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Oscar Pistorius, double-amputee run- ner, is taking disabled vs. able-bodied com- petition into new ter- ritory as he prepares for the London Olym- pics. 1B Partly sunny. GRAND RIVERS — Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terror- ist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers has public tours scheduled for July 21, Aug. 18 and Sept. 15, with tours beginning at 9 and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The dam is at Grand Rivers at the northern end of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. The Corps resumed public tours on June 23. After the initial tour, Ranger Charlotte Stenger said there was a public desire for them. “From the very positive feed- back we received today, we know there is public interest in visiting our facilities, and we look forward to upcoming tours,” Stenger said. Barkley Resource Manager Mike Looney said visitors learn about electricity generation and river transportation. The tours are free. Each of the four group tours be- gan with a PowerPoint briefing by Looney. Visitors are taken by bus to the Barkley Power Plant on the Cumberland River to view hydro- electric power generation. They then travel to the opposite shore to see commercial vessels going through the lock and learn about bulk materials transportation. The Corps has also begun tours at the Center Hill Lake Power Plant near Smithville, Tenn. Those tours are on July 21, Aug. 18 and Sept. 22. Public tours resume at Barkley Dam Associated Press Providing families with affordable health care options for nearly two de- cades, a local family medical clinic un- veiled its renovated new look thanks in part to a helping hand from its own com- munity. Seeing a nearly 40 percent increase in new patients this year, St. Nicholas Fam- ily Clinic and other Paducah-area orga- nizations saw the need for an upgraded appearance as it increasingly helps more and more people get the care they need. With extensive help from more than 15 local businesses and numerous vol- unteers during the Hands on St. Nick: A Makeover Month event in June, the Clinic reveals renovations BY WILL PINKSTON [email protected]Associated Press Charlotte Stenger (left), a park ranger at U.S. Army Corps of En- gineers Nashville District’s Lake Barkley, briefs visitors during a public tour of the Barkley Power Plant on June 23 in Grand Rivers. Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “From the very positive feedback we received today, we know there is public interest in visiting our facilities, and we look forward to upcoming tours.” Charlotte Stenger Park ranger Please see CLINIC | 8A BENTON — It was either Jerry Walker Jr., vying for the attention of his on-and-off girlfriend, or a group of rugby players staging a prank that at- torneys say started a fatal 1998 Murray State University dorm fire. Both commonwealth and defense attorneys mapped out their theories of what hap- pened during the early morn- ing hours of Sept. 18, 1998, at Hester Hall in detail Monday on the first day of Walker’s re- trial in Marshall Circuit Court. Walker is charged with a litany of offenses, ranging from arson to manslaughter, in connec- tion with the 13-year-old case. Attorneys spent several hours choosing a jury and jumped into opening state- ments just after 2:15 p.m. Marshall and Calloway County Commonwealth At- torney Mark Blankenship first used a laser pointer to show the jury a series of landmarks — including Hester Hall, the rugby house on Woodlawn Av- enue, a convenience store and a donut shop — on a projector screen. He then moved on to a series of letters that Walker later admitted to writing in the weeks and months after the fire that Blankenship says incrimi- nate Walker as the person who set the fire on the fourth floor of the dorm where he lived. Blankenship said he will call other people who lived in the dorm to testify about the events of the night as the trial continues, as well as Jessica Lewter, Walker’s girlfriend at the time. Blankenship said the commonwealth’s theory is that Walker was trying to fetch the attention of Lewter by start- ing the fire, but that it got out of hand, in the end killing resi- dent Michael Minger and seri- ously injuring Michael Priddy and some other students. “The commonwealth, we do not believe for a minute that Jerry Walker intended to hurt anybody,” Blankenship as- sured the jury during his open- ing. “He just didn’t know what he was doing (with) the power of gas and fire.” Blankenship said evidence will show that Walker bought a little more than a gallon of gas at the nearby Super America convenience store just about 30 minutes before the fire broke out. Walker also gave spotty statements to police throughout the course of the investigation, Blankenship said. Walker’s defense team, made up of Richard and Den- nis Null, argued that a group of rugby players ignited the fire as a joke on Hester Hall resident Ryan Leader. A rookie team member, Leader reportedly went back to his dorm after practice that night instead of going to a party at the rugby house. A series of prank phone calls to Leader, and the dorm’s front desk, stating a fire had Walker trial under way BY MALLORY PANUSKA [email protected]MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Calloway and Marshall County Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship makes opening remarks in the case of Jerry Walker Jr. Walker faces a multitude of charges in connection with a 1998 fatal dorm fire at Murray State University that killed one student and injured others. MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun Jerry Walker Jr. and defense attorney Richard Null (front) listen to opening statements in Marshall County on Monday. Walker is accused of starting a Murray State University dorm fire that killed one student and severely injured another. His re-trial on an array of charges in connection with the incident started Monday. Please see WALKER | 8A Police arrested a Murray man late Monday night after his mother was found dead in an apartment. Murray Police Sgt. Scott Svebakken said Michael Joseph Burke, 34, was ar- rested Monday night after a lengthy interrogation. Svebakken said officers found Karen McClellan, 55, dead from apparent stab wounds after police re- sponded to an apartment around 7 p.m. above a business on South 13th Street. Burke was taken into custody about an hour afterward. Svebakken said Burke was not in the apartment when McClel- lan was found. Svebakken said the 911 call did not come from McClellan, but declined to give further details about who called po- lice or a possible motive for the crime. Svebakken said police recovered what they believe is the weapon used in the killing. The investigation is ongoing, Svebakken said. Burke was taken to Cal- loway County Jail. Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652. Son arrested after mother found dead BY CORIANNE EGAN [email protected]
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3. The military bur-ies six airmen killed in a 1965 crash. 5A
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GRAND RIVERS — Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the fi rst time since the terror-ist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers has public tours scheduled for July 21, Aug. 18 and Sept. 15, with tours beginning at 9 and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The dam is at Grand Rivers at the northern end of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
The Corps resumed public tours on June 23. After the initial tour, Ranger Charlotte Stenger said there was a public desire for them.
“From the very positive feed-back we received today, we know there is public interest in visiting
our facilities, and we look forward to upcoming tours,” Stenger said.
Barkley Resource Manager Mike Looney said visitors learn about electricity generation and river transportation. The tours are free.
Each of the four group tours be-gan with a PowerPoint briefi ng by Looney. Visitors are taken by bus to the Barkley Power Plant on the
Cumberland River to view hydro-electric power generation. They then travel to the opposite shore to see commercial vessels going through the lock and learn about bulk materials transportation.
The Corps has also begun tours at the Center Hill Lake Power Plant near Smithville, Tenn. Those tours are on July 21, Aug. 18 and Sept. 22.
Public tours resume at Barkley DamAssociated Press
Providing families with affordable health care options for nearly two de-cades, a local family medical clinic un-veiled its renovated new look thanks in part to a helping hand from its own com-munity.
Seeing a nearly 40 percent increase in new patients this year, St. Nicholas Fam-ily Clinic and other Paducah-area orga-nizations saw the need for an upgraded appearance as it increasingly helps more and more people get the care they need.
With extensive help from more than 15 local businesses and numerous vol-unteers during the Hands on St. Nick: A Makeover Month event in June, the
Charlotte Stenger (left), a park ranger at U.S. Army Corps of En-gineers Nashville District’s Lake Barkley, briefs visitors during a public tour of the Barkley Power Plant on June 23 in Grand Rivers. Tours of the Lake Barkley Dam powerhouse and navigation lock have resumed for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“From the very positive feedback we received today, we know there is public interest in visiting our facilities, and we
look forward to upcoming tours.”
Charlotte StengerPark ranger
Please see CLINIC | 8A
BENTON — It was either Jerry Walker Jr., vying for the attention of his on-and-off girlfriend, or a group of rugby players staging a prank that at-torneys say started a fatal 1998 Murray State University dorm fi re.
Both commonwealth and defense attorneys mapped out their theories of what hap-pened during the early morn-ing hours of Sept. 18, 1998, at Hester Hall in detail Monday on the fi rst day of Walker’s re-trial in Marshall Circuit Court. Walker is charged with a litany of offenses, ranging from arson to manslaughter, in connec-tion with the 13-year-old case.
Attorneys spent several hours choosing a jury and jumped into opening state-ments just after 2:15 p.m.
