them.
To Robinson that is what makes his business unique.
“We strive to do business with as many local people as we can,” he said.
Besides fi lling prescrip-tions some of the things Brandenburg Pharmacy of-fers to its customers include medical equipment such as
wheelchairs, walkers and nebulizers; over the counter medication; and a customer contact line, where people will never hear an automat-ed voice service.
“The pharmacy’s phones are all answered by the technicians or me,” Rob-inson said. “The patients never listen to an automat-ed line or try to punch their prescription numbers in to get refi lls. They can always count on talking directly to a healthcare associate.”
Customers can pick up their prescriptions either by coming in the store, in the drive through or ben-efi t from the free delivery service offered by Branden-burg Pharmacy.
“We’re the only pharmacy in the county that delivers to our patients and that’s a big thing because a lot of people can’t get out,” Rob-inson said.
If by chance the pharmacy doesn’t have a prescription a patient needs, they will make sure and get it.
Another aspect that Bran-denburg Pharmacy upholds is its quick service.
“We don’t want to see anyone wait over 15 min-utes,” Robinson said. “If you come in here and say you need pain medicine be-cause you broke your leg, I’m not going to tell you it’s going to be tomorrow or the next day.”
During a typical day at Brandenburg Pharmacy, technicians may fi ll up to 400 orders.
“We come in and start fi ll-ing prescriptions as soon as we can and helping people who come in and call,” he said.
“We start the delivery ser-vice around lunchtime and I council patients as much as I can. Usually later on in
the afternoon, we’ve slowed down on fi lling and people are starting to pick up their prescriptions.”
Brandenburg Pharmacy also provides free fl u shots every year. The shots are of-fered through a fl u clinic at the pharmacy a couple of times during the fall.
“We also work with Kar-en Cottrell of Meade Coun-ty schools to travel to each school in the county and provide fl u shots for the teachers and other employ-ees,” Robinson said. “The school clinic was a huge success last year and we hope that continues through 2010.”
Construction recently fi n-ished a new face lift for Bran-denburg Pharmacy. Rob-inson said their goal of the construction was to change the front façade of the build-ing and to add a bigger sign.
“The old sign was small and hard for us to see,” Robinson added. “A lot of people didn’t know we were over here.”
Overall, Robinson said the best part about his career path is knowing everyone in the community by name and being able to help them.
“There is absolutely no better feeling than when someone walks in and goes ‘You know what? Whatever you recommended to me the other day made me feel so much better. I feel great and my kids are better,’” Rob-inson said. “That’s the best part about it.”
Brandenburg Pharmacy Care is located on 455 By-Pass Road. The business is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday – Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays.
For more information or to fi ll a prescription, call the business at 270-422-2422.
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By Ben AchtabowskiThe News Standard
Racing fans can enjoy the roar of the “good old days” on May 15 during the First Annual US 60 Nostalgia Drags at the US 60 Dragway in Hardinsburg, Ky.
Drag racing is quite a phenomenon in Kentucky — with nationally ranked drag racers from the region and several famous drag strips. Louisville native Tony McConnell thought that the US 60 Dragway would be a great place to hold the fi rst nostalgia drag race event in the area.
“Kentucky used to be a great drag racing state,” McConnell said, who is one of the coordinators of the event. “It still is though and events like this prove it.”
The nostalgia event will show off the past classic dragsters of the 50s, 60s and 70s and race them retro fl ag drag style and the more modern light tree.
Nostalgia drag racing has become big all throughout the country, according to McConnell. Last year in Bowling Green, Ky., a drag show had over 100,000 peo-ple go through its gates.
“It’s a major thing going
right now,” he said. McConnell expects to
haul in thousands of spec-tators on the May 15 event and is already planning a three-day event for next year. He has people com-ing from all over the region including Cincinnati and Cleveland. Several clubs from around the region in-cluding the Road Rockets from Indianapolis and clubs from Nashville, and Illinois are expected to come, too.
McConnell chose the US 60 Dragway because of its own historic and nostalgic
By Ben AchtabowskiThe News Standard
Meade County Green-wave junior centerfi elder Brenton Smith is fully out of his hitting slump.
Two weeks ago Smith slipped down the lineup and struggled to produce from the batter’s box. But against the Breckinridge County Tigers on Thursday night, he produced offensively and defensively to help the Greenwave win 10-3.
“He’s swinging the hot bat,” Meade County head coach Todd Clanton said.
During the third inning, Smith hit a triple to break the 0-0 tie to score senior short stop Justin Amburgey.
“That was really big,” Smith said, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI. “It really turned the game around for us. We started
to hit the ball well and mo-tivated everybody.”
Smith accredited his suc-cess to opening his batting stance the last two weeks. He’s hit a homerun, triple
and several doubles to help the Greenwave win fi ve straight games.
“It’s working for me,” he said about his adjustments. “I’ve been hitting the ball
well. I found some new power. I’ve never been a power hitter, just a base hit kind of guy.”
Smith followed up his big hit, with an equally big defensive play during the bottom of the inning. With bases loaded and two outs, Breckinridge’s best hitter — senior Tate Glasscock — hit a ball to deep center. Smith caught the ball over his shoulder to squash the Tigers’ scoring threat.
“Probably what was big-ger than the triple was the play he made in center-fi eld,” Clanton said. “That was a game changer right there. If that ball drops, they score three and it’s a ballgame. That play kind of broke their back.”
While Smith has changed his batting stance, he’s also had to deal with a position change into the outfi eld.
“I like center,” he said. “Ididn’t like it at fi rst, but I’mliking it now. Especially ifI can keep making catcheslike that. That was a bigcatch. That was one of thebest catches I’ve ever had.”
During the fourth inning,the Greenwave scored fourmore runs when junior ScottKing hit a bases loaded sin-gle that scored two runs.
Sophomore catcher Bra-dy Smith hit an RBI doublewhile Amburgey hit a sacri-fi ce fl y to score sophomoreBo Wilson. Brady Smith isleading the team in RBI.
“He’s quietly getting itdone,” Clanton said of hiscatcher. “He doesn’t getthe big four hit games. Hemay not get homeruns,but he leads the team inRBI. He’s comfortable atthe plate and he wants to
By Ben AchtabowskiThe News Standard
To say the Wathen family is a softball fam-ily may be a little bit of an understatement.
“I guess it’s a pretty good assumption,” said Campbellsville University softball head coach Shannon Wathen, whose little sister Mallory Wa-then signed to play for her team on Tuesday.
Mallory, a senior second baseman for the Meade County Lady Waves, is the youngest of a fam-ily steeped in ath-letic pedigree.
Shannon was a star basketball player at Camp-bellsville and is now heading into her eighth year as the softball coach. Lauren Wathen also played for Shannon at Campbellsville where she was named the all-conference player and graduated two years ago. Now, Mallory will play softball and continue the Wathen success at Campbellsville.
“All of our daughters have played soft-ball. (My son) played baseball,” said the Wathen sisters’ father, Joe. “But really I
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US 60 Dragway to host fi rst ever nostalgia drag
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A replica of the Golden Angel will compete in the US 60 Nostalgia Drags in Hardinsburg, Ky on May 15.
