BARLOW - An emer-gency agenda item was pro-claimed at Barlow’s special meeting last week. At the town meeting, commission-ers Peggy Mereideth, Floyd Johnson and John Wood, were present to appoint Terry Johansen to the city commission. Johansen had been approached prior to the meeting and consented to accept the appointment.

The resignation of Com-missioner Virgil Mullins this past January prompted the commissioners to ap-point Johansen to the board.

The city had been facing a 30-day deadline to appoint a replacement. If they had not met the deadline, the ap-pointment would have been diverted to the Governor’s office. Feb. 27, would have been the 30-day threshold .

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The Ballard County 4-H club will be hold-ing a Cloverbuds meet-ing on March 6. The meeting will be held from 3:20 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Ballard County 4-H Club will also be holding a Shoot-ing Sports meeting on March 13, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The annual Bomber Mulch Fundraiser is now under way.

Shredded mulch pur-chased from same sup-pliers as home improve-ment stores. Available in; brown or black; bulk or 2 cubic foot pre pack-aged bags; Bulk, $55 per yard. Bags, $5 each. Players will spread for free.

Donations will be ac-cepted. Delivery dates for orders are: April 8-19 Orders after April 1 will be filled on avail-ability only

For more information contact john.elliott@ballard.kyschools.us or (812) 760-4311: or rene.bowles@gmail.com or any football player.

The food pantry at New Liberty United Methodist Church will be open Wednesday, March 19, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.. The food pantry is located at 6955 New Liberty Church Rd. in Kevil.

Seth Wheat from Ken-tucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and Nor-ma Pruitt with the Kentucky Great River Region Organi-zation met with local county judge executives focusing on expanding adventure tourism and creating Trail Town designation for com-munities in the KY Great River Road Region along the Mississippi River Trails of KY.

Wheat said, “The Ken-tucky Trail Town Program is designed to help connect communities to trail sys-tems and develop locations as tourist destinations.” He said, “Recreational trails and rivers can boost a communi-ty’s tourism traffic.” The Of-fice of Adventure Tourism is helping communities take advantage of an economic opportunity brought by the attraction of trails, helping transform towns into a more inviting visit, as well as a better place for residents to live, work and play.

It was noted, that the most important part of the Trail Town program is each com-munity is deciding its ap-proach tying into a trail sys-tem and other services that trail users may need. Carl-isle County Judge Executive Greg Terry “The four river

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BARLOW - Stray cats are a problem in Barlow. An informational meeting was held Tuesday, Feb. 25, to address an ordinance to cope with the issue of stray and feral cats in the Bal-lard County community.

According to reports, there is a neighborhood

where there are an esti-mated 30-35 stray cats. One cat caught in the area was claimed by Animal Control Officer, James Campbell, to weigh up-ward of 30 pounds.

There are complaints of property damage in rela-tion to the cats. Among the complaints are a damaged swimming pool cover, as

well as cats using a tractor seat as a scratching post, and utilizing a covered motorcycle as a place to lodge.

According to city infor-mation, it currently costs $12.40 per day to house animals at Coffee’s and an additional $29 euthana-sia and disposal fee. The housing fee is multiplied

by a mandatory three-day wait for owners to claim a pet before the animal can be put down.

Barlow’s Mayor Wood said he would prefer all pet owners be required to have their pets either mi-crochipped or collared and tagged with the owner’s name. The I.D. require-ment could relieve the

burden of housing fees the city pays by allowing immediate euthanasia of a stray picked up without proper identification.

The first reading of a new amended pet ordi-nance will be on the agen-da at the next scheduled meeting on March 11. The second reading will occur

‘Spring’ forwardon March 9

Cats scratch up trouble in Barlow

It is that time of the year residents of Western Kentucky “leap” into ac-tion.

Well, they will on March 9 when Daylight savings time goes into effect. Residents are re-minded to set their clocks ahead an hour. Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. this year.

Johansen named to Barlow commission

Back to the showHolly Doom claimed the NBHA Youth 3D and 4D Championship recently. With the titles, she quali-fies for the NBHA Youth World Finals for the sec-ond straight year.

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ImagIne that!The Cat in the Hat visits county’s schoolsOne of Dr. Seuss’ most famous characters came to Ballard County Elementary and Preschool and Head Start on Feb. 26. The Cat in the Hat visited every BCPS class, and students had a chance to hug or sit on the lap of the rowdy feline. He’s shown above with students in teacher Jessica Buchanan’s afternoon class. At BCES, the Cat met all of the primary students (grades K-2), visited with students at lunch, and at-tended an afternoon assembly. He’s shown at right with students in Melody Bridges’ first-grade homeroom. Additional pictures from BCES may be seen on the school’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/#!/Ballard County Elementary. The costume was provided by the Kentucky Education Association.

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By Kay PressonDo any of you won-

derful readers of Ballard County Weekly use Yahoo as your e-mail? Last year, someone hacked into my account, erased all my sent mail and contacts and sent an e-mail to all my con-tacts saying I was in the Phillipines. I reported the matter to the FBI as well as Yahoo. However, I am receiving e-mails purport-edly from Yahoo asking me to verify my e-mail address. Folks, I get inspi-ration from just about ev-erything to write and draw and am working on a short

story about the revenge on hackers. It is intended to be funny and will e-mail the story to Ballard County Weekly when finished.

