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Melh suspect
charged again
Board weighs response to court decision
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
VAN LEAR - A prowler
complaint netted one suspected methamphetamine
offender with additional
• meth charges Friday.
Sgt. Tom Wyatt, of the
Johnson County Sheriff's
Department, responded to
a prowler complaint in Van
Lear at approximately 1 :40
a.m., but found that the
prowler had fled the area
before he arrived to investigate.
A witness at the scene
informed Wyatt that the
prowlers looked "familiar''
to him, gave a description
of the prowlers and pointed in the direction that
~they were traveling.
After searching the
area, Wyatt located James
R. Bowling, 33, of Van
Lear, walking along
Possum Hollow road. He
was carrying a bottle of
"Liquid Fire," Wyatt claims.
Wyatt, recognizing
Bowling from an arrest in
an active meth lab where
he was charged with
methamphetamine manufacturing, searched
Bowling and found several
items used in meth ma"ufacturing, including a pair
of blue rubber gloves, a
quantity of pseudoephedrine (in powder
form), a quantity of red
phosphorous, a bottle cap
with tubing attached, two
hypodermic needles and a
razor blade.
Bowling now faces his
second offense of attempting to manufacture manthamphetamine.
He was previously
~arrested Jan. 17, at a Van
MARTIN - Opportunities Unlimited
was the scene for a special meeting of the
Floyd County Board of Education on
Thursday. The meeting was an opportunity
for the board members to review the latest
decision in a lawsuit that goes back to
1993 but has bounced around the court
system for years.
The suit goes back to before the state
restructured the school system. The plaintiffs in the case are three former employees
of the school system who were fired after
an executive session meeting of the board
back in 1993.
A decision has been made in the litigation which will see two of the men
involved awarded a portion of the money
they were seeking while the other, who is
currently employed by the school system,
will not be issued a settlement, having
dropped out of the action.
Board member Mickey McGuire was
not present at Thursday's meeting, as he
was involved in the lawsuit at some stages
and thus recused himself from the meeting.
However, board attorney Mike Schmitt
was on hand to go over the options available to board members who have decided
to research the matter a little further before
a two-week appeal deadline passes .
The situation was a grim reminder to
the board of the mess that was inherited
when the board was restructured. Schmitt
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
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photo by Tom Doty
The female driver of a Buick Skylark was taken to Highlands Regional Medical Center for treatment
after, witnesses said, she pulled In front of a Chrysler SUV on North Lake Drive when exiting Ken'tucky
Fried Chicken. An employee of Cash In Hand located across from KFC dialed 911 Immediately.
Dealer charged with taking pills to jail
by MARY MUSIC
2 DAY FORECAST
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - A Ligon
resident who pleaded guilty to drug
trafficking this week was socked
with additional charges when he
allegedly tried to sneak pills into the
Floyd County Detention Center.
Jeremy L. Tackett, 19, was arrested at the jail Thursday by Deputy
Mike Hall and charged with seconddegree promoting contraband.
Hall alleges that Tackett hid two
white Xanax pills in between a pair
of white socks that he brought with
him when he came to the jail.
Tackett pleaded guilty on March
28 to drug trafficking charges that
stemmed from a November indictment.
He accepted a plea with the commonwealth attorney's office, which
recommended a one-year sentence
on a felony drug trafficking charge
.
(See DRUGS, page three)
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
i nside
Opinion .........................A4
Obituaries .....................A6
Sports ...........................81
Lifestyles ...................... 85
Classifieds ....................86
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PRESTONSBURG - A pretrial
conference date of May 23 was set
Thursday for a Prestonsburg couple
who have been accused of leaving
their 2-year-old home alone while
PRESTONSBURG
A Galveston man who was
sentenced to two consecutive 12-month stays in jail
on charges of trafficking in
marijuana challenged that
sentence in district court
Friday.
Attorney Lance Daniels,
of Paintsville, appeared for
the defendant, Joe Hall, and
presented his motion to
consolidate the sentences.
Daniels cited a Kentucky
Supreme Coull deci&iun,
Hardy vs. the Commonwealth, in which the court
ruled that misdemeanor
sentences cannot run consecutively.
Judge James Allen
responded that Hall had
entered open pleas of guilt
on two separate charges
that stemmed from two
they went to the Prestonsburg WalMart and were arrested there for
shoplifting and public intoxication
charges.
Misty Ratliff, 22, and Jody
Carroll, 27, appeared for their
arraignment Thursday and held their
heads down as Judge James Allen
chastised them for leaving their
child unattended.
Ratliff, who is eight months pregnant, explained that a friend was
supposed to watch their child but
Allen pointed out that as a parent the
(See PARENTS, page three)
separate drug transactions .
He informed Daniels that
he would allow County
Attorney Keith Bartley a
chance to file a response
and would reconvene the
matter in two weeks.
Hall pleaded guilty to
the charges after examining
the videotaped evidence
which recorded the drug
deals. On the tape, one of
his sons witnessed the
transaction and his other
children are seen on the
tape. Hall is also shown to
be wearing a t-shirt \\ ith
th\! ~mb,._ li vf { 1<: 1 at ·un. I
anti-drug' coalition DARF
embossed on it.
Bartley
passionately
argued for a stiff sentence
for Hall and patd particular
attention to the corruption
of his children that was
possible from witnessing
(See SENTENCE, page three)
Detective pleads guilty to
impersonating EPA agent
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF W RITER
Parents citfd for leaving toddler alone
Get up-to-the-minute
weather forecasts at
floydcountytimes.com
(See BOARD, page three)
Judge weighs
if sentence
too severe
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(See METH, page three)
observed that there were between 70 and
80 pending legal matters when that happened and that this action makes is the
only one of those in which the board is currently involved.
Supt. Dr. Paul Fanning lamented.
"Every dollar spent in litigation is another
dollar that can't go towards equcation."
Fanning noted that the board is anxious
to get back to the real business of continu-
PIKEVILLE - A Pike
County private investigator
pleaded guilty in federal
court Thursday to misrepresenting himself as an
Environmental Protection
Agency employee.
According to court documents, Russell R. Pugh Jr.
used an emblem and
insignia of the EPA while
working as an "investiga-
tive or other private detective," on May 24, 2004 .
"for the purpose of conveying and in a manner reasonably calculated to convey
the false imprc'>sion" that
he represented a U .S .
agency.
by
Represented
Louisville attorney Bart
Adams, who was absent
U.S .
Thursday
from
District Court in Pikeville,
(Sec GUILTY, page three)
Court to decide if shooting
defendants will be tried together
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
PRESTONSBURG - A hearing in circuit court Friday has put off until
Wednesday a judgment on whether or not
a West Virginia man and his sister will be
tried together for the shooting of the sister's husband in Auxier last July.
The hearing began with Judge Danny P.
Caudill giving both defendants, Michael
Lester and Sheila Dotson, a chance to
examine whether or not they wanted to
share the same defense counsel. Steve
Owens, of Pikeville, had been engaged by
both defendants and each was given a
chance to change lawyers if they felt that a
conflict of interest could arise in the case
which accuses Lester of shooting his sister's husband Donald R. Dotson. Each
agreed to retaining Owens.
The next motion involved consolidating the cases. Assistant Commonwealth's
Attorney Wayne Taylor argued that the
(See SHOOTING, page three)
Pikeville
attorney Steve
Owens, left,
argued for
separate trials
for his clients,
who are
accused of
conspiring to
kill a man in
Auxier last
summer.
photo by Tom Doty
�A2 • SUNDAY, APRIL
3,
2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Od_dB and E.nds
• SOUTH LAKE TAHOE,
Calif. - A rare, wayward goose
was being treated at a Lake
Tahoe wildlife center after
spring snow storms forced it to
take refuge in a most unlikely
place - a ski resort.
Sierra-at-Tahoe employees
discovered the lone Ross goose
Sunday, miles from where the
birds are usually found in the
California Central Valley.
"I think he was on his way
north and got a little off course,
probably because of the
storms," said Tom Millham of
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care.
The goose was cold and
afraid of the near-blizzard conditions at the ski resort but
wouldn't let anyone come near.
After employees spent several
minutes chasing the bird, it flew
into a building and suffered
what Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care
operators said was a mild concussion.
Aaron Barnes, pub manager
at Sierra-at-Tahoe, wrapped the
goose up and took it to the South
Shore wildlife care facility.
"We will build him up a little
bit right now, give him some
tender loving care and send him
on his way as the storm passes,"
Millham said.
• NORTHPORT, Ala. Tacky turf, or a green dream?
Hal Burleson's yard is getting
mixed reviews from the neighbors.
Burleson convinced his wife,
Margaret, that it would be a
good idea to rip out the grass
and replace it with artificial turf,
the stuff found on football
fields. He was tired of all the
yard work and allergy flareups.
"At first, there were a lot of
comments about it. Different
people thought it was just
crazy," Margaret Burleson said.
"Some even went to City Hall to
try to do something about it.
"But, after it was done, people would compliment it and tell
us that it made sense."
The couple got the idea during visits to Las Vegas and
Laughlin, Nev., where they saw
plenty of homes with fake
lawns.
Don Wheat has been laying
rugs for 31 years, but this was
his first order for truly outdoor
carpet.
"I was definitely surprised
they wanted to cover the whole
yard it's real unusual,"
Wheat said.
The Burlesons said the turf
saves them on water and lawn
care costs. The mower and
edger have been replaced as
tools for upkeep.
"We use a leaf blower, or
sometimes a heavy duty vacuum
cleaner," Hal Burleson said.
• ROYAL OAK, Mich. Wanda and Wink:y soon will be
California-bound.
The Detroit Zoo's aging elephants could leave as early as
Monday for the Performing
Animal Welfare Society sanctuary, zoo Director Ron Kagan
said Thursday.
"We'll try, and if it doesn't
work, we'll try Tuesday. And if
not, we'll try Wednesday,"
Kagan said.
Warm, dry weather has
allowed elephant keepers to
train the pair to become more
comfortable with the retrofitted
moving truck that will transport
them. And the weather forecast
for the 2,300-rnile route to the
sanctuary looks good for early
next week, Kagan told the
Detroit Free Press.
The elephants' toys, a cache
of treats and much of their hay
are already on their way to the
sanctuary, he said.
The journey will not be without risks.
Both elephants have arthritis
a,nd foot sores that will be exacerbated by the long stretch of
standing in a stationary position.
The moving van has been
altered to provide barriers
Winky and Wanda can lean
against to redistribute their
weight.
And - without a doubt Wanda, 46, and Winky, 51, will
be burdened by the unfamiliar
environment.
•
WELLINGTON, New
Zealand - Talk about being
-teative in a pinch.
· Six men aboard a Russian
yacht used a cabin door to help
.steer the crippled vessel. It
s ailed - limped, really - into
New Zealand's Wellington
Harbor on Friday after a month
at sea with the makeshift rudder.
The crew of the Apostol
Andrey was relieved to make
land after battling high seas in
the storm-tossed Southern
Ocean on the disabled 50-foot
yacht, skipper Nikolay Litau
said.
Owned by a Moscow adventure club, the boat was going
around Antarctica when it lost
its rudder about 1 ,306 miles
south of New Zealand on March
3, he said.
The crew decided to replace
it with the cabin door and try to
make their way toward New
Zealand, the nearest land.
The crew alerted Moscow's
maritime rescue coordination
center and it contacted New
Zealand's Rescue Coordination
Center, sparking several weeks
of
close
communication
between the boat, its owners, the
rescue center and the Russian
Embassy in New Zealand's capital, Wellington.
"Forty days at sea was a little
difficult," Litau said.
Rescue center officer Mike
Roberts described the crew's
journey to New Zealand as a
"fine piece of seamanship."
"They are obviously highly
experienced people. They were
in an isolated place and coped
very well in extremely difficult
circumstances," he said.
On Friday the men were
focused on their immediate
plans - showers and lunch.
• CENTRAL POINT, Ore.
- A display of dinosaur dung is
turning out to be the big draw at
a local museum.
Frank Callahan, the past
president of the Roxy Ann Gem
& Mineral Society that owns
and operates the Crater Rock
Museum housing the fossilized
feces, suggests it be labeled
"coprolite."
"That's the polite way of say-
ing dinosaur dung," he said as
he bent over to pick up a specimen.
With last week's revelation
that scientists have recovered
soft tissue from a 70-millionyear-old fossilized bone of a
Tyrannosaurus rex found in a
sandstone
formation
in
Montana, dinosaurs are back in
the news.
While the nonprofit museum,
which was founded in 1954,
also has dinosaur eggs and
dinosaur bones, its the "dino
plops" that invariably bring a
smile to visitors.
"The first thing adults do is
smell it," he said. "Of course,
there is no smell."
• CEDAR RAPIDS , Iowa
- A man who is legally blind
was naturally skeptical when he
was told he scored a hole-in-one
while at a local golf course.
"They've said it before," said
Joel Ludvicek, 78, of Cedar
Rapids.
Only this time it was true.
Ludvicek aced the 168-yard
No. 11 hole at Twin Pines golf
course with a driver.
He had to rely on his three
golfing partners to confirm the
4·
(See ODDS, page five)
AN OPEN LETTER
DEAR MAYOR FANNIN:
Highlands Regional Medical Center feels compelled to
respond to your misleading comments that appeared in the
March 30th edition of The Floyd County Times.
It is time to stop misleading the Prestonsburg City Council
members and the public. Several statements you have
made are erroneous or at least shortsighted.
You stated, "We have a modern, quality health care facility,
but now that we are asking those who run it to be a part of
our community, they are not interested."
Let's be clear. Highlands was created and named to serve
the regional community that includes Floyd, Johnson,
Magoffin and Martin counties. That is the community HRMC
serves. Highlands was never asked to be a part of the
community you govern; rather we found out about your
desire to annex Highlands when a first ordinance was read
during a recent council meeting. Also, please understand
the people who run Highlands are opposed to the annexation and so are the vast majority of employees at Highlands.
You stated, "The Public Service Commission does not
franchise or set territorial boundaries for water companies.
When annexation takes effect, HRMC would have water
from Prestonsburg city utilities at a savings of over $80,000
annually."
Mr. Mayor, our water bill last year was $74,020.14. How are
you saving the medical center $80,000 annually? We don't
believe the Public Service Commission will cede the right
of Auxier Water Company to provide service to the Medical
Center. If your interest is lowering our water bill, then lower
your prices to Auxier Water. Please point out to the -public
and the council members that either way, Prestonsburg
utilities will lose revenues. Does that mean more taxes for
the people of Prestonsburg?
You stated, "HRMC claims to pay premium rates for sewer
service. The truth is they pay the same rate as everyone
outside the city limits."
Mr. Mayor, have you provided the council and the residents
of the City of Prestonsburg an appropriate impact study,
outlining the impact the annexation would have on the fire
protection rating of the city? It seems to us you have the
responsibility to provide residents and businesses this
information before you ask them to support any annexation. Their fire insurance rates may be negatively impacted
by the loss of the class 4 rating. Also, increasing the operating costs for the city would have the impact of higher
taxes for all those who live in the city. Mr. Mayor, if you have
the study, produce it. You are a duly elected official and
have an obligation to perform your due diligence. You also
have the obligation to share it with the voting public.
You stated, "No law enforcement agency is 'back up' for a
security company."
Will the city guarantee round the clock Prestonsburg Police
coverage for the Medical Center? It is true our internal
security force does not have police powers, however, they
are trained to mitigate numerous incidents that would
otherwise result in the need for local police involvement.
Please do not denigrate the good work our security force
performs at the Medical Center. Also, own up to the fact that
extending the services of the Prestonsburg Police
Department to cover the Medical Center has not been
accounted for in your haste to capture some "easy tax
revenues."
You stated, "Occupational tax is based on 1.5% of gross
wages. If this was such a burden on employees, HRMC
could _offset the tax on employees with the money it will
save on water and sewer."
Honestly, Mr. Mayor, we have already shown there will be
no savings that can offset the occupational tax. It is unlikely Highlands would provide an offset to its employees for
the additional tax; that only provides you with more tax
revenues. Most employers don't fall for this tactic. If the
occupation tax is imposed, it will hit many HRMC employees hard. Through market forces, wages will increase at
Highlands and the burden of additional taxes will be passed
on to the consumer in the for-m of higher health care costs.
/
Exactly, Mr. Mayor. That is what we meant by premium rate.
Because Highlands is outside the city, we pay a premium rate.
Last year we paid $47,795.59 for sewage. Ypu claim you are
going to save the Medical Center over $100,000 in water and
sewer rates annually. Our total water and sewer for the last
year was $121,815.76. First, no one believes you can save the
hospital anything. Second, this is $1 00,000 out of the utilities
revenue. Are you going to make this up by increasing the
taxes on the people of Prestonsburg, or raise utility rates?
You stated, "The City of Prestonsburg does not contract
with the county to provide fire suppression in the North
Floyd Fire District."
Mr. Mayor, you signed a contract on May 6, 1997 on behalf
of the City of Prestonsburg. Section 1 states, "the city
agrees to furnish fire protection to the area covered by the
North Floyd Fire Prevention District." Section 2 states,
"North agrees to assign to the city 100% of tax revenues
collected during the contract period, less any expenses
that North may incur." Sounds like a contract Mr. Mayor,
one that contributes $80,000 to $100,000 annually to city
revenues. A complete copy of the contract is available at
the Medical Center.
You stated, "HRMC is not beyond the five mile guideline for
a class 4 fire insurance rating."
But that is not the real issue. The real issue is why are you
so desperate to pass this annexation? Your story and the
numbers just don't add up. You have chosen to single out
one employer in the area that is linked to the city by a questionable ·corridor annexation. You believe this will pass
uncontested and provide the city with some extra revenue
so you can dig the city out of its financial mess. Mr. Mayor,
Highlands and its employees didn't cause the mess and
you shouldn't look to anyone but yourself to clean it up.
That is the real issue.
Finally, Mr. Mayor, have you informed your council of the ·
likely legal costs of fighting this annexation battle? Do the
taxpayers of the city really need their money used this
way? The course you have chosen is tantamount to a
hostile takeover, and unfortunately what usually results
from a hostile takeover is expensive lawsuits.
We suggest that if you cannot sell the annexation with open
and full disclosure of all the facts to the public then you·
should drop it until you can.
Sincerely,
KATHY RUBADO
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Highlands Regional Medical Center
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�SUNDAY, APRIL 3,
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Guilty
Meth
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Pugh, 60, entered a guilty plea to
one count of misuse of names,
words, emblems or insignia of a
U.S. agency.
He was charged federally for
the crime in February and filed a
consent to proceed, without repU.S.
resentation,
before
Magistrate Judge Peggy E.
Patterson to plead to the misdemeanor charge on Friday.
Pugh to one year in prison and
one year of supervised probation. He was also ordered to pay
more more than $100,000 in
penalty fines and to pay restitution in the case, if applicable.
Patrick H. Molloy, of the U.S.
Attorney's office, prosecuted the
case.
cases are connected too
deeply to argue separately.
Owens countered that the
cDmmonwealth waited until a
mQnth before trial to add
Dotson and that it involves
adding new witnesses and
evidence that he will not
have time to properly examine before the trial, which is
scheduled for later in the
month. He also complained
that one piece of evidence,
contained on an audiotape,
was faulty and played it for
the court. The tape appeared
speeded up and Owens said
that it had happened before
but didn't go so far as to
accuse the prosecution of any
wrongdoing.
Taylor retorted that he has
never heard of such a complaint from Owens before and
offered to get him another
tape. Owens reported that
other bits of audio evidence
were in good condition and
only one tape was faulty.
Owens reasoned that he
was ready to proceed with
Lester's trial but that
Dotson's should be separate
so he can prepare for it afterwards.
Taylor countered, "It all
fits together. There's no way
to separate out Dotson's
case."
Owens also argued for a
bond reduction for Dotson.
He noted that she suffers
from three major illnesses.
He also said that she is not a
flight risk.
Taylor disagreed, saying
that Dotson called in late to
work on the day she was
arrested and said she was in
Virginia dealing with a faulty
U-Haul truck. She later
called her work, Cato 's
Clothing, and said she was
quitting her job. Taylor noted
that she was acting like she
was a flight risk at that time
and still represents one.
Judge Caudill said that he
will consider the motions and
set another conference for
Wednesday, when he intends
to rule on the motions.
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against him, and a 12-month
sentence on a misdemeanor
trafficking charge. The sentences will run concurrently,
the plea agreement says.
Ass
stant
Commonwealth's Attorney
Wayne Taylor said Friday
that the latest charge against
Tackett, a misdemeanor
which will be handled in district court, is punishable by a
maximum of 12 months in
jail.
Tackett may face "potential" problems, Taylor said, if
he pleads guilty to the promoting contraband charge
while on probation for the
other
drug
trafficking
charges against him. Such a
plea could cause a violation
of that probation, Taylor
said, and cause a revocation
of his parole.
"It may be in his best
interest to plead to the promoting contraband charge
immediately," he said.
Tackett is scheduled to be
sentenced for the two trafficking charges on May 6.
'
Shooting
Lear residence belonging to
him and Lacy Hayden.
Officers allegedly discovered
a working meth lab in the
home and arrested the couple
along with Tammy Lynn
Barker, 34, of Flatwoods
Branch, and Jackie McCort,
of Millers Creek.
All four suspects are
charged with possession of
methamphetamine precursors, complicity to manufacture meth, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, use/possession of
drug paraphernalia, thirddegree possession of a controlled sub.stance, improper
container for a prescription
and possession of marijuana.
Bowling was transported
to the Big Sandy Regional
Detention Center, where he
remains under a $10,000 cash
bond.
Wyatt continues the investigation with the assistance
of Johnson County Sheriff
Bill Witten.
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ultimate responsibility for the
fate of the child lies with its parents.
The two received a $500 cash
bond and are due back in court in
May.
Major William Petry served
the arrest warrants in the case at
the Wal-Mart after responding to
a call at the couple's residence
where he discovered the abandoned child.
The couple will appear in
court to answer to the charges of
shoplifting and public intoxication on May 16 and have already
posted a $750 cash bond in that
matter.
Board
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ing to improve area schools and
feels that the board is on track
for the commonwealth's plan to
have all schools at proficiency
level by 2014.
Board Chair Carol Stumbo
talked about the change m
atmosphere for the school system in Floyd County since 1993,
saying, "In the past the schools
were run with needs of the adults
in mind and the focus is back on
the students." She observed that
the current school board is of one
mind on its goals and said, "We
want our schools to be excellent."
Schmitt also remarked on the
changes and reported that the
Department of Education once
referred to the area school board
as "a ship without a rudder."
Dr. Fanning is not sorry to see
the case finally go off the radar,
though he regretted that the incident will take money away from
students.
"The children of Floyd
County deserve every resource
we can give them," Fanning said.
Sentence
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their father sell drugs.
"If they don't grow up to be
drug dealers it'll be a miracle,"
Bartley said.
After Allen announced his
sentence, Bartley noted, "Judge
Allen did the best he could do in
this case. We have punished a
criminal and hopefully sent a
message to his children." ·
Bishop named to
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post at MSU-P'Burg
Times Staff Report
PRESTONSBURG - A
Floyd County woman has been
named as the social work facilitator at the Prestonsburg
Campus of Morehead State
University.
Elizabeth Marie Bishop, a
1990 MSU graduate, moved to
Floyd County from Los
Angeles in 1983 after accepting a career as an adjunct
of
MSU
at
instructor
Prestonsburg in 1996.
She was also previously
at
Highlands
employed
Regional Medical Center and
provided counseling services
at the Carl D. Perkins Job
Corps Center while completing
her master's degree in social
work.
She also worked for the
Commonwealth Educational
Opportunities Center, which
assists adults who want to
enter or return to college.
During her eight years there,
she instructed social work
MSU
at
classes
for
Prestonsburg and for Big
Sandy
Community
and
Technical College campuses in
Floyd and Pike counties.
The social work program is
accredited by the Coun...:il of
Soc1al Work Educati dnd .~
offered on MSU's • 11 ~ • pus and the Prcston,ourg MSU
campus at BSCTC. It will also
• be offered in the spring at the
MSC A:-.hland regional campus.
2005 • A3
The program prepares graduates for entry-level practice
with individuals, couples, families, groups, organization and
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The Big Sandy Singers, a student performance group from Big Sandy Community and Technical
College, entertained as part of the Fine Arts Extension Program Ceremony In Pikeville on Tues.,
March 29 at the Pike County Extension Agency. The group sang "Love Can Build a Bridge" at the
end of the ceremony to commemorate th~ Installation of the first Fine Arts Extension Program In
the nation. Pikeville was chosen for the pilot program that will work to network music and visual
artists and bring arts to Eastern Kentucky. Pictured are the singers with two of the keynote speak·
ers for the evening. (Back, from left) David B. Adams, District Director of the UK Cooperative
Extension Service, Frances Branham, James Eason, Troy Burchett, Samantha Horn, and Robert
Shay, Dean of the UK College of Fine Arts. (Front, from left) Misty Collins, Amanda Stepp,
Louanna Calhoun, and Laura Ford Hall, BSCTC Instructor and Director.
First class of Kentucky coalfield :' :.
scholars graduates next month :,:
by ROGER ALFORD
AssoCIATED PREss
PIKEVILLE - An educational program that uses proceeds from coal mining to
increase the number of firstgeneration college graduates
in eastern Kentucky is beginning to pay off.
Twenty-five students from
the coalfields who were
among the first to be named
Robinson
Scholars
will
receive bachelor's degrees
from the University of
Kentucky in May.
Brad Goan, director of the
Robinson Scholars Program,
said one student from that
first class graduated in
December, and another will
graduate in August, bringing
the number who earn degrees
by year's end to 27 out of the
162 students initially selected.
"I would deem it a success," Goan said. "Students
recognize that they have really accomplished something.
For our students, being the
first in their families to graduate from college, overcoming a lot to do that, it is a considerable
milestone
for
them."
The sc~olarship program
serves students who will be
the first in their families to go
to college and who have
demonstrated an academic
potential but face roadblocks
that could otherwise keep
them from completing a fouryear degree.
The educational program
has gone a long way toward
mending
hard
feelings
between mountain residents
and the mining industry, said
Jessica Burke, 21, a member
of that the first class of
Robinson Scholars who will
graduate with majors in political science and sociology.
"A lot of people in the
region still have negative
feelings about the mining
industry, because it did damage to the environment and
did damage to the economy
when it pulled out," said
Burke, who will attend law
school in the fall. "I think it's
important to people to see the
industry giving back."
Students selected for the
{>rogram receive academic
and social support beginning
in eighth grade to encourage
them to graduate from high
school and then to graduate
from Kentucky. Revenues
from coal mining in the
Robinson Forest covers the
costs of their scholarships.
The
University
of
Kentucky's board of trustees
approved a plan in 1991 to set
aside coal and timber royalties from a 5 ,000-acre section
of the Robinson Forest to support economic and community development efforts in
Appalachian Kentucky, which
has historically low rates of
college attendance.
The first class of Robinson
Scholars was selected in the
spring of 1997. Since then,
480 students have been
selected for the program.
Goan said about 65 mem-.
bers of the first class still are
. in college, working toward
four-year degrees . Many, he,
said, earned two-year degrees
from Kentucky community
colleges.
Harold Mullis, a Lexington
real estate developer who
helped design the scholarship
program while serving as a
member of the E .O. Robinson
Mountain Fund, said proceeds
from mining and logging in
the forest had to be used to
benefit the people of eastern
Kentucky. That was the wish
of E.O. Robinson, the man
who donated the property to
the university in 1922.
Robinson gave the university more than 15,000 acres of
forest land after it had been
logged to the point that only
small trees with no market
value remained.
Burke said she believes the
scholarships generated from
the Robinson Forest will help
improve not only the lives of
the students who received
them, but the overall mountain region.
"It's made a huge difference," she said. "And it' s
havi!l.g a ripple effect. All my
younger cousins are now
excited about going to college."
Mullis said he's happy the
first group of students are
graduating.
"It's very gratifying," he
said. "I'm very proud of what
little I had to do with it."
�A4 • SUNDAY, APRIL
3, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
essto
Guest
Freedom of the press
is not an end in itself
but a means to the
end of [achieving] a
free society.
- Felix Frankfurter
•
..·.
Case ·shows need
for attention
The long and bitter legal struggle over efforts to end the life of Terri
Schiavo should convince Kentucky lawmakers to review state laws
that attempt to define the so-called right to die.
There is a real possibility that a case similar to Schiavo's could roil
the courts in Kentucky. The state has a law on living wills, but ambiguity surrounds cases involving severely disabled patients who have
not given an advance directive on their treatment.
During the recent legislative session, Rep. Tommy Thompson, nOwensboro, attempted to clarify right-to-die issues by introducing a
bill that would protect the lives of patients who do not have a living
will and cannot make decisions for themselves. The bill seeks to assure
that food and hydration will be provided for patients who haven't specified whether they wish to be sustained with a feeding tube.
Thompson told the Courier-Journal he filed the bill because he
believes "the presumption of human nature is to en on the side of life."
That is the view held by President George W. Bush and members of
Congress from both parties who supported emergency legislation
requiring the federal courts to review the Schiavo case. The courts have
upheld the position of Schiavo's husband, who has directed Terri's
caregivers to withdraw her feeding tube. Michael Schiavo says his wife
told him before she suffered a heart attack that left her brain-damaged
that she did not want to be maintained on life support or partial life supt
port.
l
However, Terri's parents and some of her friends say she would
want to live rather than die a slow death from dehydration.
Terri Schiavo did not have a living will. She also didn't give a loved
one or surrogate durable power of attorney to decide her treatment. Her
case falls into a perplexing gray area filled with the moral and legal
questions raised by the taking of a life- by, in effect, the effort by the
courts to create a license to kill.
Rep. Thompson's bill would not provide certain answers to all the
legal questions in a case like Terri Schiavo's. It would establish a "presumption" in state law in favor of life.
The bill languished in a House committee as lawmakers rushed to
approve a budget and tax reform legislation. Refening to Thompson's
bill, Rep. Tom Burch, the chairman of the House Health and Welfare
Committee, told the Courier-Journal, "I think a person dying is a family matter, not a government matter."
Burch should understand that the deliberate taking of a life very
much is a government matter. The protection of human life is a fundamental principle of the law.
Many people on both sides of the political spectrum sincerely fear
that the Schiavo case will send the nation down a slippery slope toward
euthanasia for the severely disabled.
Kentucky lawmakers have a duty to ensure ~e law is as clear as
possible in this morally sensitive area.
Some observers think that a 1993 state Supreme Court ruling established a presumption that patients will receive nutrition and water if
they haven't expressed a preference. However, that case involved a
woman who had communicated her wishes in conversations with family members. As the Schiavo case shows, bitter disputes can arise when
there is no legal document that outlines a patient's wishes regarding
life-prolonging treatment.
Patients have a right to refuse treatment, but in cases where the
patient's choice has not been established, the law should protect life.
This principle should guide Kentucky lawmakers in dealing with the
profound implications of the right-to-die issue.
- The Paducah Sun
·,
-Rich ·'"l::~:pwry C o l u m n - - - - - - - - - - -
Quit the
AARP
The debate over President Bush's proposed Social Security reform is spawning
new pro- and anti-groups nearly every day.
The latest is Conservative Republican
Seniors Against Bush.
Actually, that's not
a new group. But the
moniker
describes
many seniors who
voted for Bush and are
members of the AARP.
TheAARPhas 35 milThe
lion members, more
than the population of
Australia or Canada.
One survyy shows that
nearly 40 percent of
them are self-identified
conservatives.
This makes sense, since most people
when they sign up for the AARP aren't
thinking politics so much as "cheap stuff."
The group offers discounts on everything
from drugs to flowers to cruises. But the
$12.50 annual dues payments of conservative members happen to fund raucously
unfair attacks on the central domestic-policy proposal of a president they overwhelm-
ingly support. But, hey - what are political
principles compared with a 25 percent discount?
In attacking Bush's proposal, AARP
defenders might say the group is only doing
its job - standing up for the interests of its
members. Nonsense. The Bush proposal
wouldn't touch anyone 55 years or older,
and thus leaves the vast majority of AARP
members undisturbed. What the AARP is
advocating for is not the financial wellbeing of its members so much as an
ideological vision
of an entitlement
state that limits
individual choice
and emphasizes
governmental
dependence.
'
This is the only
reason a seniors
organization would
go to such lengths
to oppose personal
savings accounts. By opposing the accounts
and proposing other fixes to the system such as tax increases and benefit reductions
- the AARP is essentially doing nothing to
protect its current members at the same time
it hurts its future members.
,
What the organization has done brilliantly is to leverage its status as a popu1ar conduit of cheap services and goods for seniors
Rich
Lowry
column
- from which it makes countless millions
in royalties - into credibility and power as
a liberal lobbying group. The AARP has
such a strong brand that it can demagogically attack Bush's proposed Social
Security reform as "Social Insecurity" (oh,
what clever wordsmiths at the AARP) with
more street cred than other shrill liberal outfits such as MoveOn.org.
But the AARP is not going unchallenged. A new conservative seniors group
called USA Next is ripping into the AARP,
riding a wave of publicity from its (rather
ham-fisted) attack on the AARP on the
issue of gay marriage (an A:ARP affiliate in
Ohio opposed an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in the state). USA Next
(www.usanext.org) is making its case not
just on political grounds, but with a dagger
aimed at the heart of the AARP's appeal cheaper discounts on travel!
Discounts aside, the imperative for
Republican seniors who support Bush's
reform shou1d be. clear: Because Bush's
second term - at risk in the fight over
Social Security - is important; because
individual choice is superior to governmental dependence; because hypocritical and
dishonest advocacy shou1d be shunned, not
subsidized with membership dues - quit
theAARP.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National
Review.
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cruelest loss a parent can suffer. So
when Terri Schiavo's mother went
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"Pl ·e ase,
senators,
for the love
of God, I'm
begging
you, don't
let
my
daughter
die
of
thirst,"
your heart went out to her.
Who can blame the family for refusing, against all evidence, to accept the
fact of Ms. Schiavo's death? I'm sure
that those who loved her took some
comfort in the breathing effigy of her
former self that she had become and
were reluctant to let that frail comfort
slip away. They have my sympathy.
But not my support.
The crucial question here is not what
the family wanted, but what Ms.
to be kept "alive" by any means necesSchiavo would have wished for herself.
Her family says she wouldn't have sary? It. makes far more sense to assume
wanted to die. Her husband, on the other that if they'd wanted to endure "a persishand, says his wife told him she would- tent vegetative state" they'd have left
n't want to live if she fell into a vegeta- instructions to provide for it.
tive state. That sounds more reasonable
Have you ever heard of anyone doing
that, leaving a will that said: ·'Please
to me.
This is why: Despite the last-second keep me alive, no matter if I lose all conclaims of religiously motivated doctors sciousness and am unable to feed myself
to the contrary, Terri Schiavo was or understand what's happening to me or
already dead. Her EEG was flat, mean- feel joy or grief or sonow or pity or
ing that there was no electrical activity pride. So long as you can stick a tube in
coming from her brain,. which has suf- me and inflate my lungs and feed me
fered a massive shrinkage. What reason- through a needle, 1 want to live.''
able person among us would wish to
Fat chance you'll see Bill Frist, the
spend the rest of life like that, a labora- quack politician who leads the U.S.
tory preparation, unable to walk, talk, Senate, or his pious. vote-grubbing colread or laugh, unable to enjoy even the leagues in the House, Dennis Hastert
simple pleasures of food and drink? and Tom DeLay, making a commitment
Who would want to pauperize his or her like that.
family and drain their emotional energy
These are the chosen leaders of a
as he or she hung on to a meaningless party that thinks so much of the sanctity
flicker of life, month after month, year of life that it has put a lid on ~tern cell
after year? If that's your idea of life, research that might save and enrich lives
count me out.
now blighted by a variety of vicious disName me one braying evangelist or eases, that has cut ~nto Medicaid funds
barking politician - all of whom in order to fund tax cuts enjoyed mainly
dressed themselves in the cloak of virtue by its wealthy patrons. that has voted
as they argued for "the sanctity of repeatedly to excuse corporate polluters
human life" - who would choose to from restraints that might hav e saved
exist as Ms. Schiavo did, rather than lives of ordinary people.
accept a quiet, peaceful end.
Theirs is sanctity of life that apparentMuch has been made of the fact that ly begins with conception and ends with
she left no living will, nothing that birth, only to begin again after a brain
expressly stated her wishes that she not death that robs life of all flaYor. all meanbe kept alive by artificial means if utter- ing. Between those two extreme<;, you're
ly incapacitated.
on yom own, sanctity-of-life-wise
Of course she didn't. She was young
and young people don't think that way.
Dr>na
1/;.m,
cce ntlv retired as
They assume they have plenty of time to Washing1 .
o
·t ff>Y the .. D£•s
contemplate the end of their lives. Mor ne.\' Re~r te
lie has covered the
Sometimes they do. Ms. Schiavo didn't. foolishne\·.,· in ow natio11 's cap iwf fvr 2Q
In any case, they have things up,ide- years , w innin~ a mtmber of mod ·stly
down. Why assume that a lack of speci f- U'l'eted mvard\· along the Wd_, Emo,l:
ic instructions means that a person wants donald.kaul2@veri;:.on .ncr.
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SUNDAY, APRIL
3, 2005 • AS
Faith Extra
,.Groups in 10 states share about half of federal
funds available under Bush's 'faith-based initiative'
by NEDRA PICKLER
AssOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON
Religious charities in 10
states and the District of
Columbia got about half of
the $2 billion in taxpayer
money available to groups
deeme 'faith-based' by the
hite House in 2004, according to figures the White
House provided Thursday to
The Associated Press.
About one-quarter of the
money
awarded
under
President Bush's initiative
went to international groups,
while organizations in the
other 40 states and three U.S.
territories shared the remaining funds.
Bush planned to announce
the figures on Friday after visiting children who have par-
ents in prison and who participate in religious charities.
Since taking office in 2001,
Bush has pushed to give religio,us groups equal footing
with nonsectarian groups in
competing for federal contracts.
The president says religious organizations often do a
better job of serving the poor
and meeting other social
needs. Unable to win passage
of legislation to accomplish
his goal, Bush has bypassed
Congress and made more taxpayer money available to such
groups through executive
orders and regulations.
Civil libertarians fear the
government will wind up paying for worship, eroding the
constitutional
separation
between church and state.
The White House does not
Odds
feat.
"A big fluke, it's just one of
those things," Ludvicek said.
He's been an avid golfer for
years and this is his second holein-one. It's his ftrst since he lost
most of his vision because of
macular degeneration.
Ludvicek, who tees up his
')>wn bill, said although the ace
was special, it's no different
from other golfers.
"It's funny how golf goes,"
he said. "Most of the time I have
a heck of a time getting on the
green. It's a fun game."
• MIDDLEBORO, Mass. Why did the seal cross the road?
A young harp seal native to
the Canadian Arctic found its
way to this landlocked suburban
*own Tuesday and waddled
.,..iround on land before being rescued.
The seal swam about 30
miles up the Taunton River and
two of its flood-swollen tributaries before setting out onto dry
land, said marine biologist
Belinda Rubinstein of the New
England Aquarium.
Obituaries
Jimmy (Dickie)
Stumbo
Jimmy (Dickie) Stumbo, 50,
of Price, died Wednesday,
March 30, 2005, at the
McDowell
Appalachian
Regional Healthcare emergency
room.
Born January 26, 1955, in
Martin, he was the son of Cecil
and Mertie Moore Stumbo of
Price.
In addition to his parents, sw~ivors include three sons: Brian
.Stumbo (wife, Kristy) of Price,
Keith Stumbo (wife, Michelle)
of Hager Hill, and Scottie
Stumbo (girlfriend, Paula
Curtis) of Price; three grandchildren: John David Stumbo,
Dalton Alan Stumbo, and Hollie
LaShae Stumbo; four brothers:
Mike Stumbo (Karen) of
Prestonsburg, Randy Stumbo
(Lynn) of Cynthiana, Ricky
Stumbo (Rhonda) of Price, and
Mark Stumbo (Earlene) of
Crittenden; a sister, Paula Lewis
irn) of Dacula, Georgia; and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, April 2, at 1 L
a.m., at the Pilgrims Rest Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Price, with Old Regular Baptist
ministers officiating.
Burial was in the family
cemetery, (Cherokee Road), at
Price, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
in Martin.
Visitation was at the chwch,
~ith nightly services at 7 p.m,
(Paid obituary)
It crossed a road before being
spotted around 6:30 a.m. by a
homeowner, who called police.
The aquarium dispatched a team
of scientists and volunteers to
corral the seal and return it to
safety.
Rubinstein, an expert on
harp seals, said they are plentiful in the Arctic and often pass
through New England waters
on their winter migration. Still,
it is unusual for any seal to
make its way so far inland.
"It was a long, long way
away from ocean," Rubinstein
said.
·
Scientists were hoping to
send the 34-pound seal, nicknamed
Squirt,
to
the
University of New England's
marine science center in
Biddeford, Maine.
•
OSLO, Norway
Norwegians claim they are just
about born with skis on their
feet, but injury statistics from
the Easter weekend suggest
they need more practice.
So many Norwegian snow
lovers broke bones over the
Easter holiday that one hospital ran short of plaster for
casts, a newspaper reported
Tuesday.
The Norwegian Red Cross
on Tuesday said it assisted
1,230 people, mostly skiers, in
the mountains during the holiday, an increase of more than
60 percent from Easter 2004.
Ole Gladsoe of the Red
Cross said Easter can be the
first and only ski trip of the
distribute funds directly to received more than $100 million.
religious charities and there is
The other states with large
no fund or amount set aside totals were Maryland, Florida,
for those groups.
Michigan,
Pennsylvania,
Instead, these groups com- Texas, Georgia and Ohio.
pete with secular organizaThe two states at the bottions that also are bidding for torn of the rankings - Rhode
grants from federal agencies.
Island and Vermont - each
The vast majority of the got less than $100,000, but
international grants carne they are two of the country's
from the U.S. Agency for smallest states.
International Development
Towey said state figures
ancj went to charities working can be misleading because
in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti .they can be driven up by one
and other developing nations. large grant. He also said some
"It's
a
competitive state and Local governments
process," said Jim Towey, still discriminate against reliwho directs the initiative for gious groups and that Bush
Bush.
wants that to change.
According to the White
House figures, about one-quarter of the grants to religious
groups went to New York,
Illinois, California and the
HAZARD - The Sacred
District of Columbia; each
Winds Ensemble announces
openings for the Sacred Winds
Ensemble Children's Choir.
The choir, to be featured on the
2005 Summer Concert Series,
• Continued from p2
,
will perform David Holsinger's
season for many, with neither setting of "Jesus Loves Me."
the skiers or their skis being up
To participate, each member
to it.
must be between the ages of 4
"One should not take off and 12; attend the two
down an alpine slope without rehearsals
at
Bowman
practice," he said at the start of Methodist Church (701 High
the break.
Street, Hazard) from 7 to 8
"It's too early to declare
victory on that," Towey said.
Bush has urged Congress to
pass a law that would allow
religious groups to consider
religion
when
making
employment decisions while
not jeopardizing their federal
contracts . The president says
the charities are effective
because of the shared values
and religious identity of their
volunteers and employees.
Critics say hiring and firing
based on religion is discrimination.
Towey said the overall
increase in grants to religious
groups shows progress. The
White House said $1 .1 7 billion went to faith-based organizations in 2003 .
An AP examination of the
2003 grants showed that dollars went to some programs
where prayer and spiritual
guidance are central. Also getting money were org an i ~a
tions that do not consider
themselves religious at all.
Many of these groups had secular missions; some were surprised to find their names on
the White House's list of
faith-based groups.
Towey said some groups
that did not want to be on the
list were removed this year.
Sacred Winds choir has openings
p.m. on May 24 and May 26;
and attend the dress rehearsal
with the Sacred Winds
Ensemble on Saturday, June 4,
from 11 a.rn. to noon at the
Fjrst Federal Center, Hazard
Community and Technical
College.
There are no financial obligations, but members are
required
to
have
a
sponsor/chaperone at every
rehearsal. The enrollment
deadline is April 11.
For additional information,
J?lease contact Kathy Ivey by
t_elephone at (606) 436-4721,
or by e-mail at kivey@hazard.k12.ky.us.
' The Sacred Winds Ensemble
will present their ninth annual
Summer Concert on Sunday,
Jun·e 5. The concert will begin
at 2:30 p.m. at The First
Federal Center on the campus
of the Hazard Community and
Technical College. Admission
is free and all are invited.
�A6 • SUNDAY, APRIL
3, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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.• )egtona.•. ·r'./.1tuaries
FLOYD COUNTY
Truman Akers, 78, of
Bevinsville, died Monday,
March 21, at Central Baptist
Hospital, Lexington . Funeral
services were conducted Friday,
March 25, under the direction of
Nelson Frazier Funeral Home.
Mildred Carleen George
Branham, 76, of Prestonsburg,
died Tuesday, March 29, at
King's Daughters Hospital,
Ashland. Funeral services were
conducted Saturday, April 2,
under the direction of Hall
Funeral Home.
Elva Case, 60, of Campton, a
Honaker native, died Sunday,
February 27, at his residence.
He is survived by his wife,
Laura Bolen Case. Funeral services
were
conducted
Wednesday, March 2, under the
direction of Porter and Son
Funeral Directors, Campton.
Katherine Stratton, 97, of
Dayton, Ohio, formerly of
Floyd County, died Wednesday,
March 23, at Heartland of
Miamisburg, Miamisburg, Ohio.
Funeral services were held
Monday, March 28, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
Shane Patrick Newsome, 37,
of Shelbiana, died Thursday,
March 24. He is survived by his
wife, Shirley Newsome. Funeral
services were held Monday,
March 28, under the direction of
Justice Funeral Home.
Jerry Neil Tackett, 48, of
Beaver, died Saturday, March
26, at St. Joseph Hospital, in
Lexington. He is survived by his
wife, Deborah Light Tackett.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 29, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Keney Clifford Presley, 70,
of Louisa, formerly of Peds
Creek, died Sunday, March 27,
at the King's Daughters
Hospital in Ashland. He is survived by his wife, Mea Coleman
Presley. Funeral services were
held Thursday, March 31, under
the direction of Thacker Funeral
Home.
Mike Wireman, 37, of
Hueysville, died Saturday,
March 26, at his residence.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 30, under
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
Lora Bell Robinette, 90, of
Virgie, died Tuesday, March 29,
at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Friday, April 1, under the direction of Lucas & Hall Funeral
Home.
PIKE COUNTY
Everett "Hoe Handle" Crisp,
James Oliver Caldwell, 93,
53, of Martin, died Sunday, of Pikeville, died Wednesday,
March 27, at Our Lady of the - March 23, at Pikeville Medical
Way Hospital, in Martin. Center. He is survived by his
Funeral services were conduct- wife, Verona Patrick Caldwell.
ed Wednesday, March 30, under Funeral services were held
the direction of Nelson-Frazier Saturday, March 26, under the
Funeral Home.
direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home
Daniel Kevin Hatfield, 28, of
Hi Hat, died Friday, March 25,
Augustine Cantrell, 67, of
at the McDowell Appalachian Lookout, died Thursday, March
Regional Hospital emergency 24, at her home. Funeral serroom. Funeral services were vices were held Sunday, March
conducted Tuesday, March 29, 27, under the direction of the
under the direction off Nelson- Bailey Funeral Home.
Frazier Funeral Home.
Elizabeth "Beth" B. Cresap,
Bert Donathan Jr., 70, of 81, of Pikeville, died Thursday,
Wellington, formerly of Floyd March 24, at Pikeville Medical
County, died Monday, March Center. The family had a private
28, at St. Claire Regional memorial service. Burial was in
Medical Center, in Morehead. the Johnson Memorial Park
He is survived by his wife, under the direction of J .W. Call
Roberta Newsome Donathan. & Son Funeral Home.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, March 31, under
Larry G. "Sonny" Daugherty,
the direction of Nelson-Frazier 66, of Phelps, died Wednesday,
Funeral Home.
March 23, at South Williamson
ARH Hospital. Funeral services
Bethel Mae Johnson Hall, 70, were held Friday, March 25,
of Hi Hat, died Tuesday, March under the direction of the Phelps
22, at McDowell ARH. Funeral Funeral Service.
services were conducted Friday,
March 25, under the direction of
Lee
Worrix
Sammie
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Daugherty, 46, of Pikeville, died
Tuesday, March 29, at U.K.
Jeffrey Ray Johnson, 36, of Medical Center in Lexington.
Buckingham, died Wednesday, She is survived by her husband,
March 30, at the U.K. Medical Richard Allen Daugherty.
Center, in Lexington. Funeral Funeral services were held
services
were
conducted Saturday, April 2, under the
Saturday, April 2, under the direction of J .W. Call & Son
direction of Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Funeral Home.
Eula Mae Davis, 81, of
Roy S. Martin, 81, of Garrett, Winter Haven, Florida, a
died Thursday, March 24, at the. Pikeville native, died Tuesday,
University of Kentucky Medical March 29. Burial will take place
Center in Lexington. He is sur- at the Rolling Hills Cemetery in
vived by his wife, Caulene Winter Haven, Florida, under
Buckner Martin. Funeral ser- the direction of the Hall & Jones
vices were held Sunday, March Funeral Home.
27, under the direction of Hall
Jimmy Fannin, 65, of Toler,
Funeral Home.
died Friday, March 25, in
Melissa Ann Meade, 47, of Columbus, Ohio. Funeral serHarold, died Thursday, March vices were held Wednesday,
24, at Pikeville Medical Center. March 30, under the direction of
Funeral services were conduct- Rogers Funeral Home.
ed Sunday, March 27, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Amos Johnson, 78, of
Belleville, Michigan, a Virgie
Funeral Home.
native, died Tuesday, March 22,
Nannie "Nan" Newman, 89, at his home. He is survived by
of Grethel, died Friday, March his wife Sarah Johnson. Funeral
25, at her residence. Funeral services were held March 25,
services
were
conducted under the direction of the Hall
Monday, March 28, under the and Jones Funeral Home.
direction of the Hall Funeral
Farris Mullins, 84, of
Home.
LaGrange, died Wednesday,
Vernon "Mickey" Osborne, March 30, at the Baptist
71, of Prestonsburg, died Hospital North East. Funeral
Wednesday, March 30, at services were held Thursday,
Highlands Regional Medical March 31, in under the direction
Center, Prestonsburg. He is sur- of Hall and Jones Funeral
vived by his wife, Katie Fields Home.
Osborne. Funeral services were
Anthony Derrick Mullins,
conducted Saturday, April 2,
under the direction of Scobee 27, of Pikeville, died Friday,
March 25, at his home. Funeral
Funeral Home.
services were held Monday,
Ronald Scott, 51 , of March 28, under the direction of
Somerset, a Floyd County J .W. Call Funeral Home.
native, died Tuesday, March 29,
Conley Mullins, 75, of
at his residence. Funeral services were conducted Friday, Virgie, died Saturday, March 26,
April 1, under the direction of at the Parkview Nursing and
Rehab Center. Funeral services,
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
under the direction of Hall and
Lonnie Gene Shepherd, 23, Jones Funeral Home.
of Prestonsburg, died Saturday,
March 26, at Highlands
Anthony Derrick Mullins,
Regional Medical Center. 27, of Pikeville, died Friday,
Funeral services were conduct- March 25, at his home. Funeral
ed Tuesday, March 29, under services were held Monday,
the direction of Nelson-Frazier March 28, under the direction of
Funeral Home.
J .W. Call Funeral Home.
Eleanor R. Salyers, 79, of
Dayton, Ohio, died Saturday,
March 26. Burial was Thursday,
March 31, at the Johnson County
Memorial
Cemetery,
at
Staffordsville. Funeral services
were held Thursday, March 30,
under
the
direction
of
Newcomer Funeral Home in
Dayton, Ohio.
26, at Cabell Huntington
Hospital. He is survived by his
wife, Juanita Dalton. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Tuesday, March 29, under the
direction
of
RichmondCallaham Funeral Home.
Funeral Services.
Inez Short Slone, 85, of
Raveq , died Tuesday, March 22,
at her residence. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 26, under the direction of
Hindman Funeral Services.
Jamie Wicker, 31, of Topmost,
died Monday, March 28, following an auto accident on U.S. 23
South, Prestonsburg. Funeral ser-'
vices were conducted Friday,
April 1, under the dir~tion of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Orbin C. Spradlin, 79, of
Hager Hill, died Monday, March
28, at Paul B. Hall Regional
Medical Center. He is survived
by his wife, Martha Jean
Spradlin. Funeral services were
held Wednesday, March 30,
under the direction of the
Paintsville Funeral Home.
Alma Stacy, 66, of Inez, died
Wednesday, March 23, at Paul
B . Hall Medical Center. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Saturday, March 26, under the
direction
of
RichmondCallaham Funeral Home.
Cleo Hall Woods, 88, of
Hippo, formerly of Hindman, died
Tuesday, March 22, at Paul B.
Hall Medical Center. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 26, under the direction of
Hindman Funeral Home.
Emma Jean Tackett, 75, of
Thealka, died Friday, March 25,
at Paul R Hall Regional Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Monday, March 28, under
the direction of the Phelps & Son
Funeral Home.
Lucy Endicott Perry, 92, of
Inez, died at Pine Meadows
Nursing Home, Lexington.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, March 15, under the
direction
of
RichmondCallaham Funeral Home.
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
Gertrude "Pauline" Bowling,
68, of Salyersville, died Friday,
March 25, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday, March 28, under the
direction of Salyersville Funeral
Home.
LAWRENCE COUNTY
Hazel Louise Compton, 54,
of Louisa, died Sunday, March
27, at Three Rivers Medical
Center, Louisa. She is survived
by her husband, Ben F.
Compton. Young Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
George David Robinson, 74,
of Slaters Branch, died Monday,
March 28, at Appalachian
KNOTT COUNTY
Regional Hospital Skilled
Olive Slone Conley, 85, of
Nursing Facility. Funeral ser- Hindman, died Sunday, March
vices were held Friday, April 1, . 20, at Appalchian Regional
under the direction of R.E. Medical Center, Hazard. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Rogers Funeral Home.
Wednesday, March 23, under the
Faye Phillips Rowe, 82, of direction of Hindman Funeral
Pikeville, died Tuesday, March Home.
29, at Pikeville Health Care
Shirley Lucinda Hall Likens,
Center. Funeral services were
held Friday, April 1, under the 68, of Vest, died Sunday, March
direction of the Lucas & Hall 27, at Hazard ARH. Funeral serFuneral Home.
vices
were
conducted
Wednesday, March 30, under the
Mary Ruth Smallwood, 75, of direction of Nelson-Frazier
Hellier, died Wednesday, March Funeral Home, Hindman.
23, at Pikeville Medical Center.
David Dwayne Mosley, 40,
She is survived by her husband,
Arthur Smallwood. Funeral ser- of Carrie, died Monday, March
vices were held Saturday, March 21, at Hazard Appalachian
26, under the direction of the Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted
Bailey Funeral Home.
Friday, March 25, under the
Howard Lee Tackett, 78, of direction of Nelson-Frazier
Belcher, died Thursday, March Funeral Home.
24, at his home. He is survived
by his wife, Kathleen Ratliff
Polly Napier, 79, of Carrie,
Tackett. Funeral services were died Thesday, March 22, at her
held Saturday, March 26, aunder residence. Funeral services were
the direction of the Bailey conducted Sunday, March 27,
Funeral Home.
under the direction of Hindman
Peggy Claudetta Price, 26, of
Royalton, died Monday, March
21 , 'at Paul B . Hall Regiuonal
Medical Center. Funeral services
were conductted Friday, March
25, under the direction of
Magoffin
County
Funeral
Home.
Lena Myrtle Erwin, 81, of
Louisa, died Monday, March 28,
at Three Rivers Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, March 31, under the
direction of the Young Funeral
Home.
Monnie Mae Sparks, 89, of
Blaine, died Monday, March 28,
at Louisa. Funeral services were
conducted Tuesday, March 29,
under the direction of JonesPreston Funeral Home.
Emogene Barnett Sturgill, 74,
of Salyersville, died Sunday,
March 27, at Highlands
Regional
Medical Center,
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were conducted Tuesday, March
29, under the direction of
Magoffin County
Funeral
Home.
MARTIN COUNTY
Julie Smith Bowens, 72, of
Borderland, West Virginia, a
Martin County native, died
Saturday, March 19, at A.R.H.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, March 22, under the
direction of Phelps and Son
Funeral Home.
Elmer Thompson, 82, of
Salyersville, died Wednesday,
March 23 , at Paul B. Hall
Regional
Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday, March 26, under the
direction of Magoffin County
Funeral Home.
Harold Edmond Dalton, 68,
of Inez, died Saturday, March
Madonna Francisco Trimble,
78, of Lexington, died Monday
March 28, in Lexington. Funeral
services were held Friday, April
1, under the direction of J .W.
Call Funeral Home.
Elster "Dude" Varney, 81, of
Belfry, died Monday, March 28,
2005 at the South Williamson
ARH. He is survived by wife
Logene (Noe) Varney. Funeral
services were held Thursday,
March 31 , under the direction of
Hatfield Funeral Chapel.
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of Paintsville, died Sunday,
March 21 , at Highlands
Regional Medical Center, in
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were held Thursday, March 24,
under the direction of Phelps
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March 30, under the direction
of the Preston Funeral Home.
William Roger "Bill Dooly"
Hensley Jr., 38, of Hager Hill,
died Friday, March 25, at his
residence. Funeral services
were held Tuesday, March 29,
under the direction of the
Jones-Preston Funeral Home.
Vongia Lynn Ramey, 56, of
Tampa, Florida, formerly of
Flat Gap, died Thursday, March
24, at Life Path Hospice House
in Sun City, Florida.' Funeral
services were held Tuesday,
March 29, under the direction
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. UK President: Athletics can bolster academics
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - Athletics and academics can feed from one another.
The University of
Kentucky 's
athletics
program is one of only
40 in the nation that is
financially self-sufficient - a status that is
allowing UK to become
a national leader in
using athletic resources
to fund academic needs.
In a position paper about the role
athletics can play in enhancing academics, UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. said
UK Athletics recently agreed to give
the university $1 million annually for
10 years for non-athletic,
academic scholarships.
In addition, as a result
of the recent $80.5 million multimedia rights
deal between UK and
Host Communications,
•
UK Athletics is contributing $1.36 million to help
fund five new scholarships for the
Singletary Scholars program.
The program represents the most
prestigious undergraduate scholarship
at the university because it covers
tuition, room and board, and includes a
stipend. Because of financial constraints, the scholarship program had
not been expanded in 20 years.
"UK has become a national leader in
using athletic resources to fund academic needs," Todd says in the most recent
edition of "Issues, Ideas and Iii.lWl'
http://www .uky.edu/President/III/athletics_success.pdf "UK Athletics has
been a tremendous steward in supporting programs that attract the best and
brightest to the university."
The athletics program at UK is one
of only 40 out of 117 NCAA, Division
I programs that is truly financially selfsufficient, according to a recent study
by Daniel L. Fulks, an accounting professor at Transylvania University.
Moreover, because of the athletics
program's success and popularity, UK
received more than $1.5 million in free,
premium media advertising during basketball and football games - a forum
that allows the university to tout its academic programs. Institutional spots and
a special program - "UK At The Half'
Bobcats, Belfry split doubleheader
-also appear on the radio network covering UK football and basketball
games, an advertising value of nearly
$300,000.
UK Athletics also is using one of its
major advertising partners - CHA
Health - to sponsor the academic program, Class of Kentucky. The program
spotlights outstanding high school
sophomores throughout the state. UK
monitors the students ' progress as part
of an effort to keep the state's best and
brightest in Kentucky when they choose
(See ACADEMICS, page two)
Schlieper takes
Spring 50 race at
Florence Speedway
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Belfry jumped out to a quick lead in the second
game and held Betsy Layne back en route to a 121 win.
In the ftrst contest, Hamilton got great support
from his teammates playing in behind him as the
Bobcats recorded· 17 defensive outs.
"We had a real good first game," said Martin.
"Overall, playing the two games was good for us.
In the flrst game, the defense worked real well
behind Shawn Hamilton. The defense was also
solid in the second game. We were able to go out
and get our win in that ftrst game. We hit the ball
in the frrst game and they hit the ball in the second
game. That's just how it was. The way it worked
out, it was good for both teams."
In the ftrst game, once Betsy Layne's offense
got going, it remained strong. The Bobcats got
offensive production from several different play-
UNION - Dan Schlieper led every lap in a
dominating performance on Saturday night,
March 26 at the Florence Speedway as the 34year-old Sullivan, Wis. driver won his first
career O'Reilly NARA Battle of the Bluegrass
DirtCar Series event,
winning the $5,000 to
win "Spring 50" Late
Model race. Schlieper
became the 18th different driver in the last 24
O'Reilly NARA Battle
of
the
Bluegrass
DirtCar Series races to
win a series race for the
four year old sanctionDan Schlieper
ing body as he became
a two-time "Spring 50"
winner in his career. Schlieper was aboard the
Miller Brothers Coal, Hawkeye Trucking,
Uncle Buck, VP Racing Fuels. Hoosier Tires ,
All-Star Performance, Pro Power Engines , CJ.
Rayburn Monte Carlo. Finishing second
behind Schlieper was 13th-starting Scon James
of Lawrenceburg, Ind ., in the Powell
Motorsports/Dargie Race Engines/Rocket
Grand Prix. Third place was 17th-starting
Matt Miller of Waterville, Ohio , in the
Baker
McCullough
Industries/Russell
Engines/Rocket Grand Prix. Mike Marlar of
Winfield, Tenn., was fourth in the PBM
Performance Products/Central Painting/C.J.
Rayburn Monte Carlo with Darrell Lanigan of
Union, completing the top-five in the Lanigan
Autosports/Gottarace.cqm/Rocket Ford Taurus.
A total of 64 Late Models were on hand for the
29th annual running of the event.
Both Miller Brothers Coal and Hawkeye
Trucking are baseci in Knott County.
Schlieper would start from the pole
alongside fellow front row starter, Greg
Johnson. When the green came out to start
the race Johnson headed into tum one the race
leader, but corning off of tum number two
Schlieper would find the low groove to his
liking as he would go by Johnson for the lead.
Schlieper would then start to distance himself
from the battle for second that was now going
on between Johnson and R.J. Conley.
Conley would move past Johnson for second
on the second lap with Darrell Lanigan in
fourt followed by John Gill. Lanigan would
then start to pressure Johnson for third taking
him for position on lap three. With the action
going on for second Schlieper was ever so
slowly pulling away from the tight pack of
cars racing for second. Lanigan then would
quickly get up to and challenge Conley for
second. They would race side by side around
(See BOBCATS, page two)
(See SPRING 50, page two)
Betsy Layne
senior Shawn
Hamilton dealt
up an offering to
a Belfry batter
Thursday
evening during
the first of two
games pitting
the Bobcats
against the host
Pirates. Betsy
Layne won the
first game and
Belfry finished
out in the front
!'!!!!!~:::=:~!! In the nightcap.
Hamilton pitches Betsy
Layne to win in first game
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
BELFRY - Senior Shawn Hamilton is somewhat of a newcomer to the Betsy Layne High
School baseball program. After not playing baseball last season, Hamilton has come on strong during a senior season that has already featured many
highlights. On Thursday evening, Hamilton took
the mound in the first of two games against Belfry
and pitched the Bobcats to a win. Behind
Hamilton's strong pitching performance, Betsy
Layne played its way to a 17-5 win over the
Pirates. It took the Bobcats just six innings to
claim the victory in the opener.
In the second game of the doubleheader, Belfry
returned the favor, though, beating Betsy Layne
12-1. Betsy Layne head coach Frank Martin decided to give some younger players the opportunity to
play in the second contest against the Pirates.
Early youth turkey season promising
TIMES STAFF REPORT
FRANKFORT - "I think it shows
that the hearts of sportsmen and
women in Kentucky are in the right
place, and that is, putting our young
people first when it comes to learning the value of wildlife, and the
immense enjoyment it provides."
Those comments come from Jim
fJ Lane, .state fish and wildlife department'8 lead wild turkey biologist, in
reference to the upcoming early
youth turkey hunting season this
weekend throughout the commonwealth. This weekend, youngsters 15
and under will have the first opportunity in the spring turkey woods,
ahead of the adults, and Lane hopes
many will ftnd a chance to give
turkey hunting a try.
"The fish and wildlife commission has specifically designed
Kentucky's turkey season to give
younger hunters the best odds of
• being successful," said Lane.
"Turkey's are pretty tough to get,
but the ftrst encounter is the best to
catch them off guard."
"This early season is such a good
chance for an experienced adult
hunter to teach a kid, and spend time
watching a youngster develop interest and skill."
"I really hope every young person
who has an interest will have an
adult mentor who will make the
effort to nurture that interest and
open a whole new world of outdoor
enjoyment to that kid," said Lane.
The spring turkey season limit is
two male turkeys, or turkeys with visible beards. Hunters 15 and under, who
are eligible to hunt the youth weekend
season, must be accompanied by an
adult. Unless license exempt, a youth
hunter must have a junior hunting
license and spring turkey permit.
Adults can not carry firearms or other
hunting equipment (bows, crossbows,
etc.) during this season.
Hunters are also reminded that the
possession or use of electronic turkey
calls are prohibited. Only hand- or
mouth-operated calls are allowed.
Tips for taking a youngster turkey
hunting include using a shotgun
designed to fit a youth hunter.
Hunting from a blind helps minimize
the chances of being spotted by a
tom turkey when it gets close.
Decoys may also qe a good idea, to
help keep the gobbler's attention
focused somewhere other than where
you're sitting, and to help younger
hunters judge distance. Shots beyond
40 yards are risky, but a tom that
comes into a group of hen decoys at
25 yards is easily in range.
Keep the youngster warm and dry,
and make sure he or she gets a good
night's sleep the evening before.
Take frequent breaks from sitting
still, as much as you can, when birds
are not in the vicinity. Have something for them to snack on to keep
them occupied when birds get quiet.
Once a turkey is taken, the hunter
must ftll out the back of the hunting
license on what's called a hunter harvest log. Look at a license or permit
and become familiar with the hunter
log, and go over it with your young
hunter before going afield. There
will be much excitement after the
trigger is pulled, for both hunter and
" guide", but it is important someone
remembers to mark the log before the
turkey is picked up and transported.
Teaching youngsters how to hunt
is a good thing. Teaching them to
become sportsmen and sportswomen, who hunt legally and ethically, is a fantastic thing - the
responsible thing. Few other "gifts"
to kids interested in wildlife-related,
outdoor sports will be more reward(See TURKEY, page two)
HUNTING
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Early spring best time for
big bass on Kentucky's
state-owned lakes
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
FRANKFORT - After months of muddy
yards that make a mess of your shoes and
wool sweaters that highlight curves you don't
want to show off, the ftrst spring days above
60 degrees are a liberation for thousands of
bass anglers in Kentucky. It is time to hit the
smaller lakes for some large pre-spawn largemouth bass.
Once the water temperatures climb a few
degrees from their wintertime lows, bass start
to move out of their deep winter lairs and
begin feeding, especially large females . Big
female largemouth must eat heartily to promote egg development for the coming spawn.
The best time to catch trophy bass is when
they move shallow in spring. Large fish are
notorious loners for most of the year and hide
in deep water or in the densest, most impenetrable cover they can find. After they move out
of the winter sanctuary to the shallows, the
bass are hungry, active and available to lure .
Water in small lake warms a little earlier in
(See BASS, page two)
�82 • SUNDAY,
APRIL
3, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Bobcats
Spring 50
• Continued from p1
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ers. Hamilton helped his cause,
hitting three singles and a home
run. Jordan Case, another Betsy
Layne senior, also collected
four hits, including a home run
and double to go along with a
pair of singles. Junior Brandon
Thacker had two doubles and
two singles, while Brandon
Combs and Brandon Kidd each
had a double apiece.
With the two games com-
bined, '\1artin was able to get
each of his players an at-bat.
Senior Steven Conn took
the mound for Betsy Layne (21) in the second game. He
pitched well, despite the loss.
''Belfry has a . really good
team," Martin added. "I was
impressed by a lot of what they
dtd in the two games."
Senior Nathan Lafferty,
another new face in the Betsy
Layne baseball program, collected two hits in the second
game.
The Bobcats beat East
Ridge 16-6 in a season-opener
played Tuesday evening.
Betsy Layne will return to
the diamond Tuesday evening
when it plays host to rival
Allen Central in what will be a
crucial early-season Floyd
County Conference matchup.
••• BLHS BASEBALL
Defending 58th
District champ Betsy
Layne boasts a 2-1
record entering
Tuesday's Floyd
County Conference
game against rival
Allen Central.
Patrick Stapleton
(pictured playing the
field) and Derek
Case (pictured both
on the basepaths
and at the plate)
contributed
Thursday in Betsy
Layne's 17-5 win
over Belfry.
the half mile oval for three circuits with Conley hanging on
each time at the scoring line.
The ftrst caution of the race
would fly on lap seven for Eddie
Carrier, Jr. and then a subsequent restart would be negated
for a stalled Tyrel Todd. With
the race resumed it was still
Schlieper showing the way with
Conley in second followed by
Lanigan, now Gill and Johnson.
With Schlieper in command
and pulllng away again Conley
and Lanigan would get back to
some side by side racing again
for five more laps the two would
race hard and clean for second
place running within inches of
each other. Gill then would get
his mount hooked up and make it
a three way tango for second.
The next yellow came out for a
stalled Roger Williams on lap 15.
This would again slow the action
just briefly. On the restart again
Schlieper would show his
strength distancing himself from
the torrid battle for second.
Lanigan on the 18th lap v:ould
finally clear Conley for second,
but Scott James was a drive on
the move as the 13th slatting second generation racer would
make his appearance in the top
three passing Conley on the 20th
lap for third. Lanigan, James,
Conley and now Mike Marlar
would heat things up for second
racing two and three wide at
times. While this excitement
was going on Schlieper was
methodically minding his own
business in a comfortable drive
with the lead. Schlieper woould
start to run into some obstacles as
for the first time in the race he
was going to pick up the tail end
of the field by lap 27. This
would allow Lanigan and his
band of challenges to pick up
some time on Schlieper. But
Schlieper was up to the challenge
getting by three drivers who
were in front him and he then
had some clear track to race with.
Lanigan and James then
would race door to door with
James gaining the advantage taking second place on the 31st lap.
James would then start to mount
a charge on Schlieper gaining lap
after lap on him, but he still had a
ways to go yet as Schlieper had
built quite a lead up. A final caution with 15 laps to go would
allow a double ftle restart behind
Schlieper with James and
Lanigan restarting side by side.
Another driver, who was on the
move was 17th place starter, Matt
Miller, who had quietly worked
his way to the front. Miller
would restart fifth beside Marlar.
With a 15 lap shootout expected
now, Schlieper would come out
again to be the dominant driver
int he race as the breif challenge
by Lanigan and James would
prove to be for naught as again he
pulled away from everyone.
James would slip to third after the
restart, but regained his momentum and got back around Lanigan
on lap 38. With 10 laps to go
Schlieper would see James pick
up the pace again, but James
could not get close enough in the
final laps to provide a challenge
to Schlieper for the win.
Schlieper would flash across the
finish line the winner for second
time in his career in the "Spring
SO" race at Florence Speedway.
His first win came in the year
2000. James would finish in second with Miller grabbing third
from Marlar in the last five laps
of the race with Lanigan completing the top five.
The rest of the top ten finishers were John Gill, Michael
England, Mike Jewell, Eddie
Carrier, Jr. and Steve Landrum.
In preliminary events Mike
Jewell was the Racing Optics
Fast Qualifier for the 64 entrants
with a lap of 16.226 seconds.
The VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat Race Winners were John
Gill, Dan Schlieper, RJ.
Conley, Darrell Lanigan, Greg
Johnson and Timmy Yeager.
The B-Main victors were Jerry
Rice and Donnie Moran.
The next O'Reilly NARA
Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar
Series event will be on Saturday
Night, April 23 at the Paducah
International
Raceway
in
Paducah. For more information, go online to www.paducahinternationalraceway.com and
www.naradirtcar.com and click
on the Battle of the Bluegrass
DirtCar icon.
Race Summary
O'Reilly NARA Battle of the
Bluegrass
DirtCar
Series
Presented by Arizona Sport Shirts
Saturday Night,
March 26
Florence Speedway, Union
Racing
Optics
Fast
Qualifier: Mike Jewell 16.226
VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat No. 1: John Gill, Mike
Marlar, Scott James, Mike
Jewell, Tim Dohm, Tyrel Todd,
Rod Conley, Rusty Schlenk,
Tim Tungate, Sidney Sprague,
Arnie Fields
VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat No. 2: Dan Schlieper,
Wayne Chinn, Steve Landrum,
Jerry Rice, Chris combs, Jesse
James Lay, Ben Adkins,
Spensor Watson, Jeff Raisor,
Mike Hawley, Hillard Miller
VP Rae in' Makin' Power
Heat No. 3: RJ. Conley, Bob
Lanter, Aaron Hatton, Tony
Traficant, Marc Kurth, Michael
Bradley, Jordan Bland, Larry
Pickelheimer, Jr., Shannon
Reed, Jeff Alsip, Robert Fletcher
VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat No. 4: Darrell Lanigan,
Steve Casebolt, Jr., Johnny
Wheeler, Roger Williams, Steve
Barnett, Duane Chamberlain,
Dusty
Moore,
Jason
Montgomery, Chuckie May,
Doug Smith
VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat No. 5:
Greg Johnson,
Eddie Carrier, Jr., Matt Miller,
Donnie
Moran,
Whitney
McQueary, Randy Korte, Bryan
Barber, Eric Myers, Shannon
Thornsberry, Devin Sebree
VP Racin' Makin' Power
Heat No. 6: Timmy Yeager,
Michael England, Blake Chinn,
Rick Combs, Dave Kirker,
Bobby Wolter, Jr., Randy King,
Alan Haycraft, Chad Smith,
Jeep VanWormer
First O'Reilly Auto Parts BMain: Jerry Rice, Mike Jewell, j
Jesse James Lay, Rod Conley,
Chris Combs, Spensor Watson,
Rusty Schlenk, Ben Adkins,
Marc Kurth, Jeff Alsip, Shannon
Reed, Jordan Bland, Sidney
Sprague, Larry Pickelheimer,
Jr., Tim Dohm, Hillard Miller,
Michael Bradley, Tim Tungate,
Tyrel Todd, Tony Tra:ficant, Jeff
Raisor, Mike Hawley
Second O'Reilly Auto Parts
B-Main: Donnie Moran, Roger
Williams, Steve Barnett, Duane
Chamberlain, Rick Combs,
Randy
Korte,
Whitney
McQueary, Bryan Barber, Dave
Kirker, Eric Myers, Jason
Montgomery, Dusty Moore,
Chuckie May, Doug Smith,
Shannon Thornsberry, Bobby
Wolter, Jr., Devin Sebree
"Spring 50" Lucas Oil AMain Finish: Dan Schlieper,
Scott James, Matt Miller, Mike
Marlar, Darrell Lanigan, John
Gill, Michael England, Mike
Jewell, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Steve
Landrum, Greg Johnson, R.J.
Conley, Jerry Rice, Wayne
Chinn, Donnie Moran, Bob ~
Lanter,
Johnny
Wheeler,
Spensor Watson, Blake Chinn,
Aaron Hatton, Steve Casebolt,
Jr., Timmy Yeager, Roger
Williams, Tyrel Todd
Race StatisticS':
Entries: 64
Lap Leaders: Dan Schlieper 1-50
Cautions: 4
Red Flags: 1
O'Reilly NARA Battle of the
Bluegrass
DirtCar
Series
Provisionals: Tyrel Todd and ~.:
Spensor Watson
~
PPM Racing Products Hard
Charger of the Race: Matt
Miller: advanced 14 positions
(started 17th and finished third).
Bass
• Continued from p1
spring than in reservoirs composed of tens of thousands of
acres of water. So often, smaller
lakes, along with farm ponds, are
the best to target for the frrst good
chance at big, pre-spawn bass.
In western Kentucky, Lake
Malone is a perennial producer
of large bass. Some anglers find
the lake difficult to fish because
it is steep-sided and deep.
However, in spring, target small
tributaries, coves and any area
where warmer rainwater enters
the lake. A black and blue jig and
pig combination worked along
the bottom in these areas draws
strikes. Weed beds are also
excellent springtime areas to
work with a lipless crankbait,
plastic worm or a soft plastic
jerkbait. There is a good population of 3-to 5-pound largemouth
bass in Lake Malone with potential for a bass over seven pounds.
In south central Kentucky,
little 36-acre Spurlington Lake
northeast of Campbellsville is
an overlooked largemouth bass
lake. Spurlington Lake holds a
sizeable population of 12-tol5inch bass with the occasional
trophy over 20 inches. The numbers of fish in the 8-to12-inch
range indicate the good fishing
should continue in the future.
Work the edge of weedbeds
along the shore in spring with
watermelon and red flake grubs.
In Central Kentucky, Guist
Creek Lake annually surrenders
trophy bass. The lake has great
numbers of bass from 12 to 19
inches along with trophies over
6 pounds. The lake receives a lot
of fishing pressure because of
its proximity to Louisville and
this can make the fishing tough,
but bass anglers on the lake
need to get away from the bank.
Landing your lure where the
boat is located if you were casting to the bank would separate
you from a lot of anglers on
Guist Creek Lake. The coves
and cuts near the dam are excellent trophy areas in spring as are
the mud flats found on the out-
side bends of the lake.
Kincaid Lake in northeastern
Kentucky is another consistent
producer of big bass, but like
Guist Creek Lake, Kincaid is a
clifficult lake to fish. Kincaid
Lake has a great number of bass
between 15 and 20 inches long
with good trophy fish potential.
Embayments on the north shore
with woody structure hold good
bass at this time of the year. As
the water warms in spring, the
emerging weedbeds hold bass in
Kincaid Lake.
In Eastern Kentucky, Pan
Bowl Lake across Highway 15
from Jackson is one of the most
overlooked bass lakes in
Kentucky. Pan Bowl Lake has
abundant weedbeds, treetops and
brush that hold spring bass. The
lake holds good numbers of bass
from 15 to 20 inches long and the
occasional fish over 21 inches. A
lightweight purple straight tailed
worm worked over the weedbeds
and treetops provokes strikes on
Pan Bowl Lake.
Academics
• Contlnu&U from p1
·T urkey
• Continued from p1
~ing to them, or you.
All turkeys taken in
Kentucky must also be reported
by phone by midnight of the
day the bird is harvested. The
'process is simple and free. Call
1-800-245-4263 and answer the
questions asked by the automated system. Social-security
numbers will be needed. It
takes about five minutes. At the
end of the call, the hunter is
given a confirmation number
that shows he or she complied
with the check-in requirement.
Hunters arc to keep the confirmation number with them, written on the back of the l1cense,
throughout the season.
According
to
Lane,
Kentucky turkey hunters can
expect a good season and good
availability of birds this year.
Kentucky's statewide flock is
approximately 230,000 with
birds residing in every county
or the commonwealth.
a college or university. Students
in the program are featured in
30-second television spots on
TV stations across the state to
help drive home the message
"that academics and leadership
are vital to the state's success,"
Todd said. Class of Kentucky
participants also are invited to
UK's campus each summer for a
day-long visit and are recognized at a home football game in
Visit ·
the fall.
Football and basketball
games also are being used as a
platform to recognize academic
superstars, who excel in the
classroom and research labs.
Todd said that since the fall of
2001, some of UK's academic
elite have been recognized at
breaks during home basketball
and footba1l games.
"By leveraging our athletic
prowess to help market; \ecognize and fund our acadeJruc initiatives," Todd said, "we can
ultimately fulfill the university's
most prominent mission of
enhancing our academic programs."
"Issues, Ideas and Ideologies"
by UK President Todd is a periodic position paper about issues
of importance to UK and the state
of Kentucky.
�SUNDAY, APRIL
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
3, 2005 • 83
Kentucky beats Louisville
Illinois' Weber
coach of year in slugfest, 12-11
TIMES STAFF REPORT
by JIM O'CONNELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-
ST. LOUIS - Bruce Weber,
who led illinois to its winningest
season, was an overwhel.ming
choice Friday as The Associated
Press national coach of the year.
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for a spectacular season for
Weber, in only his second year
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in his first season.
Weber coached Southern
Illinois for five seasons, compiling a 103-54 record and
leading the Salukis to the
NCAA tournament twice,
before the illinois job opened
when Self moved to Kansas.
Weber was an assistant for 18
seasons to Purdue's Gene Keady,
the coach of the year in 1996.
Weber's 81 -year-old mother, Dawn, died suddenly the
day the Illini beat Minnesota in
the quarterfinals of the Big Ten
tournament. He didn't miss a
game as Illinois went on to win
the conference title and then
won four games as the NCAA
tournament's overall No. 1
seed. The Illini reached the
Final Four with a memorable
90-89 overtime victory over
Arizona, a game in which they
trailed by 15 with 4 minutes
left in regulation.
Weber is the first Illinois
coach to win the award and the
first from the Big Ten since
Tom Izzo of Michigan State in
1998. Izzo's Spartans also
reached the Final Four this season, setting up the possibility
of an all-Big Ten national
championship game.
Phil Martelli of Saint
Joseph's won the award last
season.
LOUISVILLE - Kentucky
belted a season-high 10 extrabase hits en route to a 12-11 victory over rival Louisville in a
shootout Wednesday night at
Cardinal Stadium.
John Shelby led a potent
Kentucky attack that saw all nine
starters record a hit and seven of
them tally at least two. Shelby
finished 3-for-4 and launched his
fourth home run in the last 10
games. He fell a double shy of
hitting for the cycle and finished
with a team-high three RBI.
Shelby's performance led the
one of the biggest offensive outputs of the season. The Wildcats
had 17 hits and a season-high 33
total bases off them. The 10
extra-base hits came off six doubles, a season-high three triples
and a home run. All of the numbers came as juniors Brian
Hastings and Billy Grace, who
rank 1-2 on the team in hitting,
sat out due to injury.
The game looked to be a
blowout early as the Wildcats
built a 6-2lead after two innings.
In the second, Kentucky sent 11
batters to the plate and scored
six runs - five with two outs.
Antone DeJesus got the scoring
started with a two-run double
and he scored on J.B. Schmidt's
two-out double. Kevin Caldwell
later had a two-run single and
Jesse Barber capped the rally
with a run-scoring single.
However, Louisville would
not go away, scoring once in the
third and cutting the lead to 6-5
in the fourth on a two-run home
run by Boomer Whiting off
starter Alex Jordan.
Kentucky answered right
back with a pair of three-run
outbursts in the fifth and sixth to
stretch the lead to 12-5 . Shelby's
tape-measure home run over the
wall in center, which stands 400
feet from home plate, scored the
first two runs of the fifth.
DeJesus followed with a triple
and Ryan Wilkes brought him
home with a single for the third
run of the inning.
In the sixth, Collin Cowgill
led off with a single and scored
on Shaun Lehmann's triple.
After Lehmann carne home on a
wild pitch, Justin Scutchfield
was hit by a pitch and Shelby
drove him in with a triple to
right-center.
With the game seemingly out
of reach, Louisville responded
with five runs in the home half
of the sixth. The Cardinals
chased reliever Craig Snipp by
tagging him for four runs and
got to Aaron Tennyson for
another run in the frame.
The b ig blows in the inning
carne off a two-run single by J .T.
LaFountain and a two-run double
by Isaiah Howes. Daniel Burton,
who finished 4-for-5, capped the
scoring with an RBI single.
The lead dwindled to 12-11
when Tennyson allowed a single run
in the eighth before Brock Baber
entered to close out the game.
Baber worked the final 1 2/3
innings and allowed just one hit
to earn his third save of the season - and second in as many
nights. He threw four innings of
one-hit ball Tuesday night
against Georgetown.
Despite allowing four runs in
two innings, Snipp earned the win
and improved to 2-1 on the season. Jake Smith took the loss after
lasting only 1 2/3 innings and giving up five runs on four hits.
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player of year
by JIM O'CONNELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Utah sophomore Andrew Bogut, who
emerged from obscurity to
national dominance in a single
season, capped his college
basketball career with The
Associated Press national
player of the year award
Friday.
The 7-foot Australian led
the Utes to the Mountain West
Conference
regular-season
title and the third round of the
NCAA
tournament.
He
announced Monday that he
would forgo his last two years
of school and enter the NBA
draft this summer, when he is
projected as a lottery pick and
possibly the frrst player chosen
overall.
Bogut didn't even get honorable mention in preseason
All-America balloting but
went on to lead NCAA
Division I with 26 double-doubles. He missed a double-double in only nine games this
season and accomplished it 40
times in his Utah career.
He was second in the nation
in rebounding at 12.2 a game,
fourth in field-goal shooting at
62.0 percent and 15th in scoring at 20.4. He also averaged
2.3 assists while playing 35
minutes a game.
He received 31 votes from
the 72-member national media
panel that selects the AP's
weekly Top 25.
J J. Redick of Duke was
second with 15 votes, and
Wayne Simien of Kansas was
third with nine .
Bogut is the first player
from Utah to win the award,
and the frrst from the West
since Arizona's Sean Elliott in
1989 .
The Utes finished 29-6 this
season, losing 62-52 to
Kentucky in the regional semifinals.
Bogut ended his career at
Utah with 1,126 points and
..753 rebounds , just the third
player in school history to
score 1 ,000 points in only two
seasons.
. He was a starter on
Australia's Olympic team last
summer and averaged 14.8
points and 8.8 rebounds.
Jameer Nelson of Saint
Joseph's was player of the year
last season.
East boys hold on
to win McDonald's
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
•
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. Gerald Green scored 24 points
and Greg Paulus added 13
points and made seven of eight
free throws in the final 2 minutes for the East, which squanr,lered a 27-point lead before
beating the West 115-110 in the
McDonald's
All-American
game last night.
The East opened a 54-27
lead with 6:36 left in the frrst
half and appeared to be headed
to an easy victory, holding a 6543 lead at halftime. But Mario
Chalmers scored 14 points,
including three threes, during a
22-4 run as the West closed to
74-69 in the second half.
dreen and Eric Devendorf
hit three-pointers to extend the
lead back to 80-69. But the
East couldn ' t put the West
away. Calvin Miles hit a threepointer tp close the lead to 10096. The West finally pulled
even when Manta Ellis drove
to the basket with 1:47 left,
the n scored on a fast-break
slam dunk to make it 106-106
with 1:25 left.
Green hit two free throws to
put the East back on top, then
Paulus put the game away with
his free throws .
Josh McRoberts of Carmel,
Ind., added 17 points on 7-for8 shooting and had 12 rebounds
and was named the game's
most valuable player. Louis
Williams added 14 points and
Devendorf added 13 . The East
shot 57 percent in the first half,
43 percent in the second.
Chalmers led the West with
20 points, Julian Wright had 14
and Miles had 13. The West
shot 45 percent for the game.
The East took command
early as Green scored 11 points
during a 39-13 run.
GIRLS: Courtney Paris
wanted to share the credit as
much as her West teammates
shared the ball.
After Paris scored 16 points
and sparked a decisive 20-5 run
with back-to-back baskets, she
said the key to the 80-64 victory over the East in the
McDonald's
All-American
game was teamwork.
"As a post player it's sometimes hard to get the ball in
games like this because you
have to rely on your guards,"
she said . "Normally these
games are so individual, but the
guards were selfless and their
skills allowed us to be involved
in the game."
Paris man ~e-Prl to get
involved on her own as well,
pulling down 12 rebounds.
"I really didn't do anything
special out there. I just ended
up taking the best shots," she
said.
Paris, who will play at
Oklahoma next season, was 7for-10 from the field, making
all five of her shots in the second half. She also had four
blocked shots.
Alexis Gray-Lawson, who
has committed to California,
added 12 points, including five
during the West's pivotal run.
The East tied the score at 58
when DeWanna Bonner scored
on a layup with 5:45 left.
Paris then gave the lead
back to the West with an inside
bucket.
After Ca.rrem Gay made a
free throw for the East, Paris
scored again after pulling down
a rebound.
Gray-Lawson the n hit an
18-foot jump shot. After Gay
hit another free throw, Abigail
Waner hit a 3 to give the West a
67-60 lead.
After the teams traded baskets, the West scored the final
11 points, with Gray-Lawson
hitting a three and Waner, who
is going to Duke, adding two
hnckets.
Baseball looks for positive
headlines, not test results
by RONALD BLUM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mark McGwire would be
happy: It's time to look ahead,
not behind.
After an offseason filled with
talk about which players were
on steroids, attention turns to the
2005 season. It begins April 3
when - who else? - the world
champion Boston Red Sox and
Yankees open in New York.
Curt Schilling will be missing from that game, still recovering from the ankle injury that
led to the bloody sock during
last year's playoffs. A coast
away, Barry Bonds will be on
the sidelines, too, recovering
from knee surgery and perhaps
his perpetual bad mood.
While Bonds' pursuit of
Hank Aaron's home run record
remains on hold, the rest of the
game will move on.
"Last time I looked, the
Boston Red Sox won the World
Series without Barry," Giants
ace Jason Schmidt said. "I don't
think anybody's dwelling on it.
It's not like we're sitting around
talking about it. We've all been
on teams without Barry."
After all the talk about
steroids, baseball is seeking positive headlines, not test results.
Much is different this year,
with a new team in Washington
and none in Montreal. The
Anaheim Angels were rechristened the Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, even though they're
only slightly farther from
Tinseltown than the newly
named Nationals are from
Baltimore.
Lots of players have moved
on to new teams, too, including
Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martinez,
Carlos Beltran, Adrian Beltre,
Derek Lowe, Carlos Delgado
and Magglio Ordonez.
"By any criteria one uses, the
sport is more popular today than
it's ever been," commissioner
Bud Selig said Friday. "The
ticket sales are at an unbelievable number this year - to my
knowledge 27 or 28 of the 30
teams are ahead of last year."
Questions about steroid use
haven 't stopped fans from
spending on baseball. There are
tougher testing rules this year for the first time, an initial positive result for performanceenhancing drugs would cause a
10-day suspension.
"The integrity of our game
was beginning to come under
fire," said Arizona's Tony Clark,
explaining why players agreed
to toughen the rules in the middle of their labor contract.
While all the steroid talk was
going on, the Red Sox celebrated their first championship since
1918 in every hamlet of New
England and head into the season trying to win consecutive
titles for the first time since
1915-16.
New York, seeking to reinstate the Curse, i•<~~n·t won the
Series since 2000 - that's about
a century ago in Yankee years.
The Yankees have spent lavishly
to regain the top spot, adding
Randy Johnson, Carl Pavano
and Jaret Wright. If they stay
healthy, they could become the
first major league team to win
100 games in four straight seasons.
"I'm a greedy person. I want
as many as I possibly can get,"
Red Sox right fielder Trot Nixon
said. "I want to be one of those
guys also that has an opportunity to take a picture and have four
or five rings on my finger with
this team."
Just like, well, Derek Jeter,
Bernie Williams , Mariano
Rivera and some of their pinstriped mates .
New York's payroll will be
around the $200 million mark
on opening day, likely $70 million more than any other team.
After winning their seventh
straight AL East title, the
Yankees became the first team
to waste a 3-0 lead in a postseason series, falling to their rival
to the North.
If that tumult wasn' t enough,
New York still doesn't know
whether Jason Giambi will
come back from 1 112 seasons
of illness and injury, shake off
the glare of his involvement in
the steroids investigation and
regain his former form as a premier slugger.
Giambi already must lead the
major leagues in autographs.
Thus far, he's been welcomed
back for the most part with
cheers and outstretched pens.
"Mentally, I feel good that I
can be that same player," he
said. "It's going to take some
time. I'm going to have to break
a lot of that rust off."
Johnson faces former Yankee
David Wells in the Sunday night
opener; Schilling likely won't
return until mid-April while he
completes his recovery.
Then on Monday, the
Nationals play their first game,
traveling
up
I-95
to
Philadelphia. Known as the
Expos during 36 seasons in
Montreal, the attendance-challenged team finally moved after
years of threats.
Frank Robinson remains the
manager, and much of the roster
has stayed the same. Until the
commissioner's office sells the
franchise, it will be among the
lowest spenders in the majors,
even though its revenue will
skyrocket.
"Now we've got a home,"
outfielder Brad Wilkerson said.
"There's no more excuses. We
go out there and play baseball
and try to win ballgames."
There are other big stori~<>.
too. Atlanta, having lost J .D.
Drew to Los Angeles and
Wright to the Yankees, moved
John Smaltz back into the starting rotation for the first time
since 1999, acquired Dan Kolb
from Milwaukee to take over as
closer and obtained 20-game
winner Tim Hudson from
Oakland. The Braves are confident their new mix can lead
them to their 14th straight division title, and perhaps their frrst
Series championship since
1995.
"I like our makeup," Smaltz
said. "I think we've given ourselves more of a fighting
chance."
While Houston lost Beltran
to the New York Mets, Roger
Clemens decided to spend a second season with his hometown
Astros, who fell one win short
of reaching the World Series for
the first time. After winning his
record seventh Cy Young
Award, and hiking his career
wins to 328, the 42-year-old
Rocket needs just two wins to
pass Steve Carlton for ninth
place on the career list.
Busch Stadium will be back
for its 40th season, scheduled to
be its last before the Cardinals
move across the street to a new
Busch.
New York's other team, the
Mets, has a new look this year
following the additions of
Martinez and Beltran. Dubbed
the "new Mets" by Beltran and
"Los Mets" by some, the team
has been energized following
the arrival of new general manager Omar Minaya.
"It's not all about players. It's
, abou t changing the mind-set,
changing the culture of what's
been going on here," frrst-time
manager Willie Randolph said.
"We're going to see who wants
to play.''
While the big-money teams
spent, many teams in the middle
of the country despaired.
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh will
be trying to avoid their 13th
straight
losing
seasons.
Pittsburgh
owner
Kevin
McClatchy, watching all the
high-priced free agents, advocated a salary cap.
"I don't know what happened , maybe they drank some
funny water, but they all decided they were back on the binge,"
he said.
Detroit, trying to avoid a
12th straight losing season, is
host of the All-Star game on
J uly 12. A few weeks later,
Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg
will be inducted into the Hall of
Fame on July 31 - also the last
day to make trades without
securing waivers .
By then, the Yankees either
will be on their way to restoring
the usual order against the Red
Sox, or New York owner George
Steinbrenner will be creating a
ruckus .
"Anything less than winning
a World Series," Johnson said,
"isn't acceptable."
AP Sports Writers Mike
Fitzpatrick. Janie McCauley.
Paul Newberry, Alan Robinson .
Howard U lman and Joseph
White contributed to this report
�84 . SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Louisville Tennis sweeps ASHLIE GOBLE DAY
IUPUI, Morehead
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LOUISVILLE
The
University of Louisville men's
tennis team defeated visiting
IUPUI 7-0 and Morehead State
6-1 in a doubleheader on
Wednesday at the Bass-Rudd
Tennis Center. The Cards
extend their home win-streak
to 39 matches.
The Cardinals started by winning all three doubles matches as
Jeremy Clark and Jakob
Gustafsson, No. 34 in the
Intercollegiate
Tennis
Association, defeated Marc Pyatt
and Ross Gehlhausen 8-5 at the
top seed. Damar Johnson and
Mark Kennedy paired to bead
Juan Mas and Ronnie Pedro 8-5
at the two-spot and the team of
Tony Teufel and Pablo Camacho
topped Joe Harvath and Yahia
Fouad 8-l at No.3.
U of L swept singles in
straight sets as Johnson, No. 54
in ITA singles ranking, defeated Mas 6-2, 6-0 at the top spot.
Gustafsson registered a 6-0, 62 win over Pyatt at No. 2.
Octavian
Nicodim
beat
Gehlhausen 6-0, 6-1 at the
three-seed. Jhonny Berrido
claimed the No. 4 spot with a
6-0,6-1 win over Pedro. Teufel
defeated Greg Fallowfield 6-0,
6-1 at No. 5 and Stefan
Naughton picked up a 6-3, 6-1
win over Joe Harvath at the sixspot.
"IUPUI was a good match
for us," said U of L assistant
Mark Beckham. "We got to
play our entire lineup and
everyone performed well."
The Cards again swept the
doubles
matches
against
Morehead State as Gustafsson
and Clark topped Greg Johnson
8-4 at No. 1. Radman and
Berrido defeated Kim Kachel
and Peter Taylor 8-4 at the twoseed. Johnson and Kennedy
beat Peter Taylor and Adam
Storti 8-5 at No. 3.
In singles, Radman defeated
Kachel6-2, 6-2 at the two-spot.
Gustafsson picked up a 6-3, 64 win over Taylor at No. 3.
Nicodim beat McLeod 6-1,6-3
at No. 4. Clark topped Orieux
6-4, 6-4 at the five seed and
Berrido defeated Tony Simola
6-3, 6-0 at No. 6.
Morehead State's Greg
Johnstone closed out the match
by edging Johnson 7-5, 7-6 at
No. 1 for the Eagles only point
of the match.
"We had a good performance
against
a
solid
Morehead team that came in
with only one loss," said
Beckham. "Anytime you were
able to beat a team that is having that much success, it is a
plus for your program."
Fish now for
•
•
•
sprtngttme crappte
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
the whites."
Blood River, Ledbetter
FRANKFORT
- The Creek, Bear Creek, Jonathan
longer days of March produce Creek and Anderson Creek all
more sunshine to warm the sur- produce spring crappie on
face of Kentucky reservoirs Kentucky Lake. A neon lime
and ~ignal the crappie to move green curly tailed grub cast into
toward the shallows, build a brush produces strikes from
nest and reproduce. Go now for crappie in March. A small
springtime crappie.
red/white,
red/chartreuse,
"When the water tempera- blue/white, white, pink or chartures hit 57 degrees, crappie treuse tube jig worked in cover
move shallow to spawn," said also works. If you don't get
Paul Rister, western fishery · bites shallow, move to the frrst
district biologist for the drop off or creek channel near
Kentucky Department of Fish the shallow brush, stake beds
and
Wildlife
Resources or weed beds. Work the deeper
(KDFWR).
water with tubes, live minnows
Rister oversees Kentucky or small spinners ..
Lake , Kentucky's premier
Lake Barldey also offers good
crappie lake. "With the last few crappie fishing in March. The
mild winters we've had, we are lake now possesses burgeoning
now seeing the crappie spawn numbers of fish just under 10in mid-March," he explained. inches which should make for
"The spawning time for crap- good fishing over the next couple
pie depends on what kind of of years. Lake Barkley isn't as
winter we've had and what deep as Kentucky Lake and may
kind of spring we are having."
warm earlier.
The droughts of the late
The same lures and tech1980s and early 1990s changed niques that produce crappie on
the crappie population on Kentucky Lake will work on
Kentucky Lake. Black crappie Lake Barkley. Live minnows
now outnumber white crappie drifted in shallow brush out
because black crappie prefer fish just about any technique in
the clear water caused by the March on this huge reservoir.
droughts .
Moving eastward, central
"Black crappie also tend to Kentucky should offer excelcome shallow earlier than lent spring crappie fishing on
white crappie do," Rister said, Nolin River Lake this year. The
"often in mid-March ahead of lake possesses large numbers
of papermouths between 8 and
10 inches with a few trophy
fish in the population. Look for
standing timber, stump beds
and trees laying in the water
along the shore to dunk minnows. Conoloway Creek is the
top embayment for crappie on
this reservoir.
Also in central Kentucky,
Taylorsville Lake offers good
spring crappie fishing. The
standing timber in the Beech
Creek and Ashes Creek arms
and the upper lake hold spring
crappie. Small blue/white,
chartreuse/red, chartreuse with
green sparkle flakes and white
tube jigs wo~:ked in the st).nd- •
ing timber works well on
Taylorsville. Neon lime green
curly tailed grubs also produce.
In
eastern
Kentucky,
Buckhorn Lake is an excellent
crappie lake during March and
April. The winter drawdown
confines crappie to the river
channel in the upper portion of
the lake. Try tube jigs, small
spinners and live· minnows
around stumps or other woody
structure in water 10 feet deep
or less in the old river channel.
There may be a noticeable current in the upper portion of the
lake and crappie congregate in
eddies and inside turns of the
old river channel. There are
good numbers of crappies of all
sizes in Buckhorn Lake.
Spawning run makes for
coveted shallow crappie fishing
by STEVE VANTREESE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PADUCAH - It's not the
only time and perhaps not even
always the best time, but this
month is certainly the favorite
time of most Kentucky anglers
to fish for crappie.
The crappie isn't a great
fighter, yet it is a highly regarded species because of its potential to yield numbers of fish and
its superior food value. And
early to mid-April typically represents the glory days for many
crappie anglers because that's
usually when the fish move shallow and shoreward to spawn.
Technology and technique
developments allow many more
fishermen to pursue crappie offshore in deeper water, but most
anglers enjoy finding crappie
along the banks of lakes and
rivers around wood cover or
other habitat when they slither in
for annual reproductive chores.
There are two species of
crappie in various mixes in
many Kentucky waters. Of
these, black crappie tend to
spawn earlier, nesting mostly in
water temperatures of 56 to 64
degrees, say fisheries biologists.
White crappie spawn more in a
range of 60 to 68 degrees.
Tell them apart? White crappie tend to be marked with vertical bars and have a bit more elongation of their head slope. Black
crappie are more randomly dot-
ted with black spots, and they've
got a more rounded "nose." More
scientifically, the white crappie
has six or fewer pointed spines at
the front of its dorsal (top) fin,
while the black crappie has seven
or more spines.
The male crappie move
shallow first, staking out nesting territories, often around
brush or other wood cover.
Females follow, and they're
greeted and ushered to males'
chosen sites.
Females lay eggs that are
fertilized by the males, and the
female crappie drift back deeper. Males remain to guard the
eggs. They hatch into "fry" in
fhree to five days, and males
linger two or three more days
to guard those before leaving
the clouds of tiny offspring on
their own.
Female crappie may come
to the shallowest water three or
four times to spawn with different males.
It's while the crappie are in the
shallow spawning areas - only a
foot or two deep in murky waters
or perhaps six or eight feet or
more in clearer bodies of water that fishermen prefer to make
contact. In places with visible
cover, anglers catch spawning
crappie around flooded bushes,
brush piles, fallen trees, stumps
and manmade stake beds.
There are a few tactical
options available to crappie fishermen, perhaps the oldest being
bait fishing with a simple pole,
suspending a live minnow
hooked a few inches under a bobber. This basic still catches crappie, although it tends to be most
effective where water is murlcy.
Vertical jigging with a long,
delicate rod and a small, light
jig dressed with soft plastic, hair
or feather is another favorite
"dipping" technique. Simply
lowering the minnow-like artificial into holes in cover or beside
objects produces bites from
spawning crappie.
Some anglers, especially on
clearer waters, may prefer casting jigs on light line with spinning or spincast tackle. Wmding
in a light jig with a slow, steady
retrieve presents it to feeding or
nest-guarding fish without looming over and spooking crappie.
Increasing numbers of
anglers boost their odds in a
shotgun effect by slow trolling
with multiple rods. A method
with a growing following of
fishermen is "flat line trolling"
or "pullin "' in which as many
as a dozen rods, each with up to
50 feet of line played out, are
used to drag jigs to the sides
and behind a boat under power
of an electric motor.
Light jigs and just modest
trolling speeds allow trollers to
keep lures off the bottom in as
little as two feet of water to
appeal to scattered spawning
fish while keeping the boat and
anglers out of sight of the fish.
Ashlie Qoble, a University of Florida senior, who has family living here in Floyd County, is wrapping up her collegiate softball playing career. This past week, Florida hosted Ashlie Goble Day
when the Alabama Crimson Tide visited.
•
Kentucky/Barkley Lake to host
Wal-Mart BFL LBL Division
Bombardier will award $1 ,000
to the winning boater if the winCADIZ- The LBL Division ner's boat is equipped with a
of the $8.4 million Wal-Mart qualifying Evmrudc Direct
Bass Fishing League will visit Injection outboard. That's a
Kentucky/Barkley Lake near potential top award of $8,500
Cadiz April 9 for the second of for anglers who meet continfive regular-season events. As gency guidelines.
The winning co-angler will
many as 200 boaters and 200
co-anglers are expected to com- earn as much as $2 ,7 50 cash.
pete in the tournament, which The angler who catches the
will award as much as $39,000 biggest bass of the day in the
in cash, including as much as Boater Division will earn as
$5,500 to the Boater Division much as $1 ,000, and the cowinner.
angler big-bass wimier will earn
Lake Barkley State Resort as much as $500.
Park in Cadiz will host the takeThe top 40 boaters and cooff and weigh-in at 6 a.m. and 2 anglers in each of the BFL's 28
p.m., respectively. Anglers will divisions at the end of the seacompete for prize money as well son are eligible to advance to
as points that count toward post- regional competition. Seven
season competition. Every $110,000 regional champiangler who receives weight onships will each send six
credit in a tournament earns boaters and six co-anglers to the
points, with 200 points going to 2006 All-American champithe winner, 199 for second, 198 onship, which will feature a $1
for third, and so on except for million purse and a top award as
the · season-ending
Super high as $140,000. Anglers who
Tournaments, which award 300 compete in all five regular-seapoints to the winner, 299 points son events within a division but
for second, 298 for third, and so do not advance to regional comon.
petition are eligible to compete
If the winner is a participant in the Wild Card, wh1ch will
in the Ranger Cup incentive also send six boaters and six coprogram, he will receive a anglers to the All-American for
$1,000 bonus from Ranger a championship field of 48
Boats and $500 from Yamaha if boaters and 48 co-anglers.
his boat is powered by Yamaha.
The top 40 LBL Division
(Ranger will award $500 to the boaters and co-anglers will
highest-finishing Ranger Cup advance to the Lake Cherokee
participant if not the winner, and Regional near Morristown,
Yamaha will kick in $250 if the Tenn., Oct. 4-8 and will comboat is powered by Yamaha.) If pete against anglers from the
the winning boater uses only Buckeye, Illini and Piedmont
Garmin electronics during the divisions for an All-American
event and at least one product is slot. The top 40 anglers from
a qualifying unit, Garmin will each division may also advance
also award a $1,000 bonus. to the EverStart Series in 2006.
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
FOODC
LBL Division anglers will
next visit Kentucky/Barkley
Lake in Kuttawa May 7 for their
third regular-season event, followed by another event on
Kentucky/Barkley Lake in
Hardin June 25. A two-day
Super Tournament, the division's fifth and final event, will
be held on Kentucky/Barkley
Lake in Kuttawa Sept. 24-25.
For more information or to enter
a tournament, call 270/2521000 or go
online to
FLWOutdoors.com.
If the April 9 tournament is
not yet full, entries will be - \
accepted at tournament registration, which will be held April 8
from 4 to 7 p.m. at Lake Barkley
State Resort Park located on
State Park Road in Cadiz. Entry
fees are $200 for boaters and
$100 for co-anglers.
In BFL competition, boaters
supply the boat and compete
from the front deck against
other boaters. Co-anglers compete from the back deck against
other co-anglers.
As the nation's leading
provider of affordable, close-tohome weekend tournaments, the
BFL is widely credited with
opening competitive bass fishing
to the masses. It also serves as a
steppingstone for anglers who
wish to advance to the EverStart
Series and ultimately the WalMart FLWTour- bass fishing's
most lucrative tournament
series. Former BFL anglers who
have become fishing superstars
on the Wal-Mart FLW Tour
include Kellogg's pro Clark
Wendlandt, Ranger pro Tommy
Biffle and four-time FLW Tour
champion David Fritts.
500
photos courtesy
of Bristol Motor
Speedway
NASCAA
Nextel Cup
drivers got
in some
wdrk and
practice
Friday
~
morning.
Today,
BriS101
Motor
Speedway
will host
the Food
City 500.
The race
has a start
time of 1
p.m. Earlier
this week,
select fans
were also
able to
meet and \•
talk with
drivers.
�SUNDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
3 , 2005 • 85
Outbreak of bacterial infection
111en changing plans
i.h as h
•
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
• LEXINGTON
As trainers
:prepare for the Kentucky Derby,
~most choose to ship their horses
• to tracks in the Bluegrass State
:in mid-to-late April, either just
:before or after key Derby prep
;races.
: But with the Derby only five
:weeks away, an outbreak of a
; highly contagious bacterial
:infection- which within the last
~ month has been diagnosed in
~horses at training facilities in
Florida and Kentucky - has
t caused some horsemen to
.,: rethink their plans.
. Keeneland Race Course
.opens its spring meet April 8,
and horsemen packed a track
meeting room Thursday to learn
what precautions state and track
officials are taking to prevent
the spread of the disease.
Known as strangles, the infection is most commonly found on
farms and only rarely at race
tracks or training facilities. No
cases have been reported at
Keene land.
"It's a little bit scary," said
Neil McLaughlin, an assistant
trainer who attended the meeting. "If I have 30 horses in my
barn and I get one infected, and
you have 20 babies that you're
supposed to send me next
month, you might send them
elsewhere, because you don't
want to send them into an infected barn. The next thing you
know, six months down the
road, I'm out of business."
Horses with strangles usually
have a rapid onset of fever, followed by swelling and abscess
formation in their lymph nodes,
which narrows the horse's airway passages. It is seldom fatal
but can sideline a horse for several weeks.
Strangles is
commonly
spread when susceptible horses
come into direct contact with
pus br mucus from a sick animal, or through contact with
contaminated water or tack
materials or with a person who
has come into contact with an
infected horse. It is not spread
through the air.
The most recent outbreak of
strangles has been at the Palm
Meadows Training Center in
Boynton Beach, Fla. The center's general manager, Gary Van
Den Broek, said Thursday that
five horses trained by Dale
Romans were diagnosed with
strangles on March 23.
The facility has placed those
horses and 36 others that might
have been exposed on a strict quarantine, Van Den Broek said. Fiftyone other horses in nearby barns
are under restrictions, he said, in an
effort to contain the outbreak.
The measures are similar to
those taken at the Churchill
Downs-operated
Trackside
training facility in Louisville,
where portions of two barns
were placed under quarantine
March 11 after a suspected case
of strangles was identified the
previous day. Of the 49 horses
tested in connection with that
suspected case, 24 have been
cleared. Seven have tested positive on the most recent test and
the others have results pending
or must undergo further testing,
Churchill Downs spokesman
John Asher said.
"The situation at Trackside is
well under control," said Rob
Holland, an infectious disease
veterinarian who is working
with state agriculture department officials to monitor the
outbreak.
After the outbreak in Florida,
several high-profile trainers,
including Bobby Frankel, Nick
Zito, Todd Pletcher and Kiaran
McLaughlin, shipped some of
their horses to either Keeneland
or Churchill Downs, where the
Derby is run.
Neil McLaughlin,
who
assists his brother Kiaran,
attended the meeting
at
Keeneland and said the early
movement of horses
to
Kentucky was precautionary.
"A lot of people were worried about there being restrictions on transporting horses, so
maybe there was a little more
urgency to get your horses out,"
Neil McLaughlin said. "It came
more from the owners than the
horsemen themselves. A lot of
owners were requesting that
their horses be moved from
Palm Meadows ."
In fact, two racing organizations have placed temporary travel restrictions on horses coming
from Palm Meadows and nearby
Gulfstream Park, which operates
the training facility. Those organizations are Churchill Downs
and the New York Racing
Association , which operates
Belmont Park and Aqueduct race
tracks in that state.
NYRA also has placed restrictions on horses coming from
some other Florida facilities.
Asher said Churchill Downs'
ban on accepting such horses is
"a day-to-day situation" and that
track officials "want to get a handle" on how the Palm Meadows
outbreak is being handled before
lifting the restrictions.
Keeneland's director of racing, Rogers Beasley, said the
Lexington track is requiring all
incoming horses to have a veterinary inspection certificate,
signed within two days prior to
their arrival. That certificate
must state that the horse has not
come from a barn or premises
under quarantine for strangles,
been exposed to the disease or
shown signs of the disease within the previous three weeks.
"It's such a highly contagious
disease; you've got to stop it
where it is," Van Den Broek said.
Where the outbreak started,
no one seems to know. Churchill
Downs had cases of strangles
surface in December among
horses trained by Romans, and
horses regularly ship between
Kentucky and Florida.
Kentucky State Veterinarian
Robert Stout said Thursday that
"we don't know if we will ever
determine" the source of the
outbreak, but that agriculture
department
officials
in
Kentucky and Florida talk daily
about their efforts to control it.
That is critical, Van Den
Broek said, if only for one reason.
"You don't want the best
horse not get to the race," he
said, "because of one person's
negligence."
. Reds need to stay Freel valuable in role
healthy to contend he'd rather relinquish
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla. - Tears
.., welled in Sean Casey's eyes as
he bear-hugged teammates,
sharing the sting of losing a onegame playoff for the National
League wild card in 1999.
One thought consoled him
lthat dreary day:
These
Cincinnati Reds surely would
be back in the playoffs, soon
· and often.
"You think, 'Yeah, we'll do
this every year, no doubt,"'
· Casey said. "You think, 'We'll
~ be back next year, no big deal.
We 'II have five of these."'
He was wrong. Six years
"later, they're still stuck on zero.
Since
that
bittersweet
moment in the Cinergy Field
• clubhouse, the Reds have moved
• into a new ballpark and fallen
l off baseball's map. They've
gone four straight seasons without so much as a winning record,
their longest streak since 1945. 55, when Pete Rose the school
kid was dreaming of becoming
Pete Rose the hits king.
It's a long time, and it's
starting to get to the Reds, who
.have become masters of the
painful season instead of the
postseason.
"Personally things have been
. good, but in this part of my
career I just want to be on a winner," said Casey, who turned 30
last July. "And I think we have
the team to do that. Hopefully it
translates this year, that we can
keep that lineup healthy and see
where it goes."
These Reds never wander
far from the trainer's room, the
main reason they can't go anywhere but home come October.
It's been the theme of their
four-year slump: No health, no
pitching, no playoffs.
This time around, they've
done something about the
pitching. All they can do about
:the rest is hope.
"That's the key for us every
year," said Adam Dunn, who
became only the second Reds
player to drive in 100 runs, score
100 and walk 100 times last season. "That's why this year. I'm
not talking about health at all.
We've been talking about staying healthy and it hasn't worked,
so I'm trying something new."
When the lineup has that
healthy glow, it's good enough
to get them where they want to
go. A lineup anchored by
Casey, Dunn, Ken Griffey Jr.
and Austin Kearns can hold its
own in the NL Central - until
the injuries hit and a weak
bench has to take over.
Last year, the Reds gave
their fans a glimpse of what
they can be. They were in first
place on June 10 and only 3 1/2
games out on June 30, before
injuries decimated the lineup
and set them on course for a
76-86 finish.
Everyone is back this spring
and thinking the same thought:
What if they can avoid the tom
hamstrings and broken bones?
"I look at the lineup everyday and think how lucky I am
going to be having that lineup
behind me," said left-handed
starter Eric Milton, who signed
in the offseason. "It's going to
be some lineup. Add a little bit
of pitching to it, and we can do
something pretty good."
The Reds spent some money
and fixed what they could in the
offseason. Mainly, that meant
doing something about a pitching staff that was by most measures the worst in the history of
baseball's oldest franchise.
The staff set team records in
just about every ignominious
category - earned run average
(5.19), runs allowed (907) and
homers served up (236). It came
within three homers of matching the NL record held by the
Colorado Rockies, who at least
can use thin air as an excuse.
The Reds brought back
right-hander Paul Wilson, who
could have left as a free agent,
and added right-hander Ramon
Ortiz and Milton, who gave up
an NL-leading 43 homers last
season and will be pitching in a
homer-friendly ballpark in
Cincinnati. Still, it was an
improvement.
For the bullpen, the Reds got
left-bander 'Kent Mercker and
right-banders David Weathers
and Ben Weber to bridge the
gap to closer Danny Graves,
who saved 41 games in 50
chances last season.
As a whole, the bullpen
blew 30 of 77 save opportunities last season. It ought to be
much better.
"It's a little more comforting
to know, especially for our
starters, that we have the experience down there," Graves
said. "These are guys who have
done it in the big leagues, who
have won in the big leagues."
If the pitching holds up and
the lineup stays healthy, the
Reds could finish with their
first winning record since
2000, when they won 85
games. The main concern is
that their retooled roster wears
down at midseason .
The bullpen features four
players who are over 30 Mercker (37), Weathers (35),
Weber (35) and Graves (31). The
everyday lineup also has a few
miles on it - third baseman Joe
Randa (35), Griffey (35), shortstop Rich Aurilia (33), catcher
Jason LaRue (31) and Casey (30).
Griffey is coming off
surgery last August to reattach
a torn hamstring to the bone, so
the Reds will hold their breath
every time he runs down a fly
ball. He was having a renaissance season, hitting career
homer No. 500 before he got
hurt. No one knows how much
he has left.
Again, it comes down to the
one thing they can't control.
"Stay healthy," Graves said.
Garcia honored on
~ ooden AII·America Team
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LOUlSVILLE - University
of Louisvtlle forward Francisco
Garcia has been honored on the
John R . Wooden All-America
Team recognizing the nation's
top ten collegiat players.
A special player who rn 1ke ~
everyone un the flo<.r
.er
Garcia is averagir .
'6 '
poim:-, .+.2 rcbou 1,llo . ~1-s t~' ~
and 1.7 ~teals. He has steppe<.!
. ;up hi~ production iu the NCAA.
Toumaml.:nt, ,tveraging 21
pmnts, ~3 a•;sists and 2.3
blocked shots in four games.
The recognition is his second
of the year, also being honort:d
on the NABC All America second temn. He was named the
U.S
Basketball
Writer's
A~sociati0n Lk;trict 4 Player of
the Yt.:ar and a first-team AllConference USA selection. He
was honored on the Albuquerque
Region all-regJUn team after
averaging 18 points, 5.5 assists
and shooting 59 IX'rcent from the
field in tk two games.
A duubl rtgure ~cur- r ;n 31
of 37 games th1s sca•;on and in
73 for his career, Garcia has
scored over 20 on nine occasions this year including three
of four NCAA Tournament
games. He has hit 53 of his last
55 free throws over his last 13
games and has handed out at
least four assists in 23 of 37
games this season.
Garcia is currently 24th in
career scoring at U of L with
1.409 points, ranks eighth in
career blocked shots at U of L
with 133 rejections, and is
fourth in career three-point
goals at U of L (180).
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla. - Ryan
Freel fell into his role.
Moved to the outfield for the first
time in Class A ball,
the speedy infielder
made a sensational
diving catch that
tutil.ed 'heads. The
next day, he made
another.
He had no idea it
was a preview of
Ryan
how he'd make it to
the major leagues.
Freel, 29, emerged last season as one of the major leagues'
most versatile players, handling
five positions for the Cincinnati
Reds. He led the team in steals,
triples, infield hits and a number
of other categories, becoming a
fan favorite in the process.
He also became the first
major leaguer to start at least 10
games at five positions since
Tony Phillips did it for the
Tigers in 1992, underscoring
how difficult it is to move
around and still be sound.
He inadvertently started
carving his role during his third
season in the minors, when his
manager at Dunedin ran into a
problem.
"Something happened with
our center fielder that day and
we had nobody to play there,"
said Freel, who had played second base and a few games at
shortstop. "They were like,
'Let's see what he can do out
there."'
It n.nned into his first taste ofwhat
it's like to become a utility player.
"I made a diving catch on the
warning track, then made a diving catch the next day and started going back and
forth," he said.
He fmally made it
to the majors in
2001, his seventh
year in pro ball. Freel
played in' nine games
for Toronto at the
start of that season,
then got sent back to
Triple-A. The ~eds
Freel
signed him as a free
agent after the 2002
season.
Freel got four stints with the
Reds in 2003, hitting .285 in 43
games. When injuries gutted the
lineup last season, Freel
emerged, hitting .277 in 143
games while moving from position to position- third base, second, left field, center and right.
"That was another freak
thing," he said. "It was one of
those situations where I got to
·play a lot. There were a lot of
positions that needed to be filled."
He was hoping to compete
for a starting job this spring, but
wasn't fully recovered from
surgery last November to fix
tom knee cartilage. He was getting close to normal last week
when he pulled thigh muscles
while running the bases, forcing
him to take a few days off.
Freel pinch-hit Thesday night
against the Twins and drew a
walk, leaving his average at .379.
The setbacks left him
resigned to the role he fills so
well but wishes on someone
else. Teams need reliable reserve
players, but Freel would rather
not get trapped in that niche.
"It's hard as a utility player," he
said. "I could definitely contribute
if I played everyday, but at this
time in the season I'm not going to
be playing as much. We'll see. It's
kind of hard to set those expectations And goals when you're sittillg on the bench."
Freel got so much playing time
last season because of injuries and
the lack of a dependable third
baseman. The Reds signed Joe
Randa in the offseason, shoring
up the position that Freel played
most often - he started 51 games
there last season.
Outfielders Ken Griffey Jr.
and Austin Keams have recovered from injuries that limited
them to half of a season, and
Wily Mo Pena is the primary
backup in the outfield.
As long as everyone is
healthy, Freel wai have limited
chances.
"I can still come off the
bench, pinch-run and play
defense here and there," Freel
said. "We'll see."
Reds fans look a liking to
Freel, who runs hard on every
hit and dives for balls without
hesitation , even if it means taking on the outfield wall .
"The fans have been just
tremendous,'' Freel said. "They
say, 'You remind me of Pete
Rose' and this and that. They
know how the game is supposed
to be played. It doesn't take talent to run everything out or to
play your heart out."
Pirates 6, Reds 4
By JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla. - Righthander Josh Hancock strained
his groin and had to leave
Cincinnati's 6-4 loss to the
Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday,
forcing the Reds to reconsider
their bullpen plans.
Hancock was in line to make
the 12-man staff before injuries
ruined his spring. He had a sore
hip early in camp, and hadn't
pitched since March 19 because
of a strained groin.
He aggravated the groin on a
second-inning pitch to Matt Lawton
and immediately left the game,
making him a candidate for the disabled list mther than the bullpen.
"It's something that's been
bothering him for a period of
time," trainer Mark Mann said.
"We're going to be very cautious in the corning days."
Before Hancock's setback, the
Reds had 13 healthy pitchers in
camp, with Joe Valentine and Matt
Belisle competing for the final
bullpen spot. Both could make the
team now, although general manager Dan O'Brien said no decision
would be made on Thursday.
Ken Griffey Jr. had an RBI single off Pittsburgh's Rick White,
completing a successful camp. He
wasn't fully recovered from a tom
hamstring when camp opened,
and was limited to designated hitter duties when the games began.
Griffey has felt no problem
with the hamstring while slowly
increasing his innings. He
played the entire game in center
field on Thursday and went 1for-4, leaving him with a .279
average but no homers .
Pirates starter Kip Wells gave
up four walks but only one hit in
five innings. Wells, who lines up
second in Pittsburgh's rotation,
had struggled this spring.
Wells' health was the main
concern when camp opened.
Elbow and circulation problems
last season limited him to one
start after Aug. 15 and interfered
with his offseason workouts.
Wells was pleased with his
final start. He didn't give up a
hit until Luis Lopez singled with
one out in the fifth.
"Someone along the baseline
yelled, 'You've got a no-hitter
going,' and on the next pitch, the
batter got a hit," Wells said.
The Pirates won it with three
runs in the ninth, when both
teams were finishing the game
with minor leaguers.
Notes: Pirates OF Jason Bay
played his second game since
missing three weeks with a
bruised left wrist. Bay had an
infield single and a walk in four
plate appearances .... Reds LH
Eric Milton will remain in
Sarasota and pitch in a Triple-A
game on Saturday while the rest of
the team plays an exhibition
against Toronto in Memphis. Rain
is forecast for Tennessee, and the
Reds want to be sure Milton gets
to throw.... The Reds drew 87 ;292
fans at Sarasota this spring, the
highest attendance in their eight
years there. They drew 82,838 in
one fewer game in 2000, Qriffey's
first season witl1 the Reds.
�unday,April3, 2005
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MOVIES FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
This Town,
That World
'Evilspeak'
by TOM DOTY
Editor's Note: For years, Floyd
County Times founder and former
publisher Norman Allen wrote a week·
ly column that looked at Floyd County
through his eyes. His columns are
being reprinted due to request.
S TAFF WRITER
First, it was the atom bomb,
next the hydrogen, and now scientists threaten us with instant
whiskey. One of our acquaintances remarked that instant, is too
slow for him.
MEANDCAL
T h i s
week the
editor of
this newspaper has
indited
another
editorial on
unemployment and
o t h e r
Norman Allen
aspects of
the eastern
Kentucky situation. And he now
wonders why he did. He wonders
what effect, what good, what anything editorials or other comment
on a situation such as this have or
do.
Muling such matters, one gets
himself mentally into much the
same condition of a pup chasing
his tail. You wind up exhausted,
deciding you can't do anything
about it, and saying, "Aw, what's
the use? It's there, it will be there
the next time I look, and, besides,
if I catch it, I can't do much with
it."
So much of the comment we
read and hear, including mine, has
all the shocking originality of
Calvin Coolidge's when he gave
forth with this sage observation:
"When more and more people
are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
MAJORITY OPINION
I've always been just a mite
suspicious of those who say they
can accurately judge character by
handwriting. Now not one, but
three individuals have told me
they have a pretty good idea about
me, not by eyeing my handwriting
but by reading, in cold type, some
of the stuff I write. And I am not
going to argue with them, singly
or collectively. All three agreed I
must be just a little on the lazy
side.
ON DULLES
Well, we armchair dipolomats
who bad the international situation all solved, months ago, will
have to look for us a new whipping boy. Secretary Dulles has
been forced by the inexorable in
roads of cancer to resign.
While his successor is being
named, and while we get ready to
(See THIS TOWN, page seven)
Coffee House performance
by Zoe Speaks to be held in
Hazard, April 14
Great reviews keep appearing of the
upcoming Coffee House Performance
of Zoe Speaks. Zoe Speaks is Carla
Gover and Mitch
Barrett, a
husband/wife duo from Eastern
Kentucky. As the Louisville Courier
Journal stated , "A smile must warm the
Appalachian homeland each time Mitch
Barrett and Carla Gover share their
music and stories of the culture they
hold dear."
"Charming, moving, and very
Appalachian" is how Dirty Linen
Magazine describes the duo. And
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine says ,
"Though Carla's music is hard to
pigeonhole, it contains many of the best
elements of traditional Appalachian
music , including purity, intensity,
integrity, and vivid imagery."
Their performances, which include
original and traditional music, mountain tales and Appalachian clogging,
demonstrate the integrity and beauty of
the Appalachian culture. Their music
incorporates a variety of influences, but
the Appalachian sounds of their childhoods provide a touchstone to which
they return many times in both the crafting of their songs and the interpretation
of traditional music in their performances. Mitch performs on guitar and a
lap dulcimer which he made himself.
His voice would set him apart even if he
couldn't write world class songs. Carla
brings to the duo her straight-on, mountain voice, rhythm guitar, clawharnmer
banjo and dancing feet.
The show is being brought to the
First Federal Center by the Greater
Hazard Area Performing Arts Series on
Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. Admission
is $10 for adults, $5 for students (ages 6
to 18) and kids under age five are
admitted free.
Mitch and Carla are full-time performers who tour in select regions
nationally, and have graced the stages
of hundreds of schools, festivals and
arts centers. Their original songs from
the core of each performance, and traditional stories, songs, and dances liven
up the set. The show materials includes
introspective to humorous to energetic
and appeals to all ages.
Series grand benefactors are:
Citizens Bank and Trust Company in
Jackson, Hazard Clinic/Jackson Clinic,
Kiwanis Club of Hazard and Perry
Distributors Inc.
Event sponsors are: Dr. and Mrs. Jay
K. Box, Appalachian Regional
Healthcare and Hazard Rotary Club.
Partial funding has been provided by
Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency
in the Commerce Cabinet, with support
from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
For more information. call Tammy
Duff 487-3067 or Sandy Campbell4873070 or 800-246-7521 exts. 73067 or
73070.
DVD continues to mine older films
for new releases and this one is a winner. This film was heavily cut for }ts
limited theatrical release in America
but this restored version retains all of
the gross out special effects that were
included in the print that was exhibited internationally.
The story follows a sad sack
student with the ·
unfortunate handle of Stanley
Coopersmith at
an exclusive military school. The
boy has been
recently orphaned
and was depositTom DOIV
ed at the school
Stan
Writer
when a new directive forced the
institution to accept several students
who qualify for government assistance. This irks the staff at the exclusive institution to no end and they all
feel free to take out their frustrations
on Coopersmith. The other students
are no bargain either and mercilessly
torture Stanley like he spit on their
salami .
Coopersmith is punished for blowing an important soccer match and has
to clean out the basement of the
school's rectory. There he finds a
crypt of artifacts that were gathered
by a 16th century satanist named
Esteban.
Turns out Esteban was exiled from
Spain for professing that the world is
so full of evil that it must be a reflection of the true nature of man. This
leads Esteban to write a tome detailing how one can summon demons to
do Satan's work. It doesn't take much
of a push to get Stanley over to the
dark side and start deciphering the
book's spells on the school's computer.
The day of the big game just happens to coincide with Stanley's satanic coming out ritual and results in one
of the most graphic fi nales ever
filmed . This is definitely a male version of "Carrie" with a smaller budget
that it compensates for with a game
cast and some truly ghoulish imagery.
What makes this work is a great
sense of mayhem in which anything
can happen. This is best illustrated by
a sequence in which a pampered secretary steals Stanley's book of spells
because it is adorned with antique
jewels. Taking the book however
upsets Esteban , who gets it back by
sending a herd of satanic hogs to the
woman's house.
This is a 1980s horror movie so
there is also an obligatory shower
scene. but it gets downright surreal
when the hogs of hell attack and treat
the bathtub like a trough full of truffles. Suffice to say its one of the best
"woman gets eaten by satanic swine"
scenes ever filmed.
Stanley's final revenge is also
(See LAGOON , page seven)
I dare you!
by APRIL KEMP
"CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE COLLEGE SOUL"
On the first day of my second year at
California State University at Sacramento , I saw
the most gorgeous guy! He was standing alone in
line at the cafeteria and looked out of place.
Turning to my friends, I said, "I have to meet
him!"
Challenging my spontaneity, my friend s
reached into their purses and came up with
money for a bet. They then dared me to run up to
him , pretend that I knew him and convince him
that he knew me . Smiling, I turned.and was off to
meet the c utie pie.
"Dan, Dan!" I yelled as I ran up to him. "How
are you? How's your mom?" He j ust stood there
looking at me . I could tell that he was shy. I liked
him immediately.
"I'm not Dan," he said, looking a little confused.
"Sure you are!" I countered. "You lived in
Sierra Hall last year, third floor! You were Bob's
roommate ."
" No , I lived off campus last year," this weet
man replied , still not getting it. I turned and started to leave, and he began asking me a series of
questions: "Do I know you from my mom's allergy clinic?" (I hate shots.) "Were you in the parrot
class J took last summer?" (I like birds only
slightly more than shots.) "Do you cat at Taco
Bell? I work there ." (Never.)
'"Well ," he said , "1 know I'm not Dan, and I
didn 't live in Sierra Hall." He reached out hi s
"I was hoping you would come. I've been
hand to mine. "My name is Tim, and I'm pleased
to meet you anyway."
waiting for you .'' 1 sat down next to
He invited me to his fraternity
him, and we started talking. We
party that night. I composed myself
talked all that night - and for the
and informed him that I did not go
next three nights - until dawn.
Four months later, he asked me
to fraternity parties . But as I
watched him walk away, I had secto marry him. Four years later,
we tied the knot. This year, we
ond thoughts. That afternoon, 1 \
celebrated the 15th anniversary
took the money that l'd won from
the bet and bought a black ~~
of the d we met.
minisk~rt. I wa going to my first
10f the
111~:. '1ts when we are
fratermty party.
·· . / /
snug1.
l..
'r, I'm reminded
When I arrived there , I was a little
~
that I tot'' iw,: :;v •' n .. t:e on a dare.
nervous. Would he be there? When I
Now and then, my husband asks, "Am
got to the front steps of the frat house, 1 looked up I Dan or Tim tonight?" Having a special place in
and saw Tim sitting at the top. He looked at me my heart tor both of them, l always laugh and
r~ply. "You decide !"
and smiled.
oup
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�SUNDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
3, 2005 • 87
Jim 1)avidson
The chicken was delicious
•
Laughter is good medicine. If
you have not had a dose in a
while, it's high time you did.
Here is what George Bernard
Shaw, the Irish playwright and
philosopher, had to say about
laughter. ~He said,
"Laughter is that
older and greater
church to which I
belong: the church
where the oftener
you laugh the better, because by
laughter only can
you destroy evil
without
malice,
and affirm good
fellowship without
mawkishness." As
a quick aside, the word "mawkishness" is one that I was not
familiar with and had never used
before. It means, "characterized
by false or feeble sentimentality:
sickening or insipid." Well, so
much for that.
For the past several days I
have been chuckling about a
story I heard a while back and I
thought you might enjoy it as
well. It seems a man and his wife
had four· sons and their ages were
fairly
close
together. It was
a real struggle,
but somehow
this man and his
wife were able
to send all four
boys to college
and they got a
good education.
In time they all
prospered and
became doctors
and lawyers and
each became quite wealthy. After
many years had passed, the old
man passed away and the elderly
mother was left alone. Knowing
this situation, each of the successful sons decided to do something special for her.
Some time later they chatted
after having dinner together.
They discussed the gifts they
were able to give their elderly
mother who lived far away in
another city. The fust said, "I
had a big house built for mama."
The second said, "I had a hundred thousand dollar theater
build in the house." The third
said, "I had my Mercedes dealer
deliver her an SL600." The
fourth said, "Listen to this. You
know how marna loved reading
the Bible and you know she
can't read it anymore because
she can't see very well. I met
this priest who told me about a
parrot that can recite the entire
Bible. It took twenty priests 12
years to teach him. I had to
pledge to contribute $100,000 a
year for twenty years to the
church, but it was worth it.
Mama just names the chapter
and verse and the parrot will
recite it."
The other brothers were
impressed. In a few weeks after
receiving the gifts, Mom sent out
her Thank You notes. To the ftrst
son she wrote, "Sam, the house
you built is huge. I live in only
one room, but I have to clean the
whole house. Thanks anyway."
To the second she wrote, "Bill,
you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound. It could
hold 50 people, but all my
friends are dead. I've lost my
hearing and I'm nearly blind. I'll
never use it. Thank you for the
gesture just the same."
To the third she wrote,
"Frank, I am too old to travel. I
stay home and have my groceries delivered, so I never use
the Mercedes. The thought was
good. Thanks!" And to the
fourth she wrote, "Dearest
Julian, you were the only son to
give a little thought to your gift.
The chicken was delicious!
Thank you." As I said earlier,
I've been chuckling about this
story for days. Hope you
enjoyed it as well. As I travel
arou11d the country making
speeches, I love to inject humor
into my talks. It helps the audience to relax and it helps me to
relax, as well. Also humor or
Iaugher helps to pass the time.
As the old saying goes, ''Time
flies when you are having fun."~
While I always want to have
a message or a serious side of
my talks, I've noticed that the
humor speakers usually get
invited back more often and they
also receive a larger fee. For
some people humor comes easy
and for others it does not. If you
do some speaking or serve as an
officer of a civic club where you
have to preside, here is a tip that
may be of value. Make yourself
the butt end of your jokes. Few
are those who are offended if
you are poking fun at yourself.
Here is an example of what I
am saying and this story has to
do with the use or unwise use of
credit cards in our society. From
all indications there are millions
of people in our nation today
who are "rnaxed out," which is
to say no more credit until they
pay some on their debt. Unless
someone has been charging
things to my credit card that I
don't know about, I believe our
credit is good. However, I'm not
so sure after something that happened the other day. Viola and I
were shopping for a waterbed, as
she needs the heat because of her
Parkinson's. and we picked out
one that we thought she would
be happy with.
After a few minutes the salesman said, "On this particular
model you pay $50 down and
then you don't pay any more for
6 months." Viola looked at him
kind of funny and said. "Who
told you about us?" The best
kind of humor is when you are
poking fun at yourself or your
wife, (by previous agreement
only) and everyone leaves With
an upbeat, positive feeling
because they have enjoyed
themselves and had a good time.
Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated
columnist. You may contact him
at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR
72034.
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Learning Differences/
Dyslexia and Yo~r Child:
Q&A
Wandering around ..
the wireless wonder::
I
Q:
What are the characteristics of a child with a learning difference/dyslexia?
A:
Primarily, the child has
difficulty learning to read.
He/she may also have difficulty with spelling, writing
and/or reading comprehension.
Q:
Does having a learning
difference/dyslexia mean a
child is not intelligent?
A:
No. Children with a
have average or higher intelligence.
Q:
Is it the parent's fault
that a child with a learning
difference/dyslexia has trouble reading?
A:
Yes. Research published by the National
Reading Panel in 2000 shows
that a child with a learning
difference/dyslexia needs an
explicit, systematic, multisensory phonics approach to
reading instruction.
A:
No. Children with a
learning difference/dyslexia
process information differently. It is not the fault of
the parent.
Q:
Can a child with a
learning difference/dyslexia
learn to read?
For more information about
learning differences/dyslexia
and available tutoring programs, or to schedule a
screening for !.'our child call
the Hindman Settlement
School's James Still Learning
Center at 606-785-4044.
learning difference/dyslexia
~
• Continued from p6
Stark stayed with acting and can
now be seen on ''That 70s Show" as
the folliclely challenged neighbor.
The role of Esteban is essayed by
Richard Moll who played Bull, the
wacky bailiff, on the hit sitcom
"Night Court."
All in all, this one shapes up as a
decidedly gory version of "Carrie"
with the only complaint being that
Coopersmith takes a little while to
blow his top, though its worth the
wait if you can stick it out.
Best line: "I take it we can rule
out extraterrestrial interference."
1982, unrated.
Trivia Contest Update
Before we present our winner for
last month'~ contest, it's time to
make a pitch for this month's movie
trivia contest.
Baseball season starts this week
so in honor of the "boys of summer," this month's prize will be a
copy of the DVD of that baseball
classic "The Pride of the Yankees."
Simply go to www.floydcountyimes.corn and answer the following
question to be entered: What famous
Yankee slugger plays himself in the
ftlrn?
The winner will be announced in
our May 1 column and will be chosen at random from all correct
entries. Deadline to enter is
Thursday, April 28, at 4 p.m.
And now for our winner. All in
all we had 29 correct entries who
remembered that the giant mutated
insects in the ftlrn "Them" were
ants. The winner of one DVD of
another nature strikes back ftlm,
1972's "Frogs," is Patty Lynn
Hopkins, of Minnie.
A special shout out also goes to
contestant Pennie Wiley of
Prestonsburg, who pointed out that
the ftlrn's star, James Whitmore,
now hawks Miracle Gro which does
for plants what this film did for
ants.
Other correct answers were submitted by Tonya Miller, of
Richmond; David Fugate, of
Confluence; Ramona Boeling,
Maggie Kendrick, Kevin Spears,
Debbie Little, Stephanie Goble,
Crystal Sloane, Megan Goble and
Emma Lakey, of Prestonsburg;
Kathi Kulp, of zanesville; Larry
Burke, of Oklahoma City; Shauna
Brown and Agatha Sloane, of
Langley; Linda Thornsberry, of
Garrett; Stephanie Johnson, of
Minnie; Tabitha Bailey, of
Royalton; Kisha Blocker and Wendy
McClanahan, of Ivel; Kasey Elkins,
of McDowell; Bobby Hinkle, of
Dwale; Jackie Ousley, of Hippo;
Peggy Haynes, of Michigan; Rakia
Rickman, of Allen; Kimberly Akers,
of Martin; and Leslie Shepherd, of
Van Lear.
This Town
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• Continued from p6
named, and while we get ready to
draw a head on him, we can take
time to look back on Dulles and his
efforts, and try to be fair with him.
The old guy has been wrong, it's
pretty certain, many times. Maybe
"brinkmanship" has not been the
way to steer the Ship of State in
foreign waters. Maybe the adlibbed too much, played his hand
too tightly sometimes, or too
loosely at others. Perhaps he didn't
know where he was heading. And
do we?
Whether John Foster Dulles was
the greatest, the worst, or just a soso Secretary of State, this particu-
COMPUTER
GURU
Lagoon
chaotic when, armed with a mean
looking sword, he proceeds to
remove 10 pounds of ugly fat from
his tormentors by decapitating the
lot of them. The ones that he misses
are hunted down and ingested by the
same hogs that munched on the secretary, but nobody gets a hall pass
here folks.
'There is also a not-so-subtle message about bullying, but messages in
horror movies are about as welcome
as Vanilla Ice at the Grammy
Awards.
The film also benefits from an
exceptional cast that includes
more than a few actors who pop up
in everything but are hard to put a
name to. Stanley tops the list and
is portrayed by Clint Howard,
brother of Ron "Opie" Howard,
who got his start on TV's "Gentle
Ben" as a child before growing up
to be an accomplished character
actor. Armstrong ("The Wild
Bunch") is also on hand as an evil
janitor, and Lenny Montana (Luca
Brazzi in "The Godfather") shows
up briefly as the school's cook
who looks out for Stanley when he
can.
The film also marks the first
appearance of Heywood Nelson
(who found a small amount of fame
as Dwayne on ABC's "What's
Happening") and Don Stark who
scores as Stanley's chief tormentor.
usually means the item is wirelessly
enabled. The A, B, and G are the versions of wireless. In a non technkat'
It has become obvious that the con- perspective A is fast and runs at the ) ·:
venience of sharing network capability GHz range . B is the slower version that '
is at its best. We are no longer tied to runs at 2.4 GHz. G is the newest ver-'·'t
wiring up the house just so little Susie sion, which is fast and runs at 2.4 GHz '
can browse the Internet and print to the The G is mostly for networks that ar;, ·
living room printer from her room. piped and have multiple users. 802.11 b
1
Wireless technologies have become is pro~ably the most widely implement- :
readily available and at a reasonable ed wireless technology available, but G '
price to consumers.
is growing in popularity.
:
Here is a list of commonly asked
"So which one should I get?" - T ,
questions by new comwould suggest 802.11 g 1
puter users:
since it is faster than B •
"What is a Network?"
and is around the same
- The easy definition of
price. Make sure though
that all the other wireless
a Network is a process
where many different
items you buy are 802.llg
computers share media
(or whatever version you
and peripherals with each
• buy) so they will be comother, this being the
patible.
Internet, a printer, music
"Are laptops the only
etc ...
things that can connect to
"What does it mean by
wireless router/ AP?'" Wireless Network?" No, you can purchase
Simply, it is a network
Wireless PCI - cards
that involves little wires This column wilf be appear- that can be inserted into
to setup. Also, the user ing weekly to answer many your computer to gain
has freedom to move of your computing ques- wireless access; you can
around the area and not tions/problems. Just email also purchase wireless
be restricted to one cer- or call us and we will pub- game adapters to setup
tain place.
lish your questions and our your video gaming con"How could this bene- response. We will answer sole ex. PS2 or XBOX to
fit me?" - If you have your questions as quickly the network; Follow
more than one computer and precisely as possible. instructions from both the
in your h~rne "or maybe a This column wilf be written Wireless cc.rd manual and
laptop", and you would by Information Technology your computers manual
like these computers to program students at Big before installing.
share media on a net- Sandy Community and
"So when I buy a wirework. Also, if you don't Technical College that also less router/ AP, do I just
have existing network belong to the IT club. To plug up and become
cable in your home, this send us your questions, ready to go?" - No!
will prevent the backache please email us or calf:
Make sure you read the
from installing it. Hence Kathryn Miller
users manual that came
wireless.
your
wireless
kmiller0045 @stu. kctcs.edu with
"This wireless stuff (606)886-3863 Ext. 81259 router/AP. There are some
sounds great! But, are We look forward to hearing important steps that need
there any draw-backs?" from you! Have a great to be taken before sucWireless is a great alter- week!
cessfully and safely runnative to wired but you
ning your wireless netdo run into some endwork. One important step
points. As with all wireless utilities, is enabling WEP or Wireless
such as cordless phones, ham radios Encryption Protocol. This will help
etc. wireless can interfere with other keep all of your information secure.
devices, although this is hardly ever a
"What do you mean by secure?" problem. Wireless also cannot transmit As with all networks, your data is being
as fast as wired speeds. This shouldn't passed along a wire and without the
be a problem for the average home user, proper encryption people could capture
since most everything done at horne that data and use if for other purposes.
does not require that high of bandwidth. Encryption is the process of scrambling
"What is this bandwidth? Am I real- data so that only you and your destinaly going to notice a difference?" tion computer can read. If you take the
Bandwidth is the speed at which data necessary precautions, you can have a
travel. Let's use an example to help you safe running network. I can't stress
understand better. Imagine bandwidth enough to read your users manual
as a pipe; now imagine data as water. before starting.
You have one cup of water that you
"Would it be cheaper to buy a wireneed transferred to another cup. You less router/AP than to wire my home?"
have one pipe the circumference of a Yes, you can find wireless routers/AP's
dime, and another the circumference of at Wal-Mart for fifty to sixty dollars, in
a quarter. When you poor the cups of addition to all the accessories you would
water down the pipes, the pipe with the need at low prices. With wires you need
circumference of a quarter will allow other tools, such as wall plates, a switch,
more water to travel though without wire, crimpers, boots and ends in order
spilling; therefore it will empty the cup to get the job done right.
quicker that the one the size of a dime.
As with any computer make sure you
So, the more bandwidth you have, the use protective measures. Check to see if
faster the data travels. We could imag- your computer has installed all current
ine that wireless has the bandwidth of a updates for all software, especially your
pipe with the circumference of a dime, operating system. Make sure you have'
and a wire has that of a quarter. But a virus-scanner with all available definwhen you're only poring a tiny bit of itions and a Spyware scanner with all
water (the common household doesn't current updates. Also, make sure you
consume much bandwidth) then it real- use strong passwords that include letly wouldn't matter the size of the pipe. ters numbers and other symbols (as
"I went shopping for a Wireless your service permits). Just be cautious
router and found three types; one was of any strange activity occurring on you
labeled 802.11 A, B, and G. I'm pc; if it's something that you can't han~
Confused!" - Well, 802.11 is nothing dle, seek a professional. and then have
more that a standard that states that it is them explain the problem and tell yo1:1
wireless. Whenever you see 802.11, this how they solved it.
by SHANE MAYNARD
BSCTC IT CLUB
lar expert on foreign affairs-and
domestic, if you ask me-is here
attempting to express something of
his admiration for the man.
How many of all the millions of
persons in the United States would
have faced the dread of cancer, not
to mention the suffering all these
many months, put on a smiling
exterior for the public, and continued to work, taking the veiled,
polite insults of foreign diplomats,
and corning back for more?
And , you know, not many
healthy people, not to mention the
sick, are willing to climb aboad an
airplane and take off across moun-
tains and oceans, as a regular job.
That isn't exactly joy-riding.
Gain, lose, inch forward, fall
back-the old guy who, in
Colonial garb, would look the perfect Puritan deacon, stuck grimly
to a thankless task, till he was too
sick to go any farther. That isn't
necessarily a sign of intellectual
greatness, or any proof of superlative achievement, but it all does
stand for a great human being.
Have you seen Gardez Dingus'
sign at Martin advertising shuck
bean seed for sale? The guy actually got some calls for that particular
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and
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9599 for more info.
manufactured units.
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well as a working
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or automation sysWANTED used full tems is highly desired.
candisize pick-ups 1998 Successful
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cash call 800-789- with
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BROADBAND
TECHNICIAN I
Dept: Technical
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Location:
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Under
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cable television installations, disconnects
and service changes
for residential and
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This is an entry-level
position for this job
family. The expectation is to move into the
next level within the
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Benefits include paid
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to multi-task are preferred. Previous medical experience is
helpful. On-site training
available.
Benefits available and
pay based on experience.
Please mail
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41653 or fax to 606886-0834. Call 606886-9845 with any
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year
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Work Experience in a
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41653
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j
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benefits package and
competitive vvages. Call
or stop by a tour and
intervievv to join our
caring team.
Salyersville
Health Care
571 ParkW'ay Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
CNA's
W'e are currently hiring for open CNA
positions. W'e offer an
excellent
benefits
package and competitive w-ages. Call or
stop by for a tour and
interview- to join our
caring team!
Salyersville
Health Care
571 ParkW'ay Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.EJA.A.P.
Call
=THE PEPSI BOTTl.ING GROUP
Spring Into a New Career
FOR A GREAT JOB .
Think PEpsi Bottling Group
The Pepsi Bottling Group of Pikeville, KY has the following immediate
employment opportunity available for a Warehouse Loader in Pikeville, KY
facility.
Responsibilities: Move, stack and store variety of products/materials in the
warehouse area. Load and unload transport and route trucks as required.
Build pallets of product for loading as required , retrieve product and load truck
according to load sheet paperwork. Complete various tasks throughout the
warehouse using both forklift and manual labor.
Primary job eligibility criteria: Must be 18 years of age or older. On-job training to operate a forklift; must be capable of reaching above shoulders, squatting, kneeling, standing; must have ability to lift 40-110 lbs. Must pass
Advanced Ergonomics Testing.
Applications for this position will be accepted On-Line ONLY. To apply log on
to Pepsi's website at www.pbgcareers.com. Full requirements for this position will be explained on the website . Testing will also be given on-line.
Please do not call or come by the Pepsi facility, there will be no
exceptions to the hiring process.
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=THE PEPSI BOlTLING GROUP
Spring Into a New Career
FOR A GREAT JOB
Think PEpsi Bottling Group
The Pepsi Bottling Group of Pikeville, KY has the following
immediate employment opportunity available for a Sales Trainee.
Responsibilities: Include selling, merchandising customer accounts,
product deliveries, and other duties as assigned.
Primary job eligibility criteria: Must be 21 years of age, have a valid
Kentucky drivers license, valid C lass A CDL license preferred. Must
be able to perform physical lifting frequently 40-50 lbs., push/pull
often up to 250 lbs. , reach above shoulders frequently, bending
frequently, knee/squat positions often.
Applications for this position will be accepted On-Line ONLY. To
apply log on to Pepsi 's website at wwwpbg.careers.com. Full
requ irements for this position will be explained o n the website. Testing
will also be g iven on-line.
Please do not call or come by the Pepsi facility, there
exceptions to the hiring process.
will be no
�SUNDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
The Home Show,
Louisa, KY.
Stop in to see our
large selection of 24,
28,
& 32
wides.
Alson check out our
42' wide. 2005 singlewides in stock.
17151 Highway 23,
Louisa, KY
Final
620-0ffice/Storage
FOR RENT: Office
SuHe,
New
Construction.
900
sq.
ft.
Ample
Parking,
Can be
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg .
Call
886-1515 for info.
clearance
2004 lot models and For Lease Finished
2005 models now Office Space for
3 BR HOUSE FOR
900-Legals
RENT: Utility Room,
Living Room, Dining
Built
in ADVERTISEMENT
Room,
FOR SEALED
Vacume
Cleaner,
BIDS
Heat Pump.
Very
Prestonsburg City's
Nice Home Located
at Kite on St. Rt. 7, Utilities Commission
is accepting sealed
Call 438-6104
bids for the following :
Grass Cutting and
640-land/Lots
Weed Trimming of All
Trailer lot for rent S p e c i f i e d
on old U.S. 23 Commission
between
Preston- Locations, for the
sburg and Paintsville Period April 1, 2005,
call 606-886-9007 or through November 1,
2005.
889 9747
A complete listing of
the
:0cations to be
TRAILER
LOT
maintained may be
FOR RENT, Large
picked up at the
Yard. Call886-8366
office
of
Prestonsburg City's
For Rent : newly
Utilities Commission,
constructed Mobile
at 2560 South Lake
Home Lots in new
Drive, Prestonsburg,
Allen,reference
KY 41653, telephone
required call 606(606) 886-6871 .
874-2212
Bids will be accepted through 3:00 p.m.,
on Friday, April 15,
2005, at which time
S M A L L the sealed bids will
FURNISHED be opened. The winTRAILER
FOR ning bid will be
RENT: Just off Mtn. announced as soon
Pwy. on Old 114, Call as possible after
886-8724
Commission
management has examSERVICES
ined all bids.
Bids
must
be
and
720-HealthSBeauty sealed
li available! If you are
serious about purchasing a new home
you need to be with
experienced staff to
get the right home at
a great price. The
Home Show-South
William son, Inc. US
119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
606-353-6444 or toll
free 877-353-6444
lease in prime location near BSCTC,
(PCC) and the new
Food City - 2100 -sq. ft. Ground floor
location with up to
five private offices,
conference
room,
kitchen, bath, parking
lot call Today 606424-2690 or 2262266
All Drywall, Dutch
with 2x6 walls,and
5/12 roof pitch, ulti., mate kitchen package, glass block window, and many more
extras, Set up for
viewing. For details
call 606-353-6444 or
toll free 577-3536444 the home show
-. ::1 BR FURNISHED
APARTMENT,
:Including Utilities. 2
:•BR Unfurnished.
'·Call 886-8366
MEDICAL
OFFICE
FOR
LEASE:
Medical
Office in McDowell
directly adjacent to
Post Office, Dollar
Store, bank, pharmacy and shopping
complex. 1250 sq. ft.
with 3 exam rooms, 2
offices, waiting room,
triage room, 2 bathrooms and accessories. Reasonable
Lease rates. Ready
for immediate occuWOLLF TANNING
pancy.
For further
BEDS
information or to view
FREE Color
property please call
Catalog
606-377-2006
or
Full Body Units
606-377-1088
from $22 a month!
Monday thru Fiday.
Buy Direct and Save!
CALL TODAY! 1FOR RENT: 900
800-781-5173
Sq.
Ft.
www.np.estan.com
Office/Commercial
Space located next to 770-Repair/Services
Reflections
beauty
salon, 3 quarter miles
A R P E N T R Y
south of Martin on Rt. WORK
all types.
122 across from the New construction or
Garth Tech. School. , r e m o d e I i n g .
Call285-9112
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & sid630-Houses
ing. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
239 Francis Court, NEW HOMES &
Prestonsburg. 2BR 2 REMODELING
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft., Room
Additions,
Suitable for office. Porches
& Decks,
small business or Vynil Siding , Enter &
residence. Not suit- Exit
Painting,
able location for chil- Concrete Walks, Any
dren or pets. $500 Size Metal BCJilding &
per month + utilities. Storage
Building.
886-6362
Call Roger Honeycutt
886-0633,
Free
3 BR HOUSE FOR Estimates, 29 Years
RENT, LR, Kitchen, Experience.
DR
Bath
& 1/2,
Creekside
JKB
Subdivision
on
LANDSCAPING &
Abbott Rd., $550 per
LAWN SERVICE
month, 886-6186 or New jobs or mainte886-8286
nance, No job to big
or small, Free estiFOR
RENT
IN mates.
Call 889MARTIN AREA-3 BR 0684,874-1214,226Home,
$425 per 4147 or 226-4148
month, $300 deposit,
Reference Required,
CKF
Call 285-1065
CONSTRUCTION
Any
type
of
4 BR BRICK HOUSE inside/outside work.
FOR
RENT. No job to big or small.
Basement & Carport, Deck & Yard work,
3 miles from MAC on wife will clean house.
404 David Road . Call 285-9442
$700 per month, Call
886-2842 or 886- D & D Tree Service
3451
Tree Trimming
Tree Removal
2 BR HOUSE FOR
Free Estimates!
RENT-$400
per
Lowest Prices
month
+
$300
Guaranteed!
deposit,
located Call 606-785-0316 or
between Paintsville & 7 8 5 - 9 8 1 0
Prestonsburg,
3/4
from U.S. 23.
No
NOTICES
pets,
refereances
checked call 791812- Free
5761
:: 2 BR 1 1/2 BATH
·:TOWNHOUSE also 1
, bed room furnished
::or unfurnished locat.
::ed in Prestonsburg
·:,No PETS call 606-
2 BR HOUSE FOR FREE
PALLETS:
RENT at Garrett. can be picked up
$ 400 per month + behind The Floyd
$300 Deposit, Call County Times.
478 _5389 or 477 _
1707
RENTALS
61 0-Apartments
DUPLEX
FOR
RENT: 2 BR Central
fil Heat & Air, Total
Excellent
Electric,
. Condition. On US 23
: North, 1 Mile From
: Prestonsburg,
No
Pets. Call 889-9747
or 886-9007
FOR RENT: 4 Room
Bachelor Apartment,
1 and 2 Bedroom
Trailer.
All Nice &
Roomy,
Clean,
Private, All have AC
~ and-Furnished. Near
Jenny Wiley Lake in
Prestonsburg .
Suitable for Working
People.
Call 8863941
NOW RENTING Park
Place Apartments in
Prestonsburg,
' Available for immedi: ate occupancy. R~nt
.If ; 1
BR/$309,
2
BR/$345.
ASK
, ABOUT OUR MOVE
, IN SPECIAL,
Call
886-0039
RENTING
NOW
'
' Pinewood
Townhomes, Brand
New 2 & 3
BR
Townhomes Rt. 7
South. ASK ABOUT
OUR
MOVE IN
Rental
SPECIAL.
Assistance Available!
Stave, Refridgerator,
Dishwasher,
WID
Hook Ups. Call 3497000
RENOVATED
. APARTMENT'S, Like
New, Furnished in
Downtown
Martin.
Call between 9am5pm dailey.
2853025
!~886 8991
·.: FURNISHED
650-Mobile Homes
c
HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cen.BED ROOM
APT. tal heat & air, yard, no
':central heat & air. pets,
references
::Rent starting at $375. required $ 550 mo.
' month,
+ $ 300 · Call886-0226.
::deposit water includ:·ed. Located near FOR RENT 3 BR
: HRMC.
606-889- house.
Newly
: 9717.
remodeled, refer-
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HOUSE FOR RENT:
Harold, Ky, Pin Hook
Hill, 1st house on left
going up hill.
Call
478-5228
"SuPt,6!ibe
, , To Tbe
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Call Patty
· ··· todagiU
addressed as follows:
Mr. David M. Ellis,
Superintendent
Prestonsbu rg
City's Utilities
Commission
2560 South Lake
Drive
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
Prestonsburg City's
Utilities Commission
reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
PUBLIC
NOTICE
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park in conjunction with PRIDE
(Personal
Responsibility In A
Desirable
Environment) is soliciting bids from contractors for the cleanup and appropriate
removal and disposal
of man-made debris
deposited along the
park shoreline of
Dewey Lake. Area of
clean-up will include
both shorelines from
the park's marina
upstream
approximately 3 miles. As
much
man-made
debris as possible,
including
some
heavy items such as
appliances, is to be
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
is seeking candidates for
PHARMACIST
Exciting opportunity to become part of
the team at Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
Qualifications include a graduate of an
accredited college of Pharmacy and
current licensure in KY.
Benefits include:
Paid Health Insurance
Paid Dental Insurance
Paid Vacation & Sick Days
II Paid Holidays
403 (b) Retirement Plan
Please send resume to:
removed. The use of
some type of pontoon
or barge w1ll be necessary. This will be
the responsibility of
the contractor.
Interested contractors must attend a
pre-bid meet1ng on
April 14, 2005. The
meeting will be held
at Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park in the
Recreation
&
Interpretation Office,
at 10:00 a.m., and
will include a tour of
the project area.
Those not attending
will not be allowed to
bid . The bid deadline,
and where to submit,
will be announced at
the pre-bid meeting.
Contractors
must
show valid proof of
liability and worker
compensation insurance. For more mtormation,
contact:
Scott Ringham or
Ron
Vanover, at
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park, at 1606-889-1790.
B•g Sandy Health Care
IS
an Equal Oppornmity Employer
~
ARH
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
The Medical Centers of tho Momlain•
STAFF PHYSICAL THERAPIST
Hazard ARH Regtonal Medical Center
Hazard, KY
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a not-for-profit
system of hospitals, clinics and home health
services, is seeking candidates for a Staff
Physical Therapist opportunity at the 308-bed
medical center 1n Hazard, KY.
.This is a full-time inpatient/outpatient/schools
position, hours are generally from 8 a.m.4:30 p.m., rotating weekends. Position
qualifications include graduation from an
approved School of Physical Therapy with
Kentucky licensure or eligibility. Excellent
opportunity for new graduates or for experienced
therapists to broaden knowledge base.
ARH offers an outstanding salary and benefits
include very low cost health insurance, generous
paid time off, TSA program, life insurance at
group rates, disability benefits, etc.
For additional information on this and other therapy
positions with ARH, please send resume to or
contact: Marilyn Hamblin, System Professional
Recruiter, Appalachian Regional Healthcare,
PO Box 8086, Lexington, KY 40533;
mhamblin@arh.org; or call 1-800-888-7045,
Ext. 532. EOE
www.arh.org
~~
~~
ARH
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
The Medical Centers of the Movntains
CLINICAL ANALYST
(REGISTERED NURSE)
OPPORTUNITY
.KNOCKS!!
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Information Systems
Looking for that
better job?
Have A High
School Diploma
and Good Work
Ethics? Two Full
Time Positions in
Local Area with
Complete Benefit
Package ! ! Call
Sandy
Raymer
606-432-2545 . EOEMF
Resumes are being accepted for the full time
position of Clinical Analyst for the Appalachian
Regional Healthcare system's Information Systems
Department.
Major responsibilities of this position will be for direct
and indirect support of designated areas within the
McKesson Patient Care System. This will include but
will not be limited to system maintenance, ongoing
system implementation and upgrades, user support,
training needs assessment, development and
implementation, and policy and procedure followup. The Clinical Analyst will work closely with
Information Systems Project Manager, may function
as aTeam Leader and will have frequent contact with
ARH leadership, department managers and staff and
computer vendors.
This position requires an RN degree and current
active AN licensure. Managerial experience 1n a
clinical setting is preferred and travel will be
required.
ARH offers an outstanding compensation package
with salary based on education and relative
experience. Benefits include very low cost single or
family plan health insurance, generous paid time off,
TSA programs, life insurance at group rates, Credit
Union, non-contributory retirement plan.
Please send resume with cover letter to: Marilyn
Hamblin, ARH Human Resources, PO Box 8086,
Lexington, KY 40533; e-mail: mhamblin@arh.org;
FAX: 859-226-2586. EOE
HOLIC HEALTH
t ICAT
N IT IATIVES
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital
www.arh.org
SECRETARY/RECEPTIONIST
Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Inc. has an opening for a part-time Secretary/Receptionist in the
Administrative Department, 64 hours per pay
period. Job Qualifications: Must have excellent
typing and organizational skills; Computer experience required with knowledge of Microsoft
Word, Excel and Power Point; Familiarity with
medical terminology and proper telephone etiquette. Qualified candidates should apply at Our
Lady of the Way Hospital, Human Resources
Department, P.O. Box 910, Martin, Kentucky
41649, fax: (606) 285-6422 or call (606) 2855181, extension 1-2020, Resumes may also be
emailed to: dbentley@olwh.org
, family
··survival.
vour local nre
depanmem or vour local
Division of Forestrv onice
Deadline for applications: Monday, April11 ,
2005
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Human Resources
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
1709 KY Route 321, Suite 3
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Phone (606) 886-8546
Fax(606)886-8548
Email: Lbacker@bshc.org
A proud tradition of providing access to
quality health care.
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AFORTUNE 500 COMPANY
NOW HIRING IN OUR
NEW PIKEVILLE CENTER
CUSTOMER SERVICE SPECIALISTS
We are 'ooking for friendly, customer focused
people who love to learn and are challenged by
a fast-paced environment.
WE BELIEVE IN HIRING THE BEST AND
PROMOTING FROM WITHIN.
OUR BENEFITS INCLUDE:
REQUIREMENTS:
Progressive Pay Scale
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
40l(k) Plan
Stock Purchase Plan
Must be 18 years of age
and have a high school
diploma or GED. Type 30 .
WPM and pass a drug and
background screening.
If you would like to
become a part of this
dynamic, growing team,
please come by our
office or call:
ACS, Inc.
55 Sykes Blvd.
Pikeville, KY 41501
606-218-2500
ARH
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Tho Medical Centers of the Mountains
REFRIGERATION MECHANIC
McDowell ARH Hosp1tal
McDowell. KY
Appalachian Regional l-lealthcare is seeking
candidates for a full time Refrigeration Mechanic
for the McDowell ARH Hospital in McDowell,
KY. This position is responsible for performing
maintenance and construction tasks related to
refrigeration, air conditioning, and heating.
Requirements include high school diploma or
equivalency and four (4) years of experience in
the refrigeration, air conditioning and heating field.
Combinations of technical school, apprenticeships,
on-the-job training will be considered as experience
requirements. Successful candidate must obtain a
Refrigeration Recovery Certificate within 6 months
of employment and must pass an EPA approved
test and be certified.
Excellent compensation and benefits package. For
application information, please contact:
Human Resources Department, McDowe l ~ ARH
Hospital, Route 122, PO Box 247, McDowell, KY
41657. Telephone: 606-377-3400, Ext. 333. EOE
www.arh.org
ADrug-Free Workplace
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Technology Work™
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APRIL
3, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Association.
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RENTALS
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IN THE
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FREE ESTIMATES
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If you seek the advantages offered by Extendicare,
a national leader in healthcare, we have an outstanding opportunity for you. We are currently hiring for open RN or LPN full-time positions. We
offer a $1,500 sign on package, 12-hour shifts, excellent benefits and competitive wages, including a
special PRN Rate. Call or stop by for a tour and
interview to join our caring team.
Salyersville Health Care
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
For all of your lawn, garden,
landscaping, hillside cleaning, & tree trimming needs.
Satisfaction Guaranteed!!!
Free estimates, call:
(606) 886-9602
Seamless
Gunenng, Siding
and Metal Roofing
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
~J&L£
Electrical Contracting
Residential & Commercial
Electrical Services
Home Improvements and Repairs
Free Estimates · Reliable
Ph: (606) 886-2785
Pager: (606) 482-0229
John K. Lewis, Master Electrician
Licensed: ME8643, CE8644
Mine Safety &
First Aid Training
Newly Employed
24 hr. Class (surface)
40 hr. (underground)
8 hr. refresher
(surtace & underground),
Also Electrical Classes
285-0999
Train at your convenience.
TRIPLES
CONSraU,,FION
No Job Too Big or Too Small!
RESIDE-.TIAL OR COMMERCIAL
606·265-3336 or 606-265·4678
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Vinyl Siding • Window Replacement
Hardwood Flooring
Shingle/Tin Roofing ,..·
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Concrete Work
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State, locals look for vulnerabilities
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - City
Police officers are escorting
Kentucky
Community
Preparedness Program assessors throughout Prestonsburg
this week to analyze and define
vulnerabilities in the city 's
security procedures .
The assessors, heading Gov.
Fletcher's "Premier Homeland
Security Initiative," are touring
16 city facilities to conduct
local threat assessment vulnerabilities.
Prestonsburg is the lOth of
60 Kentucky communities to
take part in the program,
spokeswoman
Jacinta
Manning said.
"We were invited here by
leaders of this community and
it was so good on their part for
taking the initiative to make
their
community
safer,"
Manning said. "That's a really
proactive stance for them. A lot
of people could say, 'No, that
can't happen here.' They
responded by saying that it
may not happen, but we're
going to be prepared if it does.
That's a really progressive
stance to take."
Prestonsburg Police Chief
Mike Omerod, coordinator of
the city's assessment program,
said assessors will tour city
schools, court buildings , the
water and sewer plant, and
Highlands Regional Medical
Center this week.
The Homeland Security initiative focuses on preventing
hostile acts and crime by identifying security weaknesses
through a system of risk
Prestonsburg Police
Lt. William Petry
spoke with Team
Leader Drexel Neal
during a threat
assessment evaluation yesterday at
Prestonsburg High
School. Police Chief
Mike Omerod said
last week that the
threat assessment
initiative would provide officers with
additional training for
threat assessment in
the community.
(See THREATS, page three)
photo by Mary Musie
:.. Times Staff Report
.•
Appeals court
keeps BradleY
lawsuit alive
The city of Prestonsburg has scheduled its
~fmual PRIDE Spring
Cleanup for April 9-23.
During this time, residents can call to have
tf.ash removed. Only one
durnptruck load per household will be taken away for
free. Anytl')ing after the first
load will.f>e charged the
regular pickup fee.
If you are a city resident
and would like to schedule
a pickup, call 886-2335.
by MARY MUSIC
S TAFF WAITER
oil update
Because of the popularity of the current online poll
QOncerning Prestonsburg's
proposal to annex
Highlands Regional
Medical Center, it will be
continued for one more
week. Register your vote
at floydcountytimes.com.
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photo by Tom Doty
Berea artist Alfredo Escobar, whose work has been shown at the Mountain Arts Center, worked with students at John M. Stumbo Elementary this week on developing art skills.
Artist spends week teaching
Stumbo Elementary students
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
GRETHEL- Students at John
L. Stumbo Elementary were treated to art classes with a real artist
this week who gave them lessons
in portrait drawing and cartooning.
Eighth-grade teacher Cindi
Hughes was able to bring in Berea
artist Alfredo Escobar after writing
a grant to help fill the gap in arts
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education .
Escobar originally came down
for a five-day stay back in
December but was forced to cut
his trip short when snow covered
the mountains and saw school canceled for the week he was scheduled to appear.
Escobar, whose work was featured at the Mountain Arts Center
last year, was thrilled to have the
opportunity to work with area chil-
dren. '
"It's a great opportunity for
them," Escobar said. "Many kids
learn better visually and this is a
chance to tap into that."
Escobar has taught in schools
throughout the state and has particularly enjoyed working with special education students and high
schoolers. He confessed that he
(See ARTIST, page three)
PIKEVILLE - The
Court of Appeals sided
with a Floyd Circuit Court
decision Monday to deny a
petition for voluntary dismissal of the wrongful termination lawsuit filed by
former Mountain Arts
Director
Pat
Center
Bradley against Mayor
Jerry Fannin and the city of
Prestonsburg.
The appeals court handed down a decision, filed
April 4 in circuit court,
denying a petition for writ
of prohibition , a motion for
expedited relief to prevent
the state court trial, and an
emergency order to continue the trial, which is cur-
rently scheduled for April
11 in Floyd County.
Bradley, represented by
attorney
Catherine
Stevens, made the motion
during a pretrial conference in July, seeking a dismissal without prejudice in
order to pursue "federal
causes of action and state
common law claims"
against Fannin and the citY
of Prestonsburg. Bradley
argued in the motion that
"new causes of action't
came to light during
Fannin's deposition testimony.
Circuit Judge John
David Caudill, siding with
city attorney Michael
Shaw, overruled Bradley's
(See LAWSUIT, page three)
Program awards diploma
for life, work experience
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
THELMA Many
area adults who never finished high school can still
get their diploma through a
program that rewards skills
learned through their life
and work experiences.
The External Diploma
Program is geared toward
those adults who left
school early to work or
raise a family and
acknowledges that such
experiences teach people
the equivalent of what they
would have learned had
they gone on to finish
school.
The EDP offers flexible
(See DIPLOMA, page three)
DUI suspect charged with
giving btother's name
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
HAROLD - A Pikeville man with
a few traffic offenses but no criminal
charges was arrested on April Fool's
Day and charged with his first felony
offenses when he got pulled over for a
DUI citation and allegedly chose to
give the state trooper a false name.
Larry Hamilton, 21 , of Pikeville,
was pulled over by Trooper Jeffrey
Hamilton (no relation) in Harold on
Friday. The trooper noticed an open
bottle of Bud Light in the car and the
trace of a white powdery substance
around Hamilton's nostrils.
According to the citation Hamilton
admitted to having drunk four beers
and snorting a crushed Lortab tablet
before getting behind the wheel.
Despite Hamilton's frank admissions, he allegedly decided to pass
himself off as his brother and gave the
trooper his brother's name, address
and license number.
(See NAME, page three)
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TtMES
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• OSLO, Norway - Help
wanted: Vikings. Must be
friendly, tourist-oriented and
interested in ancient Norse traditions. Crazed, bloodthirsty pillagers need not apply.
In a rare employment opportunity for Vikings, whose job
market peaked about 1,000
years ago when they terrorized
Europe in their longboats,
southern Norway's Vestfold
county wants to fill slots at its
local historical park.
The ad, to appear in local
media Saturday, will be simple:
"Jobs available. Vikings in
Vestfold," with a link to the center's Internet horne page, said
Lars Kobro, self-described
chieftain of the Midgard
Historical Center.
"More and more we see that
tourists are interested in
Vikings," Kobro said Tuesday.
"They don't want just exhibits,
but face-to-face encounters.
But the center is seeking to
play down the Scandinavian
Vikings' reputation as wild,
murderous looters who pillaged
and burned through much of
Europe, a claim Kobro said was
largely exaggerated in texts left
by ancient English monks.
"They were really more
traders and merchants," said
Kobro. He said they are seeking
a corps of about 50 part-time
Vikings, ready to turn out at the
center when needed.
• JACKSON, Wyo.
Twenty years after losing her
wallet, along with $177 and her
Social Security card, Lisa Tonks
finally has it back.
Tonks lost the wallet during a
family trip in 1985 to Jackson
and Yellowstone National Park.
The wallet was turned over to
police, but without more information, and because the case
was considered a minor one, it
collected dust on a shelf along
with other old evidence, including drug paraphernalia and
weapons.
Jackson police technician
Torn Turco! decided to reopened
the case using a police computer
network and some investigative
know-how.
He traced the Social Security
number to Tonks, of Peru, Ind.
"She was quite surprised,"
Turco! said. "She figured it was
gone and that's that."
• CLEVELAND - Some
employees showing up two
hours late for work soon will
have the perfect excuse: A ticket
stub from last night's show in
Playhouse Square. .
The "Late Out, Late In" promotion, announced Monday, is
meant to encourage music and
theater fans to enjoy the city's
nightlife, even on weeknights.
The city's tourism agency organized the promotion with participating employers.
Employees need approval in
advance and must provide a
ticket stub to claim the time off.
Today in History
The Associated Press
in New York City.
• In 1985, William J .
Today is Wednesday, April 6, Schroeder became the first artithe 96th day of 2005. There are ficial heart recipient to be dis269 days left in the year.
charged from the hospital as he
Today's Highlight in moved into an apartment in
History: On April 6, 1909, Louisville, Ky.
explorers Robert E. Peary and
• In 1992, science-fiction
Matthew A. Henson became the author Isaac Asimov died in
first men to reach the North New York at age 72.
Pole. (The claim, disputed by
• In 1998, country singer
skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by Tammy Wynette died at her
the Navigation Foundation.)
Nashville home at age 55.
On this date:
Ten years ago: The Senate
• In 1830, the Church of unanimously approved a $16
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day billion package of cuts in social
Saints was organized by Joseph programs. Earlier in the day,
Smith in Fayette, N.Y.
' Sen. Alfonse D' Amato, R-N .Y.,
• In 1862, the Civil War apologized on the Senate floor
Battle of Shiloh began in for lampooning 0 .J. Simpson
Tennessee.
trial judge Lance Ito on a
• In 1896, the first modem nationally syndicated radio proOlympic
games
formally gram by employing a mock
opened in Athens, Greece.
Japanese accent.
•
In 1917, Congress
Five years ago: The father
approved a declaration of war of Elian Gonzalez, Juan Miguel
against Germany.
Gonzalez, arrived in the United
• In 1945, during World War States to press for the return of
II, the Japanese warship his 6-year-old son to Cuba. A
"Yamato" and nine other vessels private company mapping the
sailed on a suicide mission to human
genetic
blueprint
attack the U.S. fleet off announced it had decoded all of
Okinawa; the fleet was inter- the DNA pieces that make up
cepted the next day.
the genetic pattern of a single
• In 1965, the United States human being.
.
launched the "Early Bird" comOne year ago: Jordan's
munications satellite.
military court convicted eight
• In 1971, Russian-born Muslim militants and sentenced
composer Igor Stravinsky died them to death for the 2002
killing of U.S. aid official
Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida.
Lawmakers ousted Lithuania's
scandal-ridden
president
Rolandas Paksas for abuse of
office. The University of
Connecticut's women's basketball team beat Tennessee 70-61
to win a third consecutive
NCAA title, a day after UConn
also won the men's championship.
Today's
Birthdays:
Composer-conductor
Andre
Previn is 76. Actor Ivan Dixon
is 74. Country singer Merle
Haggard is 68. Actor Billy Dee
Williams is 68. Actor Roy
Thinnes is 67. Movie director
Barry Levinson is 63. Ac~or
John Ratzenberger is 58. Actress
Marilu Henner is 53. Figure
skater Janet Lynn is 52. Actor
Michael Rooker is 50. Actress
Ari Meyers is 36. Actor Paul
Rudd is 36. Actor Jason Hervey
is 33 . Rock musician Markku
Lappalainen (Hoobastank) is
32. Actor Zach Braff is 30.
Actress Candace Cameron is 29 .
Actor Bret Harrison is 23 .
Thought for Today: "To
be really cosmopolitan, a man
must be at horne even in his own
country."
Thomas
Wentworth
Higginson,
American clergyman-author
(1823-1911).
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John M. Van Deren, Ill, MD, FACC
Zane Darnell, MD
Terence C. Ross, MD, FACC
Richard A. Ansinelli, MD, FACC
Pam Parker, ARNP
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Suite 4102, Highlands Medical Office Building
Call 886-7595
Highlands Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive range of
cardiology services, including basic cardiac evaluations, stress tests,
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nuclear cardiology studies, including myocardial spect, gated wall
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Prestonsburg, Kentucky
"Our employees work so
much overtime as it is, I think it
will benefit us in the long run,"
said Tony Weber, chief executive officer of Glazen Creative
Studios, whose 11 employees
specialize in corporate videos.
Weber said it was too early to
say how much it might cost his
company to allow concertgoers
to arrive late at work the next
day. He also wasn't sure
whether the option would be
limited to, say, once weekly or
once monthly.
"We have a fairly young staff
and they work very hard and I
would think they would appreciate us doing anything we can do
to make it more fun for them to
work here," Weber said.
But Alan Dutka, whose market research firm Nat:onal
Survey
Research
Center
employs 15, doubted the idea
would catch on.
"We are in business to do
business, not to support the
arts," said Dutka, who was
checking on Ohio Ballet performances in the ticket lobby at
Playhouse Square.
"It's very expensive if you go
to buy it," Boettcher said.
by whom, but e-mails and faxes
have spread it "like V{ildflre"
through central and southern
Illinois and the agency is investigating.
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• UlNTAH HIGHLANDS,
Utah - Matthew Jean Rouse
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doesn't like his middle name
.;~· ·
and he's letting you pick a new
• BOISE, Idaho - A well- .• ·- •.
one.
known deputy who has served .
The 31 '1'ear-old father of two with the Canyon County ··~· fJ
is selling the naming right on Sheriff's office for the past •u~o.:
eBay. The "Buy It Now" price is seven years has retired. He is, ,,, ~.
$8,000. As of early Monday, quite literally, a real hol}t;ld.
there had been a total of 30 bids,
K9 deputy Basco, a, 9-year- •::•_;
with the high bid $2,175.
old Belgian Malinois , i.s best •,,.....,
The winning bidder gets to known for his capture of serial :•t."i
choose a new middle name for murder
suspect
Michael 3<•1
Rouse , a software engineer.
"Cowboy Mike" Braae in July .... •.::
Rouse also agrees to use his 2001 after a high-speed chase •,;;
middle name "whenever plausi- ended at the Idaho-Oregon line. :•<"
ble and not hide it."
Braae abandoned his pickup and ~·
"If he wants to walk around jumped into the Snake River.
with 'Fool' as his middle name,
Basco and his handler, Cpl. •J•2
that's his problem," said Paul Maund, hopped a boat to ,, .. ;
Rouse's wife, Corinna Rouse. follow Braae . Maund attached a :...:...1
"If someone changes his name towline to the dog and pushed J·•,·.
to 'Poophead,' he may decide him in the water to chase after ·'J• l
it's a little more important than the suspect. Basco bit onto
he thought."
Braae's back, and Maund was •..-l
Rouse's middle name was able to pull the two to shore.
:·bt
taken from hiS late grandfather,
Malheur County 1 Sheriff .·.H
Jean Stelter, with whom he did- - Andy Bentz said Braae's cap- -n't get along.
ture would have been more danHis older brother, Bill Rouse, gerous without Basco. 1'Had it ;:":t.
• TOWN OF LEON, Wis. 46, of Mesa, Ariz., bid $1,500 not been for him and the handler - Some horses in central for the name. "Basically, he's being there and being able to get
Wisconsin may still be bright trying to dump our grandfather's on the boat, we would have had ,.., ,
eyed, but no longer bushy tailed . name, and I'm trying to buy it to use a lot higher level of ~ni
Waushara and Portage coun- and make it stay as it is," Bill force ," Bentz said.
·
ty sheriff's departments are try- Rouse said.
Maund said retirement as his r:r:
ing to figure out who is cutting
pet might not be easy for Basco . ,1.
off the tails of some horses.
• SPRINGFIELD, Ill.
because he's worked J or the .. ;I: •
Someone cut off parts of the Mushroom hunters can breathe sheriff's office most of his life -~t'
same horse's tail about four easier. Despite the rumors, the - tracking missing ~ople,
times since January at Town of state of illinois isn't charging sniffmg out narcotics and.;.l\l'Pre- ·::.~;
Leon, Waushara County Sheriff fees and regulating the hobby bending suspects.
·'""{
1'
David Peterson said. And this spring.
Maund said he got a Juke- ~-.;;
Portage County officials are
The Natural Resources warm reception after leaving _
investigating the theft of the Department tried to assure Basco home a few days this
tails of four show horses in the hunters Wednesday they do not month.
; ~
town of Eau Pleine.
have to get a state license and
"When I got home, he was ·_,_:··.
The horses were not injured pay a $16.75 fee to hunt mush- lying under a tree. I called to
and no one has determined a rooms.
him. He looked at me ~ turned .. , ,
motive.
Department spokeswoman his head away," Maun~ said ...•~
In both counties, the owners Gayle Simpson said the agency "It's going to be a big tr~sition •.'~:
described the horses as friendly received dozens of calls last for him."
1
, ~l.~
and all wttre in pastures wh~:n week cm;nplaining about the
purported change. She said the
• DENVER - Colora,do is ., ,.,
the crimes .occurre.d.
The sheriff's office is offer- department discovered someone serious about its no-dawdling ,_ ,
ing a cash reward through had taken a press release from law in left lanes.
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Waushara
County
Crime the Internet and used it to craft a
Drivers who insist on staying ··: ·~
Stoppers, Inc., to anyone who fake announcement of the new in the passing lane are risking •-: ·
helps
solve
the
case. license and fee.
tickets as the State Patrol has .:.
"Sornebody's got to have seen
The hoax urged hunters to
something, or heard some- visit vendors that sell hunting
(See ODDS, page eight)
and fishing licenses to get a
thing," Peterson said.
Portage County sheriff's mushroom license and said the
Detective Gina Boettcher said proceeds would benefit biologithe culprits could be after horse cal and archaeological research
hair that is sometimes used for in Illinois, Simpson said.
She said the agency doesn't
making jewelry, watchbands, or
belts.
know when the hoax was sent or
�''VEDNESDAV, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lawsuit
• Continued from p1
motion in September, because both
parties involved were already "substantially" ready for trial. Bradley
did n,..>t -Ujl.li:'St dismissal until the
pretrial conference in the case, Judge
Caudill wrote in the order, and she
failed to show why Aoyd Circuit
Court would not be a proper venue
to address he!> claims.
State Omit of Appeals Judge
vid C. Buckingham, who signed
order denying Bradley's requests
on April 1, ruled that Caud.i.11 was
"clearly acting within his jurisdiction
when he denied the motion."
Caudill also overruled a joint
motion last month to continue the
trial in th~ \.:= after Bmdley sought
a ruling on her•·mit of prohibition.
Stevens ru:gues in a U.S. District
Court complaint filed against Fannin
and the city filed last July, that
Fannin "abused" his power "over"
the city's police department when he
ordered an investigation into
Bradley's private life, including
whether she was having an affair
tth a MAC employee.
"The allepation was false,"
Stevens argues. "As part of this
investigation, Mayor Fannin had
Plaintiff followed and surveilled by
one or more officers with the
Prestonsburg Police Department."
Stevens claimed that the
Fannin's "dissemination of false
information," in conjunction with
Bradley's termination from the job,
"stigmatized" her.
Fannin's conduct, Stevens wrote,
violated state law and the state and
national constitutions.
Fannin and the city of
Prestonsburg filed answers to interrogatory questions in the case in
February, reinforcing statements
made by the mayor during a deposition hearing last year.
Bradley filed suit against the city
on Sept. 19, 2003, claiming that she
was "wrongfully terminated" from
her position at the MAC.
Fannin and the city argue that
Bradley was terminated because she
ineffectively managed employees,
did not enroll and "refused to provide" health insurance and retirement benefits to employees, violated
the sexual harassment policy by
"fraternizing" with another employee, ineffectively booked MAC
events and used MAC facilities for
her personal benefit.
Fannin claims the city was not
required to list specific reasons for
Bradley's dismissal in a letter of termination addressed to her on July
29, 2003, because she was an "at
will" employee.
Bradley, disputing the claim,
filed a copy of her congratulatory
hire-in letter that states she would be
a "permanent" employee after an
initial six-month probationary period.
In the federal suit filed by
)
ArtisJ
• Continued from p1
ras a faVJ:>rite moment when teaching in ~ools.
''I really enjoy when you can
almost physically see that light go off
in a student's eyes," Escobar said.
''It's that moment when you see that
they get it." 1
At last yiar's meeting of principals, over*en by Supt. Dr. Paul
Fanning, the arts were identified as a
key area. for development. Hughes
sees the experience as invaluable to
students as does the school system
which picked up part of the tab.
Hughes noted that VSA (Very
Special Art) put up most of the funding and said that the schools also
benefit from grants from the
Kentucky Arts Council.
Escobar said that any ability in art
is a gift from God and that all gifts
must be shared to be appreciated.
Diploma
~
• Continued from p1
schedules and individual attention
to applicantS1 who are allowed to
wmk at theifilwn rate. There are no
classes involved.
Andy Jones, an adult educator
with 32 years experience, is currently guiding the program at the
Carl 0. Perkins Rehabilitation
Center in Johnson County and said,
''The program is individualized. We
can tailor it to meet the needs of
every applicant."
Jones explained that there are no
textbooks required for the program
and that il only requires about twoand-a-half hours a week and is
completed, on average, in six
months.
Jones explained that, so far, the
program has mainly attracted
housewives but JlOted that it can be
geared towards, any individual and
said that he can even arrange
assignments to be based on someone's current job as long as their
employer is willing to pitch in.
Jones also noted that the prois entirely confidential and
only requires a one-time fee of $50
for registration but that there are few
materials that applicants will need.
Jones highlighted a typical
assignment pattern for a homemaker. He said assignments would be
tasks that are not uncommon, such
as seeking information about a bank
loan. The applicant would be counSeled before such an assignment
and graded on getting all of the
information that is required. In the
case of the loan, that would include
such items as fmding out interest
ltun
rates as well as penalties that might
be applied.
The program is funded by the
Office for Vocational Rehabilitation
and can also be accessed in Pike
County. Jones journeys to the
Mullins Learning Center on
Thesday afternoons to work with
Pike Countians there and tailors his
schedule at the Rehabilitation
Center to meet the needs of applicants who, for the most part, are currently employed or running a household and depend upon flexible
scheduling.
There are no tests in the program
and work consists of take-home
projects, interviews with an advisor
and performance assessments. If
any academic training is required, a
counselor will help applicants
locate the appropriate resources.
Interested adults can find out
more by contacting Jones at (800)
443-2187, ext. 186, or they can
reach Linda Bell at ext. 160.
Name
• Continued from p1
Hamilton was arrested and faces
multiple charges, including operating a vehicle under the influence,
possessing an open alcoholic beverage, no'proper license, no proof
of insurance, obscuring his license
plate, giving a false identity and
identity theft without consent.
Hamilton was lodged in the
Floyd County jail and placed
under a $1 ,500 cash bopd.
Stevens against Fannin and the city,
Bradley claims that Fannin discharged her for implementing policies and procedures that "served to
stop the mayor from taking an
unlimited number of free tickets"
from the MAC. Bradley argues her
temlination came alxmt after she
objected to Fannin's use of the facility ''for his family and friends" and
to his use of the MAC functions for
"his own benefit and that of his
friends, family and associates."
Since the case began two years
ago, accusations have meddled the
mix on both sides, including emphasis about a "questionable relationship" between Bradley and one of
her employees, a man for whom she
authorized a 3 percent pay raise in
the summer of2003. Bradley denied
the relationship during her deposition hearing but testified that she
authorized the pay raise. Her
lawyers have also suggested that
Fannin had a "questionable relation-
Threats
• Continued from p1
assessments and recommendations for improvement.
Assessors examined the physical structure of Prestonsburg High
School yesterday, looking for
possible security problems. They
also interviewed Principal Ted
George and employees at the
school to determine whether policies are in place and are recognized and utilized, when necessary, by the staff at the school.
''There is no right or wrong,"
Manning said. "It isn't a pass or
fail situation. We're just here trying to make things better."
Team Leader Drexel Neal said
that the city's most effective way
of combating hostile crimes or
acts of terrorism is establishing
good procedural training methods
like mock disasters or drills.
The city police department
trained officers during a mock
school shooting at the high school
last week and Omerod says they
are planning a mock disaster in
May.
Another emphasis, Drexel
said, should revolve around the
city's ability to keep continuous
lines of inter-agency communication open with readily available
radio equipment, phone lists and
resource lists, during a disaster.
Once the assessment is complete, Kentucky Community
Preparedness Program assessors
will declare the city as a "Ready
and
Prepared
Kentucky
Community." The city will be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement funds to make recommended security changes.
Drexel said yesterday that
most recommended changes
revolve around the "little, inexpensive details" like implementing camera systems and locks.
The program, funded by grants
from the state's Homeland
Security Department, will help
point out other security problems
at city facilities, Omerod said, and
provide additional training for
city police officers who are
escorting the assessment teams
this week.
The Kentucky Community
Preparedness Program, an extension of the Department of
Criminal Justice Training's homeland security initiative, is funded
by a $2.4 million grand from the
state office of Homeland security.
Inspections throughout the
state began last month and will
continue until assessments are
completed during the next 12
months, Manning said.
ship" of his own.
Fannin denies the allegation.
Shaw, representing the city, filed
a motion in Aoyd Cireuit Court yesterday to prohibit Bradley from
introducing "Fannin's alleged sexual
encounters with anyone;' hearsay
testimony concerning contents of
any audits because they are "available and spealc for themselves;• evidence in the form of hearsay testimany regarding any alleged complementary ticket policy because
they "should be readily available"
and ''will spealc for themselves," any
domestic violence complaints, and
any testimony regarding alleged
"sexist remarks" made by the mayor
to singer Patty Loveless.
Shaw argues that the "probative
value of this evidence is substantially outweighed by the danger of
unfair prejudice."
He claims the evidence is not rei- .
evant and should be inadmissible
under Kentucky Rules of Evidence
402.
"Allowing irrelevant evidence to
be presented on this matter would be
prejudicial to the defense of this
action. Evidence of this case would
likely cause confusion to the issues
and be misleading to the jury," Shaw
wrote.
Buckingham ruled in the Court
of Appeals order that Bradley could
raise the issue again by appealing the
final judgment in the case. Because
Bradley has already filed a federal
action, he wrote, her position in federal court "may be protected so that
her only damage is delay."
Bradley filed the federal complaint while the decision of dismissal
was still pending in Floyd Cireuit
Court, stating that the action was
necesSary under the statute oflimitations.
Her claim may still be pursued
federally, Caudill said, if the court so
rules.
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Officials completing
ftrst year of heavy
coal truck crackdown
The Associated Press
WITTENSVlLLE - A crackdown on overloaded coal trucks that
began a year ago is helping to make
roadways safer for motorists, state
officials said. But others remain skeptical that the measures are improving
roadway safety.
Before last year, law enforcement
agencies largely ignored the weight
limit law, said Kentucky Vehicle
Enforcement Commissioner Greg
Howard.
''I just wanted people to know the
enforcement is here to stay;' Howard
said. ''It's not a fly-by-night thing."
Howard said before the stricter
enforcement began last year, nearly all
of the 1,800 coal trucks that traveled
US. 23 - one of the nation's busiest
coal-hauling roads - exceeded the
state's weight limits.
Urxler Kentucky law, 18-wheel
tractor-trailer rigs are legally permitted
to haul up to 126,(XX) pounds of coal
- 46,(XX) pounds above the federal
weight limit. Up until last year,
Howard said trucks were frequently
caught carrying up to 200,000
pounds.
Kentucky's maximum fine for
overweight trucks is $500, although
judges in most mountain counties
levy lower penalties.
Some motorists remained skeptical
of the increased enforcement.
Rick Caudill, of lVfartin, said he
sees loads getting big again, and
trucks seem to be running faster.
'That stuff works good for a
while;' Caudill said. ''But then they
slip it back and slip it back."
Howard said such complaints likf
Caudill's helped trigger a checkpoin
on US. 23 last week. Vehicle enforce
ment officers said they weighed 951
coal trucks in eastern Kentucky anc
wrote 32 overweight tickets.
"We're doing a pretty good job
but we're never going to get them all
There is still plenty of work to be~
by everyone;' Howard said.
But there have been complainu
about an increase in speeding coa
trucks since the vehicles began haul·
ing lighter loads, Howard said.
Aoyd District Judge Eric Hal
noticed that. one danger effective})
was being replaced with another.
"From personal experience, I'vt
noticed that since the trucks are haul·
ing less weight, they're drivin~
faster;' he said. "Once they're haulin~
lighter loads, they're really putting tht
pedal to the metal. A loaded true~
northbound on U.S. 23 passed me tht
other morning doing 87 miles pel
hour and that's way, way too fast for~
loaded coal truck."
Howard said his agency also gen
complaints about speeding coal trucl.a
on two-lane roads in rural areas.
''I have a plan, starting this month
to really write a lot of speeding tick
ets," Howard said. 'That's so mud
easier for us to address than the weigh
issues."
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News that Gov. Ernie Fletcher is paying top state officials
significantly more than their counterparts in the previous
administration raises some serious concerns.
Fletcher has appointed more than 65 people who are paid
at least $100,000 a year, three times the salary of the average
state worker.
Most cabinet secretaries are now paid $127,000, up
$20,000 from former Gov. Paul Patton's cabinet, a 19 percent
increase.
The amount of these salary increases is high compared to
the Patton administration, not to mention the 3 percent
increase averaged by most workers.
We understand the need to be competitive and hire topnotch state officials, but this is excessive.
Let's remember we are in a slowly improving but still questionable financial situation in this state. Are we really at the
point where we should be giving top officials these kind of
raises?
Here are some examples of the difference between the two
administrations payment of cabinet members: Fletchers general counsel receives $127,146, up 19 percent from Patton's
general counsel, and his press secretary receives $121,957, up
17 percent from Patton's press secretary.
We are sure that Fletcher has some very well-qualified officials working for him, but are they that superior to Patton's
officials? We doubt it.
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It is a concern that whil~ top officials are receiving hefty
raises , rank and file state workers received far less.
Raises for all state workers averaged 3 percent last year.
"Morale is quite low for state employees, and this is ope
reason why," said state Rep. Derrick Graham, D-Frankfort.
What is even more disturbing is that these large raises
come only two years into Fletchers term.
Overall, these pay increases for Fletchers top officials seem
high compared with previous administrations and certainly
high compared to lower level state employees whose hard
work is essential to the efficient function of state government.
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Kentucky's rural areas still experiencing
higtl unemploym~nt rates
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by JOE BIESK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - In recent years,
rural Wolfe County lost two major
sources of manufacturing jobs - a linen
plant and a factory that made computer
parts.
Today, its unemployment rate is
almost 10 P,Crcent.
Like many other areas across
Kentucky, local officials are scrambling
to lower that. Bringing jobs to a local
economy based primarily on agriculture,
however, isn't a simple feat, Wolfe
County Judge-Executive Raymond Hurst
said.
"I really don't know the answer,"
Hurst said. "If I knew the answer I'd get
something in here."
Last year, 74 out of Kentucky's 120
counties had an unemployment rate
above the state's overall average of 5.3
percent, according to the Kentucky
Education
Cabinet's
Office
of
Employment and Training. There were
41 counties with an unemployment rate
below the state's average, and five that
met the average, according to the OET.
In 2004, the U.S. unemployment rate
was 5.5 percent, according to the OET.
The statistics are estimates and based on
the number of people actively seeking
work.
In 2004, eastern Kentucky counties of
Magoffin, Elliott, Wolfe, Morgan, Leslie,
Carter, Lewis and Powell - along with
Fulton and Hickman counties in western
Kentucky - all had unemployment rates
above 8 percent. Magoffin County had
the highest at 12.1 percent, followed by
Elliott and Wolfe counties at 9.9 percent
and 9.8 percent respectively.
Meanwhile, Oldham, Woodford,
Fayette, Shelby, Spencer, Anderson,
Franklin, Boone, Jessamine, Scott, Todd
and Warren counties all marked unemployment rates below 4.5 percent.
Jefferson County had a 4 .9 percent
unemployment rate.
Historically, many Kentucky counties
- particularly in the eastern part of the
state - have had unemployment rates
above the state and national averages,
said John Garen, an economics professor
and co-director of the University of
Kentucky's Center for Business and
Economic Research.
Many of the counties have had less of
a knowledge-based economy and
focused instead more on physical labor,
including coal, Garen said. That has contributed to the higher unemployment
rates, he said.
It's a cycle that's hard to break, Garen
said.
When companies look to locate in
Kentucky, they tend to focus on the
state's urban areas of Lexington,
Louisville and northern Kentuc:1Garen
said.
"It's hard to see any major rno ments ~
of employers into rural areas,'' Garen
said. "There just aren't as many reasons
to locate there."
And, many college-educated people
who come from low-income areas usually can't stay there to work, he said.
"People who are from rural areas and
do get a lot of education and skills tend
not to stay there," Garen said. "They tend
to move out."
Innovation in the coal industry, combined with the dwindling tobacco market,
has hurt Kentucky, said Natalie, Gibson,
director of development at the Center for
~
Rural Development in Somerset.
Technological advances in the coal
industry have allowed more coal to be
gathered using fewer people, Gibson
said.
"And of course, if there are losses
there, then that has an impact on everything else," Gibson said. "People don' t
have jobs, they can' t buy anything
because they don't have any money. So
that means stores start to go out ,of business and industry starts to leave."·
Meanwhile, areas with lower .unemployment levels tend to be urban areas
with larger populations, she said. Urban
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article written by Mary Music and headlined, "State appeals $20,000 wreck
award." This article went on to discuss
our Mother's 1992 death in a car accident
on U.S. 23. Nowhere Wi\S the usual dis-
claimer that the Times was only present- before or after the accident, but Miller
ing one side of the issue, and at no time pointed out that the victim had a blood
were our attorneys contacted for com- alcohol level of 0.127."
ment.
This is an irresponsible and incorrect
We have several issues at odds with statement by Mr. Miller. The alcohol
what was reported by The Times article:
intoxication issue was ruled inadmissible
l. The part of the article that reads: because of sampling errors, handling
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claims erroneously assigned 85 percent
It might interest your readers to know
of the blame on the driver, when consum- that in 2002 a National Transportation
ing alcohol before operating an automo- Safety Board investigative team made an
bile should have warranted assigning all . inquiry into why the bodies of pilots ~
of the blame. It is not known whether the
sign warning of the guardrail was down
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
W.~~Va.
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study tries dance Qame as weight-loss effort for kids
by ALLISON BARKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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CHARLESTON, W.Va.
Like many other 11-year-old
boys, K.D. Jones loves sports.
But at 5 fbet, 175 pounds, he
found his weight and his asthma an obstacle.
His doctor wanted him to
lose 50 pounds, and he is hoping a new health study using a
video dance game will help him
get down to 125 by the end of
summer in time to play football.
Jones is one of 85 children
in an at-home study trying the
popular
Dance
Dance
Revolution video game to boost
their activity. The study is
being done by West Virginia's
public employees insurance
group in hopes it will lead to
better health and lower costs.
Jones lost about 10 pounds
by changing his diet. Now, after
two weeks playing the game, he
has lost another J0.
~State
"I feel a lot better," he said.
"It's a lot easier to play basketball now."
His enthusiasm has his
mother, who also struggles with
her weight, giving the game a
try.
"It's a lot of fun," Joyce
Jones said. "But I can only do it
about two times for every four
times he does."
The West Virginia Public
Employees Insurance Agency,
which covers 215,000 state
workers, teachers and their
dependents, believes it is the
first insurance provider to use
the game to cut costs. Konami
Digital Entertainment America,
which distributes the Japanese
game m the United States,
knows of no other state or
insurance agency using the
game for its health benefits.
"Today's kids are tomorrow's members," said the insurance group's Nidia Henderson.
"Obesity claims last year cost
us $77 million. We have to cur-
tail those costs."
The insurer is providing a
game console, dance pad and
software for the six-month,
$60,000 study. West Virginia
University is providing the
medical screenings and tracking results.
The students, all children of
PEIA-covered employees, are
required
to
meet
with
researchers, play the game a
prescribed amount of time,
wear a pedometer and maintain
a log. They get to keep the
game software and pad.
So far, about a dozen kids
have started playing the game.
They will be re-evaluated after
three months and again at the
end of the study.
PEIA is also funding part of
a two-year pilot project with
the state Education Department
to put the game in 20 schools
for use in physical education
and health classes. They hope
children who play it at school
will get their parents to buy it
for home use.
In West Virginia, almost 43
percent of the nearly 6,000
children screened for heart disease risk were considered overweight or obese; more than 25
percent were obese.
"We are in a crisis in terms
of childhood obesity not only in
West Virginia but in America,"
said Linda Carson, a professor
in WVU's School of Physical
Education who is coordinating
the study.
Prescreeni"ng tests on the
overweight children have
already
raised
concerns.
Researchers expected to find
problems with blood pressure
and cholesterol, but they also
found that blood flow to the
arteries was being disrupted.
The condition can lead to diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers at Syracuse
University in New York also
have been looking at the potential for improved cardiovascular and physiological effects
ranks high in early prenatal care; cancer rates persist
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the national average, especially
for lung and colorectal cancer,
the report said. And hospital
LOUJ<SVILLE - Kentucky admissions for complications
is plag~d by high cancer and from diabetes in Kentucky were
diabetes rates but received solid above the national average, it
marks for some preventative said.
efforts in a national health report
Kentucky's best ranking was
issued Monday.
12th for the percentage of
The state ranks high for early women receiving prenatal care
prenatal care and is in the mid- in the first three months of pregdie of the pack nationally for nancy, according to the report.
blood cholesterol checks to try
Dr.
William
Hacker,
to prevent heart disease, accord- Kentucky's public health coming to the 2004 National missioner, said Monday that
Healthcare Quality Report, a early prenatal care "is a cornersta~-b~state review mandated
stone of a good pregnancy outby .ConJress.
come."
'"'Cancer death rates in '
"Early prenatal care is critiKentucky, however, exceeded cal for provt,qi~ !l\.ittjti0na'C
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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guidance to mothers who are
pregnant, giving them information regarding the risk of smoking, of taking medications that
they should not be taking," he
said in an interview.
Despite the higher-than-average early prenatal care,
Kentucky had slightly higher
percentages of low-weight newborns in 2001, according to the
report.
The report rated Kentucky
25th nationally in the percentage of adults who had their
blood cholesterol checked in the
past five years.
Kentucky also rated slightly
above the national average i'ti'
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older who received flu vaccines
in the last year.
Meanwhile, the state's overall cancer death . rate easily
exceeded the national average.
In 2001, Kentucky had an overall cancer death rate of 227 .9 per
100,000 people, compared with
a national average of 195.1
deaths, according to the report.
Kentucky's death rates from
among children using the game.
And at Penn State, researchers
are studying how much energy
children use playing games like
Dance Dance Revolution.
In West Virginia, Robrietta
Lambert, a physical education
teacher at Franklin Elementary
in Pendleton County, believes
she already knows what all the
studies will find. She has been
using the video game in her
classes since last fall.
"It improves cardiovascular
health as well as eye-hand coordination," Lambert said. "Kids
who don't like other things
bloom on this. If they don't like
basketball, jumping rope or ball
activities, they like this."
Players stand on a 3-footsquare metal mat with an arrow
on each side - pointing up,
down, left and right. Arrows
scroll up the television screen
to the beat of more than 100
tunes chosen by the player. As
an arrow moves across the
screen, the player steps on the
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platform. Hidden songs are
uncovered as players improve
their speed and scores.
Sounds easy enough, but
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at which veterans play, and the
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are flushed in the face after one
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At
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High
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draw students inside Maxine
Arbogast's health class. The
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Japan, is attracting the sedentary and the seasoned athlete
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Shadrick "Shad"
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Shadrick "Shad" Daniel
Vickers, 28, of Prestonsburg,
died
Thursday,
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at Ce.ntral Baptist
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Born April 13,
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1976, in Lexington, he was
son of Garry Howard Vickers
and Helen Ann Francis
Vickers of Lancaster. He was
a salesman at Lowe's in
Paintsville; a member of the
Community United Methodist
Church, and a member of the
United Coalition for Drugs.
He is survived by his wife ,
Tiffany Meade Vickers .
Survivors , in addition to
his wife and parents, include
one
daughter, Savannah
Leshae
Vickers
of
Prestonsburg; and two sons:
Aiden Joseph Vickers and
Charles Robert Hubbard
Vickers,
both
of
Prestonsburg; one sister,
Sarah Susanne Ousley of
Stanford ; his grandmother,
Betty Davis Francis of
Prestonsburg ; and his greatgrandmother, Lucille Davis
of Prestonsburg.
He was preceded in death
by his grandparents: Hubbard
C. "Huck" Francis, Howard
Jackson "Jack" Vickers, and
Nancy Wells Vickers.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 4, at 1
p .m. , at the Community
United Methodist Church, in
Prestonsburg, with Rev.
Steve Pescosolido and Rev.
Larry Vickers officiating.
Interment was in the Davis
Family
Cemetery,
Prestonsburg.
The family had entrusted
arrangements to the Carter
Funeral Horne.
Contributions are suggested to: Shad Vickers Memorial
Fund in care of Community
United Methodist, 147 Burke
Ave ., P restons b urg, K y.
41653 .
Active pallbearers:
Jay
Macintire, Joey Nunn, Brad
Burchett, Paul Burchett, Tim
Collins, Jeff Setser, Craig
Lyons, Robbie Moore, Seth
Long, and Kris Clark.
Honorary: Charles Halfhill,
Shawn Ousley, and Clayton
Case.
(Paid obituary)
James Walker
Horn
James Walker Horn, age 77,
of Hilliard, Ohio, passed away
at Doctors Hospital on
Thursday, March 10,2005.
James was born on October
20, 1927, in Ligon, Kentucky,
a son of the late John and
Bessie Moore Hom. His
beloved wife of 41 years,
Irene Howell Horn, preceded
him in death.
Jimmy served his country as
a member of the United States
Army during the Korean
Conflict. He retired from
Columbus Coated Fabrics
after 34 years of service, and
was a Charter Member of
Harvest Assembly of God. He
was a devoted and loving husband, father, uncle, and friend.
He is survived by his son,
Dana, and daughter-in-law,
Michele, of Plain City, Ohio;
a brother, Charles B. Horn of
Weeksbury; and many nieces,
nephews, in-laws, and friends .
Visitation was Sunday,
March 13, from 4-8 p.m., at
Harvest Assembly of God,
8075 Dellinger Road, Galloway, Ohio, where funeral service was held at 11 a.m.,
Monday, March 14, 2005,
with Pastor Chris Tomaso
officiating. Interment was in
the Sunset Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to James
Walker Hom Memorial Fund
at Harvest Assembly Church.
Arrangements completed by
the Tidd Funeral Horne,
Hilliard, Ohio.
(paid ob~uary)
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Ralph Blankenship
Ralph Blankenship, 53, of
Teaberry, died Saturday, April
2, 2005, at his residence.
Born March 2, 1952, in
Martin, he was the son of
Chester and Bessie Hall
Blankenship of Teaberry. He
was a disabled coal miner, and
a member of the Tackett Fork
Freewill Baptist Church at
Beaver
He is survived by his wife,
Rosa Akers Blankenship.
In addition to his wife, and
parents, survivors include a
son, Ralph Blankenship Jr.,
(wife, Susan) of Ashtabula,
Ohio; three daughters: Penny
Lynn
Mosley
(husband,
Scotty) of Grethel, Sandy Faye
McGuire (husband, Joey) of
Beaver, and Cindy Ann
Blankenship of Teaberry; three
brothers: Charlie Blankenship
of
Galveston,
Carter
Blankenship of Teaberry, and
Lester
Blankenship
of
Flemingsburg; two sisters:
Mildred Akers of Teaberry, and
Madge Keathley of Galveston;
eight grandchildren and three
step-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
a
son, Shannon Ralph
Blankenship.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 4, at ll
a .m., at the Samaria Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Teaberry, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial
was
in
the
Blankenship Family Cemetery,
at Teaberry, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Horne, in Martin.
Visitation was at the church,
with nightly services at 7 p.m.
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6
of Prestonsburg, the husband
of Margaret Ann Adams
Blackburn, passed away
Thursday, March 31, 2005, at
the
Cabell
Huntington
Hospital, Huntington, West
Virginia.
He was born April 6, 1937,
in Endicott, the son of the
late Gordie Blackburn and
Mellie Bush Blackburn. He
was a retired truck driver,
and a member of the Endicott
Freewill Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife,
Margaret Ann; one daughter,
Rhonda Gaye Blackburn of
Prestonsburg; one brother,
Trevert
Blackburn
of
Prestonsburg; and three sisters: Farinda Miller of
Jackson , Ohio, and Gertie
Garrett and Bonnie Scalf,
both of Prestonsburg.
He was preceded in death
by his parents; four brothers:
Delmar Blackburn, Thelrnar
Blackburn, Troy Blackburn,
and John Blackburn; and two
sisters: Margie Spears and
Cora Blackburn.
Funeial services for Torn
Ed Blackburn were conducted Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m.,
at the Hall Funeral Horne, in
Martin, with Clergymen Jim
Smith and Hobart Meek officiating .
Burial
was
in
the
Blackburn Family Cemetery,
in McCombs, under the professional care of the Hall
Funeral Horne.
Visitation was at the funeral horne, with nightly services at 7 p .rn.
Pallbearers: Jason Bishop,
James
Adams,
Steven
Stevens, Ronnie Blackburn,
Christopher
Blackburn,
Ricky
Scalf,
Brandon
Maynard, Dakota Maynard,
Chris Brothers, David Hall,
and Sean Bo Bo.
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Andy Newsome
Andy Newsome, age 76, of
Grethel, husband of the late
Lucile Martin Newsome,
passed away Saturday, April 2,
2005, in Ridgecrest Manor,
Duffield, Virginia.
He was born January 7,
1929, a son of the late William
and
Martha
Hamilton
Newsome. He was a retired
heavy equipment operator, a
member of the Grethel Baptist
Church, and was a member of
John W. Hall Masonic Lodge
No. 950, Martin.
Survivors include two sons:
Gerald (Kathy} Newsome, and
John W. Newsome, both of
Grethel; two brothers: William
Newsome Jr., of Stanville, and
Billy Ray Newsome of Grethel;
six sisters: Fannie Hall of
Peebles, Ohio, and Melvina
Akers and Sola Akers, both of
Grethel, Mearl Clark of
Harold, and Emogene Hall and
Pauline Green, both of Ivel;
two grandchildren: Andrea
Newsome (Jonathan) Sadler,
and Gerald Brandon (Stacy)
Newsome; and two greatgrandchildren: Austin Blake
Sadler, and Cameron Kyle
Saddler.
In addition to his parents and
wife, he was preceded in death
by five brothers: Duran
Newsome, Dock Newsome,
Tolva Newsome, Anthony
Newsome,
and
Charlie
Newsome; and four sisters:
Martha
Newsome,
Cora
Moore, Goldie Thacker, and
Armina Newman.
A Masonic service was held
Monday evening, at 7 p.m.
Funeral services for Andy
Newsome were conducte-d
Tuesday, April 5, at 11 a.m., at
the Hall Funeral Horne, in
Martin, with Clergyman Don
Crisp officiating.
Burial was in the MartinNewsorne
Cemetery,
in
Grethel, under the professional
care of the Hall Funeral Horne.
Visitation was at the funeral
horne.
Pallbearers: Ronnie Akers,
Zackery
Akers,
Duran
Newsome, Charles Newsome,
Arthur Deskins, Drexle Hall,
Brandon Newsome, Dwayne
Kidd, William Newsome, and
Johnny Sadler.
(Paid obituary)
Meredith Edgar
Spurlock
Benny Roy Meade
Benny Roy Meade, 67. of
Betsy Layne, died Sunday,
Meredith Edgar Spurlock, age
April 3 , 200 5, at Central
81, of Prestonsburg, husband of
Baptist
Hospital
in
Opal Salisbury Spurlock, passed
Lexington.
away Monday, April4, 2005, at
Born December 8, 1937, in
the
Veterans
Hospital,
Boldman, he was the son of the
Huntington, West Virginia.
late Crate and Gypsy Porter
He was born July 26, 1923, in Meade . He was a tinsmith , and
Hunter, the son of the late a U.S. Army veteran.
Hobert Cline Spurlock and Nora
Survivors inc lude one
Kathryn Salisbury Spurlock. He brother, Crate Meade Jr. , of
was a self-employed salesman, Boldman; six sisters: Mary
and a minister of The Kingdom Ann Adkins of Virginia ,
Hall Jehovah's Witness.
Merle Haggerty of Arkansas,
Survivors include his wife, Zelia Robarts of Florida,
Opal; one son, Timothy Cline Dortha Williams of Texas,
Spurlock of Prestonsburg; one Mabre Bryan of Maryland,
daughter, Rita (Mike) Wells of and Aretta Bryan of North
Lexington; seven grandchildren: Carolina; special friends :
Ronda K. Meade, Ruc;sell Freddy and Faye Wicker of
Meredith Meade, Timothy Somerset; and several nieces
David Spurlock, James Joel and nephews.
Spurlock,
Aaron
River
In addition to his parents,
Spurlock, Steve Wells, and he was preceded in death by a
Tammy Wells Bartley; and sev- sister, Patsy Harmon.
eral great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be
Funeral services for Meredith conducted Wednesday, April
Edgar Spurlock will be conduct- 6, at 11 a.rn ., at the Nelsoned Thursday, April 7, at 1 p.m., Frazier Funeral Home, in
with
Belmont
at the Hall Funeral Horne Martin,
Chapel, in Martin, with .Minister Johnson officiating.
Burial wil l be in the
Heiki Giese officiating.
Davidson
Memorial Gardens,
Burial will follow in the
in
Ivel,
under
the direction of
Hunter Cemetery, under the proNelson-Frazier
Funeral
fessional care of the Hall
Horne.
Funeral Horne.
Visitation is at the funeral
Visitation is at the funeral
horne.
(Paid obituary)
home.
(Paid obituary)
Josephine Musick
Josephine Musick, 73 , of
Prestonsburg, died Monday,
April4, 2005, at her re.sitlence.
Born October 16, 1931 , in
Floyd County, she was the
daughter of the late George
Tivis and Virgie Hunter Goble.
She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Marvin Musick.
Survivors include three sons:
George P. Musick, and Marvin
Jr.,
both
of
Musick
Prestonsburg, and Steven Ray
Musick of Pikeville; three
daughters: Phyllis Ann Davis of
Prestonsburg, Evelyn Marie
Musick of Pensacola, Florida,
and Betty Kay Musick of Allen;
one brother, James Goble of
Prestonsburg; two sisters:
Kathleen Miller, and Dottie
Lou
Woods,
both
of
Prestonsburg; 10 grartdchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, April 7 , at 2
p .m ., at the Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Horne, in Mardn, with
Gordon Fitch, and others , officiating.
Burial will be in the Musick
Cemetery,
Cow
Creek,
Prestonsburg, under the ~ec
tion of Nelson-Frazier Furreral
Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
(Paht obituary)
home.
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Jimmy (Dickie) Stumbo
Jimmy (Dickie) Stumbo, 50,
of Price, died Wednesday,
March 30, 2005, at the
McDowell Appalachian Regional Healthcare emergency
room.
Born January 26, 1955, in
Martin, he was the son of
Cecil and
Mertie Moore
Stumbo of Price. He was a disabled miner.
He is survived by his wife,
Glenda Sue·Spears Stumbo.
In addition to his wife and
parents, survivors include
three sons: Brian Stumbo
(wife, Kristy) of Price , Keith
Stumbo (wife, Michelle) of
Hager Hill, and Scottie
Stumbo (girlfriend, Paula
Curtis) of Price; three grandchildren: John David Stumbo,
Dalton Alan Stumbo , and
Hollie LaShae Stumbo; four
brothers:
Mike
Stumbo
(Karen) of Prestonsburg,
Randy Stumbo (Lynn) of
Cynthiana, Ricky Stumbo
(Rhonda) of Price, and Mark
Stumbo
(Earlene)
of
Crittenden; a sister, Paula
Lewis (Jim) of Dacula,
Georgia; and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, April 2, at 11
a.m., at the Pilgrims Rest Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Price, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial was in the family
cemetery, (Cherokee Road), at 4W
Price, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funer.J Horne,
in Martin.
Visitation was at the church,
with nightly services at 7 p .m .
(Paid <!bituary)
Card of Thanks
The family of Katherine Stratton would like to express a
sincere appreciation to all the relatives, friends, and neighbors, who helped to comfort us during our time of loss. We
would like to thank all those who sent food , flowers , and
words of comfort expressed. A special thanks to Clergyman
Ken Lemaster for his comforting words, the Sheriff's
Department for their traffic control, and the Hall Funeral
Home for their kind and efficient service.
THE FAMILY OF KATHERINE STRATTON
Card of Thanks
The family of Opal Montana Vanderpool Howard, would like to
express our appreciation to all those who helped in any way during the
loss of our loved one. We thank you for the flowers and all the kindness expressed.
A special thanks, first to Hall Funeral Home, for bringing her home
to the hills o~Kentucky, and for their professional service for her eternal rest; and Rev. Bethel Bolen, a deep emotional thanks for honoring
her last wishes. Also Rev. David Garrett for his special run to Virginia,
and for timing and pulling it all together for us. Also for the food that
was served at Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist Church.
THE FAMILY OF
OPAL MONTANA VANDERPOOL HOWARD
Card of Thanks
The family of Ray Layne would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all those who helped in any way during
the loss of our loved one. We appreciate all the food, flowers ,
prayers, and all the acts of kindness shown to our family. A
special thanks to the Regular Baptist ministers for their comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance in
traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Horne of Martin, ~y. , for
their kind, professional, and courteous service. All your
thoughts and prayers were a great comfort to our family.
THE FAMILY OF RAY LAYNE
(,
Card of Thanks
The family of Bethel M. Hall would like to express our
appreciation to all those who helped in any way during our time
of sorrow. We appreciate all the food, flowers, prayers, and all
the acts of kindness shown to our family. We would like to send
a special thanks to the Little Nancy Old Regular Baptist
Church, and the Old Regular Baptist ministers for their comforting words, the staff and doctors at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital, the Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Horne, and the Sheriff's Department for their assistance in traffic control. All your acts of kindness were a great comfort to
our family.
THE FAMILY OF BETHEL M. HALL
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Card of Thanks
The family of Ray Hamilton Jr., would like to acknowledge with heartfelt appreciation, all those who helped in
any way during the recent loss of our loved one. Thank
you all so much for the food, flowers, prayers, and all the
acts of kindness shown to our family. We especially want
to thank the Regular Baptist ministers for their comforting
words, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance in
traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home for providing
dignified and courteous service.
THE FAMILY OF RAY HAMILTON JR.
Card of Thanks
We, the family of the late Mike Wireman of Hueysville, Ky., would
like to humbly thank each and everyone who helped in any way during
the passing of our son. To those who sent flowers, food, or came by the
funeral home to offer moral and loving support at a time when our
hearts were breaking. For the ministers, Roger Bolen, Bill Tussey Jr.,
and Earl Miller, we thank you guys so much for comforting words and
prayers. To the Floyd and Knott County Sheriff's Departments for
escorting us safely to the final resting place. To the Knott Cm.n:y
Coroner, Jeff Blair, for being so understanding and I·<'' '1'• . Also the
boys at Hall Brothers Funeral Home for such nice ano .;ompassionate
services. To anyone whom we failed to mention, thank you so much.
May God Bless You All.
With Love and Prayers,
Ondle and Kathleen Wireman, and Family
HueysviUe, Ky.
Card of Thanks
The family of Woodrow "Nine Beard" Jarrell would like to
express our appreciation to all those who helped in ahy way
during the loss of our loved one. We thank you for the &wers,
food, and all the kindness expressed. A special thanks to
Clergyman Gordon Fitch for his comforting words, the
Sheriff's Department for their assistance in traffic control, and
to the Hall Funeral Horne for their kind and professional
service. All your acts of kindness were a great comfort to our
family.
THE FAMILY OF WOODROW "NINE BEARD" JARRELL
�T HE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
New Jersey native chosen to
head UK's Appalachian Center
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PIKEVILLE - A New
Jersey native who has worked
extensively in the mountains of
Kentucky· and Tennessee is
being recommended as the new
director of the University of
Kentucky Appalachian Center.
Evelyn Knight, a researcher
and associate professor in the
university's College of Public
Health, will begin her new
duties on May I, pending
approval by the UK board of
trustees, said Wendy Baldwin,
the university's executive vice
president for research.
Knight worked 14 years in
Appalachia before joining the
University of Kentucky. She
was an associate professor at
East
Tennessee
State
University in Johnson City,
Tenn., and was a coordinator of
planning and program development at Appalshop, an arts and
cultural center in Whitesburg.
Knight, who has been at the
Lexington campus since 2002,
also served three years as
director of health promotion
and disease prevention at the
Center for Rural Health in
Hazard.
"She's going to bring a Jot
of new energy and her broad
vision to the Appalachian
Center," Baldwin said.
Knight said she is excited
about the position. The first
order of business, she said, will
be to meet with people who
have an interest in the
Appalachian Center, whether
they're students, professors or
community leaders in eastern
Kentucky.
"I'm looking forward to it,"
she said. "The main thing I
want to do is get out and talk
with people. We'll be spending
a lot of time in the car, really
getting to know folks."
The
mission
of the
Appalachian Center, which
was created more than 25 years
ago, is to enlist experts from
every field of study at the university to help solve problems
in the mountains. Knight will
guide the Appalachian Center
as it takes on various research,
service and education projects
involving mountain communities. What the initial projects
will be haven't been decided.
"My notion is we'll decide
that as a collaborative effort,"
she said. "I'm not going to
make the decision by myself."
Knight, who received a doctorate in health education from
the University of Maryland,
beat out one of eastern
Kentucky's best known champions for economic development for the job. Roger
Recktenwald, who helped
develop industrial parks and
recruit factories to the region,
was among the finalists selected by a search committee.
Recktenwald,
60,
of
Lav.renceburg, served from
2000 to 2004 as executive
eli rector of th~ Kentucky
Infrastructure Authority, a state
agency that helps identify and
fund projects important to the
state's economic development.
Before that, he worked 27
years for the Big Sandy Area
Development
District
m
Prestonsburg.
Baldwin said Knight's interests go far beyond the health
issues that are her area of
expertise.
"Her background is in
research and community-based
activities in Appalachia,"
Baldwin said. "She has a commitment to the broad issues the
center will face."
Baldwin
said
the
Appalachian Center will continue to "bring the research
skills of the university to bear
on
the
problems
of
Appalachia.''
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Telethon raises $52,000 for 'Hope'
HAZARD - The WYMThosted telethon for the Hope
in the Mountains treatment
~ center initiative held Sunday,
April 3, brought in about
$52,000 in pledges .
The non-profit organization will be conducting several fundraisers throughout the
year as board members hope
to open the 90-day drug and
alcohol treatment facility by
September.
Although the center
located on Route 17 50 in
Johnson County - will house
20 to 25 women initially,
board members will begin
~ planning for a men's facility
immediately upon opening.
The facility offers a longterm approach to treating a
person with a chemical depen-
dency problem in order to
help the person establish a
solid foundation for a new
way of life before leaving the
safety of the treatment center,
as Well as building a support
system to ensure continued
success.
While the center hopes to
use grants for funding when
established, it must rely on
community support for initial
startup.
The telethon brought in
$52,412 in pledges and though
statistics show not all of those
who promised a check will
send one, a significant amount
was from a few sources who
will deliver. Among those
were $15,000 from Willard
Kinzer, of Kinzer Drilling in
Floyd County; $5,000 from
board member Inez Baldridge;
$5 ,000 from Enchanted World
Travel;
$2,000
from
Highlands Regional Medical
Center; $1,000 from Johnson
County Fiscal Court; and
$1 ,000 from Citizens National
Bank.
Any one who did not get an
opportunity to pledge can
send donations, regardless of
how small, to Hope in the
Mountains, 273 Horseshoe
Street, Thelma, KY 41260.
Churches wishing to participate in assisting this spiritually-based facility can send
donations to the Thelma
address or they can participate
in a fundraiser hosted by the
Paintsville Herald called
"Churches for Hope," by
sending a check or money
order made out to .Hope in the
Mountains to the Herald, P.O .
box 1547, Paintsville, KY
41240-5547.
Church pastors are asked to
request each member of their
congregation to donate at least
$1 a month at the beginning of
each month. The Herald will
list the churches and the donations at the end of each month
on a special page to build
community support and to
show the efforts of people
uniting for a common purpose
- the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health of
Eastern Kentucki ans.
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Treasury·holds second eBay
auction of abandoned property
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FRANKFORT - For the
next week, a variety of items
from the holdings of the
Kentucky State Treasury's
Unclaimed Property Division
will be up for auction on eBay.
The items for auction have
been abandoned in safety
deposit boxes in banks and
financial institutions across the
state and range from jewelry and
old coins to a collection of rare
Elvis trading cards.
Like these pieces, property
that has been abandoned in
financial institutions for a period
of seven years must be handed
over to the Treasury. These particular items have been in the
Treasury's vault for at least three
years, and efforts to reach the
rightful owners have failed.
Extraordinarily
personal
items (e.g., military medals) will
never be auctioned off, and the
treasurer's office will continue
to seek the rightful owners.
The first eBay auction of
unclaimed property was held in
December 2004 and was a success. The 20 items up for auction received more than 500 bids
and brought more than $16,000
- more than 75 percent of the
appraised value.
The number of items this
time has been increased to 39.
The auction runs until 9 a.m.,
Monday, April 11.
A link to the eBay auction
can be found of the Treasury's
Web page www.kytroosury.com
APRIL IS DONATE LIFE MONTH
Ground Fresh Daily,
Family Pack
Be an organ & tissue donor!
Sign the back of your Kentucky Drivers License,
place a "Donor Dot" on the front and tell your
family about your decision.
There are currently more than 650 Kentuckians on waiting
lists for life saving organ transplants.
Some will die waiting.
Visit our website at www.trustforlife.org
Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks
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$599
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USDA Choice Beef Round, Sold Whole in the Bag,
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Round Roast, Sliced Free ...lb.
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Farm Fresh Brand, Grade A
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Sold in 10 lb. box for $12.90
$199
Chicken Breasts ..................lb.
38¢
16 oz. pkg., Selected Varieties
USDA Choice Beef Chuck, Sold as Roasts Only
16 oz. pkg., Selected Varieties
USDA Inspected,
Sold in 10 lb. bag for $3.80
Chicken Leg Quarters .... .tb.
$129
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�AS • WEDNESDAY, APRIL
6, 2005
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Calendar items will be
• printed as space permits
Editor's note:
To announce
your community event, you may
hand-deliver your item to The
Floyd County Times · office,
located at 263 S. Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg; or mail
to: The Floyd County Times,
P.O. Box 390, Prestonsburg, KY
41653; or fax to 606-886-3603;
or email to: features@jloydcountytimes .com. Information
will not be taken over the telephone. All items will be placed
on afirst-come,first-serve basis
as space permits
A Day in the Park
Scheduled, April 16
The Big Sandy Family
Caregiver Program and the
Johnson County Grandparent
Support Group announce "A
Day in the Park" for grandparents and their grandchildren.
This event is free and will be
held April 16, at the Paintsville
Recreation Center, from 10 a.m.
unti12 p.m. There will be games
for all ages, food ancf do"or
prizes. All grandparents l}nd
grandchildren are wef.cojne· t?
attend. For more information,
contact Melissa Kin~ a~ l-800,
737-2723 .
Revival at Wayland Church
The people of the Wayland
United Methodist Church invite
all to their Revival, April 8, 9,
and 10, at 7 p.m. Brent Tackett
will be preaching, with special
singing each night. Please join
us!
Pam Shingler to address
Jenny Wiley 3528, AARP
Pam Shingler, fund-raising
director · and producer at
WMMT-FM public community
radio and a part of Appalshop,
in Whitesburg, will be the guest
speaker at Jenny Wiley Chapter
No. 3528, AARP, at the meeting
to be held Friday, April 15, at
the
Presbyterian
Church,
Prestonsburg. The installation
of officers will also be conducted at this time. All members and
friends are encouraged to
attend.
PHS Class of '84
The Prestonsburg High
School Class of 1984 is seeking
members of the class for a
20/2lst year reunion, scheduled
to be held this coming July. If
you are, or if you know of, a
former classmate, please email
0
t
phs_class_of_1984@yahoo.co
m, or call 606-638-3941.
UNITE Drug Awareness
Group
To meet on Monday, April 11,
at 6 p.m., at the Allen Baptist
Church. This is an open meeting for all Floyd County citizens that are interested in learning more about the serious drug
addiction and distribution problem in ovr county. The Unite
: C~alit:iQn strives to provide
information and resources to
those who are affected by this
problem. Come, be a part of the
solution to a terrible problem!
We want, and need, your input!
Unite members also urge the
community to join them in
prayer against drug abuse every
Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Allen
First Baptist Church. A county
wide march is also being organized.
2005 Home and Garden
Expo
A 2005 Home and Garden
Expo will be held at the Jenny
Wiley Convention Center on
Saturd~y.Aptp. 9, from 10 a~....
3 p.m. There will be no charg¢ ... ~
for admission.
23. Volunteers are needed.
This year's program will fea- Supplies will be made availture: Home and garden topics, able. To volunteer your organibooths, free herb, vegetable and , zation or business, call 886flower seeds, and youth activi- 0498 to register.
ties.
Spring Piano Recital
Seeds will be distributed on a
Students of David Leslie will
"first-come first serve basis." present their annual Spring
Seed quantities are limited.
Recital on April 24, at 5:30 p.m.,
For more information, con- at the First Presbyterian Church
tact Ray Tackett, Theresa Scott, of Pikeville. A reception will
or Chuck Stamper at 886-2668. follow. The public is cordially
invited to attend. For more
information, call432-0633.
Show some PRIDE!!
The PRIDE spring clean-up
will take place April 9-23 in the
Reunion
City of Prestonsburg. The city
First Four Mile Reunion of
will pick up one dump truck Knott County will be held on
load of trash per household. Saturday, May 28, at 10 a.m., at
Additional loads will be picked the Corps Recreation area,
up according to the city's regu- Jenny Wiley State Park, SLelter
lar pick-up fee. Pick-ups called #2. Bring covered dish, table
in during this time only will be service, pictures, etc. All welon the PRIDE clean-up list. come to attend.
City residents may arrange a
clean-up, or volunteer their serBLHS High School Reunion
Classes of the 1930's, 1940's,
vices, by calling 886-2335. The
Floyd County PRIDE, Inc. is 1950's and 1960's. To be held
participating in this year's Saturday, June 25. For info.,
PRIDE clean-up from April 9- call Joe Hinchman at 874-2821
or Marvin Williamson at 4783310.
BLHS Class of 1955
Reunion to be held on Friday,
June 24 and Saturday, June 25.
For information , call Marvin
Williamson at 478-33 I 0 or
Gene Davis at 874-2873 .
Senior Expo
Sponsored by HRMC and area
agencies . To be held May 4 , at
the Jenny Wiley State Park's
Stumbo Convention Center. For
those age 55 and older. Broad
range of topics including
Preventing
Exploitation ,
Nutrition, Aging and Gardening
Tips. For more info., contact
Melissa Vance, Dir. of Comm.
Dev. at HRMC, at 886-7468.
HRMCComm.
Calendar - April
•April 9 - Childbirth classes,
Meeting Place A & B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
•April 12 - Senior Advantage,
Meeting Place A & B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 9:30-11:30 a.m.
•April 23 - Healthy Living
with Diabetes, Meeting Place A
& B, Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 9-11:30 a.m.
For more information, call
886-7424.
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Attention: BLHS Class of
'85
It's been 20 years! Reunion is
being planned. If you are a
classmate, or if you know of a
classmate's ~hereabouts, please
email addresses to Debbie Hall
Parsons or Gwen Cecil at:
dochallparsons
@charter.net.
Free Body Recall classe&
Free Body Recall Exercise
Classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at 9:30,
at the Presbyterian Church in
Prestonsburg. Classes are held .
Monday, Wednesday, and
(See CALENDAR, page nine)
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begun enforcing a law requiring
motorists to use the left lane for
passing only.
Since the patrol started
enforcing the "Left Lane Law"
three months ago, troopers have
written about 460 tickets or
about an average of five a day to
drivers who dawdle in the left
lane.
The law applies in zones with
speed limits of 65 mph or higher. It took effect July 1, but
troopers gave drivers until
January to get used to the new
law; warnings were issued
instead of tickets.
Master Trooper Ron Watkins
said that since the ticketing cail_lpaign began three months ago
about 90 percent of the drivers
he has pulled over for dawdling
or cruising in the left lane said
they didn't know that it was illegal to do so.
Violators of the left lane rule
may be fined up to $41 and have
three points tacked onto their
driver's licenses. The law is not
enforced when the highway is
too congested to allow drivers to
pass.
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Thursday, at II a.m. at the old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788,
for more information.
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program."
You must be 55 or older to
apply. In Floyd, can 886-2929;
Johnson ,
call
789-6515 ;
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike,
call432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call 638-4067 .
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Age 55 or older?
If so, and you are also unemployed, and would like to make
money while being trained in
skills that will help you gain
employment, or become reemployed, contact Bill Little,
Senior Community Service
Employment Program, Big
Sandy Area Development
District, at 886-2374. "Area
Employers are Looking for
Dependable Workers
like
YOU!"
External Diploma Program
Kentucky residents age 25
and older can earn a high school
diploma by demonstrating skills
learned on the job or in raising a
family. Flexible scheduling is
provided and confidentiality
maintained. Classes are held at
Perkins
the
Carl
D.
Rehabilitation
Center,
in
Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
evening classes on Thursday,
from 4:30-8:30. Contact Andy
Jones at 800-443-2187 , ext. 186,
or Linda Bell, at ext. 160 to
make an appointment.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
Cliffside Community Room.
David: 1st Monday, 1 p.m.,
at St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
Martin Church of Christ.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
p.m., Maytown First Baptist
Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt
Guild: lst/3rd Wednesdays, lO
a.m., Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
1:30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg: 3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m ., Home of members (call 886-2668 for info.)
"Looking For a Support
Group?"
•Alzheimer's
Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday of
each month at the First
Presbyterian Church (near
Jerry's Restaurant), at 6 p.m.
For more info., call Dana
Caudill at 886-0265, or Jane
Bond at FCHD.
•Alzheimer's
Association,
East-ern KY Regional Office 24-hour Helpline, call 1-800272-3900 for emotional support,
local resources, and other information.
•MS Support Group - Meets
third Monday of each month at
7:00p.m. at the Seton Complex,
Martin. Offers group support
for MS patients and their caregivers.
•Overeater's
Anonymous
(O.A.)- Meets each Monday, at •Kentucky Baptist Homes for
3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha Children - Free, confidential
Catholic Church, Water Gap assistance for unplanned pregRoad. For more info., call 886- nancy concerns. Talk with
2513 .
someone who cares about you
•US TOO! Prostate Cancer and your baby. Call 1-800-928Survivors Support Group - 5242.
For all men with prostate cancer •Disabled? - You may be eligiand their families. Group meets ble for grant money to assist in
the 3rd Thursday of each month, your daily living. For an appliat 6 p.m., at the Ramada Inn, cation or more information, call
Paintsville.
886-4326.
•Community Weight Loss •A.S.K. (Adoption Support for
Support Group
Meets Kentucky) - Support group for
Thursday's at 6:30 p.m., at the all adoptive parents (public, priMartin Community Center. For vate, international, and kinship
more info ., call 377-6658. care), foster parents and all othThose who have had gastric ers interested in adoption. To be
bypass surgery most especially held the first Monday of each
welcome to attend. Meetings month, at the Department for
being offered as support to any- Community Based Services
one needing extra support in office, 1009 North Lake Drive,
dealing with weight loss.
Prestonsburg, from 6-8 p.m.
•Domestic Violence Hotline - Childcare will not be provided.
24-hour Crisis Line manned by For more information, contact
Certified Domestic Violence Dedra Slone, adoptive parent
counselors. Call 886-6025, or · liaison, at 432-4110 or 4221-800-649-6605. Remember, 7927,
or
email
to:
"Love Doesn't Have to Hurt."
doslone@eastky.net.
•PARENTS! - Contact the Big
Sandy Area Community Action
Program, Inc. to find out about
child care services in your area,
the STARS for KIDS NOW
licensing standards program,
and how you can earn an income
by staying home with your own
children while caring for the
children of others. Find out
more by calling Cheryl Endicott
at 886-1280, or 888-872-7227
(toll free).
•East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
Homesehoolers -Will hold
m
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t
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ly meetings at the Paintsville
Recreation Center. For more
information, call Trudy at 8899333, or 297-5147. Everyone
welcome.
•Narcotics Anonymous (NA)Each Wednesday, from 7-8 p.m.,
in the Atrium Conference
Room, 2nd floor, May Tower,
Pikeville Methodist Hospital.
For more info., contact Chris
Cook at 606-433-1119 or
christophercook@hotmail.com.
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recovered from crash scenes
showed elevated levels of
blood alcohol. The study concluded that it was an issue of
elapsed time, that being from
the time of the crash until the
body is brought to a hospital
for examination. Once a person
dies, their body begins to decay
immediately. In an accident the
body may be trapped and it
may take hours from the time
of death until the body is
extracted.
Such was the case with our
Mother. During this time,
sugar in the blood without
oxygenation begins to break
down in a process many know
as fermentation. Over the
course of several hours. blood
alcohol will rise as the fermentation process progresses, and
a false reading of intoxication
will be given when a sample of
the blood is taken. The conclusion, in a nutshell, is that one
could be as sober as a judge at
the time of death and a few
hours later be ruled as being
intoxicated.
In direct support of our
position that our Mother was
not intoxicated is the fact that
the EMT who gave her mouthto-mouth resuscitation testified
under oath that he could detect
no smell of alcohol on her
breath. Further credibility is
given to his statement by a
neighbor's testimony which
stated that she had talked to our
Mother face to face minutes
before the accident and that she
saw no signs that our Mother
had been drinking.
Evidence presented in thi<;
matter proves that the blood
samples themselve~, when
received by the State Medical
Examiner's office m hankfort,
were intermingled with other
blood samples and our mother's blood samples were in
containers bearing broken
seah. For this reason alone, the
compromised blood samples
were ruled by the Hearing
Officer as being inadmissible
as evidence in this case. We
were both shocked and publicly embarrassed to sec the
compromised results being
trumpeted as a matter of fact in
The Floyd County Times article.
2. The part of the article that
reads: ''Frank Miller, legal rep-
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rcsentative
for
the
Transportation Cabinet noted
that the suit came about as the
result of a drunk driving incident from 1992, in which a driver drove down the median on
U.S. 23 and struck a guard rail."
This makes it sound to many
as if our Mother was the one
who did this, and makes her
sound like the "drunk driver"
referenced. This was in fact
referring to an incident that
happened more than a month
earlier, and this along with
other do(!umcntation proved
that the sign was not in place
when our Mother's wreck
occurred.
Many will remember this
time as being w~en the construction of four continuous
Janes of U.S. 23 through
Prestonsburg was completed.
With the daily lane/route
changes, poor striping, equipment sitting in or near the roadway, one thing that was heard
over and over again in testimony taken by the deposition
of several eyewitnesses was
the word "confusion." It was
so confusing in fact that not
only was there another wreck
at the same time approximately
one mile north of the wreck
involving our Mother, but one
person responding t" rmr mother's accident scene almost
wrecked himsell upon arrival.
As many will remember, there
were numerous accidents and
fatalities during this period of
construction.
3. The part of the article
that reads: "It is not known
whether the sign warning of
the guardrail was down before
or after the accident .. ." is in
error as we have presented for
the record documentation,
expert testimony, official
records, pictures and videotape which prove otherwise.
Unfortunately, others were
injured in this accident.
Reparations were justly made
to the injured parties immediately following the accident,
and though their experience
was traumatic and should not
be diminished in any way, they
have been able to conclude this
matter and go on with their
lives while our suffering
remains a daily issue 13 years
later.
While none of this will
return our Mother to us, we
feel that it is only just that the
writer of the article present
both sides of this story. It's
known as "objective reporting ."
Joe D. Weddington Jr
Prestonsburg
Lynn Weddington Tucker
New York, NY
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I am writing about the shooting that took place during an
alleged burglary attempt at
Luv's Homes in lvel, Ky., on
March 22, 2005
I would like to take a moment
to describe the kind of person
that Ronald Craig "Tom" Dillion
was. He was one of the most
charismatic people that I have.
ever met. He was a father, son,
brother, husband , and a friend.
He was a witty and facetious
thirty-three year old man who
was full of life. He was dependable and was always willing to
help out a friend in need. He
was kind, fun loving, and he
always had a smile on his face.
He made friends everywhere
he went. Tom lost more personality than most people possess. He made his share of
mistakes, but who doesn't?
Jesus said, "Ye without sin can
cast the first stone." Tom did
not deserve to die, he should
have been afforded the opportunity to go on trial for his
alleged crime. No one has the
right to be both judge and jury!
No one has the right to play
GOD!!! Our forefathers set up
the Constitution of these
United States of America, giving everyone a right to a fair
trial, "innocent until proven
guilty." All of these people were
afforded their constitutional
right to a trial by a jury of their
peers: Scott Peterson, Ted
Bundy, Charles Manson, and
Jeffery Dahmer. The accused
child molester and child killer
John Cousy will stand trial for
the murder of Jessica Lundsford in Florida unless he
pleads guilty to his unthinkable
and horrible crime. Ronald
Craig Tom" Dillion was denied
his constitutional right to stand
trial by a jury of his peers. The
6th Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution states: In all crimi-
nal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an
impartial jury of the state and
district wherein the crime shall
have been committed, which
district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and
to be informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation; to
be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in his favour, and to
have the assistance of counsel
for his defense. Lawyers, ·
judges, and police officers
have taken an oath to uphold
the law. No one deserves to
die for an attempted robbery of
a vacant home. The U.S .
Constitution has no place for
Vig1liante Just1ce and the punishment that Tom rece ived did
not fit his alleged crime!!!
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Nurses can apply for
Route 1750 closed for three
student loan forgiveness days beginning today
LOUISVILLE - Nurses in
Kentucky may be able to save
big on their student loans by
applying for Best in Care benefits from The Student Loan
People, but they'[] have to
hurry. The deadline for applying is May 2.
"The Best in Care benefits
are very rewarding," said Anne
Boyer of Louisville. A nurse at
Klondike Manor in Louisville,
Boyer took advantage of the
benefits last year and has reap-
plied for them th1s year.
Best in Care is available tu
registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and licensed vocational nurses who work in
Kentucky in hospitals, longterm care facilities, public
health agencies and nursing
education. The popular program has already saved
Kentucky nurses more than
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payments.
If the principal reduction is
$600 or more, The Student
Loan People must issue an IRS
Form 1099 , Nurses should
therefore consult their tax advisors about the poss1ble tax consequences.
To download an application,
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click on the Best in Care icon .
For more information about
Bes. m Care and low-cost student loans, visit studentloanpeople.com or call (888) 6784625.
Weather
permitting,
Highway District 12's Floyd
County Maintenance Crew will
close Route I 750 at mlle point
1.932 to 1.967 (BonanzaWhitaker Road) beginning
Wednesday, April 6, according
to Frank Castle, Floyd County
mamtcnance engineer.
"The work will take about
three days, Castle said, and
involves drilling to install railroad steel to correct an embankment failure.
Work will start about 8 a.m
and be finjshed about 6 p.m.
each day.
"We know this will cause
some inconvenience for people
who drive this route every day,
and we want them to know in
advance that we appreciate the1r
patience and understand ing ,''
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U.S. GOVERNMENT FORECLOSURE SALE
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2005 AT 11:00 A.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
256 MART MEADE BRANCH - PRESTONSBURG
IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
This is a three bedroom wood siding home on public water and private sewer. It is well located in a quiet
neighborhood. It consists of a living room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, I bath, and a laundry nook. This property is
considered suitable for the Rural Development, Rural Housing Program. This would be an excellent buy for
an investor interested in rental property or for resale after repairs .
The minimum acceptable bid for this property will be $8,040.00.
Payment of current year's property taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser.
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Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, April?, 2005, at 11 :00 am., at the property site, at 256 Mart Meade Branch, Prestonsburg, in Floyd
County, Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $46,496.43 principal, together with interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of $12,711.16
plus interest in the amount of $4,589.03 as of July 30, 2004, and interest thereafter on the principal at $9.2246 per day from July 30, 2004,
until the date of Judgement, plus interest on the Judgement amount (principal plus interest to the date of judgment) at the rate of 2.03%
computed daily and compounded annually, until paid in full and for the costs of this action, pursuant to Judgement and Order of Sale, being
Civil Action No. 04-173 KKC on the Pikeville Docket of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, entered on August
30, 2004, in the case of United States of America vs. Farrish T. Bradley, Jr., and Sunshine R. Bradley, the following described property will be
sold to the highest and best bidder:
House and Lot located at 256 Mart Meade Branch, Prestonsburg, Floyd County, KY.
Being the same property conveyed by Deed dated August 16, 1996, and recorded in Deed Book 397 Page 820 in the Floyd County Clerk' s
Office.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (1 0%) of the bid price (in the form of a Certified Check made payable to the U. S. Marshal) on the day of sale
with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 1.83% per annum until paid, due and payable in sixty (60) days
and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, the deposit shall be forfeited and retained by the U. S.
Marshal as a part of the proceeds of the sale, and the property shall again be offered for sale subject to confirmation by the Court.
This sale shall be in bar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate claim, demand or equity of redemption of the defendant(s) and of all
persons claiming by, through, under or against them, provided the purchase price is equal to two-thirds of the appraised value. If the
purchase price is not equal to two-thirds of the appraised value, the Deed shall contain lien in favor of the defendant(s) reflecting the right of
the defendant(s) to redeem during the period provided by law (KRS 426.530). Under law, the purchaser is deemed to be on notice of all
matters affecting the property of record in the local County Clerk' s Office.
Inquiries should be directed to:
THOMAS W. KEETH, Rural Development Manager
Rural Development
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
Tele hone: 606-886-9545
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THE CITY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO SELL
HRMC UTILITIES????
KRS 81A.490-RIGHTS OF UTILITIES PRESERVED-Not withstanding
any other provision in this Chapter, all rights of the utilities providing utility ·
services in any area annexed by a city prior to annexation, existing under any
other statutes , laws or regulations are hereby expressly preserved ..
LAWFUL ANNEXATION???
"THE TERRITORY TO BE ANNEXED MUST BE CONTIGUOUS TO
THE CITY"-KRS 81A.410(l)(a) and Ridings v Owensboro, 383 S.W. 2d
510 (Ky. 1964)
CORRIDOR ANNEXATION - "In general, the courts disfavor finding one
territory contiguous to another territory for the purposes of annexation when
the only link between the two territories is a narrow corridor." Griffin v City
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other property desired to be annexed and the original boundaries of the city,
thus, a barren corridor would not suffice to find contiguity"
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• WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
6, 2005
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at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Pictured left to right are Steve McCormick, Kentucky Farm
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competed in the annual event sponsored by Kentucky Farm Bureau, WHAS Radio and Churchill
Downs. John Tamplin, 12, a seventh-grade student from Jefferson County, won the Spelling Bee
for the fourth year in a row and will represent Kentucky In the Scripps-Howard National Spelling
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areas offer companies a larger
pool of potential workers •. and
other amenities not found in
some rural areas, Gibson said.
Rural communities are
often disadvantaged because
of their distance to interstate
highways, Hurst said. Areas
where more people have jobs
tend to be located near major
transportation arteries, he
said.
In Wolfe County, many
people drive up to 70 miles
one way to work, Hurst said.
''It's just harder for us,"
Hurst said.
Now, workers have to learn
different skills "shift in their
thinking" if they want to compete, Gibson said. For
instance, tobacco farmers are
in the process of trying to
diversify their crops to tap
other markets, she said.
"People are going to have
to be retrained and retooled to
move toward this new economy - a more brain, less
brawn type of mentality and
skill set," Gibson said.
But, "all is not lost," Garen
said.
Building on the state's
tourism industry is a "viable
option" to stimulate new job
growth, he said.
Because of its proximity to
the Red River Gorge, Wolfe
County officials are hoping to
capitalize on tourism, Hurst
said. The county has hired an
economic development director to focus on creating new
jobs. One project could net the
area more than 1,600 jobs, he
said.
"We're going to be OK
eventually," Hurst said. "It
takes some time and work."
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Joe Biesk is a statehouse
reporter for The Associated
Press.
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lung and colorectal cancer surpassed the national average.
In 2001, Kentucky's lung
cancer death rate per 100,000
people was 80.8, far above the
average of 54.2 deaths for each
l 00,000 among all states,
according to the report, which
did not list rankings for lung
cancer deaths. Kentucky is also
the leading burley tobacco producer, a correlation noted by
Hacker.
"The cancer death rates is
one reflection, once again, that
Kentuckians smoke too much,"
Hacker said.
The report ranked Kentucky
44th in colorectal cancer deaths,
with 22.4 such deaths among
every 100,000 people. The state
also was rated 38th for the percentage of adults 50 and older
receiving colonoscopies, a common test for colon cancer.
Kentucky ranked slightly
above the national average for
the percentage of women age 40
and over who had a mammogram in the past two years. Its
death rate among women with
breast cancer averaged 27.4 per
I 00,000 women in 2001 , compared with an overall average of
25.8 deaths.
The state's prostate cancer
death rate was 26.8 per 100,000
men, lower than the 28.6 death
average nationally, according to
the report.
Meanwhile, the higher-thanaverage rate of admissions for
complications brought on by
diabetes is also a reflection of
lifestyle choices in Kentucky,
Hacker said.
"That is a direct correlation
to the fact that we weigh too
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College names Wheat first soccer coach
TIMES STAFF REPORT
PIKEVILLE - After wide search to
find the first head coach of soccer in
school history, Pikeville College has
settled on someone in its own back
yard.
Calvin Wheat, the first soccer coach
in Pikeville High School history, has
been selected as the man to help get the
program off the ground at Pikeville
College. Wheat has coached both boys'
and girls' varsity soccer the last three
seasons at Pikeville High School.
During' his three seasons, Wheat
quickly built the program in status. Last
season, he led the boys to their first district championship and the girls to a
runner-up finish in district play.
"I'm very excited to be at Pikeville
College," Wheat said. "I am very familiar with the school and its mission and
believe soccer is a natural fit here. I'm
ready to get started and will begin
recruiting potential student-athletes
immediately. It's an exciting time for
me and I'm glad Pikeville CoLlege has
faith in me to be its first soccer coach."
Wheat was well known throughout
the area before taking over the soccer
program at Pikeville High. For three
years prior to coaching at Pikeville, he
was director and CEO of the Pikeville
Area Family YMCA. During his tenure
there, Wheat oversaw the expansion of
the YMCA to other areas of East
Kentucky, operating fitness programs
in senior citizen centers in a five-county area.
· "We are extremely excited about
beginning our soccer program at
Pikeville College and are pleased to
bring Calvin into our family," said
President Hal Smith. "The addition of
soccer to our roster of sports is a direct
result of the increased interest and popularity of soccer in our community.
"Through his role at the YMCA and
later as coach at Pikeville High School,
Calvin has played a major role in bringing soccer to the forefront of sports for
the youth in our area, and therefore we
think he is a natural selection to help us
get our program off to a good start at
Pikeville."
"Calvin is very familiar with soccer
in East Kentucky, and has had tremendous success coaching the sport," said
(See SOCCER, page four)
Area 3 Gatnes
set for Saturday
UK Seniors
returning to ACHS
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
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by STEVE LeMASTER
\SPORTS EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG - Prestonsburg High
School will welcome in Special Olympians
from Floyd and surrounding counties Saturday
morning when the Area 3 Games get underway.
Floyd County Special Olympics Coordinator
Ed Senig and Prestonsburg High School football coach John DeRossett are again two of the
driving forces behind this year's Area 3 Games.
''The Area 3 Games is always a good event for
our community," said DeRossett. "We are honored
• · to host them here at Prestonsburg High School."
The annual event allows members of the
Prestonsburg High football team a chance to get
out and volunteer.
"Hosting Special Olympics allows our football players and other members of our program
the chance to get out and work some on a
Saturday," DeRossett said. "This is a great
event for the entire area. The City of
Prestonsburg works hard and is a fme host. And
you just can't say enough about the participating athletes."
Athletes participating in the Area 3 Games
";> will have an opportunity to advance on to the
State Summer Games. The State Summer
Games are scheduled to be held in Richmond at
Eastern Kentucky University, June 3-5
and drove in four runs. Jacobs, Turner and Scott
Little were all 2-for-4 from the plate. Jacobs also
drove in a pair of runs. Brock Kidd, who reached
base in four out of five plate appearances, and
senior Ryan Hammonds each had one RBI.
Allen Central Coach Ken Johnson, in his first
season at the top of the Rebel baseball program,
was pleased with his team's comeback effort.
"We got off to a rough start against
Breathitt," Johnson acknowledged. "We
trailed 4-1
going into the fifth, and we could
have very easily given up . But we
didn't
and I am proud of my boys. We
made a lot of bad choices early on,
and
played very sloppy. I think we
had like six or seven errors, and that
JS more
than we have had in the previous five
games. But we showed heart, and that is
something that can carry you through. I have
been telling my boys they need
to develop a killer instinct and following the win
over Breathitt County, they looked at me and said,
'That good enough for ya coach ."
EASTERN - For a second straight year,
senior members of
the University of
Kentucky
men's
basketball will visit
Allen Central High
School as part of
annual barnstorming tour. The UK
Seniors'
Barnstorming Tour
will make a stop at
Chuck Hayes
Allen Central High
School on Friday,
April 15. Kentucky seniors Chuck Hayes
and Josh Carrier and other former UK
greats will stop at ACHS for a game
against an area team.
The barnstorming tour is being sponsored as a joint effort of the Allen Central
High School Rebel Band and the Junior
R.O.T.C. program. Tip-off on April 15 is
set for 7 p.m. with pre-game festivities
slated for 5:30p.m.
Pre-game festivities will include the
UK Wildcat mascot, face and hair painting
for the .young Wildcat fans, raffles, dance
team performances and music from the
ACHS Rebel and Stage Band.
Hayes has left an indelible mark on the
UK men's basketball program. He started
110-consecutive
games at Kentucky,
tying the school
record set by Alex
Groza (1946-49).
Hayes finished his
career ranked 35th
in scoring (1 ,211
points), seventh in
rebounding (910),
ninth in blocks
Josh Carrier
(128), eighth in
steals ( 170) and
16th in assists (292). The Modesto, Calif.
native shot 50.3 percent from the floor and
73.3 percent from the charity stripe over
four years. Hayes totaled a 109-25 record in
his
career,
winning
two
SEC
Championships and two SEC Tournan1ent
titles. Kentucky was 93- 18 with Hayes as a
starter. During his time as an active Wildcat,
Hayes helped UK to three NCAA Sweet
16s and two NCAA Elite Eight finishes.
Carrier is a former Kentucky Mr.
Basketball. The Bowling Green native was
Mr. Basketball back in 2001. He had a storybook prep career before moving on to
the University of Kentucky.
An independent basketball tournament is
being held at Allen Central High. The winning team from the independent hoops tournament will play the UK barnstorming
(See REBELS, page four)
(See SENIORS, page four)
The Allee Lloyd College golf team played its first matches last week. On Tuesday, the ALC golf team
played at UVa-Wise. On Wednesday, the Eagles played in the Milligan College (Tenn.) Invitational. This
Friday, the ALC golfers are scheduled to play in the Berea College Invitational along with six other
schools. The ALC golf team is coached by Sean Damron. Members of the team include Robbie Johnson
(Betsy Layne), Josh Cook (Topmost), John Varney (Phyllis), Jeremy Jackson (Manchester) Stewart Miller
(Corbin), Weston Childers (Hindman), Brent Prichard Bolt, W.Va.), and Derrick Porter (Cornettsville}.
Prestonsburg High grad Abby Shaffer Is the team's manager.
(See GAMES, page four)
Rebels rap Breathitt, 13-7
Allen Central fresh oH toumament triumph
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
photo by David Allio
NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick held the Food
City 500 trophy following Sunday's race win.
Harvick also won Monday's Busch race. More
on Harvick appears inside today's edition.
ALLEN - Host Allen Central got off to a slow
start Monday evening against Breathitt County. But
it didn't last. The Rebels, playing some of the best
baseball in all of Eastern Kentucky, shook off the
slow start and bounced back nicely. Breathitt
County held a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning when
Allen Central rallied to take a 5-4 in the
bottom half of the inning. The Bobcats
were able to knot the game back up
at 5-5, but Allen Central provided
its most potent offensive pop late
in the game. The Rebels scored
eight runs in the bottom half of the
sixth inning and went on to win
13-7, improving to 6-0.
In six outings, Allen Central has
wins over Perry Central, Pike Central
(twice), Prestonsburg, June Buchanan
and Breathitt County.
The Rebel pitching held up on Monday night,
too. Scott Little went to the hill for Allen Central
again, but was left with a no decision. Justin Jacobs
was credited with the win. Tyler Turner came on
following Jacobs and finished off the Breathitt
County batters.
Josh McKinney finished 1-for-4 for the Rebels
Clark, Daniels chosen for All-Star Game
Betsy Layne senior center headed to Alice Lloyd
Layne duo 's inclusion in this year's girls'
all-star game.
The second annual Gatorade
Appalachian Senior All-Star
BETSY LAYNE - Two
Games, featuring some of the
Betsy Layne High School
elite boys' and girls' basketball
senior girls ' basketball
players from the 12th, 13th, 14th ,
players have been selected
15th and 16th regions, will be
to play in the girls'
Saturday at Perry County Central
Gatorade
Appalachian
High School . The girls' game is
Senior All -Star Game.
set to get underway Saturday at 6
Guard Kim Clark and cenp.m. The boys' game is slated to
ter Krista! Daniels have
follow
at 8 p.m.
each been chosen for the
Krista! Daniels
Clark and Daniels made quite a
all-star event.
one-two punch for Betsy Layne. The
Event
director
Ira
Combs recently notified Betsy Layne tandem joined with senior teammates Kristen
Coach Cassandra Akers of the Betsy
(See CHOSEN, page four)
Magoffin Co. 13,
Prestonsburg 5
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
TIMES STAFF REPORT
photo by Jamie
Howell
Kelly Key
scored one of
Prestonsburg
's five runs in
Monday's
loss to visiting Magoffin
County.
PRESTONSBURG - The Prestonsburg High
School softball team opened the 2005 season at
home Monday night , playing host to vtsttmg
Magoffin County. The Lady Hornet entered
Monday night's opener with one win already
behind them. Magoffm County beat Pike County
Central 12-2 in a game played last Wednesday. On
Monday night, Magoffin County clamped down the
host Lady Blackcats. After Prestonsburg jumped
out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom half of the first
inning, Magoffin County answered. The Lady
Hornets plated five runs in the top half of the first
(See MAGOFFIN, page four)
�82 • WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Harvick bounces back fron1
cheating scandal with Bristol win
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Kevin
Harvick's team felt good about its
chances at Bristol Motor Speedway
:.mtil they uncovered the car a few
short hours before the race.
Waiting for them was a puddle
of leaking power steering fluid.
It was almost like kicking a
team that was already down.
But if there's one thing
Harvick and his Richard
Childress Racing team have
proven, its that they are at their
best when they are at their lowest.
They did it again Sunday by
winning the Food City 500, the
first step toward shaking off an
embarrassing cheating scandal.
When told of the problem, and
that repairing it meant Harvick
would have to start last in the 43car field, Childress called a team
meeting to rally the troops.
"I told all the guys, 'It's kind of
a negative and we don't have our
crew chief here, but we have to turn
it into a positive,"' the car owner
said. "And that's what Kevin did."
Harvick broke a 55-race winless streak with the victory, and
then dedicated it to crew chief
Todd Berrier, who was sitting at
home serving the second of a
four-race suspension for cheating in Las Vegas on March 13.
The team has been reeling in
the three weeks since, fighting
the suspension and the 25 points
Harvick was docked (their
appeal was denied) and battling
the court of public opinion that
had branded them cheaters.
But with Childress in charge,
Harvick knew the team would
rebound.
"[ think both of us have been
beat down pretty far at some
point in our racing careers and
you have to learn how to get out
of a hole," Harvick said. "I think
that is one thing that RCR has
always been really good at they always come back stronger
than they were before.
"So this was a huge statement made by our race team,
and you don't have to say anything else."
Childress, who used to be a
regular atop the late Dale
Earnhardt's pit box, decided to
climb back on this week to
coach Harvick in a show of solidarity for the team. It was the
owner's first time on the box
since the 2001 season.
Harvick said it showed how
angry his boss was, and how
determined Childress was to
turn things around.
So in a tense, wreck-filled
race, Childress coaxed his driver
around Bristol's tight 0.533-mile
bullring and to Harvick's first
victory since he won at
Indianapolis in August 2003.
"He can't come down until
we lose," Harvick said.
But Childress said h1s stay
was only temporary.
''I'd stay up there if I thought
it would help us win every
week ," he said.
Still, the tandem gave RCR
its first win at Bristol since
Earnhardt
bumped
Terry
Labonte out of the way on the
final lap in 1999.
Harvick qualified 13th, but
when his crew uncovered the
leak, they had to fix it, and the
unapproved repairs forced
them to start last. No driver
had ever come from last to win
at Bristol.
He took the lead with 66
laps to go, pulled away from
the pack and easily beat polesitter Elliott Sadler to the finish
line, with seven lapped cars
separating the first- and second-place cars.
"Harvick had a great race car,
he was able to pass cars, maneuver his around," Sadler said.
"He was tough there at the end.
I didn 't have anything for him."
Tony Stewart finished third in a
Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was
fourth in a Chevrolet and Dale
Jarrett finished fifth in a Ford.
Jimmie Johnson was sixth, followed by Travis Kvapil, Kyle
Petty, Greg Biffie and Scott Riggs.
The race was stopped for
almost 14 minutes with 167laps
to go when Bobby Hamilton Jr.
slammed into the back of Ken
Schrader, starting a 14-car pileup. The crash collected many of
the favorites, including Kurt
Busch, who was looking for his
fourth straight Bristol victory
Because the accident collected
so many contenders, the race restarted with just 12 cars on the lead lap.
Busch was one of them, but
his day ended when Johnson and
Jeff Burton made contact and
Burton's car banged off the
inside wall. As it ricocheted back
onto the track, it moved directly
into Busch's path and Busch
couldn't avoid hitting him.
Busch sounded woozy when
he slowly radioed his crew to
say he was OK, and his steps
seemed deliberate as he walked
off the track.
"It was a hard hit, it took the
wind out of me," Busch said. "I
feel horrible, I've never hit that
hard before."
Friday
9a.m.·1 p.DL
photos by David Allio
The Food City 500 wasn't without its share of wrecks. After win- ~
ning the Food City 500 on Sunday evening, Kevin Harvlck
returned to Victory Lane Monday evening following a Busch
Series win in the Sharpie 250.
�WEDNESDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Tickets on sale now For O'~eilly
NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
BRISTOL, Tenn. - The
O'Reilly NHRA Thunder
Valley Nationals are just two
months away and fans now
more options than ever when it
~comes to seating.
After selling out the event a
year ago, dragway officials
have expanded the facility,
adding nearly 5,000 seats in
the Thunder Terrace, Bruton's
Suite and nearly doubling the
size of the Thunder Valley
Club. Tickets are now available in all new sections,
including the existing grandstand seating.
The expansion includes
approximately 3 ,500 seats in
Thunder Terrace, which will sit
above the existing grandstand.
This section will feature stadi44
um-style, flip-down seats with
cupholders and armrests. The
terrace will be topped by lO
corporate suites, including
Bruton's Suite, a public suite
with a spectacular vantage
point available for inC;Iividuals.
The Thunder Valley Club is
also doubling in size to accommodate nearly 1,000.
Bruton's Suite offers individuals premier seating inside a
climate controlled environment
behind floor-to-ceiling windows and the ability to step
outside to the seats under the
covered veranda. In addition to
the indoor-outdoor seating
options the suite will offer the
finest cuisine available on a
buffet at no additional charge,
as well as a cash bar, along
with private restrooms and
closed-circuit
television.
Preferred parking privileges
accompany purchase of two of
more tickets.
Thunder Valley Club access
offers premium pit side seating
at the start line, a private patio
next to the track, free breakfast
and lunch on Saturday and
Sunday and complimentary
water, tea and lemonade, along
with a cash bar, private
restrooms, closed-circuit tele-
vision and preferred parking
with the purchase of two or
more tickets.
Thunder Terrace seating for
all three days of the O'Reilly
NHRA
Thunder
Valley
Nationals is (April 29-May 1)
is $155 for adults and $65 for
juniors (12 and under).
Bruton's Suite seats are available for $400 for all seats for
all three days and Thunder
Valley Club seating for all
three days is $250 for adults
and $75 for juniors.
Grandstand seating for
adults on Friday is $20 (sections A-D) and $25 (sections EU) and $5 (all sections) for
juniors. Sa1urday's tickets for·
adults are $40 (A-D) and $50
(E-U) and $15 (A-D) and $25
(E-U) for juniors. Sunday's
tickets for adults are $45 (A-D)
and $55 (E-U) and $15 (A-D)
and $25 (E-U) for juniors. A
three-day combo ticket for
adults is $75 (A-D) and $100
(E-U) and $30 (A-D) and $50
(E-U) for junors.
The Dirt Track@ Lowe's Motor Speedway
up next for Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series
;
TIMES STAFF REPORT
CONCORD, N.C.- After a
very successful East Bay
"Winternationals" run in
February the Lucas Oil NARA
DirtCar Series returns to the
track for the first time since
that record setting performance
at East Bay as the series heads
for the first time to one of the
best facilities for dirt track racing in the country on Saturday
night at The Dirt Track @
Lowe's Motor Speedway in
• l Concord, North Carolina.
The "Pit Pass Cabarrus
Super Nationals" presented by
RACEceiver will showcase the
Lucas Oil NARADirtCar Series
as the traveling Super Late
Model series will be competing
for a $10,000 first place prize.
Also in the house at Lowe's will
be the cameras of ESPN2 to
catch all the action for the first
time at Lowe's. The event will
be taped and broadcast at.a date
and time to be announced. It
will be the second of 13 events
to be shown on ESPN2 this season as ESPN2 now reaches 88
million homes nationwide.
The show for the Lucas Oil
N ARA DirtCar Series will
include heat races, consy events
and the $10,000 to win and
$700 to start main event.
The Dirt Track @ Lowe's
Motor Speedway first opened in
-'>
May of 2000 and sits next door
to the world famous 1.5 mile
Lowe's Motor Speedway.
There have been nine Super
Late Model races contested on
the dirt track with Chris Madden
·of Gaffney, S.C., the only driver
to .win more than once at the
4/lOth mile track. In fact
Madden has won three times
compared to one win apiece for
Scott
Bloomquist
of
Mooresburg,
Tenn.,
Dan
Schlieper of Sullivan, Wis.,
Steve Lucas of Charleston, Jeff
Cooke of Spartanburg, S.C.,
Earl Pearson, Jr. of Jacksonville,
Fla., and Mike Balzano from
Parkersburg, W.Va.
Roger Slack, promoter of
the Dirt Track @ Lowe's
Motor Speedway i$ enthused
over the appearance of the
Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar
Series at the track located near
Charlotte, NC. "We are very
excited to have the Lucas Oil
NARA DirtCar Series and
ESPN2 coming to the dirt track
on April 9," said Slack. "I witnessed the shows they put on at
East Bay in February and came
away impressed with their professionalism and the way they
did things," "I know the folks
at Lucas Oil, Forest Lucas and
Bob Patison want to make the
series the best in dirt late model
racing and with people like
Spencer Wilson, James Essex,
~oPENING
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI
Pedro
Martinez blew 'em away. Carlos
Beltran knocked
'em in.
Everything was going exactly
according to plan for the new-look
Mets - until Adam Dunn exposed
the one area they overlooked.
Dunn's second homer of the
' game tied it in the ninth, and Joe
Randa followed with a solo shot
off Braden Looper that sent the
Cincinnati Reds to a 7-6 victory
Monday in front of the biggest
crowd in Great American Ball
Park's history.
For the first time in their 129
season openers, the Reds finished one off with a homer.
"I felt like I was at a rock
concert, screaming for the next
song," said closer Danny
Graves , who pitched the ninth
and then piled on Randa at home
'!plate. "We've had walk-off wins
in the past, but I haven't had a
feeling like this m a long time.
It's the perfect script. I won~t
believe it until I watch it (on
television)."
The Mets couldn't believe it,
either. Not after the way
Mrutinez and Beltran - the cornerstones of their expensive offseason makeover- performed in
their New York debuts
Martinez struck '
2
allowed only o t· t
L hcl, Dunn's three-run homer - during his six innings. Beltran had
three hits, including one of the
Mets' three homers, as they
Rick Schwallie and their staff
they can get the job done."
The red clay havoc for the
Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar
Series will get underway on
April 9 with the schedule of
events looking this way: The
pits will open at 2 p.m. with
the main grandstand gates
opening at 4 p.m., there will be
a mandatory drivers meeting at
5 p.m. with ShowTime starting
at 7:30 p.m. For more information please call 1-800-455FANS (3267) or visit the
track's website online at
www.lowesmotorspeedway.com.
High Fly soars to No. 1
in Derby Top 10 list
by RICHARD ROSENBLATT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HALLANDALE BEACH,
Fla. - The winner's circle routine for Nick Zito features
smiles, leaps, handshakes. hugs
and kisses. And then he pours on
the praise, thanking everyone
and everything that had anything to do with his most recent
success.
The trainer was at it again
after High Fly won Saturday's
Florida Derby and stablemate
Noble Causeway finished second in their final preps before
the Kentucky Derby on May 7.
"I had a lot of help this week,"
Zito said Sunday morning outside his barn at Gulfstream Park.
"Look at the weather. Last week
it was 94 degrees - that's too hot
for Florida in March. I've said
High Fly's tough in cooler
weather, and I'm really proud of
the way Noble Causeway ran in
his ftrst stakes race."
A cool, breezy day arrived
just in time for the $1 million
Florida Derby, allowing High
Fly to soar to a 1 1/2-length victory and move to No. 1 in this
week's Run to the Roses Top 10.
"The horses carne out of it
great," Zito said.
High
Fly
and Noble
Causeway
were
off
to
Keenelend in Lexington, Ky., on
Sunday, and Zito hopes to move
them to Churchill Downs later
in the week.
Tests for the contagious
strangles infection are ongoing,
and horses leaving Florida still
need medical clearance before
arriving at certain tracks, including Aqueduct and Belmont in
New York and Churchill Downs
in Louisville, Ky.
Zito 's three other Derby
hopefuls
already
are
at
Churchill Downs preparing for
their ftnal preps. Tampa Bay
Derby winner Sun King. who
drops to No. 2 this week, is set
for the Blue Grass Stakes at
Keeneland on April 16, and
Andromeda's Hero will run in
either the Arkansas Derby on
April 16 or the Lexington
Stakes at Keeneland a week
later. Bellamy Road is scheduled to run in the Wood
Memorial at Aqueduct on
Saturday, pending test results.
Although High Fly did not
beat a stellar fteld, the chestnut
colt won his second straight 1
118-mile race with authority
under Jerry Bailey. With ftve
wins in six starts, including
three stakes victories at
Gulfstream, High Fly is likely to
be among the Derby favorites.
The prep season heats up
Saturday with the Santa Anita
Derby and the Wood.
- The filly Sweet Catomine
could face as many as 11 male
rivals in the Santa Anita Derby,
including
Breeders'
Cup
Juvenile winner Wilko, Don't
Get Mad and Giacomo.
- Trainer D. Wayne Lukas
sends San Miguel Stakes and
Sham Stakes winner Going
Wild to meet New York's best in
the Wood, including Gotham
winner Survivalist.
- Trainer Ken McPeek said
Sunday he plans to run Kansas
City Boy - seventh in the
Louisiana Derby- in Saturday's
Illinois Derby.
Also:
-Thor's Echo beat Southern
Africa in the $500,000 WinStar
Derby on Saturday. Both horses,
as well as third-place finisher
Sort It Out - trained by Bob
Baffert - are nominated for the
Triple Crown races.
This week's top 10, with
Derby future wager odds (set
March 12):
1. High Fly (Nick Zito, train·
er; Jerry Bailey, jockey): Moves
to head of the class after Florida
Derby win ... Will train up to the
Derby after fifth win in six races
... Next start: Kentucky Derby
(May 7) ... Odds: 21-1.
2. Sun King (Zito, Edgar
Prado): Needs to beat strong
field to regain top billing ...
Next start: Blue Grass (April
16) ... Odds: 10-1.
3. Rockport Harbor (John
Servis, Stewart Elliott): Skipped
workout Saturday with undisclosed ailment that has nothing
to. do with now healthy right
rear hoof ... Racing status is
shaky .... Next start: Arkansas
Derby (Aprill6) ... Odds: 14-l.
4. Sweet Catomine (Julio
Canani, Corey Nakatani): Thning
up for fll'St test against the boys
... Had sharp five-furlong workout (59.60) last Monday ... Next
start: Santa Anita Derby
(Saturday) ... Odds: 16-1.
S. Consolidator (D. Wayne
Lukas, Rafael Bejarano): Out to
prove San Felipe win was no
fluke ... Worked five furlongs in
1:00.00 at Churchill Downs on
Sunday ... Next start: Blue Grass
... Odds: 44-1.
6. High Limit (Bobby
Frankel, Ramon Dominguez):
Settled in at Churchill Downs ...
Worked ftve furlongs in 1:02.20
... Will have just four races
going into Derby ... Next start:
Blue Grass ... Odds: 9-1.
7. Noble Causeway (Zito,
Prado): Moves in after superb
runner-up finish in Florida
Derby in stakes debut .. . Could
be really tough in l l/4-mile
Derby ... Next start: Kentucky
Derby ... Odds: 18-l.
8. Greater Good (Bob
Holthus, John McKee): Worked
five furlongs at Oaklawn Park in
leisurely 1:04.40 ... Looking for
Southwest-Rebel-Arkansas
Derby sweep, just like Smarty .
Jones ... Next start: Arkansas
Derby ... Odds: 28-1.
9.
Survivalist
(Shug
McGaughey, Richard Migliore):
Worked four furlongs in 51.82
at Belmont Park last week ...
Needs solid effort to stay on
Derby trail ... Next start: Wood
Memorial (Saturday) ... Odds:
6-1 (mutuel field).
10. Bandini (Todd Pletcher, 1
John
Velazquez):
Missed !
Florida Derby · with bruised
hoof, but a two-week wait won't ;
hurt ... Next start: Blue Grass ... 1
Odds: 14-1.
l
KEEP AN EYE ON: Afleet ;
Alex, Bellamy Road, Don't Get :
Mad, Galloping Grocer, Going 'j
Wild.
BLUECATS 57, HORSEMEN 52
Lexington falls short in comeback bid :
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
EVANSANSVILLE, Ind.
Running back Sean Bennett
scored five touchdowns as the
host Evansville Bluecats beat
the Lexington Horsemen for the
first time ever, 57-52 last night.
The Horsemen (2-1 United
IndoorFroball) rallied from a deficit
that was once 21 points. They even-
DAY: Reds 7, Mets 6
went ahead 6-3.
The Mets committed $172
million to those two players,
giving the Yankees a run for
their money when it came to
making offseason headlines.
Maybe they should have spent a
little more on the bullpen, their
weak link.
"I've been through this a
lot," said Looper, who had 29
saves in 34 chances last season.
"I've definitely given up my
share of whatever you want to
call it. But on opening day, it
stinks. Pedro pitched a great
game. He struck out the world."
One little corner of the
world, anyway.
Martinez blew away the Reds
and any doubt that at age 33 he
can still dominate. After Dunn's
first homer, he struck out 12 of
his last 14 batters, making them
look overmatched against his 94
mph fastball and nasty breaking
ball.
Martinez became the fourth
pitcher to amass 100 doubledigit strikeout games, joining
Nolan Ryan (215), Randy
Johnson (204) and Roger
Clemens (108). The crowd of
42,794 thought it could rattle
him by taunting after his only
mistake.
They should have known better.
Yankees fans tried it in Game
7 of the AL championship series
last fall, mocking Martinez with
a "Who's Your Daddy?" chant.
Ma1tincz had suggested the
Yankees were his "daddy"
6, 2005 • B3
because they beat him so often.
The cheer didn't work at
Yankee Stadium- the Red Sox
went on to their first World
Series title in 86 years. It didn't
work in Cincinnati, either, after
Dunn's three-run homer put the
Reds up 3-1 in the flrst inning.
All it did was get him pitching like the old Pedro.
"He gets a certain look on his
face: That's it, I'm going to shut
you down and that's it," said
Willie Randolph, who lost his first
game as manager of the Mets.
The fans broke into the
"daddy" chant while Martinez
was in the process of fanning
Randa to start his strikeout
streak. He didn't allow a hit
after the first inning and walked
two before letting the bullpen
take over in the seventh.
"Pedro was on top of his
game," Randa said. ":fie was
carving through us. He was
unhittable. Once he was out of
the game, there was a big sigh of
relief on the bench. Crazy things
happen on opening day."
Manny Aybar gave up Jason
LaRue's RBI double in the seventh. Looper then let it slip
away in only 14 pitches -Austin
Kearns' single, Dunn's homer
and Randa's final swing. The
third baseman raised his ftst as
he rounded first base, then got
pummeled by his new teammates at home plate.
"I'll have to ice down my
whole body," Randa said. "They
beat me up pretty good."
Beltran hit a two-run homer
off Paul Wilson, a former Mets
No. 1 draft pick making his first
opening day start at age 32. He
also singled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh off David
Weathers, one of three thir·
tysomething relievers brought in
to shore up one of baseball's
worst bullpens.
Beltran, Jose Reyes and Cliff
Floyd had three hits apiece for
the Mets. Kaz Matsui homered
in his first at-bat the second
straight year he's done that and Floyd hit a two-run homer
off Kent Mercker in the seventh
to make it 6-3.
Then, the bullpen got
involved and the bottom fell out.
"It's not really frustrating,"
Martinez said. "It's too early to
get frustrated. It was one bad
inning, and the rest of the game
was pretty good. I'm optimistic
about it."
Notes: Matsui, a six-time
All-Star in 1apan.· homered on
the frrst pitc.h he saw as a rookie
last year, connecting off
Atlanta's Russ Ortiz .... Batting
again in the NL, Martinez made
contact in all three plate appearances - a popup and two
grounders. ... Ken Griffey Jr.
singled though a shifted infield
in his frrst at-bat, breaking his 0for-12 streak against one of the
few pitchers who make him look
ordinary. He also walked and
struck out twice .... Griffey stays
at seven homers on opening day,
one behind Frank Robinson on
the career list. ... It was Dunn's
lOth career multihomer game.
tually took the lead on a 20-yard 1D
JmS from Dusty Bonner to JaQuar
Sanders with 5:21 left in the game.
With the extra-point kick, Lexington
led for the first time, 52-51.
But the Bluecats responded,
with the help of the kickoff sailing
out of bounds to give them the
ball at midfield. Two plays later,
Ramon Robinson found a wideopen Bennett in the right comer of
the end zone. The 13-yard TD put :
Evansville (2-0) in front for good.
Bonner was 19-for-45 for
143 yards and three TDs tosses :'
and two interceptions. He also '
ran for a score right before halftime, getting the Horsemen
within 31-16 at the break.
Derek Homer ran for two
TDs in the second half and had
37 yards rushing for Lexington.
Cincinnati Reds player Ryan
Freel accused of drunken driving
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELLEVUE - Cincinnati
utility player Ryan Freel was
accused of drunken driving
hours after the Reds beat the
New York Mets 7·6 in the sea·
son opener Monday.
Police arrested Freel, 29,
Monday night in this northern
Kentucky community, across
the
Ohio
River
from
Cincinnati. He was charged
with drunken driving, careless
driving and having an open
container in a motor vehicle.
He was released about 3 a.m.
Tuesday from the Campbell
County jail in Newport after a
$.500 bond was posted for him,
jail authorities said. Freel was
scheduled for an arraignment
Wednesday morning in the
Campbell County District
Court in Newport.
Reds
spokesman Rob
Butcher said the team had no
comment on Freel's arrest.
Lawrence County bigman
playing in Kentucky-Ohio game
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
CRESTVIEW HILLS Lawrence County High School
senior center Derrick Endicott
will represent Eastern Kentucky
in this year's Kentucky-Ohio
All-Star Game. Endicott, a twoyear starter for the Bulldogs,
helped to lead Lawrence
County to a 64th District title.
Endicott and the Bulldogs finished with a 22-6 record, second-best in the 16th Region.
The Kentucky-Ohio AllStar game is scheduled for
Saturday at Thomas More
College.
Joining Endicott on the
Kentucky squad are Brennan
Votel, Covington Catholic;
Mark Krebs, Newport Central
Catholic; . Keaton Belcher,
Pendleton County; Zach
Mefford.
Williamstown;
Aaron
Cash, Rockcastle
County; Eric Fields, South
Laurel;
Maurice
Ginter,
Fairdale;
Curtis
Pulley,
Hopkinsville; Tory Robertson,
Frankfort; Steven Sexton,
Wayne
County;
JaJuan
Spillman. Pleasure Ridge
Park;
Dominic
Tilford,
Jeffersontown; and Orlando
Woodard, Russellville.
�84 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL
6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Chosen
Magoffin
• Continued from p1
Smith and Breann Akers in leading the Ladycats to a second 15th
Region title in three seasons.
Daniels is set to sign with
Alice Lloyd College. A signing
ceremony for the Betsy Layne
senior center has been scheduled for Thesday at 1:30 p.m.
in the BLHS library.
Seniors
• Continued from p1
team. Only the first 10 teams
will be accepted into the tournament. Tournament rules will be
given to teams upon payment of
the mandatory entry fee. No one
that is high school eligible will
be permitted to play in the qualifying tournament. For more
information, or to register tor
the tournament, contact Sgt.
Jerry Hardy or Col. Larry
Maynard at 358-5305.
• Continued from p1
inning. After grabbing a lead,
Magoffin County maintained an
advantage en route to a 13-5 win.
Magoffin County scored runs in
five of seven itmings. Only one
Lady Hornet reached base in the
opening inning. However, the slow
start didn't last for the visiting team.
Prestonsburg battled back
and after plating three runs,
pulled within one run in the bottom half of the fourth inning.
Magoffin County led 6-5 at the
end of the fourth inning and
added two or more runs in each
of the final three innings.
S. Gamble scored three runs
and pitched Magoffin County to
the win .
Brittany
Collins
led
Prestonsburg's offensive effort,
going 3-for-4. Darcey Hicks and
Amber Whitaker also had one hit
apiece for the Lady Blackcats.
Prestonsburg was back in
action yesterday, playing on the
road at rival Betsy Layne.
Games
• Continued from p1
In Special Olympics, both area
and regional level competitions
serve as qualifying events for athletes who wish to advance to state
competition.
In the sports of bowling and
track and field, athletes must qualify for State events by participat-
ing in their respective Area tournament or competition.
In all other sports, sanctioned
regional events are offered. By
participation in one of these
regional events, athletes will qualify for the respective state event.
The sport of basketball
serves as the exception to the
"participation'' rule of qualifying for State Level events. In
basketball, teams must place
first or second in their division
at their assigned regional tournament in order to advance to
the State Summer Games .
Soccer
• Continued from p1
photo by: Latasha Bragg
The Allen Central Middle School volleyball team is off to another good start.
Front Row: Hannah Howard and Morgan Wright. Second Row: BriHany Hodge, Natalie Glime,
Tiffany Clark, Elizabeth Hughes, BriHany Clark, Kimbo Blevins, BriHany Smith
Third Row: Brianna Halbert, Kelsey Jones, Ashley Hale, Koko Martin,
Chelsie Cordial, Sasha Jones, Brittany Johnson, Kristin Reed, Whitney Ousley,
and Hannah Farmer.
Myles, Garcia complete
Cards' resurgence
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Francisco
Garcia and Ellis Myles hugged
after Louisville lost to Illinois
in the Final Four, then walked
off the court together for the
last time.
While disappointed in the
72-57 defeat, the Cardinals'
junior star and senior leader
hold a deep sense of accomplishment for how much
Louisville improved after they
arrived.
'·I don't think anybody
expected us to be here but ourselves," said Garcia, Louisville's
leading scorer.
"This program is on the
uprise right now," said Myles,
the team's leading rebounder.
While the 6-foot-7, 245pound Myles will graduate in
May with a sociology degree,
Garcia is suddenly leaving
open the possibility of returning for his senior year.
Both Garcia and coach Rick
Pitino have been saying all season that Garcia planned to
leave school a year early for
the NBA.
Now Pitino says he might
encourage Garcia to come back.
"I said, 'Look, Francisco,
you're going to be a first-round
draft choice. Here is what you
have to figure out in this whole
equation: In other years, you'd
be a lottery pick,"' Pitino said.
"If he's a 26 pick in the draft, I
would recommend coming
back. Ifhe's the 18th pick in the
draft, I'd recommend going."
If he returns, the Cardinals
could be as good as they were
this year.
Junior
Taquan
Dean,
Garcia's best friend and room-
mate, and sophomore point
guard Brandon Jenkins form an
experienced backcourt. David
Padgett, a 6-11 Kansas transfer,
and 6-9 Brian Johnson will
form a formidable frontcourt
with talented 6-8 freshman
Juan Palacios.
Pitino will also welcome
seven new recruits rated among
the nation's best classes.
Even if Garcia bolts, Dean
is optimistic the Cardinals can
make another deep run in the
tournament next year.
"Now, I have to go in with
new guys, but at the same time
they'll have the same hunger
and fire of the guys who are
leaving," Dean said. "It's time
to move on."
Once the sting of their loss
to Illinois wears off, the
Cardinals can reflect on a season that completed a four-year
climb back to national prominence under Pitino.
The Cardinals finished 33-5,
matching the school record for
victories set by the 1980
NCAA champions. They were
also the first Louisville team to
reach the Final Four since the
1986 championship team.
"It feels great, man, just to
be a part of it," senior guard
Larry O'Bannon said. "The
program is definitely headed in
the right direction."
The Cardinals won 22 of
their last 24 games and swept
the Conference USA regular
season and tournament titles in
their last year in the league.
They '11 join the Big East next
season.
One challenge now is finding a locker-room presence as
strong as Myles, the last player
linked to the Denny Crum era.
When Pitino arrived, he was
ready to kick Myles off the
team. But during four years,
Myles made a remarkable
transformation from the imma·
ture, out-of-shape
Pitino
first encountered.
Myles blossomed into a
sharp passer this season and Jed
Louisville in assists during the
NCAA tournament. He was the
team's best player in the loss to
Illinois, scoring 17 points and
grabbing seven rebounds.
But Pitino said Myles' attitude made a bigger impact than
his play.
"There are certain games
where I've said, 'Guys, you
continue to play that type of
defense and continue to
rebound the ball like that,
you're going to lose this one,"'
Pitino said. "He would immediately say, 'We're not losing anything.' And he'd get after them."
With. Myles and Palacios
anchoring Louisville's inside
game, Dean and O'Bannon
joined Garcia as consistent
perimeter threats. Dean made a
school-record 122 3-pointers
this season and O'Bannon shot
almost 50 percent from 3-point
range in Louisville's last 10
games.
The Cardinals also got vital
minutes off the bench from
senior Otis George, who coped
with stress fractures in his right
foot much of the season.
Pitino said he wanted to
have Louisville on the path to
elite status by the time his first
recruiting class graduated. He's
right on schedule.
"We've had an unbelievable
season," Pitino said. "I wanted,
in the fourth season, to have a
top 10 program. We're legitimately there. We're where we
need to be."
kia
Anderson heads inaugural Hall of Fame class
Ron Damron, director of athletics at Pikeville College. "He has
experience coaching both men
and women, which was vital to
our search, and is very familiar
and comfortable with our
regional recruiting area.
"We're very excited to bring
Calvin aboard at Pikeville
College, and are appreciative of
his interest both in Pikeville
College and our athletics department. We look forward to beginning this stage of our relationship with him and his family."
Pikeville College will add
Rebels
• Continued from p1
Allen Central took its perfect
6-0 record into a 58th
District/Floyd
County
Conference showdown last
night with defending district
champion Betsy Layne. This
evening, Allen Central is scheduled to be on the road at
Pikeville for a game 15th
Region All "A" Classic game
against Phelps.
Last week, Allen Central
weathered the wet weather and
all other teams, winning the
East Kentucky Invitational. A
breakdown of Allen Central's
tournament games follt>ws,
Allen Central 91 Pike Central
8: Senior Ryan Hammonds took
the mound for the Rebels and
pitched well for three innings.
The Rebel pitching withstood a
strong Pike Central offensive
effort and held on to win 9-8.
Allen Central 4, Prestonsburg
1: Scott Little took the mound
for Allen Central and delivered a
solid performance, fanning 10
Blackcats. The freshman went
the distance for the Rebels.
Tyler Turner scored a pair of
runs for the Rebels. Leadoff hitter Wilfreda Dominguez and
second-place batter Brock Kidd
scored a run apiece.
Leadoff hitter Brandon
Campbell scored Prestonsburg's
lone run.
Allen Central 10, June
Buchanan 0: Josh Mcrunney took
the mound for the Rebels and halted the Crusaders in a commanding
pitching performance.
Allen· Centrru proved to be
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The
Lexington Legends revealed
their inaugural Hall of Fame
Class on Wednesday. Eubank,
Kentucky
native
Josh
Anderson leads the way after
his stellar 2004 season. John
Buck, Jon Topolski and
Charley Taylor, key elements
in the Legends 2001 SAL
Championship drive, were also
enshrined.
The four members along
with a fifth member of the class
selected by the fans will be
honored in a ring of fame during a ceremony on Hall of
Fame night, June 4.
Stein was the surprise meinber of the class. At the end of
the event, Legends General
Munuger Kevin Kulp caught
Stein off guard by adding him
to the first class. The Lexington
native was the driving force
behind a 17-year q ucst to bring
baseball back to the Bluegrass.
Anderson was the first native
Kentuckian to play for the
Legends. The former Eastern
Kentucky All-American holds
Legends records for average
(.326) and stolen bases (48) in
just 73 games. Anderson was a
member of the 2004 South
Atlantic League All-Star team.
Jon Topolski was the season
MVP for a team that all future
Legends teams will be compared to. Topolski led the
South Atlantic League in hits
(158), runs (98) and RBI (96).
The Houston native wus also
the team leader in home runs
(24) and walks (75).
John Buck was a stabilizing
force for nn outstuncling, pitching class. Buck also proved to
be an offensive force. The Salt
Lake City, Utah native hit 24
home runs and collected 73
RBI. John Buck is the only
Major Leaguer among the first
class. Buck is currently the
starting cat~her for the Kansas
City RoyalG.
Charley Taylor is the only
remaining link to the 200 1
Championship squad.
Taylor has been the opening
day pitching coach for each of
the Legends five seasons.
Under his tutelage, Taylor has
guided the Legends to four outstanding seasons. Lexington
had the SAL's best team ERA
in 2002. Taylor has been multiple selection to the SAL AllStar team.
On Thursday, Lexington
hosts Delmarva in a seasonopener. First-pitch is set for
7:05, gates open at 5:30.
too much for June Buchanan.
The Rebels, behind McKinney's
strong pitching, beat June
Buchanan in six innings, advancing to the championship game of
the East Kentucky tournament.
Allen Central 10, Pike
Central 4: Brock Kidd took the
mound for the Rebels and threw
four stout innings in the title
game of the East Kentucky tournament. Kidd exited the game
with a lead for his team when he
gave way to teammate Ryan
Hnmmonds who set it up for the
final inning. Tyler Turner came
along and closed the garne out
for Allen Central, turrting back
Pike Central's batters.
In the sixth inning,Allen Centrdl
took a 6-4 lead and sn;etched it out
to a 10-4 advantage
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Louisville holds first
controlled scrimmage
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LOUISVILLE
The
University of Louisville football team completed its fourth
practice of the fall scrimmage
with a controlled scrimmage on
the practice fields at Papa
John's Stadium.
The defense took control
early in the scrimmage, stifling
the high-powered Cardinal
offense. Led by Elvis Dumervil
and Matt Sanders, the defense
stopped the offense on the first
couple of possessions.
Sophomore
quarterback
Brian Brohm paced the
Cardinal offense by going 17of-27 for 135 yards with the
first unit, while talented juniors
Michael Bush and Kolby Smith
found running room tough to
come by. Bush carried 16 times
for 38 yards, while Smith
logged the ball eight times for
38 yards. Bush scored on a
three-yard run and also
plunged in from one-yard on a
fourth and goal play.
Redshirt freshman Mario
Urrutia had five catches for 114
yards and a 30-yard touchdown
catch, while sophomore Harry
Douglas had four receptions
for 68 yards, including a 35yard touchdown pass from redshirt
freshman
Hunter
Cantwell, who was 10-of-i?
for 162 yards.
Redshirt freshman George
Stripling carried seven times
for 4" yards, including a 33yard TD run. Sophomore
Reggie Bradshaw toted the ball
six times for 62 yards, which
included a long run of 40 yards
for a score.
The Cardinals are scheduled
to return to the practice field
today at 3:30p.m.
LEXINGTON - The more
he plays strong safety, the more
Kentucky defensive back
Muhammad Abdullah likes the
position.
"The strong safety has to
J... play more 'in the box' (near the
Jl!l line of scrimmage) and make
tackles. You have to be more of
a physical player than a finesse
player and that fits my game,"
Abdullah said following the
Wildcats' two-hour, 15-minute
practice Monday morning at
Commonwealth Stadium. "It's
not too much adjustment. I
played there some last season."
player, so it (playing strong
safety) definitely fits his personality. This has been a good
move for him and the team."
Abdullah's leadership will
be vital in a secondary that lost
two starters from last season,
strong safety Mike Williams
and
cornerback
Earven
Flowers. The two returning
starters, Abdullah and cornerback Antoine Huffman, are the
seniors among the UK defensive backs in 2005.
Kentucky returns to practice
today from 9-11 a.m. Practices
are held in Commonwealth
Stadium or the Nutter Field
House and are open to the public.
Paintsville grad Slone earns
first career win at Marshall
to one hit over the first four was followed by Stieger, who
innings, the Thundering Herd recorded his second hit of the
OXFORD, Ohio - The got on the board in the ftfth, day, a two-RBI single, to make
Marshall
University with three runs crossing the the score 7-6.
Nick Wolle (Coatesville,
Thundering Herd baseball team plate.
Roddy
Stieger
split a doubleheader with the (Westchester,
Ohio)
and Pa~) walked to load the bases
Johnson once again to bring up Brent
Miami RedHawks on Sunday Tommy
r.; afternoon. Marshall took the (Gaithersburg, Md.) both sin- Mason. Mason came through
t first game by a 10-9 score gled to lead off the inning. · with a base clearing triple to
before Miami used a late rally After advancing to second and give Marshall its first lead of
to win game two
third on a sacrifice the game. The seventh run
bunt by Brent Mason crossed the plate when Adam
by a 4-3 margin.
· In game one,
(Sherwood,
Ar.), Ptacek (Assaria, Ks .) laid down
the Herd (8-16, 3Marshall
Murray a bunt for the suiCide squeeze
3 MAC) had to
(Walnut Creek, Ca.) play to put the Herd up 10-7.
Slone, who came into the
singled in the Herd's
overcome
an
early deficit as
ftrst run of the game. game in the fourth inning, had
the RedHawks
Two batters later, the best outing of his career. He
(15-11,
4-2
Aaron
Levinson went 5 1/3 innings allowing
(Seattle,
Wa.) one run on five hits . With one
MAC)
tagged
Marshall starter
knocked in two more out and a three run lead in the
Jeremy Slone
runs with a single to ninth, he was taken out of the
Chris Cummings
(Huntington) for
make it a 6-3 game.
game in favor of Brendon
.. six runs in three innings. After
An RBI single by Miami Bump (Lawrence, Ks.). Bump
scoring once in the first, Miami left fielder Ryne Robinson in made things interesting, giving
added three runs in the second the sixth gave Miami a 7-3 up two runs on four hits and
and two in the third. Miami lead, but in the top of the two walks, but with two outs
scored the three runs in the sec- eighth, Marshall equaled its top and the bases loaded, Bump
ond on two hits and a Marshall offensive output for an inning got pinch hitter Sam Sellery to
error. In the third, two runs thus far in the season, scoring ground out to third to finish off
scored on two hits, a walk and seven runs to take a 10-3 lead. the game.
an error. Cummings left the Levinson, who recorded his
Slone, a graduate of
game after the third, giving up third hit of the day, and Adam Paintsville High School,
six runs, only three earned, on Frederick (Franklin, Pa.) sin- earned his ftrst career win in
four hits.
gled to start the inning and the outing while Bump notched
Cummings was replaced by Aaron Jamieson (Lindsay, his second save of the season.
Jeremy Slone (Paintsville), Ont.) walked to load the bases Connor Graham, who pitched
who held the RedHawk offense with no outs. Joe Glevenyak the fmal two innings, took the
~ in check while the'Herd made
(West Beach, Fla.) was hit by a loss. He gave up three runs on
its comeback. After being held pitch to bring in one run, and three hits.
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Play In Oamc
!\lith. 7<:J. Alabama A&M 69
S 'RAC\ SE REGIONAl
Fir~l Round
l'nda). March I R
At DCU Cenk•r
Worcester, [\.lass.
North C.rolmu State 75 , Charlotte 63
ConnecticiJI 77. Central Florida 71
At Charlotte ('oli>cum
Charlotte, N.C
Im\a State 64. Minncsot.l 53
North Carolina 96, Oaklaml . :V1ich 68
At The Gaylord Ent()fl<tinn cnt Center
NasllVIIL Term
Florida 6 7, Oh1o 62
Villanova 55, New Mexico 47
At The l'ord Center
Oklahoma City
Wi•conbin 57, Northern Iowa 52
Bucknell 64. Kan>as 63
Second Round
Sunday, f...1arch 20
At DCU Center
Worcester, Malis.
North Carol.na State 65. Connecticut 62
At Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, N.C.
North Carolina 92, Iowa State 65
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Na>hville, Tenn.
Villanova 76. Florida 65
At The ~ord Center
Oklahoma City
Wi>consin 71, Bucknell 62
Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At The Carrier Dome
Syracuse. N.Y.
Wisconsin 65. North Carolina State 56
North Carolina 67, Villanova 66
Championship
Sund<ty, March 27
At The Carrier Dome
S)racuse. N.Y.
North Carolma 88, Wisconsin 82
CHICAGO REGIO:--IAL
Fir;t Round
Thursday, March 17
At The Wolstein Center
Cleveland
Wisconsm-M1lwaukee 83. Alabama 73
Boston College 85. Pennsylvania 65
At The RCA Dome
Ind1anapol is
Nevada 61, Texas 57
!Uinois 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 55
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Arizona 66, Utah State 53
UAB R2, L~ll 6R
Friday, March 18
At The Ford Center
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State 63, Southeastern
Oa~l<llld,
Abdullah sta ives at strong safety
Abdullah, a free safety for
most of his collegiate career,
switched to strong safety for
the last three g'ames of the 2004
season and the coaches have
continued the position change
this spring. Abdullah played
well at both spots last year,
totaling 58 tackles and three
interceptions. He has led the
team in interceptions the last
two seasons and was named
second-team All-Southeastern
Conference both years.
"Muhammad is doing a
great job," UK defensive backs
coach Steve Brown said. "He's
very good around the line of
scrimmage and is a physical
6, 2005 • 85
Tournament
UK FOOTBALL:
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
J,
Louisiana 50
Southern lllinois 65,Saint Mary's, Calif. 56
Second Round
Saturday. March 19
At n1e Wolstein Center
Cleveland
Wisconsin Milwaukee 83, Boston Col!. 75
At The RCA Dome
Indianapolis
Illinois 71, Nevada 59
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise. Idaho
Anzona 85, UAB 63
Sunday, March 20
At The Ford Center
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State 85, Southern Dlinois 77
Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
At Allstate Arena
Rosemont, Ill.
IllinoLs 77, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 63
Arizona 79, Oklahoma State 78
Championship
Saturday, March 26
At Allstate Arena
Rosemont, ill.
lllinois 90, Arizona 89, OT
AUSTIN REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday, March 17
At The RCA Dome
Indianapolis
Kentucky 72, Eastern Kentucky 64
Cincinnati 76, Iowa 64
At The McKale Center
Tucson, Ariz.
Oklahoma 84, Niagara 67
Utah 60, Texas-El Paso 54
Friday, March 18
At DCU Center
Worcester, Mass.
Vermont 60, Syracuse 57
Michigan State 89, Old Dominion 8 1
At Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, N.C.
Duke 57, Delaware State 46
Mississippi State 93, Stanford 70
Second Round
Saturday, March I9
At The RCA Dome
Indianapolis
Kentucky 69, Cincinnati 60
At n1e McKale Center
Tucson, Ariz.
Utah 67, Oklahoma 58
Sunday, March 20
At DCU Center
Worcester, Mass.
Michigan State 72, Vermont 61
At Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, N.C.
Duke 63, Mississippi State 55
Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At The Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texa•
Michigan State 78, Duke 68
Kentucky 62, Utah 52
Championship
Sunday, March 27
At The Frank Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
Michigan State 94, Kentucky 88 , 20T
ALBUQUERQUE REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday, March 17
At The Wolstein Center
Cleveland
Wake Forest 70, Chattanooga 54
West Virginia 63, Creighton 61
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Pacific 79. P1ttsburgh 71
Washington 88, Montana 77
At The McKale Center
1\Jcson, Ariz.
Gonzaga 74, Winthrop 64
Texas Tech 78, UCLA 66
Friday, March 18
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Louisville 68, Louisiana-Lafayette 62
Georgia Tech 80, George Washington 68
Second Round
Saturday, March 19
At The Wolstein Center
Cleveland
West Virginia 111, Wake Forest 105, 20T
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Washington 97, Pacific 79
At The McKale Center
1\Jcson, Ariz.
Texas Tech 71, Gonzaga 69
Sunday, March 20
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Louisville 76, Georgia Tech 54
Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
At The Pit
Albuquerq11e. N .M.
Louisville 93, Washington 79
West Virginia 65, Texas Tech 60
Championship
Saturday, March 26
At The Pit
Albuquerq11e. N.M.
Louisville 93 , West Virginia 85 . OT
FINAL FOUR
At Edward Jones Dome
St. Louis
National Semifinals
Saturday, April 2
Illinois 72, Louisville 57
North Carolina 87, M1chigan State 7 1
Championship
Monday, April4
North Carolina 75, IJlinois 70
ALC baseball team
wins four of rwe
by STEVE LeM~STER
SPORTS EDITOR
PlPPA PASSES - The Alice
Lloyd College baseball team won
four of ftve games last week. On
Tuesday, the Eagles, playing on
the road in Danville, split a doubleheader with Centre College.
Alice Lloyd took the first game,
beating host Centre 9-8.
In the opening-game victory,
Jesse Smith was the winning
pitcher and Jeff Robbins was credited with the save. Alice Lloyd's
Ronnie Johnson, Kevin Slone,
Matthew Toney and Byron Hall
each picked up two hits apiece.
Hall also drove in a pair of runs.
Noah May had a hit and
drove in three runs.
The Eagles lost the second
game, falling 7-1. Slone again
had two hits. Derrick Whitaker
had a hit and Alice Lloyd's only
RBI in the game.
On Thursday, Alice Lloyd doubleheader.
The Eagles have a threetraveled north to Ohio Rio
Grande University and came game series scheduled at
away with a 7-6 win over the Tennessee Wesleyan for the
host team. Playing host to Alice upcoming weekend.
Lloyd, Rio Grande was ranked
ALC SOFTBALL: The Alice
as one of the top 25 teams in the Lloyd College softball team
its
season
last
country. Against Rio Grande, opened
Joey Hager went to the mound Wednesday with a doubleheader
for the Eagles - and he worked at the Hindman Park against
well, picking up the win.
• Kentucky State University.
On
Friday,
Southwest Although they played well, the
Virginia visited Alice Lloyd. Lady Eagles lost both games,
The Eagles won both games of a falling 7-1 and 4-0 .
doubleheader, beating the
Brandy Smith pitched well in
Virginia squad 15-2 in one game both games.
On Thursday, the Lady
and 10-0 in another.
David Hatfield was the win- Eagles traveled to Berea
ning pitcher in the ftrst game. College for another doubleheadMay pitched an no-hitter in the er. The ALC softball team fell 5second game.
1 in the ftrst game and 17-1 in
This week, the Eagles played the second game.
at UVa-Wise on Monday and are
This week, the team will
scheduled for a
travel to Kentucky State on
At press time, Alice Lloyd Thursday and UVa-Wise on
was hosting Union College in a Friday.
Blackcats beat
KnoH Cenlnll, Cordia
TIMES STAFF REPORT
PRESTONSBURG - After
., starting the season with backto-hack
losses,
the
Prestonsburg High baseball
team
entered
yesterday
evening's home game against
Phelps winner of two of its last
three games. The Blackcats,
after losing to Sheldon Clark
and Magoffin County in games
played on back-to-back days
last week, moved on to Knott
County Central High School
and the East Kentucky
Invitational.
The
East
Kentucky
., Invitational got underway on
Wednesday, March 30 and continued through last Sunday
evening when Allen Central
beat Pike County Central for
the tournament title.
La~e
last
week,
Prestonsburg
beat
Knott
County Central 3-2. The
Blackcats, coached by Bob
Shepherd, also got a win over
Cordia Monday night. The
Blackcats hit the road and
defeated the host Lions 9-1 .
In the win over Knott Central,
Prestonsburg provided some
game-deciding play late, scoring
two of its three runs in the last
inning. Nick McGuire got the
start on the mound for
Prestonsburg. Josh Rodebaugh
and Brenton Hamilton also
pitched for the Blackcats.
Hamilton also ptovided offense,
finishing with a double and a single.
Ryan Hall scored both of
Knott Central's runs. Trey
Smith pitched and absorbed the
loss for the Patriots.
Results
from
the
Prestonsburg-Phelps
game
were unavailable at press time.
East Kentucky
Invitational
At Knott County Central
Pike Co. Central 10, Knott County Central 1
Allen Ceo. 9, Pike Co. Central 8 Mar 3 1.
2005
Allen Ceo. 4, P'burg I Apr I, 2005
Allen Cent. 10, June .Buchanan
0
innings)Apr 3, 2005
Silver Grove 13, Cordia 2
Allen Cent. 10. Pike County Central4
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(CHAMPIONSHIP GAME)
SCORES
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photos by Jamie Howell
Prestonsburg, after droppmg a season-opener to Magoffin County, returned to the diamond yesterday, taking on Floyd County rival Betsy Layne.
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�86 • WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
NC 0 A CHAMPIONSHIP: North Carolina 75, Illinois 70
by EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Finally, Roy
Williams had a good reason to cry.
Stymied so many times
before in his pursuit of a title, the
longtin1e coach broke through
Monday night. The tears this
time were tears of joy, the result
a 75-70 victory over Illinois that
finally gave Williams the national championship that was missing from his otherwise stellar 17year career.
"I'm just so happy for
myself, my family," Williams
said. "These seniors ... they took
me for a heck of a ride."
Sean May had 26 points and
the Tar Heels didn't allow a basket over the final, excruciating 2
1/2 minutes.
Freshman Marvin Williams
had a tip-in with 1:26 left,
Raymond Felton made three
free throws down the stretch and
the Tar Heels (33-4) won their
first title since 1993, back when
Dean Smith was coaching and
Williams was at Kansas, in the
middle of his Final Four futility.
"He is the greatest coach,"
Felton said. "If he retired tomorrow, I would vote for him for the
Hall of Fame. He told us he
would bring us a championship
and we did it as a team."
Led by May's 10-for-11
shooting, Carolina took a 65-55
lead with 8:51left and it looked
like Williams would win his
41st tournament game and first
championship going away.
But Illinois (37 -2) never
quits. The lllini shot 27 percent
in the first half and trailed by 13
at halftime.
They trailed by 15 early in the
second and 10 a bit later. They
tied the game twice in the last 5
1/2 minutes, but when they had a
chance to force overtime, Luther
Head missed a 3-pointer with 17
seconds left, ending their chance
to set the NCAA record for wins
in a season.
"We lost our poise down the
stretch in the first half," Illinois
coach Bruce Weber said. 'That
probably cost us because now you
have such a margin to come back."
