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Today, Fri. Jan. 30, 2009: Schools open on 1 hour delay


Adair County prepares for Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 13-16, 2009



Birds of Kentucky: WHITE BREASTED NUTHATCH
Photo by Shamarie Claiborne

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Countdown to The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) February 13 through 16, 2009:
14 days away


EVENTS:
Spotlighting, in brief, today's events for Day 30 of 2008. 335 Days remaining in year.

  • Today: Adair Recycling Trailer
    Adair Recycling Center Trailer at New Wal-Supercenter Parking Lot, Holladay Place, KY 61 S. Columbia, KY Jan. 2009 Recycling Trailer Calendar
  • 8:00pmCT: Emma, with actress Hannah Hadley of Collumbia, KY, at WKU, Bowling Green, KY
  • Reminder: Send mail from home to Adair Countians who are deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. How to mail to servicemen and list of addresses

  • For events in detail and to scan future events into 2009, Click here

    Court:
    Friday, January 30, 2009 Two (2) Cases in Adair Circuit Court (Judge James Weddle). Seven (7) cases in District Court (Judge Michael Loy). Click Here to check Adair Court schedule at the Kentucky Court of Justice Website. To visit Adair Circuit Clerk site, Click Here

    Click Here to access facts from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia about this day in history.

    (ADV): What's Cooking in Adair County, KY, today:
    Click restaurant names for hours, directions, and prices.

    • Betty's OK Country Cooking
      BUFFET MENU: FRIDAY, January 30, 2009: MEATS: CATFISH. ROAST PORK. FRIED CHICKEN! Mashed Potatoes. Green Beans. Fried Apples. Broccoli Casserole. Corn. Breaded Zucchini. Harvard Beets. Baby limas w/Tomatoe. Pintos. Rolls/Cornbread. On the buffet cold bar Coleslaw. Peaches. Pears. Cottage Cheese. Pepper Relish. Sweet Onion.
      TODAY'S SPECIAL DESSERTS: Sugar Free Banana Creme Pie. Plus our really big regular list of favorite cakes and desserts.
      BREAKFAST: Served anytime. New! Served on Tuesdays and Thursdays only Real Fried Potatoes for breakfast!
      ANNOUNCING: Betty's OK Country Cooking presents Caleb Brown as Elvis
      Betty's OK County Cooking proudly presents "A Double Feature Gospel Concert by Caleb Brown," on Sunday, February 8, 2009, at 2pmCT with a second at 5:00pmCT. Tickets are $5.00 each and are available at Betty's Restaurant Monday through Saturday during normal business hours. Only 100 tickets per performance will be sold and they are going fast!. Get yours before they are gone! When buying your tickets, please specify if you want the 2:00pm or 5:00pm show.< The restaurant will be closed, but drinks and concessions will be available. For information and tickets: Contact Betty's OK Country Cooking during business hours at the restaurant or call (270) 384-5664.

    • Bob's Country Kitchen & General Store, KY 206, Vester, KY
      BREAKFAST ANYTIME: Served anytime! Try this 89 cent one: 39 cent Cinnamon Roll + Bottomless Cup of Coffee, 50 cents = Total 89 cents
      ON THE $4.99 HOTBAR: Friday, January 30, 2009
    • On Fridays, we serve the best FRIED CATFISH in ADAIR COUNTY! today with Hushpuppies and Cornbread. Potato Wedges, Baked Potato, Coleslaw. Pinto Beans (As a soup by itself with cornbread or crackers, and onions and tomato, if you like, $1.99), Sliced Tomatoes. Choice of meat + one of each or all the sides, Just $4.99!!!
      OUR COOKIE FACTORY IS HERE: We've baking the huge cookies right here now! Chocolate Chip. Oatmeal Raisin. Macadamia. Crunchy Peanut Butter. 65 cents each/or 3/$2.00
      DESSERTS: Peach cobbler. Peanut Butter Pie. Cherry Delight, and these delightful Kay Burton Meringue Pies: Chocolate and Cocanut.DELIVERY: Yes, Bob's delivers. $25 minimum. Some limits. Call (270) 384-6774.

