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AssociATED PRESS
PAINTSVILLE - Christians in drugravaged central Appalachia are increasingly reaching out to addicts instead of waiting for government programs to rid the
region of what some have described as a
scourge.
In the latest initiative, the Christian
Appalachian Project announced Friday
that it plans to invest $1 million to open
long-term rehabilitation centers in Eastern
Kentucky to help drug abusers break their
addictions.
Bill Mills, president of the ministry that
has fed and clothed the poor in Appalachia
for 40 years, said churches and other
Christian organizations are stepping forward to deal with the drug problem.
"Substance abuse is a plague upon our
Eastern Kentucky communities," he said .
"It is the most dominant and devastating of
the problems we face today. We simply are
choosing to be part of the solution."
While Christian groups support the
work of federal and state agencies that are
working to combat the drug problem
through law enforcement and governmentfunded treatment centers, the Rev. Doug
Abner said they're also looking for ways to
be personally involved.
They're opening drug rehabilitation
centers, taking part in massive anti-drug
(See CENTERS, page three)
LEXINGTON - Gov.
~nie Fletcher said Friday
he would seek another
term as governor in 2007.
Fletcher made the comment during the taping of
WKYT-TV's "Kentucky
Newsmakers" program,
scheduled to air at 11 a.m.
Saturday.
"I'm very excited about
the opportunities I've had,
and enjoy this job and
think there's a lot of other
things we can do to
improve the lives of
Kentuckians," Fletcher said
on the program.
~letcher became
Kentucky's first Republicq.n
governor in more than 30
years when he defeated
Democrat Ben Chandler in
November 2003.
Fletcher said Kentucky
had a ''tremendous success" during the 2005
General Assembly. He
pointed to the recent passage of the state budget
and an overhaul of the
state's tax code, as well as
bills aimed at curbing the
~ of methamphetamines
and lowering the cost of
employee health insurance
for small businesses.
Spokeswoman Jeannie
Lausche said the governor
had indicated previously
his intentions to seek
another term. Fletcher said
Friday he would "absolutely" run in 2007, Lausche
said.
"He thinks it's a great job
and he enjoys serving the
f~ilies of Kentucky and
he wants to continue doing
so," Lausche said.
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STAFF WRITER
photos by Tom Doty
Coal related items on display Included equipment, literature and a lunch box which was all that remained
of a miner killed In an explosion. It still contained two battered cans of Coca-Cola and a smashed candy
bar.
Students learn about coal
by TOM DOTV
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Adams Middle School hosted its first Coal Fair on Friday, which provided an
opportunity for the school to teach units in various disciplines about the impact of the coal industry on the
region.
The fair was also a chance for students to show what
they could do, with each exhibit produced by members
of the eighth-grade class.
Eighth grade reading teacher Lisa Pelphrey coordinated the program, which was funded by a grant from
the CEDAR Coal Project.
"I volunteered for this," Pelphrey said. "I love it.
My dad was miner here in Floyd County."
Pelphrey was also pleased with the student participation, which saw the entire eighth-grade turning in
projects. Pelphrey noted the impact of coal on so many
families in the region when she illustrated that 124 out
of the 130 students involved had family members who
wor in the mines.
The tour began with a serenade from four students
(See COAL, page three)
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
Shane Williamson displays a robotic auger he built
to show how coat is dug from hillsides.
Shooting suspect gets third lawyer
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STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
Ray
Collins, 51, of Debord, was back in
court on Friday to watch his case
being handed to yet another attorney
- the third assigned to his case.
Collins stands accused of one
count of first-degree assault and two
counts of wanton endangerment fcir a
June 2003 incident in which he
allegedly fired a pistol into a car containing several women .
One of the shells struck a passenger and is still embedded in her skull,
(See MOTION, page three)
Abuser freed
from jail after
two months
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HAROLD- A Harold
couple who were ordered
to sell their home last
month after "directly violating'' an lDJUnction
placed on their finances ,
are seeking remedy in
bankruptcy court.
Pikeville
attorney
James Pruitt Jr. entered a
motion in circuit court
Friday morning, announcing that Glen Donovan
and Delores Burgess who owe the Betsy Layne
Fire Protection District
more than $200,000 for
money Glen Burgess stole
while he was employed as
a treasurer for the district
- have filed for bankruptcy.
Last month, Circuit
Judge John David Caudill
ordered that a mortgage
on the Burgess' home purchased 21 days after
an injunction was placed
on their finances - be
declared "null and void."
Caudill stipulated in
that ruling that the home
be sold and the lien
become the property of
the Betsy Layne Fire
Protection District.
In his motion , Pruitt
informed the court that
the Burgesses filed for
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on
March I. Any outstanding
garnishment precluded by
the relief order in bankrup.tcy court and wage
withholdings
should
cease, he wrote, until the
bankruptcy proceedings
are complete.
Friday, Judge Caudill
held a motion for judgment on the pleadings
submitted by Craig Davis,
the district's attorney, in
abeyance. Davis filed a
motion for judgment similar to one he filed
prior to Caudill's ruling
last month - one day
after Pruitt filed his
announcement of bankruptcy with at circuit
clerk's office.
Davis argues that Glen
and Delores Burgess can't
defend their case in court
officials say.
Collins was originally represented
by Lance Daniels, but he fired him a
week before his trial date and hired
Cassie Allen, a Prestonsburg lawyer.
Allen appeared in court Friday,
handing her motion to step down
from the case to Assistant
Commonwealth's Attorney Wayne
Taylor, who had not received the document prior to her court appearance.
Judge John D. Caudill asked Allen
to talk about the motion and she
replied that Collins cannot afford to
pay her.
Judge Caudill also elicited a reac-
tion from Taylor, who objected to the
motion. Taylor said that the parties
are only two months away from trial
and that this is exactly what happened
on Collins' first trial date.
"There are not many occasions
when the Commonwealth would
object to a motion [for an attorney] to
withdraw, but this is one of them,"
Taylor said.
Judge Caudill granted the motion
and appointed public advocate Jim
Adkins to represent Collins.
Adkins immediately asked for all
(See LAWYER, page three)
PRESTONSBURG
Lawrence Beck, who
pleaded to guilty to one
misdemeanor charge of
criminal
abuse
two
months ago in order to
avoid being tried for the
felony offense of sexually
abusing a minor, was
released from the Floyd
County Detention Center
on Friday and is headed
back to Tennessee.
Beck's home state has
agreed to probate him for
the 10 remaining months
of his 12-month sentence.
Beck did not get out of
Floyd County before
appearing one more time
in circuit court before
Judge Danny P. Caudill.
Caudill made it very clear
that Beck would have to
continue to abide by the
conditions of his release
and that the tiniest infrac-
photo by Tom Doty
Lawrence Beck left
Floyd County Friday
afternoon after registering with the Office of
Probation and Parole.
Part of his agreement for
pleading guilty to criminal abuse of a child is
that he not be alone with
anyone under the age of
18.
tion of law would bring
him back to Floyd County
to serve out his remaining
10 months.
(See ABUSE, page three)
�A2 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
13, 2005
• TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Florida Legislature is flush
with good ideas.
Sen. Al Lawson's latest
involves a way to pay for wastewater treatment and help small
towns and counties upgrade
their sewer systems.
The
Democrat
from
Tallahassee is proposing a 2cent-per-roll tax on toilet paper.
"We've got 17 million people in this state and all of them
can contribute to protecting our
underground water supply," he
said.
In a Republican-dominated
Legislature that doesn't like
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
new taxes , the idea could end
up in the tank pretty quickly.
Senate President Tom Lee
said he didn't think it would get
too far, but didn't rule it out.
"We' II be getting to the bottom
of it real soon," he said.
Lawson's been enduring
plenty of jokes - bathroom
humor, you might say - but he
says it's a serious issue.
Even if the proposal passes
the Legislature, it would need
approval from Gov. Jeb Bush.
The president's brother said if
toilet paper is taxed, people
might use less of it.
"That's not necessarily a
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Today is Sunday, March 13 ,
the 72nd day of 2005 . There are
293 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 13, 1781 ,
the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
On this date:
• In 1868, the impeachment
trial of President Andrew
Johnson began in the U.S.
Senate.
• In 1884, Standard Time
was adopted throughout the
United States.
• In 1901, the 23rd president
of the United States, Benjamin
Harrison, died in Indianapolis.
• In 1925 , a law went into
effect in Tennessee prohibiting
the teaching of evolution.
• In 1933, banks began to
reopen after a "holiday"
declared
by
President
Roosevelt.
• In 1964, 38 residents of a
Queens, N.Y., neighborhood
failed to respond to the cries of
Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28,
as she was being stabbed to
death.
• In 1969, the Apollo 9
astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the
successful testing of the Lunar
Module.
• In 1980, Ford Motor
Chairman Henry Ford II
announced he was stepping
down.
• In 1980, a jury in
Winamac, Ind., found Ford
Motor Co. innocent of reckless
homicide in the fiery deaths of
three young women riding in a
Ford Pinto.
• In 1985, funeral services
were held for Soviet leader
Konstantin U. Chernenko, after
which Vice President Bush met
with Chernenko's successor,
Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Ten years ago: Two
Americans working for U.S.
defense contractors in Kuwait,
David Daliberti and William
Barloon, were seized by Iraq
after they strayed across the border; sentenced to eight years in
prison, both were freed the following July.
Five years ago: A quarter
century after the end of the
Vietnam War, U.S. Defense
Secretary William Cohen
arrived in Hanoi to push the
pace of reconciliation.
One year ago: Iran froze
inspections of its nuclear facilities after the U.N. atomic
agency censured Tehran for hiding suspect activities. (Tehran
relented two days later.)
Today's
Birthdays:
Country singer Jan Howard is
75. Songwriter Mike StoBer is
72. Singer-songwriter Neil
Sedaka is 66. Actor William H.
Macy is 55. Actress Deborah
Raffin is 52. Comedian Robin
Duke is 51. Actress Dana
Delany is 49. Rock musician
Adam Clayton (U2) is 45. Jazz
musician Terence Blanchard is
43. Actor Christopher Collet is
37. Actress Annabeth Gish is 34.
Actress Tracy Wells is 34.
Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob,
The Lumberjacks) is 33. Singer
Glenn Lewis is 30. Actor Danny
Masterson is 29. Actor Emile
Hirsch is 20. Singers Natalie
and Nicole Albino are 19.
Thought for Today:
"Millions long for immortality
who do not know what to do
with themselves on a rainy
Sunday afternoon." - Susan
Ertz, American author (18941985).
BSCTC professor publishes
in international journal
An article by Big Sandy
Community and Technical
College biology and human
ecology Professor, Dr. John G.
Shiber, has recently been pub-lished in Water, Air, and Soil
Pollution, an international scientific journal printed in The
Netherlands and distributed
worldwide.
The article, entitled "Arsenic
in Domestic Well Water and
Health in Central Appalachia,
USA, reports the results of
Shiber's two-year research project in the region concerning the
occurrence of arsenic in household tap water. With the help of
his students and regional private
homeowners, as well as certain
county health departments, he
was able to obtain 217 household tap water samples in eastem Kentucky, western West
Virginia, southeastern Ohio and
northeastern Tennessee, 179 of
which were from private well
sources. The samples were sent
for arsenic analysis to The
Environmental Quality Institute,
based at the University of North
Carolina-Asheville, which is
conducting a national well water
arsenic study. As no funding was
available for the study, the cost
of the water analyses was
absorbed by the participants and
Dr. Shiber personally.
According to Shiber's report,
nearly half of the water samples
coming from homes with private
wells had detectable arsenic, and
in 57% of them concentrations
ranged from one to eighty-four
parts per billion (ppb). The federal limit for arsenic in public
water systems was lowered by
the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) from 50 to 10
ppb, due to scientific evidence
linking the element to incidences of certain diseases.
Shiber says that even at concentrations lower than 10 ppb, longterm exposure to water arsenic
can be a potential problem.
According
the
National
Research Council's 2001 report
to the EPA, the life time risk of
bladder and lung cancer from
water arsenic exposure at a concentration of IOppb is one person in 333, at 5pbb one in 667,
at 3ppb one in 1,000, and at 1
ppb one in 3,100. Various other
cancers, as well as certain types
of diabetes and heart disease,
most of which occur with high
frequency
in
Central
Appalachia, have been associated with water arsenic, Shiber
writes.
The groundwater that private
well owners use is more likely to
have arsenic than the surface
water obtained from lakes,
reservoirs, rivers, etc., that supply most of the public drinking
water in this country. Because
the new EPA guidelines for
arsenic in drinking water do not
address populations that use private wells, and Central
Appalachian families still rely
heavily on this water source
(90 % of rural Kentuckians),
Shiber suggests that there is
some cause for concern and
action.
Among Shiber's recommendations in the article are creating
(See PUBLISHED, page three)
good thing," he said.
• CONCORD, N.H. - Two
seniors at the University of New
Hampshire are putting the marketing skills they learned in college to work to try and pay off
the $20,000 they each owe in
student loans.
Josh Hutchins and Marc
Hall, both 22, have requested
bids of $40,000 or more on
eBay to bicycle from New
Hampshire to Florida and back
promoting the winning bidder's
name or product.
They'll do it media interviews, on their clothes and on
their bike helmets.
The two expect the ride to
take as long as two months.
Bidding on the offer ends at 3
p.m. Friday.
They also promise to donate
some of the proceeds to charity.
• OGDEN, Utah - Police
said it seemed more like a
movie plot than real life when a
taxi driver became the reluctant
wheel in for a suspected bank
robber's getaway attemp.t.
The hunt for Donald
Archambault, 53, who was suspected of robbing a Salt Lake City
bank Wednesday, ended 30 miles
north of Ogden. Archambault
bailed out of the cab and was
arrested by waiting police.
Cabbie Ali Ahmed didn't
realize his customer was wanted
until he got a call on his cell
phone from a police detective.
"I was very scared," Ahmed
said later. "Oh, man, was I
scared."
Ahmed's fears escalated
when the suspect allegedly told
him "he would empty his gun"
if Ahmed turned him in to
police.
The suspect didn't know that
Ahmed was talking to a detective throughout much of the
Interstate 15 ride.
"I kept telling him it was my
dispatcher wanting to know
where we were going," he said.
Ahmed eventually pulled
over and Archambault fled.
"There was an officer right
by there, so I ran over and told
him which way the guy went,"
Ahmed said.
Archambault, 53,
was
charged Thursday with aggravated robbery.
• JERUSALEM- One of
the Holy Land's toughest plants
has a unique link to Israel when
examined under a microscope.
The cells of the Persian buttercup, known as "nurit" in
Hebrew, look like a six-sided
Star of David, a Web site reported Sunday.
The Israel21C site showed a
picture of the plant's cells as
they appear under magnification. The result is. a cell that
resembles an almost perfect
light blue, six-sided star, interlocked with similar cells.
Rina Kamenetsky, of Israel's
Volcani Institute, which specializes in plant and agriculture
research, said the discovery was
made during examination into
how the plant survives the harsh
conditions of Israel's desert.
The plant can lie dormant
but alive for long periods of
time, springing to life when
water appears.
Botany experts call such
flowers "resurrection plants."
• BOGOTA, Colombia The suspect was a little long in
the face after being arrested, but
is braying for an early release.
Police said Tuesday they
detained the suspect, a donkey
named Pacho, after a motorcycle crashed into it on a road in a
northeastern city, with the
motorcyclist suffering serious
injuries .
"When there are road accidents and serious injuries, the
vehicles involved are always
impounded," said Diana Rojas,
spokeswoman for the Arauca
city police department. "We had
to impound both the donkey and
the motorcycle and put them at
the disposal of investigators so
they can decide what to do with
them and whether to release
them."
Pacho's owner, Nelson
Gonzalez, said no one should
pin the blame on the donkey for
Sunday's crash.
"Neither the donkey nor I
were responsibte because I was
in front and the motorcyclist
saw me" before crashing,
Gonzalez said.
•
INDIANAPOLIS
Barbara Lennen took her time
being a multimillionaire.
The mother of four carried
the winning ticket for a $19.9
million Powerball jackpot in her
wallet for two days after the
drawing before checking the
numbers.
Lennen, 28, bought the tick-·
et at a convenience store near
her Elwood home, but didn't
look to see whether she had
won until her father-in-law told
her Monday night that the store
had sold the jackpot winner for
Saturday's drawing.
"I checked the Powerball
numbers one at a time. I looked
at it three times," she said
Tuesday after claiming the jackpot.
Lennen said after seeing that
the numbers matched, she told
her husband, "Don't get up. Our
lives are changing. We just hit
the Powerball."
Lottery officials on Tuesday
gave Lennen a $663,000 check
as the first payment on a 29year annuity for the jackpot.
•
KUALA LUMPUR,
Malaysia - Who says television is bad for children? Not the
Malaysian government.
The Education Ministry is
urging schoolchildren tq watc
more English-language television programs - even cartoons
- as part of a new strategy t6
improve their English, news
reports said Wednesday.
The New Straits Times and
The Star newspaper said a poor
grasp of English has resulted in
only average test scores in science and mathematics, which
are taught in English.
"We cannot dismiss the role
of
television,"
ministry
Director-General Ahmad Sipon
was quoted as saying. "It is
important. Students should
watch more television, especially educational English programs such as Animal Planet."
Ahmad said students should
turn on the television, even to
watch cartoons , to learn better
English.
• FOSTORIA, Ohio Thieves broke into an agency
that serves the poor and made
off with a safe. The only catch
- the safe was empty.
"It is really quite comical,"
said Susan Simpkins, director
of the Fostoria Bureau o
Concern. "It was very heavy,
and they did us a favor by taking it."
She said the agency had
wanted to throw out the safe but
it was too big to move .
The thieves entered the
agency through a back door
after it closed for the day on
Feb. 28 and took the safe,
which was in the office.
They did manage to grab a
small amount of money from
the office's petty cash supply,
police said.
Session took on more than expected
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - When
the 2005 General Assembly
convened in January, the
lack of a budget overshadowed all else in the Capitol.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher and a
growing number of legislators thought it possible that
tax changes might also be
possible. But passing a budget, a year after the first
failed attempt and in the face
of mounting political pressure, seemed certain to take
the air out of any other initiative.
By the time legislators
left the building early
Wednesday morning, they
dealt with not only the budget and taxes but topics
ranging from truck loads and
elder abuse to methamphetamine and their own pensions.
Despite concerns about
record debt load and the fact
that the budget spends more
money than the state expects
to take in during the coming
16 months, the biggest reaction has been simple relief.
The 2004 session ended
with bitter political divisions
and no budget. A near-revolt
by teachers and public
employees forced a special
session in October to deal
with health insurance, but
the rest of state government
had been operating on
autopilot.
This . year, a bill that
would have increased the
weight limit on some trucks
had a relatively easy passage
in both chambers the first
time around. But House
members balked once details
became widely available.
The bill would have let
trucks carrying sand, gravel
and other natural resources
weigh 120,000 pounds, 50
percent more than now permitted.
Lawmakers also declined
to approve legislation that
would have required booster
seats for children too big to
ride in safety seats but too
small to safely ride with an
ordinary seat belt.
Also after several years of
trying, the legislature passed
a bill designed to recognize
and punish physical and
financial exploitation and
abuse of the elderly. Though
penalties were not increased,
the bill's promoters say it
will help train people to spot
abuse.
"You're going to see the
perpetrators taken to court
and you're going to see convictions," said Rep . Jimmie
Lee, D-Elizabethtown.
Late Tuesday evening,
lawmakers
also
rushed
through a bill that will tie
their pensions to their actual
pay, instead of the assumed
$27,500 salary that has been
in place for more than two
decades. The change will
mean higher pensions.
Severe restrictions were
placed on the sale of many
over-the-counter cold and
sinus medications that contain some of the chemicals
used
to
manufacture
methamphetamine, an illegal
drug that has become a
homemade scourge. Buyers
of tablet forms will have to
go to a counter and often
provide identification and
sign a register.
After several previous
attempts, lawmakers passed
a bill that will require local
site-based decision-making
councils to develop "well-
ness policies" that would
include "moderate to vigorous" physical activity for
elementary school pupils
each day.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher gets
to make his own decisions on
bills that passed and can sign
them, allow them to become
law without his signature or
veto them.
Lawmakers will be back
on March 21 to consider any
vetoes and can still pass bills
during the two remaining
days on their schedule.
Bills that weren't taken up
included proposals to curb
school bullies and make
teenagers spend more time
practicing before they get
full driving privileges.
Kentucky remains the
subject of derision amon!}•
rock hounds because a bill
that would have corrected
the state's official rock and
mineral failed. Currently
Kentucky designates agate
as the official rock, even
though it is a mineral; and
coal is the official mineral
even though it is technically
a rock.
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Centers
Coal
• Continued from p1
rallies, reaching into their pocket
books to help pay for detoxification
~tarting
neighborhood
watctl programs, monitoring
drug cases from arraignment to
sentencing in local courts, and
working one-on-one with recovering addicts to encourage them
to stay drug-free.
Soon after prescription drug
,l;ibuse reached "epidemic" proportions m the Hazard area,
Abner said residents in Peny
County opened Joshua's Dream
Foundation, an organization that
provides free rehabilitation for
drug addicts.
In Clay County, Christians
wanted to show their opposi'tion to drug dealers. On a rainy
day last May, 3,500 people
from 63 local churches rallied
in Manchester to show their
opposition to the illegal drug
trade.
"We repented for being more
concerned about our buildings
• and our programs than for our
people," said Abner, pastor of
Community
Church
in
,Manchester. "That went a long
way toward changing things. We
are seeing the churches step outside their waUs and get involved,
which is something we needed
to do forever but didn't."
Marilynn Payson, director of
commumt) development for
Christian Appalachian Project,
'said her organization historically
has worked to help impoverjshed people with physical
needs. In fact, a warehouse out·side Paintsville is filled with
crates of food destined for communities throughout central
.Appalachia.
Payson said expanding the
organization's efforts to help
drug addicts recover is a a natur,al extension of the organizations
work.
"We were started to help remedy the ramifications of poverty.
and this is just one more part of
.that mission," she said.
' Mills said the Christian
~Appalachian Project will open a
prototype women's drug recov-ery center in Rockcastle County
Published
.·
• Continued from p2
· programs in regions with a high
'-incidence of well water usage
'that would seek to 1) extensively and regularly test household
tap water for arsenic, using the
~most sensitive analytical equipment available; 2) advance pubHe and health-professional
:·awareness about the is·sue and
.the diseases with which the element has been associated; and 3)
establish routine health screen. ing for arsenic exposure among
private well users.
For interested parties, a copy
of Shiber's article has been
, placed
on
the
BSCTC
;, Prestonsburg Campus library
:; Reserve Shelf, located in the
. Magoffin Learning Center, for a
, month.
.
by the end of this year, which
will transition into a larger
recovery center that will open in
Martin County by late 2006.
Mills said his organization
will seek donations to cover the
startup costs plus
about
$500,000 a year in operational
expenses.
Besides drug rehabilitation,
the Christian Appalachian
Project will provide job training
for addicts, teach parenting
skills, even teach them to read
and write if necessary. The organization also is encouraging
churches to adopt recovering
addicts after they complete rehabilitation to offer support and
encouragement to stay off drugs.
"We want to give them a new
lease on life," he said.
Abner said he believes such
initiatives will help central
Appalachia win the war against
drugs.
"Just the fact that good people are standing up and being
counted really makes a difference," he said. "We've complained. We've grumbled. We've
done all those things. Now
we've decided to be a part of the
solution."
Motion
• Continued from p1
because Glen Burgess has
already pleaded guilty to
seven counts of theft in relation to the incident. There are
no facts in dispute, Davis
says. The Burgesses "directly
violated" the injunctiOI] order
when they purchased the
home, he argues, so they
should have to face the penalties.
Glen Burgess entered that
guilty plea in 2003 and was
ordered to pay the district
$15,000 annually. He received
five years for each of count
against him, but only served a
five-month sentence for the
crimes, a fact that makes district employees feel a bit
slighted.
A summary judgment was
issued against the couple last
year, ordering them to pay an
additional $239,226.34, plus
12 percent interest in the civil
case pending against them.
The
thefts
occurred
between April 1995 and
August 2001 . The money was
reportedly
used
in
the
Burgesses' personal business,
East Kentucky Printing.
•
• Continued from p1
who performed Loretta Lynn's
classic ballad "Coal Miner's
Daughter." The tour also consisted of art projects, a computer
slideshow and memorabilia that
highlighted various aspects of the
coal mining industry. Students
gathered information ranging in
tupil:~ from how coal is mined to
safety standards that regulate the
extraction the mineral.
Pelphrey noted that the curriculum stressed teaching about
the future needs of the industry.
She said students learned about
how future technological skills
and computer knowledge will
replace the back-breaking labor
needed to mine coal.
Abuse
• Continued from p1
Caudill also noted for the record
that Beck must follow the court's
rules to the letter. Specifically,
Beck is not to be alone with anyone
under 18 during this period.
Caudill told Beck, "Mr. Beck,
let's make no mistake about it.
You're a criminal." He alluded to
the lesser sentence that Beck got
when the Commonwealth complied with the victim's family to
avoid making her testify at trial. He
said, "You're a very fortunate person to be walking out of here. My
concern, frankly, Mr. Beck, is for
the children in this community and
where you're going."
Caudill cautioned Beck once
more by letting him know that his
probation officer would report any
infractions to the Floyd County
parole office and stated that he
would not hesitate to have Beck
brought back to finish his sentence.
He finished the action by stating, "I wish you well. I don't want
to see you back here."
13, 2005 • A3
Religious groups take a leading role
in Terri Schiavo right-to-die case
by MITCH STACY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. When the Rev. Ed Martin decided to take to the streets·• to
demonstrate on behalf of saving
a brain-damaged Terri Schiavo,
he picked up a sign he usually
canies when he protests outside
abortion clinics.
He said the message "Life, the first inalienable right"
- was just right.
Christian
conservatives
opposed to abortion have taken
a leading role in the Schiavo
right-to-die case, saying the
moral issues at stake are identical.
"We believe life begins at
conception and ends at natural
death," said the 59-year-old
Martin, a Protestant minister
who has found himself demonstrating next to disability-rights
activists. "God gives life, and
God only can take life."
During the past few years,
religious conservatives have
injected themselves into the dispute with enthusiasm that intensifies each time a new date for
removing Schiavo's feeding
tube nears. They are backing
Schiavo's parents, who are
fighting to keep her alive.
Religious activists show up
at court hearings and demonstrate outside the Pinellas Park
hospice where Schiavo lies.
Religious organizations such as
the
Catholic
Medical
Association regularly speak out
for her and deluge Gov. Jeb
Bush and lawmakers with thousands of e-mails and phone
calls.
Randall Terry, founder of the brought on by an eating disoranti-abortion group Operation der. She can breathe on her own
Rescue, coordinates many of the but gets food and water through
protests and has become a -a tube in her abdomen .
Her parents vehemently disspokesman for Schiavo's parents, Dob and Mary Schindler, pute that she is without conwho say they are grateful. The sciousness, as some doctors
Vatican also has weighed in, have testified. Her eyes are
saying last week that Schiavo open, she makes sounds, and her
family believes she communishould be kept alive.
cates with them.
The family's attorneys Jana Carpenter, a nurse and a
who are being paid by anti-abortion group Life Legal Defense Catholic who belongs to a local
Foundation - filed another anti-abortion group, has become
flurry of legal motions this week a familiar sight at Schiavo court
trying to again block the hearings and demonstrations
removal of Schiavo's feeding since 2000.
"If you believe in God, you
tube, now set for March 18.
"It's two sides of the same don't believe in knocking off
coin - the fundamental right to people like Terri Schiavo," she
life, which has already been said.
Howard Simon , executive
taken away from unborn children by a judicial process, and director of the American Civil
now, right-to-life of a handi- Liberties Union of Florida,
capped adult is facing the same laments the influence that relithreat," said the Rev. Thomas gious groups have wielded.
After strong lobbying from
Euteneuer, a Roman Catholic
priest who heads the Virginia- religious groups in 2003, the
based anti-abortion
group governor pushed a law through
Human Life International and the Legislature authorizing him
demonstrated in front of the hos- to reinsert Schiavo's feeding
tube, which had been removed
pice last week.
The Schindlers have been on orders from a judge. The law
fighting their son-in-law in court was later ruled unconstitutional.
"The concern I have is on
for almost seven years over their
daughter. Michael Schiavo their influence in shaping public
· wants to pull the tube and let his policy," Simon said. "We've
41-year-old wife die, saying she already seen that in the influtold him she would never want ence they have on the governor."
For Euteneuer and others,
to be kept alive artificially. Her
parents dispute that and say she Schiavo has become a powerful
figure.
could improve with therapy.
Schiavo has been in what the
"With the unborn children,
court has ruled 1s a persistent you can't see the victim," the
vegetative state since her heart priest said. "Euthanasia now has
stopped temporarily in 1990 a face. We're fighting for the
because of what doctors believe same right to life for Terri as for
was a chemical imbalance the unborn."
Lawyer
• Continued from p1
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Allen, who failed to bring anything
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would get the file to him next week.
Collins' bond was revoked in
November when he fired Daniels
and sought a continuance for Allen to
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He will remain in the Floyd
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MARCH
13, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SSlO
Freedom of the press
is not an end in itself
but a means to the
end of [achieving] a
free society.
- Felix Franldi~rter
Guest \/ iew--
A bitter pill
to swallow
A quote in one of today's stories truly gave us pause. After
reading it, we couldn't help but sit and think for a moment,
pondering its true meaning.
'
fn a story concerning what Christian groups are doing to
help combat drug abuse in the area, Christian Appalachian
Project President Bill Mills said, "Substance abuse is a
plague upon our Eastern Kentucky communities. It is the
most dominant and devastating of the problems we face
today."
If that isn' t a statement that makes you step back and say,
"Wow," we don't know what is.
Considering its history, Eastern Kentucky is a region of
longstanding "dominant and devastating" problems. It has
become almost habit to be able to rattle off problems on our
fingertips as an afterthought - poverty, education, the lack
of jobs, corruption, absentee ownership of the region's
resources, transportation, utilities.
To not only add drug abuse to that list, but to place it at the
top as well , is shocking. And for those words to come from
the head of an agency that has perhaps come face-to-face
with more hardship in our region than any other forces us to
set aside any suspicions of hyperbole.
We cannot quarrel with Mills' assessment. Rather, we tend
to suspect he is correct. But that does nothing to lessen the
impact of understanding for the first time the full implications of that statement.
Has Eastern Kentucky really come so far, or sunk so low,
that drug abqse now outweighs all of these other issues we
face?
But perhaps the problems of the past have helped bring us
to this point. It is no secret that drug abuse thrives in segments where poverty is high and education is low. And public aid programs such as Medicaid, for all of the benefit they
have provided, have also unwitting provided cheap and easy
access to the prescription medications that have put our communities in a stranglehold.
Accepting that drug abuse truly has become Appalachia's
"Public Enemy No. 1" leaves us with a profound sadness.
Let us hope that it aLso gives us the inspiration needed to
solve the problem.
- The Floyd County Times
uest column
q
(
.
T1me for
more sunshine
by ROBERT J. FREEMAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
NYS
COMMITTEE ON OPEN GOVERNMENT
Having worked for a New York state
agency for less than six months, I was
surprised to receive a call in which I was
asked whether I would consider being
loaned temporarily to a new office creat·ed to oversee the state's recently enacted
Freedom of Information Law (also
known as "FOIL"). When I said that I
didn't know anything about that law, I
was told, "that's ok, nobody else does ,
either."
That was August of 1974, just before
FOIL went into effect. The passage of
FOIL came on the heels of Watergate. It
was a time of reform and change.
Congress that year passed a series of
sweeping amendments to the federal
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . The
legislation was vetoed by President Ford,
and his veto was overridden. The override indicates just how serious Congress
and the public were about guaranteeing
the public's right to know what the government is doing. Within a few years,
every state had enacted some sort of an
open records law, and now, in 2005, FOI
laws have become integral to the relationship between the government and the
public.
The federal FOIA receives a great
deal of attention, both positive and negative. It has been used by members of the
public, the news media and the private
sector to acquire millions of records
relating to myriad subjects, Su <.,u as consumer products, government contracts .
environmental tests and closed criminal
cases . Perhaps more important to the
average person, however, are FOI laws
that apply to state and local government.
Most of us have few real connections
with the federal government; our only
direct activity may involve filing tax
forms with the IRS. In contrast, most of
us at some point in our lives have a need
to obtain records from the government
agencies closest to us. We may need
access to records to challenge the tax
assessment on our homes, to find out
whether our child's math teacher is in
fact certified to teach math, to learn of
the effects of the new proposed development in our community relative to traffic.
tax breaks or burdens , overcrowding in
our schools or the use of our resources.
Our FOI laws clearly provide us with
rights of access to innumerable records
that contain information impmtant to our
well-being. But as we celebrate Sunshine
Sunday, we should ask: Are they adequate? Probably not, and as we study
newer FOI laws enacted in other countries, we learn that we are falling behind.
For years, FOI laws were, for the most
part, umque to the United States. In the
past decade, however, they have proliferated. At last count, nearly sixty nations
had enacted some sort of law granting
public access to government informa- ,
tion . An event held in February in
Mexico, the Third Annual International
of
Information
Conference
Commissioners, included government
officials responsible for the implementation of FOI laws from approximately
forty-five nations. Also in attendance
were representatives from numerous
interest groups, non-governmental organizations (NGO's). All told, 420 people
from every comer of the world gathered
to discuss issues involving FOI. No one
in 1974, 1984 or even 1994 could have ,
dreamed that so many would come
together to focus on FOI, and the event
was exciting and exhilarating.
The conference served as a showcase
for the Mexican FOl law. Mexicans and
others have Studied our laws . gained
from our experience. and learned from
our mtstakcs. In many ways, they have
j umped ahead of us in the United States.
(See FOIL, page five)
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The far right is
intimidating
the media
ext. 31
The Academy Awards were pretty
dull this year but, honestly, what did
you expect? The nominated films
weren't exactly a barrel of giggles.
The top films were, variously, about
euthanasia, genocide, a psychopathic
billionaire,
an
alcoholic,
a
b l i n d
junkie and
a
kindly
abortionist.
The documentary
winner was
about children
of
prostitutes
in
India
and the hero of the best foreign film was
a paraplegic.
The one with the alcoholic was the
comedy.
Kind of makes you yearn for the days
of "It's A Wonderful Life," doesn't it?
I'm not saying they weren't good
films - they were - but this year's
menu of best films offered up too much
of a good thing. They could have used a
little sugar in there to make the medicine go down. (Say what you will about
"Rocky," at least Sylvester Stallone did-
n't die at the end.)
were doing. Pop ular culture in this
Righ t, country has become toxic. It could use
Even
the
Christian
Hollywood's severest critics, let us some toning down and if the price is the
down. The best it could come up with loss of a few jokes or a tasteless act, so
was Mel Gibson's Christian snuff fiJr,,, be it.
spiced with the garlic of anti-Semitism.
But that's not the way it works. The
I felt sorry for Chris Rock, who Talibans of the world can never stop at
MC'd the show. He's a brilliant comedi- banning bad taste . They move quickly
an but with material like that to work on to political speech and free scientific
with he resembled Baryshnikov tryi ng inquiry. We've seen that too: war critics
to dance while wearing a straitjacket.
pilloried as traitors, abortion rights
His answer was to lash out at the activists vilified as murderers, believers
audience in the hall. Wrong answer. The in evolution as Satanists .
one thing you don't want to say when
Nor is the Right alone in this, alas .
you are talking to an audience of colos- The hard-core Left is just as ready to stisal egos, all of who think of themselves fle speech in the name of good taste r
as stars , is: "There are only four real correctness. Self -righteousness, it
stars in Hollywood."
seems, is an equal opportunity employRock's presentation produced that er.
uncomfortable feeling one gets when
The reason this technique works is
the groom's best man gets up at the because the media is not , as conservawedding dinner to deliver the toast and tives would have you believe. driven by
begins to tell off-color stories about the liberal leanings or even by conservative
groom or, even worse, the bride.
ones. Members of the media may tend
But there was another reason for the to be mildly liberal but their masters are
flatness of the telecast. It gave off the not. They're not about politics; they're
aroma of fear.
about money. Give them money, they'll
You could sense it best in Robin go in one direction. Threaten them with
Williams' speech, when he tried, clum- a loss of money, they'll go in another.
sily, to make fun of the Religious Left, right, it's all one to th m.
gays.
Right's
attitude
toward
And right now our medi are reacting
Apparently, he. had prepared a clever with fear of the Blue N e Right, the
song to get the point across but the Religious Right and the olitical Right.
Academy censors nixed it in the inter- (The Left works its m< ic on college
ests of good taste, quite often another campuses , mainly.)
name for fear.
It's all fear, ladies an gentlemen. It's
It's been creeping up on us ever c;ince in the air and it's getti g thicker.
Janet Jackson bared a breast before the
innocence that is the Super Bowl audiDonald Kaul re ellfly retired as
ence. (Imagine, bad taste at a Super Bowl. Washington colt 11 ist for the " Des
Is nothing sacred?) We saw it in the flap Moines Register · e has covered the
that greeted the TV commercial in which foolishness in at 1 arion's capital for 29
the Desperate Housewives tart peeled off years, winnitng a number of modestly
her towel for a hunky football player.
coveted award long the way. Email
I could deal with it, if that's all they him at donald '<lltl2@veri;:,on .net.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
13, 2005 • AS
Faith Extra
Minister's Moment
··Is there really any help for addiction?
by PASTOR STEVE
PESCOSOLIDO
COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
•
What a question. What a
problem. The truth is that we are
all self-addicts, that is we are
addicted to our selfishness until
we are freed by Jesus Christ.
This general addiction or devotion to selfish pleasure and selfwill is where we all live until we
receive help.
Is there really any help for
us? The Apostle Paul writes in
Colossians "He has delivered us
from the power of darkness and
translated us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love'' (1:13
NKJV). Another English word
for "translated" as noted in my
NKJV Bible is "transferred".
Paul is teaching that a change
happens when Christ enters the
heart of a person. The person is
actually moved spiritually from
one kingdom to another; from
the kingdom of evil to the
Kingdom of God.
The Bible thus teaches that
we must be moved by God (with
our consent) into His dominion.
This transfer actually moves our
self off of the throne of our lives
and places Christ as King. With
Jesus as our Lord, He directs us
and cares for us. His Spirit nourishes the human heart in such
good ways that no substance nor
person can come close. Thqs,
there is help for our self-addiction, there is help for our sub-
Foil
• Continued from p4
When our FOI laws were
enacted in the 70's , high
tech was an electric typewriter, and we used carbon
paper to make copies. While
our laws have in some
instances
accommodated
change, Mexico, for example, has built information
technology into its law.
During the first year of its
implementation,
40,000
requests were made, and
among them, 36,000 were
made and answered via
email. Moreover, federal
agencies in Mexico receive
requests anonymously; they
cannot make judgments
based on the identity of the
person seeking records, or
his or her status or interest.
Rather, they have ensured
that a determination to grant
or deny access is unbiased
and based on the presumption that records are accessible, unless a legal exception
to rights of access can be
asserted .
The Mexican law also
requires that a variety of
records critical to guaranteeing transparency are available on government websites
and accessible without ever
submitting a request. In a
nation known for corruption,
a decision has been made to
make all government contracts awarded, as well as
the bids , available online . Its
leaders clearly recognize
that secrecy conceals mistakes and that a strong FOI
law deters bad behavior and
enhances the integrity of
government.
One commentator at the
conference described our
American FOI laws as being
in a "decadent phase." Too
often, requests are ignored
or answered months or years
following their submission.
Also disturbing is the fallout
from 9/11 and the irony that
federal agencies answered
three million FOIA requests
last year, but during the
same period, that fourteen
million new records were
determined to be classified
national security secrets.
How do we enforce our
FOI laws and challenge footdragging and claims of secrecy? In the U.S., we go to
court. The problem, though ,
that it takes time and money
to initiate a judicial proceeding , and most people are simply unwilling or unable to do
so. Our colleagues abroad
know that court review may
not be the best answer, and
they have created alternative
mforcement mechanisms that
orl<. In Mexico, the FOI law
i~ludes the creation of a
fi'l -member commission that
haSthe duty to train, educate,
declde disputes and deter2ine rights of access. After
seven1y-five years of one
party rde, the commissioners
know tl>llt this i the time for
reform, and that their decisions mpst be a olitical and
straightforward. Otherwise,
they know that their credibility will be lost and they will
ail. In Canada, all information commissionet has the
ow r to mediate, · 'poena
r cords, hear argun,tnts in
p ivate for and against disclos re , and recommend a deciregarding
access.
si l!
Although his recommendations are not binding , they are
accepted and approved in
nearly all cases , thereby
greatly reducing litigation .
The time has come for
Americans to realize that our
FOI laws, while unquestionably valuable , are not as
strong as they should be . We
must insist that our leaders
distinguish between the likelihood of real harm as
opposed to mere embarrassment when determining
which records should be
classified .
We
must
acknowledge the need for
independent review of government claims of secrecy.
We must modernize our laws
so that everyone can take
advantage of technology that
can enhance the pub lic ' s
right to know . And we must
to provide realistic means
of enforcing our laws so
that average people can
assert their rights in a
meaningful way.
At the end of the conference
in
Mexico,
a
Declaration of Cooperation
was signed by information
commissioners representing
45 nations. One element of
the Declaration asserts that
"Participation in the knowledge of public entities is a
legal right of the information
society ... A transparent public administration, open to
citizen participation in its
decisions, is a prerequi site
of a modern democratic
society."
That message shou ld
serve as a reminder of our
principles and a catalyst to
strengthen our laws .
stance addictiOn, there is help
for codependent, relational
addiction, there is he lp for our
anger or lust addiction ... there is
help.
But these various addictions
offer such securi ty. They even
offer rich pleasure and release
from reality. What these offer is
powerful. Make no mistake, our
hearts crave the things that substances or stimulations offer.
Our hearts hunger to be happy
and loved. The truth is that God
our Father de~ires the same
thing for us - to be happy and
to be loved. This is how Adam
and Eve lived before they
smned.
So if we could get back to
this happy and loving place with
God. we would be alright
wouldn't we? Precisely! If we
could be forgiven for foolishness. If we could be guided in
the right things. If we could
have positive friends and a loving church family. If we could
do something meaningful m th1 ~
confused world . This is exactl)
the transfer that God makes in
our hearts through His Son,
Jesus.
If this is the right anS\\ er to
all our addictions, why aren't
more people being lifted out of
self pleasure? Why are people
turning to and craving things for
the body, when the answer is the
Thing for the soul? Don't people
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�A6 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
13, 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
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.
Jenny Wiley A.A.R.P. 3528
plans election of officers
Jenny Wiley Chapter No. 3528,
AARP, plans to hold an election of
' officers at the meeting to be held
on Friday, March 18, at the First
Presbyterian
Church,
Prestonsburg. John Rosenberg of
Prestonsburg, Issue SpecialistPredatory Lending, for the AARP
state office, will be our guest. This
is a very important meeting, and all
members and friends of AARP are
urged to attend. The meeting
begins at 6 p.m
Worship/Youth center
There is now a Worship I Youth
center in Old Allen, that meets on
Tuesdays, at 6 p.m. Women's
Bible study meets on Wednesdays,
2-6 p.m. (youth). Thursday prayer
meeting is held at 7 p.m. All meetings are free and the center's sponsor is the Daniels Creek Baptist
Fellowship Church of God, pastor
Henry Lewis. For more information, contact Tina Hall at 874-
0544.
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 112. Bring covered
dish, table service, pictures, etc.
All welcome to attend.
FCCD meeting
The Floyd County Conservation
District will hold their monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 15, at
10 a.m., at the District office.
Meeting is open to the public and
all are invited to attend.
Christ United Methodist
Church
Will hold Sunday night "Joy
Service" on March 13, at 6 p.m.
Special singing by the "Soul
Searchers."
~ March 19 - Children's Easter
Egg Hunt and Pizza Party, 12 p.m.
'~ March 20 - "Joy Service" with
special singing by "Voices of
Faith."
March 24 - Maundy Thursday
Service, 7 p.m.
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March 27 - Sunday morning
worship service - Chancel Choir
will present Easter Cantata
"Behold the Lamb," at II a.m.
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 478-3310.
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 HR..\1C 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 topPreventing
ics
including
Exploitation, Nutrition, Aging and
Gardening Tips. For more info.,
contact Melissa Vance, Dir. of
Comm. Dev. at HRMC, at 8867468.
Diabetes Support Group
To meet on March 22, at
McDowell
ARH
Hospital
(Telemed Room), at 4:30 p.m.
Topic:
Weight Management.
Guest speaker: Dr. Debra Jacobs.
For more info., contact Theresa
Scott at 886-2668.
HRMCComm.
Calendar - March
Mar. 12 - Childbirth classes,
Meeting Place A&B, Highlands
Medical Office Bldg.
Mar. 15 - Senior Advantage,
Meeting Place A&B, Highlands
Medical Office Bldg., 9:30a.m. to
1:00 p.m.
Mar. 31 - Living Well with
Diabetes, Meeting Place A&B,
Highlancb Medical Office Bldg.,
5-6 p.m.
For more information, call 8867424.
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 email
addresses to Debbie Hall Parsons
or Gwen Cecil at: dochallparsons@charter.net.
Belfry Class of 1970
Is planning a mini-reunion for May
28. Classmates will be responsible for
their own meal. Reservations are
required by May 1. Contact Nancy
Varney Bryan by calling 433-9200 or
433.{)820. You may also write to:
P.O. Box lOl,Pikeville,KY 41502or
email to: nbryan@setel.com. It's
been 35 years, classmates, let's have a
little fi.m!
Big Sandy 4-H Club
Is seeking new members! Do
you like to have fun? Meet new
people? Help your community?
Then join our club! For more
info., contact Chuck Stamper at
886-2668.
Basic Computer '!raining
To be taught by Ray Tackett at
know where the real help is?
the
Martin Community Center,
Generally ... no. Most people
located
on Route 80, at Martin, on
don 't really know the true power
and love of God. And there are March 11 , 18: andAptill, from 1family systems and spiritual sys- 3 p.m. Cost - $7. This is an 8tems that block the love of God. - - - - - - - - - -- • Continued from p5
week training series designed for
those who have little or no experience using computers. Space is
lirrrited - call 886-2668 today to
register!
Home-Based
Microprocessing
and Processing Workshop
Monday, March 14, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., at Floyd County Extension
Office. Learn about food safety,
sanitation, and home canning.
Registration fee required. For
those interested in selling homeprocessed food products. Cal I
886-2668 for more information.
D..A.V. Chap. 18
The Big Sandy Chapter 18,
Disabled American Veterans, of
Auxier, is looking for honorably
discharged veterans to join the
Chapter, which meets at the Auxier
Fire Dept., on the lst and 3rd
Fridays of each month, at 6 p.m.
Those interested may bring their
DD214 and join the Chapter and
receive a DA.V. ball cap.
Floyd County Democratic
Women's Club
Meets the 2nd Monday of each
month at 6 p.m., at Brenda's
Restaurant, in McDowell. All
invited to attend.
Floyd County Republican
Party
Will meet on Saturday, March
12, at 10 a.m., at the Woodmen of
the World building, just off U.S.
23, at Allen.
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.
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 re-employed,
contact Bill Little, Senior
Community Service Employment
Program, Big Sandy Area
Development District, at 886"Area Employers are
2374.
Looking for Dependable Workers
like YOU!"
External Diploma Program
Kentucky residents age 25 and
older can earn a high school diploma b¥ demonstrating skills learned
on the job or in raising a family.
Flexible scheduling is provided and
confidentiality maintained. Ciasses
are held at the Carl D. Perkins
Rehabilitation Center, in Thelma,
Mon. thru Fri., with evening classes on Thursday, from 4:30-8:30.
Contact Andy Jones at 800-4432187 ,ext. 186,or Linda Bell,at ext.
160 to make an appointment.
PARENTS!
Are you in need of child care
services? If so, contact the Big
Sandy Area Community Action
Program, Inc. The office is partnering with Eastern Kentucky
Child Care Coalition. For more
information on how we can help
you, call Cheryl Endicott at 8861280, or toll free at 888-872-7227.
Also, if your child is currently
enrolled in a child care program,
fmd out if your provider is a member of the STARS for KIDS NOW
voluntary program for exceeding
licensing standards.
And, learn about how you can
stay home with your own children
and still earn an income by caring
for other children. Find out more
by calling Cheryl Endicott at 8861280, or 888-872-7227 (toll free),
Floyd County Extension
Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: lst 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, I 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 Tucsday,
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 Caregiver Support Group - Meets on
the second Tuc$day 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.
•Alzheimer's Association, Eastern KYRegional Office- 24-hour
Helpline, call 1-800-272-3900 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 3:30p.m.,
at the St. Martha Catholic Church,
Water Gap Road. For more info.,
call886-2513.
•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 6:30 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.
•Domestic Violence Hotline - 24hour Crisis Line manned by
Certified Domestic Violence counselors. Call 886-6025, or 1-800649-6605. Remember, "Love
Doesn't Have to Hurt."
•Kentucky Baptist Homes for
Children - Free. confidential
assistance for unplanned pregnancy concems. Talk with someone
who cares about you and your
baby. Calll -800-92~-5242.
•Disabled? - You may be eligible
for grant money to assist in your
daily living. For an application or
more information, call886-4326.
•A.S.K. (Adoption Support for
Kentucky) - Support group for all
adoptive parents (public, private,
internationaL and kinship care),
fo:.ter parents and all others interested in adoption. To meet the 2nd
Thursday of each month, at Pizza
Hut, in Prestonsburg. For more
information, contact Nelva
Skaggs, adoptive parent liaison, at
Blueboy@foothills.net.
•East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
Homeschoolers -Will hold
m
o
n
t
h
ly meetings at the Paintsville
Recreation Center. For more information, call Trudy at 889-9333, or
297-5 147. Everyone welcome.
March meeting - March 11 at 11
am. There will be a book sale on
this day.
•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 6061
•
433-1119
or
christophercook@ hbtmail.com.
'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.
·Attention
Veterans
The American Legion
wants you to join the
nation'$ largest veteran
organJzation. Let your
voice be heard.
For more information,
call 285-3357, between 4
p.m. and 10 p.m.
There is a power of evil that . .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. .
works diligently to blind people to
' the help God offers. There is a
power of evil that works diligently
to take people from their families
• and pull them to the grave. There
is a power of evil that must be
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Woodrow (Toad) Akers, 82,
of Huntington, West Virginia, a
Floyd County native, died
Friday, March 4, at the Mariner
Health Care in Huntington,
W.Va. Funeral services were
conducted Monday, March 7,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home.
Curtis Allen, 85, of Melvin,
died Saturday, March 5, at the
McDowell
Appalachian
Regional Healthcare. He is survived by his wife, Helma Hall
Allen. Funeral services were
conducted Tuesday, March 8,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home.
Margaret Patton Beaven, 90,
of Gold River, California,. a
Floyd County native, died
Monday,
February
28.
Interment was Monday, March
14, at the Mount Vernon
Memorial Park & Mortuary.
Fair Oaks, California.
Edith Martin Hopkins, 88, of
Minnie, died Thursday, March
9, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 12, under
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
Arthur Kilburn, 71, of
Arkansas Creek, Martin, died
Monday, March 7, at the
Cabell-Huntington Hospital,
Huntington, West Virginia. He
is survived by his wife, Inez
Yates Kilburn . Funeral services
were conducted Wednesday,
March 10, under the direction
of Hall Funeral Home.
Arthur Gene Lewis, 46, of
Prestonsburg, died Tuesday,
March 8, at Hitghlands
Regional Medical Center. He is
survived by his wife, Teressa
Neeley Lewis. Funeral services
were conducted Friday, March
11, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Bentley Tackett. Funeral services were conducted Sunday,
March 6, under the direction of
Hall Funeral Home.
KNOTICOUNTV
Robert Homer Cook, of
Pikeville, Tennessee, formerly
of Irishman Creek, in Knott
County, died February 27.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 2, under
the direction of Ewton Funeral
Home.
Carrol "Buster" Cornett, 73,
died Thursday, March 3, at
Parkview-Noble
Hospital,
Kendallville, Indiana. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Saturday, March 5, under the
direction ofHite Funeral Home.
Rev. Morris Ray "'footsie"
Hall, 69, of Hi Hat, died
Thursday, March 10, in the
Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, March 13, 1
p.m., in the Pine Grove Baptist
Church, in Hi Hat, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
William Timothy Isaacs, 42,
of Kite, died Saturday, March 5,
at
Appalachian
Regional
Hazard.
Medical
Center,
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 8, under the
direction of Hindman Funeral
Services.
Hayes
Slone, 75, of
Larkslane, died Monday, March
7, at the Hazard Appalachian
Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 9, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, Hindman.
Gracie Thornsberry, 81, of
Topmost, died Monday, March
7, at the McDowell ARH.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 11, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, Hindman.
PIKE COUNTY
Leslie B. Patton, 81, of
Addison, Michigan, fonnerly of
Prestonsburg, died Saturday,
March 5, at the Hillsdale
County Medical Care Facility in
Hillsdale, Michigan. Funeral
services were held Wednesday,
March 9, under the direction of
Brown-Van Hemert Funeral
Home.
Kathleen Allen Pr1ter, 84, of
Old Hickory Tennessee, formerly of Prestonsburg, died
Monday, March 7, at her residence. Funeral services were
conducted Thursday, March 10,
under the direction of Carter
Funeral Home.
Henry Gordon Spears, 72, a
native of Harold, died in
Bradenton, Florida, Wednesday,
March 9, following an extended
illness. He is survived by his
wife, Wanda (Kidd) Spears.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday, March 14, at 11
a.m.,, at the Eastman Funeral
Borne, 200 West Main Street,
New London, Ohio.
Thelma Crabtree Meade
Sp ncer, 81, of Prestonsburg,
die Friday, March 4, at the
U.
Medical Center. Private
were held Monday,
under the direction of
era! Home.
Deh'\ler " ob" Tackett, 67,
of Teaberry, died Thursday,
March 3,
t the South
William5on
Appalachian
Regional Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Delores
Charles Bartley, 77, of North
Main Street, Mount Gilead, a
native of Hellier, died Friday,
March 4, at his home. He is survived by his wife Ollie (Fuller)
Bartley. Funeral services were
held Monday, March 7, under
the direction of Craven Funeral
Home.
Angela Carol Bentley, 33, of
Shelbiana, died Thursday,
March 3, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
Monday, March 7, under the
direction of Justice Funeral
Home.
Clara June Cantrell, 83, of
Shelby Gap, died Tuesday,
March 8, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Friday, March 11, under
the direction of Hall & Jones
Funeral Home.
Irmal Ray "Chuck" Carroll,
53, of Peach Orchard, Pikeville,
has died. He is survived by his
wife, Shirley Jean Carroll.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, March 12, under the
direction of Thacker Memorial
Funeral Home.
Magdaline Coleman , 63, of
Jamboree, died Friday, March
4, at the Cabell Huntington
Hospital in Huntington W.Va.
Funeral services were Tuesday,
March 8, under the direction of
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Nettie B. Coleman, 76, of
Pikeville, died Tuesday, March
8, at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Friday, March 11, under the
direction of J .W. Call & Son
Funeral Home.
Carl L. "Frog" Compton, 62,
of Phelps, died Tuesday, March
8, at Pikeville Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Nancy Kilgore
Compton.
Funeral services were held
Friday, March 11, under the
direction of Phelps Funeral
Services.
James B . Honaker, 80, of
Burning Fork, died Thursday,
March 3, at Pikeville Medical
Center. He is survived by his
wife Eva. F. Honaker. Funeral
services were held Sunday,
March 6, under the direction of
Community Funeral Home.
Yvonne Hughes, 66, of
Sevierville, Tennessee, a Pike
County native, died Thursday,
March 3, at Fort Sanders
Medical Center in Sevierville.
She is survived by her husband,
Jack D. Hughes. Funeral services were Sunday, March 6
under the direction of J.W. Call
Funeral Home.
Larry Hughes, 62, of
Pikeville, died Wednesday,
March 9, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral arrangements,
under the direction of Hall &
Jones Funeral Home.
Norma Jean Layne, 89, of
Pikeville, died Monday, March
7, at the Stow Glen Health Care
Center, Akron, Ohio. Funeral
services were held Saturday,
March 12, under the dire~l:nn
of J .W. Call & Son Funr.ral
Home.
John B. "Bud" Maynard, 84,
of Majestic, died Friday, March
4, at his residence. Funeral services were held Tuesday, March
8, under the direction of the
R.S. Jones & Son Funeral
Home.
Garnett May Smith, 78, of
Varney, W.Va., a Pike County
native, died Thursday, March 3,
at Pikeville Medical Center. She
is survived by husband, Arnold
0. Smith. Funeral services were
Sunday, March 6, under the
direction of J .W. Call & Son
Funeral Home.
Evan Spears Jr., 77, of
Pikeville, died Friday, March 4,
at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were Monday,
March 7, at the Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home.
Elmer Ray Tackett, 54, of
Little Robinson Creek, died
Wednesday, March 9, at
Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, March 12, under the
direction of Roberts Funeral
Home.
JOHNSON COUNTY
Ruth Ann Blair Eaden, 55, of
Pendergrass,
Georgia,
a
Johnson County, died Thursday,
February 24, at her residence.
She is survived by her husband,
James Eaden. Funeral services
were held Sunday, February 27,
under the direction of JonesPreston Funeral Home.
Mary Grace Rice Garland,
82, of Paintsville, died Tuesday,
March 1, at Paul B. Hall
Medical Center. Funeral services were held Friday, March
4, under the direction of the
Jones-Preston Funeral Home.
MARTIN COUNTY
Barbara Renee Fletcher, 20,
of Inez, died Tuesday, March 1,
at her. residence. Funeral services were conducted Thursday,
March 3, under the direction of
Phelps and Son Funeral Home.
Lorraine Hannah, 82, of
Leander, died Thursday, March
3, at Martin Health Care Center.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 6, under the
direction of Phelps and Son
Funeral Home.
Rudolph Preece, 82, of
Fallsburg, formerly of Omar,
West Virginia, died Wednesday,
March 2, at King's Daughters
Medical Center. Funeral services were conducted Friday,
March 4, under the direction of
Richmond-Callaham Funeral
Home.
Joe (Julio) Walker, 68, of
Lovely, died Thursday, March
3, at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral service were conducted Saturday, March 5, under the
direction
of
RichmondCallaham Funeral Home.
the direction of Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Allie Hale Borders, 75, of
Marion, Ohio, a native of
Salyersville, died Wednesday
February 9, at Community
Health Care Center. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Saturday. February J 2, under
the direction of Boyd Funeral
Home.
Annie Cantrell, 76, of
Salyersville, die? Thursday,
March 3, at Paul B. Hall
Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 6, under the
direction
of
Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Glen D. Fannin, 59, of
Salyersville, died February 24,
at his residence. He is survived
by his wife, Easter Trusty
Fnnnin. Funeral services were
conducted Monday, February
28. under the direction of
Magoffin County Funeral
Home.
L.AWRENCE COUNTY
Lillian Endicott, 65, of
Louisa, died Friday, March 4, at
Three Rivers Medical Center, in
Louisa. Funeral services were
conducted Monday, March 7,
under th direction of Phelps and
Son Funeral Home.
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Memory
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of
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
Pansy Mae Arnett, 83, of
Kingsbrook Life Care Center in
Ashland,
formerly
of
Salyersville, died Sunday,
March 6, at her residence.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 9, under
the direction of Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Joseph Phillip Bailey, infant
son of Adam Phillip Bailey and
Christina Edler, died February
19, at Saint Joseph East
Hospital in Lexington. Funeral
were
conducted
services
Wednesday, February 23. under
Oscar and
Vanelia Allen
and
Rob Wooten
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Virgie, died Friday, March 4, in
Ohio. Funeral services were
held Monday, March 7, under
the direction of Hall and Jones
Funeral Home.
Myrtle Pack Parsons, 81, of
Pikeville, died Wednesday,
March 9, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Saturday, March 12, under
the direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home.
Avalea Ratliff, 86, of
Rockhouse, died Thursday,
March 10, at her home. She is
survived by her husband, Jr.
Ratliff. Funeral services will be
Sunday, March 13, 2 p.m ., in
the Marrowbone Missionary
Baptist Church, under the direction of Bailey Funeral Home.
Arthur "Stump" Riley, 68, of
Grundy, Virginia, a Pike County
native, died Wednesday, March
9, 2005, at Buchanan General
Hospital, Grundy. He is survived by his wife, Marlene
Hopkins Riley. Funeral services
were held Saturday, March 12,
under the direction of Grundy
Funeral Home.
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formerly of Shelbiana, died
Thursday, March 3, at the VA
Medical Center in Huntmgton
W.Va. He is survived by his
wife, Mary Jane Miller Rowe.
Funeral services were held
Monday, March 7, under the
directton of Lucas and Hall
Funeral Home.
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College Basketball •BS
NASCAR · 85
Sunday C lass~ieds • 88
Girls' 15th Region Semifinals set
Lady Rebels take on role of Cinderella team
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE - In the 15th
Region
Tournament,
Floyd
County is represented by not only
one, but two girls ' basketball
teams. Allen Central, the runnerup out of the 58th District, and
58th District champ Betsy Layne
are among four teams left vying
for the 15th Region title. The
tf other two - Belfry and Pike
County Central - each hail from
Pike County. Belfry is the 60th
District champion and Pike
Central, the 60th District runnerup .
Neither of the four remaining
teams are strangers to regional
basketball success. The foursome
includes the last two regional
champions -Pike Central (2004)
and Betsy Layne (2003).
The Allen Central Lady Rebels
pulled off Wednesday night what
Lady Pirates
pound East Ridge
some called a mild upset. There
wasn't anything mild about the
way Allen Central went about its
business in an opening round
game against Shelby Valley. The
Lady Rebels simply dominated
the Valley girls, winning easily,
70-45.
Allen Central Coach Mark
Martin likes the way his team is
playing.
"I felt as though the kids
bounced back from the (58th)
District championship game
showing ," said Martin. "Shelby
Valley came into the tournament
playing very well and we knew
they were a solid basketball team .
"Our girls came out and really
got after the ball on the defensive
end. Alanna Cline really came out
and made some good plays in the
photo by Jamie Howell
early going that started a couple Allen Central Coach Mark Martin, now in his second seaof good runs for us."
son at the helm of the Lady Reb'el girls' basketball pro(See LADY REBELS, page two)
gram, gave instructions to his team during the 15th Region
Tournament first round game against Shelby Valley.
Betsy Layne 49, Paintsville 41
photos by Jamie
Howell
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE - The fourth and final
opening round game of the 15th Region
Girls' Basketball Tournament at Johnson
• Central High School was by far the least
exciting. Belfry, one year removed from a
region runner-up finish, easily handled East
Ridge in the final opening-round game. The
Lady Pirates jumped out to an early lead in
the first quarter and continued to build on it
in the three periods that followed, beating
East Ridge 84-66 and eliminating the Lady
Warriors .
Brittany Chapman and Brooke Stanley
led the way for Belfry with 21 points apiece.
Shae Deskins added 18 points, five
rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Amanda Moon added nine points for the
Lady Pirates.
'
Once East Ridge got behind, it had trouble making up ground, specifically scoring
points on the offensive end.
The Lady Warriors, coached by Jill
Morgan, trailed by just five points at the end
of the first quarter.
Belfry, the 60th District champion, led
East Ridge 21-16 at the end of the initial
quarter. The Lady Pirates took a 42-29 lead
into halftime.
Belfry (20-7) maintained control of the
contest in the second half, outscoring East
Ridge 26-20 in the third quarter.
The East Ridge girls' basketball team
• entered the regional tournament as the runner-up out of the 59th District. East Ridge
finished runner-up to Shelby Valley.
Amy Shortridge led East Ridge (16-12)
in scoring with 20 points. She was one of
three East Ridge players to achieve double
figures in the scoring department.
The win allowed Belfry to move into the
15th Region Tournament Semifinals. The
Lady Pirates will meet Betsy Layne on
Monday night. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m.
Left: Betsy
Layne
score
Thursday
night during
the 15th
Region
Tournament
Ladycats back in 15th Region Semis
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
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tRAST ·RIDGE 66
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PAINTSVILLE - Betsy Layne seniors Kim
Clark and Krista! Daniels combined for 37 points
Thursday night, leading the Ladycats to a 49-41
win over Paintsville at Johnson Central in the
opening round of the 15th Region Girls ' Basketball
Tournament. Clark led the way for Betsy Layne.
The senior guard finished with 19 points, six
rebounds, three assists and four steals. Daniels was
equally as impressive, finishing with 18 points,
nine rebounds and four blocks.
Betsy Layne had 16 assists opposed to 13 turnovers.
The Ladycat defense made things extremely
tough on the Lady Tigers. Betsy Layne blocked six
shots and recorded a dozen steals. The 58th District
champs forced Paintsville players to alter their
shots on numerous occasions. Betsy Layne forced
Paintsville to commit 17 turnovers .
Betsy Layne hit 45 .2 percent ( 19-of-42) of its
shots from the floor.
Betsy Layne overcome somewhat of a slow start
in the first quarter. Once the Ladycats got out in
front, they played with composure. Neither team
scored until the 5:20 mark of the flrst quarter when
Paintsville went ahead 2-0. Betsy Layne went on to
control the first quarter, leading 11-6 at the end of the
opening period. The Ladycats took a 19-12 lead into
halftime. Paintsville battled back, though. The Lady
Tigers got hot in the third quarter, scoring 20 points
and going out in front 32-31 . Betsy Layne then
recovered again, shutting the door on the Paintsville
girls in the fourth quarter. Daniels had eight points in
the fourth quarter and Clark added seven.
"I thought we played real well in the first half,"
said Betsy Layne Coach Cassandra Akers.
"Paintsville came out and shot the ball real well in
(See LADYCATS, page two)
Kim Clark paced t he Betsy Layne offensive
effort with 19 points.
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KDFWR Commission
sets 2005-06 deer seasons
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Fish and
Wildlife Commission set the 2005-2006 deer
hunting seasons and zones and expanded equip• ment use to allow crossbows during the full
archery season at its quarterly meeting March 4
in Frankfort. The Fish and Wildlife
Commission recommends all hunting, fishing
and boating regulations for approval by the
General Assembly and approves all expenditures by the Kentucky Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources (KDFWR).
2005-2006 Deer Seasons:
Archery/Crossbow: Statewide:
September 3, 2005 - January 16,2006
Early Muzzleloader: Zones 1-3:
(either sex); October 15-16,2005
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Zone 4: (antlered only); October 15- 16,2005
Late Muzzleloader: Statewide:
(either sex); December 10-18 , 2005
Modem Firearms: Zones 1-2:
(either sex); November 12-27, 2005
Zone 3: (either sex); November 12-21, 2005
Zone 4: (antlered only); November 12-21,2005
Early Youth Weekend: Statewide:
October 8-9, 2005
Free Youth Weekend: Statewide:
December 31 , 2005 - January 1, 2006
The Commission approved one county zone
change for the 2005-2006 seasons. Elliott
County moved from Zone 2 to Zone 3 . Using
crossbows will be permitted during the full deer
and fall turkey archery seasons. Deer bag limits
remain the same as last season .
Deer processors will be required to retain
hunter telecheck records of deer processed in
their facilities for one year and hunters who violate a Wildlife Management Area deer hunting
rule will be banned from participating in
KDFWR quota hunts for one year.
In other wildlife related business, the
Commission prohibited baiting of deer and
turkey on the Daniel Boone National Forest, the
Jefferson National Forest, the Blue Grass Army
(See DEER, page two)
FISHING: Daily creel limits
reduced, trout and bass
regulations modified
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Fish and
Wildlife Commission reduced the daily creel
limits on walleye, sauger, white bass, hybrid
striped bass and muskellunge at its quarterly
meeting March 4 in Frankfort. The Fish and
Wildlife Commission recommends all hunting, fishi ng and boating regulations for
approval by the General As embly and
approves all expenditure!> by the Kentucky
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
(KDFWR). These new fishing regulations go
into effect on March 1, 2006.
The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife
Commission recommended to lower daily creel
limits on some sport Ush species. The statewide
daily creel limit on walleye, sauger and their
hybrids will be 6 fish per day, reduced from the
present limit of lO fish per day. Thi new limit
for walleye and sauger is an a&,oregate limit
meaning the daily creel limit includes sauger or
walle:te singly or combined for both species.
The IS-inch minimum size limit on walleye and
(See FISHING, page two)
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MARCH
13, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Fishing
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their hybrids remains. This regulation excludes the Ohio River
until bordering states agree with a
common limit for these species.
The current regulation on the
Ohio River is an aggregate 10-fish
daily limit on sauger and walleye
singly or combined for both
species. There is no size limit for
either species in the Ohio River.
"Walleye are a top predator fish
and are supported by supplemental stockings," said Benjy Kinman,
director of fisheries for the
KDFWR. 'The current limit of 10
is excessive for a stocked fish."
The Commission also recommended to reduce the daily creel
limit on white bass, yellow bass
and hybrid striped bass to 15
white bass, yellow bass and bass and their hybrids under a 30hybrid striped bass or a combina- fish daily creel limit of which only
tion of the three with no more than 4 fish tnay be 15 inches or longer.
In other fisheries related
five fish may be more than 15inches long. Few white bass and business, the Commission
no yellow bass exceed IS-inches placed a statewide 20 fish daily
in length and this stipulation lim- creel limit on redear sunfish,
its the daily harvest of larger commonly known as a shellhybrid striped bass. Many anglers cracker. The Commission elehave a difficult time differentiat- vated the redear sunfish to sport
ing between hybrid striped bass fish status on March 1, 2005.
"We had angler demands to put
and white bass. This regulation
eases the confusion and also elim- more restrictive regulations on
inates special regulations on six redear sunfish," Kinman said. "We
lakes that contain both white bass· were seeing excessive harvest
and hybrid striped bass. This reg- before this regulation and by
ulation also excludes the Ohio default they were open to commerRiver until bordering states agree. cial fishing, bow fishing, gigging
The current regulation combines and snagging. Now, it will be a trawhite bass, yellow bass, striped ditional hook and line fishery."
Ladycats
The daily creel limit on
muskellunge is now I fish per
day with a 30-inch minimum size
limit. "We consider muskellunge
to be a trophy fish and people are
asking us to manage them as a
trophy fishery," Kinman said.
The Commission also placed
two more trout streams under the
catch and release season harvest
restrictions and modified trout regulations a stream in the Red River
Gorge starting March 1, 2006.
Rainbow trout will be stocked in
October and anglers fishing Clear
Creek in Bell County and Big
Bone Creek in Boone County
must release all trout caught and
use only artificial lures from
October 1 through March 31.
