Homecoming is scheduledfor Jan. 31

Ballard Memorial High School’s 2014 Homecoming is set for Friday, Jan. 31. Dur-ing the celebration, the BMHS Bombers and Lady Bombers will face off against Livingston Central High School.

Students will have Extreme Green Day for Spirit Day. Those students dressing in ex-treme green for school that day can purchase at ticket for $1 for the night’s ball game.

Two Wickliffe residents were arrested last week in connection to a home bur-glary and a local business.

According to the Bal-lard County Sheriff’s Of-fice, Connie and Clifford Muenster were taken into custody at approximately 6 p.m. on Jan. 9, 2014 , in rsponse to a home inva-sion on VFW Road, west of Barlow.

After receiving the re-port of a home invasion, BCSO officers arrived to investigate the incident. During the investigation, law enforcement officials indicated the homeowner returned home and found the two subjects in his residence. When the ho-meowner entered his resi-dence, Clifford Muenster

BMHSSenior Spotlight

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Relay For Life gets started

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BMHS star reaches record

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City nears goal on FJ Trail project

Kentucky soldier returns home 70 years after death

Locals are arrested in connection to burglaries

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C.H.A.M.P to meet on Jan. 20

Home-schooler’s of Ballard County would like to announce a new way to spend time with other home-schoolers. C.H.A.M.P (Choos-ing Home School and Moral Principles) is a new home school now meeting in Ballard County. The first of-ficial meeting will be held on Jan. 20, 2014 at KVPM in Wickliffe from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees are urged to bring a sack lunch.

If you have any questions you can call Bonnie Bruner ay 270-445-0677 or Sandy Hart at 270-335-3128 or 270-210-2452. Come for learning, playing, friendship and support.

Jared Jackson

Special to The Ballard County Weekly

A meeting on the Fort Jefferson Trail Project was held on Thursday, Jan. 9, at Wickliffe City Hall. The city council and PADD discussed what options could be made to im-prove the use of the trails. A number of ideas were placed on the table such as, putting benches, shelters, and a pavilion. Ideas for funding these ad-ditions to the trails project were also discussed.

One of the funding ideas is to of-fer for businesses to contribute to the purchase of these items and have their business logos placed on them as advertisement. The council also discussed a $26,300 reimbursement with PADD and agreed to accept it

dale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

After almost 70 years, one Western Kentucky family can finally lay World War II to rest for good.

Family members of a recently discovered West Kentucky soldier that vanished during World War II were treated to a special ceremony at the Ken-tucky Veterans and Patriots Museum last week as the remains of their loved one are in the process being returned. Local media outlet WPSD, along with other members of the media, met up with the group to cover the ceremony.

“Closure,” was how most of the family of William T. Carneal expressed their feelings at the return of Carneal’s body after almost seven de-cades of questions.

Yukari Akasuka and Usan Kurata, who work for a Japanese firm that locates the remains of Japanese soldiers, discovered Carneal’s body in March of 2013. Carneal was declared Missing in Action (MIA) almost 70 years ago. According to Akasuka and Kurata, His body was found buried in Saipan along with the remains of other Ameri-can soldiers in the vicinity where excavations of Japanese soldiers were in progress.

See RETURN on Page 2

Yukari Akasuka and Usan Kurata are interviewed by a local television station during a special ceremony last week at KVPM. Akasuka and Kurata found the remains of WWII veteran William T. Carneal. Carneal’s remains are being returned to the family almost 70 years after his death.

Hayden LeFevre ...... KY All-State Band

Ballard Memorial High School’s Hayden LeFevre can officially say he is among the best in the state.

The BMHS sopho-more was recently se-lected for Kentucky All-State Band.

LeFevre competed for the honor in two rounds

of auditions against other French horn play-ers from across the state. The final round included 1,000 students.

“It is one of the big-gest accomplishments that a high school band student can receive,” said BMHS band direc-tor Heather Waters.

LeFevre named to KY All-State Band

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richard h. Blankenship

The Ballard County Weekly

Held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 11 at the First Baptist Church of LaCenter was the kick-off brunch for the 2014 Ballard County Relay for Life.

Before brunch, the gathering was opened with a prayer by guest speaker Pastor Anthony Schaeffer. After brunch, the welcome was given by local Relay representative Kathe Ay-dlotte. To get everyone’s mindset back to Relay related affairs, Aydlotte quizzed the audience about the colors associated with different types of cancer.

Not without reason though as this year’s Re-lay for Life theme is “The Colors of Cancer… The Colors of Hope.” Ayd-lotte revealed that as of the gathering this year’s Relay for Life will be held from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Friday, June 13 at the bus circle between the middle and high school gymnasiums.

After the welcome, area Relay Specialist Eric Walker began his presenta-tion by making note of the rising success rate among cancer patients in the U.S. In this segment, Walker showed the significant im-pact of the efforts of Relay for Life by pointing out that in a single year, Re-lay members gave 16,500 survivors rides to treat-ment, which makes nearly 200,000 round-trips for patients and caregivers. Additionally, they have saved patients and care-givers more than $26 mil-lion in 2012.

