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Lost Dog - Great Pyrenees pup in Clay Ridge area

Mike Meyer writes:
Lost Great Pyrenees pup in the Clay Ridge area. Call 270-634-0622. --Mike Meyer

See also: CM Animals


2013-12-08 23:30:19 | Comments | Printable version

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Natalie Bertram rings the bell for Salvation Army



2013-12-08 - IGA, 900 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo From Salvation Army.
Natalie Bertram, ACHS student ambassador, gratefully accepts a donation from Ellen Zornes this Christmas season. From Salvation Army

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Lina Skaggs, 89, Russell County, KY (1924-2013)

She was a native of Fentress County, TN, and a resident of Russell County, KY, at the time of her death. She was the widow of Cricket Skaggs. She was the matriarch of a large, respected family. She leaves 29 direct living descendants
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Lina Skaggs, 89, Leech Road, Jamestown, KY, died Saturday, December 7, 2013, at Fair Oaks Nursing home, Jamestown, KY.

The funeral will be at 10amCt, Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at the H.E. Pruitt Memory Chapel, 202 N Main Street, Jamestown, KY with Pastor Johnny Dunbar, Pastor Lindsey Cornett, and Pastor Jim Kingrey officiating. Burial will be in Jamestown Cemetery, N Main Street, Jamestown, KY. Visitation will be Monday, December 9, 2013, after 5pmCT.


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2013-12-08 15:16:15 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Obituaries

Virginia Grace England, 83, Metcalfe Co., KY (d. Dec. 8, 2013)

She was a daughter of the late Hubert and Lillie Kingrey Hood and the widow of Dwight England. She leaves 8 direct and 1 step living descendant. She was a former employee of Lorillard Tobacco Co.
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Virginia Grace "Jenny" England, age 83 of Edmonton, KY, died Sunday, December 08, 2013 at the Metcalfe Co. Health Care Center, Edmonton, KY.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, December10, at 1pmCT, at the McMurtrey Funeral Home, 2232 Summer Shade Road, Summer Shade, KY, with burial to follow in the Happy Valley Memorial Garden in Glasgow, KY. Visitation will be Monday, December 9, 2013, beginning at 2pmCT.


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2013-12-08 13:47:16 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Obituaries

Official Crowd Estimate, Christmas in Columbia: Over 3,000 total

The official Columbia Police Department estimate for Saturday's Christmas in Columbia activities is over 3,000; estimate for the Parade alone: 2,200-2,500

By Ofc. Josh Brockman, Public Affair Officer
City Hall, 116 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY. Jason Cross, Chief

Our department estimated the crowd in attendance for the parade at between 2200 and 2500. This estimate would be conservative, due to the extreme cold front that moved through most enjoyed the parade from the warmth of their vehicle making it harder to estimate how many people were in each vehicle so we went the average family size of 3 per vehicle but many vehicles were jammed to capacity.

There are roughly 500 parking spots available with road frontage on Jamestown street and Burkesville street and not a one was open. We feel over 3000 people enjoyed the activities throughout the entire days festivities. - Ofc. Josh Brockman


2013-12-08 13:00:42 | Comments | Printable version

Betty Marie Fields, 64, Casey Co., KY (1949-2013)

She was a native of West Virginia and a resident of Casey County, KY, at the time of her death. She leaves 18 direct living descendants. She lived a peaceful life and loved her children and grandchildren.
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Betty Marie Fields, of Liberty, KY, passed away Saturday, December 7, 2013 at the Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital. She was 64.

Funeral services will be at 1pmCT/2pmET, Saturday December 14, 2013 at McKinney-Brown Funeral Home, 752 Campbellsville Street, Liberty, KY. Burial will be in Brush Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday, December 13, 2013, 3pm-8pmCT,4pm-9pmET, at the funeral home.


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2013-12-08 10:47:41 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Obituaries

Fred Russell, Russell County, KY (1939-2013)

He was a Veteran of US Navy, a member of the Bethesda Community Fellowship Church and retired from Superior Battery Company in Russell County, KY.
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Fred Russell, 74, of Russell Springs, died Saturday, December 7, 2013 at his home.

