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August 16, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared as "Columbia Developments" in the August 16, 1977 issue of the Adair County News. Topics included local pepper production, the state of shopping center development in the 7-county area, a note-burning at Columbia Christian Church, Audrey Waggener's cooking, a best-ever watermelon, and a proposal to market 'Grown in Adair County' produce at local restaurants and stores. --Pen By Ed Waggener Adair first in something Adair County has always been first in the alphabet. Now, A. L. Sinclair, of Tri-County Receiving station, says that the county may also be first in production of bell pepper. Sinclair and Larry Snell, the co-op manager, are checking the records to see if this isn't so. Whether it is or not, the pepper crop ought to be getting more recognition in Columbia than it is. Believe it or not, some of the restaurants don't have green pepper on their menus, in stuffed pepper, pizza, western omelets, or even in salads. What a shame! It will probably be up to Christine, the hometown of Tri-County receiving station, to put on the show for pepper. About those shopping centers The talk about a new shopping center for Columbia has become more cautious in the past few months, but it is more widespread than ever. The reason for the caution, it seems, is that two prior proposed centers never got underway. Developer Don Hillock dropped his plans for one at the corner of Burkesville and Hudson Streets shortly after he started some six years ago. The plan got much further along with developer Phil Polston and his Mark Twain Heritage Mall. Polston has since sold his property to Columbian Kermit Grider, and Grider is going ahead with the project, although he is wary of publicity before he has firm commitments and firm construction dates ready to announce. Now enters Columbia Development Corporation, a blue chip group of local businessmen who incorporated this past week to, among other thing, develop the property of Sine Turner on Jamestown Street. The land has been optioned. It's some eight acres which has been long coveted by developers. The incorporator of Columbia Development Corporation, according to the Secretary of State's office, is James Brock. The directors are James Brock, Clifton McGaha, and Gaylon Yarberry. A list of stockholders, believed to include some major money, has not been made public. Going up all around Of the neighboring towns, only Greensburg and Burkesville don't have major shopping centers underway. In Russell Springs, Paul Branscum is expanding his Key Market Village to make room for a big S-Mart store, and the Bernards are developing land on the 127-Bypass, with two local stores, Andrew's and Bennett's Carpets, already there. At Edmonton a local group of developers is attempting to develop 10 acres "on the Glasgow Road. The site has been prepared, but so far there is little construction. At Liberty, two fair sized shopping centers are underway, both on Highway 127. One is well underway, on 127 North, and will contain a Superior Food Store and S Mart. The other, on US 127 South, is just now getting the site filled in. Steve Hill, a transplanted Columbian at Liberty, is moving his Hill's Pharmacy to one of the centers. He now operates the store on North 127. Hill is The son of Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Hill. Campbellsville has a new center underway on Highway 208. It's called Elmhurst and is the brainchild of developer Lowell Caulk, owner of Trabue Apartments in Columbia. Presently under construction, to be ready for fall opening, is a 26,000 sq ft. Kroger superstore. Caulk said in Columbia Sunday that a 41,000 sq. ft. K Mart will follow. In all, he anticipates Elmhurst to grow to over 120,000 sq. ft. Caulk says, that the planned new headquarters for First Federal Savings & Loan will be on nearby property. Note-burning at Christian Church When the Columbia Christian Church held a note burning for its $192,000 mortgage on the "new" sanctuary, the event posed a new question: What next for the dynamic congregation? The church, under the leadership of Pastor Raymond Martin, has, developed a reputation as a can-do organization. Whatever the next project is, it is sure to be a success. They do things that way at Columbia Christian. Best I ever ate I can't recall the number of dinners where my father told my mother that a roast was "the best I've ever eaten." If not that, he would say that the biscuits "would take a premium at the fair." (They would have, too.) So I'm kind of used to passing out superlatives. But one I'm sincere in is that a 69c watermelon I bought from Brad Graham was the best I've ever eaten. But you know what else? It was grown right here in Adair County, Kentucky! Not Knox County, Indiana. Not Georgia. Not Texas. Not Mississippi or Florida. And it wasn't even hauled in from Swan Pond Bottom in Russell County. The locally grown cantaloupes have been superior, this year, too. Take a look around at the garden crops Adair County is producing this year. Besides being plentiful, there is a distinctly better taste. One gardener said that he had earned $1.50 per hill on his early tomatoes. Another prominent farmer, the outspoken Grover Gilpin, a big booster of dairying, says that he believes that on the right place near Columbia, a truck gardener properly managing 25 acres might net more than a dairy and tobacco farmer on a 200-acre farm. It wouldn't be easy, he says. The soil would have to be good and reasonably level, and there just isn't an awful lot of reasonably level land in Adair. But Gilpin's statements do reinforce what Agricultural Agent Wayne Livesay has been telling us for a long-time: Horticulture crops are going to be the next big development in Adair County agriculture. Why not a seal? There is a saying, in Hezekiah 12:13, I believe, that he that 'tooteth not his own horn; the same shall not be tooted.' It would seem that Adair County products, particularly those from the farmers, would be promoted better if they had some form of seal. Advertising the special qualities of pineapples from Hawaii, potatoes, from Idaho, apples from Michigan and Washington state, and Georgia peaches has led to increased public awareness and acceptance of these products. Perhaps the Adair County Ag Council Could come up with something, but for a starter, the stores which sell Adair County produce and the restaurants which serve it might start by labeling the goods, "Grown in Adair County." Hometown pride would take over from there. 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