Walker also recognized both cancer survivors and their caregivers. Also he thanked last year’s spon-sors and presented signs to last year’s teams.

Pastor Schaeffer be-gan by talking about his brother’s unfortunate bat-tle against, and eventual

loss, to pancreatic cancer. Because of this, he was compelled to take action and work to make a differ-ence in the world of pan-creatic and other types of cancer. After standing with others on capitol hill and presenting their case, his hard work and determina-tion was rewarded with the bipartisan passing of legislation that would go on to make a difference to countless cancer patients, survivors, and their care-givers. Along with making a difference, his conquest proved to him and oth-ers that, “Together we are working for something much bigger than our-selves.”

At the conclusion of his solemn presentation, Ayd-lotte, along with a couple of helpers from the audi-ence, pulled numbers for the door prizes which in-cluded small gifts and Re-lay water bottles.

Anyone that would like to join the millions of oth-ers that work with Relay for Life to make a differ-ence in the lives of cancer survivors and their care-givers, should visit www.relayforlife.org/ballardky. Also, they can call 1-800-227-2345 or attend the monthly meeting, which is held every third Monday of the month at 5 p.m. at the U.K. Extension office in LaCenter.

Oops!The first name of

of new Wickliffe City Council member Mike Nutt was incorrectly printed in last week’s edition of The Ballard County Weekly.

Nutt, who attended his first meeting last week, replaces Chris Halteman, who re-signed form the Wick-liffe City Council ear-lier in 2013

. The Ballard Coun-ty Weekly regrets the error.

Carneal, who had gradu-ated from Heath High School in 1939, was still wearing his high school class ring when his body was located. The ring was used as part of the process of identification, along with Carneals’ dog tags. Later, DNA samples were taken by U.S. govern-ment officials and compared with that of three known relatives to make the final identification.

Carneal’s last communi-cation with his family was just before being shipped out to Pearl Harbor, and then eventually on to the battle at Siapan. Carneal went MIA in 1944 and was declared

dead a year later in 1945Carneal’s sister, Ruth

Anderson, who had taken in and raised him after the death of their parents, never gave up hope that he would some day return home.

Anderson’s granddaugh-ter, Beverly Swift, said even though she never personally met Carneal she feels as if she had known him because of conversations she heard growing up from her mother (who was raised with Car-neal as siblings) and her grandmother about Carneal.

According to Swift, Car-neal is entitled to a burial at Arlington National Cem-etery but the family has de-cided to have the remains returned to Kentucky and interred next to his sister.

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recipe of the WeekSubmitted By Joe Culver

Pod Tilley’sPecan Pie

Most pecan pie reci-pes call for vanilla ex-tract. Aunt Pod used almond extract and it really gives the pie a different taste.

2T butter½ cup sugar¼ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon almond

extract2/3 cups white syrup2 whole eggs beaten

well

2 T flour¾ cup pecans

Cream butter, sug-ar. Beat eggs, and add half to butter and sugar mixture and mix. Mix in rest of eggs and add flour. Mix and then add remaining ingredients.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes then re-duce heat to 350 and bake 30 minutes.

Use a frozen pie crust, (not deep dish but one of the shallow ones).

Brunch kicks off the 2014 Ballard Relay for Life

Relay Specialist Eric Walker speaks during a pre-sentation on the rising success rate among cancer patients in the U.S. Walker was among a large group of area residents attending the 2014 Relay For Life kick-off brunch on Jan. 11.

By Kay PressonI would like to use this

means and opportunity to wish my youngest brother, aka “baby brother”, Rusty (H.R. Throgmorton, Jr.) a happy birthday. His birth-day is Tuesday, January 14. My, how the years have flown!

Many of us have fam-ily and friends whose birthdays are in the same month, week, or day. My daughter, Genet Presson, will be 31 on Saturday, January 18.

Each time I talk to Rusty, we recall events from our childhood. Although we

had a rough childhood, being “pore folks,” we do have some good, comical memories.

Rusty has a great sense of humor and has always been a wonderful brother. When you see him, if you will look closely at his face, you will notice a scar right between his eyes, right above his nose. You may wonder, “hmmm, did that happen in a fight?” Nope, he got bit by a mon-key!

He can tell the event better than me, and he will laugh while telling it. Just ask him about “Susie the monkey,”

Ask him about ‘Susie the Monkey’

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Mike Nutt ......new councilman

The public is invited to a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m. in the Ballard County Career and Technical Center. Principal David Meinschein said the purpose will be to discuss possible new programs at the CTC, the vision of the CTC and career readiness

among Ballard Memorial High School students.

The BCCTC is located at 11 Vocational School Road, Barlow. For more information, please con-tact Meinschein at 665-8400, ext. 2501, or email david.meinschein@bal-lard.kyschools.us.

BMHS sets public meeting to discuss CTC programs

School changes are announced

Due to school days missed for inclement weather, school will be held on Feb. 17 and March 14.

The last day of school is now Wednesday, May 21.

was allegedly standing in the kitchen wearing a pair of black gloves, while Connie Muenster entered the kitchen carrying two sets of silverware that had been stored in the home-owner’s bedroom. The two were reportedly transport-ing the items to their truck, which was parked in the driveway.

