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Courtney C. Ste-vens, daughter of Ron and Annabel Stevens of Bandana, will publish her first novel on Feb. 27. The 1997 gradu-ate of Ballard Memo-rial High School will be doing a book sale and signing in the library of her alma mater on Feb. 27 from 5-6:30 p.m.,.

In addition to the book signing, Stevens also will be work-ing with small student groups at BMHS and Ballard County Middle School on Feb. 27.

Stevens gained de-grees in counseling and Christian ministries from Lindsey Wilson College and Campbells-ville University. She is an adjunct professor at Lindsey Wilson Col-lege and a former youth minister. She lives in Nashville, Tenn., where she is an assistant di-rector for The Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Mid-South.

For more informa-tion about Stevens or the book, visit her blog at http://www.quart-land.blogspot.com.

Wickliffe jailer arrested on misconduct charges

Barlow to hold meeting on ordinance on Feb. 25

Kentucky’s first ‘Pay It Forward Day’ proclamation signed locally

DrIver’s eDucatIonBallard County’s emergency responders get a

chance to train on state’s $1.7-million ERV simulator

Staff reportBallard County Deputy Jailer Tony

Cantrell II, of Wickliffe, was arrested Sat-urday on a Class A misdemeanor charge of Official Misconduct, 1st degree.

The investigation into the allegations against the 35-year-old Cantrell began Friday after Kentucky State Police were contacted by Mike Horn, the Ballard

County Jailer. Detectives had obtained enough evidence by Saturday to get an arrest warrant for Cantrell.

Sergeant Dean Patterson, of the KSP, is still investigating the allegations.

Cantrell’s employment at the jail has been terminated, and he was incarcerated in McCracken County.

Dale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

April 24th will put Bal-lard County and the State of Kentucky in an elite club.

Ballard County Clerk, Lynn Lane and County Judge/Executive, Vickie Viniard, have both signed a proclamation declar-ing “Pay It Forward (PIF) day.” On Monday, two

of Ballard’s Emergency Management Services personnel pitched the con-cept at Viniard who agreed it would be a good idea, and Tuesday she and Lane signed the document.

The idea originated while EMT Amanda Ben-son was surfing the inter-net looking to find a story, totally unrelated to PIF, she had heard about when she happened on a web site strictly developed for PIF.

Benson, at that moment, was almost beside herself with excitement, she says “it was just something my sisters and I grew up being taught by our parents long before I had ever heard the term ‘Pay It Forward.’ It was something that we lived in our home pretty much on a daily basis.” She also states, “I was really excited to find out that there was a day dedi-

Dale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

As with any trade requiring a license and/or certification, so also is it with emer-gency responders, paid or volunteer, con-tinuing education is also a requirement to keep those certifications and license cur-rent. Each year responders have to; along with their regular duties attend around 12 hours, and quite often on personal time, of continuing education classes. Last week, Ballard Emergency Responders were giv-en the opportunity to obtain two of those

hours at an Emergency Response Vehicle, driving simulator.

The $1.7 million simulator is based at Campbellsville, but travels around the state and has been in the Western Kentucky area and came to La Center and staged at the city park this past Thursday.

The driving simulator is the State Fire Rescue Training’s most sophisticated mo-bile facility. The 50’ simulator houses two 12 kilo-watt generators that provide the power and a slide out which provides extra room inside.

There are three driving stations with a

seat perched on a platform about three feet by three feet square and a foot tall. It has three projection screens; one directly in front of the driver representing the wind-shield and two more, one on either side which are the door windows. The simulator comes complete with seat belts, rearview and side mirrors in the screens that act as real ones that show approaching vehicles and landscapes like would normally be viewed through a side mirror. It has a ra-dio, lights and sirens all the way down to a parking break, air breaks, and a gear shift.

Travis Holder and Amanda Benson look on as Bal-lard County Judge Executive Vickie Viniard signs the ‘Pay It Forward’ proclamation.

Ballard County emergency responder Robby Goodmon exits the state’s $1.7 million simulator after participating in a continu-ing education program. Last week, Ballard responders were given the opportunity to obtain two hours of class time by train-ing with the state’s ERV driving simulator.

See PIF on Page 2

See erv on Page 3

JareD Jackson

Special to The Ballard County Weekly

After the approval of the city’s January min-utes, financial report and February’s expense report, the attention at the Bar-low City Council meeting turned to the Kentucky

Utilities Energy expense. The conclusion is with the cold weather, the city has to run heaters to keep pipes from freezing and busting.

The fire department then brought its report to the council from January. In January, there were a

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By Kay PressonAfter much consider-

ation, I have decided to share something with you, the wonderful readers of Ballard County Weekly. Encouragement comes in many forms and while the majority of people will try to encourage us, a few will try to discourage us.

This fact of life I learned as a child, living in Elm-wood Court, which is one of the public housing proj-ects in Paducah. My family lived there from the time I was in the fifth grade until the second half of the ninth grade. My classmates in the fifth and sixth grade at Henry Clay Elemen-tary never called me “poor white trash,” however, when I began the seventh grade at Jetton Junior High, there was a clique of three or four girls who looked down on us “poor kids.”

One of the girls in par-ticular, thoroughly enjoyed calling me “poor white trash,” and telling me, “You

will never amount to any-thing.” Her words did not discourage me, and when she and her friends would point at me and laugh at my clothes, I was determined they would not make me cry or hurt my feelings. They did not realize their derogatory remarks were not discouraging, rather, encouraging. For, I was bound and determined that one day, I would get even...not in a bad way, but in a good way.

Years later, I was em-ployed as Secretary to the Director of Paducah Water Works, and one of my du-ties was to fill in as cashier. One day, an elderly man walked into the office and came to the counter. He laid his water bill on the counter and, with a sad look on his face, told me that he could only pay half until the following week. He then asked me if this would be alright. His pay-ment record was good, and, according to policy, I

agreed to accept his partial payment with the agree-ment he would pay the rest the next week.

Upon completion of the transaction, and noticing his unusual last name, I asked him if he knew one of my classmates at Jetton Junior High, whose last name was the same as his. Smiling, he replied that the girl was his daughter. Folks, she was the very classmate who had verbal-ly harassed me by calling me “poor white trash,” and “you will never amount to anything.”