Funeral service for Fred Russell will be 1pmCT, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at the Bernard Funeral Home Chapel, 367 N Main Street, Russell Springs, KY, with Bro. Bobby Dunbar & Bro. Billy Dunbar officiating. Friends may call after 10amCT, Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Burial will b in the McBeath Cemetery.


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2013-12-08 10:05:10 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Obituaries

Traffic signal down in Southern Elizabethtown

By Chris Jessie

Signal is down at US31W intersection of Lincoln Parkway and Western Kentucky Parkway. It did not fall on any vehicles that we are aware of. We are not certain of the reason for the span wire failure at this point.


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2013-12-08 09:45:41 | Comments | Printable version

Pam Kermeen: Items were found quickly

Pam Kermeen writes:

Columbia Magazine.com does it again! My items were found! I received a phone call from Lee Ann Jessie this morning before I even fired up my computer. Thank you! Truly, "Qe are blessed!" - Pam Kermeen
Pam Kermeeen: Thanks for your kind words. We have the full UMC-level ceremony and retired Classified Ad No. 12661 with the highest honors. And we give you equal honor for letting us know, saving readers and you any trouble. There are still some lost items in Lost & Found which don't deserve any praise yet - folks are still missing stuff. Hope we have good news soon. - EW

2013-12-08 09:10:52 | Comments | Printable version

Gradyville Baptist Church cancels services for today

All services at Gradyville Baptist Church, 159 Gradyville Church Road, Gradyville, KY, for today, Sunday, December 8, 2013, are cancelled due to icy conditions, including Sunday School at 9:30amCT, Sunday worship at 10:45amCT, and Sunday evening worship at 6pmCT. - Bro. Mike Bennett, deacon

2013-12-08 08:46:58 | Comments | Printable version

Mass is cancelled Sun., Dec. 8, 2013 at Good Shepherd

Mass is cancelled for 9amCT, today, Sunday, December 8, 2013, at Church of the Good Shepherd, 1217 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY. - Kathryn Krug

2013-12-08 08:15:42 | Comments | Printable version

More than 500 area residents attend LWC Christmas Carnival

Click on headline for article with photo album and over 8 photos; lots of LWC students, Columbia area kids

By Duane Bonifer
News from Lindsey Wilson College

COLUMBIA, KY- More than 500 area residents attended the third-annual Lindsey Wilson College Christmas Carnival in the Doris and Bob Holloway Health & Wellness Center. Sponsored by LWC Campus Recreation, the carnival included wares by local vendors, crafts and inflatables for children, musical performances by college and community church groups, and a visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Hosts were provided by students from the LWC Recreation, Tourism and Sports Management Program, International Club and Holloway Health & Wellness Center. - DUANE BONIFER, Lindsey Wilson College


2013-12-08 06:19:21 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Lindsey Wilson College

Happy Tail: Christmas Fund Raising

Peg Schaeffer introduces a simple way to have a pet vicariously - for those who love animals but for personal reasons can't have one full time at home. She's launching "Sponsor a Dog," project at Sugarfood Farm Rescue. She writes: 'We have lots of adoptable dogs waiting for Furever Homes as well as several dogs that are just not adoptable. We have fear biters, dogs with health problems, dogs that refuse to be housebroken, or dogs that are aggressive. We also have dogs that have been with us for so long it wouldn't be fair to adopt them out now. We won't euthanize a dog, unless for severe health issues, so the problem children will stay with us for life.'
The next earlier Happy Tails: Happy Tail: Thanksgiving 2013 with fellow immigrants Posted December 1, 2013

By Peg Schaeffer

We're really looking forward to Christmas this year. Sugarfoot Farm Rescue has been working with new ideas to raise funds for the dogs. We are having a "Sponsor a Dog" project. Often we get calls from people who have found a dog and can't keep it because they either already have too many dogs or they can't afford the expense of a dog. So we've made it easy for you. We have lots of adoptable dogs waiting for Furever Homes as well as several dogs that are just not adoptable. We have fear biters, dogs with health problems, dogs that refuse to be housebroken, or dogs that are aggressive. We also have dogs that have been with us for so long it wouldn't be fair to adopt them out now. We won't euthanize a dog, unless for severe health issues, so the problem children will stay with us for life.