My Mama, Celia Dean Menser Throgmorton, was so very encouraging. Fol-lowing is an incident that happened in my childhood and I know you will get a laugh out of it. When our family lived at Thomas Jefferson Apartments in Paducah. I got angry (mad) one day ... perhaps frustrat-ed, and at the age of eight or nine years, decided to take my frustration out by

kicking the wall in our liv-ing room. Mama came up behind me and told me to stop throwing a “Throg-morton fit.”

Ignoring her, I just kept kicking the wall. Mama cut a switch from the hedge in our front yard, came up behind me and once again told me to quit kicking the wall. I just kept on and she switched my legs and told me to keep kicking. Wow, now I had Mama’s permis-sion to keep kicking the wall. Then, my legs began to get tired after kicking about 20 minutes. I told

Mama, “I am tired and my legs hurt.” Mama then told me I could rest, and .... “when you get mad, glad or sad, write it down, draw it out ... you can write and you can draw.”

Folks, Mama broke me from kicking the wall, and her words to “write it down, draw it out” still encourage me. The term “Throgmorton fit” is not intended to cast a slur on the Throgmorton fam-ily ... for I never saw any of Daddy’s family, the Throgmortons, throw a fit, except for him.

‘Write it down, draw it out ’ is great advice

David Rambo to join Citizens Deposit Bank NWRS to mark its

111th anniversary

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Citizens Deposit Bank is pleased to announce that David R. Rambo will be joining the staff effective March 10, 2014. Rambo is a graduate of Murray State University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He has been employed for the past 26 years at Elec-tric Energy, Inc. in Joppa, Ill.

Rambo has held sev-eral positions with the company, starting at staff accountant in 1988, then advancing to Supervisor of Information Services, Manager of Management Services, Manager of Hu-man Resources, and most

recently he served as both the Director of Business Services and Secretary-Treasurer for the corpora-tion. He also served as the Plan Administrator for the company’s Pension Plan, Health and Welfare Plan, and the 401(k) Plan. These plans had in excess of $150 million in assets under his management.

David, his wife, Sonya, and their two sons, Zach-ary and Sawyer, reside in Cunningham.

Local residents are en-couraged to come by and see David, or any of our staff, for all their banking needs.

The National Wild-life Refuge System marks its 111th anni-versary March 14. Pres-ident Teddy Roosevelt created the refuge sys-tem in 1903 in order to protect brown pelicans.

Pelican Island, Flor-ida is six acres and was the first wildlife sanctu-ary, it was set up as a protective barrier from hunters for pelicans.

Today’s refuge sys-tem is comprised of a network of 562 refuges and 38 wetland districts Managed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice. These refuges pro-vide thousands of plant and animal species with critical habitat.

In September 1964 President, Lyndon John-son, signed the Wilder-ness Act into law.

The Act was de-signed to protect Amer-ican wildlands for fu-ture generations. Within the refuge system there are 20 million acres of

wilderness. There are twenty-six states con-taining thirty-six refug-es that have wilderness in them.

The National Wild-life Refuge System ranges from Maine to the Pacific; from the Caribbean to Alaska’s eight million-acre Artic Wilderness; woods and ponds in Philadelphia city limits to Oregon.

The refuge system protects awe-inspiring natural landscapes and provides recreational opportunities like fish-ing, hiking, and photog-raphy. Every state has at least one national refuge and one can be found with in an hour’s drive of almost any major city. Refuges are great places to experience na-ture’s seasonal wonders such as bird migrations and monarch butterflies, and are protected from motorized recreational vehicles.

Elementary cheerleaders ...About 80 Ballard County Elementary School students took part in a Little League Cheer Clinic, hosted by the Ballard Memorial High School cheerleaders on Feb. 15. The little girls learned the ba-sics of cheerleading motions and showing Bomber spirit. They also learned a dance, sideline and cheer. Each Little Bomber was awarded a “Bomber Spirit” goodie bag, which included a spirit stick and other green-and-white goodies. The Little Bombers performed at halftime of the varsity girls’ basketball game on Feb. 18. Shown with the Little Bombers here are some of the BMHS cheerlead-ers: Hannah Morrow and Payton Sullenger (from left, back row center), Leah Beth Wildharber (far right, holding a child) and Emily Sullivan (front row, center)

BC Relay For Life to hold March meetings

The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Ballard County invites cur-rent and prospective team members from local busi-nesses, families, churches and civic groups to the monthly meeting scheduled for Monday, March 10, at 6 p.m. at the University of Kentucky Extension Office in Bardwell. An event com-mittee meeting will be held beforehand at 5 p.m.

This monthly meeting will provide teams the op-portunity to interact with the committee and ask any questions they have con-cerning the event, scheduled for June 13 from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., June 14.

Support of the Relay For Life of Ballard County helps the American Cancer Society in a number of ways to help cancer patients, caregivers and the public through education into can-cer prevention and early de-tection; programs and ser-vices like Road to Recovery, Look Good Feel Better and Hope Lodge; funding cancer research grants at places like the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and St. Jude; and rallying communities like Ballard County together to fight back against cancer, which will be diagnosed in an es-

timated 25,000 Kentuckians this year.

