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AC PRIDE 2008 Clean Up Day, April 12 Photo Album
The Adair County PRIDE Cleanup Day and picnic at Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park was the biggest such event in Adair County History.
Figures will be tallied on the event tomorrow and will be posted on ColumbiaMagazine.com.
A large number of photos from the event have now been posted, and this article is is posted to make it easy to find them all at one time.
We invited groups to add photos and information to the collection, particularly of groups, and of roadside cleanups, and particularly of photos from Breeding and Knifley.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: CJE welcomes
2008-04-12 - Adair Annex Parking Lot - Photo By Ed Waggener.
BIG DAY IS UNDERWAY Adair County Judge Ann Melton is welcoming participants in the Big Adair County county-wide clean up today. At a little after seven this morning, Saturday, April 12, 2008, most of the Adair County CJE office staff and Road Department was present. Behind Ann, above is the long table laden with T-shirts for volunteers and a kick-off breakfast. Temperatures were in the mid-40's, but the day is sunny shiny and bright. Sign-ins will continue until 9:00am this morning. Behind the CJE are, left, Adair County Road Department Superintendent Jobe Darnell, and right, in the red ACRD volunteer's T, Donnie Melson. Also far down the table, right, is Seventh District Magistrate Terry Hadley.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: Terry Hadley
2008-04-12 - Adair Annex - Photo By Ed Waggener. The FIRST MEMBER of the ADAIR FISCAL COURT to arrive, Seventh District Magistrict Terry Hadley, was at the staging area by just after 7:00amCT. Hadley said of Volunteers from the Seventh District, "We will do our part."
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: Busy sign in
2008-04-12 - Adair Annex parking lot - Photo By Ed Waggener.
SIGN IN ACTIVITY was brisk. Above, Garrett Luttrell, an employee of the Adair County Animal Shelter, left, and Jane Baxter Jones, of Lindsey Wilson College's Criminal Justice Department, sign in. On the left, seated, is Adair County Finance Officer Gale Cowan, and, left, Adair CJE Administrative Assistant Lisa Lee. Jane Baxter Jones was representing a large contingent of Lindsey Wilson volunteers.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: Lawman dons uniform
2008-04-12 - Adair Annex Building, Public Square, Downtown Colulmbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
USUSALLY FIRST DISTRICT CONSTABLE HAROLD BURTON is fighting crime. But this morning, he added an additional responsibility, fighting litter. Above, he dons the uniform of the day, a gray PRIDE volunteer T-shirt.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: ACMS Baseball Team
2008-04-12 - Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park, District 6, Adair Co., KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
This was the Adair County Middle School Baseball team which picked up roadside trash to help pay for new uniforms this year. First row: Julie Brockman and Derek Brockman.Second row Angie Hixson, Blake Cowan, Jamian Bailey, Brandon Thompson, Cody Antone, Will Hixson, and Amy Thompson. Back row Chris Reeder, Justin Reeder, Barry Hixson. The team cleaned up about six miles of roadway, earning approximately $300 which will help for for uniforms.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Spring Cleanup: The Visionary
2008-04-12 - Mt. carmel Boat Landing Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
The SPIRITUAL LEADER of the PRIDE movement in Adair County, A.L. Sinclair, in a thoughtful mood at the PRIDE picnic at Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park today. Sinclair, now Adair County Solid Waste Coordinator, was able to see decades of effort show tremendous results in Adair County, particularly in the area he's sought to instill: Public consciousness of the environment in Adair County.
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AC PRIDE 2008: Master Chef samples his wares
2008-04-13 - Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
JOHNNY JONES was a very popular man at the 2008 AC PRIDE cleanup picnic. He furnished the mobile cooker and cooked over 200 hamburgers. In addition he gave a $20 prize to one of the lucky cleanup participants. At right, the slogan of this year's cleanup, emblazoned on the backs of the Adair County Road Department's distinctive red AC PRIDE 2008 red shirts.
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AC PRIDE 2008 picnic: I won!
2008-04-13 - Mt. Carmel Boat Landing Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
KELLI BONIFER Adair County Home Extension Agent held up a winning prize ticket, and is acknowledged by winner spotter Pewee Sinclair. at the Adair County PRIDE 2008 picnic and celebration at Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park.
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AC PRIDE 2008 picnic: Master hotdog chef Billy Cowan
2008-04-13 - Mt. Carmel Boat Landing Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
TAKING THE COOKING OF EVERY SINGLE ONE of the over 200 hotdogs he grilled very seriously, Master Hotdog Chef Billy Cowan for the day at the AC PRIDE Cleanup Day Picnic. In real life, Cowan is an employee for the pride of Fiscal Court, the Adair County Road Department.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Clean up day Picnic: Donna Stotts
2008-04-13 - Mt. Carmel Boat Landing Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
DONNA STOTTS President of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce prominently in attendance for the 2008 AC PRIDE Clean-up day and picnic.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Cleanup Day Picnic: Lots of winners
2008-04-13 - Mt. Carmel Boat Landing Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
ANN READS ANOTHER WINNING NUMBER as Donnie Melson holds the remaining stubs from which more lucky winners would be drawn as dozens of cash prizes, merchandise, and gift certificateswere raffled at the clean up day celebration. Melson, a key member of the ACRD, is wearing the official Adair County Road Department red 2008 PRIDE T.
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AC PRIDE 2008: Three ACRD dump trucks filled
2008-04-14 - Adair County Road Department, Service Road, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
THREE ADAIR COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENT DUMP TRUCKS were loaded ready to take to the Adair Transfer Station when it opens this Monday morning. The trash is from the 66.5 miles of county roads cleaned in the big AC PRIDE 2008 Clean-up Day and Picnic on Saturday, April 12, 2008.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Cleanup, Picnic: Photographer Barbara
2008-04-14 - Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
IF YOU WONDER HOW BARBARA ARMITAGE gets all those great photographs, look at the impressive camera, which may have more to do with it than her chapeau du jour. The irrepressible leader of the Adair County Garden Club and ardent recycler, showed up at the picnic in a silk "Goofy" cap.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Cleanup and Picnic: Excited winner
2008-04-14 - Mt. Carmel Boat Ramp Park, District 6, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
NOBODY HAD TO WONDER WHO WON when Dora Mae Stone's winning number was called out. She gave a whoop that could be heard clean across Green River Lake to when Ann read the figures. Above, she's wasting no time to get to the winner's table.
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AC PRIDE 2008 Clean Up Day: CKRealty team in action
2008-04-15 - Photo By Gale Cowan.
YOUNG HELPING HANDS: The Central Kentucky Realty team had som young helping hands. Above, Mariah and Makayla Melson and Cassie Rowlett and Elizabeth Caldwell stopped briefly from their work on Bridgewater Road for a photo op. Krishana Melson, Mariah and Makayla's mother, said, "The girls had a blast, and they are lookng forward to next years spring clean-up"
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