Marshall and Calloway County Commonwealth At-torney Mark Blankenship fi rst used a laser pointer to show the jury a series of landmarks — including Hester Hall, the rugby house on Woodlawn Av-enue, a convenience store and a donut shop — on a projector screen. He then moved on to a series of letters that Walker later admitted to writing in the weeks and months after the fi re that Blankenship says incrimi-nate Walker as the person who set the fi re on the fourth fl oor of the dorm where he lived.
Blankenship said he will call other people who lived in the dorm to testify about the events of the night as the trial continues, as well as Jessica Lewter, Walker’s girlfriend at the time. Blankenship said the commonwealth’s theory is that Walker was trying to fetch the attention of Lewter by start-ing the fi re, but that it got out of hand, in the end killing resi-dent Michael Minger and seri-ously injuring Michael Priddy and some other students.
“The commonwealth, we do not believe for a minute that Jerry Walker intended to hurt anybody,” Blankenship as-sured the jury during his open-ing. “He just didn’t know what he was doing (with) the power
of gas and fi re.”Blankenship said evidence
will show that Walker bought a little more than a gallon of gas at the nearby Super America convenience store just about 30 minutes before the fi re broke out. Walker also gave spotty statements to police throughout the course of the investigation, Blankenship said.
Walker’s defense team, made up of Richard and Den-nis Null, argued that a group of rugby players ignited the fi re as a joke on Hester Hall resident Ryan Leader. A rookie team member, Leader reportedly went back to his dorm after practice that night instead of going to a party at the rugby house. A series of prank phone calls to Leader, and the dorm’s front desk, stating a fi re had
Calloway and Marshall County Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship makes opening remarks in the case of Jerry Walker Jr. Walker faces a multitude of charges in connection with a 1998 fatal dorm fire at Murray State University that killed one student and injured others.
MALLORY PANUSKA | The Sun
Jerry Walker Jr. and defense attorney Richard Null (front) listen to opening statements in Marshall County on Monday. Walker is accused of starting a Murray State University dorm fire that killed one student and severely injured another. His re-trial on an array of charges in connection with the incident started Monday.Please see WALKER | 8A
Police arrested a Murray man late Monday night after his mother was found dead in an apartment.
Murray Police Sgt. Scott Svebakken said Michael Joseph Burke, 34, was ar-rested Monday night after a lengthy interrogation. Svebakken said offi cers found Karen McClellan, 55, dead from apparent stab wounds after police re-sponded to an apartment around 7 p.m. above a business on South 13th Street.
Burke was taken into custody about an hour afterward. Svebakken said Burke was not in the apartment when McClel-lan was found.
Svebakken said the 911 call did not come from McClellan, but declined to give further details about who called po-lice or a possible motive for the crime. Svebakken said police recovered what they believe is the weapon used in the killing. The investigation is ongoing, Svebakken said. Burke was taken to Cal-loway County Jail.
Contact Corianne Egan, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8652.
Firefighters from Engine 3 in Paducah spray down kids at a summer camp Monday in Noble Park. Temperatures fell into the 90s on Monday after nearly two weeks of 100-degree or higher temperatures.
Taking it back to the good old daysCORIANNE EGAN | The Sun
Parents and students seeking information on the curriculum and services at Community Christian Academy can gather at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Re-idland-Farley Fire Department.
Headmaster Chad Pruitt, prin-cipals Gale Grisham and Anna Thomas, and several CCA par-ents will be on hand to present information about the accredita-tion, curriculum, test scores, and costs of attending CCA.
According to Linda Harper, an art teacher at CCA, the meeting will be held in Reidland because of the many calls from that area seeking the information.
Reidland is the existing Mc-Cracken County high school farthest from the new county consolidated high school.
Many students from Re-idland schools have enrolled at Christian Fellowship in Benton. According to Bill Rowley, prin-cipal and administrator at CFS, the increase in new students
has been “kind of a trend” for the past few years.
“We have several new students coming to school this next year,” Rowley said. With roughly 50-60 new students enrolling, CFS is running out of space in its classes.
So far, Christian Fellowship’s preschool class is the only one that won’t be accepting addi-tional students. According to Rowley, there isn’t a lot of space in the elementary school class-es, especially in the fi rst grade, and the middle school classes
are getting full as well.Rowley said that there are as
little as one or two more spots in certain classes, “as far as we’re comfortable with.”
“The new school is most likely within the variables that infl uence their decision, but we haven’t had anyone say that it’s the only reason they came here,” Rowley said.
Call Ryan Paxton, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8667.
CCA offering info meeting for parentsBY RYAN PAXTON
The weekend’s storms didn’t bring west-ern Kentucky the relief it was hoping for, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists recorded .67 inches of rain at Barkley Regional Airport on Sunday, and the amount isn’t nearly enough to ease Kentucky’s current drought.
The chances of showers and thunder-storms for McCracken County in the next seven days is 20 to 30 percent. The NWS said that this weather pattern is typical for the summer in western Kentucky. The drought, however, is not.
This year, western Kentucky has re-ceived about 12.5 inches less rain than average, said the NWS.
— Staff report
Adkins to speak at chamber event
State Rep. Rocky Adkins will speak Thurs-day at the Paducah Area Chamber of Com-merce’s July Power in Partnership Break-fast. The breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. at the Julian Carroll Convention Center.
Harrah’s Metropolis Resort & Casino is the sponsor of the breakfast.
Adkins serves as House majority floor leader after being chosen for the post by his Democratic colleagues in November 2003. A longtime veteran of the House of Representatives, he is serving in his 25th
year as a legislator.A native of Sandy Hook, Adkins is a
graduate of Elliott County High School and Morehead State University, where he also received his master’s degree in sec-ondary education.
Adkins recently sponsored House Bill 559, which lifted the nuclear moratorium on some nuclear projects.
The cost is $15 for members and $25 for non-members. Deadline for reservations is 5 p.m. Tuesday by calling 270-443-1746 or visiting [email protected].
— Staff report
Lone Oak thefts under investigation
The McCracken County Sheriff’s De-partment is looking for information on thefts in the area of Lakeview Drive in Lone Oak.
Deputy Sarah Preston said surveillance cameras showed two men attempting to break into a car late on Wednesday. Pres-ton said the tape also showed two men driving golf carts, and an area resident reported a golf cart and a purse stolen Thursday morning. The cart was recov-ered, but was damaged.
Anyone with information on the thefts can call the sheriff’s department at 270-444-4719 or CrimeStoppers at 270-443-TELL.
— Staff report
Lone Oak grads named recipients of National Merit scholarships
Two Lone Oak High School graduates have been named National Merit college-sponsored scholarship winners.
Recipient Nikolas D. Anderson plans to attend the University of Chicago and study mathematics and physics research.
Recipient Richard E. Grewelle plans to study biomedical engineering at the Uni-versity of Kentucky.
This year’s competition for National Merit Scholarships began when approxi-mately 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools took the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. In September 2011, about 16,000 semifinalists were named on a state representational basis in num-bers proportional to each state’s percent-age of the national total of graduating high school seniors.
To become a finalist, each semifinalist had to submit a detailed scholarship ap-plication, which included writing an essay and describing leadership positions and contributions in school and community activities, showing an outstanding aca-demic record, and being endorsed and recommended by a high school official. Semifinalists also had to take the SAT
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and earn scores that con-firmed their performance on the initial qualifying test. From the semifinal-ist group, about 15,000 attained finalist standing, and more than half of the finalists were chosen to receive National Merit Scholarships.
— Staff report
Police arrest pair after marijuana found
Two Paducah men were arrested Sunday night after officers said they found evidence of a mari-juana growing operation in a Northview Street home.
Mark L. Thompson, 32, and Jesse L. Egner, 25, face charges of cultivating marijuana and possession of marijuana.
Police say Officers Na-than Antonites and Steve Thompson were investigat-ing a complaint of drug activity in the area when they visited the Northview home. After obtaining a search warrant, the of-ficers say they found 43 plant root masses — what is left after marijuana is harvested — along with marijuana and growing supplies.
Thompson and Egner were taken to McCracken County Regional Jail.
Paducah police speci-fied that Thompson was not the chief financial offi-cer of Lourdes hospital or the city’s Parks Services director with the same name.
— Staff report
Delays expected on Cairo Bridge
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet workers will be us-ing flaggers to control one lane of traffic on the U.S. 51/60/62 bridge between Wickliffe and Cairo, Ill., on Wednesday. KTC spokes-man Keith Todd said the department is expecting 20-minute delays at least 12 times throughout the day, but workers will limit the delays to times when peak traffic is not ex-pected.