When it was over - after
Felton had made his last two free
throws, after May had cradled his
lOth and final rebound Williams took off his glasses and
started looking for people to hug.
A few moments later, he was
crying, much like he has at the
end of every season. Usually,
the tears come because he has to
say goodbye. No goodbye will
be as sweet as this one.
"For Coach to be able to say
that the first team to get him a
championship was the 2005
team is an honor," said May,
whose 26 points were the same
as his dad, Scott, scored in leading Indiana to the 1976 title over
Michigan. "He' 11 win a few
more before he's done."
Head led Illinois with 21
points. He had a wide-open look
at a 3-pointer that would have
tied the game at 73, but it
bounded off. Felton made the
final two free throws and
Weber's magical ride with the
lllini wound up one win short of
the real fairytale ending he
hoped for.
"It goes down in history,"
Weber said. "Not only lllinois
history, NCAA history. Tied the
most wins ever, No. 1 for all the
time. You get to the championship game. You know, I mean,
if you're not happy with this, I
feel sorry for you, because life
ain't getting better."
It did get better for Williams,
though.
The coach left Kansas to take
over the Tar Heels two years
ago, after the program Smith
built had faltered and fallen to 820. Williams took a ton of heat
for leaving the Jayhawks suddenly after losing in the title
game in 2003 - his fourth close
call at the Final Four.
He defended the move, saying
coming back to his alma mater
had always been his dream.
"The last three or four days, I
had five or six of them call me
and wish me good luck," he said
of his former players.
It took two years to rebuild,
and this week he dealt with a
more familiar issue: Did he need
to win a title to call his career a
success?
He told the story of Smith
insisting he was no better a
coach after he finally won one in
1982, but Williams conceded
that answering that "same doggone question" did get a little
annoying at times.
When he walked into the
interview room after this win,
his first statement echoed Smith.
"I'm no better coach than I
was three hours ago," Williams
declared.
The win gave North Carolina
its fourth overall title, fourthmost in NCAA history and one
more than archrival Duke.
Celebrating in the locker room
afterward were former Tar Heel
Michael Jordan and Smith, the
coach Williams patterned his
career after.
After May made a short shot
with 11:22 left in the first half
for an 18-17 lead, Carolina
never trailed again - but this
game never really got comfortable.
May was unstoppable for the
first 12 minutes of the second
half, scoring 16 points during
that stretch and dishing out two
assists to help North Carolina
push its lead to as many as 15
and fight off the Illinois rallies.
James Augustine, charged
with stopping the 6-foot-9 center, was in foul trouble through
most of it. He tried covering
May one-on-one, and that didn't
work. Then, he got help, but
when May felt the double coverage, he dished out to a wideopen Jawad Williams, who made
a 3-pointer for a 60-53 lead.
But Illinois hung in, and that
was no surprise. This was the
team that rallied from 15 down
with 4 minutes left against
Arizona in the regional to make
it to its first Final Four since
1989,
This time, though, the Illini
could never get a lead. And after
Head hit a 3-pointer with 2:40
left, Deron Williams missed on
an open look, Felton stepped in
front of a bad pass by Head, then
Head missed the potential gametying shot at the end.
In all, the Illini missed five 3pointers down the stretch, part
of a night in which they shot 12for-40 from long range - a season high for attempts - and just
38 percent overall.
Felton finished with 17
points and seven assists and
Rashad McCants had 14 for the
Tar Heels, all in the first half.
Deron Williams scored 17
and Dee Brown had 12 for the
Illini, but they needed a combined 39 shots to get there- and,
in the end, the 27-for-70 shooting night just couldn't be overcome.
The game turned in North
Carolina's favor during a 13-2
run over the last 4:58 of the first
half.
Felton, McCants and Jawad
Williams each hit 3-pointers
during the stretch. More significantly, though, was the way the
Tar Heels dominated on
defense.
Head squinned open for a
twisting shot from point blank
on the baseline, but it missed.
Roger Powell Jr. rebounded but
couldn't get the ball to the rimrejected twice by North
Carolina's inside players.
In the end, the Tar Heels won
the matchup that was billed as
Team vs. Talent - North
Carolina with the talent and
lllinois with the team.
It turned out Carolina really
had both.
"A lot of people said we were
just talented, but not a team,"
May said. "But when times got
tough, we banded together and
came through. We showed we're
not just talented. We're a team."
And the team with the right
coach, to boot.
Tubby Smith earns national coach of the year honors
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON - After leading
his team to a 28-6 record, University
of Kentucky head coach Tubby
Smith was rewarded with 2005 Jim
Phelan National Coach of the Year
award, edging Illinois' Bruce Weber
by ten points.
"This might be Tubby's finest
coaching job," says Rice head coach
Willis Wilson who is one of 20
members on the Phelan Award committee. "He got so much out of his
team, which was very young. His
ability to motivate and get the most
of out what he has to work with has
always been a staple of Tubby
Smith. This season was a prime
example of that. Tubby really
deserves this award."
Smith received 10 first-place
votes, while Weber received 8.
Utah's
Ray
Giacoletti
and
Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Bruce Pearl
each received one first-place vote.
Pacific's Bob Thomason finished
third overall in the voting, followed
by Pearl, Boston College's AI
Skinner and Giacoletti.
The Wildcats began the season
winning 10-of-11 and 19-of-21. And
much to the surprise of many, UK
won its first ten Southeastern
Conference games. Kentucky's
come-from-behind win at Alabama
(Feb. 26) clinched the school's 43rd
SEC title. It was Tubby's fifth SEC
title in eight seasons.
Over the past three seasons,
Smith has led Kentucky to 51-4
mark against SEC opponents. The
total ties the SEC record for most
wins over conference foes in a threeyear period. Kentucky has previously reached the 51-win mark over two
spans (1995-97 and 1996-98).
"Despite all he has accomplished I
still don't believe that Tubby has
received the credit he deserves," says
Joe Dwyer (pictured above) who is
the
editor-in-chief
of
Collegelnsider.com and a member of
the Phelan award voting panel. "In
my opinion, being the head basketball coach at Kentucky is the single
most challenging job in all of sports."
Smith is the third recipient of the
Jim Phelan Coach of the Year award,
which was originally established in
1996 as the Collegelnsider.com
National Coach of the Year award.
In March 2003, the award was
renamed to honor long-time Mount
St. Mary's coach Jim Phelan.
Mercer's Mark Slonaker was the
2003 recipient and St. Joseph's Phil
Martelli took the honor in 2004.
Twenty-nine years later, May
ntatches his father's title
by KEITH PARSONS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Before the
biggest game of his career, Sean
May followed the same ritual that
served him so well all season.
He had a conversation with his
father, who did most of the talking.
"You've been playing long
enough, you know what you
have to do," Scott May told his
son. "You have one shot. You'll
never forget this moment if you
get it done."
The moment they shared
was brief, but Sean May got the
message. He made all but one
of his 11 shots and scored 26
points in a dominating performance Monday night, controlling the paint and leading North
Carolina past Illinois 75-70 for
the NCAA championship.
In the process, May forced
one of his defenders to foul out
and left another with four fouls.
And the burly Tar Heels center
left with the Most Outstanding
Player award.
No surprise there. May carried North Carolina to the Final
Four by averaging 21.5 points
and 11.8 rebounds in the tournament, slightly better than his
regular-season numbers. In the
final, his 26 points matched the
total his father scored in the
1976 final, when Scott May
and Indiana completed an
undefeated season with a victory over Michigan.
"It means a lot, because I
tried to live up to my father's
expectations, even though he
hasn't wanted me to," the
younger May said. "It's very
gratifying to know that you set
goals for yourself and you're
able to achieve those goals."
Sean May did beat his old
man's effort in one way - he
finished with 10 rebounds, two
more than Scott May had in his
final game.
"We'll have some fun with
that," Sean May said with a smile.
When May and his teammates arrived in St. Louis, he
showed them the videotape
from that final 29 years ago,
the first time they had seen it
together. Perhaps now May can
put it away for good, since he
has one of his own. Quite a
night on his 21st birthday.
"This celebration is a lot
better than that '76 celebration,
'cause it's my celebration and
this team," May said. "My dad
talked about it for so many
years, and I never really understood what it was like. I never
won anything on this level."
· The Illini had rarely faced
someone as rugged as May,
listed at 6-foot-9 and 250
pounds. And they were illequipped to handle him, particularly when 6-foot-10 center
James Augustine left with five
fouls. Reserve Jack Ingram finished with four.
"It's tough to stop May,"
Illini coach Bruce Weber said.
"They had probably more
inside threat with May than we
had, and it made the difference
in the game."
In the final 20 games of the
season, May had 15 doubledoubles, and he added the final
one when it mattered most.
May didn't take a shot after
making two free throws with
4:21 left to give the Tar Heels a
70-67 lead, but he found other
ways to help.
Luther Head later missed a
3-pointer that would have
given Illinois a tie in the final
minute, and May leaped high to
tip the carom to North Carolina
point guard Raymond Felton.
When Felton got fouled, a couple of his teammates began celebrating a bit, and May was
there quickly to squash it.
He fmally allowed himself to
smile when it was over, racing
over to hug coach Roy Williams.
"Sean came up with the ball.
He's running at me," Williams
said. "I just wanted to hug that
big rascal as long as I could
hug him.".
May also soaked in the
atmosphere in what might be
his final college game. All season long, he insisted he would
be back for his senior season,
but his performance in the tour-
nament is sure to make the
NBA an option.
"It's been unbelievable," May
said. "My teammates, friends,
family, they supported us. I'll
never forget this 'til the day I die.
This is the best moment I've ever
had in my whole life."
At the start of the second
half, May scored North
Carolina's first two baskets,
then added another less than 2
minutes later when he followed
up a miss by Jawad Williams
with a powerful dunk. Time and
again, when the Tar Heels needed points, they went to May,
and he almost always delivered.
"Man, Sean was absolutely
just killing those guys," North
Carolina guard Melvin Scott
said. "I wish we could have
gotten him the ball 12 extra
times and gotten him 50."
Even when lllinois surrounded him with double teams, May
couldn't be stopped. He threw a
nifty crosscourt pass to set up a
3 by Jawad Williams to give
North Carolina a 60-53 lead,
then May had a chance for a
three-point play on the next possession after making a jumper
over Ingram.
Missing the free throw didn't slow him down. May converted 3-of-4 at the line to
make it 65-55 before adding
his final points on those free
throws to set up the finish.
"They play really good
defense, but they extend so
much, it leaves a wide gap,"
May said. "Our guards did a
great job getting me the ball,
and they just kept feeding me."
He also had a hand in helping the Tar Heels take the lead
for good, getting good position
alongside teammate Marvin
Williams
when
Rashad
McCants missed a reverse
layup. May and Williams both
jumped for the tip, but
Williams was credjted with it,
and the Illini couldn't recover.
"You know, it's not supposed
to be easy," May said. "We have
to tip our hats to them. They
played well, but we didn't give
up. We wanted to win."
Kentucky
head
coach
Tubby
Smith
has
received
a
national
coach of
the year
honor.
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POISON OAK
I never liked
cake, anyway
During the NCAA basketball tournament,
a
week or so
ago, I heard
one of the
announcers
on TV com· ment that a
team had won
in a "cakewalk."
A lot of
basketball
champions
have
been
Clyde Pack
crowned
~
since I first
heard that term. Of course, in this case,
the commentator simply meant that
the team to which he referred, had had
an easy time with its opponent. Let me
say here and now, however, that winning real, genuine cakewalks was ...
well, no piece of cake.
Back in the 1940s, pie suppers-or
if you were a member of the upper
crust, "pie socials"- were frequent
fund-raising events at the H. S. Howes
Community School. Cakewalks were
always a part of the pie suppers.
In Loretta Lynn's movie, pie suptfers were depicted exactly as I remember them. Boys old enough to be gainfully employed, most likely at the
North East Coal Company mine,
would bid on a pie, and whomever
bought it got to share it with the girl
who had made it. Sometimes, depending upon how pretty the girl was-and
coal-camp girls were a good looking
bunch-a pie would go for as high as
six or seven dollars. The money paid
for the pie went to the organization
sponsoring the event. Most of the time,
, least in our case, it was the PTA.
After the auctioneer-! remember
that once it was Charlie Bailey, a
preacher at the Free Will Baptist
Church-would sell half a dozen, or
so, pies, he'd take a break and we'd
have us a cakewalk. Sometimes as
many as eight or ten of the older
women would each bring a home(See OAK, page three)
KIM'S KORNER
Repeat Advice
During a weekend trip to the grocery, I was approached by a young
woman who asked if there was any
way I could repeat a column or, if that
was just totally impossible.
She told how a member of her family was experiencing such
grief and turmoil over out
and out false
rumors. And
of how those
involved
don't
ever
seem to stop
and think of
the harm such
things
can
Kim Frasure
cause.
She
told me she
had searched and searched for the
copy of the paper that had this very
subject discussed in it and said she
thought she had kept it, but wasn't
able to find it anywhere.
She told me how she believed God
Q.Ut us in that store at the same time so
Tnat she could ask me to please publish it again.
With that in mind, the following
article is a repeat from June of '04:
Reading the book of Job a few
days ago brought to mind, occurrences
some have endured lately that led to
prayer of what and how to share with
you in this particular space this month.
Chapter 19:23-24 & 29
"Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a
book! (29) "Be afraid of the sword for
yourselves; For wrath brings the pun(See KORNER, page three)
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RIF Challenge at Prestonsburg Elementary
Prestonsburg Elementary continued its participation in the 2005 RIF(Reading Is Fundamental) Community Reading Challenge on
Wednesday, February 23 by inviting readers
from the community into their school. This
activity is a part of a national competition that
encourages children to read and brings community members into RIF sites as volunteer
readers. This challenge is conducted in any
two-week period during January and February
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and must include a variety of activities that
motivate children to read. This challenge is
made possible by MetLife Foundation.
Community readers participating were
Highlands Regional Medical Center employ
ees, local attorneys, retired teachers, Prestonsburg Fire Department members, local ministers, dental asssistants, and other prominent
community members.
(See RIF, page three)
Maggie
Banks
from
Highland
Regional
Medical
Center is
reading
to Mrs.
Vic key
Stumbo's
Second
Grade
class.
BSCTC Hosts National
History Day Contest
National History Day Contest a success
By Rachelle Burchett
PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSISTANT,
BSCTC
"We welcome your to our College," stated Nancy Johnson, Big
Sandy Community and Technical
College (BSCTC) Provost, as she
overlooked a crowd of 280 students
and teachers from around the region
to the Annual National History Day
Contest. The National History Day
(NHD) Contest was held on the Prestonsburg Campus of BSCTC on
March 24, 2005. National History
Day is a program designed to engage
students in grades 6-12 in active
learning as they prepare theme related presentations for the contest.
Communication in History: The Key
to Understanding, was this year's
theme and students who participated
in the contest had to prepare a theme
related paper, project, documentary
or dramatic presentation.
"The contest held in this district is
the oldest continual History Day
Contest in the state," stated Dr. Donald Barlow, associate professor of
history at BSCTC and coordinator of
the eastern Kentucky District of the
National History Day program. "It
has been 14 years of building to
reach such success with the contest
and I am proud of all that we have
accomplished together in the Eastern
Kentucky District. According to the
NHD website the contest is the oldest
and most highly regarded humanities
contest and it engages more than
700,000 students annually," he said.
Dr. George D. Edwards, BSCTC
President said, "I am delighted that
Big Sandy Community and Technical
College can host the National History Day Contest. It is encouraging to
see the many students from the Big
Sandy area schools, here on our campus and engaged in activities that
exemplify excellence and learning.
It is my honor to congratulate all of
the participants in this annual history
event."
Counselor Beverly Martin judges one of the many projects submitted to the National History Day Contest on the
Big Sandy Community and Technical College Prestonsburg campus.
CRITTER CORNER
Thunderstorm Phobia
By Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
The first of the spring thunderstorms
has come and gone, in the wee hours of
last Thursday morning. If the dogs had
slept through it, I probably would have
too. As it was, a loud crash of thunder
coincided with Destiny diving under the
covers and Gunner leaping completely
across the bed to get to his "cave" under
the night table (not that an 80-lb dog FITS
under a night table).
I was late for work the next morning,
since I had to help Pat load Gunner into
the truck and drive him to our chiropractor
to have his neck adjusted. He had apparently slammed headfirst into the closet
door when he jumped off the bed. At
work, Teresa was as bleary-eyed as I was,
having spent a similar night with her dogs
reacting fearfully to the storm. Several
people that day mentioned having problems with their dogs because of the
weather.
Fear of storms is common in animals
and people, and it is grounded in the reasonable instinct to seek shelter and avoid
injury. Fears tum into phobias when they
get so bad that they are out of proportion
to the actual danger. Most dogs that show
signs of anxiety during storms fall in the
category of fearfuL They may hide,
shake, pace or drool. The really phobic
dogs are a different story. These animals
tend to be truly frantic, and often hurt
themselves or do damage to their sur(See CRITTER, page three)
"Sadie Lou." Sadie Lou is an austrailian shepard/ border collie
mix. This beautiful portrait of Sadie Lou was painted by local
artist, Randy Lawson, who, along with wife, Mandy, owns the
gorgeous girl.
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6,
2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Schoo( Ca(endar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• If you would be interested
in volunteering at AMS, contact
the Youth Services Center to
schedule a time for Volunteer
Orientation.
• Adams Middle School
Youth Services Center is open
each weekday from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. The center offers services
to all families regardless of
income. For more information
about any of the activities or services of the center, please contact the center at 886-1297.
Center Coordinator - Michelle
Keathley; Assistant - Sheila
Allen.
tary Family Resource Youth
Service Center is located in the
500 building of the campus.
The goal of the FRYSC is to
meet the needs of all children
and their families who reside in
the community or neighborhood
by the school in which the center is located. For further information, please contact the center
at 478-5550 or 478-9751, ext.
310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra
Hayes, School Nurse.
garten, Head Start and wellchild physicals (age birth to 18
years); T.B. skin test; T.D.
boosters; and WIC services.
Please call 358-9878 for
appointment if you are in need
of any of these services.
• The J .A. Duff Elementary
Family Resource Center provides services for all families
regardless of income. We are
located in the tan metal building
at the rear of the school. Contact
persons are Judy Handshoe,
coordinator, and Ruby Bailey,
assistant.
Clark Elementary
• A nurse from the Floyd
County Health Dept. is in the
Allen Central Middle School
center weekly and sees WIC
• The ACMS Youth Service patients, does well-child exams
Center is open each day from (birth-18 years), and gives
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., or later immunizations.
Currently
by appointment.
For morel scheduling exams for students
information about the center, who will be in the 6th grade in
call LaDonna Patton, coordina- the next school year. Call for an
tor, at 358-0134.
appointment- 886-0815.
• The Clark Elementary
Allen Elementary and Family
Family Resource Center proResource Youth Service Cen- vides services for all families
ter
regardless of income. We are
•
Call Allen Elementary located in the Clark Elementary
Youth Service Center at 874- School building and can be
0621 to schedule your child's reached by calling 886-0815.
Hepatitis B vaccination, immunizations, and WIC appointDuff Elementary
ments.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. is at the school each TuesBetsy Layne Elementary
day. Services include 6th grade
• The Betsy Layne Elemen- school entry physical; kinder-
May Valley Elementary
• May 5, 6 - Kindergarten
registration for 2005-06 school
year, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. If
possible, new students should
accompany their parents to the
registration process. For more
information, call the school ·at
285-0883.
• Parent Lending Library is
available to parents for video
check-outs. A variety of topics
are available.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. nurse at school every
Wednesday. Services include
Head Start physicals, kindergarten physicals, 6th grade
physicals, well-child physicals,
immunizations, TB skin test,
WIC program, blood pressure
checks, and more. Must call the
FRC at 285-0321 for an appointment.
McDowell Elementary and
Family Resource Center
• Floyd County Health
Department Nurse Joy Moore, is
at the center each Monday to
administer immunizations, T.B.
skin tests, well-child exams,
WIC, prenatal and post-partum
services, and school physicals.
Call 377-2678 for an appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
• Now accepting applications for enrollment for Kindergarten for the 2005-06 school
year. Call 285-5141 for more
information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and
Family Resource Center
• April 4 - FRC Advisory
Council meeting, 3:15 p.m., in
FRC office.
• April 11 - Last day to tum
in Food City receipts!
• May 24,25- Kindergarten
registration for 2005-2006
school year, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m., in school auditorium. The
following
information
is
required before enrollment:
Student's birth certificate, social
security card, immunization
records, physical exam, and eye
exam. Please bring these documents the day you register your
child.
•
The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays 8
a.m.-4 p.m., and later by
appointment. Office provides
services for all families, regardless of income.
• After School Child Care,
3-6 p.m., school days.
• Call 886-7088 for additional information regarding the
Prestonsburg Elementary Family Resource Center or its programs.
South Floyd Youth Services
Center
• Committee sign-ups may
be done through the Youth Services Center office.
• Walking track open to public.
• The center has a one-stop
career station satellite that is
available to the community as
well as students.
• Anyone interested in Adult
Ed may contact the center for
information.
• All new students and visitors, stop by the Center, located
on the South Floyd campus,
Room 232, and see Mable Hall.
• For more information call
452-9600 or 9607 and ask for
Mable Hall, ext. 243, or Keith
Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center.
• April 6 - Child Abuse
Awareness Month - Booth will
be set up in school lunchroom
and Carol Jo May, of Our Lady
of the Way Hospital, will be ori' · :
hand for questions and com- : '
ments.
• April 11, 12, 13 - Free
computer class, beginners and
advanced, 5:30 to 7:30, in
school computer lab. If interested, call FRC center to sign up.
• FRC monthly Advisory
Council meetings will be held
the first Wednesday of each ,
month, at 4 p.m. Call for more·~
info.
·.
• Lost & Found located in ,·
Family Resource Center.
:,
• Resource Center hours are
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Parents·'-·
and community members are ·:
welcome to visit. For questions, , · .
call 587-2233 - ask for Tristan
Parsons, Center Coordinator, or ·
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
•·..
•f
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow , .
Junction" Family Resource
Center
Character Words for the-·
Month: Tolerance and Kind- . ·.
ness.
. 1.
• "Lost & Found" is located ·
in the FRC. If your child has.-·
lost any clothing or other per- ·
sonal items, please remind them
to check in the FRC. Items not_ _
claimed within 2 weeks,
become the property of the .
. .
FRC.
• Rainbow Junction Family
Resource Center is located in~
(See SCHOOL, page three)
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Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and ·.:
60 years ago.)
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Ten Years Ago
April 5 and 7, 1995
In what is being described as a plea for
help, a group of Floyd Countians are planning to converge on the Floyd County
Courthouse, Saturday morning, in a
protest against alleged local government
corruption. Recent reports that approximately $800,000 in 911-funds are missing,
and that $2.5 million in solid waste "user
fees" were unaccented for are the reasons
for Saturday's event, according to a written release from the group ...Two Indiana
men were arrested, Tuesday, by Prestonsburg Police and are being questioned in
the Monday evening robbery of a BP station at Stanville. Jack D. Cooler, 22, and
Mark Mills, 23, both of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, were booked into the Floyd
County Jail on theft by unlawful taking
charges, after police reportedly discovered
the vehicle they were riding in was
stolen ...State education officials will
divide almost $200,000 between four
Floyd County schools for high achievement on student perlormance tests. It was
announced, Tuesday, that Betsy Layne
High School and Harold, Auxier and Duff
elementaries will receive the monies as
rewards under Kentucky's Education
Reform Act...Prestonsburg's finance and
revenue committee met Monday to discuss the use of city gas in Mayor Jerry
Fannin's personal vehicle, and his use of a
cellular phone ...In a surprise to some,
Floyd County Democrats chose their candidate, Monday, to run for judge-executive in November, and it wasn't Floyd
County Sheriff Paul Hunt Thompson.
Members of the Democrhtic Executive
Committee unanimously nominated Ben
Hale, son of former Sheriff Henry Hale, to
face off against the Republican challenger
in November.. .A Floyd County man is facing an extortion charge after allegedly
threatening to kill people if the McDonald's Corporation did not send him money.
Donald Howell, 32, of Mink Branch at
Craynor, was arrested at his home on
March 25, by Kentucky State Police
trooper Les Stapleton...Five first degree
rape charges were filed against a Floyd
County man, Sunday, for allegedly raping
a 41-year-old woman in February. John
Glenn Tackett, 33, of Beaver, was charged
by Kentucky State Police detective Leslie
Gannon for allegedly raping the woman
repeatedly on February 8 ...Two unidentified persons were taken to area hospitals,
Monday afternoon, after being injured in a
four-car crash at an intersection at Mar-:
tin ...Floyd County deputy judge-executive
Jimmy Stumbo was sentenced to two
years probation, Friday, after pleading
guilty, earlier this year, to drug trafficking
and stealing county funds ...A total of nine
forest fires in Floyd, Pike and Martin
counties won't be under control until
some rain falls, according to state forestry
officials. A Jackson weather official
reported a slight chance of rain, Saturday...A six-man delegation from Poland is
touring eastern Kentucky to learn how
cable-television and telephone service can
be provided to rural areas in their country.. .lt looks like Floyd County's Fiscal
Court won't be borrowing any money to
replenish the county's depleted 911 fund,
because excess monies have been found in
other accounts ...The bidding process for
phase I renovations to the Samuel May
House will have 'to begin again, because
the bids came in at approximately
$100,000 over cost estimates ...There died:
Lenna Adams, 80, of Prestonsburg, Friday, March 31 , at Highlands Regional
Medical Center; Sterling Turner Waddles,
81, of Eastern, Wednesday, March 29, at
Our Lady of the Way Hospital; Lona E.
Hayes, 80, of Dayton, Ohio, formerly of
Floyd County, Wednesday, March 29, at
the Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton;
John H. Osborne Sr., 79, ofMims,Florida,
Friday, March 31, at his residence; Tina
Kaye Manns, 14, of Wayland, Sunday,
April 2, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital,
Martin; Carla Francis Osborne, 26, of
Winchester, a Floyd County native, Saturday, April 1, in Mt. Sterling, from injuries
suffered in an automobile accident; Bernice L. Schepers, 79, of Celestine, Indiana, Wednesday, April 5, at the Jasper
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper, Indiana; Betty Sue Spencer,
54, of Hueysville, Wednesday, April 5, at
the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington; Josephine Hall, 65, of
Weeksbury, Wednesday, April 5, at
Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Dorothy
Hereford Cunningham, 77, of Margate,
Florida, formerly of Prestonsburg, Saturday, April 1, at Northwest Regional Medical Facility in Margate; Sam Henry Marsillette, 31, of Auxier, Tuesday, April 4, at
Highlands Regional Medical Center; Edna son, Jeffery Scott, March 20, at Pikeville··
Mae Castle Martin, 89, of Garrett, Methodist Hospital...There died: Gladys'.
Wednesday, AprilS, at Highlands Region- Jarrell Ratliff, 86, Monday, at her home a~ ,n
Justell; George W. Hensley, 80, oL.
al Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
Melvin, March 19, at Methodist Hospital; · ·
Pikeville; Mrs. Malta Bays Cole, 58, of'
Martin, Wednesday, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Elbert K.
April3, 1985
Burchett, 71, of Endicott, March 24, at~'
Highlands Regional Medical Center; Mrs, ,:
Captain Samuel Maurice Isbell II, 26, Lily Hall Martin, 63, Monday, at her.~"
of Floyd County, lost his life when his home at Halo; Wootsie Moore, 75, of plane crashed in California, last Wednes- Langley, Sunday, at Highlands Regional.:~
day morning ...For the second time in two Medical Center; Joan Leslie Craven, 69,
weeks, a Floyd high school principal has of Prestonsburg, last Tuesday, at High- -;
been asked to step down by Superinten- lands Regional Medical Center.
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dent E.P. Grigsby Jr...There died: Darwin
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Spradlin, 60, of West Prestonsburg, Sunday, at the Veteran's Hospital in West Virginia; Hie Conn, 94, of Dana, Tuesday, at
his home; Kenis Hamilton, 93, of Beaver,
April1, 1965
Monday, at Riverview Manor Nursing
Home; W. K. "Bill" Woods, 58, of Allen,
The fear of flooding eased over the
Sunday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital; week-end as streams were back within •>
Dempsey Paige, 62, of Beaver, last their channels by Sunday...One of two~..~
Wednesday, at McDowell Appalachian federal prisoners who choked a,\ turnkey, :.
Regional Hospital; Stella Mae Shepherd, gained possession of his keys and fled the. .
75, of West Prestonsburg, Sunday, at Floyd County Jail, late Sunday afternoon~···.
Highlands Regional Medical Center; is the object of a wide search by Ploy~:- ,
Jerry Hall Jr., 48, of Drift, last Wednes- County officers and state police .. .Bricks-.
day, at St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington; from the old Floyd County Courthouse .
Grace Wicker Bays, 81, of Garrett, March were utilized, this week, for construction~·
26, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital.
on the first building at Archer Park
here ...Fathers of dependent children who ..
are given work under the Economic '·
Opportunity Act will be going ),back to
school soon -or off the payroll ...~e Pre- :.
April 2, 197 5
stonsburg Jaycees have pledged $1,000 ,
toward construction of eight tennis courts ~,·
If legislation amending the National at Archer Park, and a spring dance will be:·~
Flood Insurance Act is voted by Con- the first of the club's fund-raising
gress- and there is no apparent major efforts ...Coach of the Martin PuiTple Flash .
opposition to it-communities in flood- basketball team, Denzil Halbert, has beeri~ ·.
prone areas will not lose any federal funds named coach of the East squa<;l in th~· · ·
for failure to join the federal flood insur- East-West all-star game, and Martin star .:
ance program, a Washington reporter
Larry Hall was selected by The Courier-t'
says ...At least two of the county's four Journal for a place on the All-State •·
magistrates have complained, following team ...There died: N. M. "Bud" White,' ~'
the recent publication of their salary rais- 74, Monday, at the Prestonsburg General•.
es, that raises for other county officials Hospital; Mrs. Laura Bell Hamilton ··
were not published ...For the second time
Ramey, 78, of Beaver, Thursday, of lastin his young school career 12-year-old
week, at the Beaver Valley Hospitalt ~~
Jackie Jarrell, seventh-grade pupil of the
Albert Ray Harrison, 38, of Ivel, last: _i
Prater Creek school is Floyd County's
Thursday, at Ashland; Mrs. Ottie Robin-r.·s;'
spelling champion ...Abbott Creek sufson, 64, of Water Gap, last Thursday~..:~
fered some isolation, Monday, when the Mrs. Millie Hall, 73, of Melvin Monday , ;:
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water rose to its highest stage of the year
at the McDowell Appalachian Regional --;
there, cutting the highway ...Bom: to Mr.
and Mrs. Jeff McGuire, of Maytown, a
(See YESTERDAYS, page three) ,
Twentv Years Ago
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Fonv Years Ago
Thinv Years Auo
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
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Yesterdays
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Hospital; Mrs. Elizabeth Stricklin, 86, pollution measures to be taken by Preformerly of Prestonsburg, Mond'ay, at the stonsburg, and other towns of this section,
Prestonsburg General Hospital.
has reached the "tough talk" stage .. .13year-old Rodney Bussey, of David, was
winner of the Herald-Dispatch spelling
bee, and Euvonda Lawson was winner of
the
Courier-Journal
bee
here,
March31, 1955
Saturday...There died: James Henderson
Nunnery, 62, prominent Prestonsburg busi;
An
action
taken
by
the
Floyd
Fiscal
4
nessman, Monday, at Prestonsburg; Mrs.
C'qurt, last,,friday, threatens reopening of a Elsie Music VanHoose, 58, of Estill, last
whole flock of court cases involving pre- Saturday; Jerry J. Boyd Sr., formerly of
sent and former county officials, who this county, March 15, at Mount Sterling;
allegedly received pay for their services in Miss Florence May, 37, of Allen, last
excess of the Constitutional limit.. .What is Thursday, at Lexington; Mrs. Sirrilda
possibly the biggest fish-killing operation Smith Boyd, 75, of Dana, last Saturday, at
ever undertaken in Kentucky waters was the home of a daughter on Prater Creek.
begun at Dewey Lake, Tuesday, as poison
was sprayed from an airplane in an attempt
to rid the impoundment of an over-supply
of large shad ...Floyd County faces the
threat of 'typhoid fever as an aftermath of
March 29, 1945
~oods which have affected every section
of the county, it was said here this week by
The list of Floyd war dead rose this
M. V. Clark, Floyd County Health Depart- wee}<: to 103, as the deaths of Pvt. Ernest
ment administrator, as he reported four Scutchfield, 21, formerly of Bull Creek,
cases of the disease ...Talk of anti-stream and Lt. Lawton Clark, of Alpharetta, and
FihV Years Ago
Sixtv Years Ago
Prestonsburg, were officially reported. The
wounded: Cpl. Willie James Goodman, of
Emma, in Germany, February 13; Pfc.
Edward D. Allen, of Langley, March 3, in
France; Pfc. John W. Ferguson, of Wheelwright, in Italy, March 8 ...The United
Mine Workers voted Wednesday, by a 26
to 1 ratio, to strike. The Big Branch Coal
Company of Harold, was chartered this
week...Born: to Sgt. and Mrs. Paul C.
Combs, at a Lexington hospital, March 25,
a son ...There died: William H. J.3..eitz, 83,
Wednesday, of last week, at Drift; James
Morrison, 69, Tuesday, at Bypro; Lee
Burchett, 22, near here, last Thursday;
Robert Muir, 73, of Wheelwright, last
Thursday, at a Pikeville h_ospital; Isaac
Stephens, 74, of Martin, Saturday, at a
Martin hospital; Bobby Jarvis, 2, Friday, at
Endicott; Mrs. Martin Combs, 77, Tuesday, at Garrett.
·Seventv Years Auo
March 29, 1935
• Continued from p1
• Continued from p1
uttered from another sent and
If you have children you've
still does chills up the spine. It's experienced this tale carrying,
one of those things that wants to rumor spreading ordeal at least
make the hands grab hold to each in one fashion or another.
side of the head and pull the hrur
Another aspect of expenencout strand by strand. Talk about ing it is in the workforce. and in
wanting to step up on a soapbox the office setting. "Surely ·
and shout to the heavens, "Speak NOT," you say - think again! It
Positive" this is one person who happens!
would love to do just that.
Some people just aren't
Yet, calmness shall prevail, aware of how harmful words
prayer must take place, and this and the tongue can be, especialvery topic has to be discussed ly, if they haven 't been on the
and shared until it takes hold in receiving end of the hurt.
the mouths of those of us who
The poison that erupts to
strike and hum the very depth of
must practice what we speak.
To think our words can inflict a soul and all in the form of
pain, sorrow, harm, and words being spouted from the
tongue.
heartache just breaks my heart.
James 3:6
To think we live in a world
"And the tongue is a fire, a
where adults use such vile, guile,
words against one another, and world of iniquity. The tongue is
even children is even worse!
so set among our members that
Proverbs 10: 31-32
it defiles the whole body. and
The mouth of the righteous sets on fire the course of nature;
brings forth wisdom, But the and It is set on fire by hell."
From this day forward , I pray
perverse tongue will be cut out.
The lips of the righteous know Lord Jesus all those reading this
what is acceptable, But the now may toss the negative
mouth of the wicked is per- words from our tongues. I pray
that we will be Positive, Speak
verse."
When we are victims to tales positive towards others, as well
carried by another, or engage in as our circumstances.
I pray that each of our
such ourselves NOTHING
"good" can, nor will , come from tongues are used to Praise You
Lord Jesus, to Share Your Kindsuch behavior.
From grade school on I can ness, Your Joy. Your Peace, and
remember my mother and even most of all that we can Love one
grandmother saying to me, "If another here on earth as in
you can't say something good Heaven, May we forgive those
about somebody then don't say who trespass against us, and
anything at all." Good advice to May Your Words and Your Ways
pay attention too, and worth ' be ours! In Your Precious ;nd
Holy Name Father, Amen!
repeating.
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ritter
• Continued from p1
ro1,mdings in their attempts to
get away from the storm. They
often urinate or defecate, and
they may dig or chew holes in
walls, tearing out toenails in the
process. Dogs have been known
to purl themselves through windows, sometimes several stories
above the ground. For some
reason, cats are not often affected, as badly as dogs, maybe
because they are better at hid~-g, and therefore isolating
{fi'emselves from the perceived
danger.
We tend to think of storms as
causing a type of noise phobia, a
reaction to the thunder, but there
ar~ many other factors involved.
T~e lightening is obvious, as is
the sound of wind and rain.
Artimals most likely are also
very sensitive to the changes in
air, pressure, the smell of ozone
and the presence of static elec1
tri~ity in thl air.
I had reirtly not given much
thOught to static electricity until
J~as reading some material for
tllis article. Several sources
mentioned dogs who headed
straight for the bathroom during
storms, to take refuge next to, or
in~ide the tub, or to wedge in
• Continued from p2
Contract for grade and drain construction of the Left Beaver Highway was
awarded, Tuesday, to the Ralph H. Mills
Company on its bid of $56,790 ...Five new
"relief' projects have been approved in
this county: A steel bridge across Right
Beaver Creek, above Garrett; surfacing of
the road through Bosco, the road from
Harold to Branham's Creek, and the road
from Maytown to Warco. Three hundred
fifty-eight men will be employed, and all
five jobs will cost an estimated
$22,000 ...Miss Jean Thomas will appear
at the Unique Theatre, here, Thursday, as
a film of the 1934 American Folk Song
Festival will be shown ...The new law
firm of B. M. James and W. S. Wallen is
opening offices in the Hopkins building ...Married: Miss Minerva Stephens
and Mr. William.Cornelius Allen, both of
West Prestonsburg, March 23, at West
Prestonsburg ...Born: to Mr. and Mrs.
Brady Shepherd, of Prestonsburg, March
21, a daughter-Catherine Jean .. .There
died: the nine-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Hyden, March 11, at West
Prestonsburg.
Oak
Korner
ishment of the sword, That you
may know there is judgment."
How many of us ever stop to
t ink our mouths, the words
ey utter are as sharp as the
sword? How many of us ever
stop to think that our words can
cause great harm to others and
our selves come judgment day?
Over the years different
writer's have contributed (including self) how our "miracles are in
our mouth". Yet, day after day,
week after week, month after
month, and year after year,
STllL, a negative, word can be
spoken or heard and all the while,
knowing such utterance will
w.reak havoc and dismay.
~1 It's amazing to think that the
tongue has such power. Yet,
God's Word tells us time and
time again! As a matter of fact,
if we'd only just think for a
minute the clarity of positiveness v.s. negativeness of our
tongues would become like fine
crystal, sparkling ever so bright.
Psalm 34:13
;"Keep your tongue from evil,
.And your lips from speaking
guile."
~· Some of us, more than others have had to endure "rumors"
and the repercussions that result.
Some, Praise the Lord have
never had to deal with such, and
may you never have too, either.
When the little paperback
book "There's a Miracle in Your
Mouth," came across these
hands positive speech became a
Number 1 priority.
Just hearrg a negative word
6, 2005 • C3
next to the plumbing for the toilet. This was very familiar: if
Gunner is not hehind the bed. he
can alway!> h £' found in the bathroom next to the tub during a
thunderstorm. I had always
assumed it was part of the
instinct to hide in a small space,
since our bathroom is tiny. The
current feeling is that dogs may
actually be trying to discharge
static buildup through the natural conduction of the pipes.
No one knows why some
dogs develop a fear or a phobia
of storms while others seem to
hardly notice them. Why do two
dogs in my house become so
nervous while six others take little or no notice of a storm? Gunner is anxious about everything
in general; Desi is not. There is
probably a genetic component,
as the literature mentions the
condition is more common in
certain breeds, but there is probably also a great deal of learning
involved. A tree falling on the
house during a storm, or an
actual electrical shock, such as
through a telephone jack that a
dog was sleeping near when
lightening struck nearby, could
trigger a very justifiable fear of
something horrific happening
again . Dogs may also learn
their fear through their owners'
behavior during a storm. In
most cases, we never know what
causes the problem.
I am always worried that I
may contribute to Gunner's and
Destiny's fears. My mother was
terrified of thunderstorms, and I
think that made me more jumpy
than I need to be. I try really
hard to remain calm and pretend
to ignore the thunder and lightening , and I know they can see
right through the charade.
A definite no-no is to try to
reassure a frightened animal
during a storm. We have a natural instinct to pet dogs and tell
them "It's all right." What we
intend to communicate is that
there is nothing to worry about,
but what they may hear is that
it's "all right" to behave fearfully. We may actually be rewarding them for their fearful behavior! It is equally useless, and
downright unfair, to scold dogs
for being afraid.
There are several recommended ways to reduce thunderstorm
fear/phobia in dogs. and I will
discuss some of them next time.
made-from-scratch
cake.
Apple stack cakes were popular, and there were always a
couple of those up for grabs.
Those of us too young to
have jobs, and didn't have
enough money to bid on a pie,
would save what little we had
for the cakewalks, especially
since you could take the cake
home, and didn 't have to eat it
right on the spot with the
woman who made it.
With a piece of chalk, Mr.
As easy as it sounds to win,
Chandler, the school's principal, would draw a line on the after probably 25 or 30
oily floor of the school audito- attempts over the years, I never
rium, and participants-at a did. As a matter of fact, it seems
dime a whack - would line up as if the yeller waited until I
behind that line. sometimes 30 had reached the fartherest disor 40 at a timt;. Someone tance possible from the chalk
would yell "Go!" and every- line before he'd yell "Stop!"
body would start walking
Despite how the term is
around the room. After a desig- used (or in this case, misused)
nated time, whomever yelled today, in a real-life 1940s situ"Go!" would yell "Stop!" and ation, you can rest assured
the person closest to the chalk . there was nothing easy about
winning a cakewalk.
line would win the cake.
School
• Continued from p2
theW. D. Osborne Elementary
School. Hours of operation - 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday, or later by appointment. Call 452-4553 and ask
for
Cissy
or
Karen.
Parents/community members
free to visit any time.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare and Infant/Toddler Care
accepts infants and toddlers up
to 2 years and Preschool age 24. Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to
5:30p.m .. Monday thru Friday.
• For additional informa-
tion, call 874-8328. Summer
office hours: 9 a.m. to I p.m.
Floyd County Adult Ed Class
~·
Schedule
• BSCTC, Prestonsburg
campus: Mon., Wed., Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tue .,
Thur.- 11:30 a.m. to 7:30p.m.
Contact: Jason Cassell - 8863863, ext. 67219. Room m207
(second floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning
Center: Tue., Thur.- 8:30a .m.
to 4:30 p.m. Contact: Lucille
Fuchs - 886-0709.
• Martin Extended Educa-
tion Service Center: Tue.,
Thur. - 8:00 a.m . to 4:00 p.m.
Contact: Vanessa Tackett 285-5111.
•wayland EESC: Mon., Wed.
- 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Contact
Vanessa Tackett- 358-3400.
• Wheelwright: Mon., Wed.
- 9:00 a .m. to 4:00 p.m. Contact: Penny Fell- 452-4324.
• McDowell: Tue. , 1:00 to
3:00p .m.
• For more information
about Adult Education class
schedules, contact the David
School at 886-8374. All classes and materials free of charge.
RIF
• Continued from p1
Other · activities for this
challenge include reading at
home, hat day, buddy reading,
Prestonsburg High School
TAG readers, PES support staff
readers, and the swearing in of
readers by Judge Julie Paxton.
If chosen as a state or
national winner, PES would be
awarded additional funds to
buy books for distribution to
students.
Local
attorney
Tom Smith
is reading to
Ms. Debra
Holland's
Fifth-grade
class.
2005 Kentucky Music Trail &
Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg
Present
SHeDAISY
With Special Guests
The Kentucky Opry
Friday, July 15,
2005 at 8:OOpm
Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg
Ticket Information:
$36 Lower/ $34
Upper
TICKETS WILL GO ON
SALE MONDAY, MARCH
21 AT !O:OOAM.
To order tickets or for more
information,
call the box office toll free:
1-888-MAC-ARTS (1-888622-2787)
SHeDAISY's career got off
to a quick start five years ago.
The group's ftrst four singles"Little Good-Byes," "This
Woman Needs," "I Will .. . But"
and "Lucky 4 You (Tonight fm
Just Me)'' - all went Top 10.
The Whole SHeBANG sold
nearly 2 million copies, making it one of the most successful debut albums by a country
act since the Dixie Chicks. It
spent 99 weeks on Billboard
Country
magaztne s Top
Albums chart, leading to
awards nominations from the
Grammys. the Country Music
Association, the Academy of
Country Music, the Blockbuster Music Awards and the
American Music Awards.
1 And now that the single,
··passenger Seat", has raced up
tl\e charts faster than any previous SHeDAISY single, and
\\ ith the new CD entitled
Sweet Right Here scheduled to
be in stores June 8th, the possibilities before them suddenly
are wide open again.
Old Photographs Restored
Have those
irreplacable
phot'~s repaired
now, before
further deterioration.
Creases ,specs, tears,
and stains remo'led.
Also prints made
from photos.
Phone 886-1545
886-3562
�C4 • WEDNESDAY,
APRIL
6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
'Birtfis/'Birthdays
Renovating Hay Fields, Pastures
Makes Good Economic Sense
FLOYD
vide a valuable nutrient by fixing nitrogen in the soil. Different legumes fix varying
amounts of nitrogen . Alfalfa
fixes the most at 200 to 300
pounds of nitrogen an acre per
year; annual lespedeza, about
75 to 150 pounds. The value
of this nitrogen can vary from
$50 to more than $200 an acre
annually. Legumes can put up
to $75 worth of nitrogen into
the soil.
Another advantage of renovation is that legumes produce
more summer growth than
cool-season grasses, providing
forage during a slack-growth
period.
The ultimate forage use is
one consideration when deciding which legume to use. For
instance, alfalfa and red clover
usually are best for hay. Ladino
and red clover and annual lespedeza work well in pastures
alone. A combination of red
clover and Jadino clover are
good for both hay and pasture.
Using legume and grass
varieties that perform well in
your geographical area is
another important factor in successful renovation.
Data
by Ray Tackett
Co. EXTENSION OFFICE
Grasses dominate the seven
million acres of pastures and
hay fields sening Kentucky's
animal-based
agriculture.
Renovatmg grasses to renew
productivity is one of the most
important management prac,ices to improve this acreage.
Research data and farmer
experiences over more than 50
years have proven the benefits
of higher yield, quality and
summer production from establishing legume~ in grass pastures and hay fields. Since
legumes also fix nitrogen, renovation lowers fertilizer co~ts
and use. In one study, using
red clover to renovate a fescue
pasture produced higher yields
than using the equivalent of 180
pounds of nitrogen per acre.
A legume-grass mix increases
palatability,
intake,
digestibility and nutrient content, compared to grass alone.
Research shows that legumes
improve animal growth rates,
reproductive efficiency and
milk production.
Inoculated legume seed pro-
from University of Kentucky
variety trials will help you pick
varieties that are appropriate
for your area. This information is available from the
(County Name) Cooperative
Extension Service, the "Variety
Performance" information on
the Department of Plant and
Soil Sciences Web page at
http://www.ca.U'ky.edu/Ag/Agr
anomy/Extension, or the Forage Variety Trials information
on the UK Forage Extension
at
Web
site
http://www.uky.edu/ag/forage.
To successfully establish
legumes, you must control competition from grasses and weeds
that reduces the light, nutrients
and water young legume plants
need.
Graze or mow grass
until new legume plants are
three to four inches tall; then
cease for four to six weeks to
allow the young plants to
become well established.
Legumes need a higher soil
pH and fertility level than grasses so take soil tests and apply
the recommended lime and fertilizer. Do not add nitrogen
during the establishment year
because it will stimulate growth
of grass that will compete with
the seedling legumes.
Buy certified seed. Mix a
high-quality inoculant with the
seed before planting and use a
sticking agent to help the inoculant adhere to seed.
To improve seed-soil contact, use a disk, field cultivator,
or field tiller to break up soil to
improve the potential for seed
germination
and growth.
Another method is to use a notill renovation seeder. Broadcast legume seed on the soil
surface in the late winter so soil
freezing and thawing will cover
them. This method does not
work well with alfalfa.
Source: Garry Lacefield
For more information on
pasture renovation, consult Ray
Tackett at the Floyd County
Cooperative Extension Service,
or visit the Department of Plant
and Soil Sciences Web site at
http://www .ca.uky.edu/Ag/Agr
anomy/Extension.
Make plans now to attend
the UK College of Agriculture
Field Day on July 28, 2005 at
the Research & Education Center in Princeton.
Paintsville Lake visitor assistance
telephone numbers and web sites
The U. S. Atmy Corps of
Engineers is listing the following
telephone numbers and web sites
important to visitors in obtaining
infotmation on or about activities at Paintsville Lake.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Resource Manager's
Office/Visitor Center
Administration, Park Regulations and General Information:
Phone: 606-297-6312 or 606297-6323, Fax: 606-297-6305
I nternetAddress:
http://W\vw.lrh.usace.army.mil
<http://wwwJrlUJsace.annymill>
Internet Address for all
Huntington Dtstrict Lakes and
Outflow
Conditions:
http://www.lrh-wc.usace.army.mil
<http://www.lrh-wc.usacearmymill>
Paintsville Lake Recorded
Lake Information Line: Hunting and Fishing Information,
Flood Information, Trout
Stocking Schedules, etc.,
Phone: 606-297-4111
Paintsville Lake
State Park
Superintendent's
Office:
Park Administration, Picnic
Shelter Reservations, Boat
Launch Fee Information and
General Information, Phone:
606-297-8486,
Campground Phone: 606297-8488
Paintsville Lake
Marina
.
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New Arrival
Justice Connor Gregary Campbell was born on February 22,
2005 to proud parents Sera and Justin Campbell, of Knoxville,
Tennessee. He weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz. and was 20 Inches long.
Justice is the grandson of Greg and Cathy Campbell, of Dwale,
John D. Sammons, of Prestonsburg, and the late Connie Sammons. He is the great-grandson of Ralph and Palma Elkins and
Irene Wallen, of Allen.
rNew ~rrivafs
Boat Rentals and Restaurant: Phone: 606-297-5253
(297-LAKE)
Mountain
Homeplace
Paintsville Lake
Outdoor Classroom
Re-created 1850-1875 Liv-
''·
Patoker Branch
Campground
A privately-owned and operated campground adjacent to
Paintsville Lake at Patoker
Branch in Morgan County,
Phone: 606-522-3400
Let us shotiloff
your family pet!
.
ing History Farm: Phone: 606297-1850
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A 46-acre site located at
Blanton Branch, licensed to
the Johnson County Conservation District as an
environmental education
area to enable school students to discover and appreciate the world of nature.
Phone: 606-789-5263
March 13:
.-A daughter, Sydney Michelle Meade to Pamela and Jason
Charles Meade.
March 21:
.-A son, Charles Edward Smith to Donetta Baisden and
Joseph Thomas Smith.
· March 22:
.-A daughter, Sydney Erin Thompson to Sabrina and
Wesley Thompson.
.-A son, Bradley Quinn Newman to Marleana and Jamie
Brent Newman.
.-A son, Joseph Dean Johnson to Dalila Fugate and Roy
Dean Johnson.
.-A son, Brady Dougles Miller to Courtney Belcher and
Matthew Miller.
March 23:
.• A son, Ethan Thomas Spears, to Randi Mullins and
Stevie Spears.
March 24:
.-A son, Ronn;e Dalton Hamilton to Althea Tackett and
Ronnie Dale '!a milton.
.- Ason.JoshuaAlan Perkins to Tammy and John Lee Perkins.
.- A daughter, Audree Keeana Griffith to Jackie Sue and
Jamie Allen Griffith .
March 25:
.-A daughter, Kylie Grace Hall to Lacey Ann and Timothy Hall.
.-A son, Gage Maddox Thompson to Danita Sue and Mark
Truman Thompson.
Open Fork
Recreation Area
.
.
Our pet photos file needs replenishing,
and we know that you have lots ;o f'
precious pies to share with us,. so;·
please, send them along! And while ,
you re at it, help Dr. Carol get her
creative thoughts jumpstarted by
sending along a few questions about
"pet things you ve always wanted to
know but have been afraid to ask"!
You can send both pictures and
questions to: Kathy Prater at the
Floyd County Times, P.O. Box 390,
Prestonsburg, KY 41653, or you may
e-mail to:
features@jloydcountytilnes.com.
" Send questions only to Dr. Carol at: '
1768 KY Rt. 7, Estill, KY 41666, or
e-mail to: carolbcac@tiusa.net.
We will be waiting to hear from you!
.
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A 2 acre site located near
to and downstream of the
Open Fork boat launch
ramp leased to the Morgan
County Fiscal Court for a
picnic and fishing area.
This
recreation
area
includes a handicap fishing
pier along the lake shore
and a group picnic shelter.
Phone: 606-743-3898
Johnson County
Rescue Squad
For emergencies, Phone:
606-297-5555 or 911
These phone numbers
and email addresses are listed to assist visitors in
obtaining desired information concerning Paintsville
Lake in a quick and efficient manner.
For additional information, contact the Resource
Manager or the Ranger at
Paintsville Lake at (606) 2976312, Monday through Friday from 7:30am to 4:00pm
or write to: Resource Manager, Paintsville Lake, 807 Ky
Rt 2275, Staffordsville, KY
41256-9035.
•
March 27, 2005
.-A son, Jacob Nathaniel Grimm, to Heather Renee and
Nathan David Grimm
.• A son, Michael Anthony Ritchie, to Kristie and Kyle Ritchie
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.-A daughter, Sophie Aliva Slone, to Deborah and Jason Slone
.-A daughter, Charity Paige Danielle Boggs, to Catrina and
Eric Boggs
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�WEDNESDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
••
110- Agricunure
115 · ATV's
120- Boats
130 ·Cars
140- 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
160 - Motorcycle's
170- Parts
175 · SUV's
180 ·Trucks
190- Vans
200 - EMPLOYMENT
The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly
accept
false or misleading
advertisements . Ads
which request or
require advance payment of fees for services or products
should be scrutinized
carefully.
AUTOMOTIVE
120-Boats
FOR SALE:
1990
Stratos 201 Bass
Boat, 20' 10" Long,
200 HP Evinrude
1996
Outboard.
Stratos Trail Trailer,
New Seats & New
Trolling Motor. Nice
Boat, $5,900 Firm,
Call 874-9381 Days,
or 886-6833 after
7pm.
FOR SALE: 18 ft.
Pontoon Boat Buggy,
40 HP Mercury 0.8.,
Trolling Motor, Fish
Finder, 1994 Model
Real Fine Shape,
Lots of Extras, Call
886-0342,
$5,000
Firm,
Trailer
Included
130-Cars
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
2003 Eddie Bauer
Explorer 12K Miles,
$14,995. 1997 Olds
Bravada, Like New,
60K Miles, $6,500.
1993 Ford Explorer,
$2,250. Call 8862842 or 886-3451
310 ·Business
Opportunity
330 · for Sale
2002 HD 883 XLR
MOTORCYCLE,
Sharp,
Extremely
Low Miles, $7,250.
Also
a
Whitney
Piano, $700.
Call
886-9439 after 5pm.
180-Trucks
WANTED used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay .
cash call 800-7895301
FOR SALE: 2 1999
Chevrolet Blazers,
well equipped, Call
886-1221
FOR SALE: 1995
Toyota 4-Runner V6,
Engine,
AC,
3.0
Cruise
Control,
AM/FM CD Player,
Excellent
Shape.
$3,500 Firm, 8863956 or 791-1579
EMPLOYMENT
When responding to
Employment ads that
have reference numbers, please indicate
that entire reference
number on the outside of your envelope.
Reference
numbers are used to
help us direct your
letter to the correct
individual.
;2.05-Busin~ss Oppl.
SALE-2001
FOR
Jeep
Cherokee,
Automatic,
4WD,
Good
Runnung
Condition,
Good
Work Vehicle, $3,200
CAll 478-3100 Days
& 432-1368
Evenings.
LOOKING
TO
START OR EXPAND
YOUR BUSINESS,
or having trouble getting a loan? We can
help! No up front fee,
fast & easy approval
on all types of loans,
call toll-free 866-681FOR SALE
1993 1264
Ford
Crown
VIctoria.
138,000 A SOY CANDLE
miles. $,1200. call ROUTE, Local Hi606-874-0467
traffic acct's, Scented
& Sports Logo, Invest
FOR SALE 1991 $5,000 Buys All ,
Toyota
Corolla Proven Call 800-549needs work $800 firm 0203
call
606-886-8339
ARE YOU MAKING
after 5 pm.
$1,710 PER WEEK?
FOR SALE: 1988 All cash vending
Pontiac Bonneville, routes with prime
no title, good for parts. ~ocations available
$600 obo. Call 874- now! Under $9,000
investment required.
4094.
Call Toll Free (24-7)
888-270-2168
140-4X4's
FOR SALE: Honda
'93
Fourwheeler.
Honda
'97
300
Fourwheel
drive.
Looks good and runs
good Call 886-0875.
150-Miscellaneous
$5001
POLICE
IMPOUNDS!
Hondas/
Chevys/
Fords/ Jeeps. Cars,
trucks, SUV's from
$5001 Listings: 800749-8116 xA148
160-Motorcycles
FOR SALE 1998
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-c1rcuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
410- Animals
420 -Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - Furniture
450 · Lawn a Garden
460 - Yard Sale
470 - Health & Beauty
475 - Household
300 ·FINANCIAL
FOR SALE: 1997
Kawasaki ZX 6 Ninja,
L1ke
New.
Red,
$3,000 OBO, Call
886-8662 after 5pm.
APPLICATIONS BEING
ACCEPTED FOR
1·BEDROOM
APARTMENTS FOR
PERSONS
55 AND OLDER
Located behind Wendy's
and Pizza Hut In Prestonsburg. All utilities are
Included and the rent Is
based upon gross monthly
Income. Several activities,
such as line dancing,
crafts, bingo, movies, hair
salon and church services.
The apartments are furnished with a refrigerator,
stove, emergency alarm
system, and air conditioner.
For more Information,
please call Highland
Terrace at 606-886-1925, or
come by the office for an
application.
Highland Terrace does not
discriminate In admission
or employment In 1ubsl·
dlzed housing on account
of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, ~
familial status or L.:.J
disability.
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830 ~ Miscellaneous
350 - Miscellaneous
360 - Money To Lend
380 - Services
210- Job Listings
220 ·Help Wanted
230 · Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260- Partnme
270- Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wanted
$600.00
WEEKLY
INCOME
possible
matling FREE gift
certificates. Supplies
provided. No advertising. Work 100%
from home. REAL
DEAL.
Free
1Information
(708)231-7373 (24
hours)
Earnings
Guaranteed
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WEEKLY
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National
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needs Reliable peapie in this area to prepare/mail
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home! Supplies provided! Call: 1-800357-1170
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Needed to Pose as
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ext.
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1000 ENVELOPES=
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APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
1, 2 3, 4 Bedrooms
available for extremely
low-income people at
Highland Heights Apts.
In Goble-Roberts Addn.,
and Cliffside Apts. on
Cliff Road, Prestonsburg.
Computerized
learning centers offer
sociaVeducatlonal programs for children and
adults. All utilities
included at Highland
Hgts., utility allowance
at Cliffside. Call (606)
886-0608, 886-1927, or
886-1819. TOO: 1-800648-6056.
Highland
Heights and Cliffside
Apartments do not discriminate In admission
or employment in subsidized housing on
account of race, color,
national origin, sex,
age, disability, religion
and familial
status.
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500- REAL ESTATE
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705 • Construction
71 o · Educai!Qnal
713 ~Child Care
715- Electrician
720 - Health 8 Beauty
7:30 - Lawn & Gardan
505 - Business
51 o - Commerdat
Property
530- Homes
550 - Landll..ots
570 · Mobile Homes
sao· Miscellaneous
620 - Storage/
Office Space
630 - Houses
640 - land 'lots
650 - Moblfe Homes
660 • MiscellaneOU$
6?0 - Commeretal
Property
650 · Per....or als
Movers
755- OffiCe
7QO - Plumbing
765 • Professionals
no - Rep31t/Se!VIce
780·1imber
790. Travel
870 Serv1~es
890 ·Legals
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810- Auctions
615- Lost & Found
735 ~Legal
"!40- Masonry
745 - Miscella'leOus.
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2004.
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home. Easy! Any JOBS! WILDLIFE I tion skills and ability
Existing Section 8 Office-Apartment 37,
Hours! Full/part-time.
to multi-task are prePOSTAL
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essary. U.S. Digest hour. Full Benefits.
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
1-888-389-1790 24 Paid Training. Call for helpful. On-site trainFloyd
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available.
Application
and ing
hours
402
John M. Stumbo
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EMPLOYMENT
POSITION
AVAILABLE: TwoWay
Radio
Technician.
Installation and repair
of commercial FM
TwD-Way
Radio
Equipment
and
Systems, including
portables, mobiles,
base
stations,
repeaters, tower sites,
etc. Applicant must
have high school
diploma or GED, plus
2
year
college/Associates
degree in electronics
or 2 years vocational
school in electronics.
Work Experience in a
related field may be
considered in lieu of
school.
Excellent
benefits
package
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KY. In field work is
performed in Eastern
KY and Southwestern
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negtiable dependent
on
experience.
Resume may be
faxed to 606-8863198 or mailed to:
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Communications
P.O. Box 790
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
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elderly lady in home,
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886-8037
D E N T A L
AS SISTANT
NEEDED,
Send
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419
Town Mtn. Rd., Suite
105, Pikeville, KY
41501
LOCAL
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478-2882 between
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has
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working responsible
drivers. Must be of
age 21 or older. Must
have COL with HAlMAT and tanker
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driving record and
some
mechanical
Please
apptitude.
apply in person at:
Universal
Well
Services, Inc., 5252
At. 1428, Allen, KY
41601
606-8743487,
Accepting
applications
Mon.
thru Fri. between the
hours of Bam and
4pm.
ME D I C A L
SE CRETARY
Needed to wotk
Mon.-Fri., 4-8pm and
every other Sat.,
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 886-1714 or
285-9000
2005
REGIONAL
DRIVERS! Up to .42
cpm ,
benefits,
hmmost weekends.
010 & lease purchase programs also
available. AWl 800444-1727 X 5
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$1000 Student SignOn Bonus & New Pay
No
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Experience Needed,
New drivers make
more with P.A.M.
Transport & we are
currently hiring and
training new drivers
in this area. New
Drivers Earn up to
$38,000/1 st
yr,
P.A.M. Transport 1·
877-812-0932. Apply
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www.pamtransport.com
$ $
F R E E
MERCHANDISE
350-Miscellaneous
PART
TIME
CASHIER Needed at
Cl~ssic Cleaners in
Prestonsburg,
No
Weekends, Evening
Shift. Call 789-7748
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FEDERAL POSTAL Never Repay! For
JOBS!
personal
bills,
Now Hiring! Earn $12 school, new busi- $48 per hour I No ness. $49 BILLION
Ex p e r i en c e F u II Left unclaimed from
Benefits2 0 0 4
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PTIFTNo Experience
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FURNITURE
352-9655 Ext. 460
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ALLEN,KY
Furniture,
used
p.com
appliances, living I
NOW HIRING FOR bedroom suits, bunk
2005
POSTAL beds, and lots more!
POSITIONS$17.50 - Call 606-874-9790.
$59.00
+lhr.Full
FOR SALE-Solid
Benefits/Paid
Training
and Wood Office Desk.
V a c a t i o n s N o Call 789-6320 or
E x p e r i e n c e 367-1506
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584-1775 Reference
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&
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A Great Career! Appliances @ unbeE x c e l l e n t lievable prices. Come
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Trainees! The Little Furniture
& Save!!
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Paid Store
#122,
Schooi.Limited Route.
Positions. Call Now! McDowell. Call 606Toll Free 1-866-619- 377-0143.
6081
FINANCIAL
$GWllSAW.AB.E$
FREE
APPLICATION!!!
INSTANT
APPROVAL!! POSSIBLY QUALIF~ FOR A
OF
MAXIMUM J
$50,000 IN GRANT
MONEY!!
CALL
NOW!! 1-866-5419035 CLAIM 940
(Not valid in NY, VT,
FL, OH, IL, NC)
**$$ FREE CASH
GRANTS!$$**
As Seen on T.V.!
Never Repay! Gov't
Grants for Personal
Bills, School,
Business, etc. $47
billion left unclaimed.
Live
Operators 11800-574-1804 ext.
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your own .Ad
carefull-y~ Ang
errors must be
reported
promtly.
Creditfor ·
error$ is limit-'
ed to the cost:
of the· fir9t Ad
only.
460·Yard Sale
480-Miscellaneous
YARD SALE THIS
THURSDAY
&
FRIDAY, April 7th &
8th at Dance Etc.
Studio
in
Prestonsburg.
(Located across from
the new Food City
and
behind
Dr.Jurich's office) ,,
case of rain the sale
will be held inside.
Toys, baby & kids
clothes for boys &
girls and lots more.
Sale begins each day
at 9am.
FOR SALE: 8 ft'
refrigerated
deli
case, $1000, small
pizza oven, $400,
small juice cooler,
$150,
washer &
dryer, $150 pair. Call
606-886-2367.
3 FAMILY YARD
SALE in Auxier, KY in
front of Free . Will
Baptist Church, Lots
to choose from! From
Wed. to Sat.
4 FAMILY YARD
SALE: Behind R.E.
Michael's,
across
from Dwale on U.S.
23, plus-small clthes,
electronics, glassware, much more.
April 9th.
FOR SALE: 8ft' deli
cooler, $950 and Gas
convection
oven,
$450. Call 606-8862367.
KAY'S WALLPAPER
205 Depot Road
Paintsville,
Ky.
Hundreds of Patterns
of
Wallpaper
&
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open Tues Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m.
Closed Sun. & Mon.
606-789-8584.
$1 01 COMPUTERS, Call 606-638-4663
Video Games! TVs
from $1 0! Police
1984 14x70, Will
Seized! Sony, JVC,
Deliver
& Set!
Panasonic etc. Info $5,900, call 606-638800-7 49-8128 xP686
4663
REAL ESTATE
Used 2005 16x76,
Lived in only Six
1
Months! Looks Brand
~q.uses
New' Call for Price!
HOUSE FOR SALE 606-638-4663
Prestonsburg,
in
3BR, Some furniture
The Home Show,
included, $45,900,
Louisa, KY.
Call anytime 889Stop in to Ree our
9821
large selection of 24,
28,
& 32
wides.
NEW 1,950 SQ. FT.
HOME FOR SALE Alson check out our
located in Country 42' wide. 2005 sinOaks Subdivision in glewides in stock.
Harold, KY. Call 478- 17151 Highway 23,
9993
Louisa, KY
FOR SALE: 80
FOR SALE: Roland Acres of Land, Call
ep-97 Digital Piano 285-0902
with Stand and Seat,
Like New. $9.00 OBO
570-l\llobile Homes
886-8662 after 5pm.
w-
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DIABETICSFree
Meter! II No Cost
Diabetes Supplies!
Join Diabetes Care
Club.
FREE
Memebership! FREE
HOME DELIVERY!
1-800-287-1737.
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STAINLESS STEEL
OUTDOOR WOOD·
BURNING
FURNACES. Save $600$1200. Also, Floor
Heat Water Tubing.
G UA RANT E ED
LOWEST PRICES!
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om 1-800-446-4043
SAWMILLS
$2,595.00
LumberMate-2000
&
Lumberlite-24.
Norwood Industries
alsomanufar, .Jres
utility
\TV
Attachments. LOg
Skidders, Pottaole
Board Edgers and
forestry equipment.
www.norwoodindustries.com-FREE
Information: 1-800566-6899 Ext. 200-U
Manpower is seeking individuals interested in a variety of office and industrial
assignments in Floyd and surrounding
counties. Office applicants are required
to have at least 1 year of office experience. Applications are taken Mon.-Fri. at
our office, or you can send resume to:
Manpower
311 North Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __.
HEALTH
t CATHOLIC
INITIATIVES
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital
SECRETARY/RECEPTIONIST
Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Inc. has an opening for a part-time Secretary/Receptionist in the
Administrative Department, 64 hours per pay
period. Job Qyalifjcations: Must have excellent
typing and organizational skills; Computer experience required with knowledge of Microsoft
Word, Excel and Power Point; Familiarity with
medical terminology and proper telephone etiquette. Qualified candidates should apply at Our
Lady of the Way Hospital, Human Resources
Department, P.O. Box 910, Martin, Kentucky
41649, fax: (606) 285-6422 or call (606) 2855181, extension 1-2020, Resumes may also be
emailed to: dbentley@olwh.org
550-Land/Lots
2005 28x56, 3 BR 2
FOR SALE:
3-D BA,
2x 6
walls,
Competition
Bow, Ultimate Stainless
Hoyt Alphatec with
Steel Kitchen pkg.
Sights,
Toxonics
WOLFF TANNING
Only 2 left, $54,000
$500 OBO, Call 886BEDS
Call 606-638-4663
Financing available, 8662 after 5pm.
Free delivery & set
2005 16x80, 3 BR 2
up within 75 miles of FOR SALE: 10 inch
London, KY. Bulbs, Bridge Steel, 24 BA, Vinyl Siding,
Parts, Lotions at Pieces, 5 ft & 12 ft in Premium
Kitchen
Wholesale
Prices. Length, Call 285- pkg. One in Stock!
Call 888-554-0058
1293
NEED
AFFORDABLE
HEALTHC
A
R E
?
$59.93/month .per
Family.
No
Limitations! All PreExisting conditions
OK. Call Provider
Select
Family
Healthcare! 1-800sc.
550-2768
1009
Classified
,a dsWorkl
MANAGER
TRAINEE
2 Full time positions in local
area.
$30$35K + Full
Benefit package.
Call ·
606-432-2545
Sandy Raymer
Deadline for applications: Monday, April11,
2005
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Excel Mining, LLC
located in Martin and
Pike County is accepting
applications for:
Under~:round-
POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Competitive Wages & Benefits
Direct Care Provider
Join a growing organization committed to
providing quality services to invididuals with mental
retardation/developmental Disabilities.
Must be 21 years of age, have a valid driver's license
(DCPs do some transporting of individuals) and must
be able to work flexible hours and weekends.
Applications are being
accepted at:
Prestonsburg
and Pikeville, KY
\
Department for Employment
Services
Apply in person, or submit a resume to:
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
4663 US 23 South (at old Unisign Building)
P.O. Box 468 Allen, Ky. 41601
A
Rodman
Equal Opportunity Employer
c
s·
AFORTUNE 500 COMPANY
\
NOW HIRING IN OUR
NEW PIKEVILLE CENTER
. . .
. ..
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' '
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peopl~ who"love to learn and are challenged by
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.. WE BELIEVE IN HIRING-THE BEST AND
PROMOTING FROM WITHIN.
RESTAURANT
Prestonsburg
HELP WANTED: Waitresses, dishwashers/busboys, cooks. Paid vacation, health insurance available.
Uniforms furnished.
No phone calls, please!
Apply in person.
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At Nationwide•, we go the extra mile to save you
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303 University Drive
Prestonsburg, Ky.
(606) 886-0008 (Office)
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Must be 18 years of age
and have a high school
diploma or GED. 'l)·pe 30
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55 Sykes Blvd.
Pikeville, KY 41501
606-218-2500
Insurance &
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ADrug-Free Workplace
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�THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Final
clearance
2004 lot models and
2005 models now
available! If you are
serious about purchasing a new home
you need to be with
experienced staff to
get the right home at
a great price. The
Home Show-South
William son, Inc. US
119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
606-353-6444 or toll
free 877-353-6444
FURNISHED
1
BED ROOM APT.
Central heat & air.
Rent starting at $375.
month,
+
$300.
deposit water ineluded. Located near
HRMC.
606-8899717.
FOR RENT: Office
Suite,
New
900
Construction.
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking , Can be
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call
886-1515 for info.
630-Houses
RENTALS
HOUSE FOR RENT:
239 Francis Court,
Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft,
Suitable for office,
small business or
residence. Not suitable location for children or pets. $500
per month + utilities.
886-6362
DUPLEX
FOR
RENT: 2 BR Central
Heat & Air, Total
Electric,
Excellent
Condition. On US 23
North, 1 Mile From
Prestonsburg,
No
Pets. Call 889-9747
FOR
RENT
IN
or 886-9007
MARTIN AREA-3 BR
FOR RENT: 4 Room Home, $425 per
month, $300 deposit,
Bachelor Apartment,
Reference Required,
1 and 2 Bedroom Call 285-1065
Trailer. All Nice &
Roomy,
Clean, 4 BR BRICK HOUSE
Private, All have AC FOR
RENT.
and Furnished. Near Basement & Carport,
Jenny Wiley Lake in 3 miles from MAC on
Prestonsburg . 404 David Road.
Suitable for Working $700 per month, Call
People. Call 886- 8!36-2842 or 8863451
3941
NOW RENTING Park
Piace Apartments in
Prestonsburg,
Available for immediate occupancy. Rent
1
BR/$309,
2
BR/$345.
ASK
ABOUT OUR MOVE
IN SPECIAL,
Call
886-0039
~
NOW
RENTING
P i n e w o o d
Townhomes, Brand
New 2 & 3 BR
Townhomes Rt. 7
South. ASK ABOUT
OUR
MOVE IN
SPECIAL
Rental
Assistance Available!
Stave, Refridgerator,
Dishwasher,
W /D
349
Hook Ups. Call
7000
R E N 0 VA T E D
APARTMENT'S, Like
New, Furnished in
Downtown
Martin.
Call between 9am2855pm dailey.
3025
~
HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cental heat & air, yard ,
no pets, references
required $550 mo.
Call 886-0226.
FOR RENT 3 BR
house.
Newly
remodeled , references
requ ired .
886-8366.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
Harold, Ky, Pin Hook
Hill, 1st house on left
going up hill. Call
478-5228
640-Land/Lots
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
between
Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
TRAILER
LOT
FOR RENT, Large
Yard. Call 886-8366
For Rent : newly
constructed Mobile
Home Lots in new
Allen,reference
required call 6061 BR FURNISHED
874-2212
APARTMENT,
Including Utilities. 2 650-Mobile Homes
BR Unfurnished.
Call 886-8366
1 BR TRAILER For
Rent, Call 874-9790
2 BR 1 112 BATH
MOBILE
TOWNHOUSE also 1 14X70
bed room furnished HOME FOR RENT, 3
Excellent
or unfurnished locat- BR,
Condition,
$425
per
ed in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606- month + Utilities,
Security Deposit and
886 8991
References
Greetings
from Required. 874-2802
Lighthouse Manor,
Terry
& Sharon
'•
Smith. We have
apartments for rent
that are efficiency
~,,
''<
apartments, all utili-
, , To place
ties paid. For more
~ info call 606-8862797.
WANT TO RENT 3
or 4 BR House or
Apartment in the
Prestonsburg
or
Paintsville area. Call
886-0325
SERVICES
All Drywall, Dutch
with 2x6 walls;and
5112 roof pitch, ultimate kitchen package, glass block window, and many more
extras, Set up for
viewing. For details For Lease Finished
call 606-353-6444 or Office Space for
toll free 577-353- lease in prime loca6444 the home show tion near BSCTC,
(PCC) and the new
Food
City - 21 00 -580-Miscellaneous
sq. ft. Ground floor
FIRE
YOUR location with up to
LANDLORD !II
five private offices,
$$$0
DOWN conference
room ,
Rent! kitchen, bath, parking
HOMES!No
& lot call Today 606Tax
Repos
Bank r up tci es I No 424-2690 or 226Credit OK! $0 to low 2266
down! For Listings,
1-800-501-1777 Ext.
FOR RENT: 900
8351
Ft.
Sq.
Office/Commercial
$0 DOWN HOMES!
Space located next to
NO CREDIT OK! Reflections beauty
GOV'T & BANK salon, 3 quarter miles
REPOS. $0 TO LOW south of Martin on Rt.
DOWN. FOR LIST- 122 across from the
INGS . 1-800 - 501- Garth Tech. SchooL
1777 EXT. 7372
Call 285-9112
61 0-Apartments
690-Want to Rent
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71 O·Educational·
YOUR ACCREDITED
HIGH
SCHOOL DIPLOMA
in 30-days or less.
No classes. FREE
evaluation.www.Finis
hHighSchool.com 1866-290-6596
720-Health&Beauty
WOLLF TANNING
BEDS
FREE Color
Catalog
Full Body Units
from $22 a month!
Buy Direct and Savel
CALL TODAY! 1800-781-5173
www.np.estan.com
770-Repair/Services
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling .
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
NEW HOMES &
REMODELING
Room
Additions,
Porches
& Decks,
Vynil Siding, Enter &
Exit
Painting,
Concrete Walks, Any
Size Metal Building &
Storage
Building.
Call Roger Honeycutt
886-0633,
Free
Estimates, 29 Years
Experience.
ed to : Kentucky site visits will be
Division of Water, scheduled at the preWater
Resources proposal conference.
Branch, 14 Reilly
Road,
Frankfort
Gregory Adams or
Office
Park,
Linda Hackworth
Frankfort, Kentucky
Floyd County
40601 . Phone: (502)
Public Schools
564-341 o.
23 Martin Street
Allen, KY
NOTICE OF
41601
INTENTION
ADVERTISEMENT
TO MINE
FOR SEALED
PURSUANT TO
BIDS
APPLICATION
Prestonsburg City's
NO. 836-0294,
Utilities Commission
AMENDMENT 1
is
accepting sealed
( 1) In accordance
bids
for the following :
with KRS 350.070,
Grass Cutting . and
notice is hereby
given that Miller Bros. Weed Trimming of All
Specified
Coal,
Inc.,
25
Clydean
Drive, Commission
Locations, for the
Leburn,
Kentucky
Period April 1, 2005,
41831 , has applied
through November 1,
for an amendment to
2005.
an existing surface
A complete listing of
coal mining operathe locations to be
tion, located 1 mile
southeast
of maintained may be
Weeksbury, in Floyd picked up at the
of
and Pike counties. office
Prestonsburg City's
The amendment will
Utilities Commission,
add 31 .22 acres, and
2560 South Lake
at
will delete 2.15 of
Drive,
Prestonsburg,
surface disturbance,
making a total of KY 41653, telephone
639.97 acres within (606) 886-6871 .
Bids will be acceptthe amended permit
ed
through 3:00p.m.,
boundary.
on Friday, April 15,
(2) The proposed
amendment area is 2005, at which time
approximately 1 mile the sealed bids will
be opened. The winsoutheast
from
ning bid will be
Kentucky
Route
466's junction with announced as soon
Caleb Fork County as possible after
Road, and is located Commission management has examon Pine Fork of
ined
all bids.
Caleb Fork, in Floyd
Bids
must
be
County, and Abel
sealed
and
Tackett Fork of Long
Fork, in Pike County. addressed as folThe latitude is 37 lows:
Mr. David M. Ellis,
degrees, 19 minutes,
Superintendent
09 seconds. The lonPrestonsburg
gitude is 82 degrees,
City's Utilities
41 minutes, 01 secCommission
onds.
2560 South Lake
(3) The proposed
Drive
amendment is locatPrestonsburg, KY
ed
on
the
41653
Wheelwright USGS 7
Prestonsburg
City's
1/2 minute quadranUtilities
Commission
gle map. The surface
reserves the right to
area to be disturbed
reject
any or all bids.
under the amend-
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURl
DIVISION NO. 11
c
0
.A. N · 9 9-CI359
FLOYD COUNTY,
KENTUCKY
PLAINTIFF
VS.
Edward M. Kuss,
Rebecca S. Kuss,
Norwest
Bank
Minnesota, NA, as
Trustee, Assignee of
Oceanmark Financial
Corp.,
Wickes
Lumber Company,
City of Prestonsburg
Defendants
RE-NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, entered
on the 12th day of
April, 2004, in the
Floyd Circuit Court, in
the
above-styled
action, in the principal
sum
of
$350,857.00, together with interest, costs
and fees, I shall proceed to offer for sale
at the Old Floyd
County Courthouse
door, South Central
Avenue ,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction, on Thursday,
the 7th day of April,
2005, at the hour of
9:15 a.m., the following described real
estate, located at 526
South Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Parcel No.1
A certain tract or
parcel of land lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, on South
Lake
Drive,
described as follows:
No. 23 at the cross
fence above what is
known as the Seibert
Place, corner of line
of Reba H. Mayo, et
al ; thence up said
highway with line of
said state highway a
southerly direction to
a stake 552 feet from
the beginning comer
and opposite the present lower cross
fence of Anna B.
Allen ;
thence
a
straight line up the
hill parallel with line
of said Reba H.
Mayo, et al., to center
of ridge between
Mayo Branch and Big
Sandy River to a
stake 613 feet from
corner of Reba H.
Mayo, et aL, and J.D.
Mayo; thence up the
ridge with center of
same 613 feet to said
corner of Reba H.
Mayo, et al, and J.D.
Mayo; thence down
the hill with said line
of Reba H. Mayo, et
al, to the beginning.
Parcel No. 2
Situated on . the
waters of the Big
Sandy River in the
City of Prestonsburg,
Kentucky.
Being Lots Nos. 1,
2, and 3 shown upon
that certain plat dated
July 17, 1953, and
prepared
by ·H.
Salisbury, Engineer,
and filed in the Office
of the Clerk of the
Floyd County Court.
These lots are adjacent to and adjoin the
property now owned
by Duran Moore, in
South Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, on U.S.
Highway #23.
Being the same
property bonveyed to
Edward M. Kuss and
Rebecca S. Kuss
from Mason Moore,
et al by deed dated
February 17, 1988, of
record in Deed Book
318, Page 617, in the
office Of the Court
Clerk
of
·F=loyd
County, Kentucky.
JKB
LANDSCAPING &
LAWN SERVICE
New jobs or maintenance, No job to big
or small, Free estiment is owned by
mates.
Call 889Collins and Mayo
Beginning at a
0684, 874-1214, 226Collieries Company, COMMONWEALTI-f stake in the right of
4147 or 226-4148
OF KENTUCKY
Joyce 1\1. Johnson,
way of U.S. Highway
Clinton & Eva Little,
CKF
~~------~
~~-----and Joe & Mary
CONSTRUCTION
Tackett. The operaAny
type
of tion will use the surinside/outside work. face area method of
No job to big or small. mining.
Deck & Yard work,
(4) The amendment
wife will clean house. application has been
Call
285-9442 filed
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
812-Free
Enforcement ' s
P r estonsburg
FREE
PALLETS: Regional
Office,
can be picked up 3140 South Lake
behind The Floyd Drive, Prestonsburg,
County Times.
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
850-Personal
requests for a permit
When responding to conference must be
Personal ads that filed with the Director,
have reference num- Division of Permits,
bers, please indicate #2 Hudson Hollow,
that entire reference U.S. 127 South,
number on the out- Frankfort, Kentucky
side of your enve- 40601 .
lope.
Reference
numbers are used to
REQUEST FOR ·
help us direct your
PROPOSALS
letter to the correct
The Floyd County
individuaL
Schools is soliciting
companies qualified
START
DATING to perform an Energy
TONIGHT! Have fun Service
Provider
meeting eligible sin- Contract (ESPC) progles in your area. Toll
ject in the school disFree.
1-800ROMANCE ext. 9735 trict. A request for
proposal is available •~iiiiii!!I .'I>>
at
the Floyd County
S E C R E T
Website
ENCOUNTERS 1- Schools
800-442-MEET .69 (www.floyd.k12.ky.us
p/m Ladies Free!!1 - ) or by contacting
Adams,
800-201-TALK VISIT Gregory
- singles.com
Director of Facilities
at (606) 874-9569. A
mandatory pre-pro900-legals
posal conference will
take place on April
11 , 2005, at 1 p.m.,
PUBLIC NOTICE
local time, at the
Notice is hereby
District Maintenance
given that Kathern
Facility, located at 23
Collins,
63
Martin Street, Allen,
Weddington Lane,
Kentucky .
Emma, Ky., has filed
Respondents must
an application with
contact the contact(s)
the
Natural
listed below at least
Resources
and
48 hours prior to the
Environmental
conference to indiProtection Cabinet to
cate their intention to
placement of fill. The
attend. Failure to
property is located at
contact the Floyd
Emma, Ky., 2 miles
County
Public
from Allen. Any comSchools shall be rea.
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ments or objections son to eliminate the
concerning this applirespondent from concation shall be directsideration. Access for
6, 2005 • C7
TERMS OF SALE
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky, real estate
(a) At the time of taxes will be paid
sale, the successful from the sale probidder, if the other ceeds.
than the Plaintiff,
(d) In the event the
shall either pay cash
or $5,000.00 of pur- Defe n da nt/Crosschase price, with the Plaintiff is the purbalance on credit for chaser of the above
thirty (30) days, and described property,
required to execute a for an amount equal
bond with good sure- to, or less than, its
ty thereon for the first lien, it shall take
unpaid
purchase a credit against said
price of said property, lien for the amount of
if any, bearing inter- the bid, and no bond
est at the rate of shall be required of
twelve
percent the DefendanVCross(12%)) per annum Piaintiff, and it shall '
from the date of sale only be obligated to
until paid, having the pay court costs, the
force and effect of a fees and costs of the
Judgment
M a s t e r
Com missioner, and
(b) The property any real estate taxes
shall be sold subject assessed against the '
to any easements real estate.
and restrictions of
Any
record in the Floyd
announce·
County
Clerk's ments made on date
Office, and such right of sale take preceof redemption as may dence over printed
exist in favor of the matter
contained
United States of herein.
America, and/or the
record owners therePlaintiff's Attorney:
of.
Hon. Kristen J.
Mudd
(c) The purchaser
Lerner, Sampson
shall be required to
& Rothfuss
assume. and pay all
P.O. Box 5480
Floyd County and
Cincinnati, Ohio
City of Prestonsburg,
45201 -5480
Kentucky, r~al prop513/241 -3100
erty taxes for the
year 2005, and all
William S. Kendrick
subsequent years,
Master
whiGh are not yet due
Commissioner
ancfpayable. Any and
P.O. Box 268
atl delinquent Floyd
Prestonsburg, KY
County and City of
41653
PEOPLE AGAINST DRUGS
"Come Walk With Us"
NOTICES
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886-8506
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NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO.
836-0313,
TRANSFER
In accordance with
405 KAR
8 010,
notice is hereby
given
that
HNR
Mining, Inc , 2000
Ashland
Drive,
Ashland, Kentucky
41101, intends to
transfer permit number 836-0281 to LCC
Kentucky, LLC, P.O.
Box 250, 7 North
Front Street, Dwale,
Kentucky 41621. The
new permit number
will be 836-0313. The
operation
disturbs
592.47
surface
acres.
No
new
acreage is affected
by the transfer.
The application is
located 2.75 miles
northeast
of
Stanville, in Pike and
Floyd Counties. The
operation is approximately 2.39 miles
northeast from CR1027 and CR-1028
junction with US 23,
and located along
Shop Branch of Mare
Creek. The operation
is located on the
Broad Bottom and
Harold U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle maps.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
of
Natural Resources'
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Mine
Permits,
No.
2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127 South, Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601. All
comments or objections
must
be
received within fifteen (15) days of
today's date.
ADVERTISEMENT
OF BIDSREQUEST FOR
QUALIFIED
BIDDERS
FOR THE SALE
OF:
FLOYD COUNTY
GAS SYSTEM
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will
receive sealed bids
from qualified bidders
for the sale of a NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM,
ownel:l
by
Floyd
County, Kentucky, by
and through the
Floyd County Fiscal
Court, and operated
and managed by
East
Kentucky
Utilities, Inc., pursuant to a lease
agreement.
The
Floyd County Fiscal
6, 2005
Court will receive
sealed bids for the
sale of the Floyd
County Gas System
until 4:00 p.m., Local
Time, on Thursday,
April 21, 2005.
S Y S T E M
DESCRIPTION:
The Floyd County
Gas System consists
of a natural gas distribution system furnishing natural gas to
customers in the
communities of Allen,
Dwale, Estill, Garrett,
Hueysville, Lackey,
Middle
Creek,
Minnie, and Wayland,
and their outlying
vicinities in Floyd
County,
Kentucky.
Documentation
regarding the sale of
the Floyd County
Gas System may be
examined by scheduling an appointment
with David Layne, II,
or John Allen, Jr. ,
during regular business hours from 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ,
Local Time, Monday
through Friday, at the
offices
of
East
Kentucky
Utilities,
Inc.,
located
at
Central
Avenue,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky [Telephone
(606) 886-2431; FAX:
(606) 889-9196], and
having the mailing
address of P.O. Box
408, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653.
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
financial, technical,
and managerial ability to purchase, operate, and maintain the
Floyd County Gas
System. An award of
the bid and the sale
of the Floyd County
Gas System shall be
contingent upon the
approval of the system's transfer by the
Kentucky
Public
Service Commission.
Any bid received
later than the time
specified for receipt
of bids or any bid not
submitted with the
necessary documentation shall not be
considered.
Bids
received after the
scheduled
closing
time tor the receipt of
bids will be returned
unopened to the bidders. Submission of
a bid shall be construed as evidence
and confirmation that
the
bidder
has
reviewed all necessary documentation,
has made all necessary site visits, and
has conducted sufficient due diligence to
allow its submission
of a bid and bona fide
offer for the system.
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court reserves
the right to reject any
and all bids or to
waive any formalities
in the bidding. No bid
may be withdrawn for
a period of sixty (60)
BID PROCESS:
days subsequent to
the opening of bids
The Floyd County without the consent
Fiscal Court will of the Floyd County
receive sealed bids Fiscal Court.
for the sale of the
Floyd County Gas
NOTICE OF
System at the Office
INTENTION
of the Floyd County
TO MINE
Judge
Executive,
PURSUANT TO
located on the 2nd
APPLICATION
floor of the Floyd
County Courthouse,
NO.
149 South Central
836-0315
Avenue, Suite 9,
In accordance with
P r e s t o n s b u r g , the provisions of KRS
Kentucky
41653 350.055, notice is
[Telephone
(606) hereby given that
886-9193] until 4:00 Motts Branch Coal,
p.m., Local Time, on Inc., P.O. Box 2765,
Thursday, April 21, 436 Daniels Creek
2005. The sealed Road,
Pikeville,
bids for the sale of Kentucky 41502, has
the Floyd County applied for a permit
Gas System will be for a surface coal
opened
and
an mining and reclamaaward of the bid tion operation, affectmade to the highest ing 205.7 acres, and
and best qualified will underlie an addibidder at the Special tional 14.4 acres,
Meeting of the Floyd located 2.9 miles
County Fiscal Court northeast
of
scheduled for Friday, Hueysville, in Floyd
April 22, 2005, at County.
10:00 a.m., Local
The proposed operTime, to be held in ation is approximatethe
County ly 1.5 mile northwest
Courtroom, located from Route 2029's
on the 2nd floor of junction with KY
the Floyd County Route 7, and located
Courthouse,
149 in Salyers Branch
South
Central and Raccoon Branch
A v e n u e , . of Saltlick Creek, and
P reston s b u r g , Grassy Creek of
Kentucky.
Licking River.
The proposed operA qualified bidder ation is located on
will be required to the David and Martin
7-1/2
provide all necessary U.S.G.S.
proof of the bidder's minute quadrangle
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
IN THE
FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
CIRCULATION DEPT.
ASSEMBLING NEWSPAPERS
·Part·time:·
Day and night shifts';
APPLY AT 263 S. CENTRAL AVE.
No Phone Calls, Please!
E.O.E.
maps. The operation
will use the contour
strip, area mining,
and highwall/auger
methods of mining.
The surface area is
owned by CONSOL
of Kentucky Inc., Carl
Reed, Jimmy & Carl
Reed, I. RichmondHeirs, Dosie Bailey,
et al., Delphia M.
Hale & Carol S.
Wireman, and Knott
Floyd
Land
Company, Inc. The
operation will underlie
surface
area
owned by Dosie
Bailey, et al., and
Knott Floyd Land
Company, Inc.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources,
Division of Mine
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601.
606-285-3833;
Lynn Imaging,
328
Old
Vine
Street,
Lexington, KY
40507,
859-255-1021.
Additional information is provided in the
bidding documents
Copies of the biddtng
documents may be
obtained at the following location.
The Floyd County
Housing Authority,
402
John
M.
Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY 41645,
Telephone
606-285-3833;
Fax: 606-285-3835,
Attention:
Harry Bennett,
Capital Grants
Coordinator.
Copies must be
obtained from Mr.
Harry L. Bennett at
the office of the Floyd
County
Housing
Authority, 402 John
M. Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY. 41645,
Telephone (606) 2853833
Partial sets will not
be issued.
Bid Bonds and
Performance
and
Payment Bonds must
be secured by a
guaranty or surety
company listed in the
latest tssue of U. S.
Treasury Circular 570
and shall be within
the
maximum
amount specified for
such company in said
Circular 570. The
"Bid Bond" and the
"Performance
and
Payment Bond" must
be issued by a surety
company authorized
to do business in the
state where the project is located, and
must be listed in U.
S. Treasury Circular
No. 570.
General Permit G·04-001 covers natural gas transmission stations and processing plants in Kentucky whtch are major sources.
.
An electronic copy of the Division's draft permit should shortly become avatlabl?
at http://www.air.ky.gov/permitting/. Official copies of the Divtsion 's draft permtt
and supporting information are available for inspection by the public during normal business hours at the following locations: Division for Air Quality, 803 Schenkel
Lane. Frankfort, KY 40601; Division for Air Quality Hazard Regional Office, 233
Birch Street, Suite 2, Hazard, KY 41701-2179 and the Floyd County Clerk's Office. 149 South Central Avenue, Prestonsburg, KY.
The Diviston is soliciting comments on the draft permit and affording the opportunity for a public hearing. To be considered, any written comments or requests f?r
a public hearing must be postmarked within 30 days followtng the date of thts
notice. Comments and/or public hearing requests should be sent to Mr. James
Morse at the above Frankfort address. Any person who requests a public hearing
must state the issues to be raised at the hearing. If the Division finds that a
hearing will contribute to the decision-making process by clarifying significant
issues affecttng the draft permit, a hearing will be announced. All relevant comments will be considered in issuing the proposed permit. U.S. EPA has up to 45
days following issuance of the proposed permit to submit co':"ments. The. s~atus
regarding EPA's 45-day review of this project and the deadline for submtttmg a
citizen petition can be found at the following website address: <http://www.epa.gov/
region4/air/permits/Kentucky.htm>. Further information can be obtained by calling Ralph Gosney at (502) 573-3382 or email at: Ralph.Gosney@ky.gov
The Commonwealth of Ky. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disabtlity in employment ?r the pr~vision ?f
service and provides, upon request, reasonable accommodation tncludmg ~uxtl
iary aides and services necessary to afford individuals an equal opportumty to
participate in all programs and activities. Materials will be provided in alternate
format upon reguest.
House
Improvement
and repair
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
Sealed bids for
ClAP
KY36P157501-04,
Modernization, will
be received by The
Floyd
County
Housing Authority,
thru Friday, April 29,
2005, at 2 p.m., (local
time), and then at
said office publicly
opened and read
aloud. The project
consists
of:
Remodeling of 62
bathrooms and 20
one-half baths with
PVC
new
Tub/Shower Liners,
Lavatories, Toilets,
Faucets, and Vinyl
Floor coverings.
The Information for
Bidders, Bid Form,
Form of Contract,
D raw i n g ' s ,
Specifications, and
forms of Bid Bond,
Performance Bond
and Payment Bond,
and other contract
documents may be
examined at the following locations:
The Floyd County
Housing Authority, ,
402
John
M.
Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY
41645,
AIR QUALITY PERMIT NOTICE
Draft Title V Operating Permit No. G-04-001
Kentucky West Virginia Gas Company, LLC, Dwale Station
FRASURE'S
RENTALS
Office Space, Retail
Space, Houses,
Apartments,
Mobile Homes and
Lots.
Carpeting, siding, roofing,
decks, tile, hardwood, etc.,
exterior painting and staining. Pressure washing, concrete, decks, mobile homes,
siding, etc.
References provided.
j&S
Lawn ~ §arden
Service
606-886-8366
HARRISON'S
LAWN CARE
~J&LiL
Electrical Contracting
Brush Cutting and
£andscaping
For all of your lawn, garden,
landscaping, hillside cleanIng, & tr~ trimming needs.
Satisfaction Guaranteed!!!
Free estimates, call:
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Residential
Residential & Commercial
Electrical Services
Home Improvements and Repairs
Free Estimates • Reliable
Ph: (606) 886-2785
Pager: (606) 482·0229
FREE ESTIMATES
(606) 886-9602
Seamless
Guttering, Siding
and Metal Roofing
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
CALL
886-1961 after 6 p.m.
John K. Lewis, Master Electrician
Licensed: ME8643, CE8644
[606) 886-9129
. . .Mine SafetY' ~·
· Plrst "ld Training :
·~ Newly Employed .
24 hr~ Class (surface}
40 flr~ (underground)
'
8 .hr. refresher
(surface & upderg(OIJOd)
Also Eteclricaf Classes
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TRIPLES
coNsr•ucrloN
No Job Too 'Big or Too Small!
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL
606-265·3336 or 606-265-4678
New Construction • Remodeling
Vinyl Siding • Window Replacement
Hardwood Flooring '
Shingle/Tin Roofing
Decks/Porches/Garages
Concrete Work
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FREE ESTIMATES
STOP!
You'v~
cleaned out your attic, your basement, your garage and now you're ready
to host a garage sale. Before you proceed, follow these signs for placing the
type of classified ad that will he,lp
turn your event into a best-seller.
.
Be sure to include in your.
Garage or Yard Sale ad ...
WHAT.
Describe the type of sale you're hosting.
Is it mostly household goods? Nursery
furniture? Apparel?
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WHEN .
Give dates and time
of sale, and rain
date information.
WHY.
Reason for sale, especial-
ly if it is a "moving" sale,
WHERE.
Where the sale will be held,
with directions or phone
number for directions.
since these tend to attract
more customers.
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them and get them out of the
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kids to hear the snail's side
of the story. He's agreed to
share some special snail
information with us today.
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Standards Link: Life Science:
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eggs as teeny, tiny snails. As they
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grow, the shell grows,
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pit where I roast pieces of my
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and leaves.
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what
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this name is.
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place.
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Deadline: April 3 I, 2005
Published: Week of May 29,2005
Send your srory to:
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P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Please include your school and grade.
�02 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
by Hal Kaufman
CRITTER-CAL BLOOM
WITS TESTER
HARE, HARE! "No time to tarry.. .love those
carrots," says the Easter bunny. Which path
· leads to his goal?
EGG HUNT! A large plastic egg contains four smaller eggs, and inside each of
these four eggs are four more still smaller eggs. How many eggs is that
·s669 9UO·AlU9~ !0 IB~OJ e SJBLtl
altogether?
9-5 DROPOUT! Challenge: To remove just four of the lines from the diagram at
right and have the total number of small squares reduced from nine to five.
How is it done?
Alakazam, it is also possible to remove four of the
lines from the original configuration and have the num- .
ber of squares continue to total nine, albeit they will be ~--~--~--~
of more than one size.
See if you can meet both challenges.
Time limit: 2 minutes each.
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names of members of the plant
wortd listed below. Pictorial
clues to the first three are presented at left. No. 1, for
instance, is a dandeLION.
1. Dande-.
2.- slip.
3.- spur.
4.- glove.
5. -lily.
6. Snap-.
7. - chestnut.
8. - cabbage.
9.- balm.
10. - willow.
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name at least 8 of the 10.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
2005 • 03
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Learning Buddies: Spell your child's first name, using the lines to write large letters. Use an uppercase letter
for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters with a finger,
crayon or pencil.
·
Vol. 4 No. 15
My Letters
I is for Igloo
i is for igloo
Penguin Places
Color the hats and.scarves on top of the igloo GREEN.
Color the hats and scarves inside the igloo RED.
Color the hats and scarves next to the igloo BLUE.
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Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have you r
child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter I. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many pictures can you find
on this page that have the same
middle sound that the letter i
makes in the word pig?
My Numbers
y Rhyme Time
To market, to market,
to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again,
Jiggety jig.
Buddies: Read the first part of the sentence aloud. Ask your child to think of a way to finish the sentence. Write your child's words in the lines. Read the
entire sentence to your child while pointing out that reading is done from left to right. Older children may want to trace all or some of the letters in the sentence.
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Letter Identification
Math Play
With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that have the same sound
as the letter I in igloo. It
can be at the beginning
or in the middle of a word.
Point to the number
3 in the newspaper.
Have your child say the
number and, if it's large
enough, have your child
trace the number.
The UPPERCASE
& lowercase Game
Look at one page of the
newspaper with your child
and say, "The big I, called
uppercase I, is looking
for her little brother,
called lowercase i.
Let's see how many
big I, little i matches
we can find !"
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The IT Game
In or Out
Top or Bottom
Cut out the letters i and t
from the headlines. Then
cut out the letters h, k, s,
b and p. Show your child
how you can spell the
words hit, kit, sit, bit
and pit simply by
changing the first letter
in front of the it.
Look through the
newspaper for pictures of
people and/or things that
are inside and outside.
Color the people and
things inside RED.
Color the people and
things outside GREEN.
Talk with your child
l!bout where things are
in a picture. Ask,
"What is at the top of
the picture?" "Is the
car at the top or bottom
of the picturer'
Watch Where You
Hop
Practicing following
directions is fun with this
game! Lay one sheet of
newspaper on the floor.
Give your child directions
like, "Hop to the top
of the page."
"Hop over the page."
"Hop around the page."
My Kid Scoop comes out once a week, but you can use the newspaper every day to prepare your child for success in school. Each daily activity focuses Oh a spec1Tic l&arning readiness skill.
Step by Step Success 1. Read the activity instruction aloud. 2. Show how to do the activity by doing it yourself first. 3. Ask your child to copy what you do.
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HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you a
message every day. It's a numerical puzzle designed to spell
out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the
number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number is less
than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner and check one of your key numbers, left
to right. Then read the message the letters under the
checked figures give you.
©2oos by King Features Syndicate, Inc. world rights reserved.
Rational Numbers
by Linda Thistle
Using the clues, simple arithmetic,
81ld a little logic, place a single digit (0
to 9) in each empty box in the diagram. To help you get started, one
digit has been entered in the diagram.
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9. Two times 12-Down
10. Digits of 3-Down reversed
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12. Digits df 7-Across reversed
14. One·fourth of 4-Across
15. Three times 11-Across
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�04 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
World of Wonder
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
Anteaters, armadillos and
sloths have very low
metabolic rates anc~ body
temperatures, characteristic
of the ancient Xenarthra
order of animals.
Anteaters, armadillos and sloths
are members of the Edentata group of
animals. Edentates share an evolutionary
connection of having few or no teeth.
Endentata means "the toothless ones."
The nine-banded armadillo is the most common of armadillos, but the
only one found in North America. Armadillos grow to about 2 feet (61 em)
long and wetaround 15 pounds (6.8 kg). One of the most amazing
things about is species is that it almost always gives birth to identical
quadruplets (f 1>• either all male or all female.
Nine-banded armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus
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nteaters, arma dlos
There are four species of anteaters.
They are native to southern Mexico and
northern South America.
There are 20 species of armadillo.
They can be found in South America
and in some southern U.S. states.
The giant anteater (sometimes called the ant bear) is the
largest and most well-known of anteaters. It can grow to be
more than 6 feet (1 .8 m) in length, with tails measuring up
to 3 feet (0.9 m) long. It is found in tropical Central and
South America, but hunting and habitat loss has damaged
populations and the species is listed as threatened.
This species walks on the sides of its feet to protect its
sharp claws; this gives them a strange, shuffling gait.
sloths
There are five species of sloths.
They are found in the tropical rainforests
of Central and South America.
Hidden in the trees, the three-toed sloth can easily be
mistaken for a branch. The animal moves so slowly as to be
Enlargement of a
sloth hair showing
corrugated ridges
where algae grows.
Silky anteater
Cyclopes
didactylus
The silky
anteater is about
the size of a squirrel and
grows to about 20 inches
(50 em) long. It has a
prehensile tail that can
wrap around tree limbs.
Anteaters are the
only members of the
scientific order
Endentata to be
completely toothless. As their name suggests, anteaters
love to eat ants but they are also very fond of termites and
will sometimes eat soft fruit. They have long, thin snouts
and very long, sticky tongues, ideally suited for trapping and
devouring insects. They will stop briefly to feed and then
move on, taking care not to destroy a nest that could feed
them again later.
Anteaters are generally solitary creatures. The mother will
give birth to one offspring a year and will carry the baby
on her back.
Aardvarks, pangolins and
echidnas can be confused with
anteaters. Despite similarities,
they are not related and belong
to a different scientific group.
Giant armadillo
Priodontes maximus
Armadillos are named for the
word "armado," which
means "one that is armed." This is because armadillos have
hinged, bony plates that form strong, flexible bands which
protect their bodies. This heavy outer skin should cause an
armadillo to sink like a stone in water, but they have a
special ability to blow up their intestines with air for added
buoyancy - they can swim if they have to. Armadillos have
long, sharp claws, ideal for digging and burrowing. They
mainly eat insects, earthworms and spiders, but will eat
plants and sometimes small invertibrates, like snakes.
Many species are nocturnal and only come out at night.
They do not have very good eyesight, but do have an
excellent sense of smell.
Baby armadillos have soft, leather skin that hardens a few
days after birth. Armadillos are the only animals known to be
able to transmit leprosy to humans.
This small creature is considered a pest by
many landowners because its burrowing can
damage crops and undermine buildings.
But armadillos also benefit people by eating
harmful insects and grubs. In South
America, some people eat armadillos.
The three-banded
armadillo is the
only armadillo
that can roll itself
into a ball when
threatened.
Most armadillos
will run away
or dig a hole to
hide in.
The giant anteater can flick its 2-foot-long
(60 em) tongue in and out 150 times per
minute. One giant anteater can eat up to
30,000 insects in a day.
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Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Algae, moths and other
insects make a home in
the rough coat of the sloth.
Two-toed sloth
Choloepus
hoffmanni
Sloths are extremely slow-moving creatures that spend most
of their lives hanging upside down. They move so slowly that
most predators do not see them. Sloths live in the rainforest
canopy and only come down to the ground to defecate (once
every week or so). While on the ground they are quite awkward and helpless. Sloths have almost no tails or ears and
their noses are flat. Depending on the species, they have two
or three toes on their front feet, with long, hooked claws that
wrap around branches. Because they have spent so much of
their evolutionary lives upside down, their hair grows in the
opposite direction from other furry mammals.
Their shaggy, coarse hair is home to a plant and an insect.
The plant is a microscopic algae that grows in the grooves
of the sloth's corrugated hair. This gives the animal a greenish color and is an excellent camouflage against enemies.
The insect is a tiny moth that weaves its way in and out of
the fur eating the algae.
Sloths feed on leaves, buds and young twigs. Their low
metabolism (the process of turning food into energy) means
they do not eat much compared to animals of a similar size.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc.; The Chaffee Zoo; www.nature.ca;
www.thebigzoo.com; about.com; Texas Parks & Wildl~e; www.everwonder.com; The San
Antonio Zoo; The Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine; Fascinating World
of Animals, Reader's Digest; Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia, Macmillan; The
Encyclopedia of Animals, University of Calffomia Press; South America, lime Life
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STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Sheila
Dotson and her brother, Michael
Lester, appeared in circuit court
Wednesday for a hearing in the case
that accuses them of conspiring to
kill her husband Donald Dotson.
Lester is charged with the actual
shooting, which occurred in Auxier
last summer, but Dotson was indicted for complicity in the crime two
weeks ago.
Judge Danny Caudill informed
the pair that their cases will be tried
together and upheld Dotson's bond.
which was set at $225,000, which is
the same amount that Lester is being
held on.
Judge Caudill offered their attorney, Steve Owens, a chance to file
for a continuance since the joining
of the case will double Owens'·
workload for a case that was set for
April 25. Owens will, most likely,
announce whether he seeks the continuance at the next hearing date for
the pair, which is set for Tuesday.
The next hearing will also see a
conference on whether or not certain
(See SIBLINGS, page three)
photo by Tom Doty
PRIDE
The Associated Press
PAINTSVILLE - A
newspaper van crashed
destroying an entire press
run of The Paintsville
.Herald, a 5,200-circulation
newspaper in eastern
Kentucky.
~)" Editor Loretta Tackett
said the van was traveling
north early Wednesday on
U.S. 23 from Pikeville,
where the twice-weekly
newspaper is printed, to
Paintville when a tire blew
out, causing the crash.
The van struck a guardrail
at lvel and burst into
flames, destroying all the
newspapers.
The driver escaped
without injury.
Tackett said the newspaper was reprinted later
on Wednesday, with photos and a story about the
crash.
"We altered the front
page to insert the story of
why readers were a bit late
getting their news," she
said.
prepares
for cleanup
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
photo by Tom Doty
3 DAY FORECAST
Siblings Michael
Lester and Sheila
Dotson learned
Wednesday that
they will stand trial
together for
charges stemming
from the shooting
of Dotson's husband last year.
Prestonsburg police officer Sam Goodman, right, returned to work Wednesday after a year in Kosovo and
presented Chief Mike Ormerod with an award recognizing his efforts to support the National Guard by
keeping Goodman's job for him when he returned from service.
Home from Kosovo, P'burg
police officer back on patrol
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Police
Officer Sam Goodman returned to
duty Wednesday after a year of service with his National Guard unit
in Kosovo.
When Goodman left last year he
was presented with a key to the city
by Mayor Jerry Fannin and was
feted with a surprise going away
party arranged by Chief Mike
Omerod, who at that time handed. He presented Chief
announced that all police vehicles Omerod with an award from the
would sport yellow ribbons until Employer Support for the Guard
and Reserve, which recognized the
his safe return.
All of those ribbons will now flexibility and understanding of the
come off cruisers and be replaced Prestonsburg Police Department,
promised
to
hold
with ribbons honoring Shawn • which
Roop, of the Floyd County Goodman's job for him until he
Sheriff's Department, who is cur- returned.
Goodman thanked Omerod and
rently serving with his National
presented him with a certificate,
Guard unit in Iraq.
When Goodman returned to before looking at his watch and
work Wednesday it wasn't empty saying, "I better get to work."
PRESTONSBURG
Thursday morning's meeting of the Floyd County
PRIDE Committee turned
into a discussion of spring
cleaning projects as well
as funding concerns.
A plan to register as a
nonprofit agency was
abandoned. The group
passed a motion to assign
the Floyd Fiscal Court as
its "fiscal agent." The
commitee will act as an
advisory council to the fiscal court, who will handle
funding is~ues.
Talk turned to cleanup
efforts with Gary Frazier,
who has worked with
PRIDE for a number of
years, noting that "no sus-
tained effort to clean up
roadways" has been workable and that volunteers
aren't as dependable in
maintaining clean roadways as regularly paid
employees assigned to
specific areas.
Floyd County PRIDE
Coordinator Lon May
noted that the fiscal court
hired college students last
summer for some road
cleaning projects and was
pleased with the results.
The court will consider
doing the same process
this season, he said.
Margo Barber brought
up the "Adopt a Highway"
program and the group is
considering taking the
plunge of adopting a
(See PRIDE, page seven)
City to enforce
parking pol icy
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
A meeting of the city traffic committee resulted in a
decision to enforce twohour parking limits in the
downtown area.
The issue was brought
to the council's attention
at its last meeting, when
several business owners
on West Court Street
blamed motorists who
ignore the posted twohour parking limit for
impacting their businesses.
Police Chief Mike
Omerod was present and
said that he had his officers monitor Court Street
for five days and revealed
(See PARKING, page three)
High: 72 ·Low: 45
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
Opinion .........................A4
Obituaries .....................A7
Sports ...........................B1
Lifestyles ......................86
Church page ............... B1 0
Classifieds .................. 811
Family responds to
wrongful death appeal
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
Pikeville attorney Larry
Webster is asking the court
to affirm an Environmental
and Public Protection
Cabinet's Board of Claims
decision in a 16-year-old
wrongful death case.
The board of claims
entered a final order this
year, denying a motion to
dismiss the case and a
request for individual payment to Mitchell and Mary
E. Williams. The board
awarded
Mitchell
Williams, the executor of
the estate of deceased
Betsy Layne High School
student Anthony Wayne
Williams, $200,000.
Webster filed a response
Tuesday to an appeal by
Assistant Attorney General
Brent Irvin, who claims the
(See APPEAL, page three)
Prestonsburg Postmaster Edith
Risner, center, was one of 18
postal employees nationwide to
receive the Benjamin Franklin
Award of Excellence, presented to
her Thursday by Floyd County
Times Publisher David Bowyer and
circulation manager Patty Wilson.
The award is awarded by the
National Newspaper Association
each year to postal employees
nominated by newspapers for their
commitment to customer service.
"I'm just here to do my job, but this
is nice, though ... " Risner remarked
after receiving the award. "The
Prestonsburg Post Office is proud
to be part of a 225-year organization of linking American communities together. Our workforce totals
over 700,000 employees, who deliver mall to everybody, every day,
everywhere."
photo by Ralph B. Davis
�A2 • FRIDAY, APRIL
8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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• GREENSBURG, Ind.
A man who went to the sheriff's
department to bond out hts
brother-in-law also ended up in
jail when police realized the
money he handed them reeked
of marijuana.
Timothy Richards, 45, of
Columbus, went to the Decatur
County Sheriff's Department
and when he handed dispatcher
Julie Meyers $400, she counted
it and then noticed something
unusual.
"When I walked back toward
the jail I noticed the money was
damp and smelled funny,"
Meyers said.
A jailer who sniffed the
money told her it smelled like
marijuana, she said.
Indiana State Trooper Chip
Ayers was nearby and asked for
the money, she said. He smelled
it and then asked Richards for
consent to search him and his
car. Meyers said.
Ayers found a pipe and a
small amount of marijuana and
charged Richards with possession. If convicted, he could face
six months to three years in
prison and a $10,000 fine.
Richards remained in jail for
several hours Tuesday - until
his brother-in-law made bail
and came back to pay his own
$250 bond.
• BAINBRIDGE ISLAND,
Wash. - Darrell and Nina
Hallett love their dog Comet
and have reached deeply into
their wallets to prove it.
The couple spent $45.000 on
a stem cell transplant for their
golden retriever. who is recovering from lymphoma, a type of
cancer that attacks the immune row or stem-cell transplants on
system.
dogs over the past four decades,
Dr. Edmund Sullivan, a as researchers perfected techBellingham veterinarian, per- niques used to treat cancer in
fom1ed the transplant last sum- humans.
mer, using stem cells from , Comet's transplant happened
another golden retriever.
in June. After a long, steady
Sue Hendrickson, a friend of recovery. he appears to be
the Hatletts, owns Comet's showing signs that he's been
mother and 11 other dogs. She cured.
spent months tracking do-wn 40
of Comet's relatives to donate
• SARATOGA SPRINGS,
blood, eventually finding three N.Y. - Police say a 30-year
grudge boiled over when a former
perfect matches.
She flew to Florida to get elementary school teacher littered
Rico, the biggest of the three the driveways of former co-workand the one who could yield the ers and bosses with roofing nails
most stem cells, and delivered and splattered paint on their
him to the Fred Hutchinson garage doors.
Thomas R. Haberbush, 72,
Cancer Research Center in
Seattle, which donated advice pleaded guilty Tuesday to one
count each of stalking. criminal
and facilities for the transplant.
The cancer center has per- mischief and criminal tampering,
formed hundreds of bone-mar- all misdemeanors.
Police said that three former
school board members, a retired
principal and a retired assistant
Todav in Historv
The Associated Press
Today is Friday, April 8,
the 98th day of 2005. There
are 267 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On April 8, 1974,
Hank Aaron of the Atlanta
:Braves hit his 715th career
home run in a game against
the Los Angeles Dodgers,
breaking
Babe
Ruth's
)'ecord. The round-tripper
was off pitcher AI Downing.
: On this date:
In 1513,explorerJuan
roncc de Leon claimed
rlorida for Spain.
1 •
In 1935, the Works
Progress Administration was
~pproved by Congress.
, • In 1946, the League of
Nations
assembled
in
Geneva for the last time.
: •
In 1952. President
lrruman seized the steel
industry to avert a nationwide strike.
• • In 1970, the Senate
}ejected President Nixon's
-nomination of G. Harold
Carswell
to
the
U.S.
Supreme Court.
• In 1973, artist Pablo
:Picasso died at his home
'near Mougins, France, at age
91.
• In 1981, Gen. Omar N.
Bradley died in New York at
age 88.
• In 1990, Ryan White, the
teenage AIDS patient whose
battle for acceptance gained
national attention, died in
L•
Indianapolis at age 18.
• In 1993, singer Marian
Anderson died in Portland,
Ore .. at age 96.
• In 1994, Kurt Cobain,
singer and guitarist for the
grunge band Nirvana, was
found dead in Seattle from
an apparently self-inflicted
gunshot wound; he was 27.
Ten years ago: Former
secretary of defense Robert
S. McNamara, in an interview with AP Network News
and Newsweek magazine to
promote his memoirs, called
America's Vietnam War policy "terribly wrong."
Five years ago: The
Central Intelligence Agency
confirmed that personnel
action had been taken following the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy
during the NATO war
against Yugoslavia; one
(employ11e was reportedly
fired. Actress Claire Trevor
died in Newport Beach,
Calif.
One year ago: National
security adviser Condoleezza
Rice told the Sept. 11 commission "there was no silver
bullet" that could have prevented the 2001 terrorist
attacks. iraqi insurgents
released a videotape of three
Japanese captives, threatening to burn them alive if
Japan did not withdraw its
troops from Iraq. (The
hostages were later released
unharmed.) Fred Olivi, who
copiloted the plane that
dropped the atomic bomb on
Nagasaki, died in Lemont,
Ill., at age 82.
Today's
Birthdays:
Former first lady Betty Ford
is 87. Comedian Shecky
Greene is 79. Investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh is
68.
Basketball
Hall-ofFarner John Havlicek is 65.
Singer J.J. Jackson is 64.
Singer Peggy Lennon (The
Lennon Sisters) is 64.
Songwriter-producer Leon
Huff is 63. Actor Hywel
Bennett is 61. Actor Stuart
Pankin is 59_ Rock musician
Steve Howe (Yes) is 58.
Rock musician Mel Schacher
(Grand Funk Railroad) is 54.
Baseball
Hall-of-Farner
Gary Carter is 51. Actor
Jqhn Schneider is ~5, .Rockl
mus'cian Izzy Stradlin · .. 43.
Sin er Julian Lennon is 42.
Rock
singer-mustcJan
Donita Sparks (L 7) is 42.
Rapper Biz Markie is 4 1.
Actress Robin Wright Penn
is 39. Actress Patricia
Arquette is 37 _ Rock singer
Craig
Honeycutt
(Everything) is 35. Rock
musician Darren Jessee is
34. Actor Taran Noah Smith
is 21. Actress Kirsten Storms
is 21.
Thought for Today: "A
highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence."
- James Brander Matthews,
American author and educator (1852-1929).
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principal at Caroline Street
Elementary School were among
the nine victims Haberbush targeted over the past two years. Their
car tires were damaged by roofing
nails that Haberbush threw in the
driveways, police said.
"It's very bizarre to carry
around a grudge for nearly 30
years." said Saratoga Springs
police investigator John Catone.
''At least now there can be closure for all those people he terrorized."
Police said Haberbush had
been angered after receiving
poor work reviews.
Saratoga County assistant
district attomey David Harper
requested
that
Haberbush
undergo a mental health evaluation as part of the plea agreement. He also will be barred
from contacting the victims in
the future.
• PERTH, Australia -
An
overzealous attempt to rid a
Thai restaurant of cockroaches
sparked an explosion that blew
the eatery apart, emergency services said Thursday.
Three men were hospitalized
with burns after they set off 36
cockroach fumigation devices
aerosol cans filled with
chemicals - which apparently
exploded after their contents
came into contact with an oven .
pilot light.
Duncraig fire station officer
Kieran Cooper said the blast
wrecked the restaurant.
John McMillan, manager of
Western Australia state's ftre
investigations unit, said the
huge blast lifted the roof off the
Tamarind restaurant in the state
capital, Perth.
"The restaurant owner has
used the principle that if you
use twice the soap, you get your
hands twice as clean. He's just
overdone it," McMillan said.
Education officials consider
design for future CATS testing
by JOE BIESK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - State education officials on Wednesday
mulled over a plan that would
change the structure of Kentucky's
student assessment exams.
The State Board of Education is
considering ways to tweak the
annual tests that pupils across
Kentucky take.
One component could develop
a way for the state to track student
progress over time. The board is
also considering proposals that
would bring the state in line with
federal rcqillrcments to have pupils
in grades three through eight take
annual reading and math assessment tests.
Board memberS said they also
wanted to enhance the reporting of
scores, getting more pupil information in less time.
Members said they wanted to
keep the tests efficient enough to
be administered within a "reasonable" time, and keep them affordable.
Some acknowledged that the
state may not be able to afford a
testing system that has everything
that educators are looking for.
"We may have to make sacrifices," said Hilma Prather, a board
member from Somerset.
The board is crafting a proposal to solicit bids for a new testing
company to work on proposed
modifications
to
its
Commonwealth Accountability
Testing System. Most changes
would not be imp)emented until
2007.
Currently, students in grades
four, five, seven, eight 10, 11 and
12 take Kentucky Core Content
Tests in different subject areas,
including: reading, math, science,
social studies, wfi.ting and the arts.
Students also maintain writing
portfolios, which are reviewed
after grades four, seven and 12.
Richard Innes, of the Bluegrass
Institute for Public Policy
Solutions, said the plans were
encouraging. Innes said the state
needs a way to measure individual
students' progress over time.
"What I like is that this board,
this year, people are really asking
good questions," Innes said.
'They're paying attention to the
areas that we think they need to
start paying attention to."
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Child abuse awareness
p~shed during April
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
April is National Child Abuse
Prevention Month and a state
agency called Prevent Child
ABuse Kentucky is trying to
raise awareness.
Some of the information
the group has disseminated to
our court system was passed
on to Family Court Judge
Julie Paxton and includes
some figures about child
abuse in the state.
"I think that it is very
important that people be
aware of what they can do
when they suspect a child is a
victim of abuse," Paxton said.
Paxton noted that most
people fear recrimination if a
claim is reported but disabused that notion saying,
"All calls are confidential and
it can be reported directly to
social services or to the state
police or local law enforcement."
She pointed out that the
only thing necessary when
making the call is to do it in
good faith . The only time a
judge will compel an organization to reveal who reported
the abuse is when there is a
suspicion that the incident
f.) was reported in bad faith as a
means of getting back at
someone that the caller harbors a grudge against. Paxton
further noted, however, that in
her five years as a family
court judge, she she has never
had a case where that was necessary.
Parking
that there are presently eight
people who park there during
business hours, 8 a.m. ~o 5
p.m., for longer than two
hours. He said that five of
those actually live in apartments along the street.
The
committee
heard
Omerod's
report,
which
included the addressees of the
known violators, and opted to
send each a registered letter
explaining the situation before
the police department begins
~ writing parking tickets in a
week.
Omerod suggested that a
hearing officer can be chosen
to deal with any claims by dri-
8, 2005 • A3
Appeal
Board of Claims acted erroneously in its decision.
In his response, Webster, representing Mitchell Williams,
Paxton also illustrated that cited a Supreme Court decision
there are plenty of ways to get that held
the Kentucky
involved in combatting child Department of Education "vicabuse. Community groups and ariously liable" for the negliorganizations may benefit gence of the Floyd County
from a video produced two Board of Education and its
years ago about child abuse by employees at the school.
local law enforcement, the
"The Floyd County Board of
court and social services. It Education is not a necessary and
features interviews with pro- proper party to defend this
fessionals who are involved in action because it is one and the
the process of reporting and same as the plaintiff, as the
following up on abuse claims Supreme Court made clear,"
and can be obtained from Webster wrote.
Paxton's office.
Webster also argues that forInterested groups are free mer Betsy Layne High School
to contact her office at 889- student, Julie (Hall) Kidd, a
1676 to find out more.
defendant in the case, should not
The waiting room at the be named in the suit because the
courthouse
for
children "damage award against the cominvolved in court proceedings monwealth is not to be reduced
is also a place where people by an amount voluntarily paid
can help . Volunteers are by a 'joint tort feasor."'
always welcome and donaMitchell Williams filed suit
tions of toys are greatly appre- in November 1989 against Kidd
ciated .
and her insurance company, the
The good news is that Capital Enterprise Insurance
groups like PCAK have Group, which awarded him a
reached out for support and $75,000 settlement in the case.
found that Kentuckians were
Her attorney, Jerry Patton,
more than willing to lend a filed a motion to dismiss her
hand with over 21 ,000 hours from proceedings on March 18,
of volunteer service provided citing several issues, including
by citizens to prevent child the fact that Kidd was not a
abuse and neglect in their party to action before the Board
communities. All but three of of Claims and, therefore, "is not
Kentucky's 120 counties are a proper party to this action."
actively engaged in child
According to court docuabuse prevention efforts.
ments,
Anthony
Wayne
Last year saw 64,000 chil- Williams died after an April 28,
dren reported as neglected or 1989, car accident on Little Mud
abused . Last year 31 children Creek Road near Honaker. The
in Kentucky died as a direct Betsy Layne High School sturesult of abuse or neglect. The dent was decorating the school's
best estimates are that a child gymnasium for the prom and
is abused in Kentucky every left school premises with Kidd
eight-and-a-half minutes .
to get additional supplies.
Both students had been
drinking prior to the accident,
the suit claims, and were not
wearing seat belts at the time of
• Continued from p1 · the accident.
Anthony W. Williams, a pasvers who contest parking
senger
in the car driven by Kidd,
fines, which will probably be
died after he was ejected and
set at $1 or $2.
Omerod said that the tough- crushed by the vehicle.
Kidd, who was 16 at the time
est parking fines are reserved
of
the accident, told Kentucky
for those who improperly park
in handicapped spots and fire State Police officers that she she
lanes, with tickets for those was unfamiliar with the road
offenses being $50 and $25, had been driving too fast around
a curve, the suit says. The car
respectively.
Omerod also noted in his tumbled a 22-foot embankment
report that at no time during on the east side, the suit says.
On April 26, 1990, Mitchell
department's routine
the
sweeps of Court Street, which Williams filed suit against the
were done at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. Department of Education (Floyd
and 3 p.m., did his officers County Board of Educationnotice that there were no Betsy Layne High School faculvacant spots available for cus- ty) ··and the Board of Claims,
Irvin argues, "construed all
tomers.
these claims" and dismissed it
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• Continued from p1
for lack of jurisdiction.
In 2003, the Supreme Court
remanded the case back to the
Board of Claims, ruling that
there is a "special relationship"
formed between a school district
and its students that "imposes an
affmnative duty" on the district,
faculty and its administration to
prevent foreseeable harm to its
students.
"An administrative judge
could conclude that the faculty
and staff at Betsy Layne High
School should have been aware
that the students were drunk driving while traveling to and from
school sponsored and supervised extracurricular activities,"
Irvin wrote, citing the Supreme
Court decision.
He argues that governmental
immunity
laws
prevents
Mitchell Williams from suing
the Department of Education
and/or the Floyd County Board
of Education.
Irvin, seeking an appeal to
the board of claims decision,
says the Department of
Education
is
"blameless"
because they have no way of
supervising day-to-day activities
at every school.
He argues that both students
left without the knowledge or
permission from staff at the
school and says that that the
Board of Claims erroneously
decided that the faculty and staff
at the school were "100 percent"
responsible for the accident.
He also alleges that the Board
of Claims erroneously refused to
permit the Department of
Education to bring representatives to the Board of Claims
hearing to defend allegations of
faculty and staff negligence at
Betsy Layne High School.
Webster argues that Anthony
Williams left the school with
"implied or direct knowledge or
permission" that was " unlawfully given" from faculty or staff
members.
"The proximate cause of
Anthony Williams' death was
the negligence of the school system in allowing him to leave
premises," he wrote. "The
Supreme Court has so found and
that is the law of the case."
Michael Schmitt, representing the Floyd County Board of
Education, filed a motion to dismiss the case against them and a
motion for extension of time on
March 18. Schmitt argues that
the case fails to state a claim
against the board of education
upon which the court "can properly grant relief."
Siblings
• Continued from p1
evidence will be allowed during the trial regarding Lester
and another shooting.
Assistant Commonwealth' s
Attorney Wayne Taylor used
the hearing to refute statements Owens made last week
at a hearing where he said that
he received a faulty tape from
the state as part of a collection
of evidence they have prepared on the case. Owens
made a point of saying that it
had happened a few times previously as well. Taylor produced the tape and played it
for Owens on what he called
"the cheapest recorder I could
find ." The tape played clearly
but Judge Caudill asked that it
be turned off after a few seconds.
Owens also used the hearing to ask the judge if the jail
could arrange a haircut for his
client before the trial date and
Caudill noted that he was sure
it wouldn't be a problem and
said that the jail, which had
been asked to arrange the service on several occasions,
would get the job done but that
they are usually cautious when
arranging services.
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8, 2005
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Worth Repeating ...
"All animals except man
know that the ultimate in life
is to enjoy it."
-Samuel Butler
'Amendment '1
Coneress sfia(( make no (aw respectinc9 an esta6Usfiment of re(igion, orJ'.rolii6itin8 tlie .free exercise tliereif, a6ridtJinB t fiefreedOm of ~eecfi, or of t fie
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The Star-Ledger, Newark, N J., on the legacy of Pope John Paul II:
Upon his election, a Roman Catholic pope assumes dual roles: He is the
leader of one of the world's largest religions and the ruler of the world's
tiniest city state. That dichotomy summed up John Paul II well. The name
he chose for himself also reflects that split nature: John, for the charismatic John XXIII, and Paul, for the intellectual Paul VI. ...
His remarkable papacy could be split in two as well. There was the
youthful , globe-trotting John Paul II who helped topple communism, and
the frail John Paul II who appeared to react slowly as the Catholic Church
in America faced the worst crisis in its history. ...
People of faith, however, revered him for standing against the tide of
what many see as a moral decline in the Western world. He did not yield
on issues such as divorce, artificial birth control and married priests. He
expanded the doctrine of papal infallibility and beatified its auth~r. Pope
Pius IX.
He centralized power in the Vatican. The result lessened the influence
of local bishops and , in some ways , created a cultural clash in the United
States, where many Catholics sought to have more of a role in the policies
of their church. Many critics believe that is one of the reasons the Catholic
Church in America was so slow to respond to the sexual abuse crisis.
John Paul helped reshape the world . ...
The Record of Bergen County, N J., on Pope John Paul l/'s critique of
capitalism:
Many who admired Pope John Paul II for his energy and charm failed
to hear the uncomfortable message that became a central theme in recent
' years: his condemnation of the excesses of capitalism.
'
"We must not forget ," he said on a visit to Mexico, "that often it is the
• poor who are forced to make sacrifices while the possessors of great rich; es do not show themselves ready to renounce their privileges for the good
, of others ."
That message should not be lost on the world - and especially not on
1
~·this nation, where the gulf between rich and poor grows ever wider, where
~ one's worth is measured in possessions and status symbols and where gov' ernment itself is growing stingier. Even the idea of public responsibility to
the poorest members of society is questioned.
The millions who will pay tribute this week to John Paul's accom: plishments should remember his heartfelt call to social justice.
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All contents copyright 2004 The Floyd County nmes
Against
annexation
I would like to take this opportunity
to voice opposition to the annexation of
Highlands Regional Medical Center by
the city of Prestonsburg.
There are employees from many
cities and townships. Many of us pay
taxes to the city or county in which we
reside. Why should we also pay taxes to
the city of Prestonsburg?
Highlands was not built in the city
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Letter s
ext. 31
The Big Sandy Community and
Technical College has yet another reason
to be very proud of its students. As you
may recall, the ftrst Saturday of April
was rainy, windy and cold, yet nearly 50
BSCTC students, including some faculty
and staff, together with family members
and friends, spent a good portion of the
day participating in the annual Paintsville
Lake State Park Cleanup Contest and
Jenny Wiley State Park "Operation Clean
Sweep."
At Paintsville Lake, the event began at
8 a.m., while Jenny Wiley's began at 10
a.m.
Chilled to the bone, wet and exhausted after picking up other people's trash,
our teams, with other participating
groups, returned to their respective start-
McGuire's claims
unsubstantiated
For two years, I have sat at board meetings and listened as one of our board m7mbers, Mickey McGuire, has made astorushing charges against the board he is now a
member of. I have been amazed at how
easily he makes these charges and how little support he has for them. Mr. McGuire
tantalizes the media with sure-fire headlines that will sell papers. He offers no evidence, no proof that anything that he says is
true, yet no one questions or scrutinizes his
version of a situation.
Forget the fact that the real·business ?f
the board, improving instruction of children, has to be put aside or that the professional reputations of those under his frre are
being damaged by unsubstantiated ch~ges,
his charges make for grabber headlines.
The public sitting at home, knowing little
about what has happened, looks at those
headlines and thinks nothing has changed.
But it is not the truth and it doesn't serve
the public well.
1. Mr. McGuire has accused the Floyd
County Board of burying our heads in the
limits of Prestonsburg and is not now in money to buiid golf courses and plant
the city limits. This may have been the flowers in Prestonsburg . What happened
intent when the site for Highlands was to democracy in this situation?
If the annexation occurs, we should
chosen. Highlands serves the community, the people of .Floyd ·Comfly and sur- ;· be .allowed to vote for the council and
rbUn'ding counties , not just residents of rnayor as we will be paying taxes to the
city. I don't see that there will be any
Prestonsburg ! '
.
In an effort to increase the revenue of benefits as a result of this action to the
Prestonsburg, nine people have set out organization or its employees.
Many of those working at Highlands
to levy tax on more than 400 employees
at Highlands. The persons affected by Regional Medical Center patronize
this proposed annexation should be businesses in Prestonsburg. We do not
given the opportunity to vote on this wan to be forced to change this practice!
Larry Daniels
issue, either in support or opposition.
HRMC employee
Mr. Fannin and council members, I
don't feel that it is right to take our
'*
ing points to be greeted with abundant
food, in the form of a cookout, and the
praise and admiration of the parks ' coordinators for a job well done.
The BSCTC team at Paintsville Lake
won second prize for collecting nearly
100 bags of trash, while our people at
Jenny Wiley received very nice souvenir
T-shirts and a few raffled prizes for their
efforts.
Even though we all looked like
"something the cat dragged in" at the end
of the day, I can safely say that everyone
felt pretty good for having done something tangibly worthwhile for our beautiful parks. What a great way to begin
"Environment Month"!
The BSCTC Team at Paintsville Lake
included Danielle Isaac, Lucresia Hall
with children Rachel and Andrew,
Ashley Clevenger, Allison Jo Murray,
Kate Lowe, Ann Smith Hollis, Hope
Sanders, Jessica Hackworth, Amanda
Webb, Danielle Rador, Peggy Howard,
Mahala Grimm, Joseph Bayes, Brooke
Hall, Herbert Grimm (EKU), Danielle
Minix with husband Rodney, team coleader Elaine Shiber and BSCTIC faculty
member Dan Bell.
At Jenny Wiley, participants included
Rita Newsome, Connie Thompson,
Tracey Collins, Jennifer Newman , Diane
Burke, Racheal Smith, Rebecca Goines,
Chelsea Hogg , Ap,il Combs, Jessica ..,
Reed, Louanna Calhoun, Tina Blevins
with daughter Anastasia, Jeremy and
Cody Click, Kim Wells, Stefanie Kinner,
Telah Watson (MSU) , team leader John
Shiber and BSCTC faculty and staff
members Lisa and Ricky Music with
children Joshua and Stephanie.
Thanks, everyone!
John G . Shiber
Coordinator, Community Biology
Club
Big Sandy Community and Technical
College
sand, ignoring the alleged incident of abuse
at May Valley.
Several weeks ago, members of the
Floyd County School Board met at Betsy
Layne Elementary with board attorney
Mike Schmitt and Mike Casey, a
Lexington lawyer who represents Floyd
County for the insurance company in the
case of the May Valley students. Mr.
McGuire was present at that meeting.
Earlier, the board chair and vice chair
had requested that all depositions in the
case be made available to the board attorney and, once these were reviewed, recommendations would be offered regarding
any actions that the district needs to take.
Mr. Schmitt is in the process of reviewing
those depositions.
2. In an interview with the press after
the board meeting, Mr. McGuire said that
he had been threatened by the board
because of his outspokenness.
No one on the board has threatened Mr.
McGuire. The only request that has been
made of all board members is that they
honor the fact that this case is under review
by the school district and that recommendations regarding potential board actions
will be forthcoming .
Statements being made by Mr. McGuire
about the guilty of certain individuals
involved in this situation are of concern.
Until the review of the depositions has
been finished , statements regarding anyone's guilt or lack of it are premature and
irresponsible.
3. There has been no attempt to cover up
anyone's actions.
From day one, before any action was
taken in this case, Mr. McGuire was charging the Floyd County Board with a coverup.
When asked by the Lexington attorney
how much we, a.S a board, wanted to know
about the case, my answer was,
"Everything." We have a responsibility to
examine the situation closely and take •
whatever action that is needed to prevent
such an incident from reoccurring. We are
not going to' make wild, irresponsible accusations against anyone, and once we have
done our work, we are not going to cover
anything up or keep anything secret. We
are going to act responsibly.
The confidentiality clause that was
inserted into the May Valley agreement
was something that both sides involved in
the case wanted. Some parents were concerned about their children and the need to
continue their lives and education away
from the spotlight. In cases covered by the
district's insurance company, the compa- ~)
(See LETTERS, page nine)
�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
8, 2005 • AS
Murphy predicting a 'good
time' at MAC tonight
by RICK BENTLEY
CoN'miBVTING WRITER
)
On his website, the bio of David
Lee Murphy wastes no time
describing him as "fun, rocking,
rowdy, goo:! times." According to
the singer, that hits the nail on the
head.
"That's pretty right on it," said
the native of Henin, Dl., a town he
says is across the border from
Paducah. "Our shows are high energy and pretty rocking. We do a little
bit of everything, but the 'good
time' part is always in there somewhere."
David Lee will bring his brand of
a goo:! time to the Mountain Arts
Center in Prestonsburg on Friday
night for a 7:30 concert. It will be his
first visit to the MAC, but Murphy
thinks he'll find his kind of "Party
Crowd" when he takes the stage.
"It's gorma be a fun show," he
said. "We have about as much fun
getting out there playing for people
as they have listening to it, and I
think that's a big part of it."
The MAC is located just off
Country Music Highway, a stretch
of U.S. 23 that honors country
music legends such as Loretta Lynn,
Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs and
Keith Whitley. For Murphy, that
makes quite a statement about
Eastern Kentucky.
"When you say Ricky Skaggs,
Keith Whitley and Loretta Lynn,
right there, you've hit the ball out of
the parlc already," said Murphy, who
sprinkles his conversation with several sports metaphors. "It's a great
part of the country with great peo-
byTOMDOTY
STAFF WRITER
The first week of April was
light on new ~leases but adventurous filmgoers might enjoy a host
of less recent films making their
DVD debut. The new films out this
week have star power but little
else.
"Sideways" - The big loser at
the Oscars turns out to be a sly
"t comedy with a lot on its mind.
Director Alexander Payne ("About
Schmidt") crafts a story here that
about two men on a wine-tasting
trip through California's central
coast and charts an accurate and
amusing depiction of mid-life
angst. Paul Giamatti and Thomas
Hayden Church show that they
have what it takes to carry a film
and are a refreshing changes from
Hollywood's typical leading
actors, who tend to mumble their
lines and need a shave. If you are
up for a road trip these two fellas
~
will keep you entertained.
"Elektra" - This is actually a
sequel to "Daredevil" that focuses
on the female assassin character
from that fllm, who is once again
played by "Alias" star Jennifer
Gamer. Though she was killed at
the end of the first movie, Elektra
is resurrected here and is handed a
new assignment. When it turns out
she must kill a single father, she
drops the assignment and opts to
protect the man from a sect of murderous ninjas called 'The Hand."
The action sequences are topnotch
but anyone looking for a story had
~ best look somewhere else.
"Spanglish" - A lot of talent
tries to shore up this strained effort
from James Brooks ("Terms of
Endearment") but ultimately fails.
pie. And that musical history is just
something else. We're gonna be
thrilled to come play for you."
Murphy said fans of his music
will not be disappointed on Friday,
with a set featuring classics like
"Dust on the Bottle," "Party Crowd"
and "Out with a Bang." 1here will
also be a nice mix from his 2004
release Tryin' to Get There, which
Murphy says is "a fun album that's
got a tradition thing to it, but it's also
got a rocking thing to it."
The latest CD was seven years in
the making, which saw David Lee
change record labels and spend a lot
of time writing. He isn't bitter at all,
saying he prefers his new independent label Audium/Koch Records.
"It's kind of hard to explain, because
there's no logical rules in the music
business," comparing it to
NASCAR, where he says "you can
just line 'em up and race.
"I wish there was an explanation
for it," he said, "but you just have to
make music and go on."
Murphy's new CD featured the
single "Loco," a song that got him
back in the Top Five on the charts.
Murphy said that was very satisfying for him. "It was really nice to
have a song like that, especially on
an independent label," he said. "It's .
kind of like building race cars in
your back yard and going out there
and racing against (cars owned by)
Robert Yates and Rick Hendrick and
Richard Childress and those guys.
"It was really satisfying to go
there on an indy label and get a No.
5 record. I was really tickled and
thank all the folks for going out there
and supporting us."
Many fans, however, will head
to the MAC Friday night to hear the
classics, and they won't be disappointed. Murphy made quite an
impact on country music in 1994
with his CD Out with a Bang, which
featured four hit singles, including
the classic "Dust on the Bottle," a
song about a young man trying to
impress a date by stopping in for a
visit with a bootlegger named Creal
Williams.
"That song completely changed
my career,'' he says with a note of
appreciation. "It took it to a whole
other level. They're still playing that
one on the radio. We go overseas and
play and they're singing 'there might
be a little dust on the bottle' with a
Swiss accent oc something like that.
It kind of blows your mind."
Mmphy hesitated to call it a classic, but acknowledged the difference
it's made for him. "I don't know
who decides that, but I sure am glad
it's been a part of my career and that
people have taken to it the way they
have," he said. ''I just feel real fortunate that I had a song like that."
"Dust on the Bottle" was, like
most of his songs, either written or
co-written by Murphy. In addition,
his songs have been recorded by the
likes of Brooks & Dunn,
Montgomery Gentry and Hank
Wtlliams Jr.
Mmphy says it isn't always easy
deciding which songs to shop
around and which to hold on to.
"The song Montgomery Gentry and
Brooks & Dunn did (they both
recorded 'If It's the Last Thing I
Do'), I wanted that song for myself.
And the song Hank did, 'Just
A non-English speaking nanny
helps patch up a quarreling couple
here but can't manage to patch up
the screenplay, which squanders
the screen presence of Adam
Sandler and Tea Leoni.
"lAm David" - Jim Caviezel
('The Passion of the Christ'') continues to star in better than average
films with this effort which finds
him helping a young boy cross
Europe after escaping from a concentration camp. This one is a testament to the resilience of youth
and never got a wide release but is
worth seeking out on home video.
'The Snapper" - This 1993
film got lost in the Oscar shuflle
that year and fmally makes its
DVD debut. Colm Meany stars,
once again, as the head of the family from the critical favorite 'The
Commitments." Here he must contend with his daughter's pregnancy
and her refusal to name the father.
Meany is fine here and made this
film while on hiatus from his
duties on the "Star Trek" spinoff
"Deep Space 9 ," where he continued to play the role of transporter
engineer Miles O'Brien.
"Spooky Encounters"
Sammo Hung (star of the CBS
action show "Martial Law") stars
and directs this kung-fu comedy
which mixes horror and comedy
elements to great effect. This one
throws in everything but the
kitchen sink in a story that pits him
against a witch, ghosts and some
kung-fu mummies. Hung also stars
in two other efforts this week (that
he directed and acted as fight coordinator on). "Warriors Two" and
"Wmners and Sinners" are heavy
on the comedy and rely equally on
beautifully staged fight SCC?nes.
Each film has been priced at $9.99
and is a bargain for fans of Jackie
Chan styled flicks. Hung even
directs Chan in "Winners and
Sinners" which features some
great stunt work though the storf.
line is a little weak.
'The
Professionals"
Western fans can rejoice now that
this action classic has finally merited a special edition treatment.
Director
Richard
Brooks
("Blackboard Jungle") adapts
Frank O'Rourke's novel and
assembles a dream cast to play
four mercenaries hired to retrieve a
Texas oil baron's wife from a bandit in his stronghold south of the
border. Lee Marvin, Burt
Lancaster, Woody Strode and
Robert Ryan star along with Jack
Palance, as the bandit, and Ralph
Bellamy, as the baron. Each man
on the team is an expert in his chosen field. Lancaster is an explosives whiz, Marvin a tactics and
weapons specialist, Strode a dead
shot who is also handy with a bow,
and Ryan, in another of his quiet
and dignified portrayals, is a horseman who prefers the company of
animals to people. This one features plenty of action and some
plot twists which lead to a deadly
finale when the team realizes it
may have been duped. The film
was also a critical darling, landing
Oscar nominations for the direction, script and stunning camerawork by noted cinematographer
Conrad Hall. The team would land
the same nominations a year later
for their adaptation of Truman
Capote's "In Cold Blood" which,
ironically, starred Robert Blake as
a man who was later executed for
participating in killing a family in
Kansas. Extras include two documentaries on the film, with one
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Enough to Get in Trouble,' that was
definitely going on my album.
"But I grew up loving Hank Jr.,
and still do. So when Hank wants to
record one of your songs, it's just a
thrill. It's someone you've listened
to all your life, and now they want to
record one of your songs."
Sometimes, however, a line has
to be drawn. "I had 'Loco' and some
people wanted to record that," said
Mwphy. "I just kind of said, '['m
not going to let this one go.'"
Mwphy has recorded two songs
he's particularly proud of because of
who he shared the pen with. "Why
Can't People Just Get Alqng," from
Out llith A Bang, is the only song
Minnie Pearl ever wrote, and the
title track to the Tryin' to Get There
CD, which was co-written with
Waylon Jermings.
'They're two people I'd watched
all my life," he said. "When I met
Minnie at the Opry that night and she
told me that story about Hank Sr., I
felt like I'd known her all my life.
And the same thing with Waylon. I
had worn out Waylon Jennings
records, eight-tracks, cassettes, about
any kind of recording I could get, sitting out in a truck somewhere howling at the moon.
"Wotking with Waylon, that's
the biggest hightlight of my career."
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guest Joey Martin will be in concert
Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p m. at the
Mountain Arts Center in
Prestonsburg. For more information on Murphy, visit him on the
World
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at
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featuring remembrances of the cast
and a profile of Lancaster.
Next week look for "Oceans
12," which reunites the cast of
f'Qceans 1'1" arid places them_ .in _
Europe, where they are hidit]g out
after their heist from the frrst film.
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8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Christopher Neil
Newsome
Ollie Stumbo Tackett
Ollie Stumbo Tackett, age 90,
of
McDowell, widow of Curtis
Christopher Neil Newsome,
Tackett,
passed
away
age 22, of Melvin, son of Gary
Wednesday,
April
6,
2005,
at
B. and Sandra Bates Newsome,
the
McDowell
Appalachian
died Tuesday, April 5, 2005, in
the Hospice Care Center, Regional Hospital.
She was born October 4,
Lexington.
1914,
in McDowell, the daughHe was born June 8, 1982, in
of
the late William "Chalk"
ter
Lexington.
Stumbo
and Rebecca "Doll"
Christopher attended the
Moore
Stumbo.
She was a
Melvin Grade School, where he
homemaker
and
a
member of
was a Duke Scholar. He was a
the
Wheelwright
Freewill
graduate of South Floyd High
Baptist
Church.
School, where he was a member
Survivors include two sons:
of the band and graduated in the
Curtis
Tackett Jr., and Danny
top 10 of his class. He attended
Dale
Tackett,
both
of
the Big Sandy Community and
Prestonsburg;
two
daughters:
Technical
College,
Prestonsburg, where he was on Sandra Kay McKenzie of
the President's list, having McDowell, and Carla Ann
earned a 4.0 GPA. Additionally, Reynolds of Paintsville; five
he was a member of the grandchildren, and 10 greatWheelwright Freewill Baptist grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were
Church.
her
husband, Curtis; her parIn addition to his parents, he is
ents;
five brothers: John
survived by one brother, Gary
Morgan
Stumbo, Sherman
Nolan (Shawna) Newsome of
Stumbo,
Walker
Stumbo, Tom
Kite; one sister, Amy (William)
Stumbo,
and
Ison
Stumbo; and
Newsome Conn of Lexington;
three
sisters:
Clara
Potter,
Helen
one niece, Emily Rachel
Stumbo,
and
Allie
Stumbo.
Newsome; three nephews: Jacob
Funeral services for Ollie
Landon Newsome, Anakin
Stumbo
Tackett will be conReese Conn and Christopher
ducted
Saturday,
April 9, at 11
J ayce Conn. His paternal granda.m.,
at
the
Wheelwright
mother, Wadie Little Newsome
Freewill
Baptist
Church,
with
of Melvin, and his maternal
Clergymen
Louie
Ferrari
and
grandmother, Alpha Bates of
Bobby
Isaac
officiating.
Prestonsburg, also survive.
Burial will follow in the Lucy
He was preceded in death by
Hall
Cemetery, in McDowell,
hi~
paternal
grandfather,
Gardner Newsome, and his under the professional care of the
maternal
grandfather, Charlie Hall Funeral Home, in Martin.
I
Visitation is after 6 p.m.,
B;tes.
Thursday,
at the funeral home,
:Puneral
services
for
until
3
p.m.,
Friday; and after 5
C~r!stopher Neil Newsome w!ll
p.m
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Prldny,
llt tho ehureh.
bd eondueted Prldlly, April 8, llt
l~ n.m., In the Wheelwri&ht Nishtly services at 7 p.m.
F~ewill Baptist Church, with
In appreciation, the family
LOuie Ferrari, John Allen, and would like to sincerely thank
B~bby Isaac officiating.
Dr. Rivera, the staff of the .
:Burial will follow in the McDowell Hospital, and the
D~vidson Memorial Gardens-. in extended care staff, for all the
1~1. with the Hall Funeral <fl'e they provided.
Hbme, in Martin, caring for • Pallbearers: David Tackett,
those arrangements. (Paid obituary) Shawn McKenzie, Michael
Williams, Danny Dale Tackett,
Kipp Kidd, and Gerald
Osborne.
Honorary: Joseph Kidd,
Melissa Ann Meade, 47,
Tegan
McKenzie,
Dustin
of Harold, died Thursday,
Tackett, and Oreg Compton.
March 24, 2005, at the
(PAid obltulll')')
Pikeville Medical Center.
Born March 18, 1958., in
Prestonsburg, she was the
d~ughter of Mabel Clark
Robert Miller, 67, of
Kinney of Harold, and the
Martin, died Wednesday,
late Ray Meade . She was a
April 6, 2005, at Our Lady of
homemaker and a member
the Way Hospital, in Martin.
of the Church of Christ, at
Born January 23, 1938, in
Pikeville .
Floyd County, he was the son
Survivors include her
of the late John and Hattie
fiance, Jimmy D . Flannery
McKenzie Miller. He was a
of Pikeville; her step-father,
retired coal miner.
Larry Wayne Kinney of
He was preceded in death
Pikeville; her grandfather,
by his wife, Anna Mae
Lafe Scott of Harold; a stepSamons Miller.
son, Lee Boyd of Louisana;
Survivors include two sons:
a brother, Jeff Meade of
Clarence Miller of Hager Hill,
Betsy Layne; three sisters:
and Robert Steven Miller
Sandy
Scrimager
of
(wife, Debra) of Martin; a
Lexington,
and
Shawn
daughter, Glennis Wright
Kinney and Tina Kinney
(husband, Ricky) of Martin; a
Boyd, both of Harold; a
sister, Mabel Meade of
nephew, Taylor W. Boyd of
Martin; 10 grandchildren;
Harold; two nieces: Tiffany
four great-grandchildren; and
Scott of Harold, and Margot
a girlfriend, Judy Gayheart of
Mullins of Lexington; and a
Hi Hat.
step-granddaughter, Artdrea
In addition to his parents
Leigh Boyd .
and wife, he was preceded in
In addition to her father,
death by a daughter, Velvet
she was preceded in death
Ann Miller; two brothers:
by
her
grandparents :
Robie Miller and Lee Miller;
Elizabeth Scott and Clay
and a sister, Ellie Mae
and Nancy Meade.
Robinson .
Funeral services were
Funeral services will be
conducted Sunday, March
conducted Saturday, April 9,
27, at 2 p.m., at the Church
at noon, at the Nelson-Frazier
of Christ in Pikeville, with
Funeral Home, in Martin,
Keith Kasarjain officiating.
with Graydon Howard officiBurial was in the Bush
ating.
Cemetery, in Harold, under
Burial will be in the Martin
the direction of NelsonCemetery, in Martin, under
Frazier Funeral Home, in
the direction of NelsonMartin.
Frazier Funeral Home.
Visitation was at the
Visitation is at the funeral
funeral home.
home.
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Aileen Howard, age 72, of.
Garrett, wife of Aaron "Bud"
Howard,
passed
away
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at
the
King's
Daughters
Hospital, in Ashland.
She was born June 19,
1932, in Garrett, the daughter of the late Pearl Conley
and Kate Robinson Conley.
She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, Bud; two sons: Leslie
Handshoe of Vanceburg,
Paul Gregory Howard of
Cleveland, Wisconsin; one
brother, Millard Conley of
Albion,
Michigan;
two
grandchildren:
Courtney
Mazie Wanda Hamilton
Lynn Howard and Tyler J.
Howard; and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services for Aileen
Howard will be conducted
Friday, April 8, at 11 a.m., at
the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, in Martin, with
Clergymen Jerry Manns,
Sterling Bolen, and Bethel
Bolen officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Chaffins
Cemetery,
in
Garrett, under the professional care of the Hall
Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
Mazie Wanda Hamilton, age
42, of Greenup, passed away
Tuesday, April 4, 2005, at her
residence.
She was born July 6, 1962,
in Russell, the daughter of the
late William B. Hamilton and
Dora Tackett Hamilton.
Survivors include three sisters: Massie Russell and
Dorothy Kirk, both of Greenup,
and Alma Montgomery of
Lexington; two brothers: Elmer
Rose of Grethel, and William
Hamilton of Greenup.
Her parents , one sister,
Delores Myers , and two brothers, Palmer and Kenneth
Hamilton, preceded her in
death.
Funeral services for Mazie
Wanda Hamilton were conducted Wednesday, April 6, at l
p.m., at the Hall Funeral Home,
in Martin.
Burial was in the Tackett
Family Cemetery, in Grethel,
under the professional care of
the Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation was at the funeral
home.
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Calendar items will
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space permits
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your community event, you may
hand-deliver your item to The
Floyd County Times office,
located at 263 S. Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg; or mail
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or email to: features@jloydcountytimes .com. Information
will not be taken over the telephone. All items will be placed
on a first-come, first-serve basis
as space permits.
A Day in the Park
Scheduled, April 16
The Big Sandy Family
Caregiver Program and the
Johnson County Grandparent
Support Group announce "A
Day in the Park" for grandparents and their grandchildren.
This event is free and will be
held April 16, at the Paintsville
Recreation Center, from 10 a.m.
until2 p.m. There will be games
for all ages, food and door
prizes. All grandparents and
grandchildren are welcome to
attend. For more information,
contact Melissa King at 1-800737-2723.
Revival at Wayland Church
The people of the Wayland
United Methodist Church invite
all to their Revival, April 8, 9, and
10, at 7 p.m. Brent Tackett will be
preaching, with special singing
each night. Please join us!
Pam Shingler to address
Jenny Wiley 3528, AARP
Pam Shingler, fund-raising
ditector and producer at
WMMT-FM public community
radio and a part of Appalshop, in
Whitesburg, will be the guest
.speaker at Jenny Wiley Chapter
No. 3528, AARP, at the meeting
to be held Friday, April 15, at
the
Presbyterian
Church,
Prestonsburg. The installation of
officers will also be conducted
at this time. All members and
friends are encouraged to attend.
PHS Class of '84
The
Prestonsburg High
School Class of 1984 is seeking
members of the class for a
20/2lst year reunion, scheduled
to be held this corning July. If
you are, or if you know of, a former classmate, please email to:
~ phs_class_of_l984@yahoo.co
m, or cal1606-638-3941 .
UNITE Drug Awareness
Group
To meet on Monday, Aprilll,
at 6 p.m., at the Allen Baptist
Church. This is an open meeting for all Floyd County citizens
that are interested in learning
more about the serious drug
addiction and distribution problem in our county. The Unite
Coalition strives to provide
information and resources to
those who are affected by this
problem. Come, be a part of the
solution to a terrible problem!
We want, and need, your input!
A county-wide march and rally
is also being organized.
2005 Home and Garden
Expo
A 2005 Home and Garden
Expo will be held at the Jenny
Wiley Convention Center on
Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m.-3
pm. There will be no charge for
admission.
This year's program will feature: Home and garden topics,
booths, free herb, vegetable and
flower seeds, and youth activities.
Seeds will be distributed on a
"first-come first serve basis."
Seed quantities are limited.
For more information, contact
Ray Tackett, Theresa Scott, or
Chuck Stamper at 886-2668.
Show some PRIDE!!
The PRIDE spring clean-up
will take place April 9-23 in the
City of Prestonsburg. The city
will pick up one dump truck
load of trash per household.
Additional loads will be picked
up according to the city's regular pick-up fee. Pick-ups called
in during this time only will be
on the PRIDE clean-up list.
City residents may arrange a
clean-up, or volunteer their services, by calling 886-2335. The
Floyd County PRIDE, Inc. is
participating in this year's
PRIDE clean-up from April 923. Volunteers are needed.
Supplies will bemade available.
To volunteer your organization
or business, call 886-0498 to
register.
Spring Piano Recital
Students of David Leslie will
present their annual Spring
Recital on April24, at 5:30p.m.,
at the First Presbyterian Church
of Pikeville. A reception will
follow. The public is cordially
invited to attend. For more
information, call432-0633.
Reunion
First Four Mile Reunion of
Knott County will be held on
Saturday, May 28, at 10 a.m., at
the Corps Recreation area,
Jenny Wiley State Park, Shelter
#2. Bring covered dish, table
service, pictures, etc. All welcome to attend.
PRIDE
BLHS High School Reunion
Classes of the 1930's, 1940's,
1950's and 1960's. To be held
Saturday, June 25. For info.,
call Joe Hinchman at 874-2821
or Marvin Williamson at 4783310.
BLHS Class of 1955
Reunion to be held on Friday,
June 24 and Saturday, June 25.
For information, call Marvin
Williamson at 478-3310 or
Gene Davis at 874-2873.
Senior Expo
Sponsored by HRMC and area
agencies. To be held May 4, at
the Jenny Wiley State Park's
Stumbo Convention Center. For
those age 55 and older. Broad
range of topics including
Preventing
Exploitation,
Nutrition, Aging and Gardening
Tips. For more info., contact
Melissa Vance, Dir. of Comm.
Dev. at HRMC, at 886-7468.
HRMCComm.
Calendar • April
•April 9 - Childbirth classes,
Meeting Place A & B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 8 a.m. to 4:30p.m.
•April 12 - Senior Advantage,
Meeting Place A & B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 9:30-11:30 a.m.
•April 23 - Healthy Living
with Diabetes, Meeting Place A
& B, Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 9-11:30 a.m.
For more information, call
886-7424.
Attention: BLHS Class of
'85
It's been 20 years! Reunion is
being planned. If you are a
classmate, or if you know of a
classmate's whereabouts, please
etnail addresses to Debbie Hall
Parsons or Gwen Cecil at:
d o c h .t I I p a r s o n s
@charter.net.
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exercise
Classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at
9:30, at the Presbyterian
Church
in
Prestonsburg.
Classe.s are held Monday,
Wednesday, and Thursday, at
11 a.m. at the old R & S
Building. Classes are offered
by the Floyd County Health
Department. Call the health
department, 886-2788, for
more information.
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program."
You must be 55 or older to
apply. In Floyd, call 886-2929;
Johnson,
call
789-6515;
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike,
call
432-2775;
and
in
Lawrence, call 638-4067.
Age 55 or older?
If so, and you are also unemployed, and would like to make
money while being trained in
skills that will help you gain
employment, or become reemployed, contact Bill Little,
Senior Community Service
Employment Pr:..ogram, Big
Sandy Area Development
District, at 886-2374. "Area
Employers are Looking for
Dependable Workers like
YOU!"
evening classes on Thursday,
from 4:30-8:30. Contact Andy
Jones at 800-443-2187, ext.
186, or Linda Bell, at ext. 160
to make an appointment.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
Cliffside Community Room .
David: lst Monday, 1 p.m.,
at St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
Martin Church of Christ.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
p.m., Maytown First Baptist
Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt
Guild: lst/3rd Wednesdays, 10
a.m., Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
1:30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg: 3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home of members (call 886-2668 for info.)
"Looking For a Support
Group?"
•Alzheimer's
Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday
of each month at the First
Presbyterian Church (near
Jerry's Restaurant), at 6 p.m.
For more info., call Dana
Caudill at 886-0265, or Jane
Bond at FCHD.
•Alzheimer's
Association,
East-ern KY Regional Office
- 24-hour Helpline, call 1-800272-3900 for emotional support, local resources, and other
information.
•MS Support Group - Meets
third Monday of each month at
7:00 p.m . at the Seton
Complex, Martin.
Offers
group support for MS patients
and their caregivers.
•Overeater's
Anonymous
(O.A.) - Meets each Monday,
at 3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha
Catholic Church, Water Gap
Road. For more info., call
886-2513.
•US TOO! Prostate Cancer
Survivors Support Group For all men with prostate cancer and their families. Group
meets the 3rd Thursday of
each month, at 6 p.m., at the
Ramada Inn, Paintsville.
•Community Weight Loss
Support Group
Meets
Thursday 's at 6:30p.m., at the
Martin Community Center.
For more info., call 377-6658.
Those who have had gastric
bypass surgery most especially
welcome to
attend.
Meetings being offered as sup-,
port to anyone needing extra
support in dealing with weight
loss.
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Kentucky residents age 25
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in raising a family. Flexible
scheduling is provided and
confidentiality
maintained.
Classes are held at the C¥1 D. '
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in Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
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Floral Arrangements
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THOUSAIIS Of fAMILIES~
Horses work hard for Kentucky,
elsewhere. And it 1s. Other states
benefits and international status
plowing thousands of jobs and
offer significant incentives for our
that horses have given Kentucky,
about $4 billion dollars into the
horse business - our economic
who can blame other states for
state's gross domestic product.
lifeblood - to move elsewhere.
becoming competitive? But, we
They're our state's #l cash crop-
Tax incentives, boarding
can blame only ourselves if we let
in a state where 30% of
incentives, breeding
this distinctive Kentucky
the economy is
industry slip .away. Sure,
agricultural. They are a
we're proud of our
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stretch of road and trying to
entice area businesses to do the
same. May said the committee
will emphasize the importance
of community involvement.
Along those lines it was
announced that the Allen
Central ROTC program wishes
to adopt the stretch of Route
550 which runs past the school.
Approximately 50 cadets are set
to clean that stretch of road on
April 13. A roadside cleanup is
also scheduled for Route 404 in
David on the stretch that runs to
the Route 114 section near the
Middle Creek Battlefield. Gary
Frazier will coordinate the
cleanup on Route 404, which is
tentatively scheduled for April
23. Frank Fitzpatrick reported
that area Boy Scout troops
would also work on Route 114.
Illegal dump sites also took
up a portion of the meeting with
May reporting that anyone who
observes
illegal dumping
should call a toll-free number at
"(888) NO DUMPS" to report
it. The committee will focus on
cleaning illegal dumps at the
Route 404 intersection and in
West Prestonsburg, he said.
Margo Barber suggested that
the committee try to obtain a
portion of the city's restaurant
and hotel tax. Funds from the 3
percent tax currently go toward
Prestonsburg
Tourism,
Mountain Arts Center and
Archer Park.
PRIDE will have a booth at
the Home and Garden Expo
being held at the WilkinsonStumbo Convention Center on
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Communities willing to participate in the spring cleanup
(scheduled for April 9-23) are
urged to contact May at (606)
886-0498.
The Floyd County Fiscal
Court will not be picking up
items during the clean up, May
said, because flood issues are
still dominating the county's
agenda. The Martin Transfer
Station in Garth Hollow is designated as the county's garbage
drop off location for the clean
up and is offering free tipping
fees. The fiscal court will not be
providing other drop off locations.
For more information, contact the Martin Transfer Station
at (606) 285-0033, May at (606)
886-0498 or 1-888-K-PRIDEY. Additional information about
PRIDE
is
online
at
www.kypride .org.
The Floyd County committee meets on the first Thursday
of every month and urges community members to get involved
and attend their meetings.
key attraction for the
automotive, food service,
Commonwealth's $8
distilled spirits and coal
billion tourism industry.
industries - and pleased to
They put workers in riding
have the jobs that come
rings, at auction sales, in feed
with them. But, if Kentucky
and tack stores, in barns, in
stands for anything in the
pastures, in offices, at race
world, it has to be our
tracks ... and in every single
horses. Find out how to
county in Kentucky, they help us
incentives, and racing purse
keep jobs in Kentucky and to
prosper. Every one of Kentucky's
incentives .. . are stealing the
protect its heritage as "Horse
120 counties suffers a significant
signature industry of Kentucky
Capital of the World." Visit
loss when the economic impact of
And, as it goes, so go our jobs.
www.horseswork.com - or call
the horse industry goes
With the kind of economic
toll-free 1-866-771-KEEP (5337).
AMERICAN SADDLEBREDS • APPALOOSAS • ARABIANS
DRAFf HORSES • l<ENlUCKY MOUNTAIN HORSES • MORGANS
MULES • NAllJRAl GAITED HORSES • PAINT HORSES
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8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
devotional and directory
is made possible by these
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. businesses who encourage all of us to to attend worship services.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
First Assembly of God, Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Lorie Vannucci,
Minister.
New Bethel Assembly of God, Burning Fork Rd., Salyersville;
Sunday School, 10 a.m. ; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Wednesday, 7 p.m. Arthur (Sam) Smith, Minister.
Praise Assembly, 1 mile S. of Prestonsburg, intersection of Rt. 80
and U.S. 23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; J.M. Sloce, Minister.
BAPTIST
Allen First Baptist, Allen; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Arnold Turner,
Minister.
Auxier Freewil Baptist, Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 pm.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Bobby Spencer,
Pastor.
Benedict Baptist, Slick Rock Branch, Cow Creek; Sunday School,
10 a.m; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Gordon Fitch, Minister.
Betsy Layne Free Will Baptist, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Tracy Patton, Minister.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College Baptist Student
Union, J 102; Wednesday, 11 :30 a.m. ; Vera Joiner, 886-3863, ext.
67267.
Bonanza Freewill Baptist, Abbott Creek Road, Bonanza; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Jimmy D. Brown, Minister.
Brandy Keg Freewill Baptist, Corn Fork; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Roger Music,
Minister.
Calvary Southern Baptist, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 9:45
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Doug Lewis, Minister.
Community Freewill Baptist, Goble Roberts Addition ; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
7 p.m.; Paul D. Coleman, Minister.
Cow Creek Freewill Baptist, Cow Creek; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Sunday, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Nathon Lafferty,
Minister.
Damels Creek Baptist Fellowship Church of God, Banner.
Serv1ces: Saturday night, 7 p.m.; Sunday morning, 11 a.m.; Sunday
night, 7 p.m.; Henry Lewis, Minister.
Drift Freewill Baptist, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6:30p.m.; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Jim Fields, Minister.
Endicott Freewill Baptist, Buffalo; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p;m.; James H. Smith, Pastor.
Faith Bible Church, an independent Baptist Church, located on
1428, between Allen & Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sunday
Morning, 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study
& Prayer, 6 p.m.; Pastor, Rev. Stuart E. Swanberg.
R&S Truck Body Co., llc.
P.O. Box 420, Allen, KY 41601
8555 South U.S. Highway 23,
lvel, KY 41642
Phone: (606) 874-2151
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Fax: (606) 874-9136
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Our Lady of the Way
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11203 Main St. Box 910 Martin, KY 41649
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Faith Freewill Baptist, 1/4 mile above
Martin Church of Christ, Martin; Sunday
Worldwide Eqpt. on Rt. 1428; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11
and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Gary
a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Mithchell, Minister.
Buddy Jones, Minister.
Maytown Church of Christ, 66 Turkey
First Baptist, Garrett; Sunday School,
Creek Rd., Langley. Sunday Bible Study
9:45a.m. ; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7
10:00 a.m., Sunday morning worship 11:00
p.m.; Wed11esday, 7 p.m.; Randy
a,m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.,
Then
shall
we
know,
Osborne, Minister.
Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
if we follow on to know
First Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10
Uoper Toler Church of Christ, 3.5 miles
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School,
the
Lord:
His
going
Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
10 a.m.; .Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6
p.m.; Greydon Howard, Minister.
forth is prepared as the
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale
Bush, Minister.
First Baptist, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole
morning;
Memorial); Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Weeksbury Church of Christ; Sunday
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.;
School, 10 a.mm.; Worship Service, 10:45
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Dr. Floyd Price, min·
a.m. and 6 p.m. Mike Hall, Minister.
ister.
CHURCH OF GOD
Fitzpatrick First Baptist, 1063 Big
Betsy
Layne
Church of God, Old U.S.
Branch, P.O. Box 410, Prestonsburg, KY
23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
41653; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
7 p.m.; Judith Caudill, Minister.
7 p.m.; Pastor Tommy Reed.
Community Church of God, Arkansas
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
Creek, Martin; Worship Service, 11 a.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Se1vice,
Friday, 7 p.m.; Bud Crum, Minister.
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 7: p.m.
First
Church of God; Sunday School, 10
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. and 6
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
and He shall come unto
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V.
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Williams, Pastor.
us as the rain, as the
Grethel Baptist, State Rt. 3379,
Garrett Church of God, Garrett; Sunday
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
latter and fanner rain
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Donald
unto the earth.
6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
Bragg, Minister.
Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist;
HOSEA 6 :3
In
VIctory Assembly of God, West
Sunday School, 9:50 a.m.; Worship
Prestonsburg; Sunday School, 10:00;
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
Worship Service, 11 :00 & 6:30; Wednes7 p.m.; David Garrett, Minister.
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day Evening, 6:30; Gary Stanley, Pastor.
World rights reserved.
Jacks Creek Baptist, Bevinsville; Sunday
Landmark Church of God, Goble
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Roberts Addition; Sunday School, 10
and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Jeff Barrett, Minister.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 :10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Katy Friend Freewill Baptist, 2 miles up Abbott; Sunday School, Kenneth E. Prater, Jr., Minister.
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Little Paint First Church of God, 671 Little Paint Road, East Point;
Jim Price, Minister.
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Lackey Freewill Baptist, Lackey; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Wednesday, 7 p.. ; Charles Heater Jr., Minister.
Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Johnny J. Collins, Minister.
The Ligon Church of God of Prophecy, Saturday Services, 7:00
Lancer Baptist Church; 71 Cooley St., Prestonsburg, Sunday p.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Ralph
School, 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship, 11 :00 a.m., Evening Woship, Hall, Pastor.
6:00p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible Study, 7:00p.m.;
Pastor Bobby Carpenter
EPISCOPAL
Liberty Baptist, Denver; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, St. James Episcopal; Sunday Service, 9:45a.m.; Holy Eucharist
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Merle Little, Minister.
11:00 a.m. Wednesday Study Group 6:00p.m., Holy Eucharist &
Ligon Community Freewill Baptist, Ligon Worship Service, Healing 7:30 p.m. Father Johnnie E. Ross, Rector.
Sunday, 11 :00 a.m. Thursday, 7 p.m.
LUTHERAN
Martin Branch Freewill Baptist, Estill; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 :15 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James Our Savior Lutheran, Sipp Bayes Room Carriage House Motel,
(Red) Morris, Minister.
Paintsville; Sunday Service, 11 a.m.; WKLW (600 am) 12:05 p.m.;
Martin Freewill Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Rolland Bentrup, Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; John L. Blair,
METHODIST
Minister.
Auxier United Methodist, Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Maytown First
10 wor:""
' serv1ce,
· 11 a.m.; Wed nesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield potter,
. s Baptist,
· Main St.,d Maytown;
WedSunday
sd School,Bob
oo •P
a.m.; Worsh1p erv1ce, 11 a.m. an 6 p.m.;
ne ay, 6 p.m.;
Minister.
Return to your
Bible
Varney, Minister.
Betsy Layne United Methodist, next to B.L. Gymnasium; Sunday
McDowell First Baptist, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:45 j.m.; School, 10 a.m.; worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. ; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Gene Randy Blackburn, Minister.
Bracken, Minister.
Allen Christ lklited Methodist, Allen; &may School, 9:45am.; Worship
Middle Creek Baptist, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. &6 p.m.; Wednef:I:Jay, 7p.m.; Kenneth Lemaster, Ministel'.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Eugene Cook, Community United Methodist, 141 Burke Avenue (off University
Minister.
Drive and Neeley St.); Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Lighthouse Baptist, 2194 KY Rt. 1428, Prestonsburg; Sunday 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steve Pescosolido,
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Minister.
7 p.m.; Donald Crisp, Minister.
Elliott's Chapel Free Methodist, Rt. 979, Beaver; Sunday School,
home phone 285·3385
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Philip T. Smith,
Pleasant Home Baptist, Water Gap Road, Lancer; Sunday Minister.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Emma United Methodist, Emma; Sunday Worship Service, 2 p.m.;
7 p.m.; Mark Tackett, Pastor.
Jack Howard, Minister.
Pleasant Valley Old Regular Baptist Church, Tinker Fork; First United Methodist, 256 South Arnold Avenue; 9 a.m.
Meeting time 1st Saturday & Sunday of each month, 3rd Sunday Contempory Service; Sunday School, 9:45a.m.; Worship Service,
Evening at 6:00p.m.; Moderator, Gary Compton; Assist. Moderator, 10:55 a.m. and 5 p.m. UMYS Service; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Mark D.
Jimmy Conley.
Walz, Pastor.
Prater Creek Baptist, Banner; Sunday School, 10 a.m; Worship Horn Chapel Methodist, Auxier Road, Auxier, Sunday Morning
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; J.B. Hall, Pastor. Service, 9 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Mid-week Service, 7 p.m.;
Phone: (606) 874-3222.
·
Sunday Evening Service held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each
Rock Fork Freewill Baptist; Garrett Sunday School, 10 a.m.; month at 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter, Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Wendell Crager, Graceway United Methodist, Rt. 80, Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. ; Wednesday Night, 7 p.m.; Roy Harlow,
Rock Fork Regular Baptist, Garrett; Worship Service, 9:30a.m.; Minister.
Earl Slone, Minister; Jerry Manns, Assistant Minister.
Salisbury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Salt Lick United Baptist, Salt lick, Hueysville; Worship Service, Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Bobby G.
10:30 a.m.; 4th Sunday; Thursday, 6:30 p.m.; Pastor, Chester Lawson, Minister.
Lucas.
Wayland United Methodist, Rt. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
Sammy Clark Branch Freewill Baptist, Dana; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Brad Tackett,
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.tn.; Minister.
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
Wheelwright United Ml!thodlst, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
Stephens Branctl Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
· 1oa.m. ; w orsh'1p serv1ce,
· 11 a.m.; wednesday, 6 p.m.
Bobby Isaac, Minister.
Serv1ce,
The Third Avenue Freewill Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m .; Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
· 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
10:00a.m.; SundayWorshipService, 11 :00a.m.; Wed. BibleStudy,
Worsh.tp servtce,
· c. Love, pastor.
7:00 p.m.; Denn1s
Tom's Creek Freewill Baptist, U.S. 23 (north of Layne Brothers); Drift Pentecostal, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Sunday School, 10 a.m. ; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Ted Shannon,
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chuck Ferguson, Minister.
Minister.
Tom Moore Memorial Freewill Baptist; Cliff Road; Sunday Free Pentecostal Church of God, Rt. 1428, East Point; sunday
School, 10 a.m. ; Worship Service, 11 a.m. ; Youth Service, 5:00 Schoo1, 10 a.m.; worsh'1p servJCe,
· 11 a.m. and 630
: p.m.; Th urs.,
p.m.; Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of 6:30 p.m.; Buster Hayton, M.1n1·ste,.,.
each month; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Jody Spencer, Minister.
Free Pentecostal Church of God, Weeksbury; Sunday School, 10
Trimble Chapel Freewill Baptist; Intersection of U.S. 23 and KY a.m.; worship Service, 7 p.m.; Wednesday/Saturday, 7 p.m.; John
80, Water Gap; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Morning Worship Service, "Jay" Patton, Minister.
11 a.m. and Evening Worship Service 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Free Pentecostal Deliverance, Ext. 46 off Mt.. Parkway at
Study, 7 p.m., Youth Services 7 p.m.; Everyone Welcome.
Campton; Worship Service, Saturd.ay and Sunday, 7 p.m.; Patricia
United Comunity Baptist, Hwy. 7, Hueysville; Worship Service, 2 Crider, Minister.
p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; Carlos Beverly, Minister.
Free Pentecostal Holiness, Rt. 122, Upper Burton; Sunday
Wheelwright Freewill Baptist, Wheelwright Junction; Sunday School, 11 a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m; Friday, 7 p.m.; Louis
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, sanlan, Minister; David Pike, Associate Minister.
7 p.m.; Louis Ferrari, Minister.
Goodloe Pentecostal, At. 850, David; Worship Service, 6 p.m.;
CATHOLIC
Malcom Slone, Minister.
St Martha, Water Gap; Mass: Sunday, 11:15 a.m.; Saturday, 5 Parkway First Calvary Pentecostal, Floyd and Magoffin County
p.m.; Sunday.; Father Robert Damron, pastor.
Line;; Worship Service, 6:30p.m.; Mike D. Caldwell, Minister. 297·
CHRISTIAN
6262.
First Christian, 560 North Arnold Avenue; Sunday School, 1oa.m.; Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Jim Sherman, Minister.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Se.rvice, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
Garrett Community Christian, Route 550, Garrett; Worship 7 p.m.; Elllts J. Stevens, Mlmster.
.
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donnie • Free Pentecostal Chur~h, Dwale; Serv1ces_ Saturday, 6 P:m.;
Hackworth, Minister.
Sunday School, 10 a.m., Serv1ces, 11 a.m., No Sunday N1ght
Victory Christian Ministries, 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11 :30 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m; Shenn Williams, Minister.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Betsy Layne Church of Christ, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Tommy J. Spears, Minister.
Prestonsburg Church of Christ, 88 Hwy. 1428; Worship Service,
10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Richard Kelly and Nelson
Kidder, Ministers.
Harold Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James H.
Harmon, Minister.
Highland Church of Christ, Rt. 23, Hager Hill; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Hueysville Church of Christ; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chester Varney,
Minister.
Lower Toler Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.;
Lonie Meade, Minister.
Mare Creek Church of Christ, Stanville; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Service.
PRESBYTERIAN
Drift Presbyterian, Route 1101, Drift; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
First Presbyterian, North Lake Drive; Sunday School, 9:30a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; George C. Love, Minister.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Seventh·Day Adventist, 5 miles West on Mountain Parkway;
Sunday School, 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Gary
Sheph Minister.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Relief
Society/Preisthood!Primary, 9:30a.m.; Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.;
Sacrament Mtg., 11 :20 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. Church Meeting
House address, Hwy. 80, Martin, KY 41649; Meeting House tele·
phone number: 285·3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
OTHER
Pastor Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
the CHURCH of GOD of PROPHECY TRAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school 10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea market), Sunday
School, 10 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889·09q5.
Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; SundaJt
School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Minister.
Faith Revelation Mlnlstery, 1/4 mile above Worldwide Equipment;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Randy Hagans, Minister.
Faith Worship Center, US 460, Paintsville; Worship Service, 11
a.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Buddy and Maude Frye, Minister.
Full Gospel Community, (formerly of Martin) moved to Old Allen;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Sunday
even1ng, 6:30p.m.; Wed., 6:30pm.; Lavonne Lafferty, Minister.
Lighthouse Temple, Main St. and Hall St.; Worship Service, 12
p.m. and 7 p.m. ; Wednesday/Friday, 7 p.m.;·Roy Cosby, Minister.
Living Water Ministries Full Gospel Church, Conley Fork of
Spurlock, Prestonsburg; Wednesday, 7:00p.m., Sunday Evening,
6:00 p.m. Pastor: Curt Howard.
Martin House of Worship, Old Post Office St.; Worship Service, 7
p.m., Saturday/Sunday.
Old Time Holiness, 2 miles up Arkansas Creek, Martin; Sunday
School, 11 a.m. ; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; John
Patton, Minister.
Spurlock Bible (Baptist), 6227 Spurlock Creek Rd., Prestonsburg;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7
p.m.; Jim Stephens, Minister. 886-1003.
Town Branch Church; Sunday School 10 a.m except for first
Sunday in each month. ; Worship Service, Sun. morning 10:00 a.m.;
Evening 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; No Sunday night services on
first Sunday of each month. Tom Nelson, Minister.
The Father House, Big Branch, Abbott Creek; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m.; J.J. Wright, Minister.
The Tabernacle, Rt. 32t (Old Plantation Motel), Christian
Educator, 10:00; Sunday Morning, 11 :00; Sunday Evening, 7:00;
Wednesday, 7:00; Pastors, Paul and Ramona Aiken.
Youth Fellowship Center, Wheelwright; Monday-Tuesday, 6 p.m.;
Thursday, 7 p.m.
Zion Deliverance, Wayland; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. ; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Prayer Une:
358-2001; Jeff Kinslow, Pastor
Taylor Chapel Community Church, formerly the old Price FOOd
Service building, located 1 quarter mile above Worldwide
Equipment, Rt. 1428. Sun. Bible Study, 10 a.m.; Sun. Morning
Service, 11 a.m.; Sun. Evening, 6:30 p.m. Kenny Vanderpool,
Pastor.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church, 10974 N. MainS~.•
Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor.
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Pastor: D.P. Cunry.
Church of God of Prophecy, Sunday School 10 a.m., worsHip
Service 11 a.m., Sunday Night · 6 p.m., Wednesday Night · 6 p.m.
Pastor Glenn Hayes. West Prestonsburg.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lawyers deny cl8ims that
dust masks were faulty
Powerball changes to increase
jackpots, cut chance of winning
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HARLAN - Three companies that manufactured dust
·,masks and respirators used in
~the Kentucky coalfields are not
lfesponsible for miners contracting black lung disease, attor'}leys for those companies said.
· 3M, a manufacturing compa, ny named as a defendant in a
lawsuit filed in December in
,·Harlan County, said the miners
·,-could be ill because they misused, altered or didn't properly
·; wear their masks.
''The allegations have no
::merit, and we're going to vigor·ously defend against this law' suit," said Jacqueline Berry,
spokeswoman for 3M, a
.,M,innesota company and the
.,. ~1argest manufacturer named in
-; the suit.
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3M contends that the dust
'masks were safe. The company
has .successfully defended • itself
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~.the past, winning six out of
seven jury trials. The seventh
was won on appeal.
The 12 Harlan County miners are asking for unspecified
compensation and punitive
damages in the suit, which has
been moved to federal court.
Hundreds of Kentucky coal
miners have filed similar suits
blaming 3M and companies that
distributed dust masks for making them sick. The lawsuits
claim the dust masks used from
the 1970s through the 1990s
were ineffective in preventing
them from inhaling the airborne
particles that cause black lung, a
crippling and often fatal disease
that kills 1,000 people annually.
The lawyers who filed the
Harlan County suit said wearing the dust masks made the
miners think they were safe in
the dusty coal mines.
"These guys worked in dust
for longer period of time than
they would have, had they not
had this false sense of protection that these dust masks pro-
vided," said Louisville attorney
Eric Jacobi.
For that reason, he said, the
masks helped cause the miners'
disease.
Harlan County miner Joe
Day said he had to stop working
last year when he was diagnosed with black lung. He
worlr'!d some 30 years in
Appalachian coal mines. Day
said the disease has made him
so short of breath that he has
trouble doing even household
chores.
Two Harlan County companies that distributed the dust
masks also arc named in the
lawsuit.
Richard Edwards, an attorney · representing Mountain
Supply of Harlan, said he
believes the distributors shouldn't be defendants.
"As the retailer, we had no
information about any allegations of a defect with the products," Edwards said. "We were
simply the retailer."
WEST DES MOINES,
Iowa - The 29 lotteries that
participate in the Powerball
game have voted to make
changes that will boost the
average jackpot size but
decrease the chance of winning .
Starting Aug. 29, the beginning jackpot will increase to
$15 million from the current
$10 million, the Multi-State
Lottery
Association
announced Wednesday. The
top prize will grow by no less
than $5 million between each
drawing.
"Lottery games need to be
changed from time to time, to
respond to both player
demands and population
changes," said Randy Davis,
president of the Louisiana
Lottery Corp. and chairman of
the Powerball Game Group.
To boost the jackpot size,
two numbers will be added to
the first pool in the game,
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scheduling procedures and
offers improved turnaround
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time for ER patient proceThe new CT Scanner dures that can be critical for
'offers the distinct clinical appropriately diagnosing
,advantage of high-quality trauma patients.
'images and reduced proceThe addition of the new
, ,dure times. The advanced CT scanner is the second
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figuration provides high services that Highlands has
f'Confidence routine studies, made to its radiology
I advanced motion-sensitive department in the past year.
A new MRI was added last
1 applications and impressive
image quality for neuro, fall.
, ortho, and body imaging.
The CT Scanner performs
16 images (slices) with one
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reducing procedure times
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meaning players will choose
five numbers from one to 55.
The current first draw picks
five white balls from a poo) of
53.
The Powerball is drawn
from a separate pool of red
balls numbered from one to
42. That will not change.
The larger number of white
balls decreases the chances of
winning the jackpot to 1 in
146.1 million. The current
game has jackpot odds of 1 in
120.5 million.
Ed Stanek, Iowa Lottery
chief executive and one of
Powerball's co-inventors, said
the changes are part of a popular product's evolution.
"Players tell us they expect
large jackpots in the game and
we will continue to deliver
those," Stanek said.
The chance of winning a
cash prize in the game will be
cut slightly, to 1 in 36.60 from
1 in 36.06, lottery officials
said.
Another change in August
will be to double the prize for
those players who match the
first five numbers but miss the
Powerball .
They'll
win
$200,000 instead of the current
$100,000.
A record 1LO tickets across
the nation matched the first
five numbers in the March 30
drawing. Many of the winners
apparently ·picked their numbers from the message in a fortune cookie.
Just one ticket, bought by a
family in Tennessee, matched
all six numbers to win the
$25 .5 million jackpot.
There was no jackpot winner in Saturday's drawing ,
worth $12 million.
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ny's lawyers develop settlements, not the board.
The confidentiality agreement, however, in the May
Valley case does not prevent the
Floyd County Board of
Education from reviewing testimony, conducting its own
investigation and taking action.
The Floyd County Times
ran a story in Wednesday's
paper with the following headline: "Board settles another suit
in secret." The suits that are ref-
erence in The Times are lawsuits handled by insurance
companies. The Floyd County
Board has no control over the
terms of these settlements. I'd
like to make an appeal to the
press to seek out all facts and
question all of us. These issues
affect our children and they are
serious.
Carol Stumbo
Chair, Floyd County Board
of Education
· McDowell
Card of Thanks
The family of Truman Akers would like to express our
heartfelt appreciation to all of those friends, neighbors,
and loved ones who helped us during our time of sorrow.
We greatly appreciate all the food, flowers, phone calls,
and prayers, that you showed our family. A special thanks
to the singers of the Wheelwright Methodist Church and
the Wheelwright Freewill Baptist Church, and to ministers
Louis Ferrari and John Allen for their kind, comforting
words. Also, thanks to the Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home
and the Floyd County Sheriff's Department, for their
excellent prof~ienal~erviee.. -- THE FAMILY OF ~UMAN AKERS
ANNEXATION FACT OR FICTION
CAN THE MAYOR SAVE HRMC
$100,000 A YEAR IN UTILITIES???
HRMC 2004 WATER BILL ................................ $ 74,020
2004 SEWAGE BILL .............................. $ 47,795
TOTAL ...............................................................$120,815
MAYOR'S PROPOSED SAVINGS .•..••.............$100,000
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Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Become a Kentucky
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For informatiOn contact:
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THE CITY WILL HAVE
. THE RIGHT TO SELL
HRMC UTILITIES????
KRS 81A.490-RIGHTS OF UTILITIES PRESERVED-Not withstanding
any other provision in this Chapter, all rights of the utilities providing utility
services in any area annexed by a city prior to annexation, existing under any
other statutes, laws or regulations are hereby expressly preserved ..
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254 Highway 160 S
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LAWFUL ANNEXATION???
"THE TERRITORY TO BE ANNEXED MUST BE CONTIGUOUS TO
THE CITY"-KRS 81A.410(1)(a) and Ridings v Owensboro, 383 S.W. 2d
510 (Ky.1964)
CORRIDOR ANNEXATION- "In general, the courts disfavor finding one
territory contiguous to another territory for the purposes of annexation when
the only link between the two territories is a narrow corridor." Griffin v City
of Robards, 990 S.W. 2d 634 (Ky.199)
ABUSE OF DISCRETION-" ...where the annexation of the corridor is
nothing more than an attempt by the city to provide contiguity between the
other property desired to be annexed and the original boundaries of the city,
thus, a barren corridor would not suffice to find contiguity"
" ...a court would be predisposed to set aside the annexation as an abuse of discretion ..." Ridings v Owensboro, 383 S.W. 2d 510 (Ky.1964)
PUBLIC SUPPORT???
The Floyd County Times Poll, April 4, 2005Do you support Prestonsburg's attempt t.o annex Highlands Regional
Medical Center? 91.1% NO
Paid for by Highlands Regional Medical Center
�A 10 • FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Marriage
Licenses
Rachel! Brianna Powers,
19, of Prestonsburg, to Ronald
Clifton Halbert Jr., 19, of
Pikeville.
Opal Jane Branham, 47, of
Paintsville,
to
Timothy
Randall Allen, 48, of Martin.
Elaine Holbrook, 19, of
Hazard. to Gregory Allen
Blankenship, 23, of Pikeville.
Melinda Renee Moore, 42,
of Martin, to Don Edward
Craft, 40. of McDowell.
Marsha Lynn Cooley, 31,
of Martin, to Bryan James
Hicks, 35, of Lima, Ohio.
Crystal Gail Hunt, 22, to
Jackie Ray Brown, 34, both of
Prestonsburg.
Shenna Marie Boyd, 21, of
Prestonsburg, t9 Joshua Neal
Moore, 19, of Lexington.
Sarah M. Belhasen, 39, of
San Antonio, Texas, to Clyde
L. Woods, 35, of Pikeville.
Civil
Suits
Filed
Deborah Lewis vs. Johnnie
Messmear; petition for child
support and health care insurance.
Teresa Combs vs. Larry
Combs; petition for child support and health care insurance .
Patricia McKenzie vs.
Shamron McKenzie; petition
for health care insurance.
Nanna Craft vs. Jimmy
Brown, Dyno East Ky. Inc.,
doing business as Mountain
Valley Explosives Company
Inc.; complaint.
Wells Fargo Bank vs. East
Kentucky ~etwork; complaint
with notice under the fair debt
collections practices act.
State Farm Insurance vs.
John D. Brown; complaint.
Singer Asset Financial
Company vs. Kathy and
Curtis Mullins; complaint.
Joe Garrett Jr. vs. Barbara
Garrett; divorce.
Jason Weller vs. Traci
Weller; divorce.
Vernecia Perry vs. Jackie
Perry; petition for health care
insurance .
Davy Spears vs. Robie,
Lorraine and Priscilla Akers;
petition for custody.
Elaine Hunter vs. Steven
Hunter; petition for child support and health care insurance.
Lisa Hall vs. Sammy Hall;
petition for health care insurance.
Sheri Jervis vs. Christy
Thomas; petition for health
care insurance.
Jilleyn Vickery vs. Andrew
Vickery; divorce.
Small
Claims
Fili _
n gs
Donald J. Johnson vs .
Richard Hill; unpaid phone
bill.
Emma L. Ratliff vs. Jackie
Leon Woods; unpaid debt.
Charges
Filed
Misty Ratliff, no age listed,
Prestonsburg; endangering the
welfare of a minor.
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Jody W. Carroll, 26,
Prestonsburg; endangering the
welfare of a minor.
Joe Stumbo, 54, Drift; public intoxication.
James C. Hall, Jr., 34,
Wheelwright; public intoxication.
Kristi Davis, no age listed,
Kermit, W.Va.; fourth-degree
assault.
Vernon B. Johnson, 34,
Bevinsville; public intoxication.
Roland
Moore,
72,
McDowell; third-degree criminal trespass.
Gerald George, no age listed, Prestonsburg; misdemeanor theft (checks).
Josh
Miller,
20,
Prestonsburg; fourth-degree
assault.
Michelle
Tackett, 21,
Harold; terroristic threatening.
Rhonda
Johnson,
33,
Melvin; third-degree criminal
trespass.
Ronald
Owens,
45,
Prestonsburg; flagrant nonsupport.
Linville
Isaac,
43,
Wheelwright; felony theft.
Gayheart,
46,
Jim
McDowell; first-degree wanton endangerment.
Lenora
Absher,
46,
Prestonsburg; fourth-degree
assault.
Jason
Jervis,
18,
Prestonsburg; misdemeanor
theft (bicycles).
Ronnie Dillon, 53, Banner;
harassment.
Jimmy L. Newsome, 52,
Jonancy; public intoxication,
no insurance, open alcoholic
beverage in a motor vehicle.
Terry Ludwig, 36, Osseo,
Mich.; possession of marijuana, use/possession of drug
paraphernalia.
Ellinda M. Hale, 30,
Prestonsburg; public intoxication,
aggravated
assault
(spouse abuse).
Jackie R. McKinnon, 24,
Louisa; public intoxication.
James
Harless,
38,
Tomahawk; public intoxication, disorderly conduct.
Brenda
Watson,
36,
Wittensville; second-degree
assault.
David
Crace,
36,
Prestonsburg; receiving stolen
property (firearm).
Robert Lee Craft, 28,
Prestonsburg; misdemeanor
theft (from an automobile).
Jeffrey R. Stewart, 26,
Belcher; disorderly conduct,
resisting arrest, criminal trespass, second-degree possession of a forged instrument.
Inspections
Roger's
Self Service,
Route 80, regular inspection.
Violations noted: Over-thecounter medication with
expired dates on shelf,
restroom doors not self-closing, no soap at hand wash
sink. Score: Food 98, Retail
93.
Save A Lot, Martin, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Hand wash sink in food prep
area without soap or towels,
no
tissue
in
women's
restroom, garbage container
not properly covered, floor
tile in men's room in disrepair, walls in women;s room
in disrepair, light in walk-in
freezer not properly shielded.
Score: 94.
Little
Hillbilly
Cafe,
Martin, regular inspection.
Violations noted: Conspicuous
thermometers not present in
freezer and refrigerator unlts,
employee restroom door not
self-closing, not all employees
using proper hair restraints.
Score: 96.
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Tiger Mart, Prestonsburg,
regular
inspection.
Violations
noted:
Thermometers not provided
for all refrigerator and
freezer units, single service
container being reused,
light out in walk-in refrigerator, clothing and personal
items improperly stored in
food prep area. Score: Food
95, Retail 98.
Subway, Prestonsburg,
regular
inspection.
Violations noted: Plastic lid
observed on floor of back
storage area, faucet at threecompartment sink leaking,
employee restroom door not
self-closing and no towels
provided. Score: 96.
Hitching
Post,
Hueysville, regular inspec-
tion.
Violations
noted:
Thermometers not provided
in all refrigerator and freezer units, food item observed
stored on floor, ceiling in
walk-in in disn;pair, wiping
cloths improperly stored,
light in walk-in improperly
shielded, cleaning equipment improperly stored.
Score: 93.
Kwik Mart, Allen, regular inspection. Violations
noted: Easy to spot thermometers not present in all
refrigerators and freezer
units, door handle on
upright refrigerator in disrepair, garbage containers in
food prep area without
proper lids, proper hair
restraints not in use. Score:
Food 95, Retail 99.
Subway, Stanville, regular inspection. Violations
noted: Microwave had some
food product on inner surface. Score: 98.
Property
Transfers
Danny
and
Suzanne
Sellards to Carl Sellards,
property location undisclosed.
Roy and Linda Hall to
Bert T. Hall, property located at Branham Creek.
Jimmy
and
Rebecca
DeRossett to Jimmy and
Kathy Cox, property location undisclosed.
Barry and Linda Little to
John Melvin Hall, property
location undisclosed.
Emagene Skeens to Hank
Edward Skeens, property
located at Little Paint
Creek.
Daniel and Cheryl Setzer
to Dennis and Krista!
Burchett, property located
at Little Mud.
Debra Hayes Howell to
Steven Gillespie, property
location undisclosed.
Christopher and Joanna
Reid, Kevin and Reva Reid,
and Shawn Reid to Naomi
Reid Sergeant, property
located at Beaver.
Charlotte Sue Reynolds
to
Melissa
Reynolds
Anderson, property location
undisclosed.
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SECTION
FLOYD COUNTY
Sports Editor
Steve LeMaster
Phone: (606) 886-8506
Fax: (606) 886-3603
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Phelps 15, Paintsville 6; Raceland 3, Ironton, Ohio 2; Rowan County 10, East Carter 5.
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Winter Games offer heated competition
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - The Bluegrass Winter
Games held in March drew 2,064 amateur
athletes from 64 counties in Kentucky, orgaM nizers said earlier in the week. A total of 729
individual and 1,355 team members competed in this year's Games.
Approximately 814 gold, silver and bronze
medals were awarded to the amateur athletes
who participated in this year's games.
Athletes from Fayette County won 69
gold medals, 42 silver medals, and 47
bronze medals - a total of 158 medals.
Jefferson County placed second in medals
Sports Fans:
~Spring is here
won, with 71 medals. Jessamine County was
third with 43 medals; Madison was fourth
with 42; and Franklin was fifth with 40.
The leading individual medal winner was
Arlinda Robertson of Harrison County with
six. Thomas Crabtree of Montgomery County,
David Langston of McCracken, and Shane
Lykins of Morgan tied with four medals eac:h.
There were 57 multiple medal winners.
Locally, Floyd Countians Brad Hall and
Jason Osborne each captured medals as part
of their respective basketball teams. Hall
took a silver medal in the nine-and-under
division as part of the Triple Threat team.
Jason Osborne, playing as part of the R&J
photo by Jamie
Howell
Well Service team, won a gold medal in the
open men's division.
In martial arts, Tanner Keathley and Hailee
each took a pair of medals.
The Bluegrass State Games is a nonprofit
program sponsored privately to promote
amateur athletics across the Commonwealth.
It is designed to provide Kentuckians of all
ages and abilities a wholesome avenue for
positive development through sports and
physical activity.
Ashland Inc. and the Valvoline Company
are founding sponsors of the Bluegrass State
Andrew
Shepherd let
go of a pitch
Tuesday
during
Prestonsburg's
first of two
games against
visiting
Phelps.
More on the
PrestonsburgPhelps game
appears inside
today's edition.
(See GAMES, page four)
Bobcats scratch Allen Central
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
by RICK BENTLEY
TIMES COLUMNIST
Talk about your big week. No matter
your sport, I'd nearly guarantee you've
seen something you like this week.
It all began Sunday when our friends
who
follow
NASCAR focused
their attention on
the quaint little
town of Bristol, a
small village so big
it calls two states
home.
Nobody
ever
complains about
Bristol, meaning
Rick Bentley
with any luck it
won't go the way of
other traditional NASCAR venues (hello,
Martinsville) as former NASCAR venues.
I don't follow the sport very closely,
but had to chuckle when by Monday afternoon I'd already had two people complain
~to me about Fox cutting away from the
race after its conclusion but before the
winner could "burn out" and we could be
treated to those sponsor-infested interviews at the end.
It was Cousin Brian who said, when I
mentioned it to him, "It'd already been on
for five hours!" Preaching to the choir, my
friend.
Monday was the morning after
Thanksgiving for sports fans. It was
Opening Day for baseball - we purists,
being the ones who still hate the designated hittc;,r and aren't crazy about interleague .tplay, don't acknowledge ESPN's
~ Sunday-night opener - with the traditional openers in Cincinnati and Detroit.
It-was a full day of action for those of
us vlho predate the MTV generation and
as such have attention spans longer than
three minutes.
The Reds got themselves a comeback
win of monumental proportions when
Adam Dunn hit two long ones and drove
in five. As mentioned last week, it all
comes down to the biggest little word in
the dictionary - if - but if they can stay
healthy, it can be an exciting summer in
the Queen City.
And, as of this writing, it's worked.
Ken Griffey Jr. has played twice without
';I getting hurt.
A former Red drew the attention of the
baseball universe in the Motor City. I
don't fllink I've ever heard anybody say a
bad word about Dmitri Young, who went
deep- thrice on Monday. His big day
Junior Derek Case survived a rough, rocky start and
rebounded nicely, pitching defending 58th District
champ Betsy Layne to a win over rival Allen Central
Betsy Layne rides out rough start,
wins district tilt in final at-bat
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
EASTERN- In a rematch oflast season's 58th District
title game, defending district champ Betsy Layne trailed
for most of the game Tuesday evening. But the Bobcats
found a way to win.
Betsy Layne overcame a slow start and went on to edge
the Rebels 5-4.
Allen Central entered Tuesday's game following a win
over Breathitt County one day earlier. The Rebels have
kept a very busy schedule. Last week, Allen Central got in
five games as four of the contests came along the way to
a tournament championship. The Rebels won the East
Kentucky Invitational, a tournament hosted by Knott
County Central High School. Allen Central had its
chances late in the game, but couldn't capitalize.
Betsy Layne, also helped in part due to the solid pitching of junior Derek Case, scored two runs in the sixth
inning and two in the seventh.
(See BOBCATS, page two)
(See BENTLEY, page two)
photo by Steve LeMaster
Allen Central pitcher Tyler Turner came off of
the field following a successful first inning
against the Betsy Layne batters.
Clark to sign with Pikeville
• Senior to play two
sports in college
is scheduled to sign with Alice Lloyd
Monday morning at 11:45.
"Kim and Krista! have proven to be
among our regions best players, by their
individual performances and their team's
success " said Betsy Layne Coach
Cass~ndra Akers. "We are excited for
both of them."
The Pikeville College
women's basketball team
finished the 2004-05 season with a 17-14 record.
Head coach Bill Watson
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
f
Thomas among AllStar Game participants
BETSY LAYNE- Over the next five days,
two Betsy Layne High School seniors will sign to
play with the college of their choice. Today at noon,
Betsy Layne senior Kim Clark will sign with
Pikeville College. Quite possibly the top
female athlete in Betsy Layne High
School history, Clark will sign to
play both basketball and softball
at nearby Pikeville College.
Clark's teammate, senior center
Krista! Daniels, has a signing date
with Alice Lloyd College. Daniels
Kim Clark
(See CLARK, page two)
HAZARD - Seniors from the 12th,
13th, 14th, 15th and 16th regions wiU
take the court Saturday at Perry County
Central High School's John C. Combs
Arena as part of the second annual
Gatorade/Appalachian AU-Star Games.
Allen Central High School senior
Becky Thomas is headed to the girls' allstar game. Thomas, who in the very near
future is expected to sign to play basketball at the next level, finished her high
school career with well over 1,500 points.
"The AU-star game will give her an
opportunity to play against some of the
better seniors in the area," noted Allen
Central Coach Mark Martin. "She has
been such a big part of our program the
past two seasons and everyone involved
is proud of her accomplishments and this
is just one of many honors that she has
received."
Betsy Layne's Kim Clark and Krista!
Daniels have also been selected for the
all-star event.
Game Director Ira D. Combs is one
individual who is looking very forward to
the second annual mountain all-star showcase.
"This special day of activities is to
showcase our finest high school hoop
stars from across Eastern Kentucky,"
Combs said. "Many of these players have
been overlooked in the recruiting process
and I hope this all-star game will provide
one more opportunity to get some of these
kids an opportunity at the next level."
The girls' game is scheduled to tip-off
at 6 p.m. The boys' game is slated to fol7:30.
low
at
Last year, the first annual game resulted
in a scholarship apiece for two boys' basketball players and another for a girls'
basketball player.
The day will also feature three-point,
one-on-one and slam dunk competitions.
"I just want our senior basketball players to feel as special as the other elite
seniors across the Commonwealth,"
Combs added. "Many of them are misjudged in their skill level in my opinion.
We have produced a lot of shooters over
the years here in Eastern Kentucky, but it
seems as though the college coaches on
all levels are leaning more each year
towards those with quickness and athleticism instead of the basketball players."
Players and coaches will report to
John C. Combs Arena at around 11 a.m.
Saturday morning for a full day of scheduled events.
The arena doors will open to the pub(See ALL-STAR, page two)
Search for new JCHS boys'
basketball coach is on
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE - Two years
ago, Johnson Central High School
hired Jim Matney away from
Sheldon Clark High School.
JCHS gave Matney a deal he
couldn't refuse and he came to
the area's largest high school and
became its head football coach.
Now, Johnson Central is looking for a
new boys' basketball coach. Early last
week. Les Trimble was informed that
he would not be hired back as the
school's boys' basketball coach.
Johnson Central Principal Steve
Trimble, who is not related to Les
Trimble, issued a statement, saying, "On Tuesday, March 28,
2005, Coach Les Trimble was
notified that he would not be
recommended back as boys'
ba ketball coach for Johnson
Central High School for the
2005-06 season. Coach Trimble
is a good person and has been a
class act, however, we feel that
it is time to make a change. The
(See JCHS, page two)
�82 • FRIDAY,
APRIL
8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Bobcats
Bentley
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The Allen Central team that
took the field Tuesday evening
was no doubt tired.
"We \.\ere just too tired,"
Allen Central Coach Ken
Johnson admitted after the loss
to Betsy Layne. "We'\e played
seven games in eight days
because of the tournament we
were in, and our focus just wasn't there. I am proud of my
players though because they
played their hearts out. We just
made one too many errors.
Betsy Layne had five runs and
only one of them were earned. I
have told my guys all year, that
errors and walks will haunt you,
and tonight n was the errors.
Tyler (Turner) pitched a fabulous game, but he didn't have
his stuff tonight. either. He had
to check out of school at half a
day because he was sick. We
just weren't at full strength
tonight, but 1 can assure you that
next time we will be ready."
The late offensive effort was
a far cry from how the BetS)
Layne batters started the game.
Betsy Layne, coached by Frank
Martin, went in order in its half
of the first inning. The Bobcats
scored a run in the second
inning when fifth-place batter
Jordan Case scored after reaching base. Betsy Layne was held
scoreless in the third, fourth and
fifth innings.
Case scored again in the sixth
inning.
Brandon
Thacker,
Shawn Hamilton and Brandon
Combs also scored a run apiece.
Hamilton scored the gamewinning run in the bottom of the
seventh inning when Case, facing two strikes and two outs,
came through with a single.
Betsy Layne was scheduled
to pia) host Pikeville last night
in the opening round of the l 5th
Region All "A'' Classic.
15th Region All 'A'
Classic: Allen Central 12,
Phelps 6
PIKEVILLE - Allen Central
won ib opening round game in
the 15th Region All "'A·· Classic
Wednesday night, defeating
Phelps 12-6. The Rebels got
back on the winning track after
falling to 58th D1strict rival
Betsy Layne just one day earlier.
Josh McKinney recorded the
win over Phelps, giving up three
runs in three innings of work.
Nick Music came on to pitch
and finished the game for the
Rebels, giving up three runs in
four solid innings. Music and
his Allen Central teammates
withstood what Rebel Coach
Ken Johnson deemed a "sloppy" seventh inning.
"We struggled in this game,"
said Johnson. "We showed signs
of life from time to time, but it
was an overall struggle for my
guys. We won the game because
Phelps made a lot of mistakes.
We were JUSt exhausted."
With the Phelps game, Allen
Central had played its eighth
contest in nine days. Johnson
gave his squad yesterday off.
The victory over Phelps
allowed Allen Central the
opportunity to advance on to the
next round of the regional All
"A" tournament.
'·It was a nice win considering how we played though,
especially with it being in the
first round of the All "A"
Tournament," Johnson conceded. "The bats are starting to get
a little better for us."
In the win over Phelps, Tyler
Turner improved his batting
average to .321 with a triple
and a sacrifice to go along with
thrae runs batted in.
Rebel centerfielder Wilfredo
Dominguez had two hits and
reached base in four out of five
at-bats. Freshman Scott Little
added a hit and two RBI's to
improve his batting average to
.334.
"Scott has been a real story so
far," Johnson acknowledged. "In
eight games, he is batting .334
with five RBI's. On the mound
in three appearances, he has 22
strikeouts and a 1.36 ERA."
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Prestt)nst'>grg:..:. . ..
High scno.ol :
~
brought on two interesting
notes:
• Young became the third
player to hit three homers on
Opening Day, and all have fallen on April 4.
•
This line from Ron
Damron, my boss at Pikeville
College who is two weeks from
defending the first national
championship in school history
in the sport of bowling. When I
said they need to check Dmitri
for steroids, Ron didn't flinch:
"Ah, you can take one look at
him and tell he's never seen
steroids. (Patting his stomach)
He's built like me."
It was perhaps more of a
surprise than the three homers
when the portly Young actually
tripled Wednesday in a 7-2 loss
to Kansas City.
It was a fine day all around.
Monday night then brought
the NCAA championship
game, which saw Roy
Williams finally get his title.
There's been a lot of debate
about this and what it means to
Williams, who borrowed the
line from his mentor Dean
Smith and said he wasn't any
better a coach after the game
than he was before it.
I think the best way to put it
is this: It takes away any debate
as to his coaching abilities.
When Roy's name comes up
now, nobody can use the phrase
"hasn't won the big one." Think
about it: Without two championships, would you really consider UConn 's Jim Calhoun one
of the elite coaches? Me either.
I'm no Carolina fan, but was
happy to see him get that monkey off his back. And I hope he
had a good tee time Wednesday
morning.
Speaking of Wednesday, that
was when Mariano Rivera blew
a save opportunity for the second straight day. Those of us
who consider the Yankees a latter-day version of Hitler's
Germany were happy to see the
Red Sox finish the job this time.
On Tuesday, the Yanks bailed
him out and Rivera got the win.
For the
record, this
Yanks/Sox nonsense has gotten
totally carried away. I know it's
the biggest rivalry in sports and
all, but still, all three from the
Bronx were on ESPN, and
when the teams play three
more times next week in
Boston, the Worldwide Leader
will have them all again.
Now, weather permitting,
golf fans everywhere are glued
to the television with all eyes
,
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Clark
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closed out his eighth season at
the helm of the Pikeville
College program with 145
wins, just one short of Roy
Cutright's school record for
'women's basketbalL The Lady
Bears ended the season with a
loss to Lindsey Wilson in the
opening round of the MidSouth Conference Tournament.
The Pikeville College softball team. which continues to
improve and contend in the
Mid-South Conference, is
coached by Robert Staggs.
Last year, around this same
time, then Betsy Layne High
seniors Whitney Lykens and
Tabitha Witt signed with Alice
Lloyd College. Lykens stayed
with theALC women's basketball team and enjoyed a successful first season with the
Lady Eagles.
The ALC women's basketball program is now under the
direction of David Adams, who
is set to enter his second season
of calling the shots for the
Lady Eagles.
"Krista! will be a good addition to any college team,"
Akers commented. "Alice
Lloyd is getting a jewel. She is
a hard-working player and I
think she'll make an iinlllediate
impact on their team. She is
just that type of player anq person."
JCHS
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pointed toward the Masters. 1
There arc a lot of thii~s that~
can be debated in sport· it's a
lot of the fun, to be hone -but
one thing that can't is here
the Masters ranks as far a golf
tournaments.
i
There is no other in my esti- ~
mation. And as I sit here, the I
only dissenting opin~on I can j
ever remember heanng came 1
from Pikeville native Robert
Damron, who told m a few ~
years back that of , e four ~
majors, he'd rather ·n the ~
U.S. Open than the othe three. J
His logic was sound - he 1
called it our "national" champi- l
onship - but I wonder if he still ·
feels the same.
1
It has, afterall, "a tradition :
unlike any other," or so we're told. 1
Toss all that in your salad :
bowl and sprinkle wfth high J
school baseball and Softball
playing their second weeks of ;
the season, add spring football {
practice and your local college ; •
hiring its first soccer coach, l
and it's a big week.
The cherry on top has been
Daylight Savings Time com- :
mencing Sunday, giving us a :
bonus hour of sunlight to enjoy ~
all these things.
h
It's a great time to
alive,
is it not?
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of Prestonsburg
SPORTS FAN
OF THE WEEK
• Continued from pl
process to hire a new coach
will start immediately."
As was the case during the
latest football coach search,
several names have surfaced
pertaining to the open basketball coaching position.
Here's some of the more
prominent names that have
been kicked around:
Matthew Perry, Morgan
County High School: Perry led
the Co]lgars to the 16th Region
title in 2004. He appears to be
content in Morgan County, but
could possibly entertain the
thought of speaking with
Johnson Central officials.
Brian Hall, Breathitt County
High School: When Breathitt
County High School named
Hall, a Floyd Coun'ty native, its
new head basketball coach,
some were surprised. But Hall
hasn't disappointed. He guided
Breathitt County to a 14th
Region runner-up finish in only
his first season with the
Bobcats. This past season, his
second at the helm, Hall
coached Breathitt County back
the
14th
Region
into
Tournament. Hall is a former
Johnson Central assistant coach.
Bart Williams, Pikeville
High School: Before starring at
Pikeville College, Williams
stood out at Johnson Central
High School. The longtime
Pikeville High School boys'
basketball assistant now awaits
the announcement of who will
lead the Panther program following the departure of veteran
head coach Dave Thomas.
Rodney Rowe, Shelby Valley
High School: Rodney Rowe put
Shelby Valley High School basketball on the state map. He's
been out of high school coaching
for a year now and might want to
get back into the prep game.
Danny Johnson, Johnson
Central High School· Another
former Johnson Central High
School assistant coach,Johnson
has been busy with hi radio
duties during the last five, or six
prep
basketball
seasons.
However, Johnson, also a Ji']oyd
County native, might want to
step out of the radio booth and
back onto the sidelines. Both
Johnson and Hall coached
under Johnny Ray TlJ!p.er.
Johnson
Central
High
School officials have~ placed
a timeline on the boys_ iPasketball coach hiring proc~
All-Star
• Continued from p1
lie at 5 p.m.
Johnna Abney (Rockcastle
County), Tara Rowe (South
Laurel), Ashley Bell (Wayne
County),
Aaron
Cash
(Rockcastle County), Eric
Fields (South Laurel), Steve
Sexton (Wayne County) and
Derrick Endicott (Lawrence
County) were also selected for
participation in the all-star
game, but for one reason or
another, declined the invitation.
More on the all-star event,
including team rosters follows.
Gatorade!Appalachi
an All-Star Game
Saturday, Perry
County Central
High School, John
C, Combs Arena
If you are the sports fan circled here ...
it's your lucky day!
If you are the sports fan circled, you are entitled to a
free 8-inch ice cream cake of your choice, redeemable at
DAIRY QUEEN OF PRESTONSBURG. When claiming your ice
cream cake, present this newspaper.
GIRLS' SENIOR ALL-STAR
GAME, 6 p.m.
SOUTH ALL-5TARS:
Coach: Randy Napier, Perry County Central
Madison Fields, Somerset
Jamie Bonza, Corbin
Suzzanna Todd, Pulaski County
Britta Maggard , Perry County Central
Ashley Massey, Cumberland
Kayla Bentley, Jenkins
Candy Walls, Powell County
Mishay Weddington, Pike County Central
Melanie Cornett, Rowan County
NORTH ALL-STARS
Coach: Steve Miller. Magoffin County
Kim Clark, Betsy Layne
Krista! Daniels, Betsy Layne
Kasi Mullins·Galloway. Knott Co.Central
Austin Mcintosh. Owsley Counry
Camille Cook, Whitesburg
Becky Thomas, Allen Central
Keisha Johnson, Knott County Central
Alisha Hall, Knott County Central
Whitney Hogg, Whitesburg
Ashley Hall, Paintsville
BOYS' SENIOR ALL-STAR
GAME, 7:30 p.m.
SOUTH AU-5TARS:
Coach: Daniel Brown, North Laurel
Nathan Bray, Somerset
Blake Hubbs, Cawood
Jordan Noble. Corbin
Andrew Parks, Corbin
Rodney Mitchell, Clay County
Chase Patrie k, Hazard
Jennaine Martin. Powell Counw
DJ. Hoskins. Bnzard
Cleve Washington, Hazard
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Thomas Lewis, Lawrence Coun!f
Blake Roberts, Rockcastle Counl~·
Derek Bowling, Perry County Cent:tll
NORTH ALL-STARS:
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Coach: Matthew Perry, Morgan Co~·
Zach Gillum, Greenup County
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4
Aaron Branham, East Ridge
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Darnel Combs, Perry County Central lo.
Bryant Furman. Rowan County
Cody Fannin, Fairview
Jordan Shepherd, Perry County -;:entral
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Davin Barnett, Morgan County
Andrew Sewell, Breathitt Countl:'..,.
Jarrod Burchett, East Carter
Jacob Hundley, Breathitt County
Ralph Hamilton, Morgan County
Tyson Gross, Owsley County
Paintsville Little League resched~es
Opening Day
Paintsville Little League has
rescheduled its Opening Day for
Saturday,Aprill6. Festivities wiU begin
with the annual parade to the field.
During the parade, players and coaches
will march down Euclid Avenue and
onto the major division field.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
8, 2005 • 83
More than 100 athletes coming
to P'burg for Area 3 Spring Games
TIMES STAFF REPORT
r"RANKFORT The Special
Olympics Kentucky track and
field season will get underway
on Saturday with the Area 3
Spring Games at Prestonsburg
High School. The Area 3 meet
includes more than 100 athletes
from Breathitt, Floyd, Harlan,
Knott, Letcher, Magoffin and
Perry counties. The event will
get underway with Opening
Ceremonies at 9 a.m. The competition will begin at 9:30.
The Area 3 Spring Games is
the first of nin~ regional track
and field meets held statewide
this year. In all, more than 1,500
athletes with intellectual disabilities throughout the state will
participate in regional track and
field competitions, making track
and field the largest participation event in the Special
Olympics program in Kentucky.
Participants in the Spring
Games automatically qualify to
compete in the Special Olympics
Kentucky State Summer Games to
be held June 3-5 at Eastern
Kentucky University in Richmond.
For more information about
the Area 3 Spring Games or about
the Special Olympics track and
field program, contact Special
Olympics Kentucky Program
Director Kim Satterwhite at 1800-633-7403 or via e-mail at
ksatterwhite@ soky.org.
Special Olympics is the
world's largest program of
sports training and competition
for children and adults with
intell ectual
disabilities.
Participation i~ open to all individuals eight years of age or
older. Training and competition
in local, area, state, and national
programs is offered year-round
in Kentucky in 17 sports.
High school softball teams from throughout the area are busy with the start of a new season.
On Wednesday evening, South Floyd played Knott County Central. Knott Central won, 3-1.
ACHS hosting
independent hoops tourney
Winner to face
UK barnstorming
tour team
TIMES STAFF REPORT
EASTERN - Allen Central
High School JROTC and the
~ Allen Central High School Band
are hosting an Independent
Basketball Tournament Saturday,
from 10 a.m. until its completion,
to determine who will play the
University
of
Kentucky
Barnstorming Tour players. Last
year, the winners defeated the
UK Barnstorming Team.
The cost per team is $100.
Entry fees and team rosters are
due in today. High School eligible players are not allowed to
participate. Teams should have
._, uniforms'' that are like colors
and nu~bered. The champions
and runners-up teams will
receive trophies. Individual
players will receive champion
and runners-up trophies .
This is your opportunity to
play against the University of
Kentucky. If you have a team
and want to enter the tournament, 2ontact Lieutenant
Colonel ' Larry Maynard or
Staff Serteant Jerry Hardy, call
606/358-5305 or 606/358-9543
• extensibn 300/302.
?
The tournament is Single
elimination. Teams need to be
at the gym 30 minutes before
game time. There will be 15
minutes to warm up before each
game. Halftime is 10 minutes.
Each game will have two 20minute halves, continuous clock.
The clock will stop on every
whistle with two minutes
remaining in the half. It will
also stop for foul shots and during timeouts.
Each team will have three
one-minute time outs per half.
Teams will have bonus freethrow shots after 10 personal
fouls. No double bonus.
Unsportsmanlike conduct
has no place in this tournament
and will not be tolerated. A
technical will be assessed and
the player will sit out of the
game for five minutes. Should
a player receive a second technical foul, the player will be
ejected and required to leave
the Allen Central school
grounds , or the team will forfeit the game.
A player who receives a
technical foul for any reason
will sit out of the game for five
minutes.
When a player commits five
personal fouls, the player has to
leave the game.
All teams may substitute as
often as necessary but only
during a dead ball (after a
whistle - the clock will continue to run unless under circum-
stances listed above).
Each team must have the
same color jersey with numbers.
Rosters must be finalized
prior to the start of their game,
after that, no add-ons are
allowed. 'Team-hopping' is
unacceptable and will result in
forfeiture.
Players cannot move from
one team to another effective
today. High School eligible
players are not allowed to participate. We must know your
team's nickname and have your
rosters prior to play; however,
no changes to the roster after
today. The champions will
receive a t:Iophy and play UK
Barnstorming Team on April
15. (Former UK players will
join the seniors - based on
availability.)
Allen Central has tickets
available for the UK Seniors
game. All tickets are general
adwission and cost $8. You
can also purchase tickets at
Video Magic, Martin; The
Perfect Setting, McDowell;
Mike's TV and Appliance,
Prestonsburg; Wayland Texaco,
Wayland; Long John Silvers at
Coal Run, Pikeville; and Route
3 Fast Lane, Inez.
Pregame festivities begin at
5:30 p.m. For questions regarding the Barnstorming Tour and
events, contact the ACHS Band
Director Ricky Wells, call
606/358-9543.
photo by Steve LeM aster
T-ball teams from Harold-Allen-Prater little league enjoyed some quality practice time amid
warm temperatures Tuesday evening.
photo by Steve
LeMaster
Allen Central
shortstop Nick
Music (3)
welcomed in
teammate Josh
McKinney after a
run scored
Tuesday evening
during the game
against county
rival Betsy
layne.
Whitesburg senior playing
in Kentucky-Ohio game
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
CRE~TVIEW HILLS Whitesburg High School senior
Camille Cook is one of the
players playing in this year 's
KentUcky-Ohio All-Star Game,
the 14th annual prep basketball
showcase between the two
states. The Kentucky girls team
will be guided by Boyd County
head coach Pete Fraley.
Assistant coaches are Nell
Fookes and Dan Rowsey.
Both the boys and girls
games will be played Saturday
at Thomas More College.
Joining Cook on the Kentucky
girls squad are Brittany Bass
(Covington Holy Cross); Ashley
Bell (Wayne County); Melanie
Cornett (Rowan County); Renee
Dailey (Boone County); Katie
Filiatreau (Washington County);
Krista Hatfield (Henderson
County); Ashley
Hawkins
(Henderson County); Brandy
Mahar (Boyd County); Destiny
Mattingly (Woodford County);
Tara Rowe (Rockcastle County);
Jayme Tlriem (Newport Central
Catholic) and Ashley Vanderhoof
(Raceland)
Pikeville High School head
coach Cindy Halbert coached girls'
basketball teams in the all-star
event on three separate occasions.
She is now on the committee.
Azubuike plans to place name in NBA draft
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Kentucky
junior ·swingman Kelenna
Azubui!lk plans to put his name
in the NBA draft, according to
his coach, Tubby Smith.
Smith told the Lexington
Herald-Leader on Monday that
he i advising Azubuikc not to
ret<tin an agent so the player
can keep his options open,
including a possible return to
Kentucky next season.
Kentucky athletics department
spokesman
Scott
f Stricklin said Tuesday that he
had not recently spoken with
Azubuike or Smith. Stricklin
said the university would make
an official announcement
"when everything is final."
The 6-foot-5 , 220-pound
Azubuike led the Wildcats in
scoring (14.7 points per game)
and was second on the team in
rebounding this season (4.7 per
game). Kentucky finished 28-6
and lost to Michigan State in
double overtime in an NCAA
tournament regional final.
If Azubuike does place his
name in the draft, it wouldn't be
his first flirtation with the NBA.
During his senior season at
Victory ('hri 5ti a" School in
Tulsa, Okla., Azubuike openly
spoke about jumping straight
from high school into the
NBA , but instead chose to sign
with Kentucky. He scored
3,530 points during his prep
career,
second-best
in
Oklahoma history, and averaged 39.1 points and 13.3
rebounds per game as a senior.
Other Kentucky players in
recent years also have explored
their NBA options. Keith
Bogans entered the draft after
his junior season in 2002, then
chose to return to Kentucky for
his senior season and led the
Wildc1ts to a regional finaL
Above: The Betsy Layne bench looked on during Tuesday's game against Allen Central.
Below: Betsy layne's Shawn Hamilton took a cut at a Tyler Turner pitch.
�84 • FRIDAY,
APRIL
8, 2005
THE F LOYD COUNTY T IMES
Games
• Continued from p1
Games. Host sponsors include
the
Commonwealth
of
Kentucky, Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Government and
the University of Kentucky. The
gold sponsors are Kentucky
Utilities Company and the
Lexington Convention and
Visitors Bureau. Bluegrass
Family Health, Jordan-Chiles,
Lexington Area Sports Authority
and McDonald's of Central
Kentucky are silver sponsors.
Central
Bank,
Lexington
Hotel/Motel Association and the
Raddison Plaza Hotel are the
bronze sponsors. Media sponsors include the Kentucky
Broadcasters
Association,
Kentucky Press Association,
Kentucky Cable Television
Association and KET - The
Kentucky Network.
A special show produced by
KET for the 2005 Winter Games
will air on KET-1 on 'I)ursday,
April 19 at, 10:30 p.m . .....1 <Jn
Saturday, April 30 at 5!:30 a.m.
For further information, call Ed
Mastrean at 859/258-7230
For more information about
the 2005 Winter Games or the
upcoming
2005
Summer
Games,
go
on ine
totlJJ
www.bgsg.org, or c@}l 1-800722-2474 or 859/255-0336
photos by Jamie Howell
Above: In two home games against Phelps, sophomore Tyler Layne went behind the plate for the
Blackcats. Below: Josh Rodebaugh played first base in one game and pitched in another for host
Prestonsburg.
Blackcats take
doubleheader from Phelps
photos courtesy of DeWitt Photography
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG - Host
Prestonsburg took a pair of games
from Phelps Tuesday evening. The
home team won by a slim one-run
margin in each contest. The Blackcats,
entertaining Phelps at Archer Park,
took the first game 4-3 and also fini~hed out in front in the second game, winning 6-5 in five innings.
In the first game, Robert Gannon singled
and scored in the top half of the first
inning to put the Hornets on top early,
again. Phelps stretched its lead out to a
2-0 advantage before the Prestonsburg
bats livened up.
Prestonsburg's Josh
Rodebaugh
tagged a home
run in the first
game.
Prestonsburg
won the first
game in the seventh inning, scoring two runs in its
final at-bat.
Rodebaugh went the distance on the
mound for Prestonsburg in the second
game. He also helped his cause at the plate as
he had RBI double in the fifth inning that
plated Prestonsburg's fifth and final run.
In the second game, Nick McGuire had
a triple and a single for the Blackcats.
Robby Hughes added a pair of singles.
Prestonsburg leadoff hitter Brandon
Campbell reached base on a walk in each
of his first two plate appearances.
In the second game, Phelps struck
first, scoring three runs in the top half
of the opening inning. Prestonsburg got
two of the runs back in the home half of
the initial frame. Phelps led the
Blackcats 5-4 at the end of the third
inning before Prestonsburg came
across one run in both the
fourth and fifth innings.
In the first game,
Andrew Shepherd took
the mound and started
for
the
pitching
Blackcats.
Bobby
Hughes also came on
and threw some for the
Prestonsburg team.
Earlier in the week,
Prestonsburg took a
pair of games against
host Cordia. The
Blackcats beat the
Lions 9-1 in one game
and 4-3 in another.
Prestonsburg was
scheduled to be back
in action yesterday
evening, playing on
the road at Jenkins.
Tonight, the Blackcats
are slated to host 58th
District/Floyd County
Conference
rival
South Floyd.
Tanner Keathley and Hailee Hall each won a pair of medals during the recent Bluegrass Winter 1.10)
Games.
~
Union reaches 30 wins in record time
Bulldogs sweep doubleheader versus
host Alice Lloyd College
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
PIPPA PASSES - Union
College rallied from behind to
sweep an Appalachian Athletic
Conference doubleheader from
host Alice Lloyd College on
Tu'esday, winning 3-2 in eight
innings and 7-5.
The wins give the Bulldogs
a 30-9 overall mark and a 9-5
league record. Union was able
to reach the 30-win plateau in
its 39th game of the season,
marking the fastest the
Bulldogs had achieved the
milestone. The previous record
was 42 games in 1994.
In the first game, Union
pushed a run across in the seventh to force extra innings en
route to the 3-2 decision.
Trailing 2-1 in the seventh,
pinch-hitter Brandon Bailey
(Frankfort) tied the game at 2
when his ~ac fly knocked in
Seul Santiago (San Juan,
Puerto Rico). Justin Barrier
(Versailles) completed the
comeback with a run-scoring
single in the eighth.
Greg Bruce (Harlart) picked
the win, not surrendering a run
on two hits and one walk in two
and two-thirds innings of work.
Bruce is now 6-1 on the season.
The Bulldogs fell behind 30 in the first of the nightcap,
but Union reeled off seven
straight runs in recording the 75 victory.
Down 3-0, Union scored
one in the second and two in
the third to tie the game. In the
fifth, the Bulldogs rallied for
four runs in seizing a 7-3
advantage. Alice Lloyd ·scored
two runs in the sixth, b\it the
Eagles couldn't get any closer. ·
In the seventh, Barrier gave
up two one-out walks to allow
the potential winning run up to
the plate. However, the
Bulldog closer struck out the
final two batters he faced to
seal the victory and secure his
seventh save of the season.
Erin Satterlee (Youngstown,
Ohio) went 2-for-4 with two
RBis and a run scored, while
Tim Galbraith (Harnllton, Ohio)
stole two bases to give him the
single-season record, He now
has 38 stolen bases mi the year.
Jeff Henderson (franklin,
Ohio) improved to 2-2 on the
season, allowing three runs on
four hits and one walk in four
innings of work.
KENTUCKY FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
curovic wins Giant
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON
- Former
University of Kentucky punter
Sevin "Sevy" Sucurovic is a
winner of the Giant Steps
Award, announced today on
National Student-Athlete Day
by the National Consortium of
Academics and Sports (NCAS){
The Giant Steps Awards are
given to individuals who exemplify the meaning of National
Student-Athlete Day. Sucurovic
(pronounced "su-CUR-o-vich")
has shown remarkable determination during his life. He was
born in Bosnia, lived through
civil war, moved to the United
States, and eventually earned a
scholarship as the starting
punter on the UK football team
while completing his degree.
"I thank the NCAS and am
happy to be recognized,"
Sucurovic said. "I hope it will be
an encouragement and motivation for other athletes that they
can accomplish their goals."
It is Sucurovic's second
national award. In December, he
was named the winner of the
Inspirational Award given by the
Wyndham New Orleans Bowl as
the most inspirational player of
the year in college football.
"Sevy has made such a positive impact on us," Coach Rich
Brooks said. "He is an example
of the real student-athlete. He
overcame many hurdles to reach
his educational and athletic
goals. He is going to be a huge
success in life and is very
deserving of this award."
Sucurovic graduated from
UK with a degree in kinesiology
and plans to enroll in the DeVos
Sports Business Management
graduate-school program at the
University of Central Florida.
The winners of the 2005
Giant Steps Awards and thecategories of their selection include:
•
David
Stern,
Commissioner of the National
Basketball Association (Civic
Leader);
•
Sevin Sucurovic of
Kentucky, Macharia Yuot of
Widener
University,
and
Mohammad Rafiq of CaliforniaDavis (Courageous StudentAthlete, male);
•
Destiny
Woodbury,
University of Rhode Island
(Courageous Student-Athlete,
female); and
• Ken Carter, former basketball coach at Richmond, Calif.,
High School, subject of the
movie "Coach Carter."
Sucurovic 's achievements
are remarkable in their own
right; however, understanding
the distance he bas traveled both literally and figuratively makes the accomplishments
even more amazing.
Sucurovic grew up in the
rural area of Tuzla, Bosnia, and
was nine years old when war
began. He remembers sleeping
in four pairs of pants and three
or four jackets in order to have
extra clothe~ in case his family
had to leave the house quickly
because of danger.
Sucurovtc's family moved to
another village while his father
was fighting in the war. Sevin's
school was five miles away and
he had to walk a 10-inile round
trip each day, wondering if he
would make it safely. After
approximately six years, the war
officially ended, although sporadic fighting continued.
The devastation caused by
the war brought on a struggling
economy and high unemployment rate. The Sucurovic family
decided to move to Boston,
Massachusetts, and join other
family members there.
After considerable time
going through government red
tape and getting the necessary
money, the Sucurovics moved to
the United States in 1998 - four
people, three suitcases, and
$2,000 in hand from selling all
of the family's possessions.
Sevin was 16 years old. Six
months later, the family relocated to Lexington, where some
friends had found employment.
In Lexington, Sevin's fatht-r
Osman worked at two, or sometimes three, jobs. Sevin's mother, Naila, also held down two
jobs and Sevin worked at
Kroger when he wasn't attending classes as a junior at Henry
Clay High School.
Fate intervened at Henry
Clay. Sucurovic's class in physical education, taught by football coach Sam Simpson, was
kicking footballs. Sevin had
never seen an American football
game, but having played soccer
as a child, he impressed
Simpson with his ability to kick
the ball. Simpson asked Sevin to
,.!>
psAlMa
join the football team and com- guage, he succeeded in the
pete for the kicker's .iob.
classroom and graduated with a
Fate intervened again, how- degree in kinesiology. UK
ever, and this time unkindly. 'Athletics inducted Sucurovic
Walking home from practice into the Frank G. Ham Society
one day, Sevin was hit by a jeep of Character, which is given for
and sustained two broken bones exceptional commitment to academic excellence, athletic parin his neck.
Sevin eventually recovered ticipation, personal developfrom his injuries, but he was out ment, being a role model, and
for the season. He returned to career preparation.
the football field as a senior in
"There are so many people
1999. He performed well as a who have helped me," Sucurovic
kicker and was named second- said. "One person who did a lot
team all-city by the Lexington was my dad. lf it weren't for
Herald-Leader.
him, we wouldn't have been able
After graduation, Sucurovic to come here.
enrolled at UK and made the
"Ekrem Dzambic was the
football team as a walk-on kick- person in Boston who helped us
er. His perseverance was tested get to the United States and
again. He saw limited action for Bekrija Kurahovic helped us
three years as a placekicker with move to Kentucky. One of the
the varsity and junior varsity big influences on me was Coach
teams, including one redshirt Simpson at Henry Clay. He realseason. He switched to punter as ly helped me and if it weren't for
a junior in 2003 and earned a him I wouldn't have gotten
scholarship
before finally involved in sports. Also, Coach
becoming the full-time starting Len Cox at Henry Clay. And, of
punter during his senior season. course, the entire staff in CATS
Sucurovic averaged 43.9 (UK's Center for Academic and
yards per punt in 2004, the Tutorial Services), because l
fourth-highest
single-season was really struggling (in school)
mark in school history. He had when I came to UK."
the top average in the
Going from Bosnia to a new
Southeastern Conference, but country, from his native landid not qualify for official guage to English, and from a
league leadership because he hospital bed to the football field,
played in eight games, one short Sucurovic has indeed made
of the minimum number neces- giant steps, over and over.
sary to qualify.
"Growing up, I always
Sucurovic had been in the dreamed about playing college
United States only two years and pro sports but there were o
when he enrolled at UK. few opportunities in Bosnia,"
Although he was still learning Sucurovic said. "I was motivated
the nuances of the English Ian- by the opportunities in the United
States. Plus, nobody in my family has earned a college degree. I
wanted to be the first one."
Anderson Withdraws From
School:
Linebacker Chad
Anderson has chosen to withdrawn from school, Coach Rich
Brooks announced following
Wednesday morning's practice.
Anderson was a , three-year
letterman for the Wil cats, play1
ing in 27 games with 5ll starts.~~
His career totals fe~tpre 170
tackles, 8.5 tackles fo~1rPss, 3.5
quarterback sacks, th.rif pass
interceptions, and t"'j9 pass
breakups. His best seasol} was in
2003, Brooks' first sea~n at
UK, when Anderson maq<( 125
tackles and led the Southeastern
Conference in tackles per gan1e.
He would have been ~ senior in
the 2005 season.
"We wish him well in whatever he decides to do in the
future," Brooks said.
Kentucky returns to practice
today from 9-11 a.m. Practices
are held in Commonwealth
Stadium or the Nutter Field
House and are open ~ the pub1
lic and media.
Kentucky Football Calendar
(practices
held n
in
Commonwealth Stadium or
Nutter Field House):
Fri. Apr. 8 ·Practice. 9-11 a.m.
Sat Apr. 9- Prnctice (scrimmage), I I an1. ro I pm.
Mon. Apr. ll - Practice, 9-11 a.m.
Wed. Apr. 13- Practice, 9-ll a.m.
Fri. Apr. 15- Practice . 9· 11 a.m.
Sm.i\pr. 16- Pmctice (scrimm.'lge),ll am.ro 1 pn1.
Mon Apr 18-Prnctice.9-IJ a.m .
Wed. Apr. 20- Ptactice. 9-11 a .m.
Fri. Apr. 22- Practice , 9- 11 a.m.
Sar. Apr. 23- Blue/White Sprmg Game. 1 p.m ..
Commonwealth Stadium ·
*
�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Haddix leads pair of scoring drives
·in .'first WKU spring scrimmage
TIM'ES STAFF REPORT
BOWLING GREEN
County product Justin
Haddix finished 11-of-17 passing Saturday to help lead
Western Kentucky University's
first-team offense on two
~)r extended scoring drives in the
Hilltop~rs' first full scrimmage
this l•spring at L.T. Smith
f Stadium/Jimmy Feix Field.
t
Haddix completed 4-of-6
passes on the opening drive of
' the morning, an 18-play, 77-yard
I march that resulted in a 20-yard
' Chris James field goal. On the
~ opening possession of the sec• ond half, Haddix capped an 11: play, 50~yard drive with a 1-yard
touchd91Nn run on 2nd-and-goal.
:
"Jus~n has played real well
: throug]J. the first seven prac' tices ," Topper head coach David
' Elson said. "He made some
16 t good decisions in the scrim' mage, he got the ball where it
' needed to be today."
Lerron Moore added a 10, yard touchdown run, Stephen
Willis s ored from 2 yards out
: and J awes added a 41-yard field
; goal t¢1 account for the rest of
• the d·' 's scoring.
H dix connected with
Ma~1ce Perkins three times on
the ()j>ening drive as the offense
con erted twice on third down
and also was successful on 4thanq-1 at the defense's 32-yard
1 Breathitt
line. After Moore's 3- yard carry
moved the chains, Haddix found
Perkins for gains of 10 and 8
yards on consecutive plays to
move into the red zone. James
put the first points of the day on
the board five plays later.
Perkins led all Topper
receivers with six catches for 55
yards in the scrimmage.
The defense responded on
the next drive with the only
turnover of the day when Josh
Johnson intercepted a Jack
Rafferty pass that was deflected
at the line of scrimmage on 3rdand-6 from the offense's 24yard line. The unit then forced
punls on the ensuing five possessions, allowing just two first
downs during that stretch.
Willis had 31 yards on six
carries to help the second-team
offense pick up its first score,
adding a 5-yard reception from
Rafferty.
After converting a pair of
third downs, Rafferty hit Blake
Ladson for 12 yards down the
right sideline to set up lst-and10 at the 19-yard line. Willis
carried on four straight plays,
reaching the end zone from 2
yards out on 1st-and-goal.
Rafferty completed 7-of-10
pass attempts for 83 yards.
Haddix was 3-of-3 passing
on the first drive after the break,
hitting Perkins for 12 yards to
move the offense inside the 5-
yard line. After a 2-yard gain
from Moore, Haddix went
around left end untouched for
the second touchdown of the
scrimmage.
He finished with 82 yards
through the air.
Moore scored on the firstteam's next possession, which
started at the defense's 25-yard
line, before James' second field
goal wrapped up the scoring.
Moore led WKU with 65
yards on 20 carries, Porter
added 41 yards and Willis collected 39.
Andre Lewis paced all players with 12 tackles, including
two behind the line of scrimBrandon Smith and
mage.
Brandon Mason made eight
stops each, Dusty Bear posted
seven tackles, while Sam Sexton
and Scott Greschel were both
credited with six. Deion Holts
recorded a pair of sacks, with
Daniel Williams adding three
stops for loss including a sack.
Chris Jackson had two receptions for 49 yards, with his 43yard catch in the second half the
longest play of the day.
"I liked the effort, but you
could see that we are a young
football team," said Elson.
"There were a lot of foolish
penalties and too many mental
mistakes. We need to see some
leaders step up in these game
situations."
- MSU: Jackson becomes Marketing ·a nd Promotions
Director; Wells rejoins Eagle Athletics As
Compliance and Eligibilty Director
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
MOREHEAD
- Paula
Jackson, who has spent the past
, year as Morehead State's Senior
Wo91an Administrator for athletics while also involved with
~ compliance and eligibility, is
now the University's Marketing
and Promotions Director for
athletics as well as continuing to
. serve as SWA.
Also, Jong-time Eagle athlet1
ic staff member Jim Wells has
rejoined the staff as Compliance
and Eligibility Director after a
period of retirement. In addition
to having worked extensively in
the compliance area, Wells has
also served Eagle athletics as
softball coach and sports information director.
"Paula is a seasoned veteran
in the promotions, public relations and marketing fields and
has vast experience both in the
college setting and in the private
sector," said Director of
Athletics Brian Hutchinson.
"We're pleased to have her
serve in this capacity while continuing her role as SWA and
with our Student Athlete
Advisory Committee.
"We're pleased to have Jim
back with our compliance and
eligibility efforts. He is well
versed in the very complicated
fields of NCAA compliance and
eligibility and has the trust and
confidence of our coaches and
administration. This realignment will strengthen the efficiency and overall operation of
our athletic department."
;MSU blasts Shawnee State 17-5
I
TIMES STAFF REPORT
I
MOREHEAD - Senior out. fielder Travis Rima hit a grand
' slam home run and 13 different
Morehead State players had
base hits as the Eagles defeated
Shawnee State 17-5 Wednesday
afternoon at Allen Field. MSU is
now 14-14 on the season.
Shawnee State is 12-9-1.
Rima's grand slam was the
key hit in a seven-run second
inning for the Eagles. In total,
• MS
oach John Jarnagin used
26
yers in the contest.
Senior second baseman Lance
Seasor extended his hitting
streak to 18 games with a double in his only official at bat.
Shawnee State leftfielder Jeff
Tillman had a home run and a
double to lead the Bear offense.
Freshman Matt Clark, the second of eight MSU pitchers, got
his first collegiate win and
evened his record at 1-1.
Shawnee State starter Justin Craft
(0-2) was the losing pitcher.
Seasor is the Ohio Valley
Conference Player of the Week.
He extended his hitting
streak to 17 games, going 8-for18 (.444) with nine runs scored,
five homers and 12 runs batted
in as MSU posted a 3-1 record
last week. Included was a twogame sweep of Tennessee Tech
that kept the Eagles unbeaten
(5-0) in conference play.
The Catlettsburg native
entered Wednesday's game with
a slugging percentage of 1.278
and an on-base percentage of
.545. Defensively, he had handled 20 chances without an error
and was a part of five double
plays.
Clark becoflles second native
:Kentuckian to play for Legends
1
l
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON
The
Houston'' Astros released the
~~ 2005 Le~ington Legends roster
~ on Sut" ay. The Legends will
(
have
ee players returning to
~ the :B1begrass this season and
for th'~ second straight year a
· nati~e1 Kentuckian.
_ F1fst
baseman
Scott
' Robfnson and third baseman
r Saul Torres will join pitcher
Raymar Diaz for a second tour
~ of the South Atlantic League.
Catcher Chris Clark will follow
•,
~ UIF
in the footsteps of fellow EKU
alum Josh Anderson and play
his first full season of professional baseball in his horne
state. Clark hails from Ashland.
The Legends roster has plenty
of star power. 2004 Appalachian
League MVP, Mitch Einertson
will lead the Legends offense.
Einertson tied a 44-year-old
league record with 24 home runs.
Einertson also led the league in
RBI (67), extra-base hits (39)
and slugging percentage (.692).
Shortstop Ben Zobrist led the
Appalachian League in batting
average (.339) and on-base percentage (.438). Outfielder
Hunter Pence will provide some
power. Houston's 2004 second
round selection hit .294 with
eight home runs for Tri-City.
Troy Patton will be the anchor
of the Lexington pitching staff.
The lefty had an ERA of 1.93 in
six starts for Greeneville in the
Appalachian League. Enyelbert
Soto will be counted on to be the
Legends closer. Soto picked up
13 saves for Greeneville in 2004.
He also impressed by striking out
47 batters while just walking two.
announced schedule changes:
fj
~Lexington's next home game April 30
:
·'
·,
)
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON
-The
Lexington Horsemen recently
·" announced that the United
Indoor Football League has
adjusted the schedule for the
2005 season. The adjustment is
a result of the suspension of the
Dayton franchise for the 2005
• season.
Lexington's game slated for
April 23, has been rescheduled
for Saturday, July 16 against the
Tupelo Fireants. All tickets purchased for the April 23 game
will be honored at the July 16
game. The only other change to
the schedule is the Horsemen's
opponent for the April 30 game.
It will now be the Ohio Valley
Greyhounds.
The Horsemen defeated the
Greyhounds on Saturday, March
26 in a hard-fought battle, 63-62.
On April 30, the Horsemen
will be hosting Old School
Night presented by University
Commons and WTVQ-36. Old
School Night is a flash back to
the 70's with $1 food and drink
specials, and costume contest.
For additional information
on the entire league schedule, go
online to www.unitedindoorfootball.com .
8, 2005 • 8 5
• MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Reds 6, Mets
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI - The last
time the Mets started this
badly, Casey Stengel was calling the shots.
Aaron Harang allowed only
one single in 6 1-3 innings
D'Angelo
Thursday, and
Jimenez had a pinch 1?JO-run
double off Kazuhisa Ishii that
sent the Cincinnati Reds to a 61 victory and three-game
sweep of New York.
With a combined four-hitter,
the Reds improved to 3-0 for
the first time since 1990, when
they won their first nine and
swept Oakland in the World
Series. The last time they swept
the Mets at home was 1995,
also a noteworthy year - the
last time Cincinnati reached the
playoffs.
Good omens all around.
Not so for the Mets, who
hadn't lost their first three
games since 1964, Stengel's
third year managing a fledgling
club that redefined losing.
The Mets dropped their first
nine games in the inaugural
1962 season, on their way to a
standard-setting 120 losses.
They went 0-8 and lost Ill a
year later. By those standards,
their 0-4 start in 1964 was
deemed an improvement.
This slow start under firstyear manager Willie Randolph
is nothing but trouble.
The Mets grabbed offseason
headlines with their highpriced overhaul, committing
$172 million to Pedro Martinez
and Carlos Beltran. Their $105
million payroll is the NL's
largest and ranks third overall,
trailing only the Yankees and
Red Sox.
The bullpen blew a ninthinning lead in the season opener, won by Joe Randa's homer.
Randa had a grand slam and six
RBis as Cincinnati won the
second game as well.
Harang completed the
sweep with one of the best performances of his career, allowing only three walks and
Ramon Castro's second-inning
single before letting the
bullpen take over.
The Mets failed to get an
extra-base hit. David Wright
and Marlon Anderson had
eighth-inning singles off Joe
Valentine, and Jason LaRue's
passed ball let in their only run.
New York loaded the bases
with two outs in the ninth on a
single and two walks off David
Weathers, but Danny Graves
retired pinch-hitter Mike
Piazza on a fly ball to get his
first save.
Harang topped Kazuhisa
Ishii, who allowed only two
costly hits over 6 2-3 innings.
Wily Mo Pena hit a solo homer
in the second, and Jimenez's
double sparked a three-run
rally in the seventh.
Ishii came to the Mets in a
March 20 trade with the
Dodgers, hoping to shake his
habit of working deep into
counts and walking a lot of batters. He walked Ryan Freel and
Felipe Lopez to open the Reds'
first, setting himself up for
familiar trouble.
Kaz Matsui, moved r m
shortstop to second base th1
season, let Sean Casey's pc• n
tial double-play grounder g t
through him for an error that e
in a run, and Austin Kearn
lowed with a sacrifice fly.
Pena got into the lineup fo
the first time because rnam •
Dave Miley decided to rest (en
Griffey Jr., who had surgery to
reattach his right hamstring hst
August. Pregame rain left th~::
outfield wet.
Pena led off the second
inning with a homer, the last hit
that Ishii allowed until the se'venth. The left-hander got into a
flow after the homer, retiring
the next 11 batters and fanning
five straight during that stretch.
Freel got a warm reccpt 1
from the fans during pregame
introductions. Freel, play ing
for the first time since h ·:.
drunken driving arrest on
Monday night, had an RBI sin
gle and two of the four walks
off Ishii.
Notes: Randolph played for
the Mets in 1992, when they
started 2-6 .... Reds OF Ad< m
Dunn struck out three times .
raising his three-game total to
seven. Dunn set a major league
record by fanning 195 times
last season. ... LHP I:-.ric
Milton, who won his Reds
debut on Wednesday night. v..·ill
start again on Sunday at
Houston, getting only thr~~::
days between starts. In the
other three times he's gone on
short rest, Milton was .0-2 \\ith
a 3.10 ERA.
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�86 • FRIDAY,
APRIL
8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Harvick in harmony at RCR, even with teammates
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kevin
Harvic:k climbed from the car
ready to celebrate snapping his
55-race winless streak. Overjoyed
at his victory, the words came
tumbling out of his mouth almost
as fast as he had just driven his car.
'Td like to thank my teammates. Jeff Burton and Dave
Blaney," he said in the middle of
his victory speech at Bristol
Motor Speedway last weekend.
Yes, it turns out Harvick can
get along with others , and that
harmony just might be the key to
success this season at Richard
Childress Racing.
'T he relationships are really
good right now, everybody
twdcrstands that you don't have
to be best friends or even buddies off the race track and that
helps ," Harvick said. "But more
importantly, everybody has a
common goal and everybody
understands what it is, so working together is a lot easier."
Playing well with others wasn't Harvick's strength in his first
four Nextel Cup seasons.
He and Mike Skinner didn't
exactly hit it off when Harvick
was thrust into the late Dale
Earnhardt's ride following
Earnhardt's 2001 death.
Things didn't get better when
Robby Gordon replaced Skinner
midway through that season.
The two had plenty of on-track
battles, including one in
California when Gordon violated the "gentleman's agreement"
and passed his teammate under
caution.
Harvick made it public by
1 issuing a statement through the
media.
t "This dates back a few years
and he's shown how he wants to
race me," Harvick said after the
June 2003 race. "I promise I'm
going to race him like he wants it
from now on- teammates or not."
But no feud was as public as
the one between Harvick and
Jeff Green. It boiled over after a
May 2003 race in Richmond,
when Green felt Harvick
wrecked him to end his day.
Green got out of his car and
went to Harvick's pit stall,
where he had angry exchanges
with Harvick's crew chief and
team owner Richard Childress.
"It seems like there's only
one team at RCR," Green fumed
afterward.
So it's easy to understand
why Burton was a little hesitant
to join RCR late last season after
8 1/2 harmonious years at Roush
Racing.
"I had some concerns about
going there, because from the
outside all I saw was constant
strife," Burton said. "And I was
leaving a deal where five teams
always got along. I didn't want
to go into a situation that was
hostile, where from the outside it
looked like one guy couldn't get
along with anyone."
Harvick eased all of those
worries by dropping by Burton's
motorhome one night for a manto-man conversation.
"Once I sat down and met
him, all my concerns were
gone," Burton said.
In fairness to Harvick, not all the
conflicts at RCR were his fault. But
as the flagship driver of the threecar organization, it sometimes
appeared as if he was the favorite
son who could do no wrong.
In reality, it was a clash of
strong-willed drivers all wanting
to win - as individuals - at any
expense.
With Gordon off as his own
car owner this season and Green
driving for Petty Enterprises,
Harvick now sees how silly
some of it really was.
"Robby and I actually got
along fine the last year and a half
or so- I mean, it took awhilebut people really blew that way
out of proportion," Harvick said.
"And Jeff Green and I are on
speaking terms and talk to each
other now.
"Everybody realizes what
they do wrong after the situation
is over, and you have to be
adults about it and say 'Hey, that
was stupid."'
With the current combination
of Burton, a respected veteran,
and Blaney, a talented driver
most believe just needed to land
with a strong team, the conflicts
should be few and far between.
The focus now is on teamwork
and getting all three cars to run
equally well each week.
"Jeff and Dave don't come
with huge egos, and they don't
care whose car outruns whose,"
Harvick said.
Once considered one of the
top organizations in NASCAR,
when Childress and Earnhardt
teamed to win six championships between 1986 and 1994,
the team fell off the pace during
a 54-race winless streak.
But hard work during the winter and a handful of personnel
changes apparently have RCR
back on track: Harvick ended the
losing streak last weekend at
Bristol by sweeping the Nextel
Cup and Busch series races.
Now it's just a matter of how
long it lasts.
"It is a good mix, but we're
still in the honeymoon phase,
too," Harvick said. "None of us
anticipates · anything going
wrong. But if it does, we can handle it between ourselves. That's
good because it doesn't have to
get in the media and go down
roads it doesn't need to go down.
photo by David Allio
"We can talk about it our- Kevin Harvick had quite a couple of days in Bristol, Tenn., winselves."
ning both the NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series races.
Familiar names may be future
of American open-wheel racing
by MIKE HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
photos courtesy of Kentucky Speedway
This past week, NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Petty both tested at
Kentucky Speedway.
Earnhardt, Petty. look for
edge in Kentucky testing
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
to see what does what, what
feels this way and what feels
SPARTA - NASCAR Nextel that way to improve the car.
Series Cup teams from Dale
"This boils down to what
Earnhardt,
Inc.,
Petty kind of racecar we're taking to
Enterprises
and
Morgan- the racetrack. If we improve the
McClure Motorsports visited car we're building at the shop,
Kentucky Speedway Tuesday to we'll have a faster, more com·
help driver:- Dale Earnhardt Jr., petitive team."
Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Petty,
Truex used his time on the
Jeff Green and Mike Wallace track to gain knowledge for his
develop a competitive edge for , remaining Nextel Cup Series
upcoming races on intermediate \ starts this season and to mentaltracks.
ly regroup from a tough start to
Earnhardt, who was second his NASCAR Busch Series seain the series standings after the son.
fifth race of2004, used a fourth"This is a good mile-and-aplace finish at Bristol to move to half track to test because aero17th in the current standings. dynamics come into play real
After generating an average fin- big here," Truex said. "With the
ish of 21 st through the first five new Cup spoiler rule, the Cup
series races this season, the No. and Busch cars are a good bit
8 team is intent on building different. The Cup cars feel a bit
stronger racecars.
different getting into the cor" We weren' t that good at ners , that's the biggest part.
intermediate tracks last year and We're trying to get both cars to
we haven't really been that feel the same. If we do that,
strong this year," Earnhardt we'll have some good stuff.
said. "That's why we 're here
"We have six more races in
testing. Hopefully, we can learn the Cup series this year and
something . We're working on a we' re looking forward to it.
lot of different things all across We're real excited about it and
the board with our engineering . try)ng to learn as much as we
department, trying to build a can."
better racecar for the rest of the
The defending Busch Series
season.
champion will enter the next
''This track has a similar con- week's race at Texas Motor
fig uration to California or Speedway fifth in the series
Vegas. You can learn a little bit standings, but has not cracked
about corners, what helps the the top 10 in his last four starts.
cars turn and what gives them He owns a win and a total of two
grip in the rear. r think we have top-five finishes this season.
to work on the bodies a little bit
"It's been a tough season so
and get a little more grip.
far to be honest. We had a good
" We have good down force run at Daytona and obviously
numbers, but the car isn't pro- the win in Mexico was big for
viding us with enough grip. It's us, but we've had some bad luck
all numbers and figures, but you and tough races sjnce then," he
have to get out on the racetrack said. "I'm kind of glad to have a
week off to regroup as a team
before we get back after it at
Texas."
Improving competition levels also was on the mind of Petty
Enterprises. Petty was all smiles
following his eighth-place performance at Bristol. It was his
first top-1 0 Cup Series finish
since April 21, 2002 at
Talladega Superspeedway.
"Last weekend was really
good for Petty Enterprises,"
Petty said. "We kind of stuck it
out all day long, stayed out of
trouble, stayed out of everybody's way and when everything happened towards the end,
we knew we had a good shot at
moving up. We started like 12th
or 13th, passed a few guys and
got in the top 10. It was a good
run for us.
"Jeff Green and the Cheerios
Dodge qualified sixth and had
some bad luck in the race, but he
was going to have a good topfive, top-10 car."
Petty owns an average finish
of 10.8 through the first five
races of the season and is motivated by the results of his team's
new engine alliance with
Evemham Motorsports.
"Our engine program has
been the motivator," he added.
"We were looking at the No. 9
and No. 19 and saying, 'these
guys can run up front and win
races.' If we use their engines,
we ought to be able to. lf we
can't we have to look at our cars
and all the other aspects of Petty
Enterprises. We're trying to
improve on our car and our
chassis stuff because we know
what we're comparing ourselves
to. They build some good stuff
at Evernham Motorpsorts."
Marco Andretti is 18 and
has the weight of the American
open-wheel world on his narrow shoulders.
Last Sunday, winning in his
first race in the Indy Racing
League's
developmental
Infiniti Pro Series, the son of
Michael Andretti and grandson
of Mario Andretti caused a bigger stir among the sport's longtime fans than did the l-2-3-4
sweep by his father's Andretti
Green Racing team later that
day in the IndyCar Series event
at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Al Speyer, director of racing
for
Bridgestone/Firestone,
which furnishes tires for both
the IRL and rival Champ Car
World Series, was just as excited as anyone.
Two days before the Infiniti
Pro race, Speyer spoke of the
hope for the future as he
watched Marco and Alfred
Unser, 22, son of longtime racing star Al Unser Jr., being
interviewed.
"I think maybe this can
cause a spark," Speyer said.
"I'm thrilled this legacy and
competition will continue."
Andretti and Unser are two
of a handful of second- and
third-generation drivers who
may hold the future of
American open-wheel racing in
their hands, along with A.J.
Foyt IV, grandson of A.J. Foyt
Jr., and Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Those surnames captured
the imagination - and the wins
and championships - of the
racing world for decades.
They and a few others dominated the ovals and road
courses of America until, slowly, they began to lose the edge
and face the fact that it was
time to retire.
Michael Andretti called it
quits early in the 2003 season
and A1 Unser Jr. stepped out of
the cockpit midway through last
year. That left the top level of
the American open-wheel sport
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Shane Hmiel was fined
$10,000 and docked 25 points
in the standings by NASCAR
for making an obscene gesture
at Dale Jarrett during the Busch
Series race at Bristol Motor
Speedway earlier this week.
Hmiel was caught on f).is in-
~)
with only struggling third-gen- formative stages of their career,
eration driver Foyt IV to carry but people who care about the
on the tradition of the famous sport can't help but hope they
names that led the sport through will be the answer to oringing
it back - whether it be the IRL
the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
The decline of the sport was · or Champ Car or both - to its
hastened in 1996 when the IRL one-time glory.
came along as a rival to the
While the younger Foyt,
established CART Series. It who will be 21 in May and won •
split the sport's fan base and the Infmiti Pro title in 2002,
started a war that has left both races at the back of the pack in
sides far behind NASCAR in the IRL, trying to learn his craft
fans, TV ratings and allure.
at the top level of the sport, the
But both ,series have sol- rrcst of the youngsters are hopdiered on , working hard .to ing to work their way to the top.
regain some of that lost
As Marco was pulling off
momentum, even while lament- his win on Sunday, making a
ing that the top young drivers sensational three-wide pass for
who might have made a differ- the lead late in the race, Unser
ence - names such as Jeff was racing to fourth and
Gordon, Tony Stewart, Ryan Luyendyk to fifth. Of the trio,
Newman and Kasey Kahne - only the 23-year-old Luyendyk
have gone to NASCAR. The is a regular in the series, while
current stars in the IRL and Andretti is concentrating on the
Champ Car arc either foreign Star Mazda Series in 2005 and
drivers, who can't seem to work Unser is trying to find financtheir .way into the hearts of ing to run more Infiniti Pro
mainstream U.S. race fans , or events.
virtually unknown Ameiicans.
"I've always been an Unser
Enter this new cadre of and Marco has always been an
youngsters, aching to follow in Andretti ," Alfred said "So the
the footsteps of their famous pressure's always beenlpere. We
fathers or grandfathers.
j11st have to go out and do it."
The bloodlines are certainly
Marco has seen the power
there.
of his last name.
Marco's dad won a CART
Two weeks ago, he ' tested
championship and is the lead- the Inflniti Pro car on the road
ing race winner in that series . course at the Indianapolis
Mario Andretti won just about Motor Speedway, where his 1
everything there is to win in the relatives have been major play- ;
sport,
including
the ers for decades.
Indianapolis 500, the Daytona
He half spun the car on cold ·
500, a Formula One champi- tires as he left the pits and that •
onship and four Indy-car titles. became a national story.
'
Alfred's father is a two-time
"He's never seen that car
CART champ and two-time before and, after that, he was '
Indy winner, while grandfather right on pace on his first lap," l
AI Unser is a four-time Indy said grandfather Mario, shrugwinner. His uncle , Bobby ging. "This is what these kids
Unser, also won three Indy face because of their name.
500s.
Michael did and now Marco."
The elder Luyendyk won
But Marco insists ,he isn' t
two Indy 500s and Foyt is the feeling any undue pressure.
grandson of four-time Indy
''I'm doing what I want to
winner A.J. Foyt Jr., who also be doing, what I love to 'do," he
won a Daytona 500 and the 24 said. "I'm going to go ou\'there
Hours of ·L e Mans and is the and have fun.''
winningest driver in Ameiican
The future of American
open-wheel history.
open-wheel racing may depend
All of the youngsters are in on it.
Hmiel fined for making gesture
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1
car camera flipping his middle
finger at Jarrett after Jarrett
leaned inside his window to
complain about an accident
Hmiel had caused during
Monday's race.
Hmiel caused the last of 14
cautions during Monday's race
when Janett slowed to avoid an
accident, then was hit from
behind by Hmiel.
Jarrett exited his car and
walked half the front stretch to
Hmiel's car to confront him.
Jarrett's day was over, and Hmiel
went on to a 12th-place finish.
Hmiel was ninth in the
points standings before the
deduction, and did not drop
after the penalty. Car owner
Todd Braun was also docked
25 points as part of the penalty
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�Friday, April. 8, 2005
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Features Editor
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Iii Birthdays • page BB
&; New Arrivals • page B9
u~1 BSCTC Choir • page B9
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THROUGH MY EYES
Spring has
sprung
.ffl
~
As usual, I came back to work
this week more tired than when I
left out for a little "R&R." What
with household chores (of which
there were far too many to complete), having
three hungry
(and restless)
teenagers in
the house, a
niece in from
California and
a weekend trip
to
Central
Kentucky,
who
could
llathv Prater
possibly get
LHastvles adhar rested up?
I did manage to get the
carpets and windows cleaned, but
returned home with dirty laundry,
an aching back and Monday
morning on the rise. And speaking of rising Monday morning,
there was that old aggravation of
readjusting clocks a~ain - both
physically and internally. I have
said it numerous times before and
I'll say it many more, I'm sure - I
am not a fan of this twice yearly
"let's play around with the time"
thing. Heck, no wonder a person
can't ever get rested up and feeling normal - right about the time
the old system starts gettin' into a
nice and easy groove, it's time to
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No time for college? Try Weekender
Hazard Community & Technical
College is starting something new called
Weekender-a chance to get an education
by attending classes on just Fridays from 4
p.m. to 9 p.m.9:00 p.m. and Saturdays from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Beginning with the Fall
2005 semester, Weekender classes will be
scheduled in an accelerated, web-enhanced
format. Each class will last approximately
four weeks so one class will be scheduled
each month. following an approved rotation. Completion of the approved rotation
will fulfill the graduation requirement~ for
an Associate of Arts degree.
'This mode of delivery will give students much more flexibility than the traditional college scheduling format, which is
particularly beneficial to students who
work and/or have other obligations restricting their time," noted Germaine Shaffer,
Enrollment and Diversity Services director.
"The complete associate of arts degree program will still take approximately two
years to complete with scheduled breaks in
instruction," she noted. Classes offered will
include computers, English 101 and 102,
history, foreign language, science with lab,
math, social interaction, science, and communications.
"This is an innovative approach to
getting an education," noted Dr. Jay K.
Box, HCTC president/CEO. "We understand that there are people who can benefit from this non-traditional approach
and we hope they will take advantage of
this new plan."
Those who have questions about this
program, please contact Glenna Fletcher at
telephone extension 73502. You also may
email her at Glenna.Fletcher@kctcs.edu
HCTC forming
Professional Music Program
(See EYES, page eight)
Rhonda Brashear
plays a dulcimer
she made herself•
Dulcimer music Is
just one of the
components for
the new
professional
music
program
scheduled to
begin at the
Hazard
Community and
Technical College
during the fall
2007 semester.
POSTSCRIPT
.,A chance·
encounter
.4J
~
The trip is usually uneventful.
The dogs and I walk the route a
few times a week.
The highlight generally is
Ben's sniffing of an attractive
white and black female along the
way. He whines adoringly at her
through the chain link fence.
We also speak to Wilbur, the
beautiful little setter mix whose outgo i n g ,
friendly
nature has
gotten him
into trouble a
time or two,
resulting in
his confinement to a
leash
and
doghouse.
But one
Pam Shingler
day a few
contributing writer
weeks ago,
we encountered a diversion. A small, tan and
black terrier mix was visiting with
Wilbur and ran to the narrow road
to greet us.
Loudly barking, he lay down in
the middle of the road with his
Submitted article
Hazard
Community
&
Technical College is planning a
Professional Music Program based
in Hyden. The new program's
National Advisory Council met for
the first time Jan . 12- 14 and during that three-day retreat at the new
Kentucky
Community
and
Technical College System offices
in Versailles, the National Advisory
Council began formation of a program that will be unlike any in the
nation. The group meets again in
May to continue their work.
"This is the ideal location to
offer such a music program,"
noted Dr. Jay K. Box, HCTC president/CEO. "This region is so rich
in the heritage of Appalachian
music and Bluegrass music. What
better place to learn about traditional music than in the region
where it is so much an integral
part of life,'' he said.
Besides classes on vocals, banjo,
guitar, and other traditional instruments, students will leam about
contracts, working with agents,
copyrights for songs, and other
parts of the business side of music.
In addition, technological advances
have a major impact on the music
industry and students enrolled will
be learning the latest technology.
"Computer programs are used to
write music, arrange music, and
record music," noted Deronda
Mobelini, who is working with the
planning of the new program. "Our
classes will include instruction on
using this technology."
The
National
Advisory
Council's next meeting is planned
for May 18-20, so committee
members can tour the campuses
and talk with individuals in the
community about the vision for
creation of the new program. The
creation of the new program is
being modeled after the Kentucky
School of Craft in Hindman, which
involved finding the right person
to serve as the founding dean, Tim
Glotzbach. Likewise, a search will
be underway to find the ideal person to lead the program. A subgroup of the national advisory
committee is currently working on
identifying the qualifications needed for such a demanding job.
!'We expect the program to draw
students from the region, as well as
the rest of the nation and other countries," noted Professor Mobelini.
"The advisory' council has already
pointed out that countries, such as
Germany and Japan, have similarities to and an interest in the music of
this region, so we believe our new
program will be attractive to international students," she said.
Students completing the program will graduate with an associ-
ate degree in applied science,
although some students may
enroll in just a few classes to
enhance their quality of life or to
address continuing education
needs. A curriculum committee
(consisting of national advisory
council members and HCTC faculty) will develop a list of classes
to be offered, with the program
beginning in Fall 2007. Before
that time, the location of the music
program in Hyden will be determined. "We are working on a location that will provide a space for
musicians to play informallywhen they are out of the classroom," Dr. Box said. "We know
that kind of immersion into playing and performing will enhance
their learning experience, as well
as making the Hyden area a very
enjoyable place for the community to come out and be in the
evenings," he said.
(See POSTSCRIPT, page eight)
THINGS TO PONDER
Sibling Rivalry
By Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
After my' inquiring how the children
behave, a parent will frequently answer,
"They're like other brothers and sisters,
fighting and hitting all of the time. Kids
will be kids. It's just sibling rivalry."
Sometimes, parents seem to be overwhelmed by their kids' disruptive behaviors in the home and feel unable to do anything about the situation. "Dad, she's in
my room getting into my things again!
Mom, you never do anything about him
._ hitting me!" Major questions about sibling
rivalry usually are: where does it come
from and what can be done about it?
Jealousy and competition that erupts
into squabbles and bickering are thought to
be the basis of brothers and sisters' sibling
rivalry. Each child's individual characteristics add to conflict among siblings, such as
one or more children being fussy, easily
bored, tense, and easily frustrated. Also,
cltildrcn with significant developmental
weaknesses , language, attention, and social
interaction, are more prone to experience
friction with their brothers and sisters.
Another contributing factor to sibling
rivalry is the manner in which the family
functions. The research has shown that
sibling rivalry to not as likely to arise within families having the following characteristics: (1) parents display respectful ways
to solve daily problems and disagreements
so that there is a productive outcome without aggressive behaviors; (2) the family
maintains the overall understanding that
physical aggression and name calling is
not acceptable and will not be tolerated;
and (3) family members often have fun
doing activities together that are fun for
everyone. Another thing to remember is
that how the children are getting' along
might be a barometer of your family's real
level of harmony. Thus, the family striving
to improve how enjoyable family functions
arc tends to aid in reducing the likelihood
of sibling rivalry.
Besides the influence of each child characteristics and the family's overall functioning, research has demonstrated that the
content of television and movies watched
by children also plays a part in sibling rival-
ry. It has been shown that children watching violent TV and movies increase the risk
of aggressive behavior among children.
These results were more likely to be evident when the children were also prone to
aggressive behavior anyway. Observers of
how TV portrays sibling relationships concluded that sibling conflict and disrespect
have become the norm. As expected, a suggestion was to reduce the amount of violent
or aggressive programs that your children
watch. In addition, if the children do watch
these types of movies, watch it with them
and talk about what's being shown. Parents
can use this time to help the children under- Mable Rowe Lineberger,
stand the real-life consequences of violence
Ph.D.
and create nonviolent solutions to the spe(See PONDER, page eight)
�88 • FRIDAY,
APRIL
8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Eyes
• Continued from p7
foul it up again. There's a lot I
like and admire about old Ben
Franklin, but this idea of messing around with sleep schedules twice a year is one I wish
he' d never thunk of.
it is, then, gosh, John, I never
knew you had it in ya!
I like bright, bold colors and
these pieces are full of that. Gotta
get in and take a closer look.
****
****
My kids and I visited the
I saw an awfully engaging town of Berea this past weekdisplay of artwork earlier this end. If you've never been to
week hanging in the south win- Berea, then make plans to do so
dow of the Country at Heart now - it's especially beautiful
' shoppe downtown. The artist's ' in the early spring and a huge
name was listed as Johnny arts and crafts festival will be
·Spurlock. I'm wondering if it's held there this corning May 21the same one I used to visit 22. If you enjoy learning about
some with a few years back. If your Appalachian heritage and
talking with artists and craftsmen, then this is certainly the
place for you to be in May.
I have lots of great memories of days spent in Berea,
though I have to admit that
some days could have been better had I not been experiencing
a bit of a rebellious nature back
in those days. Nonetheless, I
had some great learning experiences at Berea and absolutely
loved the time I spent working
at Boone Tavern.
I eventually left Berea for
EKU, but I hold both schools
r.B irths/r.B irthdays
near and dear to my heart. I'd
love to see either of my kids
attend either school but fear
that son, Elliott, is not going to
settle for anything less than
Wildcat Country, just like old
Uncle Doug. UK is great, but
this mom just gets real nervous
thinking about one of her
young'uns off, alone, to the big
city. Smaller campuses just
make moms like me a little
more relaxed ...
At any rate, let's all make up
our minds to enjoy the nice
days ahead.
• Continued from p7
four legs extending in four
directions .
Daisy and Ben were curious.
They circled him as he wagged
his tail and appeared to smile.
As is the case with most
male dogs , he was smitten by
Daisy. It did no good to tell
him, She's not that kind of girl.
He could not be daunted. He
sniffed even as she snarled at
him. He sniffed from front to
back and licked her face if she
stood still long enough.
He accompanied us to the
crossroads where we normally
turn around to retrace our steps.
His tail wagged nonstop.
He heisted his leg, trying to
outdo Ben along the lassie's chain
link fence. He ignored Wilbur.
When I petted him, he
immediately turned over for a
tummy rub.
He had no collar, but he
appeared to be fit, with ample
padding around his ribs.
He came home with us and
hopped up the step and through
the gate, as if he belonged. I
offered him some food, just in
case he was hungry, but he wasn't interested.
Instead, he continued to
pester Daisy, which turned into
play. With Ben joining in, all
three dogs played chase for the
next 15 minutes or so. They ran
from one end of the fence to the
other, up the hill behind the
house and back around.
They stopped only when all
three were panting fiercely, and
then they plopped down on the
porch in a row.
I, of course, was wondering
what I was going to do with this
sweet little pixie. I could see
him as a part of our little group,
but I knew that I could not
afford another animal.
I considered taking him to
the shelter where I would have
to pay a fee to leave him and
where I could not be assured he
would be adopted. I tried to
think of someone I knew who
would take him in.
These thoughts filled my
head for the next hour or so
while I worked in the yard and
while the charming visitor
lounged with his new friends.
But before I could decide
the fate of the rascal , he
marched down to the gate and
stood there , almost en pointe,
until I went there to let him out.
He accepted a last pat on the
head, hopped down the step,
and sauntered down the street,
across the railroad tracks and
into the heart of the village,
quite purposefully.
Apparently, he had a home
and was just out on a Sunday
afternoon calling on neighbors .
He certainly brightened our
day. I hope his owners appreciate him.
Jacob is 1!
acob Andrew Briggs celebrated h is first birthday on March 30,
2005. Jacob is the son of William Briggs and Jessica Kidd, of
Harold. He is the grandson of John and Nanette Kidd, also of
Harold, and Taylor and Linda Briggs, of Allen. He is the greatgrandson of Otis and Jewel Kidd, of West Liberty, Robert Crum,
of Prestonsburg, and Rebecca Briggs, of Allen.
Ponder
• Continued from p7
cific problems presented in the
program.
What might parents do to
address sibling rivalry among
their children? After you better
understand what sibling rivalry
is all about, make an effort to
develop guidelines about how
to react when your children
wrangle, argue, and hit each
other. In the first place, don't
react al all. It is best to only get
involved with your children's
disputes if there appears to be
the possibility of physical harm.
Even at that time, encourage the
kids to ·resolve their 'OWil crisis
themselves. If you really think
you need to intervene, make an
effort to allow your children to
resolve their problems and
remind yourself not to do the
problem solving for them.
Another tactic parents might
utilize for sibling rivalry being
acted out is to separate the children until they are calm. Make
sure that they understand that
they need at least one idea upon
return about how their conflict
could have been avoided or
resolved. However, a problem in
a family seen recently was that
the mother finally admitted that
she was screaming at the kids
and showing her short temper as
much as the children were.
Often a significant portion
of the sibling rivalry situation
is the time and energy used to
try to blame which child was
responsible for the fight
between them. When in the
midst of trying to "figure it
out," make an attempt to step
back and realize that it takes
two to fight so that anyone
involved is partly responsible.
Then, there's the frequent argument of the same items and
activities, such as TV or video
games and riding in the front
seat. This is the time for the
parents to establish a schedule
showing which child will be
doing what during the week. If
the sibling rivalry continues
with it's acting out behaviors of
squabbles, yelling, and pushing, have weekly family meetings so your family's rules
about fighting and name-calling can be reviewed. Be sure to
stress how the family has been
successful in reducing conflicts. Also remember that With
an emphasis on the positive
throughout the day, the negative is less likely to happen. It
is very important to view each
child as an individual and make
sure that there are times for
everyone to get that special
attention and teach each child
how to get attention without
showing acting-out behaviors.
Even though parents can
take charge of their children's
conflicts, there is a small percentage of families where the
sibling rivalry becomes so
severe that it's unlikely to go
away without the help of a
mental health professional.
The following are suggested as
indicators families need professional services to address sibling conflict: is so severe that it
is leading to marital problems;
creates a real danger of physical harm to one or more family
members; is damaging to the
self-esteem or psychological
well-being of one or more family members; and may be related to another psychiatric disorder, such as depression or drug
abuse. Remember that life
does not need to be painful for
anyone, children or parents .
Happy Birthday!
Joy Ann Hunter celebrated her 15th birthday on Tuesday, April
5, 2005. Joy Ann is the daughter of Larry and Loretta Hunter, of
Printer. She is the granddaughter of Daniel and Nelvie Sue
Boyd, of Dana, and Myrtle Hunter, of Printer, and the late Charlie
Hunter Jr. She is a freshman at Betsy Layne High School.
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• If you would be interested in volunteering at AMS, contact the Youth
Services Center to schedule a time for
Volunteer Orientation.
• Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center is open each weekday
~ from 8 a .m. to 4 p.m. The center offers
services to all families regardless of
income. For more information about
any of the activities or services of the
center, please contact the center at 8861297. Center Coordinator - Mithelle
Keathley; Assistant - Sheila Allen.
Allen Central Middle School
• The ACMS Youth Service Center
is open each day from 8:00a.m. to 3:00
p .m ., or later by appointment. For
more information about the center, call
LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 3580134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service Center
•
Call now to learn about
Kindergarten registration at Allen
Elementary, 874-2165. AES is a "Great
Place to Learn."
•
Call Allen Elementary Youth
Service Center at 874-0621 to schedule
your child's Hepatitis B vaccination,
immunizations, and WIC appointments.
Betsy layne· Elementary
• The Betsy Layne Elementary
Family Resource Youth Service Center
is located in the 500 building of the
campus. The goal of the FRYSC is to
meet the needs of all children and their
families who reside in the community
or neighborhood by the school in which
the center is located. For further information, please contact the center at
478-5550 or 478-9751, ext. 310.
•
Brian H. Akers, Center
Coordinator;
Charlotte
Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra Hayes,
School Nurse.
Clark Elementary
• A nurse from the Floyd County
Health Dept. is in the center weekly
and sees WIC patients, does well-child
exams (birth-18 years), and gives
immunizations. Currently scheduling
exams for students who will be in the
6th grade in the next school year. Call
for an appointment- 886-0815.
• The Clark Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families regardless of income. We
are located in the Clark Elementary
School building and can be reached by
calling 886-0815.
Duff Elementary
• Floyd County Health Dept. is at
the school each Tuesday. Services
include 6th grade school entry physical; kindergarten, Head Start and wellchild physicals (age birth to 18 years);
T.B. skin test; T.D. boosters; and WIC
services. Please call 358-9878 for
appointment if you are in need of any
of these services.
• The J .A. Duff Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families regardless of income. We
are located in the tan metal building at
the rear of the school. Contact persons
are Judy Handshoe, coordinator, and
Ruby Bailey, assistant.
May Valley Elementary
• May 5, 6- Kindergarten registration for 2005-06 school year, 8:30a.m.
to 2:30p.m. If possible, new students
should accompany their parents to the
registration process. For more information, call the school at 285-0883.
• Parent Lending Library is available to parents for video check-outs. A
variety of topics are available.
• Floyd County Health Dept. nurse
at school every Wednesday. Services
include Head Start physicals, kindergarten physicals, 6th grade physicals,
well-child physicals, immunizations,
TB skin test, WIC program, blood pressure checks, and more. Must call the
FRC at 285-0321 for an appointment.
McDowell Elementary and Family
Resource Center
• GED classes offered on Mondays
and Wednesdays, from 8:30-11:30 a.m.,
at the Family Resource Center. Call
377-2678 for more information.
• Floyd County Health Department
Nurse Joy Moore, is at the center each
Monday to administer immunizations,
T.B. skin tests, well-child exams, WIC,
prenatal and post-partum services, and
school physicals. Call377-2678 for an
appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
• Now accepting applications for
enrollment for Kindergarten for the
2005-06 school year. Call 285-5141
for more information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and
. Family Resource Center
• April 11 -last day to turn in Food
City receipts!
• May 24, 25 - Kindergatten registration for 2005-2006 school year, 8:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in school auditorium.
The following information is required
before enrollment: Student's birth certificate, social security card, immunization records, physical exam, and eye
exam. Please bring these documents
the day you register your child.
• The Family Resource Center is
open weekdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m., and later
by appointment. Office provides services
for all farrtilies, regardless of income.
•
After School Child Care, 3-6
p.m., school days.
•
Call 886-7088 for additional
information regarding the Prestonsburg
Elementary Family Resource Center or
its programs.
South Floyd Youth Services Center
• Committee sign-ups may be done
through the Youth Services Center otlice.
• Walking track open to public
• The center has a one-stop career
station satellite that is available to the
community as well as students.
• Anyone interested m Adult Ed
may contact the center for information .
• All new students and visitors,
stop by the Center, located on the South
Floyd campus, Room 232, and see
Mable Hall.
• For more information call 4529600 or 9607 and ask for Mable Hall,
ext. 243, or Keith Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center.
• April 11 , 12 , 13 - Free computer
class, beginners and advanced, 5:30 to
7:30, in school computer lab. If interested, call FRC center to sign up.
• FRC monthly Advisory Council
meetings will be held the first
Wednesday of each month, at 4 p.m.
Call for more info.
• Lost & Found located in Family
Resource Center.
• Resource Center hour!> are 8:00
a.m . to 4:00p .m . Parents and community members are welcome to vi<>it. For
questions, call 5 87-2233 - ask for
Tristan Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne " Rainbow Junction"
Family Resource Center
Character Words for the Month:
Tolerance and Kindness.
• "Lost & Found" is located in the
FRC. If your child has lost any clothing or other personal items pl~.!asl:
remind them to check in the FRC.
Items not claimed within 2 weeks,
become the property of the FRC.
•
Rainbow Junction Family
Resource Center is located in theW. D .
Osborne Elementary School. Hours of
operation.- 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday, or later by appointment. Call 452-4553 al).d ask for Cissy
or Karen. Parents/community members free to visit any time.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare and
Infantffoddler Care accepts infants and
toddlers up to 2 years and Preschool
age 2-4. Daycare hours. 7 a.m. to 5:30 ~
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional information, call
874-8328. Summer office hours: 9
a.m. to l p.m.
Floyd County Adult Ed Class
Schedule
• BSCTC, Prestonsburg campus:
Mon., Wed .. Fri. - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.; Tue., Thur. - II :30 a.m. to 7:30
p.m. Contact. Jason Cassell - 8863863, ext. 67219. Room m207 (second
t1oor. Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning Center:
Tuc., Thur. - 8:30 a.m to 4 :30 p .m.
Contact: Lucille Fuchs- 886-0709.
Martin Extended Education
•
Service Center: Tue .. Thur.- 8:00a.m .
to 4:00 p .m. Contact: Vanessa Tackett
- 285-5 111.
• Wayland EESC: Mon., Wed. 8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m . Contact Vanessa
Tackett - 358-3400.
• Wheelwright: Mon .. Wed.- 9:00
a.m. to 4:00p .m. Con tact: Penny Fell
452-4324.
• McDowell: Mon .. Wed. - 8:3011:30 a .m . Call 377-2678.
• For more information about Adult
Education class schedules. contact the
David School at 886-8374. A!l classes ~
and materials free of charge.
�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
8, 2005 • 89
g;,:..
~mily
Pneumonia Rx: Rest, nutrition
Medicine and sometimes antibiotics
Martha A Simpson, no, M.BA
Associate Professor
ofFn.mily Meduine
Q
uestiOn: My doctor
told me I had pneumonia a
couple of weeks ago. I was
on
ics for about ten days. I feel
better nm., , but I am still tired and
cough quite a bit. Can you tell me more
about pneumonia? Should I still be
tired and coughing?
easily treatable if they are caught early
m an otherwise healthy person.
The symptoms of pneumonia can
also vary depending on the causative
agent. With bacterial pneumonia, the
most common symptoms are chills,
fever, productive cough and pain in the
chest. These symptoms caR come on
gradually or abruptly. Some people can
become hypoxic- that is, they lack adequate oxygen in the blood - and
nswer: Pneumonia is an require supplemental oxygen to help
infection or inflammation of them breath.
the lungs or part of the
The viral form of the disease reprelungs. lt is a re latively common afflic- sents almost half of all cases of pneution and has many causes. Several dif- • monia. While the symptoms are generferent bacteria and viruses cause pneu- ally mild and a full recovery is the
monia. Most cases of pneumonia are norm, viral pneumonia can be a life-
A
threatening illness in very old and very
young patients, and in people whose
immune systems are weak. The symptoms are dry cough, high fever, weakness, and headache.
Another type of pneumonia is
mycoplasma pneumonia. This is usually mild and can affect all ages - but it
is particularly common in people under
the age of 40. Studies indicate that it
causes between 15 and 50 percent of all
pneumonia in adults and an even higher percentage of pneumonia in schoolaged children. The primary symptom
is a cough that persists for a long time
and weakness. The cough is usually
dry. There are many other causes of
pneumonia that are rare and usually
quite severe.
Treatment of pneumonia depends on
the type of pneumonia. Bacterial and
mycoplasma pneumonias usually
respond well to antibiotics. Some viral
pneumonias are treated with antiviral
agents, but in most cases supportive
care, such as rest, fluids and cough
syrup, will allow for resolution of the
infection in a week or so. It is not
unusual for a person with mycoplasma
pneumonia to cough and be weak for a
considerable time after the infection
has cleared. In fact, it takes a while for
most people with any type of pneumonia to bounce back and feel like themselves again.
Don't try to rush your body's healing process. It's vital to get adequate
rest and nutrition for full recovery.
There are also several preventive
steps that can be taken. Pneumonia
caused by the influenza virus can be
prevented by getting an influenza vaccine. Pneumonia vaccine prevents the
disease when it is caused by the
Streptococcus bacterial strain. Both of
these vaccines are recommended for
older people. The Hib vaccine can prevent some pneumonia in children .
Good hand-washing and not smoking
also help prevent pneumonia, and cov-
ering your nose and mouth when you
cough or sneeze will help prevent the
spread of the infection to others.
If, during the treatment or recovery
phases of your pneumonia, you feel you
are getting worse instead of better, you
should contact your physician immediately for follow-up care and advice.
Family Medicine® is a weekly column. To submit questions, write to
Martha A. Simpson, D.O., M.B.A.,
Ohio
University
College
of
Osteopathic Medicine, P.O. Box 110,
Athens, Ohio 45701, or via e-mail to
readerq uestions@ familymed icinenews.org. Medical information in this
column is provided as an educational
service only. It does not replace the
judgment of your personal physician,
who should be relied on to diagnose
and recommend treatment for any
medical conditions. Past columns are
available online at www.familymedicinenews .org.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College
continues to meet needs of the coal industry
Join the BSCTC Choir for concert performance
The Big Sdnd) Community
and
Techn ical
College
Community Ch01r. pictured
above, welcomes new members for the 2005 Spring
Concert season. The choir is
open to community members
12 and older as well as BSCTC
students, faculty, and staff.
This spring, the choir is performing a variety of music
including "I Hope You Dance,"
"The Phantom of the Opera
Medley," "Rockin' Robin,"
"You Raise Me Up," and others. The Spring Concert will be
held on Saturday, April 30 on
the Prestonsburg Campus in
Pike Auditorium. Interested
singers that wish to perform in
the concert should join choir
rehearsals
this
coming
Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 PM in
Pike Auditorium, on the
Prestonsburg campus, as well
as four remaining rehearsals
each Tuesday from 6: 30-7:30
PM.
Questions can be
addressed to Choir Director
and Kentucky Opry member
Laura Ford Hall at (606) 8863863
ext.
67227 . or
laura .hall@ kctcs .edu.
Let us show off
your family pet!
Our pet photos file needs replenishing,
and we know that you have lots of
precious pies to share with us, so,
please, send them along! And while
you re at it, help Dr. Carol get her
creative thoughts jumpstarted by
sending along a few questions about
''pet things you ve always wanted to
know but have been afraid to ask"!
You can send both pictures and
questions to: Kathy Prater at the
Floyd County Times, P.O. Box 390,
Prestonsburg, KY 41653, or you may
e-mail to:
features@jloydcountytimes.com.
Send questions only to Dr. Carol at: '
1768 KY Rt. 7, Estill, KY 41666, or
e-nzail to: carolbcac@tiusa.net.
We will be waiting to hear from you!
State Representative Hubert President of Institutional Services
Collins and Senator Ray Jones said, "Legislators like Collins and
were on hand at the Hager Hill Jones have been instrumental in
Campus of BSCTC, Tuesday, · passing laws to improve the
April 5, to mark the start-up of opportunities for education like
the reorganized truck driving that offered by BSCTC and for
program
at
Big
Sandy providing funding to make it posCommunity and Technical sible to keep abreast of business
College (BSCTC). Responding and industry needs. Men of
to the expressed needs of the vision like these are necessary in
coal industry · in eastern government, if we are to keep
Kentucky for more and better
prepared truck drivers, the truck
driving program has been reorganized under the direction of
David Pelphrey, Dean of
Community, Economic and
Workforce Development for the
college.
"Truck driving has long been
a staple career choice for many
men and women in eastern
Kentucky. Training and CDL
certification have become a
nesy~sity ~~. m~re .~'1~ ,,mow
commercial vehicles are needed
to transport everything from
vegetables to coal. BSCTC has
responded to that need with
classes designed to fit the needs
of students who have a desire to
drive the big rigs or need training for CDL certification," stated Pelplrrey.
Truck driving student Susan
Davidson from Morehead, KY
said, "I am a wife, mother of 5
children and grandmother of 3. I
have driven my husband's truck
and now I am here to learn and
get my CDL license so I can drive
with him." Calvin Bates, another
student from Jenkins, KY, said he
wants to be a truck driver to be
able to earn a better living for his
wife and two children.
Bobby
McCool,
Vice
Kentucky strong and our workforce ready to meet the challenges of today's economy."
The truck driving program at
BSCTC is a short term program.
Anyone interested in taking the
course should call the office of
Community, Economic and
Workforce Development at 606789-5321 ext. 82844 for information on the next enrollment.
Representative
Hubert
Collins,
student
Susan
Davidson
trom
Morehead,
and
Senator
Ray
Jones.
Student ·
Calvin
Bates
shows
Senator
Ray
Jones
how the
"Big Rig"
works.
crfew ~rrivafs
March 22, 2005
.- A daughter, Megan Lynn Gayheart, to Sarah and Michael Gayheart
March 23,2005
.• A daughter, Jasmine Gail Scott, to Anna and Erik Scott
.-A daughter, Amber Rose Moles, to Joshalyn Charleen Roberts
.-A daughter, Leith Abigail Conway, to Geneva Diane Boyd
.- A daughter, Brooklyn Lex.is Paige Francis, to Paula Renee Francis
.-A son, DevinAlanM.arsilett. to Rhonda Lynn andTunothy Marsilett
March 24, 2005
.- A daughter, Aliyah Lex.is Newsome, to Nichelle Lynn Newsome
.- A son, Andrew Jayden Osborne, to Carla Dawn and
Anthony Shawndan Osborne
March 25,2005
at 'lli~<Fir'StTFooemt·
Centet oo 'the
· of the
Hizairl Community and
Techiiical O;»lege. .Admissibn
iS free and an are invite<;.,
.• A daughter, Kaylee Madison Boyd, to Jennifer Dawn and
Steven Edward Boyd
.-A son, Benjamin Jacob Moore 11, to Julie Lynn May
•
•
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
110- Agriclilture
, 115 - ATV's
120- Boats
' 130- Cars
'' 140- 4x4's
· 150 - Miscellaneous
;)60- Motorcycles
,170 - Parts
175- SUV'$
180- Trucks
190- Vans
210 --J9b Listings
220 ..;f'lelp Wante<j
230 • ~formation ·
250 - Miscellaneous
260 -l"art nme
270 ./filales
280 • Services
290 • Work Wante~
..
.410 - Animals
..,~20 - Appliances
AUTOMOTIVE
· ·1 20-Boats
FOR SALE: 18 ft.
Pontoon Boat Buggy,
40 HP Mercury O.B.,
Trolling Motor, Fish
Finder, 1994 Model
Real Fine Shape,
• Lots of Extras, Call
886-0342,
$5,000
Firm,
Trailer
Included.
130-Cars
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
1998 Windstar, 6
cyl., cold air, $2,995.
1997 Olds Bravada,
Like New, 60K Miles,
$6,500. 1995 Buick
LaSabre, Like New,
$2,500. Call 8862842 or 886-3451
FOR SALE
1993
Ford
Crown
Victoria.
138,000
miles. $,1200. call
606-874-0467
FOR SALE 1991
Corolla
Toyota
needs work $800 firm
call
606-886-8339
after 5 pm.
FOR SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
IJO title, good for parts.
$600 obo. Call 8744094.
140-4x4's
FOR SALE: Honda
'93
Fourwheeler.
300
Honda
'97
Fourwheel
drive.
Looks good and runs
good. Call 886·0875.
150-Miscellaneous
FOR SALE: 199?
D-20-A-7 Komatzu
Dozer. 1•995 hrs. 70
percent.
Evenings
only Call 478-1378
after 4pm.
160-Motorcycles
FOR SALE 1998
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
EMPLOYMENT
2002 HD 883 XLR
MOTORCYCLE,
Sharp,
Extremely
Low Miles, $7,250. [
Also
a
Whitney
Piano, $700. Call
886-9439 after 5pm.
180-Trucks
WANTED used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
FOR SALE: 2 1999
Chevrolet Blazers,
well equipped, Call
886-1221
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FOR SALE: 1995
HAROLD AREA
Toyota 4-Runner V6,
ALLEN TO
3.0 Engine, AC,
WHEELWRIGHT
Cruise
Control,
AREA
AM/FM CD Player,
The
LexingtonShape.
Excellent
$3,500 Firm, 886· Herald Leader has 2
3956 or 791-1579
morning paper routes
available in the Floyd
Co. area.
Routes
take about 2·3 hours
When responding to daily with an approxiEmployment ads that mate profit potential of
have reference num- $800-&1 ,000 monthly.
bers, please indicate Dependable transthat entire reference portation and ability to
number on the out- be bonded required.
side of your enve- Call 1-800-274-7355
lope.
Reference (ext.-3368)
numbers are used to
220-Help Wanted
help us direct your
letter to the correct
individual.
EQUIPMENT
SERVICE
Medical Equipment
205-Business Oppt.
Maintenance/Service
LOOKING
TO in
SE Kentucky,
START OR EXPAND Great Opportunity.
YOUR BUSINESS,
Electrical/Mechanical
or having trouble getcapabilities required.
ting a loan? We can
help! No up front fee, Send resume to:
fast & easy approval P.O. Box 2249
on all types of loans, Huntington, WV
call toll-free 866-681- 25723
1264
NEEDEDHELP
Someone to stay with
21o-Job listing
elderly lady in home,
Call 886-3984 or
A
NURSING
886 8037
HOME IS NOT YOUR
ONLY OPTION-Call
Caring Hearts In D E N T A L
Home Care,
the A S S I S T A N T
affordable solution for NEEDED,
Send
you. For as little as Resumes to: 419
$3.50 per hour you Town Mtn. Rd. , Suite
can keep your loved 105, Pikeville, KY
ones
at
home.. 41501
Looking for experiened and depend- LOCAL REBUILD
able people.
Call SHOP FOR MINE
886-7809 or 276-796- EQUIPMENT is look4700
ing for 2 experienced
EMS'AMBULANCE
DISPATHCER
NEEDED: Full and
Part-time shifts available. H.S. Diploma,
typing and computer
knowledge required,
excellent communication skills and ability
to multi-task are preferred. Previous medical experience is
helpful. On-site training
available.
Benefits available and
pay based on experience. Please mail
resume to: 171 Abbott
Creek
Rd.,
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653 or fax to 606886-0834. Call 606886-9845 with any
questions.
Pl"6pe!W
53o- Hom® >
,_ 550 - Lan~!f:,,
460 - Yard Sale
310. eusiness
Opportunity
330 ~\For Sale
BJ$lh;~
s1 o - cQmmetcl~' :
445 - Furnitul'&
.·.
4$0 - Lawn &, Q~it
300 • $NANCIAL
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The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly
accept
false or misleading
advertisements . Ads
which request or
require advance payment of fees for services or products
should be scrutinized
carefully.
505 -
440 - Electronics
:;d(~~f.::.:(
MEDICAL
SECRETARY
Needed to work
Mon.-Fri., 4-8pm and
every other Sat.,
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 886-1714 or
285-9000
.l~
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w
470-Health&Beauty
WOLFF TANNING
BEDS
Financing available,
Free delivery & set
up within 75 miles of
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale
Prices.
Call 888-554-0058
HOUSE FOR SALE
at Betsy Layne, 2 BR,
1 BA, LR, Kitchen,
Utility
Room,
Enclosed
F.:>rch,
Large Lot w/fence.
Walking
distance
from school and
shopping. $59,000
Call 478-8311
All Drywall, Dutch
with 2x6 walls,and
5/12 roof pitch, ultimate kitchen package, glass block window, and many more
extras, Set up for
viewing. For details
call 606-353-6444 or
toll free 577-3536444 the home show
550-Land/Lots
RENTALS
480-Miscellaneous
PART
TIME FOR SALE: 8 ft'
FOR SALE: 80
CASHIER Needed at refrigerated deli case, Acres of Land, Call
$1000, small pizza
285-0902
Classic Cleaners in
oven, $400, small
Prestonsburg,
No
juice cooler, $150,
Weekends, Evening
washer & dryer, $150
570-Mobile Homes
Shift. Call 789-7748
pair. Call 606-8862367.
2005 28x56, 3 BR 2
FOR SALE: 8 ft' deli BA,
2x6
walls,
cooler, $950 and Gas Ultimate Stainless
445-Furniture
convection
oven, Steel Kitchen pkg.
FOR SALE-Solid
$450. Call 606·886· Only 2 left, $54,000
Wood Office Desk.
2367.
Call 606·638-4663
Call 789-6320 or
367-1506
KAY'S WALLPAPER
1984 14x70, Will
RAY'S BARGAIN
205 Depot Road
Deliver
& Set!
Paintsville,
Ky.
CENTER
$5,900,
call
606-638Hundreds of Patterns
&
New
Used
Wallpaper
& 4663
Furniture
& of
Borders. All under
Appliances @ unbe- $10.00. Open Tues •
Used 2005 16x76,
lievable prices. Come
Lived in only Six
d'bl
Fri.
10
a.m.
to
5
p.m.
.1n today for mere
.
1 e
Sh AtTh Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m. Months! Looks Brand
.
s~vmgs. . op
e Closed Sun. &' Mon.
Little F;!,lrpltl,l!:8 l3lRt~ , 60B:ryoag.as8'2f.' -~'"1' New! Call tor Price!
606-638-4663
& Savel!
Route.
#122, McDowell. Call
FOR SALE: 10 inch
606-377-0143.
The Home Show,
Bridge Steel, 24
YARD SALE THIS
Louisa, KY.
Pieces, 5 ft & 12 ft in
Stop
in to see our
Length, Call 285460·Yard Sale
large selection of 24,
1293
28,
& 32
wides.
THURSDAY
&
POLE
BARN Alson check out our
FRIDAY, April 7th &
30x50x1 0'
Only 42' wide. 2005 sin8th at Dance Etc.
$6,795.00 Includes glewides in stock.
Studio
in
Painted Metal, Slider, 17151 Highway 23,
Prestons burg.
Free Delivery Call Louisa, KY
(Located across from 937-559-8385.
the new Food City 24x32x1 0'-$4,995.00
Final
clearance
and
behind 40x64x12'2004
lot
models
and
Dr.Jurich's office) In $13,995.00
2005 models now
case of rain the sale
Mechanics. Apply in will be held inside. 30x64x12'-$9,995.00 available! If you are
person at 542 Mare Toys, baby & kids http://natjonwidepole- serious about purchasing a new home
Creek
Road, clothes for boys & barns.com
you need to be with
Stanville, KY or call girls and lots more.
experienced staff to
478-2882 between Sale begins each day
get the right home at
7am-5pm.
at 9am.
a great price. The
530-Homes
Home Show-South
FIELD BIG YARD SALE,
OIL
son, Inc. US
William
Rain
or
Shine.
has
COMPANY
HOUSE
FOR 119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
Saturday,
April
9,
at
openings for hard
SALE
in 606-353-6444 or toll
32 Bevins St. near
working responsible
Prestonsburg, 3BR, free 877-353-6444
Pets.
Penelopes
Some
furniture
drivers. Must be of
Furniture,
Girls
included, $45,900,
age 21 or older. Must
Clothes Size 10-14,
have CDL with HAZ- Toddler Clothes Size Call anytime 8899821
MAT and tanker 2T-3T, Lots of Toys.
endorcements, good
driving record and 4 FAMILY YARD HOUSE FOR SALE
some
mechanical SALE: Behind R.E. Conveniently located
at lvel, 2 BR/1 BA w/2
across
Please Michael's,
apptitude.
Car Garage, Nine
apply in person at: from Dwale on U.S. Lots, can divide into 3
Well 23, plus-small clthes, parcels,
Universal
contact
electronics,
glassServices, Inc., 5252
owner at 859-576ware, much more.
7602
Rt. 1428, Allen, KY
April 9th.
41601
606-8743487,
Accepting
applications
Mon.
thru Fri. between the
hours of Bam and
1\ERCHANDISE
61 0-Apartments
DUPLEX FOR RENT:
2 BR Central Heat &
Air, Total Electric,
Excellent Condition.
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$1,500 sign on bonus!
We are currrently hiring Cor an open CMA
position, 3 p.m.-11 p.m.
We offer an excellent
benefits package and
competitive 'Wages. Call
or stop by a tour and
intervie"W to join our
caring team.
We are currently hiring for open CNA
positions. We offer an
excellent
benefit:s
package and competit:i'VIe w-ages. Call or
stop by for a tour and
interview- to join our
caring team!
Salyersville
Health Care
Salyersville
Health Care
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
571 Park~ay Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
BR
1
APARTMENT, Newly
Remodeled on Lake
Road
in
Prestonsburg .
Garbage
Pick-Up,
$250 per month +
Deposit. Call 7Q4824-2034
If you seek the advantages offered by Extendicare,
a national leader in healthcare, we have an outstanding opportunity for you. We are currently hiring for open RN or LPN full-time positions. We
offer a $1,500 sign on package, 12-hour shifts, excellent benefits and competitive wages, including a
special PRN Rate. Call or stop by for a tour and
interview to join our caring team.
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Salyersville Health Care
·
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
HOSPICE OF BIG SANDY
NOW UNDER
MANAGEMENT OF
HOSPICE OF PIKE COUNTY
has positions available
Skilled Nursing Staff
to meet the needs of dying patients.
Floyd, Martin, Magoffin and Johnson Counties
Part-Time Certified
Nursing Assistants
Competitive Salaries and Benefits,
On-Call Schedule,
If interested, please call
for an interview at
606-789-3841 or
800-998-9144
HAS AN OPENING FOR A
USED CAR SALESPERSON
We Offer:
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ClVIA's
CNA's
1 BR APARTMENT,
next to Waffle House.
$395 per month,
includes water. Call
859·339-2702, After
6pm 886-6465
RNILPN
REAL ESTATE
~<> ..._ •
Prestonsburg,
No
Pets. Call 889-9747
or 886-9007
• Unlimited Income Earning Potential
• Great Benefits - Including:
• Demo & Gas .
• 401-K Retirement
• Paid Vacation
• Health Insurance
Qualifications:
• Integrity
• Self-Starter
• Strong Sales Skills
• Automotive Background A Must
Call 886-9181
Ask for Virgil Slone or Chris Carter to make an appointment
�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
NOW RENTING
Park
Place
Apartments
in
Pr estons b urg.
Available for immedi·
ate occupancy. Rent
1
BR/$309,
2
BR/$345.
ASK
ABOUT OUR MOVE
IN SPECIAL.
Call
886-0039
I
NOW
RENTING
!b i n e w ood
Townhomes, Brand
New 2 & 3 BR
Townhomes Rt. 7
South. ASK ABOUT
OUR
MOVE IN
SPECIAL
Rental
Assistance Available!
Stave, Refridgerator,
Dishwasher,
WI D
Hook Ups. Call 349·
7000
RENOVATED
APARTMENT'S, Like
New, Furnished in
Downtown
Martin .
Call between 9am5pm dailey.
2853025
1 BR FURNISHED
APARTMENT,
Including Utilities. 2
BR Unfurnished.
Call 886-8366
2 BR 1 1/2 BATH
TOWNHOUSE also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
FURNISHED
1
BED ROOM APT.
Central heat & air.
Rent starting at $375.
+ $300.
month,
deposit water included. Located near
HRMC.
606-8899717.
620-0ffice/Storage
FOR RENT: Office
New
Suite,
Construction.
900
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking, Can be
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call
886·1515 for info.
_.
FOR RENT: Detail
Shop , 3 car capacity;
located at 834 S.
in
Lake
Drive
Prestonsburg,
Ky.
Call 886-8883-weekdays ;
889-9396evenings and weekend. Ask for Bud.
LEASE:
FOR
Warehouse 2,500 sq.
ft., concrete floor, 15
ft. ceiling, 12 ft. overA head door, located on
S.
Lake
Drive,
Prestonsburg. Call
886-8883, weekdays,
889-9396, evenings
and weekends. Ask
for Bud.
For Lease Finished
Office Space for
lease in prime location near BSCTC,
(PCC) and the new
Food City -- 2100 -sq. ft. Ground floor
' location with up to
~ five private offices,
conference
room,
kitchen, bath, parking
lot call Today 606424-2690 or 2262266
FOR RENT: 900
Sq.
Ft.
Office/Commercial
Space located next to
Reflections beauty
salon, 3 quarter miles
south of Martin on Rt
122 across from the
Garth Tech. School.
Call 285-911 2
630-Homes
FOR RE NT 3 BR
900-Legals
house.
Newly
remodele d , refe r - PUBLIC NOTICE
ences
requ ired .
Notice is hereby
886-8366.
given that Kathern
63
Collins,
HOUSE FOR RENT: Weddington
Lane,
Harold Ky, Pin Hook Emma, Ky., has filed
Hill, 1st house on left an application with
going up hill. Call the
Natural
478-5228
Resources
and
Environmental
640-Land/Lots Protection Cabinet to
placement of fill . The
Trailer lot for rent property is located at
on old U.S. 23 Emma, Ky., 2 miles
between
Preston- from Allen. Any comsburg and Paintsville ments or objections
call 606-886-9007 or concerning this appli889 9747
cation shall be directed
to:
Kentucky
TRAILER
LOT Division of Water,
FOR RENT, Large Water
Resources
Yard. Call 886-8366
Branch, 14 Reilly
Road,
Frankfort
For Rent : newly Office
Park,
constructed Mobile Frankfort, Kentucky
Home Lots in new 40601. Phone: (502)
Allen , reference 564-3410.
required call 606REQUEST FOR
874-2212
PROPOSALS
FOR FINANCIAL
AUDIT SERVICES
1 BR TRAILER For
Big Sandy Area
Rent, Call 874-9790 Community Action
Program, Inc., is cur14X70
MOBILE rently accepting proHOME FOR RENT, 3 posals for Financial
BR ,
Excellent
Audit Services for the
Condition, $425 per
contract
period of
month + Utilities,
Security Deposit and November 1, 2004,
Refe r ences through October 31 ,
2005. Proposals are
Required . 874-2802
subject to terms and
conditions of the
690-Want to Rent Request
For
Proposal. Copies of
WANT TO RENT 3 this Request For
or 4 BR House or Proposal may be
in
the
Apartment in the obtained
Prestonsb urg
or Accounting
Paintsville area. Call Department at the
address
below,
886-0325
Monday
through
Friday, between 8:30
SERVICES
a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
prior to the time and
date specified for bid
713-Child Care
opening.
Proposals must be
WILL DO BABY·
mailed or delivered to
SITTING
in
my
James
Michael
home.
Mon-Fri,
Howell,
Executive
please call 791-4223
Director, Big Sandy
Area
Community
Action
Program,
3rd
770~Repair/Services
floor
Johnson
Country Courthouse,
C A R P E N T R Y Paintsville,
Ky.
WORK
all types. 41240. All envelopes
New construction or must
clearly
be
r e m o d e I i n g . marked on the outGarages, decks, etc. side of the envelope,
Concrete work & sid- "FINANCIAL AUDIT
ing. Free estimates. PROPOSAL."
