Today, Fri., April 27, 2007: Dumpsters at Cane Valley, Glensfork

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Spotlighting, in full, today's events for 117th day of 2007 (248 days remaining).

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

Check Events Calendar for complete community calendar with future events as far out as we've received them.

8:00am CT PRIDE Spring Clean up
Adair County PRIDE dumpsters at the old lodge location in Glensfork and at Taylor's Feed Store in Cane Valley. Dumpsters will be open from 8:00am until 4:00pm CT

7pmCT/8pmET: Carmen at CU
Campbellsville University's School of Music students will perform a concert version of the opera "Carmen" Friday, April 27 and Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 8 pmET/7pmCT in The Gheens Recital Hall of the Gosser Fine Arts Center. - LINDA WAGGENER, assistant director of CU communications

7pm CT: You Can't Be to Careful at Star
The play concludes this week with showtimes at 7pm Friday, April 27; 7pm Saturday night, April 28; and at 2pm Sunday afternoon, April 29, 2007. All times CT. Tickets are $6 for all seats. Call 270-866-STAR(7827). Star Theater, Main Street, Russell Springs, KY. -KYLE HADLEY

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: New tonight, "Are We Done Yet" and "The Reaping" 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 Friday, April 27, 2007:

Today: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds up to 10 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.


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Court:
Friday, April 27, 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:
Friday, April 27, 2007

BREAKFAST: Sausage and Biscuit. 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: Hot dog on bun or pizza. Tossed Salad. Corn. Baked Chips. Oatmeal Square. 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. See calendar dates. 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:

Are We Done Yet?. Rated G and will play nightly at 6:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm only.

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

Coming May 4, 2007: Spider Man III

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 27
With facts and writing mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS:In 1667, The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for 10 pounds. In 1981, Xerox PARC introduced the computer mouse.
• BIRTHS: In 1959, Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote The Rights of Women which argued that women were not inferior to men, but, at the time, appeared to be because of inferior educations. She was the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft is considered one of the foundational feminist philosophers. In 1822, Ulysses S. Grant. In 1927, Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist.
• DEATHS: In 1813, Zebulon Pike, for whom Pike County, and Pikeville, KY, are named. In 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1965, Edward R. Murrow.
• CELEBRATE

It's Freedom day in South Africa, Arbor Day in Nebraska, and Veterans' Day in Finland.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
Friday, April 27, 2007: The Road Department will be working helping with dumpsters at Cane Valley and Glensfork - 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? What's happening:
Western Bypass: No new word from the SYP website or Judge Ann Melton's office on whether Commissioner Marc Williams has awarded the the Western Bypass of Columbia award, which Commissioner Williams had indicated would come this week.
Rehabilitation of LBN: According the the Six Year Plan information, the Paving Project on the Louie B. Nunn/Cumberland Parkway/Future Route I-66 is now 39% complete.

Reconstruction of KY 61 from Interchange to Sparksville: Active.
Replace Bridge at Cedar Creek: Inactive.
Replace Bridge at Russell Creek, E KY 80: Inactive.
Reconstruction of KY 61 from Columbia to Green County line:Inactive.
Brush Creek Bridge: Active.
Scoping Study for Eastern Bypass: Active.
Reconstruct KY 704 10 miles south of Columbia to eliminate two dangerous curves and install guardrail. Active.
Replace bridge over the tributary of Casey Creek, KY 1742.. Active
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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