Todd said workers will work on aviation lights on the highest portions of the bridge throughout the day. The repairs also require the KTC to limit trucks to a maximum of 10 feet wide. Todd said the delays will be limited to 9 to 11 a.m., 1 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.
— Staff report
Honeywell to meet with NRC Wednesday
Two months after cut-ting workers abruptly because of damaged equipment, Honeywell in Metropolis announced Monday that staff will meet with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Plant manager Larry Smith said the meeting will hopefully help Honey-well to work out a plan to bring workers back to the facility.
The plant shut down on May 11, but officials an-nounced several weeks later that they expected workers to return on July 1. The staffing has since been delayed. Smith said the Wednesday meeting will focus on the plant’s disaster-readiness and re-starting options.
Honeywell spokesman Peter Dalpe said Monday that the company has re-called about 100 workers and 60 are still on tempo-rary layoffs.
— Staff report
Paint the Plugs project announced
The Paducah Renais-sance Alliance announced Monday the beginning of its
Paint the Plugs project in the Lower Town Arts District.
Members of the com-munity are invited to submit sketches of original designs for one of the 26 fireplugs in Lower Town. Submissions must be made to the PRA before July 20.
A committee will judge submissions and notify ac-cepted artists on July 27. Accepted artists will be given until Sept. 3 to finish painting a fireplug. Once the plugs are completed, a voting contest will be held at the PRA’s Facebook page from Sept. 4 to Oct. 12. The committee will an-nounce the winners of first, second and third place at the Second Saturday cel-ebration in Lower Town, and winners will receive PRA Bucks to be redeemed at local businesses.
The submission address and project guidelines are available online at pa-ducahalliance.org/events/paint-the-plugs-project.
— Staff report
Arts council seeks artists for program
Craft and visual artists interested in receiving business training and op-portunities for exhibition are invited to submit their
work for consideration in the Kentucky Crafted pro-gram until Aug. 20.
Kentucky Crafted is the only state-supported mar-keting program for profes-sional artists in Kentucky. Artists whose work is selected by the Kentucky Crafted jury often see increased sales and com-missions as a result of being chosen, said the Kentucky Arts Council.
Opportunities provided to Kentucky Crafted jur-ied participants include
eligibility to exhibit at the Buyers Market of Ameri-can Craft, the Kentucky Vi-sions at the Capitol exhibit and the Governor’s Derby Celebration. Artists also have the benefit of carry-ing the Kentucky Crafted brand and cooperative ad-vertising opportunities.
For more informa-tion, visit http://1.usa.gov/KAC_crafted, or contact Ed Lawrence at [email protected].
operating a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st of-fense: $784, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further of-fenses, no refusals, 30 days license suspension, to pay 1-17-12.
Tracy Lynne Schaefer, 49, 103 Acorn Dr., Mayfi eld, operating a mo-tor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $1,184, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, 60 days license suspension, to pay 5-15-12.
Keith A. Clark, 49, 4355 Driftwood Dr., Paducah, operating a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $784, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, 30 days license suspension, to pay 2-21-12.
Danny L. Halliburton, 52, 2103 Jackson St., Paducah, operating a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 2nd offense: $934, 120 days, serve 30 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no refusals, 18 months license suspension. Traffi cking in marijuana, less than 8 ounces, 1st of-fense: 60 days, serve 21 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, to pay 12-13-11.
David Russell Sowash, 31, 340 Longview Dr., Paducah, operating a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $784, 7 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no refusals, 60 days license suspension, to pay 1-17-12.
Bradley G. Ivy, 40, 217 Clarks Ferry Rd., Ledbetter, operating a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, aggravated circum-stances, 1st offense: $1,884, 30 days, serve 5 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no refusals, 60 days license suspension, to pay 2-21-12.
Jason Beau Sutton, 35, 232 1/2 Lewis St., Joppa, Ill., operat-ing a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $1,234, 14 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, restitution if any, 30 days license suspension, to pay 5-15-12.
Kerry D. Childers, 48, 2880 Krebs Station Rd., Paducah, operat-ing a motor vehicle under infl uence of alcohol/drugs, 1st offense: $884 paid, 30 days, serve 10 days, conditional discharge 2 years, no further offenses, alcohol driving education, no refusals, 120 days license suspension.
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ST. LOUIS — The par-ents of an Illinois toddler who drowned in a lake were charged with child endangerment Monday, accused of allowing the boy and his twin brother to routinely wander from home through a basement window and having them live in what one prosecutor called “fi lth and squalor.”
The charges come more than two months after Lu-kas Pinski was found un-responsive and submerged May 2 in a small lake near the family’s Edwardsville home in southwestern Il-
linois. Authorities say he and his twin had wandered from home.
Lukas died four days later at a St. Louis hospital. His brother escaped with minor cuts.
Thomas Pinski, 26, who’s charged along with 25-year-old wife Emilie Pinski, told The Associated Press he was unaware of the charges until a reporter called his home Monday to ask about them. He said they disagree with the allegations and plan to fi ght them.
“I haven’t talked to my lawyer about this,” Pinski said. He quickly ended the phone conversation after
the reporter asked for the attorney’s name.
Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons said an investigation showed Lukas knowingly was left unsupervised and managed to climb out of
the house through a base-ment window Gibbons said the toddlers repeatedly ex-ploited for freedom. Gib-bons said the parents failed to lock the window or re-move a bench that allowed the boys to reach it.
“This was an extremely diffi cult case,” Gibbons said. “But when you know that your children are in danger and there is a strong likelihood that something will happen to them, you have to do everything you can to provide a safe en-vironment for them. This family knew the boys were crawling out of the window and wandering away, yet they did nothing, and that’s against the law.”
The Pinskis are charged with endangering the life or health of a child, a felony punishable by up to fi ve years in prison. They also face misdemeanor child-
endangerment counts — each carrying up to a year in jail — for what Gibbons said was their allowing the twins and three other chil-dren to live in “uninhabit-able conditions which in-cluded piles of human and animal feces, broken glass debris and trash.”
“These children lived in fi lth and squalor,” Gibbons said.
The Pinskis’ live-in mothers — Shirley Pinski, 47, and Rebecca Kennedy, 61 — also face misdemean-or endangerment counts. Online court records do not show whether the two women have attorneys yet.
Parents of Illinois toddler accused in drowningBY JIM SUHRAssociated Press
“When you know that your children are in danger and there is a strong
likelihood that something will happen to them, you have to do everything you can to provide a
safe environment for them.”
Tom GibbonsMadison County state’s attorney
Historic eastern Kentucky building damaged by fire
STERNS — An eastern Kentucky structure built more than a century ago was heavily damaged by a fire.
McCreary County Sheriff Gus Skin-ner said officials are investigating the cause of the weekend blaze at Stea-rns Coal and Lumber Company, which housed a restaurant and shops. He says the restaurant was destroyed.
“We are suspecting maybe a ciga-rette or fireworks may have set this off, and it started from the outside in this one area right here,” he said.
Myrtle Coffey, who owns Stearns Restaurant, says she thinks the recent weather contributed to the damage.
“It’s been so hot and dry. The building being so old, it just went up too fast,” she said.
Residents said the historic build-ing embodied the area, and the restaurant attracted people from across the country.
Officials say a county-wide burn ban was in effect, making recre-ational fireworks illegal.
The state fire marshal’s office and state police are helping with the in-vestigation of the blaze.
— Associated Press
Heat blamed on deaths of more than 1,000 chicks
LOUISVILLE — Postal officials are blaming high temperatures for the deaths of about 1,000 chicks at a mail processing plant in Louisville.
United States Postal Service spokesman David Walton said the chicks were among about 5,000 that were mailed on Friday from Iowa to recipients all over Kentucky. Walton said mailing chicks in card-board boxes that include air holes is common.
Walton said when the chicks ar-rived by truck on Saturday workers noticed that chirping wasn’t coming from some of the boxes and found the animals dead.
The National Weather Service said the high temperature on Saturday reached 105 degrees.
— Associated Press
Items from crime fighter Eliot Ness up for auction
CLEVELAND — A Massachusetts business plans to auction memora-bilia from crime fighter Eliot Ness, the onetime Cleveland safety direc-tor and federal Prohibition Bureau agent whose unit brought down Chi-
cago mobster Al Capone.The collection up for auction Sept.
27 includes his signed credentials, his business card and photos of his unsuccessful bid for Cleveland mayor.
