Today, Mon., Mar. 26, 2007: CWC's award winner tonight!

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Events in brief for 85th day of 2007 (280 days remaining)

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

• A cheerleading camp starts at ACHS
• Colonel William Casey's fitness musical "Feelin' Good" will be presented this evening at 6:00pm, and will include a showing of the award winning CWC produced video, "Feelin' Good."
• 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 Monday, March 26, 2007:

Today: Isolated showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly cloudy, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming west between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%

Tonight: Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

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.

Behind on reading the Today summaries?
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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 Adair County High School Boys Basketball team was validated again last night when Scott County, the team they lost to, won the championship 56-50 over Ballard High School. Click Here to read that story in the Lexington Herald.

Lindsey Athletics:

Baseball. Lindsey swept a doubleheader with University of the Cumberlands, Saturday March 24, 2007, winning the first game 4-0 and the second 15-6. They play again today, Sunday, March 25, 2007. The doubleheader games will start at 11:00am CT each day at Raider Field. To read more, Click here.

Golf: The LWC women's golf team won Campbellsville University Spring Invite at Bardstown Country Club at Maywood. Freshman Krista Burton of Russell Springs led the the team and, along with all her teammates, was named to the all tournament team. Story, main section, ColumbiaMagazine.com and at lindsey.edu.

Softball: Lindsey Wilson split a pair with the University of the Cumberlands in a doubleheader at the Joe Johnson complex yesterday. In the first game, LWC lost narrowly, 6-7; in the second game, it was the reverse, with Lindsey on top 7-6. Click Here for more.

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.

Complete LWC schedules at Click Here and click on athletics

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

On this date, March 26:
With facts mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS: In 1953, Jonas Salk announced his polio vaccine. In 1982, ground was broken for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. A model of the memorial was built in Kentucky for the movie In Country filmed mostly near Mayfield, KY. The movie was based on Bobbie Ann Mason's book by the same title. In 2006, Scotland began the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places.
• BIRTHS: In 1874, poet Robert Frost, whose work is most impressively rendered by Mayor Pat Bell and Martha Barnes Martin taking turns reciting verses in impromptu performances. In 1946, John Ernest Crawford, an original Mousketeer. In 1953, Lincoln Chafee, former United States Senator from Rhode Island. .
• DEATHS: In 1969, John Kennedy Toole, whose novel, A Confederacy of Dunces was published posthumously and, in 1981, was awarded the Putlitzer prize for fiction. It may be the funniest, most delightful book ever written, with a rich assortment of characters. His only other novel is The Neon Bible
• REMEMBRANCE: John Kennedy Toole. Read some passages from A Confederacy of Dunces. It will make your day go better.

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 For hazardous weather outlook is for portions of South Central Indiana and Central Kentucky today. Click Here to read the hazardous weather postings at the NOAA website.

Adair County Road Department Work
The main crew is finishing Grassy Springs Bridge. "We hope to be able to open by Wednesday," Lisa Lee, administratative assistant to Judge Ann Melton, said this morning. In other county highway work, Phillip Carter is bushhogging in District 2, Gary Samuells is doing various districts, cleaning out tiles, cold patching. 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.

Maps are online now! Click Here for links. 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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