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Brenton Smith hits a triple against Breckinridge County.
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By Ben AchtabowskiThe News Standard
The Meade County Lady Waves softball team clinched the No. 1 seed in the 11th District when they beat the Hancock Coun-ty Lady Hornets in fi ve innings, 12-2, on April 29.
“It automatically puts you in the region, which is nice,” said Meade County head coach Mike Harreld. “Now you can sit back and watch the other two play and have a day’s rest.”
It’s no surprise the No. 8 Meade County Lady Waves’ offense is one of the best in the
state. However, unexpectedly the offense is lead by eight-grader Ashley Nikolao.
Nikolao is hitting nearly .500 at the des-ignated hitter spot for the Lady Waves and came up big against Hancock County where she went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI.
“That’s phenomenal for an eighth grad-er,” Harreld said. “Normally, they come in and they don’t swing the bat.
“I knew she was going to be a good play-er. I was just going to spot her in the lineup and see how she did. I was unsure at what
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Ashley Nikalao slides into second base against Hancock County last week.
Lady Waves go undefeated in the regular season district play
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B2 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010SPORTSSPORTSSenior night says goodbye to pillars of softball program
By Ben AchtabowskiThe News Standard
Though the Meade Coun-
ty Lady Waves still have plenty of their season left, on Tuesday they celebrated senior night.
“It throws me off a bit because I keep thinking we have a week or two left of ball,” said right fi elder Erin Sireno. “But really we have a whole month.”
The small class of two, Sireno and second base-man Mallory Wathen, have been the heart of the Lady Waves’ right side defense for the past four years.
“They are going to make a big gap,” Meade County head coach Mike Har-reld said. “They are going to be hard shoes to fi ll. I liked coming back this year knowing that defen-sively we were going to be OK. But after those two are gone it’s going to be harder to replace those two.”
The two were literally mirror images of them-selves on the same side of the fi eld, as Sireno wore jersey No. 21 and Wathen donned No. 12.
“Actually my number was 21,” Wathen said jok-ingly. “But the jersey was too big … so I let her have 21. But my sister’s num-ber was 12 and 12 is 21 backwards so I fi gured I’d take it. Don’t let Erin fool you, it’s my number. I had dibbs on it because I was here longer.”
Sireno moved to Meade County during her fresh-man year and Harreld was ecstatic.
“I knew they were look-ing for a new school to move to,” Harreld said. “I wanted them to come to Meade County because I knew and heard that she was such a good player.”
Sireno proved to be a great player and led the
Lady Waves’ offense dur-ing her junior year.
“I didn’t know what to expect for him,” Sireno said of having Harreld as a new coach. “Toward the end of the year heading into my sophomore year I really started to relax. I knew I could make a few errors and not get my butt ripped. I just relaxed and played my game.”
Wathen had several sis-ters go through the Meade County program and knew what to expect from the coaches right away.
“The coaches have been great,” she said. “I love coach Harreld — he’s one of the best coaches in the state without a doubt. I wouldn’t want another coach. He’s pushed us to be better players.”
Wathen started out play-ing outfi eld but Harreld moved her to second base — a move he’ll never regret.
“You see how much ground Mallory can cov-er is amazing,” Harreld said. “You rarely see a ball missed that comes around her.”
Wathen has also served as coach to her understudy, Sireno’s little sister, Ashley.
“Whenever I put Ashley Sireno in I have Mallory look after her,” Harreld said. “I have Mallory show her where to be to get those double plays.”
Overall, the two have made a huge impact on a Meade County program that is consistently one of the best teams in the state. Now the two are also going to play college softball.
“I was really excited be-cause we’ve played four years together,” Sireno said. “I was also really sad because this is the last year. We’re going our own ways. I’m really proud because we’re both going to the next level.”
kind of production I was going to get from her. So far it’s been great.”
Nikolao also scored the game-winning run dur-ing the bottom for the fi fth inning to get the mercy-shortened game.
“It kind of hurt because she fell on me,” Nikolao said, who slid into Breckin-ridge’s catcher to score the run. “But other than that it feels good to get the win-ning run. Anything I can do for the team, I’ll do it.”
The Lady Waves jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the fi rst inning. Five of the runs were scored with two outs.
“We really attacked the ball,” Harreld said. “I felt good about our chances after facing a good pitcher from Ballard a few days ago.”
During the top of the second inning Meade County sophomore start-ing pitcher Amanda Logs-don found herself in trou-ble and Hancock County
scored two runs, 6-2. Harreld put in sopho-
more Brittany Lancaster who threw a perfect game against Hancock earlier in the year.
“Amanda got in a little jam,” Harreld said. “I went ahead and brought in Brit-ney. Really I didn’t want (Hancock) to see them for a full seven innings.”
Lancaster came in and threw 2 1/3 innings and gave up only one hit and struck out two.
“She’s pitching extremely well for us,” Harreld said of Lancaster. “That’s the fi rst time I’ve had her come in for Amanda. Everyone handles starting and reliev-ing differently. I wasn’t sure how she would handle it.”
Logsdon came back in for the fi nal inning and shut the Lady Hornets down.
“I thought Amanda had a little something to prove,” Harreld said. “She came back in and did fi ne. She wanted to prove that it was just a bad start and that she can shut them down.”
Junior catcher Scarlett Powers had two singles for two RBI in the game. Senior
Erin Sireno had a single, double and scored twice, while sophomore Raymie Greenwell had two hits, and an RBI and scored once.
The Lady Waves scored 10 more runs than they did during the teams’ fi rst meet-ing on April 15.
“It feels great to win like this,” Nikolao said. “Last time we only beat them by two (runs) and now we beat them by 10. That’s a good feeling.”
The Lady Waves go undefeated in district
The Lady Waves round-ed out their district play against Breckinridge Coun-ty on Monday. They won 12-0 to remain undefeated in the 11th District.
Senior Erin Sireno had a single, triple and three RBI to lead the Lady Waves. Ju-nior Ashley Funk had two singles and two RBI, while Kristin Benton had a single, double, an RBI and scored twice.
Brittany Lancaster con-tinued her undefeated re-cord as a starting pitcher (9-0). She went fi ve innings and scattered three hits. She
struck out three batters.
Meade knocks out LaRueThe Lady Waves de-
feated, LaRue County 10-0 on Tuesday during senior night.
Nikolao led the Lady Waves with a double and homerun for two RBI. She also scored two runs. Kristin Benton, Erin Sireno and Funk each had two hits. Scarlett Powers had two RBI.
Logsdon got the win in fi ve innings. She gave up three hits and struck out seven batters.
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Amanda Logsdon pitches against LaRue County.
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TOP: Mallory Wathen poses with her parents Joe and Carol Wathen. ABOVE: Mark and Connie Sireno take a photo with their senior daughter Erin Sireno.
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would call us a sports fam-ily. That’s what we’ve done. We’ve played sports ever since our kids were young.”