Worcester-based Central Mass Auctions says the items were ap-praised at $30,000 to $50,000 and came from the estate of the law-man’s personal secretary. It’s not clear how she obtained them.
— Associated Press
Heat buckles pavement on Memphis highway
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After a heat wave lasting more than a week, even the highways in Tennessee are showing the strain.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation said high tempera-tures caused a piece of pavement on Interstate 55 in Memphis to buckle Monday.
TDOT spokesman Bill Hazlerig said two trouble spots affected one lane of the road. He said the bump was about 6 inches high and enough to make a vehicle go air-borne.
— Associated Press
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The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, July 5:
For people of a certain age, and with reruns, even for their children and grandchildren, Andy Griffith was like a second dad. Thus, Mr. Griffith’s death Tuesday at 86 brought with it a sense of personal loss.
We were warmed by his sweet homespun style and sage advice. When Mr. Griffith, as Sheriff Andy Taylor of the make-believe Southern town of Mayberry, tilted his head and sat down for a “little talk” with his son Opie, we knew he was going to say something meaningful.
Andy had ethics and morals and good common sense. He reassured us that things were right with the world, using a gentle sense of humor and playing straight man to a cast of characters that included the lilting Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), the every-boy Opie (Ronnie Howard), the bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife (Don Knotts) and the slow-witted gas station attendant Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors).
Sheriff Andy took care of his town and the people in it. He often
used reverse psychology to get people to realize how they had erred. He lived by a simple set of rules that revolved around doing the right thing. Nothing was ambiguous in Andy’s world. Most problems could be solved by visiting the fishin’ hole, singing and playing guitar,
going to an ice cream social or helping a neighbor.
It didn’t take much for Andy, who started out in the series in 1960 as a curly-haired widower with a gap-toothed grin, to get Opie to behave.
For instance, in the episode “Opie and the Spoiled Kid,” Opie yells at his
dad when Andy refuses to go along with his request for an allowance of 75 cents a week that would be given to him without his having to do chores in return.
“Don’t raise your voice to me,” Andy tells Opie firmly. “Now you get on out of here. I’ve got
things to do.”What happened to
that time? Politics was not divisive, not even when Floyd, the barber, ran for mayor. People exchanged points of view but not vitriol.
Love your neighbor was not just a platitude.
Although the time in which the show was set was not explicitly spelled out, Mr. Griffith said decades after it went off the air that it was supposed to be set in the ‘60s but feel like it was the 1930s.
We frequently seem to imbue earlier times with innocence, but history tells us that times of innocence never really existed, except perhaps in Mayberry. There, Barney forever will have his bullet in his pocket and Andy and Opie always will be whistling their way to the fishin’ hole.
Ideals endure, and so will Mayberry.
CAMDEN — South Carolina politics never fails to amuse — and bemuse.
A recent ethics imbroglio between Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP activist John Rainey is a case in point.
The squabble would be of passing provincial interest if Haley weren’t a rising star often mentioned on lists of potential vice presidential candidates.
And had she not called Rainey, a nationally recognized philanthropist and community bridge-builder, a “racist, sexist bigot.”
Such charges deserve clarifi -cation and context.
Haley made the remarks during a state House Eth-ics Committee hearing that was prompted by a complaint Rainey fi led alleging that Haley had lobbied illegally while she was a legislator. Haley has been cleared of any wrongdoing and there’s no need to re-litigate here, though Rainey promises that the issue is not dead.
Meanwhile, her invectives toward Rainey, though per-haps understandable given an exchange between them (about which more anon), are contra-dicted by his record. Rainey is anything but racist, sexist or bigoted.
Haley’s feelings apparently had been hurt during her one meeting with Rainey while she was a gubernatorial candidate. She had sought the meeting, doubtless hoping for fi nan-cial and political support, but Rainey was skeptical. He knew nothing about her at the time, he told me, and couldn’t fi nd anyone who did. Everyone he spoke to said the same thing in so many words: “I don’t know anything about her, but I know she’s the party’s candidate and I support her.”
“That,” Rainey told me, “is the kind of thing that makes me want to throw up.” Party loyalty over all other considerations is what ails American politics, he
said.In questioning Haley at the
meeting, Rainey indicated that all cards needed to be on the table, that he didn’t want to fi nd out at some point that her fam-ily had ties to terrorists. Haley, who is of Sikh Indian descent, clearly took offense.
Nevertheless, she wrote a nice note to him, Rainey said, re-marking that she never showed any indication of offense during their meeting until he raised questions about her lobbying activities. “That was the end of the meeting,” Rainey said, but his curiosity was further piqued. He began probing her past and raised questions about what he viewed as ethical transgres-sions.
Rainey doesn’t recall making the specifi c “terrorist” remark, but takes the word of others present that he did. Any such comment, he insists, would have been in a “jocular, expan-sive fashion,” rather than mean-spirited.
Rainey is known to be outspo-ken and irreverent, but also as a scrapper for fairness and reconciliation.
Inarguably, the governor’s charges, made publicly and aimed at a citizen, albeit a pow-erful one, are far more damag-ing than whatever Rainey said during a private meeting.
Judge as you may, but con-sider the following facts before accepting Haley’s indictment of Rainey.
For no personal gain, Rainey frequently has raised money and organized groups in com-mon cause across party lines.
He and wife, Anne, marched in 2000 with 46,000 others to protest the Confederate fl ag, which then fl ew atop the South Carolina Capitol dome. He per-sonally hosted several private meetings with NAACP and legislative leaders to fi nd a com-promise for the fl ag’s removal.
He served as executive producer and raised funds to fi nance Bud Ferillo’s documen-tary “Corridor of Shame” about the dismal condition of public schools along the I-95 corridor through South Carolina. Candi-date Barack Obama visited one of those schools and cited the corridor in campaign speeches.
In 1999, Rainey chaired the fundraising committee for the African-American His-tory Monument on Statehouse grounds. In 2002, while chair-man of Brookgreen Gardens, he raised funds to erect a World War I doughboy statue in Columbia’s Memorial Park and sponsored a bust of a 54th Massachusetts Infantry African-American soldier. He received the sixth annual I. DeQuincey Newman Humanitarian Award in 2004, named for the United Methodist minister and fi rst African-American elected to the South Carolina Senate following Reconstruction.
Latest to the roster is a sculp-ture Rainey has commissioned honoring two Camden natives, fi nancier Bernard Baruch and baseball great Larry Doby. Baruch was a philanthropist, statesman and consultant to presidents (Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt). Doby was the fi rst African-American in the American League and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
The sculpture, which will be unveiled next April, is a monument not only to two local heroes, but also to the sort of reconciliation Rainey repre-sents. His record speaks louder than words.
EDITOR:For years the citizens of Marshall County have
allowed the illegal sale of alcohol in our county. Very few, including myself, have acted to stop this. It’s like having a white elephant in the room; people know it’s there, but as long as they don’t acknowledge it then we can go on with our daily lives and pretend it doesn’t exist. But it does.
Then when our group decided to go forward and make the sale of alcohol legal in Marshall County where we can control it by using the strict guidelines as set out in the ABC (Alcohol Bever-age Control) and be able to collect tax monies from its sale, which will enable us to have the revenue for law enforcement and more public services, it is as if we awoke a group of Rip Van Winkles from 1938 and the “no” people suddenly became emotional, unreasonable and outspoken.
The guidelines would not allow “a bar on every corner” because we do not qualify for them, and we are equally glad of this. But even though the ABC board spokesmen told us this at the com-munity meeting, it doesn’t seem as if anyone on the “no” side heard it. They continue to advertise the possibility of this and other dark things that could happen if we vote yes.
The “no” group repeatedly suggests that there will be more DUIs and more alcohol-related accidents, more spouse abuse, etc. We call this the “fear factor.” The opposite actually happens when a dry county goes wet, DUIs go down, less alcohol-related accidents happen, spouse abuse goes down, and many other factors actually change for the better for us.
But they refuse to accept these facts. When an opponent cannot beat you with the facts then they resort to fear, half-truths and spins on the truth.
If you vote no on July 17, then you will be voting yes for the continued sale of use of illegal alcohol in Marshall County.
SISSY WOMMACKBenton
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can be mind altering if the use of it is not strictly controlled by the consumer of it. Some people can control their use of it, but many will not or cannot control their use of it. Many are incarcer-ated and they will have to live their lives with the memory that they have severly injured or killed someone while under the infl uence of alcoholic drink.
