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Daily News for Sunday, February 17, 2008
Obituary: James L. Montgomery, 86, WWII veteran COLUMBIAMAGAZINE.COM OBITUARIES Mr. Montgomery was the head of a highly respected family, a retired merchant and farmer, a member of the Columbia Christian Church, and a US Army veteran of World War II James L. Montgomery, 86, 1484 Pelly Lane, Columbia, KY, died Saturday, February 16, 2006, at 8:19pmCT, at Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia, KY. The funeral service will be Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 1:00pmCT, at Grissom-Martin Funeral Home with Bro. Terry White officiating. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 14:27:04 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Obituaries
Tom Chaney: Feb. 17, 2008: Grisham. The Appeal Of writers and their books: Review, John Grisham's The Appeal By Tom Chaney Email Tom Chaney: bookstore@scrtc.com John Grisham -- back on track My favorite writer of legal thrillers is home again with The Appeal [Doubleday, 2008]. In the last couple of years John Grisham wandered off the beaten path of legal fiction with a true crime tale The Innocent Man and the delightful story of Italian football -- the American variety, not soccer -- Playing for Pizza. Now, Grisham's twenty-first book is set back in his familiar home territory of Mississippi. The Krane Chemical Company had been dumping toxic waste in a rural Mississippi county known as cancer county, Mississippi. The Appeal opens with a jury awarding a 41 million dollars verdict for the plaintiff Jeanette Baker whose son and husband died of cancer caused by the defendant. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 14:09:19 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books
Garden Club members get request to help in GBBC Click here to see the latest Columbia, KY checklist counts To ColumbiaMagazine.com I have sent out messages to everyone I know to go out and count birds and report them to the Great Backyard Bird Count. The wind has finally died down a bit here so I am going to chuck theidea of cleaning the house and go count birds. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 13:32:54 | Comments | Printable version
Sammy Sneed is overall winner of Pack 888 Pinewood Derby Sammy Sneed, Brendan Hagy, Dyland Hancock, and Isaac Little will advance to the District Finals, coming up soon With one photo By Heather Bava The Cub Scout Pack 888 had their annual Pinewood Derby Saturday February 18, 2008.The overall winner of the Derby was Sammy Sneed.He also won first place for the Bear Den. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 13:12:13 | Comments | Printable version
Feedback: Thanks for prayer vigil for troops idea LETTERS & FEEDBACK To ColumbiaMagazine.com "Thank you" to Sandra Ford for suggesting a prayer vigil for our military!Adair County is well represented in our armed forces. Daniel will be home all week before deploying to Kandahar, Afghanistan in early March. Kandahar was in the news just this morning. Daniel is one of the 3200 Marines deploying to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban in that area. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 13:01:39 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Auctions and Sales
Tony Harvey finds 118 birds, 31 species, in 3 hours Click Here to Post one of your 2008 Adair County GBBC bird count checklist now, Click here to see the latest Columbia, KY checklist counts Tony Harvey says numbers could have been as much as 3 times higher in warmer weather. He's suggesting serious watchers in the county form a group. By Tony Harvey I had almost forgotten all about the backyard count until my wife reminded me of it. As most of you know that yesterday was milder than most. That should help in spotting more species than one would normally be able to see. Within a little over 3 hours I was able to spot a total of 118 birds, and a total of 31 different types or species. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 12:31:18 | Comments | Printable version
Hal Roach writes from SC with location of a barn owl for GBBC To Post one of your 2008 Adair County GBBC bird count checklist now, Click Here To ColumbiaMagazine.com I noticed that you are trying to find an owl for the 2008 Great Backyard Bird Count. Although I live in Greenville, South Carolina, I know where you can find one. My mom and dad, Ruby and H.W. Roach, live on Highway 206. A barn owl lives in their red barn. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 11:55:00 | Comments | Printable version
(ADV) What's Cooking in Adair Co. today, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 To Post your Adair County Great Backyard Bird Count bird count checklist this morning. Click Here If you don't have a computer, bring your list by Bob's and we'll post it for you Bob's Country Kitchen & General Store. MENU. Sunday dinner (or lunch, if that's what you call it): BAKED COUNTRY HAM, a real treat! The Interplanetary Pie Capitol of the Universe is up at Vester on KY 206 today. Breakfast (with pie if you want it) is ready, there's 40 coffee, and they'll box up a whole pie for you to take home for just $8.00 2008-02-17 10:58:03 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Food
LWC splits pair of games with Cumberlands SPORTS@Columbiamagazine.com Women upset visitors to tie for first place in MVC With two photos By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs The Lindsey Wilson College women's basketball team upset University of the Cumberlands (KY) 67-65 Saturday afternoon at Biggers Sports Center. But the LWC men were not as fortunate as they fell 73-56 to the visiting Patriots in the second game. In the women's game, the Blue Raiders (17-9 overall and 5-1 in the Mid-South Conference) withstood a final assault from the Patriots (19-7, 4-2) to upset No. 20 Cumberlands (Ky.) 67-65. LWC was led by freshman center Viktoria Krell's game-high 20 points and 12 rebounds her eighth double-double of the season. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 09:24:55 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Sports
Notes from the 2008 Great Backyard Bird Count McDonald's birdologists assist in parking lot starling count. Russell Guy Perkins remembers John Robert Potts story about owl's ability to rotate his head; an eagle over Columbia Western Bypass (but not yet reported in GBBC). Pewee offers skunk count. Doing checklist with grandkids can be a learning experience. Still no ospreys, owls, or eagles reported from Adair County. Sue Stivers tells how to attract nuthatches. To Post your bird count checklist this morning. Click Here By Ed Waggener They don't make owls like they used to have at Coburg. Russell Guy Perkins said he learned about the owls from the late John Robert Potts who told this story at the Coburg store, and it was passed on to Mr. Perkins. "I'd been told owls could turn their heads clean around," Mr. Potts related. "And I wouldn't have believed it until I saw it with my own eyes. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 07:59:22 | Comments | Printable version
LWC inducts Don Green, Bill Elder into Sport Hall of Fame SPORTS@Columbiamagazine.com Two photos with story By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs COLUMBIA, Ky. Two former Lindsey Wilson College greats were inducted into the LWC Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday night. Former men's basketball coach Don Green and former Athletics Director Bill Elder were inducted at a ceremony held at Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center. Elder was the first administrator to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and Green was the 11th former men's basketball player or coach to enter the Hall of Fame. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 05:33:08 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Sports
Today, Sun. Feb. 17, 2008: Great music services today Help Columbia pass Louisville in bird count! Add your checklist this morning. Columbia was now second only to Louisville in Kentucky in total checklists at 5:06amCT, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 Click here to see for yourself Scroll to end of Today! feature for featured photos for today Click Here for song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," with music by John R. Johnson. The unofficial Black National Anthem. The lyrics were written by James Wesley Johnson to commemorate Lincoln's Birthday, February 12. EVENTS: Spotlighting, in brief, today's events for Day 48 of 2008 (Leap Year - 318 days remaining).
