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Rev. Joey N. Welsh: August 13, 2006. Mt. Gilead

By the Rev. Joey N. Welsh
E-mail: joey_n_welsh@hotmail.com

LIFE-LONG LEARNING AND FULLNESS OF APPRECIATION
In a recent sermon I referenced the novel Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. This book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2006 Grawemeyer Award. I think it is a wonderful story, centering on a man who is thoroughly good and caring. The Reverend John Ames, the narrator, is a third-generation pastor, the Congregational pastor in a small southwest Iowa town in the 1950s.


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Where the Bypass will pass by Adair Co. Elementary School



2006-08-13 - Adair County Elementary School - Photo by CM staff. The new Western Bypass will run in front of Adair County Elementary School along the tree line seen through the windows at the front of the school. Profiled are Adair County School Board Member Marsha Walker, Rev. Joe Payne, and Board Chairman Mike Harris. The 72,000 sf building will be ready in time to let school start on August 24, 2006, Project Manager Darrell Wheeler and several sub-contractors promised at a special Adair County Board of Education meeting Thursday, August 10, 2006.
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Prayer for Schools at Columbia United Methodist Church tonight at 7:00pm CT

Sunday, August 13, 2006, at 7:00pm CT:The Columbia United Methodist Church, 202 Burkesville Street, invites everyone to a service of prayer for the Adair County School System. The evening will include prayers of thanksgiving for the Knifley, Sparksville and Shepherd Grade Centers and intercessory prayers for administrators, support staff, teachers, students and parents. Everyone is invited.



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Both drivers injured when one runs stop sign

Two people were injured in an accident at 1:05pm today, Sunday, August 13, 2005, near Bloomfield, KY.

State Police say Orvan Henricks, 83, Bloomfield, was traveling north on KY 555 in a 1991 Pontiac, ran the stop sign, and drove into the path of Kathryn Boyd, 42, Frankfort, KY, who was operating a 2002 Toyota.


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Letter: Guerilla Gardening brightens public spaces

Dear Friends,The idea of "guerilla gardening" has caught on in some places. Thisis the concept of folks taking over abandoned and neglected spots of landand planting on them#or seeding them with wildflowers, sometimessurreptitiously. The movement began in England, but it has spread to otherlocales.

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Birthdays and Anniversaries for August 13
Happy Birthday, Ashley Daniel (1987) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Blake Cowan | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Calvin Aaron (1927) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Cindy Burton (1968) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Clara Mae Jessee | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Devonna Vanarsdall McVay | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Donald Bault | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Hayden Hancock (2003) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Firquin | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jon Loy | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Mandy Bauer (1980) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy birthday, Marguerite Keen | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Mary Helen Bennett (1943) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Peyton Keith | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Rhonda Grant Roberts | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Warren Hickerson | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dale Lunsford, Russell Springs, KY (1929-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, David Wayne Gaddie, Campbellsville, KY (1947-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Charles Cottrell, SR.., Taylor Co., KY (1932) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mr. Robert Allen Simpson, Green Co., KY (1943) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Cheyanne Elizabeth Barrows, Casey Co., KY (2010-2010) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Sheila Willis, Burkesville, KY (1974) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Alma Chewning Philpott, Adair Co. native (1920) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Linda Spears Anderson, Cumberland Co., KY (1939-2011) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Irene Pelston, Adair Co., KY (1937) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Opal M. Clements, Dunnville, KY (1939) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Amedeo Politano, Taylor Co., KY (1918) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Betty Jo Clements, Casey Co., KY (1938) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dorothy Lawson, Russell County, KY (1919) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Zelma Mae Martin, Taylor Co., KY (1929) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Noah Lee Peavley, 79, Hustonville, KY (1935-2014) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Osburn Roy, 75, Russell County, KY (1939-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Willie M. Hoosier, 75, Taylor Co., KY (1940-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Lathenia Hutchison Cornett, 84, Bow, KY (1931-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Timmie Edwards, 63, Center, KY (1952-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Wilma Ann Gaskin Ballenger, 80, Russell County, KY (1935-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Clifford Pruitt, Sr., Green County, KY (1938-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dallas R. Propes, Casey County, KY (1948-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Calvin Aaron, 89, Adair County, KY (1927-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Lora Mae Sallee Dudgeon, 79, Taylor County, KY (1938-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Gracie Wood, Taylor County, KY (1925-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Carl W. Loy, 91 Taylor County, KY (1926-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, James Blaine McWhorter, 57, Russell Co., KY (1960-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Annie-Laurie Cox, 95, Campbellsville, KY (1927-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Arnold Joseph Lee, 73, Burkesville, KY (1940-2013) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Bro. Dewey Ray Rooks, 75, Columbia, KY (1945-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Glenda Evans, 77, Columbia, KY (1946-2023) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Henrietta Wilson, 85, Russell Springs, KY Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Infant William Thomas Edwards (2017-2017) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, James Nolan Cundiff, Adair Co., KY WWII veteran (1922-2012) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Jinger Collette, 41, Taylor Co., KY Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Love Jackson, 93, Adair County, KY native (1926-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Rachael A. McKinney, 98, Russell Springs, KY (1918-2016) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Roger Dean (George) Medaris, 72, Russell Co., KY Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, William Harold Yarberry, 64, Columbia, KY (1957-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Brithday, Mattie Frances Romines Jessee (1924) | (Updates/Corrections)

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