Meade County head coach Mike Harreld has had the privilege to coach sev-eral of the Wathen sisters.
“We’ve never had a Wa-then sit the bench,” Har-reld said. “It’s something special. That’s why they were all able to start right away. They just have great ball sense. They know what to do out there.”
A perfect example of Mallory’s heightened sense on the field was on Tues-day against LaRue County where she ran down a run-ner after a pickoff play at first base.
“She could have pan-icked,” Harreld said. “But she didn’t she knew what to do and she did it. That was a big play.”
Mallory has been a pillar of the Meade County’s up-the-middle defense for the past four years. At second base she rarely recorded an error. She was also a sharp shooter for the Lady Waves basketball team where she led the Lady Waves in 3-pointers the last two years.
“I love playing softball,”
Mallory said. “I’m really excited.”
Around October, Mallory was thinking of gathering fi lms of her to send to coach-es. Her sister, Shannon, promptly asked Mallory to play at Campbellsville.
“She said ‘if you’re go-ing to play, come play here,’” Mallory said. “I was thinking about play-ing other places, but after that I was pretty set on Campbellsville.”
And again the Wathens will team up at the college
level of competition. “It’s been nice having
family there,” Shannon said. “I just push them like I would any other player. I have to same expectations as I do with anyone I sign.”
Campbellsville Univer-sity is like a second home to Mallory already.
“It feels pretty good,” Mallory said about head-ing to campus this fall. “A lot of my family has gone there. I’ve pretty much grown up there. I really like the atmosphere and
the teammates.” In the end, the Wathen
family may call them-selves a softball family or just a sports family, but Joe Wathen is happy with any kind of success.
“It’s quite an accom-plishment to have one of your daughters coach another,” he said. “You always start out and won-der what they’re going to be. The important thing is they all got an education and they are doing what they love.”
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MCHS tennis teams split with North Hardin
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TOP: Mallory Wathen (center) signs with Campbellsville University on Tuesday along-side her family, teammates and coaches. ABOVE: Wathen chases down a runner during a pickoff play against the LaRue County Hawks on Tuesday.
Meade County High School athletics...
making the competition
greenwith envy.
Staff ReportThe News Standard
The Meade County tennis teams traveled to North Har-din on Tuesday.
The Meade County girls tennis team swept North hardin by winning 5-0.
Jenna Mullen won in straight sets, 6-0 and 6-0, while Alexis Hobbs and Olivia Wright won in straight sets, 6-1 and 6-1.
The MCHS boys team lost 4-1. The lone winner was the No. 2 doubles team of Chase
Garris and Matt Hewlett who won 6-1 and 7-5. Results from Tuesday:
Boys TennisNorth Hardin 4, Meade County 1SinglesChrys Castro (NH) def. Zach Brown (MC), 6-1 and 6-2.Cesar Castro (NH) def. Will Campbell (MC), 6-2 and 6-0.Braden Proffi tt (NH) def. William Kaelin (MC), 6-3, 4-6 and 10-6.
DoublesJeffrey DeWitt/Martin Shumate (NH) def. Matt Buckman/Quin-tin Franke (MC), 6-0 and 6-2.Chase Garris and Matt Hewlett def. Samuel Stidham and Timmy Ford (NH), 6-1 and 7-5.Doubles ExhibitionJustin Cardenas and Jesse Duwe (NH) def. Daniel Moore and Ethan Wright (MC), 8-2.
Girls TennisMeade County 5, North Hardin 0SinglesMeade County won by forfeit.Jenna Mullen (MC) def. Amanda Patterson (NH), 6-0 and 6-0.Meade County won by forfeit.
DoublesAlexis Hobbs and Olivia Wright (MC) def. Samantha Dawson and Emily Hellinger (NH), 6-1 and 6-1.Jessie Coppage and Jenna McKinney (MC) def. Samantha Barger and Solang Lee Thacker (NH), 6-0 and 6-2.
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•It was American poet, etymolo-gist and translator John Ciardi who made the following sage observation: “The Constitution gives every American the inalien-able right to make a damn fool of himself.” He was, evidently, also a shrewd observer of people.•Greece’s Parthenon is a famous ruin, but many people today don’t realize that it wasn’t time that caused the destruction of the structure. In 1687, the Ottoman Turks occupied the Acropolis and used the Parthenon to store gunpowder. A mortar fi red by the attacking Venetians hit the build-ing and ignited the gunpowder, causing much of the widespread damage we see today.•It was famed fashion designer Coco Chanel who made the little black dress a popular item; beforethat, most women wore black only when they were in mourning.•England’s King Richard I, known popularly as the Lionheart, didn’t actually live in England; his residence was in Aquitaine, in the southwestern part of France. He didn’t speak English, either. •The next time you’re at a dance in Utah, remember not to get too close to your partner; in that state, by law, daylight must be visible between partners.•Thought for the Day: “The nu-clear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with fi ve.” -- Carl Sagan
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A seemingly stalled romantic situation could benefi t from your reassur-ance that you want this relation-ship to work. And if you do, use a tad more of that irresistible Aries charm.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Going to new places and meeting new people appeals to both the Taurean’s romantic and practical side. After all, you never can tell where those new contacts can take you. Right?GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) That career-change opportunity that didn’t work out when you fi rst considered it could come up again. But this time, remember that you have more to offer and should act accordingly.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) There could be some tensions in relationships -- domestic or worka-day. But a calm approach that doesn’t raise the anger levels and a frank discussion soon will resolve the problem.LEO (July 23 to August 22) It’s a good idea to begin preparing for that career change you’ve been thinking about for a while. Start to sharpen your skills and expand your background to be ready when it calls.VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Bless that Virgo skepticism that has kept you from falling into traps others seem to rush into. But you might want to give a new possibility the benefi t of the doubt, at least on a trial basis.LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Traveling and career are strong in your aspect. Perhaps your job will take you to someplace exotic. Or you might be setting up meet-ings with potential clients or em-ployers. Whatever it is, good luck.SCORPIO (October 23 to No-vember 21) Someone might use deception to try to push you into making a decision you’re not fully comfortable with. But those keen Scorpio senses should keep you alert to any such attempt.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Romance dominates this week when Cupid spears the Archer, for a change. Positive things also are happening in the workplace. Expect important news to arrive by the week’s end.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Anyone trying to bully the Sea Goat -- whether it involves a personal or a professional matter -- will learn a painful lesson. Others will also benefi t from the Goat’s strong example.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Congratulations. With things going the way they are, you should be able to spare some time and take a break from your hectic schedule for some well-earned fun and games.PISCES (February 19 to March 21) Your sharp Piscean intuition should be able to uncover the true agendas of those who might be trying to catch the Fish in one of their schemes.BORN THIS WEEK: Your fl air for innovative art and design keeps you at least a step ahead of most everyone else.
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St. John Catholic Church Youth Group is selling booth space for a community wide yard sale on Saturday, June 5th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Cost is $20 per space. Set up will be Friday, June 4th from 6-8 p.m. For more information call 270-422-2196.
