Today, Sun. April 29, 2007: Encore in concert

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2:pm: Encore performs at 2pm CT
The John Adair Intermediate School group "Encore," under the direction of Cindy Crowder, will be in performance April 29, 2007, at 2:00pm CT in the Colonel William Casey Elementary Schooll auditorium. The performance on Sunday, April 29, 2007, is open to the public. Ms. Cindy Crowder is taking 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Encore members to Nashville, leaving on Friday morning, to perform Saturday at the America Sings celebration. - CATHY MOSS.

2pmC/3pmE: CU String Ensemble
The Campbellsville University String Chamber Ensemble will present its spring concert, under the direction of Dr. J. Robert Gaddis, dean of the School of Music, Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 3pmET/2pmCT at The Gheens Recital Hall of the Gosser Fine Arts Center. - JOAN C. McKINNEY.

2pm CT: You Can't Be to Careful at Star
The play concludes this week with showtimes 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

7pm: Lindsey Singers on tour at Scottsville
The Lindsey Wilson choral program will perform at 6:30pm CT, on Sunday, April 29, 2007, at Scottsville United Methodist Church in Scottsville, KY, and at 7pm CT on Monday, April 30 at Columbia Christian Church. The program includes the 34-member, all-Kentucky, Lindsey Singers. Four Columbia residents are in the Lindsey Singers, including one bass, Gregg Medendorp, and three of the choir's eight tenors. The three Columbia tenors are Andy Mann, Kevin Davis, and Brandon Wood. For more information on the Lindsey Wilson Choral Program concert series, contact Gerald Chafin at or (270) 384-8084. -EMILY HARLAN.

Entertainment: Movies: "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 Sunday, April 29, 2007:

Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight: Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 5 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:
Next Monday, April 30, 2007: There are 108 cases scheduled Monday 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:
Monday, April 30, 2007

BREAKFAST: MANAGER'S CHOICE TO BE ANNOUNCED. Plus regular menu always includes: Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. Some items contain peanuts.

LUNCH: MANAGER'S CHOICE TO BE ANNOUNCED. 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 29
With facts and writing mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS: In 1986, Roger Clemens sets a major league baseball record with 20 srikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
• BIRTHS: In 1899, Duke Ellington, American Jazz pianist, composer and bandleader. In 1909, Samuel Yewell Tompkins, stage name Tom Ewell, was born in Owensboro, KY. Tony-award winning actor. In 1951, Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
• DEATHS: In 1707, George Farquhar, Irish dramatist, whose most quoted line is "Necessity, the mother of invention." Quit the stage after wounding a fellow actor in a sword fight in performance of John Dryden's The Indian Emperor. Farquhar figures in a large way in one of PBS' best mini-series, "Oliver's Travels," (1995) by Alan Pater, starring Alan Bates, Sinead Cussack, and Bill Paterson. In 1980, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, master of suspense. In 1997, Mike Royko, Chicago Daily News Pulitizer prize-winning political reporter. In 2006, John Kenneth Galbraith, Keynesian economist, two-time recipient of of Presidential Medal of Freedom--from President Harry Truman in 1946, and from President Bill Clinton in 2000.
• CELEBRATE

Second day of Floralia, if you are doing as the Romans did.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. Lindsey Wilson won a thriller against Georgetown College yesterday, 3-2, setting up today's 11am, Sunday, April 29, 2007's game with top-seeded Campbellsville in the Mid-South Conference Tournament at Wilson Field in Georgetown. Click here for schedule.

Softball: The LWC softball team split a pair of games with top-seeded Campbellsville University in the Mid-South Conference Tournament at Skyview Park in Jeffersontown, KY, on April 28, 2007. Next game, with last year's champions, at a yet to be determined time Click Here for softball home page.

Lindsey Wilson Cycling: Current 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: Click Here. for the latest in CU athletics

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

This week's media accounts To go directly to the latest media accounts, with top stories on the outside engineers' study recommending lowering the level of Lake Cumberland 30 more feet, to 650 ft, 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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