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Heartland Parkway meeting #2: Where it hurts 2009-03-18 - Columbia, KY . The OVERLAY SHOWING A NEARLY COMMON ROUTEfor all the options for the proposed four-lane Heartland Parkway/KY 55 suggest major grief in the passage between Betty's OK Country Cooking on the West Side of the Road and Trinity United Methodist Church on the East. The Wm. Davenport Fellowship Hall is the large white-roofed building in the center of the photo at right, and the sanctuary of Trinity is just to the right. The thinner green lines show the right of way fence, which takes in most of Betty's and scrapes right up against Trinity. Lower left Rich Ollestad of Betty's OK Country Cooking, in lime shirt, couldn't believe that the state would consider knocking out a major South Central Kentucky institution which employs 20 people, while right, Bro.Bill Davenport is being cheer by an old Gradyville, KY home-day chat with Paul Hayes, editor of the Adair Progressand favorite son of Gradyville. Bro. Davenport has historic property in Gradyville. Still, later he said there was little to cheer in the patch the road takes by the church with the hall which bears his name, or, on north out the road, at his home, which loses its front yard. Heartland Parkway planners at the Tuesday, March 17, 2009 meeting projected funding might allow construction of the parkway by 2017, a mere 8 years away. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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