Today, SAT., Mar. 24, 2007: Elvis at Depot; chili at Knifley

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Events in brief for 83rd day of 2007 (282 days remaining)

Remember to check Events for complete details, and check with organizations for changes, cancellations

• March 2007: All month. MS Month. Giles Society Membership Drive, Caveland Art Competition at Begley Chapel and it's also Severe Weather Preparedness Month
• High School Talent Showcase at Lindsey Wilson College.
• Chili Supper/Auction at 5pmCT at Knifley Fire Department benefits Cub Pack No. 12
• Revival continues tonight at Old Concord UMC.
• Tribute to Elvis at Dream Depot
• Movies: "Wild Hogs" at Columbian Theatre
• Eating: Huddle House, Campbellsville offers 24 hr dining. Also, check ColumbiaMagazine.com menus: Chilaquiles offers fax in and call in service. Catfish Plus is open for lunch today. Circle R (new phone number 384-1793). Access menus from side ads in ColumbiaMagazine.com.

Weather:
The National Weather Service outlook for Saturday, March 24, 2007:

Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming west between 6 and 9 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 54. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm.

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.


Court:
Next, Monday, March 26, 2007: There are 50 cases scheduled in Adair District Court. No cases scheduled in Adair Circuit Court. A hearing is scheduled in Adair Circuit Court at 9:00am CT on May 22, 2007, in the Commonwealth vs. Wellie Paul Grant murder and fleeing/evading police cases.Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website

Adair County School District Menus:
Monday, March 26, 2007. BREAKFAST: Cinnamon Toast. Applesauce. Juice/Fruit. Plus, Regular menu always includes: Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. Some items contain peanuts. LUNCH: Fish Fries or Chicken Strips. Creamed Potatoes. Green Beans. Homemade Roll. Apple. Plus, Regular menu always includes 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. See center column for School District News, must read tributes to Adair County High School Champion basketball team; great stories on Academic Team triumphs this year, and highlighted Upcoming Events, Spring Break, April 2-6, 2007; and Testing Dates, April 23 through May 4, 2007.

At the Columbian Theater:
Wild Hogs PG-13, Plays nightly at 6pm and on Sundays at 2pm only.

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

WHVE FM 92.7 Columbia radio online worldwide
Adair Countians around the planet can listen to hometown radio live from 92.7 FM, WHVE, The Wave, with streaming audio. Click Here to access from links on The Wave's ShowMe page at ColumbiaMagazine.com. Or, Click Here then click on the bouncing meter to access The Wave.

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

Sports Briefs
Adair County Boys Basketball Coach Mark Fudge's Indians made an impressive stand against No. 1 ranked, and tourney favorite, Scott County, after reaching the quarter finals for the first time in 52 years, in a game closer than the final score, 68-53, indicates. The last game for 2006-2007 still put the 5th Region Champions in an all time 3rd Place showing in State Tournament play for the school. Click Here to access State tournament brackets at the Lexington Herald.com. To see the latest stats at the Lexington Herald website, Click Here

Lindsey Athletics:

Baseball. University of the Cumberlands, Saturday March 24, and Sunday, March 25, 2007. The doubleheader games will start at 11:00am CT each day at Raider Field.To see game details, Click here.

Golf: The LWC women's golf team is in first place in the Campbellsvile University Spring Invite at Bardstown Country Club at Maywood. Freshman Krista Burton of Russell Springs leads the tournament with a first round 77.

Complete LWC schedules at Click Here and click on athletics

Lindsey Wilson Cycling: The next cycling event is The Green River Cross-Country Race, April 7, 2007, at Green River State Park. On April 8, a Short Track/Dual Slalom event is scheduled at LWC.

Campbellsville University Athletics: Click Here. for the latest in CU athletics

On this date, March 24:
With facts mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS: In 1989, Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound spilled 240,000 barrels of petroleum after running aground.
• BIRTHS: In 1874, Harry Houdini, escapologist (died Halloween 1926). .
• DEATHS:In 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," was a favorite of Adair County author Henry Giles, who loved to recite:

  By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  He would crack up laughing as he'd say "Gitche Gumee."

Click Here to access other facts from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia including lists of events, births, deaths, holidays, and other facts about this day.

Traffic and Driving:

Hazardous Weather Outlook from the NOAA, if any Click Here to read the hazardous weather postings at the NOAA website.

Adair County Road Department Work
To contact Adair County Road Department: Administrative Assistant Lisa Lee in Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton's office: (270) 384-4703.

Lane closures continue on the Louie B. Nunn:
Watch for lane closures at changing points on the Louie B. Nunn in Adair County.

If you haven't been out this week, it's worth a trip over Grider Hill Pass on the new stretch of KY 61. The traffic barrels are being moved to form an ever widening center lane; work on guard rails is almost complete. Extra caution is needed in wet weather, especially at night, because visibility on the new pavement is terrible, and in any weather, the turn-off to KY 80 is confusing to many drivers.

State Highway Maintenance:
(Not updated for today at ColumbiaMagazine.com)

High detail Adair Co. Map: Click Here

What's next?: The bid date for the Western Bypass around Columbia is now set for April 20, 2007.Kentucky's Six-Year Plan Project information map shows more orange, the color codes for construction projects awarded. Newest ones which are now orange are the paving contract for the Louie B. Nunn, awarded to Gaddie-Shamrock and bridge replacements on KY 80 over Russell Creek and on KY 92 over Cedar Creek, near Joppa. One may detect the yellow on the Western Bypass flickering toward orange, but that highly anticipated award is still highly anticipated but should change in a month to six weeks. 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.

Wolf Creek Dam
Weekly update was issued on Tuesday, March 20, 2007: Click here to read. The report showed Lake Cumberland Elevation at 682.14 feet. One page report. One photo.

To see schedule of public meetings, Click here. The next one is Tuesday, March 27, 2007, at Gainesboro, TN.

The one map showing Adair County flooding in the event of a Wolf Creek Dam failure is now available for inspection, with restrictions, at the Adair County Public Library.

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

To access the Army Corps of Engineers Wolf Creek Dam website online, Click Here

On March 20, 2007, the Corps last updated the weekly progress report.

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



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