Should one be free to choose whether or not they will use alcoholic beverages? Yes, one must be free to choose. But should a community make it more convenient for one to get access to alco-holic beverages?
It seems that those that support the sales of al-coholic beverages in Marshall County are think-ing “Well, everyone is jumping off the bridge, so I will too.” Does “The love of money is the root of all evil,” apply in this desire of some to legal-ize the sale of alcoholic beverages in Marshall County? The responsible thing to do is to vote no on July 17.
STEVEN GOSSUMCalvert City
‘Love of money’ bad reasonfor legalizing liquor sales
Haley’s lashing of critic was unfair
Kathleen Parker
ENDEARINGGriffi th, Mayberry gave us
respite from troubled world
Andy had ethics and morals and
good common sense.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — Ever since Sherrie Hassenger’s husband went missing with fi ve other U.S. airmen over Laos in 1965, her purpose has been to wish and to hope he would come home. When those men’s remains were buried in a single cas-ket Monday at Arlington National Cemetery, she said, some of that purpose was taken away.
“All I listen to is ’50s, ’60s music,” she said. “When I saw those Air Force men in those dress blues, just like
back then, I just wanted to go up and hug them and kiss them. It felt like maybe I could fi nd a piece of my husband in them.”
The charred remains of the six airmen — identifi ed not through DNA matches but through dental records, personal items and other cir-cumstantial evidence — were buried in a single casket with full military honors, as is common in situations where remains can’t be conclusively linked to a specifi c individu-al. The remains are represen-tative of six Air Force service-men: Col. Joseph Christiano
of Rochester, N.Y.; Col. Der-rell B. Jeffords of Florence, S.C.; Lt. Col. Dennis L. Ei-lers of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Chief Master Sgt. William K. Colwell of Glen Cove, N.Y.; Chief Master Sgt. Arden K. Hassenger of Lebanon, Ore.; and Chief Master Sgt. Larry C. Thornton of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
The Air Force gave all six posthumous promotions, a military spokeswoman said.
It was Christmas Eve 1965 when their Air Force plane, nicknamed “Spooky,” took off from Vietnam for a combat mission. The crew
sent out a “mayday” signal while fl ying over Laos, and after that, all contact was lost. Two days of searches turned up nothing.
For nearly half a cen-tury, the airmen’s families endured an emotional ka-leidoscope that they say is diffi cult to describe to those who never had to face it. The men were listed for years as missing, and family mem-bers held out hope at fi rst that their loved ones had survived. For most that hope faded over time, despite an occasional unconfi rmed report that crew members
were seen alive. The crash site has been excavated several times over the past decade, but it was not until 2010 and 2011 that human remains were recovered.
Even though Sherrie Has-senger’s husband perhaps had the most conclusive identifi cation of all six crew members — a tooth of Has-senger’s was recovered and matched through dental records — she and her son Keith Hassenger said they still have nagging doubts about what happened. Both said they appreciated Monday’s service and were
grateful so many people came to pay respects, but they said they have had a diffi cult time getting an-swers over the years. The tooth, in their mind, raises more questions than an-swers: If a single tooth was found, they wonder, wouldn’t it make sense that other teeth or perhaps his skull could be found also?
Keith Hassenger said that while they approached Mon-day’s service with the feeling it might help provide closure, that comfort proved elusive.
“This may be the only thing we get,” he said.
US military buries airmen killed in 1965 crashBY MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Pressure intensifi ed Monday on U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to answer questions about a medical condition that has had him on leave for weeks, with the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat saying Jackson has a responsibility to give the public an update about his situation “soon.”
Sen. Dick Durbin’s com-ments at an unrelated Chi-cago event echoed those made by his fellow Illinois Democrat’s political op-ponents and voters since Jackson announced a med-ical leave without disclos-ing his location or detailing a specifi c condition.
“As a public offi cial, there comes a point when you have a responsibility to tell the public what’s going on,” Durbin said.
“If there is some medical necessity for him not to say more at this moment than I will defer to that. But he will have to soon make a report on what he’s strug-gling with.”
Jackson’s offi ce initially said last month that he was being treated for exhaus-tion, but staff members said last week that Jack-son’s condition was more serious than fi rst thought and required treatment at an inpatient medical facil-ity. A statement said Jack-son also had been grappling privately with emotional is-sues for some time.
Durbin noted Monday that Sen. Mark Kirk, an Il-linois Republican who suf-fered a stroke earlier this year, provided regular up-dates about his condition that included interviews with his doctors and a video showing his physical reha-
bilitation progress. Durbin said the video “answered hundreds of questions” for voters.
Jackson spokesman Frank Watkins declined to comment Monday. Jack-son’s father, the Rev. Jes-se Jackson, said his son’s medical condition is a pri-
vate matter.Jackson’s congressional
colleagues also had no an-swers.
The timing of the medical leave comes months after Jackson, 47, had to cam-paign hard in Illinois’ pri-mary against his fi rst cred-ible challenger in years.
Durbin: Jesse Jackson Jr. must give update on condition ‘soon’
BY SOPHIA TAREENAssociated Press
Associated Press
An Air Force team carries the casket with the remains of Air Force Col. Joseph Christiano, Col. Derrell B. Jeffords, Lt. Col. Dennis L. Eilers, Chief Master Sgt. William K. Colwell, Chief Master Sgt. Arden K. Hassenger and Chief Master Sgt. Larry C. Thornton, during a burial service Monday at Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Va., above. Barbara Annechino is comforted by her brother, Jeffrey Christiano, during the burial service for their father Air Force Col. Joseph Christiano, and five others, right.
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Seasonal firefighters seek health careDENVER — They work the front lines of the nation’s
most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation’s seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families.
Many firefighters are now asking to buy into a federal government health plan, largely out of anger over a colleague who was left with a $70,000 hospi-tal bill after his son was born prematurely.
Their request has been bolstered by more than 125,000 signatures gathered in an online petition during this year’s historic fire season in the West and the ongoing national debate over health care.
— Associated Press
Obama seeks to shift toward tax debate
WASHINGTON — Facing sagging jobs numbers, President Barack Obama sought to recast the November election as a fight over tax fairness on Monday, urging tax cut extensions for all families earning less than $250,000 but denying them to households making more than that.
The president’s pitch was aimed at painting Re-publican rival Mitt Romney as a protector of the rich at a time of economic unease, as Democrats inten-sify efforts to raise questions about the Romney’s own wealth and offshore bank accounts.
Romney supports extending the federal tax cuts, first signed by George W. Bush, for all income earn-ers.
Obama said if Congress passes a one-year exten-sion for those making less than $250,000, voters can use the November election to decide the fate of the cuts for higher income earners.
“My opponent will fight to keep them in place. I will fight to end them,” said Obama, flanked by a dozen people the White House said would benefit from the tax cut extension.
— Associated Press
Law gives US companies break on pensions
WASHINGTON — A new law will let companies con-tribute billions of dollars less to their workers’ pension funds, raising concerns about weakening the plans that millions of Americans count on for retirement.
But with many companies already freezing or get-ting rid of pension plans, many critics are reluctant to force the issue.
Some expect the changes, passed by Congress last month and signed Friday by President Barack Obama, to have little impact on the nation’s enor-mous $1.9 trillion in estimated pension fund as-sets. And it is more important, they suggest, to avoid giving employers a new reason to limit or jet-tison remaining pension benefits by forcing them to contribute more than they say they can manage.
The equation underscores a harsh reality for unions, consumer advocates and others who normally go to the mat for workers and retirees: When it comes to battling over pensions, the fragile economy of 2012 gives the business community a lot of leverage.
“That wouldn’t do our members any good” if the government forces companies to make pension contributions they can’t afford, said Karen Feldman, benefits policy specialist for the AFL-CIO, the giant labor federation that supported the legislation.
— Associated Press
Feds name 4 linked to Fast and Furious
TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities made a rare disclo-sure Monday linked to the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, revealing identities and requesting the public’s help in capturing four fugitives accused in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent 18 months ago.
The announcement comes in the wake of pres-sure from U.S. House Republicans who led a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, criticizing the nation’s top prosecutor for withholding information related to the probe.
The FBI says it is seeking information related to Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, 31, Ivan Soto-Barra-za, 34, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, 34, and Lionel Portillo-Meza.
Operation Fast and Furious was launched in 2009 to catch trafficking kingpins, but federal agents lost track of about 1,400 of the more than 2,000 weapons — in-cluding AK-47s and other high-powered assault rifles.