Meade County General Baptist Church has free food, clothing, etc. for anyone in need. Also have girl’s Prom Dresses. Mission House (behind church). Hours – Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Tues. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. – For more information, please call 270-422-7060 or 422-3760.
Beginning May 1, 2010, the Fort Knox Brandenburg Station Road Gate will be closed from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. every weekday and all day on weekends.
Fort Knox Gate Closures:Beginning April 23, 2010, Wilson Gate will close for three consecutive weekends in order to accommodate re-construction in that area. The closures will commence at 6 p.m. on Friday and the gate will re-open 5 a.m. Monday morning. The targeted weekends are April 23-26, April 30-May 3, and May 7-10. Adverse weather may cause further delays. Thank you for your patience.
Are you related to John Hardesty and Sarah Agnes Ray Hardesty? We are having a reunion on June 19, 2010. If your last name is Ray or Hardesty but not sure if you’re related, email [email protected] or call Kathy Hardesty at 502-533-1147. I will then be able to tell you if you are a relative of my great grandparents. Just need to know who your great grandparents were. More details will follow in April.
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GIGANTIC GUN AUCTION, Saturday, May 15, 9am, Nelson County Fairgrounds. 66 rifl es, 68 pistols, 11 shotguns, ammunition. For complete details visit www.dbray.com. Call David Bray Principal Auctioneer, 502-348-1740.
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The EMS Training Center at 245 Atwood Street, Corydon, Ind. offers Healthcare Provider CPR and CPR Renewal classes monthly. Please call 812-738-7871 for more information.
Childbirth Education Classes are offered at Harrison County Hospital in Corydon, Ind. Free if delivering at HCH, $20 if delivering at another facility. Call 812-738-7830 ext. 2012 for information and registration.
Free English Classes – Call 270-422-5884. U.S. Citizenship and social security number not required. Meade County Adult Education Center. Ask for Dianne or Melissa for information on class dates and times.
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PUBLIC NOTICEThe Meade County Board of Education will offer for sale nine (9)
used buses by sealed bids, Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 10:00 A.M., E.D.T. at the bus garage, Brandenburg, Kentucky.
All bids will be held pending the KISTA sale on May 12, 2010. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. For information call Rodney Pickering, 270-422-7500.
Meade CountyRelay for Life
May 8th & 9th • Noon - 6am
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Relay Schedule of EventsNoon - Opening Ceremonies
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Balloon Man
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2pm - Relay Cornhole Tournament
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3pm - Relay Baby Contest
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5pm - Meade County Idol
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7pm - Stage Entertainment - Rennegade
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A public hearing will be held by the Meade County Judge/Executive of Meade County at the Meade County Courthouse on May 11, 2010, at 6pm prior to the fiscal court meeting for the purpose of obtaining citizens comments regarding the possible uses of the County Road Aid (CRA) and Local Government Economic Assistance (LGEA) funds. All interested persons in Meade County are invited to the hearing to submit oral or written comments on possible uses of the CRA and LGEA funds. Any person(s) who cannot submit written comments or attend the public hearing, but wish to submit comments, should call the office of the Meade County Judge/Executive at 270-422-3967 by May 10, 2010, so that arrangements can be made to secure
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ATTENTIONCITIZENS OF BRANDENBURG
LARGE ITEM PICK-UP
SATURDAY, May 8th, 2010Take this opportunity to get unwanted items removed
from your property such as trash, furniture, appliances, etc. These items need to be put out by the curbside the night before, since the truck will start this pick-up very early Saturday morning. Please see that all loose items
such as scrap lumber, boxes, etc. are cut down and bundled in a manner that will make it easily handled
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Meade County General Baptist Church has free food, clothing, etc. for anyone in need. Also have girl’s Prom Dresses. Mission House (behind church). Hours – Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Tues. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. – For more information, please call 270-422-7060 or 422-3760.
PART-TIME – Cleaning house. $8/hr. Work is in Louisville, transportation provided. Must be at least 18 years old, dependable and drug free. Call 270-945-3548. Leave message if no answer.
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Would you like to play violin? Mary Illback, certifi ed Suzuki instructor, now enrolling students (ages 3-to-adult) for summer session. Private lessons at Buck Grove Church every Thursday. To learn more about Suzuki Method, visit http://suzukiassociation.org/. For more information, email Mary at [email protected]
Pet Adoptions will take place at Orscheln Farm and Home in Radcliff, Ky. on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you are thinking of volunteering, stop by and see how you can help or PINS at 270-422-3838.
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Report suspected illegal activity in your neighborhood by calling the Meade County Sheriff’s Department anonymous tip line at 270-422-4673 or email [email protected].
Get your adopted pets spayed or neutered! Pets adopted from the Meade County Animal Shelter can be spayed or neutered for free from PINS (Pets in Need Society). www.petsinneedsociety.org or call 270-422-3838.
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Muldraugh Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 20, 2010 in Muldraugh City Hall council chambers, 120 South Main Street, to solicit public comment on proposed text amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to increase the minimum off-street parking space, with adequate provision for ingress and egress in residential zones. At which time and place all persons interested will be given a full, fair, and complete hearing thereon.
Caroline J. Cline, City Clerk/Treasurer
New 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath on land near town. Must sell! Call 812-868-8346
National Golf Association’s Hooters Tour Pro-Am Tourney, May 19, Cherry Blossom Golf Course, Georgetown. To participate in the Pro-Am, call Cherry Blossom Pro Shop, (502) 570-9849
BRANDENBURG AL-ANON: Alcohalt House, 2255 Fairgrounds Road. Meets Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 8 p.m. Open to all. Call 270-422-1050 for more information.
OPEN DOOR ALATEEN GROUP: Alcohalt House, 2255 Fairgrounds Road. Meets Thursdays at 8 p.m. These meetings are for Al-Anon and Alateen members only. You qualify for membership if your life has been or is being deeply affected by close contact with a problem drinker. Please come to any Al-Anon or Alateen Opened or Closed meetings! Call 270-422-1050 for more information.
A L C O H O L I C S ANONYMOUS: Meetings are held at the Acceptance Place, 1370 Hwy.79 in Irvington. Meetings are every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sundays at 8 p.m. For more information, call 270-547-0347 or 270-547-0445.
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WEIGHT MANAGEMENT: T.O.P.S group meets at Buck Grove Baptist Church every Tuesday at 6 p.m. For more in-formation, call Lena at 270-422-2692.
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St. John Catholic Church Youth Group is selling booth space for a community wide yard sale on Saturday, June 5th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Cost is $20 per space. Set up will be Friday, June 4th from 6-8 p.m. For more information call 270-422-2196.
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B8 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010YOUTHYOUTHPayneville adds some fl ing to Spring
By Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Payneville Elementary held its annual Spring Fling Friday, April 30.
Visitors had a chance to dine in, enjoy dessert, and even participate in a silent auction that had baskets donated by local busi-nesses.
The baskets ranged from a Mothers’ Day theme to a family getaway.
“This is our main fund-raiser for the whole school year,” said Anna Swanson, president of the PTO.
Other donations to the Spring Fling included gift certificates, homemade food, and two passes to Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari.