The homeowner report-edly discovered that entry had been gained in the res-idence by using a hammer and screwdriver to force open an entry door from the garage. The homeown-er conducted an inventory

of his residence and found numerous items missing, including money, prescrip-tion medications, personal documents, tools and other items. He also claimed his safe, which was stored in a bedroom closet, had been pryed open and several items had been taken.

The two suspects were taken into custody and transported to the Ballard County Detention Center. They were charged with burglary and criminal mis-chief.

In a follow-up investi-gation conducted on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, officers conducted searches of the Muenster’s vehicle and home and recovered nu-merous items that had been reportedly stolen from the homeowner on VFW Road, as well as items sto-len from the Dollar Gen-eral store in Wickliffe.

back in two payments. There is only $4,500 left to reach the $150,000 grant total. Mark Davis suggests using it to complete landscaping and purchase benches.

Another meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Jan. 23.

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ObituariesCUNNINGHAM - Clo-

vis Raburn, 89 of Cun-ningham, passed away at 3:46 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, at his home.

Mr. Raburn was a mem-ber of Trinity Holiness Church. He was an iron-worker and member of the Ironworkers Local 782, and a U.S. Army Veteran of the WWII era.

He is survived by his

wife, Ruth Reeves Raburn; three daughters, Gail Womble of Cunningham, Rita Gourley of Cunning-ham, and Sharon Whaley of South Haven, MS; eight grandchildren; thirteen great grandchildren; and two great great grandchil-dren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Hiner and Lula Wilson Raburn;

one sister; and one grand-daughter.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell with Bro. Aaron Burnett officiating. Burial followed in the Bethel Ho-liness Church Cemetery. Visitation was held after 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan, 9, 2014 at the funeral home.

BARDWELL - J.T. Mor-gan, age 87, of Bardwell, passed away at 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 at Countryside Center in Bardwell.

Mr. Morgan was a dairy farmer and a member of Bardwell Baptist Church. He served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

He is survived by his sons, Kenny Morgan and wife, Mary Ann of May-field, and Gary Morgan of Bardwell; brother, Billy Joe Morgan of Bardwell.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary (Trainer) Morgan; parents, John and

Golda (Hogancamp) Mor-gan, Sr. and one brother, Charles Edward Morgan.

Funeral services for J.T. Morgan were held at 2

p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell with Revs. Rodney Bice and Mike Williams offici-ating. Burial followed in the Roselawn Cemetery in Bardwell. Visitation was from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to: St. Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105

You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy or light a candle at www.milneran-dorr.com.

KIRBYTON - Frances Martin, age 95, passed away at 1:20 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 at Countryside Health Care in Bardwell.

Frances was a member of Zoar Baptist Church in Cunningham.

She is survived by her niece, Carol Vinyard and husband Charles of Kir-byton; great nieces, Ash-lee Vinyard of Alexandria, VA and Andrea Podolak and husband Chuck of Washington, D.C.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Otha

and Mary (Hall) Martin; sister, Anna Louise Mar-tin; brother and sister-

in-law, Harold and Mary Martin.

Funeral services for Frances Martin were held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell with Revs. Dar-ryl Titus and Jerry As-berry officiating. Burial followed in the Kirbyton Cemetery. Visitation be-gan at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2013 at the funer-al home.

You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy or light a candle at www.milne-randorr.com.

BARDWELL - Wanda Perry, age 78, of Paducah, formerly of Bardwell, passed away at 11 p.m. on Thurs-day, Jan. 9, 2014 at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah.

Mrs. Perry was a home-maker and a member of Antioch Baptist Church in Bardwell.

She is survived by her daughters, Micah Sullivan of Kevil and Charissa San-

tana of Bowling Green, KY; sister, Cindy Lee of Benton, KY; brother, Ernest Gardner of Paducah; four grandchil-dren and eleven great grand-children.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles William Perry; parents, Ernest and Betty (Reeves) Gardner.

Graveside services for Wanda Perry were at 1 p.m.

on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2013 at the Roselawn Cemetery in Bardwell with Rev. C.W. Barnhill officiating. Friends could call after 12 p.m. on Tuesday at the Milner & Orr Funeral Home in Bardwell.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-tributions to: Merryman House Domestic Crisis, 400 Berger Rd., Paducah, KY 42003

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J E F F E R S O N CITY, MO - Alice Fay Campbell, age 69, died at Citizens Memorial Hospital in Boliver, Missouri Fri-day afternoon.

She was of the Baptist faith.

Alice was survived by one son, Preston Campbell of Jefferson City, Mo.; one daugh-ter, Heather Skelton of Jefferson City, Mo.; one brother, Bar-ry Rucker (Susie) of Wickliffe; two sisters, Carol Ann Renfrow of St. Louis, Mo. and Myra (Tootie) Dunn (Jerry) of Wickliffe; five grandchildren: Christopher Camp-bell, Celia Baumont, Curtis Loafman, Jus-tin Loafman and Scott Nicholas Jaeger.

She was preceded in death by her hus-band, Rex A. Camp-bell; one grandson, John Campbell; and one granddaughter, Chantell Campbell, and her parents, Floyd and Pauline Stigall Rucker Macke.