For more information on Relay For Life or team captain meetings, please contact Ginger Atkins at (270) 994-5892. To register a Relay For Life team, visit www.relayforlife.org/bal-lardky. For cancer informa-tion and access to available resources, call the American Cancer Society at any time, day or night, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit online at www.cancer.org.

at April’s commissioners meeting, and will go in to effect after it is published in a newspaper.

Trapping has begun as an immediate attempt at reduction of the cat popu-lation. Campbell said he has had traps out for four days as of the meeting but has only been able to cap-ture two cats. Neighbors feeding the cats are creat-ing a difficult environment to capture the felines, ac-cording to Campbell.

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The Kentucky Cancer Program (KCP) is en-couraging everyone to Dress in Blue on Friday, March 7 as part of the sixth annual nationwide campaign to promote co-lon cancer screening. We are pleased to announce that Madeline Abramson, the Lieutenant Gover-

nor’s wife, will continue to serve as the Dress in Blue Day Honorary Chair for Kentucky.

To learn more about participate in Dress in Blue Day, please contact the Kentucky Cancer Program by calling 270-442-1310.

counties are working joint-ly, connecting resources and sharing ideas while at the same time advising our existing businesses.” Terry stated, “In addition there are a number of new events being planned and several new businesses have started through social media programs like Face-book and they are attend-ing events as vendors.”

There are many types of trails, whether hiking, bik-ing, all-terrain, horses or a driving quilt trail. Trail users can venture to ex-plore the unique scenery, shoppes, and local heri-tage that each Trail Town may offer. It is a safe place where both residents of the town and trail users and visitors can find the goods and services they need, inviting opportunities for new entrepreneurial busi-ness development.

Ballard County Judge Executive Vicki Viniard, says she “welcomes as-sistance from the Office of Adventure Tourism in

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ObituariesKEVIL - Daniel Lee

Carter, age 25, went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah.

Daniel graduated from Ballard Memorial High School in 2006. He was pre-viously employed by Bal-lard County Wildlife Man-agement Area. He was an avid outdoorsman and fish-erman with a special pas-sion for duck hunting that he shared with his brother, Luke. He was a gifted guitar player and shared his love for music and classic rock with his sister, Crissie. Dan-iel was kind hearted and had a great love for his friends and family and never met a stranger.

He is survived by his parents, Marshall and Re-genia Carter of Kevil; one brother, Luke Carter and his wife, Olivia, of Kevil; a sis-ter, Crissie Carter, of Mari-

etta, GA.; his grandmother, Betty Kinsey, of Kevil; and

his precious nephew, Isaac Carter, of Kevil, who loved his “Uncle D” and enjoyed “cooking” for him. He is also survived by his uncle Barry Kinsey of Kevil, who shared Daniel’s love of hunt-ing, and several cousins,

Daniel was preceded in death by his grandfather, Gene Kinsey, and grandpar-ents, Red and Dee Carter.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Morrow Funeral Chapel in LaCenter. Interment fol-lowed at Providence Cem-etery in Kevil.

WICKLIFFE - Dwayne Case, 53, of Wickliffe, died Friday, Feb. 28, at Vander-bilt Hospital in Nashville, TN. He worked as a farm manager for Middle Ten-nessee State University and was assistant manager for Wal-Mart in Paris, TN. He was a member of the Ag-riculture Club of Murray State University.

He is survived by his fa-ther, Paul Case of Wickliffe; his brothers, Daryl Case of Wickliffe and Darin Case of Mouth of Wilson, VA.; a niece, Abigail Case of Olive Branch, MS.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Rosemary Pace Case.

Services for Mr. Case were held March 6 at 1 p.m. at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Wickliffe, with Rev. Billy Prince officiat-ing. Burial followed at Hill-crest Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of dona-tions to: St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept 142, Memphis, TN 38101.

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Ballard County Elementary School has announced its Students of the Month for February. Students are se-lected by their teachers as good examples of the pos-itive attitude, behavior and effort that is expected of everyone at BCES. Shown at left are students in the intermediate (grades 3-5) wing of the school: (front row) third grade teachers, Evan Rehkemper; third grade specials, Eli Cook; (middle row) fourth grade teachers, Isabella Mey-ers; fourth grade specials, Melanie Knighten; (back row) fifth grade teachers, Skyler Evans; and fifth grade specials, Logan Har-grove. Above, students in the primary (grades K-2) wing of the school: (front row) Kindergartners Mad-die Stokes, Beau Webb, Micheal Beasley and Madison Moreland (Miley Nichols is not pictured); (middle row) first-graders Bryleigh Heal, Rylee Leh-mann, Kalyn Hayden and Logan Patton; and (back row) Macey Hargrove, Delanie Brunson, Hayes Gibson and Isaiah Smitley.

February Students of the Month ...

providing guidance on tourism issues such as trail development and signage, information, resources and networking with oth-er communities that have been successful by linking trails and services.”

“There’s a huge advan-tage coming to communi-ties along the Mississippi River once a community receives the Trail Town certification”, Hickman

County Judge Executive Greg Pruitt said. “The Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Department of Travel and Tourism and Office of Adventure Tour-ism will help promote and market our communities and services on the state’s maps, websites, visitor’s guides and other state pro-motional materials,” he continued.

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Opinion

Although a very com-mon winter resident not many people know what this bird is. Unless you are around bird feeders or hunt you may have never seen one.