Beginning on Apiil l, any remaining a-out will be available for harvest under the statewide regulations of 8 rainbow trout per day.
On Ch1mney Top Creek in the Red
River Gorge !'.ational Geological
Area in Wolfe County, there will
be a 16-inch minimum size limit
and a 1 fish daily creel limit on
brown trout.
The Commission also modified black bass regulations on
two lakes in eastern Kentucky.
Bass anglers on Pikeville City
Lake must now release all of the
largemouth bass caught and
there will be an 18-inch minimum size limit on smallmouth
bass on Paintsville Lake.
The next Kentucky Fish and
the third quarter. But we were
able to put together a good
fourth quarter and come away
with the win. It's survive and
advance, now."
Betsy
Layne
and
Paintsville last met in the 15th
Region All "A" Classic
Semifinals. The Ladycats survived that battle, too, beating
Paintsville by a single point.
Akers saw much of the
same Paintsville attack when
the two squads got together
Thursday night.
"We didn't really see anything different from them than
when we played them the last
time," Akers added. "Coming
in, we knew they would play
us tough."
Clark, who was three-offive shooting on three-point
field goals, hit eight-of-15
field goal attempts. Daniels
was seven-of-15 from the
floor while hitting four-of-six
free throw attempts.
"Kim and Krista! both
played real well; everyone
played hard," said Akers.
Paintsville and Betsy
Layne each enjoyed leads in
the final quarter. Clark connected on a three-pointer and
a field goal on back-to-back
possessions, putting Betsy
Layne ahead 40-38. After a
Krista! Daniels two-point connection, Betsy Layne went
ahead 42-38 with 3:12
remaining.
Paintsville
cut Betsy
Layne's lead to a 42-41
advantage with under two
minutes remaining, but couldn't get any closer.
It was all Betsy Layne in
the final minute.
Daniels and Breann Akers,
another Betsy Layne senior,
each hit a pair of free throws
in the final minute. Smith
went one-of-two from the line
in the last minute and Clark
also added a field goal for
Betsy Layne's final score.
Akers and Smith each had
four points apiece for the
Ladycats. Smith also dished
out a game-high seven assists.
Candice Meade and Kaitlin
Lawson added two points
apiece for Betsy Layne, which
has now won six straight
games and 10 of its last 12.
Senior Ashley Hall led
Paintsville with 14 points.
Hall also pulled down five
rebounds and recorded three
steals. Chelsee Jarrell added
13 points and 14 rebounds.
Kendra Carroll added eight
points and Jesikah Russell
chipped in six on a pair of
made three-pointers.
Paintsville was five-of-five
from the free throw line.
For the . game, Paintsville
shot just 30.8 percent (16-of52) from the floor.
The Lady Tigers connected
on four-of-19 attempts from
three-point land.
Betsy Layne will meet
Belfry Monday night in the
15th Region Semifinals. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. Belfry
advanced to the regional semifinals following a win
Thursday night over East
Ridge. The Ladycats beat
Belfry 70-56 in a regular-season meeting back in earlyDecember.
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will be held at~ a.m. on Friday.
June 3, 2005 at the Game Fam1
off U.S. 60 in Franklort. Persom
iptercsted in addres;,ing the
Commission must notify the
KDFWR Commissioner's office
in writing at least 30 days in
advance to be considered fm
placement on the meeting agenli
da. People who arc hearing
impaired and plan to attend the
meeting should contact the
KDFWR at least 10 days in
advance and the agency will provide a translator. To request to
address the commission, write to
KDFWR, Commissioner Tom
Bennett, #I Game Farm Road
Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601.
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Depot and the Wendell Ford
Regional Training Center. The
League of Ke~tucky Sportsmen
and the KDFWR will partner in
creating and maintaining a big
game trophy registry for deer
and elk in Kentucky. This will
be the state sanctioned record
book for these species.
Hunters will be required to
comply with hunter orange
clothing law in the 16-county elk
restoration zone while firearms
elk season is open. In 2005, the
firearms elk quota hunts are
October l-7 for bull elk and _,
December 3-9 for cow elk.
The
Commission
also
removed the daily bag limit on
raccoons.
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Central
PAINTSVILLE (12-13) Russell 6, Hall 14, Jarrell 13,
K. Carroll 8.
BETSY LAYNE (22-8) Clark 19, Meade 2, Akers 4,
Daniels 18, Smith 4, Lawson 2.
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Allen Central senior center Becky Thomas was again
a force for the Lady Rebels.
"It was one of our better
defensive games this season,
and offensively, we had a
good balance of scoring all
night.," Martin added. "Becky
just had a solid game underneath, and Lyndsey Frasure
really had some nice passes to
the big girl to keep us rollin'
in the second half. Our kids
continued to attack the basket
throughout the game and we
simply played well.
"It's a good feelin' in that
we are moving on in the tournament. This group has
worked really hard throughout
the season and all of the hard
work is paying off fur them."
Allen Central will go from
preparing for one Pike County
team to preparing for another.
Of the four teams that
remain alive, Allen Central
sports the least favorable
record. But as is the case
with any post-season tournament, records can be tossed
aside. Pike Central also
sports a losing record.
In the semifinals, one
matchup pits champion against
champion and the other pits
runner-up versus runner-up.
Allen Central (12-15) will take
on Pike Central (14-15) and
Betsy Layne (22-8) will battle
Belfry (20-7). Pike Central is
the defending 15th Region
champion. Last season, in both
the 60th District and 15th
Region. Belfry finished runnerup to the Lady Hawks.
''Pike Central is tough
matchup, no doubt," Martin
added. "But, Pike Central is
a team that we can beat."
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'After 26 years, Eastern ·Kentucky
back in NCAA tournament
uy MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND- Travis Ford
had little to work with when he
took over as coach of Eastern
Kentucky basketball five years
iiJ ago:
Two scholarship players.
Nine wins over the previous
two seasons. A losing record
every year since 1993.
"It wasn't like rebuilding a
program. It was more like starting one," said Ford, a former
Kentucky point guard under
R1ck Pitino. "It was bad in
every aspect."
Now, the Colonels (22-8) are
working on arguably the best season in school history, one that
includes an Ohio Valley
Conference tournament title and
will end in the NCAA touma• ment for the first time in 26 years.
"I've played in Final Fours
and won SEC championships
and played in many NCAA
tournaments,"
Ford
said.
"Those were incredibl& experiences. But I don't know if I've
e\'er worked at anything as hard
as I have worked at this, to get
the program back to the NCAA
tournament. To do it with these
guys makes it extra, extra spe-·
cial. It's very gratifying."
Ford played one season at
Missouri before transferring to
Kentucky, where he played until
1994 and helped the Wildcats
reach the 1993 Final Four.
He ranks second for the
school in career free-throw
shooting (88.2 percent) and
ninth in career assists. He holds
the single-game record for
assists with 15, set against
Eastern Kentucky in 1993.
His success as a player continued at his first coaching
stop, at Campbellsville (Ky.).
He went 67-31 in three seasons
at the NAIA school, including a
28-3 record during the 1998-99
season.
Ford took over the Colonels
the following season.
"He needed the time to
build his own team. He did just
that," university president
Joanne Glasser said.
Michael Haney, & 6-foot-6
senior forward from Ford's
hometown of Madisonville in
western Kentucky, was one of
the first players to buy Ford's
recruiting pitch. It went something like this: "Come to
Eastern Kentucky and you' 11
play - a lot."
"We were fighting just to get
into the OVC, tournament,"
recalled Haney, the team's second-leading scorer (13.5 points
per game) and top rebounder
(8.3). "But each year, we've
improved little by little. When
you win more games, more players want to join the program."
Ford went 7-19 in his first
season, winning only one OVC
game, and 7-20 the next. The
Colonels improved to 11-17 in
his third year and 14-15 last
year, reaching the OVC tournament semifinals. Still, Ford's
record at Eastern Kentucky
after four years was 39-71 .
This
season,
Eastern
Kentucky finished second in a
balanced OVC. A first-round
tournament win over Tennessee
State gave the Colonels their
frrst 20-win season since 197879 and only their second since
the 1946-47 season.
Wins
over
Southeast
Missouri and Austin Peay, the
latter in the OVC title game,
broke the school's single-season record for wins.
Ford's fom1er college coach,
who's now at Louisville, speaks
about him with pride.
"It's very difficult at
Eastern, looking at how long
it's been since they've won,"
Pitino said. "He's· done it the
right way - two to three wins
more each season and now
building it to a conference
championship."
Pitino also says he's not surprised at Ford's success.
"He was a point guard with
a lot of intelligence. He was a
leader," Pitino said. "He understood the game."
Eastern Kentucky's women
also won their OVC championship, making EKU one of
only a handful of schools .to
have both men's and women's
teams in the NCAA tournament.
Glasser finds herself in a
quandary - how to make all the
games for both teams.
"That's a challenge, but one
I'm really looking forward to,"
she said. "That's a great position to be in, don't you think?"
EKU's women celebrating
first NCAA berth since 1997
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND - The Ohio
Valley Conference tournament
championship trophy sat on
Larry Joe Inman's desk as the
Eastern Kentucky women's
basketball coach read a stack of
congratulatory e-mails earlier
this week.
"I spent more than four
hours an ·wering those emails ," said Inman, in his 17th
Ill season coaching the Colonels.
Not that he's complaining.
The Colonels (23-7) clinched
their first NCAA tournament
berth since 1997 - and only
their second ever
on
Saturday, beating Southeast
Mi<;souri 84-73 in double overtime in Nashville, Tenn., to win
the OVC tournament title.
A cot{ple hours later,
Eastern's men won their conference tournament, giving the
Colonels two NCAA tournament-bound teams for the first
~· time in school history. For a
few days at least, the center of
the Kentucky basketball world
hasn't been in Lexington or
Louisville, but in this town of
27,000 about 20 miles south of
Lexington.
"I don't know much about
Kentucky basketball," said
senior forward Miranda Eckerle,
of Brookeville, Ind., "but it's
cool to be winning and be in the
position we are right now."
The Colonels started 3-6
this season, dropping early season games against Florida
State,
Iowa
State
and
Southwest Missouri State,
among others. But since then,
Eastern Kentucky has won 20
of its last 21 games, including
15 in a row.
"Someone asked me what
changed," Inman said. "Well,
our schedule got a little easier.
We prepare our kids for conference play, but in doing so, we
feel like we've also prepared
our kids for the NCAA playoffs. Our kids are not easily
intimidated."
Balance has been a key for
the Colonels - four players
average 10 or more points a
game, led by Eckerle, a first-
team All-OVC pick, and OVC
freshman of the year Ashley
Cazee, of Martinsville, Ind.
"So far we've reached all
the goals that we've set for ourselves," Cazee said, but added
that the Colonels had one more
goal on their list - reaching the
Sweet 16, 'Nhich would require
winning two NCAA tournament games.
OVC champions usually
receive low NCAA tournament
seeds, but Inman hopes that the
Colonels' strong finish will
help them avoid receiving a 15
or 16 seed, which would likely
require them to play a top- I 0
team in the first round.
"I'd like for a chance,
instead of getting thrown to the
wolves," he said. "I think we
deserve a little respect with our
record and what we've accomplished and the teams we've
played."
Sunday the Colonels learn
who they' 11 play in the frrst round.
"We're getting a shot like
everybody else," Inman said.
"To be with the elite teams in
the country is quite an honor."
•
spnng
practice underway
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Marshall University will begin
spring football practice and
preparations for its first season
in Conference USA with the
first of its 15 practices on Friday
at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
The Herd also returned to practice again on Saturday.
"I believe spring ball is all
part of your preparation for the
2005 season,') Interim head
coach Larry Kueck said. "We
go into spring practice, then the
(t weight room, then we take a
test, and then we start again. It
is all one entity and we are
excited about getting it started."
As usual, all Marshall football practices are open to the
media and public.
The Thundering Herd enters
spring drills with an added
excitement surrounding the
program as it prepares for its
first season in Conference
USA.
Now, interim head coach
Larry
Kueck
leads
the
Thundering Herd into a new
il era with the retirement of head
coach Bob Pruett.
Marshall returns 35 letterwinners from last season's 6-6
squad that lost a 32-14 decision
to Cincinnati in the 2004
PlainsCapital Fort Worth Bow1.
Six home dates, including
Big 12 power Kansas State and
new Conference USA rivals
Southern Methodist (SMU),
Alabama-Birmingham (UAB),
Southern Miss, and East
Carolina
highlight
the
Thundering Herd's 2005 football schedule.
Marshall will play William
& Mary, Kansas State, SMU,
UAB, Southern Miss, and East
Carolina at home and will travel to Virginia Tech, UCF, UTEP,
Thlane and Memphis in 2005.
The Thundering Herd's
2005 schedule includes five
teams that went to bowls in
2004. Ninth-ranked Virginia
Tech (10-3) won the ACC and
earned a berth in the Sugar
Bowl, Memphis (8-3) appeared
in the GMAC Bowl, Southern
Mississippi (7-5) won the New
Orleans Bowl, UAB (7-5)
appeared in the Hawaii BowL
and UTEP (8-4) appeared in
the Houston Bowl.
A.s p1rt of t~.: ;;-::w align-
ment of Conference USA,
there will be two divisions for
the 12 member schools.
Memphis, ECU, Marshall,
USM, UAB and UCF make up
the East Division, while SMU,
Houston, Rice, Tulane, Tulsa
and UTEP make up the West
Division.
Beginning this season, CUSA will host a championship
game between the two division
leaders. The division winner with .
the highest winning percentage
will host the championship game
on Dec. 2 or 3 depending on television scheduling.
Marshall Football's
Remaining Spring
Schedule
March 15, 7:10 a.m.
March 16. 7:10 a.m.
March 17, 7:10 a.m.
March 10.7:10 a.m.
March 31, 7:10a.m.
April4, 7 :10a.m.
April 6. 7· 10 am
April g, Aftemoon Practice- Time TBD
April 9 (at South Charleston), 6 p .m .
April 12, 7:10a.m
April 13,7:10 a.m
April 14, 7:10a.m
April 16 (Green/White Game), 4 p.m.
.\1: d,llcs ,md time s arc subject to change
SUNDAY, MARCH
13, 2005 • 83
Helping the NCAA hold
down its room-service tab
by JIM LITKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The few puffs of smoke emanating from the NCAA tournament selection committee so far
suggest their room-service tab at
a downtown Indianapolis hotel
this weekend will be enormous.
Committee chairman Bob
Bowlsby is already throwing
around phrases like "it's going to
be pretty muddy" and "I don't
think it's a foregone conclusion,'~
hinting that deliberations will be
even more daunting than usual.
And even that phrasing sounded
decisive compared to this:
"We've had a lot of shake"up
in the past seven days,"
Bowlsby said. "In some ways,
things have changed. In some
ways, they have not."
In fairness, there are plenty
more games to be played, and
no matter what you think about
the commitee 's handiwork come
Sunday, keep this in mind: That
room-service tab is the only
thing that keeps college basketball out of the clutches of an evil
cabal
like
the
Bowl
Championship Series.
A knuckleheaded decision on
seeding- and there have been a
few through the years - can
make it tougher for a deserving
team to win the national championship. But 1t doesn't take the
chance away. After the committee is through playing games on
paper, they get out of the way
and let teams decide matters on
a court.
But that's not to say that the
10 angry men on this year's
committee couldn't use some
help. Because angry is exactly
what they'll be until somebody
opens the door to the conference
room late in the afternoon and
invites the TV cameras in. So
here goes:
Don't lose sight of the big
picture. Worry less about who
gets the No. 1 seeds and see to it
that the rest of the veteran
coaches with good squads all
get a good shake. That's all
there is to it. That means Jim
Calhoun at Connecticut, Eddie
Sutton at Oklahoma State, Mark
Few at Gonzaga and Tom Izzo
at Michigan State. At least one
of them likely will be around at .
the end.
Don't fixate on what happens
the next few days. For all the
things that have changed about
the tournament during the last
two decades, the most reliable
predictor of a team's success has
been the experience of its coach.
There's plenty of anecdotal
evidence. John Wooden was 54
when he won the first of a
record 10 titles, Dean Smith,
who still tops the win list, was
51 when he got his, and even
Mike Krzyzewski didn't turn
the trick until he was 44.
ESPN .com found that during the
last 20 years, more of the same
faces have been turning up, the
most familiar ones have been
going the furthest, and that gulf
is only getting wider.
In 1985, a coach making the
field, on average, was in for the
fourth time. Last year, that number was six. Over the same time,
Final Four coaches have averaged
four more trips to the tourney _
9 .5 versus 5 .6 than their counterparts in the rest of the field.
So get the upsets out of the
way early. There are fewer and
fewer, anyway and they're
impossible to predict. Spend
more time plotting when and
where exactly the KentuckyLouisville match should take
place, since both Tubby Smith
and Rick Pitino have earned that
much consideration and few
games are more compelling than
one that threatens to unhinge an
entire state.
Next, think story lines. A
month from now, nobody will
care about all the thumbwrestling that went on to determine any places below line
three - except, maybe your
orthopedists. What the rest of us
will remember then - besides
how much we hate the unofficial
CBS anthem, "One Shining
Moment" - is whether somebody deserving is wearing a cutdown net instead of a noose.
Last year, it was Calhoun
winning his second national
championship the day after finding out he was turned down by
the Hall of Fame (he's reportedly a finalist again this year).
Two years ago, the role of longsuffering coach and the national
title went to Jim Boeheim, who
likewise finds himself at the
Hall's threshold. Both those outcomes should get the committee
thinking.
The sentimental choice at
last year's Final Four was
Sutton, one of the game's living
encyclopedias and the oldest
ever to make it that far. Getting
there was no small accomplishment. Barely three years had
passed since the Oklahoma
State basketball family was devastated by the crash of a private
plane ferrying two players and
eight other members of the program back from a game at
Colorado.
If he wins it all, you folks
look like geniuses. Even better
if Sutton happens to face Roy
Williams and Nortk Carolina in
the final. Two years ago, the
almost- as -long-suffering
Withams was in his final season
at Kansas, arguably with the
best of his many good teams,
and got stuck playing second
fiddle to Boeheim.
So get to work on that
Oklahoma State-North Carolina
matchup. If ym.J can't get it done
with a weekend's worth of
deliberations at a nice hotel, we
know who can. Those BCS
computers don't take up much
space and they never, ever call
down to room service.
Jim Litke is a national sports
columnist for The Associated
Press. Write to him at
jlitke@ap.org
�B4 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
13, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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TWO OF THE
15TH REGION'S
BEST: Johnson
Central point
guard Nick
Music looked to
make a move
Tuesday night
against East
Ridge's Aaron
Branham.
Johnson Central
beat East Ridge
in the 15th
Region
Tournament
game and
earned a spot In
the semifinals.
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SUNDAY, MARCH
13 , 2005 • 85
USA Team named for 2005 Nike Hoops Summit
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
SPRINGS,
COLORADO
Colo. - Selecting a pair of succcs:o;ful and proven high school
coaches who served as head
nu'ntors at the 2004 USA
Basketball Youth Development
Festi\·al, and 10 players who are
,unong the cream of the
:.1 American prep crop in 2005,
USA Basketball announced the
coaches and players for the 2005
USA Basketball Junior National
Select Team that will compete in
the Rth Annual Nike Hoop
Summit on April 9 at the
~edExForum in Memphis, Tenn.
Selected to serve as head
coach of USA Basketball's
lunior National Select Team IS
Tom Diener (Harold S. Vincent
High School, Milwaukee, Wis.),
and assisting Diener is Herman
Harried (Lake Clifton East High
School. Md.).
•
Named to the l 0-member
"JQ()5 USA Basketball Men's
Junior Select National Team were
high school standouts:
Jon
Brockman
(Snohomish/
Snohomish. Wash.); Manta Ellis
(Lamer/Jackson. Miss.); Gerald
Shores
Green
(Gulf
Academy/Houston, Texas); Tyler
Hansbrough
(Popular
BlufftPopular Bluff. Mo.);
Richard Hendrix (Athens/Athens,
Ala.): Greg Paulus (Christian
Brother's Academy/Manlius,
N.Y.); J.P. Prince (White Station/
Memphis, Tenn.);
Martell
Webster (Seattle Prep/Seattle,
Wash.); Loui Williams (South
Gwinnett/Snellville, Ga.), and
Julian Wright (HomewoodFlossmoor/Chicago Heights, Ill.).
The coach and player selections
were made by the USA
Basketball Cadet and Youth
Committee.
"This is a team we really like.
We've learned over the past
years personnel wise what it
takes to make a good team for
the Hoop Summit. We've put
together a team that will really
compete and have success
against a team that I'm sure is
going to be a really fine World
Team. It's going to be an exciting game and l think we have
the personnel to battle them,''
commented Don Showalter
(Mid-Prairie High School,
Wellman, Iowa), who served as
head coach of the USA squad in
the 1998 Hoop Summit and is a
member of the USA Basketball
Cadet and Youth Committee and
a former chair.
"This event is so much different than an all-star game. When
we put the team together we
don't put it together as an allstar team, we put it together by
people who can play different
roles, who are going to blend
into a team.
For USA
Basketball it is a huge thing to
get the kids acclimated to the
international level of play, how
good these international players
are, and it helps develop our
kids for future USA Basketball
events. It's a game really needed at this level to start these
players going up against international competition. Over the
years the Hoop Summit has had
tremendous games. It's a great
experience for the kids and I
think sometimes our kids in the
United States don't understand
how good the international players can be and are. From that
standpoint I think it's a very,
very much needed game," added
Showalter.
The Nike Hoop Summit is the
country's premiere annual basketball
game
featuring
America's top senior boy high
school players taking on a World
Select Team comprised of the
world's top players who are 19years-old or younger. The 2005
Nike Hoop Summit will be
played on Saturday, April 9, 6:30
p.m. (CT) at the FedExForum in
Memphis, Tenn. Also, for the
first time, the 2005 Hoop
Summit will be preceded by a
preliminary game, the Memphis
All-Star Classic, a game that will
showcase the top prep senior
players from the Memphis area.
The Memphis All-Star Classic
game will tip off at 4 p.m. (CT).
The 2005 Nike Hoop Summit
game wilt be televised nationally
by Fox Sports.
Tickets are on sale now, with
reserved lower bowl seats priced
at $20 and $10. Seats in the second row at courtside are $40,
with front row courtside seats
$75. Tickets can be purchased at
the FedExForum box office, all
Ticketmaster locations, online at
www.ticketmaster.com, or by
calling Ticketmaster at 901/5251515.
The World Select Team players and coaches, as well as players and coaches involved in the
Memphis All-Star Classic, will
be announced at a later date.
The World Select Team, consisting of top players worldwide
who are 19-years-old or
younger, will be selected by the
World Association of Basketball
Coaches (WABC) with the
approved sanctioning of the
International
Basketball
Federation (FIBA), the world
governing body of internationaJ
basketball. The World Select
Team will consist of 10 players
from FIBA's five geographic
zones: FIBA Africa, FIBA
Americas, FIBA Asia , FIBA
Europe and FIBA Oceania.
2005 USA Basketball Junior
National Select Team -The Players
Like the USA's head coach
and assistant coach, six USA
players were involved in the
2004 USA Basketball Youth
Development
Festival.
Brockman (West), Hendrix
(South), Paulus (East), Webster
(West), Williams (South) and
Wright (North) all participated
in the 2004 Youth Development
Festival, and Hendrix also participated in the event as a sophomore in 2003. Hendrix and
Williams led their South squad
to a perfect 5-0 mark and to the
2004 Festival gold medal.
Williams compiled a Festival
record 30.4 points per game,
Brockman averaged 20.0 ppg.,
and Hendrix accounted for 18.8
ppg., and the trio listed first,
fourth and fifth, respectively,
among the top five scorers at the
2004 YDF. Brockman, 12.8
rpg., and Hendrix, 11.4 rpg.,
ranked second and third in
rebounding; Paulus led the event
in assists averaging 7.8 apg. and
Williams ranked third at 6.2
apg.; Webster recorded 3.0 spg.
to ranked second in steals,
Williams' 2.8 spg. was good for
third, and Paulus snatched 2.2
spg. and ranked tied for sixth;
Hendrix' 3.8 blocks per game
led all Festival participants,
Wright was fourth with 1.4 bpg.,
and Brockman was tied for fifth
with 1.2 bpg. Additionally,
Hendrix led the '04 Youth
Development Festival in field
goal percentage, making 71 .2
percent of his shots, Brockman
listed third at 67.2 percent.
All 10 U.S. players have
signed National Letters of Intent
with prominent NCAA Division
I programs. Brockman and
Webster tiave inked with the
University of Washington
Huskies, while Ellis is committed to Mississippi State
University; Green is slated to
take his skills to Oklahoma State
University; Hansbrough will
play in Chapel Hill for the
University of North Carolina;
Hendrix stayed home and will
attend University of Alabama;
Paulus will play for Mike
Krzyzewski and the Duke
University Blue Devils; Prince
is headed to University of
Arizona; Williams stayed home
after signing with University of
Georgia, while Wright is off to
University of Kansas.
Among the players' many
accolades, USA Today included
Brockman,
Ellis,
Green,
Hansbrough, Hendrix, Paulus,
Williams Webster and Wright in
its November listing of the
Super 25 Boys Players.
Additionally, the same nine
were recently selected for the
2005 McDonald's All-American
High School Basketball Game.
• NASCAR
•14th Region: Breathitt,
Whitesburg win, advance Heralded rookie
TIMES STAFF REPORT
JACKSON
Fourteenth
Region
Girls'
Basketball
Tournament host Breathitt County
won on its homefloor Thursday
night, beating Owsley County 57- 40. Breathitt County led at the end
of every quarter, holding Owsley
County to eight points or less in
two of the four quarters.
Collete Cole paced Breathitt
County with a game-high 27
points. Eight different Breathitt
County girls scored points. Cole
was the only Breathitt County
player to reach double figures.
Owsley County standout
Austin Mcintosh finished with
a team-high 19 points.
In the other 14th Region
tournament game, Whitesburg
beat Hazard 47-32.
The Lady Yellowjacke~
trailed by one point at the end of
the first quarter, but bounced back
nicely, outscoring Hazard in the
next three quarters that followed.
Amber Olinger had a gamehigh 16 points for Hazard.
Raceland 65, Boyd County
63: Raceland's Paige Porter
provided the heroics Friday
night. With her team down two.
Porter connected on a threepointer from past NBA range,
beating the buzzer and rival
Boyd County Monday night at
Morehead State University.
Seals
paced
Whitney
Raceland with 11 points. Keri
Vanderhoof, one of the 16th
Region's most underrated players, added 16 points and 11
rebounds
Porter added eight points for
Raceland.
In the other 16th Region
girls• basketball tournament
game played Thursday night,
Melanie Cornett netted 17
points and came through with
five steals as the Rowan
County girls ousted Lewis
County. Roan County won, 5033 . The Lady Vikings advanced
to the 16th Region Semifinals
Busch ignores pressure
by MIKE HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyle Busch has a lot to prove
- to himself.
He gets a little embarrassed
when reminded that his older
brother, reigning NASCAR
Nextel Cup champion Kurt
Busch, gives him credit as the
better driver of the two.
"It's definitely cool that a
Nextel Cup champion tells you
that or says that to the media,
but I just have to go out and
prove it," said the 19-year-old,
who will race in Sunday's
UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his
hometown track.
The teenager did win his first
Cup pole two weeks ago in
California _ becoming the
youngest ever to do that. But
Busch has yet to show the kind
of racing prowess in NASCAR 's
top series that brother Kurt
demonstrated and has forecast
for his younger sibling.
In six Cup races last year,
Kyle managed no finish higher
than 24th. His two starts -so far in
his official rookie season have
produced finishes of 38th at
Daytona and 23rd in California.
Nobody should get too down
on the kid, though. He's definitely got the makings of a very
big star.
In 2001 - his junior year in
high school - the Vegas native
drove
in
six NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Series races
for Roush Racing and had a pair
of top 10 finishes.
He got sidelined briefly- and
Hendrick Motorsports subsequently took advantage of a
contract glitch to steal him away
from Roush - when NASCAR
made a rule limiting participation to drivers at least 18. But
Kyle's ascent was slowed only
momentarily.
He finished eighth in the
American Speed Association in
2002, then won two ARCA stock
car races and made seven Busch
Series starts for Hendrick in 2003,
showing his promise by finishing
second in his debut at Charlotte.
Last year, the younger Busch
fmally got the chance to run a full
NASCAR season and took full
advantage, winning five races
and finishing as the Busch Series
runner-up to Martin Truex Jr.
Now, he is a full-time Cup
driver, taking over the No. 5
Chevrolet vacated by two-time
series champion Terry Labonte,
who has backed off to a limited
schedule this year.
"I think he's going to do
well," Labonte said. "He was a
little nervous about it because
the Cup races he ran last year
didn't go as well as his Busch
deal was going.
"I told him that this is a whole
different deal. You're going to be
with a real team, a legitimate
team. Last year, he ran with a
group that was just kind of put
together and had no chemistry."
Kurt Busch rose through the
ranks nearly as quickly as his
younger brother, arriving in Cup
racing in 200 1 at the age of 22 after
winning the NASCAR Southwest
Tour title in 1999 and finishing
second for Roush Racing in
Craftsman Trucks the next year.
The elder brother finished
27th with no wins and three topfive finishes as a Cup rookie
before establishing himself as a
rising star the next season with
four wins and a third-place finish.
Kyle knows he has some big
footsteps to follow.
"The reason I'm here, obviously, is because of my brother,"
the younger Busch said. "He
opened a Jot of doors for me.
"There's probably doubt in
everybody's mind that I belong
here," he added. "But, in my
own mind, I believe I belong
here. I've worked my whole life
to get here even though it's only
been 19 years."
His slow start hasn't been
easy to take for a driver accustomed to quick success.
"I'm pretty much my own
worse critic, which is kind of
bad to be," Kyle said. "Still, I
look forward to going out there
and facing the challenges that
arise and working with my new
crew chief. It's going to take
some time to develop the chemistry there."
The new crew chief for the
No. 5 Chevy is Alan Gustafson,
who worked with Labonte last
year as team engineer.
"Alan was a big part of my
team who I've got a lot of confidence in," Labonte said. "I think
after Kyle runs a little bit and
works with Alan some, I think
he will be fine. It might take him
a little bit to get some confidence."
Busch also will be working
closely with 21-year-old teammate and friend Brian Vickers,
the 2003 Busch Series champion and 25th in points last year as
a Cup rookie.
Team owner Rick Hendrick
has had great success having the
No. 24 and No. 48 teams of
established stars Jeff Gordon
and Jimmie Johnson work out of
the same building, and now
Busch's No. 5 and Vickers No.
25 are doing the same.
"They are in a rebuilding mode
with the 5 and the 25 ," Labonte
said. "I think they are doing the
right things . I think Brian and
Kyle will work well together."
At an age when a lot of guys
are attending college and trying
to figure out where they are
headed in life, Kyle Busch is
pretty sure he is where he's supposed to be.
"I hung out with the smart
kids in high school so I· could
learn as quick as I could and get
out of school," he said. "They're
probably off being computer wizards or something like that now.
"I always got made fun of in
school because I was racing and I
really didn't have a future ahead of
me," he added, grinning. "I guess
I kind of proved them wrong."
2005 NASCAR
Nextel Cup schedule
. and standings
Feb• 1:1 - x·B1.1dwei<;¢r SMoloUl
(Jimmie Johnson}
Feb. 2&- Daytona 500.Daytona Beach,
Fla. (Jeff Gordon)
Feb. 27 - Auto Club 500, Fontana.
Calif. (Greg Biffle}
Mai"¢b i3 - VAW·Dnimlei:Chrysl~r
400, Las Vegas_
March 20 - Golden Corral 500,
H\impton, Ga.
Aprll3- Food City 500. Bristol, Tenn.
April 10 ... Adv~ Auto Parts $00,
Ma.rtin,sville. Va,
Al_)ril 17 - SarttsuogiRadioShack 500.
f6~
WOflh. Texas.
April Z3 - Subway Fresh 500.
Avondale. Ariz..
l\4ay 1 "'A:mnf 499, Talladega, Ala.
May 7 - Dodge Charger 500,
Da~ltngron, S.C.
May i4 - Cnevt Amerkan Revolutlon
400, Richmond, Va.
M~y 2l - x-All-Star Challenege,
ConcQr<J, N.C.
May 29- Coca-Cola 600. Concord, N.C.
.hweS · MBNMmerica400.DoveJ",be1.
Jlllle lZ- Pocono 500, Long Pon<t.Pa.
June 19-Michigan400,BtQ<iklyn,Mich.
.June 26 - Dodge/Save Mart 350.
Sooomn, Calif.
Jnly 2-Pepsi 400,Daytona Beach, Fla.
,July 10- Chicagoland 400, Joli~. Ill.
July 17 - New England 300, l.£Judon, N..H.
Jnly l4 · Penn$y1Vania 500. to~
l?ond, P.a.
Aug. 7- Brickyard 400. [odianapolis.
1\ug. 14 Sirius at 11\e Glen, Watkin!!.
Glen. N.Y.
Aug. 21 - GFS Marketplace 400,
$roo~yn. Mich,
Aug. 27- Sharpi_e 500, BristoL Tenn.
~pt. 4 ""California SO<>, Fontana, Calif.
Sept. 10 - Chevy Rack & Roll 400,
Richmond. Vtt.
Sept. 13- Sylv~ia 300, Loudon, .H.
Sept. lS - MBNA 400. Dover, Del.
Oct.l- UAW-Ford 500, Talladega, Ala.
Oct.l}.. Sanqu~ 400, KMsas City, Kan,
Oct. 15 - UAW-GM Quality 500,
Concord. N.C.
Oct. 23- Subway 500. Martinsville. Va.
Oct. 30 - Bass Pro Shops MBNA 400,
ffit.roptou. Ga.
Nov. 6 "' P ivkies 500, Fort Worth, 'Te~>a~.
Nl)v. 13 - Checker Auto Parts 500,
Avondale. Ariz.
Nov. 20- Ford 400. Homestead. Fla.
Driver Standings
I. l.<.1n't Bt~,~h. 340
2. Jimmie Johnson. 335
3. Mark Martin, 30 I
4 Cart Edwan:ts, 287
5. Greg Biffle. 273
6. Elllott Sadlef, 272
7. Th.i:ty SteWart, 2i8
8. Rusty Wallace, 268
9. Sterling M\\t\in, 260
t 0. Jetf Gordon, 258
ll. Dale Jarrett. 248
12. Ryan ewman, 246
13. Kevin Han'ick, 239
14. Dale Eamhardt h. 237
15. Mike euss. 236
16. Kyle Petty, 231
17. Jamie McMurray, 227
18. Scott Riggs. 224
19. Kevin Lepage, 208
20. Brian Vickers. 205
�Sunday, March 13,2005
FLOYD COUNTY
Features Editor
Katlly Prater
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This Town,
That World
Email: features@floydcountyttmes.com
•
men In History
Earlene Nelson and Karen Marcum
Editor's Note: For years, Floyd
County Times founder and fanner
publisher Norman Allen wrote a week(v column that looked at Floyd County
through his ~ves. His columns are
being reprinted due to request.
MOVIES FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
'Frankenfish'
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
UP IN SMOKE THEY GO
If you have trouble defining
the word, "frustration," just take a
look this week at the face of a
Floyd Countian who has planted
trees, dreaming of the day when
his work would stand in the form
of tall, growing trees, and become
a part of a great area reforestation
program. His face will spell out
·'frustration," and perhaps a few
o t h e r
things for
you. For
he has just
seen his
dreams
become
more elusive than
smokedreams.
Norman Allen
They've
just gone
up in flame and smoke, as forest
fires ravaged the county.
IN THE MAll...
Once in a while, we got a communication from somebody we
have never heard of, and most of
the time we are not certain what
inspired such a statement. The following is from a Mr. William R.
Sullivan, 1116 S. Flower, Los
Angeles 15, Calif., and, although
we wonder why he wrote us, we
are not inclined to dispute what he
has to say.
"This world does not have an
unlimited amount of space for an
unlimited amount of people. The
laws of nature have a statute of
limitation, and for those who
choose to ignore them, they have
their penalties to pay."
photo by Kathy J. Prater
Shown here are some of the children who were in attenKaren Marcum and Earlene Nelson work a full-time min- dance at the church's Valentine Party, held earlier this year.
istry in providing clothing for area children in need at Both Earlene and Karen say that they receive great joy
the Town Branch Church, located on Town Branch Road from helping area children in any way that they can.
in Prestonsburg.
Serving God and putting
smiles on children's faces
by Kathy J. Prater
TRUE
The human mind is flexible but
not elastic, the NEWSLETTER of
the Floyd County Library reminds
us in saying:
"Once a mind young or old, is
stretched by an idea, it never
returns to its same, old size."
FEATURES EDITOR
Nearly everyone remembers how
wonderful it felt when mom and dad
purchased new school. holiday or summer clothing and shoes for them.
Nothing feels better than a brand new
pair of sneakers and a cool t-shirt or a
pretty dress for special occasions - and
this is especially true for tho~e who
don't often receive such items. EveJ}'
kid deserves to go to church. or school,
I doubt if it is necessary to add
that an expanded mind does not
feeling just as worthy as the child next
to them, so say Karen Marcum and
Earlene Nelson, of the Town Branch
Christian Victory Fellowship Church.
The pair have been working hard for
several years now to bring smiles to the
faces of area children who find themselves in need of back-to-school clothing, Easter dresses, or other holiday
attire. "When we first started. we only
had clothing for the smaller children,"
said Nelson. "But recently, we've been
able to get in a lot of teen clothin.g and
even some prom dresses," she continued.
"I prayed for a long time for God to
show me a way that I could help people," Nelson said. "I've found that
through this clothing ministry. We
have so many people who help us and
send us so many nice things to share
with these children. We want to help
everyone. Anyone with a need, any
need, can feel free to come to us."
The women say that regular ship(See WOMEN, page seven)
(See THIS TOWN, page seven)
A mutated snakehead fish dines on
Cajuns in a remote bayou community
in this imaginative yarn that debuted
on the Sci-Fi
Channel.
When fishermen start turning
up dead on the
bayou, Louisiana
sends in its top
medical inspector, Sam Rivers.
He teams up with
a comely Fish and
Tom DotV
Wildlife
officer
and they head
Stan writer
down river to the
site of the killing.
Things get creepy in a hurry as
they stumble across a partially
devoured gator and then an abandoned boat. The boat turns out to be
rife with corpses and the pair decide
to grab up their guide and split.
Unfortunately the Frankenfish has the
same idea, which leaves them without
a guide.
They decide to head to their
guide's village and warn the inhabitants who live there on three burned
out houseboats. They almost succeed
in getting them all to leave when an
impromptu attack leaves everyone
stranded.
Tension builds as the group starts
to come apart under the stress of
being hunted by a mutant fish, go figure. Just as things couldn 't get worse,
they do when it is revealed that these
fish are happy to hunt on land, too,
which leads to one of the best "fish
chomps man scenes" since Robert
Shaw got gulped in "Jaws.''
The houseboats begin buckling
under the strain as well. but a surprise
visit by some hunter gangsters offers
a momentary re pite, until the characters figure out that the new arrivals
are only interested in the mutant fish.
This is quickly followed by the revelation that they are going to be used as
bait for a Frankenfish hunt. It all leads
to a confrontation that pits man
against fish against man, with nary a
winner in sight.
This one has a few tricks up its
sleeve and saves the best bits for the
final half-hour.
The movie deserves points for featuring a lead character who is black
and then never making an issue out of
it. Though the setting is the Deep .
(See LAGOON. page seven)
Back when
by AUDREY CURRAN
'"CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE BASEBALL FAN'S SOUL"
t-
a real, hon; It was an American tradition
e~t-to-goodness game of sandtcj baseball and it was being revived. Gone were the unif0rms and the uniformed children, identical 111
a~e and size. Gone were the tension -ridden
pftrents overseeing the nerve-racking games.
Qone were the agitated umpires, managers,
a~sistant managers and assistant-assistant managers. Gone were the scheduled "timeout<;"
while harried officials consulted section B of
article 2 of part 1 of the ever-so-official rule
b,ook.
It was wonderful! We held an old-time.
Saturday-afternoon softball game. We had invit-
ed 20 friends and neighbors to come; 25 showed
up, hesitantly eager to play. Just minutes after
the game began, a carload of strangers slowed
to watch. and then asked if they could join the
fun. The players were men and women, boys
and girls. ranging in age from 8 to 68.
"You're out 1"
"No, I'm not!"
'·I said you're out!"
"You don't know what you're talking about!"
It was good old-fashioned democracy in
action.
"I don't see too well without my glasses:·
explained the guy who had been my neighbor
for 10 years and whose conversation had consisted or tight-lipped greetings. ·'You take first;·
he ~aid to my son. "and I' 11 go way out in the
p"A'Uttwf u
field so 1 won't mess up an important play." It replace country roads with freeways. and corner
was teamwork because the individual wanted to grocery stores with sterile supermarkets . But
do what was best for the team, not because something in me hesitated to accept progress
some coach was shoving "teamwork" down his when organized Little League games started
throat. When one oldster got tired. he
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replacing spontaneous neighborhood
sent a youngster in to relieve him.
softball games.
while he sat on a haystack and
It is not ju t nostalgia. It is a
sipped
some
refreshment.
memory revived and brought to
Nobody kept score. Everybody
life for a gathering of friends
kept score. Nobody cared what
and family. But I fee l just a litinning it was. and the game
tie sad that a scene so interwoended when there was no one
ven with my childhood and the
left who wasn't too tired to play.
childhoods
of
so
many
Best or all. everybody had a
grand time and went away wanting
to do it again.
1 have silently watched progress
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Jim ,:.l)iavidson
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to make wise and informed decisions.
I have had a number of different jobs and careers and without
even being aware of it, fate really
smiled on me many years ago
when I was a
printing salesman. This was
because I was
fortunate
enough to have
a boss who was
community
minded, and he
led
me
to
become a "volunteer" in many
different organizations. When I
was involved in the Chamber of
Commerce and later in the United
Way, I met many outstanding
business leaders. As I talked with
these business executives about
their company, what it sold or
produced and was given a per-
sonal tour of their operation, I
began to see more of the picture
and how our systf!m works.
This is the backdrop for my
appreciation of a wonderful little
book a friend sent me the other
day. The title does not do justice
for the tremendous message it
contains, but it's called "Mr.
Thingbobbin Squirrel - On
Cedar Mountain." The author is
David Smith, a retired staff manager who worked for 35 years
for a large communications
company. In various assignments in personnel, labor relations and communications, he
did many different kinds of writing. As a result he knows corporate structure, problems and
practices, and observed the personal and the business habits of
managers, from supervisors to
presidents .
What David Smith has actually done is create a masterpiece.
By using his fantastic irnagina-
tion and a hillside teeming with a .~now. It is later discovered that
clan of squirrels, he has created a Thingbobbin has an unusual talmicrocosm of American business· ent for building nests and begins
and the free enterprise system.
to have other squirrels request
The plot begins with a mama that he build or repair their nests.
squirrel talking with her new- Soon the "Tree Bosses" promote
born son (th· t she has named him to be head of the construcThingbobbin;. about the do's tion crew. They build like mad
and don't's of growing up, stay~ aqd soon every squirrel's home
ing alive and being able to fend or nest is in excellent shape.
for himself. With the passing of
Then one day, a friend of
time his education is broadened Thingbobbin's suggests that he
to understand the squirrel hierar- needs to do something outstandchy. As he travels further up the ing that will bring him to the
hillside, the trees are taller and attention of Top Buck and other
they are controlled by squirrels le&dets in the clan. He finally
that are called "Tree Bosses." At hits ot1 the idea of using plastic
the very top of the hill, in the that is fished from the stream
largest tree, can be found the below (an environmental issue
head squirrel, who is known as here), to lace and reinforce the
Big Buck.
nests that are being built. This
Wouldn't you know it? Big bhngs him to Big Buck's attenBuck has a son who is away ~:-tlpn ~d he is promoted again,
college. More about that later. · this time to supervisor of all con~
After a few weeks Thingbobbin • struction.
begins to build his own nest. He
· When Top Buck's son comes
sets about the task of securing · hbme from college he is
the materials and weaving . assigned to a position directly
branches, limbs and leaves to under Thingbobbin, to learn the
make a secure and safe nest thar- ~s.lt does happen like this in
will withstand the wind, rain an& 'itre Business world. Things run
• Continued from p6
clothing ministry, such as Friends
of the Children, a West Coast based
organization that provides clothing
for older, teenage children. "We've
been so blessed in our ministry,"
Marcum said. "We've seen it grow
and it keeps on growing and so
many children and families have
received benefit from it. Our whole
church is growing. We've added a
new playground and picnic area
and we're planning to build a new
building where the kids can spend
free time - a recreation center."
The church recently enjoyed a
Valentine's Day celebration that
was attended by many and are currently planning for their Easter
give-away, which will take J?lace on
Saturday, March 19, beginning at
LO a.m. Clothing will be available
for children of all ages, as well as
goody bags containing personal
care items such as toothpaste,
toothbrushes, combs and hair
brushes, soap, hair bows and accessories, deodorant and mo~;e.
"We hope we have a big
turnout," Nelson said. "We have a
lot to share and we look forward to
doing it."
The Town Branch Christian
Victory Fellowship Church and
their "Women in History," Ea~lene
Nelson and Karen Marcum, wish to
be available all year long to any
individual, or family, in need of
their services. Pantry services are
also available. Contact Pastor Tom
Nelson at 889~9286 for more information.
The Times wishes to acknowledge their appreciation to both
Earlene Nelson and Karen Marcum
for having such a positive impact
on our county's history.
lagoon
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to be terrifying but not so much that
you start looking for zippers on their
backs.
The actors are mostly newcomers, which is always a good idea for
a horror movie. Aside from the obvious lead character, anyone can die at
any time and they certainly do as
this one swims towards a finish as
inevitable as it is grim.
Best line: "You look great for a
girl covered in giant fish brains."
2004, rated R.
Don't forget that our movie trivia
contests have gone monthly. Just go
to www.floydcountytimes.com to
play. If you are not online you can
still play by mailing your answer to
this month's contest to: Tom Doty,
c/o The Floyd County Times.
This Town
• Continued from p6
result in a swelled head.
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A JOB WELL DONE
Incidentally, this NEWSLETTER here referred to is an excellent job, and we are pleased to
learn that it is planned for monthly
distribution. If you are looking for
something to be proud of, give this
library movement a top priority.
OLDTIMER RETURNS
This one has been the rounds,
but has been so long away from us
that a new generation may have
grown up and not heard it:
A man who sometimes took a
short cut through a cemetery late
at night to get from the bus line to
his house fell into a freshly dug
grave that had been prepared for a
service the next day. The man
jumped and clambered. up the
sides, but couldn't get out.
Resignedly, he huddled in a corner
and pulled his hat down, and his
coat collar up, to fend off the rain
and the cold.
Soon he heard footsteps. He
started to cry -out, but stoppedrealizing that a sudden cry would
probably give the approaching
person heart failure. There was a
sudden plop, as the approaching
man toppled into the grave.
Thinking he was alone, the newcomer tried to jump out of the
grave. The first man in, finally
called out. "You can't jump out of
here!"
But he did.
Evening with Poets $et for HCTC
Hazard
Community
and
Technical College will host the 13th
Annual Evening With Poets on
Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. in
the Bruce and Jo Stephens Library,
located in the J. Marvin Jolly
Classroom Center at the Hazard
Campus of HCTC.
The evening will consist of
unveiling of Kudzu, the college's literary magazine. Selected individuals will read their works published
in Kudzu.
Jim Webb will be the Master of
._ Ceremonies for the event. Webb, a
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South, there is no bigotry on hand
and everyone is treated equally especially by the fish-monsters, who
see them all as delicious.
The special effects are also top
drawer and feature seamless CGI
tricks which make it impossible to
tell when images are faked. The
monster fish are also well filmed
and they get just enough screen time
smoothly until it is discovered
that the new plastic material has
made the nests so sturdy and
durable that the work crews are
all out of work. At this point,
Thingbobbin is demoted and put
on the shelf.
There are many other issues
in this book such as committee. •
meetings, power sharing, pension funds, a clandestine affair,
embezzling and finally, bringing
three groups of squirrels together to live in harmony for the benefit of all. Obviously, I have only
touched the tip of the iceberg
here and if you or a child or
grandchild would like to glean
some real economic insights,
written in simple and understandable language, I would
highly
recommend,
"Mr.
Thingbobbin Squirrel - On
Cedar Mountain," by David H.
Smith. It can be ordered from 1st
Books Library, (888) 280-7715.
Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated
columnist. You may contact him
at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR
72034 .
.
Women
ments of clothing arrive throughout
the year to the small church. The
clothing ministry first came to be
through the ministry of Rev. Carole
Johnson, the founder of Tender
Loving Care (TLC) Ministries,
through a donation of 50 winter
coats. In the time since, the Town
Branch Church has been able to distribute over a half a million dollars
in new clothing, shoes and personal
care items in recent years.
"Some of the children that come
in don't know a lot about personal
care and we always make sure to
give them bath supplies and
deodorant, things like that," said
Marcum. In addition, back-toschool haircuts are given each year
to the children who attend the giveaway.
More recently, other organizations have become involved in the
13, 2005 • 87
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Politics in the squirrel kingdom
The American free enterprise
system has been called the
eighth wonder of the world. The
average American's lack of
understanding about what it is
and how it works has been called
the ninth wonder of
the world.
It is my belief
that
most
Americans don't
understand
our
nation's economic
system
because
their Jives and
careers are touched
by so little of it.
When they begin a
job or career in a
given field and
spend all or most of their working life there, that's basically all
they know. This is certainly not
meant to put people down, but
our personal success is determined, by and large, by our ability to see the whole picture and
SUNDAY, MARCH
noted poet, playwright and sworper,
is the author of Buzzsaws in the
Rain.
Frank X. Walker will speak.
Walker is an award winning poet
and multidisciplinary teaching-artist
who has recently completed two
new poetry collections-Black Box
(forthcoming, April 2005) and
Buffalo Dance, the Journey of York,
published by University Press of
Kentucky. Buffalo Dance is written
in the voice of York, the slave who
accompanied his master, William
Clark, on the Lewis & Clark
Expedition. For his work in poetry,
his collection of poems in
Affrilachia has recently been nominated for the Kentucky Public
Librarians' Choice award. He is also
a recipient of the Al Smith
Fellowship award. He is currently an
assistant professor of English and
Interim Director of African/AfricanAmerican studies program at
Eastern Kentucky University. He is
a native of Danville.
For more information contact
Scott Lucero at 606 487-3200 or 800
246-7521, ext. 73200.
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sao > MlsceJJaneous
750 • Motlmt HQJ'T)e
11 0- Agricuuure
1 15 -ATV's
120 - Boats
130 - Cars
140- 4x4's ·
150 - Miscellaneous
~ 60 - 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
130-Cars
210 -.Job Listings
220 - t;elp Wanteq
230 - Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260 - Part Time
270 • Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wanted
For
Sale
1998
YAMAHA YZBO New
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
180-Trucks
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
EMPLOYMENT
For Sale 1993 Ford
Crown
Victoria.
138,000
miles.
$, 1200. call 606-8740467
For sale 1991
Toyota
Corolla
needs work $800 firm
call
606-886-8339
after 5 pm.
FOB SALE: 1988
Pontiac Bonneville,
no title, good for parts.
$600 obo. Call 8744094.
· · 140-4x4's
FOB SALE: Honda
'93
Fourwheeler.
300
Honda
'97
Fourwheel
drive
Looks good and runs
good. Call 886-0875.
500- REAL ESTAte
410 - Animals
4~0 - Appliances
440 - Electronics
445- Furniture
4(;0 - Lawn & Gaf<ieo
4SO - Yard sale
<470 • Health & Seauty
475 - Household
310- .Susiness
Opportunity
330 - f.!or Sale
160-Motorcycles
M¢Vet'$
..
Welding postions
available,
call
between 8am-5pm
M-F for an appointment to fill out application.
Call 2859358
NOW HIRINGAppalachian
Leasing Services.
Immediate opening
for
full-time
Maintenance
Technician. Must be
willing to work nights,
weekends and be on
call 24/7. Class A
CDL required,
Compnay would provide Full benefits
package,
401 K,
Company paid tool
and shoe allowances,
uniforms p~ovided .
Pay based on experience. EOE Employer.
Send resume to:
Appalachian
Leasing Services,
1677 Jaggie Fox
Way, Lexington, KY
40511
SALE
PBOFES·
3K-5K
SIONALS
Expanded Duty
WEEKLY,
FIRST
Dental Assistant: If
YEAR POTENTIAL.
you are anexperiCALL
1-800-294enced edda and are
8654 (EX:9477)
looking for a change
or you are looking for
21 0-Job Listing
employment, this is
an opportunity for
Executive
you. We have cosReceptionist
metic oriented pracOpening. Busy cortice with the patient's
porate
office
in
best interest in mind.
Prestonsburg seeking
Top salary with health
qualified candidate for
insurance and bonus
Suite.
Executive
incentives. Come join
Right person must
Send
have excellent com- our team.
resume with cover to
munications and comAssistant at P.O. Box
puter skills, good dri60, Minnie, KY 41651
ving record, mutior Fax to 606-377tasked, dependable,
0179.
No Calls
well groomed and
Please.
personable. Duties
include
answering
NEEDED-Truck
phone, filing and other
Driver,
must have
general office duties.
CDL
and
Full-time position with
Maintenance
Men.
benefits. M-F 8am478"9501
5pm.
Send Call
Confidential Resume
Human
to :
Resources Office-E,
P.O.
Box
1370,
Prestonsburg, KY
41651
Equ~
886-8S06
Opportunity
Employer.
I Cla9sifiedsl
ads work
Call
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505 - Business
51 o - Commercial
Property
530- Homes
550 Landlt.ots
570 - Moblle 1-iQmes
580 - MiscalJapeous
Steel
New
Compnay is looking
for a Yardman/Steel
Cutter and a Delivery
Driver CDL Required.
Send REsume to:
Quality steel & ~ine
Supply, P.O. Box 88,
Banner, KY 41613
Project ManagerEnvironmental Design
Consultants, Inc. a
local engineering firm
has a position open
for a Project Manager.
A minimum of 3 years
experience required.
Four year civil or mining
engineering
degree helpful, but
not
required.
Experience in scheduling, design and construction of various
mining and/or civil
engineering projects.
Experience
in
Autocadd
and
Survcadd is also
required. Must have
willingness to be a
team player and
desire to complete
projects in a timely
manner. Competitive
salary and benefit
package
(Health,
Dental, Vision, Life &
Retirement) Please
fax resume to (606)
437-0110 or mail to
Project
Manager
Position ,
Environmental Design
Consultants, Inc. 43
Street,
Village
Pikeville KY 41501.
610 • Apal1ments
620 • Sto1'4~f
DlliceSpa~
630 - t101.l$e$
640 • lahd/t.ots ·
~- - Moblf~l-ICliJ'le~
600 • Misc~neous ,
670 - Oomm&rcla!
Prop~~
fax resume to (606)
437-0110 or mail to
CADD Technician
Position, 43 Village
Street, Pikeville KY
41501
Rodman-Local
engineering firm has
an immediate opening
for a Rodman. 1 year
experience preferred,
nut not necessary.
Need
Kentucky
underground and surface
certification.
Competitive
wage
and benefit package.
Please mail resume
to :
Rodman. 43
Village
Street,
Pikeville KY 41501
Transltman-Local
engineering firm has
an immediate opening
for a Transitman. A
minimum of 3 years
experience 1n surface
and underground mining work. Must have
valid Kentucky underground, surface certification and driver's
license. Competitive
wage and b-.'1efit
package
(H Pith,
Dental, Vision, LHe &
Retirement) Please
mail
resume
to:
Transitman,
43
Village
Street,
Pikeville KY 41501
Need
Battery
Repairman and CDL
Driver with HAZMAT.
Serious
Inquiries
Only,
Must
be
C
A
D
D Dependable.
For
Technician-Loca l More Info Call 606engineering firm has a 377-2032
position open for a
100 WORKERS
CADD Technician. A
minimum of 3 years NEEDED. Assemble
experience
is Crafts, Wood Items,
required. A working Materials Provided.
knowledge
of To $480 +Wk. Free
Autocadd
and lnformationPkg. 24
Survcadd is also hr. 801 _428_4649
required.
Work
Part-Time,
3-4
includes surface and
underground
map- Days per Week BN
ping,_ permit design needed for busy
drawings, gas well Pikeville Oral Surgery
and property plats, Office, IV Experience
etc.
Competitive a plus. Email resume
wage and benefit to lpevy@qx.net or
package
includes fax to 859-278-0903
health insurance and
retirrement.
Please
Mining and industrial supplier in
Prestonsburg, KY, area is seeking to fill
the position of Outside Sales. Territory
will be that of eastern Kentucky.
Candidate must be an aggressive self
starter and able to work with minimal
supervision. Must be goal oriented,
motivated and self driven. Prime focus
will be expansion of product lines within an established customer base, as well
as generation of new customers. This
will require excellent communications
skills, ability to research business
opportunities and the desire to succeed.
Extensive travel required. Good interpersonal skills are a must. 3-5 years
mining or industrial sales experience
required. Computer skills essentiaL
This is an opportunity for the right person to prove their skills and grow with
an established company. Company
vehicle will be provided, plus expense
account. Salary structure will be commission Jess monthly draw. Benefits
package included. Mail resume with
salary history to Human Resources,
P.O. Box 58, Huntington, WV 25706, or
fax to: (304) 526-4746. EOE
7'1 fr • Educational
713 • Child Cant
715 • E;lecttk)lan
720 • Health & Beauty
-870 , ServiCE!&
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77Q- flla~lt/S¢rvlce
700 • Timber
790- Travel
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POSITION AVAILABLE:
Two-Way
Radio Technician.
Installation and repair
of commercial FM
Two-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 Expenence m
related field may be
considered in lieu of
school.
Excellent
benfits
package
offered. Location of
work is headquartered
in
Prestonsburg, KY. In
field work is performed in eastern
Kentucky
and
Southwestern West
Virginia. Wages are
depennegotiable
dent on experience.
Resume may be
faxed to 606-8863198 or mailed to:
Higland
Communications ,
P.O.
Box
790,
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
220-Help Wanted
Oil Field Company
has openings for
hard
working
responsible drivers.
Must be of age 21 or
older.
Must have
CDL with HAZ-MAT
and tanker endorcements, good driving
record and some
mechanical
apptitude. Please apply in
person at Universal
Well Services, Inc. ,
5252 Rt. 1428, Allen,
KY 41601 606-874Accepting
3487 .
applications
Mon.
thru Fri. between the
hours of Sam and
4pm.
Taking application's
for
CDL Driver's,
must be at least
Class B. Apply in
person at Waste
Management, 200
Garth Hollow Rd .,
Martin, KY.
Medical Secretary
Needed to work
Mon -Fri., 9:30-4:30,
alternating between
Prestonsburg . and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 886-1714 or 2859000
MERCHANDISE
410-Animals
Workers NeededLaborers with CDL
License
Needed.
Contact Mary at Star
Construction, 8741263
FOR SALE:
AKC
Boston
Terrior
Puppies. Parents on
Premison. Black &
White.
Vet: Shot,
Wormed,
Full Stock.
Butler
Fleet
Call Anyti me (606)
Services has an
874-7161 or (606)
for
our
opening
791-6023
Frankfort Fleet Shop.
Duties include preventive maintenance
and demand repairs
for a large public utility. ASE's & CDL preferred.
Tools req .
Consistent workload,
no seasonal slumps.
Call Michelle at 800241-6220 to apply.
EOE/M/FN/D.
ENTERPRISE MINING COMPANY, LLC
Friday, March 18th, & Saturday, March 19th
New Mine Opening!
Enterprise Mining Company, LLC (a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources), is
seeking qualified, team-oriented applicants for current and future coal mining job
opportunities at our mining operations in Letcher County. Positions available on all
shifts are: mine management; shift, section, and maintenance supervisors; electricians;.
continuous miner; roof bolter; shuttle car and scoop operators. EMT/MET, foreman
certifications and/or electrician certifications are a plus. A minimum of 6 months of
recent mining experience (6 months within the past 3 years) is required.
./ Major medical coverage (including prescription drugs)
./ Dental and Vision Care
./ Up to three weeks of paid vacation
./ Nine paid holidays
./ Three paid personal days
./A 40l(k) Savings· and Retirement Plan (with Company Match)
./Pension plan through the 40l(k)
./ Retiree Medical Plan
Interested and qualified persons should apply during the .lob Fair at the Enterprise
Office in Whitesbur~:. KY. Friday. March 18 ( 8 a.m.-6 p.m.). or Saturday. March
19 (8 a.m.-5 p.m.). Additionally, interested persons may apply in person at local
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Enterprise Mining Company complies with the Drug-Free Work Place Act of 1988, to
create a drug-free work environment.
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Registered Each. Call 886-2030
Tennessee Walkers after 5pm or 886-1020
For Sale.
Mare, Before 5pm.
Black, Gentle Broke,
12 Years Old Named
Lady and her 3 Year
Old Philly, Black,
Beautiful,
Gentle
Personality,
Green
Broke.
Also a
Palamino, Gelding 12
Years Old, Standard
Breed, Broke and
Rides with Smooth
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Hazard, KY
Appalachian Regional Healthcare is accepting resumes
for Registered Nurse positions available with the notfor-profit healthcare system's Home Health Services in
Hazard, Kentucky.
Requirements include graduation from an accredited
school of nursing, unrestricted Kentucky Registered
Nurse licensure, valid driver's license and at least two
years of nursing experience. As an ARH Home Health
nurse, you will practice your chosen profession as a
member of a multidisciplinary team assisting with the
preparation of and Interpret ation of the client's plan
of care, systemic client assessments/reassessments
with appropriate interpretation of the findtngs and
performance of nursing treatments, procedures and
total client care in accordance with established agency
and nursing care standards.
These are full time day shift positions (8:00am. - 4:30
p.m.) with minimal weekends; an average of 5 patients per
day; automated documentation; mileage reimbursement
at the rate of 40.5 cents per mile; and stand-by or call Is
minimal including hourly pay even 1f visit is not required.
ARH offers a very attractive salary based on education
and experience and benefits include:
• Very low cost single or family plan health
insurance coverage
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 9 paid holidays annually
• Sick leave allotment
• Life insurance at group rates
• Tax Shelt ered Annuity programs
• Ncn-contributory retirement plan
Please submit resume to or contact: Lana Smith, ARH
Director of Home Health, ARH Division of Home
Services, 100 Airport Gardens Road, Hazard, KY
41701 ; e-mail: lsmith@arh.org Telephone: 606439-6955; or contact: Marilyn Hamblin, System
Professional Recruiter at 1-800-888-7045, Ext 532;
e-mail: mhamblin@arh.org EOE
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PREMIER ELKHORN COAL COMPANY, Myra,
KY, is now accepting applications for the fo llowing position(s):
MECHANIC with 5 years experience as a heavy
equipment mechanic on a surface job. Requires
COL and KY Surface Mine Certifications.
Applications will be accepted at:
Kentucky Department
for Employment Services
138 College Street
Pikeville, KY 41501
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company is an EOE.
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V6,
Excellent Condition, When responding to
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have reference num9043
bers, please indicate
that entire reference
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number on the outDavid Road
1998 Toyota Camry, side of your enveReference
96K Miles, Loaded, lope
$5,995. 1999 Toyota numbers are used to
Corolla, Auto, CD, help us direct your
80K Miles, $4,595. letter to the correct
1998 S 10 Extra individual.
Cab, $3,995. Call
205-Business Oppt.
886-2842
2001 Jeep Cherokee
Limited,
V8 ,
Champaign,
Fully
Loaded,
Heated
Seats, Sunroof, 10
Disc CD Player, All
Leather Interior &
Only 53K
Miles.
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condition and has
been garage kept.
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White Frams Day
Bed $50. Masculine
Queen Size Bed with
Drener $400.
Call
Leave
88tl-1271
Message.
Solid Wood Office
Desk For Sale. Call
789-6320 or 3671506
RAY'S BARGAIN
CENTER
New
&
Used
Furniture
&
Appliances @ unbelievable prices. Come
in today for incredible
Shop At
savings.
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
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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
triage room, 2 bathrooms and accessories. Reasonable
Lease rates. Ready
for immediate occupancy.
For further
information or to view
property please call
606-377-2006
or
606-377-1088
Monday thru Fiday.
RENTALS
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 285-9112
61 0-Apartments
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
or 886-9007
Apartment available
for rent in Martin, partially furnished. Call
285-3980
3
BR
2
Bath
Apartment,
Newly
1,100
Remodeled.
sq. ft., All Major
Appliances. $500 per
month + $500 Deposit
and utilities. Call 2859003
Efficiency
Apartment For Rent.
$300 per month +
Water and Garbage,
Other
Utilities
Furnished. Call 2859003
630-Houses
770-Repair/S.ervices
property, and will be
accepting
sealed
CARPENTRY bids
for
same.
WORK
all types. Prospective buyers
New construction or may inspect these
remodeling
vehicles and backGarages, decks, etc. hoe at the District's
Concrete work & sid- office at 245 KY
680,
ing. Free estimates. Route
McDowell, KY. For
Call 886-8896.
further information,
CKF Construction contact Bob Meyer at
377-9296.
Any
type
of (606)
Interested
parties
inside/outside
work, no job to big or must submit separate
small.
Deck, yard written bids for each
work. Wife will clean vehicle in a sealed
to:
he use.
Call 285- envelope
Southern Water &
94.12
Sewer District, P.O.
780-Timber
Box 61 0, 245 KY
Route
680,
D & D Tree Service McDowell, KY 41647.
Final
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clearance
2004 lot models and
2005 models now
available! If you are
serious about pu~
chasing 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
FOR SALE: 12x70,
2 BR, Appliances
included.
Asking
$5,000 Call377-6040
Home at Invoice,
New Double Wide
Only
$31,599,
Includes
Delivery,
Set-Up, A/C and
Skirting. Call 888246-1075 Fleetwood
tiomes Homes of
Louisa
Storage Units For
Sale Located on Rt.
1428 1 Mile From the
City Limits. Call 8860893 or 422-4028
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
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,
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is illegal.
In a wildland fire
emergency, call 9-1-1,
your local Fire
Department, or your
local Division of
Forestry district office.
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Develop the skills
needed for the
rapidly expanding
field of
HEALTH
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Call The
National
College of
Business &
Technology 1-
800-791-4295
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Wollf Tanning
Beds
Affordable,
Convient, Tan at
Home, Payments
from $29. Free
Color Catalog, Call
Today 1-800-7815173
Position Available
Big Sandy Area Development
District is accepting resumes for the
position of GIS Specialist. The individual selected will assist in the continued development and implementation of a Geographic Information
System utilizing a team approach
with other staff. Applicants with a
Bachelors degree in Geography or a
field related to GIS and experience
using ArcGIS software may be
given preference. However, individuals showing particular aptitude
with spatial awareness, attention to
detail, and accuracy with computer
experience in a windows environment are encouraged to apply.
Starting salary is commensurate
with the appropriate mix of education and experience. Applicants
must submit a letter, resume and
list of references to Ms. Terry
Trimble, Big Sandy ADD, 110
Resource Court, Prestonsburg, KY
41653, by March 18, 2005. EOP
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District is accepting resumes for the
position of GIS Specialist. The individual selected will assist in the continued ·development and implementation of a Geographic Information
System, utilizing a team approach
with other staff. Applicants with a
Bachelor~ degree in Geography or a
field related to GIS and experience
using ArcGIS software may be
given preference. However, individuals showing particular aptitude
with spatial awareness, attention to
detail, and accuracy, with computer
experi~nce in a windows environment are encouraged to apply.
Starting salary is commensurate
with the appropriate mix of education and experience. Applicants
must submit a letter, resume and
list of references to Ms. Terry
Trimble, Big Sandy ADD, 110
Resource Court, Prestonsburg, KY
41653, by March 18, 2005. EOP
The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting proposals for Financial Audit Services for the contract period of July 1,
2005, through June 30, 2007. Proposals are subject to the terms and
conditions of the Request For Proposal. Copies of this Request For
Proposal may be obtained in the Finance Department at the address
below, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
prior to the time and date specified for bid opening, or on the intemet
at http://www.floyd.k 12.ky. us/Public_N otice.html
Proposals must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman,
Director of Finance/Treasurer/CIO, Floyd County Board of
Education, 106 North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653.
All envelopes must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope,
"FINANCIAL AUDIT PROPOSAL."
Proposals will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23,
2005, Eastem Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m.,
Eastem Standard Time, Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All proposals
must be received by the time designated in the invitation, and none
will be considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume
the responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to
deliver bids on time. Proposals will be opened and read at the time
and location stated above. Advertisements for this Request For
Proposal are/have been in March 13th, 16th, and 18th editions of the
Floyd
County
Times,
and
on
the
internet
at
http://www.floyd.kl2.ky. us/Public_Notice.html
Proposals are scheduled to be awarded at the Regular board meeting,
held at 6:30p.m., Eastern Standard Time, March 28,2005, at Adams
Middle School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
Keep flammable
vegetation and leaves
at least 30 feet away
from your house.
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brush cut short.
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Sealed bids must be
Tree Trimming
recei ved
in
the
Tree Removal
District's
office
at
the
HOUSE FOR
Free Estimates!
above address no
RENT: 239 Francis
Lowest Prices
later than 4:00 p.m.,
Court, Prestonsburg.
Guaranteed!
2BR 2 Bath 1400 Sq. Call 606-785-0316 or March 25, 2005.
"S urplus
Property
Ft.,
Suitable
for
785-9810
Bid- Southern Water
office, small business
& Sewer District"
or residence.
Not
must
be
clearly
suitable location for
marked on the outchildren or pets.
side of each enve812- Free
$500 per month +
lope. The District
utilities. 886-6362
reserves the right to
FREE
PALLETS: reject any or all bids.
HOUSE FOR RENT can be picked up
in Prestonsburg, cen- behind The Floyd
tal heat & air, yard, no County Times.
NOTICE
pets,
references
required $550 mo.
900-Legals
TO BIDDERS
Call 886-0226.
City of PrestonsADVERTISEMENT
burg
will be ac2 BR House For
FOR BIDS
cepting
bids on
$500
per
Rent,
The
Southern
the construction of
$550 Water
month
+
&
Sewer
two
100-stall
Deposit.
No Pets District has declared
Call 478-5403
the followng property barns. Bids must
be turned in by
as surplus:
noon on Monday,
FOR RENT 3 BR
(1) 1997 Ford F150
March 21. For
house.