Call 886-8896.
Proposals will be
accepted until April
NEW HOMES & 22nd, 2005, and will
REM 0 DELl N G be opened at 11 a.m.,
Room
Additions, on April 25th, 2005.
Porches
& Decks, All proposals must be
Vynil Siding, Enter & received by the time
Exit
Painting, designated in the
Concrete Walks, Any invitation, and none
Size Metal Building & will be considered
Storage
Building. thereafter. Big Sandy
Community
Call Roger Honeycutt Area
886-0633,
Free Action Program, Inc.,
Estimates, 29 Years cannot
assume
Experience.
responsibility for any
delay as a result of
failure of the mails to
JKB
deliver bids on time.
LANDSCAPING &
Proposals will be
LAWN SERVICE
New jobs or mainte- opened and read at
nance, No job to big the time and location
or small, Free esti- stated above.
Call 889mates.
REQUEST FOR
0684, 874-1214, 226PROPOSALS
4147 or 226-4148
The Floyd County
CKF
Schools is soliciting
companies qualified
CONSTRUCTION
Any
type
of to perform an Energy
Provider
inside/outside work. Service
No job to big or small. Contract (ESPC) proDeck & Yard work, ject in the school diswife will clean house. trict. A request for
proposal is available
Call 285-9442
at the Floyd County
Website
D & D Tree Service Schools
Tree Trimming
Tree Removal
Free Estimates!
Lowest Prices
Guaranteed!
Call 606· 785-0316 or
785 - 9810
NOTICES
812-Free
FREE
PALLETS:
can be picked up
H 0 U S E F 0 R behind The Floyd
RENT:
County Times.
239 Francis Court,
Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft.,
Suitable for office,
small business or
residence. Not suitable location for children or pets. $500
per month + utilities.
,.. 886-6362
(www.floyd.k12.ky.us
) or by contacting
Gregory
Adams,
Director of Facilities
at (606) 874-9569. A
mandatory pre-proposal conference will
take place on April
11, 2005, at 1 p.m.,
local time, at the
District Maintenance
Facility, located at 23
Martin Street, Allen,
Kentucky.
Respondents must
contact the contact(s)
listed below at least
48 hours prior to the
conlerence to indicate their intention to
attend. Failure to
contact the Floyd
County
Public
Schools shall be reason to eliminate the
respondent from consideration. Access for
site visits will be
scheduled at the preproposal conference.
Gregory Adams or
Linda Hackworth
Floyd County
Public Schools
23 Martin Street
Allen, KY
41601
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
836-0304
Operator Change
In accordance with
the provisions of KAR
8:010, notice is hereby
given
that
Matt/Co, Inc., 439
Meadows
Branch,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky
41653,
intends to revise
Permit No. 836-0304
to change the operator. The operator
presently approved in
the permit is Matt/Co,
Inc. , 439 Meadows
Branch,
Prest9nsburg,
Kentucky 41653. The
new operator will be
CSB II , Inc., P.O. Box
1409,
Somerset,
Kentucky 42502.
The operation is
located 1.70 mile
west of Lancer, in
Floyd County. The
operation is approximately 0.70 mile
northeast
from
Sugarloaf
Branch
Road's junction with
KY 1428, and is
located on Dials
Branch of Sugarloaf
Branch. The operation is located on the
Lancer USGS 7 1/2
minute quadrangle
maps at latitude
37°39'15" and longitude 82°42'00".
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources'
Prestonsburg
Regional Office, 3140
South Lake Drive,
Suite
6,
P r estonsburg ,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Mine
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow, U.S. 127
South,
Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601 . All
comments or objections
must
be
received within fifteen (15) days of
today's date.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER 836-
8027
RENEWAL
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
FCDC Coal, Inc., 750
Town
Mountain
Road , Pikeville, KY
41501 , has applied
for a renewal of a
permit for a coal processing
facility,
affecting 34.25 acres,
located 0.1 0 mile
east of Ligon, in
Floyd County.
The proposed facility is approximately
0.5 mile south from
State Route 979
junction with Clear
Creek Road, and
located 0.75 mile
south of Ligon post
office. The latitude is
37°22'09". The longitude is 82° 40' 28".
The proposed facility is located on the
McDowell
and
Wheelwright
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The surface
area is owned by
Alma Land Company,
Gordon Meade, The
Elk
Horn
Coal
Will
Corporation,
Slone Heirs.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
of
Department
Natural Resources'
Prestonsburg
Regional Office, 3140
South Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Mine
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601 .
This is the final
advertisement of this
S Y S T E M
DESCRIPTION:
The Floyd County
Gas System consists
of a natural gas distribution system furnishing natural gas to
customers in the
communities of Allen,
Dwale, Estill, Garrett,
Hueysville, Lackey,
Middle
Creek,
Minnie, and Wayland,
and their outlying
vicinities in Floyd
County,
Kentucky.
Documentation
regarding the sale of
the Floyd County
Gas System may be
examined by scheduling an appointment
with David Layne, II,
or John Allen , Jr.,
during regular business hours from 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Local Time, Monday
through Friday, at the
offices
of
East
Utilities,
Kentucky
Inc.,
located
at
Central
Avenue,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky [Telephone
(606) 886-2431 ; FAX:
(606) 889·9196], and
having the mailing
address of P.O. Box
408, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653.
A qualified bidder
will be required to
provide all necessary
proof of the bidder's
financial, technical,
and managerial ability to purchase, operate, and maintain the
Floyd County Gas
System. An award of
the bid and the sale
of the Floyd County
Gas System shall be
contingent upon the
approval of the system's transfer by the
Kentucky
Public
Service Commission.
Any bid received
later than the time
specified for receipt
of bids or any bid not
submitted with the
necessary documentation shall not be
considered.
Bids
received after the
scheduled
closing
time for the receipt of
bids will be returned
unopened to the bidders. Submission of
a bid shall be construed as evidence
and confirmation that
the
bidder
has
reviewed all necessary documentation,
has made all necessary site visits, and
has conducted suffi cient due diligence to
BID PROCESS :
allow its submission
The Floyd County of a bid and bona fide
Fiscal Court will offer for the system.
receive sealed bids
for the sale of the
The Floyd County
Floyd County Gas Fiscal Court reserves
System at the Office the right to reject any
of the Floyd County and all bids or to
Judge
Executive, waive any formalities
located on the ~nd in the bidding. No bid
floor of the Floyd may be withdrawn for
County Courthouse, a period of sixty (60)
149 South Central days subsequent to
Avenue, Suite 9, the opening of bids
Prestonsburg , without the consent
Kentucky
41653 of the Floyd County
[Telephone
(606) Fiscal Court.
886-9193] until 4:00
p.m., Local Time, on
NOTICE OF
Thursday, April 21 ,
INTENTION
2005. The sealed
TO MINE
bids for the sale of
PURSUANT TO
the Floyd County
APPLICATION
Gas System will be
NUMBER 836opened
and
an
area within the permit
boundary will be
134.01 acres.
The proposed operation is approximately 2.2 miles southeast
from Ky. Rt. 194's
junction with Ky. Rt.
1428 , and located on
Cow Creek. The latitude is 37°38'07".
The longitude is
82°39'27".
The propo$ed operation is lo7ated on
Lanctr/Harold
the
U.S.G.S. I 7
1/2
minute qtladrangle
maps. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by Sarah B.
Allen. The operation
will underlie land
owned by Sarah B.
Allen and Woodrow
W. Burchett Jr.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Rec lamation
and
Enf orcement ' s
~HIGHLANDS
~ R E G J O N A L
8, 2005 • 811
Preston s bu rg
Regional Office, 3140
South Lake Drive ,
Suite
6,
Prestonsb u rg ,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfo rt, Kentucky
40601.
COme
at
886-8506
to
place
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Highlands, a growing premier healthcare facility in
Prestonsburg, is currently recruiting for the following full-time
position:
Director
Environmental Services
Responsible for providing an aseptic and aesthetically
pleasing enw onment for the Medical Center patients,
employees and visitors through coordinating and supervising all
functions of the department. Promote and ensure high
standards of performance by conducting quality assurance tours
and inspections and recognized methods of operation. Oversee
the Medical Center's hazardous material and waste management programs. Develop, implement and maintain the annual
operating budget within the established guidelines.
Requirements:
High School Diploma or equivalent, B.A. Degree preferred.
Three to five years experience in managing housekeeping, linen
service and biohazardous waste. Specific experience and
knowledge must include all phases of housekeeping techn1ques
and related equipment.
Interested applcants may apply to the
Human Resources Department
Highlands Regional Medical Center
5000 Kentucky Route 321, Prestonsburg, KY 41653
{606) 886-7530, Fax {606) 886-7534
E-Mail: tclark@hrmc.org
Highlands is an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit Highlands web site at www.hrmc.org
" Think Healthy, Think Highlands!"
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
NURSING OPPORT UNTIES
Highlands Regional Medical Center
is recruiting for the following positions:
Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses
""' ....... ~~uppgrtCare Unit . and Emergency Room)
HRMC, a good place to work, offers a competitive
salary and a generous benefit package including:
• Nine (9) paid holidays
• Retirement Plan
• Medical/Dental Insurance
Interested applicants may apply to the
Human Resources Department, HRMC,
5000 Ky. Rt. 321,
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
(606) 886·7530
Fax: (606) 886-7534
E-mail: tclark@hrmc.org
HRMC Job Line: (606) 886-7510
Highlands is an equal opportunity employer.
Advertisement for Sealed Bids
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RECEPTIONISTI AD CLERK
Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commissio n is accepting sealed bids for the following :
This is a full-time position and offers competitive pay,
health benefits, life Insurance, 401 (k), paid vacations,
holidays. and much, much more.
Please apply In person only at:
The Floyd Coun1y Times
263 S. Central Avenue
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
The Floyd County Times Is on equal opportunity employer.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
The Floyd Coun1y Times is seeking to fill the position of
Receptionist/Ad Clerk. In addition to traditional
receptionist du11es, this position provides Inside support
to the advertising department.
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award of the bidI
In
accordance
with
made to the highest
and best qualified KRS 350.055, notice
bidder at the Special is hereby given that
Meeting of the Floyd Mason Coal, Inc.,
Box
2864,
County Fiscal Court P.O.
scheduled for Friday, Pikeville, Kentucky
April 22, 2005, at 41502, has applied
ADVERTISEMENT 10:00 a.m., Local for a permit for an
coal
Time, to be held in underground
OF BIDS.
mining
operation,
the
County
REQUEST FOR
Courtroom, located located 2.2 miles
QUALIFIED
on the 2nd floor of east of Emma, in
BIDDERS
the Floyd County Floyd County. The
FOR THE SALE
Courthouse,
149 proposed operation
OF:
South
Central will disturb 3.63 surPlease visit Highlands web site at
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130.38
GAS SYSTEM
Prestonsburg, underlie
"Think Healthy, Think Highlands!"
acres, and the total
Kentucky.
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will
receive sealed bids
from qualified bidders
Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission is accepting seale d bids
for the sale of a NATfor the following:
URAL GAS DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM ,
Directional Road Boring Services in the size range Two inch (2") through
owned by
Floyd
Thirty-six inch (36") for any Commission Locations for the Period April 20,
County, Kentucky, by
2005, through June 30, 2006.
and through the
Floyd County Fiscal
Bidders are required to submit with their bids, proof of liability i nsurance
Court, and operated
in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000).
and managed by
East
Kentucky
Bids will be accepted through 3:00 p .m . on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 , at which
Utilities, Inc., purtime
the sealed bids will be opened. The w inning b id will be announced as soon
suant to a lease
as
possible
after Commission management has examined all bids.
agreement.
The
Floyd County Fiscal
Bids ~ be sealed and addressed as follows :
Court will receive
sealed bids for the
Mr. David M . Ellis , S uperintendent
sale of the Floyd
Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission
County Gas System
until 4:00 p.m., Local
2560 South Lake Drive
Time, on Thursday,
Prestonsburg , KY 41653
April 21, 2005.
Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission reserves the right to reject any or a ll bids .
applicati~m., .Ail ,com
ments, objections, or
request for a permit
conference must be
recieved within thirty
(30) days of today's
date.
,
!
Hot-mix blacktop patching and cold-mix blacktop patching for any
Commission Specified Locations for the Period April 20, 2005, t h ro ugh
December 01, 2005.
Bids for these services must be submitted on a per ton lay-down price with
said price to Include the utilization of the bidder/contractor's equipment.
Bidders are required to submit with their bids, proof of liability insurance In
the amount of one million dollars ($1 ,000,000).
Bids will be accepted through 3 :00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at which time
the sealed bids will be opened. The winning bid will be announced as soon as
possible after Commission management has examfned all bids.
Bids~ be sealed and addressed as follows :
Mr. David M. Ellis, Supe rintendent
Prestonsburg City's Uti lities Commission
2560 South Lake Drive
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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APRIL
DVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
Sealed bids for
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KY36Pi57o i - o 4 ,
otlodernization, will
•e received by The
=loyd
County
iousing Authority,
11ru Friday, April 29,
!005, at 2 p.m., (local
lme), and then at
laid office publicly
lpened and read
tloud. The project
:onsists
of:
1emodeling of 62
>athrooms and 20
>ne-half baths with
1ew
PVC
rub/Shower Liners,
avatories, Toilets,
-aucets, and Vinyl
-loor coverings.
The Information for
oidders, Bid Form,
-=orm of Contract,
Jrawings,
Specifications, and
·orms of Bid Bond,
Performance Bond
and Payment Bond,
and other contract
documents may be
examined at the following locations:
The Floyd County
Housing Authority,
402 John M.
Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY
41645,
606-285-3833;
Lynn Imaging,
328 Old Vine
Street,
Lexington, KY
40507,
859-255-i02i .
Additional information is provided in the
bidding documents.
Copies of the bidding
documents may be
obtained at the following location.
The Floyd County
Housing Authority,
402 John M.
Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY 41645,
Telephone
606-285-3833;
Fax: 606-285-3835,
Attention:
Harry Bennett,
Capital Grants
Coordinator.
Copies must be
obtained from Mr.
Harry L. Bennett at
the office of the Floyd
County
Housing
Authority, 402 John
M. Stumbo Drive,
Langley, KY. 4 i 645,
Telephone {606) 2853833.
Partial sets will not
be issued.
Bid Bonds and
Performance
and
Payment Bonds must
be secured by a
guaranty or surety
company listed in the
latest issue of U. S.
Treasury Circular 570
and shall be within
8, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
the
maximum
amount specified for
such company in said
Circular 570. The
"Bid Bond" and the
"Performance
and
Payment Bond" must
be issued by a surety
company authorized
to do business in the
state where the project is located, and
must be listed in U. S.
Treasury Circular No.
570.
23i .080, a hearing
has been scheduled
for April 2i, 2005, at
the hour of 2:30p.m.,
or as soon thereafter
as same can be
heard before the
County
Floyd
Judge/Executive at
the Floyd County
Justice Center, 2nd
floor in Prestonsburg,
Kentucky. The Floyd
C o u n t y
Judge/Executive
shall hear evidence
PUBLIC NOTICE in support of, or in
Pursuant to KRS opposition to, the
231.040, application granting of the perfor a permit to oper- mit.
ate a place of enterHON. KEITH
tainment, has been
BARTLEY
made by Harold E.
FLOYD COUNTY
Meade. The name of
ATTORNEY
the proposed business of entertainment is VITO's. The
COMMONnature of the busiWEALTH
ness will be dancing
OF KENTUCKY
and band/beer by the
DEPARTMENT
drink, wine coolers.
OF HIGHWAYS
Pursuant to KRS
NOTICE TO
23i .070, the Floyd
CONTRACTORS
County Attorney shall
Sealed bids will be
investigate whether
by
the
the applicant lacks received
of
good moral charac- Department
Highways,
in
the
ter, or whether the
applicant will obey Division of Contract
the laws of the Procurement on the
Commonwealth
in 3rd floor, and/or the
the operation of the Auditorium, located
business, or whether on the 1st floor of the
the applicant, within Transportation
Office
the last two (2) years Cabinet
Building,
Frankfort,
prior to the date of filing the application Kentucky, until 10
has been convicted a.m., Daylight Saving
in Kentucky of main- Time, on the 29th day
taining a public nui- of April, 2005, at
sance. Pursuant to which time bids will
KRS 231.080, any be publicly opened
person desiring to and read for the
oppose the permits, improvement of:
VARIOUS COUNshall file with the
TIES
County Clerk, no
STP-NH
later than April 2i,
(572):
Various
2005, in writing, alle6,
Routes
in
Districts
gations that show
7,
8,
9,
iO,
1i,
and
cause as to why the
application shall not 12. Pavement markbe granted. Said writ- ers & reflectors.
The Department of
ten information shall
hereby
be signed, dated and Highways
reflect the current notifies all bidders
address of said per- that it will affirmativeson providing the ly ensure that in any
contract entered into
information.
pursuant
to
this
Pursuant to KRS
advertisement,
Disadvantaged
Business enterprises,
will be afforded full
opportunity to submit
bids in response to
this invitation, and
will not be discriminated against on the
grounds of race,
color, or national origin in consideration
for an award.
Bid proposals for all
projects will be available at the Division of
Contract
Procurement until 3
p.m., Daylight Saving
Time, preceding the
day of the letting of
Friday, April
29,
2005. Bid proposals
for all projects will be
available at a cost of
$i0 each, and remittance, payable to the
State Treasurer of
Kentucky,
must
accompany request
for proposals (NONREFUNDABLE). BID
PROPOSALS ARE
ISSUED TO PREQUALIFIED CONTRACTORS.
Specimen proposals for all projects will
be available to all
interested parties at a
cost of $10 each
(NON-REFUNDABLE).
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Successful applicants will be required to
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Please apply by telephone or in person to:
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
ADVERTISING MANAGER
ae
The Floyd Coun1y Times is seeking to fill the position of
Advertising Manager. The successful candidate will be
a self-motivated individual able to train, motivate, and
direct others. Proven track record in sales and
management required. This position directs all
activities In the advertising department and reports
directly to the Publisher, and is an excellent opportunl1y
for the advertising professional.
rl e
This Is a full-time position and offers a competitive
salary, health benefits, life insurance. 401(k), paid
vacations, holidays. and much. much more.
Please send vour resume to:
Publisher
Floyd Coun1y Times
P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, KY 41 653
or by email to: publisher@floydcountytimes.com
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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Inside
SCRIMMAGE
·Insurance choice heats city council meeting
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
-PageBl
Prosecutor
steps down
from case
Fannin
PRESTONSBURG - Insurance and
budget concerns got a bit sticky during
the city council meeting Monday.
An issue about the city's insurance
came to the council's attention last
month, when member Gormon Collins
chided the council for failing to accept an
insurance plan that he said the finance
and revenue committee approved.
Collins argued Monday that the city
accepted a recommendation from the
finance and revenue committee to adopt a
3 percent pay raise for all employees, but
that they neglected to adopt an accompanying suggestion to change employee
insurance coverage from the current Gold
plan to the 80/20 Silver plan - a move
that was recommended during the same
meeting. The insurance recommendation,
he said, came out of the motion submitted
for the employee raise that was voted on
during the finance and revenue committee meeting. He questioned why the council "pulled out" the raise, but neglected to
change the insurance as recommended.
During last month's meeting, he asked
that the city bid out the insurance plan
with other agencies in the area.
(See COUNCIL, page three)
Teachers attend
.seminar to ready
for opening day
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
PRESTONSBURG An 87 -year-old woman
accused of trafficking in
1fl marijuana was granted a
second pretrial conference
date Tuesday when
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner made a
motion to be removed from
the case.
Turner dropped out of
the case because a
Kentucky State Police
investigation allegedly produced an audiotape
wherein defendant Dottie
Neeley talked to a confidential informant about
having her son's girlfriend
killed as well as Turner.
The girlfriend, Verna
Elliot, 39, was also
involved in the trafficking
charges as well as
Neeley's son, Russell.
Elliot is in stable condition at St. Mary's hospital
where she is recovering
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her stomach.
Turner announced at
the hearing that there had
not been word yet from the
Attorney General's office
on which attorney will be
\" appointed as special prosecutor for Neeley's case.
He stated that he was
. (See TURNER, page five)
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WAITER
photo by Tom Ooly
McConnell tours Floyd County
during stop in Eastern Kentucky
STAFF WAITER
by RALPH B. DAVIS
•)
High: 91 • Low: 67
Tomowow
High: 93 • Low: 68
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
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Opinion ............ :............A4
Obituaries .....................AS
Sports ...........................B1
Lifestyles ......................C1
Classifieds ....................C4
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PRESTONSBURG
Parents and students across
·Floyd County are shaking off
their summer vacations and
turning them in this morning
for their commute to school.
Approximately 600 Floyd
county teachers and paraeducators did the same
Monday, when they attended
the county's opening day for
teachers during a seminar at
the Mountain Arts Center.
This year, every Floyd
County teacher received
copies of a book, "The
Framework
for
Understanding
Pove~;ty,"
written by Dr. Ruby Payne,
which outlines strategies
about identifying ways to
improve the education of
children facing generational
poverty.
Jim Little John, a South
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell visited the Morehead extended campus on the grounds of Big Sandy
Community and Technical College at Prestonsburg and was greeted by Director Lula Bowling before
touring the facility.
by TOM DOTY
2 DAY FORECAST
Collins
MANAGING EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG - U.S.
Sen. Mitch McConnell toured the
region Monday, having lunch
with the Floyd County Chamber
of Commerce before proceeding
to the Prestonsburg campus of
Big Sandy Community and
Technical College.
At noon, McConnell attended
a meeting of the Chamber, which
filled the banquet hall at the
Wilkinson-Stumbo Convention
Center at Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park. McConnell spoke
before Chamber members, touching on subjects including the war
in Iraq and the national economy.
McConnell also spoke about
the Energy Bill adopted by
Congress last week, saying it
would provide numerous benefits
to Kentucky. McConnell said provisions of the bill would help
Kentucky farmers who grow com
for ethanol production and workers in the Paducah uranium
enrichment plant who will be
called upon to help fulfill needs
for additional reliance on nuclear
energy. Eastern Kentucky will
also benefit from the bill, the senator said, due to provisions in the
bill promoting clean-coal technology.
After his speech, Floyd
County Judge-Executive Paul
Hunt Thompson took the floor,
thanking McConnell for visiting
and presenting him with a quilt
featuring Floyd County attractions as a gift.
McConnell's tour also included stops at the Morehead State
branch
in
University
Prestonsburg, as well as the East
Kentucky Science Center, which
will offer astronomy students at
both schools the opportunity to
learn about our solar system in
the Center's state-of-the-art planetarium.
McConnell addressed the
BSCTC students, who were in the
midst of registering for classes
which begin next week, and
applauded them for taking the
first step in joining in a ''global
economy" by • getting their
degrees. McConnell addressed
1
(See SENATOR, page five)
STAFF WAITER
PRESTONSBURG - The Prestonsburg
Fire Department took advantage of the closing of Charles F. Clark Elementary
Saturday by using it as a training station for
area firefighters.
Approximately 20 firefighters working
with the city, Middle Creek and David ftre
departments, honed their rescue skills on
the now-vacant property.
The school, which was built in the
1960s, will be completely torn down and
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
PRESTONSBURG
The first meth lab arrest in
Floyd County saw a couple
sentenced to seven and 10
years respectively after they
pleaded guilty in circuit court
this week.
Travis Blevins, 34, and
Missy Akers, of Drift,
entered their pleas Tuesday
in front of Judge John David
Caudill and, according to
the new school, upon completion, will serve
an estimated 750 to 780 students from both
Prestonsburg Elementary and Clark
Elementary.
Saturday, the firefighters, paired in
groups, trained in forcible entry techniques,
ventilation techniques, overhaul techniques
and search-and-rescue techniques.
The firemen practiced forcible entry
using a hallagen tool to gain access to interior doors and a "barn bam" tool to break
Jocks on the exterior doors. The equipment.
(See CLARK, page thirteen)
Uvt4f ~ 9J~t S,p£Cia£
6 a.m.-11 a.m., Monday-Friday
(No Substitutions) Limited Time Only
(1) 2 Eggs, Bacon or Sausage ..........2.99
Biscuits or Toast served w/Jelly
(2) 2 Pancakes, Bacon or Sausage ..2.99
ed wlbutter and syrup
serv
(3) Country Gravy and Biscuits ........1.99
2 Buttermilk Biscuits and Gravy
(See SCHOOL, page five)
Two plead guilty
to making meth
Soon-to-be-demolished Clark school
becomes learning tool for firefighters
by MARY MUSIC
Carolina consultant for
Payne, discussed the essence
of the book at length with the
group, who will follow up
with professional develop~
ment training later this year.
Instructional Supervisor
Henry Webb, who now heads
the distriCt's professional
development, said one of the
most important aspects of th(J
book outlines how to forge
and maintain relationships
with students, in any economic class, throughout thei.J;
1
educational journey.
Another important aspect1
he said, is understanding
where children "come from"
and how their family backgrounds affect their educational endeavors.
By understanding the different challenges of individual children in each class,
Webb-said educators can bet-
(4) Oatmeal &Toast ...........................1.99
Fresh cooked Oatmeal (good for heart)
served wrroast & Jelly
.
Additlonalltems-99¢ e~ch
(1) Hash Browns or Home Fnes
Orange Juice or Tomato Juice
Country Gravy
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner, will hopefully
stand as an example of what
meth lab operators can
expect if convicted of manufacturing the drug in Floyd
County.
Both were charged with
manufacturing the drug as
well as two counts of wanton
endangerment. The endangerment counts stemmed
from ti'.'! lab itself, which was
(See GUILTY, page five)
Firefighters
used the K-12, a
gas-powered circular saw, to cut
ventilation holes
and trenches in
the roof at Clark
Elementary.
During a fire
emergency, this
practice helps
ventilate smoke
and gases from
the building that
could otherwise
impede the rescue mission
down below.
photo by Mary Music
�A2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds & Ends
• NASHVll...LE, Tenn. - It
was an open-field tackle that
even John Madden might appreciate.
A bank teller followed a man
outside and tackled him after an
attempted holdup Monday,
police said.
Officers said John Wesley
Bradley, 50, entered a Capital
Bank and Trust branch and
handed the teller a note saying
he was committing a robbery
and had a gun. When the teller
didn't immediately respond,
Bradley left. The 26-year-old
teller followed him outside, saw
that he didn't appear to be
armed and tackled him in the
grass as police arrived.
Police said Bradley would be
charged with attempted bank
robbery.
• IRVINE, Calif. - Irvine
the sea lion is taking a breather
after swimming nearly five
miles up a creek channel into
the civic center.
Her journey was an Orange
County distance record for wayward sea lions. Irvine the city is
in Orange County, south of Los
Angeles.
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Aug.
10, the 222nd day of 2005.
There are 143 days left in the
year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 10, 1846,
Congress
chartered
the
Smithsonian Institution, named
after English scientist James
Smithson, whose bequest of
$500,000 had made it possible.
On this date:
• In 1821, Missouri became
the 24th state.
• In 1874, Herbert Clark
Hoover, the 31st president of the
United States, was born in West
Branch, Iowa.
• In 1921, Franklin D.
Roosevelt was stricken with
polio at his summer home on the
Canadian island of Campobello.
• In 1944, during World War
II, American forces overcame
remaining Japanese resistance
on Guam.
• In 1945, during World War
II, Japan announced its willingness to surrender provided that
the status of Emperor Hirohito
remained unchanged.
• In 1949, the National
Military Establishment was
renamed the Department of
Defense.
•
In 1969, Leno and
Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home
by members of Charles
Manson's cult, one day after
actress Sharon· ·Tate and four
other people were slain.
• In 1977, postal employee
David Berkowitz was arrested
in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of
being "Son of Sam," the gunman responsible for six slayings
and seven woundings.
• In 1988, President Reagan
signed a measure providing
$20,000 payments to JapaneseAmericans who had been
interned during 'World War II.
• In 1993, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg was sworn in as the
second female justice· on the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Ten years ago: Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols
were charged with 11 counts in
the Oklahoma City bombing
(McVeigh was convicted of
murder and executed; Nichols
was convicted of conspiracy and
involuntary
manslaughter).
Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe"
of the 1973 Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion,
announced she had joined the
anti-abortion group Operation
Rescue.
Five
years
ago:
Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez niet with Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein, defying the
United States by being th~ first
head of state to visit Iraq since
the Gulf War.
One year ago: President
Bush chose Porter Goss, a
Republican congressman and
one-time spy, to lead the CIA. A
boat carrying
Dominican
migrants seeking a better life in
Puerto Rico drifted back to
almost the same spot where the
voyage began nearly two weeks
earlier; at least ~5 of the 86 people on board died. The 20-yearold woman who accused Kobe
Bryant of rape ftled a federal
lawsuit in Denver against the
NBA star. (The lawsuit was later
settled out of court; terms were
not disclosed.) Barry Bonds
became the first player in major
league history to hit 30 home
. runs in 13 consecutive seasons,
connecting in San Francisco's 87 loss to Pittsburgh.
Today's Birthdays: Singer
AI Alberts is 83.Actress Rhonda
Aerning is 82. Singer Jimmy
Dean is 77. Singer Eddie Fisher
is 77. Actress Kate O'Mara is
66. Singer Ronnie Spector is 62.
Actor James Reynolds ("Days.
of our Lives") is 59. Rock
singer-musician Ian Anderson
(Jethro Tull) is 58. Singer Patti
Austin is 57. Country musician
Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is
56. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is
53. Actress Rosanna Arquette is
46. Actor Antonio Banderas is
45. Rock musician Jon Farriss
(INXS) is 44. Singer Julia
Fordham is 43. Singer Neneh
Cherry is 41. Singer Aaron Hall
is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is
38. Rock mustctan Todd
Nichols is 38. Singer-producer
Michael Bivins is 37. Actor
Justin Theroux is 34. Actress
Angie Harmon is 33. Country
singer Jennifer Hanson is 32.
Actress JoAnna Garcia is . 26.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Nikki
Bratcher (Divine) is 25.
Thought for Today:
'There is no adequate defense,
except stupidity, against the
impact of a new idea." - Percy
Williams Bridgeman, American
scientist (1882-1961).
"This is the farthest inland
we've ever picked up a sea
lion," said Michele Hunter of
the nonprofit Pacific Mammal
Center in Laguna Beach, where
Irvine was taken after her capture.
"We have seen some marine
animals out in the Back Bay
before," Hunter said. "They
may have been following some
fish or something, took the
wrong tum and couldn't figure
out how to get back."
Irvine, a 195-pound female,
appeared on Thursday. Rescuers
from the mammal center and the
Irvine Fire Department used
boards to coax her into a large
net.
Irvine snapped and barked as
she was transported to the mammal center. She remained
cranky throughout the weekend,
refusing herring dinners and
rejecting the company of a
young male sea lion that her
caretakers placed in her pen.
"She really didn't want to
socialize," Hunter said. "She
crawled over and looked kind of
irritated."
Hundreds of California sea
lions have grown disoriented
during the past few years after
eating fish containing domoic
acid, a toxin sometimes found in
red tide, said Tim Hovey, assistant fisheries biologist for the
state Department of Fish and
Game.
Irvine doesn't appear to be
ill, but officials injected her with
fluids as a precaution. She is
scheduled to be released back
into the ocean on Wednesday.
• FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Pulling up grass in Flagstaff
could earn homeowners some
greenbacks.
The city is offering a one-
time $500 rebate to households
that remove at least 1,500
square feet of grass and replace
it with rock or hardy native
plants that require little water.
The average homeowner
uses about 72 gallons annually
to water each square foot of
grass, according to the Bureau
of Reclamation.
Adam Miller, Flagstaff water
conservation manager, expects
up to 20 households a year to
take advantage of the rebate.
• GRAND ISLAND, Neb.
- Dean Elliott didn't waste
time starting his shift over the
weekend.
The police officer was in uniform and on his way to work on
Sunday when he saw a white
pickup run a stoplight. The
truck's bumper was dragging,
but Elliott said he didn't know
then it had been involved in a
hit-and-run.
Because he was in his own
vehicle, Elliott requested a
marked patrol car.
Another truck started chasing
the white pickup and Elliott followed both. He said the white
truck stopped and the three people inside started fighting.
Elliott drew his gun, ordered
them on the ground, and had
them handcuffed before the
patrol cars arrived.
• GREENVll...LE, S.C. South Carolina Republicans say
the Democrats owe them beer
money.
In April, St. Louis-based
Anheuser-Busch Co. wrote a
$5,000 check intended for the
state Republican Party. Instead,
the envelope was addressed to
the state Democratic Party,
which promptly deposited the
money.
Now, state GOP leaders say
the South Carolina Democratic
Party needs to return the beer
money
they
are
owed.
Democrats say the check's in
the mail.
Katja Zastrow, AnheuserBusch's regional director of
governmental
affairs
in
Washington, said in an e-mail
statement that the check went
astray "through a series of
administrative oversights."
She said the company is
working with both parties to
resolve the situation.
Democrats say they have
sent a refund check back to
Anheuser-Busch:
"Nobody
should expect us to write a
check to the Republican Party,"
said Lachlan Mcintosh, the
Democratic Party's executive
director.
The GOP said the refund was
sent on! y after it threatened a
lawsuit.
• LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -A
lrucker claims the spanking left
him with a badly bruised
behind, but the three exotic
dancers who were paid to paddle the birthday boy are saying
they're innocent.
Kelly Eslick, 21, and Lisa
Nolen and Charlene Smith, both
23, appeared Thursday before
District Judge Wayne Gruber to
face felony charges of participating in an obscene performance and misdemeanor battery
charges. A court date was set for
Sept. 15.
The trio work at Sensations
Night Club in Jacksonville,
where customer Keith Lowery
of Bald Knob says they went
overboard in giving him an
onstagc spanking.
Lowery's friends paid $25
for the spanking as part of
Lowery's 31st birthday celebration.
Lowery
told
sheriff's
deputies that he was handcuffed
and spanked with a 3-foot-long-Ar
paddle and a belt while one or'-"
the strippers restrained his head
with her legs. He said he suffered bruises so severe he was
unable to sit comfortably for
five days.
• SAUSALITO, Calif. -A
man who swims nude along the
shoreline is causing a stir in this
city where tourists stroll along
the waterfront and dine in
restaurants overlooking San
Francisco Bay.
The
skinny-dipper has
shocked diners and prompted ~
complaints to police.
"He makes fly-bys," City
Manager Dana Whitson said.
"Usually, people look for seals.
Some of the diners are kind of
surprised."
Police Detective William
Fraass said the department has
received at least two reports in
the past three weeks of a man
swimming au nature! in the
afternoon near the Spinnaker
restaurant and Schoonmaker
Point Marina.
"We don't get many naked-If
people-swimming-in-the-bay
calls," he said.
Police have attempted to
catch the swimmer bare-bottomed but with no success.
"We are still looking because
we want to talk to him and see
what is going on," Fraass said.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
10, 2005 • A3
Mayor mentions water park,
YMCA as possible future projects
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
The
city of Prestonsburg is weighing
the pros and cons of developing
a water park on Stonecrest and
of locating a YMCA at the the
Prestonsburg
Elementary
School building.
Mayor Jerry Fannin made the
proposal to city council members Monday, telling them of his
recent visit to a water park in
Williamsburg.
Members were all in agreement that the finance and revenue committee members
should analyze the economic
feasibility of constructing a
water park. Committee members will use financial information
provided
by
the
Williamsburg water park to
decide whether the proposal
benefit
would
financially
Prestonsburg.
Fannin said the plans would
call for a park that is bigger than
the one at Williamsburg.
He discussed the possibility
of taking out a long-term bond
to fund the construction and
using proceeds gained from the
• t annexation of the hospital property to finance the bond payment. Williamsburg used their
own proceeds to fund construction of their park, Fannin said,
and it may also be possible for
Prestonsburg to do the same.
Obtaining grants for this type
of project is difficult, Fannin
said. U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers
helped appropriate funds for the
"infrastructure only" at the
Williamsburg water park, he
said.
Fannin said the city will look
at getting the water park proposal moving as soon as the hospital is annexed.
County Clerk Chris Waugh is
currently seeking legal advice
about a petition that was flied to
place the annexation on the ballot for a vote.
The school board's decision
to consolidate Prestonsburg
Elementary School into the
soon-to-be constructed school at
the Charles F. Clark Elementary
School site on Middle Creek,
means that the city will once
again retain the use of the
Prestonsburg school property,
an estimated five acres.
Fannin said the city never
transferred the title to the school
board. The city can begin construction plans for a YMCA
when the construction of the
new school is complete, he said.
Fannin also said that he held
a meeting with two people
Monday who are interested in
constructing another hotel in the
area.
The council also:
• Changed the wording in
the July 11 council meeting
minutes to change the "donation" of property for a
Confederate soldier memorial at
First Commonwealth Bank to
allowing the "use" of the property for that purpose.
• Held the second reading of
Ordinance 11-2005, annexing
property on Route 3 near
Thunder Ridge for a planned
subdivision proposed by Dr.
Enrico Ascani, with opposition
from Collins. Collins asked why
the city excluded property within the area that may be annexed
later (describing it as a donut
hole) and whether the city could
go ahead and annex the property.
Fannin said the property
owners were originally not
going to sell an A-frame home
on Route 3, but that they have
since changed their minds. Il is
likely, he said, that the property,
currently excluded in the annexation, will be annexed at a later
date. Fannin said it would cost
the city more money in that
additional engineering surveys
would have to be completed if
the council decided to annex the
property now, as Collins suggested. Collins argued that the
city would have to pay more for
it anyway "down the line." Fire
Marshal Bobby Carpenter said a
delay in the annexation might
also delay the financial process
of getting the subdivision constructed. Collins questioned the
way the city has been annexing
property over the years, pointing
out that some places arc
annexed, while adjacent properties are skipped over. Collins
was the only vote against the
ordinance, which passed.
• Held the second reading of
Ordinance 12-2005, adopting a
code enforcement board that
would replace the need for the
city to take their code violations
to district court.
• Held the second reading of
Ordinance 13-2005, amending
city code 6-99, sections A, C, D.
• Passed a resolution to ded-
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employees a $1 raise instead of
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repeated requests by Collins,
that if the council votes to
amend the budget to reflect the
change, then they'd have to reallocate money for specific
departments.
The debate continued with
council members and attendees
exhibiting frustration and, at
times, la~ghter.
At one point, Fannin became
so agitated -that he said, "We've
got other stuff to do but gripe
and bitch about this for two
months."
During the debate, members
questioned how the 80/20 plan
would effect employees.
Stephens said that employees
currently pay $75 for an emergency room visit and that they
would pay 20 percent of the total
cost under the proposed 80/20
plan. She pointed out other cost
increases to employees, such as
higher prescription rates.
Council member Kay Ross
then suggested that members
pass a motion to redo "all this
stuff' because "everybody's so
mixed up about it."
During subsequent discussion on the matter, Archer Park
Director Ralph Little addressed
Collins. "I think most employees would tell you to keep the 3
percent raise ... These employees don't make that much."
Little reported that his lowest
paid employee makes minimum
wage, at which time Collins suggested the city give employees a
$3 raise, which he said would
"probably be less" than the
$50,000 spent monthly on insurance.
"Three dollars wouldn't
mean tutu," Little reacted, after
explaining his recent medical
bills.
Then the debate took an
entirely different tum.
"Can we plead we didn't pay
attention?" member Donna
Wells said. "I'll hold my hand
up first. Excuse me. I apologize
for not paying attention."
Her hand was followed by
those of members Phillip
Chaffins and Moore. Fannin
didn't raise a hand, but he
agreed with the misunderstanding.
"We've sat here for 40 minutes and listened to you every bit
of 30 of it," Moore said to
Collins, who had interrupted
members trying to make a
motion on the matter on at least
two separate occasions. Moore
then asked legal advice about
the situation from Webb.
He made a motion to amend
the budget to reflect the current
plan
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Council
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attorney Jim Webb reacted
Monday by saying that the city
contacted the state League of
Cities and that they were
assured that the city did nothing
wrong when they decided not to
bid out the insurance. Webb said
insurance coverage is a professional service and that the city
would obtain the same quotes
from any company that they
contacted for the service.
a Collins, unsatisfied with the
explanation, spent a good 30
minutes arguing his point with
the council.
He said his biggest concern
was that a decision was made
and an action was taken during
that finance and revenue committee meeting and that the
council failed to carry through
with it. The budget, he said, is
the "only thing" committee
members can vote on. "The rest
is left up to the mayor," he said.
Collins said the committee
amended the city budget and
~ gave the employee raise to offset
the cost of the rise in insurance.
That budget must now be
amended, he argued, to reflect
the change in insurance.
"We voted to do it and I want
to see why it wasn't done," he
said, later adding that he "started
feeling like I'm being a little bit
ignored."
Fannin, and several others on
the council, said they believed
that they voted to accept the
budget as it was presented, as
long as the insurance fund allot• ment stayed under $50,000.
' Both plans fit this category, but
the 80/20 plan is substantially
less beneficial to individual
employees, officials argued.
City Comptroller Yvette
Stephens said the price difference for both plans were
between $2,000 and $3,000
monthly.
Webb said that canceling the
plan will raise the current rates
provided to the city.
Collins argued that every
other Prestonsburg business has
cut back on insurance plans
because of increases in insurance costs. ''There's nobody that
hasn't cut insurance but us," he
said.
Prior to this statement,
Fannin, frustrated, flared his
arms, looked into the audience,
and asked, "Do we have a
motion to cut employees?"
' The discussion then turned to
ball field projects on Stonecrest
that Collins argued were not
complete. Fannin assured the
council that one field is complete with an irrigation system
and that the rest of the project
would be completed as soon as
-1 possible.
The discussion then returned
tCl the insurance debate. Collins
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Unsettling disclosure about the .FBI: It has 8,354 hours of
untranslated wiretap terTorism intelligence recordings
backed up in its pipeline. And officials don't really know
what might be on that mountain of tape.
FBI Director RobertS. Mueller was willing to guess
when he faced the Senate Judiciary Committee recently.
White noise from microphones, he said. Some of it involves
"obscure languages and dialects" that are tough to translate,
he said. Besides, he added, the backlog involves less than 2
percent of all recordings from counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations.
Perhaps his defense is adequate. But his words are less
reassuring after considering a recent audit by Justice
Department Inspector General Glen Fine. He nointed out the
backlog and noted that the number of unheard hours had
doubled in one year. The FBI also is still struggling to hire
and keep qualified translators, he added, but had enough in
fewer than half of the 52 languages with which it deals.
Bureaucratic slowdowns had increased the amount of
time needed to hire a linguist from 14 months last year to 16
months this year, he said. At the Senate hearing, Mueller
pointed to the FBI's rigorous standards to account for the
delays.
One aspect of the Fine report was particularly disturbing.
The inspector found instances in which "high-priority"
material hadn't been reviewed in 24 hours.
That's an echo of a past failure: Messages from al-Qaida
operatives were intercepted by the National Security Agency
the day before Sept. 11, 2001. They weren't translated until
after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington.
One speaker in the intercept said, "Tomorrow is zero hour."
Fine's report suggested that the FBI doesn't really know
whether its massive stack of untranslated tape includes
information vital to national security and terrorist investigations. One might hope it doesn't.
,
·
But all this time after Sept. 11. Americans shouldn't have
to rely on hope when it comes to something as seemingly
simple as listemng to recorded material. The FBI continues
to struggle to reshape itself to post-attack realities, and it
continues to fall short, at least in the translation of terrorism
intelligence.
As some senators at the hearing seemed to be saying, that
is not acceptable.
C a pi-t e-1-- t· e~e~a~s-------2006 legislative
plate filling up
with usual
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of topics
va .
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
-Omaha World-Herald
FRANKFORT - Some want to prohibit flag desecration. Others want to
restrict the ability of government to take
private property.
And those are just the proposals by
Kentucky legislators that Congress
amend the U.S . Constitution.
Another 40 proposals prefiled for the
General Assembly to consider when it
convenes for its 2006 regular ession
relate to something legislators might be
able to influence.
Legislators prefile bills for a variety
of reasons, often to try to generate publicity or win favor from a partJculat
interest group. But the act is of little significance as some proposals will not
even be filed once the sesswn stJ!ts and
prefiling gives a proposal no particular
precedence even if it is thrown into the
bill hopper after the session begins Jan.
3.
Yet the proposals can give clues
about the topics that might attract Legislative interest during the 60 \\orking
days of the session. Many of th..: hills
are recycled from earlier sessions in
which they failed.
Sen. David Boswell, D-Owensboro,
would offer a constitutional amendment
to the voters and let them decide
whether to allow casinos to operate in
Kentucky. He also has a bill to start the
games if the amendment passes.
Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, wants
to require more training and experience
before granting full driving privileges to
teens, a notion called graduated liceming. Burch has failed several times to
win approval of the plan. Sen. Denise
Harper Angel, D-Louisville, has a similar proposal.
Some of the proposals are more esotenc.
Several lawmakers are co-sponsoring
a resolution that asks Congress to
restrict the ability of the government to
take property from private citizens, an
apparent reaction to a Supreme Court
mling this year on the topic of eminent_
domain.
Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington, wants
Congress to pass an amendment to the
U.S. Constitution to allow legislation to
halt flag desecration.
Rep. Rick Nelson, D-Middlesboro,
wants to amend the Kentucky
Constitution to allow the posting of the
Ten Commandments on public property.
It is unclear how a change in state law
would influence federal court rulings on
the topic.
Rep. Paul Marcotte, R-Union, wants
to ban the usc of cell phones and other
electronic communications while driving.
Other proposals would license
acupuncturists, give greater preferences .
to veterans in state hiring, eliminate
required writing portfolios in the classroom, place greater restrictions and registration requirements on sex offenders
and try to outlaw school bullies.
One proposal is likely to fan some
old flames of rivalry on the always con- 1
tentious topic of college sports.
Rep. Denver Butler, D-Louisville,
wants the legislature to mandate that the
University of Kentucky and University
of Louisville play each other the first
game of every football season. The two
schools have opened their seasons
together since they began their current
series in 1994, but the current contract
is expiring after this season and UK
officials have been noncommittal about
renewing, at least for the season opener.
There is some precedent on the general topic. Decades ago, Louisville legislators wanted to force UK and
Louisville to play in basketball. The
1983 NCAA tournament threw the
teams together in the Mideast Regional
Final and the annual game started later
that year in the 1983-84 season.
The proposal that will grab the
majority of the attention of the session,
however, will probably not be filed until
the 20th day of session, when Gov.
Ernie Fletcher is required to offer his
budget proposal for the coming two fiscal years.
himself in combat during the first war
against [raq. Many of today's extremists
arc veterans who were willing to lay ·
down their life for this country. I believe
Timothy McVeigh was such a man.
Some men would be considered heroes
but for their avenue of expression.
, He was definitely no coward. He was
an avid patriot who took his patriotism
too far, not as the media would have
you believe. And I don't believe he
knew about the children there. I just
couldn't believe they would have chile
dren in a known terrorist target. I think
we (as a country) should shoulder some
responsibility for his reactions. Of
course, this was during the time Bill
Clinton and Janet Reno were in office,
- an infamous duet, in my opinion .
Having seen Waco and Randy
Weaver 's experience with the FBI, I feel
he decided we couldn't get justice anymore, and he became a one-man militia.
He almost got away - what if he had? ~
Glenn Fraley
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A requiem for
Timothy McVeigh
I see Timothy McVeigh ism the
news again. I guess there's no resting in
peace any more?
I wonder if anyone has even the
slightest idea of the mindset of Timothy
McVeigh. You know he distingui~hcd
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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School
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ter identify strategies to met their
needs.
Supt. Paul Fanning said
approximately 70 percent of the
county's school children qualify
for the free or reduced lunch program.
"It's a topic that we felt like
we needed some inslrnction and
g uidance in," Fanning said.
"You can look at the number of
children we have that come from
what some identify as poverty
1
and see the unique and different
type of learning needs and styles
that we need to be focusing on as
educators."
The research and theories
presented in Payne's publications will be combined with a
·'great deal" of practical application in Floyd County classrooms, Fanning said, a means to
~ effectively
reach
different
groups of children. It\ a "broader and deeper exposure fO learning models" for educators who
must understand student needs
and leaming styles, he said.
''Every child can leam, but
they learn at different rates and
different levels," Fanning said.
"Some citizens, who, what some
would say, came out of poverty
levels, don' t plant in their children's heads that they are poor.
They tell them that they are
capable and have a purpose in
the formal education process ...
There are, by far, millions of stories. not only in our nation. but
throughout the world. about how
people who may not have had
any significant amount of fmancial backing succeeded because
they believed that the mind is the
place to be enriched. And with
that comes the development of
good work habits, setting goah
and obtaining them. I'm sure
there were many Floyd county
teachers in the audience who
probably crune from that type of
background. They just believed
that they could achieve their
goals and that's what they' ve
done. Having economic challenges does not necessarily mean
that any child should get a lesser
degree of education. It is our
responsibility, as educators, to be
aware and address those issues.'·
John said children facing generational pove1ty have a "self
fulfllling prophesy" - a belief
that their circumstances are a
matter of fate and that there is
"nothing" they can do about it.
Their views of life and education differ from middle class student~ who are taught that they
have choices, and the wealthy,
who fall into the "wealthy
noblesse oblige' ' category.
"If I'm facing generational
poverty and you tell me that I
have a choice, then I guess l do
have a choice," John said, "What
is it?"
Poverty stricken children who
believe they are fated to their circumstances often deviate from
traditional school rules and regulations. Punishment d<Jes not
change their behavior, John said.
pointing out that their behavior
usually only changes when it's
already "too late" and they're
heading for alternative schools.
"When you work with students suffering from pove1ty,
you cannot excuse or blame
them." John said. "There's a lot
of pride in folks who Jive · in
poverty."
Using a humorously written
"blame poetry" poem. John
explained that children perceive
the "who's to blame?'' mentality
of educators. teachers , and parents with a general misconception: "No one cares about me."
He suggested that educators
show student~ that there are are
"two sets of nlles" - one set
they fwd at home in their everyday living, and the "school
rules.''
The two most important concepts that educators can pass
along to their students, he said.
are teaching them to be "appreciative" and showing them how
to "practice patience."
"What does appreciative look
like? What does patience look
like?" he said.
Allen Central Middle School
student Jerrica Blair sang three
songs during the event. She dedicated "Wind Beneath my
Wings" to Floyd County teachers. Allen Central's JROTC presented the colors.
More infonnation can be
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of you have had to make great . MSU and three other universities
sacrifices to be here and we and will fund efforts to develop
appreciate that."
· wall treatment matelials to offer
McConnell's visit coincided additional protection to buildwith an announcement by U.S. ings from explosions, chemical
Rep. Hal Rogers who announced agents and electromagnetic
that the U.S. Department of waves. A second endowment
Homeland Security has allotted will offer close to $700,000 to be
funds to Morehead State divided between MSU and UK
University to increase security to create a sophisticated video
surveillance system that will dismeasures.
Morehead will join BSCTC, tinguish between unautholized
which received funding last year, and authorized personnel in
in obtaining grant money to fund given area. Morehead will also
<;everal projects aimed at height- use the funds to embark on a sec-
Guilty
inside the couple's Drift
home. Toxic chemicals used
to manufacture meth were
stored in the same room in
the home where two young
children slept, which prompted the additional charges.
Turner explained that authorities were already searching for
Blevins in connection w1th a lab
that was discovered in Dwale.
That lab was reported by sanitation workers, whose truck contents caught fire after hauling
ond project which will undertake winded after the tour but
a study on constitutional and remarked that the show was
federal policy issues of privacy "marvelous" before being hustled off to Pikeville, where his
and technological uses.
McConnell finished up his next area appearances saw him
tour of the campus by visiting the take in a tour of Pikeville College
East Kentucky Science Center. and meet with the Pike Chamber
McConnell was able to observe of Commerce.
the center's planetruium and was
treated to a laser show as well a-;
a selection of moments from various programs that the center has
held, including last year's holi• Continued from p1
day program which offered attenattending
the
annual
conference
dees a chance to see what the
for
Commonwealth's
Attorneys
night sky looked like when Jesus
in Louisville this week and that
was born. McConnell appeared
he would sit down with Attorney
General Greg Stumbo and see if
they could arrange a special
prosecutor well before Neeley's
pretrial conference, which has
• Continued from p1 been scheduled for Nov. 9.
trash from a Dwale residence. A
search of the garbage truck's
interior after the fire was out
revealed that several bags from
their last pickup contained many
of the ingredients used to manufacntre meth.
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10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Community Calendar
Calendar items will
be printed
as space permits
Editor 's note: To announce
your community event. you may
hand-deliver your item to The
Floyd County Times office,
located at 263 S. Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg; or mail
to: The Floyd County Times,
P.O. Box 390, Prestonsburg, KY
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or email to: features@floydcozmtytimes.conz. Information
will not be taken over the telephone. All items will be placed
on a first-come, fi rst-sen'e basis
as space permits.
Kentucky State AARP official
to be guest at local meeting
Scott A. Wegenast, program
coordinator in the AARP
Kentucky State Office, in
Louisville, will be the guest of
Jenny Wiley Chapter No. 3528
AARP, at the meeting to be held
Friday, August 19, at the First
Presbyterian
Church,
in
Prestonsburg. The meeting
begins at 6 p.m., and all AARP
members and friends are
encouraged to attend.
Hicks reunion
There will be a reunion of the
relatives and friends of William
and · Oma Reffett Hicks on
Augu st 13, at the Lodge at
Jenny Wiley State Park. All relatives and friends are invited to
come and enjoy a day with the
family.
will be an outdoor meeting at
the Tom Flanery Farm at Warco.
Tum off from Rt. 80. Hotdogs,
hamburgers, soupbeans and
cornbread to be served. If you
can, bring a covered dish,
dessert or pop. Stephen C.
Barnette Jr., or Bryan Wallen
will be the candidate for the second section. Breakfast will be
served at J. W. Hall Lodge at
7:30 a.m.; firs t section conferred at 9 a.m.; dinner will be
served at 4 p.m.; second section
to start at 7:30 p.m. All Master
Masons are urged to attend and
assist with the work.
Jenny Wiley Bike Tours
Held every Saturday morning, 8 a.m. Meet at the flags in
front of the Jenny Wiley
Convention
Center/Marina.
Group will ride to the Johns
Creek Station (8 miles) at the
foot of the spillway where they
may enjoy a great breakfast for
only $6.95. Enjoy a fun ride at
a relaxed pace. Make sure bikes
are in good working condition
and be ready to ride by 8:30
a.m. Others may also arrive at
the Spillway site to enjoy breakfast or to pick up riders who do
·not wish to ride back to the
starting point.
More information, call 8868604 or email: profitnesscntr@bcllsouth.net. You may also
visit www.multisports to view
and print a map of area cycling
routes.
Childers Family Reunion
The Childers (Childress)
family will host a reunion on
Floyd County Chamber
Sat., Aug. 20, at the Dewey
The Floyd County Chamber Dam Picnic Hollow, Shelter #3.
of Commerce will hold a mem- · Registration will begin at 11
bership meeting and luncheon a.m.; lunch will be served at
on Aug. 8, at the Wilkinson- noon. Please. bring a covered
Stumbo Convention Center, at dish and cooler of soft drinks for
12 p.m. Special guest speaker your family. Plates, napkins and
will be Sen. Mitch McConnell. utensils will be provided. An
RSVP to Chamber office by auction will be held to raise
Aug. 3 by calling 886-0364.
money for next year's reunion.
This year's theme is "Our
Musical Heritage" - bring along
Masonic ·outdoor meeting
any instruments you may play.
planned, Saturday, August 6
All
Childers and Preston relaat Tom Flanery farm, Warco
On Saturday, August 6, there tions welcome. More info.,
contact Naomi Cox at 740-3875815 or Shelba Childers at 740747-2985.
Dwale Homecoming
Auction and Concession will
be held on Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., at
the Dwale Shelter. Proceeds
will go toward funding the 2006
Dwale Homecoming event.
floyd@uky.edu.
Baldridge by calling 889-0422.
Yard Sale
FCCD 55th anniversary
To be held Saturday, August
6, beginning at 9 a.m., at the
Maytown
Volunteer
Fire
Department. Proceeds to benefit fire department programs and
activities.
The
Floyd
County
Conservation District will hold
an open house on Aug. 18, at the
District office, from l 0 a.m. to 2
p.m., to celebrate their 55th
anniversary. More info., call
889-9800 or email to: conserve@mikrotec.com. The public is cordially invited.
Yard Sale
20th Annual Van Lear Town
Celebration - Aug. 5-6
Friday:
Popcorn, snow
cones and other snacks at
Icky's; Catfish and Soup Bean
dinner at the Coal Miner's
Museum, 10 a.m. to 3:30p.m.);
Pirate ship ride; Official ceremonies at 5 p.m., at Coal
Miner's Museum; car stereo
contest and live music. Also,
Coal Miner's Museum open
FREE to public all day.
Saturday: Turkey shoot, 9
a.m.; Horseshoe Tournament, 9
a.m .;
Car/truck/motorcycle
show, 9 a.m.; Decorated 4wheeler contest; kiddie games
andcontests, 9 a.m.; volleyball
and more. Also, Coal Miner's
Museum open FREE all day.
Annual Parade, 2:30 p.m. Sat.
Many more activities - call
789-8540 for 'more information.
Parsons Family Reunion
Reunion for the descendants
of Isaac and Louisa Parso~s will
be held on Sept. 4, from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m., at the Isaac Parsons
Cemetery, located on Parsons
Branch, off Rt. 979. Please
bring a covered dish; meal will
be served at 1 p.m. All family
and friends welcome. For more
info., call E. J. Parsons at 865426-7585.
Fri. and Sat., Aug. 5 & 6,
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., sponsor~d by the Dove House and
Tabernacle Ministries, at the
Dove House Complex (Old
Plantation Motel). Food and
drinks will be availaable on
Saturday. Call 886-0427 or
298-3067 to reserve a space.
UNITE meeting
The Floyd County Coalition
of UNITE has changed its
monthly meeting time and
place. The group now meets the
first Thursday of every month
on the BSCTC Prestonsburg
campus, room 153 of the
Johnson Building. The entire
community is invited and
encouraged to attend.
Group will meet on Thur.,
Aug. 4; at 6 p.m.
** UNITE coalition will
host two appreciataion dinners/roundtable discussions for
the Big Sandy region on Aug. 9,
at 6 p.m., at the Carriage House
Rest. (Ramada Inn), Paintsville;
and on Aug. 11, at 6 p.m., at the
Old Morgan County Gov.
Bldg./Comm. Ctr., in West
Liberty.
There will be no charge to
attend, but please place your
reservations
with
Alisha
Hughes Family Reunion
For the families of Mathias
Hughes, Linda E. and Jake
Marsillett, Mary Darcus and
John Wright, Sally and James
Marsillett, John Malcom and
Sally Hughes, Jim Henry and
Ida Hughes. Reunion will be
held on Sept. 4, at the home of
Delmer Holbrook, located at
143 Hqlbrook Hollow Rd., in
Prestonsburg. For more info.,
call 886-8481.
Rotary Club
Local Rotary Club holds
meetings every Thursday, at
noon, at the Student Grill, on the
BSCTC campus. Open to business and professional men and
women who live or work in
Floyd County. More info., contact Mike Vance at 886-2075.
Travel Club
An organizational meeting to
form a Travel Club in this area
will be held on Aug. 9, at 6
p.m., in the Weeksbury Comm.
Center. A possible 4 night/5
day trip to Disney World will be
discussed at this time. Anyone
who is interested in inexpensive
group travel is welcome to
attend this meetjng. For more
info., contact Ed or Linda at
452-4149.
Auxier Lifetime
Learning Center
FREE
GED
classes,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.; may work with
computers during this time.
Call for more info.
Joy Services - Christ United
Methodist Church of Allen
Special musical services:
Aug. 7 - One Accord
(Bluegrass), 6 p .m.
,
Aug. 14 - Christ Unite!
Methodist Chancel Choir, 6
p.m.
Aug. 21 - Karen Crawford, 6
p.m.
Aug. 28 - Billie, Betty &
Linda, 6 p.m.
Also, on Aug. 21, 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School celebration with
potluck dinner in Wesley Gym.
HRMC Community Calendar
Aug. 9 - Senior Advantage,
10-11:30 a.m., Prestonsburg
Senior Citizen Center.
Aug. 13 -Childbirth classel,
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Meeting
Place A & B, in medical office
bldg.
Aug. 25 - "Living Well with
(See CALENDAR, page nine)
Women's Health - Prevention
of Osteoporosis
A program concerning the
prevention of osteoporosis will
be held on Wed., Aug. 3, from 12:30 p.m., at the Floyd County
Extension Office. The public is
invited, free of charge. For
more information, or to register
to attend, contact Theresa Scott,
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care for your entire family. Their office is located at 906
East Mountain Parkway (beside Nordin Eye Care) in
Salyersville. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. To schedule an appointment call
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community having worked previously in the Emergency
Departments at Highlands Regional Medical Center and
Paul B. Hall Medical Center.
Call 349-8100 for an appointment
Dr. Ghassan Dalati, Cardiologist, with East Kentucky
Cardiology, is the newest member of the medical staff at
Highlands Regional Medical Center. His office is located in
Suite 205 in the Archer Clinic. Dr. Dalati completed his
Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri, and
completed a Fellowship in Cardiology at Louisiana State
University. Dr. Dalati will perform patient evaluations and
diagnostic procedures, including echo, stress test, Holter
monitor, event monitor, and invasive studies, including coronary
angiography (cardiac catheterization), implantation of permanent pacemakers, defibrillators, and bi-ventricular pacers. Dr.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Sex offenders plead guilty
by TOM DOTY
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sex offenders who failed to keep
their addresses current with the
Department of Probation and
Parole pleaded guilty to the
offense Tuesday in district
court.
Jamie Burgess, 30, and
Donald McDonald Duke, 42,
will serve two-year sentences
for failing to register their
movements with the state.
Duke was required to register
for 10 years after pleading
guilty to sodomy charges in
Pennsylvania in 1999. Duke
stopped notifying probation and
parole about his movements in
2003 when he was originally
indicted. His last known address
was at Abbott Creek but authorities visited his stepfather there
and found that he hadn't heard
from Duke in over a year. Duke
was eventually found in Drift.
Burgess is a lifetime sex
offender and must respond to a
letter from the parole office four
times a year requesting any
information about plans to
change her address. When she
failed to respond to such letters
in September, December and
2004,
the
March
Commonwealth's Attorney's
Office sought an indictment
against her. Authorities later
found her in jail in Radcliff for
other charges and she was
served with the indictment
there.
Burgess later argued that she
had informed the Menifee
County sheriff that she was a
sex offender but that action did
not constitute informing probation and parole, which was still
looking for her. A letter from the
Menifee sheriff that was intra-
duced by the public advocate's
office, which was charged with
defending Burgess, noted that
she did stop by their office but
pointed out that she did not furnish the office with usable information such as an address.
Burgess had been convicted
of sexual abuse and unlawful
transaction with a minor for persuading two minors to participate in sexual acts for her gratification.
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner observed, "We
always take these cases very
seriously, even though on many
occasions the defendants act as
if it's no big deal." He went on
to note that, "Many act as if they
have only violated a minor technicality, but recent cases across
the country have shown that
offenders who fall off the radar
are often still preying on children."
request from a resident to place
speed bumps at Green Acres.
• Passed a motion, at the
request of Prestonsburg Police
Chief Mike Omerod, to extend
the southbound one-way street
regulations on Friend Street to
Dingus Street. Member Kelly
Moore, in agreement with
Omerod, . said that the traffic
committee had already made the
change, but that it hadn't yet
been brought in front of the full
council.
• Discussed expected traffic
problems at Adams Middle
School, the host school for
Clark Elementary students who
CU"e in transition. Omerod said
the parking lot can handle only
three buses at one time and that
16 buses will be transporting
students to and from school
grounds. Officials are considering two plans to ease traffic concerns at the school, he said. One
of those plans is the possible
construction of a bus turn lane
that wraps around the entire
building.
"It's gonna be bad," he told
the council, "At best it will be
bad."
Projects
• Continued from p3
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honor of Woodrow Wilson
Burchett. Member Kay Ross
questioned the city's ability to
name a state bridge. Fannin
replied by saying that the county has already made the same
designation and tl:}at the city
now must send their recommendation ·to the state.
• Passed a resolution for a
"small
grant"
agreement
between the city and the state
Division of Forestry. The nature
of this business was not
explained.
• Decided to look into a
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BA ES FAMILY PRACTICE, LLC
Kevin R. Bayes, D.O.
325 Broadway
Paintsville, Ky. 41240
789-7100
Kevin R. Bayes, D.O., will open a Family Practice
office, on August 11. As a Family Practitioner, Dr. •
Bayes will see patients of a ages and can provide
quality care for your entire fa ily. Dr. Bayes is from
Paintsville and is a graduate of Paintsville High
School and the University of Kentucky. He completed his Medical Degree at the Pikeville College
School of Osteopathic Medicine, his Internship at
Westview Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana and his
Family Practice Residency at Highlands Regional
Medical Center. Dr. Bayes' office is located at 325
Broadway. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday thr"ough Friday.
For an appointment, call 789-71 0
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"We want to inform him of the
calls from the public and get his
side of the story. Right now, no
laws have been broken, but we
are still investigating."
• O'FALLON, Mo. - A
United Parcel Service deliveryman found a surprise nestled
among the packages in his truck.
Brian Adams, 41, first
noticed the 9-foot albino python
when he shifted some boxes
after pulling into a parking lot
last week.
Adams said he initially
thought he was looking at a
stuffed animal or rubber snake.
But when he looked closer and
noticed scales, he called his
wife.
"Tina, you won't believe
this, but there's a snake in the
truck," he said.
Moments later, the python's
·head popped up as Adams
nudged aside a small box in
front of it. "It's alive!" he
yelled into the phone.
An O'Fallon animal control
officer was called and the 31pound snake was prodded into
a cloth mailbag.
The python was taken to a
pet adoption center until the St.
Louis Herpetological Society
picks it up next week.
Adams doesn't know how the
snake got into his truck - UPS
doesn't deliver live animals.
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BOYS & GIRLS DENIM
Boys 4-20 and Girls 4-16
Reg. 17.00-58.00,
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JANSPORT BACKPACKS
Assorted styles by Jody Coyote
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�AS • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
bituaries
Hansel S. Bradley
Hansel S. Bradley, age 74, of
Prestonsburg, husband of Lettie
Honeycutt
Bradley,
died
Saturday, August 6, at his residence.
He was born May 3, 1931, in
Maytown, a son of the late
Charlie and Matha Frazier
Bradley. He was a retired Ky.
W.Va. Gas Co. field operator.
He served in the U.S. Air Force
during the Korean War, was a
member of James W. Alley
Masonic Lodge No. 869,
Wayland, and a Shriner at
Oleika Temple.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by two nieces: Donna
Kay Warren and Debra Curry;
three nephews: Darrell Bradley,
Freddy Bradley, and Andy
Bradley; three step-daughters:
Nancy Hunt, Peggy Fraley, and
Slandy
Risner,
all · of
Prestonsburg; six step-grandchildren, and three step-greatgrandchild.
In addition to his parents, he ·
was preceded in death by two
brothers: Burnis and Nillis
Bradley; and one sister, Rita
Amburgey.
Funeral services for Hansel S.
Bradley were held Tuesday,
August 9, at 1 p.m., in the Hall
Funeral Home Chapel, in
Martin, with Clergyman Jim
Smith officiating.
Burial was in the Hagans
Cemetery, in Eastern, with the
Hall Funeral Home, caring for
those arrangements.
Masonic services were conducted at 6 p.m., Monday,
(Paid obituary)
August 8.
000
Lillian Lucille (May)
Ratliff
Lillian Lucille (May) Ratliff,
passed away Saturday, August
6, 2005, at the Pikeville Medical
Center.
She was born May 1, 1920,
daughter of the late Jeff and
Myrtle (Litteral) May.
She was preceded in death by
her first husband, Claude
Canada, and second husband,
Rush Ratliff; a brother, Billy
May, and one. son, Odelle
Ratliff.
She was a member of the
Miller's Creek Church of Christ.
Survivors include her sons:
Donnie (Wanda) Canada of
Kimper, Rush Randall (Sharon)
Ratliff of Kimper; daughters:
Doris (Grayson) Layne of
Frenchburg, Avonell (Buster)
Coleman of Kimper, and Phyllis
Ratliff of Kimper; five grandchildren: Grayson (Stephanie)
Layne Jr., Dale Lyn Layne,
Chris (Suzanne) Canada, Teresa
Chevalier, and Bryan Ratliff;
three
great-grandchildren:
Matthew
and
Nicholas
Chevalier, and Isabelle Layne; a
sister, Annalee (Alonzo) Layne
of Muscle Shoals, Alabama;
three step-children: Weultha
(Richard) Ter Doest of Hudson,
Michigan, Tracy (Roxie) Ratliff
of Toledo, Ohio, and Audrey
(Glen) Stevens of Kimper; and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday, August 10, at I
p.m., at the Justice Funeral
Home Chapel, Pikeville, with
Dean Lyons and Jim Abshire,
Church of Christ ministers, officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Annie E. Young Cemetery,
under the direction of Justice
Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obiruary)
ODD
Homer Reynolds
Homer Reynolds, 82, of
Catlettsburg, formerly of Allen,
died Sunday, August 7, 2005, in
Lexington.
Born June 19, 1923, in Floyd
County, he was the son of the
late Jeff and Matilda Hamilton
Reynolds. He was a retired
Ironworker, a member of
Ironworkers
Local
769,
Ashland, a member of the
Oakland
Avenue
Baptist
Church, a U.S. Navy veteran,
serving in the South Pacific during WW II, and was awarded
the Purple Heart.
He is survived by his wife,
Myrtle Johnson Reynolds.
Other survivors include one
son, Dr. Roy D. Reynolds, and
his wife Judy, of Franklin; two
daughters: Gwendolyn R. Webb
of Lexington, and Barbara Sue
Reynolds of Pikeville; four sisters: Maudie Meade of Dayton,
Ohio, Joan Reynolds of Canton,
Ohio, Ruby Akers of Dayton,
Ohio, and Madge Spurgeon of
Paintsville; and three grandchildren: Alan Reynolds of Bowling
Green, Tasha Harilson of
Nicholasville, and Monica
Webb of Lexington.
He was preceded in death by
seven brothers, and five sisters.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday, August 10, at 1
p.m., in the Steen Funeral
Home-Marshall Steen Chapel,
in Ashland, with Rev. Paul
Padget officiating.
Burial will be in the Davidson
Memorial Gardens, in Ivel.
Military graveside rites will
Card of Thanks
The family of Jimmy Jones would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all those who helped in any way during the loss of our loved
one. A special thanks to all those who sent flowers, food, or spoke kind
words of sympathy to our family. A special thanks to the Regular Baptist
ministers for their comfo1ting words, the Samaria Regular Baptist
Church, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance in traffic control,
and the Hall Funeral Home of Martin, Ky., for their professional and
courteous service. All your thoughts and prayers were a great comfort to
our family.
THE FAMILY OF JIMMY JONES
Card of Thanks
The family of Margie Hogsed would like to express a sincere appreciation to all the relatives, friends, and neighbors,
who helped to comfort us during our time of loss. We would
like to thank all those who sent food, flowers, and words of
comfort expressed. A special thanks to Clergyman Ted
Shannon for his comforting words, the Sheriff's Department
for their assistance in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral
Home for their kind and efficient service.
be held by the Big Sandy
Chapter 18 DAY. Auxier.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid <>hilllary)
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Emma Sizemore
Emma Sizemore, 66, of Blue
River, died Friday, August 5.
2005, at her residence.
Born March 22, 1939, in floyd
County, she was the daughter of
the late Jerry and Eva Moore
Gayheart. She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death hy
her husband, Alger Sizemore.
Survivors include seven sons:
Danny (Judy) Sizemore. Ja!Jles
(Mary)
Sizemore,
Mickey
Sizemore, Barry Sizemore.
Darren (Ernestine) Sizemore.
and Jerry (Denise) Sizemore, all
of McDowell, and Chris (Patsy)
Sizemore of Blue River: two
daughters: Benika (Terry) Paige
of Fleming County. and Alfreda
(Louie) Moore of McDowell;
three brothers: Bill Gayheart.
Ted Gayheart, and Clyde
Gayhea.t1, all of Ohio; two sisters: Elsie Slone of Portsmouth,
Ohio, and Effie Hall of
McDowell; 15 grandchildren,
and seven great-grandchildren.'
In addition to her parents, and
husband, she was preceded in
death by a grandson, Forrest
Ledale Howell, and two great-
grandchildren: Caleb Duncan
and Forrest Duncan.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 8. at 11
a.m .. at' the Little Rosa Regular
Baptist
Church,
m East
McDowell. with Regular Baptist
ministers ofliciating.
Burial was in the Greenberry
Hall Cemetery at Ftasurcs Creek,
. in McDowell, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
in Martin.
Visitation was at the church.
(Paid obituary)
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Edna Whitt
Edna Whitt, age 92, of Ocik Hill,
Ohio, formerly of Betsy Layne,
passed away Flillay, August 5, 2005,
at Herutland Nuf'>ing Home, in Oak
HiU,Ohio.
She was born July 9, 1913, in
Endicott, the daughter of the late
Columbus Whiu and Vata Blackburn
Whitt. Ms. Whitt was a homemaker,
and a member of the Betsy Layne
Freewill Baptist ChLU-ch.
Survivors include one brother,
John Whiu of Burlington, Michigan;
and two sisters; Verdie Hamilton of
Bay City, Michigan, and Alma Payne
of Southgate. Michigan.
· She was preceded in death by her
parents and two brothers: Glen Whitt
and William C. "Billy" Whitt; three
sisters: Goldie Blankenship, Ollie
Crider, and Jessie Mac Smock; and
one nephew, Victor Whin.
Funcrd.l. services for Edna Whitt
were conducted Thcsday, August 9, at
ll a.m.. at the Betsy Layne Freewill
Baptist ChLU·ch, with Clergyman
Tracy Patton officiating.
Burial was in the Davidson
Memorial Gmdens, in I vel, under the
professional care of the Hall Funeral
Home, in Martin
Visitation was at the funeral
home.
Pallbearers: Ralph Roop, Dan.
Hamilton, Marvin Williamson,
Marshall Williamson, Randy
Blankenship, and Dwight Akers.
FLOYD COUNTY
CATHOLICS
WELCOME YOU
ST. MARTHA CHURCH
Water Gap
Masses: 5 p.m., Sat.; 11:15 a.m.
Sunday
(Paid obi tuary)
Card of Thanks
The family of John Allen Jr., would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to all .those friends, neighbors. and loved ones,
who helped to comfort us during our time of sorrow. Thanks to
all those who sent flowers, or spoke kind words. We would like
to send a special thanks to Clergyman Steve Pescosolido for his
comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for their a~sistance
in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home for their caring and
professional service. All your thoughts and prayers will never be
forgotten.
THE FAMILY OF JOHN ALLEN JR.
Jose Alzadon, .D.
General Surg on
Suite 2127
Highlands Medica~
Office Building
5000 Ky. Hwy. 321
Prestonstiurg, Ky. 41653
HIGHLANDS GENERAL SURGERY
Jose Alzadon, M.D., General Surgeon, has joined the
Medical Staff of Highlands Regional Medical Center
and opened an office in Suite 2127 of Highlands
Medical Office Building. Dr. Alzadon is a graduate of
Stanford Urtiversity, the Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School, and completed his . Internship and
Residency at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center·
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in. New York. Dr.
Alzadon is a highly skilled surgeon with particular
expertise in laparoscopic procedures. Dr. Alzadon will
see patients in ~is office on .Tuesdays and Fridays.
To schedule an appointment,
call 889-6031.
THE FAMILY OF MARGIE HOGSED
HIGH
Card of Thanks
The family of June Goble would like to express a sincere
apprcciaton to all of the relatives, friends, and neighbors,
who helped to comfort us during the time of our loss. We
would like to thank all those who sent food, flowers, and
for words of comfort expressed. A special thanks to
Brandy Keg Freewill Baptist Church, minister, Roger
Music, and Nclson-Fra?icr. Thank you for all the kindness
sh(l' 'O t( our famil). The. sheritf's department for traffic
('fl'Jllnl ,,nd nnce again. NPic;on-Fra?ir Fun~'r'll H"me
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
10, 2005 • A 9
Calendar
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Diabetes" support group meeting, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Place A
& B, medical office bldg.
For more info., contact
Highlands Educational Services
Dept. at 886-7424.
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ACHS Class of '95
It's been ten years, classmates! And a reunion is being
planned for the weekend of
August 13. Please email the
planning
committee
at:
rebe1sclassof1995@ hotmail.co
m or, contact Amy Adams
Osborne at 358-2947 or Misty
Lynn (Bush) Isaac at 358-9184
if you are interested in attending
or have questions or ideas to
share.
Neighborhood Watch
The
Mud
Creek
.,. Neighborhood Watch group will
meet the third Thursday of each
month, at 7 p.m. All are invited
to attend meetings.
Little Mud Comm. Center
The Little Mud Community
Center Board of Directors are
currently in the process oflocating photos of old historic sites
of the area. The pictures are to
be added to the center's historic
wall. If you have any such pictures, or are interested in more
information concerning this project, call478-1477 or 478-2479.
Notice! BLHS Class of '95
The Betsy Layne High
School Class of 1995 will host a
reunion on August 20, at the
Landmark Inn, in Pikeville.
Please mail responses no later
than July 20 to the reuni committee. For more information,
call 889-9651 or 478-5014.
Attention: BLHS Class of '85
The Betsy Layne High
School Class of 1985 will host a
reunion to be held Sept. 10, 6
p.m. to 12 a.m., at the Landmark
Inn, Pikeville. $50 per couple/$25 for single. RSVP deadline is Aug. 15. For more info.,
contact Debbie Hall at 304-7572918 or Dochalllparsons@charter.net
Prestonsburg. Classes are held
Monday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, ·a t 11 a.m. at the old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788,
for more information.'
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program."
You must be 55 Qr older to
apply. In Floyd, call 886-2929;
Johnson,
call
789-6515;
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike,
call432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call638-4067.
Interested In job training?
Are you a senior citizen on a
fixed income struggling with
soaring II:~edical bills and living
expenses? Could you use some
extra spending money but don't
know how to get back into the
workforce?
If you are at least age 55, the
Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP)
may be able to help. Earn extra
money, learn new skills, and
help your community at the
same time! To find out more,
call: 886-2929.
External Diploma Program
Kentucky residents age 25
and older cim earn a high school
diploma by demonstrating skills
learned on the job or in raising a
family. Flexible scheduling is
provided and confidentiality
maintained. Classes are held at
the
Carl
D.
Perkins
Rehabilitation
Center,
in
Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
evening classes on Thursday.
EDP classes are also held at the
Mullins Learning Center, in
Pikeville, on Tuesdays, from
4:30-8:30 p.m. Contact Andy
Jones at 606-788-7080, or 800443-2187, ext. 186, or Linda
Bell, at ext. 160 to make an
appointment.
GED classes are also available.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
Cliffside Community Room.
David: 1st Monday, 1 p.m.,
at St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
Martin Church of Christ.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m. , Extension
Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
p .m., Maytown First Baptist
Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild:
1st/3rd Wednesdays, 10 a.m.,
Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
1:30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg:
3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home of members (call 886-2668 for info.)
Looking For a Support Group?
• Alzheimer's Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday of
each month at the First
Presbyterian Church (near
Jerry's Restaurant), at 6 p.m.
For more info.; call Dana
Caudill at 886-0265, or Jane
Bond at FCHD. NOTE: Group
will NOT MEET in July or
August.
• Alzheimer's Association,
East-em KY Regional Office 24-hour Helpline, call 1-800272-3900 for emotional support,
local resources, and other information.
• Support Group - Meets
BLHS Classes - '65 thru '75
The classes of Betsy Layne
High School, 1965-1975, will
host a reunion to be held on
August 20, at the Jenny Wiley
Convention Center. For more
information, contact Sandy
Meade Scrimager at (859) 285' ' 9826, or (859) 576-5846, or,
after 6 p.m., at (606) 478-9669.
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tO THE PERSON WHO TOOK
A PURSE AND DIAPER BAG
OUT OF A TRAILBLAZER AT
JENNY WILEY POOL:
there was a roll of film in my purse that
~ontains pictures of my children. I don't
care about the other contents of the
'bags, but I ask you to please mail the film
to me at
Amy Burchett
P.O. Box 400
Allen, KY 41601
Qr you
can drop it off at Wai-Mart under the
name Amy Burchett. I am not interested in
finding out who you are. I just desperately
want back the lrreplacable pictures.
UPPER BIG SANDY
UNITED ~THODIST MINISTRIES
Cordially invites you to attend a
Celebration in honor of
• k
Charles Rpbert (Charli~ Bob) Elswtc
On his Ninetieth BLrthday
Sunday, August 14, 2005
3:00 p.m.
Pikeville United Methodist Church
. Power Building Annex
.
A reception will follow the program Ln
the Fellowship Hall of the Church
No gifts, please.
Your friendship and love over the years
are gifts beyond measure.
You may not
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knOW OUr name yet
but you will
want to work here!
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What does ACS do?
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• Disabled? - You may be
eligible for grant money to
assist in your daily living. For
an application or more informa
tion, call 886-4326.
I.
Over 50? Need a friend?
Then
check
out
our
Friendship Club for seniors.
Share a meal, see a movie, take
a walk, have a chat. Meet with
other seniors at a local location.
Come on out, and let's talk. For
more info., call 889-9620. The
Friendship Club is not a dating
service.
Free Body Recall class~s
Free Body Recall Exercise
Classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at 9:30,
at the Presbyterian Church in
third Monday of each month at
7:00 p.m. at the Seton Complex,
Martin. Offers group support
for MS patients and their caregivers.
• Overeater's Anonymous
(O.A.)- Meets each Monday, at
3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha
Catholic Church, Water Gap
Road. For more info., call 8862513.
• US TOO! Prostate Cancer
Survivors Support Group - For
all men with prostate cancer and
their families. Group meets the
3rd Thursday of each month, at
6 p.m., at the Ramada Inn,
Paintsville.
• Community Weight Loss
Support Group
Meets
Thursday's at 6:30 p.m., at the
Martin Community Center. For
more info., call 377-6658.
Those who have had gastric
bypass surgery most especially
welcome to attend. Meetings
being offered as support to anyone needing extra support in
dealing with weight loss.
•
Violence Hotline - 24hour Crisis Line manned by
Certified Domestic Violence
counselors. Call 886-6025, or
1-800-649-6605. Remember,
"Love Doesn' t Have to Hurt."
• Kentucky Baptist Homes
for Children - Free, confidential
assistahce for unplanned pregnancy concerns. Talk with
someone who cares about you
and your baby. Call 1-800-928-
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The Flu)d Cuunty Emergenq and Rescue Sltmtd WHS organized un At)ril 27. I95H,
as a result ul' the tragic school bus disaster on February 28, 1958.
Twenty-six childr·en and the driver lust their lives.
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On August 10, 11, 12, & 13, from 3:00p.m. to 10:00 p.m., on WDOC 1310
AM and 095 WOHY; and August 21, from 12:00 noon to 10:00 p.m., on
WDOC 1310 AM, and 095 WOHY, we will be conducting our
39th
ANNUAL
RADIO
AUCTION
55 Sykes Blvd.
Pikeville, KY 41501
in the Mossy Bottoms Business Park
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All personnel serve entirely as volunteer members. The squad does not receive a ~ax base. We
rely heavily upon p'e ople like you, who realize the importance of a strong, well-eqmpped rescue
.,.
squad.
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The Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad would like to encourage everyone to sten m,
and bid, and buy, on this 38th Annual Radio Auction. We thank you for your support.
Visit us ()nline at www.acs-inc.com.
Call us at 606-218-lpOO
Fax resumes to 606r432-4479
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through rewarding, successful
careers in mining, construction,
transportation, electrical, chemical engineering, as well as other
non-engineering fields. These
former students often encounter
each other on a daily basis
throughout their busy work
days. Such encounters give
them the opportunity to reminisce about their time at the college and particularly their memories· of John D. and Connie.
Many say that they would not
have continued their education
if not for the encouragement
from Professor Sammons and
his wife, who extended their
commitment well beyond the
classroom. Unfortunately, Mrs.
Sammons passed away in
September 2004. This endowment will honor her memory
and the continued work of
Professor Sammons, who still
remains a faculty member at Big
Sandy
Community
and
Technical College.
Pictured, left to right, are Dr. George D. Edwards, Prof. John D.
Sammons, Randall Taylor and Rusty Justice.
For more information regarding this endowment, you can
contact Judy Bocook, Manager
of Advancement, Big Sandy
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Students establish endowment to honor professor, wife
Several graduates of Prestonsburg Community College, now
known as Big Sandy Community and Technical College, are
stablishing an endowment to
honor their former teacher, John
D. Sammons and his wife,
Connie W. Sammons. The
endowment, which will be
awarded to full time students
interested .in the fielqs of math
or engineering, was announced
at a recent awards day held on
the Prestonsburg campus. For
the past 30 years, Professor
Sammons and his wife, Connie,
were instrumental in the education of many local students, particularly in the area of engineer.Jng.
""' Thanks to the dedication and
influence of Professor and Mrs.
Sammons, many students continued their studies to pursue
degrees in engineering. These
students have returned to the
eastern Kentucky area and now .
contribute to our local economy
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Community and Technical
College, One Bert T. Combs
Drive, Prestonsburg, KY 41653
or by phone at 606-886-7369.
Johnson receives
nationalce~cation
Karen S. Johnson, transportation director of Floyd
County Schools, has completed the NAPT Professional Certification Program. The program was
established in 1989 to recognize the achievements
and expertise of individuals In various administrative positions within the
pupil transportation field.
As a candidate for national
certification, Johnson participated in an objective
peer review of the her education, career experience
and achievements in the
field of pupil transportation operations as well as a rigorous job-specific written
examination that tested her knowledge of national standards for safe and efficient pupil transportation.
Certification as a Director of Pupil Transportation (COPT) is
available to individuals who
qualified as the top adminn system. Candidates must
istrator of a pupil transport
demonstrate tha't they are
able of handling a position
that involves establishing programs and policies, setting
standards, developing materials, and providing leadership
to achieve designated goals.
Tips for getting youngsters back in the school swing of -~La,.
With those lazy, hazy - not
to mention sizzling hot - days
~of summer still with us, it is difficult to imagine that there are a
few short weeks left before
Kentucky's youngsters go back
to school.
To get your children back in
the school and learning mode,
Elinor L. Brown, an assistant
professor in the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction in
the University of Kentucky
College of Education, has some
practical tips that have grown
out of her professional education experiences and personal
practices as a single parent of
~hree grown daughters ('a physician, an accountant/personal
trainer, and a stay-at-home
mom).
Brown, who teaches graduate
level multicultural education,
foundations of education, and
business education courses, to
Kentucky's future teachers
believes that a key to a positive,
successful school year includes
developing, organizing and
maintaining sound and enriching family routines.
The UK faculty member's
major research interests are in
the areas of multicultural education and educational equity. Her
writings have been published
extensively in professional journals and she has been honored
for her outstanding teaching and
university service.
Brown offers the following
tips to help youngsters get ready
for a new school year:
• Review your children's
required summer reading and
have them write a simple report
on each book. Don't forget the
library.
• Involve children in cultural and physical activities and
include nature programs that
may also require critical thinking skills.
• Make sure the annual
physical is completed including
vision and hearing.
• During the summer, help
children develop a habit of journal writipg to reflect on their
activities at least once per week.
• Review with your children
the school rules including dress
codes (don't buy inappropriate
school clothes) and behavior
(language and conduct).
• Have an emergency contact list for the school an.d your
children. Make sure it is easy for
children to reach you and that
they know the people on the list.
• Purchase a school calendar
and mark important activities
(PTA, Parents' night).
• Make sure you have the
children's bus schedule and the
bus route. Review it with the
children and the code of conduct
on the bus.
• Go over home safety rules
with children including who is
RespiratorY cafe .:. a career far,life and brea~h
At 9:32 a.m., Heather
Johnson brought a newborn
•baby struggling to breathe back
to life. Heather is a respiratory
therapist.
Did you know that:
• Respiratory therapists are
the health professionals responsible for taking care of patients
with heart and lung problems.
• Respiratory therapists care
for newborn infants, children,
adults and the elderly.
• Career opportunities for
respiratory therapists are competitive with other health professions.
t.:: For more information about a
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dynamic career in respiratory
care attend one of the following
Big Sandy Community &
Technical College Respiratory
Care Program pre-admission
conferences:
• . Tuesday Sept. 27, 3 p.m.
Mayo/Paintsville
• Friday Oct. 28, 1 p.m.,
Prestonsburg
• Tuesday Nov. 29, 5 p.m .•
Pikeville**
• Thursday Jan. 19, 3 p.m.,
Hager Hill
• Wednesday Feb. 1, 1 p.m.,
Prestonsburg
**Pre-registration is required
for this conference. To register,
please contact Melissa Steele,
extension 82822, at one of ·the
following numbers: 1-888-6414132 (out of area); (606)7895321
(Paintsville
area);
(606)886-3863 (Prestonsburg
area)
or by
email
at
melissa.steele@kctcs.edu. No
pre-registration is required for
the other conf~.I\... K~o ..t~os. All
conference dates/times are subject to change due to inclement
weather. Please tune to, local
radio stations or check the Big
Sandy
Community
and
Technical College website at
www.bigsandy.kctcs.edu for
information.
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allowed in the home if you arc
at work, speaking to strangers,
the emergency police and frre
numbers to call.
• Inform the school of any
potential special needs that your
child may have as early as possible be(ore s.chool opens.
Brown offers some additional fan'<ity life hints to help nurture a healthy horne-life and
educational experience for chil-·
dren:
• Families should develop
and niail}tain a schedule that
includes how much TV is
allowed per week.
• When at home, families
should set a permanent bedtime,
based on the children's ages.
• Unless away on vacation,
families should plan summer
activities that coincide with
children's school wake-up
times.
• A daily family quiet time
for reading should be set aside.
(During the school year the
re.q.clin- ,.. time can be divided
u?e reading and
homework, Brown said).
• Develop a family exercise
routine. (This ·process will help
children become more accepting
of physical activities and sports
in school.)
• Develop a healthy eating
plan including after school
snacks, lunches, and breakfast.
Children should be
in the development of
menus and snack choices,
Brown suggests, as this will prepare them for making healthier
fpod and snack choices when
they are in school. .
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10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Former students, staff sad to see Clark go
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBu'RG - When
area firefighters trained at
Charles F. Clark Elementary
Saturday, some of them, former
students of the school, expressed
sadness about the demolition.
Fire
Marshal
Bobby
Carpenter recalled hts "rude
awakening" to Floyd County's
corporal punishment rules when
he moved from Michigan to
attend sixth grade at Clark
Elementary. He was spanked for
refusing to spit his gum out.
"It scarred me for life," he
laughed.
Fire Chief Gary Dotson; who
attended the school when it
opened in 1964, talked about his
experiences during his eightyear tenure there.
"It's going to be different,"
he said, walking through the
gym. "It's kind of sad. There's a
lot of old memories here."
· Dotson's mother, Elsie, was
included in the first group of
teachers who instructed at Clark
Elementary. The entire family
attended the school, she said.
The former teacher, who retired
in 1981, said she would "hate to
see it torn down because it wasn't that old."
The construction of Charles
F. Clark Elementary, initially
referred to as the "Middle Creek
Elementary School," took place
"Prestonsburg
during
the
Building Boom" during the
1963-64 school year. The state
appropriated $45.2 million
toward a construction and
equipment program that helped
open 1,0(51 classrooms for the
1964-1965 school year.
Charles F. Clark Elementary
was the largest of the newly
constructed schools, with an
opening enrollment of 595 students, a total that was later
amended to 603 students. It was
named after the superintendent
in place at that time.
The unusual design of the
$366,000 school reportedly
attracted "wide attention" for its
"originality and practicality." ·
During this time, construction was underway with other
schools, roadways, bridges,
homes, the county's fifth courthouse, the community college,
the library, and the state's
"Economic Security Structure"
on North Lake Drive, from
which $36 million dollars
appropriated through President
Johnson's "War on Poverty"
was disbursed for area imprdvements.
When the school opened, it
was reported that 800 Floyd
County students occupied brand
new class rooms and "fewer
than ever in the county's long
history were housed in one
room schools."
Sixteen one room schools
consolidated
into
Clark
Elementary, which had 18 classrooms. The construction eliminated all one-room schools on
Middle Creek, Spurlock, David
and surrounding areas.
"In some ways it is sad
because it is a good building, but
there will be an improvement,
and improvement is always
good," former teacher Earl D.
Ousley said. Ousley, who retired
in 1985, described the students
he taught during his 19-year
tenure at the school as a "closeknit group." He also recalled his
rural school teaching days.
"I began teaching in a one
room school in Spurlock," he
said. "I taught six years in oneroom schools. There were three
on Spurlock. That was before
we had countywide busing."
Ousley said the board of edu- through several changes in the
cation would bring a truckload 1970s, Pitts said. Walls were
of coal to each one-room school removed, rooms were comin preparation for the winter bined, and furnishings were
months. Older students living added.
near the schools were in charge
"We were really a good
of starting a fire in the "potbelly school, or at least I think we
stove" every morning, he said.
were," he said. "It was a nice
"Someone who lived near the place for students to be."
school was given a key and the
Pitts, and other former affiliteacher would pay him a small ates of the school, said students
amount to come in the morning from throughout Floyd County
and build a fire. When the chil- began commuting to Clark. At
dren arrived, the building was one point, Pitts said, the influx
usually warm," he said. "It's of students sparked controversy
amazing [that students were about overcrowding.
given this responsibility). It
Former teacher Nadine
would be far from being Hicks, who currently works as
allowed these days."
the parent involvement coordiFormer principal John K. nator in Floyd County, came to
Pitts, who now lives in Clark after teaching in a oneGeorgetown, recalled similar room school at Pyramid.
memories.
She said that every teacher
Pitts, acting as principal for attending Clark that first year
22 years (long enough to see was a rural school teacher, with
former students bringing their the exception of Judith Carter,
own children to class), began in who had just graduated college.
a one-room school at the mouth
"I ended up with 47 seventhof Conley in Spurlock.
graders," Hicks said. "At first it
''We had 50 or 60 children was a little strange, but soon we
until it rained in the fall," he were all got settled in. We had a
said. "It was pretty hard to get to wonderful PTA, I remember
school back then."
that. We were all pleased. I'd
The county suffered with come from a place where I
severe road problems during taught all eight grades, to a
and before the 1963-64 school school where I was only responyear. Several roads ran along- .sible for teaching one grade. I
side, and in, creeks.
was in hog heaven!"
Pitts said that education was
She described the school as
different in those days, particu- having a "family atmosphere"
larly because students and par- where all teachers felt responsients respected teachers and ble for every child.
because things like "dope" were
In the 1970s she said, teachunheard of. David was a "thriv- ers trained for two consecutive
ing" community at this time, he summers to obtain the designasaid, pointing out that the little tion of being a "Right to Read"
town "even had its own doctor." school.
Some students, he said, were
Educators from all over
15 or 16 years old while attend- Kentucky and other states
ing the eighth grade. Those stu- flocked to the school "to see
dents usually did not continue what we were doing," she said.
their studies, he said.
Hicks said she had "mixed
Clark Elementary went emotions" about the demolition.
Educating the county in 1963-64
• Jan. 10, 1963: The board
voted to ' name the "Big Mud
Creek School" in honor of
chairman John M. Stumbo.
They also voted to pay Town
Branch Community Church $15
month for temporary use of their
building as classroom space.
• Jan. 31, 1963: The board
released an architect's rendering
of
the
"Middle
Creek
Elementary School" building.
The Times wrote: "The unusual
design for the school, with an
octagon 'hub' from which two
wings of classrooms extend, has
attracted wide attention. Its
originality and practicality have
earned the commendation of
state Department of Education
officials." Clark said of the
$366,000 structure, "This is the
second building let to contract
in an ambitious building program calculated to give each
child in Floyd County a modem
classroom."
• Feb. 7. 1963: The board
hired 10 teachers and bought
five buses, each equipped to
handle 66 passengers. The county was dealing with severe road
problems. "We don't have a
rural road in the county that is in
good condition, and as long as
the weather remains as it is,
there isn't much we can do
about it," said County Judge
Henry Stumbo. The county's
"Old Man Moses" - Woodrow
Burchett - made his annual
predictions at a Kiwanis Club
meeting. "The rqad to nowhere
will be completed and it won't
be necessary to take food
stamps to the toll," he said.
• Feb. 21, 1963: Supt.
Charles F. Clark announced the
approval of schoqls holding
Saturday classes, if needed.
Clark polled 510 teachers and
350 of them returned ballots,
voting 2-to-1 in favor of holding
Saturday classes in Floyd
County to make up for missed
school days. During this vote,
286 teachers also voted in favor
of teaching during their vacations and 21 voted against it.
• Feb. 28, 1963: Clark sent a
letter to all teachers, telling
them that they couldn't be paid
by "the usual 25th." "We shall
pay as soon as we have taught
enough days to enable us to get
payroll straightened out.. You
may rest assured that we shall
pay as soon as it is possible and
legal," he wrote.
$340,000 was appropriated at
a meeting for construction of
John M. Stumbo Elementary.
• May 12, 1963: Flood disaster hits county again. Clark
announced that the time missed
because of the flood "made it
absolutely necessary" to haye
Saturday classes. Millions in
damage were reported in the
county.
• May 23, 1963: The Floyd
County Teachers Association
placed a full page ad in an effort
to "Save our SchOols" by asking
voters to nominate Edward T.
"Ned" Breathitt to run for governor. "We honestly believe that
the educational welfare of our
children hinges on the outcome
of this election," they wrote.
Controversy sparked across the
county after Breathitt gave
political speeches in Floyd
County schools and in other
schools across the state.
Previously this month, the board
discussed the controversy during a meeting. Clark was
"strongly opposed to any statement of policy which might pre-
vent such appearances until
after the May 28 primary."
Clark argued that the other two
candidates for governor should
be given the same courtesy as
Breathitt. In June, the board
voted unanimously to prohibit
politicians from speaking at
schools during class hours.
Breathitt succeeded in the
November election and the
newspaper called Floyd his
"banner county" with the total
county vote in his favor topping
13,146. He officially took office
in December.
• June 13, 1963: Floyd
County was below the state
average in the amount of money
spent on each child annually.
The state spent $250 annually
per child in 1960 and 1961, but
Floyd County, reported as
spending $209.85, ranked 106
out of 120 counties in annual
allocations per child. At this
time, students in the central
part of the state received more,
on average, and students in the
"poorer eastern section"
received less.
• On June 13, 1963: It was
announced that Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jr. (acting as undersecretary of Commerce) would
head a task force of federal representatives to discuss area
issues with local leaders at
Jenny Wiley State Park. The
meeting was part of President
Kennedy's new Appalachian
Regional Commission.
• On June 20, 1963: "For the
first time in 20 years or more,
Floyd County has a surplus of
teachers."
(At this time, subscription
rates for The Floyd County
Times ranged from $3.50 to $5.)
• Sept. 12, 1963: The board
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declined to prohibit prayer and
reading of the Bible in Floyd
County schools. Clark mailed a
copy of the Attorney General's
opinion that prohibited "timehonored Bible readings and
prayer" to every teacher.
• Nov 21, 1963: The board
purchased 5.03 acres of land in
Left
Beaver
for
the
Wheelwright
Elementary
School. It was announced that
the school would be an "adaptation of the Middle Creek
Elementary School now under
construction."
• Nov. 28, 1963: "Gloom
Pervades Land" when Kennedy
is assassinated.
• Dec. 12, 1963: The board
Former
teacher
Ann not going to be there, that's it's
Dickerson said her husband, not going to be the same school
James, worked as a volunteer I went to."
Though several expressed
coach with Billy Jo Prater to
establish the school's athletic sadness about the demolition,
team. Pitts said the school held many affiliated with the school
most of its basketball ga.nles in throughout the years say they
Magoffin County during the understand the need for chang~
early years because Dickerson and improvement.
Current principal Wayne
was acquainted with people
there. The school system later Combs, who is gearing up for
developed a basketball program, the new changes this school
he said. Students attending that year, said the change "is for the
frrst year, Dickerson said, voted best."
"When it's time to go, you
to name the team the "Clark
need to go, you don't hang on
Indians."
"It's kind of heartbreaking to and on and on. That's pretty
see it disappear," she said. "I'd much what I did," Pitts said,
like for the new school to have when asked what he would say
the Clark Elementary name, but to those who don't want to see
1 don't think they are going to the school tom down.
Supt. Paul Fanning said offiname it that."
One former student, Cheresh cials are currently trying to iron _
Shepherd, is requesting that out traffic problems at Adams'+
officials provide historical com- .Middle School, the host school
munity tours of the school for Clark students who are now
· in transition. He said the district
before it is tom down.
"I drive by it every day. It's is waiting for the state to review
just, I don't know, sad, I guess," the contract before demolition
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
10, 2005 • A 13
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Veteran seeks to represent himself on assault, endangerment charges
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
A
Gunlock man who amassed various charges for fighting with
police officers after bringing a
shotgun into the Floyd County
Justice Center last summer ha~
• requested to act as his own attorney at a status conference in circuit court on tuesday.
Carter Ray Castle, 57, made
the announcement after his attorney, Ned Pillersdorf, informed
Judge John Caudill of Castle's
intentions. Caudill noted that
representing one's self in court is
never an action he endorses and
said that Castle's mental health
history gave him pause in granting the request.
Castle Tel>JX.mded by saying,
"I understand what you're saying
and thank you for your concern,
but I want to represent myself."
Plllersdorf noted his opinion
for the court record, saying, "He
has a serious mental illness. I
don't think the man is competent
to represent himself."
Judge Caudill followed up
saying, "You aren't trained in the
law and you would be up against
a
man
[Commonwealth's
Attomey Brent Thrnerl who is
schooled in prosecuting people."
Pillersdorf joined in asking if
Castle would prefer to have the
court a<;sign a different lawyer,
which prompted Castle to
declare, "I want to represent
myself. You're fired."
Judge Caudill opted to keep
the door open on the issue by
ordering that Castle be evaluated
to determine if he is mentally tit
to proceed before granting his
request.
"I think this is a bad decision
you 're making," Caudill said. "I
just want to be sure in my own
mind that you are competent to
do that.''
Physicians at the Kentucky
Correctional Psychiatric Center
had already examined Ca tle and
detennined that he was competent to stand trial for the case, but
observed that he was also suffer-
ing from post-traumatic stress
disorder which he was diagnosed
with after returning from service
in the Vietnam War.
Castle had allegedly stopped
taking his medication last summer, which Pillersdorf said, at a
previous court appearance, led to
his behavior at the Justice
Center, which he pointed out had
no criminal gain for his client.
Judge Caudill overruled
Castle's request to have his electronic ankle bracelet removed.
The device was installed as part·
Timeline
• Continued from p12
disculised bids for the construction of the Floyd County
Library. The Middle Creek
Elementary
School
and
'1i Prestonsburg
Community
, College, a wing, at that time, of
the University of Kentucky,
were slated to open in
September 1964.
(Telephone directory distributions began this month in
Floyd and surrounding counties.)
• Jan. 9, , 1964: The board
unanimously voted to renew the
$9.200 contract for Clark to
serve as superintendent and the
$2,400 contract for him to act as
board secretary. The district had
12,000 pupils at this time. Board
., members also approved a
$490,000 bond sale to finance
the construction of Wheelwright
Elementary. Clark was authorized to ask for bids on "teacher
wardrobes" at Middle Creek
Elementary, which wac; nearing
completion at this time. The
school was expected to eliminate all other Middle Creek
schools except for David.
• Jan. 23. 1964: University
of Kentucky trustees adopted a
plan to split the college into
"two separate but interrelated
systems." The plan centered on
making college education
affordable and accessible to a
wider range of people.
• Feb. 27, 1964: Burglars
vandalized Garth Vocational
School.
• March 12, 1964: The
board announced 25 new projects that would provide work
for several unemployed fathers
under the New Works program.
Clark announced the employment of 40 men and said that the
25 projects necessitated approximately 22,000 man hours. It
was later reported that 126
unemployed fathers were put to
work on 14 projects in
Prestonsburg and surrounding
areas. A "surprise" motion was
passed during a regular meeting
this month to name the Middle
Creek school after Clark. This
same month, the board
approved a U.S. Department of
Health plan calling for "intensive health screening" of all ·
preschoolers. Buses transported
children from area post offices
to the health department for the
screenings.
• March 26, 1964: A story
appeared about the continuation
of the "Prestonsburg building
boom.'' Construction was
underway for the courthouse,
the community college, the
library.
and
the
state's
Economic Security Structure on
North Lake Drive. More homes
were also being built in town at
this time.
• April 9, 1964: The Board
met to accept bids to furnish a
ca~t iron pipe waterline from
Prestonsburg to Charles F. Clark
Elementary
School,
a
$30,453.11 project. They also
amended the school calendar to
make up for days missed due to
Clark
inclement weather.
desig nated as "'Cou rthouse
• April 30, 1964: President Day."
Lyndon B. Johnson toured
• August 27, 1964: lt was
Martin and Johnson counties. repmted that 800 Floyd County
He requested $220 million from students occupied brand new
congress to initiate a five-year class rooms and "fewer than
plan for development progress ever in the county's long history
in the surrounding eight-state .were housed in one-room
area. An additional $36 million schools." Charlet- F . Clark
was specifically requested for Elementary was the largest of
this region, and was to be the newly-constructed schools,
administered by the "new with an opening enrollment of
of
Economic 595. The newly constructed sixoffice"
Opportunity, which wa<> built to classroom building in Harold
handle funds disbursed through also held 200 students.
Approximately 1,200 people
Johnson's nationwide "War on
attended the open house held
Poverty."
• July 9, 1964: Bert T. thi s week at the Charles F. Clark
Combs bridge was dedicated. Elementary School. The water
Dr. John P. Archer, the county's line from Prestonsburg to tl1e
school was completely installed
oldest living doctor, died at 55 .
• August 6, 1964: The board a few days prior to the ceremoapproved an agreement with the ny. Construction of the school
state education department to eliminated all other schools on
participate in an adult education Middle
Creek,
including
program. The goal was to teach David's five-room schoolhouse.
parents to read and· write and to Sixteen one-room schools conteach those with below-standard solidated into the school, which
education how to improve their had 18 classrooms. Asst. Supt.
reading and writing capabilities. Wayne Ratli ff said the school
at least to the eighth-grade level. year opened with "the teacher
lf they completed the program, situation the best in '15 years."
they were given "equivalency There were I 5 or fewer emerdiplomas" for concentrated gency teachers on the payroll, as
studies in English, math and compared to the 115 emergency
teachers employed tive or six
social studies.
• August 13, 1964: This day years previously.
• Sept. 3, 1964: The college
was "moving-in day" at the
courthouse, the fifth courthouse opened with an enrollment of
to serve the county. The first 300.
courthouse, a log structure, was
• Sept. I 0, 1964: Lt was
destroyed by fire in 1808. reported that Floyd County
Saturday, Sept. 12, 1964, was school enrollment decreased by
332. At this time there were 70
schools in the county and only
16 of those schools had enroll-
ment
increases.
Clark
Elementary enrolled 603, as
opposed to 472 enrolled at various one-room schools during
the 1963 school year.
• The following teachers
taught the first class: Edna
Davis, Anna Bell Harris, Qladys
Shepherd, Wanda Allen, Clara
Stephens, Mildred Whitaker,
Pauline Hicks, Mary Slone, Ann
Dickerson, Oma May Williams,
Elsie Dotson, June Stephens,
Goldie Stephens, Nadine Hicks,
Delphia Hicks. Dixie Neeley
and Judith Carter. The school
had no library at this time.
• The school has had three
principals: John K. Pitts, Irene
Goble and current principal
Wayne Combs.
of Castle's bond and alerts
authorities if he leave~; his home.
Ironically the attorneys bad
made an agreement to have
Castle's sentence result in a prolonged probationary period
which would have included
monitori ng his medication intake
in order to keep him from having
any future episodes.
Castle's charges could see
him serve up to 20 years in
prison should he go to trial and
be convicted. The crimes he is
charged with include five counts
of wanton endangerment and
two counts of assault. He also
faces one charge of attempted
murder of a police officer for
allegedly trying to wrestle a
weapon from an officer's holster
which followed the Justice
Center incident.
After bursting into the Justice
Center and shouting commands
to two bailiffs while waving a
shotgun around Ca<>tle proceeded
to the Red Light Diner where
most of the charges were
amassed when he got into a
struggle with police officers.
Castle allegedly ordered two
cups of coffee before the struggle
ensued and was once again carrying a firearm, which in that
case wa<; a .357 Magnum.
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The fuemen also practiced
overhaul techniques in the former school library. During a real
fire. they would use a thermal
imager to detect hot spots in
charred walls. For this training
. session, hot spots were already
marked. They tore through the
walls to extinguish the problem,
as they would during a real
emergency.
Officials used skill sheets to
administer the training session.
Carpenter and Fire Chief
Gary Dotson both expressed
appreciation for the opportunity
to use the school to train area
firefighters. An opportunity to
practice on a commercial buildings is rare, they said, particularly in regards to ventilation training.
"People aren't going to let
you put a hole in their roof,''
Dotson said.
• Continued from
officials say, allows access,
but doesn't completely damage
the door itself, a plus for residential and business owners
~ who would otherwise have to
replace an entire door when tirefighters are called to investigate
a problem like a fire alarm.
Firefighters also practiced
safety procedures in window
breaking. They used equipment
to break through glass in various
classrooms and on the gymnasium roof.
On the roof, teams of firefighters learned how to cut ventilation holes and trenches, a
procedure that allows heat,
smoke, and gases to escape during a fue. This technique makes
entry less dangerous for rescuers
down below, Fire Marshal
Bobby Carpenter said, because
the expansion of water vapor
creates a "blanket" of steam that
could impede progress with the
rescue. He also said ventilation
techniques help alleviate "backdraft" situations.
Carpenter said forcible entry
and ventilation practices are the
most strenuous aspects of a fire
rescue mission.
"Do it with the weight of the
air pack, ·cause in real life,
that's where you'll be." he told
his group, who were using a gas
powered circular saw to cut
through the roof.
The tiremen also practiced
search and rescue techniques in
one section of the school, where
a fire hose was laid. The men
were blindfolded and had to feel
their way out of the room using
the hose as a guide wire.
Firefighters can tell which way
the hose leads by the way the
male and female coupling
attachinents are situated.
GOVERNMENT FORECLOSURE SALE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 AT 11:00 A.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
108 JOCKEY HOLLOW, AUXIER, IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
This j 5 a vinyl sidino home on public water and private sewer. It is welllocat~ in a q.uict ncig~borhood. It
consists of ali ving r~om, kitchen, 3 bedrooms. 1 bath. and a nook. This proJX:ltY IS .constde~cd swtabl~ for the
Rural Development, Rural Housing Program. This would be an excellent buy for an !llVcstor mtercst~ m rental
property or for resale after repairs.
The minimum acceptable bid for this property will be $16.750.00
Payment of the current year's property taxes are the responsibility of the purchac;er.
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LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on Thursday. September 1, 2005, at 11:00 am., at the. property site, at 108 Jockey Hollow, Auxier, in Floyd ?ounty,
Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $35,221 .06 prinCipal, plus an interest credrt subsidy granted rn the amount of $19,349.04, plus~n=t
in the amount of $2,725.30 as of December 22, 2004, and interest thereafter on the pnncrpal ~t $7.8825 per day fro_mDecember 2 • •
Jt ntil the dale of this Judgement plus interest to the date ol Judgement amount (principal plus rntereslto the dale oltudgment) at the rate ol
r• ~.n% computed daily and com;x,unded annually, until paid in full and for the co~s ~~this action, purnuant to ~ud~ement and Order of Sale~
being Civil Action No. 04·428 OCR on the Pikeville Docket of the United States D1strict Court for the Eastem D1strr~ of Kentucky, entered~II
January 3, 2005, in the case of United States of America vs. Eloise J. Cline, nlk/a Eloise Blackburn, et al., the followrng descrrbed property
be sold lo the highest and best bidder:
·
eed d ed se 1 be 9 1994
House and lot located altOS Jockey Hollow, Aux1er, Floyd County, KY. Being the same property conveyed by D
at
Pem r ·
•
and recorded in Deed Book 391 Page 512 in the Floyd County Clerk's Office. ·
·
TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (10%) of the bid price (in the form of a Certified Check made payable t~ the U.S. Mars:)~~ ~~~~~0~f;:~:
with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 1.83% per annum. until pald, due .and pay e. ed b the U S
and said bond having lhe effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, the depostl sh.all be forfe~led ~nd relarn coJrt
· ·
Marshal as a part of the proceeds of the sale, and the property shall again_be offered for sale.subJect to ~:nn;::nd~e~ant(s) ~nd of all
This sale shall be in bar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate clarm, demand.or equity of redemp f h
. d value If the
rsons claimi b throu h under or against them, provided the purchase pnce IS equal to two-thirds 0 t e appraise .
·.
~rchase price~ n~· equal ~o two-thirds of t~e appraised value, the Deed shall contain li~n int~avor 0~~:;ei~~~:~·t~~~gn~t~~g:,t ~~~
the delendant(s), to redeem during the penod provided by law (~RS ~26.530). Under aw, e pur
matters affecting the property of record in the local County Clerk s Off1ce.
Inquiries should be directed to:
PEGGY T. MEADE, Rural Development Manager
Rural Development
Prestonsburg, Kentucky- Telephone: 606-886-9545
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INSIDESPORTS
Blackcat camp • page B3
Clark honored • page B3
UK Football • page B5
INSIDESTU
Soccer signups Saturday
Lifestyles • page C~
w Yesterdays • page C2
n Classifieds • page C4
Floyd County Youth Soccer will hold signups Saturday from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the Prestonsburg McDonalds.
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Blackcats impressive in first scrimmage
by JAMIE HOWELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
LOUISA- Spirited would be
a good word to use to describe
the opening scrimmage of the
preseason for the Prestonsburg
High School football team.
Both Prestonsburg and its opponent, Lawrence County, came
out of the gate on Saturday as if
it were the opening round of the
playoffs and not the first scrim-
~KHSAA
NOTEBOOK
Fall sports
seasons begin
mage of the year.
Blackcat coach John Derossett
was happy with the team's effort
but was far from being satisfied.
"We played well at times,
but also had some fumbles and
mistakes that have to be corrected and we will get back and
get to work," DeRossett said.
The Prestonsburg head man
was impressed with the play of
several players on Saturday. Sam
Chaffin was one player who
caught the attentimi of the coaching staff with his play on defense.
Dave Shaffer played well at
quarterback for the cats as the
senior connected on several
pass attempts and also tossed a
touchdown pass to Brandon
Peters. Prestonsburg hit pay dirt
several times on Saturday with
Lawrence County scoring three
times, but one was called back
due to holding and another
called back for an illegal block.
The Prestonsburg line is·
expected to be a strong point of ·
this team and Saturday witnessed the Blackcat defensive
front setting up camp in the
Lawrence County backfield.
Tyler Haln:ilton, Tyler Layne
and Wes Woods played were
just a few of several Blackcats
that played well on Saturday.
Lincoln Slone, Brandon Peters
photo by Jamie
Howell
Prestonsburg ·
High senior
running back
Brandon
Peters started
his way on a
run during
Saturday's
scrimmage
against
Lawrence
County.
(See BLACKCATS, page two)
Raiders scrimmage Morgan
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Golf started the 2005-06
KHSAA sports season, beginning play back on Aug. 1.
Volleyball joined in Monday,
with Cross Country and Soccer
to begin on Aug. 15. Football
kicks of its season with Week
_.No. 1 set for Aug. 19.
~
• For the fifth consecutive
year, KHSAA staff will be conducting
an
Athletic
Administrators Workshop. The
program is scheduled for Friday,
Aug. 12 at the KHSAA Office in
Lexington. The workshop will
help introduce programs and
procedures for those who have
entered an athletic administrator
role within the last year. The
event begins at 10 a.m. (ET).
• The annual HYPE/KHSAA
Student Leadership Conference
is set for Wed., Aug. 31, at the
-,Lexington Convention Center.
(See KMSAA, page two)
State Football
Finals schedule
finalized
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - The schedule of games · for the 2005
~SAA State Football Finals,
set to be played at Papa John's
Cardinal Stadium Dec. 2-3, has
been confirmed. The format
will be a single night game on
Friday, followed by a tripleheader on Saturday. The Class
AAAA Championship will kick
off at 7:30 · p.m. on Friday.
Saturday's schedule begins with
the Class AAA game at 11:30
a.m., followed by the Class AA
game at 3:30 p.m. The Class A
game will kick off at 7:30p.m.
This will not be the fust time
• )the state fmals has had a tripleheader day format.
Most
recently in 1995, the Class A,
AA and AAA were played on
Friday, followed by the AAAA
game on Saturday. Throughout
the years until the late 90s, three
games were played on Friday
with the fourth on Saturday.
photos by Steve LeMaster
Above: South Floyd High head coach Donnie Daniels gave instructions in Saturday's scrimmage game against
·
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.
Morgan County.
Below: Senior receiver Justin Slone will run and catch the football for the Ra1ders durmg the 2005 season.
South Floyd is minus over half of
its starters from last season's squad
and the Raider coaching staff will
have to fill some holes on both
offense and defense.
• Ryan Johnson is back at quarterback for the Raiders. During
Saturday's scrimmage, it didn't take
Johnson long to fmd fellow senior
and standout wide receiver Justin
Slone, either.
Slone, South Floyd's leading
receiver from last season, caught
passes and also took carries out of
the South Floyd backfield Saturday.
• Anthony Barker is another
South Floyd player who got a hand
on the football in the scrimmage versus Morgan County and will get some
offensive looks in the season ahead.
• Last season, T.J. Hall gave
South Floyd another receiving threat.
Playing from his tight end position,
Hall worked in well with the Raider
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
Ill HAT - Host South Floyd and
Morgan County traded scores early
on during Saturday's scrimmage
game at the Raider field. Morgan
County eventually outscored South
Floyd in the scrimmage game that
pitted two playoff teams from one
season ago.
For South Floyd, Saturday's
scrimmage game came just a few
days after the Raiders arrived back
from Georgetown College and football camp. During the Georgetown
camp, South Floyd was joined by
several teams, including Seneca,
Lexington Catholic and Johnson
Central, among others.
While South Floyd's offense
stalled at times Saturday, Raider fans
were able to get a look at a South
Floyd offense that will utilize an
attack that includes both rushing and
passing the football.
LEXINGTON
The
Lexington
Horsemen(12-5)
were unable to retrieve a late
fourth quarter onside kick to
make a late push to advance in
the United Indoor Football playoffs against the Sioux Falls
Storrn(l0-8) who won 62-58.
Randy Bell tied a Horsemen
franchise for rushing touchdown in
a game, running for four in the loss.
Sioux Falls Terrance Bryant
led all passers with 206 yards,
gqi,ng 13-23 with three touch-
downs and one interception. Bell
's 80 yards on the ground led all
rushers. The Storm's James
Jones was the top receiver,
catching 6 passes for 114 yards.
Both teams started the game
by:scoring early and often. The
Horsemen scored on their first
three possessions and the Storm
scored on their fust four. Bonner
threw a 25-yard pass to J.T.
Haskins to get the Horsemen on
the board first. The other
Lexington scores were on Bell
(See HORSEMEN, page two)
SITKA- Saturday night's Late Model
feature race at 201 Speedway came down
to a battle between three veteran drivers
- two of whom race out of Floyd
County. In the end, however,
Salyersville's David Powers fended off
the Floyd County challengers and took
the feature race win. Paul Harris finished
second and Chuckie May ended the race
third. Anthony Adams drove to a fourthplace fmish and Raymond Nicholas finished fifth.
In the Open Wheel Modified feature,
Tim Moore and Brandon Johnson each
enjoyed leads before Moore, a driver out
of West Virginia, pulled away and
claimed the feature victory.
Scott McCloud, a driver who has made
a return to racing, claimed the Limited
Late Model class feature win. In the Super
Bomber feature, Michael Paul Howard
outlasted fellow Magoffm Countian Jim
Lemaster. The purse was doubled in the
Bomber division and Albert Butcher
drove his way to victory lane.
A rundown of the feature race results
follows.
Late Models - 97 David Powers; 10
Paul Harris; 28 Chuclde May; 8 Anthony
Adams; 38 Raymond Nichols; 15 Corey
McKenzie; 6H Tom Hall: 64 Terry
Hicks; 36 (Driver name unavailable); Gl
Curtis Williams; 120 Daniel Williams;
32 Michael Estep; 17 Steve Stollings; 0
Scott Hall; 13 Jamie Ferguson; 77 Robert
(See POWERS, page two)
photo by Jamie Howell
Betsy Layne senior quarterback
Brandon Kidd dropped back to pass
Friday during his team's scrimmage
against Sheldon Clark.
Volleyball adds
use of libero
Horsemen fall
~in second round
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Powers edges
Harris, May fo~
Late Model victory
TIMES STAFF REPORT
photo by Steve LeMaster
:n
Central fullback Joe Brown found himself at the bottom of a large pile at !he
f a run Friday evening in a scrimmage against visiting Cumberland. A1en
~nt~al wtU open the 2005 season aqainst Floyd County rival Betsy Layne
Beginning with the 2005 playing season as adopted by National Federation
rules, the .KHSAA will recognize the use
of the libero. The Hbero is intended to
be a player who specializes in defense
and serve reception and can replace any
back row player except the current server. Entry into the match is not considered one of the allowable substitutions,
but its entry must be tracked. In addition, the libero wears a jersey that is in
contrast to the other players on the court.
The libero cannot attack, serve, block or
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1un . Sioux fall's 1[arques
Smtih had two rushmg touchdown& and Terrance Bryant had
one rushmg touchdown and
threw for a scon: to Smith.
The scoring frenzy continued into the second. with both
teams scoring three times.
Lexington ·s scoring came on a
25 yard pass from Bonner to
Derek Homer. an eight-yard
pass to Eric Magrini and an
eight-yard Bell run. Sioux Falls
scoring carne on a Adam Hicks
field goal, a one-yard run by
James Jones and a 26-yard pass
from Bryant to Leon Hall.
After and offense packed
first half. the defenses stepped
up after the break. The
Horsemen and Storm each only
managed one score in the quarter. Homer got his second score
of the game on a one-yard run.
Sioux Falls ' Bryant threw for
his third touchdown of the
gan1e when he connected with
Matt Holmlund.
Despite another Bell touchdown run and an eight-yard
scramble by Bonner, the horse·
meJ;J. couldn't make up the deficit
in the final stant:a. Sioux falls
added to their tally with a Hicks
19-yard field goal and a Bryant
one-yard touchdown run.
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an I Brenton Hamtlton all got
multiple carries and reeled off
mce runs in the contest.
Hamilton, a senior fullback,
wlll be ll workhor c for the cats
and is expected to pick up the
tough short yards for the cats
this season.
Prestonsburg will travel to
Morehead on Saturday evening for
an 8 p.m. scrirrm1age under the
lights against Pulaski County and
then get set to open the regular season on Aug. 26 at Hazard in the
Pride of the Mountains Bowl.
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"Taco" Fletcher; T7l Tom
Pennington. 2M Randy Boggs.
Open Wheel l\lodifieds - 69
Tim Moore; B 17 Brandon
Jolmson; 12 Kc> m Copher; 82
Randy Fouts. 38 Marty Meade;
B3 Randy Boggs; 28 Walt
Mayabb; 3 Arlie Daniels; 18 Gary
FitzpatJick: 2gL Lee McKenzie;
25K. Chris Bowlin; J4 Leslie
Johnson; 20W Davey Warnock;
01 B.J. Osborne: 06 Kevin Hall.
Limited Late Models - 5M
Scott McCloud; 88 Tandy
Spurlock: CJ l Charlie Jude; 75
Brian Salisbury; 15C Corey
Wadell; 0 Alban Watts.
Super Bomber Feature- 24H
Michael Paul Howard; 42 Jim
Lemaster; 7A Glen Patton; 74
Beadie B lackbum; 46 Dennis
Deboard; A 85 Allen Turner; 69
Ronnie Conley; SST Tracy
Lucas: 24 Jimmy Johnson.
Double Purse Bombers - 25
Albert Butcher; 18 Gary
F~tzpatrick; 11 Pete Castle;
P1 2 Dean Pennington; T23
Keith Tincher; R17 Don
Risner: 51 Beadie Blackburn;
7C A.J. Stambaugh; U2 Nathan
Grimm; 10 Lee Ross; 18 Gary
Cunagin; 20 Bo Howard; 66
Rodney Hamilton; B6 Jarrod
Blair; 117 Jimmy Arnett, 1
James Stacy.
Modified
Four-Cylinder
Feature - 2 Kelly Neace, 3
Jacob Ross; 35 Austin Francis;
53 James Rice; 7M (Driver
name unavailable).
Regular Four-Cylinders 18S Shawn Ousley; 06 Glen
Stevens; P20 Erwin Vance; 1
Jamie Hamilton; 32 Jimmy
Adams; 71 Ryan Litteral: -3L
Lester Robinette; 44 Billy
Blanton; 18K Shawn Henson;
CD4
Alerd
"Junebug"
Newsome;
19Jr.
Darren
Rogers; -3 Jack Clevenger.
photos by Jamie Howell
Heated at times, Saturday's Prestonsburg-Lawrence County scrimmage afforded both teams a
physical preseason scrimmage. Below: senior quarterback David Shaffer dropped back to pass
Volley__b~a_l_l_ _ _ _ __
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attempt to block.
·Locally. h1gh school volleyball teams from Floyd and surrounding counties have hit the
courts for the start of the 2005
season. In Floyd County, Betsy
Layne IS the defending 54th
District championship. Last
season, in the 54th District,
South rto)d finished runner-up
to Bet<.) Layrll.~. Both teams
advanced on to the 15th Region
Tournament.
BACK TO NORTHERN
KENTUCKY - The 2005
KHSAA State
Volleyball
Tournament is headed back to
the Northern Kentucky area.
This year's State Tournament is
scheduled for Oct. 28-29 at will
be played at Regents Hall on
the campus of Northern
Kentucky
University
in
Highland Heights.
NKlJ
served host to the event in 1983
and again in 1992.
Ryle High School and Gra)
Middle School in Union was the
Northern Kentucky area home of
the event in 1994, 1996 and 19982002. Frankfort Convention
Complex hosted the 2003 and
2004 State Tournaments.
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KHSAA
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Thi:s marks the fifth year the
Association has provided the
free conference for student-athletes to learn teamwork exercises. spt,rtsmanship initiatives and
di .:u<s cun·cnt issues. Over
stuaent -athletes and advisor;; arc expected to attend.
Fom1er Louisville Iroquois
and w, 1BA star Kym Hampton
will be the conference opening
speaker.
Hampton was a
member of the New York
Liberty of the WNBA. She
currently ltvcs in Brooklyn
where she teaches and is a professional model and singer.
Hampton was inducted into the
Dawahares!KHSAA Hall of
hu 1
Ylarch.
• l!JIVC) Alston will be the
cl >stng
peaker.
Alston
returns to the event having spo
ken at the first two KHSAA
Confe ences. He is a fom1er
successful coach and teacher in
Ohio and cuncntly is one of the
more popular high-energy
motivational speah.crs.
• The 2005-06 KHSAA
EventsCalendar is now available for purcha·.:· The calendar
includes spons specific important dates as well as Board of
( ontrol
and
Advisory
Committee meetings and other
KHSAA related information.
Calendars arc $8 each by mail
or $6 if purchased at the
KHSAA office. Orders can be
made by contacting Marilyn
Mitchell at the KHSAA office
or purchased online through the
KHSAA website.
Orders are now being taken
for
2005-06
KHSAA
Handbooks. Those may also be
ordered online or by contacting
Ms. Mitchell. Handbooks are
$15 each by mail or $10 if purchased in person for the bound
primed version. The three-ring
binder mscrt version will again
be avatlable by mail for $20 or
$30 for the binder and insert.
In-person. the insert is $15 or
$25 for the binder and insert.
Handbooks, as in the past, will
be mailed the ftrst full week of
September.
The Athlete magazine, the
quarterly publication of the
Association, is available for a
one-year subscription price of
$15. The subscription includes
the popular "Year-End" championship results issue. The
2004-05 Year-End results issue
will be available in late August.
Scheduks for boys' and
girls' soccer. volleyball and
football have been posted on the
Riherd' s/KHSAA scoreboard.
Member schools are reminded
to make sure all games han!
been entered through the
"Member School Only" link on
the KHSAA website.
• Beginning with the 2005
season, the KHSAA .has
approved a '·Mercy" rule for
use in soccer. At its July 12
meeting, the Board of Control
of the Kentucky High School
Athletic Association clarified
the Soccer Mercy Rule that it
approved at its November 2004
meeting. The Soccer Mere)
Rule now reads as follows:
If one team has a 10 goal
lead at the end of the first half
or at any point in the second
half, the match will be termtnated. This rule will also be
observed in post-season play.
• The Board of Control of
the Kentucky High School
Athletic Association will hold a
special meeting to review
appeals on Monday, Aug. 22 at
the Association office in
Lexington. The next regularly-scheduled Board meeting is
set for Sept. 15-16, also at the
Association
office
in
Lexington. For an agenda for
either meeting, contact the
KHSAA.
offense. Due to a shortage of
offensive linemen, Hall has
been moved down inside on the
South' Flo}d 0-line, During
Saturday's exhibition game
against visiting Morgan County,
Hall played guard On defense,
he's resumed his regular spot at
a defensive end position.
• Junior Ethan Johnson has
returned to playing football.
Johnson, a junior, lined up in both
the offensive and defensive backfields during Saturday's scrimmage
game against Morgan County.
1
oosen masters an.other ~
tough test at International
by EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CASTLE ROCK. Colo. The tougher the conditions got,
the h1ghcr Relief Goosen's
name shot up the leaderboard.
That's the: reputation Goosen
cstahli~hcd by winning two U. S.
Open .. And after a few hiccups
this year. a grueling \ ictory at
the Intemational has him feeling
good again, especially with the
season's final major coming up
lkXt.
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The South FJQyd defen e went In pursuit of 8 Morgan County ballcarrier.
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The Goose ovcrcan1e Brandt
Jobc do 1 the stretch and outla:-ted the r t of the fteld over
36 exhausting holes Sunday to
become the last member of the
Big FJV to make it into the win
colt~mn this season.
To this point, it had been collapses in the final rounds of the
U.S. and Br.tJsh Opens that
have dehm:d Goosen's season.
But w1th this \\'in, he got a
$900,000 payoff and the perfect
boo 't intc this week's PGA
Champion-ship, the season's
finaln uot.
"I wouldn't ay I lost confidence, ' G~)Osen said Of the 81
and 74 he sh9t in the fmal
round of the Opens. "But I was
di<.:appomted in the way I
played. At some stage, you figLite the ulc IS going to turn.''
l•oc n h,td eight points in
th.: thtrd round and seven in the
fourth to fun h with 32, one bct,et th.tn Jc be 111 the modified
St,thleford
coring system,
which awtud five points for
cagh.:s. two for birdie., none for
par and deducts one for bogeys.
J •If Br hnlll opened the ftnal
1muHI "' ith fom straight birdies
to get tn C'Ont ntion and finished
third w!lti 29 points. Big-hitting
H nk Kuehn was fourth and
11,1 l..s llo\\ ell fimshcd tift h.
Although Goosen has played
well enough to be ranked fifth in
the world, hi! was without a victory this year. Two of best
chances wen! lost in the final
roun 0 r m·ljoro;- jjr tin a melt
down at Pinehurst that denied
him his third U.S. Open title,
then in a bad round at St.
Andrews that contributed to an
easy win for Tiger Woods.
The
competition
was
nowhere near as stiff in this one
- Phil Mickelson was the only
other member of the Big Five
who played - but there was
nothing easy about this day.
The ftrst 36-hole finish on
tour since September 2003 this one played at mile-high altitude on the hilly, 7 ,619-yard
Castle Pines course - really did
turn into a complete mental and
physical test.
Goosen estimated he drank a
bottle of water a hole over the
final 18. Jobe said he only had
time to change shirts and eat
half a sandwich in the rush
between rounds.
"I think it's our legs that really start to fade," Goosen said.
"My gosh, in the last sort of six
hole~, I was starting to feel it a
little bit. I suppose it's like when
you run a marathon, and you
just start doing a few sloppy
things out there."
Indeed, as the day wore on,
the shotmaking suffered.
It forced Goosen to put his
typically methodical spin on
what is often one of the more
exciting events on tour. He hit
safely into the par-5 17th greenfor a two-putt birdie, then saved
par on No. 18 with a 4-foot putt
after hitting his approach into
the second cut of fringe.
That was a far cry from Jobe,
who was erratic and exciting
and almost broke through for his
first PGA Tour win.
The veteran, who grew up
near Denver and dominated
junior golf in Colorado, could
have won the tournament with a
birdie on 18, but his chances
were hurt when he teed off into
the rough. His second shot landed 30 feet from the cup and
when he left the birdie putt
short, he put his hand on his hip
and looked down. bemoaning
the great opportunity lost.
· "I figure you've just got to
keep plugging away and one of
these times. something good is
going to happen." he said.
Jobc made four straight
birdies - three to close his third
round and one to start his fourth
- to take a nine-point lead earl~
in the aftcmoon. But he closed
with four bogeys and one double over the last 17 holes to
wind up short of his flrst win on
the PGA Tour.
Lo»lights included a shot he
had to hit left-handed near a tree
by the eighth green and another
he sculled from a greenside
bunker on No. 4 onto the flfth
teebox. resulting in a double
worth
minus-three
bogey,
points.
"It's been horrible," Jobe
said of his sand play this year. ~
Despite those problems,
Goosen gave him a chance.
The Goose teed off into the
·rough on four of the final nine
holes. but made six pars, two
bogc) s and one birdie to hang
on for hi sixth career win on the
PGA Tour and first this season.
Ernie Els, another member of
the Big Five. hasn't won yet on
PGA Tour this season, but he
has won three times in Europe.·
''At s0me stage, I was sort of
wondering where my golf was
going." Goosen said. "I started
practicing more than I used to. '
started workmg harder on my
putting than 1 normally do and
that started paying off."
Mayhc Goosen's best shot of
the d<~y \\ r1s a simple recovery
from deep grass on the par-3
16th artcr <1 terrible tee shot left
him ah0ut 40 yards from the
hole." Goosen pitched out to 4
feet, s,\Vec.l par and maintained a
one-point lead- not spectacular,
but pn:c1scly what he needed on
this draining day.
"I won't say I hit the ball
extremely well in places," he
said. "But I hit the right shots Elfl!
the right time. and dlat sort of
kept m '0ing."
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
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;V egas gets AII·Star game, but
rn out of touch on beHing issue
with David Stem when he
he knows what is good for
He's quick to point
himself when he tells
much league revenues
since he took over.
Stern starts talking
Vegas, though, you'd
was still stuck in the
two-handed set ·shot.
Stem came to Sin City on
riday to toss it a bone, albeit a
big one at that. Eighteen months
from now, Las Vegas will host the
2007 NBAAll-Star game, the first
non-NBA city ever chosen for the
league's midseason showcase.
That gave city leaders an
occasion to round up some
showgirls and giddily celebrate
the coup. The smiles became
forced, though, when the ques1 tioning turned to whether the
aNBA would actually allow Las
; Vegas to have a team.
Stem said he didn't want to
ruin the moment. Then he went
ahead and did it anyway.
"It's not about a moral crusade about gambling," Stem
said. "It's just about betting on
basketball games."
Meaning?
"Most fans happen to like to
cheer for their teams to win, not
just to cover point spreads,"
Stem said. "It changes the relationship, potentially, of the fans
with the team."
Say what?
Apparently Stem clings to
the misconception that most
people in Las Vegas can't make
it through the day without betting on sports. He doesn't seem
to understand that this is a city
of some 2 million, most of
whom are about as likely to
place a wager as they are to get
free NBA All-Star tickets.
They're soccer moms, .Little
League dads, businessmen, casino workers and kids who want a
team of their own to root for. If
they had a team, they'd back it
just like they did the UNLV
Runnin' Rebels when they were
the closest thing to an NBA
team in the early 1990s.
Besides, what's the difference
between cheering for your team
to cover the over and cheering
for it to score 100 points so
everyone can get a free taco?
Give Stem credit for originality, though. At least he didn't
trot out the old excuse that gamblers might somehow be able to
come up with enough money to
bribe multimillionaires to throw
games.
The NFL loves that one, but
the truth is that sports betting
scandals are about as passe as
tri-colored basketballs. They
went out about the time Wilt
Chamberlain came in.
Stem allowed Las Vegas to
get around the betting issue for
the All-Star game by agreeing
not to take bets on the game. It
wasn't much of a concession
since serious gamblers seldom
wager money on games that
players don't take seriously.
That doesn't mean the best
Zito inducted into
racing's 'Hall of Fame
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARATOGA
SPRINGS,
.Y. - Trainer Nick Zito was
inducted into tile National
Museum of Racing's Hall of
Fame Monday, the latest milestone in a career that started
with a two-horse stable and
includes four wins in Triple
Crown races. ·
Zito was elected in May in
his eighth year of eligibility.
Three steeplechase standouts,
jockey Thomas Walsh, trainer
Sidney Watters Jr. and fivetime champion Lonesome
Glory, also were inducted during the ceremony across from
aratoga Race Course.
"Some oj us get a chance to
do something we love," tile 57year-old Zito said. "Sometimes
if we're fortunate, we get to do
it over and over. Some things
we do well, some things not so
well. No matter how bad we do,
witil the love that we have for
. the sport, there's never really a
bad day attached to it."
Zito won the Derby with
Strike the Gold in 1991 and Go
for Gin in 1994, and won tile
1996 Preakness with Louis
Quatorze and the 2004 Belmont
~takes with Birdstone, who
played the spoiler's role in
Smarty Jones' Triple Crown
bid. On Saturday, he won the
players in the league won't be baller do at midnight? San
able to bet on the NB A while in Antonio seems like a nice
town for the game. They can, enough city, but the Alamo is
just like they can bet with a few closed at night and there's only
clicks of the mouse in a hotel so many times you can go on the
room in Philadelphia or San River Walk.
Indianapolis? Well, the Steak n
Francisco.
"It's not about players bet- Shake does stay open late. It's too
ting because they won' t," Stem dangerous, meanwhrle, to go out
said, well, rather sternly.
past dark in Detroit, and there's
So what is the NBA really no reason to in Salt Lake City.
Las Vegas, on the other hand,
afraid of when it comes to one of
its teams relocating to Las Vegas? has so many night clubs that
Maybe that S.in City is too some don't even bother to open
much fun.
. until 2 in the morning. There are
What good-looking, 20- craps tables, plenty of dazzling
something millionaire athlete women, strip clubs galore, $500
wouldn' t want to be here? Free bottles of Cristal everywhere and
agents-would sign for less just to parties until the sun comes up.
be in Vegas, and road trips to the
That can make for a long seacity would be circled in red on son if you' re not careful.
every team's schedule.
Stem and some of his fellow
Las Vegas kind of sticks out owners are old school, but times
among cities you'd like to bring may be changing. George
your posse to.
Maloof helped bring the AllHouston hosts the All-Star Star game here, and he and his
gan1e next year, but other than family own both a team
tour the Astrodome or guess (Sacramento Kings) and a hotelhow many different oil refinery casino (the Palms).
odors you can identify, what's a
Old stigmas die hard. But
watching Stern flanked by a
couple of feathered and barely
dressed showgirls at the All-Star
announcement showed how
closely tied the entertainment
offered by the NBA and Las
Vegas really is.
The city's mayor is a former
mob lawyer, and he believes
common interests prevail in
business just like they do among
families.
"He (Stern) is a reasonable
man and I' ve represented the
Don Corleones of the world in
the past and learned that reasonable men do reasonable things,"
Mayor Oscar Goodman said.
"As far as I'm concerned,
we' ll have an NBA franchise
here."
Some day when Stem is gone
perhaps. But for right now,
that's an offer the NBA can
refuse.
Tim Dahlberg is a national
sports coh.{mnist for The •
Associated P ress. Write to him
at tdahlberg@ap.org
Blackcat football camp set for Saturday
PRESTONSBURG - After a
successful camp just two
weeks ago, Prestonsburg High
School head football coach
John DeRossett has announced
a second Blackcat football
camp for Saturday, Aug. 13 at
Josh Francis Field. The camp is
open for any child in grades K8 and will run from 9 a.m. to
noon. The fee for the camp is
$15. Signups for the camp will
begin at 8:30 a.m. with members of the Prestonsburg High
coaching staff on hand to work
the event. Several areas of
instruction will be foc used on
during the camp.
$750,000 Whitney stakes with purse money. Mter his Strike
Commentator, the first time the Gold won the Kentucky
Zito's won that Grade l race.
Derby in 1991, Zito made
"It's an incredible honor," Triple Crown events his primaZito said. "What can I say? It ry goal.
Zito has had 19 Derby
gives you goose bumps."
Under a new voting format, starters, 16 in the Preakness
nominees in four racing cate- and 13 in the Belmont. He also
gories - trainer, jockey, con- has trained two champion filtemporary male horse and con- lies- Storm Song in 1996 and
temporary female horse - had Bird Town in 2003.
During his 12-year riding
to get 75 percent of the votes to
be elected. Previously, the top career that ended in 1967 at the
vote-getter in each category age of 27, Walsh was fifth in
was elected. Zito was the only victories with 253, including
one of 20 nominees who .five straight wins in the prestiGrand
National
received the necessary votes of gious
127 returned ballots among 163 Steeplechase. Walsh currently
trains horses and is based at
eligible voters.
The steeplechase division is Belmont Park.
The 88-year-old Watters led
separate, with nominees considered every four years and or shared the lead in steeplevoting done by a 12-person chase victories six times
between 1948 and 1971. He led
committee.
Zito missed out on a chance steeplechase trainers in purse
to win the Derby with a record- money earned three times. He
tying five horses or the also was a successful flat-race
Preakness with a record-equal- conditioner who trained 1983
ing three horses this year. At 3-year-old champion Slew o'
the time of his induction, he Gold and 1970 2-year-old
had saddled 1,420 winners and champion Hoist the Flag.
horses he trained had earned Watters was not able to attend
tile ceremony. He was repre$71,119,670.
Zito, who started out as a sented by his son, Eric.
Lonesome Glory, with 24
hotwalker before opening a
two-horse stable in 1972, had wins in 44 career starts from
his best earnings year in 2004, 1991-1999, is steeplechase racwhen he saddled 86 winners ing's leading money-earner
and totaled nearly $7 million in with $1.4 million.
Clark, teammate
earn academic honors
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Two University of Louisville
men's tennis players - Jeremy
Clark and Jakob Gustafsson earned Intercollegiate Tennis
Association Scholar Athlete
honors for the 2004-05 season.
In order to earn ITA ScholarAthlete status a player must be a
varsity letter winner, have a
grade point average of at least
3.50 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year and have
been enrolled at their present
school for at least two semesters.
Gustafsson, a native of
ollviken, Sweden, compiled an
18-4 overall singles record playing mostly at No.3. The exercise
science major was named to the
All-C-USA third team and earned
C-USA Sportsmanship honors.
Clark, a Stanville native and
graduate of Prestonsburg High
School, and biology major,
went 15-13 in singles and 1411 in dual matches as the
Card~' No. 5 player.
The doubles team of
Gustafsson and Clark posted a
16-7 record and appeared as
high as No. 29 in ITA doubles
ankings. The Cards received
th ro ·..- ~,..,... .,,.1 r0nc:r- r~1t 1 vr :. tlarge bid to the NCAA tourna-
ment and achieved the highest
team ranking in program history at No. 24.
"Jeremy Clark and Jakob
Gustafsson are not only incredible tennis players, they are
academic scholars," said U of L
head coach Rex Ecarma.
"When their tennis careers are
over, tiley are going to be leaders in their chosen academic
fields. Both Jeremy and Jakob
are great role models for our
young players because they not
onLy succeed on the court as
nationally ranked players and
in the classroom, and they also
have many great relationships
· in their lives. I am extremely
proud of them."
Louisville finished the 2005
season with a 22-10 overall
record, was runner-up in the
Conference
USA
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its second consecutive at-large
bid to the NCAA tournament
and defeated Notre Dame in the
first round before losing to
fifth-ranked Illinois in the second. The Cardinals reached the
program's highest team ranking
at No. 24 and finished the season at No. 33 in the final
Jntercoll~'giate
Tennis
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off Monday afternoon under
overcast skies at the E.KU' practice fields.
Third-year head coach
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campus on Sunday evening but
the enthusiasm took hold once
the group returned to the field.
Monday's practice was held
in helmets only as the team gets
reacclimatized to football conditioning.
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of fall camp Tuesday evening.
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1 0, 2005
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ational League: Reds 9, Cubs 4
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO - The Cincinnati
Reds showed off their power against
the slumping Chicago Cubs.
Ken Griffey Jr. hit a three-run
homer, Adam Dunn had a two-run
drive and Austin Kearns added a
solo shot, leading the Reds to a 94 victory over the Cubs, who have
lost six straight games.
Javier Valentin drove in three
runs. including two with a
bases-loaded double, as the
Reds staked Brandon Claussen
(7 -8) to a 9-0 lead.
"We got some big hits from
Dunn and Griffey," Reds interim manager Jerry Narron said.
"Griff's big three-run homer
was huge for us at the time of
the ballgame ... I like the way
we played."
Griffey's homer, his 24th,
capped a four-run rally in the
sixth. It was his 18th in 61 games
since May 25. He also doubled.
Dunn's shot in the third was
his 33rd and tied him for second
in the NL with Chicago's Derrek
Lee. It was Dunn's 1Oth homer
in 24 games since the All-Star
break. He went 2-for-5 and has
27 hits in his last 83 at-bats.
Claussen pitched seven shutout
innings, allowing only a double to
Todd Walker and a single to Matt
Murton -while striking out three
and walking five. He didn't give
up a hit after the second.
"Hey man, a 9-spot,"
Claussen said his offensive support. "That's like getting Sunder par on the back nine
rolling up 18. The only thing I
was disappointed with is that I
did walk some guys."
The left-hander has won his
last three starts after dropping
four straight decisions.
"He's had some tough luck
against these guys, so it's good
to see him come out and pitch
the way he did," Kearns said.
"Any time you can do that here
against a lineup that can hit the
ball out of the ballpark like
them, that's impressive."
Brian Shackelford pitched a
scoreless eighth before the Cubs
scored four runs in the ninth off
Randy Keisler.
· The Cubs fell to 27-27 at
Wrigley Field and are 6 112
games behind Houston in the
NL wild-card race. At 54-58,
Chicago is in fourth place in the
NL Central, four games ahead
of fifth-place Cincinnati.
"We're just in a funk and we
can't seem to find a way out of
it," said Walker, who had three
of Chicago's nine hits. ''The last
inning, we bust out of it and
hopefully that will carry over."
Chicago
starter Jerome
Williams (3-5) allowed seven
runs on seven hits and two walks
in 5 1-3 innings. The right-hander
is 0-3 in three starts at Wrigley
Field since being acquired from
San Francisco on May 28.
Cubs starters have posted
only two wins since July 19, a
span of 19 games.
"We couldn't get the ball
down today," Cubs manager
Dusty Baker said. "The ball was
up and the location wasn't
where he wanted it. Power hitters - when you get the ball up
and over the heart of the plate you're going to get hurt."
Glendon Rusch relieved
Williams with one out in the
sixth and was charged with one
run in 1 2-3 innings. Kerry
Wood pitched a perfect eighth.
Valentin's bases-loaded double in the second gave Cincinnati
a 2-0 lead. Dunn's homer, a line
shot to tight-center in the third,
extended the lead to 4-0.
Kearns led off the sixth with
his homer, and Griffey connected with two outs in the inning to
make it 8-0.
Valentin drove in Cincinnati's
final run with a groundout in the
seventh.
Jeremy
Bumitz,
Matt
Lawton and Walker had RBJ.
singles in the ninth for Chicago.
Notes: While the middle df
the Reds' lineup is hitting, th•e
top isn't. Ryan Freel and Felipie ,.
Lopez, the Reds' leadoff and No. !I
2 hitters, are hitless in their last
41 at-bats combined. On
Monday, Lopez was in the leadoff spot and went 0-for-3 with
two walks and a run scored.
Freel batted second and was 0for-5. ... Cubs SS Nomar
Garciaparra played his first ~arne
at Wrigley Field since Aprp 13.
He tore a groin muscle~·St.
Louis on April 20 and re
ed
from the DL last Friday · New
York ... The Cubs' longest osing
streak this season is eight games.
... Monday was the 17th anniver- ~
sary of the Cubs' first night
game, on Aug. 8, 1988. That
game started, but was rained out.
Role players getting Yankees beat El
big hits for Cardinals Duque, ·White SoX
by ARNIE STAPLETON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE - The St.
Louis Cardinals' lineup didn't
look so potent with Scott Rolen
and Larry Walker on the DL
and Albert Pujols and Jim
Edmonds getting nothing to hit.
The Cardinals' unheralded
hitters, however, came through
for the second straight game,
leading St. Louis to an 8-4 over
the Milwaukee Brewers on
Tuesday night.
With Pujols and Edmonds
drawing three walks each,
Mark Grudzielanek homered
and drove in a career-high five
runs, Abraham Nunez had three
hits. including the go-ahead
single in the eighth and So
Taguchi added two hits and two
RBis in addition to two outstanding plays in right.
"It's a complete telfm.," said
Matt Morris, who failed to join
the 100-win club but was
cheerful nonetheless after the
Cardinals (71-41) went 30
games above .500 for the first
time this season.
"Sometimes your bench
players are your most important
players," Morris added.
In other NL games, it was:
Chicago 9, Cincinnati 4;
Colorado 4, Florida 3, · 11
innings, frrst game; and Colorado
5, Florida 3,' second game.
Altogether, the Nos. 5-6-7
hitters combined to go 8-for-13
with all eight RBis for the
Brewers.
"That just shows you with
our club there's a lot of different ways we can go out there
and we can get a victory," said
David Eckstein, whose walkoff grand slam beat the Braves
on Sunday. "Grudzielanek had
a great night, but once again
you were looking at Nunez."
Nunez was playing for
Rolen, and Taguchi for Walker.
"Those guys are stepping up
big when we lose key guys,"
Eckstein said. "They have
stepped in and done unbelievable jobs."
Added
Grudzielanek:
"That's why we're at where
we're at. Taguchi and Nunez
are playing awesome. That's
huge because Edmonds and
Pujols can't continue to do it
every night. It's somebody different every night."
But there was nothing out of
the
ordinary
about
Grudzielanek's big night.
Victor Santos can't figure
out how to retire Grudzielanek,
who accounted for all four runs
that Santos surrendered in four
innings by hitting a solo homer
and a two-run double, then
scoring on Taguchi's single.
With lho e two big hits,
Grudzielanek improved his
career batting average against
Santos to .565.
"I don't know what it is," said
Grudzielanek, who is 13-for-23
against his favorite pitcher. "I'm
sure he's trying to figure it out."
Santos hasn't been able to
put his finger on it.
''That's the guy I hate to face
when the game is on the line,"
Santos said. "I don't pitch him
the same way every time, but he
always seems to get hits off me."
Making it all the sweeter for
the Milwaukee native was
doing it in front of 10 family
members.
Grudzielanek added a tworun single off Jorge De La Rosa
in the ninth after scoring the
go-ahead run on Abraham
Nunez's RBI single off Matt
Wise in the eighth inning that
snapped a 4-all tie.
Nunez's bloop single off
Wise (4-4) landed in front of
center fielder Brady Clark, who
was playing deep, pulled up,
grabbed the ball on the bounce
and fired late to home plate,
where Grudzielanek scored
from second.
Brewers manager Ned Yost
insisted his center fielder wasn't playing too deep.
"You can't have your defensive guys everywhere. It wasn't
like Brady was playing with his
back against the wall. Brady
came in a few steps," Yost said.
"He just hit it under the coverage. It would be nice if you
could have 15 guys out there,
but you can't."
Randy Flores (2-1) pitched a
perfect seventh for the win.
Rockies 4, Marlins 3, 11
innings, lst game; Rockies 5,
Marlins 3, 2nd game
At Denver, Danny Ardoin
hit a tiebreaking two-run
'hd'tller, 'Byung-Hyun Kim (3-8)
won for the frrst time in seven
starts, and Colorado completed
a doubleheader sweep.
Ryan Shealy went 3-for-3
and drove in a run in the second
game and was 5-for-8 with two
RBis in the doubleheader.
Ismae1Valdez(l-1),whowas
3-0 in his previous three starts
against Colorado, allowed five
runs and 10 hits in six innings.
In the frrst game, Dustan
Mohr homered with two outs in
the 11th inning off Valerio De
Los Santos (1-l). Scott
Dohman (1-1) pitched two
scoreless innings to earn his
frrst major ·league win.
According to the Elias
Sports Bureau, Sunny Kim and
Byung-Hyun Kim became the
frrst players with the same last
name to start both games of a
doubleheader for a team since
brothers Gaylord and Jim Perry
of Cleveland did it on June 22,
1974, at Boston.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The New York Yankees took
a break from their search for reliable pitching to beat someone
who used to provide it for them.
Mike Mussina outpitched former teammate Orlando Hernandez,
and Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run
homer that sent the Yankees to a 32 victory over the Chicago White
Sox on Monday night
Hernandez gave up three runs
and four hits in six innings. During
two stints with the Yankees from
1998-04, he was 61-40 in the regular season and 9-3 with a 2.65
ERA in the postseason.
"I put him up there with Mo
(Mariano Rivera) as one of the
greatest competitors that I've
ever played against," Rodriguez
said. "It's kind of weird seeing
him in a different uniform."
The Yankees could use
another pitcher like El Duque in
a year when injuries have forced
them to use 13 starters, their
most since 1991. That nutnber
could increase Thursday if
Randy Johnson is forced to miss
his start because of a bad back.
Johnson had an MRI on
Monday that revealed inflammation of the lumbar spine, and
another injured starter, Carl
Pavano, was in Alabama to have
his shoulder examined by Dr.
James Andrews.
Hernandez (8-5) wasn't concerned with his old friends, or
their problems.
"They are not my teammates
anymore. My teammates are the
ones here with me, the Chicago
White Sox. It's another team
now," Hernandez said. "I wanted this victory, like.all of them. I
don't like to lose."
In other AL games, it was:
Boston 11, Texas 6; Detroit 9,
Toronto 8 in 12 innings, and
Seattle 5, Minnesota 4.
The game at Yankee Stadium
was the first meeting this season
between New York and the White
Sox, who have the majors' best
rec0rd at 72-39. The Yankees
(60-50) moved 10 games over
.500 for the first time this year.
"We did a lot of good things
tonight. It was just a complete,
clean ballgame for us," Yankees
manager Joe Torre said. "You're
curious when you haven't faced
a team that has a record like they
do, to see how you match up to
them. It makes you feel a little
better about yourself."
Mussina (11-7) allowed two
runs and eight hits, striking out
seven and walking none. Tanyon
Sturtze and Tom Gordon each
worked a scoreless inning before
Rivera finished for his careerbest 30th consecutive save.
''Today was the way we drew
it up," Mussina said.
Aaron Rowand made superb
catches in center field on the first
two New York batters, but Gary
Sheffield walked before ROdriguez
hit his AL-leading 32nd homer and
second in two games.
·
The Yankees got another run
in the second on Derek Jeter's
run-scoring groundout, but
nothing else against Hernandez.
"You knew Duque is going to
bend but not break," Torre said.
"He didn't give, us much, but he
walked a couple of guys. That
was vintage Duque."
Rowand doubled in a run and
scored for the White Sox, who
send Jose Contreras - another
former Yankee -to the mound
Thesday.
Red Sox 11, Rangers 6 - At
Boston, Tony Graffanino had
three hits and showed rare
power with a three-run homer in
a game between baseball's two
highest-scoring teams . .
Graffanino, batting eighth,
went 3-for-3 _ capped by the
homer that made it 8-5 in the
fifth - and even was walked
intentionally.
Jererni Gonzalez (2-1) pitched
2 2-3 scoreless innings in relief of
Wade Miller as Boston won for
the lOth time in 12 games. Steve
Karsay (0-1) allowed four runs in
two innings in his second appearance for Texas.
Boston entered the game
with a major league-leading 609
runs, and Texas had 608.
Tigers 9, Blue Jays 8, 12
innings- Vance Wilson hit a go- •
ahead single in the 12th inning
off Scott Schoeneweis (2-3) and
visiting Detroit ended . a threegame losing streak.
(1-0)
Vic Darensbourg
pitched 1 1-3 innings for the
win, and Craig Dingman got the
last two outs of the 12th for his
second save.
Alex Rios homered and had a
career-high five hits for the Blue
Jays.
Mariners 5, Twins 4- Jesse
Crain walked Jeremy Reed with
the bases loaded in the eighth
inning to push across the
tiebreaking run for host Seattle.
George Sherrill (1-0) got the
victory by· getting two outs in
the eighth. Eddie Guardado
pitched the ninth for his 26th
consecutive save and his 27th in
28 opportunities.
Carlos Silva (7-6) took the
loss as the Twins fell 7 1/2 games
back in the AL wild-card race.
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Mauch remembered as master strategist despite infamous losses
by KEN PETERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES -Even with
his teams' storied collapses,
Gene Mauch left an indelible
imprint on baseball.
Mauch, who won 1,901
games during 26 years as a
major league manager, died
Monday after a lengthy battle
with cancer, the Los Angeles
Angels said. He was 79.
Known as "the little general"
for his intricate game strategies
and no-nonsense dealings with
players, Mauch was regarded as
one of baseball's top innovators.
He still gained far more notoriety for his teams' historic failures.
"If it's true you learn from adversity, I must be the smartest (guy) in
the world," Mauch once said.
He died at Eisenhower Medical
Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif.,
the desert resort area where he had
lived since retiring.
A big league skipper with
California,
Philadelphia,
Montreal
and
Minnesota,
Mauch was the National League
manager of the year three times.
He is sixth in baseball history
with 3,938 games managed, and
11th on the career victories list.
"When you played against
him he looked like a robot, but
when you got to know him you
learned how passionate he was
about the game," New York
Yankees manager Joe Torre said
Monday. "He was a very classy,
very generous, very caring man."
Mauch is forever linked to
dramatic collapses. He was
manager of the Philadelphia
Phillies in 1964 when they led
the NL by 6 1/2 games with 12
games remaining, but lost 10 in
a row - and the pennant - to the
St. Louis Cardinals.
"He carries the burden of the
'64 Phillies, but if it wasn't for
Gene's managing, we would
have never been in position to
win the thing," Phillies vice
president of public relations
Larry Shenk said.
Mauch
managed
the
California Angels in 1986 when
they were within one out of
advancing to their first World
Series before they blew a threerun lead to Boston in Game 5 of
the ALCS. The Red Sox won
that game and the next two to
win the series.
He also managed the 1982
Angels, who won the first two
games in the best-of-five ALCS
against Milwaukee before losing the final three.
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"I don't think history will be
as fair to him as it should be,"
said Tim Mead, the Angels' vice
president of communications
and a member of the organization since 1979. "He was brilliant. Gene Mauch could put
together a game just by looking
at the box score."
Bobby Wine, who played 12
seasons under Mauch in
Philadelphia, said Mauch was a
master at thinking ahead.
"I don't know of a better
strategist. He knew the rules
better than umpires," Wine said.
"One time, Jim Bunning was
having trouble with a baseball.
The umpires wouldn't give him
a new one.
"Gene came out to the mound,
dropped the ball on the ground
and spiked it with his shoes.
Bunning got a new baseball."
Mauch was one of the first
managers to use double switches.
"I was playing shortstop and
Gene came out to take out the
pitcher," Wine recalled. "He
told me I was out of the game,
too. I said, 'Why me? I didn't
give up the home run.'
"It was the frrst time I was
involved in a double switch."
Dallas Green said: "He was
-----------
so far ahead of everyone and
knew the rules better than anyone and used that to his advantage. He respected the game
very much and taught all of us
how to play good, sound, fundamental baseball."
Mauch, a native of Salina,
Kan., began his major league
career in 1944 with the
Brooklyn Dodgers. He played
for nine seasons on six teams the Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates,
Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee
Braves, the Cardinals and the
Boston Red Sox.
A utility infielder who was a
mediocre player, he had a career
average of .239 with five home runs.
His first major league managing job was with the Phillies
in 1960. They went 58-94, but
within two years Mauch would
be named NL manager of the
year after leading them to an 8180 record in 1962.
He won the award again in
1964, the year of the Phillies'
great disappointment. Mauch
guided Philadelphia to a record of
92-70, his best as a manager until
the 1983 Angels went 93-69.
He left Philadelphia 54
games into the 1968 season.
In 1969 he was hired to manage the expansion Montreal
I
Expos. Mauch stayed in
Montreal for seven seasons and
won his third and final manager
of the year award in 1973 as he
helped lift the lowly Expos to a
79-83 record and a fourth-place
finish in the NL East.
Mauch joined the Minnesota
Twins in 1976 and spent the rest
of his career in the AL. He was
with the 1\vins until 1980, followed by two· stints with the
Angels, the first in 1981 and 1982
and the second from 1985-87.
One of Mauch's greatest disappointments came at the end of
his career, with the Angels' socalled "Donnie Moore" game.
With a 3-1 lead in games
over the Boston Red Sox in the
best-of-seven AL Championship
series in 1986, theAnge1s held a
5-2 advantage going into the
ninth inning of Game 5. After
Mike Witt retired the first two
batters, the Red Sox got a runner
on before Don Baylor homered
to make it 5-4.
Mauch pulled Witt and
brought in left-bander Gary
Lucas to face the left-handed
hitting Rich Gedman, who was
4-for-4 against Witt in the game.
Lucas hit Gedman with a pitch his frrst hit batter in four years and Mauch summoned Moore,
his closer.
Henderson hit a two-run homer
to put the Red Sox ahead 6-5.
The Angels tied the game
again in the ninth but lost in 11
innings and then dropped the
series when the Red Sox won
two straight in Boston.
Moore, who said he had a
sore arm when Mauch sent him
out in the ninth, never recovered
from the loss. He soon was out
of baseball, and committed suicide in 1989.
Asked in recent years how
often he thought about that 1986
game, Mauch replied: "Only
when guys have the temerity to
ask about it."
Mauch was still following
baseball closely when the
Angels won the World Series in
2002, softening many of the
team's ugly memories.
"I get so keyed up during
these games," Mauch said during the Angels' playoff series
against the Minnesota Twins in
2002. "All I did for 50 years was
study the game day and night.
And I will forever, for however
long 'forever' is."
Mauch is survived by his
wife, Jodie, and a daughter,
Leeanne. Funeral services were
pending.
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Phillips, players believe Kentucky's
oHensive woes in the past
•
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
opposing coaches will have little film of a Phillips-run offense,
which theoretically could make
forming game plans more difficult.
"Stay tuned," Brooks said,
when asked about Phillips' playcalling style. "We're going to
find out, aren't we? One thing
about it - nobody knows what
Joker is going to call. There's no
track record.
"Joker has been a guy that's
been capable of doing this for
quite a few years and he's finally getting his first shot."
The offense will benefit,
Brooks said, from the return of
key receivers like Burton and
Tommy Cook, who missed most
or all of last season because of
injury. Another somewhat-overlooked factor in last year's
struggles was the Jack of offensive line depth, Brooks said.
The Wildcats had only 10 schol-
LEXINGTON - There's no
way to spin it - Kentucky had
one of the nation's worst offenses last football season, whlch is
why Joker Phillips has his current job.
Phillips, promoted to offensive coordinator in December
after the Wildcats finished 2-9,
said
Saturday
during
Kentucky's media day at
Commonwealth Stadium that
ll.e's ready for the challenge and
expressed
optimism
that
Kentucky's offense will be vastly improved.
"This is a great opportunity
for myself to lead this offense,
and lead a team that I've been a
part of for a long time," Phillips
said. "I'~ going to relax and
have fun with it and let the chlps
fall where they may.
"We'll have more weapons
on the field at the same time.
We've got guys that can make
plays. We've got to get those
,.playmakers on the field at the
~arne
time."
Kentucky finished 114th of
117 NCAA Division I-A teams
last season in scoring offense,
averaging only 15.73 points per
game. Only twice did the
Wildcats score more than 17
points. The Wildcats were 115th
in total offense, averaging
275.45 yards per game. Making
matters worse was that their
archrival, Louisville, led the
nation in both categories.
Former offensive coordinator
Ron Hudson resigned under
pressure before last s~ason 's
tfinal game, against Tennessee.
Phillips, head coach Rich
Brooks and now:departed offensive line coach Paul Dunn called
the plays in that game, in whlch
the Wildcats scared the heavily
Williams granted elig~bility
TIMES STAFF REPORT
photo courtesy of UK Athletibs
University of Kentucky senior Arllss Beach (5) should find his way back Into the Wildcat offense
after an up-and-down junior season. Also pictured above Is freshman quarterback Curtis Pulley.
favored Volunteers before
falling 37-31.
Players have said that
Phillips' offensive system is
easier to understand and should
therefore be easier to execute.
But they're careful not to criticize Hudson.
"Coach Hudson was a good
coach. It's a shame that he had
to go. I have a lot of respect for
him," sophomore wide receiver
Keenan Burton said. "Coach
Phillips is a good coach. We' re
going to do what we did under
t:oach Hudson- we're going to
try our hardest and go out there
and try to perform like he wants
us to perform. Coach Hudson
made it easier for coach Phillips
to come in and teach us a lot of
things he's teaching us~"
Sophomore Jacob Tamme
began benefiting from Phillips'
promotion even before it happened.
Coaches
switched
Tarnme to tight end before the
Tennessee game, and he
responded by catching two
touchdown passes against the
Volunteers.
"Everyone just has a lot more
confidence in doing things
right," Tamme said. "We're just
kind of relaxed and having more
fun. Hopefully that will result in
more points on the board. We
know that we can make plays
Cardinals meet media,
look ahead to Big East
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - A maintenance crew was imprinting a
Big East logo on the field at
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
early Saturday morning as the
Louisville Cardinals gathered
for media day.
The players were barraged
with questions about their transforming program - its new
~ague, the potential automatic
bid to the Bowl Championship
Series and the higher than ever
expectations kindled by last
year's 11-1 campaign.
On the frrst day of fall workouts, though, the Cardinals
weren't noticing any differences
from past seasons.
''The way we practice is still
the same," said senior defensive
tackle Montavious Stanley. "Ain't
nothing changing with us."
The Cardinals rolled through
their fmal season in Conference
ltlSA, winning eight league
games by an average score of 5719. They're supposed to win the
Big East, too, but the coaches
have already convinced the players that victories won't come as
easily as they did last year.
"It's a big jump. Week in and
week out, we're going to be in
some dogfights," said sophomore quarterback Brian Brohm.
"It's going to be a tougher road,
but we're up to the challenge."
Once the team pictures were
taken Saturday, the reporters
swarmed around Brohm, the
"!uch-hyped successor to 2004
Conference USA Player of the
Year Stefan LeFors.
Brohm has been used to the
spotlight since boyhood.
The s~m and brother of former Louisville quarterbacks,
Brohm was touted as a budding
superstar in grade school, then
guided Trinity to three straight
state championships. He then
snubbed Notre Dame and
Tennessee to play close to home.
He never started last season
backing up LeFors, but complet~ 67 percent of his passes when
he did play. He was named the
Conference USA freshman of
arship offensive linemen last
season. They have 19 interior
linemen listed on the preseason
roster, although 12 are freshmen
or sophomores.
"We couldn't go very deep
last year, but this year, we'll be
a solid two-deep up front,··
Phillips said.
One of the new linemen is
Garry Williams, a 6-3, 300pound freshman from Louisville
who signed with Kentucky in
2004 but was academically ineligible last season because hls
scores on standardized tests
weren't high enough. The
NCAA granted Williams a
waiver based on extenuating circumstances. Williams spent his
first two years of high school
caring for his ill mother, which
hampered his grades those two
years. He made significant
improvement academically as a
junior and senior.
the year, fueling more expectations for this season.
And that's fine with him.
"When the lights are on,
that's when I like to show my
stuff," Brohm said. "Some people kind of shy away from that
attention, but if you want to be
one of the great ones, when the
lights are on, you've got to
come to play."
The Cardinals led the nation
in total offense (539 yards per
game) and points per game
(49.8) in 2004. They lost leading
rusher Eric Shelton and leading
receiver J.R. Russell to the NFL
draft, but second-leading rusher
Michael Bush, three receivers
and the entire offensive line are
back.
"Our goal every year is to be
the No. 1 offense in the nation,"
Brohm said. "We're going to put
up as good of numbers as we can."
Louisville's frrst practice was
Saturday afternoon and thirdyear coach Bobby Petrino talked
to his team about the ramifications of playing in the Big East.
"I just like to address i't, put it
right out in front of them that
this is the expectation, what
other people are saying,''
Petrino said prior to Saturday's
first practice. "But what really
matters is what's in the meeting
room and what we believe we
can get done and not what other
people say."
Petrino has said one of the
best competitions this fall will
unfold at middle linebacker.
Robert McCune was drafted by
the Washington Redskins after
leading the Cardinals with 115
tack1es last season. Sophomore
Matt Sanders, redshlrt freshman
Lamar Myles and junior college
transfer Nate Harris are the candidates to fill McCune's role.
Petrino is also looking for
redshirt
freshman
Hunter
Cantwell to blossom into the
backup role behind Brohm. He's
also eager to evaluate quarterback Lee Sweeney, a freshman
from Tennessee.
"I'm excited to see how
Hunter Cantwell will do,"
Petrino said. "He surprised me a
little bit, how accurate he threw
the ball, how well he saw things.
"I really like the ability
Sweeney has," Petrino said. "The
thing I like about him though is
he's won a bunch of games. He
knows how to win in football,
knows how to win in baseball.
So I think that's one thing you
look at in a quarterback is do
they know how to win? That
makes it much easier."
Cards hold
Sunday practice
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LOUISVILLE
The
University of Louisville concluded its second practice of the
preseason on Sunday morning at
the football complex. The
Cardinals started at 10 am and
finished about 1 p.m. The freshmen a.nd newcomers came out
early with the veterans joining
the workout about an hour later.
There was also a lot of individual position work tonight then wideouts went up against
the defensive backs, the two
lines went against each other.
Practice ended with ll-on-11
work. Because no one can hit the
quarterback and there is no tackling, the offense tends to look
pretty good in this drill. Senior
wide receiver Joshua Tine~
made a pair of acrobatic catches
by leaping over defenders to
make a pair of tough catches on
throws from sophomore Brian
Brohm. Junior Kolby Smith and
Michael Bush were very successful running behind the roammouth offensive line.
Junior Gavin Smart continued to be one the best corners
in camp. Corning off a couple
of shoulder surgeries, Smart
looks healthy and has been a
pleasant addition to the
Cardinals after missing most of
the year last season.
Practice finished with the ftrst
team offense going through its
two-minute drills and concluded
with the ·PAT/FG which always
signals the end of practice.
and (Phillips) is going to put
trust in us to do it."
Phillips,
the
Wildcats'
recruiting coordinator and wide
receivers coach the past two
seasons, played for Kentucky
from 1981 through 1984, during
which time the Wildcats went to
the Peach Bowl and the Hall of
Fame Bowl. His first stint as a
Kentucky assistant ran from
1988 to 1996, and he later
served as an assistant at
Cincinnati, Minnesota, Notre
Dame and South Carolina.
Brooks said that Phillips'
lack of experience as a coordinator could actually be an
advantage for Kentucky, as
LEXINGTON - The NCAA
granted an eligibility waiver for
University of Kentucky freshman offensive lineman Garry
Williams, enabling him to enroll
at Kentucky and join the team.
Williams had signed in 2004 but
was not eligible last season.
During the last year he continued to take the stan-dardized
tests and became very close to
gainin'g eligibility. The NCAA
granted a waiver on the basis of
extenuating
circumstances,
During his first two years of
high school, Willian1s spent a Jot
of time caring for his ill mother,
which notably hampered his
grades. He made significant
improvement during his junior
and senior years, and the
exemption was granted on the
basis of his hardship the first
two years.
Wtlliams was a first-team allstate choice as a senior at Seneca
High School in Louisville, and
was an All-South Region selection by PrepStar magazine. He
played impressively for the victorious Kentucky team in the 2004
Kentucky-Tennessee
High
School All-Star Game.
Louisiana-Monroe added to
2006 schedule: The University of
Louisiana at Monroe (formerly
known as Northeast Louisiana)
has been added to the Kentucky
football schedule on Nov. 18,
2006,
at
Commonwealth
StadiJlrn. This will be the third
meeting between the schools. In
1994, Northeast Louisiana
defeated Kentucky 21~14. In
1997, UK beat Northeast
Louisiana 49-14.
NCAA bans Indian mascots,
nicknames from postseason ·events
by MICHAEL MAROT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS - The
NCAA's decision to ban "hostile" and "abusive" American
Indian nicknames from its postseason events has stirred a new
debate, and a threat of legal
action from at least one school.
Florida State and Illinois are
among the 18 schools with an
American Indian nickname or
logo that will be prohibited by
the NCAA from displaying them
in postseason events, starting in
February. The n~s will not be
allowed on team uniforms and
mascots - such as the Fighting
Illini 's Chief Illiniwek - will not
be allowed to perform at games.
Even band members and cheerleaders will be barred from using
American Indians on their uniforms beginning in 2008.
Florida State president T.K.
Wetherell was already threatening legal action to keep his
school's nickname- Seminoles
-intact.
"I intend to pursue all legal
avenues to ensure that this
unacceptable decision is overturned, and that this university
will forever be associated with
the 'unconquered' spirit of the
Seminole Tribe of Florida," he
said in a written statement.
The committee also recommended schools follow the
examples of Wisconsin and
Iowa and not schedule contests
against universities that use
American Indian nicknames.
While NCAA officials admit
they cannot force schools to
change nicknames or logos, they
want to make a statement they
believe is long overdue: It's time
for the Indian names to go.
The 18 schools will not be
permitted to host future NCAA
tournament games, and if
events have already been
awarded to those schools, they
must cover any logos or nicknames that appear.
Major college football teams
will be excluded because there
is no official NCAA tournament.
The NCAA's move did nothing to end the controversy over
the use of American Indian
nicknames.
Wetherell, for instance, was
upset the NCAA discounted a
June statement from the
Florida-based
Seminoles,
which gave the university permission to use the nickname.
An NCAA official said other
Seminole tribes around the
nation were opposed.
And at Illinois, spokesman
Tom Hardy said the university
would now have to decipher
what the definitions of "hostile" and "abusive."
"There's no question that the
university and the board of
trustees arc going to have to
look at what the NCAA put out
today and make a determination on how it impacts the institution and go from there,"
Hardy said.
Even supporters of the ban
were disappointed.
Vernon Bellccourt, president
of the National Coalition on
Racism in Sports and Media
and a member of the
Anishinabe-Ojibwe Nation in
Minnesota, approved of the ban
but had hoped the NCAA would
take even stronger action.
"We're not so happy about
the fact that they didn't make
the decision to ban the use of
Indian team names and mascots," he said.
Chairman Walter Harrison,
president of the University of
Hartford, said the committee
does not have that authority.
"We believe hostile or abusive nicknames are troubling to
us and it can't continue,"
Harrison said.
But there were exceptions.
President Myles Brand noted
that some schools using the
Warrior nickname will not face
the ban because they do not use
American Indian symbols. One
school,
North
CarolinaPembroke - which uses the
nickname Braves - will also be
exempted because Brand said
the school has historically had a
high percentage of students.
more than 20 percent. who are
American Indians.
Two years ago, the NCAA
also recommended schools
determine for themselves
whether Indian depictions were
offensive. Among the schools
to change nicknames in recent
years were St, John's (from
Redmen to Red Storm) and
Marquette (from Warriors to
Golden Eagles).
Other schools, such as
Florida State, did not make the
changes and now find themselves embroiled in a battle to
keep their names.
'The rules as we understand
them would have us cover the
Seminole name and symbol as if
we were embarrassed, and any
committee that would think that
is a proper and respectful treatment of Native Americans should
be ashamed," Wetherell aid.
Rondo sets steals record against China
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
MAR
DEL
PLATA,
Argentina - The 2005 USA
U21 World Championship
Team (1-0) got off to a roaring
start at the FffiA U21 World
ChampiQnship after collecting
a 117-50 victory over China (01) in opening day action in Mar
del Plata, Argentina, on Friday
evening.
Curtis
Withers
(Charlotte I Charlotte, N.C.),
who was a perfect 7-of-7 from
the field, led six U.S. players in
double digits with 19 points.
Withers' hooting percentage tied Wesley Person's USA
U21 single-game record 7-of-7
from the field, which dates to
the
1993
tournament.
Additionally, Rajon Rondo
(Kentucky I Louisville, Ky.)
doubled the USA's former single-game steals record after
being credited with eig t, while
the team eclipsed the previous
single-game marks for steals
with 21 (former record was 15),
as well as most 3-point field
goals made and attempted with
14-of-31 from 3-point (former
records were 12 and 25).
"I didn't realize I had that
many, but the thing is, that's
what I do," said Rondo. "That's
the reason I'm on the team
(See RONDO, page eight)
r
�'B6 • WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
•
annoa
II of Fame
,F our QBs, led
lYoung, enter
by BARRY WILNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
b
.
r,c c ANT0 N, Ohw
- Dan
Marino just couldn't resist.
The NFL's most prolific
quarterback showed off his arm
one more time, finishing off his
induction into the Pro Football
~Hall of Fame with - what else?
?- a perfect spiral to Mark
Clayton. one of his many targets
, through the years.
, "Of course, in the end, every
quarterback wants one more
11
'Sunday with a football in his
hands and going deep," Marino
said, that gleam back in his eye
minutes after he teared up when
)ntroduced by his 20-year-old
;~on Daniel.
"''ll remember this day for
. the rest of my life," Marino said.
'
So will Steve Young, who
became the first left-handed
quarterback in the Hall. The
most efficient passer in NFL
history, Young paid tribute to
the game itself.
"Football is the great
metaphor in life," he said. "With
those experiences and all the
great things, that happened, life
is even better."
Young suggested it was the
first time only quarterbacks
entered the Hall in one class,
and he was partly right. Benny
Friedman was the first great
passer in pro ball, and Fritz
Pollard was a running back who
sometimes played QB.
"I'm proud to be part of this
with Dan and the Pollard and
Friedman families," Young said.
"We are quarterbacks and that's
what is neat about this position."
Like last year, when John
Elway was inducted, Fawcett
Stadium was fLiled with the big
star's jersey. For Elway, it was
Denver East. This time, it was
Miami North.
Thousands of fans clad in
No. 13 Dolphins jerseys shook
the stadium with cheers and
chants
of
"D-A-N-N-Y,"
remembering how sweet it was
to see Marino setting all his
records.
Marino set NFL marks of
4,967 completions, 8,358 passes, 61,361 yards (nearly 35
miles) and 420 touchdowns. His
record of 48 TD passes in the
1984 season, when he was
MVP, was broken by Peyton
Manning last year.
He also owned 21 NFL
marks when he retired, including most seasons with 3.000
yards or more passing (13);
most yards passing in one season (5,084 in '84. the oply year
he won a conference championship); and most games with
300 yards or more passing (63).
"I've accomplished many
things, but what I cherish more
than any record I hold, fourthquarter comebacks or any wins I
was involved in, is the relationships," he said. Then he mentioned all of the former teammates in the audience, and Don
Shula, who coached him in 13
of his 17 seasons.
"We didn't win a Super Bowl
together and that is something I
would always regret," Marino
said. "But you and I won more
games than any other quarterback-coach combination in the
history of pro football and that is
something I am very proud of."
Young won a Super Bowl as
the 49ers' starting quarterback
after the 1994 season. The 1992
and '94 league MVP took over
:Falcons 27, C0lts',21
!)
v
0
by JIM ARMSTRONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO- Michael Vick and
tfeyton Manning gave the
,Japanese fans what they wanted
jn the American Bowl, playing
into the second quarter and
ishowing why they are two of
the NFL's best quarterbacks.
Vick displayed some of his
' trademark scrambling in the
preseason opener Saturday,
'gaining 10 yaros ofi Iiis oruy·run
.in the Atlanta Falcons' 27-21
, win over the Indianapolis Colts.
He was 4-for-7 for 51 yards
pefore a Tokyo Dome crowd of
45,203. The American Bowl is
mot the novelty it once was,
·with Japan having hosted the
•game 13 times.
"I wanted to give the fans
:Something to cheer about," said
Vick, who left after the first
f.lay of the second quarter.
· 'Just wanted, to get the jitters
out, and I didn't want to shorttchange the fans or myself."
Better yet, he didn't get hurt.
"Michael had a good game,"
Atlanta coach Jim Mora said. ''I
twas holding my breath when
Mike was running the ball. In
fact, I just let my breath out now."
Vick broke a leg in a 2003
1
exhibition game and missed the
first 11 games that counted,
essentially ruining the Falcons'
1
season. He barely played in the
rpreseason a year ago, then led
!Atlanta to the NFC championship game.
Manning threw a 2-yard
touchdown pass to Troy
Walters at 6:45 of the first quarter, giving the Colts a 7-0 lead.
He was 6-for-8 for 36 yards
with one interception.
"It was a very exciting
atmosphere," said Manning,
who came out with just more
than nine minutes left in the
second quarter. "The crowd was
enthusiastic and the players
were ready to play. We would
have liked to have gotten the
victocyout we'II'learn from it
and come out again next week."
Vick1s replacement, Matt
Schaub, threw two touchdown
passes in the first half and was
the game's MVP.
Schaub, who completed 11
of 13 passes for 115 yards, gave
the Falcons a 20-14 lead with
10 seconds remaining in the.
half. The former Virginia star
tossed a 3-yard pass to Fred
McCrary, who bobbled the ball
on the 1 and then rolled into the
end zone before being touched.
"It was a pretty good play by
Fred," Schaub said. "The ball
bounced off his head but he
carne up with it and was able to
roll into the end zone. If you
know Fred, that kind of play
really fits his personality
because he's a funny guy."
Edgerrin James carried three
times for 20 yards, with his
longest run 9 yards. The
Indianapolis running back initially was not thrilled about
making the trip to Japan. He
dislikes exhibition games
almost as much as he does 14-
for Joe Montana in San Francisco ing other. When one of the guy's
in 1991, backing up Montana on say, 'I've got your back,' it is
two other title winners.
not figurative."
Young began his career in the
Friedman, who died in 1982,
USFL with the Los Angeles threw 20 TD passes in 1929,
Express, followed by two sea- considered phenomenal because
sons with the Buccaneers before the ball he threw barely resemBill Walsh acqmred him in bled the modem football. The
1987.
record stood for 14 years.
"He was a great athlete, intelHe played for four teams
ligent and with a passion for the from 1927-34 and was a strong
game," Walsh said Sunday. draw at the box office, even
"And it just so happened his helping the New York Giants
style fit perfectly with our · become a solvent operation in
offense."
those early NFL days.
Indeed. Young was one of the
"If Uncle Benny was here
best running quarterbacks the today, he would tell you it was
NFL has seen.
all about family, friends, team''l'm not sure where a Hall of mates and teamwork," said his
Fame career starts." Young said. nephew, David Friedman.
"I've been the recipient of the "Proud yet unpretentious, that
best coaching one individual has was the essence of my uncle.
ever had," mentioning LaVell
"His example of excellence
Edwards, John Hadl, Sid will survive for as long as there
Gillman, Mike Holmgren, Mike is a Hall of Fame."
Shanahan and, of course, Walsh.
Pollard, like Friedman, was a
"Football is the rarest of pro football pioneer and the first
sports in that you cannot do it black NFL head coach. After a
alone," Young added. "The cele- sensational college career at
bration is so much richer when Brown, where he became the
you do it with a group of others. first black to play in the Rose
That feeling when you do some- Bowl, the running back led the
thing great together is like noth- Akron Pros to the 1920 champi-
onship. They went undefeated.
He later organized the
Chicago Brown Bombers, an
independent team of black players that barnstormed the country
from 1927-33.
Pollard is among the most
important minority figures in
football history, a man who
seemed to open the door for
black athletes in his sport, only
to see it slammed shut from
•
1934 until 1946.
"Fritz Pollard was a 5-foot-9,
165-pound running back who
had the speed of Tony Dorsett,
the elusiveness of Barry Sanders
and the tenacity of Walter
Payton," said his grandson,
Stephen Towns. in his acceptance speech. "My grandfather
and Jim Thorpe were the highest-paid players of their times.
Jim Thorpe became the first
commissioner of pro football
and was inducted into the first
class of the Hall of Fame in
1963. My grandfather became a ~
footnote.
"After today, everyone will
know the gifts you have given to
football.
Rest in peace,
Grandpa."
Williams returns to the
field in Hall of Fame game
hour flights.
"James is in excellent
shape," Manning said. "When
he got the ball he ran well. We
by BARRY WILNER
The fourth-round draft pick to Bryan Gilmore at the goal •
ASSOCIATED PRESS
from Purdue connected with Carl line. Gilmore had to tum almost
expect big things from Edgerrin
Ford for a 43-yard score with completely around to snag the
James this season."
CANTON. Ohio - Ricky 7:23 remaining. After Olinda pass, falling into the end zone
Jason Wright increased the
Williams was relaxing on the Mare was short on a 54-yard for a 2-yard touchdown.
Falcons' lead to 27-14 when he
"It's funny." .Frerotte said. "I
Miami
sideline, his night over, field goal try, Orton guided
ran in from the 1-yard line with
wasn't
really throwing to him. It
when
two
Chicago
rookies
stole
by
a
34Chicago
56
yards,
keyed
just more than six minutes
just
kind
of slipped off my hand
the
show
and
the
game.
yard
bullet
to
Eddie
Berlin
and
a
remaining.
and
floated
that way and he
Williams'
return
to
the
NFL
third-down
interference
penalty
"It was just a preseason
made
a
great
catch."
turned
into
a
non-event
as
he
by
Miami's
Deandre
Eiland.
1
game 'arid 'doeSD t mean 'much:'' •
_Zack Ab,on.ran .it..in from the _ .. Thatmade.it l0-7 1 Mare had
, rushed fQr 8 Yl\\'ds on five first-.
Mora sai~. "But anyti~e we go
half carries Monday night. 4, disappointing all the a 33-yard field goal earlier in
out we .Y~JlY, t9 }Yin. ,You, ,get
Instead. the impressive debuts Dolphins fans wearing No. 13 the quarter.
used to winning by winning
It became 17-7 when Sage
of quarterback Kyle Orton and jerseys in the crowd of 22,292.
and it's important to get 0ff to a
receiver Mark Bradley lifted the
Orton's strong outing- 7-for- Rosenfels connected with Jason
fast start."
Bears to a 27-24 victory in 1he 11 for 175 yards - spoiled the Rader on a !-yard pass in the
With 4:02 left, the Colts cut
Hall of Fame game.
debut of Nick Saban as an NFL third period. Nick Novak kicked "
the lead to 27-21 on a 3-yard
Dan Marino, the Dolphins' coach and Williams' return to a 22-yard field goal, and Doug
touchdown pass from Travis
great quarterback who was the Miami lineup after he sat out Brien made a 30-yarder to lift
Brown to John Standeford. A
inducted into the Hall the previ- last season with a premature Chicago within 17-13 before
45-yard pass from Brown to
Glenn's interception TD.
ous day along with Steve retirement.
Montiese Culton set up the
Orton came back with a
He's back, but you could
Young, Fritz Pollard and Benny
beautiful 43-yard spiral to Ford,
Friedman, must have been barely tell after this game.
final touchdown.
"It's funny that people say and then put together the winimpressed by the work of
The Colts took a 14-6 lead
welcome back when I haven't ning drive.
Chicago's youngsters.
with 7:48 remaining in the second
Another rookie QB. the
Otton brought a breath of gone anywhere," said the former
quarter when linebacker Kendyll
Brock
Berlin,
fresh air to the often-stale Bears NFL rushing king who will sit Dolphins'
Pope scored after picking up a
offense when he riddled out the first four games of the marched his team to the 15
loose ball that resulted from a
Miami's third-string defense on regular season for violating the before being intercepted in the
botched handoff from Schaub to
two late touchdown drives. league's substance abuse policy. end zone by Jerrell Pippens in
Wright inside the Atlanta 5.
Bradley
had five receptions for "It doesn't seem like I was gone the final moments.
Atlanta drew to 14-13 with
With the play of Bradley and
at all, not even a week.
a HOF game record 131 yards.
three minutes left in the first
"I didn't feel rusty. I didn't Orton, the Bears didn't miss run- •
"Either you fall under the preshalf on a 6-yard touchdown
sure or you tise to the occasion," expect anything, to be honest. I ning back Cedric Benson, their
pass from Schaub to Brian
Bradley said. "We've got great was like always when I play, it frrst-rounder who is holding out.
Finneran.
leadership that won't let us fail as takes me a while to get warmed And Chicago got a nice effort
The NFL began playing
up. But I was seeing everything from its starting offense and
long as we keep working at it."
international games in 1986 in
defense in the first period.
Orton rebounded from an good and I felt good."
response to growing interest in
Saban, who left LSU after a Thomas Jones rushed for 47
awful interception to guide
American football around the
Chicago to a pair of late touch- highly successful career in col- yards on 10 carries, with a 1-yard
world. Forty such games have
downs. Jason Glenn's 26-yard lege to rebuild the Dolphins, TD run . That was set up by a 34been played in 12 cities outside
touchdown gave the Dolphins a almost got a win in his frrst pre- yard pass from Rex Grossman to
season game as a pro head coach. Muhsin Muhan1mad, the prize
the United States.
24-13 lead.
"It was a lot of fun to get out Miami led thanks to a couple of free agent receiver the Bears
there and really bounce back scoring drives in the second signed in the offseason.
"I think this offense fits our
after that bad ball," he said. "I quarter and one in the third.
·personnel,"
Jones said, "because
who
replaced
Gus
Frerotte,
walked to the sideline and the
first thing I said was I've got to A.J. Feeley late in the opening we're a hard-nosed offense. I ~
bounce back, get back out there period when Feeley sustained a thought we were pretty efficient."
Especially at the end,
contusion of the buttocks, threw
and keep throwing."
:stevens, Bengals' unsung
l
.
defense shine during scritnrnage
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGETOWN
Cincinnati second-year linebacker Larry Stevens seemed to
be everywhere in a Bengals'
scrimmage Friday night, disrupting pass plays, tackling
runners in the backfield and
scooping up a fumble with zest.
He said he had good reason
to be motivated.
"The offense has been dominating us" during training
camp. Stevens said. "We had to
come out and be aggressive.
We're tired of them talking."
His defensive teammates
apparently shared Stevens'
bpinion, Going against an offensive unit loaded with stars like
runnit r.. b.td. Rudi Johnson,
'rccetvcr Chad Johnson and
qu.ll'lerhack Carson Palmer, the
lefen' ''""on" the intt ·squad
·scrimmage at Georgetown
'COr
College 40-22, usin1
~ystem developed by coaches.
The lone touchdown for the
Bengals' offense was a 46-yard
scoring pass from Palmer to
Chad Johnson against the second-team defense.
Otherwise, the offense
looked shaky, defeating itself
with penalties and mistakes.
"We were sluggish at times,"
Palmer said. "We did some
good things, but it's a good
thing it's our flrst scrimmage.
We've got a lot more before we
get to the real season."
Coach Marvin Lewis promoted Chuck Bresnahan to
coordinator
in
defensive
January. Lewis, a longtime
defensive coordinator himself,
was careful not to praise
Bresnahan's unit too much.
Offensive coordinator Bob
Bratkowski wasn't so stingy
with his compliments.
"It's a very aggressive style
of dcfcn~c." Bratkowski said.
"It will put a lot {\f ,.,,.,,sure •n
'1 ('f
scrimmag~
It makes the quar-
terback be on full alert all the
time, ready to change plays or
change protection."
Stevens signed with the
Bengals as a free agent last year
and made their practice squad
before being promoted to the
active roster for the final nine
games. Most of his action was
on special teams.
Stevens didn't lead the team
in' tackles Friday, but made the
defensive play of the night,
picking up a fumble by receiVer Freddie Milons and rumbling
downfield about 20 yards
before being caught.
"I was running. I don't know
who dropped it, but I just saw it
and picked it up," Stevens said.
"I almost lost a kidney when I
was running! A big mmi caught
me on the sidelines."
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safety
Terrell
Roberts was taken off the field
on a cart with what Lewis said
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New Engl. at Cincinnati, 7:30p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Tennessee, 8 p.m.
Seattle at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
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Baltimore at Atlanta, 7:30p.m.
Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30p.m.
Denver at Houston, 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Indianapolis, 8 p.m.
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
10, 2005 • 8 7
Stewart ends years of frustration,- finally earns Indy win
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS -The tears
came when he took the lead at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
as Tony Stewart was speeding
through the second turn and
caught a quick glimpse of his
father in the stands.
Nelson Stewart was standing
against the fence, arms in the air,
cheering his son on to the win
they have so desperately chased.
"When I saw him on that railing, and saw the emotion on his
face, that's when I got tears in
my eyes," Stewart said. "I just
wanted to finish one time."
At long last, Stewart has an
Indy victory. He ended nine
years of frustration and heartbreak Sunday by winning the
Allstate 400 at the Brickyard,
filling a hole in his trophy case
he'd left empty since his father
began taking him to the famed
race track as a toddler.
He was a kid growing up in
Indiana, just 45 minutes away
from the Speedway. All he
wanted to do with his life was
race, and one day he hoped to do
it at the Brickyard.
But it was all about the
Indianapolis 500, the crown
jewel event that Stewart begged
his parents to take him to every
May. He tried to win that race
five different times, only to be
taunted and teased by the track
over and over again.
Now concentrating on his
NASCAR career, Stewart never
felt like a stock-car win at Indy
would be a cheap replacement.
He didn' t care what he was driving - he just wanted to win.
"You dream about something
for so long, you become consumed by it," Stewart said.
His Brickyard win secure,
Stewart now needs a new obsession. He's a champion in several series, including NASCAR
and the Indy Racing League,
and he always said he'd trade it
all for one win at Indy.
So what's next?
"I got out of the car and the
first thing my Dad said to me
was ' Now go get the Indy 500,"'
Stewart said. "I said 'Can't I just
enjoy this one? Dude, it's not a
mail order. You just don't call a
phone number and give your was raised in Columbus, a 45credit card and they bring you minute drive outside of Indy, to
the trophy.'"
make the win happen. Suddenly,
Still, the Indy 500 automati- Tony the Terrible - the nickcally becomes his next goal. name he'd earned after dozens
Only it will have to wait - of tadtrums and tussles as
Stewart has vowed to ignore the NASCAR's reigning Bad Boyopen-wheel event until his was softening.
.
NASCAR career is over.
Leaving Charlotte, N.C., a
With this victory, his fourth fishbowl for NASCAR's stars,
in the past six races, Stewart is and gdiug home again started
now the hottest driver in what's been a yearlong personNASCAR and a favorite to win ality transformation for Stewart.
the Nextel Cup title. He took
Stewart surrounded himself
over the lead in the standings, with his childhood friends and
opening a 75-point lead over blended into the cotn1nunity. He
Jimmie Johnson.
bowls on the weeknights, stops
But there was no talk of titles for btkrs at the Moose and
on this day. All Stewart wanted Eagles Lodges and grabs free
was to participate in all of Indy's rnilkshilkes at Dairy Queen.
traditional celebrations - he was
He walks his neighbors dog,
joined by his mother, father and has key$ to their homes, and
sister when he kissed the Yard of goes out of his way to lend a
Bricks- then it was time to party. · helping }).and.
"This is one of those days
It's had a calming effect on
that I don't want to end. I don't the temperamental driver, who
want to see the sun set. This is a has yet to have one of his
day I want to stretch as long as I famous blowups this season.
can," he said. "This is definitely
One of them came here in
the greatest day of my life, pro- 2002, in the lowest point of his
fessionally and personally.
career. After every disappoint"! don't even know what to ing fmisJ! here, Stewart was
say. Since I was a little kid I've famous for stomping off in
always just wanted to compete anger. Only that time, he
at the Brickyard."
snapped. Stewart punched an
It took moving home to the approaching photographer after
tiny three-bedroom house he fading out of the lead to a dev-
astating 12th place finish.
But this is a calmer, kinder
Stewart and he used all of his
newfound maturity to earn this
win. His Joe Gibbs Racing team
felt this would be his best
chance in seven NASCAR starts
to win this event.
''This is the most relaxed I've
seen him in seven years here,"
crew chief Greg Zipadelli said.
"But this is also the most
relaxed I've seen him in an
entire season. It's also the first
time I've seen him sit back and
realize what he's capable of."
In years past, an antsy
Stewart would charge to the
front of the field and lead lap
after lap .i n pursuit of his dream.
This time, he was content to
hang back in the pack after starting 22nd.
There was no need to race to
the front.
When the time was right,
Stewart would get there.
He finally did 100 laps into
the race and seemed headed to
the win. Then Kasey Kahne
snatched the lead away from
him with 27 laps to go and it
could have been over for
Stewart.
Every other year, losing the
lead would have been enough to
make a frustrated Stewart quit
trying out of anger and drift
back to a meaningless finiSh.
Instead, he stayed calm as he
chased down Kahne.
When a caution came out
with 15 laps to go, Stewart had
the biggest decision of the race
in front of him: Should he give
up track position to pit for tires,
or stay out and try to muscle his
way past Kahne.
He and Zipadelli debated
back and forth over the radio,
with Zipadelli urging his driver
to make a decision.
"I'm too .... nervous to call it,
bud," he replied.
So they stayed on the track,
gambling that they made the
right decision.
It took Stewart just seconds
to get into the lead, passing
Kahne as they exited the second
turn with l l laps to go. He had to
fight to hold him off, fmally
shaking him for good with just
over 10 miles to go. There was
no challenge as he crossed the
finish line, screaming his appreciation to Zipadelli and his team.
Back on the pit box, Zipadelli
was too emotional to speak.
"You have no idea what this
means," he sobbed. "Walking
up to him and seeing that smile
on his face. This just means so
much to him."
1
You can go home again LPR: ·Hale wins second
- just bring a fast car straight Late Model feature
SPECIAL TO THE TIME~
By JIM LITKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The racetrack didn't owe
him anything.
!
If anything, it was the other
way around.
Lots of kids grew up in the
shadow of racing's most famous
oval, zooming over nearby
asphalt tracks in sprint cars,
midgets and go-carts. And just
this once, nobody had to remind
Tony Stewart how few of them
ever get good or lucky enough
to make it inside the gates at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
without buying a ticket first.
Before Sunday's Allstate
400, Stewart had run at least a
dozen times at the old brickyard. He did it first in openwheel racers at the Indy 500 in
May, and the last half-dozen
times in stock cars, when
NASCAR carved out a slot in
August. No matter. Each time,
he came away empty-handed.
"You dream about something for so long, you become
consumed by it," Stewart said.
"I worked in that area. I drove a
tow truck for a guy I raced
sprint cars against. I'd drive
down 16th Street and wonder
what it would be like to be 300
~ feet to the left running at 200
miles an hour.
''Today, I fmally got to ... see
what the view is corning down
that front straightaway, seeing
those checkered flags as the
frrst driver to go under versus
the third or fourth driver."
You' d think that making up
those couple of places would be a
matter of finding more speed.
What enabled Stewart to make
his breakthrough, however, was
finding more patience. Like rival
Jeff Gordon, another phenom
~ who spent his formative years
~ driving at the little tracks that ring
the Speedway like a frayed necklace, Stewart was used to doing
everything fast. It suited him fine
everywhere else but at Indy.
In 1995, Stewart made U.S.
Auto Club history by becoming
the first driver to win the
National Midget, Sprint and
Silver Crown titles - the Triple
Crown of minor-league racing
- in the same year. In 1996, still increasingly bringing his fruscommitted to open-wheel cars, tration back to the garage.
he earned a ride in the fledgling Zipadelli confronted Stewart
Indy Racing League and won and a free-for-all session with
Rookie of the Year honors. A the crew ensued. Soon after,
year later, he won the series Stewart left the NASCAR
mecca in Charlotte and moved
championship.
By then, though, the hand- back to his boyhood home in
writing was on the speedway Columbus, Ind. There, just a
walls. Once among the greatest 45-miunte drive from the
franchises in sports, a civil war Speedway, he hung out at the
between Indy 500 boss Tony local lodge drinking beer and
George and owners and drivers doing some bowling.
The dividends weren't
of the Championship Auto
Racing Team&, now called the immediately apparent, but in the
Chatnp Car World Series, was last few weeks, Stewart's team
increasingly driving fans into has been on a tear unlike anything the sport has seen in a
NASCAR's waiting arms.
"I remember when they while. Beginning with the
brought NASCAR to the Nextel Cup race at Michigan in
Indianapolis Motor Speedway," mid-June, Stewart won three
Stewart said. "I was one of the times and finished'no lower than
guys that said, 'Man, this is a fifth. He won on different coursbunch of crap. They don't need es and led half the laps ·in five
to be here. Indy cars are the races leading up the Allstate
only thing that should be on the 400, a mind-boggling number.
But with 30 laps left Sunday,
racetrack. That's the way it's
always been, that's the way it he was locked in a duel with
Kasey Kahne and still to be
should always be.'
"I was one of those guys," he answered W!lS the question of
recalled, "that boohooed it then." how Stewart would handle the
But by 1999, Stewart joined return to Indy. Light on fuel and
the exodus of promising low on tread, he had to hold the
American drivers from open- car together long enough to
wheel racing to the stock-car take a final shot. Just as trying,
circuit. The one thing that didn't Stewart had to negotiate with
change, though, was Stewart's Zipadelli over the radio on
reverence for the Speedway, or when to take it.
"I just finally said, 'Hey,
the way he approached it.
Three years later, in the midst whatever you say, we're going
if his frrst NASCAR champi- to stick by, we'll do it a hundred
onship, Stewart dominated the percent,"' Stewart recalled.
On a restart with 11 laps left to
Brickyard race. He started from
the pole and led 43 laps before go, Zipadelli's last directive was,
slipping to a 12th-place finish. ''Be smart. Make me proud."
Stewart found his opening,
Stewart then reminded everydove
low on the inside and
body how much that race meant
to him by punching a photogra- passed Kahne. The lesson
Stewart learned about patience
pher after it ended.
"Kind
of
like
Dale may not stick with him long, but
Earnhardt and Daytona for so it's enough for at least one night.
"I'm sleeping with that tromany years," Greg Zipadelli,
Stewart's longtime crew chief, phy in the bed tonight," Stewart
said afterward. "Believe me, said. "I'm serious as a heart
the harder - the harder and the attack. I'll wake up, I may have
more emphasis you put on stab marks in my back from the
things, sometimes the harder it . edges, but I'm sleeping with it
is for them to come. It's just the tonight."
way it is."
Jim Litke is a national
impatience
Stewart's
sports
columnist for The
reached the boiling point at the
Associated
Press. Write to him
end of last season. Often shorttempered on the track, he was at jlitke@ap.org
COE~uRN. Va. - Out front
was th~ place to be during
Saturday ¢ght's caution plagued
75-lap Late Model race at
Lonesome Pine Raceway as several cars ~uffered major damage
in crasheS. back in the pack.
It toqk 13 laps for Bluff City,
Va. racer Wayne Hale to grab the
lead from. his third place starting
position, and from then on he
had no rqason to look back. No
other driver in the field could
touch biin as Hale earned his
second ;consecutive La~e Model
win and fourth of the season.
The race got off to a shaky
start as the caution flag fell three
times within the .frrst thr~ laps.
Buddy T~bert spun on the backstretch on lap two; followed by
T.J. O'Guinn wrecking hard into
the backstretch inside fence on
the restart and then Craig
Stallard got together with Zeke
Shell in turn one on the third lap.
Following the Stallard, Shell
incident~ however, the race settled down and cars began to rise
and fall tliroughout the field.
Qualifying was rained out so
the field was set by points which
made for an interesting mixture
with some. of the fastest cars not
competing every week.
Points
leader
Brad
Housewright drew a two for the
inversion which put Brian
Blevins on the point for the initial start. Although Blevins managed to maintain second place
position after losing the lead to
Hale on lap 13, Housewright fell
off the pace early in the race.
Housewright was running
fourth on lap 20 when he lost
five positions in a single co111er
as Alan Sumner, Owens, Chris
Tunnell, 1'eff Woodward and
Shell all freight-trained him. He
would pit for service under
green on lap 32 and returned at
full speed but a lap down. ·
Kirby Gobble started 11th due
to his position in the point standings, but quickly worked his way
through the field, passing Joey
Owens for third place on lap 15.
By the time the fifth caution
flag flew Qn lap 36 for Owens'
flat tire, ijale haq more than a
half straightaway lead over
Blevins, who held that same
advantage over Gobble,
Woodward passed Shell for
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released its 23-race, 2006
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schedule today and one of the
most anticipated events of every
season, the sixth annual
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highlights the month of April,
taking place April28-30.
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has enjoyed sell-out crowds the
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ftft.h place on the restart and
began inching his way toward
Alan Sumner who was having a
career best run in fourth. On lap
68 Sumner and Woodward made
contact in turn three sending
Woodward spinning.
Tunnell who was running
seventh at the time had no where
to go and T-boned Woodward's
car in the corner, causing massive damage to both cars and
bringing out the red flag. The
wreck also generated some fmger pointing and unhappy words
between the Woodward team
and the Sumn~r team after the
race which required police intervention to quell.
Although the the lap 68 caution tightened the field back up,
no· one could knock Hale,
Blevins and Gobble out of the
top three positions.
"We'Vf- had some terrible
luck on different stuff this year
but last week and this week
we've got our ducks in a row,"
Hale said from victory lane.
"The car was real good tonight.
we've got to make a couple of
adjustments and we'll be even
better I believe."
Gobble also started 7th in the
Mod 4 race due to points but came
back to win. He probably passed
more cars for position Saturday
night than any other driver.
"We haven't iun every race
this year in either class and had
to start in the back in both cars,"
Gobble said. "I knew it was
going hurt us worse in these
Late Models because these cars
are so equal. You can be a little
faster than the man in front of
you and you just can' t do anything with him.
"Our's wasn' t perfect tonight
and we missed the setup a little
bit.. ..but it was a pretty good run.
It was better than fourth I guess."
Sumner finished fourth
ahead of Shell in fifth. Owens
was sixth ahead of Housewright
who salvaged a 7th place finish.
Roger Neece grabbed the
lead at the start of the 35-lap
Street Stock feature and from
that point was never heard from
again. The race went caution
free and by the time Neece took
the checkered flag he was a half
lap ahead of second place.
Second place was where the
main battle of the race occurred
as Josh Hale made a move to the
inside of Chris Tunnell to take
the runner up position on lap 14.
The two cars drove sicle by side
for the next 19 laps, but fmally
Hale prevailed and went on to
finish second.
'That was just as fun as it was
last week, but I just couldn't hold
him off this week," said Tunnell
who won last week's race in a
tough battle with Neece. 'The
car is getting better and I think I
figure out something I need to do
to it this week that will help it."
Tony Vance nearly got by
Tunnell on the last lap but fin~
ished fourth ahead of Rob
Austin in fifth.
In the 30 lap Mod 4 race
Gobble had worked his way up to
second place by the time the caution flag flew on lap 15. On the
restart he passed Jody Bostic for
the lead and held on for his fourth
win of the season. Points leader
Freddie Taylor Jr. finished second
ahead of Brad Ball who recovered from an early spin, Bostic
and Hershell Robinette in flfth.
Carl Lawson returned to victory lane in the Pure 4 division,
but not by much as Stacey
Castle made move to the inside
as he crossed the finish line and
nearly took the wm away.
Linton Perry came from the
back of the 22 car field as last
week's winner to finish third
right' on Lawson's back bumper
while Buddy Hurley and Jeff
Bobo rounded out the top-5.
Hunter Castle made it two in
a row in the hornets division,
holding off a tough charge from
fellow second generation driver
Caleb Roarke in a close battle.
Justin Norris ran a strong third
ahead of Brandon Osborne and
Jon Clark in fifth.
In a wild Ladies Pure 4 race,
Wanda Phillips earned her fourth
win of the season ahead of Sarah
Looney and Pam Yates in third.
The race saw two extended caution periods as Carla Oakley and
Brittany Tunnell crashed on the
back stretch and later Yates and
Anna Lester made contact heading into tum three, sending
Lester hard into the inside wall.
Travis Watson drove off to
his 12 consecutive, and possibly
easiest win of the season in the
Legends division. Distantly
rounding out ·the top five were
Steve Mitchell, Jay Young, Greg
Turner and Clyde Stanton.
Little Cheercats 4th
Annual Football
Cheer Clinic scheduled
The Little Cheercats 4th
Annual Football Cheer Clinic,
sponsored by the Prestonsburg
High School varsity cheerleaders is scheduled for Saturday,
Aug. 20 at the PHS gym. ~e
clinic, for cheerleaders m
preschool through fifth grade,
will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cost of the camp is $25 per
individual signup and $20 each
when two or more in the same
family or group sign up. Those
signing up by Aug. 15 will
receive aT-shirt.
For more information or to
preregister,
contact Leslie
Ousley at 874-0317, Janice
Hatnilton at 478-2139 or Cindy
Porter at 886-1642. Forms can
also be picked up at Prestonsburg
Elementary or Allen Elementary.
�88 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
NFL: Law joins Jets, Westbrook back with Eagles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
next season -possibly missing out
on a big payday.
Ty Law found a new home
Eagles teammate Terrell
while Brian Westbrook returned Owens was sidelined after reinto his NFL team Monday.
juring his groin Sunday, an
Law landed with the New injury initially sustained last
York Jets, agreeing to a multi- Thursday. The All-Pro receiver
year deal that could be worth as also is unhappy with his conmuch as $28.5 million for the tract, a seven-year, $49 million
frrst three years. The cornerback deal, but has been at training
who was released by the Patriots camp since the team reported
- he has three Super Bowl rings late in July.
- took a physical and worked
"It felt good yesterday," Reid
out for the team Monday.
said of Owens' injury. ''Toward
The 31-year-old Law is the end it started to get a little
intent on showing the Jets and tight on him in the second practhe league he is completely tice. It's the same as it was the
healed from a serious foot injury day before. We got to go back to
that kept him out of the Super the drawing board here, see how
Bowl in February.
he does today, and then within
"I think I have something to the next couple days we will see
prove all the time anyway, that's how he's feeling."
just my mind-set. It's how I
Philadelphia also ·placed
approach the game," Law said. ''I receiver Todd Pinkston on
can hold my head up high and injured reserve with a torn
say I've had a pretty good career Achilles' tendon. Pinkston was
thus far, and I'm going to contin~ hurt Friday while running a
ue that. I have a lot left to give.
route. He caught 36 passes for
"I'm going to prove to all the 676 yards and one touchdown
doubters, if there are any out last season as the team's third
there, that I'm still the best cor- option behind Terrell Owens
nerback in football."
and Westbrook.
Westbrook is one of the best
The Eagles will retire Reggie
all-around running backs in the White's No. 92 during a ceregame, but he had little bargain- mony Dec. 5, team owner
ing leverage with the Eagles. Jeffrey Lurie said. The two-time
The fourth-year pro last season NFL Defensive Player of the
led all NFL running backs with Year and an ordained minister
73 catches for 703 yards and six known as the "Minister of
touchdowns, while adding 812 Defense" died of a heart attack
yards and three scores on the on Dec. 26, 2004, exactly one
ground. He had been holding out week after his 43rd birthday.
for a long-term contract after
"It's something that the last
signing a one-year restricted free conversation I had with Reggie, I
said to him, ·I really want to do
agent offer for $1.43 million.
"I did have a visit with him that in Philadelphia. I want to do
and it went well," Eagles coach it on a Monday Night Football
Andy Reid said after practice. game, so the whole country can
"We mainly talked about foot- watch it,"' Lurie said. "And that's
ball. He was anxious to get back exactly what we're going to do."
out here and get himself going
Steelers - Steelers running
and playing and catching up on back Duce Staley underwent
the things that he missed. But he surgery to repair a lateral menisdid a good job today."
cus tear in his right knee.
Westbrook had little choice but
Pittsburgh
coach
Bill
to report for camp by Monday. He Cowher expects him to miss a
risked forfeiting a year of service month, but isn' t worried about
if he stayed out any longer. Then Staley's health in the long run.
"He felt good about what
he would have been unable to
become an unrestricted free agent took place when he came out,"
Cowher said. "We're hopeful to
have him by the opening of the
season."
Staley practiced only once
with the team before fluid built
up in his knee. He rested three
days and tried to practice
Saturday, but didn't feel comfortable and decided to have it
examined. An MRI exam
Sunday revealed the tear.
Jets- New York released Ray
Mickens to make room for Law.
Mickens was listed as the starter
during the f1TSt week of camp.
The team also let go of safety Derek Pagel, guard Dave
Yovanovits, running back
Delvin Joyce and cornerback
Roosevelt Williams.
Mickens, who played nine
seasons for the Jets a,nd was a
fan favorite, missed last year
with a tom knee ligament bu{
looked good in camp. He started
14 games in 2003 when
Abraham was injured and had
been a key part of the Jets' nickel package.
Ravens - First-round draft
pick Mark Clayton practiced for
the frrst time after ending his
five-day holdout. Clayton had
been criticized by coach Brian
Billick last week, bu,t the wide
receiver from Oklahoma said he
"didn't hear much of it."
"I was out in the back yard
catching balls," Clayton said.
An irate Billick said Friday
that Clayton's holdout was hurt~
ing the team. Clayton missed
the f1TSt week of training camp
before signing a five-year, $8.2
million contract Saturday.
Star running back Jamal
Lewis reported to the team hotel
Monday, took a physical and
was scheduled. for sideline
work. Billick expects him to
fully participate in a padded
practice Wednesday. Last week,
Lewis completed a legal
odyssey that consisted of a fourmonth stay in a Georgia prison
and two months in a halfway
bouse after a federal drug conspiracy conviction.
Vlkings - Minnesota reached
a contract agreement with hold-
Rondo
• Continued from p5
we did in the f1TSt half. Maybe
because of my defensive ability. Games in Frisco, Texas.
Jumping out to a quick start, even a little bit more. We came
That's what I do at the
University of Kentucky so I just the young Americans led wire- out strong. You can say that this
try to · bring it here. Pressure to-wire after Withers took a was pretty much a statement
their point guards as much as I Justin Gray (Wake Forest I game."
In addition to Withers' 19
can, get as many steals as I can." Charlotte, N.C.) pass inside for
"I thought it was really the game's first basket at 9:28. points, the U.S. received 18
improved play," said USA and China got on the board at 8:29 from Gay, Taj Gray (Oklahoma
Saint Joseph's University (Pa.) with a Qingpeng Zhang 3-point- /Wichita, Kan.) and Ray scored
head coach Phil Martelli. " In er, but by 7:44 the United States 14 points apiece, Rondo scored
particular I thought our point owned a 10-3 advantage. 11 and J .J. Redick (Duke I
guards did a terrific job. Following a Chinese field goal at Roanoke, Va.) tossed in 10.
Marcus (Williams) had eight 6:11, the United States went off With the exception of Marcus
assists, Rajon had six, we got on a 9-0 run to open it up 19-5 Williams (Connecticut I Los
multiple steals from that posi- with 3:41 still to play in the first Angeles, Calif.), every player
tion. they really got us into period. By the end of 10 minutes scored no less than five points
each. However, Williams had
some things. The sharing of the the USA's lead was 23-11.
Justin Gray and Rudy Gay his hand in at least 16 points
ball is always good to see, especially when you have guys who (Connecticut I Baltimore, Md.) after passing off for a gameare, quote-unquote, all-star type hit back-to-back threes to open high eight assists, while also
of players. I was pleased over- the second quarter and spark a being credited for three steals.
. China's Zhang scored a
all. It wasn' t a competitive situ- 14-0 run that saw the U.S.
ation athletically or talent-wise. advantage balloon to 37- 11 team-best 15 points in 38 minBut certainly the idea that the with 6:02 before halftime. By utes of action, while Yi Liu and
ball was moved and there was the time the midway buzzer Ke Hu contributed 12 and 10
situation recognition, I thought sounded, the game was well in points, respectively.
The U.S. outrebounded
hand, 52~ 19. At the end of three
all of that was positive for us."
China
41-26, thanks in part to
periods
the
USA
was
ahead
82The U.S. continues play on
Aug. 7 against Lithuania (1~0), 36 and continued to pad its lead eight boards apiece from Glen
Davis (Louisiana State I Baton
which beat Puerto Rico (0-1) through the end of the contest.
"We didn't want to come out Rouge, La.), Nick Fazekas
this evening 97-81. The game,
slated to tip-off at 2:30 EDT, in the second half after being (Nevada I Arvada, Colo.) · and
will be a rematch for the two up by so much and then let the Withers. Forcing 32 Chinese
U2 1 national teams after the . game slip away," said Allan turnovers, while only coughing
United States eked opt a 91-86 . Ray (Villanova I Bronx, N.Y.). the ball up 15 ti.tnes, the United
victory over Lithuania last "We came out with the same States had a total of 21 steals and
Friday night at the 2005 Global intensity in the second half as . also passed off for 22 assistS.
Legends 10, Suns 4
SPECIAL TO THE nES
LEXINGTON
The
Lexing ton Legends defeated
Hagerstown 10-4 in a Monday
night shootout. The Legends
scored five runs in the flfSt
inning overcoming an early 2run deficit to post their second
straight win.
Lexington improves to 6548 on the season and to 23-20
in the second half. The Legends
now lead the season series with
the Suns at 9-8.
Hagerstown greeted Ronnie
Martinez rudely. Carlos Gomez
belted the first pitch of the
game over the left field wall for
a solo home run. One batter
later, A mbiorix Concepcion
smacked a solo shot to left cen1Lerfield to make it 2-0.
Ronni -,1, ··t!nc7 cnmcd "
wm aftc1 !>0tlJ.mg down. Martinc.t.
(9-3) worked six innings allowing three on three hits.
The Legends stormed back
with five in the bottom half of
the frrst inning. Bryan Triplett
doubled in Edwin Maysonet
who led off with a walk. A single by Justin Humphries and a
walk to Beau Torbert loaded
the bases. Mitch Einertson and
J.R. Towles were each hit by a
pitch forcing in two runs.
Russ Triplett's error on
Frankie Caraballo's grounder let
Lou Santangelo cross the plate.
Clint McGill singled in Finertson.
Lexington added two more in the
· third inning on Caraballo's 21st
home run of the year.
The Suns added an unearned
run in the fifth inning on Corey
Coles' single. The Legends got
it back in the sixth inning o.n ,!p .,
L~;>. H J~ Lv ll au u~ , , " ' ··
.t
11"" '
111
the eighth inning to close out
the scoring.
Clint McGill had a career
high three hits. Towles' tied a
league record after being hit by
a pitch three times. Towles also
homered and doubled. Justin
Humphries had a single in his
frrst game back off of the disabled list.
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..... liNt
Sobieski had missed all of trainout rookie defensive end Crennel said.
McCutcheon has been seeing ing camp with a back injury.
Erasmus James, a first-round
Redskins - Sean Taylor
a specialist to determine the
draft pick from Wisconsin.
of
his
migraine remained with the secondJames was on his way to cause
Minnesota on Monday evening. headaches. The six-year veteran stringers during Monday's pracThe 18th overall selection, has been receiving massage .tice despite a strong perforJames was expected to be on the therapy and Crennel said mance in Saturday' s scrimmage ltW
field for practice Thesday after McCutcheon will soon undergo against Baltimore. Pierson
Prioleau continued to work with
missing the frrst 10 days of new treatments.
training camp.
Saints - Wide receiver Az- the starters, with Taylor playing
"He's excited, and he's ready Zahir Hakim's hamstring injury backup because of his absence
to go," said Vance Malinovic, is not considered serious, but from the offseason training proone of James' agents.
the eight-year · veteran missed gram.
Also,
defensive
tackle
James will receive a five- practice Monday. He was hurt in
Cornelius Griffin (shoulder) and
year package, Malinovic said, a scrimmage Saturday night.
declining to reveal specific
Coach Jim Haslett said could cornerback Walt Harris (quad)
financial terms. The two sides be sidelined for a week or so. returned to practice after misswere working hard to finalize Hakim is expected to miss the ing several days with injuries.
Giants - New York waived
particulars of the deal Monday preseason opener against Seattle
night so James could participate on Friday.
cornerback Ahmad Treaudo, a
in Tuesday's practice.
Seahawks - Seattle released rookie free agent from Southern
Patriots - New England outside linebacker Solomon University, and re-signed rookie
signed tight end Matt Brandt Bates. Bates was a fourth-round cornerback Michael Bragg from
and waived tight end Andy pick out of Arizona State in Texas A&M-Kingsville, who
Stokes.
2003, and played in 10 games had been waived on July 29.
The 6-foot-4, 257 -pound with three starts last season.
Bengals - Adam Kieft, the
Stokes was the final player taken
Titans - Defensive end Cincinnati Bengals' fifth-round
in the 2005 draft after a four- Travis LaBoy returned to prac- draft pick, tore ligaments in his
year career at William Penn tice after missing minicamps left knee and may miss the seawhere he caught 104 passes for and the f1TSt eight days of train- son.
1,578 yards and 10 touchdowns. ing camp recovering from
Kieft. a tackle from Central
Brandt was originally signed surgery to repair a sports hernia. Michigan, was injured Saturday in
by the Detroit Lions as an
The Titans' top draft pick in a mock game at the Bengals' trainundrafted free agent in April 2004 and the 42nd pick overall, ing camp at Georgetown College
2004. The 6;joot-5, 248-pound LaBoy was removed from the in Kentucky. He had signed a
· Miami of Ohio player was physically unable to perform list three-year deal on July 20.
before Monday morning's pracreleas~ by Detroit in August
Also, the Bengals waived line2004. He had 76 receptions for tice.
backer Allen Augustin, a first- ~
Coach Jeff Fisher said year player from Florida State and
916 yards and nine touchdowns
LaBoy will be limited to one signed Derek Curry, a linebacker
during his college career.
Browns - Offensive lineman session per day over the next out of. Notre Dame whom the
Dolphins waived last week.
Marcus Spears, an 11-year vet- week.
Linebacker
Chargers
eran who signed as a free agent
Bills - The Buffalo Bills'
during the offseason, was offensive line lost some depth Donnie Edwards sprained his
'when coach Mike Mularkey right ankle and may miss San
released.
that
reserves Diego's preseason opener at
Spears had the longest NFL · announced
teimre · of any Cleveland offen- Lawrence Smith and Ben Green Bay on Thursday night.
sive· lineman. A second-round Sobieski. will likely miss the · Coach Marty Schottenheimer
thinks Edwards will be OK.
pick of ·the Bears in 1994, he season.with injuries.
"He's plastic, man. He bends
Smith, a backup guard,
played in alll6 games and made
doesn't
break,"
three starts last season with the injured his knee Friday and was but
carted off the field during Schottenheimer said. "Donnie
Texans.
·H~ alSo played for Kansas Buffalo's practice at Green Bay. will play Thursday. It' s on
City, sta'rting 16 games in 2001. Without disclosing the nature of national TV."
~
Outside linebacker Shawne
Also, cornerback Dayton the injury, Mularkey said that
McCutcheon, who has yet to Smith is getting a second opin- Merriman, the Chargers' top
practice ·during training camp ion but he doesn't expect the draft pick, tweaked a hamstring
on Saturday and Schottenheimer
because of headaches, has also player back this season.
Sobieski is out after being said he'll be listed as questionbeen bothered by dizziness,
coach
Romeo placed on injured reserve. able or doubtfuL
Cleveland
DUsty Bonner wins ·Co-Offensive
Player of the Year
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The United Indoor Football
League has announced the f1TSt
annual league awards for the
. 2005 . season. The Lexington
Horsemen lead the league with
four players on the First Team
All-UIF. Quarterback Dusty
Bonner, receiver Chad Spencer,
safety Anthony "Champ" Kelly
and cornerback William Mulder
were the four Horsemen that
received the honors.
Dusty Bonner was also
named Co-Offensive Player of
Year along with Sioux City 's
running back Fred Jackson.
Bonner led the UIF quarterbacks in nearly every statistical
category for the 2005 season.
He ranked first in passing yards
per game (170.2), total offensive yards per gam.e (174.9),
total season passing yards
(2,724), completions (257) and
touchdown passes (65). Dusty
also set a personal record this
year with a career long 38 yard
touchdown run. Bonner has
been the backbone of the
Horsemen as he has been the
starting quarterback in all three
season of the franchises history.
Wide Receiver Chad Spencer
missed five games during the
regular season, but was still
named to the first team AllStars. When in the line-up Chad
dominated the leagues top
-receiving corps with 58 catches
for 635 yards and 23 touchdowns. Spencer also led the UIF
in receiving yards per game
with 65.5.
Anthony "Champ" Kelly has
received three player of the
week awards during the UIF
season and has now added the
first team All-Star to that list.
"Champ" led the Horsemen and
tide for the league lead in interceptions during the regular season with 10 and he returned two
MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Today's Games
St. Louis (Suppan 10-8) at Milwaukee (Sheets 8-7), 2:05p.m.
Cincinnati (Milton 5-12) at Chicago Cubs (Hill 0-1), 2:20p.m.
Arizona (Halsey 8-7) at Florida (Vargas 2-0), 7:05p.m.
San Francisco (Schmidt 8-6) at Atlanta (Davies 6-3), 7:35p.m.
Wasbingtoo (L.Hemandez 134) at Hoostoo (Rodriguez 6-5), 8:05pm.
Pittsburgh (Redman 5-12) at Colorado (Cook 0-1), 9:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Benson 7-4) at S. Diego (Lawrence 6-11), 10:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Myers 10-5)atL.A Dodgers(Lowe8-11),10:10pm.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Today's Games
QOCago White Sox (Garcia 11-5) at N.Y. Yankees(Smai13-0), 1:05pm.
Texas (Wllson 0-4) at Boston (Arroyo 9-7), 7:05p.m.
Tampa Bay (Fossum 6-8) at Baltimore (Lopez 10-6), 7:05 p.m.
Detroit (Robertson 5-10) at Toronto (Chacin 11-6), 7:07 p.m.
Cleveland (Sabathia 7-9) at Kansas City (Greinke 3-13), 8:10p.m.
Minnesota (Radke 7-10) at Seattle (Pineiro 4-7), 10:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 6-5) at Oakland (Zito 11-8), 10:05 p.m.
of those. interceptions for touchdowns. Kelly was also the team
leader in total tackles accounting for 79.5.
William Mulder was named
to the first team All-Star as cornerback, but was also named as
a second team All-Star for his
kick returning. Mulder was second on the Horsemen and third
in the league with nine intercep- "'
tions on the season. He also led
the Horsemen with 17 pass
break-ups on the year. Mulder' s
special te ams play was exactly
that " special" leading the
Horsemen in kick-off return
yards (947) during the season.
He also returned three kicks for
touchdowns, one of which was a
franchise record 57 yards.
Louisville 7,
Indianapolis 5
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Jose Leon went
3-for-4 with a double and two RBis
to lead the Louisville Bats to a 7-5
win over Indianapolis on Monday
night in the International League.
Leon's big night came a week
after he was released by the
Pittsburgh Pirates, the Indians' parent
organization.
Dane Sardinha went 1-for-4 with
two RBis for Louisville, which won ~
despite getting outhit 16-12.
The Bats jumped to a 6-0 lead in
the f1TSt two innings. Jeff Bannon
homered and Sardinha had a two-run
double during the opening spurt.
Chris Denorfia homered in the
fourth to put the Bats up 7-0.
J.J. Furmaniak and Graham
Koonce hit homers in the late innings
for Indianapolis.
Indians starter Neal McDade (0-2)
lasted only one inning and took the
loss, giving up six runs on seven hits.
Louisville starter Justin Germano
(l-1) earned the win, allowing a run
on 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings of work. r')
Allan Simpson pitched a scoreless
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· '"' I'
�,jllednesday, August 10, 2
Features Editor
Kathy Prater
Phone: (606) 886-8506
Fax: (606) 886-3603
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SCHOOLNEWS
Allen CMS • page C2
Clark Elem. • page C2
Duff Elem. • page C2
INSIDE Uff
YES1ERDAYS
(Items taken from The Floyd County Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.) page C2
Birthdays • page C3
Weddings • page C3
Health • page C3
"The li§I source for local and regional society news"
Jenny Wiley theatre Schedule Change
POISON OAK
You gotta
Jenny Wiley Theatre at).nounces a
schedule change for Friday, August
12. The previously planned performance of Jesus Christ Superstar will
not be shown that evening. Instead,
Steel Magnolias will be presented.
According to Managing Director,
Martin Childers, the overwhelming
demand for Steel Magnolias,
prompted us to add an additional
ove Van Lear
Last weekend, the good ole days of
Van Lear were relived once again as
folks from far and near crowded into
the little town to celebrate and remember its historic past.
While I was probably half grown
before I ever
set foot inside
the
little
town, I have a
feeling that
folks
who
grew up there
were pretty
much
like
folks
who
grew up in
M u d d y
Branc,h. After
all, a coal
Clyde Pack
miner's kid
was a coal
miner's kid, regardless of what name
was tacked over the post office door.
Anyway, to help them celebrate I
felt it appropriate for my column this
week to tell a Van Lear story. I could
relate the Jim Kelly dog story that he
•old me a while back; or, try to
remember some of the ones Bob
Daniels told me when we taught
together. But in both cases, I don't
think I could come close to telling
either of them as well as they did
when they told them to me, so I guess
I'd better not risk it.
Then there's the one that Ronnie
Blair told me. It was abou ah incident
t!Ui.t'oc<te~ '"artli'e ·otd \'anuar
Bridge (which was torn down a few
years ago and replaced by a new one.)
For those unfamiliar with the legendary structure (the bridge, not
lair), it sat about 100 yards from
where Jim and Ann Tramel's book
store is now, and was about 100 yards
long. It formed a huge arch across the
Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River,
and connected Van Lear and West Van
Lear. Unfortunately, it afforded onelane traffic only.
(See OAK, page three)
How about one last Hoorah before
school starts? Disney's Beauty and
The Beast at JWT (runs through
August 20) is a great way to celebrate
any evening. Tickets are still available
and the weather has been beautiful.
Take your family on one last
Imagination Vacation at Jenny Wtley
Theatre!
Here's what people are saying
about JWT's production of
Disney's Beauty and The Beast
I wouldn't have missed it for the
world, and I would drive from
Lexington to do it a_gain!
This place and show blew me away.
It was amazing!
Great experience for kids and adults!
Beautiful Costumes!
Tickets- are $21 Adults, $19 Seniors,
and $13 Youth
For reservations call
1-877-CALL-JWT
wwwjwtheatre.com
*Jenny Wiley Theatre is a non-profit
organization and receive.v funding from
i11dividuals, corporatiOfiS, Presto11sburg
Conve11tio11 and Visitors Bureau, Pai11tsville
Tourism, the Kentucky Arts Council, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and the
Kentucky Deparhnent of Travel.
The cast of Steel Magnolias.
photo by Kathy J. Prater
..
photo by Kathy J. Prater
A shy raccoon gazes timidly over the top of a fallen
log as Mitchell's camera catches the moment. The
scene is handsomely enhanced by the natural
photo by Kathy J. Prater
Mitchell, a rugged outdoorsman, enjoys capturing the natural beauty of Kentucky's landscape and beauty of the artist's hand crafted frame.
wildlife. An exhibit of his work is currently on display in the Mountain Art Center's lobby.
Kenny Mitchell photographic exhibit on display throughout
the month of August, in Mountain Arts Center lobby
FEATURES EDITOR
Wonderful!
Show Sponsored by Highlands
Regional Medical Center and First
Commonwealth Bank
A snow-capped songbird perched atop the branch
of a small tree is one example of the world seen
through Mitchell's eyes .
by Kathy J. Prater
Belle and Maurice share a sweet
moment on the JWT stage In
Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
performance to handle the overflow
audiences. "No other. dates will
change and there are still several
more opportunities for folks to see
Jesus Christ Superstar," Childers
said. "We invite everyone to come
and see all the shows before the season ends on Saturday, August 20th."
For Tickets call 1-877-CALL-JWT
or go online at www.jwthcatrc.com
Soft-spoken and humble, Kenny
Joe Mitchell is happy to share the
story of how he came to be a wildlife
photographer. Having worked for 15
years as a mining electrician repairman, Mitchell suffered an on-the-job
injury that forced him to stay at home
and into months of physical therapy.
Finding himself with time on his
hands, Mitchell says that he purchased his fust 35-millimeter camera
from a local pawn shop, with intentions of taking up a new hobby with
which to fill his days.
This new "hobby" soon evolved
into the creation of a talented wildlife
and nature photographer as Mitchell
took to the hills and valleys he calls
home, documenting the beauty of that
he saw around him.
"I like being outside," Mitchell
said. "I guess it just seemed natural to
go outside with my camera."
As a young boy, Mitchell spent
many hours with his father and brother in the outdoors, hunting, fishing
and camping. Like many other eastern Kentucky men, hunting was much
more than just a sport for the Mitchell
men, it was also an integral part of
their heritage and lifestyle. Kenny,
however, is quick to point out that he
has taken "many more shots" at
wildlife with his camera than he has
with his hunting gear.
A viewing of Kenny Mitchell photography will find one gazing at a
wide spectrum of scenes ranging from
"grinning" pigs to shy raccoons, to
majestic mountains, Lexington horsefarms, diminutive songbirds and,
even, the shadowed figure of Jesus
Christ shaded by the muted tones of
an evening sunset.
"It's all been trial and error," the
photographer said. "And more error
than anything else. But some of the
things I' ve tried for have turned out
just the way I wanted. This is something I truly enjoy," he said.
· In viewing a photo of a native bobcat, displayed in a beautiful hardwood
frame - another Mitchell creation - 1
asked Mitchell how close he actually
had to get to the woodland creature in
order to capture the shot. "Too
close,·· he replied, as evidenced by the
look in the wildcat's eye.
Mitchell explains that once he
began to sec his finished artwork, he
realized that the beauty of the photographs would be best enhanced by
natural, mstic wood frames. !'Most of
the photos are of the outdoors and it
came to me that they would look best
in natural wood frames. So, I started
making my own frames .. .it takes a lot
of time, I have a little shop that I work
in, but I think it adds the touch that
I'm looking for."
Mitchell says he finds much of the
wood for his frames in the local area,
such as in old, abandoned barns, making them unique and adding to the
outdoor beauty of each photo. "They
accentuate the outdoor feel of the pictures," the artist says.
Mitchell, who has only taken up
the art of photography in the past five
years or so, is already becoming a
well known name in local circles, and
beyond. Currently, his work is on display in both the lobbies of the
(See MAC, page three)
CRITTER CORNER
Scratching Posts Part II
by Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
Last week we discussed problems cat
owners encounter due to their cats'
scratching activities. The majority of cats
can be taught to use acceptable objects for
scratching and as objects of play- notice
I did not say this is always easy, just that
it's often possible! There are always a few
determined felines, however, who will
continue to shred draperies and furniture,
and/or will persist in attacking people.
Keeping cats' nails trimmed is one way
to reduce the amount of damage done, and
it will help with loosening old claw
sheaths, which is one of the reasons cats
scratch objects to begin with. Nail trimming is relatively simple in cats, because
the claws are always translucent white,
making it easy to see the blood supply and
the nerve, which runs in the same area at
the base of each claw. Your vet can show
you how to do this, including restraint
techniques and the proper equipment.
Rewarding the cat with a small bite of a
tasty treat, such as tuna, after each paw or
even after each nail may change his attitude toward the whole procedure.
Another option is use of a product
called Soft Paws®, available through
many veterinarians. These are flexible
plastic nail caps that are adhered to the
eat's claws with a medical-grade super
glue. Many cats tolerate them surprisingly well, especially after the initial period
of adjustment. They usually stay in place
for several weeks, and fall off as the nail
grows out. They are made of an inert__
material and are harmless if swallowed by
the cat. Call your vet to see if he or she
(Sec CRITTER, page three)
This is "Lucy."
Lucy is a Calico
owned by Seth
Jones, of Printer.
Seth, 13, attends
South Floyd Middle
School and says
that Lucy is a pampered kitty who
stays Indoors all
the time. Also, he
shares, Lucy's
favorite doctor Is
Dr. Carol CombsMorris, her veterinarian. Lucky
kitty-cat!
�C2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Schoo( Cafendar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• Adams Middle School
Youth Services Center is open
each weekday from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. The center offers services
to all families regardless of
income. For more information
about any of the activities or
services of the center, please
contact the center at 886-1297.
The center is now located in
the 7th grade wing of the
school. Center Coordinator Michelle Keathley; Assistant Sheila Allen.
Allen Central Middle School
• Aug. 15 - Advisory
Council meeting, 8:15 a.m.
Meeting open to public.
• If your child has left any
article of clothing at school,
please contact the Youth Service
Center office.
• The ACMS Youth Service
Center is open each day from
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., or later
by appointment. For more
information about the center,
call LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 358-0134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service
Center
•
Call Allen Elementary
Youth Service Center at 874-0621
to schedule your child's Hepatitis
B .vaccination, immunizations,
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and WIC appointments.
kindergarten, Head Start and
well-child physicals (age birth
Betsy Layne Elementary
to 18 years); T.B. skin test; T.D.
•
The Betsy Layne boosters; and WIC services.
Elementary Family Resource Please call 358-9878 for
Youth Service Center is located appointment if you are in need
in the 500 building of the cam- of any of these services.
pus. The goal of the FRYSC is
• The J.A. Duff Elementary
to meet the needs of all children Family Resource Center proand their families who reside in · vides services for all families
the community or neighborhood regardless of income. We are
by the school in which the cen- located in the tan metal building
ter is located. For further infor- at the rear of the school. Contact
mation, please contact the cen- persons are Judy Handshoe,
ter at 478-5550 or 478-9751, coordinator, and Ruby Bailey,
ext. 310.
assistant.
• Brian H. Akers, Center
May Valley Elementary
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra
• Parent Lending Library is
Hayes, School Nurse.
available to parents for video
check-outs. A variety of topics
are available.
Clark Elementary
• A nurse from the Floyd
• Floyd County 'Health
County Health Dept. is in the Dept. nurse at school every
center weekly and sees WIC Wednesday. Services include
patients, does well-child exams Head Start physicals, kinder(birth-18 years), and gives garten physicals, 6th grade
immunizations.
physicals, well-child physicals,
• The Clark Elementary immunizations, TB skin test,
Family Resource Center pro- WIC program, blood pressure
vides services for all families checks, and more. Must call the
regardless of income. We are FRC at 285-0321 for an
located in the Adams Middle appointment.
School building.
Duff Elementary
McDowell Elementary and
Family Resource Center
• Floyd County Health
Dept. is at the school each
Tuesday. Services include 6th
grade school entry physical;
•
Floyd County Health
Department Nurse Joy Moore, is
at the center each Monday to
administer immunizations, T.B.
skin tests, well-child exams, WIC,
prenatal and post-partum services,
and school physicals. Call 3772678 for an appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
Mountain
Christian
Academy is a non-denominational Christian school.
• . Now accepting applications for enrollment for
Kindergarten for the 2005-06
school year. Call 285-5141 for
more information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and
Family Resource Center
•
The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays 8
a.m.-4 p.m., and later by
appointment. Office provides
services for all families, regardless of income.
• After School Child Care,
3-6 p.m., school days.
• Call 886-7088 for additional information regarding the
Prestonsburg
Elementary
Family Resource Center or its
programs.
South Floyd Youth Services
Center
• School will be participating in the Food City "Apples for
Students" program, please save
your receipts.
• Committee sign-ups may
be done through the Youth
Services Center office.
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• Walking track open to
public.
• The center has a one-stop
career station satellite that is
available to the community as
well as students.
• Anyone interested in
Adult Ed may contact the center
for information.
• All'new students and visitors, stop by the Center, located
on the South Floyd campus,
Room 232, and see Mable Hall.
Open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon.
thru Fri.
• For more information call
452-9600 or 9607 and ask for
Mable Hall, ext. 243, or Keith
Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud
Creek Family Resource
Center
• FRC monthly Advisory
Council meetings will be held the
first' Wednesday of each month,
at 4 p.m. Call for more info.
• Lost & Found located in
Family Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Parents
and community members are
welcome to visit. For questions,
call 587-2233 - ask for Tristan
Parsons, C~nter Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Family Resource
Center
•
Lost
&
Found:
Throughout the school year, the
center receives items that are
left on school buses, in the gym,
classrooms, etc. We encourage
parents to visit the center if their
child has lost a coat, bookbag,
or any such item. Lost item~ W
checked for identification, however, if unable to locate owner,
and items are not claimed within 2 weeks, they then become
the property of the Family
Resource Center.
• The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays, 8 a.m.
to 4:30p.m., or later by appointment. The center provides services for all families within the
of
community,
regardless
income. If you would like more
information about programs/services the center offers, pleail>
call 452-4553; ask for Cissy or
Karen. The center is located
inside the main building at W.D.
Osborne Elementary. Parents
and· community members are
welcome to visit.
'
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Diiycare
and Infant!roddler Care accepts
infants and toddlers up to 2
years and Preschool age 4-4.
Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional infonn•
tion, call 874-8328. Summer
office hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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(Items taken from .
The Floyd County
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and
60 years ago.) lit
Ten Years Ago
August 9 and 11, 1995
It has been over a month since phase
one of the restoration project of the old
fire department started, yet construction
workers and Prestonsburg city employees
are feeling the effects of the job ...Ed L.
Allen, an Owensboro educator was
named interim superintendent of the
Floyd County School System Friday, during a special meeting of the board of edu- ,
cation...The Democrats and Republicans
are ready for November's general election, but it could tum into a pen and paper
race if the number of people who have
announced as write-in candidates actually
register for the fall ballot. ..In an effort to
safeguard again, innocent or dead persons
being targeted for criminal charges, the
Floyd County Solid Waste Commission
and Rumpke of Kentucky have refined
their methods for identifying delinquent
garbage customers ... A federal judge has
denied a request to reconsider the dismissal of a civil lawsuit filed in 1993,
against Douglas Harvey, a former
Wayland police officer and the Wayland
City Council..State highway department
officials to Pikeville expect to finalize an
investigation within the next week or ten
days into allegations that state workers,
materials and funds were used to pave
two private driveways in Floyd County. A
case against Rodney Blackburn, 36, of
Endicott, charged with stealing a car and
leading police on a chase, last week, was
referred to a Floyd County Grand
Jury... Steven R. Combs, 30, of Bulane, is
in satisfactory condition in a Lexington
hospital after being injuried, Wednesday
afternoon, in a wreck on KY 80, at
Martin, involving three tractor trailers ...During a discussion on the Floyd
County school system's annual financial
report, at Tuesday's board meeting,
Superintendent, Steve Towler noted that
there was a budget surplus of over
$400,000...Prestonsburg police are conducting an inv.estigation into a
Wednesday morning break-in at the child
Support Enforcement office. The office is
located in the Mountain Comprehensive
Care Center building on First Street in
Prestonsburg ...Clarence
Zeek,
22,
Timothy Stacy, 26, both of Kermit, West
Virginia, and Shannon Guest•. 18, of
Lovely, and Jerry Varney, 26, of Piketon,
Ohio, were injured, Thursday, in a wreck
off the intersection of U.S. 23 and Ky.
1428. The accident, involved a 1987
Chevy Van with the four passengers and
and dock improvements of the J~nny
Wiley boat dock on Dewey Lake ...The
eastern Kentucky coal boom which was
marked by unprecedented demand for the
fuel and astronomical prices has slumped
for the last 90 days and the market this
week was reported at its slowest in
months ... Gov. Julian Carroll has
announced that Floyd County has been
alloted $137,240 in county road aid
money for the current fiscal year... Slight
increase in the tax levy for the new fiscal
year were voted last week by the Floyd
Fiscal Court... Floyd County will receive
$483.200 in Community Development
Block Grant funds from the federal government.. .Approximately $1,800 worth
of whiskey and beer was recovered,
Wednesday night, by county and city law
enforcement officers from an abandoned
coal mine...Born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Ward, of Paintsvile, a daughter, Jamie
Michelle, at Pikeville Methodist
Hospital, August l...There died: Ronald
Glenn Collins, last Wednesday, two days
before his eighth birthday, victim of an
accidental gunshot wound; Belva G.
Quisenberry, 90, native of Prestonsburg,
last Wednesday, in Cuyahoga Falls, 0.;
Russell P. Ward, 58, of Albion, Mich.,
August 7, 1985
formerly of McDowell, August 2, in
Albion; :Elder Rose Hopkins, 57, Friday,
Eastern Kentucky will honor Ex- at his home at East McDowell; Merlin
Governor Bert T. Combs, Saturday. The Miller, 58, native of Calf Creek, in
day is intended to serve as a thank-you Jackson, 0 .
from the people of his native eastern
Kentucky... The City of Prestonsburg will
beef up night patrols as burglary increase
noted...A former outpatient therapist at
July IS, 1965
Mountain Comprehensive Cep-e Center
who was fued by the agency in May, has
Floyd County is the first in the nation
filed suit alleging that she was let go
to
complete its full year of basic adult
because she was thought to have coopereducation
work, and the achievement will
ated with state investigators ... There died:
James Edward "Eddie"' Spradlin, 75, of be marked at 4 p.m., Saturday, with a speBonanza, Sunday, at Highlands Regional cial Recognition Day program at
Medical Center; Carl Martin Nance, 78, Prestonsburg High School...One of severof Estill, Tuesday; Eugene Booth, 58, of al rocks which fell from the cliff borderHi Hat, Saturday, at his residence; Jessie ing U.S. 23 at Emma onto a passing auto,
J. Branham, 87, of Wheelwright, Saturday afternoon, struck and fatally
Saturday, July 27; Jake Meade, 64, of injured the six-month-old son of James
Abbott, July 31, at Highlands Regional Edward and Avalene Mullins Lee, of
Medical Center; Roosevelt Stanley, 84, of Pataskala, Ohio ...Thomas Arnett, 24, a
Prestonsburg, last Saturday, at Highlands native of the Risner section of the county,
Regional Medical Center; Seth Adkins was electrocuted, Sunday, while repairing
an electric water-heating system in a Van
Jr., 64, of Bypro, Monday, at his home.
Wert, Ohio, home ... J;he senate committee
on public works, Monday, approved two
eastern Kentucky reservoirs and channel
improvement of Right B~aver Creek at
Martin ...Miss Sharon Colhns, daughter of
August 6, 1975
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Collins, of
Bids have been asked by the Wheel wright, will represent Floyd
Department of Parks on Phase 1 of harbor County in the "Miss Kentucky Pageant,"
included the driver, Willie Little, 24, of
Topmost, of a coal truck owned by B & K
Trucking of Bevinsville. Both vehicles
were headed north on U.S. 23 ... There
died: Allie Inmon, 90, of Garrett, Friday,
August 4, at Highlands Regional Medical
Center; Kenis Martin, 88, of Teaberry,
Saturday, August 5, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Milford
Tackett, 73, of Marion, Ohio, Saturday,
August 5, at Medical Center Hospital,
Marion; Nellie Mae Jones Epling, 89, of
Gahanna, Ohio, formerly of Floyd
County, Thursday, August 3, at Grant
Medical Center, in Columbus, Ohio;
Firley Hamilton, 46, of Galveston,
Wednesday, August 9, at Hazard
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Nora
Slone, 78, of Wayland Thursday, August
1O, at McDowell Appalachian Regional
Hospital; Nancy Gibson Gregory, 55, of
Marion, Ohio, formerly of Wayland,
Monday, August 7, at Our Lady of the
Way Hospital, Martin; Lula Mae Huhn
Sirkle, 84, of Lexington, Monday, August
7, at her residence.
Twentv Years Ago
Fonv Years Auo
Thinv Years Ago
Saturday, in Louisville...Born: to Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Weddington, of Prestonsburg, a
son, Joe David, July 10, at the
Prestonsburg General Hospital; to Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Kestner, of Lexington,
a daughter, Sheri Lynn, June 27, at
Central
Baptist
Hospital,
Lexington...Married: Miss Hazel Greene,
of Prestonsburg, and Mr. Clarence H.
Crisp, of Martin, July 9, at Charlesto
West Virginia; Miss Elizabeth Ann Laws,
of Larkslane, and Mr. Julius Lynn Elkins,
of Hi Hat...There died: Hager May, 57, of
Bonanza, Wednesday, at the Prestonsburg
General Hospital; Forrest Akers, formerly of this county, June 27, at Fort
Benning, Georgia; Mrs. Etta Hagans, 56,
formerly of this county, Tuesday, at
Waverly, Ohio; Mrs. Grace Akers, 70, of
Betsy Layne, Friday, at the Methodist
Hospital, Pikeville; Sue Preston Ward,
82, last Thursday, at her home at Langley;
Mrs. Earsie Tackett Ferarn, 51, of Bypro,
Tuesday, at the Pi!<eville Appalachi.m
Regional Hospital; Mrs. Celia Baldridge
Hackworth, 83, formerly of the Abb9tt
Creek section, Sunday, at Walbridge,
Ohio; John Henry Young, 76, formerly of
Prestonsburg, Sunday, at his home -tin
Lexington after a brief illness; Jack
Branham, Sr., 75, July 9, at the Pikeville
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
:
FihV Years AUo
July 14, 1955
John Melvin Hall, 59, former
Prestonsburg restaurant owner, was found
dead, late Tuesday afternoon, victim of a
truck wreck on the Sizemore Branch Road
between
Minnie
and
Wayland...Prestonsburg's new attack on
its perplexing traffic problem may be
launched this week with the order making
Third Street one-way, traveling north, put
into effect...Except for the vacancy existing in Prestonsburg High School as a
result of the resignation of Ted Cook-as
football coach, the Floyd County Board
Educatipn, last week, completed the roster
of teachers for the schools of the county
system...Virgil Smith, of Allen, took fust
and second place in the fine-wool class,
and also emerged as the grand champion
of the Kentucky State Wool show at
Lexington, June 9 ...Married: Miss Edith
Irene Martin, of Garrett, and Mr. Reginald
Gene Rice, of Garrett, June 29, at the
Garrett Methodist Church... Bom: to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Evans, of Ashland, a son,
Danny Lee, May 31, at Ashland ...Th~re
(See YESTERDAYS, page thrl~
�WEDNESDAY AUGUST
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~-vesterdays
Oak
died: Frank P. Hall, 62, Saturday, at his
home at Weeksbury; Roy Perry, 60, of
~ Prestonsburg, Monday, at Prestonsburg
., )General Hospital; Clyde Monroe Hall, 13,
.. '-,of Allen, Tuesday, at St. Mary's Hospital,
~';'Huntington, W.Va.; Joe Roseman, 69, of
-,~Martin, Tuesday, at his home at Amba;
·~~,Albert Hall, 67, Monday, at his home at
::•Melvin; Fred C. Workman, 48, last
~Saturday, at his home at Allen; Robert
,··:Hugh Marshall, 77, of Iron Hill, Ky., for,:f.Ilerly of Floyd County, Saturday, at
. ,Ashland; Mrs. Elizabeth Jarvis Endicott,
vl;69, ofBuffalo Creek, June 30, at Endicott.
!J! J
-. '";...
U, 2UU!:» • (;J
Sixtv Years Ago
July 12, 1945
I>,
.,... Ninety-seven Democratic candidates
·~-:lor county office and 32 Republicans drew
.,Jor ballot position, here Tuesday... A
"o "truce" of two days has been affected jn
;:~the United Fuel Gas Company employees'
~~~trike here and elsewhere in the area as the
'.j·:w ar Labqr Board has promised a hearing
next week... One hundred two Floyd service men have been returned to civilian
~ife since May 1, it was announced this
,·, •week. At the same time 40 were notified
:·_:'to appear for induction, July 18...Married:
:.L ~iss Emma Francis Amburgy and Mr.
;;, ;william A. Rose, of Prestonsburg, July 3,
at Caruthersville, Missouri. ..Born: to Mr.
~ .and Mrs. Burr Rice here, July 10, a daugh, Aer, Sandra... There died: Rufus Moore, 37,
• Continued from p2
• Continued from p1
McDowell; Trimble Layne, 43, of Betsy
Layne, Saturday, at a Martin Hospital;
Mrs. R. V. Wohlford, 72, Sunday, at
Martin; Zeb Mollett, 78, of I vel, Friday, at
the Prestonsburg Hospital; Ed Vaughn, 68,
Wednesday, last week, at Dwale.
Consequently, for as long
as anyone around can remember, drivers approaching
either end of the rickety structure had the responsibility to
visually check to make sure
no other car corning from tpe
other direction had started
across the other side.
Apparently, it was pretty
much a first-come, first-serve
deal. If by chance, two cars
did end up on the bridge at the
same time, the driver who had
to back the shortest distance,
did so. Most of the time this
method worked.
Well, according to Blair,
one d-ay two cars, one driven
by a lady, met slap dab on top
of the bridge, and as might be
, ~d,
both
drivers
diumed the right-of-way and
refused to back off.
An argument ensued, with
more than a little yelling, but
nothing was resolved, and nei. ther agr~ to move. (I might
·-:..J'IIIi.it.~ ~t Blair knew both
\~ ftivolved; and named
names. However, since I'm
reporting this second hand, I
won't. But if you really want
to know, just ask him).
it just so hap-
·seventv Years Ago
July 12, 1935
All Kentucky Emergency Relief
Administration projects in this county
were suspended this week while the transition to the federal works progress
administration (WPA) was being made. A
cloudburst last Friday, flooded almost
every street in Prestonsburg, and a high·
wind interrupted electric service for sev.. ·
eral hours .. .Jake Stapleton was slightly
wounded by a revolver shot at Allen, the
afternoon of July 4 ... C. H. Nicholls, left
Monday, for Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina, the guest of an insurance co~v.·
pany which he represents ...J.C. Ward. has·
leased the Prestonsburg Dry Cleaning
Company Plant from D. S. Stephens ... Dr.
W. J. Hutchins, president of Berea
College will speak, Sunday
. at
at the
~~u.&W" "'~tul.tg in the shade
Club, AUen ...There died: Floyd Handel;
;pn· J~ir front porch. She
44, former Floyd County driller, at · walked over to the edge of the
Beattyville, June 28; Spencer Boyd, 87,
bridge and yelled to him,
..You planning on going anyFriday, at Wonder; Mrs. Jerry Tackett, 38,
where today?"
of McDowell, July 2, at a Martin hospital.
~,yeUed
of Allen, are pleased to
ge of their daughter, Rebekah
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger
aughter of Dewey and Madge
paternal granddaughter of
restonsburg. Her paternal
ie Garrett, of Banner, and
back he wasn't,
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l'~l~~"'P,..''~~·the
doors, walked
..,...""'"'""'E."'• and went to the
···critter
n of
Mrs. Minnie Akers, of
He is the paternal grandHunt ., of Printer.
&.
uses these, or can order them.
It's probably a good idea to
bring the cat in to the clinic for
the initial application, so you
can see how it is done.
• Depending on how cooperative
:. the cat is, you may return to the
office for replacements or ask
1t1 your vet to dispense glue and ·
extra caps for "touch-ups" at
='borne when needed. These are a
good alternative for use in a
young cat that will probably
i:r~oon grow out of the "crazy
" .t,!!-enage" stage, and they are also
:1'tlseful in cases where a playful
~·.~·cat is causing injury to the frag. :! ne skin of an elderly person in
·;'t he household. Soft Paws® are
_;;;available in a clear version,
i .which arc hardly noticeable, and
'.'"ln several colors for the fashion
':'~conscious! They are also avail-~'!able for dogs.
fji" Obviously, declawing surgery
.. '.i~ another possibility, and one
,that I consider as a last resort.
.':F-or the most part, I am very
· ·much opposed to this procedure,
~-~tiut I am enough of a realist to
- , accept 'that it may be the only
:-,a}ractical solution in some cases.
r};Declawing a cat involves the
., amputation of the last joint of
:.., each toe, usually on the front feet
:"!only; the equivalent of removing
; .. ·the tips of our fmgers at the joint
!yj1Jst below the nail. Although the
. _surgery 'i s performed under genn
eral anaesthesia, there is obviously going to be significant
post-surgical pain, especially
since the cat has to walk,on these
wounds. With the adveDl d new
pain control methods whlch are
dure has been done, so I can't
render much of an opinion. It
would make sense that this
would be a less U;awnati~ o~.
tion·t.Qan declawin&, but fl.&aitt.'4',•
j.ust. don't know fitmhand, •
Rsu~llguhlara.ventaoil btnmnue.
done.ngonwaoucladt
who has had a tenotomy, possiPrestonsburg Convention and
bly even more often, since he.
Visitors Bureau (Tourisin
can no longer extend the claws
office).
to perform any routine mainte.. Mitchell-is happy to accomnance on them himself.
~•.. •· .:~lljiUCiol"'specialrequests foroutThere is no one easy "quick
photsgraphy and wood
fix" for a cat who is causing
framing and may be reached by
damage and/or injury. with his
calling 377-2687 or by writing
claws. The good news is that
to: Mitchell Photography, P.O.
we hve many more options .
Box 272, McDowell, KY
available to us now to deal with
'41647.
'
the problem. My general advice .
·lrlis work: will remain on
is to frrst try to redirect lbe.$e .~ ~~~·~~Y in the Mountain Arts
natwal. activities
~c~~"-"-t;~
~out the
ster. It is a decision made in yom
eat's best interest. Of course, a
declawed cat should be kept
strictly indoors. Although many
declawed cats can still climb
trees using their hind nails for
traction, they have lost their primary means of defense.
Another surgical alternative
is tenotomy, which involves cutting the tendons that ~low the
cat to unsheathe its claws. I
have never performed this
surgery myself, nor have I ever
seen a cat on which the proce-
this solution time to work.
Routine nail trimming should
also be done. Nail caps would
be the next step, and these may ,.
be needed only temporarily.
The last resort would be surgery,
keeping in mind that this is irreversible; you must be committed to keeping this cat safe in
return for
d~fcmse.
.
ian about the
a-vail- ··
able, and then !l}.ake an informed
decision that is best for you,
your family, and yout cat.
13irthdays
., .. Turner graduates
b;with honors from
:." Transylvania
·:.
, ". Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
• ?rurncr, of Prestonsburg, are
'•[r
· proud to announce the gradua~~'tion of their son, Ryan, from
!1 ':}'ransy lvania
University.
. ;;.,Ryan received a Bachelor of'
,. Arts degree in English on May
"._28, 2005, magna cum laude.
~Graduating in the top ten per,...;cent of his class, Turner's aca:~~ ttemic honors include earning.
,-:the Henry Clay Award, indue~~; P,on to the Hollein Society,
,,_f}nd attaining the Dean 's Li st
· Tor all semesters bul one. H e
n;~ill continue his education
1
;~ this fall in law school.
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Foods
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fully
don't coexist
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safer bto thusel in eatsf, twthe surilgeryif
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the only alternative is the cat losing his home or his life. When I
had clients who had to make the
decision to declaw their cat, I
referred them to another veterinarian who I felt was more
skilled in the procedure and the
needed
post-surgical care.
Honestly, these cats seemed to do
well, and appeared to suffer very
few long-term negative effects.
If you have thought the matter
over carefully, and concluded
that this is the only
•
r
'
~-. Proactive
Health
a prescription for a longer,
more fulfilling life-but that
approach involves more than
diet and exercise.
Try these two tips:
.Know Your Numbers
People can use at-home
tests to monitor important
numbers such as cholesterol
levels, blood pressure and, for
diabetics, glucose levels. You
can get the tests at drugstores.
Just remember: They can't
substitute for doctor visits, but
the tests can help you stay on
top of health issues.
Be Prepared
Having emergency equip·
ment on hand could help save
a life. For instance, the Philips
HeartStart Home Defibrillator
is available at www.drugstore.com.
ln the event of a heart
attack, the easy-to-use device
can help keep a person's heart
beating until paramedics
arrive.
• Dave Krishna, R.Ph., is a
clinical pharmacist for the
drugstore .comTM
online
pharmacy. For other Ask Your
Pharmacist articles, visit
www.drugstore.com/ ayp.
Healthy Idea-At-home tests
can help people monitor their
health.
Barbara CarrOll ,and Frank Slone are proud to announce the
engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter,
Jamie Lelglt Ann Slone, to Donnie Stephens, the son of
Monroe and Sandra Stephens, of Bull Creek.
Jamie, a 2003 graduate of Prestonsburg High School, is currently eni'CIMed at Big Sandy Community and Technical
College.
Ia the - granddaughter of Charlie and Ruth
Nelson, of
, and Earnest Ray and the late Pauline Slone,
of Prestontlburg.
.
.
Donnie is employed with J.E. Allen Construction. He is the
grandson of Dalila and the late Green Stephens, of Bull Creek,
and Adam and Marie Arnett, of Roann, Indiana.
The couple will wed on Saturday, August 20, 2005, at two
o'clock in the afternoon, at the Dotson Pentecostal Church,
located on the Mountain Parkway, in Prestonsburg.
The gracious custom of an open church wedding will be
observed. A reception will immediately follow.
Fam y reunion?
Share your family nc;ws. [f your family is baring a rcun_ion, the
will publish a
pict re, along with
basic
information.
the twppy gather-
Stop jibe 'Dmes
Nick turns two!
office. locakli on 263
Sourh CcntaJ Avenue
(across from Ray
Howard Furniture), or
info. to PO Box
t'reSIOUSI)Ufl,
KY
�C4 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
'!\1o -Agriculture
·•'i'is -ATV's
:0120- Boats
'·1%>- Cars
'·nhb - ~x4's
'"1SO - Miscellaneous
:\trao - Motorcycles
i!i~fO - Parts
_1:.7.5- SUV's
"1'80 -Trucks
190- Vans
\tll::-"
.:AAo
· EMPLOVMENT
.
·~
;:.fi1f
trJhe FLOYD COUN,.'T;-Y TIMES does not
,}it;~ow/ngly accept
t.f~lse or misleading
"tidvertlsements .
:.'J.ds which request
" bt require advance
;'p8yment of fees for
"'~ervlces or prod·"Ucts should be
?.'Scrutinized careful-
•
•AUTOMOTIVE
1
130-Cars
It-o;'
~·;~leks Auto Sales
"' ·David Road
"'2001 GT
"'eonvertlble
~ MUstang automatic
h40,000 miles $11 ,500
1999 2 DR Explorer
r6Q,000 miles $5,500
.~1.994 Dodge Dakota
u90,000 miles, cold
;tl)r. $2495
$500!Police
~lt\,pounds! Honda,
·chevy, Ford and
'=nf o r e ! a r s
•mucks/SUVs from
'$500! For listings call
" 800-439-3998 ext.
:;MJ19
c
;-FOR SALE:
1993
. _,M\lstang Hot Rod or
:~f'low car. Ready to
,go. Doesn't need
APYthing. Also, li>ig
J.i'(es & wheels off
,]9yota truck. 886"1158.
•-"•""'
tWI\.•
~fior Sale 1993 Ford
~en-own
Victoria.
~ f-38,000
mile.s.
606$,1200. call
t}j"4-0467
fj;)R
SALE: 1988
Bonneville,
::.;139:- title
r
parts. $600 obo. Call
az:4-4094.
,f'OR SALE:
Two
8 ~pntiac
160-Motorcycles
fully loaded Yamaha
V-Star Classic Bikes.
03 650 Indigo Blue
'~ro miles, '02 11 oo
; Tit'anium Silver 1980
miles. Priced together $10,500 . Sold
separately
11 00$5800
and
650-~700 . Reason for
selling: Wanting to
upgrade. Must see to
appreciate. Call 606297-1667.
r--
1
iFOR SALE: Honda
!VTXR 2003 less than
i2000 miles. Lots of
!e~tras . Like new.
!G'arage kept. Must
:see. $11,500 Call
laoo-358-4529.
I
I
I
n
e
!FOR SALE:
1999
:Honda CBR 600 F4.
i8;Qoo
miles.Great
jccindition.
Never
!down. Red, silver,
land black. Includes
lAGV x-vent helmet &
!k&viar
jacket
&
ig l'oves. $3500 or
:best offer. 889-9384.
I
I
I
~ For
Sale
1998
~YAMAHA YZ80 New
itires, pro-circuit pipe.
l$1600. Call 606-452j9599 for more info.
:2000 HONDA XR 70iGood
condition,
:$650. Call 886-4260
iWanted used full
'
I
I
I
I
'
180-Trucks
I
I
isi2:e
pick-ups 1998
lthru 2003, will pay
;cci:sh call 800-789l5301
'
:FOR SALE:
1975
Ford dump truck, tilt
..
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10, 2005
Job Listings
t-ielp Wanted
Information
Miscellaneous
Part Time
270 ·Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wanted
210
220
230
250
260
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300 • FINANCIAL
31 o - Business
Opportunity
330 - For Sale
750 • MobHe Home
400 • MEBCHANQIQE
41 0 - Animals
420 - Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - Fumlture
450 - Lawn & Garden
460 - Yard Sale
470 - Health & Beauty
475 - Household
To apply, please
send letter of interest
and
resume
by
August 15, 2005 to:
Office of
Admissions
ATTN : Counselor
Position
When responding
Allee Lloyd
to Employment ads
College
that have reference
100 Purpose Road
numbers,
please
Pippa Passes, KY
Indicate that entire
41844
reference number
600 • BENTALS
700-SEB~I~
~
610 • Apartments
620 - Storage/
505 - Business
510- Commercial
Office Space
630- Houses
640 - Land/Lots
650 - Mobile Homes
660 - Miscellaneous
670 • Commercial
Propl!lrty
705 - Construction
71 0 • Educational
713 • Chil<l Care
715 - Electncian
720 - Health & Belll.ltY
730 • lawn &Garden
735- Legal
740- Masonry
745- Miscellaneous
Property
530- Homes
550 - Land/Lots
570 - Mobile Homes
580 - Miscellaneous
front end, 12' bed.
For more in.f o call
606-478-9150.
area.
Pikeville
Please fax a resume
to Kenny Holbrook at
606-439-0575.
EMPLOYMENT
FLOYD COUNTY I
P A I NT S VI L LEI
PIKEVILLE AREAS:
The
Lexington
Herald Leader has a
morning newspaper
route available in
your area. Routes
take about 3 hours
daily, with an approximate profit potential
of
$800
-$1000
monthly. Dependable
transportation and
ability to be bonded
required. Call 1-800274-7355.(EXT
3384 or 1629)
Alice Lloyd College
is
an
Equal
Opportunity Employer
and does not discrlm·
inate for employment
on the basis of race,
color, national origin,
religion, sex, age, or
NEED EXTRA disability.
on the outside of
your
envelope.
Reference numbers
are used to help us
direct your letter to
the correct lndlvld·
uat.
205- Bus. Opp.
MONEY? T,.Y Avon.
$1 o sign-up fee &
free gift. Call Janey
at 886-2082.
21o-Job Listing
NEEDED:
Looking for animal
caretaker. Part time.
Apply at the Floyd
County Animal ·
Shelter.
FABRICATOR/
WELDER
Logan Corporation
of Prestonsburg, KY
is seeking qualified
individuals for the
position of
Fabricator/ Welder.
Must be able to weld
and cut steel and thin
gauge metal.
Experience in brake
press, shear, and
pipe bending a plus.
Salary commensurate with experience.
, B
f:•c package
tncluded. EOE:.
Please send resume
to:
Human Resources
Fabricator/ Welder
PO BOX 58
Huntington, WV
25706.
HELP WANTED:
Welding position
available. Call
between 8 am to
5pm M-F. 285-9358.
IMMEDIATE
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY:
Established
Eastern KY Coal.
Company seeking
experienced highwall
miner personnel for
Pike & Floyd Co, KY.
Dayshift & nightshift
positions available.
• superintendants
• operators
*groundsmen
Competitive
wages, health insurance includes eye &
dental, 401 K retirement, paid holidays,
2 weeks paid vacation, monthly production bonus.
Applications are
being taken.at:
Office of
Employment &
Training
138 College Street
Pikeville, KY
41501.
1, 2 3, 4 Bedrooms
available for extremely
low-income people at
Highland Heights Apts.
in Goble-Roberts Addn.,
and Cliffside Apts. on
Cliff Road, Prestonsburg.
Computerized
learning centers offer
sociaVeducational pro·
grams lor children and
adults. AU utilities
includl!d at Highland
Hgts., utility allowance
at Cliffside. Call (606)
886·0608, 886-1927, or
886-1819. TDD: 1-800·
648·6056.
Highland
Heights and Cliffside
Apartments do not dis·
criminate in admission
or employment in subsidized housing on
account of race, color,
national origin, sex,
age, disability, religion
and familial
~
r•aius.
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Furniture
&
Appliances @ unbelievable
prices.
Come in today for
· incredible savings.
Shop At The Little
Furniture Store &
Savell Route. #122,
McDowell. Call 606377-0143.
470-Health & Beauty
WOLFF TANNING
BEDS
Financing available,
Free delivery & set
up within 75 miles of
London , KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale
Prices.
Call 888-554-0058
330- For Sale
FOR SALE BY
OWNER: Three
adjacent cemetery
plots in the New ·
Davidson section of
Davidson Memorial
Gardens, lvel, KY.
Call 886-8452.
480· Misc.
WEDDING DRESS
FOR SALE: Size 12,
pearl and sequins
intricate design on
bodice and train.
Must see to appreciate beauty. For more
information, call 8868506 ask for Tonya
or after 5:00 call 8860048 and leave message.
350-Miscellaneous
Need to repair your
credit and move
on? We provide
low APRs, low .
monthly payments
on all types of
loans. 1st, 2nd,
mortgage, business loans. Call 1
(800) 405- 8157.
12
FOR SALE:
pews, like new condition.
Medium-light
blue in color. Call
452-4189 for more
information.
MERCHANDISE
220-Help Wanted
FOR SALE: Antique
mantle.
Beautiful
quarter sown oak.
Call Lane at 8863179.
445-Furniture
AVON REPS NEED·
ED: $10 to sign-up.
CASSIE - 886-8737 I
THERESA - 886·
3690, WANDA • 2859486, or Terri -- 9462355 (after 5:00).
,
ALLEN
FURNITURE
ALLEN,KY
Furniture,
used
appliances, living I
bedroom suits, bunk
beds, and lots morel
Call 606-874-9790.
Kay's
Wallpaper
205 Depot Road
Paintsville,
Ky.
Hundreds of Patterns
of
Wallpaper
&
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open Tues F'ri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m .
Closed Sun. & Mon.
606-789-8584.
RAY'S BARGAIN
CENTER
New
& Used
Save onauto insurance.
At Nationwide , we go the extra mile to save you
money. That's why we offer a variety of auto premium
discounts, including our multi-car discount, our safe
driver discount, airbag discount and more.
Call us and start saving money today
Nationwide Is On Your Side®
Kimber McGuire
303 University Drive
Prestonsburg, Ky.
(606) 886-0008 (Offic•>
(606) 886-9483 (Fax)
D . ..
·
•
•
Nat1onw1de
Insurance &
Financial Services
Natlonwide Mutual Insurance Company and affiliated C'.ompanles
Home Office: One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus, OH 43215·2220
Nationwide~!~ is a reg.stered federal servtce malt ot
Nationw1de Mutual Insurance Com n
AUCTION
PRIME COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
Saturday, August 20th, 2005, at 11 a.m.
Location: 5795 Old KY 15, Pine Ridge, KY. Take the ~t.
Parkway to Exit 40, then take Old KY 15 West about 2 miles
(Hayes Auto Auction). Auction signs posted.
14 acres ± PRIME COMMERCIAL PROPERTY- mostly
level, great visibility from Mt. Parkway · go?d road frontage
. 60'x60' metal building w/remote doors, kitchen area ~nd
office area. 25'x30' insulated metal building, 3- trailer
hookups, 3 phase electric, city water.
Terms: 10% down day of sale, balance on or before 30 _days
with delivery of deed. No Buyer's Prem~um.
Announcements day of sale t ake precedence over pnnted
material.
Turner
-
490-Recreation
PLEASANT RIDGE
HORSEBACK RID·
lNG opening Friday
May 6 at Yatesville
Lake. Call 606-6731165. Directions: US
23 to Louisa/Blaine
460- YARD SALE
exit turn on Highway
32 toward Blaine,
turn right on
Highway 3215
RUMMAGE SALE: toward the campB r i a r w o o d , ground and golf
P reston s b u r g . course. Tu-Su 10 am
Thursday August 11 -7:30pm
and Friday August 12
FINANCIAL ·
WANTED:
FuiVPart time housekeepers needed.
Apply in person.
Pikeville Super 8.
WANTED: Someone
to do housecleaning.
Must have referNOTICE:
Alice Lloyd College ences and be very
Call
in Pippa Passes, KY•. dependable.
is now seeking qua li- 886-1539 after 6 pm.
fied applicants for the
Need
of WANTED:
position
Admissio n s e mployees to pressure wash heavy
Counselor.
Must
M i n i m u m equipment.
Qualifications have valid driver's
include:
Bachelors license and surface
degree,
excellent mining papers. Call
communication skills, M-F 9-7 606-886computer skills, orga- 1759.
nizational skills, and
willingness to travel WANTED: A new
for extended periods medical imaging center is looking for a
of time.
receptionist in the
APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
830 • Ml!l!JElHanEIOI.!S
850 • Personals
Mov49rs
J't.. Thompson ·
6/
Auctions
Glen Thompson • Agent/Auctioneer
Tony Turner· Broker/Auctioneer
Phone: 606-668-6692
Phone: 606-593·6079
www.glenthompson.com
495-Want to Buy
WANT TO BUY: Fill
dirt needs to be delivered to the East
Point area. Call 3671506 or 367-1934.
$$CASH$$
Paid for
used/expired Dish-·
Network equipment,
cell phones, coins, &
antiques, etc. 1-888569-2812.
www.cashforthings.com
REAL ESTATE
530-Homes
FOR SALE OR
RENT: 3 BR house
with 5 acres of land .
Call 606-886-6648.
3 BR BRICK
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Large LR, wellequipped kitchen,
BR w/whlrlpool tub,
APPLICATIONS BEING
ACCEPTED FOR .
l·BEDROOM ' ' ·
APARTMENTS FOR
PERSONS
55 AND OLDER
Located behind Wendy's
and Pizza Hut In Prestonsburg. All utilities are
Included and the rent Is
based upon gross monthly
income. Several activities,
such as line dancing,
crafts, bingo, movies, hair
salon and church services.
The apartments are fur·
nlshed with a refrigerator,
stove, emergency alarm
system, and air conditioner.
For more Information,
please call Highland
Terrace at 606-886·1925, or
come by the office for an
application.
Highland Terrace does not
discriminate In admission
or employment In subsidized housing on account
of race, color, creed, religion, sex, nation·
al origin, age, ~
familial status or I..:J
disability.
=-~
155. Offlc&
760 • Pll.lmblng
870 • Services
80!} - l(!Qal$
76S • Profeselonals
no . AepaJr/SeM:e
180 - llttlber
790 ·Travel
lflQ ; N01JCII
806 ·Announcttnenti
&10 • AuOUonl
815
Fol.nS
·IMt'
hardwood floors.
Covered carport &
front porch. Quiet
street, Goble
Roberts. $125,900
or beat offer. 874·
5208 after 5:00 pm.
Leave message.
HOUSE FOR SALE:
3 BR , LR, kitchen,
1.5 BA, carport, full
basement, storage
building. Located at
4323
AT
550
Hueysville. Contact
358-4065, 358-4369.
Price Reduced!
570- Mobile Homes
FOR SALE: 1980
14x70 MH 2 BR 1
BA, fireplace, CH/A,
large deck, appliances, on large private
rented
lot.
$10,000 or best offer.
606-246-0767.
FOR SALE:
Brick HOUSE FOR SALE:
house, 3 BR 1.5 BA. Lower Alleys Branch,
$125,000. Located Bevinsville, KY. 2 BR
between Allen & , brick, full size basePrestonsburg. Owner ment, and has an
MH FOR SALE:
will deduct for CHJA. extra lot with it. 1998
16
X
80
New carpet
and Walking distanee to F l e e t w o o d
inlaid for kitchen and Osborne
School. Reflections 3 BR 2
bathroom. Serious 606-874-2631.
BA Great condition.
inquiry only. 606·
Never smoked in. All
874·2035.
appliances & CH/A.
VInyl siding, shingle
roof. Asking $19,998.
HOUSE FOR
550 - Land/Lots 889-9384.
SALE:
Owner
Financing Available.
Final
clearance
3 BR 1 BA older
LAND FOR SALE: 2004 lot models and
ranch home. 406 Approximately 200 2005 models now
Hunts
Branch. acres with timber and available! If you are
Hurricane
Creek. coal located 2 miles serious about purPike/Floyd line on Rt from Prestonsburg chasing a new home
23. $54,900. (859) cith limits. Call 606- you need to be with
733-5929.
Open 886-2818.
experienced staff to
house 8/20 & 8/21
get the right home at
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CABIN LOTS FOR a great price. The
SALE:
Near Home Show-South
HOUSE FOR SALE: Yatesville Lake in William son, Inc. US
Allen, KY. Riley Hall Lawrence
County, 119,
Belfry,
Ky.
Sub. 17 Cross Road. KY. City water. Call 41514 606-353-6444
Main floor to BR. 1 after 6:00 pm or or toll free 877-353BA. Upstairs 2 room leave message .606- 6444
1/2 BA. Full base- 886-0133.
ment. Rl all appliances included. OW
& W/ D. Ramp to rear
deck. Front porch.
$67,500. No L.C.
Call 606-874-2775 or
734-997-711 Q.
PAINTSVILLE
PROFESSIONAL
AsSOCIATES
llli$~A,ve~ Paintsville, KY
HOMES FOR SALE:
A foreclosure!! 3 BR
only $14,900. For
listings call 1-800429-7008. ext B 183.
41240
Is loo~to 1Ul Ml-tbn~
LPN POSITION
CMdiclat. Jllut poM.. a CUI'l'ent
.KDW.clc;Y IJceJUe.
Apply Jn pel'IIOD and b~ ri1n1me
No PlaotuJ CaU., Pleau.
EOE.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
NURSING OPPORTUNITIES
Highlands Regional Medical Center is recruiting for
the following positions:
Registered Nurses
4th Floor Telemetry Unit
HRMC, a good place to work, offers a
competitive salary and a generous
benefits package including:
*Nine (9) paid holidays
*Retirement Plan
*Medical/Dental Insurance
*Pre-hire Bonus: $3,000
Interested applicants may apply to the
Human Resources Department, HRMC,
5000 Ky. At. 321,
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
(606) 886-7530
Fax: (606) 886-7534
E-mail: tclark@hrmc.org
HRMC Job Line: (606) 886-751 0
Highlands Is an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit Highlands web site at
www.hrmc,org
"Think He•lthy, Think Highlands!"
Operating Systems Analyst
Gearheart Communications, Inc., is seeking applicants for an
analyst position within our information Systems & Technology
department.
This position will have responsibility for evaluation and recommendation for hardware and software acquisitions. Provide technical support for implementation, use, and repair of systems and
equipment. Develop and maintain inventory control system for
equipment. Three to five years experience in all aspects of information technologies, including: hardware, software, operating systems, network protocols, etc., experience with SQI. servers and
internet technology in a LINUX environment, or equivalent academic and work experience.
Send resume to:
Gearheart Communications, Inc.
Human Resources Department
P.O. Box 160
Harold, Kentucky 41635
E-Mail: jobs@mikrotec.com
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
All Drywall, Dutch
with 2x6 walls,and
5/12 roof pitch, ultimate kitchen package, glass block window, and many more
extras, Set up for
viewing. For details
call 606-353-6444 or
toll free 577-3536444 the home show
580-Miscellaneous
CABIN FOR SALE:
Wellington, KY. 3 full
lots. City water, septic tank. $30,000.
Call 606-561-7757.
STEEL BUILDINGS:
Ideal or garages,
boats, RVs, workshops, and more.
Repos,
cancelled
orders,
damaged,
factory seconds. All
must go! Call today
to take advantage!
1-800-222-6335 ext
1558.
RENTALS
Parking, Can be
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind 660· Miscellaneous
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call
886-1515 for info.
ROOM FOR RENT:
in 1700 sq ft douOFFICE OR blewide. Access to
RETAIL SPACE FOR whole house includLEASE: 1,200 sq ft in ing 2 full BA. Just
Prestonsburg.. 886- asked to help with
8366
portion
of
rent.
Cable, utilities, and
furniture provided.
FOR LEASE: New Prefer female. 8.U..S.l:
30x60 Metal building NESS ONLY.
Call
12 ft ceilings oh RT 285-3755.
80 close to Martin
886-8366. $500.00
FOR RENT:
month.
* 2 BR House
* MH slip
FOR RENT:
900 *Barn access 3 stalls
sq. ft. office/commer606-434-7507
cial space. Located 8/1 0 mile Cow Creek
next to Reflection's
Beauty Salon 3/4
mile south or Martin
on RT 122. Across
from Garth Tech.
School. Call 2859112.
705-Constr.
SERVICES
630-Houses
2 BR HOUSE FOR
610Apartments RENT: Located at
Cow Creek. Call874PARK PLACE 9132.
APARTMENTS"LABOR DAY" Movein
special!
First 2 BR HOUSE FOR
month's rent .EB..E.E RENT: HUD acceptwith paid security ed available, after
deposit.
Through Sept 6 located on
September 5th. 1 HWY 80 across from
BR/$309. 2 BR $304- Allen Central High
$345. Prestonsburg. School.
859-351886-0039.
4408.
APT FOR RENT: 2
BR newly remodeled
ground floor apt for
rent. Located across
from Garth Technical
School on RT 122 at
Martin, KY. Must have
references. Call 2859112.
APT FOR RENT: 2
BR, fully carpeted,
refrigerator/stove furnished. CH/A, fireplace, backyard, WID
hook-up, lots of storage space, covered
parking. Located at
Harold. 886-9158
BUILDER AVAIL·
ABLE: 25 years
experience. New
homes, additions,
garages, metal
ro()fs. Call 606-3584275.
745- Miscellaneous
WANTING TO
CLEAN HOUSES:
Local woman looking
for house cleaning.
3 BR HOUSE FOR Does good job, good
RENT: 2 porches, 2 references, & reaBA, carport. Country sonable rates. Call
home, very private. 886-3528.
Call 886-9291.
TRANSCIPTIONIST:
3 BR HOUSE FOR I'm a qualified person
RENT: 2 LR. Room wanting to do tranto play. $500 monh scription work in my
plus deposit. Private home. Will pick up
driveway, city water. and deliver locally.
Located at 168 Lee's Call 886-9724 or
Layne, Martin, KY. 422-9539.
Contact Stanley at
WILL BABYSIT:
791-9777.
Babysitter available
3 BR HOUSE FOR ·to babysit in your
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA, home
in
kitchen, DR, heath Prestonsburg area.
pump, built in vacu- Call 886-6115.
um cleaner & deck.
Located in Knott
County. _
770-Repair/Services
APT FOR RENT:
Studio apt, furnished,
clean, close to college. $325 month utilities extra. Call 886- HOUSE FOR RENT: ·--- - · · ----· ·-6208.
3 BR, 1.5 BA, carport, large lot. Call C A R P E N T R Y
1 BR Furnished . 886-8366.
' WORK
all types.
Apartment, Including
New construction or
Utilities.
2 BR
re mod e Ii n g .
Unfurnished,
and
Garages, decks, etc.
large 3 BR 2 BA,
Concrete work & sidunturnished on RT
ing. Free estimates.
114 ·
N E W T R A I L E R Call 886-8896.
Call 886-8366
LOTS FOR RENT: 3
minutes
from
FOR RENT: 2 BR Highlands Regional,
apt. Spacious, quiet 5
minutes
from
community. Porter School. Call
Application must be 886-3959.
filled out. Deposit &
815· Lost & Found
references required.
One year lease. Call
Trailer lot for rent
on old .U.S. 23
358-9123.
Preston- OWNER OFFERING
between
2 BR 1 1/2 bath sburg and Paintsville REWARD to anyone
Townhouse also 1 call 606-886-9007 or with information
about a lost cat. Lost
bed room furnished 889 9747
in West Minister
or unfurnished locatTrailer Lot For area July 22. The
ed in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606- Rent, Large Yard. c·at is a 2 yr old
neutered male red
Call 886-8366
886 8991
tabby, striped, slenFor Rent : newly der in build. If cat is
Greetings
from
Lighthouse Manor, constructed Mobile· returned, no ques&
Sharon Home Lots in new tions asked. Call
Terry
Smith. We have Allen,reference 886-1100 or 886apartments for rent required call 606- 2694.
that are efficiency 874-2212
apartments, all utilities paid. For more
LEGALS
info call 606-886- 650- Mobile Homes
2797.
NOTICES
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central
heat & air. Rent starting at $375. month, +
$300. deposit water
included.
Located
near HRMC. 606889-9717.
GDStorage/Office
FOR RENT: 3 Room
office suite. -$600
month . Call 8861020 ask for C .V.
3BR MH FOR
RENT: 3 BR, large
lot. Call 886-8366.
TRAILER FOR
RENT: Nice 2 BR
trailer for rent near
Prestonsburg. Call
874-4478.
MH FOR RENT:
Located on RT 7 Salt
Lick. Call 358-4524.
For Rent: Office
Suite,
New
900
Construction.
sq. ft.
Ample
Manpower is seeking individuals interested in a variety of office and industrial
assignments in Floyd and surrounding
counties. Office applicants are required
to have at least 1 year of office experience. Applications are taken Mon.-Fri. at
our office, or you can send resume to:
Manpower
311 North Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
877-0165
AMENDMENT4
In accordance with
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
DFM, Inc., P.O. Box
367, Old U.S. 23,
Allen,
Kentucky
41601, has applied
tor an amendment to
an existing surface
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 1.5 mile
north of Gunlock in
Magoffin/Fioyd
County. The amendment operation will
add 157.57 acres of
surface disturbance
and 131.77 acres of
highwall/thin seam
mining area, making
a total area of
1378.73 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
The
proposed
amendment area is
approximately 0.7
mile
north
from
Brushy Fork Road's
junction with Ky.
Route 7, and located
on Molly Branch.
The
proposed
amendment is located on the David
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The surface
area to be disturbed
by the amendment is
owned by Big Branch
Holding Co., LLC,
David L. Francis,
John Arnett Heirs,
.Tonie
Wireman
Sandy
Heirs,
Shepherd,
Marie
Whitaker,
Ruth
Shepherd,
Nancy
Whitaker,
Luther
Shepherd,
Edgar
Fleming, and Kelly
Hale Heirs. The highwall/thin seam mining will underlie Big
Branch Holding Co.,
LLC,
David
L.
Francis, John Arnett
Heirs, Astra Clay
Collins, et al., Rose
Collins, and Vonda &
James Kerns. The
operation will use the
area m1nmg and
highwall/thin seam
methods of mining.
The
amendment
application has been
filed
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources,
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South .Lake
Suite
6,
Drive,
Prestonsburg,
Ky.
41653. Written comments, objections,
and requests for a
permit conference
must be filed with the
Director, Division of
Mine Permits, No. 2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127,
South,
Frankfort, Ky. 4060
1.
This is the final
advertisement
for
this application. All
comments,
objections, or requests for
a permit conference
must be recieved
within thir;ty (30) days
of today's date.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pursuant to 405
KAR 8:010, Section
16(5), the following is
a summary of permitting decisions made
by the Department
for
Natural
Resources, Division
of Mine Permits with
respect to applications to conduct surface coal mining and
reclamation operations in Floyd County.
Peter Fork
Mining Company
898-4028
Issued 050712
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0311
In accordance with
N0.3
1) In acccordance
with the provisions of
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
CONSOL
of
Kentucky Inc., P.O.
Box 130, Mousie, Ky.
41839, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
and
underground
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 0.9 mile
northeast
of
Handshoe, in Knott
and Floyd Counties.
This amendment will
not add any surface
disturbance, but will
underlie an additional
1992.0 acres, making a total area of
3595.7 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
2) The proposed
amendment
is
approximately 0.2
mile
west
from
County Road 1280's
junction with Ky.
Hwy. 2029, and
located along Lick
For 1, 2 & 3-bedroom apartments.
U.S. 321 (Below Hospital)
886-8318
from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Production Manager
of Food and
~-~
MORRISON Nutrition Services
M~;i;;-Management Specialists at Pikeville
•ooo
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836~5238
AMENDMENT
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
- ~~
n r ~nm:: ~•u
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
Noble Coal LLC, P.O.
Box 489, Allen, KY
41601, has applied
for a permit for surface and undergro.und/auger coal
mmmg
operation,
located 2.00 miles
southeast of Blue
River,
in
Floyd
County. The proposed operation will
disturb 68.45 surface
acres and will underlie 28.50 acres, and
the total area within
the permit boundary
will be 96.95 acres.
The proposed operation is approximately 1.50 mile southeast of KY Route
404's junction with
KY Route 1210, and
located 0.20 mile
east of the Caney
Creek.
The proposed operation is located on
the Martin U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by James
Allen and Glenn
David May. The operation will underlie
land
owned
by
James Allen and
Glenn David May.
The operation will
affect an area within
100 teet of public
road 1210. The operation will not involve
relocation or closure
of the public road.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
of
Natural Resources
Mining
Division,
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653.
~ritten
comments,
objections
or
·requests for a permit
conference must be
filed
with
the
Director, Division · of
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow, U.S. 127
South,
Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601 .
t l • .. c:t.t
Medical Center seeks professional with 1-3
years of food service exper~ence .
Responsible for managing food p_roductl~n _for
patients, retail, and catering serv1ces, tra1mng
and managing staff. Benefits available.
Please contact: Amy Deskins at
606-218-3500
Fork.
3) The proposed
amendment is located on the Handshoe
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The operation
will use the underground method of
mining. The surface
area is owned by
CONSOL
of
Kentucky Inc., and
Leslie Bradley. The
amendment area will
underlie land owned
by
Kentucky
Department
of
Transportation,
CONSOL
of
Inc.,
Kentucky
Mitchell Stephens,
Leslie Bradley, Floyd
Co. Fiscal Court,
Johnny
Hoover
Heirs,
First
Commonwealth
Bank, Lindburg Hale,
Nadene
Howard,
Gary
Handshoe,
Pheba
Handshoe
Bryan,
Clinton
Handshoe,
Eldree
Handshoe,
Ratliff
Turner, Hershel and
Margaret Handshoe,
Bessie Conley, Lois
Oakley
Conley,
Conley,
Bradford
Handshoe,
·Cletis
Howard,
Kirstina
Strohschein
and
Beulah
Leitch,
Sharon
Chaffins,
Michael
Crager,
Wanda Hutchinson,
Marvin and Janet
Shepherd,
Levisa
Coburn
Estate,
Western Pocahontas
Properties Ltd., Rex
and Madge Hicks,
Rosa Oney, Velton
Prater, Charles and
Becky
Howard,
Kenneth
Bailey,
Clyde Bailey, D.O.
Compton and Betty
Compton. The operation will affect an
area within 100' of
public road Ky. Hwy.
2029 and Lick Fork
Road. The operation
will not involve relocation or closure of
the public roads.
4) The application
has been filed for
public inspection at
the Department for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Offfice,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg, Ky.
41653-1410. Written
objeccomments,
tions or requests for
a permit conference
must be filed with the
Director
of
the
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601 .
This is the
final advertisement of
the application. All
comments,
objections or requests for
a permit conference
must be received
within thirty (30) days
of today's date.
NOTICE OF
BOND RELEASE
In accordance with
KRS 350.093, notice
is hereby given that
Peter Fork Mining
Company, P.O. Box
2666, Pikeville, KenNEW YORK, AS
tucky 41501, has
TRUSTEE
applied for Phase II
FOR THE
and Ill Bond Release
CERTIFICATEHO
on Increment No. 11 ,
LDERS OF
of Permit Number
CWABS
SEAlES
898-0042, which was
OQ-()1
on
last
issued
C/O
January 29, 1992. ·
The application covCOUNTRYWIDE
ers an area of
HOME LOANS,
approximately
INC.
298.19 acres, locatPLAINTIFF
ed 2.0 miles south of
Vs.
Owsley in Pike and
Jeffrey A. Collins
Floyd Counties.
and
The permit is. Sherry L. Collins
aka Sherry Collins
approximately 1.0
mile south from KY
Defendants
Route 1384's june- · NOTICE OF
tion with Dog Fork,. COMMISSIONand located 0.5 mile ·. ER'S SALE
southeast of Left
BY VIRTUE OF
Fork of Big Creek ~f Summary Judgment
Toler Creek. The lat1- and Order of Sale of
tude is 37!128'05" .'., the · Floyd Circuit
The longitude is Court entered on the
2
82 35'08".
· 4th d~y of April2005,
The bond now In in the Floyd Circuit
effect for Increment Court in the above
No. 11 is ~ ce~ifica~e , styled action, in the
of deposit m the prinsipal sum of
amount of fourteen $82,219.67, together
thousand seven hun- with interest, costs
dollars and fees I shall prodred
($14,700.00), which ceed to ~ffer tor sale
is th_e rema1~1ng at the Old Floyd
bond, m the apphca- County Courthouse
tion for release.
Door South Central
Reclamation work Ave~ue, Prestonsperfo_rmed .on the burg,
Kentucky,
perm1_t area tncludes: (behind the new
~ackfllling, ~nal grad-._ Floyd County Justice
mg, ~eedmg, and_ Center), to the high~ulchmg,_ completed_- est bidder, ·at public
1n the spnng of 1987.- auction
on
Results thus far · Thursd~y, the 25th
include the establish- day of August, 2005,
ment of the approved at the hour of 9:15
post-mining land use. a.m., the following
Written comments, described
real
objections,
and estate located at
requests for a public 165 'Haus Drive
hearing or informal Prestonsburg,
i~
conference must be - Floyd
County
fil~d
wi~h. . the Kentucky, and mor~
Director, DIVISIOn of particularly described
Field Service, #2 as follows:
Hollow,
Beginning on the
Hudson
Frankfort, Kentucky west side of the
40601, by Augusr-15, creek at a sycamore
2005.
tree, witnessed by a
This is the final steel marker, thence
advertisement of the with the middle of the
application. Written creek and following
comments,
objec- the middle of the
tions, and requests creek, taking in the
tor a public or intor- car bridge and drivemal conference must way, thence running
be filed with the with the road to the
Director, Division of Erm<;>n ,Williams line,
Fistd· s·~Nices ·, #2 thence turning up the
Hudson'
Hollow, hill with the Erman
Frankfort, Kentucky Williams line, and
40601 by August 15, running with this line
2005
to the top of the hill,
A public hearing on thence with Elzie
the application has Poe line down the
been scheduled for ridge to the top of the
August 16, 2005, at point, witnessed by a
10:00 a.m., at the steel marker, thence
Department for Sur- turning down the hill
face
Mining to an oak tree,
Reclama-tion
and thence down the hill
E n f o r c e- m e n t' s · to a steel marker and
Pikeville Re-gional thence down to the
Office, located at 121 sycamore tree, witMays Branch Road, nessed by a steel
Pikeville, Ken-tucky marker, thence with
41501. The hearing the middle of the
will be canceled if no creek to the beginrequest for a hearing ning.
or informal conferBeing the same
ence is received by property conveyed to
Jeffery A. Collins and
August 15, 2005.
Sherry L. Collins,
husband and wife, by
COMMON·
deed dated Septem·
WEALTH
. ber 3, 1994, and filed
OF KENTUCKY ~~ for record in Deed
FLOYD CIRCUIT Book 401, Page 533,
COURT
Floyd Co-unty Clerk's
10, 2005 • C5
records.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time ol
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay casj1
or $5,000.00 of purchase price, with the
balance on credit for
thirty (30) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall -be
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property,
if any, bearing interest at the rate ol
twelve percent (12%)
per annum, from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgement.
(c) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions ol
record in the Floyd
County
ClerK's
Office, and such righl
of redemption as
may exist in favor pi
the United States ol
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and City ol
Prestonsburg
real
property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet ctue
and payable. Any
and all delinq·uenl
Floyd County and
City of Prestonsburg,
r.eal
Kentuc-ky,
estate ta>.<es will be
paid from the sale
proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the pur·
chaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien tor the amount ol
the bid, and no bond
shall be required -ol
the Plaintiff, and il
shall only be obngated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs ol
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against tl:le
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's AttorneY:
Hon. Kristen J.
Mudd
Lerner, Sampson &
Rothfuss
P.O. Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
WilliamS. Kendrick
M a s t e. r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, 'v
Kentucky 41653
COMMON·
WEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
DIVISION NO. II -. . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . ,
CASE NO. 04-CI·
ADVERTISEMENT
211
v
FOR REQUEST
THE BANK OF
FOR PROPOSAL
The Floyd County Public Schools witt
be receiving responses to a Request for ,
Qualification of companies interested irL
providing a Drug/Alcohol Sc~eening ·
. Program.
Firms wishing to respond shall attend a
mandatorY Pre-Proposal Conference to 0
be held at Floyd County Public Schools
Central Office, 106 North Front Ave.,
Prestonsburg
Prestonsburg, Ky., on August 16, 2005, ~
at 10 a.m. Firms planning to attend the
conference and site visits shall notify.
HELP WANTED: Waitresses, dishHenry Webb and request an RFP packet
at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the
washers/busboys, cooks. Paid vacaconference.
tion, health insurance available.
Henry Webb, Director of Instruction
;t
Floyd County Public Schools
~::
Uniforms furnished.
106 North Front Ave.
;;
No phone calls, please!
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Telephone - 606-886-4552
Apply in person.
Email-hwebb@ floyd.k12.ky.us
Only responses from those respondents attending the conference shall be
considered.
Responses are due by 1:00 p.m., local
time, August 12, 2005, at Floyd County
Schools Central Office, 106 North Front
Ave., Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653.
All questions concerning this RFP shall
be answered at the pre-proposal conference.
The Aoyd County Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, marital stalus, sex. or disability In employment, edu·
catlonal programs, or activities, as set forth in Title IX&
VI and In Section 504.
RESTAURANT
�C6 •
WEDNESDAY, AuGUST
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
Case No.
05-CI-00051
U.S. Bank, NA
(Successor by
Merger to
Firstar Bank, NA,
f/kld Star Bank, NA)
Plaintiff
Vs.
Terry Wendel,
Mildred Wendel
and
Floyd County,
Kentucky
Defendants
RE-NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
11th day of March
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above styled action,
in the prinsipal sum
of
$124,979.72,
together with interest, costs and fees,
I shall proceed to
offer for sale at the
Old Floyd County
Courthouse Door,
South
Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd
County
Justice Center), to
the highest bidder, at
public auction, on
Thursday, the 25th
day of August, 2005,
at the hour of 10:00
a.m., the following
described
real
estate, located at
2278 Toler Creek
Road, Harold, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at the
Hobert Howell line at
Route 1426; thence
running with the
Hobart Howell line to
the top of a high point
of the hill to a large
marked Hickory tree;
thence running down
to the bottom of the
hill to a concrete
marker; thence running approximately
west 110 feet to a
concrete marker near
Route 1426; thence
running approximately 230 feet South
back to the Hobart
Howell line to the
beginning.
Also this gives
access to a 10 foot
driveway to the property
of
Lorraine
Damron
Newman
from Route 1428.
For reference see
Deed from Willie A.
Damron and Erma
Damron, his wife, to
Mildred
Damron
Wendel, the female
mortgagor,
dated
August 6,
1997;
recorded in Deed
Book 415, Page 203,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office. Also see
release of Right of
First Refusal, dated
April 8, 1998, recorded in Deed Book
419, Page 491 , in
Floyd County Court
Clerk's Office.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder. if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
thirty (30) days, and
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
1 0, 2005
unpaid
purchase
price of said property,
if any, bearing interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
judgment.
(b) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof.
(c) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentuc-ky, real property taxes for the .
year 2005, and all
subsequent
years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(d) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take prece~
dence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Septtimous
Taylor
4830 Towne Square
Court
Owensboro, KY
42301
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
RE-NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Renewed Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd CircUit
Court, entered on the
29th
day
of
November, 2004, in
the Floyd Circuit
Court, in the above
styled action, in the
principal sum of
$51 ,519.90, together with interest,
costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse Door,
South
Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd County Justice Center), to the
highest bidder, at
public auction, on
Thursday, the 25th
day of August,
2005, at the hour of
9:30 a.m., the following described real
estate, located on
Walnut Street, Tram ,
in Floyd County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
Being Lot Nos. 97,
99 and 17 1/2 feet of
Lot No. 100, adjoining Lot No. 99 in the
Riverside Addition to
Tram, Floyd County,
Kentucky, as shown
by map of said addition filed in. the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, to which reference is hereby made
for a more complete
de-scription of said
lots.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Anthony Swiger and
Fran Swiger, by a
deed dated August
26,1999, of record in
Deed Book 439,
Page 209, in the
Office of the Clerk of
Floyd
County,
Kentucky.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or $5,000.00 of purchase price, with the
balance on credit for
thirty (30) days, and
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
COMMONunpaid
purchase
WEALTH
price of said property,
OF KENTUCKY
if any, bearing interFLOYD CIRCUIT
est at the rate of
COURT
twelve percent (12%)
DIVISION NO. I
per annum from the
C.A. No_
date of sale until
03-CI-978
paid, having the
Bank, N.A. as
force and effect of a
Trustee, Successor judgment.
by merger
(b) The property
by Firstar Bank,
shall be sold subject
N.A., Successor
to any easements
in interest to
and restrictions of
Firstar Bank
record in the Floyd
Milwaukee, N.A., as County
Clerk's
Trustee for
Office, and such right
Salomon Brothers of redemption a's
Mortgage
may exist in favor of
Securities VII, Inc., the United States of
Floating Rate
America and/or the
Mortgage Passrecord owners thereThrough Certificate of.
Series 1999-NCS
(c) The purchaser
Plaintiff
shall be required to
Vs.
assume and pay all
Anthony Swiger
Floyd
County,
Fran Swiger
Kentuc-ky, real propUnited States of
erty taxes for the
America
year 2004, and all
Commonwealth of subsequent
years
Kentucky,
which are not yet due
Division of
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�Weeklv Writing
Corner
If Fish Went to School
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Underwater schools are different from
the school you go to. A school in the
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SCHOOLS 1 SWim toge er.
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of fish swim in groups called schools.
Schools of fish are always made up of one kind of fish
swimming together. Sardines swim with sardines, and
minnows swim with minnows.
Can you find these pictures in the sc
Standards Link: Life Science: Living organisms depend on one another
for survival.
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school I would learn which
fish are nice and which aren't.
The classroom would be made
out of coral and shell and the
class would be filled with
water.
Grecia
1
4 h grade '
I think fish in schools study
math, spelling, and humans. I
' think their classroom could be
in a sunken ship, treasure
chest, or a skeleton's skull.
Tony
S'h grade
The fish would study how to
get away from a shark and
' what to eat or not eat. Their
classroom would be in a tank
and have a lot of water. It
' would be organized with rocks
around it and flowers. That is
I. what a fish school would be
and it would be very fun.
Some fish travel in schools
to confuse enemies that
want to eat them. Traveling
toge~her al~o helps in the
$.e~ch for food. Having
tOOusand~ of eyes and noses
Not all fish schooL For the roost part, predator fish
do not school. One exception is this fish. These fish
are born into and live in large &chools.
Circle every other letter to find the name of this fish.
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onthelookoutforfood
a better
give,& the school
chance of finding dinner.
Staoc:lards l.ink: Life Science: Adaptations
in behavior improve an organism's
chanc~ for survival.
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find out what each group of animals below is called.
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Look through the newspaper and
fmd five common nouns and
five proper nouns. Cut
them out and glue them
to Professor Pescado 's chart
in the correct column.
Proper Nou~
SHARKS
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Eyes: Each fish can
look forward with one
eye while the other is
looking backward.
Lateral Line: Along each side of a fish's body there is a '
line of tiny holes or pores. Tiny hairs inside the pores feel
the slightest ripple or movement in the water. This lets _fish
know when another fish is nearby. If one fish moves m a
different direction, all the others sense it and move
according! y.
If fish went to school they
\
· would study math, language,
, and science just like us. But
for math they would count
~ pieces of sand! For language
,· they would write with a piece
' of coral! And for science they
· would study sharks, fish, and
. seaweed!
5111 grade
· If fish went to school they
· would probably study the
different kinds of bait so they
.. won't get caught by fishermen. Their classroom would
. have scales on the walls.
6'h grade
Do you know what a fish
~. classroom looks like? Well,
) the desks are made out of huge
· clamshells. They read books
, like Moby Dick.
grade
Hi, my name is fishy and I
would like to tell you about a
day in my school! My teacher
· gives me assignments like
~ reading about the lost city of
1
Atlantis and Moby Dick. The
principal is a really nice angel: fish. The classroom is very
colorful. It is decorated with
hanging fish scales and a big
sea board to write on. That's a
· life for an average fish!
Becky Sue
srh
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know examples of diverse life forms in the ocean.
How do fish swim 30 close without
colliding? Fish use a combination
of their senses to create the smooth
schooling ·movements.
5111 grade
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week's Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
UNDERWATER
SCHOOLS
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RIPPLE
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized Identical
WHY
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If Fish Went
to School
My School
Look through the newspaper for five or more
adjectives that describe your school. Then look
for words that describe what you want to learn
this year. Use these words to write a paragraph
with your plans for the coming school year.
Standards Link: Grammar: Identify and use adjectives; Writing
Applications: Write brief expository sentences.
Published: Week of Aug. 10, 2005
Send your story to:
If Fish Went to School
P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Please include your school and grade.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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by Hal Kaufman
APPLY NEW TACTICS
TO TICK-;TACK-TOE
FIND TWINS! Our viewer friend claims that two of
the 12 fish in this tank look enough alike to be
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twins. Which two?
SAY WHAT! Financial circles may say this or that, and folks may not pay
attention. But there are financial circles to which att.ention is paid every day.
What are they? ·sa,uuad pu-e s1a>t:l!U •sawfp 'SJaJ.renb 'SJ-euop JIBH
SQUARE DEAL! Challenge: You are asked to insert digits 0, 1, 2 and 3 in the
diagram at right in such a way that each threenumber row across, vertically and diagonally
totals six.
Properly distributed, each of the four digits will
appear in all vertical and diagonal-but not in horizontal-rows.
Present numbers remain in place.
Time limit: 60 seconds.
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tick-tack-toe.
Here's how:
Two players take turns
inserting letters rather than X's
and O's in an attempt to complete a three-letter word in a
straight or diagonal line.
Words may read either left
or right, .up or down.
Opponents, of course, try to
block formation of words at
every turn. First player to complete an acceptable three-letter
word wins.
Any letter of the alphabet
may be used. Proper names are
excluded.
Ma_
ke up your own rules if
necessary.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters with a finger,
crayon or pencil.
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Jeff Schinkel, Designer/Illustrator
My Letters
Bike Puzzler
B is for Bicycle
b is for bicycle
Two bicycles each with two
wheels. But are they exactly
the same? Find at least six
differences between
the two bicycles.
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your
child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter B. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the B sound like the word
bicycle?
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Buddy why you
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Two little ears to hear each sound,
One little nose to smell what's sweet;
One little trlQUth that likes to eat
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Two by Two
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Big 8, Little b
How Many Wheels
Wheel Math
With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that start with the same
sound as the letter B
in the word bicycle.
Point to the number
2 in the newspaper.
Have your child say the
number and, if it's large
enough, have your child
trace the number.
Count pairs of eyes, feet,
hands, knees, legs and
other body parts where
both can be seen in one
picture. Count by two.
The newspaper is full of
picturcts of different kinds
of transportation. On a
large sheet of paper, write
"Transportation:" Then,
with your child find, cut
out and glue pictures of
different types of
transportation on the
paper. Label each picture.
With your child, find
every uppercase letter B
on one newspaper page.
Draw a small circle
around each one. Then try
to find a lowercase letter
b for each uppercase letter
B. Draw a line to connect
each uppercase letter B to
each lowercase letter b.
Look at pictures of things
with wheels in the
newspaper. Can you
see all of the wheels
in each picture? Talk
about how many wheels
each vehicle has. Cut
out the pictures and group
them by how many
wheels they have.
Look at pictures of
vehicles with wheels.
Compare the number
of wheels by asking
questions like, "How
many more wheels does
the car have than
the bicycle?"
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ac'tivity focuses on a specific learning readiness skill.
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Step by Step Success 1. Read the activity instruction aloud. 2. Show how to do the activity by doing it yourself first. 3. Ask your child to
copy what you do.
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HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you a
message every day. It's a numerical puzzle designed to spell
out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name .. If the
number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. If the number IS less
than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner and check one of your key numbers, left
to right. Then read the message the letters under the
checked figures give you .
. ©2005 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. World rights reserved.
Rational Numbers
by Linda Thistle
Using the clues, simple arithmetic,
and a little logic, place a single digit (0
to 9) in each empty box In the .
diagram. To help you get stllrted, one
digit has been entered in the diagram.
Batloaal
IIambers
answers
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14·Across plus 5-Down
12·Across minus 3·Down
One·flfth of 14·Across
Three times 15·Across
Six times 1·Across
14·Across plus 10·Down
The last digit Is four times the
first digit
14. Three less than 1-Down
15. Consecutive digits In ascending
order
DOWN
1. Consecutive odd digits In
descending order
2. 4·Across times 6·Across
3. Two more than 14·Down
5. The last dig~ is three times the
first digit
6. Consecutive digits in ascending
order
7. Two times S·Down
e. The first digit is the sum of the
other digits
10. One·thlrd of 3-Across
11. Two hundred more than 7·
Down
12. Five times 13·Across
14. 12·Across minus 5·Down
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�04 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
World of Wonder
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
In the late
summer
and early fall,
the monarch
butterfly
gathers in
huge numbers for its
annual
southern
migration.