The White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leu-cophrys, migrates here during winter time in great numbers but they tend to stay in such places as fence-rows, thickets, overgrown fields, brushy woods edges and such. Put out a bird feeder though and I almost guarantee you will attract several of these sparrows. Pictured here is an adult male, the younger birds

and females look similar to house sparrows.

Nesting in northern Can-ada and Alaska the white-crowned sparrow may raise from 1 to 3 broods per year, laying 3 to 7 eggs each time. They feed on grass and weed seeds, small ber-ries, and a variety of small insects.

Although I keep out bird feeders and enjoy watching them, these little sparrows, just like the snowbirds, have wore out their wel-come at my house! The holidays are over and it is time some warm weather pushed them back home!

Photo by Kentucky up Close!

Put out a bird feeder though and I almost guar-antee you will attract several of these sparrows. Pictured here is an adult male.

Profiles in NatureBy Jack Glisson

When our city employees, Sam and Jerry and Guy has to get out of their beds in the middle of the night or on Sunday evening, for water main breaks or water plant outages, they will have a city truck for response to the emergency! This improves the quick access to these costly prob-lems. I’m really thinking that the city needs a new truck. We are spending too much on main-tenance for the two older trucks. One individual complained about Sam using the city truck on the farm and was feeding his cattle with hay in the truck bed. Actually, the hay was city straw that we use to cover grass seed on our work sites. I like it when people complain and sometimes the city can help and sometimes they will have to continue to complain. I have made a definite policy that the City of Wickliffe and its employees will help the elderly and disabled and generally all the citizens that just plainly need help if the job is small and can be done quickly. We do charge for gravel, dense grade, and some pipe needed by citizens within the city by citizens facing imme-diate water leaks. With the muddy drive ways we can help with some gravel or dense grade for our price but with all of the cold and wet conditions most gravel drives will have to have gravel de-livered to improve their gravel drives. We do no major jobs for anyone unless it involves personal property used as a city water collection area or for road access for the public. We have several water collection drains from large city areas that are on non-city properties that I insist that we maintain. I have also insisted that we assist in filling in old cisterns and that we cover dangerous drains that could injure our children. We are tak-ing some of the street lights replaced by the main street decorative lights and moving them to gaps in the street lighting. If you have need of a street light call Bethany Cain, our City Clerk, and we will look at your location. We are moving one or two to Broadway and one to Cumberland Street and have a couple of more that can be moved soon.

The council is going to be talking about a new fire truck for the City of Wickliffe Fire Department. Of the two larger trucks on of the trucks is not reliable and the Engine No. 1 is old but still func-tions. I am initiating actions for grants or aid that may be available from the state or federal pro-grams. Maybe, we can get some help to main-tain the WFD ability to provide fire protection. Our new fire chief, Chris Wilson, is reporting that much of the gear and equipment is deficient. I am reviewing the purchases of the last three years to see what was purchased and what is missing. I may have to engage law enforcement to track down missing equipment and investigate the losses of the last two or three years in equip-ment. Our new City Attorney, Ryan Toombs is compiling a list of those properties to proceed with for inspection and legal action to condemn. Hopefully, an aggressive legal approach will be in place before the next mayoral election and vacant sub-standard buildings will be razed and the costs enforced to the owners. There are at least a dozen of these properties in Wickliffe. We will be having a Special open meeting with the press to discuss our inspection results and pend-ing legal action. Property owners will have the right to appear and show actions to remedy the condemned property.

I have instructed our City Clerk to reduce water bills where there were excessive customer leaks due to the unusually cold weather through December 2013 and early 2014. We have had numerous problems with customer leaks and city line and main leaks due to the very cold weather. We had one customer with a $400 water bills with a leak and several leaks that we have helped with. Guy Johnson, our water superintendent and your Mayor have to go to the Kentucky In-frastructure Authority Loan Committee on March 6th to represent Wickliffe for the $150,000 water well loan. I really hate to travel to Frankfort, but we don’t want to leave this loan to chance without representation. I think it is a done deal but I am not looking forward to this day long trip. We are working overtime to try and remove the street ice, sleet, and snow so call your favorite council member and complain, even though you understand that the last time this happened was in 1977, 1978, and 1979. With global warming rapidly gaining ground, we wonder what the next 3 winters will bring. Hopefully, you had enough sense to stay home and to load-up on groceries before this unusual March storm.

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City of WickliffeBy Lynn Hopkins, Mayor

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With my outfit, I left Camp LeJuene, North Car-olina, for San Francisco, California, and at the port of embarkation there, we shipped out for Korea.

Twenty-one days later, on Jan. 28, 1951, we arrived in Pohang, Korea, which was the coldest place I had ever experienced. We were the fourth draft to arrive and were the first replace-ments for the 1st Marine Division that had just come out of the Chosin Reservoir battle.

My cousin, Alfred Boughton , wrote me be-fore I left that he was very glad I missed going to Ko-rea when he did. He told me that he was with my old company north of Seoul, South Korea.

The first squad that I was in, which was leading the company that day, ran into an ambush, and the first eight Marines were killed. How lucky can you get! Someone up above must have been taking care of me.

I never thought I would see Alfred when I reached Korea. Wrong! I met him walking up a street the sec-ond day I was there, and man, was I glad to see him! We had joined the Marine Corps together and had gone through boot camp together at Parris Island in Platoon 135.

