SATURDAY with CM. June 25, 2011

It's a day full of activities in Adair County today!

The Events section is filled with special activities today. It starts with the Crappie USA Tournament at Holmes Bend, with a Community Wide Effort here in Columbia with a Work Day at the Community and Recreation Center at 901 Hudson ST, Columbia, KY. Later in the morning, Bro. Bill Davenport's Old Sparks Mill Gradyville Annual Get-together starts at 10amCT. And up on KY 206, at Bearwallow, the Hopkins/Christine School reunion will be held at Christine, and The Taylor-McClister Reunion starts at 10amCT at Trinity fellowship hall. These are some highlights of today's EVENTS. For full details of this days, click to CM EVENTS.

Two relatively new regular entries on the Events calendar are the reminders of the Chimes heard in Downtown Columbia at Noon and in the Evening at 5pmCT. Many find the two brief musical interludes pleasant breaks which has reassurance in its six decades old tradition. The Square is again becoming an early morning gathering place. Some are wondering if programming might soon include a 7am or 8am thanks for the morning program. The chimes may not seem like a big deal, but some schedule either a visit downtown or a commute to coincide with the chimes. There are some sounds which seem to belong here. I still miss the hourly ringing of the Old Courthouse Bell, and the sirens heard all over town announcing lunch hour and return to work time at the old Sandusky Mill. How about you?

By the littles, the Square is becoming what it was meant to be. A walking campus. A concentration of the owners-in-the-store shops and restaurants. A place to saunter, to loaf, to swap tales. To be entertained and to entertain. One by one there have been more benches and seats with shade or canopies. We see more people having coffee at the tables on the Square, more folks just sitting and listening and watching and enjoying from a comfortable seat, from their favorite vantage point. The vector of progress seems right. -EW



If you missed the big SUNDAY with CM for June 19, 2011.
Click on Read More below to go to Quick Links to selected favorite columns, stories with perhaps some links to albums, and to news from the past week. SUNDAY with CM - JUNE 19, 2011 for June 19, 2011 and your favorite writers + important news stories:
If you missed the big SUNDAY with CM for June 19, 2011.
Here are Quick Links to selected favorite columns, stories with perhaps some links to albums, and to news from the past week and beyond. SUNDAY with CM - JUNE 19, 2011 for June 19, 2011 and your favorite writers + important news stories:

• Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books: Tom Chaney: No. R715- Summertime reading
• Billy Joe Fudge: Great Wooded South Lexicon XI: Properly mumbling Kentuckyese.
• Chuck Hinman: Chuck Hinman. IJMA No. 336 - The California Style
• Jim: History Early Columbia Bottlers (1910 - c. 1920)
• Jim: History 100 Years Ago: News from June 21, 1911
• Carol Perkins: Carol Perkins: What will I do without Oprah?
• Robert Stone poem: unknown: A sonnet
• Rev. Joey N. Welsh Another Angle: A poet's Gratitude for fatherly guidance
Adair Fiscal Court June 14, 2011 Summary
In Tuesday, June 14, 2011 meeting
• Court takes no action following executive session; highly praised County Road Superintendent Jobe Darnell only witness called
• Court approves Road Work, praises Jobe Darnell; concentrated work in one district at time receives praise; court approves Darnell request for Bush Hog. FEMA wavers on bridge reimbursement
• Request to close Rick Rod Road fails; 1st readings given to removal from County Maintenance of Needmore Lane, Quinn Hollow Road
• Court gives $200 for Cub Scout trip
• Jail reports spike in billings
• Sheriff Harrison Moss report approved; Sheriff reports $88,935.23 in May for franchise taxes
• Magistrates deny, 5-2, payment for tax settlement work
• Court order approved for pass through of money to Adair Ambulance Service
• County Treasurer's report approved; budget transfers approved. Treasurer Barry Corbin gets new 4 year term
• Bids opened: Burton Car Care awarded bid for surplus vehicles; Asphalt Materials wins emulsified oils contract
• Chris Janes new member of airport board
• Jerry Nixon hired for CJE office
• Jerry Frankliin reassigned as PT employee at Adair Recycling Center
• Minutes approved
See full story: Adair Co. Fiscal Court meeting June 14, 2011 report



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