Swanson said she loves doing this event because
of how much it benefits the community.
“I know it’s helping the school and helping the kids,” she said. “PTO helps sponsor a lot of school activities.”
Those activities or func-tions include school field trips and accelerated read-ing books for the class-rooms.
“We’ve been very for-tunate through our PTO funds,” said Payneville Principal Marie Barr.
She added the core idea when distributing funds is all about student learning.
“We’re fortunate that our board of education has con-tinued to support us,” Barr said.
“Through our PTO and board, we’ve been able to maintain almost every-thing.”
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Payneville fourth grader Paulette Black checks out some of the baskets that were up for bidding.
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New online tool can help students understand the cost of a education
Submitted by Courtney McGraw
Meade County High School
On April 15 -17 the Meade County Chapter of Future Business Leaders of America had many active members and offi cers attend the State Leadership at the Gault House in Louisville.
This conference was held for the qualifi ers from the re-gional levels of competitive events, campaigning for state offi ces, and the induction Cer-emony for the State Offi cers.
During the general ses-sion of the conference, Jesse Adams was recognized for reaching the leader level of the Business Achievement Awards.
This award recognizes ac-tive members for their par-ticipation in the organization and their achievements of a specifi c award regarding the Business Achievement
Awards (BAA). The BAA includes four lev-
els: future, business, leader and America levels.
Competitive events, cam-paigning, voting, awards, and excitement all took place throughout the conference.
The competitive events tests are designed to encour-age FBLA members to learn and develop the qualities to be effective and responsible business leaders.
Such events that took place
ranged from business proce-dures, digital video produc-tions, to even job interviews.
The following are the mem-bers that placed at state lead-ership conference:
•Kevin Graham placed fi rst in banking and fi nancial systems
•Katie Renyer placed sec-ond in accounting II
•Rachel Nelson, fourth in introduction to business com-munication
•Kayla Higbee placed
fourth in business procedures•Kevin Graham and Ka-
tie have both qualified to attend the National Lead-ership Conference held in Nashville Tenn., July 14-17.
•Avery Sydnor will also represent Kentucky as a state officer serving as the Region 2 President.
Congratulations to all the members advancing to Nationals and thank you for all your hard work.
FBLA students compete, win big at conference
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A group of Meade County High School students at the Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference April 15-17 in Louisville.
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Kentucky colleges and universities have a new online tool that can help students and parents un-derstand the costs of high-er education.
The ThinkAhead Net Price Calculator is avail-able to colleges through a partnership between the Kentucky Higher Educa-tion Assistance Authority
(KHEAA) and www.stu-dentaid.com.
The net price is the dif-ference between the cost of going to a school and how much fi nancial aid a student can expect to receive.
Federal law will require all college Web sites to pro-vide a net price calculator by October 2011.
“The quality of net price calculators varies greatly,” said Ted Franzeim, senior vice president for customer relations at KHEAA. “By
partnering with www.stu-dentaid.com, KHEAA is able to provide colleges and universities with the best calculator available.”
Think Ahead provides ac-curate estimates of how much families can expect to pay toward a student’s college costs.
It also provides accurate es-timates of how much the stu-dent can expect to receive in Federal Pell Grants and state grants.
The estimator is custom-
ized to each college’s fi nancial aid policy and can provide student aid packages based on each student’s fi nancial and academic background.
For more information about planning for college, visit www.gotocollege.ky.gov.
For more information about Kentucky scholar-ships and grants, visit www.kheaa.com or write KHEAA at P.O. Box 798, Frankfort, KY, 40602-0798; or call 800-928-8926, ext. 6-7372.
Friday, May 7, 2010 The News Standard - B9YOUTHYOUTH
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“Clash of the Titans” should be more like “Crash of the Titans.”
I had reasonably high hopes for this movie. I didn’t think it would sur-pass the original by any means, but I did at least ex-pect it to be decent.
Boy was I wrong. From beginning to end, it’s noth-ing but an endless slog through various monsters of Greek mythology, without any real rhyme or reason.
And that pretty much sums up the entire movie.
Let’s see, what else? The acting is terrible, the char-acters are bland and nonde-script, the action is dull, the story is nonexistent, and the special effects are just okay.
It’s just one big ‘monster-of-the-moment’ spectacle that’s not at all satisfying and rarely even makes sense. One thing that genu-inely distracted me through-out the entire movie was Sam Worthington’s perfect buzz cut.
It’s ancient Greece, for crying out loud. This, cou-pled with an infrequent use
of profanity only serves to jolt you out of the time pe-riod, which is not what a good movie should do.
Another thing is also starting to become painfully clear to me — Sam Wor-thington is not a very good actor.
He may have ridden the gravy train that is Ava-tar into the spotlight, but based on what I’ve seen of his other work, namely this monstrosity and Termina-tor Salvation, it’s becoming evident that he only has it in him for one type of niche role.
Come to think of it, he has the exact same hair in all three of those movies.
Quite simply, this is a remake that should never have happened.
And it all culminates in one of the stupidest endings in movie history. If you’ve seen any of the previews for this movie that feature the Krack-en, then you’ve seen the end of the movie. This isn’t just a letdown, it’s a slap in the face to moviegoers everywhere.
Bottom line — don’t waste your money on this garbage.
Instead, take the money you saved and go hunt down the original 1981 classic. You’re welcome.
Final grade: one out of four stars
Shawn Hughes Jr.
Old & NewMovieReviews
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Students experience a different kind of DerbyBy Jennifer CorbettThe News Standard
Kindergarteners put their best foot forward as they participated in a derby unlike any other, Friday, April 30.
Students got to don dif-ferent names such as Fan-cypants Bluejeans, Speedy, and Hayden’s Spirit, for the Payneville Elementary Kindergarten Derby, as they got to live the life of a jockey during a portion of school.
Students, friends and families sat in a circle around the course and cheered on their student in the races.
The race featured an
Oaks division for the girls, and a Derby division for the boys.
Abby Deibler won the Oaks division and Chaney Weick won the Derby di-vision.
Each division had three rounds with approximate-ly five students in each round.
Students competed by wearing a hat they made, similar to what a jockey wears and even had their own stick horse for the event.
Principal Marie Barr said this event was geared to-ward kindergarteners and it’s something they do ev-ery year.
Kindergarten teacher
Vesta Smith was one of the masterminds behind the event, which started 14 years ago, and she said she simply heard of the idea through word of mouth.
Smith said they prepare the students the week pri-or to the event by making sure their homework is derby themed.
For example, the students might work on math prob-lems pertaining to the ballon glow.
But overall, Smith said she loves to get all the parents in-volved in the event and seeing the joy in her students’ faces.
“I love to see them run-ning,” she said. “They get so excited. They all just clap for each other.”
ABOVE: Abby Deibler crosses the finish line in the Oaks portion of the Kindergarten Derby at Payneville Elementary.
FAR LEFT: Abby Deibler (right) and Chaney Weick stand in the winner’s circle with their prizes as friends, fam-ily members and classmates celebrate their victory.
