(Ad) Wacky, Quacky Duck Race Order Form 2012-08-05 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Greg Thomas. PRINTABLE ORDER FORM Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

$106 at Flatwoods for Mary's House in first hours 2012-08-04 - 6970 Burkesville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo Flatwoods Diner photo. Just a few hours after the Mary's House Donation Jar was set out at The Flatwoods Dinner, customers had donated $106 toward the remaining $6,707 needed to complete the $40,000 goal to get a new house for Mary McGuffin and her seven children. Above, Fran Neat accepts the money from Matt Baker, who thought it the idea would be a good way for people to donate twenties to see the project to completion. The donation jar will remain at the diner for a few days. "I hope doing our part will help get the work underway by mid-week," Mr. Baker said, and with a challenge to other coffee clubs around the county to see what they can raise. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lisa Fisher-Clark promotes Mary's House on WAIN 2012-08-04 - Wain Studio - Photo by Fran Neat. Lisa Clark recently conducted an interview with Debbie White and Don and Fran Neat on WAIN radio. The Mary's House Committee said, "Thank you WAIN for promoting this community-wide effort of building a house for Mary and her children." - - Fran Neat Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Appropriately, Mary gives first $20 in Mary's House challenge. 2012-08-04 - 6970 Burkesville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Impressed by stories of how much a gift of $20 can mean at the right time Matt Baker at Flatwoods Diner set up the Flatwoods Challenge to have coffee drinkers and diners pitch in with some twenties for the cause. "We want to do our part," he said, "and now that the project is so close to to its goal, we want to do our part, however big or small it may be, to help see Mary's House built." Coincidentally, "The first $20 in the ketchup jar converted to a donation box was from another Mary - Mary Keltner." She said, "I'd been meaning to contribute and this is a easy way to do it. Baker added, "Our effort may not raise over a couple of hundred dollars, but if other stores around the county were to do what we're doing, we might be able to get last money raised by the middle of next week, so I'm challenging other country stores to do the same thing." Wouldn't that make Fran Neat's statement, "God's Amazing Grace is at work in our community," be downright prophetic if by Prayer Meeting on Wednesday night, August 8, 2012, there could be a prayers of thanks for a challenge met, a goal completed, and work could be begun? (Picture taken early this morning)- EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tree in a tree at Columbia City Cemetery 2012-08-04 - 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Walking Columbia.While on a stroll in one of my favorite spots in Columbia, the City Cemetery, Mom and I noticed this scene: A little mulberry tree growing from a burned out hole in the side of this huge old tree. We weren't sure what kind of tree the host tree is, but it's located at the top of the hill in the old part of the cemetery, near the marker for Colonel Wolford. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Betty's OKCC on board for Mary's House 2012-08-04 - 2339 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Fran Neat. Well-known local restaurant "on board" for Mary's House:Owner, Betty Ollestad, and her staff of OK Country Cooking located at 2339 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY, are happy to lend a hand in this worthy project. Pictured, from left are Sherry Williams, Peggy Begley, and Pam Miller. Breaking ground will happen as soon as the money is collected. Please send your contributions now so that the family can be moved into their new home before Christmas. - Fran Neat Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Supt. Mike Deaton will be on Dialogue with John Chowning 2012-08-04 - WLCU Broadcast Studios, 203 West Broadway, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Christina L. Kern. CU photo. Campbellsville University's John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president of CU, right, interviews Mike Deaton, Campbellsville Independent Schools superintendent as part of a series on "Education Today in Campbellsville and Taylor County," on his "Dialogue on Public Issues" show on Campbellsville University's WLCU-TV. The show will air Sunday, August 12 at 8amET; Monday, August 13 at 1:30pmET and 6:30pmET; Tuesday, August 14 at 1:30pmET and 6:30pmET; Wednesday, August 15 at 1:30pmET and 6:30pmET; Thursday, August 16 at 8pmET and Friday, August 17 at 8pmET. The show is aired on Campbellsville's cable channel 10 and WLCU FM 88.7 at 8amET Sunday, August 12, 2012. Joan C. McKinney, Campbellsville University Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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