    • Buffalo Hills
      Located at 906 Greensburg ST in the Curves Building, Columbia, KY.
      Lunch hours 10:30-1:30 Mon -Fri Serving nutritious and delicious 1/3 pound Buffalo burgers, buffalo hot dogs and an outrageous 3 bean buffalo chili.
      YOU'LL LIKE OUR COZY DINING TABLES. Eat in, or call ahead for takeout orders (270) 385-9092. To make them taste best, our Buffalo burgers are grilled to order. The slight extra time is worth it. They are so good!
      ALSO: Smoothies, Christian Gifts, Tanning Beds. Buffalo Meat--America's Original Health Food. Buffalo steaks, roasts, burger and brats available for your grilling at home! Open10am-7pm Mon-Tue & Thurs.-Fri. 10am-6pm Wednesdays. Closed Saturdays, Sundays. Jim & Carol Leib, Owners. We accept Visa, MC, and Discover Credit Cards. Dr. Smoothie smoothiesEnjoy a refreshing, healthy drink. In the Curves Building on Greensburg St.

    • The Dairy Dip
      Friday, January 30, 2009: Come to Adair County's Soup Headquarters. Call ahead for quick service. Use our convenient, close to Downtown, Drive Through or Walk up Windows. Our menu varies and includes Uncommonly Special Homemade Chili, Vegetable Soup, Rafferty's Style Potato Soup, and Adair County Pinto Beans, all served with choice of Cornbread or Crackers, whichever you like!
      WE ALSO DELIVER for orders of $15 or more.
      SPECIAL WINTER HOURS: We are now open from 10:30am to 4:30pmCT, Monday thru Friday. Closed Saturday and Sunday.

    • Flatwoods Deli
      6770 Burkesville Road/KY 61 S., Columbia, KY. Phone (270) 378-6610.
      BREAKFAST: Full breakfasts, lunches, dinners served anytime. We make great country store sandwiches.
      DEEP DISCOUNTS. EVERY DAY! we'll have a $2.99 Lunch Special!
      • Mondays: LASAGNA & Garlic Bread Plate lunch special: Just $2.99
      • Tuesdays: PINTO BEANS + Fried Potatoes + Cornbread: Just $2.99
      • Wednesdays: SPAGHETTI & Meatballs. Plate lunch special: Just $2.99
      • Thursdays: CHILI + Grilled Cheese, Just $2.99
      • Fridays: VEGETABLE SOUP + Grilled Cheese, Just $2.99
      • Saturdays: Everything cooked to order from our Menu!
      FLATWOODS HOURS: M-F, 5:00am to 6:00pmCT. Saturday, 7:00am to 4:00pm. Closed Sun.

    • Ol' Joe Barbee's B&B QUE
      BULLETIN!!!: Joe's will open next the first weekend in March, 2009. Friday and Saturday, March 6 & 7, 2009. Closed now through February.
      OL JOE'S BARBECUE SAUCE in the bottle with his likeness, makes wonderful gifts for all occasions. Now in two flavors: 1) Ol Joe's Original Barbecue Sauce, and 2) Ol Joe's Mustard Barbecue Sauce which send the best from Adair County. It is on sale, in 16 oz. bottles ($4.00 per bottle; $37.95 per case of 12; add 50 cents per bottle for Christmas bows) at Ol' Joe's B&B QUE, Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY. Buy a bottle for everyone on your Christmas list! Gift certificates available, too. Call today, (270) 384-2360, to order the sauce, or to to arrange Ol Joe's sure-to-please catering service. MENU