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2013-12-08 05:31:30 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Happy Tails by Peg Shaefer

Carol Perkins: O Christmas tree, you'll be the death of me

In the old days, getting a real Christmas tree, a real Eastern Red Cedar one, but a lot of of work. A lot of work. But not as much as the PRELIT one our heroine bought this year. A food for thought column, written, as always, in the inimicable style with unique Metcalfe County humor only found in the column "Carol Perkins." - CM
The next earlier column: Carol Perkins: Have we leaped over Thanksgiving . Posted November 24, 2013

By Carol Perkins

"O' Christmas tree, you'll be the death of me." A person might think that putting up a PRELIT artificial tree would be a reasonably easy task. After all, compared to the olden days of trekking through the woods with a handsaw and a trusty dog close behind to scare off savage beasts, eyeing a tree from all directions to make sure there are no holes in the branches, cutting it down so as not to injure the limbs, and then lugging it to the truck or the trunk of a car, that moving a tree from the attic or basement would be simple. Well, it should be but...


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2013-12-08 04:40:31 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Carol Perkins

Tom Chaney: P.D. James: Better and Better

Of Writers And Their Books: P.D. James: Better and Better. Tom says, while James is a superb weaver of plot, she draws her characters with subtlety and depth. This column first appeared 8 January 2006.
The next earlier Tom Chaney column: The People of the Book

By Tom Chaney

P.D. James: Better and Better

No day is entirely gloomy when a new P.D. James novel comes along. I celebrated the breaking of the year with The Lighthouse, the latest Adam Dalgliesh mystery. It is so fine that it is difficult to talk about without waxing inordinately incoherent.


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2013-12-08 03:40:25 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books

Chuck Hinman: IJMA. How I Want To Be Remembered

Chuck Hinman: How I Want To Be Remembered. Chuck says his recognizable gift is teaching but it was replaced by caregiving (mercy) while he took care of his wife during her final Alzheimer's days.
Next earlier Chuck Hinman column - Chicken and Noodles: the Good Ol' Homemade Kind

By Chuck Hinman

How I Want To Be Remembered

Several years ago when I was a member of the Imperuvians Writing Club, we were asked to write on the subject: how we wanted to be remembered. This is what I wrote in 2006.


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2013-12-08 03:35:59 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Chuck Hinman - Reminiscences

Today, SUNDAY with CM, December 8, 2013

Haiku by Robert Stone for December 8, 2013:
Little wind whispers,
not words in dead languages,
are fitter for dreams.
--Robert Stone, Sunday, 8 December 2013.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 817, in progress

2013 Christmas Stories Book for 2013,
with many new, 2013 stories added this year, some CM Christmas Classics from years past.

Great Columns, Stories from Last Few Days
Mostly from Sunday with CM, December 1, 2013 and a few others from the past week. Please note date of posting Search Box for to find your family members in Veterans List
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2013-12-08 03:29:28 | Comments | Printable version | See topic Today


