ITFASN: Peep at what Ralph is about to say 2013-08-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo photo Just for a Smile News. A Heads Up, on a Hot Ralph Roy Waggener has written an thought-provoking editorial about how long hard learned lessons are remembered - not that long, he says. The 3,600 copies it will be published in will go on newsstands soon - and are very likely to be scooped up to be read by most - maybe taken out of circulation by others. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Food Service Workers at ACPC finally gain access! 2013-08-30 - ACPC, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo from Adair County School District. Within an hour after receiving Temporary Certificate of Occupancy from the State of Kentucky, food service employees were already on the scene inspecting the new equipment and making plans for the first lunch prepared on site. According to Food Service Director Carol Roy, left, food service workers plan on several hours of cleaning and polishing in anticipation for lunch on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Shown with Roy is Lisa Petty, center and Pat Reliford right - Adair County School District photo Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Big Chief's Gun Shop: Nothing like it in Serbia! 2013-08-30 - 129 South Columbia Avenue, Campbellsville, KY - Photo from DeWayne Frazier. Clifton G. "Big Chief" Aaron, left, with Campbellsville University's Dejan Mraovic, assistant professor of graphic design; Dr. DeWayne Frazier, vice president of academic affairs; and Aaron's son, Kyle, of Campbellsville, in a photo taken before Clifton Aaron's death. DeWayne Frazier said he handed his iPhone to a fellow customer to make the photo and document the moment. He wrote, "Dejan and I would go there for the "cultural experience" and they were always so kind to us. Mr. Aaron and his son Kyle showed Dejan and me their gun from the Civil War era. Mr. Aaron and Kyle love guns...and burgers of course. Dejan loved the place because it was a place he could look at a gun and have a burger at the same time, never did that in Serbia (his home country)" - submitted by Linda Waggener, Campbellsville University Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Old Montpelier Road Bridge - This Year? 2013-08-30 - Montpelier, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton said this morning that this bridge will be replaced, but she's not sure if the Adair County Road Department will get to it this year. The dry bridge presently on Old Montpelier Road frequently acts as much as a dam as a bridge. It's barely visible in this photo, but there is a huge pile of driftwood on the left, far side of the dry bridge. Already this year, the county has a new bridge in place on Avery Rooks Road near Little Cake. Another is planned for Clearsprings Road in District 2. The bridge above, which will be built with Adair County Road Department funds, would be the third this year for Melton's Administration. Money for the project is not an issue, the CJE said. It's more manpower. "We have to get caught up on regular maintenance before winter comes," she said. (Comments? Memories? Please send, using the "Comments" button with this letter. For Big Thinkers: Is there a profitable good use for the driftwood? Joe Coffey, for whom the bridge ought to be named, said that wood which stays under water often makes the best lumber. He remembers stumps pulled out of Louisiana Bayous back in his pipelining days. "They must have been 100 years old," he said, "but they were a solid at could be, and you could use a cigarette lighter on the roots, even before they were dry, and light a fire. That was because there was so much turpentine in the them." Just wondering if there might be an entrepreneurial opportunity here, as private enterprise is finding in the recycling business these days.-EW) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Fence repair after truck ran through it 2013-08-30 - Bliss, Adair Co., KY - Photo by Bill Wheat. This is where tractor & trailer got stuck on GB Bardin Road. Tearing out fence and not worrying about cows getting out and causing me to have to fence for half a day for Kenneth Scott. - Bill Wheat Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Russell, Adair SRO's on Larry Smith show this morning 2013-08-30 - The WAVE, Columbia, KY - Photo By Larry Smith, The WAVE, 92.7 FM. Columbia Police Officer Kevin Atwood, left Adair County School Resource Officer and Russell County Deputy Sheriff Jackie Grider, Russell Co School Resource Office were live with Larry Smith on 92.7 The Wave this morning talking about school safety... - Larry Smith Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Joe Coffey sends photo bear swimming near Wolf Creek Dam 2013-08-29 - Near Indian Creek, Above Wolf Creek Dam, Jamestown, KY - Photo From Joe Coffey, Montpelier, KY. Joe Coffey sends this photo sent to him by his nephew, Jason Coffey, who works for Norton Healthcare in Lousville, KY, was was with a friend who took the photo. Joe Coffey said this black bear was swimming in the lake and that the far side in the picture is near the Indian Creek inlet toward the Clinton side of the lake. "There's no way to really judge," he said, "but I'd think the bear would weigh around 300 pounds." For other Blue Ribbon Bear Board Members, and others, the location is about 26 miles from Downtown Columbia, KY, where BRBB members believe, Bears probably crossed before the Long Hunters disturbe there peaceable bear way of life - back then eating most blackberries, croppie and just an occasional ancestor of ours. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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