Newly Extended Cab/4WD
remodeled, refer- (Salvage title)
more information
ences
required.
(2)
1989
John 11nd specifications,
886-8366.
Deere Backhoe
contact
Mayor
(3)
1997
Ford
Jerry Fannin at
Ranger
640-land/Lots
Prestonsburg City
The District intends
Hall, 886-2335.
Trailer lot for rent to sell this surplus
on old U.S. 23
between
Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
FOR SALE: House
Furniture, Washer &
Dryer, Miscellaneous
Yard
& Farm
Equipment. Grocery
Store
Furnishings
also will Rent House
and Grocery Store in
BR Furnished
Pippa Passas. Call
Apartment
For
270-358-8837.
Rent. 5 Miles from
For Sale: 8 ft' refrig- Martin on Rt. 121 0,
Already
erated deli case, Utilities
$1000, small pizza Turned On, $370 +
Call
oven, $400, small Electricity.
juice cooler, $150, Anytime 285-3641
washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606-8862 bed room 1 1/2
2367.
bath
Townhouse
also 1 bed room furFor Sale: 8 ft' deli nished or unfurcooler, $950 and Gas nished located in
convection
oven, Prestonsburg
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For Rent : newly
$450. Call 606-886- PETS call 606-886 constructed Mobile
2367.
8991
Home Lots in new
Allen,reference
Kay's Wallpaper 205
required call 606Depot Road Paints874-2212
ville, Ky. Hundreds of
Patterns of Wallpaper
& Borders. All under
$10.00. Open Tues- Park
Place 2 BR 2 Bath Mobile
Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Apartments
in Home, Front & Back
Sat.1 0 a.m to 3 p.m. Prestonsburg, Porch, Large Yard,
Large Out Building.
Closed Sun. & Mon. Elderly, Handicapped
$400 per month +
606-789-8584.
& DisabledAvailable $400 Deposit due
for
Immediate upon renting . Call
REAL ESTATE Occupancy. Rent 1 285-9003
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
2 BR Trailer For
Call 886-0039
530-Houses
Rent Available April
New 1 ,950 sq. ft.
Furnished 1 bed 1st at Branham's
HUD
Home
For Sale room Apt. Central Creek.
located in Country heat & air. Rent start- Approved, Security
Deposit Required.
Oaks Subdivision in ing at $375. month, +
Call 828-754-4801
Harold, KY. Call 478- $300. deposit water
9993
included.
Located Trailer For Rent: On
near HRMC. 606- Rt. 7 at Salt Lick, No
3 or 4 BR House For 889-9717.
Pets,
$300
per
Month, Call 358-4524
Sale.
Has been
remodeled, $49,900 620-Storage/Office
FOR RENT: 2 BR
or best offer. Priced
to Sale. Call 889FOR
2 Trailer at Harold.
RENT:
Partially Furnished
9821
Office Suites, New
with AC Call 377900 9986
Construction.
550-land/Lots
· sq. ft. each. Ample
Parking, Can be 2 BR Mobile Home
2 lots For Sale on Combined for Total of on
Private lot,
Stonecrest
Golf 1,800
sq.
ft. Available March 1.
C o u r s e . Convenient Location, $400 per month +
Approximately 3 1/3 New Office Behind Deposit. Call 87 4Call Sav-A-Lot
Acres each.
in 4330
886-3313
Call
Prestonsburg.
886-1515 for info.
SUNDAY MARCH
The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting
sealed bids for Bank Depository for the contract period of July 1,
2005, or the board approval date (whichever is later) through June 30,
2007. Sealed bids are subject to the terms and conditions of the invitation to bid. Copies of this invitation to bid may be obtained in the
Finance Department at the address below, Monday through Friday,
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prior to the time and date specified
for bid opening, or on the internet at http: //www.floyd.k12.,
ky. us/Public_Notice.html
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Bids must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman, Director
of Finance/Treasurer/CIO, Floyd County Board of Education, 106
North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653. All envelopes
must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope, "BID: BANK
DEPOSITORY BID."
Bids will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2005,
Eastern Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All bids must be
received by the time designated in the invitation, and none will be
considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume the
responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to deliver bids on time. Bids will be opened and read at the time and location
stated above. Advertisements for this invitation to bid are/have been
in March 13th. 16th. and 18th editions of the Floyd County Times,
and on the internet at http://www.floyd.kl2.ky.us/Public_Notice.html
Bids are scheduled to be awarded at the boa.rd meeting, held at 6:30
p.m. Eastern Standard Time, March 28, ~005, at Adams Middle
School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
PEOPL~E AGAINST DRUGS
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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$ 1,186,184.55
$ 4,026,667.25
$ 2.756,569:§_
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$
$
$
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45,868.50
723,942.86
PERSONEL
OFFICIAL MAXIMUM SALARY
OFFICIAL EXPENSE
roEPUTIES SALARIES
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
SOCIAL SECURITY
MEDICARE
LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
TRAINING HB {81 0)
CONTRACTED SERVICES
ADVERTISING
IMAGING, INDEXING, INTERNET
AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING
~!LL PREPARATION
SUPPUES AND MATERIALS
OFFICE UTILITIES
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OFFICE EXPENSES
OTHER CHARGES
CONVENTIONS AND TRAVEL
FEES, DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
POSTAGE
ERRORS & OMISSION
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ELECTION EXPENSES
UNCOLLECTED NSF CHECKS
CAPITAL OUTLAY
COFFICE EQUIPMENT
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$
$
$
$
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$ 1 337 878.80
TANGiBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY
14 534.0012,661.50
809.55
10,800.00
$
$
$
$
681.00
15,246.00
25,891.00
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$
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
City planning to annex Highlands
by MARY MUSIC
Hospital to fight, threatens to move
STAFF WRITER
• Negotiator
helps end
PRESTONSBURG - City council
members announced Monday night the
city's intentions to annex Highlands
Regional
Medical
Center
and
Consolidated Health Systems properties
on Route 321.
The hospital reacted Tuesday by threatening to relocate if the annexation goes
through.
During the meeting, council members
were quick to clarify that the proposal of
annexation was in the works long before
Don Willis, who works at the hospital as
manager of financial counseling and collections, took his seat on the council.
by TOM DOTY
city to pay for::
$1,000 typo
STAFF WRITER
(See STANDOFF, page three)
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WAITER
photo by Mary Music
Prestonsbur9 Elementary students joined schools across the United States Thursday morning in
smging "The Star Spangled Banner." The event marked the launching of the National Anthem Project,
an educational program initiated last week at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. "You ought to be proud of
where you live and what you stand for," Prestonsburg Elementary Principal Gwen Hale-Frazier told
them.
Toy found not guilty of indecency
by TOM DOTY
and MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITERS
2 DAY FORECAST
PRESTONSBURG - It took a
Floyd County Jury only 15 minutes
to acquit a former Martin policeman of indecent exposure charges
after a trial in district court Tuesday.
Stephen Toy was elated at the
verdict in the case, which saw him
fired from the police department
one day after an investigation began
in the case.
The charge stemmed from an
incident which supposedly happened at the Am Vets bar in Martin
in August 2003.
Toy's attorney in the matter was
former Commonwealth's Attorney
Jerry Patton, who noted that the situation is far from over.
He said,
after the victory, "We intend to file
a wrongful termination suit against
the city of Martin as soon as we can
file the paperwork."
The decision followed a brief
trial in which County Attorney
(See NOT GUILTY, page three)
PRESTONSBURG
A local doctor is asking the
city to pay for a $1 ,000
proofreading mistake on
Prestonsburg
High
School's
ReatherfordSalyers Memorial Plaque.
Dr. Phillip Simpson,
former owner of C&S
Signs, claims the city didn't properly proofread a
rubbing of the plaque
before it was printed for
dedication last year.
The city paid $5 ,400 for
the memorial, in half
installments , during the
design phase and completion of the project.
Simpson wants an additional $1 ,019.50, money he
personally paid to correct
mistakes that he claims
were made by city council
members who proofread
the sign last year.
The mistakes, Simpson
Court security scrutinized after shooting
by TOM DOTY
the meeting to give his staff, which
provides security at the courthouse, a
chance to air any concerns that they
PRESTONSBURG - The brutal may have about procedures.
slayings of a judge, court reporter
"You can never be too concerned
and deputy in Fulton County, Ga.,' about safety," Blackburn said.
last week led to a .meeting on
Blackburn said he spent the
Monday for the staff at the Floyd weekend watching the story unfold
on CNN about Brian Nichols' ramCounty Justice Center.
Sheriff John K. Blackburn called page at the Fulton County
STAFF WRITER
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Obituaries .....................A9
Sports ......................... 61
Lifestyles ...................... 66
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Courthouse that saw him get his
hands on a deputy's handgun. As a
result, Blackburn has already implemented one change that will be instituted locally. Each bailiff will be
receiving a new holster this year that
make it more difficult for a second
party to access than previous mod(See SECURITY, page three)
by MARY MUSIC
PRESTONSBURG
The Floyd County Drug
Coalition of UNITE is continuing plans for a drug
awareness march that is
scheduled for May I .
Those plans are closely
centered around the altar.
The coalition adopted
its by-Jaws during a meeting Monday and established subcommittees to
develop fund ratsmg,
neighborhood watch, court
(See TYPO, page seven)
watch, family support .
communications, education and faith-based initiatives.
Much of the discussion
centered
around
the
upcoming Eastern Kentucky Prayer Conference
for Substance Abuse. That
conference, hosted by Cla)
Pastor
Doug
County
Abner, will be held at the
Mountain Arts Center at 6
p.m. Sunday.
The group agreed to
(See GROUP, page three)
Last elk defendant pleads guilty
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - The
last of four defendants charged
with illegally poaching an elk at
Ivy Creek last September pleaded guilty to the crime in district
court Monday.
Billy Joe DeRossett pleaded
guilty to the charges and will
serve I 5 days in j<Ul as well as a
30-day sentence of home incarceration for the offense. which
saw DeRossett and three friends
blinding the animal with the
headlights of their vehicle
before shooting and killing it.
They also used a shotgun to
remove the animal's antler ,
which led to their capture after
they were spotted throwing the
evidence into Dewey Lake upon
hearing that they were being
investigated.
DeRossett will also have to
pay several fines, which include
$1,000 for the poaching charge,
a $1,875 elk restoration fee,
$145 in court costs and an additional $685.50 for fines stemming from a DUI arrest that
occurred prior to the elk
episode. DeRossett will also .
(See GUILTY, page three)
6 a.m.-11 a.m., Monday-Friday
It
said, were "inherent in the
design" given by the city.
Simpson, who was
seemingly angry because
he "didn't get a lot of cooperation from anyone"
regarding the bilL said a
letter addressing the problem sat on the mayor's
desk for 26 days.
Simpson asked council
members to look at the prototype, but he was
informed that the city
doesn 't have it.
Mayor Jerry Fanning
shifted the blame to former
council member C.E.
"Little Shag" Branham,
who proofread the protO·
type
along
with
Prestonsburg High School
Coach John Derossett
before it was accepted and
dedicated last year.
The four foot-by-four
foot rubbing still had mistakes on it after it was
Anti-drug group
nneetstoorgandze
STAFF WRITER
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
(See HOSPITAL, page three)
Doctor asks
standoH
SALYERSVILLE Kentucky State Police
employed the skills of a
detective trained in negoti1 ation techniques Sunday to
convince a gun-toting susfJect to place himself in
custody.
Ke1th Risner, 44, of
Salyersville, had allegedly
fired the weapon in his
estranged wife's direction
after a dispute in front of
his apartment building.
KSP officers were
already on the way to the
scene afer having received
a call from the wife, Micca
Risner, who had called
them on her cell phone
ir reporting that her husband
was, at that time, allegedly
trying to strike her vehicle
with his own.
When officers arrived at
the scene, Keith Risner
was back inside his apartment but did emerge
briefly to tell the officers,
who included members of
the Salyersville Police
Department and the
Magoffin County Sheriff's
Office, that he was going
Ill back inside to get his gun.
Fearing that he would
come back out of the
dwelling armed and force a
confrontation. KSP had its
"This was in the works before he came 1
on," Mayor Jerry Fannin said, shortly afkr:
the first reading of the ordinance was held .
Willis responded to the ordinance by
informing the council that the hospital will
likely "fight" the proposal.
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Illegally poaching an elk at Ivy
Creek last
September.
�A2 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
16, 2005
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• KANSAS CITY, Mo. Mike Hendricks is hoping he
can make his hometown sing a
different tune.
Hendricks was baffled to
learn "Kansas City," the 1950s
ditty that goes, "I'm goin' to
Kansas City - Kansas City
here I come," was not his city's
official song.
So the Kansas City Star
writer did what any columnist
would do to stir up change - he
started slinging ink.
In recent months, his
columns on correcting the oversight have caught the city's
attention. The effort has even
received the blessing of Mike
Stoller and Jerry Leiber, the
songwriters who penned the
song in 1951.
Hendricks learned the city
already had an official song:
"Kansas City, My Hometown."
The City Council adopted that
with little fanfare in 1950,
Hendricks said.
"But it sounds like it was
written in 1850," he saicf. "No
one today would recognize it."
Not even Kansas City Mayor
Kay Barnes. When Hendricks
asked her, she didn't know an
official song was on the books.
This month, the newspaper
and city planners will start a
campaign to make the song the
town's definitive golden oldie.
The city hopes to collect a mi.llion signatures, then dedicate
the song during an Oktoberfest
celebration this fall.
• POCATELLO, Idaho
Doctors at Portnuef Medical
Center recently found them-
selves treating an additional 770
patients
all dolls and stuffed
animals.
The annual Teddy Bear
Clinic drew a record turnout of
children, who brought their
dolls, bears and other stuffed
animals in need of medical
attention.
Saturday's event was aimed
at making a visit to the hospital
less frightening for children.
"It's like they are the parent.
They get to experience it from
the other side," hospital spokeswoman Crista Madsen Smith
said. The event is targeted to
kids ages 2-12.
Children explain their animal 's problems to a receptionist
while checking the toy into the
hospital. Officials reported stories like "My bear broke his leg
by jumping on the bed," or "My
sister bit him."
The children also helped doctors decide how to treat the toys.
"X-ray is popular," Smith
said. "Casting was probably the
most popular this year, but
surgery is always fascinating to
kids."
If a child opts to put his or
her animal under the knife, it is
laid out on a table, the youngster
gets a surgical mask and then a
nurse discusses surgery and
anesthesia.
Exhibits also allowed the animals to get immunizations,
without needles, or the children
were told about the dangers of
poisons or given proper hand
washing techniques.
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nightspot in tropical Singapore.
The room temperature is so
chilly that staff wear heavy
coats and ski caps, and patrons
get a 10 percent discount if they
show up in winter wear.
The bar contains a decorated,
industrial strength freezer, with
the mercury ranging from 28
degrees Fahrenheit to just above
zero. The goal is to attract
thirsty clientele who need a
break from the round-the-clock,
sweltering, Southeast Asian
heat.
So far, the gimmick is working. The directors of Eski Bar,
which officially opened this
month
near
Singapore's
Chinatown, plan to open another, larger outlet next month.
The decor features ceiling
and wall lights shaped like melting ice cubes, as well as a transparent plastic curtain at the
entrance to keep out the heat.
Beer and white spirits such as
vodka are served ice cold, and
one cocktail is called Sleeping
Polar Bear.
• STRASBURG, Va. - The
police chief of a Virginia town
got busted for drunken driving
- twice in one day.
Middletown Police Chief
Roger Ashley, 41, was ordered
held without bail Monday, after
spending the weekend in jail.
Officers responded to the
first incident Saturday after
Ashley's unmarked police car
had run into a vehicle. His
blood-alcohol level was 0.29,
according to the arrest warrant
more than three times
• SINGAPORE - The
drinks aren't the only things ice
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March
16, the 75th day of 2005.
There are 290 days left in the
year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 16, 1945,
during World War II, lwo Jima
was declared secured by the
Allies.
On this date:
• In 1751, James Madison,
fourth president of the United
States, was born in Port
Conway, Va.
• In 1802, Congress authorized the establishment of the
U.S. Military Academy at
West Point, N.Y.
•
In 1850, Nathaniel
Hawthorne's
novel "The
Scarlet Letter" was first published.
• In 1915, the Federal
Trade Commission was orga·
nized.
• In 1935, Adolf Hitler
scrapped the Treaty of
Versailles.
• In 1968, during the
Vietnam War, the My Lai
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Jr.
• In 1969, " 1776," a musical about the writing of the
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• In 1985, Terry Anderson,
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was abducted in Beirut; he was
released in December 1991.
Ten years ago: House
Republicans pushed through
$17 billion in spending cuts,
prompting a veto threat by the
White House. NASA astronaut
Norman Thagard was welcomed aboard the Russian
space station Mir as the first
American to visit the orbiting
outpost.
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Virginia's 0.08 legal limit. His
drivers license was suspended.
Five hours later, he was
arrested a second time, in his
personal vehicle, Strasburg
Police Chief Marshall Robinson
said. Police said he had a 0.25
blood-alcoho11evel.
Ashley's trial was scheduled
for April 11 .
Middletown
officials
expressed sadness over Ashley's
arrests .
"Roger has done so much for
the town over the years," Mayor
Gene T. Dicks said of the man
who has been with the town's
Police Department since 1987.
"It's a shame he has to ruin his
life and throw everything away
over something like this."
• TRENTON, N.J. - A
kindler, gentler New Jersey?
In a state where one former
governor once joked that the
official bird was "the middle
finger," Assemblymen Jon M.
Bramnick and Gordon Johnson
think a few more random acts of
kindness couldn't hurt.
A resolution under consideration in the state Legislature is
encouraging residents to join "a
campaign toward civility, kindness and respect to all."
Bramnick, a Republican,
says it seems people just aren't
as nice to each other as they
were in decades past.
"In . the halls of Trenton
everyone's always very nice and
it's 'Good morning! How are
you?' Then I get back in the real
world," Bramnick said last
week.
The Assel'l!bly Judiciary
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committee was expected to
decide whether to send the proposal along for a vote before the
full Assembly.
In the meantime, Bramnick
and Johnson, a Democrat, hope
New Jerseyans will listen - and
lighten - up. It's not the first
time state officials have tried to
soften up Jersey's image. Last
year, then-Gov. James E.
McGreevey declared a Random
Acts of Kindness Day.
• DES MOINES, Iowa
He came to sell President Bush's
plan to overhaul Social Security.
Instead, U.S . Sen. Charles
Grassley sold something else his beat-up old car.
Grassley closed the deal at a
downtown Des Moines hotel,
selling the 1986 Olds Delta 88
for $356, one dollar below book
value, to an Iowa factory worker.
The gray Oldsmobile, with
172,511 miles, paint peeling off
the body and a Volkswagen hubcap on one wheel, was used in
political advertisements last
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Independent Counsel Robert
Ray said he found no credible
evidence that Hillary Rodham
Clinton or senior White House
officials had sought FBI background files of Republicans.
Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the
"Enola Gay" bombardier who
dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima,
died
in
Windermere, Fla., at age 81.
One year ago: China
declared victory in its fight
against bird flu, saying it had
"stamped out" aU its known
cases. Mitch Seavey won the
year ·during Grassley's re-election campaign as a prop for his
claim of visiting all 99 counti~
The deal started last month 't
a town meeting, where Grassley,
who heads the Senate Finance
Committee, was explaining
Bush's plan to partially privatize
Social Security.
Roy Nelson, 41, was there
with his four daughters. One of
them stood up and asked him
about the car because she was
turning 16 within a month.
"Grassley told her that the
book value was $357 , 'but today
I'd sell it to you for $356,"'
Nelson said. "I looked at him
and said, 'Sold."'
·
Grassley said he thought ~
was a joke. On Saturday, the two
met again.
''I'm going to show you
everything wrong with it,"
Grassley said to Nelson as they
walked to the car. "The first
thing is, you have to unlock it
from the passenger side because
the other side doesn't work, you
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Hospital
Security
• Continued from p1
"From what I've been told,
they will fight it," he said.
Annexing the hospital
propenies would increase
city taxes by an undetermined amount, Fannin said
yesterday, but the hospital's
employees don't have to bear
the brunt of the change on
their pay stubs.
•
"We've been supporting
the hospital with utili ties,
fire and police protection
·' when they need it," he said.
"Essentially, they've got all
those city services for years,
they just haven't been paying
for it. The hospital has saved
money on water and sewage.
They could take their savings
and give their employees an
increase in salary to make up
for the payroll tax."
Fannin, pointmg out that
most hospital employees live
outside of Prestonsburg, said
city residents should be
~ "aggravated" because the
hospital is receiving city services for free, as opposed to
others in the community, who
have been paying.
The council held the first
reading of the ordinance to
attempt
the
annexation
Monday. After the second
reading of the ordinance at a
subsequent meeting, they
will proceed with the annexation process . Another ordi• nance, one specifically incorporating the annexation, will
~ then be drafted and read into
council minutes twice before
the vote hits the council
table.
"I believe George Archer
was on the board when they
built the hospital," Fannin
said .. "He was mayor at the
time I don't think they had
• intentions to not bring it into
the city. It just hasn't been
done until now. Throughout
Kentucky, you'll not find
many hospitals outside of
city limits."
Fannin said that residents
living in the area could also
voluntarily consent to annex
their properties into the city.
Kathy Rubado, the hospital's director of communications, hopes they don ' t get
that chance.
Rubado said yesterday that
the hospital will, indeed,
fight the annexation.
··we will definitely challenge the annexation, even to
the point of moving the hospital, if necessary." Rubado
said. ''We will not be the
solution to the mayor's problems, and we urge the community to stand behind us."
Rubado said the hospital
was forced to spend $I .2 million last year for the
provider's tax, a tax required
of all not-for-profit hospitals
in Kentucky. Additionally,
the ho~pital spent approximately $5 million for services rendeted to patients
through uncompensated charity claims, she said.
"We are under a landlock
right now. The hospital was
built in 1971. We have no
more room," Rubado said. "It
looks like the most costeffective thing to do would
be to relocate the hospital so
that we'd have more room
and be able to provide better
service to the community."
Fannin said that the
prospect of annexation has
been considered for years.
Engineering work, preparing
for the annexation proposal,
is complete, he said.
Rubado said the hospital
had no knowledge of the proposal until this week.
Standoff
• Continued from p1
negotiator, Det. Billy Hall, contact Keith Risner by phone. He
was able to convince him to surrender without incident.
Keith Risner has been charged
with two counts of wanton endangerment and is lodged in the Big
Sandy Regional Detention Center.
Micca Risner was treated for minor
injuries at the scene and released.
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els, which have yet to wield a
weapon to anyone but the officer
holding it.
Last Thursday saw that the
staff at the Justice Center safety
procedures to work when extra
security was provided at the
courthouse for a possible appearance by convicted killer Dwayne
Earl Bishop. Kentucky State
Police troopers, extra bailiffs and
Prestonsburg police officers
were on hand for Bishop's anticipated appearance, which was
called off when he decided to
fight a DUI charge that he
incurred the night that he murdered his wife Carolyn.
Bishop would have been
called over to the courthouse had
he taken a plea on the charges
which will net him a maximum
of six months in jail. The extra
security was requested by Judge
Eric Hall, who was well aware of
Bishop's murder conviction and
the fact that he had previously
threatened the prosecuting attorney in his·murder trial, as well as
his own defense counsel. Judge
Hall noted that such measures
will also be in place when
Bishop has his district court trial
on April 18.
Suspicion was raised when
Bishop requested the trial, as it
flew in the face of his previous
concerns about being lodged in
the Floyd County Detention
Center now that he has been
handed a life sentence by a Floyd
County jury. Bishop allegedly
asked for his formal sentencing
to take place as quickly as possible to get back to his quarters at
East Kentucky Correctional
Center. That proved impossible
when special prosecutor David
Smith reported that he was
scheduled through March with
assignments for the Attorney
General's Office . The sentencing
was set for April 8.
Staff at the Justice Center
opted for caution in handling
Bishop, with the understanding
that asking for a trial in District
Court may have been motivated
by a plan for escape. Such a
scheme has been accomplished
by felons in the past, such as the
June 7 escape from a courthouse
library by serial killer Ted
Bundy. His plan hinged on being
allowed to defend himself at trial
in order to gain access to the law
library at the Aspen, Colo., courthouse where his trial was scheduled. While apparently doing
research for his trial, Bundy
studied his surroundings and
later escaped for several days
until he was spotted trying to
leave Aspen in a stolen truck.
Sheriff Blackburn was clear
on court procedures for Bishop's
next trial noting, "There'll be
tight security for Mr. Bishop's
safety, as well as that of the
staff."
Guilty
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lose hunting privileges for three
years and has been banned from
hunting at Ivy Creek for life.
Fish and Wildlife Officer
Marc Wallace pursued the case
after being alerted to the animal's
remains by a caller. He collected
the animal's head and was able to
match it with the antlers deposited in Dewey Lake and noted that
using a shotgun made it easier for
him to provide a positive match
with remains that were fished
from the lake. The interviews that
he conducted with the defendants
proved helpful at the end as they
provided evidence for a future
charge of tampe~g with evidence that would nave taken the
ca e to circuit court and saw
16, 2005 • A3
DeRossett facing a possible 1-to5-year sentence had they decided
to press the case.
Wallace was pleased that
Monday's plea finished the case
and said, "It turned out good."
Keith Bartley called three witnesses while Patton only called
Toy. Battley's witnesses incltJded the bartender, who testified
that he saw Toy expose his genitals in the bar after he emerged
from the men's room and joined
two female friends who were
telling a joke. The barkeep testified that Toy had said, "I'll illustrate the joke," and proceeded to
pull down his pants .
None of the three women present at the bar that night claimed
to have seen anything. One
apparently turned her head while
the female bartender was shielded by a friend who acted as an
unofficial bouncer for the establishment. All in all, there were
six people in the bar but only one
who claimed to have seen Toy
expose himself.
Closing
arguments
saw
Bartley pointing out that Toy's
account of the evening differed
vastly from the other witnesses
and that all of the witnesses
agreed that Toy was ejected from
the bar over the incident, even
though only one actually witnessed it.
But Patton responded in hi!
closing remarks, pointing ou
that the county's main witnes~
admitted to having poor eye·
sight, so much so that anothe1
witness had to write down hi~
statement as he gave it to th~
Martin Police officers whc
investigated the matter.
Patton argued in the end tha
the case came down to credibili·
ty and that his client was an out·
standing citizen who served tht
state, while his accuser wa!> not.
Toy, was indicted in 2003 f01
felony theft after Martin polic{
officers accused him of taking ~
$5 ,000 computer from the city
That theft charge was dismissec
in district court in Februar)
because Toy returned the com·
puter. A third-degree unlawfu
transaction with a minor chargt
- one brought against Toy afte1
he allegedly gave an underagec
female in the veterans' bar ar
alcoholic drink - was also dismissed.
Toy, a former county deput)
sheriff, was dropped from tht
force after being found guilty o'
theft charges in February 1997.
Group
• Continued from p1
establish a weekly prayer service at 9 a.m. every Saturday
until the May 1 march. The
community is in"ited to attend
the services, which begin this
Saturday at Allen First Baptist
Church.
The goal of the May 1 drug
awareness
march,
said
Chairman Mike Vance, is to
have at least 3,000 participants,
the same number of attendees
at a similar march held in Clay
County last year.
Floyd County students are
participating in an art contest to
design a slogan that will be
worn on t-shirts during the
march. Posters made by students will be laminated and carried dunng the event, Vance
said.
The next coalition meeting
is slated for April 11 at the
Allen First Baptist Church, 6
p.m .
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a good start
It took Kentucky lawmaker~ four years to finally agree on an
anti-junk food school nutrition~ bill. Tuesday it was no sure thing
right up to the final 15 minutes! of the 2005 session.
There is logic to Kentucky taking the lead against the nation's
· epidemic of childhood and adult obesity. A three-year study out last
year predicted, if trends continue, Kentucky would lead the nation
in fat people by 2010. Lawmakers in conference committee
restored to Senate Bill 172 a requirement that public schools
include physical activity as part of a broader wellness program for
students. lt also limits schools to offering co~mercial fast food no
more than once a week. This is exactly the kind of public policy the
Enquirer has advocated in its recent Healthy Children/Healthy
Future editorial campaign. School districts need to follow through
by offering healthier choices in vending machines and cafeterias
and in requiring regular exercise.
'"This is a bill that puts us as Kentuckians ahead of the curve and
we will be a national model," predicted Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr, RLexington.
The school wellness program mandates "moderate to vigorous
physical activity." It would allow up to 30 minutes of exercise as
: part of the instructional day. The bill bans sugary soft drinks from
• elementary school vending machines during class hours and autho• rizes the state Board of Education to set nutritional standards for
vending machines and a la carte items in elementary and secondary
school cafeterias. Lawmakers killed the ban against deep-fried
: food, but cabinet officers say they can restrict use of cafeteria deep
. fryers through later regulations.
Nutrition experts indict junk food for the obesity epidemic, and
although parents aren't blameless, schools also are at fault. The
Commonwealth has created programs such as Get Moving
Kentuck)( to enl.,iit,roore.people into walking groups. In Columbus
last Sunday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a
junk food ban in his state's public schools. Rather than add to stu·dents' couch-potato ways, schools need to help them pass one of
the most important tests of all, their own health exam.
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Legislative pension changes take place
under cover of darkness again
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by MARK R. CHELLGREN
FRANKFORT - It was dark, as it usually is when these things happen. The General
Assembly was shuttling dozens . of bills
between the House and Senate, notably tax
and budget legislation and an especially contentious matter about increasing the weight
limit for some trucks.
Out of the blue - or, more accurately in
this case, out of the Senate State and Local
Government Committee - came a modified
version of House Bill 299, titled An Act
Relating to Retirement:
What started out as a proposal relating to
university employees and purchasing retirement credit emerged last Tuesday night as a
hodgepodge of changes in retirement programs for some judges and all legislators.
Ever since passage of what was immediately dubbed the "Greed bill" in 1982 that
first established pensions for legislators, the
topic of retirement, pay and other pecuniary
benefits for members of the General
Assembly has been a regular and delicate
topic when legislators convene.
Legislative pay is an unusual collection.
They receive what amounts to a daily fee -
""
$170.17 this year; higher for committee
chairmen and leadership spots. The daily pay
is for each day of legislative session, weekends and holidays included. When not in session, they receive $1,617.09 per month, plus
the daily pay for time spent attending to official business. Thus, pay can vary widely,
depending on the numbers of meetings legislators attend.
For 2004, taxable income for legislators
ranged from just under $33,000 to $52,000,
with the overwhelming majority in the range
of $35,000 to $42,000, according to figures
supplied by the Legislative Research
Commission.
The first pension "assumed" an annual
salary of $27 500, not insignificant in 1982,
but more modest each year since then.
Depending on when a legislator joined the
retirement program, it could take 38 years to
qualify for a full pension.
The pension bill this year would base the
amount of pension earned by legislators on
the amount of pay they received each year.
Further, it would make retirement benefits
available at 75 percent of pay after 27 years.
And the final salary would be detennined by
an average of the highest three years of salary
received any time during legislative service.
Donna Stockton-Early, the longtime
administrator of the legislative retirement
system, said the changes are fair and provide
more stability for the finances of the program.
Retirement, generally, is based on an actual salary earned and not an assumed one, she
noted. And 27-year retirement and "high
three" are available to state employees generally.
"Why should you be penalized when
you're a legislator?" she said.
She noted the circumstances of the bill
rushing through from committee vote to full
votes in the House and Senate all within a
few hours of the last day for bill passage of
the session.
But at least this change is pretty much
straightforward. Stockton-Early noted the
late-night pension overhaul five years ago
that would have meant a near-doubling of the
pension benefits before the cowts intervened
and struck it down. That proposal came from
the acknowledged master of pension matters,
fanner Sen. Albert Robinson, a London
Republican.
"It's all right here. It isn't quite as in
person files an affidavit of indigency, the
court after hearing must appoint the public advocate to defend, according to
Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in
this state.
It became evident that my client needed at least two expert witnesses who
would have to be paid. While in jail, he
has no income and could not pay for
them and other trial expenses and is fully
entitled to representation as is provided
by law. This did not involve an attorney
fee.
Further, the notice of the motion was
timely mailed to the Commonwealth's
Attorney on March 7, in total compliance
with the three-day notice rule.
The copy which I handed to the prosecutor, Mr. Taylor, was a copy of my
motion to withdraw after the court
approved the motion to appoint the public advocate and was orally made by
leave of court as I requested.
I question, too, whether a "shell is
stuck in a passenger's skull." The doctor's statement given to me stated that a
sliver of lead was removed by tweezer
and that two butterfly bandages were
applied and that she was discharged at 6
a.m. the next morning after the alleged
incident, probably from the emergency
room. You can readily see why my client
needs a physician's expert testimony, for
which payment will be required.
One other observation I have made is
to question whether your reporter's erroneous adverse publicity will require a
change of venue for the defendant from
this county.
I request retraction of all your
reporter's inaccurate, incorrect statements.
Cassie J. Allen
Prestonsburg
(See IDEAS, page five)
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Story inaccurate,
incorrect
I feel that the story "Shooting suspect
gets third lawyer" published on Sunday,
March 13, referring to the case of
Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Ray
Collins, defendant, is totally inaccurate
and holds me up to public ridicule.
The staff writer, Tom Doty, is fully
uninformed to the point where I question
whether he was actually present in coutt.
The motion for hearing was for the
appointment of the public advocate to
take over the case and was strictly to
secure his services because the
Commonwealth of Kentucky has established by law a manner of paying trial
expenses necessarily incurred in the
defense of any needy person. Whenever a
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Slate touts improved prescription drug tracking
FRANKFORT
The
Cabinet for Health and Family
Services' Office of the
Inspector General
today
unveiled its enhanced webbased state-operated database
that is used to identify and
prevent controlled substance
abuse in Kentucky. This
makes Kentucky the first state
in the nation to provide a selfservice web-based system for
tracking all schedule II-V prescription drugs.
The Enhanced Kentucky
All Schedule Prescription
Electronic Reporting program,
known as eKASPER, is a true
technological success story for
Kentucky. "eKASPER will
allow pharmacists, physicians,
law enforcement and other
qualified
users
to
get
KASPER reports 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week within 15
minutes or less of making a
request, compared to the cur-
rent fax only request system
that can take from 2 hours to 3
weeks to issue a report," says
CHFS' Inspector General
Robert J. Benvenuti, III.
"eKASPER is the most effective and efficient tool ever
implemented to combat prescription drug ·abuse in
Kentucky, its benefit will be
immediate and powerful and
have an incredibility positive
impact on the citizens of the
Commonwealth."
Approximately 1 ,300 pharmacies across the state most of them electronically report all controlled substances they dispense through
this system .
During the year 2000, there
were 36,174 requests per day
for
information
from
KASPER; in 2004 that number
jumped to 122,469 requests.
Before KASPER, it took drug
control investigators an aver-
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2000," Stockton-Early said.
There may, however, be an
exception to the overall transparency of this year's pension changes.
A section that starts on page 28
seem to open the door to a new
combination of the legi lative
retirement program and other public employee retirement program
that would apply to the number of
years accumulated in the program
and pos ibly even let non-legislative salaries be used to determine
the pension levels.
There are several former legislators now in other state jobs who
might be able to benefit from the
new provision - Gov. Ernie
Fletcher; Attorney General Greg
Stumbo; Brian Crall, deputy secretary of Fletcher's cabinet; Mark
Treesh, revenue commissioner;
Lindy Casebier, now in the
Commerce Cabinet; Charles
Geveden, now in the attorney general's office; and Richard
Murgatroyd, former legislator and
Kenton County judge-executive.
Rep. Tim Feeley of Oldham
County, who will SQ9n be taking a
judgeship, might also benefit.
The section of the legislation
that might open the door to a new
kind of double-dipping will have to
be examined more closely, said
Stockton-Early.
"There may have been a hidden
agenda to help a few," she said.
age of 156 days to complete an
investigation of an alleged
doctor
shopper.
Under
KASPER, the average time
dropped to 16 days. With
eKASPER it's expected to
drop further, plus provide
improved accuracy of data
reported.
"We commend the 2003
General Assembly for appropriating
$1.4M
and
Congressman Hal Rodgers for
the $350,000 grant that
allowed us to bring eKASPER
to life as a real time data
access program. Likewise, we
are sincerely grateful to all the
individuals who have dedicated their expertise snd time in
the development and implementation of the eKASPER
project," said Dr. James W.
Holsinger Jr., secretary of the
Cabinet for Health and Family
Services. "Literally, a physician or pharmacist can review
the data base 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, and print a report
online in just a few minutes
while the patient is still waiting for the prescription."
KASPER began operating
in 1999. The system tracks all
schedule II-V drugs dispensed
by licensed Kentucky pharmacists. It was developed to assist
physicians, pharmacists and
law enforcement to help fight
"doctor shopping" - when
patients go from doctor to doctor illegally seeking controlled
substances, and the illegal
diversion of these substances.
Under the leadership of Dr.
Holsinger,
the
program,
administered by the Drug
Enforcement and Professional
Practices Branch (DEPPB),
moved in 2004 from the
Department of Public Health
to the Office of Inspector
General's Division of Fraud,
and
Waste
Abuse/Identification
and
Prevention. Under KASPER,
pharmacists must report all
controlled substances within
16 days of the day the drug
was given to the patient. The
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several hours . Now they can
access the information on their
computer in about 15 minutes,
potentially while patients and
customers are present in their
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physicians for any controlled
substances given to a patient.
"The eKASPER system is a
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police officers can use to help
curtail the illegal use and
spread of certain prescription
drugs in Kentucky," said
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and Public Safety Cabint' .
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tool is designed to prever t
'doctor shopping' by drug
addicts. Instead of waiting
days for a report, officers can
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aid officers in the apprehension of offenders."
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Donald R. Bentley,
Sr.
Donald R. Bentley, Sr., 65, of
Marengo, Ohio, died Sunday,
March 13. 2005, at Grady
Memorial Hospital.
He was born September 3,
1939. in Floyd County, the son
of the late Charlie and Dora
Brown Bentley.
He was a maintenance supervisor at DMI, a diesel mechanic,
md a former truck driver. He
was a veteran of the U.S. Army,
having served during the Korean
War. He was a member of
"iotthgate Community Church
10 Sunbury, where he served as
deacon and greeter. and also
received an associate degree in
Theology.
He is survived by his wife,
Rebecca C. King Bentley, whom
he married April 9, 1961, in
Montgomery, Alabama.
Other survivors include a
daughter, Pam (Jeff) Bidwell of
.\1ilford Center; three sons:
Donald (Lori) Bentley Jr., of
Alabama, David Bentley of
Indianapolis, and Dan (Donna)
Bentley of Johnstown; a sister,
Janice (Gary) Salyers of Powell;
two brothers: Vernace (Bobbi)
Bentley and Tommy (Terri)
Bentley. both of Columbus;
eight grandchildren: Morgan
Bidwell, Jimmy, Tabitha, Tony,
Christine, Shierra, Caleb and
Joshua Bentley; three sisters-inlaw. Avenell Bentley of
McDowell, Beuna Bentley of
Marysville, and Beth Bentley of
Plain City.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by three
brothers: Sam, Virgil, and
Ronald Bentley; two sisters,
Bugle Martin, and Polly
Bentley: and two grandsons:
Rusty Bentley, and Jeremy Fish.
Funeral services will be held
at 11 a.m.,Thursday,Aprill7,at
Underwood Funeral Home,
Marysville. Ohio, where the
family will receive friends, 2 to
4 and 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday.
Pastor Bill Stephens will officiate, and burial will be at Union
Township Cemetery, in Milford
Center.
Condolences
may
be
expressed at www.underwoodfuneralhome.com.
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Joann (Kendrick)
Burchett
Aurora, Ohio, formerly of
Prestonsburg, died February 9th,
2005.
Joann was born November 25,
1931, the daughter of the late
Garland and Rosie Kendrick.
She married Flem Burchett on
January 2, 1948. He preceded
her in death, June 5, 2002.
Joann retired from Hy-Ko
Products in 1993, and enjoyed
her free time with family, and
still enjoyed reading her Floyd
County Times.
She is survived by one daughter, Norma Sue (Bart) Adkins;
grandchildren: Bart Jr. (Kathy),
Amy (Jim) Matthew~, and
Debbie (Bob) Collins, all of
Ohio. There are three greatgrandchildren: Jacob, Damon,
and Eric Adkins.
Joann was preceded in death
by her brother, Thomas
Jefferson (T.J.); and infant son,
Donald Ray, in 1949.
Services were held at
Kindrich McHugh Funeral
Home in Solon, on February 12.
She was laid to rest at
Restland
Cemetery
in
Bainbridge Twp., Ohio, next to
her late husband, Flem.
Emma Lou Clark
Emma Lou Clark, age 68, of
Betsy Layne, passed from this
life on Saturday evening,
March 12, 2005, at her residence.
She was born February 14,
1937, in Honaker, the daughter
of Cynthia Kidd Akers of Betsy
Layne, and the late Jeff Akers.
She was retired from American
Standard Corp., and was a
member of the Betsy Layne
Freewill ,!3aptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, Adis Clark of Betsy
Layne.
In addition to her husband
and mother, she is survived by
one son, Ronnie (Rhonda)
Clark of Prestonsburg; two
daughters: Barb Lykens, and
Vickie Rose, both of Betsy
Layne; one brother, Bud Akers
of Betsy Layne; three sisters:
Hazel Cole of Harold, Lil
Coffman of Bowling Green,
and Christine Kelly of Betsy
Layne; six grandchildren:
Brandi Lykens, Jayne Hale,
Whitney Lykens, James Rose,
Christi Lykens, and Blake
Rose; one great-grandchild,
Aubree Brown.
In addition to her father, she
was preceded in death by one
brother, Ronald Akers.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, March 15, at 11 a.m.,
in the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, in Martin, with Tracy
Patton officiating.
Burial was in Davidson
Memorial Gardens, in Ivel,
under the direction of Hall
Funeral Home.
Pallbearers: David Akers,
Jimmy Rose, Greg Lykens,
Scotty Lykens, B.J. Newsome,
and Andy Jarvis.
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Henry Compton
Ruby M. Trimble
Henry Compton, 95, of
Lewis
Prestonsburg, died Friday,
Ruby M. Trimble Lewis, 91, of
March 11, 2005, at the
Ivel, died Sunday, March 13,
Prestonsburg Health Care.
2005, at her residence.
Born February 23, 1910, in
Born November 30, 1913, in
Martin County, he was the son
Grundy, Virginia, she was the
of the late Layne and Sally daughter of the late Cuff and
Blackburn Compton. He was a
Lynn Looney Hobson. She was a
retired auto mechanic.
homemaker and a member of the
He was preceded in death by
Toms Creek Freewill Baptist
his
wife, Stella Ousley
Church.
Compton.
She was twice married: first to
Survivors include three sons:
James Trimble, and later to Mack
Henry Compton Jr., Estil
Lewis; both preceded her in
Compton, and Ollie Compton,
death.
all of Prestonsburg; three daughSurvivors include two sons:
ters:
Lois
Ousley
of
Jerry R. Trimble of Ivel, and
Prestonsburg, Sally Kinney of
Jimmy Trimble of Prestonsburg;
Warsaw, Indiana, and Thelma
three daughters: Bonnie Holsen
Joseph of Leesburg, Alabama;
of Ivel, June Burchett of Jackson,
two brothers: Bill Comptor and
Michigan, and Dinah Stratton of
Layne Compton, both of
Glasgow; one brother, Raymond
Prestonsburg; two sisters:
Hobson of California; three sisMaudie Peters of Munith,
ters: Gaye Turk of Arkansas,
Michigan, and Becky Tackett of
Beatrice Woodward of Oregon,
Warsaw, Indiana; nine grandand
Arlene
Lawson
of
children and 13 great-grandchilCambridge, Ohio; 15 grandchildren.
dren, and 29 great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wife and
In addition to her parents, and
parents, he was preceded in
husbands, she was preceded in
death by three daughters: Julie
death by one son, Don Trimble;
Ann Campbell, Ruby Compton,
four brothers: Granville Hobson,
and Helen Compton; three
Zone Hobson, Carson Hobson,
brothers: Ray Compton, Albert
and Dewey Hopson; three sisters:
Compton,
and
Millard
Hermie Van Dyke, Tiny Morris,
Compton; two sisters: Mary
and one infant.
Prater, and Sadie Hall; one
Funeral services will be congrandchild, and one great-grandducted Wednesday, March 16, at
child.
. l p.m., at the· Nelson-Frazier
Funeral services were conFuneral Home, in Martin, with
ducted Monday, March 14, at 1
Chuck Ferguson officiating.
p.m., at the Nelson-Frazier
Burial will be in the Davidson
Funeral Home, in Martin, with
Memorial Gardens, in Ivel, under
Reverend Robert Alex Ousley
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
officiating.
Funeral Home.
Burial was in the Compton
Visitation is at the funeral
Cemetery, at Spurlock, in
home.
Prestonsburg, under the direcActive pallbearers: Joey
tion of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Holson, Jeff Trimble, Bobbie
Home.
Trimble, Greg Stratton, Kevin
Visitation was at the funeral
Stratton, Michael Trimble, and
home.
(.P.aid obituary)
J.T. Trimble.
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Samuel Hicks
Samuel Hicks, age 88, of
Sharonville, Ohio, pasS'ed away,
Monday, March 14, 2005, at
Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue '
Ash.
He was born September 17,
1916, in Floyd County, the son of
the late Buck Elam and Julia (nee
Hale) Hicks. He was a veteran of
the U.S. Navy, serving in WW II
and Korea. He survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the
ship that delivered the bomb
destroying Japan, ultimately ending WW IT. He was a Ford Motor
Company retiree, a member of the
Sharonville Masonic Lodge,
Eastern Star, and the First Church
of God in Highpoint.
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On September 8, 1954, he married Yvonne Allen, in Floyd
County. She survives after more
than 50 years of marriage.
Other survivors include his
daughter, Pamela, and her husband, Roy Davidson; two grandchildren: Alexis, and her liusband,
Eminan Bayrak, and Tara
Davidson; and one sister, Maggie
Alice Stephenson.
In addition to his parents, he
was also preceded in death by his
siblings, Mary Pratt, Martha ~
Prater, Margie J. Smith; and
Curtis, Leonard, Benjamin
Franklin, Preston, and James
Hicks. ,
Funeral services will be held at
2 p.m., Thursday, March 17, at the
Webster Funeral Home, 3080
Homeward Way, at Rt. 4,
Fairfield, with Rev. Ralph Turner
officiating.
Visitation will be Wednesday,
5-8 p.m., at the funeral home,
where Sharonville Masonic
Lodge services will be conducted
at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, followed by the Eastern Star service.
Burial will follow at Oak Hill
Cemetery, with full military honors.
(Paid obituary)
Agnes Ann "Tad" Kidd
Agnes Ann ''Tad" Kidd, age 75,
of Dana, wife of Harold Kidd,
passed away Tuesday, March 15,
2005, at her residence.
She was born March 1, 1930, in
Printer, the daughter of the late
Bernard Tackett and Lillie Allen
Tackett. She was a retired school
teacher for the Floyd County
School System. She taught at
Betsy Layne Elementary, was a
member of the Kentucky Retired
Teachers Association, and was a
member of the Sammy Clark
Freewill Baptist Church at Dana,
for 59 years.
Survivors include her husband,
her mother, Toda Akers Tackett of
Banner; two sons: Randy Kidd,
and Greg Kidd, both of Dana; one
sister, Judith Johnstone of Betsy
Layne; and three grandsons:
Joshua Kidd, Jordan Kidd, and
Nathan Kidd.
In addition to her parents, she
was preceded in death by one
brother, Tody Tackett.
Funeral services for Agnes Ann
''Tad" Kidd will be conducted
Thursday, March 19, at 11 a.m., at
the Sammy Clark Freewill Baptist
Church, in Dana, with Clergyman
Mike Howard officiating.
Burial will follow in the Akers
Cemetery, in Dana, under the professional care of the Hall Funeral
Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church, with
nightly services at 7 p.m.
Kellie M. Marshall
Kellie M. Marshall, fourday-old daughter of Larry
and
Jennifer
Brown
Marshall of Langley, died
Saturday, March 12,2005, at
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital emergency room in
Martin.
She was born March 8,
2005. in Prestonsburg.
In addition to her parents,
she is survived by one brother, Larry Blake Marshall of
Langley; her grandparents:
William and Carol Marshall
Bentley of Langley; and
Gorman and Camille Prater
Brown of Langley; and her
great-grandparents: Berley
Brown of Langley, Jack
Prater of Hippo, and Helen
Belcher Marshall of Langley.
She was preceded in death
by her great-grandfather,
Oliver Marshall; and her
great-grandmothers: Phyllis
Prater and Orpha Mae
Prater.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 15,
at noon, at the Nelson-"
Frazier Funeral Home, in
Martin, with Chuck Hall
officiating .
Burial was in the Marshall
Family
Cemetery,
in
Langley, under the dJ.rection
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Visitation was at the
funeral home.
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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 :tLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
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FLOYD COUNTY
CATHOLICS
WELCOME YOU
ST. MARTHA CHURCH
Water Gap
Masses: 5 p.m., Sat.; 11:15 a.m.
The family of Arthur Kilburn 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 Clergymen Ellis Stevens and Levi
Meade for their comforting words, and the Hall Funeral Home
for their caring and professional service. All your thoughts and
prayers will never be forgotten.
THE FAMILY OF ARTHUR KILBURN
Sunday
Thi~
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, 1 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.
Card of Thanks
The mimtnum 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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LEGAL NOTICE
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 1n 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 jlldgment) 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
C1vil Action No. 04-173 KKC on thf! Pikeville pocket 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
Off1ce.
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 &ff~t 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 1n 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.
lnqwries should be directed to.
THOMAS W. KEETH, Rural Development Manager
Rural Development
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
Tele hone: 606·886·9545
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The family of Arettia M. Mosley would like to express our
appreciation to all those who helped in any way during thdoss of
our loved one. We thank you for the flowers, food, and all the
kindness expressed. A special thanks to Jimmy Hall and Buddy
Jones for their comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for
their assistance in traffic control, and to the Hall Funeral Homo for
their kind and professional service. All your acts of kindness were
a great comfort to our family.
THE FAMILY OF ARETTIA M. MOSLEY
Martin, Ky.
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Sunday Night ................6 p.m.
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The family of Delmer Tackett 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 Clergymen
Tommy Spears and Junior Kidd for their comfoning words, the Betsy
Layne Church of Christ, the Sheriff's Department for their assistance
in traffic control, and the Hall Funeral Home of Martin, Ky., for their
kind, professional, and courteous service. All your thoughts and
prayers were a great comfort to our family.
THE FAMILY OF DELMER TACKETT
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proofread, Simpson said, to work with the Woman's
explaining that the mistakes Club to produce and distribute
v. ere later corrected with funds
brochures about PRIDE to area
residents. Bobby Carpenter,
from his own pocket.
"The prototype was wrong noting that the city currently
but you didn't tell me it was doesn't
have
a
Code
wrong," Simpson said.
Enforcement Officer, said that
He told council members he the city is planning a joint venwould find the prototype, ture with the county for the
thought to be in Branham's cleanup this year. The city has
possession, to "prove" that appropriated approximately
they made the mistakes.
$13,000 in grants, Fanmn -;aid,
"It wasn't my intent to pro- for roadside cleanups and other
long this agony," he said. "But · PRIDE projects.
I'll go another inch with it."
• Held and passed the secSimpson said it would have ond reading of ordinance 2'leen "nice" if he had been 2005, amending city council
given the information "16 meeting times to 6 p.m. on the
months ago when I tried to get second and fourth Mondays of
this thing paid for."
each month.
In other news, the council
• Held and passed the secalso:
ond reading of ordinance 3• Agreed to work with the 2005, establishing an extra
Prestonsburg Women's Club to committee for the city council.
encourage community partici• Held and passed the secpation in the May PRIDE ond reading of 4-2005, adding
Cleanup. Boots Adams and another committee member for
i Eileen Burchett approached the finance committee.
the city council by illustrating
• Held the first reading of
their disgust with the litter ordinance 5-2005, propo~ing
problem in Prestonsburg.
the annexation of Highlands
''We're approaching the Regional Medical Center and
tourist season ... Do we really Consolidated Health Systems
expect them to come and enjoy properties on Route 321.
our trash, too?" Adams asked.
• Discussed current issues
Members passed a motion surrounding area tourist
attractions.
Jason Crum, Golf Pro , gave
this
year's
tournament
overview at Stonecrcst. The
Kentucky
State
Amateur
Tournament, slated for June
14, 15 and 16, would probably
make th1s year Stonecrest's
biggest, he said.
Keith Caudill. director of
operations at the Mountain Arts
Center, handed in a preliminary
schedule for shows at the
MAC. The MAC is working on
bringing the U.S. 23 Showcase,
he said, and also offers a variety of classes and programs for
the community. Several high
school students gathered at the
MAC yesterday for a free video
production seminar.
Eddie Campbell discussed
ongoing projects with city utilities. He reported that construction on the water intake of the
city's sewer is only 65 percent
complete because the "river is
not cooperating." Another
phase of the project, changing
to a Miox system that replaces
the need for chlorine, is at least
75 percent complete, he said.
Matching funds are in place,
Campbell said, to upgrade
water lines from Jerry's
Restaurant
to
Highlands
Regional on Route 321 and to
place a new water line from
Stonecrest to Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park. He applauded
work done on University
Drive. The Transportation
Cabinet separated the storm
and sanitary drains during construction, which saved the city
money, he said. .
Ralph Little, Archer Park,
updated the city on a successful season last year. The park
has recovered from the flood,
he said, but currently has a
beaver problem . They also
need approximately 10 to 15
loads of clay dirt mixed with
sand, he said, to fill in the ball
field.
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4-112" Angle Grinder ................$14.98
Skil Jigsaw .................................$29 .99
18-Volt Cordless Buffalo Drill.$19.98
#5400-01 Skil Saw .....................$35.99
Skil
Reciprocating Saw with Case ...$59 .94
48" Fluorescent Shop Light .......$7 .88
Dewalt 3/8 Drill .........................$53.96
51 Piece Top Most Tool Set ......$15 .99
Presto Popcorn Popper ............$19.98
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10" Delta Table Saw .................$99.98
10" Delta
Compound Miter Saw ..............$99 .98
9" Delta Band Saw ....................$99 .98
10" Delta Drill Press .................$99 .98
10 Compartment Storage Box ...$1.99
Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker ......$19.98
Brown Jersey Gloves .......29¢ per pair
Dusk to Dawn Light .................$19.98
148-Pc. Crescent Tool Set .........$55.00
Justin
Work ·Boots
25%off
�AS • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
16, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds
• Continued from p2
see."
Once
insic.lc
the
cur ,
Jt'l\sslcy told Nelson not lt>
worry nhout lhc bmkc li •ht
thnt Is nlwuy (lll, the pnwe r
s 1e rln • 1hut ~ u nu• tim~ ~
~ticks nnd th
l'uct thut
" very two o1· three tim s ,
the ~lnrtcl' won't C!llch ."
Y t. Nelson wus sutil:i·
fied and got out his check·
book .
The d nl d(lttc , 111~: men
!ihook
smil •d
hnnds,
1'\~,;lson
h d 01assl•;•
lll11l
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K. Thailuntl
1111 11 tic C.ts of lh~:
M i s111 • (. oh r.1s
,til ~2 of'
th~.,;m ,
The deadly snakeb were
urpurently stolen from u
R ci
ross fucility, nnc.l
police h1r they were d S·
lineu t'or the ~tew pol.
The King Cobru~; hud
he n kept with other poiso·
nous snukes ut th
R cl
Cro~s · compound
in down·
town Bangkok, where they
arc milked for their poison
to be used as serum for
snakebite medicine.
Workers discl>V •red thnt
62 snuk •s went mis ·ins in
Junuury. After 20 more
wel'c sone on Feb. 2, Red
C't·oss vet rinarinn Montri
Chiewbumrungklct filed n
compluint with polic ,
Authorities
uiu they
suspect a Red Cross
knows
employ ee stole the cobras,
whi c h huve never cscupc d
snakes,"
how to h and le
sui d po lice L t.
ol.
thro ugh the stc I net~ thut
en c l os e the ceme nt pits
wher e th~:y lived.
"Th
v ter in uriun suid
he be lie ved thut the mi •
Y ichien
Vatc:hira~u c ng.
in g ~ nukes hud ulrend y
gune into cooki ng pots , und
that the thief who stol e
them muH be someo ne who
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Children always seem to get sick after the doctor's office closes. When this hap·
pens, remember Highlands Martin County After Hours" Clinic. Doctors see adult
and pediatric patients between 5:00p.m. and 10:00 p.m. each day.
For colds, minor illnesses and accidents, the ••After Hours" Clinic can provide
you and your family with high quaUty, convenient medical care when you need it
the most and it's do e to home.
For more information about HJghl.ands Martin County CommunityCare "After
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�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
New York Life
Insurance
Company
•
1183 Pitts Fork Road
David, KY 41~16
Office: 606-886-3146
Cell: 606-226-3387
dd reffett @ft. newyorkl ife .com
Attention
II Veterans
· · The Amertcan Legion
wattts you to join the
· nation's largest veteran
organization. Let your
voice be heard.
For more information,
call 285·3357, between 4
· p.m. and 10 p.m.
16, 2005 • A9
The Company You Keep®
Dexter D. Reffett
Agent
Whether you're looking for a playful puppy or 011 indoor cat. the Floyd County Animal
Shelter is sure to have just the pet for you! If 011yof the ardmals pictured here catch your
eye, pleose drop by the shelter to meet them. and if they've already been adopted. to meet
the1 r friends!
MISSING
Fallon M. Blackburn, 15,
brpwn hair, gray eyes,
110 pounds, 5' 3"
Become a Kentuck.y
organ & tissue donor.
Sign the back of your driver5
license or place a Donor Dut on Jt &Jell your family of your wishes.
Missing since Friday, March 11.
For infonnation contact.
l-800-525·3456,
or ~'WW.trustforlife.org
ihe Floyd County Arlimal Shf,lter is located at Sally Stephens Branch in west Prestonsburg.
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The shelter is opert from 10:00 to 5:00 Monday through Frida~' Ofld 10:00 to 3:00 Sq.turdays,
andean be reached by phone at (606) 886-3189.
This ad paid for by Pi llersdorf, DeRossett and Lone Law Offices in Prestonsburg. reachable
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�10 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
16, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Main Street, Martin, Ky.
Phone 285-3368
WRIGHT LUMBER CO.
Grand Vue Plaza, Hazard, Ky.
. SALE STARTS: ~
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9th
RlJN.S THROUGIJJ- .
-SUNDAY, MARCH '20th
Phone 436-2350
GEORGIA-PACIFIC
VINYL SIDING
LUMBER
8'
10'
12'
14'
16'
2x4 CONST.
$2.89
$3.59
$4.39
$5.29
$6.09
2x6 CONST.
$4.29
$5.79
$6.69
$7.29
$8.99
2x8 CONST.
XXX
XXX
$6.99
$8.49
$9.59
$10.99
$10.19
$12.49
$13.99
$14.99
SIZE
2x10 CONST.
1x12 Sheathing ....................... Per Foot 59¢
White D-5
Almond D-5
Tan
D-5
Clay
0-5
Gray
0-5
1x3 Furring Strips .......................Each 94¢
PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER
8'
10'
12'
$2.99
$3.99
$4.99
$4.29
$5.69
$6.99
2x8 TREATED
$5.49
$7.49
$8.99
5/4x6 TREATED
$4.49
$5.49
$6.49
2x4 TREATED
2x6 TREATED
.
Fan Fold Insulation, 200' Bdl ... $28.99
9'x1 00' House Wrap ..................$79.99
18" Octagonal Vinyl Vent ......... $34.99
1/2'' Foam .....................................$4.97
#750 Roof Vent ............................$5.00
6x6x12 TREATED ...............................$23.99 6x6x16 TREATED ...............................$33.99
4x8 Pressure Treated Lattice .................................................................................. $6.99
50-lb sec
50-lb 16CC •••.••.•••••••
19.63' Ctn.
50·1b Roofing Tacks ............ $27.99
19.63' Ctn.
I I I I I I I I I I I
POWER TOOLS
LAMINATE FLOORING
$19.98
$19.98
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Enhanced Oak ..............$24.98
50-lb Drywall Nalls .••••••••••.••. $37.99
Golden Oak ............. ~ .... $24.98
50-lb 8 Galv. Nalls ............... $35.99
19.63' Ctn.
Gunstock ......................$24.98
50-lb 16 Galv. Nalls ............... $35.99
$43.99
$43.99
$43.99
$43.99
$43.99
Outside Corner .......................... $1 0.99
Inside Corner ............................... $8.99
White Soffit ................... Per Piece $7.99
8" Fascia ......................................$8.99
F-Trim ...........................................$4.99
24"x 50' Trim Coil ......................$45.99
Premium Construction Studs ..............................................................................$2.89.
SIZE
Dutchlap .... Per Sq.
Outchlap .... Per Sq.
Outchlap .... Per Sq.
Outchlap .... Per Sq.
Outchlap .... Per Sq.
. #5400-01 SkiiSaw .................. $35.99
Skll Reciprocating Saw ........ $59.94
with Case
10" Delta Table Saw .................. $99.98
10" Compound Miter Saw ......... $99.98
9" Band Saw ..............................$99.98
10" Drill Press ............................ $99.98
ELECTRICAL
12-2 Wire with Ground .............$28.99
5/8 x 8' Ground Rod ................... $7.99
2" x 1 0' Sch 40 Conduit ............. $4.99
2" x 10' Sch 80 Conduit ............. $7.99
2" x 3" Plastic Wall Box ................23¢
2" x 3" Metal Wall Box ...................79¢
4" x 4" Metal Ceiling Box ..............69¢
Duplex Receptable ........................49¢
50' 16/3 Extension Cord ............. $3.99
218 & 3/0 6-Panel Metal Clad ........$109.99
218 & 3/0 9-Lite Metal Door ...........$129.99
100' 16/3 Extension Cord .............7.99
100 Amp
20-Circuit Breaker Box & .Lid ... $39.99
'200 Amp
30-Circuit Breaker Box & Lid ... $89.99
200 Amp
40-Circult Breaker Box & Lld ••• $99.99
200 Amp Trailer Disconnect ....$79.99
200 Amp Trailer Hookup •••••••• $259.00
Mill Finish Storm Doors .................$59.99
White Crossbuck Storm Doors ..... $79.99
Full VIew Storm Doors ...................$89.99
Black Security Storm Doors ........ $149.99
Lauan Pre-Hung Door Unit ............ $54.99
610 Steel Patio Door ......................$319.99
9'x 7' In ulated Garage Door ....... $235.00
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1/2" x 10" C·PVC Plpe ....................~ ....$2.29
3/4" x 10' eve Pipe .............................$3.39
4" X 10' Corrugated Sewer Plpe.........$2.39
4" X 100' Corrugated Sewer Plpe..... $23.99
500 Gallon Septic Tank ...................$229.00
750 Gallon Septic Tank ...................$299.00
. 1000 Gallon Septic Tank .................$379.00
40-Gallon Electric Water Heater .... $165.00
· 50-Gallon Electric Water Heater .... $185.00
40-Gallon Gas Water Heater ...........$229.00
1/2-HP Deep Well Pump ..................$139.00
3/4-HP Deep Well Pump ..................$159.00
1/2-HP Submersible Pump ..............$199.00
3/4-HP Submersible Pump ..............$269.00
1-HP Subermersible Pump .............$319.00
42-Gallon Pressure Tank ..................$74.99
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ROOF.ING
48" Poultry Netting .........................$29.97
80" Poultry Netting .........................$34.97
48" Welded Wire ............................. $44.99
60" Welded Wire .............................$54.99
6' Heavy Duty Metal Fence Post ......$3. 79
15-1/2 Gauge Barb Wire .................$24.99
Fiberglass Shingles .................... $29.99
90·1b. Roll Roofing ...................... $12.77
15-lb. Felt ..............•...•••••••••••...•••.•.$9.49
30·1b. Felt ...................................... $9.49
5-V Tin
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8' 5-V Tin ......................................$6.99
10' 5-V Tin ......................................$7.99
12' 5-V Tin ......................................$8.99
14' 5-V Tin .................................... $1 0.99
WERNER LADDERS
6' Aluminum Step ............................$34.99
6' Fiberglass Step ...........................$44.99
16' Aluminum Ext............................ $59.99
20' Aluminum Ext............................$89.99
24' Aluminum Ext. .........................$119.99
MISCELLANEOUS
4-Foot Shop Lights ........................$7.99
2 1/2-ton Cable Puller ..................$25.00
INSULATION
18-Volt Cordless Buffalo Drill ..... $19.98
17-Cublc Foot Liberty Gun Safe $499.00
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4-WHEELER TRAILERS
4' x 6' Tilt Trailer .........................$399.97
3 1/2" X 15" ...........................88.12' $15.99
3 1/2" X 23" ..................................... $25.99
6" X 15" .................................48.96' $13.99
6'' X 23'' ............................................ $20.99
x 60" Underpinning Tin ..........$4.99
4-Cubic Foot Wheelbarrow ......... $29.00
6-Cubic Foot Wheelbarrow ......... $39.00
x 6' Trailer With Gate .............$449.97
5' x 8' Trailer With Gate .............$549.97
5-Gallon Driveway Sealer .............$5.99
4-Wheeler Ramp~ .......................$109.97
5-Gallon Sealer & Filler .................$8.99
4'
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28"
CARHARTT WORK WEAR
FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCES
B-17 & B-18 Jeans .......................$20.97
Washer/Dryer Combo ................$429.98
B-13 Carpenter Jeans ..................$24.97
#352 Electric Range ...................$279.98
K-87 Pocket Tee-Shlrt ....................$9.99
18-Cubic Foot Refrigerator .......$359.98
All Carhartt Coats ......................40o/o off
21-Cubic Foot Refrigerator .......$389.98
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PANELLING
Colonial White Marlite ............... $11.98
New-Cut Cedar .. :........................$11.98
Oyster Pearl ...............................$11.98
Ann-Arbor Birch ........................ $20.98
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45' Car.ton
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
·Food City Favorites
·result in 400 area jobs
ABINGDON, Va. - Food
City is in the process of rolling
out a new in-store product sampling program in its 89 retail
911 grocery outlets. The new program, called Food City
Favorites, is administered by
Summit
Demonstration
Services, a division of Daymon
Worldwide.
Food City Favorites will
provide customers with an
opportunity to try new items,
obtain meal suggestions and
receive recipes and money-saving coupon offers on select
items.
The program will also result
in the addition of numerous
area jobs. Summit currently
employs 16 full-time and 318
' ' part-time sales advisors to manage the Food City chain wide
program. That number is
expected to climb to between
360 and 400 part-time advisors
by the program's maturation,
with each Food City location
staffed with an average of four
sales advisors to meet customer
needs.
"We are very pleased to
offer our customers an opportunity to sample our items and
gain valuable tips on meal planning and preparation, while creating additional jobs for the
markets in which we operate it's a win/win situation," said
Steven C. Smith, president and
chief executive officer for Food
City.
Summit offers a top-rate
demo program, equipped with
the latest technology, including
stainless steel carts, microwave
and convection ovens, skillets,
grills and griddles. And their
sales advisors are well-trained
in the areas of food preparation,
sanitation and food safety.
"Food City and Summit
Demonstration Services have
invested a great deal in our
associates and equipment to
deliver a quality demo program
to Food City customers, said
Jeff Ryder, Summit director of
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
16, 2005 • A11
Champion Supports & Services, Inc.
operations.
Food City Favorites will be
available seven days per week,
during the hours of 12 a.m. until
6:30 p.m., although the hours
may vary slightly by store.
"With their increasingly busy
schedules, we want to provide
our shoppers with every possible advantage to make their
shopping experience as convenient and enjoyable as possible," said Richard Gunn, executive vice president merchandising/marketing for Food City.
Headquartered in Abingdon,
Virginia, K-YA-T Food Stores
operates 90 retail food outlets
throughout the tri-state regions
of
Southeast
Kentucky,
Southwest
Yugmia
and
Northeast Tennessee.
126 Sycamore St.
Harold, KY 41635
Phone: 606-478-4848
Fax: 606-478-4838
tnewso@ hotmail.com
A successiut human services company is seeking applicants interested in part-time,
full-time, or PRN (as needed) employment for the role of Direct Care Provider
(DCP). DCP's assist individuals which have mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities with bathing, grooming, hygiene, meal preparation, eating, choosing
leisure & recreational activities, etc ...Must have reliable transportation and willing to
work, at least, every other weekend. Starting pay is determined by experience and
other credentials (ranges from $6.50-$7.00/hr.). Must be willing to undergo several
hours of training upon hire (training hours are typically Monday thru Friday at varying hours).
Locations hiring for:
Banner Area-Monday thru Friday, 4:30p.m. to 12 midnight
Garrett Area-Varying hours, but typically Monday-Friday, 5:15p.m. to 11:30 p.m.,
and every other weekend.
Prestonsburg Area-Tuesdays & Thursdays, from 5 p.m. to 12 midnight, and every
weekend
If interested, please contact Robin Crider at the above telephone number.
Owned & Operated by: Tonya Newsome-Sanders
Vi5it us otiline
In Loving Memory
Bill "Dad"
Hackworth
LADIES
March 20, 1948-May 7, 2003
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30% Off
Regular price Rafaella.
Misses S-M-L-XL, 6-16. Reg.
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25% Off
Sleepwear & robes.
Reg . 6.99-54.00.
Sale 5.24-40.50
30% Off
Select misses regular
Buy 1, get 2nd
50% Off
Any bra, slip or camisole.
Items may be mixed: you may buy o
bra and get o slip os your 2nd Item.
2nd Item must be of equal or lesser
value. Excludes Jockeye event.
25%
Off
Koret "Posltano"
coordinates. Orlg. 40.00-
Memories are forever,
The void is so severe;
We know you couldn't
stay,
But we wish you were
still here.
60% Off
46.00, Sale 29.99-33.99
Sterling silver jewelry.
Incredible values. Reg. 15.00-
25% Off
65.00, Sale 6.00·26.00
Misses Gloria Vanderbil~
knit polo. In pink or green.
reg. 19.99, Sale 14.99
A husband, a daddy, a
papaw,
A brother and a friend;
We came to you for
guidance,
It didn't matter when.
Your birthday once again,
The memories will always
stay;
Husband, daddy, papaw,
brother, friend,
We will see you again
someday.