Did I tell him of her harassment? No, I merely asked him to tell her that “Kay Throgmorton says hello.” After all, he could not help what she did.

In conclusion, do the best you can and do not allow those who would at-tempt to discourage you to do so. This will make you stronger and determined, and the good Lord will help you.

Don’t let anyone discourage you

Valentine’s Day winner ...Jerry Groff, of Wickliffe won a call in Valentine’s Day contest on WIL-LIE radio Thursday. He won a one night’s stay at Auburn Place, a $40 gift card at the Pasta House, a $25 gift card at Chrislyn’s, and a vase of flowers from Flowers For You. Shown with Groff is Ann Wallace.

PaDD gets $500,000 sBa Microloan to assist small businesses partners

Ballard County Middle School will hold a Data Night for parents on Feb. 27 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the school at 3565 Paducah Road, Barlow. The event was rescheduled from and earlier date because of bad weather.

Parents also will be pro-vided with a free meal at the end of the night, and door prizes will be given away during meal time.

Eighth-grade parents will have some time to hear from high school guidance counselors about schedul-ing, KEES money (a way to earn college dollars for test scores), the Governors’ Scholars Program, op-portunities at Ballard Ca-reer and Technical Center, and other important high-school information that all eighth-grade parents should know now.

All parents will meet with their child’s testing teachers to go over the importance of the week of testing in May and other topics. “It will be a night of great information that BCMS has never had be-fore!” Principal Kevin Es-tes said.

Dale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

Homeschooling is nothing new; it’s been go-ing on forever, literally. In the past 20 years there has been a rebirth in the prac-tice of homeschooling as opposed to public school-ing as the preferred source of education. There are a good number of reasons for the homeschool move-ment from the concern for child safety these days with all the school shoot-ings occurring nearly ev-ery week it seems now, to a more widely accepted way of education being accepted with more col-leges in recent years, and even being raised with a higher moral standard than that of exposure at public schools

Whatever the reason for choosing homeschool socializing is always a difficult prospect, in most cities or counties there have been homeschool associations developed where students and ho-meschooling parents gather for activities rang-ing from educational ex-ercises to sports or even celebrations of holidays. Now Ballard County has joined the ranks of having an active home schooling association.

Bonnie Bruner, from Blandville was instrumen-tal in founding, Choosing Home-school And Moral Principles (C.H.A.M.P.),

home school association and scheduled their first gathering Monday, Janu-ary 20th at the Veterans and Patriots Museum in Wickliffe. Others respon-sible for working on the project are Tanya Parker and Pat Johnson.

The group of more than 30 participants from around the county as-sembled at 11am to kick off the inaugural meet-ing. The group heard stories about items in the museum and got a les-son about WWII from Earl Gidcumb. Gidcumb, who is well known in the county and also a sur-vivor of WWII himself, played Taps for the group and also fielded questions from the students that he says “was one of the most pleasant days he’s had in a long time.” After the Q&A a time of visita-tion along with lunch was served on the grounds.

February 17, Bill Mc-Gee was the guest speak-er.

Brunner intends to hold regular meetings at the museum on the first and third Mondays of each month. For more infor-mation about C.H.A.M.P. you can address question to: CHAMPS, c/o Bonnie Bruner, 4189 Bethlehem Ch. Rd., Wickliffe, KY.

Any time there is an alternative way of accom-plishing something there are always arguments for either side.

Homeschooling has long history in region

cated solely to educating and bringing awareness of such a good thing that some people may have never heard about and en-couraging others to par-ticipate. Pay It Forward or Random Acts of Kindness is not just buying some-one a coffee or a meal, it goes way beyond that. It’s anything that comes from your heart.” Along with personal PIF donations, she was also inspired by

‘Suspended Coffee’ pro-grams at Starbucks where the opportunity is avail-able. Emergency Man-agement Director, Travis Holder, collaborated on the project with Benson, by transforming the decla-ration to fit Ballard County and helped bring the idea to Viniard.

There are 500,000 peo-ple in 60 countries includ-ing 11 U.S. states and 20 cities that have adapted PIF. The most significant part of this declaration is that it will make Ballard the

first county because thus far it’s only been states or cities that have joined the movement. Plans are being discussed to have some type of events on that day, they also have intentions to have PIF presented to Governor Beshear’ office. Holder and Benson want to be sure everyone knows PIF is more than a coffee program.

For more information, you can visit the Pay It Forward Day website at: payitforwardday.com

total of 5 calls. There were two house fires in La Cen-ter, one house fire in Bar-low, one false alarm, and a frozen sprinkler head in the La Center Nursing home. After the reading of the fire department report, the city turned its atten-tion to old business.

Just like the past meet-ings, the Clear Well proj-

ect was brought up. It ap-pears that the leaks were fixed. Jim Ireland Road is another important topic of the city. While city of-ficials are waiting on the weather to break, the city is also waiting on the Fis-cal Court to approve the project.

Under new business, the City of Barlow has a vacant seat for commis-sioner to finish the current term until the next elec-

tion. There was a meet-ing scheduled for prop-erty clean up, but with the weather on Tuesday, the meeting was postponed.

There will be a Town Hall meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, on the current pet ordinance for the City of Barlow. This will be for all pet lovers to attend, especially if you own more than three dogs or three cats.

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The Purchase Area De-velopment District is part-nering with Murray State University to assist new businesses or expanding small businesses seeking a Small Business Admin-istration Microloan. In August, the SBA awarded PADD $500,000 in Mi-croloan funding. Because

technical assistance is an integral part of the SBA Microloan program, PADD has partnered with MSU’s Arthur J. Baurenfeind Col-lege of Business Small Business Development Center to assist borrowers during the loan application process and after the loan has been closed.

Projects financed under the SBA Microloan pro-gram must have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in annual gross revenues. Microloan funds may be used to finance and purchase fixed assets, can include machinery, equip-ment, and working capital. Land and building projects are not eligible for the SBA Microloan program.