Funeral Services were on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at 2 p.m. at Morrow Funeral Cha-pel in LaCenter, with the Rev. Jerrod Hayes officiating. Interment followed at Hillcrest Cemetery at Bland-ville, Ky.

Morrow Funeral Chapel in LaCen-ter handled arrange-ments.

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I hope everyone has started with a great New Year. If not I pray things will get better. It’s best to take it one day at a time, I know; but some-time it seems to me that trouble just hits hard and last until you see no hope on that situation. Is this a faith lesson? We know we are going to face many things in life. But as I get older, or so I tell myself, it just seems to be worse. I try to think on good things. This never fails to help. I really do put this to work. Like when the temp, dropped so bad, I still had a warm home.

When I saw on the news people without food I still had food. When I see family’s standing by a grave of a son lost in battle, I still have my son! When I see people without jobs, I still have a job. I see people afraid to leave their homes just

for a trip to the grocery store and I still was safe. I see school vio-lence so bad it leads to death of one’s close to you. I have never felt that kind of violence in my school system. I see people who can’t say a prayer in public. I have never felt that fear. Oh, yes I know this was a faith lesson. Things are better now. I’m through a few more rough miles and may have several to go but life is good. I give thanks to the one who helped me through. He is there for one and all. In our Father above we are kept safe. God Bless!

Kay’sCorner

ByKay Jones

New year brings new hope

J.T. Morgan

Frances Martin

Lanier named to Dean’s List at Southeast

Raven Lanier of La Cen-ter has been named to the Dean’s List for academic achievement during the fall 2013 session at Southeast Missouri State University.

She was is among 2,583 students named to the fall 2013 Dean’s List.

Students named to the list earned at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least 12 degree credit hours dur-ing the fall session.

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Opinion

The first animal many of us hunted as a child was the Eastern Gray Squirrel, sci-entific name Sciurus caro-linensis. The gray Squirrel is common enough that ev-eryone knows what it is but perhaps there are a few in-teresting facts about this lit-tle rodent that will surprise you. Rodent? Yes squirrels are rodents just like rats and mice. This means that they have upper and lower incisors that grow continu-ously and must be kept short by gnawing. Feeding on a variety of nuts, ber-ries, bark, tree buds, and unfortunately, mature corn crops and bird feeder con-tents keep these teeth worn down. They are habitual hoarders and are constantly

busy burying and stashing food. Actually each indi-vidual squirrel will bury several thousand, yes thou-sand, nuts in a single sea-son. Having an extremely well honed sense of loca-tion memory they are able to locate the general area of these buried catches and then use their sense of smell to zero in. Typically gray or brownish in color, variations do exist such as white, black, or piebald. Several small towns not far from Kentucky adver-tise white squirrels as their

claim to fame. Gray Squir-rels build a type of nest in tree branches that is called a drey. The drey consist of sticks, twigs, and leaves with a hollow space in-side. They also utilize hol-low trees and branches and unfortunately house attics and walls where they can become quite a pest.

Normally, Gray squirrels have two liters of young per year with the first oc-curring in late winter and another in early summer, consisting of 3 to 4 young each time.

Squirrel season in Ken-tucky coincides with the normal small game sea-son with another spring squirrel season thrown in. Cooked in several tradi-

tional dishes, I personally like fried best. I have never been able to duplicate my mom’s fried squirrel, com-plete with browned flour gravy made with the drip-pings and home- made bis-cuits.

Profilesin NatureByJack Glisson

Photo by Kentucky up Close!Gray Squirrels build a type of nest in tree branches that is called a drey. The drey consist of sticks, twigs, and leaves with a hollow space inside.

The veterans want to thank everyone who has helped make Kentucky Vet-eran & Patriot Museum suc-cessful. A special thanks go out to all the volunteers who have taken time to make a difference.

A thank you to Judge Keith Myers & the justice system who have encouraged some of the most amazing people to come make a difference for the Veterans. We could not honor our Heroes with-out all their help.

Lastly, I have been encour-aged to point out the enthu-siasm of our young people who soak up the knowledge while helping out. Our cities & our county have helped in so many ways to support the

efforts of KVPM without be-ing asked. It truly makes all of us feel that we are blessed to be spending time in a place that leaves a mark in the hearts that will last for-ever!

May we always have He-roes!

This year promises to be an interesting year for the City of Wickliffe. We have two or three prospects for new businesses and we are all in anticipation of the pur-chase of New Page’s plant in Wickliffe by another compa-ny. The City provides ware-housing for the paper mill and the operation of the paper mill affects the city and its citizens and other businesses. The resource of the river for the waste disposal is a plus for this site at Wickliffe. The bitter cold front was a wake-up for us and we don’t want any more single digit tem-peratures, but hopefully all the bugs died that have been enjoying our mild winters for the last few years. The city is always thinking of the issues with abandoned properties and the burden land owners and abandoned property own-ers put on the city for mow-ing and weed control. The City is going to have to find a city attorney that can push the condemnation and law-suits necessary to clean-up the eye-sores in town. Many of these properties have tax liens and foreclosure action against them and the sale val-ue would not cover the prop-erty taxes owed.