LEFT: Thad Redmon(left) cheers on his fellow classmates Jamie Smith and Cody Pike as they race to the finish line.
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Submitted by Payneville Elementary
Wayne Mattingly accepted an invitation from Payn-eville Elementary to speak to the sixth graders about his service to his country during the Vietnam War.
Mattingly presented the school with a book Declara-tion of Independence to remind students we are still fi ghting for freedom today.
Pete Goodwin also accepted an invitation from Payneville Elementary to speak to the sixth graders about serving in the United States Navy to preserve our freedom.
He also shared his expertise on the history of World War II.
Veterans visit Payneville
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Wayne Mattingly (left) pictured with his grandson, Austin Wootten.
Darker shades of gray indicate the best fi shing or hunting potential based on the phase of the moon.
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317 Acres in 5 Tracts • 5131 Salt River Rd, RineyvilleGuns • Antiques • Collectibles • Primitive Items
DIRECTIONS: From 31W between Elizabethtown and Radcliff turn onto Hwy 220. The auction site will be about 11.8 miles on the right, at the intersection of Hwy 220 and Hwy 920.REAL ESTATETract 1: 15.797 Acres with approximately 912’ of frontage on Hwy 220 and approximately 550’ of frontage on Hwy 920. The 1,488 sq ft concrete block building has a partial basement and kitchen and was formerly used as a general store then a residence. Also located on this tract is a barn with a partially concreted floor, formerly used as a corn crib. The grain bin currently on this tract will be sold separately and does NOT remain on the tract.Tract 2: 103.875 acres of gently rolling land approximately 60% open with the remainder in woods. This tract has approximately 1,600’ of road frontage on 920 and is located directly across from Tract 1.Tract 3: 196.967 acres of rolling land with approximately 900’ of frontage on Hwy 220. This tract features two large metal barns and is approximately 70% open land with the remainder in woods.Tract 4: 0.701 acres located across Hwy 220 from Tract 3. Tract 5: 0.527 acres located across Hwy 220 from Tract 3.GUNS/POCKET KNIVES: *Guns are stored off site until the day of the auction and are not available for viewing until the morning of the auction*.22 lever action rifle, Model 1908 Harrington & Richardson 12 gauge single shot, Joseph Golcher percussion muzzle loader, percussion muzzle loader no markings, cap lock pistol that appears to have been buried for a long period of time-old, small revolver with US on handle no other markings, Sabre pocketknives and others.ANTIQUES/PERSONAL PROPERTY: Grain bin (currently located on Tract 1), tobacco cutter, iron shoe last, Czechoslovakian copy of Stradivarius violin, croquenot board, church fans, old books, dishes, framed prints, wooden salt & pepper shakers, Occupied Japan porcelain figurine, porcelain figurines, sheet music, primitive wooden box, RC Allen cash register, vinyl records, milk cans, folding wheelchair, lawn chairs, fishing rods & reels, whitewash brushes, hand saws, rakes, wrenches, level, twine, watering cans, tobacco setter, scythe, primitive hand tools, modern hand tools, charcoal lighter fluid, old purses, wire, insulators, nuts, bolts, and nails all sizes, Belknap Hardware washboard, wooden tool chest, 2 single tree collars, draft horse collar, 2 metal lockers, pressure cooker, Ball jars, vases, chest of drawers, book shelf, primitive table, primitive chest, yard sticks, wicker baskets, Philco TV, step stool, pots, pans, carnival glass container with lid, Homer Laughlin plates, TV trays, snow shovels, croquet set, thatched seat chair, advertising boxes, Rex 90 wagon, picnic basket, bedside toilet, coolers, horseshoes, scrap iron, 3 bottom push plow, steel gates, roll of woven wire, roll of barbed wire, scoops, and many other miscellaneous items.FURNITURE/ANTIQUES: Wardrobe with mirrored dresser, wooden chair, Stimpson delicatessen scale, Stimpson fan top computing scale, electric lift chair, recliner, magazine table, sofa, phone table, primitive church pew, padded chairs, primitive wooden tables, vinyl easy chair, piano, steamer chest, Royal Crown Victor cooler with sliding top doors, Fairbanks Standard cast iron scale, wooden folding chairs, antique iron baby bed with drop sides, and other items.APPLIANCES: GE refrigerator, GE oven, Kenmore washing machine, Belknap refrigerator.TERMS: A 10% buyers premium will be added to all winning bids to determine the final sale price. On real estate, $5,000 will be due on the day of sale with the balance due within 30 days. Inspections of any type must be performed prior to the sale date or the right is waived. Property is sold as is with no guarantees by the seller nor Hodges Auction Company. On personal property, cash or good check for the full purchase amount is due on the day of sale.SELLER: McHenry and Lizzie Mae Bewley Trust
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By Casey TolliverThe News Standard
With summer just around the bend, Meade County residents are gearing up to make waves in area rivers and lakes.
To help make summer water fun and bit safer, the Kentucky Division of Fish and Wildlife is offering a boater safety course in Meade County.
The course was designed to prepare water enthusi-asts and could possibly help to save lives on Kentucky waterways, according to Di-vision of Fish and Wildlife conservation offi cer Rodney Milburn, who conducted the course.
“Water is unforgiving,” Milburn said. “If you’re not prepared and don’t have knowledge of water, it can be very dangerous. Often when people get into a boat-ing accident, it’s because they were not prepared.”
The KDFW hosted the fi rst class boater education course, at the Meade Coun-ty Fire Protection District
building on Wednesday.Another class will be of-
fered on Wednesday, May 15 at 6 p.m.
Students in the class learned general boating and boat maintenance informa-tion, boat safety equipment, tips for a safer and more comfortable boating experi-ence and boating courtesy.
Topics covered by the course included right-of-way on the water, safe navigation around buoys, safety vests and boat registration.
According to Milburn, in Brandenburg last year, three men were in a small fi shing boat on the Ohio River that-took on water and eventually sank. Only one of the men was wearing a life vest.
“If we wouldn’t have been there, the two of them could have easily drowned,” Mil-burn said.
Class participants stud-ied a boating safety manual which was accompanied by an instructional safety video.
According to Kentucky boat law, people less than 12 years old are not allowed to operate vessels with motors greater
than 10 horsepower, and that includes personal watercraft.
Water enthusiasts between the age of 12 and 17 are able to legally operate vessels with motors with more than 10 horsepower, including personal watercraft, if they have successfully completed a boater safety course and have their boater education certifi cate on board; or if someone 18 or older or any-body with a boater education card accompanies them.
Anyone 18 years or older can operate vessels on Ken-tucky waters unconditionally.
Students of the class must pass the Boater Edu-cation Exam with an 80 percent or better to receive their certifi cate.
According to Milburn, though boater safety infor-mation is invaluable, it is easy to understand.
“It’s not rocket science,” he said. “It’s basic, common sense stuff.”
For more information on boater safety information, visit the Kentucky Division of Fish and Wildlife Web site at www.fw.ky.gov.
Submitted by Scott Patton ESPN Bassmaster
One thing just about any man-made reservoir has is rip rap. This is also a man-made structure.