    • QUICK STOP
      Next to Downey's Gun & Pawn and Downey's ATV's and Motorcycles. 702 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY. Phone (270) 384-9833. Hours: Mon-Friday, 4:00am to 2:00pmCT. Sat. 4:00am to 12noonCT.If you wonder about all those cars in our parking lot, there's an answer: The Quick Stop has a decades old reputation for Serving a lot of Really Good Food, Real Quick, at Really Great Prices.
      BREAKFAST: Cooked to order. Pick up breakfast sandwiches quick at Quick Stop.
      SPECIAL TODAY, Friday, January 30 2009: Three (3)--Count 'em MINI-BURGERS + TATER TOTSAll for just $3.75!
      WATCH FOR BIG NEWS HERE: Coming soon-Delivery service. Soup every Cold Day. And Homemade Dessert Specials every day.
      CALL AHEAD FOR LARGE CARRYOUTS, (270) 384-9833

    • Rerun's Holmes Bend General Store
      BREAKFAST: Cooked to order. Served anytime.
      SPECIAL TODAY, Friday, January 30, 2009: ALL YOU CAN EAT CATFISH and COUNTRY HAM SPECIAL. One or both, all you can eat!For just $8.95! Choose one or the other. And get Baked Bens. Corn. Green Beans. French Fried Potatoes. Coleslaw. Potato Salad. Any other side. Hushpuppies. Cornbread. Works just like You Know Where, only it's right here in Adair County, it's Rerun's Quality: Simply the Best Food on Green River Lake, and you get it all for a little more than half the price you'd pay at You Know Where over in Sulphur Well.
      Also, SEAFOOD FEAST all day today: Pick from these great Rerun seafoods: Fish Meal $6.95, Shrimp Meal $7.95, Froglegs, $9.95, Oysters Meal, $8.95, Clams, $7.5. Side items: Fries/Onion rings, Potato Wedges/Spicy Fries, Potato Salad/Cole Slaw, Bake Beans, Hushpuppies. Meals come w/2 sides and huspuppies. Seafood Platter $9.95! comes with your choice of 3 meats and 2 side items & hushpuppies.
      Serving Simply the Best Food on Green River Lake!
      Desserts: Homemade Peach Cobbler. Enjoy Rerun's. HUGE Chewy, Chocolaty BROWNIES, only 50 cents each. Great take-home treats.
    • Adair County School District menus Jan. 5-30, 2009-
      Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Friday, January 30, 2009: BREAKFAST: Manager's Choice. Juice/Fruit. Choice of Low Fat Milk. Cereal choices and toast offered daily at breakfast. LUNCH: Manager's Choice. Choice of Low Fat Milk. Salads available daily. Fruit and/or juice offered daily with lunch.

    Special Advertising
    Ja Ci's Boutique is having a STOREWIDE 50% OFF SALE

    Order online
    Do your shopping from home, with Wal-Mart Site-to-Store (SM).

    Westlake Family Practice
    is now open Mondays through Fridays. Dr. Robert Kell. Details: CM Healthcare

    FLU SHOTS now available at Dr. Phil Aaron Medical Center
    Available now. Short waits. Just $15.00 at Dr. Phil Aaron Medical Center, 805 Burkesville Road, Columbia, KY. Hours: 8:00am to 6:00pmCT M-F. See by Appointments, call (270) 384-1110. Walk-ins welcome, whether you are already a patient here or not. We Accept Major Credit Cards and Most Forms of Insurance. To visit our website, Click here

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    Lindsey Wilson Arts & Lectures Spring 2009 Schedule
    Adair County Schools "Learning for a Lifetime"

    For 2008-2009 School Calendar, Click Here.

    School website was updated January 26, 2008Click Here Daily for the comprehensive Adair County Schools website. In a community with some of the world's best websites, this frequently updated one is a standout. Find your child's school for important contacts, athletics, clubs/organizations, faculty staff listings, SBDM Council meetings, events, and links.