The word migration is usually used to describe the seasonal or
periodic movement of an animal from one habitat to another and
then back again. Many species of insects, birds, sea creatures,
mammals and reptiles are known to be migratory. People also
migrate, but not always for biological reasons; they will
sometimes migrate for political and/or social reasons.
Monarchs are
the only butterfly
to make such an
extreme, two-way
journey. Their route
can be more than
3,000 miles (4,828 km)
long. Monarchs begin the return trip in the
spring. They breed along the way and
then die. The new' generation completes
the journey.
About 245 species of birds migrate from
the United States to Central or South
America. Herons, swallows, flycatchers,
hawks, falcons, owls and warblers are
just a few of these migrants. In Europe,
many birds migrate back and forth to
Africa. About half of the 9,500 species ·
of birds found around the world migrate.
tern migrates
from the Arctic
to Antarctica
(11 ,000 miles,
or 17,703 km)
and back again,
one of
the longest
migrations of
any animal.
The ruby-throated hummingbird eats
until it has gained nearly 40 percent of
its original body weight. This extra fat is
needed to fly the 500 miles (805 km),
across the Gulf of Mexico.
On the move
Migration occurs in a huge variety of
animals. From microorganisms to giant
whales, migration is commonly a round-trip
response to climate, food availability and/or
ideal breeding conditions.
Some species of
salmon will travel up
to 800 to 900 miles
(1,287-1 ,448 km) from
spawning stream to
ocean and back again.
There are many types of migration. Daily
and seasonal migrations are the most
common kind, but some animals migrate
on lunar or cyclical intervals.
Gray whales breed and winter in·the warm
waters of Mexico. They migrate north to the
seas around the Bering Strait.
One-way, irregular movements are ealled
mass movements or emigrations. When an
emigration is the result of a population
explosion it is called an irruption.
Lemmings and some insect and bird
species experience cyclical irruptions.
Baby loggerhead turtles embark on an
B,OOQ-mile (12,875 km) migration that takes
five to 10 years to complete. When they are
born along the eastern Florida coast they
are only 2 inches (5 em) long.
Daily migrations
Daily migrations are quite common in
creatures that live in oceans and lakes.
These daily movements are usually
triggered by changes in light and/or temperature. Huge numbers of zooplankton (collections of tiny organisms that drift in bodies
of water) move toward the surface at night
and return to the deep during daylight hours.
Some terrestrial (land) animals make daily
migrations. The tree-living daddy longlegs
can be observed each evening moving from
its tree trunk to the forest floor. As dawn
approaches, the spider returns to its tree
trunk.
Lunar migrations
Lunar migrations are most common in
aquatic animals and are usually associated
with reproduction. From March through
July, California sme~ (or grunion) ride the
night tide of the full moon in order to
deposit their eggs and sperm in sandy
burrows on the beach. Two weeks later,
the fish's offspring are washed out to sea
by the high tide of the new moon.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, World .Book Inc.;
Encyclopedia Americana, Groiler Inc.; National Geographic; Encyck>pedia.com; Perspectives on Animal
Behavior, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
How do they do that?
Scientists are curious to know how some
birds, whales and other animals manage to
travel thousands of miles and never get lost
or travel off course. Research has shown
that different animals use different methods
to find their way. ·
Many species seem to have migration
routes and navigation skills that are
instinctive. Some animals rely on the
Earth's magnetic field to navigate. Some
use the sun, moon and stars as a compass,
while others may use landmarks such as
mountains or rivers. Many birds and insects
use polarized light to find their way (this lets
them find their way even on cloudy days).
Salmon use their sense of smell and water
currents to find their way back to their
·spawning stream.
It is likely that many creatures use celestial
observations combined with the magnetic
field and or landmarks to guide them.
Whales use landmarks, echoes, currents
and landmarks to find their way.
Some migration routes must be learned.
The mule deer migrates only a short
distance, but the route must be learned
when young. Experiments with adult and
young starlings revealed that adults that
were captured and released off course
could navigate back to the migration route.
Young starlings who had never made the
trip before could not find their way.
"'
Cyclical migrations
Crossword
Cyclical migrations are not linked to climate
or seasons, but happen at irregular intervals and often take a lifetime to complete.
Some species of salmon have cyclical
migrations where the young hatch in small
rivers and streams and then move into the
ocean for two or three years. To breed, the
adult salmon make their way back to the
river where they were born. There they lay
their eggs before dying.
ACROSS
2 Living in water
3 Most common kind
of migration
5 This fish is born in fresh
water streams, but migrates
to the ocean.
6 A north-south direction
9 Of, on or about the moon
10 Small rodents with population irruptions
H~man
DOWN
1 Kung bushmen live in this desert.
4 Microscopic living things
6 Some migrations last this long.
7 Type of migration usually triggered by
changes in light or temperature
8 Chemicals that stimulate or tell a body
what to do
migrations
People have been known to migrate as
well. For example, the Kung bushmen of
the Kalahari Desert continue the tradition
of following migrating game animals, which
they rely on for food. During drought or dry
seasons the Kung bushmen will migrate to
areas where water is more plentiful.
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Thomasine Robinson, Mayor • Councllmembers- Debi Bentley, Mark_Judd,
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The green turtle migrates a
distance of more than 2,000
miles (3,219 km) from its
feeding grounds off the
coast of Brazil to lay eggs
on Ascension Island, in the
middle of the southern
Atlantic Ocean.
During droughts
and the dry season
in Africa, thousands
of wildebeests
and zebras
migrate to areas
w~h more water.
Seasonal migrations
There are three main types of seasonal
migrations: Latitudinal, altitudinal and local.
Most migrating birds, bats, seals and
whales move in a north-south or latitudinal
direction. Many mountain dwellers, such as
the great panda or mountain quail, move up
and down their mountain range in an
altitudinal migration. Local migrations
usually occur in tropical regions when
animals relocate in search of water.
Scientists have been studying the
migrational habits of animals for many
years, but they still cannot explain what
triggers many animals to migrate.
Daylight plays an important role for many
migrations. It· is believed that under certain
light conditions, hormones are released
that tell the animal rt is time to move.
Experiments reveal that some animals do
not need any outside stimulants or cues,
but are just born knowing when to migrate.
In the spring, caribou
herds head north.
The herds segregate
themselves into groups
that migrate at different
times. Pregnant females ~~
and calves are
the first to migrate.
Lemmings have
a 3- to 5-year
cycle of migration,
and animals (like
the snowy owl)
that depend on
lemmings as a
food source will
sometimes
migrate with these
small rodents.
Seasonal migrations are very common and
generally take place twice a year. They are
usually triggered by changes in temperature, light or rainfall.
Reasons for travel
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Van Lear man gets 1 year for selling drugs
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by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
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PRESTONSBURG - A Van Lear
man was sentenced to one year in prison
Tuesday after he entered a blind plea to
charges of selling marijuana to an undercover police officer in Prestonsburg last
year.
Joey Lynn Hunter, 35, was arrested
Sept. 19 as part of The Floyd County instead.
Drug Task Force's efforts, which also led
Judge Eric Hall honored the defento several drug roundups in 2004. The dant's request, giving Hunter the maxitask force was shut down to make room mum sentence of one year in prison after
for the federally-funded Operation reviewing the case ftle, which included
video and audio evidence of the transacUNITE.
Hunter had indicated that he wanted a · tion which occurred at the Prestonsburg
court trial date at his pretrial conference Tiger Mart on Jan. 29, 2004.
The file included a detailed report by
but changed his mind on the morning of
the trial and opted to enter a blind plea Sgt. Bryan Hall that began with a confi-
STAFF WRITER
2 DAY FORECAST
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
photo by Mary Music
Charles Whitaker, also known as "The Can Man," says his work is a labor of love. He is shown above
using a sledge hammer to crush one of the more than 1.5 million cans he has collected over the last
10 years.
Not satisfied with 1 million,
'Can Man' sets sights on two
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STAFFORDSVILLE - They
say his mind is like a calculator,
and it'd just about have to be, in
order for him to continue his 10year charitable project.
To some he's known as
Charles Whitaker, a seemingly
ordinary retiree who lives in
Staffordsville. To others, he's
simply "The Can Man," a man
who exceeds the ordinary in a
effort to make a difference with
his life.
The latter distinction stems
from Whitaker's commitment to
the Johnson County Christian
School in Wittensville, a school
operated by the Johnson County
Free Will Baptist Church.
Since January 1996, Whitaker
has raised $23,398.10 for the
school by collecting, smashing
and recycling soda cans.
"Last Friday, a week ago. I
turned in 11,100 and got $185,"
he said. "And they say there's no
money in it."
(See CAN MAN, page three)
Charles "The Can Man" Whitaker
Drivers reminded about school
Opinion .........................A4
Church Page ................A6
Obituaries .....................A7
Sports ...........................B1
Lifestyles ......................C1
Classifieds ....................C4
(See SENTENCE, page three)
Police
prepare
another
'blitz'
by TOM DOTY
VOLGA - A singleehicle accident left a
woman injured and her
son killed Wednesday in
Johnson County.
Tina Miller was traveling
on Route 172, at Volga,
late Wednesday morning
when she lost control of
her vehicle and left the
road. Her 1995 Toyota
Paseo went down an
embankment and overturned. Miller was ejected
from the vehicle and later
treated at St. Mary's
Hospital in Huntington.
1 Miller's 29-year-old son,
Dolphia M. Kelly, was
trapped in the vehicle.
Johnson County Deputy
Coroner J.R. Frisby'pronounced him dead at the
scene.
The accident is currently under investigation by
Kentucky State Police
_Trooper Todd Wheeler,
who was assisted at the
scene by the Johnson
County Sheriff's
Department, First
~esponse Ambulance, .
ohnson County Fire and
Rescue, the flat Gap Fire
Department and the
Wittensville Fire
Department.
dential informant informing Hall that he
had arranged a marijuana buy from
Hunter, who was awaiting a phone call to
set up the sale.
Hall had the informant set up the sale
in Prestonsburg which was okay with
Hunter who then asked for an additional
$15 for gas money to make the trip from
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - AAA visited
Prestonsburg Wednesday to distribute
materials for the police department
aimed at increasing safety awareness
for area drivers now that school is back
in session.
AAA reported that the most dangerous moment for students riding school
buses is when they step on or off the bus
and the promotion includes reminders
of traffic congestion which arise from
(See SCHOOL, page five)
AAA representative Autumn
Osborne presented the
Prestonsburg
Pollee Department,
represented by
officer Gerald
Clark, with safety
awareness materials aimed at cautioning drivers to
observe ex1ra
safety measures
with area schools
reopening.
photo by Tom Doty
PRESTONSBURG - Prepare
to be blitzed, again.
Police officials from surrounding counties, nearing the end of the
"100 Days of Summer Heat," are
organizing therr efforts to dampen
the desire for some to drive while
impaired.
The law enforcement's "Labor
Day 2005 C&mpaign," with
increased patrols and safety checkpoints, will begin Aug. 19 and end
on Sept. 5.
The campaign, sponsored by the
Governor's
Highway
Safety
Program, focuses on keeping the
highways safer during the upcoming holiday.
Authorities from Floyd, Pike,
Magoffin and Martin counties
attended a meeting Thursday to
increase their awareness of the
problem.
"Your part is really, really key in
supporting
this
program
statewide," Law Enforcement
Liaison Bob Criswell said to
attending officials. "We need
everybody workirig together during
this time to get impaired drivers off
the road ... Obviously, your investment can help turn these numbers
around and save lives and prevent
injuries in your communities."
Criswell said statistics regarding
.alcohol-related crashes are no
shock to law enforcement officials,
who deal with the problem on a
routine basis. Kentucky State
Police informations officer Scott
Hopkins agreed, saying his cruiser
was hit by someone driving under
the influence.
Alcohol-related traffic fatalities
in Kentucky are among the lowest
in the nation, but alcohol is one of
the top contributing factors in fatal
collisions in the state. In 2004, 2 L
percent of all traffic fatalities in
Kentucky were alcohol-related.
Kentucky officials reported
5,645 alcohol-related crashes, with
199 deaths and 3,476 injuries- a
12 percent increase in fatalities and
a 3 percent decrease in injuries last
year.
Jefferson County carried the
state's highest number of alcoholand drug-related fatalities between
2002 and 2004 with a total of 85.
Pike County, having 24 alcoholrelated crash fatalities during the
same time period, reported that
(See BLITZ, page three)
Sobering
Facts
• The National
Highway Traffic
Safety Board
reports that alcohol
was a factor in 7
percent of all crashes and 40 percent
of more than 17,000
fatal crashes that
occurred in America
in 2003.
• In America,
someone dies in a
alcohol-related
crash every 31 minutes. Injuries occur
every two minutes.
• Three-out-of-10
Americans will be
involved in an alcohol-related crash
during their lifetime.
• 21- to 24-yearolds make up the
largest share of
drunk drivers in fatal
crashes.
• The most common blood-alcohol
level among drinking drivers in fatal
crashes was 0.14.
• Motorcycle operators involved in fatal
crashes comprise
the highest percentage of drivers who
are meet or exceed
the legal limit.
• Drunk drivers are
more likely to
speed, less likely to
wear their seat
belts, and more likely to have been
involved in the
deadliest kind of
crash - a rollover
crash, in which people are five times
more likely to be
hurt or killed.
• In 2003, 30 percent of all fatal
crashes during the
week and 53 percent during the
weekends were
alcohol-related.
• In 2003, 1.4 million people were
arrested for drunk
driving. Authorities
say that only one
arrest is made,
however, for every
772 instances of driving while impaired.
That means a person can drive
impaired on several
occasions before he
or she is actually
caught. In some
instances, "caughf'
means death.
• Nationwide,
approximately 30
percent of all drivers
arrested for DUI
have had previous
arrests or sanctions
for DUI.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST
12, 2005
II CRYSTAL RNER, Fla.
- Maybe, just maybe, the third
time 's a charm for Mo the manatee.
Twice before, state wildlife
officials have tried to release the
mighty creature back into the
wild. And twice before, they've
failed. On Tuesday, they went
for No.3.
Mo was originally captured
as an orphan in 1994 and was
hand raised, which can make it
more difficult to prepare an animal for release because they
have learned little about living
in the wild.
Mo's first attempt at being
wild was in 1998. He was
released again in February
2002. But just before spending a
year in the wild, he was found in
Sulfur Springs in Hillsborough
County, emaciated and injured
from a boat strike.
Mo is well known throughout the state for having lived at
nearly every Florida manateerehabilitation center at one time
or another.
The Miami Seaquarium has
been Mo's home for most of the
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
past year. There, animal keepers
worked to teach him what he
needs to survive in the wild.
One of his problems has been
that he was not used to life in
saltwater and didn't recognize
foods that were available in saltwater.
''The reason he is significant
is that this is the third time he is
being released and we've never
done this with any other animal," said Nicole Adimey of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Jacksonville office.
II GREEN BAY, Wis. -The
Packalope will have to leave his
antlers at home.
Green Bay Packers fan Larry
Primeau will be barred from
wearing his trademark '60s-era
Packers helmet mounted with a
10-point deer rack at home
games under security rules
announced Wednesday.
Primeau, who in 1999 was
enshrined in the Visa Hall of
F,ans at the Pro Football Hall of.
Fame, said he can't believe new
security regulations will bar his
Packalope helmet.
The rule was not aimed
specifically at Primeau, as other
fans have attached antlers to
everything from hardhats to
Cheeseheads. Green Bay Police
Cmdr. Ken Brodhagen said
u.mbrellas have been included,
too.
Primeau said the rule will not
crimp his style too much: "I
can't wear the thing for three
hours straight because my neck
isn't strong enough."
II SIMI VALLEY, Calif. A man annoyed by a noisy car
alarm fired at least three bullets
into a Toyota Camry, silencing
the alarm but getting arrested in
the process.
David Owen Rye, 48, was
booked for investigation of
reckless discharge of a firearm
and felony vandalism, Sgt. John
Adamczyk said. He allegedly
told officers he grabbed his
handgun and went out to stop
the alarm.
The car's owner was visiting
a friend when he heard the gunfire at about 10 p.m. Thesday.
Police were called to the
Yosemite Avenue 'llpartment
building and Rye was ordered
out of his apartment by an officer with a bullhorn. A Los
Angeles Police Department
helicopter also responded.
Neighbor Ken Davis said he
heard gunshots and looked outside to see Rye holding a gun.
"It was little scary," Davis
said. "I didn't know what kind
of mood he was in. I didn't want
to say anything to him."
II EVERETT, Wash. - Just
in case, a shovel was at the
ready for a ceremony to install
the biggest deputies on the
Snohomish County sheriff's
force.
But it went unused Tuesday
as three well-groomed horses Slick, Rocky and Wynona each raised a hoof, patiently
waited for it to be inked and set
it down on paper to "sign" documents com,missioning the
county's mounted patrol
"We' re going to swear them
in, but I don't speak horse,"
Sheriff Rick Bart joked.
The ceremony was serious
business for those who made the
program a reality.
Slick's rider, Reserve Deputy
Ken Shefveland, proposed the
patrol about four years ago. A
year later he was joined by
Detective Barb Taylor, who
rides Wynona, and Reserve
Deputy Kurt McGowan, ric;ler of@t
Rocky, for training by Seattle
police mounted officers.
The three-member unit now
patrols county parks and trails,
visits various neighborhoods
and is being assigned to the
Evergreen State Fair later this
month.
The three volunteer their
time, own the horses and pay for
feed and care out of their own
pockets. Donations for uniforms
and equipment also come from a
program called Pennies for
~
Puppies and Ponies. .
"No tax dollars are going for
hay," Bart said.
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Today is Friday, Aug. 12, the
224th day of 2005. There are
141 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 12, 1944,
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest
son of Joseph and Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed
with his co-pilot when their
explosives-laden Navy plane
blew up over England.
On this date:
II In 1867, President Andrew
Johnson sparked a move to
impeach him as he defied
Congress
by
suspending
Secretary of War Edwin M.
Stanton.
II In 1898, the peace protocol ending the SpanishAmerican War was signed.
II In 1898, Hawaii was formally annexed to the United
States.
II In 1915, the novel "Of
Human Bondage," by William
Somerset Maugham, was first
published.
II In 1953, the Soviet Union
conducted a secret test of its
first hydrogen bomb.
II In 1960, the first balloon
satellite - the Echo 1 - was
launched by the United States
from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
II In 1962, one day after
launching Andrian Nikolayev
into orbit, the Soviet Union also
sent up cosmonaut Pavel
Popovich; both men landed
safely Aug. 15.
II In 1972, the last American
combat ground troops left
Vietnam.
II In 1978, Pope Paul VI,
who had died Aug. 6 at age 80,
was buried in St. Peter's
Basilica.
II In 1985, the world's worst
single-aircraft disaster occurred
as a crippled Japan Air Lines
Boeing 747 on a domestic flight
crashed into a mountain, killing
520 people.
Ten years ago: In a
methodical, daylong procession,
Republican presidential candidates courted Ross Perot's followers at a United We Stllnd
America conference in Dallas.
Five years ago: The
Russian nuclear submarine
Kursk and its 118-man crew
were lost during naval exercises
in the Barents Sea. Evander
Holyfield won a 12-round unanimous decision over John Ruiz
in Las Vegas for the vacant
WBA heavyweight title. Actress
Loretta Young died at age 87.
One year ago: In a stunning declaration, New Jersey
Gov. James E. McGreevey
announced his resignation and
acknowledged that he had had
an extramarital affair with
another man. The California
Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages
sanctioned in San Francisco
between Feb. 12 and March 11,
2004.
Today's
Birthdays:
Choreographer Michael Kidd is
86. Former Sen. Dale Bumpers,
D-Ark., is 80. Country singer
Porter Wagoner is 78. Singermusician Buck Owens is 76.
Actor George Hamilton is 66.
Actress Jennifer Warren is 64.
Rock singer-musician Mark
Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 56.
Singer Kid Creole is 55. Jazz
musician Pat Metheny is 51.
Actor Sam J. Jones is 51. Actor
Bruce Greenwood is 49.
Country singer Danny Shirley is
49. Pop musician Roy Hay
(Culture Club) is 44. Rapper Sir
Mix-A-Lot is 42. Actor Peter
Krause is 40. Tennis player Pete
Sampras is 34. Actor Michael
Ian Black ("Ed") is 34. Actress
Rebecca Gayheart is 33. Actor
Casey Affleck is 30. Rock musician Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) is
30. Actress Dominique Swain is
25.
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alcohol was involved in 30 percent of all fatal crashes. Floyd
County, with 18 fatalities, came
in lOth, with 35 percent of its
fatal crashes being alcoholrelated. Johnson, 34th, reported
that 35 percent of fatal crashes
are alcohol-related.
Martin
County, 66th, reported 57 percent. Magoffin County, 67th,
reported 47 percent.
"If it was some of their family members and they saw it, it'd
~ make them change their mind,"
said Prestonsburg Police Officer
Gerald Clark, when asked for a
reaction about alcohol-related
fatalities that he has witnessed
during his 24-year employment.
Inez Police Chief Mitchell
Williamson said the toughest
part about working alcoholrelated fatality crashes in small
communities is that officials are
more likely to know the families
involved. He estimated that
three out of five DUI arrests
made by his department are sec~ ond and third offenses.
KSP Captain Jim Booth
reported that the Memorial Day
blitz, targeting seat belt usage,
was successful this year.
Kentucky is one of the bottom
five states in regards to seat belt
usage. This year, officers cited
more than 6,000 people for not
wearing seat belts during that
campaign. They also caught
1,42Q people driving under the
influence, 21,645 people speed-
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ing, 1,289 people for drug possession and 1,405 people driving without insurance coverage.
Booth congratulated and
thanked officers for their service.
"Fatalities statewide are
down," he said. "We're 23
below where we were this time
last year. In the [five-county
KSP Post 9] area, as of Monday,
we were 11 lower than we were
this time last year. With 23 less
statewide, and about half of that
coming from our post, that's
shows that we're doing something."
During the meeting, Eric
Walker, commander of the
Governor's Highway Safety
Program, presented Pike County
District Judge Daryll Mullins
with a plaque in appreciation of
his support of the child passenger safety diversion program.
"We have to get the message
here," Mullins said, pointing to
his head. '"Cause if we get it
here, the behavior will change."
The program, coordinated by
Suetta Clevenger of the Pike
County Health Department,
focuses on educating parents
who fail to use child restraints.
Those cited find costs and fines
waived in Mullins' court, but
only if they attend a safety training class, hosted by Clevenger
and Hopkins.
Clevenger said between 62
neighboring Johnson County.
They arranged to meet at the
Tiger Mart and Hall arrived
early with an audiotape recorder
on his person as well as video
surveillance from a vehicle
across the street that contained
another officer.
Hunter arrived on time with
another man who went straight
into the Tiger Mart and did not
participate in the transaction.
Hunter opted to retrieve the
drugs from his vehicle and pass
them through Hall's window
rather than get in the car. He
explained to the officer that the
vehicle parked across the street,
containing the other officer and
video camera, looked suspicious.
Hunter then passed Hall two
plastic bags containing 23 grams
of marijuana each and complained that he preferred to do
business at the Taco Bell lot but
that he had been having trouble
with them.
Hall then gave Hunter $265
for the two ounces of marijuana,
with $15 going for gas, and
asked Hunter how he could get
up with him in the future. Hunter
responded by giving Hall several phone numbers which were
then used to make the final arrest
when the task force conducted
its roundup later in the year.
recent boost in plastic drink container sales.
In 1996, he recycled 122,445
cans, bringingin almost $1,900.
In 1999, he collected more than
200,000 cans and donated
almost $3,000. Last year, more
than 180,000 cans brought in
$3,050 for the school.
He's worried that the number
of cans will steadily decline
with increased sales in plastic
drink bottles. He wants to collect 2 million cans by July 2008.
"I've never been able to get
one single person to help me.
They say they can't fool with it.
It's too dirty," he said, smashing
cans. 'That's all right. I'll get it
done, I believe. By July 2008,
I'll have my 2 million, providing the good Lord lets me stick
around that long. If he takes me
home, I'm gone. I'm waiting for
a phone call."
Linda Daniels, secretary of
the school, described Whitaker
as a "very religious, compassionate" man who loves children
and "giving" to people. He visits
the school several times a year
and hands out candy and cookies .to the students.
The school places all the
money he collects (which
includes spare change he finds
while walking around) into a
scholarship fund, named in his
honor.
Daniels said the school,
which is solely funded by tuition
proceeds and donations, hosted
a big to-do when "The Can
Man" collected his millionth can
on April 24, 2002.
"We were all outside with big
signs up cheering him on," she
said. "We wanted to make it special."
The millionth can, tagged, is
on display in a glass box at the
school.
"When I go to that school,
you'd think I was somebody
great," Whitaker said. "They all
know me. They started calling
me 'The Can Man."'
Whitaker says he owes his
life to God and he feels its his
duty to give what he can give for
the betterment of others. His
truck is decorated with religious
messages. His back window is
decorated with "Trucking for
Jesus" and "Free Road Map To
Heaven" stickers.
Whitaker donates to several
churches in Kentucky and out of
the state. He even donates to one
that his friends, Bill and Linda
Galliger, attend in Ohio.
Whitaker moved to Ohio after
he left the Air Force, where he
worked as a supply technician
during World War II and, afterwards, as an "informer" with the
"special service." ("I guess that's
what you call it,'' he said.)
Whitaker befriended Linda
Gailiger when he worked for a
detective agency in Ohio some
27 years ago. He walked her to
her car every night and she
eventually taught him about her
Christian beliefs.
"I doubt I'd be living if I hadn't became a Christian," he said.
"I was pretty mean."
Whitaker says he never goes
to bed before 12 a.m. because
he's up studying the Bible.
While in the Air Force ( 1941
to 1964), Whitaker traveled to
several European countries. He
met his ex-wife in Ireland,
where his daughter, Adrienne,
now lives. She' s visiting next
month, he said.
The couple divorced because
of Whitaker' s commitment to
the armed forces. His ex-wife
didn't want to live in America
while he worked on overseas
missions. He never remarried.
When he left the armed
forces , Whitaker refused a job in
Argentina because he didn't
want to wear "plain clothes." He
returned to Kentucky from
Dayton, Ohio, in 1985. He's
been retired for 40 years now.
To date, every cent from the
recycling goes directly to the
school. Whitaker says he does-
n't even take out money for gas
or supplies. He also saves soda
can tabs for hospital donations.
"If you give somebody something, you can't give it with
strings attached to it or you're
not really giving it," he said.
"You have to give it with a free
heart."
He regularly attends Tom's
Freewill Baptist Church in
Paintsville.
Community soda can donations can be left in front of the
fruit stand at the Paintsville
Stockyard. Whitaker will also
pick up donated cans if called at
(606) 297-8722. Daniels can
provide more information about
the Johnson County Christian
School at (606) 297-5566.
and 65 individual have participated in the class, funded by
grants from the Governor's
Highway Safety Program, during the past two years. Upon
completion, participants arc
given a free child car scat.
"There's no excuse the second time around," Hopkihs said.
"They are educated, supplied
with a car seat, and told why it's
important that they don't get
caught again.
There is no
excuse."
Clevenger read a letter during the meeting from one moth-
er who said the program helped
saved her daughter's life
because she didn't realize she
was putting her child in danger
when she used an undersized car
seat.
"Programs like this secure
our future. Our youth, our children are our future," Lt. Walker
said.
Violators facing Mullins are
given diverted sentences if they
promise not to make the same
mistake for a year. If they do,
fines arc imposed from both
cases.
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ty to his entire student body.
More information can be
found
online
at
www.nhtsa.dot.gov under the
"You Drink & Drive, You Lose
Campaign" planner.
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Sentence
Man
Whitaker, who keeps everything distinctly catalogued in a
gray Mercedez-Benz Trucks
binder, says he's picked up
1,599,155 soda cans since he
started raising money for the
school.
This year, he's collected
87,000 cans, some of which he
picks up on roadways himself,
and others that are donated by
people in surrounding counties.
"I've got to have something
•) to do. I'm a young man," said
Whitaker, 85. "Ifyou don't have
something to do, you get into
trouble, you know."
Whitaker barters with the
owner of Brown's fruit market
stand
at
the
Paintsville
Stockyard for workspace (and
garage space) throughout the
week. He cleans up the mess left
over from Saturday's sale for
this accommodation: Atea residents leave caps there for him
occasionally, but he does remind
them not to leave them during
Saturday business hours.
~
Wednesday, Whitaker began
at 7 a.m. on a truckload of cans
he picked up Tuesday. He says
he has to work in the morning
because the bees "run him out"
in the afternoons. He counts the
cans as he places them in a cardboard box. Using a 12-pound
sledgehammer, he then smashes
each individual can and places
them into a 5-pound bucket.
This way, he says, he can carry
more cans with each truckload.
By 10 a.m. Wednesday, he
had two bags filled with 500
cans each.
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"I'm working for the Lord.
You can put that down, period.
What would I do if I didn't have
this to do, Miss? When you get
old, nobody won' t give you a
job. I had a job at Wal-Mart, but
I didn't like it, so I quit."
Whitaker, who grew up in
Whitehouse, says he doesn't like
the company's commercial
stronghold. in America. He isn' t
particularly fond, either, of the
Mullins said he routinely
talks to offenders who come into
his courtroom, a means of educating them about the importance of seat belt usage. Mullins
said some violators who come to
his court are given community
service detail. One man, he said,
was sentenced to washing 10
KSP cruisers for his offenses.
One high school student, he
said, was forced to give a ISminute speech on highway safe-
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Worth Repeating ...
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know that the ultimate in life
is to enjoy it. "
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Editorial roundup
The Times Union of Albany, N.Y., on campaign finan ce reform:
When the McCain-Feingold campaign fmance reform bill was
signed into law three years ago, cynics warned that it wouldn't be
long before both political parties found ways to get around the new
restrictions on soft money. Yet the 2004 elections largely proved
such warnings unfounded....
But by and large, most observers agree that McCain-Feingold
worked as intended. It brought to an end the era when soft money
ruled the day as corporations, unions and wealthy individual donors
sought to buy influence with those in office.
Yet the cynics might just turn out to be right after all, and not
because some lawyers have discovered a loophole to be exploited.
No, in this case, the group working to undermine McCain-Feingold
is none other than the Federal Election Commission, which is
charged with upholding that law....
Both a federal district judge and a federal appeals court have reprimanded the FEC over a proposed regulation that would define the
word "solicit" to mean only an explicit request for donations ... .
The appeals court rightly found that the FEC's definition would
open the doors to a flood of soft money. In the world of politics, one
needn't make a direct request for money. There are any number of
ways for a political candidate to get the message across to contributors that if they want access, they have to pay. A wink and a nod
can be as effective a shakedown as a direct appeal for contiibutions
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on bungling at the FBI:
Bureaucratic bungling of a requested wiretap shows there are
still communication problems, or much worse, within the FBI. ...
FBI chief Robert Mueller concedes that a mix-up delayed for
four months an immigration official's requ~st for a wiretap. The
tap, which had the support of prosecutors and FBI agents, was
needed to build a case against a Houston man suspected of raising
money for al-Qaida.
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But when the wiretap application reached FBI headquarters in
·washington, it slipped out of sight. ...
As a result, several hundred communications involving a suspected nexus of terrorism weren't intercepted, according to an
immigration official.
Mueller called the incident an exception. Homeland Security·
Secretary Michael Chertoff says cooperation with the FBI is just
dandy....
It was stubborn disregard among federal agei\cies that allowed
terrorists to plot and orchestrate the worst attack on U .S. soil since
Pearl Harbor.
With this enemy, there is no room for unexplained exceptions.
Guest
IBM's baleful
plans for the
middle class
by JIM HIGHTOWER
MINUTEMAN MEDIA
The internal memo is dated April
2005 and tagged: "ffiM Confidential."
The reason for the hush-hush treatment is that this · document is written
confirmation of corporate America's
intention to offshore our nation's middle-class future, shipping out the jobs in
engineering and other sciences that
require advanced degrees and pay top
wages. ffiM, the world's largest infor-
Chicago Tribune, on the discovery of an object orbiting the sun
larger than Pluto:
School kids for 75 years have been taught that our solar system
has nine planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Sa turn,
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Before Clyde Tombaugh discovered
Pluto in 1930, they had been taught there were only eight. ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of an object orbiting
the sun that is larger than Pluto....
For the moment, this new object has been named 2003UB313 ....
This discovery raises again the recurring question about whe ther
Pluto deserve.s to be called a planet. Other planets in the outer solar
system are giant and gaseous - think Jupiter. Pluto, the smallest
planet, is solid. It's less than half the size of the next largest,
Mercury. It's smaller even than seven of the solar system'~ moons,
including our own....
The IAU (International Astronomical Union) still qualifies Pluto
· as a planet, but it's studying the matter. In short, Pluto's on the bubble. If Pluto had been discovered today instead of 75 years ago , it
probably never would have been granted planetary status ...
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Zen and. the art of
Iraqi regime change
by SHELDON RICHMAN
What does it mean to overemphasize
the presence of what is absent? That
Zen-like question arises from an interview the Associated Press recently published with Douglas Feith, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's departing
chief policy advisor. Feith told the AP
the Bush administration "overemphasized" the matter of weapons of mass
destruction as the rationale for invading
Iraq and overthrowing the government
of Saddam Hussein
That has to be the understatement not
only of the young century, but of the last
several centuries.
Reality to Mr. Feith: There were no
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Feith seems to have a clue to the problem: "Anything we said at all about
stockpiles was overemphasis, given that
we didn't find them." Yes, at the risk of
sound Zen-like again, an)' emphasis
would have been overemphasis.
He added, "Our intelligence community made, apparently, an error, as to the
stockpiles." Considering that we taxpayers pay a good bit of change for that
intelligence "community," the mind
boggles at the idea that it could have
made such an "error" innocently. Isn't it
more likely that it was accommodating
the higher-ups who were spoiling for
war even before 9/11? This suspicion is
hardly undercut by the f~ct that other
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mation technology corporation, has
become the leading practitioner of shopping the globe for the cheapest high-tech
workers, knocking down the wage floor
to the lowest common denominator.
Because of the wrenching economic, social, and political impacts this
will have on U. S. society, mM has
not wanted to concede publicly that
undermining middle-class opportunities is a corporate goal. This leaked
memo, however, confirms that while
the top honchos are cutting 13,000 of
these high-tech jobs in America and
Europe this year, it will add 14,000 in
the low-wage tech centers of India.
Experienced software programmers
in our country earn maybe $75,000 a
year, creating a sound middle-class base
for our economy and communities. But
the hell with such democratic notions of
the Common Good, say ' the profiteerswe can replace American programmers
with ones from India who'll.do the work
for $15,000 a year. That's $60,000 per
Co
job, per year, that the corporate and
investor elites can take out of the middle
class and put in their own pockets.
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Adding insult to injury, a top ffiM
executive says that the corporate rush to
India is not merely a chase for the
cheapest workers, but "It's mostly about
skills." He then proceeds to lecture
America's high-tech workers: "You are
no longer competing just with the guy
down the street, but also with people
around the world. "
And there yqu have a sparkling clear
statement of what' corporate America
thinks of you and has in store for you.
How do they think they'll hold a society
together when they knock down all of
our wages to $15,000 a year?
Jim Hightower is the best-selling
author 'of "Thieves In High Places:
They've Stolen Our Country And It 's
Time To Take It Back."
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countries' intelligence agencies and
even the Clinton administration thought
Saddam had WMDs.
In his interview with the AP, Feith
said, "Irwould have been better had we
done a better job of communicating in
all of its breadth the strategic rationale
for the war." Which was what?·
According to the AP summary, "The
broader rationale, Feith said, included
the danger posed by Iraq's."potential to ·
resume building chemical, biological
and possibly nuclear weapons - knowhow that the Iraqi regime developed
before the. l991 Gulf War."
It is doubtful the American people
would have supported an invasion of
Iraq on the grounds that Saddam might
some day try to develop weapons. Why
should he use them against the United
States? Wjthout provocation he'd have
no reason to commit personal and
national suicide.
The administration realized that people had to be panicked into supporting
the war. That's why, as fonner defense
official Paul Wolfowitz conceded, the
various parts of the admin_istration
agreed to build its case on the alleged
WMDs rather than other issues. That
case was spiced up with hints that
Saddam had something to do with 9/11,
though he did not. Feith approved this
strategy: "Had Saddam Hussein not
been a supporter of terrorism and a guy
who developed and used WMD, I don't
think that simply saying he's a tyrant
and we have a chance to replace a tyrant
would have motivated the war."
But Saddam had no record of supporting terrorism against the United
States. His efforts were confined to helping Palestinians who are under occupa-
tion. (Not that this excuses his encouraging the murder of innocents.) As for
Saddam's development and use of
WMDs (i.e., poison gas), that occurred
during Iraq's war with Iran, when he was~~
a U.S. ally. Memories are fleeting: the
Reagan administration supplied Saddam
with WMD materials back then.
Rumsfeld was a special envoy in the
effort.
. Feith told the AP he is annoyed that
people think the lack of weapons means
there was no· reason to go to war.
According to the AP, such people
"ignore the broader reasoning, he said,
which included the dangers posed by
Saddam's record of aggression against
Kuwait, hostility toward the United
States, a 'rhetorical and financial support' for terrorism and a weakening of~
the world's resolve to contain his ambitions."
But how could these have been good
reasons for the American people to be
forced into a war of conquest, which, as
predicted, has spawned violence not
only in Iraq but in Spain and England,
with the United States perhaps next?
America cannot be a prosperous and
peaceful place if its government insists
on policing the world. Empire is expensive. Protecting far-flung "interests"
costs money and, inevitably, lives. Do
you want to know the price of empire?
It's random searches of subway passengers in New York City. And that's just 11.
the beginning.
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Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at
The Future of Freedom Foundation,
author of "Tethered Citizens: Time to
.Repeal the Welfare State, " and editor of
"The Freeman" magazine.
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by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
The second week of August
was short on releases but the films
~ and television series that were
released were of high quality.
"Because of Winn-Dixie" Hollywood
doesn't
make
enough quality family fare, but
this film breaks that mold and
manages to give roles to some
of the industry's best talents.
This one focuses on a young girl
who has moved to a new town
and is anxious to fit in. Her situation changes when she meets a
stray dog in the title store. The
dog manages to involve her in
the lives of some of the town's
~assorted characters. Director
Wayne Wang (''The Joy Luck
Club") manages to keep the saccharine level low while delivering a film that should appeal to
most members of the family.
Supporting turns by Cicely
Tyson, Eva Marie Saint and Jeff
Daniels help round out the story.
"Kung-Fu
Hustle"
Chow
("Shaolin
Stephen
Soccer") stars and directs this
high energy farce that centers on
a criminal group (The Axe
Gang) which tries to take over a
Hong Kong ghetto, called Pig
Sty Alley, and runs afoul of
three kung-fu masters who have
taken refuge there. The mmtial
arts sequences are some of the
best captured on film and were
choreographed by Yuen Woo
Ping, who handled similar
chores on ''The Matrix."
"Intruder" - The good folks
at Anchor Bay Video continued
to resurrect horror films on
DVD with this . release of a
slasher film from the people
who brought you the "Evil
Dead" series. The action takes
place on the last night of business for a grocery store but no
one is going to get to cash that
severance check when a sadistic
killer strikes. This one may have
a low body count for this kind of
fare but compensates for that by
plottmg ehhorate and ultra gory
finaks for each character. Look
for a cameo appearance by "Evil
Dead" star Bruce Campbell.
'The Muppet Show" -The
first f u II season of this classic
series posits what would happen
if Jim Henson's creations produced their own show every
wee.li. The jokes are a bit dated,
but th1s scncs is perfect viewing
for the whole family and every
episode fL atures talented turns
by cclebnty guest stars like
Sylvester Stallone, Madeline
Kahn and Steve Martin.
"Profit' - The Fox network
canceled this show after only
airing a few episodes, but
Anchor Bay Home video has
rescued it from the dust pile and
includes the whole series here,
which includes four episodes
that never made· it to air. Adrian
Pasdar stars as a cutthroat executive who joins a mega-corporation and proceeds to kill his way
up the corporate ladder. Black
humor laces every episode,
charting Profit's rise to power
which was, unfortunately, halted
by poor ratings. The two-hour
pilot episode alone sparked a
ton of hate mail for the network.
Definitely ahead of its time and
the only show on television to
offer up absolutely no redeeming characters every week.
Next week look for "Sin
City," which was adapted by
Frank Miller from his intense
series of graphic novels, and the
controversial film ''The Brown
Bunny" from actor/director
Vincent Gallo ("Buffalo 66").
A young actor who was starting to make a name for himself
in movies died Thursday.
Matthew McGrory had gotten
juicy roles in "Big Fish" and
"House of 1,000 Corpses" (as
well as the sequel, "The Devil's
Rejects") due to his seven-foot
frame. He had landed his
biggest role yet, as wrestling
legend Andre The Giant, when
he was felled by a massive heart
attack.
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by CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP MOVIE CRITIC
Trashing "Deuce Bigalow:
European Gigolo" seems pointless, even a bit cliched.
Film critics clearly aren't the
target audience for this sequel,
as we weren't for its predecessor, "Deuce Bigalow: Male
Gigolo." What we say won't
matter now, as it didn't matter
then. (The first movie made
about $65 million, which probably doesn't sound like a major
box-office haul, but it was a lot
more money back in 1999.)
Then again, "European
Gigolo" itself is pointless, and
more than a bit cliched. It is a
nearly rote remake of the original movie, with the gross-out
adventures taking place in
Amsterdam instead of Malibu.
And though it sounds impossible, it's even cruder and less
coherent than the first. But what
else would you expect? You
don' t walk into A Happy
Madison Production for the
intellectual stimulation.
The movie has an episodic,
sketch-comedy nature that renders the jokes -and gags hit-ormiss, with a vast majority
falling into the latter category.
Of course, that was also true of
the original "Deuce Bigalow,"
but at least earlier effort provided an unexpected guilty plea-
"Deuce Bigalow: Eurapean
Gigolo," b rated R for pervasive strong, crude and sexual
humor. language, nudity and
drug content.
Running time: 77 minutes.
One star
out of four.
' clues. He also finds
sure now and then. With this and collect
sequel - directed by Mike time to woo the exceedingly
Bigelow (no relation) and writ- cute b a. a painter with obsesten by star Rob Schneider with sive-compulsive disorder played
David Garrett and Jason Ward by Cheryl Tiegs look-alike
Hanna Verboom.
-we've already seen it all.
As in "Male Gigolo,"
As hapless, clueless aquarium cleaner Deuce Bigalow, Deuce's dates include a frighteningly tall woman, but there's
"Sa~urday Night Live" alum
Schneider again must reluctant- also a lady with a hunchback,
ly squire a series of circus-freak another with enormous ears,
caliber women to get out of a another 11\ ho speaks with a
jam. This time, he's trying to. microphone through a hole in
help prove that his old friend her trachea. The humor is supand pimp, T.J. Hit;:l<s · (Eddie posed to be outrageous but
G~iffin jn 01u~.-.beaded corn- instead falls flat.
The most crass of all is a
rows), did not murder a series of
famous European gigolos, or Russian "Woman whose mother
"man-whores," he's accused of was exposed to nuclear radiation at Chernobyl while she was
killing.
Deuce, who gave up the busi- pregnant The daughter has male
ness after marrying the perky: genitalia in the place of a nose,
blond Kate from the first film which she covers by wearing a
(whose death in a shark attack veil; let's just say that when she
during their honeymoon is sneezes. that's not snot flying
played for
uncomfortable across the restaurant and into
laughs), returns to man-whoring people's food.
The bit is not offensive to meet the dead gigolos' clients
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it's just plain yucky. Far more
disturbing is the homophobic
vibe that permeates the whole
picture. Making fun of homosexuality seems to be the one
area of humor that has yet to be
ruled off-limits by political correctness; such jokes also
appeared in the far superior
"Wedding Crashers" earlier this
summer.
Here, T.J. the pimp grows
increasingly agitated with the
assumption that he is gay, based
on the fact that he keeps getting
caught in compromising PoSitions with the dead gigolos. A
newspaper headline blares:
"Man-whore killer ·at large,
extremely gay." A TV news
report states that the latest
killing is his gayest yet, etc.
T.J. repeatedly exclaims, "I
ain't gay!" or some variation
thereof. It's not funny the first
time, it's not funny the 20th time
- it's just stupid, small-minded
screenwriting.
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times.
,. Chief Mike Omerod noted in the middle of the block.
• Listen to and obey instructhat it is especially important this
year for drivers to consider alter- tions from crossing guards.
• Always walk and never run
nate routes around Adams
Middle School, which this year is
also hosting students from ~e
former
Clark
Elementary.·
Omerod foresees plenty of tie
ups around the school at the peak
times of early morning and
midaftemoon.
"If people have an alternate
route they can use it will save
them a lot of time," Omerod said.
Motorists on Route 1428 can
expect
delays this year because,
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as Omerod observed, ''There is
no place to put the traffic."
AAA director Lilla S. Mason
added, "Children are always at a
high risk for pedestrian injury,
especially now with school going
back into session."
AAA has condensed important driving tips to minimize any
chances of a tragic mishap and
those materials will be distributed throughout the city by the
Prestonsburg Police Department.
nmportantbacktoschoolsafety tips include:
• Allow for extra travel time
•if your schedule has you on the
road at school opening and closing times.
• Always stop for buses
which are loading or unloading
passengers.
• Reduce speed when driving
in school zones.
• Look out for indicators
which tell drivers that children
are nearby, such as signs for
school crossings and children at
play, crossing guards, play- ·
grounds and bicycles.
AAA also has tips for what
parents should tell children,
.,
across streets.
• Look for traffic when entering or exiting the school bus.
• 1\le\ cr try to pick up any
items dropped in a school bus's
"Danger Zone."
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD
1428, between Allen & Martin; Sunday
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.m.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.; Lonie Meade, Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea market), Sunday
First Assembly of God, Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship School, 10 a.m.; Sunday Morning, 11
Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Lorie Vannucci, a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6 p.m.;
School, 1oa.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889-0905.
Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer, 6 p.m.;
Mimster.
Mare Creek Church of Christ, Stanville; Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; Sunday
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Minister.
In Victory Assembly of God, West Prestonsburg; Sunday School, Pastor, Rev. Stuart E. Swanberg.
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Faith Revelation Ministery, 1/4 mile ab~ve Worldwide Equipment;..
10:00; Worship Service, 11:00 & 6:30; Wednesday Evening, 6:30; Faith Freewill Baptist, 1/4 mile above
Worldwide Eqpt. on Rt. 1428; Sunday
Gary Stanley, Pastor.
Martin Church of Christ, Martin; Sunday Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship serv1ce, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Randy Hagans, Minister.
New Bethel Assembly of God, Burning Fork Rd., Salyersville; Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service. 11
and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Gary Faith Worship Center, US 460, Paintsville; Worship Service, 11
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Buddy Jones, Minister.
Mithchell, Minister.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. Arthur (Sam) Smith, Minister.
a.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Buddy and Maude Frye, Minister.
Maytown Church of Christ, 66 Turl<ey Full Gospel Community, (formerty of Martin) moved to Old Allen;
Praise Assembly, 1 mile S. of Prestonsburg, intersection of Rt. 80 First Baptist, Garrett; Sunday School,
9:45a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.
and
7
Creek Rd., Langley. Sunday Bible Study Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Sunday
and U.S. 23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Randy
10:00 a.m., Sunday morning worship 11 :00 evening, 6:30 p.m.; Wed., 6:30 pm.; Lavonne Lafferty, Minister.
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; J.M. Sloce, Minister.
Osborne, Minister.
a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.,
BAPTIST
Lighthouse Temple, Main St. and Hail St.; Worship Service, 12
First Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10
Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
Allen First Baptist, Allen; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
• p.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday/Friday, 7 p.m.; Roy Cosby, Minister.
Upper Toler Church of Christ, 3.5 miles
Serv1ce, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Arnold Turner, Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School, Living Water Ministries Full Gospel Church, Conley Fork of
Minister.
p.m.; Graydon Howard, Minister.
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 Spurlock, Prestonsburg; Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Sunday Evening,
Auxier Freewil Baptist, Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship First Baptist, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale 6:00p.m. Pastor: Curt Howard.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 pm.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Bobby Spencer, Memorial); Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Martin House of Worship, Old Post Office St.; Worship Serv~ce, 7
Bush, Minister.
Pastor.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.;
Weeksbury Church of Christ; Sunday p.m., Saturday/Sunday.
Benedict Baptist, Slick Rock Branch, Cow Creek; Sunday School, Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Dr. Floyd Price, minSchool, 10 a.mm. ; Worship Service, 10:45 Old Time Holiness, 2 miles up Arkansas Creek, Martin; Sunday
JO a.m; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; ister.
School, 11 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; John W.
a.m. and 6 p.m. Mike Hail, Minister.
Gordon Fitch, Minister.
Patton, Minister.
Fitzpatrick First Baptist, 1063 Big
Whoever shuts his
CHURCH OF GOD
Betsy Layne Free Will Baptist, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10 Branch, P.O. Box 410, Prestonsburg, KY
Spurlock Bible (Baptist), 6227 Spurlock Creek Rd., Prestonsburg; ~
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; 41653; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Betsy Layne Church of God, Old U.S. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7
ears
to
the
cry
of
Tracy Patton, Minister.
23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship p.m.; Jim Stephens, Minister. 886-1003.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wedniday,
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. ; Wednesday, Town Branch Church; Sunday School 10 a.m except for first
Big Sandy Community and Technical College Baptist Student 7 p.m.; Pastor Tommy Reed.
the
poor
also
7 p.m.; Judith Caudill, Minister.
Union, J 102; Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.; Vera Joiner, 886-3863, ext. Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
Sunday in each month.; Worship Service, Sun. morning 10:00 a.m.;
67267
Community Church of God, Arkansas Evening 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; No Sunday night services on
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
cry himself and
Creek,
Martin;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.;
Bonanza Freewill Baptist, Abbott Creek Road, Bonanza; Sunday 11 a.rn. & 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 7: p.m.
first Sunday of each month. Tom Nelson, Minister.
Friday, 7 p.m.; Bud Crum, Minister.
not be heard.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
The Father House, Big Branch, Abbott Creek; Sunday School, 10
Jimmy D. Brown, Minister.
First Church of God; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m.; J.J. Wright, Minister.
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. and 6 The Tabernacle, Rt. 321 (Old Plantation Motel), Christian
Brandy Keg Freewill Baptist, Corn Fork; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; 11 a.m. &6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
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p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V. Educator, 10:00; Sunday Morning, 11 :00; Sunday Evening, 7:00;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Roger Music, Grethel Baptist, State Rt. 3379,
Williams, Pastor.
Minister.
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
Wednesday, 7:00; Pastors, Paul and Ramona Aiken.
Garrett Church of God, Garrett; Sunday Youth Fellowship Center, Wheelwright; Monday-Tuesday, 6 p.m.;
Calvary Southern Baptist, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 9:45 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
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a.m.;
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Service,
11
a.m.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
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Thursday, 7 p.m.
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and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Donald
Doug Lewis, Minister.
Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist;
Zion
Deliverance,
Wayland;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Bragg, Minister.
Community Freewill Baptist, Goble Roberts Addition; Sunday Sunday School, 9:50 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m Prayer Line:
Landmark Church of God, Goble Roberts Addition; Sunday 358-2001 ; Jeff Kinslow, Pastor
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Wednesday, 7 p.m.; David Garrett, Minister.
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7 p.m.; Paul D. Coleman, Minister.
Jacks Creek Baptist, Bevinsville; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11:10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Taylor Chapel Community Church, formerly the old Price Food
Wednesday,
7
p.m.;
Kenneth
E.
Prater,
Jr.,
Minister.
Cow Creek Freewill Baptist, Cow Creek; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Pastor
Service building, located 1 quarter mile above Worldwide
Little Paint First Church of God, 671 Little Paint Road, East Point; Equipment, Rt. 1428. Sun. Bible Study, 10 a.m.; Sun. Morning
Sunday, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Nathan Lafferty, Roger Trusty.
Sunday
School,
9:45
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.
and
6
p.m.;
Minister.
Katy Friend Freewill Baptist, 2 miles up Abbott; Sunday School,
Service, 11 a.m.; Sun. Evening, 6:30 p.m. Kenny Vanderpool,
Daniels Creek Baptist Fellowship Church of God, Banner. 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.. ; Charles Heater Jr., Minister.
Pastor.
The Ligon Church of God of Prophecy, Saturday Services, 7:00 International Pentecostal Holiness Church, 10974 N. Main St.,
Serv1ces: Saturday night, 7. p.m.; Sunday morning, 11 a.m.; Sunday Jim Price, Minister.
night, 7 p.m.; Henry Lewis, Minister.
Lackey Freewill Baptist, Lackey; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship p.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Ralph Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor.
·
Hall, Pastor.
Drift Freewill Baptist, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Johnny J. Collins, Minister.
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
Service, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Jim Fields, Minister.
Lancer Baptist Church; 71 Cooley St., Prestonsburg, Sunday
a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Pastor: D.P. Curry.
EPISCOPAL
Endicott Freewill Baptist, Buffalo; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship School, 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship, 11 :00 a.m., Evening Woship,
Church of God of Prophecy, Sunday School 10 a.m., worship
St.
James
Episcopal;
Sunday
Service,
9:45
a.m.;
Holy
Eucharist
· 6:00 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.;
Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Hobert Meek, Pastor.
11:00 a.m. Wednesday Study Group 6:00p.m., Holy Eucharist & Service 11 a.m., Sunday Night- 6 p.m., Wednesday Night - 6 p.m.
Pastor Glenn Hayes. West Prestonsburg.
Faith Bible Church, an independent Baptist Church, located ori Pastor Bobby Carpenter
Healing 7:30 p.m. Father Johnnie E. Ross, Rector,
Liberty Baptist, Denver; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Merle Little, Minister.
LUTHERAN
Ligon Community Freewill Baptist, Ligon Worship Service, Our Savior Lutheran, Sipp Bayes Room·carriage House Motel,
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Thursday, 7 p.m.
Paintsville; Sunday Service, 11 a.m.; WKLW (600 am) 12:05 p.m.;
Martin Branch Freewill Baptist, Estill; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.; Rolland Bentrup, Minister.
R&S Truck Body Co., lie.
Worship Service, 11:15 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James
P.O. Box 420, Allen, K Y 4 160 I
METHODIST
(Red) Morris, Minister.
R555 South U.S. Highway 23,
Ivel. KY 41642
Auxier
United
Methodist,
Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Martin Freewill Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; John L. Blair, Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter,
506 Bucks Branch, Martin
US 23 Prestonsburg .
Phone (606) &74-2151
Minister.
Minister.
Wans: (800) 826-74 13
1-800-446-9879
1-800-264-9813
Betsy
Layne
United
Methodist,
next
to
B.L.
Gymnasium;
Sunday
Fax: (606) 874-9136
Maytown First Baptist, Main St., May1own; ~unday School, 10
School,
10
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.;
Wednesday,
7
p.m.;
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Bob
Randy Blackburn, Minister.
Varney, Minister.
Allen Christ United Methodist, Alien; Sunday School, 9:45a.m.; Wo~
McDowell First Baptist, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
MANPOWER TEMPORARY SERVICES
Service, 11 a.m. &6p.m.; Wednesday,7 p.m.; Kenneth Lemaster, Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Gene
First Commonwealth Bank Building
Community
United
Methodist,
141
Burke
Avenue
(off
University
Bracken, Minister.
Drive and Neeley St.); Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
311 N. Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
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Middle Creek Baptist, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Wprship 11 a.m. ·ant! 6 p.m .~ Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steve Pescosolido,
Preston sburg, KY 41653
~ Mercury~
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Eugene Cook, Minister. ,
(606) 889-9710
Minister.
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Ivel
Elllofl's Chapel Free Methodist, Rt. 979, Beaver; Sunday School,
Offering employment solut ions
Lighthouse Baptist, 2194 KY Rt. 1428, Prestonsburg; Sunday 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Philip T. Smith,
for office and ind ustrial wo rk
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Minister.
7 p.m.; Donald Crisp, Minister.
Emma United Methodist, Emma; Sunday School10 a.m., Sunday
home phone 285-3385
Worship Service 11 a.m.; Pastor David Profitt.
Pleasant Home Baptist, Water Gap Road, Lancer; Sunday First United Methodist, 256 South Arnold Avenue; 9 a.m.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Contempory Service; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship Service,
WE'RE GmiNG THINGS DONE
7 p.m.; Mark Tackett, Pastor.
10:55 a.m. and 5 p.m. UMYS Service; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Mark D.
Pleasant Valley Old Regular Baptist Church, linker Fork; Walz, Pastor.
Meeting time 1st Saturday & Sunday of each month, 3rd Sunday Horn Chapel Methodist, Auxier Road, Auxier; Sunday Morning
Evening at 6:00p.m.; Moderator, Gary Compton; Assist. Moderator, Service, 9 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Mid-week Service, 7 p.m.;
Main Street, Inez, Ky. • 298-3511
Jimmy Conley.
Sunday Evening Service held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each
Prater Creek Baptist; Banner; Sunday School, 10 a.m; Worship month at 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter, Minister.
L"r..:
Member FDIC
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; J.B. Hall, Pastor. Graceway United Methodist, Rt. 80, Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Phone: (606) 874-3222.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Night, 7 p.m.; Roy Harlow,
Rock Fork Freewill Baptist; Garrett Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Wendell Crager, Salisbury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Bobby G.
Minister.
Rock Fork Regular Baptist, Garrett; Worship Service, 9:30 a.m.; Lawson, Minister.
Member FDIC
Wayland United Methodist, Rt. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
Jerry Manns, Pastor; Willie Crace Jr., Assistant Pastor.
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Service,
11
a.m.;
Wednesday,
6
p
..
m.;
Brad
Tackett,
Salt Lick United Baptist, Salt Lick, Hueysville; Worship Service,
Magoffin Co. (606) 349-8800 Pike Co. (606) 432-7188
10:30 a.m.; 4th Sunday; Thursday, 6:30 p.m.; Pastor, Chester Minister.
Wheelwright United Methodist, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
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Sammy Clark Branch Freewill Baptist, Dana; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Bobby Isaac, Minister.
Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
Stephens Branch Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday 10:00 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11 :00 a.m.; Wed. Bible Study,
7:00 p.m.; Dennis C. Love, Pastor.
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Drift Pentecostal, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
The Third Avenue Freewill Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Saturday/Sunday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Ted Shannon,
5000 Kr Hwr. 321 Prestonsburg, KentuckY 41653
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Minister.
Community Owned/Nat Far Profit
Tom's Creek Freewill Baptist, U.S. 23 (north of Layne Brothers); Free Pentecostal Church of God, Rt. 1428, East Point; Sunday
Member AHA ami KHA
Accredited bll JCAHO
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Thurs.,
Physician Reterral
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chuck Ferguson, Minister.
886-7586
6:30 p.m.; Buster Hay1on, Minister.
Tom Moore Memorial Freewill Baptist; Cliff Road; Sunday Free Pentecostal Church of God, Weeksbury; Sunday School, 10
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Youth Service, 5:00 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m. ; Wednesday/Saturday, 7 p.m.; John
p.m.; Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of "Jay" Patton, Minister.
each month; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Jody Spencer, Minister.
Free Pentecostal Deliverance, Ext. 46 off Mt.. Parkway at
Trimble Chapel Freewill Baptist; Intersection of U.S. 23 and KY Campton; Worship Service, Saturday and Sunday, 7 p.m.; Patricia
80, Water Gap; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Morning Worship Service, Crider, Minister.
11 a.m. and Evening Worship Service 6 p.m.; Wednesday B1ble Free Pentecostal Holiness, Rt. 122, Upper Burton; Sunday
Study, 7 p.m., Youth Services 7 p.m.; Everyone Welcome.
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School, 11 a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m; Friday, 7 p.m.; Louis
United Comunity Baptist, Hwy. 7, Hueysville; Worship Service, 2 Sanlan, Minister; David Pike, Associate Minister.
p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; Carlos Beverly, Minister.
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Martin, Kentucky
Goodloe Pentecostal, Rt. 850, David; Worship Service, 6 p.m.;
Wheelwright Freewill Baptist, Wheelwright Junction; Sunday Malcom Slone, Minister.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Parkway First Calvary Pentecostal, Floyd and Magoffin County
7 p.m.; Louis Ferrari, Minister.
Line;; Worship Service, 6:30p.m.; Mike D. Caldwell, M1mster. 297CATHOLIC
6262.
St. Martha, Water Gap; Mass: Sunday, 11 :15 a.m.; Saturday, 5 Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
p.m.; Sunday.; Father Robert Damron, pastor.
East KY Metal (Next door to East KY Roof &Truss Co.)
7 p.m.; Elllis J. Stevens, Minister.
CHRISTIAN
3095 S. Lake Drive • Prestonsburg, KY 41653
First Christian 560 North Arnold Avenue; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Free Pentecostal Church, Dwale; Services Saturday, 6 p.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m.; No Sunday Night
Worship Servic~. 11 a.m.; Jim Sherman, Minister.
Phone: (606) 889·9609 or (606) 886·9563
Garrett Community Christian, Route 550, Garrett; Worship Service.
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Hospital
11203 Main St. Box 910 Martin, KY 41649
www.olwh.org
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donn1e
Hackworth, Minister.
Victory Christian Ministries 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11:30 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wedresday, 7p.m; Sherm Williams, Minister.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Betsy Layne Church of Christ, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.,
Tommy J. Spears, Minister.
Prestonsburg Church of Christ, 88 Hwy. 1428; Worship Service,
10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Richard Kelly and Nelson
Kidder, Ministers.
Harold Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James H.
Harmon, Minister.
Highland Church of Christ, Rt. 23, Hager Hill; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m..
Hueysville Church of Christ; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chester Varney,
Minister.
Lower Toler Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
PRESBYTERIAN
Drift Presbyterian, Route 1101 , Drift; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
First Presbyterian, North Lake Drive; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Seventh·Day Adventist, 5 miles West on Mountain Parkway;
Sunday School, 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Gary
Sheph Minister.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATIER DAY SAINTS
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Relief
Society/Preisthood/Primary, 9:30a.m.; Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.;
Sacrament Mtg., 11:20 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. ~hurch Meeting
House address, Hwy. 80, Martin, KY 41649; Meetmg House telephone ·number: 285-3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
OTHER
Pastor Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
the CHURCH of GOD of PROPHECY mAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Call 886-8506
for details.
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�FRIDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
·Or the
Marriage Licenses
Maria Layne Campbell, 38,
of Lexington, to John Paul
Miller, 25, of Prestonsburg.
Kristin Kay Raines, 22, to
'fJames Drake Hatfield, 23, both
of Prestonsburg.
Temphra Jean Collins, 46, of
Ashland, to James Vernon
Collins, 38, of East Point.
Maranda Lynn Sturgill, 22,
to Daniel Ray Goble, 26, both of
Pikeville.
Heather Michelle Watkins,
21, of Pikeville, to Joey Chad
Samons, 22, of Martin.
Debra Lynn Fugate, 45, of
Johnson County, to Randy Ray
Hamilton, 52, of Prestonsburg. .
Rita A. Ousley, 49, of
~McDowell,
to
Karl
A.
Scheurmann, 50, of Dayton,
Ohio.
Bank One vs. Ralph Lafferty,
Rebecca Gline, Larry Gline,
Mortgage Electronic Recoyery
Systems; IN-REM complaint
for foreclosure with notice
under the fair debt collections
practices act.
Progressive Insurance vs.
Jackie Terry; accident complaint.
of
Methodist
Hospital
Kentucky Inc., doing business
as Pikeville Medical Center vs.
Lennix Colaray Akers; debt
complaint.
Great Seneca Financial
Corp., vs. Terry Crager; debt
complaint.
Susan Coleman vs. James
Coleman; divorce.
Shawda Lewis vs. Kevin S.
Hall; petition for health care
insurance.
Civil Suits Flied
Jerry Bentley vs. Bank One;
credit card fraud complaints
(wants refund).
Homecomings
Financial
Network Inc. vs. John King, his
spouse, Juanita King, her
spouse, Floyd County, and the
spouse of Ralph Dingess in
January 1992; complaint with
notice under the fair debt collections practices act.
Worldwide Asset Purchasing
vs. David and Sheila Johnson;
debt complaint.
Rhonda Norman vs. Michael
Norman; divorce.
Kimberly Folz vs. Charles
Folz; divorce.
Pricilla and Ronde! Rater vs.
Tammy Hamilton, Kentucky
Farm Bureau Insurance, Mutual
Insurance Company; auto accident complaint.
Nationwide
Mutual
Insurance Company vs. Jeremy
Jewell; auto accident complaint.
Senca
Financial
Great
~Corporation vs. David Slone;
debt complaint.
Amber Rennier vs. Robert
Rennier; petition for child support and health care insurance.
Mandy Jordan vs. Bradley
Seery; petition for child support
and health care insurance.
Sheila Click vs. Derek Click;
petition for health care insurance.
Nicholas Evans vs. Amanda
Evans; petition for child support
and health care insurance.
Small Claims Filings
Butler's Auto Sales Inc. vs.
Bobbie Potter; alleged debt.
Charges Filed
James J. Griffith, 36, Martin;
disregarding a stop sign, no or
expired registration plate, no or
expired registration receipt, failure to maintain required insurance, failure to wear seat belts,
improper registration plate, driving on a DUI suspended
license.
Wendy Hall, 20, Mousie;
second-degree burglary, felony
theft by unlawful taking.
Christopher Mitchell, 42,
Grethel; flagrant non support.
Michael Todd McCoy, 34,
Raccoon; first-degree stalking,
first-degree wanton endangerment, violation of an emergency
protective order.
WiUiam Brandon Click, 22,
Hueysville: controlled substance not in original container,
possession of a controlled substance, public intoxication, second-degree burglary, thirddegree criminal trespass.
Michael Shannon Frasure,
25, Grethel; driving on a DUIsuspended license, improper
registration plate, failure to
maintain required insurance.
Shawn Wilcox, 32, Kite; two
counts of controlled substance
not in original container, felony
theft by unlawful taking.
Jordan Bixler Jr., 22, Allen;
reckless driving, no or expired
registration plate, no or expired
registration receipt, transfer
fails to execute proper assignment and warranty title, failure
to weat seat belts, theft of motor
vehicle registration renewal
decal.
M. Kenneth Sprigg, 24,
Prestonsburg;
fourth-degree
assault, third-degree criminal
mischief.
Sherman
Poston,
46,
McDowell; third-degree criminal trespass, disorderly conduct,
public intoxication.
Sidney Cline III, 23,
Stanville; fourth-degree assault.
Jamie Meade, 23, Printer;
public intoxication.
Cheryl A. Rogers, 29, Betsy
Layne; selling alcohol to a
minor.
Robert S. Miller, 41, Martin;
third-degree criminal trespass.
Curt L. Jarvis Jr., 33, Allen;
no or improper personal floatation device, failure to wear personal floatation device, riding
on a bow, etc., while motorboat
underway.
Charles J. Porter, 26,
Prestonsburg; public intoxication, possession of marijuana,
use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Larry B. Hicks, 25, Blue
River; failure to illuminate head
lamps, two counts of failure to
wear seat belts, driving on a suspended or revoked license, failure to maintain required insurance, carrying a concealed
deadly weapon, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana.
Shaun D. Brown, 23, Garrett;
fourth-degree assault.
Jacqlyn R. Osborne, 22,
Warfield; public intoxication.
Bradford
Martin,
52,
Langley; failure to operate boat
at idle speed when in a harbor or
congested area.
David Wayne Fannin, 35,
Van Lear; failure to operate boat
at idle speed when in a harbor or
congested area.
Misty K. Jarvis, 22, Banner;
failure to operate boat at idle
speed when in a harbor or congested area.
Angela Ferris, 23, Lenore,
W.Va.; drinking in public.
MarshaL. Ferris, 26, Lenore,
W.Va.; drinking in public.
Ricky Ferris Jr., 27, Lenore,
12, 2005 • A7
Record
W.Va.; drinking in public.
observed stored in direct contact regular inspection. Violations
Adam
Caldwell,
26, with floor, proper hair restraints noted: Unable to locate therPrestonsburg; operating a motor not in use, food contact surface mometers in units used to mainboat in a reckless manner.
in disrepair, wall and ceilings in tain product
temperature,
Shawn P. Francis, 32, . disrepair, lights not properly canned items on sales floor
Garrett; public intoxication, dis- shielded in walk-in cooler. found to have slight dust build
orderly conduct, two counts of Score: Food 91, Retail 94.
up, areas of floor in some disreterroristic threatening.
Food City, University Drive, pair, lights in reach in cooler not
Lisa Thompson, 35, Kite; regular inspection. Violations properly shielded. Score: 92.
public intoxication, use or pos- noted: Not all refrigerator and
Compton's Quick Stop,
session of drug paraphernalia, freezer units have conspicuous . Weeksbury, regular inspection.
shoplifting.
thermometers. meat product Violations noted: Unable to find
Jeremy Kilburn, 23, Dwale; observed on floor of walk-in, thermometers used to maintain
public intoxication, terroristic garbage containers in food prep product temperature, some food
threatening, controlled sub- area without proper covers, items not stored six inches from
stance not in original container, clothing item observed stored floor, some rea.ch ·in units lack
disorderly conduct.
on food equipment. Score: Food shielded lights. Score: Food 96,
Slone, 31, 89, Retail96.
Curtis R.
Retail 97.
Hindman; three counts of failure
Taco Bell. Prestonsburg,
to wear seat belts, improper start complaint
mvestigation.
Property Transfers
from a parked position, failure Responded to complaint of ice
Costain Coal Inc.
to
to maintain required insurance, bags being busted up on floor Appalachian Land Company,
driving under the influence, before being used to serve pub- property location undisclosed.
controlled substance not in orig- lic.
Supervised
emptying
Ann Davis to Thursa and
inal container, use or possession machine, sanitizing it, and William Sloan, property locaof drug paraphernalia.
instructed manager about break- tion undisclosed.
Lori Ann Stone, 34, Printer; ing up ice in sink. No follow up
Ralph B. Davis to Thursa and
public intoxication, three counts required.
William Sloan, property locaof third-degree possession of a
Hank's Famous Burgers, tion undisclosed.
controlled substance, controlled Prestonsburg, regular inspection. ·
Industrial Fuels Minerals Co.
substance not in original con- Violations noted: Plastic bottle to Appalachian Land Co., proptainer.
in food prep area not labeled, erty location undisclosed.
Clifford L. Brown, 32, proper hair restraints not in use,
Lodestar Energy Inc. to
Prestonsburg; terroristic threat- chemical test strips not readily Appalachian Land Co., property
ening, disorderly conduct, available at three compartment location undisclosed.
resisting arrest.
sink, wiping cloth use unrestrictDeanna Clara May to BTU
Ronda R. Greene, 31, ed, no soap at hand wash sink in Gas Company, property location
Martin; public intoxication.
food prep area, v all in utility undisclosed.
Millis D. Hall Jr., 32, room in disrepair. freezer in
Merle May to BTU Gas
Prestonsburg; failure to wear back area lacks conspicuous <;:ompany, property location
seat belts, driving under the thermometer. Score: 92.
undisclosed.
influence, two counts of carryStone
Crest
Grill,
Kent Rose to Johnny and
ing a concealed deadly weapon, Prestonsburg, regular inspec- Patricia Johnson, property locacontrolled substance not in orig- tion. Violations noted: Improper tion undisclosed.
inal container, use or possession ice utensil being used, proper
Janelle Samons to Lowell
of drug paraphernalia, disorder- hair restraints not in use, part of Samons, property location
ly conduct.
food prep floor is carpeted, sev- undisclosed.
Johnny R. Collins, 54, eral clothing items observed
Lowell Samons to Jacqueline
Honaker; public intoxication.
stored near food equipment. Samons, property location
Christopher Hardy, 34, Score: 96.
undisclosed.
Prestonsburg; terroristic threatLittle Y Stop and Shop,
Mary Samons to Janelle
Melvin, regula! inspection. Samons, property location
ening.
Violations noted Unable to undisclosed.
locate thermometers in some
Inspections
Mary Samons to Jacqueline
Green's
Dairy
Bar, units used to mamtain product Samons, property location
Bevinsville, regular inspection. temp, carpet in sales area in undisclosed.
Yiolations noted: Shelves and some disrepair. Score: 98.
Jan and Ben's, Bevinsville,
Clarification
countertops in need of minor
In the "For the Record" secrepairs, floor tile in some disre- regular inspection. Violations
noted: Unable to locate ther- tion on July 15, Douglas Crace,
pair. Score: 91.
Prestonsburg Foodland, regu- mometers in units used to main- 37, of Emma, was cited with
lar inspection. Violations noted: tain product temp. proper hair one count of third-degree crimiPotentially hazardous foods restraints not in use, restroom nal trespass. He requested it be
being held below the required missing paper towels at made known that this charge
temperature, not all freezer and handsink, restroom doors not was dismissed against him
under the condition that he stay
cooler units have conspicuous self-closing. Score: 90.
Slone's Market. Bevinsville, off of the property for one year.
thermometers, food
items
Obituaries
Georgia Ann Vanover
Newman
Georgia
Ann
Vanover
Newman, 64, of Versailles, wife
of Harold G. Newman, died of a
heart attack, Tuesday morning,
August 9, 2005.
Mrs. Newman was a retired
teacher of 32 1/2 years in the
•,Floyd and Letcher county
school systems.
She was preceded in death by
her parents, George and Clara
Vanover, and an infant sister,
Tama Sue.
In addition to her husband,
she is survived by her daughter,
Tyra Lynn Newman Evans; her
son-in-law, Jeff Evans; and her
two grandchildren: Brandon
Chase Evans and Caleigh
Brooke Evans, all of Versailles.
She is also survived by four
sisters: Bobbie (the late Paul)
~Stewart of Cromona, Carol
(Billy) Lewis of Fleming-Neon,
Sharon (Jimmy) Slone of
Cremona, Rhonda (Roy) Boggs
of Prestonsburg; two brothers:
Kermit (Marsha) Vanover of
Lexington, and Buddy Vanover
of Cremona; five sisters-in-law:
Veronica (Arnold) Harmon of
Beavercreek, Ohio, Phyllis (the
late Charles) Rackley of
Ashland, Neil (Troy) Stidham of
Circleville,
Ohio,
Glenda
(Berlin) Johnson of Versailles,
and Sarah (David) Hall of Hi
JIJ{at; three brothers-in-law:
Ramon (Emma) Newman of
Wartburg, Tennessee, James
Dewey (Elva) Newman of
Lexington, and Willis D.
Newman of Hi Hat.
She is also survived by many
loving
nieces,
nephews ,
cousins, friends, and other
extended family.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, August 13, at
10 a.m., at Hall Funeral Home
in Martin.
Visitation will be Thursday
and Friday, August 11 and 12,
~starting at 5 p.m., at the funeral
home .
•
A graveside service will be Regina Holbrook Hurd.
In addition to his wife and
held · after the funeral at
Rosecrest
Cemetery
in mother, he is survived by one
son, Jason Hurd of Banner; two
Versailles, at 4 p.m.
Pallbearers will be: Brian daughters: Jeanette Mullins of
Lewis (nephew), John Slone Hippo, and Brittany Hurd of
(nephew),
Jody
Lewis Banner; one brother, Charles
(nephew),
Rod
Chervus Hurd of North Judson, Indiana;
(nephew),
Greg
Rackley four sisters: Daisy Lewis of
(nephew),
Tad
Newman Tram, Leona Samons of Allen,
(nephew), Brian Hall (nephew), . Thelma Crum of Prestonsburg,
Eric Johnson (nephew), and and Davie Stacy of Culber,
Indiana; and one grandson,
Tyler Newman (nephew).
Brhett Tyler Moore.
(Paid obituary)
In addition to his father, he
:JDD
was preceded in death by two ·
brothers: Ernest Hurd and James
Merrilyn (Meril)
Hurd; and one sister, Judy
Hurd
Johnson.
Funeral services will be conMerrilyn (Meril) Hurd, 53, of
Banner, died Tuesday, August 9, ducted Friday, August 12, at 12
2005, at Our Lady of the Way noon, at Nelson-Frazier .Funeral
Hospital, in Martin, following a Home, in Martin, with Jim
Smith officiating.
brief illness.
Burial will be in the Jones
Born November 3, 1951, in
Floyd County. he was the son of Family Cemetery, at Shortwood,
Augusta Mulkey Hurd of Allen, Allen, under the direction of
and the late Isaac Lee Hurd. He Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
was a disabled coal truck driver.
(Paid obituary)
He is survived by his wife, home.
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12, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ecords disclosed in Nighbert trial show more job talk
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT- Records disclosed
m
the
case
against
acting
Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert
show a lot of time and effort went into
ensuring the proper candidates were
chosen to hire and promote in state
jobs.
A 4-inch' stack of documents was
released Monday by Franklin County
District Judge Thomas Wingate. The
documents are evidence compiled by
investigators and the special grand jury
that is examining personnel practices in
Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration.
Not disclosed were transcripts of
grand jury testimony by several cuiTent
or former administration officials who
were present at various meetings when
plans were hatched to systematically
fill state jobs with those favorable to
the Fletcher cause, according to other
court documents.
Nighbert, Deputy Secretary Jim
Adams and former commissioner Dan
Druen are charged with conspiring to
improperly dismiss the Transportation
Cabinet's deputy inspector general,
Mike Duncan.
Defense lawyers say Duncan could
be fired for virtually any reason
because he was a probationary employee who had not yet gained the protections of the state Merit System. A pros-
ecutor said the Merit System prohibits
anyone from being fired for their political beliefs, just like their race, religion
or disability.
The three were the first charged by
the special grand jury. Six others have
subsequently been charged with personnel law violations, all misdemeanors. Druen also faces 22 felony
charges he tried to intimidate a witness
or tamper with evidence, as well as
more than a dozen other misdemeanors
related to personnel laws.
The documents released Wednesday
were more e-mails, memoranda, handwritten notes and other materials.
Many contain recommendations for
jobs from people outside the govern-
ment, which prosecutors have said is
entirely proper.
Former Franklin County JudgeExecutive Teresa Barton, a Democrat
who supported Fletcher and has subsequently been given a post in the administration, was particular! y active in
passing along personnel recommendations.
But among those in the administration, a handwritten note from Druen
may be the kind of evidence prosecutors count on in future cases.
In a note to Basil TurbyfilL
Fletcher's director of personnel and
efficiency, Druen says a job candidate
in Transportation was selected even
though the individual "supported
Chandler and Patton," an apparent reference to former Gov. Paul Patton and
Ben Chandler, whom Fletcher defeated
in 2003. An overlooked candidate and
his family, "clearly supported Gov.
Fletcher," Druen said.
Druen said he sent the job selection
back to the local office. "This is a clear
example of what we're curbing,"
Druen told Turbyfill, who is also
charged with a misdemeanor personnel
violation.
Turbyfill is the architect of the "personnel initiative" that prosecutor Scott
Crawford-Sutherland has termed a
"corrupt political machine" designed to
circumvent personnel laws to install
Republicans in state jobs.
l'
Congress approves $2.8 billion for building Appalachian highways
by ROGER ALFORD
AssociATED PRESS
ELKHORN
CITY
Traveling salesmen are scarce in
this out-of-the-way Appalachian
town accessible only by curvy
mountain roads that can make
driving Rot only slow but also
dangerous.
"I literally have zero representatives coming into my store
and laying stuff down on the
counter and saying, 'Let me
show you this,"' said Bobby
Slone, a retailer of sports supplies. "They're on a time schedule. and it takes up too much
time for them to drive to
Elkhorn City."
That could be changing.
Congress has approved a
massive transportation bill that
will pump $2.8 billion into new
Appalachian highways over the
next six years, including $480
million
for two eastern
Kentucky roads, one of which
will be built to within a mile of
Elkhorn City.
Kentucky's portion of the
fu nds will be us~d to straighten
and widen two roads - U.S.
460 in Pike County and U.S.
119 in Letcher County- making it easier for people in some
of the most remote central
Appalachian communities to
commute to jobs, schools, even
grocery stores.
"Quality of life benefits will
be almost immeasurable," said
Doug Hogan, spokesman for the
Kentucky
Transportation mountainous tenain makes road ated
what's
called
the
Segcsvary said the lack of
Cabinet. "You'll be able to get building difficult in the state's Appalachian
Development modem roads was an impediwhere you need to go much eastern region.
Highway System to develop ment to economic development,
faster and much safer."
especially in the more isoFor merchants like
lated towns, and were a danThe Kentucky Scenic Byway signs
Slone, an improved U.S.
ger to the residents. That
that motorists have seen for years
460 is expected to be, a
meant places like Elkhorn
up and down U.S. 23 in Kentucky
boon for business, creatCity had less access to
are gone. They were replaced
ing new jobs and giving
national and international
recently by National Scenic Byway
residents better access to
markets and less opportunisigns, according to Danl Hall, chief
workplaces in Pikeville.
ty to prosper economically.
district engineer, Highway District
"We need that in this
12. "Country Music Highway was
"If you look at those
designated a national scenic byway
area," Slone said, recallwinding, two-lane roads,
in 2002, along with two other
ing the morning exodus of
you can't compare those in
Kentucky byways," Hall explained.
commuters heading for
terms of safety to the modThe national designation for U.S. 23
other towns.
em four-lane roads that you
runs through Kentucky from
Building roads in the
see throughout the region
Greenup County to Letcher County
now," he said.
steep terrain is costly. The
and includes Boyd, Lawrence,
Appalachian
Regional
George said many of the
Johnson, Floyd and Pike. All of
Commission, along with
existing roads are simply
these counties except Greenup and •
state
transportation
inadequate.
. . Boyd are in District 12, which is·
departments, expects to
headquartered in Pikeville. The lat"Roads that were Created
ter two are in District 9, which is
decades ago were designed
spend an additional $8.5
headquartered in Flemingsburg.
with different kinds of trafbillion to build 610 miles
of modem roads in the
ftc in mind than what we
ftnd on our roads today,"
mountains. In the case of
Elkhorn City, the cost will be
"We have normally very modem highways in the moun- she said. "We didn't have such
about $30 mi!lion a mile to steep terrain," she said. "Many tain region in place of "winding, tlungs as recreational vehicles
build an 18-rnile stretch of U.S. of the roads were built back in two-lane roads that snake and SUVs. Commercial vehithe '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s and through narrow valleys and over cles were much smaller. The
460.
The highways yet to be built were built parallel. to a creek or steep mountains."
weight that these vehicles can
in the mountain region will cost a river, and therefore, there isn't
nearly as much as the 2,480 room to widen those roads. All
miles of highway already con- of this combines to make the
People know Pueblo for
structed under tbe Appalachian engineering and design of the
Development Highway System. roads challenging and the conBut local leaders say ftnishing struction expensive compared to '
the final portion of the roadwork other parts of the country that
$na:ar.y W •'b $it.?
( w.vw.p\Oe'blo.g•ca.gc>Y)
authorized by Congress in 1965 don't have the geological chalIn Pueblo, the free government information is also hot Dip into the Consumer
lenges that we do."
is critically important.
lnformat1on Center web site, IWN/.puel>lo.gsa.gov. Or call toll·free 1·88&-8 PUEBLO to
Louis Segesvary, spokesman
Sara George, spokeswoman
.tr;:;;: order the Catalog. Sorry, salsa not available through our web site or Catalog.
for the Kentucky Transportation for the Appalachian Regional
W U.S. General Servtcts Adm1nislrlt100
PSA
Cabinet in Pikeville, said the Commission, said Congress ere-
its ...
a
•
carry is more than these roads
were designed to accommodate
over a long period of time."
U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky.,
said improving transportation
"is critical to boosting economic
development" and will also
"open up our communities to
businesses, tourists and new
opportunities."
For Slone and other merchants who want to keep their
inventories up t9 date, that
could mean salesmen who now
go no further than Pikeville
might decide to continue on into
Elkh<1rn City with the drive cut
to 15 nunutes on a modern highway compared with the current
35 minutes on a winding twolane .
"Roads mean everything," he
said.
Kentucky Employers ·Mutua/Insurance
Loss Education Field Representative
KEMI. the largest provider of workers' compensation insurance in Kentucky. seeks a seH motivat·
ed respons1ble 1nsurance professional in the Loss
Education a1ea to evaluate risk and safety controls
of poli;yholders in the Eastern Kentucl<y area.
Qualified individuals w~h a bachelor's degree in
Safety/Loss Prevention or related discipline preferred. F1ve years experience in the coal mining
industi)IIVIIh a working knowledge of safety reg·
ulations and workers' compensation is preferred.
Proven organizational, communication, problem
soMng and sound computer skills required.
KEMI offers a progressive work environment
that encourages teamwork and creativity as well
as a competitive salal)l and benefits package.
www.keml.com/careers and refer to
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Job Code 01 0-3780
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Health Services, LLC
BAYES FAMILY PRACTICE, ·ttC
Kevin R. Bayes, D.O.
325 Broadway
Paintsville, Ky. 41240
789-7100
Dr. Ayman Albaree
Dr. Eyad Albaree
Albaree Health Services, the family practice of Dr. Ayman
Albaree and Dr. Eyad Albaree, will open August 10.
Albaree Health Services will provide high quality family
care for your entire family. Their office is located at 906
East Mountain Parkway (beside Nordin Eye Care) in
Salyersville. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. To schedule an appointment call
349-8100. The Albarees are "familiar faces" to the
community having worked previously in the Emergency
Departments at Highlands Regional Medical Center and
Paul B. Hall Medical Center.
Kevin R. Bayes, D.O., will open a Family Practice
office, on August 11. As a Family. Practitioner, Dr.
Bayes will see patients of all ages and can provide
quality care for your entire family. Dr. Bayes is from
Paintsville and is a graduate of Paintsville High
School and the University of Kentucky_ He completed his Medical Degree at the Pikeville College
School of Osteopathic Medicine, his Internship at
Westview Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana and his
Family Practice Residency at Highlands Regional
Medical Center~ Dr. Bayes' office is located at 325
Broadway. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
For an appointment, call 789-7100
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High school FlOyd County native Keathley named ABA
.
k>otball, vve Division Coach of the Year
:Ueed you
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
by RICK BENTLEY
TIMES COLUMNIST
Come swiftly, high school footbalL
I'm tired of these stories of summer. I'.m tired of athletes taking
themselves too seriously, be them
pro athletes or those who cannot wait
their turn to be pro athletes. I long for
ns who play because they
· have a desire and a will to, for the
es who play hard because that's the
• y the game is to be played and not
cause it benefits their contract status.
· Come quickly, high school football.
· In Kentucky, the biggest stocy of
·e summer has been the goings on
rrounding Randolph Morris and his
•·u -he-or-won't-he status in Big Blue
tion. Forget about the fact that three
his former teammates - Rajon
ondo, Patrick Sparks and Ravi Moss
•- are excelling in international play
this summer. Our attention is paid
only to Morris.
of I truly hope the NCAA does us all
a 1iuge favor and declares him
ineligible. If not, this will be a
black cloud over the Cats all season
long. If - and this is a long shot, but if
- Morris has a
few
good
games
and
some body 's
NBA
center
gets hurt or
struggles, our
colleagues in
Lexington will
spend their time
focusing not on
-~ick Bentley
the upcoming
.'
SEC season but
btl whether Morris will make a midMason jump to the pros.
And if he's done nothing else, he
l).as surely let the world know he
• doesn' t care what's going on in
Lexington. If the opportunity arises,
he's going to go.
Come rapidly, high school football.
Baseball, the game of summer, has
its own dark cloud hovering over it this
~er in the form of steroids. Eight
Iftajor leaguers have spent time on the
sidelines thanks to strike one in this
PQlicy, and more are surely to follow.
- • l ast night was supposed to have
· seen the return of Rafael Palmeiro, the
sports' finger-wagging would-be
Hall of Farner who last week told us he
was right when he spoke to congress at
the now-famous St. Patrick's Day
Massacre, but there was a word that
was apparently silent or at best sup}l'Psed to be ''understood" in that talk.
Palmeiro went from saying, "I have
never taken steroids. Period," to "I
ltave never (ital) knowingly (ital)
tiUcen steroids."
There's a big difference there, Raffy.
How big? Maybe big enough to keep
.-.you on the outside of Cooperstown
looking in, my friend.
Come hurriedly, high school football.
And for the love of Pete, don' t get
me started on Kenny Rogers. This
paper and its Web site aren' t large
enough for me to get on that soapbox.
(See BENTLEY, page two)
INDIANAPOLIS - For Floyd County
native Kevin Keathley, coaching basketball
has consumed a big part of .his life for the
past seven years. Keathley, 27, has coached
on both the collegiate and professional levels. Keathley continues to coach on.the professional leveL The Floyd County native
continues to coach pro basketball and his
successful efforts aren't going unnoticed.
The revived American Basketball Association (ABA) recently handed out its 2004-05
awards and Keathley, head coach of the Kentucky Colonels, received the White Division
Coach of the Year award.
The ABA continues to grow and Kevin
Keathley and the Kentucky Colonels are a key
part of the growing process.
Keathley began the 2004-05 season as the
top assistant for the Colonels but ultimately
(See KEATHLEY, page two)
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Floyd
County
native
Kevin
Keathley
was honored
recently
when he
was named
the ABA
White Division Coach,
of the Year.
AC volleyball
squad opens
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by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
EASTERN - Allen Central High
School volleyball coach Larry Maynard
knew his team was in for a battle in Thesday' s season-opener against visiting
Letcher County Central High School.
Letcher County High, which consolidated
volleyball powers Whitesburg and Letcher, along with Fleming-Neon, found the
goings quite tough Thesday, playing on
the road against the host Rebels. Allen
Central defended its home court in fme
fashion, winning 2-0 (25-.17, 25-17).
Courtney Martin led the Rebel offense
with four kills while teammates Elizabeth
Mosley added three each. Amanda Mills
set up six kills and Brittany Hodge placed
two. Mills, Mosley and Hodge each aced
the Cougars on serve. Defensively, Christina Blevins dug up 23 Letcher County
attempts, Yumekia Hunter requned 21 and
Hodge returned an additional 20. Mosley
blocked two attacks while Hodge and Martin each stopped one apiece.
The Rebel junior varsity team battled,
but came up short as the Cougar B team
prevailed, winning 2-1 (21 -14, 19-2 1,2115). The Rebel freshman team lost in two
straight games.
The Floyd County Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation recently held its Fourth Annual Jakes Day.
Twenty-five children ages six through 17 turned out and participated in the event.
Floyd NWTF Chapter
holds Jakes Day
TIMES STAFF REPORT
The Fourth Annual Floyd County Chapter of the National Wild
Turkey Federation Jakes , Day held
on June 11 was one of the local
chapter 's best yet with 25 boys and
girls ages six through 17 registered
and over 50 adults participating.
The event serves as a way to teach
young people that safety, ethics, and
sportsmanship in the outdoors is not
only the right thing to do but contributes greatly to the enjoyment of
the outdoor experience.
The Floyd County Chapter of the
National Wild Thrkey Federation,
the Floyd County Hunter Education
Organization, Kentucky Hunter
Education Association, Dewey Lake
Fish and Game Club, and The Kentucky Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources sponsored the
outdoor event.
The participants were separated
into four age groups for the day's
activities (canoe rides, air rifles,
archery, and turkey calling). All
Media Day set
for PC football
program
TIMES STAFF REPORT
who participated in the turkey-calling seminar received a Primos 01'
Betsy slate turkey call.
The highlight of the day . was the
Grand Slam Thrkey Dinner. All four of
the continental United States species
of wild turkey (Florida, Easter, Rio
Grande, and Merriam's) were served
- deep-fried to a golden brown by the
group's number one deepfry cook Jakes Chairman Gerald Jones. Not
alone in the cooking duties, Jones had
PIKEVILLE - Medi.a Day for the
2005 Pikeville College football team will
be Monday at 3 p.m. at the Pikeville College Gym. All players and coaches will
be available for one-on-one interviews.
Pikeville College had its best season
ever last fall in its fourth year as a varsity
team. Second-year head coach Jerry
Mynatt doubled his win total from the
2004 season as the Bears finished 8-3
overall. The eight-win season easily surpassed the school's previous high for
wins in a season of six in 2002.
Pikeville finished the league 8-2,
(See FLOYD, page two)
(See MEDIA, page two)
, U of L sign four-year
eal to renew series
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
_ ters Allyson (left) and Alexis DeRossett_ spent part of theiTr sum mer in
head women's basketball coach Pat Summ1tt s annual camp. he g 1r 1s are
creek. Grandparents are Gerald DeRossett and Clara Whitten.
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LEXINGTON - Kentucky
and Louisville have agreed to a
four-y~ar contact to continue the~r
annual football rivalry, the umversities announced Wednesday.
But the Governor's Cup
game will not be the eason
opener when it is played at
Kentucky, a change that K:entucky athletic director Mltch
Barnhart had pushed for.
Louisville athletic director
Tom Jurich and the Cardinals'
coach, Bobby Petrino, wanted
to keep the game a the season
opener, which it has hct> for
nine of the 10 years since the
series was renewed in 1994
after a 70-year hiatus. But
Barnhart and Kentucky coach
Rich Brooks argued that it
would be better from their perspective to play the game later
in the season.
Louisville has won five of
the last six games against Kentucky and likely will be heavily favored when the teams
meet in Lexington for the season opener on Sept. 4.
Under the new contract, on
Sept. 2, 2006 and Aug. 30,
2008, when the game is in
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FRIDAY, AUGUST
12, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Bentley
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But now, however, there is a
villain bigger than Rogers. Some
arb1trator with more power than
sense shortened his suspension
from 20 games to 12, and therefore Rogers was allowed to pitch
on Wednesday night.
His numbers? Five innings,.
seven hits, five runs, all earned
in a 16-5 loss to Boston.
Hey Kenny: Which cameraman was responsible for that line?
Come instantly. high school
football.
And NASCAR fans, you
aren't immune here either. However, it isn' t the drivers who are
at fault as much as it is the
media coveting the sport.
Instead of focusing on the
drivers who will be involved in
the I 0-race chase for the cup,
they are instead focused on two
who aren't: More specifically,
Dale Junior and Jeff Gordon.
Hey guys, how about a little
spotlight on the ones who
deserve it?
Come promptly, high school
football.
Then there's hockey. Here's a
sport in need of some good ol'
positive publicity, but instead of
cashing in on a new collective
bargaining agreement, a teenage
top-draft pick who is, by all
accounts, a stud, or the retum to
the league of the greatest player
of them all, the news this week
is about the reinstatement of the
biggest thug in all of
sports, Vancouver's Todd
Bertuzzi.
This guy should have been
shown the door. Sports, even
hockey, has no room for a thug
of this magnitude. And it's not
like this had never happened
before - in junior hockey, whatever that is, he kicked an opponent in the head with his skate!
Butjnst in case it isn't totally unanimous that Gary
Bettman is the most inept commissioner in the history of organized sports, we' ve welcomed
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Courtney Martin,
Allen Central
High School
Volleyball
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him back with open arms.
I'm getting a headache here.
Come hurriedly, high school
football.
It was about here that we
thought the return of football
would make for some honest-togoodness sports action, but the
sports' most infamous player
and his agent has seen to it that
the shenanigans continue into
the fall as well.
Only Terrell Owens could
keep me from writing two graphs
about Ricky Williams and his
crash course with the injured list.
Is there anyone who doubts
Williams' goal is to come back
long enough to tweak something
and end up on the season-ending
injury list? This way he's back
playing and therefore doesn't
owe Miami his signing bonus
back but doesn't really have to
play football each week.
But no, the focus is on TO
and his me-centered lifestyle.
After coming into camp on time
and giving media-types a couple
of days to write their "maybe
he's not such a bad guy after all"
pieces,
Owens
became
"injured" and therefore wasn't
really in camp, and then on
Wednesday Andy Reid had seen
enough and personally made
· sure he wasn't there in any way,
shape or form when he gave
him the boot and put him in TO
- as in time out - for a week.
It's been a wild, crazy,
painful summer for sports fans.
And before I commit suicide or
change the channel from ESPN
for the first time in decades, all
me to say, from the depths of
my heart ...
Come swiftly, high school
football.
We've never needed your more.
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moved up into the top position.
After the Colonels got out to a
2-5 start, Keathley replaced
Henry Bacon as the team's
head coach. Keathley went on
to guide the Kentucky team to a
19-12 overall record. The
Colonels finished 17-12 in
ABA competition. Personally,
Keathley finished with a 17-7
record as the Colonels
advanced to the Elite Eight of
the ABA Playoffs before losing
to the eventual ABA Champion
Arkansas Rimrockers.
"We just stuck together and
got things turned around,"
Keathley said, reflecting on the
2004-05 season. "Our fan support was great, too."
Keathley has a book out entitled Hardwood Constitution: A
Blueprint to Coaching Success.
The Kentucky Colonels and
the rest of the ABA are already
busy preparing for the 2005-0St
season.
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using its 24-7 win over Campbellsville in a regular-season
finale 'to claim sole possession
of second place in the conference. However, only regularseason unbeaten Georgetown
made it into the NAIA Playoffs.
The Bears opened the 2004 season with five straight wins, knocking off Cumberland College in the
opener and then beating Bethel
before closing out September with
shutouts of Kentucky Wesleyan
and Cumberland University.
The Mid-South Conference
earlier this month released its
preseason football poll
In preseason voting, coaches
picked Pikeville College to finish third in the Mid-South Conference's East Division.
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Louisville, it will remain the
season opener. In 2007, when
the game is at Kentucky, it will
be played on Sept. 15. In 2009
in Lexington, it will be played
on either Sept. 12 or Sept. 19,
according to a statement
released by both universities.
Louisville coach Bobby
Petrino, who guided Louisville
to an 11-1 record and a No. 6
ranking last season, said he had
wanted the game to remain as
the season opener.
"I'm disappointed that we're
not playing the game as our
opener every season," Petrino
said in a statement. "We enjoy
playing this game as the opener.
It's great for football in the state."
Barnhart said in a statement
that the annual matchup is a
"big game to the teams and the
fans of the Commonwealth"
and will draw significant interest whenever it is played.
"We appreciate U of L's
willingness to be flexible in the
schedule as we strive to do
what we believe is best for our
program," Barnhart said.
Jurich said the top priority
was keeping the series alive,
though he acknowledged in a
statement that "it was certainly
our preference to always keep
this the first game of the season."
State Rep. Denver Butler, DLouisville, has prefiled a bill in
the General Assembly that
would make it a state law for
the schools to play each other
the first game of every season.
It would be up to the schools to
decide where they play.
Asked about what would
happen if that bill becomes law,
UK
athletic
department
spokesman Tony Neely said
Wednesday that "we'll deal
with it at that time."
During Kentucky's annual
Media Day on Saturday,
Brooks made an impassioned
case for moving the game to a
later date in the season and
argued the series was young
enough that no hard-and-fast
tradition had been set concern- .
ing its place on the schedule.
"It's beyond my comprehension that if we don't play
Louisville the frrst game of the
year, then it's not going to be a
rivalry," Brooks said. "It is still
going to be a rivalry."
C.M. Newton, who was
Kentucky's athletic director
when the series was resumed,
said last week the original
intent was to have , the game
played as the season opener.
"It's put football in the forefront, the limelight in the spring
and in the summer, which is
good for not only UK and U of L
football, but for high school football in the state," Newton said. t
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help with Doug Howard, Dora
Salyers, and Mike Robinson
preparing hamburgers and hot
dogs - plus all of the trimmings.
Shawn Davis, Joanie Davis supplied vegetables and fruits while
Nan Robinson came through with
numerous sweet treats.
Several youngsters participated in a turkey-calling contest with
six winners receiving Strutting
Gobbler trophies~(first and second
place for the three age groups).
"I think every youngster
received a door prize," Floyd
County NWTF officer Paul
Robinson
noted.
"Pocketknives, T-shirts and shotguns
were given away. It was hard to
tell who was hav!ng more fun,
e youngsters or their parents.
"We want to thank all the
volunteers who make all the
events possible - Conservation
Officer Amburgey and Glenn
Spears on Archery, Rick Crider
and Conservation Officer Whitley on canoes, Hunter Education Training Officer and President of Little Shepherd Chapter
NWTF: Will Connelly and
Justin Robinson on air rifles,
and Robin Crider for taking
care of registration and group
assignment, and Joe Bolton as
the event coordinator."
In addition, Robinson put on
a turkey hinting seminar.
Donors for the annual event
include Owen Wright and the
Camp Shawnee staff, Conley
General Store, Salyersville;
Family Dollar Store, Salyersville; Flowers Baking Company, Prestonsburg; Food City,
Prestonsburg; Food Lyon, Prestonsburg; Kentuckiana; Joe R.
Bolton, Royalton; Hall's Funeral Home, Martin; KFC, Pre- 1.,
stonsburg; Lawrence County
Chapter of the NWTF, Ed Kegley, Louisa; Mark Preston, East
Point; Monogramming and
More, Paintsville; Shawn &
Joanie Davis, Hippo; T & B
Grocery, Hippo; Save-A-Lot,
The
Shirt
Prestonsburg;
Gallery, Martin; T & K Produce, Martin; and Wal-Mart,
Prestonsburg.
BEN GALS
ROSTER MOVES
The Bengals Wednesday
made the following roster moves:
n Signed K Carter Warley, a
rookie free agent from Virginia
Tech. Warley (6-0, 195) was at
Vrrginia Tech for five seasons,
concluding his career in 2003.
His only prior pro experience
was a brief stint earlier this year
with the Manchester (N.H.)
Wolves of AF2.
• Waived WR Jeremiah
Cockheran, a first-year player
from Hawaii. Cockheran was a
Bengals college free agent signee
in 2004 and spent part of '04 on
the Bengals practice squad.
• Placed rookie OT Adam
Kieft on the Reserve/Injured
list, ending his playing eligibility for 2005. Kieft suffered a
major knee injury during the
team's Aug. 6 Mock Game at_..
training camp.
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Prestonsburg High School linemen and the rest of the Blackcat football team will return to •
game action Saturday night at Morehead State Unlversltt against Pulaski County. Start time for
the Prestonsburg-Pulaski County scrimmage Is 8 p.m.
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longest such streak since they
won nine in a row in April2001.
Milton, who signed a $25.5
million, three-year contract in
December, has spent most of the
season with an ERA hovering
around 7.00. But he shut down
the Cubs, who may be even more
of a disappointment this year.
by ANDREW SELIGMAN
Chicago, at 54-60, fell six
ASSOCIATED PRESS
games under .500 for the frrst
time this season. The Cubs also
CHICAGO - Eric Milton lost eight in a row approaching
gets sick to his stomach whe n he the AU-Star break - they have
thinks about the Cincinnati not dropped nine straight since
Reds· miserable first half.
May 2002.
The Chicago Cubs 'know all
Meanwhile, the Reds have
too wel~ how he feels.
quietly played quality ball of
Milton allowed one mn over late. They're 25-19 since June
seven innings to help the Reds 22, while the Cubs are 18-26
rout the Cubs 8-2 on Wednesday, over the same stretch.
sweeping a three-game set at
Freel was 2-for-3, driving in
Wrigley Field and sending Chica- , three runs and scoring two
go to its eighth straight loss.
before leaving with a strained
'Tve been frustrated," Mil- right quadriceps. He sent the
ton said. "I would say I'm the fust pitch from Rich Hill (0-2)
biggest reason we struggled in beyond the left-field bleachers
the first half. I really struggled. for his third homer of the season
It was something I hadn' t expe- and first leadoff shot of his
rienced before."
career. He added a two-run sinThere were no such problems gle in the fourth.
on Wednesday. Ryan Freel
Ken Griffey Jr. singled and
homered on the game's first pitch doubled for the Reds.
and the Reds scored seven in the
Cincinnati broke it open in the
fourth to back a strong perfor- fourth and tied a season high for
mance by Milton and win their runs in an inning. Freel hit a twoeighth straight road game - their run single and his team.mates
Poor control doomed the
Cubs, who walked 10 batters two below their season-high.
Hill allowed six runs on four
hits and four walks in three-plus
innings. He left after walking in
two runs with no outs in the fourth.
After allowing singles to
Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns,
Hill walked Jason LaRue,
Edwin Encarnacion and Milton
to give the Reds a 3-l lead.
Michael Wuertz relieved, and
the runs and walks continued to
mount.
Freel greeted him with a single and Griffey hit an RBI double with one out. With two outs,
LaRue drew a bases-loaded
walk for an 8-1 lead.
In his last two starts, Hill has
allowed 13 runs and 11 hits in 4
1-3 innings. That includes a
seven-run outing in 1 1-3
innings against the New York
Mets on Friday.
Barrett tied it in the second
when he hit his 12th homer, but
that was it.
Notes: Recent Hall of Fame
inductee Wade Boggs threw out
the frrst pitch to Cubs Hall of
Farner Ryne Sandberg, then
impersonated late broadcaster
Harry Caray while singing
"Take Me Out to the Ball
Game" during the seventh-
drew three bases-loaded walks.
Milton (6-12) allowed four
hits, striking out three and walking one. After Michael Barrett' s
solo homer in the second, he
retired the next 15 batters.
"He looked like he was keeping hitters off balance," said
Freel, who is day to day. "The
numbers don't really show what
kind of pitcher he is. He ran into
a few bad games, which skyrocketed his ERA."
"Seven runs in the fourth that can relax anybody," Cubs
manager Dusty Baker said.
''There is nothing worse than
facing a relaxed pitcher. His ball
is moving, he is getting strike
one, he can throw any pitch at
any count"
After reaching the seventh
inning for the third time in four
starts, Milton has a 6.48 ERA.
He only threw 98 pitches, but
manager Jerry Narron said
going for the complete game
wasn't an option.
"I just really thought that
with the day he had .. . it was
best to get him .o ut of there," he
said. "I just thought he pitched
so well, I (would rather not)
mess it up on my part."
Kerry Wood pitched a scoreless ninth for the Cubs in his third
relief appearance this season.
inning stretch. Boggs wore
black-rimmed glasses and gestured like Caray as he sang the
tune. . .. The Reds' Rich Aurilia
went 0-for-5, ending his sixgame hitting streak. .. . Griffey
Jr. was 6-for-15 with two
homers in the series. .. . The
seven runs tied the Reds' season
high set in the ninth inning May
30 at Houston.
Reds announce Active
Military Appreciation
Night scheduled for
Sept. 6
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
CINCINNATI - Cincinnati
Reds chief executive officer
Carl
H.
Lindner
today
announced Active Military
Family Appreciation Night at
Great American Ball Parle
For their 7:10 p.m. game
against the Milwaukee Brewers
on Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Reds
will make complimentary tickets available to the families of
active
military
personnel
deployed in the theaters of operation in Iraq and Afghanistan in
appreciation for their contributions and sacrifices to our
nation's causes overseas.
Tickets to the game can he
picked up at the Croslc) 1cHace
ticket windows beginn1ng at 5
p.m. ET on Sept. 6 by active
members of the milita1 y or their
families by showing current
military identification. fhc offer
also is open to veteran -; of the
current conflicts in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The complimentary tickets
will not be available p1ior to 5
p.m. the night of the game. and
all transactions are subject to
availability. Tickets are limited to
1 per immediate famil y member.
For information on the program, call the marketing hotline
at 5131765-7104.
For the past two sea<>ons. the
Reds have provided active military
personnel with complimentary
tickets on the day of gan1cs played
Monday through Thursday.
In addition to that program.
chief operating office! John
Allen, a Vietnam veteran. annu
ally sponsors a ticket program
that allows veterans rrom the
Veteran's Medical Center to
enjoy Reds games during selected Business Day specials.
For the past several seasons,
the Reds have distributed baseball cards as part of its Disabled
American Veterans Day.
Howard powers Phillies past · Rogers roughed up in
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On the night Jim Thome's
season officially ended, Ryan
Howard made it quite clear that
f the Philadelphia Phillies have a
capable backup.
The young first baseman did
his best impression of the
Phillies' injured slugger by hitting a grand slam in the ninth
inning to beat the Los Angeles
Dodgers 9-5 Wednesday night.
Thome, who has been hurt
~}1, );Car, will have season-ending surgery on his problematic
I;i..!f.~t e l..l;>Ow ne)l:t week.
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"It's definitely a loss, being
without Thome," Phillies pitcher
Brett Myers said. "But the way
Ryan Howard's playing right
4, now, I think that we' ll be OK."
Last season, it looked like
Howard's talent might go to
waste behind Thome. The youngster hit 46 homers in the minors almost one every 10 at-bats - but
the Phillies had invested $85 million in fu·st base a year earlier.
While Thome will still collect
his $ 13.2 million this season,
Howard finally has a chance to
cash in on his potential.
"You never want to see anybody hurt, but for me, it's basically going out there and trying
to do the same thing every
~ night and just keep playing,"
Howard said after his second
home run in as many nights.
In other NL games, it was:
Florida 10, Arizona 5; Atlanta
5, San Francisco 4, 12 innings;
Houston 7, Washington 6; New
York 9, San Diego 1; Cincinnati 8, Chicago 2; St. Louis 3,
Milwaukee 0; and Colorado 6,
Pittsburgh 5, I 0 innings.
Howard, who earlier had an
RBI grounder, drove the ftrst
pitch he saw from rookie closer
Yhency Brazoban 453 feet into
the seats in right-center at
Dodger Stadium. He also hit a
two-run shot off Brawban - also
on the first pitch - in the 1Oth
inning at Philadelphia on July 19
to give the Phillies a 5-4 win.
Brazoban (2-7) gave up four
runs without retiring a batter,
while Ugueth Urbina (2-0) pitched
a hitless eighth inning for the win.
Myers allowed four hits and
five walks in seven innings. He
struck out eight, and gave up
home runs to Jeff Kent and
Milton Bradley.
The Dodgers' Derek Lowe
gave up five runs., three earned,
and seven hits in six innings.
Marlins 10, Diamondbacks 5
- At Miami, Mike Lowell and
the Marlins used the hidden-ball
trick to stem a Diamondbacks
rally, and Florida scored four
runs in the eighth to rout Arizona.
With the Diamo.ndbacks
trailing 6-5 , Luis Terrero took a
lead off third base in the eighth
before Marlins Closer Todd
Jones stepped on the mound.
Lowell quickly tagged out the
stunned baserunner.
Miguel Cabrera hit his 26th
homer for Florida and rookie
Jason Vargas (3-0) pitched five
solid innings. Brad Halsey (88) allowed six runs and eight
hits in the loss.
Braves 5, Giants 4, 12 innings
- At Atlanta, Andruw Jones hit
two homers, and Marcus Giles'
RBI single gave the Braves the
victory after they squandered a
three-run lead in the ninth.
Giles extended his hitting
streak to 14 games with two
outs and two runners on in the
12th with a single off Brian
Cooper (0-1).
Blaine Boyer (l-1) earned
his frrst major league win with
two scoreless innings.
Jones homered in the sixth
and eighth innings to up his
season total to 3 7. ·
Astros 7, Nationals 6 - At
Houston, Morgan Ensberg and
Orlando Palrneiro doubled with
the bases loaded for the Astros.
Craig Biggio also had a runscoring double and four hits.
Jose Vidro and pitcher Livan
Hernandez (13-5) homered for
the Nationals, who have not
strung together back-to-back
wins on the road since July 3.
Wandy Rodriguez (7-5) lasted
five innings for the win,
Mets 9, Padres 1 - At San
Diego, Kris Benson took a onehit shutout into the ninth inning
and David Wright tied career
highs with four hits and six
RBis for New York.
Benson (8-4) allowed one
run and three hits in 8 1-3
innings, striking out six and
walking one. Brian Lawrence
(6-12) lost for the sixth time in
seven decisions.
Cardinals 3, Brewers 0 -At
Milwaukee, Jeff Suppan (ll-8)
allowed four hits and four
walks over seven innings to
outduel Ben Sheets.
Sheets (8-8) gave up two
earned runs and five hits in his
second complete game of the
season. He struck out nine and
didn't walk a batter.
Rockies 6, Pirates 5, 10
innings -At Denver, Matt Holliday hit a run-scoring single in
the 1Oth inning and had a threerun homer, and Todd Helton
had a pair of doubles in his frrst
game off the disabled list.
Helton fmished 2-for-5 and
drove in a run after missing 14
games with a strained calf, and
Holliday was 2-for-4 to help Colorado to its eighth win in 12 games.
Rick White (3-4) gave up
the winning hit, making a winner of David Cortes (2-0).
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Louisville 5, Indianapolis 3
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LOUISVILLE - Eric Crozier hit a two-run home run and
finished with three RBI as the
Louisville Bats beat Indianapolis 5-3 Wednesday night in the
International League.
Crozier 's home run in the
second inni ng gave the Bats a 3-
1 lead. Later in the inning,
William Bergolla hit a single to
right field to score Aaron Holbert to give Louisville a 4-1 lead.
Louisville starter Elizardo
Ramirez (7-4) lasted six
innings, surrendering three runs
on eight hits for the win.
The Indians pulled to within
4-3 in the fifth inning when Ty
Wigginton drove in Nate
McLouth on a one-out single.
Wigginton finished with two
hits and two RBI.
Indians starter Cory Stewart (710) lasted 5 1/3 innings but gave
up all five of Louisville's runs.
Chris Booker came on in the
ninth inning to earn his 18th save
of the season for Louisville.
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Barthmaier named BC
Powder Pitcher of the Week
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON
Jimmy
Barthmaier camcd BC Powder
South Atlantic League Pitcher of
.., the Week honors by compiling a
2-0 record with a 0.90 ERA in
his 2 games started this past
,,,
week. Biuthmaier pitched a total
of 10.0 innings allowing five hits
and one earned run, walked six
and struck out 16 batters.
Jimmy had home victories
over Kannapolis on Aug. 2 and
over Hagerstown on Aug. 7. He
raised his record to 9-5 oo the
season and currently ranks third
in the South Atlantic League in
ERA (2.53) and third in the
South Atlantic League in strikeouts (127).
This is the second time that
Jimmy has won the award. Barthmaier was selected on June 13.
Rogers was suspended 20
games by commissioner Bud
Kenny Rogers fared much Selig for a June 29 tirade in
better with the arbitrator than he which he shoved two cameradid against the Boston Red Sox. men. On Tuesday, an arbitrator
Rushed into the rotation when trimmed the punishment to 13
his suspension for shoving two games and Rogers joined the
cameramen was cut from 20 Rangers in Boston to get ready
games to 13, Rogers was roughed for his fust start since July 26.
up at Fenway Park in his return to
"The ultimate punishment
the mound Wednesday night. He you can give a player is to keep
gave up Manny Ramirez's long him away from the game and his
homer during a flvf'.-run fourth team," Texas left fielder David
inning, and Boston beat the Texas Dellucci said. "It's great to have
him back on the mound and in
Rangers 16-5.
Rogers (11-5) allowed five the clubhouse."
runs and seven hits in five
The Fenway fans were ready
innings, walking one and striking for Rogers, with one holding up
out five in his first loss since July a sign during batting practice
3. He took a line drive off his right that said, "Kenny Should Play
forearm in the frrst but stayed in Nice." When he took the mound
the game and retired the first eight for the bottom of the frrst, he
Boston batters. X-rays were nega- was jeered resoundingly; the
tive, and be was not a:vailable for boos stopped only when he was
hit near his glove by Ortiz's
comment after the game.
"Kenny was pitching well comebacker to end the inning.
Rogers' ERA, which had
until he got hit by that line drive
and he battled his way through been second-best in the AL at
five innings," Rangers manager 2.77, rose to 2.99.
Athletics 4, Angels 3 - At
Buck Showalter said.
Asked if he thought the lay-· Oakland, Calif., Nick Swisher
off affected Rogers, Showalter drove in the tying run before
said, "I think what he got affect- scoring on Mark Ellis' infield
ed by was the line drive by single in the seventh, and the
Athletics moved back into a
David Ortiz."
The Red Sox scored nine first-place tie in the AL West.
Adam Melhuse homered and
times off Texas' bullpen in the
eighth. They won their fourth later scored on a wild pitch in a
straight game and their 12th in three-run seventh for theA's, who
14 to move 5 112 games in front rallied for their 19th win in 22
of the New York Yankees in the games since July 19, when they
AL East - Boston's biggest lead trailed the Angels by 8 112 games.
in the division since the end of · Angels f90kie Ervin Santana
outpitched Barry Zito and left
the 1995 season.
"It's good to have a little cush- with a 2-1 lead. But in the sevion," outfielder Gabe Kapler said. enth, Jay Payton tripled and
scored on Swisher's single off
"But it's not going to be easy."
In other AL games, it was: Scot Shields (7-7). AH-Star
Oakland 4 , Los Angeles 3; Justin Duchscherer (5-2) pitched
Chicago 2, New York 1 in 10 a perfect seventh, and Huston
innings; Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay Street finished for his 14th save.
White Sox 2, Yankees 1, 10
5; Toronto 4, Detroit 3; Cleveland 6, Kansas City 1; and Min- innings - At New York, Juan
nesota 7, Seattle-3 in 14 innings. Uribe tripled off Mariano Rivera
Bronson Arroyo (10-7) (5-3) in the lOth, then s).id in
allowed four runs and seven hits under catcher Jorge Posada's tag
on
in 7 1-3 innings. The Red Sox to score the go-ahead
scored 35 mns in their three- Scott Podsednik's grounder.
The White Sox, with the best
game sweep of Texas.
record
in the majors, to9k two of
"We struggled," Showalter said.
"A lot of people struggle in Boston." three at Yankee Stadium. Each
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run
game was decided b) one run.
Dustin Hermanson earned his
30th save in 31 opportunities.
Blue Jays 4, Tigers 3 - At
Toronto, Orlando
Hudson
homered off Craig Dingman (01) in the ninth inning to \\111 it.
Shea Hillenbrand also connected for the Blue Jays. Dmitri
Young hit a two-run homer and
Magglio Ordonez also went
deep for the Tigers, who have
lost five of six.
Toronto ace Roy Halladay will
not return from the disabled list
Monday as the tean1 had ho[led.
The Blue Jays are unsure when he
will be able to pitch again.
Orioles 9, Devil Rays 5- At
Baltimore, Jay Gibbons' second
career grand slam capped a fi, erun first inning, and the Orioles
won their first series since the
All-Star break.
Miguel Tejada drove in three
runs for Baltimore, which
improved to 4-2 under mtenm
manager Sam Perlozzo. Rodrigo
Lopez (11-6) came within one out
of a complete game and improved
to 4-1 in his last six starts
Rafael Palrneiro can return
from his 10-day suspension
Thursday, although Perlozzo is
leaning toward leaving him out
of the lineup for a day.
Indians 6, Royals 1 - At
Kansas City, Mo., Grady Sizemore hit a grand slam and an
RBI single, sending the hapless
Royals to their team recordtying 12th straight lo s.
C.C. Sabathia (8-9) wc;Jt six
innings for the Indians. 5-0 on a
six-game trip to Detroit and
Kansas City.
One night after the Royals
became the third major league
home team to give up ll runs in
the ninth inning, they matched a
club-record 12-game losing
streak of 1997. It's the longe~t
skid in the majors this vem.
Zack Greinke (3-14) ha~ the
most losses in the majors.
Twins 7, Mariners :1. 14
innings - At Seattle. Luis
Rodriguez's tiebreak.ing ~inglc
and Joe Mauer's two-run double
in the 14th helped Minnesota
snap a three7game skid.
Legends take series With 5-4 win
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - The Lexington Legends captured a
series win over Hagerstown.
The Legends received solid
pitching and timely hitting in
route to a 5-4 win on Tuesday
night. The victory returned the
Legends to 18 games over .500
at 66-48.
The Legends broke from the
gates quickly, sticking four runs
on Jose Sanchez. Clint McGill
singled with one out. McGill
stole second, advanced to third
base on a throwing error by
Sanchez. Ole Sheldon singled to
right scoring McGill.
Lexington loaded the bases
and Ryan Reed singled in Drew
Sutton. Mitch Einertson singled
to left scoring two to give the
Legends a four run advantage.
Carlos Gomez manufactured
a run eventually scored on a
ground out by Amb~o~x C~n
cepcion in the fourth mrung. J1m
Burt·cut the Legends lead to two
with a solo homer in the top of
the fifth inning.
The Legends added a run in
the bottom half of the fifth
inning. Beau Torbert doubled
and scored on a sacrifice fly by
Ryan Reed. Burt singled Con-
cepcion home in the sixth to
make it 5-3. The Suns closed out
the scoring with a sacrit'icl' tly
in the ninth inning
Chad Reineke (8-8 l ollercd
be.st outing as a t<u·ter. The
right-hander worked si:\ innmg~
allowing two runs on three hih
in getting the win. Ryan l'hl 'lllP·
son earned his ninth sa' e of the
season.
The Legends were off
Wednesday and returned to
action last night against \Vest
Virginia. Results from thl' Lexington-West Virginia game "·ere
unavailable at press tillll
�84 •
FRIDAY, AUGUST
12, 2005
THE FLOYD CouNTY TIMES
-- Jamal
Lewis enters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Star running back Jamal
Lewis had his frrst practice in
pads following an offseason of
legal turmoil.
Lewis reported to training
camp Monday. On Wednesday,
he took part in a few team drills,
but didn't participate in fullcontact practice.
"He looked fresh, which is
what you would expect after not
being here for the frrst week,"
Ravens coach Brian Billick said
of Lewis, limited to a career-low
I ,006 yards last season as he
dealt with his legal problems
and injuri~s. "We'll just continue to push him through it, put
him through his paces and see if
we can get him to that next level
of conditioning."
The 2003 NFL Offensive
Player of the Year served four
months in federal prison and two
months in a halfway house after
pleading guilty to using a cell
phone to arrange a cocaine deal.
Dolphins - Junior Seau's
frustrating journey back from
injuries finally might be over.
Seau was back on the Miami
Dolphins' practice field, apparently recovered from a calf
injury that kept him sidelined
for the frrst 2 l/2 weeks of training camp.
The 36-year-old linebacker,
with whom the Dolphins will be
cautious, took part in the team's
only full-pads workout of the
week, one that will be capped
Saturday night in a preseason
game at Jacksonville. Seau hurt
the calf while conditioning in
San Diego on July 22.
"He did well, actually better
than I thought he would," Dolphins coach Nick Saban said.
"We did not want him to go the
whole practice because we didn't want him to get in an overuse
situation where he might fatigue
that particular injury and have
additional problems."
Browns - Rookie wide
receiver Braylon Edwards
agreed to terms on a five-year
contract late Wednesday night,
ending his holdout and a bizarre
day of negotiations.
Edwards, the No. 3 overall
pick, will sign his contract on
Thursday and practice with the
Browns for the frrst time, a
league source told The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity. The source asked to
remain unidentified due to the
sensitivity of the negotiations
between the Browns and agent
Lamont Smith.
It appeared Edwards would
sign his deal hours earlier after
arriving at the team's headquarters, but things took a strange
turn as he and Smith bolted
after negotiations with the
Browns hit a snag.
The pair, along
with switched pos1t1ons and was a
Edwards' parents and other fam- first-round ·draft pick . by the
ily members, drove away in a Jaguars, had a wide strip of his
three-car caravan without fin- long, dirty-blonde hair shaved as
ishing a deal that looked all but part of a hazing ritual Tuesday.
done.
The haircut was courtesy of
"You don' t have a deal until defensive tackle John Henderson.
you have a deal," Smith, sitting
But after spending a day with
in the passenger seat of an SUV the new 'do, Jones decided to
driven by Edwards' father, Stan, have his head shaved bald.
said at about 6:30 p.m. "We're
"It's just a haircut," Jones
leaving Cleveland."
said. "It's something that hapThey didn't get far. Smith pens to every rookie, so it's no
stayed in touch with the club big deal. It will grow back."
and was able to complete a deal
But Jones kept his scraggily
that could pay Edwards nearly beard, creating an even odder look.
$20 million in guaranteed
Bills - Tight end Kevin
money.
Everett, the Bills' third-round
Jaguars - Cornerback David . draft pick, signed, although it's
Richardson missed his second not clear when the injured playstraight day of practice with a er will be cleared for practice.
Everett has been rehabbing
right ankle sprain and is out
indefinitely. Richardson, listed in Orchard Park, N.Y., since he
as the starter opposite Rashean had surgery in May to repair a
Mathis, was on crutches and tom left knee ligament he hurt
wearing a protective boot over during the team's frrst day of
his ankle at practice.
numcamp.
Richardson was injured
Everett's agent, Brian OverMonday night when he came street, expects the Bills to place
down awkwardly on his ankle his client on the physically
while defending Ernest Wilford unable-to-perform list and that
he'll probably miss at least the
on a fade pattern.
Without Richardson, Kenny start of the season while he conWright and third-round pick tinues working out on his own.
Scott Starks are splitting time
Buffalo also placed backup
offensive lineman Lawrence
with the frrst team defense.
Rookie wide receiver Matt Smith on injured reserve with a
Jones had a new hairdo for the torn right quadriceps tendon.
Panthers - Carolina claimed
second straight day. The standout
quarterback at Arkansas who second-year cornerback Dwight
Bengals demote holdout
draft pick to third string
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGETOWN - Rookie
David Pollack had been expected to be the Cincinnati Bengals'
starting strong-side linebacker.
But with the frrst-round draft
pick from Georgia continuing
his contract holdout, coach Marvin Lewis has demoted Pollack
to third on the depth chart.
"We focus on the guys
we've got, and at some point
(Pollack and his agents) have to
come to a decision and realize
that it's time to play football,"
Lewis said after Pollack had
missed his 14th practice of
camp on Monday.
As of Tuesday, the holdout
reached 12 days, and Pollack
had dropped behind Landon
Johnson and Marcus Wilkens.
Rookie Odell Thurman, Pollack's teammate at Georgia, was
still listed as the starting middle
linebacker.
Pollack was the 17th overall
pick in the NFL draft and was
being asked to make the conversion to linebacker from the
defensive tackle and end positions he played in college.
Despite his absence, Pollack
remains big in the Bengals' plans.
"He's our guy. We like him. We
drafted him," Lewis said. ''When
he gets here, we'll coach him up."
But it could take some time
to get up to speed as a starter.
"I think we're going to do
everything we can to win fo<;>tball games, so we're not going
to jeopardize our football team
if he's not up to speed in certain
areas," Lewis said.
"It's going to be hard for him
to come in and be a starter on a
football team. ... And I can't
subject the other 52 players and
our coaches to that."
Until Pollack regains the
upper hand, Johnson will be the
starter. He led the defense with
133 tackles last year as a rookie.
"We knew Landon would
play, and had we not drafted
David where we did, Landon
would be playing where he is
now," Lewis said. "It was always
the plan to get the best players on
the field as much as possible."
In a roster move Tuesday, the
Bengals signed linebacker
Derek Currey, free agent from
Notre Dame, for two years. Currey was signed by Miami as a
free agent in April and was
released Friday.
Waived by Bears, Krenzel
hopes to catch on with Bengals
by TERRY KINNEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGETOWN - Former
Ohio State quarterback Craig
Krenzel, waived by Chicago
after starting five games for the
Bears last year, still sees himself
as a starter in the NFL.
Right now, he's battling for
the No. 3 spot on the Cincinnati
Bengals' depth chart behind
Carson Palmer and Jon Kitna
and just hopes to be around next
year for a shot at becoming
Palmer's backup.
"I defmitely think this can be a
great fit for me in terms of career
development," Krenzel said
Wednesday. "Being able to watch
Carson do this thing, it will be a
great opportunity to sit back and
learn and continue to work on
fundamentals and develop and
mature in the game."
Casey Bramlet is the other candidate for the third quarterback
spot. Coach Marvin Lewis said
Wednesday he would not keep a
fourth, even though the league
allows two more players on each
team's practice squad this year.
Bramlet, a second-year player from Wyoming, spent most of
last year on the Bengals' inactive list as the designated third
quarterback, He was allocated
by the Bcngals to the Hamburg
Sea Devils for the 2005 NFL
Europe League, where he got
valuable playing time.
"I gained a lot of experience
just playing," Bramlet said.
"You can get a lot better when
you're actually in there playing
instead of just watching tape
and looking at a chalkboard."
The time he spent in Europe,
and last year in the Bengals' system, could give him an edge
over Krenzel.
"I have a much better feel of
the offense than last year,"
Bramlet said. "You can be a little more relaxed and comfortable when you go in there, when
you know what you need to do."
Krenzel, who led Ohio State
to a 14-0 season and the national
championship as a junior in
2002, won his first three starts
with the Bears last season but
injured an ankle in his ftfth start,
on Thanksgiving Day at Dallas,
and missed !he rest of the season.
Then Chicago drafted Purdue
standout Kyle Orton in the
fourth round this spring.
"When I got hurt, that set me
back a little bit. Then when
they took Kyle in the fourth
round, they just felt like he was
a better fit for their system,"
Krenzel said. "That's the business side of it. They go one
way, it leaves me trying to go
'
another way. That's life.
"Life goes on. You move on,
you get better, and here I am in
Cincinnati competing. It's a
great situation for me."
Orton made the Bears' decision look good in a 27-24 victory over Miami in the Hall of
Fame game Monday pight, getting his career off to a fast start
by going 7-for-11 for 175 yards.
Krenzel was 14-of-24 for
175 yards in his best game for
Chicago, his fourth start, against
Indianapolis. But he thinks he
can return to a starting role with
some team, even if it means
spending a couple years backing
up Palmer.
"That's my goal," Krenzel
said. "But it takes time. I'm
working right now, competing,
trying to contribute what I can to
this team this year and, hopefully,
be around (next year) and get that
chance to learn and develop."
Notes: The Bengals made
three player moves Wednesday.
They signed kicker Carter W~
ley, a rookie free agent from ~lr
ginia Tech; waived wide rec~tv
er Jeremiah Cockheran, a frrstyear player from Hawaii; and
placed offensive tackle Adam
Kieft, the club's fifth-round
draft pick from Central Michigan, on injured reserve following knee surgery.
Anderson off waivers from the
St. Louis Rams. The defensive
back out of South Dakota played
in 12 games last season. He was
competing for the team's nickel
back spot during trairling camp
before being released Monday
for curfew violations.
To make room on the roster,
the team released cornerback
Shannon Fitzhugh.
Cardinals - Top draft pick
Antrel Rolle's frrst practice with
Arizona went well.
A day after the cornerback
signed a six-year, $43 million
contract that includes $13.6 million in guaranteed money, coach
Dennis Green said Rolle would
play Saturday in the exhibition
opener against Dallas- possibly
in more formations than at frrst
anticipated.
After spending the frrst hour
of practice in a skull . session
with secondary coach Richard
Solomon, Rolle got some repetitions with the second-string base
defense, as well as in nickel coverages, where Green said he
would be slotted for the game.
Steelers - "Linebacker Joey
Porter
underwent
surgery
Wednesday to remove loose cartilage from his knee and is
expe<;ted to miss four weeks.
If Porter sits out for the full
four weeks, he'll miss the Steelers' four preseason games, but
will be back in time for Pitts-
Owens leaves camps
after argument with Reid
by DAN GELSTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Terrell 'bvfen~ h:'as 's 6me unexpected time off to plot the
next twist in his colorful and
controversial career.
TO has been TKO'd- as in
Totally Kicked Out- of training
camp. The playmaking, showboating wide receiver was asked
to leave Eagles camp Wednesday after a· heated exchange
with coach Andy Reid.
"I got sent home until
Wednesday for whatever reason," Owens told Comcast
SportsNet from his home in
Moorestown, N.J. "It was just
a difference of opinion. 'I was
defending myself."
Defending himself from
what, it's not exactly clear.
Owens refused to say what
the argument was about, and
the Eagles issued only a brief
statement saying Owens was
not expected to return to the
team until next Wednesday.
pulling
a
Suddenly,
Sharpie from his sock or posing on the Cowboys' star
seems downright tame.
But this was the risk the
Eagles were willing to take last
year when they traded for Owens
because they thought he could
help them win a Super Bowl.
Now comes this.
For the fifth time in six
days, Owens did not practice
Wednesday because of a groin
injury suffered last week.
Instead, he worked out with
the assistant trainer for about
20 minutes, catching balls
from a machine and doing
some light running. He did
not speak to reporters or
acknowledge the fans who
chanted his name.
Between sessions - the
Eagles had a special teams
practice Wednesday afternoon
that Owens was not required to
attend- Owens and Reid started arguing during a meeting.
Reid asked the injured
Owens to leave after their discussion, according to Owens'
agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and
his publicist, Kim Etheredge.
Owens then got his belongings and cleared out of training
camp at Lehigh University.
"If the truth needs to be
told, then that's what I'll do,"
Owens said. "If he (Reid)
wants me to be a man about it
and have me really go on the
air and really teU the people
what happened, then I can. It
was a difference of opinion."
With reporters camped on
his lawn and helicopters hovering overhead while Owens
played basketball and lifted
weights, the circus scene only
magnified the distraction
Owens has become to the NFC
champions. While Owens was
an instant fan favorite last year
for helping the Eagles reach
the Super Bowl, he's caused
constant headaches for management because of his
demand for a new contract.
He also damaged his relationship with Donovan McNabb when he took a shot at the
quarterback "who got tired in
the Super Bowl."
Owens is unhappy the
Eagles have refused to redo his
contract as he enters the second season of a seven-year,
$48.97 million deal. He hired
Rosenhaus and threatened to
skip camp completely. Instead,
Owens reported, then injured
his groin last Thursday.
He was day to day and the
injury wasn't considered serious.
Owens also skipped a scheduled autograph session with the
rest of the Eagles' receivers
after Wednesday's practice.
"He was unable to attend
because he was injured,"
Etheredge said.
The Eagles still won't
show Owens the money he
desperately wants. They have,
however, shown the All-Pro
wide receiver the door.
Since arriving at Lehigh,
Owens has been distant on the
field with his teammates.
After signing autographs and
slapping hands with fans on a
nearly daily basis last year,
Owens has jogged on and off
the practice field, barely
ack:,nowledging their chants
and screams.
"Just because I don't talk to
everybody, that's up to me,"
Owens said. "Everybody
needs to understand the situation is all business, it's nothing personal. The situation is
between me and management.
They know what's going on.
"I think some people are
kind of ticked off because I
haven't really said much. They
don't pay me to go in there and
talk to everybody and be
friendly to everybody. They
paid me to play and they paid
me to perform. That's what I've
been going in there and doing."
Last season, Owens had 77
receptions for 1,200 yards and
a franchise-record 14 touchdowns before severely injuring his ankle late in the season. He missed the final two
regular-season games and the
frrst two playoff games before
returning for the Super Bowl,
in which he had nine receptions for 122 yards .
burgh's Sept. ll season opener
against the Tennessee Titans at
Heinz Field.
"We expect to have him for the
opener," coach Bill Cowher said.
Bills - Rookie receiver
Roscoe Parrish grimaced in pain
as he was led off the fi~ld after
he hurt his right hand.
The extent of the injury was
not immediately known, but it
could be a blow for the Bills, •
who had been impressed by the
second-round draft pick's performance since camp opened
July 30.
It happened about an hour
into Buffalo's scheduled twohour practice, when Parrish was
running step-for-step with cornerback Jabari Greer up the right
hash mark. Diving headfirst for
a 40-yard pass thrown by Kelly
Holcomb, Parrish missed the
overthrown ball and seemed to
land awkwardly on his wrist.
Rams - First-round pick • )
Alex Barron ended a two-week
training camp holdout and
signed a five-year contract.
As a senior at Florida State,
Barron was one of three fmalists
for the Outland Trophy, which recognizes the country's top college
offensive lineman. He was taken
19th overall in April by St. Louis.
Barron signed only two days
before the Rams' preseason
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Chicago Bears.
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Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30p.m.
Denver at Houston, 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Indianapolis. 8 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 • 85
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USA slips past Sloven· 82-79
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
MAR DE PLATA, Argentina
- After falling behind by 13
• points in the first quarter the
2005 USA U21 World Championship Team (5-0) fought back
to nip Slovenia (2-3) 82-79 at
the 2005 FIBA U2l World
Championship on Wednesday
afternoon in Mar del Plata,
Argentina. Curtis Withers
(Charlotte I Charlotte, N.C.) and
Terrence Roberts (Syracuse ·1
Jersey City, N.J.) carne up big
on the inside with 15 and 14
points, respectively, after shooting woes held the USA to just
13.6 percent (3-33 3pt FGs)
from 3-point land.
The USA advances to quarterfinals play at the top of Group
B and will face Canada this
evening at 8 p.m. (EDT and subject to change).
"No matter where you play
basketball, whether it be professional, international or in college, sometimes the team that
plays better doesn't always win,"
said USA and Saint Joseph's
University (Pa.) head coach Phil
Martelli. "And today that happened. The team that played bet-
*'
ter didn 't win. I salute Slovenia
for their efforts and I agree with
their coach in that players we did
not anticipate playing significant
minutes did a terrific job tonight.
I wish them well in the rest of the
tournament."
"We had two early chances to
get ready for the medal round,
we had (the Global Games in)
Texas and then pool play," said
Withers. "So we have to take
what we have and what we
learned from these games, as
well as how to better warm up,
how to be consistent and what
we need to do to win. It starts
with defense and we also have
to be one team."
Unlike in previous contests
for the USA, this one went
down to the wire as an off-balanced 3-point attempt by Slovenia's Miha Fon at the buzzer
kept it from going into extra
periods. With 6.6 seconds showing on the clock, and an infraction to give before sending the
U.S . to the line, Marcus
Williams (Connecticut I Los
Angeles, Calif.) was fouled on
an inbounds pass. On the next
inbounds play, it was J.J. Redick
• (Duke I Roanoke, Va.) who was
fouled and sent to the line.
Ranked second in the NCAA
during the past season for his
93.8 percent accuracy from the
stripe, Redick uncharacteristi- ·
cally missed his first attempt,
but swished the next and Slovenia had 4.9 seconds to get the
ball up the court. Slovenia got
the ball in, Fon received a pass
and finally broke free from his
defender, but it was too late and
he wasn't able to get off a good
shot as the U.S. came away with
the close win.
Shooting 28.6 percent (6-21
FGs) in .the first quarter, while
allowing Slovenia, which made
good on 64.3 percent (9-14
FGs), several uncontested
layups, the result was a wake-up
call. In addition to the poor
shooting, which included 0-of-5
from beyond the arc, the United
States amassed four turnovers
and had just a pair of assists in
the first 10 minutes.
Slovenia stomped out to an
early 7-0 lead after the U.S.
wasn't able to convert on its
first three possessions, and by
the 5:01 mark the lead was up to
15-4. By the time the buzzer
sounded the teams to their
benches for the break, the USA
had dug itself a 26-1 3 hole.
"I don't think we prepared
mentally for this game," said
Redick. "We weren't sharp, even
in warm-ups, and it carried over to
the first quarter. It took us almost
the whole entire first half to get it
up to an even level of effort, to
focus our energy on Slovenia.
When you do that to a team and
give them confidence, they're
going to hang around the whole
game and that's what happened."
The U.S. came to life in the
second quarter and made 50 percent from the field (14-28 FGs),
while also registering 14 steals.
Rajon Rondo (Kentucky I
Louisville, Ky.), who finished
with five steals, started the
comeback with a put-back at
9:09 (26-15). Following a
Slovenian layup at 8:34 (28-1 5),
the United States sprinted out on
a 16-2 run that gave the Americans a slim lead, 31-30, with
5:29 to go in the half. During the
run the red, white and blue
received points from seven different players and notched three
steals. Slovenia retook the lead
on a jumper by Sasa Zagorac at
4:45, but the U.S. returned to the
top on its first 3 pointer of the
game b) Rudy Gay (Connecticut
I Baltimore, Md) 10 seconds
later. Slovenia tied the score at
34-all on a pair ol free throws at
4:09, but an Allan Ray (Villanova I Bronx, N.y.) steal and layup
at 3:47 gave the USA a lead it
would never relinquish, 36-34.
Roberts collected a pair of steals
and notched four points late in
the half on consecutive Slovenian possession. and with 2:33
showing on the clock the Americans were startmg to pull away,
42-36. Howe\cr. every time the
U.S. tried to make a run Slovenia stabbed back and by the midway buzzer the lead was 49-44.
Following a sluggish third
quarter start, the USA got six
points off steals from three different pl'aycrs, as well as a block
by Withers that sent the ball into
the stands, and with 16:38 to
play in the ga1ne. the U.S. led 5648. After pulling away by 10
points, 66-56, late in the third
stanza, the U.S. was outscored 50 in the fi nal 1·37 and the period
ended with a 66-6 1 U.S. edge.
Roberts grabbed an offensive
board and scored at 3:43 to put
the USA up by nine, 79-70, and
then its offense went cold .
Slovenia strung together seven
straight points on a traditional 3point play and four more from
the line and at 1:06, the game
closed to 79-77. Rondo ended
the USA's scoring drought after
swiping the ball from Slovenia
and running the court for a
layup to give the U.S. an 81 -77
pad with 25.9 seconds to go.
Blaz Cresnar was fouled with
the clock running down and
scored his team's final points
from the line with 6.6 seconds to
go in the game.
In addition to the combined
29 points from Roberts and
Withers, Ray scored 12 and
notched five steals, while Gay
had 10 points and a team-high
eight rebounds .
Zagorac scored a game-high
15 points for Slovenia.
The United States pulled out
the win despite shooting just
40.5 percent (34-84 FGs) from
the field and a frigid 13.6 percent (3-22 3pt FGs) from 3point. Outrebounding Slovenia
39-31, the United States had a
USA U21 record 25 steals and
forced a total of 30 turnovers,
but had 17 turnovers themselves.
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Formal complaint in
Wildcat Lodge case signed
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON -A woman
who has alleged she was raped
by a former University of Kentucky basketball player signed
~ an affidavit Tuesday morning
attesting to that, according to
her attorney.
Also, Fayette County Attorney Margaret Kannensohn
expects to complete her review
of the case "within the week"
and then will submit her recommendation as to probable cause
in the case to a Fayette County
District Court judge, according
to a statement from her office.
The judge will determine
whether there is probable cause
to proceed.
..
The woman filed a criminal
complaint with the county
attorney's office July 6. Kannensohn sent a letter to attorneys for both sides nine days
later, saying she wanted more
time to review the woman's
allegations.
Matthew Boyd of Lexington, an attorney for the accuser,
said the delay has been due in
some part to the time taken by
Lexington police in transcrib-
ing their July 6 interview with
the woman. Boyd estimated the
transcription ran from 200 to
300 pages. What the woman
signed Tuesday was basically a
synopsfs of that transcription,
he said.
He said his client is anxious
for the case to proceed.
"The sooner the better for
us," Boyd said. "It's mental
anguish and torment for us to
have this thing linger out there.
It needs to proceed. These are
serious charges. These are
crimes that, if committed, the
person shouldn't be a part of
society for ~orne time." ,
Kannensohn acknowledged
in her statement the concern of
Boyd and his client.
"I understand how deeply
affected the parties feel about
my recommendation," she said
in a statement, "but r will not be
pressured in any way, shape, or
form to accelerate that recommendation."
The statement said Kannensohn would have no furthet comment about her recommendation
until after a judicial review.
Police have never publicly
identified the suspect named by
the accuser, but Bill Duffy, a
sports agent for former Kentucky player Chuck Hayes, has
said Hayes was notified of the
investigation and said the 'rape
allegation was false.
Assistant Chief Ken Hall
has said the suspect told police
that he and the woman had consensual sex.
Jim Lowry of Lexington,
Hayes' attorney, did not return
a phone call left Thesday afternoon at his office by The Associated Press.
The signing of the formal
complaint of frrst-degree rape
was the latest twist in the highprofile case, which began April
22, when the woman filed a
complaint with police, saying
she had been drugged and
raped at Wildcat Lodge - best
known as the home of Kentucky basketball players between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30
p.m. on April 20.
The woman at flrst didn't
cooperate with police, and they
announced May 4 that they
were dropping the case "by
exception," meaning it could be
reviewed later. But the woman
changed her mind and began
cooperating in early July, offering police other information.
Rondo named Preseason Wooden Award candidate
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - University
of Kentucky sophomore Rajon
Rondo named one of the top 50
preseason candidates for the
Men's 2005-06 Wooden Award
All-American Team Tuesday.
The list is composed of 50 student athletes who, based on last
year's individual performance
and team records, are the early
frontrunners for college basketball's most coveted trophy.
'\ This marks the eighth consecutive year that Kentucky has
been represented on the Wooden Award's initial watch list.
Last season, Chuck Hayes was
named to the preseason list,
while Gerald Fitch made the list
in 2003. Keith Bogans was a
player to watch in 2002 and
both Bogans and Tayshaun
Prince were among the top 50 in
2001. Bogans also made the list
as a sophomore in 2000, while
Scott Padgett was on the list in
1998 and 1999, when only 25
candidates were named .
The top 50 candidates are
comprised of returning players,
although transfers, fre shmen
and other players who excel
throughout the season will be
evaluated and considered for
both the Midseason top 30 list
and the National Ballot.
"With so many players jumping to the next level and so
many standout athletes from last
year, the committee had a tough
time nominating these candidates from such a wide selection
of tremendous players," said
Duke Llewellyn, Wooden
Award chairman. "These preseason selections represent the
elite of college basketball, and
our entire team at the Wooden
Award is excited to see the best
players in the nation prove their
case as college basketball's
player of the year."
Four SEC players were
named to the watch list this
year, including LSU's Glen
Davis, Arkansas' Ronnie Brewer and Alabama's Chuck Davis.
Louisville's Taquan Dean was
also named to the list. For the
complete list of preseason candidates , visit www.woodenaward.com.
In mid-January, the Wooden
Award committee will release
the midseason top 30 on CBS
Sports, and on Tuesday, March
28, the 10-player Wooden
Award All-American Team will
be announced. The 2006 Award
ceremony, which will include
the presentation of the Men's
and Women's Wooden Award,
the Wooden Award All-American Teams and the Legends of
Coaching Award, will be held
at The Los Angeles Athletic
Club on April 8, 2006, and will
be broadcast live on a national
CBS telecast.
•Kentucky Football Fans' Day set for Saturday
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - The annual
Kentucky Football Fans' Day
will be held Saturday, Aug. 13,
at Commonwealth Stadium.
Activities begin outside the
stadium at 9 a.m . with the
"Wildcat Refuge" children's
play area.
Gate 4 and Gate 9 of the stadium open at 10 a.m., when
posters, Wildcat gift envelopes,
~,and prize tickets will be given
away. Schedule cards, schedule
magnets, meal tickets, and
,.
other goodies will be in the gift
envelopes. Meal tickets can be
redeemed for free hot dogs and
Pepsi while supplies last.
Coach Rich Brooks and the
team will be introduced at 11
a.m., followed by an autograph sess10n with the Wild.cat
coaches and players. Dunng
the autograph session, there
will be drawings for grand
prizes, such as football season
tickets, airfare and tickets to
away
football
games,
women 's basketball season
tickets, Kroger gift cards, and
other items.
Fans also can get an upclose look at special elements
of Wildcat football. An equipment stand will be set up in the
east end zone and fans can try
on UK helmets and shoulder
pads. UK athletic trainers also
will have a station in the east
end zone, demonstrating ankle
taping and other activities.
The autograph session ends
at 12:45 p.m. Fans are invited
to remain at the stadium and
observe practice, which will
begin at 1:20 p.m.
j
SEC tops all confe rences in
year-end athletic success survey
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The
Southeastern Conference, propelled by at least one of its
member institutions placing in
the national top four in 16 of 20
sponsored sports, placed frrst in
a survey of all NCAA Division
I-A conferences, comparing athletics success in the 2004-05
academic year.
The survey, compiled by the
Big 12 Media Relations Office ,
gives 20 points for a member
institution placing first nationally, 19th for second place, 18th
for third and down to one point
for 20th place. The survey takes
into account the 20 sports that
are sponsored by the SEC.
The SEC placed frrst with
973.5 points followed by the
Pac-1 0 with 868 points, the Big
12 with 603.5 pomts, Big Ten
with 481 points. ACC with 453
points and the Mountain West
was sixth with 193.5 points.
The SEC rlaced first among
all conferences in its nine men's
sponsored sports with 451
points compared to the Pac-10's
367 points and the Big 12's 267
points. The SEC has accumulated the most men's sports in each
of the last seven years and 13 of
the last 14 years.
The SEC also placed first
among all conferences in its 11
women·s sponsored sports with
522.5 points compared to the
Pac- l O's 501 points and the Big
12's 336.5 puints. The SEC
broke an eight-vcar string by
the Pac- 10 as the highest
women's point total. Since
1986-87. the Pac-10 has
claimed the top spot each year
KENTUC
with the exception of 1990-91
(SEC), 1995-96 (SEC) and last
season (SEC).
The SEC won seven team
national championships during
the 2004-05 season- men's golf
(Georgia), gymnastics (Georgia), men's swimming & diving
(Auburn), women's swimming & diving (Georgia), men's
indoor track & field (Arkansas),
women's indoor track & field
(Tennessee) and men's outdoor
track & field (Arkansas).
For the 2004-05 academic
year, the SEC had 160 teams
participate in NCAA post-season competition among the 20
league-sponsored sports, an
average of eight teams per sport.
The SEC also had 554 first-team
All-Americas in its 20 team
sponsored sports, including 72
individual national champions. ·
OOTBALL
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FRIDAY, A UGUST
12, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
e igning Cup champion Kurt
Busch
.
aving Roush Racing for Penske.
-
by MIKE HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reigning Nextel Cup chamnion Kurt Busch is changing
eams, moving from Roush Raeto Penske Racing South. The
1y question is when.
Busch signed a multiyear
ontract to drive for Penske
tarting in 2007 and asked to be
·leased from his current con·act with Roush Racing, apparllly in hopes of replacing retirg Rusty Wallace next season.
In a statement, Roush said the
team will wait for "an indefinite
period" before making a decision on Busch's request to leave
after this season.
"Yeah, we have signed him
up for 2007," Penske team president Don Miller told The Associated Press on Thesday. "As for
anything else, the lawyers tell us
we can't really comment. We'll
just have to see how things
shake out.
"Kurt Busch is a great driver
and Ryan (Newman) said he is
looking forward to having him as a
teammate and working with him."
Newman is the current teammate of Wallace, the 1989 series
champion, who is retiring at the
end of the 2005 season, leaving
a vacant seat in the No. 2
Dodge.
Busch attended the CubsReds baseball game Thesday at
Wrigley Field in Chicago and
initially fended off questions
about the move, saying, "It's
just baseball today."
But, after throwing out the
flrst pitch and leading the crowd
in singing ''Take Me Out To The
Ball Game" during the seventh
inning stretch, he did talk about
his future.
''There's still so much more
work to be done in the meantime. I've got an opportunity to
win a championship in 2005, as
well as 2006, for whomever I
drive for," Busch said. "Roush
Racing has given me the best
equipment to go and do so, and
I'm for the opportunity of what
these next five races mean,
which is to get into the playoffs
and of course, the Chase.
'There's times for change and
then there's times for staying
put," he added. "I haven't made
my 2006 plans very clear yet."
Roush said there were "sponsor and team considerations" to
take into account before making
a decision regarding Busch for
next season. The team said it
would have no additional comment on the split.
Roush is in much the same
situation as the Penske team,
with Jamie McMurray, currently
driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, signed for 2007 to replace
Mark Martin, who is planning to
retire at the end of this season.
''This does not change any-
thing with us and Jamie. He will
still be driving for us in 2006,"
Ganassi, who has an option on
McMurray's services for next
year, told the AP.
That leaves the No. 6 Ford
without a driver for 2006,
although Martin has said he
would consider staying an extra
year if Jack Roush, his longtime
boss, needs him.
But Wallace has said repeatedly this will be his final year in
the driver's seat. There was no
word from Penske on who
would drive the No. 2 next season if Busch does not become
available.
Roush came to NASCAR's
top stock car series in 1988 with
one driver, Martin, and has
turned the team into a five-car
juggernaut with Busch, Martin,
Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and
Carl Edwards. The team has
won two straight championships
and leads everyone this season
with nine victories in the first 21
races, including two by Busch.
Roush went 16 years before
Kenseth gave him his first Cup
title in 2003. Busch then won it
in 2004, the first year of
NASCAR's 10-race, playoffstyle Chase for the Championship.
Busch, who turned 27 last
week, stands fifth in this year's
points race, 277 points behind
leader Tony Stewart. After a
slow start to his Cup defense, he
has finished in the top 10 in four
of his past six races, but slipped
to an 18th-place finish Sunday
in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard in Indianapolis.
With victories this season at
Pocono and Phoenix, Busch
seems a solid bet to be among the
top 10 drivers in the points standings when NASCAR resets the
field for the Chase following the
Sept. 10 race in Richmond, Va.
Roush flrst hired the virtually
unknown Busch in 2000 to drive
in the Craftsman Truck Series.
He won four races that year
and finished second in the
points standings, leading Roush
to move him straight to
NASCAR's top series without
the traditional intermediate stop
on the second-tier Busch Series.
He won his first Cup race in
2002 and had four wins that season. For his Cup career, Busch
has 13 wins in 171 starts.
Busch, then 26, was the
third-youngest champion in
NASCAR history when he won
the title last season.
He recently said he felt his
team was poised to make a run
for back-to-hack titles, something no one has done since Jeff'
Gordon in 1997 and 1998.
Busch has a history of feuds
with rival drivers - Jimmy
Spencer punched him in the
nose in 2003 - and run-ins with
NASCAR officials.
Earlier this year, after a
tantrum at Darlington that
included expletives directed at
NASCAR officials over his incar radio, Busch was placed on
unofficial
probation
by
NASCAR and given notice that
the sanctioning body would tolerate no more bad behavior.
•
Auto racing glance: NASCAR Robby Gordon struggles
by BRIAN KACHARABA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASCAR NEXTEL CUP
Site: Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 11:10 a.m.);
Sunday, race (NBC, 1 p.m.).
Track: Watkins Glen Intemati('nal (permanent road course,
2.45 miles, 11 turns).
Race dista11ce: 220.5 miles, 90 laps.
Last race: Tony Stewart continued his recent hot stretch,
winning for the fourth time in
six races after taking the Allstate
400 at Indianapolis.
Last year: Plagued by an
upset stomach, Stewart fought
through the pain to win the Sirius at the Glen for the second
time in three years. Stewart led
46 of the 90 laps on the 11-tum
layout, going to the front for the
final time by passing Casey
Mears on lap 76.
Fast facts: Jimmie Johnson
was hospitalized after crashing
late in last week's race. He
dropped to second in the standings, 75 points behind Stewart ....
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s frustrating
season continued at Indianapolis
when he was sent into the wall
by Mike Skinner during a restart.
He has just one win and eight
top-1 0 finishes in 21 starts this
season. .. . Reigning champion
Kurt Busch has signed a contract
to drive for Penske Racing South
in 2007 and has asked to be
released from his current contract with Roush Racing.... Jason
Leffler was fired Monday as driver for the No. 11 Chevrolet at
Joe Gibbs Racing. Terry Labonte
will race in the car this weekend.
Next race: GFS Marketplace
400, Aug. 21, Brooklyn, Mich.
On the Net: http://www.nascar.com
NASCAR BUSCH
Zippo 200
Site: Watkins Glen, NY
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed Channel, 9 a.m.),
race (NBC, 2 p.m.).
Track: Watkins Glen International (permanent road course,
2.45 miles, 11 turns).
Race distance: 200.9 miles, 82/aps.
Last race: Martin Truex Jr.
recorded his sixth victory of the
season, holding off Clint Bowyer
on a final two-lap shootout to win
the rain-interrupted Kroger 200 at
Indianapolis. Truex increased his
lead to 85 points over Bowyer in
the series standings.
Last year: Inaugural race.
Fast facts: This is the ftrst
Busch race at Watkins Glen
since 2001. Ron Fellows recorded his second straight win at the
track during that year's event. ...
This is the second road-course
event of the season. Truex won
at Mexico City on March 6.
Next race: Michigan 250,
Aug. 20, Brooklyn, Mich.
On the Net: http://www.nascar.com
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN
TRUCKS
Toyota Thndra 200
Site: Gladeville, Tenn.
Schedule: Saturday, qualifying,
Noon, race (Speed Channel, 5 p.m).
Track: Nashville Superspeedway (tri-oval 1.33 miles,
14 degrees banking jn turns).
&cedistllnce: 199.95miles, ISO Tops.
Last race: Dennis Setzer led
177 of the 200 laps and won the·
Power Stroke Diesel 200 at
Indianapolis for his fourth victory of the season.
Last year: Bobby Hamilton
used a high pass to get around
David Starr with eight laps
remaining to win the Toyota
Thndra 200. Hamilton started
15th and won by 0.795 seconds,
about three truck-lengths.
Fast facts: The victory
extended Setzer's lead in the
standings to 227 points, the
largest by a leader since 2000....
There have been no repeat winners through the first four truck
races at Nashville Superspeedway. ... The polesitter has won
this event twice.
Next race: O'Reilly 200,
Aug. 24, Bristol, Tenn.
On the Net: http://www.llascar.com
Busch and McMurray signings spotlight
NASCAR's free-agent free-for-all
occur, it is typically with pennission from the rival owner.
So when Roush swooped in
CHARLOTIE, N.C.- When and signed McMurray more
Janlie McMurray signed a con- than a year before his current
expired,
many
tract to drive for Roush Racing contract
in 2007, it put his current team NASCAR insiders viewed it as
a sneaky back-room deal.
in an awkward position.
McMurray is signed with McMurray and Roush have
Chip Ganassi Racing ·through declined to discuss the specifics
next season, and the team has no of their negotiations, and
intention of letting him leave Ganassi has refrained from
before then. But in the five voicing his opinion.
But the practice is becoming
weeks since announcing his
intent, the Ganassi team has increasingly common. With sevbeen scrutinized and criticized eral high-profile rides opening
for holding McMurray to his up next season, teams are desperate to secure replacement
original contract.
In a shocking case of what drivers. And for the first time in
goes around, comes around, years, ·i t's a sellers market.
Bill Elliott and Terry Labonte
Roush now finds himself in the
both
recently stepped down
same uncomfortable position:
Defending Nextel Cup champi- from full-time racing, and Mark
. Kurt Busch said Tuesday he Martin and Rusty Wallace have
i leaving for Penske Racing both said this season will be
•,.mth in 2007, and he wants out their last. It's created a driver
t his contract next year to shortage with just a handful of
top name talent out there..
;peed up the move.
With much of the avruJable
With the tables turned on
talent
already under contract,
Roush, outsiders are getting a
clearer picture ofNASCAR's cut- car owners are scrambling to
grab what's left.
·
.
throat free agent signing process.
"I think it is as tough as 1ts ·
"What I've been telling people
ever been with drivers," said
'>. when you conduct your business
from the weeds, sooner or later the Richie Gilmore, vice president
wcedeater will run over you," said of Dale Earnhardt Inc. "Right
Felix Sabates, a co-owner of now the market is really tough. I
think you look at before, a driver
McMurray's car at Ganassi.
With no union or policing would have to win Busch chamorganization, there is very little. pionships or contend for them
car owners can do to prevent the before you were brought up.
"I think now you have to take
competition from trying to lure
its drivers away. There is usually a chance and it works out or it
some sort of gentlemen's agree- doesn't."
Gilmore admitted last weekmcnt that prohibits teams from
end
to speaking to 2003 series
talking to drivers under contract.
champion
Matt Kenseth about
And if the conversations do
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
!
I
driving one of DEI's cars. But
with one year left on his contract with Roush, Kenseth
declined to make an early deal
that would have teamed him
with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
"He has always been on DEI's
short list. He was one of (Dale
Earnhardt's) favorite drivers, and
if we could ever get Matt, he
would probably be our ftrst
choice for a tean1111ate for Junior,"
Gilmore said. "But he indicated to
us he was going to try to work
something out where he is."
With Kenseth out of the picture it leaves DEI with just a
handful of options to flll the No. ·
15 Chevrolet being vacated by
Michael Waltrip.
Off the list is Ryan Newman,
who said last weekend he had
reached a new deal to remain at
Penske. His contract extension
comes three months after a
newspaper report said Newman
was spotted leaving a meeting
with all five of Roush's Nextel
Cup drivers, with the implication that the team was trying to
woo him to join their stable.
Kasey Kahne was taken off the
market when Ray Evernham
announced a long-term contract
extension last weekend. And Casey
Mears, while denying he had been
approached by Penske and DEI,
said he was trying to work out a
deal to stay with Ganassi.
.
Waltrip and Sterling Marlm
are among the drivers who arc
looking for work, but neither fits
the current casting requirements.
Teams now want young, marketable drivers and arc overlook
ing on-tlal.k success to get them.
Consider: The battle for
to improve his Cup team
by TOM GARDNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
So far this season, the twisty
track at Infineon Raceway has
been the high point of a challenging season for Robby Gordon as he struggles to develop a
team, woo sponsors and work
out the quirks in an engine new
toNASCAR.
This weekend, Gordon- one
of a handfui of Nextel Cup regulars who's as comfortable
turning right as left - heads to
Upstate New York and Watkins
Glen International, the only
other road course on the Cup
tour. He'll warm up in the
Busch race Saturday.
"We could very easily win
both races this weekend," he
said. ''We've got some good
cars and we're definitely getting
competitive. The driver definitely shows up more on road courses. The driver can come into
play and make the difference."
Watkins Glen is where he
took his last checkered flag two
years ago, just two months after
his a victory at Infineon.
But that was when he was driving for Richard Childress Racing.
Hovering around 40th in the
standings with his own team
this season, Gordon has not
been able to break into the top
35 in car owner points, which
would guarantee making the
lineup at each race. Instead, he
has had to make every race on
speed or go home and has
failed to qualify for four events
this year.
Problems with his new
Menard engines - one failed
inspection and the replacement
that lacked enough punch to
qualify - kept him out of the
season opener at Daytona.
That was followed by three
engine failures at California,
Las Vegas and Atlanta, then he
McMurray is a fight for a driver
with just one Ncxtel Cup victory- and that came in 2002 when
he was driving as an injury
replacement for Marlin. And
Mears was pursued by top teams
despite having never won at any
of NASCAR's levels.
Marlin, meanwhile, has two
Daytona 500 titles among his 10
career victories but has seemingly
been shut out of current negotiations. Same goes for Ward Burton, another former Daytona 500
winner who has sat out this entire
season, unable to land a ride.
Neither of them should bother applying for the open ride at
DEL In a sign of the times, '
Gilmore laid out his criteria for
the open seat by saying any
applicant must be under 30
years old and able to get alo~g
with Earnhardt Jr. and Marun
Truex Jr., two of NASCAR's
most eligible bachelors.
"Junior wants to be the oldest
driver at DEI. That's kind of one
of the things he wants," Gilmore
said. "I thin~ the main thing
we \e looking for is a good teammate for Junior and Martin:'
j
failed to qualify at Bristol, Talladega and Darlington.
So Gordon shook thinks up by
bringing in a new crew chief and
team manager. He has finished
every race since, including his
24th place finish last weekend in
Indianapolis in an ill-handling
car. It was his best finish since he
was 16th at Infineon in June.
"The team's a building
process. The engine's a building process, the driver and crew
chief and car chief- we're all
working together," he said.
"W~'re getting better every
week. You've got to crawl
before you walk and walk
before you run."
Gordon is no stranger to the
owner-driver role, having fielded his own Cup team in 2000.
Although he was strong on the
road courses, he ended that season 43rd in the standings.
He has brought a lot of experience to the current project.
Before
moving
to
NASCAR, Gordon took six
off-road championships and
flve victories in the GTO series
along with a Trans-Am win.
That was followed by success
in CART, now Champ Car, and
a pair of seconds in the International Race of Champions. In
Indy Car racing, he was leading
the 1999 Indianapolis 500
when he ran out of gas on the
flnallap and finished fourth.
Gordon passed on an offer to
spend a fourth season with
Childress thls year to launch his
own team and pair with engine
builder John Menard, who is
highly regarded in open-wheel
but a newcomcer to NASCAR.
Childress, who had a trio of
top fives and 55 top lOs driving
his No. 3 car before turning it
over to Dale Earnhardt in 198'1,
agreed that Gordon is shouldering a big challenge.
"I was fortunate enough to
survive those years as a driverowner, and it was tough," he
said. ''I knew if I kept trying to
do it myself, that sooner or later
I would be out of business
because of the big guys and the
money and the technology and
everything that's out there,
"It's tough, but Robby's a
determined person. I'm sure
he'll do welL"
At 36, Gordon knows his
years as a driver are limited, but
says he's looking forward to a
career in ownership.
'The next Rick Hendrick,
Richard Childress, Joe Gibbs
has to come from somewhere.
It's something I want to do for
sure," he said.
Ricky Rudd, an owner-driver who has since dropped the
ownership role, said he spread
himself too thin.
"We did it for six years, won
six races, won the Brickyard ... I
spent my time in the technical
aspect of it - I wanted to learn
how to do every job on that team.
"It took me about five years
to learn them. but I neglected
some of the things like going
out and looking for sponsorship
dollars. I did not have a fall
back when the main sponsor
pulled out."
Gordon has found a somewhat unique way of getting
sponsorship for his new venture. Instead of finding one
sponsor to spend the kind of
money needed to be competitive in Cup- $12-$15 millionGordon Racing has three rotating primru·y sponsors who all
put up part a portion of the
money.
"This is the most competitive form of motorsports in
America today and it's because
you race every weekend," he
said . "It is a gamble every
weekend and it was a gan1ble
doing this."
Crafton loSes
25 points after
IRP infraction
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. NASCAR announced that penalties have been issued to a Craftsman Truck Series driver, owner
and crew chief resulting from a
rule violation during post-race
inspection at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Aug. 5.
Matt Crafton, driver of the
4
No. 88 Chevrolet, was fined 25
NASCAR Craftsman Truck
driver points for violating Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 12-
4~Q,
any determination by
NASCAR official that the
truck, truck parts, components
and/or equipment u ed the
event do not conform to
NASCAR rules - an unapproved right front spring.
Rhonda Thorson, the No. 88
truck's owner, was fined 25
NASCAR Craftsman Truck
owner points under the above
section of the Rule Book.
Crew chief Vance Haefele,
crew chief for the No. 88 truck,
wm; fined 5,000 for violating the
abmc . 't
,r th<' Rule Book.-
•
�Friday, August 12, 2005
SECTION
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Duff Elementary • page C2
Anniversaries • page C3
Weddings • page C3
Births • page C3
Never too
intich fun
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
A water park in Prestonsburg?
Sounds like a
"cool" idea to
me, I thought
as I read Mary
Music's recent
report
in
Wednesday's
paper.
I've
been a waterdog all my life,
though I have
to admit that
Kathy Prater
time
conUfostvlos odhor straints and a
busy schedule
in recent years have put my love for
swimming on the back burner. I've
managed to get in the water only
once, so far, this summer. That's
one more than last summer and,
believe me, my tense old muscles
are quite aware of the situation.
Yep, I started my swimming
<P!ys on a sandy beach at Dewey
Lake (anyone besides me remember that sandy beach?), then
moved on to Archer Park, my
favorite hangout as an e~ementary
student, and on to the Lake Pool
as a high schooler. High school
days were also punctuated with
evaluation of testicular growth
-Page C3
source for local and regional society news"
"The
THROUGH MY EYES
FAMilY
MEDICINE
Son's varicocele should prompt
Floyd native to perform Saturday at MAC
Floyd County native, Samantha Dawn,
will perform on Saturday, August 13, at 8
p.m., at the Mountain Arts Center in the
U.S. 23 Showcase. Currently residing in
Ashland, Samantha has performed in many
regional fairs and festivals including Poage
Landing Days, Rib Fest, Catlettsburg Labor
Day celebration and the Summer Motion
event. She has also been a special guest on
the Highway 23 Jamboree, where she sang
a duet with ~aul Pace. Later, she opened for
Paul at the 2005 Summer Motion event.
~amantha has also been successful at garnenng some attention in Nashville, where
she was noticed by two talent scouts who
arranged for her to perform at the renowned
Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. In addition to
Tootsie's, Samantha has also performed in
several other Nashville clubs, among them
being, Second Fiddle, Crossroads, Legends
on the Corner and Rippy's. Now, when
Samantha visits Nashville, those who have
come to know and recognize her goodnaturedly refer to her as "Kentucky"!
Samantha, who began performing pubat the age of 12, has shared the stage
wtth such artists as Brian McComas, Blue
Country, Jeff Carson, and Craig Morgan.
Samantha is always quick to share, with
pride, that she is from Floyd County, Kentucky and says that it is her Floyd County
family, and roots, that keep her focused and
grounded. The "little girl from Cushaw
Holler" hopes that her Floyd County family
and friends all turn out to greet her Saturday
nigh,t at the MAC.
li~ly
Samantha Dawn Moore
oq
New porch, home repairs
• and ·a playhouse, too
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(See EYES, page two)
POSTSCRIPT
Midsummer
•
mustngs
One of my favorite of the PBS
Mystery series is Midsummer Murders (or something to that effect).
To us Yanks, the natural
assumption is that the word "midsummer" means the crimes must
take place this time of year,
fevered by the passion of hot days
and humid nights.
Turns out, Midsummer is the
~
name of a
village
where our
detective
hero lives.
It's
an
intriguing
place with
far
more
murders
than
any
village
Pam Shingler
should realcontrlbudng wrtter
istically
experience. Midsummer is a litera~otbed of crime.
Anyway, this is, indeed, midsummer. I think I've read somewhere that the crime rate goes up
in August, especially in the South.
Apparently, the heat causes tempers to flare, patience to thin.
. .
:photo by Mary Music
Vo Iunteers from LOUISVIlle wor~ed hard to complete repairs on a. McDowell home Wednesday afternoon before heading back to the city
that ev~nlng_. The g_roup was. m Prestonsburg for a week, workmg on the flood damaged mobile home. After meeting the family and
becommg fnen~s w1th the children, some young women from the group decided to embark on a project of their own - building a playhouse for the k1ds.
I .
..
Louisville volunteers aid McDowell family
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
MCDOWELL-The
last
group of volunteer missionaries
pulled out of Floyd County
Wednesday evening, after completing work on a flood damaged
home in McDowelL
Andrew Dinsmore, chairman of
the Red Cross' long term recovery
committee and Director of Habitat
for Humanities, said that at least 25
volunteer mission groups have
worked on about 50 homes in
Floyd, Martin, Magoffin, and Pike
counties this summer.
The volunteers, armed with
hammers and enthusiasm, came
from churches and charitable
organizations from all over the
country to help victims of last
year's flood get back on their feet.
Dinsmore said many of those
assisted by these groups would
not have had an opportunity to
complete the work or obtain the
resources themselves.
"What they have given the
communities and families that they
affected is a sense of hope, a new
start," Dinsmore said. "A lot of
fanulies really thought they were
bound to live in their current situations and there were no resources
available to help them get out of it.
Some need a little more help, some
can do it themselve , but they all
need a kind of emotional uplifting
by seeing that someone docs care
about them. And some, of course,
need materials and money to get
back on their feet.'"
A mission group from St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church in
Louisville, one of only two Ken(See NEW PORCH, page two)
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1'1
{See POSTSCRIPT, page two )
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THINGS TO PONDER
Self-injuring
behaviors
f;
(A mother of teenagers suggested the
topic of self-injuring behaviors by adolescents, because "a lot of our young people
are doing IT now. " The following is a repeat
of a previous article on the topic. A recommendation is that parents observe for indicators that their teens are di~playing these
behaviors, check it out, and follow through
by obtaining professional help. It is better to
be wrong rather than take the chance of
being right with the attitude "0! It's just
L"J,py cat behaviors. " By the way, sugges-
tions for topics are greatly appreciated.)
Recently, I ran across a "saved"
newsletter (The Prevention Researcher,
Nov. 2000) written by a non-profit
research and education corporation specializing in substance abuse prevention
and human performance. Their major
group of interest is teenagers. The particular article that caught my eye had to do
with "a serious and pervasive problem,
especially among a growing number of
teens... Self Injury, specifically cutting,
burning, and otherwise harming one's
body through self-inflicted wounds."
Although this type of topic just does not
seem to be too appealing or "fun," it is
happening "out there" in our communities.
It is not unusual for clients, who practice
such activities, to be shocked that other
people do it too. It would not be a big surprise to me, if you knew somebody who
had injured himself on purpose, but not for
the purpose of committing suicide.
Even if you cannot think of someone
doing such things, psychologists have been
studying self-mutilation for over 65 years.
Self-mutilation has come to mean "a
direct, socially unacceptable, repetitive
behavior that cau es minor to moderate
physical injury." The definition of pathological self-mutilation includes several
issues: (1) directness - the behavior is
direct as compared to indirect self-harm
uch as drunk driving; (2) social acceptability - even within most social subcultures, pathological self-mutilation 1s
socially unacceptable versus more socially
acceptable bodily harm like ear piercing or
tattooing; (3) frequency and degree of
damage - pathological self-mutilation is
often done repetitively and the outcome is
minor or moderate harm. Extremely damaging, self-imposed behaviors usually
occur only one time, are definitely severe.
and typically are related to some form of
psychosis; (4) intent - there is not the
intent of suicide, but the purpose is based
on how the person perceives the event, the
reported rea on for the behavior, and its
associated features; and (5) psychological
state
this pathological behavior occurs .
when the person is in a significantly emotionally distressed state, but not wanting to
commit suicide. It is not related to cogni- Mable Rowe lineberQer, Ph.D.
tive impairment. such as mental retardation
or autistic disorders.
Similar to other behavior. associated
(See PONDER, page two)
�C2 •
FRIDAY, AUGUST
12, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
.
Postscript
Eyes
• Continued from p1
• Continued from p1
Me, it just makes lazy. I find
I work hard at the office where
the air conditioning belies the
.reality of the outside world.
When I go out into that
world, my energy seems to
evaporate. I want to use as little
as possible, and I do.
The only thing satisfying on
these days is to fix a tall glass of
ice water, sit on the porch, read
and nod off, off and on.
***
One couple in my neighborhood doesn't seem to have this
problem. Jack and Judy Music
are among the most energetic
retirees I've ever met. I'm both
envious and in awe.
They walk, they mow, they
garden, they look after pets, they
' tend to family members, they
take part in community activities, and they're always there to
help out anyone who's in need.
Even
they,
however,
appeared a bit bedraggled after a
recent week that was brimming
over with activity.
Their beautiful daughter Jessica recently married Doug
Gambill on a coastal beach in
Mexico - meaning not many
friends and family from around
here could take part.
But after they returned from
their honeymoon, Judy and Jack
hosted a reception for the newlyweds at our own backyard
park - Jenny Wiley. A very
conservative estimate puts those
who were well fed and greeted
at several hundred.
In addition to the food,
everyone received favors of
boxed candy, molded as
seashells, and shell necklaces.
Truly grand.
The next morning, the
Musics fed lunch to close to 50
visitors at their home in Auxier
and helped with other events on
Sunday.
Before they could recuperate,
Judy provided a good bit of food
for her Price family reunion the
next weekend.
This was, of course, a rather
special week. But these folks are
consummate hosts and just good
people to know (especially if
you like good food).
They wear me out, and I love
them.
the results are not likely to be
noticed. Believe it or not, but
usually the client will be profound about there not being any
pain during the actual mutilation. The clients who have
described their experience to me
most often report feeling relief,
release, calm, or satisfaction
immediately. Usually the selfmutilating activity brings to an
end their intense feelings of
anger, tension, and etc. "It just
lets the anger out."
As with characteristics of
other psychological dysfunctioning, specific ones for self-mutilators are likely to vary, but there
are some similarities within the
group. Many of the individuals
are single and female, but as I
said before, I have known young
men who cut themselves. The
first time a person self-mutilates
is usually in middle-to-late adolescence and are usually fust
seen in treatment during these
ages. Some of the diagnoses
associated with self-mutilation
include: clinical depression;
minor depression;
manicdepressive disorders; some identity disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders; alcoholism
and other substance abuse; eating disorders; schizophrenia;
and anxiety disorders. Various
other psychological symptoms
have been associated with selfmutilation, such as antisocial
behavior, increased suicidal
ideation, increased past suicide
attempts, anger, anxiety, and
symptoms of depression. My
experience has been that the person most often describes an
extreme level of angry feelings
for whatever reason and the cutting gives them such a feeling of
relief, ''until it builds up again."
A part of the accumulation of
angry feeling might relate to the
self-mutilators' difficulty verbalizing emotions and distancing
themselves from feelings.
Like so many other things in
life, we look for the "cause" and
"why." In regards to developmental issues and family background, self-mutilators are more
likely to come from a family
characterized by
divorce,
neglect, or deprivation of
parental care. Sometimes the
emotional loss is the experience
of partial parental loss due to
emotional distancing from parents and inconsistent parental
warmth. Others who self-mutilate themselves have a history of
childhood sexual or physical
abuse. Another one of my experiences has been that the cutting
is done by individuals who are
having a high level of emotional
turmoil related to an imbalance
within the nervous system.
Whatever may be the "exact"
basis, self-mutilation is thought
to be used to communicate the
intensity of individuals' pain
and create physical evidence of
their emotional injury so they
may feel that their emotions are
real, justified, or able to be tolerated. If you think a young
person you know is self-mutilating himself, please remember
that it is a pathological behavior
and that the person needs professional psychological help.
Thanks, neighbors.
Ponder
• Continued from p1
with psychological problems,
the survey numbers referring to
self-mutilation are probably an
under-estimation of its actual
occurrence. - The police and
medical reports were thought to
represent the most serious cases.
With a United States population
of approximately 260 million, a
range of between 36,400 and
1,560,000 people were predicted to engage in self-mutilation
each year. Rates seem to be
higher in adolescents and young
adults, maybe 1,800 per 100,000
in teens/young adults from 15 to
30 years of age to a high of 12
percent in a general college student population. In my clinical
experience, teens as young as 13
years old have admitted that
they have self-mutilated them- ·
selves while significantly emotionally upset.
The personal accounts I have
heard of why individuals mutilate themselves are not unlike
the authors'. The self-mutilators are likely to report that they
feel extremely tense, anxious,
angry or fearful right before
they "do it." Often their intense
need to behave in such a pathological manner occurs when the
individuals think they have had
an overwhelming loss having to .
do with another person; i.e., an
argument with someone so the
person is upset or disappointed
with them. It is not unusual for
the person to isolate himself
from other people before the
actual act of self-mutilation; no
one else is there to observe or
question the pathological deed.
Since the person's purpose is
not to commit suicide, the selfmutilating is usually quite controlled. As shown in research,
my experience of these clients
has also been that self-cutting is
the most common type of selfmutilation, such as razor blades
with the most frequent sites
being the wrists and the forearms. I know a young male college student who usually cuts
,himself around the shins of his
legs so his pants legs will cover
what he wanted so desperately
to do. The girls also do their
self-mutilating in areas where
'Just in Time'
ouncements
Following is a listing..of com~
munity acti"Vities and events:
•This week (AUg. 8 Uttu 12),
the Oturch of God of Prophecy,
loeated on the corner of Main
and ltatk.ins, West Prestonsburg,
is hosting a rq,"Vival) 6 p.m.,
nightly. Minister Keith Creech,
of Burdine, will preside, All are
invited attd enoouni'ged 'to
attend. For more info•• call P;u;~
tor Glenn Hayes at 259-4006.
•The Piarlst Sohoot.loca.ted at
M-artin, on the hill behind Moun·
tain Christian Academy, will host
a "Jl,aclc to ·School Give-Aw-ay"
on Friday, August 12, from 10
a..m. Jo 2 p.tn., in the school gym.
For more info., contaCt Tasha
Collins at 2&5~3950.
•
•The Bast Pofut Masonic
Lodge #657 will confer the Maste.rMason Degree on August 13,
at 7 p.m. Bring a covered dish.
AU ¥aster Masons welcome. ·
weekend trips to the far side of
the Dewey shore on Bob and
Greta Music's boat (parents of
best friend, Sherry, who was
usually my waterdoggin' partner back in those days).
In college, I took swimming
to fill a physical education
requirement,. and learned, for
the first time, how to correctly
take a plunge from atop the
high dive.
In merrier days, one of the
things that probably most lead
to me eventually falling in love
with the man who became the
father of my children is that we
often spent long, lazy summer
afternoons swimming from the
near, to the far, shore of Dewey
Lake along a favorite point.
I swam when I was pregnant
and each of my three children
could swim before they could
walk. (I can hear my poor
mother now, "You took those
little babies where? You're
going to drown them little
things!")
My kids and I have spent
days at water parks afar, and,
nearby, at Fugate's, in Hazarda very fun place for the money
- sort of helps make a little
mini-vacation, of sorts, out of
any given summertime day.
And speaking of fun stuff,
I'm excited about the upcoming East Kentucky State Fair
that will be taking place later
this month, August 30 thru
September 5.
Floyd County Extension
Agent Chuck Stamper says that
things are rolling along
smoothly and the fair is shaping up to be a wonderful event.
There will be a carnival, animal
exhibits, food and craft vendors, senior citizen center
exhibits and 4-H/Youth project41
exhibits.
Again showing my age
(referring to that line about
Dewey, Lake's sandy beach), I
also have logged in my memory paying a couple of visits to
the Floyd County Fair, held
annually for some time at
Archer Park.
There were old-fashioned
baked goods contests, as well
as canned goods judging; locally grown produce and even
some chickens, goats and pigs
to be seen. Along with a carni-~
val, cotton candy and all the
trimmings.
Both Stamper and JudgeExecutive Thompson say that
this is exactly the sort of atmosphere that will be recreated
later this month at the Thunder
Ridge Racing and Entertainment Complex.
Can't wait, can you?
remember their name, and I
don't remember much about it,
but I know that little gift
changed my life."
Hancock, who recently
underwent surgery for colon
cancer, lived in the flood darnaged trailer with his girlfriend,
Tracy Lemaster, and four children, Sabastian Lemaster,
Xavier Greer, Shearae Mullins,
and Madison Jonika Hancock.
"Thank God," Hancock
said. "They've done miracles,
God bless 'em. Whoever don't
believe in God, that's crazy.
God works in mysterious
ways. Everybody gets tired of
trying so -hard and they give
up, but God, he only puts so
much on you. If it wasn't for
these people, I don't know
what I would have done this
winter. It was so cold here
with no underpinning. I can't
thank enough people."
The mobile home was darnaged in last year's flood and
water leaks with the plumbing
caused even further damage to
the floors, Hancock said. .
As a preventive measure,
volunteers dug ditches to divert
water from the home, replaced
all the flooring, flood damaged
walls,insulation, cabinets, and
underpinning. . They
also
washed the home down and
painted during their stay.
Volunteers on ·hand Wednesday were placing linoleum,
building a back porch, and constructing a play house for the
children. They even took the
liberty of hanging a tire swing
for the kids to play on.
The Rev. Ben Maas, leading
the group along with Joann
Waters, said that they volunteered to help because there's
"plenty to do in our own backyard." The church regularly
assists in missionary work.
"In our church, we feel like
when you do mission work,
you're being the hands and face
of Christ," Suzanne Warner
said. "It's the only way Christ
has work in this world. His
grace, our hands. Hammer and
nails can show more of Christ's
love than a hug sometimes."
Lindsey Kibbler, 15, of•
Louisville, said the mission
experience has taught her how
to appreciate the things that she
used to take for granted. She
said she was surprised that the
Hancock children were so
happy, despite their current circumstances.
"When I signed up for this, I
signed up thinking that it was
more of a social thing, you
know, going out and being with
my friends," said Eille Nolen,
14, also of Louisville. "Once I
got here and started working,
the more I realized how much I{i
appreciate being able to come."
Approximately 25 families
still need assistance in repairing
their flood damaged homes,
Dinsmore said.
"Unfortunately, mtsston
group season is coming to an
end," he said. "It will be a bit
sporadic. There may be a few
corning in the fall, but it'-s
hard to get groups to come in
the fall."
Funds are not currently
available to help the 25 remaining families, he said.
So, a water park right here at
home sounds like a great idea
to me. I would only hope,
though, that the opening of
such would not eventually lead
to the closing of others of
which I have so many fond and
happy memories.
*** *** ***
A YMCA located smack dab
in the middle of town, on the
old Prestonsburg Elementary
site, is another great idea that
was thrown out at this week's
city council meeting. For as
long as I can remember, kids in
this town have had nothing
much more to do than cruise
around on their bikes and
skateboards, ending up gathered together in one of the local
parking lots.
A YMCA sounds like just
what the doctor ordered. And,
might the possibility exist that
it would include an indoor pool
so old tired waterdogs could
swim in the winter, as well as
in the summer?
Sounds like lots of fun stuff
in the makin,' huh?
*** *** ***
New Porch
• Continued from P\+J
tucky groups that provided volunteer support this year, finished up flood recovery
improvements on a trailer
belonging to Jody Hancock, 32,
of McDowell, Wednesday. The
volunteers were one of 6 missionary groups participating in
the "Mission in the Mountains"
program at St. James Episcopal
Church in Prestonsburg. The
St. James Episcopal Church in
Prestonsburg took the Hancock .
family "under their wing,"
Dinsmore said, by ensuring that
all 6 groups concentrated on
this McDowell family home.
The Rev. Canon Johnny
Ross said the program began 5
years ago as a means to help
those in need. Ross, with help
from pastoral assistant Joann
Waters, spends the winter
months searching for homes
that need repaired and the summer months organizing the volunteers, who stay at the church
and use shower facilities at Prestonsburg High School.
Ross said he holds a special
place in his heart for the Mission in the Mountains program
because missionaries changed
his life when he was growing
up in Left Beaver.
"I grew up very poor in Left
Beaver," he said. "One summer, a youth group carne to
town to do Vacation Bible
School. During that time, one
of them bought me a pair of
shoes. That seemed to be just a
tiny gift, but because of their
generosity, I had new shoes to
wear to school for the fust time
in a while. I don't remember
who it was that carne, I don't
Schoo(1fay)1eninas
Adams Middle School Youth Services Center
• Adams Middle School Youth Services Center is open each weekday
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center offers
services to all families regardless of
income. For more information about
any of the activities or services of the
center, please contact the center at 8861297. The center is now located in the
7th grade wing of the school. Center
Coordinator - Michelle Keathley;
Assistant - Sheila Allen.
Allen Central Middle School
• Aug. 15 -Advisory Council meeting, 8: 15 a.m. Meeting open to public.
• If your child has left any article of
clothing at school, please contact the
Youth Service Center office.
• The ACMS Youth Service Center
is open each day from 8:00 ~.m. to 3:00
p.m., or later by appointment. For
more information about the center, call
LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 3580134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service Center
•
Call Allen Elementary Youth
Service Center at 874-0621 to schedule
your child's Hepatitis B vaccinat~on,
immunizations, and WIC appomtments.
Betsy Layne Elementary
• The Betsy Layne Elementary
Family Resource Youth Service Center is located in the 500 building of
the campus. The goal of the FRYSC
is to meet the needs of all children
and their families who reside in the
community or neighborhood by the
school in which the center is located.
For further information, please contact the center at 478-5550 or 4789751, ext. 310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers, Program Assistant II; Debra Hayes, School Nurse.
Clark Elementary
• A nurse from the Floyd County
Health Dept. is in the center weekly
and sees WIC patients, does well-child
exams (birth-18 years), and gives
immunizations.
• The Clark Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families regardless of income. We
are located in the Adams Middle
School building.
Duff Elementary
• Floyd County Health Dept. is at
the school each 1\Jesday. Services
include 6th grade school entry physical; kindergarten, Head Start and wellchild physicals (age birth to 18 years);
T.B. skin test; T.D. boosters; and WIC
services. Please call 358-9878 for
appointment if you are in need of any
of these services.
• The J.A. Duff Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families' regardless of income. We
are located in the tan metal building at
the rear of the school. Contact persons
are Judy Handshoe, coordinator, and
Ruby Bailey, assistant.
May Valley Elementary
• Aug. 25 - Family Resource Advisory Council will hold meeting at 4
p.m., in school library. Open to public.
All invited.
• Parent Lending Library is available to parents for video check-outs. A
variety of topics are available.
• Floyd County Health Dept. nurse
at school every Wednesday. Services
include Head Start physicals, kindergarten physicals, 6th grade physicals,
well-child physicals, immunizations,
TB skin test, WIC program, blood pressure checks, and more. Must call the
FRC at 285-0321 for an appointment.
McDowell Elementary and Family
Resource Center
• Floyd County Health Department
Nurse Joy Moore, is at the center each
Monday to administer immunizations,
T.B. skin tests, well-child exams, WIC,
prenatal and post-partum services, and
school physicals. Call 377-2678 for an
appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
Mountain Christian Academy is a
non-denominational Christian school.
• Now accepting applications for
enrollment for Kindergarten for the
2005-06 school year. Call 285-5141
for more information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and Family Resource Center
.
• The Family Resource Center 1s
open weekdays 8 a.m.-4 P·I?·• and l~ter
by appointment. Office provtdes servtces
for all families, regardless of income.
•
After School Child Care, 3-6
p.m., school days.
•
Call 886-7088 for additional
information regarding the Prestonsburg
Elementary Family Resource Center or
its programs.
South Floyd Youth Services Center
• School will be participating in the
Food City "Apples for Students" program, please save your receipts.
• Committee sign-ups may be done
through the Youth Services Center
office.
• Walking track open to public.
• The center has a one-stop career
station satellite that is available to the
community as well as students.
• Anyone interested in Adult Ed
may contact the center for information.
• All new students and visitors,
stop by the Center, located on the South
Floyd campus, Room 232, and see
Mable Hall. Open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Mon. thru Fri. ·
• For more information call 4529600 or 9607 and ask for Mable Hall,
ext. 243, or Keith Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center
• FRC monthly Advisory Council
meetings will be held the fust Wednesday of each month, at 4 p.m. Call for
more info.
• Lost & Found located in Family
Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Parents and commu-
nity members are welcome to visit. For
questions, call 587-2233 -ask for Tristan Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow Junction"
Family Resource Center
• Lost & Found: Throughout th~
school year, the center receives items
that are left on school buses, in the
gym, classrooms, etc. We encourage
parents to visit the center if their child
has lost a coat, bookbag, or any such
item. Lost items are checked for identification, however, if unable to locate
owner, and items are not claimed within 2 weeks, they then become the property of the Family Resource Center.
• The Family Resource Center is
open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or
later by appointment. The center provides services for all families within
the community, regardless of income.
If you would like more information~
about programs/services the center
offers, please call 452-4553; ask for
Cissy or Karen. The center is located
inside the main building at W.D.
Osborne Elementary. Parents and community members are welcome to visit.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare ana
Infantffoddler Care accepts infants and
toddlers up to 2 years and Preschool
age 2-4. Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional information, call
874-8328. Summer office hours: 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Martha
A. Simpson,
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.
Associ.ate Profes:ttW
of Pn.mily Medicine
:· Q ue~tion: When my son had
'
his high school sports physical, he was told he had a
:·varicoc , but not to won y about it.
:~of course, I am concerned. Exactly
what is this? Can it cause problems,
~like cancer? Do.cs it need to be treated?
A
nswer: A varicocele occurs
when varicose veins develop
:
in the scrotum along the
' spermatic· cord. About 15 percent of
~ .-'m<ilcs between the ·a ges of 15 and 25
' experience this condition. A vaticocele
develops because the testicles grow
rapidly during pubetty, and the veins in
'· that area are no t able to handle the
~·increased
blood flow. Veins have
.,
valves in them to keep the blood flowing in the right direction. The increased
blood volume can cause the valves to
fail, allowing blood to back up and lead
to swelling, or dilation, in the veins.
This is the same as the development of
varicose veins in your legs - failure of
the vein valves. Varicocelcs are more
common on the left side, and seldom
occur on both sides.
Usually there are no symptoms of
this problem, and it is commonly found
on a routine physical, as with your son.
Some people can have some dull
aching in the scrotum with prolonged
standing or sitting. The testicle on the
affected side is often smaller than the
non-affected side.
While many men with a vaticocele
do not have fettility problems, it is one
of the most common causes of male
infertility. In fact, about 30 percent of
infertile men have a varicocele. Most
cases of varicocele require no treatment. However, when a man has fertility problems or chronic discomfort
attributable to the vaticocele, various
treatment options ar~ available.
Varicocelcs may be managed with a
scrotal support. If this is insufficient,
other possible treatments include open
surgical
removal,
laparoscopic
removal, and catheter embolization.
Both open and laparoscopic vaticocelectomy - the surgical conection of
a varicocele - are performed on an
outpatient basis. The cut is .usually
made in the lower abdomen, although
various techniques can be used. Ice
packs should be kept to the area for the
first 24 hours after surgery to reduce
swelling. fn catheter ablation - also
done as an outpatient procedure - a
small puncture is made at the crease
where the leg joins the body.
After surgery, the patient will be
advised to use ice and to wear a scrotal
support.
Possible complications
include blood clot formation, infection
or injury to the scrotal tissue or structures. In addition, injury to the artery
that supplies the testicle may occur.
Your son may need additional evaluation to determine if his testicular
growth is normal. The American Urological Association says that "Adolescents who have a varicocele and objective evidence of reduced testicular size
[on that san1e side] should be offered
varicocele repair."
Also, in a young man, persistent or
frequent pain in the testicle should be
evaluated.
If a vaticocele develops suddenly in
an older man, it should be promptly
evaluated as it can signal major medical
problems. To date, there has been no
conelation established between having
a vaticocele and the development of
testicular cancer. All that being said,
most men do not require this :kllff§I)'
and learn to live with the problwq ?£
. riT
Family Medicine® is a ltee~J:it•l·
umn. To submit questions, llhi&~ ifo
Martha A . Simpson, D.O.. .Wtff.t. ..
Ohio University College of 0 1·tcopath
ic Medicine, P.O. Box JJO, ~hem,
Ohio 45701, or via e-mail Ubd(Jftderquestions @familymedicinenliJnMljg.
Medical infotmation in this co41ntjf,\;, 15
provided as an educational J9f~51ce
only. It does not replace tht\i JII41{ment of your personal physicifl{f; who
should be relied on to diagmJ,1S'JJiftU1
recommend {reatment for any n7(Jflitfal
conditions. Past columns are al'(li/clhle
online at www.familymedicinenew~.#r~.
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~nniversaries
40th Wedding Anniversary Invitation
The children of Mert and Ada DePoy invite their family and friends
·1 o attend their parents' 4oth wedding anniversary celebration, to
be held on· Saturday, August 20, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at
.the Woodmen of the World building, on U.S. 23,-at Dwale.
Mert and Ada are the former owners of Mert's Guns & Ammo, in
Allen. They owned and operated the business for 25 years.
'.rhey now reside in Walkersville, West Virginia and are looking
' torward to seeing all their old friends again. To aid in the planning of this event, please call Blaine at Blaine's Guns & Bows,
' at (606) 874-9997, if you plan to attend.
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Weddings
:Births
Hunt-Hunter
New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. John Earl Hunt, of Allen, are pleased to announce tlle
upcoming marriage of their daughter, Rebekah Renee, to Brian
Lee Hunter, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hunter, of Printer.
Rebekah is the maternal granddaughter of Dewey and Madge Greer,
of Prestonsburg. She is the paternal granddaughter of Arco and
Hettie Hunt, also of Prestonsburg. Her paternal great-grandparents
are Mrs. Fannie Garrett, of Banner, and the late Earl Garrett.
Brian is the maternal grandson of Mrs. Minnie Akers, of Harold,
and the late Walter Akers. He is the paternal grandson of Caner
and Betty Hunter, of Printer.
Rebekah is a 1997 graduate of Betsy Layne High School and a
2001 graduate of the University of Kentucky. She is presently
completing a master's degree in Occupational Therapy at Eastern Kentucky University.
13rian is a 1994 graduate of Betsy Layne High School and a 1999
graduate of Eastern Kentucky University. He completed a master's
degree in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Kentucky in 2003. He is currently employed as a Physician's Assistant
in the Highlands Regional Medical Center's Emergency Room.
The coupl~ will be united in marriage on August.13, 2005, at half
past four o'clock in the afternoon, at Allen Bapt1st Church. The
gracious custom of an open church wedding will be observed.
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Dean and Karen Cecil, of Portland, Tennessee, formeMi:ytlot
Stanville, were recently blessed with the arrival of th.eil'\4il:.st
child, Hannah Grace Cecil, born June 23, 2005, at $~amer
Regional Medical Center, in Gallatin, Tennesseem ~lle
weighed 8 lbs., 10.6 oz., and measured 22 inches in;~ .
She is the maternal granddaughter of Gary and Gail §~.
of Portland, formerly of Allen. Her paternal ~randpareJ¥~W
· e
Georgean Cecil, of Stanville, and the late Hillard Cec~ ~pe
is the great-granddaughter of Linden and Gertrude Ell~r<~
,.. :.ot
Prestonsburg; the late J.D. and Alice Osborne, forme ·of
Allen; the late Bert and Bessie Cecil, formerly of Aile ,
d
the late Jack and Rusha Sellards, formerly of Stanvnre~!l51
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Slone-Stephens
50th Wedding Anniversary
1Henry and Matifern Wright, of Minnie, cele))rated their 50th wed-
ding anniversary on July 23, 2005, with a party attended by fam'ily and friends and hosted by their children. The Wrights were
married on July 28, 1955, in Martin. They have three children,
• , five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Barbara Carroll and Frank Slone are proud. to announce t~e
engagement and forthcoming marriage of the1r daughter, Jam1e
Leigh Ann Slone, to Donnie Stephens, the son of Monroe and
Sandra Stephens, of Bull Creek.
.
Jamie a 2003 graduate of Prestonsburg High School, IS currently'enrolled at Big Sandy Com":'unity and Technical College.
She is the granddaughler of Charhe and Ruth Nelson, of Oavld,
and Earnest Ray and the late Pauline Slone, of ~restonsb.urg.
Donnie is employed with J.E. Allen Construction. He 1s the
grandson of Delila and the late Green Stephens, of Bull Creek,
and Adam and Marie Arnett, of Roann, Indiana.
The couple will wed on Saturday, August 20, 2005, at two
o'clock in the afternoon, at the Dotson Pentecostal Church,
located on the Mountain Parkway, in Prestonsburg.
The gracious custom of an open churc~ wedding will be
observed. A reception will immediately follow.
New Arrival
Reece Kathryn Patton was born on June 16, 2005, to~oud
parents Rory "Reese" and Karen Patton, of Pik~ville,
ighlands Regional Medical Center. She was delivered .. J!r
Angela Maggard and weighed in at Sibs., 14 oz. She Wi1A20
Inches In length. She Is the maternal granddaughter dfJP~ul
and Sandy Wallen, of Hueysville, and th~ paterna! Jgrmtddaughter of Robert and LaDonna Patton, of Martul!It:>~er
maternal great-grandparents are Paul and Juanita Prater, of
Hueysville, and Russell and Nova Wallen, of Garrett. Her
paternal great-grandpafents are Merle and Deanna !'fly, of
Martin, and the late Nazareth and Love Patton, forrrv;r~;r.ot
Martin. Reece Kathryn's father is employed by Ge~~~art
Communications and her mother is a third year medl~a!_~~u
dent at Pikeville College School Of Osteopathic Medicthe.
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150 ·.:Miscellaneous
160 ·.Motorcycles
21CJ- Job Listings
220 - Help Wanted
230 • Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260 ·Part l'ime
270 ·Sales
280 • Services
290 - Work Wanted
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110 ·Agriculture
115- ATV's
120,· Boats
130 '· Cars
140~'4x4's
180 ·• :Trucks
190-
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or rsqulre advance
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services or procl·
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ly.
A!JTQMOTIVE
310- Business
Opportunity
330 • For Sale
Garage kept. Must
see $11,500 Call
606-358 4529.
FOR SALE: . 1999
Honda CBR 600 F4.
8,000
miles.Great
condition.
Never
down. Red, sliver,
and black. Includes
AGV x-vent helmet &
kevlar
jacket
&
gloves. $3500 or
oest offer. 889-9384.
For
Sale
1998
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
400 - MERCHANDISE
500- REAL ESJATE
41 0
420
440
445
450
460
470
475
505 - Business
510- Commercial
Property
530- Homes
550 • Lanclllots
570 • Mobile Homes
580 • Miscellaneous
- Animals
• Appliances
- Electronics
- Furniture
- Lawn & Garden
- Yard Sale
• Health & Beauty
• Household
in working for a company with new equip·
ment?
Do you want to
work In a drug free
workplace?Do you have an
experienced underground KY miners
card?
If this sounds like- a
job you would be
Interested In, then
International
Coal
Group (ICG) Hazard
Is the company for
youl We currently
have miner positions
in
the
Breathitt
County area. If you
are Interested in completing an application,
please give us a call
at 606-439-0946.
EEO/AAE,M/F/DN
!iOO • BENTALS
~ERYlC.fS
610 - Apartments
62~ • Storage/
Office Space
630- Houses
640 - Land/Lots
660 - Mobile Homes
660 • Mklcellaoeous
670 • Commercial
Property
705 - Construction
710 • Educational
713 - Child Care
715 - E:lectriclan
720 - Health & Beauty
730 • Lawn & Garden
735 · Legal
740- Masonry
745 · Miscellaneous
DESK CLERK
WANTED:
Desk
clerk working night
and weekends.
220-Help Wanted shift
Full time/part time.
Come by and apply
AVON REPS NEED· or call 889-0331 .
ED: $10 to sign-up.
CASSIE • 886·8737 , WANTED: A new
THERESA • 886· medical imaging cen·
3690, WANDA • 285· ter Is looking for a
9486, or Terri •• 946· receptionist In the
Pikeville
area.
2355 (after 5:00).
Please fax a resume
WANTED:
OTR to Kenny Holbrook at
Driver needed. 1 out 606-439-0575.
of last 3 years verifiable
HASMAT FLOYD COUNTY I
endorsement. Clean PAINTSVILLE/
driving record. Must PIKEVILLE AREAS:
be able to pass DOT The
Lexington
physical and drug Herald Leader has a
test. Leave message morning newspaper
606-358-9268.
route available in
your area. Routes
WANTED:
Local
take about 3 hours
company looking for
dally, with an approxteleexperienced
imate profit potential
phone technician in
of $800
-$1 000
local
area.
monthly. Dependable
Requirements minitransportation and
mum of 5 years
ability to be bonded
experience. Good
required. Call 1-800pay-Good benefits.
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Pikeville Super 8.
Hicks Auto Sales
Oavld Road
2001 GT
2000 HONDA XR 70Convertible
Good
condition,
Mustang automatic
40,000 miles $1 0,500 $650. Call 886-4260
1999 2 DR Explorer
55,000 miles $5,500
~~:-:'*180-Trucks
FABRICATOR/
1992 Explorer AirWELDER
$1395
Logan Corporation
1995 Mercury mini· Wanted used full
size pick ups 1998 of Prestonsburg, KY
van Cold air $1995
is seeking qualified
thru 2003, will pay
individuals for the
$ 5 o.o ! P o I i c e cash call 800-789position of
Impounds! Honda, 5301
Fabricator/ Welder.
Chevy, Ford and
1975 Must be able to weld
more! Cars FOR SALE:
/Trucks/SUVs from .Ford dump truck, tilt and cut steel and thin
gauge metal.
$500! For listings Gall front end, 12' bed.
WANTED: Someone
800-439-3998 ext. For more info call Experience in brake to 'do housecleaning.
press, shear, and
606-478-9150.
A919
Must have referpipe bending a plus. ences and be very
330· For Sale
Salary commensu- dependable.
FOR SALE:
1993
Call
rate with experience. 886-1539 after 6 pm.
Mustang Hot Rod or
FOR SALE BY
Benefits package
show car. Ready to
included. EOE.
go. Doesn't need
When responding
WANTED:
Need OWNER: Three
anything. Also, big to Employment ads Please send resume employees to pres- adjacent cemetery
to:
t1res .& wheels . off that have reference
sure wash heavy plots in the New
Human Resources equipment.
please
Toyota truck. 886-· numbers,
Must Davidson section of
Fabricator/ Welder have valid driver's Davidson Memorial
indicate that entire
1758.' •
PO BOX 58
reference n umber
license and surface Gardens, lvel, KY.
Huntington, WV
For Sale 1993 Ford on the outside of
mining papers. Call Call 886-8452.
25706.
envelope.
M-F 9-7 606-886Crown
Victoria. your
miles. Reference numbers
1759.
138,000
350-Miscellaneous
HELP WANTED:
606- are used to help us
$,1200 call
CORE DRILLER
direct your letter to Welding position
874-0467
WANTED: Need to repair your
It r
the correct individ· available. Call
Experienced
core
credit and move
between 8 am to
FOR . SALE: 1988 ual.
driller
wanted.
on? We provide
5pm M·F. 285-9358.
Pontiac Bonneville.
Experience with Joy
low APRs, low
no title, good for
Ramrod II drilling unit monthly payment s
IMMEDIATE
parts. $600 obo (
and NQ-2 drill rods a
on all types of
EMPLOYMENT
874-4094.
plus. Primarily coal
loans. 1st, 2nd,
OPPORTUNITY:
HOST PHOTO
exploration
with
mortgage, busi·
Established
SHOOT!
150· Miscellaneous.
•i•
some
foundation
ness loans. Call 1
Eastern KY Coal
Ra.se $$$for yourinvestigation work on
(800) 405- 8157.
Company seeking
self, church, school,
the City of
experienced highwall occassion. Will conor business.
Prestonsburg will
miner personnel for sider training appro- MERCHANDISE
Antiques
be accepting bids
Pike & Floyd Co, KY. priate person, who
(black/white),
for a new 2006 20
·
Dayshift & nightshift has drill rig equipantiques (color).
cubic yard rear
ment
experience.
positions available.
1-800-892-7604.
loader garbage
445-Furniture
* superintendents Must be mechanicaltruc k with cart tip·
ly inclined, and have
*operators
NEED E XTRA
per. Co ntact
the
desire and will*groundsmen
MONEY?
Try
Avon.
Sharon Schoolcraft
ingness to do y.that it
RAY'S BARGAIN
Competitive
at $86-2335 for the $10 sign-up fee &
takes
to
complete
the
CENTER
wages,
health
insurfree gift. Call Janey
biCf:'spec sheets.
New
&
Used
ance includes eye & job. Wages and benat 886-2082.
Sealed bids must
efits
commensurate
&
Furniture
dental,
401
K
retirebe returned by 4:00
experience. Appliances @ unbement, paid holidays, with
pm Wednesday
~lP:;J~~ Listing 2 weeks paid vaca- Local projects with1n lievable
prices.
August 31, 2005.
Eastern Come in today for
tion, monthly produc- the
e City of
Kentucky area, but incredible savings.
tion bonus.
LOCAL MEDICAL
Prestonsburg
may require some Shop At The Little
Applications are
OFFICE
re$erves the right
travel.
Contact Furniture Store &
being taken at:
looking for
to accept or reject
Alchemy Engineering Save!! Route. #1 22,
Office
of
NURSE
any and all bids.
Associates, 546 W. McDowell. Call 606Employment &
PRACTIONER
Old
Middlecreek 377-0143
Training
or
Road,
Prestonsburg,
138 College Street
_160-Mot~~cyc~~~
PHYSICIAN
KY 41653. 606-886· 470-Health & Beauty
Pikeville, KY
ASSISTANT·
8889 fax: . 606-88641501 .
CERTIFIED
FOR SALE:
Two
8847,
or
email
fully Jo' ded Yamaha Nice environment,
resume and salary
WOLFF TANNING
excellent wages
V-Sfar Classic Bikes.
BEDS
requirements
to:
WANTED:
and
benefits.
03 S50 Indigo Blue
Financing
available,
alchemy@
engineer.c
Full/Part time houseInterested candi370 miles, '02 11 00
Free
delivery
& set
om
keepers
needed.
dates call
Titanium Silver 1980
M-F 8:00 - 5:00
mile$. Priced togeth606-889-0802
er $10,500. Sold
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
EOE
separately
11 00·
$5800 and 650·
NURSING OPPORTUNITIES
ATTENTION
$4700. Reason for
Highlands Regional Medical Center is recruiting for
EXPERIENCED
selling: Wanting to
the following positions:
upgrade. Must see to UNDGERGROUND
· MINERS:
appreciate. Call 606Registered Nurses
Are you interested
297-1667.
4th
Floor Telemetry Unit
in a good paying job?
HRMC,
a good place to work, offers a
Are
you
interested
FOR SALE: Honda
competitive salary and a generous
in a job with great
VTXR 2003 less than
benefits package including:
benefits?
2000 miles. Lots ot
*Nine (9) paid holidays
Are you interested
extras. Like new.
*Retirement Plan
*Medical/Dental Insurance
*Pre-hire Bonus: $3,000
Interested applicants may apply to the
Human Resources Department, HRMC,
FINANCIAL
EMPLOYMENT
I
5000 Ky. At. 321,
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
(606) 886-7530
Fax: (606) 886-7534
E-mail: tclark@hrmc.org
HRMC Job Line: (606) 886-7510
Highlands is an equal opportunity employer.
Please visit Highlands web site at
www,hrmc,.QIQ
"Think Heaithy, Think Highlands!"
~ ~·~~-----------
up within 75 miles of
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale Prices.
Call 888-554-0058
480- Misc.
WEDDING ORESS
FOR SALE: Size 12,
pearl and sequins
Intricate design on
bodice and train.
Must see to apprecl·
ate beauty. For more
information, call 8868506 ask for Tonya
or after 5:00 call 886·
0048 and leave message.
FOR SALE:
Wurlitzer plano for
sale. Contact 2859704. Call after 5:00
pm.
FOR SALE:
12
pews, like new condi·
tion . Medium-light
blue in color. Call
452-4189 for more
information.
FOR SALE: Antique
mantle.
Beautiful
quarter sown oak.
Call Lane at 8863179.
Mover!;
755 · O ffice
760 - Plumbing
765 • Prolessionals
770 - Repair/Service
780- Timber
790 ·Travel
830
850
870 •
890-
Miscellrmeous
PersonalsServices
Legals
$®.:. tiOJJC~.S
805 • Announcements
81 0 - Auctions
815 • lost & Found
cell phones, coins, &
antiques, etc. 1-888569-2812.
www.cashforthlnge.com
REAL ESTATE
530-Homes
3 BR BRICK
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Large LR, well·
equipped kitchen,
BR w/whlrlpool tub,
hardwood floors.
Covered carport &
front porch. Quiet
street, Goble
Roberts. $125,900
or best offer. 87 45208 after 5:00 pm.
Leave message.
building. Located at dow, and many more
4323
RT
550 extras, Set up for
Hueysville. Contact viewing. Fc11 details
358·4065, 358-4369. call 606-353 6444 or
toll free 577-353·
Price Reduced!
6444 the home show
HOUSE FOR SAlE·
Lower Alleys Branch,
•..Misc.
Bevinsville, KY. 2 BR ....,.580;r,,
, brick, full size base·
ment, and has an CABIN FOR SALE:
extra lot with it. Wellington, KY. 3 full
Walking distance to lots. City water, sepSchool. tic tank. $30,000.
Osborne
Call606·561-7757.
606-874-2631.
~l:
CABIN LOTS FOR
SALE:
Near
Yatesville Lake in
Lawrence County,
KY City water. Call
after 6:00 pm or
leave message 606FOR SALE:
Brick 886-01 33.
house, 3 BR 1.5 BA.
$125,000. Located 570· Mobile Homes
between Allen &
Prestonsburg. Owner
FOR SALE: 1980
will deduct for CH/A. 14x70 MH 2 BR 1
New carpet and BA, fireplace, CH/A,
inlaid for kitchen and large deck, applibathroom. Serious ances, on large priinquiry . only. 606- vate
rented
lot.
$10,000 or best offer.
874-2035.
606-246-0767.
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Owner
Financing
MH F OR SALE:
Available . 3 BR 1 BA 1998 16 X 80
older ranch home. F I e e· t w o o d
406 Hunts Branch. Reflections 3 BR 2
Hurricane
Creek. BA Great condition.
Pike/Floyd line on Rt Never smoked in. Ail
23. $54,900. (859) appliances & CH/A.
733-5929.
Open Vinyl si.ding, shingle
house 8/20 & 8/21 roof. Asking $19 998.
889-9384.
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kay's
Wallpaper
205 Depot Road
Paintsville,
Ky.
Hundreds of Patterns
of
Wallpaper
&
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open TuesFri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat.1 0 a.m to 3 p.m. FOR SALE: 3 BR
Closed Sun. & Mon. 2.5 BA home on RT
1750
between
606-789-8584.
Prestonsburg
and
Paintsville.
Call
490-Recreation
Sharon Craft at East
KY Realty at 606·
297-4411 or 606·
PLEASANT RIDGE
886-0571 . Priced to
HORSEBACK RIDsell @ $189 500.
ING opening Friday
Agent Owned.
May 6 at Yatesville
Lake. Call 606-67311 65. Directions: US HOUSE FOR SALE:
Allen, KY. Riley Hall
23 to Louisa/Blaine
exit turn on Highway Sub. 17 Cross Road.
Main floor to BR. 1
32 toward Blaine,
BA. Upstairs 2 room
turn right on
1/2 BA. Full baseHighway 3215
ment. Rl all applitoward the campances included. DW
ground and golf
course. Tu-Su 10 am & W/D. Ramp to rear
deck. Front porch.
-7:30pm
$67,500. No L.C .
Call 606-874-2775 or
495-Want to Buy 734-997-7110.
WANT TO BUY: Fill
dirt needs to be delivered to the East
Point area. Call 3671506 or 367-1934.
HOMES FOR SALE:
A foreclosure!! 3 B R
only $14,900. For
listings call 1-800429-7008. ext B 183.
$$CASH$$
Paid for
used/expired DishNetwork equipment,
HOUSE FOR SALE:
3 BR, LR, kitchen,
1.5 BA, carport, full
basement, storage
.:~
STEEL BUILDINGS:
Ideal or garages,
boats, RVs, workshops, and more.
Repos,
cancelled
orders,
damaged,
factory seconds. All
must gol Call today
to take advantage!
1·800·222·6335 ext
1558. .
RENTALS
610Apartments
A.1-11.....t.
PARK PLA C E
APARTME N T S·
''LABOR DAY" Movein
special!
First
month's rent E.BEE
with paid security
deposit.
Through
September 5th. 1
BRI$309. 2 BR $304$345. Prestonsburg.
886-0039.
APT FOR RENT: 2
BR newly remodeled
ground floor apt for
rent. Located across
Final
clearance from Garth Technical
2004 lot models and School on RT 122 at
2005 models now 'A<> ' ~ / 1· st have
available! If you 1•a .ef~•P'1 s. Gall 285·
serious about pur- 9112.
chasing a new home
you need to be with APT FOR RENT: 2
experienced staff to BR, fully carpeted,
get the right home at refrigerator/stove fur(1-lf.A •i•P·
a great price. Tt;e nishe
WID
Horne Show-South place. ~,ac ya
William son, Inc. US hook-up, lots of stor119,
Belfry,
Ky. age space, covered
41514 606-353-6444 parking. Located at
or toll free 877-353- Harold. 886-9158
6444
APT FOR RENT:
· All Drywall, Dutch Studio apt, furnished,
with 2x6 wall s,and clean, close to col5/12 roof pitch, ulti- lege. $325 month utilmate kitchen pack- ities extra. Call 886age, glass block win- · 6208.
..,..;;~;._----------
PAINTSVILLE
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATES
628 Jcfffuson A,·e.. Pnint~..tll<>, !1.'1' -112-10
Is looking to f'lll full· time
LPN POSI'riON
Candidate must poses~ a current
Kent u cky License.
Apply in pergon and brin.r resume
No Phone Cal1.•. PIP119e.
EOK
Operating Systems Analyst
Gearheart Communications, Inc., is seeking applicatrts for an
analyst position within our information Systems & Technology
department.
Thi.s position will have responsibility for evaluation and recommendation for hardware and software acquisitions. Provide technical support for implementation, use, and repair of systems and
equipment. Develop and maintain inventory control system for
equipment. Three to five years experience in all aspects ·or information technologies, including: hardware, software, operating systems, network protocols, etc., experience with SQI. servers and
internet technology in a LINUX environment, or equivalent academic and work experience.
Send resume to:
Gearheart Communications, Inc.
Human Resources Department
P.O. Box 160
Harold, Kentucky 41635
E-Mail: jobs@ mikrotec.com
it · l'mp J e1
•
�FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2005 • C5 _
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~
1 BR Furnished
Apartment, Including
Utilities.
2 BR 650- Mobile Homes
Unfurnished
and
large 3 BR 2 BA , 3BR MH FOR
unfurnished on RT RENT: 3 BR, large
114
lot. Call 886-8366.
Call 886-8366
TRAILER FOR
FOR RENT: 2 BR RENT: Nice 2 BR
apt. Spacious, quiet trailer for rent near
community . Prestonsburg. Call
Application must be 874-4478.
filled out. Deposit &
references required. MH FOR RENT:
a1 One year lease. Call Located on RT 7 Salt
358-9123.
Lick. Call 358-4524.
2 BR 1 1/2 bath
Townhouse also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
FOR RENT: 2 BR
MH 16 x 72 like new.
2.5 miles from MAC
ARTS on 114, private
lot, 886-2896.
660- Miscellaneous
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central ROOM FOR RENT:
heat & air. Rent start- in 1700 sq ft douing at $375. month + blewide. Access to
$300. deposit water whole house includincluded.
Located ing 2 full BA. Just
4) near HRMC. 606- asked to help with
889-9717.
portion
of
rent.
Cable, utilities; and
furniture provided.
EmStorage/Office
Prefer female. BUSINESS ONLY. -caii
285-3755.
FOR RENT: 3 Room
office suite. $600
FOR RENT:
month. Call 8861020 ask for C.V.
* 2 BR House
* MH slip
·For Rent: Office *Barn access 3 stalls
New
Suite,
606-434-7507
Construction. 900 8/10 mile Cow Creek
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking, Can be
SERVICES
~ Convenient Location
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call 750-Construction
886-1515 for info.
BUILDER AVAILOFFICE OR ABLE : 25 years
RETAIL SPACE experience. New
FOR LEASE: 1,200 homes, additions,
sq ft in Prestonsburg .. garages, metal
886-8366
roofs. Call 606-3584275.
FOR LEASE: New
30x60 Metal building
745- Misc.
12 ft ceilings on RT
80 close to Martin
886-8366. $500.00 WANTING TO
C L EAN HOUSES:
• month.
Local woman looking
FOR RENT:
900 for house cleaning.
sq. ft. office/commer- Does good job, good
cial space. Located references, & reanext to Reflection's sonable rates. Call
Beauty Salon 3/4 886-3528.
mile south or Martin
on RT 122. Across TRANSCIPTIONIST:
from Garth Tech. I'm a qualified perSchool. Call 285- son wanting to do
transcription work in
9112.
my home. Will pick
630-Houses
up and deliver locally. Call 886-9724 or
2 BR HOUSE FOR 422-9539.
RENT: Located at
Cow Creek. Call W 1L L BABYSIT:
~I 874-9132.
Babysitter available
~0 r::bysit in yo~r
2 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT: HUD accept- Prestonsburg are~~
ed available, after Call 886-611 5.
Sept 6 located on·
HWY 80 across from
Allen Central High 770-Repair/Services
School.
859-35 14408.
CARPENTRY
3 BR HOUSE FOR WORK
all types.
RENT: 2 porches, 2 New construction or
BA, carport. Country r e m o d e ling.
home, very private. Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & sidCall 886-9291 .
ing. Free estimates.
~ 3 BR HOUSE FOR Call 886-8896.
RENT: 2 LR. Room
to play. $500 monh
plus deposit. Private
driveway, city water.
Located at 168 Lee's
815- Lost & Found
Layne, Martin, KY.
Contact Stanley at
791 -9777.
OWNER OFFERING
3 BR HOUSE FOR REWARD to anyone
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA, with information
kitchen , DR, heath about a lost cat. Lost
pump, built in vacu- in West Minister
um cleaner & deck. area July 22. The
Located in Knott cat is a 2 yr old
neutered male red
County. 438-6104
tabby, striped, slenHOUSE FOR RENT: der in build. If cat is
3 BR, 1.5 BA, car- returned, no quesport, large lot. Call tions asked. Call
886-1100 or 886886-8366.
2694.
0
NOTICES
640- Land/Lots
NEW TRAILER
LOTS FOR RENT: 3
minutes
from
Highlands Regional,
5
minutes
from
Porter School. Call
886-3959.
Trailer Jot for rent
on old u.s. 23
~ between
Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
Trailer Lot For
Rent, Larg e Yard.
Call 886-8366
For Rent : newly
constructed Mobile
Home Lots in new
All e n , r e f e r e n ce
required call 606874-2212
LEGALS
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
898-0721
AME NDMENT
N0. 1
In accordance with
the provisions of
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
CAM-KENTUCKY
LLC, P.O. Box 901:
116 Main Street
Pikeville, Kentuck;
41502, has filed an
application for a surface coal mining and
reclamation operation, located approximately 1.10 'mile
northwest
of
McCombs, in Pike
and Floyd County.
The amendment will
add an additional
272.9 surface acres
and will underlie a~
additional
0.00
acres, making the
total area within the
permit
boundary
537.48 acres.
The
amendment
area is approximately 1.06 mile southwest from Brushy
Fork Road's junction
with State Route
194, and located at
Bevins Branch. The
latitude is 372 39'59".
The longHu~e is
82 2 35'48".
The
proposed
amendment is located on the Thomas
U.S.G.S. 7.5 min.
quadrangle maps.
The operation will
use the contour,
area, and auger
methods of surface
mining. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by DFM,
Inc., Beaually Land
Corporation,
and
Alma ·
Land
Company.
The
amendment
application has been
filed
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources
Pikeville Regional
Office, 121 Mays
Branch Road, Pikeville,
Kentucky
41501 . Written comments, objections, or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director
of the Division of
Permits, · No.
2
Hudson
Hollow,
Frankfort, KY 40601.
This is the final
advertisement of this
application. All comments, objections,
and/or requests for a
permit comference
must be received
within thirty (30) days
. of this date.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT
TO APPLICATION
NUM,B ER
836-5382
In accordance with
the prOVISIOnS of
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
FCDC Coal, Inc.,
750 Town Mountain
Rd., Pikeville, KY
41501, has filed an
a pplication
for
renewal of a permit
for an underground
mining
operation,
located 1.5 mile
southeast of Printer,
in Floyd County. The
operation disturbs
8.07 surface acres,
and underlies 278.33
acres, and the total
area within the permit boundary
is
286.40 acres.
The
facility
is
approximately .2 mile
southeast frorn KY
2030's junction with
Big Branch-Honaker
Rd., and located
adjacent to Spurlock
Creek. The latitude is
37-31-17, and the
longitude is 82-4327.
The facility is located on the Harold
USGS 7.5 minute
quadrangle
map.
The surface area is
owned by Bull Creek
Coal
Corporation .
The permit underlies
land owned by Bull
Creek
Coal
Corporation, Keathly
Heirs,
Chattie
Dingus,
Tramble
Mitchell,
Rasser
Salisbury and Adam
Sizemore
Estate
Martin
Halbert'
Tandy
Spurlock:
Ronald
Spurlock ,
Ray
Spurlock,
Henrietta Mckinley,
Velma Miller, Howard
Meade, and Gail
Parsons Estate.
The operation will
affect an area within
100 ft. of a public
road, KY 2030. The
operation will not
involve relocation or
closure of the public
road.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resource's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
KY
Prestonsburg,
41653. Written comments, objections or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director
of the Division of
Mine Permits, #2
Hudson
Hollow
Complex, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
836-5471
must be filed with the
Director
of
the
Division of Mine
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow
Complex,
Frankfort, KY 40601.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 880-7010
RENEWAL
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
Czar Coal Corporation, HC 64, Box
915, Debord, Kentucky 41214, has
applied for renewal
of a coal haul road
permit
affecting
332.339
surface
acres, located 1.25
mile north of Davella,
in Martin, Johnson
and Floyd Counties. '
The proposed operation is approximately 1.25 mile southwest from KY Route
3's junction with
Middle
Fork
of
Rockcastle
Creek
Road, and located 1
mile west of Middle
Fork of Rockcastle
Creek.
The proposed operation is located on
the Offut, Thomas
Lancer, and lne~
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute . quadrangle
maps. The surface
area is owned by
A.E. Reitz Heirs
Harles~
George
Heirs,
and
Pocahontas
Development Corporation.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's Prestonsburg Regional
Office, 3140 South
Lake Drive, Suite 6,
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653. Written
objeccomments,
tions, or requests for
a permit conference
must be tiled with the
Director, Division of
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hol]ow, U.S. 127
South,
Frankfort
Kentucky 40601 .
'
This is the final
advertisement of this
application. All comments, objections,
and/or requests for a
permit comference
must be received
within thirty (30) days
of this date.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 858-5049
RENEWAL
1) In accordance
with KRS 350.055,
notice is hereby
given that Beech
Fork
Processing,
Inc., P.O. Box 190,
Lovely,
Kentucky
41 231 , has applied
for renewal of a permit for an underground coal mining
operation, located
1.1 m_ile southeast of
Odds in Johnson and ·
Floyd Counties. The
proposed operation
will disturb 59.81 surface acres, and will
3,059.39
underlie
acres, and the total
area within the permit boundary will be
3,199.20 acres.
2) The proposed
operation is approximately 1 mile southeast from Right Fork
of Daniels Creek
road's junction with
old Rt. 3, and located
along
Sycamore
Creek. The latitude is
372 44'46".'The longitude is 82 240'36".
3) The proposed
operation is located
on the Offutt and
Lancer U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle maps. The surface area to be disturbed · is owned by
Sally Turner Heirs,
Molly Spears Heirs,
and Consolidation
Coal Co. The operation will underlie land
owned
by Sally
Turner
Heirs
Consolidation Coai
Co., 1, Richmond
Heirs/Harkins Heirs
Pocahonta~
Develop - ment
Corpo-ration, Robert
Burke, G.M. Wells
Est. , Carl Collins
Rufus Keel, and Sa~
Richmond.
4) The application
has been filed for
public inspection at
the Department for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's Prestonsburg Regional
Office, 3140 South
Lake Drive, Suite 6,
Prestonsburg,
Kentuc-ky
41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed
with
the
Director, Division of
Permits,
No.
2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127 South, Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601.
This is the final
advertisement of this
application. All comments, objections,
and/or requests for a ,
permit comference
must be received ·
within thirty {30) days
of this date.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PERMIT
APPLICATION
836-5468
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
1s hereby given that
Richardson
Fuel
Inc., 14305 Old US
Route
23
Catlettsburg,
KY
411 29, has applied
for a permit for an
underground
and
surface coal mining
operation, located
2.0 miles southeast
of East McDowell, in
Fl oyd County. The
proposed operation
will disturb 9.0 acres
and underlie 935.0
acres, and the total
area within the permit boundary will be
944.0 acres.
The proposed operation is located just
west of KY 1929's
junction with Neds
Fork Road, and
located just west of
Frasure Creek. The
latitude is 372 25'28".
The longHude is
822 42'28".
The proposed operation is on the
McDowell U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by The Elk
Horn Coal Company,
LLC. The operation
will underlie land
owned by Nicholas
Cooley, Kennel Dye,
Billy
McCoy
&
Delphine
Prater,
Melvin R. Hall, Mary
Jane
Ande rson,
Nellie Caudill, Kelly
& Alma Dye, Rex &
Ada Lynn Gayheart,
Richard & Beatrice
Conn, Anita Stumbo,
Curtis Sword, Rengie
Dye, Basel Moore,
Edd Ray Moore,
Polly Howell Estate,
Olvin Howard, Abe
Howell,
Progress
Land
Co. ,
The
Coal
Elkhorn
Company,
LLC,
Stumbo
German
Edd Ray M;ore Est.:
Day Gayheart, Ivan
Moore, Diane Moore
Prophet Moore Est.:
Jessica
Moore
Willard Moore Est.:
Jake Cooley, Bertha
Short,
Donald
Howell,
Interstate
Natural Gas, Tracy
Frasure, Green &
Hellen Gayheart, and
Bert Newman.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's
P-restonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653. Written
comments, objections, and requests
for a public hearing
or informal conference must be filed
with the Director
Division of Field
Services, No. 2
Hudson
Hollow,
Frankfort, KY 40601.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Whereas certain
property located at
Bypro, Kentucky, further described as the
Old
Bypro
Post
Office, including the
apartments adjacent
to the same. This
property has been
inspected by the
Floyd County Fiscal
Court division of
Homeland Security
office
of
code
enforcement
and
thus declared dangerous and dilapidated
buildings.
Therefore the owner
of this property is
hereby ordered to
abate this nuisance
within 5 days or
appear for a hearing
before the Floyd
County Fiscal Court
on August 19th, at 10
a.m., in the official
court room on the
second floor, of the
County
Floyd
14 1
Courthouse,
South Central Ave.,
KY
Prestonsbu rg,
41653. If the owner
of said property does
not abate t he nuisance or show just
cause as to why they
would
not
be
required, the county
will proceed in abatement of premises in
question to include
demolition of the
structure with all
costs incurred by the
county to be paid by
owner within 60 days
or a lien . upon said
premises will be
invoked · pursuant to
KRS 381 .770 and
Floyd
County
Ordinance #04-002.
Questions may be
addressed to the
Floyd County Code
Enforcement Officer
Bobby Carpenter, at
(606) 886-0498.
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR
MANDATORY
PRE-BID
CONFERENCE
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will be
accepting bids for
clean-up of the illegal
dumps, located at
the Town Branch
Bridge,
near
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky, and the
John Kidd Dump,
located near Harold
both in Floyd County:
Kentucky, through
funding from the
PRIDE Community
Grant Program. In
order to participate in
the bid process, all
interested contractors must participate
in a Mandatory PreBid Conference for
these two (2) projects, as proven by
the signatures of
their authorized representatives on the
sign-in sheet at the
Conference.
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will conduct the Mandatory
Pre-Bid Conference
for these two (2) projects at the Office of
the Floyd County
Judge/ Executive,
located at 149 South
Central
Avenue,
Suite
9,
Prestonsbu r g ,
Kentucky (on the
second floor of the
old Floyd County
Courthouse)
on
Thursday, August 18,
2005, at the hour of
10:00 a.m. Bids for
these projects will be
opened at the August
19, 2005, meeting of
the Floyd County
Fiscal Court at the
hour of 10:00 a.m., in
the
County
Courtroom, located
on the second floor
of • the old Floyd
County Courthouse,
at 149 South Central
Ave n ue ,
'
Pres t onsb u r -g , Kentucky. All inter- "1
ested contractors are t
invited to attend.
!
Paul
Hun1 •
Thompson,
Floyd County
Judge/Executive
ADVERTISE'
t
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FOR BID
The Floyd Countt
Board of Health is..
accepting bids on the' :
following for the new
Floyd County Health. Department, locatecr
on Goble St. , ir '"•
Prestonsburg, KY.
, ,
Bid Package 1
Successful b"fdder"?.
will review prints and •
bid to supply ail e"
materials, labor, and u
connections for CaL . ,
V data wirin g for " . ~
computer and net- ;;·
work services, com-,..,
puter battery backup. ~ •.,.
Bidder will have tc. , ,
coordinate
with
Frankfort IT for capa- •
bility of interfacin!:f-'
with KY Internet " ·
Highway
Bridge
System.
Bid Package 2
~
Successful bidder ..
will supply phone "
system designed tor'
up to 40 extensions •
and 12 phone lines.
Specific number of •
phones and required
phone system fea-tures
may
be
obtained at the site·
but shalf include autc
dialer, paging, vo1ce' ~
mail,
and
otber ..,
required features.
:~
Bid Package 3
':'~
Successful bidder: ::';
will supply all equp..r•,..:ment, wiring, sup· :::
plies etc., necessary_~;
to provide building "'
security. Bid shall
include 1 year motli- ' ·•
loring service wiffi: ~!
package.
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Print copies and/or -~
specification re quire,- ', ~..
ments may be plclq~((~~
up at the ProjecC:
Manager
trailer, -·
located at the job sits ~
Monday-Friday irom ;. •:.
9-3. Questions musL 1
be directed to ...Mat1 ·~
Mills,
PrOJEic1
Manager. All connec:
tions and installi:•c
tions must meet a!( •
code .and system .....,
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Successf ul bidder: n ~
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work with projecl ~E
manager on times for
installation to avoiU' ~-:
any delays to tradEf "
contractors.
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Sealed bids musf ''-i
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Floyd County Boar<l
of Health, and mus( ...
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August 19, 200S. Bids will be opened
and awarded at the:
next Board meetli"lgt
Bidders must be
bonded.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ORDINANCE
NO. 12-2005
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PRESTONSBURG, ESTABLISHING
A CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD FOR THE ENFORCEMENT AND
COMPLIANCE OF CITY ORDINANCES
WHEREAS, is it the intent of KRS 65.8801 to 65 .8839 to protect, promote,
and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens residing within the
City by authorizing the creation of an administrative board with the authority
to issue remedial orders and impose fines in order to provide an equitable,
expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of ensuring compliance with
the ordinances in force within the City; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council of the City of Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, to utilize the authority granted in KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839 by creating a City of Prestonsburg Code Enforcement Board
NOW THEREFORE be it ordained by the City Council of the City of
Prestonsburg, as follows:
SECTION 1, DEFINITIONS. The following words, terms and phrases, when
used in this ordinance, shall have tile meanings ascribed to them, in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Code Enforcement Board shall mean an administrative body, created and
acting, under the authority of the Local Government Code Enforcement
Board Act.
Code Enforcement Officer shall mean a city police officer, safety officer, citation officer, or other public law enforcement officer with the authority to issue
a citation .
Ordinance shall mean an official action of local government body, which is a
regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law
and shall include any provision of a code of ordinances adopted by the city
legislative body which embodies all or part of an ordinance.
SECTION 2. Creation and Membership. There is hereby created pursuant
to KRS 66.8801 to KRS 65.8839 within the city, a code enforcement board
which shall be composed of five members, all of whom shall be residents of
the city for a period of at least one (1) year prior to the creation of the board
and shall reside there throughout the term in office.
SECTION 3. Powers.
a) The code enforcement board shall have the power to issue remedial
orders and impose civil fines as a method of enforcing city ordinances when
a violation of the ordinance has been classified as a civil offense.
b) The code enforcement board shall not have the authority to enforce any
ordinance the violation of which constitutes an offense under any provision
of Kentucky. Revised Statutes, including specifically, any provision of the
Kentucky Penal Code and any moving motor vehicle offense.
SECTION 4. Appointment of members, terms of office; removal from
office, oath; and compensation.
a) Members of the code enforcement boards shall be appointed by the executive authority of the city, subject to the approval of the legislature body.
b) The initial appointment to the code enforcement board shall be as follows:
1. One (1) member appointed to a one (1) year term.
2. Two (2) members appointed to a two (2) year term.
3. Two (2) members appointed to a three (3) year term.
All subsequent appointments shall be for a te, m of three (3) years. A member may be reappointed subject to the approval of the legislative body.
c) The executive authority may appoint, subject to the approval of the legislative body, two (2) alternate members to serve on the code enforcement
board in the absence of regular members. Alternate members shall meet all
of the qualifications and shall be subject to all of the requirements that apply
to members of the code enforcement board.
d) Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by the executive authority, subject to approval of the legislative body within sixty (60) days of the vacancy.
If the vacancy is not filled within that time period, the remaining code board
members shall fill the vacancy.
e) A code board member may be removed from office by the executive
authority for misconduct, inefficiency, or willful neglect of duty. The executive
authority must submit a written statement to the member and the legislative
body setting forth the reasons for removal.
f) All members of the oode enforcement boards must before entering upon
the duties of their office, take the oath of office prescribed by Section 228 of
the Kentucky Constitution.
g) No member of the code enforcement board may hold any elected or nonelected office, paid or unpaid or any position of employment with the city.
SECTION 5. Organization of Board; Meetings Quorum; and Alternate
Board Members.
a) The board shall annually elect a chair from among its members. The chair·
man shall be the presiding officer and a full voting member of the board.
b) Regular meeting of the code enforcement board shall be held on the 1st
Thursday of every month. Meetings other than those regulary scheduled ·
shall be special meetings held in accordance with the requirements of the
Kentucky Open Meetings Act.
c) All meetings and hearings of the code enforcement board shall be held in
accordance with requirements of KRS 65.88:5(5) and the Kentucky Open
Meetings Act.
d) The affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum of the board shall be necessary for any official action to be taken.
e) Minutes shall be kept for all proceedings of the code enforcement board
and the vote of each member on any issue decided by the board shall be
recorded in the minutes.
SECTION 6. Conflict of Interest. Any member of the code enforcement
board who has any direct or indirect financial or personal interest in any mat·
ter to be decided, shall disclose the nature of the interest and shall disqualify himself from voting on the matter in which he has an interest and shall not
be COUJlted for purposes of establishing a quorum.
SECTION 7. Jurisdiction. The code enforcement board shall have jurisdiction to enforce and shall enforce those city ordinances and code provisions
which specifically provide for code board enforcement.
SECTION 8. Powers of the Code Enforcement Board.
The City of Prestonsburg Code Enforcement Board shall have the following
powers and duties;
a) To adopt rules and regulations to govern its operations and the conduct of
.
.
.
its hearings.
b) To conduct hearings to determine if there has been a vrolatron of an ordr·
nance over which it has jurisdiction.
c) To subp.oena alleged violators, witnesses and evidence to its hearings.
Subpoenas issued by the code enforcement board may be served by ~
code enforcement officer, or police officer.
d) To take testimony under oath. The ?hairm~n shall have the authority to
administer oaths for the purpose of takrng testimony.
.
e) To make findings of fact and issue _o~ders, ~ecessary to r~medy a~y vrolation ot a city ordinance or code provrsron whrch the board rs authonzed to
~o~.
.
f) To impose civil fines , as authorized, on.a~y ~e~son found to have vrolated
an ordianance over which the board has JUnsdrctron.
SECTION 9. Enforcement Proceedings.
.
The following requirements shall· govern all enforcement proceedrngs before
the board .
a) Enforcement proceedings before the code enforcement boards shall only
be initiated by the issuance of a citation by a code enforcement offrcer or
police officer.
.
.
b) Except as provided in subsection (c) below, rf.a cod_e e~forcement offrcer
believes, based on his personal observation or rnve~trgatron, . tha~ a person
has violated a city ordinance he shall issue a Notrce of Vrolatron to t~e
offender allowing the offender a specified period of time to ren:edy_ the ~ro
lation Without fine. If the offender fails or refuses to remedy th~ vrolatr~n wrthin the time specified , the code enforcement officer is authonzed to rssue a
citation.
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d. te
(c) Nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit the city fro~ ta rng rmme .'a
action to remedy a violation of its ordinance when there rs reason to behev~
that the violation presents a serious threat to the public health, saf~ty, ~n
welfare, or if in the absence of immediate action, the effects of the vrolatron
will be irreparable or irreversible.
.
d) The citation issued by the code enforcement officer shall contarn the fol·
lowing information:
1.
2. The name and address of the person to whom the citation is issued;
3. The date and time-the offense was committed;
4. The facts constituting the offense.
5. The section of the code or the number of the ordinance violated;
6. The name of the code enforcement officer.
7. The civil fine that will be imposed for the violation if the person does not
contest the citation.
8. The maximum civil fine that may be imposed if the person elects to contest the citation.
9. The procedure for the person to follow in order to pay the civil fine or to
contest the citation and
1o. A statement that if the person fails to pay the civil fine set forth in the
citation, or contest the citation within the time allowed, the person shall
be deemed to have waived the right to a hearing before the code
enforcement board to contest the citation and that the determination
that the violation was committed shall be final.
e) After issuing a citation to an alleged violator, the code enforcement officershall notify the code enforcement board by delivering the citation to the
chief code enforcement officer.
(f) The person to whom the citation is issued shall respond to the citation
within seven (7) days of the date of issuance by either paying the civil fine
or requesting, in writing, a hearing before the code enforcement board to
contest the citation. If the person fails to respond to the citation within seven
(7) days, the person shall be deemed to have waived the right to a hearing
and the determination that a violation was committed shall be considered
final.
g) If the alleged violator does not contest the citation within the time prescribed, the code enforcement board shall enter a final order determining
that the violation was committed and impose the civil fine set forth in the
citation. A copy of the final order shall be served on the person guilty of the
violation.
SECTION 10. Hearing; Notice; and Final Order.
a) When a hearing has been requested, the code enforcement board shall
schedule a hearing.
b) Not less than seven (7) days before the date of the hearing, the code
enforcement board shall notify the requester of the date, time, and place of
the hearing. The notice may be given by certified mail, return receipt
requested; by personal delivery; or by leaving the notice at the person's
usual place of residence with any indivudual residing therein who is eighteen years (18) of age or older and who is informed of the contents of the
notice.
c) Any person requesting a hearing before the code enforcement board who
fails to appear at the time and place set for the hearing shall be deemed to
have waived the right to a hearing to contest the citation and the determination that a violation was committed, shall be final. The code enforcement
board shall enter a final order determining the violation was committed and
shall impose the civil fine set forth in the citation. A copy of the final order
shall be served upon the person guilty of the violation.
d) All testimony shall be taken under oath and recorded. Testimony shall be
taken from the code enforcement officer, the alleged violator, and any witnesses to the violation offered by the code enforcement officer or alleged
violator. Formal rules of evidence shall not apply, but fundamental due
process shall be observed, and shall govern the proceedings.
e) The code enforcement board shall, based on the evidence, determine
whether a violation was committed. If it determines that no violation , was
committed, an order dismissing the citation shall be entered. If it determines
that a violation was committed, an order shall be issued upholding the citation and either imposing a fine up to the maximum authorized by this or
other ordinance or requiring the offender to remedy a continuing violation,
or both.
f) Every final order of the code enforcement board shall be reduced to writing, which shall include the date the order was issued. A copy shall be furnished to the person named in the citation. If the person named in the citation is not present when the final order is issued, the order shall be delivereti ir'l' i:lccordaMe'With th~ procedtJres -set forth in subsection (b) above.
SECTION 11. Presentation of Cases. Each case before the code enforcement board Shall be presented by an attorney selected by the city or by a
code enforcement officer for the city. The city attorney may either be counsel to the code enforcement board, or may present cases before the code
enforcement board, but in no case, serve in both capacities.
SECTION 12. Appeals; Final Judgment.
a) An appeal from any final order of the code enforcement board may be
made to the Floyd County district court within thirty (30) days of the date the
order is issued. The appeal shall be initiated by the filing of a complaint and
a copy of the code enforcement board's order in the same manner as any
civil action under the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure.
b) If no appeal from a final order of the code enforcement board is filed within the time period set in subsection (a) above, the code enforcement board's
shall be deemed final for all purposes.
SECTION 13. Ordinance Fine Schedule. Violations of ordinances that are
enforced by the city code enforcement board shall be subject to the following schedule of civil fines.
c) If a citation for a violation of an ordinance is not contested by the person
charged with the violation, the penalties set forth in this subsection shall
apply, however, the board may waive all or any portion of a penalty for an
uncontested violation, if in its discretion, the board determines that such
waiver will promote compliance with the ordinance in issue.
Violation
Animals
Unsafe & Unfit
Structure Code
Garbage
Occupational License
Weeds
1:lt Qft!:!n~!:!
$25.00
2nd Qffeo~e
$50.00
All Others
$100.00
$100
$25.00
$50.00
$10.00
$125.00
$50.00
$75.00
$25.00
$150.00
$100.00
$100.00
$50.00
d) If the citation is contested and a hearing before the code board is
required, the following maximum penalties may be imposed at the discretion of the code board:
Violation
Animals
Building and
Construction Codes
Garbage
Occupational License
Weeds
j~t QttenlZe
$100.00
2nd Offense
$200.00
All Others
$300.00
$500.00
$75.00
$500.00
$50.00
$750.00
$150.00
$750.00
$75.00
$1 ,000.00
$250.00
$1,000.00
$100.00
SECTION 14. Lien, Fines, Charges, and Fees.
a) The city shall possess a lien on property, owned by the person found by
a final, nonappealable order of the code enforcement board, or by a final
judgment of the court, to have committed a violation of a city ordinance for
all fines assessed for the violation and for all charges and fees incurred by
the city in connection with the enforcement of the ordinance.
b) The lien shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk. The lien shall
be notice to all persons from the time of its recording and shall bear interest until paid.
c) The lien shall take precedence over all other subsequent liens, .ex~~pt
state, county, school board, and city taxes, and may be enforced by JUdrcral
proceedings.
d) In addition to the remedy prescribed in subsection (a) the p~rson found
to have committed the violation shall be personally responsrble for the
amount of all fines assessed for the violation and for all charges and fees
incurred by the city in connection with the enforcement of the ordinance.
The city may bring a civil action against the person and shall have the same
remedies as provided for the recovery of a debt.
ADOPTED THIS THE 8th DAY OF AUGUST, 2005.
JERRY FANNIN, MAYOR
ATTEST:
Sharon Schoolcraft, City Cler1<
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by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG -A
Floyd County social worker facing charges of theft
by deception for allegedly
withdrawing $1,540 from a
coworkers account saw
his request for a lower
bond denied in district
court Friday.
Chris Newsome, 32, of
arold, was denied the
quest by Judge Eric
Hall, who said that the
charges have been
referred to a grand jury
and that the matter will
have to be taken up with
the circuit court.
The problem for
Newsome is that circuit
court will most likely wait
until the grand jury hears
the case before making
any changes in the disposition of Newsome's bond.
Newsome posted the
bond after he was charged
f$'1th the crime in May. The
bond, $1,000 cash, constitutes two-thirds of what he
is alleged to have stolen
from Julie Morris, who also
·Norks for social services.
At his preliminary hearing two weeks ago, the
charges were referred to a
grand jury after Morris tes-~·ified that she noticed debits attributed to her bank
card that she hadn't
recalled making. She said
that she confronted
~ewsome about the
charges and that he said
he'd made them and
would pay her back.
(See BOND, page three)
Fletcher called before grand iury
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - Gov. Ernie
Fletcher has been subpoenaed to
appear before the special grand jury
i?vestigating the personnel practJ.ces of his administration, the attorney general's office confirmed
Friday.
Fletcher has been summoned to
Fletcher's lawyer, Sheryl Snyder of
Louisville, is out of the country,
according to a voice mail at his
office.
In previous statements, Fletcher:
declined to say if he would answer
questions before the panel or
invoke his Fifth Amendment right
against self-incrimination.
Thus far, nine current or former
members of Fletcher's administra-
tion have been indicted on a series
of misdemeanor charges alleging
violations of the Merit System personnel law. One person, dismissed
former Transportation Cabinet
commissioner Dan Druen, also has
been named in 22 indictments for
witness or evidence tampering. All
those who have been arraigned
(See FLETCHER, page three)
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
Southern rock fans will get a treat when Lynyrd Skynyrd plays the opening concert at the East
Kentucky Exposition Center in Pikeville.
Lynryd Skynyrd to open
East Ky. Expo Center
by MARY MUSIC
PIKEVILLE - The Eastern
Kentucky Exposition Center will
open it doors next month with a
performance by the legendary
Southern rock band, Lynyrd
Skynyrd.
The band, which began initially in 1973, is the self-proclaimed
"signature rock group of
America's working people."
Lynyrd Skynyrd lost its footing when lead singer Ronnie
VanZant, guitarist Steve Gaines
and vocalist Cassie Gaines died in
a 1977 airplane crash. Guitarist
Allen Collins, who survived the
crash, later died after being paralyzed in an automobile accident.
New members dealt with the
death of bassist Leon Wilkeson
(the "Mad Hatter") who died of
natural causes in July 2001, during the making of the album
"Vicious Cycle." Through adversity, the band forged on. They
perform approximately 300
shows annually.
"It's the grand opening. What
better wa.y to open than with the
group that people want to see?"
said Shannon Deskins. special
project coordinator with SMG
Management Company. "Of any
acts that we were stopped on the
street about, the one that stands
above all is, 'You gotta get
Lynyrd Skynyrd. ' Basically,
above all and beyond, it's the one
act that people were wanting us to
get."
(See CONCERT, page three)
PRESTONSBURG
The flags at the Big Sandy
Community and Technical
College were flown at halfmast Friday, in remembrance
of a 20-year veteran professor there.
Hassan Saffari, 55, professor of math, math lab
coordinator and cosponsor of
Phi Theta Kappa and the
Circle of Love, died at his
home last Sunday.
"It's a terrible, terrible
loss for the college,"
President George Edwards
said. "When you have someone here for 20 years, he was
such a pttrt of the fabric of
this institution. There is a
void and it will take a long
time before we can fill it. He
was just a fine person, just a
real gentleman."
Public relations director
Linda Lyon said Saffari's
neighbor and coworker,
Gilbert Plants, found him in
his home Sunday. Saffari, a
marathon runner, had his running clothes on and appeared
to.have died in his sleep, she
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Judge clears former cop's record
on two counts, leaves another
Toy's suit argues that stateMartin that was in his possession
ments
made to the media and the
when
he
was
fired
by
Mayor
STAFF WRITER
Thomasine Robinson after it was actions of everyone involved in
PRESTONSBURG - A for- alleged that he exposed himself to the case have made it impossible
mer Martin police officer saw two the patrons of the Amvets club in for him to find employment.
Toy's current situation is not
misdemeanor charges he incurred, Martin. Toy later returned the
uncommon and Bartley informed
that were later dismissed, computer.
Toy went to trial over the . the court that felony charges can
expunged from the record in district court Monday. He was also charge of indecent exposure in be continually investigated and
seeking expungement of a felony March and was found innocent by that he has seen case where a
charge but was not awarded an a Floyd County jury. Toy felony charge didn't lead to an
expungement in that case though a expressed after the trial that he indictment for 10 years.
Though no true bill was
grand jury returned a "no true would sue the city of Martin for
returned
against Toy on the theft
dismissing him from his job withbill" decision in that case.
charge,
it
appears that it may hang
out
a
hearing.
He
made
good
on
Steven Toy was hoping to get
the theft charge expunged but was · that promise in July when he over him indefinitely.
"A felony charge is always
denied in that a felony case is brought a suit against the
open,"
Judge James Allon said.
always open if it is not dismissed Robinson, a city council member,
"There
is
no statute of limitations
the
witness
at
his
trial
and
County
with prejudice. The charge relates
on
it."
Attorney
Keith
Bartley.
to a computer from the' city of
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Hassan Saffari
said.
"This place is in shock,
absolute shock," Lyon said.
Students and faculty participated in the memorial service, held in the Gearheart
Auditorium Friday. The family was also in attendance.
The service followed funeral
services held Thursday at the
Islamic Center of Eastern
Kentucky in Abbott, under
the direction of the JonesPreston Funeral Home.
"You will be hard-pressed
to find a single student who
has negative things to say
(See SAFFARI, page. three)
Court weighs
potential lawsuit
by TOM DOTY
High: 90 • Low: 60
Fletcher
College mourns
death of 20-year
math professor
STAFF WRITER
High: 92 • Low: 62
appear on Aug. 30, said spokeswoman Vicki Glass. She declined to
say if Fletcher is required to produce documents at his appearance
or provide any other details about
the summons. Glass said the summons was received by James
Deckard, Fletcher's general counsel, on the governor's behalf.
Fletcher's office declined to
comment on the subpoena.
PRESTONSBURG
The Floyd County Fiscal
Court met in special session
Friday to revisit the problem
of running the county's gas
company.
The court managed to sell
the gas company in May to
Industrial Gas Services Inc.,
but that company can't begin
to take over the system until
it is approved by the
Kentucky Public Service
Commission. That process is
set to be completed by the
end of September, but in the
meantime a problem has
cropped up which may see
litigation between the county
and former gas provider East
Kentucky Utilities.
The exact nature of the
pending legal action was
only discussed in an closed
session, with the court not
wanting to reveal any legal
strategies in lieu of possibly
working out differences with
the litigants.
The court did vote to
allow East Kentucky Utilities
to execute an operations
agreement with Kentucky
Frontier Gas in the interim.
This agreement will stay in
place until the sale of the gas
company is finally approved
by the Kentucky Public
Service Commission. Both
parties, the county and
Kentucky Frontier Gas, can
pull out of the arrangement
by providing written notice
21 days prior to terminating
the agreement.
The county has reserved
the right, in the agreement, to
terminate the agreement
should the gas company fail
to perform the duties and
obligations expressed in the
agreement, which include
such items as operating the
gas system, logging and
responding to customer calls
(See COURT, page three)
�A2 • SUNDAY, AUGUST
14,
2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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• HOUMA, La. - A mail
carrier got bitten- by a barking man, police said.
Mark D. Plumb, 20, of
Butler, Mo., was arrested and
charged with simple battery
Wednesday after he ran barking
from a house and bit the letter
carrier on the shoulder, police
spokesman Lt. Todd Duplantis
said.
Plumb said he bit the carrier
as a joke, and has no history of
criminal activity or mental illness, police said.
Plumb was released from the
Terrebonne Parish jail after
posting $165 bond.
• SEATTLE - Elephant
experts are getting ready to send
an ill-tempered 38-year-old
pachyderm to Tacoma, where
she'll join two other females not
known for their social graces.
The move is expected to ease
tensions at Seattle's Woodland
Park Zoo, where Bamboo's
intolerance for younger elephants and their calves has
forced handlers to separate the
herd at times.
At Tacoma's Point Defiance
Zoo, Bamboo will live with two
fellow Asian elephants, 39year-old Suki and 41-year-old
Hanako.
She'll be shipped south in a
special air-conditioned tractortrailer, probably arriving by
Labor Day.
The Tacoma zoo is a national leader in handling elephants
considered too dangerous to be
kept and trained using traditional methods.
The Tacoma zoo's first
"troubled" elephant, Cindy who died in 2002 - had a history of grabbing and biting people.
Suki moved in after throwing
a handler against the wall and
trying to stomp him, and
Hanako was sent from the
Washington Park Zoo in
Portland, Ore., because she was
unpredictable and moody.
Officials believe Bamboo
will be more comfortable at the
Tacoma zoo, "with Asian elephants her age and disposition,"
Woodland Park curator Nancy
Hawkes said.
Point Defiance elephant
caretakers have been visiting
Bamboo in Seattle, hoping
she'll recognize them once she
arrives in Tacoma.
Officials also have Qeen
swapping elephant droppings to
get the future roommates accustomed to each others' scents smell is an elephant's most
important sense.
• RENO, Nev. - A man
who long claimed to have
played one of Willy Wonka' s
Ooompa Loompas in the original 1971 motion picture now
admits he was lying.
Ezzy Dame, a high-fashion
hairdresser and art enthusiast,
confessed Tuesday in an interview with the Reno GazetteJournal. He said the false claim
seemed harmless at the time but
grew into a beast of a deception.
"It was not for fame or
glory," said Dame, 57, of Reno.
"I never made a profit or earned
a financial gain from this."
Dame said he was 23, 4 feet
tall and weighed 90 pounds at
the time. He was looking for an
acting job in Los Angeles, but
parts for little actors were rare.
He said his agent told him to
pad ·his resume with an acting
credit from Mel Stuart's 1971
film "Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory."
The movie was Dame's
favorite. He watched it religiously, partly because it portrayed little actors in a positive
way. And he needed to watch so
he could embellish his story.
"There is something so special when a child looks at a little
person and they're not scared or
feel that they're looking at a
freak. When you say you played
that part, they look at you and
smile. They see you as a human
being," he told the newspaper.
"I never intended to harm
anyone or my community by
this little white lie. It was a little
white lie that became my haunted nightmare."
Two stories were published
in Reno newspapers in 2003
and Ends
with Dame commenting on the
role he played as an Oompa
Loompa.
A third story, published July
16 in the Reno Gazette-Journal,
shined the spotlight brighter on
Dame, as he watched and commented on Tim Burton' s
remake, "Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory," and compared the two films from an
Oompa Loompa's perspective.
That's when the claim came
to the attention of Rusty Gaffe,
credited in Stuart's film as an
original Oompa Loompa.
"There were only 10 original
Oompa Loompas," Gaffe of
England wrote in an e-mail to
the Gazette-Journal.
"Six English guys, one
English girl, one Turkish, one
Maltese and one German.
Unfortunately, six of them are
now dead. And the girl is in a
retirement home here in
England. She is very old and
now blind so I do like to keep
her privacy. ALI are in poor
health. I hope you understand."
"I guess Ezzy is a nice guy,"
he wrote. "But we have to be
loyal and tiuthful to the fans."
• COLUMBUS, Miss. - It
wasn't hard for police to track
down the man they say robbed a
Trustmark Bank this week the suspect apparently left his
wallet and identification at the
scene of the crime.
Terrell Green, 26, of
Jackson, was charged with
Wednesday's robbery.
Police Lt. Tom Thompson
said a man walked into the bank
wearing a white T-shirt, blue
jeans and sunglasses, and handed the teller a note from his wallet demanding money.
When the teller asked what
she should do with the money,
the man handed her a white pillowcase into which she placed
seven $100 bills, 17 $50 bills
and numerous smaller bills and
a dye pack, Thompson said.
The man took the pillowcase
and left, authorities said.
Police set up checkpoints to
search for the suspect but had to
look no further than the bank
Todav in Historv
The Associated Press
Today is Sunday, Aug. 14,
the 226th day of2005. There are
139 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 14, 1945,
President Truman announced
that Japan had surrendered
unconditionally, ending WWII.
On this date:
• In 1848, the Oregon
Territory was established.
• In 1917, China declared
war on Germany and Austria
during World War I.
• In 1935, the Social
Security Act became law.
• In 1947, Pakistan became
independent of British rule.
• In 1951, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst
died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• In 1969, British troops
arrived in Northern Ireland to
intervene in sectarian violence
between Protestants and Roman
Catholics.
• In 1973, the U.S. bombing ·
of Cambodia carne to a halt.
• In 1980, workers went on
strike at the Lenin Shipyard in
Gdansk, Poland, in a job action
that resulted in the creation of
the Solidarity labor movement.
• In 1980, President Carter
and Vice President Walter
Mondale were nominated for a
second term at the Democratic
national convention in New
York.
• In 2003, a huge blackout
hit the northeastern United
States and part of Canada; 50
million people lost power.
Ten years ago: Shannon
Faulkner officially becaine the
first female cadet in the history
of The Citadel, South Carolina's
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Five years ago: On the
opening night of the Democratic
National ·Convention in Los
Angeles, President Clinton
offered a triumphant review of
his years in office, and exhorted
delegates to propel Al Gore on
the road to succeed him.
One year ago: A visibly
weak Pope John Paul II joined
thousands of other ailing pilgrims at a cliffside shrine in
Lourdes, France, telling them he
shares in their physical suffering
and assuring them the burden is
part of God' s "wondrous plan."
Nobel Prize-winning poet
Czeslaw Milosz died in Krakow,
Poland, at age 93. Fifteen-term
congressman William D. Ford
died in Ypsilanti Township,
Michigan at age 77.
Today's
Birthdays:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Russell Baker is 80. Singer
Buddy Greco is 79. Actress
Alice Ghostley is 79. Singer
counter, where the suspect's
wallet was found with his identification inside.
Following information from
the wallet, Thompson said
investigators went to the suspect's mother 's home and
arrested Green as he was walking out the front door.
Thompson said Green was
being held without bond pending an initial court appearance.
• ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -Two
college-bound
teenagers
learned a lesson when they
decided to sell a week of their
time to the highest bidder. They
hoped·for fortune and adventure
- and got neither.
Under the heading "Buy us
for one week to do those tedious
tasks you hate!" Chris Pullen
and Chip Davis posted their pictures on eBay with a minimum
bid of $1. Bidding began on
July 29.
When the auction closed
Monday, the teens learned the
winning bidder - a St. Joseph
resident - had offered a mere
$246.50 for their services.
Davis has e-mailed the teens '
future boss, but the details of
the work arrangement haven't
been reached. Because the teens
are headed off to the University
of Missouri at Columbia this
weekend, the work week might
be split up into seven one-day
sessions.
"I don' t think I'll do it
again," Davis said of the experience.
• INDIAN SHORES , Fla.
- Humpty Dumpty doesn't sit
on the wall. But thieves are to
blame, instead of a fall.
A 3-foot bronze Humpty
sculpture that has adorned the
beachfront home of Hugh Smith
and his wife, Diana Fuller, vanished last weekend. And they
desperately want him back.
"He was kidnapped," Fuller
said. "We're waiting for a ransom demand."
The couple ordered the piece
two years ago from an artist
who _specializes in making
sculptures of the nursery rhyme
characters. They specified
You may not
Dash Crofts is 65. Rock singer
David Crosby is 64. Country
singer Connie Smith is 64.
Former jockey Robyn Smith
Astaire is 61. Comedian-actor
Steve Martin is 60. Actress
Susan Saint James is 59.
Singer-musician Larry Graham
is 59. Actor Antonio Fargas is
59. Author Danielle Steel is 58.
"Far Side" cartoonist Gary
Larson is 55. Rock singer-musician Terry Adams (NRBQ) is
55. Film composer James
Homer is 52. Actress J ackee
Harry is 49. Actress Marcia Gay
Harden is 46. Former basketball
player Earvin "Magic" Johnson
is 46. Singer Sarah Brightman
is 44. Actress Susan Olsen is
44. Rock musician Keith
Howland (Chicago) is 41.
Actress Emmanuelle Beart is
40. Actress Halle Berry is 39.
Actress Catherine Bell is 37.
Rock musician Kevin Cadogan
is 35 . Actor Scott Michael
Campbell is 34. Actress
Lalanya Masters is 33. Actress
Mila Kunis is 22.
Thought for Today: "The
old forget. The young don' t
know." - Japanese proverb.
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Humpty's size, his expression
and even the colors he should
wear. They paid $5,112 for the
whimsical, 60-pound piece they
bolted atop a pillar of a concrete
wall.
The couple is offering a
reward for his safe return.
"We will not only bolt him,
we will secure him back to his
wall," Fuller said. "We will pen
him up. There's always one bad
egg who spoils it for everyone
else."
• CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa
- U.S. District Judge Linda
Reade had a chance to see the
courtroom from a different perspective- but she didn't make
the cut.
Reade was called for jury
duty on Monday in a criminal
case in Linn County District
Court.
When prosecutor Jerry
Vander Sanden asked jurors if
any of them knew him, Reade
replied that she did. He then
asked Reade if she would have
any problem sitting in judgment.
"I do it every day,'? Reade
said.
Although she was rejected
for the jury, Reade wasn't too
disappointed: "One judge per
couruoom is enough."
• DES MOINES, lowa- ~>)
man who police say warned
another motorist about his driving was arrested for impersonating a police officer- and driving a stolen pickup truck.
Jessie Joe Hill, 32, of Des
Moines, was driving the stolen
pickup on Sunday when he
turned on a flashing yellow
light on the dashboard and
pulled over another driver who
ran a stop sign, police said.
A police officer pulled up
behind Hill and asked him what
he was doing. Hill said he ha•
pulled the driver over to caution
him.
That didn't sit well with the
officer, who arrested Hill.
Hill also was arrested for driving with a suspended license
and second-degree theft.
The man Hill pull~d over
said he thought he might be an
undercover officer.
"I saw the light flashing ... so
I pulled over," Edin Beganovic
said. "He said 'Can you slow
down?' I said, ' Sure, no problem."'
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A PURSE AND DIAPER BAG
OUT OF A TRAILBLAZER AT
JENNY WILEY POOL:
There was a roll of film in my purse that
contains pictures of my children. I don't
care about the other contents of the
bags, but I ask you to please mail the film
to me at
Amy Burchett
P.O. Box 400
Allen, KY 41601
or you can drop it off at Wai-Mart under the
name Amy Burchett. I am not interested in
finding out who you are. I just desperately
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by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - The boondoggle that accompanied the
decision two yeru·s ago to
replace the Daniel Boone
~arkway name with that of a sitting Kentucky congressman will
be laid to rest.
In a private ceremony in his
office on Tuesday, Gov. Ernie
Fletcher plans to sign documents that designate U.S. 25E in
southeastern Kenrucky the
Daniel Boone-Cumberland Gap
Wilderness Trail.
"This is a great day, not only
for the Boone family, but also
for everyone who appreciates
• the sacrifices and accomplishments of our pioneer ancestors
~ho settled this great commonwealth and this great country,"
said Rochelle Cochran, president of the Boone Society, a
national group of descendants of
the explorer.
During a previous gubernatorial administration, the Daniel
Boone Pru·kway, which winds
through the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, was renamed
for U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, who
has represented the area for
more than two decades and, at
the time, had managed to earmark $13 million in federal
funds that allowed tolls to be
removed from the state road.
Rogers, who was not consulted about the name change in
2003, has stayed out of the fray
for the most part. The gesture,
though, did not sit well with
Boone descendants and olhers
who bemoaned the sacrifice of
history for a few federal dollars.
"'You may as well melt down
the Liberty Bell," Cochran, who
claims to be a long-removed
niece of the explorer, said at the
time.
Since then, several attempts
have been made to restore
Boone's name to the road, or
find an alternative. At one point,
the late" Gov. Louie Nunn
offered to have his name taken
off a different toll road so
Rogers could get the honor.
A proposal in the 2004
General Assembly to have
Boone's name replaced failed.
Fletcher's office confirmed
the change would take place on
Tuesday but provided no other
details.
In an e-mail to The
Associated Press, Cochran said
she planned to attend the signing in Fletcher's office along
with at least two other Boone
descendants.
· Boone is the stuff of history
and lore in Kentucky, credited
with opening the west to exploration
by
crossing
the
Cumberland Gap and opening
the Wilderness Road.
Boone, who lived from 1734
to 1820, has his name on towns,
festivals, businesses and even a
national forest.
U.S.
25E goes
from
Interstate 75 to the Cumberland
Gap tunnel into Tennessee virtually at the point where the two
states intersect with Virginia.
Coincidentally, the burial
But the subpoena to Fletcher
1s unusual in one regard
because most of them have
been served the weekend
before an appearance has been
demanded.
The nearly two-week lead
time is unprecedented in the
investigation and could give
Fletcher time to try to quash the
subpoena. There have been discussions among administration
lawyers whether a governor can
be subpoenaed.
Fletcher, a Republican, has
been sharply critical of the special grand jury investigation
being operated by the office of
Democratic Attorney General
Greg Stumbo.
Fletcher and others in the
GOP have accused Stumbo of
trying to further his own political ambitions, though Stumbo
has recently denied an interest
in challenging Fletcher in the
2007 election.
Criticism has also been lev-
is on a hlu f Ll" rlr uking the
KentuckY C!pitol, \\-here the
place of Daniel and Rebecca
Boone at the Frankfort cemetery
Stumbo inve
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signing ceremony will take
place.
ating doctor
The alleged ~ lllll s go hack
to 1999 and. in Stumbo's words,
"cost the stat.! more than
FRANKFORT - Attorney $200,00().'' Stumbo went on to
General
Greg
Stumbo note that -;tn!ing fro111 \1cdicaid
announced this week that his is serious busin~.:ss and has an
office has launched an investi- impact on e\uvone in the state.
gation into an Eastern Kentucky ·saying, "Every dol1ar stolen b a
doctor who is under suspicion of dollar tl, at c,umot aid an ill child
Medicaid fraud.
or a scni<H. c1t1zen."
Dr. Rocky Carter, who owns
Stumbo·, office i<; also solicseveral health clinics in Corbin, iting the public to help in Lhe
Manchester, Williamsburg and investigation. Anyone with
Knott County, saw his offices information on ( 'artcr s asked
raided by agents of the to call the Allol ncy General's
Kentucky
Bureau
of Office at <502) 6% 5405.
Investigation this week in a
Stumbo ,dso announced this
search for patient billing records week that his office has drafted
which they believe will show legislation that v. ill protect conproof that Carter routinely over- sumers .tgainst crn1cs involving
billed Medicaid for patient ser- identity theft. The legislation.
vices.
set to go ht:forc the General
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
Assembly in January. is based
on existing laws already
enforced in Texas, 1\orth
Carolina,
California
and
Louisiana. The legislation will
address issues such as traming
law enforcement to investigate
identity theft, requiring businesses to take precautions with
sensitive information !Ike Social.
Secwity numb.?rs and \VIII prohibit credit reportmg agencies
from providing information
about customers to businesses
except as permitted under the
Fair Credit Act.
"We need strong laws to
allow consumers to protect
themselves and we need businesses to act responsibly with
consumers'
information."
Stumbo sa1d.
·Fletcher
• Continued from p1
have pleaded not guilty.
~ The charges allege the officials routinely plotted to cir~ cumvent the law that requires
personnel decisions be made on
• the merits of the candidate in
favor of their political influence
• and support for Fletcher.
The special grand jury has
previously summoned virtually
:all of Fletcher's top staff. Many
of them have made only brief
appearances in the grand jury
room and have taken the Fifth.
.•
5Saffari
• Continued from p1
about Hassan," said Phi Theta
Kappa President Miranda Click,
who opened the service.
Dr.
Rahim
Karimpour,
Saffari's former advisor, said he
left Iran after the revolution in
1984 and that Saffari greeted
him and his son at the auport
when he returned to the U.S. He
described Saffari as a good, caring friend and teacher.
i BSCTC instructor David
, Profitt addressed the family.
~
"We wanted you to know,
7above all things, we wanted the
' family to know that we love you
:and our hearts are broken with
:yours," he said. "You had a good
husband, a good brother, a good
relative and a good friend. He
' was a good man ... The strength
; of his goodness will go on. The
strength of his faith will walk
beside you and the message of
his love will forever make it real
in this world."
Plants read a poem he wrote
about Saffari's friendship. He
said Saffari gave him hope and
taught him to do "all [he] could
to improve the world."
"Look at your life and think
of the time it might end," he
read. "See how it'd seems so
final if you had not shared it
with a friend."
BCTCS student Frances
Branham said Saffari was the
only instructor who encouraged
her to believe that she could
excel in math.
"He always told me I was
thinking too much," she said.
"We'd be taking a test and he'd
walk by and whisper, 'Are you
all right?' I've honestly never
had encouragement in math
until I had him."
Former
student
Stacy
Scudder, who worked closely
with Saffari in the math lab and
with Phi Theta Kappa, says she
"owes everything" to Saffari.
"I owe him so much," she
said. "He's the one who told me
I could do it. He's the one that
made me believe in myself."
Saffari immigrated from
Sabzevar, Iran, in 1970 to the
University of Oregon, where he
completed his master's degree.
He worked at Slippery Rock
University before being recruited as a math instructor at the
Prestonsburg college, where he
taught for almost 20 years.
As customary in his religiou~
tradition, Saffari's body was ritually washed and wrapped in
linen before burial at the Islamic
Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Victa, and his children, Sara, 5,
and Ali, 3.
Fletcher's deputy chief of staff
and the former deputy secretary
of the Transrortation Cabinet;
acting Transpot tat ion Scc1 etary
Bill Nighbcrt. Deputy Personnel
Secretary Bob Wilson and
Deptlty
Transportation
Secretary Jtm A.d, llb Kentucky
Republican hrty Chairman
Darrell Brock. w 10 formerly
served as Fletcher's liaison to
local government. 1~ also under
indictment.
Fletcher has ~a.d he reserves
the right to consHler granting
pardons to thos"' wh0 ha'Ve been
charged, though he h<.Ls rclused
to answer any more questiono;
about the top1c
eled by Fletcher and his allies
at the grand jury for acting as a
stooge for the prosecution; the
Merit System personnel law for
being vague and unmanageable; and even the Transportation Cabinet employee who
first delivered the documents
alleging political manipulation
of the hiring system to prosecutors.
Lt. Gov. Steve Pence, a former federal prosecutor who has
been especially vocal in his
criticism of the conduct of the
investigation, has not been subpoenaed, Glass said.
Among those indicted thus
far are Dick Murgatroyd,
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"We'll have everything from
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~nd providing monthly reports
to the county.
The court also voted to
announce a pre-bid conference
on Thursday, August 18. At the
conference, companies will
enter sealed bids for a PRIDEsponsored project to clean two
illegal dump sites in the county,
Bond
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Former
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won't be limited to just music. Donna Damron began planning
We can do monster truck shows, the construction of the Eastern
rodeo shows, ice shows, the Ice Kentucky Exposition Center in
Capades. We even have a bas- 1994.
Upon completion, Lhe center
is expected to contribute more
than $10 million to the local
economy, with most proceeds
coming
from
out-of-stale
• Continued from p1
tourists.
which include the Town Branch
The 126,000 square foot
dump. in Prestonsburg, and the
facility has an arena floor of
John Kidd dump. in Harold.
about 24,000 square feet and can
The meeting, which is schedseat 7,000 people. It also has an
uled to begin at 10 a.m., will be
additional 5,000 square feet of
followed by a mandatory visit to
ballroom space that overlooks
the two sites in question, which
the arena floor.
have generated complaints from
Tickets for the Lynyrd
local residents and neighbors of Skynyrd concert, priced at $35
the two sites.
and $45, went on sale Saturday
at the center and through
Ticketmaster.
More information can be
obtained by contacting the center at (606) 433-0200.
• Continued from p1
Morris also noted that she put
Jt.o!f filing a complaint against
/i.Newsome for several months
but that she made the decision to
see the county attorney after
Newsome failed to begin paying
her back after he allegedly said
he would do so at a rate of $200
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cleared.
During Morris' testimony,
Newsome's attorney, Steve
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2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~----------------------------------------------- ~
ressto
Freedom of the press is
not an end in itself but a
means to the end of
[achieving] a free society.
- Felix Frankfurter
Guest v .iew--
Let allegations
.
be heard by jury
A
ttorney General Greg Stumbo said he does not
know if Gov. Ernie Fletcher is considering issuing blanket pardons to those indicted in connection with the current investigation of alleged violations of
the state Merit System Law, but if the, governor is considering such a move, the attorney general wants it known
that he thinks it would be a terrible move.
We agree. Not only would blanket pardons short circuit the work of the special grand jury convened to hear
evidence in the investigation, but mass pardons would
deny those accused the chance to defend themselves in
court.
The Republican governor has criticized the investigation by the office of the state's highest ranking Democrat
as little more than a politically motivated fishing expedition designed to curry support for Stumbo's 2007 gubernatorial bid. Only by having the evidence heard in open
court will the people of Kentucky 'be able to determine
for themselves whether the charges have merit or are little more than a result of partisan politics.
Issuing pardons also would be a disservice to those
charged. Whether right or wrong, many people will
assume the pardons mean those charged are guilty and
would have been convicted if they had gone to trial.
That's no way to quell a controversy.
To date, only former GOP gubernatorial candidate
Larry Forgy has suggested that Fletcher pardon all indicted members of his administration. But then Forgy tried to
have the investigation curtailed by challenging the constitutionality of the state Merit Law. That suit was thrown
out of court.
If- as the. governor contends - the charges against
administration officials are without merit, then the best
way to prove it is by gaining acquittals in court. That not
only would vindicate the governor and his administration
but also would seriously hamper the political ambitions
of Stumbo. After all, two political careers are riding on
the results of this investigation.
-The Daily Independent, Ashland
-Rich L owry Column
.n l h
U eas Japan
in Europe.
The alliance is a natural. Japan broadly shares our values. The U.S. is the
world's No. 1 economy, and Japan is No.
Pacifism has never been so silly. In 2, a powerful combination. We want to
an East Asia that features both one of the check China, and Japan feels threatened
world's most irrational states and a ris- by China. Japan provides the basing the
ing dictatorial power bent on changing U.S. needs at a time when we have lost
the region's strategic
. our bases in the
balance, a crucial ally
Philippines and
of the United States
our relationship
with
South
labors under a constitution that could have
Korea
looks
been
written by
shaky.
It is the rough
Quakers.
Of course, it was
neighborhood
an American team put
that has helped
together by Douglas
turn Japan away
MacArthur
after
from its old
World War II that
ptettes.
North
wrote the Japanese
Korea is enough
to shake anyConstitution, imposing pacifism as state policy.. That was
one's pacifism,
understandable 50 years ago. Now the and the Chinese have stupidly provoked
constraints of the Japanese Constitution · Japan at every turn. Japanese Prime
- and the Japanese attitudes that have Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office
preserved them are senseless in April 2001 determined to strengthen
anachronisms.
the U.S. alliance and loosen the more
As part of her recent tour of Asia, restrictive postwar constraints.
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
Secretary of State Condi Rice visited a
Japan that is slowly emerging from its is the main obstacle. The constitutionshell. It is one of the diplomatic tri- and the interpretations and policies arisumphs of the Bush administration that it ing from it- bans a standing army, colhas helped accelerate this process. The lective self-defense and arms exports.
ideal should be to make Japan as reliable Japan has a military, but it's called a
a partner of the U.S. in Asia as Britain is Self-Defense Force, and it's supposed to
be limited to territorial defense.
For a long time, Japan denied itself
refueling , capacity for its F-4 fighters,
since that was considered too "offensive." The prohibition on collective selfdefense means that Japan cannot come
to the aid of an ally - i.e., the United
States - when attacked.
But the restrictions have been loosening. After 9/11, legislation was passed
authorizing the Self-Defense Force to <1l
stray beyond East Asia. Koizumi sent
ships to the Indian Ocean and Arabian
Sea, where the Japanese supported the
coalition efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And he deployed 600 ground troops to
relatively peaceful southern Iraq.
In general, a strong Japan creates a
balance of power in East Asia - of the
sort that once existed in Europe - that
makes any Chinese hegemonic ambitions more difficult to achieve.
Of course, any more assertive moves
will revive the boogeyman of Japanese
militarism. Other Asian countries have
nightmarish mt'mories of the Japanese
military.
•
But it is a new Japanese government,
with new norms, in a new time. The traditional restraints on it only serve to
hobble what should be one of the
world's significant players on the side of
decency and civilization. Unleash Japan.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National
Review.
- beyond the b eltway
Why did the CIA ignore the report?
Only the terminally naive can ask that
question seriously.
It has become obvious that this
administration came into office aching
to go to war with Iraq. It kept trying out
reasons - Saddam was a threat to the
peace of the region, he was pals with bin
Laden and complicit in the 9/11 attacks,
he was a cruel tyrant to his people until it hit upon one it could sell:
weapons of mass destruction.
That one flew. From
then on, neither the CIA
nor any other government agency was interested in information that
suggested that Saddam
didn't
have
those
weapons.
It's not much remembered now but throughout the '90s the consensus in the intelligence
community was that Iraq
had given up on its
nuclear weapons program.
In 2001, however, that assessment
changed. Suddenly we had intelligence
reports that Iraq was seeking highstrength aluminum tubes from China.
Analysts concluded that they were to be
used in a new uranium enrichment prognim that would yield nuclear weapons.
In case you've forgotten, George W.
Bush became president in 2001. What a
coincidence.
Not.
Of course analysts said Saddam was
Struggling
to hide the
reasons for war
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There was a story in
"The New York Times"
last week that should disabuse you of any illusions
you may still have about
why we went to war in
Iraq. (Hint: it wasn't
weapons of mass destruction.)
The "Times" reported
that a former CIA officer
has filed suit against the
agency, saying that prior
to the war he gave it information that
Iraq had long since abandoned its
nuclear weapons program and was selling off hardware.
The agency ignored the intelligence,
he said, and when he complained it
demoted him, then fired him.
The details of the suit are sketchy,
largely because the CIA immediately
classified it, along with the officer's
name. The "Times" got the information
through anonymous sources (thereby
risking putting more of its staff in jail).
rebuilding his nuclear program. If they
hadn't they'd have been out on their ears 'l't
like the guy who filed the suit.
How do you know this person who
filed the suit is telling the truth? you
might ask. A fair question.
Ask yourself this: Would you file a
suit against the CIA, a powerful agency
known for its vindictiveness, on false
grounds? I don't think so. To mess with
those boys you have to be monumentally ticked off at a monumental injustice.
The former officer's lawyer told the
"Times" that he had asked the court to
declassify his client's suit. The CIA
responded by classifying his motion
~
seeking declassification.
So the lawyer sent a letter to the
director of the FBI requesting an investigation of the matter. The CIA promptly
classified the letter.
If you can't put all of that together
and come up with the reason we're in
this miserable war, you are probably a
devotee of the Rush Limbaugh show and
what are you doing here anyway?
In any case, never fear, there are
signs that the administration is getting
ready to pull the plug on the Iraq operation.
The United States has put the arm on
Iraqi leaders to stick to their original
deadline for writing a constitution for ~
their nation, despite the fact that there is
no hope that the delegates can reach
agreement on the most contentious
issues facing them - the role of Islam,
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THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
14, 2005 • AS
Regional Obituaries
FLOYD COUNTY
• Ola Jean Crum Bartlett,
55, of Maysville, Georgia, formerly of Martin, died Sunday,
August 7, at her residence.
•Funeral services were conducted Thursday, August 11, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
• Hansel S. Bradley, 74, of
Prestonsburg, died Saturday,
August 6, at his residence. He is
survived by his wife, Lottie
Honeycutt Bradley. Funeral services were held Tuesday,
August 9, under the direction of
Hall Funeral Home.
• Josephine Case, 64, of
Honaker, died Sunday, August
7, at Our Lady of the Way
._Hospital, Martin. She is survived by her husband, Edessell
Case. Funeral services were
conducted Wednesday, August
10, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
• Margie Reeves, 81, of
Melvin, died Tuesday, August 9,
at Central Baptist Hospital,
Lexington.
Arrangements,
under the direction of Lucas and
Hall Funeral Home.
• Homer Reynolds, 82, of
Catlettsburg, formerly of Allen,
died Sunday, August 7, in
~Lexington. Funeral services
?were conducted Wednesday,
August 10, under the direction
of Steen Funeral Home,
Ashland.
• Hassan Saffari, 55. a
native of Iran, died Sunday,
August 7. He is survived by his
wife, Victa. A memorial service
was held in the Gearheart
Auditorium at the Prestonsburg
Campus, Big Sandy Community
and Technical College, at noon,
on Friday, August 12.
• Emma Sizemore, 66, of
86, of Ashcamp, died Thursday,
August 4, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Sunday, August 7, under
the direction of Bailey Funeral
Home.
• Lucinda Janet Johnson,
59, of South Williamson, a
native of Stone, died Friday,
August 5, at the South
Williamson
Appalachian
Regional Hospital. Funeral services were held Saturday,
August 13, under direction of
PIKE COUNTY
Hatfield Funeral Chapel of
• Steven Matthew Brown, Toler.
infant son of Steve and
• Jordan Austin Keene, six
Schlonda Roberts Brown was month old son of Ricky Keene
stillborn, Friday, August 3, at and Ashley Kendrick of Greasy
Pikeville Medical Center. Creek, died Tuesday, August 9,
Funeral services were held at Pikeville Medical Center.
Friday, August 5, under the Funeral services were held
direction of Lucas and Hall Friday, August 12 under the
direction of Justice Funeral
Funeral Home.
• Virgil Gordon Coleman, Home.
66, of Draffin, died Wednesday,
• Robert Howard Looney, a
August 3, at UK Medical Pike County native, died August
Center, Lexington. He is sur- 8. Graveside services are to be
vived by his wife, Lyda announced. Snyder's Funeral
Coleman. Funeral services were Home, is in charge of arrangeheld Saturday, August 6, under ments.
the direction of Bailey Funeral
• Jettie Fern Newsome, 64,
of Little Robinson Creek, died
Home.
• Michael "Mikey" Earl Thursday, August 11, at
Ellis, 49, of Joes Creek, died Pikeville Medical Center.
Friday, August 5, at his home. Arrangements, under the direcHe is survived by his wife, tion of Hall & Jones Funeral
Margaret Sue Canada Ellis. Home.
Funeral services were held
• Lillian Lucille (May)
Monday, August 8, under the Ratliff, died Saturday, August 6,
direction of Justice · Funeral at the Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Home.
• Opal Ward Good, 82, of Wednesday, August 10, under
Grapevine Road, Phyllis, died the direction of Justice Funeral
Monday, August 8, at her home. Home.
Funeral services were held.
• Bertha Hall Scott, 81, of
Friday, August 12, under the Pikeville, died Tuesday, August
direction of Bailey Funeral 9, at Central Baptist Hospital,
Lexington. Funeral services
Home.
• Gwendolyn Hammonds, were held Friday, August 12,
Blue River, died Friday, August
5, at her residence. Funeral services were conducted Monday,
August 8, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
• Edna Whitt, 92, of Oak
Hill, Ohio, formerly of Betsy
Layne, died Friday, August 5, at
Heartland Nursing Home, in
Oak Hill, Ohio. Funeral services
were
conducted Tuesday,
August 9, under the direction f
the Hall Funeral Home.
Hospital
in 92, of Salyersville, died
under the direction of Lucas & Speciality
Charleston, West Virginia. Tuesday, August 2, at her resiHall Funeral Home.
• Hoyt Strunk, 83, of Funeral services were held dence. Funeral services were
Batavia, Ohio, a Pike County Friday, August 12, under the conducted Friday, August 5,
native, died July 27, 2005 in Ft. direction of the Jones-Preston under the direction of Magoffin
County Funeral Home.
Thomas. Funeral services were Funeral Home.
• Darrell Ray Gibson, 55, of
held July 30, at Moore Family
• Paul Raymond Tacketl, 79,
Funeral Homes, Batavia, Ohio. of Hazard, formerly of Mt. Sterling, a Magoffin County
Burial followed at Batavia Staffordsville, died Wednesday, native, died Monday, August 1,
Union Cemetery.
August 3, at Hazard Area at St. Joseph Hospice Care
• Christopher Earl Tackett, Regional Hospital. Funeral ser- Center. Funeral services were
40, of Belcher, formerly of vices were held Saturday, conducted Thursday, August 4,
Staffordsville, died Tuesday, August 6, the direction of the under the direction of Herald
August 9, at Pikeville Medical Phelps & Son Funeral Home.
and Stewart Home for Funerals.
Center. He is survived by his
• Mary Selma May Salyer,
• Lenzie Webb, 89, of
wife, Louella Stewart Tackett. Ashland, died Friday, August 5, 78, of Salyersville, died
Funeral services were held at King's Daughters Medical Monday, August 1, at St. Joseph
Friday, August 12, under the Center in Ashland. Funeral ser- East, Lexington. She is survived
direction of Jones & Preston vices were held Monday, by her husband, Grover
Funeral Home.
August 8, under rhe direction of Cleveland Salyer Jr. Funeral
services were conducted Friday,
• Meretta Tibbs, 89, of the Paintsville Funeral Home.
Phelps, died Tuesday, August 9,
August 5, under the direction of
at the South Williamson
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
Magoffin County Funeral
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
• Una Mae Vanover Reed, Home.
Funeral services were held
Friday, August 12, under the
"Special Thanks from the Family of
direction of R.S. Jones & Son
Funeral Home of Phelps.
Larry Allen McKinney"
• Jenna Walker, 34, of
We, the family of Larry
Shelbiana Road, Pikeville, died
Allen McKinney, and son,
Michael Allen McKinney,
Tuesday, August 2, at her home.
wish
to express our sinFuneral services were held
cere appreciation to everySaturday, August 6, under the
one who helped us during
direction of Justice Funeral
the tragic loss of our two
precious loved ones, Larry
Home.
and Michael.
• Alice Dotson Wallace, 73,
Also a very sincere
of Majestic, died Friday, August
thanks to Montgomery
5, at the Good Shepherd
County Coroner Wallas
Johnson, Detective Shane
Community Nursing Center in
Barnes, and Deputy Robie Miles, for Immediate service; Greg Nelson for bringing the
Phelps. Funeral services were
news to us about the tragic accident on June 9th, 2005. Thanks to all who came to
held Monday, August 8, under
Larry's home to comfort his wife, Regina, and their three children, Zack, Summer
the direction of R.S. Jones &
and Corey, the night of the accident. Thanks to Brother Wendall Crager and Brother
Son Funeral Home.
Ted Shannnon and singers, for their comforting words and beautiful songs. Special
thanks to Mayor Thomasine Robinson for everything she did. Also a special thanks
• Betty Jo Elkins Wright,
to Grace Flannery, who Is like a grandmother to Larry. We would like to thank Brother
72, of Dorton, died Tuesday,
Barry Spurlock and Bishop Ken Carrier, and Dr. Robert Marshall, and Attorney Stacy
August 9, at her home. Funeral
Marshall. A very special thanks to Roger and Sandra Nelson, and their sons, Greg
services were held Friday,
and Roger, and all the Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home staff, for all you did to comfort
us in our time of grief. Also to Donnie and Charlene Nelson. Special thanks to Floyd
August 12 under direction of
County Sheriff, John K. Blackburn and staff, for your comforting words and special
Lucas and Hall Funeral Home.
JOHNSON COUNTY
State gas prices setting records,
hitting poor especially hard
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brenda
PIKEVILLE
Gross has noticed that more
people are coming to the Eolia
Christian Community Outreach
~Center in rural Letcher County
for free food, but they're arriving in fewer cars.
Rising gasoline prices have
forced more impoverished
Eastern Kentuckians to park
their cars and ride with family
or friends, said Gross, director
of the eastern Kentucky charity.
"They're trying to conserve
their gas by just not driving as
much as they normally would,"
she said. "More families are car
pooling."
Blue Grass AAA reported a
new state record of $2.30 for a
~allon of gasoline on Tuesday.
Ann Belcher, spokeswoman for
the automobile association's
office in Lexington, said new
records were reported Tuesday
in several cities. Average prices
per gallon reached $2.40 in
Louisville, $2.38 in Ashland,
$2.34 in Lexington, and 2.23 in
Owensboro.
Gross said those prices are
hitting the poor especially hard.
"If they have to go to the
doctor, they're trying to make
their appointments at the same
~me so they can conserve gas
by making the trip in one vehicle," she said.
Belcher said people can save
money by finding gas stations
with lower prices.
"There are gas stations today
selling gas for $2.29 in
Lexington," she said. "You can
go a few streets over and you
will be paying up to $2.69 for
the same regular gas. If that
doesn't convince people to shop
around. I don't know what will."
Belcher said the higher
prices do hurt, but she said dri~ving is still cost effective for
~most people. "If you look into
taking a trip from Lexington to
Orlando, Fla., you'll be paying
$29 more than you did last year.
People know
Pueblo for its ...
.. .free federal infonnation. You
can download it right away by
going into the Consumer
Information Center web site,
W'.%'. pueblo .gsa.gov.
~ "':f=u.s.
General Services AdmlnGiration
PSA
That's not going to stop most
people from visiting Sea World
or Disney World.".~
The Rev. John Rausch, a
Catholic priest in Stanton, said
the gas prices may not seem so
harsh to people who can afford
Florida vacations, but they are
indeed burdensome to people
who have no hope of seeing
Mickey Mouse in person.
"Those who have resources,
gas prices don't affect them,"
Rausch said. "They couldn't
care less. Low-income people
are just strapped. Every time gas
prices go up, they have to make
unfortunate choices. Sometimes
that may mean less food, or that
they skip a treat, like ice-cream,
that could add flavor to their
lives."
Rausch said people living
comfortable middle- and upperclass lives may not understand
what it's like for the poor to
have to buy only $5 worth of gas
instead of filling their tanks
because they don't have enough
money.
"Those on the bottom have to
pay more and more of their limited incomes, whereas those on
the top are impervious to this,"
he said. "If filling up your
Hummer is $40 today and $60
tomorrow, big. deal. But $20 to
people on limited budgets can
represent some very austere
choices."
•
Janetta Faye Meek
Brewer, 65, of Catlettsburg, a
native of Johnson County, died
Thursday, August 4, at her residence. She is survived by her
husband, Robert A. Brewer.
Funeral services were held
Sunday, August 7, under the
direction of the Jones-Preston
Funeral Home.
• Mary Magdleon Branham
Ratliff, · 71, of River, died
Monday, August 8, at Select
service. Thanks to everyone for the food and beautiful flowers. Thanks to everyone
from both Prestonsburg Food City Stores and to all Dairy Queen employees, also
John Austin McKinney's Little League team. Special thanks to Larry's employees of
the Coal Country Cafe in Salyersville, KY, and employees of the former Family Inn
Pizza & More at Garrett, KY. Special thanks to Judge Eric Hall for all his help to the
family. Larry would have been so proud to see so many special friends visiting him.
Also a special thanks to his cousin, Mickie McKinney; "You were very special to
Larry." He will be greatly missed by all.
"So, son, If tears could build a stalrway...and memories a lane...l'd walk right up to
heaven...and bring you home again. But your life isn't over, It's just begun. Because you
didn't go alone, for part of us went with you, the day God called the two of you home.
You were a very special son, husband, father, and brother. You were loved by all."
Sadly missed by your family
Your mother, Phyllis, and wife, Regina;
Your three children: Zachary, Summer and Corey
Brothers: Mark, Johnny, and Morgan; Sisters: Cathy Jean, and Artllou
Nephews: John Austin, and Krls Anthony
Written by Larry's mother, Phyllis McKinney
chao
In Memory of
Goldie McKinney Spurlock
b. June 13, 1927
d. July 30, 1995
Mother, It's been 10 long y.ears, and yes, we still
wipe away the tears, ·
We had the greatest Mother, whom God gave
rest that day.
In my heart I feel a void, and there's a
special place where fond memories will
be stored.
In life, you gave to the very end, and
you were our best friend.
And eternity you'll spend, as we endure
to the end.
You gave life to eight great children, and
your roses never wilted, given In love to all
who yielded to your sweet loving smile,
As they simply stopped to stay awhile.
Please know how much I miss you, and I'm sorry I
you down, because on your face several times I put a frown.
1did what 1did out of desperation, not Inspiration, and now alii feel Is separation
from the people I love most, and now prison walls I do host.
47 • 20
Out of County
SSS • 20
Reg. $69.00 ..•..•••..••• Now
In Floyd County
$
Reg. $59.00 ........•.•.. Now
If 1could just bite Into your cornbread, beans & talers, with lettuce and green
onions, and maybe a fried green tomato, I'd know I'd be home again.
Just to see your fingers peckln' on your tabla when you felt able.
Your grandchildren have special memories of "Mamaw," and each one worries
about "Papaw," as your rockln' chair sits alone,
And all the children have gone home.
Please know you taught me well, and my faith has never failed, even In my darkest
hours 1made It with the Savior's power. You left your living testimony that taught
me to'stop and pray, each night, and several times a day, that all would be OK.
Payment to: The Floyd County limes
263 South Central Ave.
Box 390
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653 • (606) 886-8506
Name:_____ _
Even though 1made wrong choices, that I learned from, and learned It well, I'm so
very thankful I didn't send my soul to "hell."
As 1repent, and justice pay, I'll do It well each day spent.
When 1get home, 1hope to show you and the Lord, that His sacrifice was for one
accord. Please know In my heart you still live, and no one could ever be aa you
were to all who sat upon your knee.
Mom 1hope every person who knew how dedicated your life was to church and to
family. Because of your example, we'll always, the scriptures search. You sent
sons, grandsons on missions, and I know the Lord gave your commlaalon.
I'm sorry for all the pain you had to bear, but as you should remember, I was
always there. Sleeping on the floor or whever I could share.
1know that I'll pay for what I've done, It's been 17 long months, and yes, I know
the "Father, and the "Son."
If angels were to speak to us, they'd tell your life story, and then they'd say, "Yes,
she earned her celestial glory."
Doctors ridiculed you, and said you were not In pain, until the day you almost
died and a bone scan proved who was sane.
She ~orked hard raising children, raising gardens, canning, and giving to all. I'm
so proud to call her mother, and yes, she met the "call."
Written by Cheryl Kinslow (daughter)
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Su~estirins
• page A7
for finding a mechanic
see pg. A7
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MOVIES FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
~ This
Town,
:That World
'Dead Birds' •
Editor's Note: For years, Floyd
County Times founder and former
publisher Norman Allen wrote a weekly column that looked at Floyd County
through his eyes. His columns are
being reprinted due to request.
by TOM DOTV
1
STAFF WRITER
What is so rare as a day in
August when the temperature is
now 90? ... The rains came
Wednesday afternoon, and half the
people have nothing to talk about
today.
MUSIC'S MENACING
MENAGERIE
(No alliteration intended)
Seen Ed Music's "mongoose"
yet?
Do so, and get the spring back
into the old legs_
The mongoose, you will recall,
· )s that vicious, ferret-like animal
that kills the deadly cobra. It lashes out suddenly, with lightning·like speed and Br'er Mongoose's
adversary is a cooked goose. All
this
Mr.
Music
is
careful to
warn visitors against,
as
they
peek into
the
box
where the
"animal" is
kept.
Norman Allen
My son,
who did an
adagio, Spring Dance and Dying
Swan in the matter of a split sec.ond, when the thing "got loose," as
it usually does when visitors come
around, lists other of the local gentry who went places, but fast,
when the lid was opened, revealing the deadly, little killer. Among
the more agile ones are Bill
Goebel, Jr., Blaine Hall and
Toodles Wells.
But he reassures us. It's all in
fun. Also he urges me, "Don't be
chicken." I'm not-I just don't
like mongooses.
Lancer neighbors CQme together to host a luau each August.
From traditional Hawaiian costumes to authentic foods
they bring a taste of the islands to the Kentucky hills. '
Luau
Lance
by BRENDA VANDERPOOL
In Lhe uadition of years gone by, when
neighbors were more neighborly, and
t1~hborhoods were more like communities: of extended families, Lancer residents,
Marty Hicks, Lonzo and Ramona
Bowl\ng, Ronald and Mousie Adams, Jack
and Susan Kendrick, Jamie and K.risty
Howell, and Bob and Vemie Tackett hosted their 3rd annual block party on
Saturday, August 6th.
Dw:inR the first week of August for the
past three years now, North Riverview
Lane, is t}lillsformed into an island parad\se oomplete with bright lights, palm
trees, pink flamingos, umbrellas, beach
towels and tiki torches. Neighbors dressed
in fe,stive attire including Hawaiian "floweredy" shirts and grass skirts, arrive
around dUsk and arc greeted by youngsters
who present them wiQlleis. An estimated
75 guests enjoyed this year's party.
Scrumptious trays of food and driAk are
cltrried in for a luau to rival thOse found on
Matti or OOu. From the )l()UQgest guest,
who is just beginning to vi!\lk. to the oldest
who, ret's just say, has been a senior citizen "for li few decade ,'.,_ enjoy the
evening•s fun land fellowshl}). Guests
include peiSJlbots wh9 have lived in the
REPORT FROM THE FRONT
My favorite soldier reports that
his sergeant was mightily worried·
after he got caught in the Spam
grinder, the other day, but that the
old boy has simmered down somewhat after learning the machine
can be repaired. He says to tell the
kid brother he will send him some
shrapnel as soon as they can pick it
out of him_
,
YOUNG VICTIMS ANEW CROP
If you would say a prayer, and
we hope you will, don't forget the
youngsters who leave for college
soon. These are the ones who go,
wide-eyed and innocent, to hear
some scholarly atheist inflict his
views on them. Pray that they will
have more sense than such teachers ... Strange that our people are so
careful to ban the teachings of
Christianity in the classroom but at
the same time cheerfully pay taxes
to pay the salaries of those who
scoff at it.
Lancer area for 40+ years to those
have just moved in a few weeks agd-,
Young and old alike enjoy the lively
music and participating in (or ju~t watch- -1 '
ing) all the dancing from the limbo to tb,$
hokey pokey to the electric slide to !lie
twist to the Macarena. Although $~
atmosphere is bright and lively and taugtl
ter and the squeals of delighted c!W~n
fill the air, there is also a feeling of '"s)~
ing ?o~n," of returr~ng to an easier, te5\
hectic tune when ne1ghbors visi~~eigh
bors and spent an evening outdoors ~d
of plastered to a TV set, checls:ing e-mail,
or catching up on work broughJ tlome frmp {
the office.
'
Amidst all the musu;, talking··· and ~
laughter, there is also a ppaceful qUiet,
almost an eerie calm\ then you realize
what j t is.: ...no cell phones ~e ringio~, q,o
pagers gpmg off. not Qne chjld is playt"ng ·
with a hand-held video '~arne, tmd, if'you '
close your eyes and listen really, really
close, you can almost swear that you can
hear ocean waves beating against the
spores of the Big Sandyl
Thank you, Lancer neighbors, for
bringing back the tradition of a neighborhood block party. We'll be looking forward to next year!
A team of bank robbers rurt afoul
of ghosts when they choose a haunted
house as a hideout in this chiller
which went right to video and is solid
proo~ that you can't trust Hollywood
to dtscern the difference between
moose snot and melted marshmallows.
Once again a film that would have
entertained audiences at the multiplex has been
forced onto video
because the hig
wigs in L.A. think
people will only
fork over money
for lame PG-13
horror
sequels
like "Ring 2"
(which hit theTum Dotv
aters the same
Stanwmar
week that this
movie hit video
shelves). Ironically, they were right
and "Ring 2" made a killing, so what
do I know?
This one starts off with a bang as
five people execute a bloody bank
heist which sees everyone in the
building get executed as well as a few
bystanders who witness the getaway_
The group heads off to a hideout that
will put them close enough to the
Mexican border to reach safety the
next day.
,
The group fails to observe that they
are in a horror movie from the beginning. First they have chosen an abandoned plantation that was apparently
the site of rampant brutality towards
its slaves.
Second, the minute they step on
the property, they observe a scarecrow
which looks an awful lot like a corpse,
but they shrug their shoulders and soldier on.
Third, halfway across the overgrown com field that leads to the
house, they shoot a critter they can't
even recognize, though it could be a
mountain lion which some brave soul
decided to shave.
Lastly they start disappearing soon
after they get to the house and one guy
actually says, "Let's split up."
Eventually they put together that
they are in a house that saw many horrors. Via flashback we Jearn that the
plantation owner sold his soul to the
devil and tried to use black magic to
resurrect his wife. It is unclear if his
spells worked, but he sure put a curse
on the house.
The souls of his children, sacrificed to try and reanimate the wife
are trapped in the home and have ~
nasty habit of appeming to be helpless
waifs until someone gets too close.
Once a victim is near enough, they
turn into wide-mouthed skeletal creatures with razor sharp teeth who
scream like banshees before putting
the bite on their new house guests.
The gang is already at each other's
throats over the money. but greed
takes a back scat to survival when
everyone realizes they will need each
other to survive till morning_ What
follows is one long night and a day
that won't be getting much better.
(See LAGOON, page seven)
(See ALLEN, page seven)
Friendship .forever fondue
by SHARON CIVALLERI
"CHICKEN SouP FOR THE SouL CooKBOoK"
A good friend - what a treasure!
I've had a good friend since the fourth
grade (and that's a considerable piece of
time, since we are now in our 50s).
Joyce and I see each other only occasionally, but when we're together it's as
if we just saw each other yesterday.
Being with her is as beautiful as a colorful rainbow, a fresh box of crayons or a
cool shower on a hot day - refreshing.
One of our favorite things f() r1-- ·
play in the kitchen together. Lots of
I(
problems can be solved while you're
chopping and slicing. Sharing a recipe is
sharing your life. Are those tears from
the onion or from that memory? Does it
matter? Because soon there is only
laughter. There is always a sense of
understanding, of peace and comfort, of
feeling completely at home. Most of all,
there is acceptance, no matter what
we've done. There is unconditional
love. Always.
Friends sharing joy. sorrow, laughter
wedand tear.;. Thron£h the Qoocl
•
J, 1
<-lL
ol iln: .. t
TM, vt.,gctanam~w, yoga: the sad I •
loss of a mother, loss of a child, loss of
our youth ... we rage on together. We
share beauty secrets - after all, we
can't let gravity and the years show too
much. That's how it is when you share
time in the kitchen with a friend who
will be a friend forever.
Friendship Forever Fondue
Makes 12 servings.
Serve this with 1-1/2-inch pieces of
toasted French bread, a variety of fresh
wQctahlcs n lf in l hitc-si7e pieces or
ll n il t:. ~~ 1 p~.
• 2 ( I 0-3/4-ouncc) can'> of cheddar
cheese soup
• 1 pound shredded Swiss cheese
• l (8-ounce) can tomatoes, crushed
(or mild Mexican salsa)
• 1 pound shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 (7-ounce) can diced green chilies
• 1/3 cup white wine (optional)
• 1 small onion, minced
1. Combine all fondue ingredients in
a heavy saucepan. Stir over low heat
until cheeses arc melted and all is
smooth.
2. Pour into a bowl and place in the
center of .t platter ~uiToundcd by bread.
vegetables or chips for dipping.
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�SUNDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
14, 2005 • A 7
Jim 1 avidson
Don't swim in perilous waters
In light of recent events all across the
face of the globe, I believe one of the
safest statements I could ever make is
that we live in a dangerous world. In my earlier
days I used to love to
go squirrel hunting, but
going hunting back
then in a forest filled
with rattlesnakes, was
child's play compared
to everyday dangers we
face today when we get
out bed.
Just this past week,
on the interstate that
runs by our community, we had a terrible auto accident that took the lives of
two young men. A pickup crossed the
IIJ median and hit another pickup head on,
and then got entangled with an 18wheeler. As is normally the case, the driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured.
What made this wreck even more significant is that the driver whose truck
crossed the median did not have a valid
driver's license.
The driver was killed, as was the
driver of the other pickup, but the passenger lied and said he was driving,
because he wanted to save his friend
from getting a "no driver's license" ticket.
When people, especially young people, are
irresponsible, it just
makes you want to take
them and shake them, but
in the case of these two
young men, it's too late.
Now, their families are
left to grieve for them.
What I am going to say
next is personal and you
can disagree with me if you choose to
do so. The first question that comes to
my mind when I hear of a tragedy like
this is, did these two young men know
the Lord? In reality, we just never
know when we get out of bed each
morning, whether or not it will be our
last day here on earth. We face enough
dangers in our lives that are beyond our
control. However, when our actions
and behavior are irresponsible, and this
places us in great peril, we should be
Suggestions for
finding a mechanic
by TOM and RAY MAGLIOZZI
the dealer, and have the lawyer send
a certified letter to the general manDear Tom and Ray:
ager of the dealership, with a cc to
For the past 11 years I have lived American Honda (which owns
overseas, and I will be returning to Acura). The letter should say: "My
the states in about 18 months. My client cannot drive this vehicle in its
trusted mechanics have all been run current condition because it is likeout of business, the country or both, ly that his death and/or the deaths of
and now I return home to retire, a other innocent drivers will result.
stranger in a strange land, so to Since this car is under warranty, we
speak. How would you guys go insist that you keep it until it is
about determining who runs a good fixed, and provide alternative trans• shop? I know nothing about cars portation for my client until an
and am at the mercy of the mechan- Acura factory representative certiic, except in rare instances. How fies that the repairs have been sucwould one go about identifying an
cessfully complethonest,
skilled r------------. ed."
mechanic?
TOM: Then ask
Morgan
for the names of
TOM: Word of
anyone with an
. mouth is really the
ownership stake in
best way to find
the dealership and a
someone
good.
list of other properAnd since "word
ties they own, so
of mouth" has now
that the transfer of
moved to the
ownership to your
Internet, in the
heirs will go more
smoothly in the
~ form of things like
Craig's List, the
event of your death.
Internet should be
That should at least
useful, too.
get their attention.
RAY: A few
RAY: The most
years ago, we startlikely problem is in
the ignition and
ed a referral place
cylinder
lock
on our Web site
where people could recommend assembly -that's the thing you put
great mechanics to each other. And your key into. When ·you remove
the key, there's a pin that's allowed
it's worked very well.
TOM: It's called the Mechan-X- to slide into one of several holes in
Files. You put in your ZIP code, the steering column. It's an antispecify how many miles from that theft measure. I'd have to guess that
ZIP code you're willing to go, and it the pin is being allowed to slide in
spits out a list of nearby shops that and lock the wheel at other times like when you're changing lanes on
~ have been recommended by other
readers of our column and listeners the highway!
TOM: That could be caused by a
to our radio show.
RAY: You get customer ratings bad ignition lock; it could be the
on a bunch of issues like honesty, shift interlock mechanism in the
price, how they treat female car transmission, which allows the
owners, and how they respond wheel to lock when you're in Park;
when they {flake mistakes. Then or it could be a problem with the
you can read specific comments by steering column. If they can't figure
it out, they should replace all of
their customers.
TOM: So try the Mechan-X- those things, because lives are at
Files, Morgan. It's at the top left stake.
RAY: I'm betting against the
corner of our home page,
www.cartalk.com. And if others out rack and pinion, because the wheel
there have a mechanic they really reliably unlocks when you turn off
._ love, tell us about him or her at the the ignition and then tum it back on .
But it is a distant possibility, too.
"~'/ Mechan-X-Files.
TOM: Another thing for the
dealer to consider is whether the car
Car with locking steering wheel
has ever been stolen or repossessed.
cannot be driven
If someone once tried to pop the
Dear Tom and Ray:
The steering wheel on my 2003 ignition and start this car without
Acura RSX has locked on me while the key, that might be how the ignidriving three times now. I took it in tion lock got damaged.
RAY: But - we're serious,
to the dealership, and they could not
fmd anything wrong and thus were Wyatt. You absolutely can't drive
· unable to fix it. I have to quickly this car until you're certain it's
stop the car and tum off the ignition, fixed. In the meantime, report this
and then when I restart the car, the problem to NHTSA's Auto Safety
steering wheel unlocks. The last Hotline at 1-888-327-4236. They
time, I almost hit a tree. Help before keep track of safety-related comI kill myself or, even worse, some- plaints and have the power to issue
recalls in case other RSX owners
, one else. - Wyatt
TOM: Geez, Wyatt. I'm stunned. start reporting this problem, too. Let
It's absolutely unconscionable of us know what happens.
the Acura dealer to send you away
Why do unmitigated cheapskates
without fixing this, or - at the very
least - replacing the parts that are like Tom continue to buy nothing
most likely to cause this kind of but old clunkers? Find out by ordering Tom and Ray's guide "How to
problem.
