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TODAY, Friday, Feb. 16, 2007: Welcome, Gov. Ernie Fletcher!

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 47th day of 2007 (318 days remaining)
Remember to check Events for details, check with organizations for changes, cancellations
  • Ann is asking Adair Countians to give Governor Ernie Fletcher an enthusiastic Adair County Welcome when he visits Columbia today at 1:00pm. The event will be in the Adair Annex basement.
  • Governor Fletcher will be at Campbellsville University at 3pmCT/4pmET at Gheens Recital Hall to be the first participant in the Kentucky Heartland Insititute on Public Policy (KHIPP) gubernatorial candidate forum
  • A Dinner Theater event is scheduled tonight at Campbellsville University at 6pmCT/7pmCT
  • A new movie, Ghostrider, starts tonight at the Columbian.
  • Cultural events at Lindsey: Ongoing art exhibit at Begley Art Gallery.
Today & Events are brought to you by HUDDLE HOUSE, near Big Lots, Campbellsville, KY. Your headquarters for Huddle 2Go Platters. (ADVERTISEMENT)


At the Columbian Theater:
Ghostrider PG-13 Nightly at 6:00pm CT and 8:15pm CT and on Sunday at 2:00pmCT and 4:15pmCT only.
Call 270-384-5555 to confirm, or for more information at the Columbian Theater.

Sports Briefs
In yesterday's Lindsey Wilson College vs. Campbellsville University basketball games, LWC women won 69-66 to continue to dominate the Mid-South Conference, while the Campbellsville University Men won 75-53. To read the complete stories at the LWC website, with stats and pictures, Click Here

High School Ratings Adair County High School Girls are 3rd in the 5th Region, the Boys Team is 8th, in the Lexington Herald, David Cantrell Rating the State. To check all the standings, Click Here

Time to make plans to attend the induction of David Smith, Columbia, KY, golfer and and basketball players, Jesse Flynn and Jimmy Wentworth into the Lindsey Wilson Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at Cranmer Dining Center.

Wolf Creek Dam
If you didn't see our story on the front page, it will be reassuring to know that the State's Wolf Creek Dam program is in good hands. Adair Countian Hilda Legg, has been appointed Governor Fletcher's liason to communities affected by the very serious situation the Wolf Creek Dam rehabilitation.

The Corps of Engineers will hold the next meeting on the situation at Wolf Creek Dam at The Center for Rural Development on Saturday, February 22, 2007, starting at 4:30pm CT/5:30ET.

To see a slide show of conditions, "Wolf Creek Dam, Major Rehabilitation" Click Here

Nashville Corps of Engineers dam news. ("Notice: Due to a planned power outage in the Nashville Federal Building, this website will be down as well as e-mail servers and telephones in the District Office beginning at 5:30 pm Friday, Feb. 16, 2007. Normal operations should resume late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, Feb. 20, 2007" -Quoted from the official site) 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 Friday, February 16, 2007. There are two cases in Adair Circuit Court, none in Adair District Court, according to the Kentucky Court of Justice website. Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website

Adair County School District Menus:
Friday, February 16, 2007: BREAKFAST, Bacon and Cheese Biscuit. Juice/Fruit. Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. Some items contain peanuts. LUNCH: Cheeseburger on Bun or Fish Filet on Bun. Lettuce/Tarter Sauce. Tator Tots. Coleslaw. Sherbet. 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. Special note to parents: To access the schools' "Testing Tips" Click Here

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 16:
With facts mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  • EVENTS:In 1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company, the precursor of the car company, was established in South Bend, IN. In 1929, Howard Carter unsealed the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. In 1945, American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines and the same day, the First American Aircraft struck on Tokyo. In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba. In 1968, the first 911 emergency telephone service went into service.
  • BIRTHS: In 1903, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.
  • DEATHS: Westerns funnyman Lester Alvin (Smiley) Burnette, in 1967.
  • OBSERVANCES: A day for Greens: Kyoto Protocol Day (2005). To honor the United Nations treaty on climate change. Assigned mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases to signatory civilized nations. Not observed by "My (he who "owns" it all, he thinks, he says) gummut," but is endorsed by some individual states (not including Kentucky) and several U.S. Cities.
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 Friday, February 16, 2007:

Today:Mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Wind chill values as low as 4. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south.

Tonight: A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly after 2am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 21. Wind chill values as low as 10. South wind between 7 and 14 mph. .


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 Weather Outlook. Special Weather Statement. (NOAA): Click Here Special Weather Statement

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

What's next?: The 5.3 mile Western Bypass around Columbia may be let as early as March 22, 2007, Curtis Hardwick says. The final property hearing on the project is scheduled for February 24, 2007, he says. To see the latest details, Click Here 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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Wecome! Governor Ernie Fletcher at CU at 3:00pm CT



2007-02-16 .
Governor Fletcher is the first gubernatorial candidate to accept an invitation to speak at the series of Gubernatorial Candidate Forums sponsored by Campbellsville University's Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy and Team Taylor County. The stop in Campbellsville follows an address to a packed, standing room only crowd estimated at 150 people at the Adair Annex at 1:00pm

The forum will be held later this afternoon, Friday, February 16, 2007 3pm CT/4pm ET, at the Gheens Recital Hall on the Campbellsville University campus. The public is invited to attend. Call (270)789-5520, or email jechowning@campbellsville.edu, for further information.

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TODAY, SUN, Feb. 11, 2007: Movie on Esther at New Life

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TODAY, FRI., Feb. 9, 2007: ACH Cheerleaders Soup Supper 5-7pm

TODAY, THUR., Feb. 8, 2007: Secret is out on Cranmer

TODAY, WED., Feb. 7, 2007: Enterprise ribbon cutting at 11am

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

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

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