Haven Mission Volunteer Day 2014-05-19 - 300 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. On his toughest days - and he's had some since moving to Columbia - it's hard to keep the trademark smile from warming others days. Saturday, May 3, 2014 it was impossible to draw a frown. With him, is Ellen Hingle, the mother and grandmother who heads the wonderful Hingle clan which has inspired the community through it joyous times, and it's poise and perserverance in others. The Hingles and in-laws and kin were there in force when Haven Mission needed their skill and enthusiasm. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Haven Mission: Blinded by the light - II 2014-05-19 - 300 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Up close the glass brick cross can make only a silhouette of the speaker, Bro. Jim Williams, inside the sanctuary. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Haven Mission: From the inside, cross appears huge 2014-05-19 - 300 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. From inside Haven Mission, the glass brick cross dominates - Pastor Jim Williams, who posed for this picture, said some complain about it, "They say they are blinded by the cross," and he added, "I tell that's a good thing. We need to be 'blinded by the cross' - think about its meaning, and get our minds off ourselves. Provenance in the building make it something of a eclectic Adair County church museum. While the building dates from the 1950's when James Woody built it for a "PCA" - remember that? Few do today. But it was at one time a major agribusiness lender - office. The pews? They're a donation from the Egypt Christian Church. Even the piano is a hand-me-down, but pianists coax some perfect church music from it, Jim Williams says. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Haven Mission Volunteer Day: After May 3, 2014 work 2014-05-19 - 300 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There's still a long way to go, but great progress was made on the north and east sides of Haven Mission. A feature of the church to be seen by strollers in the Columbia City Cemetery, in addition to the cross on the front of the building, is the glass brick cross, lighted in the evenings and at night. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Haven Mission: at Dawn May 3, 2014 2014-05-19 - 300 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Haven Mission,at dawn, before the volunteers came Saturday, May 3, 2014. There were 21,600 bricks to be laid. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Honey: A Big Black Dog Farm product & next ACGC topic 2014-05-19 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Beekeeping will be the subject of the next Adair County Garden Club meeting, at 1pmCT, at the Adair County Extension Office, 409 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY, with Beth Wilson, Pulaski County Horticulturist, the speaker. The main focus will be on sustaining bees as pollinators - but a big benefit is also honey, like the comb in product ACGS President Donna Jones sold at the Farmers Market on the Square last July. Interest in beekeeping is on the rise in South Central Kentucky. There are two beekeeping clubs, one of which meets in Russell County, the other in Taylor, And Bill Troutwine - a beekeeper, has given CM a tip on one beekeeper who travels with his bees from Adair County to Mississippi to pollinate cotton! We welcome more on that and other beekeeping enterprises. Bees are basic to sustaining the work of the growing truck farming economy in the area. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Country Western beer Vol. 2 brewed with KY sorghum 2014-05-18 - Mlontgomer Co., KY - Photo KY Dept. of Agriculture. Danny Townsend , a founding member of Homegrown by Heroes and Appalachia Proud, holds cans of Country Western Volume 2 beer containing sorghum he produced on his Montgomery County farm and bearing the Homegrown by Heroes logo. - Kentucky Department of Agriculture photo Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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