He didn’t look very well at all and said that he was to be shipped out to

a Naval Hospital in a few days; doctors didn’t know what was wrong with him. As we were walking up a street between a long row of tents, an Army jeep with three men in it passed by us and stopped about five tents ahead. All of them got out, and one was a Colonel who left his 45 pistol lying on the seat of the jeep. Alfred reached over, picked it up, and handed it to me saying, “Put this on; where you are going, you will need it”.

We left there and went to visit a friend of mine from Missouri whose name was Hall. Hall was a good Ma-rine and a good man. After we hit the front line in about two weeks and relieved the 5th Regiment that Hall was in, I asked another Marine if he knew Hall. He did and told me that Hall had been killed two days ago.

After that, I didn’t see anyone else I knew until the 28th of May. A hand gre-nade put me out of action, and on my way to the aid station, I saw a Lieutenant who had been my leader at Camp LeJeune. I also saw O’Brien from Boston who had been wounded on Iwo Jima in World War II; he had stayed in the Reserve and was called back to go to Korea. We didn’t get to visit very long because my foot was swelling very fast, and I still had a lot of walk-ing to do since the aid tent was about 200 yards farther at the bottom of the hill.

The next morning the Corpsman loaded us on ambulances and took us to another medical facility called A-Med. However, by this time I was unable to walk and my foot had swelled to about the size of a gallon bucket. I really looked very bad, I suppose. I had a beard about five inches long since I had not been able to shower or wash in three weeks. My britches were badly torn when the grenade exploded right at my feet. I wasn’t in a great deal of pain; the problem was that I couldn’t walk.

All of us had laid in the tent on our stretchers for about an hour when a Navy Corpsman approached with five Korean workers who immediately began digging ditches around the tent to keep water from getting to our stretchers.

When the Corpsman passed by me I thought he was someone I had seen before. Shortly he came back through our tent and stopped at the foot of my stretcher; after briefly look-

ing at me he said, “Don’t I know you?” By then I had recognized him and I replied, “Yes, I know you. You are Frenchy Gau-din, the telephone man in Mangham, and I am Buddy Hixon.“

Frenchy could tell that I couldn’t walk and correctly surmised that I was hungry. He asked me if I had eaten lately, and of course, my answer was,”no, I’ve been eating pork and beans for the last 32 days”. He leaned over me, told me to hold him around the neck and get on his back – which I did. I asked him where we were going and he said, “I’m carrying you to the mess hall and tell the cook to fix you the biggest steak he has”.

Man, did that thing look good! It was good, but I could only eat about one- third of it. I wanted to take the rest of it with me but we decided this was not a good idea.

Before I left A-Med that day; Frenchy brought me a carton of cigarettes and sev-eral bars of candy; which I shared with Nolan P. Hen-ery and other Marines.

Nolan P., my assistant gunner from St. Martins-ville, Louisiana was a great buddy of mine. A piece of shrapnel had broken his left wrist and wherever I was taken he was with me.

To be continued in the next issue of The Ballard County Weekly

Familiar faces in unfamiliar lands

Libraries offer educational experiences for all

ByWilliam

(Buddy)Hixon

Public libraries are playing an ever increas-ing role in the education of Kentuckians at all levels. While Kentucky’s public libraries have historically been the “go to” place for adults to learn, the role of public libraries in the edu-cation process has become even more important in re-cent years.

Research has shown that engaging in early lit-eracy practices such as talking, singing, reading, writing and playing have more of an impact on life-time success in school than economic status or family education level. Kentucky children are learning all of

these skills at their local public library or through li-brary community outreach programs free of charge.

Many of Kentucky’s youngest residents expe-rience their first contact with literacy in their pub-lic library’s early child-hood programs. During the 2012-13 fiscal year, Kentucky’s public libraries held 22,091 programs for preschoolers which were attended by more than 376,000 people. While these numbers are impres-sive, public libraries expect to increase their role as valuable service providers of school readiness and to expand literacy programs

in the state. The Kentucky Department for Librar-ies and Archives (KDLA) and public libraries across Kentucky recently formed a 54-member Kentucky Public Library School Readiness Task Force to further develop critical services and make sure that every family in the state has access to these important programs.

Beyond pre-school lit-eracy programs, public libraries offer backup as-sistance for school librar-ies and provide home-work support for students in grades K-12 and many homeschoolers across Kentucky. Additionally,

after-school programming is held at many public li-braries.

One of the major educa-tional efforts in Kentucky during the summer is the annual summer reading program held in public libraries across the Com-monwealth. These pro-grams provide activities for students during the summer months to prevent “summer slide,” where children fall behind during the summer if they don’t read and participate in en-riching activities. In 2013, 145,681 children partici-pated in Summer Reading Programs in their local public libraries.

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MAYFIELD - The Bal-lard Memorial Lady Bomb-ers finished as the runner-up in the 3rd District Girls’ Basketball Tournament. Graves County defeated Ballard Memorial, 64-48, in the 3rd District Girls’ Bas-ketball Tournament Cham-pionship game at Mayfield on Thursday.

Both Graves County and Ballard Memorial advance to the 1st Region Girls’ Bas-ketball Tournament

After the district title game, Graves County

moved 21-7 to and Ballard Memorial fell to 14-13.