The Fort Jefferson Trails

grant project is in its final stage and the trails look great thanks to Councilman Da-vid Phillips who has taken charge of this project. David has worked with the engi-neers and PADD personnel to meet the state’s mandates and rules required. Grief Construction did the work to form and set the trials which add to the Cross site and will work with the Federal Grant for the visitor’s center and the overlook. This Federal grant project will begin soon with an improvement in the weather. The trails cost the city $75,000 in labor and equipment as like-kind in-put of $30,000+- and another $45,000 in cash input. The Federal grant pays $75,000 of the $150,000 cost. Both grants were initiated by May-or Herby Vance and Mayor Martha Pennebaker, through the approval process and the grants were written by Larry Kelley in his role as Eco-nomic Development Officer for the City. A loan is in pro-cess of being submitted to the State of Kentucky for a new well for the city water plant for $150,000. This is a low cost state infrastructure loan with the Mayfield PADD Of-fice providing the application to the state for the city. This

funding will replace a thirty year old well that was lost during 2012. It was repaired and works at half of its ca-pacity.

One of the projects I have on my agenda is to develop our industrial site at the river and to attract other river ser-vice businesses to Wickliffe. In addition, I would like to see the Fort Jefferson Fort site re-established for tourism and Wickliffe should have a fran-chise motel to support visi-tors to the city and our fami-lies when they return. We are engaged in limiting the speeding into Wickliffe and joining our county officials in trying to get the port of en-try reestablished for the truck inspections as they come into Wickliffe. Traffic into Wick-liffe on Hwy 60 from Barlow has created problems enter-ing Wickliffe in the curves within our City limits. It’s my opinion that with most of the jobs and most of the in-dustry, and most of the traf-fic here in Wickliffe that the bulk of the law enforcement for traffic control needs to be here monitoring the trucks. The State Police and truck enforcement personnel need to pay more attention to the speeding into Wickliffe.

With a new year I hope

to continue to work with the Rural and City fire depart-ments and the Blandville Fire Department to develop a disaster recovery program specifically for Wickliffe that is part of the overall disaster plan for Ballard County. We have to make some improve-ments for our EMT’s and Ambulance location in Wick-liffe and provide for citizen involvement in the disaster action plan for Wickliffe and its adjacent population. I don’t think the current plan for earthquake recovery or chemical spills from the rail-road or truck traffic is ade-quately prepared for at Wick-liffe. Most of the last thirteen and one-half months for the council has been focused on following through with the grants on Fort Jefferson and repairing the waste water la-goons. Fortunately, that was done before this last 7-inch rain which might have rup-tured the old levy if repairs had not been done this last summer. Now the attention will be to add businesses in Wickliffe and create some growth momentum. We have three businesses looking and we have made some efforts for a grain facility on the riv-er to serve our area granaries and farmers.

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Finding ways to fund priorities highlight start of ‘14 sessionBy State Rep. Steven Rudy

Members of the House and Senate made the annual trek to the Kentucky State Capitol this week, as we begin work in a 60-day legislative session stretching from the frigid cold of Janu-ary to the spring flowers of April.

It’s always a special time when we gather in Frankfort and work for the betterment of Kentucky, but this year could prove to be very challeng-ing as we are tasked with the most important duty we take as legislators: putting together a two-year budget for the Commonwealth.

The initial foundation was laid on the first day of the session when we gathered for the annual State of the Commonwealth Address from Gover-nor Beshear. This speech will serve as a precursor for the Governor’s Budget Address, which he will deliver to a joint session of the House and Senate in two weeks.

During his remarks to legislators, the Governor touted the uptick in job growth in Kentucky. However he failed to mention our Commonwealth has the 6th highest unemployment rate in the nation, due in part to the impact on the coal industry in the eastern part of the state.

While it’s great the Governor men-tioned jobs in his speech, Kentucky has yet to take the necessary steps to create a business friendly climate like our border states of Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio have done which has boosted their economy.

One of the steps essential toward creating new jobs in Kentucky is the dire need for comprehensive tax re-form. The Governor did briefly tout he would support tax reform in this ses-sion, but failed to provide any specific details. While I’m hopeful specifics to his plan will be revealed in two weeks, it’s been nearly two years since the Governor appointed a task force to gather input across the Com-monwealth on tax reform. And for the last 13 months their recommenda-tions have sat on a shelf gathering dust, putting us further behind other states.

And the Governor once again mentioned the idea of expanded gaming in Kentucky, but like tax re-form ‘the devils in the details’ regard-ing specifics. We fully expect the Governor will use every bit of political capital he possesses to push through expanded gaming this session, since he has proposed it every legislative session since 2007.

While these items may garner much of our time, other issues will be debated and perhaps voted on during this 60-day session, including limit-ing the ability of the Governor to use executive orders to allocate taxpayer funds, debating a statewide smoking ban, and combating the scourge of heroin in Kentucky.

What happens during the time we have for the session is anyone’s guess. My hope is we can work together in a bipartisan manner to put the people of Kentucky above rank partisanship.