RAY: You can't drive this car, Buy a Great Used Car: Secrets Only
Wyatt. To get the dealership's atten- Your Mechanic Knows." Send $4.75
tion, it sounds like you're going to (check or money order) to Used
have to engage the services of a Car, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL
lawyer. It's going to cost you a few 32853-6475.
Got a question about cars? Write
bucks, but which is more important
to
Click and Clack in care of this
-your money or your life?
or e-mail them by visitnewspape.r,
TOM: I'm thinking ... I'm thinkCar
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mg.
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CLICK&CLAC
Talk Cars
able to learn from the misfortune of
others.
In each of my columns I try to present an idea, a concept or a story with a
moral or ethical principle that will help
you. Because we are each unique, I
know that we have different values,
interests and ways of looking at things.
That is the way it should be, and it's
also one of many things that makes life
so interesting. Obviously, I don 't hit a
home run every time, but my heart's
desire is to help you. It's my desire that
everyone becomes more successful and
has the benefits of living and working
in the greatest nation in the world. This
is why our attitude should always be
one of gratitude. We should appreciate
the opportunities that are all around us.
A friend sent me a story the other
day that will serve to illustrate what I
have been trying to say. It begins,
"Some years ago on a hot summer day
in South Florida a little boy decided to
go for a swim in the old swimming hole
behind the house. In a hurry to dive
into the water, he ran out the back door,
leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as
he went. He flew into the water, not
realizing that as he swam out toward
the middle, an alligator was swimming
toward him. His father, working in the
yard, saw the two as they got clos~r
together.
~n utter fear, he ran toward the
water, yelling to his son as loudly as he
could. Hearing his voice, the little boy
became alarmed and made au-turn to
swim to his father. It was too late. Just
as he reached his father, the alligator
reached him. From the dock, the father
grabbed his little boy by the arms just
as the alligator snatched his legs. That
began an incredible tug-of-war
between the two. The alligator was
much stronger than the father, but the
father was much too passionate to let
go. A farmer happened to drive by,
heard the screams, raced from his
truck, took aim and shot the alligator.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks
in the hospital, the little boy survived.
His legs were extremely scarred by the
vicious attack of the great reptile. And
on his arms were deep scratches where
his father's fingernails dug into his
.
flesh, in his effort to hang on to the son
he loved. The newspaper reporter who
interviewed the boy after the trauma
asked if be would show him his scars.
The boy lifted his pants legs and then,
with obvious pride said to the reporter,
"But look at my arms. I have great
scars on my arms, too. I have them
because my daddy wouldn't let go."
And here is the message that everyone who reads this column should think
about. Most of us should be able to
identify with this little boy because we
have scars, too. No, not from an alligator, but the scars of a painful past.
Some of those scars are unsightly and
have caused us deep regret. But some
of those wounds are there because God
has refused to let us go. If you have had
a painful past, you can take real comfort that in the midst of your struggle
because He's been there for you. We all
need to take responsibility for ourselves and be extra careful not to swim
in perilous waters. Our own personal
world would be a much safer place, if
we made it a point to do that.
DOD
Jim Davidson is a motivational
speaker and syndicated columnist. You
may contact him at 2 Bentley Drive,
Conway, AR 72034 .
Radio show to broadcast from Lynn homeplace
VAN LEAR - Big John Trimble Paintsville, WTIP in Charleston, W.Va.,
will be doing his afternoon radio show and WDOC in Prestonsburg from 1954
on WCLM 1450 AM in Richmond, Va., to 1960 as a teenager. Both shows will
and bigjohntrimble.com (world wide) be free and open to the public.
from Loretta Lynn's front porch in
Trimble started in radio at the ripe
Butcher Hollow 4 to 6 p.m. on Sept 2.
old age of 14, in his hometown of
Big John will be appearing live in the Paintsville. From those humble beginatrium of the Carriage House Hotel nings at 250-watt AM station WSIP; he
located in Paintsville on Saturday after- has built a 50-year career that has culnoon Sept. 3. (3 to 5 p.m.) along with minated with a nomination to be includJ.C. Blevins and Alan Burton in a big ed in the Country Music DJ Hall of
rock-and-roll reunion radio show, pre- Fame. He has also been nominated the
sented jointly on WKYH AM 600 in past two years as the Radio Personality
Paintsville and on WCLM.
of the Year at the Golden Voice Awards
Trimble's wife, Juke Box Jean in Nashville. In May of this year John
Trimble, who hosts the "Lost in the was put into the Broadcaster Hall of
Fifties" show on WCLM will also be on Fame by the Richmond Broadcasters
the broadcast.
Association. He has been named the
Trimble, known then as "Jolly John," .
nation's favorite radio personality by
did his radio shows on WSIP in truckers several times.
Trimble, who has been known
nationally since the 1970s bas been featured on TV on the Today Show, Good
Morning America and several other
national shows and he has been featured
in The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The L.A Times ,
People Magazine and many other
national and local publications. John has
acted in the movies , "Behind the
Scene" and "The Day Lincoln Was Shot
" He also currently has two comedy
albums which are distributed nationally.
John will be one of the principal
speakers at the Paintsville High School
Alumni Association's annual banquet
along with Jerry Potter, sportswriter for
USA Today. Both are graduates of
Paintsville High School.
Allen
ODD
In New Haven, Conn., recently, a
gentleman did a monumental work in
the cause of simplified spelling.
Haroutioun A. Aprahamian had his
name changed to Haroutioun A.
Abrahamian.
AD ABSURDUM
Not long ago yours truly sat in on a
seminar whereat newspaper people and
journalism instructors dwelt long on the
dangers that lie in the printed word.
When we got through, many wondered
how we ever got out a newspaper and
contrived at the same time to stay out of
jail. It's consideration of matters like
this that makes newsmen so cautious;
some wouldn't say it rained yesterday
unless they could attribute it to a higher
authority.
Apropos all this, this week we ran
across what a newpaper wag submitted
as a cautious re-write of the story that
starts in the 37th chapter of Genesis. It
follows, to-witless:
"A man known as Jacob, a sheep
rancher, reported this morning that his
youngest son, Joseph, is missing, the
sheriff stated.
"The father reported that the youth
had been sent to help his half-brothers
herd sheep, the sheriff declared. The
other young men allegedly returned
home late yesterday afternoon, bringing
with them a bloodstained coat of unusual design which Jacob is said to have
identified as the property of the missing
boy. The sheriff said the brothers
churned they had noticed nothing out of
the ordinary during the day, except that
while they were eating lunch, a camel
pack train passed at a distance. The
packers were believed to be Medianites,
possibly on route to
Egypt.
Investigation of the case continues, the
sheriff added:
.
·• Continued from p6
(An old Southern pastor's prayer)
Slow me down, Lord!
Ease the pounding of my heart by the
quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried
pace with a vision of the eternal reach of
time. Give me, amidst the confusion of
my day, the calmness of the everlasting
hills. Break the tension of my nerves
and muscles with the soothing music of
the singing streams that live in my
memory. Help me to kn'Qw the magical
restorative power of sleep. Teach me the
art of taking minute vacations... of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat
with a friend, to pet a dog, to read a few
lines from a good book.
Remind me each day of the fable of
the hare and the tortoise, that I may
know that the race is not always to the
swift; that there is more to life than
increasing its speed. Let me look
upward into the branches of the towering trees, and know that they grow tall
because they grow slowly and well.
Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me
to send my roots deep into the soil of
life's enduring values, that I may grow
toward the stars of my greater destiny.
Amen.
punch. This one is rough and the opening bank robbery is probably one of the
goriest you'll ever see, but stick it out
and you'll note that Turner is just as
good at building suspense and sustaining tension as he is at staging a gory
shootout. The ending is a killer- not to
be missed.
Best line: "Unless you all are ftxing
to eat it, then leave it alone."
2004, Rated R.
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running with several correct responses
already logged. If you want to get in on
a chance to win the rare 1957 thriller "I
Was a Teenage Werewolf' on VHS or a
book on the films of'Roger Corman then
go to www.floydcountytimes.com and
enter. Anyone needing a hint would be
advised to check out www.imdb.com.
SLOW ME DOWN
Lagoon
• Continued from p6
Don't expect a happy ending, folks,
but you are guaranteed a good time if
you like your ghost stories with a side
order of gore and just a dash of nihilism.
This one has a lot going for it. For
one, thing the setting is perfect. The robbers are actually ex-Confederate soldiers and the payroll they rip off is sorely needed for the war effort, so there is a
sense they are getting what they have
coming to them from the beginning. The
time period, 1863, is appropriate since
the country was getting over its own
wounds at the time. The period costumes and language are also authentic
and add to the events that unfold rather
than distract from them.
The actors are also in top form and
led by Henry Thomas ("E.T.") as the
group's leader. Thomas doesn 't even
flinch when he accidentally guns down a
child who witnesses the robbery. That
no effort is made to glamorize his character is a brave choice and his performance is solid.
Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") is
well cast as Thomas' younger brother
who catches a bullet in the heist and
elicits a tad more sympathy.
The best roles though go to Mark
Boone Jr. and Michael Shannon as two
thugs who fully intend to murder the rest
of the group in their sleep and take off
with the loot.
The real star here is the director. Alex
Turner does a fine job of staging all of
the action and mixing eerie elements,
flashbacks and an 1863 setting to pull
off a ghost story that packs a mean
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�A8 • SUNDAY, AUGUST
14, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Government vouchers will cover cost of treatment for drug addicts
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON - Government
vouchers would pay for treatment for low-income addicts in
drug-ravaged Eastern Kentucky
under an initiative unveiled in
London on Friday.
The vouchers, paid for with
$1.6 million in federal funds
from the anti-drug organization
U~ITE, will be good in either
public or private treatment centers and can be used only by
people who couldn't otherwise
afford treatment, U.S. Rep.
Harold Rogers said. The 5th
District Republican has successfully pushed for congressional
appropriations to help in the
fight against drugs in the mountain region.
"It's no secret about the epidemic we face," Rogers said.
"It's certainly the most devastat-
ing scourge that I've seen in my
25 years in Congress."
Rogers created the federally
funded UNITE organization
with its own police force that, he
said, has arrested about 1,500
street-level drug dealers during
thepast two years and confiscated $4.5 million worth of drugs.
To conquer the problem, however, treatment is vital, said Dale
Morton, spokesman for UNITE.
"You can arrest people to
Knott judge-exec resigns
The Associated Press
HINDMAN - An Eastern
Kentucky judge-executive who
held onto the top county post
while serving a 16-month prison
sentence for federal vote fraud
has resigned.
Knott
_ Judge-Executive
Donnie Newsome was convicted nearly two years ago in the
federal case that also netted a
well-known Pikeville businessman.
In a letter to Gov. Ernie
Fletcher, Newsome said he
intends to leave office Sept. 30.
Meanwhile, Newsome said
he and his deputy, Mac Combs,
will "continue to the work of
Knott County and to personally
work with any successor
appointed."
Newsome, 54, kept his
$65,000-a-year job despite serving prison time after his 2003
conviction for vote-buying in a
1998 Knott County Democratic
ptimary.
State law allowed Newsome
to hold on to the position until
his appeals were exhausted. He
res\lmed his official duties after
being released from prison in
January.
Newsome won his first
appeal in a state appeals court.
That ruling said a special judge
erred when he declared
Newsome's office vacant in an
election-contest lawsuit. But
that decision was later trumped
by a federal appeals court decision that upheld his original
conviction.
Newsome's attorney, Steven
Reed of Louisville, said
Newsome could have asked the
entire 6th Circuit Court of
Appeals to review the threejudge panel's decision, or he
could nave taken his case to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
"Out of respect for our legal
system and the people of Knott
County, Donnie's decided to
move on," Reed said Thursday.
"He loves his community, and
he wants to let his community
move on."
It was not clear who might
be
selected to replace
Newsome.
Reed said he does not know
his client's plans now. "As far
as he's concerned, this case is
over with."
Newsome, a former twoterm legislator and coal operator, could not be reached for
comment Thursday.
He was originally sentenced
to two years and two months in
prison cin two counts of buying
votes and one count of conspiracy to buy votes, but his time
was reduced for testifying
against two other men charged
with election fraud. One of
those men, wealthy Pikeville
businessman Ross Harris, was
described by prosecutors as the
kingpin in a vote-buying conspiracy.
Newsome testified that
Harris and one of his associates,
Loren Glenn Turner, made illegal cash contributions to his
campaign in 2002. Both men
were convicted.
keep them from using drugs for
a period of time," Morton said.
"You can educate them and try
to keep them from getting
hooked on drugs. But to be able
to help people who need treatment is a key component of
what UNITE is all about."
The vouchers are especially
important in the most impoverished communities of Eastern
Kentucky where many people
can't afford treatment and may
not survive the waiting list to
get into public treatment centers, said Joe Neikirk, executive
director of Chad's Hope Center,
a faith-based treatment center
that is under construction in
Manchester.
"It's going to give many
folks an opportunity for rehabilitation that they didn't have
before," Neikirk said of the
voucher program.
Although the vouchers are
only for people from Rogers'
congressional district, they can
be used at any treatment center
that has an opening across the
state, even out of state, to give
addicts quicker access to treatment when they ask for help.
"I think it's tremendously
important for indigent clients,"
said Mike Sewell, regional
director of substance abuse services for Cumberland River
Comprehensive Care in Corbin.
"It gives an awful lot of hope to
people who previously had
none."
UNITE was created two
years ago to help combat the
abuse of OxyContin, a narcotic
considered important therapy
for many patients suffering from
chronic, moderate to severe pain
from illnesses such as cancer.
The tablet, when swallowed
whole, provides 12 hours of pain
relief. But the drug can produce a
quick and potentially lethal high
if it is chewed, snorted or injecteel. It has been linked to more
than l 00 deaths and bears the
government's strongest warning
label, which says the drug may
be as addictive as morphine.
in
Eastern
Pharmacies
Kentucky have had to install
security systems and vaults to
protect their inventories of
OxyContin and other prescription painkillers. The number of
burglaries and robberies has
increased with addicts trymg to
get money and drugs to feed
their habits. Sewell said the
effects also show up in the
increased frequency of divorce,
domestic
violence,
drugimpaired driving, suicides and
homicides.
UNITE detectives along with
other police agencies in the
region have staged drug
roundups that have netted from
20 to 200 street-level drug dealers in a single day.
The problem has even made
its way into coal mines, where
state inspectors have been
trained to recognize drugimpaired
coal
miners.
Marijuana was found in a Floyd
County coal mine where one
man was killed and another
severely injured in a blasting
accident two years ago. An
employee told investigators that
he saw two miners snorting
crushed painkillers in the mine.
~
.
Johnson receives
national cet liRcation
.
Karen S. Johnson, transportation director of Floyd
County Schools, has completed the NAPT Professional Certification Program. The program was
established in 1989 to recognize the achievements
and expertise of individuals in various administrative positions within the
pupil transportation field.
As a candidate for national
certification, Johnson participated In an objective
peer review of the her education, career experience
and achievements in the
field of pupil transportation operations as well as a rigorous job-specific written
examination that tested her knowledge of national standards for safe and efficient pupil transportation.
Certification as a Director of Pupil Transportation (COPT) Is
available to individuals who are qualified as the top administrator of a pupil transportation system. Candidates must
demonstrate that they are capable of handling a position
that involves establishing programs and policies, setting
standards, developing materials, and providing leadership
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Ky. man charged with stealing
mining equipment in W.Va.
The Associated Press
DINGESS, W.Va. - A former employee has been accused
of stealing more than $40,000
worth of mining equipment from
a Mingo County coal company.
Larry Steven Fluty of
Pilgrim, Ky., was charged earlier
this week by State Police
Trooper J.A. Pursley with two
counts of grand larceny.
Fluty is accused of stealing a
pair of remotes, a generator, a
transmitter, a receiver, celluloid
and other items from Alpha &
Omega Coal Company of
Dingess, according" to the State
Police report.
The alleged thefts occurred
on July 30 and July 31, according to the report.
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rights of women- in that time.
The administration wants an
elected Iraqi government in
place by the end of the year so
that it can begin pulling our
troops out in time for the
American elections when we
can reelect Lhe clowns who got
us into this mess in the first
place.
It will be the first step in
abandoning the Iraqis to the
chaos that awaits them, and all
the blah-blah about establishing
a democracy that can serve as a
beacon for the Middle East can
be consigned to the file labeled
"Never Mind," where most
..
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"Des Moines Register." He has
covered the foolishness in our
nation's capital for 29 years,
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Major League Baseball •B4
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Sunday Classifieds • 86
picked to repeat
Brown back for sophomore season
TIMES STAFF REPORT
HARRISONBURG, Va. Defending national champion
James Madison is ranked No. 1
in The Sports Network's preseason Division I-AA football poll
announced Monday.
The preseason poll was
released just prior to the JMU
For Morehead
State coach,
'.Its' gotng
. to
be OK' after
son's death
team receiving a visit from U.S.
Senator George Allen during its
first practice in preparation for
the 2005 season.
Paintsville High School
graduate Ryan Brown is entering his sophomore season with
the Dukes. Brown sat out and
redshirted last season season
after recording 20 total tackles
and one quarterback sack in
2003 as a freshman. He is
expected in 2005 to play a large
role along JMU's defensive line.
The JMU coaching staff
includes former Lawrence
County High School coach Phil
Ratliff. A graduate of Marshall
University, Ratliff coaches the
JMU tight ends.
The Dukes, who compiled a
13-2 record a year ago while
claiming their first NCAA title,
received 49 of the 101 firstplace votes and 2,333 voting
points from The Sports
Network's panel of media and
sports information directors.
Furn1an, th.:: team JMU beat in
the second round of last sea-
son's playoffs, was second in
the voting with 21 ft.rst-place
votes and 2,251 overall points.
Also receiving first-place
votes were No. 3 Montana (14),
No. 4 Eastern Washington (11),
No. 5 Southern Illinois (3), No.
9 William & Mary (1), No. 15
(See REPEAT, page two)
BLUEGRASS GAMES
Gibbs releases
Leffler from
No. 11 Cup car
driving duties
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by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOREHEA- Another football season is about to start, and
Morehead State coach Matt
Ballard is making a point to
savor every moment of the
experience - if only for the distraction, and the comfort, it
might provide.
"It's got to help. it's got to,"
Ballard said, as players trickled
into the Eagles' football office,
preparing for the start of preseason practice. "It's like a breath
of fresh air. Can we do this 24
hours a day? The down time, the
quiet time, is kind of tough. It's
• hard to go to sleep at night."
Ballard is entering his 12th
season as the head coach at
Morehead State, a NCAA
Division I-AA member that
plays in the non-scholarship
Pioneer Football League. From
a football perspective, the
Eagles have much to celebrate_
they've won three straight division titles and their next win will
be the lOOth of Ballard's coaching career.
But as the Eagles prepare for
their season opener Sept. 3 at St.
~ Francis (Pa.), Ballard is struggling with another, monumentally more challenging opponent.
Grief.
Not just any kind of grief, but
the kind known only by a parent
who has lost a child. Ballard's
only child, 21-year-old Matthew
Ballard, died instantly July 12
when his motorcycle and a pickup truck collided just outside the
small northeast Kentucky community of Olive Hill.
"We're going to miss the
daylights out of him," Ballard
said. "It hurts like crazy. I can't
even explain the hurt and the
heartache. But the Good Lord
didn't promise us it was going to
4
(See COACH, page two)-
photos courtesy of Bluegrass State Games
The recently completed Bluegrass Summer
Games included athletes from across the state.
Below: A
HAP (Harold-Allen-Prater) coach
instructed a player during a game against the
Harlan County Bear Cubs (pictured above).
Left: Floyd County track and field athlete Brad
Bond capturd three medals.
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. - Joe Gibbs
Racing has released driver Jason Leffler from
his driving duties with the No. 11 car in the
Nex.tel Cup Series.
1\vo-time Cup Series champion Terry
Labonte will compete in several of the
upcoming Cup races in the No. 11, beginning
today at Watkins Glen International.
JGR also will turn to its Busch Series drivers
- J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin - to split driving
duties in the No. 11 in the remaining Cup races
where Labonte is not scheduled to drive.
''This was a difficult decision," said J.D.
Gibbs, president of JGR. "Everyone at Joe
Gibbs Racing had high hopes for Jason and
the No. 11 team, but our performance wasn't
meeting the expectations all of us set forth at
the beginning of the year.
"It hasn't been for lack of effort, as Jason
is a talented race car driver who worked
(See GIBBS, page two)
3,621 medals awarded
during Bluegrass State Games
Bond leads Floyd County with three medals won
competition. The Rage softball team, based out of Floyd
County, took gold in the Class E tournament. Prestonsburg
LEXINGTON - The 2005 Bluegrass Summer Games High School track and field athlete Brad Bond won. two
bronze medals and one silver. Bond took a silver
awarded 3,621 medals in the recently completed
medal in the men's 300-meter hurdles and
events. Final results, released Wednesday,
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bronze in both the long jump and 110show participants from 97 Kentucky
....
meter hurdle events.
counties took home gold, silver and
Pike County athletes, collectively,
bronze medals. More than 13,000
won 13 medals. Johnson County
Kentuckians participated in this
athletes won six medals.
year's Games.
Kellee Smith of Oldham
Fayette County led the
County was the top medal winner
number of medals earned,
with eight in shooting. Six parwith its participants having
ticipants tied for second-place
won 716 medals - 279 gold,
with seven medals each. They
254 silver and 183 bronze.
were Edward Lucey of Jefferson
Jefferson County placed secCounty and Whit Whitaker of
ond with 443 medals;
Fayette County, both in track. and
Woodford County placed third
field. Gene Siler of Whttley
with 136; Franklin County
County and Mary Smoot of Fayette
came in fourth with 127 and
County, both in swimming; Chuck
Madison County fifth with 103.
Wright of Jefferson County in shootin~,
Boone County came in sixth with
and Kelli Lynch of Fayette County m
98· Scott County placed seventh with
equestrian.
89; Campbell County ranked eig~th ~ith
Final results, along with a photo gallery of the
84, followed by Hardin County m m~th-place
events, are available online at www.bgsg.org.
.
with 83. Bourbon and Jessamine counties tted for 10thThe Bluegrass State Games are designed t~ .g•ve
place with 82 medals each.
.
Kentucky's amateur athletes an opportunity to partlctpatc
Floyd County athletes captured a total of five medals.
in
statewide competitions.
Tim Branham won a bronze in the racquetball 40-and-over
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Johnson native
Osborne headed
into WKU Athletic
Hall of Fame
TIMES STAFF REPORT
BOWLING GREEN - Five
former Western Kentucky
University athletes will be
inducted as the 15th class into
the WKU Athletic Hall of Fame
in
ceremonies
set
for
Homecoming Weekend this fall.
The 2005 class includes Jeff
Cesarone (football), Wayne
Chapman (basketball), Johnson
County native Charlie Osborne
(basketball), Jim Richards (basketball, baseball, golf) and
Porter Williams (football).
The induction of the 2005 class
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(See OSBORNE, page two)
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Stewart-led
NASCAR trio
to race at Eldora
TIMES STAFF REPORT
ROSSBURG, Ohio- Sunday's NASCAR
duel at Indianapolis, between victor Tony
Stewart and runner-up Kasey Kahne,
undoubtedly has increased the drama level
for Eldora Speedway's August 17 Old Spice
Spnnt Sizzler.
The duo, along with Dave Blaney, will be
returning to their dirt-track Sprint Car roots to
compete in a mid-week (Wednesday) National
Racing Alliance (NRA) Sprint Invader program and Kalme has to be anxious.
For Kahne, Stewart and Blaney - the
adrenaline flows and the drive for victory is
there, regardless of the machine being driven.
Each of them has an extensive, as well as,
illustrious Sprint Car background, but Kalme is
the most recent graduate from those ranks and
is banking on that to bolster his chances
towards an Eldora victory - especially after
Sunday's bittersweet loss to Stewart on Sunday.
Stewart, who purchased the Eldora speed
plant from Earl Baltes late last year, will be
making his second driving appearance on the
steeply banked one-half mile clay oval this
year. In June he participated in the Nextel sponsored Prelude to the Dream, along with several
other NASCAR stars, in a charity driven event.
However, the tenacious Stewart outwardly
stated "that race was for fun, this one is serious."
And it will be serious for Kahne and
Blaney, as well.
·
But there is another factor thrown into the
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Massachusetts (1), and No. 19
Harvard (1).
JMU beat
Montana in last season's national championship game in
Chattanooga, Tenn., and won at
William & Mary in the playoffs'
semifmals.
JMU's No. 1 position in the
poll after winning last season's
national crown is the only other
time the Dukes have appeared at
the top of The Sports Network
poll. JMU is ranked in the top 25
in the preseason for the first time
since 2000, and the Dukes are listed in Division I-AA top five during the preseason for the first time.
Allen, a former player at
Virginia and the son of professional football hall of fame
member
and
Washington
Redskin, Chicago Bear and Los
Angeles Ram coach George
Allen, addressed the team during Monday's afternoon's practice. Allen later toured JMU's
recently completed Robert and
Frances
Plecker
Athletic
Performance Center, a facility
that houses various facets of the
JMU's operation.
Allen saw JMU's national
semifinal win over William &
Mary last season in person, and
he commended the Dukes on
their efforts a year ago.
JMU a year ago compiled a
9-2 regular-season record and
became the ftrst Division I-AA
team to win three straight road
playoff games to reach the
NCAA title game. The Dukes
won at Lehigh (14-13), at
Furman (14-13) and at William
& Mary (48-34) before defeating Montana (31-21) for the
national championship.
JMU is among six Atlantic
10 Conference teams listed in
the preseason top 25. Joining
the Dukes in the poll are No. 7
New Hampshire, No.9 William
& Mary, No. 10 Delaware, No.
15 Massachusetts, and No. 24
Hofstra. JMU, Delaware, and
William & Mary tied for last
season's Atlantic 10 title, and all
three, along with league member New Hampshire, won firstround NCAA playoff games a
year ago. The Dukes this season will play at Delaware,
Hofstra, Massachusetts, and
William & Mary. They will not
play New Hampshire.
Atlantic
10
members
Villanova, Northeastern, and
Maine also received top-25 votes
in the preseason poll. JMU will
host Villanova and Maine.
JMU non-conference opponent Coastal Carolina also
received votes. The Dukes play
Sept. 10 at Coastal Carolina, a
team that was 10-1 last season.
JMU began preseason drills
Monday after its players reported to campus Sunday, Aug. 7.
Coach
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be easy. He did promise that,
'I'm going to be with you."'
So Matt Ballard, using his
Christian faith as an anchor,
delivered 45-minute eulogies at
two services for his son, one in
Kentucky, the other in the
coach's native state of North
Carolina. During visitation
before the Kentucky service,
Ballard and his wife, Brenda,
greeted people - some who had
stood in line for more than four
hours - from 3:30 in the afternoon until almost midnight.
"It was tremendous, the outpouring," said Ron Gruber, the
athletic director at Rowan
County High School, where
Brenda teaches English and
Matthew was a graduate. "They
took the time to talk to everyone
who came through. It was amazing how strong they were to be
able to carry on the conversation. It's amazing he had his
wits about him.
"It is a real credit·to carry on,
because that is what Matthew
would have wanted."
Morehead, a mountain town
of about 7,500 people 65 miles
east of Lexington, rallied around
the family, as did other coaches
and Ballard's former players.
One
coach
drove
from
Louisiana to the visitation. T.C.
McLish, who played for Ballard
at Union College, a NAIA
school in southeast Kentucky, is
now a soldier serving in
Afghanistan, but called Ballard
on a satellite phone.
On Tuesday - almost a
month after the accident - a gift
basket full of fruit and candy
arrived at the Morehead State
football office, leaving Ballard
misty-eyed as he read the
attached card.
"They knew. it was the day
players were reporting and that
we could use something like
this," he said.
When the Ballards created
memorial scholarship funds at
the university and the high
school to honor their son's
memory, enough money was
initially contributed so that four
Morehead State students could
receive $500 scholarships this
year. Ballard said he hopes to be
able to endow the scholarships,
which at the university would
require $20,000 . each in donations, to make them permanent.
"It's pretty inspiring to see
how they have dealt with it,"
Morehead State athletic director
Brian Hutchinson said. "You
feel good when you walk out of
his office."
Matthew grew up ..around
Morehead State and its football
program, and pictures from his
childhood adorn his father's
office. Matthew, a senior sports
management major, spent the
last three years attending the
university and working with the
football team as a player and
coach - time his father calls "the
three greatest years of my
coaching career."
Matthew had a catchphrase,
one his father said helps him
through the tough times.
"He was constantly in my
ear, saying, 'Dad, it's going to
be OK.' I wish I had a dollar for
every time that rascal said that,"
Ballard said. "If we had a bad
practice, I'd hear, 'Dad, it's
going to be OK.' Or, if it was a
tough ball game, those were just
always his words: 'Dad, it's
going to be OK. Dad, it's going
to be OK."'
That attitude was, and is, contagious, said Morehead State senior
cornerback Kwesi Williams.
"He's a really special coach,"
Williams said. "Even after
everything happened, he's trying the best he can. I think the
whole team, they hurt about his
son, and that will give us extra
motivation to try harder. I pretty
much dedicate the season to his
son. His son is pretty much with
us all the time, helping us out,
doing the best he can do."
Ballard said when he walked
onto .the fOQtball field at Jayne
Stadium, he would do so with a
smile on his face, in honor of his son.
"He wants me to coach as
hard as.I humanly, possibly can
and have the time of my life," ·
Ballard said. "Matthew wants
this to be the best year I've ever
had in my life coaching."
brings to 10 l the number offonner
Western Kentucky athletes and
coaches who have earned berths in
the school's Athletic Hall of Fame
since its founding in 1991.
The 2005 class will be inducted in ceremonies during the
annual W-Club Homecoming
Brunch, set for 11 a.m. (CDT),
Saturday, Oct 15, at the Hall of
Champions in E.A. Diddle Arena
on the WKU campus in Bowling
Green. The event is free to WClub members and their guests.
The inductees will also be
honored in ceremonies during
the annual Homecoming football game, set to kickoff at 4
p.m., later that day. Head coach
David Elson will pit his
Hilltoppers against Gateway
Football Conference rival
Missouri
State (formerly
Southwest Missouri) in that
at
L.T.
Smith
contest
Stadium/Jimmy Felix Field.
Osborne, a basketball legend who played in college from
I 95961, came to Western
Kentucky in 1958 from Flat
Gap, and developed into a twotime all-OVC athlete for head
coach
E.A.
Diddle's
Hilltoppers. Osborne starred at
Flat Gap High School. Now, 44
years after he left the Hill,
Osborne still holds school
records for free throws made
(511 ), free throws attempted
(638) and free throw percentage (80.1) in a three-year
career. He completed his career
with 1,359 points, the fourth
highest total ever for a Topper
at the time and still good
enough to rank him 11th on the
school's all-time leaders list.
He also remains among
Western's all-time leaders in
career scoring average (eighth
at 17 .0) and career rebounding
(11th with 806). As a junior, he
helped lead the Toppers to an
NCAA Tournament berth, pacing the club in scoring (17 .8
ppg), field goal percentage
(51.2-percent) and free throw~
percentage (80.1-percent). He
also led Western at the stripe
both his sophomore (76.4-percent) and senior (83.4-percent)
years. Following his career at
WKU, Osborne was drafted by
the Syracuse Nationals of the
NBA and played one season of
pro ball. He was killed in an
automobile accident in 1979 at
the age of 40. His widow,
Norma and three children (son
Gavin and daughters Carter and
Mitchell) reside in the
Louisville area.
Carmody named to Groza
Award Preseason.Watch List
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
University of Louisville
sophomore placekicker Art
Carmody has been named to
the 2005 Lou Groza Collegiate
Place-Kicker Award Preseason
Watch List.
As a redshirt freshman last
season, Carmody ranked second in the nation amongst kickers for scoring. He set an
NCAA regular season record
for consecutive extra points
made by drilling 77 in a row,
breaking the old mark of 71.
Carmody was just as effective
on field goals, drilling 12-of-15, Andrew Wellock of Eastern
but had two blocked. He buried a Michigan University.
career-long kick of 42 yards
Also making the list are the
against East Carolina last season. place-kickers from some of the
The Preseason Watch List is top rated teams this season. They
comprised of the top 30 prelim- include Jesse Ainsworth, Arizona
inary candidates for the 14th State University; John Vaughn,
annual Lou Groza Collegiate Auburn
University;
Kyle
Place-Kicker Award, presented .Schilcher, University of Iowa;
by the Fecffix Orange Bowl. Arthur Carmody, University of
The award is presented during a Louisville; Stephen Gostkowski,
ceremony
on
Tuesday, University of Memphis; Garrett
December 6, 2005, at the Palm Rivas, University of Michigan;
Josh Cummings, University of
Beach Gardens Marriott.
Among kickers named to the Pittsburgh; Ben Jones, Purdue
Lou Groza Award Preseason University ; James Wilhoit,
Watch List is a Lou Groza University of Tennessee; and
Award finalist from last year, Brandon Pace, Virginia Tech.
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MU Football Women's
Clinic set for Aug. 20
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. The Marshall University footbalLcoaching staff will conduct
its annual women's clinic on
Saturday, Aug. 20 at 4 p.m. in
the Joan C. Edwards Stadium
Big Green Room.
The women's clinic, now in
its 17th year, will feature
instruction from the entire
Marshall football coaching
staff on the basic rules and fundamentals of football. Women
are encouraged to take part and
have fun in learning about the
game. Beverages will be served
and several door prizes will be
given away. Cost is only $10
per person with all proceeds
going to benefit the Marshall
Quarterback Club.
P.
For more information or to
register contact Mark Gale via
phone at 304/696-2408 or via
email at gale@marshall.edu
Gibbs
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incredibly hard and was terrific
with our sponsor.
"With an experienced veteran
in Terry Labonte. the No. 11 will
benefit from his 25 years ofNextel
Cup racing and, ideally, climb
higher in points," Gibbs said.
"In looking toward next year,
J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin
will get some valuable seat time
at the Nextel Cup level that will
allow us to build the No. 11 into
a race-winning contender for
2006 and beyond."
Labonte's addition to JGR is
a natural. Terry's younger brother Bobby is a 10-year veteran of
JGR, having piloted the No. 18
Chevrolet since 1995.
The Labonte brothers are the
only brothers in NASCAR history to win Cup championships.
Terry won the title in 1984 and
1996, while Bobby won in
2000.
"We want to thank Hendrick
Motorsports for allowing Terry
to assist us with the No. 11
team," said Gibbs, whose team
now features three Cup champions - Bobby, Terry and Tony
Stewart (2002).
"In planning the future of the
No.11 team, we looked around
the Cup and Busch series
garages and decided that the two
best talents were already driving
for us. J.J. and Denny are exceptional race car drivers, and we
felt it was important to give
each of them a shot at Nextel
Cup."
Eldora
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mix. It will be a points race for
the NRA regulars, and for them,
it will be serious business as
they continue their quest
towards a championship.
Kahne's and Blaney's Eldora
credentials include strong runs in
'winged' Sprint Cars, while
Stewart's resume there was created through 'non-winged' Sprints.
Another plus for Kahne, as the
NRA Sprints are 'winged', i.e.
aerodynamic air foils mounted on
top of the roll cage to create down
force through the comers.
Undeniably, the multiple storylines will be chased throughout the night, Wednesday night,
August 17 when pride and the
desire to excel are heavily factored in.
The double header program
that night will also highlight the
Eldora Stock Cars.
Tickets for the event are
available online at www.eldoraspeedway.com or by calling
the track ticket office at
937/338-3815.
The Eldora track is a favorite
of many area Late Model drivers, including Brandon Kinzer
and Chuckie May.
MSU volleyball picked sixth in preseason OVC poll
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
MOREHEAD
The
Morehead State volleyball team
has been selected to finish sixth
in the Ohio Valley Conference
in 2005, while junior middle hitter Diana Zipp (Jeffersonville,
Ind.) was tabbed as a preseason
second-team
all-conference
pick, as announced by the OVC
office this week.
The Eagles, who return seven
letterwinners and four starters,
garnered 57 total points in the
vote by the league's head coaches. Defending co-regular season
and tournament champion
Eastern Kentucky received
seven frrst place votes and 97
~
total points to be selected as
repeat champions in 2005.
Jacksonville State (91 points)
was selected second, while
Eastern Illinois (79) points), coregular season champs in 2004,
Southeast Missouri (64 points)
and Austin Peay (60 points)
rounded out the top five.
Selected to finish behind
Morehead State was Tennessee
Tech (51 points). TennesseeMartin (40 points), Samford (26
points), Murray State (25
points), and Tennessee State
(14points).
Zipp returns as the Eagles'
top offensive threat for 2005,
ranking second on the team with
305 kills in 2004. She led the
'!
team with a .239 hitting percentage and ranked second on the
Eagle squad with 69 blocks. She
also posted 199 digs and tallied
374 total points.
Brittany Nobilio and Kelly
Jennings (Eastern Kentucky),
Anne Morrow (Tennessee
Tech), Laura Wussow (Austin
Peay) and Kathryn Sprague
(Tennessee-Martin) joined Zipp
as second team selections.
Maren Crabtree and Megan
Kennedy (Eastern illinois) Shari
Weyer and Abbey Breit
(Jacksonville State), Liz Guard
(Eastern Kentucky) and Jessica
Koeper
(Southeast Missouri) were
preseason ftrst team choices.
Four SEC women named Preseason
Wooden Award candidates
LOS ANGELES -After tallying the ballots of the National
Advisory Board, the John R.
Wooden Award has announced
the top 30 preseason candidates
for the 2005-06 Women's
Wooden Award presented by
Applied Materials The list is
composed of 30 student athletes who, based on last year's
individual performance and
team records, are the early
frontrunners for college basketball's most coveted trophy. The
top 30 candidates are comprised of returning players,
although transfers, freshmen
and other players who excel
throughout the· season will be
evaluated and considered for
both the Midseason top 20 list
and the National Ballot.
"The Committee had an
incredibly difficult task in narrowing down the nation's top
30 women's players," said
Mike Solum, director of the
Wooden Award. "This list represents the elite of college basketball, and our entire team at
the Wooden Award is excited to
see the best players in the
nation prove their case as basketball's player of the year."
Three of this season's preseason candidates were honored
last year as members of the
2005 Women's Wooden Award
All-American Team, including
Wooden
Award
Winner
Seimone Augustus (LSU),
Monique Currie (Duke), and
Jessica Davenport (Ohio State).
In addition, six other preseason
nominees were in the running
for last year's Wooden Award
and named to the official voting
ballot, including Lindsay
Bowen (Michigan State),
Tiffany
Jackson
(Texas),
Cappie Pondexter (Rutgers),
Khara Smith (DePaul), Candice
Wiggins (Stanford), and Sophia
Young (Baylor). Augustus,
Pondexter and Smith all carry
the distinction of being twotime Wooden Award national
ballot finalists.
Nine NCAA conferences are
represented, including the ACC
(seven players), Big East (six
players), Pac 10 (four players),
SEC (four players), Big Ten
(three players), Big 12 (three
players), Mountain West (one
player), Western Athletic (one
player), and Atlantic 10 (one
player). Several schools had
two players nominated, mcluding UConn (Ann Strother and
Barbara
Turner),
LSU
(Augustus and Sylvia Fowles),
UCLA (Nikki Blue and Noelle
Quinn), Duke (Currie and
Mistie Williams), Maryland
(Shay Doron and Crystal
Langhorne),
and
North
Carolina (Erlana Larkins and
Ivory Latta).
Three of last year's Final
Four teams boast at least one
representative on the preseason
team including LSU (Augustus
and Fowles), Michigan State
(Bowen), and Sophia Young of
the 2005 National Champion
Baylor Lady Bears.
In mid-January, the Wooden
Award Committee will release
the Midseason Top 20 List, followed in March by the official
voting ballot, consisting of
approximately 15 top players
who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation
and maintaining a cumulative
2.0 GPA. The 2006 Award ceremony, which will include the
presentation of the Men's and
Women's. Wooden Award, the
Wooden Award All-American
Teams and the Legends of
Coaching Award, will be held
at The Los Angeles Athletic'
Club on April 8, 2006, and will
be broadcast live on a national
CBS telecast. The top five male
and female finalists will be
invited to Los Angeles for the
Awards ceremony and will
receive a contribution from the
John R. Wooden Award
Scholarship Fund in their name
to their university's general
scholarship fund.
The
Wooden
Award
Scholarship Fund was established in 2002 by Applied
Materials and corporate part-~
ners through the California
Community Foundation (CCF)
to honor Coach Wooden's dedication as an educator and mentor. The Scholarship Fund distributed $10,000 last year to
each university represented by
a men's and women's Wooden
Award All-American Team
finalist (for a total of
$100,000). Additional donations to Applied Materials'
John Wooden Scholarship Fund
can be made by contacting the
scholarship fund through the
CCF (www.calfund.org).
About the John R. Wooden
Award Created in 1976, the
John R. Wooden Award is the
most prestigious individual
honor in college basketball. It is
bestowed upon the nation's best
player at an institution of higher
education who has proven to his
or her university that he or she
is making progress toward
graduation and maintaining a
cumulative 2.0 GPA. Previous
winners include such notables
as Michael Jordan ('84), Larry
Bird ('79), Tim Duncan ('97)
and last year's rectptent,
Seirnone Augustus ('05).
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AMERI
LEAGUE: Kendall wins
one for .Ns on opportunstic dash to plate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jason
Kendall
turned
Francisco Rodriguez's moment
of frustration into one of the
most opportunistic dashes to the
plate in baseball history.
With two outs in the bottom of
the ninth, Kendall alertly scored
from third when Rodriguez upset by a non-strike call - nonchalantly reached out for a basic
throw back from the catcher, and
the ball glanced away and gave
the Oakland Athletics a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles on
Thursday.
"I've never seen that in my
life, but that stuff happens in
baseball," Kendall said. "You
Jearn early on that you' re supposed to always follow the ball.
I saw it rolling away, and I didn't think he' d get it back in time.
Fortunately for us, I was right."
Teammate Bobby Crosby
was stunned: "I pointed at the
ball, and by the time I looked at
Kendall, he had already taken
off. I was in shock. I was like,
'Are you kidding me?'"
Kendall, the A's catcher,
sprinted home and baat the
throw, sending his teammates
roaring from the dugout to celebrate their 20th win in 23
games. With the win, Oakland which trailed Los Angeles by 8
112 games on July 18- moved
into sole possession of first
place in the AL West.
ln other AL games it was:
Toronto 2, Detroit 1; New York
9, Texas 8; Baltimore 4, Tan1pa .
Bay 2 and Cleveland 4, Kansas
City 2.
Chavez hit a tying three-run
homer in the seventh for the A:s,
who rallied from a four-run
deficit. They took two of ·three
from their California rivals, but
not even the freewheeling A's
could have predicted such a
lucky finish - and the Angels
couldn't believe it either.
"A 5-year-old could have
caught it," said Rodriguez, who
was charged with an error. "I
should have caught the ball. It's
unfortunate that we lost the game
like that, but what can you do?"
Scot Shields (7-8) blew a
lead in Los Angeles' 4-3 loss
Wednesday night, and squandered it again in the ninth
Thursday, allowing two singles
before Rodriguez took over.
All-Star Justin Duchscherer
(6-2) pitched two hitless innings
to win for the second straight
day.
Af Baltimore, the Orioles
welcomed
back
Rafael
Palmeiro, then beat the Devil
Rays while he watched from the
dugout.
Bruce Chen (9-6) pitched
seven innings of three-hit ball,
NATIONAL LEAGUE: Cameron hurt
in scary face-to-face collision in outfield
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cliff Floyd kept his distance
after watching fellow Mets outfielders Mike Cameron and
Carlos Beltran go down in a
frightening face-to-face collision.
"I couldn't go over there,
man," Floyd said. "Once I saw
the blood. I'm not good with
blood .... It choked me up for a
minute. We were laughing and
giggling one minute, the next
minute, a man's down on the
ground, both of them."
Beltran and Cameron colhded diving for David Ross' sinking liner in the seventh inning
in New York's 2-1 loss in San
Diego on Thursday.
"I don't remember anything
of what happened," Beltran
said. "I don't remember how it
happened.' I know we got hit. I
feel like I got hit by a train."
Cameron, taken off the field
on a stretcher, broke his nose,
had multiple fractures of both
cheekbones ~nd a slight concussion, Mets spokesman Jay
Horwitz said. The right fielder
spent the night at Mercy
Hospital, and was placed on the
disabled list.
Beltran had a sore left shoulder and a cut near his left temple.
He was taken to Scripps Clinic,
where he remained overnight for
evaluation and tests.
"My shoulder feels sore, but
I'll be fine," Beltran said.
First
baseman Marion
Anderson was the ftrst player to
reach the fallen outfielders.
"I was like, 'Cam, can you
hear me?'" Anderson said. "He
mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn' t
there. You could tell he wasn't
right. ... I couldn't imagine
being a paramedic going to the
scene of a wreck. That's· what
that was, pretty much, a
wreck."
Neither
Cameron
nor
Beltran caught the ball, which
went for a triple. Shortstop
Ctuis Woodward sprimed out
to get the ball and throw it into
the infield.
When play resumed after the
collision, Eric Young grounded
out to second before Joe Randa
singled to center to bring in
Ross with the go-ahead run.
Giants 5, Braves 3 - At
"There's always things that Atlanta, Randy Winn hit a twohappen from time to time that out, two-run homer off Tim
put baseball into perspective Hudson (8-7) in the seventh
for everybody, and this is cer- inning and San Francisco
tainly one of those instances," avoided a sweep in Atlanta.
Mets starter Tom Glavine said.
Jason Schmidt (9-6) was the
"The game, as much as you winner, and Tyler Walker
want to win it, it's kind of sec- pitched the ninth for his 20th
ondary to how those guys are save. Atlanta's Marcus Giles
doing, especially Cam."
stretched his career-best hitting
The Padres were shaken, too. streak to 15 games, falling a
"It was as scary a moment homer short of the cycle.
that you can have on the field,"
Astros 6, Nationals 3 - At
San Diego manager Bruce Houston, Andy Pettitte (10-8)
Bochy said. ''Our thoughts are won for the sixth time in eight
starts, and Brad Ausmus had a
with them."
In other National League three-run double in the sixth for
games, it was: Chicago 11, St. the Astros.
Louis 4; San Francisco 5,
Ryan Drese (3-6) lost his
Atlanta
3;
Houston
6, fifth straight start for the
Washington 3; Los Angeles 5, Nationals, who have dropped...
Philadelphia 1; Pittsburgh ll, five of their last six to fali'three·'
'Cciforado '3'; .. and .. .Arizona '3; ".. gameS"':ieliiil.a 'Houston 'in'tlie
Florida 1.
NL wild-card race.
San
Diego's
Woody
Dodgers 5, 'Phlllies 1' - At
Williams (6-8) got his fust win Los Angeles, Odalis Perez
in four decisions. He went pitched eight solid innings, and
seven innings, allowing one run Jeff Kent provided the goand six hits and striking out a ahead runs with a two-run douseason-high eight.
ble for Los Angeles.
Glavine (8-10) also pitched
Perez (7-6) held the Phillies
seven innings, allowing two to one run on five hits and had
runs and nine hits. He had three a season-high eight strikeouts
hits, matching his career high.
to help the Dodgers avoid a
Trevor Hoffman pitched the sweep in the three-game series.
ninth for his 30th save and the
Cory Lidle (9-10) took the loss.
423rd of his career. leaving him
Pirates 11, Rockies 3' - At
one shy of tying John Franco Denver, Jose Castillo had a
for second on the career list. two-run triple and two singles,
Hoffman reached 30 saves for and Jason Bay and Ryan
the lOth time in his career, Doumit also had three hits for
Pittsburgh.
tying Lee Smith's record.
Cubs 11, Cardinals 4 - At
Castillo drove in three runs,
Chicago, Greg Maddux pitched giving him eight RBis in his
his ftrst complete game in more last six games. Brad Eldred
than a year, and Derrek Lee homered for the Pirates, and
homered twice to help the Cubs Todd Helton connected for
snap an eight-game losing streak. Colorado.
Josh Fogg (6-7) was the
Maddux (9-9) allowed 12
hits in going the distance for winner, and Jeff Francis (11-8)
the ftrst time since July 22, took the loss.
2004. He won his 314th game,
Diamondbacks 3, Marlins 1
tying Gaylord Perry for 16th - At Miami, Troy Glaus a~d
place on the career list.
Chad Tracy homered m
Lee hit his 34th and 35th Arizona's three-run eighth, and
homers to close within two of Brandon Webb (10-8) limited
Atlanta's Andruw Jones for the Florida to four hits and a walk
major league lead. Albert in eight innings.
.
Pujols hit his 32nd homer for
Jose Valverde pitched the
St. Louis.
ninth for his fourth save.
Mark Mulder (13-6) was the
Valerio de los Santos (1 -2)
loser.
was the loser.
Legends hammer
West Virginia
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON - Lexington
used the power game to defeat
West Virginia on Thursday
night. Drew Sutton belted two
of the Legends season high five
home runs in the 12-1 victory.
The win moves the Legends to
within four games of first place
thanks to Delmarva's stumble
in Asheville.
Frankie Caraballo went
deep for the 22nd time this season with a solo shot in the
eighth inning. The Legends
outfielder has nine homers in
his last 17 games. Lou
Santangelo and Ryan Reed
also cracked home runs.
Paul Estrada (4-7) earned
the win in relief of Felipe
Paulino. Estrada authored three
shutout innings allowtng just
one base hit. Paulino, in his
ftrst start of the season, gave
up a run in four innings.
Paulino struck out five batters.
Raymar Diaz pitched two perfect innings.
Mitch Einertson continued
his surge. Einertson rapped out
three hits in four plate appearances while driving in three.
Beau Torbert, Reed, Santangelo
and Caraballo joined Einertson
with three hit games.
The Legends improved to 2520 in the second half and to a
season- high 19 games over .500
at 67-48. The 67 wins equal the
wins by Lexington in 2004.
Louisville 2,•
Norfolk I
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORFOLK, Va.- Josh
Hancock pitched eight strong
innings in Louisville's 2-1
win over Norfolk Thursday in
the International League.
Hancock(l-l)struckout 10,
walked two and allowed four
hit<> and one run for the win.
Chris Denorfia's single put
the Bats on the board in the
first. Neal Musser (4·10) did·
n't allow another run until the
sixth inning, when Jose Leon
singled then scored off Eric
Crozier's sacrifice fly.
Musser struck out 10 and
gave up eight hits and two runs.
The Tides' only run came
off Brian Daubach's home run
to lead off the seventh inning.
Tom Shearn struck out three
in one. inning for his first save
and Javy Lopez homered and
scored twice to lead Baltimore
to a three-game sweep.
It was the Orioles' first series
sweep since June 13-15, when
they took three from Houston.
Baltimore is 5-2 under interim
manager Sam Perlozzo, who
took over for Lee Mazzilli three
days after Palmeiro received a
10-day suspension from Major
League Baseball for using
steroids.
Palmeiro received a warm
reception from his teammates
upon his return, but Orioles
manager Sam Perlozzo decided
to keep the slugger on the bench
because ·of the first baseman's
inactivity during his suspension.
"I don't think he's done a
whole lot so we'll take it a day
at a time. He won't be in there
today," Perlozzo said before the
game. "We'll see what he looks
like tomorrow. He might take a
couple of days, I think."
Blue Jays 2, Tigers 1 - At
Toronto, Scott Downs and two
relievers combined on a two-hitter
and the Blue Jays handed Detroit
its sixth loss in seven games.
Frank Catalanotto hit a tworun homer for the Blue Jays,
who outhit the Tigers 4-2.
Downs (1-2) allowed one run
on two hits. He struck out four
and didn't walk a batter in
seven-plus innings.
Starter Jeremy Bonderman
( 13-8) lost his third straight start
despite pitching a four-hitter for
his third complete game of the
season.
Yankees 9, Rangers 8 - At
New York, Derek Jeter hit a
tiebreaking home run off James
Baldwin (0-2) in the seventh
inning after the Yankees'
bullpen blew a strong spot start
by Scott Proctor.
Proctor was making his first
big league start in place o£
Randy Johnson, who was
skipped because of a bad back.
Tanyon Sturtze (4-1) gave up
a tying three-run home run to
Michael Young. Mariano Rivera
got four outs for his 31st consecutive save.
Indians 4, Royals 2 - At
Kansas City, Mo., Jeff Liefer hit
a grand slam m the seventh
inning to help Cleveland hand
Kansas City its franchise-record
13th consecutive loss.
The Royals broke their team
record of 12 straight losses set
@J
in 1997.
The Indians. who have won
14 of their past 18, went 6-0 on
a road trip for the first time
since May 1-6, 2001.
Royals starter D.J. Carrasco
(5-6) was the loser.
Kevin Millwood (6-9) held
the Royals to eight hits and two
runs in seven innings.
Palmeiro returns to Orioles, •
but doesn't say much
•
by DAVID GINSBURG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE - There was no
apology, no mention of the s-word.
Rafael Palmeiro returned
from a 10-day suspension
Thursday eager to play baseball
for the Baltimore Orioles, yet
unwilling to discuss the positive
test for steroids that tarnished
his name, perhaps forever.
"I want to say that I'm happy
to be back. I'm anxious to get
back on the field and playing the
game that I love very much," he
said. "It's been a tough time for
me and my family over the last
couple of weeks, and at this time
I've been instructed by my
attorneys not to eomment on the
situation.· The-·tirm> ..wiU. oome
soon, hopefully, that I can
explain 'm y situation."
Palmeiro did not play Thursday
night in the Orioles' 4-2 win over
the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
After watching from the
dugout, he said, "I haven't done
anything in 10 days so I' 11 need a
couple days to get back into it."
Palmeiro was suspended by
Major League Baseball on Aug. 1
for failing a drug test. Information
on the case has been forwarded to
Congress; for that reason, he will
not address his situation.
He did, however, position
himself in the Baltimore dugout
in front dozens of cameras,
reporters and microphones to
talk about his feelings and to
speculate how he might be
received by the home fans.
Palmeiro has said he has no
idea how steroids got into his
body. and promised to fully
reveal his side of the story after
the Congressional investigation
is complete.
"Congress is going over all
the stuff right now and I am just
going to wait on that situation to
be over with," he said. "I'm just
taking it one day at a time."
Major League Baseball has
told the House Government
Reform Committee that it will
turn over documents related to
Palmeiro's case Friday.
"We'll begin reviewing them
immediately. It's hard to say
how long that review will take,
because we don't know what's
coming at us. We don't know
how many documents, how
detailed they'll be, what ques-
tions might arise," said Dave
Marin, spokesman for committee·chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.
"I don't imagine this taking
weeks. The chairman should
have a conclusion sometime
early next week," he said.
At Davis' request, Palmeiro
authorized baseball to turn over
information about his failed
drug test.
Davis wants to investigate
whether the player might have
committed perjury when he testified under oath to Congress
that fie hadn't used steroids.
Palmeiro's
agent,
Arn
Tellem, said Wednesday that the
star first baseman would not
address his case for now.
"It would not be appropriate
to comment while the House
Committee on Government
Reform is doing its work,"
Tellem said.
Asked about that stance,
Marin said: "There's nothing
related to this committee that
would prevent Rafael from
speaking to anybody."
Palmeiro said he barely did
any baseball-related activities
during his suspension, is unsure
when he will play and uncertain
how he will be received by the
fans in Baltimore.
Palmeiro received a standing
ovation at Camden Yards on
July 25, his fust day back home
after becoming the fourth player
in major league history to get
3,000 hits and 500 home runs. ·
There was supposed to be ceremony on his behalf of the
Orioles' first baseman this
Sunday, but the team canceled it
at Palmeiro's request.
"I'm sure in the next couple
of days I will get back out there
on the field,'" he said. "As far as
the fans, you know these are
great fans. I've always enjoyed
playing here. These are the best
fans in the game ~d I hope they
can understand my situation right
now. I'll accept how they react."
While the Orioles took batting
practice, Palmeiro signed autographs for fans behind the
Baltimore dugout - something he
does not usually do. A young girl
carried a large orange sign that
read, "Welcome Back Raffy."
Not all the fans were so forgiving.
Four fans walked into the stadium together wearing orange
jerseys with the words, "Hall of
Shame" in black letters on front
with image of a syringe underneath. Palmeiro's No. 25 was on
the back.
"I don't feel good about the
fact he hasn't spoken out yet. I'd
like to hear from him," said
Garrett Liskey of Washington,
D.C. "I think because he's a star
and he did testify before
Congress, he does need to speak
to the fans and give his side of(•
the story- the sooner the better."
Liskey 's friend, Michael
Riordan, was adamant in his displeasure of Palmeiro's decision
to avoid the issue.
"It's going to be resounding
boos, and I'll be one of the loudest booers in the place," he said.
"It's almost like he wants to just
slip back on the field and kind of
act like nothing happened. It just
really smells bad.''
Orioles interim manager Sam
Perlozzo figured some fans
"(ould welcome back Palmeiro
without compromise, and that 'e
others would express anger over
his failed drug test.
"He's going to get mixed
reviews, there's no question,"
said Perlozzo. who repiaced
ftred manager Lee Mazzilli four
days after Palrneiro 's suspension began. ''There's going to be
a bunch of boos and we're hoping for a bllnch of cheers. And
that's going to happen everywhere. He's going to have to get
through it, and so are we."
When Palmeiro arrived at the
Baltimore clubhouse Thursday,
Perlozzo asked him if he wished•
to address the tean1.
"He said no, he' d rather go
around individually," Perlozzo
said. "Emotionally, he's been
through a Jot. He thought it
would be better if he did that. He
said he would tell everyone he
was sorry about the distraction."
Still, he was delighted to be
back in uniform again.
"I've been playing baseball
now for 20 years and this is all
that I have done. This is all I
know," Palmeiro said. "It was
tough being away. But it was ~
good to see my teammates.
They are happy that I am back.
And they're anxious for me to
get back on the field."
AP Sports Writer Howard
Fendrich in Washington contributed to this story.
Marty Brennaman set to host first Golf Classic
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
CINCINNATI, Ohio - The
Reds Community Fund today
announced plans for the ftrst
Cincinnati
Bell
"Marty
Brennaman Golf Classic ... and
this one belongs to the Reds
Community Fund" on Sunday
and Monday, Sept. 18-19.
The Hall of Fame Reds broadcaster will host a Sunday night
reception as well as a Monday
morning golf scramble at The Links
at Grand Vict01ia in Rising Sun,
Ind. Cincinnati Bell and Cincinnati
Bell Technology Solutions is also
hosting the two-day event
"As passionate as I am about
golf, it seemed natural to put
something like this together,"
said Brennaman. "I love playing
The Links at Grand Victoria, and
I'm happy that the event will benefit the Reds Community Fund."
Guests will enjoy a Sunday
reception and silent auction at
Grand Victoria, as well as an
overnight stay at the Hyatt
resort. The 18-hole scramble
follows on Monday morning
and features a "Million Dollar
Shot" fundraiser immediately
following the golf tournament.
Each foursome will be
teamed up with a celebrity, from
a list that includes local sports
personalities and former Reds
players. Foursomes are $2,000
and individual spots are available for $550.
Established in 2001, the Reds
Community Fund is dedicated to
improving the lives of youth
through baseball. It strives to ere-1tl
ate programming that connects
at-risk children with baseball,
while creating fundraising programs thal connect baseball with
the community. The signature
outreach program of the Reds
Community Fund is the "Reds
Rookie Success League." Now
in its third year, the program is a
noncompetitive, coed, characterbuilding summer baseball program for at-risk kids ages 8-11.
Find out more by visiting the
official Web site of the Reds
Community Fund, www.redscommunityfund.com, or by
contacting Executive Director
Charley Frank at 5131765-7231
�THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2005 • 85
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Eagles: Owens not going anywhere
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
No matter how badly Terrell
Owens wants a new contract
with the Philadelphia Eagles, it
won' t be happening.
~
Team president Joe Banner
reiterated Thursday that if
Owens plays this season, it will
be for the Eagles. The All-Pro
wide receiver was sent home
from training camp the previous
day by coach Andy Reid, who
doesn' t want Owens back until
they have a face-to-face meeting.
"Our hope, obviously. is that
he comes back next week and is
what he can be in every sense,
whether that's how he contributes to the team on the field
or off the field," Banner said.
• ··we· ve been clear that the
choices are to play under this
contract or not. I'm not sure he
still believes that, but we've
said from Day I those were the
choices on the table and he had
to make a choice between one of
the two things.
"That's not going to change."
One day after a heated dispute caused Reid to boot Owens
from training camp, Reid said
he wanted to chat with Owens
before welcoming him back
next Wednesday.
"I'll
address
him on
Wednesday and that's between
T.O. and myself," Reid said after
Thursday's morning practice.
Owens, meanwhile, emerged
periodically from his house in
Moorestown, N.J., signing autographs to the delight of several
dozen fans who passed the time
throwing footballs and yelling
Eagles chants in his suburban
cul de sac. Owens said he· had
not spoken to the team.
"Why would I talk to them?
They gave me a week off," he said.
He claimed Reid told him to
shut up durlng their spat on
Wednesday.
"And I told him my name
isn't Reid. My name is Owens.
I'm not one of his kids. Don't
tell me to shut up," Owens said.
The impression outside
Philadelphia also appears to be
that Owens won't be in another
uniform this year.
"I know T,O. off the field is a
good person. But I think the way
he's been handling things, people are starting to think that he's
a bad guy," Bills receiver Eric
Moulds said. "But at the same
time, he needs to come to the
conclusion that he's going to be
a Philadelphia Eagle. They're
not going to change their ways.
So he's just got to go out there
and play."
Panthers - Wide receiver
Keary Colbert returned to practice after sitting out a week with a
strained hamstring, catching a
long touchdown pass from Jake
Delhomme. Colbert could still be
held out of the preseason opener
Saturday
night
against
Washington because of his injury.
While Colbert was out, free
agent Rod Gardner stepped in to
work with the first-team offense
and made a strong push for a
starting spot.
But if he was worried about
slipping on the depth chart,
Colbert didn't let on.
"I feel pressure every year
and every day regardless of who
is here," Colbert said. "I want to
be a certain type of player and to
do that you have to work a certain way. That's not based on
other people. It's based on pushing yourself to get better and ultimately help the team get better."
Colbert was deactivated
before the first game last season
because the Panthers had too
many receivers. But when Steve
Smith broke his leg in the opener, .
Colbert started the next 15 games
and set Carolina rookie records
with 47 receptions, 754 yards
receiving and five touchdowns.
Browns - Running back
Reuben Droughns, sidelined the
past week with a sore hamstring,
is unlikely to play in Cleveland's
opener
exhibition
season
Saturday against the Giants.
Droughns is in a three-way battle with Lee Suggs and William
dreen for the starting job, and
Droughns knows his chances of
emerging as the winner lessen
with every day he misses.
"I'm disappointed," he said.
"I'm losing ground. I'm missing
a lot of time and a chance to be.
the starting guy."
The team acquired Droughns
in an offseason deal with
Denver. Droughns, who began
last season as the Broncos' fullback. rushed for 1,240 yards and
six touchdowns.
The Browns haven't had a
1,000-yard runner since 1985.
Rams - First-round draft
pick Alex Barron was a no-show
at Thursday's practice, one day
after agreeing to a five-year
contract. Coach Mike Martz
was not pleased.
"I have no idea where he is or
what he's doing or if he's coming in September or October or
November, who knows?" Martz
said. "I don't know what to
expect. If the kid really wanted
to be here, he'd be here. I'm
upset with the whole thing."
Barron ended a two-week
training
camp
holdout
Wednesday. He was taken 19th
overall in April by St. Louis.
Colts - Troy Walters and
Aaron Moorehead welcome the
attention they expect to get on
Saturday from Peyton Manning
and Jim Sorgi.
With slot receiver Brandon
Stokley missing most of the preseason because of a dislocated
left shoulder, Walters and
Moorehead - the replacements now have bigger roles. They're
catching more passes from the
league's two-time MVP after
practice, are working more frequently with the starters and
will have more chances to
demonstrate their skills during
preseason games.
"You've got to step up and
fill that void," Moorehead said.
"All it is a little more work, a little more reps."
Stokley dislocated his left
shoulder last Thursday in Tokyo
and is expected to miss three to
four weeks. Coach Tony Dungy
hopes Stokley can return for the
Colts' regular-season opener
Sept. 11 at Baltimore. Until
then, the Colts will rely on the
Walters-Moorehead tandem to
be their No. 3 option.
Walters sat out Thursday
afternoon's practice with a hip
flexor injury that could force
him to miss Saturday's game
against Buffalo.
Bills- Rookie wide receiver
Roscoe Parrish, the team's second-round draft pick, is expected to miss Buffalo's preseason
opener at Indianapolis because
of an injured right wrist.
Parrish was not at practice
Thursday, a day after he jammed
his wrist as he fell to the ground
while diving for a pass.
Coach Mike Mularkey said
he doesn't know the extent of
the injury. He said Parrish traveled to Buffalo - about a 90minute drive west of training
camp in suburban Rochester to review test results with the
team's medical director, Dr.
John.Marzo.
Parrish, taken 55th overall,
has been impressive since the
start of spring minicamps.
A)
Former Heisman winner White gives up pro football
and the Johnny Unitas Golden
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arm title and is Oklahoma's
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Former Reisman Trophy winner Jason White ended his professional career Thursday, citing his weak knees.
White, who had been competing for third quarterback
with the Tennessee Titans, said
he has the head and heart to
_., play in the NFL. He doesn't
have the knees.
"It's always been a dream of
mine, but certain things won't
allow me to chase that dream,"
White said. "It's kind of out of
my hands at this point."
White won the Reisman
Trophy in 2003 and led
Oklahoma to back-to-hack BCS
title gan1es. He also won the
Davey O'Brien award twice
career passing leader with
7,922 yards and in touchdown
passes with 81.
His career at Oklahoma lasted six years because of reconstructive surgery on each knee.
He was redshirted after the first
one in 1999, then earned a
medical exemption for an extra
year of eligibility after the second in 2002.
White joined the Titans in
May as an undrafted rookie
after ·an audition with the
Kansas City Chiefs did not lead
to a contract offer.
He said he was still feeling
the effects of the knee surgeries.
"I always had trouble, even in
the summer, dropping back
when practice wasn't every
day," he said. "Now that practice
was every day it got to the point
where one of my knees was
super sore, so I started favoring
it with the other one. Then the
other one started hurting. I took
a couple of days off this week
and it hasn't really changed."
He said he informed coach
Jeff Fisher of his decision
Wednesday night.
"I stuck it out as long as I
could," White said. "I just carne
to a point where it took me four
seconds to drop back on a fivestep drop. By that time, I'm
sacked."
Fisher said White's numbers
prove that he was able to move
offenses and win games.
"You don't necessarily, at
that position, have to be the most
athletic or the most gifted or
have the strongest arm. You
have to move an offense and you
have to have the intangibles, and
that's what he's had, and that's
what he's proven in a great college career," Fisher said.
White had split time equally
with Gino
Guidugli
of
Cincinnati and Shane Boyd of
Kentucky, but was held back in
recent days when the pain in his
knees increased.
He planned to return home
to Thttle, Okla., by Thursday
night and plans to pursue jobs
as a football coach next week.
"Sometimes I think that you
ha•e to swallow your pride a
little bit and know when you're
done," he said.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops
found out about White's retirement following the Sooners'
morning practice Thursday.
"Jason knows what's best for
him," Stoops said. "If' that's
what he has to do, he's had an
incredible career here."
After his second knee
surgery, White had to take days
off between practices. But
before last season, he was back
to working out every day without problems. He then made it
through the entire season without injury problems.
Stoops thinks White, who
has a degree in sociology, will
be a great coach.
"I'm sure possibly all the
extra work probably could be
bothersome to him healthwise,
and he just decided he wants to
move on," Stoops said. "Good
for him. He'll have a successful
career in whatever he does."
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~McNabb
tells Owens to
stop talking about him
by DAN GELSTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BETHLEHEM,
Pa.
,Donovan McNabb insisted he
wasn't stung by criticism from
Terrell Owens, laughing off the
• banished
wide receiver's
remarks before turning serious
and telling him to "keep my
name out of your mouth."
While Owens left his home
for the Bahamas, McNabb
joked with reporters, tapped the
mikes and rubbed his hands
together before taking his seat
inside a jammed media tent
shortly after Philadelphia's
Friday practice.
"Yeah! C'mon, bring it!"
McNabb said to laughter.
Owens
again
blasted
,~McNabb on two separate inter7 views with ESPN on Thursday,
calling the quarterback a "hypocrite" and saying the two of
them could not be successful
together. Owens also said he had
no desire to speak with McNabb.
"It's so funny to me how my
name keeps getting thrown out
there," McNabb said. "You've
just got to have fun with it and
that's exactly what we're doing."
Owens was told to go home
Wednesday after a heated dispute with coach Andy Reid and to stay there for a week. He's
since lifted weights and shot
hoops in front of the reporters
camped outside his house and
had harsh words for Reid and
McNabb in TV interviews.
On Friday morning, Owens
left his Moorestown, N.J., home
with two suitcases and went to
Philadelphia
International
Airport, where he told KYW-TV
as he headed to a security gate:
"I'm going to the Bahamas. I'm
going to get a tan."
McNabb, light and smiling
throughout his interview, agreed
with Owens the two didn't necessarily have to speak to win.
"I still to this day see no reason for us to talk.," McNabb
said. "When we step on this
field, it's all about business.
We're professionals that line up
and do the right thing."
This was the second time
this year McNabb has warned
Owens to stop talking about
him.
After Owens complained
that McNabb was tired in the
Super Bowl, McNabb said
"Just keep my name out of your
mouth," during a mandatory
minicamp.
McNabb, who made a
recruiting pitch to get Owens to
Philadelphia before last season,
was tired of hearing Owens
complain.
"Now for my name to be
thrown out again, this is the
second time. Keep my name
out of your mouth," he said.
"Keep my family's name out of
your mouth."
Owens called MeNabb a
"hypocrite" on Thursday
because . the quarterback said
publicly that he did not want to
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to Owens to arrange a meeting
where the two Eagles could
possibly work out their differences.
McNabb was bothered that
Owens brought his family into
his televised rants.
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be involved in any of this. I
don't need to be involved in
any of this," he said. "Now
when you bring my family into
it, I have a problem."
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Packers 10, Chargers 7
by ARNIE STAPLETON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett
Favre's offseason work paid
immediate dividends Thursday
night in the Green Bay Packers'
10-7 preseason victory over the
San Diego Chargers.
Favre, who trained with a
strength and conditioning
coach in the offseason for the
flrst time, completed 9 of 10
passes for 91 yards, a touchdown and no interceptions in 1
l/2 quarters of work.
He guided Green Bay on an
80-yard scoring drive in the
second quarter in which he
completed 7 of 8 passes for 64
yards, capping the series with a
23-yard strike to Donald
Driver and then jumping into
the arms of his center, Mike
Flanagan, who missed most of
last season following a knee
operation.
''We accomplished one goal:
we went down the field and
scored," Favre said at halftime
of the game that was played in
a steady drizzle. "For the first
preseason game, we played
well and we should do well in
certain areas. But we don't
w.ant to get too excited as we
still have a lot of work to do."
Favre's revamped offensive
line that lost stalwarts Marco
Rivera and Mike Wahle to free
agency, protected him well but
didn't open many holes for
Ahman Green, who carried
eight times for 16 yards and
had two of his team's six fumbles in the rain. Three were
recovered by San Diego.
The Olalge1's didn'tfumble at all
Philip Rivers' 34-yard
touchdown pass to Willie
Quinnie early in the third quarter tied it at 7. Rivers completed 12 of 19 passes for 97 yards
and no interceptions after
replacing starter Drew Brees
(2-for-5, 27 yards) to start the
second quarter.
Nate Kaeding, who missed
a 40-yard field goal attempt in
overtime of the Chargers' play·
off loss to the New York Jets
last season, blew three chances
to put the Chargers ahead in the
fourth quarter. He was wide
left from 45 yards and then
wide right from 44 and 46 in
the closing minutes.
'
J.T. O'Sullivan then drove
the Packers to the Chargers 35,
and Ryan Longwell kicked a
53-yard fleld goal that barely
cleared the crossbar with 33
seconds left.
Favre's only incompletion
came OI} a quick crossing route
to Robert Ferguson in which
defensive end DeQuincy Scott
injured a thigh and had to be
carted off.
Rookie Aaron Rodgers
replaced Favre and had a horrible debut with the secondteamers, completing 2 of 6
passes for 7 yards and getting
sacked twice.
On San Diego's first possession, wide receiver Eric Parker
bit on his own quarterback's
fake and cut off his route,
allowing rookie Nick Collins
to easily intercept Brees' long
pass in the end zone.
Favre had to play into the
quarter
because
second
Green's second fumble was
recovered by linebacker Matt
Wilhelm, ending the Packers'
second series after just two
plays. Green also fumbled his
first carry in slippery conditions but recovered it himself.
Green's propensity for fumbling loomed large in the
Packers' 4-5 run - including
playoffs - at Lambeau Field
last season, their first losing
record at home since 1991.
Among the Packers who
missed the game were comerback Joey Thomas, linebacker
Na'il Diggs and nose tackle
· Cletidus Hunt, preventing the
Packers from getting a good look
at their rebuilt defense under
new coordinator Jim Bates.
San Diego played without
injured linebackers Donnie
Edwards
and
Shawne
Merriman, its top draft pick.
Green Bay's B.J. Sander
averaged 46 yards on seven
punts, a far cry from his disastrous preseason a year ago that
included a 5-yard punt. He also
held perfectly on Longwell's
winner.
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Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at New England, 8 p.m.
Fritlay, Aug. 19
Tennessee at Atlanta, 7:30p.m.
Minnesota at N.Y. Jets, 8 p.m.
Cincinnati at Washington, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 20 ·
Cleveland at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Green Bay at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Miami at Pittsburgh, 7:30p.m.
JackSonville at Tampa Bay, 7:30p.m.
Oakland at Houston, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Indianapolis. 8 p.m.
Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Baltimore, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.
San Francisco at Denver, 9 p.m.
Sunday's Games
St. Louis at San Diego, 4 p.m.
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11 0 -Agriculture
115 -ATV's
120- Boats
130- Cars
140- 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
160 - Motorcycles
170- Parts
175- SUV's
180 Trucks
190- Vans
200 • E;MfLOYMENT
The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly accept
false or misleading
advertisements .
Ads which request
or require advance
payment of fees for
services or products should be
scrutinized carefully.
AUTOMOTIVE
·
··130-Cars
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
2001 GT
Convertible
Mustang automatic
40,000 miles $10,500
1999 2 DR Explorer
55,000 miles $5,500
1992 Explorer Air$1395
1995 Mercury minivan Cold air $1995
$500!Police
Impounds! Honda,
Chevy, Ford and
more!Cars
/Trucks/SUVs from
$500! For listings call
800-439-3998 ext.
A919
FOR SALE:
1993
Mustang Hot Rod or
show car. Ready to
go. Doesn't need
anything. Also, big
tires & wheels off
Toyota truck. 8861758.
For Sale 1993 Ford
Victoria.
Crown
miles.
138,000
606$,1200. call
874-0467
FOR SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
no title, good for
parts. $600 obo. Call
874-4094.
160-Motorcycles
FOR SALE:
Two
fully loaded Yamaha
V-Star Classic Bikes.
03 650 Indigo Blue
370 miles, '02 11 00
Titanium Silver 1980
miles. Priced together $10,500. Sold
separately
11 00$5800 and 650$4700. Reason for
selling: Wanting to
upgrade. Must see to
appreciate. Call 606297-1667.
FOR SALE:
1999
Honda CBR 600 F4.
8,000
miles.Great
condition
Never
down. Red, silver,
and black Includes
AGV x-vent helmet &
kevlar
jacket
&
gloves. $3500 or
best offer. 889-9384.
For
Sale
1998
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600.. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
2000 HONDA XR 70Good
condition,
$650. Call 886-4260
11 180-Trucks
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
210 · Job Listings
220 - Help Wanted
230 - Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260- Partnme
270 ·Sales
280 - Services
290 · Work Wanted
30Q - FINANCIAL
31 0 · Business
Opportunity
330 · For Sale
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
FOR SALE:
1975
Ford dump truck, tilt
front end, 12' bed.
For more info call
606-478-9150.
EMPLOYMENT
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~_MERCHANPIS.E.
If this sounds like a
job you would be
interested in, then
International
Coal
Group (ICG) Hazard
is the company for
you! We currently
have miner positions
in
the
Brea\hitt
County area. If you
are interested in completing an application,
please give us a call
at 606-439-0946.
EEO/AAE,M/F/DN
When responding
to Employment ads
that have reference
numbers,
please
FABRICATOR/
indicate that entire
WELDER
Logan Corporation
reference number
on the outside of of Prestonsburg, KY
is seeking qualified
your
envelope.
individuals for the
Reference numbers
position of
are used to help us
direct your letter to
Fabricator/ Welder.
the correct individ- Must be able to weld
and cut steel and thin
ual.
gauge metal.
Experience in brake
205· Bus. Opp.
press, shear, and
pipe bending a plus.
Salary commensuHOST PHOTO
rate with experience.
SHOOT!
Raise $$$ for yourBenefits package
included. EOE.
self, church, school,
Please send resume
or business.
Antiques
to:
Human Resources
{black/white),
Fabricator/ Welder
antiques (color).
PO BOX 58
1-800-892-7604.
Huntington, WV
NEED EXTRA
25706.
MONEY? Try Avon.
WANTED: SALES
$10 sign-up fee &
free gift. Call Janey PROS Most reward-.
ing comp plan in
at 886-2082.
industry. Exec. level
21o-Job Listing potential. 1-800-9248654. ext 9479.
LOCAL MEDICAL
OFFICE
looking for
NURSE
PRACTIONER
or
PHYSICIAN
ASSISTANTCERTIFIED
Nice environment,
excellent wages
and benefits.
Interested candidates call
M-F 8:00- 5:00
606-889-0802
EOE
POSITION
AVAILABLE:
RODMAN for
underground and
surface survey crew
Must have current
J,Jnderground mining
and surface mining
training papers.
Application available
at Summit
Engineering, INC.,
131 Summit Drive,
Pikeville, KY
between the hours of
Bam and 5 pm MonFri. Must submit to a
pre-employment drug
screen.
~A.I-EArAT..Ii
410 - Anrmals
420 · Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - Furniture
450 - Lawn & Garden
460 - Yard Sale
470 - Health & Beauty
475 - Household
IMMEDIATE
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY:
Established
Eastern KY Coal
Company seeking
experienced highwall
miner personnel for
Pike & Floyd Co, KY.
Dayshift & nightshift
positions available.
* superintendants
• operators
*groundsmen
Competitive
wages, health insurance includes eye &
dental, 401 K retirement, paid holidays,
2 weeks paid vacation, monthly production bonus.
Applications are
being taken at:
Office of
· Employment &
Training
138 College Street
Pikeville, KY
41501.
WANTED:
FuiVPart time housekeepers needed.
Apply in person.
Pikeville Super 8.
220-Help Wanted
505 · Business
51 o · Commercial
Property
530 · Homes
550 - Land/Lots
570 - Mobile Homes
580 - Miscellaneous
3690, WANDA- 285·
9486, or Terri -- 9462355 (after 5:00).
M-F 9-7
1759.
GOO :..B.~
700 - SEBY.I.C.ES
610 · Apartments
620 · Storage/
Office Space
630 ·Houses
640 · Land/Lots
650 · Mobile Homes
660 • Miscellaneous
670 - Commercial
Property ·
705 - Construction
710- Educational
713 ·Child Care
715 • Electrician
720 • Hf;lalth & Beauty
730 · Lawn & Garden
735 -Legal
740 - Masonry
745 - Miscellaneous
606·886-
CORE DRILLER
WANTED:
OTR WANTED:
core
Dnver needed. 1 out Experienced
wanted.
of last 3 years verifi- driller
able
HASMAT Experience with Joy
endorsement. Clean Ramrod II drilling unit
driving record. Must and NQ-2 drill rods a
be able to pass DOT plus. Primarily coal
with
physical and drug exploration
fo.undation
test. Leave message some
investigation work on
606-358-9268.
occassion. Will conDELIVERY
sider training appropriate person, who
WAREHOUSE:
Auxier distributor.
has drill rig equipexperience.
Full time job, 1/2 day . ment
Must be mechanicalcustomer service
and 1/2 day delivery/ ly inclined, and have
warehouse. Must be the desire and willat least 21 years old, ingness to do what it
takes to complete the
have valid driver's
job. Wages and benlicense and meet
efits commensurate
requirements. Must
with
experience.
have at least 6
Local projects within
months verifiable
Eastern
experience driving a the
20 foot truck or larg- Kentucky area, but
er or a 10 wheel
may require some
dump truck in last 2
travel.
Contact
years. Heavy lifting/
Alchemy Engineering
(un)loading/ strapAssociates, 546 W.
Old
Middlecreek
ping/ forklift. Drug
Road, Prestonsburg,
screen and DOr
KY 41653. 606-886physical. M-F with
benefits. Fax resume 8889 fax: 606-886·
8847,
or
email
to Corporate office
resume and salary
(812)280·2232 or
requirements
to:
call (800)967-7473.
alchemy@ engineer.c
EOE
om
NOTICE:
Positions available DESK CLERK
WANTED:
Desk
in various mine
clerk working night
and preparation
plant construction shift and weekends.
projects.
Full time/part time.
Immediate openings Come by and apply
or call 889-0331.
for experienced
crane operators,
ironworkers/ connec- WANTED: A new
tors, welders, pipefit- medical imaging center is looking for a
ters, millwrights.
receptionist in the
MSHA surface conPikeville
area.
struction training
required. Only expe- Please fax a resume
to Kenny Holbrook at
rienced applicants
need apply. Benefits 606-439-0575.
package. Contact
FLOYD COUNTY I
Mark Carvillano at
PAINTSVILLE/
304-363-41 00 or
PIKEVILLE AREAS:
mail resume to
The
Lexington
Mountaineer
Resources, INC, PO Herald Leader has a
BOX 1187, Fairmont, morning newspaper
route available in
wv 26555-1187,
attn Mark Carvillano. your area. Routes
take about 3 hours
Resumes can also
daily, with an approxbe faxed to Mark
imate profit potential
Carvillano at 304of
$800
-$1 000
363-4814.
monthly. Dependable
WANTED:
Local transportation ·and
company looking for ability to be bonded
tele- required. Gall 1-800experienced
phone technician in 274-7355.(EXT
local
area. 3384 or 1629)
Requirements minimum of 5 years
experience.
Good
pay-Good benefits.
, 330· For Sale
Call 226-2130 or
793-4873.
FOR SALE BY
WANTED:
Need OWNER: Three
employees to pres- adjacent cemetery
sure wash heavy plots in the New
equipment.
Must Davidson section of
have valid driver's Davidson Memorial
license and surface Gardens, lvel, KY.
mining papers. Call Call 886-8452.
FINANCIAL
ATTENTION
EXPERIENCED
UNDGERGROUND AVON REPS NEED- ·
ED: $10 to sign-up.
MINERS:
Are you interested CASSIE · 886-8737 ,
in a good paying job? THERESA - 886Are you interested - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
in a job with great
benefits?
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Are you interested
in working for a comNURSING OPPORTUNITIES
pany with new equipHighlands Regional Medical Center is recruiting for
ment?
the following positions:
Do you want to
Registered Nurses
work in a drug free
4th Floor Telemetry Unit
workplace?
Do you have an
HRMC, a good place to work, offers a
competitive salary and a generous
experienced underbenefits package including:
ground KY miners
card?
*Nine (9) paid holidays
*Retirement Plan
•Med1caVDentallnsurance
•Pre-hire Bonus: $3,000
Interested applicants may apply to the
Human Resources Depc:trtment, HRMC,
5000 Ky. At. 321,
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
(606) 886-7530
Fax: (606) 886-7534
E-mail: tclark@hrmc.org
350·Miscellaneous
Need to repair your
credit and move
on? We provide
low APRs, low
monthly payments
on all types of
loans. 1st, 2nd,
mortgage, business loans. Call 1
(800) 405- 8157.
MERCHANDISE
445-Furniture·
"-.
RAY'S BARGAIN
CENTER
New
&
Used
&
Furniture
Appliances @ unbelievable
prices.
Come in today for
incredible savings.
Shop At The Little
Furniture Store &
Save!! Route. #122,
McDowell. Call 606377-0143.
470-Health & Beauty
WOLFF TANNING
BEDS
Financing available,
Free delivery & set
up within 75 miles of
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts,. Lotions at
Wholesale Prices.
Call 888-554-0058
480- Misc.
WEDDING DRESS
FOR SALE: Size 12,
pearl and sequins
intricate design on
bodice and train.
Must see to appreciate beauty. For more
information, call 8868506 ask for Tonya
or after 5:00 call 8860048 and leave message.
FOR SALE:
Wurlitzer piano for
sale. Contact 2859704. Call after 5:00
pm.
tion.
Medium-light older ranch home.
blue in color. Call 406 Hunts Branch.
452-4189 for more Hurricane
Creek.
information.
Pike/Floyd line on Rt
23. $54,900. (859)
,FOR SALE: Antique 733-5929.
Open
mantle.
Beautiful house 8/20 & 8/21
quarter sown oak. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Call Lane at 886·
3~79.
FOR SALE: 3 BR
2.5 BA home on RT
Kay's
Wallpaper 1750
between
205 Depot Road Prestonsburg
and
Paintsville,
Ky. Paintsville.
Call
Hundreds of Patterns Sharon Craft at East
of
Wallpaper
& KY Realty at 606Borders. All under 297-4411 or 606$10.00. Open Tues - 886-0571. Priced to
Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. sell @ $189,500.
Sat.1 0 a.m to 3 p.m. Agent Owned.
Closed Sun. & Mon.
606-789-8584.
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Allen, KY. Riley Hall
Sub. 17 Cross Road.
··490-Recreation
• '
.fA
Main floor to BR. 1
BA. Upstairs 2 room
PLEASANT RIDGE
1/2 BA. Full baseHORSEBACK RIDment. Rl all appliances included. DW
ING opening Friday
May 6 at Yatesville
& WID. Ramp to rear
deck. Front porch.
Lake. Call 606-6731165. Directions: US $67,500. No L.C.
23 to Louisa/Blaine
Call 606-874-2775 or
exit turn on Highway 734-997-7110.
32 toward Blaine,
turn right on
HOMES FOR SALE:
Highway 3215
A foreclosure!! 3 BR
only $14,900. For
toward the camplistings call 1-800ground and golf
course. Tu-Su 10 am 429·7008. ext B 183.
-7:30pm
HOUSE FOR SALE:
495-Want to Buy 3 BR, LR, kitchen,
1.5 BA, carport, full
basement, storage
WANT TO BUY: Fill building. Located at
dirt needs to be deliv- 4323
550
RT
ered to the East Hueysville. Contact
Point area. Call 367- 358-4065, 358-4369.
Price Reduced!
1506 or 367·1934.
KY. City water. Call
after 6.00 pm or
leave message 606·
886-0133.
FOR SALE: 2002
l4 x 52 Gile MH.
Never lived in. 2 BR.
1 BA. Ref, stove,
built-in stereo system, security system
and underpinning.
All included.
Located at Price, KY.
Asking price
$14,000. Fa more
mfo, call 886 0010.
FOR SALE: 1980
.14x70 MH 2 BR 1
BA, fireplace, CHIA,
large deck, appli·
ances, on large private
rented
lot.
$10,000 or best. offer.
606-246-0767.
MH FOR SALE:
1998
16 X
80
Fleetwood
Reflections 3 BR 2
BA Great condition. •
Never smoked in. All
appliances & CH/A.
Vinyl siding, shingle
roof. Asking $19,998.
889-9384.
Final
clearance
2004 lot models and
2005 models now
available! If you are
serious about pur·
chasing a new home
you need to be with
experienced staff to
get the right home at
a great price. The
Home Show-South ~
55(). Land/Lots William son, Inc. US
119,
Belfry,
Ky.
CABIN LOTS FOR 41514 606-353-6444
SALE:
Near or toll free 877-353- 530-Homes
Yatesville Lake in 6444
FOR SALE:
Brick Lawrence County,
house, 3 BR 1.5 BA.
$125,000. Located
between Allen &
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
Prestonsburg. Owner
will deduct for CH/A.
is seeking candidates for
New carpet and
Part-Time Evening
inlaid for kitchen and
bathroom. Serious
inquiry only. 606for
874-2035.
REAL ESTATE
''L
. . .• •
FOR LEASE
CUSTODIAN
All Prestonsburg Locations
.,
Responsible for the overall cleanliness including:
dusting, sweepmg. mopping and huffing noors, etc.
1-hgh school dtploma or eqUivalent. At lt>ast
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
1709 KY Route 321, Suite 3
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
2 Commercial Buildings
Former location of
Steve's Tire Sales &
Farm & Home Supply
Located just off Rt. 80
on Hwy. 3188, Martin, Ky.
A proud tradition of providing access
to quality health care
Contact:
Big Sandy Henlth Caro is an Fqual Opportunity Employer
Fa!{: 886-8548
Email: m.stevens@bshc.org
886·6906 after 6 p.m.
Operating Systems Analyst
Gearheart Communications, Inc., is seeking applicants for an
analyst position within our information Systems & Technology
department.
This position .will have responsibility for evaluation and recommendation for hardware and software acquisitions. Provide technical support .for implementation, use, and repair of systems and
equipment. ·Develop and maintain inventory control system for
equipment. Three to five years experience in all aspects of information technologies, including: hardware, software, operating systems. network protocols, etc., experience with SQI. servers and
internet technology in a LINUX environment, or equivalent academic and work experience.
Send resume to:
Gearheart Communications, Inc.
Human Resources Department
P.O.,Box 160
Harold, Kentucky 41635
E-Mail: jobs@mikrotec.com
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
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r, , ,.~
'ink Healthy, Tltlnk Highlands!"
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570· Mobile Homes
one year experience in janllorial work preferred.
HRMC Job Line: (606) 886-7510
~
850 · Personals
870 · Services
890 -legals
80Q • NotiCLi$
805 - Announcements
81 o - Auct•ons
815- Lost & Found
HOUSE FOR SALE:
FOR SALE:
12 Owner
Financing
pews, like new condi- Available. 3 BR 1 BA
Highlands is an equal opportunity employer.
, visit
Movers
?55-0ffice
760 • Plumbing
765 - Professionals
770 · Reprur/Servlce
780· nmber
790- Travel
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
All Drywall, Dutch
with 2x6 walls ,and
5/12 roof pitch, ultimate kitchen package, glass block window, and many more
extras, Set up for
viewing. For details
call 606-353-6444 or
toll free 577-3536444
the home
show
580- Misc.
CABIN FOR SALE:
Wellington, KY. 3 full
lots. City water, .septic tank. $30,000.
Call606-561-7757.
RENTALS .
610Apartments
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PARK PLACE
APARTMENTS ·
"LABOR DAY" Movein
special!
First
month's rent .E.B..EE
with paid security
deposit.
Through
September 5th. 1
BR/$309. 2 BR $304$345. Prestonsburg.
886-0039.
APT FOR RENT: 2
BR newly remodeled
ground floor apt for
rent. Located across
from Garth Technical
School on RT 122 at
Martin, KY. Must have
references. Call 2859112.
APT FOR RENT: 2
BR, fully carpeted,
refrigerator/stove furnished. CH/A, fireplace, backyard, W/D
hook-up, lots of storage space, covered
parking. Located at
Harold. 886-91 58
•
APT FOR RENT:
Studio apt, furnished,
clean , close to college. $325 month utilities extra. Call 8866208.
1 BR Furnished
Apartment, Including
Utilities.
2 BR
Unfurnished,
and
large 3 BR 2 BA,
unfurnished on RT
114
Call 886-8366
FOR RENT: 2 BR
apt. Spacious, quiet
communi ty.
Application must be
filled out. Deposit &
references required.
One year lease. Call
.., 358-9123.
2 BR 1 1/2 bath
Townhouse also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central
heat & air. Bent starting at $375. month, +
$300. deposit water
included. Located
near HRMC. 606,. , 889-9717.
EmStorage/Office
FOR RENT: 3 Room
office suite. $600
month. Call 8861020 ask for C.V.
For Rent: OHice
Suite,
New
Construction.
900
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking, Can be
Convenient LQcation,
New Office Behind
., Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg.
Call
886-1515 for info.
OFFIC E OR
RETAIL S P A CE
FOR LEASE: 1,200
sq ft in Prestonsburg..
886-8366
FOR LEASE: New
30x60 Metal building
12 ft ceilings on RT
80 close to Martin
886-8366. $500.00
month.
FOR RENT:
900
~ sq. ft. office/commercial space. Located
next to Reflection's
Beauty Salon 3/4
mile south or Martin
on RT 122. Across
from Garth Tech .
School. Call 285911 2.
630-Houses
2 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT: Located at
Cow Creek. Call
874-9132.
2· BR HOUSE FOR
~RENT: HUD accept-
ed available, after
Sept 6 located on
HWY 80 across from
Allen Central High
School.
859-3514408.
LEGALS
PUBLIC NOTICE
Whereas certain
3 BR HOUSE FOR
property
located at
RENT: 2 porches, 2
BA, carport. Country Bypro, Kentucky, furhome, very private. ther described as the
Old
Bypro
Post
Call 886-9291 .
Office, including the
3 BR HOUSE FOR apartments adjacent
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA, to the same. This
kitchen, DR, heath property has been
pump, built in vacu- inspected by the
um cleaner & deck.
Floyd County Fiscal
Located in Knott
Court
division of
County. 438-6104
Homeland Security
of
code
HOUSE FOR RENT: office
and
3 BR, 1.5 BA, car- enforcement
port, large lot. Call thus declared dangerous and dilapidat886-8366.
ed
buildings.
640- Land/Lots Therefore the owner
of this property is
NEW TRAILER hereby ordered to
LOTS FOR RENT: 3 abate this nuisance
minutes
from within 5 days or
Highlands Regional,
appear for a hearing
5
minutes
from
Porter School. Call before the Floyd
County Fiscal Court
886-3959.
on August 19th, at 10
Trailer lot for rent a.m., in the official
on old U.S. 23 court room on the
between
Preston- second floor, of the
sburg and Paintsville Floyd
County
call 606-886-9007 or Courthouse,
141
889 9747
South Central Ave.,
Prestonsburg,
KY
Trai ler Lot For 41653. If the owner
Rent, Large Yard.
of said property does
Call 886-8366
not abate the nuiFor Rent : newly sance or show just
constructed Mobile cause as to why they
not
be
Home Lots in new would
~ ll en,r. e f erence required, the county
requ ired call 606- will proceed in abate874-2212
ment of premises in
question to include
650- Mobile Homes demolition of the
structure with all
costs incurred by the
3B R MH FOR
county to be paid by
RENT: 3 BR, large
owner within 60 days
lot. Call 886-8366.
or a lien upon said
premises
will be
M H FOR RENT:
Located on RT 7 Salt invoked pursuant to
KRS 381 .770 and
Lick. Call 358-4524.
Floyd
County
FOR RENT: 2 BR Ordinance #04-002.
MH 16 x 72 like new. Questions may be
2.5 miles from MAC addressed to the
ARTS on 114, private Floyd County Code
lot, 886-2896.
Enforcement Officer
Bobby Carpenter, at
660· Miscellaneous (606) 886-0498.
ADVERTISE·
ROOM FOR RENT:
MENT
in 1700 sq ft doublewide. Access to
FOR
whole house includMANDATORY
ing 2 full BA. Just
PRE-BID
asked to help with
CONFERENCE
portion
of
rent.
The Floyd County
Cable, utilities, and
furn iture provided. Fiscal Court will be
Prefer female. BUSI- accepting bids for
Call clean-up of the illegal
NESS ONLY,
285-3755.
dumps, located at
the Town Branch
FOR RENT:
Bridge,
near
Prestonsburg,
* 2 BR House
Kentucky, and the
* MH slip
John Kidd Dump,
*Barn access 3 stalls
located near Harold,
606-434-7507
both
in Floyd County,
8/1 0 mile Cow Creek
Kentucky, through
funding from the
PRIDE Community
Grant Program. In
order to participate in
750-Construction
the bid process, all
interested contracBUILDER AVAIL·
tors must participate
ABLE: 25 years
in a Mandatory P.reexperience. New
Bid Conference for
homes, additions,
these two (2) progarages, metal
jects, as proven by
roofs. Call 606-358the signatures of
4275.
their authorized rep745- Misc.
resentatives on the
sign-in sheet at the
WANTING TO Conference.
C L EA N HOUSES:
The Floyd County
Local woman looking Fiscal Court will confor house cleaning. duct the Mandatory
Does good job, good Pre- Bid Conference
references, & rea- for these two (2) prosonable rates. Call
jects at the Office of
886-3528.
the Floyd County
Judge/Executive ,
770-Repair/Services
located at 149 South
Central
Avenue,
9,
CAR P E N T RY Suite
WOR K
all types. P r es t o nsburg,
New construction or Kentucky (on the
remode lin g. second floor of the
Garages, decks, etc. old Floyd County
Concrete work & sid- Courthouse)
on
ing. Free estimates. Thursday, August 18,
Call 886-8896.
2005, at the hour of
10:00 a.m. Bids for
these projects will be
opened at the August
815· Lost & Found 19, 2005, meeting of
the Floyd County
Fiscal Court at the
OWNER OFFERING hour of 10:00 a.m., in
REWARD' to anyone the
County
with information
Courtroom, located
about a lost cat. Lost on the second floor
in West'Minister
of the old Floyd
area July 22. The
County Courthouse,
cat is a 2 yr old
at 149 South Central
neutered male red
A v e nu e ,
tabby, striped, slenPr es t o n s burg ,
der in build. If cat is
Kentucky. All interreturned, no quesested
contractors are
tions asked. Call
invited
to attend.
886-11 00 or 886Paul
Hunt
2694.
Thompson,
Floyd County
Judge/Executive
SERVICES
NOTICES
ORDINANCE
NO. 11-2005
AN ORDINANCE·
OF THE CITY OF
PRESTONSBURG,
KENTUCKY, BY
WHICH THE CITY
ANNEXES INTO
THE CITY CORPORATE LIMITS
CERTAIN REAL
PROPERTY
LOCATED ON
KENTUCKY
ROUTE 3.
WHEREAS, Enrico
Ascani, M.D., owner
of property contained
within that certain
tract and boundary of '
unincorporated territory as more specifically described herein below, and as
reflected
by the
Annexation
Map
hereto attached as
Exhibit "A", have
given prior consent
in writing and petitioned the City for
annexation
and
incorporation into the
of
city
limits
Prestonsburg said
property; and
WHEREAS,
the
area as hereinbelow
more
particularly
described,
and
reflected in Exhibit
"A" hereto (Proposed
Annexation Map) lies
adjacent to or is contiguous to the City of
Prestonsburg's current boundaries; and,
WHEREAS,
the
Prestonsburg City
Council having considered the matter
and determined after
due discussion and
deliberation that it is
in the best interest of
the City and best
interest of the property owners whose
property is contained
within the area proposed
to
be
annexed; and,
WHEREAS ,
the
City Council, through
passage of this ordinance set forth hereinbelow, declares it
desirable to annex
into the corporate
limits of the City of
Prestonsburg that
certain are more fully
described below;
NOW,
THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED AND
IS
HEREBY
ORDAINED BY THE
CITY
OF
PRESTONSBURG, KENTUCKY, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: The
City of Prestonsburg
does hereby annex
into the municipal
corporate limits the
property described
as follows:
CITY OF PRESTONSBURG
PROPOS E D
ANNEXATION
For
Dr. Enrico Ascani
A certain tract(s) or
parcel(s) of property
lying South of Ky.
State Rt. 3 and being
near John's Creek of
the Levisa Fork of
the Big Sandy River,
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and more
particul ar ly
described as follows:
Beginning at a
point on the Eastern
control access and
right of way line of
Ky. State Route 3
(Deed Book 328, Pg.
405) and being a corner of the United
States of America
Tract 904 (Book LP
15, Pg. 101), said
point being 105' right
of Ky. Rt. 3 centerline
station 154+ 16.00;
thence leaving the
U.S.A. Tract 904,
and with the right of
way line of Ky. State
Rt. 3, N 442 39' 52"
E, 272.26' to a Iron
Pin/Cap Set in said
Ky. State Rt. 3 right
of way line and being
a corner to an
access easement to
the Lois Marshall
property (Deed Book
180, Pg. 83), said
point being 96.40'
right of Ky. State Rt.
3 centerline station
156+90.40; thence
leaving Ky. Rt. 3 right
of way line and
crossing a gravel
road, S BOg 50' 35" E,
34.85' to a P.K. Nail
Set, referenced as
being in the Northern
property
line
of
Enrico and Helen
Ascani (Deed Book
515, Pg. 108), said
property to be included in this annexation;
thence
with
the
Northern line of the
Enrico and Helen
Ascani property and
with the
access
easement, N 56g 51 '
05" E, 91 .02' to an
Iron Pin/Cap Set and
being a corner at the
west end of woven
wire fence and a
cemetal'y exclusion,
said corner being
common with Lois
Marshall and Enrico
and Helen Ascani;
thence leaving the
access
easement
line and woven wire
fence and with the
cemete ry exclusion
line and the Ascani
property, N 81 2 14'
49" E, 17.98' to an
Iron Pin/Cap Set;
thence crossing a
small
drain
and
going up the hill, S
63, 14' 29" E, 52.87'
to an Iron Pin/Cap
Set; thence S 342 43'
39" E, 75.85' to an
Iron Pin/Cap Set
near the center of the
drain; thence leaving
the Enrico and Helen
Asconi and said
Deed Book 515, Pg.
108,
and
going
around the side of
the hill, N 48 2 16' 40"
E, 74.45' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
going down the hill,
N 22 2 02' 01" W,
156.59' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set near the
center of a ditch in
the said access
easement
and
woven wi re fence;
thence leaving the
cemetery exclusion
line, running with the
access
easement
and wire fence, N 45Q
30' 04" E, 254.55' to
an Iron Pin/Cap Set,
said iron pin being a
corner in the Lois
Marshall line; thence
leaving the access
easement, and with
the wire fence and
the Lois Marshall
line, N 762 07' 25" E,
359.04' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
S 642 08' 24" E,
186.10' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
N 062 29' 37" W,
83.11' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
N 222 16' 25" W,
37.50' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
N 532 46' 53" W,
64.28' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
N 592 13' 22" W,
70.71' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
N 572 44' 17" W,
56.92' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set at the
Northeast end of
said wire fence and
the edge of a grass
road; thence N 88 2
11 ' 06" E, 142.95' to
an Iron Pin/Cap Set;
thence N 78 2 29' 56"
E, 119.04' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set, on the
West side of a point
near a cemetery;
thence around the
point and cemetery,
S 462 56' 35" E,
155.46' to an Iron
Pin/Cap Set; thence
crossing the point N
36Q 48' 53" E, 66.24'
to an Iron Pin/Cap
Set; thence N 52 2 17'
39" W, 134.73' to an
unmonumented corner on the right of
way line of Ky. State
Rt. 3, said corner
being 193.28' right of
State Rt. 3 centerline
station 169+74. 16;
thence leaving Lois
Marshall line and the
cemetery exclusion
line, fol lowing the Ky.
Rt. 3 right of way
line, N 772 40' 31" E,
629.15' to a point in
the right of way line,
said point bei ng
260.00' right of Ky.
State Rt. 3 centerline
station
176+00;
thence N 749 10' 32"
E. 265.11' to a point
on the right of way
line, said point being
279.51' right of Ky.
State Rt. 3 centerline
station 178+55.98
an~ being on the
of
property
line
Margie
Morrison
(Deed Book 310, Pg.
361); thence leaving
the Ky. State Rt. 3
right of way line and
with the Morrison
line, S 132 33'14" E,
63.48' to a point, said
point being on the
ex i s t i n g
Presto n sburg
Corporate
Line
(Ordinance No. 1296) at 800' elevation;
thence leaving the
Margie Morrison line,
and
with
the
Prestonsburg
Corproate Limit Line
S 442 24' 09" W,
101 .54' to a pont;
thence S 52 2 46' 28"
W, 618.02' to a point;
thence S 31 ~> 05' 55"
W, 446.02' to a point;
thence N 65 9 37' 07"
W, 249.16' to a point;
thence S 40 2 05' 34"
W, 523.85' to a point;
thence S 1511 46' 49"
E, 875.08' to a point;
thence S 00" 01' 22"
E 235.75' to a point,
said point being in
the line of said
United States of
America Tract 904;
thence
with
the
U.S.A., Tract 904
line, N 38 9 28' 29" W,
1593.24' to the point
of beginning, containing 29.42 acres
rnore or less.
Note: The above
described parcel is
for annexation purposes only and not
intended for transfer
or conveyan,ce. The
above
description
was based on but not
limited to actual field
surveys, information
from the Property
Valuation Office as
well as areas previously annexed and
surveys of others.
This
description
meets all criteria of
KRS 848.400 and
certifies no easements above or
underground.
All
deeds
are
duly
recorded in the office
of the Floyd County
Court Clerk, Floyd
County, Kentucky
Note: All Iron Pins
and Caps or P.K.
Nails described in
above
description
were either found or
referenced to in
Deeds.
SECTION II: The
Annexation
Map
14, 2005 • 87
attached hereto as ADOPTED, this 8th
Exhibit "A" reflects day of August, 2005.
Jerry
Fannin,
the descriptions as
hereinabove stated Mayor
Attest:
and is incorp9rated
Sharon
herein by reference
Schoolcraft,
City ·
as a part of hereof.
SECTION Ill: Upon Clerk
First reading: July
enactment of this
ordinance the territo- 11 , 2005
Second reading:
ry shall become a
part of the City of August 8, 2005
Publication date :
Prestonsburg
in
accordance
w ith 8/14/05
(see map below)
KRS 81A.41 2.
SO RESOLVED,
ORDAINED , AN D
Resto~ing Hope.
Rebuilding Lives.
Outstanding Salary
low Cost Health Insurance
Sign-On Bonus
Relocation Allowance
Paid Interviews
10% salary upgrade for
home health positions
Appalachian Regional llealthcare
The Medical Cantors of lhfl MoiK!tain.s
Appalac:hian Regional Healthc:a re is one of the nation's largest
rural, not-for·profit healthcare systems. Our 9 hospitals, 15 clinics, along
with the largest home health service in the nation, serves more than 350,000
residents in and around seven communities in Kentucky and West Virginia.
We are seeking candidates for the following clinical positions:
CHIEF NURSING OFFICER/ DIRECTOR OF NURSING
ARH Regional Medical Center, Hazard, KY
Morgan County ARH Hospital, West Liberty, KY
FAMILY NURSE PRACTITION ERS
Hazard Family Health Services, Hazard, KY
CERTIFI ED REG ISTERED NURSEAN ESTHETISTS
Middlesboro ARH Hospital, Middlesboro, KY
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, Hazard, KY
Harlan ARH Hospital, Harlan, KY
Whitesburg ARH Hospital, Whitesburg, KY
·
DIRECTOR O F REHABILITATION
(PT, OT OR SLP CANDIDATES)
Williamson ARH Hospital, S. Williamson, KY
PHYSICAL THE RAPY. PHYS ICAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
O CCUPATIO NAL THERAPY & O CCUPATI ONAL
THERAPY ASSISTANT
Williamson ARH Hospital, S. Williamson, KY
Whitesburg ARH Hospital, Whitesburg, KY
Harlan ARH Hospital, Harlan, KY
Hazard Home Health Services, Hazard, KY
Morgan County Home Health Services, W. Liberty, KY
McDowell Home Health Services, McDowell, KY
Harlan Home Health Services, Harlan, KY
Middlesboro Home Health Services, Middlesboro, KY
Williamson Home Health Services, S. Williamson, KY
ARH Home HPalth Services, Pikeville, KY
ARH Home Health Services, Man, WV
SPEEC H LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Williamson ARH Hospital, S. Williamson, KY
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, Hazard, KY
PHARMACY
Director of Pharmacy, 5. Williamson, KY
Clinical Pharmacy Coordmator, Whitesburg, ARH
Clinical Pharmacy Coo rdinator, S. Williamson, KY
Staff Pharmacist, ARH Regional Medical Center, Hazard, KY
Staff Pharmacist, 5. Williamson, KY
Staff Pharmacist, Whitesburg, KY
Staff Pharmacist, Harlan, KY
Additional information on these positions can be found at our web site: www.
arh.org Please send resume or inquiry to: Marilyn Hamblin, ARH, PO Box 8086;
lexington, KY 40533; fax: 859-226-2586; e-mail: mhamblin@arh.org or apply
online at www.arh.org EOE
S T OP!
You've c leaned o ••t your a t t i c, your basem e nt, your garage and now you're ready
to hos t a garage sal e . Before YO!-' proceed, follow these s igns for p l ac•ng the
type of c l assified ad t hat W ill he lp
turn your event i nto a best-selloL
Be sure to i n c l ude i n your
Garage or Yard Sale ad.--
WHAT.
Describe th e t ype of sal e
.
you're host.ng.
I s it m ostly househo ld goods? Nursery
f u rn it u re? Appare l ?
.
WHE f~ -
G ive dates and time
of sal e , and rain
date informati on.
W HERE.
W here the sal e will be held,
w ith directions or phone
number f or directions.
WH Y.
Reason for sal e, especially if it Is a "moving" sale,
s ince these tend to attract
more customers
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�88 •
SUNDAY, AUGUST
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Floyd County
Board of Education
has published the
Fiscal Year 2005
Pre-Audit,
Annual
Financial Report, and
vendor payments list
on the school district's
website.
Access to these documents
can
be
attained by gbing to
www.floyd.k12.ky.us
and selecting the
"AFR and Public
Notices" button or by
going directly to the
district's public notice
page at web address
http://www.floyd.k12.
14, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ky.us/Public_Notice.
html. Web based file
formats are posted
for both the vendor
list and the Annual
Financial Report If
you have difficulty
downloading or view-
ing
these
files ,
please contact Matt
Wireman via phone
at 606-886-2354, via
e-mail at mwireman @floyd.k12.ky.u
s or via the US mail,
at 106 North Front
Avenue, Prestonsburg, KY 41653.
This public notice
was mandated by the
Kentucky General
Assembly in HB
026770.100-1 087.
FRASURE'S
RENTALS
/ : IS OUR
BUSINESS
Office Space, Retail
Space,Houses,
Apartments,
Mobile Homes and
Lots.
CALL
...
TRIPLES
Mine Safety &
First Aid Training
Newly Employed
24 hr. Class (surface)
40 hr. (underground)
8 hr. refresher
(surface & underground)
Also Electrical Classes
285-0999
1/DNS!TRU~UDN
No Job Too Big or Too Small!
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL
606-265-3336 or 606-265-4678
New Construction • Remodeling
Vinyl Siding • Window Replacement
Hardwood Flooring
Shingle/Tin Roofing \
'--"!
Decks/Porches/Garages
' -"
Concrete Work
FREE ESTIMATES
Train at your convenience.
~J&L£
.J&M
Seamless
Gunorlnu. Siding
and Metalllootlng
Electrical Contracting
Residential & Commercial
Electrical Services
Home Improvements and Repairs
Free Estimates • Reliable
PEOPlE AGAINST DRUGS
"Come Walk With Us"
606-886-8366
30 Village Street, Pikeville, KY
(Coal Run Village)
432-8282
(TAT2)
Accept credit cards.
We also have body jewelry.
SHEPHERD'S
PLUMBING
Residential & Commercial
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
•
•
•
•
Ph: (606) 886-2785
Pager: (606) 482-0229
226-2051
606-452-2490, 606·424-9858
24-Hour Service
John K. Lewis, Master Electrician
Licensed: ME8643, CE8644
Runmng 10"k> Off All Gutter & Stding
thru the Month of April
886-0363
free estimates. call anvume
In Floyd County
Reg. $59.00 ............. Now
Out of County
Reg. $69.00 ............. Now
'$55 • 20
Payment to: The Floyd County Times
263 South Central Ave.
Box 390
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653 • (606) 886-8506
Na~e= --~----------------------------------------------------
Address:
City:
State:
Phone :
Code
21
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Roto-Rooter
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Small Excavating
Zip:
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tranic stop
by MARY MUSIC
S TAFF WRITER
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
HI HAT-A
Wheelwright man has
been charged with traffick" .ing in cocaine after a traffic
stop Monday on Route 122
in Hi Hat.
Arthur Redfield, 28, was
a passenger in the vehicle
which was flashed by a
Kentucky Vehicle
Enforcement unit driven by
Tommy Gearhart. After signaling the car to pull over,
Gearhart allegedly
observed Redfield toss
something out of his window.
The officer later determined that it was cocaine
that was ejected from the
car and alerted Kentucky
State Police, which dispatched Trooper Brad
Hamilton to the scene.
Redfield was arrested
without incident, although
authorities had reason to
suspect a struggle after
checking his record. He
had pleaded guilty to a
resisting arrest charge in
Floyd County in July 2003.
Officers from Operation
UNITE were set to search
Redfield's residence today
with a warrant issued to
look for more cocaine in
his home.
Redfield was arraigned
Tuesday and ordered held
on a $25,000 cash bond.
His preliminary hearing
has been set for Aug. 24.
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Little Rosa Old Regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ.
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The Little Rosa Old Regular Baptist Church of the New Salem
Association.
Church split could repeat itself
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
McDOWELL - The split of an Old
Regular Baptist Church congregation
divided families and the community in
McDowell in 1999. Affiliates now say the
church has split again and that members
have left or have been excommunicated, or
"set aside" because of their beliefs or
actions. Members and the community are
hurting still, they say.
After the 1999 split, 29 members of the
Little Rosa Old Regular Baptist Church of
Jesus Christ formed another church, the
Little Rosa Old Regular Baptist Church of
the New Salem Association, which was
constructed in 2000 about a quarter of a
mile away from the original church. The
older church currently has more than 100
members. The newest church has approximately 40.
Both churches proclaim to have been
established on Dec. 1, 1937, Clinton
Moore, moderator of the original church,
claims that affiliates with the "Little Rosie
number 2" refuse to return original church
records that were documented between
1937 and 1999. Both churches, with the
help of an attorney, reached a compromise
and the newly constructed church returned
only copies of those documents, he said.
The split in 1999 occurred after Moore,
who joined the church in 1963, and his
congregation refused to obey an order from
moderators with the New Salem
Association to not use a baptistry that they
constructed in the fellowship hall, where
the original church was located in 1937.
The church built that baptistry because
the creek used to baptiZe members was
conta ninated with c. coli. Moore said .:he
decision came after 10 people were baptized in one year, a rarity for an Old
Regular Baptist Church. He, and the
majority of the members, wanted the
indoor baptistry because people being baptized would rise up out of the water with
"sludge" all over their backs.
"We read daily in the papers and hear on
the news about the deaths that are occurring throughout the world due to e. coli
bacteria in the water," Sister Peggy Brown
wrote in a letter to the the Times in
September 1999. "Now, certainly, this
should make one think, is tradition more
important than a life?"
In October 1999, affiliates of the New
Salem Association, who are against indoor
baptistries in church, stood up during a
Saturday business meeting and asked to
speak. Moore, who was moderator at that
time, refused them the opportunity and told
them they were were not invited to be in
the church. The question of the baptistry
was put to a vote. Forty nine members
stood in favor of the baptistry. Twenty nine
memberv stood and walked out the door
with New Salem Association affiliates and
met in the Old Beaver Church, established
in 1843, about two miles away. (It wouldn't have been "legal" in the church unless
they stood with their vote.) The second
Little Rosa Church was built the following
year.
"It's been a real disaster here in
10
(See THEFTS, page nine)
Man pleads guilty to theft for
saying he worked when he didn't
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - A
Floyd County man pleaded
guilty to theft Tuesday in circuit court after getting paid
for a job he didn't do.
George Banks Jr., 23, of
Eastern, worked for Palamar
Electric for three weeks in
2003,
September
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner said, but he
continued to call in hours, as
though he worked, with the
company's Clay County
bookkeeper until Jan. 22,
2004.
Banks, charged with one
count of felony theft by
deception, entered the guilty
plea under the agreement
that he will repay his previous
employer,
James
Bentley, $5,590 in restitution
for the crime.
"They just want their
money back," Turner said.
Thmer said Bentley owns
other businesses and that
employees are responsible
for calling in their time each
pay period.
The commonwealth recommended a three-year suspended sentence for Banks,
under the condition that he
make monthly restitution
payments. His formal sentencing is scheduled for Oct.
7.
photo by Tom Doty
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Sports ........................... B1
Lifestyles ...................... C1
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(See CHURCH, page three)
PRESTONSBURG Two
Floyd County inmates pleaded
guilty Tuesday in circuit court for
felony
theft-related
charges
against them. The men could collectively be sentenced to 10 years
if the court follows sentence recommendations made by the prosecution during the hearings.
Brian W. Kidd, 30, of Martin,
pleaded guilty to various charges
in three separate criminal cases.
Kidd, who has a long criminal
record, admitted guilt to a felony
count of receiving stolen property
in a 2003 case in which he must
now pay $2,000 in restitution to
the victim, Cecilia Brown.
Kidd must also pay restitution
to Diana Hunter, after he pleaded
guilty to the Dec. 25, 2003, bur
glary of her home. He pleaded
guilty to one count of felony thefl
by unlawful taking and one coun
of second-degree burglary in tha~
case.
Kidd also pleaded guilty to on
count of first-degree bail jumping.
after he failed to appear for a Juntl
22 hearing.
Commonwealth's
Attorne:(
Brent Turner recommended five.~>
year concurrent sentences in each
case, stipulating that the sentences
be probated after Kidd serves two
of those years behind bars.
Judge Danny P. Caudill, who
will consider the commonwealth's
recommendation during sentencing next month, said Kidd could be ·
sentenced to up to 25 years for the
crimes. He ordered that Kidd have
no contact with the victims or their
families involved.
Charges fded after teen beaten
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - An
Auxier man was arrested
Monday for allegedly taking
part in the beating of a minor
on August 11.
Clint Thompson, 25, was
arraigned Thesday, on one
count of first-degree assault.
He was given a $50,000 cash
bond in the case which fmds
him accused of allegedly
joining several others in
beating a 17-year-old male
with a steel fence post,
which left the victim with
facial contusions and one
arm in a sling.
Several others are expected to be charged in the case,
which
was
reportedly
observed by up to 12 people.
Thompson has been
ordered to stay 500 feet away
from the victim and the victim's family as a condition of
his bond, as well as to avoid
all forms of communication.
He is set for a preliminary
hearing in the case on Aug.
24.
The incident, which may
have been part of an ongoing
feud between two families,
remains under investigation
wit}). several more warrants
waiting to be served.
The destruction of drugs seized at the jail begins with an order from
County Attorney Keith Bart!ey, which is signed after the cas~s have
been adjudicated. Judges James Allen and Eric Hall then s1gn the
orders approving destruction of the evidence.
Jail destroys seized drugs
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG Floyd
County Jailer Roger Webb spent
most of the morning Thesday disposing of drugs seized from inmates
at the county jail.
The influx of drugs into the jail
creates a dangerous situation which
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(2) Orange Juice or Tomato Juice
(3) Country Gravy
places other inmates at risk, Webb
said, due to risks of drug interaction
and erratic drug-fueled behavior. It
isn't good for the inmates either, as
two prisoners had six months added
to their current sentences this year
after they were caught bringing contraband into the jail.
(See DRUGS, page seven)
�A2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~, nds
• HONG KONG- That's a
lotta roast pork buns to swallow.
Takeru Kobayashi of Japan
ate 100 of the palm-sized
Chinese steamed treats in 12
minutes to defeat five other contestants.
First runner-up Johnny Wu,
34, managed to finish a mere 47
buns.
Kobayashi, 27, has said the
pork buns posed more of a challenge than the 83 vegetarian
dumplings he downed in eight
minutes Saturday.
For his efforts, the profes-
sional competitive eater pocketed $2,574 in cash.
Kobayashi, the five-time
international hot dog-eating
champion at the Fourth of July
contest at New York's Coney
Island, holds the record of wolfing down 53 112 frankfurters in
12 minutes. A native of the
Japanese city of Nagoya, he
weighs just 144 pounds.
• ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -First,
they auctioned off a week of
their time online for a fraction
of what they had hoped to make.
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Aug.
17, the 229th day of2005. There
are 136 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 17, 1807,
Robert Fulton's North River
Stearn Boat began heading up
New York's Hudson River on its
successful annular-trip to
Albany.
On this date:
• In 1863, Federal batteries
and ships bombarded Fort
Sumter in Charleston harbor
during the Civil War.
• In 1896, a prospecting
party discovered gold in Alaska,
a finding that touched off the
Klondike gold rush.
• In 1915, a mob in Cobb
County, Ga. , lynched Jewish
businessman Leo Frank, whose
death sentence for the murder of
13-year-old Mary Phagan had
been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who had maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in
1986.)
• In 1942, during World War
II, U.S. Eighth Air Force
bombers
attacked
Rouen,
France.
• In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as
U.S. and British forces entered
Messina.
• In 1969, 248 people were
killed as Hurricane Camille
slammed into the Gulf Coast.
• In 1969, the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair concluded
near Bethel, N.Y.
• In 1978, the first successful transatlantic balloon flight
ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben
Abruzzo and Larry Newman
landed their Double Eagle II
outside Paris.
• In 1985, more than 1,400
meatpackers walked off the job
at the Geo. A. Hormel and Co.'s
main plant in Austin, Minn., in a
bitter strike that lasted just over
a year.
• In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the
last member of Adolf Hitler's
inner circle, died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison at age
93, having apparently committed suicide.
Ten years ago: James B.
McDougal, McDougal's exwife, Susan H. McDougal, and
Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Thcker
were indicted by the Whitewater
grand jury. (James McDougal
was convicted on 18 of 19
counts of fraud and conspiracy;
Thcker was found guilty on one
count of fraud and one count of
conspiracy; Susan McDougal
was convicted on four fraudrelated charges.)
Five years ago: A1 Gore
accepted the Democratic nomination for president, pledging a
"better, fairer, more prosperous
America" at the party's convention in Los Angeles. Shortly
before Gore spoke, his running
mate, Joseph Lieberman, was
nominated by acclamation.
out
that
Word
leaked
Independent Counsel Robert
Ray was assembling a new
grand jury to investigate
President Clinton's conduct in
the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
(Democrats
charged
Republicans were behind the
release of information, but a
federal judge said he was inadvertently responsible for the disclosure.)
One year ago: British
police charged eight terrorist
suspects with conspiring to
commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic gases,
chemicals or explosives to cause
"fear or injury." At the Athens
games, Romania won its second
straight Olympic gold medal in
women's
gymnastics;
the
United States took silver while
Russia won the bronze.
Today's
Birthdays:
Actress Maureen O'Hara is 85.
Actor Robert DeNiro is 62.
Movie director Martha Coolidge
is 59. Rock musician Sib
Hashian is 56. Actor Robert Joy
is 54. Rock singer Kevin
Rowland (Dexy's Midnight
Runners) is 52. Rock musician
Colin Moulding (XTC) is 50.
Country
singer-songwriter
Kevin Welch is 50. Singer
Belinda Carlisle is 47. Actor
Sean Penn is 45. Jazz musician
Everette Harp is 44. Rock musician Gilby Clarke is 43. Singer
Maria McKee is 41. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black
Crowes) is 40. Rock musician
Jill Cunniff is 39. Actor David
Comad is 38. Singer Donnie
Wahlberg is 36. Rapper
Posdnuos is 36. Tennis player
Jim Courier is 35. Actor Bryton
McClure is 19.
Thought
for
Today:
'There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the
mirror that reflects it."- Edith
Wharton, American author
(1862-1937).
Then, college-bound students Chip Davis and Chris
Pullen learned the identity of
their eBay "buyer": Davis'
mother, Mary.
"Like I'm going to let some
pedophile or whatever win? I
don't think so," she said Friday.
"I would have paid $5,000 for
the safety of those two - no
question."
The auction concluded Aug.
8. Davis, 18, and Pullen, 19,
found out Mary Davis' secret on
Thursday, dashing any hopes
that they would at least get to
travel because of the auction.
"After finding out the winner
was from St. Joseph, I was disappointed," Chip Davis said.
"But now I'm even more disappointed to find out it was my
mom."
Mary Davis used a screen
name the two would not recognize, and checked the family 's
computer in secret to make sure
she had the winning bid.
She said she planned to get
her money's worth out of the
two, who will start classes later
this month at the University of
Missouri-Columbia.
"It's a legal contract," she
said, "so the longer they put it
off, the longer the list of work
will get."
member Shanon Mills, 20, of
Long Beach. As the show continued, the actors and the audience could see more and more
bees under the stage lights.
That evening's show was
canceled as fine art division
dean Rocco Cifone and others
tried to figure out when the 400seat theater 's fly loft CO\lld be
cleared of thousands of bees.
(An exterminator armed with a
vacuum had to be brought in.)
Some cast members joked
the 1937 Rodgers & Hart musical be renamed "Bees on Arms."
"It's the first time we've had
to cancel the run of an entire
production because of, essen-
• MISSION VIEJO, Calif.
- It was the buzz that killed
Saddleback College's stage production of the musical "Babes in
Arms."
Thousands of bees invaded
an early matinee at the college's
McKinney Theatre, stinging the
lead actress and forcing cancellation of the 16-show run after
just three performances.
Julie Dixon Jackson was
stung when the bees suddenly
appeared at a matinee, said cast
iff's spokesman Kevin Doll
said. The first one back to the
studios of Tampa station
WXTB-FM, 98 Rock, would
win a trip to Los Angeles in conjunction with a new Fox show
called "Prison Break."
But after 30 or 40 calls from
"terrified" motorists and residents,
sheriff's
deputies
responded in force and took
them into custody, Doll said.
They were released after about
an hour.
"We took it quite seriously
and responded with every available deputy we had in that area,"
tially, an act of God," Cifone
said.
• LAND O'LAKES, Fla.These days, "on the loose" has a
whole new meaning in these
parts.
A radio station stunt that had
three listeners dress like escaped
inmates went awry Friday when
dozens of people called 911 and
the resulting ruckus tied up traffic during morning rush hour,
..
authorities said.
The three, shackled and
dressed in what appeared to be
jail uniforms, were competing
to try to get motorists to give
them a ride, Pasco County shcr-
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�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
17, 2005 •
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Church
• Continued from p1
McDowell ever since 1999,"
Moore said. "Families were tom
apart by this. I probably got a
big share of the blame for that
because of the stand our church
took at that time ... People today
still are not recognizing us as
being Christians. With a lot of
t Old Regular Baptists, once
you cross the line, you're on a
short list."
Ron Hopkins. who was
recently "set a ide" from the
older church, says that the 1999
split "terrified the community."
"Us members in our church
had to explaio that to our members over the years," he said.
'They'd get up in the stands and
say, 'All these people are crucifying me,' and say, 'They're
talking about us like were taking
everything and anything and not
<' ying the rules.' That really
hurt our community there."
Moore doesn't know how
many people have been baptized
in the new baptistry, but with the
church's decision to "begin correspondence" with another association, the Indian Bottom
Association, the "Sister" baptized a few weeks ago may be
the last person baptized inside
the church. Some say this correspondence is at least part of the
reason why the church has
recently split.
• Old Regular Baptist churches, for the most part, stand firm
with their traditions. Their religious beliefs include regulations
that women should not cut their
hair, that men should not keep
their hair long, and that neither
sex should wear clothing suitable for the other sex. Old
Regular Baptists are against
music and stringed instruments
in churches. They hold yearly
communion and foot washing
sessions, that, usually, only
members are allowed to participate in. They base these beliefs
scriptures in the New and
{d
Testaments
of the
Authorized King James Version
of the Bible.
When the church split in
1999, the original Little Rosa
Church was booted from the
J ew Salem Association. They
have operated more liberally
since that time, Moore said.
Dress codes and regulations
about the length of hair are not
as stringent and the church has
been using the indoor baptistry.
Moore said the church, currently independent, wants to
become affiliated with the
Indian Bottom Association
because, over the years, it has
lost "order."
Member Brenda Slone said
she believes members of the
church favor the move to go into
the Indian Bottom Association
in order to get more ministers.
"They are tired of having
church every Sunday, a lot of
members are tired of having
church every Sunday with the
same preachers," she said.
''They're hoping that with the
Indian Bottom Association,
ministers will come in and minister the word and I think it
would bring more blessing to
the church, which is good."
Slone said her only problem
with the change would be that
her husband, Joe, a Freewill
Baptist minister, would not be
allowed to preach at the Little
Rosa Church after they adopt
affiliation with the Indian
Bottom Association.
"I have had a lot of battles
with the Regular Baptist
Church," Slone said. "My situation is that I have a so-called living husband that I divorced in
1987. When I came to know the
Lord and was baptized in 1988,
they told me I couldn't get married again."
She went on to explain that
her current husband would be
accepted as a preacher by Indian
Bottom, but that he would not
be ordained to preach with
them. He preaches occasionally
and participates in communion
at the Little Rosa Church, she
said.
"My so-called living husband, my first husband, God
never joined us together," she
said. "I stood before the preacher and said, 'I do' because I was
young and I didn't understand.
When I came to know the Lord
and married Joe, I took those
vows before God ... They said
when be married me, he took
my sins on. A person could go
out and kill someone, take
somebody's life, and go to the
pen and do their time, and when
they get out, the Regular
Baptists will put you in the
stands and let you minister as
long as you haven't been married twice. You never live it
down, they always hold it
against you. That's something
that needs to come out of the
Old Regular Baptist Church.
When God forgives you of your
sins he washes them away in the churches and other born-again .
sea of forgiveness, never to be Christians to join us. Clinton
brought back before you again. [Moore] brought it up in front of
There is only one unforgivable the church to see what the
sin and that's blaspheming church felt about it. A lot of us
against the holy ghost."
spoke on it. Several of us told
Slone specifically requested him it'd be okay if the young
to extend her apologies to the man was baptized. I believe I
Little Rosa Church for an inci- told him that I would wash his
dent that apparently has some feet myself."
affiliation with the most recent
Moore apparently became
split in the congregation of the upset because members weren't
church.
"standing with him." He
"I apologize to all my broth- resigned from his position, as
ers and sisters at the Little Rosa did his assistant moderator.
Church if I caused any trouble Moore said the resignation was
. when I asked if my son, age 14, not official because it was not
could come and take commu- seconded and accepted by the
nion with us. I'm sorry if I members.
caused trouble," she said. "I
Hopkins, one of the members
love each and every one of the who "stood up and saved" the
members and I hope and pray church in 1999, and other curthat everything will straighten rent and recently ousted memout because God's will will be bers say the communion and
done. If there's anything I can foot washing question is only a
do for the church, I hope they let part of the recent problems at
me know."
the church.
Moore said that Slone called
Hopkins' biggest problem is
him and requested to have her the church's decision to take in
son, who was baptized in a Free the Indian Bottom Association
Will Baptist church, to take the and how that option came about.
annual communion and particiHe said that all members
pate in the foot washing, which were not notified of a special
goes against traditions of called Wednesday night busiRegular Baptist churches.
ness meeting and that a vote to
During the Aug. 6 business begin correspondence with
meeting, Moore called off this Indian Bottom would not have
year's communion service passed if all members were prebecause of "all of the confu- sent. Moore said that it wouldn't
sion." He now says it will be have made a difference if all
held during the church's members were called. The vote,
he said, was 36 to 23 in favor of
September meeting.
"I am against open commu- the move. Both men say that
nion," Moore said. "Nothing between 60 to 70 of the approxlike this has ever been done in a imate 120 membered-congregaRegular Baptist church. I think tion were in attendance. Those
they ought to be members of the who objected to the vote were
church. If I don't know you and "set aside."
you come to our church and I
"What happened there is that
take communion with you all they pulled a slick one,"
and wash feet with you all, then Hopkins said. ''They pulled an
how do I know you're really a illegal meeting and had an illebeliever?"
gal vote .. . These things go
Hopkins, who was "set against the past practice of the
aside" during this meeting, said Old Regular Baptist Church.
he, and others, were in favor of That church has been my histothe child's participation and that ry. My dad, Ross Hopkins, was
Moore overstepped his bound- moderator for 20 years. My
aries when he called the com- grandparents, my great grand
parents, all of their pictures are
munion off.
"It's been a normal practice hanging on the walls. My grandthrough the years," he said. parents and old soldiers of that
"They would invite other church would never go into that
association. They're trying to
take that church away from us,
and this community built that
· church. It's been a pillar of the
community, always helping people when they needed help ...
Our community, I'm telling you,
is tore all to pieces all over this
... It like the old poker saying,
and I bate to say in while talking
about a church, but l will, I think
they pulled a Sandy on us and
we didn't have enough to call
their bluff."
Hopkins, who says his religious freedoms are being sup(See CHURCH, page seven)
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17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Worth Repeating ...
"Speak out in acts; the time
for words has passed, and
only deeds will suffice. "
-John Greenleaf Whittier
'Jlmendment 1
Congress sfia({ make no (aw resyectine an esta6Cisfiment of religion, or
tfie free exercise tFiereoj; a6ridgintJ tfie jreeiom of syeecfi, or of tfie
_press; or tFie rig fit of tfie yupfe to yeacea6(y assem6fe, ana to _petition tfie government Jor a reiress ofgrievances.
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Back to basics
One in every four U.S. first-year college students is
expected to take remedial courses this fall, usually in math
or English or both. Why? Were they - or their high schools
-slackers?
In Ohio, 38 percent of college students enrolling in fall
2003 took such classes. In Kentucky, 54 percent of students
in fall 2002 were underprepared in math, reading or writing.
Colleges may always need to offer refresher courses, especially for high school graduates who take time off between
high school and college for work or other·reasons. But the
sheer numbers of college freshmen sweating through remedial courses testifies to multiple disconnects in the education
pipeline.
Most governors, including Ohio's Bob Taft and
Kentucky's Ernie Fletcher, have concluded the American
high school needs to be redesigned. The governors' initiatives are under way. High schools will need to keep innovating, but model schools already are turning out college-ready
graduates, and their "best practices" aren't top-secret. Such
schools accept no excuses for students not succeeding, and
expect continuous improvement.
Families are justifiably upset over remedial courses that
can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars and often don't
count toward a degree. Taxpayers are upset especially if
public schools are involved. They figure they're paying
twice, first for high school that didn't get the job done and
then for college makeup work. Even if remedial courses are
a profit center for colleges, they divert teaching resources,
and don't target high schools that chum out ill-prepared
grads year after year.
Ray McNulty, a former VeiJllont education commissioner
·and former senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, delivered a blunt dose of reality Tuesday to
Kenton County educators. "If you keep doing what you're
doing here in Kenton County," he said at Scott High School,
"you'll be good. But you won't be great."
McNulty now directs the Successful Practices Network
for New York-based International Center for Leadership in
Education. He broke down the bad-news numbers for
Kenton teachers and administrators: Out of every 100 U.S.
high school freshmen, only 67 graduate. Of those 67, just 38
go to college. Of those 38, only 26 attend a second year of
college. Of those, 18 receive their degree within six years.
McNulty urged the educators to "build a new box to think
in" instead of "thinking outside the box."
Schools that engage students - and parents - are likely
to produce grads well-prepared for college or work. A
Horatio Alger Foundation survey of 13- to 19-year-olds
reported this week that almost nine in 10 students said they
would work harder if their high school expected more of
them. Such claims may be partly belied by the notorious
"senior slump," in which high-schoolers slack off studies,
especially after they receive college acceptances.
Redesigned high schools need to offer more choices to keep
students excited about their interests - but not at the
expense of core subjects, requiring remedial work later.
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by JOE BIESK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - Kentucky ranks last
in the nation in education spending in
two categories - the amount spent per
capita and as a share of personal income,
according to a recent magazine report.
Kentucky rounded out the bottom 10
states in the country behind Louisiana,
Hawaii, North Carolina, Alabama,
Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Arizona
and Mississippi, according to Governing
magazine's State and Local Source Book
2005.
"It shows we're being outpaced," said
Bob Sexton, executive director of the
Prichard Committee for Academic
Excellence. "We haven't continued with
the funding commitments we made way
back in 1990. For years we've known
that Kentucky has to run harder than
other states to catch up, and it's disappointing to see this evidence that we're
not doing that."
In 1990, the General Assembly
passed
the sweeping Kentucky
Education Reform Act, which included a
$1 billion tax increase for school fund. ing.
Kentucky spends $953 per resident on
education, about 3.7 percent of personal
income, according to the magazine.
Kentucky was the only state in the country with a per capita spending on education below $1,000, according to the magazine, which bases its rankings on data
from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sext0n said the rankings were "very
disappointing" because it showed education was not ·as high a priority in the
Bluegrass State, compared with every
other state in the nation. ·
While Kentucky has hovered near the
bottom in these two categories in recent
years, the numbers show the state has
gradually slid to last in the nation.
In 2001, Kentucky came in 47th overall, with per capita spending on education at $872. But Kentucky's percentage
as a share of personal income was about
4.4 percent then. By 2003, Kentucky had
dropped to 48th in per capita spending on
education, at $977. Its percentage of personal income was 4.3 percent, which
.
ranked 40th in the country.
Lisa Gross, a spokeswoman for the
state Department of Education, said she
wasn't surprised by the numbers. Gross
noted the same publication found
Kentucky was ranked 14th overall in
highway spending.
"I am depressed by it," Gross said.
"This is something that follows the trend
that we've seen on the state level."
Kentucky educators have had shrinking budgets since 1994, when about 48
percent of the state's general fund went
to pay for education, Gross said. By
2002, 41 percent of the state's general
fund was put toward education.
"Every year we get a little less percentage wise," Gross said .
According to the rankings, Kentucky
spends about $3.9 billion on education.
And, the state spends about $7,400 per
student, which ranks 29th in the nation.
Kentucky's pupil-to-teacher ratio is 16.1,
36th in the country, according to the
rankings.
With steadily increasing costs for
expenses such as health care, less money
has been going to pay for classroom
instruction, Gross said. Those school districts that don't have large cash reserves
must then make cuts for things they can't
afford, Gross said.
Frances Steenbergen, president of the
Kentucky Education Association, said
the statistics reinforce what her organization has been preaching for years.
"More funding is needed for education," Steenbergen said. "Education is
what drives the economy, so you need to
improve the level of funding for education and. that would improve the economy."
Brent McKim, president of the
Jefferson County Teachers Association,
said some Kentucky lawmakers have not
yet acknowledged there isn't enough
mortey coming in to state government to
adequately provide for public schools.
Voters would likel~ be open to paying
more for education, if they knew up front
what the money would pay for, McKim
said.
"The reality is if we want to get out of
the basement we're going to have to
come clean with people and tell them
how bad the situation really is in terms of
funding," McKim said. ·'It's kind of ii.k:e
Alcholics Anonymous, you· have to start
by admitting you have a problem."
High School and Dove Elementary: As
you noticed, you will find caution lights
and a radar device going into your
schools. This is not the stoplight that I
was wanting to have for you by now, but
I will continue to fight for one."
Pay attention to the words "Dove
Elementary."
Where
is
"Dove
Elementary"? In my own thoughts and
after reading the recent article, was it
meant for Duff Elementary? This is not a
misspelled word, so what do you think?
I hope for the sake of Floyd County
voters that I am not right in believing the
worst scenario. If I am wrong, then I,
along with many others, will stand corrected.
I would have to see it before I could
believe anything he had to say after he
took credit for the coal-severance tax
money that Floyd County has been
receiving for years.
Whether it is Dove, Duff or Pigeon
Roost in Knott County, I doubt that our
representative is totally responsible for
the devices, anyway. The might slow him
down.
Now I understand why he thinks he
owns my property and his, too. Unfortunately, Barney Fife has been seen •
in the area.
Merlene Dingus
Martin
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Joe Biesk is a statehouse reporter for
The Associated Press.
Letter
Embarrassing mistake
In a recent article published in The
Floyd County Times, Duff Elementary
and Betsy Layne High School were
noted to have traffic-control devices
installed at their locations and asked the
public to observe the school zones. This
is wonderful news, especially at these
two schools. It was much deserved and a
long time coming.
Upon the heels of this article, state
Rep. Chuckles Meade sent email to the
teachers and school personnel, dated
Aug. 9, stating as follows:
"For the teachers of Betsy Layne
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�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
17, 2005 • A5
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Health Extra
Haynes named ARH president and CEO
WEST LIBERTY - The
AMI1-1 Board of Trustees has
named Jerry W. Haynes
President and Chief Executive
Officer for the nine-hospital
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare system.
Haynes was named interim
president and CEO for the ARH
system in May following the
resignation of former ARH president and CEO Stephen C.
Hanson.
ARH Board of Trustees
Chairman Larry Meador, who
announced the board's decision
at#he ARH board meeting in
Morgan
County,
thanked
Haynes for his bard work these
past three months as interim
CEO.
Haynes previously served as
ARH executive director of operations and has been a part of the
Jerry W. Haynes
ARH system for the past 26
years. In that time, Haynes has
held many leadership positions,
including stints as Community
CEO for ARH hospitals in
Hazarp, Whitesburg, McDowell
and Beckley, W.Va. He also has
served as chief compliance officer, system director for patient
financial services and assistant
administrator for ARH's home
services and clinics.
"I look forward to serving in
this leadership capacity as we
continue to fulfill ARH's mission and move the organization
ahead," Haynes said. "ARH's
mission is greater than health
care - our organization has a
tremendous responsibility to our
communities and the people we
serve. We must serve as a ·catalyst for improvements in our
region, including economic
development, educational initiatives,
and
environmental
enhancements. By doing so, we
can accomplish our mission,
which is to improve the health
and promote the well-being of
all of the people in Central
Appalachia in partnership with
our communities."
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare (ARH) is one of the
Top 50 integrated health care
networks in the nation. ARH is a
not-for-profit health system
operating nine hospitals, physician practices, home health
agencies, HomeCare Stores and
retail pharmacies in Eastern
Kentucky and southern West
Virginia. ARH is both the
largest provider of care and single largest private employer in
southeastern Kentucky. ARH
consists of more than 4,500 ·
employees and approximately
500 physicians.
ARH's mission is to improve
health and promote the wellbeing of all people in Central
Appalachia in partnership with
its communities.
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More than half-million Kentuckians lack health insurance
The Associated Press
~OUISVILLE - More than
a half-million Kentuckians have
no health insurance, putting the
state in the middle of the pack
nationally in the percentage of
residents lacking insurance,
according to figures from the
U.S. Census Bureau.
Kentucky ranks 27th, with 13
percent of its residents without
health insurance, the figures
show. More than 95,000 of the
uninsured are younger than 18.
The bureau's estimates have
a margin of error that varies by
state - Kentucky's number of
u sured - pegged at more
than 530,000 - could be as
much as 27,000 higher or lower.
Kentucky has a smaller percentage of uninsured residents
than the national average- 14
percent. That's almost 40 million people.
Judy Owens, director of the
University of Kentucky Center
for Rural Health in Hazard, said
the statewide figure of 13 percent seems too small.
"We see our workload
increasing, and we see the circumStances that people are in
are more complicated," Owens
said. "The demand for our services (has) never declined."
According to the center's
data, the three Kentucky counties with the greatest proportion
of uninsured citizens are Clay,
McCreary and Owsley. The
Census
Bureau
generally
agrees, but reverses their order,
reporting that fully 25 percent of
Owsley County has no health
insurance.
"There are more uninsured or
underinsured people than a lot
of the data seems to suggest,"
Owens said.
But the state's figures line up
pretty well with the Census
Bureau's numbers, said Mark
Birdwhistell, undersecretary for
health in the Cabinet for Health
and Family Services.
State and local agencies will
use the new numbers in planning h0w to oar& for the uninsured, who place a burden on
the health care syStem by driving up costs and overwhelming
some facilities, such as emer-
gency rooms. But some health
care officials say the Census
estimates understate the problem with uninsured residents,
since the most recent data was
from 2000.
Health care officials agree
that the problem of uninsured
patients is a large drain on clinics and hospitals. Kentucky
doesn't track the cost of uninsured patients to taxpayers. But
a June study published by
Families USA, a Washington,
D.C., nonprofit organization
that lobbies for health care consumers, estimates that it cost
Kentucky $679 million this year
to cover unpaid medical , costs
for the uninsured.
It also said the cost will drive
up health-insurance premiums
by more than $1,000 for a
Kentucky family with employer-sponsored coverage.
For the first time, the
Census Bureau pulled together
estimates on the numbers of
people with, and without,
health insurance, and broke
th,em down by county. The
bureau compiled the data from
five
sources,
including
Medicaid and food stamp
records and federal tax returns.
Untij now, precise numbers
have been "elusive, to say the
least," said Bill Wagner, executive director of Family Health
Centers in ~ouisville, where
patients can seek discounted
health care.
Bur the demand is real and
growing, he said.
"Every day, we turn patients
away," Wagner said. "The growing numbers are putting a strain
on our system."
Michele Wemes, 39, lost her
health insurance two years ago
when she divorced, and knee
problems forced her to leave her
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�A6 • 'l/EDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Community Calendar
Calendar items will
be printed
as space permits
Editor's note: To announce your
community event, you may handdelil•er your item to The Floyd
Coullfy Times office, located at
263
S.
Central Avenue,
Prestonsburg; or mail to: The
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to:
features@jloydcountytmzes.com. Information will not
be taken over the telephone. All
items will be placed on a firstcome, first-serve basis as space
pennits.
State AARP official
to be guest speaker
at AARP meeting
Scott A. Wegenast, program
coordinator in the AARP
Kentucky State Office, in
Louisville, will be the guest of .
Jenny Wiley Chapter No. 3528
AARP, at the meeting to be held
on Friday, August 19, at the First
Presbyterian
Church,
Prestonsburg. The meeting
begins at 6 p.m., and all AARP
members and friends are encouraged to attend.
Hale Family Reunion
The John M. Hale Family
Reunion will be held on Sunday,
Sept. 11 , at the Greenwich Coon
Hunter's Club, in Greenwich,
Ohio, beginning at noon.
Please bring a covered dish.
Tableware and drinks will beprovided. For more info., call Alma
Hopkins at419-752-6906.
Floyd County
Retired Teachers
Will host a meeting at the
East Kentucky Science Center,
located on the campus of the Big
Sandy Comm. and Tech.
College, on Sept. 1, at 10 a.m.
Clark Elem. School
Will hold a regular SBDM
Council meeting, on Thur., Aug.
18, at 6 p.m., in Adams Middle
School library. All welcome.
East KY State Fair 4-H Projects
Any Floyd County student
who completed a 4-H project in
2005 may submit the project to
the East Kentucky State Fair, to
be held Aug. 30 thru Sept. 5, at
the Thunder Ridge Complex.
Call
886-2668
or
visit:
www.eastkystatefair.com
for
entry details.
Open Animal Exhibits will
also be conducted and any student who has an animal (dog,
rabbit, chicken or goat) may
exhibit the animal at the fair.
Also, any Floyd County student, grades 3-12, may compete
in the Talent Show to be held at
the fair.
You may contact Floyd
County Extension Agent for 4-H,
Chuck Stamper, for more details.
Parenting Training
"Keys to Great Parenting"
will be offered on Friday, August
26, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the
Floyd County Extension Office.
Seminar will be taught by Dr.
Carole Gnatuk, UK Child Dev.,
Doug Burnam, UK Health Edu.,
and Theresa Scott, Floyd Co.
Ext. Agent.
Topics will include: substance abuse (affecting families),
care of self, family relationships,
early brain development and
teaching self-control.
Training excellent for early
childhood educators, social service workers, ministers, health
care providers, and those who
work with families of young
children.
Registration deadline is Aug.
19. For more info., call 8862668.
WHS Class of '59
The. Wayland High School
Class of 1959 will hold their 46th
year reunion on Sept. 4, at May
Lodge, Jenny Wiley State Park.
For further information, email to:
pslone@ charter. net.
"Creation Seminar Sunday"
Event to be held Sept. 11, at
Prater Creek Baptist Church,
Banner. Mike Riddle, of the
"Answers in Genesis" organization, will conduct seminars on
Biblical Creationism. For more
info., call Pastor J.B. Hall at 8743222; email to: pcbc@pcbaptist.org.
Hill Country Dancers
FREE square and line dance
classes for the month of Sept., in
Pikeville, at l-lambley Athletic
Center, across from Pikeville
High School. For more info.,
call Linda Frasure at 285-3994;
Novella Froman at 432-5834; or
Don Schul at 789-5712.
Jenny Wiley Bike Tours
Held every Saturday morning, 8 a.m. Meet at the flags in
front of the Jenny Wiley
Convention
Center/Marina.
Group will ride to the Johns
Creek Station (8 miles) at the
foot of the spillway where a
$6.95 breakfast buffet is avaiable. Fun ride at a relaxed pace.
Make sure bikes are in good
working condition and be ready
to ride by 8:30a.m. Others may
also arrive at the Spillway site to
enjoy breakfast or to pick up riders who do not wish to ride back
to the starting point.
More information, call 8868604 or email: profitnesscntr@bellsouth.net. You may also
visit www.multisports to view
and print a map of area cycling
routes.
Childers Family Reunion
The Childers (Childress) family will host a reunion on Sat.,
Aug. 20, at the Dewey Darn
Picnic Hollow, Shelter #3.
Registration will begin at 11
a.m.; lunch will be served at
noon. Please bring a covered
dish and cooler of soft drinks for
your family. Plates, napkins and
utensils will be provided. An
auction will be held to raise
money for next year's reunion.
This year's theme is "Our
Musical Heritage" - bring along
any instruments you may play.
All Childers and Preston relations welcome. More info., contact Naomi Cox at 740-387-5815
or Shelba Childers at 740-7472985.
Parsons Family Reunion
Reunion for the descendants
of Isaac and Louisa Parsons will
be held on Sept. 4, from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m., at the Isaac Parsons
Cemetery, located on Parsons
Branch, offRt. 979. Please bring
a covered dish; meal will be
served at 1 p.m. All family and
friends welcome. For more
info., call E. J. Parsons at 865426-7585.
UNITE meeting
The Floyd County Coalition
of UNITE has changed its
monthly meeting time and place.
The group now meets the first
Thursday of every month on the
BSCTC Prestonsburg campus,
room 153 of the Johnson
Building. The entire community
is invited and encouraged to
attend.
Holbrook, located at 143
Holbrook Hollow Rd. , in
Prestonsburg. For more info.,
call886-8481.
Rotary Club
Local Rotary Club holds
meetings every Thursday, at
noon, at the Student Grill, on the
BSCTC campus. Open to business and professional men and
women who live or work in
Floyd County. More info., contact Mike Vance at 886-2075.
Little Mud Comm. Center
The Little Mud Communi~
Center Board of Directors are
currently in the process of locating photos of old historic sites of
the area. The pictures are to be
added to the center's historic
wall. If you have any such pictures, or are interested in more
information concerning this project, call478-1477 or 478-247~.
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Notice! BLHS Class of '95
The Betsy Layne High
School Class of 1995 will host a
reunion on August 20, at the
Landmark Inn, in Pikeville. F01.
more information, call 889-9651
or 478-5014.
Joy Services - Christ United
Methodist Church of Allen
Special musical services:
Aug. 21 -Karen Crawford, 6
p.m.
FCCD 55th anniversary
The
Floyd
County
Conservation District will hold
an open house on Aug. 18, at the
District office, from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m., to celebrate their 55th
anniversary. More info., call
889-9800 or email to: conserve@mikrotec.com. The public is cordially invited.
Hughes Family Reunion
For the families of Mathias
Hughes, Linda E. and Jake
Marsillett, Mary Darcus and
John Wright, Sally and James
Marsillett, John Malcom and
Sally Hughes, Jim Henry and Ida
Hughes. Reunion will be held on
Sept. 4, at the home of Delmer
month, at 7 p.m. All are invited
to attend meetings.
Aug. 28 - Billie, Betty &
Linda, 6 p.m.
Also, on Aug. 21, 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School celebration with
potluck dinner in Wesley Gym.
HRMC Community Calendar
Aug. 25 - "Living Well with
Diabetes" support group meeting, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Place A &
B, medical office bldg.
For more info., contact
Highlands Educational Services
Dept. at 886-7424.
Attention: BLHS Class of '85
The Betsy Layne High
School Class of 1985 will host a
reunion to be held Sept. 10, 6
p.m. to 12 a.m., at the Landmark
Inn, Pikeville. $50 per couple/$25 for single. For more
info., contact Debbie Hall at 304757-2918
or
Dochallparsons@ charter. net
BLHS Classes - '65 thru '75 •
The classes of Betsy Layne
High School, 1965-1975, will
host a reunion to be held on
(See CALENDAR, page nine)
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meet the third Thursday of each
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
AUGUST 17, 2005 • A7
Church .
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pressed, opposes the fact that
members were "set aside"
because he says, in "past practice," "if they have a brother
they think is in trouble, they go
to him" rather than exclude him
entirely. He said the church
should have another vote, but
Moore stands firm with the vote
already taken.
"'
"My personal feeling is that I
really do think that my religious
freedoms have been suppressed," Hopkins said. "It's not
fair that members aren't allowed
a fair and decent vote on where
our church is going. It's very
hard and I'm very hurt. My family's pictures are on the walls
down there and all this has
. ;proke this old man's heart."
Slone said those opposing
the Indian Bottom affiliation
~
should just walk away.
"If people don't want to go
into Indian Bottom, they should
go into another church and not
cause problems in this church,"
Slone said. "In the end times,
God will call his church home."
Hopkins is also opposed to
loosing the indoor baptistry,
even though Moore says that the
Indian Bottom Association
would allow them to constmct a
baptistry outside. Slone says she
doesn't understand why any
church or association would
have a problem with indoor baptizing to begin with.
"If you're in the hospital and
you're sick or on your death
bed, they'll run water in a bathtub and baptize you," she said,
"New Salem, Indian Bottom,
any of them will do it. They' ll
baptize you and accept it. I don't
understand it. If it was me I'd
rather be baptized in a baptistry
in filthy creek water."
Another recently "set aside"
member, Floyd Skeans, says he
and his wife withdrew because
of discrimination in the church.
"Me and my wife withdrew
as members of the Little Rosie
Church in McDowell because of
discrimination within
the
church," he said. "The church is
going back to rules and regulations on God's heritage, taking
our liberty that God gave us as
born-again Christians, and we
have both lost all confidence
and trust in the leadership of this
church."
Current and ousted members
also expressed concern that the
Indian Bottom Association does
not approve of Sunday schools
for children. The church opened
one about 5 months ago and
would probably have to discontinue it if the affiliation is adopted.
Stiff regulations, Slone says,
are pushing people away. Moore
expressed the same concern,
calling some Old Regular
Baptists "unlearned" and "uneducated."
"So many of the old time
people there don't have TV's
and they don't listen to radios.
They're living in the old days,"
Slone said. ''This is 2005 and
these old people are destroying
the Old Regular Baptist Church
by running the young people out
with these man made rules. We
ought to go by God's rules and
that's the Bible. When we see all
Drugs
these churches fight and there
are wars and rumors of wars,
earthquakes and things, we're
seeing what the Bible speaks
about. The time is nigh."
Moore said the church's current problems are nothing compared to the problems they faced
in 1999 and that the church
community would "probably get
over it."
Bill Tackett, current moderator of the newly constructed
Little Rosa Church, says the differences in opinion at Moore's
church will be hurtful for a long
time.
"Everybody's got to spin
their own opinion," he said. "I
don't know what's wrong for
me or what's right for me, but I
try to uphold what the church
stands for. I don't know anybody on earth I don't want to
go to heaven with. I want
everybody to go ... It's something that will hurt for a long
time to come and it [the church]
will take a long time to heal
itself. Now that\ my opinion
and that's how I see it. Others
may see it differently. Anytime
you have a tear up in the community, it's not good. Anytime a
church falls out, it's not good ...
I wish all had a forgiving heart.
If they don' t believe in the same
thing, they should stJll love one
another. That's all I ctn tell you.
The church is a sacred place and
I love it and I love the members.
I love the world, T just doh 't
love the ways of the world. The
old saying is, 'You go to your
church and I'll go to mine, and
we' ll walk along together.'" .
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The process began this year waited until both cases were setwhen jail personnel discovered tled by guilty pleas before bringdrugs that inmates had tried to ing all of the evidence to
bring with them. In the case of Bartley's office. Webb also disLarry Marsillett, it was just a covered a bag of marijuana from
matter of patting him down a 1999 case that was included
when he arrived at the jail. for destruction.
During his check-in, guards disGetting the orders signed
covered a suspicious bulge in presented no difficulties as both
Marsillett's pants and found out District Judges Eric Hall and
that he had sewn a plastic bag James Allen were aware of the
tJ1 filled with. marijuana into his problems that drugs add to manunderpants. Marsillett had been aging the jail, which is cum~ntly
sentenced to serving weekends running at 50 percent over
at the jail so that he could keep capacity.
'
his job, but that situation, as
"We take this problem very
Webb explained, is ripe for seriously;" Allen said. "We have
exploitation and Marsillett sue- to."
cumbed to pressure from anothHall observed that work
er inmate to bring marijuana release programs have had to be
into the jail.
canceled because of problems
Another inmate, Anita Lazar, situations like Marsillett's have
was suspected of bringing drugs created.
in when staff observed her mak"It's a shame, because we
ing an inordinate number of don't like seeing someone lose
trips to the restroom after being their job, but there are pressures
booked. A search of her articles on these folks," Hall said.
revealed that she had a pack of
Webb added that a typical
!1,1 cigarettes that contained a bag scenario is that a hardened
of marijuana and over 40 pills inmate will pressure a younger
which she had brought into the one into bringing in drugs, sayjail by hiding them in a body ing that he will have his wife
cavity.
send him a money order from
Once the drugs were in the outside. The inmate has little to
jail's possession, they needed to • fear, since the work-release prisbeld await until the cases were oner is actually shouldering all
settled before they could be of the risk and is the one most
destroyed. To save time, Webb often caught.
Drugs aren't always smuggled into the jail by inmates and
Webb has had to contend with
friends and relatives of inmates
who try to leave drugs outside
the jail in predetermined locations. One instance involved a
parent who had her little girl try
to pass a box of candy to her
father through the property
intake box at the jail. The box of
"Nerds" also contained a small
bag of marijuana and four
methadone tablets.
Webb has had several
instances of drugs being left outside of the jail, with one case
resulting in an arrest.
In June, ' Officer George
Tussey, of the Prestonsburg
Police Department, arrested
Velma Sparkman, 44, of
Prestonsburg, for drug possession. Tussey had received a tip
that a woman was going to drop
off drugs behind the jail and
found Sparkman parked in the
lot. He obtained consent to
search her car and discovered a
bag of marijuana under the front
seat, which Sparkman claimed
was given to her by an unknown
woman.
Webb doesn't expect the
problem to go away anytime
soon and p.oted that his staff has
developed some skills in detecting contraband. He did observe
that people always seem to be
willing to try a new methods,
however, and his officers will
need to stay alert for new variations on ways of getting drugs
into the facility. •
Insurance
• Continued from p5
greenhouse job in March.
Wemes recently went to a
Family Health Centers clinic in
Louisville for a blood-pressure
checkup. But she can't get help
for her knee because the clinic
isn't equipped to handle her
orthopedic needs.
"It stinks," she said. "Unless
I go somewhere and have outrageous out-of-pocket expenses, I
can't really afford to have it
looked at."
Angeline Robinson, 25,
another patient at the clinic,
can't afford the health insurance
offered through her job at a
nursing home and is about five
weeks pregnant.
"I'll be stuck with hospital
and doctor's bills that I can't
afford," she said.
To The Citizens of Floyd County:
Come Back To Marlin
And Trade With Us!
The Business Community of Martin appreciates
your support in the past, and we now need it more
desperately than e~er.
Several of our businesses have been run out of
town because of the deplorable conditions that now
exist, .which are devaluating our property and
businesses. We are trying to rectify the situation,
even if we must go the courts.
The .Army Corps of Engineers, Mayor, and .City
Council continue to haul dirt and debris through town
and also not allow parking on the streets. This is
totally unacceptable to us and it's causing our customers to by-pass Martin and go elsewhere to trade!
Ref;ently, Country Village, 4-Seasons and Mountain
Methodist Mission Store have moved, and other
businesses have closed.
Martin, because of this inhumane treatment, and
unjustifiable action by the City Fathers, has become
on most instances a DUST BOWL or MUD HOLE
which is unsafe and unhealthy for its inhabitants and
businesses. Homes and businesses have already
been damaged by thousands of dollars .
. Please help us by continuing to trade with ~s. You
can help us win this fight. We will not stop unt1l those
conditions are rectified!!
Thank you,
The Business Community of Martin
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Obituanes
James Allen
((Jimmie" Conn
James Allen "Jimmie" Conn,
age 80, of Allen, husband of
Belle Reynolds Conn, died
Saturday, August 13, 2005, in
the Central Baptist Hospital, in
Lexington.
He was born January 21,
1925, in Ivel, a son of the late
George and Ruth Layne Conn.
He was a former coal miner; a
World War II Navy veteran; a
member of the Boldman
Freewill Baptist Church; a
member of the John W. Hall
Masonic Lodge in Martin; a
32nd Degree Mason; a member
of the Oleika Shrine Temple; the
Eastern Star; and UMWA Local
No. 1741.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by one son, Jeffrey
Allen Conn of Prestonsburg,
and his wife, Nancy Waddles
Conn; one sister, Alpha
Thompson
of Melbourne,
Florida; and a grandson, Logan
Allen Conn.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by five
brothers: Bob Conn, Ed Conn,
John L. Conn, Paul Conn, and
Donald Conn.
Funeral services for James
Allen "Jimmie" Conn were· conducted Thesday, August 16, at 1
p.m., in the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, in Martin, with Belmont
Johnson and Barry Clark officiating.
Burial was in the Davidson
Memorial Gardens, in I vel, with
the Hall Funeral Home, caring
for those arrangements.
Visitation was at· the funeral
home.
' (Paid obituary)
12, 2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital,
following an extended illness.
Born January 28, 1914, in
Knott County, she was the
daughter of the late Cannie and
Lillie Mae Vance Hall. She was
a homemaker.
She was twice married, first
to Noah Hall, and later to Luther
Johnson. Both preceded her in
death.
Survivors include one son,
Homer Johnson of Bevinsville;
five daughters: Hazel Wright of
Marshall, Michigan, Lillie
Johnson of Bevinsville, Faye
Hall of Kite, Sue Burke of
Martin, and Josie Snyder of
Jonesville, Michigan; three
brothers: Johnny Hall of
Pinetop, Ford Hall of Michigan,
and Arvin Hall of Iridiana; three
sisters: Cordia Bates of Pinetop,
Margie Dye of Kite and Laudie
Slone of Indiana; 25 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husbands
and parents, she was preceded
in death by one son, Carlos Hall;
two brothers: Garnie (Hawk)
Hall and Bill Hall; four sisters:
Della · Vance, Gladys Hall,
Audrey Moore, and Ellie
Proffit.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 15, at
the Little Rock Old Regular
Baptist Church, in Bevinsville,
with Chuck Hall officiating.
Burial was in the Johnson
Family
Cemetery,
in
Bevinsville, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the funeral
home, and at the church.
ODO
(Paid obituary)
Ernest Dean Hall
Ernest Dean Hall, age 65, of
D ana, husband of Ivalene Conn
Hall, passed away Sunday,
August 14, 2005, at his residence.
He was born February 22,
1940, in Tram, the son of the
late Ralph Hall and Mable
Damron Hall. He was a carpenter.
Survivors include his wife,
Ivalene; three sons: Richard
Hall and Dennie Hall, both of
Dana, and Gomer G. Hall of
Harold; one daughter, Mable
"Annie" Johnson of Harold;
four brothers: Ralph Hall, Jr.,
and Roy Hall, both of
Prestonsburg, and Kenny Hall
and Hallard Hall, both of
Banner; one sister, Emma Goble
of Shelbiana; and five grandchildren: Jason Hall, Derek
Hall, Leanna Hall, Roger Hall,
and Christy Hall.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; two brothers,
Joseph "Sam" Hall and Curtis
Hall; one sister, Catherine Hall
Tibbs; and a brother-in-law,
Kelly Tibbs.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, August 17,
at 11 a.m., at the Hall Funeral
Home Chapel, in Martin, with
Ronnie Samons and Jim Fields
officiating.
B urial will follow in the
Davidson Memorial Gardens, in
Ivel, under the professional care
of the Hall Funeral Home.
(Paid obituary)
DOD
Velva Hall Johnson
Velva Hall Johnson, 91, of
Bevinsville, died Friday, August
ODD
John Paul Pitts
John Paul Pitts, age 60, of
Martin, husband of Lou Ellen
Shepherd Pitts, died Saturday,
August 13, 2005, in Highlands
Regional Medical Center,
Prestonsburg.
He was born March 26, 1945,
in Martin, · the son of the late
Newberry Pitts and Cynthia
Thornsberry Pitts. He was a former coal miner.
He was a dedicated member
of the Faith Baptist Church in
Martin, for 11 years. He was
always there, ready to lend a
willing hand to help out in the
neighborhood, and he will be
sadly missed by his family, relatives and many friends.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by one son, Michael
Paul Pitts of Martin; one daughter, Wanda Lou Pitts of Shelby,
Ohio; one sister, Eva Whitaker
of Martin; and two grandchildren: Jonathan Merle Pitts and
Jacob Michael Pitts.
Funeral services for John Paul
Pitts were conducted Tuesday,
August 16, at 11 a.m.. in the
Hall Funeral Home Chapel, in
Martin, with Clergymen Stuart
Swanburg, Don Crisp, and Ernie
Sword officiating.
Burial was in the John Pitts
Family Cemetery, in Martin,
under the professional care of
the Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation was at the funeral
home.
Pallbearers: Tim Robinson,
Brian Shepherd, Travis Slone,
Donnie Ousley, Jason Kilgore,
Ricky Music, and Manis
Ousley.
(Paid obituary)
The family of Sharon Scott Meadows would like to
express our deepest appreciation to all our friends,
neighbors and loved ones who opened their hearts
to our family during our recent loss. Thank youj
so much for your kind words, those who brought ~
food, and those who sent the beautiful flower
arrangements.
We would like to express our gratitude to \......., ~ ~
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home, Kenny's Floris\ ..~
and Floyd County Sheriff's Department for their .
professionalism and going beyond their call of duty.
Our appreciation to Don Hatfield and Brent Tackett for
their inspiring and meaningful words. Our sincere
thanks to Brad Tackett, Donna Wells, George Meade,
Katlyn Tackett, Makaya Tackett, Marcus Gibson, and
'J'eva Jo Tackett, for their beautiful and heartfelt songs.
Th• nk you again to ~veryone. Your kindness will not
be forgotten, Sharon must be smHing from heave n.
Sadie P. Shepherd
Sadie P. Shepherd, age 81, of
Blue River, passed from this life
on Friday, August 12, 2005, in
Highlands Regional Medical
Center in Prestonsburg.
She was born January 16,
1924, in Prestonsburg, the
daughter of the late Robert Lee
and Roxie Mae Ousley Pitts.
She was a homemaker and a
member of the Goodloe
Pentecostal Church.
She was preceded in death by
her
husband,
Columbus
Shepherd; two brothers: Adis
Pitts and Manis Pitts; and a sister, Dolly Cox.
Surviving are four sons: Chris
Shepherd of Blue River, Gary
Shepherd of.Xenia, Ohio, Oakie
Shepher<J of Indianapolis,
Indiana, and Roger Dale
Shepherd of Blue River; one
daughter, Bobbie Jean Edwards
of Prestonsburg; three brothers:
Curtis Pitts of Breman, Indiana,
Vertis Pitts of David, and
Forrest Pitts of Shepherdsville;
three sisters: Opal Hicks of Blue
River, Clara Burklo of Hebron,
and Lottie Crisp of Louisville;
four grandchildren: Kevin
Shepherd, Jonathan Shepherd,
Brice Owen Shepherd and
Ragan Martinez; three greatgrandchildren:
Dessie
Shepherd, Tatum Shepherd, and
John Shepherd.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 15, at
11 a.m., in the Hall Funeral
Home Chapel, in• Martin, with
Ronnie Chaffins officiating.
Burial was in the Richmond
Memorial
Cemetery,
in
Prestonsburg, under the professional care of Hall Funeral
Home, of Martin.
Jonathan
Pallbearers:
Shepherd, Devin Shepherd,
Brice
Shepherd,
Lester
Martinez, Ricky Miller, Larry
Hicks, Gregory Burklo, Tommy
Dillon, and Edgel Shepherd.
Honorary: Mike Vance, Derek
Hicks, Johnny Kilgore, and
Lloyd Edwards.
(l'aid obituary)
ODD
Teddy B. Tackett
Teddy B. Tackett, 55, died
August 14, 2005, at the
McDowell A.R.H. Hospital.
Born June 3, 1950, in
Pikeville, he was the son of the
late George Tackett Sr., and
Ocie Tackett Younce. He was a
coal miner, and a U.M.W.A.
member.
Survivors include one son,
Eric Tackett of Sugar Camp;
two daughters: Carmella Tackett
of Teaberry, and Tedgina
Tackett of Robinson Creek; four
brothers: Freeland Howell of
Teaberry, George Tackett Jr., of
Dry Fork, Shelby, Harvey G.
Tackett and William Howell,
both of Tinker Fork, Grethel;
five sisters: Thelma H3lllilton of
Tinker Fork, Grethel, Vivian
Newsome of Indian Creek,
Virgie, Arbutis Tervey of
Elkhorn City, Stella Tackett of
Caney Hwy., Virgie, and
Mildred Newsome of Little
Robinson Creek, Virgie; three
grandchildren: Jess and Erica
Waddles,
and
Jonathan
Newsome.
In addition to his parents, be
was preceded in death by one
daughter, Tabatha Tackett.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, August 17,
at 1 p.m., at the Roberts Funeral
Home, in Robinson Creek, with
Johnny Hamilton and Luther
Hamilton officiating.
Burial will be in the Amos
Newsome Memorial, Little
Robinson Creek, Virgie, under
the direction of Roberts Funeral
Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
(Paid obituary)
home.
DOD
Thelma Cassady
Turner
Thelma Cassady Turner, 80,
of Prestonsburg, died Monday,
August 15, 2005, in the
Riverview
Healthcare
m
Prestonsburg.
Born February 16, 1925, in
Langley, she was the daughter
of the late Arnold and Martha
Ward Cassady. She was a retired
finance worker at Music Carter
Hughes, and a member of the
Graceway United Methodist
Church, in Maytown.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Roger Turner.
Survivors include a daughter
and son-in-law, Teresa and
Thomas Ebert of Cincinnati,
Ohio; two sisters: Wilma Allen
Hoovler of Phoenix, Arizona,
and Freda Nipp of Grayson; a
granddaughter, Jillian L. Ebert
of Cicinnati, Ohio; two stepgrandchildren: Brian Ebert and
Michele Ebert-Michel; · and
three step-great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents and
husband, she was preceded in
death by a brother, Austin
Cassady.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, August 17,
at 11 a.m., at the Graceway
United Methodist Church in
Maytown, with Roy Harlow
officiating.
Burial will be in the
Richmond
Cemetery,
in
Prestonsburg, under direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
in Martin.
Visitation is at the funeral
(Paid obituary)
home.
Mable Raye Willis
Mable Raye Willis, age 88, of
Langley, widow of Warner
Willis, died Saturday, August
13, in Highlands Regional
DDO
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
Cledis Wallen
She was born November 11,
Cledis Wallen, 67, of
1916, in Langley, a daughter of
Kendallville, Indiana, died
the late Marion and Susie Patton
Sunday, August 7, 2005, at
Hayes. She was a retired nurse.
Parkview Noble Hospital in
She was survived by one
Kendallville.
daughter-in-law, Pat Willis of
Mr. Wallen was retired from
Langley; two step-sons: Warner
Mahoney
Foundry
in
Willis Jr., of Prestonsburg, and
Kendallville. He attended
John Willis of Ironton, Ohi o;
Community Baptist Church,
two step-daughters: l vonelle
near Wolcottville.
Wells of Paintsville, and Peggy
He was born March 11, 1938,
Morris of Richmond; one brothin Garrett, the son of Beverage
er, Marion Hayes Jr., of
and Ellen (Wicker) Wallen. He
Ashland; four sisters: Sydney
married Audrey Goodman on
Jean Hayes of Daytona Beach,
June 13, 1955, in Kendallville.
Florida, Geraldine Scalf of.
She survives.
Atlanta, Georgia, Ethel Dudley
· Also surviving are two sons
of Langley, and Edith Wise of
and daughters-in-law: Veron
Louisville; four grandchildren:
and Brenda Wallen of Wawaka,
William David Willis, Rhonda
and Gregory and Michelle
Hughes, Melissa Willis , and
Wallen of Fort Wayne; a daughPatricia Barnette; and seven
ter, Lisa Wallen of Kendallville;
great-grandchildren.
six sisters, and three brothersFuneral services were held
in-law: Flossie and Sonny
Monday, August 15, at 2 p.m., in
Strange of Lima, Ohio, Ethel
the Hall Funeral Home Chapel,
Kline of Albion, Joyce Uhl of
in Martin, with Ronnie Chaffins
Ligonier, and Sue Lowder,
officiating.
Bertha and Bill Bryant, and Pam
Burial was in the Richmond
and, Everett Hovarter, all of
Cemetery, in Prestonsburg, with
Kendallville; a brother, Claude
the Hall Funeral Home, caring
Wallen of Hamilton; 10 grandfor those arrangements.
children and three great-grandPallbearers: Bill Willis, Brad
children.
Hughes, Zach Hughes, Jarrod
He was preceded in death by a
Willis, Mike Harris, Ronnie
brother, Clyde Moore.
Wells, and Brian Thompson.
Services will be at 10 a.m.,
(Paid obituary)
Wednesday, August 10, at Hite
Funeral Home with the Rev. Lee
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Refreshments will be served.
The family of Edna Whitt would like to express our heartfelt
appreciation to all those friends, neighbors, and loved ones, who
helped to comfort us during our time of sorrow. Thanks to all
those who sent flowers, or spoke kind words. We would like to
send a special thanks to Clergyman Tracy Patton for his comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance in
traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home for their caring and
professional service. All your thoughts and prayers will never be
forgotten.
Card of Thanks
THE FAMILY OF JOHN GRAVELY HEINZE
Card of Thanks
The family of Donald Eugene Hughes would like to acknowledge with heartfelt appreciation, all those who helped in any way
during the recent loss of our loved one. Thank you all so much for
the food, flowers, and all the acts of kindness shown to our family.
We especially want to thank Pastor Randy Osborne and Larry
Adams for their comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for
their assistance in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home for
providing dignified and courteous service. All your thoughts and
prayers will never be forgotten.
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express our sincere appreciation to all the relatives,
friends, and neighbors who helped to comfort us during
our time of loss. A special thanks to Minister Clinton
"Buddy" Jones for his comforting words, the Sheriff's
Department for their assistance in traffic control, and
the Hall Funeral Home for their kind and professional
care.
THE FAMILY OF CECIL C. THOMPSON
THE FAMILY OF EDNA WHITT
The family of John Gravely Heinze would like to extend our
heartfelt appreciation to all those who helped in any way during
the loss of our loved one. A special thanks to all those, sent
flowers, food, or spoke a kind word of sympathy to our family.
A special thanks to Dr. Floyd Price for his comforting words, the
Sheriff's Department for their assistance in traffic control, and
the Hall Funeral Home of Martin, for their professional and
courteous service. All your thoughts and prayers were a great
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}Jail Funeral Home, and the family and friends
who sent flowers and food.
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JOHN HEINZE
Card of Thanks
The family of Donald Glenn Osborne would like to express
our gratitude for the kindness we received during the loss of
our loved one.
Perhaps you sent a lovely c;ard, or sat quietly in a chair.
Perhaps you sent a floral piece, if so, we saw it there.
Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, as any friend could say.
Perhaps you were not there at all, just thought of us that day.
Whatever you did to console our hearts, we thank you so much,
whatever the pan.
A special thanks to the Old Regular Baptist ministers; the
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home; the Floyd County Sheriff's
Department for traffic control; and to the pallbearers Laryl
Branham, Mike Smith, Tony Branham, Adam Branham,
Ronny Joe Samons, Doug Johnson. and Ken Amburgey.
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Calendar
• Conti nued from p6
August 20, at the Jenny Wuey
Convention Center. For more
information, contact Sandy
Meade Scrimager at (859) 2859826, or (859) 576-5846, or,
after 6 p.m ., at (606) 478-9669.
Over 50? Need a friend?
li Then
check
out
our
Friendship Club for seniors.
Share a meal, see a movie, take a
walk, have a chat. Meet with
other seniors at a local location.
Come on out, and let's talk. For
more info., call 889-9620. The
Friendship Club is not a dating
service.
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exercise
Classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at 9:30,
at the Presbyterian Church in
,.,.Prestonsburg. Classes are held
~onday,
Wednesday,
and
Thursday, at 11 a.m. at the old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788, for
more information.
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program."
You must be 55 or older to apply.
In Floyd, call 886-2929;
Johnson,
call
789-65 15;
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike,
call 432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call 638-4067.
Interested In job training?
Are you a senior citizen on a
fixed income struggling with
soaring medical bills and living
expenses? Could you use some
extra spending money but don' t
know how to get back into the
workforce?
If you are at least age 55, the
Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP)
may be able to help. Earn extra
money, learn new skills, and help
your community at the same
time! To find out more, call:
886-2929.
External Diploma Program
Kentucky residents age 25
and older can earn a high school
diploma by demonstrating skills
learned on the job or in raising a
family. Flexible scheduling is
provided and confidentiality
maintained. Classes are held at
the
Carl
D.
Perkins
Rehabilitation
Center,
in
Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
evening classes on Thursday.
EDP classes are also held at the
Mullins Learning Center, in
Pikeville, on Tuesdays, from
4:30-8:30 p.m. Contact Andy
Jones at 606-78.8-7080, or 800443-2187, ext. 186, or Linda
Bell, at ext. 160 to make an
appointment. GED classes are
also available.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
Cliffside Community Room.
David: 1st Monday, 1 p.m., at
St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
Martin Church of Christ.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
p .m., Maytown First Baptist
Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild:
lst/3rd Wednesdays, 10 a.m.,
Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
l :30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg:
3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home of members (call 886-2668 for inf~.)
Looking For
a Support Group?
• Alzheimer's Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday of
each month at the First
··~-------------------------------------- Presbyterian
Church (near
Jerry's Restat¥ant), at 6 p.m. For
more info., call Dana Caudill at
886-0265, or Jane Bond at
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NOTE: Group will
In another case, Johnny mended that Stewart serve five
Stewart, 37, of Harold, pleaded years on the burglary charge. NOT MEET in July or August.
• Alzheimer's Association,
guilty to one count of second- They also recommended the disEast-em
KY Regional Office degree burglary, a felony charge missal of a persistent felony
24-hour Helpline, call 1-800with a 5-to-1 0-year penalty.
offender charge, which would
He was indicted in March, have increased Stew art's jail · 272-3900 for emotional support,
after reportedly unlawfully time.
entering the home of Thomas B.
The men, both repre.sented by
public advocate Julio Collando,
Francisco in February 2004.
The commonwealth recom- will remain in custody until their
formal sentencing hearings on
Oct. 7.
local resources, and other information.
• MS Support Group - Meets
third Monday of each month at
7:00p.m. at the Seton Complex,
Martin. Offers group support for
MS patients and their caregivers.
• Overeater's Anonymous
(O.A.) - Meets each Monday, at
3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha
Catholic Church, Water Gap
Road. For more info., call 8862513.
• US TOO! Prostate Cancer
Survivors Support Group - For
all men with prostate cancer and
their families. Group meets the
3rd Thursday of each month, at 6
p.m., at the Ramada Inn,
Paintsville.
• Community Weight Loss
Support Group
Meets
Thursday's at 6:30 p.m., at the
Martin Community Center. For
more info., call377-6658. Those
who have had gastric bypass
surgery most especially welcome
to attend.
Meetings being
offered as support to anyone
needing extra support in dealing
with weight loss.
• Domestic Violence Hotline
- 24-hour Crisis Line manned by
Certified Domestic Violence
counselors. Call886-6025, or 1800-649-6605.
Remember,
gram, and how you can earn an
"Love Doesn' t JI· veto Hurt."
• Kentucky Baptist Homes income by staying home with
for Children - Fn e, confidential your own children while caring
assistance for unplanned preg- for the children of others. Find
nancy concerns. Talk with some- out more by calling Cheryl
one who cares ,1ho t you and Endicott at 886- 1280, or 888your baby. Ca II I -800-928- 872-7227 (toll free) .
• East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
5242.
• Disabled? - You may be eli- Homeschoolers -Will hold
gible for grant money to assist in monthly meetings at the
your daily living. For an appli- Paintsville Recreation Center.
cation or more inf rmation, call ·For more information, cail Trudy
at 889-9333, or 297-5147.
886-4326.
• A.S.K. (Adoption Support Everyone welcome.
for Kentucky) Support group
for all adoptive pa£cnts (public,
private, international, and kinship care), foster parents and all
others interested in adoption.
To be held the first Monday of
each month, at the Department
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Unlimited Hours, No Contracts!
office, 1009 North Lake Drive,
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Childcare will not be provided.
For more information, contact
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Request for Proposals
The Big Sandy Regional
Industrial
Development
Authority is requesting proposals from attorneys/firms
interested in providing general legal services for the
five-county member authority. Respondents should
have offices in Floyd,
Johnson, Magoffin, Martin or
Pike County. Legal counsel
is required for economic
development activities related to the acquisition, de~ellt! opment, sale and/or lease of
property (both land and
buildings) in the region,
including but not limited to
the Honey Branch Regional
Business/Industrial Park.
Respondents must be able
to provide services in a timely manner and attend
Authority and project meetings on an as-needed basis.
Proposal may include a
flat hourly rate or, alternatively, a fee schedule for various types of legal services.
Sealed proposals clearly
marked BSRIDA Legal
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Services should be submitted before 4 p.m., on
Wednesday, September 7,
2005,
to: Big
Sandy
Regional
Industrial
Development
Authority,
Attention: Denise Thomas,
110
Resource
Court,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653. For additional information, please contact
Denise Thomas at (606)
886-2374, extension 338, or
denise.thomas@ bigsandy.org.
The Big Sandy Regional
Development
Industrial
1 Authority reserves the right
to accept or reject any or all
proposals received.
The Big Sandy Regional
Industrial Development
Authority is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
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but you
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BELFRY- The new Belfry
High School started out with a
price tag of $18 million, but
when the red-roofed campus
opens this week, it will have
cost at least $32 million. ·
"What ran it up, the extra
amount, was all these ball ftelds
and extra construction," said
Lloyd Fields, project manager
for the Pike County school district in eastern Kentucky.
The district wound up paying $7 million to acquire and
prepare the building site, which
has five athletic fields, including 2,500-seat football and basketball facilities for a school
v. ith about 720 students.
But Pike County schools
Superintendent Frank Welch
and others blamed much of the
mcreased cost on the state's
revised union-wage law.
"Oh man, it's killing us in
the school business," Welch
told the Lexington Hcr,dd- million."
Leader.
State Rep. Jim Decesare, RBefore 1996, public schools. Bowling Green, said he plans to
universities and local gO\ crn- reintroduce a bill in the next
ments were exempt from pay- · General Assembly to exempt
ing prevailing umon wage~ on schools and public buildings
public construction projects.
from the prevailing-wage law.
The revised law eliminated
Decesare appears to have
exemptions on such projects
~ )J11e support in the governor's
Now, school boards and county otfice.
governments are forced to JOin
"There are many within this
road contractors in paying wage administration who believe the
rates generally established by prevailing-wage law should be
union representatives.
n:vtsited," Gov. Ernie Fletcher
In the contractor's trailer ut smd m a statement. "We're in
Belfry, a book containing the process of planning our own
union-scale wages called for legislative agenda for 2006 and
truck drivers to be paid $32 to that will likely be an issue that
$34 an hour on public projects ~ill be discussed."
in Pike and Martin countie~.
Wage-law opponents drew
"We've built two new build- httle sympathy from union
ings since I've been here,'' leaders and workers.
Welch said. "We used the same
"You've got to have somearchitect and the same square body to blame, and the people
footage, but the difference tn at the low end of the pole are
labor costs (before and after the the easiest to blame," said
union-wage law change) is Gypsy Cantrell, who helps run a
remarkable - more than :Ji I U.S. Steelworkers local in
Nighbert motion says Stumbo
may be called as witness
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT - A lawyer
for Acting Transportation
Secretary Bill Nighbert said in
a motion filed in court that
Attorney
General
Greg
Stumbo's office should not be
allowed to prosecute Nighbert
because Stumbo and his
employees may be called as
witnesses.
Nighbert's lawyer, Howard
Mann, said in the motion filed
Monday that Stumbo fired the
same person that Nighbert is
accused of firing for political
reasons.
Nighbert and eight other former or current officials of Gov.
Ernie Fletcher's administration
have been indicted by a special
Franklin County gran.d jury on
charges of violating the state
Merit System law. The law prohibits hiring or firing rank-andfile state workers on the basis
of political considerations.
Nighbert has pleaded not
guilty to the three mi -;demeanors he is charged with:
political discrirninatio official
misconduct and crimi al con
spiracy.
Mann said in the motion
filed in Franklin County
District Court that Stumbo
fired Mike Duncan in ~anuar)
2004.
Stumbo spokeswoman Vicki
Glass said she could not comment on the motion because her
office had not seen it.
She said Stumbo's predecessor as attorney general. Ben
Chandler, had hired Duncan as
a non-merit employee. and
Stumbo decided not to keep
him. Non-merit employees can
be fired without explanation
and are not protected by the
state civil service law.
"We have no indication that
his job performance ~as anything but excellent" Gla~s said
of
Duncan's
work
tor
Elkhorn City.
In Johnson County, JudgeExecutive Tucker Daniel said
he is being forced to pay $28.70
an hour for general laborers at a
new justice center "when the
state Labor Cabinet knew that
an unskilled laborer here would
be lucky to make $8 an hour."
At the Johnson County courthouse site, several workers
asked whether Daniel would be
willing to work for $8 an hour.
"I don't have a problem with
paying a living wage for that
kind of project, but to say $28
an hour is average pay for an
unskilled laborer in Johnson
County is simply not true," said
Daniel.
Daniel added that the state
hearing to establish local prevailing wages in his eastern
Kentucky county was not properly advertised. Daniel said he
learned about the Johnson
County hearing by accident
because the state labor department's advertisement for the
hearing was printed 111 a
Pikeville paper.
Chandler's office.
Duncan was a merit employee
working
in
the
Transportation Cabinet's Office
of the Inspector General when
he was ftred under the Fletcher
administration.
Prosecutors have claimed
~ighbert and two other transportatiOn officials fired Duncan
in May for actively supporting
Chandler in his 2003 race for
governor against Fletcher.
Mann has said that Duncan
did not complete a six-month
probation period and could be
fired for any reason. Mann said
Duncan was fired for poor job
performance and not political
reasons.
Duncan said in an interview
that Stumbo's staff did not tell
him his performance was unsatisfactory. He said he under-;tood that, as a non-merit
employee, he could be let go.
states and the federal government have such laws.
Contractors with unionized
laborers supported it; nonunion
contractors opposed it. Unions
have a greater incentive than
individual contractors to submit
wage data, the report said.
Cantrell says the prevailingwage hearings are properly
advertised, but "people just
don't show up for those things."
A 2001 analysis of the prevailing-wage law by the
Legislative
Research
Commission found that 32
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If You Suffered Sexual Abuse*
By Anyone Affiliated With the Roman Catholic Diocese
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Whether you're looking for ~ playful puppy or an indoor cat, the
Floyd County Animal Shelter is sure to have just the pet for you!
If any of the animals pictured here catch your eye, please drop
by the shelter to meet them, and if they've already been adopted,
to meet their friends.
yourself by November 20, 2005, any judgment in this case,
with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, whether favorable or not, will include you and you may
you may be able to participate in a Settlement Fund. The enter an appearance through Counsel.
Submitting a Census Form does not prevent you from
plaintiffs have reached a Settlement agreement with the
Diocese under which the Diocese will advance $40 million requesting exclusion or otherwise exercising the above rights.
from its assets into a Settlement Fund. The Diocese is also You must submit a timely Census Form to participate in the
pursuing a claim against its own insurance carriers in the Settlement.
Federal Court to compel them to pay an additional $80
million for the benefit of claimants into the Settlement Fund Fairness Hearing
and to reimburse the Diocese for its $40 million advance. The Court will hold a Fairness Hearing to decide whether
The Diocese's claim against the insurance carriers is still the Settlement is fair and the amount of fees Class Counsel
may receive. The Fairness Hearing will be held on January
pending and the outcome has not yet been determined.
The Parties have agreed upon four categories of injury 9, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. in the Courtroom of Judge John W.
and specified the range of compensation to be paid in each Potter at the Boone County Kentucky Circuit Coun in
category. The Settlement Fund will provide payments to Burlington, Kentucky.
You may comment on and/or object to the Settlement.
claimants from the Diocese's $40 million advance and from
monies obtained from the Diocese's claim against its Comments and/or objections along with supporting papers
insurance companies. The maximum amount of monies in must be filed on or before December I9, 2005 with the Clerk
of the Court, Boone County Circuit Court. 6025 Rogers Lane,
the Settlement Fund will be $I 20 million.
The Diocese will be reimbursed by the Fund for any Room 141, Burlington, KY 41005-815 I.
Copies of all such papers also mu~t be served by the same
amounts recovered from its insurers that exceed $80 million.
The amount of the actual payments to a particular claimant date upon the following attorneys:
will depend on ( 1) the total amount of the Settlement Fund, • Class Counsel: Stanley M. Chesley and Robert A.
Steinberg, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co.,
(2) the number and nature of the total claims submitted and
L.P.A., 1513 Fourth & Vine Tower, One West Fourth
(3) the nature and extent of the individual claimant's injury.
Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
If any funds remain unused after all claims and expenses are
paid in full, the remaining funds will be returned to the • Defense Counsel: Carrie K. Huff, Mayer, Brown, Rowe
& Maw L.L.P., 7 1 South Wacker Drive. Chicago, lL
Diocese or its insurers. Under the agreement there will be
60606.
no injunctive relief.
To preserve your rights to participate in the
Settlement or any further proceeding, victims must take Confidentiality of Class Members' Identities
immediate action. You must immediately complete the The Court has ordered the parties to keep the identity of
Confidential Census Form below and send it to Class Class Members confidential to the extent reasonably
possible. Names of Class Members are not currently a matter
Counsel no later than November 10, 2005.
of public record.
People Who May Benefit From the Settlement
Further Inquiry and Inspection of Papers
You are a Class Member if:
• a priest, a member of a religious order, or anyone else 11lis Notice provides a general description and does not cover
assigned to or employed by the Diocese of Covington or all of the issues and proceeding to date. If you wish to learn
any Diocesan parish or institution subjected you to acts more about this action, contact Class Counsel at the address
or telephone number below. You also may visit the
of sexual abuse at any time in the past; and
information Web site www.covingtonkydioceseabuse.com.
• you were a minor when the abuse occurred.
You may download a copy of the detailed Notice and the
You have the right to exclude yourself from the Class if (1) Confidential Census Fom1 at the Web site.
The Court tile is available for inspection at the offices of
you were abused before 1956, (2) you were abused by
someone other than a priest or member of a religious order, the Boone County Circuit Clerk 6025 Rogers Lane, Room
or(3) you were born after0ctober2 1, 1980.You may obtain 14 I, Burlington, KY 4 I005-8151. Do Not CaU or Write to
an exclusion form from Class Counsel. Unless you exclude the Judge or the Clerk of the Court.
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This Saint Bernard is a three year old female, pure bre~ animal named Sophia.
She is a little rambunctious and needs lots of exercise.
The Floyd County Animal Shelter is located at
Sally Stephens Branch. in West Prestonsburg
The shelter is open from 10:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday, and 10:00
to 3:00 Saturdays, and can be reached by phoen at (606) 886-3189.
This ad paid for by Pillersdorf, DeRossett and Lane Law Offices in
Pre~toncbur~ reachable at (606) 886-6090 or at 1-800-725-4861.
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To participate in the Settlement or any further proceeding, victims mLL~t take intmediate action. You must complete
and send this Confidential Census Form no later than November 10, 2005 to: Class Counse.l Stanley l\1. Chesley
& Robert A. Steinberg, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co. L.P.A., 1513 Fourth & Vme Tower, One West
Fourth Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202, 1-888-609-4826.
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BUSINESS/PROFESSIONS
Citizens National Bank donates $5,000 to college
PAINTSVILLE - Dennis
Dorton, president of Citizens
National Bank, presented a
ilteck for $5,000 to Dr. George
:D. Edwards, President of Big
Sandy
Community
and
Technical College to help sponsor the annual Bluegrass Benefit
Concert, which will feature
Charlie Sizemore for the third
year in a row.
Sponsors
like
Citizens
National Bank make it possible
for the money raised by the concert to go entirely to fund scholarships and other needs of students and the college. CNB has
sponsored the event for the three
years that it has been in exis'!nce. Dennis Dorton serves on
various committees at BSCTC,
including the Big Sandy College
Educational Foundation, Inc.
Citizens National Bank is
located in Johnson, Floyd and
Magoffin Counties and presently has 11 locations. Their dedication to education in the Big
Sandy area has helped to make it
possible for many students to go
to college who would otherwise
have been unable to go.
Any person or business that
wishes to donate to the college
or fund a scholarship or endowment should contact Judy
Bocook at 606-886-3863 ext.
67369. A gift of scholarship is a
gift that goes on giving for generations to come.
FOR SALE-At. 1210, Caney, near Alum Lick.
3 bedrooms, 2 baths, like new. $105,000.00.
Call 606-874-1668
Dr. George D. Edwards, president of BSCTC and Dennis Dorton,
president of CNB
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Success of Back to School Health Fair
MARTIN - Allen Central
High School was the host school
for the seventh annual Back to
School Health Fair held
Wednesday, July 27. Three huned and eighty-three students
participated in the event.
The fair is a collaborative
effort of Our Lady of the Way
Hospital,
Floyd
County
Schools, Floyd County Family
Resource
Youth
Services
Centers, Floyd County Health
Department, Kentucky State
Police Post 9, Mountain
Regional Prevention Center,
Community Based Services,
Big Sandy Community and
Technical College Dental
Assisting I Dental Hygiene
Integrated Program, Wal-Mart,
t raceway United Methodist
Church and other area businesses, organizations and volunteers.
"This is a wonderful event
for all Floyd County students,"
said Sharon Collins, Allen
Central High Youth Services
Center director and chairperson
of the Back to School Health
Fair committee. "It warms your
heart to see how the fair benefits
so many."
"The fair has surpassed what
we envisioned it would be,"
stated Neva Francis, Our Lady
of the Way Hospital's director of
community outreach. "When
Billie Turner (Our Lady of the
Way Hospital's VP Clinical
OperationsiCNO) brought the
idea to me eight years ago, we
knew that it would be a wonderful event, but we did not expect
it to grow into the event that it is
today. It has been a pleasant surprise."
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital and the Floyd County
Health Department were on site
to conduct physicals. Also in
July, Our Lady of the Way
Hospital conducted 151 athletic
physichls for Floyd County student athletes.
Floyd County Schools conducted hearing tests and child
identification was provided by
Floyd County Schools Safe and
Drug-Free
Program,
Prestonsburg
Elementary
Family
Resource
Center,
Rainbow Junction Family
Resource Center and the
Kentucky State Police, Post 9.
School supplies were available
through the Floyd County
Family
Resource
Youth
Services
Centers
and
Community Based Services.
Mountain
Regional
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College Dental Assisting I
Dental Hygiene Integrated
Program and Our Lady of the
Way Hospital provided information booths and treats.
Area hairdressers donated
103 haircuts and a variety of
products that were given away
by random drawings.
Graceway United Methodist
Church , along with Floyd
County Family Resource Youth
Services Centers, provided
clothing, household items and
toys for 411 people.
Students enjoyed listening to
the variety of music that Brutis
the DJ provides. Brutis the DJ
has been an integral part of the
Back to School Health Fair
since 2000. He was assisted by
Dustin Fitch.
Young ones enjoying the fair.
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GOVERNMENT FORECLOSURE SALE
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 AT 11:00 A.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
108 JOCKEY HOLLOW, AUXIER, IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
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taxes and develop personal tax-saving
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The minimum acceptable bid for this property will be $16,750.00
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consists of a living room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a nook. Tills property IS cons1de~ed smtable for the
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property or for resale after repairs.
Payment of the current year's property taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser.
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LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, September 1, 2005, at 11:00 am., at the property site, at 108 Jockey Hollow, Auxier, in Floyd County,
Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $35,221.06 principal, plus an interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of $19,349.04, plus interest
in the amount of $2,725.30 as of December 22; 2004, and interest thereafter on the principal at $7.8825 par day from December 22, 2004,
until the date of this Judgement, plus interest to the date of Judgement amount {principal plu~ interest to the date of judgment) at the rata of
2. 77% computed daily and compounded annually, until paid in full and for the costs ~I thts act1on, pursuant to Jud~ement and Order of Sale,
being Civil Action No. 04-428 DCR on the Pikeville Docket of the Unite~ States D1stnct Court for the Eastern Dtstn~t of Kentucky, entered o~
January 3, 2005, 1nthe case of United States of America vs. Eloise J. Cline, nlk/a Elotse Blackburn, et al., the followtng descnbed property wtll
be sold to the highest and best bidder:
House and Jot located at 108 Jockey Hollow, Auxier, Floyd County, KY. Being the same property conveyed by Deed dated September 9, 1994,
and recorded in Deed Book 391 Page 512 in the Floyd County Clerk's Office.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (10%) of the bid price (in the form of a Certified Check made payable t~ the U.S. Marshal) on t~e day of sale
with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 1.83% per annum until patd, due and payable In s1xty (60) days
and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, the deposit shall be forfe!ted ~nd retained by the U. S.
Marshal as a part of the proceeds of the sale, and the property shall again be offered for sale sub1ect to conftrrnatlon by the Court.
This sale shall be in bar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate claim, dam_and_or equity of redemption of the delendant(s) and of all
laiming by through under or against them, provided the purchase pnce IS equal to two-thuds of the appratsed value. If the
~~;~~~~ecprice is not equal to two-thirds of the appraised value, the Deed shall contain lien in favor of the d~fendant(s), reflecting th~ right of
the defendant(s), to redeem during the period provided by Jaw (KRS 426.530). Under law, the purchaser IS deemed to be on not1ce of all
matters affecting the property of record in the local County Clerk's Office.
Inquiries should be directed to:
PEGGY T. MEADE, Rural Development Manager
Rural Development
Prestonsburg, Kentucky - Telephone: 606-886-9545
•
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17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds
II Continued from p2
said Doll, adding that Florida
law would have allowed
motorists and deputies to shoot
the masquerading inmates if
they were seen to pose a threat.
A message left with the radio
station wasn't returned.
•
LOS ANGELES Carlita the caiman is making a
big splash - and not just in the
lake.
The 200-pound, crocodilelike ciitter is an unqualified hit
with the humans who used to go
to Ken Malloy Harbor Regional
Park simply to feed the ducks.
Now, they're feeding Carlita,
named for his love of the tortillas being tossed his way along with French bread and
jelly doughnuts.
"They' 11 swallow anything,
and if they can' t swallow it,
they'll tear pieces until they can
eat it," said Jarron Lucas of the
Herpetologist
Southwestern
Society.
Lucas' group, at the request
of park rangers, is trying capture
Carlita, then give it a home at
Los Angeles Zoo. That could
take a month, officials say. A
gardener spotted it Friday.
Cousins to the crocodile,
caimans are mostly found in
Central and South America.
Experts believe Carlita, estimated to be as long as 8 feet, was
released by its owner.
''They pick up this little reptile that looks really cute when
it's little. But when it gets big
and starts looking and acting
scary, they don't want it any
more," Lucas said.
On Sunday, visitors intently
watched for Carlita through
binoculars and had video cameras ready to roll. Officials kept
them 80 feet from shore behind
yellow police tape.
"It's such an urban area, people just don't see wildlife and
people run across it, and they're
like, 'Oh, nature!' It scares
them," said Bonnie Lea, a member of the herpetologist society.
• IRWIN, Pa. -Do you
want fries with those vows?
Ken Sinchar and Lori
Sherbondy have heard that and
every other fast-food joke since
they announced plans to marry
at a McDonald's drive-thru,
where they fell in love four
years earlier.
On Monday night, Sinchar
rolled through the drive-thru in
his white minivan, just as he had
done day after day, hoping to
chat with "that blue-eyed
brunette named Lori."
But on this night, Sinchar
rolled down his window,
Sherbondy slid open hers and
the couple grabbed hands as a
district judge pronounced them
husband and wife.
Sinchar was expecting to
pick up a Big Mac, not a date,
the flrst time he pulled through
the Norwin Towne Shopping
Center McDonald's.
"I didn't used to go for fast
food, but I looked at that woman
in the window, and wow! I came
back every lunchtime after
that," said Sinchar, a 38-yearold floor installer.
Sherbondy,
42,
who's
worked at the restaurant for
eight years, said Sinchar made
an impression, too.
"He's the only man I ever
flirted with," Sherbondy said.
"It got to where everyone in the
store knew when it was 12:15,
when my Hamburger Happy
Meal Man was corning
through."
eties of melon, including the
Czar Melon, in honow of
Niyazov, and the Golden Age,
meant to symbolize prosperity
under the president, the
· Agriculture Ministry said.
"There is nothing like that in
any country of the world," the
state-run Neutral Turkmenistan
daily said in a headline.
Niyazov has led the former
Soviet republic, a largely desert
nation rich in natural gas, since
1985 as Communist Party
chief. He was elected president
in 1992 in the wake of the
Soviet collapse, and has since
• ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmens love their
melons, so it only stands to reason that their leader should
establish a day to honor the
favorite fruit of the former
Soviet Republic.
"Let the life of every Turkmen be as beautiful as our melons," President Saparmurat
Niyazov said in a statement
Sunday congratulating his fellow
citizens on Turkmen Melon Day.
The sun-drenched Central
Asian nation grows 500 vari-
created a personality cult around
himself.
Niyazov's image adorns
buildings across the country of
4.8 million people, and a gold
statue of him in Ashgabat rotates
to always face the sun. He has
renamed months of the year after
himself and his family.
Stumbo
• Continued from p10
"It was totally understandable and predictable," Duncan
said.
Mann said in his motion that
he intended to call Stumbo
prosecutors to show that
Duncan's unsatisfactory performance in the attorney general's
office continued in the transportation agency, prompting his
flring there.
Mann said that state law
allows for disqualification of a
prosecutor who "is likely to be
a material witness in the proceeding."
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Toyota Corrollas
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·Wednesday, August 17, 2005
SECTION
Sports Editor
Steve LeMaster
fhone: (606) 886-8506
Fw;: (606) 886-3603
Members:
Associated Press
Kentucky Press Association
National Newspaper Association
SIDESPORTS
P'burg Media Day • page B2
Georgetown Football • page B2
Stewart wins again • page B4
UK FOOTBALL
FANS' DAY
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"The ~SI source for local and regional sports news"
CONCORD, N.C. - Chip
('janassi Racing with Felix
~abates (CGRFS) announced
today its complete 2006 driver
lihe up for its NASCAR NEXJ1!L Cup programs. The multic'ar team will expand its
Concord-based racing stable to
foUr NEXTEL Cup Series teams
in 2006 with drivers Casey
Mears, Reed Sorenson, Jamie
McMurray and David Stremme
piloting the Dodge Chargers.
Floyd County native Loren
Ranier heads Ganassi's driver
development program.
He is the son of a legendary
car owner who once owned cars
driven by the father-son duo of
Bobby and Davey Allison, and
Cale Yarborough, among others.
"I'm extremely excited about
our 2006 driver line-up," said
team owner Chip Ganassi. "We
began working toward this goal
in 2002 when Felix and I signed
David, and it continued with the
addition of Reed, Jamie and
Casey in 2003. This is a testament to Loren Ranier and our
driver development program as
well as our unparalleled sponsor
services team and the investments we've made over the past
few years to achieve our goal of
a four-car operation. It is my
belief that these four drivers will
help us accomplish our mission
of winning races and adding
value to our sponsor partners."
Mears will continue his driving duties with CGRFS in
2006, but will pilot the
Homel23 Dodge Charger for a
full season with backing from
one of America's largest
providers of home mortgage
loans, New Century Mortgage
subsidiary Home123. Mears is
set to begin his fourth year with
. cing authority
.adopts stricter
penalties for
medication use
Email: sports@floydcountytimes.com
JCHS to host
scramble at
StoneCrest
TIMES STAFF REPORT
PRESTONSBURG - The Johnson
Central High School boys' basketball
program will host a golf scramble at
StoneCrest Golf Course 011 Saturday.
Sept. 10. The event will get underway
with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. The
entry fee for the event is $7'i per player
or $300 per team with a four· player-perteam limit. Registration is available prior
to the event or on the day of the event,
from 10 a.m.-noon.
Cash prizes as well as trophies will be g~ven
to the first-, second-, and third-place teams.
Prizes will also be awarded for closestto-the-pin and longest drive. The slfamble
will also implement a skut hole. All proceeds from the event will benctit the
JCHS boys' basketball program. For more
information, contact JCHS head basketball coach Mark Starns at 789-2500 or via
email at mstarns@johnson.k12.ky.us.
A former assistant coach at Mason
County High School, Starns is set to enter
his first season at the helm of the JCHS
boys' basketball program. An experienced coach, Starns also spent some time
with the NBA's Boston Celucs.
(Sec RACING, .page two)
SFHS cheerleaders win
a ards during summer camp
Cheerlead~rs
Association selects award wmn~rs at each of the over 1,1 00
~AJilPS it administers each sum-
mer.
• The South Floyd High
ol cheerleaders received
the following awards:
• National Championship Bid
Winn r - This trero.eu.dous
(See GANASSI, page two)
Wednesday, Aug. 24
• 3 p.m.- Food City 150 Qualifying
(Hooter's Pro Cup)
• 5:30p.m.- O'Reilly 200 Qualifying
(Craftsman Truck Series)
• 7 p.m. - Start Of Food City 150
• 9:15p.m.- Start Of O'Reilly 200
Thursday, Aug. 25
• 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. - Track Laps For Kids
(BMS, On Track)
• l p .m. - 9 p.m. - Food City Race
Night (State Street)
• 6 p.m. -Eastman Motorsports
Auction (BMS, Bruton Smith Building)
• 9 p.m.- Blue Lizard NASCAR
Transporter Parade (Starts At Bristol Mall)
Friday, Aug. 26
• 4:40 p.m. - Food City 250 Qualifying
(Busch Series)
• 6:10p.m.- Sharpie 500 Qualifying
(NEXTEL Cup Series)
• 7:50p.m. -Start Of Food City 250
Saturday, Aug. 27
• 12:30 p.m.
Tyson Charity Fun
Walk (BMS, On Track)
• 7:40p.m.
Start Of Sharpie 500
LEXINGTON - Kentucky
joined 15 other states Monday in
adopting a model rule that limits
dnlgs and medications that can
~ administered to a thoroughbr
on a race day and sets
penalties for violators of the rule.
·' The policy, approved by an
unanimous vote of the Kentucky
Horse Racing Authority during a
rlieeting at The Red Mile, is
b.ased on a rule promoted by the
national Racing Medication and
Testing Consortium, a group trying to establish a national uniform medication policy.
Connie Whitfield, the vice
chairwoman of the racing authority and the chairwoman of the
Kentucky Equine Drug Research
neil, an advisory group that
recommended the policy, said
l;b.Q.t Kentucky will have "the
tOughest, most comprehensive
penalties in the nation" and
called the adoption of the rule "a
bjgh-water day for our state."
Under previous policies
a9ppted by the now-defunct
Kentucky Racing Commission in
1998 and 2002, Kentucky had the
nation's most "liberal and permiss·ve" rules for equine medicaIii> s, racing authority executive
ctor Jim Gallagher said.
''Those policies never went
tht~gh the proper administrative
review process, were not subject
to public review or comment and
were never reviewed by the
appropriate legislative commitfees," Gallagher said. "But they
wete applied as if they had been."
Gov. Ernie Fletcher abolished
the racing commission in January
~ and replaced it with the racing authority. Fletcher had
encouraged the adoption of the
tougher medication rules.
Authority chairman Bill
S~eet said that the regulation
· ted Monday likely would
~Y. given emergency status,
~®aning it would take effect as
~qon as it was signed by
fletcher. But for the regulation
tq become permanent, it must go
~~pugh the ordinary legislative
pfocess, Street said .
• The Kentucky Horsemen's
The South Floyd High
School cheerleaders recently
returned from a National
Cheerleaders Association summer camp held at the University
of Kentucky campus. The
2006 behind the wheel of the
No. 41 Target Dodge. The 19year-old rookie will remain the
driver of the Discount Tire
Busch machine next season, and
will benefit significantly from
running a full slate of Busch and
Cup Series races in 2006.
As previously announced,
Strernrne will be piloting the No.
40 Coors Light and No. 40
Race Week Schedule Of
Events
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TIMES STAFF REPORT
CGRFS next season after serving as driver of the No. 41
Target Dodge since 2003.
Having already notched victories at Nashville and Gateway,
and establishing himself a
championship contender in his
first full season of NASCAR
Busch Series racing for CGRFS
in the No. 41 Discount Tire
Dodge, Sorenson's reward will
come in the form of a full-time
NEXTEL Cup Series ride in
Bristol Motor
Speedway
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Lifestyles • page C1
. Yesterdays • page C2
Classifieds • page C4
Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates announces 2006 driver lineup
"TIMES STAFF REPORT
N~tional
INSIDEST
accomplishment is awarded to
the team Bid Winner exemplifying the best technical skiq and
cheerleading technique. This bid
is extended to teams to compete
at the NCA Senior and Junior
High
School
National
Championship or the NCA Allstar National· Championship,
both held in Dallas, Texas.
Team Award - This award is
given to a team for exemplifying
the qualities on which NCA was
built. Leadership, values and
teamwork are an integral part of
cheerleading.
The South Floyd High School boys' va~sity cheerle~d
ers enjoyed a successful su~mer that mcluded partJC·
ipation in an NCA camp. Ra1der cheerleaders brought
back several awards from the camp.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Cheerleaders
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• Continued 1rom p1
Stunt Smart Award - This
award IS for displaymg excellent skills in spotting and stunt
echnique, outstanding effort
aud team safety.
Technical ExcellenCl' Tills
award is for dic;playing c;uperior
-;kills dwing the NCA evaluation.
Spirit Stick Winner
Presented to the squad showing
the most sincere spirit and
-:-nthusiasm throughout the
entire week at camp. This
award is voted on-by all teams.
All-American Nominee Outstandmg individuals who
display strength in cheer
motions and technique. lcaderc;hip ability and/or overall atti
tude at camp. These individuals
are eligible to perform at various NCA Special Events. All of
the South Floyd Cheerleaders
were nominees for the AllAmerican honor.
All-American
Team
Member- The most prestigious
award in cheerleading today.
Participants vying for AllAmerican status are judged on
motion technique, jumps, tumbling, spirit and enthusiasm,
voice projection and overall
crowd appeal. These individuals are eligible to perform at
various NCA Special Events.
The South Floyd High School
cheerleader voted to the AllAmerican Team was Whitney
Tackett. She is is the daughter
of Gene and Diann Tackett of
Weeksbury.
Ganassi
• Continued from p1
Lone~tar Steakhousc & Saloon
Dodges for 2006 in the NEXrEL Cup Se1ies for CGRFS.
Stremme, the 2003 NASCAR
Busch Series Rookie of the
Year, will be making a run at the
1\ffiXTEL Cup Rookie of the
Year
honors
alongside
Sorenson. And 1f last weekend's
Busch Series performances at
Indianapolis Raceway Park
were any indication of things to
come, the two will have plenty
for the competition as they
stand third (Sorenson) and
eighth (Stremme) in the championship standings.
As the team's leading contender for 2005's edition of
"The Chase for the NEXTEL
Cup," McMurray (11th) will
agam pilot the No. 42
Texaco/Havoline Dodge in his
fourth year of tenure at
CGRFS. The former NEXTEL
Cup Series race winner will
return to the familiar black and
red Dodge Charger with the
Texaco/Havoline sponsorship
he's enjoyed every season at
CGRFS since joining the squad
in 2003.
MEDIA DAY
photos by Jamie Howell
The Prestonsburg High School football program held its annual media day activities Sunday
evening at Josh Francis Field. Senior football players and cheerleaders were a part of the activities.
Rac~ng
----- - - -
Benevolent and Prowc;llW
Association has campaigned
against the changes. and that
organizat10n 's executive direc
tor Marty Maline satd it
opposed givmg emergency stahl s to th~: rule.
· We felt n is nece~:>ary that
horsemen be given an opportunil)' 101 a fait and open hearing
on thi~." Maline said.
The most notahle change in
Kentucky ~ rules will be that
race-da)' medi~:ntions will be
limited to onl anti-bleeding
drug - Salix formerly called
Lasix - and one adjunct bleeder medication Also. a single.
non-steroidal, anti inflammatory drug can be administered 24 '
hours before post ti~e. Under
the former rules, more than one
such dtug could be given up to
four hours before post time.
The rule includes a specific
drug classification schedule,
upon which penalties for violations will be based, Gallagher
said. The three classes arc drugs
that have no Jegitin1ate usc in the
horse, drugs that have a legitimate use but have high potential
to influence the horse's performance and therapeutic medications v.-11h low potential to influence the horse's performance.
Whitfield said the racing
authority could soon adopted a
similar rule for standardbred
racmg in the state.
Another major
for Mickelson
by DOUG FERGUSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. - Phil
Mickelson delivered another dramatic finish in a major on
Monday, flopping a chip out of
deep rough to 2 feet for a birdie on
the final hole and a one-shot victmy in the PGA Championship.
The putt wasn't nearly as
long as his 18-footer to win the
Masters last year, and there was
no need to jwnp for joy this time.
Still, it was a sweet conclusion to a major championship
season that had gone sour until
he put together his best golf of
the summer stretched over five
days at Baltusrol by a stormdelayed final round.
It was the first Monday fmish at the PGA Championship in
19 years. And not since 1986 at
Inverness had a player from the
last group won with a birdie on
the 72nd hole at the fmal major.
Bob 1\vay got his by holing a
bunker shot to deny Greg
Norman. Mickelson's chip from
about 50 feet wasn't nearly dramatic, but it was no less effective.
Steve
Elkington,
then
Thomas Bjorn, came to the 554yard closing hole with a chance
to make birdie. Elkington
grazed the left edge of the cup
from 10 feet. Bjorn pulled his
second shot into the left bunker
and blasted to 20 feet, his putt
looking good all the way until it
caught the inside edge of the
cup and spun out.
Mickelson was 247 yards
away, some 10 yard~ behind
the plaque in the fairway that
commemorated the 1-iron Jack
Nicklaus hit to the green in
1967 to win the U.S. Open. He
tapped it twice with his 4-wood
for luck, but the shot came up
short in grass that covered the
tops of his shoes.
The flop came out perfect,
and Mickelson raised his arms
and lightly pumped his fist
twice. The final putt was merely a tap-in, giving Lefty another year with a major trophy.
"It was a shot that I struggled with out of the rough this
week," Mickelson said. "I tried
to remember some of the shots
I hit as a kid in my backyard. I
hit it aggressively, and the ball
popped up nicely, and it rolled
smoothly."
Mickelson closed with a 2-over
72, playing the final four holes
Monday rooming at even par.
He joined Tiger Woods,
Nick Faldo and Curtis Strange
as the only players in the last
20 years to win majors in consecutive years.
·"If there's anybody you'd
back to get up-and-down from
there, it's Phil Mickelson,"
Bjorn said. "He's not a onemajor guy, he's a 10-major guy.
And it's going to be easier and
easier for him to win them now."
Mickelson finished at 4under 276 and earned $1.17
million for his fourth victory of
the year, matching Woods and
Vijay Singh for the most on the
PGA Tour this year. He also
moved al1ead of Ernie Els to
No. 3 in the world rankings.
Elkington shot 71 and Bjorn
had a 72, both leaving Baltusrol
haunted by missed chances.
"There's a lot to be said to
be the last guy out there, having the final say," Elkington
said. "Thomas and I both had
good chances to birdie 18 and
couldn't do it."
His par to finish at 3-under 277
meant Woods was free to leave.
Woods finished birdiebirdie Sunday afternoon before
thunderstorms arrived and had
to wait to make sure the halfdozen guys still on the course
and in contention didn't falter.
He wound up tied with
Davis Love ill for fourth, two
shots behind. Woods has to settle for winning the Masters and
British Open this year, missing
out on the calendar Grand Slam
by a combined four strokes.
Bjorn dropped a shot when
play resumed by missing a 6footer on the 15th, got it back
with a clutch birdie on the par5 17th from 12 feet, and was
stunned when his birdie putt on
the last refused to fall.
"I had a putt that pretty
much the whole world didn't
think would miss, but it did,"
he said. ''That's what golf is
sometimes. The best guy won
this week."
Singh had an outside chance
to become only the second
repeat PGA champion in the
stroke-play era, but he missed a
10-foot par putt on the 16th
when play resumed, bogeyed
the 18th and wound up with a
74 to tie for lOth.
Love,
playing
with
Mickelson in the final group,
missed birdie chances on every
hole by either leaving himself
too far from the flag or failing to
hole the putts he so desperately
needed. He wound up with a 74.
The Monday morning finish
slightly dampened the highcharged
atmosphere
at
Baltusrol, although it didn't
take Mickelson & Co. long to
frre up the crowd in the 56 minutes of golf.
Lefty quickly rolled in a 3footer to clean up his par on the
14th, but while no one in the
three groups ahead could make
a move, Mickelson came back
to them by catching a plugged
lie in the bunker on the par-3
16th. He could only blast out to
20 feet and made bogey.
He was in the fairway on the
650-yard 17th - no longer
reachable because of rain-softened fairways_ but his 10-foot
birdie putt caught the right lip.
Once he realized Elkington
and Bjorn failed to birdie the
final hole, it came down to
Mickelson.
"I knew that I needed to
make birdie, I thought maybe to
tie," Mickelson said. "I walked
off the tee and saw par for
Bjorn. When I hit the second
shot, I knew I needed birdie to
win, which was a nice feeling."
It was especially pleasing
considering how his year in the
majors had gone.
Despite three victories in the
frrst three months of the season,
Mickelson came up empty in
the Grand Slam events. The
only noise he made at the
Masters was his flap with Singh
over spike marks. He tool.c himself out of contention at the
U.S. Open with a 41 on the
front nine of his second round,
and he tied for 60th in the
British Open at St. Andrews.
Pouring everything he had
into a major dubbed "Glory's
Last Shot," Mickelson emerged
anew as a continuous threat to
Woods' pursuit of the record 18
majors won by Nicklaus.
And he did it on a course
where Nicklaus won two of his
majors.
''This has been an absolutely
amazing week," Mickelson said.
He gathered his three children for a group hug on the
18th green and hoisted the
VVanamaker Trophy before
thousands of adoring New
York-area fans.
This time, he gave them
something to cheer.
8 Continued from p1
In
other
businesses,
Gallagher announced that
retired jockey Patricia Cooksey
will work as the authority's
deputy executive director and
will handle duties connected
with the promotion of the horse
industry in Kentucky. The 47year-old Shelbyville resident
retired last summer having won
2,137 races. She ranks second
in wins by a female jockey,
behind Julie Krone.
Cooksey was the second
woman to ride in the Kentucky
Derby, in 1984, and the frrst to ride
in the Prcakness, in 1985. She survived breast cancer in 2001 and an
April 2003 spill at Keeneland that
broke both her legs.
Phelps Middle looking
for teams for Shootout
PHELPS - The Phelps
Middle School boys' basketball team is currently looking
for teams for a Kentucky/West
Virginia Shootout to be held on
Nov. 19 at the McCoy Athletic
Complex on the campus of
Phelps High School.
The one-day shootout will fea-
ture top teams form Southern West
Vtrginia and Eastern Kentucky.
Only a limited nwnber of spaces
are available. trophies and prizes
will be awarded in each game.
For more information, contact Clay Campbell at 606/4563987 or Joshua Ball at
304/235-4242, Ext 21
NAIAFOOTBALL.NET
PRESEASON
POLL
1. Carroll College
2. St. Francis
3. Georgetown College
4. Lindenwood University
5. Sioux Falls
6. Azusa Pacific University
7. Dickinson State University
8. MidAmerica Nazarene
University
9. Northwestern Oklahoma
State University
10. Cumberland College Ky
11. Hastings College
12. Mary University
13. McKendree College
14. Morningside College
15. Montana Tech University
16. Montana-Westem
University
17. Graceland University
18. Walsh University
19. Trinity International
University
20. Northwestern College
21. Pikeville College
22. Lambuth University
23. Eastern Oregon University
24. St. Ambrose University
25. St. Xavier University
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FOOTBALL
2005 SIGNEES
Name
Pos.Ht. Wt. Cl.
BTISdwot
Nick Blair RB 5·7 170 Fr. Norlh Laurel
Casey l3olesgaOL 6>-1 235 Fr.
Roncalli
DJ. Bova DB (}-0 160 Fr. Jeffersonville
GregBrusseUDB 5-10160 Fr.
Nelson
Ftic~DB 5-11 180Fr
Lou.Chris.
R.OOertOI!rM TE t\..0 190 Ft.
Clar.k Co.
Mttl C.
LB t\..3 219 Fr. Cincinnati Hills
~
·Billy Cobb LB t\..3 225 Fr.
Roncalli
Pe!P4-Co!e N 6·0 240 Fr
Canoll Co.
'PbW!pCOuchDL t\..2 260Fr.
D~yton
Mike Cox P t\..0 190 FrJe!fersvn Co. TN
MattDoooboeDB 5-10175 Fr. Campbdl Co.
Bennea GaitoWB 5-7 170 Fr. Soulh Oldham
~ Gil:aei>PL 6-2 230 Fr.Covmgron c.,th.
Josh Gross RB 5-9 180 Fr.
Rus$eU
Ol.tis HardinTE t\..3 220 Fr.
Phelps
Sam HensleyWR t\..2 201 Fr.
Ashiand
Mau Higgs OL 6-2 290 Fr.
SconCo.
RdQe JanningOL t\..3 290 Pr
Beechwood
John Ka.7.e¢ DL 6-0 220 Fr.
Boyd Co.
Cl*nKmi.mDL
Brandon L. OL
Steve Lee DL
Mike Lewis QB
Anthony M. TE
'Thshon McB. RB
Teddy M<CloeDE
Jeremy Mea<EOL
6-3
6·7
6·3
6-2
6-1
210 Fr
Holmes
320 Jlr.
Maryland
260 Fr.
Paris ~
185 Fr.
Ludlow
205 Fr. Middlesboro
190 Fr.
lliuity
240 Ft,\iildl«o-\'3·1'<•""""'
260 Fr. Fleming Co.
5·9
6-2
6·4
Dan Meko K 6-0 170 Fr.
Russell
Dust~n M.
FB 5-10 185 Fr. Beechwood
I - MoroskaDE 6-5 210 Fr.Eastern Hancock
Teal MnrphyLB 6-0 115 FtColumbu~. fud.
MaU MUITayTE 6-3 225 FtLolllwilk Christ.
O:lig Mll'>talUQB 6-2 190 Fr.
Ma.~ort
OregPeck WR6·1 185
Boylt-Co.
Bu)llllE$1
Jaeob Poner LB 6-2 190 Ft.
Boyle Co.
Brandon R. DL 6·1 240 Fr.
Kyle Riggs DE 5-11 231 Fr.
Trini•Y
John Rogexs LB 6-l 215Ft
Bell Co.
Coleman S. OL 6-0 210 Fr.
[..e-..iogton.
Scott Co. '
Ted Sberna RB 5-10185 f<r
Robert S. lU3 6-0 200 Fr
Pikeville
t>ltillip Smith DL 6-2 225 Fr.Wl\IT(ln Centt:a.L
Otlsg Way RB 6-0 185 Fr.Gxeenback, 1'N
EddieWelchRB 6-1 210Fr.Springboro(OH)
CJ. Williar11sl>.B 5·9 115 Fr.Federal Hocking
Lee Wyman K 6-0 175 Fr.
Boone Co
Zach Zuko LB 64 200 fr. Purcet Malian
Head Cuach: Bm f."ronrn
South Floyd
opens season~~
with win
TIMES STAFF REPORT
ROBINSON CREEK - The
South Floyd High School volleyball program made some significant strides last season under
head coach Keith Smallwood.
Last week, South Floyd opened
the 2005 season with a win,
defeating host Shelby Valley 2-0
(25-12, 25-14).
Megan Castle recorded 14 ~
aces to help lead South Floyd to
the season-opening victory.
Castle also had 13 digs. Katie
Cook added five aces and three
digs for the winning team.
Leslie Holbrook added two
aces, 10 assists and four digs
while Natasha Osborne and
Amber Tackett came through
with once apiece.
Steph Slone had four kills
and seven digs for South Floyd
in its 2005 debut win. Tackett
put down three kills and chipped
in one assist while Cook and
Osborne had two kills each.
~
South Floyd (1-0) was set to
host Cordia Tuesday evening at
,.
Raider Arena.
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005 • 83
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Bonds' absence impacts more than standings
by JOSH DUBOW
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN
FRANCISCO
Baseballs launched into McCovey
Cove Ooat untouched in the water
, now. The kayakers who once
•fought for Bany Bonds' splash
hits have found better things to do.
Nearby boats don't blow their
horns in celebration anymore.
And the rubber chickens that
fans waved during intentional
v. alb are mostly collecting dust.
It doesn't take a glance to left
field. the scoreboard, or the
standings to realize something's
mlssing around the San
Francisco Giants.
From depressed television
ratings to ticket scalpers giving
away seats at cut-rate prices,
ttj signs of Bonds' season-long
absence are everywhere.
"It's been disastrous," said
Ted Choi, the owner of City
Kayak, which rents boats for
fans to take to McCovey Cove.
"Basicaity, the kayak rentals are
down to practically none."
W hen Florida's Carlos
Delgado splashed a homer into
the cove last month, there was
nobody in the bay to retrieve itand with good reason, since
Michael Tucker is the ·only
Giant with a splash hit all season. When Bonds is healthy,
fans arrive hours before first
pitch to find a place in the water.
With Bonds now saying his
knee injury will keep him out of
the lineup until 2006, Lhis has
· turned into a rough year for all the
people who have made money off
the slugger's home nm records
and the victories he brings the
Giants. Game tickets are one indicator - on the Internet. they're
selling for as little as one-quarter
of their face value.
"When you've got the excitement I've created - my home
runs are a lottery ticket _ then
you've got a city that's excited,"
Bonds said earlier this season
during a particularly dcmoralizing losing stretch. "If you win,
you're going to create excitement, but you've got to win
games. You can't nor win and
expect people to come to baseball games."
As for Bonds himself, the
financial impact of his abesence
has been mixed. He's been hugely successful in licensing and
memorabilia, ranking an1ong the
top five off-field earners in baseball, according to a recent study
by Forbes magazine.
But while Bonds has publicly
dehied using steroids, he told a
federal grand jury investigating
steroid distribution by the Bay
Area Laboratory Cooperative
that he used substances prosecutors believe were illegal performance enhancing drugs, according to the San Francisco
Chronicle. Bonds' off-field
"He had a good one-year or
income has dropped since then, twQ-year run and has fallen off
according to Forbes, and he has from that level," said Kurt
lost opportunities for national Badenhausen, the head of sports
endorsement deals that typically statistics at Forbes magazine.
come to an athlete of his stature.
Forbes recently estimated
"He's gone from someone that Bonds' income from
who has never gotten a lot of endorsements, licensing and
endorsements to someone who's memorabilia fell from $4 million
likely not to get any more and to $3 million over the last year.
likely lose some that he already
Bonds still makes the bulk of
had," said Steven Levitt, the his income on the field - he's in
president
of
Marketing the fourth year of a $90 million,
Evaluations Inc., which tracks five-year contract.
"He's still doing bette1 than
the "Q rating" popularity of athletes and other celebrities.
he had during most of his
"He doesn't make advertisers career," Badenhausen said.
comfortable, that's for sure. He is "He's not necessarily a beloved
not necessarily a fan favorite these superstar that advertisers want to
days and that certainly makes attach their ride to. The BALCO
some advertisers very leery."
stain certainly affected it. But a
Bonds' Q rating, a number lot of the lack of interest in
advertisers use to help decide Barry as a corporate spokesman
who should pitch their products, has to do with his 20 years
has dropped to where it was antagonizing media and fans."
before
he
broke
Mark
Jeff Bernstein, Bonds' marMcGwire's single-season home keting agent, wouldn't disclose
run record in 2002. His negativ- any fmancial numbers, but disity rating in the general popula- puted the Forbes analysis and
tion has increased substantially, said that Bonds' off-field income
with three times as many people actually increased in the period.
Bonds has deals with more
disliking him as liking him,
than 20 companies, according to
according to the study.
In recent years, Bonds' Bernstein, including Topps,
endorsement
deals
with New Era, Danbury Mint, Getty
MasterCard Inc., Charles Schwab Images and Sam Bats. He does
Corp. and KFC have expired. much of his selling on his own
The deals he has now are almost Web site, http://www.barryentirely with sports equipment bonds.com, which has often
been the place to go to get news
and licensing companies.
Palrlleiro plays to mixed reviews
by DAVID GINSBURG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
plate in the ninth inning with
two runners on and two outs
and the Orioles trailing the
BALTIMORE
Rafael Toronto Blue Jays 7-6.
Palmeiro had just played one of
Although
several fans
most harrowing baseball games booed, many in the thinned
of his 20-year major league crowd chanted "Raffy! Raffy!"
career. He was booed by many
His 3,019th career hit could
have tied the game, and his.
~ of the hometown fans, went Ofor4 and made the final out 570th career homer would have
with the potential tying and won it, but Palmeiro instead
winning runs on base.
lifted a routine fly to right field
The maligned slugger duti- to end the game.
"I just wish we had a win.
fully spoke with a sizable
media throng in front of his We had a chance to win it in the
locker, and when the crowd ninth and I was up at tl1e plate,"
finally departed, his youngest Palmeiro said. "I thought it
son, 10-year-old Preston, gave would'.ve been a good opportunity for me to at least get a hit
him a big hug.
Palmeiro smiled, perhaps to tie the-game.' ~
It didn' t happen. But at least
for the first time all day.
On a day originally designed he had a hug froin Preston,
to honor his performance on the who was joined in the clubhouse by his big brother, IS ~ baseball diamond, Palmeiro
was simultaneously cheered year-old Patrick.
'They've always been there
and jeered Sunday for his dishonorable activity off the field. with me throughout my whole
Four days after returning to career actually, so I' m very
the Baltimore Orioles from a thankful that my wife and kids
10-day suspension for steroid are here to support me," Palmeiro
usc. Palmeiro played baseball said. "It means a lot to me."
Upon being suspended by
for the first time. He batted sixth
as the designated hitter, which Major League Baseball for
sheltered him from the 95 steroid use on Aug. 1,
degree temperature and the heat Palmeiro, 40, insisted that he
of the 30,954 fans at Camden did not know how the drug got
Yards, many of whom booed in his body. He has not
when his name was announced addressed the topic since
returning Thursday, saying that
during pregame introductions.
~
The response was more ani- his attorneys advised him to
mated when Palmeiro walked refrain from comment until
Congress concludes its investito the plate in the first inning.
Many fans stood and cheered gation of his case.
Palmeiro was supposed to
in a display of forgiveness to a
longtime contributor to the be honored in a pregame cereOrioles. Others jeered, angered mony Sunday. The celebration
that Palmeiro has yet to explain was designed to salute his
how steroids were detected in accomplishment of becoming
his system only a few months the fourth player in major
after he wagged his finger at league history to amass at least
Congress in March, vowing 3,000 hits and 500 home nms, a
before a congressional commit- feat he realized on July 15.
But the ceremony was called
tee that he never used the peroff, at Palmeiro 's request, soon
f01mance-enhancing drug.
Pal meiro drew a walk, then after he began his suspension.
Orioles interim manager
~ grounded out three straight
times before stepping to the Sam Perlozzo gave Palmeiro
three days off before putting
him in the lineup for the first
time. The move enabled the
slugger to regain his baseball
skills, and settle into an environment unlike anything he
ever experienced.
"His priority was to get this
straightened out," Perlozzo said
Sunday. "He's gone through
two-thirds of that phase; now
his next priority is playing on
the field."
Each time he walked to the
plate, Palmeiro drew jeers. But
as the game wore on, more fans
cheered than booed.
Baltimore fans have a reputation for forgiveness: They
welcomed back Baltimore
Ravens football player Ray
Lewis after he stood trial for
murder in Atlanta in 2000, and
they forgave Ravens running
back Jamal Lewis for his part in
a proposed drug deal that forced
the running back to serve a
prison sentence this summer.
' Ray Bates, 18, of Baltimore,
walked through the gate
Sunday wearing a gray
Palmeiro jersey.
"I'm here to support him. I
always loved him, I always
will," Bates said.
David Williams, 50, wore a
black Palmeiro T-shirt he
bought outside the stadium
before the game.
"I don't condone Raffy for
the fact that he cheated, but the
fact that he's paying the penalty and all that, he should be forgiven," Williams said.
Palmeiro
won't
play
Monday in Oakland, Perlozzo
said, but expects hiill back in
the lineup Tuesday. Orioles
outfielder Jay Gibbons said
Palmeiro can probably anticipate harsher treatment in
Oakland than in Baltimore.
"Obviously, on the road it's
going to be a little bit rougher for
him," Gibbons said. "[ think it's
good for him to come back today
and hear some of the cheers."
FIRST CATCHKaegan Dove,
the son of John
and Bonita
Dove, enjoyed
his first fishing
trip with great
success. He
caught the six·
pound catfish
he's pictured
holding at a
tocai'J)ay-lake.
of his rehabilitation, but also
allows the slugger to sell collectibles directly to his fans.
Bonds is successful in the
memorabilia market because
while advertisers might be wary
of him, collectors aren't.
"Controversy is not fatal for
our
hobby,"
said
T.S.
O'Connell, the editor of Sports
Collector Digest. "People are
buying historical material and a
significant portion of the dollar
value involved can be attributed
to that historical, museum quality aspect of it. For middle range
collectibles, the popularity of a
player will have an effect. But
when you're talking 700-plus
homers, that's history. The scandals, or however you describe
them, won't change that."
Brandon Steiner, the head of
Steiner Sports Memorabilia,
said he estimates Bonds used to
get paid between $100 and $150
for each autograph when outside
companies sold his memorabilia. Now that Bonds sells autographs directly to fans, he's
charging $400 for pictures, $600
for baseballs; and $5,000 for an
unused glove.
The really big bucks will
come if Bonds hits 53 more
home runs and breaks Hank
Aaron's career record of 755.
O'Connell estimated the ball
will fetch more than $1 million
and any other memorabilia
linked to the homer - the bat or
uniform, for instance - also will
be worth a lot.
Without Bonds sidelined, ratings on over-the-air KTVU are off
about 40 percent, while Fox
Sports Net Bay Area has had a
nearly 50 percent drop through
July. The team's television partners have been forced to offer
make-good commercials to advertisers - free spots to make up for
lower-than-guaranteed ratings.
The Giants haven' t been hurt
yet in attendance because the
team has 28,500 season-ticket
holders and sold nearly 3 million tickets by April, when the
severity of Bonds' injury wasn't
yet known, Giants execu tive
vice president Larry Baer said.
Paid attendance through the
first 58 home dates was down
700 fans per game, or 1.8 percent, from last year, and the number of no-shows is up, although
it's still in line with the league
average, according to Baer.
While some say this could be a
sign of what the Giants will face
when Bonds is no longer with
them, Baer believes the team has
built up enough good will to survive a long stretch of losing.
"It's what called the value of
the brand," Baer said. "People
aren't just fans of Barry they are
fans of the Giants. When Barry
is gone, that doesn't mean they
won't be fans anymore."
Wait for no-hitter goes
on for Martinez, Mets
Seaver are among the pitchers
who began their careers with the
Pedro Martinez will have to Mets and went on to throw nokeep waiting for a no-hitter. So hitters with other teams.
In other NL games, it was:
will the New York Mets.
Martinez didn't allow a hit Florida 4, San Francisco 1;
Sunday until Antonio Perez tripled Atlanta
13,
Arizona
8;
with one out in the eighth inning. Pittsburgh 8, Houston 0;
Jayson Werth followed with a two- Philadelphia 8, San Diego 3;
run homer, and the Los Angeles Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 3;
Dodgers pulled out a 2-1 victory Washington 9, Colorado 2; and
Chicago 5, St. Louis 4.
over Martinez and the Mets.
The 33-year-old Martihez also
The Dodgers traded Martinez
took a no-hit bid into the seventh to Montreal in 1993, and nearly
inning on June 7 against Houston. had to watch his first no-hitter
But three one-hitters are the clos- · come at their expense.
est he's been able to come.
"I didn't want him to pitch a
"If a no-hitter comes, I' 11 no-hitter and I didn't want him
take it," Martinez said. '·I don't to beat us," former Dodgers
go out there expecting no-hit- manager Tommy Lasorda said.
ters, but I was lucky enough to "And I said, 'This is the inning.'
be flirting with a no-hitter today. Not only was the no-hitter broI'm just proud I was able to ken, but the shutout was gone
come here and show the fans and it was a tremendous win."
Perez hit Martinez's 86th
what I didn't have enough time
pitch off the wall in left-center
to show them before."
Martinez (12-5) began his field. Three pitches later, Werth
major league career with the sent a drive into the pavilion
Dodgers in 1992. The Mets have seats in left-center.
"He had some good stuff
been waiting 30 years longer to
going, obviously, to take a nocelebrate a no-hitter.
The Mets have had 23 com- hitter that deep into the game,"
plete-game one-hitters since Werth said. "And with us getjoining the majors in 1962. Hall ting to him that late in the game,·
of Famers Nolan Ryan and Tom it's one of the .better wins I've
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been a part of."
Brad Penny (6-7) scattered
10 hits in his first complete
game with the Dodgers.
Martinez nearly threw a no- hitter for the Expos on June 3,
1995, when he pitched nine perfect innings at San Diego before
giving up a hit in the lOth. But
Montreal won that game, which
may have made Sunday's close
call tougher to take.
"It's always hard. I felt like I
was in command of the game and all of a sudden, in two pitches, I lost it," Martinez said. "It
was a little bit frustrating. I did
whatever possible to give my
team an opportunity to win, and
I blew it at the end. No excuses.
They battled and never gave up."
Braves 13, Diamondbacks 8:
At Atlanta, Jeff Francoeur hit a
three-run homer and threw out
two runners at the plate, and the
Braves scored seven runs in the
third inning.
Chipper Jones also had four
RBis with a homer and two doubles. Mike Hampton (5-2) won in
his return from the disabled list.
Troy Glaus, Kelly Stinnett and
Chris Snyder homered for
Arizona, but Javier Vazquez (9-12)
allowed a career-high nine runs.
USA U2 1 men roll over Argentina
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Someone forgot to tell the
2005
USA
U21
World
Championship Team (7-1) that it
was playing in the fifth place
game. The U.S. young men,
feeling they still had something
to prove, made an early statement and dominated host
Argentina (4-3) from the start
for an eventual 111-85 victory
on Sunday evening to close out
the 2005 FIBA U21 World
Championship in Mar del Plata,
Argentina. JJ. Redick (Duke I
Roanoke, Va.), who had 14
points in the fust half that the
North Americans owned 6 1-29,
finished with a game-high 22
points to go with four assists
and three steals in 22 minutes.
"I was really proud of our
team because in the first half
they came out and got rid of
their disappointment we had
from losing to Canada." said
USA and Saint Joseph 's
University head coach Phil
Martelli. "I thought the first half
was as good as we could play. I
was proud of them for that. In
the second half I think human
nature entered in and we wanted
to try to get the game over rather
than finishing it in style.''
With the score tied 5-5. Allan
Ray (Villanova I Bronx. N.Y.)
tossed in a 3-'pointer at 6:37 that
sparked a 15-0 run, which
spanned 4:02 and at the end the
United States was in command
- 20-5 with eight of the USA:s 12
players sharing the scoring effort
"If we come out and get out
to an early lead, generally we
can keep that lead for the rest of
the game," said Redick. "But if
we allow teams to play with us
at the beginning, they gain confidence with that and they usually stick with us for the rest of the
game. So it's always important
to get out to a good start. And it
was important to take the crowd
out of it right away, which is
what we did tonight.
Argentina had the first three
points of the second quarter,
Rondo
however,
Rajon
(Kentucky I Louisville), who
bad a game-best eight assists,
found Redick open for three at
8:07 and the U.S. was up 32-16.
That spurred an eventual 11-1
scoring spurt, flve of which
came from Redick and.an addition tive from Atlantic Coast
Conference foe Justin Gray
(Wake Forest I Charlotte, N.C.),
and by 6:01 the USA was up by
23 points, 40-17. Allowing just
one more Argentinian fleld goal
before halftime, the rest came at
the charity stripe, the United
States left the court at the midway buzzer up 61-29.
"This is like ... it'~ Argentina
and the U.S.," said Justin Gray.
"We saw the Olympic game
(against Argentina) and I guess
we wanted to show some payback. We wanted to represent our
country well like we try to do
with every team._We had a good
start, we came out, had some
good shots and defended them
well. We felt that if we defended
them and made it tough on them,
it would be hard for them to
score and that's what happened.''
The North Americans cruised
through the second half and
walked away with the eventual
111-85 victory.
In addition to Redick's 22
points on 6-of-11 shooting from
3-point, Justin Gray finished
with 16 points, Nick Fazekas
(Nevada I Arvada, Colo.) and
Rudy Gay (Connecticut I
Baltimore, Md.) each poured in
15 in under 20 minutes, and
Curtis Withers (Charlotte I
Charlotte, N.C.) sco~d 14 points
in 13 minutes. Gay was the high
rebounder with eight. and Redick
and Rondo each had three steals.
The USA outreboundcd
Argentina 43-29 and shot a
deadly 50.7 percent (36-71 FGs)
from the field and 36.7 percent
(11 -30 3pt FGs) from beyond
the arc . Additionally, the U.S.
squad held Argentina to 41.2
percent (28-68 FGs) from the
field and just 20.0 percent (4-20
3ptFGs) from 3-point. In a foulplagued contest that heard 6 1
whistles, Argentina went 25 -of33 (.758) from the line and the
North Americans shot 28-of-39
(.718) at the stripe.
Acting as Martelli's assistants are collegiate head coache!l
Dennis Felton from the
University of Georgia and
James 'Bruiser' Flint from
Drexel University (Pa.)
�84 •
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
•
te-w-art -w-tns at Watkins Glen
by DICK BRINSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
\\'ATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Tony SteWart gave his hometown fans even more to cclcbr.ltc Monday at his victory
pa ~adc
On Sunday. he led a highspeed parade. and nobody ever
caught up. Even a broken alternator couldn't keep Stewart
from winning at Watkins Glen
International.
'"T just shut down everything
I could," he said after winning
ror the fifth time in seven races.
'And I prayed. We do a lot of
pr~tying at Joe Gibbs Racing."
Faced with the electrical
problem right at the end of a race
he dominated. Stewart simply
snookcrcd the opposition on the
final two restarts and drove
away. And his performance fur-
ther lengthened his lead in the to Knoxville, Iowa. There on
NASCAR Nextel Cup standings. Sunday night, he watched his
driver,
Danny
But Stewart was more excit- champion
ed Sunday about the parade in Lasoski, race in the Knoxville
Columbus, Ind., where his Nationals - the Super Bowl of
neighbors will honor him for his winged sprint car racing.
victory a week earlier at his
Still, he couldn't help but
beloved Indianapolis Motor reflect on his incredible run the kind enjoyed in the past by
Speedway.
The thing he does almost as drivers such as Richard Petty,
well as race is reel off one-lin- the late Dale Earnnhardt and
ers, and he had an appropriate Jeff Gordon.
one for the parade.
"I've been· in zones before
"I'm just scared that the kids where I would finish in the top
are going be to throwing darts at three when I was in midgets and
me," said Stewart, who for most sprints, where I can go week in
of his career has been booed but a week out and not fall out the
now is a fan favorite. ''I'm feel- top three," Stewart said. "To
ing the love now. It's a lot better win five our of seven ... I think
than dodging grenades."
· that's a pretty good record."
But he wasn't going directly
Still, he had to hope he had
to Indiana after leaving. This enough juice left after a late cauracing junkie took off his hel- tion forced two extra laps. Stewart
met, slipped on his car-owner's radioed in that he had an alternator
hat, hopped on his jet and flew problem, made his adjustments
and sprinted away from Robby
Gordon on the final restart.
"The only time anybody
could get close to us was on the
restarts," Stewart said. "We had
an absolutely flawless day other
than the alternator."
Gordon, like Boris Said
before him, was slowed by
Stewart corning to the restarts,
and never got close once the
green flag waved.
"You do everything you can
to sucker your competition,"
Gordon said with grudging
admiration. "He flat beat us.
What more can you say."
The winner left Gordon as
nothing more than a valiant
competitor who charged from
his 39th starting spot all the way
to Stewart's rear bumper with
two laps to go. But Stewart
made him slow down just before
the restart.
Scott Pruett, who finished
fourth, also was impressed.
"They could have taken 10
more restarts," he said. " We
weren't going to catch him."
Crew chief Greg Zipadelli said
hard work and a lack of complacency has the team on its incredible roll. He said he has been
reminding the team not to let up.
"This is like a fantasy. I hope it
lasts," Zipadelli said. "Smoke has
been just fired up. I haven't seen
him this focused in the seven
years I've been around him."
The 24th victory of the his
career gave Stewart a 105-point
lead over Jimmie Johnson, who
finished fifth.
Mter winning, Stewart
stopped at the flagstand, took
the checker and drove around
the track to the cheers of the
crowd. But he didn't climb the
catch fencing as he had after his
three most recent wins.
''This place really isn' t conducive to fence climbing," he
said. ''I'm convinced that l'm
going to fall off one day and
crack my head open."
Stewart won the $4.6 million
Sirius Satellite Radio at The Glen
for the second year in a row. It
was his fifth road-course win.
He won in June on the only
other NASCAR road course the serpentine layout in Sonoma,
Calif. It was his third win on this
2.45-mile track known as New
York's Thunder Road.
His polesitting Chevrolet led
a record 83 of 92 laps and beat
the Chevy of Gordon by 1.927
seconds on the 11-turn track that
snakes through the hills south of
Seneca Lake.
Said finished third in a
Chevy, followed by the Dodge
of Pruett and Johnson's Chevy.
Sharp never doubted h~'d win again
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPART - Scott Sharp's 10
years on the Indy Racing League
circuit have taught him that what
gnes ru·ound comes around.
'There's going to be days
\\here there's some attention
on you and there's probably
more days there's not," Sharp
said Sunday.
Sharp, a former IRL champion who hadn' t won a series
race m more than two years,
silenced the whispers of those
\\ ho said he wouldn't - or
couldn ' t - win again, holding
oiT Vitor Meira by 0.0779 of a
second to win the Amber Alert
Pon al Indy 300 at Kentucky
Speedway.
Sharp·s win was his ninth on
the series. but his fust since Japan
in 2003. a streak of 40 starts.
lie· d won at least once every year
Ji·om 1997 until last year, but he
h,tdn 't even led a lap in ll previous IRL races this year. His best
finish had been second, at Japan
in A pril, and he'd had three other
lop live finishes.
But he didn't rcach• -Victotoy
Lane until Sunday.
" No one likes to read that
negative stuff about yourself,"
$ai d Sharp. who averaged
I 75. 98 1 mph on the 1 112-mile
tri-oval Kentucky track. "But
aftci awhile. it almost becomes
comical because they know
ahoul five percent of the story.
You almost wonder if these
pL:oplc writing were sitting at
home instead of actually being
at the racetrack.
'"I shoved it off because in the
hig picture. it doesn ' t matter."
The only thing that mattered
to Sharp on Sunday was staying
low on the track, so that Meira
\\ o uld have to pass him on the
outside.
" He did a good job of hold-
ing his line and protecting his
positiofl," said Meira, who led
for ll laps earlier in the race.
Driving a Honda for Delphi
Fernandez Racing, the 37-yearold Sharp took the lead on lap
134 of the 200-lap race, passing
Dan
Wheldon.
Wheldon
regained the lead twice, but
Sharp passed him for good on
lap 169 and never was headed.
"It took a couple of pit stops
and changes to get the car right
and it just came alive," Sharp said.
ShruJ>'s crew had a flawless
pit stop during a caution on lap
172, and he blocked every subsequent attempt by Mcira to
pass him after that.
Meira, driving a Honda for
Rahal
Letterman
Racing,
moved into second during that
final pit stop, when he beat
Wheldon out of the pits. It was
the fourth career second-place
finish for Meira, a Brazilian
who never has won an IRL
race. He was the runner-up to
Wheldon in this
year's
Indianapolis 500.
Wheldon, also in a Honda,
led 104 of the 200 laps and finished third, the 11th time in 12
races this year he's finished in
the top six. Alex Barron and
Helio Castroneves rounded out
the top tive.
" Honestly, I think the two
cars in front of me were just a
little bit faster than us today,"
Wheldon said.
"I think from a championship
standpoint, it doesn't look too
bad" for his team, he added.
Wheldon extended his lead
in the series standings to 90
points over second-place Sam
Harnish Jr., who finished seventh
Sunday.
Wheldon's
Andretti Green Racing teammates, Tony Kanaan and Dario
Franchitti, remained third and
fourth, and Sharp vaulted from
seventh to fifth with the win.
Sharp shared the IRL series'
inaugural title in 1996 with
Buzz Calkins. Sharp's previous
best finish at Kentucky
Speedway was second in 2001.
Rookie Danica Patrick,
making her 12th career start
and seeking her first series win,
started on the pole for the second time this season. But she
surrendered the lead to Kanaan
on the first lap, soon fell out of
the top five and never led again.
As
she
did
in
the
Indianapolis 500, Patrick stalled
her car during a pit stop, on lap
71. Six laps later, after a restart,
Patrick had to return to the pits
because of a problem with her
Honda's gearbox. She finished
16th, 16laps behind the leaders.
Patrick did record the fastest
lap of the race, turning lap 183
at 2 16.882 mph.
"It's really frustrating ...
when you're not up there dicing
with the leaders like I should
have been," she said.
She wasn't the only contender with problems. Tomas
Scheckter, who had raced as
high as third, had electronic
problems with his Chevrolet and '
exited on lap 82. Kanaan, the
defending series champion, led
25 laps and was second behind
Wheldon when a faulty wheel
bearing on his Honda forced
him to exit the race on lap 99.
Kanaan, who completed
every lap of every race last
year, did not finish for the third
time in 12 races this year.
"1 don't think we can blame
the track," Kanaan said. "It's
bumpy for everybody and not
everybody is having the same
problem."
Franchini lost a tire following
a pit stop on lap 30 and fell to
22nd in the 23-car field. He rallied
to move into second by lap 124,
but a problem with his suspension
ended his race after 170 laps.
maintains hope, despite another 2nd
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
finished 16th on Sunday, feels
Meira's pain. Patrick is winless
in 12 rookie starts.
SPARTA - Vitor Meira
"Hey, I'd take second a few
knows he'll win a race eventual- times. That's good, still,"
ly. All he could do Sunday at Patrick said. "I would imagine
Kentucky Speedway was ago- he shows frustration, too. He
nize over another near-miss.
would love to win a race, just
The 28-year-old Brazilian like all the rest of us."
earned his fourth top-five and
AMBER ALERT: Gov. Ernie
second runner-up finish of the Fletcher unveiled an upgrade to
year in the Amber Alert Portal Kentucky's Amber Alert system
Indy 300, losing to Scott Sharp before the race.
by .0779 of a second. Meira also
Amber Alerts broadcast inforfinished
second to Dan mation about child disappearWheldon
at
this
year's ances through the media and on
Indianapolis 500.
highway signs in the area where
"We are letting the chance to children have disappeared.
win come to us. I don't think
Kentucky is the seventh state
you can do anything else," which will now also send the
Meira said. "One day or another, information to cell phones, email addresses, pagers and other
it's going to come."
Meira led Sunday's race personal electronic devices.
between laps 107 to 118, but Citizens must register online to
then was passed by Wheldon. He receive the information.
never recovered, hurting himself
State police will also send
with slow restarts out of the pits. out maps and route information
"Our pit stops were great but in the area where the child diswe had something with me com- appeared, Fletcher said.
'This type of redundancy in
in
out I had some difficulties," Meira said. "We disseminating · information is
could've got Sharp in one of the important if we are to rescue
pit stops for sure. It didn't happen. abducted children quickly,"
Fletcher said.
It's just these kinds of things."
Kentucky established an
Meira moved into second on
lap 172 and shadowed Sharp the Amber Alert system in 2002 and
rest of the way. He saw a brief Fletcher said 14 children have
opportunity in the final lap to been recovered in the 11 times the
make a bold, low pass, but system has been activated.
would've had to dip below the Fletcher said the upgrades will
white line. He tried that earlier reduce the time the information is
this year on his way to a third- released from 30-40 minutes to 10.
place finish in Kansas and got a ·
Parents could register their
warning from Indy Racing children into the Amber Alert
League president Brian Barnhart. system at booths set up before
"As the rules say, you can't Sunday's race. They could also
improve your position below the get key-sized flash drives which
white, line," Meira said. "If I could hold easily downloadable
could've, yeah, I think I information about their children.
FIUING THE SEATS:
would've had him."
Last summer, Meira lost to Danica Patrick's fust appearance
Buddy Rice by .0051 of a sec- at Kentucky Speedway helped
ond in Kansas, the second-clos- draw a record crowd for an Indy
est finish in IRL history. Meira Racing League event at the track.
The announced attendance of
also finished
second in
62,595 passed last year's record
Richmond last year.
Rahal Letterman Racing of 61,885. The track's capacity
teammate Danica Patrick, who is 66,089.
and
\ng
The all-time record crowd at
the five-year-old speedway is
72,312 for the NASCAR Busch
Series Meijer 300 in June 2004.
MARKET RESEARCH: An
e ntourage of security guards,
racing fans and photographers
surrounded Danica Patrick as
she walked across the pit area
before Sunday's race.
Patrick said the attention she
gets at every IRL race is the
result of persistent marketing as
much as her gender. She doesn't
mind the league promoting her
and compares her foray into the
male-dominated sport to Annika
Sorenstam and Michelle Wie' s
efforts to play PGA tour events.
"It's something different that
people haven't seen," said
Patrick, the first female driver to
earn an IRL pole position. "It's a
story that people are interested
in, and the league will do what
they think is best for the series."
DISAPPOINTING DANICA:
Danica Patrick's 16th-place finish was the worst of the six IRL
pole-winners
at
Kentucky
Speedway.
Four of the previous five IRL
pole sitters finished in the top
two, although 2003 champion
Sam Harnish Jr. was the only
one to win. Sarah Fisher was the
previous worst finisher after
earning the pole, placing eighth
in 2002.
SPARK PLUGS: Basketball
Hall of Farner Oscar Robertson,
Kentucky basketball coach
Tubby Smith and former
Kentucky football star Derrick
Ramsey watched Sunday's race
from track chairman Jerry
Carroll's luxury box....The high
temperature at the track reached
91 degrees a day after rain
washed out qualifying. The
track's surface temperature
topped 120 degrees, officials
said. ... Ed Carpenter was
checked and released from the
infield medical center after losing a tire and hitting the wall on
the 69th lap ....The race had four
cautions for a total of 28 laps.
Kimmel looking for win at Michigan
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
photos courtesy of
Kentucky Speedway
The most
recent IRL race
at Kentucky
Speedway
broke a track
record for overall attendance.
Scott Sharp
(pictured) drove
to the victory
As the current ARCA
RE/MAX Series point leader
and a six-time defending champion, Frank Kimmel is used to
success in auto racing.
The Indiana native has two
career wins at Michigan
International Speedway. For any
driver, that would be pretty
good: For Kimmel, however, it's
not enough. He's eyeing another
win there Friday, Aug. 19.
With three career finishes at
MIS of 30th or worse, Kimmel's
stats package at MIS has been
pretty spotty. He finished 1Oth
there in 2004. third in 2003 and
32nd in :2002. In 2001, Kimmel
finished 30th in June and second
in July. He fmished 13th in
2000, eighth in 1999, fourth in
1997, seventh in 1995, third in
1994, second in 1993 and 34th
in 1992.
But Kimmel, who has always
managed to succeed on the
track, has stepped up his program at MIS, winning at the 2.0mile speedway this past June.
In fact, one could say that the
f()flci
tn
rrv~"" ,. ,,;,.. .
"': . t, .
began"'i~~t June, 'when,
healthy mix of Cup flavor and a
rock-solid lineup of series regulars, Kimmel, in the end, led the
most laps.
Kimmel, in Larry Clement's
Advance Auto Parts-Pork Ford,
passed Ken Weaver with 13 laps
remaining and drove away from
the competition to win the
Hantz Group 200.
"The Advance Auto PartsPork Ford was really good all
week," said Kimmel from victory lane in June. "The guys gave
us great pit stops. The car just
worked so well. Sometimes I
feel like the luckiest guy on
earth, racing for a living with a
bunch like this."
Kimmel also won the 1998
event here at MIS and would
love to sweep both
2005 events.
"We definitely want to win,"
said Kimmel from his shop.
"Michigan's always a fun place
to go back and run. We feel very
confident."
But if Kimmel is to find victory lane again here at
Michigan Int'l Speedway. he
will need to out race a full field
way. The June race saw a stellar
55 entries compete for 4 1 starting positions.
Expected entrie s for the
August event include Rookie of
the Year contenders Joey Mille r,
Chad McCumbee, David Ragan
and Johnny Leonard.
The August race card at MIS
is sure to be full, with the
ARCA
RE/MAX
Series.
NASCAR Busch Series. and
NASCAR
N EXTEL
Cup
Series all scheduled to compete. To add to the hectic
schedule, the ARCA RE/MAX
Series teams are scheduled to
race on the Springfield. Illinois
mile-dirt two days later on
Sunday, Aug. 2 1.
BLACKBURN
HEADING TO
MICHIGAN:
Prestonsburg driver Steve
Blackburn will race this week in
the RE/Max ARCA Series event
at
Michigan
International
Speedway. Look for a story on
Blackburn.
the
defending
, ,,
1 1·p
1
~ith
1
a
~
"
series' hometown superspeed-
-
Champion in Friday's edition.
�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
17,2005 • 85
Drive for three straight titles
.a forbi.d den topic in Foxboro
by DAVE GOLDBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FOXBORO, Mass. - Tom
• Brady didn't use the words
"Super Bowl." Nor did he say
"three straight," "threepeat" or
anything suggesting the New
England Patriots are on the cusp
of history.
Just the same, he alluded to
his team's quest to become the
frrst to win three consecutive
Super Bowls. You just wouldn't
know it from reading the team's
transcript of his chat on a practice field with a small group of
reporters · - that part was
excised, either by Bill Belichick
or someone acting on the
coach's orders.
Here's what the Patriots' star
quarterback said on a pleasant
August morning:
"Everyone knows what the
goal is. But you're so far away
from that goal, you can't begin
to think about it. We haven't
even played an exhibition game
yet, we haven't played a regularseason game, we haven't made
the- playoffs yet. That's when
you start thinking about it."
Think, yes. Talk about it, no - a
point made clear when the transcript
~ of Brady's interview was e-mailed
to the media a few hours later.
Zap!
Verboten!
At least Brady said something. Anyone who asks
Belichick about it gets, at best, a
dismissal and a nasty look.
Lesser players won't even
broach the subject.
In truth, trying to forget
February's goal in August isn't a
~Patriots
by TERRY KINNEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI
Rookie
quarterback Matt Cassel outdid
his entire college career in his
frrst NFL game.
He led four scoring drives as
the defending champion New
England Patriots beat the
Cincinnati
Bengals
23-13
Friday night in the preseason
opener for both teams.
'J "It's the first time I threw a
touchdown pass since high
school,"
Cassel
marveled.
"Hopefully, I can just do well and
earn a spot on the team. It was definitely good to start off that way."
Cassel never started a college
game while backing up
Reisman
Trophy
winners
Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart
at Southern California and now
he is battling 42-year-old Doug
Flutie for New England's No. 3
quarterback spot behind Tom
Brady and Rohan Davey.
In college, Cassel played in 25
games and was 20-of-33 for 192
yards with one interception. He
liked turning the tables on Palmer.
"He's one of my good buddies," Cassel said. "It's kind of
cool that he got to watch me for
a change.
"If I wanted to come out and
play against anybody, it would
be against Carson."
He took over with 4 minutes
left in the frrst half and led a 14play, no-huddle drive that ended
with a 20-yard touchdown pass
to Jason Anderson.
Cassel started the second half
bad idea.
When the Buffalo Bills went
to consecutive Super Bowls from
1990-1993, Marv Levy . would
tell his players at the start of each
camp to wipe the slate clean.
They were starting from scratch
and whatever they had done the
previous season was forgotten.
But the Bills lost all four of
those Super Bowls, three of
them badly. The Patriots don't
have the stigma of losing.
Not only can they become the
frrst team to win three straight
Super Bowls, but if they capture
the Vince Lombardi Trophy
again, it will be their fourth in
five years, something not even
the great Steelers of the '70s did.
Pittsburgh won four in six years:
1974, '75, '78 and '79.
The others to win two straight:
Green Bay in the frrst two Super
Bowls after the 1966 and '67 seasons; Miami, which went unbeaten in 1972 and then won the title
again in '73; San Francisco in
1988 and '89; Dallas in '92 and
'93 (and again in ',95); and
Denver in 1997 and '98.
All were great teams, all
dynasties of a sort, although the
Packers of the late 1960s were an
aging team without some of the
players on Vmce Lombardi's great
teams that won NFL titles in 1961,
'62 and '65. In fact, Lombardi
temporarily retired after the second Super Bowl win and the Pack
went 6-7-1 under Phil Bengtson,
his hand-picked successor.
The first five did it without
the limitations of a salary cap.
The Cowboys won at the start of
the salary cap era, when teams
could still keep their best players.
The Broncos? They had John
Elway and Terrell Davis and
still ended up being penalized
by the league for salary cap circumvention. Elway retired after
the second victory, Davis seriously injured his knee and the
Broncos haven't won a playoff
game since.
But all those teams had one fied the strength of the NFC.
thing in common: They had to They had their run of three wins
overcome injuries, the bad luck ~n four seasons broken by a San
that plagues all teams in all Francisco team featuring Young
sports, and the fact they were and Jerry Rice that beat them
targets for every opponent, 38-28 in San FranCisco to win
every week.
the NFC title, then totally stam"It's that kind of a thing. It peded San Diego in the Super
comes down to the bounce of Bowl. Those Cowboys had lost
the ball," says newly minted coach Jimmy Johnson after the
Hall of Farner Steve Young. "If 1993 season in a dispute with
the Patriots do it, it's one of the owner Jerry Jones, and new
coach Barry Switzer wasn't
magnificent things in sports."
Young knows about bounces. close to Johnson in ability.
He took over at quarterback
In the '70s, it was the AFC
for an injured Joe Montana in that dominated, led by the
the fourth quarter of the 1990 Dolphins and the Steelers.
NFC championship game with
The Dolphins eventually lost
the 49ers holding a 13-12 lead Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and
over the New York Giants.
Paul Warfield to the fledgling
He led the 49ers on a long World Football League, hastendiive, looking to put them on . ing their fall from powerhouse
uieir way to Tampa for a chance to simply a good team. Oakland,
to play Levy's Bills for their Bllltimore and Denver were all
third straight title. Then Roger strong at various times, making
ctaig was hit by nose tackle Erik the Steelers' accomplishments
Howard and fumbled right into even more remarkable.
the arms of Lawrence Taylor
owner
Dan
Pittsburgh
with 2:46 left in the game.
Rooney thinks the best of those
The Giants drove down the Pittsburgh teams was one that
field for Matt Bahr's winning didn't win a title, the 1976
field goal and New York went on squad that might have made it
to win the Super Bowl when three straight had it not lost in
Buffalo's Scott Norwood missed the AFC championship game
a field goal as time expired.
after a slew of late-season and
That game illustrates a phe- postseason injuries, including
nomenon the Patriots don't face Franco Harris.
in the salary-cap era - teams
"We basically had the same
that were good stayed good over core team through that period,''
an extended period of time.
Rooney says. "But that was a
You can argue that the 49ers, really good Raiders team we
who won five titles between lost to and without Franco it was
1981 and 1994, were the great- just too tough."
est team of the Super Bowl era
That's the perfect example
because they played in a confer- why winning three in a row is so
ence that had a half-dozen hard _ one key injury, especially
strong teams over that span. during the playoffs, can end it all.
New England enters the 2005
NFC teams won every Super
Bowl between the 1984 and season after an offseason that
1996 seasons. During those 13 would test any team.
First it lost the coordinators
seasons, San Francisco won
four, the Cowboys three, the who were such an integral part
Redskins and Giants two each. of Belichick's stratagems.
The Bears' 1985 winner was Charlie Weis left the offense and
became the head coach at Notre
one of the best teams ever.
The Cowboys also exempli- Dame. Defensive coordinator
23, Bengals 13
with a 16-play drive that ended
with a 29-yard field goal by Adam
Vmatieri, then led another with
Vmatieri kicking a 42-yarder. He
handed off to Kyle Eckel for a 4yard TD run late in the fourth
quarter for the fmal score.
Palmer was happy for his
college roommate, the Patriots'
seventh-round pick.
"I was fired up for him,"
Palmer said. "It was hard that he
was doing it for the other team.
But it w~ good to see him get the
chance to show that he can play."
Vinatieri kicked a 48-yard
field goal in the second quarter
to cap a drive in which Patrick
Pass had six consecutive touches. gaining 16 yards on runs and
24 yards on passes.
Cassel was 13-of-20 for 135
yards, and Davey was 4-of-7 for 42;
Brady didn't play on the 94-degree
night at Paul Brown Stadiun1.
New England's Bill Belichick
said Brady didn't play because the
coach wanted to see other people.
"I thought Matt did some
good things," Belichick said.
"He made some decent plays.
But overall, I'd like to see us
execute better."
New England running back
Corey Dillon carried four times
for 26 yards.
Casey Bramlet, trying to
claim the Bengals' No. 3 quarterback spot, threw a 3-yard
touchdown pass to Chris Henry.
That toss came after a pass
interference call against New
England defensive back Hank
Poteat gave Cincinnati a frrst
down on the 9.
Craig Krenzel, the Bengals'
other candidate to back up
Palmer and Jon Kitna, missed
three chances in 'the fmal 10 seconds to add a touchdown after a
pass interference call against
Raymond
Ventrone
gave
Cincinnati the ball on the 7.
Backup kicker Carter Warley,
who was signed this week as a
free agent, hit a 43-yard field
goal for Cincinnati but missed a
43-yarder.
Shayne Graham. who has been
bothered by a sore groin, kicked a
25-yarder for the Bengals.
Palmer played the f.ll'st' three
series but was just 4-of-11 for
37 yards. He failed to connect
with Chad Johnson on two
downfield attempts.
On the frrst play from scrimmage, Palmer was intercepted
by Asante Samuel. During the
Bengals' next possession,
Palmer handed off to Rudi
Johnson six times for 40 yards
before Warley's miss.
Chris Perry, the Bengals'
first-round draft pick a year ago,
carried 12 times for 41 yards.
He missed all but two games
last year and had offseason
surgery to repair a hernia.
Cincinnati coach Marvin
Lewis said the loss gave the
Bengals a reality check as they
try to improve on two successive 8-8 seasons and make it to
the playoffs for the first time
since 1990.
"This was very timely,"
Lewis said. "Now they can quit
hearing how great this is or how
good that is. We needed this."
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photo by Jemie Howell
The Adams Mlddie School football team Is preparing for another season of competition against
novu••lnn t ....ma fr"'m l=l"'vd anti
u
Romeo Crennel took over the
Cleveland Browns.
Tedy Bruschi, the inspirational inside linebacker, is sitting out this season after suffering a stroke shortly after the 2421 Super Bowl win over the
Eagles last February. Ted
Johnson, last year's other starting inside linebacker, has
retired. Their replacements (for
now) are injury-prone 35-yearold Chad Brown, a Pro Bowler
as an outside linebacker in
Pittsburgh and Seattle; and
Monte Beisel, a converted lineman who has only nine starts in
55 NFL games, all last year on a
bad defense in Kansas City.
Those changes can be huge
when the margin of victory is so
small. After all, the Patriots'
"dominance" consists of three
Super Bowl wins by three points
_ the first two on last-second
field goals by Adam Vinatieri.
They are well aware how
close those victories have been.
On the wall of owner Robert
Kraft's office is a panoramic
picture of the Louisiana
Superdome with the Patriots
holding the ball at their 27, the
score tied at 17 and a minuteand-a-half left in the 2002 Super
Bowl against the Rams, who
came in as two-touchdown
favorites over New England.
''That's where we were when
John Madden said we should sit
on the ball and wait for overtime," Kraft says with a laugh.
Instead, they drove 53 yards
and Vinatieri kicked the winner
as time expired.
With all the injuries, the
Patriots still seem to hold one
edge: the ability to lose stars and
fit in previously undistinguished
role players like Beisel without
losing anything.
Last season, they lost Ty
Law, their best cornerback, mid~
way through the season. They
still won a title with Randall
Gay, an undrafted rookie, as a
starter and veteran wide receiver Troy Brown ft.lling in as an
extra defensive back. Law just
signed with the New York Jets,
the team that seems best
equipped to challenge the
Patriots in the AFC East.
But New England won without Law last year. This year, the
Patriots brought in Duane Starks
and Chad Scott, two veterans of
no great distinction, to help fill
the gap.
If there is an indispensable
Patriot, it might be Bruschi _
beyond Brady, perhaps defensive
lineman Richard Seymour and
Belichick, of course. Not only
was he the team's most inspirational leader, but he seemed to
almost always make a big play
when things seemed darkest.
Not only was he the team's
most inspirational leader, but
he seemed to almost always
make a big play when things
seemed darkest.
Bruschi is still around, tutoring Beisel and defensive lineman
Dan K.lecko, who could be slotted into an inside linebacker
position. Just another example of
the Patriots' true team concept.
Still, a lot of people seem
convinced that Belichick and
Scott Pioli, the personnel guru
who . has just been signed to a
contract extension, will come up
with someone if the other are
found lacking.
"Now that we're used to the
salary cap, teams that have figured it out have a leg up," says
Young, now a television analyst.
''The Patriots have figured it out."
OK, but there's still luck.
Remember that their first
Super Bowl victory came. when
Vmatieri kicked two field goals in
the snow after referee Walt
Coleman reversed a Brady fumble
in the famous "tuck rule" replay.
The odds say that kind of
good fortune can't go on forever.
But the Patriots have been
defying those odds for four years.
Without Owens, Eagles could be in trouble
by DAN GELSTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BETHLEHEM, Pa.- With
Terrell Owens seemingly
bound for his Atlanta home and
taking a break from blasting the
Eagles, Donovan McNabb figured it was time to welcome
potential replacements.
Philly fans, this is what you
could be left with if Owens
never returns to the Eagles:
"i' d like for all of you to
introduce yourselves to Greg
Lewis, Billy McMullen, Brian
Westbrook, Reggie Brown,"
McNabb said after Friday's
practice.
That's not exactly Owens
and Todd Pinkston. Heck, that's
not even Pinkston and Freddie
Mitchell.
Whether Owens ever plays
for Philadelphia again is anyone's guess. About the only
thing less certain in the tumultuous Eagles training camp is
what exactly they have among
their thin and inexperienced
receiving corps.
With Owens banished for a
week and Pinkston out for the
season with a torn Achilles'
tendon, the Eagles go into
Monday's preseason opener
against Pittsburgh with Lewis
(23 career catches in two seasons) and rookie Brown as their
starting wide receivers.
"It's a lot being put on a lot
of the younger guys," said
Lewis, who caught a TD pass in
the Super Bowl. "The playbook
is like 80 tons."
Not much experience,- true,
but not much drama either. The
receivers joined McNabb for
his annual offseason drill session in Arizona- T.O. did not
attend - where they studied the
playbook, worked out and
shared meals and movies
together to build camaraderie.
The results have paid off
with a crisp training camp.
"Now you look at it and you
say, 'These guys seem to have
their timing together. Why is
that?' Because we spend time'
together,'' McNabb said.
No one should expect
McNabb and Owens to be sharing
any Happy Meals any time soon.
Owens
again
blasted
McNabb in two separate interviews with ESPN on Thursday,
calling the quarterback a "hypocrite" and saying the two of
them could not be successful
together. Owens also said he
had no desire to speak with
McNabb.
McNabb insisted he wasn't
stung by the criticism, laughing
off the outrageous wide receiver's remarks before turning serious and telling Owens to "keep
my name out of your mouth."
"It's so funny to me how my
name keeps getting thrown out
there," McNabb said. "You've
just got to have fun with it and
that; exactly what we're doing."
Owens was told to go home
Wednesday after a heated dispute with coach Andy Reid and to stay there for a week.
On Friday morning, Owens
left his Moorestown, N.J., home
with two suitcases and went to
Philadelphia
International
Airport, where he told KYW-TV
as he headed to a security gate:
"I'm going to the Bahamas. I'm
going to get a tan."
It appears Owens was joking: He was interviewed by
local reporters at an Atlanta airport.
Owens was not expected to
practice again until he meets
with Reid. Owens and McNabb
aren't in a hurry to hash out
their differences.
McNabb agreed with Owens
the two didn't necessarily have
to be best buds to win.
"I still to this day see no reason for us to talk," McNabb
said. "When we step on this
field, it's all about business.
We're professionals that line up
and do the right thing."
While Owens has been an
off-field headache, the Eagles
sorely need his production.
The flashy Owens set team
records with 14 touchdown
receptions and finished with 77
catches for 1,200 yards last season. He defied his doctor's
advice, returned from a broken
leg and severely sprained right
ankle to catch nine passes for
122 yards in the Super Bowl.
Pinkston, much maligned
for the perception he is neither
tough enough nor strong
enough to play the position,
f
had 36 catches for 676 yards
last year. The since-departed
Mitchell, who talked his way
off the team, caught 22 passes
for 377 yards.
.
If Owens and the Eagles fail
to resolve their differences which is easier to picture with
each combative day - the team
will be left with two wide
receivers who combined for 20
catches for 207 yards last year.
Westbrook had 73 catches
for 703 yards coming out of the
backfield last year and thirdyear tight end L.J. Smith was
34-for-377.
The affable Lewis made the
team in 2003 as an undrafted
free agent out of Illinois and
has seen his stock soar from the
No. 4 option last year to No. 1
with Owens and Pinkston out.
"I've been preparing myself
to be an NFL receiver, whether
it's a No. 4 receiver or a No. 1
receiver," he said. ''I'm trying
to be a No. 1 receiver and that's
the way I prepare myself. I
guess I moved up."
The Eagles could look for
some wideout help, preferably
veterans who come cheap and
are familiar with the West
Coast offense. In the past,
they've turned to players like
Dorsey Levens and Antonio
Freeman when they've needed
someone in a pinch.
The Eagles have the salary
cap space to sign someone they
like once cuts are made. No
one, though, would be of
Owens' caliber.
McNabb shot down a suggestion the Eagles needed Owens or
another Pro Bowl wideout to
return to the Super Bowl.
"We've been to three NFC
Championships with guys
everybody turned their backs
on," he said.
That's true, but the Eagles
didn't get to the Super Bowl
until their fourth try when they
had Owens (though he missed
the NFC playoffs). Now, a
frayed friendship that seems
beyond repair could be enough
of a distraction off the field to
carry over onto the field and
derail another run at the title.
"Obviously, I lobbied for him
to be here," McNabb said. "But
what a difference a year makes."
l
�86 • WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
17, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
K FOOTBALL: Defense
gisters fwe sacks in scrimmage
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTO - Head coach
Rich Brooks said all last week
that the University of Kentucky
defense looked good during the
first week of practice. The
defenders showed why during
Saturday's Fans' Day scrimmage
at Commonwealth Stadium.
he UK first-, second-, and
thi~d-team defensive units kept
thc•r offensive counterparts out
of rhe end zone during the onehour. 20-minute scrimmage. The
offense had 17 total offensive
po sessions and managed just
three field goals by kicker
Ta lor Begley. The first-team
offense. led by sophomore quarter ack Andre· Woodson, had
SIX of the possessions and scored
two of the field goals. The second-unit offense, directed by
freshman Curtis Pulley, had four
possessions and drove for the
other field goal. The third-team
offense, guided by redshirt
freshman Joe Joe Brown, junior
David Han1ilton, and freshman
Blake Bowling. did not score on
seven possessions.
The defense did not force
an~ turnovers, but did account
for five quarterback sacks.
"The speed on defense is better· said Brooks, whose defenunit 1s playing the 4-3 systhis year after having
played the 3-4 alignment the
previous two seasons. "The
offense made some good plays
but wasn't consistent. The pass
protection was mixed and the
running lanes were not as good
as they need to be. We have to
get back on track with the offensive line. We just have to get
better at it. This will be a good
film for us to evaluate."
Brooks had praise for several
Wildcat defensive players, most
notably at linebacker and defensive end.
"(Freshman middle linebacker) Braxton Kelley keeps
jumping out," Brooks said.
"He's playing a position he's
never played and showing the
instincts he has is impressive.
He's handling the transition
from playing with his hand on
the ground (defensive end) in
high school to linebacker.
"(Freshman
linebacker)
Mikhail Mabry is making 1t hard
on Wesley Woodyard to regain his
starting position," Brooks continued. Mabry came out of spring
practice as the starting weaksidc
linebacker as Woodyard, a starter
last season, had to miss the contact portions of spring while rehabilitating an injury.
"(Senior linebacker) Raymond
Fontaine has made some plays,
too. Although we're thin on experience at linebacker, they're play-
ing very well right now."
"I'm feeling much better about
the defensive ends," Brooks also
noted. "Travis Day, Nii Adjei
Oninku, and B. Jay Parsons are
making plays." Each of those
three players had a quarterback
sack, tackle for loss, and/or pass
breakup in the scrimmage.
Bright spots for the offense
included a 34-yard pass from
Woodson to Keenan Burton,
who outdueled a defensive back
to make the catch, and a solid
rushing and receiving performance by senior tailback Arliss
Beach. Beach caught several
passes and made an impressive
30-yard run in which he bowled
over a defensive back.
"Arliss is a really good back,"
Brooks said. ''This is the first time
in two years that he's been healthy
after his ankle and shoulder
injuries. The only saving grace to
Tony Dixon's injury (see story
below) is that we have some other
good tailbacks in Arliss, Rafael
Little, and Terrell Bankhead."
Begley, the senior from
Danville, made all three of his
field goal attempts from 31, 37,
and 35 yards.
There was one injury during
the scrimmage. Sophomore defensive tackle Jason Leger sustained
what appeared to be a sprained
knee ligament. Brooks noted that
the injury did not appear to be
umberlands hires
new wrestling coach
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WILLIAMSBURG -An era
has ended as Jess Wilder has
stepped down as the first head
wrestling
coach
at
the
Universitv of the Cumberlands
Cumberland
(formerly ·
College). His reign was superior as he brought wrestling to
the mountains of Kentucky and 20 of all divisions.
Medders was inspired to
established Cumberlands name
in the record books of the become a coach because of the
NAJA. Replacing him will be difference former coaches
his former wrestler and assis- made in his life. His goal for
thts season is no less than a
tant coach, Andrew Medders.
Medders graduated from national championship. He also
University of the Cumberlands wants to continue upon and
- Cumberland College in 2003 make stronger the brotherhood
with a Bachelor's degree in among the team.
"I have lcarne'd so much
Health and Movement Leisure
· Studies. During his tenure as a' from Coach Wilder and I feel
member of the men's wrestling that I am up to the challengtt [of
team, Medders was a four-time coaching the team]," said
All
American,
two-time Medders. "We are a strong proNational Finalist, a National gram that will continue to
Champion, and a team captain. grow. I have been a part of the
Among his many honors, program for six years now and
Medders was ranked in the top I believe in it."
1
illtoppers hold first mini·
Sc ·mmage of preseason
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
BOWLING GREEN- The
Western Kentucky University
football team faced its first
two-a-day practice of the year
Saturday at L.T. Smith
Sta,dium/Jimmy Feix Field,
closing out the afternoon session with the team's first miniscrimmage of the fall.
''I thought things went well
today," said head coach David
Bison. "With the storm coming
it. we really caught a break with
some cooler weather. We told the
guys at the beginning of the day
to take advantage of it so that we
could get some good work done,
which we accomplished."
Working on first down
plays, the Hilltoppers' three
offensive units managed to collect 200 yards on 33 snaps
htg lighted by a pair of big
plays from the second-team on
its final possession. Andrew
McCloud picked up the unit's
initial first down with a 20-yard · on the field I though our defense
run two plays before Jack did a nice job of stopping the
Rafferty
connected
witft run and of making plays behind
Rannen Roberson on a 50-yard the line of scrimmage," Elson
scoring pass for the only touch- said. "With the second units, I
thought the offense got the betdown of the afternoon.
Despite the average of better ter of the defense - especially
than six yards per snap, the running the ball. There were
Hilltopper defense still held the some positives in a lot of differoffense without a first down on ent areas, but there also were
29 of the 33 plays. The offen- some reasons for concern."
Justin Haddix (Breathitt
sive didn't gain 10 or more
County)
earned the first first
on
any
of
the
first
15
yards
plays of the mini-scrimmage, down of the mini-scrimmage with
nearing a first down twice a 10-yard run to begin the firstwhen Blake Ladson hit Jessie team's second possession, and he
Quinn for a 9-yard completion added another after finding Tariq
and then gained 9 yards while Smith for a 29-yard completion
five plays later. Haddix ended the
scrambling on the next play.
Brandon Mason paced the afternoon 3-of-4 passing for 35
defense with four tackles, while yards while adding three carries
Jimmy Cal.dwell, Scott Greschel for another 18.
Lerron Moore led the
and Jon Hedges each recorded
three stops. Greschel collected offense with nine rushes for 29
two stops behind the line of yards, with McCloud adding 26
scrimmage, and Steven Tajer yards on six attempts and
Stephen Willis posting 19 on
had the only sack of the day.
four
carries.
"When the first teams were
Arkansas offense makes impression in two-a-days
$PECIAL TO THE TIMES
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. The Arkansas football team went
through its first two-a-day practices on Saturday with a onehour morning practice that
focused on the kicking game and
an hour and a half sctimmage in
the afternoon inside Donald W.
Rc) nolds Razorback Stadium.
The 65-play scrimmage was
slbwed and eventually cut short
fter injuries hampered the
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r·
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I
t
tacl,l
a· ; With a
m u ,, ~rr•mm:HYr fnr th.-. firs:t
team. Cornerback Michael
Grant then left a short time later
with what appeared to a dislocated finger.
Sophomore
quarterback
Robert Johnson had a good
scrimmage under center for the
Razorbacks and may be creating a little separation in the
quarterback battle.
"I thought Robert Johnson
had a very good day of executing," Nutt said. "He was throwing it well and doing a ~cry
goocl JOb of getting U<; out of the
wrnna nh" ~"'' i• •' 1'1
ond clock anlj Uhl i.llll
small things that you take for
granted when you had a quarterback that was here for four
years like Matt (Jones)."
Johnson and his offensive
teammates took advantage of a
defensive squad that did not
have one of their better days.
"Defensively, we didn't play
as well today," Nutt said. ''We
didn't tackle as well, and we
weren't ready to play. They (the
defense) had been real good the
past two days and_ when yo~ put
it (the hall) down hve, sometunes
1p a Lillie. I have no
,11
ckl.:nse will wake
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serious, but more would be known
within the next 24-48 hours.
Prior to the team's practice
and scrimmage, the Wildcat players and coaches spent one hour,
40 minutes in Fans' Day activities, signing autographs and posing for photographs with fans.
Sophomore tailback Tony
Dixon has a fractured fibula and a
tom ligament in his ankle. The
injury will require surgery and
Dixon will miss the 2005 season.
Dixon sustained the injury in
Friday's practice. Brooks said that
the injury is similar to the one sustained by linebacker Wesley
Woodyard late in the 2004 season.
"We'll miss Tony," Brooks
said. "He's one of our breakaway guys and I'm disappointed
for him because he got a 3 .5
(grade-point average) during
summer school and has done a
great job getting back on track
academically. The only good
news is that he can use this as a
redshirt season."
Dixon, from Parrish, Ala.,
played in eight games as a true
freshman last season, starting six.
He rushed for 244 yards, a 4.5yard average per carry, and one
touchdown. His best game came
in the win over Indiana when he
rushed riine times for 105 yards,
including a 67-yard scoring run
thai was UK's longest rushing
play of the season.
photos courtesy o'f UK
Athletics
I
Left: University of
Kentucky head football coach Rich
Brooks addressed
fans during
Saturday's annual
Fans' Day. Above:
Former Boyle County
standout Jacob
Tamme signed an
autograph for a
young Wildcat fan.
Holmes, USA capture Walker Cup
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
In dramatic fashion, the
United States of America re-captured the Walker Cup narrowly
defeating Great Britain a{\d
Ireland, 12.5-11.5, at Chicago
. Golf Club on Sunday. Former
University of Kentucky golfer
John Holmes and the rest of the
10-man team won the event for
the first time since 1997.
Jeff Overton's 1-up win
sealed the victory after GB&I
amazingly halved two matches
and won a third at the 18th hole
to keep its chances alive. Oliver
Fisher of GB&I holed an 18foot birdie putt to get a halve
with Michael Putnam. That was
followed
by
Robert
Dinwiddie's chip-in birdie from
30 feet just in front of the green
in the rough to get a half-point
against Matt Every.
More dramatics followed
with Lloyd Saltman of GB&I
holing out a 20-footer for birdie
to defeat Kyle Reifers, 1 up.
Overton, who lost the first
three holes of his match with
37-year-old Nigel Edwards, rallied to take a 1-up lead at the
turn, then took the lead for good
at 14 before holding off the
GB&I
Walker
three-time
Cupper.
In singles play. Holmes fell
to Matthew Richardson but the
two teams tied with 3 112 points
on the day.
Holmes teamed up with
Nicholas Thompson to defeat
GB&I's Oliver Fisher and
Matthew Richardson by a score
of 2 and 1. Three birdies helped
the USA duo who led by two
strokes with three holes to play.
A birdie on 15 and even par the
rest of the way gave the
Americans the win.
UK Softball to hold tryouts
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON
- · The
University of Kentucky softball
team will be holding walk-on
tryouts for prospective studentathletes on Thursday, Aug. 25,
at the UK Softball Complex
located on Alumni Drive across
from the Arboretum. Tryouts are
scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., but
students are asked to arrive by
1:45 to register. Please bring all
necessary equipment.
Guidelines for potential
walk-ons are as follows:
- Students must have applied
and been admitted to the
University of Kentucky. LCC
students are not permitted to
compete
- Students must be registered
as full-time for the 2005 fall
semester
-Students MUST show proof of
insurance at the time of the tryout
- Students must sign a UK
athletic department tryout waiver
If you have any questions
regarding the tryout, contact
assistant coach Melissa Inouye
859/257-6314 or via email at
mtinou2@uky.edu.
Cards conduct scrimmage
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LOUISVILLE
The
University of Louisville football
team worked out Friday morning and conducted their first
scrimmage of summer camp.
The Cardinals practiced for
45 minutes before the number
one offense went against the
number one defense. The two's
worked against the two's and
the three's competed against the
three's.
Plackicker Art Carmody,
who was named to the Lou
Groza Watch List on Friday,
booted a pair of field goals, one
from 35 yards and another from
42. Red-shirt freshman Mario
Urrutia caught three passes, all
of which went for touchdowns.
He caught a 45-yardcr for a
touchdown and a 48-yarder
along the sidleline.
Junior Kolby Smith also
added a score on a screen pass
and red-shirt freshman George
Stripling crossed the goal line
from a yard out. Sophomore
quarterback Brian Brohm also
scored from two yards out.
"I thought we did some good
things on both sides of the football,.. said head coach Bobby
Petrino. ··we ran the ball well at
times with Michael Bush and
Kolby Smith and I thought the
defense had some good
moments. We are working hard
to get better and that's all I ask
of these guys."
Heat sign Fitch
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Former
University
of
Kentucky men's basketball
standout Gerald Fitch received a
special birthday gift Friday with
a contract offer from the Heat.
The NBA team announced that
they have signed the free agent
guard who spent the last season
playing overseas after fmishing
his career at UK in 2004. He celebrated his 23rd birthday Friday.
Fitch, a 6-3, 188-pound guard,
averaged 13.4 points, 3.8
rebounds and 1.6 assists in 24.0
minutes over five contests while
competing with the Washington
Wizards in the Reebok Vegas
<.;ummcr League. He led the team
m three-point field goal! made,
three-point field goals attempted
and total assists. He scored in
double figures on three occasions
while leading the team in steals
and assists on one occasion. Fitch
also spent the 2004-05 preseason
with the Washington Wirards
playing in seven games, averaging 3.1 points, 0.9 rebounds. l.O
assists and 1.0 steals in 11.6 minutes. He went on to spend the
majority of the 2004-05 season in
Europe, having a stint with KK
Cibona VIP Zagreb, playing in
seven games, averaging 14.0
points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.2
assists while also joining the
Adriatic League, with the same
team, playing in five games,
averaging 16.6 rnint-;. ~ 4
rebound~ and I.R as~i~ts F11 ,
then joined Khimik-OPZ Yuzny
of the Ukraine Supcrkague, playing in 19 games. averaging 21.0
points while shooting 45.9 percent from the field and 35.2 percent from three-point range.
Fitch played four years for
the Univt.:n.itv of Kentucky
where he avtraged 11.0 points,
4. J rebounds and 1.8 assists. He .
finished 22nd all-time at
Kentucky in points (1 ,391 ), seventh in three-point percentage
(.396) and fourth in three-pointers made ( 199). He became the
<iOth rnl't 1her of Kentucky's
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Wednesday, August 17, 2
Features Editor
Kathy Prater
Phone: (606) 886-8506
Fax: (606) 886-3603
Members:
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SCHOOlNEWS
INSIDESTUFF
Allen CMS • page C2
Clark Elem. • page C2
• Duff Elem. • page C2
(Items taken from The Floyd County Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.) page C2
"The B
www.floydcountytimes.com
POISON OAK
My old
teachers still visit
Talk about a bag of mixed emotions, until I made it to high school,
one of the biggest reasons I dreaded
the beginning of school-Qther that
the obvious freedom I enjoyed during
those long summer vacations-was
the fear of not being able to handle the
difficult material that lay ahead. I
would
lie
awake sometimes picturing myself as
a 17 or 18year-old flfth
grader, still
trying to master long diviston
well
enough
to
advance
to
sixth grade.
Clyde Pack
And geography:
how
could anybody expect a kid to remember how much wheat was grown in
Kansas in 1940, or how to spell
Madagascar?
Somehow, though, with the help of
some very dedicated individuals, most
of whom I never really learned to
appreciate until many· years later. I
gradually picked up enough knowledge to advance to the next level, and
actually ended up graduating from
high school exactly 12 years after I
entered ftrst grade.
On the other hand, going back to
school in the fall also had its perks, not
the least of which was meeting new
classmates who might have moved
into the camp during the summer.
Northeast was always hiring new
men, and many times they would
~ bring a houseful of youngsters with
them. If they moved into one of the
company houses around on Number
Three, I wouldn't necessarily meet the
new kids until school starte-d. Of
course, had they moved into Silk
Stocking Row, they would have been
indoctrinated into the community in a
matter of hours, and likely given the
(See OAK, page three)
~Appraisal
Fair to
be held Sept. 18,
in Lexington
Fundraiser will benefit
Kentucky Mansions
Preservation Foundation
Have you ever wondered if your
mother's old brooch is valuable? Do
you have a childhood te~ set that you
think may be a collector's item?
'-Now is your chance to uncover the
tnysteries in your own attic at
Kentucky Mansions Preservation
Foundation's Appraisal Fair.
Kentucky Mansions Preservation
Foundation, Inc. will host an
Appraisal Fair, which serves as the
foundation's fundraiser, on Sunday,
September 18, 2005, from l-5 PM at
HillenmeyeD Garden Shops, 2314
Sandersvillcr Road in Lexington.
Area experts will offer appraisals
and guest lecturers will entertain
throughout the day. Learn all about
"Icons of Kentucky's Frontier" from
Mr. Mei Hankla, or "polish up" on
_. your knowledge of American silver
~ with Ken Hays who has served as an
appraiser for the "Antique Road
Sho~." Plus, you can explore one of
Lexington's most historic commercial
buildings.
Appraisers include: Ken Hays, silver expert; Jamie Bates, silver, crystal
and china expert; Ann Hays, specializing in dolls, quilts and toys; Bill
Farmer, jewelry; Gregg Ladd, art;
Jerry Raisor, military memor~bilia
and ftrearms; Richard Taylor, books;
and Dwayne Yeager, folk art and pottery.
Tickets are $25 per person for
~ appraisal of one item or set. There
'"'J will be a $5 cost for each additional
(See APPRAISAL FAIR, page three)
New Arrivals • page C2
Birthdays • page C3
HCTC • page C3
S.T source for local and regional society news"
City National donates $30,000 to BSCTC
Prestonsburg - City National
Bank donated $30,000 on August
5, to Big Sandy Community and
Technical College (BSCTC) to
endow scholarships for students.
The generous donation was presented by Craig G. Stilwell,
Executive
Vice
President/
Director of Retail Banking, to
Bobby McCool, BSCTC Vice
President
of
Institutional
Services and Michelle Meek,
Associate Dean of Financial
Affairs for the college.
Vice President Craig G.
Stilwell said, ''We are very happy
to be giving back to the community by endowing this scholarship. City National Bank wants
to be a part of the community
and its growth. It is important
that the bank be responsive to the
community's needs."
Bob Bayes, Chairman of Big
Sandy College Educational
Foundation and retired President,
Paintsville Market for Classic
Bank commented, "We have
Bobby McCool, Craig G. Stilwell, Michelle Meek
(See SCHOLARSHIP, page three) and Bob Bayes
August 'Yard of the Month''.'.
Begonias in soft shades of pink
and red, accented with lush green
foliage amid decorative landscape
rock and border with a touch of
whimsy dotted here and there make
the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Setser
a delight to behold.
Small, wooden wheelbarrows
filled with blooms, as well as ceramic pots and baskets spilling over with
vibrant flora, catch the eye of
passers-by at the neatly manicured
home. Mr. Setser, already well
known for his talents along the
avenue, has landscaped the yards of
several of his neighbors, as well as
his own. The school athletic coach
says that landscaping is a hobby, an
activity that he enjoys in leisure
hours. And, as such, the homes and
yards, and neighbors, along Central
Avenue have reaped the benefits,
making the avenue a delight to stroll.
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs.
Setser, for the well-deserving
Prestonsburg Woman's Club "Yard of
theMonth"award!
:photo by Kathy J .
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-
Prater
The home of
Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Setser,
located on
Prestonsburg's
North Central
Avenue has
been chosen
to receive the
August "Yard
of the Month"
award by the
Prestonsburg
Woman's Club.
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CRITTER CORNER
Wolves in eat's clothing
by Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
Are you familiar with wolves? I'm not
talking about the canine type, but rather a
parasit(f that occasionally affects pets,
particularly cats, in the summer ~onths.
This is not the most pleasant toptc, but I
ftnd that many pet owners are not familiar
with this pest.
Wolve is a common term for the larva of
the Cuterebra fly. (Actually, I thought it
was just a local word, but I actually found
it in a textbook). These flies are also called
warbles, rabbit botflies, or rodent botflies.
The fly itself is described as "large and
bee-like." I don't know if I have ever
seen one, although I suppose they resemble horse flies. The adult fly does not
bite, or cause any other problems, but the
larval stage is a different story.
The female fly lays her eggs i 7ar the
nests or burrows of rodents or rabbits, which
are their natural hosts. These animals pick
up the eggs, and their body heat causes the
eggs to hatch. The tiny larvae enter the
body, generally through the nose or mouth,
and then migrate beneath the skin. They
usually set up housekeeping somewhere
around the face or neck. make a breathing
hole in the surface of the skin, and begin to
grow. After about a month, the larva drops
out of the animal onto the ground and
begins its pupal stage. The adult fly will
emerge from the pupa several months later.
For whatever reason, the larvae sometimes show up in cats, and less commonly,
in dogs. Some years seem to be much
worse than others, and this is a bad one. We This is "Smokey." Smokey Is 2 and a half years old and is proudly
are seeing three to six cases a week. and a owned by g year old Amy Romans, of McDowell. Amy's mom,
Michele writes that her daughter "loves her cat as If It was her baby
few animals have more than one larva.
brother!'" Both Amy and Smokey live with "parents" Michele and
(See CRITTER, page three) Steve. Thanks for sharing, guys, Smokey is beautiful!
1
�C2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Schoo( Ca(endar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• Adams Middle School
Youth Services Center is open
each weekday from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. The center offers services
to all families regardless of
income. For more information
about any of the activities or
services of the center, please
contact the center at 886-1297.
The center is now located in the
7th grade wing of the school.
Center Coordinator - Michelle
Keathley; Assistant - Sheila
Allen.
Clark students, K-5th. Limited
enrollment, call now! 8860815.
• A nurse from the Floyd
County Health Dept. is in the
center weekly and sees wrc
patients, does well-child exams
(birth-18 years), and gives
immunizations.
• The Clark Elementary
Family Resource Center provides services for all families
regardless of income. We are
located in the Adams Middle
School building.
Duff Elementary
Allen Central Middle School
• If your child has left any
article of clothing at school,
please contact the Youth Service
Center office.
• The ACMS Youth Service
Center is open each day from
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., or later
by appointment.
For more
information about the center,
call LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 358-0134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service
Centttr
•
Call Allen Elementary
Youth Service Center at 8740621 to schedule your child's
Hepatitis B vaccination, immunizations, and wrc appointments.
Betsy Layne Elementary
•
The Betsy Layne
Elementary Family Resource
Youth Service Center is located
in the 500 building of the campus. The goal of the FRYSC is
to meet the needs of all children
and their families who reside in
the community or neighborhood
by the school in which the center is located. For further information, please contact the center at 478-5550 or 478-9751,
ext. 310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra
Hayes, School Nurse.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. is at the· school each
Thesday. Services include 6th
grade school entry physical;
kindergarten, Head Start and
well-child physicals (age birth
to 18 years); T.B. skin test; T.D.
boosters; and WIC services.
Please call 358-9878 for
appointment if you are in need
of any of these services.
• The J.A. Duff Elementary
Family Resource Center provides services for all families
regardless of income. We are
located in the tan metal building
at the rear of the school. Contact
persons are Judy Handshoe,
coordinator, and Ruby Bailey,
assistant.
May Valley Elementary
•
Aug. 25 - Family
Resource Advisory Council will
hold meeting at 4 p.m., in
school library. Open to public.
All invited.
• Parent Lending Library is
available to parents for video
check-outs. A variety of topics
are available.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. nurse at school every
Wednesday. Services include
Head Start physicals, kindergarten physicals, 6th grade
physicals, well-child physicals,
immunizations, TB skin test,
wrc program, blood pressure
checks, and more. Must call the
FRC at 285-0321 for an
appointment.
Clark Elementary
• After-School Child Care
now accepting applications for
McDowell Elementary and
Family Re.ource Center
• Floyd County Health
Department Nurse Joy Moore, is
at the center each Monday to
administer immunizations, T.B.
skin tests, well-child exams, wrc.
prenatal and post-partum services,
and school physicals. Call 3772678 for an appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
Mountain
Christian
Academy is a non-denominational Christian school.
• Now accepting applications for enrollment for
Kindergarten for the 2005-06
school year. Call 285-5141 for
more information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and
Family Resource Center
•
The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays 8
a.m.-4 p.m., and later by
appointment. Office provides
services for all families, regardless of income.
• After School Child Care,
3-6 p.m., school days .
• Call 886-7088 for additional information regarding the
Prestonsburg
Elementary
Family Resource Center or its
programs.
South Floyd Youth Services
Center
• School will be participating in the Food City "Apples for
Students" program, please save
your receipts.
• Committee sign-ups may
be done through the Youth
Services Center office.
• Walking track open to
public.
• The center has a one-stop
career station satellite that is
available to the community as
well as students.
• Anyone interested in Adult
Ed may contact the center for
information.
• All new students and visitors, stop by the Center, located
on the South Floyd ca.tnpus,
Room 232, and see Mable Hall.
Open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon.
thru Fri.
• For more information call
452-9600 or 9607 and ask for
Mable Hall, ext. 243, or Keith
rNew 'Arrivafs
---------------------·i!!.~
Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud
Creek Family Resource
Center
• FRC monthly Advisory
Council meetings will be held the
fust Wednesday of each month,
at 4 p.m. Call for more info.
• Lost & Found located in
Family Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are
8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. Parents
and community members are
welcome to visit. For questions,
call 587-2233 - ask for Tristan
Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Family Resource
Center
•
Lost
&
Found:
Throughout the school year, the
center receives items that are
left on school buses, in the gym,
classrooms, etc. We encourage
parents to visit the center if their
child has lost a coat, bookbag,
or any such item. Lost items are
checked for identification, however, if unable to locate owner,
and items are not claimed within 2 weeks, they then become
the property of the Family
Resource Center.
• The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays, 8 a.m.
to 4:30p.m., or later by appointment. The center provides services for all families within the
of
community, . regardless
income. If you would like more
information about programs/services the center offers, please
call 452-4553; ask for Cissy or
Karen. The center is located
inside the main building at W.D.
Osborne Elementary. Parents
and community members are
welcome to visit.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare
and Infantrroddler Care accepts
infants and toddlers up to 2
years and Preschool age 2-4.
Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional information, call 874-8328. Summer
office hours: 9 a.m. to l p.m.
July 23 ' 2005
• A son, Peyton Chandler Michael Senters, to Chandra Blair
July 25, 2005
• A daughter, Carley Chaivel Clark, to Versa Lynn and Tom
Timothy Clark
• A son, Devan Lee Slone, to Ashley Lynn Slone
July 26, 2005
• A son, Ryan Sage Gause, to Donna Jean Daniels
• A son, Brayden McKell Ledesma, to Vickie and Fred Ledesma
• A son, Sean Aidan Conn, to Sheila Dawn and Shawn
Edmond Conn
·
July 27, 2005
• A son, Marcus Eugene Moyer, to Dorcas and Dwight Moyer
• A son, Kaden Phillip Mosley, to Sonya Shepherd
• A daughter, Kaitlyn Michelle Delong, to Michelle and
Ray Delong
July 28, 2005
• A son, Ethan Landon Thomas Collins, to Amanda Gayle Collins
• A daughter, Johanna Joelle Balch, to Brandie and Bryan Balch
• A son, Tanner Cole Perkins, to Kendra Lee and Jeffery Perkins
July 29, 2005
• A son, Michael Ray Thomas Gillum Jr., to Jessica Lynn Miller
• A son, Matthew Tyler Conn, to Sabrena and Freddie Conn
July 30,2005
• A son, Zachary Keith Lee Jent, to Amanda Molly Jent
July 31, 2005
• A daughter, Sheyann Dorton, to Tanya and Paul Dorton
Aug.l, 2005
• A daughter, Autumn Rain Huff, to Lisa Marie Compton
• A daughter, Jada Lynn Reynolds, to Tammy and Ronald
Reynolds
• A son, Kern Brad Risner ill, to Jessica and Kern Risner
Aug. 2, 2005
• A daughter, Alyssa Paige Sweeney, to Kayla Marie and
Shawn Michael Sweeney
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(Items taken from
The Floyd County
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and ;~T;,
I •1i j
60 years ago.)
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Ten Years Aao
August 16 and 18, 1995
A special grand jury, investigating
alleged government corruption in Floyd
County, is expected to complete its probe
by the end of August, while a federal
grand jury will meet today (Wednesday)
in Ashland to continue hearing evidence
related to the personal finances of County
Attorney Jim Hammond ... Despite the
hundred degree weather, summer is ending for students throughout the county.... Possible sites for public hearings
about four new fire tax districts were discussed during Friday's 911 board meeting .... Main
Street
merchants
in
Prestonsburg, must work together to survive, Fred James,. Main Street Manager,
implied during a meeting of downtown
business owners, Thursday. The downtown area has lost six businesses since
December, and merchants say it's a toss
up to see which business will be the next
to close its doors ....Soaring summer temperatures are sweeping across the eastern
half of the nation and the heat is taking its
toll on residents in Floyd County. Local
hospitals are reporting that a number of
people have been admitted or treated for
heat exhaustion or heat-related problems,
but so far no heat-related deaths have
been reported in the county...Will T.
Scott, a former circuit judge in Pike
County, and a twice-defeated candidate
for the U.S. House of Representatives, is
running this year as the Republican nominee for Kentucky Attorney General. ..The
question of how to safely dispose of
materials contaminated by histoplasmosis
,,
from the old fire department building is
no longer a question. A recommendation
for disposal of the debris was made by
Dr. Reginald Finger, an epidemiologist of
the division of epidemiology in
Frankfort. He recommends that the debris
be buried under three feet of dirt, and
remain undisturbed for 12 months, and he
got
the
approval
Monday
in
Frankfort... Floyd County's Fiscal Court
is expected to begin drawing lines for the
taxing districts today (Friday), which is a
key element in getting 911 service on line
to the county. Somerset Oil Company
Inc., in Prestonsburg, has been put on a
on~-year probation for noncompliance
with state health regulations after it failed
to correct critical violations found during
an inspection of the business by the
health department.. .A restaurant owned
by Daisy Hamilton of Grethel was shut
down after health department environmentalist Russell H. Wallace found the
owner did not have a permit to operate ... Suzanne Elizabeth, an eight-year-old
Maytown girl, who was accompanied by
her mother, Jamie Bailey-Bamer, filed a
document, Friday afternoon, on behalf of
the non-profit corporation, Eastern
Kentucky Children's Hospital Inc. The
filing was the first official step in a grassroots effort to build a comprehensive
medical facility for children in the
region ...Federal officials are remaining
tight-lipped about a probe into the personal financial dealings of Floyd County
Attorney Jim Hammond after federal
grand jurors in Ashland heard from two
more witnesses, Wednesday. Two former
employees of Hammond's private law
firm appeared before· a federal grand jury
Wednesday morning ...Over the years
there has been a decline in the number of
communities that fit the description of
small town America, but past and present
residents of Wayland are working to keep
that concept alive by hosting a homecoming event, Labor Day weekend ... " 1995
Red, White, and Blue Days- honoring
the past, reaching for our future," is the
slogan for the 25th Red, White, and Blue
Days, which kicks off on October 16 in
Martin ...There died: Lenora Fae Rice, of
Inez, formerly of Prestonsburg, Monday,
August 14; Walter Clyde Dingus Sr., 83,
of Martin, Tuesday, August 15; Astor
Hall, 74, of Harold, Monday, August 14,
at Highlands Regional Medical Center;
Aniold Edsil Campbell, 63, of Mousie,
Friday, August 11; Carolyn M. Harris, 67,
of Wheelwright, Thursday, August 10, at
McDowell
Appalachian
Regional
Hospital; Lawrence Albert Skinner, 73, of
Martin, was dead on arrival, Thusday,
August 10, at Our Lady of the Way
Hospital; Evan Ponce Akers, 69, of
Clearwater, Florida, August 11, at East
Bay Nursing Center; Hassell Ratliff, 71,
of Staffordsville, Monday, August 7, at
J.J. Jordan Gertriatic Center in Louisa;
Della Marie Wiley Keathley, 40, of
Harold, Thursday, August 10, at the
University of Kentucky Medical Center,
Lexington; Gail Stamper, 45, of Allen,
Friday, August 11 , at the Hazard
Hospital; Rady Davis, 70, of David,
Sunday, August 13, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Pauline Begley
May, 79, of Langley, Friday, August 11 ,
at Highlands Regional Medical Center;
John Elmine Watts, 30, of Mallie, Friday,
August 11, on Route 7 at Kite, from
injuries sustained in an automobile accident; Robert Lee Stewart, 78, of
\
Wayland, Friday, August 11, at the:·\:_;
Veterans Hospital, in Huntington, W.Va.; :n!·
Franklin Dewey Johson, 95, of \II
Weeksbury, Wednesday, August 16, at
Central
Baptist
Hospital;
Zola .:6,
Thornsberry Cook, 72, of Wayland, ·_
Wednesday, August 16, at Central Baptist
Hospital; Sylvia I. Burchett McCoy-Boyd, ~~~·
83, of Endicott, Tuesday,' August 6, at ·~
Riverview Manor Nursing Home; Gervie i!·~··
Mature, 62, of Brownsburg, Indiana,~~~;;
Tuesday, August 15, at her residence.
Twentv Years Auo
August 14, 1985
Three Pike County men are in jail, and ·~·~
a fourth was being sought, after a man
was stabbed outside The Warehouse at ,~,
Auxier, around midnight, Saturday...E.P.
"Pete" Grigsby resigned as superintendent
of Floyd County Schools ...The Floydi
County Emergency and Rescue Squad ·~-::~
searched into the night, Tuesday, after "'!·
receiving reports of a drowning at Dewey --··
Lake. At presstime no body had been , ~
found ...The body of a woman foun~ in l
Knott County was identified later as that ~
of Linda Cook of Grethel.. .Ray Brackett
expects to be named acting superintende~t to>
of schools, following the resignation of
Pete Grigsby... There died: James Monroe
Collins, 87, of Wayland, Friday; Worth ';.:
Music, 69, of Abbott Creek, August 7; ·~;,~
Earl Blair, 70, of Allen, Sunday; Richard .~ u
Stumbo, 79, of McDowell, Monday; .•ar.