Graves County used multiple second-half runs to pull off the win. After leading 18-13 at the end of the opening quarter, Graves County faced a three-point deficit at halftime. The Lady Bombers outscored Graves County 19-11 in the second quarter to lead 32-29 at in-termission.

Graves County, however, regained control of the post-season matchup after the break. Graves County out-scored Ballard Memorial

12-4 in the third quarter. Adding to its lead late

and finishing strong at the same time, Graves County outscored the Lady Bomb-ers 23-12 in the fourth pe-riod.

Graves County was 21-of-54 from the field. The Lady Eagles were 3-of-12 from 3-point range.

Graves County fared well at the foul line, connecting on 19 of 27 free throws.

Senior guard/forward Abbi Denton led Ballard Memorial with 18 points.

Joining Denton in dou-

ble figures was senior for-ward Hailey Houston , who scored 14 points.

MacKenzie Blackford tossed in seven points, while Shelby Rollings added six and Leah Shelley chipped in two for Ballard Memo-rial. Rounding out the Lady Bombers’ scoring was Ash-leigh Tyson with one.

Ballard Memorial was 17-of-43 from the field. The Lady Bombers were 8-of-14 from 3-point range, shooting 50 percent beyond the arc.

LaCENTER - Summer Simmons scored 18 points to lead a balanced Callo-way County attack as the Lady Lakers outlasted host Ballard Memorial by a 48-45 margin in the team’s regular-season finale on Friday.

With the win, Calloway County improved to 14-12. Calloway County’s win broke a two-game losing skid.

Following the loss, Bal-lard Memorial dropped to 13-12. Ballard Memorial had a four-game winning

streak snapped. Calloway County started

strong, edging Ballard Me-morial 13-12 in the opening quarter. Turning the tables on the visiting team, Bal-lard Memorial outscored Calloway County 8-6 in the second quarter to lead 20-19 at halftime.

But Calloway County managed to regain a lead. Calloway County out-scored Ballard Memorial 14-9 in the third quarter to move back out in front.

Ashlyn Stalls finished one shot short of double

figures, scoring eight points for the Calloway County girls’ basketball team. Dar-ien Maness followed, add-ing seven points for the Lady Lakers.

Calloway County shot over 50 percent from the field, connecting on 19-of-34 field goal attempts. The Lady Lakers were 1-of-5 from 3-point range.

Calloway County won despite connecting on only 9 of 22 free throw at-tempts.

Senior guard/forward Abbi Denton led the Lady

Bombers with a game-high 19 points. Eighth-grade center/forward Leah Shel-ley joined Denton in dou-ble figures, finishing with 13 points.

Hailey Houston had six points, MacKenzie Blackford five and Shelby Rollings two for the Lady Bombers

Ballard Memorial was 17-of-39 from the field. The Lady Bombers were 0-for-9 from 3-point range.

Ballard Memorial was 11-of-23 from the foul line.

Ballard County El-ementy School will be holding its annual BCES Basketball Jamboree on March 14.

As part of the event, grade level basketball games will be held. The gala will begin at 6 p.m. with Kindergarten action. First grades games will

start at 6:20, while second- and third-grade games will start at 6:40 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively.

The fourth-grade games are scheduled to start at 7:20 p.m. The fifth grade games will start at 7:40.

As an additional attrac-tion, organizers will be of-fering local residents the

chance to earn some extra money by participating in a half-court shot contest between the games. Par-ticipants making a half-court shot can win prizes ranging for $100, %50 and $25.

MAYFIELD - The Bal-lard Memorial Bombers’ postseason end ended in the 3rd District Boys’ Basketball Tournament on Tuesday night. Tourna-ment host Mayfield elimi-nated Ballard Memorial from the postseason, de-feating the Bombers 67-51.

With the win, Mayfield improved to 12-14 and advanced to face Graves

County in the 3rd District championship game.

Following the loss, Ballard Memorial ended its season at 4-17.

Junior guard/forward Marshall Bacon led May-field with a game-high 24 points. JSenior guard Deante Love added 13 points for the Cardinals. Senior guard/forward Haley Ballard narrowly missed double figures,

finishing with nine points for Mayfield in the win. Lane Kennemore and guard/forward Nick Felts chipped in eight apiece.

Mayfield pulled away in the second half to win convincingly. Determined Mayfield outscored Bal-lard Memorial 13-9 in the opening quarter and clung to a 25-24 lead at half-time.

After taking a three-

BMHS girls fall in regular-season finale

Bombers fall to Mayfield in 3rd District tourney

BCES Jamboree set for March 14

BALLARD MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior SpotlightBy Caity Meinschein

If you have ever been to a Ballard sporting event, you have most likely seen senior Gavin Williams leading the student section or “Bomb Squad.” He will either have his chest painted or holler-ing on his feet. His school spirit, fun personality, and individuality set him apart from other students. Many may not realize that Gavin was actually born in Ken-nett, Mo., where his father, Jim, lives. He moved to Wickliffe with his mom, Kathy Rollins, at a later time. They attend Faith Baptist Church.

When it comes to ath-letics, Gavin has been a successful baseball player for five years. Outside of school, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and bow-fishing. His favorite things at Bal-lard are his friends and he hopes to leave behind “The Lunch Table Legacy.” Gavin wants to be remembered as a good friend that anyone could talk to. His kind heart

and friendly personality will not make this a hard task to accomplish.