>••·-·•~<
22.00-50.00, Sale 15.40-35.00
price updated career
separates. Reg. 29.99
each. Sale 20.99 each
We think of you often,
Knowing where you are;
An angel looking over us,
Like an extra brighter
star.
We wish everyone knew
you,
For their life would be
changed;
You were such a special
person,
But you had to spread
your wings.
PRE-EASTER
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25% Off
Regular price jewelry by
Liz Claiborne~ Liz & Co~,
Monet & Orion. Reg. 9.99-
25% Off
Misses regular price
capris. Reg. 19.99-32.99,
30.00, Sole 7.49-22.50
Sale 14.99-24.74
25%
Off
Regular price
25% Off
handbags. Reg. 12.99-
Misses Erika Sport casual
French terry separates.
Orlg. 16.99-29.99
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120.00, Sale 9.74-90.00
25% Off
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BACK ON lOP: Wildcats roll into Rupp
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
ROBINSON CREEK - Shelby
alley reserved the top spot in the
15th Region for the third time in
four years Saturday night, beating
Pike County rival Belfry 79-71.
Valley won despite the hot
shooting hand of Belfry senior
Doug Howard, who hit four three-
pointers in the fourth quarter and
finished with a game-high 40
points.
Shelby Valley (26~5) weathered
a couple of Belfry rallies, for the
most part handling the Pirates from
the opening tip. Valley took a 20-6
lead out of the first quarter and led
38-21 at halftime.
Kelsey Friend led Shelby Valley
with 22 points. Patrick Tackett
added 20 points and Mitchell
Riddle tossed in 18. Kris Bentley, a
player who transferred to Shelby
Valley from Prestonsburg following
a sophomore season as a starter for
the Blackcats, added 10 points.
Bentley scored five of his 10 points
in the final quarter. Tackett also had
10 points in the final period.
Valley led 55-38 at the end of the
third quarter. Belfry cut Valley's
lead down to 10 points with just
over two minutes remaining, but
could get no closer.
Shelby Valley's scoring was balanced.
John Johnson added four points
for the Wildcats while Cade Riddle
tossed in three and Nick Potter
added two.
(See WILDCATS, page two)
photo by Steve LeMaster
Shelby Valley Coach Jason Booher acknowledged the home crowd Saturday night following
the 15th Region title vlctory over Belfry.
Lady Rebels fall ·
prey to Pike Central
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
photo by Jamie Howell
Betsy Layne
senior Kim Clark
lofted a shot over
Belfry's Mary Beth
Johnson. Clark
finished with 15
points in Betsy
Layne's win over
Belfry.
Kristen Smith led
Betsy Layne In
scoring with a
game-high 24
points.
LADYCATS BACK IN REGION FINALS
PAINTSVILLE- After beating Shelby Valley
in the opening round of the Girls' 15th Region
Tournament, Allen Central moved into the semifinals looking to beat another Pike County team.
The Lady Rebels entered the regional semifinals
on Monday night against Pike County Central.
For one half, the first half, Allen Central
outscored Pike Central. Allen Central played
from behind for some of the opening half, but
went into the intermission with a 24-20 lead. In
the second half, Pike Central livened up offensively and ended Allen Central's postseason run,
beating the Lady Rebels 71-48.
Mishay Weddington, who did most of her
damage in the second half, led Pike Central in
scoring with 18 points. Weddington hit five-ofeight on three-point attempts. Paige Lowe added
17 points and Haley Ratliff netted 11. Ratliff
added a trio of made three-pointers. As a team,
Pike Central shot eight-of-18 from behind the
three-point line. ·
Eight different Pike Central players provided
scoring in the winning effort.
"Pike Central came out and really hammered
the ball inside and challenged us defensively,"
Allen Central Coach Mark Martin said. "We got
down early, yet, our girls kept their composure
during the early part of the game. The second
quarter we were able to score and take some
pressure off of us defensively. We had a good
balance of scoring in the second quarter and
were able to take a halftime lead into the lockerroom."
(See FALL, page two)
Lale fr8e throws lift Betsy Layne over Belfry
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
If)
PAINTSVILLE - Betsy Layne
won its way back into the Girls' 15th
Region Championship Game for the
third time in four years Monday
night at Johnson Central, turning
back 60th District winner Belfry.
The Ladycats, led by a gamehigh 24 points from senior guard
Kristen Smith, defeated Belfry 6658. Smith went to the free throw line
often Monday night. She finished
24-of-30 from the charity stripe and
had five rebounds, four steals, two
assists and two blocks to go along
with her game-high 24 markers. In a
arne that included 43 fouls and 55
free throws, Betsy Layne connected
when it counted.
"Coming into the game, we
talked about four keys - taking care
of the ball, rebounding, stopping
dribble penetration and making free
hrows. " Betsy Layne Coach
Cassandra Akers noted during a
post-game interview. "Kristen really
stepped up for us."
Smith was 15-of-18 from the free
throw line.
Betsy Layne senior forward
Breann Akers, who finished with 10
points, shot six-for-six from the stripe.
Betsy Layne seniors Kim Clark
and Krista! Daniels also played key
roles, finishing with 15 and nine
points, respectively.
By winning Monday night, Betsy
Layne's four seniors earned the right
to take part in a third regional championship game.
"This is three out of four years in
the regional championship game for
our seniors," Akers acknowledged.
"They wanted to have a chance at
another regional championship."
Betsy Layne captured a regional
title in 2003, beating Johnson
Central inside the same building that
plays host to this year's 15th Region
Tournament.
Betsy Layne outscored Belfiy in
every quarter except the opening period.
The Lady Pirates got out to a
quick, successful start and ended the
first quarter strong, leading 17-13 at
the conclusion of the initial period.
Each team had their least productive offensive quarter of the game in
the second frame, but Betsy Layne
was able to make up ground. The
Ladycats outscored Belfry 12-7 in
the second quarter and after after
outscoring the opposing team 20-14
in the third quarter, put the game
away in the final quarter - mostly
from the free throw stripe.
Betsy Layne had to go to its
bench early in the first half. A few
different Ladycat starters were hit
with early foul trouble. The Ladycats
went into halftime with a 25-24lead.
"At halftime, with a one-point
lead and that many players in off of
the bench and in the game in the first
half, we were happy," Akers added.
Daniels eventually fouled out.
Akers and Smith each ended the
game with four personal fouls.
Betsy Layne outrebounded
Belfry 38-35, getting 19 rebounds
on each end of the floor.
Candice Meade added five points
SPORTS EDITOR
EASTERN - Allen Central High
School junior Yumekia Hunter has bro~en through and joined some elite company. Hunter has been selected to the
2004 KHSVCA (Kentucky High School
,Yolleyball Coaches Association) AllState Volleyball Team. Hunter, who
.Monday night completed another high
• hool basketball sea$on, in the sport of
olleyhall recently received an all-state
llOnorablc mention nod. She is one of 87
:female student-athletes who earned all-
...•
state volleyball recognition. She is the
first player to receive the honor from the
30th District and the 15th Region.
During an accomplished junior volleyball season, Hunter posted 131 kills
with a .190 attack percentage. She also
had 27 assists, landed 53 aces and dug
up 70 I defensive returns while recording 27 blocks.
''It's a well-deserved honor for an
outstanding young woman," said
Colonel Larry Maynard, Allen Central
High School volleyball coach. "We're
all proud of Yumekia. It's definitely a
great honor."
ALLEN CENTRAL'S AMANDA MILLS
Blackcats, Golden Eagles
fall in region semis
Hunter na111ed AII·State
onorable Mention
by STEVE LeMASTER
for Betsy Layne. Kaitlin Lawson
rounded out the Ladycat scoring
with three points on a made threepoint field goal.
Brooke Stanley paced Belfry
with 17 points. Shae Deskins and
Amanda Moon each had 11 points
apiece. Falon Muncy flipped in six
points for the Lady Pirates. Mary
Beth Johnson and Brittany
Chapman each had five points.
Betsy Layne went into last
night's 15th Region title game
against familiar foe Pike County
Central. In 2004, on its way to the
15th Region crown, Pike Central
knocked out Betsy Layne during the
regional semifinals.
"Everything that could go wrong
in that game, did," Akers said
Monday night, looking back at last
season's regional tournament game
between the two schools. "We're
happy to be back in the finals."
Results of last night's regional
championship game were unavailable at press time and will appear in
Friday's edition.
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
VUMEKIA HUNTER
ROBINSON
CREEK
Prestonsburg and Johnson Central
each fell short of a spot in the 15th
Region Finals. Both lost Friday night
in the 15th Region Tournament
Semifinals
Shelby Valley beat Prestonsburg 6347. The Wlldcats turned what was an even
game at halftime into a blowout win.
Belfry held on to beat Johnson
Central 55-52.
Shelby Valley and Belfry advanced
on to meet in the 15th Region Finals.
Shelby Valley and Prestonsburg
went into halftime deadlocked at 25all. Then, the second half went the way
of the home team.
Kelsey Friend paced Shelby Valley
with 22 points. Kris Bentley added 17
points for the winning team.
The Blackcats got behind early in
the game, but fought back. In the second half, host Shelby Valley prevented
a similar Preston burg comeback.
Trevor Compton drained three
(See SEMIS, page two)
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MARCH
16, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Fall
• Continued from p1
Pike Central held Allen
Central to just seven points in
the third quarter. The Lady
Hawks outscored Allen Central
26-7 in the third qmuter.
"At the half, we told our kids
that they were going to come
out and that we had to hang
tough during the first part of the
second half," Martin added.
"We just lost our composure
there in the latter part of the
third quarter. Paige Lowe along
with Weddington just shot the
lights out. Give credit to both of
those kids for stepping up at a
big time for Pike Central. We
missed a couple of defensive
assignments and you just cannot
do that at this time of the year.
"Overall, once they got the
big lead, the game just got
away from us . It was a tough
loss to end up the season but,
overall very happy for this
group of kids. They developed
into a close and gritty group
over the season that created
some excitement for all of us.
".We had a tremendous fcil-
lowing and want to say thanks
to our student body."
Allen Central struggled some
against Pike Central's defensive
pressure. The Lady Rebels ended
the game with 14 turnovers.
After Allen Central scored
the first two points of the game,
Pike Central went on to provide
the most potent play in the first
quarter. The Lady Hawks led
14-7 at the end of the first quarter before managing just eight
points in the second period.
In the second half, Pike
Central took advantage of good
looks at the basket and hit the
Allen Central defense hard.
Pike Central had 15 assists
opposed to just six turnovers.
The Lady Hawks shot 11-for18 from the free throw line. For
the game, Pike Central shot 44
percent from both the floor and
beyond the arc.
Each team blocked eight shots.
Allen Central outrebounded
Pike Central 46-43. Pike
Central did, however, pull
down 30 defensive rebounds.
Taylor Brown and Kim
Coleman finished with six points
apiece for Pike Central. Kayla
Lowe had five points while
Elizabeth Birchfield and Ashley
Vanko chipped in four each.
Allen Central senior Becky
Thomas finished her career
with a respectable double-double performance of 12 points
and 17 rebounds. Thomas also
blocked six shots.
JuniorAlanna Cline led the Lady
Rebels in scoring with 16 points.
Yumekia Hunter and Amanda Mills
both added eight points while Mara
Biliter and Amanda Thacker netted
two apiece.
Allen Central struggled from
the outside. The Lady Rebels
hit just two-of-14 from outside
of the three-point line. For the
game, Allen Central shot just
28.6 percent from the floor.
Last night, defending 15th
Region champ Pike Central was
taking on Betsy Layne in the
15th Region title game. Results
from the championship game
were unavailable at press time.
Shelby Valley's most recent
regional title comes in Jason
Booher's first season at the
helm of the Wildcat boys' basketball program. Booher, who
came to Shelby Valley from
Belfry, served as an assistant
coach on another Wildcat staff
during an earlier stint at the
Pike County high school.
Valley will take · on 11th
Region champ Henry Clay
(30-3) in the opening round of
the Boys' Sweet 16 Thursday
at 6:30p.m. Henry Clay brings
into the tournament with the
best record of any of the par-
ticipating high school boys'
basketball teams.
Other
opening
round
matchups include Ohio County
(26-7) vs. South Laurel (28-4);
Elizabethtown (26-4) vs. Perry
Co. Central (23-7); Pendleton
County (19-4) vs. Pleasure
Ridge Park (29-5); Ballard
(28-2) vs. Bullitt East (25-7);
Rowan County (27-5) vs.
University Heights (30-4);
Lone Oak (23-9) vs. Corbin
(20-10); and Warren Central
(27-4) vs. Holmes (24-6).
Warren Central is the
defending state champion.
The Allen Central High School girls' varsity cheerleaders took top honors recently in the 58th
District Girls' Basketball Tournament.
Wildcats
David Jones added 10
points for the Pirates. Jones
was the only other Belfry player to reach double figures. Matt
Maynard tossed in eight points
and Adam Warren added six.
Jamie Case and Bruce Young
finished with five and two
points, respectively.
Shelby Valley is back on top
of the 15th Region following a
season out of the regional title
mix. At the beginning of the
2004 15th Region Tournament,
Shelby Valley, again the
regional favorite, fell to thentournament host Prestonsburg.
photo by Jamie Howell
The Prestonsburg High School football program held its annual banquet Sunday at the Mountain
Arts Center. As part of the banquet, senior football players were honored.
Semis
• Continued from p1
three-point field goals and did
his part for the Blackcats, finishing with a team-high 13
points. John Mark Stephens
followed with 10 points. Sean
Leslie scored nine points and
Jesse Chaffin added five.
Lewis Barnette had four points
for the Blackcats (18-11).
This year's senior group of
Prestonsburg High boys' basketball players were a part of
three straight 15th Region
semifinalist teams.
Belfry 55, Johnson Central
52: Belfry continued its postseason basketball run Friday
night, beating Johnson Central
55-52 in the 15th Region
Tournament Semifinals.
Johnson Central battled
back and nearly pushed its way
to a win and a spot in the 15th
Region Finals.
But the Pirates held on.
Adam Warren led the Pirates
with 18 points. Doug Howard
and Jamie Case finished with
13 points apiece. Matt Maynard
added nine points for Belfry.
Stapleton paced
Josh
Johnson Central with a gamehigh 24 points. Kyle Rice had
eight points and Jamie
McCarty added seven.
Belfry's victory set up a
15th Region championship
game Saturday night against
Shelby Valley.
15TH REGION BOYS'
BASKETBALL
Team
She lby Valley
Johnson Central
Belfry
Prestonsburg
East Ridge
Betsy Layne
Pike Co. Cent.
South Floyd
Phelps
Pamtsville
Pikeville
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Warren Central returns to Sweet 16,
but not to 'defe_n d' title, coach says
tw MURRAY EVANS
A~SOCIATED
PRESS
LEXINGTON
Sure,
Warren Central won last year's
Boys Sweet 16 high school
'asketb~ll
title , and the
Dragons are back in the tournanent field this season.
But Warren Central coach
fim Riley said his team isn 't
iefending the championship.
"We've got a trophy here at
;chool," Riley said . "We don't
1ave to defend that trophy. We
ion 't have to give it back if we
.ose. It's in a locked case right
now. We're not defending it."
The tournament will begin
Wednesday in Rupp Arena,
with Ohio County playing
South Laurel of London in the
opening first-round game.
Warren Central will play
Covington
Holmes
on
Thursday in the tournament's
final first-round game. A
chance for Warren Central to
repeat last year's win is somewh~t improbable. Riley lost
four starters off last season's
29-7 ¢am, including three LonneU Dewalt, Matt Maresca
and Brock Whitney - who
either' play or plan to play
NCAA Division I college basketball or football.
Point guard Troy McFarland
is the only returning starter, but
the Bowliryg Green school won
~its fourth straight 4th Region
'title. Warren Central is the first
team t6 do that since
tOwensboro in the mid-1920s.
Warren Central will have to
buck more history if it is to win
a second straight state championship. Since Lexington won
the first state basketball title in
1918, only five teams have
repeated
as
champions:
Lexington (1918-1920) , Ashland
(1933- 1934), Louisville Seneca (19631964) , Louisville Male ( 1970-1971 )
Fairdale (1990-1991).
Last season, Warren Central
started 5-6 but closed the season on a 21-game winning
streak. This season , the
Dragons (27 -4) are riding an
18-game winning streak heading into the tournament. Those
are the two longest winning
streaks in school history.
The similarities between the
teams stop there, though , Riley
said. Last season, the Dragons'
five starters played the vast
majority of the m4lutes, so
they tried to slow the tempo.
This season, Riley regularly
used nine players, so he's
reverted to using a more frenetic, pressing style.
Jeremy Anderson is the
Dragons' leading scorer, at
18.6 points per game, but three
other players - McFarland,
Nick Britt and Bryson Hall also have double-figure scoring
averages.
Warren Central came into
last year's tournament somewhat under the radar, as 2003
champion Mason County and
its star guard, Chris Lofton,
captured most of the pre-event '
headlines .
"Last year, we got up there
and I thought we had the best
team, and nobody paid attention to us," Riley said. "We
kind of surprised everyone."
Warren Central is one of
four teams to return from last
year's tournament field,joining
Pleasure Ridge Park of
Louisville, University Heights
of Hopkinsville and Perry
County Central.
Two teams, Lone Oak of
Paducah and Bullitt East of
Mount Washington, are in the
tournament for the first time.
Covington Holmes hadn't
qualified in 15 years, while
Pendleton County is in for the
first time since 1971.
Warren Central isn't the
only former champion in the
field. Others include Pleasure
Ridge
Park,
University
Heights,
Elizabethtown,
Louisville Ballard, Lexington
Henry Clay, South Laurel and
Corbin. Rowan County and
Shelby Valley of Pike County
round out the field.
)ohrtson beats Busch brothers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS - Jimmie
Johnson spoiled what could
have been a banner day for the
Busch brothers, beating Kurt
and Kyle on their home track.
Johnson was strong for all of
the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400
- he led a race-high 107 laps and seemed to be coasting
toward the victory Sunday until
he had trouble passing a lapped
car with under 20 laps to go.
It allowed Kyle Busch, a
19-year-old rookie who was
running in a distant second
place, to close the gap on the
leader while big brother, Kurt,
the reigning Nextel Cup champion, also moved within striking distance.
Lady Patriots cruise
•
Into 14th finals
TIMES STAFF REPORT
JACKSON- University of
Kentucky signee and high
school senior Kasi MullinsGalloway made good on five
three-pointers and tossed in a
game-high 30 points Monday
night in the 14th Region
Semifinals to lead the Knott
County Central Lady Patriots
to an impressive 80-56 win
over Perry County Central.
Knott Central (29-5) is
back in the 14th Region championship game
"It's good to be back in the
championship game," said Knott
County Central Coach Rhett
Gibson. "We know what our goal
is and that is to get out of here."
The Knott County Central
Lady Patriots have played
toward a berth in the state
But lapped traffic soon got
in the way of the Busch brothers, preventing them from
challenging Johnson for the
win. Johnson cruised to victory, beating Kyle to the line by
several car lengths. Kurt
ended up third for his best
career finish in five Nextel
Cup starts at the Las Vegas
Motor Speedway.
MARCH MADNESS
at
First Commonwealth Bank!
BOYS' REGIONAL
TITLE GAMES
Region 1
Lone Oak 67. Paducah Tilghman 62
R egion 2
Univ. Heights 62. Henderson Co. 59
Region 3
Ohio County 65, Owensboro Catholic 60
Region 4
Warren Central 5 l, Bowling Green 42
Region 5
Elizabethtown 65, John Hardin 44
R egion 6
PRP 57, DeS ales 55
Region 7
Ballard 64, Jeffersontown 58
Region 8
Bullitt East 68. Scott County 56
Region 9
Holmes 53. Conner 39
Region 10
Pendleton Co. 71, Montgomery Co.42
Region 11
Henry Clay 52, Bryan Station 46
Region 12
South Laurel 66, North Laurel 36
Region 13
Corbin 67. Rockcastle County 57
Region 14
Perry Co. Central 52, Leslie County 49
Region 15
Shelby Valley 79, Belfry 71
Region 16
Rowan County 53. Russell 45
tournament since the early
portion of the 2004-05 season.
Keisha Johnson, another Knott
Central senior, flipped in six threepointers and added 20 points.
Perry County Central entered
the post-season as the five-time
defending 14th Region champion. Britta Maggard led the Lady
Commodores (26-5) with 22
points.
Whitesburg 68, Breathitt Co.
61 : Senior Whitney Hogg hit
five-of-nine attempts from
beyond the arc and scored 19
points as the Lady Yellowjackets
(25-7) pulled away from host
Breathitt County (19-10) in the
other semifinal game.
Collette
Cole
paced
Breathitt County with 27
points and 18 rebounds. The
14th Region championship
game was played last night.
LOUISVILLE
Hopkinsville's Curtis Pulley,
who earned Mr. Football. honors in December, was named
the Associated Press boys'
high school basketball player
of the year on Tuesday.
Pulley was the top vote-getter on the AP all-state team,
earning 29 votes. The 6-foot-2
Pulley beat out Scott County's
Jared Carter (25 votes) and
Louisville PRP's JaJuan
Spillman (24) for the top spot
on the first team. Rockcastle
County's Aaron Cash and
Jeffersontown's
Domonic
Tilford rounded out the first
team, with 23 votes apiece.
The teams were voted on by
12 media members statewide.
Pulley~ a quarterback who
guided Hopkinsville through an
undefeated regular season, averaged 24 points and 16 rebounds
per game during basketball season, earning recognition despite
his team's 11-16 record. He was
a first-team selection on 9 of 12
ballots and was a second-teamer
on another.
The 7-2 Carter shot nearly
62 percent from the field during the regular season for the
state's highest scoring team.
Scott County won its games by
an average of 22 points, but
lost to Bullitt East in the
Eighth Region championship.
The 5-11 Spillman, headed
to Louisville on a football
scholarship, has guided PRP to
16 straight wins and a berth in
this week's Boys' Sweet 16.
PRP was sixth in the final AP
poll of the season.
Cash, alsp a 5-11 guard,
averaged 24 points for
Rockcastle County, which lost
to Corbin in the 13th Region
championship.
Tilford, a 6-1 guard, shot 85
percent from the free-throw
line , helping Jeffersontown
reach the state's No.2 ranking
by season's end.
Louisville Fairdale star
Maurice Grinter, also headed to
Louisville on a football scholarship, and Cawood guard
Blake Hubbs, the state's second-leading scorer, averaging
27.5 points per game, led the
second team. Hubbs also made
the second team last year.
Pendleton County's Buddy
Biggs and Louisville Trinity's
Mike Szabo shared the boys'
Coach of the Year. Pendleton
County went 25-31 across
Biggs' first two seasons,
improved to 20-11 in 2003-04
and are 29-4 heading into this
week's Sweet 16. Trinity was
the top-ranked team in the
state until a one-point loss to
Ballard ended its season in last
week's Seventh Region final.
The girls' all-state team
will be announced next
Tuesday.
16, 2005 • 83
H.S. BASKETBALL
SCOREBOARD
GIRLS
Region 13
Rockcastle County 57. Clay County 43
(Championship Game)
14th Region
Whitesburg 68, Breathitt Counly 51
Knott Co . Ce nt. 80, Perry Co. Cent. 51
15th R egion
Pike County Central 71. Allen Central 48
Betsy Layne 66, Belfry 58
16th Region
Rowan County 53. Raceland 35
Russell 52, West Carter 49
Pulley is AP's
top vote-getter
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
•
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
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annual National Archery in the
Schools Program (NASP)
national tournament gets underway this morning at Louisville's
International
Convention
Center.
Over 1,800 students from
more than 100 schools from
Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and
Kentucky will make this year's
tournament the largest student
archery event in U.S. history.
The tournament has grown more
than three-fold since its inaugural event.
"The tremendous growth and
popularity of this program is
astounding," said Roy Grimes,
an aide to Kentucky Department
of Fish and Wildlife (KDFWR)
commissioner Tom Bennett
and national coordinator for
NASP. "It has exceeded all
expectations.
"The number of student
archers competing in this event
has grown about 50 percent over
last year's 1,291 and has overwhelmed our facility this year,"
he said. "It's hard to believe
that we have outgrown
Louisville's Convention Center
in just three years."
The Olympic style archery
program was a Kentucky spearheaded effort to promot~ academic success among Kentucky
students and iRspire greater interest in outdoor skills development. It began as the Kentucky
Archery in the Schools Program.
But that name soon changed
when its almost overnight popularity quicKly exp~t~t, ..;d nation-
wide. The first event, held in
Lexington three years ago,
attracted
600
student
archers.
"NASP is a cooperative
venture of the KDFWR, the
Kentucky' Department of
Education and several
archery and conservation
organizations ,"
said
Grimes.
"The big three backers
of the program have been
Mathews Archery, the
Archery Trade Association,
and the National Wild
Turkey Federation."
Shooting begins at 9:45
a.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m.
Awards will be ~ven from 5
to 6 p.m. J'eam awards for
individual states Will be given for
the top three teams in the
Elementary (K-6) , Middle (7-8)
and High School (9-12) divisions.
These team scores will be
compiled from the . sum of the
top 15 scores for each team in
each division. Individual awards
will be presented ~o the top five
boys and girls in each division
for each state. Some states may
not conduct a state championship, but will still be eligible
for national awards.
National
Championship
awards will be bestowed up the
three highest scoring teams in
each division . The five highest
scoring boys and girls from ea~~
division will receive first
through fifth place individual
National Championship Awards.
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competition and before the
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divisions wil1 be. invited to participate in the Shooting for the
Future Competition. Each of the
eight shooters invited to the
Shooting for the Future
Competition will receive scholarships for post-secondary education.
Kentucky now has more than
322 school enrolled in the
Archery in the Schools
Program, a 33 percent increase
over last year. Twenty-four
other states have launched
Archery in the Schools
Programs in the last year, an
increase of 300 percent. Fifteen
other states are highly interested
in adopting the Archery in the
Schools program. For more
informaHon about the National
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Program. contact the Kentucky
Department of Fi),h and Wildlife
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�84 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
16, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
14th Region Boys'
Basketball Tournament
Shelby Valley quartet leads
15th Region all-tourney squad
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
Breathitt Countv
90
Mar7,6:30 PM
Booatbitl CQunt¥
at Hazard
W~fe
Countv
69
63
Mar 11, 6:30 PM
I Perrv Countv Central 52
at Hazard
Perrv Countv Central81
Mar7.8:1SPM
at Hazaro
PerNCountvCennal74
48
Jenkins
Mar12, 7:00PM
at Hazard
(championship)
Owslev Countv
Perry Coynty Central
73
Mar 8. 6:30PM
at Hazard
OWsle~ CQunfY
ROBI~SON
CREEK
When the dust :settled following
the 15th Reg1on Tournament
title game. four players from
regwnal champion Shelby
Valley found themselves on the
all-tournament team. Kelsey
Friend. who had three of the best
games of his storied high school
career during this year\ regwnal tournamen,. led the way for
the Wildcats. Shelbv Vallev's
Kris Bentley, Patrick J-ackett ~nd
Mitchell Riddle all joined Fnend
on the all-tournament team.
Regional runner-up Belfr)
placed three players on the'all-tournament squad as Doug Howard,
Adam Warren and Matt Maynard
were all honored. Howard fired in a
gamc-h1gh 40 points in Belfry's
championship game ~tback.
Regional tournament semifinalist Prestonsburg also placed
three players on the all-tournament team. Blackcat seniors
Jesse Chaffin, John Mark
Stephens and Trevor Compton
were also named to the regional
team.
The 15th Reg10n AllTournament Team was voted on
by members of the media. In all,
16 players were named to the
team. Paintsville, Pike County
Central. South Floyd and East
Ridge all had one playu named
to the team. Johnson Central,
the tournament's other semifi-
nalist, was represented by two
players. A rundown of the alltournament team follows.
15th Region
All-Tournament Team
Landon Slone, Paintsville
Brad Lowe. Pike Central
Steven Stanley, South Floyd
Eric Slone, East Ridge
Trevor Compton, Prestonsburg
John Mark Stephens, Prestonsburg
Jesse Chaffin, Prestonsburg
Jamie McCarty, Johnson Central
Jo'>h Stapleton, Johnson Central
Adam Warren, Belfry
Matt Maynard, Belfry
Doug Howard, Belfry
Patrick Tackett, Shelby Valley
Kelsey Friend, Shelby Valley
Kris Bentley. Shelby Valley
Mitchell Riddle, Shelby Valley
71
54
Jackson Citv
Mar 11, 8:15PM
Leslie Countv
at Hazard
49
58
Letcher
Mar 8. 8:15PM
at Hazard
L~tlie Countv
Leslie Countv
81
..65
15th Region Boys'
Basketball Tournament
l Shelbv Vanev
.
90
photo by Jamie Howell
The 15th Region All-Tournament team included four Shelby Valley players. Prestonsburg and
Belfry each had three players named to the squad.
Mar7. 6:30PM
at Shelby Valley
(double overtime)
Paintsville
Shelbv Valtev 63
86
Mar n, 8:30 PM
at Shelby Valley
j
Shelbv Vallev 79
Pike Qoun~ Central 59
j
Mar 7. 8:00 PM
Prestonsburo
at Shelby Valley
Prestonsbura
61
I
47
:
I
South Flovd
Mar 8, 6:30 PM
I
Beffrv
55
71
I
I
Mar 11, 6:00PM
at Shelby Valley
Johnson Central
Belfiy
71
66
Mar 8, 8:00 PM
at Shelby Valley
East Ridg~
Shelby: Valley:
62
at Shelby Valley
I Belfry
Mar 12, 7:30 PM
at Shelby Valley
{championship}
photo by Jamie Howell
Johnson Central 52
Kaitlin Lawson came in off of the Betsy Layne bench and helped the Ladycats to a win over 60th
District champ Belfry.
56
Kentucky's Moss a rarity- a walkon who plays and contributes
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - When Ravi
Moss joined Kentucky's basketball team in 2002, there was
little hype involved, which
isn't surprising for a walk-on.
"To tell the truth, when I first
saw him walk in as a freshman,
I didn't know who he was," said
highly
recruited
Kelenna
Atubuike, who like Moss now
is a junior with the Wildcats.
Before long, Moss had won
over Azubuike and other teammates with his humor, hustle
and humility. Gradually, the
Kentucky coaching staff realized that Moss was a majorcollege sports rarity - a walkon talented enough to see significant minutes for a marquee
program.
Moss now is averaging 11.2
minutes a game and sometimes
is the first player off the bench
for second-seeded Kentucky
(25-5), which will play Eastern
Kentucky (22-8) in a firstround NCAA tournament game
Thursday in Indianapolis.
Moss is one of only a handful of walk-ons playing key
roles on a tournament team.
"Whenever I think of great
walk-ons, I think of him and
(Christian)
Moody
from
Kansas," Azubuike said. "He's
really big for us. He's a bigger
part of this team than most peo-
pie would imagine."
Kentucky coach Tubby Smith
said there's one reason Moss
plays so much: he's earned it.
"I'm sure Ravi is living out
one of his dreams," Smith said.
"This is where he wanted to go
to school and get an education,
whether he played basketball or
not. I'm sure he's thrilled, and
it's a thrill for us that he is contributing as much as he has."
Moss is averaging 3.8 points
per game and has scored in double figures three times in nine
games since Feb. 15. But teammates say that a stat sheet doesn't adequately measure Moss'
contributions to the team.
"He's a spark plug coming
off the bench," said senior forward Chuck Hayes, one of
Moss' closest friends. "His
energy level is so high, our
opponents have to try to keep
up with him."
Moss said his secret is simple: staying prepared. After all,
he said, he never knows when
Smith might choose to put him
in a game.
"You have to be ready at all
times," Moss said. "When he
calls your number, you have to
go in and produce. Staying in
the game and staying focused
is a big part of what we do."
It doesn't hurt when you
show a knack for making
clutch shots.
This season, with Kentucky
trailing Louisville by four
points, Moss hit a 3-pointer
with 2:08 left, a key moment as
the Wildcats pulled out a 60-58
win. He hit another 3-pointer to
keep Kentucky close in the late
stages of a loss to Kansas.
"It's just ~ lot of hard work
and listening, putting in the
extra time shooting or watching film or doing things that I
need to do to improve myself
personally," Mo~s said. "It's
staying within the system and
staying within yourself, having
the confidence in yourself and
working hard."
Moss was the star at tiny
University Heights Academy in
Hopkinsville,
but
dido 't
receive any scholarship offers
from NCAA Division I
schools. Kentucky showed
interest in him as a walk-on,
and that was enough to lure
Moss. It didn't hurt that Moss
received an academic scholarship, one that requires him to
maintain at least a 3.0 grade
point average.
Moss said he has tried to
emulate Hayes, whose most
impressive stat is the Wildcats'
90-17 record with him in the
starting lineup. Moss also credits his parents with instilling in
him a strong work ethic.
"He's a kid that knows who
he is and appreciates what he
does and knows that we appreciate what he does,'' Smith said.
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S1xty-four games in 21 days
to go from 65 teams to one. How
the brackets break down for the
NCAA tournament:
CHICAGO REGIONAL
Illinois was rewarded like no
other No . 1 seed with short bus
rides to Indianapolis and
Chicago - setting up one more
to St. Louis for the Final Four.
The lllini show up with the
gaudiest recoid and one nagging
question: Is the frontcourt good
enough for a championship run?
Forward James Augustine was
the MVP of the Big Ten tournament, but the Illini still rely on
the three-guard rotation of
Deron Williams ( 12.2 points per
game) , Luther Head (15 .8) and
Dee Brown (13.4).
Oklahoma State, with four
senior starters back from last
year's Final Four team, has
played a more uptempo style
since
6-foot-3
freshman
JamesOn Curry was inserted
into the starting lineup alongside
playmaker John Lucas III. The
trademark defense is still there,
too, as opponents shot just 34.6
percent.
Arizona has been its best
when Salim Stoudamire gets
going from 3-point range, where
he hit 53 percent (107-for-204)
during the regular season.
Boston College was unde·
feated after 20 games but fin·
ished 4-4 to lose its chance at a
No. 1 seeding. The Eagles need
Craig Smith and Jared Dudley to
return to all-Big East form.
First-round winners: Illinois,
Texas,
Alabama,
Boston
College,
LSU ,
Arizona ,
Southern Illinois, Oklahoma
State.
Second-round upset: LSU's
only loss in its last eight games
was in overtime to Kentucky,
and Brandon Bass and the
Tigers keep the late-season sue-
cess going with a win over
Arizona.
Third round: Illinois wins a
with
Alabama.
shootout
Oklahoma State slows down
LSU.
Regional
champ:
The
matchup of the lllinois guards
with Curry and Lucas will draw
the headlines, but the key is the
Illini frontcourt handling Joey
Graham.
ALBUQUERQUE REGIONAL
Washington was the surprise
of the No. 1 seeds but the
Huskies had enough to earn it
following a win over Arizona in
the Pac-10 tournament championship game.
The Huskies have proven
they are capable of the type of
run necessary against NCAAcaliber opponents, having beaten Utah, Oklahoma and
Alabama on consecutive days to
win the Great Alaska Shootout.
Nate Robinson, the 5-9 guard,
leads the team in scoring at 16.7
points and in spectacular dunks.
Tre Simmons lives up to his first
name with 72 3-pointers.
Wake Forest lost its No. 1
seed with a quarterfinal loss in
the Atlantic Coast Conference
tournament, a game the Demon
Deacons played without preseason national player of the year
Chris Paul, who was suspended
for throwing a punch. One of
three teums to be ranked No. 1
this season, Wake Forest hus to
tighten its defense after allowing
73.4 points per game.
Gonzaga had some impressive wins early - Washington,
Georgia Tech and Oklahoma
State - and plenty late. The
Bulldogs are on a 12-game winning streak, riding the duo of 68 sophomore Adam Morrison
(18 .5) and 6-10 senior Ronny
Turiaf (14.5
points, 9.5
rebounds).
Louisville, winner of nine
straight, was the one team with a
legitimate complaint about its
seeding as th.;! double champion
of Conference USA finished
fourth in the final poll. The
Cardinals get little help from the
bench and rely on forward
Francisco Garcia and guard
Taquan Dean.
First-round
winners:
Washington,
Pittsburgh,
Georgia Tech, Louisville, Texas
Tech, Gonzaga, West Virginia,
Wake Forest.
Second-round
upset:
Pittsburgh doesn't do anything
great except play a very physical
style. The Panthers outrebound
their opponents 38-29 and senior
forward Chevon Troutman (15.1
points, 8.0 rebounds) is one of
the most underrated players in
the country.
Third round: Louisville and
its nearly 10 3-pointers per
game beat Pittsburgh. Gonzaga,
with Morrison approaching rock
star Stiltus, beats Wake Forest in
a high-scoring shootout.
Regional champion: The shot
clock operator can take the night
off as Gonzaga shakes the midmajor label with an up-anddown win over Louisville.
SYRACUSE REGIONAL
North Carolina may never
have reached No. 1 this season,
but many considered the Tar
Heels the best team in the country. One of the deepest teams in
the field, the Tar Heels have five
players averaging between 16.!5
and 11.2 points per game.
Center Sean May averages a
double-double with 16.5 points
and 10.7 rebounds, and point
guard Raymond Felton is averaging 6.9 assists. Rashad
McCants (15 .8) provides the
outside threat after missing four
games with an intestinal problem. The loss to Georgia Tech in
the ACC semifinals ended an
eight-game winning streak that
included wins over Connecticut
and Duke.
Connecticut entered the Big
East tournament as one of the
Two easy No. 1 seeds and
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ASSOCIATED PRESS ·
LSU and Tennessee tried to
make it easy on the selection
committee for NCAA women's
basketball tournament.
If only the other top ·teams
had been as cooperative.
By winning so often against
top-caliber competition, LSU and
Tennessee were obvious choices
as No. 1 seeds in the tournament
bracket that went up Sunday. It
took careful examination and
considerable debate to come up
~ with the two others: Michigan
State and North Carolina.
Uh, notice anybody missing
here?
That would be Stanford, the
No. 1 team in The Associated
Press poll . For the first time since
it happened to Texas in 1984, the
nation's top-ranked team is not a
No. 1 seed in the NCAAs .
The disappointed Cardinal, 292 with 20 straight victories, did
their best to be diplomatic. Still, it
wasn't what they had expected
after sweeping the regular-season
and tournament championships in
the Pac-1 0, a league that ended up
with as many NCAA teams (5) as
the more highly regarded
Southeastern Conference.
"Honestly, a long time ago I
stopped trying to figure out the
committee and seeds," said
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer,
whose team reached the regional
finals last year as a No. 6 seed.
"What's much more important to
me is the team being healthy.
There's no sense in overanalyzing the thing."
Stanford wasn't healthy the
last time it was seeded No. 1, in
1998, and was stunned by 16thseeded Harvard in the first
round.
LSU was the overall No. 1
seed and was followed by
Tennessee, Michigan State and
North Carolina. Baylor also got
consideration for a No. I before
ending up as the highest-ranked
No.2 seed. Stanford came next.
"We spent more time on the
No. 1s than any year I've been
on the committee," said Lynn
Parkes, who chairs the group.
"When we got down to those
last two, there wasn't much to
~ separate them."
Stanford's seeding wasn't the
only thing that raised questions .
The committee decided to send
Rutgers to the first- and secondround site at Connecticut, where
the two teams had a flare-up
after the Big East championship
game last week.
guard
Cappie
Rutgers
Pondexter pointed at UConn
coach Geno Auriemma after
hearing something she felt was
objectionable late in the game.
Auriemma insisted he was talking to an official.
UConn and Rutgers won't
play each other because they're
in different regionals, but hard
feelings might linger.
"I don't know, it doesn't take
a lot of imagination to see their
thinking," Rutgers coach C.
Vivian Stringer said. "After all,
we just came back from there .
There was a lot of controversy
there, so why not send them
there again? Who knows what
they are thinking?"
Making LSU and Tennessee
the two top seeds was something the committee dido 't have
to defend.
LSU, which spent more time at
No. 1 in the poll than anyone else
this season, went 14-0 in the
Southea~tem Conference, then lost
to Tennessee by two in the finals of
the conference tournament.
Tennessee lost only to LSU in the
conference season and played the
nation's toughest schedule.
Two teams from the same
conference have been No. 1
seeds 10 times previously, most
recently in 2003. Tennessee and
LSU also were the two that year.
"It's great for the program,"
said
LSU
coach
Pokey
Chatman, who got the Lady
Tigers to the Final Four last season while subbing for the ailing
Sue Gunter. "I can remember
wondering if you were going to
get in or wondering if you were
going to be a 1, 2, 3 or 4 seed.
"It was nice knowing that for
a small amount of time , you
were concerned about being the
(top) No. 1 seed."
Interestingly, LSU and
Tennessee both will start the
tournament on the Lady Vols'
court in Knoxville, which could
make that site a hot ticket. LSU
is the top seed in the
Chattanooga Regional, while
Tennessee was placed in the
Philadelphia Regional.
Michigan State is No. 1 in
the Kansas City Regional. North
Carolina heads the bracket for
the Tempe Regional.
The women's tournament
scrapped the East , Mideast,
Midwest and West designations
for regionaJs this year and
replaced them with the name of
the city hosting the regional
semifinals and finals.
Of course, there could be a
North Pole Regional and
Michigan State would be excited. This is the first No.1 seed for
the Spartans, who shared the Big
Ten title with Ohio State and
won the conference tournament.
They haven't played in a week
and are eager to get started.
"These kids are grumpy and
tired of sitting around,"
Michigan State coach Joanne P.
McCallie said. "They're ready
to play. It doesn't matter who
else is in the bracket."
The bracket actually is
downright tough. Stanford is the
No . 2 seed, Connecticut is seeded third and Kansas State is the
No.4 seed. Connecticut, winner
of the last three national championships, won the Big East
tournament this year. Kansas
State was the runner-up in the
Big 12 tournament.
Michigan State is the only
No. I seed that plays on
Saturday, facing Alcorn State in
Minneapolis. The three others
play on Sunday - Tennessee
meeting Western Carolina, LSU
taking on Stetson and North
Carolina hosting Coppin State.
Before this year, Michigan
State's highest seed had been
No. 4 and that was back in 1991.
"I really wondered how
they'd weigh what we've done
this year against the tradition
that we don't have in this program, compared to some other
schools," McCallie said. "If you
look at what we did this year,
it's a hands-down case. If you
look at it in terms of tradition, it
gets a little murky."
In the end, however, it
cleared right up.
"There are times that's
there's just not very much that
separates teams," said Parkes,
the associate athletic director a
Memphis. "But we have to
come to a decision and our decision was that North Carolina
and Michigan State were the
(final) No. 1 seeds."
hottest teams in the country, but
the Huskies looked their worst
in a win o 't ,...eorgetown and a
Joss to Syracuse in the semifinals. Marcus Williams is among
the nation's leaders at 8.0 assists
per game, and the frontline of
Josh Boone, Charlie Villanueva
and Rudy Gay may be the most
talented in the country.
Kansas, the preseason No. l,
comes in having lost five of
eight games. Wayne Simien
(20.2 .points, 11.1 rebounds) is
one of the best players in the
country _ the best, according to
some. The Jayhawks' biggest
concerns are the sprained ankle
Keith Langford (14.7) suffered
in the regular-season finale and
their 69 percent free throw
shooting.
Florida has. won seven
straight games, the last four over
ranked or NCAA teams: two
over Kentucky within eight
days, one over Alabama and the
other over Mississippi State.
The offense comes from
Anthony Roberson (18.2), Matt
Walsh (14.5) and David Lee
(13.4).
First-round winners: North
Carolina, Iowa State, New
Mexico, Florida, Wisconsin,
Kansas, North Carolina State,
Connecticut.
Second-round upset: A 12thseeded tellm has advanced to the
Sweet Sixteen for four straight
years and New Mexico makes it
five.. The Lobos are a much bet·
ter team since the return of forward Danny Granger ( 19.0
points, 8.8 rebounds) from
injury. Just ask Utah, which lost
to them twice in the last two
weeks.
Third round: North Carolina
ends New Mexico's run and
Connecticut beats Kansas, sparing Carolina coach Roy
Williams a matchup against the
team he took to three Final
Fours before leaving for Chapel
Hill two years ago.
Regional
champ:
Connecticut avenges a 77-70
loss to North Carolina last
month and earns a trip to St.
Louis to defend its national
championship.
AUSTIN REGIONAL
If only starters played in the
NCAA tournament, Duke would
be a big favorite, but the Blue
Devils have been playing with a
short rotation. Three players J.J. Redick (22.8), Shelden
Williams (15 .6) and Daniel
Ewing (15.1)- have logged over
1,000 minutes. The Blue Devils
won the ACC tournament for the
sixth time in seven years and
hope to get injured guard Sean
Dockery back to add depth.
Redick is one of the best
shooters in the country from the
free throw line (93.5 percent)
and beyond the 3-point line
(41.7 percent). His shooting
opens the inside for Williams, a
58.9 shooter from the field.
Kentucky won the SEC regular season title and reached the
tournament title game with
defense, allowing opponents
61.9 points per game on 40.4
percent shooting. But the
Wildcats are suspect inside.
They have struggled on the
boards all season and were outrebounded 48-31 in their SEC
championship game loss to
Florida. Their perimeter game is
streaky at be~t. They shot only
45 .9 percent for the season,
including a dismal 2 of 19
beyond the 3-point line against
Florida, and they hit only 66.4
percent of their free throws.
Oklahoma has a balanced
attack with seven players averaging between 14.5 and 7.2
points. The Sooners' rebounding
depends on Taj Gray (7 .8) and
Kevin Bookout (6.6).
Syracuse won the Big East
tournament for the first time
since 1992, and it was because
of Hakim Warrick (21.4 points.
8.5 rebounds), one of the best
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dunkers in the game, and the
Orange's 2-3 zone defense that
forces teams into uncomfortable
shots.
First-round winners: Duke,
Mississippi State, Michigan
State,
Syracuse,
Utah,
Oklahoma, Iowa, Kentucky.
Second-round upset: Utah's
7-foot Andrew Bogut (20.7
points, 12.3 rebounds) has
become a national figure with
his inside-outside game - it's
inside where he causes problems
for Oklahoma.
Third round: Syracuse's zone
stops everybody on Duke except
Redick, and the Orange prevail
by causing foul problems for the
Blue Devils . Kentucky comes
up with the defensive effort to
handle Bogut in a low-scoring
win.
Regional champ: Syracuse's
zone really gives Kentucky's
shooters a headache and the
Orange get back to the Final
Four after winning it all in 2003.
FINAL FOUR
Connecticut and Syracuse
make it seven straight years that
one conference has had two
teams in the national semifinals.
Since they're on the same side
of the bracket, only Connecticut
moves on, beating the Orange
for the third time in four meetings as the frontline comes out a
Jot tougher than it did in the Big
East tournament.
Gonzaga's
Turinf and
Morrison are able to score on ·
Illinois, and the Bulldogs pre·
vail in a high-scoring game.
The championship game will
be bicoastal battle between a
team from a conference used to
having only one team in the
tournament against one from a
league usually a lock for six
bids.
Score one for the little guys.
Gonzaga finds a way and
keeps Connecticut from becoming the first repeat champion
since Duke in 1992.
Kentucky, Western Kentucky make Women's NIT field
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Kentucky
and Western Kentucky will
host games as part of the 32team
Women's
National
Invitation Tournament.
Kentucky (15-15) will host
Eastern Michigan (23-7) on
Friday. Eastern Michigan finished fourth in the Mid-American
Conference. It will be the first
meeting ever between the
Wildcats and Eagles, o,yho played
in last year's NCAA tournament.
It will be the first postseason appearance by the Wildcats
since 1999, when they made
the NCAA tournament, and
their
eighth
overall.
Kentucky 's last WNIT appearance was in 1990, when the
Wildcats won the event.
Kentucky set a school attendance record this season, averaging 5,301 fans for 15 home games.
Kentucky is 18th in the nation in
women's basketball attendance.
Western Kentucky (20-9)
will host Xavier· (20-9) on
Wednesday, the same day as
Western Kentucky's men host
a NIT game against Kent State.
Western Kentucky is 2-0
against Xavier, with the last
meeting during the 1997-98 season. The Hilltoppers have won
16 of their last 19 games and
were the Sun Belt Conference
East Division champions, but
lost in the semifinals of the conference tournament.
The Hilltoppers have made
21 postseason appearances in the
past 22 years. This will be their
sixth WNIT appearance and
their fourth in the past five years.
Xavier tied for the Atlantic 10
Conference West Division title
and lost in the conference tournament semifmals to Temple.
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MEMPHIS,
Tenn.
Memphis freshman Darius
Washington missed two of
three free throws with no time
left on the clock, allowing No.
6 Louisville to escape with a
75-74
victory
and
the
Conference USA championship on Saturday.
Louisville's Brad Gianiny hit
one of two free throws with 6.7
seconds to give Louisville a
two-point lead. Washington was
fouled by Francisco Garcia
while shooting a 3-pointer at the
buzzer. He hit the first, prompting his teammates to dance on
the court, but then bounced the
next two off the rim.
Washingt~ dropped to the
floor at the free throw line, covering his head with his hands.
Louisville (29-4) won its
second C-USA tournament title
in three years. The Cardinals
will go into the NCAA tournament on their longest winning
streak of the season, with victories in their last nine games and
~ o of their last 19.
Garcia finished with 19
points, Taquan Dean and Juan
Palacios each had 14 and
Palacios had 11 rebounds.
Larry O' Bannon finished with
13 for Louisville, including 3of-3 from 3-point range.
Memphis (19-15) had been
the only team to beat the
Cardinals in the 19-game
stretch, and the Tigers' best
hope of playing in the NCAA
tournament was winning the
conference's automatic bid by
winning the tourney.
They nearly pulled it off
after winning· three ,ames to
reach their first C-USA tournament final .
No.1 tn final poll
Memphis' Jeremy Hunt tied
the game at 71 by hitting a free
throw, but missed the second.
Louisville got the rebound, but
Duane Erwin tipped the ball
away
from
Dean
to
Washington, who scored on a
layup for a 73-71 lead with
42.7 seconds left.
O'Bannon answered with a
3-pointer from the top of the
key and was fouled, but missed
the free throw for a 74-73 lead
with 27 seconds to go.
Hunt was called for a charge
with 7.7 seconds remaining.
Gianiny was fouled and hit his
first free throw.
Washington had 23 points
and six assists. Anthony Rice
added 20 points for Memphis.
ihe Cardinals became o~
the second C-USA team to win
both 'the regular season and
tournament titles in the same
season.
EKU women to play Arizona State in
opening rouna of NCAA Tournament
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SPECIAL TO THE TiMES
RICHMOND
- Coach
Larry Joe Inman's Eastern
Kentucky University Lady
Colonels, champions Qf the
Ohio Valley Conference and
riding a 15-game winning
streak, will play the 24th
State
ranked
Arizona
University Sun Devils, runnersup in the Pac-lO Conference
Tournament, Saturday _(Mar.
19) in Fresno, CA, in the opening round of the 2005 NCAA
Division I Tournament.
EKU, 23-7, comes into the
NCAA tourney after winning
the OVC Tournament, defeat-
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State and Southeast Missouri to
make it to the NCAA
Tournament for the ·second
time il) school history. ASU
stands 22-9 on the season.
· "We're very excited," said
Inman, the OVC Coach of the
Ye'ar. "This is wonderful. and
quite an accomplishment for a
great group of kids. I wish we
were a little closer to home so
more of our fans would be able
to see us play.
"Our young ladies worked
hard all season and played
team basketball all the way
through. I am so proud of our
team and know that they will
give a good account of themselves Saturday."
Eastern Kentucky received
a No. 12 seed, while Arizona
Sta.t e was seeded fifth.
Game time for the Eastern
Kentucky-Arizona State game
has been set for 2 p.m. EST.
All
women's
NCAA
Tournament games will be televised on either ESPN or
ESPN2.
The winner of the EKUASU game will play the winner
of the contest between the No .
4 seed Notre Dame and the No.
13 seed UC-Santa Barbara on
Monday, March 21 in Fresno's
Save Mart Center.
Louisa native ~Hutchinson named Director
of Athletics at Morehead State University
TIMES STAFF REPORT
MOREHEAD - Morehead
State University President
Wayne D. Andrews announced
here Friday that Brian A.
Hutchinson , MSU's interim
director of athletics, has been
appointed to the position on a
permanent basis.
Hutchinson, 30, becomes
one of the young~st athletic
directors in NCAA Division I
and the ninth person to hold the
position at MSU since organized athletics began in 1924.
Dr. Andrewi described
Hutchinson a~ "sotntOrle with
the talent, training, passion ahd
energy to lead Eagle athletics
into a new era of excellence."
The rtew AD had been serving as interim director since
Chip Smith resigned last fall to
take the AD 's post at Western
Carolina. He
previously
served as associate director for
three years, supervising football, golf, baseball, v·olleyball,
athletic training, daily operations, budgets and tickets.
A two-time MSU graduate
with degrees in business and
sports administration, Hutchinson
earlier was the department's chief
fund raiser and marketer. He also
Worbid in 1he Umversity's.fuQa
raising offi~ prldr t6 ~g to
'athletics.
·
While a student, the Louisa
native was president of the Student
~emrt1e'nt
Association and
served on the Board of Regents.
His professional memberships
include the National Association
of Collegiate Directors of
Athletics, National Association of
Athletic Development Directors,
and Council for Advancement and
Support of Education.
Hutchinson helped develop
MSU's current strategic plan
for athletics and has been
involved in numerous Ohio
Valley Conference and NCAA
activities and events.
He and his wife, Elizabeth,
an elementary teacher, have
two \ons, Benjamin and Riley.
They reside in Morehead.
BRIEE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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State assistant Doug Wojcik
was hired as the basketball
coach at Tulsa, which is trying
to~~ national prominence
~r~~~utive 9-20 seasons.
· lfw~ Jden ·.Hurricane tln~
ished ninth in the Western
Athletic Conference this year,
nowhere near its level under
such previous coaches as
Tubby Smith, Bill Self and
fruri Peterson.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
- Pete Gillen stepped down as
Virginia's basketball coach,
ending a seven-year temlre
marked by j~st_ 2.¥ tri~ tQ ibe
NCAA toum~~
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under Gillen and made four
trips to the NIT, never getting
past the second round.
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men's tennis team, with a local
player from Floyd County
helping to lead the charge,
overcame a 3-0 deficit to edge
Colorado 4-3 in the Blue-Gray
National Invitational Saturday.
Colorado began the match
by taking the doubles point as
the team of Marko Bundalo
and Peter Bjork beat Slavko
Radman and Octavian Nicodim
8-2 at No.2 and Marek Vgorak
and Jan Gelegny topped Tony
CU's Marcos Digliodo and
Chad Tsuda 8-3 at the top seed.
In sin·gle~. Vkbt.ik downed
Nicodim 6·-~, 6-t at No. 4 ,to
~iv-e tne lfuff'aloeYa' :Nr le!d.
Tsuda's 6-0, 6-2 win over
Jhonny Berrido at the six-spot
increased CU's lead to 3-0. The
Cardinals' Johnson, No. 87 in
the ITA singles rankings,
defeated Bundalo 7-5, 6-4 at
the top seed. Clark, a
Prestonsburg High School
graduate, followed with a 6-4,
6-4 decision over Digliodo at
the No.5 spot. Gustafsson beat
Bjork 6-3, 6-2 at No. 3 to tie
the match. Slavko Radman out-
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doubles team of Jeremy Clark
"This is the first time in
and Jakob Gustafsson defeated memory that a Louisville team
has come back from such a
deep deficit to win," said U of
L h~ad coach Rex Ecarma .
~;'F}re' players kept their campo.S'trte·'Mi8 stayed positive, ~en
though it did not look good.
Jeremy Clark had a muchneeded win. Jakob Gustafsson
continued playing great tennis.
Damar Johnson , after three
straight wins at No. 1 proved
he is one of the country's top
players. The hero of the match
was Slavko Radman , who
came back from being down 13 to win 6-4 in the third set. It
was great to see different playerS' win in crucial and pressurefilled .snoments ."
Louis \rille ( 13-7) will be
back in action on Friday at
Vanderbilt.
by JIM O'CONNELL ,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illinois won the poll. Now
it's matter of winning the tournament.
The Illini were No. 1 for the
15th straight week Monday and unanimous, too - in the
final Associated Press college
basketball poll of the season.
But could such unquestioned
supremacy be a bad thing?
Kansas was the last to do it,
in 1996-97, and the Jayhawks
didn't even make the Final Four.
Kansas also reigned for the last
15 weeks of the season and was
the last unanimous No. 1 in the
final poll but lost to eventual
champion Arizona in the third
round of the NCAA tournament.
And last year's final Ko. 1,
Stanford, lost to Alabama in the
second round of the NCAAs.
The last No. 1 to win the
national championship was
Duke in 2001.
Illinois (32-1) had been a
unanimous No. 1 for five
straight weeks until its first loss
of the season. The Illini lost 22
first-place votes from the
national media panel after losing to Ohio ·State, but they got
them back this week after winning the Big Ten tournament.
· The other teams to be ranked
No. 1 this season were Kansas
and Wake Forest, and both lasted only two weeks.
The lllini, whose previous
best ~ankin.g in a final poll was
No. 2 in 1951-52, are the first
Big Ten team to finish No. 1
since Indiana in 1992-93.
This year's final poll also
validated two of the other three
top seeds for the tournament,
ranking North Carolina No. 2
and Duke No. 3. The other top
seed, Washington, finished
eighth, the lowest for a No. 1
seed since the field expanded to
64 in 1985.
!hi~ was the fourth straight
week at No. 2 for North
Carolina (27 -4), while Duke
(25-5) moved up two spots after
winning the Atlantic Coast
Conference tournament for the
sixth time in seven years.
Louisville (29-4), a No. 4
seed in the NCAA tournament,
moved up two spars to fourth in
the poll after winning the
Conference USA tournament.
Wake Forest, Oklahoma
State, Kentucky, Washington,
Arizona and Gonzaga closed out
the Top 10.
Syracuse jumped from 16th to
No. 11 after winning the Big East
tournament for the first time since
1992, and the Orange were followed by Kansas, Connecticut,
Boston College, Michigan State,
Oklahoma,
Utah,
Florida,
Villanova and Wisconsin.
The last five ranked teams
Alabama,
Pacific,
were
Cincinnati, Texas Tech and
Georgia Tech.
Florida (23-7), which beat
Kentucky to win its first
Southeastern Conference tournament, jumped into the poll at
No. 16 after being out of the
rankings for the last 14 weeks.
Texas Tech (20-10) moved in
at No. 24 following its run to the
championship g<nne of the Big
12 tournament. The Red Raiders
had been ranked for one week
this season.
Georgia Tech (19-11) rode its
run to the championship game
of the ACC tournament back
into th~ rankings. The Yellow
Jackets were No. 3 in the pieseason poll coming off last season's appearance in the national
championship game, but they
steadily fell until dropping out
four weeks ago.
The three teams that fell out'Of
the rankings from last week all
lost in the quarterfinals at' their
conference tournaments: No. 22
Pittsburgh (20-8) lost to
Villanova in the Big East; No. 24
Nevada (24-6) lost to Boise State
in
the
Western Athletic
Conference; and No. 25 Charlotte
(21-7) lost to Memphis.
There were 39 teams ranked
during the season and 15 were
ranked from the preseason
through the final poll. Four Wake Forest, Illinois, Oklahoma
State and Kentucky - were
ranked in the Top 10 from start
to finish.
The ACC and Big East each
had seven teams ranked, while
the Big 12 and Conference USA
each had five.
Duke saw its streak of being
ranked No. 1 at some point in
the each of the last seven seasons come to an end, but the
Blue Devils extended their run
of consecutive weeks in the top
25 to 166, tying Marquette
(1969-79) for the fourthlongest. The Blue Devils
haven't been out of the rankings
since the end of the 1995-96
season. UCLA has the record of
221 consecutive polls from the
preseason poll of 1966-67 to
Jan. 8, 1980.
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Tennessee fires Peterson
after four seasons
Peterson, whose contract is
worth $769,500 a year and runs
through the 2008-09 season, was
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Buzz the fowth coach at Tennessee since
Peterson was fired
Don DeVoe was fired
as Tennessee's bl!Sin 1989.
Peterson, 41 , was
ketball coach after
hired in April 2001
the
Volunteers
failed to make the
to replace Jerry
Green, who was
NCAA tournament
ousted after taking
during his four
the Vols to the
years at the school.
The Vols finNCAA tournament
ished 14-1 7 overall
four straight seaand 6-10 in the
sons. The Peterson
Buzz Peterson
Southeastern
buyout
will
Tennessee
nearly
Conference
this
season after losi,;g to Kentucky $1.4 million, and the university
in the second round of the still owes Green a final payment
league tournament. It was of his buyout next January.
Peterson's second losing season
Initially, there was excitein Knoxville, leaving him with a ment around the prospect of
61-59 record in his four years.
"Buzzball" taking off under a
"Buzz has many of the char- coach embraced by the fans.
acteristics we have looked for in
Peterson met with Hamilton
a coach,·. out ·we- were foqnd and university president John
JaCking in. the area' of wins and Petersen on Feb. 28, and
losses in a business that ·mea- Hamilton said then he would
sures its success according to announce a decision on · the
such parameters," athletic direc- coach after the season.
tor Mike Hamilton said at a
In the following weeks,
news conference Monday.
Hamilton was contacted by
Hamilton informed Peterson Peterson supporters, including
of his decision Sunday evening. former star Tennessee athletes
Peterson sc!~ed ~mewhat sur- Peyton Manning and Todd
prised but handled the news in a Helton, Lady Vols coach Pat
"frrst-class" manner, Hamilton Summitt, North Carolina coach
said. Assistant coach Chuck Roy Williams and Peterson's
Benson was asked to manage college coach, Dean Smith.
basketball operations in the
Football
coach
Phillip
absence of a head coach.
Fulmer said he spoke with
Peterson did not immediately Peterson on Monday.
return calls seeking comment.
"Everybody in this profesWith the return of every starter sion knows how vDlatile it can
from last year, Tennessee hoped be and Buzz certainly underto reach the NCAAs for the frrst stood that," Fulmer said.
time under Peterson this season.
Hamilton declined to specify a
by ELIZABETH A. DAVIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
timetable for making a hire, saying the search will take as long as
needed to fmd the right coach.
Peterson came to Tennessee
after one season at Tulsa, where
he went 26-11 and won the NIT.
He spent four seasons at
Appalachian State before Tulsa
and took the Mountaineers to
the NCAA tournament in 2000
and was twice honored as the
Southern Conference coach of
the year twice.
A native of nearby Asheville,
N.C ., Peterson played on North
Carolina's 1982 national championship team with Michael
Jordan. Peterson's father, Bob,
is a graduate of Tennessee and
often took his son to Knoxville
to watch games.
Peterson, a well-liked personality off the court, has said
he enjoyed
coaching
at
Tennessee and believed the Vols
can win championships. But the
Vols did no1 even receive a bid
to the NIT this season after ending the past two years with losses in the first round of the NIT.
"It's disappointing," Peterson
said after the 76-'62 loss to
Kentucky at the SEC tournament. "It doesn't meet my tandards at all. I've been in win·
ning programs, where we competed for championships."
Tennessee loses two senior
starters from this year's team_
guard Scooter McFadgon and
center Brandon Crump. Next
season the Vols will return point
guard C.J. Watson for his final
year and guard Chris Lofton,
who set the SEC mark this season for the most 3-pointers
scored by a freshman .
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POISON OAK
Coal trucks,
then and now
•
There's been a great deal in the
news lately about overweight vehicles,
especially coal trucks. Although the
problem with coal trucks on public
roads has become a serious concern to
a lot of people, I can
recall when
coal
trucks
were
not
something to
worry about,
but
simply
something to
count on.
·• That's
twelve," I'd
say
as
a
loaded
truck
Clyde Pack
lumbered by
the
front
porch of the Northeast Coal Company's
store, followed by a cloud of black dust.
The driver would get in line behind
the three or four trucks waiting at the
bottom of the little slope where a narrow road had been scraped from the
yellow hillside that led to the hopper.
He'd dump his load so it could be
processed and loaded into the C&O
coal gons that had been parked
beneath the massive tin structure.
Within a minute or two, an empty
truck would whiz by in the opposite
direction, again stirring the black dust
into a frenzy as it sped to wherever it
was it pirkt>cl1m its load.
On those long summer afternoons as
I'd sit on the company store steps and
eat a chilly imp and count trucks, I had
no interest in where the coal came from.
All I knew was that some of the empty
trucks would tum left onto Route 581
and head in the direction of Tutor Key,
YESTERIJ)AYS
(Items taken from The Floyd County Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.) page C2
KIM'S KORNER
Walking tall
This past Sunday I attended the
funeral of the father of one of my
dearest friends, Rev. Morris (Tootsie)
Hall, held at the Pine Grove Baptist
Church, in Hi Hat.
The service was beautiful, and listening to the
impact Tootsie has left on
so many lives
was definitely
a blessing to
witness.
As I sat
and looked
around at the
pictures displayed of this
larger than
Kim Frasure
life man (and
he was - especially to us
growing up) I remembered one particular incident from our childhood when
Tootsie became a giant teddy bear,
instead of someone to fear.
His stature and frame so tall, and
with a voice so deep, to a seventh
grader could certainly be termed
intimidating, at best. Cathy, whom we
affectionately refer to as "Betthie"
still to this day, had our entire gang
over for a pajama party one night.
The typical giggling, loud and
obnoxious 12-13 year old girls had
(See KORNER, page five)
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Women in History
Miss Billie Jean Osborne
Miss Billie
takes great
pride in all the
youngsters
who enroll in
MAC programs in
hopes of
embarking
upon an
entertainment
career. Here
she is shown
with two of
her Jr. Pro
members,
Brittany
Hamilton, left,
and Alison
Lovely, right.
Showcasing our region's talent
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
(See OAK, page four)
fl Wedding • page C4
ff% John Newsome • page C5
m Births /Birthdays • page C5
Today's featured "Woman in History" is one who has forged herself a
place in the hearts of Floyd Countians near and far, as well as gaining
the respect of those regions away.
The pages of history are already
indelibly marked by the hand of Billie Jean Osborne, the founder of one
of the county's brightest stars, The
Mountain Arts Center.
"Miss Billie," as she is affection-
ately known by many, was born and
reared in Betsy Layne, where she
attended school as a youngster and
later returned to teach music and to
serve as Betsy Layne High School's
award-winning band director. Under
her direction, the "Marching Bobcat
Band" was lead to state recognition
year after year.
Miss Billie, however, began her
teaching career at the tender age of
17, in another part of Floyd County,
that of the Wheelwright area. At 17,
she began teaching school at W.D.
Osborne Elementary. "I was so
young, the principal had to sign to be
responsible for me,'' she said.
Miss Billie saw much success with
her students at Osborne and soon
became the elemental force behind
the formulation of an impressive
school band. Throughout the county,
her talents quickly became known
and her attentions sought after.
"Everything I have ever been, and
everything I am, I owe to my wonderful Christian mother," she said. "God
gave me the talent and mother gave me
the discipline. So God and my mother
are what made me what I am, any
glory belongs to God and to having a
good Christian mother who was strong
enough to instill that discipline."
Osborne said that throughout her
years teaching the youth of Floyd
County, she "always dreamed of having a place where students from all
across this region could work, study
music, and perform to an audience in
a quality theater atmosphere, set right
(See MISS BILLIE, page five)
CRITTER CORNER
The hazards of Easter
By Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
Reader Lisa Gray stopped by the other
day and requested an article on Easter and
the potential hazards the holiday poses for
pets. Thanks, Lisa; it's a good idea to remind
folks that Christn1as is not the only season
that exposes pets to particular dangers .
Like all celebrations, Easter is associated with certain foods. Chocolate is everywhere. Unlike Christmas, the candy is
more accessible to pets because children
tend to set their treat-filled baskets on low
tables or on the floor.
Chocolate contains a chemical called
theobromine, which is very similar to caffeine. It causes the body to release adrenaline, speeding up the heart and causing it
to beat erratically. About SOmg per pound
of body weight of theobromine can be
fatal to a dog. The size of the animal and
the type of chocolate makes a difference
in how easily poisoning occurs. Darker
chocolate contains higher concentrations
of theobromine ; unsweetened baking
chocolate is the worst of all, containing 69 times more than milk chocolate. One
ounce of baking chocolate can kill a small
breed dog or a cat.
Not only the candy itself, but also the
wrappers can also pose the threat of
intestinal obstruction. Few dogs will take
the time to unwrap the goodies! The Easter grass that fills the basket is tempting for
both cats and dogs to chew and play with,
It could also cause GI blockages, as could
chewed-off pieces of the basket itself.
Small toys contained in plastic eggs can
pose choking hazards to both pets and
children, so beware.
Remember that some hidden eggs may
be overlooked on Easter morning. Real
eggs can absorb bacteria and lawn chemicals through their shells and make Rover
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�C2 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
16, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Schoo( Cafendar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• March 15-22- "Magic Me"
will meet, weather permitting.
• March 16 - Youth Services
Center Advisory Council meeting, 4 p.m. Everyone welcome
to attend.
• March 21 - Nutrition program, 6th grade.
• March 21-25 - Scholastic
Book Fair. Volunteers needed .
• March 23 - "Career Exploration Day," 8th grade.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself
a Break Day," for all Floyd
County parents/guardians. To be
held at the MAC. Registration
at 8:30 a.m. Fun workshops,
door prizes and free lunch.
• March 28 thru April 1 SPRING BREAK!!
• 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.
Allen Central Middle School
• March 21 - SBDM meet-
ing, 5 p.m.
• March 23 - Career Expo.
• March 24- "G1ve Yourself
a Break Day," 8:30 a.m. to 2:00
p.m., at Mt. Arts Center.
• March 31 - Last day to
tum in Food City receipts!!
• 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
inform.ation about the center,
call LaDonna Patton, C()ordinator, at 358-0134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service Center
•
Call Allen Elementary
Youth Service Center at 8740621 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 4785550 or 478-9751, ext. 310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra
Hayes, School Ni.lrse.
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 Handsboe, coordinator, and
Ruby Bailey, assistant.
May Valley Elementary
• 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, wellchild physicals, immunizations,
TB skin test, WIC program,
blood pressure checks, and
more. Must call the FRC at 2850321 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 .
•
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.
• March 17 - "Tobacco Prevention," Our Lady of the Way
Hospital, 1 p.m., for 5th grade.
• March 24- "Give Yourself
a Break Day," for all Floyd
County parents, grandparents
and guardians, at Mountain Arts
Center.
• March 24 - "Let's Talk
About Drugs," Our Lady of the
Way Hospital, l p.m., for K-3.