Juanita Johnson, 60, of Toler Creek, July .·.:·
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25; Walter Martin Kravens, 68, of Goble- 1, , ~
Rol:5erts, last Thursday; Verdie Gearheart •. ·
Moore, 76, of Price, August 6.
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guided tour of Red Jacket
Rocks within a day or two.
Unfortunately, the new
school year would also reveal
that a few familiar faces had
moved away, perhaps because
their fathers had been transferred
~the Northeast Mine at Auxier,
11' for whatever reason. Within a
day or two, though, we'd get
wrapped up in whatever it was
we were doing and-sad to
say-we'd forget all about them.
Guess sentimentality was not
one of our strong suits.
But back to the subject of
fear and dread, there was
always the agitation and anxi·
ety that some Shrek-like ogre
of a teacher would show up and
I'd be assigned to his/her room.
You know the kind I mean; the
kind that hated kids, loved
mework, and carried a long
WEDNESDAY AUGUST
stick instead of a paddle. More
often than not, about a week
before school was scheduled to
start, one of the older boys in
the camp would start spreading
rumors that he'd heard that
such a person had been hired
by the board of education and,
wouldn't you know it, that person had been assigned a position at our school.
But as I've stated many
times in this column, I had
nothing to fear. In the eight
years I attended school at
Muddy Branch, I always had
the nicest, most patient teachers that a coal-camp kid could
ever have had. It's strange, but,
after more than 60 years, they
still reside in the far recesses of
my brain, and visit my memory
every year about the time
school starts.
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always made an effort to fur- College said, "On behalf of the
ther the educational standards President, Dr. George D.
of the citizens of eastern Edwards, I accept this donaKentucky. Scholarships pro- tion. Contributions like this
vide opportunities to help peo- will make a difference in the
ple make better lives for them- lives of many students. The
selves and become contribut- College and the students appre4}8 citizens.
ciate the generosity of City
City Holding Company is the National."
parent company of City
Michelle Meek said, "I am
National Bank. The Bank's 67 so happy to be a part of this
branch locations across West presentation today. I spent 13
Vtrginia, eastern Kentucky and years working for this bank
southern Ohio provide full-ser- before coming to work for the
vice banking to retail and com- College. It gives me a sense of
mercial companies. Through its pride and fulfillment lo see the
banking offices in West bank donate money that will
Vtrginia, Kentucky and Ohio, directly benefit students. That
the company provides credit, · is putting the money back into
deposit, investment advisory the community where it is
and insurance products and ser- needed most. Scholarships
vices to its customers. City fund the future."
National Bank in Paintsville was
Donations for scholarships
rmerly known as Classic or other college initiatives may
.Bank.
be made by contacting Judy
City
National
Bank's Bocook at Big Sandy
recently opened branch in Community and Technical
Paintsville, was the location of College. 606-886-3863 ext
the donation presentation. 67369. A gift of scholarship is
Bobby McCool, accepting the a gift that goes on giving for
donation on behalf of the years to come.
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Nick turns two!
Kylle Jade Tackett turned one year old on Sunday, August 7,
2005. She celebrated her first birthday 0!1 Friday with a "Care
Bears" them~ party. Many friends and family members attend·
ed to help celebrate Kylle's special day. Kylle Is the daughter of
Kayla and Kevin Tackett, of HI Hat.
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Nicholas Morgan Crews will celebrate his second birthday on .
August 14, 2005. Nick Is the son of Jane Morgan Crews, of "
Richmond, and Eddie Crews, of Winchester. He Is the mater- 1'
nal grandson of Nancy Hill Howard, of Abbott Road, and the
late John Morgan Howard. His paternal grandparents are Ed
and Camilla Crews, of Winchester. Nick will celebrate his
special day with a birthday party held at Chuck E. Cheese's, ..~
In Lexington.
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Then put them in the news.
the Times llelp you ccleyour child or grandbirthday. We 'II print the .
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picture mtd stmlrthday 1nfotmation - or
annouucenK'nt free.
by the Times office, locarat 263 South Centntl
Avenue (acr(lSS from Ruy
Hn·wm-,l Fumirur.::). or semi to
Box 390, Prestonsburg.
41653; or email:
fe<t•
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An affected cat presents with
swollen area, usually on the
ll.ead or neck.
Unlike an
abscess, this swelling is f1llll
and often less painful. The telltale sign is a perfectly round
hole in the center of the
swelling. This may be a little
difficult to find, as it is sometimes covered with matted hair
or dried fluid. If you look closely at the hole, you may see
something moving inside. Gross
as this sounds, better that you
read about it here ftrst, instead
of finding one on your cat and
not know what it is.
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Most of the time, a
Cuterebra larva is unsightly
and uncomfortable, but seldom
life-threatening.
There are
exceptions. I saw my first
fatality from one this summer.
There are reports in the literature of these larvae finding
their way into the trachea or
even the brain. Obviously, little can be done about these
aberrant
migrations.
Thankfully, these are rare.
Treatment for the typical
case involves removing the
larva before it becomes. any
larger. This is not always easy.
Sometimes it is hard to tell if the
larva is still present, or whether
it has already vacated the
premises and left its former
home swollen and infected.
Most of the 'time the larva can
be visualized and removed with
forceps, although the breathing
pore may have to be enlarged a
little'.
Although it certainly isn't
brain surgery, don't try to do this
at home. These larvae can be
huge- I have removed some the
size of my thumb! If you do not
get the entire parasite out, it can
set up a raging infection, and
there are rare reports of anaphylactic shock caused by exposure
to the proteins released by a ruptured larva.
Once the larva is out, treatment usually consists of keeping
the area clean so it can drain.
Sometimes antibiotics or medicated flushes are needed.
Outdoor cats, and especially
kittens, should be checked frequently during the summer and
early fall. Wolves are not always
on the head; they may also be
found on the back or trunk. Any
lump or swelling is cause for
further inspection.
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item with a limit of five items
per person.
Proceeds benefit the preservation of historic sites in
Kentucky, including the Mary
Todd Lincoln House, Lexington.
For More Information,
Interview• and Press Ope:
Contact: Trudy Burkhard,
ommittee Chairwoman
Email: JPBurkhard@aol.com
Phone: (859) 971-6800
Press
and
Media
Representatives will receive
Free Admission
About Kentucky
Mansions Preservation
Foundation
The Kentucky Mansions
Preservation Foundation, a pri·
vate, nonprofit organization,
was founded in 1968 to protect
and promote the Mansions of
the Bluegrass state. Founded by
Mrs. Beula C. Nunn, the wife of
former governor Louie B. Nunn,
the Foundation's initial project
was the much needed renovation and refurbishment of the
Governor's
Mansion
in
Frankfort. Concerned citizens
from private and public sectors
assisted in raising funds for the
renovation.
The second project for the
Foundation was the restoration
and preservation of White Hall
in Madison County, former
home of Cassius Marcellus
Clay, early abolitionist, legislator and Ambassador to Russia
serving President Abraham
Lincoln.
The dilapidated childhood
home of Mary Todd Lincoln in
Lexington was restored, refurbished to period and opened to
the public in 1977 as the flrst
historic site in America in honor
of a former First Lady.
In Lexington, the law office
of Statesman Henry Clay was
preserved and restored with
foundation assistance. Parker
Place, a portion of which is
believed to be the former home
of Mary Todd Lincoln's maternal grandmother, also received
renovation and served for a time
as headquarters for the
Foundation. White Hall, Henry
Clay's Law Office and the Mary
Todd Lincoln House are all listed on the National Register of
Historic Places.
The Foundation is one of the
few historic restoration organizations in the nation that
receives no state or federal
funds. It relies solely upon
admissions, gift shop sales,
donations and membership dues
to maintain the Mary Todd
Lincoln House and to fund the
Foundation and its projects. The
mission of the Foundation is to
make a meaningful mark on preserving the legacy of historic
homes and sites in Kentucky. To
further this goal, the Foundation
intends to create a grant program to assist in rescue, renovation and presetvation efforts
across the state as well as provide educational opportunities
for members and the general
public on preservation and
Kentucky history.
Happy Birthday, Gabrielle!
Gabrielle Dawn Reynolds will turn one year old on August 25,
2005. Gabrielle, the daughter of Donnie R. and Robin
Reynolds, of McDowell, will celebrate with a "Disney
Princesses" theme party, to be held on August 21, at the Old
Time Baptist Church, at Spurlock. Gabrielle Is the maternal
granddaughter of Shelby Reynolds, of McDowell, and
Raymond and Estee Reynolds, of Auxier. She is the paternal
granddaughter of Anita Reynolds, of Pikeville.
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Please see our website:
www.mtlhouse.org
Or contact us directly at
859-233-9999
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Dicey Combs, filth from left,
front row, with some of the
employees
from
Hazard
Community & Technical College
that assisted in a recent house
raising for her benefit. Included
are: Peggy Conley, Deborah
Campbell, Bonnie Shepherd,
ti9rtney Hall, Jenny Williams,
Connie
Hagans,
Whitney
Stidham, Carla Seals, Michael
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Cummings, Mark Fields and son
Mark Tim Whittaker, Homer
Terry,' Teresa Breeding, Vtckie
Combs, and members of the
Student Leadership Institute. The
HCTC employees worked in
crews of two - one for the morning, and one for the afternoon.
The house raising was organized
by the Hazard-Perry County
Housing Development Alliance.
Happy Birthday, Tommy!
Tommy Lee Holland, the son of Brenda and Johnny Holland,
of Prestonsburg, celebrated his birthday this past July 29
with a party held at Shoney's, In Pikeville. Friends from
, Shoney's, Long John Sliver's and the Dairy Queen all helped
mak' his day special. He received many nice gifts, cards and
a beautiful Ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. Tommy has
been employed by Pizza Hut and Reno's, as well as a local ,
lawn service, for the past 20 years. He thanks all his friends
and family for making his birthday great. .
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17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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pot J·or that llisp:mic heritage, we have to thank people like Maria
r•wn Jal'inta Domingua Ortega. othen' isc knmvn as "Mama Ortega:·
d over a fmnil)- of 13 children in a small adobe home in California over
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t to '''· bm are far easier to create- and more run to cal! Pantry-friendly,
Green Clu!cs arc ready to ~Jtir into your favorite casserole, cheese dip or
. ) 1.m\ crii;p taco shells arc still rnade fromt·eal ground com. but vacuum
p hem fre'h ami to prevent breakage. Ortega microwavable salsa and
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the family at the table antl ~~tioy your own liesta of flavors. Viva summer!
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Fiesta Nachos
Original Tacos
Preparation lime: /0 minutes (r;!Jking time: 2 minutes
28 tortilla chip'>
1 cup Ort~ga Salsa & Chct·se Dip
1/4 cup Ortl!gn Diced Green Chiles
l/4 cup Ortega Salsa (any variet))
PREHEAT oven to 40lff. Line lXlokk sheet with aluminum
foil.
PLACE tortilla chtps on ~ookie shc~t. Sprinkle with chec~e
and chilies.
BAKE about 4 minutes or until cheese i:; melted. Top \\ ith
salsa. Serve hot.
Sen•ps .f
Prcpuratimt time: 12 millllf(~.\ Ct>o/..in,'<: time: JO minute,,
l pound ground beef
3/4 eup wafek·
1 (1.25-ounct>) 1mdwge Orft-ga Taco Seasoning MixRegular
1 (4.5 QUnl'e) packa:re Ortega Tat.., Shells (12-count),
warmed
Toppings: shredded lettuce, cllopped tomatot'S,
shredded mild cheddar chetst, Ortega Thick &
Smouth Taco Sauce
BROWN beef: drain. Stir in water and seasomng mix. Bring to
boiL Reduce heat to low; cook. stirring occasionil.llv, 5 h) 6 minutes or until mixture is thick~ne,t.
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Preparatio111ime: /0 mimllc~ Cooking lime: 35 mi11utes
1 pound ground bt·d
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cloves garlic, lin\!ly ehoppcd
cup water
cup Ortt!ga Ibick & Smooth Taco Sauce- Medium
1 (4-ounce) can Ortega Diced Green Chiles
1 (2.25-ounce} can sliced rip<' olhes. drained, dhidcd
t (1.25-ounce) package Ortt-ga Taco Seasoning
Mix- Regular
(4.5-ounct-) package Ortloga Taco Shells
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2 cups shredded mild cheddar cheese. dhided
l/4 cup chopped tomatOt.-s (optional)
t/8 cup sliced grt.o.en onions (optional)
PREll EAT oven to 375 F. Grea'e 12- x 8-inch baking dish.
COOK beef. onion and garltc in ~killel umil bed i:. hmwned:
drain. Stir in water. taro smtce. chile.;. Il-l c.: up olin~.; and
sra\oning mix.. Cook over low heul 3 to 4 minute.s.
LAYER halt of brok~n taco 'hell~ on honorn of prepared
haking dish. Cover\\ ith h<Jlf of 111eat ..aucc: sprinkle \\ ilh
I. cup~chee~e. Repeal with remaining shells. ml!al sau.:e
and t'heesc.
BAKE 20 to 25 minutes or until hubbly and chel!sc ts mel!etl.
1hp with remaining <1hvcs, tomatoes antl green onions.
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Prqtamtiou time: 10 minute\· Cm1kiug time: 15 minure.\
1 112 pounds honcles." beef sirloin OR boneless, ~l.inlt•ss
chicken breasts
I tablespoon n-getuble oil
1 {l.S·ounce) package Ortega Fajita Seasoning Mix Regular
,V.t cup Ortega S:llsa (any ,uficty)
IH cup ketchup
1 to 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1 tablesp()on Dijon mustard
6 (8-inch) Ortega Flom· Tortillas
Sour cream (optional I
Shredded lettuce (optional)
CbntlJ)L'lllmnatu (optional)
Salsa & ( 'hr~r llip
l/4 <;up Ortcgu Diced (:rc~n -Chilcs
CUT beef or chickt>n into strip:. tBeef is easier to cut it partially
liw~n..tlx>ut I Ill hour,.)
HEAT I~-inL'h skillet or wok 01 er high heat Add oil: rotatt' kilkt
to cuat.
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drain. Stir in fajit•t s~·awning, saba. ketchup. bro\\11 ~ugar nnd
mu>tard. Conk and 'tir I to ?. minutes ur until hot.
SER\ f-. in turti lias "ith 'our cream. lcuut·e and tomatn if desired.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
17, 2005 •
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1118 IIIJd OtllnlJTIDIIS
'110 - Agriculture
115 - ATV's
120- Boats
130- Cars
140- 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
160 - Motorcycles
170- Parts
175- SUV's
180 - Trucks
190- Vans
:4P
200 - EMPLOYMENT
The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly accept
false or misleading
advertisements •
Ads which request
or require advance
payment of fees for
services or products should be
scrutinized carefully.
AUTOMOTIVE
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230
250
260
270
280
290
- Job Listings
- Help Wanted
- Information
- Miscellaneous
- Part Time
- $ales
· Services
, Work Wanted
~QO
- EINA~~IAL
310 - Business
Opportunity
330 - For Sale
180-Trucks
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
FOR SALE:
1975
Ford dump truck, tilt
front end, 12' bed,
For. more info call
606-478-9150.
130-Cars
EMPLOYMENT
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
2001 GT
Convertible
Mustang automatic
40,000 miles $10,500
1999 2 DR Explorer •
55,000 miles $5,500
1992 Explorer Air$1395
1995 Mercury minivan Cold air $1995
When responding
to Employment ads
that have reference
numbers,
please
indicate that entire
reference number
on the outside of
your
envelope.
Reference numbers
are used to help us
direct your letter to
the correct individual.
$500!Police
Impounds! Honda,
Chevy, Ford and
more!Cars
/Trucks/SUVs from
$500! For listings call
800-439-3998 ext.
A919
205- Bus. Opp.
HOST PHOTO
' SHOOT!
Raise $$$ for yourself, church, school,
or business.
Antiques
(black/white),
antiques (color).
1-800-892-7604,
FOR SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
no title, good for
parts. $600 obo. Call
NEED EXTRA
874-4094.
MONEY? Try Avon.
150- Miscellaneous $1 0 sign-up fee &
free gift. Call Janey
at 886-2082.
The City of
Prestonsburg will
21 0-Job Listing
be accepting bids
for a new 2006 20
LOCAL MEDICAL
cubic yard rear
OFFICE
loader garbage
looking for
truck with cart tipNURSE
per. Contact
PRACTIONER
Sharon Schoolcraft
or
at 886-2335 for the
PHYSICIAN
bid spec sheets.
ASSISTANTSealed bids must
CERTIFIED
be returned by 4:00
Nice environment,
pm Wednesday
excellent wages
August 31 , 2005.
and benefits.
The City of
Interested candiPrestonsburg
dates call
reserves the right
M-F 8:00 - 5:00
to accept or reject
606-889-0802
any and all bids
EOE
160-Motorcycles
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FOR SALE:
Two
fully loaded Yamaha
V-Star Classic Bikes.
03 650 Indigo Blue
370 miles, '02 1100
Titanium Silver 1980
miles. Priced together $10,500. Sold
11 00separately
$5800 and 650·
$4700. Reason for
selling: Wanting to
upgrade, Must see to
appreciate. Call 606297-1667.
FOR SALE:
1999
Honda CBR 600 F4.
8,000
miles.Great
condition .
Never
down. Red, s ~ve~
and black. Includes
AGV x-vent helmet &
kevlar
jacket
&
gloves. $3500 or
best offer. 889-9~84,
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POSITION
AVAILABLE:
RODMAN for
underground and
surface survey crew.
Must have current
underground mining
and surface mining
training papers.
Application available
at Summit
Engineering, INC.,
131 Summit Drive,
Pikeville, K'i
between the hours of
Bam and 5 pm MonFri. Must submit to a
pre-employment drug
screen.
NOTICE:
Job Fair for
Experienced
Underground
Miners
Are you interested
in a good paying job?
Are you interested
in a job with great
For
Sale
1998 benefits?
Are you interested
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe. in working for a com$1600. Call 606-452- pany with new equip·
ment?
9599 for more info.
Do you want to
2000 HONDA XR 70- work in a drug free
Good
condition, workplace?
Do you have an
$650, Call 886-4260
FOR LEASE
2 Commercial Buildings
Former location of
Steve's Tire Sales &
Farm & Home Supply
Located just off Rt. 80
on Hwy. 3188, Martin, Ky.
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Contact:
886·6906 after 6 p.m.
600 • BENJAf,.S
~QD - MEB~HAHQI~E
410- Animals
420 - Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - Fumitl.lre
450 - Lawn & Garden
460 - Yard Sale
470 - Health & Beauty
475 - Household
experienced underground KY miners
card?
If this sounds like a
job you would be
interested in, then
ICG Hazard is the
company for you! We
currently have underground miner positions in the Breathitt
County area. If you
are interested in completing an application,
we will conduct a job
fair Friday August 19,
2005. The location of
the job fair will be at
the Life Skills Center
(beside the courthouse) in Jackson
from 8:00 am unil
7:00 pm. If you need
additional information
please call 606-4390946.
EEO/AAE,M/F/DN
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505 - Business
510- Commercial
Property
530 - Homes
550 - Land/Lots
570 - Mobile Homes
580 - Miscellaneous
endorsement Clean
driving record. Must
be i:~ble to pass DOT
physical and drug
test. Leave message
606-358-9268.
610 - Apartments
· 620 - Storage/
Office Space
630 - Houses
640 • Land/Lots
650 - Mobile Homes
66Q • Miscellanebus
610 - CommerCial
Property
100 • SEBV!ct;~
705 - Constn.Jction
710
713
715
720
730
735
740
745
· Educational
·Child Care
- Electrician
• Health & Beauty
- Lawn & Garden
- Legal
• Masonry
- Mlsoellaneoue~
KY 41653. 606-8868889 fax: 606-886470-Health & Beauty
email
8847,
or
resume and salary
WOLFF TANNING
requirements
to:
alchemy @engineer.c
BEDS
Financing available,
om
Free delivery & set
DESK CLERK up within 75 miles of
WANTED:
Desk London, KY. Bulbs,
clerk working night Parts, Lotions at
shift and weekends. Wholesale . Prices.
Full time/part time. Call 888-554-0058
Come by and apply
or call 889-0331 .
480- Misc.
Movers
765 ·Office
780 •' PIUTTJbing
765 - Protessionats
770 - Repair/Service
7$0 · 'l'imber
790 · Travel
830 - Miscellaneous
850 -"Personals
1370 - Services
890 ·Legals
mm •NQ!It:it:S
805 • Announcements
81 o - Al.lctlons
815- Lost & Found
32 toward Blaine,
turn right on
Highway 3215
toward the campground and golf
course. Tu-Su 10 am
·7:30pm
offer. No land conFinal
clearance
tract. Call 606·874- 2004 lot models and
2775 or 734-997- 2005 models now
7110.
available! If you are
serious about purHOMES FOR SALE: chasing a new home
A foreclosure!! 3 BR you need to be with
only $14,900. For experienced staff o
listings call 1-800· get the right home at
429-7008. ext B 183. a great price. Tre
Home Show-Sou h
HOUSE FOR SALE: William son, Inc. US
3 BR, LR, kitchen, 119,
Belfry,
Ky.
1.5 BA, carport, full 41514 606-353-6444
basement, storage or toll free 877-353buil9ing. Lqcated at 6444
4323
RT
550
Hueysville. Contact
All Drywall, Dutch
358-4065, 358-4369. with 2x6 walls,and
Price Reduced!
5/12 roof pitch, ultimate kitchen pack550- Land/Lots age, glass block window, and many more
LAND FOR SALE: extras, Set up for
Approximately 200 viewing. For detai~ s
acres with timber and call 606-353 6·~44 or
coal located 2 miles toll free 571-353from Prestonsbu rg 6444 the horne show
cith limits. Call 606886-2818.
NOTICE:
Positions available
495-Want to Buy
in various mine and
preparation plant
construction proWANT TO BUY: Fill
jects.
dirt needs to be delivImmediate openings
ered to the East
Point area. Call 367for experienced
crane operators,
.1506 or 367-1934.
ironworkers/ connec- WANTED: A new WEDDING DRESS
tors, welders, pipefit- medical imaging cen- FOR SALE: Size 12,
ters, millwrights.
ter is looking for a pearl and sequins
receptionist in the intricate design on
MSHA surface construction training
Pikeville
area. bodice and train.
530-Homes
' required. Only expe- Please fax a resume Must see to appreci·
Brick
rienced applicants
to Kenny Holbrook at ate beauty. For more FOR SALE:
information, call 886- house, 3 BR 1.5 BA.
need apply. Benefits 606-439-0575.
8506 ask for Tonya $125,000. Located
package. Contact
FLOYD COUNTY I or after 5:00 call 886- between Allen &
Mark Carvillano at
PAJNTSVILLE/ 0048 and leave mes- Prestonsburg. Owner
304-363-41 00 or
will deduct for CH/A.
PIKEVILLE AREAS: sage.
mail resume to
New carpet ·and
The
Lexington
Mountaineer
FABRICATOR/
Resources, INC, PO Herald Leader has a FOR SALE ·: inlaid for kitchen and
WELDER
Logan Corporation BOX 1187, Fairmont, morning newspaper Wurlitzer piano for bathroom. Serious
route available in sale. Contact 285- inquiry only. 606- 570· Mobile Homes
of Prestonsburg, KY wv 26555-1187,
attn Mark Carvillano. your area. Routes 9704. Call after 5:00 874-2035.
is seeking qualified
FOR SALE: 2002
take about 3 hours pm.
Resumes can also
individuals for the
HOUSE FOR SALE: 14 x 52 Gile MH.
APT FOR REN T:
daily, with an approxbe faxed to Mark
position of
12 Owner
Financing Never lived in. 2 BR Renovated apts like
imate profit potential FOR SALE:
Carvillano at 304Fabricator/ Welder.
new. Furnished. In
of $800
-51000 pews, like new condi- Available, 3 BR 1 BA 1 BA. Ref, stove,
Must be able to weld 363-4814.
downtown
~ 1lart 11 ,
monthly. Dependable tion. Medium-light older ranch home. built-in stereo sysand cut steel and thin
Local transportation and blue in color. Call 406 Hunts Branch. tem, security system Call between 9 5 '111'
WANTED:
gauge metaL
Creek. and underpinning.
daily. 285-3025.
Experience in brake company looking for ability to be bonded 452-4189 fo r more Hurricane
Pike/Floyd line on Rt All included.
experienced
tele- required. Call 1-800- information.
press, shear, and
23, $54,900. (859) Located at Price, KY PARK PLAC E
pipe ben~ing a plus. phone technician in 274 - 7355 .( E XT
FOR SALE: Antique 733-5929.
Open Asking price
APART MENTS·
area. 3384 or 1629)
Salary commensu- local
mantle.
Beautiful house 8/20 & 8/21 $14,000. Fo more
"LABOR DAY" Move·
rate with experience. Requirements miniquarte r sown oak. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
in
special!
First
info, call 889-0010.
mum of 5 years
Benefits package
month's rent ERE!;;
Call Lane at 886·
experience.
Good
included. EOE
FOR SALE: 1980 with paid secunty
3179,
FOR SALE: 3 BR
Please send resume pay-Good benefits.
2.5 BA home on RT 14x70 MH 2 BR 1 deposit.
Through
Call 226-21 30 or 350-Miscellaneous
to:
Kay's
Wallpaper 1750
between BA, fireplace, CH/A, September 5th, 1
Human Resources 793-4873,
205 Depot Road Prestonsburg
and large deck, appli- BRI$309. 2 BR $304Fabricator/ Welder
ances, on large pri- $345. ·Prestonsburg.
Ky.
Paintsville,
Paintsville.
Call
Need
to
repair
your
WANTED:
Need
PO BOX 58
rented
lot. 886-0039,
Hundreds of Patterns Sharon Craft at East vate
credit and move
employees to pres·
Huntington, WV
$10,000
or
best
offer.
&
KY
Realty
at
606of
Wallpaper
on?
We
provide
sure wash heavy
25706.
Borders. All under 297-4411 or 606- 606-246·0767,
FOR RENT: Nice, 1
low APRs, low
equipment
Must
BR apt on KY 32 1
$10.00.
Open Tues - 886-0571. Priced to
monthly
payments
have valid driver's
WANTED:
MH FOR SALE : between Highlands
Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. sell @ $189,500.
on all types of
FuiVPart time house- license and surface
1998 16 X 80 Hospital and Davis'
Sat.1 0 a.m to 3 p.m. Agent Owned.
loans. 1st, 2nd,
mining papers. Call
keepers needed.
Fleetwoo
d Market CH/A, W!D
Closed Sun. & Mon.
m'ortgage, busiM-F 9-7 606·886Apply in person.
Reflections 3 BR 2 hook-up.
$325.00
606·
789-8584,
HOUSE
FOR
SALE:
Call
1
ness
loans.
1759.
Pikeville Super 8.
$200.00
Allen, KY. Riley Hall BA Great condition. month
(800) 405- 8157.
Sub. 17 Cross Road. Never smoked in. All deposit. 789-5973.
490-Recreation
CORE DRILLER
220-Help Wanted WANTED:
Main floor 2 BR. 1 appliances & CH/A.
Experienced
core . MERCHANDISE PLEASANT RIDGE
BA. Upstairs 2 room Vinyl siding, shingle
HORSEBACK RID1/2 BA. Basement roof. Asking $19,998.
wanted.
AVON REPS NEED- driller
ING
with
opening
Friday
full BA Roughed 889-9384.
ED: $10 to sign-up. Experience with Joy 445-Furniture
APARTMENTS
May 6 at Yatesville
in. All appliances APPLICATIONS BEING
CASSIE· 886-8737 , Ramrod II drilling unit
ACCEPTED FOR
Lake.
including
Call
606-673Dishwasher
FOR.._~;_N11
THERESA • 886· and NQ-2 drill rods a
1-BEDROOM
11 65. Directions: US & WID. Ramp to rear
ALLEN
3690, WANDA - 285- plus. Primarily coal
1, 2 3, 4 Bedrooms
APARTMENTS
FOR
deck. Front porch.
23 to Louisa/Blaine
FURNITURE
with
9486, or Terri -· 946- exploration
available for extremely
PERSONS
$67,500
or make
exit
turn
on
Highway
ALLEN,KY
some
foundation
low-income people at
2355 (after 5:00),
55 AND OLDER
Furniture,
used
investigation work on
Highland Heights Apts.
Located
behind
Wendy's
in Goble·Roberts Addn.,
CASE MANAGER- occassion. Will con- appliances, living I
and Pizza Hut In Presand Cliffside Apts. on
Big
Sandy sider training appro- bedroom suits, bunk
tonsburg, All utilities are
Cliff Road, Prestons·
Included ·and the rent Is
Treatment
Fast priate person, who beds, and lots more!
burg.
Computerized
based upon gross monthly
Care Program: Must has drill rig equip- Call606-874-9790.
learning centers offer
Income. Several acllvllles,
ment
experience.
be willing to work
social/educational prosuch as line dancing,
with
emotionally Must be mechanicalgrams for children and
crafts, bingo, movies, hair
RAY'S BARGAIN
salon and church services,
adults. All utilities
behaviorally
dis- ly inclined, and have
The apartments are furincluded at Highland
turbed youth in com- the desire and will- CENTER
nished with a refrigerator,
New
&
Used
Hgts., utility allowance
munity
programs. ingness to do what it
Prestonsburg
stove, emergency alarm
at Cliffside. Call (606)
&
Responsible
for takes to complete the Furniture
system, and air conditioner,
886-0608, 886-1927, or
Appliances
@
unbejob.
Wages
and
bendeveloping the treatFor more information,
886-1819. TDD: 1-800
prices .
please call Highland
ment plan, directing efits commensurate lievable
648-6056.
Highland
HELP WANTED: Waitresses, dishTerrace at 606-886·1925, or
experience. Come in today for
and providing ser- with
Heights and Cliffside
come
by
the
office
for
an
incredible
·savings.
washers/busboys, cooks. Paid vacavices, and overall Local projects within
Apartments do not dis·
application,
Eastern Shop At Th e Little
criminate In admission
case management the
Highland Terrace does not
tion,
health
insurance
available.
Furniture
Store
&
or employment ·n subsi·
discriminate In admission
May Kentucky area, but
guidance.
or employment In subsidized
housing
on
require some on-call/ may require some Save!! Route. #122,
Uniforms
furnished.
dized housing on account
account of race, color,
Contact McDowelL Call 606after hours work. traveL
of race, color, creed, relinational origin, sex,
No phone calls, please!
Requires a BA Alchemy Enginee ring 377-0143.
gion, sex, nationage, disability, religion
al
origin,
age,
~
degree in the human Associates, 546 W,
Apply in person.
and familial
{§)_
::_
Old
Middlecreek
familial
status
or
L..:J
services field. Send
status.
disability.
=-~
Road,
Prestonsburg,
resume to:
Buckhom Children &
Family Services
Attn: Theresa Gay
116 Buckhorn Lane
Buckhorn, KY 41721
PRIME COMMERCIAL P R OPERTY
Fax: 606-398-7724
Saturday,
August 20th, 2005, at 11 a.m.
Email:
theresa.gay@buckhorn .org
Location: 5795 Old KY 15, Pine Ridge, KY. Take the Mt.
Equal Opportunity
Parkway to Exit 40, then take Old KY 15 West about 2 miles
Employer
(Hayes Auto Auction), Auction signs posted.
14 acres ± PRIME COMMERCIAL PROPERTY- mostly
WANTED:
OTR
level, great visibility from Mt. Parkway - good road frontage
Driver needed. 1 out
- 60'x60' metal building w/remote doors, kitchen area and
of last 3 years verifioffice area. 25'x30' insulated metal building, 3- trailer
able
HASMAT
hookups, 3 phase electric, city water.
Terms: 10% down day of sale, balance on or before 30 dnys
MANAGER
with delivery of deed. No Buyer's Premium.
Announcements day of sale take precedence over prinit'd
TRAINEE
material.
REAL ESTATE
RENTALS
FINANCIAL
RESTAURANT
2 Full time positions in local area.
$30 -$35K + full
benefi t p ack age .
C all today: 6 06 877-7848 lOAM 6PM ask for Mr.
Blankenship.
Place your
ad today!
Call Tonya
at 886-8506
to find out
how.
AUCTIO
Turner
.~..Thompson
'
;y-
Auctions
Tony Tumer. Broker/Auctioneer
Glen Thompson - Agent/Auctioneer
Phone: 606-668-6692
Phone: 606-593-6079
www.glenthompson.com
�C6 •
WEDNESl>AY, AUGUST
APT FOR REN-1: 2
BR newly remodeled
ground floor apt for
rent. Located across
from Garth Technical
Schooi on RT 122 at
Martin, KY. Must have
references. Call 2859112.
17, 2005
3 BR HOUSl: FOR
RENT: 2 porches, 2
BA, carport. Country
home, very private.
Call 886-9291.
3 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA,
kitchen , DR, heath
pump, built in vacuAPT F OR RENT: um cleaner & deck.
Nice 1 BR fully fur- ·Located in Knott
nished apt. New car- County. 438·61 04
pet. Suitable fot 1·2
people. No pets. HOUSE FOR RENT:
Located on RT 1428 3 BR, 1.5 BA, car·
Private lot. $450 port, large lot. Call
month $250 deposit. 886-8366.
All utilities included-~ 4lndllots
tv 874-4330
LL
APT FOR RENT:
Small studio apt.
Furnished.
clean,
suitable for 1 person.
Some utilities furnished.
Deposit
required.
$225
month. Call 886·
6208 . •
NE W TRAILER
LOTS FOR RE~T: 3
minutes
from
Highlands Regional,
minutes from
5
Porter School. Call
886-3959.
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
between Preston·
sburg and Paintsville
call 606·886·9007 or
889 9747
1 BR Furnished
Apartment, Including
Util1ties.
2 BR
Unfurnished,
and
large 3 BR 2 BA,
Trailer Lot For
unfurnished on RT
114
Rent, Large Yard.
Call 886-8366
Call 886-8366
FOR RENT: 2 BR
apt. Spacious, q Jiet
oommun1ty .
Application must be
filled out. Deposit &
references required.
One year lease. Call
358-9123.
For Rent : newly
constructed Mobile
Home Lots in new
·A II en, ref er e nce
requi red call 606874·2212
2 BR 1 1/2 bath
Townhouse also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
3BR MH FOR
RENT: 3 BR, large
lot. Call 886-8366.
Greetings
from
Lighthouse Manor,
Terry
&
Sharon
Smith. We have
apartments for rent
that are efficiency
apartments, all utilities paid. For more
info call 606-8862797.
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central
heat & air. Rent starting at $375. month, +
$300. deposit water
included.
Located
near HRMC. 606·
889-971 7.
FOR RENT: 3 Room
office suite. $600
month. Call 886·
1020 ask for C. V.
For Rent: Office
Suite,
New
Construction. 900
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking, Can oe
Convenient Locat1on.
New Offi ce Be :1 c.
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg
Call
886-1515 for info.
OFFI~E OR
RETAIL SPACE
FOR LEASE: 1 ,200
sq ft in Prestonsburg ..
886-8366
FOR LEASE: New
30x60 Metal building
12 ft ceilings on RT
80 close to Martin
886-8366. $500.00
month.
FOR RENT:
900
sq. ft. office/commercial space. Located
next to Reflection's
Beauty Salon 3/4
mile south or Martin
on RT 122. Across
from Garth Tech.
School. Call 285·
9112.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
Very nice, clean 2
BR house. Includes
stove, dishwasher,
side by side fridg" ,
WID hookup. CH/A
Located on MT Pkwy
8
miles
fr om
Prestonsburg m a
quiet neighbort1ood
$500 per month plus
deposit & utilit1es
References required.
No pets. Call 606·
886·1339 between 5·
9 pm.
65_0 : 11/!obile Homes
MH FO R RENT:
Located on AT 7 Salt
Lick. Call 358·4524.
I
6GO· Miscellaneous
'
ROO M FOR RENT:
in 1700 sq ft dou·
blewide. Access to
whole house including 2 full BA. Just
asked to help with
portion
of
rent.
Cable, utilities, and
furniture provided.
Prefer female . .81lSl.::
NESS ONLY. Call
285·3755.
'FOR RENT:
2 BR House
• MH slip
'Barn access 3 stalls
606-434· 7507
8/10 mile Cow Creek
~
SERVICES
770-Repair/Services
CA RP ENTRY
WORK all types.
New construction or
re mode lin g.
ucHages, deCkS, etC.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
LEGALS
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
877-0165
AMENDMENT4
In accordance with
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
DFM, Inc., P.O. Box
367, Old U.S. 23,
Allen,
Kentucky
41601, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 1.5 mile
north of Gunlock In
Magoffin/F i o yd
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
County. The amendment operation will
add 157.57 acres of
surface disturbance
and 131.77 acres of
highwall/thin seam
mining area, making
a total area of
1378.73 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
The
proposed
amendment area is
approximately 0.7
mile north from
Brushy Fork Road's
junction with Ky.
Route 7, and located
on Molly Branch.
The
proposed
amendment is located on the David
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The surface
area to be disturbed
by the amendment is
owned by Big Branch
Holding Co., LLC,
David L. Francis,
John Arnett Heirs,
Tonie
Wireman
Heirs,
Sandy
Marie
Shepherd,
Whitaker,
Ruth
Shepherd,
Nancy
Whitaker,
Luther
Shepherd,
Edgar
Fleming, and Kelly
Hale Heirs. The highwall/thin seam min·
ing will underlie Big
Branch Holding Co.,
LLC,
David
L.
Francis, John Arnett
Heirs, Astro Clay
Collins, et al., Rose
Collins, and Venda &
James Kerns. The
operation will use the
area mining and
hlghwall/thln seam
methods of mining.
The amendment
application has been
filed
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources,
Prestonsburg
Regional · Office,
31 40 South Lake
Drive ,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg,
Ky.
41 653. Written com·
ments, objections,
and requests for a
permit conference
must be flied with the
Director, Division of
Mine Permits, No. 2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127,
South,
Frankfort, Ky. 4060
1.
This Is the final
advertisement
for
this application. All
comments,
objec·
tions, or requests for
a permit conference
must be recieved
within thirty (30) days
of today's date.
PIKEVILLE; AND
BANC ONE
MORTGAGE
CORPORATION
DEFENDANTS
BRANCH
BANKING AND
TRUST
COMPANY
THIRD PARTY
AND CROSS
PLAINTIFF
vs.
EURMEL
HUNTER
CROSS
DEFENDANT
AND
BARBARA
HUNTER
THIRD PARTY
DEFENDANT
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of tl:le Floyd
Circuit
Court,
entered on the 12th
day of July 2005, In
the Floyd Circuit
Court, in the above
styled action, In the
principal sum of
$76,034.30, together
with Interest, costs
and fees, I shall proceed to offer for sale
at the Old Floyd
County Courthouse
Door, South Central
A v e n u e ,
Prest ons burg ,
Kentucky, (behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction,
on
Thursday, tl)e 1st
day of September,
2005, at the hour of
9:30a.m., the followlng described real
estate, lying In Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
That certain tract or
parcel of land, located on Little Mud
Creek, Floyd County,
Kentucky, bounded
and described as follows:
Beginning at the
Iron stake and David
Coleman's line at the
edge of the road
thence running up
the road for 200 feet
to an Iron stake, and
Tracy Hunter's line,
thence
running
toward the creek with
Tracy Hunter's line,
162 feet to the center
of the creek thence
running down the
creek
to
David
Coleman's
line
thence running with
COMMONDavid Coleman's line
WEALTH
171 feet back to the
OF KENTUCKY
road and back to the
FLOYD CIRCUIT beginning iron stake.
COURT
Being the same
DIVISION NO. I
property conveyed to
CASE NO.
Eurmel Hunter by
deed
dated
01-CI-01019
November
30,
1977,
CAMPBELL OIL
from
Arnold
and
AND MINE
Dixie M. Hunter,
SUPPLY, INC.
recorded in Deed
PLAINTIFF
Book 232, Page 232,
vs.
Floyd County Clerk's
EURMEL
Office.
HUNTER;
TERMS OF SALE:
BRANCH
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
BANKING
bidder, if the other
AND TRUST
than
the Plaintiff,
COMPANY, F/K/A
shall
either
pay cash
MATEWAN
or 10% of purchase
NATIONAL
price, with the balBANK, F/K/A
ance on credit for
BANK ONE,
slx:y (60) days.
PIKEVILLE, NA,
(b) The successful
F/K/A THE FIRST bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
NATIONAL
bond with good sureBANK OF
ty thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property, If any, bearing
interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgment.(c) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist In favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
·(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real prop·
. erty taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale pro·
ceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the pur·
chaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, It shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and It
shall only be obligat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
·of sale, take prece·
dence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
William S. Kendrick
Master'
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
COMMON·
WEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
05-CI-00051
U.S. BANK, NA
(SUCCESSOR BY
MERGER TO
FIRSTAR BANK,
NA, F/K/0 STAR
BANK, NA)
PLAINTIFF
VS.
TERRY WENDEL,
MILDRED
WENDEL
AND
FLOYD COUNTY,
KENTUCKY
DEFENDANTS
RE-NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
11th day of March
2005, In the Floyd
Circuit Court, In the
above styled action,
In the prlnslpal sum
of
$124,979.72,
~
Mnupower is seeking individuals inter-
ested in a variety of office and industrial
assignments in Floyd and surrounding
counties. Office applicants are required
to have at l east 1 year of office experience. Applications are taken Mon.-Fri. at
our office, or you can send resume to:
Manpower
311 North Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Save on auto insurance.
At Nationwide', we go the extra mile to save you
together with Interest, costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse Door,
South
Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd County Justice
Center), to the high·
est bidder, at public
auction,
on
Thursday, the 25th
day of August, 2005,
at the hour of 10:00
a.m., the following
described
real
estate, located at
2278 Toler Creek
Road, Harold, Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at the
Hobert Howell line at
Route 1426; thence
running with the
Hobart Howell line to
the top of a high
polnt of the hill to a
large marked Hickory
tree; thence running
down to the bottom
of the hill to a concrete marker; thence
running
approximately west 110 feet
to a concrete marker
near Route 1426;
thence
running
approximately 230
feet South back to
the Hobart Howell
line to the beginning.
Also this gives
access to a 10 foot
driveway to the
prop-erty of Lorraine
Damron
Newman
from Route 1428.
For reference see
Deed from Willie A.
Damron and Erma
Damron, his wife, to
Mildred
Damron
Wendel, the female
mortgagor,
dated
August 6, 1997;
recorded In Deed
Book 415, Page 203,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office. Also see
release of Right of
First Refusal, dated
April 8, 1998, record·
ed In Deed Book
419, Page 491 , In
Floyd County Court
Clerk's Office.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, If the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
thirty (30) days, and
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property, if any, bearing
interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
·
paid, havmg
the
force and effect of a
judgment.
(b) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
·
of red empt1on
as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof.
(c) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentuc-ky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
COMMONWEALTH ·
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO. 05-CI·
0004
MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC.
PLAINTIFF
VS.
GARY E.
JOHNSON,
ET AL.
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSION·
ER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
8th day of July 2005,
In the Floyd Circuit
Court, In the above
styled action, In the
principal sum of
$70,819.57, together
with Interest, costs
and fees, 1 shall proceed to offer for sale
at the Old Floyd
County Courthouse
Door, South Central
Avenue , Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd County Justice Center), to the
highest bidder, at
· public auction, on
Thursday, the 1st
day of September,
2005, at the hour of
9:15a.m., the following described real
estate, located at 50
Left Fork Moore
Branch,
Beaver,
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly
described as follows:
Starting at the walnut tree located
approximately fifty
(50) ft. more or less,
upstream from the
drilled water well;
thence three hun·
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PAINTSVILLE
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATES
Kimber McGuire
303 University Drive
Prestonsburg, Ky.
(606) 886-0008 (Oftlce)
(606) 886-9483 (Fax)
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(d) In the event the
Plaintiff Is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, Its
first lien, It shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obllgat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
announceAny
ments made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
. heret,n:'
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Septtimous
Taylor
4830 Towne
Square Cou.rt
Owensboro, KY
42301
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
dred (300) ft. up the
left fork of Moore's
Branch; thence one
hundred (100) ft.
back from the north
side of the left fork of
Moore's
Branch;
thence three hundred (300) ft. downstream at a line parallel to creek; thence
one hundred (1 00) ft.
back to the begin·
nlng.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Gary E. Johnson, by
deed dated February
13, 1996, of record in
Deed Book 393,
Page 671 , in the
Office of the Floyd
County Clerk. ·
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the f>lain1iff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
thirty(30) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
bond with good sure·
ty thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said proper·
ty, if any, bearing
interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgement.
· (c) The propoerty
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist In favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410, or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Joseph F.
Grimme
14 North Grand
Avenue
Fort Thomas,
Kentucky 41 075
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653
NOTICE OF
INTENT TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER
836-0319,
TRANSFER
In accordance with
405 KAR 8:010,
notice is hereby
given that Miller
Bros. Coal, Inc., 25
Clydean
Drive,
Kentucky
Leburn,
41831 , Intends to
transfer permit number 836-0294 to
Mille-r Bros. Coal,
LLC, 25 Clydean
Drive,
Leburn,
Kentucky 41831 . The
new permit number
will oe 836·0319.
The operation disturbs surface only
with a total of permit
acreage of 610.9. No
new acreage
Is
affected by the transfer.
The operation Is
located 1 mile south·
east of Weeksbury,
in Floyd and Pike
·Counties. The opera·
tion is approximately
1 mile southeast
from KY Rt. 122
junction with Caleb
Fork Road and on
Pine Fork of Caleb
Fork of the Left Fork
of Beaver Creek. The
operation is located
on the Wheelwright
USGS 7 1/2 minute
quadrangle map, at
latitude 3711 19'01"
and
longitude
82 241 '01."
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcem ent ' s ,
P res to n s b u r g
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653-1410.
Written comments,
or objeCtions must
be filed with the
Director, Division of
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601. All comments
or objections must
be received within fif·
teen (15) days of
today's date.
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WEDNESDAY, AuGUST 17, 2005 • C7
THE FLOYD CouNTY TIMES
------------------------------------------------------------------------~----------------------------------shall· be required to Walnut Street, Tram, This property is
COMMON(b) The successful estate, lying in Floyd more
particularly lot owned by Layne Cross Plaintiff, interassume and pay all in .floyd County, located beside the bidder
shall
be County, Kentucky, described as follows: estate; thence run- est, costs, and outWEALTH
Floyd
County, Kentucky, and more Right Beaver Creek. required to execute a and more particularly
Floyd
Those certain lots ning west with the standing
OF KENTUCKY
Any comments or bond with good sure- described as follows: located in the City of said Layne Estate County, Kentucky Ad
FLOYD CIRCUIT Kentucky, real prop- particularly described
erty taxes for the as follows:
objections concern- ty thereon for the
TRACT 1:
Prestonsburg , Floyd property 69 feet 10 Valorem taxes owed
COURT
Being Lot Nos. 97, ing this application unpaid
year 2005, and all
A certain tract or County, Kentucky, 1/2 inches to the by the primary defenpurchase
DIVISION NO. II
subsequent years 99 and 17 1/2 feet of shall be directed to:
Plaintiff's
price of said property, parcel of land, lying and specifically in the Northeast corner of dants,
CASE NO.
which are not yet due Lot No. 100, adjoinKy. Division of if any, bearing inter- and being in Floyd Arnold and Spradlin said lot; thence north attorney fees and the
04-CI-1290
and payable. Any ing Lot No. 99 in the Water,
Water est at the rate of County,
Kentucky, Addition to same, 73 feet 4 inches to costs of this action.
RESCOM
and all delinquent Riverside Addition to Resources Branch, twelve percent (12%) which is more partic- and being Lots 9, 10, the J.C. Spurlin propThe liens herein
County, Tram, Floyd County, 14 Reilly Road, per annum, from the ularly described as 11, 12, 13 and 14, a erty; thence east with adjudged shall attach
Floyd
HOLDINGS NO.
Kentucky, real estate Kentucky, as shown Frankfort Office Park, date of sale until follows:
plat of which is on file said line 69 feet 10 to the proceeds of
2,LLC
taxes, will be paid by map of said addi- Frankfort, Ky. 40601. paid, having the
BEGINNING at the in the Floyd County 1/2 inches; thence said sale of the real
PLAINTIFF
from the sale pro- tion filed in the Floyd Phone: (502) 564- force and effect of a intersection
of Clerk's Office, Map south 73 feet 4 inch- estate in priority as
vs.
County
Clerk's 3410.
ceeds.
Judgement.
Broadway
or
Lake
No. 84, and upon a es to the beginning. follows:
PIT STOP, INC.
(e) In the event the Office, to which refer(c) The property Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23) part of which is locat- This conveyance is
The Plaintiff is
COUNTY OF
Plaintiff is the pur- ence is hereby made
shall be sold subject and Friend Street; ed what is known intended to cover adjudged to have a
COMMONFLOYD
chaser of the above for a more complete
to any easements THENCE running and referred to as the part of the property first and superior lien
WEALTH
DEFENDANTS
described property de-scription of said
and restrictions of with the North line of Sandy Valley Motel; conveyed to Will H. (subject only to any
OF KENTUCKY
NOTICE OF
for an amount equal lots.
FLOYD CIRCUIT record in the Floyd Friend Street in an and being the same Layne and Elizabeth appropriate liens of
Being the same
to, or less than, its
COMMISSIONCounty
Clerk's Eastern direction to property conveyed to A. Layne by Deed and Floyd County,
COURT
first lien, it shall take property conveyed to
Office, and such right the corner of Norman Edward Kuss and from John G. Johns Kentucky and sale
ER'S
DIVISION NO. II
a credit against said Anthony Swiger and
of redemption as Allen's property (now Rebecca Kuss by &
Co.,
dated fees and costs) upon
SALE
CASE NO. 04-CI- may exist in favor of Francis Harmon's) deed
Swiger,
by
a
Fran
lien
for
the
amount
of
dated September 22, 1904, the herein above
BY VIRTUE OF
211
the United States of property); THENCE December 9, 1986, and recorded in described real propSummary Judgment the bid, and no bond deed dated August
THE BANK OF
America and/or the with the line of the which is recorded in Deed Book 12, Page erty. Any remaining
and Order of Sale of shall be required of 26, 1999, of record in
Allen- Deed Book 309, 408, Floyd County proceeds shall be
record owners there- Norman
NEW YORK, AS
the Floyd Circuit the Plaintiff, and it Deed Book 439,
209,
in
the
Page
shall
only
be
obligatof,
pursuant
to
28
Francis
Harmon
Page 278, in the Clerk's Office, and distributed in accorTRUSTEE
• Court, entered on the
U.S.C.
2410
or
KRS
in
a
property
running
Floyd County Clerk's first parties herein dance with the Order
8th day of July 2005, ed to pay court costs, Office of the Clerk of
FOR THE
County,
northern direction to Office.
acquired their inter- of Sale.
in the Floyd Circuit the fees and costs of Floyd
CERTIFICATEHO 426.530.
Master Kentucky.
(d) The purchaser an alley; THENCE
TRACT IV:
TERMS OF SALE:
est by inheritance
Court, in the above the
LDERS
OF
TERMS OF SALE
shall be required to running with the
All of the two story from Will H. Layne
(a) At the time of
styled action, in the Commissioner, and
(a) At the time of CWABS SERIES assume and pay all South line of said brick building (69'1 0 and Elizabeth A. sale, the successful
principal sum of any real estate taxes
00-01
Floyd
County, alley an eastern 1/2" wide and 73' 10" Layne,
now bidder, if the other
$66,867.99, together assessed against the sale, the successful
C/0
bidder,
if
the
other
real
estate.
course
to
the
interKentucky,
and
City
of
deep)
located
on
the
than the Plaintiff,
deceased.
Angeline
with interest, costs
COUNTRYWIDE
Any
announce- than the Plaintiff,
Prestonsburg real section of said alley North side of Court Layne,
Archer shall either pay cash
and tees, I shall proproperty taxes for the with a plot of land Street and described Chaloupka
HOME LOANS,
and or 10% of purchase
ceed to offer for sale ments made on date shall either pay cash
$5,000.00
of
puror
of
sale
take
prece2005, and all recently taken by the in Deed from J. C. Frank Layne con- price, with the balyear
INC.
at the Old Floyd
subsequent years K e n t u c k y Hopkins , et. al.. to veyed their interest ance on credit for
PLAINTIFF
County Courthouse dence over printed chase price, with the
of Will H. Layne and to Grace Layne thirty (30) days.
contained balance on credit for
which are not yet due Department
Door, South Central matter
vs.
thirty
(30)
days,
and
herein.
Highway,
and
as
and
payable.
Any
Elizabeth A. Layne, Burke,
(b) The successful
now
Avenue, PrestonsJEFFREY A.
required to execute a
Plaintiff's Attorney:
and all delinquent shown by the map of dated March 1, 1927 deceased, by Deed bidder
shall
be
burg,
Kentucky,
COLLINS AND
Han. Lori R. Leach bond with good sureFloyd County and the
Kentucky and recorded in dated July 23, 1945, required to execute a
~(behind
the new
SHERRY L.
Lerner, Sampson & ty thereon for the
City of Prestonsburg, H i g h w a y Deed Book 74, Page recorded in Deed bond with good sureFloyd County JusCOLLINS
unpaid
purchase
Rothfuss
Kentuc-ky,
real Department; 316 and 317.
Book 126, Page 561 , ty thereon for the
tice Center) to the
price of said property,
AKA SHERRY
P.O. Box 5480
running
estate taxes will be THENCE
The legal descrip- Floyd County Clerk:'s unpaid
purchase
highest bidder, at
if any, bearing interCincinnati, Ohio
paid from the sale with the new line of tion is as follows:
Office.
price of said property,
COLLINS
public auction, on
est at the rate of
45201-5480
the plot of the
proceeds.
That certain lot situAnd, being the if any, bearing interDEFENDANTS
Thursday, the 1st day
twelve
percent
(12%)
S.
Kendrick
In
the
event
the
Highway
Department
William
(e)
ated
in
the
City
of
same
property con- est at the rate of
NOTICE OF
of September, 2005,
per annum from the
Master
Plaintiff
is
the
purLake
to
Broadway
or
veyed
to Edward twelve percent (12%)
Prestonsburg,
Floyd
at the hour of 9:00
COMMISSION·
date
of
sale
·
until
Drive
(U.S.-Ky.
23);
Kentucky,
on
Kuss
and
Rebecca per annum from the
Commissioner
chaser
of
the
above
County,
a.m., the following
ER'S SALE
paid,
having
the
THENCE
running
P.O.
Box
268
the
North
side
of
Kuss
by
deed
dated date of sale until
described
property,
described
real
BY VIRTUE OF
Street October 8, 1986, paid, having the
Prestonsburg, KY force and effect of a
for an amount equal with the east side of Court
estate, lying in Floyd
Summary Judgment to, or less than, its Broadway or Lake described as follows: which is recorded in force and effect of a
judgment.
41653
County,
Kentucky,
(b) The property and Order of Sale of first lien, it shall take Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23) in
BEGINNING at line Deed Book 311 , Judgment.
and more particularly
shall
be sold subject the Floyd Circuit a credit against said a southern direction of E. P. Howard and Page 624, in the
(c) The property
COMMONde-scribed as folto any easements Court, entered on the lien for the amount of to the intersection of Nora Howard in the Floyd County Clerk's shall be sold subject
WEALTH
lows:
and restrictions of 4th day of April 2005, the bid, and no bond Broadway or Lake North line of the side- Office.
to any easements
OF KENTUCKY
Lying and being on
in the Floyd Circuit
in
the
Floyd
(U.S.-Ky.
23)
record
Drive
walk
where
their
Tract
II
I
shall
be
and restrictions of
shall
be
required
of
old Route 3 near the FLOYD CIRCUIT
County
Clerk's Court, in the above the Plaintiff, and it with Friend street, brick building now sold subject to an record in the Floyd
•mouth
of
Long
COURT
Office, and such right styled action, in the shall only be obligat- THE PLACE OF stands and occupied existing
lease County
Clerk's
Branch at its interprinsipal sum of
DIVISION NO. I
of
redemption
as
and
BEGINNING,
by
Goebel's
Paint
between
Edward
Office,
and
such
right
ed
to
pay
court
costs,
section with Johns
C.A. NO.
may exist in favor of $82,219.67, together the fees and costs of being
whatever Store; thence with Kuss and Rebecca of redemption as
Creek and beginning
03-CI-978
the United States of with interest, costs the
and
Sun may exist in favor of
Master remains of the prop· their line a northerly Kuss
at an iron stake at the
and fees, I shall proAmerica
and/or
the
erty
the United States of '
U.S.
BANK,
N.A.
of
Lessor
of
Lot
course
to
the
line
of
Ventures,
Inc.,
dated
Commissioner,
and
culvert, which runs
ceed to offer for sale
record
owners
thereNumber
10,
11,
12,
lot
of
Will
H.
20,
2002,
America and/or the
the
September
any
real
estate
taxes
AS
TRUSTEE,
under
Route
3;
at the Old Floyd
assessed against the and 13 of Block No. Layne and Elizabeth and of record at record owners therethence following the SUCCESSOR BY of.
County Courthouse
6, of the R.S. ·Friend A. L~yne about 73 Deed Book 511, of, pursuant to 28
(c) The purchaser
real estate.
MERGER
boundary of Route 3
Door, South Central
& Company Addition feet and 10 inches; Page 29, in the office U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
shall
be
required
to
announce·
Any
a southerly direction
BY FIRSTAR
Avenue, Prestonsto
Prestonsburg, thence an Easternly of the Floyd County 426.530.
assum~ and pay all
ments
made
on
date
a distance of 215 feet
BANK, N.A.,
burg,
Kentucky,
(d) The purchaser
Kentucky,
after parts direction with their Clerk. If however,
Floyd
County,
of
sale
take
preceto an iron stake at the
(behind the new
SUCCESSOR
at
vari69
feet
and
1
0
Sun
Ventures,
Inc.,
shall
be required to
line
thereof
have,
Kentuc-ky,
real
propdence
over
printed
cliff, thence running IN INTEREST TO
erty taxes for the Floyd County Justice matter
contained ous times, been con- 1/2 inches to the line becomes the pur- assume and pay all
up the point and
FIRSTAR BANK year 2004, and all Center), to the high- herein.
veyed to or taken by, of the property of H. chaser of Tract Ill, Floyd County and
fence line a distance
est bidder, at public
Broadway or Lake C. Hopkins estate; said lease shall City of Prestonsburg,
MILWAUKEE,
subsequent
years
Plaintiff's
Attorney:
of 200 feet to an iron
on
Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23) or thence with said line merge into the title Kentucky, real propwhich are not yet due auction,
Hen. Kristen J.
N.A.,AS
• stake; thence
a
Thursday, the. 25th
Street in the a southernly course and become ineffec- erty taxes for the
Friend
Mudd
and
payable.
Any
TRUSTEE FOR
line
a
straight
day of August, 2005,
year 2005, and all
course
of road or to Court Street at a tive.
all
delinquent
and
Lerner,
Sampson
&
SALOMON
northerly direction a
Each of the follow- subsequent years
street, or sidewalk stake and point in the
Floyd
County, at the hour of 9:15
Rothfuss
distance of 260 feet
BROTHERS
North line of the side- ing tracts is indivisi- which are not yet due
construction.
Kentucky, real estate a.m., the following
P.O. Box 5480
to an iron stake at the
MORTGAGE
described
real
walk on Court Street ble and cannot be anc:t payable. Any
TRACT II:
will
be
paid
Cincinnati,
Ohio
taxes
back of present exist- SECURITIES VII,
Being a certain a corner between the divided without mate- and all delinquent
from the sale pro- estate, located at
45201-5480
ing storage building,
165 Haus Drive,
INC.,
ceeds.
William S. Kendrick tract or parcel of lot hereby conveyed rially impairing its Floyd County and
thence following the FLOATING RATE
in
land, lying in Floyd and the property of value and the value City of Prestonsburg,
(d) In the event the Prestonsburg,
Master
direction of the creek
Floyd
County,
County, Kentucky, H. C. Hopkins estate; of Plaintiff's lien Kentucky, real estate
Plaintiff
is
the
purMORTGAGE
Commissioner
a westerly direction
and being more par- thence with line of thereon. Each tract taxes will be paid
chaser of the ·above Kentucky, and more
P.O. Box 268
PASS-THROUGH
back to the iron stake
particularly described
ticularly
described as said sidewalk a shall be sold as a from the sale proPrestonsburg,
described
property
CERTIFICATE
at the culvert, the
as follows:
ceeds.
Westerly course 69 whole:
follows:
an
amount
equal
Kentucky
41653
for
SERIES 1999·
point of beginning.
Beginning on the
(e) In the event the
a. 649 North Lake
Being Lot Nos. 14 feet and 10 1/2 inchto, or less than, its
NC5
Being the same
and 15, and the es to the place of Drive, Prestonsburg, Plaintiff is the purfirst lien, it shall take west side of the
COMMONproperty conveyed to
PLAINTIFF
41653 chaser of the above
improvements there- beginning, being the Kentucky
a credit against said creek at a sycamore
WEALTH
Pit-Stop, Inc., from
vs.
Bell described property
Taco
property (The
on and fifteen (15) same
lien for the amount of tree, witnessed by a
OF
KENTUCKY
iiCharles
Thomas
ANTHONY
for an amount equal
the bid, and no bond steel marker, thence FLOYD CIRCUIT feet of Lot No. 16 of described in Deed Property);
Meade and Joyce
with the middle of the
b. 11 0 West Court to, or less than, its
SWIGER
the Friend Addition to from J. C. Hopkins,
shall be required of
Ann Meade, by deed
COURT
the
Town
of et. al. to Will H. Street, Prestonsburg, first lien, it shall take
FRAN SWIGER
the Plaintiff, and it creek and following
bearing date April 22,
the middle of the
DIVISION
NO.
II
41653 a credit against said
Layne and Elizabeth Kentucky
Prestonsburg,
shall only be obligat1995, and recorded UNITED STATES
creek, taking in the CASE NO. 04-CI- Kentucky, as shown A. Layne for life with (The Prestonsburg lien for the amount of
ed
to
pay
court
costs,
OF AMERICA
in Deed Book 386,
01339
Shop the bid, and no bond
by plat on file in File remainder to her chil- Pawn
the fees and costs of car bridge and drivePage 85, in the COMMONWEALT
way, thence running
shall be required of
Property);
dren,
dated
M~rch
1
,
ROBERT
B.
No.
2,
Map
No.
Box
the
Master
Office of the Floyd H OF KENTUCKY,
with the road to the
c. 31 0 North Lake the Plaintiff, and it
120, Floyd County 1927 and recorded in
Commissioner, and
DEPREZ D/B/A
County Court Clerk.
Ermon Williams line,
DIVISION OF
Court Clerk's Office, Deed Book 74, Page Drive, Prestonsburg, shall only be obligatany real estate taxes
DEPREZ
thence
turning
up
~he
COLLECTIONS
41 653 ed to pay court costs,
Kentucky
to which reference is 316 and 317.
assessed against the
TERMS OF SALE:
hill with the Erman BUILDING FUND made for a more
(The
Red
Light
Diner the fees and costs of
DEPARTMENT
TRACTV:
real estate.
PLAINTIFF
(a) At the time of
Williams line, and
the
Master
A section of land Property);
complete description
OF REVENUE
Any
announcevs.
sale, the successful
running with this line
Commissioner,
and
Each
of
the
above
of the property herein (69' 10 1/2" wide and
ments made on date
CABINET
bidder, if the other
to the top of the hill, EDWARD KUSS, conveyed, being a lot 73' 4" deep) and described parcels any real estate taxes
of sale take preceCOUNTY OF
than the Plaintiff,
thence with Elzie
ETAL.
65 feet from and 120 being part of lot num- shall be sold individ- assessed against the
dence over printed
FLOYD
~shall either pay cash
Poe line down the
DEFENDANTS
feet deep. And, being ber eleven (11) on ually (Tract Ill shall real estate.
matter
contained
DEFENDANTS
"'..tJr $5,000.00 of purridge to the top of the
announcethe same property town plat. Said sec- be sold last-the . Any
NOTICE OF
herein.
RE-NOTICE OF
chase price, with the
ments
made
on date
point, witnessed by a
''Taco
Bell"
Property)
tion
lays
directly
conveyed
to
Edward
COMMISSIONPlaintiff's Attorney:
balance on credit for
of
sale,
take
precesteel marker, thence
sell
all
and
then
COMMISSION·
Kuss and Rebecca behind the building
Hon. Kristen J.
ER'S
dence
over
printed
thirty (30) days.
turning down the hill
tracts
as
a
whole,
by
the
Will
H.
owned
ER'S SALE
Kuss by deed dated
Mudd
SALE
contained
(b) The successful
to an oak tree,
BY VIRTUE OF
November 29, 2001, Layne and Elizabeth accepting the bid matter
Lerner, Sampson &
BY
VIRTUE
OF
which brings the herein.
bidder
shall
be Renewed Judgment
thence down the hill
A.
Layne
Estate
and
which
is
recorded
in
Rothfuss
William S. Kendrick
to a steel marker and Judgment and Order Deed Book 466, including the building highest total bid.
required to execute a and Order of Sale of
P.O. Box 5480
The property herein
Master
bond with good sure- the Floyd Circuit
thence down to the of Sale of the Floyd Page 465, in the (69 10 1/2" wide and
Cincinnati, Ohio
Commissioner
described
ty thereon for the Court, entered on the
sycamore tree, wit- Circuit Court, entered Floyd County Clerk's 73' 4" deep) erected above
45201-5480
P.O. Box 268
nessed by a steel on the 6th day of July Office.
unpaid
purchase 29th
thereon and joined shall be sold by the
day
of
513/241-3100
M
a
s
t
e
Prestonsburg,
KY
marker, thence with 200q, in the Floyd
price of said property, November, 2004, in
with
the
said
Layne
TRACT Ill:
William S. Kendrick
Commissioner
as
41653
the middle of the Circuit Court, in the
if any, bearing inter- the Floyd Circuit
Estate
building.
All
of
the
following
Master
The legal descrip- more particularly set
creek to the begin- above styled action, property located in
est at the rate of Court, in the above
Commissioner
in the principal sum
forth in order to satistion
is as follows:
twelve percent (12%) styled action, in the
ning.
Prestonsburg, Floyd
P.O. Box 268
$412,375.05,
BEGINNING at the fy the debt owed the
Being the same of
per annum, from the principal sum of
County,
Kentucky,
Prestonsburg, KY
property conveyed to together with inter- and which property is Northeast corner to Third Party and
date of sale until $51,519.90, together
41653
A. Collins and est, costs and fees, I
Jeffery
~aid,
having the with interest, costs
(606) 886-2812
Sherry L. Collins, shall proceed to offer
force and effect of a and fees, I shall profor sale at the Old
judgment.
ceed to offer for sale PUBLIC NOTICE husband and wife, by Floyd
County
deed dated Septem(c) The property at the Old Floyd
Notice is hereby ber 3, 1994, and filed Courthouse
Doo~
shall be sold subject County Courthouse
Central
given that James D. for record in Deed South
to any easements Door, South Central
Hall of Kite, Ky., has Book 401, Page 533, Av e n u e ,
and restrictions of Avenue, Prestonsfiled an application Floyd County Clerk's Prestonsburg,
record in the Floyd burg,
Kentucky, with the Natural
Kentucky, (behind
records,
County
Clerk's (behind the new
the
new
Floyd
Resources
and
TERMS OF SALE
Office, and such right Floyd County Juscounty
Justice
E nvironmental
(a) At the time of
of redemption as tice Center), to the
Protection Cabinet to sale, the successful Center), to the highmay exist in favor of highest bidder, at
fill in some bottom bidder, if the other est bidder, at public
the United States of public auction, on
on
land in Floyd County. than the Plaintiff, auction,
America and/or the Thursday, the 25th
This property is shall either pay cash Thursday, the 1st day
record owners there- day of August, 2005,
of September, 2005,
located on Route 7
of, pursuant to 28 at the hour of 9:30 near the Floyd & or $5,000.00 of pur- at the hour of 10:00
JJ.S.C. 2410 or KRS a.m., the following Knott County line chase price, with the a.m., the following
balance on credit for
~26. 530.
described
real near Wayl and, Ky.
described
real
(30) days.
thirty
(d) The purchaser estate, located on
�C8
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2005
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0311
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
Noble Coal LLC, P.O.
Box 489, Allen, KY
41601, has applied
for a permit for surface and underground/auger coal
mm1ng
operation,
located 2.00 miles
southeast of Blue
River,
in
Floyd
County. The proposed operation will
disturb 68.45 surface
acres and will underlie 28.50 acres, arid
the total area within
the permit boundary
will be 96.95 acres.
The proposed operation is approximately 1.50 mile southeast of KY Route
404's junction with
KY Route 1210, and
located 0.20 mile
east of the Caney
Creek.
The proposed operation is located on
the Martin U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by James
Aller and Glenn
David May. The operation will underlie
land
owned
by
James Allen and
Glenn David May.
The operation will
affect an area within
100 feet of public
road 121 0. The operation will not involve
relocation or closure
of the public road.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
of
Natural Resources
Mining
Division,
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
31 40 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsb urg,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments,
objections
or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed
with
the
Director, Division of
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hoi'ow U.S. 127
Frankfort,
South,
Kentucky 40601.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-5238
AMENDMENT
NO 3
1) In acccordance
with the provisions of
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
CONSOL
of
Kentucky Inc., P.O.
Box 130, Mousie, Ky.
41839, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
and
underground
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 0.9 mile
northeast
• of
Handshoe, in Knott
and Floyd Counties.
This amendment will
not add any surface
disturbance, but will
underlie an additional
1992.0 acres, making a total area of
3595.7 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
2) The proposed
amendment
is
approximately 0.2
west
from
mile
County Road 1280's
junction with Ky.
Hwy.
2029,
and
located along Lick
Fork.
3) The proposed
amendment is located on the Handshoe
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The operation
will use the underground method of
minin!J. The surface
area is owned by
COI'JSOL.
of
Kentucky Inc., and
Leslie Bradley. The
a~endm ent area will
undenie land owned
by
Kentucky
D
rt'11en
of
T r nsportation,
of
CON SOL
Inc.,
Kentucky
Mitchell Stephens,
Leslie Bradley, Floyd
Co. Fiscal Court,
Johnny
Hoover
Heirs,
First
Commonwealth
Bank, Lindburg Hale,
Nadene
Howard,
Gary
Handshoe,
Pheba
Handshoe
Clinton
Bryan,
Handshoe, Eldree
Handshoe,
Ratliff
Turner, Hershel and
Margaret Handshoe,
Bessie Conley, Lois
Conley,
Oakley
Conley,
Bradford
Cletis
Handshoe,
Howard,
Kirstina
Strohschein
and
Beulah
Leitch,
Sharon
Chaffins,
Michael
Crager,
Wanda Hutchinson,
Marvin and Janet
Shepherd,
Levisa
Coburn
Estate,
Western Pocahontas
Properties Ltd., Rex
and Madge Hicks,
Rosa Oney, Velten
Prater, Charles and
Becky
Howard,
Kenneth
Bailey,
Clyde Bailey, D.O.
Compton and Betty
Compton. The operation will affect an
area within 100' of
public road Ky. Hwy.
2029 and Lick Fork
Road. The operation
will not involve relocation or closure of
the public roads.
4) The application
has been filed for
public inspection at
the Department for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforceme nt's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Offfice,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg,
Ky.
41653-1410. Written
comments,
{)bjections or requests for
a permit conference
must be filed with the
Director
of
the
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601.
This is the
final advertisement of
the application. All
comments,
objections or requests for
a permit conference
must .be received
within thirty (30) days
of today's date.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Floyd County
Board of Education
has publ ished the
Fiscal Year 2005
Annual
Pre-Audit,
Financial Report, and
vendor payments list
on the school district's
website.
Access to these documents
can
be
attained by going to
www.floyd.k12.ky.us
and selecting the
"AFR and Public
Notices" button or by
going directly to the
district's public notice
page at web address
http://www.floyd.k12.
ky.us/Public_Notice.
html. Web based file
formats are posted
for both the vendor
list and the Annual
Financial Report. If
you have difficulty
downloading or viewing
these
files,
please contact Matt
Wireman via phone
at 606-886-2354, via
e-mail at mwireman @floyd.k12.ky.u
s or via the US mail,
at 106 North Front
A v e n u e ,
KY
Prestonsburg,
41653.
This public notice
was mandated by the
Kentucky
General
Assembly in HB
026770.1 00-1087.
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
Sealed bids for the
Contract No. 27Morg Branch Pump
Station
for
the
Southern Water and
Sewer District, will be
received at the office
of the Southern
Water and Sewer
Di.:.tnct, 245 KY 680,
McDowell, Kentucky
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
41647, until 1:00
The sealed bid for
p.m., Local Time, this Project shall be
August 29, 2005, and clearly marked on
then publicly opened the outside of the
and read aloud.
envelope: "Sealed
The program of Bid for Contract No.
work for which bids 27-Morg
Branch
are to be submitted Pump Station for the
consists of the con- Southern Water and
struction of a Water Sewer District." The
Booster Station, vari- bid may be mailed to:
ous 2-inch master Southern Water and
meters,
pressure Sewer District, 245
reducing station and . KY 680, McDowell,
master meter at The Kentucky 41647.
Allen WTP including
Southern Water
all related appurteand Sewer District
nances as shown on
Hubert Halbert,
the Drawings and
Chairman
described in the
Date: August 17,
Specifications.
2005
The Contract Time
allotted for the comADVERTISEpletion
of
this
MENT
Contract is One
FOR BID
Hundred and Eighty
The Floyd County
{180)
consecutive Board of Health is
calendar days.
accepting bids on the
The Work for this following for the new
Project is located in Floyd County Health
Floyd
County, Department, located
Kentucky. Drawings, on Goble St., in
Specifications and Prestonsburg, KY.
Contract Documents
Bid Package 1
may be examined at:
Successful bidder
O'BRIEN & GERE will review prints and
ENGINEERS, Inc. bid to supply all
2333
Alexandria materials, labor, and
Drive,
Lexington, connections for Cat
Kentucky 40504
V data wiring for
Phone: (859) 514- computer and net6055
work services, comWater puter battery backup.
Southern
and Sewer District, Bidder will have to
245
KY
680, coordinate
with
McDowell, Kentucky Frankfort IT for capa41647
bility of interfacing
Phone: (606) 377- with KY Internet
9296
Highway
Bridge
F.W. Dodge/AGC, System.
950 Contract Street,
Bid Package 2
Suite 100, Lexington,
Successful bidder
KY 40505
will supply phone
F.W.
Dodge system designed for
Corporation, No. 2 up to 40 extensions
Players Club Drive, and 12 phone lines.
Charleston,
WV Specific number of
25311
phones and required
ABC/Reed phone system feaConstruction, 1300 tures
may
be
New Circle Road, obtained at the site
Building B, Suite 12, but shall include auto
Lexington, KY 40505 dialer, paging, voice
Builders Exchange, mail,
and
other
2300 Meadow Drive, required features.
Louisville, KY 40213
Bid Package 3
Copies
of
the
Successful bidder
Drawings in full size, will supply all equpthe
Specifications ment, wiring , supand
Contract plies etc., necessary
Documents may be to provide building
obtained from Lynn security. Bid shall
Blueprint and Supply include 1 year moniCo., 329 Vine Street, toring service with
Lexington, Kentucky package.
40507, Phone (859)
Print copies and/or
255-1021,
upon specification requirereceipt of a non- ments may be picked
refundable amount of up at the. Project
$75.00 for each com- Manager
trailer,
plete set of docu- located at the job site
ments.
Monday-Friday from
State and Federal 9-3. Questions must
Wage Rates do not be directed to Matt
apply for this project Mills,
Project
Hearing impaired Manager. All connecindividuals may call tions and installa1-800-247-2510 for tions must meet all
information.
code and system
No Bidder may requirements .
withdraw his Bid Successful bidder
within ninety (90) must be willing to
days after the actual work with project
date of bid opening.
manager on times for
Bidders on this installation to avoid
work will be required any delays to trade
to comply with Ti.tle contractors.
VI of the Civil Rights
Sealed bids must
Act of 1964, the Anti- be addressed to the
Kickback Act, and Floyd County Board
the Contract Work of Health, and must
Hours Standard Act. be delivered by COB
Bidders must com- August 19, 2005.
with
the Bids will be opened
ply
President's and awarded at the
Executive Orders No. next Board meeting.
11246 and No. 11375 Bidders must be
and any amend- bonded.
ments or supplements
to
those
ADVERTISEExecutive Orders.
MENT
Attention of bidders
FOR
is particularly called
MANDATORY
to the requirements
PRE-BID
as to conditions of ·
CONFERENCE
employment to be
The Floyd County
observed under the
Fiscal
Court will be
contract, Section 3,
Segregated Facility, accepting bids for
Section 109 and E.O. clean-up of the illegal
dumps, located at
11246.
Bidders must certify the Town Branch
near
they do not and will Bridge,
not maintain or pro- Prestonsburg,
vide for their employ- Kentucky, and the
ees any facilities that John Kidd Dump,
are segregated or located near Harold,
based on race, color, both in Floyd County,
creed, or national ori- Kentucky, through
funding from the
gin.
Minorities and small PRIDE Community
businesses
are Grant Program . In
encouraged to sub- order to participate in
mit bids on this pro- the bid process, all
interested contracject.
Southern tors must participate
The
Water and Sewer in a Mandatory PreDistrict reserves the Bid Conference for
right to waive any these two {2) probidding informalities jects, as proven by
and to reject any or the signatures of
·: •oi r authorized repall bids.
resentatives on the
sign-in sheet at the
Conference.
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will conduct the Mandatory
Pre-Bid Conference
for these two (2) projects at the Office of
the Floyd County
Judge/Executive,
located at 149 South
Central
Avenue,
Suite
9,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky (on the
second floor of the
old Floyd County
Courthouse)
on
Thursday, August' 18,
2005, at the hour of
10:00 a.m. Bids for
these projects will be
opened at the August
19, 2005, meeting of
the Floyd County
Fiscal Court at the
hour of 10:00 a.m., in
the
County
Courtroom, located
on the second floor
of the old Floyd
County Courthouse,
at 149 South Central
Avenue,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky. All interested contractors are
invited to attend.
Paul Hunt
Thompson,
Floyd County
Judge/Executive
FOR SALE
BY SEALED BID
Prestonsburg City's
Utilities Commission
has the following surplus vehicles for
sale:
Item 1) 1997 Ford
F-150 4 x 2 Pickup
Truck
Item 2) 1997 Ford
F-150 4 x 2 Pickup
Truck
Item 3) 1993 Ford
F-250 4 x 2 Utility
Bed Truck
Sealed bids will be
received
by the
Commission for each
of these surplus vehicles. These items
may be inspected by
calling Mr. David
Ellis, Superintendent,
or Turner Campbell,
Chief
Financial
Officer, at (606) 8866871 for an appointment. Bids will be
received
at
the
Commission's office,.
located at 2560
South Lake Drive,
Prestons-burg ,
Kentucky
41653,
until 3:00 p.m., (local
time) on August 25,
2005, and then at
such office, publicly
opened and read
aloud. Bids received
after the deadline will
be returned to the
bidder unopened.
The Commission
reserves the right to
waive any informality,
or to reject any and
all bids. Bids shall be
in sealed envelopes,
addressed to "Mr.
David Ellis, Superintendent," bearing the
bidder's identification, and labeled in
the loyver left-hand
corner:
"Sealed
Bid-Surplus
Equipment."
Each item listed will
be sold to the bidder
submitting the highest bid.
Turner E. Campbell
Chief Financial
Officer
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I swim in the sea.
It's
It's slippery. It's real!
For thousands of years people
have told amazing tales of a large
sea creature with long, snakelike tentacles. Meet the giant squid! ·
Emmy,
grade
f!ttl!xiflcrtG C?Jm:08la ~ ruB
4th
~·. Oh! the Great Squidzilla
Read the description of the different parts of
the squid's body and then label the diagram.
~
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· I have so much to do
I don't know.what to do.
~·I've got two hands,
( But you've got more .
f. Won't you give me a helping
~ hand?
•And make a good boy like me,
as your friend.
( Oh! The Great Squidzilla,
~ Listen to me, listen to me.
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2ru1Grade ·
Squid, squid,
Oh giant Squid!
My Mom dissects you,
?To make calamari!
Luke,
6th Grade
4
Oh Squidzilla, the king of the
lc mighty lake and sea,
~ Listen , listen to me.
' , If only you grant my very
ft .
···wish,
·I will leave you alone.
Please lend me a few hands,
' So I can do two things at once. '
Just like you.
; Oh! Squidzilla, the king of the
mighty lake and sea,
•Please give me some of your
fue( fu to ~:e~: your answe~.
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While this picture of two huge sea creatures battling
may look like something out of a science fiction movie,
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there is evidence that this battle
1
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I
1 Sperm whales often have circular
L. _______ J scars on their skin - scars that
match the suckers on a giant squid's tentacles. In
~addition, body parts and beaks of the giant squid
-nave been found in the stomachs of sperm whales.
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March of 2003, some
fishermen on the
Ross Sea off the
coast of Antarctica
got more than fish in
their nets. They had
caught the largest squid ever to be
captured in one piece.
~·
How manysquids can
14 = Fins: On either side of the mantle,
there are two flaps that help the squid
balance and maneuver.
51= Head: The squid's head is located
between the mantle and the arms.
Do the math to discover the
amazing proportions of this catch:
4 +8+4feetlong
135 + 75 + 90 pounds
The squid caught in the Ross Sea is known as a
group of squids called colossal squids. These
creatures have eyes as large a volleyballs and can
grow as long as 40 feet (12 meters).
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this page?
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into small pieces for swallowing. The
newspaper
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article that might ·
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have been.c onsidered.
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tentacles, the parrot-like beak of the mouth years ago. Iden~ .
is used for biting food into small pieces. the who, what, when;
where. why
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find in each section of the newspaper.
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DETECTIVE DOG'S
WORD HUNT
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The question posed in this test is this: How is it possible to turn two of the hats
over each time for three consecutive
times and finish turning with all three
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hats upside down?
Remember, two hats are inverted
each time. The hats are turned three
times.
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blanks. Here's how:
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add a letter in each step,
rearranging letters as necessary, to form new words in
accord with the following
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for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters with a finger,
crayon or pencil.
Jeff Schinkel, Designer/Illustrator
My Letters
Computer Counting
Count the number of objects on each computer screen. Then draw a
line from the number to the screen with that amount of objects.
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child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter C. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the C sound like the word
computer?
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the lines. Read the entire sentence to your child while pointing qut that reading is done from left to right. Older children may want to trace all or
some of the letters in the sentence.
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Letter Identification
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Number Sense
Play "How Many?"
Count Heads
Page Scramble
Count the Kids
With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that start with the same
sound as the letter C
in the word computer.
Point to the number
4 in the newspaper.
Have your child say the
number and, if it's large
enough, have your child
trace the number.
Look at a page of the
newspaper with a lot of
numbers. Read the
numbers to each other.
Point out that some of the
numbers are prices and are
read as dollars and cents.
Look at a picture or an ad
in the newspaper with
your child. Ask your child
how many of an item is in
the picture or ad you
selected. Count the objects
together. For example, you
could ask how many
people are in one picture.
Show your child headlines
on a newspaper page.
Explain that they are
bigger because they tell
about the news story like
a title tells about a book.
Have your child count the
number of words in each
headline. Circle the one
with the most words.
Show your child how the
pages of the newspaper
are numbered. Take
several pages of the paper
and mix up their order.
Have your child put the
pages back in order.
Count how many
pictures of kids are in
the newspaper each day
for one week. Use the
data you collect to
make a graph.
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HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you a
message every day. It's a numerical p.u zzle designed to spell
out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name .. If the
number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. lfthe number ts less
than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner and check one of your key numbers, left
~ to right. Then read the message the letters under the
checked figures give you.
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Rational Numbers
by Linda Thistle
Using the clues, simple
arithmetic, and 11 little
logic, piece a single digit
(0 to 9) in each empty box
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1o. 1O·Down times 12-Down
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�04 • WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
17, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Eastern
goldfinch
The state flag of New Jersey
was adopted in 1896. The state
seal was adopted in 1928 and
depicts three plows on a shield
with a helmet and horse's head
above it. The two women on
either side of the shield represent the goddesses of
Liberty and Agriculture.
World of Wonder
Just the facts
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF' HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
Capital city
Trenton
State Motto
"Uberty and prosperity"
8,722 sq. miles
. (22,589 sq. km)
Area
130 miles (209 km)
8,638,396 (estimated)
Coastline
2003 population
Honeybee -:;
Agricultural products Greenhouse products, dairy,
fruit, vegetables, seafood
Manufactured goods
THE GARDEN STATE
Ne:w Jersey has been knicknamed "the Garden State"
because of its many vegetable farms, orchards and
flower gardens. It is the ninth-largest and most
densely populated of U.S. states. This state is named
for the Island of Jersey in the English Channel and
can trace its history back 350 years;
Chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, food
products, computer and
electronic products,
petroleum-based products
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Mining
Crushed stone, sand
and gravel
Edwin
Whitney
Houston
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New Jersey is a peninsula, which is
a large landmass projecting into a
body of water. The landscape
can be divided into four regions:
the Appalachian Ridge and Valley,
the Highlands, the Piedmont and
the Atlantic coastal plain.
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New Jersey's stat~ tree is the Northern Red
Oak and the state animal is the horse.
Other state symbols (such as the state fish,
state bird, state insect, state flower and
state shell) are illustrated on this page.
With its_130 miles (209 km) of
coastland, New Jersey boasts some
of the world's finest sandy beaches.
The protected Pine Barrens of the
southeastern coastal plain enjoys a
wealth of wildlife and rare plants.
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Presidential birthplace
Grover Cleveland was
born in Caldwell, N.J., on
March 18, 1837.
Cleveland was the 22nd
and 24th president of the
United States. He salVed
from 1885 to 1889 and
from 1893 to 1897.
Did you know?
1. New Jersey was named by
James, Duke of York (the brother
of King Charles II of England). The state
was a gift from the king to his brother.
In the summer of 1858,
William Parker Foulke
discovered the giant bones
of a hadrosaurus in Haddonfield. This was the most
complete dinosaur fossil of
its day and the first
dinosaur ever found in
North America.
2. An average of 1,134 people per square
mile lives in New Jersey.
3. Ninety percent of the population lives in
urban areas.
4. Cape May is famous for its Victorian
homes and is also the oldest seashore
resort area in the United States.
Crossword
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Sandy Hook Lighthouse (1764) in New
Jersey is the oldest
existing lighthouse in
North America.
5. The Passaic River was the site of the first
submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland.
6. The streets in the game Monopoly are
based on street names of Atlantic City.
7. Tourism is the second-largest industry in
New Jersey.
8. Atlantic City boasts the world's longest
boardwalk~
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New Jersey is the third-largest grower of
cranberries in the United States. This bitter
fruit has been harvested in the Pine Barrens
since colonial days.
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Some important events in New Jersey history
1524: Italian
1900 through
1930:
1738-1746: Colonial New Jersey's 1804: The vice
first governor, Lewis Morris, se!Ved. president of the
1n4: A group of New Jerseyans disguisd Unit~d States,
as Indians burned a supply of British tea. Aaron Burr, shot
"The Greenwich Tea Burning" was an and killed his politiexpression of displeasure regarding new cal rival Alexander
taxes imposed by Britain. Hammon in a duel.
explorer
Giovanni da
Verrazano
sailed the
New Jersey
coast.
New Jersey's
population
more than
doubled, from
1.~.669in
1n6: New Jersey adopted its first 1804: New Jersey
constitution. passed legislation
to gradually free
all slaves.
Lewis Morris
Incandescent
lighfbulb,
1900 to
4,041,334
in 1930.
ACROSS
3 Capitol city of New Jersey
5 Famous inventor
7 The bones of this dinosaur were found in
New Jersey.
8 Purple flower
9 22nd and 24th U.S. president
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Land surrounded by water on three sides
2 Famous musician from New Jersey
4 New Jersey is home to the oldest __
in North America.
6 Yellow bird
1969: Voters
approved the lottery
(with proceeds slated
for state government
and education).
1976: The state
established an
income tax tor
the first time.
1879
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the first pennanent (European)
settlement of Bergen in what is
now part of Jersey City.
(Washington crossed the
Delaware on Christmas night).
Verrazzano
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1940s:
American dinosaur
skeleton was found in
Haddonfield.
Electronic
and
chemical
industries
began to
expand.
1876: Thomas A. ,Edison
established his research
laboratory at Menlo P_ark.
1n6: The Battle ofTrenton
Giovanni da
1858: The first North
George
Washington
Grover
Cleveland
2001: Christie
1978: Todd Whitman,
Casino
gambling
was
legalized
in Atlantic
City.
19
New Jersey's
first female
governor, left
office to head
the Environmental Protection Agency.
1879: Edison patented
the eleetric light.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia,
World Book Inc.; MSN Encarta.
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Siblings find each other after four decades apart
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
An internet search group has helped
reunite eight siblings who were were
taken from their Eastern Kentucky home
in 1965.
The siblings, sons and daughters of
Albert Ray and Martha Harrison, lived
together on Little Mud Creek before the
separation. Albert Harrison died suddenly
at 35 with tuberculosis, the siblings say,
and the children were later taken by the
state and adopted by other families
throughout Kentucky. They all currently
live in different parts of the U.S., but
some of them lived 30 minutes or an hour
away from each other and didn't know it.
"You don'tknow how many sleepless
nights we've had," said Joanne Innis, aunt
to the siblings. "If I waked up during the
night, me and my husband would talk
about it. We waited to have the kids,
thinking we could get some of them. The
court didn't give the family a chance. We
didn't even know how to go about trying
to fmd them."
Innis isn't the only one who's had trouble trying to locate the siblings. At least
seven different groups, sibling Jennifer
DeRossett-Morrison said, have tried
locate them. Most of them changed their
names when they were adopted. Some of
them were too young to remember much
about their brothers and sisters or their
life on Mud Creek. They've spent 41
2 DAY FORECAST
by TOM DOTV
STAFF WRITER
.
photo by Mary Music
Respond Ambulance workers tended to Jessie Gambill, a Salyersville resident inJured Thursday in a
U.S. 23 wreck.
Cars collide after running
into ·truck's cloud of smoke
9Y MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
Today
PRESTONSBURG The
· mechanical failure of a coal truck
caused a two-car collision on U.S.
23 Thursday morning. The accident occurred approximately two
miles outside of Allen, near
Discount Auto Brokers.
Prestonsburg Police Officer
John Dale said a turbocharger on
coal truck, driven by Randall
Ramey of Elkhorn, "went out,"
causing oil to flood the engine. A
"cloud of smoke," Dale said,
blocked the highway and two drivers in the southbound lane collided because they couldn't see each
other.
"All saw was a thick fog, but
when I got up on it, it didn't dissipate like fog," said James L. Perry,
driver of a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am
t
that was totaled in the accident.
"Once I realized it wouldn't go
away, it was too late for me to do
anything about it."
Perry, wbo appeared uninjured,
rammed the back of a 1995 Chevy
Cavalier driven by Jessie Gambill,
of Salyersville. Gambill was transported to Highlands Regional
Medical Center by Respond
(See WRECK, page three)
Otter Creek begins taking inmates
High: 94 • Low: 68
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
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by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
WHEELWRIGHT Otter
Creek
Correctional
Center
reopened its doors Tuesday and
accepted 42 women prisoners
from Peewee Valley in Oldham
County.
The prison, which had formally served male inmates from
Indiana, expects to get up to 400
inmates in the future.
State Rep. Chuck Meade
praised the reopening and
remarked on the struggle to keep
the facility ·open when he said,
"The people of Floyd County
and
the state Corrections
Department have worked tirelessly, since before the closing of the
men's prison, to save the jobs at
Otter Creek," Meade said.
"Today, we see that hard work pay
off."
(See PRISON, page three)
Strosnider to address UNITE meeting
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
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(See REUNION, page three)
Hardy pleads
guilty to bilking
flood victims
The Associated Press
PIKEVILLE- A Pike
County coal mine has
been cited by state
~spectors for allegedly
discharging muddy water
into a small stream near
Virgie.
The Kentucky Division
of Mine Reclamation and
Enforcement issued the
citation to H&D Coal Co.
for the discharge on Aug.
15, said Paul Rothman,
director of the state
agency.
Rothman said a local
resident reported the discharge into the stream,
known as Right Fork, to
lithe agency. Inspectors
found "extremely muddy
water'' being pumped
into the stream from a
sediment pond at the
rate of 80 to 90 gallons
per minute.
Inspectors ordered
the company to immediately cease pumping
- -when they arrived on the
site. Company representatives couldn't immediately be reached for
comment.
_, The muddy water
fouled 2.4 miles of the
stream. Rothman said no
fish kill was observed.
years wondering about the dark spots in
their childhood memories.
"It's so hard to explain. It's like a new
beginning. We can quit worrying now and
go on with our lives," said twin Vickie
Taylor, 45. "We can get together and do
things we lost 41 years ago. I still can't
believe it. It feels so much like a dream."
The reunion, she says, is helping the
siblings put together pieces of their past,
PRESTONSBURG The
Floyd Cpunty Operation UNITE
Coalition will welcome a special
guest speaker at its regularly
scheduled meeting on the grounds
of Big Sandy Community and
•Residential & Commercial (New & Old)
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Technical College on Monday
night.
Dr. John Scanlon. medical
director of addiction services at
Pikeville Medical Center, is
expected to speak at 7 p.m. in the
Pike Building on the nature of
addiction and what services are
available for addicts seeking treat-
ment.
Scanlon has practiced in southeast Kentucky for several years
and was the frrst resident in the UK
Center for Rural Health Family
Medicine Program, which was situated in Hazard. ·
(See UNITE, page three)
PRESTONSBURG- A
Blue River man accused of
scamming county residents
out of money they raised to
make repairs on their
homes after the Memorial
Day flood of 2004 entered a
guilty plea to those charges
at his pretrial conference
Thursday.
Chris Hardy admitted
under oath that he used the
name Arizo when he operated the scam, saying that it
was his mother's name. He
pleaded guilty to five
counts of theft by deception
and one count of theft by
unlawful taking for leaving
the area in his ex-girlfriend's truck, which he
neglected to return.
Hardy accepted a deal
upon the recommendation
of the Commonwealth
Attorney's Office which
will have him serve six con-
current sentences of five
years each, with five years
being the maximum sentence allowable for a class
D felony.
Hardy fled the area last
December
when
the
charges carne to light after
several of his victims
reported their experiences
with him to Assistant
County Attorney Jimmy
Marcum. The charges eventually went before a grand
jury, which handed down an
indictment against Hardy in
March.
He remained at large
until April when he was
· arrested in Kenton County
and charged there wiGl
receiving stolen property
and criminal mischief.
After pleading guilty to
those charges and receiving
a probated sentence, he was
transferred to Floyd County
to face his theft charges. At
(See GUILTY, page three)
McHugh appointed
GM of The Times
Times Staff Report
PRESTONSBURG William R. "Bill" McHugh
has been named general
manager of The Floyd
County Times.
McHugh began his new
pos1t10n Thursday. He
comes to Floyd County
having enjoyed a long and
successful career in the
newspaper industry.
"I am looking forward to
becoming a part of the local
community," McHugh said.
"I am committed to seeing
that The Floyd County
Times remains a vital part
of the community and
serves the best interests of
our readers and advertisers."
Most recently, McHugh
was president of the
Northern Group for 21st
Century Newspapers in
Michigan, where he oversaw one daily, one twiceweekly, five weeklies, 27
shoppers, two commercial
printing plants and a private
distribution system.
Prior to moving to
lENNOX.
William R. "Bill" McHugh
Michigan, he serve as publisher . for
Ledger
Newspapers in Quarryville,
Pa., a group of six weekly
newspapers with 17,000
circulation.
McHugh began his
newspaper career in the
production department of
the Miami Herald and spent
the next 20 years in various
circulation and general
management roles with.
Knight-Ridder newspapers.
McHugh and his wife,
Kris, have two children in
college.
He replaces David
Bowyer.
�A2 • FRIDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005
• CANANDAIGUA, N.Y.
It sounds a little corny.
A farmer looking for love has
planted a personals ad, using
corn stalks in a cow pasture. It
reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm' n."
Underneath is a 1,000-footlong arrow pointing single white
females to his house.
"It only took me about an
hour - I did it with a corn
planter in May," Pieter DeHond
said Wednesday as he removed
weeds from the 18-acre field. "I
was just horsing around."
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In place of a newspaper ad,
DeHond said he decided on an
impulse to use up the extra corn
seed left after spring planting at
his 200-acre Pleasure Acres
farm in western New York.
"I wouldn't place a personal
ad in the paper. To me it seems
desperate," he added, laughing.
"This is more of a fun thing. I
put this out in a field where
nobody could see it unless you
flew over it."
The 41-year-old divorced
father said running a business
and looking after his two
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espionage.
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talks in Sarajevo, BosniaHerzegovina, were killed when
their armored vehicle plunged
off a muddy road and exploded.
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years
ago:
Norwegian divers with video
equipment went down to the
sunken Russian submarine
Kursk in a final attempt to find
survivors trapped for a week,
even though Russian officials
said alll18 seamen aboard were
probably dead.
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Vietnam, accusing President
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$100.34. Carly Patterson won
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Olympics in Athens, becoming
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Paget is 72. Tennis coach Renee
Richards is 71 . Actress Diana
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Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind
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Thought
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room for socializing.
His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his hometown
Da1ly Messenger newspaper,
has already drawn quite a few
phone calls and e-mails.
''I'd be lying if I told you I
wasn't a little proud," DeHond
said.
• ALBUQUERQUE - It
was disgusting- but it wasn't a
felony.
A dental student who sent
some chewed bubble gum along
with a money order to pay a
speeding. ticket has been found
innocent of two felony counts of
mailing a threat. .
The wad of bubble gulh was
treated as a HAZMAT incident
when a worker at the Santa Fe
Motor Vehicle Division office
opened the envelope. A note
with the gum read: "Caution
Touch at your own risk or use
gloves. Ha-ha."
An attorney for 24·year-o1d
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stupid act of a young girl," not a
terrorist threat. The federal jury
agreed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy
Sirignano had said the MVD
employee did not think Ho's
note was a joke and that the
worker reacted "the way any
reasonable public employee
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�FRIDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
19, 2005 • A3
• Reunion
• Continued from p1
like their father's death. Taylor
was adopted when she was 6,
along with her twin sister,
Mickie, by Marshall County residents Richard and Lois Davis.
Morrison, whose birth name
was Shelby Jean, is the youngest
female sibling. Her brothers and
sisters say the reunion is taking
place because "she wouldn't
~give up."
Last month, Morrison, who
was 2 years old when the separation occurred, contacted the
Kentucky Search Angels, an
online adoption assistance chat
group on the Yahoo website.
The Angels Searching in
Kentucky Group assists with
adoption search, support and
reunions in Kentucky. With lO
members, it's a sister group to
SoaringAngels, and it was organized on July 18 by the site
owner, Barbara Shewak, who
f l resides in Flonda.
Members of the group work
voluntarily, giving their spare
time and money to find adopted
family members.
Shewak said she organized
both groups after helping her
brother fmd an adopted family
member.
~'There's a lot of agencies out
there who are in this for the
money and the glory," Shewak
said. "Not this group. We have
quite a little group here ..: It's
such a feeling to be able to do
IJ something like this for somebody. We've changed their
whole life for them."
Search Angel Erica Ratliff,
from Bath County, holds a fulltime job as a private caregiver.
She got involved with the group
after another Search Angel, Pam
Kish, found her parents three
years ago.
"When I started [searching
for her birth parents] I thought
there was nothing I could do,"
Ratliff said. "She [Kish] found
her three years ago on Easter
Sunday. That was a big Easter
. ,basket ... We're here to help,
that's what we do in Kentucky.
A lot of people think that it costs
you a lot to find your birth parents. · It doesn't. There are
sources there that will help you
find them."
'Kish, a North Carolina resident and a full-time mother and
grandmother, said she became a
Search Angel after her mother
died suddenly from cancer from
years ago. She said she realized
how important it was for her
children to have access to their
medical history. She began
searching for her husband's
birth parents, and an internet
Search Angel found the information for her in only three
days.
"I was born and raised by my
natural parents," Kish said. "I
know my heritage anq I know
where I started out. The government, in most states, is telling
adoptees that they have no right
to know who they are or where
they started out. With my experience in three years of searches
and over 300 reunions, I can say
that the government does treat
adopt~es as second-class citizens. They do not have the same
rights as those of us who were
born to our natural parents and
who stay with our natural parents."
Fortunately,
Kish
said,
Kentucky has "made great
strides" providing information
to adoptees, but it is still a
lengthy process to obtain information. She said that 578
adoptees petitioned the state to
release their adoption files in
March 2004. Kish is currently
working on a search for a
woman who petitioned the state
for the information in 1996. She
encourages adoptees to contact
their lawmakers to make adoption more easily available to
adoptees.
"We're bringing Kentucky
home, one angel at a time," Kish
said.
The names (birth names and
adoptive names), birth dates and
current addresses of all eight
Harrison siblings were located
within 48 hours, Kish said.
Approximately 99 percent of the
adoption search information is
availabJe online for free as a
matter of public record.
On July 31, just a couple of
weeks after contacting the
group, Morrison joined her
brother, Albert Ray (Harrison)
Beckett, in Marshall County, for
dinner with their twin sisters. It
was the first time the siblings
had seen each other in 41 years.
It was also Beckett's birthday.
"It was the first time I'd seen
any of them since the day they
took us away. I was 5," said twin
Mickie Taylor, 45, of Benton. "I
was scared. I really didn't know
what to say or do. My husband
had to come in and get me. I had
a feeling like, 'I don't know if
want to do this or not.' I didn't
know if they were really my
family. But if you see us, or look
at us, you can see that we're so
much alike that we're related,
• Continued from p1
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she felt bad about pressing
charges last year, saying, "I feel
something for him. Isn't that
shame?"
Hardy habitually removed
the prosthesis he wore as it irritated his left knee and left town
before retrieving the leg from
one victim's home.
David Watson, who worked
with Hardy briefly, felt differently about the matter. Last year
he said that he had little hope of
getting back nearly $900 that
Hardy owes him but said, "I'd
settle for 10 minutes alone with
him in a room."
. Watson also related how
Hardy stalled his customers'
pleas for him to start work by
borrowing a credit card from
one of client and using it to purchase building supplies which
he dropped off at their homes on
the premise that he would return
soon to start work.
Hardy's persuasive skills
were not in evidence during his
stay at the Floyd County Jail.
Last week he was charged with
threatening a guard at the facility. His brother has said that
Hardy suffers from bipolar disorder as well as depression, and
said last year that disappearing
for months at a time was not
unusual for his brother.
The
Commonwealth
Attorney's Office was tom
between
offering
a
restitution/probated sentence to
Hardy or going for a straight
sentence and ultimately went
with the jail time as Hardy had
limited fmancial resources and
had shown that he was not reliable with money or property.
get out of it ... I can't wait until
I get to see the rest of the family.
"Jen, she's a nut, boy. I call
her a nut all the time. The first
one I talked to was Jennifer.
Then I got all the numbers from
Pam [Kish] and contacted them.
Now that was a scary feeling! I
was thinking, 'Well, maybe they
don't want nothing to do with
me after 41 years,' but we all
just came right together. It's a
miracle, that's what it is. I'm so
happy now, I just don't know,
my life's changed. It's a big turn
around. It's taken a big burden
off my shoulders, I was worried
about them all that time."
Morrison, who lived in
Prestonsburg until she moved to
Lexington in 1998, was adopted
along with her brother Matthew,
the youngest sibling who was 10
moriths old at the time of the
separation. They were raised by
Robert and Virginia DeRossett
in Prestonsburg.
An
Alabama
resident,
Matthew DeRossett, born as
James Ray, could not be reached
for comment.
Morrison said her adopted
parents told her and her brother
about the adoption when she
was in the eighth grade.
"I started asking how much I
weighed [when I was born] and
I told her [Virginia DeRossett]
that I knew something was
wrong. I had been teased in
school about being adopted. She
told me to go and get my brother and take him into the house
and we'll talk to both of you.
They set us both down and I didn't think they'd ever get
through, they were crying so
much ... I've been looking for a
long time. I always had to find
them," she continued, pointing
out that she never knew what it
felt like to have sisters, nieces,
nephews or a grandmother
before.
"I got a whole lot of them
now," she laughed. "These
angels are something else."
''They're some jpnd of wonderful," her husband, Bud, said.
Morrison said he encouraged
her and helped with the search.
Edgar Harrison, 50, the second oldest sibling, currently
lives in the Allen area. His wife,
Barbara, said that he was adopted and raised by Ollie Wallen
and his wife in the Bull Creek
area. He didn't want to comment for this story.
The oldest female sibling,
Mary, who lives in Paris, Tenn.,
could not be reached.
The reunion of the siblings
has brought several coincidences to light. Morrison and
both of the twins work, or previously worked, as nursing aides
in nursing homes. All three ot
them are now taking care of
their aging parents, who reportedly have similar medical problems. Edgar Harrison worked, at
one time, for the DeRossett
family, who adopted two of the
siblings. Morrison said that
Edgar used to visit her now
deceased aunt, Lak, the same
aunt she visited, many years
ago. Beckett and Matthew
Harrison both have had similar
jobs dealing with welding.
The Albert Ray Harrison
Memorial Reunion is scheduled
to be held at the Allen Park on
Saturday, Sept. 3. The reunion
has been named in honor of
Albert Ray Harrison because
several siblings were too young
to remember their father after
the separation. The family is
searching for pictures of him.
Some of the search angels are
planning to join the family at the
reunion next month. The search
group can be contacted online at
http://groups.yahoo
.com/
group/ ANGELS_SEARCHING_IN_KENTUCKY/.
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The state Department of
Corrections
announced
Wednesday that 252 state
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facility by month's end. Many
of the inmates will come from
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contact with his mother while
living with his grandmother,
Sarah Ward, in Ivel.
After getting a phone number
from Innis, Harrison called
Beckett and spoke to him for the
first time in 41 years.
"Joanne called and said they
found him and gave me the
number and · I up and called
him," Harrison said. "He was
surprised. He said it pleased him
to death to fmd out that he had
brothers and sisters. We lived
about an hour apart and we didn't know one another."
Beckett, who moved last year
from Florida (after suffering
through four hurricanes) to
Cynthiana, was 4 years old
when the separation took place.
He was adopted and raised by
Harold and Ann Beckett. He
learned of the adoption when he
was 6 years old.
"I don't remember any of it,"
he said. "I didn't know him
when he called. I knew I had
brothers and sisters, but that's
all I knew."
Beckett told his wife that she
was crazy when he got contacted by his sisters.
"I .was asleep and my wife,
Bonnie, called and told me that
my sister was looking for me. I
told her, 'Well, I only got one
sister [Morrison] and I haven't
talked to her in a long time.' She
said, 'No, your other sisters.' I
said, 'Woman, you must be
drunk, but hang on and I'll be
right there!' I was pretty tickled.
It's something I've waited on
my whole life. I knew I had
brothers and sisters out there
somewhere. It's great, I love
'em to death. I still have three I
haven't met yet- Mary, Edgar
and Matthew."
"People just don't know what
it feels like to finally meet your
brothers and sisters after 41
years," he continued. "It's the
greatest feeling, ever, to me. I
h9pe it never happens to anybody again. I hope nobody gets
taken like that. I feel like we
were cheated out of 41 years.
We'll try to make it all up,
though. We'll get what we can .
Guilty
his arraignment in June, Hardy
told the court that, "I was not
running from this situation."
Hardy tried to make another
statement during his plea
Thursday but heeded advice
from Judge Danny P. Caudill,
who cautioned him that he was
on the record and that he should
speak to his attorney before
deciding to make a statement to
the court.
Many of Hardy's victims
remarked that he was very
charming and that he made a big
deal about having a strong work
ethic which impressed them
because of his obvious infm:ni.ty
of missing his left leg. Hardy,
according to his brother
Richard, lost the leg in an acci• COntinUed from p1
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also serves as a consultant at the
federal and state level on such
treatments, and on the staff of the
•J>ike County Drug Court and has
a leadership role with the UNITE
coalition in Pike County.
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Her
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Several officials with the
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the area for several minutes.
"t Dale·, who was first to
respond, continues the investigation.
without a doubt. All I did was
bawl. It was amazing."
Morrison said that she and
her husband were at the Meijer's
grocery store in Lexington when
she made contact with Vickie
Taylor, who had been found by a
Search Angel.
"I was in Meijer's grocery
store, it was about 4:30 when
she called and said, 'Vickie is
sitting at the phone now waiting
on your phone call and she's
getting married at 6,"' Morrison
said. "When I got out of
Meijer's and I called, she said it
was the best wedding present
she could have ever had. But
they're really sweet girls. Now
we have constant contact on the
computer. It's, 'I love you, Sis,'
'I miss you, Sis.' My husband
says, 'Lord-a-mercy! I never
seen so much Iovin' !"'
"When we went to her house,
I'd rather have done anything
than leave that day, but I had to
get back home," Morrison continued.
"It's good to have other
brothers, but to have sisters, it's
weird. I was sitting in the
kitchen one day and I said,
'Mommy, I talk to my sisters all
the time on the computer.' Mom
said, 'That sounds weird to hear
you say, 'My sisters."'
Utah Harrison, 52, of
Stanton, is the family's oldest
sibling.
He said he was at his grandmother's house with his brother,
Edgar, when the officials came
to take the children away.
"They sent for me and him to
come home and I knew something was up," he said. "I
wouldn't go, but my brother did
go, and I stayed with Grandma.
The kids, from the oldest down,
are me, Edgar, Mary, then the
twins Mickie and Vickie, Albert
Ray, Shelby Jean and James Ray
... We wandered around to try to
find them, me and my wife did,
but we never had enough gas
money to get too far. They
changed all their names and we
couldn' t get a lead. It's been 41
years since we saw each other."
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Journal Star, Peoria, Ill., on Cindy Sheehan:
Nothing the president of the United States can say will make
the death of Casey Sheehan in Iraq easier for his mother, Cindy
Sheehan, to bear. Her opposition to this war, and her belief that
George W. Bush is insensitive to the loss of her Eagle Scout son
in April2004, suggest that she doesn't so much want to hear what
he has to say as to make sure he hears what's on her mind. She
has vowed not to leave the road leading to his Texas ranch until
he spends 10 minutes with her or she is arrested.
He should give her the 10 minutes.
Those who argue against such a meeting say it would hurt the
war effort by giving the opposition undeserved importance. They
go so far as to say it would strengthen Iraq's insurgents if the
president were forced to debate the merits of our continued presence with a woman who thinks her son died in vain. Then there
are the practical concerns. Nearly 1,900 Americans have died in
Iraq, and the president doesn't have 10 minutes for their every
parent, spouse, child and sibling. He is to be cominended for
meeting
with 900 relatives of 272 dead Americans as it is , includ.
mg Mrs. Sheehan....
The president's time is valuable and limited, to be sure, and
Americans have been dying at the rate of 15 a week. But he probably can spare 10 minutes to speak with relatives who askthose who share his belief that these deaths have been for a noble
cause, those like Mrs. Sheehan who do not, and those who think
it's too early to know. How they feel about the war is irrelevant.
What's relevant is that somebody they loved deeply died in the
service of country, they are grieving, and that ought to be worth
10 minutes of George W. Bush's time.
The president should open his door to the mom.
The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, on Cuba policy:
Protesters of American policy on Cuba can fairly be accused of
a certain blindness in their zeal for change, too willing to overlook
the despotic nature of Fidel Castro's regime. But that doesn't
mean they are wrong.
The activists who crossed the Peace Bridge into Buffalo last
week after an illegal trip to the island nation understand that U.S.
policy is hurtful and hypocritical, and that it has less to do with
core convictions than it does with political pandering. That witheron-the-vine policy may have made some kind of sense when the
Cold War was running at its peak, and the Soviets were trying to
place nuclear missiles in Cuba, but those days are long gone.
Decades have passed and threats eliminated without any meaningful change in approach.
Today, that policy is pointless, except as a cynical pitch to
Florida's powerful anti-Castro voting bloc. Worse, it's cruel. It
divides families, deepens poverty and risks the health of Cubans.
Castro does all those things to his own people, too, of course, and
while American policy should be devoted to changing that, nearly
50 years after Castro took power, there is little reason to suspect
this strategy is about to work.
More troubling, why should American policy toward
Communists in Cuba be so radically different from the one toward
Communists in China? There, policy is to engage the country in
an effort to draw it ever more deeply into the world economy,
thence toward greater freedom, if not actual democracy.
But in Cuba, a country that poses absolutely no threat to
American interests, the policy is to starve the wretches into submission, no matter the cost. It's a shameful use of America's
power to punish. Our goal should be to isolate Castro from the
people he abuses, pressuring him to relax his grip on the country.
Instead, we feed his ability to make us the enemy.
It's crazy. American policy, under Republican and Democratic
presidents, has been driven by a group of voters who cannot see
past their understandable hatred of Castro toward a saner policy,
one that might actually benefit those they have left behind. We
need leaders who can do better than this.
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by DANIELLE BRIAN
MINUTEMAN MEDIA
Since, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
Congress and the Bush administration
have expanded the kinds of information
that are withheld from the public.
Clearly, a more careful approach was
needed, given the new terrorist threats
against the American people.
However, since then, government
agencies have issued nearly 50 sets of
rules for keeping even non-classified
information secret. These hastily conceived rules represent a veritable Wild
West of government secrecy - there are
no standards and no protections against
abuse. The result is that government
agencies can e'asily conceal corruption,
errors and security failures.
The Department of Homeland
Security has led by bad example. As
Senator Robert Byrd pointed out in
2003, Congress gave the agency "carte
blanche to operate in secret." Even the
proceedings of the Department's
Citizen Advisory Council, which is
packed with companies which stand to
gain handsomely from contracts with
the agency, is protected from normal
public scrutiny for advisory committees. Without public access, how can
we be certain that these "advisors" will
not put their private financial interests
ahead of public safety?
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Earlier this year, the Department
also issued a policy that threatens
employees and contractors with civil
and criminal prosecution for sharing
information with the public, even if it
would be available under the Freedom
of Information Act. This policy puts a
cloak of secrecy over the entire agency
and all of its operations.
This type of overreaching secrecy
can undennine our confidence in security policies. The government and the
industries it regulates often fail to
upgrade security to meet the new terrorist threats. (Remember those notorious shipping containers and their largely unmonitored cargoes.) Secrecy conveniently hides these failings from the
journalists, concerned citizens and nonprofit watchdogs whose primary function in a democracy is to strengthen
public policy by holding government
accountable. Without sunshine and public debate, our homeland security vulnerabilities fester behind closed doors.
New secrecy policies also give the
government even more power to silence
homeland security whistleblowers when
they tell the media, the public or their
bosses about their concerns. As a result,
serious lapses, misconduct, or security
failures may go uncorrected.
My own organization, the Project
On Government Oversight (POGO),
has faced such chilling attempts when
raising concerns about nuclear power
plant security. After POGO published a
letter revealing how the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission was failing to
adequately test security at the plants,
the Commission threatened us with
civil and criminal prosecution. But
there was nothing in our letter that was
classified or even sensitive. In the end,
the Commission was forced to back
down but only after we had to secure
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Hello, my name is Crystal Reed. I
am a former student of Carl D. Perkins
Job Corps Center. I wanted to tell the
people of Eastcm Kentucky about the
benefits of Job Corps and how it has
helped me.
I came from Bowling Green,
Kentucky as a 16-year-old who had
problems at home getting along with
my parents. They decided to send me to
Job Corps because it was a way for me
to get my high school diploma, while
not having to live with them.
When I first arrived I thought I had
made the worst decision of my life to
come here. It seemed that everyone that
was here would rather be at home
doing nothing than take advantage of
the great opportunity they had in front
of them. After a week or so I began to
realize that was not the case and like
most school programs there were just
students here that were not taking their
education seriously.
I started my high school classes
through Paintsville Independent School
shortly after arriving on campus and a
little after that I started my trade of
business technology. I have learned a lot
about being a good employee and the
importance of being on time and dressing appropriately for the work place.
Job Corps helped me register for the
ACT test. Then they helped me again
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and even with transporting me to Alice
an attorney to defend us from our own
government. POGO's nuclear security
concerns are now beginning to receiv(jf
scrutiny, giving us hope that the problems we highlighted will finally be
addressed.
Department of Homeland Security
whistleblower Bogdan Dzakovic's story
provides another illustrative example.
Dzakovic's Red Team, \Vhich conducted undercover airport security tests,
breached security with ridiculous ease
up to 90 percent of the time before
9/11. Yet, higher-ups ordered him not to
write up their fmdings or to retest airports with particularly egregious vulnerabilities. Dzakovic blew the whistle
shortly after the terrorist attacks.
Testifying before the 9/11 Commissiot,
he noted that if he had blown the whistle under the Department's new secrecy
rules: "I could have been fired and be
sitting in jail, instead of being vindicated and testifying today."
Ironically, the 9/11 Commission
warned last year that excessive secrecy
was a primary problem that contributed
to the terrorist attacks. The Commission
urged the government to end its Cold
War culture of secrecy. Yet since the
Commission issued its report, new
stratagems to keep information from
the public continue to proliferate.
Congress and the White House need •
heed the Commission's advice: pointless secrecy could once again expose us
to unimaginable dangers.
Danielle Brian is executive director
of the Project On Governntent
Oversight (www.pogo.org). The Project
On Government Oversight investigates,
exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic
abuses of power, mismanagement, and
subservience by the federal government
to powerful special interests.
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Lloyd College to meet with admissions
personnel. I began attending Alice
Lloyd in August majoring in pre-law,
and hope to become a prosecuting
attorney for the state. When I came in I
only had 12 credits and within eight
months I was a high school graduate at
the age of 17.
The staff members are really supportive of the students, and encourage
them to strive to better themselves. I
have received a lot of help from the
staff in getting ready for college. and
even with giving me supplies for my
college transition such as towels, cleaning suppli,es, paper, pencils and toi- ""
letries. I an1 truly grateful for the help
that I have received from Carl D.
Perkins Job Corps Center.
Crystal Reed
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Tickets for Larry the Cable Guy's
Pikeville performance expected to go fast
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
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PIKEVll..LE - Fans wanting tickets to
see Larry The Cable Guy in Pikeville for his
Oct. 16 concert at the Eastern Kentucky
Exposition Center are urged to "git-r-done"
flrst thing Saturday morning when tickets
go on sale for the event at lO a.m.
Larry the Cable Guy has sold out comedy performances across the country and
flnally brings his blue collar take on comedy to Eastern Kentucky.
Larry the Cable Guy, who currently stars
on the WB 's "Blue Collar TV," has been
earning raves since the debut of his bestselling CD ''The Right to Bare Arms" hit the
shelves last March. He has also been featured on cable's Comedy Central Network
as part of the "Blue Collar Comedy Hour."
The area appearance marks his frrst in
Eastern Kentucky and the show is scheduled
to begin at 7:30p.m.
Tickets for the center's opening engagement with Lynyrd Skynyrd sold out in three
hours, so fans would do well to order tickets
for the event, priced at $39.75, flrst thing
Saturday morning.
There are several avenues for purchasing
tickets to the event. Ticketmaster has several numbers that fans can use if they run into
a busy signal. This would not be uncommon
as event coordinator Outback Concerts
expects a high volume of calls, so buyers
may want to have several numbers on hand,
which include (606) 433-1793, (859) 2816644, (304) 523-5757 and (304) 342-5757.
Tickets can also be purchased online at
www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase at the
website just log on and go to "Eastern
Kentucky Expo Center" in the search bar at
the top of the page.
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new series to ·take ·a look at
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like a drama where aliens
imperil planet Earth? Well,
prace yourself for three new
intruders: ABC's "Invasion,"
CBS' "Threshold" and NBC's
"Surface."
Or maybe you identify with
women torn between career and
family. Trading on that theme,
"Ghost Whisperers" and "Close
to Home" will soon come your
way from CBS.
Chefs cook up comedy running restaurants on both
"Freddie" (ABC) and "Kitchen
Confidential" (Fox). Lawmen
mourn colleagues killed in the
line of duty on "Criminal
Minds" (CBS) and "Killer
Instinct" (Fox).
In short, when you take a
look at the networks' new fall
shows, patterns begin to reveal
themselves.
A year after "Lost" and
"Desperate Housewives" reminded everybody that a defiantly original series can shake up
the whole TV universe, not much
about the freshman slate reflects
their level of fresh thinking.
Among the lamest ahead:
"Inconceivable," a drama about
a fertility clinic from NBC
(where creative infertility has
reached epidemic levels), and
''Twins," a WB sitcom about
odd-couple sisters who run a
company that makes lingerie.
On the other hand, the fall
crop should still have i~s pleasures, at least if pilot episodes
are any predictor of their series'
potential.
Consider two engaging comedy-dramas that adhere to this
pattern: oddball lawyers who
defend their underdog clients
and each other's eccentricities.
• On Fox's "Head Cases,"
Chris O'Donnell plays Payne, a
slick L.A. lawyer ~ho has a nervous breakdown. When he's
ready to return to work, his posh
law flrm doesn't want him. Who
does? Apparently only Shulz
(Adam Goldberg), an impetuous
slob with whom Payne is paired
by their psych-ward therapist as
outpatient buddies. Shulz happens to be a lawyer. Thus is born
of necessity a loopy new law
firm, complete with shabby-chic
offices at Venice Beach.
• Also at Venice Beach
(could both flims maybe share a
receptionist?) you'll find the
mismatched attorneys of WB's
"Just Legal": a geekish teen
prodigy (Jay Baruchel) and a
courtroom
burnout · (Don
Johnson) who flnds his passion
for the law is reignited by this
gung-ho junior partner. That is,
when the kid's overeagerness
doesn't drive him up the wall.
Five other new dramas are
also worth checking out:
• Premiering Aug. 29, Fox's
"Prison Break" is the first fall
series out of the gate, and looks
to be the most inventive of all. It
depicts the complex social order
at a state penitentiary where one
of the inmates has strategically
gotten himself jailed in order to
rescue his brother, who's on
death row there for a murder he
didn't commit. A nutty concept
for a show? You bet. But its
appeal is in its (pardon the term)
execution. Once viewers get a
peek at "Prison Break," for them
there may be no escape.
• "Reunion" employs the
shrewdest time scheme for a
series since another Fox breakthrough, "24." On this new
melodrama-mystery, six friends
graduate from high school in the
summer of 1986 with their lives
full of promise. But the premiere leaps forward to 2005
long enough for a funeral service remembering one of this
group as "brutally murdered, in
their prime, by an unknown
assailant." But who? Each
weekly episode will find the
gang of six a year older and a
year closer to the present, moving them toward their 20th
anniversary reunion (with the
murder solved) at season's end.
• Of the three new procedural crime dramas (among 19
crime dramas on the schedule),
Fox's "Bones" stands out thanks
to its star, Emily Deschanel. A
forensic anthropologist with
beauty, smarts and a knack for
karate, headstrong Dr. "Bones"
Brennan is saddled with an FBI
agent (or is he saddled with
her?) as a condition of her getting to move beyond ancient
burial sites and dig into FBI
murder cases. The fact that the
agent (David Boreanaz) is a
handsome
he-man
seems
beyond her concern. Here's
hoping it stays that way. They
make such a hot couple clashing, who needs romance?
•
"Commander-in-Chief'
bears certain similarities to ''The
West Wing": For instance, both
are dramas about a U.S. president. But ABC's commander in
chief is neither a Democrat nor a
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shelves this week, though some
of the films bypassed area theaters.
"Sin City" - This one tops
the list as the must-see movie of
the week and features an all-star
cast in a faithful adaptation of a
series of graphic novels by
Frank Miller (''The Dark Knight
Returns'.'). Director Robert
Rodriguez (''The Faculty") gave
up his membership in the fllm
drrectors guild in order to codrrect this feature with Miller
and the two deliver a highly
stylized version of Miller's
comic which is definitely aimed
an adult audience. ·
The fllm includes three stories set in Las Vegas, with each
tale more depraved than the previous one, incorporating such
elements as greed, cannibalism
and corruption among everyone
from street cops to high-ranking
church officials. A solid cast is
also on hand with Bruce Willis,
Elijah Wood, Benicia Del Toro
and Clive Owen. The best work
however is by the talented but
seldom seen Mickey Roarke,
who stars in the first story as a
hard luck ex-boxer who is
framed for the murder of the
only friend he bad. Roarke manages to act under a ton of makeup and manages to elicit sympathy despite the fact" that he is little better than the people he
comes up against.
"The Wedding Date" · -
Debra Messing ("Will and
Grace") stars in this reversal of
"Pretty Woman." She plays a
love-challenged 30-something
who has to hire a male escort to
attend a friend's posh London
wedding and before you can say
"you had me at hello," she
winds up falling for him.
Lighter than air and pretty farfetched even for a romantic
comedy.
''The Brown Bunny" - You
will either love or hate this road
drama from Vincent Gallo
("Buffalo 66"). Most people
have chosen to hate this somber
effort which focuses on a motorcycle racer who is always driving to the next gig and is on the
run from a dark secret. Basically
this one is famous for a filmed
sexual liaison between Gallo
and actress Chloe Sevigny
which is supposed to be an artistic fusion of love and cinema
but comes off as glorified
pornography.
"The Ballad of Jack and
Rose" - This drama was not
screened locally but is definitely
worth your attention. Daniel
Day Lewis stars as a hippie who
never left the commune, which
is now deserted except for him
and his daughter. When he
learns that he suffers from heart
disease, he decides to hook up
with an old girlfriend and hopefully provide a stable environment for his daughter before he
runs out of time. Unfortunately,
his girlfriend is raising two
teenage boys and they are not
poster boys for said stabiLity.
This one doesn't offer any easy
answers but is well acted and
the characters are refreshingly
fractured.
"Undeclared" - The whole
run of this FOX series made its
debut this week and is another
refreshing and comedic examination of young people from the
makers of the CBS cult drama
"Freaks and Geeks." Here the
focus is on the first year of college, where an-ex nerd decides
to reinvent himself. Like
"Freaks" this show was canceled within its frrst year despite
guest appearances by Ben
Stiller, Adam Sandler and Will
Ferrell, who is particularly
amusing as a speed freak who
writes term papers for students
and appears to live on caffeine
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Next week look for a pair of
well-received ftlms which didn't get a theatrical run locally the Korean thriller "Oldboy"
and the British gangster drama
"Layer Cake."
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male - she's an Independent
and a woman. Elected vice president,
Mackenzie
Allen
becomes chief executive upon
the death of the man who made
her his running mate as a ploy to
win female voters. Now can she ·
weather foes in Washington
plotting her downfall- particularly the sly Speaker of the
House (Donald Sutherland),
who wanted her to step aside so
he could claim the Oval Office?
With Geena Davis as the very
presidential President Allen, this
show seems electable as a hit.
• Finally, a group of twentysomethings inhabit the hip,
hilly neighborhood of Silverlake
- as well as the sudsy UPN
soap, "Sex, Love & Secrets."
Seizing on a formula of sex,
love & secrets, this cool new
melodrama picks up right where
"Melrose Place" (which was set
in nearby Hollywood) left the
genre six long years ago.
And it reafflims a TV truism
every viewer understands:
Anything abandoned long
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State AARP official
to be guest speaker
at AARP meeting
Scott A. Wegenast, program
coordinator in the AARP
Kentucky State Office, in
Louisville, will be the guest of
Jenny Wtley Chapter No. 3528
AARP, at the meeting to be held
on Friday, August 19, at the
First Presbyterian Church,
Prestonsburg. The meeting
begins at 6 p.m., and all AARP
members and friends are
encouraged to attend.
Training excellent for early
childhood educators, social service workers, ministers, health
care providers, and those who
work with families of young
children.
Registration deadline is Aug.
19. For more info., call 8862668.
"Creation Seminar Sunday"
Event to be held Sept. 11, at
Prater Creek Baptist Church,
Banner. Mike Riddle, of the
"Answers in Genesis" organization, will conduct seminars on
Biblical Creationism. For more
info., call Pastor J.B. Hall at
874-3222;
email
to:
pcbc@pcbaptist.org.
Hill Country Dancers
FREE square and line dance
classes for the month of Sept., in
Pikeville, at Hambley Athletic
Center, across from Pikeville
High School. For more info.,
call Linda Frasure at 285-3994;
Novella Froman at 432-5834; or
Don Schul at 789-5712.
2nd Annual Hamilton Family
Reunion
For the descendants of Steve
and Louine Hamilton. To be
held August 20, at Dewey Dam
Picnic Hollow, Shelter #1 .
More info., call 886-9553.
5th Annual Johnson Family
Reunion
For the descendants of
Milford and Minnie Johnson.
To be held August 2l,_at Dewey
Dam Picnic Hollow, Shelter #3.
More info., call 886-9553.
Mead Family Reunion
For the descendants of H.F.
Mead. To be held August 27,
from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., at the
Pines Building, Jenny Wiley
State Resort Park. Bring own
picnic lunch. Lunch will be
served at noon, dinner at 5 p.m.
Hale Family Reunion
The John M. Hale Family
Reunion will be held on Sunday,
Sept. 11, at the Greenwich Coon
Hunter's Club, in Greenwich,
Ohio, beginning at noon.
Please bring a covered dish.
Tableware and drinks will
beprovided. For more info., call
Alma Hopkins at 419-7 52-6906.
Floyd County Retired
Teachers
Will host a meeting at the
East Kentucky Science Center,
located on the campus of the
Big Sandy Comm. and Tech.
College, on Sept. 1, at 10 a.m.
East KY State Fair - 4-H
Projects
Any Floyd County student
who completed a 4-H project in
2005 may submit the project to
the East Kentucky State Fair, to
be held Aug. 30 thru Sept. 5, at
the Thunder Ridge Complex.
Call 886-2668 or visit:
www.eastkystatefair.com for
entry details.
Open Animal Exhibits will
also be conducted and any student who has an animal (dog,
rabbit, chicken or goat) may
exhibit the animal at the fair.
Also, any Floyd County student, grades 3-12, may compete
in the Talent Show to be held at
the fair.
You may contact Floyd
County Extension Agent for 4H, Chuck Stamper, for more
details.
Parenting Training
"Keys to Great Parenting"
will be offered on Friday,
August 26, from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., at the Floyd County
Extension Office.
Seminar will be taught by Dr.
Carole Gnatuk, UK Child Dev.,
Doug Burnam, UK Health Edu.,
and Theresa Scott, Floyd Co.
Ext. Agent.
Topics will include: substance abuse (affecting families), care of self, family relationships, early brain development and teaching self-control.
Jenny Wiley Bike Tours
Held every Saturday morning, 8 a.m. Meet at the flags in
front of the Jenny Wiley
Convention
Center/Marina.
Group will ride to the Johns
Creek Station (8 miles) at the
foot of the spillway where a
$6.95 breakfast buffet is avaiable. Fun ride at a relaxed pace.
Make sure bikes are in good
working condition and be ready
to ride by 8:30 a.m. Others may
also arrive at the Spillway site to
enjoy breakfast or to pick up
riders who do not wish to ride
back to the starting point.
More information, call 8868604 or email: profitnesscntr@bellsouth.net. You may also
visit www.multisports to view
and print a map of area cycling
routes.
Childers Family Reunion
The Childers (Chiidress)
family will host a reunion on
Sat., Aug. 20, at the Dewey
Dam Picnic Hollow, Shelter #3.
Registration will begin at 11
a.m.; lunch will be served at
noon. Please bring a covered
dish and cooler of soft drinks for
your family. Plates, napkins and
utensils will be provided. An
auction will be held to raise
money for next year's reunion.
This year's theme is "Our
Musical Heritage" - bring along
any instruments you may play.
All Childers and Preston relations welcome. More info.,
.contact Naomi Cox at 740-3875815 or Shelba Childers at 740747-2985.
Parsons Family Reunion
Reunion for the descendants
of Isaac and Louisa Parsons will
be held on Sept. 4, from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m., at the Isaac Parsons
Cemetery, located on Parsons
Branch, off Rt. 979. Please
bring a covered dish; meal will
be served at 1 p.m. All family
and friends welcome. For more
info., call E. J. Parsons at 865426-7585.
UNITE meeting
The Floyd County Coalition
of UNITE has changed its
monthly_ meeting time and
place. The group now meets the
first Thursday of every month
on the BSCTC Prestonsburg
campus, room 153 of the
Johnson Building. The entire
community is invited and
encouraged to attend.
Hughes Family R!'!union
For the families of Mathias
Hughes, Linda E. and Jake
Marsillett, Mary Darcus and
John Wright, Sally and James
Marsillett, John Malcom and
Sally Hughes, Jim Henry and
Ida Hughes. Reunion will be
held on Sept 4, at the home of
Delmer Holbrook, located at
143 Holbrook Hollow Rd., in
Prestonsburg. For more info.,
call 886-8481.
Rotary Club
Local Rotary Club hold~
meetings every 1 hursuay, at
noon at the SLUdent Grill, on the
BSCTC campus. Open to business and prof~ .. . : me~ . '
women who live or work .w
call: 886-2929.
External Diploma Program
Auxier Lifetime
Learning Center
FREE
GED
classes,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.; may work with
computers during this time.
Call for more info.
WHS Class of '59
The Wayland High School
Class of 1959 will hold their
46th year reunion on Sept 3, at
May Lodge, Jenny Wiley State
Park. For further information,
email to: pslone@charter.net.
Harrison-Innis Reunion
A reunion of the HarrisonInnis families will be held on
Sept. 3, at Archer Park, beginning at 11·a.m. All family members cordially invited to attend.
Floyd County. More info., contact Mike Vance at 886-2075.
Joy Services - Christ United
Methodist Church of Allen
Special musical services:
Aug. 21 - Karen Crawford, 6
p.m.
Aug. 28 - Billie, Betty &
Linda, 6 p.m.
Also, on Aug. 21, 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School celebration with
potluck dinner in Wesley Gym.
HRMC Community Calendar
Aug. 25 - "Living Well with
Diabetes" support group meeting, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Place A
& B, medical office bldg.
For more info., contact
Highlands Educational Services
Dept at 886-7424.
Kentucky residents age 25
and older can earn a high school
diploma by demonstrating skills
learned on the job or in raising a
family. Flexible scheduling is
provided and confidentiality
maintained. Classes are held at
the
Carl
D.
Perkins
Rehabilitation
Center,
in
Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
evening classes on Thursday.
EDP classes are also held at the
Mullins Learning Center, in
Pikeville, on Tuesdays, from
4:30-8:30 p.m. Contact Andy
Jones at 606-788-7080, or 800443-2187, ext. 186, or Linda
Bell, at ext. 160 to make an
appointment.
GED classes are also available.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: lst Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, p:30 p.m., at
Neighborhood Watch
The
Mud
Creek . Cliffside Community Room.
David: 1st Monday, 1 p.m.,
Neighborhood Watch group will
meet the third Thursday of each at St. Vmcent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
month, at 7 p.m. All are invited
Martin Church of Christ.
to attend meetings.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
Little Mud Comm. Center
The Little Mud Community Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
Center Board of Directors are
currently in the process of locat- p.m., Maytown First Baptist
ing photos of old historic sites Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild:
of the area. The pictures are to
be added to the center's historic 1st/3rd Wednesdays, 10 a.m.,
wall. If you have any such pic- Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
tures, or are interested in more
information concerning this pro- 1:30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg:
3rd
ject, call478-1477 or 478-2479.
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home of members (call 886-2668 for info.)
Notice! BLHS Class of '95
The Betsy Layne High
School Class of 1995 will host a Looking For a Support Group?
• Alzheimer's Association
reunion on August 20, at the
Landmark Inn, in Pikeville. For Care-giver Support Group more information, call 889- Meets on the second Tuesday of
each month at the First
9651 or 478-5014.
Presbyterian Church (near
Jerry's Restaurant), at 6 p.m.
. Attention: BLHS Class of '85
The Betsy Layne High For more info., call Dana
School Class of 1985 will host a Caudill at 886-0265, or Jane
reunion to be held Sept. 10, 6 Bond at FCHD. NOTE: Group
p.m. to 12 a.m., at the Landmark
Inn, Pikeville. $50 per couple/$25 for single. For more
info., contact Debbie Hall at
304-757-2918
or
Dochallparsons@ charter. net
BLHS Classes - '65 thru '75
The classes of Betsy Layne
High School, 1965-1975, will
host a reunion to be held on
August 20, at the Jenny Wiley
Convention Center. For more
information, contact Sandy
Meade Scrimager at (859) 2859826, or (859) 576-5846, or,
after 6 p.m., at (606) 478-9669..
will NOT MEET in July or
August.
• Alzheimer's Association,
East-em KY Regional Office 24-hour Helpline, call 1-800272-3900 for emotional support,
local resources, and other information.
• MS Support Group - Meets
third Monday of each month at
7:00 p.m. at the Seton Complex,
Martin. Offers group support for
MS patients and their caregivers.
• Overeater 's Anonymous
(O.A.) - Meets each Monday, at
3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha
Catholic Church, Water ·Gap
Road. For more info., call 8862513.
• US TOO! Prostate Cancer
Survivors Support Group - For
all men with prostate cancer and
their families. Group meets the
3rd Thursday of each month, at 6
p.m., at the Ramada Inn,
Paintsville.
• Sept. 15 - Prostate Health Dr. Michael McDonald.
• Oct. 20 - Regaining Sexual
Health - Jeffrey Goyer.
•
Nov. 17 - Holiday
Celebration.
• Questions or concerns?
Call487-8360.
• Community Weight Loss
Support Group
Meets •
Thursday's at 6:30 p.m., at the
Martin Community Center. For
more info., call 377o6658.
Those who have had gastric
bypass surgery most especially
welcome to attend. Meetings
being offered as support to any
one needing extra support in
dealing with weight loss.
• A.S.K. (Adoption Support
for Kentucky) - Support group
for all adoptive parents (public.
private, international. and kinship care), foster parents and all
others interested in adop_tion. ~
To be held the first Monday of
each month, at the Department
for Community Based Services
office, 1009 North Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg, from 6-8 p.m.
Childcare will not be provided.
For more information, contact
Dedra Slone, adoptive _parent
liaison, at 432-4110 or 4227927 ,
or
email
to:
doslonc@ castky.net.
The Piarist School
Needs an Additional
English Teacher
• A private, college preparatory high schoot
• Salary based on the Floyd County School
System
• Small class sizes with talented teenagers
• Must be dedicated and enthusiastic
• Secondary certification or degree in subject
required
Send resume to:
Rev. Thomas Carroll, Sch.P.
The Piarist School
Highway 80, Box 870
Martin, Kentucky 41649
(606) 285-3950
Pietas et Litterae
Piarist@bellsouth.net
ALBAREE
Health Services, LLC
Over 50? Need a friend?
Then
check out our
Friendship Club for seniors.
Share a meal, see a movie, take
a walk, have a chat. Meet with
other seniors at a local location.
Come on out, and let's talk. For
more info., call 889-9620. The
Friendship Club is not a dating
service.
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exercise
Classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, at 9:30,
at the Presbyterian Church in
Prestonsburg. Classes are held
Monday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, at 11 a.m. at the old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788,
for more information.
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program."
You must be 55 or older to
apply. In Floyd, call 886-2929;
Johnson,
call
789-6515;
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike,
call432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call 638-4067.
Interested in job training?
Are you a senior citizen on a
fixed income struggling with
soaring medical bills and living
expenses? Could you use some
extra spending money but don't
know how to get back into the
workforce?
11' \ lll arc at least age 55, the
Scntor Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP)
may be able to help. Earn extra
money learn new sk1lls, and
1
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same time! To find out more,
Dr. Ayman Albaree
Dr. Eyad Albaree
Albaree Health Services, the family practice of Dr. Ayman
Albaree and Dr. Eyad Albaree, located in Salyersville, can
provide high quality family care for your entire family.
Their office is located at 906 East Mountain Parkway
(beside Nordin Eye Care) in Salyersville. Office hours are
8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. Monday through Friday. To schedule
an appomtment call 349-8100. The Albarees are "familiar
faces" to the community, having worked previously in the
Emergency Departments at Highlands Regional Medical
Center and Paul B. Hall Medical Center.
Call 349-8100 for an appointment
TalE Medical Center of
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A Subsidiary of Consolidated Health Syst ms
HRMC 886·8511
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�FRIDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD CouNTY TIMES
19, 2005 • A 7
For the Record
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Marriage Licenses
Lavena Marie Montgomery,
24, of Prestonsburg. to Jack
Bradley Hanover, 32, of
Michigan.
Misty Dawn Ousley, 22, to
Joey Ross Crum Jr., 21, both of
Martin.
Rebekah Renee Hunt, 26, of
Prestonsburg to Brian Lee
Hunter, 28, of Pikeville.
Jamie Leighann Slone, 20, to
Donnie Stephens, 21, both of
Prestonsburg.
Regina Susan Price, 31, of
Pikeville to Jonathan Russo, 30,
of Cleveland, Ohio.
Melissa Gail Layne, 35, of
Louisville to Jan Hicks, 49, of
Martin.
Terri Jo Lewis, 22, of Allen,
to Joshua Edward Kendrick, 26,
of Salem, Ohio.
Amanda Dawn McKenzie,
24, of Pikeville, to Jackie
Edward Kendrick, 29, of
Prestonsburg.
Jessica Nicole Goble, 23, of
Prestonsburg, to Leslie Dean
Slone, 23, of Martin.
Stacy Lynn Fairchild, 23, of
Prestonsburg, to William James
Mar, 18, of Taipei, Taiwan.
Connie Simpkins, 43, of
Lawrence County, to Larry
Gene
Woods,
50,
of
Prestonsburg.
Alisha Ann Evans, 21 , of
Huntington, W.Va., to John
Lloyd
Blair,
27,
of
Prestonsburg.
Michael
Williams
vs.
Kentucky
Fatm
Bureau
Insurance Company, Teresa and
Ricky Caudill; auto accident
complaint.
Donahue Hatpilton vs.
Clifford Hamilton Jr.; auto accident complaint.
State
Auto
Insurance
Company vs. Mellissa Hancock,
also known as Melissa Osborne;
auto accident complaint.
Great Seneca Financial
Corporation vs. Robert D.
McAnich; debt complaint.
Small Claims Filings
U.S. 460 Auto Sales vs.
Sheila Stanley; debt complaint.
Maryland Jervis vs. Sandra
Blackburn; debt complaint.
Diamond Ray Waddles vs.
Melissa Comstock Grigsby;
debt complaint.
Charges Filed
Tiffany Smith, 19, Softshell;
second-degree burglary, felony
theft by unlawful taking,
unsworn falsification to authorities.
Franklin
Hale,
63,
Prestonsburg; failure to comply
with sexual offender registration.
Kevin J. Whitaker, 29,
Prestonsburg; felony theft by
'ft)
unlawful taking.
Billy R. Hall, 23, Auxier;
theft of a motor vehicle registration or renewal decal, felony
theft by unlawful taking.
Shawn Sexton, 21, Printer;
Civil Suits Filed
Kentucky Medical Services second-degree burglary, secondFoundation Inc., vs. Betty degree criminal trespass.
Angela A. Carty, 26,
Stewart; debt complaint.
Bernice Caudill vs. Jimmy Salyersville; attempt to obtain a
controlled substance prescripCaudill; divorce.
Marsha Hicks vs. Bryan tion by fraud.
Charles T.
Hall, 26,
Hicks; divorce.
Sally Ann Jones vs. Herman Prestonsburg; flagrant nonsupJones; divorce.
port.
.
Jerry R. Terry, 57, Mousie,
Shona Hall vs. Toby
.,_Hamilton; petition for health residential register, title in
another state (evade), driving on
care insurance.
Mckella Case vs. Calvin a revoked or suspended license;
Hall; petition for child support failure to tum over revoked or
suspended license.
and health care insurance:
Arthur
Redford,
27,
Ada Gillespie vs. Angela
Miles; petition for child support Wheelwright; first-degree drug
trafficking.
and health care insurance.
Christopher Adkins, no age
JP Morgan Chase Bank vs.
Charles and Angela Owens, listed, Pikeville; flagrant non- Commonwealth of Kentucky support.
Sherry R. Lemaster, no age
(Finance and Revenue Cabinet)
and Elizabeth Owens; complaint listed; custodial interference.
Larry Clifton, 49, Harold;
and reformation of mortgage.
Colonial Credit Corporation public intoxication.
Theresa Reeves, 50, Mt.
{Ill vs. Adreanna Isaac; debt comSterling; first-degree criminal
plaint.
Laura
McKinney
vs. trespass.
Kirby Samons, 56, ·Martin;
Christopher
McKinney;
public intoxication.
divorce.
James Hackney, no age listJamie Hall vs. Hope Hall;
ed; Pikeville; third-degree crimdivorce.
Craig Hicks vs. Vanessa inal trespass.
Amanda Hall, 26, Beaver;
Hicks; divorce.
Helen Fields vs. LatTy terroristic threatening, thirddegree criminal trespass.
Fields; divorce.
Amanda
Cole,
25,
Lisa Collett vs. Highlands
Hospital, doing business as Prestonsburg! harassment.
Tiffany Hunt, 19, Banner;
Highlands Regional Medical
Center; verified injury com- harassing communications.
Amanda Hamilton, 18,
plaint (related to unsafe properBanner;
harassing communica•~ty).
, Travis Coffey vs. Charolette tions.
Parsons,
20,
Andrew
Nye; auto accident complaint.
Mousie;
third-degree
criminal
HSBC Bank USA vs. Sam
Hom; complaint with fair notice trespass.
Tiffany
Bishop,
18,
under the debt collections and
Stanville; harassment.
practices act.
Dewey R. Younce, 26,
Monogram Credit Card Bank
of Georgia vs. Robert Slone; Melvin; second-degree cruelty
debt complaint transferred from to animals.
Chasity Younce, 23, Melvin;
Knott Circuit Court.
second-degree cruelty to animals.
Bobbi Iricks, 36, Betsy
Layne; harassment.
Jimmy !ricks, 40, Betsy
Layne; harassment, third-degree
criminal mischief.
Jayne Joseph, 25, Paintsville;
fishing without a license.
Bret Short, 42, Paintsville;
fishing without a license.
Bennie Lafferty, 18, Banner;
possession of marijuana, license
to be in possession.
Brandon Combs, 19, Allen;
possession of marijuana.
Nathan
Williams,
19,
McAndrews; motorboat to be
registered and numbered, no or
non approved personal floatation device.
Edgar Hughes, 46, Dana;
hunting or fishing without or
permit or a license, creel and
size limits for fish.
Tommy Lawson, 41, Harold;
riding on a bow, etc., while
motorboat underway.
Rachel
Wallen,
25,
Prestonsburg; public intoxication of a controlled substance,
third-degree possession of a
controlled substance.
Jeffrey
Shepherd,
43,
Hueysville; third-degree criminal trespass, terroristic threatening, public intoxication, disorderly conduct.
Derek Akers, 24, Teaberry;
fourth-degree assault, public
intoxication.
Jimmy Tackett, 36, Teaberry;
public intoxication, flagrant
nonsupport.
Jay E. Shepherd, 28, Marion,
Ohio; public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest,
terroristic threatening.
Bianca Hynes, 18, Wayland;
criminal littering.
Eddie Dean Shepherd, 30,
David; fourth-degree assault,
public intoxication, third-degree
criminal trespass.
Justin D. Collins, 32, Hi Hat;
public intoxication, fourthdegree assault.
Clyde Boyd, 23, Banner;
misdemeanor theft by unlawful
taking.
Jonathan Young, 24, Varney;
violation of an emergency protection order.
Caroline Miller, 38, Marion,
Ohio; public intoxication, disorderly conduct.
James Mullins, 31, Martin;
public intoxication.
Danny Pennington, 27,
Bevinsville; four counts of rn.i.sdemeanor theft by unlawful Utlcing.
Brian Blair, 25, Hager Hill;
harassing communications.
Inspections
Adkins Qwik Stop, Honaker,
regular inspection. Violations
noted: Unable to locate all thermometers used to maintain
product temp, shelves on sales
floor showing signs of damage,
hand sink not working properly,
paper towels in restroom not
placed on dispenser, some floor
areas in need of repair, light not
shielded in food prep area.
Score: Food 94, Retail 96.
Duff Elementary, Eastern,
regular inspection. Violations
noted: Some employees not
using proper hair restraints, ice
machine exterior surface has a
build up of debris, wall of utility room in disrepair, mop head
Plkeville College celebrates 117th year
~
PIKEVILLE - 0 n a joyous
September day in 1889, the
doors of Pikeville Collegiate
Institute opened for the very
first time. David Blythe, a
young Presbyterian minister
and educator, had come to
Pikeville to carry out the mission of the College's founders,
Dr. William C. Condit and
James P. Kendrick, who, along
with the Ebenezer Presbytery,
shared a vision to provide educational opportunities for the
youth of the mountains.
On Tuesday, Aug. 23, more
t9than a century since the first
group of students gathered for
classes, Pikeville College will
commemorate the institution's
117th year during Opening
Convocation. Professors will
don their academic regalia for
the formal ceremony, which is
led by a piper and the bearer of
the ceremonial mace.
Total enrollment at the
College this fall is expected to
be nearly 1,130 - with approximately 850 undergraduate students and 280 students in the
school of osteopathic medicine.
4 The convocation address
will be d((livered by Miriam
"Mim" Pride, president of
Blackburn
College,
a
in
Presbyterian
school
Carlinville, Ill. Pride became
the president of Blackburn
College in 199-1 and has the
honor and distinction of being
the institution's first female
president. Born in Canton,
China, Pride grew up in Berea,
Kentucky. She received her
bachelor's degree from The
College of Wooster in Wooster,
Ohio, and completed her graduate work at the University of
Kentucky. Pride has received
numerous civic and professional awards and will be presented
with an honorary Doctor of
Laws degree from Pikeville
College.
The Opening Convocation
ceremony on Aug. 23 will be
held at 11 a.m. in Booth
Auditorium, located in Record
Memorial Building. The community is cordially invited to
attend. Parking is available in
the garage adjacent to the
College. For more information,
contact the Public Affairs office
at (606) 218-5270.
observed stored on floor. Score:
96.
McDowell Elementary, regular inspection. Violations noted:
Food product observed stored
without a cover, hair restraints
not worn correctly, three-compartment sink found with small
leak, trays not stored properly,
restroom door not self-closing.
Score: 86.
Speedway, Martin, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Thermometers not present in all
refrigerator and freezer units,
walls in disrepair, lights not
properly shielded in food prep
area. Score: Food 97, Retail 98.
Property Transfers
Diane Frasure Burchett to
Brian and Kristine hall, property
located at Big Mud Creek.
Gary Burchett to Brian and
Kristine Hall, property located
at Big Mud Creek.
Tonya Renee Clark to Larry
and Priscilla Prater, property
located at Route 850.
Greg Couch to Marcia and
Morris Hylton, property location undisclosed.
Michelle Couch to Marcia
Josephine Case
Josephine Case, 64, of
Honaker, died Sunday, August
7, 2005, at Our Lady of the Way
Hospital, Martin.
Born March 7, 1941, in
Honaker, she was the daughter
of the late Curt and Masil
Damron Collins. She was a
homemaker.
She is survived by her husband, Edessell Case.
Other survivors include two
sons: Joseph Case of Campton
and Odell Case of Honaker; two
daughters: Janette Case and
Saprina Case, both of Honaker;
three brothers: Bill Collins of
Harold, Jerry Collins of
Honaker, and Ralph Collins of
Frenchburg; four sisters: Brenda
Howell, Sue Boyd, and Nancy
Kidd all of Honaker, and Kathy
Kidd of McDowell; six grandchildren: Travis, Mitchell,
Ricky Joe, Christine, Crystal,
and April; and four great-grandchildren: Justin, Tyler, Dustin,
and Dylan.
In addition to her parents, she
was preceded in death by two
sons: Adam Case, and Edessell
Case Jr., and four daughters:
Ruth Case, Melissa Case,
Melinda Case, and Gretta Case;
one brother, Orris Collins; and
two sisters: Lillian Collins and
Linda Collins.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, August 10,
at 1 p.m., at the Little Dove Old
Regular Baptist Church, in
Honaker, with ministers of the
Old Regular Baptist Church
officiating.
Burial was in the Case
Cemetery, in Honaker, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
Active pallbearers: Travis
Case, Mitchell Case, Ricky Joe
Case, Shannon Howell, Brent
Collins, Curtis Yates, Stevie
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Zelia Lewis to Lizzie lewis,
property located at Tram.
Gary Meade to Charles and
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Ramona Mingas to Lizzie
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Debbie Patchak to Charles
and Rosemary Reed, property
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Larry Prater to Charles and
Virginia Prater, property located
at Salt Lick.
Priscilla Prater to Charles
and Virginia Prater, property
located at Salt Lick.
Tara Lynn Robinson to Katie
Jo Gray, property location
undisclosed.
Donald Tackett to Freddie
Gibson, property located at Left
Beaver.
Sharon Tackett to Freddie
Gibson, property located at Left
Beaver.
Grace Weedman to Katie Jo
Gray, property location undisclosed.
Grace Weedman to Tara
Lynn Robinson, property location undisclosed.
Obituaries
(Paid obituary)
Miriam "Mim" Pride, president
of Blackburn College, a
school
In
Presbyterian
Carlinville, 111., will delivering
an address at Pikeville
College's opening convoca·
tlon Tuesday. Pride became
the president of Blackburn
Collage In 1991 and has the
honor and distinction of being
the Institution's first female
president.
and Morris Hylton, property
location undisclosed.
Elizabeth Elkins to Donald
and Sharon Tackett, property
located at Left Beaver.
Julius Elkins to Donald and
Sharon Tackett, property located
at Left Beaver.
Audie Elkins to Donald and
Sharon Tackett, property located
at Left Beaver.
Margarita Hampton to Mary
and Rickey Setser, property
location undisclosed.
Ronald Hampton to Mary
and Rickey Setser, property
location undisclosed.
Joe Harris to James and Lisa
Spencer, property located at
Prestonsburg.
Clediths Howard to Larry
and Priscilla Prater, property
located at Route 850.
Tanya Howard to Larry and
Priscilla Prater, property located
at Route 850.
Estate of Margie Hunter to
Jennifer, Raymond and Travis
Thomason, property located at
Prestonsburg.
Norma Jean Jarvis to Lizzie
Lewis, property located at the
Riverside Addition.
Billie Caudill, age 80, of
Langley, husband of the late
Audrey Hicks Caudill, passed
away Wednesday, August 17,
2005, at the Riverview Health
Care Center, Prestonsburg.
He was born December 16,
1924, in Blackey, the son of the
late John C. Caudill and Raney
Hampton Caudill. He was a
retired electrician.
Survivors include one son,
Billy Joe Caudill of Langley;
one brother, Bobby Caudill of
Cynthiana; one sister, Virginia
Hayes of Taylor, Michigan;
three grandchildren: Louis
Harriston, Kelly DeBorde, and
Billy Joe Caudill II; and three
great-grandchildren:
Sam
Harriston, Will Harriston and
Alex DeBorde.
In addition to his wife and
parents, he was preceded in
death by two brothers, Solomon
Caudill and Elbert Caudill; and
two sisters: Mary Stephens and
Martha Murphy.
Funeral services for Billie
Caudill will be conducted
Friday, August 19, at 11 a.m., at
the Hall Funeral Home, Martin.
Burial will follow in the
Hicks Cemetery, Langley, under
the professional care of the Hall
Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
Michigan.
Friends may call from 2 to 4,
and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturda~. August
20, at the Eastman Funeral
Home, 200 West Main St., New
London, where funeral services
will be held at 2:30 p.m.,
Sunday, August 21. Pastor Sam
Perry will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Grove
Street Cemetery in New
London.
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Vannie Mae Damron
He~ry Lee Shell
Henry Lee Shell, 82, of
Salyersville,
formerly
of
Prestonsburg, died Tuesday,
August 16, 2005, at the Paul B.
Hall Regional Medical Center,
in Paints-ville. ·
Born on September 22, 1922,
in Preece, he was the
son of the late James /~
She!I md Marth•
Adkins Shell. He was
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a former laborer for ·•!· · . ' ·-, ,
the Big Sandy Area
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Community Action Program,
and a member of the Baptist
Church.
Survivors include two sisters:
Mary Altvater of Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, and Dorothy
Baker of Nancy; one brother,
Roosevelt Shell of Hazard; and
several nephews and nieces.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by four
brothers: Frank Shell, Luther
Shell, George Shell, and Jerry
Shell; and one sister, Angeline
Howell.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, August 18, at
2 p.m., at the Carter Funeral
Home Chapel, with Pastor
Herman Roberts officiating.
Interment was in Richmond
Memorial Cemetery, in Prestonsburg.
The family has entrusted
arrangements to the Carter
Funeral Home, Prestonsburg.
Vannie Mae Damron, age 79,
of New London, Ohio, died
Wednesday evening, August 17,
2005, at Fisher Titus Medical
Center, Norwalk.
She was born October 8, 1925,
in Floyd County, Kentucky, the
daughter of the late Mac &
Vesta (Hughes) Kidd.
She moved to New London in
1945. She had worked at former
Lehman
Bakery,
Mitchel
Nursing Home, and C.E. Ward
Co., all of New London.
She is survived by her husband, Johnny Damron, whom
she married June 23, 1938; five
daughters and sons in law:
Glenna Sue Fannin, Kathy &
Charles Harvey, VIrginia Mae &
Harold Case, and Vanie Jean &
Richard Burkett, all of New
London, and Betty Jean & Mike
Kroumholtz of Greenwich;
three sons and a daughter in
law: James Milford Damron and
William Damron, both of New
London, Glenn & Sandy
Damron of Clarksfield; and
Bradley John Damron, a grandson whom was raised as a son;
20 grandchildren, and numerous
great grandchildren; two sisters
and a brother in law: Pricie Case
of Michigan, and Lilly & Dean
Rudd of Norwalk; four brothers:
Mac (Dennis) Kidd, and Otis
Kidd, both of Kentucky, Audis
Kidd of Texas, and John Kidd of
~
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FROM THE FAMILY OF
WAYNE W. RATLIFF
My heartfelt thanks to
Respond Ambulance, Life Net
Helicopter crew, and the
Rescue Squad, for your help on
June 19, due to my husband's
farm accident on a 4-wheeler.
The nicest State Trooper
Shearer for being so kind and
reassuring, and a young man
in a black car who drove me to
the ambulance. I don't knovr
your name, but I will always
be grateful to you.
Thanks to Cabell Huntington Hospital and their many doctors, nurses, and staff.
The many prayers, food, flowers, and wonderful neighbors in
Allen· to the Allen Fire Department for the use of the hall after
the fdneral; and to Rev. Harmon, once again taking care of my
family.
Last, but not least, my home-away-from-home, the NelsonFrazier Funeral Home for being there when I needed them the
most and all their encouragement through three hard weeks.
To 'the pallbearers for traveling so far: Dewey Carnron, Tim
Clark, Mike Rondal Cunningham, Brian Ratliff, Roland Wright,
Mike Halfhill, and Danny Branson.
Our thoughts and prayers will always be with each and everyone for the help and support during that time.
Sonja Ratliff
�AS • FRIDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Science center taking visitors on a 'Journey to Saturn'
PRESTONSBURG -The planetarium at the East Kentucky Science
Center is Kentucky's newest "theater,"
where visitors can view more than 8,000
stars, see the sun and moon and watch
the planets in motion.
"Journey to Saturn," opening Aug.
~0, is the center's newest program and is
described as "a breath-taking ride
through the solar system to one of the
most intriguing and beautiful planets,
viewing its fascinating satellites, beautiful rings and a moon that may hold
secrets to the rise of life on Earth."
probe. In 2004, Cassini-Huygens
reached Saturn and its moons. There the
spacecraft has begun to orbit around the
system for four years, beaming home
data that will help us understand the vast
Saturnian region. Huygens entered the
murky atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's
biggest moon, and descended via parachute onto its surface.
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is
equipped for 27 various science investigations. The Cassini orbiter has 12
instruments and the Huygens probe had
six. The instruments often have multiple
There will be continued updates
about discoveries at Saturn throughout
the run of this program. The planetarium
program is suitable for all ages.
Seven years ago, the CassiniHuygens spacecraft was launched on
one of the most ambitious missions ever
into space. Loaded with an array of
powerful instruments and cameras, the
spacecraft is capable of taking accurate
measurements and detailed images in a
variety of distinctive conditions.
1Wo elements make up the spacecraft
- the Cassini orbiter and the Huygcns
functions, equipped to thoroughly investigate all the impmtant elements that the
Saturn system may uncover. These
instruments have produced beautiful
and sometimes breathtaking images that
before now have been impossible to
view by even the most powerful telescopes.
For show time and price call 606889-0303 or visit www.wcdoscience.
org.
On display in the Science Center's
exhibit hall is "The World We Create,"
an interactive exhibit from the
Louisville Science Center. At ''The
World We Create" traveling exhibit, the
created world is at your fingertips. It's
for touching and exploring, for discovering just what kind .of world you can
create.
The East Kentucky Science Center is
located on the Prestonsburg campus of
the Big Sandy Community and
Technical College. The center is an
independent educational non-profit
organization. The science center and
planetarium are open to the public and
all schools.
Eze hired as medical director of .Highlands Behavioral Health Services
PRESTONSBURG Dr.
Emmanuel Eze, new medical
director of Highlands Behavioral
Health Services, is an advocate
of the "getting it right the first
time" approach because of the
suffering caused by unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated mental and emotional illness.
Emmanuel Eze, M.D., has
joined the medical staff of
Highlands Regional Medical
Center as the director of
Behavioral Health Services. Dr.
Eze brings with him 32 years of
experience in the field of mental
health. The availability of a fulltime psychiatrist that also
accepts private patients brings
an added dimension to the
patient care services Highlands
provides to the community.
Dr. Eze is a graduate of the
University of Lagos College of
Medicine in Lagos, Nigeria. He
completed his residency at
Eastern Virginia Graduate
School of Medicine in Norfolk,
Va., and his Fellowship in
Community Psychiatry at the
Community Mental Health
Center in Norfolk, Va.
Dr. Eze is the medical director and owner of Phoenix
Psychiatry Services in Ashland.
He previously served as the
medical director and attending
psychiatrist of mental health
programs at Three Rivers
Medical Center in Louisa. He is
also the consulting psychiatrist
at the methadone clinic,
Paintsville
Professional
Associates, and serves as a clinical professor of psychiatry at
the Pikeville College School of
Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Eze
is board certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology.
As the medical director of
Highlands Behavioral Services,
Dr. Eze will see patients in the ·
inpatient and outpatient units.
He believes that mental health
workers can make a positive difference in the lives of every
patient they see and that mental
health patients are capable of
improving their overall quality
of life related to the quality and
intensity of care given them.
Highlands Behavioral Health
Services offers comprehensive
evaluation and treatment of late
life psychiatric disorders such as
memory, mood and depression.
Dr. Eze believes in a "getting it
right the flrst time" approach
because of the suffering and tendency to chronicity of unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated mental and emotional illness.
Careful evaluation, accurate
diagnosis, and targeted early
and operating until the last
patient is seen. The clinic is
located in the Behavioral Health
at
Outpatient
Building
Highlands Regional Medical
Center.
For more information about
any of Highlands Behavioral
Health Services or to schedule a
private appointment with Dr.
Eze, call (606) 886-7612 or
7631.
and effective treatment are paramount in both the behavioral
health inpatient and outpatient
programs.
In addition to his role as
medical director of Highlands
Behavioral Health Services, Dr.
Eze will operate a private general psychiatry clinic, Phoenix
Psychiatry Services.. Clinic
hours will be Tuesdays and
Thursdays beginning at 3 p.m.
Marilyn Huegerlch
David School
hires principal
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DAVID - The David School
has announced the appointment
of Marilyn Huegerich as principal for the coming school year.
"[We're] excited to have someone as accomplished as Marilyn
to be our principal," board chairman Drew Dorton said in a press
release. "Her level of experience
and attention to detail gives us
great confidence in her ability to
lead the school."
Huegerich holds an Iowa permanent professional certificate
in curriculum and supervision.
She obtained a Masters of Arts
degree in American History
from Marquette University and
a Masters degree in Teaching
Economics from the University
of Missouri at Columbia.
Huegerich has also continued
studies at the University of
Iowa, De Paul University in
Chicago, and the University of
California at Riverside.
Previously, Huegerich has
served as a principal and junior
high, high school, and college
instructor at Mount Saint Clare
Academy in Iowa, Our Lady of
Good Counsel School, in Iowa,
and St. Catherine of Alexandria
School, in California. She also
served as president of the Sisters
of St. Francis, a religious corporation in Iowa, for eight years.
Huegerieh's was the recipient
of the Liberty Bell Award from
the Clinton County Bar
Association. She was also
named as "A Woman of
Achievement" by the Clinton
YWCA, and received the
Peacemaker Award from the
national Franciscan Federation
and from the Iowa Division,
UNA-USA. She was the cofounder of the National Catholic
Social Justice Lobby in
Washington, D.C.
"I am very pleased to be a
part of the success story at the
David School," Huegerich said
in a press release. "The school
provides a quality educational
program for the young men and
women of this area and I was
attracted to the school's belief
that all students have the desire
and capacity to learn."
"It is an honor to follow in
the footsteps of Danny Greene,"
she continued. "As founder of
the school, Danny has served
almost 34 years as its director,
an admirable commitment of
service to this community. I am
grateful that he continues to
serve in the new organizational
position as development director."
The David School, a tuitionfree school, opens classes Sept.
6.
For registration and additional information, contact the
school at (606) 886-7323.
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SIDESPORTS
Sixth Annual Youth Hunt/Campout schedule
.. EKU men's hoops • page B3
~NFL • page B5 .
• NASCAR • page B6 .
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The Sixth Annual Youth Squirn:l HuntJCampout at German Bridge Campground will be held today and
Saturday. Each young person must be accompanied by at least one parent or guardian. All campers must also
bring their own hunting and camping equipment. The camping and food are free. The event is sponsored by
the Floyd County Hunter Education Organization, Kentucky Hunter Education Organization, Dewey Lake
Fish and Game Club, Floyd County Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Kentucky
Department of Fish and Wildlife. For more information, call Paul Robinson at 606/874-2701..
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Email: sports@floydcountytlmes.com
AC-Betsy Layne· a familiar opener
Three offour county
teams begin play tonight
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
EASTERN - Three of the four
Floyd County high school football
teams will open regular-season play
tonight. Two teams - Betsy Layne and
Allen Central - will square off against
each other in an early-season rivalry
game. South Floyd, a third Floyd County team, will host Magoffin County. A
fourth, Prestonsburg, has the ftrst week
of the 2005 season as its open date.
Allen Central head coach Jeremy
Hall sees the "ups and downs" of
playing an in-county rival the flrst
week of the season. But, what better
way to get a new season started than
with a rivalry game?
"It's a real big game for both
teams," said Hall. "It has both its good
side and its bad side. Our kids really
get excited about playing Betsy Layne
the ftrst game of the season."
With a mostly all•new backfield
with freshman quarterback Josh Prater
calling the signals, Allen Central fans
will see some new key offensive players hit the field in the opener against
Betsy Layne.
As is the case with any other sport,
the football rivalry between the
Rebels and the Raiders can be quite
heated - just as the rivalries between
the two schools is on the basketball
hardwood and the baseball diamond.
Betsy Layne will enter the game
looking to enact some revenge. The
Rebels beat the Bobcats 36-14 in the
2004 season-opener. Both teams posted identical 4-6 records last season.
South Floyd head coach Donny
Daniels and his staff enter the new season with the tall task of replacing graduated running backs Wes Hall and Joe
Osborne, both of whom rushed for nearly 2,000 yards apiece last season. Trying
to make up for nearly 4,000 rushing
yards won't be an easy chore. The
(See OPENER, page two)
H.S. FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK AC volleyball
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third n1atch
TIMES STAFF REPORT
[C
e It's finally here.
h Football practice is tough on play-
. s, coaches and fans. Nobody likes
the preseason, with its two-a-days, its
tleat waves and its
2 repetitiveness. That ended yester~ay, however, and this morning
brings, at long last, the beginning of
the 2005 season.
As a result, we give you 10 reasons
to be excited about high school football. Unlike our counterpart David
Letterman, these won't be
~ · presented by my mom, won't be in
any order (after the flrst, that is) and
likely won't be funny.
We hope to
see you at the
end, however:
•
Football
season in the
mountains
begins and ends
on Pond Creek.
The
big
question,
of
course, is can
Rick Bentley
. they make it a
three-peat
of
ate titles? However, a better question
, how unfair is it to put that kind of
ressure on these Pirates?
Either question is worthy. After
~onsecutive dips in the victory
• 1 fountain, the first of those has to be
asked. Any team that wins
back-to-hack titles will have the
.pressure to three-peat. Most,
obviously, don't. On occasion,
~someone will, such as Pikeville and
Beechwood in Single-A.
- Can the Bucs roll out the magic carpet again? Only time will tell. But at
this point, very few players with two
rings are still wearing red and white.
J If it can be done, however, Philip
Haywood, Steve Mickey and Co. are
just the people to do it.
• The proper way to follow up
at issue is with this one: Is this the
year Prestonsburg overcomes?
They have a terrific combination in
the backfield. Brenton Hamilton is an
absolute load back there, and the
speedy Brandon Peters is his perfect
compliment. Toss into the mix the
~
photo by Steve LeMaster
Teams and players that gave it their all during hot August practices could see dividends all the way into the
first week of December. Prestonsburg has an open date during the first week of the season. Many local and
area -teams will begin play tonight.
New season, same
goals for most all
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
Paintsville won't look to get out
on a fast break tonight in Fairview.
Or, will it? Veteran basketball coach
Bill Mike Runyon has taken over
the Paintsville High School football
team and already new excitement
surrounds the tradition-rich program. Runyon previously served as
an assistant coach on the Paintsville
football staff, but has never been in
the role of head coach. Considered
by many to be the "Top Tiger," Runyon also maintains his position as
an assistant coach on the Paintsville
High baseball season. Busy with his
basketball team this past summer.
Runyon also found time to get the
Tiger football team prepared.
Most every area high school
football team sets a preseason goal
of winning some sort of championship, whether it be a district,
regional or state title.
Runyon has championship experience. He guided the Paintsville
High b9ys' basketball team to the
1996 state title.
Runyon is one of several new
coaches in place throughout the
area. many of whom will get their
first test tonight.
At Shelby Valley, Anthony
Hampton has taken over for Ben
Howard. who resigned from the
Wildcat football post before coaching his first game. The short-lived
Shelby Valley head coach does
maintain a close tie to coaching as
his father, Hillard Howard, begins
tonight his first season at the helm
of the brand-new Letcher County
High School football program. The
(See BENTLEY, page two)
(Sec SEASON, page two)
M.S. FOOTBALL
GAMES ON TAP
Tonight's games
Betsy Layne at Allen Central, 7;30 p.m.
Paintsville at Fairview, 7:30p.m.
East Carter at Greenup County, 7:30p.m.
Cawood at Harlan, 7:30p.m.
Perry County Central vs. Hazard, 7:30p.m.
(Hall of Fame Bowl, Henderson)
Knott County Central at Jenkins, 7:30p.m.
Evarts at Knox Central, 7:30p.m.
Sheldon Clark at Lawrence County, 7:30p.m.
Lynn Camp at Leslie County, 7:30p.m.
Newport Central Catholic at Pikeville, 8;30 p.m.
(Pike County Bowl)
Morgan County at Rowan County, 7:30p.m.
(Cave Run Classic)
' East Ridge vs. Shelby Valley, 6 p.m.
(Pike County Bowl, Pikeville)
Magoffm County at South Aoyd, 7:30p.m.
Johnson Central at South Floyd, 8:45p.m.
(Cumberland Valley Bowl V)
BETSY LAYNE - The Allen Central
High School volleyball team won its third
match of the young season Tuesday
evening. But the match wasn't without its
low points as both teams were error prone
and the Rebels got the win by committing
fewer miscues than h,ost Betsy Layne. It
took three games with the
Allen Central squad winning Game 1
(25 - 19); losing Game 2 (25 - 17) and finally taking the match in Game 3 (25- 17).
The Rebels combined for a dismal kill
percentage of .000 but had a .303 attack
percentage while committing 22 .attack
errors on 66 attempts. Elizabeth Mosley
pounded in nine kills to lead the Allen Central girls on the evening. Courtney Martin
and Yumekia Hunter smashed in four each,
Brittany Hodge bounced two kills in, and
Christina Blevins dropped one.
Amanda Mills proves daily that she is
the floor general as she ran the offense 49
times, earning 10 assists, while committing only one error on the nigbt. Hodge, a
. freshman, set the offense 33 times and
dished up three kills.
The serving game was consistent,
(See VOLLEYBALL, page three)
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Saturday's games
Henry Clay at Belfry, 6 p.m.
(Pike County Bowl)
Breathitt Co. vs. Franklin County. 5:30p.m.
(St. Joseph Healthcare Bluegrass Bowl,
Lexington Catholic)
Letcher Co. Cent. vs. Estill Co. 7;30 p.m.
Pike County Central vs. Phelps, 8:30 p.m.
(Pike County Bowl, Belfry)
ALLEN - Brandon Kinzer Motorsports competed over the weekend at the
23rd Annual North/South 100 held in
Northern Kentucky at Florence Speedway. The Allen-based race tcan1 was
(See KINZER, page two)
UARA STARS headed to Lonesome Pine Raceway
TIM,ES STAFF REPORT
' COEBURN, Va. - The highly competitive UARA STARS Late Model touring
series will visit Coeburn, Va. and Lonesome Pine Raceway Saturday night for the
UARA STARS 150.
UARA STARS. points contenders
Jamey Caudill and Matt McCall
are the only repeat winners
to date. McCall dominated the Food City 150
held earlier this season
but fell out with mechanical problems with seven laps
temaining and ultimately allowed
r 2002 series champion Danny O' Quinn to
· collect the win at his hometown track.
Both drivers have made it to the final
and are f.a~
:
· ~d:s
f
12
150 lap event.
Caudill, the 2005 points leader, can not
be counted out; he has the most career
poles of any other driver in UARA STARS
and has been in the mix all season long.
Another strong competitor for this
weekend's race is Grundy, Va. driver Keith
Stiltner. Stiltner has more
laps at the Lonesome Pine
Raceway
than any
other driver has at
the
Virginia
racetrack. Stiltner
has also lead a lot of laps and been in position to win three of the flve events.
Jamey Yelton has set on the SUNOCO
fole,Jwo out of the last three races and has
leu the most laps in the UARA events
held. After setting out at Anderson, Yelton
hopes to come back and put his team back
on top with a win.
"We have about 15 or so different drivers that can win on any given night, this
~ eckcnd's race won't be any different,"
said ARA STARS Public Relations Manager Harold Crook. "It's always a good
show. so be sure to make plans to attend."
Racing will begin as qualifying will get
underway at 5 p.m. with UARA STARS,
followed by the Aaron's Pro Challenge
Series. The UARA STARS Pit Party
'Meet the Drivers" will begin at 7 p.m.
Racing is set to begin at 8 p.m. Other support classes for the event will include Leg- '
ends, Pure Fours, and Pure Stocks.
ONLINE: www.uara-stars.com
of the same players entering senior football seasons at
Layne High School this fall, played key roles on last sea's 4-6 team. The Bobcats will begin play tonight on the road
rival Allen Central.
�82 •
FRIDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Bentley
Opener
• Continued from p1
likes of Charles Robinson, who
transferred from Allen Central
after a 1,000-yard season, and
it's a full backfield.
Things are looking good in
the heart of Floyd County. Is this
their year? Again, time will tell.
• Longtime Pikeville Panther fans could feel right at home
as the Mike Jackson era begins.
While Hillard Howard may not
have incorporated a lot of misdirection in his dominant time in
maroon, he sure didn't throw it a
lot. That sounds like Jackson's
idea of a good time as well.
• What of the rest of Pike
County? It's been nearly 30
years since a team other than
Pikeville or Belfry won a playoff
game. Think about that: You
have the four now in Phelps,
Pike Central. Shelby Valley and
East Ridge. But you also have to
go old school and incorporate
the likes of Elkhorn City (the
lastlo do it), Virgie, Johns Creek
and Mullins into this discussion.
• The same can be said in Lynyrd Skynyrd open the Expo
· Center (assuming Johnny Van
Floyd Count'y, where it's been
Prestonsburg and everybody Zant's vocal cords heal), but
else. South Floyd has made con- Pikeville will pay its first visit to
sistent appearances in the Sin- Central Appalachian Mining
gle-A playoffs but hasn't been Stadium to renew its rivalry
able to advance. In fact, the with Belfry.
Always, always a classic.
KHSAA Web site goes back
• Circle this date, Vol. II:
through the 1998 season, and
South Floyd, Betsy Layne nor October 7. Philip Haywood
Allen Central have posted a returns to his old stomping
grounds in the heart of Floyd
playoff win in that time.
Gentlemen, this is your goal. County to decide the local Dou• I don't know new Shelby ble-A district when the Bucs
Valley Coach Anthony Hamp- play the Blackcats.
•
Take two? Not many
ton, but I absolutely loved this
quote, lifted from the 2005 pre- coaches get second chances, but
view issue: "I'm a local guy, in this year of musical chairs, not
played football here at the one but two Pike County coachschool (and) loved football my es make return trips to their forentire life. I love the community mer digs. Big Mac is back at
and the program and to me it's Buckleys Creek, while ER
an honor and a g rear opportuni- returns to the ER at Lick Creek.
For the uninitiated, that's
ty that I will cherish."
After reading that, how could Chris MeNamee returning for his
second stint at Pike Central and
you not pull for that guy?
•
Circle this date, Vol. I: Eric Ratliff doing the same at
September 23. Not only will East Ridge. In Ratliff's case, let's
hope they leave him alone this
time and let him teach the game.
• It's a long way to the first
round of the playoffs. Of our 10
schools, how many will be alive
the first week of November?
Let's hope all 10. We'll see
you then.
!Visit www.floydcountytimes.coml
.
• Continued from p1
Raider coaching staff will place a
lot of the offensive responsibility
on the shoulders of1senior skill
players Ryan Johnson (QB) and
Justin Slone (WRJRB).
South Floyd and Magoffin
County didn't meet during the
2004 Season. The Raiders
opened last season with a 36-34
win over Powell County.
The Hornet football team
remains somewhat of a mystery.
Sure, the Hornets have several
returnees both on offense and
defense, but with a new head
coach and coaching staff in
place, last season's team could
be vastly different than th~ squad
that takes the field tonight.
Magoffin County is coming
off a 3-8 season in which it was
outscored 373-182 in lO games.
Kickoff for both of tonight's
in-county games is 7:30 p.m.
•
Kinzer
• Continued from p1
unable to practice on the Thursday before due to rain and
struggled getting around efficiently on the Northern Kentucky.
Qualifying was somewhat of
a disappointment for the BK
Motorsports team. Kinzer posted 40th fastest time of the 88
drivers that qualified. His qualifying effort started him eighth
in the fifth heat race. Due to
locked down track conditions,
Kinzer was unable to make
very much progress in the heat
race and finished seventh.
Kinzer had a promising run
going in the B-Main, but ran
out of time. He started the BMain 11th and made Ills way up
to the seventh position before
ending outside of a qualifying
spot in the 100 feature.
'This weekend was just as
unproductive as it can get," said
Kinzer. "We were horrible all
weekend long, plain and simple."
The Brandon Kinzer Motorsports race team has made tentative plans to travel to Brownstown Speedway Saturday for
the Jackson 100. The Kentucky
dirt late model race team has also
made plans to attend tonight's
$2,000-unsanctioned
"Night
before the Jackson 100" race. ~
stonsburg. The Blackcats, perennial Class 2A state title contenders, have an extra week
before their season-opener
against host Hazard in the Pride
of the Mountains Gridiron Classic on Friday, Aug. 26. Opening
up with five straight road games
will afford the Blackcats many
miles here in the fust half of the
regular-season.
"We looked at some things
and just thought the early road
games would help us on the
down the road," said DeRossett.
"We play in one of the most
competitive districts in the state
and when we get into that district schedule, we want to be
ready. Our kids have worked
hard throughout the preseason
and are looking forward to the
bowl game against Hazard. We
go to work and prepare for every
game on our schedule. ~ost all
of the games on our schedule are
big rivalry games. That's ano~
er thing we looked at when we ·
put this schedule together. We
wanted to get back to playing
the Hazards and the Paintsvilles.
It's exciting for everyone
involved when you can play
your area rivals. Exciting for the
players, coaches, boosters, the
school's student bodies."
Football ' season begins in
the heat of August with regularseason and all. teams eye playing in the cold the first week of
December. The quest for a date
in December begins tonight.
ONLINE:
www.brandonkinzer.com
Season
• Continued from p1
elder Howard led Pikeville
High to three straight Class A
state championships (1988-90)
Chris McNamee has made
the move from Pikeville to Pike
Central and his now calling the
shots for the Hawks.
Eric Ratliff back roam the
sidelines for the East Ridge High
football program as its head coach
and Craig Haggerman has
replaced Bill McKinney as Phelps
High School head football coach.
Gerold Howard is the new
coach at Magoffin County,
replacing Dayne Brown. The
new Magoffin County coach
will make his coaching debut in
Floy~ County tonight against
host South Floyd.
Then there's teams like Pre-
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Betsy Layne High
School football
team held Its annual media day Saturday. The media day
aiiQwed players,
coaches, cheerleaders and fans
the opportunity to
Interact with one
another. Players
from the all four
classes are expected to contribute
during the upcomIng season. Players
from the freshman,
sophomore and
~
junior classes are '
......__ .;....;; pictured.
�FRIDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Wildcat defensive ba
seasoned veterans
•
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON- The University of Kentucky football team's
secondary this season looks to
have the proper mix of experience and youth to be successful.
1\vo seniors, strong safety
Muhammad Abdullah and cornerback Antoine Huffman, will
anchor the secondary that has
plenty of hungry young players
looking to contribute.
"Muhammad Abdullah and
Antoine Huffman are really stepping up and taking leadership,"
third-year defensive backs coach
Steve Brown said. ''They are
being leaders by example and by
making sure the younger Cats are
getting to meetings on time."
Abdullah, the defensive
leader in career starts with 21,
will be switching this season
from free safety to strong,
where he'll be able to use his
talent to help against the run
more. A second-team All-Southeastern Conference performer
the last two seasons, he has
seven interceptions in his career.
''I'm glad they moved me to
strong safety this year," said
Abdullah, who was second on
the team last season with 58
tackles. "I can get in on more
hits and help the defense stop
the run. I think it's a good fit for
me. I know the defense very
well so I can play either safety
position if they need me to."
Huffman, the most experi-
enced cornerback with 13 career
starts, ranks sixth in school his to- ·
ry with 20 pass breakups. He
believes this year's secondary
will be much improved because
the hard work the team put in this
off-season and the cohesion that
is showing on the field this fall.
"I think we are doing very
well as a unit," Huffman said. I
think as a group we are picking
up the defense really well, we're
showing good morale and that
has really helped create a family
niche. We're focused and we're
using good technique."
The secondary also looks to
receive a boost by the return of
junior cornerback Bo Smith.
Smith, an Owensboro native,
sat out last season with an injury.
19,2005 • 83
ented youth
'l always say f never count on
"We arc extremely happ)
that Bo Smith is healthy <tnd the tour guy<;,'' Brov:n s<tid. "l wanllO
fact he can still play footh,lfll<; <~ <;tatters. Due to i•Jjurics, I always
plus," Brown said. "He 1s a \\ :mt guys to know the game plan
great player, a great compct1tm and to know that they are one play
and is really tough mcntall) Ho aw<~y from being in the game."
The other ·'six ~tarters:· in
has the tendency to ~ct the
tempo so guys arc going to havL !3nm n 's eyes. will come from a
to play to his level."
nux of juniors, sophomores and
Moving into the sta.rtmg free ti·eshmen.
safety spot looks to be sopho
I ighting for time on the field
more Marcus McC'lmton. The at the cornerback spot in the fall
Ft. CampbelL product ha~ been h.t~ been four freshmen. David
displaying h1s ability to act on Jones, Trevard Lindley. Shomari
the football and make plays Moore. and Jarrell Williams
throughout fall camp.
h.tve hcen working very hard
While the first-team sec · <tnd have shown great athlctiondary has ht•cn cons1stent i 1 ci~m. They should be pushing
camp. Brov. n continually ..,tress
c;ach othe1 up to the Louisville
es to his guys the need to have game, Sept. 4, for time as "nickthe strongest unit as possihlc.
d hacks," extra defensive oacks
used in passing situationsThe backups al safety have
the experience and skills needed
.
to provide depth. .
Junior free safety Karl Booker and sophomore strong safety
Roger Williams both appeared
in all 11 games last season and
have shown great promise in
camp. Booker, a Chesapeake,
W.Va. native, manned the corner
position last year and was
moved to the safety in spring
practice due to the progressiOn
of the young cornerbacks.
It's with this mix of young
players, to go along with seasoned vets, that has UK's secondary looking to become
established as one of the top
defensive backfields in the SEC.
County attorney defends decision EKU men's basketball
not to pursue alleged rape at ·UK announces 2005-06 schedule
By MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
flled in the high-profile case.
Under normal procedure, the
judge would consider KannenLEXINGTON - Fayette sohn's recommendation in
County Attorney Margaret determining whether there is
Kannensohn
on
TUesday probable cause to proceed with
defended her decision not to the case.
file charges based on a
Kannen~ohn
said
she
woman's allegations that she. reviewed the statements made
was raped in Wildcat Lodge at by the accuser to police, medthe University of Kentucky.
ical authorities . and her staff,
Kannensohn said she treated the evidence in police custody
the allegation - which targeted and corroborating evidence in
a University of Kentucky bas- the accuser's favor. Kannenketball player who lived in the sohn said she constrUed the evilodge - no differently than ariy dence "in the light most favorable to the complaining witother case in her office.
She said it was "a myth" that ness." She declined to detail the
she gave the accused person evidence that she based her
any special' treatment, as the decision on.
woman's
attorneys
have
She said her involvement in
claimed. Kannensohn said she the case has ended.
received no pressure from uniBouvier's decision does not
versity officials. .
end the case. Boyd said that he
"No one is treated different- has left a message with Fayette
ly in this county based on that County
Commonwealth's
person's position," Kannen- Attorney Ray Larson and that
sohn said. Later, she added that he will ask Larson to convene a
"any belief that (the process) grand jury. If Lars.on declines,
Boyd said he would request the
was altered is an insult."
Matthew Boyd of Lexington, same thirrg frorn 'State 2'\ttomey
an attorney for the 29-year-old General Greg Stumbo.
acwser, sharply disagreed after
Stumbo spokeswoman Vicki
sitting through Kannensohn's Glass said that he had not been
contacted about the case and
morning news conference.
"Margaret Kannensohn made declined comment until that
a decision to end a rape case, and happened.
it was wrong," said Boyd, who
''We would have to look at the
said she made "a decision that is specifics of the case," Glass said.
normally made by a judge."
Boyd said th~ case would be
Kannensohn said that she pursued until "my client
recommended to Fayette Coun- receives justice," although he
ty District Judge Joe Bouvier acknowledged he was not option Monday that no charges be mistic that would happen. "I
feel like we've been beat down
TIMES STAFF REPORT
everywhere we've been."
Boyd said his client has
offered to .take a polygraph test,
RICHMOl':D- Jeff Ncubauer
but "she's never been taken up
will begins his tenure as Eastern
on it."
Kentucky University men\ basThe woman filed a criminal
ketball coach away from th~.:
complaint with the county ,
mainland. In addition to the seaattorney's office July 6 and ·
son-opening Parad1se Jam held in
signed a formal complaint of
the U.S. Yirgm Islands. the
first-degree rape last Tuesday.
Colonels face a formidable nonPolice have never .publicly
conference slate, featuring an
identified the suspect named by
appearance in the Bracket Buster,
the accuser, but Bill Duffy, a
before defending their Ohio Val .
sports agent for former Kenley Conference championship
tucky player Chuck Hayes, has
against a challenging 20-gamc
said Hayes was notiited of the
league schedule.
investigation and said the rl).pe
Neubauer and his squad will
allegation was false. Assistant
be tested early as the -;cason
Chief Ken Hall has said the
tips-off against Wisconsin. an
suspect told police that he and
Elite Eight parllctpant last st·a
the woman had consensual sex.
son, on San rday, November ·1 <.J
Jim Lowry of Lexington,
in the Parad1sc Jam.
Hayes' attorney, has not com"The Virgin Islands •u·e a
mented on the case.
great place to he for anything.
The case began April 22,
especially to start a basketball .
when the woman frrst filed a
season,"
Neubauer said "We
complaint saying she had ~een
open
the
year with Wiswnsn'
drugged and raped on April 20
and
Norfolk
Stale and thl·n \\Ill
at Wildcat Lodge.
The 'W01mtn d:it:hft"'initi.ally · .. play Georgia. Old..D.omini.oJ1 or
Fordham. This year's non-con
cooperate with police, and they
.;
fetencc
schedule is one of the
announced May 4 that they were
toughest EKl' has ever playt:d
dropping the case. She later
changed her mind and began
cooperating in early July, offer~
ing police other iilformation.
Kannensohn called the
police work on the case "exemplary" and said accusations that
"the buck has been passed from
causing the Bobcats to commit
police to me and I've passed it
28 unforced errors and allowed
on" are untrue.
Mills, Blevms. and Hodgt: lo ·
'The buck stops here," she said
land an ace each. Hodge did not
commit a sen 1cc en-or in I 0
tries and Blevins only commit .
ted one error in 17 attempts.
The defense fought hard as
the Bobcats tipped the h.tll Pn
either the second or the third
bump. The Rebels covered tht
floor well committing 17 errors
its frrst Conference USA reguin 158 Bobcat tries for point.
lar season championship and its
Blevins stopped _11. Hodge pre
second C -USA Tournament
vented 29 points. and Hunter
title in the last three years. The
turned back 27. Mills and AkCardinals were ranked third in
sia Hall dug up 24 apiece.
the final ESPN/USA Today poll
The Allen Central team l'mdc
and fourth in the AP rankings.
it a clean sweep against l~ct •
"Our players and our acadeLayne. The
mic counseling staff, including
Rebel freshman team won lt~
Ray Harrison (whose work is
match 2- 1. Brittany Clark had
primarily with men's baskettwo kills in the outing and Britball), have done a tremendous
tany John , I' Brittany Smtth
job," said U of L Me~s Basket-
Volleyball
Cards' men's basketball, women's
golf teams earn academic awards
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LOUISVILLE - With a successful year both in competition
and in the classroom, the University of Louisville's men's basketball and women's golf teams
earned the Conference USA
Sport Academic Awards for the
2004-05 season. The award is
presented to the team in each
conference-sponsored sport with
the highest grade point average
for the current academic year.
The Cardinals' women's
golf team posted a cumulative
3.59 grade point average over
the past academic year, highest
among U of L ·athletic teams.
The men's basketball team
posted a cumulative 2.66 GPA,
an all-time high. U of L became
a member of the BIG EAST
Conference this year.
The academic success for
both programs mirrors their
success on the court and golf
course. For the first time in the
six-year history of its women's
golf program, U of L had two
individuals - Adrienne White
and Meghan Little - receive
bids to NCAA Regional competition. White was just three
strokes from qualifying for the
NCAA Championship.
U of L reached its first
NCAA Final Four in the last 19
years and its eighth overall,
posting a 33-5 record which
ties for the most victories in
school history. Louisville won
The challenges will prepare us last non-conference road game of
for our goal of being a special the season, at Atlantic 10-member
basketball team in late February Xavier on January 9.
EKU travels east to Morehead
and early March."
After rctuming from the Virgin State (Jan. 12) before completing
I lands, EKU travels to Knoxville its regular-season se1ies against
1 > bee Tennessee of the Southeast- .Eastern Illinois in Charleston
(Jan. 14). The Colonels then play
t.:tn Conference bdixe a two-game
set in McBrayer Arena.
·
10 straight league games before
The Colonels welcome West competing in the Bracket Buster
Yu·gini<~ Wesleyan for the home
on February 18.
opener on Monday, November
The 2005-06 regular-season
IX before Western Kentucky ends with Austin Peay (Feb. 23)
VISits Richmond on Saturday,
and Tennessee State (Feb. 25) in
December 3.
McBrayer Arena..
OVC' actio'n hegins on the
NOTES: The Colonels host
road when EKU makes a Thurs- Ottawa at 2 p.m. on Sunday,
rlay-Saturday swing 'to Murray November 6 in a pre-season
State (Dec. R) and Austin Peay scrimmage . . . On its 2005-06
(Dec. 10). the team Eastern schedule, Eastern Kentucky has
Kentucky defeated in the con- never faced Norfolk State and
ercnce chc~mpionship game last Wisconsin and could face Georgia or Old Dominion for the first
'VI arch.
. The Colonels then host three time ... EKU hosts 14 home
straight at home, conference contests ... The Colonels were
contests against Eastern 1llinois 12-1 at McBrayer Arena last
(DeL. 19) and lJT-Martin (Dec. year ... This marks the first year
221 before playing Coastal Car- of the OYC's 20-game eonfere~~ce sGI:ledule ..• the first round
olina ot~...Dccemhe• ~0 .. A road test at Southeast Missouri of the Ohio Valley Conference
{.Jan. 2) and a home data against Tournament will be held on
Tennessee Tech (.fan. ")precede the February 28.
• Continued from p2
Sasha Jones. and Chclsic Cordial each thumped in one kill.
C'hclsic Cordial earned four
<~ssi ts while running the offense
I() times. Brittany Clark also
earned an assist. Cordial paced
the Rebels with three aces.
Tiffany Clark dug up 13 Bobcat
attempts and Tiffany Clark,
Smith, and Jones. stopped 12
Bets} Layne tries.
The Rebel B-Team stopped
the Bob<;ats in two, winhing 2114 ami 2 1 - 14.
Kimbo Blevins and Sasha
Joues led the Allen Central girls
with two kills each and Tiffany
Owens and Brittany Waugh
c, ch slapped over one kill.
Kok.o Martin sc1 up the offense
I 0 times. earnin!!; two assists.
Jlmma h Hmv:.ui .and Tiffany
Cl.~rk earned an assist each.
lartin paced the' Rehel serving
game, getting three aces on I 7
serve attempts.
Jones and
Tiffany Clark also landed an ace
apiece. Defensively, Martin
prevented 13 Bobcat att~mpts,
Owens stopped 11. and Howard
dug up 10.
Allen Central will' host Pike
County Central on Tuesday. The
two teams will meet up in freshman, junior varsity and varsity
matches.
ACHS VOLLEYBALL
Coach: Larry Maynard
Aug. 9 Letcher County Central. 2-0 (2517, 25-17} (W)
•
Aug. 15 at Perry County Cenual. 2-0
(25-8, 25-15) (W)
Aug. 16 at Betsy Layne, 2- 1 (25-19, 1725, 25-17) (W)
Aug. 23 Pike County Central, 7 p.m.
Aug. 27 at John Hardin, 1 p.m.
Aug. 27 Central Hardin 3 p.m.
Aug. 30 Prestonsburg, 7 p.m.
ball Coach Rick Pitmo. "Our
team has really placed academics as a major priority in their
lives. It's a work ethic that we
want to see continue in our
returning players and see .to it
that our five incoming freshman do the same."
Guardians Classic to feature UK, WVU, Iowa and Texas
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, and
West Virginia will host the
Regional Rounds of the
Guardians Classic, a 16-team
college basketball tournament,
on Nov. 12-16, 2005. The
Championship Rounds of the
event will be held Nov. 21-22 at
Municipal Auditorium in
Kansas City, Mo.
Last year, Creighton won
· the Guardians Classic with an
overtime win against Ohio
State, 65-63.
Tickets for this year's Championship Rounds will go on sale
this Saturday at 10 a.m. CST.
See below for more information.
Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, and
West Virginia are all anticipated to be ranked in the top 15
this preseason.
Five teams in the 2005
Guardians Classic made the
NCAA tournament last season:
Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, West
Virginia, and Fairleigh Dickinson. Five Wooden Award nominees will play in the 2005
Guardians Classic: Daniel Gibson (Texas), Jeff Horner
(Iowa), Kevin Pittsnogle (West
Virginia), Rajon Rondo (Kentucky), and P.J. Tucker (Texas).
Iowa, UMES, Sacramento
State, Samford, and Wofford all
played in the inaugural
Guardians Classic in 200 l.
Iowa advanced to the Championship Game, losing to Missouri by a last-second free
throw, 78-77. Outlined below
are the dates, locations, and
matchups for the tournament.
, Regional Rounds:
Ltxington Regillnal Rounds
Nov. 13-14
Rupp Arena- Lexington
Kentucky vs. South Dakota State
Lipscomb vs. Northern Colorado
Amlin Regional Rounds
Nov. 15-16
Frank Erwin Center - Austin. Texas
Texas vs. Southern
Samford vs. Sacramento State
Iowa City Regional Rounds
Nove. 14-15
Carver-Hawkeye Arena- Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa vs. UMES
Colgate vs. Utah Valley State
Morga11town Regional Rounds
Nov. 12-13
WVU Coliseum- Morgantown, W.Va.
West Virginia vs. Louisiana Monroe
Fairleigh Diclcinson vs. Wofford
Championship Ro.unds:
SemifiiUll Doubkheader
Nov. 21
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AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
NA110NAL LEAGUE: Giants 3, Reds 2
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI - The only
thing that stood between Noah
Lowry and finishing the best
overall performance of his brief
career was a blister.
Lowry pitched ~ season-high
8 1-3 innings, drove in the tying
run and scored the go-ahead run
as the San Francisco Giants beat
the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on
Wednesday night.
The left-bander was two outs
from the third complete game of
his career and first of the season
when a blister on his left index
finger forced him oltt of the
game after striking out Ken
Griffey, Jr., to start the ninth.
Scott Eyre relieved and, after
completing a walk to Austin
Kearns that was .charged to
Lowry, struck out Adam Dunn.
The Reds, who have won 10
LaTroy Hawkins came on and
got Sean <:;:asey to fly out to cen- of their last 11 road games,
ter fielder Randy Winn on the dropped their fourth consecutive
warning track for his sixth save, home game and have lost seven
of their last nine in Cincinnati.
second with the Giants.
Lowry (9- 11) went at least
"Lowry was treme ndous,"
Giants manager Felipe Alou seven innings for the third time in
said. "He pitched four innings his last three starts, all of which
with that blister developing, but he won after going 1-4 in his prehe kept going back and going vious five. He limited the Nationback. W.e asked him if he want- al League's highest-scoring team
ed to come out, and he said, · to seven hits and two runs, strik'No, I'll just keep icing it and ing out seven. He walked one and
matched Jason Schmidt for the
going back."'
"It's nothing serious," Lowry team lead in wins while impresssaid. ''It'll just take a couple of days ing Reds manager Jerry Narron.
"He's a very good pitcher,"
to heal, and I'll be ready in five days."
The Giants improved to ·5-4 Narron said. "He's not a thrower.
on their season-long 13-game He did a good job changing
road trip with their fo"urth win in speeds and hitting both sides of
six games. A victory on Thurs- the plate. He kept us off-balance."
Lowry, who was hitting .282
day would give them their first
sweep of a four-game series in going into the game, also played
a key role in San Francisco's
Cincinnati since May 1983.
three-run fifth that gave the .
Giants a 3-2 lead.
The Giants broke up Luke
Hudson' s shutout on Ray
Durham's leadoff walk, Todd
Linden's double to right-center
and Jason Ellison' s sacrifice fly.
One out later, Lowry lined a
single to left on a 0-2 pitch to
drive in Linden from second with
the game-tying run. The RBI was
Lowry's sixth of the season.
"I was just trying to put the
ball in play and make good contact," Lowry said. "He left the
ball up a little bit, and I got just
enough of it."
"That was the biggest at bat of
the game," Narron said. "I know
Lowry's a pretty good hitter, but
you' ve got to bear down there."
Lowry moved to third on
Winn's double, and after Omar
Vizquel was hit by a pitch to
Willis throws a quick shutout and
has two-run double for Marlins
Royals can't win; Yankees
can't beat the Devil Rays
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dontrelle Willis shut down
the San Diego Padres on the
mound and did even more damage at the plate.
With a five-hitter and a tworun double, Willis helped the
Florida Marlins beat the Padres
6~0 on Wednesday night. The
Marlins left-bander said his hit
was the bigger thrill.
''I'm just swinging," said
Willis, who's batting .239. "To
be able to get a big hit and put
that much pressure on the pitcher is key."
There doesn't seem to b.e
much pressure on Willis lately.
The five-hitter was his major
league-leading fifth shutout of
the season and Willis (16-8) tied
St. Louis' Chris Carpenter for
the most complete games with
six. Only Carpenter (17-4) has
more victories.
Willis has allowed only two
earned runs in 37 innings over his
past five starts, an ERA of 0.49.
"The guy has been one of the
best pitchers in the league,"
Marlins manager Jack McKeon
said. "He loves to compete· and
loves to play the game. He kept
his pitches to a minimum, and,
as usual, he comes up with a key
hit that breaks the game open.
He's the whole package."
In other .N L games, it was:
Atlanta 10, Los Angeles 2;
Chicago 4, Houston 2; Philadelphia 4, Washington 3; New York
5, Pittsburgh 1; San Francisco 3,
Cincinnati 2; St. Louis 5, Arizona
0; and Milwaukee 2, Colorado 0.
The Marlins shook a recent hitting slump, scoring all their runs in
the first two innings against
Woody Williams (6-9). Carlos
Delgado hit his 23rd homer, Florida's third in the past 12 games.
But it was Willis' arm that
drew the attention. He struck out
three, walked one and benefited
from three double plays. He
threw 109 pitches on an 89degree night in a game that last
1 hour, 55 minutes.
"He's as good as anybody,"
San Diego manager Bruce
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
D.J. Carrasco (5-7) in the ftrst completing a three-game sweep.
inning, and Jamie Moyer (10-4)
Luis Matos homered and
had three . hits for Baltimore,
The Kansas City Royals made the early lead stand.
haven't won a game in three
Rookie catcher Paul Phillips and Todd Williams worked the
weeks. It's been 11 months provided the Royals' biggest ninth for his first career save.
Dan Haren (10-9) was
since the New York Yankees highlight, hitting a grand slam
took a series from the Tampa with two outs in the ninth, his tagged for four straight hits to
first major league homer.
start the second and lost his
Bay Devil Rays.
The Royals lost their club"I'm excited I hit a home second straight start following
record 18th straight game run and I'm excited it was a a nine-game winning streak.
Tigers 6, Red Sox 5: Craig
Wednesday and moved within grand slam, but it's way overthree of matching the longest shadowed by the way we Monroe's two-run double highskid in American League histo- played," Phillips said. "It's lighted host Detroit's five-run
ry with an 11-5 loss at Seattle.
never easy losing one game first off David Wells (9-6).
Jeremy Bonderman ·(14-9) ·
''This is tough," Kansas City's much less this many."
Jose Lima said. 'This is someTampa Bay's Alex Gonzalez held the major's highest scorthing we didn't plan. Nothing is homered and drove in four runs ing team to four runs over 6 1going our way right now. I'm and Jonny Gomes snapped an 3 innings . The Red Sox had
embarrassed to go into a bar. The eighth-inning tie when he scored scored at least six runs in each
people would say, 'They lost 18 in on Tanyon Sturtze's wild pitch.
of their last eight games.
R angers 3, Indians 0: At
Gonzalez had an RBI single
a row. They really stink this
The Yankees probably feel off Al Leiter in the second and Cleveland, Rookie Chris Young
just as bad after a 7-6 loss at tied the game with a run-scoring (1 0-7) allowed two singles in
Tampa, their second straight double off Sturtze (4-2) in the eight shutout innings, helping
one-run defeat to the last-place eighth. Gomes, who had singled, Texas snap an eight-game losraced home and put the Devil ing streak.
Devil Rays.
Michael Young hit a two-run
The Yankees, 0-3-1 in series Rays ahead for good when
-against Tampa Bay this season, Sturtze threw a pitch ovel'·the homer ..in ••the •-first ..off ·Gleve""
land's Kevin Millwood (6-10)
wasted opportunities to pull head of catcher Jorge Posada.
"I threw one up and in the and Phil Nevin connected for a
within 3 112 games of firstplace Boston in the AL East pitch before and I thought solo shot in the fourth as the
and tighten the AL wild-card that's where we were going Rangers ended a nine-game road
race, which fmds them trailing again," Sturtze said. "Jorgie losing streak dating to July 30.
Twins 5, White Sox 1: Johan
thought we were going to go
Oakland by 1 112 games.
"It's frustrating. This is sinker. It was just miscommu- Santana took a no-hitter into
where you really have to earn nication between me and him." the seventh, and visiting MinTrever Miller (1-0) pitched nespta completed a three-game
your money," manager Joe
Torre said. ''Things aren't one inning for the victory. sweep of fust-place Chicago
always going to be wonderful, Danys Baez worked the ninth and won for the sixth time in
seven games.
because then it would be easy to earn his 26th save.
Santana (12-6) gave up six
The Devil Rays rallied from
to play this game. You really
have to fight your way through a three-run deficit to win for hits with one walk, and struck
out 10 in 8 l -3 innings. He lost
the second straight night.
times like this."
his no-hit bid when Carl
"It just shows the Yankees In other AL games, it was:
Detroit 6, Boston 5; Baltimore with their history and with their Everett hit a bloop single to
open the seventh, and Paul
5, Oakland 3; Texas 3, Cleve- payroll and with their All-Stars Konerko ended his shutout by
they're
not
bulletproof,"
Gomes
land 0; Minnesota 5, Chicago 1;
said. · "In between the lines, leading off the ninth with his
and Toronto 4, Los Angeles 1.
Manager Buddy Bell rejoined there's no salaries and no world 31st homer.
Matthew LeCroy homered
the Royals after a two-game champions. It's nine-on-nine,
absence while attending burial plus your bullpen and bench. It twice against White Sox ace
Mark Buehrle (13-6).
services for his Marine nephew, just shows anyone can win."
Blue Jays 4, Angels 1: OrlanThe Yankees last took a
who was killed by a roadside
do
Hudson and Vernon Wells
bomb in Iraq earlier this month. · series against the Devil Ray
open a tie game with conbroke
when
they
swept
a
four-game
Bell returned to the dugout
RBI singles, helping
secutive
set
last
Sept.
6-9.
and watched the Royals get
Orioles 5, Athletics 3: At Josh Towers (10-9) win his
closer to the AL record of 21
straight losses set by the Balti- · Oakland, Calif., emergency fourth straight road decision.
Jarrod Washburn (6-7) lost
more Orioles at the start of the starter Eric DuBose (1-0) didn't
his
third straight decision,
allow a hit until the fifth inning,
1988 season.
allowing
three runs and eight
Seattle's Aqrian Beltre hit a and Baltimore sent the A's to
over
six
innings.
hits
their
fourth
straight
loss
by
grand slam on the 17th pitch by
year."'
LEXINGTON - Greensboro
defeated Lexington 3-1 in a 12inning marathon on Wednesday
night. Brad McCann belted a
two-run homer with Steve Gendron aboard to lift the
Grasshoppers to the victory.
Garrett Murdy suffered the
loss falling to 3-2 on the season. Kurt Koehler got the win
with three innings of work.
Chris Mobley earned his league
best 33rd save.
The game breezed through
the first four innings. Raymar
Diaz ran into trouble in fifth
inning in relief of Felipe Paulino. Diaz coughed up a solo
home run to catcher Brad
Davis. The homer was the 15th
allowed by Diaz this season.
Paulino made his second
start of the season and worked
four scoreless innings. Pauli-
Bochy said. "We aren' t the first
team he has shut out this year."
San Diego won the first four
meetings with Florida this season. The Padres didn't have a
runner reach second base until
Damian Jackson doubled with
one out in the ninth. Eric Young
popped out to end the game.
"I definitely wanted to get
that guy," Willis said. "I definitely didn' t want to get pulled
with two outs."
The Marlins came in ha,ving
scored nine runs in the past ftve
games, and after the early outburst, Padres pitchers retired the
final 19 batters.
"We got some big hits," Delgado said. "That's what we
haven't been doing, and I'm as
guilty as anybody."
Braves 10, Dodgers 2: Jeff
Francoeur homered, tripled and
threw out another runner from
right field to lead Atlanta.
Andruw Jones hit his major .
league-leading 38th homer and
Tim Hudson (9-7) went eight
strong innings for the Braves.
The 21-year-old Francoeur,
called up from the minors July
7, had his first career triple and
followed with lOth homer, a
two-run shot in the bottom of
the fifth that knocked out
Dodgers starter Odalis Perez (77). Francoeur threw out Perez
trying to stretch a single into a
double - the outfielder's .ninth
assist, one behind league leaders
Geoff Jenkins of Milwaukee
and Cliff Floyd of New York.
Cubs 4, Astros 2: Nomar ·
Garciaparra homered one inning
before leaving the game with a
stiff lower back, and starter Carlos Zambrano homered and
went 8 1-3 innings for visiting
Chicago. Garciaparra was said
to be day-to-day after hitting his
second homer of the season and
then leaving in the fifth inning.
The shortstop was making his
lOth start since returning after
tearing his left groin in April.
Zambrano (10-5) allowed
three hits, three walks and
struck out.IO for his third win in
four starts. He's 6-1 in his last
10 starts. Ryan Dempster got
two outs for his 18th save.
Roy Oswalt (14- 10) gave up
four runs and eight hits in seven
innings.
'~
Phillies 4, Nationals 3: Jon
Lieber ( 12- l 0) pitched six strong
innings and Bobby Abreu hit a
two-run double for Philadelphia,
which moved into a tie wi\h
Houston atop the NL ·wild-card
race. Billy Wagner pitched the .
ninth for his 28th save.
Jimmy Rollins singled to
lead off the bottom of the third
against Esteban Loaiza (7 9).
Kenny Lofton doubled and an
o ut later, Abreu doubled high
the wall in left-center, giving the
Phi llies a 4-2 lead.
Mets 5, Pirates 1: Carlos Bel~)
tran scored twice in his return
from a concussion and facial
fracture in a frightening outfield
collision and David Wright and
Jose Offerman each had a tworun single for New York.
Tom Glavine (9-l 0) scattered
nine hits in seven-plus innings
and moved into sole possession
of .JOth place on the career wins
list with 271.
Jason Bay homered and doubled for the Pirates, who fell to 210 on the road against the NL East.
Cardinals 5, Diamondbacks
1
0: Mark M ulder threw a five- •
hitter for his second shutout of
the season and John Mabry hit a
two-run h omer for St. Louis
(76-44), which passed the
Chicago White Sox (74-44) for
the best reco rd in the majors.
Mulder (14-6). who has won
seven of his last nine decisions.
struck out four, walked two and
benefited from three double
plays. He also had a run-scoring
single in the seventh for his sec
ond RBI.
Brewers 2, Rockies 0: Chris
Capuano (13-8) allowed six hits~
over seven innings and drove in
both runs with a bases loaded
single in the second. Dana Eveland, Jose Capellan and Derrick
Turnbow, who earned his 26th
save, also combined for the 29th
shutout in the 11 years Coors
Field has been open.
ofT
.BASEBALL MOVES MLB
American League
BOSTON RED SOX-Activated lB John Olerud from the
15-day DL. Optioned INF Kevin
Youkilis to Pawtucket of the IL.
Legends fall 3·1
. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
on some good pitches and found
some holes," Lowry said. "~
decided to stick with my game
plan and keep the ball do VI n. l
know this place plays short. AJJ
four of my pitches were working. I was able to establish m~
fastball on both sides of the
plate, get ahead and stay ahead."
Notes: Lowry had thrown 14
1-3
consecutive
scoreless
innings going into the game ....
Feli'z had hits in six consecutive
at-bats over two games before
flying out to end the fourth ....
Reds SS Felipe Lopez has six
hils over the last two games after
going 2-for-38 .... With a day
game Thursday. Giants IF Dei\I
Cruz got the night off Wednesday despite setting a career high
with five hits on Tuesday. ·· ~
Eyre's appearance was his major
league-leading 64th.
load the bases, J.T. Snow walked
to drive in Lowry and knock out
Hudson. Todd Coffey came in to
get Pedro Feliz to ground into an
inning-ending forceout.
Hudson (4-6), who won his
last three starts, went 4 2-3
innings, giving up four hits and
three runs.
The Reds took a 1-0 lead in
the first when Rich Aurilia singled with one out, moved to
third on Griffey's sharp single to
the base of the right-field wall
and Kearns' sacrifice fly.
Hudson led off the third with
the first of three consecutive
singles and scored on Griffey's
bases loaded sacrifice fly to give
the Reds a 2-0 lead. Kearns
lined into an jnning-ending double play, and Lowry settled
down, allowing two more hits.
"They put some good swings
CLEVELAND
INDIANS-Daimed RHP Jason
Young off waivers from Colorado
and optioned him to Buffalo of
the IL. Designated RHP Francisco Cruceta for assignment
no gave up two hits while
striking out five. Diaz worked
three innings allowing just the
one run.
L exington responded with a
run in the sixth inning. Mitch
Einertson
singled
and
advanced to second on Ryan
Reed's sacrifice bunt. Frankie
Caraballo' s two out doubled
scored Einertson to tie the
game. The game remained tied
until McCann's blast
GAMES ON TAP.
DETROIT TIGERS- Placed
SS Carlos Guillen on tbe 15day DL, retroactive to Aug. 11.
Recalled lB Carlos Pena from
Toledo of the IL.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Today ~~ Games
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(B.IGm 3-9). 5:05 p.m.
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Wailiinglon (Palll!rson 7-3) at N.Y fl.kts
(Seo 4-1). 7: to p.m.
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(Clausse n 7-!!). 7· JO p.m.
San Diego (Park 1-1 i at Atlanta (Hampton 5-2), 7:35p.m .
L .A. Dodg.::rs (lloul!on 4-6) at Flotida
(A.J.Burnelt 11-(>l. 7 35 p.m.
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from Binghamton of the Eastern League. Designated RHP
Jose Santiago for assignment.
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in a run on one of his two
triple, as lhe Scranton/WilkesBarre Red Barons beat the
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Owens all smiles upon returning to practice
by ROB MAADDI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
then that's when we will handle
it. I think what we are doing
right now is easing into everyPHILADELPHIA - Terrell thing and just going out and
Owens ran routes, caught passes working, trying to answer some
and joked around with his of the questions one of us may
Philadelphia Eagles teammates have and then be able to work in
41t -quite a different T.O. from the the confines of our own football
one booted out of training camp field."
a week ago.
The running feud between
This Terrell Owens smiled, . quarterback and receiver was set
laughed and even tutored some aside while they were on the
of the younger receivers on the field, at least. The two stood
sidelines Wednesday.
next to each other in the huddle
"He was fine today. He did a at times, across from each other
great job," said coach Andy at others, and appeared to comReid, who gave the All-Pro municate between plays. But
wideout the heave-ho and told they also stood side-by-side
him not to come back for a while stretching at the end of
week.
practice - and didn't say a
The new Terrell Owens, word.
however, still couldn't bring
Owens ran precise routes and
himself to talk to the player he caught crisp passes from McNneeds to be in sync with the abb. All that was missing were
most: Donovan McNabb.
high-fives and hugs.
For the first time, McNabb"He works hard out there on
who has maintained his sense of the field. We were able to make
humor throughout the ordeal some big plays," McNabb said.
said he anticipated talking to
Owens met briefly with Reid
Owens at some point.
before practice, a condition for
"I think it's going to happen. his return. He didn't answer
I look forward to it happening," questions from reporters after
McNabb said. "But, again, the morning practice.
when we get to that situation,
"It was a good meeting,"
Reid said, avoiding questions
about particulars. "He did a nice
job. He worked very hard."
Owens, again wearing camouflage and listening to oversized headphones, arrived at
Philadelphia's practice facility
at 7:27 a.m. He was greeted by
several dozen fans, some holding signs, including one that
read "TO must go" - the same
message carried on a radio station-sponsored banner trailing
an airplane that flew near the
practice field.
Owens jogged onto the field
shortly before the morning session began at 8:45. He missed
several practices with a groin
injury before he was sent home
last week, so Reid limited his
reps to avoid aggravating the
injury.
The NFC champions are
hoping Owens isn't a distraction
the rest of camp and into the
season. The Eagles didn't allow
Owens' antics to disrupt them
last year, though he had a better
relationship with McNabb, Reid
and just about everyone else.
"I can't sit here and try to tell
you what Terrell is going to do,"
All-Pro safety Brian Dawkins
• GOLDBERG ON FOOTIU'LL: T.O.
remains a question mark for Eagles
by DAVE GOLDBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA - Terrell
Owens met with Andy Reid
early Wednesday morning and
apparently told the Philadelphia Eagles' coach that his
heart and attitude were in the
right place. Then he went out
and practiced very well,
demonstrating that maybe the
T.O. sideshow is finally over.
Sorry, Eagles fans, but
Owens remains very much a
problem - for the team and, to a
lesser extent, for the NFL. It's
.. more likely than •not that the
insubordination and other unprofessional behavior that caused
Reid to send him home last week
will return - Reid knows as
much and so do his teammates,
especially the veterans.
"He was fine today. I would
expect that," Reid said, leaving
unsaid that tomorrow, the next
day, or the day after that might
not be so fine.
Brian Dawkins, the team's
All-Pro safety, said it a little
more directly.
"I don' t know what will hap't pen. I only know what happened today," Dawkins said. "I
can't tell you something won't
happen before Game 5 or some
other time."
That is the shadow that hangs
over the Eagles as they try to get
back to another Super Bowl.
It's the same shadow that Donovan McNabb, the quarterhung over the 49ers for a half- back he has blamed for a variety
decade or more, over Steve of ills, including getting tired in
Mariucci and his successor, the final stages of the Super
Dennis Erickson. Owens was a Bowl as the Eagles tried to come
malcontent in the Bay Area, back against New England.
McNabb later said there was
just as he is a malcontent now,
a magnificent player who wants nothing unusual about the day,
everyone to bend to his needs, that he and Owens· ·both ·perwhatever they might be at the formed their' tasks in a manner
moment _ and makes trouble if befitting professionals. When
he was asked later what would
they don't.
The difference then was that happen if he needed to have a
he was on the West Coast, an professional discti'ssion with
environment that is much more Owens, his reply essentially
laid back than Philadelphia, was "then we'll have it."
But there clearly seems to be
with its frenzied fans and frantic media. And he was playing a palpable aura of tension surfor a team that was in decline, rounding the Eagles.
It wasn't so much the 75 to l 00
even in the years that it did
make it to the postseason.
re~~~ w~~. c~e~.~~.I?i~.
In this
problems phones who were all over the team
have extended far beyond headquarters Wednesday. As
Dawkins pointed out, there were
Philadelphia.
Peyton Manning, of all peo- several thousand of those at the
Super Bowl last winter.
ple, noticed it this week.
It was more in body lan"I come back to my room at
night and try to see a little Giants guage, in things left unsaid, in
coverage, see how my brother is the questions that always
doing," he says. "But I see all seemed to come back to the one
this stuff, fact or fiction with . that no one could answer: "Is
T.O., and I'm tired of it. It's everything all right now?"
The answer from Reid on
nothing against T.O., but I would
like to see a little more coverage down seemed to be: "It's ·all
right for today."
of the Giants - or the Colts."
Beyond that were the unspoAsk Paul Tagliabue what he
thinks of the Owens issue and ken words: T.O. is T.O. His
friendly demeanor; his sharp
his answer is that he doesn't.
"I guess it shows that in some routes, his strong hands were
parts of the media there is focus today's vei:sion. But who
on whatever, who knows," the knows what will happen tommcommissioner said. "It has about row, next week or next month.
A lot of people, including
as much effect as a ftrefly that
some
very much in the know
will be gone in September."
For Tagliabue and the other about the Eagles, were surprised that Owens was even
31 teams that may be true.
Fot the Eagles, it may not be. taken back.
Maybe they'll be surprised
Owens spent his ftrst practice
for
the rest of the season.
back running precise routes
Or
maybe they won't.
catching precision passes from
case·:·ilie'
. Bengals sign firRround draft pick
by LISA CORNWELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI - David Pollack, the Cincinnati Bengals'
first-round pick, ended his 19day holdout on Wednesday by
signing a five-year contract.
"I just want to be a professional about it and win ballgames and play football," Pollack said as he and coach Marvin Lewis met with reporters at
Paul Brown Stadium.
Pollack's $10 million deal
includes $7.75 million guaran~ 1 teed and is worth up to $ 13 million with incentives.
Pollack, the 17th pick overall in April's draft, was one of
the last first-round picks to
sign. Chicago's Cedric Benson
and Tennessee's Adam "Pacman" Jones are the only holdouts remaining, though Jones is
close to signing.
Originally penciled in as a
starter at strong-side linebacker
after playing defensive tackle
in college, he was demoted to
third team on the depth chart
during his holdout.
Just Monday, Lewis blasted
Pollack for missing practice,
saying, "I think the club has
given in every way."
Pollack said he was in contact with Lewis during the
holdout and doesn't think there
will be a lasting problem.
"He wasn't screaming and
yelling at me and cussing rr~:e,"
Pollack said. "We were trymg
to get it solved. That's all we
were doing."
Pollack wouldn't talk about
the contract, saying of his agents:
"It was my job to let them do
their job and that's what I did." .
Pollack will travel with the
Bengals to their preseason game
at Washington Friday night, then
officially start practice Sunday.
"He's got a lot of football
ahead of him here," Lewis said.
Pollack said he's been working out with a trainer, running
and playing racquetball to keep
in shape.
"He's not behind," Lewis said.
"He'll be right with us. He'll be
fine. We're going to coach him up
and he's going to play."
The 6-foot-2, 255-pound
Pollack was a defensive end at
Georgia. He became the .first
two-time winner of the Ted
Hendricks Award given to the
nation's top college defensive
end. His 36 sacks set a Georgia
record and rank fourth all-time
in the SEC.
said. "Only Terrell knows what
he is going to do."
Owens spent a few days at
his home in Atlanta after· he left
the team last week, then
returned to Philadelphia on
Monday afternoon. A police
escort led him from the tarmac
and away from fans and
reporters waiting at the airport
terminal .
Owens' return to his home in
Moorestown, N.J., Tuesday
night was met with the same
hoopla as when he left. He
ignored reporters' questions,
waved to fans and signed autographs from a green SUV - the
same one he drove last year.
Owens was accompanied home
by agent Drew Rosenhaus and
publicist Kim Etheredge.
Owens had said he'll report
and give his all, but won't be
happy because the Eagles won't
redo his contract. The team
refuses to budge from its hardline stance: Owens can play for
them under the seven-year,
$48.97 million deal contract he
signed last year, or. he won't
play at all.
A message left on Owens'
Web site last week said he
planned to catch more balls than long Owens can go without irrihe ever has and his "on-the-field tating Reid to the point where he
heroics will far outweigh any would consider suspending hm1.
The Eagles sent Owens a letter
off-field criticism."
''Terrell will return to camp detailing why he was sent home
and continue to display the work last week. The team wanted to
ethic, and on-the-field dedica.ll document exactly what its
tion that has made him one of grievances are with Owens in
the world's most elite athletes," case additional disciplinary
the message said. "For you the action is necessary in the future.
It's obvious the offense is
fan, and your continued support
in the most difficult of times, much better with the playmakTerrell plans to reward you with ing, showboating Owens, espea season for the ages. Where cially since the Eagles lost
small men succumb, great men starter Todd Pinkston to a season-ending injury early in camp.
overcome!"
Owens used the media to Freddie Mitchell, last year's No.
blast Reid, McNabb and offen- 3 receiver, was cut in the offseasive coordinator Brad Childress son, leaving the Eagles with
in separate television interviews Greg Lewis, Billy McMullen
last week, including a bizarre and rookie Reggie Brown. The
scene where he held a shirtless trio had 12 receptions for 139
workout in his driveway. He yards in a preseason loss to
called out Reid, said McNabb Pittsburgh on Monday.
Owens had 77 receptions for
was a "hypocrite," and accused
Childress of being antagonistic, 1,200 yards and a franchisesaying the offending words record· 14 touchdowns before
were repeated greetings of severely injuring his ankle late
in the season. He missed the
"Hey, Terrell."
"If a daily, 'How you doing' final two regular-season games
or a 'What's up' is antagonistic and the first two playoff games
or spiteful then I must be on the before returning for the Super
Bowl, in which he had nine
wrong planet," Childress said.
· It'll be interesting to see how ·receptions for 122 yards.
"Pacman" Jones thankful business
is over so football can start
r:1•111•1
by TERESA M. WALKER
. ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Adam
"Pacman" Jones is happy to
fmally get his NFL career under
way.
The
Tennessee Titans
reached a deal with their top
draft pick Wednesday night,
ending . their longest contract
holdout since relocating to the
state of Tennessee.
Jones had hoped to have a
contract that ·would allow him
to join the Titans in Atlanta his hometown - on Friday
night to play the Falcons.
Coach Jeff Fisher had told the
cornerback he needed to practice by Tuesday afternoon to
play in the team's second exhibition.
But reaching agreement on
a five-year contract more than
makes up for not accompanying his new teammates.
"Amazingly, as bad as I
wanted to play the game in
Atlanta, there's nothing that can
take the place of my dream,"
Jones said. "I've been waiting
21 years for this. I'm just proud
to be a Titan. I'm the youngest
Titan. I'm hoping that I can
come in and maybe I can contribute."
Jones, who left West Virginia after his junior season,
had been one of only two draft
picks still unsigned after a 20day holdout. His five-year deal
with $13.5 million in guaranteed money left running back
Cedric Benson of Chicago as
the only draft pick in the NFL
without a deal.
Despite being close to a
deal, his agent Michael
Huyghue and the Titans negotiated Tuesday and Wednesday
before finally reaching an
agreement
in
.principle
Wednesday night. The Titans
still had to write up the contract.
"We may have to dot one
more 'I' or cross one more 'T,'
but he'll be over at the facility
when the team gets back and
resume practice as soon as they
get back," Huyghue said.
That means Jones' first
practice will be Sunday afternoon, the first of five remaining practices before the Titans
break camp on Aug. 24. The
team, which had no comment
Wednesday night, was scheduled for . a walkthrough Thursday morning before flying to
Atlanta on Thursday afternoon.
The Titans selected Jones
with the sixth pick overall and
made him the ftrst defensive
player taken in the draft based
on his speed' and his return
skills on kickoffs and punts.
They hope he can fill one of
two cornerback slots left open
by salary cap decisions.
·· "It rrtliy'tal'e a weeJCoi'1W6'
to get back in the groove,"
Jones said. ''I'm just happy I
don't have to see my name go
across the screen as unsigned
and all that. I'm very content
with the spot that I'm in."
Tennessee cut Samari Rolle in
February and let their other
starter, Andre Dyson, leave in free .
agency for Seattle because of
salary-<:ap reasons. They picked
Jones instead of Antrel Rolle,
who went eighth to Arizona.
The 5-foot-10, 185-pound
Jones, the franchise 's highest
draft pick since Steve McNair
was third overall in 1995, won
the Titans over with speed
timed at 4.38 seconds in the
40-yard dash and his leaping
ability in pre-draft workouts ..
He recorded a 39-inch vertical
leap before the draft.
Complicating the final negotiations had been the Titans'
desire to protect themselves.
Jones was arrested July 13 and
recently had two misdemeanor
assault charges and a count of
felony vandalism postponed
until Dec. 8.
He had his own lawyer file a
civil lawsuit last week against
the men who had him arrested,
seeking $7.5 million for lost
endorsement
money
and
defamation and slander.
"All I want to do is help the
team," Jones said. "I've been
through so much with everything that's going on. I've kept
my head high, and hopefully,
everything will work out."
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New Orleans at New England,
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Friday's Games
Thnnessee at Atlanta, 7:30 P ·~·
Minnesota :~t N.Y. Jets, 8 p.u~.
Cincinnati at Washiflgton, 8 p.m.
Saturday's Games
Cleveland at Detroit. 1 p.m.
Green Bay at Buffalo,{) p.m.
Miami at PittSburgh, 7:30p.m.
Jacksonville a1 Tampa Bay, 7:30p.m.
Oakland at Ho11ston, 8 p.m.
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Sunday's Game
St. Louis at San Diego. 4 p.m.
FOOTBALL
TRANSACTIONS
National Football
League
CAROLINA
PANTHERS-Agreed to terms with
LB Dan Morgan on a five-year
contract extension.
CHICAGO BEARS-Signed
KR J.J. Moses to a two-year
contract.
CINCINNATI
BENGALS- Signed LB David Pol-
[vtsit
lack to a five-year contract.
GREEN BAY PACKERS-Waived OT Brennan
Curtin.
JACKSONVILLE
JAGUARS-Signed WR Kahlil
Hill. Waived WR Jason
Mitchell.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS- Traded an undisclosed draft pick to Dallas for
T Sam Wilder. Released G-C
Bryan Anderson.
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Monday's Game
Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.rn.
Thursday, Aug.
25
Atlanta at Jack~onville, 8 p.m.
Friday. Aug. 26
Cincmnati at Phil!ldelphia. 7:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Wa hington, 8 p.m.
Baltimore at New OrlcaM. 8 p.m.
Buffalo at Chicago, 8 p.m.
CaroliD!l at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
New England at Oreen Bay. 8 p.m.
NewYO!kJelQatNewYbrkOirult Sp.m.
San Diego at Minnesota. 8 p.m.
Arizona at Oakland. 9:30 p.m.
Tennessee at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 27
Tampa Bay at MiiUlli. 7:30p.m.
Indianapolis at Denver, 8 p.m.
Houston at Dallas. 8 p.m.
Seattle at Kansas City. 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 29
St, Louis at Detroit, 8 p.m.
�86 •
FRIDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Tony Stewart racing in rarified air
by DICK BRINSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tony Stewart is in a zone
rarely achieved in NASCAR.
With five victories in the last
seven races and his spot in the
Nextel Cup playoffs virtually
assured, Stewart can take it easy.
Don't count on it.
"Even though we have that
flexibility to relax a bit from
knowing that we're going to
make the Chase, we still have the
pressure to make sure we've
done everything we can to be prepared for when the Chase starts,"
he said. "We're pretty much guaranteed to be in, but we don't want
to just settle for being in.
"We want to do what we can
to win the championship."
And in case he forgets, crew
chief Greg Zipadelli will be certain to remind him of that. Stewart probably will be on top when
NASCAR squeezes the points
after 26 races to five-point intervals among the top drivers,
who'll chase the title over the
last 10 events.
His lead is 105 points over
Jimmie Johnson heading to
Michigan for Sunday's GFS
Marketplace 400.
"We can't even think about
said
getting complacent,"
Zipadelli, the only crew chief
Stewart has had since his rookie
season with Joe Gibbs Racing.
"My attitude after last week is
we've got to work even harder. I
want to win more than I did last
weekend because it's the following weekend."
That was his philosophy
after the most coveted victory
of Stewart's seven seasons in
NASCAR _when the Hoosier
climbed the fence to celebrate
at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Last Sunday, Stewart
won again, this time on the
road course in Watkins Glen,
N .Y., further cementing his
spot in the Chase.
"It's real easy to say, ' Hey,
we're in this thing. We're OK,"'
Zipadelli said before the race at
The Glen. "We've got to keep
the intensity, the pressure on
ourselves to perform, not slip
up, not sit back and let your
guard down."
Every point counts, and for
the Home Depot team there is
no alternative other than racing
as hard as it can each time the
rubber meets the road. It's been
that way for most of Stewart's
34 years - from the time he
began beati~g the rest of the
kids in go-karts.
Since then, Stewart has won
in dirt cars, midgets, sprints and
everything else he's driven. He
came to the fore as the 1997 IRL
champion, and then moved to
NASCAR.
Only racing greats Mario
Andretti and A.J. Foyt showed
that sort of versatility. Now, some
are comparing Stewart to them.
Even with several years of
racing ahead of him, that might
be a bit of a stretch. And who
would want that kind of pressure anyway?
Stewart doesn't mind.
"It doesn't put pressure on
me," he said. "If anything, it's
very flattering.
"Hopefully, I'm one of those
guys who can go anywhere. Even
if it's a car I haven't driven before.
I might not be able to win right
away, but at least I'm competitive
and don't look like I've never driven something like that before."
He's demonstrated that
repeatedly, and his victory Sunday at Watkins Glen leaves him
as the unchallenged king of the
road courses. It was his fifth win
on a serpentine layout, not bad
for a kid f~om Indiana who grew would quit working to get better
up in the left-tum-only environ- and you were good, you could
ment of midwestern tracks.
just' not have to worry about it.
There have been plenty of You'd be good all the time. It just
growing pains and temper doesn't work that way."
tantrums along the way. He was
. Right now, everything seems
placed on probation Tuesday to be working, and Zipadelli
until the end of the year for hit- hopes the opposition doesn't
ting another car after the Busch figure out why Stewart is the
series race Saturday. But nothing favorite far more frequently
seems to hurt his performance.
than anyone else.
"This sport is mental,"
"They're sitting back there
Zipadelli said of Stewart and the where we were eight to 10
team. "We've been through a lot weeks ago - trying to figure out
of adversity in the last seven years. how to get our program back on
But as a group we've been able to track 100 percent," he said. "It
put things behind us and believe in wasn't terrible. It just wasn't as
ourselves and in our driver."
good as some of the other guys
Given Stewart's immense we were racing."
talent, that's not difficult.
Even at its zenith, success
He has won 24 times on the quickly can find an abyss. Stewworld's premier stock car racing art experienced that last season.
circuit, and was a threat to win
He entered the Chase fourth
virtually every week from 2000 in readjusted points, just 15
to his championship season of behind leader Jeff Gordon.
2002. What followed was a peri- Stewart qualified well and led
od of consistency with no threat 16 laps in New Hampshire.
of domination.
Then he wrecked, and fell 135
Now the domination is back, points behind.
but Stewart isn't taking it for
A real downer?
granted. . , ,·:.
"Yeah," Stewart said. "It
''There are ho guarantees that pretty much ended our Chase 30
"because you're good one year · of 40 laps into the first race. We
you should be good the next." really weren't on the radar
Stewart explained. "If everybody screen anymore."
McMurray tries to keep team Food City 250 will
support as he races for Chase feature Strong field
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTIE, N.C. - Jamie
McMurray fell agonizingly short
of qualifying for NASCAR's
playoffs last season, missing out
on a spot in the Chase for the
Championship by 15 points.
His entire team believes that
if McMurray had made it in, he
might have won the title.
Determined not to be shut out
again this season, McMurray's
challenge is a lot tougher this
time around. Aside from his ontrack battles, McMurray must
fight the perception that his Chip
Ganassi Racing team will treat
him like a lame duck because he
already has announced plans to
leave for Roush Racing.
"Obviously the first couple
of weeks it was pretty tough, but
I told (the team) what the situation was and told them I wouldn' t give up," said McMurray,
"and I told them I didn't want
them to give up on me."
McMurray is the first to
acknowledge crew members
were stunned and even hurt when
they learned he had signed to
drive for Roush in 2007. It didn't
help when he said publicly that
he' d prefer to get out of his current contract early so he can start
his new job next season.
But with owner Chip Ganassi steadfast in his refusal to let
McMurray out of his deal,
McMurray now is concentrating
on keeping his team focused on
getting into the Chase.
Few outside his team think
he can do it.
Why should the metpbers of
the No. 42 crew, which devotes
all its time and energy into making McMurray go fast on the
race track, break their backs for
a driver who ultimately doesn' t
want to be with them?
Because that's their job, crew
chief Donnie WingQ said.
"Sure there were some hurt
feelings in the beginning, and I
think maybe that's because a lot
of us think we're a better team
than the group he is headed to,"
Wingo said. "But we get paid to
win races and there' s no point in
not giving it everything we've
got."
So, with McMurray clinging
to the ninth spot in the standings, the team promises to continue to push hard this season.
The top 10 drivers in points are
assured of a spot in NASCAR's
10-race playoff format, as well
as any other driver within 400
points of the leader.
But what about next season,
which the entire team knows is
McMurray 's last? McMurray
already is being referred to as a
lame duck for 2006, a characterization that infuriates Ganassi.
""What exactly is a 1l:iltle duck'r"
he asks, his voice rising. "Is (NFL
announcer) John Madden a lame
duck? He is leaving ABC next
season to go to NBC, so is this
entire year a lame duck year for
him? No. He's still going to do his
job to the best of his ability.
"You do your job, you try to
win races and you give it your
all. Jamie and the 42 team will
continue to do that."
There's still a chance that all
this speculation surrounding
McMurray's contract status
could create a distraction that
will derail his bid to make the
Chase. With just four races left
to lock into the playoffs, a string
of poor finishes could knock
him out this season.
Needing to race his way in
last year, McMurray gave it
everything he had over this
same stretch and finished in the
top 10 in the same four events.
He still fell short, missing the
top 10 by just 15 points, and it
was all he and his crew could do
not to blame each another for a
25-point penalty the team
received earlier in the season for
presenting a car that didn' t meet
NASCAR's templates.
"Just missing the Chase was
devastating," Wingo said. "It
was the hardest thing this team
has ever been through. But at
the same time, it gave us motivation to go out there and kick
some butt."
Although not eligible to win
the Nextel Cup championship,
McMurray notched eight top-10
finishes in the final 10 events -
strong enough that he would
have been in the title hunt in the
season finale.
''There's nothing more I want
to do then prove all of you
wrong who said that we were
going to fall apart when (the
Roush
contract)
was
announced," McMurray said.
"That just kind of drives me and
it's driving my team right now."
Mark Martin, the driver
McMurray eventually will
replace at Roush, wants to retire
from Nextel Cup racing at the
end of this year. But he could be
persuaded to stay in the No. 6
another season 1f ~my
can't get out of his Ganassi d~al.
No matter what car McMurray is in next week or next season, Martin is confident he'll be
trying to win.
"Everyone seems to not
understand that it doesn't matter
what you climb in, you want to
win the same," Martin said. ''No
matter what you're going to do
tomorrow and no matter what
you did yesterday, from a driver's
standpoint, it doesn't matter.
"They all have huge egos.
They all want to win every time
they climb into anything, and, if
anything else, they'd rather win
in a situation that looked less
promising."
Fine, probation for
Kyle Busch after
Glen incident
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
DAYTONA BEACH, Aa. NASCAR announced Thesday
that Kyle Busch, driver of the
No. 5 Chevrolet in the Nextel
Cup Series, has been fined
$10,000 and placed on probation until Dec. 31 for an infraction last week at Watkins Glen
International.
Busch was fmed for hitting
another competitor's car after
the completion of the race, a
violation of Section 12-4-A
(actions detrimental to stock car
racing) of the NASCAR Nextel
Cup Series rule book.
Miller takes over crew chief
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WELCOME, N.C. - Scott
Miller will assume crew chief
duties for Richard Childress
Racing's No. 07 Jack Daniel's
Chevrolet and driver Dave
Blaney effective immediately, in
time for this weekend's GFS
Marketplace 400 at Michigan
International Speedway.
Miller moves over to the No.
07 camp after being team manager/engineer for RCR's No. 29
GM Goodwrench Chevy and
driver Kevin Harvick.
Blaney's former crew chief
Phi lippe Lorc7 has been offered a
posmon m RCR's research and
development department. Andy
Street will fill Miller's former role
with the GM Goodwrench team.
Miller boasts two career Nextel Cup Series wins as a crew
chief, most recently in April at
Bristol Motor Speedway where
he led Harvick to Victory 'Lane in
Todd Berrier's absence. Miller, a
native of Bardstown, also won in
March 2003 at Darlington Raceway with driver Ricky Craven.
''The performance of the Jack
Daniel's team was not where we
expected it to be so we decided
to make this change and bring
Scott Miller over from the
Goodwrench team to be the
crew ch1ef for the 07 t~.oam,"
J
team owner Richard Childress
said. "Scotl brings a tremendous
amount of knowledge and experience to the Jack Daniel's team.
"He called the GM Goodwrench team's victory this year
at Bristol when Todd was out so
he knows how to win races as a
crew chief at the Nextel Cup
level. We want to give Dave
Blaney the best opportunity we
can and I think moving Scott in
as crew chief for him is a step in
the right direction."
In 22 starts this season, Blaney
and Lopez had one top-10 finis~.
an eighth at Atlanta. Blaney ts
currently 32nd in the Nextel Cup
Series point standings.
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Kilgore, Republican candidate
Stewart fined j()r
NBS post-race
bump atGlen
SPECtAL TO THE TfME$
NASCAR announced Tues~
day that two penalties have been
issued to NASCAR Busch
Series competitors as a result ~f
J;Ules infractions last weekend at: ·
Watkins Glen International.
Tooy SteWart. driver of the'
No. :33 Chevrolet, was fined
·$5,000 and placed on probation
until Dec. 31 for hitting ~
competitor's car after the completion of the race. That infrao..
tion is a violation of Section 12...
4-A(actions detrimental to stock
Car raci)lg) of the N ASC!~
Busch Series rule boolc.
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Lance DeiterS, crew chid .o!
the No. 83 Chevrolet driven by
Wally DaUenbach, was ftned,
$2,500 for an unapproved third
gear transmission r.atio. n.af
infraction, discovered ®Mg
opening-day inspection, is a viola~
ti<>n of Sectimt 12-4-A (~
dett:imental to stock car ~g.f
and$ectioo.12-4-CC(~'
gear ratio) of the NAscARB. . .
Series rule boOk.
. ·
2005 NASCAR
Nextel Cup
schedule and
standings
for governor, will serve as HonBRISTOL, Tenn. - If you
scan the entry list for the
Busch Series Food City 250,
which takes place Aug. 26 at
Bristol Motor Speedway, you
might think you're looking at
the list of drivers scheduled to
compete in the Sharpie 500.
The field of Cup drivers who
will attempt to qualify for the
most exciting Busch series
event on the circuit, include
defending chainpion Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Ryan Ne~. Kasey
Kahne, Bobby Labonte, cart
Edwards,~ Harvick, Jamie
McMurray, Kyle Busch, Sterling Marlin, Greg Biffle,
Michael Waltrip and Jeff Green.
"Doing double duty at
Bristol is definitely a challenge," said Labonte. "But it's
one I'm looking forward to.
It'll be good to get out there
and get on the track and try to
figure out some things that
will help us on Saturday. And,
of course, we'll be shooting ·
for the win.
"You can't help but get
excited about these races.
You're running under the
lights and the crowds are
unbelievable. The atmosphere
here is second to none."
Busch Series regular Martin
Truex, ,r., who won the spring
race in 2004, is considered one
of the favorites. Truex currently leads the series point standing while Oint Bowyer is second, 122 points behind. Neither Bowyer or Reed Sorenson, who is third in the poihts
and -219 behind Truex, have
won at Bristol, although
Sorenson scored a third-place
ftnish this past spring while
Bowyer had .a respectable
13th-place showing. Edwards
is fourth in points (-356) while
Kenny Wallace, a former Bristol Busch Series winner, is
flfth (-472).
The top four drivers in the
points chase have accounted
for half of the 24 race wins on
the tour this year with Truex
dominating with six. Bowyer
has one win, Sorenson had
two and Edwards has 3.
Practice for the Food City
250 starts at 9:45 a.m. on Friday while qualifying is slated
for 4:40 p.m. The field takes
the green flag at 7:50p.m.
Tickets for the Food City
250 can be purchased online
at bristoltix.com or by calling
the BMS ticket office at
423/989-6900.
Frist named Food
City 250 Grand
Marshal
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
BRISTOL, Tenn. - United
States Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist has been named the
Grand Marshal of the Food City
250 on Aug. 26 at Bristol Motor
Speedway while former Virginia Attorney General Jerry
~
orary Starter for the race.
A member of the U.S. Senate since 1994, Dr. Frist, the
flrst practicing physician
elected to the Senate since
1928, is a fourth generation
Tennessean whose great, great
grandfather was one of Chattanooga's 53 original settlers.
Dr. Frist, who was born in
Nashville, is · the 54th U.S.
Senator from Tennessee. In
2000, he was unanimously
elected chairman of the
National Republican Senatori.:
al Committee (NRSC) for the
107th Congress and in
December 2002 was unanimously elected Majority
Leader of the U.S. Senate
(108th Congress).
Before being elected to the
U.S. Senafe in 1994, Frist
graduated in 1974 from
Princeton University where he
specialized in health care policy at the ,Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs. In 1978 he graduated with honors from Harvard Medical School and spent
the next seven years in surgical
training at Massachusetts General Hospital; Southampton
General Hospital, Southampton, England; and Stanford
University Medical Center. He
is board certified in both general surgery and heart surgery.
"Senator Prist, is a world
renowned heart surgeon and a
model Tennessee native," said
Steven C. Smith, chief executive officer and president for
Food City. "He understands
the impm:tance of Bristol
Motor Speedway's role in the
Tri-Cities and the state of Tennessee. We are deeply honored that he is taking time
from his extremely hectic
schedule to serve as our
Grand Marshal. We're looking forward to hearing him
utter the four most popular
words in NASCAR motor
sports to command the start of
the Food City 250."
Kilgore was elected Virginia's 42nd Attorney General
in November 2001 and currently is running for Governor.
Prior to his election as Attorney General, Kilgore served as
Secretary of Public Safety for
then Governor George Allen,
managing 11 State agencies,
including the Ylrginia State
Police, the Department of Corrections, and the Department
of Juvenile Justice.
"Jerry is a native Southwest
VJ.rginian and has served the
Commonwealth of Virginia
under former Governor, now
Senator, Allen as Public Safety
Secretary," said Smith. "He
has helped to abolish parole
and bring jobs to Southwest
VIrginia through the building
of much needed new prisons.
"We are delighted to have
Jerry wave the green flag to
start the Food City 250."
The Food City 250 takes
the green flag Friday, Aug., 26
at 7:50p.m.
Feb. 20 - Daytona 500,
Daytona Beach, Fla. (Jeff Gordon)
Feb. 27 -Auto Club 500,
Fontana, Calif. (Greg Biffle)
March 13- UAW-DaimlerChrysler400,
Las Vegas. (Jimmie Johnson)
March 20 - Golden Corral 500,
Hampton, Ga. (Carl Edwards)
April 3 -.Food City 500,
Bristol, Tenn. (Kevin Harvick)
Apri110- Advance Auto Parts 500,
Martinsville, Va. (Jeff Gordon)
April17 - SamsungiRadioShack 500,
Fort Worth, Texas (Greg Biffle)
April 23 - Subway Fresh 500,
Avondale, Ariz. (Kurt Busch)
May 1 -Aaron's 499,
Talladega, Ala. (Jeff Gordon)
May 7 - Dodge Charger '500,
Darlington, S.C. (Greg Biffle)
May 14- Chevy American Revol. 400,
Richmond, Va. (Kasey Kahne)
·
May 29 - Coca-Cola 600
(Jinunie Johnson)
June 5 - MBNA RacePoints 400,
Dover, Del. (Greg Biffle)
June 12 - Pocono 500,
Long Pond, Pa. (Carl Edwards)
June 19- Batman Begins 400,
Brooklyn, Mich. (Greg Biffle)
June 26 - DodgeJSave Mart 350,
·or:.·
Sonoma, Calif. (Tony Stewart)
July 2 - Pepsi 400,
Daytona Beach, Fla. (Tony Stewart)
July 10- USG Sheetrock 400,
Joliet, ill. (Dale Earnhardt. Jr.)
July 17- New England 300,
Loudon, N.H. (Tony Stewart)
July 24- Pennsyl:vania 500,
Long Pond, Pa. (Kurt Busch)
Aug. 7 - Allstate 400,
Indianapolis (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 14 - Sirius at The Glen,
Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 21 - GFS Marketplace 400,
Brooklyn, Mich.
Aug. 27 - Sharpie 500,
Bristol, Tenn.
~pt. 4 - California 500,
Fontana, Calif.
Sept. 10 - Chevy Rock & Roll40e,
Richmond, Va.
Sept. 18 - Sylvania 300,
Loudon, N.H.
Sept. 25 - MBNA 400,
Dover, Del.
Oct. 2 - UAW-Ford 500,
Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 9 - Banquet 400,
Kansas City, Kan.
Oct. 15- UAW-GM Quality set,
Concord, N.C.
Oct. 23 - Subway 500,
Martinsville, Va.
Oct. 30- Bass Pro Shops MBNA 400,
Hampton, Ga.
Nov. 6 - Dickies 500,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Nov. 13 - Checker Auto Parts 500,
Avondale, Ariz.
Nov. 20 - Ford 400,
Homestead, Fla.
Driver Standings
1. Tony Stewart, 3.113
2. Jimmie Johnson, 3,008
3. Gt'eg Biffle, 2,861
4. Rusty Wallace, 2,855
5. Mark Martin, 2,7S2
6. Kurt Busch, 2,692
1. :Jeremy Ma~eld, 2,684
8. Ryan Newman, 2,646
9. Jamie McMurray, '2•.599
10. Carl Edwards, 2,593
11. Elliott Sadler, 2,590
(tie) Dale Jarrett, 2,590
13. Jeff Gordon, 2,5~6
14. Kevin Harvick, 2,523
15. bale Earnbardt, Jr., 2,43()
16. Matt Kenseth, 2,428
17. Joe Nemechek. 2,386
18. Brian Ylckers, 2,349
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Tim Glotzbach, Dean and Founding Director of the Kentucky
School of Craft in Hindman , is serving as president of the Craft
Organization Development Association (CODA) which serves
organizations with education and professional development to
foster public appreciation and understanding of craft. He is
shown above with Robert Lynch, President and CEO, Americans
for the Arts, 2005 Conference Keynote Speaker and Fran Redmon, 2005 CODA Conference Chair and Program Director, of
the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program, a division of the Kentucky Arts Council.
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
.• Recent columns submitted by
"Poison Oak" author, Clyde Pack,
have sent my
mind back a
few years to
good ole' elementary
school and the .
ever-present
threat · of corporl\1 punishment, a.k.a.
"the paddle."
C l y d e
seems to favor
bringing the
paddle back
into the classroom, although most
of the time I tend to agree with
Mr. Pack, on this point, I have to
say that I do not.
- Although one cannot argue
thllt many of today's kids lack
self-contrpl and seem to know litJJe about respecting others, I'm
jbst not convinced that bringing
the paddle back into the classtOdm is the answer to bringing
these kids to the realization that
the' world, regardless of what they
may think, or what Gram and
Gramps have told them, does not
revolve around their little bodies.
"The Paddle," in my opinion,
(See EYES, page two)
F~
POSTSCRWf
rFair
•
.memortes
. Kathy Prater's mention last week
on this page of the upcoming East
KE}.ntucky Fair and of county fairs of
hey:youth got me to thinking.
·q do enjoy the Apple Festival,
Jenny Wiley Festival and all those
colorfully named celebrations in
t?nununities across the region.
They
are
sources of
entertainme nt
and
reasons for
pride:
But I do
miss the old
county fairs.
In
my
early memPam SbiOIIIf
ories, my
..,U.Idllll wrltlr
aunt
and
:.. '
:photos by Kathy J. Prater
James Carter, chair of the District's Board of Supervisors, enjoyed looking over several scrapbooks on display at the celebratory event.
On hand to welcome the public bright and early Thursday morning were, from left to right, Michelle Goble, FCCD environmental educator, Donna Baker McClure, field representative, office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, Alan Williams, Floyd County Fiscal Court, Tony Grubb,
FCCD conservation technician, and Chris Slone, USDA and FCCD conservationist.
FCCD hosts 55th anniversary open house
by Kathy J. Prater
F EATURES EDITOR
uncle lived
two doors from the old Paintsville
!tockyards, on what was referred
to as the lower end of town, close
to where Paint Creek runs into the
Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy
River, which we simply always
called "the river."
; · My cousin Randal and I played
t·
The Floyd County Conservation District (FCCD) office held
an open house event this past
Thursday to commemorate the
office's 55th anniversary. Several
members of the community and
honored guests, including Donna
Baker McClure, field representative for the office of Sen. Mitch
McConnell, stopped by to enjoy
refreshments and conversation
with the office staff.
In addition to a beautiful offer-
ing of delectable treats and
refreshments, FCCD staff had on
display a collection of scrapbooks
and a photo display highlighting a
variety of District programs,
award-winning students and
scholarship recipients.
"We're just going to enjoy our
day today, greeting the public and
talking with"those who stop by,"
said Tony Grubb, District conservation technician.
"We' ve looked forward to this
day for a while and we hope
everyone enjoys their visit,"
echoed Michelle Goble, District
environmental educator.
Among the several programs
and services offered to the public
by the Floyd County Conservation
District are: soil testing services,
equipment rental, tree seedling
give-away, seed give-away, state
and county cost share programs,
Conservation scholarships, Conservation art and writing contests
and awards, and soil stewardship
programs. Additionally, the District hosts an annual banquet each
spring to recognize and honor
those in the community who have
served Floyd County by utilizing
conservation techniques, serving
as good environmental stewards
and for those students who have
received District awards and scholarships.
For more information on the
Floyd County Conservation District and its many programs and
services, call 889-9800.
Members of the Floyd County
Conservation District Board of
Supervisors are: Ruby Akers,
Floyd Allen, Daniel Branson,
James Carter II, T homas Hardwick, Bert Layne and Ernie
Tackett.
f!ee POSTSCRIPT, page two )
THINGS TO PONDER
uiltl
oy Dr. Mable Rowe Lineberger, Ph.D.
So many times, usually at least once a
day, the painful explanation is heard, "But I
feel so guilty! If only I had not said the
tfllth that upset her." An impression is that
~Q many negative feelings are labeled as
~'Guilt", when correct label might actually
b~ "disappointed, hurt". Sometimes, it
s~ems, Miss Guilty One continues to accept
responsibility for the emotional distress of
others with the blink of the eye. But, where
~oes guilt come from , why and what is its
-p\lq>ase? It is crucial that we understand
bow guilt works, plus if it is justified.
Guilt is one of the most common - yet
most powerful - emotions that rule our
lives.
So much suffering, and even
tragedy, has been the outcome of needless
feelings of guilt. Unjustified, excessive
guilt often interferes with one's enjoyment
of living, cripples our social and business
lives, increases worry, is disheartening,
and humiliates us. As we all have experienced, guilt creates fears and anxieties that
are the foundation of multiple emotional
ills, chronic fatigue to self-punishing conditions such as drug addiction. In some
instances, bitter self-loathing derived from
full-blown, needless guilt can torment a
person until suicide seems to be the only
way to get relief.
One expert perceived guilt as "central"
to human existence. Yet, he pointed out
that uncontrolled, inner guilt could paralyze us so that we are totally unable to
function as human beings. In contrast,
other writers also described the "good"
face of guilt and how it is a desirable
human emotion. For example, in its simplest form, guilt is the realization of and
sorrow over having done something morally, socially, or ethically wrong. Guilt helps
us to recognize what we have done wrong,
when we have violated our own consciences and the mores of our society. Not
all guilt is harmful, unnecessary, and
should be destroyed. In this way, guilt is
our society's regulator. Without it, we
would possibly not learn in school, do our
jobs properly, follow traffic rules, perform
exercise, and feed and care for our children. Then the impact of guilt often helps
us balance life more effectively so there
are good relationships with loved ones or
living in harmony within our conununities
or with one another. One psychologist's
opinion was that "Guilt feelings are an
inevitable accompaniment of the development of our consciences." The conscience's signaling when there is a difference between right and wrong is the major
component of the entire guilt feelings
mankind has experienced in the past and
will in the future.
Although we are born with basic drives,
such as to survive and the sex drive, a
CONSCIENCE is not an innate drive. All
of us begin without morals and have no
inhibitions to not fulfill pleasure-seeking
impulses. This is definitely a time that
PARENTS HAVE ALL OF THE RESPON. (See PONDER, page two)
Mable Rowe Lineberger, Ph.D.
,,
�C2 •
FRIDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Postscript
Eyes
• Continued from p1
• Continued from p1
in the stockyard on weekdays
when no sales were going on. We
climbed over wood fences
between stalls. We ran up and
down the benches in the small
arena where animals were shown
on weekends. (It seemed huge at
the time, but I suspect it was quite
small by today's standards.)
We raced around the maze of
stalls and fences and throughways. It was a perfect place for
marathons and games of hide
and seek and pretend rodeos.
But the most exciting time was
in the fall when the Johnson County Fair took place within throwing
distance of Randal's house.
The stalls at the stockyard
were full of animals, the best of
every kind of critter: sleek horses, carefully combed cattle,
hogs so fat they could hardly
walk, and chickens, lambs,
goats, rabbits.
Randal and I were not in 4-H,
so we missed the joys and the
sorrows of that competition.
But we were in school, so we
were able to enter other competitions - in art, penmans'hip,
creative writing and such.
I remember the thrill of seeing my penmanship sample
hung on a fence that doubled as
a display case on one side and
animal enclosure on the other.
I remember looking, with
awe, at the rows of canned
goods and myriad foods that
filled tables throughout the area.
There was so much to see.
We were munchkins in a grand
wonderland.
I have no memories of carnival rides and sideshows, but I'm
sure they were there in the
orchard behind the stockyards.
If there was a carnival, we
were more onlookers than participants. Our families had little
money for frills, except·maybe
for a turn or two on the Ferris
wheel.
But that was all right, in retrospect. We had a wealth of things
to behold without the carnival.
I hope the regional fair is half
as exciting for today's little
Randals and Pams.
Ponder
• Continued from p1
SIBILITY TO TEACH A CHILD 20 years, because of guilt perWHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT taining to one event.
IS WRONG TO CREATE A
Of course, most everyone has
NEW MEMBER OF SOCIETY probably observed that some
WHO IS AWARE THAT HE OR people feel guilt more strongly
SHE MUST LIVE BY ITS than others and for less reason.
RULES!
In addition, the One explanation was that parents
demands of the society in which and family members accuse
a child is reared also play aiJ. some children frequently and
important role. The traditions of inappropriately about "bad"
race, nationality, and even actions. Haven't you seen parneighborhood can force a child ents that never said anything posinto the "norms of behaviors." itive to their children and were
Changes in the conscience can- never content with what •their
not be observed, but increases as kids did? Shame is drilled into
the child is taught - by example the children continually for
and by immersion into a behavior that is not truly shamelifestyle. Then, as the con- ful. Reportedly, if a parent
science expands, guilt grows places more guilt on a child than
and develops if the child feels · he can tolerate, the youngster is
that he has disobeyed, or thinks likely to choose one of two direche did. This process occurs tions: (1) since he can not live
after the rules are taken in and with the guilt, he may rebel and
the child feels he must obey.
fmd relief in drugs, delinquency
Violating society's edicts can or other forms of antisocial
bounce back as guilt feelings behavior; or (2) he may grow up
even if these edicts are outdated. overwhelmed with a heavy load
A frequent example is the cou- of guilt, deeply convinced that he
ple that comes for marital theraJ is a bad, undeserving person.
py. Many . times one of their The latter seems to be the indibasics issues is that they were victuals who can never be perfect
intimate prior to marriage; in enough or apologize sufficiently.
some cases it only happened one He is always paying the price of
time. Due to the guilt of not fol- "possibly" being guilty, whether
lowing parental teachings, not to it is true or not. Although the
have sex before marriage, get- person may appear to be OK, it is
ting married was the only choice not unusual for him to commit
for them. What if someone suicide, due to a combination of
found out? Thus, they accepted hate, rage, revenge, a sense of
staying married without a basis guilt and a feeling of unbearable
for a true relationship for 15 or frustration. Additionally, this
person has intense feelings of
guilt that can often make life literally unbearable and he feels
"stuck". Some writers predicted
that the tendency to take in
unneeded amounts of guilt might
be inherited, similar to some
form of emotional illness.
Like other situations in life,
individuals react differently in
regard to guilt. It has been
found that people with the least
reason to be affected by guilt,
are likely to have the greatest
reaction. In a classic Harvard
University study, 84 percent of
those who followed the rules,
responded that they would feel
guilty, conscience-stricken or
ashamed, if they had not. One
of the conclusions was that the
sterner your conscience and the
more vigilantly it monitors your
thoughts and actions, the worse
you will feel if you do something you think is wrong.
Now is the time for you to
check your feelings out and try to
evaluate how often, how much,
when, and where you are aware
of different levels of guilt feelings and their many disguises.
Take time to look inside yourself: Are you upset about something you did or failed to do?
Did you break, or fear you had
done so, some deeply held moral
or ethical rule supported by society? Next week, the focus will
be on ways to hopefully cope
better with guilt feelings.
$1,000 for the arts
Tammy Duff, left, performing arts
director with the Greater Hazard Area
Performing Arts Series, accepts a check
for $1,000 from Kentucky Power's
Mary Begley, right. Mrs. Begley says
Kentucky Power is committed to the
arts in Eastern Kentucky. Mrs. Duff is
getting ready for the ftrst show of the
arts series with The Jungle Book, presented on Saturday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. at
The Forum.
Adams Middle School Youth Services Center
• Aug. 22 - Confidentiality traini,og/Criminal
checks
for
parents/guardians interested in volunt~ring at either Adams Middle or
Clark Elementary. Call 886-1297
(AMS) or 886-0815 (CES) for more
information. Session will be held at 5
p.m., at Adams Middle School.
• Aug. 22 - Organizational PTO
meeting for AMS, 6 p.m., in school
library. All parents/guardians invited
and encouraged to attend.
• Aug. 15-26 - Nominations for
Parent Representative to SBDM Council may be made at school office.
Those nominated must have a child
currently enrolled at AMS.
• Adams Middle School Youth Services Center is open each weekday
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center offers
services to all families regardless of
income. For more information about
any of the activities or services of the
center, please contact the center at 8861297. The center is now located in the
7th grade wing of the school. Center
Coordinator - Michelle Keathley.
Allen Central Middle School
• If your child has left any article of
clothing at school, please contact the
Youth Service Center office.
• The ACMS Youth Service Center
is open each day from 8:00a.m. to 3:00
p.m., or later by appointment. For
more information about the center, call
LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 3580134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service Center
• Call Allen Elementary Youth Ser-
vice Center at 874-0621 to . schedule
your child's Hepatitis B vaccination,
immunizations, and WIC appointments.
Betsy Layne Elementary
• The Betsy Layne Elementary
Family Resource Youth Service Center
is located in the 500 building of the
campus. The goal of the FRYSC is to
meet the needs of all children and their
families who reside in the community
or neighborhood by the school in
which the center is located. For further
information, please contact the center
at 478-5550 or 478-9751, ext. 310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers, Program Assistant II; Debra Hayes, School Nurse.
Clark Elementary
• After-School Child Care now
accepting applications for Clark students, K-5th. Limited enrollment, call
now! 886-0815.
• A nurse from the Floyd County
Health Dept. is in the center weekly
and sees WIC patients, does well-child
exams (birth-18 years), and gives
immunizations.
• The Clark Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families regardless of income. We
are located in the Adams Middle
School building.
Duff Elementary
• Floyd County Health Dept. is at
the school each Tuesday. Services
include 6th grade school entry physical; kindergarten, Head Start and wellchild physicals (age birth to 18 years);
T.B. skin test; T.D. boosters; and WIC
services. Please call 358-9878 for
appointment if you are in need of any
teaches nothing more than fear.
I grew up attending school in
the days when a student was
impelled to behave, or else face
the wrath of those in whose
care you had been entrusted.
Fear promotes shyness and fosters intimidation, both of which
hinder a student's ability to
concentrate on the educational
material presented before him.
There is nothing good about
fear. Nor was there anything
good about the scary rumors
that used to fly all around the
heads and ears of my former
classmates and I. Rumors of
"electric paddles" and "paddles
with a zillion holes." The "zillion holes" having to do with
the amount of "sting" associated with each well-aimed swat.
You might wonder what I, an
even-tempered, good-natured
individual, and former "good
student" could possibly really
know about "the paddle."
Well, as it turns out- quite a bit
Although I was a nice kid
and a good student, I found
myself, nonetheless, on the
receiving end of a couple of
swats from the paddle twice
during my years in elementary
school. (And none at all during
high school, thank goodness.)
The first incident occurred
during my first grade year at
Prestonsburg Elementary. The
teacher swinging the board was
Mrs. Doris Hyden, whom I love
quite dearly. Mrs. Hyden only
gave me one quick swat, though,
and I have to admit that it did little to injure my rear, but much in
the way of injuring my feelings.
Additionally, my teacher had
every right in the world to give
me that swat because, to be completely honest, I had been behaving like a spoiled little brat.
Seems that I recall a classroom
rule in which only two children
at a time were to be allowed to
visit the "library table" set up in
the rear of the room. And this
only during "quiet time" in the
classroom.
Well, I can quite clearly
remember becoming impatient
with having to wait my turn at
the literary table. I have loved
books from the day I could fust
hold one in my hand and it was
really getting on my nerves that
other kids in the classroom
were getting first pick at what
our teacher had laid out upon
the table for our enjoyment.
Two children were already
at the table. One couple had
already sat back down. Four
kids getting to pick a book
before me! How could I stand
(or rather, sit still) for this?
Mrs. Hyden was my daddy's
friend, I confidently argued
with myself, and she wouldn't
paddle me, this I was sure of.
Why, I had even been to her
house to play with her daughter.
No, most surely, ' Mrs. Hyden
wouldn't hold me to that silly
classroom rule. I had to get up!
And so I did ..and, I got swatted.
Learned a big lesson that
day: Mrs. Hyden "at home"
was not the same as Mrs.
Hyden, school m'arm.
Also learned that spoiled little Daddy's girls don't always
get their way.
So, a couple of lessons
learned. Fast forward: I'm
now in 7th grade and a student
in Mr. Everett Patton's social
studies class.
Mr. Patton, I knew, had a
reputation for favoring the boys
in his classes. Wasn't much too
keen on girls.
He was a large man with a
loud voice, and, I was soon to
learn, kept a rather large paddle
in one of his desk drawers.
On the particular sunny
spring day that I now recall to
mind, my friend Sherry, had
gone to great pains to get me to
notice the window cleaner that
was hanging on a perch outside
our classroom window. Once I
looked, and grinned, Sherry
passed me a note which read
something to the effect of "How
hilarious! He looks just like the
whistling mole in Winnie the
Pooh!" Well, I knew what
"whistling mole" she was talking about - the one that wears
the little hardhat and often pops
up in Rabbit's garden. And,.
yes, he did look like the cartoon character in question.
Well, you know how young
girls can be, 'specially if
you've been one. Sherry and I
proceeded to get a bad case of
"the giggles."
We tried to contain ours~lves,
but the lesson was boring, it was
hot outside and my goodness,
the window cleaner just bore a
remarkable resemblance to that
Winnie the Pooh character!
Before I knew it, Mr. Patton was
at my side saying, "Miss Prater, ~
stand up, please." Once I did, the
"electric paddle" was in full gear swatting over and over again.
Now, I'm a tough little
cookie in many ways and it was
all I could do to fight back the
tears. It hurt. I could barely
stand to sit back down once my
teacher was finished and had
moved on to my friend.
End result of that experience?
Two pre-teen girls with bruises
and blisters on their behinds.
And four irate parents in the
principal's office the next day. !'i
So, each year since my chil- ~
dren have been in kindergarten,
I've not wasted even so much
as a millisecond in checking
"no" when asked if I would
allow corporal punishment to
be administered to my children.
I don't "whup up" on my
kids and I sure don't want any
teacher doing it.
A simple, "Girls, pay attention" coupled with an "I mean
it" look would have done the
trick for both my friend and I.
"The paddle," there are
alternative choices.
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HCTC works with house raising
Hazard Community and
Technical College employees
worked to participate in a house
raising for Dicey Combs organized by the Hazard-Perry
County Housing Development
Alliance. The members included, front row, from left, Bart
Massey, Larry Parke, Melissa
Johnson, Delcie Combs, Donna
Roark, HCTC President Dr. Jay
K. Box, John Craft (with Housing Development Alliance),
Cleve Coots, Ron Daley, and
Merrel Shepherd. Second row,
from left, are: Helen Brunty,
Lawrence Dashner, Ludrenia
Hagans-Shepherd, Janie Combs,
Germaine Shaffer, Heather Pennington, Mindy Collins, Patricia
Caudill, Alvin Caudill, and Scott
McReynolds (with Housing
Development Alliance).
of these services.
• The J.A. Duff Elementary Family
Resource Center provides services for
all families regardless of income. We
are located in the tan metal building at
the rear of the school. Contact persons
are Judy Handshoe, coordinator, and
Ruby Bailey, assistant.
May Valley Elementary
• Aug. 25 - Family Resource Advisory Council will hold meeting at 4
p.m., in school library. Open to public.
All invited.
• Parent Lending Library is available to parents for video check-outs. A
variety of topics are available.
• Floyd County Health Dept.
nurse at school every Wednesday.
Services include Head Start physicals,
kindergarten physicals, 6th grade
physicals, well-child physicals,
immunizations, TB skin test, WIC
program, blood pressure checks, and
more. Must call the FRC at 285-0321
for an appointment.
McDowell Elementary and Family
Resource Center
• Aoyd County Health Department
Nurse Joy Moore, is at the center each
Monday to administer immunizations,
T.B. skin tests, well-child exams, WIC,
prenatal and post-partum services, and
school physicals. Call377-2678 for an
appointment.
Mountain Christian Academy
Mountain Christian Academy is a
non-denominational Christian school.
• Now accepting applications for
enrollment for Kindergarten for the
2005-06 school year. Call 285-5141
for more information.
Prestonsburg Elementary and Family Resource Center
• The Family Resource Center is
open weekdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m., and later
by appointment. Office provides services for all families, regardless of
income.
•
After School Child Care, 3-6
p.m., school days.
•
Call 886-7088 for additional
information regarding the Prestonsburg
Elementary Family Resource Center or
its programs.
South Floyd Youth Services Center
• School will be participating in the
Food City "Apples for Students" program, please save your receipts.
• Committee sign-ups may be done
through the Youth Services Center
office.
• Walking track open to public.
• The center has a one-stop career
station satellite that is available to the
community as well as students.
• Anyone interested in Adult Ed
may contact the center for information.
• All new students and visitors,
stop by the Center, located on the South
Aoyd campus, Room 232, and see
Mable Hall. Open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Mon. thru Fri.
• For more information call 4529600 or 9607 and ask for Mable Hall,
ext. 243, or Keith Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center
• FRC monthly Advisory Council
meetings will be held the fust Wednesday of each month, at 4 p.m. Call for
more info.
• Lost & Found located in Family
Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Parents and community members are welcome to visit. For
questions, call 587-2233 - ask for Tristan Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow Junction"
Family Resource Center
• Lost & Found: Throughout the
school year, the center receives items •
that are left on school buses, in the
gym, classrooms, etc. We encourage
parents to visit the center if their child
has lost a coat, bookbag, or any such
item. Lost items are checked for
identification, however, if unable to
locate owner, and items are not
claimed within 2 weeks, they then
become the property of the Family
Resource Center.
• The Family Resource Center is
open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
or later by appointment. The center
provides services for all families
within the community, regardless of
income. If you would like more ~
information about programs/services
the center offers, please call 452·
4553; ask for Cissy or Karen. The
center is located inside the main
building at W.D. Osborne Elementary.
Parents and community members are
welcome to visit.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare and
Infant/Toddler Care accepts infants and
toddlers up to 2 years and Preschool
age 2-4. Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional information, call
874-8328. Summer office hours: 9 ~\
a.m. to 1 p.m.
�FRIDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Martha A Simpso~ D.O, M.B.A.
Associate Professor
ofFamily Medicine
uestion: My face has been
fiushing quite a bit lately. I
thought it was menopause,
n · ced it was happening more
and 1110re. 1 went to my doctor, and she
1',\HI I had rosacea. She put me on some
;int1l1otic cream and said I may have to
u. ..! 11 forever. Can you tell me more
.thulll this condition'~
nswer:
Rosacea is an
inflammatory condition of
the skin that causes a redfaced look. Though it may appear to be
an .1dull form or acne, it's actually an
entucly litfetcllt di~easc. It affects
about 15 million adults in the United
States
most commonly fair-skinned
women between the age of 30 and 60.
While not a life-threatening disor
dcr, Rosacea can be very upsclting to
the sufferer because it primarily affects
the face. Although rosacea has periods
of flare-up and relative calm, it never
really goes away. That's why it's cHlssified as a chronic condition. While
men are less likely to get rosacea than
women, this disease in men can be
more disfiguring.
Rosacea usually starts out with
facial flushing - a disease stage that
some physicians call "pre-rosacea.''
This flushing is commonly brought on
by hot, spicy foods, alcohol, exercise.
hot baths and certain medications.
Also, for some women the hot flashes
of menopause can trigger pre-rosacea
facwl nushing. This may be what's
happening in your case.
As rosacea progresses, other symptoms begin. to appear. These can include
small n:d bumps on the nose, checks and
fan:, visible blood vessels on the checks
and nose, and increased sensitivity of
the skin. At this stage rosacea is called
vascular or inflammatory rosacea.
Additionally, rosacea can cause a bu.ming sensation in the eyes, as well as dry,
red eyes. This is ocular rosacea.
No one is sure what the cause of
rosacea is, but some suspect bacteria in
the hair follicles may play a role in the
development of this disease. Other
speculation is that a chronic stomach
infection with Helicobacter pylori bacteria may be the cause. This is the
same bacteria now known to cause
most ulcers.
Since this disease tends to come and
go, it often takes quite a while for people to become concerned enough to
seek medical attention. An early diagnosis is important, as getting treatment
started early in the disease process can
prevent permanent damage to the skin.
Initial treatment for rosacea is usually oral and topical antibiotics. Oral
antibiotics are also used for ocular
rosacea. In women whose hot flashes
trigger rosacea symptoms, treatment
for the underlying symptoms of
menopause can be helpful. You may be
one of these women.
In some cases there can be extensive
skin damage- including a build-up of
tissue on and around the nose called
rhinophyma. When this happens, surgical removal of the excess tissue may
be indicated.
In the meantime, preventing flareups can be helped by using sunscreen,
covering your face in the winter to prevent wind damage, avoiding skin prod-
ucts that are irritating or contain alco'!2
hal, and using a moisturizer after you~
topical medication has dried.
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If you'd like more informatiorf
about this bothersome disorder, I'd rec-' 1
omrnend taking a look at the National''
Rosacea Society web site. The URL is: .
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www.rosacea.org.
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Family Medicine® is a weekly col~;,
umn. To submit questions, write to
Martha A. Simpson, D.O., M.B.A.Y'
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, P.O. Box 110, Athens-;Ohio 45701, or via e-mail to readerquestions@familymedicinenews.org.•
Medical information in this column is
provided as an educational service
only. It does not replace the judg.(.
ment of your personal physician, whol
should be relied on to diagnose aniJ'..
recommend treatment for any medica'f\
conditions. Past columns are available
online at www.familymedicinenews.org. l,
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~nniversar'es
Clark-Davis
Golden Anniversary
Golden Wedding Anniversary
Ronald and Barbara Gullett, of Bypro, celebrated t heir 50th weddmg anniversary on August 12, 2005, with a vacation to the U.S.
Virgin Island of St. Thomas. The couple were married on August
12, 1955, at the First Baptist Church, in Wheelwright. They have
one son, Daniel; two daughters, Ruth Newsome and Sara (Mrs.
Bill) Smith; and, two grandchildren, Kennady and Zachary. The
Gullett's are semi-retired and spend much of their free time
"spoiling their grandchildren." Their family· sends them muc h
love and best wishe~ for many more happy years together.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenis and Ruby Hamilton, of Malabar, Florida,
observed their "Golden Wedding Annivers~ ry" on July 9,
2005. The couple who were married on July 9, 1955, in
Beaver, by Jerry Hall (Mrs. Hamilton's grandfather), observed
their 50th anniversary by going on an Alaskan cruise.
The Hamilton's have th ree children, four grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
~Rotarian
receives
Paul Harris FelloW
The· Prestonsburg Rotary
Club attended an intcrclub
meeting held Tuesday, August 2.
·1t the Ramada Inn, Paintsville.
Other clubs attending included:
The Paintsville Rotary Club and
the Morgan County Rotary Club
of West Liberty_
. \. . The purpose or the interclub
mceiing was to discuss the
upcoming rotary year with
Rotary District 6740 Governor
Joe Bark, or the Lexington
I~otary Club.
Pnor to addressing the three
dubs, Gov. Bark presented thc
Paul Hwris Fcllm\ Award" to
the area's Assistant Dtstrict Governor, Eugene Blackburn, of Pre-
stonsburg. Paul Harris founded
the Rotary organization in 1905.
The Paul Harris Fellow Award
serves as recognition of a significant contribution to the foundation of Rotary International.
Blackburn, right, is pictured
here receiving his Paul Harris
Fellow Award medallion from
Gov. Bark.
The Prestonsburg Rotary
Club meets every Thursday, at
12 p.m., at the Student Grille,
located on the campus of the Big
Sandy Commun ity and Technical College.
You may · contact Mike
Vance,' at 606-226-2075 for
information about the club.
Jon and Sharon Clark, of Harrodsburg, are pleased to
announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of the i~
daughter, Sara Elizabeth, to Ryan Walter Davis, the son or
John and Jackie Davis, of Paducah, and Sharon and Bobby
Craine, of Golconda, Illinois.
The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of R.D. and Eunice Pey"U
ton, of Salvisa, and Annis Clark, of Gacrett, and the lat~
Charles Clark. She is a 1996 graduate of Mercer County Hig~1
School, and a 2000 graduate of the University of Kentuc~.,
where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority. Ms~
Clark graduated cum laude from Salmon P. Chase College ofl
Law at Northern Kentucky University m 200..,. ~ht. is an attor.,;:
ney with the firm of Clark & Ward, PLLC, in Lexington.
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The prospective groom is the grandson of Helen Davis, of.,
Paducah, and the late Lowell Davis, and the late Hillis and ..
Audrey Walter, formerly of Metropolis, Illinois. He is a 1993;.
graduate of Lone Oak High School and a 1998 graduate of th~
University of Kentucky, where he was a member of Sigma Ch1
Fraternity. Mr. Davis is employed by Clark Distribut ing of
Kentucky as a market analyst.
The wedding is planned for September 17, 2005, at Central
Christian Church, in Lexington, with a reception immediately
following at Talon Winery & Vineyards, at Fairview Farm.
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Couple celebrate 50th anniversary at Pre.
stonsburg Healthcare Center
Mr. and Mrs. Linard and Georgia Marsilett celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on August 5, 2005, at t~e Prestonsburg Healthcare Center. The couple are bot.h res1dents of the
center Mr. and Mrs. Marsilett were marned on August ~·
1955 ·in Johnson County, at the Johnson County F~eew1ll
Baptlst Church. They have six children, 12 grandchildren,
and 1S great-grandchildren. Prior to coming to the healthcare
center Mr Marsilett was employed as a factory worker,. while
Mrs Marsilett was a homemaker. Family members, fnen~s ,
~nd · residents and staff of the center all ~~j?yed celeb.rat~ng
with the couple and engaging in fun act1v1t1es and enJoymg
cake and refreshments. The staff of t~e healthcare ce~ter
congratulate their two residents for th~1r gre~t accomplishment and wish them, many more anmversanes .and happy
days to come. Prestonsbu rg Healthcare Center IS proud to
have you as residents of their center.
Engle-Hall
Jean and Tommy Engle, of Wheelwright, and Don na and Ray'
Hall, of weeksbury, are proud to. announce the marriage of
their children Rebecca Jean Engle and Joshua Adam Halt.
The couple ~re wed on July 27, 2005, in an afternoon ceremony.
Joshua is employed by Robinson Builders and Rebecca is
currently enrolled at Big Sandy Community and Technical
College, Prestonsburg.
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Their families wish them the best of luck and much happmess
in the years to come.
�C4. fRIDAY,
AUGUST
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all of us to to attend worship servi~~~...::, · · · :
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
First Assembly of God, Mart1n; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Loria Vannucci,
Minister.
In Victory Assembly of God, West Prestonsburg; Sunday School,
10:00; Y'orship Service, 11:00 & 6:30; Wednesday Evening, 6:30;
Gary Stanley, Pastor.
New Bethel Assembly of God, Burning Fork Rd., Salyersville;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Wednesday, 7 p.m. Arthur (Sam) Smith, Minister.
Pralae Assembly, 1 mile S. of Prestonsburg, Intersection of Rt. 80
and U.S. 23; Sunday School; 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; J.M. Sloce, Minister.
BAPTIST
Allen First Baptist, Allen; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Amold Turner,
Minister.
Auxier Freewll Baptlat, Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 pm.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Bobby Spencer,
Pastor.
Benedict Baptlet, Slick Rock Branch, Cow Creek; Sunday School,
10 a.m; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Gordon Fitch, Minister.
Betty Layne'free Will Baptlat, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wedneaday, 7 p.m.;
Tracy Patton, Minister.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College Baptltt Student
Union, J 102; Wednesday, 11 :30 a.m.; Vera Joiner, 886·3863, ext.
67267.
Bonanza Freewill Baptlat, Abbott Creek Road, Bonanza; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Jimmy D. Brown, Minister.
Brandy Keg Freewill Baptlet, Corn Fork; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Roger Music,
Minister.
Calvary Southern Baptlat, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 9:45
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Doug Lewis, Minister.
Community Freewill Baptist, Goble Roberts Addition; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
7 p.m.; Paul D. Coleman, Minister.
Cow Creek Freewill Baptlat, Cow Creek; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Sunday, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Nathon Lafferty,
Minister.
Daniels Creek Baptist Fellowship Church of God, Banner.
Services: Saturday night, 7 p.m.; Sunday morning, 11 a.m.; Sunday
night, 7 p.m.; Henry Lewis, Minister.
Drilt Freewill Baptist, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6:30 p.m.; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Jim Fields, Minister.
Endicott Freewill Baptis~ Buffalo; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Hobert Meek, Pastor.
Faith Bible Church, an independent Baptist Church, located on
1428, between Allen & Martin; Sunday
Lower Toler Church of Christ, Harold; Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.m.
School, 10 a.m.; Sunday Moming, 11
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea rnart<et}, Sunday
a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6 p.m.;
11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 School, 10 a.m. Worship, 11a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889-0905.
Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer, 6 p.m.;
p.m.; Lonie Meade, Minister.
Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; Sunday
Pastor, Rev. Stuart E. Swanberg.
Mare Creek Church of Christ, Stanville; School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Mmister.
Faith Freewill Baptist, 1/4 mila above
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, Faith Revelation Mlnistery, 1/4 mile above Worldwide Equipment;
Worldwide Eqpt. on Rt. 1428; Sunday
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11
Martin Church of Christ, Martin; Sunday Randy Hagans, Minister.
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a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Faith Worahlp Center, US 460, Paintsville; Worship Service, 11 ..
Buddy Jones, Minister.
and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. Gary a.m.; Thursday, 6 p.m.; Buddy and Maude Frye, Minister.
Firat Baptlat, Garrett; Sunday School,
Mithchell, Minister.
~*Full Gospel Community, (formerly of Martin) moved to Old Allen;
9:45a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7
Maytown Church of Chrle~ 66 Turkey Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service. 11 a.m.; Sunday '
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Randy
Creek Rd., Langley. Sunday Bible Study 11vening, 6:30p.m.; Wed., 6:30pm.; Lavonne Lafferty, Minister.
Osborne, Minister.10:00 a.m., Sunday morning worship 11:00
Firat Baptlat, Martin; Sunday School, 10
a.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m., Llghthouae Temple, Main St. and Hall St.; Worship Service, 12
p.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday/Friday, 7 p.m.; Roy Cosby, Mmister.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
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Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
Upper Toler Church of Chrlat, 3.5 miles Living Water Mlnlatrlea Full Goapel Church, Conley Fork ol
p.m.; Graydon Howard, Minister.
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School, Spurlock, Prestonsburg; Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Sunday Evening,
Firat Baptlet, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 6:00p.m. Pastor: Curt Howard.
Memorial); Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale Martin Hou11 of Worahlp, Old Post Office St.; Worship Service, 7
p.m., Saturday/Sunday.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.;
Bush, Minister.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Dr. Floyd Price, min·
WHkebury Church of Chrlet: Sunday Old Tlmt Hollntll, 2 miles up Arkansas Creek, Mar Sunday .:.
lster.
School, 10 a.mm.; Worship Service, 10:45 · School, 11 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; Jvhn W. _,
Patton, Minister.
Fitzpatrick Flret Baptlat, 1063 Big
~.m. and 6 p.m. Mike Hall, Minister.
Branch, P.O. Box 410, Prestonsburg, KY
Spurlock Bible (Biptlat), 6227 Spurlock Creek Rd., Prestonsburg;
CHURCH OF GOD
41653; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11·a.m.; W~dnesday, 7 _
Service, 11a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
Bttty Layne Church of God, Old U.S. p.m.; Jim Stephens, Minister. 886·1003.
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23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Town Branch Church; Sunday School 1~ a.m excert for llrst _,.
7 p.m.; Pastor Tommy Reed.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wedntlday, Sunday In each month.; Worship Service, Sun. morning 10:00 a.m ; "
Frtt Unlltd Baptlat, Wast Praatonaburg;
7 p.m.; Judith Caudill, Minister.
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Evening 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; No Sunday wght services on ::
11 a.m. &6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 7: p.m.
Community Church of God, Arkansas first Sunday of each month. Tom Nelson, Minister.
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Creek, Martin; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; The Father Houat, Big Branch, Abbott Creek; Sunday School, 10 ..
Frtt Unlttd Blptltt, West Prestonsburg;
Friday, 7 p.m.; Bud Crum, Minister.
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m.; J.J. Wnght, Minister.
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Firat Church of God; Sunday School, 10 The Tabernacle, Rt. 321 (Old Plantation Motel}, Christian
11 a.m. &6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
JOB 37: 17,18 .
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. and 6 Educator, 10:00; Sunday Morning, 11:00; Sunday Ever"lng. 7:00;
Grethel Baptltt, State Rt. 3379,
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V. Wednesday, 7:00; Pastors, Paul and Ramona Aiken.
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
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Williams, Pastor.
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and
Youth
Fellowehlp
Center,
Wheelwright;
Monday-Tuesday,
6
p.m.;
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Garratt Church of God, Garrett; Sunday
6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, 7 p.m.
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Highland Avenue Freewill Bapllat; ·
Zion Deliverance, Wayland; Sunday School 10 a.m.; Worship
Sunday School, 9:50a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Donald Bragg, Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Prayer Line:
Landmark Church of God, Goble Roberts Addition; Sunday 358-2001; Jeff Kinslow, Pastor
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; David Garrett, Minister.
Jacka Creek Baptlat, Bevinsville; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11:10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Taylor Chapel Community Church, formerly the old Price Food -.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Pastor Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Kenneth E. Prater, Jr., Minister.
Service building, located 1 quarter mile above Worldwide
Little Paint Firat Church of God, 671 Little Paint Road, East Point; Equipment, Rt. 1428. Sun. Bible Study, 10 a.m.; Sun. Momlng
Roger Trusty.
Sunday
School,
9:45
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.
and
6
p.m.;
Katy Friend Freewill Baptist, 2 miles up Abbott; Sunday School,
Service, 11 a.m.; Sun. Evening, 6:30 p.m. Kenny Vanderpool, ....
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.. ; Charles Heater Jr., Minister.
Pastor.
~
The Ligon Church of God of Prophecy, Saturday Services, 7:00 International Pentecostal Holiness Church, 10974 N. Main St.,
Jim Pnce, Minister.
Lackey Freewill Baptist, Lackey; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship p.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Ralph Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor.
Hall, Pastor.
Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Johnny J. Collins, Minister.
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
EPISCOPAL
Lancer Baptist Church; 71 Cooley St., Prestonsburg, Sunday
a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Pastor: D.P. Curry.
School, 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m, Evening Woshlp, St. James Episcopal; Sunday Service, 9:45 a.m.; Holy Eucharist Church of God of Prophecy, Sunday School 10 a.m., worship }
6:00 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.; 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Study Group 6:00p.m., Holy Eucharist & Service 11 a.m., Sunday Night - 6 p.m., Wednesday Night- 6 p.rn.
Healing 7:30 p.m. Father Johnnie E. Ross, Rector.
Pastor Bobby Carpenter
Pastor Glenn Hayes. West Prestonsburg.
Uberty Baptist, Denver; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
LUTHERAN
11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Merle Little, Minister.
~ Our Savior Lutheran, Sipp Bayes Room Carriage House Motel,
Ligon Community Freewill Baptist, Ugon Worship Service,
Paintsville; Sunday Service, 11 a.m.; WKLW'(600 am) 12:05 p.m.;
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Thursday, 7 p.m.
Rolland Bentrup, Minister.
Martin Branch Freewill Baptist, Estill; Sunday Service, 10 a.m.;
· METHODIST
Worship Service, 11:15 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James
(Red) Morris, Minister.
Auxier United Methodist, Auxier; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Martin Freewill Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter,
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; John L. Blair, Minister.
506 Bucks Branch, Martin
US 23 Prestonsburg
Minister.
Belly Layne United Methodist, next to B.L. Gymnasium; Sunday
1-800-446-9879
1·800-264-9813
Maytown Firat Baptlat, Main St., Maytown; Sunday School, 10 School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Bob Randy Blackburn, Minister.
Allen Christ United Melhodlat;AIIM~Slmday SC11061, 9:45 a.m.;Wol'$hip
Vamey, Minister.
McDowell Flret Baptist, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Service, 11 a.m. &6p.m.; Wednesday, 7pm.; Kenneth Lemaster,Minister.
MANPOWER TEMPORARY SERVICES
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Gene Community United Methodlat, 141 Burke Avenue (off University
First Commonwealth Bank Building
Drive
and
Neeley
St.);
Sunday
School,
10
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
Bracken, Minister.
311 N. Arnold Ave. Ste, 503
Middle Creek Baptltt, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steve Pescosolido,
Prestonsburg, KY 416!1i3
Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Eugene Cook,
(606) 889-971 0
Elliott'• Chapel Free Methodist, Rt. 979, Beaver; Sunday School,
Minister.
·
Offering employment solutions
10
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m.
and
6
p.m.;
Philip
T.
Smith,
Llghthouae Baptlat, 2194 KY Rt. 1426, Prestonsburg; Sunday
for office and industri I 1 k
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Minister.
Emma United Methodlat, Emma; Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday
7 p.m.; Donald Crisp, Minister.
Worship Service 11 a.m.; Pastor David Profitt.
home phone 285·3385
Flret United Msthodlst, 256 South Arnold Avenue; 9 a.m.
Pleaaant ·Home Baptlat, Water Gap Road, Lancer; Sunday Contampory Service; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship Service,
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:55 a.m. and 5 p.m. UMYS Service; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Mark D.
7 p.m.; Mark Tackett, Pastor.
Walz, Pastor.
Pleasant Valley Old Regular Baptist Church, Tinker Fork; Hom Chapel Methodllt, Auxier Road, Auxier; Sunday Morning
Meeting time 1st Saturday & Sunday of each month, 3rd Sunday Service, 9 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Mid·week Service, 7 p.m.;
Evening at 6:00p.m.; Moderator, Gary Compton; Assist. Moderator, Sunday Evening Service held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each
Jimmy Conley.
month at 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter, Minister.
Prater Creek Baptllt, Banner; Sunday School, 10 a.m; Worship Graceway United Methodist, Rt. 80, Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
""''
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; J.B. Hall, Pastor. Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Night, 7 p.m.; Roy Ha~ow,
Phone: (606} 874-3222.
Minister.
fZ
Rock Fork Freewill Baptist; Garrett Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sallabury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m. ;
•
(f,t-yff'
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Wendell Crager, Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Bobby G.
10,. ~~tr D•
Minister.
Lawson, Minister.
~·
Rock Fork Regular Baptist, Garrett; Worship Service, 9:30 a.m.; Wayland United Methodlat, Rt. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
MtmberFOIC
Jerry Manns, Pastor; Willie Crace Jr., Assistant Pastor.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Brad Tackett,
F
loyd
Co. (606) 886·4000 Johnson Co. (606) 789·4001
Salt Lick United Baptist, Salt Uck, Hueysville; Worship Service, Minister.
Magoffin Co. (606) 349-8800 Pike Co. (606) 432-7188
2nd & 4th Sunday, 10:30 a.m.; Pastor, Allen Chaffins, phone 946· Wheelwright United Methodist, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
Toll Free 1·866·462·BANK (2265) www.cnbonline.com
2123.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. ; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Sammy Clark Branch Freewill Baptist, Dana; Sunday School, 10 Bobby Isaac, Minister.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
10:00 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11:00 a.m.; Wed. Bible Study,
Stephens Branch Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday 7:00p.m.; Dennis C. Love, Pastor.
Drift Pentecostal, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.
The Third Avenue ~reewlll Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Saturday/Sunday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Ted Shannon,
5000 Kr HWJ. 3Z1 Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653
Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Community Owned/Not For Profit
Free
Pentecostal
Church
of
God,
Rt.
1428,
East
Point;
Sunday
Tom's Creek Freewill Baptist, U.S. 23 (north of Layne Brothers);
Member AHA and KHA
Accredited llv JCAHO
School,
10
a.m.;
Worship
Service,
11
a.m
.
and
6:30p.m.;
Thurs.,
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Physician Referral
6:30 p.m.; Buster Hayton, Minister.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chuck Ferguson, Minister.
Tom Moore Memorial Freewill Baptist; Cliff Road; Sunday Free Pentecostal Church of God, Weeksbury; Sunday School, 10
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Youth Service, 5:00 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; Wednesday/Saturday, 7 p.m.; John
p.m.; Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of "Jay" Patton, Minister.
Free Pentecostal Deliverance, Ext. 46 .~M'darkway at
each month; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Jody Spencer, Minister.
Campton;
Worship Service, Saturday and S~, r~.m. ; Patricia
Trimble Chapel Freewill Baptist; Intersection of U.S. 23 and KY
80, Water Gap; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Morning Worship Serv!ce, Crtder, Minister.
11 a.m. and Evening Worship Service 6 p.m.; Wednesday B1ble Free Pentecostal Holiness, Rt. 122, Upper Burton; Sunday
Highway 160 E.
School, 11 a.m.; Worship Service, 6 p.m; Friday, 7 p.m.; Louis
Study, 7 p.m., Youth Services 7 p.m.; Everyone Welcome.
Sanlan, Minister; David Pike, Associate Minister.
United Comunity Baptist, Hwy. 7, Hueysville; Worship Service, 2
_l
Goodloe Pentecostal, At. 850, David; Worship Service, 6 p.m.;
p.m.; Friday, 7 p.m.; Carlos Beverly, Minister.
Malcom Slone, Minister.
Wheelwright Freewill Baptist, Wheelwright Junction; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Parkway Firat Calvary Pentecostal, Floyd and Mag~ff!n County
Una; ; Worship Service, 6:30p.m.; M1ke D. Caldwell, M1mster. 2977 p.m.; Louis Ferrari, Minister.
6262.
CATHOLIC
tJ
Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
St. Martha, Water Gap; Mass: Sunday, 11 :15 a.m.; Saturday, 5 School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
East KY Metal (Next door to East KY Roof &Truss Co.)
p.m.; Sunday.; Father Robert Damron, pastor.
7 p.m.; Elllis J. Stevens, Minister.
CHRISTIAN
Free Pentecostal Church, Dwale; Services Saturday, 6 p.m.;
3095 S. Lake Drive • Prestonsburg, KY 41653
First Christian, 560 North Arnold Avenue; ~unday School, 10 a.m.; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m.; No Sunday Night
Service.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Jim Sharman, M1~ister.
Phone: (606) 889-9609 or (606) 886·9563
Garrett Community Chrlatlan, Route 550, Garrett; Worship
PRESBYTERIAN
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donnie Drift Pretbytarlan, Route 1101, Drift; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Hackworth, Minister.
Firat Preebyterlan, North Lake Drive; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.;
VIctory Christian Mlnlltrlet, 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11:30 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m; Sherm Williams, Minister.
·..;
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Betsy Layne Church of Chrlat, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 1~ Seventh-Day Adventlat, 5 miles West on Mountain Parkway;
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m., Sunday School, 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Gary
Call 886-8506
Sheph Minister.
Tommy J. Spears, Minister.
Prestonaburg Church of Chrlat, 88 Hwy. 1428; Worship Service,
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATIER DAY SAINTS
10 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Richard Kelly and Nelson
The Church of Jtaua Chrlat of Latter-Day Saints; Relief
Kidder, Ministers.
Soclaty!Preisthood/Primary, 9:30a.m.; Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.;
Harold Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sacrament Mtg., 11 :20 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. ~hurch Meeting
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James H. House address, Hwy. 80, Martin, KY 41649; Meetmg House tele·
Harmon, Minister.
phone number: 285·3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
Highland Church of Chrla~ At. 23, Hager Hill; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m. .
OTHER
Hueysville Church of Christ; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Paator Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chester Vamey, the CHURCH of GOD of PROPHECY TRAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Minister.
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your clothes when
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under the south
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Him in spreading out
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P.O. Box 420, Allen, KY 41601
8555 South U.S. Highway 23,
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Phone; (606) 874-215 I
Watts: (800) 826-7413
Fax: (606) 874-91 36
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(606) 886-1028
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CATHOL IC HEALTH
IN ITI ATIVES
Phone: (606} 285·5181
Fax: (606) 285·6422
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital
1 (800) 511-1 695
East Kentucky Metal
Roofing & Siding Suppl~es
Your Ad
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for details.
886-3861 or 1-877-8 6 3861
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
750 • Mobile Horne
11 o - Agriculture
115-ATV's
120- Boats
130- Cars
140- 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
160 - Motorcycles
170 ·Parts
175- SUV's
180- Trucks
190- Vans
200 • EMPLOYMENT
_,The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly accept
false or misleading
advertisements
Ads which request
or require advance
payment of fees for
services or products should be
scrutinized carefully.
AUTOMOTIVE
II 0-Agriculture
FOR SALE:
474 New Holland
Haybine Very good
condition. $2,800.
Call after 6 pm. 874·
0024.
130-Cars
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
2001 GT
Convertible
Mustang automatic
40,000 miles $10,500
1999 2 DR Explorer
., 55,000 miles $5,500
1992 Explorer Air$1395
1995 Mercury minivan Cold air $1995
$500!Police
Impounds! Honda,
Chevy, Ford and
more!Cars
/Trucks/SUVs from
$500! For listings call
800-439·3998 ext
A919
•~
FOR SALE:
1995
Buick LeSabre in
good condition. New
tires. Good brakes.
Contact 789·6938.
Ask for David.
FOR SALE:
1994
Wrangler.
Jeep
Black, loaded with
extras. 4 cyl 5 speed.
$5,500. 874-2000.
FOR SALE:
1985
Cadillac ElDorado
Garage kept. 16,000
actual miles. Classic.
Special order Gold
Key Edition. 874~ 2000. $12,000.
For Sale 1993 Ford
Victoria.
Crown
miles.
138,000
606$,1200. call
874-0467
FOR SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
no title, good for
parts. $600 obo. Call
874-4094.
160-Motorcycles
For
Sale
1998
• YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
2000 HONDA XR 70Good
condition,
$650. Call 886-4260
180-Trucks
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
t.:
FOR SALE:
1975
dump truck, tilt
front end, 12' bed.
For ·more info call
606-478-91 50.
~Ford
EMPLOYMENT
When responding
to Employment ads
that have reference
numbers,
please
Indicate that entire
reference number
on · the outside of
your
envelope.
Reference numbers
are used to help us
~ direct your letter to
210 -Job Listings
220 - Help Wanted
230 - Information
250 -Miscellaneous
260 - Part Time
270- Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wanted
300 - ANANCIAL
310- Business
Opportunity
330 - For Sale
the correct individ·
ual.
205· Bus. Opp.
§!!9 • FlEt.lTAts
400 - MERCHANDISI:
41 0
420
440
445
450
460
470
475
- Animals
- Appliances
- Electronics
- Furniture
- Lawn &Gawen
• Yard Sale
- Health & Beauty
- Household
HOURS: Daily
1:00pm-5:15pm
Call for more
information.
First Baptist
Church,
Glenda Blackburn,
886-8681
500 - REAL ESTATE
505 - Business
51 o - Comme(ci~
Property
530 ·Homes
550 - Land/Lots
570 - Mob'ile Homes
580 - MisceliMeous
tH 0 ·Apartments
• Storag(l/
705 - Construction
Office Space
(';30 ·Houses
640 - Land/LoiS
650 - Mobile Homes
660 • Miscellaneous
679 • Commercial
Property
vated
District sess curren licensure
Circulation Manager in the state of
One
for the Pikeville/ employment.
Prestonsburg area. year of professional
Must live in the circu- nursing experience
lation territory.
required. A valid driInterested candi- ver's
license
is
dates need strong required.
LPN- Qualificationspublic
relations,
sales, and motivation Graduate from an
skills. Job includes approved school of
soliciting and con- nursing with a certifitracting newspaper cate as a Licensed
carriers; maintaining Practical Nurse. Must
delivery be licensed in the
excellent
service and increas- state of employment.
A
ing circulation.
valid
driver's
Competitive com- license is required.
Applicants please
pensation package
including salary and contact the facility at
bonus.
Company 606-452·9700,
vehicle included with www.correctionscorp.com
the job.
Otter
Creek
Qualified appli- Correctional Center
cants may apply in is
an
Equal
the human resources Opportunity
division
of
the Employer. M/F/DN
Herald-Leader plant
from 8:30 am - 4:30 WANTED:
Local
pm
M-F.
Send company looking for
resume and cover experienced
teleletter to Employment, phone technician in
area.
LHL, 100 Midland local
Ave, Lexington, KY Requirements mini40508. Fax to 859· mum of 5 years
231-3584 or apply experience.
Good
online at www.h- pay-Good benefits.
ljobd.com. Complete Call 226-2130 or
job description avail- 793·4873.
able for review in our
office.
WANTED: Mountain
All final applicants Manor of Paintsville
must pass drug is taking applications
screen and a criminal for RN, LPN, and
background check. CMA.
Excellent
We.. recagnize ·· anct·· wa-ges ·~n<1"benefits.
appreciate benefits Apply in person at
of diversity in the 1025 Euclid Ave,
workplace.
Those Paintsville, KY M-F
who sahre in this between 8 am- 4:30
belief are encour- pm.
aged to apply. EOE.
WANTED:
Need
OTR employees to presWANTED:
Driver needed. 1 out sure wash heavy
Must
of last 3 years verifi· equipment.
able
HASMAT have valid driver's
endorsement. Clean license and surface
driving record. Must mining papers. Call
be able to pass DOT M-F 9·7 606·886physical and drug 1759.
test. Leave message
CORE DRILLER
606-358-9268.
WANTED:
FOR LEASE
BAPTIST LEARNING
CENTER
700 • SERYICES
6~0
NEED EXTRA
MONEY? Try Avon.
$1 0 sign-up fee &
WANTED:
free gift. Call Janey
FuiVPart time houseat 886-2082.
keepers needed.
21o-Job Listing Apply in person.
Pikeville Super 8.
Sales
Representative:
220-Help Wanted
Looking for enthusiastic, career-minded people to join a
AVON REPS NEEDED: $10 to sign-up.
great team in the
automotive field.
CASSIE • 886-8737 ,
Twenty year old
THERESA • 886·
established company. 3690, WANDA- 285Sell from the largest 9486, or Terri -- 946inventory in the mar- 2355 (after 5:00).
ket. Great pay plan,
DEMO, insurance on R E C E P Tl 0 N 1s T
Demo and insurance WANTED: Full time
available!! No experi- receptionist 10 am 7 pm daily. Essential
ence necessary! In
job functions and
house paid training
performance stanprovided for your
dards:
Answers,
success! Limited
screens, and directs
space available, so
call on multi-line
hurry!
phone system in a
Please apply in
person at John Gray courteous and promanner,
Pontiac-Buick-GMC fessional
takes
messages
in Paintsville KY
and/or forwards tele41240. Call 1-800·
phone calls to appro346-4066 or 606employee
297-4066. For direc- priate
voice mail. Meets
tions only. Ask for
and greets all visi·
Lance or John.
tors, determines their
llEmds· and 'direcrs NOTICE:
them to the appropri·
Job Fair for
ate
locations.
Experienced
Responds to visitors,
Underground
clients, and employMiners
Are you interested ees in a courteous
professional
in a good paying job? and
Are you interested manner.
Experience/requirein a job with great
ments: High school
benefits?
Are you interested grad preferred, clear
in working for a com- speaking voice, proappearpany with new equip- fessional
ance and demeanor.
ment?
Do you want to Apply in person at
work in a drug free John Gray Pontiac
Buick GMC Inc.
workplace?
Do you have an Paintsville, KY. 1·
or
experienced under- 800-346-4066
NOTICE:
for
ground KY miners 606·297-4066
Positions available
directions only.
card?
in various mine and
If thi~ sounds like a
job you would be CASE MANAGER- preparation plant
Sandy construction prointerested in, then Big
Fost jects.
ICG Hazard is the Treatment
company for you! We Care Program: Must Immediate openings
currently have under- be willing to work for experienced
emotionally crane operators,
ground miner posi- with
behaviorally
dis- ironworkers/ connections in the Breathitt
County area. If you turbed youth in com· tors, welders, pipefitprograms. ters, millwrights.
are interested in com- munity
for MSHA surface conpleting an application, Responsible
struction training
developing
the
treatwe will conduct a job
fair Friday August 19, ment plan, directing required. Only expe2005. The location of and providing ser- rienced applicants
the job fair will be at vices, and overall need apply. Benefits
the Life Skills Center case management package. Contact
May Mark Carvillano at
(beside the court- guidance.
304-363-41 00 or
require
some
on-caiV
house) in Jackson
from 8:00 am unil after hours work. mail resume to
7:00 pm. If you need Requires a B.A. Mountaineer
additional information degree in the human Resources, INC, PO
please call 606-439- services field. Send BOX 1187, Fairmont,
wv 26555-1187,
resume to :
0946.
EEO/AAE,M/F/DN Buckhorn Children & attn Mark Carvillano.
Resumes can also
Family Services
be faxed to Mark
Attn: Theresa Gay
FABRICATOR/
116 Buckhorn Lane Carvillano at 304WELDER
Logan Corporation Buckhorn, KY 41721 363-4814.
Fax: 606-398-7724
of Prestonsburg, KY
Otter
WANTED:
Email:
is seeking qualified
Creek
Correctional
theresa.gay@buckhorn.org
individuals for the
Center
is
now
Equal Opportunity
position of
applicaaccepting
Employer
Fabricator/ Welder.
tions for the following
Must be able to weld
positions.
WANTED
-District
and cut steel and thin
AN-Qualifications:
Circulation
gauge metal.
Graduate
from an
M
a
n
a
g
e
r
Experience in brake
Pikevllle/Prestonsb accredited college,
press, shear, and
Area:
Th~ university, or nursing
pipe bending a plus. urg
with
a
Salary commensu- Lexington - He raid program
degree/diploma
in
Leader
needs
an
rate with experience.
energetic and moti- nursing. Must pos·
Benefits package
included. EOE.
Please send resume
to:
Human Resources
2 Commercial Buildings
Fabricator/ Welder
Former location of
PO BOX 58
Huntington, WV
Steve's Tire Sales &
25706.
Farm & Home Supply
Teacher's
Assistant Needed
Immediately
t.1overs
Located just off At. 80
on Hwy. 3188, Martin, Ky.
Contact:
886·6906 after 6 p.m.
Experienced
core
driller
wanted.
Experience with Joy
Ramrod II drilling unit
and NQ-2 drill rods a
plus. Primarily coal
exploration
with
some
foundation
investigation work on
occassion. Will consider training appropriate person, who
has drill rig equipment
experience .
Must be mechanically inclined, and have
the desire and will·
ingness to do what it
takes to complete the
job. Wages and benefits commensurate
wRh
experience.
Local projects within
the
Eastern
Kentucky area, but
may require some
travel.
Contact
Alchemy Engineering
Associates, 546 W.
Old
Middlecreek
Road, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653. 606-8868889 fax: 606-8868847,
or
email
resume and salary
requirements
to :
alchemy@ engineer.com
710- Educational
713 - Chltd Care
716 • EI$Ctrician
72:0 - Health & eeauty
730 - Lawn & Garden
735- Legal
740 • Masonry
745 - Miscellaneous
WANTED: A new
medical imaging center is looking for a
receptionist in the
Pikeville
area.
Please fax a resume
to Kenny Holbrook at
606-439-0575.
FLOYD COUNTY I
PAINTSVILLE/
PIKEVILLE AREAS:
The
Lexington
Herald Leader has a
morning newspaper
route available in
your area. Routes
take about 3 hours
daily, with an approximate profit potential
of $800
-$1000
monthly. Dependable
transportation and
ability to be bonded
required. Call 1·800·
274-7355 . (EXT
3384 or 1629)
FINANCIAL
350-Miscellaneous
Need to repair your
credit and move
on? We provide
low APRs, low
monthly payments
on all types of
loans. 1st, 2nd,
mortgage, business loans. Call 1
(800) 405- 8157.
MERCHANDISE
445-Furniture
ESTATE SALE of
furniture
and
antiques. The Estate
of Jesse and Molly
Holland. Old Bumen
Fork Rd. Salyersville,
KY.