Currently, Gavin works on his dad’s farm but hopes to one day work for a crop production service. He plans on attending Murray State University after graduating high school.

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By Breanna JonesWalking down the halls

of BMHS, you are bound to see senior Logan Davis starting a conversation with whoever happens to walk by. Logan, who hopes to be remembered as “the guy that was friendly,” is the son of Brad and Leslee Davis and currently resides in Bar-low. He is an active member of Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Wickliffe. Logan has been a member of broad-casting for two years and a member of the basketball team for one year. He has also been a member of FCA for four years, Beta for three years, and FBLA for two years. Among all these ac-tivities, he has also managed to be on the A/B Honor Roll and earned both a Freshman Welding Award and is a certified welder. During his junior year, he held the posi-tion of Student Council Vice President. This year, he was voted “Parent Approved” by his senior classmates.

Outside of school, Logan is either working at Greg’s, playing video games, or lis-tening to music.

After graduation, he plans to attain a two to four year degree and hopes to become either a welder or a game designer.

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Gavin Williams

Logan Davis

Gavin Williams

Logan Davis

point lead out of the third quarter, Mayfield finished strong. Mayfield domi-nated in the final quarter, outscoring the Bombers 29-16 to claim the win.

Junior forward Clay Newton led Ballard Me-morial with a team-high 17 points. Joining New-ton in double figures, his brother, junior forward Cody Newton, and fresh-man guard Dre Bledsoe, scored 11 points apiece for the Bombers.

Sophomore guard Kea-gan Cooper contributed eight points while senior guard Trevor Langston and junior guard Logan Suiter chipped in two points apiece for Ballard Memorial in the season-ending loss.

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SchoolBALLARD MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior SpotlightBy Scott Jenkins

I don’t know how many people start off hating their best friends with such an unusual amount of passion, but senior Justin King and I did hate each other. Today I honestly couldn’t tell you why. Justin is one of the most kindhearted seniors I know. Not a day goes by where I don’t see him per-sonally put a smile on an-other student’s face. He’s always looking to help people in need and he is the smartest person I know when it comes to comput-ers. Those that know him don’t know what they would do without the tall, goofy, smiling ginger. If you don’t know Justin, he isn’t the easiest person to find. He is involved in so many things in and out of school. Justin is a dedicated member of the band, active for four years. He is ath-letic, playing on the soccer and tennis team for three years. Justin is in tune with his artistic side, serving as the yearbook photo editor and a Drama Club mem-ber for three years. He is also scholarly, a member of the Beta Club and the Aca-demic Team. Justin also

helps at his church, Barlow First Baptist, and lives with his parents Todd and Leslie King.

Outside of school, Jus-tin is either hanging with friends or working at Greg’s Market. His favorite thing at BMHS is the friendly and helpful administration and staff. Justin plans to attend UK for engineering, where I am sure he will cre-ate something to improve the world as a whole.

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By Jade BabbWith a laugh that can

make anyone’s day a little brighter, senior Realynn Walls is a colorful individ-ual with unique spunk. Re-alynn is a hard working gal that enjoys the little things. She is friendly to everyone and if you do not know her, you need to meet her. The daughter of George and Christine Walls is a Wick-liffe resident. Realynn has been an active member of FCCLA and HOSA for four years and FBLA for one. She has been on the honor roll numerous times throughout her high school years.

Outside of school you can find Realynn sleeping, working, or spending qual-ity time with her friends and family. She would like to be remembered as the girl who could make anyone laugh and a person anyone could

talk to. Realynn currently works at the famous small town dive “Bomber Grill and Chill.”

Her dream job is to be-come a beautician and at-tend Murray State.

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Justin King

Realynn Walls

Justin King

Realynn Walls

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 (above left, from left to right) are BCMS Students of the Week for March 3: sixth-grader Madison Nichols; seventh-grader Isaac Pigg and eighth-grader Jesse Hedrick. Selec-tors said Nichols goes out of her way to be helpful to students and teachers and tries hard in all her work; Pigg always has his work, is very accurate and gives his very best; and Hedrick participates in class discussions, is polite and fun to be around. (above right) BCMS Students of the Week for Feb. 24: eighth-grader Morgan Graves; seventh-grader Coy Cox; and sixth-grader Aaron Klaproth. Selectors said Graves always goes above and beyond, and is a wonderful influence on her class-mates; Cox is a diligent worker who is helpful and cooperative; and Klaproth participates wonder-fully in class, keeps good grades and puts forth his best effort.

Distinguished ...Seven Ballard students received distinguished ratings for their solo performances at Solo and Ensemble Assessment held Feb. 22 at Mar-shall County High School. At Bal-lard Memorial High School, they were (Top photo, from left) fresh-man Kerrie Pullen, freshman Emily Morehead, (back, from left) senior Jessica Jones and senior Georgann Ingram. At Ballard County Middle School, they were (at right, from left) seventh-graders Wyatt LaPradd and Taryn Hamilton, and eighth-grader Michaela Nutt.

BCES winner ...Ballard County Elementary School fifth-grader Avie Turner is shown here accepting a certificate and $20 from Ballard Retired Teachers’ As-sociation member Virginia Roberts. Turner was the winner of an essay contest sponsored by BRTA and AARP, titled “AARP Kentucky Grand-parent of the Year.” The state winner will be announced at the Ken-tucky Retired Teachers’ Association convention in April.