— Associated Press
Nation Briefs
DETROIT — The mother of a Detroit woman shot and killed while dancing with an off-duty police of-fi cer questioned Monday why he would carry a load-ed gun at a party in his own backyard.
Police said Adaisha Miller was dancing with the offi -cer early Sunday morning when she hugged him from behind. His gun, which was in a waist holster, went off, and the bullet punctured Miller’s lung and hit her heart. She died at a hospital.
Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee described Miller’s death during a Monday news conference as a tragic, “unfathomable” accident.
“Somehow, in the course of dancing with the individ-ual to his rear and touch-ing his waist, his Detroit Police Department-issued weapon discharged, strik-ing Ms. Miller,” Godbee said. “There is absolutely no indication that the offi -cer placed his hand on his weapon at all.”
Godbee implied contact from Miller appeared to have caused the gun to go off, but he stopped short of saying she pulled the trigger on the .40-caliber handgun.
The offi cer, 38-year-old Isaac Parrish, has been placed on desk duty while the case is investigated. There was no answer at his home early Monday after-noon. Godbee said Parrish is “very remorseful.”
Miller was celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday on Monday, said her mother, Yolanda McNair. She was invited to the Saturday night fi sh fry at Parrish’s home by friends who knew him, Mc-Nair said.
“Why do you need a gun at your own house? Why do you need a gun at your own party?” she asked. McNair said she would be watch-ing the police investigation closely.
Detroit police offi cers have the option of carrying
their weapons while off-duty. The model issued by the department has a safety mechanism built into the trigger.
The Smith & Wesson M&P primarily was de-signed for police and mili-tary use. It does not have a safety switch, but the trig-ger has to be pulled back completely for the gun to fi re, certifi ed fi rearms in-structor Rick Ector said.
Ector said that if prop-erly holstered, the gun can-not be fi red accidentally.
David Balash, a former Michigan State Police fi re-arms examiner, said the
investigation also should look at the gun’s angle giv-en that Miller was shot in the chest.
“What’s going to be very important here is the angle of the entry of the wound to the victim (and) if there is in fact any gunpowder residue,” Balash said. “I’m having a great deal of diffi -culty understanding how a weapon that’s pointed at the ground can be turned liter-ally 110 degrees minimum to be in an upward position to strike someone.”
But Godbee said Par-rish’s waist holster was made of a soft, neoprene-
type material, and it would be possible for the trigger to be pulled while the gun was in it. He also said the barrel direction typically would have been pointing down while holstered.
There still is “no justifi -cation” for her daughter’s death, said McNair, 44.
“She didn’t do anything wrong,” McNair said. “She told us she was going to a party.
“I should have been bak-ing my daughter her birth-day cake.”
The Wayne County med-ical examiner’s offi ce was to perform an autopsy.
Mom questions how woman shotBY COREY WILLIAMS
Associated Press
Associated Press
Eddie Miller looks on as Yolanda McNair as she holds a picture of their daughter, Adaisha Miller, on Monday in Detroit. When Adaisha Miller hugged an off-duty De-troit police officer from behind it caused his gun to go off, fatally shooting her in the chest, the police chief said Monday.
“What’s going to be very important here is the angle of the entry of the wound to the victim
(and) if there is in fact any gunpowder residue.”
David BalashFormer Michigan State Police firearms examiner
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broken out in Leader’s room preceded the blaze that ignited after 2:30 a.m.
Blankenship called it a coincidence and said Walker knew about the calls. Walker’s defense at-torneys say that evidence, and confl icting statements from the players, prove Walker innocent.
“They thought it was going to be funny to start that fi re, and they did,” Richard Null said. “It turned out not to be funny. It turned out to be tragic.
And that’s what the evi-dence will show.”
Richard Null, Dennis Null’s son, delivered the last leg of the defense’s closing, with Dennis Null delivering the bulk. They said that they plan to call expert witnesses who will prove their case.
The trial continues to-day in Marshall County with the commonwealth set to call its fi rst wit-ness at 9 a.m. Walker is charged with second-de-gree manslaughter, fi rst-degree arson, second-de-gree assault and 14 counts
of fi rst-degree wanton en-dangerment.
The state already charged seven students, several of whom were rugby play-ers, in 1999 in connection with the incident, but later dropped the charges be-fore charging Walker the fi rst time in 2001. The trial ended in a hung jury and a grand jury re-indicted him in September.
Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writ-er, at 270-575-8684 or follow @mallorypanuska on Twitter.
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clinic offi cially revealed its modern vision in a ceremo-ny Monday.
“It has been amazing to get phone call after phone call of people wanting to help out this project that we didn’t necessarily solicit,” said Brandi Harless, execu-tive director of the clinic. “I’m just very encouraged, to be honest, that people came behind this clinic and said ‘We want to help you.’”
Always keeping their clients foremost in their minds, Harless said the clinic’s renovations were designed to induce a com-
fortable, inviting atmo-sphere in all steps of the patient’s visit, while at the same time streamlining the work-fl ow process.
Renovations include new fl ooring, paint and artwork throughout the clinic; a remodeled waiting and re-ception area with new fur-niture and a donated televi-sion; and re-purposed vital signs and screening areas to allow for a more effi cient patient experience.
“People come here when they’re sick and if it’s a more uplifting environ-ment, fresher environment, cleaner environment, it’s going to help with the heal-
ing,” said Lennis Thomp-son, chairman of the clin-ic’s board of directors.
“This was a long time coming. When you’re try-ing to balance the money you have with taking care of your patients or painting a wall, you’re going to take care of your patients fi rst.”
St. Nicholas provides ur-gent and primary care to working individuals who are uninsured with house-hold incomes below 200 percent of the federal pov-erty level.
Call Will Pinkston, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.
WILL PINKSTON | The Sun
Brandi Harless (right), St. Nicholas Family Clinic executive director, discusses renova-tions to the clinic’s waiting area with Rayla Bridges (far left) and Lilia Rivera, during Monday’s reopening ceremony. Community businesses and volunteers helped remod-el the family clinic over the past month.
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An Egyptian military honor guard stands in formation at a graduation ceremony attended by President Mohammed Morsi and other political and military dignitaries July 9 at a military base east of Cairo. Egypt’s highest court insisted Monday that its ruling that led to the dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament was final and binding, setting up a showdown with the country’s newly elected president.
CAIRO — A new show-down loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country’s highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved par-liament last month, chal-lenging the new Islamist president’s plans to recon-vene the lower chamber in defi ance of the military.
If he goes ahead, Mo-hammed Morsi would be taking a dramatic step away from the outreach that characterized his fi rst days in offi ce. It’s a tough fi ght, though, and the pres-ident could lose it along with more of his already diminished powers.
The military, which handed power to Morsi on June 30 after ruling the country for 16 months, delivered a thinly-veiled warning to the president, saying it would continue to support the country’s “legitimacy, constitution and law” — language that means it will not stand by and watch the rulings of
the country’s top court ig-nored or breached.
At the same time, the Supreme Constitutional Court sent out a clear sig-nal that it will not bow to Morsi’s wish, saying in a statement after an emer-gency meeting on Monday that its June 14 ruling to invalidate the Islamist-dominated parliament was fi nal and binding.
“Morsi’s move sets the stage for a potentially very serious political and con-stitutional crisis,” said Mi-chael W. Hanna, an expert on Egypt from the New York-based Century Foun-dation.
Morsi, through his spokesman Yasser Ali, in-sisted his decision to recon-vene the 508-seat chamber on Tuesday was an “asser-tion of the popular will.”
His presidential decree also calls for new parlia-mentary elections after a new constitution is adopt-ed, something that is not expected before the end of the year — in effect accord-
ing legitimacy to a legisla-ture the country’s highest court ruled to be invalid.
In its ruling last month, the supreme court deter-mined that a third of par-liament’s members were illegally elected under a law that allowed candi-dates from political parties to compete for seats that had been set aside for in-dependents. Based on that verdict, the then-ruling military disbanded the house, in which Islamists controlled more than 70 percent of the seats.
In the days that fol-lowed, the generals pushed through a series of decrees that gave themselves leg-islative powers, as well as control over the drafting of a new constitution and the national budget. It also stripped Morsi of signifi -cant presidential powers.
The high court was to rule Tuesday — the same day parliament was set to reconvene — on three cas-es questioning the legality of the president’s order.