The PADD offers busi-ness lending opportunities to deliver solutions that help solve the most com-plicated lending needs and entrepreneurial dream. As a Certified Development Company, the PADD uti-lizes public-sector financ-ing programs to stimulate economic growth aiding in the creation and retention of permanent jobs in the rural communities of West Kentucky.

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BAPTIST CHURCH157 Allen Street, Bandana

BANDANA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

11524 Oscar Road, Bandana

LITTLE UNIONBAPTIST CHURCH

5601 Bandana Rd., Bandana

BarlowANTIOCH

BAPTIST CHURCH315 Antioch Church Rd, Barlow

BARLOWBAPTIST CHURCH135 N. 6th Street, Barlow

BARLOW UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH

198 So. 5th Street, Barlow

FIRSTGENERAL BAPTIST

255 S. 4th, Barlow

OHIO VALLEYBAPTIST CHURCH

538 Hazelwood Rd., Barlow

HinklevillePLEASANT HILL UNITED

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KevilBETHEL

CHRISTIAN CHURCH12245 Woodville Rd., Kevil

HEATH CHURCH OF CHRIST10025 LaCenter Rd., Kevil

KEVIL UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH

1072 N. 1st Street, Kevil

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4409 Monkey Eyebrow Rd., Kevil

SPRING BAYOUBAPTIST CHURCH

4575 Old Hobbs Rd., Kevil

GRACE VALLEYBAPTIST CHURCH403 Kentucky Ave., Kevil

KEVIL FIRSTBAPTIST CHURCH986 N. 1st Street, Kevil

NEWTON CREEKBAPTIST CHURCH

12800 Ogden Landing Rd., Kevil

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421 Broadway, LaCenterGRACE UNITED

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LaCENTER CHRISTIANCHURCH

414 Walnut Street, LaCenter

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576 Mt. Pleasant Rd., LaCenter

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901 Monkey Eyebrow Rd.,LaCenter

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RESURRECTIONFELLOWSHIP CHURCH

6914 La Center Rd., LaCenter

ST. MARY’SCATHOLIC CHURCH624 Broadway, LaCenter

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5576 Bethlehem Church Rd.Wickliffe

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54 Linda Circle, Wickliffe

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ObituariesMAYFIELD - William

Paul Woods, 90 of Mayfield, and formerly of Bardwell, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Feb. 11, 2014 at home, with his fam-ily by his side.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 at the Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home, Bardwell, KY, with Howard Erisman and James Hyland officiating. Burial followed in Roselawn Cemetery with Military Honors.

Paul worshipped with believers gathered to the Lord’s Name in Mayfield, KY. He was born in Carl-isle County, KY, and served during World War II in the U.S. Army in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre. He worked 30 years at Union Carbide Corporation before his re-tirement.

Surviving is his wife of 53 years, Nancy (Nixon) Woods of Mayfield, KY; three children, Robert (Bob) Woods (Virginia) of May-field, Rebecca (Becky) Huff of Mayfield, and Elizabeth Ann Woods of Dawson Springs, KY; one brother, Charles Woods (Sara) of Mayfield; and two sisters, Naomi Cherry of Arlington, and Ethel Axley (Bill) of Wickliffe.

Paul has 10 grandchil-dren, Leah Huff of Molena, GA, Annaleise (Huff) Col-ley (Phillip) of Clarksville, TN, Juliana Huff, Micah Huff, Judah Huff, and Elisa-beth Huff all of Mayfield, Christopher Woods, Mat-

thew Woods, Lydia Woods, and Jonathan Woods, also, all of Mayfield.

Preceding Paul in death is an infant son, Michael Stewart Woods; two broth-ers, Norman Woods and Arnold Woods; two sisters, Lorene Ray and Virginia Workman. His parents were William David and Iva Ethe-lene (McDaniel) Woods.

Visitation was held from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., Thurs-day, Feb. 13, 2014 at the fu-neral home.

Pallbearers were Paul Wayne Ray, Sammy Work-man, Bill Cherry, Steven Woods, Dennis Pierceall and Torin Pierceall. Honor-ary Pallbearers were Allen Woods, Jim Cherry, and Roger Reeves.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contri-butions to Bible Truth Pub-lishers, P.O. Box 649, Addi-son, IL 60101.

You may leave a message of sympathy at www.milne-randorr.com

KUTTAWA - Leo Wil-son Carter, 72, of Kuttawa, died Sunday, Feb. 16, at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, IN.

He was formerly of Burkley, KY and a member of Burkley Baptist Church ; a retired minister, who pas-tored churches in Ballard, McCracken, and Crittenden counties. He is survived by his wife,Ruby Burgess Cart-er of Kuttawa; his daughter, Teresa Bellamy of Ballard County; his sons, David Wilson Carter of Kuttawa and Daniel Joseph Carter of Eddyville; his brother, Gary Carter of Arlington; five grandchildren and six great

grandchildren.He was preceded in death

by his parents, Ollie and Edith Jones Carter, and two brothers.

Services were held Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m., at Milner & Orr Fu-neral Home of Arlington with Larry Logsdon & Ron-nie Sutton officiating. Burial will follow in Berkley Cem-etery. Friends could call for visitation after 5 p.m., Tues-day Feb. 18, at the funeral home.

William Paul Woods

Leo Wilson Carter

William Paul Woods

I was so proud of my girl ”Avie Turner” who won the essay contest from Ballard County Elementary School. I call her my girl because she has road my school bus since her first day of school. She always shows respect for all. She is loved by every-one that knows her. She is a roll model for all. Next year she will be taking the big step from Elementary to Middle School. Good Luck Avie!

Everyone was so ex-cited Friday the 14th. It was Valentine’s Day! The beautiful flowers the girls were carrying as they passed by my bus made you feel love in the air. Talking about smiles on their faces! It’s fun to see. You be-gan to feel this excite-ment also. The senior

center in Barlow had a wonderful day also. They played bingo. The place was decorated with hearts everywhere. Everyone was glad to be back to the center af-ter the long absence due to snow and ice. We had a great time Wed. at the center. We gave Mr. Harold Pervis a surprise Birthday party. He puts fun in our work place. He does all of the Senior Center. Have a great week.