MSU official speaks to sophomores

The Ballard Memorial High School sophomore class received a special treat last week.

Dr. Ross Meloan, direc-tor of Career Services for Murray State University, spoke to members of the 10th grade class at Ballard Memorial High School on Feb. 24.

During Meloan’s speech, he discussed career ser-vices and higher education with the students. He also explained the importance of interviewing in the job process by how employers assess job applicants based on interview skills and re-sumes, and the importance of internships, job experi-ence and extracurricular activities.

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Believe it or not, spring really is on the way. Af-ter a long, cold winter, many homeowners begin to turn their attention to their landscape. The winter months can be damaging to trees and shrubs. To en-sure healthy spring plants, homeowners may want to prune the trees and shrubs around their home. But you shouldn’t just prune for the sake of pruning; make sure you have a valid reason.

Pruning during the late winter months allows you to remove damage caused by winter winds and pre-cipitation.

Pruning also is a way to remove diseased, crowded or hazardous branches. When pruning trees, the size of the tree should not be reduced too much in one season. Limit the pruning amount to one-fourth of the tree’s volume. Start by thinning out branches by cutting them off close to the tree’s trunk or a large limb.

Leave the base of the branch, known as the col-lar, intact. Cutting the col-lar will prevent the plant from growing over the wound caused from prun-ing. Pruning in this manner allows for a healthy tree that is more open to sun-light and air movement. If the branch is cut back only part way, there will likely be a crowded regrowth of new branches where the cut was made. Do not seal or paint the wounds resulting from pruning, because this will only delay the tree’s healing process.

Spring-flowering shrubs may need rejuvenation pruning, and the best time for that is right after they flower. If you prune a shrub before it blooms, you re-move buds too soon and don’t get an opportunity enjoy those blooms. When you prune after bloom-ing, you can still enjoy the flowers and the plant can recover, grow, and produce more buds for flowers next spring.

For rejuvenation pruning you remove one-third of the shrub’s oldest growth. You need to select the thickest, darkest and unhealthiest stems or branches and cut them back. You should cut back stems to soil level and branches to the point of in-tersection with the shrub’s main trunk. This ensures that only the youngest, most productive wood (that which produces the most and best flowers) remains a part of the shrub. Dur-ing early spring you can also prune shrubs that will bloom during the summer months.

Pruning is not limited to a certain time of year. You can prune at any time if you notice damaged branches and limbs. The process is invigorating for the plants in a home landscape so you shouldn’t necessarily think of pruning just as a means of size control.

If you have a plant that

Time to prune

AG UPDATEBy Tom Miller

Ballard County Extension Agentfor Ag and Natural Resources

has grown out-of-bounds, pruning may not be the answer – you may need to consider replacing the plant with one that will reach a smaller size at maturity.

Trees and shrubs to prune in late winter/early spring while still dormant:

• Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)

• Butterfly bush (Bud-dleia Davidii)

• Crape myrtle (Lager-stroemia indica)

• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

• Flowering plum (Pru-nus blireana)

• Glossy abelia (Abelia x grandiflora)

• Golden rain tree (Koel-reuteria paniculata)

• Honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissiam)

• Hydrangea, Peegee (Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’)

• Potentilla (Potentilla fruticosa)

• Redbud (Cercis canadensis)

• Spirea (except bridal wreath) (Spirea japonica))

• Wisteria (Wistera spe-cies)

Trees and Shrubs to prune in late spring/sum-mer, after bloom

• Azalea (Rhododendron species)

• Beauty bush (Kolkwit-zia amabilis)

• Bridal wreath spirea (Spirea x vanhouttei)

• Flowering crabapple (Malus species and culti-

vars)• Forsythia (forsythia x

intermedia)• Hawthorn (Crataegus

species and cultivars)• Hydrangea, Bigleaf

(Hydrangea macrophylla)• Lilac (Syringa vulgar-

is)• Magnolia (Magnolia

species and cultivars)• Mock orange

(Philadelphus coronarius)• Mountain laurel

(Kalmia latifolia)• R h o d o d e n d r o n

(Rhododendron species)• Serviceberry

(Amelanchier x grandi-flora)

• Slender deutzia (deut-zia gracilis)

• Weigela (Weigela flor-ida)

The Kentucky Coop-erative Extension Service offers publications that can answer many of your pruning and other garden-ing and landscape ques-tions. Online, http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/ho/ho45/ho45.pdf offers infor-mation about pruning trees and http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/ho/ho59/ho59.htm offers informa-tion about pruning shrubs.

Programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, age, sex, color, religion, disability or national origin. For additional information, contact the Ballard County Extension Office, 110 Broad-way, LaCenter, 665-9118.

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Saturday, March 8th • 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Julian Carroll Convention Center

At this unique event, over 300 attendees enjoy culinary creations (appetizers, entrees and desserts) specially prepared by male local celebrity chefs from the surrounding counties. Entertainment will be provided by Soul Dog. Men Who Cook is the largest annual fundraising event for the Purchase Area Sexual Assault & Child Advocacy Center (PASAC). Proceeds ensure the continuity of its programs for children and families living in the Purchase Area.

Tickets & Seating: $35 at the door or contacting PASAC at (270)534-4422

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