I welcome your comments and concerns on any issues impacting our Commonwealth during the 2014 Regular Session. I can be reached through the toll-free message line in Frankfort at 1-800-372-7181, or you can contact me via e-mail at steven.rudy@lrc.ky.gov. You can keep track of committee meetings and poten-tial legislation through the Kentucky Legislature Home Page at www.lrc.ky.gov.

City of WickliffeBy Lynn Hopkins, Mayor

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2014 should be interesting year for Wickliffe

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Abbi Denton etched her name deep in Ballard Memorial High School history last week. Real, real deep. The BMHS standout became just the 13th member of the girls’ basketball program to surpass the 1,000-point scoring plateau.

Denton tallied her 1,000th career point against Murray on Jan. 9 on a layup at the 2:38 mark of the fourth quarter. BMHS lost the game. 72-34.

Denton trails Haley Hudson for 12th on the Lady Bombers’ all-time scoring list by 82 points.

Hudson played for the BMHS girls’ program from 2002 to 2006.

Tamara Buchanan is the Lady Bombers’ all-time leading scorer. She racked up 1,292 points

during her prep career, which spanned 1975-1979.

Trina Leight is sec-ond all-time at 1,177. She played from 1978-83.

The start of the new year has been anything but kind to the Ballard Memo-rial High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams.

The BMHS boys suf-fered the toughest loss of the week on Jan. 9 as Mur-ray managed to claim a 73-68 victory in overtime.

The loss spoiled a solid outing by the Bombers. The team had four players reach double figures in the game, including 16 from Keagan Cooper.

Cooper came up huge

for the Bombers late in the fourth quarter to helped Ballard Memorial force OT. He came away with a steal in the closing seconds and pushed home a shot that tied the game at 60-60 at the end of regulation.

Murray managed to re-group in the extra frame. The team hit six free throws in the OT period to salt away the contest.

Zach McAfee starred for the Bombers in the loss. He knocked down three 3-pointers and finished with

13 points. Dre Bledsoe and Clay Newton added 12 and 10, respectively.

St. Mary took a 74-56 win on Jan. 11.

The BMHS girls notched a 60-58 come-from-behind win over St. Mary.

After trailing at the end of the first quarter, BMHS outscored St. Mary by a 43-40 clip in the final 24 min-utes to net the win.

Leah Shelley led all Lady Bombers with 16 points.

Murray took a 72-34 win on Jan. 11.

Denton latest to join BMHS Bombers’ 1,000-point club

Late run lifts Murray to72-68 OT win over Bombers

Ballard Memorial High School’s Abbi Denton joined the Lady Bombers’ 1,000-point club last week.

Kentucky’s All A Clas-sic basketball tournament begins on Jan. 18. First Re-gion play will be at Paducah Tilghman High School.

Ballard’s first game is Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m., when the Lady Bombers take on Carlisle County. On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Bomber boys will meet the Hickman County Falcons at 6 p.m. The girls’ semifinal game is Jan. 23 at 6 p.m., and the boys’ game will be Jan. 24 at 6. Finals are Sat-urday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. for the girls and 8 p.m. for the

boys.For more information,

contact Ballard Athletic Director Amber Parker via

email at amber.parker@bal-lard.kyschools.us.

The girls’ bracket can be seen n Page 8.

BMHS teams to play host to Cairo tonight

The Ballard Memorial High School junior varsity and varsity boys will play Cairo High School at BMHS on Thursday (Jan. 16).

The first game is at 5 p.m. The second game is scheduled to start at 6:30.

All A Classic set for Jan. 18 in Paducah

2014 Ballard Lady Bombers Basketball ScheduleDate Opponent Site TimeJan. 8-25 ALL “A” CLASSIC (at Paducah Tilghman) VG/VB ................................ Paducah .........................................TBA Jan. 28 Hickman County ..................................................................................... There .............................................5 p.m.Jan. 31 Livingston County (Homecoming) .......................................................... Here ...............................................5 p.m.Feb. 7 Mayfield .................................................................................................. There .............................................6 p.m.Feb. 8 Crittenden County ................................................................................. There .............................................6 p.m.Feb. 11 Graves County ...................................................................................... There .............................................5 p.m.Feb. 13 Hickman County ..................................................................................... Here ...............................................6 p.m.2/14 Carlisle County ...................................................................................... There .............................................6 p.m.2/17 Fulton City ............................................................................................. Here ...............................................6 p.m.2/18 St. Mary (Senior Night) .......................................................................... Here ...............................................5 p.m.2/20 Calloway County .................................................................................... Here ...............................................6 p.m.2/24-28 District Tournament ................................................................................ Mayfield .........................................TBA

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Then annual school-wide Spelling Bee at Bal-lard County Elementary School will begin with classroom competitions after Jan. 15. Grade-level bees will be held the week of Jan. 21, with the cham-pionship set for Jan. 31.

The event is sponsored by Ballard County Attor-ney Vicki Hayden, Bal-lard County Community Education and the BCEA.

Spelling word lists for each grade level were sent home with students before Christmas break. They also are posted on the “Links for Students” page of the BCES web page at www.ballard.kyschools.

us. For more information,

please contact BCES teacher and organizer Michele Chandler at 665-8400, ext. 2223, or email Michele.chandler@bal-lard.kyschools.us.

