Today, Thurs., April 26, 2007: Dr. Henry at CU, 3pmCT/4pmET

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Spotlighting, in full, today's events for 116th day of 2007 (249 days remaining) Check Events Calendar for complete community calendar with future events as far out as we've received them.

Election countdown: It is 26 days until the 2007 Kentucky Primary Election.

11am-4pm CT: Job Fair
Cumberlands Workforce Network will host the upcoming JOB FAIR at the Russell County Harris Career Center, Thursday, April 26th, 11-4:00 CT. Open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend. Any local businesses that would like to participant please contact Lisa Upchurch Gosser @ 270-866-8435

4pmET/3pmCT: Dr. Henry at CU
Dr. Steve Henry, Democratic candidate for Governor in the May 22, is the speaker for the seventh in a series of gubernatorial candidate forums sponsored by Campbellsville Universitys Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy and Team Taylor County. The session is on Thursday, April 26, 4:00 p.m. EDT in the Gheens Recital Hall located in the Gosser Fine Arts Center on the CU campus. Admission is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.

4:30pm: Friends of Library
Friends of the Adair County Library meet at 4:30pm CT at the Adair County Public LIbrary. Anyone interested in becoming a part of this important group is invited to attend. The group meets each 4th Thursday. Anyone interested in the library, literacy or literature is encouraged to become a part of this group. For more information, please call 270-384-2472 and ask for Lee Ann Jessee. Membership is $10.00 per year.

6pm CT: Local Planning Facilities Plan hearing
On behalf of the Adair County School Local Planning Committee, the Adair County Board of Education will convene a State Public Hearing to review the proposed District Facilities Plan. The hearing will be held on April 26, 2007, at the Adair County Board of Education Conference Room at 6:00pm local time. The hearing will be for the purpose of recording testimony concerning the District Facilities Plan. For further information contact: Darrell Treece, Superintendent, Adair County Board of Education, 1204 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY 42728. (270) 384-2476.

6pm: VFW meeting
Columbia Post 6097 will hold its regular (Fourth Thursday) monthly meeting at 6:00pm at the VFW Hall, Fairgrounds ST, Columbia, KY. - Commander Jimmy Luttrell.

7- 8pm CT: LWC Great Decisions Discussion
7- 8pm CT in the Thomas D. Clark Reading Room of the Holloway Building. Part II: Global Issues. Meeting Climate Change. For more information on the "Great Decisions Discussion Series," contact Michael Rogers at rogersm@lindsey.edu or (270) 384-8183. For more information about the "Great Discussions Series" online, go to: www.fpa.org. Topics and dates in April and May are subject to change.

8pmET/7pmCT: CU Orchestra in concert at Campbellsville Baptist
The Campbellsville University Orchestra will present its spring concert, under the direction of Dr. J. Robert Gaddis, dean of the School of Music, and graduate students Wan Soo Cho and Nilson Galvao Jr. Thursday, April 26 at 8pmET/7pmCT at the Campbellsville Baptist Church sanctuary. -JOAN C. McKINNEY

April 23- May 11, 2007: LWC Spring Cultural Affairs event
Art Majors Seminar. Ashley Green, artist. Lucretia C. Begley Gallery

• Art: Exhibit at the Lucretia Begley Gallery at Lindsey Wilson College continues with A Family Affair Art Exhibit featuring the art of Sara Roush, Henrietta Roush Scott, Jeffrey Scott, and Sara Scott Browning. Hours are 8:00am to 5:30pm. M-F.
• Entertainment: Movies "Meet the Robinsons" and "300" continue at the Columbian Theater.
• Eating: Huddle House, Campbellsville offers 24 hr dining. Catfish Plus has new longer hours every day but Sunday. Check out Circle R's new buffet. Bring your laptops and read ColumbiaMagazine.com: The Circle R is also an Internet Buffet, with Wi-Fi. (new phone number 384-1793). Access menus from side ads in ColumbiaMagazine.com.

Weather:
The National Weather Service outlook for Thursday, April 26, 2007:

Today: Showers and chance of thunderstorms until midday...Then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Tonight: Cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms...Then slight chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.

