Sellers finalist in Miss Kentucky American Princess pageant

Miss Britlany Sellers, daughter of Ricky and Vicki Sellers, has been accepted as a State Finalist in the Miss Kentucky American Princess Pageant to be held July 2&3,1998 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Lexing-ton.

The winner of the Miss Kentucky American Princess Pageant in each division will receive a cash award of $500, official crown, bannerand $300 in travel expenses to compete in the National Miss American Coed Pag-eant in Orlando, Florida, where thou-sands of dollars in cash awards, schol-arships, and prizes will be awarded. Each state winner will also receive admission and transportation for two

, to Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida The Miss Kentucky American

Princess Pageant is for Tomorrow's Leaders. It is open to girls between the ages of 3-20 years, with goals and dreams based on inner beauty, poise, appearance, scholastic achievement, an all-American spirit for school, and her performance on stage. The pag-eant seeks to recognize the accom-plishments of each girl who enters .

and helps her set goals for the future. Last year over SI million in schol-

arships, cash and awards were pre-sented to deserving young women nationwide. Cash awards and tro-phies will also be presented in sev-eral separate optional contests such as Talent, Speech jnd Photogenic.

Miss Sellers is sponsored by friends and family Her hobbies in-clude playing OUISKIC and dancing to country music. Her ambition is to grow up!

Jail Problems (Cont. from front)

county's general fund was going to run short in the next couples of weeks and that it would make it difficult to meet the general fund's expenses, if more money-was transferred to the jail at this time.

Members of the court agreed to meet in special session as soon as money is available to pay the jailer.

But the jailer is not the only one with the jail that is not

The Rockcastle Farmers' Market will be at the Renfro Valley Festival Field on Saturdays and the Brodhead Fairgounrds on Wednesday.

"Farmers' Market" — (Cont. from front)

that date, it will operate on a regular grown fresh fruits and vegetables, basis at Renfro Valley Festival Field. For more information contact Look for signs to direct you.

The Farmers ""Myket is a gather- Livingston Economic Alternatives in ing place for everyone to buy locally Progress (LEAP) at 453-9800.

"Aaron Tippin" (Cont. from front)

us all to stand up for what we be-lieved in with his "You've Got To Stand For Something," debut. The song not only revved up the spirit of its listeners, but it also slapped the seal on the whole Aaron Tippin pack-age.

This muscled-up South Carolin-ian has been standing for something his entire iife-whether it be for his strong southern roots, his unyielding effort to keep physically fit, or his long-time goal to place his music on the map. So far, the "Tip" has man-aged to come out a winner in every round.

Throughout the years, Tippin has penned and performed such memo-rable hits as. There Aint' Nothing Wrong With the Radio", "My Blue

Angel,' "Working Man's PhD " and of course "You've Got To Stand For Something. This group of songs have received the Million-Air award from BM1 for being played one miffion times on the airways. -

With six albums under his belt, one platinum and fourgold,one would think this seif-professed hillbilly singer could rest on his laurels - but not Tippin.

Aaron has' touret] extensively In 1998. "It is like a chance at a new beginning forme, I still have so much more that I want to accomplish in the music business and the only way I know how to do it, is to be who I am and do what I do and hope that people will keep coming' back for more," Tippin said. "I'm ldpking forward to performingin Renfro Valley," he said.

To see Aaron Tippin, in what is sure to be a special concert, or to see any of the other Renfro Valley shows, call 1-800-765-7464 for tickets and information.

MikeCameron.ofCameron Con-struction Company, told the court that he was two payments behind for work he had done on jail renovation project and that he had not been paid for work done in January totaling $3,795.

Cameron told the court that he knew it was not their fault, but it had been difficult to get paid for work done since the project started.

"Architecture Plus is not doing their job, it has been like getting blood from a turnip, they just aren't doing the proper paper work," Cameron said.

RockcastleCountyJudge-Execu-tive Buzz Carloftis told the court he had made calls to Ross-Sinclair, the company paying the bills for the jail renovation project on several occa-.sions, but Cameron still had not got-ten all that was owed to him.