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BALLARD MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior SpotlightBy Abbi Denton

You might not hear him over a crowd, but you will soon know he’s there. Senior Austin Summers may come off as a soft spoken guy, but just after a few minutes he will be entertaining you with his funny jokes, crazy stories and creative dance moves. Austin lives in Kevil with his parents, Jerry and Dan-ielle Summers. He also attends Victory Baptist Church.

Austin has been very active in sports over the years. He is a two-year member of the football team and a four-year mem-ber of the soccer team. He serves as captain of the soccer team and was foot-ball homecoming escort his junior and senior year.

Outside of school, Aus-tin enjoys playing his fa-vorite sports, football and

soccer, and hanging out with his friends. Austin currently works at New Wave Homes, but hopes to pursue his dream as an or-thodontist at Murray State University.

FAVORITESClass: Advanced P.E.Teacher: Coach ChatellierMovie: “Elysium”Musician: YelawolfSong: “Waterfalls”TV Show: “Ridiculousness”Food: Pizza RollsSchool Food: Crispitos

By Abbi DentonFunny, hardworking,

and energetic are just a few words to describe se-nior Josh Nalley. He is never too far from his boys and has a memorable, in-fectious laugh. Josh is the son of Chrissy Adams and Michael Adams of Barlow and Jason Nalley of Car-rollton, Georgia. He has been a member of Skills USA for 2 years. Outside of school, Josh likes to chill with friends and lis-ten to music.

Honoring his role as class clown, Josh wants to be remembered as a cool and funny guy. He hopes to leave behind A-School and his favorite thing about BMHS is the 2:55 bell. Josh currently works at Fazoli’s, but his dream

job is to be Batman.His future plans are cur-

rently undecided. FAVORITES

Class: Auto BodyTeacher: Mr. WellsMovie: “The Dark Knight”Musician: Mac MillerSong: “Life Ain’t Easy”TV Show: “Family Guy”Video Game: “Assassin’s Creed 3”Food: Mac N’ CheeseSchool Food: Hot Wings

By Jade BabbThis senior is a moun-

tain of a man with a gentle heart and a large person-ality. He is easily one of the funniest guys you will ever meet. From his dance moves to his backwoods get up, he is one of a kind. He is Karson Scott.

If there is one thing that Karson is, it is a fam-ily man. He lives with his mom, Tammy, and step-father, John Belcher, of LaCenter. He loves spend-ing time with his younger brother, Zack. He and his family attend Oscar Baptist Church. When he is not spending quality time with his family, Karson is on the prowl for deer or geese.

When it comes to school, Karson would like to leave behind his sexiness after graduating. He hopes to be remembered as some-one who was always fun and loveable. When asked what his favorite thing at

BMHS is, his response is “Shawn Johnson.”

Karson is currently working at Greg’s and his dream job would to be an Auto Mechanic. Karson’s future plans include own-ing his out auto shop.

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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 Jan. 6: eighth-grad-er Morgan Hunt, sixth-grader Colton Baker and seventh-grader Cody Howard. Selectors said Hunt always turns in work on time, is polite and a pleasure to have in class; Baker always has his work, participates in class and presents a positive attitude; and Howard listens well, en-gages in classroom activities and discussions, and is very insightful and informative.

Ingram nets All-State Choir honors

Several Ballard Memo-rial High School students auditioned recently for the Kentucky Music Educators’ Association All-State Choir. BMHS senior Georgann In-gram was selected as a par-ticipant.

Ingram will go to Lou-isville in February to sing with 200 other choir mem-bers from around the state of Kentucky.

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The winter weather certainly wasn’t done with the Tri-State residents in January! Televi-sion crews with Marissa Hollowed (left) broadcast in-formation about the weather conditions in western Kentucky from Wickliffe on Jan. 9. The region was recently hit with a second major winter storm.

Ballard County Middle School stu-dents Michaela Nutt (left) and Colton Baker recently were selected for the American Choral Directors’ Associa-tion Southern Division Honor Choir. The choir is made up of students from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Mississippi. Stu-dents audition for the group every other year, between National Confer-

ence Choirs. Eighth-grader Nutt was chosen

for the Junior High Women’s Choir; sixth-grader Baker was chosen for the Children’s Choir. They will travel to Jacksonville, Fla., during the first week in March to participate in this regional event. “They worked ex-tremely hard to prepare for this audi-tion, and I am so excited for them to have this opportunity!” said Ballard choir director Samantha Veal.

BCMS students selected for ACD’s Honor Choir

Joe Culver for Ballard County Judge/executiveWho gets the Ad-vantage?

It was a case of ad envy for a minute after I saw the incumbent’s full-page ad in the Ballard County Weekly (Jan. 9, 2014 issue). The few puny little textual ads I’ve run look mighty gray in comparison, but I can’t afford to purchase a big ad like that in my campaign for the Democratic vote in the May 20 primary election for Ballard County Judge/Executive.

After thinking about it for a while, however, I de-cided that I’m satisfied with what I’ve been doing.