God Bless.

Kay’scorner

ByKay Jones

enjoy what you can of this good life

The scenes viewed, al-though animated, all 200 available are taken from actual real life scenarios, with traffic crossing in front of you or swerving into your lane from the oncoming direction. The weather can be changed in an instant, from sun shinny to snow blowing strait into your face. Even the fric-tion of the road condition can be altered as fast.

Pedestrians are also a concern the driver must be aware of. The seats allow the operator to feel as much as a tire rub or a complete bounce if the auto jumps the curb. It even tilts the seat if you drop a front tire off the roadway. The style of vehicle can be adapted from fully loaded tanker truck carrying 1000 gallon of water all the way to a patrol cruiser.

It seems more like a ride at an amusement park more than a training de-vice but according to Rod-ney Hall, the operator of

the simulator, working for the State Fire Commission and also the Burna Fire Chief in Livingston Coun-ty along with is assistant, Charlie Braxton, Chief of the Loan Oak Fire De-partment, it’s not intended to teach you to drive the same as an actual obstacle or road course might, it’s intention is to make you aware of possible driving situations that can occur creating a safer environ-ment for citizens and re-sponders.

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For anyone who owns a serger but often feels they don’t know how to use it except to sew a seam, a se-ries of three workshops will be taught on how to use the serger more effectively. The workshops will be taught by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Pur-chase Area Master Clothing

Advanced Serger Tech-niques – Level III ($12) will be taught Feb. 21. All three classes will be taught at the Graves County Extension Office in Mayfield from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. .

To learn more about these workshops or to register for one or all three, please call 753-1452.

Serger workshopsto be offered

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opinion

Seeking local supportDear Editor,

My name is Holly Doom. I am the 15 year old daughter of Michelle & Wade Doom of Barlow, Kentucky. I am the Grand-Daughter of Roy and Jackie Steele of La Center, Kentucky. I am born & raised in Ballard County, Kentucky. I am a current member of NBHA (National Barrel Horse Asso-ciation) and Kentucky 4-H. (I am the current 2013 Kentucky Youth State 4H Champion for Contest Showmanship II. I was the 2012 Kentucky State Champion in this class and also placed in Youth Poles in 2012) I am an active multiple

year FFA member and I am the 2013 Kentucky State Champi-on for Open Western Pleasure Horsemanship thru FFA. I am active in BETA and the High School Energy Team at my school. I am a Straight A stu-dent at Ballard Memorial High School in Advanced Courses pursuing an Honors Diploma. I strongly support Breast Can-cer and Pancreatic Cancer! I run the supporting Pink Breast Cancer and Pancreatic Cancer Purple colors on my horses. These colors honor and repre-sent lost loved ones each time I run!

I would like to inquire for your support, as I have the opportunity to represent Ken-tucky at the World Champion-

ship Level with my barrel rac-ing! I have qualified to do so by winning in our Kentucky NBHA region for the second year in a row! I now have the opportunity to again represent Kentucky at the NBHA Youth World Barrel Race in mid July, 2014 in Perry, Georgia compet-ing against youth from Around the World! This trip is quite expensive, as it is a week long competition and all competitors must pay their own expenses! The overall cost of this trip will be around $2,500.00. I am willing to give any winnings I may earn back to my commu-nity by making donations to either breast cancer research or pancreatic cancer research centers in our area. I am excit-

ed for the chance to represent not just Ballard County, but the entire State of Kentucky at the World Championship Level once again! I humbly thank you in advance for any donation you may be willing to give, as every little amount will help me reach my dream! The deadline for me to pay the entry fee is June 11th, 2014.

Again, thank you for the con-sideration and your support! I hope to represent Kentucky very well with your help!

You may remit donations to the address below:Holly Doom (NBHA fund)c/o Michelle Doom1021 Stahl RoadLa Center, Kentucky 42056

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readers. To be considered for publication, let-ters must be signed and include the writer’s name, address and a daytime telephone num-ber so we can verify that you wrote the letter. Letters that cannot be verified will not be pub-lished.

The editor reserves the right to edit or reject any letter. Short, concise letters are encour-aged and, in most cases, a maximum of 300 words is requested.

Photocopies, reprints from other publica-tions, letters to third parties, personal attacks, and thank you letters listing businesses will not be published. The number of political endorse-ments for any political candidate will be limited, if needed.

Letters from out-of-area contributors will be printed only if they relate to local issues.

While we do not limit the number of letters to the editor, repeat contributions from the same person will be printed at the editor’s discretion. Letters from the same person regarding the same topics are discouraged.

Letter to the Editor

Back last year when I pro-posed the idea of this column to Lisa she had asked if I want-ed my photo on it. My answer was no, sometime after the first of the year I will write a short column introducing my-self and we will go from there since I prefer a different na-ture photo each week for the column. With the changing weather I decided maybe this was the best time for this and get it out of the way. It won’t take many weeks of the cur-rent temps before frogs start calling, plants start greening up and blooming, and yes, snakes start crawling! Al-though I was raised and still live on a small farm in Mar-shall County, I feel right at home in Ballard County. Not only do I spend a minimum of 72 hours/week working for the Ballard County Ambulance Service as a Paramedic, my great-grandfather, Jack Thom-as Glisson, was from the Ban-dana area. He is the one that moved and took the Glisson lineage to Marshall County. I

have been interested in nature and photography all of my life. I hold a Bachelors Degree from Murray State University in the field of Natural Science and have shot professional photos for over 30 years. All photos used in the Nature Col-umn are shot by me. My plans for this column are to shoot and profile whatever we are seeing or hearing at the time of publication. Whether it be frogs calling, some hunting season coming in, or colored flowers and weeds on the side of the road, it will be some-thing local. I have set up a web page where all of the past columns can be reviewed. The photos on this site can also be viewed full screen so one can get a better look. I would like to hear some input on this col-umn whether it be recommen-dations for future write-ups or any other suggestions. Also, I am always looking for some-thing to photograph locally, if you have some sort of wildlife or plants you think I may be interested in please feel free

to contact me. The web page for Profiles in Nature is: http://www.kentuckyupclose.com/PIN-main.html

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Although I was raised and still live on a small farm in Marshall County, I feel right at home in Ballard Coun-ty. Not only do I spend a minimum of 72 hours/week working for the Ballard County Ambulance Service as a Paramedic, my great grandfather, Jack Thomas Glis-son, was from the Bandana area.