Carloftis left the meeting for a few minutes and called Ross-Sinclair about Cameron's problem. He later told Cameron and the court that the pay problem should be corrected the next day.

Cameron also reminded the court that they had approved payment of $3,795 in March for rock removal in January, but he had not been paid for that either.

The Judge looked up the bill in question in the March minutes and found where the court had indeed agreed to pay the money, but they took no other action.

Cameron also told the court it had been four weeks since he had been able id work, because demolition work in the old jail was not com-pleted on schedule. "We are already behind and it seems to be getting worse," Cameron said.

The county is responsible to the. demolition workihemselves.

And then the court got some more bad news about the renovation project.

Billy Curtis of Archtecture Plus,, who had been site manager on the project since it began this spring, quit on Monday.

The Judge-Executive, nor the court knew anything about Curtis' decision until Anna Rose Mullins told them he (Curtis) had turned in his keys earlier in the day.

Third District "Magistrate Bill McKinney said he thought Architec-ture Plus should have been more on top of things and already had another site manager on the project

However when Carloftis called Arc hi lecture Plus they told him Curtis was supposed to work two more weeks and should have been at the court meeting. The Judge did not say when Architecture Plus would have someone on site.

And, although only about five prisoners are being held in the county jail because there is no kitchen, the state department of corrections con-ducted a surprise inspection on Fri-day.

And, on Monday the fiscal court received a certified letter from the state threatening to shut down the jail all together.

Carloftis told the court that the fire alarm in the jail was not working correctly during the inspection and that if it wasn't fixed immedately the jail would be shut down by the state.

In other business the court voted to help Brindle Ridge Fire Depart-ment borrow $50,000 to build a new

Youth League Football Camp

When: July 9-10 • Time: 9 ^.m. to Noon Where: Rockcastle Co. High School Practice Field

Cost : FREE Grades: All 1998 Youth League and Middle School

All bas ic f u n d a m e n t a l s of offense, defense, a n d kicking will be t a u g h t by the Rockcastle Coun ty High School Coaching Staff .

Th i s will be a non-contact camp.

T-Shi r t s and pizza will be provided t h e l a s t day

Sign-up w h e n you ar r ive on J u l y 9 wi th p a r e n t s

building at Conway. The court's only requirement of Brindle Ridge was some type of collateral on the loan, since the court would be ultimately responsible, if Brindle Ridge did not repay the loan.

The court also approved the pay-ment of $25 rental fee for each poll-ing place used in the county during the elections. Before some people had received more than others, al-though none had received more than $25.00.

The court also approved the county budget to the next fiscal year, which began on July 1.

The total budget for the county is $2.3 million.

The Road Department will get $763,500, the general fund, $614,726, the jail fund $425,274 and 911 dis-patching $161,000.

McKinney trial

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Stringer said the three were dead be-fore the house fire.

McKinney and his wife, of only onemonth.andhertwochildrenwcre renting the house that investigators later said was intentionally burned.

The house was located in the Plato Community, near the Rockcastle/ Pulaski County line.

Court officials think the trial will last until sometime next week.

The Commonwealth Attorney's office is seeking the death penalty in the case.

Exile (Cont. from A9)

Laurel County and District 5 - Don Thompson, Rockcastle County.

Registered co-op members were also eligible to win a variety of door prizes. The prizes and winners were -

Big Wheel - Whitney Brumley, Manchester and Andrew Patton, East

Tho Mt. Vemon Signal Thursday, July 2,1998 P-A9

Bicycle - Katherine Lewis, McKcc and Jessie Sparks, McKee.

SlOOGiftCertificate-Arch Noble, Manchester; Leon Mason, Orlando; Gladys Bowman, Beattyville; White House Clinic, McKee; Mary Bayardo, East Bernstadt; Loren Camfield,' Irvine and Debbie Estes, Beattyville.

Small Appliances - Michael Frost, Tyner, Bonnie Farmer, Tyner; Clyde Wiseman, Irvine; South McKcc Car Wash, McKee; James D. Field, Ann ville; James Tackett, Boonevillc and Stella Smith, Lily.