I know there is a need for office-seekers to get their message out and achieve name recognition, but the news media focus less on information about candidates and more on adversarial matters. The smaller papers in the local markets don’t have the resources to provide much coverage of what the candidates stand for. That means that candi-dates must find ways other than news coverage to let voters know they are seeking an office and why they are seeking it.

I’m not sure that large ads with little substance really provide information the voters would find useful. They do serve to let the voters know that a specific person is seeking a specific office.

Without being critical of the incumbent or her advertising philosophy, I’ll use her ad to illustrate what I mean.

The full-page ad includes a photo so we can see the candidate. The ad tells us she’s seeking re-election. It tells us she has served two terms. It says she would like to thank the voters for their support and confidence over the last eight years. It tells us she has enjoyed the opportunity the county has given her and she takes the responsibilities “very serious.”

She says Ballard County has moved forward in many ways during her tenure. She says in the ad that there are many other things she would like to see accomplished while she is in office, and says some of them are in the works now.

She says she would like to ask for your support at this time and thank you for the opportunity to serve as your Judge Executive.

There must not have been enough room in the ad to say what role she might have had in moving the county forward, or to list some of the other things she would like to see ac-complished.

By contrast, in my little narrative ads and in my use of a Facebook group, I am able to discuss my qualifications and my vision for Ballard County in some depth. I like being able to use modern forms of real-time communication – Internet, social media – to post information and make it available im-mediately. I can tell much more about myself in less space and I can do so whenever I want, without having to meet a news medium’s deadlines and schedules.

I’m a candidate because I think I have very good creden-tials to hold the office. (You can read about those credentials in posts on my Facebook group.) I’m offering my experience and education and skills to you, the voters, and if you agree that I am the candidate you want to elect, please vote for me. Not only would I “like” to ask for your support and your vote and thank you for them, I actually will do so: Thank you for your support and your vote. If you elect me, I promise to do a really good job for you as Ballard County Judge/Execu-tive.

Keep in mind that I am a candidate for an elective office, and not the seeker of a permanent job. The office does pay a salary. Frankly, I don’t know how much the salary is. I wouldn’t be able or willing to accept such a major commit-ment without being paid, but I am not a candidate because I want it as a job. The office is an example of something called public service; the person holding it is paid to serve and achieve the best results for the benefit of the county and the people who live here.

I’ve gone on and on, so it’s probably time or even past time to end this particular piece. Please read the information I have posted on my Facebook group and new information that I will be posting, and, if you agree with me that I would serve you and the county well, please vote for me for Bal-lard County Judge/Executive.

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I make no bones about it, I am not a big fan of horse. We had several as a kid and my favorite was when we sold the horses and got a three-wheeler. It did not get out of the fence, it did not have to be fed every day and most importantly it did not have a mind of its own. However, if you need some help with horses still please call our office. I will not help you but I will point you to the Ballard County 4-H agent Paula Jerrell. As much as I dislike horses, she loves horses and is very in tune with all the special-ists in Lexington and is a great horse enthusiast for our area.

The reason for this ar-ticle is I just got some new information on horses in Kentucky. The last time a formal survey was done on horses in Kentucky was 1977. The horse industry has changes a lot over the last 37 years. Last year another major survey was conducted across Kentucky. Here are some of the results and you can access all the results at http://equine.ca.uky.edu/kyequinesurvey .

KY is home to 242,400 horses on approximately 35,000 equine operations. One million one hundred thousand acres are used across the state The total value of land, buildings, animals – all equine related assets was $23.4 billion dollars with a B. The total of all equine related sales was $1.1 billion dollars and the total expenses were $1.2 billion dollars.

The most popular breed of horse in KY is not sur-prising, it was the thorough-bred with 54,000 animals. Quarter horses were next at 42,000, followed by Ten-nessee Walkers at 36,000. American Saddlebred and Donkeys and Mules tied at 14,000 and all the other breeds dropped off from there.

Surprisingly, racing and racing activities were not the number one use. Trail-riding and pleasure rid-ing was number one, with 79,500 animals used for this activity. Broodmares were next at 38,000. Idle/not working came in at 33,000, followed by Competition/show at 24,500. Racing was at 15,000 and stallions at stud was 3,900.

The results for Ballard County were broken out and you can get to them from the earlier mentioned website. Ballard County only has about 300 horses. Those horses live on about 1,300 acres and the total value of equine and equine related assets was listed as $596,000. I don’t know how accurate the survey is as this number seems a little low to me for our county. Either there are

not enough horses or their were not enough surveys turned back for all the river counties as they all showed a surprisingly low number of horses compared to my best guesses. For example Fayette County – Lexing-ton has 24,600 horses and sold a $172 million worth of horses last year. As you can see from these num-bers, horses are extremely important to the state as a whole, just not as important in the areas where we can really grow corn.

Programs of the Ken-tucky Cooperative Ex-tension Service serve all people regardless of race, age, sex, color, religion, disability or national ori-gin. For additional infor-mation, contact the Ballard County Extension Office, 110 Broadway, LaCenter, 665-9118.

2012 equine survey shows changes in Ky.

AG UPDATEBy Tom Miller

Ballard County Extension Agentfor Ag and Natural Resources

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