• FRC monthly Advisory
Counci t 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.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Family Resource
Center
Character Words for the
Month: Tolerance and Kindness.
• March 14-16 - "Good
Touch, Bad Touch," for grades
K-3, by Lisa Hamilton, in individual classrooms.
•
March 18 - Heart
Hea1th/CPR demonstration, 5th
grade, 1:45 p.m., in gym. Presented by Kim Sanders, OLWH.
• March 24- "Give Yourself
a Break Day," at Mountain Arts
Center, registration at 8:30 a.m.
For parents, grandparents,
guardians of Floyd County students . Learn to relax while you
relax and enjoy guest speakers,
door prizes, and a free lunch.
(See SCHOOL, page three)
•
(Items taken from
The Floyd County
II
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and
60 years ago.)
Ten Years Ago
March 15 and 17, 1995
Prestonsburg City Council said, Monday, they needed more nformation and
time to make a decision about a proposal
to tum an abandoned mine into a tourist
attraction ...Almost a month before the
. current labor contract expired, members
. of the United Steel Workers Union ratified a three-year contract with the
Appalachian Regional Health Care Corporation ...The Kentucky Tourism Cabinet
' is developing a master plan for tourism,
and Floyd County could be included in its
blueprint. Tourism officials will conduct a
regional forum at Wilkinson/Stumbo
Conference Center on March 22, at 1 p.m.
to solicit citizen input from eastern Kentuckians for the statewide master plan ...A
special meeting of the Prestonsburg
Housing Authority will be held Wednesday, March 15, at the Green Acres office
in Prestonsburg. Items on the agenda are
the proposd operating budget for 19951996; revised operating budget for 199495; disposition of vacated tenants
accounts, admissions and continued occupany policies and procedures; and disposition of junked equipment. ..Floyd County's Democratic Party has a new executive committee chairman and a candidate
to run in November for magistrate , in district three. Floyd Sheriff Paul Hunt
Thompson was elected at committe chairman, and Elmer Ray Johnson of Buckingham was the party's choice for the magistrate's post...At Monday 's Allen City
Commission meeting, board members
voted to purchase two additional sets of
Christmas street lights for just under
$2,000 ...A 32-year-old Floyd County
woman was killed and her daughter was
injured, Monday morning, in a traffic
accident at an intersection near Garrett.
Malissa G. Slone, of Garrett, died when
the vehicle she was operating apparently
pulled into the path of a tractor trailer driven by Adam Wireman of Hueysville on
KY 80 ...Former Floyd County Times
society editor Docia Baldridge Woods
died Monday, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center. She was 83. Woods filled
the society pages of the Times with her
snippers of news for approximately 16
years. She laid aside her journalism pen in
1993, after she broke a bone in her
hand ...Floyd County school officials are
investigting how two Prestonsburg High
School students managed to take home
state assessment tests to complete. The
incident happened last month during the
final stages of the state KIRIS testing in
the school system, Geoff Belcher, communications director for the district, said
Tuesday. Floyd School Board attorney
Phil Damron said, Thursday, that he had
been designated by school officials to
take over the investigation into the incident, and that no student would be reprimanded ...Former United States Congressman Chris Perkins, 40, was sentenced to
21 months in a federal prison, Monday,
after pleading guilty in December to
charges of fraud ...Hallard Hall, 47, of
Prater Creek, is charged with the attempted murder of a police officer, and his wife
and daughter are facing assault charges
after an altercation with police, Wednesday, afternoon at Prater Creek ...The case
of Wesley Martin, 19, of Wayland,
accused of pointing a gun at a Wayland
woman was referred to a grand jury,
Wednesday, by Floyd District Judge
James Allen .. .It appears that Floyd Countians are satisfied with the tax rates
announced by the Floyd Board of Education, because no one appeared at a hearing, Tuesday, to comment on the
issue ...The threat of closure of Melvin
Elementary's lunchroom by the Floyd
County Health Department ended this
week after a reexamination of the facility
revealed that the school has corrected
critical health violations ...When Governor Brereton Jones' bus rolled into Prestonsburg Wednesday, two Floyd County
projects became a little richer. Jones
brought $230,000 in state and federal
monies to fund an education and a historical projct in the county. These included
the David School and the May House project...A $100,000 bond was set, Thursday,
for Bill Powers, 64, of Auxier, who was
indictecd last week by a Floyd County
Grand Jury on charges of sexually abusing six minors between 1989 and
1993 ... Sam Chaffins, of David, was
arrested by a bailiff, Wednesday morning,
when he arrived at Floyd Circuit Judge
John David Caudill's office to explain
why he was late for court...There died:
Docia Baldridge Woods, 83, of Prestonsburg, Monday, March 13, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Alex Hamilton,
86, of Prestonsburg, Sunday, March 12, at
Highlands Regional Medical Center;
Eddie Dean Tackett, 39, of Beaver, Monday, March 13; Elizabeth Ann Johnson
Hall Norvell, 54, of Prestonsburg, Tuesday, March 14, at McDowell Appalachian
Regional Hospital; Maudie Mae Collins,
74, of Prichard, West Virginia, formerly
of Wheelwright, Sunday, March 12, at
Cabell Huntington Hospital; Mary F. Bailey, 58, of St. Clemenes, Michigan, formerly of Prestonsburg, February 21;
Jessie James Woods, 68, of Prestonsburg,
Thursday, March 9, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Alverta Samons, 46, of
Drift, Friday, March 10, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Dixie Lewis,
62, of Banner, Wednesday, March 8, at
Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin;
Flonnie Marshall, 82, of Prestonsburg,
Sunday, March 12, at Central Baptist
Hospital, Lexington; Brandy LeAnn
Mullins, seven-month-old daughter of
Rodney Mullins and Regina Hall, both of
Melvin, Friday, March 10, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Homer
Hall-, 68, of Galveston, Friday, March 10,
at McDowell Appalachian Regional Hospital; Brigham Young Roberts, 78, of
Ashland, Saturday, March 11, at Our
Lady of the Way Hospital; Josephine
Spradlin, 89, of Ada, Ohio, Friday, March
10, at Lima Memorial Hospital, Lima,
Ohio; Malissa Gail Slone, 32, of Garrett,
Monday, March 13, at Garrett, from
injuries sustained in an automobile accident; Claude Allen Shumate, 47, of Sesser, Illinois, Friday, March 10, at Marshall
Browning Hospital in DeQuoin, Illinois;
Anne Newsome Read, 62, of Stone
Mountain, Georgia, formerly of Ligon,
Tuesday, March 14, at Dekalb Medical
Center in Decatur, Georgia; Kathryn
Henkel Blackburn, 79, of Betsy Layne,
Wednesday, March 15, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Herbert Lewis,
69, of Sydney, formerly of Banner, Thursday, March 16, at Paul B.Hall Medical
Center; Alverta Samons, 46, of Drift, Friday, March 10, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center, Prestonsburg; George
Johnson, 73, of Speight, March 11, at
Mountain Manor Nursing Home,
Pikeville.
Twentv Years Ago
March 13, 1985
Prestonsburg or its utilities system will
have to pay five local gas producers
around $50,000 for gas the city never
used as a result of a recent decision by the
Supreme Court of Kentucky... Floyd
County school officials sparred last week
with a state appointed watchdog, Don
Fightmaster, whose report had earlier
prompted the State Board of Education to
hand Floyd County school officials a set
of curt directives ...There died: Former
Prestonsburg policeman Ray Click, 73, of
Manton, at Highlands Regional Medical
Center.. .Stephen Dean Gibson, son of.
Daryl and Nancy Lee Stumbo Gibson of
McDowell, stillborn, at Pikeville
Methodist Hospital...Joe Helton, 90, of
Prestonsburg, Sunday, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center...Michael Gregory Keen, five-week-old son of Joey and
Bertha Meade Keen of West Prestons- •
burg, was dead on arrival at the Highlands
Regional Hospital, Sunday ...Watt Hale,
88, former Prestonsburg police judge and
city councilman, Monday, at the Mountain Manor Nursing Home .. .James Lee
Ousley, 54, died Monday, at his home on
Middle Creek.
Thinv Years AU
March 12, 1975 .\
The Floyd Fiscal Court, last Wednesawarded contracts for the collection
and disposal of solid waste to Floyd
County Sanitation, Inc., and Okie Lawson; of Harold ...Brandishing a bayonet, a
17-year-old Chicago youth robbed
Roberts' Market of $800, and wounded
store owner Lee Roberts, Sunday night, at
the Goble-Roberts Addition ...The weight
of Monday's wet snowfall caused a section of metal dock to tilt and partially sink
at Jenny Wiley State Park boat
dock ...Paintsville votes, last Friday,
defeated the move to legalize the sale of
alcoholic beverages there ...There died:
Myrtle Ousley, 73, of Topmost, last
Wednesday, at the McDowell Hospital;
Glenn Allen Hale, 60, at his home at
Harold, Monday; H. Scalf, 73, of Endicott, Saturday, at his home; Martin Hall,
66, of Hi Hat, Feb. 26, at the McDowell
Hospital; Allen Chaffins, 83, of Garrett,
last Saturday, at a Hospital, here; Oliver
Branham, 91, Monday, at Grethel; W. E.
Parker, 85, of Wayland, last Wednesday,
at a nursing home, here.
d~y,
Fonv Years Ago
March 11, 1965
President Johnson signed, Tuesday, the
$1.1 billion Appalachian Development
Act which, with the so-called antipoverty
funds made avilable through the federal
Office of Economic Opportunity, is
designed to set in motion large-scale measures to bring the Appalachian states out
(See YESTERDAYS, page three)
h
�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
16, 2005 • C3
Yesterdays
• Continued from p2
of the economic doldrums ...Preliminary
plans for a six-room addition to the· Prestonsburg grade school building were
aJ:;i.il vved by the Floyd County Board of
Education .. .At the second meeting of the
Saddle Club, the organization was named
the East Kentucky Saddle Club ...Martin
defeated the Wayland Wasps in the finals
of the 58th district basketball tournament
here, 60 to 47 ...Born: to Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Daniels, a daughter, Kimberly
Norene, March 6, at the Prestonsburg
General Hospital; to Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Willliams, a daughter, Barbara Downes,
March 5, at the Prestonsburg General
Hospital...There died: Ralph Steel (Risner) Lafferty, 86, of Dwale, Wednesday,
at the Beaver Valley Hospital; Mont Ousley, 84, of Risner, Sunday, at the Beaver
Valley Hospital; William Dean Howell,
13, Sunday, at his home on Abbott Creek;
Mrs. Beulah R. Wells, 69, of Prestonsburg, Sunday, at the Paintsville Hospital;
Walter A. Gardner, 53, February 24, at his
home, at Tram; Charles Hubert Sherman,
46, formerly of this county, last Thursday,
at Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Martha Carver,
98, Monday, at her home at Drift.
areas ...Improvements to Dewey Lake
State Park, scheduled for the coming year,
are a permanent boat dock, with lunchroom and restrooms; a new bathhouse as
a permanent improvement at Stratton
Branch recreation area; opening of a
parking lot, and construction of a caretaker's home ...Contract was awarded last
week by Edward C. Music and Thomas
Hereford, Jr., on construction of a 20-unit
motel on U.S. 23 in the Richmond Addition, here ...Dewey reservoir afforded the
Big Sandy river basin an estimated
$310,000 in benefits during the recent
floods, ~ ~.ording to data released
Wednesday afternoon by the Corps of
Engineers ...Wayland's
high-scoring
Wasps overcame a five-point third-quarter deficit last Saturday night to dethrone
Garrett,-64-53, as the 58th district basketball champion ...Born: to Mr. and Mrs.
Gervin Waddle, of Abbott Road, a daughter, Melody Ann, Wednesday, March 9; to
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elkins, of Prestonsburg, a son, Rickie, March 7, at the Prestonsburg General Hospital.. .There died:
Linville Isaac, 84, of Bevinsville, and
Lawrence Isaac, 62, of Hunter, father and
son, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, of last week; Hardy Kilburn, 72, of
Martin, Sunday, at Our Lady of the Way
Hospital; Tom Mullins, 59, of Weeksbury,
March 10, 1955
Sunday, at the Virgie Community Hospital; Mrs. Della W. Hall, 69, last Thursday,
For the second time within a week, at her home at Topmost; John Hamilton,
Floyd County streams were at flood stage 78, of Teaberry, Saturday; Nelve Hamilover the week-end, and the Big Sandy ton, last Thursday, at his home at Teaberry
rose again within tnches of street level at
the Court Street and Lake Drive intersections ...Senator Earle C. Clements wired
The Times, Saturday, that he has called on
the White House and the Civil Defense
March 8, 1945
Administration for assistance to Floyd
County and other flood-stricken
The casualty list of nine Floyd County
FiRV Years Ago
Sixtv Years Ago
I
•
•
soldiers reported this week: Killed in
action-Pvt. Curtis Conn, of Dana,
wounded (the first four men listed here
had been previously wounded and
returned to action)- Pvt. Clareqce
Adkins, of Risner; S-Sgt. Elmer Nemet,
of Wheelwright; S-Sgt. Richard McGuire,
of Water Gap; Roy Mullett, of Bonanza;
Pfc. Teddy Stumbo, of McDowell; S-Sgt.
Harrison Stephens, of Risner; Pfc. Lewis
J. Kidd; Pvt. John W. Burke, of
Cliff...Wounded Saturday morning, by a
bullet from a .22 caliber rifle which was
accidentally discharged as her children
played with the weapon, Fanny Franc;is
Derossett, 47, died a few hours later at the
Prestonsburg General Hosphal. The bullet
first hit Mrs. Reynold Derossett, daughter-in-law of the victim, inflicting a flesh
wound,
then
struck the
elder
woman ...Purchase for $40,000 bf gas
holdings in Floyd, Pike and Magoffin
counties, and in West Virginia, which
include approximately 20 producing,
wells was made Monday by Ex-Magistrate W. A. Wills, Commonwealth's Attorney John Allen, Circuit Judge Henry
Stephens, Otis Cooley and Ken Sparks,
all of Prestonsburg ...Garrett High
School's Black Devil basketball team
won the Floyd County district championship in last week's tournament at Maytown ...Two Floyd county fathers were
serving 10-day jail term, here, this week
following conviction as second offenders
in failing to send their children to school,
county attendance officers said ...Born: to
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Collins, of Minnie,
a son, Clinton Ray, February 28; to Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McGuire, a son, Frank,
Jr., January 22, at St. Armes Hospital;
Columbus, Ohio; to Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Callihan Jr., a daughter, Mary Jo, January
31, at Ft. Thomas, Kentucky; to Mr. and
Mrs. Merle J. Keirn, of Columbus City,
Indiana, a daughter, Sharon Kay, January
13, at Wolf Lake, Indiana ...There died:
Alex Crider, 92 years old, at home on
Copperas Creek, Monday; Mrs. Mary
Ann Branham, 81, at the home of a
daughter, Tuesday; Mrs. Louraney Shepherd, 73, at home at Lancer, Sunday;
James E. Amburgy, three years old, of
Maytown, Wednesday, at the Martin General Hospital.
Seventv Years Ago
March 8, 1935
Alex H. Spradlin has been named
police judge, here, to succeed E.P. Arnold,
who resigned ...Quarantined in his home
when his young son, Billy, became ill of
scarlet fever, the Rev. Harry F. King, pastor of the Methodist Church, preached to
his congregation, Sunday, via public
address system installed by R. H. Koch
local radio repairman. His sermoh topic"Church Attendance" ...Ora Lee Brown,
17, formerly of Prestonsburg, was shot
and killed, Sunday, at Neon ...Betsy Layne
and Prestonsburg high schools will represent Floyd County in the regional tournament which begins here, Thursday
night. ..Construction by relief employees
will start Friday, on the Abner Fork and
Left Beaver roads, the latter job to extend
from Hunter to McDowell .. .Sixteen pairs
of jackrabbits, caught in a Kansas drive,
were shipped here, and released, last
week, by L.C. Keeling ...Milford Hicks
was shot through his leg, Monday, at
"Greentown," near Garrett...There died:
the Rev. M. T. Murphy, 78,February 14, at
Hager Hill; the eight-month-old baby of
John R. Shepherd, February 24, at Dock.
School
• Continued from p2
For more info., call452-4553.
•
March 28-April 1:
SPRING BREAK!!
• "Lost & Found" is located
in the F:RC. If your child has
lost any clothing or other personal 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
theW. D. Osborne Elementary
School. Hours of operation - 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday, or later by appointment.
Call452-4553 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 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.
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 7:30 p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 886-3863,
ext. 67219. Room m207 (second floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning
Center: Tue., Thur. - 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. Contact: Lucille
Fuchs - 886-0709.
• Martin Extended Education Service Center: Tue., Thur.
- 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Contact: Vanessa Tackett - 285-
Thinking about
home
improvement?
5111.
Make it tax deductible.
• Wayland EESC: Mon.,
Wed. - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Contact Vanessa Tackett - 3583400.
• 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.
U.S. GOVERNMENT FORECLOSURE SALE
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005 AT 1:00 P.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
1688 HWY 1428 - PRESTONSBURG
IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Everyone deserves an opportunity to
beautify their home, but not everyone has
the cash available to pay for it. With a
CNB EquityLine, homeowners can utilize a
low interest and tax deductible line of credit
available to make home improvements,
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, 1 bath, and a laundry room. 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.
consolidate bills or pay for vacations with
one low monthly payment.
The minimum acceptable bid for this property will be $10,050.00.
Take control of your finances. Apply
Payment of current year's property taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser.
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LEGAL NOTICE
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Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, March 31, 2005, at t :00 pm., at the property site, at 1666 Hwy 1426, Prestonsburg, in Floyd County,
Kentucky, In order to raise the sum of $36,199.23 principal, together with Interest credit subsidy granted In the amount of $33,669.07 plus
Interest In the amount of $5,903.26 :~s of July 15, 2004, and lnterestthereafter on the principal at $9.4215 per day from July 15, 2004, until the
date of Judgement, plus Interest on the Judgement amount (principal plus Interest to the date of judgment) at the rate of 2.14% computed
dally 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. 04·65 DCA on the Pikeville Docket of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, entered on October 1, 2004, In
the case of United States of America vs. Carmel Kidd, the Unknown Spouse of Carmel Kldd, Draxle Kldd and the Unknown Spouse of Draxle
Kldd, the following described property will be sold to the highest and best bidder:
House and Lot located at1686 Hwy 1428 Prestonsburg, Floyd County, KY.
Being the same property conveyed by Deed dated April 26, 1989, and recorded in Deed Book 327 Page 56 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 to the U.S. Marshal) on the day of sale
with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 1.63% 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 (KAS 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.
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THOMAS W. KEETH, Aural Development Manager
Rural Development
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
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MARCH
16, 2005
THe
FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Critter
• Continued from p1
sick when he conducts his own
gg hunt 11 week Iuter.
The tnlditional Easter dinner often includes a ham or
<Jther meat dish. Fatty meats
are often the cause of digestive
disorders in pets, ranging from
a mild upset stomach to a
painful and potentially fatal
case of pancreatitis. As always,
bone are very hazardous in
llny size and in any quantity.
They should never be fed. to
pets, and they should be disposed of carefully and safely.
Lisa also brought in an article
about the dangers of Easter Lilies
in cats. Only a very small amount
of the plant has to be ingestedtwo or three leaves can be fatal.
Cats who chew on a Lily
plant (most species of Lily are
toxic to cats to varying
degrees) generally start to
show signs of nausea (drooling,
vomiting), loss of appetite, and
increased urination within a
very short time-early indications of kidney damage . The
condition progresses to complete kidney failure with severe
nausea, seizures and no urine
production very rapidly. Death
generally follows in 3-4 day .
Apparently cats arc the only
species affected thi severely by
Lilies; dogs generally develop
an upsel stomach without any
long-term effects. Obviously, if
you even think your cat has nibbled on a Lily plant, you should
call your vet immediately.
Once again, a reminder to
avoid purchasing live chicks,
ducklings or bunnies as Easter
gifts for children. Unless you
have plans to provide a home
to an adult chicken, duck or
rabbit long term. don't get an
animal as a novelty. It is inhumane to the animal and unfair
to the child. I feel sorry for the
baby animals being exploited
this way, too, but the best
thing to do is not even go look
at them when you see them
being sold. If we don't provide a market, people will ~top
thinking of Easter pets as 3.
way to make a quick buck.
If we keep these tips in
mind for a safe and happy
Easter, our most vivid holiday
memory should be how ridiculous Spike looked wearing
those fake bunny ears.
Oak
• Continued from p1
while- others would tum right
and head toward town.
I'm not sure that at the time
I was even aware that there
were three sets of railroad
tracks that ran beneath the tipple. One was for gons to be
loaded with large lumps of
coal, another was for medium
lumps and the third was for fme
coal. After it was dumped, the
coal was carried by a belt to
noisy screens which sifted the
various sizes and when one gon
was full, they 'd push it out of
the way and drop another one
in its place. Every afternoon the
C&O shifter would come and
collect the loaded gons and pull
them off to a train yard in town.
I never gave a thought to where
they went from there.
Sometimes I'd stop what I
was doing in the late afternoon
to watch the empty gons being
pushed up a fourth set of
tracks where 15 or 20 would
sit waiting for the time they'd
be needed. The trackful of
empties sat on a pretty good
grade, with gravity being the
primary power that moved
them to beneath the tipple.
Anyway, bacl.:: LO the truck
counting part of my tale, on
days I had nothing else to do that is to say if no one was particularly interested in going
swimming or something - and
depending upon who joined
me in the cool shade of the
store's front porch, sometimes
I'd sit long enough to count as
many as 20 loaded trucks.
But, 1 guess it's pretty obvious that we're a lifetime away
from the days when the primary purpose of coal trucks was
to give a kid something to
count other than the number of
days remaining before school
started again.
Music-Gam bill
Mr. and Mrs. M. Jack Music, of Auxier, along with Mr. and
Mrs. Faron Gambill, of Hazard, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Honchel, of lexington, are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Jessica
Elizabeth Music and Faron Gregory Gambill. Jessica and
Greg are both graduates of Allee Lloyd College and Union
College, with master's degrees In educational administration. Jessica teaches language arts at Adams Middle
School; Greg teaches social studies at Paintsville High
School. The couple plan to reside In Auxier, following a des·
tlnatlon wedding on St. lucia Island. A post-wedding recep·
tlon will be held In the couple's honor on July 29, 2005, at the
First Presbyterian Church, In Prestonsburg.
Connie Adams, of Langley, and Jonathan Young, of Pike Coun·
ty, are happy to announce their forthcoming marriage. Connie
Is the daughter of Polly Hall, of Prestonsburg. Jonathan Is the
son of Margaret Young and John Young, both also of Pike
County. The couple will marry on June 25, 2005.
Town Branch Church to hold Easter clothing give-away on March 19
Shown above are some local
girls who attended a recent voluntary seminar and informational
meeting, held especially for young
girls, at the Town Branch Hope
Center, Town Branch Christian
Victory Fellowship Church. The
meeting included a question-andanswer session by which the young
ladies were given the opportunity
to ask questions regarding personal
care and other health issues, as well
as any other topic that they may
have had an interest in.
The session was conducted
under the ministry of the Town
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Branch Church, located on Town
Branch Road, in Prestonsburg.
Pastor Tom Nelson and
church teachers and leaders
strive to make themselves available to those in need, whether
the need may be for food, clothing, or other physical needs or
for spiritual needs.
This
coming
Saturday,
March 19, the church will hold
its annual Easter clothing giveaway. Children of all ages, both
boys and girls, are welcome to
come and receive new Easter
outfits, underwear, socks and
shoes and goody bags containing personal care items.
The give-away will get
underway at 10 a.m. and continue throughout the day until all
have been served. All are welcome to participate ~nd more
information may be r~eived by
calling the church offiCA at 8899286.
These girls
enjoyed an
evening of information, refresh·
ments and door
prizes recently at
the Town Branch
Church. The
church will hold its
annual Easter clothing give-away on
Saturday, March 19,
beginning at 10 a.m.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
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Korner
• Continued from p1
W
invaded Tootsie's territory.
Food, clothes, and shoes
were strewn all about and as
the music was blaring, we were
convinced we could cut a rug
as good as anyone on Ameiican
Bandstand.
Chatty, Cathy's mom, could
too, and had even joined in on
our dance fest.
The front door opened, and
in walked Tootsie. He always
reminded me of "Buford Pusser" in the movie "Walking Tall"
- larger than life itself.
My first thought was, "Uhoh, we've had it."
"His living room's a mess,
the music's loud, and he's
going to have our heads on a
platter," I thought.
No more than the thought
had crossed my mind, Tootsie
grabbed Chatty and they
showed that room full of giggling girls just exactly how to
cut a rug!
And boy, could they dance!
When he laughed, I remember instantly thinking "He's not
scary, he's just a big ol' teddy
bear."
And that seemed to be the
same conclusion arrived at by
so many as they reflected on
their memories of this large
loveable man.
Tootsie loved to share Jesus
and His Word and his Light
shined through to the many
souls he came in contact with.
Yes, my heart ached that
Berthie would no longer hear
his voice on the other end of a
phone, or feel his hugs and
have her father here in the flesh
with her any longer.
Yet, I felt joy that Tootsie
would be reunited with Chatty
in Heaven and what rejoicing
was taking place.
A real roller coaster of emotions.
Sunday was the first time I
had been back to the Pine
Grove Baptist Church since
Spouse and I had said our vows
there twenty-five years ago!
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r:B irths/r:B irthdays
To think that it had been
thirty- two years since that
pajama pa1ty and Tootsie
becoming a bigger than life
teddy bear really blew my
mind.
My prayers for Betthie, her
sister Jeff and brothers Gilford
and Morris Joe, are for
strength, wisdom, and most of
all, peace of mind knowing
they have not one, but two of
God's most precious guardian
angels now watching over
them!
'Til Next Week,
I love you Berthie
God's Blessings ....
Miss Billie
• Continued from p1
Marine Corp graduate
John Newsome, the son of
Connie and Denver Newsome,
of McDowell, graduated from
Marine Corp boot camp, at Parris
Island, South Carolina, on Janu-
ary 28,2005. He is the grandson
of Grace Yates, of Garrett, and
the late Maynard Hoober, and the
late Faye and Earl Denver Newsome, formerly of McDowell.
here in Eastern Kentucky."
In 1990, she brought together a group of talented musicians and performers gleaned
from the very hills of her native
region. She dubbed this group
"The Kentucky Opry," from
which the "KY Opry Junior
Pros" soon followed.
For several years, Osborne
and her musicians performed
from the backs of pickup
trucks in local parking lots and
in various school auditoiiums,
as well as from the stage of the
Jenny Wiley Theatre. "We
just made do however, and
wherever we could," she said.
The group soon gained
acclaim through both word of
mouth and rave reviews, mustering ever more courage and
determination along the way.
Holding special performances for statesmen and
potential sponsors, Miss Billie
soon convinced a wide array of
supporters that the talent of our
region deserved to showcased
in a state-of-the-art music center and performance hall.
· Finally, in the autumn of
1996, Miss Billie's dream
came true when the doors of
the Mountain Arts Center were
opened to the public. Miss
Billie's "kids" finally had a
place they could call their own.
Stellar performances by
both regional talent as well as
MEET DR. QURESHY
nationally known musicians
have graced the halls of the
arts center and Miss Billie is
more than proud of her KY
Opry and Jr. Pro performers.
But, she speaks with a special
pride of her performing a1ts
summer program, held annually for children of elementary
and middle school age. "It's
just a wonderful program,
wonderlul," she said. "I go
out to nine different counties.
I'm out in these counties just
all the time, looking for talented children. The schools love
to see me come and they
always just welcome me right
in. I tell the children all about
our program and I invite them
to sing for me and then those
that are interested will show
up in the summer to learn
about putting on a show. It
takes a lot of hard work, but
we feed them each day, and
bus them in, and in one
month's time, these kids put
together a show that just blows
your mind ," she continued.
"Why Hal Rogers (US Congressman) says he's never seen
anything like it," she said.
Rogers has been noted as
saying that "Billie Jean
Osborne was the driving force
behind the creation of this
spectacular performing arts
showplace we call the Mountain Arts Center."
Miss Billie, who has
received numerous honors,
recently received a special
honor of which she is most
proud when her alma mater,
Eastern Kentucky University,
r~cognized her as one of Kentucky's most succes~• I people. "I like the hr
" she
said, "but really, G
s the
glory, not me ..not m~
Miss Billie Jean Osbome bringing glory to Floyd County and its young people. We
are proud to call you our own.
Happy 1st Birthday, Emily!
Emily Grace Evans will celebrate her first birthday on March 18,
2005, with a "Dora the Explorer" theme party and lots of family
members and friends. Emily is the daughter of Bradley and
Susan Evans, of Grethel, who wish their "Little Princess' a very
happy day!
New Arrival
Chrjstopher Elwood Scott Hughes was born on February 14,
2005, to proud parents Randall and Chayla Hughes, of Banner.
He weighed 61bs., 14 oz. He is the first grandson of Chris a1d
Joanna Reid, of Banner, and the grandchild of Arlene and Ronnie Goble, of Harold. He is the little brother of lesley Hughes,
of Banner. His family is overjoyed with his arrival.
Dr. Hammad Qureshy
Internal Medicine Specialist
Martin County "After Hours" Clinic
Located on Route 3, near Route 645 Intersection
Monday through Friday, 5:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.;
Saturday, 9:00 a.m.-2:00p.m.
appointments are not required
For more information, call 298-4000
Highlands Martin County After Hours Clinic, located on Route 3 near
Inez, is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Hammad Qureshy. Dr.
Qureshy is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Specialist and Pulmologist. He will be available to see patients of all ages in the After Hours
Clinic for minor illnesses or accidents, and for more serious conditions
such as COPD, asthma, lung cancer, and diabetes.
Highlands Regional Medical Centerbringing convenient "After Hours Care"
to the residents of Martin County to
help you feel better soon.
HI HLANDS
r11artin
County Community Care Clinic
The Medical Center of Eastern Kentucky.m
A Subsidiary of Con:.olldated Health Systems
Double Delight
Bobby and Bulah Gayheart, of Leburn, are proud to announce the birth of their precious grandchildren, Daniel Patrick and Reagan Caroline Wombles, born January 31,2005. The twins are the
· children of Mark and Teresa Wombles, of Lexington. They are the paternal grandchildren of Russell and Linda Wombles, of London.
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�C6 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,
2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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110 ·Agrlcullure
116 ·ATV's
120 ·Boats
130 ·Cars
140 • 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
21 0 • Job L1stings
220 • Help Wanted
230 - Information
250 • Miscellaneous
260 • Part Time
270 • Sales
260 • Services
160 • Motorcycles
170- Parts
175- SUV's
180 - Truck& .
190- Vans
290 - Work Wanted
300 • l!jNANCIAL
200- EMPL.0YMENT
330 • rtor Sale
31 0 - $usiness
Qpportunity
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.
150-Miscellaneous
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40!!.: MERCHANt)ISJ:
410- Animals
4:20 • Appliances
440 • electronics
445 - Furniture
490 - Lawn & G~n
460 - Yard Sale
470 - Health & Seauty
475 - Household
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530 - Ho~$$
600- BElirALS
630 • Housel!
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Director of Social Services
Salyersville Health Care Center
is recruiting for a qualified candidate to fill our Director of Social
Services Position.
The qualified candidate
must have:
• Bachelor's degree in social work,
or a bachelor's degree in a human
services field, including, but not
limited to, sociology, special
education, rehabilitation counseling, and psychology.
• One year of supervised social work
experience in a health care setting,
working directly with individuals.
Candidate should forward a
resume to:
Salyersville Health Care Center
571 Parkway Drive
Salyersville, KY 41465
Fax: 606-349-5962
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Executive
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Opening. Busy corporate
office
in
Prestonsburg seeking
qualified candidate for
Executive
Suite.
Right person must
have excellent communications and computer skills, good driving record, mutitasked , dependable,
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Duties
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phone, filing and other
general office duties.
Full-time position with
benefits. M-F 8am5pm.
Send
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P.O.
Box
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41653.
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Employer.
We offer competitive
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benefits. If interested
please send a resume
to 147 N. Highland
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Send
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Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
1709 KY Route 321, Suite 3
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
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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
or 886-9007
Apartment available
for rent in Martin, partially furnished. Call
285-3980
2 Bath
3 BR
Apartment, Newly
Remodeled. 1,100
sq. ft., All Major
Appliances. $500 per
month + $500 Deposit
and utilities. Cali 285·
9003
Efficiency
Apartment For Rent.
$300 per month +
Water and Garbage,
Other
Utilities
Furnished. Cali 285·
9003
1
BR Furnished
Apartment
For
Rent. 5 Miles from
Martin on Rt. 1210,
Utilities
Already
Turned On, $370 +
Electricity.
Call
Anytime 285-3641
Renovated
Apartment's, Like
New, Furnished in
Downtown Martin.
Call between 9am5pm dailey.
2853025
for
Immediate
Occupancy. Rent 1
BR/$309, 2 BA/$345
Call 866·0039
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Located behind Wendy's
and Pizza Hut In Pres·
tonaburg. All utilities are
Included and the rent Is
based upon gross monthly
Income. Several actlvHiea,
such as line dancing,
crafts, bingo, movies, hair
salon and church services.
The apartments are fur·
nlshed wtth 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, rell·
glon, sex, nation·
al origin, age, ~
familial atatus or
dlaablllty.
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lease in prime location near BSCTC,
(PCC) and the new
Food City •• 21 00 ••
sq. ft. Ground floor
location with up to
five private offices,
conference
room,
kitchen, bath, parking
lot call Today 606424-2690 or 2262266
APARTMENTS
FOR RENT
1. 2 f· 4 Bedrooms
avaHable lor extremely
low-income people at
Highland Heights Apts.
In Gobi&-Roberts Addn.,
and Cliffside Apts. on
Cliff Road, Prestons·
burg.
Computerized
learning centers offer
soclaVeducatlonal programs lor 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 admission
or employment in subsi·
dized housing on
account of race, color,
national origin, sex,
age, disability, religion
and familial
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assignments in Floyd pnd surrounding
counties. Office applicants are required
to have at least I year of office experience. Applications are taken Mon.-Pri. at
our office, or you can send r~sum6 to:
Manpower
311 North Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
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Terry
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Smith. We have
FOR RENT: 900
apartments for rent
Ft.
that are efficiency Sq.
apartments, all utili· Office/Commercial
ties paid. For more Space located next to
Info call 606·886· Reflections beauty
salon, 3 quarter miles
2797.
south of Martin on At.
1BR
Furnlahed 122 across from the
Apartment,
LR , Garth Tech. School.
Kitchen, Large Bath, Call 285·9112
Clean,
Must
be
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Working Man. Ready
to Move Into, Near HOUSE FOR RENT:
Prestonsburg. Call 239 Francis Court,
Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
886·3941
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft.,
Suitable for office,
Furnished 1 bed small business or
room Apt. Central residence. Not suitheat & air. Rent start- able location for chil·
ing at $375. month, + dren or pets. $500
$300. deposit water per month + utilities.
included.
Located 886·6362
near HRMC. 606HOUSE FOR RENT
889-9717.
in Prestonsburg, cen620-Storage/Office, tal heat & air, yard, no
pets,
references
FOR RENT: 2 Office required $550 mo.
Suites,
New Call 886-0226.
900
Construction.
sq. ft. each. Ample 2 BR House For
Parking, Can be Rent,
$500
per
Combined for Total of month
+ $550
1,800
sq.
ft. Deposit.
No Pets
Convenient Location, Call 478-5403
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in FOR RENT 3 BR
Prestonsburg. Gall house.
Newly
886-1515 for info.
remodeled, references
required.
Storage Units For 886-8366.
Sale Located on Rt.
1428 1 Mile From the
City Limits. Call 8860893 or 422-4028
2 bed room 1 1/2
bath
Townhouse
also 1 bed room furnished or unfurnished located in
Prestonsburg
,NO
Medical
Office
PETS call 606-886 For Lease: Medical
8991
Office in McDowell
directly adjacent to
March Madness! Post Office, Dollar
First Month's Rent Store, bank, pharmaFree with Security cy and shopping
Deposit Paid In Full! complex. 1250 sq. ft.
Through
3/31/05. with 3 exam rooms, 2
Park
Place offices, waiting room,
in triage room, 2 bathApartments
Prestonsburg, rooms and accesElderly, Handicapped sories. Reasonable
& DisabledAvailable
APPLICATIONS BEING ,
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1-BEDROOM
· .Af'ARTMENTS FOR ·
PERSONS
.55 AND OLDER
Lease rates.
16, 2005. C7
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
between
Preston·
sbur9 and Paintsville
call 606·866·9007 or
889 9747
For Rent : newly
constructed Mobile
Home Lots In new
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Participation in this program will provide a regular income to landlords, and
provide a decent, safe and sanitary
place for qualifying families to live.
If you are a property owner, and would
like information about this program,
please contact:
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Toll Free. 1-800ROMANCE ext. 9735
16, 2005
making a total of
639.97 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
(2) The proposed
amendment area is
approximately 1 mile
southeast
from
Kentucky
Route
466's junction w1th
Caleb Fork County
Road, and is located
on Pine Fork of
Caleb Fork, in Floyd
County, and Abel
Tackett Fork of Long
Fork, in Pike County.
The latitude is 37
degrees, 19 minutes,
09 seconds. The longitude is 82 degrees,
41 minutes, 01 seconds.
(3) The proposed
amendment is located
on
the
Wheelwright USGS 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
under the amendment is owned by
Collins and Mayo
Collieries Company,
Joyce N. Johnson,
Clinton & Eva Little,
and Joe & Mary
Tackett. The operation will use the surface area method of
mining.
(4) The amendment
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,
kentucky
41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
requests f9r a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson. Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601 .
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC SALE
The following item
will be offered at public sale on March 31 ,
2005,
at
First
Guaranty Bank, 36
Main Street, Martin,
Kentucky.
1985
Chevrolet
G25 Van Vin #
1GBEG25H2F711 04
97
All items are sold
"as is where is."
Seller reserves the
right to bid and to
reject any or all bids.
Items are to be paid
following the sale, or
satisfactory arrangements are made with
the
seller.
Announcements at
the sale take priority
over ad. Purchaser to
pay all taxes and
transfer fees.
First Guaranty
Bank
36 Main Street
P.O. Box 888
Martin, KY 41649
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
Secret Encounters
04-CI-01212
1 - 800-442-M EET
U.S. BANK, NA
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NOTICE OF
FIRSTAR BANK,
900-Legals
NA)
PLAINTIFF
vs.
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0294,
AMENDMENT 1
Lester
Tackett,
Audrey
Tackett,
Citifinancial Services,
Inc., Commonwealth
of Kentucky and
Floyd
County,
Kentucky
(1) In accordance
Defendants
with KRS 350.070,
notice is hereby
NOTICE OF
given that Miller Bros.
COMMISSIONCoal ,
Inc.,
25
ER'S
Clydean
Drive,
SALE
Leburn,
Kentucky
BY VIRTUE OF
41831, has applied
Summary Judgment
for an amendment to
and Order of Sale of
an existing surface
the Floyd Circuit
coal mining operaCourt, entered on the
tion, located 1 mile
14th day of January,
southeast
of
2005, in the Floyd
Weeksbury, in Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
and Pike counties.
above-styled act1on,
The amendment will
in the pnncipai sum
add 31 .22 acres, and
of
$55,345.68,
will delete 2.15 of
together with interest,
surface disturbance,
costs and fees, I shall
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
proceed to offer for
sale at the Old Floyd
County Courthouse
door, South Central
Avenue ,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky,
(behind
Floyd
the
new
County
Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction, on Thursday,
the 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m., the
following described
real estate, located at
23235 KY Route 122,
Melvin, Floyd County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
A certain tract or
parcel of land lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, on Abner
Fork of Left Beaver
Creek and being all
of First Party's inter·
est in and to the fol·
lowing
described
property
and
obtained by deed
from
Darcus
Newsome
and
Monroe Newsome,
her husband, bearing
date of March 30,
1964, an'd recorded
in Deed Book 184,
Page 554, in the
office of the Floyd
County Court Clerk,
and more particularly
described as follows,
to wit:
Beginning on a
stone marked near
the center of the
creek,
thence
a
straight line across
the
bottom
with
Epison
Newsome
line to a stone at the
county road, thence
tlp the ~oad 50 feet,
thence on up the
State Highway to
Willie Harris line,
thence across the
bottom with Willie
Harris Line and wire
fence to center of
Abner Fork or Creek,
thence down the center of th~ creek to the
beginning so as to
include all land in
said boundary and
both lots.
Subject to all easements, covenants,
conditions, reservations, leases and
restrictions of record,
all legal highways, all
rights of way, all zoning, building and
other laws, ordinances and regulations, all rights of tenants in possession,
and all real estate
taxes and assessments not yet due
and payable.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Lester Tackett and
Audrey Tackett by
deed recorded in
Volume 249, Page
85, of the Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
records.
•consists of housing unit and lot.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shell either pay cash
or 10% of purchase
price, with the bat·
ance on credit for
thirty (30) days, and
required to execute a
bond with good sure·
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.
(b) The property
shall be sold subject
to any easements
and restrictions of
record in the Floyd
Clerk's
County
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,
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 .1
be paid from the sale
proceeds.
(d) In the event the
Plaintiff is the purchaser of the above
described property,
for a~ amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit against sa1d
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. Sept1imous
Taylor
4830 Towne
Square Court
Owensboro, KY
42301
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-01277
ALEGIS GROUP,
L.P.
PLAINTIFF
vs.
RICHARD ELLIS,
VICKIE D. ELLIS
DEFENDANTS
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF In
Rem Judgment and
Foreclosure Decree
of the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
14th day of February,
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above-styled action,
in the principal sum
of $6,970.83, 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 31st
day of March, 2005,
at the hour of 9:15
a.m. , the following
described real estate,
located
at · 497
Derossett
Street,
Prestonsbur~; Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
A certain tract or
parcel of land, lying
in Floyd County,
Kentucky,
and
described as follows:
Beginning at the
creek 25 feet northwest from the north·
east-southeast corner of Richard Ellis
and Vickie D. Ellis
property;
going
southwest approximately 95 feet to tree
marked X, turning 90
degrees right approximately 160 feet
northwest to tree
marked X, turning 90
degrees right approximately 95 feet northeast back to creek,
turning 90 degrees
right running
up
creek approximately
160 feet southeast to
the beginning.
. Being
the
property conveyed to
Richard Ellis and
Vickie D. Ellis by
deed dated May 14,
1996 from, David
Ellis and Susan Ellis,
his wife, recorded in
Deed Book 395,
Page 215, Floyd
Clerk's
County
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, 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 ali
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and ali
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 11bove
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less tha. t, 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. Philip M.
Kleinsmith
Kleinsmith &
Associates, P.C.
6035 Erin· Park
Drive, Suite 203
Colorado Springs,
co 80918
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
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 0.10 mile
east of Ligon, in
Floyd County.
The proposed facility is approximately
0.5 mile so.uth 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 facilisame ty 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
Coal
Elk
Horn
Corporation,
Will
S!onP. 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,
or
objections,
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 .
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO RELOCATE
GRAVES
Jerry Banks is the
owner of certain
property located at
Sage Alien Branch
~ormerly known as
Motts Branch and
Allen
General
Branch) of Salt Lick
on Right Beaver
Creek
in
Floyd
County (Deed Book
289, Page 434). He
had discovered an
abandoned cemetery
on his property which
contains two (2) identifiable graves and
possibly four (4)
unmarked graves. It
is his intention to
relocate these graves
with the assistance of
Knott Floyd Land
Company due to mining operations on his
property.
The
identifiable
graves are: Bobbie
Shepherd
and
Wanda
Hicks.
Permission to relocate the grave of
Bobbie
Shepherd
has been granted by
her next of kin. The
only other identifiable
grave is that of
Wanda Hicks, born
1926 and died 1927.
All reasonable efforts
have been made to
contact Wanda Hicks'
next of kin and to
determine if there are
other graves in this
location.
1. The cemetery
has no known official
name. It is located on
Sage Allen Branch,
approximately one
mile up Sage Allen
Branch on the left
hand side of the
branch near the residence
of
Jerry
Banks, and has been
abandoned for many
years.·
2. This notice is to
request assistance
from anyone having
knowledge of persons buried in this
location or the names
of their next of kin.
3. if you have any
information
about
persons buried in this
location, please contact George Adkins at
Knott Floyd Land
Company, P.O. Box
2765,
Pikeville,
Kentucky
41502,
(606) 874·9003.
4. This notice will
run each Wednesday
in the Floyd County
Times for a period of·
60 days from January
12, 2005. At the expiration of 60 days
notice, Jerry Banks
will petition the Floyd
Fiscal Court to grant
authority to relocate
the graves whose
next of kin cannot be
located.
5.
The
graves
requiring Fiscal Court
approval to be relocated will be relocated at a perpetual
care cemetery in
Floyd County, and
will be marked by
appropriate
headstone and footstone.
The relocation will be
supervised by a
licensed
funeral
director who will have
obtained the appro-
priate permits from
the Health Services
Cabinet, Department
of Vital Statistics. The
relocation is planned
to take place on or
after March 21, 2005.
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
:-=LOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
CASE NO.
03-CI-01322
WASHINGTON
MUTUAL BANK,
FA
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Gregory
Smith,
unknown spouse, if
any,
of
Gregory
Smith, Transfinancial
Bank,
National
Association
Defendants
RE-NOTICE OF
COMM I SSION·
ER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, entered
on the 1st day of
June, 2004, in the
Floyd Circuit Court, in
the
above-styled
action, in the principal
sum
of
$90,038.63, 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 17th day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:15a.m., the
following described
real estate, located at
Lot 25 Eagle Trace,
Harold,
Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
Herein described
property is a tract of
property lying and
being near the head
of Penhook Branch of
the Levisa Fork off
U.S. 23, at Harold', in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and being
known as Lot 25 of
section Two of the
Eagle
Trace
Subdivision,
and
being
further
described as follows:
Beginning at a
rebar/cap(set), on the
edge of north street,
being a common corner of Lot 27 and the
subject
property;
thence leaving the
street right of way
with Lot 27, N 70
degrees 40'22" W a
distance of 149.69' to
a
rebar/cap(set) ,
being a common corner of Lots 27, 24
and the subject property; thence leaving
Lot 27 and with Lot
24, N 30 degrees 57'
30" E a distance of
43.93' to a rebar/cap;
thence N 30 degrees
57'30" E a distance
of 25.41 ' to
a
rebar/cap being a
common corner of
Lot 24, West Street
and the subject property; thence leaving
Lot 24 and with the
street right of way, 30
degrees 57'30" E a
distance of 24.16' to
a rebar/cap; thence
with a curve turning
to the right with an
arc length of 30.24',
with a radius of
88.94' with a chord
bearing of N 58
degrees 29'01 " E,
with a chord length of
30.10' to a rebar/cap,
thence N 74 degrees
51 '57" E a distance
of 110.02' to a
rebar/cap(set), being
a common corner of
Lot 26 and the subject property; thence
leaving the street
right of way and
downhill with Lot 26,
S 03 degrees 32'11"
E a distance of
143.86 '
to
a
rebarlcap on the
edge of north street,
being a common corner of Lot 26 and the
subject
property;
thence leaving Lot 26
and along the street
right of way with a
curve turning to the
left with an arc length
of 73-86', with a
radius of 30.00', with
a chord being of S 57
degrees 15'15" W,
with a chord length of
56.57' to the point of
beginning, having an
20,697
area
of
square feet, 0.48
acres.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Gregory Sm ith by
deed dated May 9,
2003, of record in
Deed Book 486,
Page 278, in the
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Amended Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
22nd
day
of
November, 2004, in
the Floyd Circui t
Court, in the abovestyled action, in the
principal sum of
$33,536.89, together
with interest, costs
and fees, I shall proceed to offer for sale
at the Old Floyd
County courthouse
door, South Central
Aven u e ,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky,
(behind
the
new
Floyd
County
Justice
Center), to the highest bidder, at public
auction, on Thursday,
the 17th day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m., the
foltowing described
real estate, located
and lying in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 20% of purchase
price, with the balance on credit for
thirty (30) days, and
A tract of land ,
required to execute a located on Abner
bond with good sure- Fork, Floyd County,
ty thereon for the Kentucky, to-wit:
unpaid
purchase
Center of creek,
price of said property, across road at Cline
if any, bearing inter· Johnson boundary
est at the rate of · line and across bot·
twelve
percent tom and up hill to the
(12%)) per annum top of point. Center of
from the date of sale creek, across road to
until paid, having the marker across the
force and effect of a bottom and up by
Judgment.
poplar tree on hill to
(b) The property top of point.
shall be sold subject
Being a portion of
to any easements the same property
and restrictions of conveyed to Jason
. record in the Floyd Hall and Amy Hall,
County
Clerk's his
wife,
from
Office, and such right Ocelene Cole and
of redemption as may Carl Cole, her husexist in favor of the band, by deed dated
United States of July 19, 1996, and
America, and/or the recorded in Deed
record owners there- Book 397, Page 91 ,
of.
of the Floyd County
(c) Th~ purchaser Court Clerk's Office.
shall be · ~equi red to
assume and pay all
TERMS OF SALE
Floyd
County,
(a) At the time of
Kentucky, real prop- sale, the successful
erty taxes for the bidder, if the other
year 2003, and all than the Plaintiff,
subsequent years, shall either pay cash
which are not yet due or 10% of purchase
and payable. Any and price, with the balall delinquent Floyd , ance on credit for
County, Kentucky, thirty (30) days, and
real estate taxes will required to execute a
be paid from the sale bond with good sureproceeds.
ty thereon for the
(d) In the event the unpaid
purchase
Plaintiff is the pur- price of said property,
chaser of the above if any, bearing interdescribed property, est at the rate of
for an amount equal twelve percent (12%)
to, or less than, its per annum, from the
first lien, it shall take date of sale until
a credit against said paid, having the force
lien for the amount of and effect of a
the bid, and no bond Judgment.
shall be required of
(b) The property
the Plaintiff, and it shall be sold subject
shall only be obligat- to any easements
ed to pay court costs, and restrictions of
the fees and costs of record in the Floyd
the
Master County
Clerk's
Commissioner, and Office, and such right
any real estate taxes of redemption as may
assessed against the exist in favor of the
real estate.
United States of
Any
announce- America and/or the
ments made on date record owners thereof sale take prece- of.
dance over printed
(c) The purchaser
matter
contained shall be required to
herein.
assume and pay all
Plaintiff's At1orney : Floyd
County, tfl
Hon. Philip Q.
Kentucky, real propRatliff
erty taxes for the
Weltman , Weinberg year 2004, and all
& Reis
subsequent years,
which are not yet due
525 Vine Street,
and payable. Any and
Suite 800
Cincinnati, Ohio
all delinquent Floyd
45202
County, Kentucky,
real estate taxes will
Wi lliam S. Kendrick be paid from the sale
Master
proceeds.
Commissioner
(d) In the event the
P.O. Box 268
Plaintiff Is the purPrestonsburg, ·J<:Y chaser of the above
41653
described property
for an amount equal •
COMMONWEALT to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
H
a credit against said
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
COURT
shall be required of
DIVISION NO. II
the Plaintiff, and it
CASE NO.
shall only be obligat04-CI-00963
ed to pay court costs,
CITIZENS
the fees and costs of
NATIONAL BANK the
Master
Commissioner, and
PLAINTIFF
any real estate taxes
vs.
assessed against the
Jason Hall, et al
re?l estate.
Defendants
Any
announcements made on date
�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney·
Hon. Frank
Heaberlin
119 East Court
Street
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC SALE
A public·aucti9n will
be held at Worldwide
Equipment Inc., 1977
KY
AT
1428,
Prestonsburg,
KY,
41653, at 10:30 a.m.,
March 24, 2005, to
sell a 1987 Mack
RD886SX and 1993
Great Dane trailer.
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-00620
COMMUNITY
TRUST BANK,
INC., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO
COMMUNITY
TRUST BANK,
N.A.
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Tony Butler and
Betsy Butler; Ford
Motor Credit Company
and
Floyd
County, Kentucky
Defendants
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment In Rem
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
14th day of January
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above-styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$12,700.09,
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 24th
day of March, 2005,
at the hour of 9:15
a.m., the following
described real estate,
located and lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
A tract of land in
South Martin, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
beginning at a stake
0n May Waddles line
and running 80 feet
with said line to
Second
Street,
thence turning and
running with Second
Street 50 feet to
Calvin
Osborne's
line, thence turning
and running 80 feet
to J.W. Halbert's line,
thence turning and
running 50 feet with
J. W. Halbert's line to
the beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Dennis Martin and
Gladys Martin by
deed from Lottie
Ryan, dated July 14,
1962, recorded in
Deed Book 180,
Page 306, Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office. For further
source of title, reference is made to the
Will of Dennis Martin,
recorded in Will Book
E, Page 590, and the
Will of Gladys Martin,
1996, recorded in
Will Book 0, Page
307, said clerk's
office.
This was conveyed
August 13, 1997, by
John
Lawrence
Maddox and Billie
Sue Maddox, his
wife, to Tony Butler,
divorced and unremarried, Betsy Butler,
widow, by Deed Book
410,
Page
440,
recorded in Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office.
The real property or
its address is com-
monty known as 37
Chestnut
Street,
Martin,
Kentucky
41649.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successtul
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10% of purcl;lase
price, with the balance on credit tor
sixty (60) 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, 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 nght
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,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2004, 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
ahy real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
at1nounceAny
ments made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
containeed
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Han. Virginia K.
Baird
Baird & Baird, PSC
P.O. Box 351
Pikeville, KY
41502
16, 2005 • C9
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
IN THE
FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
CIRCULATION DEPT.
ASSEMBLING NEWSPAPERS
P.an;fim~:.
Day ana nJg~t shifts
APPLY AT 263 S. CENTRAL AVE.
No Phone Calls, Please!
E.O.E.
Notice to Customers of Kentucky Power Company Proposed changes to the Environmental Surcharge Tariff
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on March 7, 2005, Kentucky Power Company (KPCo) will file with the Kentucky Public Service Commission {the Commission) in Case No. 2005-00068 an Application pursuant to Kentucky Revised Statutes 278.183 for authorization to make
changes to the environmental surcharge for customer bills rendered on and after April29, 2005 in accordance with proposed changes to Tariff E.S. KPCo is requesting the Commission to approve the proposed changes to the Tariff E.S. This tariff contains the environmental
surcharge ratemaking formula and other terms and conditions. The proposed changes, if approved, will allow KPCo to apply a surcharge to all customer bills rendered on and after April29, 2005 to recover additional cost of complying with the Federal Clean Air Act and other
federal and state or local environmental requirements which apply to coal combustion wastes and by-products from facilities utilized for the production of energy from coal in accordance with KPCo's environmental compliance plan.
·
The full terms and conditions and ratemaking formula of Tariff E.S. are set forth below:
APPLICABLE
To Tariffs R.S., R.S.·L.M.-T.O.D., Experimental R.S.-T.O.D., S.G.S., M.G.S., Experimental M.G.S.-T.O.D., L.G.S., Q.P., C.I.P.-T.O.D., C.S.-I.R.P., M.W., O.L., and S.L.
II'
. ,
RATE.
•
1. The environmental surcharge shall provide for periodic adjustments based on a percent of revenues equal to the difference between the environmental commpliance oosts in the base period and in the current period according to the following formula:
Monthly Envrionmental Surcharge Factor
=
Net KY Retail E(m)
KY Retail R {m)
Where:
Monthly E(m) allocated to Kentucky Retail Customers, net of Over/(Under) Recovery Adjustment; Allocation based on Percentage of Kentucky Retail Revenues to Total Company Revenues in the Expense Month
Net KY Retail E(m)
=
(For purposes of this formula, Total Company Revenues do not include Non-Physical Revenues.)
KY Retail R(m)
=
Kentucky Retail Revenues for the Expense Month
2. Monthly Environmental Surcharge Gross Revenue Requirement, E(m)
E(m)
=
CRR·BRR
Where:
CRR
=
Current Period Revenue Requirement for the Expense Month
BAR
Base Period Revenue Requirement
3. Base Period Revenue Requirement, BAR
BRR=((RBKP(B)) (RORKP(B/12)tOEKP(B)+ [((RBIM(S))/12) + OEIM(B)](.15)
Where:
RBKP{BI
=
Environmental Compliance Rate Base for Big Sandy
RORKPIBI
=
Annual Rate of Return on Big Sandy Rate Base; Annual Rate divided by t 2 to restate to a Monthly Rate of Return
OEKPIBI
=
Monthly Pollution Control Operating Expenses for Big Sandy
RB1M181
Environmental Compliance Rate Base for Rockport
ROR1M181
Annual Rate of Return on Rockport Rate Base; Annual Rate divided by 12 to restate to a Monthly Rate of Return
OE1_,181
Monthly Pollution Control Operating Expenses for Rockport
"KP(B)" identifies components from the Big Sandy Units- Base Period, and "IM{B)" identifies components from the Indiana Michigan Power Company's Rockport Units· Base Period.
The Rate Base for both Kentucky Power and Rockport should reflect the account balance as of December 31, t 990. The Operating Expense amounts should reflect the December 1990 expense. The amounts reflect retirements or replacements resulting from the 1997 Plan,
the 2003 Plan and the 2005 Plan.
The Rate of Return for Kentucky Power is a weighted average oost of capital calculation, reflecting the cost of debt as of December 31, 1990 and the rate of return on common equity authorized in Case No. 1996-00489. The Kentucky Power component in the Base Period
Revenue Requirement is a result of the adoption of the settlement in Case No. 1999-00149. As Kentucky Power's last general rate case had been settled. Kentucky Power proposed and the Commission accepted the use of the rate of return on common equity established
in Case No. 1996-00489.
The Rate of Return for Rockport should reflect the requirements of the Rockport Unit Power Agreement.
The Base Period Revenue Requirement will remain fixed until either a) a 2-year review case results in the roll-in of the surcharge into existing base rates, or b) further retirements or replacements of pollution control utility plant occur due to the installation of new pollution
control utility plant associated with the approved compliance plan.
4. Current Period Revenue Requirement, CRR
CRR=((RBKPc)(RORKPIC))/12) + OEKPICI + [((RB1MICI)(RORIMICl)/12) + OE1MICIJ (.15)-AS
!I
Where:
Environmental Compliance Rate Base for Big Sandy
Annual Rate of Return on Big Sandy Rate Base Annual Rate divided by 12 to restate a Monthly Rate of Return
Monthly Pollution Control Operating Expenses for Big Sandy.
Environmental Compliance Rate Base for Rockport.
Annual Rate of Return on Rockport Base; Annual Rate divided by 12 to restate to a Monthly Rate of Return.
Monthly Pollution Control Operating Expenses for Rockport.
Net proceeds from the sale of S02 emission allowances, ERGs, and NOx emission allowances reflected in the month of receipt. The S02 allowance sales can be from either EPA Auctions or the AEP Interim Allowance
Agreement Allocations.
"KP(C)" identifies components from the Big Sandy Units-Current Period, and "IM(C)" identifies components from the Indiana Michigan Power Company's Rockport Units-Current Period.
The Rate Base for both Kentucky Power and Rockport should reflect the current costs associated with the 1997 Plan, the 2003 Plan and the 2005 Plan. The Rate Base for Kentucky Power should also include a cash working capital allowance based on the 1/8 formula
approach, due to the inclusion of Kentucky Power's accounts receivable financing in the capital structure and weighted average cost of capital. The Operating Expenses for both Kentucky Power and Rockport should reflect the current operating expenses associated with
the 1997 Plan, the 2003 Plan, and the 2005 Plan.
The Rate of Return for Kentucky Power is the weighted average cost of capital as authorized by the Commission in Case No. 2002-00169.
The Rate of Return for Rockport should reflect the requirements of the Rockport Unit Power Agreement.
Net proceeds from the sale of emission allowances and ERGs that reflect net gains will be a reduction to the Current Perior Revenue Requirement, while net losses will be an increase.
The Current Period Revenue Requirement will reflect the balances and expenses as of the Expense Month of the filing.
5. Environmental costs "E" shall be the Company's costs of compliance with the Clean Air Act and those environmental requirements shall apply to coal combustion wastes and by-products, as follows:
(a)
cost associated with Continuous Emission Monitors (CEMS)
(b)
cost associated with the terms of the Rockport Unit Power Agreement
(c)
the Cfmpany' s share of the pool capacity costs associated with Gavin scrubber(s)
(d)
return on S02 allowance inventory
(e)
costs associated with air emission fees
(f)
over/under recovery balances between the actual costs incurred less the amount collected through the environmental surcharge.
(g)
costs associated with any Commission's consultant approved by the Commission
(h)
costs associated with Low Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) burners at the Big Sandy Generating Plant
(i)
costs associated with the oonsumption of S02 allowances
U)
costs associated with the SCR at the Big Sandy Generating Plant
(k)
costs associated with the upgrade of the precipitator at the Big Sandy Generating Plant
(I)
costs associated with the over·fire air with water injection at the Big Sandy Generating Plant
(m) costs associated with the oonsumption of NOx allowances
(n)
return on NOx allowance inventory
(o)
25% of the costs associated with the Reverse Osmosis Water System (the amount is subject to adjustment at subsequent 6 month surcharge reviews based on the documented utilization of the RO Water System by the SCR)
(p)
costs associated with operating approved pollution control equipment
(q)
costs associated with maintaining approved pollution control equipment including material and contract labor (excluding plant labor)
(r)
the Company's share of the pool capacity costs associated with the following:
*
Amos Unit No 3 GEMS, Low NOx Burners and SCR
Cardinal Unit No 1 GEMS, Low NOx Burners, SCR and associated S03 Mitigation System
Gavin Plant SCR, SCR Catalyst Replacement and S03 Mitigation System
Gavin Unit Nos. 1 and 2 Low NOx Burners
Kammer Unit Nos t, 2 and 3 GEMS, Over Fire Air and Duct Modification
Mitchell Unit Nos 1 and 2 Low NOx Burners and Low NOx Burner Modification, Unit No. 1 Water Injection
Mitchell Plant Common CEMS, Replace Burner Barrier Valves
Muskingum River Unit No 1 Low NOx Ductwork, Over Fire Air, Over Fire Air Modification, Water Injection and Water Injection Modification
Muskingum River Unit No 2 Low NOx Ductwork, Over Fire Air, Over Fire Air Modification and Water Injection
Muskingum River Unit No 3 Over Fire Air, Over Fire Air Modification with NOx lnstrum.entation
Muskingum River Unit No 4 Over Fire Air with Modification
Muskingum River Unit No 5 Low NOx Burner with Modification and Weld Overlays and an SCR
Muskingum River Common GEMS
·
Phillip Sporn Unit No 2 Low NOx Burners with Modifications
Phillip Sporn Unit Nos 4 and 5 Low NOx Burners and Modulating Injection Air System with Modifications
* · Phillip Sporn Common GEMS and S03 injection system
Rockport Unit Nos 1 and 2 Low NOx Burners
Tanners Creek Unit No 1 Low NOx Burners, with Modifications and Low NOx Burners Leg Replacement
Tanners Creek Unit Nos 2 and 3 Low NOx Burners with Modifications
Tanners Creek Unit No 4 Over Fire Air, Low NOx Burners and ESP Controls Upgrade
• Tanners Creek Common GEMS
6. The monthly environmental surcharge shall be filed with the Commission ten (1 O) days before it is scheduled to go into effect, along with all necessary supporting data to justify the amount of the adjustments which shall include data and information as may be required
by the Commission.
................ .......
.,.
The changes to Tariff E.S. contained in this notice are proposed by KPCo. The estimated effect of the proposed changes to the environmental surcharge tariff for a residential customer using an average of 1,000 kWh per month would increase a customer's bill $0.34 per
month, or approximately 0.6 percent. However, the Public Service Commission may order changes to Tariff E.S. to be different from the proposed changes. Such action may result in a change in the environmental surcharge amount for customers to be different than the
environmental surcharge amounts in this notice.
Any corporation, association, body politic or person may, by motion within thirty (30) days after publication or mailing of notice of the proposed changes to the environmental surcharge tariff, request leave to intervene rn Case No. 2005·00068. That motion shall be submitted
~ to the Public Service Commission, 211 Sower Boulevard, P.O. Box 615, Frankfort, Kentucky 40602-0614, and shall set forth the grounds for the request including the status and interest of the party.
Intervenors may obtain oopies of the Application and testimony by contacting Kentucky Power Company at t01A Enterprise Drive, P.O. Box 5190 Frankfort, Kentucky 40602-5190, attention Errol K. Wagner. A copy of the Application and testimony is available for public
ins ection at KPCo' s district service buildin s located in Ashland, Hazard and Pikeville.
�C10 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2005
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-00977
File No. 348 records
of the Floyd County
Clerk's office.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Georgine Johnson,
from Robert Howard
and F<olleen Howard,
husband and wife, by
Deed dated June 30,
1995, and recorded
in Deed Book 387,
Page 529, in the
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
JP MORGAN
CHASE BANK,
AS TRUSTEE
FOR EQUITY
ONE ABS, INC.,
MORTGAGE
PASS THROUGH
CERTIFIED
TERMS OF SALE
SERIES #2003-1
(a) At the time of
C/0 EQUITY ONE, sale, the succcessful
INC.
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Kenneth Johnson,
Georgine Johnson,
unknown defendant,
spouse of Georgine
Johnson
Defendants
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER 'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, entered
on the 14th day of
January, 2005, in the
Floyd Circuit Court, in
the
above-styled
action, in the principal
sum
of
$45.950.01 , 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
Cen-ter) to the highest bidder, at public
auction, on Thursday,
the 24th day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m., the
following descnbed
real estate, located at
145
Elm
Street,
Wheelwright, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows :
A tract or parcel of
land lying and being
in Floyd County,
Kentucky, on Otter
Creek of Left Beaver
Creek in the town of
Wheelwright
and
being Lot No. 108
including the dwelling
house and appurtenance
thereunto
belonging located on
said lot or parcel of
land
of
tt:le
Wheelwright subdivision as shown by first
party's map of plat in
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
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
exixt 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,
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 pa1d from the sale
proceeds.
(d) In the event the
Plaintiff 1s the purchaser of the above
described property,
for an amount equal
to, or less than, its
first lien, it shall take
a credit agamst sa1d
lien for the amount of
the bid, and no bond
shhall be required of
the Plaintiff, and it
shall only be obligated to pay court costs,
the fees and costs of
the
Master
Commissioner, and
l•IJIII. Jfj
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
any real estate taxes
assessed against the
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Endicott,
Lester
Jervis, Bill & Pat
Jarrell, Brad & Sally
Goble, Ornes & Earl
Spears, and Reed
Heirs.
The
amendment
application has been
filed
tor
public
inspection at the
Plaintiff's Attorney : Department
for
Hon. Kerri L.
Natural Resources'
Nunley
Prestonsburg
Lerner, Sampson & Regional
Office,
Rothfuss
3140 South Lake
P.O. Box 5480
Drive,
Suite
6,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Prestonsburg,
Ky.
45201-5480
41653. Written comWilliam S. Kendrick ments,
objections,
Master
and requests for a
Commissioner
permit conference
P.O. Box 268
must be filed with the
Prestonsburg, KY Director, Division of
41653
Mine Permits, No. 2
Hudson Hollow, U.S.
127 South, Frankfort,
NOTICE OF
Ky. 40601.
INTENTION
This is the final
TO MINE
advertisement of the
PURSUANT TO
application . All comAPPLICATION
ments, objections, or
NUMBER 836requests for a permit
5416,
conference must be
AMENDMENT
received within thirty
NO.2
(30) days of today's
In accordance with date.
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
OS Energy, lnG., P.O.
NOTICE
Box 2864, Pikeville,
TO BIDDERS
KY
41502,
has
applied
for
an
City of PrestonsAmendment to an
burg will be acexisting underground
cepting bids on
mming and
coal
the construction of
reclamation operatwo
100-stall
tion, located 0.9 mile
barns.
Bids
must
west of Woods, in
be
turned
in
by
Floyd
County,
noon
on
Monday,
Kentucky.
The
March 21. For
amendment proposmore
Information
es to add 75.00 acres
and specifications,
of
underground
contact
Mayor
acreage, making the
Jerry Fannin at
total area 930.41
acres within
the
Prestonsburg City
amended
permit
Hall, 886-2335.
boundary.
The
proposed
amendment area is
approximately 0.25
mile east from KY
194's junction with
Ky. 1428, and located
adjacent to Cow
Creek.
The
proposed
amendment is, located on the Lancer
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
map. The amendment will underlie
land owned by Roy &
Patsy Conn, Delmer
& Irene Jervis, Burnis
& Markiutta Jervis,
Zenis & Janet Jervis,
Maryland
Jervis,
George & Bridget
Vanover, Glen &
Mary Burchett, Greg
&
Pam
Conn,
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From track and
field events to
golf to bowling
to baseball to
basketball, Babe
Didrikson-Zaharias
proved that women
can excel in sports.
Meet this sports
legend on today's
Kid Scoop.
eek: Women's Hlstorv
(Cl 2005
by Vicki Whiting, Editor
INDIVIDUALITY
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Vol. 21 No. 12
Jeff Schinkel, Graphics
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COMMITMENT
®
Babe Didrikson Zaharias is considered
one of the greatest athletes of the last
century. Few, if any,
have matched her
achievements in this
new century.
When the news of the 1928 Olympic Games filled the papers, Babe decided
to begin training right away. Babe practiced hurdles and high jumps by
soaring over seven hedges alongside her street. When one of the hedges
was a bit too high, she asked the people who lived there to cut it down
to the right size - and they did!
Babe was born on
How many of June 26, 1911. When
she was young, most
each style of
little girls did not
marble can
participate in sports.
you find on
Babe
loved sports. In
this page?
her lifetime she was
an Olympic gold medalist in track and
field, an All-American basketball
player, a champion golfer, and an
extraordinary baseball player,
swimmer, bowler, diver, tennis
player and even the marble @
champion of second grade!
How many differences can you find between these two pictures?
USGA Offers FREE Booklet about Babe: Would you like to know more about Babe? Email DNormoyle@USGA.org
and ask for a free copy of the U.S. Golf Association's booklet for kids "Character of a Champion."
PERSEVERANCE
Baseball Babe
In the summer of 1934, Babe
played 200 baseball games as
she traveled the country with
an all-male team called, the
House of David. Babe was
their star pitcher.
CLUE 1:
Find Fort Lauderdale,
FL on the map. Move
1 square west. Next,
move 9 squares
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squares to the east.
What city is located in
that square?
CLUE 2:
Start in the square
where the city you
found in Clue 1 is
located. Move 3
squares west. Next
move 1 square south.
Which city is located
in that square?