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.


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Court:
Thursday, April 26, 2007: No cases scheduled today scheduled for today in Adair District Court. No cases scheduled today 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, News:
Thursday, April 26, 2007

BREAKFAST: Breakfast Pizza. 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: Ham or Sausage. Gravy. Biscuit. Hashbrowns. Baked Apples. Plus regular menu always includes Choice of Low Fat Milk. Fruit and juice offered daily with lunch. Salads are available daily.

Click Here Daily for the comprehensive Adair County Schools website. Note on CATS testing now in progress. CATS Testing Dates, April 23 through May 4, 2007.

Adair County School District Student Enrollment Procedure (Beginning with the 2007-2008 School Year) is now online. Click Here to access Enrollment Procedure.

AT THE COLUMBIAN THEATER:

Meet the Robinsons. Rated G and will play nightly at 6:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm only.

300. It is rated R and will play nightly at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 4:00 pm only.

Click here for more on the historic Columbian Theater.

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.

On this date, April 26
With facts and writing mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS:In 1865, in a shorter war than Iraq II, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia. In 1958, the first container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, TX. In 1991, Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States.
• BIRTHS: In 1785, John James Audubon, naturalist and illustrator., who, in later years of his life claimed to have hunted with Daniel Boone. He conducted business in Kentucky and later had a general store in Louisville, and lived in Henderson, KY, where, today, the 692-acre Audubon State Park and its Museum are located. Author of Birds of America In 1900, Charles Francis Richter, in Hamilton, OH. Developed Richter magnitude scale for quantifying the size of earthquakes. In 1933, Carol Burnett.
• DEATHS: In 1476, Simonetta Vespucci, At age fifteen she married Marco Vespucci, who was a distant cousin of the famous Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

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

Sports Briefs
Adair County High School Baseball Next home game Tuesday, May 1, 2007, with Marion County. 4:30pm CT. Click here for story with schedule of 2007 Home Games.

Lindsey Athletics:

Golf Both the Lindsey men's and women's golf teams won their respective regional titles and advance to national NAIA play. Click Here for the LWC Men's Golf Page. Click Here for LWC Women's Golf Page.

Baseball. The next games are April 27-29 for the Mid-South Conference Tournament. Location to be announced. Click here for schedule.

Softball: The LWC softball team will compete in the Mid-South Conference Tournament in Jeffersontown, KY, on April 27-28, 2007. Details to be announced. Click Here for softball home page.

Lindsey Wilson Cycling: Next event, April 28, 29, 2007, Road Regionals at Butler University, Indianapolis, IN.

Lindsey Wilson Tennis: Click Here for LWC Men's Tennis home page at Lindsey.edu. Click Here for the LWC Women's home page at Lindsey.edu.

Complete LWC schedules at Click Here and click on athletics

Campbellsville University Athletics:Today, April 24, 2007, See photos of CU upgrade of outdoor athletic facilities and the Campbellsville Lady Tiger regular season MSC champions plus much more. Click Here. for the latest in CU athletics

Traffic and Roads

Adair County Road Department Work
Wednesday, April 25, 2007: The Road Department will be working on Abrell Road in District 1 working today, and cold patching in District 1.. - LISA LEE, Administrative Assistant, Judge-Executive's Office. To contact Adair County Road Department: Administrative Assistant Lisa Lee in Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton's office: (270) 384-4703.

Kentucky Department of Highways Road Work:

High detail Adair Co. Map: Click Here

What's next?:Kentucky's Six-Year Plan Project information map shows more orange, the color codes for construction projects awarded. Click Here to learn more about major Kentucky Transportation Cabinet projects, Click Here for KTC Six-Year Plan map and links to details.

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

Wolf Creek Dam Consensus Report Teleconference is now online. The teleconference was held April 24, 2007. Click Here to go directly to it.

Weekly update.: Newest report is Tuesday April 24, 2007.Click here to read. The report showed Lake Cumberland Elevation at 682.3 feet. One page report. One photo

Inundation maps online 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." Be prepared for very slow download. Click Here

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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