Profiles in natureBy Jack Glisson

In the mayor-council form, citizens elect an executive (mayor) and a legislative body (council) as separate positions. By election the mayor is given overseeing or final authority with limited veto power over the council to use as he sees necessary. The entire operation, including city employees, finances, budget, etc. rests mostly in his control. The mayor may appoint council members to head over differ-ent projects or departments who then are still responsible to the mayor. The council’s main objective is to guide the city through laws or ordinances and at the same time advising the mayor of their desires of that direction by way of voting procedures.

The commission form of govern-ment is the oldest form of government in the U.S. and is more commonly used in cities with populations of less than 100,000. Like a corporation with stock holders (citizens) elect a board of direc-tors (commissioners) who then appoint/elect one of its board members to act as administrator over daily business but all board members including the mayor share equal power. The commis-sion form is the most common used in smaller cities like those here in Ballard County.

Kevil, La Center and Barlow all oper-ate by commission with Wickliffe being the lone holdout still using the mayor- council style to operate the city. But it appears that may be about to change.

The past two monthly meetings have produced discussions of adapting to a commission. The subject of switch-ing forms of city government has been brought up by Mayor Hopkins in each of the last two Wickliffe city meetings. Mayor Hopkins said it’s an issue that a couple of the council men have been bringing up since a meeting that he and the councilmen attended in Mayfield in 2013, where the subject was ad-dressed.

County Clerk, Lynn Lane was in attendance for February’s meeting to listen and share what advice she could. At this point it seems that the only thing any one is certain of is, in order to switch forms of government it will have to be placed on a ballot for voters to de-cide which form they want to use. Fur-ther details of pertaining to the change procedures are being looked into.

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BARDWELL - Carlisle County managed to outlast visiting Ballard Memo-rial on Friday, edging the Bombers, 63-61.

The win allowed Car-lisle County to even its overall record to 13-13.

Following the loss, its fourth straight setback, Ballard Memorial dropped to 3-14.

Ethan Weatherspoon, a sophomore guard, paced Carlisle County with a game-high 20 points. Excelling in the fourth quarter, Weatherspoon scored three points late in the game to send Carlisle County over the top for the win.

Sophomore Jordan Kel-lett aided Carlisle County with 15 points. Accompa-nying Weatherspoon and Kellett in double figures, junior guard Trey Carrico delivered 13 points for the

CometsCarlisle County was 23-

of-54 from the field. The Comets were 3-of-9 from 3-point range.

Carlisle County was 14-of-20 from the foul line.

Each team owned multi-ple leads as the 1st Region boys’ basketball squads swapped leads throughout the contest. Ballard Me-morial outscored Carlisle County 19-16 in the first quarter but faced a deficit at halftime. Carlisle Coun-ty battled back to lead 38-30 at halftime. Remaining out in front after the break, the Comets led 48-41 at the end of the third quarter.

Four Ballard Memorial players reached double fig-ures in the scoring column. Sophomore guard Keagan Cooper led Ballard Memo-rial with 17 points. Junior guard Lee Chandler scored 15 points, junior forward Clay Newton netted 13

and freshman guard Dre Bledsoe added 11 for the Bombers.

Ballard Memorial was 23-of-52 from the field. The Bombers were 5-of-23 from 3-point range.

Ballard Memorial was 10-of-19 from the foul line.

Senior guard Trevor Langston and junior guard

Toler Terrell rounded out the Ballard Memorial scor-ing, posting three and two points, respectively.

Ballard Memorial en-tered the final week of the regular-season with regu-lar-season games remain-ing versus Fulton City, Hickman County and Pad-ucah Tilghman

Staff reportThe Ballard Memorial

boys’ basketball team came up short on Thursday, suf-fering its third straight loss as the visiting Murray Ti-gers pulled away to win 60-47.

After notching the win, Murray improved to 13-9.

With the loss, Ballard Memorial dropped to 3-13.

Clay Newton led Ballard

Memorial with 11 points. Cody Newton followed closely behind, scoring 10 points for the Bombers.

Keagan Cooper and Zach McAfee scored six points apiece and Tyler Wray tossed in five for the Bombers.

Lee Chandler had four points, Toler Terrell three and Dre Bledsoe two in Ballard Memorial’s loss.

Murray deals Bombers third straight setback

Staff reportLACENTER - Host Bal-

lard Memorial outscored visiting Hickman County 20-9 in the opening quar-ter on Thursday night and never faltered the rest of the way, eventually defeating the Lady Falcons 74-22.

Ballard Memorial im-proved to 10-11 after posting the win. The Lady Bombers returned to the win column after absorbing a loss to 1st Region rival Graves County two nights earlier.

Hickman County slipped to 3-10 as a result of the loss. The Lady Falcons suf-fered their second straight setback.

Four Ballard Memorial players reached double fig-ures in the scoring column. Abbi Denton led Ballard Memorial with a game-high 19 points. Hailey Houston and Kenzie Blackford fol-lowed, scoring 12 points apiece for the Lady Bomb-ers. Leah Shelley also reached double figures in

the top offensive category, scoring 10 points for Bal-lard Memorial in the con-vincing win.

Narrowly missing dou-ble figures, Erin Young net-ted nine points for the Lady Bombers.

Flourishing offensively, Ballard Memorial was 32-of-46 from the field. The Lady Bombers only hit one 3-pointers but connected on 7-of-13 foul shots.

Shelby Rollings scored six points, while Ashleigh Tyson, Kayto Buchanon and Jayde Newton netted two apiece for Ballard Me-morial in the victory.

Leading the Lady Bomb-ers inside, Denton and Shelley pulled down six re-bounds apiece.