Rip rap is the large 7 to 10 inch diameter rocks along bridges. Rip rap is also along areas that may have erosions. Rip rap is a key structure in the spring and fall.
In the spring, the rocks will collect heat and hold it when the water is still cold. This is one area that heats up quicker so fi sh are attracted to it for these reasons.
To me the spring and fall is a great time to fi sh rip rap. The rocks have collected a coating of moss growing on them. If you would rub your hand on the ones that are submerged you’ll feel the slickness of them. It‘s what
shad are drawn to and feed on during the fall.
When fall brings its cooler water temps. There is more oxygen in this area and shad. The angler who knows these things will be quicker at fi nding feeding fi sh and can usually run the rip rap all over the lake in a day’s time and have a very successful catch. Now we know when, where, and why to fi sh rip rap so let’s talk about how to catch them.
There are several baits on the market that will catch fi sh on rip rap, but keep in mind the fi sh are looking for shad. I try to imitate the shad. Cer-tain days it may take other baits but my choices are usu-ally crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits.
In the spring, one other bait that I will use is a swim bait. These baits are great
when the water tempera-tures are rising into the 70 degree mark. They are used to catch really big fi sh. I’ll use a swim bait with 15 to 20 pound test line on either a bait casting reel and a heavy action rod.
I fi sh the bait really slow and try to keep it touching the rip rap from time to time imitating a shad feeding on the alge. I know this pattern will catch fi sh just about any-where, providing of course, there are fi sh there.
So be sure to use these techniques this spring and again this fall. Please re-member to do your part in helping to keep our earth clean and healthy.
Scott is sponsored by: Nitro boats, Mercury Outboards, Bass Pro Shops, ZOOM, Costa Del Mar, Tracker Marine, Bluegrass Lures, and Eagle Fence
Boater education course makes safer waterways
ABOVE: Gregory Jupin of Brandenburg shot his first turkey on April 25 in Meade County while hunting with his dad Stacy Jupin. Greg-ory shows off his 22 pound turkey with a 9 1/2 inch beard.
RIGHT:Kayle Deaton shot her fi rst turkey on April 25. Kay-le’s turkey weighed 22 1/2 pounds with a 10 1/2 inch beard and a 1 1/8 inch spur. Kayle is the nine-year-old daughter of John and Becky Deaton of Brandenburg.
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be there. As a sophomore you can’t ask for anything more than that.”
The Greenwave tacked on three more runs in the fi fth inning and two more in the six when freshman fi rst baseman Jake Wilson had a two RBI single.
While the offense put up 10 runs in six innings, start-ing pitcher Bo Wilson had another solid start at the mound. He threw six in-nings for fi ve strikeouts and gave up no runs.
“Bo continues to give us good starts and we’re swinging the bats well,” Clanton said. “That’s a good combination.
“(Bo) is going to bring it every game. He has the right mentality for it and of course he has the stuff. It’s a big plus when he’s on the mound.”
With the win the Green-wave are fi ghting for the No. 1 seed in the 11th District. They are tied with Hancock County, who has also beat
Breckinridge County twice. R H EBreck. Co. 3 9 5 Meade Co. 10 9 2
Greenwave win six in a row
On April 28, Meade Coun-ty won its sixth straight game over North Bullitt 7-3.
Senior Daniel DeRossett led the Greenwave with two doubles and three RBI. Bo Wilson had three hits and scored two runs.
Jake Wilson had a big night on the mound and in the batter’s box where he went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while pitching seven innings. He gave up three earned runs and struck out four batters. R H EMeade Co. 7 9 0 N. Bullitt 3 6 2
Six-game winstreak endsThe Central Hardin Bruins
snapped Meade County’s six-game winning streak on April 30, with a 9-6 win.
Meade County gave up seven runs in the fi rst three innings, while Meade Coun-ty mustered four runs in the bottom of the third inning.
The Greenwave were un-
able to fi ght back as they only scored two more runs in the fi fth.
Brenton Smith had three hits and scored a run, while DeRossett had two hits, an RBI and scored.
Scott King had a double and a single, while scoring a run and Bo Wilson had two hits and scored. R H ECentral Hardin 9 10 1 Meade Co. 6 12 2
MC loses fi rst district gameThe Greenwave lost
its first matchup against Hancock County, 7-0, on Tuesday.
Meade County commit-ted six errors and gave up four unearned runs.
Hancock County had a no-hitter through the seventh inning when Am-burgey broke the streak with a single.
Amburgey pitched six in-nings, struck out two run-ners, walked none, and gave up three earned runs.
The Greenwave will face Hancock at home on Tues-day for a chance to still clinch the No. 1 seed in the 11th District.
feel. The dragway is the second oldest of its kind in the entire state.
“I laughed and said I wanted to put them on the map,” MCConnell said, who has been planning the event for the past four years. “They said they al-ready are on the map, and they are. It’s a great place.”
The US 60 Dragway had shut down two years ago, but reopened last summer. This year the racetrack has plenty of events scheduled throughout the summer.
“They (the owners of the dragway) are doing some good things; they are tickled to death about this event,” McConnell said. “They say people are al-ready scoping out the race
track and everything.” So far, coordinators’
phones have been ring-ing off the hook about the event and they expect more than 300 cars.
“There’s some great cars that are going to be there,” McConnell said, who is also bringing five drag-sters himself.
The event will feature a replica version of the fa-mous Golden Angel and orginals such as The Wild Child, The Wild Bore and Foul Play. Seventy-year-old Ron Thomas, who used to race at US 60, will bring his famous Mighty Mouse dragster.
“There’s so many great people coming to this event,” McConnell said, who’s been competing with his dragsters for 32 years. “They’ll be coming from all over. The thing is these old guys just can’t
get enough of racing. Once you do it, you’re hooked forever.”
There will be a swap meet during the event, which will cost $25 and a car corral for $25. To compete in flag drags will cost $15 and the nostal-gia bracket race costs $30. Winners will receive $500.
A car show will be held on Friday at Breckinridge High School, which will cost $15. The proceeds will go toward Letting Kids with Cancer be Kids.
The event won’t be just for people who want to see old classic cars hurtling down the track. There will be slot car racing for kids, food, free camping and a nostalgic music band.
The gates open at 7 a.m. on May 15. Time trials will begin at 10 a.m. with rac-ing beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets are $8 at the gate.
DragFrom page B1
Kahne takes detour before he heads to Hendrick team
By Monte DuttonNASCAR This Week
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kasey Kahne is headed to Hendrick Motorsports, but it’s kind of complicated.
Kahne, 30, has already driven for three teams in the Sprint Cup Series — without ever moving. He began with Evernham Mo-torsports, which became Gillett Evernham, which became Richard Petty Mo-torsports. All along, Kahne drove No. 9, but he started in a Dodge and this year changed to a Ford.
Considered one of the sport’s more talented driv-ers, it’s no surprise that Kahne is moving to Hen-drick Motorsports once his contract at RPM expires at the end of the season, but he’s not moving there di-rectly, or at least, that’s the current spin.