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Adair Countians are doing great job in Great Backyard Bird Count Adair Countians are doing a great job. Columbia is now #2 in checklists, in Kentucky, behind Louisville, just ahead of the State's third principal city, Lexington, beginning the GBBC's 3rd Day. Links to beautifulShamarie Claiborne, Pen, Tony Harvey, and other bird photographers of Adair County follow. At 4:25amCT, Columbia, KY was 10 checklists behind the top locality in the State of Kentucky, Louisville, but only two checklists ahead of Lexington in the National Audubon Society and Cornell Ornithological Lab's Great Backyard Bird Count. If you like birds, regardless of your knowledge of them we hope everybody in every family will take five to fifteen minutes or more if you enjoy the process, and count the species, once in the morning and/or once in the evening today, Sunday, February 17, 2008, and the last day of the GBBC, Monday, February 18, 2008. The process is a very simple 4-step one that anyone who can navigate ColumbiaMagazine.com will find a snap. Article continues... click title or click here to read whole article. 2008-02-17 04:49:36 | Comments | Printable version Birthdays and Anniversaries for February 17 Happy Birthday, Addison Phillips | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Brianna Bertram | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Briar McVay (1998) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Brooke Harmon (1993) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Caitlyn Grace Kelsay | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Casey Bennett (1985) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Chris Watts | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Connie Phelps | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Dakota L Stotts (1998) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Dale Smith | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Debbie Dunn | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Deborah Curry | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Delores J. Fletcher | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Fran Neat | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Gene Robinson | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Jessica Stotts (1992) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Jordan Lee Young | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Kenny Buck of Browning-Pike (2002) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Lester Tallon | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Misty Curry (1987) | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Ronnie Slaven | (Updates/Corrections) Happy Birthday, Stephen Westmoreland | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Willis Benningfield, Elkhorn, KY (1933-2015) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Evelyn Grant McCloud (1920) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Mr. Randy Simpson, Green Co., KY (1948) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Barbara J. Stephens, Russell Co., KY (1943-2010) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Audrey Pearl McGowan, Russell Co., KY (1923-2011) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Jenny Lynn Coffey, Russell Co., KY (1953) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Ruth Overstreet, Taylor Co., KY (1929) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Casey Adam Bennett, Adair Co., KY (1985) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Charles Leon Hines, Casey County, KY (1942) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Grethan Wethington, 89, Columbia, KY (1923) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Reebie Humphrey, Marrowbone, KY (1919-2014) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Colleen Meece Foley, Russell County, KY (1936-2014) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Ricky Humphress, Adair County, KY (1962-2014) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Bonnie Gale Ashbrook, Adair County, KY (1948-2014) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Alva Mae Morrison, 96, Green Co., KY (1919-2015) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Michael Wethington, Taylor Co., KY (1976-2015) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Geraldine (Lawson) Brewer, 72, Taylor Co., KY (1943-2015) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Michael Cheatham, 59, Adair Co., KY (1956-2015) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Phillip Lee Stapp, 70, Russell County, KY (1945-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Bettie Marie Black, Russell County, KY (1957-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Genia Fay Sherrill, Taylor Co., KY (1961-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Paul Daniel Peavley, 74, Hustonville, KY (1942-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Norene Klein, 90, Knifley, KY (1926-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Connie Ann Humphrey, Adair Co., KY (1961-2016) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Raymond Melvin Broussard, Jr., Taylor Co., KY/Calcasieu Parish, LA native (1950-2017) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Woody Gosser , 74, Russell County, KY (1943-2017) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Edwin Murphy, Casey County, KY (1923-2017) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Elizabeth Anna Bell Denson Emerson, Casey Co. KY (1921-2017) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, William T. (Buddy) Cooper, Putnam Co. IN/Adair Co., KY native (1940-2018) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, David Louis (Buck) Veatch, Taylor County, KY (1945-2018) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Cleo Underwood, 91, Campbellsville, KY (1930-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Dwight Douglas Miller, Jamestown, KY (1954-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Earle P. Clark, 59, Greensburg, KY (1962-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Frances Harmon Pendleton | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Glen Atwell, Green County, KY (1922) | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Johnny Thomas Greer, 63, Greensburg, KY (1958-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections) In Memory Birthday, Nelma (Sue) Stargel Loy, 79, Adair Co., KY native (1942-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections) Events scheduled for Sunday, February 17, 2008 All events are listed in Central Time. Submit your upcoming event using our Contact Form.
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