Livingston Man

(Cont. from front) The new charges against

Blackburn stem from a Friday night of allegedly trying to break into one home andbreaking in to another home and a garage.

Rockcastle Deputy Sheriff Charles Gray said he was called to Livingston around midnight Friday night. He said that when he ani ved he spotted Blackburn trying to get into a house on Mullins Street and when he

Gray said that he was called back to Livingston around 3 a.m. Saturday morning after Blackburn broke into a garage on Main Street owned by Donald Rice.

Gray said that Blackburn appar-

Gcna Nicole Graves 1998 8 Lbs. lOCte

Denis Eugene and Andrea Graves are proud to announce the birth of their first child, Gena Nicole Graves. Gene was bom on May 28.1998 at 12:43a.m.She weighed 8 lbs. 10 ozs. and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are A. DanCurtisofLouisvilleandEd and Gayle Lile of Livingston: Pa-ternal grandparents are Denis W. and Zella M. Graves of Mt. Ver-non. Maternal great grandmothers are Ragena Kvindis and Martha Curtis, both of Louisville. Paternal great grandparents are Barbara Begley of ML Vemon and Charles Gravesof Brodhead. Paternal great great grandmother is Mary Tho-

ently cut his hand when he broke into Rice's garage amfwasbleeding "pretty badly."

The deputy said that while he and Kentucky State Trooper John Yates were searching the area for Blackburn they heard a gunshot come from the

• home of Vonie Mink on Main Street in Livingston.

Gray said that when officers got to Ms. Mink's home she told police she thought she had shot someone because there was blood all over her house.

"Ms. Mink said she shot in the air to s c a r e b u t that the bullet must have richocheted and struck him," Gray said.

But, the blood in Ms. Mink'shome apparently came from Blackburn's hand which was still bleeding.

"Blackburn left the scene again, but a few minutes later, one of Blackburn's brothers told police he had gone home and they could come and get him before he got himself killed," Gray said.

Blackburn was arrested around 4 a.m. Saturday and lodged in the Rockcastle County Jail. He was charged with two counts of second degree burglary and one count of auempted burglary.

In May, a Rockcastle Coupty Cir-cuit Court jury found Blackburn not guilty of assaulting officer Gray and Livingston water superintendent John Kuhn on August 23 of 1997. They did find him guilty of resisting arrest and sentenced him to 90 days in jail.

. His next court appearance will be July 31.

Bear spotted (Cont. from front)

and at another home, but that resi-dents shouldn't be alarmed.

"They tell us to just ignore a Black Bear and it will eventually leave, because they are not meat eaters, but if your garbage is out where they can get into it, that might pose a prob-lem," Thomas said.

While residents were watching the Bear, one man was shot in the thigh.

Thomas said that a handgun acci -dently felloutof thepocketof Gilbert Chesnut and shot his brother-in-law David Scarborough in the thigh.

Scarborough, 30, of Orlando was transported to Rockcastle Hospital and later to the University Kentucky Medical Center. He has since been

Smithern on Dean's List

-Lisa Smithern of Mt. Vemon has beennamed to the spring 1998dean's list at Midway College, Kentucky's only college to women. . Students eligible to the dean's list at Midway must be classified as full time with a course load of at leas t 12 credit hours, nine hours to evening and extension programs, and achieve agradepointaverageof 3.5 or higher.

The Mt. Vernon High School Association, Classes of 1914-1965 inclusive, will hold its annual Homecoming Dinner meeting at the

Rockcastle County Middle School, Saturday, September 12,1998. Registration 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. If you are a graduate or

attended Mt. Vernon High School and have not been receiving an invitation but would like to attend, please send your name and address to:

Carol Riddle PO Box 67 • Brodhead, KY 40409

606-758-8150 The association is now in the process of trying

to update names and addresses of MVHS graduates. We need your help!

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Vernon Bennett, has joined the Service department at Britton

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Oldfmobile for the same great service that he's been

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State Farm's Homeowners Insurance is a great fit...

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