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TODAY, MON, Feb. 12, 2007: Red Hand Day

Click Read More for news and links including today's weather, Adair County Schools, court news, this day in history, traffic and driving, and much more.
Events in brief for 43rd day of 2007 (322 days remaining)
Remember to check Events for details, check with organizations for changes, cancellations
  • Adair County Library Board meets at noon.
  • CU has a colloquium at 4pm ET
  • Country Quilters meet at 6pm CT
  • The Rotary Club will have presentation on organ donations this evening at 6pm CT.
Today & Events are brought to you by HUDDLE HOUSE, near Big Lots, Campbellsville, KY. Your headquarters for Superbowl Parties Huddle 2Go Platters. (ADVERTISEMENT)


At the Columbian Theater:
Dreamgirls. PG-13. Nightly at 6:00pm CT; Sunday at 2:00pm CT only.

The Holiday. PG-13. Nightly at 8:15pm CT; Sunday at 4:15pm CT only.

Call 270-384-5555 to confirm, or for more information at the Columbian Theater.

Wolf Creek Dam
When Ed Pipalski wrote that Adair County has no flood insurance, and that something ought to be done about it, he was on-trend, especially with communities downstream from Wolf Creek Dam. A story in a recent Nashville Tennessee tells of people who just hadn't thought of buying the insurance, but have it available. In Adair County, it simply isn't available. But might be, if the correct local action is taken. To read the Tennessean story, Click Here

Nashville Corps of Engineers dam news. To keep up with the official Nashville Army Corps of Engineers news on Lake Cumberland, Click Here. The long promised webcam is not yet functional and no longer appears as being in the offing. The Adair County Library is not yet listed among the 23 places--19 in Tennessee and 4 in Kentucky--to see flood inundation maps

LINKS: State, regional, national news: Lexington Herald-News; Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY; and Google News for latest national and international news.

Behind on reading the Today summaries? Click Here for Today yesterday

Court:
On Monday, February 12, 2007, there are 85 cases scheduled for Adair District Court; no cases in Adair Circuit Court. Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website

Adair County School District Menus:
(Main items to be posted later) Juice/Fruit. Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. Some items contain peanuts. LUNCH: (Main menu items to be posted later) Choice of Low Fat Milk. Fruit and juice offered daily with lunch. Salads are available daily.Click here for the comprehensive Adair County Schools website. Link for school meals (as well as the school calendar and other nifty stuff) is in site menu.

Adv: Visit HUDDLE HOUSE, across KY 210 from Wal-Mart, near Big Lots, Campbellsville, KY. For office parties, tailgating, game day parties, call Huddle House at 270-789-002 and let us prepare your party platter. Great food. Breakfasts are served 24/7, along with the mouth-watering lunch and dinner entrees. Eat with home folks. You never know who you'll run into from Adair County at the HUDDLE HOUSE. Gaylon & Phyllis Yarberry, owners


On this date, February 12:
With facts mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  • EVENTS:In 1771, Gustav II becomes King of Sweden after his father "eats himself to death." In 1870, women gain the right to vote in Utah. In 1914, the first stone of the Washington, DC, memorial to Kentuckian Abraham Lincoln is put into place. In 1924, before WAIN or WHVE was in existence, President Calvin Coolidge made the first political radio broadcast. In 1999, the sad attempt to impeach President Bill Clinton ended.
  • BIRTHS: In 1809 Charles Darwin. In 1809, Kentuckian Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. (But not the Lincoln for which Lincoln County, KY was named; Lincoln County, KY was named not for the president or the car, but for Benjamin Lincoln.) In 1880, in Lucas, IA, John L. Lewis, the mine workers union leader who was a major influence on the economy of eastern Kentucky.
  • DEATHS: In 1789, Ethan Allen, American patriot. In 1976, Sal Mineo, who appeared on screen at the Columbian Theater in Rebel Without a Cause
  • OBSERVANCES:Lincoln's birthday. Darwin Day. Importantly, it is Red Hand Day, which commemorates the plight of children forced to serve as soldiers.
Click Here to access other facts from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia including lists of events, births, deaths, holidays, and other facts about this day.

Weather:
The National Weather Service outlook for Monday, February 12, 2007:

Today:Rain likely, mainly after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 49. South wind at 7 mph becoming east. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight: Periods of rain, mainly after 5am. Low around 41. Light wind becoming southeast between 11 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Click Here for National Weather Service page for Columbia, KY, with lots of interesting interactive features, including radar and satellite images of planet earth, America, and Adair County, KY

Traffic and Driving:
Hazardous Driving Conditions from NOAA: Click Here NO ACTIVE HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS FOUND FOR OUR AREA TODAY.

State Highway Maintenance: Not yet updated.High detail Adair Co. Map: Click Here

What's next?: To learn more about major Kentucky Transportation Cabinet projects, Click Here for KTC Six-Year Plan map and links to details.

Snow and Ice Routes: Click here for Kentucky State Department of Highways map of priority snow routes on State maintained roads in Adair County 2006-2007.

2007 Kentucky Primary Candidates
The list is complete now for the May 22, 2007 primary election. Click Here to read all registrations for statewide and multicounty races, including: Governor/Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts, State Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Circuit Judges, and District Judges. To check the Election Calendar at Secretary of State Trey Grayson's site, Click Here

Click here or in Quick Links to check Today's Updates for: Anniversaries, Birthdays, Classifieds, Chamber Insights, Court Docket, Directory of Churches, Events, Letters, Lindsey Wilson College News, ShowMe Adair County Businesses. Events, Letters, Lindsey Wilson College News, ShowMe Adair County Businesses. ColumbiaMagazine.com is updated continuously, 24/7.

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TODAY, MON., Feb. 5, 2007: Dangerously cold out this morning

TODAY, SUN., Feb. 4, 2007: More snow overnight!

TODAY, Fri., Feb. 2, 2007: SNOW. No AC school

TODAY, Mon. Jan. 29, 2007: Heavy court day

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