Towers of Columbia, KY 2012-07-29 - Lindsey Hill, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Maybe it's because the onion shaped bulb of the water tower reminds of Islamic architecture when coupled with the antenna which serve as spires to the eye. Whatever - the sight of the Lindsey Wilson water tower always brings to mind a title of a Rose McCaulay book, The Towers of Trebizond even though there seems little in common between a United Methodist College, the Columbia/Adair Utilities District, and the book other than that the book is set in an Islamic country, Turkey, and it's about church people from England traveling there with some bent on converting the natives to Anglican Christianity, a denomination from which the Methodists escaped in its beginnings. The picture was taken over Burton's Tin Shop. Unsure what the antenna are about, and don't buy into the conspiracy theories that Homeland Security is spying on us from all tower and prominence around. -EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color - Trumpet Vine Feast 2012-07-29 - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. The fruit of the trumpet vine sweats a sweetish, saltish concoction which flies and bees of all sorts are continually harvesting. Each individual is fighting for space and sometimes the fight turns deadly when smaller Sweat Bees become part of the harvest, as evidenced in the photo, to wind up in the wasps nest for sustenance for their babies in the larvae stage. -Billy Joe Fudge Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kids Need Kicks nears deadline with lot of momentum 2012-07-29 - F&FNB, 124 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Pat Dorman, center with envelope presented a monetary donation on behalf of the Egypt Christian Church to the Kids Need Kicks drive, which is finishing up this year's drive on Monday, July 30, 2012. Accepting for Kids Need Kicks are, left Mindy Smith and son Braxton, and right Cricket McCloud, the founder or KNK. Although the committee is assured of meeting the needs of the applicants for the Kids Need Kicks program, there is still an urgent need for funds for emergencies during the year. Kids Need Kicks annual goal is 300 pairs of new shoes and many more pairs of socks. $30 buys a new pair of shoes, and $10 buys 10 pairs of socks. The rewards, smiles on the faces of the kids, and readiness for school, makes it all worth the effort, Cricket McCloud says. If you would like to contribute to the ongoing fund Please make checks payable to "Family Resource Center" and mail to PO Box 242, Columbia, KY 42728. If you have any questions, please contact Cricket McCloud at (270) 385-9633 or Mindy Smith at (270) 250-6060. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mystery photo: Who are those fellas with Morris Butler? Where? 2012-07-29 - Photo from the collection of Ralph Roy Waggener. An old photo and a little history - Another great old black and white photo from the collection of Ralph Roy Waggener, who sent them to CM in a portfolio and without explaining what was in each of the photos. Part of this one is obvious. Everybody knows that the man seated second from left in the photo was Morris Butler, who was not only famous as the sidekick of Metcalfe County native and Greensburg lawyer Robert Dowell, but famous in his own right as a Great Green County Attorney and one of the Butlers of Sulphur Well. The speaker favors former Governor Happy Chandler, and the guy on the left looks like one-time candidate for governor Terry McBrayer. It could have been in the Democratic primaries of 1979, when the fried chicken faction of the party took over and eventually put John Y. Brown in as Governor of the State. Among those Brown defeated were the great Stateswoman Thelma Stovall, Julian Carroll, long tall Hopkinsville Mayor George Adkins, Carroll Hubbard, and maybe others. With not a great deal of help from Adair County voters, Brown, better known as the husband of Miss America Phyllis George Brown, defeated Republican Louis B. Nunn, who had paved practically every mile of main gravel roads in Adair County, the Cumberland Parkway opened Adair County to the world, and Nunn and Bob Shirley of Edmonton established Kentucky State Police Post 15 in Columbia, and put an awful lot of people to work on the state payroll from this area. During the KFC administration, Adair County got all of two-tenths of a mile of new road, the stretch from Russell Road at the Murphy Place to Westlake Regional Hospital, that through acquaintance of a Lindsey Wilson College President with a Western Kentiucky Contractor, Drua Scott of Henderson. That's all we have on the picture. If anyone has a further update, let us know. - ED WAGGENER Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Girls golf led by two seniors at Green Co. Invitational 2012-07-29 - Green County Golf Club, 158 Golf Course Road, Greensburg, KY - Photo by Lauren Goodin, Campbellsville University Admissions Counselor. Adair County Girls Golf - Adair County High School Girls Golf team was led by its two seniors, Ashley Goodin, 88 right, above and Abby Royse 99. left Junior, Rachel Phipps shot 105 and 7th grader Hailey Taylor shot 130. -Kimberly Goodin, ACHS Girls Golf Coach Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mystery photo received: What is Big Al up to? 2012-07-29 - Photo by Innocent Bystander. This mysterious photo with two people looking a lot like Wichita and Big Al Owens, appeared in our inbox this morning. Wonder what they are up to? More - we hope - later. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Last cold-hardy banana plant of the season 2012-07-29 - Adair Extension Office, 409 Fairground ST, Columbia, KY - Photo by Barbara Armitage. This cold hardy banana tree was one of the quickly bought items at the Farmers Market on Saturday morning, July 28, 2012. It was the only one offered that day, and the last of the season. It sold 37 minutes after appearing online. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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