Ballard Memorial led 44-15 at halftime and re-mained in control through-out the second half. Picking up right where it had left off in the first half, Ballard Me-morial outscored Hickman County 19-3 in the third

quarter. Alexis Burpo paced

Hickman County with seven points. Following Burpo’s offensive lead, Katie Wool-ard scored six points, Kay-lee Webb tossed in four and Vanessa Rebernak and Ally Samuel added two apiece

for the Lady Falcons.Hickman County was

7-of-27 from the field and 1-of-4 from 3-point range.

The Lady Falcons were 5-of-8 from the foul line.

Rachel Jackson connect-ed on a free throw for Hick-man County in the loss.

Lady Bombers turn back Hickman co.

BOYSTeam RecordGraves County................................................23-4Calloway County.............................................19-5McCracken County .........................................18-8St. Mary ..........................................................18-9Marshall County............................................17-10Murray ............................................................14-9Paducah Tilghman ........................................13-12Carlisle County .............................................13-13Hickman County ...........................................10-10Mayfield ........................................................10-12Fulton County ................................................. 6-11Paducah Community Christian .......................6-16Ballard Memorial.............................................3-14Fulton City ......................................................3-15Christian Fellowship .......................................0-21

GIRLSTeam RecordMurray ............................................................24-3Marshall County..............................................23-5Graves County................................................19-7Paducah Tilghman ..........................................18-8McCracken County .......................................14-13St. Mary ..........................................................13-9Paducah Community Christian .....................13-10Calloway County........................................... 13-11Ballard Memorial........................................... 11-11Carlisle County ...............................................7-15Mayfield ..........................................................7-15Fulton City ........................................................5-9Christian Fellowship .......................................4-16Hickman County ............................................. 3-11Fulton County .................................................2-12

1st RegionBoys’ Basketball Records

Staff reportMAYFIELD - Cur-

rent 1st Region front-runner Graves County handled Ballard Me-morial on Tuesday (Feb. 11), topping the Bombers 80-62.

The Eagles posted their third straight win. One of the state’s top boys’ high school bas-ketball teams, Graves County dealt Ballard Memorial its second straight loss.

Surging Graves County won for the 10th time in a dozen games. With the win, Graves County im-proved to 22-4.

The loss forced Bal-lard Memorial to drop

to 3-12. Nine Ballard Memo-

rial players provided scoring. Three of Bal-lard Memorial scorers reached double figures as Keagan Cooper scored 13 points, Dre Bledsoe tossed in 11 and Toler Terrell con-tributed 10.

Lee Chandler and Clay Newton netted seven points apiece for the Bombers in the loss. Zach Parsons pushed in six points, Cody Newton contributed four and Zach McAfee and Tyler Wray added two each for Ballard Memorial in the short effort.

Ballard boys loses to1st region frontrunner

Staff reportMAYFIELD - The Bal-

lard Memorial Lady Bomb-ers had a three-game win-ning streak stopped on Tuesday (Feb. 11) as host Graves County pulled away to win 62-47.

Following the loss, Bal-lard Memorial slipped to 9-11.

Graves County improved to 17-7 after posting the win.

Graves County shot 47.9 percent (23-of-48) from the

field. The Lady Eagles were 4-of-12 (33.3 percent) from 3-point range and shot 85.7 percent (12-of-14) at the foul line.

Hailey Houston and Shelby Rollings led BMHS in scoring with 11 points apiece. Leah Shelley regis-tered a double-double, scor-ing 10 points and hauling in a game-high 13 rebounds. Abbi Denton had eight points, MacKenzie Black-ford five and Ashleigh Ty-son two, respectively.

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SchoolBALLARD MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior SpotlightBy Justin King

Senior Lance Aldridge is a guy that everybody knows and loves. He gets along with everyone; al-ways cracking a joke and keeping everyone enter-tained. Although school may not be his favorite place, he enjoys being with his girlfriend and friends and is a good guy to have on your side. The son of Jeff and Becky Aldridge of Wickliffe, Lance has been a member of the band for two years, in FFA for one year and Skills USA for three years.

When it comes to free time, Lance loves his truck. He loves cruising the back roads and hanging out with the friends. Lance would love to one day become a

federal game warden or military police.

FAVORITESClass: Auto BodyTeacher: Mrs. GlissonMovie: “Mac and Devin Go to High School”Musician: Wiz KhalifaSong: “Hate You Too” – StarlitoTV Show: “Family Guy”Video Game: “Skyrim”Food: Pizza

By elizabeth GoodinWhether you find her

in the gym playing volley-ball or walking the halls of Ballard Memorial, senior Maggie Denton is sure to be making a lasting impres-sion. A classy Southern belle, Maggie has a good head on her shoulders. To see just how good Maggie is, look no further than her involvement.

Maggie has been a mem-ber of the Lady Bomber vol-leyball team for 4 years, in which she has been award-ed the 110% Award and the Coaches Award. She has also been a member of HOSA for 4 years, where she currently serves as our local chapter president, and the historian of the Ken-tucky HOSA Chapter. Mag-gie has also been a member of FBLA for 4 years, FCA for 4 years, Beta for 3 years, and a Student Ambassador for 2 years. Throughout high school, Maggie is on track to be a valedictorian, received the math and health award, and is currently Stu-dent Body President. She was recently voted Foot-ball Homecoming Queen. Maggie’s favorite thing at BMHS is the love the teach-ers have for each student. Her parents, Chris and Su-san Denton of Bandana, are surely proud of her accom-

plishments. Outside of school, Mag-

gie likes to hunt, fish, play volleyball and spend time with her friends. She attends Bandana United Method-ist Church. One thing that Maggie hopes to leave be-hind at BMHS is leadership and courage to students to stand up for what is right while she also wants to be remembered as a leader and someone who was kind and respectful to everyone. Maggie’s future plans in-clude going to Murray State University to become a fam-ily nurse practitioner.