Birthdays and Anniversaries for December 8
Happy Anniversary, Loy and Rita Coomer | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Anniversary, Sharon and Steve Stotts | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Anniversary, Troy and Beth Kimbler (1995) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Christa Celeste Bardin (2001) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Hayley Elizabeth Coffey (2005) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jaclyn Smith | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jo Schorman (1958) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Kelly Holland (1968) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Lynda Wilkerson | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Marcy McCanmmish | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Nona M. Hadley (1922) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Phillip Franklin (1972) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Red Burris | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Talyn Wheeler | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Tamara Keen | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Tevin Harvey (2004) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Orphra Hreha, 88, Casey County, KY (1928-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, William Eudean Workman, Greensburg, KY (1926-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ella J. Holmes, Campbellsville, KY (1931-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Leslie Brown (Red) Thrasher, Burkesville, KY (1939-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Charles Thomas (Tom) Milby, Campbellsville, KY (1942-2020) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, James Robert AtkinsonTaylor Co., KY (1966) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Susan Grant, Adair Co., KY (1964) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Delma Lee McQueary, Russell Co., KY (1921) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Bonnie Sue Gaffron, Adair County, KY (1950) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Vaughan Sharp, Taylor County, KY (1937-2012) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Charlene Dowell Dunbar, Russell County, KY (1947) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Boyce W. Pickett, Green County, KY (1921-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Bro. Sam Burris, Adair Co., KY (1950-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Betty D. Lewis, Summersville, KY (1935-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Eli Parrigin, Columbia, KY (1947-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Billy Tupman, 79, Russell County, KY (1934-2014) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Willie (Billy) Brewington, Cumbeland Co., KY (1938-2014) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, David Alan (Jigger) Ray, Green Co., KY (1960-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Alva Reeder Lofton, 82, Russell County, KY | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Fred (Freddie) Luttrell, Casey County, KY (1943-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Lisa G. Edwards, Taylor Co., KY (1963-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mr. Jason Eli (Jay) Johnson, Campbellsville, KY (1974-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, George Wallace Shirley, Metcalfe Co., KY (1946-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Drama (LaVerne) McGinnis Davenport, Casey County, Kentucky (1932-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Bro. Bobby Clark, Bethelridge, Casey County, KY (1943-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Johnnie Brenda Finley Harlan, 74, Burkesville, KY (1943-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Leon Johnson , 67, Taylor County, KY (1950-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Cheryl Jones Powell, 53, Albany, KY (1967-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dr. William R. (Randy) Davenport, 95, Campbellsville, KY (1925-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dwayne T. Coomer, Russell Co., KY, Adair Co. KY native (1964-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Janet Wood, 65, Adair Co., KY native (1955-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Margie Breeding Coomer, 98, Columbia, KY (1924-2023) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Rhonda Lee Turner, 71, Cave City, KY (1949-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Sherlene Rooks, 72, Columbia, KY (1949-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Shirley Patterson Underwood, 73, Campbellsville, KY (1949-2023) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Shirley T. Burton, 81, Columbia, KY (1939-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)

Events scheduled for Sunday, December 8, 2013
All events are listed in Central Time. Submit your upcoming event using our Contact Form.
6:00amCTTime to check CM Directory of Churches for Sunday worship service schedules. | (ID:25578, Comment)
9:00amCTMass is cancelled Sun., Dec. 8, 2013 at Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia, KY | (ID:25753, Comment)
9:45amCTGradyville Baptist Church cancels services for today (DETAILS) | (ID:25754, Comment)
10:00amCTChancel Choir presents Christmas cantata, 'O Holy Night'
First United Methodist Church, 317 E Main Street (MAP), Campbellsville, KY | (ID:25736, Comment)
NoonCTPause for Chimes at Noon, Downtown Columbia. Two selections | (ID:25519, Comment)
Services, Liberty, KY, for Lewis (Bud) Wright, Casey County, KY (1929-2013) | (ID:25747, Comment)
1:00pmCTColumbia Woman's Club annual Christmas Home Tour - Fundraiser for Lindsey Wilson College Scholarships. $5 - Start at any of 5 points. Homes featured: DETAILS/PHOTOS ALL HOUSES | (ID:25685, Comment)
Services, Campbellsville, KY, for Nellie Gabehart, Taylor County, KY (1910-2013) | (ID:25748, Comment)
2:00pmCTAntioch United Methodist to present A Main Street Christmas | (ID:25395, Comment)
Services, Freedom Separate Baptist Church, Kody Pelly, 23, Adair County, KY (1990-2013) | (ID:25742, Comment)
5:00pmCTChimes at the Evening, Downtown Columbia. Two selections | (ID:25551, Comment)
6:00pmCTAntioch United Methodist to present A Main Street Christmas | (ID:25396, Comment)
CANCELED. RESCHEDULED to Dec. 11-12-13, 20-13
"Journey to the Manger." LIVE, drive through Christmas program 6pm-9pmCT | (ID:25711, Comment)
8:30pmCTLWC Volleyball faces Dordt College, Gateway Arena, 401 Gordon DR, Sioux City, IA | (ID:25435, Comment)

 

































 
 
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