Next year Kahne will drive for a team not yet an-nounced — Stewart Haas
Racing, a Hendrick satel-lite of sorts, is most often mentioned — while Mark Martin completes his con-tractual commitment at Hendrick. Kahne will not actually join Hendrick properly until 2012. Or so it is currently assumed.
Kahne is willing to wait a year, apparently, in order to join the team that pro-duced the top three fin-ishers — Jimmie Johnson, Martin and Jeff Gordon -- in last year’s Chase.
“To be in the position I’m in now and know where I’m going to be in 2012, to have the opportunity with Rick Hendrick and everybody at Hendrick Motorsports, to me, it’s an unbelievable opportu-nity. I can’t wait to get that started,” Kahne said.
Beyond the announce-ment of Kahne joining Hendrick in 2012, little is known. Martin has de-clared he isn’t retiring. Tony Stewart has said he
has made no arrangements to have Kahne join him and Ryan Newman, and other scenarios (JR Mo-torsports, also Hendrick aligned, moving up from Nationwide to Cup being one) are similarly denied or, at least, played down. No one knows whether or not Kahne will take his crew chief, Kenny Francis, along with him — wher-ever that is.
“I’ll work through it with Mr. Hendrick and figure out exactly what we need to do that makes the most sense,” Kahne said.
Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was named writer of the year by the National Motorsports Press Association in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) fea-tures all of his reporting on racing, roots music and life on the road. E-mail Monte at [email protected].
BaseballFrom page B1
THE NEWS STANDARD/BEN ACHTABOWSKI
First Baseman Jake Wilson tags out a Breckinridge runner during last week’s game.
B12 - The News Standard Friday, May 7, 2010HERITAGEHERITAGE
Marriage Licenses
May 7: Tennille Trent, Lynda Greenwell, Linda Milam, Bradley Hardesty; Jacob Eads, Elizabeth (Waits) Getz, Neal Solomon, Todd Shelton and Frank Bruks
May 8: Emily Medley, Cindy Eads and Ashton FousheeMay 9: Randall Mattingly, Julia Matthews and Loretta
JupinMay 10: Ella Jane Holinger and Greg FousheeMay 11: Christina Russell, David Eads, Ali Flaherty, Bill
Bassett, Keith Knott and Matt RhodesMay 12: Kayla Jupin, Jeremy Hardesty; Chase Puyear,
Amanda Knott, Shizuka Clark, Jessie Thomas and Wayne Nash
Birth Announcements
Matthew and Clar-issa Lucas are proud to announce the birth of their son, Brody James Lucas.
Brody was born at Baptist Hospital East on February 10, 2010. He weighed six pounds and was 20 1/2 inches long. Proud grand-parents are Regina Foushee of Branden-burg, Chuck Foushee of Elizabethtown,Ky., and Ralph and Van-essa Lucas of Big Spring, Ky.
Birthdays
The Bluegrass Homemakers had a short meeting on the way to a social day in Indiana. We stopped at the Quilting Bee in Georgetown, Ky. then on to Charlestown, Ky. where we had a delicious and fun meal at the Olive Garden.
After that we went to Hobby Lobby where there were bargains galore.
On the way home we stopped at Culver’s in Corydon, Ind. for an ice cream treat.
We greatly missed Shirley A. and Liz as they couldn’t be with us.
The next meeting will be at Liz’s.
Homemakers News
Brody James Lucas
Ashley Marie Carter, 20, of Brandenburg, daughter of Katherine Marie McCoy and Joseph Henry Carter, Jr., to Richard Kyle Mattingly, 22, of Brandenburg, son of Iris Col-leen McCarty and Richard Lee Mattingly.
Judith Catherine Kochersperger, 54, of Corydon, daugh-ter of Catherine Ann Finnegan and John Aloysius Klauer, to Mark Edward Kochersperger, 59, of Corydon, son of Teresa Pauline Ballman and Glen Matthias Kochersperger.
Cynthia Michelle Ellis, 18, of Flaherty, daughter of Denise Ann Blanton and Mark Anthony Ellis, to Michael Anthony Franklin, 20, of Flaherty, son of Marilyn Mechelle Franklin and Dusk Edward Hubbard.
Sheila Kaye Compton, 56, of Muldraugh, daughter of Laverne Kaye Chapman-Compton and Lawrence Edward Compton, to Kenneth Ray Herron, 60, of Muldraugh, son of Doris Paulene Reese-Moore and Raymond Elwood Her-ron.
Desiree Rose Clark, 19, of Fort Knox, daughter of Karen Denise Burns-Clark and Richard Allen Clark, to Luis Al-berto Ramirez Beltran, 18, of Fort Knox, son of Veronica Beltran-Ramirez and Juan Carlos Ramirez-Yanez.
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David and Rhonda (Carter) Snyder of Valley Station, Ky. are proud to announce the birth of their son David Ma-ran Snyder, III. David was born on Monday, March 1, 2010, at 6:40 p.m. He weighed fi ve pounds 15 ounces and was 16 1/2 inches long. Proud grandparents are Diesel and Sandy Cart-er of Midway, Ky. and Lloyd and Betty Baker of Clarkson, Ky. He is also the grandson of the late David “Randy” Snyder, Sr. formally of Louisville, Ky.
David Maran Snyder, III
Meade County Road Department truck driver Jimmy Fackler retired after eight years of service for the Road Department.
Fackler said that he enjoyed working with all of the guys at the Road Department, and that he will miss snow plowing the most.
He’s not too sure about what all he will do with his newfound spare time, but he has a few ideas.
“I’ve got some old farm tractors that I’m going to re-build. And maybe I’ll do a little fi shing,” he said.
Retirement
LEFT TO RIGHT: Meade County Road Department supervisor Mark Popham, Jimmy Fackler, and Meade County Judge-Executive Harry Craycroft.
Honoring A Survivor
LEFT: Janet Hobbs visits with fi rst Lady Jane Beshear as the gover-nor enjoys the camaraderie of the breast cancer survivors. Jane Beshear sponsors the Pink Out, Derby Celebration of Hope, and Horses and Hope in an effort to bring attention to the impact of Breast Cancer on Kentucky families. These programs not only celebrate the fact that women have survived cancer, but go further in an effort to adequately pro-vide funding for mammograms to women who work at the racetracks in Kentucky who oftentimes do not have insurance or available means to get the mammograms.
ABOVE: Breast Cancer Coalition members Fay Mattingly, Janet Hobbs, Bev Morrison, and Diane Greenwell attended the Kentucky Oaks on Friday, April 30. The ladies enjoyed the beautiful weather and watched as 136 fellow breast cancer survivors, including Diane Greenwell, marched around the track prior to the running of the Oaks race.
BELOW: Diane Greenwell and husband, Mike, walk in the survivors parade at Churchill Downs at the Oaks at the annual Pink Out. Her son placed her name in an online contest and many Meade Countians voted for Diane which gave her a signifi cant number of votes thus allowing her to walk in the parade.
Coalition Members attend Oaks Pink Out honoring Breast Cancer Survivors