Saturday
September 3. 9:00
am
755- Offtee
760 • Plumbing
765 • PrOfessionals
770 - Repair/SerVIce
19, 2005 • C5
830 • Miscellaneous
850 • Personals
~70 •
Services
aso- Legals
780-Tlmber
7$0 •travel
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8QO·NODCES
aos • Annot!l1cemants
810 - Aucticins
815 - Lost & Found
FOR SALE:
Wurlitzer piano for
sale. Contact 2859704. Call after 5:00
pm.
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P A R K P L A C E "":
A PART M EN T S- -• ',
"LABOR DAY' Move~,,.~
in
special!
First'
FOR SALE: 2002 month's rent FREE '""
14 x 52 Gile MH.
with paid security';,.;;
FOR SALE: Large Never lived in. 2 BR, deposit.
Through
quantity plus size 1 BA. Ref, stove,
September 5th . 1' "
clothing
sale. built-in stereo sysBR/$309. 2 BR $304- "!~
Dresses,
jeans, tem, security system $345. Prestonsburg.JII u
886-0039.
-.::
shorts, tops, etc. 2x • and underpinning.
All included.
4x. Call 789-9172.
Located at Price, KY. DUPLE X F 0 R" '·
RENT: 2 BR CH/A " ~
FOR SALE:
12 Asking price
total
electric. ,.;·,o
pews, like new condi· $14,000. Fo more
Excellent condition on· ··::
tion.
Medium-light info, call 889-0010.
blue in color. Call
US 23 north 1 mile '"":
FOR SALE: 1980 from Prestonsburg. .
452-41 89 for more
14x70 MH 2 BR 1 No pets. Call 886- , , ,
information.
BA, fireplace, CH/A, 9007 or 889-9747.
:~}
large deck, appli490-Recreation
ances, on large pri- FOR RENT: Nice, 1" "vate
rented
lot. BR apt on KY 321 ."-.
PLEASANT RIDGE
$10,000 or best offer. between Highlands...~.~
HORSEBACK RID606-246-0767.
ING opening Friday
Hospital and Davis' ~"'
Market. CH/A, W/ri''"'~
May 6 at Yatesville
MH FOR SALE: hook-up.
$325.00 ", ·~
Lake. Call 606-673$200.00 ;, 11 65. Directions: US 1998 16 X 80 month
Fleetwood deposit. 789-5973.
~
23 to Louisa/Blaine
_.,
exit turn on Highway Reflections 3 BR 2
BA Great condition. APT FOR RENT: 2 ~
32 toward Blaine,
Never smoked in. All BR newly remodeled ... ~~
turn right on
appliances & CH/A. ground floor apt for ·:
Highway 3215
Vinyl siding, shingle rent. Located across --- ·
toward the camproof. Asking $19,998. from Garth Technical-:; ground and golf
School on RT 122 at
course. Tu-Su 10 am 889-9384.
Martin, KY. Must have
-7:30pm
Final
clearance references. Call 285495-Want to Buy 2004 lot models and 9112.
2005 models now
WANT TO BUY: Fill available! If you are APT FOR RENT:
dirt needs to be deliv· serious about pur- Nice 1 BR fully furered to the East chasing a new home nished apt. New car,
Point area. Call 367- you need to be with pet. Suitable for 1-2
experienced staff to people. No pets.---:
1506 or 367-1934.
get the right-home- at Located on RT 1428
i
a great price. The Private lot. $450
!
Home Show-South month $250 deposit.
I
William son, Inc. US All utilities included-tv.
!
119,
Belfry,
Ky. 874-4330.
530-Homes
41514 606·353-6444
cir toll free 877-353- 1 • BR Furnished
Apartment, Including
HOUSE FOR SALE: 6444
2 BR
Utilities .
Allen, KY. Riley Hall
All Drywall, Dutch Unfurnished,
and
Sub. 17 Cross Road.
Main floor 2 BR. 1 with 2x6 walls,and large 3 BR 2 BA,
BA. Upstairs 2 room 5/12 roof pitch, ulti- unfurnished on RT
1/2 BA. Basement mate kitchen pack- 114
with full BA Roughed age, glass block win· Call 886-8366
in. All appliances dow, and many more
APT FOR RENT in
including Dishwasher extras, Set up for
& WID. Ramp to rear viewing. For details Prestonsburg. 1 BR
deck. Front porch. call 606-353·6444 or furnished . Offstreet
$67,500 or make toll free 577-353- p a r k i n g .
offer. No land con- 6444 the home show Utilities/satellite tv--l
included.
$450
l
tract. Call 606-874month plus deposit.~ !
2775 or 734-997·
886-0010.
:
7110.
570- Mobile Homes
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'·'E
~
REAL ESTATE
-,J
RAY'S BARGAIN
CENTER
& Used
New
Furniture
&
Appliances @ unbelievable
prices.
Come in today for
incredible savings.
'
Shop At The Little
FOR
RENT:
2
BR_
!
610Apartments
Furniture Store & HOMES FOR SALE:
apt. Spacious, quiet:~ !
Save!! Route. #122, A foreclosure!! 3 BR
community.
:
McDowell. Call 606- only $14,900. For
!
listings call 1-800- APT FOR RENT: Application must be
377-0143.
!
429·7008. ext B 183. Renovated apts like filled out. Deposit &
new. Furnished. In references required. ·~
470-Health & Beauty
Martin. One year lease. Call
•
A Foreclosure!! 4 downtown
BR 2 BA, only Call between 9-5 pm 358-9123.
$35,000. · Must sell! daily. 285·3025.
WOLFF TANNING
For listings call 800·
BEDS
Financing available, 429-7008. Ext G522.
PAINTSVILLE
Free delivery & set
up within 75 miles of HOUSE FOR SALE:
PROFESSIONAL
London, KY. Bulbs, 3 BR, LR, kitchen,
:'
IJ
Parts, Lotions at 1.5 BA, carport, full
ASSOCIATES
J
Wholesale Prices. basement, storage
--'
building. Located at
Call 888·554-0058
628 JefffenonAve~ faintsville, KY 41.240
4323
RT
550
I
Is looking to fill tull·time
'
Hueysville. Contact
480- Misc.
LPN POSI1'ION
358-4065, 358-4369.
Candidllte must posess a enrrent
WEDDING DRESS Price Reduced!
Kentucky License.
I
Apply in person and bring resume
FOR SALE: Size 12,
No Phone Calk!, Please.
pearl and sequins
EOE.
intricate design on
bodice and train .
Must see to appreci·
ate beauty. For more
information, call 886·
8506 ask for Tonya
or after 5:00 call 8860048 and leave message.
Citizens National Bank
Now hiring for the position of
Documentation Clerk
at the Main Office
in Johnson County
The individual will maintain loan and credt
files to ensure all files are kept up to date.
Reviews files for exceptions to be reported to the Senior Lender.
Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent
from two-year college or Technical
school· or one to two years related experience ~nd/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Individual must be organized, detailed,
and have good communication skills.
Apply at any
Citizens National Bank location.
Equal Opportunity Employer
· RENTALS
..
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Place your
ad today!
Call Tonya
at 886-8506
to find out
how.
�C6 • FRIDAY, AUGUST
2 BR 1 1/2 bath
Townhouse also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
whether, and the Kentucky 41653, or
FOR RENT:
conditions
under can be mailed or
* 2 BR House
which, accreditation faxed by contacting
* MH slip
should be awarded Sharon Schoolcraft
*Barn access 3 stalls the organization.
at (606) 886-2335,
606-434-7507
The
Joint ext. 16.
8/10 mile Cow Creek
Commission deals Bid proposals must
with
organizations be submitted by
Furnished 1 bed
quality and safety or 4:00
p.m.,
room Apt. Central
SERVICES
care issues and the September 6, 2005.
heat & air. Rent startsafety of the environing at $375. month, +
The City of Pres$300. deposit water 770-Repair/Services ment in which care is tonsburg reserves
included.
Located
provided.
Anyone the right to accept or
near HRMC. 606believing that he or reject any and all
889-9717.
CARPENTRY she has pertinent bids.
WORK
all types. and valid information
I,'
~t~rage/Office New construction or about such matters
NOTICE OF
:" . J~" I •-• remodeling.
may request a public
INTENTION
Garages, decks, etc.
FOR RENT: 3 Room Concrete work & sid- information interview
TO MINE
the
Joint
office suite. $600 ing. Free estimates. with
PURSUANT TO
Commission's field
month. Call 886- Call 886-8896.
APPLICATION
representatives at
1020 ask for C. V.
NUMBER
the time of the sur836-5471
OFFI CE OR
vey. Information preLEGALS
In
accordance
with
RETAIL SPACE
sented at the interFOR LEASE: 1,200
view will be carefully the provisions of
sq ft in Prestonsburg ..
NOTICE OF
evaluated for rele- KRS 350.055, notice
886-8366
INTENTION
vance to the accredi- is hereby given that
Branch
tation
process. Powell
TO MINE
FOR LEASE: New
Requests for a public Energy, Inc., P.O.
PURSUANT
30x60 Metal building
information interview Box 1514, Martin, KY
12 ft ceilings on RT TO APPLICATION
must
be made in 41649, has applied
80 close to Martin
NUMBER
writing
and should be for a permit for an
886-8366. $500.00
836-5382
coal
sent to the Joint underground
month.
In accordance with
.operation,
Commission no later mmmg
the provisions of
than five working located 1.0 mile east
FOR RENT:
900
KRS 350.055, notice
days before the sur- of Emma in Floyd
sq. ft. office/commercial space. Located is hereby given that vey began. The County. The pronext to Reflection's FCDC Coal, Inc. , request must also posed operation will
Beauty Salon 3/4 750 Town Mountain indicate the nature of disturb 3. 74 surface
mile south or Martin Rd. , Pikeville, KY the information to be acres,
and
will
on RT 122. Across 41501 , has filed an provided at the inter- underlie
236.90
for
from Garth Tech. application
view. Such requests acres, and the total
School. Call 285- renewal of a permit
should be addressed area within the per9112.
for an underground
mit boundary will be
to:
mining
operation,
240.64 acres.
[··,630-Houses
of
Division
'lo
&located 1.5 mile
The proposed operAccreditation
southeast of Printer,
ation
is approximateOperations
HOUSE FOR RENT: in Floyd County. The
Office of Quality ly 1.0 mile east of KY
Very nice, clean 2
operation disturbs
194's junction with
Monitoring
BR house. Includes
8.07 surface acres,
the
KY 1428, and is
stove, dishwasher,
Joint Commission
side by side fridge, and underlies 278.33 on
located 0.02 mile
W/D hookup. CH/A acres, and the total
south of Cow Creek.
Accreditation of
Located on MT Pkwy area within the perThe proposed operHealthcare
miles
from mit boundary is Organizations
8
ation is located on
Prestonsburg in a 286.40 acres.
One Renaissance the Lancer, and
quiet neighborhood.
The
facility
is
Harold U.S.G·.s. 7
Boulevard
$500 per month plus approximately .2 mile
1/2 minute quadranOakbrook
Terrace,
deposit & utilities. southeast from KY
gle map. The surface
1160181
References required. 2030's junction with
Or
faxed
to : area to be disturbed
No pets. Call 606- Big Branch-Honaker
is owned by James
630/792-5636
886-1339 between 5- Rd ., and located
Burchett.
Or e-mailed to Sanford
9 pm.
adjacent to Spurlock
mineral
is
complain@ caho.org The
FOR RENT
AT Creek. The latitude is
The
Joint owned by James
IVEL: 5 BR house. 37-31-17, and the Commission's Office Sanford Burchett and
$550 month plus util- longitude is 82-43- of Quality Monitoring White Cloud Mining
ities.
Security 27.
will acknowledge in Company, Inc. The
The facility is locatdeposit. No pets.
writing or by tele- operation will undered on the Harold
Contact 874-6700.
phone
requests lie property owned
USGS 7 .5 minute
received 10 days by Wm. & Pauline
3 BR HOUSE FOR quadrangle
map.
before
the survey Foley, Paul Foley,
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA, The surface area is
begins.
An account Floyd & Pam Collins,
kitchen, DR, heath owned by Bull Creek
Wright
representative will Charles
pump, built in vacu- Coal
Corporation.
Heirs,
Larry,
&
Gail
contact
the
individual
um cleaner & deck. The permit underlies
James
requesting the public Blackburn,
Located in Knott
land owned by Bull
Burchett,
information interview Sanford
County. 438-6104
Creek
Coal
&
Tylina
prior to survey, indi- Dale
STOP RENTING! A Corporation, Keathly cating the location, Mullins, Ed Burchett,
Chattie
foreclosure
only Heirs,
and
date, and a time of Paul Aken,
Tramble
$14,900. For listings Dingus,
James
Hunter.
the interview and the
Rasser
800-429-7008. Ext Mitchell,
The surface mining
name of the surveyor
Salisbury and Adam
B930.
who will conduct the application has been
Sizemore
Estate,
filed
for
public
interview.
HOUSE FOR RENT: Martin
Halbert,
inspection at the
This
notice
is
post· 3 BR, 1.5 BA, car- Tandy
Spurlock, ed in accordance Department
for
port, large lot. Call Ronald
Spurlock,
with
the
Joint Natural Resources
886-8366.
Ray
Spurlock, Commission ' s Enforcement ' s
Henrietta Mckinley, requireme·nts
and Prestonsburg
Velma Miller, Howard may not be removed Regional
Office,
Meade,
and
Gail
3140
South
Lake
NEW TRAILER
before the survey is
Drive, Prestonsburg,
LOTS FOR RENT: 3 Parsons Estate.
complete.
The operation will
from
minutes
Date
Posted: Ky., 41653. Written
Highlands Regional, affect an area within August 19, 2005
comments,
objec5
minutes
from 100 ft. of a public
tions, or requests for
Porter School. Call road, KY 2030. The
a permit conference
CITY OF
886-3959.
operation will not
must be filed with the
PRESTONSBURG
involve relocation or
of
the
Director
Trailer lot for rent closure of the public BID PROPOSAL Division of Mine
on old U.S. 23 road.
FOR
Permits, #2 Hudson
between
PrestonThe application has MATERIALS AND Hollow
Complex,
sburg and Paintsville
been filed for public
SUPPLIES
KY
40601 .
Frankfort,
call 606-886-9007 or
inspection at the
FISCAL YEAR
889 9747
Department
for
NOTICE OF
JULY 1, 2005
Trailer Lot For Natural Resource's
INTENTION
THROUGH
Rent, Large Yard. Pre s ton s burg
TO MINE
JUNE 30, 2006
Regional
Office,
Call 886-8366
The City of PresPERMIT
3140 South Lake
tonsburg is accepting
APPLICATION
Suite
6,
For Rent : newly Drive,
bids for materials
836-5468
constructed Mobile Prestonsburg,
KY
In accordance with
Home Lots in new 41653. Written com- and/or supplies that
A ll en, r e f e r e n ce ments, objections or will be purchased KRS 350.055, notice
required call 606- requests for a permit during fiscal year is hereby given that
2005-2006, for use in Richardson
874-2212
Fuel,
conference must be
the operation of City Inc., 14305 Old US
filed with the Director
23,
S50· Mobile Homes of the Division of Government during Route
that time. The gener- Catlettsburg,
KY
Mine Permits, #2
al
type
of 411 29, has applied
Hudson
Hollow
MH FOR RENT: 3
material s/supplies for a permit for an
BR
trailer
at Complex, U.S. 127 for bid:
underground
and
Hueysville. All elec- South, Frankfort, KY
Heavy Equipment
surface coal mining
40601.
tric, nice yard. HUD
with Operators
operation , located
approved. Call after
Hourly Rates
2.0
miles southeast
6 pm. 358-3392.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Diesel Fuel
of East McDowell, in
The
Joint
Double Walled
Floyd County. The
3 B R M H· F 0 R Commission
on
Plastic
proposed operation
RENT: 3 BR, large Accreditation
of
Gravel
lot. Call 886-8366.
will disturb 9.0 acres
H ea lthc a re CustodlaUCieaning
and underlie 935. 0
Organizations
will
Supplies
acres, and the total
conduct an accredi- Heating & Cooling
area within the pertation
survey of
Hourly Rates
mit boundary will be
ARH
ROOM FOR RE NT: McDowell
The Grade and
944.0 acres.
in 1700 sq ft dou- Hospital and Home
Placement of
The proposed operblewide. Access to Health on September
Concrete Slabs
ation is located just
whole house includ- 26-28, 2005.
and
west of KY 1929's
ing 2 full BA. Just
The purpose of the
Footers Per Yard
junction
with Neds
asked to help with survey will be to
Pipe and Gabion
Fork Road, and
portion
of
rent. evaluate the organiBaskets
located just west of
Cable, utilities, and zation's compliance
Bid
proposal forms Frasure Creek. The
furn1ture provided. with nationally estabcan be picked up in latitude is 37225'28".
Prefer female. BUSt:
Joint the
City Cle rk's The longitude is
NESS ONLY.
Call lished
Commission stan- Office, located at 200
285-3755.
82242'28".
dards. The survey North Lake Drive ,
The proposed operresults will be used P r es t o n s - b ur g,
ation is on the
determine
to
j
t'
~~
:Joi
• l<
McDowell U.S.G.S. 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
is owned by The Elk
Horn Coal Company,
LLC. The operation
will underlie land
owned by Nicholas
Cooley, Kennel Dye,
Billy
McCoy
&
Delphine
Prater,
Melvin R. Hall, Mary
Jane
Anderson,
Nellie Caudill, Kelly
& Alma Dye, Rex &
Ada Lynn Gayheart,
Richard & Beatrice
Conn, Anita Stumbo,
Curtis Sword, Rengie
Dye, Basel Moore,
Edd Ray Moore,
Polly Howell Estate,
Olvin Howard, Abe
Howell,
Progress
Land
Co. ,
The
Elkhorn
Coal
Company,
LLC,
German
Stumbo,
Edd Ray Moore Est.,
Day Gayheart, Ivan
Moore, Diane Moore,
Prophet Moore Est.,
Jessica
Moore,
Willard Moore Est.,
Jake Cooley, Bertha
Short,
Donald
Howell ,
Interstate
Natural Gas, Tracy
Frasure, Green &
Hellen Gayheart, and
Bert Newman.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653. Written
comments, objections, and requests
for a public hearing
or informal conference must be filed
with the Director,
Division of Field
Services, No. 2
Hudson
Hollow,
Frankfort, KY 40601.
STATE OF
WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
MILWAUKEE
COUNTY
CASE
#05FA001507
Petitioner
Connie M. Jenkins
5353 N. 60th Street
Milwaukee,
Wi.
53218
Respondent
Justin Jenkins
In re the marriage
of
Connie
M.
Jenkins, petitioner
J.
and
Justin
Jenkins, respondent.
You are being notified to appear in a
pre-trial hearing on
9/19/05, 2:00 p.m., at
Milwaukee County
Courthouse,
901
North 9th Street,
Room 512, Milwaukee, WI.
In the event a stipulation, is reached,
the matter . will be
heard and a divorce
granted at the time of
this pretrial if all
required information
is on file. If the
respondent fails to
appear, the Court
may preceded with
the case. Action that
may
be
taken
includes granting the
divorce,
dividing
property, awarding or
permanently denying
maintenance ,
assigning responsibility for debts, making orders for the
custody and placement of minor children, and making or
modifying child support orders.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-5460
OPERATOR
CHANGE
or to reject any and
all bids. Bids shall
not be withdrawn
within 30 days after
the opening of the
bids. Bids shall be in
sealed
envelopes
bearing the bidder's
identifcation,
and
labeled in the lower
left-hand corner: "Bid
for
New
(2006)
Chevrolet 1/2 ton
Extended Cab 4WD
Pickup Truck."
The bid shall be
awarded to the supplier with the lowest
and/or best bid.
Turner E. Campbell
Ch ief
Financial
Officer
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcem ent's
Pres t o n sbu rg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Suite
6,
Drive,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed
with
the
Director, Division of
Mine Permits, #2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127 South, Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601. All
comments or objections
must
be
received within fifteen (15} days of
today's date.
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC
HEARING
ON HOUSING
AGENCY
ANNUAL PLAN
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
In accordance with
the provisions of 450
KAR 8:010, notice is
hereby given that
The Elk Hom Coal
Company, LLC, 544
South Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky
41653,
intends to revise
Permit No. 836-5460
to add an operator.
The
operator
presently approved
in the permit is The
Elk
Horn
Coal
Company, LLC, 544
South Lake Drive,
P r estonsburg ,
Kentucky 41653. The
new operator will be
Eastern Fuels LLC,
183 Tollage Creek,
Pikeville, . Kentucky
41501.
The operator is
located 1.2 mile east
of Garrett in Floyd
County. The operation is approximately
1.3 mile southeast of
State Route SO's
junction with State
Route 7, and located
along Goose Creek.
The operation is
located
on
the
Wayland USGS 7 1/2
minute quadrangle
map,
at latitude
37Q29'00" and longitude 82248'36".
The application has
Sealed bids will be
recieved
by
Prestonsburg City's
Utilities Commission
for (1) New (2006)
Chevrolet 1/2 ton
Extended Cab 4WD
Pickup Truck. Bids
will be received at
the
Commission's
office, located ,at
2560 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653,
until 11 :00 a.m. (local
time), on August 29,
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19, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Rebels go with freshman under center ~c
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
EASTERN - The 2005 season wasn't without its bright
spots for the Allen Central High
School football team. Allen
Central finished the 2004 season
with a 4-6 record and was in
contention for a playoff spot.
Head coach Jeremy Hall had
hoped to welcome back nine
offensive starters and eight
defensive starters/ But things
didn't go as planned. Senior tailback Charles Robinson, who
rushed for 1,220 yards last season, and junior halfback David
Slone, both transferred to neighboring Prestonsburg High
School. Robinson is eligible to
play for the Blackcats in the
2005 season. Slone's eligibility
status is still up in the air.
Another player who transferred from Allen Central to
Prestonsburg is Ben Moore. .
Heading into the first game of
the 2005 season, Moore's eligibility status is also up in the air.
But the Rebels will move
forward. As a senior last season,
Ryan Hammonds quarterbacked
the Rebels and accounted for a
great portion of the Allen
Central offense. He's gone via
graduation and freshman Josh
Prater has taken over the duties
of starting quarterback.
According to Hall, Prater has
ALLEN CENIRAL
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Jeremy Hall
ug. 19 Betsy Layne, 7:30p.m.
ug. 26 Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 2 at Magoffin County, 7:30p.m.
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Sept. 23 at Knott County Central, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 hazard, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 at Phelps, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 14 South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21 Jenkins, 7:30p.m.
ALLEN CENTRAL REBEL$2005
handled the pressure that comes
with both being a freshman and
quarterbacking a high school
football team rather well.
"He's played well in the preseason," Hall commented when
asked about Prater's progress.
Prater already has high
school varsity playing experience. He gained that last season
as a member of the ACHS boys'
basketball team.
Robbie Vanderpool has returned
to Allen Central, making the move
back from Garrett Christian
Academy. Vanderpool, a senior,
returns to the Rebel backfield.
"Robbie Vanderpool runs
hard; we expect big things from
him," Hall added.
With the Class of 2004 graduation and transfers, the Rebel
Oct. 28 at McCreary Central, 7:30p.m.
backfield will take on much different look. Corey Click has
made the move from fullback to
halfback. Fullback Raymon
Spurlock, a load to bring down
for any offense, also returns for
the Rebels.
Senior Joe Brown (6-0, 250)
also returns for the ACHS football squad.
The Allen Central offensive
and defensive lines will feature
many of the same faces.
Senior
tackle
Gordon
Lafferty (6-3, 280) is one of the
top linemen back for the Rebels.
Senior linebacker Matt
Crabtree (6-2, 175), the leading
tackler from last season's team,
returns for the Rebel defense.
Returning to play in Class A,
Region 4, District 8, Allen
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ACHS grid schedule. Allen
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by JAMIE HOWELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Coach: Glen Ripkowski
ug. 19 at Allen Centra~ 7:30p.m.
ug. 26 at Powell County, 7:30p.m.
(Whitaker Bank Hall ofFame Bowl)
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
2 Cumberland, 7:30p.m.
9 Mago.ffin County, 7:30p.m.
16 Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
23 South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 Pineville, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 at Haysi, Va., 7:30p.m.
Oct.I4 Open
Oct. 21 at Phelps, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at Jenkins, 7:30p.m.
BETSY LAYNE BOBCATS 2005
back will keep opposing defenses
honest with his ability to not only
throw the deep ball but scramble
as well.
Every good quarterback
knows to always praise his
offensive line and Kidd was
quick to do so. "I have to brag
on my line and how well they
protect me," said K.idd. "They
do a great job."
Senior Justin Lawson is looking to go out on a good note.
"I have played on this team
for four years and have been
through the highs and lows,"
explained Lawson. "We plan on
going to Allen Central and coming out on top, we are looking
forward to the challenge."
Junior lineman Shannon
Hamilton was more than ready
for the season.
"We are ready to play and it
will show in our effort,"
Hamilton added.
Brandon Bentley will play
'?'ideout and defensive back ~or
the Bobcats and is expected to
back-up quarterback Brandon
Kidd. Doug Boyd and Travis
Slone will look to anchor the
offensive and defensive line.
"We have made a 110 percent improvement on he line,"
Boyd confided.
Ed Osborne transferred to
Betsy Layne from Prestonsburg
High School and will get plenty of
caries out of the Bobcat backfield.
Osborne has ~n mentioned as
one of the fastest backs in the area.
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY
PIKEVILLE COLLEGE
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 1 - William & Mary, 7 p.m.
Sept. 10- Kansas State, 10:30 a.m.
Sept. 24- at UCF, 6 p.m.
Oct. 1 - SMU, 4:30p.m.
Oct. 8 - at Virginia Tech, TBA
Oct. 15- UAB, 5 p.m;
Oct. 22 .... at UTEP, 9 p.m.
Oct. 29- at TULANE, 7 p.m.
Nov. 8- Southern Miss, 7:30p.m.
Nov. 19- East Carolina, 4:30p.m.
Nov. 26- at MEMPHIS, 2 p.m.
(All times are Eastern.)
Nathan Slone and Michael
Lackey are also expected to contribute for the Bobcats this season.
With a favorable schedule,
the Betsy Layne goal of six wins
looks to be within reach this season. The Betsy Layne coaching
staff consists of head coach.Glen
Ripkowski and assistant coaches
Dwight Jarrell, John Parsons,
Scott Bailey, Justin Akers and
Kirk Ramsey. When asked about
the prospects of the upcoming
season, Ripkowski was qukk to
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team in the preseason.
''These guys have worked so
hard in the summer and preseason that I am very excited to get
the season kicked off," commented Ripkowski. "Not only
have the players come together,
but this group of coaches have
worked very hard as well."
Betsy Layne will once again be
playing a non-district schedule,
but the Bobcats hope to get back
into the district alignment in 2006.
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Sept. 17 North Greenville College, 6 p.m.
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Oct. 1 Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1:30 p.m.
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Oct. 22 University of Cumberlands, 6 p.m.
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BETSY LAYNE- Ask any
member of the 2005 edition of
the Betsy Layne High School
football team what four wins last
season has done for this season's
squad and you get the same
answer from every single one,
"earn us some respect." After
struggling for several season's to
find a winning formula, the
Bobcats not only won a few
games but were just a good
bounce of the pigskin from finishing with a 5-5 mark last year.
Friday evening, this group of
Bobcats hope to get the season
off on the right track with a win
over county rival Allen Central.
It was only two years ago that
Betsy Layne ended what at the
time was the states longest losing
streak by upsetting the Rebels on
their home turf, but after the success of last season, the Bobcats
will not come in under the radar.
Several key contributors return
from last season with the most
notable being senior tailback Bill
Curtis Collins. The team captain,
Collins led the Bobcats in rushing
last season and returns to anchor
the Betsy Layne offense. Brandon
K.idd is expected to be under center when the cats open the season
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Blackcats to open
season with five
road games
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2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
by JAMIE HOWELL
Coach: John DeRossett
tt CONTRIBUTING WRITER
PRESTONSBURG- If ever a
team has paid its dues in order to
someday own a state title, it must
be the Prestonsburg Blackcats.
The year was 1993, and players
such as Seth Hyden and Dwayne
Garza seemed assured that elusive title after knocking off a
team in Danville that came into
the State Semifinals boasting a
44-game in-state winning streak
only to see the dream dashed in
the closing minutes against
Mayfield, when after leading 12~they fell 13-12.
How about the 2001 team that
seemed primed for the title but
were face with tackling a
Bardstown team that could have
given a good college team a run
for the money that season. The
past two seasons have witnessed
Prestonsburg fall to eventual state
champ Belfry late in the playoffs
with last season being one of the
toughest defeats in a long wlille
for the Red and Black.
Several members of the 2005
Blackcats have endured the
heartache of those losses and for
tbf seniors, this is the last chance
make a trip back to Louisville
and another shot at a state title.
Senior quarterback Dave
Shaffer has been rated the number one player in Class 2A,
Region 4 by some and has big
expectations awaiting in the new
season. The P'burg senior is
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ug.19 Open
ug. 26 at Hazard, 7:30p.m
(Pride of the Mountains Gridiron Classic)
2 at Pikeville, 7:30p.m. ·
9 at Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
16 at Ashland Blazer, 7:30p.m.
23 at Sheldon Clark, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 Mago.ffin County, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 Belfry, 7:30PM
Oct. 14 at Pike County Centra~ 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21 Shelby Valley, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
PRESTONSBURG BLACKCATS 2005
being recruited by such schools
as Louisville and Kentucky.
Brenton Hamilton returns for his
senior year at fullback on
offense and linebacker on the
defensive side of the ball.
Hamilton averaged over four
yards per rush attempt last season from the fullback spot.
Brandon (Hollywood) Peters
has earned the title of fastest
Blackcat. Not only is Peters one
of the top defensive backs in the
state, but he's expected to be in
the Blackcat backfield with
Hamilton and Lincoln Slone
this season. Slone carried the
ball for last season for the
junior varsity unit and is
expected to move into a starting
spot in the backfield this season. Zach Ousley returns on the
offensive and defensive lines
for the Cats and the three year
starter will use his experience in
this his senior campaign. Cody
Crider is back at center for
Prestonsburg after starting as a
junior last season.
The Blackcat line should be a
strong point this season with the
return of players like Tyler
Hamilton and Derrick Williams
the Blackcats are expected to set
up camp in opposing backfields
this season. Kyle Boggs is
another Blackcat that could add
depth to the offensive line.
Charles Robinson will be an
added plus for Prestonsburg, the
senior transferred from Allen
Central at the end of last year
and has gotten looks in the backfield until he was slowed by a
knee injury in the preseason.
Tyler Layne is back for the
Cats and will play the offensive
line as well as in the backfield at
times. Layne is one of the
strongest players on the team
and played well as a sophomore
last season. Carmen Maines will
get playing time at corner for the
cats this season and will also
play wide out. Prestonsburg is
coached by John DeRossett and
the Blackcats are picked near the
top of the state in most preseason polls. The road is rough for
the Cats early with five straight
road games to open the season.
Prestonsburg will open the
season on Friday, Aug. 26 at
Hazard and follow the opener
with road games at Pikeville,
Ashland
and
Paintsville,
Sheldon Clark. The Blackcats
have the ftrst week of the regu-
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lar-season open.
"Playing the tough schedule
early with games on the road is
something that we feel will help
us when we get into our district
schedule," said DeRossett. "A lot
of those early-season games are
also big rivalry games for us."
Prestonsburg is expected to
go to more of a ground attack
this season with a stable of good
running backs, but don' t expect
the Cats to abandon the passing
game completely. The defense
coached by James Derossett is
always a feared group and this
season should be no different.
South Floyd in search _of first playoff victory
Raiders begin new
!f:ampaign after best
season in school
history
South Floyd
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Donny Daniels
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
ug, 19 MagQffin County, 7:30p.m.
HI HAT - Playing a postseason game during the first week of
November is common for the
South Floyd High School football
program. Playing a postseason
game during the second week of
November isn't. But the Raiders
are looking to change that.
., South Floyd finished the regular-season portion of the 2004
season with an 8-2 record. The
Raiders recorded key district
victories over Paintsville and
Hazard, among others. South
Floyd finished in second in
Class A, Region 4, District 8
and seemingly had momentum
heading into the post-season.
The Raiders hosted a first-round
playoff game, but came up
short, falling to Lynn Camp.
South Floyd has made seven
trips to the football postseason
and is looking for an eighth
<fpearance as it chases that elustve first playoff game win.
"We always want to make it
into the playoffs," veteran South
Floyd Coach Donnie Daniels
noted. "Our kids know we have
to work hard to get back to the
SOUTH FLOYD RAIDERS 2005
playoffs."
South Floyd will try to record
its first postseason win without
the services of seven offensive
and eight defensive starters from
last season's squad.
South Floyd will miss the
strong running game of Wes
Hall and Joe Osborne. Last
year's senior running tandem
combined to rush for nearly
4,000 yards.
Leading offensive returnees
for the Raiders are senior quar-
terback Ryan Johnson and senior
wide receiver Justin Slone. The
pair hooked up several times last
season and will look to the same
again during the upcoming campaign. Hoping to utilize of his
team's most versatile and athletic players, Daniels will also
insert Slone into the offensive
backfield at times during the
upcoming season.
Another player who'll likely
step into a bigger offensive role
for the Raiders is junior running
back Anthony Barker. After seeing some varsity playing time
last season as a sophomore,
Barker put some time into the
South Floyd offseason workout
program and as a result, has
added both size and speed.
Junior Ethan Johnson has
also returned to the South Floyd
gridiron and will give the
Raiders another dual runningreceiving option.
Ryan Johnson, Slone and
Ethan Johnson will also play in
ug. 26 Shelby Valley, 7:30p.m.
Sept~ 2 at East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 Phelps, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 16 Pikeville, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 at Betsy Layne, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 Jenkins, 7:30p.m;, ""
Oct. 7 at Hazard, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 14 atAUen Centra~ 7:30 JJ..m.
Oct. 21 at Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
O~t;,_ 28 Open
the Raider defensive secondary.
Slone intercepted eight passes
during the 2004 season.
Senior fullback Kyle Hall (510, 230) returns to take carries
and block out of the Raider backfield. Hall will also double over
and play nose guard on defense.
"Offensively, we'll have to
mix it up," Daniels confided.
"We'll probably spread it out
and pass it more this season."
Senior tackle Ryan Little (63, 225) returns along both the
South Floyd offensive and
defensive lines. Offensively,
Senior tight end T.J. Hall (5-11 ,
200) has moved from tight end
to guard. On defense, he's back
at his familiar end position.
Numbers, or the lack thereof
are again a concern for the
Raiders. Heading into the fust
game of the season, South Floyd
has less than 30 players.
The Raiders won eight
games last season with less than
30 players.
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PAINTSVILLE - Jim Matney
accomplished much in his first season at the helm of the Johnson
Central High School football program. In spring of 2004, Matney
took over the JCHS program, making the move over from Sheldon
Bill Tom Ross as Johnson Central's
head coach and quickly went about
rebuilding the Golden eagle program. In his first season at the top
for the Golden Eagles, Matney led
his team to a 7-3 record. Matney
coached his team to the 7-3 mark as
a member of Class 4A, Region 4,
District. Now, he and his Golden
1.1annson Cenltal
005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Jim Matney
. 19 at South Laurel, 8:45p.m.
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26 Beckley, W.Va., 7:30 P·'!'·
2 at Logan, W.Va., 7:30p.m.
9 at Bryan Station 7:30p.m.
16 Lawrence County, 7:30p.m.
23 at Boyd County, 7:30p.m.
29 Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
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7:30p.m.
Region 4, District 8, joining
Ashland Paul Blazer, Boyd
County, Lawrence County, Mason
County and Greenup County.
Despite finishing the season
with a 7-3 record, Johnson Central
missed out on the playoffs, failing
to capture one of Class 4A, Region
4, District 8's four playoff spots.
Matney and his team arc hoping to reach the postseason though
a schedule that consists of a whole
new set of district opponents.
Matney is no stranger to postseason football he hopes to lead his
latest team deep into the playoffs.
In addition to its di~tnct foes
and rival Paintsville. Johnson
Central will play a patr of teams
from We.st Virginta, hosting
Beckley, W.Va. and yisitmg tradition-rich Logan, W. Va. The Wesl
Virginia teams arc both cm·Iy-scason foes for the Golden Eagles.
Speedster Ron Blume is the
top returnee for the JCHS football program. As a junior playing on last season's 7.3 squad,
Blume rushed for over 1.000
yards and returns as one of
ers. Senior quarterback Sean
Music also returns to guide the
Golden Eagle offense. Music
was slowed by an injury last
season but appears ready to go
full-strength under center.
Some Johnson Central teams
of the past also played in Class
3A, Region 4, District 8 against
many of the same opponents.
The Johnson Central offensive
was quite productive last season,
outscoring opposing teams 348180. The Golden Eagles scored 30
or more points in seven different
games and were never shutout.
Matney's team got off to a red-hot
start during the 2004 season, reeling
off four straight wins before
encountering the first taste of defeat.
Four offive starting offensive
linemen return for the Golden
Eagles, the only starter missing
from last season's 0-line unit is
T.C. Trimble. Derrick Flinchum
returns for both the JCHS oftensive and defensive lines. Senior
center Jeremy Curtis (6-2, 240)
will anchor the Golden Eagle
offensive line.
Johnson Central play its way
into the Playoffs, Bell County,
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Class 3A, Region 4, District 7.
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Runyon Era ready to kickoff in Paintsville
by JAMIE HOWELL
PAINTSVILLE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
PAINTSVILLE -A new day
has dawned for the Paintsville
High School football program.
The Paintsville Tigers have one
of the strongest traditions in the
state in sports and with Bill
Mike Runyon taking the helm
for the Tiger football program,
things can only get better.
The veteran basketball coach
h no stranger to the sport. He preiously served as a top Paintsville
'\Ssistant coach under both "Big
Blue Legend" Walter Brugh and
nost recently, David LeMaster.
Runyon takes over for
LeMaster and is determined to
put a good product on the field
vhen the Tigers travel to
'airview for the season opener.
Of course having returning
)layers like Daniel Pugh and
Hans Doderer doesn't hurt.
Pugh, a three-sport athlete
who excels in football, basketball
and baseball, will return at quarterback as a three year starter and
Doderer is back in the Tiger
backfield. Pugh, who is also
active in the sport of boxing,
rushed for over 1,000 yards last
season and the junior has a strong
ann as well. He showed signs of
greatness as early as his freshman
season when he first took a snap
as a varsity quarterback.
The Paintsville backfield
2005 FOOTBALL SCHFJDULE
Coach: Bill Mike Runyon
ug. 19 at Fairview, 7:30p.m.
ug. 26 at Allen Central, 7:30p.m
Sept. 2 at Jenkins, 7:30PM
Sept. 9 Prestonsburg, 7:30PM
Sept. 16 at Betsy Layne, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 Phelps, 7:30PM
Sept. 29 at Johnson Central, 7:30p.m
(Apple Bowl)
Oct. 7 Open
Oct. 14 Hazard, 7:30p.m.
PAINTSVILLE T/GER$2005
also returns Wes Ward and Kyle
Sublett. Sublett has caught the
attention of the Tiger coaching
staff in the preseason. Ward is a
bruising fullback who'll also aid
the Paintsville offense.
The Tiger offensive line
returns all five starters, including Johnny Porter, Blake
LeMaster and Jeff Collett.
Paintsville is led on defense by
Andrew Brown and Shane Cantrell.
Sublett returns at linebacker along
with seniors Matt Blevins and Matt
Hicks. Senior Kevin Williams
returns at defensive end.
Improving on last season's 65 mark should be no problem for
a talented group of Tigers.
Many are expecting a battle for
the district between the Tigers
and Pikeville. Runyon is expect-
ed to unleash the Tigers offense
and throw the ball much more
this season. Paintsville was saddled with a ground only attack
last season and the Tigers will
take advantage of the talents of
Pugh in 2005. Paintsville schedule is highhghted by games with
Prestonsburg, arch rival Johnson
Central and top Class A, Region
4, District 8 rival Pikeville.
Oct. 21 South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at PikeviUe, 7:30p.m.
Runyon wasted little time
getting to work within the
Paintsville .High football program. Shortly after taking over
the Tiger football post, Runyon
was busy assembling his coaching staff and getting offseason
workouts in order. He accepted
the Paintsville High football job
in late-spring.
With Runyon guiding the
Paintsville High football program, several players have found
their way to thl! gndiron that didn't suit up al all last season.
The Tigc, will open the 2005
season on the road at Fairview.
For the first time in a long while,
the Tiger will not open the regular season in the annual Big ._
Sandy Bowl, but instead will
make the long trip north.
Hager, Cards focused on return to postseason
by J.L. BALL
WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
BLACKLOG- Shawn Hager
is a year older and a year wiser.
"It was a learning process last
year,'' the second-year coach
said. "I was trying to be a nice
guy and I took it easy on the kids
.. All of that has now changed."
Now, Hager has taken a
whole new approach that he
hopes will bring Sheldon
Clark back to the top of the
district.
"It's going to take work < a
whole lot of work," he said.
"Our kids have changed the way
they practice and condition.
We'll be a different team when
the season starts."
Last season, Sheldon Clark
finished with a dismal 2-8 mark,
winning its first and last games
of the year.
"It's something I don' t think
about much." Hager said. "That
!SHELDON CLARK
~,· 2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Shawn Hager
l4ug. 19 at Lawrence County, 7:30p.m.
'4ug. 26 Boyd County, 7:30p.m.
!Sept. 2 at Knott County Centra~ 7:30p.m.
!sept. 9 Fairland, Ohio, 7:30PM
I
sept. 16 Open
1
JSept. 23 Prestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
,Sept. 30 East Ridge, 7:30PM
I
oct. 7 at Shelby Valley, 7:30p.m.
1
IOct 14 at Belfry, 7:30PM
Oct. 21 Pike County Central, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at Magr:iffin County, 7:30p.m.
was last year and that is behind
us. I can't dwell on the past. All
I can do is make sure it doesn't
happen again."
Conditioning and a rigorous offseason regimen is the difference.
"We've committed ourselves
to working individually during
the off season," junior wide
receiver Daniel Harless said.
"Each of us needed to do our part.
We've all come back bigger,
faster and stronger."
Harless (5-10, 172 pounds)
attended the Hit Center where he
lost nearly 50 pounds and gained a
second on his 40-yard dash time.
"I can feel the difference," he
added. "Hopefully, the competition will, too."
Change will come in many
forms for this group of Cardinals.
Senior Timmy Goble (5-11,
170 pounds), who started most
of last season, has been moved
to wide receiver and replaced by
sophomore Dameon Hensley (61, 185 pounds).
"It's something I accepted
because it was what was best for
the team," Goble said. "Dameon
will do a great job and I think
we'll be in good hands."
Hager said he made his final
decision on Hensley during
summer workouts.
"Dameon (Hensley) did a
tremendous job at the end of last
season," Hager said.
Hensley started the final two
games of the season, including a
35-8 season-finale win over
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"Dameon has a strong arm that will be fine," the senior
and great feet," Hager contin- wide receiver and running back
ued. "He's attended several said. "Of course, I want to do
camps and we are confident that more, but I want to make sure
we will be better on the offen- · this team has a chance to win
sive side of the ball."
each and every week."
Sheldon Clark's offense
Hager believes his team may
gained a little more depth during have more depth than any other
the off season when Jessie in the area.
"We have depth in just about
from
Stevens
transferred
every position," he continued.
Lawrence County.
Stevens (6- l, 175 pounds) "We lost a few players, but we
hopes his leadership skills will take have several players back to
root and help lead the Cardinals take Lhose positions."
With the addition of Stevens,
back to playoff contention.
"If my leadership is the only Hager is optimistic that the
thing this teams gets from me, Cardinals will be more diverse
on offense
"We're going to throw the
ball," he said assertively. "I
think our alnhty to do th: s will
make us more diver~e and more
difficult to defend."
In the mcanttme. Hager and
his players \ ant to return to the
mix as one of the region's top
programs.
"We're better in every facet
of the gaml'.'' Hager said. "Our
goals are the ~ame ... We want to
run the table. wm the district
and regional championships and
- of coursG wi11 a state cham'
pionship."
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
19,2005 • S5
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Magoffin marching forward with new coach
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Gerold Howard
ug. 19 at South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
ug. 26 at Knott County Central, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 2 AUtn Central, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 at Betsy Layne, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 16 Belfry, 7~30 p.m.
Sept. 23 Pike County Central, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 at Prestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 70pen
Oct. 14 Shelby V4llty, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21 at East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 Sheldon Clllrk, 7:30p.m.
by STEVE LeMASTER
viclory was a win over Allen
Central.
Howard moves over from the
SALYERSVILLE - With a middle ),Chool program where
new coach at the helm, he coached both football and
Magoffin County High School's · basketball. Brown resigned
football program will have from MCHS, both as a coach
somewhat of a new look this and leach during the spring. In
season.
his tenure as MCHS football
The 2005 edition of the coach, Brown posted a 16-43
Magoffin County High School overall record and went 8-30 in
football team will hil the field district play in six seasons.
under the watchful eye of new
Senior quarterback Wes
head coach Gerold Howard. The Helton (6-4, 205) will line up
new head coach takes over for under center for the Hornets.
the old one, Dayne Brown. The Junior Antoine Gibson will
Hornets finished 3-6 (2-4 in serve as the backup quarterback.
Class 2A. Region 4, District 8)
Brad Wireman (6-2, 175),
m Brown's final season (2004).
Johnnv Dais and Brandon
Magoffin County registered Sh.cph~rd are also available to
two district wins last season, catch passes for the Hornets.
beating both Pike Central and
Curtis Bradley will run of of
East Ridge. The Hornets' other the Hornet backfield, taking carSPORTS EDITOR
ries from the fullback position.
Gibson , Brad Wireman, Jordan
Howard, Phillip Ingram, John
Davis, Chris Smith and Tyler
Holbrook will also have a hand
in Magoffin County's offensive.
Seniors Mike Wright (6-1,
255), Daniel Brown (6-2 264)
and Justin Howard (6-1 255) all
return along the MagoffiQ
County offensive line.
Magoffin County returns
experience on defense as well.
The
secondary,
featuring
Shepherd at one of the cornerback positions, possesses speed
which will be need in a district
that includ&s ·the likes of Belfry
and Prestonsburg.
Defensive
end
Robert
Duchnowski and middle linebacker Jordan Howard are two
other key defenders returning.
Magoffin County will open
the 2005 season on the road at
South Floyd.
Securing on of four available
playoff spots in Class 2A,
District 8 is again on the minds
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New head coach takes over storied Panther football program
by J.L. BALL
PIKEVILLE
WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
PIKEVILLE - Exit Chris
McNamee. Enter Mike Jackson.
Different coach ... Same
expectations.
·That's what attracted Jackson
• from Oldham County to
Pikeville.
''The school's commitment
to excellence on and off the
field made the choice logical,"
Jackson said.
Now, his chapter in a rich
and storied history of Pikeville
football begins.
"I'm excited," he said. "This
group of kids are incredible and
I am expecting great things this
season."
Jackson's transition should
be smooth with senior running
back Weston Robinson (5-9,
~ 175) and quarterback Chase
Huffman ( returning.
"We have great players
returning, but they are also
learning a new system,"
Jackson said. "It's going to
take maybe mid-season or the
entire season for us to adapt to a
few new things."
Robinson, who rushed for
1,100 yards last season, was
ranked as the second best player
in Region 4 by The Cat's Pause
Magazine.
"He's a playmaker and we
expect him to be our 'go-to guy'
this season," Jackson explained.
2005 FOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Mike Jackson
PIKEVILLE PANTHERS 2005
Last season, Robinson and
Robert Shurtleff combined for
one of the state's most dangerous one-two backfield tandems
in Class A.
Pikeville, which finished 11 3 last season, lost to Beechwood
in the state semifinals.
"This school and football
program has had a storied past."
Jackson s.aid. "We need to look
back at that and respect that.··
When it comes to cxpccta-
tions, Jackson understands they
are high. However, it looks at it
realistically.
"All we can control is the
present," he continued. "Do we
want to win a state championship? Yes! But I know that I
am a first-year coach implementing a new system."
Jackson's philosophy is a bit
more liberal on both offense and
defense.
"We're going to do some things
on offense to utilize our strong
points," he explained. "On defense,
we'll go to more of a 4-3 set."
Senior Matt Lockhart (5-11,
190) will anchor the hit squad at
middle linebacker. He is also
one of the returning players on
the offensive line.
"He's our quarterback on
defense," Jackson said. "He'll
be the guy that leads us on the
defensive side of the ball."
Jackson ·s most strenuous
\Aug. 19 Newport Central Cathnlic~ 8:30p.m.
(Pike County Bowl)
ug. 27 at Corbin, 8:45p.m.
(Cumberland Falls Pigskin Classic)
Sept. 2 Prestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 Allen Central, 7;30 p.m.
Sept. 16 at South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 at Belfry, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 at Phelps, 7;30 p.m.
Oct. 7 Jenkins, 7:30p.m.
Oct.14 Open
Oct. 2 at Hazard, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
task will be to create a more
effective special teams unit.
"That's something that is
missing in this part of the state,"
Jackson added.
"I want to change that ...
We're going to work hard on
having a great special teams unit
that will be as intricate as our
offensive and defensive units."
The. Panthers will have an
advantage in their schedule this
season. Their two most difficult
district games will come in the
final two weeks of the season
when they face Hazard (Oct. 21)
and Paintsville (Oct. 28).
"I hope that helps us,"
Jackson said. "We want to be in
a great situation when we play
them and it's better to know that
we will be playing these teams
later on · in the season.
Hopefully, we'll have our system in place and be effective in
every facet of our game."
Phelps figures on making run at playoffs
by J.L. BALL
PHELPS
WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
PHELPS - Robert Gannon
remembers the day Chris
Hagerman was named head football coach at Phelps High School.
~ ''I knew it was the start of
something great." Gannon said.
"This is the start of something new
and innovative ... I just know it."
Hagerman and the Hornets
look to swarm into the 2005
campaign with a "back to the
basics" approach.
"If you can't run and tackle,
you can't win football games,"
Hagerman said.
"We've spent the majority of
our preseason working on the
basic fundamentals of the game."
Hagerman, who comes to
•Phelps after spending two seasons as head coach at Lee (Va.)
High School, is excited about
the upcoming season.
"We can't wait," he added.
"We've had great support from
the community and our school
... I feel like we are on the brink
of something great."
The Hornets must rebuild on a
5-5 season in 2004, which included a 3-4 mark in district play.
"One of our goals is to have a
winning season," Hagerman said.
"From what I am told, that has
just happened six or seven times
~ the 30-plus years they have
~ad football here at Phelps."
Gannon will be instrumental
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Chris Haggerman
ug. 20 Pike County Central, 8:30p.m.
(At Belfry, Pike County Bowl)
ug. 26, {OS Open
PHELPS HORNETS 2005
in the turnaround this season.
The 5-foot-10 160 pound
junior threw for over 600 yards
last season on 45-of-77 allempts.
"I know we are going to go to
the air more," Gannon said. "Wr
have a lot of diversity on
offense and that will mak.c us
very difficult to defend.,.
Senior runningback Cody
Gearles (5-8, 190 pounds) will
look to improve on a 2004 season that saw him rush for O\cr
600 yards.
Good luck to all area
teams this upcoming
seasonI
Hagerman's former high
"I know I am going to be
more of weapon on offense," he school coach from Garden (Va.)
.tddeJ. ''I'm just going to run High School, decided to accept
behind my blocks and do what- an assistant coaching position.
"''m thrilled to have coach Jones
ever it takes to make sure this
· here," Hagerman explained. He's a
learn in successful."
Seniors Daniel Whitt (6-2, great football mind and he knows
260) and Justin McCoy (6-0, 190 what it rakes to be a champion."
Jones coached for over 30
pounds) will anchor the defense.
Hagerman says his kids are · years in Virginia where he led
hungry and ready to change the Garden to a state championship
ttde in Hornctville. That task appearance in 1986.
Former Pikeville College and
was made a bit easier this off
Pike
County Central assistant
season when Ray Jones,
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Sept. 2 Powell County, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 at South Floyd, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 16jenkins 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 at Paintsville, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 Pikeville 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 Allen Central 7:30p.m.
Oct. 14 at East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21 Betsy Layne, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at Hazard, 7:30p.m.
Butch Joplin has also joined the
staff, alongside Jamie Keene
and Jason Sampson.
''I'm thrilled to have these
men on board," Hagerman said.
"I think we have a great mix of
individuals here to get the job
done."
Hagerman's short-term goals
are to teach the kids how to win
and finish games.
"We've got to battle and
never give up," he added. "Of
course, we have other more concrete goals like winning our district and making the playoffs."
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Allen Central
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Pirates set sail for possible three-peat
byJ.L. BALL
BELFRY
WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
BELFRY - Belfry begins a
new era of football this season
but the expectations are still the
same on Pond Creek.
After losing two of the state's
top prep standouts, don't look for
the Pirates roll over or play dead.
Belfry plays for championships.
The Bucs enter the 2005 season with high hopes of earning
the school's third straight Class
2A state championship.
'This team has a lot of rebuilding to do," Belfry head coach
Philip Haywood said. "We're
going to rely upon some of our
younger players to fill the void."
The Pirates finished 14-1 last
season and defeated Owensboro
Catholic, 28-21, in the Oass 2A
state title game. The Bucs' only
loss in 2004 came to Ironton, Ohio.
It has been two years since a
Kentucky team has knocked off
Belfry - Boyd County ( 18-0)
on Aug. 23,2003.
Haywood, who enters his
22nd season at the helm on
Pond Creek, is currently seventh
all-time in career wins with 270
- just one victory short of
Bardstown's Garris Martin. ·
"I'm not one to look at the
record books," he added.
Haywood is 198-71 at Belfry.
The Pirates return just four
starters on offense and must
replace nearly 5,000 yards of
.
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULF~
Coach: Philip Haywood
ug. 20 Henry Clay, 6 p.m.
(Pike County Bowl)
Sept. 2 Lawrence County, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 at East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 16 at Magoffin County, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 Pikeville, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 3 at Pike County Central, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 at Prestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 14 Sheldon Clark, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21/ronton, Ohio, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at Shelby Valley, 7:30p.m.
BELFRY PIRATES 2005
offense from the departure of
Doug Howard (the school's alltime leading rusher), David
Jones and Gary Childress.
Jones, who will play at the
University of Kentucky this fall,
and Howard piled up 29 touchdowns apiece last season.
"Our backfield over the past
couple of years had great balance," Haywood said.
Senior Aaron Chapman (6-3,
220) and junior Chad Steele (6-
3, 207) return at tight ends.
Senior Justin Gooslin (5-11,
209) and junior Derek McCoy
(5-10, 222) are back on the line.
Senior Jordan Phillips (6-3,
160) is expected to earn the nod
as starting quarterback.
Haywood will have a variety
of weapons in the backfield
vying for starting positions.
Junior Corey Chapman (5-9,
153) and sophomore Dustin May
(6-2, 201) are the frontrunners.
Both backs played in several
games last season.
Senior Matt Maynard (6-1,
160), who started several games as
wide receiver last season, has also
been working in the backfield.
Junior Shawn Huddle (5-8,
170) and sophomore Phillip
Hickman (5-11, 165) could see
time at fullback.
On defense, Gooslin and
Chapman are back at end.
Senior Tommy Church (5-10,
180) is the only returning lineman, and junior Devin Kohari
(5-11, 167) and Maynard return
as defensive backs.
"We want to develop a physicality on defense," Haywood added.
''Our kids need to be able to run to
the ball as a unit ... On offense, we
must be able to fire off the ball better and get on our blocks."
Haywood said the past state
championships have served as a
motivational tool for his players.
"Success breeds success.
Haywood explained. ··we chal
lenge our teams each year to
play for championships."
Haywood is pleased with the
work ethic of his team and
expects the progress to be at a
"snail's pace."
"It's going to take so ,
time," he concluded. "We just
need to have patience and focus
on getting better each day we
step on the field."'
Hawks have ·new coach, new outloo
by LEIGH ANN WELLS
ers are all different than when district play may get a little
he originally left Beckley's rough. With traditionally strong
Creek, he says his return has teams like defending back-tobeen a rather smooth one.
back Class 2A champions
BECKLEY'S CREEK- The
"It's been a lot of fun for Belfry and· constant contender
more things change the more me," McNamee said about the Pres.tonsburg, the Hawks will
they stay the same.
transition. "This place is not have to keep their game faces on
Coach Chris MeN amee unfamiliar. The kids have done at all times.
returns as head cdach of the what we have asked them to and .
"I think it is a really tough
Pike County Central High everyone has made it easy. It's Class 2A district," McNamee
School Hawks this year after six gone pretty good."
said. "I think Eric Ratliff will do
seasons as the head man for
Though the transition has a great job at East Ridge and the
Pikeville High
been smooth, McNamee knows new coaches at Shelby Valley
School and though the play- the road ahead of his team in and the others will have strong
teams. It's a tough district."
No matter how tough the
going may get, McNamee says
his players are ready.
"The kids are looking forward to it."
One of those kids looking
forward to going head-to-head
with the district power houses is
junior Gordon Varney. Varney
(At Belfry, PUc~ County Bowl)
(5-9, 185), is a worker, according to McNamee.
ug. 260pen
"He has a great work ethic.
We can count on him to do a lot
ept. 2 Boyd Cflll"fltYt 7:30p.m.
on offense, defense and special
teams." McNamee explained.
Sept. 9 at Lawrence County, 7:30p.m.
"Gordon is a team player."
ept. 16 Shelby ValleyJ' 7:30p.m.
Varney, who serves the
Hawks as both running back and
Sept. 23 at Magoffin County, 7:30p.m.
linebacker, believes the Hawks
will have a team to be reckoned
ept. 30 Be(fryJ, 7:3() p.m.
with this season.
O~t. 7 East Ridge, 7:30p.m.
"Hopefully, we will win !fie
district and make a statement,"
~- 14 Ptestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
Varney said.
What would Varney like that
statement to say?
"That Pike Central's building
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PIKE COUNTY CENIRAL
a strong program and will be
here to stay," he said.
Varney said he and his teammates have really focused on
conditioning in preparation for
the upcoming season. Outside
of practice, Varney said he has
made an extra effort to run and
lift weights.
Varney complimented the
coaching staff on its hard work
and dedication to the team. He
looks forward to playing during
the new MeNamee era.
"He brings a lot of excite-
ment and intensity to it," Varney
said of the head coach.
Varney believes defense will
be the Hawks' best asset this
season. He said it is big up front,
has really fast linebackers and
"the best secondary we have
ever had."
McNamee believes the entire
team will improve as the season
progresses. He said that instead
of changing their style based on
which team they face each
week, the Hawks will do what
they have practiced all summer,
try to improve each day alll!
each week and eventually get to
the same level as Belfry and
.~
Prestonsburg.
In addition to improvlllg
their play each week. McNamee
is looking ahead mto thL
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
19, 2005 • 57
Ratliff reunited Vlith Ea
by J.L. BALL
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WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
LICK CREEK - When Eric
Ratliff left East Ridge High
~chool almost three years ago,
he had built a program that
almost made school history
immediately.
During the Warriors' inaugural season in 2002, they finished 4-6 and barely missed the
cut to participate in the playoffs.
'That was a great accomplishment for our kids," Ratliff said.
"We want to build on that again."
After a brief hiatus, Ratliff an Elkhorn City native- is back
home again and committed to
finish what he started several
.,_years back.
"Our goals are simple," he
explained. "We want to improve
each day in practice and focus on
bettering ourselves as a team."
Since Ratliff's departure, the
Warriors' program has suffered
a downward spiral, winning just
six of their last 20 games.
"We're not looking at the
past," Ratliff said. "We're
focused on the future."
Ratliff is confident that his
team is ready to attain several
goals. One of the most impor.~ant is recording the school's
first winning season.
"As a staff, we want to set
realistic goals and we feel that a
winning season and making the
OTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Eric Ratliff
Uu County Bowl)
EAST RIDGE WARRIORS 2005
ug 26 Open
Sept. 2 South lnyd, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 Belfry, 7 W p.m.
Sept. 16 at Pe 1 County Central, 7 p.m.
(Black Gold R w l)
Sept. 23 Open
Sept. 30 at Sl ld n Clark, 7:30p.m.
·, unty Central, 7:30p.m.
.30p.m.
Oct. 21 Magfl in County, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 at Pr
sburg, 7:30p.m.
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playoffs are realistic for this
group of kids," he said.
The Warriors will have two
veterans returning on the line in
seniors Steven Thacker (6-2, 300)
and Justin Younce (6-2, 315).
"They will solidify our running attack and we hope to build
a nice unit around them," Ratliff
said. "The key is to get our
young guys some experience
around them."
Junior David Ratliff (5-10,
185) is battling junior Keith
Miller (5-9, 165) for the starting
quarterback job.
Ratliff started last season at running back and has taken most of the
snaps during preseason drills.
Miller played quarterback for
the junior varsity squad last season. Senior Kyle Fletcher (6-4,
190) returns at tight end and
should give Ratliff a little more
diversity on offense.
"Kyle has tremendous talent
and we hope to utilize his tall
frame in our passing attack,"
Ratliff added.
Ratliff describes his offense
as a disciplined unit that will
stick with the basics.
"We're going to run the ball
and try to control the clock," he
explained.
"Our passing game will be
important becaL \ e plan to
use that effec' i 1 to keep
defenses on thei
On defense
Warriors
hope to be bigJ;
I stronger.
Since Ratliff's ·•rm al on the
Reservation, a 1. < number of
players have wor cd daily in the
weight room.
"We're bigb
h ster and
stronger," Ratliff d. "You have
to be that waY. ir t 1 district."
Ratliff calls his Class 2A District
"the most difficult in the state."
With the likes of defending
back-to-hack state champion
Belfry and perennial top five
Prestonsburg, Ratliff understands the daunting task of
cracking the top four and getting
into the postseason.
"Our district is stacked top to ·
bottom," he said. "It's going to be
a fight just to get in that top four."
Wildcats hope to get going early, despite late c ching change
by J.L. BALL
WILLIAMSON (W.VA.) DAILY
NEWS
ROBINSON CREEK
Hampton didn't expect
to be in this situation.
The longtime assistant coach
at Shelby Valley anticipated the
start of a new era when Ben
Howard, the son of legendary
coach Hillard Howard, was
named head coach at the school
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earlier this year.
Instead, that new chapter was
written and closed quickly when
Ben Howard abruptly resigned
in late July and Hampton was
appointed head coach.
"We've had our share of
bumps in the road this off season, but we've stayed together
as a family," Hampton said.
Hampton and his staff look to
change the tide on Robinson
Creek this season and lead the
SHELBY VALLEY
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Anthony Hampton
ug. 19 East Ridge
(At Pikeville, Pike County Bowl)
ug. 26 at 7:30p.m.
Sept. 2 Grundy, Va., 7:30p.m.
Sept. 9 Open
Sept. 16 at Pike County Central, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 23 at Breathitt County, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 30 Letcher County Central, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 7 Sheldon Clark, 7:30p.m.
ct. 14 at Magoffin County, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 21 at Prestonsburg, 7:30p.m.
Oct. 28 Belfry, 7:30p.m.
Wildcats to unchartered territory - past the ftrst round of the
playoffs.
Shelby Valley, which opened
its doors in 1990, has never won
a playoff game.
"Our kids are focused and
geared up to accomplish some
goals that we have never
attained here before," Hampton
said. "We're not going to dwell
on the past."
Hampton has thrown out the
traditional,
wishbone-type
offense and plans to open his
play book.
"We're going to open up our
play book and utilize our athleticism," Hampton said. "The kids
have really adapted to this philosophy and I'm anticipating great
things from our offensive unit."
Sophomore Tyler Johnson
(5-11, 160) will replace Timmy
Gdfftth at quarterback.
"You don't replace a kid like
Timmy," Hampton said of
Gdfftth, a four-year starter who
graduated earlier this year.
Seniors Zack Mullins (6-1,
195) and Josh McPeek (5-9,
185) join Larry May (5-11, 185)
- the team's leading rusher last
season - in the backfield.
"This is one of the most
explosive and talented backfields this school has seen in
quite some time," Hampton
said. "They will be a big part of
what we do this season."
McPeek, who led the team in
tackles as a freshman and
sophomore, did not play last
season.
''I'm sure our opposing
teams will remember this kid,"
Hampton assured. "He's the
kind of player that can change
the game in one play."
Shelby Valley finished 5-6
last season and lost its final
three games, including a 63-6
setback to Breathitt County in
the first round of the playoffs.
"We're focused on getting
off to a better start and putting
ourselves in a better situation
during the second half of the
seas'on," Hampt •n ~aid. "We
seem to always 1'
IrSelves in
a hole early on a ll we feel like
we are digging 11 during the
remainder of the , Jn."
The Wildcats \ c 1ust one of
their flrst four ga 11 • in 2004.
A senior-lad n •ne should
provide plenty c f flfOtection for
the backfield.
Adam "Pudgl l <ttliff (6-2,
Ratliff (5295), Adam "Ml
11, 240) and Josh
?.60) will
Damron (6
anchor both the ffl'nsive and
defensive lines.
hnson (6-4,
Junior John
270) will headline the hit squad .
at middle linebacker. He will
also see time at fullback.
"We're solid at every position and we're expecting to
shock some people," Hampton
added.
Competing in one of the
state's most competitive Class
2A districts makes a "When
you're competing with the likes
of Prestonsburg and Belfry, it's
just plain difficult," Hampton
said. "We all know that all the
other teams in the district are on
the rise too ... We'.ve got to buckl~up and control our-destiny.:•
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Eastern Kentucky poised to compete for playoff berth
EASI ERN KENIUCKY UNIV.
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Danny Hope
Sept. 3- Appalachian State, 6:30p.m.
Sept. 10 - at Western Kentucky, 7:30p.m.
Sept. 17- at North Carolina State, 6 p.m.
Sept. 24- Tennessee Tech, 3 p.m.
Oct. 1 - at Jacksonville State, TBA
Oct. 8 - Samford, 6:30p.m.
Oct. 15- at Easter1J Illinois, 2:30p.m.
Oct. 22 - Southeast Missquri, 6:30p.m.
Nov. 5 - at Murray State, 4 p.m.
Nov. 12- Tennessee-Martin, 1:30 p.m.
Nov. 19 - at Tennessee State, 3:30p.m.
(All times Eastern)
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND - During his
firs t two years as Eastern
Kentucky 's football coach,
Danny Hope and his staff
brought in players to fit his
offensive system and worked
to strengthen the Colonels '
schedule.
This season, Hope expects
the Colonels to start reaping the
benefits of those efforts as they
bid to return to the NCAA
Division 1-AA playoffs for the
first time since 1997. Ohio
Valley Conference coaches
think that's a possibility, as they
picked Eastern Kentucky second, behind defending champion Jacksonville State, in the preseason league poll.
"One of our goals is to return
the program to national prominence," said Hope, who wants
to extend the Colonels' streak of
consecutive winning seasons to
28 years. "When that happens, it
will take care of the record."
It's been a steady progression
for the Colonels in switching
from longtime coach Roy
Kidd's run-oriented offense to
Hope 's more pass-heavy system, which is similar to that of
Purdue. The Colonels compiled
4,697 offensive yards during
Hope's first season, but a rash of
injuries - particularly at quarterback - led to a significant drop
last season, to 3,561 yards, as
the Colonels finished 6-5.
But last season's travails
might prove to be fortuitous .
With his three top quarterbacks
sidelined for much or all of the
season by injuries, Hope turned
to freshman Josh Greco. After a
shaky first start - he threw
seven interceptions in an early
loss to archrival Western
Kentucky - Greco settled down.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pounderfrom
Naples, Fla., played in eight
games, started five and passed
for 1,048 yards and four touchdowns.
"I'm proud he was able to
suck it up and play injured and
learn and grow and develop and
get some of his rough sledding
out of the way last year," Hope
said. "Last year was a blessing
in disguise for 2005."
Greco will have an experienced receiving corps, led by
two second-teamAll-OVC players: senior wideout Andre
Ralston, who had 36 catches for
611 yards, both team highs, and
five touchdowns, and junior
tight end Patrick Bugg, who had
29 catches for 434 yards and
four touchdowns.
At tailback, where now-
departed C.J. Hudson was a fixture for several seasons, the
Colonels will have sophomore
Marc Dunn, who rushed for 141
yards and three touchdowns as a
reserve last season. Hope
describes Dunn as big and physical and said he'll benefit from
running behind an experienced
offensive line, one on which all
five starters return, including
second-team All-OVC tackle
Sean Dumford.
Senior linebacker Jerome
Jones led the Colonels last season with 113 tackles and
received first-team All-OVC
honors. He'll try to fill the leadership void left by the departed
OVC defensive player of the
year, Justen Rivers. Depth at
linebacker is a concern, Hope
said, but that is somewhat offset
by his enthusiasm over an experienced secondary.
Eastern's early schedule will
be difficult, with games against
1-AA
powers
Division
Appalachian State and Western
Kentucky to open the season, followed by a game at Division I-A
North Carolina State. The
Colonels open OVC play at
Jacksonville State two weeks later.
"The schedule is a big part of
the master plan, although it can
be a little bit Lough on your
record," Hope said. "Obviously
there's a reason why we choose
to have such a competitive
schedule. It mandates you raise
your level of play. There's a lot
to be gained by it."
Eastern Kentucky
Football at a Glance
2004 R ecord
6-5,6-2 Ohio Valley Conference.
Offense - Spread.
Defense- 4-3.
Starters returning/lost - 14/8.
Lettermen returning/lost - 33/15.
Key players - Quarterback
Josh Greco, tailback Mark
Dunn, wide receiver Andre
Ralston, tight end Patrick Bugg,
center Will Heineman, tackle
Sean Dumford, defensive tackle
Mark Cristiani, linebackers
Jerome Jones and Marcus
Mayes, safely Carl Hayden.
Coach - Danny Hope (13-10,
third season; 13-10 overall).
Morehead seeking elusive league title
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOREHEAD - Opponents
facing Morehead State are used
to the unexpected, as the Eagles
MOREHEAD STA1E UNIV.
2005 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Coach: Matt Balard
Sept. 3 - at St. Francis (Pa.), l p.m.
Sept. 10- Newber~ College, 7 p.m.
Sept. 17 - at Valparais#)~ . 2
Sept. 24 - Dayton, 7 p.m.
;,:m.
Oct. 1- at Butler, 2p.m.
Oct. 8- at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.
Oct. 15- Austin Peay, 1 p.m.
Oct.
~2
- Davidson, 1 p.m.
Oct. 29- Tiffin, lp.m.
Nov. 5- at Missouri-Rolla, 2 p.m.
Nov. 12 -at Georgia Soifthern,'I p.m.
(All times Eastern)
are willing to use everything
from the triple option to the runand-shoot on offense.
Morehead State coach Matt
Ball ard enjoys being unpredictable, but not necessarily
when it comes to his team's fortunes. · He's hopeful that this
could be the season the Eagles,
who have won three straight
Pioneer Football League South
Division titles, can break
through and win the overall
league championship.
But with little proven depth,
especially on defense, and one
particularly challenging nonconference opponent on the
horizon, outsiders can be forgiven for wondering if the Eagles
can take the next step.
"We know it's a huge challenge," said Ballard, entering
his 12th season at the helm of
the non-scholarship NCAA
Division 1-AA program. "But
that's what we thrive on."
Morehead State rebounded
from a 1-3 start last season to
finish 6-6, but for the third
straight season, the Eagles lost
to the North Division champ in
the PFL title game.
Ballard firmly believes that
playing tough non-conference
teams is the proper way to prepare his squad for conference
showdowns, but he might have
outdone himself this season.
Morehead State's final regularseason game - which, if the
Eagles take care of South
Division business, will be a
week before another title-game
appearance - will be against
perennial 1-AA power Georgia
Southern, a legitimate nationalchampionship contender.
Last season, mostly because
of injuries, Morehead State's
offense remained in a permanent state of flux - 17 different
players rushed the ball, 16
caught passes and three started
at least one game at quarterback. This season, Ballard
hopes for a bit more stability.
Brian Yost, who played in five
games before a season-ending
injury, enters preseason practice
as the starting quarterback, but
he will be pushed by Tyler
The Eagles also are dealing
Cvitkovic, who also saw signifwith their coach's personal
icant action in 2004.
The Eagles return their top tragedy. Ballard's son, Matthew
four rushers, including junior - a student assistant coach for
fullback Jabari McGee, an All- the team - died in a motorcycle
South Division pick last season, crash July 12.
and halfback Chris Stockelman,
who led the team in rushing
Morehead State
(555 yards) and receiving (297
yards) last season. But the Football at a Glance
offensive line is a major concern, Ballard said, with only 2004 Record
6-6, 2-1 Pioneer Football
three proven players.
Morehead State must replace League (South Division).
six defensive starters, including Offense -Multiple.
the unit's unquestioned leader, Def ense- 4-3.
linebacker
Craig
Unger. Starters returnillgllost- 14/10.
Returning lineman James Lettermen returning/lost - 38111.
Key players - Quarterback
Spencer-Howell and senior
defensive back Kwesi Williams, Brian Yost, halfback Chris
the team's leading returning Stockelman, fullbacks Jabari
tackler with 81 stops, figure to McGee and Casey McCoy, wide
receiver Dana Calhoun, defenplay key roles this season.
"You have to have somebody , sive end James Spencer-Howell,
Andrew
step up when somebody linebacker
cornetback
leaves," said Williams, whose Sturzenbecker,
brother, Jamaal Williams, plays Kwesi Williams, kicker Adam
for the San Diego Chargers. Jones, kick returner Daniel
"People leave and people come Vagni.
in. People will work hard to be
Coach - Matt Ballard (64where they need to be."
0111ER STATE SCHOOLS:
Murray coach wants to forget off-field problems and get on with football
by MALCOLM C. KNOX
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Murray State
coach Joe Pannunzio just wants
to get back to coaching football.
He doesn't want to talk about
the player and former player
who were arrested for drugrelated offenses in late April. He
doesn't want to talk about the 11
days he was put on paid administrative leave.
''We're really anxious to get
that behind us," Pannunzio said.
''We're excited for what's ahead."
There may not be easy
answers there, either.
The Racers last won the Ohio
Valley Conference title in 2002,
and shared that one with Eastern
Illinois. Murray last won it outright in 1996. Jacksonville State
won the conference the past two
years and is picked to win it
again this season.
The upcoming season will be
Pannunzio's sixth leading the
Racers who are 28-28 under the
him, including 7-4 last season.
Murray has been a notoriously
slow starter, losing at least two
of its first four each season
under Pannunzio.
So aiming for the conference
title and Jacksonville State are a
little premature for now, the
coach says.
"We're going to worry about
getting by us first," Pannunzio
said. "We need to learn how to
start faster, and I don 't know
how we do that."
For the second consecutive
season, the Racers will have a
first-year starter at quarterback.
Junior Ken Topps and sophomore Ryne Salyer are vying for
the spot left by Adam Fisher,
who transferred. Pannunzio said
Topps is the front-runner to start
t1c
Sept. ~ opener against
ISSJ :-.5Ippi Stale.
·'He's a special kind of athlete." Pannun110 said.
The Racers also lost eight
defensive starters, including
cornerback Laroni Gallishaw,
and defensive end Marcus
White, both competing for
National Football League roster
spots - Gallishaw with the
Minnesota Vikings, and While
with the Tennessee Titans.
"Of course we're going to miss
them," Pannunzio said. "You've
gotta miss two NFL guys."
Attempting to fill those shoes
on defense will be senior defensive end Keith McClain, who
moved from linebacker, senior
safety Tony Ryan, senior linebacker Rick Schultz and defensive back bnsha Whitaker. Ryan
and Schultz are the team's leading returning tacklers, with 55
and 53, respectively, last season.
Schultz and Whitaker were preseason all-conference picks.
Lining up in the offensive
backfield will be senior running
back Nick Thmer and junior running back Chad Cook, who combined for 18 rushing touchdowns
and more than 1,500 yards.
Preseason all-conference offensive lineman Eugene Russell will
help lead the way for them.
"We have a chance to be
pretty good on offense,"
Pannunzio said.
Murray State University
2005 Football Schedule
Sept. 3 - at Mississippi St., 6 p.m.
Sept. 17- Indiana SL, 6 p.m.
Sept. 24 - at Illinois St., 6:30p.m.
Oct. 1 - at Tennessee Tech, 1 p.m.
Oct. 8 - Jacksonville St., 6 p.m.
Oct. 15 -at Samford, 1 p.m.
Oct. 22 - E. lllinois, 3 p.m.
Oct. 29 - at SE Missouri, 1 p.m.
Nov. 5- E. Kentucky, 3 p.m.
Nov. 12- Austin Peay, 3 p.m.
Nov. 19- at Tenn.-Martin, noon
(All times Central)
Murray State Football at
a Glance
2004 Record - 7-4. 6-2 Oh1o
Valley Conference.
Offense - Multiple.
Defense - 4-3.
Starters returning/lost
15/10.
Lettermen returning/lost 22/28.
Key players - Quarterback
Ken Topps, halfbacks Nick
Turner, Chad Cook, offensive
lineman Eugene Russell, defensive end Keith McClain, safety
Tony Ryan, linebacker Rick
Schultz, defensive back Onsha
Whitaker.
Coach - Joe Pannunzio (2828, 6th season).
Good is no longer
good enough for
Western Kentucky
by MALCOLM C. KNOX
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOWLING GREEN - This
season, good is not going to be
good enough for Western
Kentucky coach David Elson.
Sure, the Hilltoppers have
shared the Gateway Conference
championship the past two seasons and averaged almost 10
wins over the past five. But
Elson wants more as he enters
his third season.
"Good is the enemy of
great," Elson said.
In 2002, the Hilltoppers were
unquestionably great, winning
12 games and the 1-AA championship,
in
Coach
Jack
Harbaugh's last season.
Western Kentucky became a
much easier sell to recruits after
the title and the Hilltoppers are
eager to see those benefits this
season.
"I think you' re going to see a
Jot of those guys, sophomores,
arc g0i1 s• to have an impact on
th1s fo1 hall team." Elson said.
" It's kind of nice to see those
guys start to come through.
When you get a chance to go
through the whole recruiting
prbcess and be in a kid's home
and really get to know him, it
really makes a difference and I
think we're seeing that."
The roster is loaded with
players lured to Bowling Green
by the possibility of another title.
Receiver Maurice Perkins
transferred to Western after his
St. Joseph's (Ind.) team won
two games in 2003. Center Erik
Losey remembered winning
nine games in two years at East
Tennessee State before transferring to Western and winning
nine games last season.
Losey wanted to connect
with a winner so much, he used
to borrow former roommate and
fellow offensive lineman Ryan
Thomas' championship ring.
"The jewel gets the women,"
Losey said. And the players.
Losey is one of five
Hilltoppers who started last season after arriving at Western the
year after the championship.
Another _ sophomore safety
Marion Rumph _ will lead the
defense this season, Elson said.
"I wouldn't say it's a surprise
because when I came in my
freshman year I wanted to play.
I worked so I could play,"
Rumph said.
Competitive spirit like that,
particularly from young players
is what separates good from
great, offensive coordinator T.J.
Weist said. Though the 2001
team was more athletic, including
three defensive backs who went
on to play professionally, Weist
said the Hilltoppers' attitude
made them champions in 2002.
"You look at some of the
players that played on that team,
they weren't the best athletes or
even some of the best football
players, but they were some of
the best competitors that we've
had," Weist said. "The team we
had in 2002 had a little better
chemistry because they all competed and they were hungry."
Losing by 30 in the first
round of the playoffs last season
makes them hungry, too. The
Hilltoppers were knocked out
by Sam Houston State, 54-24.
"Of course it's a bad taste in
your mouth ," Thomas said.
"Every time coach puts that film
on, the players are like, · Aww
coach, cut that off.'"
Senior defensive lineman Joe
Woolridge remembers the loss,
too, and is looking forward to a
different result this season.
"I just can' t wait to get to the
playoffs," Woolridge said. "I came
up here for a championship."
Western Kentucky
University
2005 Football Schedule
Sept. 1 - W. VIrginia Tech, 6:30p.m.
Sept. 10 - E. Kentucky, 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 24 - at Auburn, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 1 - at Indiana St., 1 p.m.
Oct. 8 - at Illinois St., 2:30p.m.
Oct. 15 -Missouri St., 4 p.m.
Oct. 22- at W Illinois, 4:05 p.m.
Oct. 29 - S. Illinois, 5 p.m.
Nov. 5- N. Iowa, 4 p.m.
Nov. 12 - at Youngstown St.. noon
Nov. 19- at Fla. Intemational, 5 p.m.
(All times Central)
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Football at a Glance
2004 Record - 9-3, 6-1
Gateway Conference.
Offense- Multiple.
Defense - 3-4.
Starlers retuming!lost - 18/6.
Lettermen returning/lost 48/12.
Key players - Quarterback
Justin Haddix, halfbacks Brian
Porter, Lerron Moore, wide
receiver Maurice Perkins, center
Erik Losey, linebacker Brandon
Smith, cornerback Antonio
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by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON football coach Rich Brooks
been in the game long enough
know the reality of the situation
a repeat of last year's 2-9 u.-,,a-...•.4jlcely will mean he'll be sent
ing.
Judging from preseason
cations, few outsiders believe
will
escape
Wildcats
Southeastern Conference cellar.
But Brooks, entering his third
son at Kentucky and his 21st
son as a college coach,
brighter days are corning,
soon.
Brooks quickly ticks off the
reasons for his optimism - more
scholarship players, particularly offensive linemen; better-conditioned players; an offensive coordinator, Joker
~hillips, that players seem eager to play
for; and an overall cohesiveness that he
now says was lacking from last year's
squad.
"I'm as excited to start this season as
I've ever been in my coaching career,"
Brooks said. "I feel pretty good about
the group of guys that I'm coaching.
Now we have to go out on the field and
do the hard work, get some fundamental
stuff done, get some learning done and
prove it."
Kentucky still is recovering from
NCAA sanctions that cost the program
19 scholarships from 2002 to 2004. The
-wildcats now have 76 scholarship players, nine under the NCAA Division I-A
maximum but still more than last season.
The majority are freshmen and sophomores, but that doesn't overly bother
Brooks, who has shown a willingness,
especially last season, to use players
with little experience.
"I think you're going to see some of
these new faces play a significant role
for us this year," Brooks said. "One reason is because I think they're pretty talented. 'IWo is because our depth is still a
concern and a problem."
There's no competition for the job as
starting quarterback. That belongs to 6~oot-5, 230-pound sophomore Andre
Woodson, who played in seven games
last season, started one, and completed
54 of 88 passes for 492 yards and two
touchdowns with one interception.
Behind Woodson, the Wildcats are
thin, with only two other scholarship
quarterbacks on the roster. True freshman Curtis Pulley likely will be the
backup, while redshirt freshman Joe Joe
Brown had an abysmal spring and needs
to regain his coaches' confidence,
In
the secondary,
.1\..c:::mut:K' .has one of the
's top safeties in
Muhammad
nL•uu.uru•. who's on the
watch lists
the
Bronko
Award and
Thorpe Award,
are given to the
's top defensive
and defensive
respectively.
"We want to be com-
Brooks said.
Sophomore running back Tony Dixon
was lost for this season on Aug. 12,
when he suffered a severe ankle injury
during a practice, but another sophomore, Rafael Little, is healthy entering
the preseason, Brooks said.
Kentucky also will begin the season
with 19 offensive linemen after finishing
last season with only 10 on scholarship.
Brooks has particularly raved about
junior-college transfer Fatu Turituri.
"Offensive line has been a concern
and still is, but there are more goodlooking SEC-type bodies to fill those
roles," Brooks said. "When you see
some of these newcomers in that offensive line, you'd have to be blind to not
see these guys are good-looking players."
Kentucky's deepest area appears to
be its receiving corps. Wideouts Glenn
Holt and Scott Mitchell each had big
games last season and the Wildcats will
welcome back Keenan Burton and
Tommy Cook from injuries. Sophomore
Jacob Tamme moved to tight end before
last year's season finale and caught two
touchdown passes in a narrow loss to
Tennessee.
All of those players, Brooks said,
should help the Wildcats avoid a repeat
of last season, in which they finished
115th- out of 117 Division 1-A teamsin total offense. That prompted the resignation of Ron Hudson as offensive coordinator. Brooks replaced Hudson with
Phillips.
Defensively, Kentucky has switched
to a 4-3 alignment after two years in the
3-4. The biggest concern is linebacker
depth, as three key contributors from
past seasons - Dustin Williams, Chad
Anderson and Jon Sumrall-left the pro- ·
gram or, in Sumrall's case, had to give ,.
up football because of health concerns
during the offseason. Of the 10 line-
want to earn the honor
and respect that this is Kentucky· football
and we can play and we can win here."
Also back is cornerback Bo Smith,
who missed last season after being
injured in a fight.
KENTUCKY FOOTBALL
AT A GLANCE
2004 Record- 2·9, 1·7
Southeastern Conference.
Offense .... Multiple.
Oefenae .... 4·3.
Starters returning/lost -12110.
l.ettermeo returning/lost ~
·44130,
Key players - Quarterback
Andre Woodson, running back
Raf"' Little, wide receJvers
Glenn Holt and Keenan Burton,
tackle Hayden Lane, defensive
tackle Trey Mlelsch, defensive
end Durrell White, linebacker
Raymond Fontaine, cornerback
Ar.toine Huffman, safety
Muhumman Abdullah~
Coaoh- Filch Brooks (6·17,
tbltd season; 97-126-4, 21st
season overall).
2005 football Schedule
Sept. 4 - Louisville, 3~30 p.m.
Sept.,10 - Idaho State, 6 p.m.
Sept. 17- at lodlana, 6:45p.m.
Sept. 24 ,- Florida, TBA
Oct. 8 ~ at South Carolina, TBA
Oct. 22 - at Mississippi, TBA
Oct. 29 .. Mississippi State, TBA
Nov. 5 - Auburn, TBA
~,Nov; 12 -at-vanderbilt, TBA
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'lilov. 19- at Georgia, TBA
tfov. 26 - Tennessee, TBA
Kentucky will ride Woodson
'all the way to where we go'
he acknowledges he might not have
done in previous years, when he was
first a redshirt behind Jared
LEXINGTON
Andre Lorenzen and Shane Boyd, then
Woodson's fust collegiate start did- Boyd's primary backup.
n't come under ideal
"When I first got .conditions - as a freshhere, I didn't really
man quarterback for a
want to watch film,"
1-5 football team, on
Woodson said. "I didn't
the road, at No. 3
really work hard at
Auburn, a squad that
practice. I didn't do a
went on to finish undelot of the things that are
feated.
going to be a big key to
"To start ·.me in a
be successful as a quargame like that was
terback in the SEC."
something different,"
Woodson said a talk
Woodson said. "I hadwith Kentucky's new
n't been used to playoffensive coordinator,
ing talent like that."
Joker Phillips, changed
Not
surprisingly,
that. Phillips' message
Andre Woodson
Kentucky
struggled
was that Woodson
against the Tigers and lost 42-10 en needed to grow up and seize the
route to a dismal 2-9 finish last sea- chance to become a team leader.
son. But Woodson learned things
"He just kept it totally real for
that October afternoon, lessons the me, and I respect him for that,"
6-foot-5, 230-pound sophomore Woodson said.
quarterback from Radcliff said will
Woodson played in seven games
be invaluable this season as he last season and completed 54 of 88
assumes a new role - as the passes for 492 yards and two touchWildcats' unquestioned leader.
downs with one interception. He had
Woodson said the speed of his moments _ against Auburn, he
Auburn's defense taught him the led Kentucky to a rushing touchimportance of preparation, of quick- down, one of only four surrendered
er reaction, of making quicker reads. all of last season by the Tigers. His
It led him straight into the film room biggest bugaboo was holding onto
during the offseason, a habit which the football- he fumbled four times,
earned him not only the respect of something he now attributes to not
his coaches, but also his teammates. taking care of fundamentals "like
"I've been impressed with him, keeping two hands on the ball."
over the spring and into the summer,
Those fundamentals were tested
with the way he's handled the during the annual Blue-White spring
offense and taken up the leadership intrasquad game, played in cold, wet
role," sophomore tight end Jacob and windy conditions. Woodson put
Tamme said of Woodson. "He on a show, passing for 478 yards and
knows he has to step it up and be a four touchdowns.
leader for us."
Kentucky coach Rich Brooks
Sophomore
wide
receiver said Woodson "proved a lot to me in
Keenan Burton's words are even the spring that he has the credentials
stronger.
and ability, if he stays healthy, to
"Andre is the key to our success," have a huge impact in this (league).
Burton said. "He understands that He has the ability to be a big-time
and he knows that. He's fully aware. quarterback in this league, I believe.
He's taken that leadership role and But that has to be proven and I don't
we're going to ride him all the way mean to put the onus on him."
to where we go. If he wants us to
Even if Brooks did that, Woodson
have a successful season, we're wouldn't mind.
going to ride him there. If he does"My main thing is keeping everyn't, we're going to ride him there, body's respect," Woodson said. "As
too. It's all on Andre's shoulders."
long as I can set positive examples,
That sounds like a lot of pressure, they're going to keep staying behind
but it's a responsibility Woodson me and stay by my side the whole
accepts willingly. That's something time."
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - 'IWo of the
city's most celebrated prep stars
will now lead Louisville onto
the national stage as the
Cardinals take their fust cracks
at the Big East and the Bowl
Championship Series.
Home-grown quarterbacking stars Michael Bush and
.Brian Brahm turned down
'fcholarship offers from traditional powerhouses to play for
the Cardinals. Bush then
moved to the running back role
and conceded the starting quarterback spot he once coveted to
Brohm, his former high school
rival.
Both former Mr. Footballs
shined in backup roles last year.
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Now Brohm - who won three
state championships and threw
for 10,579 career yards at
Louisville's Trinity High School
- and Bush will work in tandem
in one of the most anticipated
seasons in Louisville history.
"If you key on one, the other
one might hit you. It's a 1-2
punch," Bush said. "I feel sorry
for defensive coordinators trying to game plan."
Bush, a do-everything player
at Male High in Louisville,
knows he could be playing
quarterback somewhere else.
But after spending the last season and summer with Brohm,
he's accepted how things turned
out.
''That's how it is," said Bush,
a junior who has 13 touchdown
runs, three TD passes and a
LOUISVILLE FOOTBALL
AT A GLANCE
2004 record - 11-1, 8-0 Conference USA. Defeated Boise
State 44-40 in Liberty Bowl.
Offense - Multiple.
Defense - 4·3.
Starters returning/lost -15/11.
Lettermen returning/lost- 45/18.
Key Players (2004 stats in parentheses) - QB Brian Brahm,
(66-of-98, 819 yards, 6 TDs, 21nterceptions); RB Michael
Bush (734 rushing yards, 7 TOs, 11 catches for 155 yards);
WR Joshua Tinch (36 catches for 510 yards); DE Elivs
Dumervil (52 tackles, 10 sacks); DT Montavious Stanley (30
tackles, four sacks, two forced fumbles); LB Brandon
Johnson (84 tackles, one sack, two interceptions).
Coach - Bobby Petrino (20-5, third season; 20-5, third sea~son overall).
2005 Football Schedule
Sept. 4 - at Kentucky, 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 17 - Oregon State, Noon
Sept. 24 - at South Florida, TBA
Oct. 1 - Florida Atlantic, TBA
Oct. 8 - North Carolina, TBA
Oct. 15 - at West Virginia, TBA
Oct. 22 - at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Nov. 3 - Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 11 - Rutgers, 8 p.m.
Nov. 26 - Syracuse, TBA
Dec. 3 - at Connecticut, TBA
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(All Times Eastern)
touchdown catch in two college
seasons. "I feel like I can do a
lot of different things (other)
than quarterback, so that's why
I continued to stay here. I
couldn't ask for a better situation."
Brahm and Bush showed
glimpses of this year's potential
last season, when the Cardinals
went 11-1 and finished the season with a best-ever No.6 ranking.
Bush rushed for 734 yards
and seven touchdowns backing
up Eric Shelton, while Brahm
completed 67 percent of his
passes and threw six touchdown
passes behind senior Stefan
LeFors, the Conference USA
Player of the Year who's now in
training camp with the NFL's
Carolina Panthers.
"It's going to be fun to sit
back and hand the ball off to
him or throw to him and watch
him work," Brahm said of
Bush.
Third-year Louisville coach
Bobby Petrino envisions the
245-pound Bush become the
bruising power runner that
Shelton was. But Bush can pass
and catch, too, and Petrino hints
that those skills won' t be wasted.
"Michael Bush might be the
best athlete I've ever been
around and that includes my
two years coaching in the
NFL," said Petrino, a former
offensive coordinator with the
Jacksonville Jaguars. "He runs
with it, he has great feet, he can
throw it, he can catch it, he can
change directions. And the
thing he has over everybody
else is, he can do that at 250
pounds."
The 6-foot-4 Brohm also
gives Petrino more options than
his predecessor _ the shorter,
quicker LeFors.
"It's exciting, because there
are some things the last couple
of years we haven' t been able to
do because of Stefan's height
and certain throws he couldn' t
make," Petrino said. "Brian
can. So we've got to try to put it
all together."
Petrino was in the stadium in
December 2002 when Brahm
led Trinity to a 59-56 win over
Bush's Male squad in a state
championship game widely
regarded as Kentucky's best
ever. Bush rushed for 116 yards
and threw for 458 yards and six
touchdowns. Brahm, a traditional pocket passer, threw for
552 yards and seven TDs.
They recently watched a tape
of their memorable duel together, another step in a budding
friendship that may have never
started if Bush hadn't' adjusted
his goals.
Bush had his heart set on
playing ·
quarterback
at
Louisville, but Petrino thought
he was a better fit at running
back.
"If I wanted to stay here, I
didn't have a choice," Bush
said.
Bush considered transferring, then backed off. Petrino
placated Bush last year with
more running plays, some
defensive assignments and
some special teams play.
"Coach put the ball in my
hands enough where I didn't
have to complain about sitting
on the side," Bush said.
Petrino will complement
Bush's power with speedy
Kolby Smith, a 5-11, 215pound junior from Tallahassee,
Sophomore
Reggie
Fla.
Bradshaw and redshirt freshman George Stripling should
also see time at running back.
Brohm, meanwhile, has as
many receiving options as
LeFors did last year.
'
Seniors Broderick Clark,
Montrell Jones and Joshua
Tinch compensate for the loss
of J.R. Russell, who was one of
six Cardinals drafted this summer. Clark and Jones give
Brohm deep threats, while the
6-3, 223-pound Tinch provides
a strong, physical target on
shorter routes. And freshman
Mario Urrutia has shown potential in fall workouts.
Five offensive line starters
return and all of them are
juniors and seniors. The front is
anchored by tackle Travis
Leffew, who'll add to his
school-record 38 consecutive
starts.
"I feel pretty safe back there
with those guys in front of me,"
Brohm said.
The
potent
Louisville
offense has often overshadowed
the defense in recent years, but
in 2004 the Cardinals allowed
only 20 points per game and
had two shutouts.
The 2005 unit loses six
starters gone from last season,
including NFL draft picks
Robert McCune and Kerry
Rhodes.
Seniors Elvis Dumervil and
Montavious Stanley anchor the
defensive line after combining
for 14 sacks in 2004.
The secondary also has some
questions with three departed
starters. Antoine Sharp will
move from corner to safety and
brother Brandon Sharp will
replace Rhodes at free safety.
Juniors William Gay and
Gavin Smart and redshirt fresh-·
man Rod Council are the top
candidates to start at cornerback.
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GA 30606 -2428
Job fair to
be held in
Pikeville
PIKEVILLE -The
Pike County Chamber
of Commerce is hosting
a job fair for several
Pike County businesses
on Saturday, August 27,
at Pikeville College
Gymnasium.
Applications and interviews will be from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m.
~ Companies participating at this point are
East Kentucky
Exposition Center,
Affiliated Computer
Services (ACS), Pepsi
Bottling Group,
SouthEast Telephone,
Food City, Pikeville
Medical Center, Mine
Guard and the
Kentucky Department of
Human Services.
Spaces are still available for companies that
JYant to participate.
· ease call (606) 4325504 by August 22 for a
·eservation.
For more informa·ion, contact the
:hamber at (606) 432-
Police make cocaine arrest in Hue:ysville
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
HUEYSVILLE- A second
cocaine trafficking arrest in as
many days was executed by officers of Kentucky State Police
and
Kentucky
Vehicle
Enforcement on Thursday night.
Officers arrested Hueysville
resident Kimberly Bums at her · drug-related activity through a
Community Church Road home curtainless window. The officers
early Friday morning at 2:20 reported observing two males
a.m. They were acting on a tip putting what appeared to be
from concerned residents in the controlled substances in a trash
area who reported a lot of late- bin.
night traffic going to and from
The officers, who included
Burns' home.
Troopers Austin Hicks and
VVhen officers arrived at the Justin Cornett, entered the home
scene, they allegedly observed alongside KVE Officers Dennis
Hutchinson
and
Tommy
Gearhart and then obtained permission to search the home from
Burns.
They went right to the area
where they observed the two
men earlier and recovered a
cardboard box that appeared to
contain cocaine and a Kool cigarette box which was filled with
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
met(hadone.
li!.urns was arrested and
chrurged with one count of trafficl<::ing in cocaine and one
chaJrge of second-degree traffic~ing in a controlled substance.
3urns was placed under a
$5 1,000 cash bond and set for a
prel!iminary hearing on August
24.
Small b11siness
forum t«J be
held wednesday
PIKEVILLE The.
Kentucky small-business.
climate has changed dra··
matically, and not alway1;
for the better. In response tq
new challenges, Kentucky
Farm Bureau and th(~
Kentucky Small Busines:,;
Caucus are encouraging
local farmers and business
operators to attend one of a
series of small business
forums to be held Augu ;t
24 at 8 a.m. at T~e
Landmark Inn, 146 Mayo
Trail, Pikeville.
The meetings will be
designed to provide infqJrmation on the 2005 T<lX
Reform Package, the future
of health insurance in
Kentucky and other legislative issues that impact f:um
5504.
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families.
"Kentucky Farm Bureau
and other small business
assoctatwns must pull
together to survive in
today's highly regulated
and extremely competitive
market. We must work to
reduce the cost of doing
business," said Laura
Knoth, Director of Public
Affairs for Kentucky Farm
Bureau.
"These meetings will
allow us input with our
elected officials. I encourage all our members to
b!jing their knowledge and
expertise to the table.''
Each meeting is scheduled to last approximately
90 minutes. Local media
and legislators are invited.
3DAY FOREC A ST
Floyd County rivals Allen Central and Betsy Layne hooked up in a season-opener Friday night. Host Allen
Central got the best of the visiting Bobcats, winning 32-6. More on the game appears inside today's Sports sec-
Investigators copy
governor's computer
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Tomorrow
Lower bond denied for alleged shooter
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
A
McDowell man who stands
accused of four counts of attempted murder was denied a lower
bond in circuit court Friday.
Jeff Tackett, 42, is currently
being held on a $250,000 cash
bond for allegedly firing a rifle
into a car at the Price Kwik Mart in
July and wounding three people
who were in the vehlcle. Two of
the car's passengers, Jeremy and
Letitia Huff, were wounded by the
shots fired, while a third passenger
received cuts from shattered glass
when a bullet went though the
back window of the vehicle.
A fourth passenger, Shawn
Sexton, was later found and sustained no injuries, though he did
reveal that he knew Tackett, who
was his landlord. Sexton also related that there had been prior disputes between them and that several of them had to do with Sexton's
playing loud music. On the day of
the shooting, Sexton hailed an
ambulance for his friends and then
left the spot where they had
stopped for shelter only a mile
from the Kwik Mart.
(See DENIED, page three)
The Associated Pres:s
FRANKFORT- Investigators late Friday serve;d a
search warrant to copy the
main computer server in
Gov.
Ernie Fletch,er's
office, a spokeswoman
said.
Vicki Glass, spokeswoman
for
Attorney
General Greg Stumbo's
office, declined to provide
other details of the wan·ant.
Glass said the computer
materials were only copted,
not seized.
Investigators
have
seized numerous computers, volumes of records and
other
materials
from
Fletcher's office and related
agencies, such as the governor's office for local development.
Officials with Fletcher's
(See PROBE, page three)
Fiscal court approves contractors to clean dumps
Get up-to-the-minute
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County continuing to struggle with costs from gas company
by TOM DOTY
S TAFF WRITER
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PRESTONSBURG - The Floyd County
Fiscal Court met for its regularly scheduled
August session and passed several resolutions
which aim to clean up illegal dump sites.
The court also acted on concerns from one
community to curb speeding in a hollow and
continued to struggle with the financial burden
of running the gas company, as final approval of
its sale awaits approval by the Public Service
Commission.
Cleaning up illegal dump sites became a
source of concern to PRIDE, which will fund
the efforts to clean up dumps in Harold and
Town Branch. Bids for the jobs were opened at
the meeting and pointed out that their is a wide
disparity among local companies as to what the
job would cost.
Bids on the Town Branch job ranged from
$32,000 to $80,000. The court adopted the
lower bid which came from Stacey Wolf. .
For the Harold dump the work went to J&L
Trucking Co., which bid a little over $6,000 for
the j ob.
Each company will have to be approved by
PRIDE and checks for the work will be disbursed by the court after PRIDE has inspected
the finished results and given approval for payment.
Residents of Jockey Hollow attended the
meeting to share a petition with the court about
speeding in their hollow. They expressed that
they want speed bumps installed to curb all-terrain vehicle usc of the road, as well as one resident who tends to drive through the hollow too
quickly. The court responded that it shared their
(See COURT, page three)
photo by Tom Doty
The Floyd County Fiscal Court continued to struggle with gas bills
Friday at its regular meeting, as it was forced to cough up $20,000 for
natural gas while waiting for the sale of the gas company to get state
approval.
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SUNDAY,
AUGUST 21, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
and
• ARNOLD, Pa. -The bed
may have felt just right, but
police say the way that a drug
suspect got there was all wrong.
Police charged Ernest Demar
Boyd, 32, with breaking into a
woman's house and fallir,lg
asleep in her bed.
Authorities also said they
found Boyd with a white powder and 17 white rocks, whie.h
they said are drugs - or a substance meant to look like crack
cocaine.
"What is that? It looks like
soap to me," Boyd said afw.r
police found the rocks in hiH
pants pocket, along with some:
cash, according to a crimina.!
complaint.
Boyd was charged with pos··
session with intent to delivet·
crack cocaine, drug possessiom,,
distribution of a counterfeit
drug, receiving stolen property
and robbery.
Police charged Boyd with
robbery because they said he:
took $20 from the woman whent
she tried to wake him up early
Wednesday. Boyd told the
woman to leave him alone, so
she called police.
It was not immediately clear
if Boyd had an attorney.
• BANGKOK, Thailand A 23-year-old man hoping to
win a woman's heart by getting
her lover out of the picture
phoned in a fake bomb threat,
reporting that his rival was
about to detonate explosives,
police said.
Police said Friday they
arrested Thanee Boonsiri of
Bangkok and that he admitted
he told an elaborate tale when
he called the police emergency
center.
Thanee allegedly called the
center and told them he was a
defected separatist from the
troubled south of Thailand.
Thanee said his supposed
friend, still active in the insurgency, was about to detonate
bombs planted in several major
buildings in Bangkok, police
Pramotc
Maj.
Gen.
Prathumwong said at a news
conference.
Thanee then gave authorities
his rival's mobile phone number.
Thanee is in custody pending
a trial. He faces up to two years
in jail for reporting false information to police and causing a
public scare, Pramote said.
• RENO, Nev. - This was
not a happy clown - at least,
not a very nice one.
A man dressed as a clown
who assaulted a man and stole
his bicycle at last year's
Burning Man festival has been
sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay
$21,000 restitution.
Johnny
Goodman
was
caught after the victim's friends
tracked him down.
Dennis Hinkamp had to have
two plates implanted in his arm
after he was attacked at the
annual counterculture festival.
Although his attacker disappeared into the crowd of painted
and costumed celebrants,
Hinkamp's friends launched an
Internet search to find him.
They linked him to a group
called Anarchoclowns and
finally to a hospital in
Washington, where Johnny
Goodman was a nursing student.
"If you're a nursing student
in Seattle and you're a clown,
you ' re pretty identifiable,"
Hinkamp's friend, Jim Graham
of Felton, Calif., told the Reno
Gazette-Journal.
Goodman confessed and was
convicted Tuesday of one count
of conspiracy to commit theft,
District Attorney Jim Shirley
said.
• MELBOURNE, Australia
- A man who says his doctors
misdiagnosed him as a transsexual may sue the medical team
that advised him to have a sex
change, an Australian appeals
court ruled.
Alan Michael Finch was 21
when he underwent a sex
change operation to become a
woman in 1988. By 1996, however, Finch said he was "a
mess" and struggling to live life
as a woman named Helen.
The following year, Finch
began another round of surgery
and reverted to life as a man.
Finch claims that the doctors
who performed the initial sex
change knew he was not a suitable candidate based on a medical report that described his
masculinity as above average.
Last year, a court granted
Finch an extension to the usual
six-year time limit on such
cases.
• JANESVILLE, Wis. She had $60,000 in cash - but
no roof over her head.
Janesville police .say an 87year-old woman found snoozing in a discount store over the
weekend had the money in her
purse.
The woman was examined at
Mercy Hospital and released,
said Nancy White, property
manager of the Golden Acres
Apartments for the elderly
across the street.
Todav in Historv
The Associated Preas
Today is Sunday, Aug. 21,
the 233rdday of2005.·There are
132 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 21, 1945,
President Truman ended the
Lend-Lease program that had
shipped some $50 billion in aid
to America's allies during World
War II.
On this date:
• In 1831, former slave Nat
Thrner led a violent insurrection
in Virginia. (He was later executed.)
• In 1858, the famous
debates between senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen Douglas began.
• In 1878, the American Bar
Association was founded in
Saratoga, N.Y.
• In 1904, jazz musician and
band1eader William "Count"
Basie was born in Red Bank,
N.J.
•
In
1940,
exiled
Communist revolutionary Leon
Trotsky died in Mexico City
from wounds inflicted by an
assassin.
• In 1944, the United States,
Britain, the Soviet Union and
China
opened
talks
at
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington
that helped pave the way for
Heavy rains lead
to flash flooding
in Pike, Martin
counties
The Associated Press
PIKEVILLE - Heavy rains
in eastern Kentucky caused scattered flash flooding in commu·
nities along the border of Martin
and Pike counties Friday morning, authorities said.
No injuries were reported.
Doug Tackett, emergency
management director for Pike
County, said rushing waters had
damaged some roads and freyed
the nerves of local residents who
worried the rising water might
reach their homes. He said he
hadn't seen any homes damaged.
Martin County Deputy
Sheriff Zach Horn said about 5
inches of rain fell early Friday
morning.
"We have a bunch of roads
o.ut," he said.
establishment of the United
Nations.
•
In 1959, President
Bisenlrower signed an executive
olrder proclaiming Hawaii the
50th state of the union.
• In 1984, Democratic vicepresidential nominee Geraldine
Ferraro
appeared
before
reporters in Queens, New York,
to field questions about her family's finances.
• In 1991, the hard-line coup
against Soviet President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev collapsed in the
fa,:e of a popular uprising led by
Rutssian federation President
Boris N. Yeltsin.
• In 1993, in a serious setba<:k for NASA, engineers lost
contact with the Mars Observer
spa.cecraft as it was about to
reach the Red Planet on a $980
million mission.
Ten years ago: ABC News
settled a $10 billion libel suit by
apologizing to Philip Morris for
reporting the tobacco giant had
manipulated the amount of nicotine in its cigarettes. A suicide
bomber set off an explosion that
tore through two crowded
Israeli commuter buses, killing
five others. A commuter plane
crashed near Carrollton, Ga.,
killing nine people.
Five years ago: Rescue
efforts to reach the sunken
Russian nuclear submarine
Kursk ended with divers
announcing none of the 118
sailors had survived.
One year ago: The
International
Gymnastics
Federation ruled that South
Korean Yang Tae-young was
unfairly docked a tetlth of a
point in the all-around gymnastics final at the Athens
Olympics, costing him the gold
medal that ended up going to
Paul Hamm of the United
States; however, the ruling did
not change the final result.
Today'& Birthdays: Israeli
politica1leader Shimon Peres is
82. Actor-director Melvin Van
Peebles is 73. Singer Kenny
Rogers is 67. Actor Clarence
Williams ill is 66. Rock-n' -roll
musician James Burton is 66.
Singer Harold Reid ('l'he Statler
Brothers) is 66. Singer Jackie
DeShannon is 61. Actress Patty
McCormack is 60. Actress
Loretta Devine is 56. TV host
Harry Smith is 54. Singer Glenn
Hughes is 53. Country musician
Nick Kane is 51. Actress Kim
Cattrall is 49. Rock singer Serj
Tankian (System of a Down) is
38. Actress Carrie-Anne Moss is
35. J(ock mustctan Liam
Howlett (Prodigy) is 34. Actress
Alicia Witt is 30. Singer Kells is
26. Singer Melissa Schuman
(Dream) is 21. Actor Cody
Kasch ("Desperate Housewives") is 18. Actress Hayden
Panettiere is 16.
Thought for Today: "To
know a little less and to understand a little more: That, it seems
to me, is our greatest need." James Ramsey Ullman, American author (1907-1971).
White said she fed her,
washed her clothes and allowed
her to stay with her until
Monday morning.
"She kind of reminded me of
a female Scrooge," White said.
"She was very unappreciative."
Police said they temporarily
took the money for safekeeping
while the woman's status was
clarified, but they returned it
Monday.
Lt. Keith Lawver told the
Janesville Gazette the woman
does not have a fixed address
and has been staying at various
apartments and hotels for the
past year, while under the care
of a Rock County social services caseworker.
"Hopefully, her caseworker
will help her get a bank account
set up and help her manage it,"
Lawver said.
• NAPPANEE, Ind. - The
high cost of gasoline may have
driven them to it, but picking
the wrong fuel pump cut short
their getaway.
Two men who tried to steal
gasoline from a construction
company instead filled the tank
of their car with off-road-grade
diesel fuel Sunday, police said.
An employee of Beer &
Slabaugh spotted the men on
the company property near
Nappanee, about 20 miles
southeast of South Bend, as
they were siphoning fuel out of
a car's tank, Elkhart County
deputies said.
The two told the employee
that a friend had put the wrong
fuel into the tank and they were
trying to empty it, authorities
said. The employee noticed that
the fuel was the distinctive red
color of off-road diesel.
He called deputies, who
arrested McKinley Chase, 21,
and Dajuan L. Lord, 19, both of
Gary, on preliminary charges of
felony. They acknowledged the
theft by explaining their mistake and saying their car would
not run.
Lord remained in the Elkhart
County Jail on Tuesday. Chase
was released on bond, a jail
spokeswoman said.
You may not
• AURORA, Colo. - A
man who was hit with a Taser
gun after police accused him of
stealing a salad from Chuck E.
Cheese's restaurant has reached
a deal with the city.
Danon Gale, 29, agreed to
drop his $500,000 civil-rights
lawsuit in exchange for prosecutors dropping five of six
charges filed against him. He
pleaded no contest to disturbing
the peace.
The city will pay his legal
and medical bills - but Gale
still has to pay a fine. "I was
wrongfully arrested, beat up,
Tasered, and now a $500 fine,"
he said.
Police used a Taser on Gale
in front of his children in
February after employees
accused him of trying to eat at
the salad bar without paying.
The investigation concluded
that Gale did pay for the salad,
and the city apologized for what
happened, blaming the restaurant for the confusion.
Dick Huston, executive vice
president of CEC Entertainment
Inc.; of Irving, Texas, the corporate owner of Chuck E. Cheese,
said Gale used the wrong type
of plate to fill up at the salad bar
and refused to provide a receipt
that showed he had paid.
Gale had been facing a year
in jail and $1,000 in fines before
the deal.
- The owner of an overnight
mailing bu~mess grew suspicious of a customer who sent a f
package to different addresses
in Wisconsin every two weeks.
His hunch \\<as nght.
A quick inspection of the
customer's late t package
revealed an unusually heavy
teddy bear with a crude stitch on
the back, so the businessman
called police.
Investigators opened the
bear, unrolled 30 feet of cellophane and found a heat-sealed
plastic bag at the center of the
teddy filled with roughly a
pound of marijuana.
Gilberto Perez Pereira 43, fi.
and Susan Janette Roark, 48,
were arrested after an investigation, Rohnert Park police said
Monday.
Pereira told police that he
was sending the packages for a
friend and that he didn't know
what was inside the boxes.
Pereira allegedly provided a
fake name to the mailing busi
ness. but police said he was easily tracked because he repeatedly called the business to ask
why his package hadn't been
~
mailed.
Pereira was being held on a
$25,000 bail for possession of
meth amphetamine, possession
of dmg paraphernalia, shipment
of drugs over state lines, and
other charges. police said.
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Six in running for Excellence in Entrepreneurship award
SOMERSET - The Center
for Rural Development, in partnership with Eastern Kentucky
University's
College
of
~Business & Technology and
Kentucky Highlands Investment
Corporation, will host the 2005
Excellence In Entrepreneurship
Awards at a luncheon Monday,
Sept. 12, at 11:30 a.m. at the
Center for Rural Development
in Somerset.
EKU President Joarine Glasser
will preside over the ceremonies
and Fifth District Congressman
Harold "Hal" Rogers will be the
keynote speaker.
The finalists are Steve Keck,
no one was killed in the incident. The dispatcher went on to
learn his location and mental
state before passing it on to
Kentucky State Police and sheriff's department officers, who
were able to arrest Tackett without incident.
In the. application to the court
for a bond reduction, attorney
Ryan Allison noted that Tackett .
had strong ties to the communi-
ty and was not a flight risk.
But Judge Danny P. Caudill
said that his main consideration
is the severity of the charges. He
related that, the amount of jail
time a defendant is facing is a
major factor in determining
bond and denied the request
Tackett is facing four Class B
felony charges and each carries
a possible 10-to-20 years in the
penitentiary.
Denied
• Continued from p1
Tackett has said that he got
into his vehicle afterwards and
threw the rifle he used out of the
window as he sped from the
scene. The .22 caliber weapon
has not been found.
Tackett was arrested later the
same evening when he placed a
call to the sheriff's department
from his girlfriend's home. He
was held on the line by the dispatcher who informed him thal
Court
• Continued from p1
concern for child safety but that
it would be illegal to place speed
bumps on the road. The court
did resolve to post 15-mile-perhour speed limit signs in Jockey
., Hollow Monday. Sheriff John K.
Blackburn noted that he had
spoken with the driver in quesiion and has added patrols of the
hollow to his deputies' duty roster.
The court also approved a
resolution to pay $20,000 for
natural gas for which it will have
to eat a loss. The county is paying $13 per 1,000 square feet of
gas but is charging $10 to customers. The court has applied
for an increase to pass the rate
on to customers but must wait
30 days for approval of the
increase. The court expects to
get out of the gas business as
soon as the sale of the gas company is fmalized.
The court sold the company
to Industrial Gas Services in
May, but the sale has to be
approved by the Public Service
Commission, which normally
takes several months and is
expected to be completed by
early October. Industrial Gas
Services was actually the second
highest bidder on the utility but
got the sale when the highest
.
Somerset Recycling Services Irvine,
Clay
City
and
Inc., of Somerset; Darrell Flemingsburg.
Maynard, SouthEast Telephone,
Awards will be given in four
of Pikeville; Kelly Upchurch, categories - Business, Small
American Health Management, Business, Start-ups, and Nonof Richmond; Julian Moss Jr., profits - and are determined by
Moss
Flowers
Inc.,
of the economic success of the
Lancaster; Lora Jane Hyden- enterprise, contributions to the
Pointe of Joy Performing Arts, community, job creation and
of Paintsville; and Tom Fields, operational achievement as
Southeastern
Kentucky measured by innovative busiRehabilitation, of Corbin.
ness practices, superior safety
The annual award was estab- achievement and superior techlished in 2001 to honor excel- nology.
lence
in . entrepreneurship
This year's fmalists and the
throughout eastern and southern recipient for each category will
Kentucky.
be honored at the luncheon.
"We've seen that small com"Supporting entrepreneurs
panies comprise the engine that and small businesses is at the
drives most of our economy," heart of the mission of The
said Dr. Robert Rogow, dean of Center for Rural Development,"
EKU's College of Business & said Lonnie Lawson, president
Technology. "We want to do and CEO of the Center.
whatever we can through our
Jerry Rickett, president and
partnership to foster small-busi- CEO of the Kentucky Highlands
ness development and recognize Investment
Corp.,
said:
those who've been successful in "Entrepreneurs are visionaries
developing companies in east- and risk-takers foundational to
em and southern Kentucky."
any community. Whether they
Previous recipients of the succeed or fail, their tenacity
award are Charlene Combs and · and adventurous spirit need tq
Bob Harris, of Data Futures be recognized and applauded.
Inc., of Harlan; Jerome Kanney That's what the Excellence in
and Dennis Rohrer, of Interstate Entrepreneurship Awards is
Natural Gas Company, of about."
Pikeville; Jeff Bowling, of
Award recipients were selectMountain Tarp of Middlesboro; ed based on nominations
and Guy Hatfield, owner/pub- received from 55 Eastern and
lisher of weekly newspapers in Southern Kentucky counties:
bidder, Kanney and Rohrer,
turned out to have been turned
down on a bid to buy a gas company in Magoffin County after a
report from the Public Service
Commission was received
which noted that, 'The commission is unable to find that the
joint applicants have the financial, technical and managerial
ability to provide reasonable
service." A representative from
the Kanney and Rohrer film was
on hand and noted that the com-·
pany had applied for reconsideration but had not received a
judgment by the time the fiscal office declined to comment. ·
Stumbo's office and a special
Court made its decision.
grand jury in Franklin County
are investigating whether personnel practices in Fletcher's
administration violated person'
nel laws. Nine current or former
Probe
Pence says state should examine
castration for sexual offenders
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT- Kentucky
should examine castration for
sex offenders, Lt. Gov. Steve
Pence said Thursday.
A commission is examining
Kentucky's sexual offender
laws for presentation of possible
changes to the 2006 General
Assembly.
Pence said surgical or chemical castration should be considered for repeat offenders.
Pence also said the General
Assembly should con·sider
stronger punishment for sex
offenders who do not comply
with the registry requirements,
which is now a Class D felony,
punishable by up to five years in
prison.
• Continued from p1
members of the administration
have been charged with misdemeanor criminal violations of
personnel laws.
Fletcher has been subpoenaed to appear before the grand
jury on Aug. 30.
Adair, Bath, Bell, Boyd, Boyle,
Breathitt, Carter, Casey, Clark,
Clay, Clinton, Cumberland,
Edmonson,
Elliott, Estill,
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Greenup, Harlan, Hart, Jackson,
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not an end in itself but a
means to the end of
[achieving] a free society.
- Felix Frankfurter
Guest View--
To thank a teacher
This profession means so much in helping form a pattern
of success.
Let's pause for a moment, as schools across the United
States are set to open for the fall term, to recognize one of
the most important groups among us: teachers.
Almost two-thirds of the participants in a national opinion survey said they remembered a teacher who had
changed their life. Chances are that those in the other onethird, if they thought about it more, could say something
similar.
It should not be surprising that so many people remembered. Teachers are placed in a child's life at the very time
that life's lessons need to be learned- lessons that are often
more effectively taught by a caring but objective outsider
than by doting parents.
For really good teachers, the success of other people's
children is a personal obligation. It may not always happen.
But when it does, it can be unforgettable, as the Associated
Press-America Online survey so clearly illustrates.
The job has seldom been more demanding. The breakdown of the family has left the schools with thousands of
children who arrive at the front door bereft of the training
and stimulation needed to function effectively, even in
kindergarten. The breakdown of religious training in many
homes has left countless other children without a basic
moral code, not even the golden rule.
Immigration has brought a proliferation of linguistic
challenges. And the world's expectations expand in proportion to the amount of material available to be mastered.
At the same time more is expected, the roadblocks to
success have rarely been more formidable. Status-conscious
parents demand that their child stand out. They teachershop and second-guess, sometimes with the implied threat
of a lawsuit lurking in their conversation.
They type their children's papers and do their research to
the point where teachers often are forced to wonder if the
parent shouldn't get the grade instead of the child.
Nor are teachers, in all too many other ways, accorded a
proper amount of professional respect.
State bureaucrats and legislators dictate course material,
in some places even getting into questions of what constitutes proper science. The courts and "human resources"
departments have imposed burdensome guidelines for patriotic and cultural observances and religious references.
Principals and superintendents maintain a tight leash. The
pay of teachers, even when adjusted for a comparable 12month year, is often less than what a comparable professional could earn.
Yet they spend their evenings correcting papers, their
weekends sponsoring school events and some of their personal resources in including a low-income pupil on a field
trip or buying another one a pair of mittens. Few other professionals, as a group, are so singularly dedicated to the
success of other people.
So it should be with a special sense of gratitude that parents turn their boys and girls, once again, over to the teache rs. And a sense of respect, as well. Next to the parents
them~elves, and in some cases even more than the parents,
they are the foremost influence, collectively, in the competence and quality of the next generation. Society too seldom
~ays thank you.
-Rich L owry Column
North Pole,
366,
Alaska
NORTH POLE, Alaska - As I was
driving through this
town of less than
1,600 people just outside of Fairbanks, an
overwhelming sensation came over me of safety. Or at least
that's what Congress
wanted me to feel.
Thanks to a senseless,
but sadly typical, formula for spending
federal
homeland
security
dollars,
North Pole has been
awarded more than half a million dollars
for homeland security rescue and communications equipment. This just in case
the terrorists decide to try to shut down
Santa Claus Lane.
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff is irritating
certain U.S . senators by insisting that
how federal homeland security spending
is allocated should have some relation to
the risk of a terrorist attack in any given
area. Where he has the authority to act
on his own, Cherloff has pushed his
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MINUTEMAN M EDIA
Published Su~day, Wednesday and Friday each week
fashion has resulted in, naturally
enough, absurdities - $300,000 spent
in Outagamie County, Wis; $30,000 in
Lake County, Tenn., to buy a defibrillator to have on hand at high-school basketball games; $98,000 on training
courses in Lenawee County, Mich.,
which no one bothered to attend. And on
it goes. Billions of dollars in the grants
haven't been spent on anything because
they are gummed up in the bureaucratic
pipeline, partly because some localities
don't have the foggiest idea what to do
with the money.
The House recently passed a bill to
rationalize the funding formula, basing
it almost entirely on risk-assessment by
DHS. But the Senate has balked. Smallstate senators have a disproportionate
sway there, and last month they rejected
the House approach, preferring a barely
improved version of the status quo.
These senators can't imagine any reason
for being in Washington other than to
shove lucre back to their home states for whatever reason.
If Congress can' t straighten out the
funding formula, maybe it will have to
try a different approach, and relocate
people, such as moving people from
threatened urban areas to places like
North Pole. We can be certain they
would be well-secured here.
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department toward rationality. He
moved, for instance, to limit the cities
eligible for port-security grants to 66
from
thus eliminating Martha's
VIneyard from the list (and exposing the
extended Kennedy clan. to attack by terrorist yacht). But Congress controls how
homeland security grants are doled out
to the states.
Immediately
after
9111,
Congress wrote a
homeland security
spending
formula into the
Patriot Act, one
of the provisions
of that law that
actually is a mistake. It says that
every state gets
.75 percent of
the funding from
two enormous federal grant programs
that spend well over $1 billion a year.
That eats up 40 percent of the funding.
The other 60 percent is allocated on the
basis of population, which is one risk
factor for a terror attack, but only one. In
other words, ·in a homeland security
effort that should be built on intelligence
and risk analysis, Congress has created a
system that is almost entirely random
and beholden to the dictates of
logrolling and pork-barrel spending.
Throwing around money in absurd
People keep telling me
that George Bush isn' t
dumb. Intelligent people.
Honest. They say that,
close up, he's quick and
sharp.
Which, if true, means
that he is the most willfully ignorant man who has
ever occupied the White
House.
His statement the other
day - that the theory of "intelligent
design" should be taught in high school
science classes, right beside evolution
- was nothing short of appalling.
·
" ...people ought to be exposed to different ideas," he said.
Really? Crackpot ideas as well as
sound ones, Mr. President? Taken to its
logical conclusion it would mean that
kids should be exposed to the fiat earth
theory and astrology as well as astronomy, numerology along with statistics.
On the other hand, taking something to
its logical conclusion is the last thing I'd
accuse the president of. I suspect he's
simply pandering to the Know-Nothing
wing of his party, that is to say, its
majority.
There are many explanations of how
life came to be. Most of them rely heavily on magic, a god-figure creating the
heavens, earth and man out of nothingness simply through an act of will.
Shazam!
Evolution, the theory that man has
evolved through the millennia from less
complex forms of life,
does not rely on magic;
rather it is an informed
speculation that has been
shaped over the past 150
years by relentless scientific investigation. It has
proven itself to virtually
the entire scientific community (a few cranks
excepted) and is integral
to a whole range of scientific disciplines, biology
especially.
Intelligent design - the notion that
human life is too complex to be
explained by evolution and so must be
the work of an intelligent ... something
- is just another magic act and not a
persuasive one at that. (I'hey never tell
you whom they suspect of being that
intelligent, for one thing.) Its proponents
have seldom published in reputable scientific journals nor put their research,
such as it is, to the test of peer review. It
is junk science.
·
In short, intelligent design isn't very.
Mr. Bush's science adviser (and
doesn't that sound like a zany job. I
wonder if they make him sleep in the
basement and eat scraps from the table)
tried his best to make his boss sound less
of a dolt.
"Intelligent design is not a scientific
concept," the adviser, John Marburger
m, said. The president's remarks should
be interpreted to mean that intelligent
design could profitably be discussed as
part of the "social context" in science
classes.
And if you think that's what the president really meant, I have some Enron
stock I'd be willing to let you have at
cost.
If it were just a case of the president
being a science ignoramus, one could
sluug it off as part of his good ol' boy act
(like his dropping of g's) but this ignorance, in case after case, has been
reflected in disastrous public policy, particularly in the areas of the environment
(global warming) and scientific inquiry
(stem cell research).
We have become the most scienceilliterate people in the industrial world
and our president is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, at times because it is
politically advantageous to do so, at
times because he is a man of belief
rather than reason.
The "Scopes-Monkey trial," which
dealt with the right of Tennessee teachers to teach evolution in the schools
there, is now 80 years old. Since then we
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
21, 2005 • AS
Regional Obituaries
•
FLOYD COUNTY
B i I he Caudill, 80, of
Langley, died Wednesday,
August 17, at the Riverview
Health
Care
Center,
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were COJH.Jucted Friday, August
19, under the direction of Hall
Funeral Home.
• James Allen "Jimmie"
Conn, KO. of Allen, died
Saturday. August 13, in the
Central Baptist Hospital, in
Lexington. He is survived by
js wife. Belle Reynolds Conn.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, August 16, under
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
• Vanme Mae Damron, 79,
of New Lo·1don, Ohio, a Floyd
County native, died Wednesday
evemng. August 17, at Fisher
Titus Mcdtcal Center, Norwalk.
She is survived by her husband,
Johnny Damron, Funeral services were held Sunday, August
ii, umkr the direction of
Eastman Funeral Home.
• Ernest Dean Hall, 65, of
~ana, died Sunday, August 14,
at his residence. He is survived
by his wife, Ivalene Conn Hall
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, August 17,
under the direction of the Hall
Funeral Home.
• Velva Hall Johnson, 91, of
Bevinsville.
died
Friday,
August I ., , at the McDowell
Appalachi1n Regional Hospital,
following an extended illness.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 15, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
• John Paul Pitts, 60, of
Martm. d1cd Saturday, August
13, in Highlands Regional
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
He is survived by his wife, Lou
Ellen Shcoherd Pitts. Funeral
were
conducted
services
Tuesday. \ugu t 16, under the
direction of the Hall Funeral
Home.
• Hem y Lee Shell, 82, of
Salyersville,
formerly
of
Prestonsburg, died Tuesday,
August 16. at the Paul B. Hall
Regional Medical Center.
if.m eral services. were conductect Thursday, August 18, under
the direction of Carter Funeral
Home.
• Sadie P. Shepherd, age 81,
of Blue River, died Friday,
August 12, the Highlands
Regional Medical Center in
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were
conducted
Monday,
August 15. under the direction
of Hall Funeral Home.
• Teddy B. Tackett, 55, died
August 14, at the McDowell
A.R.H. Hospital. Funeral services
were
conducted
' dnesday. August 17, under
the direction of Roberts Funeral
Home.
Bonnyman, a Pike County
native, died Monday, August.
15, at his home. He is survived
by his wife, Morell Farmer
Compton. Funeral services
were held Friday, August 19,
under the direction of Bailey
Funeral Home.
•
Gregory
Dwayne
Fleming, 26, died Monday, June
6, at Hellier. Funeral services
were held Wednesday, August
17, under the direction of Lucas
& Hall Funeral Home.
• Lloyd Allen Smith Guyer,
41, of Blackshear, Georgia, a
native of Pikeville, died
Monday, August 15, at the St.
Vincent Medical Center. He is
survived by his wife, Valerie
Bonnell Guyer. Funeral services were held Saturday,
August 20, iunder the direction
of Pearson-Treadwell Chapel.
• Phyllis Blackburn Harvey,
PIKE COUNTY
• Robert Ball, 64, of Belfry, 76, of Columbus, Ohio, formerdi'ed Thursday, August 18, at ly of Sidney, died Monday,
Williamson Memorial Hospital, August 15, at her home. Funeral
Williamson, W.Va.. Funeral ser- services were held Thursday,
vices will be held Sunday, August 18, under the direction
August 21, at 2 p.m., under the of Rogers Funeral Home.
• George Hughes, 67, died
direction of Rogers Funeral
Thursday, August 18, at
Home.
Nursing
&
• Russell Compton, 87, of Parkview
• Thelma Cas ady Turner,
80, of Prestonsburg, died
Monday, August 15. in the
Riverview
Healthcare
in
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were conducted Wednesday,
August 17, under direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
• Cledis Wallen, 67, of
Kendallville, Indiana, a native
of Garrett, died Sunday, August
7, at Parkview Noble Hospital
in
Kendallville,
Indiana.
Services were held Wednesday,
August 10, under the direction
of Hite Funeral Home.
• Mable Raye Willis, 88, of
Langley, died Saturday, August
13, in Highlands Regional
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
Funeral services were held
Monday, August 15, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
Rehabilitation
Center,
Robinson Creek. Arrangements,
under the direction of Lucas &
Hall Funeral Home.
• Violet Caudill Hurley, 77,
of Williamson, a native of Argo,
died Thursday, August 18, at
Williamson Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, August 21 , at 1
p.m., in the Hatfield Funeral
Home.
• Shakira Marie Justice, 16month-old daughter of Kevin
Justice and Natasha Marie
Simon, both of Freeburn, died
Wednesday, August 17, at the
South Williamson Appalachian
Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be held Sunday,
August 21, at 1 p.m., in the
Freeburn Free Pentecostal
Church of God, under the direction of Phelps Funeral Services.
• Arminda "Mindy" Burke
Elkins Kinder, 84, of Upper
Chloe Road, Pikeville, has died.
,She is survived by her husband,
Hobart Kinder. Funeral services
were held Thursday, August 18,
under direction of Thacker
Memorial Funeral Home.
• Ollie Blackburn Lyons,
86, of Pikeville, died Monday,
August 15, at her home. Funeral
services were held Thursday,
August 18, under the direction
of Thacker Funeral Home.
• Claire D. McKinster, 94,
of Bellingham, Washington, a
Pikeville native, died Tuesday,
August 16, in Bellingham.
Memorial Services were held
Friday, August 19, under the
direction
of Jones/Moles
Funeral Home & Cremation
Service.
• Jettie Fern Newsome, 64,
of Little Robinson Creek, died
Thursday, August 11, at
Pikeville Medical Center. She is
survived by her huband, Denzil
Newsome. Funeral services
were conducted Sunday, August
14, under the direction of Hall
and Jones Funeral Home.
• Anna Christine Slone
Owens, 81, of Marrowbone,
died Sunday, Aug. 14, at her
home. Funeral services were
held Wednesday, August 17,
under direction of J.W. Call &
Son Funeral Home.
• Dorothy Caudill Ramey,
72, of Elkhorn City, died
Tuesday, August 16, at the
Wellmont-Holston
Valley
Hospital, Kingsport, Tennessee.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, August 20, iunder the
direction of Bailey Funeral
Home.
• Leona McCoy Slone, 63,
of Freeburn, died Saturday,
August 13, in Scottsville.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, August 17, under
direction of Phelps Funeral
Services.
• Teddy B. Tackett, 55, a
native of Pikeville. died
Sunday, Aug. 14, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital,
McDowell. Funeral services
were held Wednesday, August
17, under the direction of
Roberts Funeral Home.
• Helena Cool Williamson,
70, died Sunday, August 14, at
Highlands Regional Medical
Center,
Prestonsburg.
Graveside services were held
Tuesday, August 16, under
direction of Justice Funeral
Home.
JOHNSON COUNTY
•
Garnet Nellie May
Caudill, 86, of Thelma, died
Tuesday,
August
9,
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FLOYD COUNTY
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MOVIES FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
This Town,
That World
'The Devil's
Rain'
Editor's Note: For years, Floyd
County Times founder and former
publisher Norman Allen wrote a weekly column that looked at Floyd County
through his eyes. His columns are
being reprinted due to request.
by TOM DOTY
STAFF W RITER
The guy who said, "You write
so easy," should have been here to
watch the fingernails fly while this
column was a-borning or,
would you say, "aborting?"
I do not write "easy." That's
just mental exhaustion showing up
in type.
THE SEARCHER
I, who can get lost with the best
of them, and get on more roads
going north, when I want to go
south, than anybody since WrongWay Corrigan, got a laugh out of
the experience of some of the boys
who found the hills and the fog
around Dewey Lake a mite confusing, the other night, while they
were searching for a lost hunter.
When
the
man
was found
along about
3 a.m., the
searcher
greeted him
in
words.
almost as
historic as
those
of
Norman Allen
Stanley ,
when
he
sang out, "Livingston, I presume."
Said the searcher (so we are
told):
"What's your name?"
And told the name he remarked,
"The very man, I'm looking forhow do you get out of herer'
GOOD WORK
That incident may be on the
funny side. But it is only a sidelight on the fine work done by the
Floyd County Emergency &
Rescue Squad. How many others
of us, for instance, would climb
snake-infested hills in darkness
and fog all night long? But a boy
had asked for help; his .Dad was
missing. And this group went
OF THEORIES:
A poor scientist with apparently
little to do except to propound a
theory that will get him newspaper
space, comes up with the idea that
it began three billion years ago in
the mud and scum...Wonder if
that's why we still sling mud, and
why some wives have been known
to refer to friend husband as ''the
scum of the earth?"...This theory
sounds as reasonable to me as the
other.
THE ONE AND ONLY
Once in a great while I chance
upon a discussion of words, writing style, and the like. It's a fascinating subject, but there's always
the danger that the purist will wind
up behind an "at." So, for this session, let us consider only one
much-abused word.
It's "unque." May Noah
Shown, left to right, are some happy Shelton-McSurly Reunion-goers: Kevin Shelton, Clark Shelton, Bob
SheHan, Mary Combs, Teresa Harris, Robert Harris, and Diana Price.
Family reunion provides
day of fun, togetherness:
Submitted by Jamie VanHoose
The Shelton-McSurley family reunion
was held Saturday, June 11, at the Minnie
Ball Park. Over 33 family members
showed up for the day of celebration, many
clad in royal blue commemorative t-shirts.
Family members report that the day was
one filled with laughter and lots of fun as
many activities took place all day long
including live music, a "white elephant"
sale, volleyball games, a horseshoe tournament, and dancing. The "grand flnale" of
the day's events was a talent show in which
attendees impersonated such celebrities as
George Jones, Big & Rich, Loretta Lynn,
Elvis Presley, Grandpa Jones, Ike and Tina
Turner, Wynonna Judd, Minnie Pearl,
Ronnie Milsap, Hank Williams Jr. and
many more.
Alberta Shelton-Shannon was named
"2005 Shelton of the Year" at the reunion
and Helen McSurley-Spears was named
"2005 McSurley of the Year."
The Shelton and McSurley families send
a special thanks to Pat Shelton, who organized the event, and also to Hall Funeral
Home and Nelson Funeral Home for providing shady tents under which the family
were able to seek shelter from the summer
sun.
"'lou put your right foot in ..." Things got lively for some during
afternoon activities.
Standing are
Rebele
Shelton and
Marcella
Shelton; sitting are Ted
Shelton and
"2005 Shelton
of the Year"
Alberta
SheltonShannon.
Steve Hicks heats up the microphone at
the recent Shelton-McSurly Family
Reunion.
''The Exorcist" meets "Invasion of
the Body Snatchers" in this mid 1970s
drive-in chiller that sports a veteran /Ill)
cast and a couple of future stars.
The American southwest is the setting here as a family must confront
Corbiss (the leader of a sect of devil
worshippers) who
is detennined to
get his hands on
an evil textbook
the family has
guarded for three
centuries.
The film opens
with
a tense
sequence
that
sees family matriarch Mrs. Preston
Tom Dotv
and son 11ark
Staff Writer
(William Shatner
having a
bad
toupee day) sweating it out as they
wait for Dad to come home while a
rainstorm rages outside. A truck eventually pulls up and dad, sporting a
misshapen face, reports that Corbiss is
in a neighboring ghost town and
wants his book back. Dad then'
promptly melts into wax before he
can answer any questions.
11ark steps outside to investigate
the truck and hears noises back at the
house. By the time he's back inside,
some cultists have made off with ._
mom. He dashes off a message to his
brother Tom and heads off to the
ghost town to pit his faith against that
of Corbiss. Before you can say,
"Beam me up, Scotty," he is imprisoned and transformed into an eyeless
minion of Corbiss.
Tom and his psychic wife, Julie,
get the message and return home for a
meeting with the town's useless sheriff who wishes them luck but can't
offer any help. They head to the ghost
town where someone blows up their
truck while they're investigating a
church.
Eventually they happen upon an •
eyeless minion ·who turns out to be a
pre-"Welcome Back, Kotter" John
Travolta. Julie looks into Travolta's
flre-filled eye holes - no disco inferno jokes please - and sees a memory
from 300 years before. She figures out
that Corbiss is three centuries old and
still mad at the Prestons for turnmg
him in during Pilgrim times. Turns out
the villagers ctidn't take kindly to
Corbiss' preachings and opted to
make him the lone wcenie at an allnight roast.
Julie doesn't get much of a chance
to explain her vision as the pair is if~
interrupted by a cultist who crashes a
station wagon into the church. It
appears that giving up your ey_e.s !<:; . -Corbiss impacts one's dtiving sL;'is
but the sect can still blow up cars and
lasso intruders with the best of them.
Tom sends Julie away but scr... w~
up because it was all a ruse to split
them up and Corbiss has wisely hidden a cultist in the back seat. This
leads to a hilarious sequence where
Julie crashes the station wagon
because she chooses to take both
(See LAGOON, page seven)
(See ALLEN, page seven)
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The race we run is not about the finish line
by FRAN HARRIS
"CHICKEN SouP FOA THE AFRICAN
AMERICAN SouL"
It's hard to say no to Superman.
When Chris, my younger brother,
was 5 years old, he wanted to enter a 30yard dash at "Fun Day," a City of Dallas
summer youth program. It was a project
that was designed to give kids alternatives to hanging out on street corners
during summer vacation. Chris, who
insisted everyone in our family call him
"Superman," had always been fascinat-
would stand along the sidelines. hypnotized as he watched the older kids race.
And although he didn't really understand the concept of running a race - or
so I thought - he somehow knew tliat
the atmosphere of competing and doing
your best provided one of the greatest
feelings in the world.
For three weeks, he had run over to
me, panting and out of breath, with the
same question: "Can I run today?"
For three weeks, my answer had
remained the same: "We ' ll see." That
fired, worn-out phrase my parent·· 11~cd
.
.
,. '
On this particular day I caught a
glimpse of the sparkle in Chris' eyes. He
wanted, no, needed, to run in a race, so I
agreed to give him his shot.
As one event finished and they
geared up for the next one, I learned that
the other two kids in Chris' race were 7
and 9 years old. I had wondered why
they looked so much bigger and more
developed than my gangly 5-year-old
shrimp of a br0thcr \vho' d just lost one
of his front teeth.
Oh, no, I thought. He's gonna get
rrr~
' l1 ,~ 11 ~ ., ,
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1,
' .j
thinking I should pull Superman from
the race. Maybe encourage him to run
with kids his own age. But something in
the child-of-steel's spirit told me age
was nothing but a number in his mind.
The official called for the runners to
take their marks, and I told Chris I
would be waiting for him at the finish
line and that I'd be proud of him no matter what happened. I laid a big, sloppy
kiss on him and sent him to the starting
blocks. certain I was making a big mis- '
take.
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THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
21, 2005 • A7
Jim 1)avidson
Facing the storms of life
Several years ago, when I was
younger and not involved in so many
~fferent activities, I used to love to go
troul fishing. We have
one of the premier
trout 'fishing streams in
the country right here
in North Arkansas and
known as the White
River. My friends who
read my column in the
Baxter Bulletin in
Mountain Home will
certainly attest to this.
The White River runs
across the northern part
of our state and a large dam was built at
Bull Shoals creating Bull Shoals Lake,
a great fishing place in its own right,
with anglers coming from all over the
nation to fish there. l donlt know how
many feet, but this dam is high, really
high, and when water is released at the
bottom, it is cold and swift as the river
snakes its way through the mountains.
This is prime habitat for trout that must
have cold water to survive. The swift
water flowing through this dam is also
used to generate electricitr.
Trout fishermen primarily fish
below the dam in the White River and
there are several boat
docks and rental places
along the way where you
can rent a boat, motor and
everything you need to
"wet a hook," as they say.
Because the water is
so swift, especially when
they are generating, you
need an anchor to throw
out, if you do not want to
be swept along with the
current. Most boats are
equipped with a piece of railroad iron
for this purpose. If you have ever seen
a railroad track and can visualize about
a foot of this, then you know what I am
talking about. When you throw the
anchor out, if the water is really swift,
it may take a little while before it hangs
up on a rock and your boat is brought to
a secure position.
When I thought about what I wanted
to share with you today, this is the analogy that carne to mind. In reality, a fast-
ifth gear 1 01
by TOM and RAY MAGLIOZZI
or transmission couldn't care less. So
that's not a criterion for when to shift.
Dear Tom and Ray:
TOM: But "dear husband" is also
Whenever I am driving, my dear off-base when he says that speed is
husband and I have an argument the only factor. After all, you can shift
about fifth gear. I was taught not to into fifth at a lower speed while going
use fifth gear unless I am going to be down a hill than you can on a flat
driving on a long stretch of road with- road. Speed is a good guideline, but
out traffic lights or I am on the free- the bottom line is, if the engine isn't
way (we have a 1998 Volkswagen complaining, you're good to go.
Passat). My husband says it doesn' t
RAY: And by the way, your drimatter how long you're going to be in ving style is absolutely fine, Mary.
fifth gear; he says it's all a matter of The only potential downside to
how fast you are going. He says I got avoiding fifth gear in town is that
simplified explanation because I'm you'll get slightly lower mileage than
a girl. He goes from ftrst gear to sec- perhaps you could. But you'll do the
ond to fifth driving around town, engine absolutely no harm by driving
even though there might be a stop- in third and fourth around town. In
light a quarter-mile . - - - - - - - - - - - - - , fact, you're sure to
avoid lugging it.
away. He says that
he rarely uses third
TOM: And as long
and fourth gears
as "dear husband" is
(which I use all the
not shifting so soon
time in the city)
that he's lugging the
unless he is haulengine, his style is
ing a load. Ease
ftne, too. But if you
my troubled mind:
hear the engine pingIs this causing
ing or feel it bucking,
stress on our transthen reach over and
lllfllssion? - Mary
give him a dope slap.
RAY:
Forget
Or write him a "dear
about the transmishusband" letter.
sion, Mary. I'm
Dear Tom and Ray:
more
worried
We are a couple of
about the stress it's
old broads in our 70s,
causing in your
both very hard-headmarriage.
TOM: Let's start with a freshman ed. My friend drives with her purse
between her stomach and the steering
seminar: Fifth Gear 10 1.
RAY: The first thing you need to wheel. I think this is probably very
know is that it's easier to KEEP a car dangerous! I tried to tell her that
moving than it is to GET a car mov- when the air bag is deployed, it
ing. In other words, getting a car from comes out with a great deal of force
0 mph to 50 mph takes a lot more - enough to push her purse into her
effort than keeping it going at 50 ribs or stomach and do major darnce it's already there. Newton fig- age. Am I right to worry about my
ured that out after he invented the best bud, or am I just a worrywart?Ouida
fruit-filled cookie.
RAY: Well, we're more worried
TOM: So, the gears in a car are
designed for various degrees of diffi- about those big cigars she smokes,
culty. First gear, for instance, is Ouida. One of those could end up
designed for the hardest work, when down her gullet if the air bag deploys.
TOM: But you're right about the
you're moving a car from a dead stop
or climbing a steep hill. In ftrSt gear, purse. We checked with the air-bag
the engine's crankshaft may tum 100 experts at the National Highway
times for every rotation of the Traffic Safety Administration, and
they gave the purse position a
wheels.
RAY: If you've ridden a multi- thumbs-down. They're concerned
speed bicycle, it's very similar. You that it could interfere with the proper
know that in ftrst gear, your legs (like path of the air bag.
RAY: So I suppose, instead of
,ttte car's engine) pump the pedals
many times, even while the bicycle heading directly for her chest, the
wheels turn very slowly. But the ped- purse could deflect the air bag
- aling is very easy on your legs. That's upward, sending the force of it directly into her schnozola. Or the air bag .
like ftrst gear in a car.
could
break the pocketbook, allowing
TOM: And like high gear on a
bicycle, your car's fifth gear is a piece of it to cause her a nasty
designed for the easiest duty, when injury.
TOM: Not to mention the embaryou're already at speed and just need
enough power to keep the car moving rassing possibility that she'd end up
at that speed. So in ftfth gear the with the word "Prada" embossed,
engine just lopes along, turning the backward, on her abdomen.
RAY: And then there's the factor
crankshaft only, say, 25 times for
every rotation of the wheels. And that of what's in the bag. I know that old
ladies, by regulation, are required to
saves gasoline.
RAY: So, when should you use carry large quantities of facial tissues.
fifth gear? As often as possible - as But she probably also carries some
fhng as you're not "lugging the hard objects, like keys, a compact or
even knitting needles.
engine."
TOM: So the best place for the
TOM: By "Jugging," we mean that
the engine is struggling to accelerate. bag is on the floor on the passenger
How would you know it's struggling? side, or right next to her, between the
Because when you step on the gas to front seats. Tell her if she has an
accelerate, it doesn't go faster. It emergency need for a tissue or a picmight bog down, it might buck, it ture of her grandkids, you'll be right
might lurch. And you might get nois- there to provide an immediate assist,
es from the engine, like pinging or Ouida.
knocking. If any of those things are
Don't get stuck with a lemon. Be
happening, you're going too slowly
to be in fifth gear, and you need to an informed shopper. Read Tom and
Ray's guide "How to Buy a Great
downshift.
RAY: So, to address the dispute Used Car: Secrets Only Your
with "dear husband," Mary, it turns Mechanic Knows." Send $4.75
~Jt you're both a little bit wrong. It (check or money order) to Used Car,
makes no difference how long you P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL
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moving river is, in one sense, a picture
of life as we move along at a fast pace
and face the trials and tribulations that
come along each day. Sometimes these
trials and tribulations become so overwhelming that we often seem to be losing ground as we attempt to succeed
and reach the goals we have set for ourselves. At this point, let me pause and
ask you this question. Are you facing
some things in your life that you just
canlt seem to overcome? It could be
health problems, financial distress, a
failed marriage, problems with children
or grandchildren, a conflict with your
employer or with an employee, a battle
with drugs or alcohol. Of course there
are myriads of other problems that
many people experience from time to
time.
As I look back over the past several
years of my life, I have come to the
realization that I now have skills and
knowledge that I did not have 10 or 20
years ago. I hope the same is true for
you as well. It 1s been said that people
are like plants. When we quit growing,
we start dying. The past few months
have been so rewarding as I have read
a number of good books that have been
very enlightening. You know, • we
should read for profit but we should
also read for pleasure. I have a couple
of good friends who share books with
me and in tum I share some of mine
with them. If you are not already doing
this, this is an idea you might want to
try.
Recently I have made a discovery in
the spiritual area of my life that has
helped me face the storms that come
along and I want to share it with you
for what itls worth. Several years ago I
heard a fantastic song titled, 3The
Anchor Holds2 that was written by
Lawrence Chewning and sung by! Ray
Boltz, copyright 1994, Word Music
Company. Back then I heard the song
several times but lost the tape o~ CD
and had not thought about it for tht past
several months. Then to my surptfse, a
few weeks ago a lady in my Sunday
school class gave Viola and me ~ CD
that contained this song, along with a
number of others. However, the orchestra and choir of Emmanuel Faith
Community Church in Escondido,
Calif., recorded this rendition.
This song is just beautiful and the
words are fantastic. Let me share the
chorus and you will see what I mean:
''The Anchor holds, though the ship is
battered. The Anchor holds, though the
sails are tom. Well I have fallen on my
knees, as I faced the raging sea, but the
Anchor holds in spite of the storm."
Almost from the time we received the
tape, I have listened to this song at least
once or twice each morning as I am
getting dressed. The words to this song
serve to remind me of WHOM my
Anchor is, and that I am secure in His
love. There is no doubt about it, when I
come to the office I am better prepared
to face the opportunities and the challenges that await me.
Please understand that I have no
financial interest and just wanted to
share a resource that has been a blessing to me. The CDs are only $10 and
can be ordered by calling the church at
1-760-745-2541 or from their Web site
www.efcc.org .
CJOO
Jim Davidson is a motivational
speaker and syndicated columnist. You
may contact him at 2 Bentley Drive,
Conway, AR 72034.
CAP to host fundraiser golf to rnament Sept. 12
On Monday, Sept. 12, Christian
Appalachian Project will be hosting
their fall golf tournament at Stone
Crest Golf Course.
The tournament promises to be a
truly special one, as it is the first-ever
to take place in Eastern Kentucky and
it has been dedicated to CAP's newest
program, the Howell Appalachian
Student Fund.
The Howell Appalachian Student
Fund is a loan-to-grant college scholarship program 'developed in 1990 by
Jerry Howell, of Morehead. Howell
recently transferred the existing
Appalachian Student Fund to CAP,
passing along with it the torch of hope
for underprivileged students who oth-
erwise may not have the opportunity
to attend college.
Ultimately, Howell's goal w~s to
encourage successful college grladuates to remain in Eastern Kentucky to
live and work by forgiving student
loans. CAP plans to continue as well
as expand the program.
Several tournament sponson;hip
opportunities are still available, with
everything from platinum sponsorship
that includes two foursome play
spots, two-hole sponsorships, and a
full-page color advertisement in the
tournament program, all the way to
individual play, which is guaranteed
with a suggested contribution of
$250.
By participating in the tournament,
you are empowering CAP to help
underprivileged East Kentuckians go
to college. Ultimately, your participation ensures the continued legacy of
the Appalachian Student Fund.
For more information about the
tournament or for information on corporate sponsorship, please contact
Teresa MeAnly at (859) 792-3051.
Sbup
• Continued from p8
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if he'd been shot from a canno". And
just as I'd imagined, the two older kids
- one to his left, the other to his right
- were leaving him in the dust. All of
the spectators were going crazy, cheering for all three kids. I jumped up and
down, waving my hands, wearing a
smile as wide as Texas.
Chris kept his eyes on me and continued to run his little heart out. Finally,
he crossed the finish line, leaping i1~tt>
my arms.
"Way to go, Chris," I said, holding
back a fountain of tears. "You were
sooo good, baby! You ran so hard! I':m
proud of you."
He hugged my neck so tight I was
sure it would snap. With his sweaty
face buried in my neck, he kissed mt~.
pulled away and asked excitedly, "Did
Iwin •t ·
f.
Sur y; e &ought he must have
won as hard as I was smiling. I laughed
but never thought twice about my
answer to his question. Instead, I continued to flash my megawatt smile,
took one look at the gleam in his eyes
and the joy spilling out of his chest, and
said: "You sure did, baby. You sure
did."
Allen
• Continued from p6
Webster, Sam'l Johnson, and those others who delved and dove into the
morass of words that is our language,
forgive us! "It was an unique party,"
"Isn't that unique?" and so on-you've
heard them all.
Well, it isn't unique, unless it is the
only one of its kind, nothing ever like
it, period. This is a word so commonly
used incorrectly, that its true meaning
may, indeed, be changed "by popular
demand." That's why, when I saw it
used so correctly in a recent article that
it brought me up short. The sentence,
or part of it, said, "It is an unique."
So, there! Unique, isn't it!
NEEDED FOR FURTHER
REFERENCE
I think I have dwelt at some leng1 tl
in columns past on modem contrar tions, which I consider infern; 1
machines as they apply to me, personally. I refer to the camera and the tape\·recorder. Ah, my friends, I have ha,ol
some sad experiences with those gad ·
gets.
One "candid shot," which I consid~
ered a rank injustice might hav ~
brought on a damage suit, had the pho ·
tographer not been in the family, and!
that tape recorder that was hauled fror.rn
behind a chair in which I had slumped
while making certain desultory
remarks, was lucky not to have been
reduced to rubble, verily.
Yet I wished for both, the other
afternoon, when a certain youngster
caught his ftrst fish. The movie camera
would have recorded his wild, excited
dash up the· bank, the startled fish
bouncing along behind him. I wished
for a tape recorder, so that I might play
it for him a few years hence. We tossed
the ftsh back into the lake, and the
recorder would have preserved for posterity his anguished wail, "Bah! I wanted to hold it by the TAIL!"
Lagoon
• Continued from ps
hands off the wheel to cover up her
mouth while she screams.
It all ends up with an inverttive
sequence wherein the satanists p1elt
like dove bars in a microwave as they
are pelted with devil's rain. All tight,
it's a little confusing, but all in good
fun and the makeup effects are outstanding as they all transform into one
large puddle of evil goo.
This one's wild and a little goofy, but
you do get some decent scares and a cast
so hungry for work that they chew the
scenery like it's their last meal.
Shatner emotes like there's no
tomorrow and shouts "Corbiss" like
he's auditioning for the "Wrath of
Khan." Ida Lupine shows up briefly
but quickly disappears as if her check
just cleared.
Ernest Borgnine takes the cake as
Corbiss and looks pretty good in the
goat head make up that he sports for
the ftnal reel. He also seems to be having a grand old time as he tosses off
lines like, "You are chosen from among
mortals for immortal delight."
Eddie Albert ("Green Acres") turns
up for the finale as a know-it-all professor who saves the day by figuring
out all of the clues that have eluded the
rest of the cast.
John Travolta shows up as a minion
and has his eyes covered up but that
Clearly, he paid his dues to get whew ·
he is today.
Okay, this one is a bit silly, but
director
Robert
Fuest
("The
Abominable Dr. Phibes") knows his·
way around a trite script and seems'
particularly adept at getting actors to
go over the top. He even hired a black
book toting satanist, Anton Le Vey, as a
tech,nical advisor. La Vey would pen
his own black book but died in 1993
and is probably roasting like Corbiss
for say ... eternity.
The make up effects by Tom
Burman ("The Fly") are the best thing
here and the fmal mass melting scene is
worth the wait. The final shot is a killer
and leaves the drama open for another
satanic stonn, though it's been blue
skies ever since.
Best line: "Who opens the portals of
pleasure opens the eye of eternity."
Whatever that means.
1975, rated PG.
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for Ka1ntucky.
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AS • SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Coal companies join college to train highly-skilled workers
PRESTONSBURG - The
y F. Collier Community
nter in Inez was crowded
tth men in search of jobs in
coal industry as representaCzar
Coal
from
uvJ<a<aua:uueech
Fork
u"''~'"'·'"l'; Inc., Excel Mining
Martin County Coal
'on and Big Sandy
._, ........",ity and Technical
"""11'-'J' "' gathered on August 18
sign the agreements that will
in the latest initiative for
a highly-skilled workin the coal industry.
Dr. George D. Edwards,
president of BSCTC told the
group, "This is a true partnership, representing three coal
companies in a consortium with
Big Sandy Community and
Technical College."
The consortium agreement
between BSCTC and the coal
companies will provide 48
weeks of highly skilled training
for over 200 workers over the
next one-and-a-half years.
Students will rotate in the classroom and on the job on an
eight-week rotation basis. After
• Continued from p5
Regional Medical
, &enter in Prestonsburg. Funeral
services were conducted Friday,
August 12, under the direction
Of Jones-Preston Funeral Home.
•
Wilbur H. 'Harley'
etudill, 76, of Flat Gap, died
llb.ursday, August 11, at his residence. Arrangements, were
under the direction of Jonesreston Funeral Home.
• Delphia Milton "Rass"
Kelly Jr., 30, of Flat Gap, died
Wednesday, August 10. He is
survived by his wife, Kimberly
A. McKenzie Kelly. Funeral
services were held Sunday,
August 14, under the direction
of Jones-Preston Funeral Home.
• Juanita Blair Spradlin, 69,
of Leander, died Thursday,
August 11, at her residence. She
s survived by her husband,
ames Denny Spradlin. Funeral
Jl
.
~rvtces
were
conducted
1
~unday, August 14, under the
1
direction of Jones-Preston
. n~uneral Home.
10 '· • Jeremy Clayton Runyon,
rrpg, of River, died Thursday,
'August 11. Funeral services
oiwere conductd Sunday, August
r'1 r4, under the direction of Jones!! '~reston Funeral Home.
• Michael C. Havens, 51, of
' L owmansville, died Tuesday,
' )\'ugust 16, at King's Daughters
J;~edical Center, in Ashland. He
0
s survived by his wife, Cathy
"l tevens Havens. Funeral ser'CtJices were conducted Saturday,
August 20, under the direction
(if
Preston Funeral Home.
1
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t<Y'
KNOTT COUNTY
• Jim Demera Slone, 25, of
Detroit,
Michigan,
died
Saturday, August 13, at Henry
Hospital,
Detroit,
Ford
Michigan. Funeral services
were conducted Friday, August
19, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
Hindman.
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
• Green J. Patrick, 80, of
New Cumberland, a natve of
~agoffin
County,
died
" ednesday, August 3. He is
survived by his wife, Anna M.
Houze Patrick. Funeral services
were conducted Saturday,
August 6, in the Sandy Valley
.~urch of God, N.E. Magnolia.
2br' • Billie A. Rice, 88, of Oil
.i~prings, died Tuesday, August
rl~ at Darby Nursing Home,
••Lexington. Funeral services
1r':Were conducted Saturday,
-?Jiugust 13, under the direction
qJ_f Magoffin County Funeral
:,fi4ome.
LI£, • Rev. Lionel Lykins, 78, of
''fJ\lbion, a native of Salyersville,
died Sunday, August 14, at his
glbome. He is survived by his
WWife, Janabee Yates Lykins.
LFuneral services were conducted Thursday, August 18, under
J \llte direction of J. Kevin Tidd
Funeral Home.
-( -. • Danny Mullins, 50, of
0
Salyersville,
died Friday,
-August
12,
at
CabellHuntington Hospital, West
Virginia. He is survived by his
wife, Sherry Mullins. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Tuesday, August 16, under the
direction of Magoffin County
Funeral Home.
• Frank Bailey, 82, of
Royalton, died Friday, July 29,
at U.K. Medical Center,
Lexington. He is survived by
his wife, Ruth Patterson Bailey.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 1, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, Martin.
• Martha E . Moore, 68, of
Norwalk,
a
native
of
Salyersville, died Monday
morning, August 15, in her
home. Arrange~nents, under the
direction of ~i.Valker Funeral
Home.
completing eight weeks in the
classroom. the student will go
into the mine work setting and
work alongside skilled miners
for eight weeks. Then they will
rotate back into the classroom.
After the first rotations take
place, a new group of students
will begin the training.
Students will be sponsored
by the coal companies and will
be paid a competitive wage
throughout their 48-week training period. At the end of the
training period, successful
graduates will be eligible to be
considered for employment by
the mining companies.
The cost of the program to
students will be their transportation to school and the
workplace, dedication and
sweat equity. All other costs
will be paid for by grant funds
and the consortium.
David Pelphrey, dean of
workforce development for
BSCTC, told the group gathered to hear about the new
training initiative, "This training will prepare y u for a
career, not just a job, i the coal
industry. It's an affordable way
to train people with world class
transferable skills."
Jim Booth, executive from
Booth Energy commented, "We
are excited about this program.
There are a lot of jobs available
in the coal industry. We want
you to come to work for us,
trained and ready to excel.
"It' s different than when
your fathers came to work.
Today 's coal industry requires
trained technical workers. With
this program you can get paid
while you get that training. You
will still be able to support
yourselves and your families
while getting the skills you
need to work in today's coal
industry."
The first Information Day
will be held Sept. 7 at the Mayo
Campus
Auditorium
in
Paintsville from 1 to 6 p.m.
This will include screening
interviews, assessment and
information. The initial screening process for selecting the
ftrst class of students will take
place at this time.
Persons who are interested in
From left to right are, standing, Craig S. Preece, Carolea Mills,
David Pelphrey, James H. Booth and Elmer Howard; and, sitting, Dennis Hatfield, Paul Spradlin, Dr. Edwards and John
Small.
a career in the coal industry
should be at this meeting, ready
to interview. For more information on this training call David
Pelphrey at (606) 788-2844, or
if you are out of the area you
can call toll free (888) 6414132 ext. 82844.
.
Amencan Hean
Obituaries
Homer Hall
Homer
~:all,
81,
of
Weeksbury, d)i ed Wednesday,
August 17, 2005, at the
McDowell
Appalachian
Regional Healt:irlcare.
Born April27, 1924, in Floyd
County, he wa.s the son of the
late Millard Fillmore and Lillie
Tackett Hall. Hle was owner and
manager of Hall's Bypro
Market, from which he retired
after 55 yearB; a U.S. Navy
World War II veteran; a member
of the Johnson County V.F.W.; a
member of the Auxier D.A.V.
Chapter
18;
received
Presidential Cjitation; two purple
hearts, 15 m~jor battle stars, a
silver star, bronze star; and
many other medals and awards.
He was preceded in death by
his wife, Mru;y Tackett Hall.
Survivors include three sons:
Roger Lewi1> Hall (Delana) of
Weeksbury, Michael Dean Hall
(Judy) of Wheelwright, and
Gregory Al11!n Hall (Debbie) of
Weeksbury; three daughters:
Sharon Me:~ade (Ronnie) of
Prestonsburg, Judy Taylor
(Noah) of Robinson Creek, and
Deedra (Dee Dee) Hall
(Cheyenne) of Weeksbury; two
brothers: Haskell Hall of
Weeksbury and Guy Hall of
Bufford, Georgia; a sister, Jane
Wells ofWe,eksbury; nine grandchildren: J,eff, Shaun, Chris,
Tiffany, Tlina, Neil, Jessica,
Ryan, and Katie; and five greatgrandchilcii'en: Kelsey, Dylan,
Rebecca, Dawson, and Hailey.
In additio'n to his parents and
wife, he wa11s preceded in death
by a daug'hter, Mary Francis
Hall; a brotlher, Willis Hall; two
sisters: Satrah Branham and
Sadie Baby; and a grandchild,
Latisha Rowe Hall.
Funeral services were conducted Sattnrday, August 20, at 1
p.m., at th•<: Joppa Old Regular
Baptist Churrch, in Melvin, with
Old Reguitar Baptist ministers
officiating.
Burial was in the Wash Hall
Cemetery, in Weeksbury, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Htlme, in Martin.
A milit~1:ry funeral was conducted by the Auxier D.A.V.
Chapter 1~1.
Visitatio1n was at the church.
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Aifte side of the tin-foil collectors.
t'lt Creationists and others have
been putting stickers on high
1'sthool textbooks pointing out
b'that evolution is "only" a theory
lind has not been proved. Fair
enough, but to be accurate and
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ebels steamroll Bobcats
Turnovers lead AC to 32·6 win
by JAMIE HOWELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
EASTERN- In what figured to be a battle of two evenly-matched Floyd County
teams, the Allen Central Rebels scored early
and often Friday night in a 32-6 rout of the
visiting Betsy Layne Bobcats. The Bobcats
'-'fne into the game on a positive note after
winning four games last season, but the
much bigger group of Rebels were not
impressed. Betsy Layne won the toss and
elected to take the opening kickoff. On the
first play from scrimmage, however, the
Bobcats commited the first of what would
end up being four turnovers.
On the first offensive possession for
Allen Central, Robbie Vanderpool found the
endzone from 21 yards out and gave the
Rebs an early lead.
Ramon Spurlock tacked on the two-point
conversion and with 8:32 remaining in the
first quarter, Allen Central led 8-0.
Betsy Layne found more bad luck on its
next possession as Bobcat quarterback
Brandon Kidd was intercepted by Casey
Duncan at the Betsy Layne 22 yard line.
Duncan returned the interception for a
touchdown, extending Allen Central's lead.
Spurlock tacked on another two-point conversion to give the Rebels a 16 0 lead at the
photo by Jamie
Aile~ Central defended its home field successfully Friday nig£\t,
(See REBELS, page two) turnmg away visiting Betsy Layne.
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SPORTS EDITOR
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PRESTONSBURG - Week One of JPe
2005 Kentucky high football season is in:u
the
?ooks. Prestonsburg, ranked as high as secp)ld
m the state by some preseason polls, di~'t
play during the first week Gf the seasgn,
instead utilizing its one and only open date of
the regular-season to prepare for a se~n
opening game against Hazard. Prestonsbwg
Coach John DeRossett expects his team . to
entercounter a homestanding Hazard te¥u
that'll offer a tough test from the opentpg
1
kickoff.
"With our open date we used the weeJyo
get ready for Hazard," DeRossett ackn:Aledged. "They'll be much-improved from st
season. Coach (Mark) Dixon and his s
;po
a great job. They had a big rivalry game i~~e
first week of the season against Perry Coql}ty
Central, but we expect them to be ready to
(See HAZARD, page t.Jlo)
photos by Steve LeMaster
Above: South Floyd senior Justin Slone hurt the Magoffin County defense Friday night on several offensive plays. Slone also doubled up and played defense for the Raiders.
Below: Anthony Barker was also key for South Floyd, both on offense and defense.
Raiders sink Magoffin
uth Floyd sails past Hornets, 40• 1 4
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
HI HAT - Questions surrounded the South Floyd High
School football program
heading into Friday night's
season-opener at Raider
Stadium against visiting
Magoffin County.
How would the South Floyd
offense make up for the loss of
two running backs that combined to rush for nearly 4,000
yards during the 2004 season?
How would the younger,
inexperienced Raiders react
with bigger roles and greater
ponsibilities placed upon
them?
:Could South Floyd come close
tti~ualing or surpassing the sue-
cess of last season's 8-3 team?
Well, South Floyd got off to
the ·right start in the seasonopener. The Raiders answered
the questions of many critics.
South Floyd answered some
questions to the tune of a 40-14
win over Magoffin County.
Several South Floyd players
got a. hand in on the offense.
South Floyd was led by senior
offensive duo of quarterback
Ryan Johnson and wide receiver/running back Justin Slone.
The Raiders got all of the scoring they needed in the first half.
South Floyd won, despite fighting off exhaustion and other
problems related to the hot temperatures. The host team held
on to win despite an hour-plus
weather-related delay.
South Floyd head coach
Donnie Daniels took his team
into what eventually was an
extended halftime and 1.1ursed
the 32-6 lead.
Daniels noted his team's
hardwork following its seasonopening victory:
"We executed well for the
most part," said Daniels. "Our ,
backs ran the ball real hard. We
had a lot of pregame jitters
early on and that's something
that we kinda expected."
South Floyd grabbed an
early lead and never trailed.
After being forced to punt
on its opening possession,
South Floyd recovered a
Magoffin County punt and
(See RAIDERS, page two)
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straight JennY
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SPORTS EDITOR
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PRESTONSBURG - The Jenny W~y
Invitational boys' basketball tournament has
again been discontinued. Prestonsburg }\lEh
School played hosted to the tournament e;~~;h
of the past two seasons. According ... o
Prestonsburg High boys' basketball co~h
Jackie day Crisp, finding teams to fill a 20~.506 edition of the tournament was hard to as>.
"We couldn't find enough teams to fillJpe
tournament the way we wanted to," said
Crisp. "There's so many tournaments goAJ.g
on around that time."
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The tournament, previously held dw;iM
the months of December and January, dr~w
large crowds when it had its most succes~
run during the 1970s.
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Crisp, who has guided the Prestonstwfg
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ordan Case moves on
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG - It's this time of year when
Jil'<UlY recent high school graduates make the big
ste_p and move on to college. Former Betsy Layne
Hijh School three-sport standout Jordon Case _no
~er competes in organized sports. But he remams
competitive, Case, a Class of2005 graduate and the
reigning 58th District baseball most valuable player
is determined to continue his education and one day
receive a degree in mortuary science.
''Right now, I'm going to focus on school and getting a college education," said Case. "I'm looking at
attending Mid-America College of Funeral Service."
Case has already visited Mid-America College of
Funeral Service, which is located in Jeffersonville,
Ind. He has some experience is the field as he is curtly employed by Hall Funeral Home in Martin.
Voted the 58th District's top baseball player as
a senior, Case also had a phenomenal final year of
high school football. He finished his senior football season with 13 touchdowns. Case played on
both sides of the football and learned a lot about
life along the way, some things that might help
him later on.
"Both the football and baseball coaches were
great," Case said.
The BLHS football team took on Floyd County
rival Allen Central Friday night and if possible, Case
would have no doubt been suited up for the Bobcats.
A high school student-athlete, before, during
and after competition is often reminded that when
he or she takes the playing field, they should be
having the time of their life. Case admits he
enjoyed his time as a Betsy Layne High School
student-athlete.
"£ really enjoyed high school and playing
sports," Case added. "I don't regret anything, I
had a great time."
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
•
PAINTSVILLE - Paintsville HOOPS
Classic officials are pleased with the field
that's in place for the 2005 tournament. For ifle
first time in tournament hi tory, Georgia ~d
Texas will both be represented with teams1 1
Oak Ridge, Tenn., the champion from flle
inaugural tournament, is set to make its retypt.
"Coach Ricky Norris does an outstan<4¥g
job and we are glad to have Oak Ridge bit<:k
in the tournament," said Paintsville HOOPS
Classic Tournament Director Bob Lyons. :{!
Defending HOOPS Classic champ duP~t
Manuaf is not in the 2005 tournament twd
won't have the opportunity to defend its t\~c.
(See CLASSIC, page t~o)
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THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ft4ibels
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3:45 mark of the flrst quarter.
After Betsy Layne was unable
to muster any offense, Allen Central
added another score on a 15-yard
scamper from Corey Oick.
The two-point conversion
fro
Spurlock gave Allen
Cen al a '24-0 lead at halftime.
Betsy Layne looked to get on
the board late in the flrst half
af~Ji a 54-yard run from
Brandon Blair spotted the ball at
the Allen Central flve-yard line.
But the Bobcats could not get
th<'!t\\!111 into the end zone as the
frrstzhalf expired.
A severe thunderstorm hit
Flo)?j. County at the half and
forced a 45 minute rain delay.
After the rain delay, Allen
Central took the second-half
kickoff and marched 70 yards in
eight plays capped by a one-yard
plunge by Spurlock. Spurlock's
score gave the Rebs a 30-0 lead.
Josh Lawson fell on a loose
ball in the end zone for the
Rebel two-point . conversion,
making it a 32-0 Allen Central
lead with 6:43 remaining in the
third quarter.
Betsy Layne avoided the
shutout on a 60-yard touchdown
run in the fourth quarter from
Ed Osborne, but the outcome
had already been decided.
Heat also played a factor in
the game as several players were
overcome by the extreme temperature in the first half. One
Betsy Layne player had to be
taken to the hospital due to heatrelated illness. Several injuries
hit the young Bobcat team on the
night with senior quarterback
Brandon Kidd going O\it with an
injury in the second half.
Vanderpool led the Rebels in
rushing with 90 yatds. Joe
Brown led the Rebel defense on
the night with eight tacltles.
Allen Central, thanks to the
win, opens 1-0 on the season
and will host Paintsvjlle on
Friday at the Don Daniels Field.
Betsy Layne fell to 0-1 with the
loss and will try to regroup playing out on the road against host
Powell County in the Whitaker
Bank Hall of Fame Bowl.
new year, Prestonsburg is slated
to play in the Coca-Cola
Classic, hosted annually by Pike
County Central High School.
Prestonsburg finished the
2004-05 season with an 18-11
record, fourth best in the 15th
Region. The Blackcats finished
runner-up in the 58th District,
second to South Floyd - one
season after unseating the
Raiders. When Prestonsburg
dethroned South Floyd in March
2004, the triumph snapped
South Floyd's four-year reign
over the 58th District and
dashed any hopes the Raiders
had for a possible fifth straight
district title.
The 2005-06 Prestonsburg
High boys' basketball schedule will
appear in an upcoming edition.
The Hazard offense also features fullback Jerome Blanton and
halfback Preston Smith, both of
whom can break f;ree and get loose
with far better-than-average speed.
. Past
Prestonsburg-Hazard
games helped to build the matchup
into somewhat of a rivalry.
'We were glad to get Hazard back
on~ schedule," DeRossett said. "It's
a good rivalry for bolh schools."
Prestonsburg also has earlyseason non-district games
against area rivals Pikeville
(Sept. 2), Paintsville (Sept. 9)
and Ashland Blazer (Sept. 16)
before opening district play on
Sept. 23 against a muchimproved Sheldon Clark team.
On a down note, Prestonsburg
High sophomore Dalton Taylor
suffered a season-ending leg
injury Monday night when he
broke his femur.
"Dalton's injury was really
unfortunate," said DeRossett.
'iHe was starting on all special
teams and was on the verge of
breaking .through and contributing on defense. Throughout the
preseason, he's worked hard.
His surgery went well and he's
home now. He'll be on the sidelines with us this fall."
Tourney
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OJ
boJj,'c basketball teams to a berth
in the 15th Region Tournament
sewitffials each of the last three
secbl!ims, nearly has a schedule
f~ed for the 2005-06 season.
The Basketball Blackcats are
sdu:l"uled to take part in the
Eastr'Ridge Classic on Saturday,
D~117 and travel to Frankfort
foJb.-a. tournament at the state's
capijal, Dec. 28-30. Early in the
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Hazard
• Continued from p1
pla.lvhen we roll into town."
JL~ard finished the 2004
season 4-7, but returns one of its
most athletic teams in the last
few seasons, led by senior quarterback/free safety Durrell
Olin~er
(6-2, 200). The
Pr!S'tbnsburg coaching staff has
trie81o emphasize to its player
thcr;{/nount of speed the Bulldog
fo&~1tll team would fleld.
Oiftazard has a lot of speed
am'i'lhat's something that we've
stressed to our kids," DeRossett
addQd.. "Our kids worked hard
duffir8 the off-week and ready to
o~.'the season."
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Stortn coach hopes her successeS-··
give· opportunities to wotnen
by TIM KORTE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
turuues, when in doubt, have
gone to a male or an NBA guy
- some with experience, some
SEATTLE -Anne Donovan withollt."
sees her role as a social
Consider that of the
reformer this way: If she keeps WNBA's 13 head coaches, just
reaching milestones, maybe it ·four are women. Along with
means another woman will be a Donovan, they are Minnesota's
head coach in the WNBA Suzie McConnell Serio, Carrie
someday.
Graf of Phoenix and New
Donovan
became
the York's Pat Coyle.
league's first female coach to
So while the WNBA has
reach 100 wins, as Lauren grown into the nation's most
Jackson had 18 points and 11 visible pro league for women,
rebounds to lead the Seattle many of its coaches come
Storm over the Minnesota Lynx through the NBA ranks - men
76-60 on Thursday night.
like Detroit coach Bill Laimbeer
Last fall, Donovan became or former Los Angeles Sparks
the first female coach to win a coach Michael Cooper.
WNBAtitle.
'This is a women's league,"
"To have been given an Seattle star Sue Bird said. "It's
opportunity also is a responsi- importabt to have coaches like
bility. I don't take it lightly," Anne trailblazing away.
Donovan said. "I downplay it Women are in the minority for
because personal awards don't head coaching positions. Anne is
mean a whole lot. Championships kind of the one carrying the load."
are what I'm about.
Last year, Donovan set a
"At the same time, the big Seattle franchise record with 20
picture is that the more oppor- victories. As the coach at
tunities women have in this Charlotte in 2001, she took a
league, the more success we'll squad that had opened the seaflnd for the females."
son 1-l 0 and finished 17-4 for a
Donovan is the fourth coach trip to the WNBA Finals.
in league history to reach the
Bird and other players
100-victory milestone. While believe Donovan is making a
she emphasizes team goals over difference.
personal accolades, she agreed
"She won the first title. She
she has carved out a special. got to 100 first," Bird said.
role as a woman who's also a "Maybe GMs in other cities .
successful WNBA coach.
will see what Anne's done and
"There's been little respect they won't be- I don't want to
given to female coaches in this say scared -but they'll want to
league," she said. "The oppor- hire women coaches."
Iziane Castro Marques
scored 16 points and Bird
added nine assists for Seatt:lO:
( 17-13), which won its seven ;
straight at home and pull •
within one victory of reachin\
the playoffs.
The Storm held Minnesota
to 35.3 percent shooting.
"The only thing that matters and I mean this sincerely - w~\.
had a great defensive effort for 4<l,
minutes," Donovan said. "That1~;,
the way the team needs to play
get us into the postseason."
·:~.~
Coupled with Houston's win ·
over Phoenix earlier Thursday"',
the Storm remained a half-garrie •
ahead of the Comets for second.
place in the Western Conference.;;,
Seattle, which ended July witll
six straight wins, has won thr .' .
of its last four.
.•t, •
Nicole Ohlde led Minnesota.··
(14-17) with 17 points whil~ . _
Tarnika Williams had a career;}.,
high 14 rebounds.
•,
Donovan trails Houston's.
Van Chancellor (191), Coop~r .•
(119) and. Washington's Richl,e..
Adubato (114) on the WNBA's '
victories list. She's 100-94 W. , ~·
six seasons - the last three ut .<
Seattle after two years witli';' '
Charlotte and one at Indiana. ·~:
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"That milestone 1s a tremet;J.-. ..
dous
accomplishment;,;·· "
McConnell Serio said. "She:S..
done a great job with all her -=
teams. She always has thet~J:~ ~
ready to play. I'm happy f~
her. Unfortunately, it canreagainst us."
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Eury signs long-term contract with DEI
xTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.CJ - Tony
Eury Jr. signed a long-term contract extension with Dale
Earnhardt Inc., opening the possibility the crew chief will reunite
next season with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Terms were not released for
the deal, Bury's flrst contract in
his 14 years with the company.
Before this, he had always
worked with a handshake
agreement.
By signing him to an official
deal, DEI eliminated the
chance Eury could leave with
driver Michael Waltrip at the
end of this season. The two
were paired together this year
in a wholesale swap of crews
and
equipment
between
Earnhardt and Waltrip.
·The swap was necessary<,
because
the
relationshifi"
between Earnhardt and Eull'J ,
who are also cousins, had dete.!riorated to the point that ~~...
two were hardly speaking at~~;,;
end of last season.
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¥he 2005 edition of the
PafMsville HOOPS Classic
wil¥'1 include teams from
KeWiltcky and five other states,
in<!!Uding South Carolina,
wh~·
h happens to have two
tea ! in the tournament.
e are very pleased with
thl"tield for the 2005 toumameffF." Lyons added. "It'll be a
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really exciting fleld.
The tournament will include
fol.lf divisions. The East Division
is made up of tournament host
Paintsville, Hilton Head, S.C.,
Barren County and Shroder
Paideia, Ohio. In the West
Division, Ripley, Ohio, Louisville
Seneca. Allen Central and Clear
Lake, Texas are grouped together.
James Madison, Va., Fort Mill,
S.C., Louisville Butler and
Owensboro Apollo make up the
North Division. The South
Division includes Oak Ridge,
Carroll County, South Floyd and
Alexander, Ga.
The Paintsville HOOPS
Classic is scheduled to run Dec.
27-30.
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'weWflon to hit its initial paydirt. on a two-point conversion pass and
Senior fullback Kyle Hall got put the Raiders ahead 16-6.
Junior Ethan Johnson added
intlJ>1>fue endzone at the 8:24
m~when he scored on a three- a pair of touchdowns for South
yal~\ouchdown. Johnson kept Floyd in the second quarter. He
on1qhe two-point conversion capped one of his scoring efforts
att8wot and the Raiders led 8-0. with a two-point · conversion
Mhgoffin County answered catch. One of Johnson's touchwith a touchdown near the end of downs came on a 32-yard touchth~n,t quarter when senior run- downs reception while the other
nidfrlback Brandon Shepherd came on a two-yard run.
Ryan Johnson put South
sco~ on a three-yard run.
Ma~8ffin County's attempt to get Floyd ahead 32-6 at the 1:09
a rnltl-point conversion following mark of the second quarter
when he followed up Ethan
its fitst score was unsuccessful.
Slone allowed Magofiin County · Johnson rushing touchdown
lil&fl\:ime to celebrate when he with a two-point conversion run.
brd!b lose for South floyd and · Pleased to see his team come
~on a 62-yard run with 1:18 out and get the season-opening
left to play in the first quarter. win, Daniels is far from content.
"We did some good things.
JoJtmhn found receiver Brock Slone
•:tt
but we've still got a lot to work
on," Daniels added. "We're
nowhere where we wanna be
right now. We've got to get in
better shape and that's something we'll work on and improve
on as the season progressions."
South Floyd will move on to ·
its next game on a winning note.
"We've got a tough game
next week that we have to get
ready for," Daniels said.
The Raiders will return to
action at home in the second
week of the season on Friday,
Aug. 26, playing host to visiting
Shelby Valley. Magoffin County
will continue on the road, playing at Knott County Central.
Kickoff for both games is set for
7:30p.m.
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H.S. ·Football Scoreboard:
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Ashland Blazer 44, Raceland 7
Boyd County 80, Bracken County 12
Bullitt East 52, Nelson County 14
Campbell County 53, Bourbon County 0
George Rogers Clark 42, Tates Creek 7
Harlan 28, Cawood 0
Holy Cross (Covington) 14, Scott 12
Lawrence County 28, Sheldon Clark 6
Lewis County 19, Nicholas County 8
Lincoln County 19, Pulaski County 15
(Death Valley Bowl)
Logan County 13, Butler County 6
Madison Southern 50, Bryan Station 0
Marion County 20, Bethlehem 19
Marshall County 48, Caldwell County 21
(at Mayfield, Alliance Bowl)
Morgan County 20, Rowan County 14
(Cave Run Classic)
North Laurel 16, Holmes 6
(at South Laurel, Cumberland Valley Bowl
Paintsville 28, Fairview 12
Pendleton County 33, Paris 12
Pineville 17, McCreary Central 12
Russell County 48, Adair County 0
South Floyd 40, Magoffm County 14
Valley 26, Iroquois 20
West Carter 32, Bath County 6
Woodford County 28, Anderson County 3
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RICHMOND
Eastern
K ntucky Athletics will host
tw events on Saturday, f\ug. 27
as the second-annual Meet The
C lonels Fan Day and Female
F
fare II will take place just
se en days before the Colonels
ki k-off the 2005 season against
A palachian State at 6:30 p.m.
in ·dd Stadium.
Meet The Colonels Fan Night
wi l begin at 6:30 p.m. in Kidd
St dium. The free event will be
he d on the concow;se level.
Third-year
head
coach
Danny Hope and the 2005
Colonels will sign posters and
schedule cards to open the
evening festivities. Following
the 40-minute autograph session, Hope will speak to the
crowd for approximately 20
minutes.
Fan Day concludes with a
7:30 PfCflFvvflcf!Fage.
EVENTS
Autograph Session - Concourse 6:30-7:10 p.m.
Hope Speech - Concourse - 7: 10-
7:30p.m.
Scrimmage - Kidd Stadium - 7:30 p.m.
Female Football FANfare II
will be held in Moberly Gym.
The festivities, organized by
the EKU football coaches'
wives, begin at 8 a.m. and will
conclude at 1 p.m.
FANfare will address the
basic rules, positions, uniforms,
equipment, facilities and operations of the sport.
The $10 registration fee includes
a box lunch. For more infonnation
or to register for the clinic, call Janet
Murphy, 859/622-2146.
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Above: The Betsy
Layne High
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ers hope to have :. •, ..
many things to · : .•
cheer about this •• ~
football season. , ,
Left: The Betsy : ••
Layne senior foo~-;., ,
ball players will gp
back to work this
week and try to
get things togeth~ er before their
next game against t>'
Powell County. '.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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~iHie League fields ~ren't
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b:lbbll
mune from talk about 'The Juice!:~~
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by GENARO C. ARMAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - It's 30
fi\hutes before the biggest game
otthe season and the kids from the
Fl:nch Creek Valley American
Litl e League team are arguing
abut who's on ''the juice." .
\pple juice? Gatorade?
T~, perhaps?
fo, these kids are talking
ab~t which big-time slugger
nu)t be on steroids, proving that
'~~ the littlest of Little Leaguers
isn'immune from the controversy egulting the majors.
·;• think it's cheating,"
Fr~ch Creek Valley player
Mitoell Wood said before his
te~m played recently in the
Pensylvania Little League
toumment for 9- and 10-yearoidsn Bellefonte.
" Oganizers of the Little
L€~pe World Series, the tourmhhilt for 11- and 12-year-olds
st~rhg Friday in South
Wilhmsport, expect talk about
~~cds to come up there, too.
"We're disappointed and con- guy," says 10-year-old David
cerned with what message that Bradley about the Baltimore
it's sending to Little Leaguers," Orioles outfielder who denied
said Stephen Keener, president having used performanceof Little League Baseball and enhancing drugs at the same
Softball. Keener says Little congressional hearing.
League, which doesn't test playBradley's teammate John
ers for drugs, has no plans to Macken interrupts.
"No, he's on the juice,
address the steroids issue during
David," the 10-year-old says.
the series.
Macken is even more conTo the boys from French
Creek Valley, at least, it's all about vinced about Sosa's teammate,
answering "Who's on the juice?'' Rafael Palmeiro, suspended 10
Taking a break under a tree davs earlier this month for vioas teammates took batting prac- lating Major League Baseball's
tice, several French Creek new steroids policy.
Valley players rattled off a list
"He's a great ballplayer, but
of names they'd seen hit home what he did wasn't right,"
runs on the nightly highlights Macken said.
over the year.
Many coaches say steroids
Mark McOwire? "Yeah," doesn't come up when the teams
some say in unison while a cou- · are practicing, and they don't
ple others say "No." McOwire aUdress it as a team.
has denied using illegal perfor"During practice, we're all
mance-enhancing drugs but business," said Mike Houston,
refused to do so under oath manager of the 9- and 10-yearwhile testifying before Congress old team from Upper Darby.
"But they see it on TV. They
in March.
know what's going on."
Sammy Sosa?
"I think Sammy's too good a
In Sydney Mines, Nova
Scotia, a few kids teased fellow
Little Leaguers if they went deep
during a home run derby, said
Little League coach Greg Courdy.
"If a kitl sees someone on TV
hit a 450-foot homer, they'll say
that guy is on 'roids," Courdy
said. "But other than that, it's
not a big issue."
·
Back in Bellefonte, Chris
Smith, a coach on the local
Little League team, says he
talks about steroids with his 10year-old son, Taylor.
"We tell him he has to work
hard, and he does work hard,"
says Smith, who was a spectator
at the Bellefonte tournament.
"It's not worth it right?"
Smith asks as he turns to his
son, who is nibbling on pretzel.
He shakes his head side-to-side,
signaling a no.
Taylor's favorite player?
"Barry Bonds," he says. "I
don't really know why I like him."
While the injured San
Francisco Giants slugger and
single-season home run king has
publicly denied using steroids,
he told a federal grand jury
investigating steroid distribution by the Bay Area Laboratory
Cooperative that he used substances prosecutors believe
were
illegal
performance
enhancing drugs, according to
the San Francisco Chronicle.
Keener says parents must
address the steroids issue first
with their kids. As far as Little
League, a statement on its Web
site says the use of pcrformimce-enhancing substances "is
completely contrary to the mission and ethics of Little
League." ·
"The 'even playing field' is
and always has been Little
League's goal," Keener said in
•
the statement.
Boys being boys, some Upper
Darby Uttle Leaguers just couldn't stop kidding each other.
Pat Vanderslice, 10, suggested that teammate Aaron Ross,
the team's best hitter, "was on
the juice - the O.J.", he said,
drawing laughs.
Ross smiled, turned to his
d !l.d1
teammates and said, "No, iJ:s11.s
just Wheaties."
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Virginia team win~oFI
~:no1
LL softball title ~~1 A
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. - Jam~t 1
Bell went 3-for-4 and McLean,
Va.• beat Orange, Conn., 6--2 to
win the Little Leasue SoftbaUod
World Series ctwnpionship. )clJ ni
Bell, the only holdover f
last year's team that finis
second, drove in two runs
scored another.
dT
lilly Faile, the coach's daugb
:)2
ter, earned the complece·saht 3'
victory, allowina two uneam a
ruftl and e.IJht bit&. She w
o1
out o( a bases-loaded jam in ·
bottom of the sixth inning, get
tins Cassie Slowik to ground
to end~ game.
Smashing birdies at the World·•q
~oaked in the greenery Badminton Championships
Summer squirrels
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e W:)l
>JHh~l
by STEVE VANTREESE
FOR THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
. ">ADUCAH - If you can't see
the forest for the trees, how
~\ ld you even hope to see the
scjtp"els?
11e same screening foliage
obscures the woodsy enviroment itself also veils the
buslv-tailed rodents for the tradition~ third-Saturday-in-August
operug day of squirrel hunting.
:Jt'
the longest-running
Kenn:ky season for any recognizi:d'3.me animal: Aug. 20-Nov.
11 -leaking for the first weekend o: firearms deer hunting then reuming Nov. 14-Feb. 28.
Theearly days of the season,
~J>wevr, always throw a curve
at huntrs. It's not a time when
th~ sqUTel population is particularly igh, and the full leaf
cover takes the limb-hoppers
that areJresent difficult to see.
The realth of arboreal greenery maes a good case for the
shotgur as hunting tool of
choice. )ummer hunters rather
uniformy favor a shotgun with
full or rodified choke and No.6
shot arrnunition to root squirrels out>f leafy branches when
i ' unlrely to get good, open
vfiws ceded for precise place•. t oJ.22-caliber rifle bullets.
lUm!re riflery has its place
il§the tradition of Kentucky
s<jt!irre hunting, but it's mostly
1~ ir the season after leaves
arl drop.
tMJ
Squirrel populations across
Kentucky are markedly thinner
this year than early in the 2004-05
season. That's the bad news. The
good news is that at least there are
nuts out there to feed them.
Summer and fall of 2004 produced terrible nut crops notably, scarce hickory nuts and
acorns - when the squirrel population was very high because
of previous years of very good
"mast" production. Squirrels
rocked the woods early last
year, then dramatically declined
when they found themselves
dependent on a food source that
mostly failed.
A much smaller population of
squirrels survived a hungry winter, and relief came only with the
spring green-up. Since the nut
shortage, squirrels have turned
out a new generation and now are
working on another. Numbers
mostly hinge on mast availability,
and hunter harvest is insignificant
in the scheme of things.
Recovery is expected to take
some time, but what appears to be at
least an adequate mast crop developing is a step in that direction.
A focal point for August
hunters is hickory nuts that, unlike
last year, apparently are present in
fair to good numbers. Early ripening nuts are the primary drawing
card for squirrels now, and hunters
can find squirrels by sleuthing out
hickories that already have
chewed husks and nut shells, "cuttings," beneath them.
Finding squirrels can be as
simple as staking out a h~avily
cut hickory in early morning or
late afternoon hours and letting
the squirrels attend as they will.
Other squirrel hunters prefer
to slip quietly through the
woods, watching and especially
listening for the sounds of nut
cutting. With leaves obscuring
tree branches, it becomes much
more practical to hunt with the
ears, hearing the pitter-patter of
shell cuttings and the occasional
full clunk of entire dropped
hickory nuts coming from squirrels in branches above.
The sneak hunter who
detects feeding audibly can then
stalk the sounds, eventually
identifying the source and positioning himself to pluck the
active squirrel off a branch
when it reveals itself.
Aside from foliage, the other
main hurdle of August hunting is
the heat and humidity of the
summer woods and the abundant
insect presence that goes with it.
The heat is best coped with
by hunting early morning hours
before the temperature soars.
The insects can be handled by
judicious dosing of body and
clothing with repellents.
Kentucky's daily bag limit
remains six squirrels per' person,
but the challenges of the early
season usually whittle back the
odds of reaching that harvest.
'l.Ypically, a couple of squirrels
in the game bag is a fair result
for a two- or three-hour foray in
the greenery.
Hamilton listed as one
f state's top 50 players
' by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
LEXINGTON - It's not too
ofttn that offensive and defensivt linemen get the amount of
pubicity that backs and
recevers garner. Prestonsburg
Higl School offensive/defensive lineman 'l.Yler Hamilton
recei'ed a nod Friday as one of
the stte's top players when the
Lexin:ton Herald-Leader published its annual 50 of
ntuky's Top Players list. The
list ws based on a preseason
surveYJf coaches. Hamilton (63, 30S:was the only Class 2A,
Region4 player to make the list.
.:•it'sfunny, I told 'l.Yler earlier this reek that he could be one
of the l>p players in the state,"
said Pestonsburg High head
coach J,hn DeRossett. "It's nice
to see 1m get that type of recogni ton."
The 'restonsburg senior linec
man played a key role in last
season's Blackcat team.
Hamilton is set to enter his
senior season for the Blackcat
varsity football team. With his
size and athletic ability,
Hamilton has the opportunity to
play football at the next level.
For
Hamilton
and
his
Prestonsburg High teammates,
the 2005 football season will get
its start Friday night on the road
at Hazard. Looking ahead,
DeRossett figures Hamilton will
excel later on, in college,
whether it's in the classroom, on
the football field, or both.
"He's just all an all-around
good
student-athlete,"
DeRossett added. "He's always
done everything that we've
asked of him and he has worked
hard to get to where he is at
today. 'l.Yler made up his mind a
long time ago that he wa~ going
to·get into the weightroom in the
offseason and work hard to help
himself and this football team.
We all know, when you work
hard, good things happen."
By BETH HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANAHEIM, Calif. -Birdies
are everywhere inside Anaheim
Arena and there's not a golf
club or perfectly manicured
green in sight.
These birdies are made of
goosefeathers and whiz through
the air across five courts set on
top of the ice rink used by the
NHL's Mighty Ducks.
This week, the Asian- and
European-dominated sport of
badminton is staging its world
chall).pionships in the United
States for the first time, and this
isn't the version played with a
beer in one hand at backyard
barbecues.
That's the image familiar to
most Americans, who might be
surprised to learn badminton is
called the world's fastest racket
sport because a shuttle can be
smashed at more than 200 mph.
Put a 3 112-ounce racket in the
hands of the world's best players,
most of whom are Orinese, Korean,
Malaysian and Indonesian, and
watch them tum the game into a
survival of the fittest
They might cover more than
a mile in one match - jumping,
running and going up-and-back
or side-to~side on a dime. The
shuttle - weighing just under a
quarter of an ounce - and its 16
feathers fixed in a cork base
can be obliterated with one brutalleaping smash.
The shuttles are humidified
to prevent dryness and brittleness. They are made from left
wing and right wing feathers
plucked from white geese. Only
six or seven specific feathers
from each wing can be used to
make a shuttle, and the feathers
cannot be mixed. Three geese
can produce two shuttles, with
four feathers left over.
Players need split-second
reactions to keep the shuttle
from touching the ground during play, which is illegal.
"It's the athleticism, the
effort and the skill that goes into
it," said spectator David Thmer,
an Englishman who planned his
U.S. vacation around taking in
the championships.
China and Indonesia are
badminton's superpowers, having won 70 percent of all
International
Badminton
Federation events. Denmark
and England are strong, too.
Then there's the rest of the
world. About 300 players are in
the tournament, with Iceland,
Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovenia,
South Africa and Vietnam are
among the more than 50 countries represented this week.
Used to dominating much of
the sports world, the Unit~
States is an also-ran in badminton, which became an
Olympic event in 1992.
Many of the top Americans are
foreign-born, including 19-yearold Eva Lee, who lives in nearby
Orange but was born in Hong
Kong. She learned the game by
watching her parents play.
"We're kind of slowly catching up," said Lee, who lost her
first-round singles match to one
of Estonia's two competitors.
"We could definitely use sponsorship. You can't really make .
a career out of badminton."
Unless you're in Asia, where
matches attract up to 15,000
fans. The Chinese government
funds training, travel and equipment for its athletes, something
Lee can only dream about.
"For them, it's like their
job," she said. "For us, it's just
like something you do if we
don't have school."
Trying to beat the powerful
Asian athletes can be demoralizing to the mixed doubles team
of Daniel Shirley and Sara
Runesten-Petersen from sparsely populated New Zealand.
"If you can compete with
them, the reward is bigger and
it's a great feeling, but sometimes it is a bit hard, a bit of a
battle," Shirley said.
Runesten-Petersen moved to
~~~ilO
New Zealand because thnoe~1q
was less badminton compeBim
tion than in her nat~~rb
Denmark. She is good-na~ot
about the lack of recogniti~
the game receives in m~~nn
parts of the world.
"'"" P
"It's the passion that kecm~bh
you going, you love the s~ub
so much." she said, explairu~0
why she quit a customer service
job to train full-time at 30. _ _
Marketing the world championships to Americans wli~
perceive badminton as a ba yard game was a challenge for
local organizers. Street te~
Papered liquor stores, churc6~s~"
•
)ffiu l
and recreation clubs m Astanrw
communities around Ora11~::~X
County and Los Angeles WffllJ,1i
fliers and ticket offers.
hLdw
"You don't expect to fill ~ll~J
arena," said Mike O'Donn~,
general manager of Anahevn.,h
Arena. "We are helping ~~
International
Badminton
Federation kind of set the._
future for the game of badminton in the U.S. They are~
ing to introduce a very heayY
Asian and European sport to
the U.S. and redefine the g~,)W
in our eyes."
52
O~Donnell hoped to attra%ni
about 3,000 daily spectators f~~j, 1 , 1
the preliminaries throu~X
Thursday and about 5,000 fpr no
the final rounds Saturday aeBJJJ~
Sunday.
ESPN2
plan~M~
delayed coverage.
~
· rl iw
Clearly, Americans n~ rl.!
educating about a sport ~hin
originated in China in 500 B~0 ~2
and made its way to Indj~nM
where British army officers sgtm n
tioned there brought it .JR Z1i
England in the 1870s.
1f~
Singles
player
Ni~11
Weckstrom of Finland had ~nd
explain the game to confus_s'l>:..l
U.S. customs officials.
.; th!
"It's a bit strange that peoel11rot
actually don't know what badminton is," she said, laughing."They were like, 'What's that?
Is it the one with the stick
the rink?'"
PRESTONSBURG HIGH SCHOOL
2005 GIRLS'
SOCCER SCHEDULe
Coach: Tina Petry
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Sept. 1 at Shelby Valley, 6 p.m.
Sept. 6 Belfry. 6 p.m•
Sept. 10-11 at Pike~ille tournament, TBA
qt. 15 at utcher County Centra), 6 P.~
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Sept. 20 at Belfry, 6 p.m.
Sept. 22 Shelby Valley, 6 p.~
Sept. 29 at Perry County Centra~ 5:30p.m.
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�SUNDAY, AUGUST
21, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
er·can League: Angels 13, Red Sox 4
by BETH HARRIS
Lr.r. Q~SSOCIATED PRESS
tud J.i
,;Jdi'~AHEIM, Calif. -Bartolo
'('81& shut down Boston's big
"h'lJ&ts
and Juan Rivera took
l:!Rrc1of the Angels' offense with
'1'\Vo 'swings.
. ,Rtvera hit a pair of three-run
~'&ncrs and Colon won his fifth
1
~rnight decision as Los Angeles
':!~f&ited the Red Sox 13-4 on
;:.Jfifi1H;day night in a matchup of
'JA:L? division leaders.
ynRivcra isn't an everyday
]A':iver. but he made the most of
·~?t'fai-bats, homering on the secJ?.~~~ ~pitch from Mike Myers
'"'!tfttf Red Sox starter Tim
~~~field got hit in the right
·aWla.~ on a comebacker by
;t!hl!c'y Kotchman and left the
-~&$.i~ in the fifth inning.
•tlf'here was some surprising
power. which has been missing
from our game," Angels manag1
"-.!
er Mike Sciascia said. "The
home runs made it a great offensive night."
In
other
AL
games,
Minnesota defeated Seattle 7-3
and Cleveland beat Texas 9-4.
The Angels extended their
AL West lead to 2 1/2 games
over idle Oakland. Boston's
lead over the idle New York
Yankees dropped to four games
in the East.
"Any time you face a team
like the Red Sox, it does push
you a little bit harder because
they have a tough lineup,"
Colon said through a translator.
"The confidence built as the
game went on."
Rivera added his second
three-run shot and 11th df the
season with two outs in the
eighth off Mike Remlinger, giving the Angels a 13-3 lead.
"I just keep trying to do my
best when I have the opportuni-
ty," he said through a translator.
Colon (16-6) allowed three
runs and eight hits in seven
innings, struck out five and
walked none. The right-hander
retired 11 consecutive batters
during one stretch, throwing
mostly fastballs.
"I was able to continue the
rhythm and finish off hitters," he
said. "My fastball was working
for me. I probably threw over 90
fastballs. One time I threw a
slider and they almost broke my ·
face (on a liner up the middle)."
Colon was especially effective against David Ortiz, who
was 0-for-4 and Manny
Ramirez, who had one hit in four
at-bats. Leadoff hitter Johrmy
Damon also went 1-for-4.
"We really didn't hit like we
wanted to, and it starts with
me," Damon said. " I need to
find it and get hot because the
offense goes when I go. I'm dis-
out and up and down. He did a
great job of th.a t," he said. "He
was throwing the ball hard. This
might have been the best fastball he had all year."
Leading 1-0, the Angels
broke open the game with six
tuns in the flfth inning, tying a
season high.
Darin Erstad's RBI single
scored Orlando Cabrera, who
took third on a two-base throwing
error by Ramirez, making it 2-0.
Erstad scored his SOOth
career run on a single by Bengie
Molina, then Kotchman's RBI
single hit Wakefield, allowing
Vladimir Guerrero to score for a
4-0 lead.
Rivera's three-run homer
extended the Angels' lead to 70. They added a run in the s~th
on a RBI groundout by Erstad.
Kotchm.an homered to lead
off the second for the Angels'
first run.
Boston made it 8-3 in :he
seventh on a run-scoring ·s iqle
by Kevin Millar and a two-un
single by Gabe Kapler. Iill
Mueller homered in the ninth
The Angels added two ruP
on a bases-loaded single
Chone Figgins with two outs n
the seventh.
indians 9, Rangers 4: Jail!
Westbrook won for the ftfth tim
in six starts and Jhonny Peralt)
had three hits, including a twd
run homer, for the Indian'.
Cleveland won for the secorl
time in six games at Jacobs Fied
after completing a 6-0 trip
Detroit and Kansas City.
Westbrook (11-13) allowa
four runs and 10 hits over i1
innings to improve to 9-4 inl~~
starts since June 14.
Mark Teixeira drove in
runs for Texas, which lostfor
the eighth time in nine gams all on the road.
ly
o
;vo
eds 4, Giants 2
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ciNCINNATI
Ken
Griffey Jr., Felipe Lopez and
the Cincinnati Reds got the
~\S~t
out of their few hits.
-J:;~"'
n--"qtiffey launched his 530th
Ear~cr home run and Lopez also
1
[ot~~ctcd Thursday as the Reds
'~!,)~ot~icd a sweep with a 4-2 win
·~·v~r'the San Francisco Giants.
''7lr~
· bemg
·
1 ne Rc ds won desptte
Ollt.i it 10-5.
~~· '"Good placement," Griffey
~~~-w.· 'The key is we were able
!YH.. ~~
J.?i~et some guys on base and
'tj£¢_, guys coming up behind
~1\cn1 hit home runs."
lt <-l{{~tmon Ortiz pitched a sea~1{R~igh. 7 2-3 innings in help'iRg prevent the Giants' first
four-game sweep in Cincinnati
·)~lit.)
!lincc May 1983.
q•J ilb:lto get five hits and win the
'b":.l
Tiugame is kind of unusual for
f'l'J:'T(]'"
'Q!;is., lineup," interim manager
Jc?1'v Narron said. "Griff's
c '),.*
Gn17,' and Felipe has been
,1
·~«·lnging the bat better the last
s,o.~tple Of days."
""'Giants closer Armando
r~~f1ftcz made his first appear·fi'p;ce since injuring his right
'ba'rk.~tring on April 26. Benitez,
needed surgery to repair
• >LOll If
i two, LOrn tendons, got th e fim al
t'tj;'8 outs of the eighth.
'd- felt good," Benitez said.
Hlr~'!was really happy to be out
~1f{8&. I was a little bit nervous,
q;ijf:lnot too nervous. I didn' t
Tlf"''f'O'
"W<'>n'y about velocity. I was
concentrating on location."
Giants manager Felipe Alou
liked what he saw.
··The biggest thing . is
Bemtcz pitching,'' he said. "He
worked his butt off to come
f~· I have a lot of respect for
itv.~
·,wftp"
that guy and how he worked
after that injury."
Ortiz (8-8) tied Aaron
Harang for the team lead in
wins, giving up two runs and
nine hits. He had gone seven
innings six times this year.
"With this team, if you can
stay in the game for six or
seven innings, you should win
a lot of games, because we
score a lot of runs," Ortiz said.
David Weathers pitched the
last 1 1-3 innings for his lOth
save in 12 opportunities. He gav~
up a single and a walk to start the
ninth before getting two strikeouts and a groundout to tic Danny
Graves, who is now with the
Mets, for the club lead in saves.
Brett Tomko (7-13), who
bt:oke into the majors with the
Reds in 1997, has lost his last
three starts to set a career high
for defeats in a season. His previous high was 12 with
Cincinnati in 1998.
Tomko gave up five hits and
four walks in six innings.
Griffey followed
Rich
Aurilia's first-inning walk with
his 29th homer of the season, a
two-run shot to center field. He
has four home runs during a
five-game hitting streak.
"A guy hits a 3-2 change.and
takes it to dead center, you've
got to tip your cap," Tomko
said. "The mistake was the
walk before it."
Lopez hit his first homer in
86 at-bats since July 22, a tworun drive that put the Reds
ahead 4-1 in the fourth.
Lopez, the only Reds All-Star
this year, is 7 -for-12 in his last three
games after a 2-for~38 slump.
"I just got off my timing,"
he said. "After going good for
that long, you figure coming
back from a slump is easy, but
it's not. Once you get off your
timing, you start doing things
differently."
J.T. Snow hit a solo home
run for the Giants in fourth. It
was his third homer of the season and first in 155 at-bats
since June 2.
Pinch-hitter Lance Niekro
snapped an 0-for-13 slump with
an RBI single with two outs in
the seventh.
Notes: Tomko became the
337th pitcher to give up at least
one home run to Griffey. ...
Griffey increased his career
RBis total to 1,529, tying him
with Hall of Farner Tris
Speaker for 39th place on the
all-time list. ... Reds 1B Sean
Casey returned to the starting
lineup after missing a start on
Wednesday with a strained left
shoulder.
Rolen on six-month
rehab plan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Scott Rolen
said he's been told he has a torn '
labrum that will require a sixmonth rehab. He wants to
weigh his admittedly dismal
options.
Rolen 7 who had surgery on
the shoulder after a May 10 collision with Dodgers ftrst baseman Hee-Seop Choi, was placed
on the 15-day disabled list July
22 when it became clear he was
not progressing. He batted .205
while playing from June 18-July
21 with no homers and eight
RBis in 87 at-bats.
J.#l
ay wins NL Player
f the·week Award
.m. RrECIAL TO THE TIMES
··.Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder
Jasoh Bay, who was tied for the
league lead in hits, total bases
~~. ~uns scored, has been named
Wl!c of America Presents the
1
at)Rnal League Player of the
Week of August 8-14, 2005.
~~ of America, the official
··bithk of Major League Baseball,
Js the presenting sponsor of the
''1
.
Na·uonal
League andAmencan
League Player of the Week
Av.:ards, which reflect the bank's
JOt{ii-standing tradition of promoting and recognizing higher
stnndards of accomplishment.
The Canadian-born slugger
batted .440 (11 -25) with two
eight RBI, eight runs
and 19 total bases. He put
together a .760 slugging percentage and a .517 on base percentage to help lead the Pirates
to a 4-2 record this week. The
2005. NL All-Star also added
doubles and three stolen
over his six games
~
·appointed with how I'm doing."
Wakefield (13-9) gave up six
mns and seven hits in 4 1-3
innings, struck out five and
walked four in ending his fourgame winning streak. X-rays on
his ankle were negative, but he
has a deep bruise on his lower
shin area. The Red Sox said it
was too early to know if he
would make his next start.
. Wakefield didn't talk to
reporters after the game.
"He has a 'w ay of bouncing
back from things," Boston manager Terry Francona said.
"When things don't look very
good, and tonight they certainly
didn't, we have a way of bouncing back as good as anybody."
Sciascia credited Colon with
turning his fastball into three different looks for Boston's hitters.
"For Bart to use that fastball
as much as he did, he really had
to create _zones with it, in and
played. With his ftrst inning
single in yesterday's contest
against the Astros, Bay extended his streak of reaching base to
29 straight games, dating back
to July 16th. He finished the
week in the top five in seven
offensive· categories (AVG,
RBI, SLG, OBP, R, H, TB, SB).
Other nominees this past
week included New York's
David Wright (.440, 1 .HR, 9
RBI) ; Jose Guillen (.412, 2 HR,
7 RBI), John Patterson (2-0,
2.63 ERA, 7 SO) and Jose
Vidro (.478, 1 HR, 3 RBI) of the
Nationals; Houston's Morgan
Ensberg (.368, 3 HR, 6 RBI);
Dioner Navarro (.412, 1 HR, 2
RBI) and Brad Penny (1-0, 1.13
ERA, 13 SO) of the Dodgers;
Florida's A.J. Burnett (2-0, 0.56
ERA, 10 SO) _and Josh Beckett
(1 -0, 1.80 ERA, 10 SO); Sean
Casey (.476, 2 2B, 1 RBI), Ken
Griffey Jr. (.286, 3 HR, 8 RBI)
and Jason LaRue (.375, 1 HR, 4
RBI)
of
the
R eds;
Philadelphia's Pat Burrell (.364,
2 HR, 10 RBI) and Ryan
Howard (.391, 2 HR, 9 RBI);
Chris Carpenter (1-0, 2.00
ERA,
8
SO),
Mark
Grudzielanek (.360, 1 HR, 7
RBI) and So Taguchi (.435, 4
RBI, 3 SB) of the Cardinals;
Chicago's Michael Barrett
(.412, 2 HR, 2 RBI) and Todd
Walker (.417, 1 2B, 1 RBI);
Todd Helton (.400, 1 HR, 3
RBI) of the Rockies; Arizona's
Shawn Green (.450, 2 HR, 4
RBI); and Bay's Pirate teammates Jose Castillo (.409, 2 HR,
6 RBI), Jack Wilson (.360, 2
HR, 8 RBI) and Dave Williams
(2-0, 0 .60 ERA, 7 SO).
As part of the award, Bank
of America will make a $1,000
donation to the Little League
Urban Initiative on behalf of
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place with the win but stll trafl
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games with 18 games to ~Y·
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and Jamie Gant combined fa 3~
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byCONNOR ENNIS
As30CIATED PRESS
H
NEW YORK - Randy Moss
•ackno.vledges that marijuana
.use hts been a part of his life. He
.Simpj.y maintains it isn't now.
.. "t's in the past," the Oakland
:recei,er said.
:ill. Moss spoke Thursday after
,tpe Raiders practiced in
{Ioustm, addressing an interyiew vith HBO's "Real Sports
;rith Byant Gumbel" where he
.seemec to indicate that he still
:~mokesmarijuana occasionally.
"I hwe used, you know, mar;\juana . since I've been in the
Jeague,"Moss said in the inter. i iew, wtich is scheduled to air
..,./ 1\lesday night. "But as far as
.~.tbusing t and, you know, letting
4t take c1ntrol over me, I don't
do that, no."
When pressed. whether he
still smokes marijuana, the star
receiver with the checkered past
said: "I might. I might have fun.
And, you know, hopefully ... I
won't get into any trouble by the
NFL by saying that, you know. I
have had fun throughout my
years and, you know, predominantly in the offseason.
"But, you know, I don't want
any kids, you know, watching
this taking a lesson from me as
far as 'Well, Randy Moss used it,
so I'm going to use it.' I don't
want that to get across. Like I say
... I have used (marijuana) in the
past. And every blue moon or
every once in a while I might."
When he spoke to the media
after practice Thursday, Moss
said he was talking about his
activities during the early part of
his NFL career, along with his
high school and college careers.
"A lot of people are jumping
to conclusions because they
really don't know the real story
or haven't even heard the real
story yet," he said. "That was
really me talking in the past
tense of way back in the beginning of my career and my childhood - especially in high school
and college."
Raiders coach Norv Turner
said he would reserve conunent
until he had watched the program.
"I imagine I'll see it and, yes,
then I'll have a discussion with
Randy about it," he said.
Moss's
agent,
Dante
DiTrapano, blamed HBO.
"In an attempt to promote
their dying network, they have
Saints 37, Patriots 27
a much-anticipated return to
New England, where he won
the Reisman Trophy for Boston
FOXIDROUGH, Mass. College and spent four seasons
. Tom Bra<Y shook off the rust of with the Patriots during his
~ his post-ilper Bowl layoff and well-traveled pro career.
led the t\U-time defending NFL
Brooks played three quarters
champioJS to a couple of scores. for the Saints and went 14-forAfter Ju'owing an intercep- 23 for 158 yards, one touchtion on hs first play of the pre- down and one interception.
season, lrady led the Patriots Deuce McAllister, who had a
on two onsecutive scoring dri- costly fumble on the third play
ves. Do1g Flutie converted two of New Orleans' 34-15 loss to
more 'Ds on Thursday night Seattle last week, carried 20
before both quarterbacks left times for 88 yards.
the gane and the New Orleans
Brady and Flu tie both sat out
Saintsrallied for a 37-27 exhi- the preseason opener while the
bitioJ victory.
Patriots held tryouts for the No.
Tie Patriots led 27-16 with 3 job between rookie Cassel and
5:43 eft in the third quarter Rohan Davey, who's in his
before Aaron · Brooks hit fourth year. Brady, who went an
~ DeveiJ Henderson on a 34NFL-record 162 pass attempts
yard buchdown pass, then without an interception to start
missed on the 2-point conver- his career, threw behind tight
sion to eave it 27-22.
end Benjamin Watson on a 151:- Saim backup Todd Bouman yard out pattern and Dwight
bit Miclael Lewis for 15 yards Smith stepped in front of the
6n a fouth-and-2 just before the ball to set up John Carney's 23two-mirute warning. After an yard field goal.
incompltion, Bouman threw to
But the two-time Super
Nate PoJe, who lunged for the Bowl MVP responded on the
enJ zonel.o break the plane as a next possession, hitting Tim
.defender grabbed his foot to Dw'ight on a 45-yard pass to the
pull him ,ack.
Saints 12. Patrick Pass, playing
With lle Patriots at their own because Corey Dillon missed
14, L.P. Ladouceur hit Matt practice all week to be with his
~' Cassel aJJl forced a fumble that wife during childbirth, ran it in
was sco•ped up by Jimmy from the 2.
Verdon rud brought into the end
After New Orleans punted,
zone for b insurance score.
Brady led the Patriots to the
Brady;who didn't play in a· Saints
5 before Adam
23-13 wh over Cincinnati last Vinatieri's field goal made it
week, wts 6-for-11 for 105 10-3. McAllister ran three
yards aJ? one interception straight times for 26 yards to
before gving way to Flutie start a 75-yard drive that ended
with 6:3~ left in the fust half. on Mike Karney's 1-yard run to
Flutie cmverted two touch- make it 10-all.
Josh Miller's punt pinned
downs 011his first three plays in
by JIMMY GOLEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Saints at the 3, but Brooks
drove them to the 20 before
throwing a pass lhat bounced
off receiver Joe Horn and
defender Chad Scott into
Rodney Harrison's hands. He
carried it to the 3. and Kyle
Eckel brought it in from there
to make it 17-10.
The crowd, still . admiring
Harrison's interception, didn't
notice that Flutie had replaced
Brady in the game. But the 42year-old hometown favorite
drew a big cheer when he was
announced for the next series.
Flutie responded by hitting
Dwight for 12 yards on the first
play and then, on the next play,
connecting with a well-covered
Jason Anderson in the front
corner of the end zone to make
it 24-13. It had been 17 years
since Flutie threw a touchdown
pass in Foxborough wearing a
Patriots uniform; his last
appearance here for New
England was in Foxboro
Stadium against the Houston
Oilers on Dec. 3, 1989.
Flutie was in for just nine
plays over three series, completing 3 of 4 passes for 52
yards and a touchdown. Cassel,
who was hailed after leading
New England to victory in his
pro debut, was 7-for-11 for 69
yards, but he was sacked three
times; Davey didn't play.
Pass ran 11 times for 88
yards, breaking free for 49
yards on New England's first
possession of the second half.
That helped set up Yinatieri's
32-yard field goal to make it
27-16.
Bouman was 6-for-12 for 79
yards.
,,
.~ROUND NFL CAMPS ...
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Jlears' GM Angelo
iltakes Benson final offer
e. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
~
d General
manager Jerry
cAngeb says the team has made
rits fual offer to running back
. ltLedri; Benson, the only ftrstrounc pick left unsigned.
.-.i "ffter missing all of training camp, we want to make it
_abmdantly clear that the
Ch~cago Bears have made their
bes: artd final offer to Cedric
Berson," Bears general manager Jmy Angelo said in a statemen.
":~o dollars are left on the
bargtining table and at this
poimthe only contract discus'!tions that will be entertained
willie reflective of the considerable loss of value to the club
• 'creatld by the players' extended ab;ence," the statement said.
Bmson's holdout reached its
26th iay Thursday and the former ~xas star, the fourth overall dloice in the draft, has
alrea~ missed two preseason
game\
Belson's agent, Eugene
Parke1, did not return calls
placed~ by The Associated
Press.
RA~S - DeJuan Groce,
who f1led in for an injured
Travis Fisher last season, will
~;,eplace' Jerametrius Butler as a
startinE cornerback.
Buter tom a right knee liga-
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camp and is out for the season. .
Last year, cornerback Travis
Fisher broke an arm in the preseason, prompting Groce to
start the season opener against
the Arizona Cardinals.
"He's having the best camp
of all the corners, by far," coach
Mike Martz said of Groce. "He
just has been a standout all
through camp. We look at him
as a starter when we talk about
personnel."
Groce played in the preseason opener against Chicago. He
had one tackle and recovered a
fumble.
RAVENS
Linebacker
Peter Boulware's expected
return to the Baltimore Ravens
was delayed as doctors scrutinized the results of his physical
Thursday.
Boulware, who was a $6
million salary-cap casualty this
spring, impressed team officials in a workout Wednesday
at the team's training complex.
"There's a process you have
to go through, and we're going
to be prudent about that,"
Ravens coach Brian Billick
said . "The doctors want to
make sure they all have a
chance to sign off on what they
need to sign off on. I think
we're in good shape, but we
have to wait until everybody
gets through doing the poking
o ... A
n~nrlrlincr thP_v
want to do."
Boulware, 30, is the :Ravens'
career leader with 67 1/2 sacks.
However, the four-time Pro
Bowl selection hasn't played
since December 2003 and
missed all of last season with
knee and toe injuries.
BRONCOS - After missing
nearly two weeks with a groin
injury, Maurice Clarett returned
to practice Thursday, the last
day of training camp for the
Denver Broncos.
Now, the question is
whether his return has come too
late to make the team.
Denver's third-round draft
choice hadn' t practiced since
Aug. 8 due to a strained right
groin, an injury that, as recently as Wednesday, didn't appear
to be getting better.
Coach Mike Shanahan,
however, has been blunt in his
assessment of Clarett all week,
not shirking from how hard it
would be for a rookie, or any
player, to make the roster if
he's not practicing.
His teammates and CC?ach
have been fielding constant
questions about Clarett this
week. They keep reiterating
that the oft-troubled running
back has nothing to gain by
being on the' sideline.
"You can't make the club in
the tub. We all know that,"
quarterback Jake Plummer
said.
SUNDAY, AUGUST
maliciously
couched
his
remarks in a manner that is confusing and leaves room for negative interpretation," DiTrapano
told The Associated Press.
He also said the Moss is not in
the NFL's substance abuse program..
HBO spokesman Ray Stallone
said the network had no reaction to
DiTrapano's comments, other than
to say that the part of the interview
which dealt with steroids was
"complete and unaltered."
believe
Randy's
"We
remarks speak for themselves,"
Stallone said.
The NFL's drug policy calls
for up to 10 tests a month after
one positive result. A second
violation results in a fine equal
to the player's salary for four
games, a third in a four-game
suspension, and a year's suspen-
sion for a fourth violation.
Moss has never been suspended for violating the
league's drug policy and NFL
spokesman Greg Aiello said it is
confidential whether the receiver is in thB drug program or not.
"We evaluate all conduct
related to substance abuse and it
is handled confidentially by the
doctors," Aiello said.
Moss was traded from the
Minnesota Vikings in early
March. He was limited by a
hamstring injury last season and
finished with 49 catches for 767
yards and 13 touchdowns. It
was the first time in his seven
seasons that he didn't reach
1,000 yards receiving.
Moss has had problems on
and off the field throughout his
college and pro career. He lost
21, 2005 • B5
scholarships at Notre Dame and
Florida State because of a battery charge and marijuana usc.
He set records at Marshall and
clearly was the most dynamic
receiver in the 1998 draft, but
lasted until 21st overall bequse
of past trouble.
Last year, Moss was fmed
$10,000 for pretending to pull
down his pants and moon the
Green Bay crowd during
Minnesota's playoff win over
the Packers. He also drew criticism for leaving the field with 2
seconds left in a regular-season
loss against Washington.
Other transgressions include
bumping a traffic control officer
with his car in 2002, verbally abusing corporate sponsors on a team
bus in 2001 and squirting an official with a water bottle in 1999.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Louisville lumbers into Big
East with big expectations
by RALPH D. RUSSO
ASSOCI~TED PRESS
NEW YORK
Some
Louisville players were sporting
T-shi1ts with targets emblazoned
on the front during the offseason, signifying the Cardinals'
status as the team to beat in their
Big East debut.
Then coach Bobby Petrino
saw them, and that was the end
of that fashion statement.
"That's something I don't
ever want them believing, that
we 're sitting out there as a target," Petrino said. "I'd rather
attack and be real aggressive.
That's what I told them when I
made them take ' thcm off. I've
always been an offensive guy
and I believe in attacking and
going after people. That's why
we got rid of them."
With or without the T-shirts,
the Cardinals look like the
beasts of the new-look Big East,
jumping past top holdovers
Pittsburgh and West Virginia to
become favorites to win the
conference's
Bowl
Championship Series bid.
With Boston College joining
former Big East members
Miami and Virginia Tech in the
Atlantic Coast Conference this
season, the Big East no longer is
a league in transition.
Louisville moves in along
with two other Conference USA
defectors, Cincinnati and South
Florida, to complete an eightteam Big East with Syracuse,
Connecticut and Rutgers.
"The caliber of teams we're
playing week in and week out
now, we're going to have to be
more focused, ready to play,"
Louisville offensive tackle
Travis Leffew said.
Playing in Conference USA,
Louisville led the nation in scoring in 2004, putting up 50 points
per game, including five straight
games reaching the half-century
mark to end the regular season.
Petrino, one of · the game's
top offensive minds, must
replace his leading passer,
receiver and rusher from last
year. It doesn't look like it'll be
much of a problem. ·
Stepping in for quarterback
Stefan LeFors is Brian Brohm,
latest
member
of
the
Louisville's first family of football to guide the Cardinals.
Brahm's father and two brothers
also played for Louisville.
Petrino played Brohm often
last season to get him ready to
start as a sophomore. Brohm
won the team over with a poised
performance at Miami, a 41 -38
loss that was the only blemish
on the Cardinals' 11 - 1 season.
"He came in, I thought he'd
be shook up a little bit and a little bit nervous," Leffew said.
"But he came in and made the
play, knew what he had to do.
He proved to us that he can play
that position and have our trust
in playing the position."
Michael Bush, who ran for
734 yards and seven TDs last
season, becomes the team's No.
l ball carrier with Eric Shelton
off to the NFL. Rccei vcrs
Joshua Tinch, Broderick Clark
and Montrell Jones, who all
caught at least 27 passes in
2004, must step up to replace
J.R. Russell.
Of course, being a big
favorite to win the Big East didn't work out too well for West
Virginia last year. With the
league looking down and West
Virginia loaded with veterans,
the prognosticators expected the
Mountaineers to stroll into the
BCS.
Instead, the Mountaineers
lost their last two regular-season
games and landed in the Gator
Bowl, where they were beaten
30-18 by Florida State to finish
8-4.
"I do think sometimes the
players were pressing," West
Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez
said. "When we won, it wasn't
by enough. We certainly didn't
want them to feel it inside. But it
was a little bit more difficult."
Pittsburgh, led by quarterback Tyler Palko, took advantage of West Virginia's stumble
and played its way into the BCS,
where the Panthers were
thumped by Utah 35-7 in the
Fiesta Bowl.
The supremely confident
Palko (24 TD passes) is back to
play for new Panthers coach
Dave Wannstedt, a Pitt alum,
who returns to the college game
after leaving the Miami
Dolphins.
Syracuse's Greg Robinson is
the other new coach in ~e Big
East, replacing Paul Pasqualoni,
who was fired after 14 seasons.
UConn, coming off its fust
bowl appearance, has to replace
quarterback Dan Orlovsky, but
returns the league 's leading
rusher in Cornell Brockington
(I ,2 18 yards). Brockington will
be hard pressed to keep the
rushing title from South
Florida's Andre Hall, who ran
for 1,357 yards for the Bulls in
2004.
Cincinnati
Second-year
coach Mike Dantonio has just
six returning starters.
Rutgers, led by quarterback
Ryan Hart (3,154 yards passing), is looking for its first winning season since 1992.
A capsule look at the teams
in predicted order of finish:
LOUISVILLE - Brohm was
C-USA newcomer of the year,
completing 67 percent of his
passes for 819 yards with six
touchdown passes and two
interceptions. ... The biggest
challenge for the Cardinals will
come on defense. They struggled against good offenses last
season and must replace S Kerry
Rhodes
and LB
Robert
McCune, both draft.e d by NFL
teams.
PITTSBURGH - WR Greg
Lee doesn't quite have Larry
Fitzgerald's athletic gifts, but he
proved a more than adequate
replacement for the 2003
Reisman Trophy runner-up. Lee
led the Big East with 1,297
yards receiving on 68 catches ....
Wannstedt is a defensive guy
and that's where the Panthers
need work after allowing 418
yards per game and looking
helpless against Utah.
WEST VIRGINIA - The
next great Mountaineers runner
could be freshman Jason
Gwaltney, and Jason Colson
(706 yards) was good as a backup last year. ... None of the players competing to replace QB
Rasheed Marshall has started a
game.
CONNECTICUT - RB Terry
_ __
,
Caulley was leading the nation
in rushing when he tore ligaments in his right knee in
September 2003. He sat out all
of last season, too. He's back
and could form a potent duo
with Brockington. ... Huskies
are 21-7 in last 28 games.
RUTGERS - WR Tres
Moses led the Big East in receptions with 81, RB Brian Leonard
caught 61 passes and TE Clark
Harris had 53 .... Coach Greg
Schiano is 12-34 in four years at
Rutgers. With 17 returning
starters, he's due to break .500
this season.
SYRACUSE - The Orange
started last season by giving up
. 51 points to Purdue and ended it
allowing 51 against Georgia
Tech. Longtime defensive coordinator Robinson will take a
more aggressive approach with
nine returning starters.
SOUTH FLORIDA - The
Bulls had their worst season
since joining Division I-A,
going 4-7. The move to the Big
East won't make it any easier
for coach Jim Leavitt, whose
team faces seven 2004 bowl
teams.
CINCINNATI - TE Brent
Celek caught eight touchdown
passes last season and could
play a bigger role in a young
offense.
NFL
PRESEASON
SCHEDUE
Sunda.y'f Game
St. Louis at San Diego, 4 p.m.
Monday's Game
Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 25
Atlanta at Jacksonville, 8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 26
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:30p.m.
Pittsburgh at Washington, 8 p.m.
Baltimore at New Orleans. 8 p.'m.
Buffalo at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Carolina at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
New England at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
New York Jets atNYorl< Giants, S p.m.
San Diego at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Oakland, 9:30p.m.
Tennessee at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 27
Tampa Bay at Miami, 7:30p.m.
Indianapolis at Denver, 8 p.m.
Houston at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Kansas c;ity, 8:30p.m.
Monday, Aug. 29
St. Louis at Detroit, 8 p.m.
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nference freshman of y ar, Bro
as born to quarterback s ccess
said brother Jeff Brohm, who
now tutors Brian daily as the
Cardinals' quarterbacks coach.
"He was pretty far ahead of anyone else his age."
Former Louisville quarterback Chris Redman, the school's
all-time leading passer, got his
first glimpse of Brohm while
working as a referee in a youth
by CHRIS DUNCAN
league game in the early 1990s.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"This little kid was throwing
L OUISVILLE - As far back tight spirals and deep balls right
as Louisville sophomore quar- on the money," said Redman, a
terback Brian Brahm can former record-setting star at
remember, his father and two Louisville's Male High School.
oldet: b rothers were teaching "And it wasn't just that, I mean,
him. football.
· here was this 8-year-old kid,
In the buck yard . In the living looking off receivers. Who does
rOOm; Around the kitchen table. that at that age? He had perfect
''We're always around the fundamentals and he was
game. we' re always talking about already out there thinking like a
1
, ~nid Brohm. who turned
quarterback."
dq~n . chola,rship offers from
Brian's father, Oscar, was
Nqtm Dame, Tenne see and Louisville's quarterback in the
Kentucky to slick with family tra· late 1960s. Oldest brother, Greg, .
clition and pluy for the Cardinals. was a receiver there from 1989i3rohm applied the early 92 and middle brother, Jeff, was
!<Mons immediately, laying the quarterback for the Cardinals
foundation for high expectations from 1990-93 befo~e a seventhat fo1low him into his first sea- year career in the NFL.
son as Louisville's starter.
Brian was always watching
i "'\\'hen he was in third grade,
them, picking up fundamentals,
ey~n the average person could
breaking down plays, absorbing
te17 .he wasn' t some guy just everything.
shot-putting it down the field."
"He's a very gifted athlete,"
it:
said Oscar Brohm, "but a lot of
his success came from just listening. He was always asking
questions. He never thought he
knew more than they did."
By the time he was a freshman at Trinity High School,
Brian was a local celebrity,
well-accustomed to strangers
approaching him at restaurants,
movie theaters or church.
"You're not really as normal
as the other people," Brohm
said. "Sometimes, you want to
go out and not hear about football, but it's fine. I like talking
about football, so it doesn't really bother me."
The spotlight has only intensified as he's gotten older. but
his brothers have hardly
noticed a change in his evenkeeled demeanor.
"Brian's been in this situation his whole life, so everything was actually quite normal
to him," said Greg, now
Louisville's director of football
operations. "He's very comfortable with the whole role, the
attention, the leadership, everything. Nothing has ever just
overwhelmed him."
As a high school junior,
Brahm was featured on the
cover of a November 2002
Sports Illustrated article about
high school stars. The same season, he threw seven touchdowns
to outduel opposing quartermback and current teammate
Michael Bush in a state title
game considered the best in
state history. As a senior, Brohm
guided Trinity to another title
after an 0-4 start and garnered
several national player of the
year awards.
Brohm finished his career
with 10,579 passing yards and
119 TD passes, second in state
history to former Leslie County
and NFL quarterback Tim Couch.
Some of the nation's top programs pursued him, and he
pared his list to Notre Dame,
Tennessee,
Kentucky
and
Louisville. When the time came
to decide, Brian turned back to
his family. He listed the pl'os
and cons of the finalists, then
asked his parents, brothers and
sister, Kim, for advice.
If he chose Louisville, Jeff
could coach him and Greg
would always be nearby.
"I tried to make more of a
business decision," he said.
"But in the end, this was the best
place for me to go."
While
Cardinals'
fans
rejoiced, some of Brohm's new
teammates remained skeptical,
even as Brohm excelled in limited duty behind popular senior
Stefan LeFors. They had heard
all the too-good-to-be-true stories about Brahm, but had see
more to believe them. And in
last year's nationally televised
game at Miami, all of them did.
The Hurricanes roared back
from a 24-7 deficit in the second
half, b· •t P et rino stuck with
LeFors while Brolun stood on
the sidelines with his arms conteutly folded.
"I was fi ne with them not
putting me in," Brohm said. "I
started relaxing a little bit, sitting
ba~k and watching this great
show Stefan is pntting on."
By the fourth quartcl', LeFors
was taking a beating. He forgot
a play and fumbled a snap,
prompting Petrino to send in the
fre ·hmun.
The Cardinals stalled on
Brohm 's first dl'ive and Devin
Hester returned the ensuing punt
for a touchdown to give Miami
a 34-31 lead. Louisville got the
ball back with 8: 11 left and
Brohm trotted into a huddle
filled with doubt.
"When he was coming in, I
was curious to see his reaction,"
said offensive tackle lineman
~
i
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I
•
Travis Leffew 'But he cam~ in
the game, got m lhe hud te,
called the play. no hesitation,,ao
stuttering. It was almost stratge
how calm he was.
"That just kind of reinfoced
the feeling that he was just Jorn
to do this."
Brohm went 4-for-4 ant had
a seven-yard run on an 8(-yard
touchdown drive that euned
him all the respect he'l ever
need from his teammates.
"I was kind of down uat we
lost the game, but the~ were
coming up and saying, 'That ·f
was a great job,"' Broh•l said.
"That showed me they t~ught I
was a good player and tley had
confidence in me."
Brohm threw for 811 yard~
und completed 67 pcrcett of his
passes last season. He.earned
Conference USAFreshmn of the
Year honors, fu•lling the :xpcctations he's faced all his lif.
Thanks to his upbrit~ing in
one of the city's most Jeralded
athletic families. he's endy to
embrace them.
"They've always bee1there," · ·. Brohm said of the expe•tations.
"Now, I know how to dal with
them. Just being able to 1et used
to them that early is helJing me
deal with them now.''
O'Brien Award Watch List released
SKU w-onten's ·basketball
announces 2005-06 opponents
The 33 candidates, in
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:
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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
- RICHMOND - The Eastern
Kentucky University women's
basketball team has announced
its 2005-06 schedule and highlighting the slate are dates with
fL e of last year's post-season
t~s~ including Ohio State,
who• advanced to the NCAA
Tquiil.a,ment's Sweet Sixteen and
1~ cout~sts in McBrayer Afena.
v The Colonels return 10 players from last season's 23-8
S<!Uad that captured the 2005
OhiE> Valley Conference championship and advanced to the
NCAA Tournament for just the
second time.
"We are very excited about
tl),i.s ~ear's schedule with five of
oiir firs t 10 games coming
ag_ainst last year's post-season
teams," head coach Larry Joe
IW;nan said . "We lost some
gi:~fH pXayers, but this will give
our y.ol.lng players an opportunity' to mature early against
some very strong competition.
In a(j.dition, we are playing confer:ence games earlier in the
season because of the double
rofmd tobin schedule so that
shomd make for some interesting play in the early league
st~ndings."
E KU opens the season at
c on Satu.rday, Nov. 19
a~mst Belmont, before traveling north for Tuesday, Nov. 22
for date with Ohio State and
reigning Big Ten Player of the
Year Jessica Davenport. The
Buc
es, last year's Big Ten
co-champions, earned a No. 2
se~d in the NCAA Tournament
before ending the season with a
30~5 mark.
After Thanksgiving, the
Colonels will compete in the
h
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Middle
Tennessee
State
University Classic (Nov. 2526) against a pair of 2005
NCAA Tournament teams in
Louisville and host MTSU.
EKU wraps up the first
month of the season on
Tuesday, Nov. 29 against East
Tennessee State in Johnson
City and plays · its frrst OVC
opponent two nights later, hosting UT-Martin at 5:30 p.ni.
The Colonels hit the road for
their next three games, playing
2005 WNIT participant Xavier
(Dec. 6), Murray State (Dec. 8)
and Austin Peay (Dec. 10) in a
five-day span.
Eastern ends 2005 at home
with contests against Indiana
State (Dec. 20), who competed
in the 2005 WNIT. and Eastern
lllinois (Dec. 22).
The Colonels open 2006 at
6 :30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 2 at
Southeast Missouri State and
return home for a date with
Tennessee Tech on Thursday,
Jan. 5 at 5:30p.m.
Eastern Kentucky travels to
Morehead State for a game on
Thursday, Jan. 12 and returns to
the road three days later at
Eastern illinois (Jan. 14).
The Colonels play their next
two contests at home, facing
Jacksonville State on Thursday,
Jan. 19 before playing Samford
on Saturday, Jan. 21.
Eastern then plays three consecutive games in the state of
Tennessee,
starting
with
Tennessee State on Thursday,
Jan. 26. The Colonels face UTMartin on Monday, Jan. 20 at
6:30p.m. and end the stretch the
following weekend at Tennessee
Tech on Saturday, Feb. 4.
EKU begins a three-game
home stand on Monday, Feb. 6,
hosting Morehead State before
facing Murray State (Feb. 9) and
Southeast Missouri State (Feb. 11 ).
The Colonels end the regular
season with contests at
Jacksonville State (Feb. 16) and
Samford (Feb. 18) and home
dates with Austin Peay (Feb. 23)
and Tennessee State (Feb. 25).
The Ohio Valley Conference
Tournament will begin on
Tuesday, Feb. 28 with frrst
round games at school sites. The
semi-final and final games of
the tournament will be played
March 3-4 in Nashville, Tenn.
Eastern studentathletes help with
move-in day
TIMES STAFF REPORT
RICHMOND - There's no
question, Eastern Kentucky
University student-athletes are
willing to lend a hand. When
incoming Eastern Kentucky
University freshmen and their
parents arrived on campus
Thursday, members of various
athletic teams were on hand to
lend a helping hand.
Members of the Colonels '
football, basketball, women's
soccer, volleyball, cheerleading
and dance teams joined numerous other student organizations
in welcoming the incoming
class and helping move their
belongings into the dorms.
Director of Athletics Mark
Sandy and various members of
the Athletic Department also
volunteered with Move-In Day,
greeting families, checking students in and directing traffic.
T~sk force panel votes tO eliminate
• .u .
cine possible Louisville arena site
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - The group
forn1ed to pick a site for a new
sports arena in Louisville has
voted to eliminate a proposed
arena location near the
University of Louisville.
• Also, the Kentucky State
F<!.ir Board on Thursday pro·
posed a new possible arena site
on the edge of the state fairgf9unds and within walking
distance of hotels and restaurants. The Louisville Arena
Task Force's site selection
committee agreed to consider
the new site and eliminate the
previous fairgrounds site.
The location near UofL had
too many negatives, including
access to Interstate 65, said
committee chairman John
Hindeman.
U ofL athletic director Tom
Jurich said in an interview that
the site was good for the university, "but if this committee
doesn' t think that's a positive
then we're fine."
The university's basketball
program would be a prime
arena tenant.
The new site proposed by
the state fair board is owned by
Jefferson
County
Public
Schools and houses the district's support services.
Lauren Roberts, a spokeswoman for the school district,
said Superintende nt Stephen ·
Daeschner had been briefed
£
The district is willing to consider selling the site, but it would
have to find a comparable
building, she said.
Louisville Metro Mayor
Jerry Abramson, who favors a
downtown arena, said the new
site offers more potential than
the Cardinal Stadium location.
Still, he said, a downtown location would be better because
there already are numerous
restaurants, bars and other
shops, while the new site p~o
posed by the fair board has significantly fewer. Two downtown sites are being considered.
Lt. Gov. Steve Pence said
Thursday that he wants the task
force to reduce the three sites to
two by Sept. 6, the date of the
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Heisman, Walter Camp and
Maxwell Awards in one season.
FORT WORTH , Texas - The
Davey O' Brien Foundation today
announced the pre-season watch
list for the 2005 Davey O' Brien
National Quarterback Award,
presented annually to the nation's
best college quarterback.
The O'Brien Award is the
oldest and most prestigious
award in the country for college
quarterbacks and is named in
honor of the late Davey
O'Brien. O' Brien led the TCU
Horned Frogs to the 1938
national championship and was
the first player to win the
alphabetical order, are:
Erik Ainge, Tennessee
John Beck, BYU
Corey Bramlet, Wyoming
Brian Brohm, Louisville
Shaun Carney, Air Force
Kellen Clemens, Oregon
Brodie Croyle, Alabama
Jay Cmler, Vanderbilt
Bruce Gradkowski, Toledo
Tye Gunn, TCU
Darrell Hackney, UA.B
Marques Hagans, Virginia
Chad Henne, Michigan
Justin Holland, Colorado SOW
Omar Jacobs, Bowling Gre4
Steven Jyles, Loutsiana-Mmroe
Kevin Kolb. Houston
Chris Leak, Florida
Matt Leinart, USC
Clint Marks, Middle Tenn St
Reggie McNeaL Texas Al M
Tyler Palko, Pittsburgh
Jordan Palmer, UTEP
Paul Pinegar, Fresno Stac
Quinton Porter, Boston (;,liege
Jeff Rowe, Nevada
Brad Smith, Missouri
Drew Stanton MichigwState
Drew Tate, Iowa
Marcus Vick, Yirgtn.ia 1lCh
Charlie Whitehurst, Cleason
Vince Young, Texas
Jared Zabransk')'. Boisdtate
Marshall footb I
captains selected
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Marshall University head coach
Mark Snyder introduced the
football program's four senior
captains for the 2005 season
Wednesday.
Chris Royal and Willie Smith
are the defensive captains, while
Wilbur Hargrove and Jeff Mullins
were named the offensive captains. All four players were named
based on a team vote.
"It is an honor to be elected a
Learn captain and it comes with a
great deal of responsibility that
we are all ready to take on,"
Mullins said. "I am going to do
my best to lead by example on
and off the field and I know
these guys will too."
Royal, a safet'; from Herdon,
Va., led the Herd and ranked
second nationally with six interceptions last season.
Smith, a cornerback from Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., is a two-year
struter who has played in every
game in his three-year career and
recorded six interceptions
Hargrove, a receivtr from
Boyton, Va., enters hi! senior
season as one of Marsh.ll's top
deep threats and most "ersatile
players having played unning
back, kick returner. and cceiver " )
in his career.
Mullins, a tight end rud long
snapper from Gallipolis, Ohio,
was
a
College
)ports
Information
Directors of
America Academic All-Dstrict
selection last year who hlS not missed a game in hi careel.
UK ·F ootball names 2005 IronCats
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON - Thirty-two
University of Kentucky football
players were named to the 2005
IronCats squad for their performance in the sununer strength
workouts, Coach Rich Brooks
and Strength Coach Marc Hill
have announced. To earn a place
in the IronCats, a player had to
have perfect attendance in the
summer lifting program and meet
one of the following conditions:
n One the team's top five
lifters in the bench press, squat
lift, or power clean.
nOne of the team's top seven
pound-for-pound lifters, which is
total lifts in relation to body weight.
n Ranked as the top one to
four players in a position group,
depending on the number of
players in that group.
The 2005 lronCats are Rafael
Little (RB), Scott Mitchell
(WR), Glenn Holt (WR), Andre'
Woodson (QB), Keenan Burton
(WR), M uhammad Abdullah
(SS) , Justin Sprowles (FB),
Antoine Huffman (CB), Durrell
White (DE). Terry Clayton (LB),
Alexis Bwenge (FB), J:son
Leger (DT), Trey Mielsch (DT), ~
Michael Aitchcson (OG), Ma:tin
McPherson (FS), Jererriah
Drobney (TE), Lamar M~ls
(DT), Draak Davis (TB), Ric%:y
Abren (DT), Eric Scott (Tl),
Arliss Beach (TB), Tommy
Cook (WR), Richard Gray (01),
Matt McCutch~:.n (C), Shomui
Moore (CB). Taylor Begley (I),
Jacob Tamme (TE), Joe Schder
(LB). Myron Pryor (DT), SS
Roger Williams (SS), 1rai 1
Williruns (00) and Dicky Ly)Jls
(WR).
Passley joins UT men's basketball
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
KNOXVILL E, Tenn.
University of Tennessee men 's
basketball coach Bruce Pearl
announced today that Anthony
Passley will join the Vols' basketball team. Passley will redshirt the 2005-06 season under
NCAA transfer guidelines and
will enter the 2006-07 campaign
with sophomore eligibility.
A 6-foot-5 guard from
Indianapolis North Central High
School, Passley origin lly
cimH
d
with
R' ·
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Milwaukee and attended a summer school class before asking
for his release and then transferring to Redlands Community
College in El Reno, Okla.
''I' vc always believed in
Tony and through the entire
process I have gotten really
close with h is family," Pearl
said. "I wanted to coach him in
Milwaukee and I am excited
about coaching him here in
Tennessee. Tony's · athleticism
and toughness should serve h im
well at this level:'
•
Pass ley averaged 17.2 pants
and 7.5 rebounds while sh<oting better than 56 percent fpm
the field. A first team all- tate
selection by the Indiana
Basketball
Coa:hcs
Association, he earned all-conference honors three years His
best prep game came at H nkle
Fieldhou e when he scored 36
points to lead North Centra to a ·
92-75 win over Mason County
despite 29 points by currett Vol ,.
Chris Lofton. Passley aveJI\ged
10.3 points and 5 ) n:houn:ls at
�SUNDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
110 - Agricult\lre
115 · ATV's
120- Boats
130- Cars
140- 4x4's
21 o - Job Listings
220 - Help Wanted
230 - Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260 - Part Time
270- Sales
280 - Services
290 • Work Wanted
150- Miscellaneous
160 - Motorcycles
170- Parts
175- SUV's
180 ·Trucks
190- Vans
310 ·Business
200 - EMPLOYMENT
330 - For Sale
300 • FINANCIAL
Opportunity
.. The FLOYD COUNTY TIMES does not
knowingly accept
false or misleading
advertisements
Ads which request
or require advance
payment of fees for
services or products should be
scrutinized carefully.
AUTOMOTIVE
II II-Agriculture
FOR SALE:
474 New Holland
Haybine Very good
condition. $2,800.
Call after 6 pm. 8740024.
130-Cars
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
2001 GT
Convertible
Mustang automatic
40,000 miles $10,500
2001 Impala 30,000
~ miles good title
$6995
1992 Explorer Air$1395
1995 Mercury minivan Cold air $1995
$5001Police
Impounds! Honda,
Chevy, Ford and
more!Cars
!Trucks/SUVs from
$500! For listings call
800-439-3998 ext.
A919
~
FOR SALE:
1995
Buick LeSabre in
good condition. New
tires. Good brakes.
Contact 789-6938.
Ask for David.
FOR SALE:
1994
Wrangler.
Jeep
Black, loaded with
extras. 4 cyl 5 speed.
$5,500. 874-2000.
FOR SALE:
1985
Cadillac ElDorado
Garage kept. 16,000
actual miles. Classic.
Special order Gold
Key Edition. 8741. !2000. $12,000.
FOR SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
no title, good for
parts. $600 obo. Call
874-4094.
160-Motorcycles
For
Sale
1998
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
·~ 2000 HONDA XR 70Good
condition,
$650. Call 886-4260
180-Trucks
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800· 7895301
21G-Job Listing
Sales
Representative:
Looking for enthusiastic, career-minded people to join a
great team in the
automotive field.
Twenty year old
established company.
Sell from the largest
inventory in the market. Great pay plan,
DEMO, insurance on
Demo and insurance
available!! No experience necessary! In
house paid training
provided for your
success! Limited
space available, so
hurry!
Please apply in
person at John Gray
Pontlac-Buick-GMC
in Paintsville KY
41240. Call 1-800346-4066 or 606297-4066. For directions only. Ask for
Lance or John.
FABRICATOR/
WELDER
Logan Corporation
of Prestonsburg, KY
is seeking qualified
individuals for the
position of
Fabricator/ Welder.
Must be able to weld
and cut steel and thin
gauge metal.
Experience in brake
press, shear, and
pipe bending a plus.
Salary commensurate with experience.
Benefits package
included. EOE.
Please send resume
to:
Human Resources
Fabricator/ Welder
PO BOX 58
Huntington, WV
25706.
WANTED: SALES
PROS Most rewarding comp plan in
industry. Exec. level
potential. 1-800-9248654. ext 9479.
TREATMENT
SPECIALISTBig Sandy
Treatment Foster
Care
Responsible for
therapeutic intervention with individuals
or groups. Complete
assessments, prepare treatment plans,
and serve on treatment team. Will provide supervision of
treatment implantation including a minimum of quarterly in
home visits. Master's
Degree in the Human
Services Field with at
least three years of
experience. Send
resume to:
Buckhorn Children
& Family Services
Attn: Theresa Gay
116 Buckhorn
Lane
Buckhorn, KY
41721
Fax: 606-398-7724
email:
FOR SALE:
1975
theresa.gay@buckhom.org
Ford dump truck, tilt
front end, 12' bed.
For more info call Oil Field Company
606-478-9150.
has openings for
hard
working
responsible
drivers.
Must
be
of
age
When responding
to Employment ads 21 or older.
Must
that have reference have COL with HAZnu~.nbers,
please MAT and tanker
indicate that entire
reference number endorcements, good
on the outside of driving record and
your
envelope. some
mechanical
Reference numbers apptitude.
Please
are used to help us apply in person at:
direct your letter to
Well
the correct Individ- Universal
Services, Inc., "5252
ual
Rt. 1428, Allen, KY
41601
606-874-
• EMPLOYMENT
•
400 -
MERCI:JANDJS~
410- Animals
420 ·Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - t=;urniture
450 - Lawn & Garden
460 · Yard Sale
470 • Health & Beauty
475 - Household
3487,
Accepting
applications
Mon.
thru Fri. between the
hours of Bam and
4pm.
Teacher's
Assistant Needed
Immediately
BAPTIST LEARNING
CENTER
HOURS: Daily
1:00pm· 5:15pm
Call for more
information.
First Baptist
Church,
Glenda Blackburn,
886-8681
WANTED:
Full/Part time housekeepers needed.
Apply in person.
Pikeville Super 8.
220-Help Wanted
AVON REPS NEEDED: $10 to sign-up.
CASSIE - 886-8737 ,
THERESA - 8863690, WAND.A - 2859486, or Terri -- 9462355 (after 5:00).
RECEPTIONIST
WANTED: Full time
receptionist 10 am 7 pm dally. Essential
job functions and
performance standards:
Answers,
screens, and directs
call on multi-line
phone system in a
courteous and professional
manner,
takes
messages
and/or forwards telephone calls to appropriate
employee
voice mail. Meets
and greets all visitors, determines their
needs and directs
them to the appr.opriate
locations.
Responds to visitors,
clients, and employees in a courteous
and
professional
manner.
Experience/requirements: High school
grad preferred, clear
speaking voice, professional
appearance and demeanor.
Apply in person at
John Gray Pontiac
Buick GMC Inc.
Paintsville, KY. 1800-346-4066
or
606-297-4066
for
directions only.
CASE MANAGERBig
Sandy
Treatment
Fost
Care Program: Must
be willing to work
emotionally
with
behaviorally
disturbed youth in community
programs.
Responsible
for
developing the treatment plan, directing
and providing services, and overall
case management
guidance.
May
require some on-call/
after hours work.
Requires a B.A.
degree in the human
services field. Send
resume to:
Buckhorn Children &
Family Services
Attn: Theresa Gay
116 Buckhorn Lane
Buckhorn, KY 41721
Fax: 606-398-7724
Email:
500 • RiAL,
i!flAU
505 - Business
510- Commercial
Property
530 ·Homes
550 · Land/Lots
570 · Mobile Homes
580 - Miscellaneous
Prestonsburg area.
Must live in the circulation territory.
Interested candidates need strong
public
relations,
sales, and motivation
skills. Job includes
soliciting and contracting newspaper
carriers; maintaining
excellent
delivery
service and increasing circulation.
Competitive compensation package
including salary and
bonus.
Company
vehicle included with
the job.
Qualified applicants may apply in
the human resources
division
of
the
Herald-Leader plant
from 8:30 am - 4:30
pm
M-F.
Send
resume and cover
letter to Employment,
LHL, 100 Midland
Ave, Lexington, KY
40508. Fax to 859231-3584 or apply
online at www.hljobd.com. Complete
job description available for review in our
office.
All final applicants
must pass drug
screen and a criminal
background check.
We recognize and
appreciate benefits
of diversity in the
workplace.
Those
who sahre in this
belief are encouraged to apply. EOE.
WANTED:
OTR
Driver needed. 1 out
of last 3 years verifiable
HASMAT
endorsement. Clean
driving record. Must
be able to pass DOT
physical and drug
test. Leave message
606-358-9268.
DELIVERY
WAREHOUSE:
Auxier distributor.
Full time job, 1/2 day
customer service
and 1/2 day delivery/
warehouse. Must be
at least 21 years old,
have valid driver's
license and meet
requirements. Must
have at least 6
months verifiable
experience driving a
20 foot truck or larger or a 10 wheel
dump truck in last 2
years. Heavy lifting/
(un)loading/ strapping/ forklift. Drug
screen and DOT
physical. M-F with
benefits. Fax resume
to Corporate office
(812)280-2232 or
call (800)967-7473.
EOE
NOTICE:
Positions available
in various mine and
preparation plant
construction projects.
Immediate openings
for experienced
crane operators,
ironworkers/ connectors, welders, pipefitters, millwrights.
MSHA surface construction training
required. Only experienced applicants
need apply. Benefits
package. Contact
600 • BiNTALS
700 • SERVICE-S
61 o · Apartments
820 - Storage/
Office Space
630· Houses
840 - Land/l.ots
850 - Mob11e Homes
660 • Miscellaneous
670 · Commercial
705 · Construction
71 0 • Educational
713 ·Child Care
715 • Electrician
720 · Health & Beauty
730 • Lawn & Garden
735- Legal
740- Masonry
745 ·Miscellaneous
PrQPerty
Equal Opportunity
Employer
WANTED-District
Circulation
Manager
Pikeville/Prestonsb
urg
Area:
The
Lexington-He raid
Leader needs an
energetic and moti·
vated
District
Circulation Manager
for. the Pikeville/
2 Commercial Buildings
Former location of
Steve's Tire Sales &
Farm & Home Supply
Located just off At. 80
on Hwy. 3188, Martin, Ky.
Contact:
886·6906 after 6 p.m.
REAL ESTATE
Asking price
$14,000. Fo ntl'lre' ,•,;..
info, call 889-00i'0." "
•
530-Homes
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Allen, KY. Riley Hall
Sub. 17 Cross Road.
Main floor 2 BR. 1
BA. Upstairs 2 room
1/2 BA. Basement
with full BA Roughed
in. All appliances
including Dishwasher
& W/D. Ramp to rear
deck. Front porch.
$67,500 or make
offer. No land contract. Call 606-8742775 or 734-9977110.
Ill
FORSALE: 1 ~
14x70 MH 2 Bf:l 1
BA, fireplace, CW~ ...
large deck, ,fWpllances, on large prf·
vate
rented . rot,
$10,000 or best o'ff~t.
606-246-0767. · .m.w
...
J
VUt.l
MH FOR SALt::
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Never smoked, ,if), All
appliances & Cfl·j(A~ ,
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clearance
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3 BR, LR, kitchen , 119,
Belfry, .. . ~t
1.5 BA, carport, full 41514 606-353.:;64M ...
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550
4323
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358-4065, 358·4369. with 2x6 wall$,amt:
Price Reduced!
5/12 roof pitct], uU~..
mate kitchen , p,aC(~; ·
55().. Land/Lots age, glass block window, and man{ rriore
FOR SALE:
2.5 extras, Set up:-: •or
acres with a small viewing. For detaifg"
house located at 833 call 606·353-6444.(i)(•
Sampson's Branch toll free 577,..353•.
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Dana,
KY. 6444 the home~-~
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FOR SALE: 2002
14 x 52 Gile MH.
Never lived in. 2 BR,
1 BA. Ref, stove,
built-in stereo system, security system
and underpinning.
All included.
Located at Price, KY.
610Apartments
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new. Furnishea.'''l'n''
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810 -Auctions
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755 ·Office
760 • Plumbing
765 • Professionals
770 • Repair/Service
780- Timber
790 ·Travel
Mark Carvillano at
Old
Middlecreek
304-363-41 00 or
Road, Prestonsburg,
480- Misc.
mail resume to
KY 41653. 606-886Mountaineer
8889 fax: 606·886Resources, INC, PO 8847,
or
email WEDDING DRESS
BOX 1187, Fairmont, resume and salary FOR SALE: Size 12,
wv 26555·11 87.
requirements
to: pearl and sequins
attn Mark Carvillano. alchemy@ engineer.c intricate design on
bodice and train.
Resumes can also
om
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Carvillano at 304FLOYD COUNTY I ate beauty. For more
PAINTSVILLE/ information, call 886363·4814.
PIKEVILLE AREAS: 8506 ask for Tanya
WANTED:
Otter The
Lexington or after 5:00 call 886Creek Correctional Herald Leader has a 0048 and leave mes•
Center
is
now morning newspaper sage.
accepting applica- route available in
tions for the following your area. Routes FOR SALE:
positions.
take about 3 hours Wurlitzer piano for
AN-Qualifications: daily, with an approx- sale. Contact 285Graduate from an imate profit potential 9704. Call after 5:00
accredited college, of $800
-$1 000 pm.
university, or nursing monthly. Dependable
program
with
a transportation and FOR SALE: Large
degree/diploma in ability to be bonded quantity plus size
sale.
nursing. Must pos- required. Call 1-800- clothing
jeans,
sess curren licensure 274-7355.(EXT Dresses,
shorts, tops, etc. 2x in the state of 3384 or 1629)
4x. Call 789-9172.
One
employment.
year of professional
FOR SALE:
12
nursing experience
pews, like new condirequired. A valid drition.
Medium-light
ver's
license
is
350-Miscellaneous blue in color. Call
required.
452-4189 for more
LPN- Qu_alificationsGraduate from an Need to repair your information.
credit and move
approved school of
on? We provide
nursing with a certifi490-Recreation
low APRs, low
cate as a Licensed
Practical Nurse. Must monthly payments
PLEASANT RIDGE
be licensed in the
on all types of
HORSEBACK RID·
loans. 1st, 2nd,
state of employment.
lNG opening Friday
mortgage, busiA
valid
driver's
ness loans. Call 1 May 6 at Yatesville
license is required.
Lake. Call 606-673·
(800) 405- 8157.
Applicants please
1165. Directions: US
contact the facility at
23 to Louisa/Blaine
606-452-9700,
MERCHANDISE exit turn on Highway
www.correctionscorp.com
32 toward Blaine,
Otter
Creek
turn right on
Correctional Center
445-Furniture Highway 3215
is
an
Equal
toward the campOpportunity
Employer. M/F/DN
ESTATE SALE of ground and golf
furniture
and course. Tu-Su 10 am
WANTED: Mountain antiques. The Estate -7:30pm
Manor of Paintsville of Jesse and Molly
495-Want to Buy
is taking applications Holland. Old Bumen
for RN, LPN, and Fork Rd. Salyersville,
Saturday
Excellent KY.
CMA.
wages and benefits. September 3. 9:00 WANT TO BUY: Fill
dirt needs to be delivApply in person at am
ered to the East
1025 Euclid Ave,
Paintsville, KY M-F
RAY'S BARGAIN Point area. Call 3671506 or 367-1934.
between 8 am- 4:30 CENTER
&
Used
New
pm.
Furniture
&
WANTED:
Need Appliances @ unbeprices.
employees to pres- lievable
sure wash heavy Come in today for
equipment.
Must incredible savings.
have valid driver's Shop At The Little
license and surface Furniture Store &
mining papers. Call Save!! Route. #122,
M-F 9-7 606-886- McDowell. Call 606377-0143.
1759.
CORE DRILLER
WANTED:
Experienced
core
driller
wanted.
Experience with Joy
Ramrod II drilling unit
and NQ-2 drill rods a
plus. Primarily coal
exploration
with
some
foundation
investigation work on
occassion . Will consider training appropriate person, who
has drill rig equipment
experience.
Must be mechanical-
21 , 2005 • 87
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This position !\'quires an :lssnd.lle
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Biological Science. Completion of 11 .'~: ~·
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Prestonsburg, KY 41653
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PARK PLACE
APARTMENTS"LABOR DAY" Movein
special!
First
month's rent FREE
with paid security
deposit.
Through
September 5th. 1
BR/$309. 2 BR $304$345. Prestonsburg.
886-0039.
21, 2005
OFFICE OR 3BR MH FOR
RETAIL: SPACE RENT: 3 BR, large
FOR LEASE: 1,200 lot. Call 886-8366.
sq ft in Prestonsburg..
886-8366
660-Miscellaneous
FOR LEASE: New
30x60 Metal building
12 ft ceilings on RT
80 close to Martin
886-8366. $500.00
month.
DUPLEX FOR
RENT: 2 BR CH/A
total
. electric.
Excellent condition
on US 23 north 1 mile
from Prestonsburg.
No pets. Call 8869007 or 889-9747.
FOR RENT:
900
sq. ft. office/commercial space. Located
next to Reflection's
Beauty Salon 3/4
mile south or Martin
on RT 122. Across
from Garth Tech.
FOR RENT: Nice, 1 School. Call 285BR apt on KY 321 9112.
between Highlands
Hospital and Davis'
630-Houses
Market. CH/A, WID
hook-up.
$325.00
month
$200.00 HOUSE FOR RENT:
deposit. 789-5973.
Very nice, clean 2
BR house. Includes
APT FOR RENT: 2 stove, dishwasher,
BR newly remodeled side by side fridge,
ground floor apt for WID hookup. CH/A
rent. Located across Located on MT Pkwy
from Garth Technical 8
miles
from
School on RT 122 at Prestonsburg in a
Martin, KY. Must have quiet neighborhood.
references. Call 285- $500 per month plus
9112.
deposit & utilities.
References required.
APT FOR RENT: No pets. Call 606Nice 1 BR fully fur- 886-1339 between 5nished apt. New car- 9 pm.
pet. Suitable for 1-2
people. No pets. FOR RENT
AT
Located on RT 1428 IVEL: 5 BR house.
Private lot. $450 $550 month plus utilmonth $250 deposit. ities.
Security
All utilities included- deposit. No pets.
tv. 874-4330.
Contact 874-6700.
1 BR Furnished
Apartment, Including
Utilities.
2 BR
Unfurnished,
and
large 3 BR 2 SA,
unfurnished on RT
114
Call 886-8366
APT FOR RENT in
Prestonsburg. 1 BR
furnished. Offstreet
par king.
Utilities/satellite tv
included .
$450
month plus deposit.
886-0010.
FOR RENT: 2 BR
apt. Spacious, quiet
com munity.
Application must be
filled out. Deposit &
references required.
One year lease. Call
358-9123.
2 BR 1 1/2 bath
Townhouse also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located in Pr<cJstonsburg
,NO PETS call 606886 8991
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central
heat & air. Rent starting at $375. month, +
$300. deposit water
included. Located
near HRMC. 606889-9717.
....:~..-·""'"'-"- i
aa>storage/Office
FOR RENT: 3 Room
office suite. $600
month. Call 8861020 ask for C.V.
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
3 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT: 3 BR 1.5 BA,
kitchen, DR, heath
pump, built in vacuum cleaner & deck.
Located in Knott
County. 438-6104
STOP RENTING! A
foreclosure
only
$14,900. For listings
800-429-7008. Ext
8930.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
3 BR, 1.5 BA, carport, large lot. Call
886-8366.
640- Land/Lots
NEW TRAILER ·
LOTS FOR RENT:
3 minutes from
Highlands Regional,
5 minutes from
Porter School. Call
886-3959.
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
Prestonbetween
sburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
Trailer Lot For
Large Yard.
Call 886-8366
~ent,
ROOM FOR RENT:
in 1700 sq ft doublewide. Access to
whole house including 2 full BA. Just
asked to help with
portion
of
rent.
Cable, utilities, and
furniture provided.
Prefer female. BUSI·
NESS ONLY.
Call
285-3755.
FOR RENT:
• 2 BR House
* MH slip
*Barn access 3 stalls
606-434-7507
8/10 mile Cow Creek
SERVICES
770-Repair/Services
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling.
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
LEGALS
PUBLIC NOTICE
A public hearing
has been set by the
Floyd
County
Extension
District
Board for September
6, 2005, at 10:00
a.m., to 12:00 p.m.,
at 921 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg.
The 1979 General
Assembly
has
required such a
hearing with the
enactment of House
Bill44.
The purpose of the
hearing is to inform
the public that the
Extension Service is
proposing to take the
compensating rate
plus the allowable 4
percent
increase.
The anticipated revenue is $196,920.81 .
The tax rate for the
preceding year was
1.35/1 .71 with revenue of $199,761.00.
The compensating
tax rate is 1.35/2.06
with
revenue of
$196,921.00.
The increased revenue for the 20052006 budget will be
in the areas of travel,
salary,
equipment
and supplies.
automatic transmission. For more information,
contact
Shannon Hall at ·606377-6643. Bids will
be received until
September 1, 2005.
Bids will be opened
on 9-1-05, at 6 p.m .,
at Station #2 in
McDowell.
We
reserve the right to
reject any and all
bids. Please send
bids to Left Beaver
Fire
Protection
District, P.O. Box
426, McDowell, KY
41647, Att. Shannon
Hall.
PRESTONSBURG
CITY'S UTILITIES
COMMISSION
WATER SYSTEM
FLUSHING
BEGINS
AUGUST 21
Prestonsburg City's
Utilities Commission
will conduct its annual water main flushing program throughout their service
area, from Sunday,
August 21, through
Saturday, August 27,
between the hours of
11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The flushing program helps to ensure
our
customers
receive the highest
quality drinking water
available.
This
process is necessary
to remove any mineral deposits and to
ensure proper water
flow throughout the
distribution system.
The water mains
will be flushed by
systematically openin_g fire hydrants
and/or
blow-off
valves for a brief
period. During this
operation, customers
may notice a temporary discoloration of
their tap water, and
your area. This will
help prevent potential staining of laundry, appliances, and
plumbing fixtures. If
these
conditions
occur, customers are
advised to allow their
water to run a few
have fluctuations in
water
pressure.
While the water is
safe to drink, we
encourage all customers to refrain
from drawing water
while flushing is
being performed in
minutes, in order to
clear up any disturbance of the system.
We apologize for
any
incovenience
this may cause, and
we appreciate your
support in our goal of
supplying the clean-
fire bllngulsner
serVice
· CU1886·1111
IS OUR
BUSINESS
'
Mine Safety &
First Aid Training
Newly Employed
24 hr. Class (surface)
40 hr. (underground)
hr. refresher .
(surface & underground)
Also Electrical Classes
a
285-0999
Train at your convenience.
~J&L~
Electrical Contracting
Residential & Commercial
Electrical Services
Home Improvements and Repairs
For Businesses, mines,
vehicles, & churches
..- Inspections
..- Re-charge
,... Installation
est, safest drnking
water -available.
For more information or assistance,
please call our office
between 8-4:30, at
606-886-6871.
FRASURE'S ,
RENTALS
Office Space, Retail
Space, Houses,
Apartments,
Mobile Homes and
Lots.
I•
CALL
606-886-8366
f'R.IPLE S
coNsr•ucriON
No Job Too Big or Too Small!
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL
i
606-265·3336 or 606·265·4678
A
New Construction • Remodeling
Vinyl Siding • Window Replacement
Hardwood Flooring
30 Village Street, Pikeville, KY
{Coal Run Village)
, .
Q
"~
Shingle/Tin Roofing '
Decks/Porches/Garages
Concrete Work
FREE ESTIMATES
J&M
seamless
Guttering, Siding
and ""etal Roofing
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
432-8282
(TAT2)
Accept credit cards.
We also have body jewelry.
SHEPHERD'S
PLUMBING
Ph: (606) 886-2785
Pager: (606) 482·0229
free estimates. can an»time
Residential & Commercial
• Gas Lines
• Rota-Rooter
• Install Septic Tanks
• Small Excavating
226-2051
606-452-2490, 606-424-9858
John K. Lewis, Master Electrician
Licensed: ME8643, CE8644
24-Hour Service
Runntng 10% OffAllGutter & Siding
thru the Month ofApril
886-0363
Free Estimates • Reliable
lr
If!
PUBLIC NOTICE
For Rent. : newly
The Left · Beaver
constru.cted Mobile
Protection
Fire
Home Lots in new
will
be
Allen, reference District
accepting
sealed
required call 606bids for a 2005 or
874-2212
2006 Cab/Chassis.
650- Mobile Homes The vehicle shall
have all standard
MH FOR RENT: 3 equipment. GVWR
BR
trailer
at 35,000 lbs. 168"
The
Hueysville. All elec- wheelbase.
tric, nice yard. HUD vehicle shall have a
approved. Call after diesel
engine
6 pm. 358-3392.
w/engine brake and
In Floyd ·c ounty
$
Reg. $59.00 ............. Now
47 • 20
Out of County
$
Reg. $69.00 ............. Now 55 • 20
Payment to: The Floyd County Times
263 South Central Ave.
Box 390
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653 • (606) 886-8506
Name: ________________________________________________
Address: ----------------------------------~---
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State:
Phorie:
Code
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City to look at figures for water park this week
by MARY MUSIC,
-PageBl
f5 1
r J e f s~
MagoiRn
trucker
killed
in wreck
Council to discuss HRMC annexation today
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - The city council is continuing to weigh the possibility
of constructing a water park at Stonecrest.
Mayor Jerry Fannin made the proposal
during a city council meeting August 8
and asked the fmance and revenue committee to analyze the economic feasibility
of project. At that time he discussed the
possibility of the city taking out a longterm bond to fund the construction and
using proceeds gained from the park or
from the proposed annexation of
Highlands Regional Medical Center to
fund the bon~ payment.
He reported Monday that committee
members have met with consultants, who
provided estimates of how much it would
cost the city to usc their services to begin
the project. Members will "go over" those
figures this week, Fannin said.
The council adopted a resolution to
file an application for a community economic growth grant up to $232,981, with
the Government Office of Local
STAFF WRITER
rape suspect
in·GarreH
~
2 DAY FORECAST
Today
hnny
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
photo by Tom Doty
Two cars collided ..,n North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg Mondy afternoon, tying up southbound
traffic for 30 minutes. One passenger was transported to Highlands Regional Medical Center for
possible whiplash, but no one sustained serious injuries.
Two locals could get Purple Hearts
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
A recent dispatch from Iraq
reported that two Floyd County
soldiers serving with the 916th
Military Police Company have
received wounds this summer and
have been entered for consideration for the Purple Heart award,
which is routinely given for
wounds sustained in the line of
duty for armed forces personnel.
Sgt. David Hall, of Martin, a
third squad leader, was struck by
an lED (or Improvised Explosive
Device) while on a convoy mission on April 14. Hall was the convoy commander for the mission
and the team leader for his vehicle,
which was destroyed in the attack
that left Hall with various bruises
and lacerations. They completed
their mission.
SPC Timothy Parsons, of Dana,
was wouhded on a later mission
when another IED detonated near
him in May and caused lacerations
(See SOLDIERS, page three)
(t;
High: 87 • Low: 63
Tomorrow
Stumbo comes home to work local office
by TOM DOTY,
STAFF WRITER
High: 91 • Low: 63
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
(See COUNCIL, page three)
Police arrest
by TOM DOTY
MARTIN - Route 80
was the scene~ of a
deadly accident Friday
evening, when two
trucks collided, leaving
one man dead and the
road blocked off for several hours.
Kentucky State
Police Det. Eddie Crum
is still investigating the
incident, which saw a
Freight Liner tractortrailer enter Route 80 in
the path of a Mack truck
that was hauling
• asphalt. The Mack truck
struck the Freight Liner
and left the roadway,
where it came to rest in
a creek and caught fire.
The Mack driver, Billy
R. Lykins, 54, of
Salyersville, was pronounced dead at the
scene by Floyd County
Coroner Roger Nelson.
Crum was assisted at
the scene by the Martin
Police and Fire
Departments, Floyd
•~ County Emergency
Management, Kentucky
Vehicle Enforcement
and the Floyd County
Sheriff's Department,
Development, Kentucky Community
Development Office, to complete the
Stonecrest Mountaintop project.
Fannin was appointed as the authorized correspondent in this action.
In other news, the council passed a
motion to allow the Floyd County Board
of Education to place playground equipment left behind at the soon-to-be demol-
PRESTONSBURG .- Attorney
General Greg Stumbo spent the
day at his Prestonsburg office
Monday and helped his staff there
in the day-to-day operations of the
office, which acts as an extension
of his main office in Frankfort.
Stumbo remarked that his satellite offices are a first for the attorney general's office and a perfect
tool for targeting the most victimized groups in the state, which
include senior citizens and teens.
The office, situated on North
Lake Drive in Prestonsburg, used
to house the Tourism Commission
and was donated to the Stumbo's
office by the Floyd County Fiscal
Court. Stumbo noted that it was
the generosity of county governments that have allowed him to set
up five such offices, with the other
four in Benton, Maysville, London
and Shively.
Stumbo spends a full day at
(See STUMBO, page seven)
258-pound frame to hold
her down and twist her
arms
while
sexually
assaulting her. He is also
charged with threatening to
kill the alleged
victim
and
thereceived
unlawful
imprisonment
charge
for
using his size
to pin his victim and keep
her from escap-
GARRETT
A
Prestonsburg man accused
of first-degree
rape was apprehended Tuesday
by the sheriff's
department
after
two
months of eluding authorities.
Christopher
Jason "Sleepy"
ing.
Hall, 27, was
Hall has a
arrested
in
Christopher Hall
of
history
Garrett
and
domestic viojailed in the
Floyd County Detention lence charges and was
Center for the offense, thought to be hiding out
which allegedly took place with a relative in Knott
County. He was arrested
on June 25.
A criminal complaint near the Knott County line
was lodged against Hall by Deputy Brian Walker.
after the June incident,
Hall has been scheduled
charging him with rape, for a preliminary hearing
menacing, terroristic threat- date Aug. 29 and was
ening, unlawful imprison- placed under a $50,000
cash bond by District Judge
ment, assault and sodomy.
The criminal complaint Eric hall. He has also been
states that Hall allegedly ordered to cease any and all
restrained the victim by contact with the alleged
using his 6 foot, 6 inch tall, victim.
Pike t en drowns
after rescue fails
The Associated Press
PRESTONSBURG - A
Pike County Central High
School student drowned in
Dewey
Lake
at
Prestonsburg despite a
friend 's effort to rescue
him, officials said.
Jordan Smith, 17, had
just eaten with several companions late Sunday after-
noon when they began
swimming at the lake,
according to Floyd County
Deputy Coroner Greg
Nelson.
"He started hollering for
help and they were trying to
get him to calm down and
not panic," Nelson said.
"One of the boys that was
(See DROWNING, page seven)
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Opinion .........................A4
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Board gives parents limited
time to switch children's schools
by KATHY J. PRATER
FEATURES EDITOR
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McDOWELL - The Floyd
County Board of Education
met in regular session Monday
evening
at
McDowell
Elementary School.
Included among the topics
discussed and acted upon was
a decision to allow parents, for
a limited time (flve professional days, beginning August 23),
to withdraw their children
from schools in which they are
currently enrolled in order to
enroll them in a new school of
their choosing.
Primarily, the decision was
made to appease those unhap-
py with "traffic problems and
consolidation problems," as
referred to by board member
Mickey McGuire, in regard to
the temporary housing of former Clark Elementary School
students at Prestonsburg's
Adams
Middle
School.
(See SCHOOLS, page three)
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met in regular
session
Monday
evening, at
McDowell
Elementary
School. The
meeting was
held In the
school's newly
decorated
cafeteria.
Kathy
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�A2 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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• INDIAN HEIGHTS, Ind.
-Terry Johnson didn't expect
her house to become a drivethru as she changed her daughter's diaper in one of her bedrooms.
Johnson said she was
shocked Monday when a van
came crashing through the front
brick wall of her home, ran over
a couch and tore through the
bedroom wall where she was
changing 2-year-old Alana.
"I hadn't even gotten her diaper on when the dresser came
tumbling down," she said. ·"I
started screaming and I picked
up Alana and got into the bed
where my other daughter was.
All I could see was the smoke
and the turn signal of the van."
Johnson was treated at a hospital for an injured right arm.
Her three children weren't hurt.
"Thank God my babies are
OK," she said. "We can replace
our things, but you can't replace
a child."
Nicole Harrah, 28, told
police that her van's brakes
. failed. She went through an
intersection, striking a vehicle,
then traveled another 150 feet
into the Johnson home. She was
treated for back pain.
• TOKYO- Two Japanese
companies have the answer for
people worried about leaving
their homes empty while they
go on vacation: a house-sitter
robot armed with a digital camera, infrared sensors and a
videophone.
Stores across Japan started
taking orders earlier this month
for the Roborior- a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that
glows purple, blue and orange
and can sense break-ins using
infrared sensors and notify
homeowners by calling their
cell phones and sending video
from its digital camera.
The machines, developed by
Japanese robot maker Tmsuk
Co. Ltd. and electronics company Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., sell
for about $2,600 each.
Tmsuk has also produced a
four-legged security robot
called Banryu, which is about
the size of a large dog and sells
for $18,000.
• WEIPPE, Idaho- It's a
big issue in this small town:
Should Weippe bring back the
gorilla?
Members of the City Council
recently split on whether to
repaint the gorilla caricature that
for decades had been on the side
of the 76-foot-tall water 'tank in
the town. It was the council's
first divided vote since the
1980s.
The gorilla was the mascot of
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Aug.
24, the 236th day of 2005. There
are 129 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight In
History: On Aug. 24, 1992,
Hurricane Andrew smashed in~o
Florida, causing record damage;
55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana
and the Bahamas were blamed
on the storm.
On this date:
• In A.D. 79, long-dormant
Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii
and Herculaneum in volcanic
ash. An estimated 20,000 people
died.
• In 1572, the slaughter of
French Protestants at the hands
of Catholics began in Paris.
• In 1814, British forces
invaded Washington D.C., setting flre to the Capitol and the
White House.
• In 1932, Amelia Earhart
became the fust woman to fly
non-stop across the United
States, traveling from Los
Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just
over 19 hours.
• In 1949, the North Atlantic
Treaty went into effect.
• In 1954, the Communist
Control Act went into effect,
virtually
outlawing
the
Communist Party in the United
States.
• In 1968, France became
the world's flfth thermonuclear
power as it exploded a hydrogen
bomb in the South Paciflc.
• In 1970, a bomb planted
by anti-war extremists exploded
at the University of Wisconsin's
Army Math Research Center in
Madison, killing 33-year-old
researcher Robert Fassnacht.
• In 1981, Mark David
Chapman was sentenced in New
York to 20 years to life in prison
for slaying rock star John
Lennon.
•
In
1989, Baseball
Commissioner A. Bartlett
Giamatti banned Pete Rose from
the game for gambling.
Ten years ago: China
expelled
Chinese-American
human rights activist Harry Wu,
hours after convicting. him of
spying. Microsoft Corp. began
selling its highly publicized
Windows 95 personal computer
software.
Five years ago: Mexican
President-elect Vicente Fox met
with Vice President Al Gore and
in
President
Clinton
Washington, a day before he
met with Texas Gov. George W.
Bush in Dallas.
· One year ago: An independent commission said the
blame 'for abuses at Iraq's Abu
Ghraib prison lay mainly with
the American soldiers who ran
the jail, but said senior commanders and top-level P entagon
officials could also be faulted
for failed leadership and oversight. Osama bin Laden's chauffeur was arraigned at flrst U.S.
military commission hearing
since World War IT. Chechen
separatists set off bombs aboard
two Russian airliners that
crashed after taking off from the
same Moscow airport, killing a
total of 90 people. Psychiatrist
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who
famously theorized that terminally ill patients go through five
stages of grief, died in
Scottsdale, Ariz., at age 78.
Today's
Birthdays:
Former education secretary
Shirley Hufstedler is 80. Actor
Kenny Baker ("Star Wars") is
71. Composer-musician Mason
Williams is 67. Rhythm-andblues
singer
Marshall
Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is
63. Rock musician Ken Hensley
(Uriah Heep) is 60. Actor Joe
Regalbuto is 56. Actor-writer
Stephen Fry is 48. Actor Steve
Guttenberg is 47. Baseball star
Cal Ripken Jr. is 45. Talk show
host Craig Kilborn is 43. Rock
singer John Bush is 42. Actress
Marlee Matlin is 40. Country
singer
Kristyn
Osborn
(SheDaisy) is 35. Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is 32. Actor
Carmine Giovinazzo is 32.
Actor Chad Michael Murray is
24. Actor Rupert Grint ("Harry
Potter" films) is 17.
Thought for Today: "No
one knows his true character
until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent." Marcelene Cox,
American writer.
& Ends
the old Weippe High School
before it was combined with
neighboring Timberline High
School in 1970. It was painted
over three years ago.
Maxine Johnstun, 83, has led
the charge to repaint the gorilla.
Johnstun wears a gorilla T-shirt
to council meetings and has
helped collect $1,300 in donations to pay for a new paint job.
But some residents argue the
town should paint the mascot of
Timberline High - tlie mighty
Spartans - on the water tank.
"This is Spartan country
now," said Bob Hartig, a coach
at the high school.
Debate over the gorilla has
overshadowed other issues. At a
recent council meeting, virtually
everyone attending stood up and
left when council members
deadlocked over the gorilla.
Council members on both sides
say it's gotten a little ugly.
"Personally, I feel like I've
been intimidated," says council
member Ronnie Larson, who
cast his vote in favor of the
gorilla.
The gorilla is back on the
agenda for the council's Sept.
12 meeting.
• TRURO, England - A
man who raided bedrooms and
washing lines on the remote
Isles of Scilly to amass a collection of women's underwear has
been banned from the islands
for seven years.
Andrew Stephan, 42, was
also barred from entering a
house without invitation for
seven years and ordered to serve
150 hours of community service.
Police said the father of two
stole 160 pairs of panties and
various sex toys from homes on
the island of St. Mary's off the
coast of England's southwestern
tip.
Stashes of women's underwear and sex toys were found in
the house that he once shared
with his estranged wife when
her new boyfriend pried apart
floorboards looking for water
pipes. Underwear continued to
turn up around the house and in
the garden shed over the next
few months.
Judge Paul Darlow said
Stephan had broken the longstanding trust unique to small
communities such as St. Mary's,
where crime is uncommon.
Defense attorney Llewellyn
Sellick said Stephan felt "deeply
ashamed" of what he had done.
• NEWPORT, Ore. - This
is a story that should be told in
reverse, so here's the ending:
Jim Peterson is readjusting to
life on land and his deckhand is
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coast of Newport last week
when the reverse gear on his 38foot boat seized up on him.
After some frustration, he managed to get the boat to shift into
reverse.
But only reverse.
Far from his home port of
Coos Bay, Peterson and deckhand Jeremy Welsh considered
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Peterson wasn't waiting.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 AT 11:00 A.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
108 JOCKEY HOLLOW, AUXIER, IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
This is a vinyl sid4lg home on public water and private sewer. It is well located in a quiet neighborhood. It
consists of a living room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a nook. This property is considered suitable for the
Rural Development, Rural Housing Program. This would be an excellent buy for an investor interested in rental
property or for resale after repairs.
The minimum acceptable bid for this property will be $16,750.00
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Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $35,221.06 principal, plus an interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of $19,349.04, plus interest
in the amount of $2,725.30 as of December 22, 2004, and interest thereafter on the principal at $7.8825 per day from December 22, 2004,
until the date of this Judgement, plus interest to the date of Judgement amount (principal plus interest to the date of judgment) at the rate of
2.77% computed daily and compounded annually, until paid in full and for the costs of this action, pursuant to Judgement and Order of Sale,
being Civil Action No. 04-428 OCR on the Pikeville Docket of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, entered on
January 3, 2005, in the case of United States of America vs. Eloise J. Cline, nlk/a Eloise Blackburn, et al., the following described property will
be sold to the highest and best bidder:
House and lot located at 108 Jockey Hollow, Auxier, Floyd County, KY. Being the same property conveyed by Deed dated September 9, 1994,
and recorded in Deed Book 391 Page 512 in the Floyd County Clerk's Office.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (10%) of the bid price (in the form of a CertifiecfCheck made payable to the U. S. Marshal) on the day of sale
with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 1.83% per annum until paid, due and payable in sixty (60) days
and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, the deposit shall be forfeited and retained by the U. S.
Marshal as a part of the proceeds of the sale, and the property shall again be offered for sale subject to confirmation by the Court.
This sale shall be in bar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate claim, demand or equity of redemption of the defendant(s) and of all
persons claiming by, through, under or against them, provided the purchase price is equal to two-thirds of the appraised value. If the
purchase price is not equal to two-thirds of the appraised value, the Deed shall contain lien in favor of the defendant(s), reflecting the right of
the defendant(s), to redeem during the period provided by law (KRS 426.530). Under law, the purchaser is deemed to be on notice of all
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�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
24, 2005 •
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High school principals to observe top schools
by KATHY J. PRATER
school principals be required to "spend
FEATURES EDITOR
a week each in a high-performing high
McDOWELL School board
member Mickey McGuire made two
proposals following Monday evening's
r~m from executive session that he
hopes will prove to better the county's
schools and tudents, both academically and physically.
In one move, McGuire proposed
that each of the district's four high
school, as an observer." McGuire
hopes that by doing such, the principals would be able to return to their
respective schools with new ideas for
improvement in their own hallways.
"Let them see fil:sthand the operations of other schools," he said. "I
don't know if it'll help, but it seems
like it's worth a try."
McGuire's fellow board members
needing improvement by the board.
In a separate motion, McGuire also
proposed that the district "go fl step
farther" in creating healthy lunchroom
choices for students. McGuire noted
that although the district now meets
federal guidelines with meal choices
and food items, "we have not gone one
step further than what's required (of
us) ... I think we can go just a little farther."
Again, his fellow board members
agreed, passing a motion to attempt to
make improvements along the line of
offering a greater variety of healthy
food choices for students.
In other business, the board voted to
receive, for review, a second report on
the use of substitute teachers in the district, and also opted to table considerations of property and motor vehicle tax
rates. A special meeting will be scheduled, in the month of September, for
consideration of the tax rates.
Prosecutors against changes to repeat offender law
Council
• Continued from p1
ished
Charles
F.
Clark
Elementary School on Middle
Creek at the community park
11ear Adams Middle School.
~Council member Kay Ross
requested the action, saying that
Clark Elementary students now
attending classes at the middle
school "don't have any place to
play."
Members favored the motion,
which passed under the condition that the school board accepts
liability and maintenance of the
playground. City attorney Jimmy
Webb said the council would
have to sign an agreement to that
effect with the school board.
In other news, the council
~o passed a resolution adopting an interlocal jurisdictional
agreement
between
the
Prestonsburg Police Department, the Paintsville Police
Department and the Johnson
County and Martin County sher-
agreed, thereby approving the motion
and granting Supt. Paul Fanning the
leeway to make arrangements for the
The
four
principals
visits.
(Prestonsburg High School, South
Floyd High School, Allen Central High
School and Betsy Layne High School)
will visit on separate occasions on separate dates. Any expenses from the
trips will be paid by the school board.
The county's four high schools have
been noted in previous months as
iff's offices.
Police Chief Mike Omerod
said the agreement was primarily set up for the East Kentuc_ky
State Fair, which is scheduled to
begin on Aug. 30. Omerod said
the agreement would continue
through the duration of the fair.
Fannin said the agreement also
allows officers to work together
during emergencies.
The reading of an ordinance
to annex Highlands Regional
Medical
Center
and
Consolidated Health Systems
properties was postponed during
the meeting. Council. members
called a special meeting today to
hold the reading.
Floyd County Clerk Chris
Waugh is currently considering a
petition to place the annexation
on the ballot. His deadline on
deciding whether to include the
annexation on the ballot is
August 2006.
Soldiers
• Continued from p1
to his face and neck.
assignment that the 916th perThe second platoon of the formed received 30 wounded
company saw plenty of action soldiers while on assignment,
'f}ile on convoy duty and was which demonstrated the danger
e~gaged by the enemy on over of such duty and has made the
50 occasions. To date, the com- 916th grateful that they pulled
pany has been engaged by hos- · through the assignments with
tile forces who have employed comparatively small numbers of
small arms fire, rocket propelled wounded.
grenades, improvised explosive
The comp~y's next assignment will be to provide security
devices and mortars.
The 916th Company has been· at Abu Ghraib prison beginning
assigned to offroad work of late Sept. 1. The prison came to
which has lessened its chances prominence last yeat when
of engagement after several reports of prisoner abuse surmonths of the most dangerous faced and pictures of prisoners
duty in Iraq, convoy security. A being abused by staff at the
separate unit doing the same facility surfaced.
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
FRANKFORT
Commonwealth's attorneys and
county attorneys descended on
Frankfort yesterday to unite in
sending a message to a subcommittee of the Commission on
Sentencing which will be meeting to consider recommendations that would take the teeth
out of felony statutes which
punish criminals for committing
more than one felony within a
five-year period.
The commission on sentencing, which is spearheaded by Lt.
Steve
Pence
and
Gov.
University of Kentucky law professor Robert Lawson, is considering several options which
are aimed at cutting down on the
number of inmates housed in
Kentucky prisons. Chiefly they
will be recommending that persistent felony offender laws be
changed to such a degree that
only armed robbery,murder and
first-degree crimes could be
tracked and used to enhance
sentencing on future offenses.
Attorney General Greg
Stumbo was in Prestonsburg on
Monday and commented on the
issue, saying, "This is one of
those rare instances where
Democrats and Republicans will
agree on an iss1;1e." Stumbo
noted that less than 4 percent of
the state's budget goes to prisons and suggested that tobacco
tax increases would be a better
avenue for supporting the penal
system.
Stumbo hosted the annual
prosecutors convention in
Louisville last month and· said
that the commission's recommendations were "a hot issue."
Prosecutors would be hand-
cuffed by such a law from
obtaining guilty pleas from
defendants who commit a second felony within five years of a
felony con.viction.
In fact, most prosecutors
don't prosecute
persistent
felony offenders, preferring to
use the law to obtain pleas. The
proposed change, they say,
could lessen their bargaining
powers with criminal defendants should the measure be
passed by the legislature.
Stumbo added that under the
proposed change in PFO law,
burglars, drug traffickers and
anyone charged with a seconddegree crime could conceivably
commit the same crime 101
times and still receive a probat-.
ed sentence.
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner added, "It would
be a huge blow to our office and
other felony prosecutors in terms
of our ability to protect the public from career criminals."
Turner went on to note that
voters should feel free to contact
their government representatives about the issue and let
them know, "We don' t want
dangerous criminals on the
street."
'
Stumbo, who serves on the
commission, noted that some of
its points are valid and said he
would endorse a recommendation to start felony theft at $500
rather than the current $300 due
to inflation. He also declared
that he was amenable to measures that would limit jail time
for nonviolent offenders but
confessed that he could not
countenance revising of PFO
statutes and cited that statistics
have borne out that increased
incarceration and laws that
enhance sentences for habitual
offenders have resulted in a
lower national crime rate.
Everyone interviewed about
the commission's meeting does-
n't expect the issue ever getting
to a vote. The general feeling ·
amongst prosecutors and law
enforcement is that politicians
wouldn't want to risk offending
voters by softening their stance
on crune.
Schools
• Continued from p1
However, a few isolated incidents elsewhere in the county
also prompted the board to
approve the motion allowing the
change.
In some cases, the situations
involved children who reside on
the borders of two separate districts and might wish to attenp
one school but are being compelled to enroll in another as
determined by transportation
department boundary alignments.
Parents
who
attended
Monday's meeting informed the
board that buses transporting
students to both schools traveled
past their homes, but drivers had
been allowed only to pick up
certain students, as outlined by
district busing routes. In one
case, a bus allegedly used the
driveway of one family's home
to tum around, but was unable to
pick up the family's children for
transport to the school in which
that bus was traveling due to district routing boundaries.
In response to the various situations,
Assistant
Superintendent Pete Grigsby
told the board, "We can adjust
the transportation system, but
we don't want to get into a
chaotic situatiqn." Grigsby also
said that often more than one
bus might travel the same roadway, but that they were picking
up different classifications of
students. "We have our regull!f
buses, our special needs buses
and our Head Start/preschool
buses," he said. ·
After some discussion of
options, the board ' voted to
approve the motion allowing
parents to switch their children's
schools, with Clark Elementary
School students being allowed
"liberal transport" privileges
due to the special circumstances
of temporary displacement due
to the ongoing construction of
their new school facility.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Worth Repeating ...
"Speak out in acts; the time
for words has passed, and
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- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Time to .wake up
to meth problem
A belated and ineffectual response by the Bush administration to the methamphetamine scourge sweeping the country is evidence of the myopia afflicting the nation's capital.
Too often it seems that if a problem hasn't hit the media
centers of the Noqheast, it doesn't exist. Never mind that 58
percent of the nation's county-levellaw enforcement officials say meth is their biggest problem.
Administration officials appear to have suddenly caught a
·w hiff of that problem. They have proposed $16.2 million for ·
meth treatment programs in seven states and $1 million for
an anti-meth ad campaign. They're also giving lip service to
limiting pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient used in methmaking, in over-the-counter cold remedy sales.
Yet, as Indiana Rep. Mark Souder, Republican chairman
of a House Government Reform subcommittee that oversees
drug control legislation, aptly remarked, "We're looking for
a scream, not a peep."
Worse, White House opposition to moving cold remedies
used in meth-making behind prescription counters could
pre-empt state laws, such as Indiana's, that have helped
reduce the number of meth labs.
The federal government's help is most needed in fighting
international trafficking of meth and drugs used to make meth.
While meth lab seizures have dropped 90 percent in
Oklahoma, the first state to restrict over-the-c-ounter cold
remedies, seizures of smokeable m~tp smuggled frotn
Mexico have increased five-fold in that ·state. The trend· is
expected to hit Indiana.
Mexico imports about 224 tons of bulk pseudoephedrine
powder, even though only 90 to 130 tons are needed for
legitimate use. The rest is converted by Mexican drug car- .
tels into methamphetamine, which accounts for two-thirds of
the meth used in this country.
Meanwhile, well-organized Hispanic gangs are becoming
increasingly involved in a meth trade that eventually will hit
the East Coast.
When it comes to meth, the White House needs to listen
to its friends like Souder and Missouri Sen. Jim Talent,
another Republican whose state has been pummeled by the
drug. As the congressional leaders make clear, a much
tougher stand is needed.
The Indianapolis Star
Capitol Ide as
More than 4,000
offices up for
election in. 2006
Candidates for only 431 of the offices
will have to me paperwork with the secretary of state's office. The others are the
hodgepodge of local offices, from magistrate to property valuation administrator
and city council.
Secretary of State Trey Grayson,
whose office helps directs elections, said
the large numbers raise questions as varied as having polling places accessible to
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
handicapped people to having enough
ASSOCIATED PRESS
space on a voting machine for all the
names.
FRANKFORT -;; From coup.tyAur;;, .. ..G.ray,son said the .• large. .i ields may, ..
veyor to Supreme Court, there wyL~ an, .inflqepc~v.QY}f, partic,ipa.tigJ1 neg~tively ,
unprecedented number of offices on the and positively. The local elec:Aon year in
ballot next,year and election officials are the four-year electoral cycle usually
trying to prepare for the avalanche of brings out the second largest percentage
paperwork and headaches that may of voters behind presidential election
accompany the 2006 cavalcade of candi- years.
dates.
With so many candidates, voters will
A curious confluence will pack the get roun~y encouraged to cast ballots.
ballot with every county and city office, But the crowded ballot may . dissuade
virtually all judicial seats, mos(of the people from sJ,ending the time to get all
General Assembly and Congress. In fact, the way through to the races at the botonly 30 elected offices in Kentucky will tom of the pages.
not be on the ballot next year.
'~It's not so much whether it fits as
, That leaves 4,231 offices to be fllled, how many voters will take the time to go
according to estimates by the Registry of through all the ballot," Grayson said.
Election Finance. The number could "It's our hope that will be offset by all the
change depending on changes in govern- people asking you to vote," Grayson
ment forms and other factors.
said.
And, according to the registry's rule
For example, Grayson said there will
of thumb of roughly two candidates for be 43 judicial races in Jefferson County
every office, there could be more than alone.
9,000 candidates.
Training sessions for county clerks
"It'll be the largest election we've will be held to make sure candidates fill
ever had," said Oldham County Clerk out their filing papers properly. But
Ann Brown.
G.-ayson also acknowledged that failure
4
to properly fill out the relatively simple
forms may have the effect of keeping
candidates off the ballot who maybe
shouldn't be there anyway.
"The burden is not that high. If you
don't get your paperwork right, I think
that's fair to knock you off the ballot,''
Grayson said.
More daunting for candidates is the
paperwork required by the registry,
which keeps track of campaign spending.
There are basically three levels - a
candidate who's going to spend less than
$1,000. who basically has to file only a
piece of paper promising not to exceed
th~t limit; spending from $1 ,000 to
$3,000, which requires an accounting
after the election; and candidates who
spend more than $3,000, who have to file
periodic reports on receipts and expenditures.
In 2002, the last comparable election
year, the registry had 7,343 candidates in
the primary; 4,106 spent less than $1 ,000
and 2,019 spent more than $3,000. The
general election had 7,440 candidates,
with a larger percentage spending under
the reporting limit.
Registry director Sarah Jackson said
the agency will have forums for potential
candidates, treasurers and interested parties in February next year. The 207-page
booklet for candidate spending rules will
be available.
'The rooms will be fuller than usual,"
Ja<;kson predicted.
_.
Mark R. Chellgren is the Frankfort
correspondent for The Associated Press.
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by GOV. ERNIE FLETCHER
A youpg man with a college degree in
hand hits the street looking for his first
full time job. This young man walks into
a state government agency and is told
that in order to be considered for
employmertt he must change his political
party affiliation.
It sounds strange, but it's true·.
How do I know? Because that young
man was .me.
In 1974, I had just graduated from the
University of Kentucky with a degree in
engineering and sought a job with ~e
Transportation Cabinet. I was told m
order to get a job I would have to change
my political party affiliation.
I wasn't hired.
But that story got me thinking ... how
many qualified people have been turned
away from working in state government 1960 at a time when a gallon of gas cost
because of their political affiliation?
24 cents, the price of bread was 20 cents
When my administration took office, a loaf and families were tuning in each
we vowed to level the playing
week to watch a new program
field so the best qualified .,.....,,.........,....__,.,.,=--.....,......,. about a sheriff in North
people could be considered
Carolina - "The Andy Griffith
for employment in state govShow".
~rnment, whether they are
Our state, our country and
Republican, Democrat or
our world have seen many
Independent.
major changes since 1960 The first thing we did was
except in the merit law.
eliminate a political patronThe needs of our citizens
age system that had been in
and how state government
serves them have changed. The
place for years whose prima-·
ry purpose was to have a
available
workforce
has
Gov. Fletcher
· 1aw has
"party boss" in each county
changed. B ut our ment
decide who would get jobs in
not kept up with the changing
state government based on their party times.
The antiquation of our merit system
affiliation.
. When we eliminated the political was first looked at 33 years after its crepatronage system of the past, it created a ation when, in 1993, then Governor
vacuum that is causing us to learn many Brereton Jones established a task force to
lessons and explore ways on how we can study Kentucky's merit law and employimprove the merit employment system in ment system.
Among other things, the task force
our commonwealth.
To know what we needed to do we determined that the merit law was obsofirst had to look at the merit law itself.
(See GOVERNOR, page seven)
The merit ·system itself was created in_
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•Today's teen, women's magazines now
featuring females of all shapes and sizes
by COLLEEN LONG
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among the pages of dazzling
celebrities and rail-thin models
that dominate fashion and teen
magazines is a surprising sight:
young women with thick thighs
and flabby abs.
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In Seventeen,. Teen People,
CosmoGirl! and Teen Vogue are
bathing suit sections partly illustrated by less-than-perfect figures and tips on maximizing
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, assets and minimizing defects.
J
Editors say they are using
\ more average women and fewer
models to reflect changing body
types and to help self-conscious
' teens see that not everyone is
perfect.
"It's not going to help my
reader if we only show girls
who are size 6's," said Atoosa
4 Rubenstein, editor of Seventeen
magazine. "Everyone is beautiful, it's just a matter of confidence, and we try to show that."
Teen People recently featured a story about Brittany
'Harper, a plus-sized 20-year-old
who has competed in and won
several beauty pageants against
average-sized girls in North
Carolina and currently holds the
USA Eastern Miss title. Harper,
from Goldsboro, N.C., said
she's pleased to see more overweight women in magazines.
"I think maybe seeing someone like me in a magazine
~ makes you realize that you don't
have to be skinny to be pretty,"
she said. "People see skinny
girls in magazines and they
think that's what normal is when
it's not the case."
Harper said she started entering the pageants because she
was shy and self-conscious but
now she's happy with her body.
In May 2004, Glamour
Magazine broke a barrier of
sorts by putting the sizable
Queen Latifah on the cover. It
outsold the May 2003 cover
which featured svelte actresses
Halle Berry and Rebecca
Rornijn.
Rubenstein, who joined the
magazine two years ago after
launching CosmoGirl!, said her
priority has been to reflect the
population. She said most of the
girls in the style and beauty sections are not models, and variety
helps illustrate cosmetics for
different body and skin types.
The magazine shows five skin
tones now to reflect different
ethnic groups.
"If you were a South Asian
girl, you would have thought
you dido 't exist in this country if
you looked at magazines,"
Rubenstein said. "Indian girls,
girls from all over were just
being neglected."
Seventeen's casting director
chooses girls in malls, on the
street, and anywhere she can
find them for beauty and fitness
sections. The magazine has
increased newsstand sales by 17
percent in the past two years.
"It doesn't make good business sense to stay the same,"
Rubenstein said. "Girls today
have so many different role
models they wouldn't stand for
it if they only saw the same
thing every time they looked at
Seventeen."
Jane Keltner, fashion news
editor at Teen Vogue, said it's
inspirational for girls to see how
their peers are dressing.
"We try to use all shapes and
sizes, but we're especially interested in their sense of personal
expression and style," Keltner
said.
Teen Vogue picks non-models for snapshot portraits highlighting individual styles, and
also showcases cool bedrooms.
The back-to-school i~sues followed girls in Bostoaand Dallas
as they shopped for clothes and
school supplies.
Emily Weiss, 20, was chosen
to go thrift shopping with the
magazine in her hometown of
Wilton, Conn. She is thin and
pretty, ,but said she was chosen
because of her individual style.
"Women's magazines are
fantastical and highly stylized,"
she said. "For a magazine to
incorporate real fashion from
real people off the street is
done."
Kilbourne said the international obsession with celebrities
also adds to the pressure, making girls believe they should be
able to look like Jennifer
Aniston or Julia Roberts.
"Showing real girls is just
great sociologically," she said.
"Not only does it make more
sense to show how a bathing
suit will transform a person's
body by using a real body, but it
makes women feel like they
aren't alone out there, that they
are beautiful too."
important.,.
Experts are lauding the shift,
but say the ind~try still puts too
much pressure on girls to be thin
and conventionally beautiful.
And there's no question magazines are still putting thin, beautiful celebrities on their covers.
Mary Pipher, author of a
book about teen girls and body
image, "Reviving Ophelia,"
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To The Citizens of Floyd County:
The Business Community of Martin appreciates
your support in the past, and we now need it more
desperately than ever.
Several of our businesses have been run out of
town because of the deplorable conditions that now
exist, which are devaluating our property and
businesses. We are trying to rectify the situation,
even if we must go the courts.
The Army Corps · of Engineers, Mayor, and City
Council continue to haul dirt and debris through town
and also not allow parking on the streets. This is
totally unacceptable to us and it's causing our customers to by-pass Martin and go elsewhere to trade!
Recently, Country Village, 4-Seasons and Mountain
Methodist Mission Store have moved, and other
businesses have closed.
Martin, because of this inhumane treatment, and
unjustifiable action by.the City Fathers, has become
on most instances a DUST BOWL or MUD HOLE
which is u·nsafe and unhealthy for its inhabitants and
businesses. Homes and businesses have already
been damaged by thousands of dollars.
Please help us by continuing to trade with us. You
can help us win this fight. We will not stop until those
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Community Calendar
Calendar items will
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as space permits
Editor's note: To announce your
community event, you may handdeliver your item to The Floyd
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263 S.
Prestonsburg; or mail to: The
Floyd County Times, P.O. Box
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or fax to 606-886-3603; or email
to:
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be taken over the telephone. All
items will be placed on a firstcome, first-serve basis as space
permits.
Harrison-Innis Reunion
A reunion of the HarrisonInnis families will be held on
Sept. 3, at Allen Park, beginning
at 11 a.m.
Mead Family Reunion
For the descendants of H.F.
Mead. To be held August 27,
from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., at the
Pines Building, Jenny Wiley
State Resort Park. Bring own
picnic lunch. Lunch will be
served at noon, dinner at 5 p.m.
30 year Class Reunion
Allen Central High School
Class of 1975 will hold a . class
reunion on September 3, 2005,
from 6-12 ; 6-7. Registration is at
7:30 and dinner will be at the
Holiday Inn, Prestonsburg.
Hale Family Reunion
The John M . Hale Family
Reunion will be held on Sunday,
Sept. II, at the Greenwich Coon
Hunter's Club, in Greenwich,
Ohio, beginning at noon.
Please bring a covered dish.
Tableware and drinks will beprovided. For more info., call Alma
Hopkins at 4I9-752-6906.
Thornsberry-Mulllns Reunion
Will be held for descendants
of Alamander and "Lucy
(Mullins) Thornsberry, on Aug.
27, at the Dewey Dam, Shelter
#2. Lunch to be served at 12:30
p.m. Covered dishes and soft
drinks welcome. For more info.,
call Joyce Blackburn at 87499I9, Flotean Caudill at 4472861, Clara Slone at 447-2863,
or Nadean Thornsberry at 4472966.
Floyd County Retired
Teachers
Will host a meeting at the
East Kentucky Science Center,
located on the campus of the Big
Sandy Comm. and Tech.
College, on Sept. 1, at 10 a.m.
East KY State Fair - 4-H
Projects
Any Floyd County student
who completed a 4-H project in
2005 may submit the project to
the East Kentucky State Fair, to
be held Aug. 30 thru Sept. 5, at
the Thunder Ridge Complex.
or
visit:
Call
886-2668
www.eastkystatefair.corri
for
entry details.
Open Animal Exhibits will
also be conducted and any student who has an animal (dog,
rabbit, chicken or goat) may
exhibit the animal at the fair.
Also, any Floyd County student, grades 3-12, may compete
in the Talent Show to be held at
the fair.
You may contact Floyd
County Extension Agent for 4-H,
Chuck Stamper, for more details.
"Creation Seminar Sunday"
Event to be held Sept. 11, at
Prater Creek Baptist Church,
Banner. Mike Riddle, of the
"Answers in Genesis" organization, will conduct seminars on
Biblical Creationism. For more
info., call Pastor J.B. Hall at 8743222; email to: pcbc@pcbaptist.org.
Hill Country Dancers
FREE square and line dance
classes for the month of Sept.,
beginning Sept. 8, in Pikeville, at
Hambley Athletic Center, across
from Pikeville High School. For
more info., call Linda Frasure at
285-3994; Novella Froman at
432-5834; or Don Schul at 7895712.
WHS Class of '59
UNITE meeting announcement
The Wayland High School
Class of 1959 will hold their 46th
year reunion on Sept. 3, at May
Lodge, Jenny Wiley State Park.
For further information, email to:
pslone@ charter.net.
The Floyd County Coalition
of UNITE has changed its
monthly meeting time and place.
The group now· meets the first
Thursday of every month on the
BSCTC Prestonsburg campus,
room 153 of the Johnson
Building. The entire community
is invited and encouraged to
attend.
2005 Martin County
Harvest Festival Cuties &
Beauties Pageant
To be held Oct. 6, at 6 p.m., at
the Roy F. Collier Community
Center, Inez.Ages 0-11 mos. up
to "Mrs." (anyone married or
with children), females; Ages 011 mos. up to 6 years, males.
Contestants will receive gift
bags, t-shirts, participation
crowns and awards. More info.,
call 298-0020 or 298-4850. Call
now for details on how to enter
free! Sponsored by the Inez
Volunteer Fire Department.
Jenny Wiley Bike Tours
Held every Saturday morning, 8 a.m. Meet at the flags in
front of the Jenny Wiley
Convention
Center/Marina.