Use the clues to find the
names of four cities where
Babe played baseball with
the House of David team.
CLUE 3:
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Where does
each word
Babe played her first game of golf when she
belong?
was in Los Angeles for the 1932 _ _ _ _ ~======~
Games. She took to the game at once.
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However, Babe's entry into a Texas state AMATEUR!
golf championship was rejected at first.
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Some
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Association complained about Babe's lack LADIES
of social standing.
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But Babe was detennined to be a
. For several
years she played exhibition games until she was finally
permitted to play in
tournaments. The first
year, 1946-4 7, she won 13 tournaments in a row. Babe
would go on to
113 golf tournaments.
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Famous Fun
•
Babe's athletic talent and quick wit often
made headlines in the newspaper. Select
headlines from today's newspaper and
rewrite them so they convey the opposite
meaning .
Standards Link: Writing Strategies: Use descriptive words
w_hen writing .
M
was an extraordinary
She stood up against
ll\jHlL~~i>JLll and stood up for her•It must have been very
to do.
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Christina
2nd grade
admire Sacagawea because
she helped Lewis and Clark 9n
journey. If it weren't for
, they probably wouldn't
made it.
Jesse
Slh grade
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woman I admire is my
I admire her because
she never gives up on any, no matter what it is.
Taylor .
61h grade .
A woman I admire is Selena.
. She was a good singer. Selena
died in 1995 when I was one
year old. I admire her because
she sings my favorite song and
I appreciate her music.
Rosa
61h grade
A girl wh? I deeply respect
and look up to is my best
friend, Erica. She always has
something fun for us to do.
. Also, she's always kind, un: derstanding and inviting. She
fair to everyone. Lastly, you
have to feel embarrassed
·~·~al.J'VUl being weird or funny in
~<llf'r.r'\nt of her because she's
ays got an even funnier
and never worries if she
. looks hilarious. I'm probably
not the only friend of hers who
· looks to her as a role model.
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Corner
From the final square
in Clue 2, move 2
squares south. Next
move 2 squares west.
Then move 2 squares
north. Which city is
located in that
square?
CLUE 4:
From the final square
in Clue 3, move 2
squares west. Next
move 1 square north.
Which city is located
in that square?
Find the words in the puzzle,
BABE
then in this week's Kid Scoop
ZAHARIAS
stories and activities.
HURDLES
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OLYMPIC
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SOCIAL
CHARACTER s M c E L A M 0 A T
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EXCEL
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MARBLES
B H L B M A M u A R
HIGH
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TRACK
A B I T R A c K A H
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
PLAYER
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
61h grade •
woman I admire the most
is my mom. She listens to
· what people say and she cares
about people.
Ashley
6th grade :
. I admire Oprah because she
. has made reading popular all
: around the world. She has also
Americans to eat right
exercise more and to
their feelings. Oprah
is also amazing be1"1~a.u..,~ she started out very poor
now she is one of the
~a··
~ people on earth. Oprah
re;~u·~~·u't just use the money on
what she wants, but she uses
money for poor people.
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Emily
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Published: WeekofMay 8, 2005
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16, 2005
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Written by Bob Rouse
Illustrated by Frank Yates
equipped with pizza ovens and smoothie makers. The
cooks couldn't stop grinning.
The gym didn't need many changes. It already had a
full-size basketball court, gymnastic equipment, and a
climbing wall. Extra space was added to the locker room,
though, so that up to 60 students could change and shower after swimming in the Olympic-size pool.
Another addition was needed for the recording studio,
so several classes could record and review their rehearsals.
Outside, a fresh bed of wood chips was under the
biggest collection of playground equipment
in the state: swings, slides, an
obstacle course, a racecourse
for pedal-powered racecars,
and more.
Mr.
Sanchez
showed the visitors all
the fancy features of
the new school. But
then he said, "I've
saved the best for last.
Let's check out the
school library."
When the visitors
entered the room,
most of them stared
for several minutes
before taking notes or ·
pictures. "Freezee had
already built an amazing
library," Mr. Sanchez
said. "We added tables
and chairs, a main desk,
and extra equipment and
computers."
"I think you'll really like this, though," the principal
said as he led the adults around a comer. "We took a courtyard and created learning centers designed by students."
In a wide hallway with glass walls, the visitors could
see rooms filled with hi-tech equipment.
"Let me give you an overview of these centers before
you talk to the members of the scavenger hunt team who
designed them," Mr. Sanchez said. "This first center is all
about personal safety at home, at school, on the Internet and in airports. It was designed by Myron Stepp."
As Myron gave a small wave, the principal continued.
"Next up is Amber Tally, who worked with our librarians
to develop a readers' and writers' room," he said.
"Students can use special software to search for books by
author, topic, type, and time period. Amber will host discussions about writers who took chances."
Mr. Sanchez propped open a glass door. "In this room,
the focus is on American heroes. Students can read books,
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CHAPTER 10 (Final Chapter)
The story so jar: Faced with losing their school, a team
, of students played a cross-country scavenger hunt, trying
to win a rap star's mansion. But there's one clue left to
solve.
Last week's clue:
The lesson doesn't end at the door to the classroom.
Keep weaving threads of the story on life's loom.
You're always learnin ',
Brain always churnin'.
You traveled many miles and saw our great country.
Now share with others what you know and you did see.
In your new school,
Y'all be cool!
"I don 't know what to do first when I get home,"
Nathan said to Amber as the plane left New Orleans and
soared over the Mississippi River.
Amber smiled. "I do. I'm going to the Limestone
Comer Grocery to get a cheeseburger," she said. "They're
the best."
A few rows back, Myron and Latisha talked about their
last clue. "It's really an assignment," Myron said.
"Haven't we already won the scavenger hunt? Don't we
get the mansion?"
Latisha took a drink of airline orange juice. "FreeZee
said we need to come up with a plan before he gives up his
mansion."
"This is the hardest one yet," Myron said before eating
a pretzel.
•••••
Six months after the students returned to Limestone,
the town was crowded with newspaper reporters, TV satellite trucks, and hundreds of visitors.
At the dedication of the new Goldenrod Elementary
School, Principal Sanchez cut the ribbon held by the rest
of the Goldenrod staff. The visitors and reporters rushed
into the school. They wanted to see how the mansion built
for a wealthy rapper had been transformed into a school.
They weren't disappointed.
The grand hall was now the main office, featuring
everything from security monitors to educational video
games. The bedrooms and dining room had been made
into classrooms, with personal computers at each desk,
comfy furniture for reading, and a huge plasma screen to
show everything from educational videos to Internet hookups.
The ballroom (or "jam hall," as FreeZee had called it)
was now the school cafeteria, and the kitchen was
view videos, and download information about the people
who made our country great - from presidents and generals to preachers and teachers."
"Latisha Dee! will be here soon," Mr. Sanchez continued. "She's on a conference call with Lance Armstrong
and Jimmy Carter, arranging a visit."
"Here we have Nathan Page's
research room." Nathan looked up
from a computer screen and waved.
"Nathan pulled together a team of
computer experts to give students
all the information they could
ever want about any topic,"
Mr. Sanchez said. "No brain
freezes in this school, right
Nathan?"
At the end of the hallway, the
visitors saw Ms. Roosevelt in
a brightly lit room. "Finally,
this is our First Amendment
center. This room was a gift
to Ms. Roose:velt from
FreeZee and the team," the
principal said. "At each station, students learn about
a different part of the First
Amendment in a virtual
reality booth. It's quite
· amazing."
•••••
The next day was the start of
school. Myron, Latisha, Nathan,
and Amber joined the other fifthgraders in a sparkling classroom near the
escalator. No one was surprised to see
FreeZee at the front of the classroom with
Ms. James, the teacher. But they were totally surprised
when Ms. James introduced FreeZee as Mr. Jerome Frost,
student teacher.
After comments of "No way!" ·and "Student teacher?"
faded, Mr. Frost addressed the class.
"You seem surprised that I'd go from rapper to
teacher," he said, smiling. "Well, I've made all the money
I need. Now I need to make a difference."
Mr.. Frost continued. "Load your history CDs, please,
and we'll get started... "
Bob Rouse and Frank Yates both work for the
Lexington Herald-Leader. For classroom activities to use
with this story, go to www.kypress.com.
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words, lift the top die, and alakazam, the dice cling together as one. Here's
how it's done:
Before producing the dice, wet your finger
with your tongue. Apply moisture secretly to the
bottom of the upper die.
When the dice are pressed together, moisture
will cause them to adhere sufficiently to allow both
to be raised at the same time.
Separate dice and put challenge to friends.
By the way, keep·dice away from young children,
who may swallow them.
1. Advertiser's come-on.
2. Toughen up to pain.
3. Another word for
"potato."
4. Set of beliefs.
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long-legged wader.
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words read alike both across and
down.
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Newspaper reading adventures for IIWelaamersl
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My name:
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for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters w1th a f1nger,
crayon or pencil.
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z 1s for zipper
What is hiding here?
~ipper
Color the spaces with the letter Z black. What do you see?
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child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter Z. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the Z sound like the word
zipper?
My Numbers
My Rhyme Time
Howmany
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That kept Zoe busy,
She counted his stripes
'Til she felt she was dizzy.
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Fasteners
With your child, look
through the newspaper
to fmd pictures of things
that start with the same
sound as the letter
Z in zipper.
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.
Look at the clothes
people are wearing in
pictures in the newspaper.
Talk with your child
about how those clothes
might be fastened.
Do they use zippers,
buttons, hooks, belts?
Something else?
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Zebra Visit
With your child, look
through the newspaper:
for pictures of animals.
Ask which animals could
be found in a zoo.
Where else could you
find each of the
animals?
Practice rhyming, listening
and large motor skills. Wad
a sheet of newspaper into
a ball. Tape the ball so that
you can toss it back and
forth. Each time you or
your child tosses the ball,
say a word. The person
who catches the ball needs
to say a rhyming word.
Pretend you and your
child are going to have a
visit from a zebra. Look
through the newspaper
for things you would need
to have on hand to care
for the zebra.
Lay one sheet of
newspaper on the table
so that it is horizontal.
Use the columns of type
as lines to practice
writing. Have your child
trace the lines of type to
make zebra stripes.
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by Linda Thistle
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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 started, one
digit has been entered in the diagram.
Batloaal
lfamben
ACROSS
2. Three less than 10-Down
5. Five less than 10-Across
7. The first digit is the sum of
the other digits
9. 1D-Across plus 15-Across
10. Twenty less than 1-Down
11 . One less than 1-Down
12. 12-Down minus 15-Across
13. Consecutive digits In
ascending order
15. 11 -Across plus 4-Down
17. Four less than 8-Down
DOWN
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the last digit
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answers
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8.
10.
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Five times 16-Down
Seven times 1-Down
The last digit is the sum of
the other digits
12. 2·Across plus 17-Across
14. 10-Across plus 16-Down
16. The first digit is three times
the last digit
4. 16-Down minus 5-Across
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Saturday
Thursday
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.
Rational Numbers
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Learning Buddies:
Trace and say the
number. Read the
questions. Touch and
count to find the answers.
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some of the letters in the sentence.
Monday
Sunday
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MARCH
16, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Where are they today?
World of Wonder
Today there are 1o recognized Algonquin
nations with a population of about 8,000
people. Nine of these communities are in
Quebec and one is in Ontario.
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
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"Kishpin bontoyeg kidatsokanan, kiga onikemin kajibikinamagoyeg ... "
"If we cease sharing our stories, our knowledge becomes lost."
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For more than 6,000 years, the Algonquin (or Algonkin) people lived in what is now
Western Quebec and Northeastern Ontario. It is not known what the Algonquin population
was before contact with Europeans and war with the Iroquois decimated their numbers.
Today there are 10 Algonquin tribes, or nations, with a population of about 8,000.
Moose, deer and
bear were traditional
hunting staples of the
Algonquin people.
Juliett Gauthier
de Ia Verendrye
wrote a
manuscript
of Algonquin
customs
and legends.
What's in a name?
The Algonquin people usually call themselves the Anishnabe or Anishinabe (plural:
Anishnabek or Anishnabeg), which
means 'the people" or '1he original people."
Sometimes, to distinguish themselves from
other native people in their area, they will
refer to themselves as Algonquins.
1 Barriere Lake (Rapid Lake)
2 Dominion Abitibi (Abitibiwinni, Pikogan)
3 Eagle Village (Kebaowek, Kipawa)
4 Kitcisakik (Grand Lake Victoria)
5 Kitigan Zibi (Maniwaki, River Desert)
6 Lac-Simon
7 limiscamigue (Timiskaming,
Notre dame du Nord, Ville Marie)
8 Winneway (Long Point)
9 Wolf Lake (Hunter's Point)
10 Golden Lake (Pikwakanagan)
The First Nations
The Algonquin community is divided into
tribes or bands (also called First Nations).
Most of the tribes live on a reserve or
reservation; the Wolf Lake Nation, the
Kitcisakik (Grand Lake) and the Winneway
(Long Point) are still fighting for the rights to
reservation land.
It is important to distinquish between
Algonquin (pronounced AI-GON-kin) and
Algonquian, because while a tribe may
speak an Algonquian dialect, they do not
necessarily belong to the Algonquin family
of peoples.
Each Algonquin band has its own
government, laws, police and services
(much like a small country), but the
Canadian government considers the
Algonquin people citizens and does control
some decisions.
By 1885,
moose had
become very
scarce, and
the people
began to go
hungry more
frequently.
Algonquin refers to a particular tribal community, while Algonquian is a very large linguistic group. Many tribes throughout North
America speak a form of Algonquian, but
Algonquins live in the Ottawa Valley of
Canada.
Each First Nation has a political leader
called the ogima or ogema. Historically the
ogima was a man chosen by tribal council
members. Today the ogima can be a man or
a woman and is elected by the Algonquins.
Learn the language
Getting around
Today, some Algonquin tribes, or
bands, speak French. Others speak
English. About half of the population
also speaks their native language.
If you ever have an opportunity to
meet an Algonquin, you might say
"kwey'' (which ryhmes with "day'') as
a friendly greeting. Below are some
other easy Algonquin words.
The early explorers and traders greatly
envied the Algonquins' beautifully crafted
birch-bark canoes and the clever snowshoes that made winter travel so much
easier. Today the Algonquin people get
around just like most people in North
America - by motor vehicle. But some
Algonquins remember the skills of their
forefathers and continue to make canoes
and snowshoes in the traditional way.
English
heart
hand
river
lake
corn
apple
strawberry
soup
Algonquin
odey
onindji
zibi
sagahigan
madam in
wabimin
odeimin
nabobi
natural sedative used
by the Algonquin.
To build a birch-bark
canoe, the bark must be
moist and pliable. To prevent leaking, spruce gum
is used to seal the seams
along the hull. Designs are
often carved into the bark.
Pronounced
oh-day
oh-knee-dgee
see-bee
saga-ye-gan
ma-da-min
wabi-min
o-day-ye-min
na-bow-be
Cradle boards were
used to carry infants.
Children had small
cradle boards for dolls.
Natural tobacco would
have been smoked from
this soapstone pipe.
Pipe smoking is a tradition during storytelling.
A brief history: Battle for trade and space
The Algonquin peoples have lived in the region of the Ottawa River watershed for more than 6,000 years.
The timeline begins in the 17th century, when contact with Europeans began to change their world.
1609 French traders
established a trade
agreement with the
Algonquin.
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1615 The French made a trade
alliance with the Hurons, while
the Iroquois allied themselves
with the Dutch traders.
1812-1814
1754-1763 The 1ns--1783 The
French and Indian American Revo/uDespite continuing
War: During this tion. During the late land conflicts, the
time the Algonquin 1700s, Algonquin
were vital allies for lands were overrun
the French. with timber-men,
trappers, settlers
and British loyalists.
Algonquins fought
with the British
during the War
of 1812·
1929
The Cabonga hydro dam
was built, damaging
Algonquin lands.
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1840s Lumber 1870s The
ly role in what is sometimes called the Beaver
Wars. Many Eastem tribes become embroiled in
battles for control of land and trade like the
Al~onquin and the Iroquois.
'
crews arrived, Algonquin of winni purchased Kipawa
disrupting the Golden Lake their reserve at obtained
Pikogan.
their reserve
natural wildlife. purchased
reserve lands.
lands.
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1821 The Northwest
George Ill pro~1s~d to Company merged
respect t~e ter.ntone~
with the Hudson's
of 24 nations, 1nclud1ng Bay Company.
those of the Algonquin.
Snowshoes are
made with bent
wood (often white
ash). The webbing
is made with
rawhide strips. The
pattern of the webbing depends on
the kind of snow the
shoe is made for. A
well-made snowshoe can easily last
a lifetime.
1991 The historical Trilateral
Agreement gave the
Algonquins a voice on how
sensitive forest lands could be
used and protected.
c. 162o-1680 Firearms and furs played a dead- 1763 Britain's K~ng
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Traditional Algonquin canoes are made
with a hand-carved cedar wood frame. The
gunwales are bound or lashed with spruce
root. If the right tree can be located, a skilled
builder can create a canoe using one large
piece of birch bark. If such a tree cannot be
found, several smaller sheets of bark may
be used.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc.;
Algonquin Nation Secretariat; Algonquin Nation Tribal Council;
Museum of New France; Native Languages of the Americas;
www.nativetech.org
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LOUISVILLE - Louisville has
won 18 of its last 19 games, swept
the Conference USA regular season.and tournament championships
and is currently ranked sixth in the
nation.
The NCAA tournament selection committee was still not
impressed.
The Cardinals (29-4) earned a
No. 4 seed, a bitter surprise considering they beat four NCAA-bound
teams away from home and finished the season on a nine-game
winning streak. Louisville will
play Sun Belt champion LouisianaLafayette (20-10) on Friday in
Nashville, Tenn.
"We have ourselves a very difficult opening round game," said
Pitino, coaching in his lith NCAA
tournament. "We'll go eight to
work and be ready for it."
Pitino's former team, Kentucky
(25-5), blew its chance at a top
seed by losing to Florida 70-53 in
Sunday's Southeastern Conference
tournament championship. The
Wildcats earned a No. 2 seed and
will play none other than nearby
Eastern Kentucky (22-8), the Ohio
Valley Conference champ, in the
first round in Indianapolis on
Thursday.
"We had our chances," said
Kentucky coach Tubby Smith. "I
thought we had two opportunities
in the past week to wrap up a
Number One seed. But you have to
compliment and credit Florida
because theyre playing extremely
well right now."
1he Cardinals, meanwhile, gathered at a ritzy Italian restaurant to
watd1 the unveiling of the brackets.
When Louisville's painng
popp;:d up, Pitino shook his head:
He was going to meet with his
play~ rs later and expected they
would be disappointed, too.
"I've got to lift them up a httle
bit," he said. "But we're in the
tournament, we've met the criteria,
we've met all the challenges and
we'\e just got to keep on going."
The Cardinals had No. 2 seeds
both times they won the NCAA
championship, in 1980 and 1986,
and fans at the restaurant were
anticipating another one. But two
years ago, the Cardinals were
Conference USA tournament
champions and also got a No. 4
seed, prompting a warning from
Pitino on Sunday.
"People inside here were saying, 'We're definitely a 2, maybe a
1,"' said Pitino, entering his 11th
NCAA tournament as a coach. "I
said, 'Look, don't be surprised if
we're a 3.' I had a gut feeling ."
A win against the Ragin' Cajuns
will give Louisville its first 30-victory season since 1986. If
Louisville wins three more games,
it will match its best record since
1983, when the Cardinals lost to
Houston in the Final Four.
Pitino is trying to become the
first coach to lead three different
programs to the Final Four. He led
Kentucky there in 1996 and 1997
and did it with Providence in 1987.
It won't be an easy path this time.
If the Cardinals beat LouisianaLafayette, their likely secondround opponent is Georgia Tech, a
Final Four team last season. Beat
the Yellow Jackets or 12th-seeded
George Washington and Louisville
is likely to run into Pac-10 tournament champion Washington, the
top seed in the Albuquerque
region.
Third-ranked Wake Forest (265) and West Coast Conference
champion Gonzaga (25-4) are the
No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in
Louisville's region.
The Cardinals earned a No. 10
seed last year and lost to Xavier in
the first round, their ninth loss in
their last 13 games. Pitino is still
27-9 in NCAA tournament play,
the fourth best winning percentage
among active coaches.
Kentucky, meanwhile, is a No.2
seed, as it was when it won the
1998 NCAA championship in
Smith's first season.
"We certainly remember last
year, but this is a new team. Youre
always excited this time of year.
rising fourlh seed
Weve lost two of our last four, and
thats never good. But Im very
proud of this group of young men
and think they can go far."
The top seed in the Wildcats'
region
is
Atlantic
Coast
Conference tournament champion
Duke - setting up a possible third
regional fmal between the rivals
since 1992.
That would surely be intensely
hyped considering the history.
Kentucky fans still cringe about
Christian Laettner's last-second
shot that beat the Wildcats in the
1992 ·East Region final. Six years
later, the Wildcats came back from
17 points down to beat Duke 86-84
in the South region final.
Kentucky's first round opponent
will offer a bit of history, too.
Ohio Valley Conference champion Eastern Kentucky drew a No.
15 seed and a date with the ·
Wildcats in Indianapolis on
Thursday.
Colonels' coach Travis Ford, a
Madisonville native, played for
Kentucky from 1992-94 and
helped the Cats reach the 1993
Final Four.
"I'm sure they'll be a lot said
about that," Ford said, "but we
have a game to prepare for- a very,
very tough game against not a good
Kentucky team, but a great
Kentucky team."
The Wildcats and Colonels have
only played eight times, with
Kentucky winning every meeting.
They met two years ago in Rupp
Arena and the Wildcats won 101-72.
"We played them last year and
saw frrst-hand the impact Travis
has had on that program," Smith
said. "It's great for the fans in the
state that Kentucky and Eastern
Kentucky are playing one another."
About 500 Eastern Kentucky
fans gathered for a pep rally in
Richmond on Sunday night. No
one seemed to mind the pairing.
"You can't ask for anything else
than to play the best," said forward
Michael
Haney,
also
a
Madisonville native. "They're the
best team in this state. It's a great
opportunity for this program."
Kentucky had been a No.1 seed
the last two seasons, losing one
game shy of the Final Four in 2003
and falling to UAB in the second
round last year.
"We certainly remember last year,
but this is a new team," Smith said.
"You're always excited this time of
year. We've lost two of our last four,
and that's never good. But I'm very
proud of this group of young men
and think they can go far."
Sunday's loss to Florida might
not be such a bad thing. The
Wildcats lost to Mississippi State
in the SEC tournament championship in 1996, then rolled to the
school's sixth NCAA title.
Eastern Kentucky is playing in
its first NCAA tournament since
1979 and sixth all-time. The
Colonels have lost their previous
five first-round games.
The winner would play either
Cincinnati (24-7) or Iowa (21-11)
in the second round on Saturday.
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Coach: Rock Barnes
Conference: B1q 12
Location: Austm, Texas
Website: texassports.com
Record: 20-10 (9-71
RPt Rank: 49
Sagarin Rank: 25
RPI Schedule Rank: 64
Skinny: Texas •s a team that has been under the microscope in the latter part of thos season. yet locked up a bid w ith a big victory late at Oklahoma State. Now that they're •n. though, how far woU they go7 That depends on the 1nside play of Brad Buckman
and the penmeter play of freshman Dan1el G1bson. G•bson's only a freshman, but he's one of the country's best. Don't overlook
t he Longhorns as a sleeper
Best wins: Oklahoma State (75-61); Texas Tech (80-73); at Oklahoma State (74-73)
Wo~t losses: at Texas A&M (63-74). at Iowa State (80-92 on; at Colofado 0 9--88)
Starting Five
Dee Brown
5
20 Deron W ilhams
13 Luther Head
Roger Powell, Jr
3
40 James AugUStine
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12 Nick Sm•th
00 Richard McBnde
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Daniel Gibson
10 Kenny Taylor
12 Kenton Paulino
22 Brad Buckman
21 Jason Klotz
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40 Mike Wlil~ams
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FAIRlEIGH-DICKINSONKNIGHTS
NEVADAWOLFPACK
Coach: Tom G""'n
Conference: Northeast
location: Hackensack, N.J. Website: fdukn1ghts.com
RPI Rank: 165
Sagarin Rank.: 202
RPI Schedule Rank: 279
Record: 20.12 (13-5)
Skinny: The l1ttle school from Hackensack is return1ng to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998 after diSpatChing
of Wagne• m the conference tournament finals The Knights also have players that had f rom Israel and Italy on the roster and
ha•e played some big boys on Anzona State, Cahforn1a, Rutgers and Pepperd•ne.
Coach: Mark Fox
Conference: Western Athlellc
location: Reno, Nev.
Website: nevadaw olfpack.com
RPI Rank: 37
Sagarin Rank:41
RPI Schedule Rank: 123
Record: 24-6 (16-2)
Skinny: The Wolf Pack hasn't skipped a beat since the departure of head coach Trent Johnson (to Stanford) and Klfk Synder (to
the NBA) al ter last season. ThiS year's team looks poised to ha11e another tourney run. as they are led by the dynam ic frontcourt
of N1ck Fazekas and Kevnn P•nkney, who combine for 35 points a game. Did suffer a 33-point loss at Kansas in November,
though, so there are questions about t heir ab1hty to play with the natJon's best.
Best wins: at UTEP (62-60); vs. UNLV (84 78); vs. Vermont 04-64)
Wo~t losses: at Toledo (75-83), vs. UTEP (80-83); vs Fresno State (63--66)
Best wins: Monmouth (62-58); Army (69 53); New Orleans (71 58)
Worst losses: at Rutgers (57-88); St. Peter's (9 t-94); St Francis PA (75-76)
Starting Five
22 Tam1en Trent
21 Mensah Peterson
1
Chad Timberlake
50 Gordon Klaiber
35 Andrea Crosanol
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30 Michael Peoples
54 Gad• Such
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22 Nick Fazekas
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33
Mo Charlo
Seth Taylor
Chad Bell
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ALABAMACRIMSONTIDE
BOSTONCOLLEGEEAGLES
Coach: Mark Gottfried
Conference: Southeastern
location: Tuscaloosa. Ala Website: rolltide.com
RPI Rank: 16
Sagarin Rank: 16
RPI Schedule Rank: 24
Record: 24-7 (1 2-4)
Skinny: Alabama su'Pnsed everyone 1n the college basketball world a year ago w ith a run to the Elit e E•ght, but the T1de won't
catch anyone look1ng t he other way this t1me around . The starting five for 'Barna is as good as you'll find because of its balanced
attack. but •f you get into the Cnmson T1de's bench, you can exploit a serious flaw. If you are look1ng for a player w ho can dammate a tournament, Kennedy Wmston might be your man
Best wins: at Charlotte (102-10 1 20D; LSU H-58; M ISSISSIPP• State (98-49)
Worst lo~ses: at Vanderbilt (56-70). at Florida (54-85)
Coach: AI Skinner
Conference: B1g East
Loca1ion: Chestnut Hill. Mass. Website: bceagles.com
RPI Rank: 11
Sagarin Rank: 18
RPI Schedule Rank: 49
Record: 24-4 (13-3)
Skinny: The Eagles spent the better part of the 2004-05 season undefeated, wtnmng -their first 20 games, but have also suffered
four losses in the home st retch of the Big East season. St1ll, they have been battle-tested 1n conference play t hanks to all the other
NCAA-bound teams in the league. The frontcourt of Smith and Dudley will be tough for opponents to stop as the Eagles look
to make a big tourney run in their last season before jOining the ACC.
Best wins: at Connecticut (75-70); vs UCLA (74-64), Syracuse (65--60)
Worst losses: P1t1sburgh (50-72); at Notre Dame (65-68); vs. W est Virginia 02-78)
yr
Starting Five
22 Ronald Steele
Earnest Shelton
5
3
Kennedy Winston
1 Chuck Dav•s
33 Jermareo Dav1dson
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23 Jean Fehx
21 Evan Brock
pos
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wt
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ppg
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4.9•
7.8
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3.5
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6.8
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ppg
rpg
5.2
2.3
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2.4
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1 Cra1g Sm•th
3 Jared Dudley
13 Nate Doomekamp
11 Louis Hinnant
23 Sean M arshall
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12 Steve Hailey
51 Sean W ithams
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Best w in s: at Manhattan 88-78), at DetrOit (61 48), at Purdue (73-58)
Worst losses: at Valpara•so (71 -72). a W1 Green Bay (72 76);
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Coach: Fran Dunphy
Conference: Ivy League
lo<ation: Ph11adelphia, Penn. Website: pennathletics.com
RPI Rank: 43
Sagarin Rank: 69
RPI Schedule Rank: 143
Record: 20-8 (10-1)
Skinny: The Quakers were the f1rst team off1oally •nv1ted to the NCAA Tournament by way of chnch•ng the Ivy League title on
Feb 26. One of the youngest startmg lineups 10 the tournament. Penn is a blt undersized, but can bring 6-foot- 10 and 6-foot9 off the bench. The Quakers played both Temple and V1llanova tough and upset St Joseph·s. so they won't be a pushover. especially 1f they can slow the game down and make some outside Jump shots.
Best wins: at St Joseph's (67-59); Bucknell (65-52)
Worst l osses: at Providence (52 89); at Yale (60-78); Rider (68 74)
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41
32
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2 1
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St a rting Five
13 Dav1d Whrtehurst
Ibrahim Jaabar
2
31 Tim Begley
24 Mark Zoller
Steve Danley
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14 Enc Osmundson
11 J.rtn HklPI
34 Ryan Petllrlella
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by PAUL NEWBERRY
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ATLANTA - Kentucky cost
itself a No. 1 seed in the NCAA
tournament by doing something
totally out of character - losing in
the Southeastern Conference tournament.
The No. 4 Wildcats were blown
out over the final ll l/2 minutes by
Florida, which cruised to its first
SEC tournament championship
with a 70-53 rout Sunday.
The NCAA selection committee
had penciled in Kentucky (25-5) as a
top seed, but the second Joss to Florida
in eight days bwnped the Wildcats to
No. 2 in the Austin RegionaL They
will open Thursday against Eastern
Kentucky in Indianapolis.
"It's just one game, but we didn't play well," coach Tubby Smith
said. "Obviously, we're going to
have to play better to do well in the
tournament."
Matt Walsh scored 26 points,
including consecutive 3-pointers
that sparked a stunning 30-9 run to
close the game.
"We wanted to take down the
champ," said Wafsh, the tournament's MVP. "1 can't imagine a
better feeling than beating
Kentucky for the championship."
Florida (23-7), which had beaten the Wildcats a week earlier in
the regular season finale, defied
history by winning its first tournament title on its 40th try against the
team that has defined success in
this event.
Kentucky had won the last two
tournaments, 10 of the past 13 and
25 in all _ more than every other
school in the SEC combined. It
was the worst tournament loss ever
for the Wildcats, and only their
fourth in the last 38 games going
back to 1992.
Florida, which has a seven-game
winning streak, certainly helped its
NCAA positioning. The Gators
earned the fourth seed in the
Syracuse Regional and will meet
Ohio at Nashville, Tenn., on Friday.
"We proved we're a team that
can really follow through when it
counts," said David Lee , who
helped the Gators manhandle
Kentucky on the boards. "There
were times in March the last couple
of seasons where we came up short
in the big games."
Even though the Georgia Dome
resembled Rupp Arena South Florida fans took up only one section in the crowd of 24,408 - the
Wildcats couldn't fend off a team
that's playing its best basketball of
the season at the perfect time.
Kentucky shot only 37.5 percent from the field, including a dismal 2-of-19 outside the 3-point arc
- depriving the Wildcats of one of
their favorite weapons. They were
dominated on the inside as well.
Florida set the tone in the first
half with 13 offensive rebounds.
The Gators finished with a 48-31
edge, led by Lee's 17 rebounds and
AI Horford with nine.
"That's something we've been
dealing with all year long," Smith
said. "We're just not a very physical team."
Kelanna
Azubuike
led
Kentucky with 17 points, but none
of his teammates reached double
figures. Patrick Sparks missed all
six of his 3-pointers and managed
just four points.
Florida led throughout the first
half and well into the second, but
Kentucky appeared to seize control
with a 15-1 outburst that had its
blue-clad fans in an uproar.
Randolph Morris scored on an
offensive rebound with 12:32
remaining, letting out a yell after
giving Kentucky its first lead of the
game at 42-40.
After Florida turned it over,
Sparks drove into the lane and
flipped in another basket that pushed
the Wtldcats to a four-point lead.
But it was all Gators the rest of
the way. Coach Billy Donovan
began calling plays for Walsh, and
solid picks by the big men freed
him up for clear looks at the basket.
"We couldn't get to him in
time," Azubui.ke said. "He doesn't
need that much space."
Walsh buried an open 3-pointer
to stem Kentucky's momentum.
After Morris put up an airball ,
Wa.lsh hit another 3 from the corner
to put Florida back in front at 46-44.
Anthony Roberson drove right
by Kentucky freshman Rajon
Rondo for a layup, the Wildcats
turned it over, and Walsh again
connected from beyond the arc to
make it 51-44.
"We just started executing and
screening," Walsh said. "I did the
easy part: hitting open shots. It was
more m,y teammates setting me up
than me doing anything special."
Ravi Moss broke the run of 11
straight points with a 10-foot jumper,
but that was merely a brief respite in
Florida's dominance. Roberson
swished a 3, Walsh hit a leaner in the
lane, Corey Brewer scored on a fastbreak layup, Walsh made one free
throw, and Brewer scored on another
drive to make it 61-46.
At that point, the Florida bench
was hopping up and down, knowing the Gators had finally broken
Kentucky's stranglehold on the
tournament. The Wildcat faithful
began heading quietly for the exits.
Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky
not thrilled ¥lith 111atchup
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Coach: Bruce Pearl
Conference: Honzon League
Location: Mitwaukee, Wise. Website: uwmpanthers.com
Record: 24-5 (14-2)
RPI Rank: 56
Sagarin Rank: 36
RPI Schedule Rank: 262
Sk1nny: ThP l.::t'it t1mP \.'iltSconsln·MIIwaukeer- made the NCAA Tournament, they came w1thtn a pomt of upsett1ng Not re Dame
'll•s season. they look to close the book on the school's f1rst ever NCAA Tournament viaory. Ed McCants and Joah Tucker are
the two ma111 offen>~ve options. and the Panthers go 9 players deep, whiCh tould be a huge d1fference come tourney t1me.
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Eastern
Kentucky basketball coach Travis
Ford still wore a brave face the day
after learning his team's first-round
NCAA tournament foe would be
second-seeded Kentucky.
The previous week, Ford, a former Kentud;y point guard, had said
several times he'd rather .the Colonels
not have to face his alma mater.
But when the 15th-seeded
Colonels (22-8) make their first
NCAA tournament appearance
since 1979 on Thursday in
Indianapolis, their opponent m the
Austin Regional will be the team
from the school about 30 miles
away. in whose shadow they long
have toiled.
"I don't think it's either good or
bad," Ford said. "We knew we
were going to have to play somebody very, very good. We're going
to be an underdog. We're going to
have to play extremely well. It's
going to be an incredible challenge
for us."
Such a pairing seemed somewhat unlikely last week, when
Kentucky (25-5) was in the running for a No~ 1 seed. But the
Wildcats' 70-53 loss to Florida in
the Southeastern Conference tournament final on Sunday dropped
them to a No.2 seed.
Ford thought a KentuckyEastern Kentucky matchup would
be "too obvious" for the tournament committee to consider.
Kentucky coach Tubby Smith
shared that sentiment.
"We would prefer that we be
able to cheer for them," Smith said.
"We're sure our fans would love to
cheer for Eastern Kentucky as
well. But I guess the selection
committee saw this as a good
opportunity to match us up."
The decision by the committee
to pair the Colonels and Wildcats
isn't a particularly popular one in
central Kentucky, where the
schools share a number of fans,
although Kentucky loyalists are far
more prevalent. One Eastern
Kentucky player even acknowledges growing up as a Kentucky
supporter.
"I was born in Missouri, but I
moved to Kentucky in the fourth
grade," senior forward Michael
Haney said. "I followed them. I
was a pretty big UK fan."
Conversely, many Kentucky
fans have become followers of the
Colonels during the five seasons
that Ford has been their coach. Ford
played one season at Missouri
before transferring to Kentucky,
where he played until 1994 under
coach Rick Pitino and helped the
Wildcats reach the 1993 Final Four.
in
Ford
ranks
second
Kentucky's record book in career
free-throw shooting (88 .2 percent)
and ninth in career assists. He
holds the single-game record for
assists with 15, ironically set
against Eastern Kentucky in 1993.
Kentucky-Eastern Kentucky is
one of only two first-round
matchups between in-state foes.
Charlotte and North Carolina State
were paired in the Syracuse
RegionaL
"I think there was a reason they
did it," Ford said of the committee's rationale. ''I think they had to
look at it and think, let's do this. I
don't know any other reason they'd
put two teams 30 miles apart from
each other together.
..1 think the NCAA got a little bit
of a chuckle out of it at the end."
Smith, who worked with Ford
when Smith was Pitino 's assistant
at Kentucky, is one of Ford ·s
biggest fans. Smith and Ford have
remained close - Ford and his staff
even sat in on a Kentucky practice
earlier this season.
·'We're excited for Eastern that
they're in," Smith said. "They're
very deserving. We watched (Ford)
build that program the right way."
During his eight seasons at
Kentucky, Smith has scheduled instate schools when possible. The
Wildcats have played Eastern
Kentucky three times during his
tenure, most recently last season,
when Kentucky won 10 1-72 in
Lexington.
"It's not like we don't play (each
other)," Smith said. '"You hate to
play (in the postseason) against
friends and peers that you have so
much respect for. That's always
tough, because somebody has to
win and somebody has to lose."
Eastern Kentucky is 0-5 in
NCAA tournament play. while
Kentucky has won seven national
titles and reached the Hnal Four 13
times. Onl) four 15th-~<!edcd
teams have ever won a tournament
game. But Haney said the Colonels
won't be intimidated.
"Once the ball is thrown up,'' he
said, "anything can happen . It's
happened four times for a reason because it's possible."
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LSUTIGERS
AFUZONAWILDCATS
Goach: Joho Brady
Conference: Southeastern
lo<ation: Baton Rouge, La Website: lsusports.net
Record: 20-9 (1 Z-4)
RPI Rank: 26
Sagarin Rank: 30
RPI Schedule Rank: 29
Skinny: When you look for NCAA dark horse teams, you typiCally 11y to find a squad that came on late in the season and real
ly started puttmg the pieces together. No one dtd that as well as LSU. which won seven of 1ts last eight regular season games,
mdudmg upsels of Alabama. Ronda and MtssosSlppl State. There ISn"t a larger frontcourt duo than Brandon Bass and Glen Davos.
Who will gtve opponents ...no haven't seen them in person fits because of their phy<tcahty
Best wins: at MISSiSSIPPI State (80-72), Florida (77-73); Alabama (61-59)
Worsti.osses: vs. Southern Miss (84·88 on; at Houston (72-131), at Tennessee (55-77)
Coach: Lute Olson
Conference: Pac-10
Location: Tucson, Ariz
Website: anzonaathletics.com
RPI Rank: 9
Sagarin Rank: 12
RPI Schedule Rank: 11
Record: 27-6 (15-3)
Skinny: There might not be a more talented team m the tournament than Arizona, which always has great players that go largely unnoticed because they don't play on the East Coast. The backcourt can match up with anyone's in the country, but frontcourt depth could be an ISsue. If Anzona gets a team to play up-tempo basketball. they could run all the way to the Final Four,
so the key to stoppmg the Wildcats IS forcing them to play hatfcourt basketball.
Best wins: Mississippi State (68·64); Utah (67-62); Washington (91-82); at UCLA (83-73)
Worst Losses: at Virginia (60·78); Washmgton State (63-70)
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Coach: Eddie Sunon
Conference: Big 12
Location: Stillwater, Okla. Website: okstate.con"
Record: 24-6 (11·5)
RPI Rank: 4
Sagarin Rank: 7
RPI Schedule Rank: 2
Skinny: Veteran-laden team that plays in-your face defense Sutton starts four NCAA-tested seniors who are looking to make
one last run at the national champtonship. Forward Joey Graham was a first-team B1g 12 select,on, dnd point yua•d colin Lucds
l&lds the Cowboy dttack and is their best threat from 3-point land. Certainly a trendy pick to make a deep run 10 thrs year'>
tournament.
Best wins: vs. Syracuse (74·60); Texas Tech (85-56); Oklahoma (79-67)
Worst Losses: vs. Gonzaga (75-78); at Nebraska (67-74); Texas (73-74)
Starting Five
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23 Brett Coll1ns
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SOUTHEASTERNLOUISIANAUONS
ARY'SGAELS
Coad>: Randy Sennett
Conference: West Coast
Lo<ation: Moraga, Caltf
Website: smcgaels.com
Remrd: 25-8 (11-3)
RPI Rank: 2B
Sagarin Rank: 55
RPI Schedule Rank: 110
Skinny: Mos1 of the courilly knows very little about tl1e Gaels, however that all might change after this year"s tournament. St.
Mary's is a team oo one will want to see in the first round, as they have the potential to bomb away from three·pomt land all
game long. a great complement to their solid defense. They're led by Paul Marigney and Daniel K1ckert, both of whom are sharpshooters. St. Mary"s could be weanng the glass slipper this year.
Best wins: Gonzaga (89-lll); at California (61-52); at UNLV (64-54)
Wars'l J.osse<: at Rutgers (58-66); at Hawaii (77-84); Santa Clara (42-65)
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15 John Lucas
24 JamesOn Curry
14 Joey Graham
42 Terrence Crawford
23 Ivan McFarlin
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Coach: Mike McConathy Conference: Southland
Location: Hammond, La. Website: www.l•onsports.net
Record: 24-8 (14-3)
RPI Rank: 117
Sag<~rin Rank: 147
RPI Schedule Rank: 291
Skinny: The Lions make the•r first appearance in the NCAA Tournament after winn•ng a school record 24 games. Southeastern
Louisiana earned the berth by defeating Northwestern State in the Southland finals. Small forward Ricky Woods and center Nate
Lofton are a tough frontcourt duo for opponents to deal with. The backcourt reltes on Jonathan Patton and solid depth to balance
the frontline's flfepower The Lions· weakness IS depth on the interior. If Lofton gets in foul trouble, the Lions are tn trouble
Best wins: at Boise St. (56-48); at Sam Houston St (58-55); \IS. Northwestern St. (49-42)
Worst Losses: at Houston (68·61), at MissisSippi (64-48); McNeese St. (71-69)
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10 Terry Bryant
Jonathan Patton
Rirky Woods
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25 Nate Lofton
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22 Chrts Lee
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Conferen<e: MISSouri Valley
lo<ation: Carbondale, Ill. Website: siusalukis.com
Record: 26-7 (15-3)
RPI Rank: 16
Sagarin Rank: 31
RPI Schedule Rank: 56
Skinny: The Salukis were the most dom1nant team in the MVC th1s season. but is an early eXIt '"the conference tournament a
stgn of thmg< to comeo7 S•gns po•nt to no, as SIU IS IPd by super'itar; Darren Brooks and Jamal Tatum. both of whom have a
wealth {)f tournament e•perience. The Salukis held teams to 60 points a game th1s season, and that stifling defense w 1ll keep
them in the 'Jdlne agamst any squ.~d.
Best wins:·vs Vanderbilt (67-53), at Creighton (69-63); WIChita State (65-55)
WDISt Losses: at SW Missouri State (77-92); at Hawaii (64-66)
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Coach: Stew Morrill
Conference: Big West
Location: Logan, Utah
Website: utahstateagg•es.com
Record : 24-7 (14-1)
RPI R;mk: 50
Sagarin Rank: 44
RPI Schedule Rank: 168
Skinny: Utah State •s no stranger to the NCAA Tournament and has had some success there in faa. The Aggies upset Pac•fic to
ensure they would dance aga1n this season and could be a scary opponent because they are dlhletic enough to cause problems.
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Conference: Conference USA
lo<ation: Btrmmgham, Ala. Website: uabsports.com
RecJDrd: 2l-10 (1().6)
RPI Rank: 59
Sagarin Rank: 46
RPI Schedule Rank: 118
Sltinny: EveT)'One wrllremember UAB's shockmg upset of top-seeded Kentucky tn last year"s se<ond round, but thiS program IS
startmg ID really rose under former Arkansas assiStant Mike Anderson. n·s extremely difficult to prepare for the Blazers· style. especially on one day·s preparation. so there is alwa~ a chance that UAB can steal a victory or two just by being quirky and 10 better sh..,., than its opponent.
Best wins: Nebraska tB0-66); at Marquette (86-63); DePaul (81-BO 01)
Worst Losses: at Richmond (B1-96); at TCU (65 76); East Carolina (64-67)
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Coach: Lorenzo Romar
Conference: Pac-10
Location: Seattle, Wash.
Website: gohuskies.com
RPI Rank: 3
Sagarin Rank: 5
RPI Schedule Rank: 9
Record: 27-5 (14-4)
Skinny: Due to Washington's location on the West Coast. the Huskies probably haven't garnered the attentiOn or credit they
desetve. UW boasts one of the country's quickest teams and has the ability to score in bunches. The Huskies also play pressure
man-to-man defense as staunchly as anyone. UW IS led by electnc guards Nate Robinson and Tre S1mmons. whose first name
appropriately descnbes hiS deft outs1de touch If the Hu<loes are vulnerable anywhPre, it'S their lack of an 1nS1de presence.
Best wins: vs. Alabama (79-76); vs. Oklahoma (96-91 ); Arizona (93-85); vs. Utah (78-71 ); NC State (68·64)
Worst Losses: at UCLA (86-95); at Oregon St. (73-90)
Coadl: Bob Thomason
Conference: B•g West
Location: Stockton, Calif. Websi:te: pacifictigers.com
RPt Rank: 19
Sagarin Rank: 27
RPIS<hedule Ranfc 120
Re<ord: 26-3 (18-0)
Skinny: PacifiC might just be the most e><perienced team in the entire NCAA Tournament with five senior starters, pi~ th1e<> top
reserves that are at least juniors. This program provided an upset in last season's first round and nearly got past IC:ansas 1n the
second round look out for Guillaume Yango, one of the best unknown players you w1ll see in the Big Dance. Yangc and
Christian Maraker can help PacifiC match up with almost anyone in the frontcourt
Best wins: at Nevada (72-69); UTEP (73-66); at Utah State (64-63)
Worst Losses: San Francisco (64-67)
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Kamarr Davis
John Seyfert
Kevin Criswell
22 Matt Martin
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10 Virgil Matthews
34 Andrew Strait
52
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13 Christian Maraker
33 Guillaume Yango
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MONTANAGRIZZLIES
Coach: Lany Krystkowiak Conference: Big Sky
Location: Missoula, Mont. Website: montanagrizzlies.com
-Record: 18-12 (9-5)
RPI Rank: 157
Sagarin Rank: 182
RPI Schedule Rank: 254
Skinny: If their schedule is any Indication - to say nothing of their RPI -the Grinlies are going to be fairly easy pickings for the
Husl<•es 1n the first round of the NCAA Tournament. And they didn't e•actly tear up the Big Sky before earn1ng the automatic
bod. Coach Lany KrystkoWiak- a nine-year NBA veteran- might have gotten Montana here. but unless he su1ts up, they're not
getting out ofthe first round.
Best wins: Cal-Northridge (90-80); Portland State (79-65)
Worst Losses: at UC-Santa Barbara (46-55); Montana State (60-52)
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Coach: Jamie Dixon
Conference: Big East
location: Pittsburgh, Penn. Website: pittsburgh!Pant~com
Record: 20-S ( 10-6)
RPI Rank: 48
Sagarin Ranlc 29
RPI SdheduJe. Rant: 87
Skinny: Bov. are the Panthefs a hard team to figure out Playmg in the BIQ East isn't easy, but Pitt has had things all IDpS¥-tunly at
times this season. They're good enough to sweep Syracuse and get big wins against UConn and Boston College. but bad enough
to lose to the likes of SL John's. Still. this team has size and experience in abundance, and a solid freshman reserve in ROnald
Ramon One big loss was booting Yuri Demetris from the team after his arrest, but Pitt seems to have done just fine without him.
Best wins: at Connectirut (76-66); S)'Tacuse (76-69); at Syracuse (68-64); at Boston College (72-50)
Worst Losses: Bucknell (66-69); Georgetown (64-67); at St. John's (62-65)
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9.2
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2.0
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11
22
Mark McCarroll
Chris Taft
Carl Krauser
Antonio Graves
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4 Ronald Ramon
14 Levan Kendall
33 Aaron Gray
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GEORGIATECHYELLOWJACKETS
lOUISVILLECARDINALS
Conference: Atlantic Coast
location: Atlanta, Ga.
Website: ramblinwreck.com
Coadh: Paul Hewitt
Record; 19-11 (8-8)
RP1 Rank: 30
Sagarin Rank: 20
RPI Schedule Rank: 19
Skinny: There were plenty of ~mes when rt was hard to bel1eve that the Yellow Jackets were last season's national runners-up.
Wh1le Tech lost B.J. Elder to 1njury for a stretch of the season. it doesn't fully explam the let down from last year. But they've
got a 7-footer. a great point guard and can score big at times. There aren't any high seeds that want to find the Jackets in their
bracket. especially after their run to the ACC Tournament finals.
Best wins: Wake Forest (102-101 Ol)
Worst Losses: Virginia Tech (69-70)
Coach: Rick Prtino
Confetence: Conference USA
Location: Louisville, Ky.
Website: uoflsports.com
Record: 29-4 (14-2)
RPI Rank: 12
Sagarin Rank: 8
RPI ~Ranlt: 50
Skinny: The past two seasons, LOUisville has come into the NCAA Tournament limping a little bit after February swoonsthat crippled the Cardinals' chances. Not so this time around. as Louisville won 15 of its final 16 reguiaf season games and took the
Conference USA championship. This is a dangerous team, especially given how well Larry O'Bannoo has played in Mardi and
solid play off the bench. The Cards' four seed was one of the bigger shockers as some experts thought they caul~ be a""'- l.
Best wins: at Florida (74-70); at Cincinnati (69-66); Charlotte (94-82)
Worst Losses: at Houston (67-70); Memphis (68-85)
Starting Five
1
2
55
12
3
8.1. Elder
lsma'il Muhammad
Anthony McHenry
Luke Schenscher
Jarrett Jack
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23
11
4
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Anthony Morrow
Will Bynum
Ra'Sean Dickey
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rpg
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Francisco Garcia
Juan Palacios
Ellis Myles
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Brandon Jenkins
Otis George
lorrenzo Wade
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Conference: Atlantic-tO
Location: Washmgton, D.C
Website: gwsports.com
Coach: Karl Hobbs
RPI Rank: 58
Sagarin Rank: 40
RPI Schedule Rank: 179
Record: 22-7 (11-5)
Skinny: The Colon1als won their first-ever A-10 Tournament title, defeating Saint Joseph's 76-67 to secure an NCAA Tournament
bid. George Washington •mpressed earlier •n the year by winning the BB&T Classic in December. George Washington knocked
off Mich•gan State and Maryland tow1n the event. The Colomals compiled an 11-5 record in the A-10, good enough to fin1sh
1n f1rst place in the western dMs•on.
Best wins: M1ch1gan State (96-83). Maryland (1 0 1-92)
Worst Losses: at Richmond (59-70)
Coach: Robert Lee
Conference: Sun Belt
Location: Lafayette. La.
Website: ragincajuns.com
Record: 20-10 (11-4)
RPI Rank: 38
_
Sagarin Rank: 73
RPI •S<hedule Rank: 81
Skinny: The Ragin' Cajuns are sure to have one of the best nicknames in the Big Dance, but they are no stranger to the tournaments, having advanced several times before. Lafayette earned its ticket by knocking off Denver in the Sun Belt title game after
losing to them twice in the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns also have a quality win over Southern lllonois, a team that some
pundits think could be a Cinderella this season.
Best wins' Southern Illinois (63-61). Western Kentucky (91-76)
Wom Losses: at Georgia St. (78-85). at Arkansas State (80-86.
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Tiras Wade
Orien Green
5
23 Dwayne Mitchell
45
11
Brian Hamilton
Chris Cameron
Key Reserves
3
Spencer Ford
22 Ross Mouton
34 • Adam James
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NCAA TOURNAMENT
No.1 seed
1980- Lost to 4 seed Duke 55-54 in Sweet 16.
1984- Lost to 1 seed Georgetown 53-40 in Final Four.
1986 - Lost to 11 seed LSU 59-57 in Elite Eight.
1993- Lost to 1 seed Michigan 81-78 in OT in Final Four.
1995- Lost to 2 seed North Carolina 74-61 in Elite Eight.
1996 - Won NCAA title 76-67 over 4 seed Syracuse.
1997- Lost to 4 seed Arizona 84-79 in OT in NCAA championship.
2003 - Lost to 3 seed Marquette83-69 in Elite Eight
2004 - Lost to 9 seed UAB 76-75 in second round
No.2 seed
1981 -Lost to 7 seed Alabama-Birmingham 69-62 in second round.
1988- Lost to 6 seed Villanova 80-74 in Sweet 16.
1992- Lost to 1 seed Duke 104-103 in OT in Elite Eight.
1998- Won NCAA title 78-69 over 3 seed Utah.
2001 -Lost to 6 seed Southern Cal 80-76 in Sweet 16.
No.3 seed
1983 - Lost to 1 seed Louisville 80-68 in OT in Elite Eight.
1994- Lost to 6 seed Marquette 75-63 in second round.
1999- Lost to 1 seed Michigan State 73-66 in Elite Eight.
No.4 seed
2002 - Lost to 1 seed Maryland 78-68 in Sweet Sixteen.
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Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C.
Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, Fla.
Jon M. Huntsman Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cox Arena, San Diego, Calif.
Tlnrsday-Saturday, March 15 & 17
• HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York
... ARCO Arena, Saaamento, Califmia
... Spokane (Wash.) Memorial Arena
... Veterans Mem. Coliseum, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Friday-Sunday, March March 17 & 19
Friday-Sunday, March 16 & 18
•
•
•
•
• United Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio
• Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky
... New Ol1eoos Arena. New Orleans, l.a.isi!nl
First Union Center, Philadelphia, Penn.
University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio
Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Mich.
American Airlines Arena, Dallas, Texas
Thursday-Saturday, March 23 & 25
• Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Ga.
• oakland Arena, Oakland, Calif.
Th~. March 22 & 2A
Friday-Sunday, March 24 & 26
Friclly-Sunday, llln:h 23 & 25
..,_ Continental AirWles Arena, E. Rutherbd. N •.t
..,_ Edwlwd Jones Dome, St Louis. Missouri
• MCI Center, Washington, D.C.
..,_ Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis
• Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas
..,_ HP Pavilion, San Jose, California
No.8 seed
1987- Lost to 9 seed Ohio State 91-77 in first round.
No.12 seed
1985- Lost to 1 seed St. John's 86-70 in Sweet 16.
SEEDS IN THE NCAA FINAL FOUR
Seeds of teams to reach the Final Four. Seeding of tournament began in 1979:
year
champion
others In Final Four
1980
Louisville (2)
Future NCAA Final Fours
year
2006
2007
2008
city
Indianapolis
Atlanta
San Antonio
arena
RCA Dome
Georgia Dome
Alamodome
year
2009
2010
2011
city
Detroit
Ford Field
RCA Doole
Houston
Iowa (5), Purdue (6), UCLA (8).
PAST NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS
1982
1988
1990
..... ··:·:
1992
North Carolina (1)
Georgetown (1)
Kansas (6)
Nevada-Las Vegas (1)
Duke (1)
Georgetown (1), Louisville (3), Houston (6).
Kentucky (1), Houston (2), Virginia (7).
Arizona (1), Oklahoma (1), Duke (2).
Duke (3), Georgia Tech (4), Arkansas (4).
Indiana (2}, Cincinnati (4), Michigan (6).
: :=.:
1994
Arkansas (1)
Arizona (2), Duke (2), Florida (3).
North Carolina (1 ), Stanford (3), Utah (3).
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No.6 seed
1982- Lost to 11 seed Middle Tennessee 50-44 in first round.
UMass (1), Syracuse (4), Mississippi State (5)
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No.5 seed
2000 - Lost to 4 seed Syracuse 52-50 in second round.
8.1
4.5
CA~S'
UK's history of seeding in the NCAA Tournament. Bracket has been seeded since 1979:
1984
Starting Five
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Omar Williams
F
3
Mike Hall
F
21 Pops Mensah-Bonsu
F
5
T J Thompson
G
25 Carl ElliOtt
G
THE
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
KENTUCKY'S SEEDING IN
WASHINGTONHUSKIES
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2001
2002
Maryland (1)
ZOOl
Syr~cuse (3)
2004
Connecticut {2)
Georgia Tech (3), Duke (1 ), Oklahoma State (2)
Year
Champion
Score
Runner-up
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Oregon
Indiana
Wisconsin
Stanford
Wyoming
Utah
Oklahoma St.
Oklahoma St.
Holy Cross
46-33
60-42
39-34
53-38
46-34
42-40
49-45
43-40
58-47
58-42
46-36
71-68
68-58
80-63
69-68
92-76
77-63
83-71
54-53
84-72
71-70
75-55
70-65
71-59
60-58
98-83
91-80
72-65
79-64
78-55
92-72
80-69
68-62
Ohio State
Kansas
Washington State
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Dartmouth
l)lewYorl< U.
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Baylor
Oklahoma St.
Bradley
Kansas State
St. John's
Kansas
Bradley
LaSalle
Iowa
Kansas
Seattle
West Virginia
California
Ohio State
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Duke
Michigan
Kentucky
Kentucky
CCNY
Kentucky
Kansas
Indian<!
LaSalle
San Francisco
San Francisco
N. Carolina
Kentucky
California
Ohio State
Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Loyola (IU.)
UCLA
UCLA
Texas-EI Paso
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
Kentucky
Dayton
North Carolina
Purdue
Jacksonville
Vacated
Year
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Champion
UCLA
UClA
N.C. State
UCLA
Indiana
Marquette
Kentucky
Michigan State
louisville
Indiana
North Carofina
N.C. State
Georgetown
V~lanova
louisville
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
UNLV
Duke
Duke
North Carolina
Arkansas
UCLA
Kentucky
Arizona
Kentucky
UConn
Michigan State
Duke
Maryland
Syracuse
Connecticut
Runalr-4tp
F1orida Sllille
Score
81-76
87~
~SIIille
76-64
92-85
M3quel!e
Kenluclly
Midigan
North Canilina
86-68
67-59
94-88
75-64
59-54
63-50
63-62
54-52
84-75
66-64
72-69
74--73
83-79
8()..79
103-73
72~
71-51
77-71
76--72
89-78
76-67
84-79
78-69
77-74
89-76
82-72
64-52
81-78
82-73
Duke
lrdana Sliile
Vacaed
Nor1h Camlina
Geu!JI'*lMi
Houslon
Houston
GetiyetiMI
Otjre
Symcuse
Oldahoma
Sebtl-lilll
Duke
~''Kansas
Mid1igan
Mdligan
Duke
Arkansas
Syracuse
Kentuclly
Utah
Duke
Florida
Arizooa
Indiana
Kansas
Georgia 1e!:.'l!
�•S12 •
WEDNEsoAY, MARCH
16, 2005
THE CATS' PAUSE • MARCH MADNESS
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
a s open CAA Tournament
with Eastern, Travis Ford
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The Cit/5' Pause
Kentucky coach Tubby Smith knows Travis Ford well, but the UK
coach will have to put friendship aside this week when the Cats square off
witb Ford's Eastern Kentucky squad in the NCAA Tournament's first
round..
The Cats were awarded a No.2 seed in the Austin region as an at-large
lcam after they lost the SEC Tournament final to Florida on Sunday.
Easlcm Kentucky won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament last week
to make it to Big Dance for the first time in 26 years. Smith, who coached
Ford when be was UK's point guard from 1992-94, is excited to see the
CoiOo:ls matched up with his team in Indianapolis.
"Knowing Travis Ford the way I do, having coached him back when I
was an assistant at Kentucky, he's a tough, competitive coach and his team
~ the way he played," Smith said. •10ey can shoot the three and are
aggressi~ at both ends of the court. We played them last year and saw
first baod the impact Travis has had on that program. It's great for the fans
- 1br: S13le tbat Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky are playing one another."
The Cars come into the tournament in a bit of a slump, having lost to
Florida. twice in a week, thus ending their hopes for what would have
been a tbinl consecutive No. I seed in the tournament. Instead, Duke took
the lop spot in the Cats' region, setting up what could be a rematch of the
1992 and 1998 Elite Eight games between the two schools.
'"'We had our chances," Smith said of getting a top seed. "I thought we
bad two opportunities in the past week to wrap up a No. 1 seed. I think if
we bad beaten Florida at Florida or in the SEC Tournament championship
game lben we would have been a one."
UK will tty to erase the bad memories of the upset loss to UAB in la,st
se35011S second round. The players have made no secret of the fact they
want to atone for that defeat in Columbus.
-we CCitainly remember last year, but this is a new team," Smith said.
..You"n: always excited this time of year. We've lost two of our last four,
and that's never good. But I'm very proud of this group of young men and
they can go far."
How far the road goes this season remains to be seen, but it wil start
Tbmsday in Indianapolis with a familiar foe.
2004-05 Schedule
BACKCOURT
Eastern uses a three-guard lineup, but
there isn't much size on the perimeter.
Zach Ingles is the biggest starter in the
backcourt at 6-foot-2, while both Matt Witt
and Jason Mcleish measure 6-foot. But
the Colonels can shoot the basketball,
with both Witt (14.1) and Ingles (11.9)
averaging double figures. Witt is also a
terrific passer, leading the Colonels by
handing out 6.4 assists per game, a eyecatching stat on any level. All three
starters are juniors and should be able to
hold their own in size with UK's Rajon
Rondo and Patrick Sparks.
fRONTCOURT
Senior forward Michael Haney is
Eastern's go-to-guy on offense. The 6foot-6 Haney averages 13.5 points a
night, but he is hitting on nearly 63 percent of his field goal attempts, indicating
he gets the ball in positions where he can
finish. Alonzo Hird is light for a center at
205 pounds, but he averages just a
shade under 10 points a game and basically matches the 8.3 rebounds Haney
hauls in with 8.2 of his own.
Ben Rushing is the only real backcourt threat off the bench, but he
is yet another shooter that can
cause problems if he gets hot.
Eastern has two freshmen big
men at their disposal in Darnell
Dialls and Ryan Wiersma. Those
two provide some nice depth for
the Colonels, who will likely need
as many bodies as they can
muster for the Kentucky matchup.
' No.12 Old Dominion.
1992.: UK 88, OOU 69
{NCAA-lst Round)
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Annville, KY/Jackson Co. HS
Radio: UK Radio Network
Series: UK leads 8-0
Last Meeting: Dec. 23, 2003- @UK 101, EKU 72
Coach: Travis Ford will be a man
tom when the Colonels meet UK
because the coach was one of the
most beloved players in recent UK
history when he played for Rick
Pitino from 1992-94. Ford has struggled to get EKU over the hump
before this season, but he had a terrific playing career at UK, finishing
ninth on the all-time assists list.
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GONZAGABULLDOGS
TEXASTECHREDRAIDERS
Coach: Mark ffw
Conference· West Coast
location: Spokane. Wash Websote: goz.>g<.com
Record: 25-4 (12-2)
RPI Rank: 8
Sagarin Rank: 21
RPI Schedule Rank: 30
Skinny: Another year. another bid for Gonzaga. who has become the m>d-major powerhouse of the nat1011. Marl< Few"s squad
os led by Ronny Tunal and Adam Morri50fl. both of whom can hght ot up on the uffensive end. Gonzdga Will once again be a
popular pock to advance deep into the tournament. and since most of their player.; have a bevy of NCAA experience, the fact
that they"re a mid major should be thrown out the wondow.
Best wins: Washongton (99-87); vs. Georgoa Tech (85-73); ..,;_ Oklahoma State (78-75)
Worst Losses: at Missouri (61-63); at San Francis<O (70-73); at St. Mary's (81-89)
Coach: Bob Knoght
Co.lference: Bog 12
location: Lubbock, Texas Website: texastech com
Record: 20-10 (10-6)
RPI Rank: 29
Sagarin Rank: 22
RPI Schedule Rank: 40
Skinny: This os one of Bob Knight"s most interesting teams. as they didn·t surprose anyone 111 non-conference act1on. but caught
many teams off guard woth theor progress 1n Big 12 pldy Ten wins on the Bog 12 is quite d leal for thos young "'lUdd. who are led
by guards "Donald Ross and Jarius Jackson. Kn1ght hasn·t led a team to the Sweet 16 since 1994, but this year·s Raider team will
be a p1ck that many choose to advance because of theor explosiVe potential.
Best wins: Kansas (80-79 20n; at Oklahoma (88 81); Texas (69 65)
Worst losses: Ohoo State (71-77); at Texas Christ1an (68-83); at Texas A&M (63-85)
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WINTHROPEAGLES
UCl.ABRUINS
Coach: Gregg Marshall
Coach: Ben Howland
Conference: Pac·10
location: Los Angeles. Calif
Website: uclabruons.com
Record: 18·1 0 ( 11·7)
RPI Rank: 41
Sagarin Rank: S1
RPI Schedule Rank: 38
Skinny: One of the youngest teams on the Big Dance, UCLA has a ton of talent on its roster but is stolllearning how to win under
Coach Ben Howland. The 1rio of freshmen guards has turned the Bruons 1nto a team to keep an eye on down the stretch, and
there IS plenty of bulk 1n the paont. plus the scorong of DIJDn Thompson to make life dtffteult for a hogher seed thonkong ot can
cruose past the lower-seeded Bruins.
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Best wins: Washongton (95-86); at Notre Dame (7S·65)
Worst Losses: California (51-64), at Oregon Sl. (80-85)
Conference: Big South
location: Rock Hill. S.C.
Website: www.Wlnthropeagles.com
Record: 27-5 (16-1)
RPI Rank: 70
Sagarin Rank: 106
RPI Schedule Rank: 303
Skinny: The Eagles head into the NCAA Tournament as a low seed, but a very, very hot low seed. They have won 18 games in
a row, the thtrd·longest streak on the country. Stoll, theor strength of schedule shows you that they haven't played anyone of note
all season. so they"re all but a lock to fulfill their low-5eed duty and get waxed by Gonzaga 1n round one
Best wins: at Providence (60-54)
Worst Losses: at Coastal Carolina (68-76). at Portldnd (64·70)
Starting Five
00 James Schuler
5 Craig Bradshaw
33 Phillip Willidms
10 Chris Gaynor
12 Torrell Martin
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30 Billy Houston
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Where: RCA Dome; Indianapolis, Ind.
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WAKEFORESTDEMONDEACONS
Cootch: Jom Beiletn
Conference: Big East
location: Morgantown, W.V. Website: msnsportsnetcom
Record: 21·10 (9-7)
RPI Rank: 44
Sagarin Rank: 38
RPI Schedule Rank: 86
Skinny: Here was a team on the bubble that managed to play its way in by reaching the finak of the 81g East Tournilment Th~t
k1nd of desperatoon can play well in the NCAA Tournament, especially ..sa middle seed. But they spent the season beattng most
of the learns they >hould beat and losing to the ones th~y should have lost to. resulting in a five-qame losing streak. They" II have
to nse aboloe that standard to pull an upset
Best wins: at LSU (8469); Pittsburgh (83-78 on; at Pittsburgh (70-66); N.C. State (82-69); vs. Boston College (78-72)
WOf'St losses: vs. Marshall (55-59). at Georgetown (60-67); at Seton Hall (63-66)
Record: 26-5 (13·3)
RPI Rank: 6
Sagarin Rank: 4
RPI Schedule Rank: 14
Skinny: Everyone picked 1his team to won the ACC. ann With good reason. even if 1hey dtdn"t pull ot off After Nonh Caror.na.
this is the most talented team >n the conference. The backcourt is the main strength. with Chns Paul and Justin Gray. but you
can't overlook bog man Eric Wil•iams If they play well come tournament time. there·s no rea5011 why the Demon Deacons can·t
very well f1nd themselves on the Final Four
Best wins: vs. Arizona (63 60); North Carolina (9S -82); Texas (89-88); Duke (92-89)
Worst losses: at Florida State (83-91 on
Starting Five
4 Tyrone Sally
20 M>ke Gansey
1 J.D. Collins
40 D"or Ftscher
5 Johannes Herber
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34 Kevin P!ttsnogle
3 Patnck Beileon
14 Dams Nichols
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Conference: Atlantic Coast
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location: Winston·Salem. N C Website: wakeforestsports.com
Starting Five
10 Jamil~l levy
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3 Chns Paul
31 Eric Williams
13 Vytas Danelius
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4 Taren Downey
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CHATTANOOGAMOCS
Conference: Missouri Valley
location: Omaha, Neb.
Website: gocreighton.com
Jleconl: 23·1 0 (11·7)
RPI Rank: 46
Sagarin Rank: 47
RPI Schedule Rank: 77
Skinny: By virtue of a hot finish and winning the MVC tournament, Creighton makes its sixth appearance in seven years in the
B>g Dance Leading the way for the Blue Jays are outside threats Nate Funk and Johnny Mathies. Creighton averaged 72 po1nts
per game thos season. and IS capable of puttong up bog numbers on anyone. They"H certamly be a dangerous forst round matchup for any school
Best wins: vs. Mossouri (78·54); at Xavoer (73·72); at Wichota State (82-68)
Worst loo5es: at Evansville (61·63). at Indiana State (72·74). Illinois State (77-82 OT)
Coal;h: Dana Altman
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24 Tyler McKinney
11 Johnny Mathies
10 Nate Funk
SO Dane Watts
44 Anthony Tolltvef
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Coach: John Shulman
Conference: Southern
location: Chattanooga, Tenn.
Website: gomocs.com
RPI Rank: 124
Sagarin Rank: 142
RPI Schedule Rank: 236
Record: 20·10 (10·6)
Skinny: No one expected Chattanooga to survive the Southern Conf<>rence Tournament with the way Davidson dominated the
league·s regular season before falling 1n the tournament The Mocs" upset win at Tennessee should giVe them confidence that
they belong on a larger level. but playing in front of a NCAA Tournament crowd might be a bot onlimidat>ng. The Mocs do have
some tradotion. making the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 in 1997.
