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Today, Wednesday, June 6, 2007: Remember Adair Co. D-Day heroes


Spotlighting, in full, today's events for Day 157 of 2007 (208 days remaining).

10:00am CT: Children's Story Hour
Children's Story Hour at the Adair County Public Library at 10:00am CT. Children's Story Hour is each Wednesday at 10:00am. -ALEINA MILLIGAN, ACPL Children's Librarian.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007: See Directory of Churches

Movies: "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End." at the Columbian

Weather:
The National Weather Service outlook for Wednesday, June 6, 2007:

Overnight... Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.

Wednesday... Mostly sunny. Patchy fog until midday. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds up to 5 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.



Behind on reading the Today summaries?
Click Here for Today yesterday

Court:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007: Awaiting update. Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website

Adair County Schools
Click Here Daily for the comprehensive Adair County Schools website. In a community with some of the world's best websites, this one is a standout.

1) Johnson Central High School, Paintsville, KY; 2) Singapore
CELEBRATE this WEEK!
3rd in the World!
ADAIR COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL!

Matt Downen, Megan White, Cody Gabbert, Katie LaVictoire,
and Coach Brett Reliford!

International Future Problem Solving Competition, Ft. Collins, Colorado
Announced, Sunday morning, June 3, 2007.
Accomplishment recognized at Columbia City Council Meeting, Monday, June 4, 2007, by Councillor Craig Dean!


AT THE COLUMBIAN THEATER:

Now showing "Pirates of the Caribbean 3 At the World's End (2007)." . It's PG-3. Nightly at 6:00pm and 9:15pm CT. Sundays at 2:00pm and 5:15pm only.

Click here for more on the historic Columbian Theater.

Call 270-384-5555 to confirm, or for more information at the Columbian Theater.

On this date, June 6
With facts and writing mostly from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  • EVENTS: In 1932, the Revenue Act of 1932 established the first gasoline tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon sold. In 1933, the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, NJ. In 1944 Battle of World War II, the Battle of Normandy begins, D-Day Code Name Overlord, with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
  • BIRTHS: In 1755, Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot. In 1944, Phillip Allen Sharp, U.S. Geneticist and molecular biologist, in Falmouth, KY. Won Nobel Prize in Physiology. Co-discovered gene-splicing.
  • DEATHS: In 1968, Robert Kennedy. Assassinated. In 1979, Jack Haley, American actor best known for portrayal of Tin Man and farm worker in Wizard of Oz. In 2005 Anne Bancroft, Academy Award Winning Actress.
  • REMEMBER: What Milton Stephens and other Adair County heroes of World War II did on D-Day in Europe.
  • CELEBRATE: Adair County High School Future Problem Solvers' Monumental Accomplishment: Third in the World!
Click Here to access other facts from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia including lists of events, births, deaths, holidays, and other facts about this day.

Roads & Travel
Kentucky Department of Highways Adair Co. Maintenance Schedule: Wednesday, June 06, 2007: 1) Cold mix on KY 206. 2) Shoulder work on KY 533 @ 0.6 MP. Click here for week of June 4-8.

Adair County Road Department: Latest report, Friday, June 1, 2007: We will be ditching on Old Portland Road and the kemp Road in District 5. We will be mowing roadsides in District 1, in the Millerfields area. The sidemower will be on the Butler branch Road in District 6 and along the Rocky Hills Road in District 5. Have a good weekend. Please drive carefully in these areas. -LISA LEE, from the office of Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton.

KY 92 is closed 1.6 miles east of KY 55 for construction of a new bridge over Cedar Creek. But it is expected to be open around June 10-12, Amy Mitchum, a spokesperson for Garrison Construction Co, said .

High detail Adair Co. Map: Click Here

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.

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.

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

Media account of weekend Click here for story on U.S. Corps of Engineers Wolf Creek Dam website by Bill Mardis, editor emeritus of the Somerset, KY, Commonwealth Journal on the Memorial Day weekend tourism counts.

Weekly update.: Report reveals significant downstream water impacts as a result from ongoing drought and the drawdown. Newest report, May 31, 2007. Click here to read. The report showed Lake Cumberland Elevation at 680.5 feet on May 31, 2007. One page report. One photo

2007 Kentucky General Candidates
Click Here

Click here to access all the May 22, 2007 Adair County primary election charts, precinct-by-precinct, with totals for the county and links to printable versions.



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