Aiden Klein descends steps of fire truck 2016-10-28 - Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Laura Marcum, ACPC. Aiden Klein carefully steps down from the fire truck while Brandon Minton is there to assist. - Laura Marcum, Music Teacher, ACPC Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Brent Moore - behind the wheel of AC VFD fire truck 2016-10-28 - Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Laura Marcum, ACPC. Brent Moore, Hailey Campbell, and Lydia St. Andrew check out the inside of a fire truck. - Laura Marcum, Music Teacher, ACPC Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Simulating searching for people trapped inside house on fire 2016-10-28 - Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Laura Marcum, ACPC. Fireman Brandon Minton demonstrates what it may look like for a fireman searching for people trapped inside a house on fire while kindergarteners watch. Kindergarteners sitting close include Justice DeMars, Hallie Folden, Gracie Harmon, Sophie Holbrook, Brandy Holbrook, Jolie Galarza, and Ember Keltner. - Laura Marcum, Music Teacher, ACPC Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

1st Graders at ACPC see firefighters suited up 2016-10-28 - Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Laura Marcum, ACPC. 1st grade students Zane Greer, Navaeh McCoy, Josie Blair, Tatum Bolden, Logan Combes, Sallie Ballou, and Hunsdon Hadley see the firemen suited up while up close. - Laura Marcum, Music Teacher, ACPC Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Churchill faces hierarchy issues in takeover as CM Executive Dog 2016-10-28 - Shelby County, KY - Photo Pen . Internet Business Dog Woes & Worries - Churchill has made a smooth transition from rescue shelter dog to ColumbiaMagazine.com Executive Dog, but is now weathering hierarchy issues with Hailey, who has suddenly discovered that Churchill is not another willing servant of hers and does not take orders. It was a standoff when this photo was taken, as the perplexed look on Churchill's face betrays. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lost? Are they yours? Horses wandering along Crocus Creek 2016-10-28 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Wendy Butler Burt. The Fall weather is so beautiful that these five horses -- one black, one white, two chestnut, and dark bay foal -- seem to have decided to wander through the countryside near Crocus Creek in southern Adair County. Are they yours? They have been seen since Monday along Melson Ridge Road between Sullivan Road and Hwy. 704. Please come get them. --Wendy Butler Burt, wendy@crocusmillfarm.com Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

He's Everywhere in Cumberland County, KY: Joel Owsley Cheek . . . 2016-10-28 - Cumberland County Library, 114 Hill St, Burkesville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). As well he ought to be. This portrait by Burkesville, KY, artist Charlotte Cash, hangs in the Cumberland County library, a destination respite well worth a visit. Seeing the portrait was a reminder of just how good his legacy coffee is today. I rediscovered it recently in Adair County, when the proprietor of major eatery gave away her/his secret. A cup Linda labelled "Awesome," and I concurred was made, the proprietor said, with Maxwell House. Wow! Starbucks couldn't beat it. For a lot of what one needs to know - not not nearly all - about Joel Owsley Cheek, see Maxwell_House Wikipedia entry. According to Find-a-grave (See: Joel Owsley Cheek is buried in Nashville, TN, a Cumberland River town like his native Burkesville, Cumberland County, KY. The library, like the Cheek's Maxwell House Coffee, is "Awesome." A sparklingly clean, friendly place, it offers great Wi-FI, and is staffed by some of the friendliest people in the world, and it's sandwiched between two of the finest restaurants around, Ruby Annie's on the Square, and Pat & Norman Hamilton's BBQ, on up Hill Street a bit, toward the Alpine. - Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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