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TODAY, TUE, Feb. 20, 2007 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 51th day of 2007 (314 days remaining) Remember to check Events for details, check with organizations for changes, cancellations 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. What I Learned Yesterday It was a tough day on my ego. I learned I don't know beans. About beans. My mother-in-law, Geniece Marcum, is in Columbia doing some final edits on her book, a collection of wonderful columns she wrote in Metcalfe County, entitled "The Best of Senior Quest." Invoking the wonderful literary muses living in the Adair County spirit world, I guess. To keep Linda and me in good health, she cooks. The stuff is never quite suits here, but, to our judgment, nobody else around can measure up to the tastes she creates, whether it's a dish of turnips stewed the way J.D. Harper's cooks used to do, or baking thick crusted cornbread in an iron skillet, which requires, of course, gallons of buttermilk be on hand, for the cooking and for proper eating of cornbread. "Get some pintos," she instructed me, "if you can find any good looking ones." Who ever heard the like. Good looking beans. Beans is beans, whether they come from a plastic bag or a Luck's can. It was a comical quest, to me: finding beans that look good. At coffee, it was my opening gambit with two gentleman much more knowledgeable than me. "I'm on a mission," I told my betters. "My mother-in-law has sent me out to buy some beans that look good." It was a hilarious conceit, to me. But chuckles came not one.Instead, I got indulgent, suffer-your-ignorance smiles. "Haven't you ever heard of 'looking beans'?" Mayor Pat Bell asked. No, I had not. He then gently explained: Dried beans, whether bought in 50 pound cloth bags or in little plastic bags at the store, often have small stones or pebbles in them. People who know beans about beans knew to "look beans," to inspect them for tooth breakers before cooking them. Therefore, even today, a prudent consumer will eye pintos in the bag, roll them around, and inspect them before buying and taking them home to open and seriously "look beans." Bro. Lewis Haynes, pastor of Plumpoint Baptist gave me another pre-store warning, "Just don't buy any of those mixed beans." That sounded ecclesiastical to me, and I asked if eating mixed were an abomination listed in Deuteronomy: this proscription against mixing beans. I already knew better than to cook a calf in the milk of it's mother, and never did that, but this bean thing sounded like deeper theology. It wasn't. Just good sense, Pastor Haynes explained. "They just don't cook right when they're mixed." It was a humiliating session for me, proving, again, why Pat's a Mayor, Lewis is a respected retired minister and still an honored pastor, and why I'm neither. It brought to mind Mayor Bell's story that his mother, who raised a family of outstanding successes, would answer folks who asked about her boys: "Well, I reckon there's not a plum idiot among them," she'd say. Made me think that maybe my momma did have one plum idiot, and it wasn't my sisters or Arthur Lee or Ralph Roy, but the son who didn't know beans about beans. At the store, I bought several packages of dried beans--none mixed--and took them home. Mema fixed them. I had white beans, thick crusted cornbread baked in an iron skilled, and a quart and a half of buttermilk for dinner. It was a grand feast, a meal Woodrow I of Metcalfe County, a great eater, would have thought regal. With not a pebble, not an abominating pinto in any of the bowls I appreciatively et a day's worth, content then in my knowledge that now Momma could be proud that her middle boy is not a plum idiot, and at least knows not to go on snipe hunts and to look beans. --ED WAGGENER Sports Briefs Adair County Girls Basketball lost to Casey County 55-46, last night at ACHS. To see the stats on the ACHS Girls in the Lexington Herald, Click Here Adair County Boys Basketball plays next tonight February 20, 2007, in Columbia. To access the Lexington Herald's stats page on ACHS, Click Here. Wolf Creek Dam A story posted at 6:35 at WBKOConnected, Bowling Green, outlines problems facing Lake Cumberland area towns water systems and for the John Sherman Cooper power plant at Burnside if the Corps has to lower the water level more this summer. Click Here for the complete story. 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: Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 57 cases are scheduled in Adair Circuit Court. One case is scheduled today in Adair District Court.Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website Adair County School District Menus: Tuesday, February 20, 2007: BREAKFAST, Breakfast Pizza. Juice/Fruit. Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. Some items contain peanuts. LUNCH: Chicken Filet on Bun, lettuce, tomato, pickle. French Fries. Macaroni and Cheese, Apple Sticks. 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, with a nifty new look, 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 20: With facts mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Click Here to access other facts from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia including lists of events, births, deaths, holidays, and other facts about this day. Is winter about over? Meteorologically speaking, we have one week, one day of winter left: Wikipedia has this to say about when winter starts and ends: "Astronomically, it (winter) starts with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern Hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and September 21 in the Southern Hemisphere). "In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere and December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere. However, in Celtic countries such as Ireland the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter, the winter season beginning November 1 on All Hallows or Samhain. Winter ends and spring begins on Imbolc or Candlemas, which is February 1 or 2. This system of seasons is based on the length of days exclusively. The three-month period of the shortest days and weakest solar radiation occurs during November, December and January in the Northern Hemisphere (May-July in the Southern). "In reality, the three-month period associated with the coldest average temperatures typically begins somewhere in late November or early December in the Northern Hemisphere. If 'winter' is defined as the statistically coldest quarter of the year, then the astronomical definition is too late by almost all local climate standards, and the traditional English/Irish definition of November 1 (May 1 in the Southern Hemisphere) is almost always too early to fit this standard."Weather: The National Weather Service outlook for Tuesday, February 20, 2007: Today:Showers likely, then periods of showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. High near 56. South wind between 11 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9pm and midnight, then a chance of showers, mainly between midnight and 3am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 36. North wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. . 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: State Highway Maintenance:Tuesday, February 20, 2007: 1) Pot hole on KY 80W. 2) Cut brush on KY 206. 3)Cut brush on KY 206.Click Here For this year's Adair County rural secondary road improvements Click Here High detail Adair Co. Map: What's next?: 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. 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