New crisis looms in EgyptBY HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — In-ternational envoy Kofi An-nan tried to breathe new life Monday into his mori-bund peace efforts in Syria, saying he has reached a new framework with Presi-dent Bashar Assad and would discuss it soon with rebel leaders. Opposition activists raised the death toll in the confl ict to more than 17,000.
Annan, the architect of the primary interna-tional plan to end Syria’s 16-month-old crisis, ar-rived in Iran late Monday for talks with leaders there. With the violence in Syria growing increasingly cha-
otic and diplomatic efforts faltering, Annan has said Iran, a staunch Syrian ally, must be a part of a solution to the confl ict.
“We agreed on an ap-proach which I will share with the armed opposi-tion,” Annan told reporters following a two-hour meet-ing with Assad which he described as “candid and constructive” Monday.
“I also stressed the impor-tance of moving ahead with a political dialogue which the president accepts,” he said. Annan did not disclose details of the framework he reached with Assad.
Annan’s efforts to bro-ker an end to the Syrian confl ict as the U.N.-Arab League envoy have unrav-
eled as the uprising that be-gan with peaceful protests in March 2011 has spiraled toward civil war.
The Britain-based Syr-ian Observatory for Hu-man Rights said Monday that 17,129 people had killed since March 2011 are 11,897 civilians, 4,348 soldiers and 884 military defectors.
The group has a network of activists on the ground who document deaths and rights violations through eyewitness, accounts, hos-pitals and video footage. Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, says 14,841 civilians and fi ghters have been killed. The LCC does not report Syrian military deaths.
Agreement reached with AssadBY ALBERT AJI AND
ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press
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paducahsun.com Obituaries The Paducah Sun • Tuesday, July 10, 2012 • 9A
PHOENIX — Timothy L. Estes, 52, of Phoenix, Ariz., (formerly of Paducah, Ky.),
p a s s e d a w a y July 3, 2 0 1 2 . Tim was a vet-eran of the U.S. M a r i n e Corps.
A lov-ing hus-b a n d
and adoring father, he leaves behind his wife, Teresa (Miszuk) Estes; his daughter, Tia L. Es-tes, and his stepson, Evan M. Harbst, all of Phoenix. He is also survived by two
brothers, Tony L. Estes (wife Lana) of Paducah, Ky., and Terry L. Estes (wife Rosalind) of Nash-ville, Tenn.; a niece, April E. Estes of Bowling Green, Ky.; his father-in-law, Mi-chael Miszuk of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and his mother-in-law, Valerie Merritt (husband Chuck).
His parents were Russell and Jo Ann (Decker) Estes of Paducah, Ky.
A private interment is planned.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to the Ameri-can Heart Association, the American Diabetes As-sociation or the Salvation Army.
Lupe Delores Mendez, 88, of Paducah passed away at 3:16 p.m. Sunday, July 8, 2012, at Lourdes hospital in Paducah.
She was born on Febru-ary 27, 1924, in Denver, Colo., to her parents, John and Lola Silvia Mendez.
She was a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Paducah.
She is survived by her
dear friends and caregivers, Sheila Mansfi eld of Kevil, Ky., and Virginia Blythe of Paducah.
There will be no public services. Milner and Orr Funeral Homes of Paducah is in charge of arrange-ments.
You may leave a message of sympathy or light a me-morial candle at www.mil-nerandorr.com.
Mildred Byassee Shelton, 91, died Sunday morning at Lourdes hospital.
She was born in Akron, Ohio, August 17, 1920, and moved to Columbus, Ky., at an early age. She gradu-ated from Columbus High School in 1937. Mildred moved to Paducah early in 1940 and worked at various places including Citizens Bank, Petter Supply and was secretary at Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church. Later, she worked at National Cash Register in Paducah and Hopkins-ville.
A member of Fountain Avenue Church, she also was a past Regent of the Paducah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She is survived by two stepdaughters, Peggy (Tom) Prather of Louisville and Sally (Barry) Crowe of
Paducah; three stepgrand-children; a brother, Lewis (Shirley) Byassee of Union City, Tenn.; a sister, Mar-garet (John) Robertson of Paducah; three nephews and three nieces.
Mrs. Shelton was pre-ceded in death by her hus-bands, Cecil Shannon and John Shelton; and a broth-er, Edwin Byassee. Her parents were Dewey Sam Byassee and Sallie Penne-baker Byassee.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah with the Rev. Dan Leslie offi ciating. Burial will follow in Co-lumbus Cemetery. Visita-tion will be held after 1 p.m. Wednesday until service time.
You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy and light a candle at www.milneran-dorr.com.
Timothy Estes
Lupe Delores Mendez
Mildred Byassee Shelton
MARION — David Lee Doyle, 69, of Marion passed away Thursday, June 28th,
2012, at his home.
He was a mem-ber of Masonic L o d g e # 1 0 7 4 , S c o t -tish Rite V a l l e y ,
32nd de-gree Shri-
ner and retired from local #597, all of Chicago, Ill.
He is survived by his wife, Pat Doyle of Marion; one son, David Doyle and his wife, Charlene; one daugh-ter, Lisa Doyle and friend,
Joe McCraw; two sisters, Martha Fay Cooper and Patricia Thearp, and her husband, Gene; one broth-er, Kenneth Doyle and his wife, Kim; three grandsons, Dylan, Dawson, Devin Doyle and many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Doyle was preceded in death by his parents, Curtis David and Bessie Lee Doyle of Bolivar, Tenn.; a brother-in-law, Joe Coo-per; a nephew, Mike Doyle and Mike’s daughter, Noel.
Funeral services were Monday, July 2, 2012 , at 10 a.m. in the chapel of Boyd Funeral Directors with the Rev. Danny Starrick offi ci-ating. Burial followed in the Doyle Family Cemetery.
Pauletta Lynch Maupin, 67, of Bowling Green, for-merly of Paducah, went to
H e a v e n July 8, 2012.
S h e was a h o m e -m a k e r a n d l o v i n g mother.
She is s u r v i v e d by her lov-
ing husband of 48 years, David Truman Maupin of Bowling Green; her daugh-ter, Tammy Maupin Webb and husband, Jeffery of West Columbia, S.C.; her son, David Truman Mau-
pin Jr. and wife, Jenni-fer of Bowling Green; and her loving brother, Buddy Lynch and wife, Jamie of Branson, Mo.; several grandchildren, neices and nephews.
Visitation will be at Cone Funeral Home in Bowling Green after 4 p.m. Tues-day, July 10, 2012, and at Lindsey Funeral Home in Paducah after 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 12, 2012, at Lindsey Funeral Home in Paducah. En-tombment will be at Wood-lawn Memorial Gardens in Lone Oak, Ky. All services are entrusted to Cone Fu-neral Home.
METROPOLIS, Ill. — Theodore (Chip) R. Grif-fi n III, 58, of Metropolis
p a s s e d a w a y Saturday at his residence after a l e n g t h y illness.
He was a native of Biloxi,
M i s s . , and was
a graduate of Paducah Til-
ghman High School. He attended Paducah Junior College and worked as a salesman for Cagle and Wilson Business Supplies. Mr. Griffi n loved bluegrass music and was an accom-plished banjo player.
He is survived by his par-ents, Jr. and Gloria Crane Griffi n of Paducah; one son, Graham Griffi n of Paducah; and one sister, Mrs. Randy Cvengros of Lexington.
There will be no services, Keeling Family Funeral in charge of arrangements.
David Lee Doyle
Pauletta Lynch Maupin
Theodore R. Griffin III
VIENNA, Ill. — Charles F. Lanfear, 90, of Vienna died at 12:05 p.m. Mon-day at his home.
Arrangements were in-complete at Bailey Funer-al Home in Vienna.
CALVERT CITY — Randy Shane Peek, 35, of Calvert City died Saturday at his
residence in Ben-ton.
He at-t e n d e d the Four R i v e r s Church in Paducah.
He was preceded
in death by his
parents, Randall Peek and Nancy June Watkins Peek., and his grandparents, Ra-mey and Thelma Peek, and Kenneth and Lois Walker.
He is survived by one sis-ter, Angie Hockstatter of Calvert City; two nephews, Austin Hockstatter of Cal-vert City and Reece York of Paducah; and one niece, Breanna York of Paducah.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Collier Funeral Home with Mark Shumaker and Ross Howard offi ciat-ing. Interment will follow at Dees Cemetery in Calvert City.
