Outstanding Health Advocate 2017 is Dr. Charles Giles 2017-05-17 - Cranmer Dining Center, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Whether you know him as Chucky, or Dr. Giles, or just Chuck -- on his birthday -- the Chamber of Commerce presents the 2017 Outstanding Health Advocate Award to Dr. Charles Giles. From left are: Ellen Zornes, Chamber president; Easton Bryant, presenter; Dr. Giles and Rep. Bam Carney. See also: Awards presented at annual Chamber of Commerce banquet Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chamber membership honors Lisa Smith Loy 2017-05-17 - Cranmer Dining Center, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. The Columbia-Adair Chamber of Commerce annual awards banquet celebrates award winners elected by members with the winner of each category presented a plaque, and citation of achievement from both Rep. Bam Carney and Sen. Max Wise. From left at the presentation are Ellen Zornes, Chamber president, award winner Lisa Loy, Dr. Ben Arnold and Rep. Bam Carney. -- LW See also: Awards presented at annual Chamber of Commerce banquet Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chamber membership honors J.D.Zornes 2017-05-17 - Cranmer Dining Center, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. The Columbia-Adair Chamber of Commerce annual awards banquet celebrates award winners elected by members with the winner of each category being presented a placque, and citation of achievement from both Rep. Bam Carney and Sen. Max Wise. From left are: Rep. Bam Carney with Adam, J.D. and Ellen Zornes. See also: Awards presented at annual Chamber of Commerce banquet Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chamber annual banquet: speaker Kristen Branscum 2017-05-17 - Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. "Thank a tourist," speaker Kristen Branscum, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism, said at the Columbia-Adair Chamber of Commerce annual Awards Banquet Tuesday, May 16, 2017, "because their visits to Adair County and the money they contribute to the economy put $237 a year into each of your households." This was one of three statistics in a game she played prompting the audience with questions about benefits and impact of the tourism industry in the state and specifically in Adair County. From left are: Rep. Bam Carney, CJE Michael Stephens, past Chamber president Brenda Mann, current president Ellen Zornes, speaker Branscum, and Sue Stivers, Executive Director of the Columbia/Adair Tourism Commission, who did the introductions. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mike Watson sends copy of Young's Rexall Drug store opening 2017-05-17 - 100 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo submitted by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian. It was one of the biggests events of the year, when the late Garnett Young moved Paull Drug Company from what is today Reed Bros. Insurance to the building which had been most famous for housing Motor & Electric on the corner of Greensburg Street and the Public Square. It's notable that the building then is recognizable today. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tom Wethington, Quality Insurance Agency, at Fiscal Court 2017-05-17 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) . Tom Wethington, Quality Insurance Company, presented Humana PPO plans for Health Insurance Coverage, which could be provided through his company, located in Russell Springs, KY, which now has four locations across Kentucky. Wethington said he could also provide coverage through Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and other agencies. No decision was made at the meeting. Magistrates were given proposals to study. The matter is to be taken up at a special called meeting, likely in late May or early June. -EW. Photo Tue 16 May 2017. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Fiscal Court listens to health insurance presentationss 2017-05-17 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) . Members of Adair Fiscal Court listened closely to presentations by several insurance agents detailing proposed health insurance plans for 2017-18, at a special called meeting, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Above, Brent Richey of Van Meter Insurance Group is at the guest podium. Listening are Magistrates Perry Reeder (District 4, out of view) Sammy Baker (3), Daryl Flatt (2) and Harold Burton (1); Deputy CJE Andrea Waggener; CJE Mike Stephens, Session Recorder Gale Cowan, and Magistrates Billy Dean Coffey (5) Greg Caldwell (6) Terry Stephens (7); and far right Treasurer Melinda Quinn, acting as interpreter and advisor. No action was taking, pending homework study by magistrates, and an as yet-to-announced special called meeting. Back row, backs to camera are Tyler Travis, Glasgow, and Sharon Payne, Columbia, KY, representing Aflac. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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