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Six PM fire guts landmark Circle R Restaurant

By Donald Hare, Adair County Fire Department Public Affairs officer

The Columbia Fire Department received a call at 1807 hours (6:07pm CT) on Monday July 9, for a fire at the Circle R restaurant, located at 712 Russell Road

Twenty-one firemen responded to the call and were on the scene for one and one half hours,

The fire started in the rear of the dining area and kitchen area and the building received major damage in the fire, the origin of the fire is under investigation.
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(ADV.) Adair County Fire Dept. dues are payable for July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
Fire dues for the Adair County Fire Department run from July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008 and are now due and payable. Send to PO Box 96, Columbia, KY 42728, or drop off in our drop box on the side of the fire station on Merchant Street in Columbia, or pay to any firemen. Dues are the same as last year at $25.00 per deed. The cost of a non-member run if $500.00. -Donald Hare, Information Officer, Adair County Fire Department, PO Box 96, Columbia, KY 42728. (ADV.)

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Just a shell remains of Circle R



2007-07-10 - 712 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
At about 8:00pm last evening, just a shell of the building remained after a fire, which started in the rear of the restaurant, had damaged everything inside. All the windows on this side were blown out. From the front, there was little evidence of the disaster. A casual passerby might not have noticed anything out of the ordinary, as the restaurant, in the past weeks few weeks has been closed all day on Mondays.
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Circle R Fire: But for now, there are only 100 Must Eat Places



2007-07-10 - 712 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
A brighter day: Just a little over one month ago, Gary P. West, author of "Eating Your Way Across Kentucky. 101 Must Places to Eat," visited one of them in Columbia this morning. For at least a while, his title might need a change, to "101 100 Must Places to Eat" following the Monday evening, July 9, 2007, fire. Above, the Bowling Green author was photographed with Sandy Ford, the restaurant's manager, on June 6, 2007.
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Requiem, (until a resurrection?) for a landmark



2007-07-10 - 712 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
A PICTURE TAKEN through a blown out window on the west side of the Circle R wells up more than a half century of memories for Adair Countians, some old, some just created. This view is from the section first built as the Hilltop Cafe by the late Jessee Keith. On the far side is the Corner Table, an address third most recognizable in Adair County after the Square and the Fairgrounds. The Corner Table was a choice vantage point, which, in retirement years, was headquarters for Hudson Willis --Wain's famed 'Beanpole'-- who guarded his prize Ford Pinto from there. He would methodically tie to a drive-in canopy post when he dined there. And it was a vantage point to watch the Maestro, J.D. Harper, lovingly make the cash register sing, In between, memories of a server wearing a huge corage, a new one every day, which was outshone only by her bigger smile. Memories of Adair County's wonderful Brockman sisters, Peggy and Vonda, and the very popular, DeGary Bailey. And, in the center, the fallen "No Smoking" sign, which hung over the morning coffee table, where numerous packs were defiantly lit up by customers whose heritage endowed them with inalienable rights to smoke where they pleased. Whether the building can or will be restored or razed won't be known till later.
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