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Women in leadership positions in Columbia/Adair County By Ralph Roy Waggener, publisher Just For A Smile News Years ago women were in charge of the home and usually had large families. My mother Audrey Chelf Waggener was one of these women who raised six of us. Now more women hold jobs and positions! There a lot of Adair families with 12 or more children in them I can recall the Jim Pyles family of 15 and the O.L. Rich family of 13 - again I think these numbers are close - may not be exact but you get the picture! Times have changed a lot; we hardly ever see large families anymore! Now we have Gale Cowan as Adair CJE, Pam Hoots as Mayor of Columbia, and Pam Stephens as Superintendent Adair County Schools. We also have Jennifer Corbin as Adair Co. Attorney! We have three women on Columbia's City Council - Linda Waggener, Sharon Payne and June Parson make up one half of the council. Ellen Zornes is The Chamber of Commerce Director and she followed long time director Sue Stivers. I don't know of any woman Magistrate even running, much less being one, there could have been but not in my memory! Ann Melton was a very good CJE and did a lot for Adair County when in office. I believe this is the first time both CJE and Mayor Position have been held by women! Many Businesses have women as the driving force. My wife Glinda Waggener was one half of the team that led South Central Printing and our daughter Lee Grider does the same with Trifecta Print and Design. Linda Waggener my sister-in-law runs ColumbiaMagazine.com and helped run Waggener Walker Newspapers for several years with her late husband Ed. Sharon Burton started writing for Ed and now runs a very successful Farmers Pride publication and added The Adair Community Voice; Donna Hancock who was a great salesperson at Waggener Walker started her newspaper, The Adair Progress, years ago and also runs a newspaper printing operation. Lewis Transport has Pam Scott as its Director, one of the biggest liquid transport trucking companies in all of Kentucky. Rogers trucking is headed by founder Tommy Rogers' daughter Lesha Breeding and her sisters and daughter. Restaurant's like Betty's OK Country Cooking founded 30 years ago by Betty Ollestad; McDonalds is owned and operated by Pam Hancock; Patty Edwards' Liberty Road General Store and Diner; My niece Mitzi Bault has run several businesses here in Columbia but now is retired and fighting cancer as hard as anyone ever did. Relay for Life was directed here by Peggy Lawson who has been a beautician here for years. First and Farmers Bank has Ann Martin as its President; Community Medical Services is directed by Stacey Hatcher Wilson that has grown as fast as any business here in Columbia, Stacey is one of those quiet people who go around helping others but you will not hear about her good work, she does it on the QT! I just thought of two greats - Martha Wethington and Ruth Richardson - who ran Ashland Oil and Lewis Transport for years. Hilda Legg, an Adair County native, has moved through the Republican ranks holding multiple positions, don't know all of them but she has made quite a name for herself! Our local prescription shops have Carolyn Hale, Janet Parrish and LaGene Sexton at Adair Drug and Shelia Bryant at Century Medicines. I'd bet Mike Watson and his cousin Jim will come up with a lot of women that held powerful positions back a few years ago like Mary Lucy Lowe who held some education post I think but not sure of, it would be of interest to know what these two will come up with in their history department mines, I just go from memory of mine whenever it works! I take the blame for so many great Adair County women that I have not mentioned, you see it is my memory not research that I write from and there just has to be a lot of great women I have left out so take my sincere apology now! - RRW This story was posted on 2019-03-03 20:17:38
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