    ACHS BAND

    2007 Adair County Band website. Doyle Lloyd, webmaster.

    Election Results: Nov. 4, 2008 General Election
    Precinct by precinct votes in the November 4, 2008, General Election are now posted. Click on the office to access printer friendly chart:Quick links to Election night storiesNational, State, Election Report2008 Kentucky Primary Election Calendar & Candidates
    See candidate filings for City Council, Constable, School Board, and Soil Conservation District races. Click Here

    Click Here for 2008 Election Calendars at the Secretary of State's website.
    To see the results by precincts or absentee voting, click on links below:
    Absentee totals. White Oak.Eunice-Pellyton. Little Cake. East Columbia.Ozark.S. Columbia-Ozark. Glens Fork-Melson Ridge. Gradyville-Nell. Sparksville-Breeding. Milltown. West Columbia. Cane Valley-Holmes. Knifley-Roley. North Columbia. Hurt.

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    Cocker Spaniel, found in Fairplay area, now at G.R.A.S.



    2009-01-30 - Green River Animal Shelter - Photo G.R.A.S. photo.
    Great news: Oreo's owner called shortly after his picture was posted, and he was soon headed home, Jeff Thomas reported before noon, today, January 30, 2009
    Oreo, an adult black and white cocker spaniel, was found in the Fairplay area. He is available at Green River Animal Shelter. A Puppy, Dog, Kitten or Cat Just for You Is Waiting at Green River Animal Shelter, 455 Jim Blair Road (take Appleby Drive off KY 55 at Columbia Church of Nazarene; Jim Blair Road goes around Adair Youth Development Center, Columbia, KY. Phone 270-385-9655.
    ANIMALS

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    Scenic Kentucky: From Green River Dam



    2009-01-30 - High Above Green River - Photo Lawrence Hamilton. Reader Lawrence Hamilton braved the elements to get these shots which he says "were taken from Green River Lake Dam after ice storm. 1-29-09."
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    Jack Russell Terrier found on Square at G.R.A.S. now



    2009-01-30 - Green River Animal Shelter - Photo by Jeff Thomas, Director, Green River Animal Shelter. ENERGETIC YOUNG ADULT MALE FOUND IN MIDDLE OF SQUARE:No longer available. Notified Feb. 5, 2009
    Jeff Thomas, Director of Green River Animal Shelter, sent this portrait of as handsome a Jack Russell Terrier to ever walk the streets of Downtown Columbia and writes, "This Jack Russell Terrier was picked up in the middle of the Columbia Square by a passerby and was brought to the shelter. He is an energetic young adult male. White with brown spots and head. Wearing a blue collar." The owner may already be in deep trouble with him, but it's not too late to call the Green River Animal Shelter to claim him, promise him not to lose him again, and pamper him to get back in his good graces. A Puppy, Dog, Kitten or Cat Just for You Is Waiting at Green River Animal Shelter, 455 Jim Blair Road (take Appleby Drive off KY 55 at Columbia Church of Nazarene; Jim Blair Road goes around Adair Youth Development Center, Columbia, KY. Phone 270-385-9655.
    ANIMALS

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    Little Orphan White and Yellow Terrier



    2009-01-30 - Green River Animal Shelter - Photo by Jeff Thomas, Director.
    No longer available. Notified Feb. 5, 2009
    THIS 3-4 MONTH OLD YELLOW & WHITE TERRIER PUP was picked up by a motorist on KY 80/Russell Road, just each of Columbia, KY, and was brought to the shelter. He's wearing a black collar and is available at the Green River Animal Shelter. A Puppy, Dog, Kitten or Cat Just for You Is Waiting at Green River Animal Shelter, 455 Jim Blair Road (take Appleby Drive off KY 55 at Columbia Church of Nazarene; Jim Blair Road goes around Adair Youth Development Center, Columbia, KY. Phone 270-385-9655.
    ANIMALS

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    Scenic Kentucky: Amphitheatre at WKU



    2009-01-30 - Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY - Photo by Caleb Irvin.
    Caleb Irvin of Columbia writes, "This is a photo of the upper part of the amphitheater and colonnade right across from the fine arts center at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. After the early morning snowfall yesterday, I thought this looked pretty nice against the winter sky."

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