FAVORITESClass: All Health ClassesTeacher: Mrs. JewellMovie: Anything with Gerard Butler in itMusician: Luke BryanSong: “Amazing Grace”TV Show: “The Doctors”Food: Crab LegsSchool Food: Chicken Enchila-das

By taylor raffetyWhen the dismissal bell

finally rings at the end of each day, you can always find senior Justin Dyson heading to the fields. True to his roots, Justin has been a member of FFA for 4 years. He attends First Baptist Church of LaCen-ter with his mom, Deb-bie Dyson, and serves as a helpful hand behind the scenes. This hard-working country boy enjoys riding four wheelers and driving tractors in his spare time. He is currently a farm hand, but looks forward to one day becoming a heavy equipment operator. Justin hopes to leave behind all of the food at BMHS and be remembered as a help-

ful person.FAVORITES

Class: Auto BodyTeacher: Coach ChatellierMovie: “Smokey and the Ban-dit”Musician: Brantley GilbertSong: “Copperhead Road”TV Show: “Street Outlaws”Food: Tater TotsSchool Food: Bosco Sticks

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BCMS Students of the Week ...Each week at Ballard County Middle School, three students (one from each grade) will be selected and named Students of the Week. Students are nominated by teachers for outstanding behavior or performance. Shown from left are BCMS Students of the Week for Feb. 11: eighth-grader Shelby Elrod, seventh-grader Kiley Moore, and (standing) sixth-grader Brighton Cooper. Selectors said Elrod is a hard worker who is polite and helpful to both students and teachers; Moore is all business in the classroom, working so efficiently that she is one of the Do Now checkers; and Cooper makes good grades and is a wonderful role mod-el for his classmates.

BCMS Students of the Week ...Each week at Ballard County Middle School, three students (one from each grade) will be selected and named Students of the Week. Students are nominated by teachers for outstanding behavior or performance. Shown from left are BCMS Students of the Week for Feb. 17: eighth-grader Hannah Lee; sixth-grader Emmie Garner; and (standing) sev-enth-grader Carl Logsdon. Selectors said Lee always goes above and beyond on assignments, is respectful and good role model; Garner has a no-nonsense approach to school, always has her work and behaves like an angel; and Logsdon is polite, focused and always on-task.

Community members conduct interviews

Thirty community members took the time to come to Ballard Memorial High School on Feb. 11 and 12, to conduct mock interviews in the media center with every member of the sophomore class. The event was part of the statewide Operation Prepa-ration program, which tar-gets all eighth- and 10th-graders for college and career readiness.

Volunteer were solic-ited from a wide array of professional fields, and stu-dents were paired with in-terviewers in their chosen career cluster area. Most of the volunteers attended a luncheon at BMHS on Feb. 7, where Principal David Meinschein talked about the school’s goals for the days, and what he hoped students and interviewers alike would take from the event.

In the first photo, Carlisle E911 Director Josh Glover (left, foreground) talks to student Nice Watsamrong, while (background) Laura Schaumberg from the Pad-ucah Convention and Visi-tors’ Bureau interviews student Courtney Cochran.

In the second photo, agribusinessman Keith Myers (right) talks with student Brittney Bridges.

In the third photo, Da-vid Varvel (foreground far right) from Marquette Transporation’s operations department and Kimberly Golightly from the compa-ny’s human resources de-partment talk with George Howard. Several of the oth-er community interviewers are seen in the background with their students.

In the last photo, BMHS Principal Meinschein talks with student Patra Caldwell about how her interview went.

A similar event, utiliz-ing community volunteers to help students explore various career paths, will be held at Ballard County Middle School in March.

Other interviewers as-sisting with the program at BMHS were Jessica Ander-son, Eddie Chandler, An-drea Craven, Miriam Fer-guson, Holly Rodgers and Matt Scott, Baptist Health Paducah; Troy Courtney, Career Solutions Commu-nity; Ronda Gibson and Peggy Meriedeth, Murray State University; Paula Jerrell, Ballard Extension agent for 4-H/youth devel-opment; Dr. Johnny Myers, veterinarian; Keith Myers, Ballard district judge; Sgt. Damian Bachman, U.S. Marine Corps; Jarrod Bur-gess, Kelty Carlson and Daniel Wright, River Val-

ley Ag Credit; Garry Clark and Tony

Dunker, Kentucky Depart-ment of Fish and Wildlife; Kreg Denton, First Com-munity Bank; Mike Haney, Hillbilly Stills; Dave Hoff-man, practice manager for Dr. Barbara Bowers; Guy Johnson, City of Wick-liffe; Mike Lipp, painting contractor; Chris McNeill, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy; James Morrow, Mead Westvaco Carbon Plant; Scott Thom-as, West Kentucky Con-struction Association; and Jason Willoughby, Mid-continent University

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use. We are not going to use round-up, because it is tacky and an obsession of most males that prefer chemicals to weed eating. The city will have to pur-chase mowing equipment suitable to the smaller ar-eas and much weed-eating and grooming to make the cemetery lawn better and fill in the rough spots. The mowing will not be a speed or time sensitive ef-fort that creates damage to markers and plot markers. Inspections will be made by the Cemetery commit-tee after each mowing. Cemetery Board members are CHM. Hammett, Sue Krech, Brenda Garrison and Council women Judy Hall.

We are always dreading home fires that displaces families and destroys years of memories and all of our daily tools for living. Our council woman, Cathy Hurt and her husband Bill suffered this disaster this last week and it impacts all of us. This winter’s cold seems to be bringing out the worst for fires and car and home maintenance issues. Out of my recent knowledge three of these recent big home fires in Ballard County have been from having heaters or hot lawn mowers in the garage and in Carlisle, during the ice storm, another was from the use of a generator on a wooden deck. During the 2009 ice storm some deaths were attributed to running generators or fu-eled heaters inside a closed garage or home, where the fumes would not ventilate. Grills and kerosene heaters are not safe for basements and any poorly ventilated area. Our WFD engine No. 2, was not used, although the WFD, and the Wick-liffe Rural Fire Department and the Blandville Fire De-partment responded. Last July, when Terry Hatton became our fire chief for the city, we created a com-mon mutual aid agreement and both the Wickliffe Ru-ral and the Wickliffe City Fire Departments mem-bers are all on both rosters and we also have made the City fire trucks and equip-ment available for use and backup, as needed, for the Rural Wickliffe and City of Wickliffe departments. While we have not com-bined our assets, we have combined our common members and resources to provide better fire re-sponse and equipment availability.