MARION — Don Tin-sley, 81, of Marion died Monday at West Ken-tucky Veterans Center in Hanson.
He was a retired su-perintendent of Marion water, sewer and mainte-nance, and was a Korean War Army veteran.
He is survived by his wife, Wanda Tinsley; two sons, Jeff Tinsley and B.J. Tinsley, both of Marion; a daughter, Debra Tinsley of Marion; a sister, Ilene Jones of Marion; and sev-eral nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a son, Donald Keith Tinsley. His parents were Charlie and Maggie Hooten Tinsley.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today at Whites Chapel Cemetery. Myers Funeral Home in Marion is handling ar-rangements.
Expressions of sympa-thy may be made to the Whites Chapel Cemetery Fund, c/o Patsy Payne, 3770 U.S. 60 West, Mar-ion, KY 42064.
CADIZ — Jenny Walker Choate, 23, of Cadiz died Sunday at her residence.
She was a member of Del-mont Baptist Church and was a homemaker.
She is survived by her husband, John Choate; her father, Brett Allen Walker of Eldorado, Ill.; three daugh-ters, Autumn Choate, Audrey Choate and Adelei Choate, all of Cadiz; two sisters, Christy Smith of Cadiz and Chasity Waggoner of Paducah.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Ruth Bonneville Walker.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Goodwin Funeral Home in Cadiz with the Rev. Albert Clardy offi ciating. Burial will follow in John Frye Stewart Cemetery in Trigg County. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
MURRAY — Freddie Lynn Brown, 61, of Wil-liston, Fla., formerly of Murray, died at 12:15 p.m. Saturday at Tri-County Hospital in Williston.
Arrangements were in-complete at Blalock-Cole-man and York Funeral Home.
PRINCETON — James Adams, 58, of Princeton died Saturday at his home.
He is survived by three sons, Jeremie Adams and Michael Adams, both of Princeton, and Austin Dukes of Greenville; one daughter, Amy Nicole Kelly of Lexington; four brothers, Lonnie Adams, Don Adams, Donald Adams and Richard Adams, all of Princeton; six sisters, Joann Litch-fi eld, Shirley Holmes and Jeannette Waynick, all of Princeton, Mary Wilder of Clarksville, Tenn., Virginia Larkins of Lyon County and Maria White of Bowling Green; one granddaugh-ter; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by one brother. His parents were Lawrence Ray Ad-ams and Jennie Katherine Teague Adams.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Morgan’s Fu-neral Home with the Rev. Dewayne Burden offi ciat-ing. Burial will follow at Ce-dar Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Charles Lanfear
Randy PeekDon Tinsley
Jenny Choate
Freddie Brown
James Adams
MAYFIELD — Duane Honeywell, 74, of May-fi eld died at 9 a.m. Mon-day at Heritage Manor Nursing Home.
He was of the Baptist faith and was a retired machinist.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Honeywell; three brothers, Darwin and Vincent Honeywell, both of Brooklyn, Mich., and Darrel Honeywell of Tennessee.
He was preceded in death by one brother. His parents were Jack and Lu-ella Uden Honeywell.
Private family services will be held later. Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld is in charge of arrange-ments.
PRINCETON — James Harold “Jim” Blackburn, 96, of Princeton died Sun-day at Caldwell Medical Center.
He was a retired fertilizer plant worker and member of Southside Baptist Church in Princeton.
He is survived by his wife, Rachel Nichols Blackburn; two daughters, Sue Felker of Lake Station, Ind., and Linda Prowell of Fredonia; two stepsons, Charles Wy-att of Marion and Dwain Wyatt of Princeton; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one son, three brothers and one sister. His parents were Kell Blackburn and Mary Morgan Blackburn.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Morgan’s Funeral Home with buri-al in Fredonia Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the fu-neral home.
GRAND RIVERS — Shirley Holmes, 71, of Grand Rivers died at 12:10 p.m. Monday at her home.
Arrangements were in-complete at Filbeck-Cann and King Funeral Home and Crematory in Benton.
SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. — George “York” Conner, 81, of South Fulton died Tuesday at Haws Memorial Nursing Home.
He worked for many years at the coal yard in Fulton, at Park Terrace Restaurant and the Lean-To Restau-rant in South Fulton.
He is survived by three uncles, Major Martin, Hor-ace Martin and Lon Mar-tin, all of South Fulton; one aunt, Vivian Hubbard of Martin; two stepsisters, Patricia Kerney and Clara Alexander, both of Fulton; one cousin, Harold Conner of Martin; and several other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Lonnie B. Daniels. His parents were Allie V. James and Claudis Conner.
Services will be at noon Wednesday at Rawls Fu-neral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Olds offi -ciating. Interment will fol-low in Greenlea Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the fu-neral home.
MURRAY — Gary “Kevin” Lamb, 52, of Murray died Monday at Murray-Callo-way County Hospital.
He was the owner and op-erator of B&L Automotive and was a 1977 graduate of Calloway County High School. He was a member of Coldwater Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Tammy Lamb; his mother, Norma Sims Vi-niard of Murray; his step-father, Harold of Murray; two daughters, Emily Lamb and Nikki Cossey, both of Murray; a son, Justin Lamb of Murray; two brothers, Bruce Lamb of Murray and Kerry Lamb of Lawrence-burg; and two grandchil-dren.
He was preceded in death by his father, Earl E. Lamb.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with Bob Hargrove and Ronnie Gib-son offi ciating. Burial will be in Farmington Ceme-tery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Wednesday at the fu-neral home.
Expressions of sympathy may go to Murray-Calloway County Parks, c/o Kevin Lamb Memorial, 900 Payne St., Murray, KY 42071.
Helen Sue Keeling, 68, of Paducah died Saturday at Western Baptist Hospital.
She was a member of Clem-ents Street Church of Christ.
Surviving are four daugh-ters, Drema Robertson, Deb-bie Keeling, Paula Vanway and Ruth Ann Robertson, all of Paducah; 10 grandchil-dren; and 12 great-grandchil-dren.
She was preceded in death by one grandson. Her parents were James Morgan Holmes and Nellie Ruth Holmes Dar-nell.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Liberty Cemetery in Graves County with Bill Amos offi ciating. Lindsey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Duane Honeywell
James Blackburn
Shirley Holmes George Conner
Gary Lamb
Helen Sue Keeling
Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.
Peek
Estes Griffin
Maupin
Doyle
NEW YORK — Two-time Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, who designed hundreds of cos-tumes for stars such as Sutton Foster and Patti Lu-Pone, has died, his agent said Monday. He was 58.
Pakledinaz died Sun-day at his home in New York after a long battle with cancer, according to Patrick Herold, his agent.
Pakledinaz received Tonys for his designs for “Kiss Me Kate” in 2000 — with Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell — and “Thoroughly Mod-ern Millie,” two years later with Foster, whom he also dressed for her Tony-winning turn in “Anything Goes.”
“My characters were defi ned from the fabric, the seams, the details of his work, his eye. I feel honored to know him, to love him, to call him a friend and collaborator and to be graced by his talent,” Foster said in a statement.
Pakledinaz’s additional Tony nominations in-clude his work on “Any-thing Goes,” ‘‘Lend Me A Tenor,” ‘‘Blithe Spirit,” ‘‘Gypsy,” ‘‘The Pajama Game,” ‘‘Golden Child” and “The Life.” He most recently nabbed a nomi-nation for this season’s “Nice Work If You Can Get It.”
He also designed costumes for the San Francisco Bal-let, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Metropolitan Op-era’s “Iphigenie en Tauride,” the 2011 Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular and the fi lm “My Week With Marilyn.”
Other highlights include costuming Natasha Richard-son and Liam Neeson in Eu-gene O’Neill’s “Anna Chris-tie” in 1993, “Grease” with Laura Osnes, “The Golden Ticket” at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Kevin Kline as Hamlet in 1990.
LuPone, who starred in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, recalled that Pak-ledinaz would turn up with medals he’d found in fl ea markets and attach them to the coat she appeared in dur-ing the fi rst act.
Those medals, she said, are treasured mementos. “I am grateful for my brief but deep experience with Marty. He’s gone from our world too soon. Broadway is less talent-ed,” she said in a statement.
Pakledinaz grew up in Sterling Heights, Mich., and graduated from Wayne State University in 1975.
Pakledinaz remembered for Tony-winning designs
Associated Press “He’s gone from our world too
soon. Broadway is less talented.”
Patti LuPoneActress
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