Today, Mon., April 30, 2007: LWC Singers at Columbia Christian

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Spotlighting, in full, today's events for 120th day of 2007 (245 days remaining).

Election countdown: It is 22 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: AC Fiscal Court emergency meeting
The Adair County Fiscal Court will have an Emergency Meeting on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 8:00am in the basement of the Adair County Annex Building. The only item on the agenda will be distributing the proposed 2007-2008 Adair County Fiscal Court Budget. The meeting is open to the public. -GALE COWAN, Adair County Finance Officer

7:00pm CT: LWC choral program at Columbia Christian Church
he Lindsey Wilson choral program will perform at 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.

Reading: Click here for a story you'll never forget by Gordon B. Crump "How I discovered Columbia . . . when Columbus didn't".

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 Monday, April 30, 2007:

Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight:Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 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 30
With facts and writing mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

• EVENTS: In 1900, Casey Jones, who grew up in Cadiz, Trigg County, KY, died in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, whole trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first president of the United States on television, at the New York World's Fair, where NB C began regularly scheduled television service from its New York Sation. In 1993, the World Wide Web was born at CERN. Today is the last day when it is legal to smoke in a public building in Northern Ireland.
• BIRTHS: In 1923, "Grandpa" Munster, actor Al Lewis, in NYC. In 1933, Willliam Hugh "Willie" Nelson, the "Red Headed Stranger," in Abbott, TX. Michael Curtis Waltrip, younger brother of Darrell Waltrip, in Owensboro, KY.
• DEATHS: In 1956, Alben W, Barkley, 35th Vice President of the United States under Harry S. Truman. Barkley was born in Graves County, KY. Served in the U.S. House of Representatives and US Senate from Kentucky. He died moments after declaring, "I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty," in a speech at Washington and Lee University of Lexington, VA. Lake Barkley is named for him. Click Here to read more at Wikipedia. In 1994, Richard Scarry, children's book writer and creator of Busytown and the great character, Lowly--Lowly Worm. Characters in his books are almost always anthropomorphic animals, allowing Scarry to tell stories without racial or ethnic traits. In 2003, University of Kentucky Professor Mark C. Berger, who was the director of The Center for Business and Economic Research at UK, and who rates an entry in Wikipedia.
• CELEBRATE Mexico: Children's Day. America: International No Hitting Date.

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 lost to Campbellsville on Sunday, 11-5. Played West Virginia Tech at 6pm at Georgetown in the MSC tournament. 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: No word yet on latest competition, 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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