Wickliffe Fire Chief Chris Wilson was on the scene quickly with other members of all three de-partments and the Bland-ville fire truck and Wick-liffe Rural fire trucks were at the scene quickly for the Lisa Drive fire, early that morning. Chief Wilson, as Wickliffe Chief and also an officer of the Wickliffe Rural took their rural truck to the fire, which shows the flexibility of the combined mutual roster and how it helps response. Actu-ally, there was some doubt

about whether Lisa Drive was in the City or rural jurisdiction, so Chief Wil-son made a quick and good decision, although WFD engine # 1 was available. Matt Davidson and Patrick Bugg, Rural Chief James Campbell, Katie Wilson, and David Keith Vance, with the Blandville fire truck, were some of the re-sponders to the house fire. We were happy to have the La Center Department respond and help subdue the fire. Later on the fol-lowing Wednesday, Chief Wilson and others re-sponded to a re-kindling of the blaze with engine # 1. Officers Campbell, Vance, and Wilson work well to-gether to make decisions about how to attack the fires and the risks involved and they were the first on the scene within minutes of the alarm.

Chief Wilson and the Council will be looking to replace the old unit #2 with a reliable new or newer engine. Engine # 1, could have been taken to the scene but Chief Wilson chose to take the newer truck from the Wickliffe Rural fire station. Re-sponse from several local area departments, includ-ing La Center was there to help. We also are avail-able to help in Carlisle and other Ballard Communi-ties. We all want to offer our regrets for this loss and the difficulties Coun-cil woman Hurt endures and has had to endure due to this fire. We are thank-ful that some special items were salvaged and I have been told that Chief Wil-son and Deputy Chief Vance were able to move into and out of the house to help and Chief Campbell reported that the effort on the fire was excellent. The La Center Fire Department was very helpful and sup-portive. All together there were probably seven fire-fighters there with breath-ing apparatus packs and the fire was extinguished quickly and profession-ally, according to Chief Campbell . We have had three new members sign-up recently. Councilman George Lane works with the fire units on behalf of the Wickliffe City Coun-cil.

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If there is one thing ev-ery person can agree on, it’s that you can never plan for tragedy, and it never comes at a conve-nient time.

And Wednesday’s early morning house fire couldn’t have possibly come at a worse time for the Hurt family. Cathy, the owner and operator of her own florist shop, has spent the last several weeks battling an illness, resulting in business com-ing to a temporary halt. Things were gradually getting back on track for Cathy, as one of the busi-est holiday’s for a florist was quickly approaching. Cathy and her husband, Billy, had spent most of Monday hauling in a ship-ment of roses to prepare for Valentine’s Day at the end of the week. Things seemed to be looking up, until Wednesday morning when Billy woke early to let the family dog, Har-ley, outside. His attention was drawn to deep black smoke quickly filling their attached garage.

There was no doubt that it was on fire and it was only going to be a short amount of time before it reached the house. He immediately rushed back inside to wake Cathy and their youngest son, Matt. With smoke alarms al-ready ringing out through-out the house, they were only able to grab a few

pictures of their two sons on their way out the door. These pictures were more important to the family than grabbing shoes and coats, because not only was their son, Matthew, grown, their oldest son, Jason, had been killed a few years prior in a tragic car accident.

Outside, Cathy watched helplessly from their Tahoe as her brother and Billy, accompanied by a bystander, battled the smoke and heat to save their pick-up truck from the flames. Though they were able to save the truck from the fire, there was little left to do now but watch as the flames destroyed a home this husband and wife had shared together for the past 35 years. A home in which they had raised two beautiful children. Billy began to name each room as the fire would protrude from the roof. There was no doubt that each of their hearts emp-tied a little more as each room filled with flames. People say that in tragic situations you don’t think, but I don’t believe that’s true. I’m sure each of their minds were racing with memories of every time that front door had opened to receive friends and family into their home, or closed to keep the family safe. The times Billy and Cathy watched their boys running in and out from playing or go-ing to school, or coming

home from a date. Never again would that front door open or close.

Although most of their home had already gone up in flames, there was one room they had all silently hoped would be spared. They watched as the room just left of the living room quickly began to be over-taken with flames. Jason’s room, which held the last remaining physical evidence of a life cut too short; a bed he had slept in, hats he once loved, clothes he had worn, sports trophies he had earned, were all being swallowed up forever. It didn’t take the blaze long to make its way into the remaining rooms, but ev-eryone seemed to be fro-zen right there watching

the fire eat up everything in Jason’s room.

The Hurts were losing everything they owned, but there is still time for them to make more mem-ories in a new home. Mat-thew will eventually own new items, sleep in a new bed; leave his marks in a new house. But Jason will not.

After firefighters were finally able to extinguish the fire, they began mop-up procedures. Putting out stubborn hot-spots, and trying to salvage anything that might have survived. As they worked through Jason’s room, there were a few items recovered and passed out the window to be given to the family, but there was a small pile, a hot-spot that would not go out, sifting through this pile of smoke-charred rubble, there it was. A Kelly green ‘B’. Protect-ed deep inside clothes and other debris was Jason Hurt’s letterman ‘B’ he received as a sports award in high school. Not sewn to a jacket, but attached to a plaque for his achieve-ments to be recognized for years to come. A ‘B’ doesn’t seem like much, but what it represents is irreplaceable; proof that he had been there, proof that his memory would always remain. And that is something no amount of fire could ever destroy.

Billy, Cathy, and Matt would like to extend a word of appreciation to EMS and all Fire Depart-ments for the job they done and helping to re-cover all they could from the fire.

City of WickliffeBy Lynn Hopkins, Mayor

Column is sponsored by City Of Wickliffe(270) 335-3557

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100 at BCES ...Ballard County Elementary School celebrated its 100th day of school on Feb. 12. Some kindergarten and first-grade activities included dressing up, making mementos and different ways to count to 100. Above, first-graders Jaden Stokes (left) and Camdon Potts stack 100 cups.

Among the items salvaged from the house fire was a ‘B’ that was presented to Jason Hurt as a sports award in high school.