Group will ride to spillway
where a $6.95 breakfast buffet
will be available. Fun ride at a
relaxed pace. Make sure bikes
are in good working condition
and be ready to ride by 8:30a.m.
Others may also arrive at the
Spillway site to enjoy breakfast
or to pick up riders who do not
wish to ride back to the starting
point.
More information, call 8868604 or email: profitnesscntr@bellsouth.net. You may. also
visit www.multisports to view
and print a map of area cycling
routes.
Parsons Family Reunion
Reunion for the descendants
of Isaac and Louisa Parsons will
be held on Sept. 4 , from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m., at the Isaac Parsons
Cemetery, located on Parsons
Branch, off Rt. 979. Please bring
a covered dish; meal will be
served at I p.m. All family and
friends welcome. For more
info., call E. J. Parsons at 865426-7585.
Rotary Club
Local Rotary Clup holds
meetings every Thursday, at
noon, at the Student Grill, on the
BSCTC campus. Open to business and professional men and
women who live or work in
Floyd County. More info., contact Mike Vance at 886-2075.
Sept. 17 - "Living Well with
Diabetes," 9-11:30 a.m., Meeting
PlaceA&B.
For more info., contact
Highlands Educational Services
Dept. at 886-7424.
Hughes Family Reunion
For the families of Mathias
Hughes, Linda E. and Jake
Marsillett, Mary Darcus and
John Wright, Sally and James
Marsillett, John Malcom and
Sally Hughes, Jim Henry and Ida
Hughes. Reunion will be held on
Sept. 4, at the home of Delmer
Holbrook, located at 143
Holbrook Hollow Rd., in
Prestonsburg. For more info.,
call886-8481.
Neighborhood Watch
Auxier Lifetime
Learning Center
FREE GED classes, Thesdays
and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.; may work with computers
during this time. Call for more
info.
Joy Services - Christ United
Methodist Church of Allen
Special musical services:
Aug. 28 - Billie, Betty &
Linda, 6 p.m.
HRMC Community Calendar
Aug. 25 - "Living Well with
Diabetes" support group meeting, 5-6 p.m., Meeting Place A &
B, medical office bldg.
Sept. 10- Child Birth classes,
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Meeting
Place A& B.
Sept. 13 - Sr. Advantage, 1011:30 a.m., Prestonsburg Senior
Citizen Center.
The Mud Creek Neighborhood Watch group will meet the
third Thursday of each month, at
7 p.m. All are invited to attend
meetings.
. Little Mud Comm. Center
The Little Mud Community
Center Board of Directors are
currently in the process of locating photos of old historic sites of
the area. The pictures are to be
added to the center's historic
wall. If you have any such pictures, or are interested in more
information concerning this project, call478-1477 or 478-2479.
ple/$25 for single. For more
info., contact Debbie Hall at 304757-2918
or
Dochallparsons@ charter.net
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Over 50? Need a friend?
Then
check
out
our
Friendship Club for seniors.
Share a meal, see a movie, take a
walk, have a chat. Meet with
other seniors at a local location.
Come on out, and let's talk. For
more info., call 889-9620. The
Friendship Club is not a dating
service.
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exerc1se
Classes will be held Monday,~
Wednesday, and Friday, at 9:30,
at the Presbyterian Church in
Prestonsburg. Classes are held
Monday,
Wednesday,
and
Thursday, at 11 a.m. at the old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788, for
more information.
'Earn While You Learn'
The Big Sandy Area C.A.F.
office is taking applications for
its "Senior Training Program." '.
You must be 55 or older to apply.~
In Floyd, call 886-2929,
Johnson,
call
789-6515,
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Host, Hacker appear before grand i
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT- Two of the
highest-profile members of
Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration appeared Tuesday before
• the special grand jury that is
investigating state government
personnel practices.
Commerce Secretary Jim
Host and Ralph Hacker, the former radio voice of University of
Kentucky athletics, were in the
grand jury room only briefly
and apparently took their
lawyer's advice to not answer
questions.
Host, a former Republican
candidate for lieutenant governor in 1971, spent some time as
Fletcher's de facto communications director. He has been a
public face on the administration and has been the prime
mover behind the "Unbridled
Spirit" campaign to put a
"brand" on Kentucky's various
marketing efforts.
Host also appears periodically in the stacks of e-mails that
have been filed as evidence in
the investigation as recommending someone for a job or as a
contact.
Hacker, who is a part-time
executive assistant to Fletcher,
is also mentioned periodically in
the e-mails.
"Neither has been told he is a
target," said Lexington attorney
Joe Terry, who represents both
men.
Also appearing Tuesday was
Greg Meredith, the district highways
engineer
for
the
Transportation Cabinet in
Bowling Green. Meredith, who
made a previous appearance
before the grand jury, opposed a
hiring in his district office that
was completed over his objection.
According to court documents, Marjorie Ann Stewart
was hired as an administrative
manager in September 2005.
Stewart was identified as the ·
Governor
• Continued from p4
lete and ineffective; ,programs
were not reflective of modem
practices; statues and regulations were confusing and rigid,
thus impeding the ability of our
government to recruit, develop
and retain a competent and
motivated work force.
Twelve years have passed
since that report and yet these
very problems still exist today
- 45 years after the merit system was created.
Because many in my admin~ istration lacked the knowledge
and expertise to manage in our
out-of-date merit system, I
acknowledge that some mistakes were made. I myself have
learned a lot about the merit
system and know more about
the system now than I did when
I took office.
We provided our management team instruction on the
merit system and how it
worked.
Recently we developed a
. centralized referral system
within our Personnel Cabinet to
~ ensure the large amount of recommendations
could
be
reviewed and directed to the
appropriate agency.
And, I appointed a bi-partisan task force to review the
merit system as it currently
stands, address the 1993 study
and make any recommended
changes and implementation
that are needed to the merit law.
Recent events have put the
spotlight on Kentucky's merit
system but I've stated my belief
many times that the overwhelming majority of state workers,
I both merit and non-merit, are
hard working, well intended
and want to do a good job.
That is why for the sake of
protecting our merit employees
and improving how we serve
the commonwealth, it's time for
us to take a hard look on how
we can improve Kentucky's
merit system.
Otherwise, like that show
about the sheriff in Mayberry,
the current problems with the
merit system will be constantly
in re-runs.
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each office once a month and
said that they are serving their
purpose.
"We do a lot of outreach to
seniors," Stumbo said. "They
are the group most targeted by
scamrners who use phone calls
and the internet to purport
scams aimed at taking their life
savings."
Stumbo r.elated that his staff
at each office travel to senim
centers and let groups know
about the latest scams and what
they should, in general, be on
the look out for.
Stumbo also has several
Kentucky
Bureau
of
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throughout the offices and they
have proven vital in investigat-
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Drowning
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towards shutting down methods
of abusing prescription drugs,
such as internet pharmacies and
doctors who indiscriminately
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Stumbo also noted that the
office was put here for better
access to the "blue collar" community his office wishes to
serve.
"We stay busy here,"
Stumbo said.
Stumbo encouraged anyone
who has been targeted by scammers to visit his office, adding
that they can expect results.
"They can come here and we.
will get on the case and get
them some relief," Stumbo
said.
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chairwoman of the Edmonson Tuesday, motions to dismiss
County Republican Party. Her some of the 19 misdemeanor
initial salary of $43,401 was charges against Fletcher's
increased to $57,499 shortly deputy chief of staff, Richard
after her hiring, "as this is what Murgatroyd, were delayed in
she was purportedly promised Franklin County District Court.
by an administration official,"
Murgatroyd's lawyer, Jack
the documents said.
Smith of Louisville, said he has
Meredith said Stewart should been given some 300,000 docunot be retained permanently ments by prosecutors in
because her job performance, response to his discovery
"particularly Jack of computer motion. "It's good for any
skills," the court records said.
State Highway Engineer
Marc Williams ordered that
Stewart should get a permanent
position over Meredith's objection. Williams apparently told
investigators he made the pro- with him actually got hold of
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front page story about the around 12 to 15 feet, he said,
Stewart matter and to avoid a and the victim just kept going
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James Edward
Adkins
James Edward Adkins, age
66, of Martin, husband of Pat
Cochrane Adkins, passed away
Monday, August 22, 2005, at
his residence.
He was born July 6, 1939, in
Harold, the son of the late
Garfield Adkins and Flora
Tackett Adkins Conn. He was a
retired sales representative for
Rus Rental Corporation, and a
present employee of Hall
Funeral Home, in Martin. He
was a member of the First
Baptist Church in Martin, and
an U.S. Army veteran.
Survivors include his wife,
Pat; one daughter, Debbie Lynn
(Gary) Wells; two grandsons:
Austin James Wells and Jarod
Lee Wells, all of Reynoldsburg,
Ohio; four brothers: John
(Nova)
Adkins
of
Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Richard
Conn of Prestonsburg, Jerry
Garfield (Jean) Adkins of
Regina, and Roger Greer of
Pikeville; four sisters: Janice
(Norris) Salisbury of Warsaw,
Indiana,
Kathy
(Ernie)
Dudleson of Stanton, Beth Ann
(Ben) Mullins of Printer, Shirley
Adkins (Kenny) Buck of
Reynoldsburg, Ohio, and sister
and brother-in-law, Aggie and
Dave
Goodrich
of
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
He was preceded in death by
his parents and two brothers:
Larry Adkins and Phillip Conn.
Funeral services for James
Edward Adkins will be conducted Thursday, August 25, at 11
a.m., at the Hall Funeral Home,
in Martin, with Clergyman Ted
Shannon officiating.
Burial will follow · in the
Salisbury Cemetery, in Hunter,
under the professional care of
the Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
000
Hazel Campbell
Hazel Campbell; age 91, of
Wiggins, Mississippi, formerly
of Martin, went to be with our
Lord Jesus Christ, Saturday,
August 20, 2005, at the Stone
County Hospital, Wiggins,
Mississippi, following
an
extended illness.
She was preceded in death, in
1975, by Wesley Campbell, her
husband of 44 years. She was a
member of the Free Will Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Campbell was born
February 7, 1914, at Dock, the
daughter of the late George and
Nettie Pitts Wright of Bucks
Branch, in Martin.
She is survived by her son,
Julian V. Campbell and wife,
Billie, of Wiggins, Mississippi;
three granddaughters: Kimberly
Toney and husband, Gray, of
Petal, Mississippi, Vonnie Werth
and husband, Fritz, of Cocoa,
Florida, and Tracy Dee
M agouirk and husband, Jimmy,
of Houston, Texas; l1 greatgrandchildren: William Toney
and wife, Lora, Alison Toney,
Stormie
Cardwell,
Forest
Cardwell, Mistie Cardwell,
LCPL James Lee Magouirk, US
M arine Corps, Julie Ann
Jenny
Marie
M agouirk,
Magouirk, Joshua Magouirk,
Jonathan Magouirk, and Jason
M agouirk ; one great-greatgranddaughter,
Kaiyenna
Cardwell; four sisters: Edna
Bradley of Harold, Myrtle
Johnson
of
Indianapolis,
Indiana, Daisy Barnett of Bucks
Branch, Martin, and Mae
Johnson of Marion, Indiana; one
brother, Bill Buck Wright of
Warsaw, Indiana; one sister-inMrs. Bob
(Tessie)
law,
Campbell of Garrett; and many
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by
two brothers: Edward Wright
and Eugene Wright; and one sister, Lura Wright Hubbard.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin, on
Saturday, August 27, at 1
o'clock p.m.
Burial will be at the Davidson
Memorial Cemetery .in Ivel,
beside her husband, Wesley
Campbell.
Visitation services were held
at the Moore Funeral Home in
Wiggins,
Mississippi,
on
Monday, August 22, for friends
and family members. Visitation
services will be held at the
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
on Friday, August 26, at 6:00
p.m.
(Paid obituary)
000
Lucille Osb.o rn Davis
Lucille Osborn Davis, 95, of
Prestonsburg, died Friday,
August 19, 2005, at the
Prestons-burg Health Care
Center.
Born June 30, 1910, in Floyd
County, she was the daughter of
the late William Osborn and
Nora Allen Osborn. She was a
homemaker, and was formerly
employed by the Floyd County
Sheriff's Department, Martin
Rexall Drug Store, and I.
Richmond Company. She was a
member of First Presbyterian
Church, Prestonsburg, and a
member of the Prestonsburg
Woman's Club.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Richard "Dick"
Davis.
Surviv~rs include one daughter, Betty Davis Francis of
Prestonsburg; two sisters; Mary
Margaret Hyden Clark of
Prestonsburg, and Gertrude
Hyden Branham of Allen; one
brother, Allen Lee Hyden of
Milton, West Virginia; two
granddaughters: Helen Ann
Vickers (Garry) of Lancaster,
and Carol Susan Martin (Bill) of
Versailles; four great-grandchildren: Sarah Ousley (Shawn),
Paul P. Burchett Jr. (Erin), Brad
Burchett (Jenny), ·and Brooke
Burch (Brian); and one greatgranddaughter-in-law, Tiffany
M. Vickers; and 10 great-greatgrandchildren.
She was preceded in death by
two daughters: Sylvia Helen
Davis and Nora Ann Long; and
three brothers: Dr. Joe Taylor
Hyden, Thomas Kit Hyden, and
John R. Hyden; one grandchild,
Rickey Davis, and one greatgrandchild, Shadrick Vickers.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, August 22, at 1
p.m., at the First Presbyterian
Cliurch, Prestonsburg, with Dr.
Floyd Price officiating.
Interment was at the Davis
Family
Cemetery,
in
Prestonsburg.
Contribution suggested to the
First Presbyterian Church, 1430
N. Lake Dr., Prestonsburg.
The family has entrusted
arrangements to the Carter
Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers: Paul
Burchett Jr., Brad Burchett,
Shawn Ousley, Eddie Clark,
Taylor Clark,, Joey Hyden,
Johnny Burke Jr., Tyler Burke,
and Josh Hyden.
Honorary: Bill Martin, Garry
Vickers, Allen Lee Hyden, Ed
Clark, Harold Cooley, Robert
MarshaD., Stacy Marshall, Alan
Jo Hyden, Steve Allen, James
Porter, Frankie Porter, Kevin
Porter, Jack Wysong, Trent
Owens, Jerry Osborn, Ricky
Osborn, Steve Osborn, Mike
Osborn, Tommy Hyden, Ted
Osborn, Isaac Fitzpatrick, Jack
Hyden, Ralph Davis and Floyd
(Paid obituary)
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a homemaker, and a member of
the Lower Toler Church of
Christ, in Harold.
Survivors include two daughters: Eula H. Scott of
Kissimmee, Florida, and Peggy
A (Lowell) Steele of Pikeville;
two sisters: Zelia Mae Salisbury
of Ivel, and Berniece S. Spears
of Boldman; one grandson, Joe
H. Steele of Stanville; and many
nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband,
she was preceded in death by
one
daugher,
Cellavell
Hamilton; two brothers: Dewey
Salisbury and Thomas S.
Salisbury; and one sister, Gracie
S. Hunt.
Funeral services for Delcie S.
Hamilton were conducted
Sunday, August 21, at 11 a.m.,
at the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, in Martin, with
Clergymen Willie Meade and
Joe Meade officiating.
Burial was in the Davidson
Memorial Gardens, in !vel,
under the professional care of
the Hall Funeral Home.
Vi.sitation was at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
ODD
Donald Mack Ratliff
Donald Mack Ratliff, age 82,
of Printer, passed from this life
on Monday morning, August
22, 2005, in the Pikeville
Medical Center.
He was born on February 23,
1923, in Pike County, the son of
the late Nelse and Addie Adkins
Ratliff Hunt.
He was a retired coal miner,
and a member of the Allen
Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mabel Ernestine Cole Ratliff;
one son, Terry Douglas Ratliff
of Hunter; two daughters: Judith
Sharon Music of Hager Hill and
Karen Lynn Ratliff Smith of
Banner; daughters-in~law: Lula
Ratliff, Nancy Ratliff, and
Dorothy Ratliff; grandchildren:
Cheryl, Terry, Mike, James,
Darwin, April, Crystal, Nick,
Elizabeth, and Ellen; eight
great-grandchildren; and one
great-great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by
two sons: Jack D. Ratliff and
Gary Darwin Ratliff; one brother, Ehrman Ratliff; two sisters:
Lillian Troxler and Daryl
Barrett.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, August 24,
at 1 p.m., in the Hall Funeral
Home Chapel, in Martin, with
Arnold Turner Jr., officiating.
Burial will be in the Davidson
Memorial Gardens, in lvel.
(Paid obituary)
and son-in-law, Mary Beth and
Pallbearers:
Jimmy ter of the late Alvin and Liza t
Jay Henthorne, Wooster, Ohio, a Blackburn, Johnny Heinze, Bryant Flannery. She was a ,
son John Phillip Sammons of Jimmy Ray Key, Mitchell homemaker, and a member of 1
Prestonsburg; and three grand- Williams, Tommy Hale, Steve the Emmanuel Full Gospel~
sons, whom she adored: Jason Walters, and Rick Moore.
Church.
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Fitzgerald Henthorne, Jonathan
(Paid obituary)
She was preceded in death by 1
Vance Henthorne, and Jesse
her husband, George D. Tackett. ~
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Vance Sammons, and a grandSurvivors include a son and
daughter-in-law, Heather K . Brenda Kaye Casebolt daughter-in-law: Scott and a
Henthorne.
Tammy Tackett of Craynor; and 1
Stewart
Marge was preceded in death
two grandchildren: Amby and .,
Brend~
Kaye
Casebolt
by her husband, John P., who
Dustin Tackett.
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died, June 3, 2005; and two Stewart, 52, of Hi Hat, died
In addition to her parents and ~
brothers, Joe B. Vance and Saturday, August 20, 2005, at husband, she was preceded in
the Pikeville Medical Center.
James E. Vance.
death by a daughter, Marsha
Born August 12, 1953, in
In her younger years, Marge
Tackett; two brothers: Leon
had an active social calendar, Larkslane, (Knott County), she Flannery and Eugene Flannery; ~
loved to dance, especially the was the daughter of Della Hall and two sisters: Christine HalL
jitterbug. She was a cheerleader Casebolt of Mousie, and the late and Dayphne Flannery.
at Pikeville College in 1937, Dallas Casebolt. She was a cook
Funeral services were held ~
and in later years continued her at McDowell ARH; and a mem- .Sunday, August 21, at 1 p.m., at n
education, and graduated from ber of the Pine Grove Baptist the· Nelson-Frazier Funeral l1
Church at Hi Hat.
Pikeville College in 1963.
Home, in Martin, with Larry ;J
She is survived by her husMarge was an avid reader,
Tackett officiating.
T
and imparted her love of books band, Ronnie Stewart.
Burial was in the Davidson 5
Other survivors include a
to her children, grandchildren,
Memorial Gardens, in !vel , I
and countless "new readers," daughter, Tracie Renee Stewart under the direction of Nelson- ~
whom sqe introduced to the (Jeremy) of Hi Hat; a grandson: Frazier Funeral Home.
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world through her gift of books. Joshua Craig May; a brother,
Visitation was at the funeral ,
She was a founding member of Rickey Casebolt of Somerset; home.
(Paid obituary) ;
the "Ladies of the Club" book four sisters: Geneva Casebolt of
1
club of Floyd County. She Pikeville, Wilma Terwilliger of
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revealed in her love of books, Seattle, Washington, Harriet
history, and especially her Campbell of Mousie, and Irene
beloved Mountains. Marge West of Newport News,
drew her strength from the Virginia.
. In addition to her father, she
mountains, and the culture and
traditions of Eastern Kentucky. was preceded in death by a son,
She embodied these traditions in Ronald Craig Stewart; and sevher own life, and passed on her eral brothers and sisters.
Funeral services were conlove of storytelling, quilting,
and mountain crafts to all she ducted Tuesday, August 23, at 1
knew.
p.m., at the Nelson-Frazier
Marge and John P. were mar- Funeral Home, in Martin, with
ried 65 years, and lived in Rodney Mosley officiating.
Burial was in the Stewart
Martin for 53 of those years.
Martin, Ky.
Marge taught 4th grade at Family Cemetery, in Hi Hat,
Sunday School ........10 a.m.
Martin Elementary for more under the direction of NelsonMorning Worship .....11 a.m.
than 20 years. She loved chil- Frazier Funeral Home.
Sunday Night .............6 p.m.
Visitation was at the funeral
dren and was passionate about
Wednesday Service ..7 p.m.
education. She was a member of home, with nightly services at 7
the Retired Floyd County p.m.
Teachers Association, The
Active pallbearers: Micheal
Maytown Homemakers Club, Stewart, Matthew Stewart,
and was a Past Worthy Matron Jeffrey Mullins, Barry Casebolt,
of the Eastern Star, .Adah Mike Casfbolt, Ricky Stegall,
Chapter 24. Marge was also an Eric Capebolt, and ,J'ames
active and beloved member of Tackett.
the Martin Church of Christ.
Honorary pallbearers: Josh
Visitation was Saturday, May, Jeremy May, Jacob
August 20th, from 5:00 till 9:00 Hamilton,
Harry Stewart,
p.m., at the Hall Funeral Home, Randall Stewart, Jerry May,
in Martin.
Fred Luxmore, Ricky Casebolt,
Funeral
services
were Ernie Casebolt and Rod Foley.
Sunday, August 21, at 2:00p.m.,
(Paid obituary)
at the Hall Funeral Home, with
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Gary W. Mitchell officiating.
Burial was in Davidson
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Unda Gail Tackett
Memorial Gardens at I vel.
Linda Gail Tackett, 55, of
n
In lieu of flowers, contribu- Beaver, died Thursday, August
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tions may be made to the chari~ 18, 2005, at the McDowell
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Martin Church of Christ care.
Building Fund, Box 724,
Masses: 5 p.m., Sat. ; 11:15 a.m.
Born December 5, 1949, in
Sunday
Martin, Ky. 41649.
Pike County, she was the daugh-
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Card of Thanks
The family of Mable Ray Willis would like to express our
heartfelt appreciation to all those friends, neighbors, and loved
ones who helped to comfort us during our time of sorrow.
Thanks to all those who sent flowers or spoke kind words. We
would like to send a special thanks to · Clergyman Ronnie
Chaffms for his comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for
their assistance in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home for
their caring and professional service. All yoQ.r thoughts and
prayers will never be forgotten.
THE FAMILY OF MABLE RAY WILLIS
In Memory of
Carolyn Stumbo
(Happy Birthday, Aug. 25)
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Marjorie Vance
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Delcie S. Hamilton, age 96, of
Harold, widow of Millard F.
Hamilton, passed away Friday,
August 19, 2005, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center,
Prestonsburg.
She was born November 4,
1908, in Harold, the daughter of
the late Lack Salisbury and
Cassie King Salisbury. She was
Marjorie Vance Sammons, 87,
beloved mother and grandmother, passed away at her home following a period of declining
health.
Born April 12, 1918, in Floyd
County. She was the daughter of
German and Mary Beverly
Vance.
She is survived by a daughter
Card of Thanks
The family of Hansel S. Bradley would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all those who helped in any way during the loss
of our loved one. A special thanks to all those who sent flowers,
food, or spoke a kind word of sympathy to our family. A special
thanks to Clergyman Jim Smith for his comforting words, the
Sheriff's Department for their assistance in traffic control, and the
Hall Funeral Home of Martin, Ky., for their professional and courteous service. All your thoughts and prayers were a great comfort
to our family.
THE FAMILY OF HANSELS. BRADLEY
My spirit will remain with you,
every single day.
Appearing as a rainbow,
or an ocean wave at play.
I'm in the gentle rains that fall,
and in the morning dew.
All you see that's beautiful,
reflects my love for you.
Card of Thanks
The family of Sadie P. Shepherd would like to
express our sincere appreciation to all the relatives,
friends and neighbors who helped to comfort us during
our time of loss. A special thanks to Clergyman Ronnie
Chaffins for his comforting words, the Sheriff's
Department f~r their assistance in traffic control, and
the Hall Funeral Home for their kind and professional
care.
I'm safely home in Heaven,
though I know you miss me so.
The love I've always felt for you,
within my heart still flows.
The family of Georgia Ann Vanover Newman would like to
acknowledge, with heartfelt appreciation, all those who helped in
any way during the recent loss of our loved one. Thank 'you all so
much for the food, flowers, and all the acts of kindness shown to
our family. We especially want to thank Clergyman Bobby Isaac for
his comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance
in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home, for providing dignified and courteous service. All your thoughts and prayers will never
be forgotten.
THE FAMILY OF GEORGIA ANN VANOVER NEWMAN
I didn't mean to cause you pain,
my time had simply come.
The work that I was meant to do,
on earth had all been done.
I'm safely home in Heaven,
where eternal peace is mine.
And where, when God has called
you, too;-1'11 be forever Thine.
-.
We love and miss you,
Clark, Tony, Blsh, Karh1, Kdrla,
and family
�WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
24, 2005 • A9
Calendar
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call 432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call 638-4067.
Interested In new job training?
Are you a senior citizen on a
fixed income struggling with
soaring medical bills and living
expenses? Could you use some
extra spending money but don't
~ow how to get back into the
workforce?
If you are at least age 55, the
Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP)
may be able to help. Earn extra
money, learn new skills, and help
your community at the same
time! To find out more, call:
886-2929.
External Diploma Program
Kentucky residents age 25
and older can earn a high school
diploma by demonstrating skills
irarned on the job or in raising a
family. Flexible scheduling is
provided and confidentiality
maintained. Classes are held at
the
Carl
D.
Perkins
Rehabilitation
Center,
in
Thelma, Mon. thru Fri., with
evening classes on Thursday.
EDP classes are also held at the
Mullins Learning Center, in
Pikeville, on Tuesdays, from
4:30-8:30 p.m. Contact Andy
Jones at 606-788-7080, or 800443-2187, ext. 186, or Linda
Bell, at ext. 160 to make an
tf?pointment.
GED classes are also available.
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
at Christ United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg: 3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
Cliffside Community Room.
David: 1st Monday, 1 p.m., at
St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin: 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m.,
Martin Church of Christ.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
Office.
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
p.m., Maytown First Baptist
Church.
Nimble Thimble Quilt Guild:
lst/3rd Wednesdays, 10 a.m.,
Extension Office.
Prestonsburg: 2nd Tuesday,
1:30 p.m., Extension Office.
South Prestonsburg:
3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home of members (call 886-2668 for info.)
Looking For
a Support Group?
• Alzheimer's Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday of
each month at the First
Presbyterian Church (near
Jerry's Restaurant), at 6 p.m. For
more info., call Dana Caudill at
886-0265, or Jane Bond at
FCIID. NOTE: Group will
NOT MEET in July or August.
• Alzheimer's Association,
East-em KY Regional Office 24-hour Helpline, call 1-800272-3900 for emotional support,
local resources, and other information.
• MS Support Group - Meets
third Monday of each month at
7:00p.m. at the Seton Complex,
Martin. Offers group support for
MS patients and their caregivers.
• Overeater's Anonymous
(O.A.) - Meets each Monday, at
3:30 p.m., at the St. Martha
Catholic Church, Water Gap
Road. For more info., call 8862513.
• US TOO! Prostate Cancer
Survivors Support Group·- For
all men with prostate cancer and
their families. Group meets the
3rd Thursday of each month, at 6
p.m., at the Ramada Inn,
Paintsville.
• Sept. 15 - Prostate Health Dr. Michael McDonald.
• Oct. 20 - Regaining Sexual
Health- Jeffrey Goyer.
•
Nov. 17 - Holiday
Celebration. Questions or concerns? Call487-8360.
• Community Weight Loss
Support Group
Meets
Thursday's at 6:30 p.m., at the
Martin Community Center. For
more info., call377-6658. Those
who have had gastric bypass
surgery most especially welcome
to attend.
Meetings being
·offered as support to anyone
needing extra support in dealing
with weight loss.
• Domestic Violence Hotline
- 24-hour Crisis Line manned by
Certified Domestic Violence
counselors. Call 886-6025, or 1800-649-6605.
Remember,
"I,.ove Doesn't Have to Hurt."
• Kentucky Baptist Homes
fot Children - Free, confidential
assistance for unplanned pregnancy concerns. Talk with someone who cares about you and
your baby. Call 1-800-9285242.
• Disabled?- You may be eligible for grant money to assist in
your daily living. For an application or more information, call .
886-4326..
• A.S.K. (Adoption Support
for Kentucky) - Support group
for all adoptive parents (public,
private, international, and kinship care), foster parents and all
others interested in adoption. To
be held the ftrst Monday of each
month, at the Department for
Community Based Services
office, 1009 North Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg, from 6-8 p.m.
Childcare will not be provided.
For more information, contact
Dedra Slone, adoptive parent
liaison, at432-4110 or422-7927,
or email to: doslone@eastky.net.
Center for Rural Development
!J.olds regional forum in P'burg
The Center for Rural
Develop-ment held a regional ·
forum at Big Sandy Area
Development District on August
17. The Prestonsburg event was
the second of four planned
across the region to determine
how The Center can be of
greater assistance in its 42com'lty service area.
Elected officials and other
community representatives were
invited to attend and discuss
how The Center can help
lnprove the quality of life for
citizens in their communities. A
presentation on Center facilities
and services was given by The
Center President and CEO,
Lonnie Lawson. In addition,
Emily Fox, a community liaison
for The Center, gave an enthusiastic presentation as she recalled
her experience as a Rogers
Scholar, a key youth leadership
program initiated by The Center.
Some items of discussion
included how The Center can be
beneficial in helping communities improve education opportunities, utilize preventative medicines for diseases prevalent to
Southern and Eastern Kentucky,
and provide models and traininp
for' effective ' Ieadersnt~. Cenier
staff
fbtlow. each ' forutn 1
with discussions to determine
priority issues established by the
group and outline proposals to
address those issues.
Anyone who was unable to
attend, but would like to submit
questions or comments, can do
so by logging on to The Center
website at www.centertech.com
and clicking on "contact us."
Counties included in this
forum region were: Floyd,
Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Leslie,
Letcher, Magoffin, Martin,
Perry, and Pike.
The Center for Rural
will
Development in Somerset,
Kentucky is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide leadership that stimulates
innovative and sustainable economic development solutions
and a better 'way of life in
Southern and Eastern Kentucky.
In its 42-county service region,
Tll.e Center provides innovative
programs in leadership development, advanced telecommunications technology, public safety
and a variety of performing arts
and cultural events. For more
information about The Center,
its programs and a calendar of
events, visit www.centertech.
com.
• PARENTS! - Contact the
Big Sandy Area Community
Action Program, Inc. to find out
about child care services in your
area, the STARS for KIDS NOW
licensing standards program,
and how you can earn an income
by staying home with your own
children while caring for the
children of others. Find out more
by calling Cheryl Endicott at
886-1280, or 888-872-7227 (toll
free).
• East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
Homeschoolers -Will hold
monthly meetings at the
Paintsville Recreation Center.
For more information, call Trudy
at 889-9333, or 297-5147.
Everyone welcome.
•
Narcotics Anonymous
(NA)- Each Wednesday, from 78 p.m., in the Atrium Conference
Room, 2nd floor, May Tower,
Pikeville Methodist Hospital.
For more info., contact Chris
Cook at 606-433-1119 or christophercook@hotmail.com.
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Weight Loss Surgery
Program for Morbid Obesity
at Three Rivers Medical Center
For many people who are 100 pounds or more overweight and
have a body mass index over 40, bariatric surgery for weight loss
may offer hope for success.
The procedure for people with morbid obesity is generally recommended
because of the improvement in physical and mental health that can be
achieved with the weight loss.
Left untreated, morbid obesity is a significant risk to life, and can
lead to such conditions as high blood pressure, heart failure and
heart attack, stroke, diabetes, certain cancers, sleep apnea, acid
reflux, and other medical concerns. It can also be detrimental to
emotional and psychological health.
Bariatric Surgery at
Three Rivers Medical Center
LAURA VELCU, M.D.
Three Rivers Medical Plaza
Suite 105 • Louisa, KY 41230
(606) 638-3813
The program is guided by a fellowship trained ba.riatric sur~eon,
Dr. Laura Velcu. Patients seeking treatment recerve extensrve preoperative education and undergo a complete screening process,
including a psychological evaluation, to .help determine wh~ther
the surgery is appropriate for them. Pat1ents are .also .req.urred to
attend support group meetings, where they rece~~e Vltall~forma
tion about what to expect following surgery, nutntronal guidance,
and other important aspects of the surgery and follow-up care.
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As with any surgical procedure, weight loss surgery may present risks. Ask
your referring physician or a bariatric surgeon if weight loss surgery is
right for you.
About the surgeon
Dr. Laura Velcu, M.D. is fellowship trained in bariatric surgery, an intervention for weight loss to control morbid obesity. She received her medical
degree from Carol Davila School of Medicine and Pharmacy. Dr. Velcu
completed her surgical residency at Nassau University Medical Center in
East Meadow, New York. She also completed a surgical fellowship in
complex and minimally-invasive surgery at University of Pittsburgh, Magee
Women's Hospital, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Velcu is certified by the American
Board of Surgery and a member of the American Society for Bariatric
Surgery. She is actively involved with research in the field of bariatric surgery.
Weight Loss Surgery Support Group
Expectations weight loss surgery group meetings are being planned on a
monthly basis. Please watch for additional details and forthcoming
announcements about the support groups in the future.
For Information, call Sariatric Surgery Program Coordinator Robin
Barker, R.N. at 606-638-3813.
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• WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Prosecutors outline case against
Fletcher administration oHicial
by JOE BIESK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT
Prosecutors who have alleged
that hiring practices in the
administration of Gov. Ernie
Fletcher ran afoul of the Merit
System spelled out out elements
of their case against a Fletcher
aide in documents filed with the
Franklin County District Court.
Richard "Dick" Murgatroyd,
Fletcher's deputy chief of staff,
participated in a conspiracy to
circumvent the state's merit
laws, according to the court filing Monday. Prosecutors filed
the document, called a "bill of
particulars," in response to a
motion filed on Murgatroyd's
behalf, said Vicki Glass, a
spokeswoman for Attorney
General Greg Stumbo.
Stumbo' s office has been
i nvestigating the personnel
practices of Fletcher's administration since May, when a former state employee gained
whistleblower protection and
gave prosecutors documents
alleging state Merit System
improprieties. Kentucky law
says employment decisions for
rank-and-file state employees
are supposed to be based on
candidates' qualifications, not
their political connections.
A Franklin County special
grand jury has indicted nine cur-
rent or former administration allegations against Murgatroyd.
A hearing was scheduled for
officials with misdemeanor
charges stemming from the Tuesday afternoon on Smith's
investigation. One of the nine, motion on the charges. Also
former Transportation Cabinet Tuesday, the grand jury was to
official Dan Druen, is also fac- resume meeting.
The
documents
claim,
ing multiple felony charges
including alleged witness tam- among other things, that when
Murgatroyd
was
the
pering.
"This conspiracy has been Transportation Cabinet deputy
ongoing since early 2004 and secretary, he helped find a merit
has continued uninterrupted job for state Republican Party
until at least May 2005 ," Treasurer Dave Disponett's
according to documents filed nephew, Tony Disponett. When
a position was not immediately
Monday.
Murgatroyd's attorney, Jack available, one was created for
Smith, said he asked the court to 'him, according to the docueliminate three charges against ments.
his client because he felt the
Dave Disponet! was an
statute of limitations had unpaid volunteer for the
expired. The bill of particulars, Fletcher administration and had
filed by prosecutor Scott an office and secretary in the
Crawford-Sutherland, elaborat- state Capitol, down the hall
ed on the indictments, Smith from the governor's office.
According to the document,
said.
It was unusual for prosecu- Tony Disponett was eventually
tors to outline their case this far hired as a highway superintendent, where he still works.
before a trial, Smith said.
"I asked for a drink of water,
Prosecutors also claimed
but I got the Mississippi River," Murgatroyd, a former judgeSmith said in a telephone inter- executive in Kenton County,
helped land a state transportaview.
Murgatroyd was indicted tion job for Marjorie Ann
July 6 on 19 misdemeanor Stewart, who had been a top
charges for alleged political dis- official with the Edmonson
crimination, conspiracy and vio- County Republican Party. She
lating state employees' rights. was hired for a $43,000-perHowever, Monday's court filing year job, but soon was given a
marked the flfSt time prosecu- raise to nearly $57,500, accord·
tors publicly detailed their broad ing to the record.
Murgatroyd, according to the
document, also helped get state
jobs for other politically connected applicants including:
William Smallwood, Billy
Montgomery, Desta Lyons and
James Gray.
Fletcher spokeswoman Jodi
Whitaker declined comment,
because the documents were
related to the grand jury investigation.
Meanwhile,
a Franklin
County Circuit Court judge on
Monday released documents
prosecutors obtained from a
search last week of computer
servers in the governor's office.
The user files included those
for Disponett and Fletcher's
chief of staff, Stan Cave,
according to the search warrant.
Included in Monday's thick
stack of documents was e-mail
correspondence between Druen
and Murgatroyd. In one
exchange, dated Feb. 2,
Murgatroyd said he only wanted
to "do what is right for our cabinet to assure that we have the
best and most qualified work
force."
There is also a brief e-mail
exchange between Murgatroyd
and "Sadie," which is an e-mail
address name for Fletcher. In
the exchange, Murgatroyd
asked if Fletcher had a chance to
speak with Senate President
David Williams "regarding a
Odds
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steer the Alice M., a 60-year-old
wooden troller. It was sort of
like backing up a truck towing a
trailer with some extra
motion underneath.
It was a 39-hour ordeal, to be
precise. The boat goes only
about seven nautical miles an
hour at full, forward speed.
"I've talked to some oldtimers," said Peterson, who said
he's been getting free drinks
from the bar from people he
doesn' t simply for having been
on the boat. "Nobody's ever
heard of anybody doing that
before."
The Gastorfs - who live in a
manufactured home and are
retired - spoke to an attorney,
who told them that challenging the
action in court could cost them
several thousand dollars, much
more than the $175 civil claim.
So the Gastorfs paid WalMart the money.
"We wouldn't want to
embark on a life of crime at our
ages and become manure
thieves. I mean, if you were
going to steal something, would
you steal manure?" Gastorf said.
But Shardon Weber, a
spokeswoman for Bentonville,
Ark.-based Wal-Mart, told The
Albany Democrat Herald that
the company has decided to
refund the Gastorfs' $175.
"It simply seems like the
right thing to do," she said.
• BROWNSVILLE, Ore. It could have happened to anyone: Charles Gastorf and his
wife, Cheryl, forgot to pay the
$ 10 tab for 10 bags of steer
manure during a recent shopping
• HOPKINSVILLE - Peter
trip to their local Wal-Mart.
The two say that in the confu- Davenport has received more
sion of shopping on that March phone calls than he cares to
day they simply forgot to add in count that start with the unusual
the cost of the manure_When the opening: "Please believe me,
Gastorfs explained their forget- I'm not crazy."
For Davenport, director of
fulness to Lebanon City
Attorney Tom McHill, he the National UFO Reporting
dropped shoplifting charges Center in Seattle, it's part of the
job.
against them.
Davenport spoke Sunday at
That could have been the end
of the story - except for the let- the Little Green Men Festival in
ter from the world's largest Hopkinsville about what he
retailer that soon arrived in their believes are some of the more
mailbox, demanding $175 in · fascinating, provable cases
reported. The festival commemcivil damages.
That's when the Gastorfs orates the 50th anniversary of
learned about a little-known the Aug. 21, 1955, report of an
Oregon law that allows retailers alien invasion at Kelly.
After a lifetime of studying
to pursue civil penalties regardless of whether a person is found what ·many brush off as science
fiction, Davenport says he's cerguilty or innocent of theft.
tain that UFOs exist and have
been witnessed on Earth. He
believes the government has
known about them for decades.
"I have not just a mountain of
data, perhaps a mountain range of
data," Davenport told the
Kentucky New Era in an interview.
Davenport has spent 11 years
filing accounts and eyewitness
reports of UFO sightings from a
reporting center that consists of
one phone, one fax and one Web
master. The center is almost
completely privately funded by
Davenport and donations.
• SNOHOMISH, Wash. Melani Dino 'was walking on air
- a couple of hundred feet off
the ground - when she received
Brandon Harding's marriage
proposal.
As soon as she got back on
land, she said yes.
Harding, 22, arranged to have
an 8-by-15-foot black banner
with white tape reading, "Will
you marry me, Melani?" spread
on the ground as the couple
floated down from a sky dive
Sunday.
The jump was the second for
each but the first they had done
together: "I thought he was a little more nervous than he should
have been," Dino said.
Harding was the second to
last in a group of people to hit
the ground, followed by his
fiancee.
After Dino landed, he
approached and got down on one
knee. They kissed, he put a ring
on her fmger and they stood up
and kissed again.
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About 10 people in the two
families were present, all in the
know- except Dino, 23.
"I had no idea," she said.
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personnel issue." Fletcher
replied, "Yes."
There was no indication
whether it was a reference to a
merit or non-merit matter.
Also Monday, the Executive
Branch Ethics Commission
sought to prevent the attorney
general's access to its personnel
investigation records.
Ethics Commission Director
Jill LeMaster said the commission has not confmned whether
it is conducting its own investigation into the matter. A hearing
was scheduled for Thursday.
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REWARD OFFERED
for the return of stolen yellow 2seater go-cart, or for the arrest of
the scumbag person or persons
who stole it, sometime between the
night of Aug. 16, through early
morning of the 17th.
Call with any info,
794-8765 or 886-6170
Ask for Donald or Janice Kidd
The Piarist School
Needs an Additional
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• A private, college preparatory high school
• Salary based on the Floyd County School
System
• Small class sizes with talented teenagers
• Must be dedicated and enthusiastic
• Secom:tary certification or degree in subject
required
Send resume to:
Rev. Thomas Carroll, Sch.P.
The Piarist School
Highway 80, Box 870
Martin, Kentucky 41649 (606) 285-3950
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
AuGusT 24, 2005 • A11
Food City awards educational tools
and equipment to area schools
•
ABINGDON, Va. - Food
City is well-known for their
numerous community-related
events and activities. One of
their largest benefit programs is
their Apples for the Students
program.
The program allows students
to collect specially marked Food
City register receipt tapes in
exchange for computers, software, audio/visual and other
educational materials. Over the
last 15 years, Food City has
awarded more than $9.2 million
~ much-needed educational
equipment to over 700 participating area schools.
"We' re committed to giving
back to the communities we
operate in and what better sector
to invest in than the education of
our youth," said Steven C.
Smith, Food City president and
chief executive. officer. "Our
Apples for the Students
Program provides a simple
means for area schools to gain
the additional educational
equipment and tools they need".
til Bruce Boyd, vice president
of Service Marketing Group
(the national Apples for the
Students founding organization)
recently presented Food City
officials with the prestigious
Golden Apple Educational
Award. The award recognizes
Food City for their continued
efforts to improve the educational opportunities for the children of their Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia market
area and for their contributions
to the public, private and
parochial schools in excess of
9.2 million dollars over their 15
years of program participation.
"We work hard to educate
and inform our area schools
about the availability of our
Apples for the Students program and the great benefits
they can reap from participating," said Tom Hembree, Food
City senior vice president of
marketing. "Last school year
alone, we contributed $817,741
in supplies to participating
schools."
Food City first initiated their
Apples for the Students program
during the 1990-91 school year.
Since that time, Kentucky area
public and private schools have
received $1,372,217 in equipment. Last school year, participating
counties
received
$133,329 in program contributions.
Of that total, Floyd County
schools have received $234,342
in total contributions
$17,791 of which was received
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last school year.
The 2005-2006 Apples for
the Students program will begin
Sept. 11 and continue through
March 11, 2006. By program
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For more information about
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Columbia Gas customers can now
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customers of Columbia Gas of
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Beginning today, residential
customers now have convenient
access - through DirectLink eServices - to paying their bill
online or signing up for other
electronic billing and payment
services. In addition, customers
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4!cluding when their last payr!rent was received, amount due
on their current bill and the date
the current bill is to be paid, as
well as retrieve previous bills for
the past 24 months.
''DirectLink e-Services is a
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• WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Appalachian Regional Healthcare Kenny • Smith is recipient
declines move to Appalachia
of scholarsh~p from Acardia
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Government leaders in
Hazard have offered free rent to
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare in an attempt to lure
the hospital chain's corporate
headquarters to Appalachia.
Mayor Bill Gorman said he
believes any company serving
Appalachia should have its
headquarters in the mountains
of Appalachia, not in the flatlands of the bluegrass region.
"The whole idea is this," he
said. "Would it be proper for us
to organize a Bluegrass
Regional Healthcare System
and have its headquarters in
Hazard so we could serve the
Bluegrass more effectively?"
Gorman said he had hoped
that the offer of free use of a $1
million building, large enough
to provide offices for about 100
people, would entice the company to make the move.
However the company, which
operates nine hospitals in
Appalachia, declined the invitation,
saying it would cost more than $10
million to make the move.
Spokeswoman
Melissa
Cornett said the company would
rather spend money on projects
that relate directly to patient
care, like a planned $17 million
worth of expansions at the
Hazard hospital. The proposed
move "would simply not be in
the best economic interest" of
the company or the communities it serves, she said.
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare President aiid Chief
Executive Officer Jerry W.
Haynes said in a statement that
the company has created or relocated 90 jobs in Hazard over the
past four years and is ~ommitted
to providing medical services to
the region.
Haynes met with Gorman
and Perry County JudgeExecutive Denny Ray Noble
last week to discuss the issue.
Noble said Monday he will no
longer push for the move.
Gorman said it seems clear that
the company's top executives
don't want to live in Appalachia.
"We just backed off," he
said.
Hazard and Perry County
gave Appalachian Regional
Healthcare $5.3 million in coal
severance tax funds in 2001 to
help pay for relocating some
offices from Lexington to
Hazard. As of June, the company said it had more than 150
corporate employees in Hazard,
including two vice presidents,
14 corporate directors and
administrators.
Haynes said the company
places employees and managers
based on the needs of patients
and is committed to expanding
the medical services and work
force in Appalachia.
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare is a not-for-profit
company that operates hospitals
and clinics, home health agencies, and pharmacies in
Kentucky and West Virginia. It
is the largest private employer in
southeastern Kentucky, and the
third largest private employer in
southern West Virginia with
some 4,400 full-time employees.
Mars email a hoax
by RAY SHUBINSKI
EAST K ENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER
A recent email has been making the rounds which adds a new
chapter in urban legends.
According to the email, the planet Mars will appear as big as the
full moon on Aug. 27. The email goes on to claim that Mars
will be closer to the earth on this
date than it has been in the last
60,000 years, and that it will
appear as big as the full moon!
Under no conditions can Mars
ever appear as large as the full
moon as seen from earth. To look
as large as the full moon, Mars of this is Ha,lloween . Mars will
would need to be about 1 million be at its brightest from Oct. 31
miles from earth. Mars and earth to Nov. 10. On Halloween night,
will be at their closest on Nov. 7, Mars will hang due south in our
when they will be a little more skies at midnight.
than 40 million miles apart. On
The East Kentucky Science
that night, Mars will look 40 . Center and Planetarium will
times smaller than the full moon. offer special observing sessions
The information about the with powerful telescopes for the
distance and the date 1,1sed in public during this time. The
this erroneous email was true Planetarium will also be showfor the close approach of Mars ing "Return to Mars" in the star
on Aug. 27, 2003. Even on that theater from Oct. 8 to Nov. 13.
date, Mars still appeared simply
The staff of the Science
as a bright reddish star in the Center is always haP.PY to proevening star.
vide information on any current
What adds a bit of fun to all science events.
Arts grants opportunities
available to Eastern· Kentucky
-
SOMERSET - In light of
national trends that favor interdisciplinary projects and collaborations in grant funding, Pat
Bradley, arts and culture outreach coordinator for The
Center for Rural Development
will participate in a day-long
workshop and planning session
being hosted by Morehead State
University on Thursday, Sept.
29, to help identify grant opportunities for arts and humanities
programs.
"Grant Opportunities for
Strategic Collaborations in the
Arts and Humanities" will be
offered in the Commonwealth
Room of the Adron Doran
University Center. Slated to
begin at 8 a.m. with breakfast
and greetings, the workshop will
include presentations from the
Kentucky Humanities Council
and the Kentucky Arts Council,
roundtable discussions and networking opportunities.
Sponsored by a grant from
the MSU Campus Partnership
Fund, the event will bring
together K-12 educators, community college faculty, members of non-profit organizations
in East Kentucky and MSU faculty members in the Caudill
College
of
Humanities.
Together; they will identify
mutual goals and work toward
enhancing the region's competitiveness in obtaining federal,
state and private funding.
Staff from KHC and KAC
will discuss strategic approaches
to successful grant writing
geared toward programs appropriate for collaborations involving colleges and universities,
non-profit arts and humanities
organizations and local schools.
Workshop participants will be
teamed together by topic area
and matched with interested
MSU faculty who will help identify and develop project ideas.
Other representatives assisting in this project will be Dr.
Dale Duvall, associate dean of
university and community partnerships, staff members from
The
Center
for
Rural
Development, Arts Kentucky,
MSU's Institute for Regional
Analysis and Public Policy
and Office of
(IRAPP)
Research, Grants and Contracts,
who will contribute to team project development and to identify
specific collaboration strategies.
Methods of finding suitable
funding sources will be discussed for project ideas that are
well developed and partner roles
clearly defined.
Lunch will be provided.
Those who would like to participate in the workshop may send
their name and the name of the
organization which they represent, .along with their mailing
address, e-mail, phone number
and project ideas to Mary Jerde,
grants resource coordinator, at
901 Ginger Hall, Morehead
State University, Morehead, KY
40351.
Additional information is
available by calling Jerde at
(606) 783-2545, or by e-mail at
m.jerde @moreheadstate.edu.
The Center for Rural
Development in S,omerset,
Kentucky is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide leadership that stimulates
innovative and sustainable economic development solutions
and a better way of life in
Southern and Eastern Kentucky.
In its 42-county service region,
The Center provides innovative
programs in leadership development, advanced telecommunications technology, public safety
and a variety of performing arts
and cultural events. For more
information about The Center,
its programs and a calendar of
events, visit www.centertech.com
PIKEVILLE- Acordia Inc.,
a Wells Fargo company, has
named Kenny Smith a recipient
of the Acardia Scholarship
Program, designed for the children of team members who best
exemplify qualities the organization admires and desires to
foster.
The Acardia Scholarship
Program, established in 1999,
encourages and helps fund the
costs of higher education of the
children of Acordia team members. The four-year scholarship
provides money that can be used
for tuition, room and board, and
related expenses.
Acardia Scholarships are
awarded to those students who
best exemplify the academic,
community service, and leadership potential to become outstanding citizens. Criteria the
selection committee considers is
scholastic
achievement,
extracurricular and community
activities, demonstrated leadership, work experience, written
communication skills, and
fina~cial need to complete
undergraduate study at the college or university chosen by the
student.
In order to compete for the
scholarship, Smith submitted an
essay titled, "What Education
Means to Me," along with an
application, recommendation
letters and school transcripts.
After applying, he went through
an in,terview process with the
Acordia Mid-Atlantic region
and then competed on a national
level by interviewing with a representative of the Acardia corporate office in Chicago. Kenny
was one of seven applicants in
the nation chosen by the selection committee to receive a
scholarship.
Smith is the 18-year-old son
of Kathy Lambros, of Pikeville,
and Kenny Smith, of Brandy
Keg in Prestonsburg. He is the
grandson of Dolly Ratliff of
Pikeville, Thomas Lambros of
Chicago, and the late Vicie and
Luther Smith of Phelps. Kathy
Lambros is a Customer Account
Manager with four years service
at Acordia of Kentucky, in
Pikeville.
While attending Pikeville
High School, Smith was a member of the varsity soccer team,
cross-country team, academic
team, mock-trial team, and had
stage performances in the productions of Larceny and Old
Lace, Annie, and Harvey. He
served as Secretary of The
Speech and Drama Club and
was President of the Pikeville
High Democrats Club.
Smith was selected as a participant in the charter class of
the Pikeville College Booth
Scholars and completed the
four-year program. He was also
honored by a panel of community leaders and respected prc;>fessionals in being selected for a
Pike County Chamber of
Commerce Work Ethic Award
and the Pikeville High School
Senior Salute Award. A member
of the National Honor Society,
he was on the National Honor
Navy
Seaman
Recruit
Anthony R. Spencer, grandson
of Arnetha Spencer of Martin,
recently completed U.S. Navy
basic training at Recruit
Training Command, Great
Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, Spencer completed a
variety of training, which
included classroom study and
practical instruction on naval
customs, first aid, firefighting,
water safety and survival, and
shipboard and aircraft safety.
An emphasis was also placed on
physical fitness.
The capstone event of boot
camp is "Battle Stations". This
exercise gives recruits the skills
and confidence they need to
succeed in the fleet.
"Battle Stations" is designed
to galvanize the basic warrior
attributes of sacrifice, dedication teamwork and endurance in
each recruit through the practical
application of basic Navy skills
and the core values of Honor,
Courage and Commitment. Its
distinctly "Navy" flavor was
designed to take into account
what it means to be a sailor.
Spencer is a 1994 graduate of
Olentangy Local High School of
Lewis Center, Ohio.
Parentlnfo provides information, resources.
FRANKFORT - Parents of
school-age children can receive
helpful information related to
education and child development from the Kentucky
Department of Education.
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Twice a month, the department sends out a free electronic
newsletter called Parentlnfo that
includes brief features on school
testing, child health, help with
homework and other topics.
Recent issues included infor-·
mation on post-J¥gh school planning, reminders about school bus
safety, student testing details and
training for school-based decision making council members.
I
To receive Parentlnfo, parents
may register by visiting the
department's website at www.education.ky.gov. Enter "parentinfo"
in the keyword/search box, then
click Search. This will take you to
the subscription page for
Parentinfo. where you also may
view arduvcd issues.
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FREEBURN - A toddler
has drowned in a landscaping
pond at her grandmother's home
in Pike County.
Pike County Coroner Russell
Roberts said 16-month-old
Shakira Marie Justice of
Freeburn drowned in 18 inches
of water. She was found about 1
p.m. EDT on Wednesday, and
was taken to South Williamson
Appalachian Regional Hospital
where she was pronounced
dead.
Kentucky State Police are
investigating the drowning.
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Smith graduated Cum Laude.
from Pikeville High School
After spending a portion of hi
summer touring England and
France with the Pikeville
College Booth Scholars, Kenny
will attend Centre College in the
fall with plans to major in psychology or biology and dramatic arts. He will be a member of
Centre Players and Centre
Democrats.
"Muilical I:1lt~rtall.1111e.I1t
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The Associated Press
Spencer completes basic training
Roll for four years, and Who's
Who Among American High
School Students.
Smith has demonstrated his
strong sense of community service and vo1unteerism by being
a volunteer at Pikeville Medical
Center, volunteer referee for the
Pike C unty Youth Soccer
Association, and a volunteer
mathematics tutor at Pikeville
High School. In addition to his
studies, extra-curricular activities, and volunteer work, he has
worked a part-time job for
almost two years and has been
employed by Riverfill 10
Theatre and J.C. Penney
Company. He enjoys recreational soccer, music. reading
and writing, traveling, movies
and drama, politics and histo-
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KDFWR releases names drawn for 2005 Quota Elk Hunts
TIMES STAFF REPORT
FRANKFORT
The
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Resources (KDFWR)
has
released the names of those who
have been randomly selected for
elk permits for the 2005 quota
elk hunt seasons in southeast
Kentucky.
With exception of one individual, the KDFWR was able to
identify 99 of 100 successful
applicants.
The one person drawn who
the agency continues to attempt
to identify entered the drawing
by purchasing a permit at the
Johnson BP and Sporting Goods
Store in Manchester on July 30.
The
permit
number
is
0260021073005103423.
Over 16,000 people applied
for elk hunts this year, com-
pared to 8,700 last year. Ten of
the selected hunters were nonresidents.
Funds from the sale of elk
hunt application permits help
fund ongoing research and management of Kentucky's elk herd,
which now numbers about
5,300 animals," said Dr. Jon
KDFWR
Gassett,
Commissioner.
"We hope interest continues
to increase in elk hunting opportunity as the number of permits
available also increases into the
future," Gassett said.
Quota bull elk hunts this year
run Oct. 1-7, and cow hunts
from Dec. 3-9. In-state hunters
drawn must purchase a $25 elk
hunt permit, in addition to their
license. Out-of-state hunters are
required to purchase a $300
nonresident ~lk hunt permit, in
addition to their license.
Persons drawn for tllls year's
hunts will be contacted by the
KDFWR with instructions about
their hunts.
Names of those drawn for
2005 quota hunt elk permits:
Patrick Amburgey, Leburn,
(Knott Co.); Leslie Anderson,
Glasgow
(Barren
Co.);
Arl!nghaus,
Christopher
Edgewood
(Kenton
Co.);
Jtedmond win
Late Model
feature on Fan
Appreciation
Night
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
ASHLAND - First-year Paintsville
High School head football coach Bill
Mike Runyon took his team out on the
road Friday night, during the first week of
the 2005 regular-season. The Tigers were
successful in Friday night's season-opener, beating rival Fairview 28-12.
Runyon, Paintsville High's longtime
boys' basketball coach, was able to record
the victory in his debut as the school's
head football coach. He accepted the football job in spring after David LeMaster
resigned and stepped down from the post.
Paintsville junior quarterback Daniel
Pugh showed his versatility in the opener, passing for two touchdowns and rushing for another. Pugh, a three-sport athlete for the Tigers, began calling the lead
signals for the Tiger football team as a
freshman and has how started over 20
games under center.
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(See REDMOND, page two)
(See ELK, page two)
Runyon gets
win in debut
by CHRIS BELCHER
201 SPEEDWAY TRACK
WRITER
SITKA - For over 20 years,
track racing fans have filled
the stands at 201 Speedway . On
Saturday night, 201 Speedway
officials rewarded the many
loyal fans who have kept the
gates open for so long with an
opportunity to meet their
favorite drivers while parked on
the front stretch of the red clay
racing surface. Due to the recent
heat wave, Fan Appreciation
ceremonies were held after the
heat races and consolation
events for Late Models and
Open
Wheel
Modifieds.
.ollowing a ~0-rninute meet and
~reet for drivers and fans, the
Late Model feature was the first
race of the night.
In qualifying, only three of
25 Late Models in attendance
broke into the 13-second range.
Chris Combs and Chuckie May
both qualitiefl in the 15.90's, but
it would be. the 28R of West
Virginia's Harold Redmond Jr.
besting the field of 25 with a
best-run of 13.84 in his T & H
Racing Engines-powered Snap
on Tools-sponsored No. 04
Swartz
Grand
Prix.
~yersville's Brandon Johnson
~ed his fifth pole of the season in OpenI Wheel Modified
qualifying, turning a 15.30 in
Land
the
Forestry
&
Reclamation,
Ranger
Contracting, West Liberty Auto
Parts-sponsored
Lighting
Chassis. Former Champion
Scott McCloud set fast time in
Limited Late Model qualifying
in the Highland Drywall, Dino
the Tool Man-sponsored 1998
Swartz, and two drivers made
identical qualifying efforts in
Super Bomber time trials with
!alcon's Michael Paul Howard
and Martin's Jake Miller both
going 15.87 to share the front
row of the Super Bomber Heat.
Raymond
Nichols
and
Redmond led the Late Model
charge to the green flag, with
Timothy Baldwin, Adairville
(Logan Co.); Mark Bennett,
Fairplay (Adair Co.); Timothy
Bickert, Wilmore (Jessamine
Co.); Daniel Bloemer, Kuttawa,
(Lyon Co.); Janie Boggs,
Yeaddiss, (Leslie Co.); Brian
Bowman,
Lawrenceburg,
(Anderson Co.); Purvill Chaney,
Lousville, (Jefferson Co.);
photo by Steve LeMaster
South Floyd Coach Donnie Daniels talked with Ryan Little (59} and Brock
Slone Friday night during a timeout. South Floyd will play its second straight
home game Friday, hosting Shelby Valley.
South Floyd piles up over 400
yards of offense in opener
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
HI HAT - South Floyd appears to
have picked up right where it left off
last season. Last year's South Floyd
High football team could score in
bunches and pile up offensive yards.
The Raiders returned to the gridiron
this past Friday night and put up 40
points in a 40-14 win over visiting
Magoffin County, South Floyd had
over 400 yards of offense in the opener.
"We were pleased with what we were
able to get done offensively," said South
Floyd Coach Donnie Daniels. "I thought
we executed real well. Compared to
how we played in the scrimmages
against Morgan (County) and Powell
(County), our kids have improved a lot."
Throughout the preseason, Daniels
touted the athleticism and versatility of
senior Justin Slone. The do-it-all senior
accounted for over half of South Floyd's
offense in the season-opening win.
"We want to get the football in
Justin's hands," Daniels acknowledged.
"He is a big, big part of our offense."
Slone took six carries and rushed for
178 yards and one touchdown in the
win over Magoffin County. He hauled
in two catches for an additional 54
yards. Slone tacked two more points on
for South Floyd when he hauled in a
pass on a two-point conversion.
While being a big part of the Raider
offense, Slone wasn't alone in his efforts.
Junior halfback Ethan Johnson had
eight calries for 52 · yards and one
touchdown. Senior fullback Kyle Hall
had five carries for 22 yards and also
scored a touchdown.
Quarterback Ryan Johnson and halfback Anthony Barker also carried the
football for positive yardage in South
Floyd's opener.
~yan Johnson completed seven-of12 passes for 120 yards.
Daniels admits he '11 mix up his
team's offensive scheme of things from
time to time this season.
"We'll have some different people
get involved on offense," Daniels said,
"and that's always good."
Ethan Johnson caught two passes
for 60 yards and a touchdown. Brock
Slone also hauled in a Ryan Johnsonthrown football and caught a two-point
conversion pass.
Defensively, Justin Slone had an
interception and Barker had a pair of
fumble recoveries.
(See OPENER, page two)
H.S. FOOTBALL
SCOREBOARD
Friday's scores
Allen Central 32, Betsy Layne 6
Ashland Blazer 44, Raceland 7
Bellevue 53, Harrodsburg 35
George Rogers Clade 42, Lex. Thtes Qttk7
Greenup Co. 21, East Carter 3
Harlan 28, Cawood 0
Hazard 38, Perry Co. Central 20
Highlands 35, Dixie Heights 0
Knott Co. Central 34, Jenkins 20
Knox Central40, Evarts 12
Knoxville Central, Tenn. 30, Bell Co. 15
Lawrence Co. 28, Sheldon Clark 6
Leslie Co. 44, Lynn Camp 18
Lewis Co. 19, Nicholas Co. 8
Lincoln Co. 19, Pulaski Co. 15
Madison Southern 50, Lex. Bryan Sta. 0
Morgan Co. 20, Rowan Co. 14
North Laurel16, Holmes 6
Paintsville 28, Fairview 12
Pendleton Co. 33, Paris 12
Pineville 17, McCreary Central 12
South Floyd 40, Magoffin Co. 14
Wayne Co. 24, Clay Co. 7
West Carter 32, Bath Co. 6
Whitley Co. 27, Middlesboro 26
Woodford Co. 28, Anderson Co. 3
Saturday's scores
Danville 34, Rockcastle Co. 0
Frankfort 55, North Oldham 20
Franklin Co. 58, Breathitt Co. 7
Lex. Henry Clay 43, Belfry 14
Lex. Paul Dunbar 57, Lone Oak 6
Lou. Western 25, Harrison Co. 21
Madison Cent.21, Lex. Lafayette 14
Pulaski Southwestern 16, Corbin 3
West Jessamine 14, Mason Co. 13
(See RUNYON, page two)
Sandy Valley
Preseason Grid
set for Saturday
by JAMIE HOWELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
PAINTSVILLE - The 2005 Sandy
Valley Conference Preseason Grid will be
held Saturday at Johnson Central High
School. Nine games are a part of this year's
preseason middle school football event.
The flrst game of the scrimmage will
pit Pikeville against Inez. Kickoff for the
opener is scheduled for 10 a.m. The second game will feature Breathitt County
and Johnson County Eighth and is scheduled for an 11 a.m. kickoff.
At 1 p.m., Adams is slated to take on
Morgan County. Following the AdamsMorgan County game, scrimmage game
with a 2 p.m. start time will pit Warfield
against Leslie County. After a short break,
the scrimmage will resume play at 4 p.m.
with a Floyd County matchup composed
of South Floyd and Allen. Johnson
County Seventh and Allen Central are
scheduled to play at 5 p.m. followed by
Magoffm County and Belfry Seventh at 6
p.m. The nightcap at 7 p.m. will pit Betsy
Layne versus Belfry Eighth.
The Sandy Valley Conference was
a
(See GRID, page two)
Robinson cleared to play
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG
Prestonsburg
High
senior
Charles Robinson has been
cleared to play football after
being out of action the past couple of weeks while nursing an
injured knee. Robinson, who last
season rushed for over 1,000
yards for Allen Central, went
down when Prestonsburg scrimmaged Lawrence County, its flrst
of two preseason opponents. A
scan turned up negative, showing
obinson oply had a severe
tuise. Robinson has returned to
practice and is expected to see
'
his first regular-season action as
a member of the Prestonsburg
High football Friday evening
when the Blackcats travel to
Hazard to take on the host
Bulldogs in the Pride of the
Mountains Gridiron Classic.
"Charles has returned to
practice and we're glad to have
him back," said Prestonsburg
Coach John DeRossett. "We
wanted to take our time with his
injury. He has returned to practice and is ready to go."
Robinson will work within a
deep Prestonsburg backfield
that also includes senior quarterback David Shaffer, senior halfback Brandon Peters, senior
fullback Brenton Hamilton and
junior halfback Lincoln Slone.
Freshmen Blake Meade and
Seth Setser are among others
who could also take carries out
of the Blackcat varsity unit's
offensive backfield.
"We are fortunate to have some
depth at the running back position," DeRossett acknowledged.
"We've got depth at the position in
each of the four classes."
Prestonsburg enjoyed an
open date this past Friday and
will get its first test of the season
this Friday night against Hazard.
The Bulldogs opened their sea(See RO.BINSON, page two)
Moutain Top 1
J.Rockcastle County
2.BeU County
3.Belfry
4.Leslie County
S.South Laurel
6.Prestonsburg
photo by Jamie Howell
Charles Robinson has been cleared to play for
Prestonsburg and will be available for Friday night's
season-opener against Hazard.
7.Somerset
S.Breathitt County
9.Knox Central
JO.Hazard
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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introduced in the early 1990s by
Dt. Don Chaffin. The conference has since been taken over
by Dip Stafford and Ronnie
Wells. The conference has
grown from six to 19 teams and
continues to experience growth
and attract more and more inter-
est each season.
The conference season is
scheduled to run Aug. 27-0ct.
29.
son Friday night with a 38-20
win over rival Perry County
Central.
"When we roll into Hazard,
we want to ftring on all cylinders," said DeRossett. "These
r
Elk
Redmond
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Redmond setting his car up to
the outside groove of the racetrack in the turns, while Nichols
chose the shorter, inside line.
After three laps, the outside
cushion would take Redmond to
a four-car length lead over
Nichols, who had fell into the
clutches of Anthony Adams.
Adams took the se;::ond position,
di' ing underneath Nichols in the
middle of turn two, setting up a
wheel to wheel battle, which
ended with the No. 8 of Adams
finally completing the pass for
second as they raced for the frrst
tum. Nichols continued to run
right up against the outside wall
of the fourth tum, then bobbled
just enough to allow Adams to
close the gap on the fourth lap,
then take the lead by the flag
stand on the next lap. On the following circuit, off the fourth
tum, both Adams and Redmond
appeared as one image by the
start finish line. Adams then
pulled back down to the bottom
of the track in the comers, with
Redmond staying with the farthest line to the outside that he
could take without tagging the
outside wall.
Lap six had Redmond and
Adams side by side in front of
the grandstands, but after severallaps of clean side by side racing, Redmond would clear
Adams off the second tum, and
re-take the point. Redmond
entered lap traffic by the 13th
lap, but running the rim of the
racetrack played to the advantage of Redmond as he cleared
the lapped machines to the outside. On the last two restarts,
Adams looked to dive to the
inside of Redmond but after getting up to the numbers on the
leader. When Redmond's car
came in, he would extend his
advantage and go on to record
his second win of the season, in
the T & H Racing Engines-powered-Tyler Mountain Go Cart
Track, Snap On Tools, Advance
Auto Parts-sponsored 2004
Audie Swartz Grand Prix.
Adams raced to the finish line in
second, followed by Nichols.
Last year's .champion, Robert
"Taco" Fletcher, made a fourthplace finish by less than half-acarlength in front of Willard's
Terry Hicks, current points
leader David Plowers, and Tate
Begley.
Salyersville's
Brandon
Johnson and Clint Shutts brought
a field of 20 Open Wheel
Modifieds to the start of
Saturday night's 20-lap feature.
Johnson and Shutts rounded the
3/Bths of a mile side by side for
the first circuit as another wheel
to wheel war waged for the second position early in the race
between the No. 38 of Marty
Meade and the No. 12 of Kevin
Copher. Shutts would win the
frrst lap race to the start-finish,
with Johnson in second. Copher
found an opening to the inside of
Johnson in the center of the second tum on the second lap to take
over the second position, behind
leader, Shutts. By the fourth lap,
Meade looked to run in the third
racing groove in the turners as
had been the case in the earlier
Late Model Feature, but Darren
Muncy made the second lane on
the inside of Meade, slightly
quicker and Muncy would hold
on to third.
With Shutts and Copher at
the front, Johnson felt the pressure of the No. 55 of Muncy on
the next lap by the flag stand,
then Muncy won the race into
the first tum to nail down the
games here in the flrst half of
the season will get us ready for
district play."
third spot for the moment. On
lap before the halfway point, it
was still Shutts, rim riding the
outside lane off the fourth tum,
Copher close in second, and still
one of the closest races on the
track between Muncy and
Johnson. Johnson drove his
Lightning to the bottom side of
one and two at the halfway point
of the race to re-take the third
spot. Shutts went on to overtake
Copher with three laps to go,
taking the Open Wheel
Modified checkers for the fourth
time this season in the L& T
Racing
Engines-powered,
Carolina Construction, Impact
Signs & Graphics, Gobel
Transport-sponsored
2004
Lightning of the 2003 Open
Wheel Champion, finishing
ahead of Johnson, Copher and
Muncy, points leader Randy
Fouts in Mayabb, and Davey
Warnock.
Scott
McCloud
of
Stambaugh
and
Hazard's
Rodney Davis shared the front
row of the Limited Late Model
feature. On the start, both would
round the frrst set of turns, and
race for the third tum, with only
inches separating the two.
Davis, in only his first appearance of the 2005 season after
spending half of last year in the
Late Model division, and even
leading the points at one time
last season would lead the first
lap over Scott McCloud, who
had been dominate over the past
several weeks at 20 1. On the
third lap, McCloud's car skated
up the hill just a little in the center of tum two, ending what had
been three laps of wheel to
wheel racing to that point. Davis
managed to extend his advantage with the slight bobble by
McCloud. However, McCloud
would take only one lap to run
the leader back down, finding
the back bumper of the leader in
the center of the third and fourth
tum. As they saw the halfway
flags Lexington's Larry Grey,
had narrowed the margin
between he and McCloud, and
began sticking the nose of his
No. 12 to the inside of Scott, trying to take the second position.
With both racing hard for the
second spot, McCloud tagged
the outside wall off the fourth
turn, and despite a hard shot to
the right side of his No. 5M,
McCloud remained in the second spot. On the 13th lap, Grey
beat McCloud through the center of turns three and four, but
McCloud got to the start finish
line ahead of Grey to hang on to
second. Grey would finally
complete the pass for second on
the 14th lap in the second turn.
When they passed the flag stand
for the final time, the Limited
Late Model checkers would fly
over the No. 06 2003 B & B
Construction,
Southeast
Kentucky Overhead Door,
Bryant's Body & Frame-sponsored machine of Davis. Larry
Grey Jr. of Lexington brought
the No. 12 to a solid runner up
finish ahead of McCloud, Chris
Prater and Al Madden.
Michael Paul Howard of
Falcon had the inside pole of
Saturday night's Super Bomber
feature, with the No. ASS of
Current points leader, Allen
Turner on the outside. Howard
would get the better of the field
on the start. Turner went to the
outside groove off the second
tum, up next to the cushion,
after an early side by side battle
with the No. XX of Jake Miller.
Defending champion Glen
Patton of Pikeville used the bottom of tum four to take the second spot from current points
leader, Allen Turner.
At the halfway point of the
20 lap feature, Howard and
Patton had pulled away to a
seven-car length lead over
Turner. With three to go, Patton
made a challenge to the inside
of Howard. Despite a late race
charge. at the Super Bomber
checkers it would be the
Anaconda Drilling, J.D. Carty
Resourses-sponsored
2004
Grand Prix of Howard taking
the win. by half-a-car length.
Patton crossed the finish line as
the runner up followed to the
stripe by the No. 74 of Ulysses's
Beadie Blackburn. Turner of
Minnie was fourth with the No.
69 of Ronnie Conley completing the top-five.
Salyersville's Jimmy Arnett
had the outside pole of Saturday
night's Claim Bomber feature,
with the No. U2 of Nathan
Grimm to the inside. When the
race got the green flag, Arnett
would respond to the green light
start the quickest, diving to the
bottom of the frrst tum to take
the lead off tum two and down
the backstretch with a early side
by side race for second between
Grimm and the No. 25 of Albert
Butcher. Arnett led the field to
the first recorded lap, with
Butcher taking second when
Grimm got loose in the fourth
tum, then Nathan had to chase
his car up the hill in the center of
tum two, leaving an opening for
the No. 18 of John Fitzpatrick,
and sending the former points
leader to fourth. On the sixth
lap, Butcher would have to
leave the track with a flat, and
return one lap down, putting
Fitzpatrick in the second spot
behind the leader, Arnett.
On the re-start, John looked
to the inside of Arnett in the center of turns one and two. Arnett
slipped just enough for the No.
18 of Fitzpatrick to take the lead
down the backstretch. But a caution would return the running
order to the last recorded lap.
Lap 10 had Fitzpatrick with the
lead again, and from there to the
Claim Bomber checkers, John
Fitzpatrick would claim the
Bomber checkers in the George
Caldwell racing engines powered 23 Welding, Tom's Pizza,
Cash Doctor Sponsored No. 18.
Mter leading the frrst eight laps,
Jimmy Arnett finished second,
followed by points leader, Pete
Castle
of
Martin,
A.J.
Stambaugh, Don Risner, and
Flat Gap's Dean Pennington.
Eighteen-year-old Jacob Ross
added to his points advantage in
the Modified Four Cylinder feature with another win in the High
Tech Engines, D & B Tire-sponsored 1995 Grand Am. Isom's
Kelly Neace took the No. 2
Mustang to a runner up finish
after he and Ross exchanged the
lead nearly every lap of the feature. Jeremy Hayes finished third.
Shawn Ousley led all12laps
of the regular stock four cylinder feature to take the win in the
Mosley's Video Plus, Wayland
Quick Mart No. lBS. Early race
leader Erwin Vance of Mud
creek finished second, followed
by points leader, Shawn
Henson, Alerd "Junebug"
Newsome, Jamie Hamilton, and
Falcon's Ryan Litteral.
The races slated for Saturday,
Aug. 27 will wrap up the season's points championship with
regular races scheduled for all
seven classes.
Joseph Clark, Cambellsburg, Jr., Elizabethtown, (Hardin
(Henry Co.); Kenneth Clouse, Co.); Jerome Longo, Jr.;
Owensboro, (Daviess Co.): Warsaw, (Gallatin Co.); Heather
Samuel
Coblentz,
Crab Major. Versailles, (Woodford
Orchard,
(Lincoln
Co.); Co.);
Anthony
McCoy,
William Cook, Jr., Royalton, Lancaster, (Garrard Co.); James
(Magoffin
Co.);
Jeremy McQueen, Crab Orchard,
Coomes; Scottsburg, Ind.; (Lincoln Co.); Otis Meredith,
Buddy Cornett, Greenup, Hodgenville, (Larue Co.);
(Greenup Co.); Jeffrey Cornett, Elmer Meyer, Star Prairie, WI;
Pippa Passes, (Knott Co.); Paul Dennis Miller, Louisville,
Cummins, Mount Vernon, (Jefferson Co.); Patrick Miller,
(Rockcastle C01); Matthew Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Carmie
Dalcin, Versailles, (Woodford Miller Ill, Louisville, (Jefferson
Co.); Johnny Davis, Lancaster, Co.); Michael Mize, East
(Garrard Co.); Marty Denney, Bernstadt, (Laurel Co.); Gary
Paris, (Bourbon Co.); John Moore, Jr., Shepherdsville,
Diamond, Jamestown, (Russell (Bullitt Co.); Charles Morris,
Co.); Walter A. Downey, Rising Mayking,
(Letcher
Co.);
Sun, Ind.; Eddie Endicott, Anthony
C.
Martoglio,
Glasgow,
(Barren
Co.); Somerset, (Pulaski Co.); Ken
Timothy Fields, Pikeville, (Pike Morrison, Cincinnati, OH;
Co.); Steven Flynt, Sadieville, Sonya Newsome, Pikeville,
(Scott Co.); James Freye II, (Pike Co.); James Nickell, Flat
Rockport, (Ohio Co.); Richard Gap, (Johnson Co.); Raymond
Gonzales, Somerset, (Pulaski Oaks, Hartford, (Ohio Co.);
Co.); Denver Hacker, Warsaw, Mark Pardon, Louisville,
(Gallatin Co.); Matthew Hall, (Jefferson); Michael Parks,
Middlesboro,
(Bell Co.); Verona, (Boone Co.); Marcus
William Hasken, Fairdale, Pennington,
Salyersville,
(Jefferson Co.); Roger Hilbert, (Magoffin Co.); Lester Poynter,
Versailles, (Woodford Co.); . Fountain Run, (Monroe Co.);
Elihu
Hoagland,
Island, Ronnie Preston, Paintsville,
(McLean Co.); Tyler Hooker, (Johnson Co.); Michael Pyke,
Fisherville (Jefferson Co.); Erlanger, (Kenton Co .); Guy
Louisville,
Ethan House, Nashville); David Raymond,
Justus, Oakland, (Warren Co.); (Jefferson Co.); Leslie N.
Steven Keffer, Upper Sandusky, Richardson, Campbellsville,
Ohio; Allen Keirn, West Union, (Taylor Co.); Neil Riggs,
Ohio; Michael E. Koerber, Stamping Ground, (Scott Co.);
Sellersburg, Ind.;
Harold Mark Risinger, Hartford, (Ohio
Lafeen, Danville, (Boyle Co.); Co.); Willard Ritchie, Jr.,
Thomas
Lilley,
Augusta, Topmost, (Knott Co.); Jeffery
(Bracken Co.); Robert Loebig, Robertson, Russellville, (Logan
,~
Co.); Robert Sageser II, JG
Sadieville, (Scott Co.); Bruce
Santerre,
Shepherdsville,
(Bullitt Co.); Robert Schadler,
Dry Ridge, (Grant Co.); Bruce
Schantz, Louisville, (Jefferson
Shather,
Co.);
Gregory
Paducah, (McCracken Co.); )'1
Wayne Shelton, Paducah, IU
(McCracken Co.); David )2
Shepherd,
Hager
Hill, /)
(Johnson Co. ); Don Shepherd, I')
Bimble, (Knox Co.); Marcus
;i
Sigmon,
Mount
Vernon, D
(Rockcastle Co.); Anita Smith, ..it.
Wellington, (Jefferson Co.); Jfl
Ronald Smith, Carrollton,
Co.);
Samuel
(Carroll
Sparkman, Viper, (Perry Co.);
Brian Stahlman, Goshen, 'h
(Oldham
Co.);
Kenneth
Stilger, Louisville, (Jefferson
Co.) ; Justo Suarez, Vine
Grove, (Hardin Co.);
Tracy Taylor, Columbia,
(Adair Co.); Jerry Teague,
Granite Falls, N.C., Russell
Truesdale, McKee, (Jackson
Co.); Fred Turnbull, Versailles,
(Woodford
Co.);
Henry
Vernon, Scottsville, (Allen
Co.);
John
Vissman,
Covington, (Kenton Co.);
Anthony White, Rush, (Boyd
Co.);
Jonathan
White,
Georgetown, (Scott Co.);
Ronald Winfield, Lexington, )W
(Fayette Co.); James Woods, 0!!
Louisville, (Jefferson Co.);
2
Matthew Woodson, Lexington, oT
(Fayette Co.); Charles Wright, n!J
Burnside, (Pulaski Co.); and
Mitchell Young, Webbville, )'IJ
(Lawrence Co.).
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In the win over Fairview, Paintsville touchdown.
Pugh found senior tight end
Paintsville grabbed an early
Kevin Williams on one touch- lead and took a 28-6 lead into
down pass and senior receiver halftime before settling for the
T.J. Freno on another.
two-touchdown-plus win.
S.enior .l1ltlning. back . Hans ..
Paints,ville.. (1.-.Q) will.trav,
Doderer rushed for another el to Floyd County this
Friday evening for a game
against host Allen Central ( 10), a 32-6 winner over Betsy
Layne in its season-opener.
Kickoff for the PaintsvilleAllen Central game is set at
7:30p.m.
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South Floyd dealt with hot
temperatures and an hour-plus
lightening delay en route to the
win over Magoffin County.
Now, the Raiders must get
ready to host Shelby Valley.
"Shelby Valley has a bunch
of strong kids," said Daniels.
"We've had the chance to watch
them on film and they look to
be real strong. It's hard to tell
how good they are this early in
the season, but they look to be a
good ballclub. They had the late
coaching change and I don't
know how much of an effect
that has had on them."
Before coaching his first
game as the Shelby Valley High
School football coach, Ben
Howard, 25, resigned. Anthony
Hampton took over the helm of
the Wildcat football program
and coached Shelby Valley to a
14-6 Class 2A, District 8 win
over East Ridge Friday night in
a game played as part of the
Pike County Bowl.
Kickoff for the Shelby
Valley-South Floyd game is set
for 7:30p.m .
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RAIDER NOTES:
• T.J. Hall has settled in as
an interior offensive lineman.
Offensively, Hall played last season at tight end for the Raiders.
Hall also doubles up and plays
defensive end.
•
South Floyd will play
four of its first five regular-season games at home.
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scores Friday
night In the game
against Magoffln
County. South
Floyd posted an B3 record last
season.
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The Allen Central
offense scored
32 points Friday
night en route to
a 32·6 win over
Floyd County
rival Betsy
Layne. Freshman
Josh Prater quarterbacks the
Rebels.
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THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
24, 2005 • 83
USA Men win gold at World University Games
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The 2005 USA Men's World
l niversity Garnes Team completed a dominant showing at
the World University Games
w~) a gold medal-winning 8570 victory over the Ukraine on
Sunday afternoon.
Craig Smith (Boston College
I Los Angeles, Calif.) led six
players in double figures for the
USA with 16 points, with all his
points coming in the fust half.
Shelden Williams (Duke I
Forest Park, Okla.) added 15,
Gerry McNamara (Syracuse I
Scranton, Pa.), 13, Randy Foye
<Villanova I Newark, N.J.), 12,
Chris Hernandez (Stanford I
firesno, Calif.), 11, and Vincent
Gr" er (Minnesota I Charlotte,
.<...) 10. Williams also pulled
down a game-high 14 rebounds.
In winning gold for the 13th
time in Garnes history, the USA
·ent 8-0, winning each game by
an average margin of 29.9
points per game. The Americans
treated every opponent the
same, scoring double-digit wins
over Iran, Slovakia, Germany,
China,
Czech
Republic,
Australia, Russia and Ukraine.
The closest contest was a 10point win over the Germans.
"I thought Randy Faye,
Shelden Williams and Vincent
Grier, who played most of the minutes for us in the tournament, were
· exhausted today," said USA and
Villanova University (Pa.) head
coach Jay Wright. "It showed what
kind of team we have. They played
tired and everyone else stepped it
up. Craig Smith had 16 in the first
half, he gets hurt, and so many
other players stepped up. It was
truly a team effort."
The USA trailed early in the
fust quarter by a 12-8 count,
before closing on a 10-2 run to
lead 24-17 after the fust period.
Smith provided the spark with
12 first quarter points on a variety of moves around the basket
as well as short jump shots.
The USA led 46-33 at halftime
as the 3-point shot was key for the
Americans in the second quarter.
The U.S. totaled five in the period, with McNamara connecting
on three, while Hernandez and
Matt Haryasz (Stanford I Page,
Ariz.) had the others.
Smith had 16 fust half points
before he limped off the court
with a strained right calf muscle
late in the second quarter. Smith
was evaluated by Gloria Beim,
M.D., Chief Medical Officer for
the 2005 U.S. Summer World
University Games, and did not
return. It was an injury that
Smith had been playing with for
the last four weeks.
"I felt good coming out and I
felt it pop a little bit (in the second quarter)," said Smith, who
made eight of his nine shots. "It
(gold medal) means a lot as far
as me and the whole United
States, the guys and my family.
It is a tremendous, once-in-a-
lifetime opportunity."
McNamara had 12 of his
points in the opening 20 minutes,
with four 3-pointers to his credit.
The Ukraine, which was led
by Igor Kryvych with 19 points,
never made a serious run at the
U.S. in the second half.
Leading
58-44,
the
Americans scored the next eight
points to lead 66-44 after a Foye.
bank shot with 2:13 remaining
in the third quarter. With Foye
and Grier scoring seven points
apiece in the third quarter, the
U.S. led 69-49.
"We gave it all we had, this
was the last game and we had to
finish on top," said Foye, who
connected on five of 13 field goal
attempts. "Our goal was not to just
win a gold medal but be the best
team possible. Everyone stuck
together and tried to do things that
coach was teaching us."
The Americans put an exclamation on the victory in the fourth
quarter when first Grier. then
Williams scored on consecutive
plays with dunk shots over
Ukranian
center
Oleksiy
Pecmcrov. giving the Americans
an 80-60 lead Williams had seven
fourth quarter points for the USA.
The Ukramans could get no
closer than the final score.
"It's a · great feeling,"
Willimm. said. "We came out
here and have been together for
the last three weeks. We jelled at
the right time. Everyone knew
their role and it was J great feeling seeing everybody playing
like they can play. We reaped
the benefits from it."
The USA has now won nine
straight
World
University
Games and 55 of the last 56.
They have an overall mark of
127-17. and have now medaled
in all 18 Garnes in which they
have participated.
·
"This whole experience has
been about a group of twelve
stars giving up of themselves to
be a team,'' Wright said. "As
coaches we knew we had very
talented players, but the thing
we are most proud of is the fact
that these guys really wanted to
be part of a USA Basketball
team. They didn 't care who was
the leading scorer or who
played. That is really something
special to be part of and is
unique these days."
The gold medal was the first
for the U.S. since 1999. The
USA had won the bronze in
2001 and did not send a team to
the 2003 Games in Daegu,
South Korea. The double gold's
scored by the USA men's and
women's basketball teams is the
first since 1997.
"We are very proud of that,"
Wright said. "We take the
responsibility of representing
United States basketball very
seriously, and I think these players did. They took great pride in
winning the gold medal for the
men, because the women were
great here too."
TONECREST TOURNEY: Louisville set to host 2005
Field Hockey Championship
Ailes
.) wins pro division;
McDonald takes amateur division
TIMES STAFF REPORT
PRESTONSBURG The
weather was hot and so was the
golf this past weekend as the
Stonecrest
Invitational
Tournament was held Saturday
and Sunday.
The Professional Division was
won by Timmy Ailes, who closed
with the low round of the tournament on Sunday, a 5 under par 67.
(~pled with his first round score
of 1 under 71, he ended up at 138
to win by 4 shots over defending
champion Jeremy Langley and
Eric Frishette, the frrst round
leader. Langley closed with a round
of 70 after opening up with a 72,
while Frishette had a 74 on Sunday,
after shooting 68 Saturday.
Fourth-place
went
to
Brandon Brown with a score of
143, and local pro Ryan Martin
ended up fifth with a score of
145 after rounds of 73 and 72.
The amateur championship
went to Greg McDonald, who
posted rounds of 72 and 75 for a
147 total. McDonald finished
two shots over Kevin Auton,
while Larry Brown took the fust
flight with a score of 159 from
the championship tees.
Competition was close in
each of the flights with the highlight of the tournament being a
five-way tie for frrst in the third
flight with John Cecil, Danny
Hamilton, Jimmy Simpson,
Mike Brescoach and Greg
Stumbo each finishing at 164.
After a four-hole playoff,
Stumbo claimed the win over
Simpson, with Brescoach ending up third.
Other flight winners were
Vincent Vaughn claiming the
second flight with a- score {)f
152; Eddie Sheppard taking the
fourth flight with a score of 172,
Danny Lowe finishing fifth with
a 177 and Mike Conley claiming sixth with a score of 189.
The Gold title sponsor for the
event was Perry Distributing. The
Silver Sponsor was Highlands
Regional Medical Center. Bronze
sponsors were Citizens National
Bank, East Kentucky Beverage,
Wal-Mart and Reno's, Corporate
sponsors were ICC Technology
Partners, Reed Engineering,
Music-Carter, Food City and
First Commonwealth Bank. .
Hole sponsors included
Owens Cutlery, Statewide Press,
Big Sandy Heating and Cooling,
Ronnie
M.
Slone, First
Guaranty
Bank,
Commonwealth Chiropractic,
Prestonsburg Citgo, Floyd
Greene Insurance, Brad Hughes
Darrell
Patton
Toyota,
Insurance, Thrner Technology,
Big Sandy RECC, David Neely;
Layne's Hardware, Childers and
Venters Inc., Walters Toyota,
Logan Corporation, Layne Bros.
Ford, and Hall and Clark
Insurance.
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LOUISVILLE
The
University of Louisville has
been selected as the host site
for the 2005 NCAA Division I
Field Hockey Championship
which
will
take
place
November 18 and 20 at Trager
Stadium. This marks second
time in four years that the
Louisville has hosted the
NCAA field hockey championship - Trager Stadium was
also the site of the event in
2002. Aside from field hockey,
the only other national championship that U of L has hosted
was the 1969 NCAA Men's
Basketball Final Four which
was held at Freedom Hall.
'The University of Louisville
and the field hockey program are
so proud to be hosting the
NCAA field hockey championship again," said U of L head
coach Pam Bustin. "Being chosen to host such a coveted event
is a great compliment which
reflects the dedication and passion from not only the people of
our athletic department, but also
from the entire Louisville community. The University of
LouisviUe takes pride in providing a first rate event for those
student-athletes who dedicate
and sacrifice so much to represent the sport, their universities
and themselves. We look forward to a thrilling national
championship tournament."
The semifinal gan1es will
take place on Friday, Nov. 18 at
5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. with the
final game slated for Sunday,
Nov. 20 at 12:30 p.m. Sunday's
championship game will be
televised by CSTV. Single
game tickets are $10 for adults
and $5 for students with a valid
student J.D. Tournament passes
are priced at $15 for adults and
$7 for students. For more ticket
information, contact the U of L
ticket office at 502-852-5151.
In addition to the NCAA
tournament games, the National
Field
Hockey
Coaches
Association North/South Senior
All-Star Games will take place
on Nov. 19. The NFHCA contests will showcase the top field
hockey semors in NCAA
Divisions land IT. The NFHCA
Division I and IT North/South
All-Star games will take place·
Saturday, Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m.
and 7:30p.m. Admission is free.
'There are freaks of nature, but
ot enough to fill an NFL roster'
by JIM LITKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Common sense and science
have been warning for some
time that we're pushing athletes
t · ard the limits of size, speed
an toughness without regard
for how they get there, or stay
there. Even so, there remains no
shortage of kids willing to risk
everything for the opportunity.
By most accounts, 23-yearold Thomas Herrion was one of
those.
He hung on with the Dallas
Cowboys until the final cuts at
training camp last fall, played
in NFL Europe earlier this
year, spent much of the summer working out in the swelterin' East Texas heat and was
chasing a spot on San
Francisco's roster when he collapsed and died just a few minutes after walking off the field
after a preseason game in
Denver late Saturday night.
The reason Herrion worked so
hard to stick with the 49ers, he
told pals, was so he could buy
a house for his mother.
The cause of Herrion's death
won't be determined until toxicology tests are completed, usually about three to six weeks. He
was listed as a 6-foot-3, 310p~nd guard, but estimates of
hiS playing weight by teammates and coaches at some of
Berrian's stops often added
hctween 10 and 30 pounds.
That sounds big - too big to
be healthy, according to some
mcdieal expc)ts - but it's just
about average for NFL lineman
these days. The story of how
that came to be could haunt the
league for years to come.
Twenty years ago, some of
those same experts were warning that super-sizing pro football was a recipe for disaster,
,
' t
nldini v how so manv
by Jose Canseco, football had than to say he suspected it was
Lyle Alzada. He played a differ- higher than what drug tests
ent sport in an earlier era, but turned up.
But he also believed most of
Alzada, who similarly admitted
steroid use after his career was the new generation came by
over, was just as provocative their bulk honestly.
"Money is a powerful incenand just as certain that players
on every side of him played tive. If you can develop a lineman
who's 6-8 and 330 with the same
juiced, too.
"There are freaks of nature," speed and agility of guy who's
he liked to say, "but not enough 250, who's more dangerous?"
The NFL began answering
to fill an NFL roster."
It's even more true today. By the question with a rule change
every measure, steroid use is in the mid-1970s. Stuck with a
down, there still aren't enough spate of low-scoring games, the
"freaks of nature" to go around league's competition committee
and yet players are bigger than decided to allow offensive lineman to extend their arms to
ever.
When Alzada ran riot with block, and stopped cornerbacks
the Broncos, Browns and from jamming receivers at the
Raiders in the. late 1970s and line of scrimmage. Those
early 1980s, the NFL didn't test changes resulted in smaller,
for steroids and there were no quicker, even lighter comermore than two dozen 300- backs and receivers. Lineman,
pounders. Two seasons ago, the on the other hand, just got bigoffensive linemen on all but ger and bigger.
All those warnings from
three teams averaged 300
experts
like Goldman went
pounds. According to this sealargely
unheeded.
Lineman didson's rosters, as many as 350
n't
grow
to
300-plus
pounds in
players have already tipped the
the NFL, they began arriving
scale at that weight.
When VIkings All•Pro line- that way. Not only that; many of
man Korey Stringer died four them were not just big, they
years ago of complications from were agile - despite having 25
heat stroke, it forced the NFL to to 30 percent body fat, meaning
rethink the strategy of brutal they were carrying as much as
practices in brutal weather. But 90 extra pounds.
But agility was not the only
left unexamined were the underthing
that increased with size.
lying dangers - how a heart set
So
did the risk factor for
up to support someone who
strokes,
high blood pressure,
should weigh 220 pounds would
traumatic joint injuries and carhold up in someone at 320.
"Pick any of the body's sys- diovascular problems. As unsettems - skeletal, muscular, circu- tled as we should be by what
latory - the same is true across happened to Herrion - "a sad
the board," Bob Goldman, a thing," Cowboys coach Bill
prominent steroids researcher Parcells called it, "He kind of
and sports medicine expert, said came in as one of those underdog kind of kids and hung in
at the time.
A few years earlier, Goldman there," - it's a little late in the
finished a study on the evolution game to be surprised.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
This time, Woods closes out the victory
by DOUG FERGUSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AKRON, Ohio -A birdie on
the 16th hole that dove into the
cup at the last second gave Tiger
Woods the lead. All that
remained were two holes to
secure a victory and avoid a
playoff with Chris DiMarco.
Unlike the Masters, Woods
got the job done in regulation
Sunday in the NEC Invitational.
He left orne drama at the
end with a tee shot that leaked
just enough to the right that he
was blocked by trees. Woods
punched a 9-iron through two
trees, and the ball bounded up to
the green about 20 feet away on
the collar, setting up a two-putt
par and another World Golf
Championship.
DiMarco, who played four
groups ahead, watched the ending from the clubhouse dining
room at Firestone.
"If you're hoping for him to
make bogey, you didn't do what
you needed do out there,"
DiMarco said.
Woods did just enough.
Unable to make a putt - he
missed five of them from inside
8 feet - he delivered with an 18foot birdie on the 16th hole that
broke sharply to the left over the
last 12 inches, then finished
with two pars for a l-over 71.
"I' vc had that putt for three
or four years, and I miss it low
every time," Woods said. "I
made sure I threw the ball out
there a tittle bit more .. . and it
just snapped at the end. I
thought it was going to lip out,
which was how my whole day
was going. But it lipped in,
which was sweet."
It was only the fifth time in
45 career victories on the PGA
Tour that Woods shot over par in
the final round, and the first
time since the 2003 American
Express Championship - another WGC event- outside Atlanta.
And it continued his staggering success in the events
designed to bring together the
best from all over the world.
Since the World Golf
Championships began in 1999,
Woods has won at least one of
them every year. His now has
won nine of 18, and his combined earnings of official WGC
events - about $11.6 millionmake up more than 20 percent
of his career earnings.
"You started these too late,"
he said.
Woods fmished at 6-under
274 and earned $1.3 million for
his PGA Tour-leading fifth victory of the season.
But he has rarely had to work
this hard at Firestone, a course
where he has won four times the
last six tries.
Woods shot 71 in the fmal
round in 1999 to hold off a late·
charge by Phil Mickelson,
although Woods bogeyed the
18th hole to make it closer than
it was. He also went seven playoff holes against Jim Furyk in
200 1, after a final round in
which both played well.
But with stiff breezes
swirling through the tree-lined
fairways, the NEC Invitational
was a matter of hanging on.
Kentucky native Kenny
Perry, tied with Woods at 7
under par going into the last
round, built a two-shot lead at
the turn when Woods' putter faltered and was poised to win
until he started missing fairways, making five bogeys in a
six-hole stretch.
"There really isn't much to
say other than I played lousy,"
Perry said after a 74.
Paul McGinley of Ireland
was one behind after three
rounds and among four players
who had at least a share of the
lead Sunday. He was still tied
until going from the left rough
to the right rough on the 17th
hole and making bogey, sending
him to a 72 to tie for third at 276
with Vijay Singh (67) and Ryan
Palmer (69).
Sergio Garcia and Stuart
Appleby were two behind, and
both came undone. Garcia
slashed out of the rough, first at
his ball, then in disgust, on his
Vaughn Taylor wins second straight
Reno-Tahoe Open in record fashion
by SCOTT SONNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENO. Nev. - Vaughn
Taylor became the third player
on the PGA Tour to successfully defend a tillc this year,
breaking the Reno-Tahoe Open
scoring record Sunday in a
three-stroke
victory over
Jonathan Kaye.
Taylor, in his second year on
tour, closed with an even-par
72 to join Vijay Singh and
Stuart Appleby as the only
repeat champions this year and
also became the fifth wire-towire winner of the season.
Taylor opened with rounds
of 64, 67 and 64 en route to a
21-under 267 total, four better
than the previous tournament
record set by Kirk Triplett in
2003. The winner also broke
the tournament's 36- and 54hole marks.
''Today was a pretty boring,
uneventful round of golf, but
I'm thrilled,·' Taylor said. "I
never felt like it was mine. You
never know what's going to
happen. I'm glad it's over. I'm
really proud to have won here
twice."
Kaye shot a 67 Sunday -his
fourth round in the 60s - but
missed three birdie putts from
within 15 feet on the last three
holes to finish at 18 under on
the 7,472-yard Montreux Golf
and Country Club on the edge
of the Sierra Nevada. He started the day at 13-under.
"Eight shots is a lot to make
up on this course, on any
course when someone is playing as great as Vaughn was,"
Kaye said.
Todd Fischer, who lives next
to the course, had a 70 to finish
third at 17 under. J.J. Henry
(66), J.P. Hayes (69) and Aaron
Baddeley (70) followed at 15
under. Jcspcr Parncvik started
the day seven strokes back, but
shot a 74 to finish at 12 under.
Taylor, who grew up in
Augusta, Ga., and whose goal
is to play in the Masters, averaged 300 yards a drive this
week and was sharp with his
irons the first three rounds. He
made eight birdie putts
Saturday - all from inside I 0
feel - to open up a six-stroke
lead over Fischer at 21 under.
On Sunday, Taylor's biggest
putts were par saves, including
a 5-footer on the opening hole
where he drove into a fairway
bunker. He made a 4-footcr to
save bogey after it took him
two shots to get out of a greenside bunker on the 439-yard,
par-4 sixth.
"That was a clutch putt. I
didn't want to make doublt.
there," Taylor said.
The bogey dropped him
back to 20 under, three strokes
ahead of Baddeley, who birdied
four of the first six holes to get
to 17 under, but bogeyed three
holes on the back nine.
Taylor got back to 21 under
when he drove 336 yards then
hit a 280 approach to the left
edge of the 616-yard, par-S
ninth and two putted from 50feet for his only birdie in the
final round after carding 24
over the first three days.
"That 3-iron I hit from the
fairway was the best shot I hit
all day. It was right where I
aimed it. That was a big 2putt," he said.
Kaye chipped in from 45
feet for his third birdie of the
day on the par-3 seventh, but
took a bogey on No. 9 when he
drove left into the sage brush
and missed a 21-footer to save
par. He birdied Nos. 11, 12 and
14 - all from 8 feet or shorter to get to 18-under, but missed a
12-footer on the par-3 16th. He
hit his second shot 300 yards to
the back fringe of the 636-yard,
par-5 17th and putted within 3
feet but rolled his birdie
attempt 3 feet past and came
away with another par.
"If I can make an eagle there
(on 17) and then birdie 18, he's
going to feel some heat. You've
got to make those when you're
in contention," said Kaye, who
also finished as the runner-up
in 2002. "But I was injured
(elbow inflammation) and didn't even know if I was going to
play so I'm happy with my performance."
Fischer, who had four
bogeys and two birdies Sunday,
had mixed feelings about his
play.
"I hung in there as good as I
could and made a couple of
birdies on the back then just
fizzed out," Fischer said. "I feel
I could have done better, but I
did make a move on the Top
125" on the money list, which
would maintain his tour card
next year.
Taylor's victories at Reno
are his only two on tour. He
also won the Knoxville Open
on the Nationwide Tour in 2003
and was a four-time winner on
the Hooters Tour
Taylor arrived at Reno this
year ranked 86th on the money
list with $664,228. The
$540,000 winner's check pushes him past the $1 million mark
for the second consecutive
year.
"My goal is to play in the
Masters next year," said Taylor,
who would have to finish in the
Top 40 to make it.
"I'm sure I'm not there yet,
but close. This week was
huge," he said. He lives just 10
minutes from the course and
has played it before, but never
in the tourney.
He finished 67th on the
money list with $1.1 million
last year - one of four rookies
to surpass $1 million - and
used part of his winnings to
help build his parents a new
home outside Augusta.
''They're still building, so
they may come and ask me for
a swimming pool," )le said.
way to a 74. Appleby was penalized two shots when he tried to
take a drop from the c~ path. His
ball bounced back onto the path,
but his caddie picked it up before
it stopped rolling. He shot 74.
DiMarco, in contention for the
first time since the Masters,
birdied three of the first six holes
to get into the mix, and he
rebounded frotn consecutive
bogeys on the back nine to reach 6
under, alone atop the leaderboard.
But from the 17th fairway, he
went at the back pin and flred
too far, landing in deep grass
behind the green. His chip went
15 feet by the hole and he made
bogey.
"Should have hit a softer 7iron," DiMarco said.
Woods heard the groan of the
crowd from the 14th tee not far
away, and it gave him life.
He was coming off another
short miss - 5 feet for birdie at
No. 13 that would have given
him a tie for the lead - and he
was so angry that he banged his
driver off the cart path as he
walked to the next tee, slamming it hard into the turf when
he got off the concrete.
Before long, he saw DiMarco
had finished at 5 under.
Woods
figured
birdie
chances would be rare because
of the tucked pins on the 15th
and 17th, and because No. 18 is
difficult to fmd the fairway.
"My realistic chance was
16," he said.
He didn't make it easy on
himself with a drive so far right
into the trees that the best he
could do was punch out into the
fairway, 189 yards from the
hole, the flag located just behind
the water.
Woods had been there
Sunday morning when he finished his third round, and hit 6iron frotn 185 to 20 feet for a
safe par. This time he went with
7-iron, and the ball landed safely behind the cup, 18 feet away.
"I just trying to make some
birdies somewhere, and luckily I
made that putt on 16," Woods said.
It felt like the only putt he
made all day. Ultimately, it was
the only that mattered.
World Golf
CluunpionshipB-NEC
lnvittltiotuil Scores
$204,000 65-67-69-70-271
J.J. Henry,
$124,000 70-67-70-66-273
J.P. Hayes,
$124,000 71-66-67--69-273
Aaron Baddeley,
$124,000 67-70-66-7(}..+73
Tag Ridings,
$100,500 69-69-69-67-274
FteJrik Jacobson,
$93;000 65~70..68~72...275
Spike McRoy,
$78,000 69-69-70..68-:276
$78,000 71-69-66-7(}..276
$78,000 67-68-67-74-276
Doug Barron,
$60,000 73-70-69-65-277
Duffy Wa[f/Qrf,
$60,000 67-70-70-70-277
Darron Stiles,
$51,000 72-68-70-68-278
Ctaig Barlow,
$51,000 68-68-71-71-278
Justin Rose,
$51,000 72-70-65-71-278
D.J. Brigman,
$39,120 69-70..71-69-279
Bill Glasson,
$39 '120 72-62··73-72-279
Harrison FraztU',
• $39,120 74-66-67-72-279
David Peoples,
$27,600 71-70-72--67-280
Carl PetterssQn,
$27,600 70-72-70-68-280
Joe Ogilvie,
$21,600 69-70-71-70-280
Kevin Sutherland,
$27,600 70-69-71-7(}..280
$94,400 68-70--61-74-279
Tho1flal Bjorn,
$83,000 70-67-72-71-280
Trevor lmmtlman,
$77.ooo 73·71-71-66-281
Kennuh F e'f'I'U,
$17,000 72-66-71-72-281
$69,000 72-73-68-69-282
Ptulraig Harrington,
$69,000 75-68-69-70-282
Lee WeNtwood,
$69,000 73~72-63-74-282
Xerox Classic:· Price captures
first Nationwide Tour title
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Rick
Price won his frrst Nationwide
Tour title, shooting a l-over 71
for a one-stroke victory over
Monday qualifier Andrew Pratt
in the Xerox Classic.
The 37-year-old Price earned
$99,000 to jump from l17th to
26th on the money list with
$121,250. The top 20 at the end
of the season will earn 2006
PGA Tour cards.
The former Methodist College
player, tied for the lead with Todd
Pinneo after three rounds, finished with an 11-under 269 total
on the Donald Ross-designed
Irondequoit Country Club course.
1\~p.~u~kr course
receives
US Women's Amateur
TIMES STAFF REPORT
with many top female amateur
golfers from across the world
expected to participate. Past
champions include junior golf
phenom Michelle Wie (2003),
and LPGA Tour stars Candie
Kung (2001), Jill McGill
(1994),
Danielle
Ammaccapane (1985), and the
late Heather Farr (1984).
Kearney Hill Golf Links
was designed by Pete and P.B.
Dye and has hosted a number
of prominent golf competitions. Earlier this month, the
course will hosed the 5/3
Bank-Callaway Golf Kentucky
Open Championship
Larry Gilbert KGA Public
Links Championship canceled
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The 2005 Larry Gilbert
KGA
Public
Links
Championship has been canceled. The tournament, scheduled for Aug. 29-30 at
Weissinger Hills Golf Course,
has had limited participation
for the past two years and again
this year. The KGA Board of
Directors will address the situation during the off-~ason and
make a decision concerning the
championships' future.
If you have entered this event,
you will receive a notice and
refund information in the mail.
$39,120 76-67-71-65-279
Kevin Na,
Sergio Gorda,
JimFuryk,
Rich Beem,
$39,120 74-65-72-68-279
$94,400 67-73-69-70-279
Stuarl Appleby,
$94,400 68-70-67.·74-279
$77,000 75-68-67-71-281
$78,000 70~67-70..69-276
Jesper Parnevik,
$94,400 66-71-72-7(}..279
Davis Love Ill,
Justin Leollllrd,
Steve Allan,
Dean Wdson,
$135,000 72·68-66-72--278
Rod Pamplmg,
$94,400 71-70-71-67-279
Htnrlk Stenson,
$77,000 76-69-67·69-281
LEXINGTON- The USGA
has awarded the 2007 United
States Women's Amateur
Public Links Championship to
Kearney Hill Golf Links in
Lexington. Kearney Hill hosted the 1997 United States
Amateur
Public
Links
Championship, and will have
the unique distinction of having hosted both the men's and
women's versions of these
USGA Championships. The
2007 U.S. Women's Amateur
Public Links Championship
will take place June 17-24,
Todd Fischer,
$135,000 70-72-68-68-278
Zoch Johnson,
$135,000 70-70..69-69-278
David Toms,
$135,000 71.-67-69-71-278
}oat MIU'ia Olazllbal,
Paul C(l$ey,
Vaughn Tay/{}r,
$324,000 69-66-68-67-270
Ptt'l'y,
Jay Haas,
Public Links Championship
Jonathan Kaye,
K~nny
$200,000 70-69-64-7 4-277
Colin Montgomerie,
$77,000 71-70-73-67-281
Reno-Tahoe
Open Scores
$54"0,000 64-67-64-72-267
David Howell,
$200,000 70-68-70-69-277
Old Photographs Restored
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photos repaired
nowt before
further deterioration.
Creases ,specs, tears,
and stains removed.
Pratt also shot a 71.
David McKenzie (68), Jeff
Quinney (70) and Scott
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NATIONAL LEAGUE: Reds 13, Diamondbacks 6
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CINCINNATI - Wily Mo
Pena knows he needs to make
the most of his chances.
Pena hit a pair of three-run
homers to set a career high with six
RBis and lead the Cincinnati Reds
"er the Arizona Diamondbacks
13-6 Sunday.
"It felt great," Pena said. "I just
have to keep it going. I don't feel
pressure. I just want to do the best
I can and play the game hard."
Pena and Edwin Encarnacion
hit three-run homers off Brad
Halsey in a seven-run fourth
inning, and Austin Kearns,
Felipe Lopez and Sean Casey
also homered for Cincinnati.
Pena hit his second homer in the
eighth off Brandon Lyon, when
Casey followed to make il consecutive homers.
Pena has three homers in his
last seven plate appearances and
16 homers this season. He is fighting for playing time in an outfield
than includes Ken Griffey Jr.,
Kearns and Adam Dunn.
"I know he wants to play, but
with the way Dunn is playing
and the way Griffey is playing
and the way Kearns plays right
field ... It's tough to take Kearns
out, the way he plays defense,"
Reds interim manager Jerry
Narron said. "Everybody knows
we have a fly ball pitching staff,
and it's tough to take him out."
Cincinnati took two of three
from the Diamondbacks to win
a home series for the first time
since July 22-24 against
Milwaukee, when the Reds also
won two of three.
Eric Milton (7-12) allowed two
runs and six hits in six innings,
and didn't allow a home run for
only the sixth time in 27 starts this
season. Milton has allowed a
major league-high 35 homers.
"I could've gone further,"
Milton said. "Everything was
good. You put up a seven-run
inning early, it really puts you at
ease. It helps you relax and
focus on what you have to do."
Halsey (8-10) gave up seven
runs and eight hits in four
innings, losing his third straight
start after going 4-0 in his previous six. Arizona went 4-8 on a
season-high 12-game trip.
After facing just one batter
over the minimum nine through
the first three innings, Halsey
walked Rich Aurilia leading off
the fourth, then gave up a single
to Griffey and a 437-foot homer
on a 1-2 pitch to Pena that
bounced off the batter's eye in
center field.
Casey singled, Keams doubled
and Encarnacion lined a homer
into the left-field seats. Lopez
added an opposite-field solo
homer that bounced off the top of
the fence in front of the visitors'
bullpen down the right-field line.
Melvin got the final out before
manager Bob Melvin sent up a
pinch-hitter for him in the fifth.
"Everything was going fine,"
Halsey said. ''Then I walked the
leadoff batter, and that's never
good. I still felt like I was getting ahead of the hitters, but I
just didn't make good pitches
with two strikes."
Melvin was ejected for the
fourth time, arguing that
Kearns' homer hit the top of the
wall and stayed in play
Arizona scored two runs in
the sixth on Troy Glaus' sacrifice fly and Luis Terrero's single. Tony Clark hit a two-run
single off Brian Shackelford in
the seventh, but Kearns homered in the bottom half against
Greg Aquino. Kearns has three
homers in three games and 12
this season.
Alex Cintron hit a two-run
homer off Kent Mercker in the
eighth, the second pinch-hit
homer of his career.
"We haven't played well on
this road trip," Melvin said.
"After Cintron's home run, I
thought we had a chance - if we
could stop them."
Notes: Cincinnati has scored
six or more runs in an inning
three times in its last three
games. .. . Arizona 2B Craig
Counsell turned 35 Sunday. . ..
Diamondbacks rookie Conor
Jackson walked as a pinch hitter
in the seventh and remained hitless in 17 straight at -bats ...
Quinton McCracken is hitless in
his last 12 at-bats after striking
out as a pinch hitter in the fifth.
... SS Royce Clayton was 0 for5 to snap his season-high hitting
streak at nine games. He had
reached base at least once in 19
consecutive games.
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Randy Johnson could not
believe he allowed a home run
to Chris Widger on a pitch he
threw where he wanted.
Maybe Johnson shouldn't
4Htve been so surprised. After
all, three other Chicago players
had already homered off him in that inning.
Johnson allowed home runs
to three consecutive batters for
the first time in his major league
career and four in all during the
fourth inning, and the Chic~go
White Sox beat the New York
Yankees 6-2 Sunday to stop a
seven-game losing streak.
The White Sox had scored
only two runs in their previous
three games. They tripled that
total on only 16 pitches in the
4'>urth against Johnson (11-8).
Tadahito Iguchi, Aaron
Rowand and Paul Konerko hit
solo homers with one out. After
singles by Jermaine Dye and
Juan Uribe, Widger hit a threerun shot on a high 1-2 pitch that
Johnson wanted him to chase.
"How do you explain something like that?" Johnson said .
"It's the one .thiog.!hati'U ~
away from this game not really
understanding."
Just as puzzling is how the Big
Unit has gone from being one of
baseball's most dominant pitch. s to the easiest one to homer off
of in the American League.
Johnson has allowed 29
homers, most in the AL and second in the majors behind
Cincinnati's Eric Milton (35).
The most Johnson has allowed
in a season was 30 with Arizona
in 1999.
In other AL games, it was:
Boston 5, the Los Angeles Angels
1; Kansas City 5, Oakland 4 in 12
innings; Cleveland 5, Baltimore
1; Tampa Bay 6, Texas 3;
Minnesota 8, Seattle 3; and
Detroit 17, Toronto 6.
4J Johnson retired nine in a row
before Chicago's homer outburst. Konerko 's drive came in
his return to the lineup after he
missed the frrst two games of the
series with a strained lower back.
"I knew we'd eventually bust
out," Konerko said. "You just his fourth straight start, and host
never know when it's going to Cleveland won its fourth
happen. We were taking good straight to move within a halfswings before that, there was game of Oakland in the wildgood energy on the bench. We card race.
just stayed aggressive and kept
The Orioles fell to 13-23 since
swinging."
the All-Star break and lost for the
Johnson also has had back 26th time in 36 road games.
problems, and was forced to Bruce Chen (10-7) took the loss.
miss a start earlier this month.
Twins 8, Mariners 3: At
He allowed 10 hits Sunday, but Minneapolis, Lew Ford homestruck out eight and walked red for the third straight game,
none in a complete game, and hitting a three-run drive and
both he and manager Joe Torre helping Minnesota win for the
were pleased with the results ninth time in 11 games.
except for the fourth inning.
Matthew LeCroy drove in
"I felt very comfortable two runs, Joe Mauer reached
watching Randy pitch," Torre base five times and Shannon
said. "The first three innings it Stewart had three hits for
looked like he was having an Minnesota. Brad Radke (8-10)
easy time locating the ball. But surrendered only four hits in
that inning, it seemed like the seven solid innings.
more pitches he tried to make,
Joel Pineiro (5-8) gave up 13
the less success he had trying to hits and eight runs in 5 2-3
locate them."
innings.
Former
Yankee
Jose
Devil Rays 6, Rangers 3:
Contreras (8-7) allowed two Kenny Rogers (11-7) lost his
runs - one earned - and 11 hits, third straight start since serving
and matched his career high by a 13-game suspension and
pitching eight innings.
Jonny Gomes homered and
Royals 5, Athletics 4, 12 drove in two runs as Tampa Bay
innings: At Oakland, Calif., completed a three-game sweep.
Kansas City won it S(jiCQlld,.. - Texas completed a season...straightgame following a 19-game high 13-game.... road trip with
losing streak, with Emil Brown o{\ly one win. It's the most losshitting a go-ahead single 'Off J(iko es· on any road trip in franchise
Calero (2-1) in the 12th inning.
history.
The Royals came back from
Casey
Fossum
(7-10)
three runs down in the eighth allowed three runs and seven
inning and won consec,utive hits in five innings, and Danys
games for the frrst time since Baez pitched the ninth for his
July 26-27 against the White 29th save. Tampa Bay has won
Sox. Jimmy Gobble (1-0) five straight and is 23-12 since
pitched three hitless innings.
the All-Star break.
Red Sox 5, Angels 1: Edgar
Tigers 17, Blue Jays 6: At
Renteria hit a three-run homer Detroit, Carlos Pena hit a threeand Manny Ramirez added a run homer in a seven-run first
two-run shot as visiting Boston inning, and Detroit extended its
earned a split of a four-game winning streak to four.
series between division leaders.
It was the most runs for the
Mike Timlin (5-2) pitched Tigers since a 17-3 win over
two hitless innings for the victo- Cleveland on April 23, 2004.
ry, which extended Boston's AL Detroit, which has won seven of
East lead over the Yankees to eight, won three straight over
four games. Curt Schilling Toronto for its first sweep since
pitched the ninth but will rejoin taking three games from San
the starting rotation Thursday.
Diego from June 14-16.
Paul Byrd (9-8) remained
Dustin ·McGowan (1-1)
winless in six starts.
allowed 12 runs - 10 earned Indians 5, Orioles 1: Travis nine hits, three hit batters and
Hafner drove in four runs to two walked in 4 1-3 innings. His
help C. C. Sabathia (10-9) win ERA rose from 5.95 to 8.63.
~ KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - The
Kannapolis Intimidators wasted
no time getting started against
the West Virginia Power, scoring four runs in the frrst inning
of Sunday afternoon's game as
they went on to beat the Power
9-2, sending the Power to their
sixth straight loss.
Tom Brice drove in the first
run in the first inning on a Sac
Fly RBI. Bernie Gonazlez was
hit by a pitch with the bases
loaded to plate the second run of
the inning and Ryan McCarthy
knocked in the final two runs on
a single. Kannapolis struck
again, scoring four times in the
bottom of the third. McCarthy
knocked in two more runs on a
double and Jose De Los Santos
drove in the final two on a triple.
The Intimidators added to their
lead on a solo homerun from
Josh Hansen in the bottom of
the fourth inning to make it a 90 game. In the top of the ninth
inning, Hasan Rasheed bit his
second homer of the year, a solo
shot to make it 9-1, and Brendan
Katin knocked in Ryan Braun
on an RBI single but it was too
little and too late for the Power.
Adam Russell (8-6) earned
the victory, and Derek DeCarlo
(6-4) obtained the loss. The
Power are 26-27' in the second
half after the loss and the
Intimidators move to 30-20 with
the win.
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LOUISVILLE - Mitch Jones
cracked a three-run homer in the
lOth inning to lift the Columbus
Clippers to a 6-3 win over
Louisville on Sunday night in
the International League.
Columbus scored frrst in the
th inning when Caonabo
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT,
Pa-Call them the comeback kids.
Andrew Stevenson reached
base on a bunt single with two
outs in the bottom of the sixth
inning, then scored from third
on a throwing error to help
Lafayette, La., overcome a
seven-run deficit in a 9-8 victory over Owensboro Southern
on Sunday in the Little League
World Series.
On
Saturday
against
Westbrook, Maine, Lafayette
(2-0) scored three times in the
sixth to overcome a 2-0 deficit
and win 3-2. Connor Toups,
one of the smallest players on
Lafayette at 4-foot-10 and 78
pounds, drove in the winning
run in the sixth.
On Sunday, Lafayette manager Mike Conrad said he
called for Stevenson, who is the
same height but is five pounds
heavier, to bunt to take advantage of his speed.
"Today I told him to just get
Cosme hit his sixth home run of
the season. The Bats scored
three runs in the sixth, but Jones
started the Clippers' rally with
an RBI double in the seventh.
Jones then hit his leagueleading
27th
homer
off
Louisville reliever Jeriome
Robertson in the extra inning.
Jason Anderson shut out the
Bats in the bottom of the lOth to
earn his eighth save.
Columbus reliever Peter
Munro (10-7) earned the win,
blanking the Bats in 2 113
innings with one strikeout.
Robertson (5-11) took the
loss, allowing three hits, including Jones' game-winning home
run.
set, make sure the ball is down
and then take off," Conrad said.
Stevenson then advanced to
third and scored on a throwing
error after teammate Andreas
Duplantis hit a grounder to short.
Stevenson also had two hits.
"He may be the fastest player up here," Conrad said.
In another early contest on
the five-game schedule, West
Oahu of Ewa Beach, Hawaii,
downed Davenport (Iowa)
Northwest, 7-3.
Owensboro (0-2), the Great
Lakes region winner, raced out
to an 8-1 lead by the bottom of
the third inning on Dalton
West's two-run homer down
the left-field line and Luke
Daugherty's three-run shot.
Lafayette, the Southwest
champion, took over from
there. Down 8-4 in the flfth,
Lafayette tied the game on Alex
Miller's single.
West Oahu 7, Davenport
(Iowa) Northwest 3
West Oahu (2-0), the
Northwest champion, used
early homers to jump out to a 7-
0 lead, then held off a late rally
to defeat Davenport (0-2), the
Midwest winner.
Vonn Fe'ao and Quentin
Guevara hit back-to-back solo
shots that that easily cleared the
left-field fence 205 feet away
from home plate.
After each blast, the ball
rolled down a short grassy hill
and fans chased after the souvenirs. Davenport coach Ed
Grothus said his pitcher, Kyle
Franklin, pitched well overall
but lost command of his breaking balls on the home runs.
"My grandmother, if she
were still alive, could probably
hit a ball that far, God bless her
soul," said Davenport coach Ed
Grothus.
Davenport scored in top of
the sixth off a Spencer
Mallonee homer and two runs
off an error and a wild pitch,
but Fe'ao came on in relief to
strike out Ryan Cartee to end
the game.
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LEXINGTON
The
Lexington Legends held on for a
6-5 win on Sunday night, beating visiting Hickory. Hickory
rallied for three runs in the ninth
inning and had the tying runner
at third when the game ended on
a fielder's choice.
For the second straight
night, the third inning was
charm for the Lexington
Legends offense. Saturday
night, Lexingt!'n pushed across
six runs in the third in a 6-3
win. On Sunday evening, the
Legends nailed five runs to the
line score of Hickory startjng
pitcher Romulo Sanchez (3-3).
The Legends failed to gain
any ground on frrst place
Delmarva. The Shorebirds hammered Lakewood to the tune of
12-0. The Legends remain five
games back with sole possession of second place.
Jimmy Barthmaier (11-5)
earned his eleventh win with
six solid frames. The eleven
wins are the second most in the
SAL trailing Rome's James
Parr with twelve.
Mitch Einertson collected
three hits and an RBI. Lou
Santangelo connected on a
home run that landed on top of
the right field wall and bounced
over. J.R. Towles singled in two
runners. The Hickory pitching
staff hit four Lexington batters
in the game.
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Braves finish 6-6 hon1estand
with 3 1/2-game NL East lead
Otsuka, moved to third on Jones'
double and scored when shortstop
The Atlanta Braves finished Damian Jackson bobbledAndruw
a disappointing 6-6 homestand 3 Jones' grounder for an error.
Adam LaRoche's flyout
112 games ahead in the NL East.
"Maybe some people in here advanced the runners, Jeff
thought we were going to glide Francoeur was intentionally
into the playoffs, but it ain't walked and Ryan Langerhans
going to happen," Chipper drove in the go-ahead run with
Jones said after the Braves' 6-2 a grounder to that first baseman
win over the San Diego Padres Mark Sweeney threw wildly to
on Sunday night. "There are home as Andruw Jones scored
too many good teams in the for a 4-2 lead.
Jorge Sosa (8-2) earned the
league. We led an opportunity
win in relief.
slide in this homestand."
Astros 8, Brewers 3: Andy
Atlanta scored five runs in
the eighth, helped by two errors. Pettitte ( 11-9) allowed two runs and
San Diego took a 2-1 lead on four hits in seven innings, improvpinch-hitter Mark Sweeney's ing to 8-2 in his last 12 starts.
Chris Burke hit a three-run
two-run single off John Smoltz
in the seventh, but Akinori homer and doubled twice.
Otsuka (1-5) and the Padres' Houston, which went 6-7 on
bullpen couldn't hold the lead, the homestand, remained a
and the Braves stopped a three- half-game behind Philadelphia
in the NL wild-card race. The
game losing streak.
San Diego leads second-place Astros have the most home
Arizona by four games in the NL wins in the major leagues,
going 42-22 in Houston.
West despite a 61-62 record.
Victor Santos (4-12) gave up
"We broke down in the
eighth inning," Padres manager seven runs and nine hits in 3 13 innings.
Bruce Bochy said.
Marlins 7, Dodgers 1: Jason
In other games Sunday it
was Houston 8, Milwaukee 3; Vargas (4-1) pitched a six-hitter
Florida 7, Los Angeles 1; for his frrst major league comWashington 7, New York 4; plete game and hit a two-run
Cincinnati 13, Arizona 6; single for his first major league
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3; RBis as Florida won for the
San Francisco 4, St. Louis 2; fourth time in five games.
Vargas struck out seven,
and Colorado 9, Chicago 7.
tying
his season high, and
At Atlanta, Marcus Giles led
walked
one in his fifth major
off the eighth with a single off
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fl
league start.
Derek Lowe (8-12) allowed
six runs and seven hits in 3 2-3
innings for visiting Los Angeles
and is 0-2 in three starts since
beating Pittsburgh on Aug. 5.
Nationals 7, Mets 4: Ryan
Church doubled and singled in
a six-run first, and Cristian
Guzman doubled twice and
drove in two runs for the
Nationals, who avoided a threegame sweep at New York.
Esteban Loaiza (8-9) was
handed a 6-0 lead before he
threw a pitch.
Washington
got
seven
straight hits with two outs in
the frrst off Kris Benson (9-5).
who managed only two outs in
the shortest outing of his sevenyear career, allowing eight hits.
Mike Jacobs hit a three-run
homer in his first major league
at-bat, becoming the fourth
Mets player to accomplish t-e
feat. The Mets lost for only
flfth time in 19 home games.
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ennington shoVIs he's
ealthy Vlith long incompletion
by DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
- Just after the ball landed
halfway down the field, Chad
Pennington looked over at his
coach on the sideline.
Herman
Edwards
gave
Pennington a soothing nod,
knowing the New York quarterback's surgically repaired right
shoulder had just passed its
biggest test.
"I think he was just seeing if
I was going to wince or shake
my arm out or do something. I
was just surprised," Pennington
said with a laugh. "My eyes
were probably pretty big
because I didn't realize how far
I let it go- with ease, really."
Pennington, playing his first
game since undergoing offseason surgery on a tom rotator
cuff, was 9-of-10 for 86 yardsincluding a touchdown to
Laveranues Coles in the Jets'
28-21 preseason victory over
the Minnesota Vikings on
Friday night.
More important was the 45yard pass to Justin McCareins that
sailed just long to start the third
offensive series for the Jets (2-0).
'That's the first time I've
ever been able to throw a deep
ball in about two years where I
didn't
feel
any
pain,"
Pennington said. "It feels really
good to have that feeling back."
His teammates were happy
just to have their field leader back.
"When you're a quarterback,
I think that's the mo·st important
thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only
show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that
you still have everything,"
Coles said.
In other preseason games
Friday night, Tennessee beat
Atlanta 24-21 and Cincinnati
edged Washington 24-17.
Pennington, who didn't play
in last week in the Jets' win over
Detroit, threw three short passes
in New York's first two series.
Then, on the first play of the
Jets' next series, Pennington
proved to everyone what he had
been saying all week: His arm is
healthy.
"The first week, sure, I had
some questions whether O{ not I
could get over the hump,"
Pennington said. "I think I'm
over the hump now. I didn't
have any questions going into
tonight."
After Minnesota ( 1-1) took a
7-0 lead on Moe Williams' 1yard run, Pennington led the
Jets down the field and capped a
Browns 21, Lions 13
20
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DETROIT
Former
Michigan
star
Braylon
Edwards leaped over a defender for a go-ahead 7-yard touchdown reception with 54 seconds left, lifting Cleveland past
Detroit 21 - 13 Saturday in
Edwards' professional debut.
On fourth-and-7, Charlie
Frye lofted a pass to Edwards
in the comer of the end zone
and the No. 3 pick in the draft
outjumped Michael Echols to
make the catch.
Michael Jameson made an
interception to seal the victory
for the Browns (2-0) and later,
snatched a lateral out of the air
with RO" time •left "Md• scored
from midfield.
Former Browns quarterback
Jeff Garcia threw two interceptions and a TD pass for Detroit
(0-2), finishing 9-of-15 for 99
yards. Harrington was 5-for-6
for 46 yards.
Bills 27,
T
nine-play drive with a 20-yard
TD toss to Coles.
"It just took a little time,"
Edwards said. "It was good to
see. He kept his composure. He
didn't get frustrated, and then all
of the sudden, he made a couple
of plays."
Daunte Culpepper was just as
impressive for the Vikings, going
11-of-13 for 146 yards while
leading them on a scoring drive.
Minnesota staged a secondhalf rally with Troy Williamson's
21-yard reception and a 1-yard
TD run by Adimchinobe
Echemandu to tie it at 21. But
Cedric Houston scored the winner for the Jets on a 10-yard run
with 5:52 remaining.
With the game tied at 7 in the
second quarter, Minnesota's
Michael Bennett was stripped
by Sione Pouha and Joey Evans
re~overed. Backup quarterback
Jay Fiedler promptly put the Jets
up 14-7 with an 18-yard touchdown pass to Wayne Chrebet.
After New York's first series
of the second half, Daryl Jones
fumbled a punt from Australian
kicker Ben Graham, and
Jerricho Cotchery recovered for
the Jets. Fiedler capped a fiveplay drive with a 1-yard TD run
- his second of the preseason to give New York a 2l-7lead.
That was just one of the
many mistakes Minnesota made
on the night. The Vikings were
called for 17 penalties, totaling
122 yards.
"Offensively, the only thing
that stopped us was ourselves,"
Vikings coach Mike Tice said.
"We had penalties that took
away first downs and some
offense .... The penalties and the
number of penalties is something we've got to get fixed
right away."
Titans 24, Falcons 21: At
Atlanta, rookie DeAndra Cobb
scored on a 101-yard kickoff
return and T.J. Duckett had a 72yard touchdown run for the
Falcons, but former University
of Kentucky signal-caller Shane
Boyd threw a late touchdown
pass to fellow rookie O.J. Small
that gave the Titans the victory.
Michael Vick played nearly
the entire first half for the Falcons
(2-1). On the opening series, he
hooked up with fullback Justin
Griffith on a 23-yard pass, then
broke off a 21-yard run. After
Warrick Dunn ran for 18 yards,
Vick lobbed a 4-yard touchdown
pass to Brian Finneran.
Steve McNair was sharp for
the Titans (1-1), though he was
facing an Atlanta defense that
was missing five injured
starters. The Tennessee quarterback was 14-of-19 passes for
137 yards, including an 11-yard
touchdown to Chris Brown.
Boyd, hoping to land a spot
as the Titans' third quarterback,
flipped a pass to Small, who
fought off rookie cornerback
Jonte Buhl to make the catch
with 1:28 remaining.
Owens a nd Moss don't see m to
understand that football still a team game
Dante DiTrapano sounded
because Owens also isn't communicating much with offensive like he had been smoking somecoordinator Brad Childress, thing himself when he made the
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UCS
One says he does drugs. The telling him "don't talk to me absurd claim that the comments
were taken out of context by
other acts like he's on them.
unless I talk to you."
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Both are attention hounds
Fellow players in Minnesota HBO to "promote their dying
Quarterback J.P. Losman, who
who can't bear the thought of weren't exactly despondent over network."
Of course, most anything
has replaced Drew Bledsoe a.;
TAMPA, Fla. - David
someone stealing a piece of seeing Moss leave, either. For
goes
in Raiderland, where even
the Bills' starter, engineered Garrard and Derrick Wimbush
their spotlight.
that matter, Minnesota fans who
scoring drives on each of his ran for second-half touchdowns
How else can you explain tend to frown on lawbreakers the kicker can't keep his name
ftrst three possessions to lead and Josh Scobee kicked one of
Randy Moss sitting down to a and troublemakers had long off the police blotter. Moss bareBuffalo (2-0).
his two 29-yard field goals at
television interview on the eve since decided that Moss had ly raised an eyebrow himself
when he made his fust visit to
Playing the entire fust half, the end of a 17-play, 10-minute
of his first season with the overstayed his welcome.
Losman finished 7-of-14 for 59 drive that was a reminder of
Oakland Raiders to reveal he
For all his talent, Moss never team headquarters in a limo
smokes marijuana? Simple, led the Vikings .to a Super Bowl. flanked by seven motorcycle
yards, energized by a sellout how Jacksonville (2-0) strugcrowd in his fust home presea- gled to get the ball into the end
Terrell Owens was getting too And his teammates certainly officers.
It's different in Philadelphia,
son game. He added 36 yards zone last season.
much pub across the country hadn't forgotten that he walked
The Jaguars were last in the
pouting about the $7.2 million off the field in the fmal seconds where Owens was sent home for
rushing, scoring on a 1-yard
keeper set up by ReShard Lee's AFC and 29th in the NFL in scorhe's making this season to catch last year while they were still not playing well with others,
69-yard kickoff return in the ing in 2004. They marched 77
footballs for the Philadelphia trying to win a game against the and where patience with his
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It was a much better perfor- defense in the second quarter, with
It's not like everything these
That wasn' t a smart move, both the team and its fans.
Owens spent a few years
mance after the 2004 first-round Byron Leftwich completing 9 of
guys do is planned. But you ' but Moss pulled one almost as
draft pick managed just one first 10 passes for 73 yards before the
might remember Owens pulling dumb in an interview with HBO playing with the greatest receivdown in his fust four series.
drive stalled at the Tampa Bay 11.
out a Sharpie in the end zone, that will air on Tuesday. In it, he er ever, Jerry Rice, yet never has
Bills' kicker Rian Lindell
That nevertheless was a big
and Moss pretending to pull indicated that he still liked to seemed to grasp the concept that
down his pants and moon the smoke marijuana, an admission the game is a team effm1.
made two fteld goals, including a improvement over the previous
While Owens complains
54-yarder, and rookie Lionel week when the Jacksonville quargood fans of Green Bay.
that probably wasn't all that
Gates padded the lead over Green terback was sacked four times on
Those kind of images are shocking in light of his past about the contract he gladly
signed a year ago, Rice now is
Bay (1-1) with a 14-yard touch- 11 pass plays against Miami.
hard to top, but that hasn't troubles with the drug.
The Bucs dropped to l-1.
stopped the NFL's two best wide
This is a guy, after all, who playing for next to nothing in
down run in the fourth quarter.
receivers - and two biggest lost his scholarship to Florida Denver. He's trying to make the
prima donnas - from trying.
State and was sent to jail on a team as a backup receiver, and
Moss hasn't even caught a probation violation after testing doing it with the class that has
typified his long career.
pass that counts for the Raiders positive for marijuana in 1996.
Rice, of course, has someand already be's embroiled in a
"I have used, you know, malicontroversy. Owens, mean- juana ... since I've been in the thing both Owens and Moss do
while, won't talk to his quarter- league," Moss said in the inter- not - Super Bowl championship
back, feuds with his coaches and view. "But as far as abusing it rings.
He has them partly because
plays shamelessly to the fans.
and, you know, letting it take conSure, both are brilliant play- trol over me, I don't do that, no." he always understood he needed
ers. If you need convincing, just
Up until the. interview, Moss his teammates as much as they
ask them yourself.
had been a model player for the needed him. He unde rstood
So far this summer, though, Raiders, or at least as much a someone needed to block, someabout
the only good thing you model player as any Raider can one needed to throw him the
route.
and engineered a 42-yard drive
can say about Moss and Owens be. And his talk about using ball. Someone even needed to
For San Francisco (1-l),
that resulted in Lawrence
is that they've made the long marijuana likely won 't cost him coach.
Tynes' 31-yard field goal for a Tim Rattay relieved Alex
Someday both Owe ns and
preseason a bit more interesting. any fans in Oakland, many of
10-0 lead that held up until the Smith, and for the second
Moss may figure that out.
Eventually,
of
course,
their
whom
look
like
they
are
more
Cardinals (2-0) scored l 0 straight week easily outplayed
teammates will pay the price. than willing to indulge in such Someday they may help their
points within less than a minute the first pick of this year's
teams win a Super Bowl.
They
already
have
in substances themselves.
draft.Rattay, who started nine
of the third quarter.
The way they're acting now.
Philadelphia, where Owens has
But the comments drew
games for the 49ers last season,
mocked and belittled Donovan interest at NFL headquarters, though, that day doesn ' t figure
went 7-for-11 for 91 yards and
McNabb, the very guy who gets which frowns on such things. to come soon.
led them to two touchdowns,
paid to throw him the ball.
That's why the agent for Moss,
just like he did last week. He
Tim Dahlberg is a national
Owens and McNabb aren't taking a page from his "Agent
also ran a decent 2-minute drill
talking, which should lead to 101" book, figured he should sports columnist for The
at the end of the first half that
some interesting moments in the immediately launch an attack on Associated Press. Write to hiu1
at tdahlberg@ap.org
resulted in a missed 55-yard
huddle this season. That's OK, the messenger.
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field goal attempt.
Backup quarterback Bradlee
DENVER- Jake Plummer
completed 7 of 9 passes for 95 Van Pelt finished 7-for-18 for
yards and a score to lift the I 06 yards and led Denver (2-0)
Broncos to 10 early points en to 10 points.
Packers 7
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Josh
McCown threw two touchdown
passes in the second half in
relief of Kurt Warner to rally
the Cardinals.
Damon
Huard,
who
replaced Trent Green for
Kansas City, was 1-for-12 for
11 yards and two interceptions.
Huard was elevated to second
team this week while regular
hacku p Todd Collins nursed a
hand injury.
In the battle of first-tearners,
the Chiefs (0-2) were winners.
Green hit Samie Parker with an
8-yard pass in the first quarter
CINCINNATI
David
Pollack started catching up
Sunday.
The' first-round draft pick
had his first full practice with
the Cincinnati Bengals, four
days after ending his holdout
and agreeing to a five-year contract. The 20-day holdout has
delayed his transition from
defensive end to linebacker.
After practice, he insisted he
ts right on schedule, even
' '1 ~u ·n Lewis
supposed to be. I've got a lot to
learn and I'm going to put the
time in to do that."
Pollack had to watch a 2417 preseason victory in
Washington last Friday while
standing on the sideline in uniform. It was the first time he
failed to get into a game since
his freshman season at Georgia.
He pleaded with Lewis to
let him play, but failed to
make his case.
"(Lewis) came over one
time and said, 'I need a fresh
pass rusher,"' Pollack said. "I
through my assignments. I listened to every defensive call
and tried to make sure I knew
what every call was and what
my assignment would be."
The Bengals practiced without pads Sunday. Pollack will
work out in pads this week and
is expected to play Friday night
in a preseason game at
Philadelphia.
"Guys who have the aptitude like him usually pick up
things very well," Lewis said.
"They understand why things
occur, and that's where your
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CINCINNATI
The
Bengals reduced their roster to
81 on Sunday by releasing four
players, including two who
spent time on their practice
squad last year.
Receiver Freddie Milons, a
third-year
player
from
Alabama, was on the practice
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Pittsburgh at Washing ton, 8 p.m.
New England at Green Bay. 8 p.m.
Baltimore at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Carolina at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
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offensive tackle Reese Hicks, a
free agent from Georgetown
College, and fullback Jeremy
Thomas, a free agent from
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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON -The last two
years the Wildcats have taken
e field with young running
backs looking for experience.
This season, those young
backs have become seasoned
v~t~rans, giving running backs
coach Ron Caragher his most
experienced unit during his
three-year tenure.
''I'm really excited about our
running back corps this year,"
Caragher said. "This is the first
year that we have a lot of experience corning back at the running back positions and hopefully it pays dividends with our
seniors Arliss Beach, Alexis
Bwenge, Draak Davis, and
Justin Sprowles_."
This deep and now experienced group has the ability to
showcase a variety of different
skills this season.
Senior Arliss Beach looks for
a return to full health and to be
the complete multi-threat back he
has shown throughout fall camp.
"Arliss Beach, while he has
the ability to make big plays, is
the most solid and consistent of
the backs," Caragher said. "He
also pass protects the quarterback really well and can release
out of the backfield to catch
balls."
Beach, an Ashland native,
while being known for his consistency, has taken great pride in
being a player the coaching staff
can count on to suit up come
game days regardless of how
nicked up he may be. He has
played with several injuries during his career, especially over
the past two seasons.
"I want to be out on the field
playing," said Beach, who has
appeared in 33 games with
seven starts in three years. "If
I'm hurting, I want to be out
there being a part of the game
with my teammates. I want to be
out there shedding blood and
tears with the guys who I know
would do the same for me."
Fellow senior fullback Alexis
Bwenge also returns to provide
versatility and leadership.
Caragher says Bwenge, who has
478 career rushing yards, has
shown excellent vision and pass
catching skills in practice.
Bwenge has impressed the
coaching staff with ability to be
to able carry the ball from the
tailback spot when the team has
had injuries.
Bwenge will be joined at the
fullback spot by another senior,
Justin Sprowles. The Charlotte,
N. C., product has shown great
blocking skills this fall and will
ac
provide the needed depth at the
position.
Also returning this year is
sophomore running back Rafael
Little. Little started the final
three games of last season and
led the team in rushing with 265
yards and yards per carry with a
5.0 average.
Little will be counted on to
impact the game with his exciting playmaking skills.
"I know I really can contribute speed from the running
back position," Little said. "I'm
working on my power, but I
know I can add speed. I'm looking to make big plays on field."
One experienced tailback the
staff was looking forward to utilizing because of his speed and
breakaway ability was sophomore
Tony Dixon. Dixon, who rushed
for 244 yards last season, suffered
an ankle injury in camp that will
keep him out until next season.
The loss of Dixon will open
playing time for newcomers that
include junior college transfer
Terrell Bank4ead and freshman
Alfonso Smith.
Bankhead and Smith are
physical runners who will bring
a tremendous change of pace to
the quicker running backs like
Little, Beach, and Draak Davis.
With the desired experience a
coaching staff looks for and the
promising young backs in camp,
the Wildcat backfield looks to
make the push for an impro·;ed
running game in 2005.
Wildcats hold second Troians stall quest
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TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON
The
Unive1isty of Kentucky football team held its second major
scrimmage of fall practice
Saturday
afternoon
at
Commonwealth Stadium.
Here are some notes and
quotes from Coach Rich
Brooks following the scrimmage, which featured the firstearn offense and defense
gainst
the
second-team
offense and defense:
"Andre Woodson did a good
job throwing the ball and managing the offense. He threw a
couple of nice touchdown passes,"Brooks said. "The offense
is making more plays than they
did early in fall camp."
"The first defense did a very,
very good job," Brooks said.
"Other than a couple of 10- to
15-yard runs, they shut down
the second offense. The defense
is still flying around and makiJlg plays."
UK's top three tailbacks,
Rafael Little, Arliss Beach, and
Draak Davis were held out of the
scrimmage as they recover from
injuries. Alexis Bwenge, Terrell
Bankhead, and Alfonso Smith
handled the tailback duties.
"I think we have to get
Alexis some 'touches' in the
games," Brooks said. "He has
been really productive carrying
the ball last spring and this fall."
(Regarding the freshmen)
"We have to start making definite decisions about who is
going to play, who is definitely
going to redshirt, and there will
be a couple on the bubble,"
Brooks said.
"(True freshmen) Myron
Pryor and Ventrell Jenkins are
getting a lot of reps (at defensive tackle)," Brooks said.
"Braxton Kelley continues to
do a lot of positive things (at
middle linebacker). We'll get
(middle linebacker) Joe Schuler
back tomorrow." Schuler has
been out with an injury.
"We integrated the kicking
game into the scrimmage,"Brooks
said. "(Kicker) Taylor Begley is
having a great camp. Jacob
Tamme is really doing well as the
holder. Jason Dickerson is doing
well as the snapper."
(Regarding kick returns)
"John Logan took one back
today (for a touchdown),"
Brooks said. "We'll get Keenan
Burton back this week. David
Jones returned a punt very well
today. Dicky Lyons hasn't been
out there because of hamstring
strains in both legs. We can also
use Rafael Little and Keenan
Burton on punt returns.
DeMoreo Ford is still in the
mix."
"(Freshman quarterback)
Curtis Pulley has made significant progress," Brooks said.
"He's grasping the offense and
is into it."
Brooks reported two injuries
in the scrimmage. Sophomore
defensive tackle Ricky Ahren
sustained a dislocated bone in his
wrist. He will have surgery and
be out indefmitely. Freshman
linebacker Mikhail Mabry sustained a knee injury, the extent of
which will be known more fully
in the next 24-48 hours.
Green beats White in Herd's
final preseason scrimmage
Mter a Marty Biagi punt,
White quarterback Derek
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Devine threw an interception to
mad Bradshaw and Jimmy Dante' Newsome on his team's
Skinner played together well, third play of the drive.
again Saturday, leading the
Green started on the White
Green team to a 23-0 win over ll-yard line, but turned the ball
the White in the Marshall over on downs after Bradshaw
University football team's final was stopped for a one-yard loss
preseason scrimmage.
at the White two-yard line.
Bradshaw provided 65 yards
With White on its own
of total offen e (35 rush, 30 three-yard line, Green capitalrec.) and Skinner threw for 72 ized, when Dennis Thornton
yards on 7-of-10 passing with a tackled Paco Jones in the end
touchdown and an interception. zone for a safety.
"We accomplished what we
Green would add to its lead
wanted to today," head coach seconds later as Hawkins
Mark Snyder said. "We got out returned the ensuing kickoff 86
here healthy and we got to yards for a touchdown. After an
-· go through our pre-game ritual Ian O'Connor point-after
and familiarize everyone."
attempt, Green took a 9-0 lead.
Hiram Moore led all
In the second quarter, neireceivers with flve catches for ther team seemed to be able to
64 yards.
start its offense. The White
"Hiram has had a very good team, however, recovered a
camp," Snyder said. "I have muffed Chris Royal punt return
been very impressed with him inside Green's 30-yard line.
and he honestly is right up there But, a false start penalty, folas one of our MVPs."
lowed by a run of no gain and
Green's Chris Hawkins two incomplete passes left
returned the opening kickoff 15 White with a 50-yard field goal
yards to the 16-yard line. attempt for true freshman
Bradshaw contributed to the David DeFatta that sailed wide
Green team's first five plays of right of the post.
drive, including a pair of
Bradshaw tallied 44 total
srx-yard runs and a 12-yard · yards in the ~rrst half (17 rush,
pass from Bernie Morris.
27 rec.), whtle Moore caught
Once Green entered White two Morris passes for 19 yards.
territory, the offense stalled and
After completing his fl.rst three
was forced to punt.
passes of the half, Morris threw
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four straight incompletions.
Morris was 3-of-7 for 31 yards.
In the second half, Green
took its only drive of the third
quarter 50 yards to take a 16-0
lead, capped off by a Skinner
nine-yard touchdown pass to
Wilbur Hargrove.
On its next drive, Green
marched 75 yards down the
field for its second touchdown
of the half, which increased its
lead to 23-0.
Devine, who worked with
the Green team in the second
half, completed four passes,
including a 17-yard hookup
with Shawn Lauzon and a 14yard pass to Moore. Chubb
Small later pounded in from the
one-yard line to give Green an
insurmountable 23-point lead.
GAME STATISTICS
Rushing: Green- Bradshaw
9-35; Small3-15; Albin 1-3.
White - Cabarrus 2-11; G.
Williams 3-3; Echols 1-0;
Derek Devine 1-( -7); Paco
Jones 6-(-8).
Passing: Green- Skinner 710-1-72; Devine 4-5-0-46;
Morris 3-7-0-31. White Beardain 1-5-0-29; Devine 2-61-l; Barnard 0-5-0-0.
Receiving: Green -Moore 564; Bradshaw 3-30; Lauzon 221; Parkhurst 1-10; Shope 110; Hargrove 1-9 TD; Small 15. White- Filer 1-29; Cabarrus
1-2; Paco Jones 1-(-1).
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Here's
why
Southern
California is No. 1 in The
Associated Press preseason poll:
Every player who scored a
touchdown in the Trojans' 55-19
victory over Oklahoma in last season's Orange Bowl is still playing
for USC. And so is Heisman
Trophy winner Matt Leinart, who
...threw five TD passes. ... Leinart, Reggie Bush and the
rest of Pete Carroll's crew provided a scary glimpse of what
was to come in 2005 when they
wrapped up their second straight
· national title on that warm
January night in Miami.
This year's goal is three in a
row, something that's never
been done.
"It's always good to be on
top, but at the same time we're
focused and coach Carroll
always reminds us, 'Don't worry
about who's No. 1 or No. 2. Just
stay focused,"' said sophomore
receiver Dwayne Jarrett, who
finished off a big freshman year
with 115 yards and a touchdown
in the Orange Bowl.
USC (1,619 points) received
60 out of a possible 65 frrstplace votes in the media poll
released Saturday, grabbing the
top spot in the preseason for the
fifth time in school history.
"My statement on that is
what I always say: It's a reflection of what's happened in the
past and the respect that people
show our program, so in that
sense it's a really nice recognition," Carroll said, "but it doesn't amount to much until we do
something about it and prove
that we're worthy of that. And
it's a long ways before that."
No. 2 Texas (1,500 points),
corning off an 11-1 season and a
Rose Bowl win, got four frrstplace votes. Tennessee is No. 3
and Michigan and LSU round
out the top five. No. 12
Louisville received the other
frrst-place vote.
Joe Giglio of The News &
Observer of Raleigh, N.C.,
voted Louisville No. 1 after
examining the schedules for all
BCS conference teams. The
Cardinals moved to the Big East
this season.
"Louisville was the only one
that I came up with as going
undefeated," he said.
Ohio State is No. 6, one point
ahead of Oklahoma and star tailback Adrian Peterson. The Sooners
have lost the last two Bowl
Championship Series title games,
and have to replace 11 NFL draft
picks and 2003 Heisman winner
Jason White this season.
Defending Atlantic Coast
Conference champion Virginia
Tech is No. 8. The Hokies have
a new Vick at quarterback,
Mike's little brother, Marcus.
Miami is No. 9 and No. 10
Florida, with new coach
Urban Meyer, gives the
Southeastern Conference three 10, followed by Louisville,
Georgia, Florida State and Purdue.
teams in the top 10.
"It says we have a lot of
Auburn, which finished last
experience. We have a returning season 13-0 and No. 2 in the
quarterback and some returning country after being left out of
players on defense. It doesn't the BCS title game, is No. 16.
say anything about the coach- The Tigers must replace three
es," said Meyer, who guided frrst-round draft picks from their
Utah to an undefeated record backfield alone in running backs
last season.
Carnell Williams and Ronnie
USC's AP championship Brown and quarterback Jason
repeat was the lOth, and first · Campbell.
-since Nebraska did it in l-994~~··~-'--NO ! •t?· ·is-TeJtas A&M,··Boise
The Cornhuskets were pre- State is ranked 18th, California is
season No. 1 in 1996, but lost 19- 19th and Arizona State is No. 20.
0 at Arizona State in their second
The fmal five are Texas Tech,
game of the season to snap a 26- Boston College, Pittsburgh,
game winning streak. Nebraska Fresno State and Virginia.
finished the season 11-2.
Missing from the poll is
"The odds are always against Utah, last year's BCS buster
you no matter what your previ- from the Mountain West
ous history is," former Nebraska Conference.
coach Tom Osborne said recentThe Utes went 12-0 and finly. "You have to overcome the ished fourth in the final AP
tendency to relax."
rankings. But Utah lost Meyer
USC has won 22 straight to the Gators and quarterback
games and has one huge advan- Alex Smith left after his junior
tage over that '96 Nebraska year to become the frrst overall
team: Leinart is a three-year pick in the NFL draft by the San
starter at quarterback.
Francisco 49ers.
"When you get your quarterThe last team to finish that
back back, now that's a big deal," high and go unranked in the folOsborne said. "USC, because of lowing preseason poll was
that factor, if you had' to pick a Arizona State, which was No.4
team, they'd be the favorite."
to end the 1996 season.
Many figured Leinart's college career was over after his
record-breaking Orange Bowl.
He stood a good chance at being
the first pick in the NFL draft,
The Top 25 teams in The
but instead decided to return for
his senior year and a shot at a Associated Press preseason colsecond Heisman. Obio State run- lege football poll, wjth flrst~
ning back Archie Griffin is the place votes in parentheses, 2004
records. total points based on 25
only two-time Heisman winner.
B.G. Brooks of the Rocky points for a first-place vote
Mountain News of Denver was one drrough one point for a 25thplace vote, and flnal ranking:
of four voters to put Texas No. 1.
"I thought USC had lost too
Record Pts Pvs
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2. Texas (4) ....... 11-1 1.500 5
The Trojans have only five 3. Tennessee ...... H>-3 1,376 13
returning starters on defense and 4. Michigan .. .....•9-3 1,329 14
5. LSU ....•......9-3 1,291 16
had to replace four assistants, 6. Ohio St. .•..•....8-4 1.205 20
including offensive coordinator 7. Oklahoma ......12-1 1,204 3
3. Virginia Tech .. . !0-3 1,184 lO
Norm Chow.
USC now has been ranked 9. Miami ..•.....••9-3 1.142 11
No.1 in 19 straightAPpolls, the 10. Florida • , ...•. .1-5 1.080
8
ll.lowa ........ .10-2 1.011
second-best streak since the pre- 12. Louisville (1) ..• 11-1 892
6
season rankings started in 1950. 13. Georgia ..•.... 10-2 869
7
15
"We like it because it makes 14. Florida St. ....•.9·3 764
us push and work harder every 15. Purdue .••.•... .1-S 711
2
16. Auburn ••.... .13-0 650
day just to stay on top," Jarrett 17. Texas A&M ..• ,7-S 576
said. "Being No. 1 is just going 18. Boise St. ...... 11-1 375
12
9
to make us push each other and 19. California ..... 10-2 358
19
compete at the highest level out 20. Arizona St. . ... .9-3 313
18
21. Texas Tech •....8-4 256
here and just work as a team. "
22. Boston Co.......9-3 232
21
Miami's 21-week run at No. 23. Pittsburgh . ....•8-4 211
25
1 during its 34-game winning 24. Fresno St. . .....9-3 196 22
streak a few years ago is the 25. Virginia . ..... ..8-4 153 2.1
longest consecutive stay atop
Others recetvmg votes:
the AP rankings.
USC has been No. 1 since the Alabama 121, Oregon 97, Utah
final regular-sea~on poll of the 77, Georgia Tech 62, Bowling
2003 season, when the Trojans Green 57, N.C. State 57.
won the AP title but were left Colorado 38, UCLA 19, Iowa
out of the BCS title game for St. 18. Minnesota 18, Miami
(Ohio) 15, Penn St. 11, UTEP
LSU and Oklahoma.
Last season, the Trojans were 10, Oregon St. 8, Wisconsin 5,
the second team to be a wire-to- Clemson 3, Memphis 3,
wire No. 1, joining the 1999 Nebraska 3, Colorado St. 1,
Aorida State team. And they didn't Notre Dame 1, Southern Miss.
1, Toledo 1, West Virginia 1.
have to share the national crown.
No. 11 Iowa starts the second Wyoming 1.
AP TOp 2 5
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�88 • WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
24, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Mayfield wins race with fuel strategy
by MIKE HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROOKLYN,
Mich.
Jeremy Mayfield came out on
top of a chaotic race Sunday,
running the last 52 laps on a single tank of fuel and winning his
first NASCAR Nextel Cup race
of the season.
Mayfield, whose most recent
win came last September in
Richmond, was never close to the
lead earlier in the race. But one by
one, the leaders were forced to pit
for fuel _ and Mayfield inherited
the top spot with six laps to go in
the 200-lap event at Michigan
International Speedway.
"Man, we had a 20th-place
car and we robbed the bank,"
said Mayfield's gleeful crew
chief Slugger Labbe.
Nearly every team in the 43-car
field had problems with cut tires or
engines that overheated when
windblown garbage collected on
grills, cutting off air to radiators.
Mayfield's Evemham Motorsports
Dodge was no exception.
"Our motor was running 270
(degrees) today," Labbe said. "It
was cooked, but we made it."
"They took a big chance running all the way (to the end)
under green, and it's pretty cool
winning a race like that," said
Mayfield, who earned his fifth
career win and solidified his
hold on a top 10 spot in the
points and a position in the
upcoming Chase for the
Championship.
Scott Riggs, fighting to keep
his ride, also stretched his gas to
the end and finished a careerhigh second, followed by Matt
Kenseth and Carl Edwards, who
had been battling for the lead
prior to the late pit stops.
Kenseth, who made his fmal
McCall wins UARA STARS
race at Lonesome Pine
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
COEBURN, Va. - Matt
McCall (Denver, N.C.) got
revenge Saturday night at
Lonesome Pine Speedway in
the Red Rose Hosiery 150.
Earlier this season McCall
dominated the race until late
when mechanical problems
forced him out of the race.
Problems would not stop
McCaV this night. McCall set
on the Sunoco Pole and led all
150 laps of the event. McCall
also became the first driver the
win three races in 2005. Jamie
Caudill is the only other repeat
winner with two victories.
Caudill and McCall came
into the race with only two
points separating them. With
the points structure McCall
received five points for the pole
and Caudill received three
points for the outside pole. The
two drivers would start the race
side by side and in the point's
standings.
Caudill got the jump but
McCall battled back to led the
first lap. Caudill settled in second until lap eighteen when a
hard charging Danny O'Quinn
made his move on the outside
of Caudill to take over second
place. The line up would stay
the same until lap 70 when
C audill dropped to the inside
and fell out of the race with
mechanical trouble and ending
the night with a twentieth place
finish.
Holley
Performance
Performer of the race Tony
Grady was making his way to
the front and took over third
when Caudill fell out. Grady
was able to get by O'Quinn and
pull up to the bumper of
McCall but the car got tight late
and ended the night with a
strong third place finish.
RH2 Way Rookie contender
Kyle Grissom back his
Anderson win with a strong top
five run but also faded late to
finish eighth earning him the
Rookie of the race. RA Brown
collected
another
East
Tennessee
Trailers
Hard
Charger of the Race gaining the
most spot for the night and fmishing ninth.
Following McCall across
the line was O'Quinn in second, Grady in third, Jamie
Yelton forth and Robert Elliott
rounding out the top five.
The next event for the
UARA STARS series is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3 at
Southern National Speedway in
Kenly, N.C. For more information, contact the UARASTARS
office at 828/692-3833 or
online at www.uara-stars.com
photo courtesy of UARA STARS
Matt McCall handled the Lonesome Pine Raceway pavement
well, racing to a win In Saturday's UARA STARS feature race.
Stars shine in Old Spice Spring Sizzler
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
ROSSBURG,
Ohio
Wednesday night's headlining
Old Spice Sprint Sizzler nearly
had ' storybook finish' written
all over it; but a lap nine incident changed the complexion
drastically, as Darren Long
cruised to victory in the
National Racing Alliance
(NRA) Sprint Invader special
event. Completing the midwee k
doubleheader were
Eldora's Stock Cars, with local
favorite Mike Dirksen copping
the coins.
NASCAR
stars
Tony
Stewart, Kasey Kahne and
Dave Blaney took advantage of
an 'off night' in their rigorous
schedules to return to their roots
and hop behind the wheel of
winged sprint cars. And the
large crowd on hand, couldn't
have been happier with the
results.
The trio re-adjusted themselves to the open wheeled confines admirably.
As the night unfolded early
on, Stewart, who now owns the
famed Eldora speed plant, was
holding down quick time honors
during the qualifying rounds
until Blaney came out with just a
few cars remaining and knocked
Stewart off the top rung with a
clocking of 14.011 seconds (129
MPH) around the one-half mile
clay oval. Stewart's time of
14.152 seconds eventually
placed him fourth in the fmal
qualifying run-down, while
Kahne clocked in 8th quickest of
the 39 cars on hand with a timed
lap of 14.375 seconds.
Blaney easily captured his heat
race, while Stewart finished second in his preliminary heat and
Kahne crossed the line fourth.
NRA's inversion method for
lining up the main event found
Stewart sitting in pole position,
hilc Blaney was lined up
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unfurled, ~tt:-warl shol ahead o1
I
Tim Hunter to take the initial
lead, with Blaney in third after
one lap and Kahne up to fourth.
It was as if the Old Spice
folks had designed a promotional script of genius proportion.
Stewart, who over the years
had numerous non-winged
Sprint Car runs, was in his firstever winged Sprint Car start at
Eldora, and comfortably out
front, with his NASCAR
cohorts in tow, trying to upset
the NRA fraternity at their own
game.
By the time two laps were
complete the crowd was in a
frenzy as Blaney moved past
Hunter and was reeling in
Stewart. Kahne meanwhile,
hand his hands full trying to set
up Hunter for a pass.
As six laps were recorded,
Blaney had caught up to
Stewart and with lapped traffic
approaching, the fans rose to
their feet in anticipation.
Stewart ducked through the
slower cars for two laps and
just as nine laps were scored, he
performed one of the infamous
Eldora 'slide jobs' going into
tum one, by shooting down the
track as low as he could, to use
that momentum to slide back
up in front of the field.
Blaney meanwhile held a
steady line at the top of the track.
The 'slide job' was working
to perfection and as Stewart
slid ahead of the lapped cars
and into Blaney's path, the
right front hub broke, sending
Stewart hard into the outside
concrete wall. With nowhere to
go, Blaney clipped Stewart and
did a slow rollover, while third
place runner Hunter was also
heavily involved.
There were no injuries, brining a collective sigh of relief from
the crowd, but all three machines
were damaged beyond repair.
The storyline was being rewritten as Kahne became the
I
th "
However, a self-described "lagging motor" wouldn't give
Kahne the momentum he needed to hold off a fast-charging
Long.
Despite two additional
restarts for accidents, Kahne
was unable to stay in the same
league with Lol'lg and had to
settle for runner-up honors,
while, Dwain Leiber, Tim
Allison and Mike Miller completed the top five.
The Stock Cars had their
own drama as well.
It was leg number one of a
two-night series with neighboring Limaland Motorsports Park,
with points from each night's
racing used to determine a
' Double Play' champion.
As the race unfolded the
Limaland invaders were ruling
supreme by holding down the
top six spots for much of the
early going.
A 12-car invert for lining up
the 22 car, 15-lap nightcapper
didn't help Dirksen out much at
the start.
By virtue of his heat one victory, he was lined up 12 and 15 laps
weren't very many with the caliber
of talent lined up in front of him.
Several caution periods and
misfortunes among the front runners found Dirksen lined up in
fourth with three laps to go,
behind Limaland regulars Kevin
Gossard, Jeff Babock and Tony
Anderson.
Babcock was the first to suffer, as an overheating engine
retired him to the pits on lap 13,
and then Anderson fell prey to
first Dirksen and then Barney
Craig to fall to fourth.
After the field received the
white flag to indicate one more
racing lap, Gossard's left rear
tire went flat and Dirksen's
charge to the front was complete as he crossed the line fu~t.
Craig came home second, while
Anderson advanced to third and
lln.;<;;trci dropped to fourth.
stop on lap 181, charged hard to
get back into contention but
came up well short of Mayfield
and Riggs, who finished about
five car-lengths apart.
Kenseth said his crew chief,
Robby Reiser, "wanted me to go
after Mayfield and I couldn't
even see him. We were just hoping he'd run out of gas.
"I always like the fastest car
to win, even if it's not me. But
they took the big gamble when
they could afford to take it and it
paid off for them."
Edwards, who made his Cup
debut here a year ago and is now
a championship contender,
appeared happy with his fourthplace finish.
'That was just a blast," he said.
"I had a good time. To be that close
to victory and have it go on pit
strategy, I just have to congratulate
Jeremy. That's just awesome."
Series points leader Tony
Stewart - who came into the
race as the hottest driver in
stock car racing with five wins
in seven starts - never led on
Sunday but fmished fifth for his
eight consecutive top-seven.
Reigning Cup champion Kurt
Busch, who dominated during the
middle part of the race, wound up
seventh, while pole-starter Joe
Nemechek, who dropped far back
into the pack after a flat tire, came
back to finish eighth.
Mayfield jumped from seven
to sixth, moving ahead of Busch
in the season points with just three
races remaining before the 10race NASCAR playoffs begin.
Behind them, plenty of questions remained : Just 129 points
separate eighth-place Ryan
Newman, who finished 12th on
Sunday, from Jeff Gordon, who
somehow managed a 15th-place
finish with a terrible car and
moved from 13th to 12th in the
season points.
Going into next Saturday
night's race at Bristol, Edwards
is ninth and Jamie McMurray
lOth, followed by Dale Jarrett,
just 51 points out of the final
spot in the Chase, and Gordon,
another seven points back.
Ki111111el takes
Springfield race
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
SPRINGFIELD
Ill.
Experience is often the best
teacher, and Frank Kimmel had
plenty of students Sunday afternoon at the Illinois State
Fairgrounds in Springfield,
illinois where the savvy veteran
handily won the Best WesternAllen Crowe Memorial 100
before a near-capacity crowd.
"It was just another solid
effort from the Advance Auto
Parts-Pork Ford crew," said
Kimmel. 'The car was on a rail; it
could do no wrong. We've
always handled well here, but
that may have been the best
we've ever been here. These wins
on the mile-dirts really mean a lot
to us. We get really keyed up for
the fairgrounds races. There's
nothing like it. I hope ARCA
never gives them up."
The victory represented a
record fifth win for Kimmel on
the' -S prirlgfield mile-dirt and
his current lead in the 2005
Natiol'tal Ob.ampionship standings. The six-time and defending series champion now leads
rookie Joey Miller by 370 marks
with five events remaining on
the 2005 schedule.
Miller, in the no. 9 Country
Joe Homes-Eagle Creek Aviation
Dodge, finished eleventh after
struggling with handling problems all day and running out of
gas on the last lap.
A hard-charging Justin
Allgaier, the local favorite and
no stranger to the Springfield
mile-dirt, finished second, making his way up through the field
from as low as 30th after pitting
out of sequence. Allgaier
crossed the finish line .515 seconds behind the leader after
earning the Pork Pole award
However, the day was not so
during qualifying with a new productive for some names very
track record.
familiar to the ARCA RFJMAX
"I just wish we could have Series dirt tracks, including vetwon the race," said Allgaier. erans· Bill Baird and Bob Strait.
"It's a shame. We had a great
Strait, a native of Mokena,
car."
Illinois had been running second
And, as a tribute to the expe- before making contact with the
rience factor on the often-tough tum three wall ending his day
Illinois State Fairgrounds mile- on lap 79. Baird spun twice in
dirt, the top five finishers turns three and four relegating
included some very seasoned the Sturgis driver to 12th in the
dirt-track veterans.
final running order.
Centralia,
Illinois '
Joe
Brandon Knupp earned the
Cooksey, for example, made the Hoosier Tire Hard Charger
visit to his hometown state a award for his solid sixth place
productive one, finishing third finish after starting 20th. Doug
in the no. 23 Cool Blue Keller fmished seventh in front
Chevrolet after a late race battle of AJ Pike, who battled back
~
with series veteran Mark from one lap down to fmish
Gibson, who finished fourth in eighth. Ken Weaver, with a
the no. 59 Williams Bros. ninth-place finish, was the highLumber Chevrolet.
est-finishing rookie. Jason
"We'd go backwards on Jarrett rounded out the top-10
restarts then we'd make our way fmishers.
back up there," said an exhaustKimmel's brother and crew
ed Cooksey after the race.
chief, Bill Kimmel, earned the
The fourth...place finish was SK Hand Tool Crew Chief of
·Gtes9B'8 f1rst top-~005, a · tilE> R{lee •bon0rsfor his efforts.
testament to how much he
Besides the victory, Kimmel
enjoys the dirt-events he has was the ReadyHosting.com lap
often called his favorite races on leader, the Weld Wheels halfthe schedule. The Winder, way leader and the Hurst
Georgia native also earned Golden Shifter award recipient.
Gladiator of the Race honors In all, Kimmel led 75 of 100
after starting 13th.
laps en route to his 62nd series
"It's great to finish this well," victory in his 298th career start.
said Gibson. "Finally I got a top
Unofficial Top Ten Points for
five this year. Joe (Cooksey) the ARCA RE/MAX Series after
told me before the race we' ve the Best Western-Allen Crowe
got to take care of our right rear Memorial I 00 at the Illinois
tires and I didn't do it and he State Fairgrounds:
did. That's the difference I
1. Frank Kimmel 4525; 2.
guess. The crew did a good job Joey Miller 4155; 3. Ken
all day making adjustments."
Weaver
3840;
4.
Chad
Chelsea, Michigan native Mccumbee 3650; 5. Mark
Bill Eversole, in the Hardcore Gibson 3540; 6. Jason Jarrett
Motorsports Chevrolet, rounded 3335; 6. Brandon Knupp 3335;
out the top five with a career- 8. Mike Harmon 3185; 9. Todd
best finish after a career-best Bowser 3130; 10. Johnny _.
third-place qualifying run.
Leonard 3010.
Wheldon wins Honda 225
by JOHN MARSHALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FOUNTAIN, Colo. - Dan
Wheldon took his second lead
with 60 laps left and wasn't
challenged again, running away
with the Honda Indy 225 on
Sunday for his record-tying fifth
win of the season.
Wheldon started 11th and
gradually worked his way to the
front on the mile tri-oval at
Pikes
Peak
International
Raceway, taking the lead when
he whipped past defending
champion Dario Franchitti on
lap 153. Franchitti took the lead
back on lap 159 when Wheldon
went to the pits, but the
Englishman came charging back
and had the lead six laps later.
Wheldon led by as much as
14 seconds after that and cruised
to his first win since the
Indianapolis 500 on May 29,
beating Sam Hornish Jr. by
12.4763 seconds and averaging
153.79 mph) for his eighth
career victory.
Wheldon also won at Miami,
St. Petersburg and Motegi,
matching Harnish's record for
wins in a season, set in 2002. He
celebrated with a series of
doughnuts that shredded his back
right tire, some well-deserved
fun after five top-fives but no
wins over the past seven races.
The win, which clinched
Honda's second straight manut,l.,.... '
Wheldon's lead over Harnish to
97 points with four of the series'
17 races left.
Tony Kanaan finished third.
Rookie Danica Patrick started fifth, but clearly didn't have a
car to compete with the leaders
early. She dropped to seventh
shortly after taking the green
flag and was off the lead lap less
than halfway through.
But Patrick's car finally started to come around late in the
race and she made a charge, finishing eighth.
Hornish seemed to have the
best car early, building a ninesecond lead headed into the first
pit stop. But the car started to go
after that and Hornish had to fight
his way back to the front for his
fifth top-two finish this season.
Franchitti had the roughest
finish. He led three times and
was running second when he
stalled corning out of his second
pit stop on lap 164. The team
tried to push start the car without
any success, then finally got it
going after pushing it back to the
stall and starting it electronically.
By then , Franchitti's wife,
singer Ashley Judd, was shaking
her head in the pits and he had
dropped to ninth. He finished
seventh.
Polesitter Helie Castoneves
led the first 19 laps, but had a
hard time keeping up with the
leaders after getting passed by
teammate Harnish. He fmished
fourth.
�ednesday, August 24, 2005
FLOYD COUNTY
Features Editor
Kathy Prater
Phone: (606) 886-8506
Fax: (606) 886-3603
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Members:
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6CHOOLNEWS
Allen CMS • page C2
Clark Elem. • page C2
Duff Elem. • page C2
(Items taken from The Floyd County Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.) page C2
School Schanges • page C3
Birthdays • page C3
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www.floydcountytimes.com
POISON OAK
"The
fi~ST source
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Native Floyd Countian, Berea graduate, named president KBA
David B. Sloan sworn-in at
Louisville ceremony
by Clyde Pack
Those early fall days would still be
hot enough for us to go without a
sweater or light jacket, but in just a
few minutes after the sun dropped,
behind
the
hills that surrounded the
little eastern
Kentucky
hollow that
sheltered the
row of 12 or
15 tiny yellow company
houses, the
temperature
would start to
fall,
and
Clyde Pack
within
an
hour, sometimes it'd be downright cold.
Problem was, although it would be
completely dark, it was still way too
early for a hot-shot, coal-camp kid to
call it a day. So, in order to kill enough
· e for us to be respectable when we
fmally did go home, we'd often piddle
around in groups of three or four, until
one of us would actually have an idea.
One of the best ideas anyone had at
a time like that, was when one of the
girls would suggest we build a bonfire
· and "bake some taters."
Those who might not have ever
experienced a 1940's-style "tater bakin"
need to understand, -here and now, that a
baked potato then, resembled in no form
or fashion, a baked potato today, especially one of those fancy fast-food ·
restaurant, store-bought kind.
The good thing about crossties was
ttlht they were creosoted. Again, for
the benefit of the creosote-challenged,
creosote is an oily liquid, obtained by
distilling coal tar, and crossties were
soaked in creosote to help preserve
them. Best of all, though, that made
them highly flammable, and you
could start a fire on a crosstie with just
Email: features@floydcountytlmes.com
for local and regional society news"
Former Pikeville lawyer~ David B.
Sloan, a former associate with the law
fmn Stevens, Combs & Page, and a
native Floyd Countian, has been elected
president of the Kentucky Bar
Association, an agency of the Supreme
Court of Kentucky.
Sloan, the son of Roberta Sloan, of
Prestonsburg, and the late Delbert 0.
Sloan, is now a partner in the Covington
law firm of O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor,
Sloan & Sergent.
A 1972 graduate of Berea College,
he earned his 1uris Doctor from the
Salmon P. Chase College of Law at
Northern Kentucky University in 1976.
After earning his law degree, he prac-
ticed law in Pikeville from 1976 to
1978.
Sloan has provided leadership and
service to the legal community in many
capacities. For the Kentucky Bar, he
served as President-Elect in 2004-2005
and Vice President in 2003-2004 and
has been a member of the
Board of
Governors from 1996 to present.
KBA
(See SLOAN, page three)
(See OAK, page three)
Familiar faces in the Floyd County legal system, early 1960's. Seated, left to right: (as identified) Jack Howard, Joe Hobson, Marshall Davidson, Fred
Francis, Joe P. Tackett, Paul Combs. Standing, left to right (as Identified): Scott Collins, Paul Hayes, Edward P. Hill, Bascom Clark, Burl Wells Spurlock,
Harris Howard, Barkley J. Sturgill, Woodrow W. Burchett, Hollie Conley, Hershal Tackett, Jarvis Allen, Albert A. Burchett, Burnis Martin, Harold J. Stumbo.
Inset: Woodrow Wilson Burchett, "The Sage of Cow Creek." (March 16, 1911 - April12, 1995) The Kentucky State Department of Transportation will
host a bridge dedication at Prestonsburg's new Town Branch Bridge on Monday, August 29, at 12 p.m. The bridge will be formally named "Woodrow W.
Burchett Memorial Bridge" at this time. Attorney General Greg Stumbo will speak, Ron and Mary Wright will provide entertainment, and lunch will be
served, on the bridge, to all in attendance from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend.
by Woodrow Burchett & William H. McCann, Jr.
Ronda Bates Garcia
Receives
l!ledical degree
Ronda Bates Garcia, granddaughter of Olga Trusty, of Garrett, gradu~ted from the University of
Louisville School of Medicine in
May.
Dr. Garcia is currently
'fgaged in a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Louisville.
· Dr. Garcia received a bachelor of
science degree in nursing at the
University of Louisville in 1996. She
spent five years as a nurse in the newborn intensive care unit at Louisville's
Kosair Children's Hospital before
pursuing her degree in medicine.
Dr. Garcia is married to Arvelio
Garcia, of Havana, Cuba. Mr. Garcia
owns Garcia Construction, which specializes in design and construction of
residences in the Louisville area. The
couple have a one-year old son, Reece
Alberto.
• Ronda is the daughter of Debbie
T'disty Rumble and Ron Bates, both
of Florence.
Woodrow Burchett (1911-1995) was born on Cow
Creek, in Floyd County. By profession he was ftrst a
teacher, later a lawyer. Eventually he served three
terms as county attorney of Floyd County, served on
the Kentucky Public Service Commission and the
Kentucky Harness Racing Commission. But perhaps
he is best known for his stories and the homespun
wisdom that caused him to become, as many knew
him later in his life, '~he Sage of Cow Creek."
This series of articles is based upon a series of
oral history interviews conducted by William H.
McCann, Jr. , of Woodrow Burchett, at his home on
Cow Creek in the winter and spring of 1993. The
interviews lasted more that 12 hours over about 5
days and extended from Mr. Burchett's childhood
on Cow Creek to his reflections on law and life.
This particular article, an edited version of oral
history transcript excerpts, discusses his legal career,
beginning with his attending the University of
Kentucky, including some of his most memorable
cases and the people and personalities that enlivened
Floyd County and its various 'courthouses.'
COLLEGE
I went to [the University of Kentucky in 1928]
and took what they called the "combined course."
You' d take two years [of undergraduate courses]
and if you got a "B" average then you could go to
law school. And I got down there and ... about all I
could do w,as wait tables and study.
I waited tables at the Tea Cup Inn. It was located
[near] the corner of High and the (Jefferson Street)
viaduct. I waited tables there every night for my
supper. You could get the best meal they had down
there for thirty-five cents and well ... we're talking
about steak then. And there was an old gentleman
named Mr. Spotswood .... He 'd run a little novelty
company down on Main Street. And Mr. Spotswood
ate there all the time and he always ate at my table
and I always waited on him, and every Sunday Mr.
Spotswood always gave me a dollar tip and that
always meant a lot.
And I made it through with the required number
of hours. I think it was ninety that you had to have
with a "B" average. And I clid it and entered the law
school. And in the meantime I was teaching. Teach
a semester and then I could go [to law school for] a
semester and a summer term.
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(See LAWYERING, page four)
CRITTER CORNER
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Useless facts - but, interesting!
by Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
Folks, this week I am as dry as the
desert when it comes to ideas. (PLEASE,
somebody, seQd in some questions or topics you would like to see covered !!) I am,
however, as my friends all know, a bottomless pit of useless bits of information.
Wait. .. they're no longer useless- ! can
fill up a whole column with them!
Most of these particular tidbits I found
collected on one of my favorite web sites,
www.dogbause.com. I was already aware
of some of these, and some were news to
me. I can't vouch for the veracity of all of
them either, but they're fun and sometimes come in handy for that last round of
Trivial Pursuit®.
In mythology, the cat is believed to
have great influence on the wea~her.
Witches that rode on storms were srud to
take the form of cats. The dog is a signal
of wind, and a dog was the attendant of
Odin, the storm king. So cats symbolize
down-pouring rain and dogs symbolize
strong gusts of wind. (I suppose this
where we get the expression "raining cats
and dogs"?)
The common belief that dogs are colorblind is false. Dogs can see color but it
is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. It
is much like our vision at twilight.
A cat sees about six times better than a
human at night because of the tapetum
lucidum, a layer of extra reflecting cells
·
which absorb light.
A group of kittens is called a kindle; a
group of adult cats form a Clowder.
Black cat superstitions are as American
as apple pic. In Asia and England, black
Yorkshire terriers, Brittany and Brandy, recently enjoyed an outing
at the park with "Mom" and "Dad," Rita and Lowell Brock, of
Prestonsburg. Brittany, age 4, and Brandy, 1 and 1/2 yrs., are a
major part of the Brock family and they manage to keep "Mom and
Dad" busy. The "girls," who were asking "When are we going to
eat?" when this picture was snapped, also enjoy It when "Big
Brother," Lowell Jr., and "Big Sister," Sheena, come home for a vis it!
But look out, girls, because "Big Sis" Sheena Is going to become
"Mama"
In January, so competition Is on the way!
(See CRITTER, page three)
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Schoo( Cafendar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• Aug. 15-26 - Nominations
for Parent Representative to
SBDM Council may be made at
school office. Those nominated
must have a child currently
enrolled at AMS.
• Adams Middle School
Youth Services Center is open
each weekday from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. The center offers services
to all families regardless of
income. For more information
about any of the activities or
services of the center, please
contact the center at 886-1297.
The center is now located in the
7th grade wing of the school.
Center Coordinator - Michelle
Keathley.
Allen Central Middle School
• If your child has left any
article of clothing at school,
please contact the Youth Service
Center office.
• The ACMS Youth Service
Center is open each day from
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., or later
by appointment. For more
information about the center,
call LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 358-0134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service
Center
•
Call Allen Elementary
Youth Service Center at 874-0621
to schedule your child's Hepatitis
B vaccination, immunizations,
and WIC appointments.
grade school entry physical;
kindergarten, Head Start and
•
The Betsy Layne well-child physicals (age birth
Elementary Family Resource to 18 years); T.B. skin test; T.D.
Youth Service Center is located boosters; and WIC services.
in the 500 building of the cam- Please call 358-9878 for
pus. The goal of the FRYSC is appointment if you are in need
to meet the needs of all children of any of these services.
and their families who reside in
• The J.A. Duff Elementary
the community or neighborhood· Family Resource Center proby the school in which the center vides services for all families
is located. For further informa- regardless of income. We are
tion, please contact the center at located in the tan metal building
478-5550 or 478-9751, ext. 310. at the rear of the school. Contact
• Brian H. Akers, Center persons are Judy Handshoe,
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers, coordinator, and Ruby Bailey,
Program Assistant II; Debra assistant.
Hayes, School Nurse.
Betsy Layne Elementary
•
Floyd County H~alth
Department Nurse Joy Moore, is
at the center each Monday to
administer immunizations, T.B.
skin tests, well-child exams, WIC,
prenatal and post-partum services,
and school physicals.- ·Call 3772678 for an appointment. .
Mountain Christian Academy
Mountain
Christian
Academy is a non-denominational Christian school.
• Now accepting applications for enrollment for
Kindergarten for the 2005-06
school year. Call 285-5141 for
more information.
May Valley Elementary
Clark Elementary
Duff Elementary
•
Aug. 25 - Family
Resource Advisory Council will
hold meeting at 4 p.m., in
school library. Open to public.
All invited.
• Parent Lending Library is
available to parents for video
check-outs. A variety of topics
are available.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. nurse at school every
Wednesday. Services include
Head Start physicals, kindergarten physicals, 6th grade
physicals, well-child physicals,
immunizations, TB skin test,
WIC program, blood pressure
checks, and more. Must call the
FRC at 285-0321 for an
appointment.
• Floyd County Health
Dept. is at the school each
Tuesday. Services include 6th
McDowell Elementary and
Family Resource Center
• After-School Child Care
now accepting applications for
Clark students, K-5th. Limited
enrollment, call now! 8860815.
• A nurse from the Floyd
County Health Dept. is in the
center weekly and sees WIC
patients, does well-child exams
(birth-18 years), and gives
immunizations.
• The Clark Elementary
Family Resource Center provides services for all families
regardless of income. We. are
located in the Adams Middle
School building.
Prestonsburg Elementary and
Family Resource Center
•
The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays 8
a.m.-4 p.m., and later by
appointment. Office provides
services for all families, regardless of income.
• After School Child Care,
3-6 p.m., school days.
· • Call 886-7088 for additional information regarding the
Prestonsburg
Elementary
Family Resource Center or its
programs.
South Floyd Youth Services
Center
• School will be participating in the Food City "Apples for
Students" program, please save
your receipts.
• • Committee sign-ups may
be done through the Youth
Services Center office.
• Walking track open to
public.
• The center has a one-stop
career station satellite that is
available to the community as
well as students.
• Anyone interested in Adult
Ed may contact the center for
information.
• All new students and visitors, stop by the Center, located
on the South Floyd campus,
Room 232, and see Mable Hall.
Open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon.
thru Fri.
• For more information call
452-9600 or 9607 and ask for
Mable Hall, ext. 243, or Keith
Smallwood, ext. 242.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud
Creek Family Resource
Center
• FRC monthly Advisory
Council meetings will be held
the fust Wednesday of each
month, at 4 p.m. Call for more
info.
• Lost & Found located in
Family Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Parents
and community members are
welcome to visit. For questions,
call 587-2233 - ask for Tristan
Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Family Resource
Center
•
Lost
&
Found;
Throughout the school year, the
center receives items that are
left on school buses, in the gym, ·
classrooms, etc. We encourage
parents to visit the c~nter if their ·
child has lost a coat, bookbag, ~
or any such item. Lost items are. .
checked for identification, however, if unable to locate owner,
and items are not claimed within 2 weeks, they then become
the property of the Family
Resource Center.
• The Family Resource
Center is open weekdays, 8 a.m.
to 4:30p.m., or later by appointment. The center provides services for all families within the
community, regardless of
income. If you would like more
information
about •
programs/services the center
offers, please call452-4553; ask
for Cissy or Karen. The center
is located inside the main build-'
ing
at
W.D.
Osborne·
Elementary. Parents and com-.
munity members are welcome.
to visit.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare
and Infantffoddler Care accepts
infants and toddlers up to 2'
years and Preschool age 2-4. .~
Daycare hours: 7 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday.
• For additional information, call 874-8328. Sumrne1
offt.ee hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
(Items taken from
The Floyd County
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and :•
60 years ago.)
u
An
bond for failing to appear at a pre-trial
conference on August 4. He reversed the
order last week...There died: Alva May
August 23 and 25
Flanery, 87, of Langley, Thursday,
August 17, in Riverview Manor Nursing
Dexter Cameron McNeil, 17, of Home; Anna Thornsberry Hall, 66, of
Eastern, an Allen Central High School Martin, Friday, August 18, at Our Lady of
student, died on Ky. Route 80, when the the Way Hospital, Martin; Zola
car he was in, struck the side of a tractor Thornsberry Cook, 72, of Wayland,
trailer, about 4 p.m. Monday...Two con- Wednesday, August 16,,at Central Baptist
struction workers, John Goble and John Hospital, Lexington; Jacqueline Wells
Goble IT, afflicted with a respiratory dis- Sammons, 67, of Hollywood, Florida,
ease while doing work for the City of formerly of Prestonsburg and Lexington,
Prestonsburg have filed suit against the Monday, August 14, at her home; James
city...Excess monies padded into a bond Edward Spencer, 39, of Hurricane Creek,
issue for the construction of a new Floyd Monday, August 21, on Bearfork at
County Jail, cannot be used to facilitate Hurricane, in an accident; Adrian Eugene
the building of a new county court- . "Pop" Crowder, 79, of Price, Friday,
house...Wheelwright policemen will not August 18, at Central Baptist Hospital in
issue parking citiations within the city Lexington; Raleigh R. "Sarge" Payne, 65,
limits, until an out-of-date city ordinance formerly of Estill, Tuesday, August 8;
is updated. Floyd County Attorney Jim Maudie Francis Howell Martin, 95, of
Hammond saw his troubles multiply this Teaberry, Saturday, August 19, at her resweek, with a suit filed by his former wife idence; Joe Yates, 87, of Wiggins,
seeking payment of loans. Hammond also Mississippi, formerly of Harold,
apparently owes the Floyd County Fiscal Saturday, August 19, at Pkeville
Court nearly 18 months worth of reim- Methodist Hospital; Curtis F. McCown,
bursements for salaries the court has paid 84, of Romulus, Michigan, Wednesday,_
a group of his employees ...After misde- August 16; John Tracy Hamilton, 39, of
meaner drug charges were filed Saturday Grethel, Friday, August 18, at Highlands
against former Supreme Court Judge Dan Regional Medical Center; Wilena
Jack Combs and his son, by Kentucky Rodgers Cinnamond. 77, of Frankfort,
State Police, a legal battle erupted Monday, August 21, at Bluegrass
between Eric Conn, Combs' attorney, and Regional Medical; Hershell Johnson, 67,
Floyd District Judge James R. of Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, August 17;
Allen... Mary Lois Hale, of I vel, was Essie Moore, 75, of Mongo, Indiana, forkilled, Wednesday, on Route 80, ~n Knott merly of Topmost, in Knott County,
County, when her vehicle slammed into Friday, August 18, at her residence;
the back of a coal truck...Martin City Dexter Cameron McNeil, 17, of Eastern,
Council nixed an offer, Wednesday, by Monday, August 21, on Ky. Rt. 80, at
former Mayor Raymond Griffith to pur- Eastern, following an automobile accichase property where the city park is dent; Edward Wells, 77, of Harold,
located, and voted to negotiate with Monday, August 21, at Highlands
Griffith
and
adjacent
property Regional Medical Center; Jonah Irick,
owners ... Two Floyd County schools that 67, of Harold, Sunday, August 19 at his
had been put on notice by the Floyd residence; Harvey Clevinger Jr., 70, of
County Health Department to fix it or Pikeville, Sunday, August 20; Beatrice
close it, received top ratings during Honeycutt Patton, 71, of Prestonsburg,
inspections this week. The Kentucky Friday, August 18, at Highlands Regional
Supreme Court, Wednesday, A~gust 16, Medical Center; Mary Lois Hale, 32, of
denied a discretionary review of a state Ivel, Wednesday, August 23 on Ky. 80 .in
Court of Appeals ruling that conclu~ed Knott County, following an automob~le
that Bill and Malta Arms of East Pomt, . accident; Audrey Bolen,~ 75, of Mouste,
are residents of Floyd County, not Wednesday, August 23, ~t her residence;
Johnson County, as they have long con- Shaun Michael Ho1we~l. 15, of
tended...A judge has set aside a bench Bishopville, Sou~h. C.:'trohna,. Sun?ay,
warrant he issued for a Prestonsburg August 20, from m~unes sustamed m a
woman charged with theft. Johnson go-cart accident; Ehzabeth Moore Ward,
Circuit Judge Stephen N. Frazier had ear- 83, of Prestonsburg, Tuesd~y, August 22,
lier ordered that Michelle "Mickey" at Highlands Regional Med1cal Center.
Woods, a former Johnson County sheriff's clerk, be arrested and held without
II
11en .ears 118D
TwenIV uears AID
August 21, 1985
.
-
School was back in session after two
delays caused by the need to remove
asbestos insulation a11d correct frre code
violations at some schools...Alarmed parents asked scool board members for a
new Garrett school after major cracks
appeared in the school structure ...In the
war of words between local and state education officials, Floyd school administrators discharged a 13-page response to
questions posed by the associate superintendent in the state Department of
Education... Ron Chaffins was named
director of the Big Sandy Health Care
Inc ...The Floyd Fiscal Court voted to
curb pollution in the county, and to
require owners of new homes and trailers
to show that they have an approved
sewage disposal system before they can
get their electric power hooked up ...There
died: Essie Spears, 56, of Banner,
Monday; Kindle Vanderpool, 74, of
McDowell, Friday; Evangelist Sid Hall,
63, of Weeksbury, Thursday; Sol
Sammons, 68, of Prestonsburg,
Thursday; James Franklin Hyden, 51,
former Floyd County resident, Thursday,
in Nashville, Tennessee; Claude Oscar
Trusley, 83, of Water Gap, Monday; Ella
Miller Robinson, 56, of Martin; loucinda
Nolan Castle, 85, of Hueysville, Monday;
Delphine Nelson Mann, 82, of Iowa, formerly of Floyd County; Scott Hill, 71, of
Mt. Sterling, formerly of Abbott Crrek;
Bob Rose, 82, of Warsaw, Indiana, formerly of Prestonsburg; Arville Hamilton,
67, of McDowell, Saturday, and Shirley
Mitchell Freeman, 38, of Laurens, South
Carolina, formerly of Craynor.
Thinv Years IUD
August 29, 1975
Dewey Lake ·claimed its second victim
of the year, Monday afternoon, when 18year-old Robert Kean Thomas, of Route
1, Harold, drowned in the vicinity of
Goble Branch...Two incidents of breaking and entering here, over the week-end,
highlighted a week that was otherw!se
"slow" in terms of county-w1de
arrests...Odell Wallen, 38, of Dwale, narrowly escaped instant death, Friday afternoon when a crane which he was operating, ~t the mouth of the Big Bran~h of
Abbott Creek, came in contact wtth a
7 000-volt rural electric line...Arkady
Weber, a descendent of Russian royalty,
whose life story reads like a novel of
adventure and intrigue, was buried,
Saturday, in -eastern Kentucky hills, thousands of miles from the Russia he had
fled as a Czarist refugee more than half a.
century ago after the Bolshevik
Revolutuion...There died: Judith Leslie 1
Shepherd, 29, of David, last Tuesday, at 41
St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington; Wyola
Gibson, 59, of Wayland, last Tuesday, at
Highlands Regional Medical Center;
Fred C. Hall, 64, of Stanville, Thursday,
at Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Nell
Hatcher, 63, of Stanville, last Wednesday,
at Mountain Manor Nursing Home,
Pikeville; Glenn Allen Lewis, infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mitchell Lewis, of
Cow Creek, Monday, at the UK Medical
Center in Lexington; Bob George, 67, of
Hi Hat, Monday, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Henry P..._
Huff, 50, of Drift, Saturday, at Our Lady
of the Way Hospital; Ernest Boyd, 90, of
Stanville, last Wednesday, at his home.
FDriV Years IUD
August 19, 1965
The Central Business District 57-car
parking area here was opened Wednesday
morning, and opening of the larger
Courthouse Project lot is tentatively • ·
scheduled for Friday...The Floyd County
school system's plan for desegregation
has won the official approval of the U.S.
Department of Education, it was
announced, this week...The Traipsin Trio,
a folksinging group from Wheelwright,
consisting of Shriley Peraino. Amber
Ferguson and Shannon Logan, were
declared winners of the Talent Hunt program presented, August 8, by WHTN,
TV, Huntington, W.Va...Fred G. Francis,
Prestonsburg attorney, was elected, last
Thursday, to the board of managers of the
National Conference of Bar Examiners,:'*
meeting in Miami Beach, Florida...There ·
died: Clyde Spurlock, 75, of.
Prestonsburg, Friday, at the Prestonsburg
General Hospital; Rev. Eugene Simpson,
51, of . Drift, August 10, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Mrs.
Celia Bowling Walker, 79, of Betsy:
Layne, August 14, at Our Lady of thei
Way Hospital, Martin; Samuel May, for-!
merly of Ligon, August 11, after beingi
struck by a truck at Lincoln Park,·
Michigan; George P. Hereford, 78, formerly of Prestonsburg, last Monday, at'
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(See YESTERDAYS, page three)
�ak
Sloan
• Continued from pl
one kitchen match.
Any one of us could provide
half a dozen potatoes at a
moment's notice, and after
someone would, we'd simply
drop them into the ftre. In just a
few minutes, we'd hunt us a
long narrow stick and start raking and rolling the potatoes
away from the heat so they
c~ld cool enough for us to eat
t~m.
Sometimes they' d be burned
to a crisp, with not enough potato left to bother with. If we were
lucky, however, after peeling
away about a quarter-inch of
ash, we'd find the potato a delicious treat. No salt, no chives,
no broccoli, and no sour cream.
Just potato.
Although the crossties would
bum rather quickly, there was
always a bright orange hunk left
smoldering. Someone would
kick it and send a stream of
sparks skyward, sometimes
reaching a height of .15 or 20
feet. When the night would
swallow the tiny sparks, some-
one would kick what was left of
the crosstie again, making more
sparks fly, although not as high
as the last ones. This action was
repeated over and over, until the
crosstie had pretty much
sparked out.
One of us would kick a little
dirt over the smoldering ashes,
and in a chorus of "see ya laters," we'd walk from what was
left of the warmth of the fire,
fade into the blackness of the
crisp autumn night, and head for
the house.
Yesterdays
• Continued from p2
Ft. Pierce, Florida.
• Continued from p1
Additionally, he has served as a
member of the KBA Rules
Committee, KBA Judicial
Concerns Committee, and
KBA Budget Committee from
2002 to 2004.
He is a former member of
the Kentucky Bar Association
IOLTA Board.
Sloan is also past president
of the Northern Kentucky Bar
Association (NKBA) and has
served as a member of the
NKBA Board of Directors.
Sloan was sworn-in in a cer-
Prestonsburg area
families can say
"Ni Hao" to high
school exchange
students
emony that took place at the
KBA Annual Convention, in
Chief Justice
Louisville.
Lan1bert invested the following
officers of the Kentucky Bar
Association: President David
B. Sloan·, of Covington;
President-Elect Robert C.
Ewald, of Louisville; Vice
President Jane Winkler Dyche,
of London; Immediate Past
President R. Kent Westberry, of
Louisville; and Young Lawyers
Section Chair Katherine J.
Hornback, of Lexington.
Governors of the Kentucky
Bar Association include: W.
of ...
Douglas
Myers,
Hopkinsville; Charles E .
Moore, of Owensboro; Marilyn
Benge McGhee, of London;
Joseph L. White, of Louisville; ·t
Fred E. Fugazzi Jr., of
Lexington; Thomas L. Rouse, ,
of Ft. Wright; and William H.
Wilhoit, of Grayson.
Sloan is married to Nancy
Adkins Sloan. The couple have
two children and one granddaughter.
13irthdays
nation, the news of Japan's "unconditional" surrender... More than 9,000 votes
)
were cast by voters of both political parties at the August 4 primary, with the
Magistrate races drawing the heaviest
August 18, 1955
polling ... Floy9 County Selective Service
STAMFORD, CT - "Wo
Boards were notifed, Wednesday, that
hen xiang gaosu ni wo he wo
Complete separation of black and any selectee, 26 years of age or older,
de guo jia" Not sure what this
white pupils has ended in Floyd County, was not to be called up for military sermeans? Maybe that's because
and the county board of eduction has vice ... The Sandy Valley Tire Service has
you haven't yet taken advan)
tage of the ability to experitaken steps toward eventual full compli- moved into a new building here, conence a new culture while welance with the Supreme Court decision, structed at an estimated cost of
coming a Chinese student into
which requires discontinuance of the tra- $50,000 .... County Judge E. P. Hill Jr.,
your home. Translated, it
ditional separation of the races in the Monday, named Brady Shepherd, of . means, "I can't wait to tell
common schools of the country...Pvt. Prestonsburg, to fill the vacancy created
you about me and my country." Just think, if you choose
Lloyd R. Hunt, son of Mrs. Norcie Hunt, by the resignation of the Rev. M. C.
to make a difference by hostof West Garrett, was one of 66 American Wright
as
Floyd
County
ing
an exchange student, this
eipnen who were killed, last Thursday, Coroner... Prestonsburg's baseball team
could be the flrst phrase you
when two Flying Boxcars brushed wings moved back into second place in the Big
and your family learn.
and crashed in flames in Germany's Sandy
Each year, Academic Year
League's
standings,
Black Forest... Roy Cook, county dog Sunday... There died: Benjamin Harris
in America http://www.responsetrack.neU (AYA) brings high
warden, this week began, in Martin and Mollett, 38, at home at Betsy Layne,
school exchange students
vicinity, the work of selling dog tags, Sunday.
from China as well as such
picking up and destroying worthless
Asian countries as Hong
strays, and rendering other services conKong, Mongolia, Vietnam and
nected with enforcement of the new state
Korea. One of the most
respected high school foreign
dog law... The clutch pitching and hard
exchange student programs in
hitting of Jim Mosley carried the pennantAugust 16, 1935
the United States, AYA offers the
winning Yankees to their second straight
opportunity for Prestonsburg
Little League playoff victory in as many
Construction of farm-to-market roads
area families to make a differyears, nosing out the Cardinals, 4 to 3, for the Abbott Creek and Bosco sections
ence by hosting an Asian student. This year alone, the AYA
l•t Saturday...The Americans edged the of the county was approved, Monday, by
Keira is 1!
program
will bring more than
Nationals·in the Martin Little League All- the Works Progress Administration,
150 Asian students, ages 15 to
Kelra Lashea Shepherd celebrated her first birthday on
Star game 9 to 7, August 11, at Congre'ssman A.J. May reported this
18ll, to the U.S. to start school
Saturday, August 13, 2005. She Is the daughter of Amy and
Martin ... There died: Mrs. Ann Hall, 57, of week ... Four hundred additional unemin September. With AYNs taiRichard Shepherd, of Garrett, and the granddaughter of
Wayland, last Thursday, at the Stumbo ployed and needy teachers will be placed
lored
matching
system,
Allison and Harold Conley, of Hueysville, and Joe and Ruth
Memorial Hospital, Lackey; Clarence in training immediately in Kentucky,
Shepherd, of Salyersville. Kelra received many nice gifts from
Prestonsburg families are able
family and friends who helped her celebrate her special day.
to ftnd a student who will be the
Keathley, 37, Wednesday, at his home at
preparatory to conducting educational
perfect ftt for their household.
Harold; James Damron, 66, of Ivel,
projects. Homer Nichols, state director of
By Welcoming an Asian
Tuesday, while en route .to a hospital here;.
exchange- ·smdehr ·ruw.. tli'eir ·speci~l
education,
announced
at
Johnnie Allen, 47, Friday, at his home at
home, families make the
Printer; Miller Smiley, 57, of Dana, last Frankfort, Monday... An election contest
dream of a young student
come true. In addition, the
Sunday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, suit being filed this morning,·(Thursday)
Mel
Petry,
candidate
for
entire family will benefit from
Martin; Mrs. Dora W. Montgomery, 74, by
I
experiencing an entirely diffi merly of Prestonsburg, last Saturday, Representative, charges voting irregularferent culture while forming a
at a Harlan hospit~l; Paris Lafayette ities in several precincts, and alleges, that
lifelong relationship.
Reed, 22, last Sunday, at his home at votes in one precinct were cast, either the
On a larger scale, the world
Endicott; Mrs. Ida Greenwald, 74, of night before the .election, or after polls
faces a time when tolerance
and acceptance are essential
)
Betsy Layne, last Saturday, at the closed ... Mrs. Edith James will sing her
to a peaceful future. By hostMethodist Hospital, Pikeville; Epp mother's version of the mountain balled,
ing an exchange student, a
Brown, 82, Tuesday, at his home at . "Pretty Polly," tlais week during the
family isn' t just making an
)
McDowell.
White Top Mountain Folk Festival at
impact on the student,s life;
I
White Top, Virginia...There died: Mrs.
they are touching every life
that
the
student
subsequently
Anna Merritt Harris, 77, at the home of
touches. The ideas and beliefs
her niece, Mrs. Flora Sizemore, Tuesday;
that make Ametica what it is
S. L. Baldridge, 64, former Abbott Creek
are seen flrst-hand by the eyes
August 16, 1945
resident, at his home at Pikeville,
of an international visitor. The
experience they take home is
Sunday;
Miss
Mary
Spradlin,
17,
years
• At 7 o' clock Tuesday evening,
passed on and shared, causing
President Truman announced to the old, of Bonanza, Friday, of typhoid.
FifiV Years Ago
Savantv Years Ago
)
Sixtv Years Ago
Critter
• Continued from pl
cats are considered lucky.
When a domestic cat goes
after mice, about one pounce in
three results in a catch.
1\cat lover is an ailurophile, and
an ai,lurophobe is afraid of cats.
The color of the points in
S!l!mese cats is heat related.
Cool areas are darker. In fact,
Siamese kittens are born white
because of the heat inside the
mother 's uterus before birth.
This heat keeps the kittens' hair
from darkening on the points.
The flea can jump 350 times
its body length. That is like a
human jumping the length of a
football field.
Fleas have changed history.
More human deaths have been
attributed to fleas than all the
wars ever fought. As carriers of
the bubonic plague, fleas were
r~onsible for killing one-third
of the population of Europe in
the 14th century.
In cats, the calico and tortoiseshell coats are sex-linked
traits. All cats displaying these
patterns are females ... or occasionally sterile males.
Cats' urine glows under a
black light.
The heaviest cat ever recorded weighed 46 pounds.
Cats purr at about' 26 cycles
per second, the sante frequency
as an idling diesel engine.
Cats have a third eyelid called
a "haw"; you may only see it
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Cats step with both left legs,
then both right legs when they
walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe
and the camel.
In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning
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In Egyptian times, the penalty
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before the house cat.
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holding up one front leg, the
person died as a result of
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�C4 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lawyering
TEACHING
I passed the [teachers] exam
before I got out of high school,
before I was old enough to
teach. [But] as soon as I [turned]
eighteen I got a job over on
John's Creek, in Floyd County.
[The school] was about a mile
upstream from where the May
Lodge [at Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park] is now. And I'd
walk from [Cow Creek] over
there and teach and come back.
' I was eighteen years of age,
high school graduate and [had]
one year of college. [John's
Creek] was a one-room school
[that] had sixty-five students in
it, eight grades and me. [And] I
had students in there as old as
me. They didn' t know me. I set
out to get acquainted and I loved
every one of 'em. If I had [a student] that I thought wasn't
doing the best work he was
capable of doing, or he was misbehaving or I had a discipline
problem with him and sometimes if they were doing real
good or I' d talk to his parents,
I'd point my finger at him and
I' d say, "Tell your mommy I'm
gonna come home with you
tomorrow night and stay all
night." They liked [that] and
that meant that I was going to
get fried chicken and biscuits
and gravy.... That's about all
they had to eat.
They could go out in the yard
and kill a chicken and make
gravy and . . . that meant I was
gonna go down and visit with
the family and the children and I
was gonna get acquainted with
'em and .we were going to discuss their child's progress,
behavior, the whole thing. Well,
it did two things, it entrenched
me as an unusual school teacher
and it kept me from having to
walk home every night.
The school term ran five
months, maybe seven. And
school was out on a Friday in
June and the following Monday,
I'd start summer term at the
University. I had a long vacation.
LAW SCHOOL
I didn't really know what law
school was all about when I
went [to UK]. I just knew I
wanted to be a lawyer and I
knew you had to go down there
and you had to sign up and you
had to pass courses and you had
to learn all you could. And I
found out that you learned more
the first year you were out than
the three years you were down
there. But you had to learn the
law, I think [that] is mostly what
you do down there, (learn legal)
principles.
·
Dean [Alvin E.] Evans was
the Dean and [Roy] Moreland
was [one of the professors.]
Moreland had been to Harvard ...
and I took criminal law under
Moreland and criminal
law's simple and I could
understand it pretty well. I'd lay
over there in the library and try to
find something that I could catch
him on the next day, you know.
[My] class graduated in
[19]33 and I got my license in
' 33. [B]ut I went back in '34 and
picked up some [courses].' I had
gone . .. and taken the bar examination and passed it, and they
frowned on that. ... [B ]ut I'd
go[ne] back the next semester
and pick[ed] up all my courses
. . . that I should have taken in
my last semester.
[C]orporations was one
course that I had not had but I'd
made 91 on it on the bar exam.
Highest score [ever] made. Dean
Evans . . . taught corporations.
[Since] I already had my law
license then there wasn' t a
whole lot Dean could do to me.
[B]ut any way he'd come in
every morning and he was
pulling at his neck, you know.
[H]c' d say, "Burchett, stand up!"
"Yes, sir."
Then he'd say, "In our midst
we have an authority on corporations! He made the highest
grade that was made in the bar
examination on [corporations.]
Now, let me ask you this." Then
Dean outlined a big long proposition involving corporations
and he said, "If somebody was
to come in your office and tell
you what I've just told you,
what would you tell 'em?"
I said, I'd tell 'em, 'Better go
down . . . the street and see
French Combs.'
LAWYER
I practiced a few cases there
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house. I got him a divorce.
And then King Swope [who]
was the circuit judge and Harry
Miller was a defense attorney
and Jim Park was the
Commonwealth Attorney. And
when they had an indigent fella
... they'd send over at U.K and
ask the Dean [of the law school]
to send two of his lawyers down
there. He ... wouldn't risk one,'
he'd send two of us down.
And one time we went down
there, Paul Mansfield and I, he
was later county attorney of
Fayette County, to defend a boy
.. . a black boy who had killed a
white girl in Fayette County and
they'd taken him up in Ohio or
somewhere for safekeeping and
brought him back .. . [for] us to
defend him.
Well, we were scared to
death afraid they were going to
juice him. Well, we go down
and we' d been talking about it
.. . we'd never seen him ....
"Now he's young .. . he's only
18 years old and he's young and
we'll get his mother down there
and we'll tell him about his
being sort of slow in school and
being retarded and being young
and inexperienced and all that
stuff, and beg for mercy and
maybe get him off with life."
[N]ight before the trial we
went down [to the jail] to see
him, that's the first time they'd
ever brought him in there.
Could have been lynch bait you
know, then in those days. And
his mother was there and we got
to talking to her and said, "Well,
what did he talk about when he
was growing up? Did he play
with small children and ... "
"No," she [interrupted], "he
always talked about wanting to
kill a white girl."
That's what she said to us.
And we went in the jail to see
him then and he had a mustache.
Here was our poor little fella
that was young and all that and
he had a mustache. Mansfield
said, "Have you got a knife?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
So we sharpened it up a bit
and Mansfield started cutting
his mustache off and he was
mad and said, "You fellas are
hurting me." [T)h_is ~l!bY ~e
was gonna try we didn' t want
him to have a mustache so
Mansfield got it going pretty
good and he was cussing
Mansfield, said he was hurting
him. [S]o Mansfield said,
"Listen. This is ·not gonna hurt
half as bad as that electric chair
they're gonna throw you in." So
we got him trimmed up.
[At trial] ... we just cried
and pleaded our inexperience
and how it wasn't fair to this
fella to be represented by two
boys out of the University over
there against a fella like Jim
Parks, but they give him life and
that satisfied us. But we couldn' t defend him on the grounds
of his youth.
That's the two cases I tried in
Fayette County [that yeat.]
*****
I came back to Prestonsburg
and I was a lawyer. I didn't have
any money. I didn't have any
clothes. I didn't have any clients.
I didn't have any office. I didn't
have any books. I didn' t have
anything except my mother and
daddy who lived right here [on
Cow Creek]. I lived in a smaller
house and they'd feed me. So I
decided, "Well, I'm a law~~r
now. I'd better go doWJf'~
Prestonsburg and see what "dley
do in the law business.
So I go down there and th~y
were having what they called
Floyd Quarterly Court and Dr.
Walt Stumbo [he was county
judge] .. . came in there with his
riding suit on and his leather
leggings. He was a . . . homevisiting family doctor. He' d ride
that horse and wear those
leather leggings. [And he was]
about as big as a salt barrel. And
he came in, propped those
leather leggings and those shoes
up on top of the desk and he
said, "Call the flrst case Joe P.
(Tackett)"
And Joe P. called the flrst
case, Commonwe alth against
Sil Hamilton for ferreting."
''Doc said, "What is that Joe P. T'
"Well," he said, and I was sitting back there observing you
know, "I'll tell you what that
is." And he said, "That's a violation of the game law." Said, "a
ferret is a little animal that you
carry in a little box, and when
you run a rabbit in a hole you
put the ferret in the hole and the
rabbit will run out and [you]
catch him in a sack."
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[A]nother [case] they called
up was over ownership of a dog.
TWo fellas claimed the same
foxhound. And Doc says,
"Where do you live?"
He said, "I live here in
Prestonsburg."
"Where do you live?"
Said, "I live on Tinker Fork."
"It's your dog. A man in town
got no use for a dog." Said,
"Now, this court's adjourned if
that's all the kind of stuff you've
got here." He got down ... and
left, said, " I've got to go see
some sick people."
Now that was my introduction to jurisprudence in Floyd
County, Kentucky.
*****
I practiced solo practice. I
think it's the only kind of practice. I think it's the only kind of
practice, I love it and .. .I think
it's the most rewarding practice
of law that you can have
because you have a client and
you establish a client relationship with him. I did. . .. Nearly in
every case,.if I had a case for a
fella I visted his home. I ate with
him. I became acquainted with
his family and I found out what
made him tick. And if it
involved a water course or a
right of way or damage to his
land or whatever, we walked it
over and checked it out and
looked it over very carefully and
I knew whereof I spoke when I
went into the courthouse. And
not only that, but that fella never
forgot me. I never lost many
clients. . .. I've still got people
that come and [say] "You represented my granddaddy, you
represented my daddy, I want
you to represent me."
*****
Jack May had been elected to
Congress and I met him on the
street. [H]e said, "Woodrow, are
you Woodrow Burchett?"
"Yes sir."
"Is Dick Burchett your
daddy?"
"Yes sir."
"Well, now -let me' tell you.
I've got a a law office up there
and its got all th~ books in it that
you need and the paper and
everything that you need. [A]nd
I'm gonna go to Washington .. .
I've just been elected to
Congress ... and I'm gonna be
there awhile, I don't know how
long, but I won't be practicing
any law. Here's the key to my
office."
Well, I go up there and I sit
down and I go after it and I
work hard. I really do. [A]nd
when I went to the courthouse I
knew what I was talking about.
And people got interested in me.
*****
[T]hey had magistrates
courts and they had four magisterial districts and each magistrate would have court in alternating Saturdays so you could
make 'em all. And I'd go out to
these magistrates courts and
I'd represent people for whatever, mostly little things, chickens
scratching up somebody's garden or your cow getting out on
the road or somebody shooting
on the public highway, that was
an awful ffence in those days.
People' d et out at night and
shoot the gun& off and wake
somebod up, and I'd defend
'em for t t. [W)hatever [their
case] it di n't make any difference. I'd ways make a big
noise and I always had some
sort of a g t of gab and I could
make mys f felt in the courtrooms .... I be the only lawyer
ow, and ... I'd have
top, was one magistrate, . .. e wasn't exactly a
Rhodes Scholar but he knew
people and he knew 'em pretty
well. [A]s county attorney the
first cast I had in Blackstrop's
court
involved a couple·
charged with fornication.]
[Blackstrop] called up the
c ases .. .. [S]ome sheriff or
deputy constable or something
had seen 'em through a tunnel
and he thought they were
engaged in some sort of pernicious activity in that tunnel. He
could see 'em .
I was gonna prosecute the
case, you know, and I called the
witness that was listed on the
warrant,." Mr. John Bohanan,"
and he came around. Big heavyset black man. I talked to him,
you know, and I said, "What
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the judge, you know. He said,
"Now, Mr. Blackstrop, I don't
know anything about those
white folks' business."
And I told the judge, I said,
"Judge, he's not gonna tell it."
"Oh, yes he will." So [the
judge] he got right after him and
he said, "Now, John, you gotta
tell what you know."
"I didn't see much."
Reluctant witness.
And he said, "Now , Mr.
Blackstrop, I don't want to tell
this. I don't know nothing."
[I] said, "Tell the truth."
[H]e said, "All I saw was I saw
'em in that tunnel. [T]hey was just
as close as they could get and they
were trying to get closer."
*****
Grover Cleveland Allen.was
practicing law [when I started.]
Grover Cleveland Allen was six
feet and a half tall, and I think
he was the only fella I ever saw
in my life that you could have
got hitll by his shirt collar here
and pulled his shirt up over his
head. But he was a whiz bang of
. a criminal lawyer and I was in a
lot of cases with him. We'd
prosecute cases . . . we've been
in the defense of cases together.
I know one time we were
defending a case and you were
allowed to smoke in the courtroom and do about anything else
you wanted to do. [W]e had a
client that had shot a fella six or
eight times and we knew he was
gonna have trouble explaining it
and we knew he wasn't smart
enough to lie about it.
So [Grover] started smoking
a cigar [while our client was on
the witness stand.] The ash kept
hanging on that thing. It got long
as your fmger. And that jury got
interested in when that ash was
gonna fall off that cigar while
they were cross examining our
client. [That jury] never heard a
word [or] a question that was
' asked that fella or an answer he
made. And [Grover Cleveland]
kept holding that cigar out, you
know. He'd lay it down and that
jury was watching it. And I was
watching everything and that
[ash] never did fall off.
Then [the judge] called a little recess and our client got
down off the witness stand. We
[went] in the jury room and I
said, "Grover what happened to
your cigar?"
He pulled a big hairpin out of it!
But he got the attention of
that jury. They never did know
what our client swore and. or
what things were asked him. We
got him off for ten years.
[A]s soon as the jury came
out and announced ten years,
[the client] whispered in my ear
and he said, "Woodrow, you're
not gonna ask for no new trial
are you?
Said, "I don't think so.
And he said, "I don't want
you to."
*****
French Combs was the leading corporation lawyer in this
country. He represented the
C&O [Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad.] Anybody that would
flle suit against the railroad wasn't a good citizen according to
his books.
[O]ld Judge Wheeler was the
judge when this happened . . ..
And French was up arguing
some kind of motion for the
C&O and, as was usual and customary, wasn't getting anywhere
with it before Judge Wheeler.
And Judge was overruling him
and French looked at him and he
said, "Judge ·Wheeler, you
remind me of a damned owl. The
more light I shed on you the
blinder you get!"
The judge said, "Mr. Combs,
I'm gonna enter a fme against
you for twenty-five dollars."
French Combs threw down a
fifty dollar bill and said, "You
didn't fine me half enough."
*****
In those early days the
lawyers badgered the judge
throughout the trial. They just
badgered the judge and they
badgered each other and about
every Friday we'd fight.
Somebody' d fight in the courtroom. Some lawyer would flght
because . . . that's the way they
thought they 'd earn their
money, their client would like it
if they whipped the other
lawyer, you know. If they couldn't do it in court, they could do
it with their fists.
But anyway, lawyers have
become more dignified and they
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Joe Hobson. I could write a
history about him. A good forty
percent to of all the cases I tried,
Joe Hobson was on the other side.
Joe Hobson knew more law
than any lawyer at the bar, but he
could never get it in the right perspective. He could cite cases and
tell you what book and page they
were in. They didn't necessarily
fit his case, but he thought they
did....He was a good lawyer but
eccentric as all get out.
I liked Joe Hobson. He was a
great lawyer and he worked
hard. He was always referring to
opinions that "Pappa" wrote.
Pappa was his father and was on
the Supreme Court. And I found
one case one day that knocked
him out of the water. And I went
over to the courthouse with my
case and I let Joe get through
with his argument and I said,
Now I've
got a case here Judge, one
that 'Pappa' wrote!" and Joe
took offense at it. I almost had to
whip him there in the courtroom.
He wouldn't quit you, you
know. I know one time we had a
case that involved a settlement
of an estate and the judge wanted to humor Joe, especially in
his older days . [A]nd every
Friday when we'd have motion
court, Joe would be over there
picking at the
judge's decision. And judge
would .. . take another hundred
dollars or two away from my
client and give it to Joe's client.
And the next Friday he'd be
back with another little peanut
thing to get his [client] another
two or three hundred dollars: ...
I got tired of it and I told
judge one day, I said, "Now
Judge, I want you to decide this
case and I want you to decide it
once and for all because I'd
rather be gored by a bull as nibbled to death by a goose." So
that ended that particular case.
*****
[T]here was a dispute over a
line. And the judge appointed a
young engineer to go up and run
the line, survey the line. And he
did and this fella came down
there and killed him, the engineer, and killed the man and his
wife who owned the adjoining
property. Not only did he shoot
'em once and kill 'em but he
went back after that, followed it
up and shot 'em all in the head
to make sure . . . that he had
done his job right.
I prosecuted him, sent him to
the penitentiary. They sat up in
Pike County to get a jury- this
was unusual-and the sheriff up
there knew about the case.
[A]nd [I] just told him to summon a hundred jurors, send 'em
down to Floyd County to [be
voir dired] so they could try it
with a jury from another county.
The ftrst 15 people [were] put in
the jury box and I started to ask
them questions. "You from
· Pikeville?"
"Yes, sir."
"What's your address, name,
age and what do you do?"
"I'm an engineer."
And the next fella, "I . . . I
work for an engineer."
And I told the judge, I said,
"Judge, I like to have good
juries but we can' t do this. This
jury's stacked."
So he discharged 'em all and
told the sheriff to lay away from
the engineers. [T]he sheriff
thought enginders would make
good jurors to try that case! But
I wouldn' t go along with it. But
I got the death penalty anyway.
*****
Well, I handled a lot of
divorce cases. [In one case,] this
man and this woman didn' t have
a lot to law about so they just
wanted to law period. They
!awed over a wheelbarrow full
of coal in the back yard and who
was going to pay the rest of the
weeks' rent and whatever they
were gonna law about, be mad
and disturbed. And I represented
the woman and a lawyer from
Paintsville represented the man.
One morning I got to my
office . . . sort of early and in
came my client's husband. He
walked in and he looked at me
and said, "Woodrow, we're in a
lot of trouble. Me and you are in
a lot of trouble."
I said, "What kind of trouble
are we in?"
He said, "Let me tell you about
them." He said, "Your client and
my lawyer were up at the Eagle.s
Club last night drunk as hell, they
danced all night up there."
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Ruth Wells was a very famot!~
lawyer and a good one, and hqr:
son is J.K. Wells who's one df
the senior lawyers in JohnsoJt
County now. But Ruth Wells,
believe she had the sweete~t
smile of anybody I ever saw. An~
Mr. French Combs was the
lawyer on the other side of [a]
case involving the Prestonsburg
Water Company .... [A]nd Ruth
Wells was representing some
other water company and ... she
would smile at the jury. And Mr.
French Combs said, "Judge, I
want you to make her quit! Make
her quit!"
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Judge said, "What's she
doing?"
Said, "Smiling at that jury!"
And he said, "I can't stop her
from that!"
Said, "She .. . she's tearing
me all to hell, that's what she's
doing!"
But she could do that and, of
course, she won the case.
*****
John Y. Brown, Sr. was a
great lawyer. He was always on
the same side I was. He was~
always for the working man. He
was always interested in seeing
that the downtrodden, the
underprivileged, the poor or
whatever, got their day in court.
[Y]ou don't have to worry much
about a fella that's got plenty of
money. He'll get through and
get by. [But it ·used to be that] it
wasn't any use for a poor man
go to the courthouse. That~s
been changed a lot and fellas
like John Y. Brown helped
change it.
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One of the unsolved mysteries I guess in [Floyd County] is
the case of Merle Baldridge, a
very popular high school cheerleader that was found under the
Prestonsburg bridge, what, thirty years ago, [about 1953], murdered. Raped and murdered.
And John Y. Brown came here
to help us solve ttiat case. I was
county attorney. He brought a
fella up here with truth serum.
That was a new innovation at
that time, and we gave truth
serum to everybody and it didn't•
work. We didn' t find out anything bu( we tried it on 'em all
and we finally cam~ up with 'a
suspect. [We] tried him up in
Pike Circuit Court on a change
of venue, tried our best but we
didn't have enough evidence to
convince the jury. It sort of
solved the case in that we had
accused somebody and tried
'em, but in my book it's still an
unsolved mystery.
*****
Well, sir, I practice law. I di4n't practice bar association. Aop.,
the only time that the Bar
Association ever recognized me
or did anything for me was
something that I didn't do
myself except to live anCI
practice law for ftfty years.
After I practiced law fifty ye~
they give me a little old certificate [saying] that I had practiced
in the State of Kentucky fqr
fifty years.... [N]obody has recognized me as being a great
member of the bar. .. .. But
when I go down to the cowthouse down there people know Inf~
*****
Law practice has alway,s
been a lot of fun to me. I've
done it for sixty years and I've
had a good time everyday anti
I've seen something funny in
every case that I've tried, anCl
I've tried a lot of 'em .... And I
haven't developed any ulceljS
and my blood pressure , they
took it down the other day and
what was it, 120 over 72, :I
guess it was. And I asked this
girl, I said, "What's the trouble
with me?"
:~
She said, "Nothing, exceP.t
it's too normal."
I always decided I was go~
do my best and then I wasn:t
gonna worry about it. Was
gonna remember two things Ill)'
daddy told me, "All a p<>Qr
man's got is his integrity and his
reputation.
William H. McCann, Jr., caauthor and editor of this artie~£
is an oral histo1'ian and writer
who teaches wrttmg ~~
Bluegrass Community and~
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
24, 2005 •
C~
1he lloJd COUIII.ITi1118S
:s~
110 ·Agriculture
~115 · ATV's
q120 ·Boats
J 130 ·Cars
140 • 4x4's
• i'150 · Miscellaneous
J1 60 · Motorcycles
f 170 ·Parts
·175 • suv·s
lt1:118o ·Trucks
190 ·Vans
1
. 200 • EMPLOYMENT
·The FLOYD COUN-
- TY TIMES does not
" knowingly accept
false or misleading
)Jadvertisements
•
~Ads which request
or require advance
!-payment of fees for
services or products should be
scrutinized carefuiGiy.
~~ AUTOMOTIVE
11 O·Agriculture
FOR SALE:
474 New Holland
Haybine Very good
1( condition. $2,800.
1•Call after 6 pm. 874·
•
0024.
1•
21 0 • Job Listings
220 · Help Wanted
230 · Information
250 • Miscellaneous
260 • Part Time
270 · Sales
280 • Services
290 - Work Wanted
300 - Flt:!ANCIAL
31 0 - Business
Opportunity
330 - For Sale
EMPLOYMENT
When responding
to Employment ads
that have reference
numbers,
please
indicate that entire
reference number
on the outside of
your
envelope.
Reference numbers
are used to help us
direct your letter to
the correct individ·
ual.
21(hJob Listing
1
ri
Sales
Representative:
Looking for enthusiastic, career-minded people to join a
130-Cars
great team in the
automotive field.
-· INFO FOR PUBLIC
Twenty year old
h
SALE:
established company.
Date & time of public
Sell from the largest
sale: August 26,
inventory in the mar1
2005 at 11:00
ket. Great pay plan,
Type of collateral:
DEMO, insurance on
-'1999 CheVy Camaro
Demo and insurance
~!
S/N 4643
available!! No experiIi
Contract Date:
ence necessary! In
-~
01/17/03
house paid training
:;,. Location: Call Mike
provided for your
-> Haney for location
success! Limited
-';
886-2321
space available, so
.rFirst Commonwealth
hurry!
~·
,Bank
Please apply in
311 Nprth Arnold
?.J •
Ave
· · · person at John Gray
Pontiac-Buick-GMC
n 'Prestonsburg, KY
in Paintsville KY
41653
41240. Call 1-800Jt
346-4066 or 606rl Hicks Auto Sales
297-4066. For direcAa,1
David Road
tions only. Ask for
-2001 GT
Lance or John.
! ~onvertible
..Mustang automatic
, 40,000 miles $1 0,500
l'
"2001 Impala 30,000
0
miles good title
"$6995
·-1992 Explorer Airl $1395
b199S Mercury miniovan Cold air $1995
!t
$SOO!Police
Impounds! Honda,
Chevy, Ford and
rnore!Cars
fTrucks/SUVs from
.._~500! For listings call
>800-439-3998 ext.
~919
,,
FOR SALE:
1995
tJ3uick LeSabre in
good condition. New
· tires. Good brakes.
~Contact 789·6938.
~sk for David.
b
-;fOR SALE:
1994
-:Jeep
Wrangler.
;.Black, loaded with
extras. 4 cyl 5 speed.
-~5,500. 874-2000.
tit.l=OR SALE:
1985
Cadillac ElDorado
Garage kept. 16,000
zactual miles. Classic.
~pecial order Gold
q(ey Edition. 87412000. $12,000.
('
L
160-Motorcycles
2
For
Sale
1998
'YAMAHA YZ80 New
l1ires, pro-circuit pipe.
1$1600. Call 606-452·
'-9599 for more info.
~
• 2000 HONDA XR 701,Good
condition,
$650. Call886-4260
180-Trucks
2•
tWanted used full
·1size pick-ups 1998
Ahru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
fOR SALE:
1975
"ford dump truck, tilt
'1ront end, 12' bed.
"·i=or more info call
! 606-478-9150.
...
~
fABRICATOR/
WELDER
Logan Corporation
of Prestonsburg, KY
is seeking qualified
individuals for the
position of
Fabricator/ Welder.
Must be able to weld
and cut steel and thin
gauge metal.
Experience in brake
press, shear, and
pipe bending a plus.
Salary commensurate with experience.
Benefits package
included. EOE.
Please send resume
to:
Human Resources
Fabricator/ Welder
PO BOX 58
Huntington, WV
25706.
TREATMENT
SPECIALISTBig Sandy
Treatment Foster
Care
Responsible for
therapeutic inteNention with individuals
or groups. Complete
assessments, prepare treatment plans,
and seNe on treatment team. Will provide supeNision of
treatment implantation including a minimum of quarterly in
home visits. Master's
Degree in the Human
SeNices Field with at
least three years of
experience. Send
resume to:
Buckhorn Children
& Family SeNices
Attn: Theresa Gay
116 Buckhorn
Lane
Buckhorn, KY
41721
Fax:606-398-7724
email:
theresa.gay@buckhorn.org
Oil Field Company
has openings for
hard
working
responsible
dri·
vers. Must be of age
21 or older. Must
400 • MERCHANDISE
41 0 • Animals
420 · Appliances
440 · Electronics
445 - Furniture
450 - Lawn & Garden
460 - Yard Sale
470 · Health & Beauty
475 • Household
500 • REAL ESTATE
505 · Bus1ness
510 · Commercial
Property
530 ·HOm\!$
550 • Land/Lots
570 • Mobile Homes
580 • Miscellaneous
600 • RENTALS
ZOO • SERVICES
61 o • Apartments
620 • Storage/
705 • Constructron
710 - Educational
713 • Child Care
715 - Electrician
720 - Health & Beauty
730 · Lawn & Garden
735 ·Legal
740 ·Masonry
745 ·Miscellaneous
Office Space
6$0 · Houses
640 - Land/Lots
650 · Mobile Homes
660 · Miscellaneous
670 • Comme~rciaf
Property
driving record and applicable
design office.
All final applicants
A
BS
some
mechanical software.
pass
drug
apptitude.
Please degree in Civil or must
Mining Engineering screen and a criminal
apply in person at:
is preferred, but not background check.
Universal
Well r e q u i r e d . We recognize and
SeNices, Inc., 5252 Environmental appreciate benefits
Rt. 1428, All~n. KY Design Consultants of diversity in the
Those
41601
606-87 4- offers a competitive workplace.
salary and benefit who sahre in this
3487,
Accepting
package, including belief are encourapplications
Mon. health,
life,
and aged to apply. EOE.
·thru Fri. between the VISIOn
insurance,
OTR
hours of Bam and paid holidays/vaca- WANTED:
tion and retirement Driver needed. 1 out
4pm.
plan. Please send of last 3 years verifiHASMAT
resume, salary histo- able
Teacher's
endorsement.
Clean
ry,
and
references
to:
Assistant Needed
Envionmental ·
driving record. Must
Immediately
Design Consultants, be able to pass DOT
BAPTIST LEARNING
physical and drug
Inc.
CENTER
test. Leave message
43
Village
Street
HOURS: Daily
606-358-9268.
Pikeville, KY 41501
1:00pm-5:15pm
or
fax
to:
Call for more
WANTED:
606-437-011 0
information.
Community
First Baptist
CASE MANAGER· Connections is seekChurch,
-Sandy ing caring applicants
Glenda Blackburn, Big
Treatment
Fost to fill opening posi886-8681
Care Program: Must tions for Direct Care
be willing to work Providers to assist
WANTED:
with
emotionally individuals with menFull/Part time house·
behaviorally
dis- tal retardation. Part
keepers needed.
time and full time
turbed
youth
in
comApply in person.
munity
programs. positions available.
Pikeville Super 8.
Responsible
tor Applicants must have
developing the treat- high school diploma
220-Help Wanted ment plan, directing or GED. Experience
is preferred but not
AVON REPS NEED- and providing services, and o.verall required and full time
ED: $10 to sign-up.
receive
case management positions
CASSIE- 886-8737 ,
guidance.
May benefits. Apply in
THERESA - 886person at Community
3690, WANDA- 285- require some on-call/
after hours work. Connections, 4663
9486, or Terr[ -- 946Requires a B.A. us 23 South, rvel,
2355 (after 5:00).
41642
(Old
degree in the human KY
seNices field. Send Unisign Building)
RECEPTIONIST
resume to:
WANTED: Full time
Buckhorn Children & Positions available
receptionist 10 am in various mine and
Family SeNices
7 pm daily. Essential
preparation plant
Attn: Theresa Gay
job functions and
116 Buckhorn Lane construction properformance stanBuckhorn, KY 41721 jects.
dards:
Answers,
Immediate openings
Fax: 606-398-7724
screens, and directs
for experienced
Email:
call on multi-line
theresa. gay@ buckhorn.org crane operators,
phone system in a
ironworkers/ connecEqual Opportunity
courteous and protors, welders, pipefitEmployer
fessional
manner,
ters, millwrights.
takes
messages
WANTED-District MSHA surface conand/or forwards teleCirculation struction training
phone calls to approM a n a g e r required. Only expepriate
employee
Pikeville/Prestonsb rienced applicants
voice mail. Meets
urg
Area:
The need apply. Benefits
and greets all visiLexington-He raid package. Contact
tors, determines their
Leader needs an Mark CaNillano at
needs and directs
-energetic and moti- 304-363-41 00 or
them to the approprivated
District mail resume to
ate
locations.
Circulation Manager Mountaineer
Responds to visitors,
for the Pikeville/ Resources, INC, PO
clients, and employPrestonsburg area. BOX 1187, Fairmont,
ees in a courteous
Must live in the circu- wv 26555-1187'
and
professional
attn Mark CaNillano.
lation territory.
manner.
Interested candi- Resumes can also
Experience/requiredates need strong be faxed to Mark
ments: High school
public
relations, CaNillano at 304grad preferred, clear
sales, and motivation 363-4814.
speaking voice, pro·
skills. Job includes
fessional
appearOtter
soliciting and con- WANTED:
ance and demeanor.
tracting newspaper Creek Correctional
Apply in person at
is
now
carriers; maintaining Center
John Gray Pontiac
excellent
delivery accepting applicaGMC
Inc.
Buick
seNice and increas- tions for the following
Paintsville, KY. 1positions.
ing circulation.
800-346-4066
or
AN-Qualifications:
Competitive com606-297-4066
for
pensation package Graduate from an
directions only.
including salary and accredited college,
bonus.
Company university, or nursing
WANTED:
with
a
vehicle included with program
Environmental
degree/diploma in
the job.
Design Consultants,
Qualified appli- nursing. Must posInc. has a position
cants may apply in sess curren licensure
available
for
a
the human resources in the state of
Project
One
of
the employment.
division
Manager/Project Herald-Leader plant year of professional
Engineer to seNice from 8:30 am - 4:30 nursing experience
the growing needs of pm
M-F.
Send required. A valid driits clients. The sue- res ume and cover ver's
license
is
cestui
candidate letter to Employment, required.
should have experi- LHL, 100 Midland
ence in mine plan- Ave, Lexington , KY
ning, regulatory per- 40508. Fax to 859mitting and com- 231 -3584 or apply
piance, construction online at www.hQA/QC and have a ljobd.com. Complete
strong
working job description availknowledge of SURV- able for review in our
CAD
and
other
FOR LEASE
2 Commercial Buildings
Former location of
Steve's Tire Sales &
Farm & Home Supply
Located just off Rt. 80
on Hwy. 3188, Martin, Ky.
-
_..,.
750 - Mobile .Home
830 • Miscellaneous
Movers
755 ·Office
160 - Plumbing
765 • Professionals
770 • Repair/Service
780 ·Timber
790 ·Travel
61)0 • Personals
870 - Services
BOO • NOTICES
805 :Announcements
810- Auctions
815- Lost & Found
LPN- QualificationsGraduate from an
approved school of
nursing with a certificate as a Licensed
Practical Nurse. Must
be licensed in the
state of employment.
A
valid
driver's
license is required.
Applicants please
contact the facility at
606-452-9700 ,
of
$800
-$1 000
monthly. Dependable
transportation and
ability to be bonded
required. Call 1-800274-7355 . (EXT
3384 or 1629)
www.correctionscorp.com
Need to repair your
credit and move
on? We provide
low APRs, low
monthly payments
on all types of
loans. 1st, 2nd,
mortgage, business loans. Call 1
Otter
Creek
Correctional Center
is
an
Equal
Opportunity
Employer. M/F/DN
WANTED: Mountain
Manor of Paintsville
is taking applications
for AN, LPN, and
CMA.
Excellent
wages and benefits.
Apply in person at
1025 Euclid Ave,
Paintsville, KY M-F
between 8 am- 4:30
pm.
890 -Legals
FINANCIAL
150· Miscellaneous
(800) 405· 8157.
MERCHANDISE
445-Furniture
ALLEN
FURNITURE
CORE DRILLER
ALLEN,KY
WANTED:
Furniture,
used
Experienced
core appliances, living I
driller
wanted. bedroom suits, bunk
Experience with Joy beds, and lots more!
Ramrod II drilling unit Call 606-874-9790.
and NQ-2 drill rods a
ESTATE SALE of
plus. Primarily coal
and
exploration
with furniture
some
foundation antiques. The Estate
investigation work on of Jesse and Molly
occassion . Wilf con- Holland. Old Bumen
sider training appro- Fork Rd. Salyersville,
Saturday
priate person, who KY.
has drill rig equip- September 3. 9:00
ment
experience. am
Must be mechanicalRAY'S BARGAIN
ly inclined, and have
the desire and will- CENTER
New
&
Used
ingness to do what it
&
takes to complete the Furniture
job. Wages and ben- Appliances @ unbeprices .
efits commensurate lievable
with
experience. Come in today for
Local projects within incredible savings.
the
Eastern Shop At The Little
Kentucky area, but Furniture Store &
may require some Save!! Route. #1 22,
travel.
Contact McDowell. Call 606·
Alchemy Engineering 377-0143.
Associates, 546 W.
Old
Middlecreek
460- Yard Sale
Road, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653. 606-8868889 fax: 606-886- YARD SALE INSIDE
Furniture,
8847,
or
e.mai l & OUT:
33.5
resume and salary clothes,
requirements
to: rec.ords, household
alchemy@engineer.c items, and lots more.
At
Floyd/Magoffin
om
line beside T & B
FLOYD COUNTY I Grocery. 8:00 am PAINTSVILLE/ 5:00 pm August 25,
PIKEVILLE AREAS: 26, 27.
The
Lexington
Herald Leader has a 470-Health & Beauty
morning newspaper
WOLFF TANNING
route available in
BEDS
your area. Routes
take about 3 hours Financing available,
daily, with an approx- Free delivery & set
imate profit potential up within 75 miles of
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
For 1, 2 & 3-bedroom apartments.
Parf(Jtparrtments
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale
Prices.
<;:;all 888•554-0058
480- Misc.
WEDDING DRESS
FOR SALE: Size 12,
pearl and sequins
intricate design on
bodice and train.
Must see to appreciate beauty. For more
information, call 8868506 ask for Tonya
or after 5:00 call 8860048 and leave message.
FOR SALE:
Wurlitzer piano for
sale. Contact 2859704. Call after 5:00
pm.
in. All appliances
including Dishwasher
& W/D. Ramp to rear
deck. Front porch.
$67,500 or make
offer. No· land contract. Call 606-87 42775 or 734-9977110.
HOMES FOR SALE:
A foreclosure!! 3 BR
only $14,900. For
listings call 1-800429-7008. ext B 183.
A Foreclosure!! 4
BR 2 BA, only
$35,000. Must sell!
For listings call 800·
429-7008. Ext G522.
FOR SALE BY
OWNER: House and
adjoining lot. 16 x 32
inground
pool.
FOR SALE: Large Located on old 114
quantity plus size across river from
clothing
sale. MAC. Asking pries
Dresses,
jeans, $155,000. Shown by
only.
shorts, tops, etc. 2x -. appointment
606-886-0812.
4x. Call 789-9172.
490-Recreation
PLEASANT RIDGE
HORSEBACK RID·
lNG opening Friday
May 6 at Yatesville
Lake. Call 606-6731165. Directions: US
23 to Louisa/Blaine
eXlt turn on Highway
32 toward Blaine,
turn right on
Highway 3215
toward the campground and golf
course . Tu-Su 10 am
-7:30pm
495-Want to Buy
WANT TO BUY: Fill
dirt needs to be delivered to the East
Point area. Call 3671506or367-1934.
530-Homes
HOUSE FOR SALE:
Allen, KY. Riley Hall
Sub. 17 Cross Road.
Main floor 2 BR. 1
BA. Upstairs 2 room
1/2 BA. Basement
with full BA Roughed
HOUSE FOR SALE:
3 BR, LR, kitchen,
1.5 BA, carport, full
basement, storage
building. Located at
4323
AT
550
Hueysville. Co11tact
358-4065, 358-4369'.
Price Reduced!
FOR SALE:
2.5
acres with a small
house located at 833
Sampson's Branch
Ad,
Dana ,
KY.
Please contact 1440-967-7022.
LAND FOR SALE:
Approximately 200
acres with timber and
coal located 2 miles
from Prestonsburg
ci y limits. Call 6068Ju ~81o.
570· Mobile ~911)~~
INFO FOR
PUBLIC SALE:
Date & time of public sale: August 26,
2005 at 11:00
Type of collateral:
2.002 Oakwood MH 16
RESTAURANT
Prestonsburg
HELP WANTED: Waitresses, dishwashers/busboys, c9oks. Paid vacation, health insurance available.
Uniforms furnished.
No phone calls, please!
Apply in person.
U.S. 321 (Below Hospital)
APARTM~f~fJ;.§:'
FOR RENT.~··,
886-8318
1, 2 3, 4 Bedrooms.t.J.
from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Located behind Wendy's
and Pizza Hut In Pres·
tonsburg. All utilities are
Included and the rent Is
based upon gross monthly
Income. Several activities,
such as line dancing,
crafts, bingo, movies, hair
salon and church services.
The apartments are fur·
nlshed with a refrigerator,
stove, emergency alarm
system, and air conditioner.
For more Information,
please
call
Highland
Terrace at 606·886·1925, or
come by the office for an
application.
Highland Terrace does not
discriminate In admission
or employment In subs!·
dlzed housing on account
of race, color, creed, rell·
'
v
available for extremely
low-Income people at
Highland Heights Apts.
in Gable-Roberts Addn.,
and Cliffside Apts. on
Cliff Road, Prestonsburg.
Computerized
learning centers offer
social/educational pro·
grams for children and
adults. All utilities
included at Highland
Hgts., utility allowance
at Cliffside. Call (606)
886·0608, 886-1927, or
886·1819. TOO: 1-800·
648·6056.
Highland
Heights and Cliffside
Apartments do not dis·
criminate in adm•ss.ion
or employment in subsl·
dized housing on
account of race, color,
national orlain sel(.
�X
70 SIN 0000
Contract Date:
03/19/03
LI'Cation: Call Mike
Honey for location 886· 2321
First Commonwealth
Bank.
311 North Arnold Ave
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
that are efficiency
apartments, all utilities paid. For more
info call 606·8862797.
Furnished 1 bed
room Apt. Central
heat & air. Rent start·
ing at $375. month, +
$300. deposit water
Included. Located
near HRMC. 606·
889·9717.
SERVICES
770-Repair/Services
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling.
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & sid·
ing. Free estimates.
Call 886·8896.
Collins, et al., Rose
Collins, and Vonda &
James Kerns. The
operation will use the
area m1n1ng and
highwall!thin seam
methods of mining.
The amendment
application has been
tiled
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Natural Resources,
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsb4rg, Ky.
41653. Writfen com·
ments, objections,
and requests tor a
permit conference
must be filed with the
Director, Division of
Mine Permits, No. 2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127,
South,
Frankfort, Ky. 4060
1.
This is the final
advertisement
for
this application. All
comments,
objections, or requests for
a permit conference
must be recieved
within thirty (30) days
of today's date.
MH FOR SALE:
1998 16 X 80
Fleetwood
Reflections 3 BR 2
BA Great condition.
Never smoked in. All
appliances & CH/A. &DStorage/Office
Vinyl siding, shingle
roof. Asking $19,998. FOR RENT: 3 Room
810- Auctions
889-9384.
office suite. $600
month. Call 886Final clearance 1020 ask for C. V.
AUCTION
2004 lot models and
#1-Taco Bell
2005 models now
Property· 649 N.
OFFICE OR
available! It you are RETAIL SPACE
Lake Drive,
serious about pur· FOR LEASE: 1,200
Prestonsburg KY
chasing a new home sq ft in Prestonsburg .. 41653 plus adjoining
you need to be with 886·8366
lots.
#2- The
experienced staff to
get the right home at
FOR LEASE: New Prestonsburg Pawn
a great price. The 30x60 Metal building Shop Property· 110
Home Show-South 12 ft ceilings .on RT
W Court St,
William son, Inc. US 80 close to Martin
Prestonsburg, KY
119,
Belfry,
Ky. 886-8366. $500.00
41653. Complete
41514 606-353-6444 month.
with 8 apartments
and additional rental
or toll free 877·353·
space!
6444
FOR RENT:
900
#3· The Red Light
sq. ft. office/commer·
All Drywall, Dutch cial space. Located Diner property· 31 0
N Lake Drive,
with 2x6 walls,and next to Reflection's
5/12 root pitch, ulti- Beauty Salon 3/4 ' Prestonsburg, KY
41653
mate kitchen pack- mile south or Martin
age, glass block win- on RT 122. Across
Master
COMMONCommissoner's
dow, and many more from Garth Tech.
WEALTH
Sale. Old Floyd
extras, Set up for School. Call 285·
OF
KENTUCKY
County Courthouse,
viewing. For details 9112.
FLOYD
CIRCUIT
call 606-353-6444 or
South Central Ave,
Prestonsburg, KY
toll tree 577-353·
COURT
630-Houses
6444
the home
behind the new
DIVISION NO. I
Floyd Co Justice
show
FOR RENT
AT
CASE NO. 01-CI·
IVEL: 5 BR house. Center. To the high01019
$550 month plus util· est bidder at public
CAMPBELL
OIL
ities.
Security auction on Thursday
the 1st day of
AND MINE
deposit. No pets.
610Apartments · Contact 874·6700.
September, 2005 at
SUPPLY, INC.
the hour of 10:00
PLAINTIFF
am.
APT FOR RENT: STOP RENTING! A
vs.
Deprez Building
Renovated apts like foreclosure
only
EURMEL
Fund
new. Furnished. In $14,900. For listings
Plaintiff
downtown
Martin. 800·429·7008. Ext
HUNTER;
Call between 9·5 pm B930.
BRAN.CH
daily. 285·3025.
LEGAL$
BANKING
HOUSE FOR RENT:
AND TRUST
PARK PLACE 3 BR, 1.5 BA, carNOTICE OF
COMPANY,
F/KJA
APARTMENTS· port, large lot. Call
INTENTION
MATEWAN
"LABOR DAY'' Move- 886-8366.
TO MINE
in
special!
First
NATIONAL
month's rent .EBfE 640- Land/Lots
PURSUANT TO
BANK, F/KJA
with paid security
APPLICATION
BANK ONE,
NEW TRAILER
deposit.
Through
NUMBER
PIKEVILLE, NA,
September 5th. 1 LOTS FOR RENT: 3
877·0165
F/KIA THE FIRST
BR/$309. 2 BR $304- minutes
from
AMENDMENT4
$345. Prestonsburg. Highlands Regional,
NATIONAL
In accordance with
886-0039.
5 minutes from
BANK OF
Porter School. Call KRS 350.070, notice
PIKEVILLE; AND
DUPLEX FOR 886·3959.
is her.eby given that
BANC ONE
RENT: 2 BR CH/A
DFM, Inc., P.O. Box
MORTGAGE
total
electric.
Trailer lot for rent 367, Old U.S. 23,
Excellent condition ~n old U.S. 23 Aller'l, · Kentucky CORPORATION ·
on US 23 north 1 mile between
Preston· 41601, has applied
DEFENDANTS
from Prestonsburg. sburg and Paintsville for an amendment to
BRANCH
No pets. Call 886- call 606·886-9007 or
an existing surface
BANKING AND
889 9747
9007 or 889-9747.
coal mining and
TRUST
FOR RENT: Nice, 1
Trailer Lot For reclamation operaCOMPANY
BR apt on KY 321 Rent, Large Yard. tion, located 1.5 mile
THIRD PARTY
north of Gunlock in
between Highlands Call 886-8366
AND CROSS
Magoftin/Fioyd
Hospital and Davis'
PLAINTIFF
For Rent : newly County. The amend·
Market. CH/A, W/D
vs.
hook-up.
$325.00 constructed Mobile ment operation will
month
$200.00 Home Lots in new add 157.57 acres of
EURMEL
deposit. 789-5973.
Allen,reference surface disturbance
HUNTER
required call 606- and 131.77 acres of
CROSS
APT FOR RENT: 2 874-2212
highwall!thin seam
DEFENDANT
BR newly remodeled
mining area, making
AND
ground floor apt for 650- Mobile Homes
a
total area of
rent. Located across
BARBARA
from Garth Technical MH FOR RENT: 1378.73 acres within
HUNTER
School on RT 122 at Spacious 3 BR 2.5 the amended permit
THIRD
PARTY
Martin, KY. Must have BA DW w/fireplace. 5 boundary.
DEFENDANT
The
proposed
references. Call 285· miles from Harold
NOTICE OF
red light.· No pets. amendment area is
9112.
COMMISSION$500 month plus util- approximately 0.7
APT FOR RENT: ities. Ret required. mile north from ER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Nice 1 BR fully fur- Call after 7:00 606- Brushy Fork Road's
nished apt. New car- 478-2820.
junction with Ky. Judgment and Order
pet. Suitable tor 1·2
Route 7, and located of Sale of the Floyd
people. No pets. MH FOR RENT: 3 on Molly Branch.
Circuit
Court,
Located on RT 1428 BR 2 BA extra nice.
The
proposed entered on the 12th
Private lot. $450 $425 month plus util·
day of July 2005, in
&
security amendment is locat- the Floyd Circuit
month $250 deposit. ities
NO HUD ed on the David
All utilities included- deposit.
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2 Court, in the above
Call 606-874·2802.
tv. 874-4330.
minute quadrangle styled action, in the
1 BR Furnished MH FOR RENT: 3 map. The surface principal sum of
at area to be disturbed $76,034.30, together
trailer
Apartment, Including BR
Utilities.
2 BR Hueysville. All elec- by the amendment is with interest, costs
Unfurnished,
and tric, nice yard. HUD owned by Big Branch and fees, I shall pro·
large 3 BR 2 BA, approved. Call after Holding Co., LLC, ceed to offer for sale
unfurnished on RT 6 pm. 358·3392.
David L. Francis, at the Old Floyd
114
John Arnett Heirs, County Courthouse
3 B R M H F o ·R
Call 886·8366
Tonie
Wireman Door, South Central
RENT: 3 BR, large
Heirs,
Sandy A v e n u e ,
APT FOR RENT In lot. Call 886·8366.
Shepherd,
Marie Prestonsburg,
Prestonsburg. 1 BR
Whitaker,
Ruth Kentucky, (behind
furnished. Offstreet 660· Miscellaneous
new
Floyd
Shepherd,
Nancy the
parking.
County
Justice
Whitaker,
Luther
Utilities/satellite tv ROOM FOR RENT:
Edgar Center), to the high·
Included.
$450 in 1700 sq ft dou- Shepherd,
month plus deposit. blewlde. Access to Fleming, and Kelly est bidder, at public
on
whole house includ· Hale Heirs. The high- auction,
886·0010.
ing 2 full BA. Just waiVthin seam min· Thursday, the 1st
FOR RENT: 2 BR asked to help with ing will underlie Big day of September,
of
rent. Branch Holding Co., 2005, at the hour of
apt. Spacious, quiet portion
community. Cable, utilities, and LLC,
David
L. 9:30 a.m., the follow·
Application must be furniture provided. Francis, John Arnett ing described real
filled out. Deposit & Prefer female. 8liSI· Heirs, Astro Clay estate, lying in Floyd
references required. NESS ONLY. Call
One year lease. Call 285-3755.
~
358-9123.
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NOTICES
RENTALS
l:1
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
That certain tract or
parcel of land, locat·
ed on Little Mud
Creek, Floyd County,
Kentucky, bounded
and described as fol·
lows:
Beginning at the
iron stake and David
Coleman's line at the
edge of the road
thence running up
the road for 200 feet
to an iron stake, and
Tracy Hunter's line,
thence
running
toward the creek with
Tracy Hunter's line,
162 feet to the center
of the creek thence
running down the
creek
to
David
Coleman's
line
thence running with
David Goleman's line
171 teet back to the
road and back to the
beginning iron stake.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Eurmel Hunter by
deed
dated
November 30, 1977,
from Arnold and
Dixie M. Hunter,
recorded in Deed
Book 232, Page 232,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
TERMS OF SALE:
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
sixty (60) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property, if any, bearing
interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgment.
(c) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
Qounty_ ___ .Qierk'.~ .
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners there·
of, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real prop·
erty taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the pur·
chaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and It
shall only be obligat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announce·
ments made on date
of sale, take prece·
dance over printed
matter
contained
herein.
William S. Kendrick
M a s t e r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653 '
COMMON·
WEALTH OF
KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
CASE NO. 05-CI·
00272
U.S. BANK, NA
PLAINTIFF
vs.
TRAVIS MARTIN,
OLIVE MARTIN;
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
AND FLOYD
COUNTY,
KENTUCKY
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Agreed Judgement
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
11th day of July
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$162,632.29,
together with interest, costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse
Doo~
South
Central
Avenue,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, (behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center), to the high·
est bidder, at public
auction,
on
Thursday, the 8th
day of September,
2005, at the hour of
9:00a.m., the following described real
estate, lying in Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Lying and being in
the town of Martin,
Kentucky, and being
Lots Nos. 1·2·3 and
4 in the Block "D" of
the Osborne Addition
to the Town of
Martin, a plat of said
addition being of
record in 1he Floyd
County Clerk's office,
to which · plat reference is made for a
more
particular
description of the lots
herein.
And, being the
same property conveyed to Travis
Martin, by Deed
recorded in Deed
Book 469, Page 308,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
TERMS OF SALE:
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
sixty (60) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said proper·
ty, If any, bearing
interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum, from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgment.
(c) The property
shall be sold subject
Floyd
County
Courthouse
Door,
South
Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd County Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction,
on
Thursday, the 25th
day of August, 2005,
at the hour of 10:00
a.m., . the following
described
real
estate, located at
2278 Toler Creek
Road, Harold, Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at the
Hobert Howell line at
Route 1426; thence
running with the
Hobart Howell line to
the top of a high
point of the hill to a
large marked Hickory
tree; thence running
down to the bottom
of the hill to a concrete marker; thence
approxirunning
mately west 11 0 feet
to a concrete marker
near Route 1426;
thence
running
approximately 230
feet South back to
the Hobart Howell
line to the beginning.
Also this gives
access to a 10 foot
driveway to the
prop-erty of Lorraine
Damron
Newman
from Route 1428.
For reference see
Deed from Willie A.
Damron and Erma
Damron, his wife, to
Mildred
Damron
Wendel, the female
mortgagor,
dated
August 6, 1997;
recorded in Deed
Book415, Page 203,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office. Also see
release of Right of
First Refusal, dated
April 8, 1998, recorded in Deed Book
419, Page 491, in
Floyd County Court
Clerk's Office.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time· of
sale, the successful
COMMONbidder, if the other
WEALTH
than the Plaintiff,
.OF.KENTUCK-¥ .. _~l]all.eith~~ pay cash
FLOYD CIRCUIT or 10% of purchase
COURT
price, with the_ balance on credit for
DIVISION NO. II
thirty (30) days, and
CASE NO.
required to execute a
05-CI-00051
bond with good sureU.S. BANK, NA
ty thereon for the
(SUCCESSOR BY unpaid
purchase
MERGER TO
price of said properFIRSTAR BANK
ty, if any, bearing
NA F/KJD STAR interest at the rate of
BANK, NA)
twelve percent (12%)
PLAINTIFF
per annum from th~
date of sale until
VS.
paid, having the
TERRY WENDEL, force and effect of a
MILDRED
judgment.
WENDEL
(b) The property
AND
shall be sold subject
FLOYD COUNTY · to any easements
KENTUCKY ' and restrictions of
DEFENDANTS
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
RE·NOTICE OF
Office, and such right
COMMISSIONof redemption as
ER'S SALE
may exist in favor of
BY VIRTUE OF the United States of
Summary Judgment America and/or the
and Order of Sale of record owners there·
the Floyd Circuit of.
Court, entered on the
(c) The purch"aser
11th day of March shall be required to
2005, in the Floyd assume and pay all
Circuit Court, in the Floyd
County,
above styled action, Kentuc-ky, real prop·
in the prlnsipal sum arty taxes for the
of
$124,979.72, year 2005, and all
together with inter- subsequent years
est, costs and fees, I which are not yet due
shall proceed to offer and payable. Any
for sale at the Old and all delinquent
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America, and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and ali delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the pur·
chaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien tor the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announce·
ments made on date
of sale take prece·
dance over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Counsel :
Hon. Stephen L.
Hogg
Stratton, Hogg &
Maddox PSG
P.O. Box 1530
Pikeville, KY
41502
William S. Kendrick
M a s t e r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale pro·
ceeds.
(d) In the event the
Plaintiff is the pur·
chaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, It shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
announce·
Any
ments made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Septtimous
Taylor
4830
Towne
Square Court
KY
Owensboro,
42301
William S. Kendrick
M a s t e r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
CITY OF
PRESTONSBURG
BID PROPOSAL
FOR
MATERIALS AND
SUPPLIES
FISCAL YEAR
JULY 1, 2005
THROUGH
JUNE 30, 2006
The City of Pres·
tonsburg is accepting
bids for materials
and/or supplies that
will be purchased
during fiscal year
2005·2006, for use in
the operation of City
Government during
that time. The general
type
of
materials/supplies
for bid:
Heavy Equipment
with pperators
Hourly Rates
DJesel Fuel
Double Walled
Plastic
Gravel
CustodiaVCieaning
Supplies
Heating & Cooling
Hourly Rates
The Grade and
Placement of
Concrete Slabs
and
Footers Per Yard
Pipe and Gabion
Baskets
Bid proposal forms
can be picked up in
the City Clerk's
Office, located at 200
North Lake Drive,
Prestons-bu r g ,
Kentucky 41653, or
can be mailed or
faxed by contacting
Sharon Schoolcraft
at (606) 886-2335,
ext. 16.
Bid proposals must
be submitted by
4:00
p.m.,
September 6, 2005.
The City of Pres·
tonsburg reserves
the right to accept or
reject any and all
bids.
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WEDNESDAY, AuGUST
24, 2005 •
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•'------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kentucky, real estate Page 85, in · the COMMONWEALT ed to pay court costs, car bridge and drive- is hereby given that Kentucky
Inc., and Order of Sale of
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO. 05-CI0004
MORTGAGE
ELECTRONIC
41! REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC.
PLAINTIFF
vs.
GARY E.
JOHNSON,
ETAL.
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
• lcourt, entered on the
8th day of July 2005,
in the Floyd Circuit
Court, in the above
styled action, in the
principal sum of
$70,819.57, together
with interest, costs
and fees, I shall proceed to offer for sale
at the Old Floyd
County Courthouse
Door, South Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
~(behind the new
Floyd County Justice Center), to the
highest bidder, at
public auction, on
Thursday, the 1st day
of September, 2005,
at the hour of 9:15
a.m., the following
described
real
estate, located at 50
Left Fork Moore
Branch,
Beaver,
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
• Starting at the walnut tree located
approximately fifty
(50) ft. more or less,
upstream from the
drilled water well;
thence three hundred (300) ft. up the
left fork of Moore's
Branch; thence one
hundred (1 OD) lf
back from the north
side of the left fork of
Moore's
Branch;
thence three hun• dred (300) ft. downstream at a line parallel to creek; thence
one hundred (1 00) ft.
back to the beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Gary E. Johnson, by
deed dated February
13, 1996, of record in
Deed Book 393,
Page 671, in the
Office of the Floyd
County Clerk.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
"~sale, the successful
bidder, if the other ·
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
thirty(30) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property,
..if any, bearing interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgement.
(c) The propoerty
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
•Jhe United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410, or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent
years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
_,nd all delinquent
Floyd
County
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Joseph F.
Grimme
14 North Grand
Avenue
Fort
Thomas,
Kentucky 41 075
William S. Kendrick
M a s t e r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04 1• 1290
RESCOM
HOLDINGS NO.
.c
2, LLC
PLAINTIFF
VS.
PIT STOP, INC.
COUNTY OF
FLOYD
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER 'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd · Circuit
Court, entered on the
8th day of July 2005,
in the Floyd Circuit
Court, in the above
styled action, In the
principal sum of
$66,867.99, together with Interest,
costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse Door,
South
Central
Avenue, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind the new
Floyd County Justice Center) to the
highest bidder, at
public auction, on
Thursday, · the 1st
day of September,
2005, at the hour of
9:00 a.m., the following described real
estate, lying in Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
de-scribed as tellows:
Lying and being on
old Route 3 near the
mouth
of
Long
Branch at its intersection with Johns
Creek and beginning
at an iron stake at the
culvert, which runs
3;
under
Route
thence following the
boundary of Route 3
a southerly direction
a distance of 215 feet
to an iron stake at the
cliff, thence running
up the point and
fence line a distance
of 200 feet to an iron
stake;
thence
a
straight
line
a
northerly direction a
distance of 260 feet
to an iron stake at the
back of present existing storage building,
thence following the
direction of the creek
a westerly direction
back to the iron stake
at the culvert, the
point of beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Pit-Stop, Inc., from
Charles
Thomas
Meade and Joyce
Ann Meade, by deed
bearing date April 22,
1995, and recorded
in Deed Book 386,
Office of the Floyd
County Court Clerk.
TERMS OF SALE:
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or $5,000.00 of purchase price, with the
balance on credit for
thirty (30) days.
(b) The successful
bidder
shall
be
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the
unpaid
purchase
price of said property,
if any, bearing interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum, from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
judgment.
(c) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
(d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
County,
Floyd
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes, will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be. requiced -of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligat·
ed to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Lori R. Leach
Lerner, Sampson &
Rothfuss
P.O. Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
WilliamS. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
C.A.NO.
03-CI-978
U.S. BANK, N.A.
AS TRUSTEE,
SUCCESSOR BY
MERGER
BY FIRSTAR
BANK, N.A.,
SUCCESSOR
IN INTEREST TO
FIRSTAR BANK
MILWAUKEE,
N.A.,AS
TRUSTEE FOR
SALOMON
BROTHERS
MORTGAGE
SECURITIES VII,
INC.,
FLOATING RATE
MORTGAGE
PASS-THROUGH
CERTIFICATE
SERIES 1999NC5
PLAINTIFF
vs.
ANTHONY
SWIGER
FRAN SWIGER
UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
H OF KENTUCKY, the fees and costs of
the
Master
DIVISION OF
Commissioner, and
COLLECTIONS
any real estate taxes
DEPARTMENT
assessed against the
OF REVENUE
real estate.
CABINET
Any
announceCOUNTY OF
ments made on date
FLOYD
of sale take preceDEFENDANTS
dence over printed
matter
contained
RE-NOTICE OF
herein.
COMMISSIONPlaintiff's Attorney:
ER'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF Hon. Kristen J. Mudd
Renewed Judgment Lerner, Sampson &
Rothfuss
and Order of Sale of
P.O. Box 5480
the Floyd Circuit
Cincinnati, Ohio
Court, entered on the
45201-5480
29th
day
of
513/241-3100
November, 2004, in
the Floyd Circuit WilliamS. Kendrick
Master
Court, in the above
Commissioner
styled action, in the
P.O. Box 268
principal sum of
Prestonsburg,
KY
$51,519.90, togeth·
41653
er with interest,
(606) 886-2812
costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby
County
Floyd
given
that James D.
Courthouse Door,
Hall
of
Kite, Ky., has
South
Central
Avenue, Prestons- filed an application
burg,
Kentucky, with the Natural
and
(behind the new Resources
Floyd County Jus- Environmental
tice Center), to the Protection Cabinet to
highest bidder, at fill in some bottom
public auction, on land in Floyd County.
Thursday, the 25th This property is
day of August, located on Route 7
2005, at the hour of near the Floyd &
9:30 a.m., the follow- Knott County line
ing described real near Wayland, Ky.
estate, located on This property is
Walnut Street, Tram, located beside the
in Floyd County, Right Beaver Creek.
Any comments or
Kentucky, and more
particularly described objections concerning this application
as follows:
Being Lot Nos. 97, shall be directed to:
Ky. Division of
99 and 17 1/2 feet of
.Water
Water,
Lot No. 100, adjoinResources
Branch,
ing Lot No. 99 in the
Riverside Addition to 14 Reilly Road,
Tram, Floyd County, Frankfort Office Park,
Kentucky, as shown Frankfort, Ky. 40601.
by map of said addi- Phone: (502) 564tion filed in the Floyd 3410.
County
Clerk's
Office, to which referCOMMONence is hereby made
WEALTH
for a more complete
OF KENTUCKY
de-scription of said FLOYD CIRCUIT
lots.
COURT
Being the same
DIVISION NO. II
property con~eyed to CASE NO. 04·CI·
Anthony Sw1ger and
211
Fran Swiger, by a
deed" dated - Au-gusc ---THE BANK OF
26, 1999, of record in
NEW YORK, AS
Deed Book 439,
TRUSTEE
Page 209, in the
FOR THE
Office of the Clerk of CERTIFICATEHO
Floyd
County,
LDERS OF
Kentucky.
CWABS SERIES
TERMS OF SALE
00·01
(a) At the time of
C/O
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
COUNTRYWIDE
than the Plaintiff,
HOME LOANS,
shall either pay cash
INC.
or $5,000.00 of purPLAINTIFF
chase price, with the
VS.
balance on credit for
JEFFREY A.
thirty (30) days, and
COLLINS AND
required to execute a
SHERRY L.
bond with good sureCOLLINS
ty thereon for the
AKA SHERRY
unpaid
purchase
COLLINS
price of said property,
if any, bearing interDEFENDANTS
est at the rate of
NOTICE OF
twelve percent (12%)
COMMISSIONper annum from the
ER'S SALE
date of sale until
BY VIRTUE OF
paid, having the Summary Judgment
force and effect of a and Order of Sale of
judgment.
the Floyd Circuit
(b) The property Court, entered on the
shall be sold subject 4th day of April 2005,
to any easements in the Floyd Circuit
and restrictions of Court, in the above
record in the Floyd styled action, In the
County
Clerk's prinslpal sum of
Office, and such right $82,219.67, togethof redemption as er with interest,
may exist in favor of costs and fees, I
the United States of shall proceed to offer
America and/or the for sale at the Old
record owners there- Floyd
County
of.
Courthouse Door,
Central
(c) The purchaser South
shall be required to Avenue, Prestonsassume and pay all burg,
Kentucky,
Floyd
County, (behind the new
Kentuc-ky, real prop- Floyd
County
erty taxes for the Justice Center), to
year 2004, and all the highest bidder, at
subsequent years public auctiQn, on
which are not yet due Thursday, the 25th
and payable. Any day of August, 2005,
and all delinquent at the hour of 9:15
Floyd
County, a.m., the following
Kentucky, real estate described
real
taxes will be paid estate, located at
from the sale pro- 165 Haus Drive,
ceeds.
Prestonsburg,
in
(d) In the event the Floyd
County,
Plaintiff is the pur- Kentucky, and more
chaser of the above particularly described
described property as follows:
for an amount equal
Beginning on the
to, or less than, its west side of the
first lien, it shall take creek at a sycamore
a credit against said tree, witnessed by a
lien for the amount of steel marker, thence
the bid, and no bond with the middle of the
shall be required of creek and following
the Plaintiff, and it the middle of the
shall only be obligat- creek, taking in the
way, thence running Noble Coal LLC, P.O.
with the road to the Box 489, Allen, KY
Ermon Williams line, 41601 , has applied
thence turning up the for a permit for surhill with the Ermon face and underWilliams line, and ground/auger coal
running with this line mmmg
operation ,
to the top of the hill, located 2 .00 miles
thence with Elzie southeast of Blue
Poe line down the River,
in
Floyd
ridge to the top of the County. The propoint, witnessed by a posed operation will
steel marker, thence disturb 68.45 surface
turning down the hill acres and will underto an oak tree, lie 28.50 acres, and
thence down the hill the total area within
to a steel marker and the permit boundary
thence down to the will be 96.95 acres.
sycamore tree, witThe proposed opernessed by a steel ation is approximatemarker, thence with ly 1.50 mile souththe middle of the east of KY Route
creek to the begin- 404's junction with
ning.
KY Route 121 0, and
Being the same located 0.20 mile
property conveyed to east of the Caney
Jeffery A. Collins and Creek.
Sherry L. Collins,
The proposed operhusband and wife, by ation is located on
deed dated Septem- the Martin U.S.G.S. 7
ber 3, 1994, and filed 1/2 minute quadranfor record in Deed gle map. The surface
Book 401, Page 533, area to be disturbed
Floyd County Clerk's is owned by James
records.
Allen and Glenn
TERMS OF SALE David May. The oper(a) At the time of ation will underlie
by
sale, the successful land
owned
bidder, if the other James Allen and
than the Plaintiff, Glenn David May.
shall either pay cash The operation will
or $5,000.00 of pur- affect an area within
chase price, with the 100 feet of public
balance on credit for road 1210. The operthirty (30) days.
ation will not involve
(b) The successful relocation or closure
bidder
shall
be of the public road.
required to execute a
The application has
bond with good sure- been filed for public
ty thereon for the inspection at the
unpaid
purchase Department
of
price of said property, Natural Resources
if any, bearing inter- Mining
Division,
est at the rate of P r e s t o n s b u r g
Office,
twelve percent (12%) Regional
per annum, from the 3140 South Lake
date of sale until Drive,
Suite
6,
paid, having the Prestonsburg ,
force and effect of a Kentucky
41653.
Judgement.
Written comments,
(c) The property objections
or
shall be sold subject requests for a permit
to any easements conference must be
and restrictions of filed
with
the
record in the Floyd Director, Division of
County
Clerk's Permits, #2 Hudson
Office, and such right Hollow, U.S . 127
of redemption as South ,
Frankfort,
may exist in favor of Kentucky 40601.
the U~ted. States. .of --. This-·- is- - -the fina~
America and/or the advertisement
for
record owners there- this application. All
of, pursuant to 28 comments, objecU.S.C. 2410 or KRS tions, or requests for
426.530.
a permit conference
(d) The purchaser must be recieved
shall be required to within thirty (30) days
assume and pay all of today's date.
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and City of
NOTICE OF
Prestonsburg real
INTENTION
property taxes for the
TO MINE
year 2005, and all
PURSUANT TO
subsequent years
APPLICATION
which are not yet due
NO. 836-5238
and payable. Any
AMENDMENT
and all delinquent
Floyd County and
City of Prestonsburg,
real
Kentuc-ky,
estate taxes will be
paid from the sale
proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Kristen J. Mudd
Lerner, Sampson &
Rothfuss
P.O. Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653
N0.3
Mitchell Stephens,
Leslie Bradley, Floyd
Co. Fiscal Court,
Johnny
Hoover
Heirs,
First
Commonwealth
Bank, Lindburg Hale,
Nadene
Howard,
Gary
Handshoe,
Pheba
Handshoe
Bryan ,
Clinton
Handshoe, Eldree
Handshoe,
Ratliff
Turner, Hershel and
Margaret Handshoe,
Bessie Conley, Lois
Conley,
Oakley
Bradford
Conley,
Handshoe,
Cletis
Howard ,
Kirstina
Strohschein
and
Beulah
Leitch,
Sharon
Chaffins,
Michael
Crager,
Wanda Hutchinson,
Marvin and Janet
Shepherd ,
Levisa
Coburn
Estate,
Western Pocahontas
Properties Ltd., Rex
and Madge Hicks,
Rosa Oney, Velten
Prater, Charles and
Becky
Howard,
Kenneth
Bailey,
Clyde Bailey, D.D.
Compton and Betty
Compton. The operation will affect an
area within 100' of
public road Ky. Hwy.
2029 and Lick Fork
Road. The operation
will not involve relocation or closure of
the public roads.
4) The application
has been filed for
public inspection at
the Department for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement ' s
Prestonsburg
Regional
Offfice,
3140 South Lake
Suite
6,
Drive,
Prestonsburg, Ky.
41653-1410. Written
comments , objections or requests for
a permit conference
must be filed with the
Director
of
the
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601 .
.. - · ·- This · is the
final advertisement of
the application: All
comments,
objections or requests for
a permit conference
must be received
within thirty (30) days
of today's date.
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Left Beaver
Fire
Protection
will
be
District
accepting
sealed
bids for a 2005 or
2006 Cab/Chassis.
The vehicle shall
have all standard
equipment. GVWR
35,000 lbs. 168"
wheelbase . The vehicle shall have a
diesel
engine
w/engine brake and
automatic transmission. For more information,
contact
Shannon Hall at 606377-6643. Bids will
be received until
September 1, 2005.
Bids will be opened
on 9-1-05, at 6 p.m.,
at Station #2 in
We
McDowell.
reserve the right to
reject any and all
bids. Please send
bids to Left Beaver
Fire
Protection
District, P.O. Box
426, McDowell, KY
41647, Att. Shannon
Hall.
1) In acccordance
with the provisions of
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
CONSOL
of
Kentucky Inc., P.O.
Box 130, Mousie, Ky.
41839, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
and
underground
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 0.9 mile
northeast
of
Handshoe, in Knott
and Floyd Counties.
This amendment will
not add any surface
disturbance, but will
underlie an additional
1992.0 acres, making a total area of
3595.7 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
2) The proposed
amendment
is
COMMONapproximately 0.2
WEALTH OF
mile
west
from
KENTUCKY
County Road 1280's
junction with Ky. FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
Hwy. 2029, and
DIVISION NO. II
located along Lick
Fork.
CASE NO. 05-CI3) The proposed
00272
amendment is locatU.S. BANK, NA
ed on the Handshoe
PLAINTIFF
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
vs.
minute quadrangle
JULIAN
map. The operation
FREDERICK
will use the underFIELDS;
ground method of
JESSE
E.
mining. The surf1:1ce
WILLIAMSON;
area is owned by
CONSOL
of FLOYD COUNTY,
NOTICE OF
Kentucky Inc., and
KY.
INTENTION
Leslie Bradley. The
DEFENDANTS
TO MINE
amendment area will
NOTICE OF
PURSUANT TO
underlie land owned
COMMISSIONAPPLICATION
by
Kentucky
ER'S SALE
NO. 836-0311
Department
of
BY
VIRTUE OF
In accordance with Transportation ,
Default
Judgement
KRS 350.055, notice CONSOL
of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
22nd day of July
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$116,504.00,
together with interest, costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse
Doo~
South
Central
Avenue ,
Prestonsb u rg ,
Kentucky, (behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center) , to the highest bidder, at public
on
auction ,
Thursday, the 8th
day of September,
2005, at the hour of
9:15a.m., the following described real
estate, lying in Floyd
County, Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at a
metal stake in a
southeastern direction to the meeting of
the left fork of Ivy
Creek and the right
fork of Ivy Creek;
thence with the
meanders of the right
fork of Ivy Creek in a
northeastern direction approximately
500 feet to a point on
the line separating
the properties of Jeff
Trimble (tract #2} and
Joe Trimble (tract #3)
where a road crosses
through
the
waters of the right
fork of Ivy Creek,
thence with same :
said line, separating
the properties of Jeff ·
Trimble (tract #2) and
Joe Trimble (tract
#3) , approximately
500 feet in a north- .
western direction to a '
metal stake; thence
approximately 200 '
feet to the point of
beginning.
A tap for a free gas
allotment not to
250,000
exceed
cubic feet of gas per
·year ·to .. be·iaken· ooto one dwelling on
said land at 1409 Ivy
Creek Road, lvel,
Kentucky, said allotment entitlement to
run with the land as
long as it shall not be
abused. Said free
gas allotment shall
be granted under the
provisions of the
James Hatcher lease
as of a 6th allotment
thereunder and shall
be further subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in the
lease as recorded in
Floyd County, KY, in
Deed Book 76, Page
212.
Property located at
1448
Ivy Creek
Road, lvel , Floyd •
County, Kentucky. :
Beginning at a point
at a culvert (tank car)
on the left fork of Ivy •
Creek on the line
established separating the properties of •
Jeff Trimble (tract #2)
and Joe Trimble
(tract #3) ; thence
with the meanders of
the left fork of Ivy
Creek 120 feet to a
metal stake; thence
120 feet back to the
point of beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Julian Fields by
deeds of ·record in
Deed Book 487,
Page 644, and Deed
Book 487, Page 647,
recorded in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office.
TERMS OF SALE:
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
sixty (60) days.
(b) The successful
shall
be
bidder
required to execute a
bond with good surety thereon for the .
unpaid
purchase :
price of said property, :
if any, bearing interest at the rate of
twelve percent (12%)
per annum, from the
�C8 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
date of sale until
paid, having the
force and effect of a
Judgment.
(c) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office, and such right
of redemption as
may exist in favor of
the United States of
America and/or the
record owners thereof, pursuant to 28
U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
426.530.
{d) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
County,
Floyd
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent
years
which are not yet due
and payable. Any
and all delinquent
r=loyd
County,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(e) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against said
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner and
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Counsel:
Hon. Stephen L.
Hogg
Stratton, Hogg &
Maddox PSC
P.O. Box 1530
Pikeville, KY
41502
WilliamS . Kendrick
M a s t e r
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
COMMONWE,ALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO. 04-CI01339
ROBERT B.
DEPREZ D/B/A
DEPREZ
BUILDING FUND
PLAINTIFF
vs.
EDWARD KUSS,
ET AL.
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, entered
on the 6th day of July
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$412,375.05,
together with interest, costs and fees, I
shall proceed to offer
for sale at the Old
Floyd
County
Courthouse
Door,
South
Central
Avenue,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky,
(behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction,
on
Thursday, the 1st day
of September, 2005,
at the hour of 10:00
a. m., the following
described
real
estate, lying in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more partic ularly
described as follows:
TRACT 1:
A certain tract or
p~rcel of land, lying
and being in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
which is more particularly described as
follows :
24, 2005
BEGINNING at the
intersection
of
Broadway or Lake
Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23)
and Friend Street;
THENCE
running
with the North line of
Friend Street in an
Eastern direction to
the corner of Norman
Allen's property (now
Francis Harmon's)
property); THENCE
with the line of the
AllenNorman
Francis
Harmon
property running in a
northern direction to
an alley; THENCE
running with the
South line of said
alley an eastern
course t9 the intersection of said alley
with a plot of land
recently taken by the
Kentucky
Department
of
Highway, and as
shown by the map of
the
Kentucky
Highway
Department;
THENCE
running
with the new line of
the plot of the
Highway Department
to Broadway or Lake
Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23);
THENCE
running
with the east side of
Broadway or Lake
Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23) in
a southern direction
to the intersection of
Broadway or Lake
Drive (U.S.-Ky.. 23)
with Friend street,
THE PLACE OF
BEGINNING,
and
being
whatever
remains of the property of Lessor of Lot
Number 10, 11, 12,
and 13 of Block No.
6, of the R.S. Friend
& Company Addition
to
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, after parts
thereof have, at various times, been conveyed to or taken by,
Broadway or Lake
Drive (U.S.-Ky. 23) or
Friend Street in the
course of road or
street, or sidewalk
construction.
TRACT II:
Being a certain
tract or parcel of
land, lying in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and being more particularly described as
follows:
Being Lot Nos. 14
and 15, and the
improvements thereon and fifteen (15)
feet of Lot No. 16 of
the Friend Addition to
the
Town
of
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, as shown
by plat on file in File
Box No. 2, Map No.
120, Floyd County
Court Clerk's Office,
to which reference is
made for a more
complete description
of the property herein
conveyed, being a lot
65 feet from and 120
feet deep. And, being
the same property
conveyed to Edward
Kuss and Rebecca
Kuss by deed dated
November 29, 2001,
which is recorded in
Deed Book 466,
Page 465, in the
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
TRACT Ill:
All of the following
property located in
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and which property is
more
particularly
described as follows:
Those certain lots
located in the City of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and specifically in the
Arnold and Spradlin
Addition to same,
and being Lots 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 and 14, a
plat of which is on file
in the Floyd County
Clerk's Office, Map
No. 84, and upon a
part of which is locat·
ed what is known
and referred to as the
Sandy Valley Motel;
and being the same
property conveyed to
Edward Kuss and
Rebecca Kuss by
deed
dated
December 9, 1986,
which is recorded in
Deed Book 309,
Page 278, in the
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
TRACT IV:
All of the two story
brick building (69'1 0
1/2" wide and 73' 10"
deep) located on the
North side of Court
Street and described
in Deed from J. C.
Hopkins, et. al. to
Will H. Layne and
Elizabeth A. Layne,
dated March 1, 1927
and recorded
in
Deed Book 74, Page
316 and 317.
The legal description is as follows:
That certain lot situated in the City of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Kentucky, on
the North side of
Court
Street
described as follows:
BEGINNING at line
of E. P. Howard and
Nora Howard in the
North line of the sidewalk where their
brick building now
stands and occupied
by Goebel's Paint
Store; thence with
their line a northerly
course to the line of
the lot of Will H.
Layne and Elizabeth
A. Layne about 73
feet and 10 inches;
thence an Easternly
direction with their
line 69 feet and 10
1/2 inches to the line
of the property of H.
C. Hopkins estate;
thence with said line
a southernly course
to Court Street at a
stake and point in the
North line of the sidewalk on Court Street
a corner between the
lot hereby conveyed
and the property of
H. C. Hopkins estate;
thence with line of
said
sidewalk
a
Westerly course 69
feet and 10 1/2 inches to the place of
beginning, being the
same
property
described in Deed
from J. C. Hopkins,
et. al. to Will H.
Layne and Elizabeth
A. Layne for life with
remainder to her children, dated March 1,
1927 and recorded in
Deed Book 74, Page
316 and 317.
TRACTV:
A section of land
(69' 10 1/2" wide and
73'4" deep) and
being part of lot number eleven (11) on
town plat. Said section lays directly
behind the building
owned by the Will H.
Layne and Elizabeth
A. Layne Estate and
including the building
(69 10 1/2" wide and
73' 4" deep) erected
thereon and joined
with the said Layne
Estate building.
The legal description is as follows:
BEGINNING at the
Northeast corner to
lot owned by Layne
estate; thence running west with the
said Layne Estate
property 69 feet 10
1/2 inches to the
Northeast corner of
said lot; thence north
73 feet 4 inches to
the J.C. Spurlin property; thence east with
said line 69 feet 1o
1/2 inches; thence
south 73 feet 4 inches to the beginning.
This conveyance is
intended to cover
part of the property
conveyed .to Will H.
Layne and Elizabeth
A. Layne by Deed
from John G. Johns
&
Co.,
dated
September 22, 1904,
and recorded
in
Deed Book 12, Page
408, Floyd County
Clerk's Office, and
first parties herein
acquired their interest by inheritance
from Will H. Layne
and Elizabeth A.
Layne,
now
deceased. Angeline
Layne,
Archer
Chaloupka
and
Frank Layne conveyed their interest
to
Grace
Layne
Burke,
now
deceased, by Deed
dated July 23, 1945,
recorded in Deed
Book 126, Page 561,
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
And , being the
j _ __
closure
was shall be required to
same property con- record owners thereboundary of the par- of
ER'S SALE
assume and pay all
veyed to Edward of, pursuant to 28
BY VIRTUE OF ent tract (D.B. 468, 1:13,550.
County,
Being a part of the Floyd
Kuss and Rebecca U.S.C. 2410 or KRS Judgement
and Pg. 344) and on the
Kentucky,
real
propconsame
property
Kuss by deed dated 426.530.
boundary
of
James
Order of Sale of the
to
Dicky erty taxes for the
October 8, 1986,
{d) The purchaser. Floyd Circuit Court, H. Crisp (D.B. 230, veyed
which is recorded in shall be required to entered on the 3rd Pg. 112, PVA Map Johnson, unmarried, year 2005, and all
yea~
Susan subsequent
Deed Book 311 , assume and pay all day of August 2005, 60,
Parcel
51). from
Page 624, in the Floyd County and in the Floyd Circuit Thence
unmar- which are not yet due
running Stephens,
Floyd County Clerk's City of Prestonsburg, Court, in the above across
Knottly ried, by deed dated and payable. Any
Office.
Kentucky, real prop- styled action, in the Hollow Branch North February 23, 2004, and all delinquent
County,
Tract Ill shall be erty taxes for the principal sum of 27 249'37"
West, of record in Deed Floyd
sold subject to an year 2005, and all $59,390.06, together 158.41 feet to a rebar Book, 496, Page Kentucky, real estate
existing
lease subsequent years with interest, costs and cap located 379, Floyd County taxes will be paid
between
Edward which are not yet due and fees, I shall pro- North
Office, from the sale pro65207'51 " Clerk's
Kuss and Rebecca and payable. Any ceed to offer for sale West, 22.26 feet from Kentucky.
ceeds.
Kuss
and
Sun and all delinquent at the Old Floyd the northwest corner
(e) In the event the
Ventures, Inc., dated Floyd County and County Courthouse of the one story,
TERMS OF SALE: Plaintiff is the purSeptember 20, 2002, City of Prestonsburg, Door, South Central frame dwelling, the
(a) At the time of chaser of the above
and of record at Kentucky, real estate A v e n u e , primary structure on sale, the successful described property,
Deed Book 511, taxes will be paid Prestonsburg, the described proper- bidder, if the other for an amount equal
Page 29, in the office from the sale pro- Kentucky,
(behind ty. Thence around than the Plaintiff, to, or less than, its
of the Floyd County ceeds.
Floyd the hillside, North shall either pay cash first lien, it shall take
the
new
Clerk. If however, · (e) In the event the County
East, or 10% of purchase a credit against said
Justice 72 2 04'36"
Sun Ventures, Inc., Plaintiff is the pur- Center), to the high- 115.35 feet to a rebar price, with the bal- lien for the amount of
becomes the pur- chaser of the above est bidder, at public and cap, witnessed ance on credit for the bid, and no bond
chaser of Tract Ill, described property auction,
shall be required of
on by a 20-inch black sixty (60) days.
lease shall for an amount equal Thursday, the 8th pine tree located
said
(b) The successful the Plaintiff, and it
merge into the title to, or less than, its day of September, South
shall
be shall only be obligat34220'21" bidder
and become ineffec- first lien, it shall take 2005, at the hour of East, 49.92 feet. required to execute a ed to pay court costs,
tive.
a credit against said 9:30 a.m., the follow- Thence
running bond with good sure- the fees and costs of
Each of the follow- lien for the amount of ing described real down the hillside, ty thereon for the the
Master
ing tracts is indivisi- the bid, and no bond estate, lying at 91 across the yard and unpaid
purchase Commissioner, and
ble and cannot be shall be required of Logan
Hollow price of said property, any real estate taxes
Run, Knottly
divided without mate- the Plaintiff, and it Prestonsburg,
South if any, bearing inter- assessed against the
in Branch,
rially impairing its shall only be obligat- Floyd
East, est at the rate of real estate.
County, 252 21 '25"
value and the value ed to pay court costs, Kentucky, and more 138.40 feet to a rebar twelve percent (12%)
Any
announceof Plaintiff's lien the fees and costs of particularly described and cap, witnessed per annum from the ments made on date
thereon. Each tract the
Master as follows:
by a 14-inch walnut date of sale until of sale take preceshall be sold as a Commissioner, and
Located on the tree located South paid, having the dence over printed
whole:
any real estate taxes northwest side of 67'02'50"
East, force and effect of a matter
contained
a. 649 North Lake assessed against the Knottly Hollow Road, 17.59 feet at the toe Judgment.
herein.
Drive, Prestonsburg, real estate.
(c) The property
Plaintiff's Counsel:
approximately 300 of the slope of
Kentucky
41653
Any
announce- feet northeast of its Knottly Hollow Road. shall be sold subject
Hon. Jennifer L.
(The
Taco
Bell ments made on date junction with Ky. Rt.
South to any easements Pennell
Thence
Property);
of sale, take prece- 1428. on the Waters 62200'50"
West, and restrictions of
Christopher M. Hill
b. 110 West Court dence over printed of Knottly Hollow of 107.66 feet to tl;le record in the Floyd
&
Associates,
Street, Prestonsburg, matter
contained Levisa Fork of Big beginning, containing County
Clerk's P.S.C.
Kentucky
41653 herein.
acres
as Office, and such right
P.O. Box 4989
Sandy River, Floyd 0.377
(The Prestonsburg
William S. Kendrick County, Kentucky.
Frankfort, KY
shown on Nesbitt of redemption as
Shop
M a s t e r
Pawn
Inc. may exist in favor of
40604-4989
Unless stated oth- Engineering,
Property);
Commissioner
William S. Kendrick
erwise, any monu- drawing for job no. the United States of
c. 310 North Lake
P.O. Box 268
M a s t e r
ment referred to 4522. The above America and/or the
Drive, Prestonsburg,
Prestonsburg, KY
herein as a "rebar described property is record owners there- Commissioner
41653
Kentucky
41653
P.O. Box 268
and cap" is a 1/2" a portion of property of, pursuant to 28
(The Red Light Diner
Prestonsburg, KY
steel reinforcement acquired by Dicky U.S.C. 2410 or KRS
Property);
41653
COMMONrod, 18 inches in Johnson and Susan 426.530.
Each of the above
(d) The purchaser
length (set) with a Stephens by deed
WEALTH OF
described
parcels
plastic cap bearing dated January 22,
KENTUCKY
shall be sold individthe
marking "LS 2002 of record in
FLOYD CIRCUIT
ually (Tract Ill shall
1893." All bearings Deed Book 468 at
COURT
be sold last-the
stated herein are Page 344 of the
DIVISION
NO. I
''Taco Bell" Property)
referred to the mag- Floyd County Court
and then sell all CASE NO. 05-CI- netic meridian as records. This survey
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conducted
tracts as a whole,
observed on January was
under the direct
MTGLQ
accepting the bid
30, 2004.
which brings the INVESTORS, LP,
Beginning at a supervision of H.L.
highest total bid.
rebar and cap locat- Baldridge, PLS 1893
ASSIGNEE OF
The property herein
ed 3.3 feet northeast on January 30, 2004.
ARGENT
above
described
of Bell South pole The unadjusted error
MORTGAGE
shall be sold by the
COMPANY, LLC No. 5 which is situatM a s t e
ed at the toe of the
PLAINTIFF
Commissioner
as
hill for Knottly Hollow
vs.
more particularly set
Road and the driveforth in order to satis- DICKY JOHNSON way to subject propAND
fy the debt owed the
erty.
Third
Party and
UNKNOWN
Also, point of beginCross Plaintiff, interning is witnessed by
SPOUSE OF
est, costs, and out- DICKY JOHNSON a steel fence post
standing
Floyd
located at a bearing
DEFENDANTS
County, Kentucky Ad
of
South
NOTICE OF
Valorem taxes owed
42 2 40'21 "West,
COMMISSIONby the primary defen29.64 feet on the
dants,
Plaintiff's
attorney fees and the
costs of this action.
The liens herein
adjudged shall attach
to the proceeds of
said sale of the real
estate in priority as
follows:
The
Plaintiff is
adjudged to have a
first and superior lien
(subject only to any
appropriate liens of
and Floyd County,
Kentucky and sale
fees and costs) upon
the herein above
described real property. Any remaining
proceeds shall be
Office Space, Retail
distributed in accorSpace, Houses,
dance with the Order
Apartments,
of Sale.
For Businesses, mines,
TERMS OF SALE:
Mobile
Homes and
vehicles, & churches
(a} At the time of
Lots.
* Inspections
sale, the successful
CALL
bidder, if the other
* Re-charge
than the Plaintiff,
* Installation
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
Overhead
thirty (30) days.
CDNSfiRUC'IliDN
SERVICE, SALES, INSTALLATION
(b) The successful
No
Job
Too
Big
or
Too
Small!
Newly Employed
Residential and Commercial
bidder
shall
be
RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL
24
hr. Class (surface)
Serving
All Eastern & Central KY
required to execute a
606-265-3336 or 606-265·4678
40 hr. (underground)
bond with good sureFree Estimates
New Construction • Remodeling
8 hr. refresher
VInyl Siding • Window Replacement
ty thereon for the
24 Hour Commercial Service
(surface & underground)
unpaid
purchase
Hardwood Flooring ~
,
606/743-9891
Shingle!Tin Roofing
,
price of said property,
Also Electrical Classes
Decks/Porches/Garages '
(toll
free)
877/511-9891
if any, bearing interConcrete Work
James Joseph, Owner
est at the rate of
FREE ESTIMATES
West Liberty, Kentucky
Train at your convenience.
twelve percent (1 2%)
per annum from the
date of sale until
paid, having the
Seamless
force and effect of a
Buttorlnu.
Siding
Electrical Contracting
Judgment.
and
Metal
Roofing
(c) The property
Resid e ntia l & C omme rcial
Residential & Commercial
shall be sold subject
Located at
Electrical Services
• Gas Lines
Weeksbury, Ky.
to any easements
Home Improvements and Repairs
• Rot a -R o ote r
14 Years Experience
and restrictions of
Free Estimates • Reliable
• Inst a ll Septic Tanks
record in the Floyd
• S m all Excav ating
Ph:
(606)
886-2785
County
Clerk's
24-Hour Service
Pager: (606) 482-0229
Office, and such right
John K. Lewis, Master Electrician
of redemption as
886-0363
Licensed: MEB643, CEB644
may exist in fav or of
the United States of
America and/or the
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© 2005 by Vicki Whiting, Editor
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
An old-fashioned lemonade stand makes cents in busy, modem
times! Few people take the time to squeeze fresh lemonade.
Follow our "recipe" for success and start a lemonade stand of
your own!
Vol. 21 No. 35
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You will need to invest a little cash to get~
started. Visit or call a local store to find out
what the things you need cost. Add up your
?Osts to determine your price and profit. Here
1s what the math looks like:
EXPENSES:
12 lemons cost .... .. . .. ... .. .. .. ... . .. ..... .. $1.20
1 3/4 cups of sugar cost .... ...... .. .....
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20 paper cups cost.........................
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Total cost for 20 cups of lemonade: $2.00
INCOME:
20 cups of lemonade at 50¢ each ... $10.00
PROFIT:
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would you earn?
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lemonade stand - except customers. Draw some
customers purchasing lemonade to complete this picture.
lemonade ReciPe
Here is a recipe for making
20 cups of fresh lemonade.
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INGREDIENTS:
01 314 cups white sugar
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8 cups water
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lemon juice
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of oranges. To make one, cut the top off
of an orange and scoop out the
insides with a spoon. Pour in the
lemonade and serve with a straw.
Give your lemonade-in-an-orange
a snazzy name, like CITRUS
TREAT, and charge more!
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Remember! Add the cost of an orange and a
straw to your expenses to determine the price
of your "Citrus Treat."
Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Students solve problems by
adding, subtracting and multiplying amounts of money.
ADULT SUPERVISION
REQUIRED!
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a small saucepan, combine
sugar and 1 cup water. Bring
There are six lemons
in this bag. Can you
figure out how to
· give one lemon to
six different kids and
leave one in the bag?
to a boil and stir to dissolve
sugar. Allow to cool to room
temperature, then cover and
refrigerate until chilled.
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juice, but leave pulp. In a
pitcher, stir together chilled
syrup, lemon juice and
remaining 7 cups of water.
How many lemon slices
can you find on this page
in one minute?
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Edible Jewels
They're fun to make and to eat! Thread some of your
favorite treats onto a string of licorice. Hint: Use a toothpick
to make a hole if necessary.
't1 Jewels to string:
• Lifesavers
• Cereal
• Mini marshmallows
• Raisins
• Fruit snacks
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• Jelly beans
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with a pattern. Can you fmish her necklace?
Standards Link: Math/Data Analysis: Identify and extend simple patterns.
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because I love unicycles!
learned how to ride one over
summer at my friend's
house! They are so fun! To
get money to start my busi. ness, I would teach unicycle
lessons until I had enough.
Chris,
5th grade
My business would be a pet
store and I would call it
Petra's Pets. My favorite
animal is a guinea pig. I would
sell guinea pigs and hamsters
as my specialty. I could save
all my birthday money to get
some pets from.the animal
shelter to start. My dad could
me build a sign and a
sidewalk stand.
Petra,
4th grade
would want to have a
nursery. I love flowers , plants,
and trees! If I had my own
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them all day long! It would be
nice. And I could stay in the
shade all day too!
Cynthia,
4th grade
I want to sell puppies. I love
dogs and I would like to make
all my friends happy by
selling them puppies. I would
draw a puppy and put an ad in
the paper. They would cost
$20 each. They would need to
get their shots first.
Dana,
2nd grade
If I could I would open a gotrack. I would ask my dad
he would help me start by
helping me design the track
and giving me the money to
get it built. I would call it
Carl's Karts! There would be
hairpin bends and special pits.
All the drivers would wear
helmets and I would be the
starter with the checkered flag.
Carl
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I would like to have a fishing
down on the lake
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where I live. I could rent
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waders if people would pay
me. I could show them the
best spots and tell them what
kinds of fish are in the lake. I
could sell bait. I would get a
loan from the bank to start.
David
6th grade
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In order to attract customers , a business
need s to advertise. Look through the
new spaper at ads that you like. Then
create an ad for a business you would
like to own.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write brief expository descriptions.
Published: Week of Aug. 24, 2005
Send your story to:
In Business
P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Please include our school and rade.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
by Hal Kaufman
MIDDLE KADIDDLE
WITS TESTJ;R
TOW HOLD! Grab that rope...preferably the one
that leads to the towboat. Pick 1, 2, 3 or 4, and
see if you guessed right.
HEADS UP! "It's over my head," said the cyclist, studying these scrambled letters:
THEMEL. And there's something to remember about what he says. Can you
puzzle it out?
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X-POSE! No, folks, this is not another variation of tick-tack-toe. It is a three-X
word square. That is to say, three of four words reading the same both across
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2 3 4
clues to their identities. Definitions are as follows:
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1. Company agents.
2. This way out.
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3. Puckish one.
4. Hades' river.
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Time limit for this exercise: 1 minute.
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BEHOLD! Before your eyes,
left, is a circle. You are asked to
find its center.
You have a pencil and a
ruler with which to work, and,
other than this page itself,
nothing more.
Now then, how can you go
about finding the circle's center
with reasonable accuracy?
How about this: Tear off a
corner of the page. Place
corner over circle with t~e point
(90-degree angle) touching
circle's rim. Mark points of
intersection of paper segment
sides (sides of angle) on rim.
Draw a line between these
points for circle's diameter.
Measure halfway along this
line for center.
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r is for radio
In each row, color the things that are the same size.
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Learning Buddies: Spell your child's first name, using the lines to write large letters. Use an uppercase letter
for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters with a finger,
crayon or pencil.
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Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your
child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter R. Say the letter as you trace it.
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How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the R sound like the \Vord
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radio?
My Numbers
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radios
My Rhyme Time
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Radio
Radio who?
Radio not, here I come!
My Sentence
Learning Buddies: Read the first part of the sentence aloud. Ask your child to think of a way to finish the sentence. Write your child's words in
the lines. Read the entire sentence to your child while pointing out that reading is done from left to right. Older children may want to trace all or
some of the letters in the sentence.
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Big R, Little r
Is it round?
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With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that start with the same
sound as the letter R
in the word radio.
Point to the number
5 in the newspaper.
Have your child say the
number and, if it's large
enough, have your child
trace the number.
With your child, find
every uppercase letter R
on one newspaper page.
Draw a small circle
around each one. Then try
to find a lowercase letter
r for each uppercase letter
R. Draw a line to connect
each uppercase letter R to
each lowercase letter r .
Look through the
newspaper for things that
are different shapes. Show
your child something that
is round. Point to other
shapes in the newspaper
and ask, "Is this shape
round?"
Look through the
newspaper for things
that make sounds. Try to
imitate the sounds. Ask
your child with which part
of the body you hear.
Play Find the Ears with
your child. Look through
the newspaper and touch
each ear that you see.
Count the ears. How many
can you find?
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Scoop comes out once a week, but you can use the newspaper every day to prepare your child for success in school. Each daily
activity focuses on a specific learning readiness skill.
Step by Step Success 1. Read the activity instruction aloud. 2. Show how to do the activity by doing it yourself first. 3. Ask your child to
copy what you do.
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HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you a
message every day. It's a numerical puzzle designed to spell
out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. If the
number of letters is 6 or more, subtract4.1fthe number is less
than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the upper left-hand corner and check one of your key numbers, left
to
right. Then read the message the letters under the
111
checked figures give you.
©2005 by Kin~;~ Features Syndicate, Inc. World rights reserved.
Rational Numbers
by Linda Thistle
Using the clues, simple arithmetic,
and a little logic, place a single digit
(0 to 9) in each empty box In the dia·
gram. To help you get started, one digit
has been entered In the diagram.
BatloDAI
Mumben
answers
ACROSS
1. Two times 4-Down
3. One-ninth of 13-Down
4. Sixty less than 2-Down
5. Four hundred more than 7·
Across
7. Consecutive digits
rearranged
10. Three hundred less than 1·
Across
12. Seven less than 8-Down
14. 4-Across plus 15-Across
15. Four times 3·Down
16. Two times 1-Down
DOWN
1. 11-Down minus 6-Down
2.
Eight more than 14-Across
3. Two more than 3-Across
4. Digits of 16-Across
reversed
6. Same digit repeated
a. Two times 9-Down
9. Thirty more than 10-Across
11 . 3-Across times 15·Across
12. Six more than 4-Across
13. 2-Down plus 3-Down
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Saturday
Sound Play
Have your child sit in a
chair with his/her eyes
closed. With a page of the
newspaper in hand, walk
around your child quietly.
Stop and make a sound
with the newspaper and
see if your child can point
to where you stopped.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
24, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
World of Wonder
The Colosseum
was built during the
reign of Vespasian
and dedicated by
his son, Trtus.
Most of the illustrated
portraits on this page
are based on ancient
Roman statues.
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
oman
Emperor Commodus
(A.D. 180-192)
participated in more than 300
gladiatorial games.
Who's in charge?
Over the centuries many men held the title of
Emperor of Rome. This page looks at some of the
more notable rulers of the ancient empire.
According to legend, Rome was founded by Romulus in
753 B.C. After killing his twin brother, Remus, Romulus
became the first king of Rome. Tarquin the Proud was
the seventh and last king. Tarquin was a violent and cruel
tyrant, and in 509 B.C. the citizens of Rome
overthrew him. The Romans established a form of
government called a republic and vowed never to
have another king. The Roman word republic meant
"a matter for the people."
Romulus and Remus
were twin brothers,
raised by a she-wo~.
The Roman republic allowed citizens to vote in their
own rulers and officials. The republic government
Julius Caesar
consisted of two elected consuls (who usually held power for one was murdered
or two years) and the senate. The senate was a lawmaking body
by Gaius
that advised the consuls on matters of state. All free citizens of the
Cassius and
republic could vote. Over time, ambitious individuals within
Marcus Brutus
the government sought more power, and eventually the republic
because he
was replaced by the rule of an all-powerful emperor.
was suspected
of wanting to
There were three' basic class distinctions. Patricians were
be a king.
the old families who owned land, pleblans were workingmen and
the equites represented the rich business class. Women, slaves
and children could not vote.
·
Gaius Octavius was born
in 63 B.C. He was the
great-nephew and heir
of the famous Julius
Caesar.
The above apotheosis
shows an emperor who
ruled so well that he
becomes a god
and is
carried up
to heaven.
By 50 B.C., Rome controlled most of the Mediterranean. Civil wars
and unrest paved the way for a general called Julius Caesar.
Caesar was elected consul in 59 B.C. and in 49 B.C. he declared
himself dictator of Rome. On March 15 in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar
was assassinated for his kingly ambitions. The civil wars that
followed Caesar's death marked the end of the republic.
•
When Caesar was
killed, Octavius
inherited no official
powers. In 27 B.C.
Octavius marched on
Rome and forced the
senate to name him
consul. He took the title
Augustus,which means
"exalted" or "revered."
After 100 years of civil war, Augustus brought
peace and prosperity to Rome. He ruled for more
than 40 years, from 27 B.C. until A.D. 14.
Augustus is credited as the first and the greatest
of the Roman emperors because of his many
accomplishments, both military and political. His
surname Caesar and the title Augustus would be
taken by every Roman emperor after him.
Early Emperors
Tiberius Julius
Caesar
Augustus
(liberius)
Rule:
A.D. 14-37
Tiberius was
the adopted
son of
Augustus.
Tiberius inherited
the titles of the emperor, but he never seemed to embrace
the role. His reign lasted for 22 years
and was marked by trouble and terror. Tiberius spent most of his reign in
self-imposed exile on the island
of Capri. He left the administration
of the government to a man called
Sejanus, who used his power for
personal agendas and vendettas.
Tiberius died at the age of 78.
Gaius Julius
Caesar
Gennanicus
(Caligula)
Rule: A.D.
37-41
When he
was a small
boy, Gaius
was nicknamed Caligula,
which means "little
soldier's boots." The name stuck.
It is generally believed that
Caligula was insane. He believed
he was a living god, he married
his sister and murdered with little
or no restraint. He was very
unpopular with the Romans and
is remembered for his
extravagance and cruelty. His
reign lasted for just four years.
Caligula was murdered by his
own guard, the Praetorians.
Tiberius Claudius
Nero Caesar
Drusus
(Claudius)
Rule: A.D.
41-54
Nero Claudius
Drusus
Germanicus
(Nero)
Rule: A.D.
54-68
Claudius was
the fourth
Roman emperor of the JulioCiaudian dynasty.
Nero was
born in 37
and became
emperor at the
age of 16. He
was the adopted son
of Claudius, and his mother was
the ambitious Agrippina.
Claudius was an
unlikely candidate for emperor; he
stammered, walked with a limp
and had little political experience.
Despite his physical challenges,
Claudius was an exceptionally
able emperor who ruled for 13
years. He is most famous for
adding Britain to the Roman
empire. It is believed that Claudius
was murdered by his wife
Agrippina, who served him
poisoned mushrooms.
Nero's reign is marked by madness, murder and mayhem. He
had his mother murdered, poisoned his brother and enraged the
senate with executions, ordered
suicides and banishments.
Nero committed suicide. His last
words were, "Qualis artifex pereo."
('What an artist the world loses in
me.")
Titus Flavius
Vespasianus
(Vespasian)
Rule: AD.
69-79
After Nero's
death, three
men briefly
held the title
of emperor.
Eventually the
crown went to a 60 year old
warrior.
lmperator Trtus Flavius
· Vespasianus Caesar established
a short dynasty, known as the
Flavian dynasty. He was a
military veteran who established
relative peace. He was a tireless
administrator with a gift for picking the right man for the right job.
Vespasian's sons and successors
were Titus and Domitian. But his
dynastic plans were unpopular
with the Roman senate.
Notable Emperors
Gaius Aurelius Valerius
Diocletianus
{Diocletian}
Rule: A.D. 284-
Marcus
Ulpius Nerva
Traianus
(Trajan)
Rule: A.D.
98-117
Publius Aelius
Traianus
Hadrianus
{Hadrian}
Rule: A.D.
117- 138
Trajan was
the second
emperor in a
period that is
called '1ive good
emperors." He was
the first non-Italian to rule as
emperor. To this day, Trajan is
remembered as one of the great
emperors. He enjoyed many military conquests, and under his
leadership the Roman empire
expanded. The Column of Trajan
in Rome is a monument to his
achievements and just one of his
many public works.
Hadrian was
born in Spain
and was a
distant relative
of Trajan. It was
rumored that Trajan's
wife was fond of Hadrian and was
largely responsible for his becoming emperor. His reign was a time
of peace with few opportunities to
show off his military skills. Hadrian
was a great patron of the arts. He
also was a gifted speaker and a
student of philosophy. Much of his
time was spent touring' the
frontier provinces.
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Diocletian began
his career as a
simple soldier.
He made his
good friend
Maximus co-regent
and put him in charge
of the western part of the empire.
Diocletian is credited with reforming the empire's administration,
which assured the empire's survival for the next thousand years.
At the age of 59, Diocletian abdicated the throne (a rare event for
emperors) and retired to his
palace.
Gaius Aavius
Valerius Aurelius
Constantinus
(Constantine)
Rule: A.D.
30&-337
Contantine is
best known
for being the
first Christian
emperor. During his
reign he supported and
encouraged Christianity throughout the land. He is also famous
for moving the empire's capital
from Rome to Constantinople
(modem Istanbul, Turkey). He
was said to be a talented general ·
with boundless energy and determination. Constantine passed
many severe laws and created
many harsh taxation reforms.
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Flavius Romulus Augustus
(Romulus Augustus)
Rule: A.D. 475-476
Romulus Augustus is considered
by many historians to be the last
of the Western Roman emperors.
Because of his youth, he was
sometimes called Romulus
Augustulus, which meant "little
Augustus." He ruled for just 10
months before he was forced to
abdicate. The German chieftain
Odoacer spared his life and granted him a generous annual pension.
Roman coins
were stamped
with the heads
of emperors.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, Wor1d Book
Inc.; Focus On: Romans, Shooting Star Press;
Kings & Queens: Rulers & Despots, Franklin Watts
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