Best wins: at Tennessee (69·68); UNC ·Greensboro (82·68); vs UNC·Greensboro (66-62)
Worst losses: at Georgia Southern (84· 107); at Creoghton (68·100); Furman (65·73), Elon (59·62)
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NORTHCAROLINATARHEELS
MINNESOTAGOPHERS
Coach Roy Wilhams
Conference: AtlantiC Coast
Location: Chapel H1ll, N.C Website: tarheelblue.com
Record: 27-4 (14-2)
RPI Rank: 7
Sagarin Rank: 1
RPI Schedule Rank: 32
Skinny: The Tar Heels are arguably the most talented team in the country. What they can do w1th that talent come NCAA
Tournament time remams to be seen But cons1dering the on!y bad loss they had came 1n the season opener, Without Raymond
Felton, 1t's hard to 1mag1ne they Will play a team better than them 1n the tourney All they have to do now IS play consistently,
and they re a lock for 5t. LoUis
Best wins: Kentucky (91 ·78); Georg1a Tech (91·69); at Connecticut (77-70); Duke (75-73)
Worst Losses: at Santa Clara (66· 77)
Coach: Dan Monson
Conference: Big Ten
Location: Mmneapolis, Minn. Websitr. g,ophetsport:..C<lm
Record; 21-10 ( 10-6)
RPI Rank: 45
Sagarin Rank: 37
RPl Schedule-Rank: 56
Skinny: Dan Monson deserves a lot or crcd•t for leading a group expected to be a Big Ten dooo<mat to the NCAA Tournament.
JOCO transfer V1ncent Gner is the star and carries the Gophers at times but has a solid supportmg cast. Center Jeff Hagan IS
enJoymg a career year anchoring the frontline and guard Aaron Robinson shoots 40 percent from three-pomt range. Throw in a
pilfering defense (9 4 spg) and Willing role pl<l)ll!rs and the Gophers earned a bid.
Best wins: Indiana (70-65). Wisconsin (60-50); at Oh1o State (60-56 01)
Worst Losses: Flonda State (69-70), Nonh~tern (53-55)
Starting Five
Raymond Felton
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32 Rashad McCants
42 Sean May
21 Jawad Wiliams
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15 Vincent Grier
34 Brent lawson
13 Dan Colen .an
42 Jeff Hagen
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IOWASTATECYCLONES
Coach: Grpg KaJllt..•e
Conference: Mid-Continent
Location: Rochester, Mich Website: vwvw.ougrizzlies.com
Record: 12-18 (7-9)
RPI Rank: 196
Sagarin Rank: 185
RPI Schedule Rank: 129
Skinny: In ,)l'(jer for Oakland·~ Cmderplla c;;rc ry to cont1nue. whtrh seems very unlikely. they'll have to havP enormous contributions from thetr two leading scorers. Rawte Marshall and Canney Scan. both of whom average more than 17 pomts per game.
They'll also need to keep up thetr stellar defen'>ve play, whi< h held opponent> to an average of 58 point> pe1 gdme in their con·
ference tournament.
Best wins: vs Oral Robens (61·60); Bo\ll>ng Green (77-53)
Worst Losses: at Chicago State (62 73), Western Illinois (74-75)
Coach: Wayne Morgan
Conference: Big 12
lo<ation: Ames, Iowa
Website: cyclortes.com
RPI Rank: 78
Sagarin Rank: 49
RPI Sdledule Rank: 108
Record: 18-11 (9-7)
Skinny: After a homd 0-~ start m 81g 12 play, the Cyclones are playing great ball of late, something the committee rewa<ded
them for Headed by cuniS St1nson. Iowa State has knocked off fM! ranked teams thiS season. and i5 a team more than capable of upset\lng a high seed 1n the 2nd round Al>o contributing in big ways for Iowa State dl'e PQ>t man .Jdred Homan and pomt
guard Will Blalock, who is a threat from the outside.
Best wins: Oklahoma \74-66); at Texas (92-80 on; at Kansas (63-61 on
Worst Losses: Colorado (52-54 on: at Kansas State (51-63); Nebraska (6!}-76)
AlABAMAA&MBUllDOGS
Coach: Van Pettaway
Conference: SWAC
Location: Normal, Ala.
Website: aamu.edu/PR/sportslathlei<Cs.htm
Record: 18-13 (11-7)
RPI Rank: 230
Sagarin Rank: 290
RPI Schedule Rank: 323
Skinny: A year ago Alabamil A&M had a los1ng record, but with the mflux of 10 new players this season, the Bulldogs turned
the program around and ma<ie the B1g Dance on the last day of the season. The Bulldogs are senously lackmg 1n SIZe, with their
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Best wins: Southern (86-59,
Worst Losses: Fa1rfield (47-62); U.<-B (68-100); Texas Southern (75-82)
Starting Five
11 W~IBialock
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13 R.bhon Clark
22 Damian StdJ)Ie
51 Jared Homan
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Coach: Jay Wnght
Conference: 81q East
Location: Philadelphia, Penn.
Website: villanova.com
RPI Rank: 15
Sagarin Rank; 17
RPI Schedule Rank: 8
Record: 22· 7 (11-5)
Skinny; It's easy to get overlooked 1n the Big East when your league-mates 1ndude the defendmg national champion and a team
that spent the f"st 20 games unbeaten. Put th1s V1llanova squad only lost to those two teams (Connecticut and Boston College)
by a combmed SIX pomts- on the road Then they handed the Eagles just the~r second loss of the season Add that to an ear!y.
seasor. toppf1ng of Kansas and st·s obv1ous JUSt how dangerous this V1llanova team can be.
Best w1ns: Kansas (83-62); Boston College (76-70); West V"gmld (84-46)
Worst Losses: vs. Temple (52-53); Georqetown (64·66)
Coach: Billy Donovan
Conference: Southeastl'rn
Location: Gainesville, Fla Website: gatorzone com
Record: 23·7 (12-4)
RPI Rani<: 23
Sagarin Rank: 15
RPI Schedut..Rank: 34
Skinny: Florida has been a NCAA Tournament flop each year Since it stormed the champolSiup game n 2000. fa~hng 1<.. get to
the Sweet 16 in four tourndmenb >1nce. TI1is Gdtors" tedm ca" score with anyone, but the difference has been thetr ab1li1y to
guard people, something that has been lacking 1n a maJor way 1n the past. If Anthony Robet>en and Molt! Walsh a"' mak1ng
shots, Florida becomes a very dangerous out, but they must get past the mental hurdle of another e•r~ f'J me out
Best wins: Alabama (85-54); Kentucky (53-52); at Vanderbilt (82 -65); vs Kentucky (70-53)
Worst Losses: Mlam1 (65-72); at Flonda State (69-82). at TenOPSsee (7b-83 01)
Starting Five
Curtis SumpteJ
Wil! Sheridan
2 Randy Foye
12 Mike Nardi
14 Allan Ray
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13 Kyle lowry
20 Jason Fraser
44 Marcus Austin
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42 AI Herford
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11 Taurean Green
32 ChriS Richard
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OHIOBOBCATS
Coach: R1tch1e McKay
Conference: Mounta1n West
Location: Albuquerque, N. M. Website: golobos.com
Record: 26-6 (10-4)
RPI Rank: 71
Sagarin Rank: 39
RPI Schedule Rank: 299
Skinny: Weak schedule <.r not, the Lobes are looking to make some no1se 1n March after a 23-wln regular season Danny
Granger and Troy DeVries are the biggest impact players for New Mexico. who can kill you from beh1nd the three-point line. As
a team, the lobes shoot just shy of 40 percent from beyond the arc. If they get hot in the tournament, a couple of wins isn't
out of the question.
Best wins: Utah (65-54); Santa Clara (93-59); at UNLV (77 -66)
Worst Losses: at BYU (53-68); at Wyommg (71 -81); at Air Force (62-64)
Coach: Tim O'Shea
Conference; Mid-American
Location: Athens, Ohio • Website< ohi<lbotx:ats.com
Record: 21 - 10 (12-7)
RPI Rank: 33
Sagarin Rank: 79
RPJSchechJI•Ranlc 84
Skinny: The Bobcats made the field of 65 for the f1rst t1me m 11 years after k.nod<1ng off Buffalo 1n <M!!'t!m" on a last second
putback. A young, but talented team with a very balana>d attack. frP<hman rPnTPr LPOn Wilham; " a ieg1t1m- po<t preserl<'e
and guards Mychal Green and Jeremy Fears provide perimeter balance. Tirr. O'Shea's team is capabk> or UIJS"ttlng a team who
can't shoot well from the out>1de. but Ohio's zone defense Will lose as soon as they run 1nto a coup!., of hot hands.
Best wins: at Buffalo (92-90), Miami (OH) (61-57): \IS. Miami (OH) (63-56)
Worst Losses: at American (64-55); at Florida International (74--73 on; at Ball St. (81-80)
l!:ltll!is
T11Z Ul'UVER8lTY OP NEW MEXICO_
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Mark Walters
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21 Alfred Neale
33 Danny Granger
13 Da111d Chiotti
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32 Tony Danridge
35 Sean Phaler
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Attorney at Law
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
THE CATS' PAUSE • MARCH MADNESS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,
2005• 511
Hayes demands that success in NCAA is a 'matter of will'
ATLANTA- The debate now isn't
whether Kentucky deserved a No. 1 seed
for the 2005 NCAA Tournament beginning
this week. It's whether the Cats will play
like a contender or a pretender?
"We've had spurts where we look like
we could be a dangerous team going into
the NCAA Tournament. But there are times
when we have spurts where we look like
we're beatable and not as good as we've
been hyped," a somber Chuck Hayes
offered moments after UK lost 70-53 to
Florida in the SF.C Tournament championship.
"We can compete with anybody in the
country," Hayes said. "We just have to
want it. We have to go get it. It's a matter
of will. Who wants it more?"
Kenn1cky enters NCAA play with a 25-5 record, but lost twice
in the past eight days to Florida. In Sunday's game, UK was outrebounded 48-31 and made just 2-of-19 three-pointers.
"It would've been nice to receive the SEC Tournament championship trophy," Hayes said. "It would've been nice to cut down.
the nets. To get the hats and the T-shirt. But we have to put that in
the past now.
"The SEC is over, the regular season, the tournament," he
added. "It's a whole new ball game and we've got to put this
game behind us."
A new season, indeed, with more
at stake than ever before as the senior
begins his finaJ quest for an elusive
FinaJ Four berth.
"We have to snap out of it,"
Hayes said. "Right now, it's a singleelimination so we have to bounce
back and get the job done. A lot of
people are going to have to look in
the mirror and do some soul-searching before we start the NCAA."
Kentucky has looked terrific and
terrible within the same season, scintillating and stagnant as a team that
plays hard from tip to buzzer but
rarely wins games going away.
"One minute you'll see it and the
next minute it's gone," Hayes said.
"We know we have it in us, the will
and the drive to get the job done. We
just need to get some consistency and
a killer instinct to get out there and
get the job done."
One dramatic change for
Kentucky in this NCAA Tournament
is that the Cats will be a bit under the radar. For the past two seasons, they've been proclaimed as the overall No. 1 seed when
Selection Sunday pairings were announced only to have faJlen
short of the FinaJ Four.
·
"I thmk it's good for us that we have the motivation of this loss
going into the tournament," Hayes said. "We'll be flying underneath the radar a little bit with a chance to achieve our goaJs right
under people's noses. That will feel good."
Assuming Kentucky can be one of the teams that gets its act
together in an otherwise bizarre season that saw a string of upsets
in conference tournament play.
"The season can now go as long as six games or as short as
one," Hayes said. "The secret will be whoever has the chemistry
and the focus for those six games. They'll be the ones who are
successfuL"
All of which brings us full circle to the opening question. Will
Kentucky show up for NCAA play as a contender or pretender?
The now-you-see-it, now-you-don't mystery described by Hayes?
'This program is measured by championships," Hayes said.
"We let one slip by as far as the SEC Tournament goes. Now, we
have a chance to go get one more."
DARREll
BIRD
,..,..,._Darrell Bird is general manager of The Cats' Pause.
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BIRDCALiS
Observations from Darrell B1rd
Rondo feared worst
with ankle sprain
ATLANTA - Imagine if you have started
every single game of the regular season only
to have the reward of tournament play
snatched away in an instant?
That fear was radng through the mind
of Kentucky's Rajon Rondo (right) when
he suffered an ankle sprain one day before
the Cats' first game in the Southeastern
Conference Tournament
"I was nervous that I wasn't going to play anymore for the rest of the season," Rondo said. "I really didn't know what to think."
Rondo did play, collecting nin~points, four assists and
three steals in 19 minutes as Kentucky defeated
Tennessee 76-62 to advance.
To the unsuspecting, it was hard to tell any injury had
occurred in that game or throughout the three-day tournament.
"Well, I didn't want to show a weakness," Rondo said
with a smile.
But the injury is real. Near the conclusion of UK's last
practice at Memorial Coliseum before boarding a flight
for Atlanta, Rondo rolled his right ankle while running full
speed on a fast break. It was his first ever sprained ankle.
:'For about 10 minutes, I wouldn't ta to anjlbxoxdl,¥. II
was really upset," Rondo said. "I went dollwn oo :!!hie l!llla1
It was really painful."
That's when UK trainer David Kindy stepped im.
"I got good treatment so I was out there and miirrlly t1D
play," Rondo said. "I iced it every 20 minutes 0111 amdl dllf
and I've been laying in bed keeping it elevated
"I wanted to play so bad," Rondo added ·1 Wi511il:oping and praying that everything would be
~bt!lre
game."
The sprained ankle follows bruised ribs whim IPGraDio
suffered a few weeks ago. With his 'Neighing ooly 1155
pounds, the question begs whether the rigors of a OlillegJe
schedule are taking a toll?
"It is a long season and guys are I'110fe pnysiirA!ilm
I've got to step my weight training up nextt: ye;m;.Rondo said_ "But Allen Iverson is my in5pira:iiirm.
He's a little guy and he does it 82 nights a }ei!lf., 50
I'm going to keep coming out.·
Smashed Moss
Rajon Rondo didn't have the comer on fooa: in!jwril5
during the SEC Tournament Near the end of IEgl!J~m
during Saturday's UK-LSU semifinal. the TtgerS' 300-jplowmd
Glen •Big Bat,y- Davis fell on Ravi M05l5"
foot during a scramble for a loose ball.
"Yeah, if Big Baby falls on you it's
gonna hurt real bad, and it's gonna
hurt for a while. too," Moss said with
a smile, his foot wrapped with an ice
pack for precaution.
Moss (right) was headed for the
sidelines in pursuit of the ball, so did at
least never see the collision coming?
"Yeah right," he said. "It was like slow
motion. I could see him coming right at me and I ~ illt.e.
'Oh my goodness."'
�10 •
16, 2005
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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II
II
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19; RCA DOME, INDIANAPOLIS
MARCH 18
&
20 ; CHARLOTTE (N. C.) COLISEUM
(20·10)
MINNESOTA
(21-10)
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(24-6)
NEVADA
(18-11)
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(24-7)
ALABAMA
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(24-5)
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MARCH 17
II
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BOSTON CoLLEGE
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MARCH 18
(24-4)
FLORIDA
(20-8)
KANSASJAYHAWKS
Coach: Btll Self
Conference: Big 12
Location: Lawrence. Kan
W eb sit": kuatn et.c.s om
Record: 23-6 (12·4)
RPI Rank: 1
Sagarin Rank: 9
RPI Sche d ule Rank: 1
Skinny: There's no doubting the Jayhawlcs' enormous potential anrl st.ar power What 1~" 1n q r1estion IS the r ,1b1hty t o frnish o.~t
a great stan to th1s season. as key losses late raised quest1ons about the1r abtlny to go deep 1n the tourney Kan$d> ~ led by Btg
12 Player of the Year Wayne Simien. whose power gdme con tplernent> the outside thr~ats of Ketth Langfotd ord Aoron Miles
Regard less. a surefire nationaltttle threat
at Kentucky (65-59); Oklahoma State (81 -79)
Best wins: Georgia Tech (70-68
W o rst Losses: at Villanova (62-83); Iowa State (61 63
at Mtssoun (68·72)
St>rting Five
1
Shant Chambl"'
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OHIO
SYAAc\lsE, N.Y.
(20-9)
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MARCH 18
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&
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(21-7)
N.C. STATE
MARCH 18
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(25-8)
(24-6)
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(19-13)
20; CENIRUM CENIRE, WoRCESTER,
CONNECTICUT
(24-8)
LOUISIANA
II
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DUKE
(24-8)
II
(25-5)
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(18-12)
MONTArA
II
II
II
PACIFIC
MARCH 18
& 20; CHARLOTTE (N.C . ) COUSEUM
(26-3)
(18-12)
STANFORD
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(20-8)
GEORGIA TECH
(19-11)
GEORGE WASH.
(22·7)
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Al8ooUEROUE, N.M.
(20-10)
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AUsTIN, TEXAS
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(26-5)
(20-10)
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(12-18)
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15
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(18-13)
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(23-1 0)
II
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(25-4)
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44 Zach Morley
32 Bnan Butch
4
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5
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15 J.R Giddens
34 Crristian Moody
23 Wayne Stmzen
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Alex Galindo
Mzchael Lee
Russell Robznson
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EASTERN K ENTUCKY
(22·8)
NORTHERNIOWAPANTHERS
BUCKNEllBISON
Coach: Greg McDermott Conference: Mis>oun Valley
Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
Website: un1panthers.com
Record: 21- 10 (11 -7)
RPI Rank: 40
Sagarin Rank: 42
RPI Schedule Rank: 60
Skinny: Fresh o ff last season's near upset of eventual runner-up Georg ta Tech in the first round of the \JCAA Tournament.
Nonhern Iowa wtll be taken very seriously whoever they face thiS season. Ben Jacobson and Enk Crawford combtn" for 30 potnts
out of t he backcoun. and are an extJemely troublesome match-up for just about anyone. Four starters average double digits in
points. making them a troubling match-up.
Best wins: Iowa State (99-82); Southern Illinois (67-61); at Wi<:hita State (67-66)
Worst Losses: at Evansville (73-92); at Bradley (65-71); at Drake (72-81)
Coach: Pat Flannery
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St>rting Five
21
12
5
2
32
Chris Foster
Ben Jacobson
Erik Crawford
Enc Coleman
Grant Stout
Key Reserves
11 John Little
23 Brooks M cOwen
33 Jon Godfread
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Conference: Patriot
Location: Lewisburg, Penn.
Website: bud:nelib son com
Record: 22-9 (10-4)
RPI Rank: 52
Sagarin Rank: 112
RPI Schedule Ra nk. 127
Skinny: Bucknell made headlines earlier thzs season when they stormed Pittsburgh and kr .ocked off the ranked Panth~rs. then
went to Phtladelphta and upset St Joseph's. The Bison have a b1t more size than most schools m the lower conferences. and theJr
g1ant killer reputation should have them confident they can compete in the tournament.
Best wins: at Pittsburgh (69-66), at St Joseph's (69-52). at Holy Cross (61·57)
Worst Losses: St Francis·PA (65-70); at Amencan (59-68); at Lehigh (54-57'
ppg
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6.3
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ppg
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1.5
2.0
3.5
18
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Chns Niesz
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29
CHARlOTTE49ERS
CO N NECTICUTHUSKIES
Coach: Bobby l u\7
Conference: ConferencP USA
Location: Charlotte. N C
W e bsite: charlotte49ers .com
Record: 21-7 (12·4)
RPI Rank: 36
Sagarin Rank: 45
RPI Schedule Rank: 140
Skinny: On the fir>t day of March. Charlolte looked the p.zrt of a h•gh seed wzth the potPntlal to do somP damage as a team no
one knew about. But that was before gettzng shelled by LouiSVIlle. then layJng a clunker at South Florida This team can score a
ton of potnts behind the shooting of Brendan Plavzch and the dynamtc duo of Eddte Basden and Curtis Withers. The 49ers are athlet•c and have good size. but they are going to have to prove they are tough enough to advance when their shots aren't falling.
Best wins: at lndzana (74·73); at Marquette (76-66); Ctnonnat 1(91-90)
Worst Losses: Rutgers (7 1-73); al East Carolina (51-54); at South Flonda (73-85)
Coach: J1m Calhoun
Starting Five
5
20
13
3
2
Brendan Pfavzch
Mitchell Baldwin
Eddie Basden
C urtis Withers
Mar11n Ill
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1
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12 I.Eemire Goldwire
00 Chris Nance
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Conference: Big East
locatio n : Storrs. Cor:m
We bsite: ucor.nhuskies.com
Record: 21·7 (13-3)
RPI Rank: 17
Sagarin Ra nk: 13
RPI Schedule Rank: 6
Skinny: Remember now. the Huskies are the defendtng national champs. Sure. they lost E'Tleka Okafor and Ben Gordon after
last year's title run, but the rest of the UConn ltneup IS a year more experienced but sttll remembers what :t took to get the nng
a year ago. Josh Boone and Charlie Vtllanueva are tough up front and Rashad Anderson can score. They m•ght not be a lock for
St. Louis, but the Huskzes could be poised to make a run
Best wins: Vtllanova (81-76); at Pittsburgh (73-64); at Syracuse (74-66); Syracuse (88·70)
Worst Losses: at UMa" (59-61); at Notre Dame (74-78)
Starting Five
3 1 Rashad Ander>on
3 Charl•e Vtllanueva
21 Josh Boone
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11 Hilton Armstrong
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Coach: Bo Ryan
Conference: Bzg Ten
Location: Madison, Wtsc. Webs ite: uwbadgers.com
Record: 22-8 (11·5)
RPI Rank: 13
Sagarin Rank: 19
RPI Schedule Rank: 25
Skinny: Wisconsin 1sn·t btg on style pocnts and usually wms ugly, but the Badgers won't he an easy out They feature the Big
Ten's stingtest defense (60 7 ppg) and rank 15th natzonally. M1ke W1lk1nson is Bo Ryan's go-to guy and he sets the tone for a veteran team wit h plenty of tournament experience. ller>attle and athletic, Alando Tucker is the Badgers· second option. providing
a one-two punch up front. If Wilkinson and Tuck..- get any help from thetr sporadic guards. Wzsconsin could make a run.
Best wins: Maryland (69-64); Alabama (76-62); Mzch1gan State (62 59)
Worst Losses: at Pepperdine (75-61); at Marquette (63-54); at Mznnesota (60-50)
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Coach: Herb Sendek
Conference: Atlantic Coast
Location: Ralezgh, N.C.
We bsite: gopack.com
Record: 19· 13 (7-9)
RPI Rank: 72
Saga rin Rank: 78
RPI Schedule Rank: 59
Skinny: The Wallpack came into the ACC TOum<ment With virtually no hope of making the NCAAs and left w 1th a b1d thanks
to vtcto1ies against Floridd State and Wake Forest Herb Sendek tends to have teams that overachieve •n Mdrch. and the Pack's
Princeton-style offense can be tricky for opponents lo defend But N.C. State's success in the NCAAs might depend on the health
of point g uard Tony Bet hel. which is a bit shaky
Best wins: Georgia Tech (76-68); at Maryland (85-69); at Georgta Tech (53 51); Wake Forest (81 -65)
Wo1"5t Losses: at St. John's (45-63); at Virginia Tech (71 -72), Florida State (64- 70_)
St>rting Frve
14
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24
32
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lhan Evtimov
Cameron Bennerman
Julius Hodge
Jordan Collins
Key Reserves
40 Andrew Brackman
22 Tony Bethel
21 lev1 Wdtktns
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198
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94
2.7
9 .5
3 .6
8 .9
2.3
17.0
6 .7
6 .9
2.6
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ppg
rpg
58
36
4.0
83
42
1.6
Coach: Kirk Speraw
Confere nce: Atlanttc Sun
Locatv:>n: Orlando, Fla
W ebsite: ud athlet•cs.com
Record: 24-8 (13·7)
RPI Rank: 85
Sagarin Rank: 169
RPI Schedule Rank: 199
Skinny: In gettzng a hold of their second A-Sun conference title 1n a row. the Golden Knzghts dzd it with tremendous balance.
Add to that a strong defenSive showing to hold off Gardner·Webb 1n the t1lle game. and tlte iact that Central Florida hds won
12 of zts last 13 games heading tnto the Big Dance, and thtS team appears to have several of the tngredients that can make it a
pesky opponent for a higher seed
Best wins: vs . Utah State (55· 52); Georgia State (70-65); at Mtssouri· Kansas City (57-56)
Worst Losses: Gardner-Webb (55-67); at Mercer (71 · 80), at Belmont (52-67); at Lipscomb 163·64)
Starting Five
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30 Joshua Peppers
F
33 Anthony Williams
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35 Wtlliam Bakanowsky C
5 Gary Johnson
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10 Kingsley Edwards
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6-5
6-8
6-9
6-2
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200
220
240
180
185
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ppg
13.5
11 2
6 .0
132
7 .5
rpg
34
5.6
4.2
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Key
20
21
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Reserves
Troy Lindbeck
Just 1n Rose
Marcus Johnson
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190
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STANFORDCARDINAL
UTAH UTES
OKlAHOMASOONERS
Coach: Mike Krz:yzewsk1 Conference: AtlantiC Coast
Location: Durham, N.C
Website: goduke.com
Record: 25·5 (11-5)
RPI Rank: 5
Sagarin Rank: 3
RPI Schedule Rank: 4
Skinny: Depth could be an 1ssue for the Blue Devils in the NCAAs. In losses, that has been a factor. most notably at Maryland.
Plus, now they've lost guard Sean Dorkery to a torn MCL But on the flip side, this team 1s dassic Duke in that it can shoot the
lights out. Th1nk t11ern any team in America that wants to line up against J.J. Redick in March? Both he and Daniel Ewing can
s'ngle-handledly Win games, and that's to say nothmg about Shelden Williams' presence 1n the post.
Best wins: Michigan State (81 74); vs. Oklahoma (78-67); North Carolina (71-70); Wake Forest (102-92)
Worst Losses: Maryland (66·75); at Virginia Tech (65-67)
Coach: Trent Johnson
Conference: Pac-10
Location: Palo Alto, Calif. Website: gostanford.com
Record: 18-12 (11-7)
RPI Rank: 39
Sagarin Rank: 50
RPI Schedule Rank: 22
Skinny: A year ago Stanford was cruising along undefeated and on top of the world before being upset in the Pac-10
Tournament and then in the second round by Alabama. This year, the Cardinal has had to battle two major injunes -one to leading scorer Dan Grunfeld - yet still have been able to play well enough to hang in for a tournament bid. There is absolutely no
depth because of the injunes, but any team good enough to beat both Arizona and Washmgton is dangerous.
Best wins: Arizona (87-76); at UCLA (75·64); Washington (77-67)
Worst Losses: vs. Tennessee (57-69); at Santa Clara (76-86); Washington State (48-59)
Coach: Ray Giacolett1
Conference: Mountain West
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Website: utahutes.com
Record: 27-5 (13-1)
RPI Rank: 22
Sagarin Rank: 24
RPI Schedule Rank: 111
Skinny: No one wants to face the Utes this year, as very few teams have been able to slow down, let alone stop big man Andrew
Bogut. Bogut averages a double-double, and on the outside, Utah is led by senior guard Marc Jackson, who shoots nearly 50
per(ent from beyond the arc. They're a real threat to make a run to the Elite 8 or even further.
Coach: Kelvin Sampson
Conference: B'g 12
location: Norman, Okla. Website: soonersports.com
Record: 24· 7 (12-4)
RPI Rank: 18
Sagarin Rank: 10
RPI Schedule Rank: 31
Skinny: This youthful Sooner squad has played their best basketball late 1n the season, sweep1ng the state of Texas (Texas, Texas
Tech) in the last two regular season contests As their rank1ng continues to rise, so does their stock in the tournament. Speedster
Drew Lavender runs the point. and if frontliners Taj Gray and Kevin Bookout perform in the post when it comes to tournament
time, look for this team to be around for awh1le.
Best wins: Oklahoma State (67-57); Kansas (71-63); at Texas (74-58)
Worst Losses: Texas Tech (81-88); at Iowa State (66·74); at MISSOuri (65-68 OT)
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Starting Five
21 DeMarcus Nelson
4 J.J. Redick
5 , Daniel Ewing
13 lee Melchionni
23 Shelden Williams
pos
G
G
G
F
F
ht
6-3
6-4
6·3
6-6
6-9
195
190
185
205
250
Key Reserves
42 Shavlik Randolph
30 Reggie Love
41 Patrick Davidson
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6-10
6-4
6-0
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225
190
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ppg
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4.4
6.6
22.5
3.3
15.3
3.1
7.6
3.0
15.6
11.4
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ppg
rpg
4.8
4.1
2.3
2.8
0.3
0.3
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Starting Five
11 Chris Hernandez
44 Fred Washington
21 · Nick Robinson
52 Matt Haryasz
42 Rob little
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G
G
F
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6-2
6-5
6-6
6-11
6-10
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205
205
230
260
Key Reserves
32 Jason Haas
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Best wins: LSU (69-55); New Mexico (69-58); Colorado (80-48)
Worst Losses: at Utah State (45·71); at New Mexico (54-65)
ppg
rpg
15. 1
3.9*
4.1
1.9
8.2
4.6
12.3
9.0
8.9
6.1
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ppg
rpg
3.1
1.9
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Starting Five
2 Marc Jackson
11 Tim Drisdom
5 Just1n Hawkins
20 Bryant Markson
4 Andrew Bogut
pos
G
G
Key Reserves
13 Richard Chaney
51 Jonas Langvad
30 Chris Jackson
pos
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ppg
rpg
9.2
2.4
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Starting Five
3 Drew Lavender
2 Ja1son Williams
20 Terrell Everett
34 KeVIn Bookout
21 TaJ Gray
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4 Dav1d Godbold
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32 Johnnie Gilbert
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ppg
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9.6
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2.6
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11 .8
6.4
14.7
7.8
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ppg
tpg
9.4
1.6
4.8
26
3.4
3.6
DELAWARESTATEHORNETS
MISSISSIPPISTATEBUllDOGS
UTEPMINERS
NIAGARAPURPLEEAGLES
Coach: Greg Jackson
Conference: Mid-Eastern
Location: Dover, Del.
Website: www.desu.edu/athletics
Record: 1_9-13 (14-4)
RPI Rank: 103
Sagarin Rank: 210
RPI Schedule Rank: 166
Skinny: The Hornets needed a buzzer-beater to win their conference tournament, marking the fir;t time Delaware State has
been to the Big Dance. They have a pair of senior; 1n the lineup whiCh helps experience-wise, btrt none of these guys has experience like an NCAA Tournament game. At least they avoided the dreaded play-in game, where it would have been tough to
even get into the actual fir;t round of play.
Best wins: Hampton (66-64 OT); Florida A&M (72-50); at Hampton (64-54); vs. Hampton (55-53)
Worst Losses: at North Carolma A&T (66 70); at Morgan State (74-75)
Coach: Rick Stansbury
Conference: Southeastern
location: Starkville, Miss. Website: mstateathletics.com
Record: 22·10 (9-7)
RPI Rank: 35
Sagarin Rank: 33
RPI Schedule Rank: 67
Skinny: It has been a trying season for State, which played well early in the season in the midst of huge expectations. But injuries
have hurt the chemistry of Rick Stansbury's club, especially the midseason loss of Winsome Frazier, a blow that seemed to really knock the Bulldogs off rhythm. Any team that has Lawrence Roberts has a chance in the Big Dance, especially if Frazier and
Shane Power are able to make jump shots and free up the lane for Roberts.
Best wins: vs. Virginia Tech (71·65); Florida (71-57); at Arkansas (57-55)
Worst Losses: at Alabama (49-98); at Auburn (76·90); at Tennessee (63-64)
Coach: Doc Sadler
Conference: Western Athletic
Location: El Paso, Texas
Website: utepathletics.com
Record: 27-7 (14-4)
RPI Rank: 34
Sagarin Rank: 52
RPI Schedule Rank: 130
Skinny: As senior Omar Thomas goes, so do the Miners. Thomas, who averages more than 20 points a game, is the focal point
for Doc Sadler's UTEP team, and is the type of impact player that could become an NCAA darling. Along with Thomas, Filiberto
Rivera will play a large role in the Miner;' fate. The biggest key for UTEP will be their shoring up their sometimes inconsistent
defense in order to have the most success.
Best wins: vs. Arizona State (66-65); at Nevada (83·80); at Rice (73-71)
Worst Losses: at louisana Tech (65-80); at Fresno State (63-66); at Tulsa (54-65)
Conference: Metro Atlantic
location: Niagara Univ.. N.Y. Website: purpleeagles.corn
Coach: Joe Mihalich
Record: 20·9 (13-5)
RPI Rank: 82
Sagarin Rank: 128
RPI Schedule Rank: 243
Skinny: The strength of schedule tells you most of what you need to know about Niagara. They played just one maJor-<:onference opponent all year (a loss to Providence), and lost to some bad teams in the MAAC. The one x-fador in the NCAA
Tournament is senior forward Juan Mendez, named a mid-major All-American by a college web s1te. He can score and rebound,
but the real question is can he do it against better levels of competition?
Best wins: American (78-71); St Peter's (90-85); vs. Rider (81·59)
Worst losses: at Mansi (87-88); at lona (80-95), at Manhattan (72-78)
HORNETS
Starting Five
33 Jahsha Bluntt
5 Terrance Hunter
2 Aaron Williams
0 Darrin Shine
42 Troy Roundtree
pos
G
F
G
G
Key Reserves
23 Tracey Worley
11 Bruce DalllS
13 Caheern Broadus
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6-1
6-7
6-2
6-0
6-5
220
225
175
170
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G
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6-4
5-11
6-1
190
175
190
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Sr.
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So.
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rpg
ppg
13.7
3.9
11.5
4.8
3.9
11.3
3.4
6.1
3.6
5.6
• Assists per game
ppg
rpg
5.5
1.3
4.2
1.3
2.6
0.9
Starting Five
11 Gary Ervin
23 Winsome Frazier
21 Shane Power
4 Lawrence Roberts
50 Marcus Campbell
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PG
SG
SF
Pf
C
ht
5-11
6-4
6-5
6-9
7-0
170
180
210
240
270
Key Reserves
31 Ontario Harper
5 Jamal! Edmondson
22 Dietric Slater
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6-5
5-9
6-3
215
185
195
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So.
ppg
rpg
7.8
4.9*
12.4
3.5
4.0
11.4
17.3
11.1
6.4
5.5*
• Assists per game
ppg
rpg
8.2
5.0
4.7
1.2*
3.1
2.2
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Starting Five
pos
21 Filiberto Rivera
G
4 Giovanni St. Amant G
33 Omar Thomas
G
1 Jason W1lliam1
F
40 John Tofi
F
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6-2
6-3
6-5
6-6
6-8
175
190
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205
245
Key Reserves
10 Miguel Ayala
52 Will Kimble
11 Thomas Gehrke
ht
6-6
6-10
6-8
190
230
215
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G
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F
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Jr.
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Jr.
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Jr.
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ppg
rpg
12.9
7.2*
7.0
1.8
20.2
6.7
11.8
5.7
6.3
6.4
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ppg
rpg
7.9
2.2
4.9
3.2
2.3
2.5
Starting Five
13 J.R. Duffey
43 Juan Mendez
1 Lorenzo Miles
10 Alv1n Cruz
32 DaVld Brooks
pos
Key Reserves
12 James Mathis
20 Barry Durosier
ht
6-7
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F
6-8
G
G
G
6-0
6-1
6-3
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190
185
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6-6
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190
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So.
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So.
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Sr.
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So.
ppg
8.4
23.6
8.8
13.4
17.1
rpg
5.9
10.5
3.9
6.5*
5.5
• Assists per game
ppg
rpg
8.0
6.5
1.6
1.0
MICHIGANSTATESPARTANS
SYRACUSEORANGEMEN
CINCINNATIBEARCATS
KENTUCKYWILDCATS
Coach: Tom lzzo
Conference: Big Ten
Location: East lansing, Mich. Website: msuspartans.com
Record: 22·6 (13-3)
RPI Rank: 24
Sagarin Rank: 11
RPI Schedule Rank: 80
Skinny: With si~ players averaging over nine points, the Spartans possess the offensive diversity and depth that could carry them
deep into the tournament. The only player who is irreplaceable in the offense is center Paul Davis. Michigan State's half court
offense revolves around Davis as his presence inside draws double teams and creates openings for his teammates. Tom lzzo's
team plays solid defense (63.0 ppg), excels in transition and shoots 49 9 percent from the field.
Best wins: Stanford (78-53); UCLA (76-64); Wiscons1n (77-64)
Worst Losses: at George Washington (88·96); at Indiana (74-78); vs.lowa (69-71)
Coach: Jim Boeheim
Conference: Big East
Location: Syracuse, N.Y.
Website: suathletics.com
Record: 27-6 (11-5)
RPI Rank: 21
Sagarin Rank: 14
RPI Schedule Rank: 79
Skinny: Sure, Syracuse plays in a tough conference, and they have a relatively sterling record to show for it. But closer examination reveals that the Orange hasn't really beaten a whole lot of good teams to get where they are. That said, Hakim Warrid
is a heck of a player, and a guy like Gerry McNamara, who can bury pure jump shots from anywhere, was built for the NCAA
Tournament. If the 'Cuse wants some more quality wins, that'll be the time to get them.
Best wins: at Villanova (90-75); vs. Mississippi State (71-58); vs. Connecticut (67-63)
Worst losses: Pittsburgh (64-68); at Pittsburgh (69·76)
Coach: Bob Huggins
Conference: Conference USA
Location: Cindnnat1, Ohio
Website: ucbearcats.com
Record: 24-7 (11-4)
RPI Rank: 25
Sagarin Rank: 23
RPI Schedule Rank: 46
Skinny: Coach Bob Huggins had a tumultuous offseason, but the Bearcats have quietly put together a nice campaign for the
longtime coach. Cincinnati is a bit hard to figure because they split the season series' with two of its better opponents- Charlotte
and DePaul- while also playing Wake Forest and louisville close. The Bearcats always bring a lot of defensive pressure, but can
they score well enough when they face a good team on a neutral floor will be the big question.
Best wins: Vanderbilt (88-72); Charlotte (80-58)
Worst Losses: at DePaul (66-85)
Conference: Southeastern
Location: lexington, Ky.
Website: ukathletics.com
Coach: Tubby Smith
Record: 25-5 (14-2)
RPI Rank: 10
Sagarin Rank: 6
RPI Schedule Rank: 55
Skinny: The question about the Wildcats is which team is the "real" Kentucky, the one that knocked off Alabama and louisville
or the one that laid an egg against South Carolina and nearly lost to Ole Miss? When UK shoots the basketball well, it is capable of beating anyone in the nation, but when the offense struggles (mainly Patrick Sparks), the Cats will have a hard time getting past a solid team. It wouldn't be a stretch to say the Cats could go out the fir;t weekend or slip into the Final Four.
Best wins: at louisville (60·58); at Alabama (78-71); Florida (69-66); lSU (89-58)
Worst Losses: at South Carolina (61-73)
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Starting Five
12 Drew Neitzel
13 Maurice Ager
3 Shannon Brown
15 Alan Anderson
40 Paul Davis
pos
G
G
G
GIF
C
ht
6-0
6-5
6-4
6-6
6-11
170
195
200
220
255
Key Reserves
5 Chris Hill
20 Matt Trannon
23 Kelvin Torbert
pos
G
ht
6-3
6-6
6-4
wt
yr
190
217
215
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Jr.
Sr.
F
G
yr
Fr.
Jr.
So.
Sr.
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ppg
rpg
3.3
2.9•
13.6
3.7
10.3
3.2
13.4
5.5
11.7
7.3
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ppg
rpg
9.9
4.5*
2.1
3.7
9.5
2.9
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VERMONTCATAMOUNTS
IOWAHAWKEYES
EASTERNKENTUCKYCOLONElS
Coach: Biaine Ta~or
Conference: Colon1al
location: Norfolk, Va.
Website: odusports.corn
Record: 28·5 (15-3)
RPI Rank: 27
Sagarin Rank: 53
RPI Schedule Rank: 188
Skinny: The Monarchs were a rarity a small conference school that might not have needed to win its tournament to get in.
But they did it anyway, thanks to thelf best player's refusal to give up. That would be 6-foot-9 Alex loughton, the CAA's Player
of the Year, who forced overtime and helped the Monarchs to the league title. Don't be ~Uiprised when ODU tries to do the same
to an unsuspectng higher seed in the NCAAs
Best wins: Kent State (64·59); St. Joseph's (66-62); at Hofstra (67-66); vs. Hofstra (72-58)
Worst Losses: at Texas A&M-Corpus Chnst1 (67-71); at George Mason (58-74)
Coach: Tom Brennan
Conference: America East
Location: Burlington, VI. Website: uvm.edu/athlet1cs
Record: 24-6 (16-2)
RPI Rank: 20
Sagarin Rank: 43
RPI Schedule Rank: 94
Skinny: Well, Vermont certainly took on some tough out-of-conference foes early in the season, hanging tight with Kansas early
in the season and also losing to North Carolina. Even if the competition wasn't as stiff after that, the Catamounts have one of
the nation's best big men in Taylor Coppenrath and a solid veteran guard in T.J. Sorrentine. This senior-laden group is hoping to
end their careers- and coach Tom Brennan's- with a bang.
Best wins: at Northeastern (75-60); Northeastern (80-57); Boston Un1ver;ity (69-58)
Worst Losses: at American (64-67); at Maine (66-87)
Coach: Steve Alford
Conference: Big Ten
location: Iowa City, Iowa Website: hawkeyesports.com
Record: 21-11 (7-9)
RPI Rank: 54
Sagarin Rank: 26
RPI Schedule Rank: 66
Skinny: Iowa looked like a force with impressive wins against Texas Tech and louisville. However, the departure of leading scorer
Pierre Pierce during conference play left the Hawkeyes in a bad position Iowa lost five of six after Pierce's dismissal, but Steve Alford
rallied h1s troops to win five straight, including an upset of Michigan State 1n the Big Ten Tournament. The Hawkeyes have an outstanding inside-outside game with Greg Brunner on the interior, Adam Haluska on the perimeter and Jeff Horner running the show
Best wins: at louisville (76·71), Texas Tech (83-53), vs Michigan State (71-69)
Worst Losses: at Purdue (66-63), at Northwestern (75-74), Michigan (65-63)
Coach: Travis Ford
Conference: Ohio Valley
location: Richmond, Ky. Website: ekusports.com
Record: 22-8 (11 -5)
RPI Rank: 100
Sagarin Rank: 144
RPI Schedule Rank: 297
Skinny: After takmg over one of the worst programs in Division I five years ago, former UK star Travis Ford has the Colonels
Dancin' for the first time s1nce 1979. EKU plays tough man-to-man defense and runs 1ts offense through senior standout MIChael
Haney, whose 62.6 percent field goal percentage ranks sixth 1n the nation Guards Matt Witt and Ben Rushing can be dangerous from three-point range, but it's been the play of the three junior college transfers that have quickened the turnaround.
Best wins: at Dayton (73·66); Murray State (73-61)
Worst Losses: at Jacksonville State (55-70); at Tennessee State (63-75)
Starting Five
31 Arnaud Dahi
40 Alex loughton
1 1sa1ah Hunter
10 Drew Williamson
24 Kiah Thomas
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42 Valdas Vasyhus
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Volume 76, Issue 33 • 75 Cents
Cocaine ring members sentenced
-Page A10
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
b r i ·e f s
Fraud
·charge
reduced
PRESTONSBURG- Commonwealth
Attorney Brent Turner says he's glad his
office proceeded with state charges against
two of the five men convicted in federal
court for their participation in a cocaine
trafficking ring.
The cases against Harold Glen
Thomsberry and Vernon Slone culminated
with sentence hearings in circuit court yesterday.
Thomsberry, charged with eight counts
of cocaine trafficking, received an eightyear sentence, running concurrently with
his 42-month federal sentence for conspiracy to commit drug trafficking.
Slone, originally charged with two
counts of cocaine trafficking, received 10
years for the crime. His sentence will tun
concurrently with a federal sentence of
144 months, Tumer said.
Turner said that most of the people he
dealt with in reference with the cocaine
ring cases were "surprised" when he
decided to continue to pursue state charges
STAFF WRITER
2 DAY FORECAST
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
photo by Tom Doty
Sabrina Blakeman, 39, of Maytown, was arrested on Wednesday for housing a runaway teen and lying to
officers who stopped by her home looking for the youngster earlier In the day.
STAFF WRITER
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
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Opinion .........................A4
Obituaries .....................A7
Sports ........................... 81
Lifestyles ...................... 86
Church page.............. 81 o
Classifieds ..................811
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PRESTONSBURG
The Floyd County Drug
Court program, which offers
an alternative for incarceration for offenders who are
addicted to drugs and want to
regain control of their lives,
has been up and mnning for a
year.
Drug Court is a diversion
program which operates in
three phases. It provides
intensive supervision and
drug abuse treatment for
offenders. Each applicant
needs a year to complete the
program, which is broken
down into three phases.
Phase one is an intensive
4-to-8-week period during
which the offender attends
one status session a week,
held in the court of the presiding judge as well as
attending five or six treatment sessions a week, four
Alcoholics Anonymous or
Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and submitting to three
or four urine screenings.
Phase two begins next and
offers the same programs in
somewhat lesser increments
over a 8-to-12-month period.
The last phase lasts anywhere
from 3-to-5 months and still
allows for a court session
each month, one or two urine
screens a week, two or three
treatment sessions and one or
two AA or NA meetings.
Statistically
speaking,
graduates of the program are
less likely to get arrested and,
more importantly, less likely
to return to drug use.
Economically speaking, the
program costs less than maintaining an offender in prison.
A total of $5 .58 is returned to
· the commonwealth for every
dollar that is spent on using
drug court over jail time.
Maytown woman accused
of harboring runaway
Witness tampering
by TOM DOTY
High: 53 • Low: 36
(See COCAINE, page three)
Participants
Drug
Court
say
.
changing lives
by MARY MUSIC
PRESTONSBURG Felony charges were
amended this week for a
Floyd County woman
accused of welfare fraud.
Rebecca J. Wakeland,
9, of Green Hill Branch in
Banner, pleaded guilty to
an amended misdemeanor
charge and received a 12month suspended sentence for the crime.
The ruling came during
a preliminary hearing
Wednesday in District
Judge James R. Allen's
courtroom.
Lawrence A. Bercheit,
an investigator with the
Attorney General's Office,
signed a complaint against
Wakeland last month,
alleging that she received
· more than $40,000 in
fraudulent welfare benefits.
Bercheit claimed that
Wakeland failed to report
changes in her household
income and inappropriately
received $5,519 in AFDC
funds, $7,260 in food
stamps, and $29,387 in
medical assistance from
the state.
She pleaded not guilty
o the crime earlier this
month and changed that
plea in court Wednesday.
Judge Allen also
ordered Wakeland to pay
$145.50 in court costs.
against them. State charges against criminals are usually dismissed, he said, when
federal cases are introduced against them.
"They entered their federal plea agreements with no consultation with us about
what we planned to do," Tumer said.
"These men were significant drug traffick-
MAYTOWN
The
search for a missing 15year-old ended Wednesday
when the Floyd County
Sheriff's Office recovered
the youth at a Maytown
home.
"We put in many hours
and finally located her at
Maytown," said Sheriff
John K. Blackburn.
One resident of the
home, Sabrina Blakeman,
39, was arrested after
allegedly lying to officers
about the youth and claiming that she wasn't the one
they were looking for.
"She [Blakeman] told us
that the teen wasn't there,"
Blackburn said. "We also
found six other teens there
who were supposed to be in
schooL The investigation is
ongoing but we expect to
file more charges."
Blakeman was charged
with hindering an investigation and endangering the
welfare of a minor.
The investigation into
the teen's disappearance
got an assist Wednesday
morning when Lt. Greg
Clark arrested the youth's
father for costs owed to the
district court stemming
from cases that go back to
2000 and 2001. Clark was
told by the father, William
Blackburn, that he had an
idea where his daughter
was and Clark proceeded to
that address along with
Deputy Jeremy Shepherd.
Blakeman allegedly told
the officers that the youth
wasn't one of several
teenagers at her residence.
Deputy Shepherd thought
one of the teens did resemble the missing girl and
asked her point blank if she
was the one they were looking for. The teen replied
that she wasn't and gave a
false
name,
which
Blakeman allegedly cor(See RUNAWAY, page three)
(See COURT, page three)
charges dropped
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
photo by Tom Doty
William Blackburn, who was
arraigned in district court Thursday for money
owed to the
court,
helped
officers find his
daughter, who
had been missing since Friday.
PRESTONSBURG
District Judge James R. Allen
has dropped misdemeanor
counts against two Floyd
County residents charged
with harassing a witness in an
ongoing sexual abuse case.
Jeanette Bray, 46, and
Carl Frankie Burke, 28, will
not be prosecuted for the
alleged crimes, Judge Allen
ruled during arraignment
hearings Wednesday.
Bray, of Prestonsburg, and
Burke, of Martin. were both
charged with harassing a witness after a complaint was
filed against them by a
female who claimed they
threatened to hurt her and her
children if she did not drop
charges against Larry W.
Owens, 49, of Martin.
Owens was arrested last
month and charged with firstdegree sexual abuse for
allegedly abusing a 7-year(See DROPPED, page three)
Big Sandy ADD makes perSonnel changes
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Big Sandy Area
Development District leaders announced
personnel changes during a regularly
scheduled board meeting yesterday.
Amy Barnes, former development associate for the district, is stepping up to
replace former economic development
director Stephanie Stumbo, who was
appointed in February to oversee Gov.
Ernie Fletcher's Office of Local
Development.
"She leaves big shoes to fill," Barnes
said yesterday, "but like I said, I truly
appreciate the opportunity. I'm very anxious and very excited about it."
Barnes, who joined Big Sandy ADD in
1999, said she will continue the district's
efforts to coordinate goals of the region's
economic developers.
At the board of directors meeting yesterday, officials also announced the
appointment of Barry Butcher to his post
as the district's new transportation planner.
Butcher, formerly employed in the district's GIS department, rAr\H\<'1'..1:
Goble who left the Big Smld-.J.JII
this year.
Transportation Committee meetings,
held bimonthly, will be announced and
open to the public, Butcher said, pointing
out the importance of coordinating regional concepts· to advance the area's transportation projects.
Carol Grider was also appointed as
Employment Specialist for the :{(entuc;ky
Works Program in Wayne Ru sell, and
McCreary counties.
In other news, Big Sandy ADD particip ated in a ribbon cutting ceremony March
Sat the U.S. 23 County Music Highway
Museum in Paintsville. The museum,
located on Stage Branch Road near the
Johnson County Tourism Center, is scheduled to open on April 5, tourism business
manager Leneda Fuller said.
It showcases each U.S. 23 artist. Their
books and CDs are available in the muse(See ADD, page three)
�A2 • FRIDAY,
MARCH
18, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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• ATLANTIC CITY, NJ.
- It was a simple case of mistaken identity, and it nearly
cost a casino $25 ,000.
New Jersey casino regulators, who had fined the Borgata
Hotel Casino & Spa for letting
a banned gambler stay
overnight, rescinded the penalty Wednesday, admitting that it
was the son of reputed mobster
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, not
Casso himself, who checked in
and played table games at the
casino one night in 2003.
It couldn't have been Casso,
regulators learned after imposing the fine two months ago:
He's doing life in a federal
prison.
"We all make mistakes,"
said
Casino
Control
Commission member Michael
Fedorko.
The incident stemmed from
Casso's status on the commission's "exclusion list," a blacklist of 171 people deemed to be
bad influences on Atlantic City
casinos and banned from enter-
ing them .
Casso, 64, of Brooklyn,
N.Y., was a suspected street
boss in the Lucchese family
organization who was added to
the list in 1990. He was captured in 1993 and pleaded
guilty to murder and racketeering charges in 1994 after turning government witness. He is
serving a life sentence at the
Maximum
Administrative
Facility in Florence, Colo.
• WEST COVINA, Calif.
- As Paul Moghadan puts it,
good toilette is good for the
bottom line.
A chandelier, silver columns
and a marble counter adorn the
bathroom at his Chevron gas
station in West Covina, some
20 miles east of Los Angeles.
The walls are decorated in rich
earth tones and blue stone tiles,
giving the 10-foot-wide room a
slight Tuscan ambiance - or
maybe a touch of Vegas.
"I wanted to give the restroom
the greatest look I could. I want-
a
ed to show how much I respect
my customers," said Moghadan,
55. "I started with Chevron in
1966, and they trained us back
then that the No. 1 priority was
the station bathroom."
Moghadan started remodeling the indoor, unisex bathroom 13 years ago, spending
$5,000 more than he would
have for a standard bathroom.
He asked his brother, an architectural designer, to concoct
something motorists wouldn't
forget.
"It's the best restroom I've
ever seen," said Jose Montes of
West Covina. "You feel like
you're rich when you're in
there."
In the last dozen years,
Moghadan said he has an average of 20 compliments a day
about the bathroom.
"I have customers from
Palm Springs and Las Vegas
who make a point of stopping
here," he said. "Some even
bring in relatives to show them
the bathroom''
.
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• WILSONVILLE, Ore.Sally Miller might have been
grateful if her 8-year-old son
had come home from school
with a nice-looking haircut.
But when he showed up
with "next to nothing" on his
head, Miller threatened to sue.
The West Linn-Wilsonville
School District recently agreed
to pay Miller $10,000 because
a school employee cut the
boy's hair without permission.
The case was settled last
month, but its documents were
The
not
released
until
Oregonian newspaper filed a
public records request.
"First I was shocked,"
Miller told the newspaper.
"Then I was embarrassed that I
didn't have the money to get
him a haircut. And then I was
mad ... I thought, 'What nerve.
How invasive."'
The single mother said she
tried to keep her son's hair
looking neat.
"There was one stinking
day, and I'm not lying, that I
didn't brush his hair," Miller
said.
Roger
Superintendent
Woehl said Wednesd.ay the
employee was wrong to play
barber. "If someone needs a
haircut, we'd be more than
happy to go into our wallets to
give them 20 bucks," he said.
The school district's insurance company paid the
$10,000 settlement but admits
no
liability, said
Peter
Merserau, an attorney for the
school district.
• KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
Prosecutors summoned parents
of repeatedly truant children to
attend a meeting about the law
excessive
concerning
absences. About 40 percent of
the adults didn't show up.
Knox
County
District
Attorney
General
Randy
Nichols mailed letters about
the Tuesday evening meeting
to 582 parents, but 241 were
absent.
State law allows prosecutors
to hold parents accountable for
their
children's
school
absences. Knox County in
February arrested 19 parents
whose children had 10 or more
unexcused absences from
schooL Parents found guilty
can be punished by a year in
jail.
"We have only just begun,"
Nichols said. "We mean this. I
don't know how else to say it.
You're going to send your
child to schooL"
Cecelia Donaldson, who
received a letter about her 5year-old grandson's absences,
went to the school where the
meeting was held but refused
to enter the auditorium.
She said her grandson has
asthma and other medical
problems.
"I don't want to hear what
Randy Nichols has to say," she
said. "He needs to call my
house when (my grandson is)
up at 3 in the morning throwing up everything he ate." .
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Weather Service offers flood safety tips
The U.S. Department of
Commerce's
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's (NOAA)
National Weather Service
(NWS) will hold its first
annual flood safety awareness week campaign from
March 21-25.
The goal of this campaign
is to highlight ways floods
occur, the hazards associated
with floods, and ~...e•:· -easures to protect e
erty. During the 2
floods were the
natural disaster p
flood damages averaged $4.6
billion a year. In 2004, seven
people in the state of
Kentucky lost their lives due
to flooding.
Floods are unique severe
weather events that can occur
every month of the year in
Kentucky and are a threat
from border to border.
Floods do not respect time or
location. From persistent
from slow moving sysin the winter to torrenthunderstorms in the
g and summer, and remof tropical systems in
utumn, floods can be a
-e throughout the year.
ople often underesti~ the force of water. More
half of all flood-related
s are attributed to vehi-
cles that are swept downstream. Of these drownings,
many are preventable simply
by not driving or walking
onto flooded roads. Most
vehicles lose control in six
inches of swiftly flowing
water and can be swept away
in 18-24 inches of moving
water. Remember, when
approaching a flooded roadway, Turn Around Don't
Drown.
The All-Hazards NOAA
Weather Radio and the NWS
Jackson
Website
(http://www.crh.noaa.gov/jkl
) are among the best sources
of official flood watches and
warnings. Knowing what to
do before, during and after a
flood can save lives and
reduce injuries and property
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photo by Mary Mu&l<.
Mayor Jerry Fannin, left, signed a proclamation yesterday
declaring March Social Workers Awareness Month. Also pictured are Jayme Burchett, student, and Dr. Mary Margaret Just,
senior facilitator of the program.
Mayor recognizes
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n 't be attending classes if they
were not available so close to
home.
Her remarks mirrored those
given by Elsie Bailey, a junior
in the program. Bailey, who
commutes each week from
Martin County to attend classes in Prestonsburg, says, "The
education you get here is just
like you go to Morehead and
get."
The program is affiliated
with the National Association
of Social Workers.
It is a "great opportunity"
for area citizens to get a
degree without leaving home,
said Jayme Burchett, president
of
the
Student
Association . of
Social
Workers.
"We appreciate all the stuff
that Morehead has done to
have their facilities here to
train people in the social work
field,'' Fannin said. "This is an
area that we need a lot of help
in and we're excited that
they're here and thankful for
all the good work that they are
doing."
STAFF WAITER
PRESTONSBURG
Mayor Jerry Fannin signed a
proclamation Tuesday declaring March as Social Workers
Awareness Month. The designation came during a reception
at
the
Morehead
Extended Campus.
Morehead has offered a
four-year bachelor's degree
program in social work for
several semesters at the
Prestonsburg campus, but few
area residents are knowledgeable of the opportunity, facilitator Elizabeth Bishop said.
The recept10n, hosted by
the
school's
Student
Association
of
Social
Workers, honored students
and community members who
are affiliated with the social
work field.
•
Sherri Newsome, a junior,
, expects to join the social work
program as a full-time student
next semester. A mother and
former cosmetology instructor. Newsome said she would-
Propped
• Continued from p1
Burke were dismissed without
prejudice, the documents say.
Judge Allen ordered that they
have no contact with the complaining witness or her family.
old female by forcible compulsion in last spring.
1i
Owens pleaded not guilty to
the crime. H1s case has been
referred to a grand jury.
Charges against Bray and
The productivity of graduates is
also a factor, with clients maintaining employment and making
more child support payments
than offenders who spend their
sentence in prison.
The Drug Court most recently met Thursday and 15 of the
17 members were present. The
court called each one individually. Judge Eric Hall, who started the program and now oversees it, spoke to each with
encouraging words about their
progress before giving them
homework assignments which
involve writing down their
experiences as they progress
through the program.
Several
members were
instructed to try to improve their
progress in certain areas but no
one heard the harsh admonitions
about mending their ways that
are often heard at sentencings
throughout the courts.
Afterwards case manager
Sue Blackburn was happy to
discuss the progress of drug
court and noted that. "They are
nervous at first when they hear
that the program requires them
to stand in front of a judge every
week, but that feeling fades
away after they see how it is
conducted."
Blackburn has been with the
program from its inception last
year and said, "Right now we
have 16 members who were
brought in by Judge Hall and
one from Judge James Allen. I
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urn's gift shop. The museum
also has space available for
meetings and weddings.
Paintsville Mayor Doug
Pugh, who presented a
plaque of appreciation during the meeting to Libby
Ratcliff for her work with
the museum, said officials
are currently looking to fill
the site director's position.
Interviews begin next week,
Fuller said.
It was also announced
during the meeting that Big
Sandy 50-Plus Olympics are
scheduled to be held in
Floyd County this year.
Indoor games will take
place at the Pin Zone
Bowling
Center
m
Prestonsburg on Friday,
May 13. Outdoor games will
be held at Dewey Lake on
May 20.
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would like to see us get referrals
from circuit court, too, because
we know the need is everywhere."
Blackburn was a police officer for years and noted that she
never saw her relationship with
people she arrested as adversarial, saying that she often told
DUI suspects, "I am saving
your life. Use this time to think
about that."
Some members were not shy
about talking to the media and
included Larry, who was the
first recruit.
"I took my GED today,"
Larry said. "I almost can't
believe how far I've come. I
would have been dead without
this program. I have no doubt
about that."
One other attendee, Rick,
said, "It's definitely a life
change. I feel like I'm living for
the first time."
The men talked about surviving wrecks and being amazed to
still be alive.
No one in the program has
been arrested since entering
Drug Court. Judge Hall also
pointed out that the people in
the program saved the county
$300,000 in
incarceration
expenses for the year.
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roborated.
A call to an area high school
later determined that the teen
whose name the officers were
given at the Maytown home
was actually in school that day.
The officers went back to the
Maytown home, along with
Sgt. Terry Chaffins, and made
the arrest.
"It's never a good idea to lie
to a police officer conducting
a;u investigation, especially
when children are involved,"
Blackburn said.
Blakeman was released
from jail on a $700 cash bond
Thursday. A pretrial confer. ence date has yet to be scheduled-.
ers. We had the original cases
on them and we feel we were
obliged to the citizens of
Floyd County to get fair
depositions in the cases
instead of letting it go."
The
original
charges
against Slone, Thornsberry ,
and three other men involved
David Slone, Michael
Slone
and
Rodney
Thornsberry - came from a
2003 grand jury indictment.
The pursuit of state
charges, however, was postponed after federal indictments were issued against the
men in U.S. District Court.
All men involved have
pleaded guilty and have or
are serving federal time on
related cocaine ·trafficking
charges.
State charges against two
of the men, David Slone,
charged with one count of
cocaine trafficking, and
Rodney Thornsberry, facing
three counts of cocaine trafficking, were dismissed earlier this year after their attorneys cited issues with a
restrictive double jeopardy
clause in Kentucky law that
prevents individuals from
being charged on both the
state and federal levels with
the same offense.
The commonwealth said it
had no basis to object to the
motion to dismiss state
charges
against Rodney
Thornsberry because of the
double jeopardy law.
Harold Thornsberry sub-
mitted a similar motion to
dismiss state charges against
him last month, but his
motion
was
overruled
because he and Vernon Slone
both pleaded guilty in federal
court to conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, charges
that differ from state offenses
of "straight drug trafficking,"
Turner said.
Though the sentences
imposed against
Vernon
Slone
and
Harold
Thornsberry run concurrently
with their current fe deral
sentences, Turner said their
state court convictions still.
send a positive message to
area residents .
Harold Thornsberry will
likely be most affected,
Turner said, because he's
already served two years ot
his 42-month federal sentence. Vernon Slone, serving
a 144-month federal sentence , will likely have served
his entire state sentence by
the time he completes service..
for the federal charges)
against him, Turner said.
Michael Slone, who pleaded guilty to state charges and
has already completed his
state sentence, is now trying
to "back out of it," Turner
said, after hearing news of
the double jeopardy law.
Vernon Slone and Harold
Thornsberry wi 11 both bereturned to their federal
holding cells to serve the
remainder of their time.
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Tlte Buffalo (N.Y.) News, on tax cuts and increased spend-
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's warning that
ballooning federal deficits are "unsustainable" should be a
much-needed splash of cold water for a White House that
too often puts ideology before fiscal reality.
Greenspan thinks the problem demands spending cuts and
a reassessment of efforts to cut taxes. The Bush administration and congressional Republicans think he's only half
right. They ought to be listening with both ears ....
The deficit problem is driven more by Medicare than
Socinl Security. The federal government has passed huge
entitlement increases, primarily a Medicare prescription
drug benefit, at the same time it has cut its own revenue by
''temporary" tax cuts that the White House still wants to
make permanent. Anyone who prepares a household budget
knows what happens when you increase expenses while losmg mcome ....
Regardless of what Vice President Cheney thinks, deficits
do matter. They pay for current needs by mortgaging the
country's future. But those bills eventually come due.
Greenspan is right to worry that ever-increasing debt, plus
ever~increasin g interest costs on that debt, could mean disaster when that debt collides with increasing baby boomer
Medicare and Social Security obligations, let alone the costs
of wars ....
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., on public disclosure
laws:
Self-preservation is human nature, and so it is not surprising when someone tries to hid a potentially embarrassing or
compromising bit of information about himself. That
instinct leads some government officials to keep their dealings secret. Problem is, the information they want to keep
under wraps isn't primarily about them. It's about us ....
That's the aim of public disclosure laws - to make sure
private citizens can get at the information that affects their
daily lives, whether they know it or not. ...
Sunshine Week, an effort spearheaded by the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, is intended to highlight the
importance of public disclosure laws and to call attention to
their erosion. Journalists' fight against government secrecy
is the public's fight; reporters and editors just are the first to
notice encroachments on the public's right to know ....
The fight will never end because government will always
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Guest Column
Democracy may be breaking out, l?4t is freedom?
J'
by SHELDON RICHMAN
Virtually everyone from President
Bush to the New York Times sees democracy on a roll. Afghanistan, Iraq, the
Palestinians, and Saudi Arabia (men, not
women) have had elections. Egypt could
be next. Is something really happening in
that part of the world?
Perhaps. The real question is, what is
happening? People are indeed going to
the polls to elect parliaments and presidents, and are doing so under risky condi~
tions. One should admire their willingness to defy murderers in order to have a
say in who will govern them. After many
years of living as subjects under repressive regimes, those populations apparently and correctly believe they deserve no
less.
But it would be a mistake to equate
democratic procedures with freedom,
which the Bush administration and many
others are eager to do. There is a big difference between democracy and freedom.
In fact, democracy can be, and has been,
the engine of freedom's destruction.
Definitions matter. What is democracy? Literally, it means that the people
rule. But what does that mean? The 19thcentury French political philosopher
Benjamin Constant identified two notions
of liberty, one ancient, one modern. The
ancient notion held that liberty lay in the
right to participate in the democratic
process, to cast one's vote. In this way the
polity freely carried out its will, regard~
less of the impositions on individuals.
The majority could even determine the
society's religious practices. Ultimately,
this is a collectivist version ofliberty. The
freedom of the individual may not thwart
the "will" of the group.
In contrast, Constant wrote, the modem notion of liberty is individualistic. It
denotes the right to conduct one's own
affairs, to control one's property, to practice whatever religion one wishes (or
none at all), and so on. Participation in the
political process is one - rather minor aspect of this liberty; after all, what
means more in the everyday lives of most
people: voting or controlling their own
persons and property?
These two notions are in irreconcilable
conflict. We often hear democracy
described as a system in which the majority rules, but the rights of the minority are
protected. But this is glib. If the rights of
the minority are truly protected, does the
majority truly rule?
The key word is "rule." In the United
States, the majority wasn't supposed to
rule except in the highly restricted sense
of choosing who holds office. But what
officeholders could do was not up to the
majority. An overarching set of rules set
limits. That set of rules was the
Constitution, which is nothing if not a
constraint on the majority.
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'Foday the Constitution has lost its
force, and democracy, consequently, has
gained ground. Elected officials have a
virtual free hand, leaving large groups of
citizens vulnerable to the pillage of the
working majority or a well-organized
minority. In other words, democracy
unlimited by a constitution is the enemy ~
of freedom.
This is a long-recognized problem. As
Aristotle wrote in his Politics, "Where
laws are not sovereign ... since the many
are sovereign not as individuals but collectively ... such a democracy is not a
constitution at all."
The upshot is this: if people in the
Middle East see in voting a way to throw
off authoritarianism and establish the
modem, individualistic idea of freedom,
then this is indeed a happy development.
(One can acknowledge this without sanctioning the Bush administration's imperi~
al foreign policy.)
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But if they see in voting a way to
impose the "collective will" on individuals, then they will be trading one fonn of
repression for another. The incantations
of democracy cannot tum slavery into
freedom.
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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Bill's defeat a
victory
safety of their families, and the safety of
their neighbors. Wayne Fleming, a
Letcher County magistrate whose son was
killed by an overloaded gravel truck, start~
ed the movement and worked tirelessly to
its conclusion.
The defeat of HB 8, the overweight
Another key factor was the involvetruck bill, was a tremendous victory for ment of the well-known Kentuckians For
the citizens of Kentucky over powerful The Commonwealth (KFTC), who came
business interests and huge amounts of in at a crucial point and provided a lot of
money. It came as the result of hard work credibility and much-needed access to the
and creative effort by a diverse coalition legislature and the media. KFTC members
with one common goal - their safety, the kept up a drumbeat of communications to
both groups that fmally raised awareness
to the point that the whole state became
aware and then concerned. They also kept
an almost minute-by-minute status of
events which allowed almost immediate
reaction, and they provided daily leadership and guidance in the capital.
Everyone who opposed this bill is
pleased but is keeping a cautious eye on
the future and is prepared to go into action
again.
Dean Cornett
Blackey
ed that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians
have been killed since 2003. Although it
was brave of the authors to have interviewed nearly 1,000 Iraqi families in
order to arrive at this estimate, it was a
relatively small survey pool with limited
geographical scope, for obvious reasons.
The Iraq Body Count (IBC) website
(http://iraqbodycount.net), however, is a
pretty reliable source that your readers
can go to for up-to~date information.
These people keep a daily count of civilian deaths, and under what circumstances, from U.S. occupation-related
incidents. They are currently reporting
that monthly innocent Iraqi casualties
are on the increase. Compared to last
year at this time, the number has nearly
tripled.
Based on the IBC's minimum and
maximum numbers, an average of
18,238 innocent Iraqis have been killed
since March 2003. One can only imagine
how many thousands more have been
seriously injured and/or have lost their
homes. In Fallujah alone, over 300,000
people are now homeless due to US air
and ground attacks in the city.
That's an awful lot of "collateral
damage," if you ask me.
Elaine Shiber
Van Lear
Was it worth it?
It was around this time last year when
I wrote and suggested that we seriously
review our invasion and occupation of
Iraq and ask ourselves, "Was it worth
it?"
Well, it may have been worth it to our
government, but it is really difficult to
comprehend how the Iraqis can seriously believe it has been worth it to them.
I'm referring to the general population,
not the powerful and well-connected.
The British scientific journal, "The
Lancet," published a report that conclud-
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
18, 2005 • AS
A former CBS correspondent tells 'Bad
News' about journalism in his new book
by FRAZIER MOORE
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NEW YORK - Tom Fenton
couldn't be more surprised by
.. his new calling at age 74:
activist.
A veteran foreign correspondent recently retired from CBS
News after 34 years, Fenton
now is sounding off about TV's
neglect of global news, and the
resulting benightedness of the
audience he says TV journalism
has so ill-served.
He has compiled his concerns in a new book, "Bad
News
The Decline of
Reporting, The Business of
News, and the Danger To Us
All" (ReganBooks).
Its central thesis: The fall of
communism coincided with
growing concentration of U.S.
media ownership. The nation
became complacent about
external threats, and less vigilant. So did news media, as
their corporate bosses found it
hard to justify the expense of
pricey foreign bureaus and
legions of correspondents stationed around the globe especially when wall-to-wall
coverage of a domestic spectacle like the OJ. Simpson trial
attracted far more eyeballs than
"' a complex story from a faraway
1
"'" land.
In that decade leading up to
9/11, Fenton argues, the news
media abdicated its responsibilities.
"As surely as 9111 pointed
up the myriad failures of official agencies in Washington, it
also revealed the abject failure
of the news media," he writes.
"We had failed to warn the
American public of the storm
clouds approaching our shores.
And in failing to do so, we
betrayed the trust of the public."
As just one instance of the
media's myopia, he writes that
cutbacks in CBS' foreign coverage scuttled an interview with
Osama bin Laden he was
arranging in 1996. "Our bosses
saw him as an obscure Arab of
no interest to our viewers."
Fenton is neither a scold nor
whiner; a dapper man in a double-breasted blue suit, he seems
too much the gentleman. But
he's dead serious - except
when catching himself in his
unaccustomed role.
"This is all new to me," he
admits, breaking into a chuckle.
"I've spent a lifetime reporting,
not advocating. And now, all of
a sudden, I have an agenda."
Based at CBS' London
bureau for much of the past
quarter-century, Fenton writes
that, whereas CBS once maintained two dozen foreign
bureaus, it currently has just
three "staffed by correspondents in the entire world." (A
spokeswoman for CBS News
puts the number at five staffed
by full-time correspondents.)
For some coverage, then,
footage is purchased from
stringers and news agencies to
fill the gap, with the network
packaging that video into a
story.
"1 think CBS viewers began to
think there's a Harrods (department store) in just about every
capital of the world," Fenton
cracks, "because we kept doing
our standups in front of the CBS
London bureau - and there's
Harrods in the background."
But Fenton isn't picking on
CBS. His indictment includes
all of TV news.
He wonders how any of the
three broadcast networks can
still justify a half-hour evening
newscast, rather than expanding to an hour.
As for the cable news networks, where the problem with
time is so much to fill, he complains that correspondents are
kept on the air throughout the
day - "they don't have a
chance to go out and do reporting: They bring us talk, not
news."
And, all too often, it's newstalk dwelling on the woes of
Michael Jackson and other
crowd-pleasing pageantry.
Duly amused, does the audience feel shortchanged?
"No," concedes Fenton,
"because we have dumbed
down the viewers, so they don't
even know what they're missing. We have trained them to
accept the coverage they're getting. We've got to sell foreign
news, we've got to get people
interested again."
With that in mind, "Bad
News" isn't so much a mediabashing book as a highly readable crash course in stuff you
didn't know you ncv~r knew a sort of "Global Affairs for
Dummies."
"I want readers to be surprised at what they don't know,
through no fault of their own,"
says Fenton. "'Most Americans
get their primary news, God
help them, from television.
We've got to do something
about TV news."
But what? For one thing,
Fenton proposes that journalists
form a pressure group to shame
the media stewards into fulfilling their public trust - "a
lobby for better news."
"We need to get the debate
going, to get people to start
thinking about the news they're
missing, and how important it
is," he says. "We in the media
have less credibility now than
at any time I can think of, and
the country is so polarized, I
can't believe it! But the real
story of the news isn't what's
left and what's right - it's
what's left out.''
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The third week of March
shaped up as a good for one for
family flicks as well as a primo
week for horror fare.
"The Incredibles" - The
good folks at Pixat Studios continued to set the standard for
animated films with this effort,
which soared at the box office
and continued the winning
streak for the company which is
still tallying its profits from
.-"Finding Nemo." This time
Pixar has taken their knack for
blending drama with astounding
visuals and applied it to the burgeoning superhero genre. The
film focuses on a family of
superheroes who have to keep
their powers under wraps after a
law is passed banning super
powers. Director/writer Brad
Bird .("The Iron Giant") handles
the material with a surprising
degree of maturity and delivers
a multileveled action drama
...:. which should appeal to parents
.,. as much as children.
"Alfie" - Jude Law stars in
this remake of the 1966 Londonbased film which launched the
career of Michael Caine. Here
the action shifts to New York
City, but the main character is
still an Englishman who enjoys
dating but has an aversion to
commitment. A fine supporting
cast includes Susan Sarandon
and Marisa Tomei.
"Being Ron Jeremy" - This
comedy doesn't always work.
It's a spoof of a movie that was
far funnier, but it does offer a
rare chance for mainstream
audiences to get acquainted with
adult film star Ron Jeremy.
Though he looks like the human
equivalent of a hedgehog, this
actor managed to eke out a
career in adult films for more
than a quarter century. Here an
adult video store clerk develops
the ability to step inside Jeremy
and fmds that it isn't that easy to
be a porn star. This one has
about all of the appeal of a Pauly
Shore movie, so consumer
beware.
"The Toolbox Murders" Cult film director Tobe Hooper
("Poltergeist" and the original
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre")
delivers a few good scares in
this remake of a 1979 splatter
film. Hooper throws out the plot
of the previous film and crafts
an original take on Hollywood
as a ·town that consumes fresh,
young faces. The story centers
on a low-rent apartment complex that caters to Hollywood
hopefuls but contains a sinister
secret. Angela Bettis (star of the
"Carrie" mini-series) is fine
here as an unemployed school
teacher who stumbles across the
building's secrets and must
elude a madman within the
building's walls while her
friends try to rescue her. Some
great shocks here prove that
Hooper has lost none of his edge
when it comes to frightening
audiences.
"Dead Birds" - This Civil
War set horror movie packs a lot
of scares and chills into its story,
which works as a combination
ghost story and heist movie.
When their regiment is disbanded, a crew of soldiers rip off a
bankroll and hold up at a seemingly deserted plantation which
Entrepreneur Center
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entrepreneurs.
Select youth will be
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,. new youth entrepreneurship
· program.
Fifteen rising juniors will
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entrepreneur
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resources needed and a
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money to start their own
business or service orf.lanization.
The five elemc.ns of the
program will include:
• Discovery: assessment
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• Leadership: overview
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•
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Generation:
"brainstorming" your project
• Entrepreneur Academy:
participation in national
entrepreneur training program in business planning
• Business Fair: competition with other eSPIRE students for thousands of dollars in start-up capital
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contact
the
Kentucky
Highlands
Entrepreneur
Center in Paints ville for
more information and to pick
up an application. Contact
Director Tim Robinson at
(606)
789-5486
or
tim@ kyhighlands .com
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]. E. Bentley
J. E. Bentley, 57, of
Teaberry, died Wednesday,
March 16, 2005, at his residence.
Born December 24, 1947, in
Beaver, he was the son of the
late Troy and Hazel Hamilton
Bentley. He was a disabled
coal miner.
Survivors include two
daughters: Melissa Jameson
of Greenwich, Ohio, and
Angel Bentley of Harold; a
grandson, Joshua Mullins; two
Joyce
sisters:
Brenda
Newsome,
and
Mabel
Newsome, both of Beaver.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by a
brother, Wade Bentley.
Funeral services will be
conducted Sunday, March 20,
at noon, at the Samaria Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Teaberry, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will be in the Elliott
Cemetery, at Beaver, under
the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation will be Friday,
March 18, at 2 p.m., at the
(Paid obituary)
church.
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Nora Schultz
Arnold Chaffins Sr.
Arnold Chaffins Sr., age 84,
of Garrett, passed from this life
on Wednesday, March 16,
2005, in the Cabell-Huntington
Hospital, in Huntington, West
Virginia, following an extended
illness.
Born May 6, 1920, in Garrett,
he was the son of the late
Oliver and Roxie Bolen
Chaffins.
He was a retired farmer, and
of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include one son,
Arnold Junior Chaffins Wicker
of Garrett; one brother,
Dempsey Chaffins of Garrett;
three sisters: Hazel Reed of
Garrett, Opal Chaffins of
Willard, Ohio, and Beatrice
Moore of Michigan; and one
grandson, Phillip Chaffins
Wicker.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday, March 19, at noon, in
the Hall Funeral Home Chapel,
in Martin, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will be in the Chaffins
Cemetery, at Rockfork, near
Garrett, under the direction of
Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
Orleen Castle Flanery
Orleen Castle Flanery, 77,
of Martin, died Tuesday,
March 15, at her residence.
Born March 23, 1927, in
Pike County, she was the
daughter of the late Ozz
Puckett and Hazel Castle. She
was a retired restaurant worker.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Merlin
Flanery Sr.
son, Tavis Flannery; and several grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.
In addition to her husband
and parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Merlin
Flanery Jr.
Funeral services will be
conducted Saturday, March
19, at 11 a.m., at the NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin, with Bobby Osborne
Survivon include a aon,
Timothy Wayne Flanery of
Anchoraae, Alaska; two
dauahters: Merleen Combs of
Hazard,
and
Janny
Hackworth of Martin; a sis-
officiatina.
ri l will be in the Martin
Cemetery, in Martin, under
the direction of Nelson·
ter, Beatrice Greer of
Winchester; a special grand-
Frazier Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
Nora Schultz, 72, of
Knox-ville, Tennessee, formerly of McDowell, died
Wednesday, March 16, 2005,
at
the
University
of
Tennessee Medical Center,
in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Born March 20, 1932, in
Floyd County, she was the
daughter of the late Kay and
Vadie Hamilton Reynolds .
She was a retired nursing
assistant in Springfield,
Ohio.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, William G.
Schultz.
Survivors include a son,
Ricky
W.
Jones
of
Knoxville, Tennessee; a
daughter and son-in-law:
Donna J. and Jerry Floyd of
Knoxville, Tennessee; five
grandchildren:
Clinton,
Chad, Brian, Scott, and
Courtney; two great-grandchildren:
Michael
and
Makenzey; and four sisters:
Alice McKinney of Craynor,
Wyoma Duff and Lula
Newsome,
both
of
McDowell, and Mindy Little
of Columbus, Ohio.
In addition to her husband,
and parents, she was preceded in death by four brothers:
Kay Reynolds Jr., Dennis
Reynolds,
William
Reynolds,
and
Dingus
Reynolds; and four sisters:
Maudie Jones, Martisha
Davis, Arizona Martin, and
Caldonia Paige.
Funeral services will be
conducted Saturday,· March
19, at 1 p.m., at the NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin,
with
Shannon
McKinney, and other Old
Regular Baptist ministers,
officiating.
Burial will be in the Jack
James Hall
James Hall, 75, of Hi Hat,
died Monday, March 7,
2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian
Regional
Health care.
Born March 31, 1929, in
Knott County, he was the son
of the late Hiram Hall and
Nancy Isaac Hall Slone. He
was a retired coal miner; and
a U.S. Army and Korean War
veteran.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Anna Louise
Fields Hall.
Survivors include two
sons: Randall Hall (wife,
Pamela) of Hi Hat, and
James Hall Jr., of Louisville;
two
daughters:
Helen
Hamilton and Ruby Hall,
both of Hi Hat; five grandchildren: Amy Johnson, Eric
Hamilton, Joshua Hall,
Alana Hall, and Brianna
Glover; and two great-grandchildren: Brittany Hamilton
and Jacob Johnson.
In addition to his parents
and wife, he was preceded in
death by six brothers:
Gilbert Hall, Martin Hall,
Linzie Hall, Richard Hall,
Marlin Hall, and Hi Hall;
two sisters: Nannie Hall, and
Nora Johnson; and several
infants.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, March 10,
at noon, at the Little Nancy
Old Regular Baptist Church,
in Hi Hat, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial was in the Newman
Cemetery, in Hi Hat, under
the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation was at the
church, and nightly services
were held at 6:30p.m.
Macel
Elizabeth
Thornsberry, age 78, of
Topmost, widow of Edd
Thornsberry, passed away
Tuesday, March 15,2005, at
her residence.
She was born May 16,
1926, in Friendship, Ohio,
the daughter of the late Jack
Alley and Alvania Howell
Alley; and was the niece of
the
late
Clara
Mae
Hamilton. She was a homemaker, and a member of The
Providence Old Regular
Baptist Church , Topmost.
Survivors include one
son,
Donald
Ray
Thornsberry Sr., of Ruskin,
Florida;
one
daughter,
Carolyn Sue Cook of
Topmost; four grandchildren:
Donald
Ray
Thornsberry Jr., Wendy
Jackson,
Marie
Lynn
Newton, and Christopher
Thornsberry; three greatgrandchildren: Corey Blake
Mosley,
Dylan
Ray
Thornsberry, and Savannah
Leshae Newton.
She was also preceded in
death by two brothers:
Elmer Alley, and El bie
Alley; and one sister, Hazel
Garrett.
Funeral services for Mace!
Elizabeth Thornsberry will
be conducted Friday, March
18, at 11 a.m., at the
Providence Old Regular
Baptist Church, Topmost,
with Regular Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Joe Hall Cemetery, in
Topmost, under the professional care of the Hall
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
(Pall! obituary)
(Paid obituary)
Hall
Cemetery,
in
McDowell, under thit dlrec·
tlon of Nel on-Frazier
Funeral Home.
(Pald obituary)
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of
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• McDowell
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• Country Boy Farm
Supply
• Meade's BP &
Pizza Express
• Big Sandy
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Linda G's Chattel
• El Azul Grande
• Home Furniture
• Layne Bros. Ford
• Foodland
• Brad Hughes
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• Giovanni's Pizza
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Orville "Porchie" Clark ,
age 9! , of Dana, husband of
Fannie Edna Johnson Clark
passed
away
Monday,
March 14, 2005, at the
Pikeville Medical Center.
'He was born March 13 ,
1914, in Honaker, the son
of the late Willie Franklin
Clark, and Lillie Martin
Clark. He was a U.S. Army
Airforce World War II veteran, and a member of the
Sammy Clark Freewill
Baptist Church, in Dana.
Survivors in addition to
his wife , include two sons:
William Lee Clark, and
Franklin Conley Clark, "
both of Ashland; two
daughters:
Roberta
Josephine
Bolton
of
Pikeville, and Vicky Lee
Dinsmore of Berea; one
brother, W. F. "Red" Clark
Jr., of Prestonsburg; one
sister, Betty Jean Martin of
Prestonsburg; and nine
grandchildren, eight greatgrandchildren, and nine
great- great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents,
he was preceded in death
by one sister, Oval Martin.
Funeral
services
for
Orville "Porchie" Clark
were conducted Thursday,
March 17, at 2 p.m., at the
Hall Funeral Home Chapel,
in Martin, with Shane
Powers and Hershel Kidd
officiating.
Burial was in the Johnson
Memorial
Park,
in
Pikeville, under the professional care of the Hall,
Funeral Home.
Visitation was at the
funeral home.
(Pale! obitua ry)
(Paid obituary)
will receive $1 ,98 3; Martin
$8,371;
Prestonsburg
$47,771; Wayland $3,941
and Wheelwright 13,781.
The extra dollars come
from a $150 million bond
fund legislators created in
the budget for roads. Half of
the additional money comes
directly back to counties and
cities, based on the formulas
set up under the law for the
County Road Aid Program
and the Municipal Road Aid
Program. The funds come
from gasoline taxes.
In addition, counties and
cities will be able to obtain
funding for road .projects by
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Orville "Porchie"
Clark
Visitation is Friday, March
18, at 6 p.m., at the, funeral
home.
Turner says extra road
funds in budget will bring
improvements to Floyd
FRANKF.O RT - Local
governments
in
Floyd
County will receive additional funds for roads under
the budget passed this week
by the Kentucky General
Assembly.
"City and county budgets
have been squeezed in
recent years and these dollars for the basics should
really help," said Senator
Johnny Ray Turner, D-Drift.
Floyd
will
receive
$594,550 over its current
road fund allocation, which
can be used for bridges and
paving and rehabilitation of
existing roads. For city
streets and bridges, Allen
Macel Elizabeth
Thornsberry
when you subscribe to
t!tiiiiei
applying to Bill Nighbert,
Commissioner
for
the
Department
of
Intergovernmental Programs
with the Transportation
Cabinet.
"This money is desperately needed. We must make
sure our roads and bridges
are safe," Turner said.
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THE FL.OYD COUNTY TIMES
• 1 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@floydcountytimes.com. Information
will not be taken over the telephone. All items will be placed
on a first-come, first-serve
basis as space permits.
Special presentation
featuring a spec:lal Easter
play
An Easter play, "Back to the
Present,'' the events of the past,
present and future of what was,
is, and will be, according to the
Bible. Join us Easter day, March
27th, at Trimble Chapel at the
junction of 23 & 80, at 11:00
1 a.m.
Bring family and frien<l,s.
Everyone welcome!
UNITE Drug Coalition
The Floyd County Drug
Coalition of UNITE will host a
prayer conference on Sunday,
March 20, at 6 p.m., at the
Mountain Arts Center. Clay
County Pastor Doug Abner will
lead the service, which will
focus on garnering community
support for a May 1st march
against drugs. The community
is also invited to join UNITE
members each Saturday at 1
p.m., until May 1, in a prayer
session. Prayer services will
begin this Saturday, March 19,
at 9 a.m., at the Allen First
Baptist Church.
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.
HRMCComm.
Calendat: - March
Mar. 31 - Living Well w1th
D1abetes, Meetmg Place A&B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 5-6 p.m.
For more information, call
886-7424.
Attention:
BLHS Class of
'85
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.
Diabetes Support Group
To meet on March 22. at
McDowell ARH
Hospital
(Telemed Room), at 4:30 p.m.
Topic: Weight Management.
Guest speaker:
Dr. Debra
Jacobs. For more info., contact
Theresa Scott at 886-2668.
It's been 20 years! Reunion is
being planned. If you arc a
classmate, or if you know of a
classmate's whereabouts, please
email addresses to Debbie Hall
Parsons or Gwen Cecil at:
dochallparsons@ charter.net.
Belfry Class of 1970
Is planning a mini-reunion for
May 28. Classmates will be
responsible for their own meal.
Reservations are requil'cd by
Muy I , Contuct Nancy Vnmey
Bryan by call!ng 433-9200 or
433-0820. You may also write
to: P.O. Box 101, Pikeville, KY
4 J 502
or
email
to:
nbryan@setel.com. It's been 35
years, 'classmates, let's have a
little fun!
Floyd County Democratic
Women's Club
Meets the 2nd Monday of
each month at 6 p.m., at
Brenda's
Restaurant,
in
McDowell.
All invited to
attend.
Basic Computer Training
To be taught by Ray Tackett
at the Martin Community
Center, located on Route 80, at
Martin, on March 18; and April
1,from 1-3p.m. Cost-$7. This
is an 8-week training series
designed for those who have little or no experience using computers. Space is limited - call
886-2668 today to register!
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
and
Monday, Wednesday,
External Diploma Program
Thursday, at 11 a.m. at the old R ·
Kentucky residents age 25 and
& S Building. Classes are
older
can earn a high school
offered by the Floyd County
diploma
by demonstrating skills
Health Department. Call the
learned
on
the job or in raising a
health department, 886-2788,
family.
Flexible
scheduling is
for more information.
provided and confidentiality
'Earn While You Learn'
maintained. Classes are held at
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P. the Carl D. Perkins Rehabilitation
office is taking applications for Center, in Thelma, Mon. thru Fri ..
its "Senior Training Program." with evening classes on
You must be SS or older to Thursday, from 4:30-8:30:
apply. In Floyd, call 886-2929; Contact Andy Jones at 800-443Johnson,
call
789-6515; 2187, ext. 186, or Linda Bell, at
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike, ext. 160 to make an appointment.
call432-2775; and in Lawrence,
call 638-4067.
(See CALENDAR, page eight)
D.A.V. Chap. 18
The Big Sandy Chapter 18,
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Auxier Fire Dept., on the 1st and
3rd Fridays of each month, at 6
p.m. Those interested may
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Faith."
March 24 - Maundy Thursday
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March 27 - Sunday morning
worship service - Chancel Choir
will present Easter Cantata
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MARCH
18, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
College volunteers donate
blood, help Floyd County drive
DAVID - Students, faculty
and volunteers at the David School
rolled up their sleeves recently to
save lives.lbe school, founded in
1974, seeks to provide comprehensive educational program for
Appalachian youth and adults who
have limited financial resources
and the ]Xltential to succeed in a
non-traditional setting.
Blood drives with Central
Kentucky Blood Center have
l:>een a staple of the school's community service, but on March 7,
the school and its volunteers
stepped up the effort, resulting in
its most successful blcxxl drive
ever.
About 36 people volunteered to
give bkxxl, ultimately OOooting the
region's bl<XXI supply during the oormally slow winter months. Eight
bloo:l drives hoc! to be cancelled
recently due to the flu outbreak and a
lxlut of ice and snow. 1h:: caocellatiCllS resulted in the his of3ffl pints of
bloo:l that was e~ to be collected. The strong srowing at the David
chive strongly contributed to the
recovery.
CKBC Donor Recruitment
Specialist Russ Cassady said the
drive and the cooperation of the
volunteer group was an irn]Xlrtant
one and shows what even the
smallest group can do when
asked.
"Every unit of bloo:l we collect
makes a difference in the lives of
patients across 'Eastern and
Central," Cassady said. "And it's
groups like The David School that
really respond when we need them.
They help us in our mission to help
hospital patients."
Many from a group of students from St. Ambrose
University in Davenport, Iowa,
and Notre Dame University in
South Bend, IN, who were at the
school volunteering, also played a
role in the drive's success, giving
blcxxl alongside local residents.
Court says nepotism
rules in schools stand
by MARK R, CHELLGREN
AssociATED PRESS
Central Kentucky Blood Center Phlebotomist Brandy Little,
lett, works with donor Robert Sieger, a senior at The David
School, during the successful blood drive held at the
school Monday, March 7. Sieger joined 35 others In giving
the gift of life, making it {)ne of the school's most successful blood drives.
The college groups are a common site at David, with the school
relying on volunteer labor each
year to help it in its continuing
growth. Since the school's inception, thousands of volunteers have
come each Spring to do evetything from pick up garbagein the
surrounding community to
putting a new roof on a building.
This year's volunteers substituted in the classroom, cleared
debris left by the summer floods
on the baseball field and partnered with David School students
in their adopt-a-highway cleanup
effort.
Any Floyd County resident
who is interested in giving blood
can come to the Prestonsburg
Donor Center, located in the
Municipal Building on North
Lake Drive. It is open from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through
Wednesday.
Also, blood drives are currently planned for the following sites
·
in Floyd County:
• fcxxl City in Prestonsburg is
partnering
with
Respond
Ambulance Service for the Floyd
County Emergency Responders
bloo:l drive, April 18, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. OI) the bloodmobile in the
Fcxxl City parking Jot;
• Our Lady of the Way
Hospital in Martin will hold a
drive April 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on the bloodmobile in front of the
hospital; and
• Betsy Layne High School
will hold a drive May 10,9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. in the school library.
For more information on these
drives or to set up a mobile blcxxl
drive \vith CKBC, contact Cassady
at l-800-775-2522,ext. 5712.
Central Kentucky Blood
Center is anon-profit community blood center and the sole supplier of blood to 67 hospitals
and clmics m 59 Central and
Eastern Kentucky counties,
including hospitals in Floyd and
Pike County. CKBC operates
four donor centers in Pikeville,
Prestonsburg,
Lexington,
Somerset and holds five to
seven mobile blood drives each
day. Visit ckbc.org for times,
dates and locations of all mobile
blood drives. Click "Donate
Blood", then "Find a Mobile
Rlood Drive."
FRANKFORT - Nepotism
rules for schools, even if they seem
to treat some relatives different than
others, are still valid, the Kentucky
Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The restrictions on hiring relatives of school board members was
an integral part of the landmark
1990 Kentucky Education Reform
Act.
In fact, it was the Supreme
Court that prompted an overhaul
of school policies, funding and
procedures by the General
Assembly.
Justice William Graves noted
the connection in the decision
Thursday.
"We noted that waste and mismanagement could include
improper nepo~m. favoritism and
misallocation of school monies
and that if such inadequacies exist,
they must bed eliminated," Graves
said in the unanimous decision of
the seven-member high court.
The Jaw prohibits school board
membership for anyone who has a
father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, aunt,
uncle, son-in-law or daughter-inlaw employed by the school district.
Notably absent from the list was
any reference to nieces or nephews,
who are generally considered to pe
have the same familial connections
as aunts or uncles.
That's what prompted Greg
Crutchfield to sue. Crutchfield was
elected to the Garrard County board
ofeducation in November 2000. He
took the oath of office, but the attorney general's office argued that
Crutchfield was prohibited from
taking office because he had an
uncle who was employed as a bus
driver by the school system.
Coincidentally, another member
of the Garrard County school board
•has a niece who is an office worker
in the schools, but he is not barred
from oftice by the statute, the court
said.
While there may seem to be a
contradiction in the guidelines for
ne]XJtism, Graves said, that is the
province of the General Assembly.
"We will not invalidate on equal
protection grounds legislation
which we simply deem unwise or
inartfully drawn," Graves said.
"Removing nepotism is a legitimate state interest," Graves continued.
"When formulating the definition of 'relative,' the General
Assembly had to draw the line
somewhere. The General Assembly
is under no constitutional obligation
to craft perfectly sensible statutes,"
Graves said.
The Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine Student ,
Associate Auxiliary (PCSOM SAA) recently presented a check ·
to John Strosnider, D.O., FACOFP, vice president and dean of
the medical school, to support preservation efforts at the
Andrew T. Still Memorial and birthplace located In Jonesville,
Va. Still was the founder of osteopathic medicine and founded
the first college of osteopathic medicine. "PCSOM thanks the
SAA for their gracious gift," said Strosnider. "They are truly the
advocates of the profession." Strosnider, along with students
from the medical school and the PCSOM SAA, has taken an ~
active role in maintaining the historic landmark. Members of the .
PCSOM SAA have raised money in support of the effort for the
last four years. "We are delighted tb help Dean Strosnider with
his mission to improve the birthplace site," said SAA advisor
Debby Murphy. PCSOM is the 19th osteopathic medical school In the country and is located less than 90 miles from the A.T.
Still Memorial. Presenting the check to Strosnider are, from left,
Stacey Hamilton, fundralsing chairman, with son Tommy,
Strosnider, and Lacey Ballas, SAA vice president.
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Calendar
• Continued from p7
PARENTS!
Are you in need of child care
services? If so, contact the Big
Sandy Area Community Action
Program, Inc. The office is
partnering
with
Eastern
Kentucky Child Care Coalition.
For more information on how
we can help you, call Cheryl
Endicott at 886-1280, or toll
free at 888-872-7227.
Also, if your child is currently enrolled in a child care
program, find out if your
provider is a member of the
STARS for KIDS NOW voluntary program for exceeding
licensing standards.
And, learn about how you
can stay home with your own
children and still earn an
income by caring for other
children. Find out more by
calling Cheryl Endicott at 8861280, or 888-872-7227 (toll
free).
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 FCHD.
•Alzheimer's Association,
East-ern
KY
Regional
Office - 24 hour Helpline, call
1-800-272-3900 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 forMS 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
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 1-800-6496605.
Remember, "Love
Doesn't Have to Hurt."
•Kentucky Baptist Homes
for Children - Free, confidential
assistance
for·
unplanned pregnancy concerns. Talk with someone
who cares about you and your
baby. Call 1-800-928-5242.
•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
NOW SHOWING AT
East Ky. Science Center
and Planetarium
group for all adoptive parents
(public, private, international,
and kinship care), foster parents and all others interested
in adoption. To meet the 2nd
Thursday of each month, at
·Pizza Hut, in Prestonsburg.
For more information, contact
Nelva Skaggs, adoptive parent
liaison,
at
Blueboy@foothills.net.
•East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
Homeschoolei's -Will' hold
m
o
n
Sponsored by:
Church of Christ
h
ly 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 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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• Marriage
Licenses
Walter Mortgage Company
vs. Iva Jean and Randy Boring,
Della Rene Davidson, Melanie
D. Davidson and spouse,
Michelle Davidson and spouse,
Randall Keith Davidson Jr.,
Floyd County, Herman Jones,
Sally Ann Jones; complaint.
Edith F. Cline, 69. of J!raffin,
to Clyde F. Hancock, 73. of
Wayne, W.Va.
Pauline Shepherd, 50, of
Prestonsburg, to Paul David
Shepherd, 47, of Kenton, Ohio.
Amy Colleen Nichols, 24, of
Michigan, to Dennis Ray Hall
Jr., 22, of Pikeville.
Holly Q. Le, 30, to Danh C.
Huyntt, 27, both of Vietnam.
Donna Sue Davis. 29, of
Dr. Brent Clark vs. Sabrina
• Johnson County, to Thomas
Hall; payment for services.
Boone Kilgore, 30, of Floyd
Dr. Brent Clark vs. Joey
County.
Bartley;
payment for services.
Betty Lou Hayes. 41, of ·
Dr. Brent Clark vs. Timothy
Pikeville, to Clyde Lee Bradley,
Cantrell; payment for services.
52, of Wayland.
Dr. Brent Clark vs. Russell
Ronny Michelle McCoy, 27,
Frye; payment for services.
of Logan , W.Va., to John
Dr. Brent Clark vs. Maxine
William Moore. 18, of Pikeville.
Rose; payment for services.
Grant R. Rickman vs. Timmy
Craft; alleged debt.
Triple M. Credit vs. Greg
Johnson; alleged debt.
Brian and Brandy Kidd vs.
Kentucky Carpet; seeking
~
Discover Bank vs. Roger and refund on completed work.
Glenda Newsome vs. Tammy
Katherine Powers; complaint.
Cabinet for Health and and Erin Cantrell; rental dispute.
Gopal R. Majmundar vs.
Families vs. Rebecca Collins;
petition for child support and John and Mary Spurlock; rental
dispute.
health care insurance.
Anna Frazier vs. Wayne
Frazier; petition for health care
insurance.
Betty Steward vs. Josh
Tackett; complaint.
Sharon Johnson vs. Timothy
Johnson; divorce.
Dena M. Bowling, 18,
Sherry Boyd vs. Jeremy
Ashland; public intoxication of
Boyd; p~tition for health care
a controlled substance.
j,l insurance.
Mary Case, 22, McDowell;
Fora Collins vs. Gregory
disorderly conduct, harassment.
Collins; petition for child supJim Marsillett, 48, Fort
port and health care insurance.
Wayne, Ind. ; terroristic threatRuby F. Moore vs. Harrison
ening.
Don Moore; divorce.
Tooya Johnson, 31, Harold;
Billy R. Auxier vs. Charles J.
third-degree criminal mischief.
Gallion; complaint.
Shawn M. Henson, 24,
California Casualty vs.
Hueysville;
fourth-degree
Miona Hall; complaint.
assault.
Credit
Acceptance
Michael J. Ratliff, 23,
Corporation vs. Ray Tipton;
Banner; public intoxication of a
complaint.
controlled substance, controlled
•
Vanderbuilt Mortgage and
Finance Inc. vs. Dorothy Hall substance not in original container.
and the estate of Wayne C. Hall;
Tameka Moore, 20, lvel;
complaint.
public intoxication of a conDiscover Bank vs. Raymond
trolled substance.
and Jerri Burke; complaint.
Dewayne Bevins Jr., 20,
Yvonetta Prater vs. Darrell
Banner; possession of alcohol
Prater; divorce.
by a minor, open alcoholic bevStacy Blanton 'vs. Martin R.
erage
in an automobile.
Minix, DMD and Kentucky
Greg Howell, 46, Stanville;
Unemployment Insurance, comsecond-degree assault, firstplaint.
degree
unlawful imprisonment.
Green Tree Servicing vs.
Dwayne E. Charles, 45,
Matilda and William Marsillett;
Raccoon; public intoxication of
complaint.
a controlled substance, failure
~
Community Trust Bank vs.
to surrender revoked license.
Don Harrison and Judy Howell;
Mary
E.
Case,
22,
complaint.
Small
Claims
Filings
Civil Suits
Filed
Charges
Filed
e Recor
McDowell; disorderly conduct,
harassment.
Tonya Johnson, 31, Harold;
third-degree criminal trespass.
Shawn M. Henson, 24,
Hue_{sville;
fourth-degree
assau'~.
Dewayne Bevins, Jr., 20,
Banner; possession of alcohol
by a minor, possession of an
open alcoholic beverage in a
vehicle.
Matthew B. Wyatt, 21, Mt.
Sterling; public intoxication.
Samuel Wallen, 21, East
Point; first-degree criminal trespass.
Everette Newsome, 36,
Beaver; third-degree criminal
trespass.
Larry Allen, 45, Martin; possession of marijuana.
Larry C. Adams, 28 , Inez;
public intoxication, disorderly
conduct.
Donald Smith, 48, Banner;
public intoxication.
Kristie R. Robinette, 29,
Prestonsburg; felony theft.
Dewone Younce, no age listed, Pikeville; felony theft.
Brian
D.
Isaac,
23,
Wheelwright; first-degree sexual abuse.
Inspections
Burke Mobile Home Park,
Prestonsburg, regular inspection. Violations noted: Lots not
numbered systematically, size of
lots not in compliance, insufficient number of garbage cans.
Score: 94.
Daniel's Mobile Home Park,
Prestonsburg, regular inspection. Violations noted: Lots not
numbered systematically, insufficient number of garbage cans.
Score: 96.
Yates Mobile Home Park,
Prestonsburg, regular inspection. Violations noted: Not all
lots numbered systematically,
lighting not in compliance.
Score: 96.
Ryan's Mobile Home Park,
Dana, regular
inspection.
Violations noted: Some driveways unpaved, areas of standing
water, several lots have build up
of debris. Score: 94.
Prestonsburg Elementary,
regular inspection. Violations
noted: Floors and walls in disrepair, several classrooms have
carpet in disrepair, some desks
in disrepair. Score: 94.
McDonald's, Martin, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Proper hair restraints not in use
by all staff, food item on floor in
walk-in freezer. Score: 97.
Dairy Queen, Martin, regular inspection. Violations
noted: Thermometers not provided for all refrigeration units,
walk-in door in disrepair, wiping cloths improperly stored,
ice machine floor drain not
working properly, floor tile in
disrepair, not all lights in food
prep area properly shielded,
clothing items observed stored
on food and food equipment.
Score: 92.
Recti-Mart, Lackey, followup inspection. Violations noted:
All critical items corrected,
some non-critical items uncorrected involving floors and
lighting. Score: Food 97, Retail
99.
Home Town IGA, Martin,
follow-up inspection. Violations
noted: Critical items corrected,
some non-critical items uncorrected involving floors and
lighting. Score: Food 96, Retail
95.
Dave's Stop and Shop,
David, regular inspection.
Violations noted: Not all refrigeration and freezer units sport
easy to see thermometers, chemical test strips not readily available, restroom has no towels,
garbage can in food prep area
not covered properly. Score:
Food 93, Retail 97.
Sharon's Pizza, David, regular inspection. Violations noted:
Freezer and refrigerator units
lack conspicuous thermometers,
pizza boxes stored on floor,
proper hair restraints not in use,
floor in food prep area not in
compliance, clothing stored
with food equipment. Score: 93.
Billy Ray's Restaurant,
Prestonsburg, regular inspection. Violations noted: Easy to
see thermometers not present in
refrigerator and freezer units,
proper hair restraints not in use,
gasket on ice machine in disrepair. Score: 96.
Martin Kwik Stop, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Thermometers not conspicuous
in all refrigerator and freezer
units, some employees without
proper hair restraints, employee
restroom door not self closing,
garbage can in food prep area
not properly covered, no lid on
dumpster outside which i!l overflowing, walk-in light not properly shielded. Score: Food 92,
Retail 95.
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sink in employee restroom leak- .
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noted: Hand wash sink in food
prep area without soap, garbage
containers in food prep area
uncovered. Score: 96.
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LADYCATS REGAIN REGION'S TOP SPOT
These Ladycats
~ can start and finish
by RICK BENTLEY
TIMES COLUMNIST
PAINTSVILLE - The tide began to
turn early Tuesday night. After Pike
Central scored six of the game's first eight
points, Betsy Layne turned it on its ear
with one of the most dominating performances you '11 ever see.
It wasn't that they made the game onesided the rest of the half, it was (ital) how
(ital) it happened.
During their 10-0
run over the next
four-plus minutes,
the Lady Bobcats
grabbed six of the
gan1e's
seven
rebounds and went
from down four to
ahead by six (12-6).
It was still early Rick Bentley
the first quarter still
had two minutes to
play - but that's when it happened. That
Betsy Layne would win the 15 th Region
championship game 68-58 was a mere formality, as it turned out. The game ended
early on when Cassandra Akers' club
crashed the boards and obliterated the
• younger, undersized Lady Hawks en route to
the second regional title under her tutelage.
At recess, Betsy Layne led on the
scoreboard 35-20, but in the game's most
important category, the difference was
even more earth-shaking. While the Lady
Cats had 26 rebounds, the Lady Hawks
had managed a mere seven.
Even more telling is where those seven
came from - three of them were team
rebounds, meaning it was a rebound for Pike
Central because no one controlled it and it
bounced out of bounds off Betsy Layne.
iJ It was about as one-sided as you'll ever
see in the rebounding category.
Consider:
• Senior Kristal Daniels had seven
first-half rebounds herself, while Candice
Meade.- missed equaling Pike Central's
total by only one;
• Nine of the 26 boards were offensive, a no-no in any coach's book;
• As a result, Betsy Layne had five
more field goal attempts than Pike
Central, meaning five more chances to
add points to the total;
• Finally, while Betsy Layne was fielding its own misses, Pike Central was not. Of
"t the 19 shots missed by the Lady Hawks,
Betsy Layne rebounded 17 of them.
Betsy Layne was also making hay with
solid ball movement. Guards Kristen
Smith (seven) and Candice Meade (five)
were credited with a dozen assists on their
team's 15 field goals in the first half.
Ball movement and rebounding dominance will win you games most of the time.
On Tuesday, it was enough to overcome 10
first-half turnovers and help Betsy Layne
build its 15-point lead at the break.
By the time the game ended, Betsy
Layne's rebounding edge was 41-24 and
the assist total had reached 20, thanks to
f 10 by Smith and eight for Meade.
With numbers like that, they didn't
need to hit 83.3 percent (15-of-18) from
the line, something they did all tournament
long. For the week, the Lady Bobcats were
75.8 percent from the stripe, and that will
win you a lot of basketball games.
While Kim Clark was a deserving touma(See FINISH, page two)
photos by Steve
LeMaster
HANGING ONBetsy Layne
senior Kristen
Smith got off a
shot over a
defending Haley
Ratliff of Pike
County Central.
Smith handed out
10 assists and
scored nine
points in Betsy
Layne's regional
championship
win over Pike
Central. Also pictured in action for
Betsy Layne Is
junior forward
Candice Meade.
Betsy Layne too much for Pike Central
Starting five scores C!lll points, Ladycats headed back to Bowling Green
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE - Betsy Layne has played in the
15th Region championship game three out of the last
four years. Now, after Tuesday night, in three of the
last four years, Betsy Layne has found championship game at the end of the title game. In the latest regional championship game appearance
Tuesday night at Johnson Central, Betsy Layne toted
a 35-20 lead into halftime and in the second half,
held off defending champ Pike County Central.
Betsy Layne senior Kim Clark scored 24 points and
pulled down six rebounds as the Ladycats beat Pike
Central 68-58. All four Betsy Layne seniors again
rose to the occasion. Senior center Krista] Daniels
finished with 16 points, 13 rebounds and five
blocked. Eleven of Daniels' 13 rebounds came on
the defensive end. Breann Akers added 15 points
and five rebounds, while Kristen Smith added nine
points, 10 assists and four rebounds.
Junior forward Candice Meade, the only non-senior
in the Betsy Layne starting lineup, added four points,
seven rebounds and eight assists for the Ladycats.
Betsy Layne's starting five accounted for all of
the Ladycat scoring.
The rebounding battle proved to be key. Betsy
Layne owned the glass in the first half, outrebounding Pike Central 26-7. The Ladycats went on
to outrebound Pike Central 41-24. The Lady
Hawks managed just six offensive rebounds.
Pike County Central knocked Betsy Layne out of
the 2004 regional tournament, beating the Ladycats
in the semifinals. The 2005 regional championship
game helonged to Betsy I ,ayne. The I ,adycats are set
to make their second trip to Bowling Green and the
Houchens lndustries/KHSAA Girls' Sweet 16 State
Basketball Tournament.
Betsy Layne's four seniors were playing in their
third regional championship game. The victory celebration that followed Betsy Layne's regional
championship triumph wasn't without tears shed
from coaches, players and fans.
"This is the most emotional I've been in a while,"
Akers admitted. "We had a lot of adversity this year
with this team. It's a dream come true to go once, but
to go twice is just phenomenal. It's unreal."
In 2003, Betsy Layne celebrated on the same
Johnson Central hardwood following a regional
championship game victory.
"We had a little team meeting before we got on
the bus to come here and talked about what we
needed to do," Akers added. "We did what we
needed to do."
Pike Central, which mounted a second-half
comeback that buried Allen Central in the regional
semifinals, held its own with Betsy Layne in the
first half. The first quarter ended in a 12-12 tie .
Betsy Layne overpowered the Lady Hawks in
the second quarter, outscoring Pike Central 23-8 ,
due in large part to the dominant rebounding performance.
"We won the game in the first half," said Akers. "We
just had to come out and finish it in the second half."
In the second half, Pike Central steadily chipped
away at Betsy Layne's lead. But the Ladycats never
(See LADVCATS, page two)
Breann Akers, pictured sharing a championship hug with Coach Cassandra Akers,
drained a pair of free throws that helped Betsy
Layne to the regional title.
Clark named regional
~ toumament MVP
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE
- In three regional
tournament games,
Betsy
Layne
senior Kim Clark
averaged
19.3
points and seven
rebounds. Ranked
,_ as
the
15th
Region's top player heading into the
season, Clark put yet another
exclamation point on her
prep
career
Tuesday night.
But she ~s not
done
playing
yet. At tile conclusion of the
15th
Region
Tournament's
championship
game, Clark and
thrC;c of her
Kim Clark
Betsy
Layne
teammates were named to the
all-tournament team. Clark
was also named regional
tournament MVP.
Joining Clark on the alltournament team were teammates Krista! Daniels, Kristen
Smith and Breann Akers.
Betsy Layne's four selections
led the all-tournament team.
Haley
Ratliff,
Mishay
Weddington and Kayla Lowe
(See MVP page two)
The 15th
Region AllTournament
Team included four Betsy
Layne
Ladycats.
Betsy Layne
senior Kim
Clark was
named the
15th Region
Tournament
MVP.
�82 • FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2095
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lady cats
Finish
record head to Bowling Green for
the Sweet 16, where it will meet up
with Fifth RegiQn champion
Washington
County next
Thursday.
The Lady Cats have won eight
straight and 11 of their la'lt 12: and
have a legitimate chance to
advance Washington County is
only 17-16 on the season, and, prior
to winning three straight in the
region, had lost four of it~ la~t six
games.
Washington will be looking
for its fourth straight win, something it hasn't done ·all season. In
fact, entering the regional tournament it bad only won three in
a row once the entire season.
Things are looking up for
Betsy Layne and its coach, who
has continued a run of dignity at
her alma mater. Cassandra
Akers does a solid job and
should be appreciated for her
accomplishments.
As for her players, if they
continue the job they've donerebounding, moving the ball
and sinking free throws - they
could hang around Bowling
Green for a while.
~
• Continued from p1
• Continued from p1
ment MVP, it would have been easy
to choose a teammate. Clark ttveraged 19.3 poinh arid seven
rebounds in the th1ee· regional
games, and got Jots of help.
Daniels n~arly averaged a
double-double, putting up 14.3
points and 9.7 rebounds per
game. Smith had 19 assists in
the three games and averaged
12.3 points, putting on a clinic at
the free throw line. After going
only 2-of-5 in the first-round
win over Paintsville , she hit 22of-26 in the last two games.
And then there was Breann
Akers, who had 15 of her 29
points in the finals. stepping up
when her team needed her. She
missed only one free throw in
12 attempts and grabbed five
rebounds championship night.
In the 10-0 nm that turned the
game early, she had four points
while Daniels chipped in the other
six and pulled down two rebounds.
Meanwhile, all Smith did
was find her teammates time
after glorious time, recording
assists on four of the five buckets during that stretch.
Now, Betsy Layne and lts 24-8
•
MVP
panicked. Betsy Layne took a
46-42 lead into the final
quarter It was in the final
period that the Ladycats put
distance between themselves
and Pike Central.
With less than one minute
left to play, Pike Central's
Mishay Weddington sunk a
three-pointer and pulled the
Lady Hawks within six points
as Betsy Layne led 63-57.
On Betsy Layne's next
possession, senior Breann
Akers provided two of the
game's most crucial shots.
With 41.9 remaining and
Betsy Layne leading 63-57 Breann Akers sunk a pair of
free throws and stretched the
lead out to a 65-57 advantage.
Even later in the game,
Clark went one-of-two from
the free throw line and
Daniels hit two-of-two from
' the stripe with 9.1left to make
the final 10-point margin.
Betsy Layne shot 15-of18 from the free throw line.
Kaitlin Lawson, Whitney
Tackett and Krista Flannery
also played for Betsy Layne
in the title game.
Haley Ratliff led Pike
Central with 18 points and
nine rebounds. Weddington
and Taylor Brown each finished with 11 points apiece.
Washington County, the
champion out of the 5th
Region, awaits Betsy Layne.
The Ladycats are scheduled
to take on Washington
County in the opening round
of the girls' state tournament
on Thursday with tip-off set
for 1:30 p.m.
Betsy Layne finished 1-1
m its last state tournament trip.
• Continued from p1•
made the all-tournam,' nt team
from Pike County Central.
Allen Central and Belfry
each had two players named to
the all-tournament squad. Allen
Central semor Becky Thomas
and junior Alanna Cline represented the I ady Rebels. Belfry
teammates Brittany Chapman
and Brooke Stanley abo earned
all-regional tournament recognition. Shelby Valley's Esther
Fleming, East Ridge's Amy
Shortridge,
Paintsvilk's
Chclsee Jarrell and Magoffi n
County's Michaela Howard
were also named to the all-tournament team.
15TH REG ION GIRLS '
ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
Esther Renung, Shelhy Valley
Amy Shortndge, East Ridge
Chelsee Jarrell , Paintsville
Michaela Howard, Magoffin Co.
Brittany Chapman, Belfry
Brooke Stanley, Belfry
Alanna Clmc. Allen Ce~tral
Becky Thomas.,\llen Central
H,tley Ratliff, Pike CotlnJY Central
Mishay Weddington , Pike Co. Cent. .
Kayla Lowe, Pike County Central
1
K•m Clark, Betsy Layne
Krista! Daniels, Betsy Layne
Krbten Smith, Betsy Layne
Brcann Akers, Betsy Layne
MVP: Kim Clark, Betsy Layne
i
BETSY LAYNE'S TITLE RUN~
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Washington County looks to
be playing some of its best
basketball at the right time.
The Washington County girls,
<t'Jached ~y J.T, UW1Q ~ ·
ntJounty
day..nigM
in the 5th Region championship game. Junior forward
Brittany Edelen, a University
of Kentucky recruit, had 27
points and 10 rebounds to
lead the Commanderettes to
the victory.
Georgetown
College
signee Kate Filiatreau added
13 points for Washington.
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Top: Betsy Layne
junior Candice
Meade put a shot
up and over the
Pike Central
defense.
Second from top:
The Betsy Layne
faithful cheered the
Ladycats on from
the opening tip
through the postgame celebration.
Second from bottom : Betsy Layne
.,
seniors doused
Coach Cassandra
Akers during a victory celebration.
Bottom, right:
Akers took her turn ,•
on the championship net.
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�FRIDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
South Laurel, Elizabethtown, Pleasure Ridge
Park, Louisville Ballard advance in Sweet 16
by MURRAY EVANS
PRESS
~ ~$0CIATED
LEXINGTON - Shooting
free throws is like "money in
the bank" for Pleasure Ridge
Park, senior guard JaJuan
pillman says.
The Panthers showed why
on Wednesday, setting a tournament single-game record for
free-throw percentage en route
to a 64-61 overtime win over
Pendleton County in the first
round of the Boys Sweet 16
basketball tournament.
Pleasure Ridge Park finished 18-of-19 from the line for
94.7 percent. Mason County
held the former record of 93.9
percent (31-of-33), set against
Mayfield in 1981.
Other first-round winners
included South Laurel of
',London, 63-55 over Ohio
County; Elizabethtown, 70-60
over Perry County Central; and
Louisville Ballard, 59-41 over
Bullitt
Bast of Mount
Washington.
Friday's quarterfinals will
pit Pleasure Ridge Park (30-5)
against crosstown rival Ballard
(29-2) and South Laurel (29-4)
against Elizabethtown (27-4).
Pleasure Ridge Park, the 6th
Region champion, went 8-of-8
from the line in overtime after
1Oth
Region
champion
Pendleton County (29-5)
orced overtime on a 3-pointer
by Jon Elrod with 22 seconds
left. Spillman, who led
Pleasure Ridge Park with 22
points an four assists, missed
a 13-foot umper at the buzzer.
The Wildcats took their first
lead S\llCe the second quarter
on another Elrod 3-pointer 25
seconds into overtime, but didn't score again until 54 seconds
remained. In the interim,
Pleasure Ridge Park went 6-of6 from the line, with Keithson
Smith making four and Vincent
4Pcrutcher adding two.
Spillman's driving basketthe Panthers' only overtime
field goal - put his team ahead
62-58 with 39 seconds left.
Tyler Mains brought the
Wildcats within one point on a
3-pointeli with 25 seconds left,
but Sp · an - a Louisville
football ignee - made two free
throws with 12 .8 seconds left
to give Pleasure Ridge Park a
64-6llead.
~ "There's never a day when
we don't work on free throws,"
Spillman said. "So when we
get up there, there's no pressure
on us."
Elro
missed a 3-point
attemp with two seconds left.
Crutcher had 16 points and
nine rebounds for Pleasure
Ridge Park, which has won 17
straight games. Joey Verax and
Keaton Belcher, a Belmont
University signee, scored 15
points each for Pendleton
County, which was making its
first Sweet 16 appearance since
1971. The Wildcats had a 12game winning streak snapped.
In South Laurel's win, Ty
Proffitt went 6-of-S from the
line in the final 2:01, enabling
the Cardinals to hold off an
Ohio County rally. Proffitt finished with 21 points, twice his
season average.
Proffitt scored 15 points in
the first half as 12th Region
champion South Laurelled 3226. The Cardinals extended
that lead to 13 points in the
third quarter and still led 3rd
Region champion Ohio County
(26-8) by 10 points with five
minutes left.
But South Laurel missed
five straight free throws, allowing the Eagles to rally. Ohio
County pulled to 54-53 with
2:49 left on a put-back by Josh
Clemons. The Eagles had two
chances -to take the lead, but
Jordan James and Josh Vaught
each missed a shot.
Proffitt started a gameclinching 7-0 run by South
Laurel by making the second of
two free throws with 2:01 left.
Center Walt Allen had 18
points, 14 rebounds and four
blocked shots for South Laurel,
while forward Eric Fields
added 16 points, seven
rebounds and three steals.
Matt Karn scored 12 points
and Clemons added 10 for
Ohio County, which was making its third Sweet 16 appearance. Clint Reisz, the team's
leading scorer, had eight points
and 15 rebounds.
The inside duo of Steffphon
Pettigrew and Zipp Duncan led
5th
Region
champion
Elizabethtown past Perry
County Central (23-8).
The Commodores, the 14th
Region champion, had no
answer for Pettigrew, a 6-foot4 sophomore who had 24
points and 13 rebounds, or
Duncan, a 6-4 senior who has
signed to play football at
Kentucky. Duncan finished
with 23 points and 11
rebounds.
The Panthers led by as
many as 11 points in the first
half and 38-28 at halftime.
Perry County Central cut the
lead to two points on three
occasions in the fourth quarter,
the last at 54-52 with 5:16 left.
But each time, Duncan or
Pettigrew scored from close
range
to
extend
Elizabethtown's lead.
A 13-2 run in the late stages
sealed
the
win
for
Elizabethtown.
Daniel Combs went 11-of16 from the field, including 6of-11 from 3-point range, and
scored 30 points for Perry
County Central.
Wilbert Reeves had 20
points and eight rebounds for
7th Region champion Ballard,
which avenged an earlier loss
to 8th Region champion Bullitt
East (25-8).
The Chargers - who beat
Ballard 64-50 on Dec. 18 made just one of 13 3-point
attempts and shot 25 .6 percent
from the field in the rematch.
Montel Harvey added 13
points for the Bruins, who won
despite
committing
18
turnovers.
Ryan Troutman led Bullitt
East with 11 points - all from
the free-throw line - while
Robert Troutman scored 10
points. Daniel Alcorn, the
Chargers' leading scorer at
20.9 points per game, scored
only four on 2-of-15 shooting.
15th Region Girls•
Basketball Toumantent.
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JActsoN - For one half
Tuesday night in the 14th
Region championship game,
Whitesburg hung right with
Knott County Central. But the
Lady Patriots eventually pulled
away, beating the Yellow
Jackets 66-46 on the Breathitt
County High gym floor and
thus earning a trip to Bowling
Green, Western Kentucky
University and the Girls' Sweet
16 State Tournament.
Knott Central, coached by
Rhett Gibson, shot 67 percent
~ in the second half and also kept
up on the defensive end.
Heather Martin paced the
Lady Patriots with 22 points
and 11 rebounds. Kasi Mullins-
Galloway added 18 points,
three assists, three steals and
two blocked shots. MullinsGalloway is headed to the
University of Kentucky.
Whitesburg, again the
defending 14th Region All "A"
Classic champion, couldn't
counter all of Knott Central's
offensive firepower. The Lady
Yellow Jackets, coached by
Dickie Adams, ran out of
answers in the second half.
Knott Central senior forward Keisha Johnson added 10
points. Johnson hit three-offour three-point field goal
attempts.
Whitesburg's Camille Cook
led all scorers with 25 points.
She also had 12 rebounds and
two steals.
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Girls' Basketball
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Knott County Central . ... . .30-3
Perry County Central . .. ...26-5
Whitesburg . ... . . . ..... ..25-8
Breathitt County ........ .19-10
Wolfe County . ....... . . .18-10
Owsley County . __ ... _. . .16-12
Leslie County .. .. . . ... . .14-12
Fleming-Neon . . .. . . . .. _.13-14
Jenkins .... ..... . . . ... .12-17
Lee County ...... . ... .. .11-13
June Buchanan . .... . ... .11-15
Buckhorn ....... . .. .. ..11-16
Powell County _.... __. _.l 1-16
Cordia . . .... .... . .... . .10-12
Hazard .. _..... .. .. . _.. .10-15
Jackson City . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
Riverside Christian . . . . . . 4-23
Letcher .. . ...... . .. .. . . .1-21
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - University
Heights of Hopkinsville, the
smallest school in the Boys
Sweet 16 basketball tournament,
beat Rowan County 62-53 on
Thursday in a first-round game.
University Heights (31-4) has
an enrollment of 88 students and
won the All 'A' Classic championship last month. The Blazers,
who have won 24 of their last 25
games, will play either Lone Oak
fff Paducah or Corbin in the
quarterfinals on Friday.
Joshua Mack scored 19
points for the Blazers, who lost
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within 28-26 by halftime and
took the lead for good at 34-31
with 5:29 left in the third quarter on a traditional 3-point play
by Patrick Metcalfe, who
scored 10 points.
The Blazers pushed their lead
to nine points in the fourth quarter. Rowan County pulled within
52-49 with 3:17 left, but consecutive buckets by Metcalfe and
four free throws by Mack sealed
the win for University Heights.
Matthew Daniel scored 14
points and Bryantt Furman
added 11 for the Vikings, who
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win was University Heights'
first since 1995. The Blazers
won the state title in 1992.
University Heights, the 2nd
Region champion, rallied from
an 11-point second-quarter
deficit thanks in good part by
shooting 59 percent from the
field in the second half. The
Blazers shot just 33.3 percent
in the first half.
Rowan County (27-6) , the
16th Region champion, scored
the first ~even points and led
28-17 with 2:57 left in the first
half, but the Vikings didn't
.~eN~' again bcfc rc halftime.
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64 • FRIDAY,
MARCH
18, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Osborne signs with Union College
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
HI HAT - South Floyd High
School senior Joe Osborne will play
football at the next level. On
Thursday aftemoon, Osborne made
his colleg~; choice known during a
signing ceremony, inking with
Union College.
Osborne, a running back who finished fifth statewide in Class A in the
individual rushing category, gained
l ,670 yards on J 85 carries during his
final prep season. He scored 16
touchdowns and carried in 10 twopoint conversions for a scoring average of 10.5 points per game.
Osborne chose Union over
Campbellsville, Morehead State and
Hanover.
As a team last season, among
Class A squads, South Floyd led the
<;tate in rushing with an average of
353.3 yards per game. South Floyd
ranked sixth in scoring.
Dming the signing ceremony, South
Floyd Coach Donnit: Daniels touted
Osborne's character and work ethic.
"He has worked hard everyday
that he's been here:' said Daniels.
"Joe will do well."
Osborne spoke after the signing.
He thanked his high school football
teammates and encouraged them to
continue to work hard.
Head coach Tommy Reid was one
of two Union College coaching staff
members present at Thursday's signing.
Reid welcomed Osborne into a
Union College football program that
appears to again be ready to make
some noise in the more than competitive Mid-South Conference.
"We're excited to have Joe joining us at Union College," Reid said.
Union College finished the 2004
season in winning fashion, beating
Cumberland (Tenn.) University 48-25.
Union College finished the season with a 4-7 overall record and a 46 Mid-South Conferepce worksheet.
South Floyd assistant coach/running backs coach Bobcat Jackson, also
in attendance at the signing ceremony,
also spoke during the signing event.
"I just wanna ask Joe if he feels
it," Jackson commented. "In practice
and in games I always ask them if
photos by Steve LeMaster
they feel it. So, Joe, do you feel it?"
South Floyd High senior Joe Osborne, a running who rushed for 1,670 yards and 16
Osborne acknowledged that he touchdowns last fall. jolrted on Thursday by famUy, coaches and teammates, signed
felt it, saying, "yes, sir."
with Union College.
15TH REGION GIRLS'
BASKETBALL
TEAM
Magoffin County
• BETSY LAYNE
Belfry
Johnson Central
Pikeville
East Ridge
Pike County Central
Phelps
Paintsville
Allen Central
Prestonsburg
Shelby. Valley
South Floyd
Sheldon Clark
Piarist School
RECORD
24-6
24-8
20·8
18-9
' 12
16-12
15·16
13-13
12·13
12·16
11·16
10-16
9·16
3-20
3-20
• Regio" Champio"
Pikeville YMCA
releases softball info
PIKEVILLE - The Pikeville
YMCA softball leagues are now
accepting teams for the following three leagues: Men's
Weeknight League, Men's
Sunday Only League and
Church League. To enter a team
or for more information, call
Carl Mullins at 606/432-4658.
The 2005 Hillbilly Days
Men's Softball tournament will be
held April 16-17 at the 'Pikeville
YMCA Softball Field. For more
information, contact Mullins.
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Seed snub behind him, Pitino prepares for
' oughest first-round matchup I've ever had'
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Louisville
coach Rick Pitino has gotten
over the disappointment of the
fourth-ranked Cardinals earning
a No.4 seed in the NCAA tournament.
"It's behind us now. Too
much time has been spent
speaking about things you can't
do anythmg about," Pitino said
Wednesday. "We're just concentrating on the matter at hand."
The C ,\rdinals (29-4), the
Conl\.:rcnce USA· 'champions
nnd wil\t1er'l: in 18 'of'th~ir last 19
game~. open tournament play
f'rid,ty in Nashville, Tenn.,
against l ~lh-sccded LouisianaLal'uycttc (20- I 0).
Saturday, Pitino told his team
it was playing for a No. 1 or No.
2 seed before the tournament
title game against Memphis,
which the Cardinals won 75-74.
A day later, the team gathered at a restaurant to watch the
selection show. But when the
pairing appeared, Pitino shook
his head as his players sat in
stunned silence.
Tournament selection committee chairman Bob Bowlsby
said later the Cardinals were
seeded lower because of the quality of the teams ahead of them.
"Ultimately, you go down
line by line and collectively our
opinion was that we wouldn't
tnRe kt1~<1dy off those first
three lines to put anybody from
line four in there," he said.
On his radio show Monday,
Pitino called the seeding "a Joe
Frazier punch right to your
stomach."
By Wednesday, he said it was
time to move on.
Now, Pitino said the players
are squarely focused on the
Ragin' Cajuns, a team Pitino
said is capable of sending the
Cardinals home early - not a
bad thing.
"This is the toughest firstround matchup I've ever had as
a coach, but I'd probably rather
have it that way," he said. "We
play better against better talent
anyway."
Pitino is 27-9 in 10 NCAA
tournament appearances, but he's
lost two of three NCAA games
sinee he's been at Louisville.
He's more optimistic about
Louisville's chances this time.
"This year, we have injuries,
but we can overcome it because
we're deeper, more of a veteran
ballclub," he said. "The Ragin'
Cajuns are very capable of beating us. We know that. But, we're
capable of staying with anybody
because we play it close and we
can win close games."
Ravaged by injuries early in
the season, Louisville will have
to overcome one more as the
tournament unfolds.
Reserve Otis George sat out
Saturday's game after a stress
fracture was discovered in the
third metatarsal of his right foot.
Earlier this season, the 6-foot-8
George missed eight games to
heal a stress fracture in a different bone in 'the same foot. The
two injuries are unrelated, sports
informa~ion director Kenny
Klein said.
six
George,
averaging
rebounds and five points per
game, will not practice all week
and will wear a protective boot
until he's evaluated again on
Frida~.
Pitino was hoping he could get
10 to 12 minutes out of George,
who's averaged 20 minutes per
game this season off the bench.
"Hopefully, he'll be out of
the boot for Friday's game,"
Pitino said. "Anything's a
bonus."
If George can't play, his
absence would magnify what
Pitino says i:> still Louisville's
most
glaring
weakness:
rebounding. The Cardinals rank
2.8th in the nation in rebound
margin (+5 .9), but Pitino said
the statistics are deceptive.
"I don't think we rebound
well at all," he said. "We don't
box out and we're not quick to
the ball and we don't have great
length. It's not effort, but we get
pushed. Physically, we're a little
weak."
Louisville has made up for
that weakness all year' 'in other
areas, ranking third in th~ .nation
in field-goal defense (38 percent), sixth in scoring offense
(81 points per game) and 13th in
3-point field goal percentage.
The Cardinals also lost only
once on the road - at Houston
on Jan. 5 - and Pitino said its
road success could translate to a '
deep tournament run.
"The good thing about where
we stand right now is that every
game we're going to play will be
a very close game and we're
going to have to really execute,"
he said. "That's why being a good
road team will help us. All these·
road games were verf tough
down the stretch and we had to
execute down the stretch. That
will be great experience for us." ·
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Kentucky 72, Eastern Kentucky 64
0-0 21 , McLeish 1-6 5-9 7,
needed to take control.
The Wildcats used a 25-9 run Long 0-1 0-0 0, Rushing 3-5 0-0
midway through the first half to 9, Dialls 0-0 0-0 0, Wiersma 0-2
0-0 0. Totals 26-59 6-11 64.
take a 35-20 lead.
INDJA~APOLIS
Kentucky didn't have to rely on
KENTUCKY
(26-5):
Eastern Kentucky rallied to
1ts 3-poiht shooting Thursday. within 40-32 a( halftime and 44- Azubuike 6-9 3-5 16, Hayes 6Instead, the Wildcats took 36 early in the second half, but 13 4-4 16, Morris 3-4 2-4 8,
advantage of their powerful, the Wildcats countered with an Rondo 3-5 6-6 12, Sparks 0-2 00 0, Moss 2-4 1-2 6, Bradley 08-0 run to make it 52-36.
inside game.
Kelenna Azubuike and
It appeared then that the 1 0-0 0, Obrzut 2-2 1-1 5, Perry
2-6 1-2 5, Thomas 2-3 0-2 4,
Chuck Hayes each scored 16- Wildcats would roll.
points and
second-seeded
But the Colonels answered Crawford 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26Kentucky dominated the middle with their own 8-0 run, and later 5118-2672.
Halftime-Kentucky 40-32.
to hold off state rival Eastern Witt hit two straight 3-pointers
Kentucky 72-64 in the first to close the gap to 67-62 with 3-Point Goals_EKentucky 6-18
(Rushing 3-3, Witt 3-8,
round of the NCAA tournament. 2:13 to go. .
Kentucky (26-5) extended its
Kentucky sealed the ·win by McLeish 0-3, Ingles 0-4),
record for NCAA tournament shutting out the Colonels for the Kentucky 2-11 (Azubuike 1-2,
Moss 1-2, Rondo 0-1, Crawford
victories to 94 and is now 37-9 final 89 seconds.
in NCAA tournament openers.
Rajon Rondo scored 12 0-2, Perry 0-2, Sparks 0-2). ·
Out-None.
The Wildcats advanced to points and was the only other Fouled
Saturday's second round of the Wildcat to reach double figures. Rebounds-EKentucky 35 (Hird
Austin Regional and will face
No. 7 KENTUCKY 72, 14), Kentucky 31 (Hayes 9).
Assists-EKentucky 14 (Ingles
either Cincinnati or Iowa.
EKENTUCKY 64
The Colonels (22-9) were led
EKENTUCKY
(22-9): 4), Kentucky 11 (Rondo, Sparks
by Matt Witt with 21 points and Haney 6-10 0-0 12, Hird 5-7 1-2 4). Total Fouls-EKentucky 20,
Michael Haney with 12 points, 11, Ingles 2-7 0-0 4, Witt 9-21' Kentucky 11 . A-15 ,000.
but their first tournament
appearance since 1979 ended
quickly. Eastern Kentucky's
longest winning streak since
1964-65 ended at seven. The
Colonels are now 0-6 in NCAA
tournament games and 0-9
against the Wildcats.
The biggest difference was
Kentucky's dominant interior
players. They outscored. Eastern
Kentucky 42-24 and drew
enough fouls to put the
Colonels' two best post players
- Haney and Alonzo Hird - in
foul trouble. Hird finished with
11 points and 14 rebounds.
Eastern Kentucky was sloppy in the first half, and coach
Travis Ford, a former Kentucky
player, tried everything to get
hi~ l~arn settled down. He
slammed his foot on the floor,
pleaded with his players and
even tried to coax the officials
into making calls.
The other problem was converting fast breaks. About a
half-dozen times, the Colonels
threw the ball away or missed
layups on breakaways.
And that was all Kentucky
KENTUCKY'S CHUCK HAYES
by MICHAEL MAROT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bowlers begin postseasQn
competition Saturday
j
TIMES STAFF REPORT
CHATTANOOGA, .Tenn. The women:s bowling team of
Pikeville College will begin
defense of its national championship this weekend as the
International
Bowling
Championships will hold its
Sectional Qualifiers.
The field of 64 teams in both
the men's and women's divisions will be split into four sectional tournaments, with the top
four teams in each section
advancing to the 2005 IBC
championships, held this year at
The Cherry Bowl in Rockford,
Ill., April 20-23.
Both of Pikeville's teams will
compete in Chattanooga, the
first time the teams have been
assigned to a section here. The
other three sectional sites are
Fairview Heights, Ill.; San Jose,
Calif.; and Allentown, Penn.
While the men's bowlers
will be seeking their first trip to
the national finals, the women
have won the Sectional championship in all· three years of
their existence.
The sectionals will consist
of 32 Baker System games
each day for a total of 64 Baker
games. The top four teams
based on total pinfall in each
division following the completion of competition at each sectional.will advance to the 2005
IBC. Under the Baker format, a
team of five bowlers roll two
frames each in a game.
Sectional assignments are
based on the Team Ranking
System points earned in
CBUSA-sanctioned competition throughout the season.
Sectional Qualifier assignments
will be made to balance the field
strength with no more than four
of the top I 6 ranked teams
based on the final TRS standings in each. Sectional Qualifier
fields are determined by taking
geographic distance, economics
and field size into consideration.
The women's fields are relatively balanced. Each Sectional
has two of the top eight teams
in the most recent rankings,
with No.3 Pikeville sharing the
Chattanooga lanes with eighthranked Kansas. No. 10 Purdue
is also in Chattanooga, along
with McKendree (111.) College,
meaning the top four teams in
Pikeville's sectional are all in
the Top 11.
No. 1 Wichita State will
compete in Fairview Heights,
while second-ranked West
Texas A&M is in San Jose.
Digging deeper, Wichita State
seemed to have the deepest
pool of competition, with nine
of the Top 25 in its sectional.
Six are in with PikeviUe - No.
19 Ball State and No. 23
Florida State join the top four- 'I
while five others are eacb in the
other two sections.
The men's bowlers enter the
field ranked eighth nationally
and will share the lanes in
Chattanooga with defending
national champion Kansas. The
Jayhawks, much like Pikeville's
women, enter defense of their
first-ever national crown ranked
third in the country.
No. 10 Saginaw Valley
State, which lost to KU in the
2004 finals, and No. 15
Western New England College are also in Chattanooga.
Top-ranked Cal. StateFresno is at home in the San
Jose sectional, while secondranked Wichita State is in
Fairview Heights.
· Unlike the women's field,
which sees nine of the nation's
Top 25 in one sectional, the
men's field is entirely more balanced. Three sections feature six
teams in the Top 25 - Pikeville
is joined by No. 19 Florida State
University
and
No . 24
Cincinnati - with one, Fairview
Heights, hosting seven.
!It
Benga ls to open
aga1nst N ew England:
•
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI
The
Cincinnati Bengals will open
the preseason this summer
against the two-time defend-
I
ing champion New England
Patriots, and w i 11 end it
against Indianapolis, the club
said Wednesday.
Both games are at Paul
Brown Stadium. In between,
the Bengals will play at
Washington
and
Philadelphia.
Dates and times for the •
games
have
not
been
announced.
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
FRIDAY, MARCH
18, 2005 • 85
Rivals in races, Busch brothers are family off the track
by TOM GARDNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS - Shortly after
finishing third in the UAWDaimlerChrysler 400, Kurt
Busch casually dumped some of
his Coke down the neck of his
younger brother - Kyle Busch,
t;. who was second in the race.
"Pepsi's better," Kyle said,
shrugging off the chilly splash.
Different teams, different
sponsors, but the Busch brothers
are a pair to be contended with
in races and part of a devoted
racin~ family off the track.
"I've been able to work on
race car~ and work all around
them for' years - my dad and
myself and Kurt," Kyle said.
"You kind of get the fundamentals and gradually step up as far
as racing goes. You aJso step up
and gradually learn ... what it
takes to make them go faster."
Tom Busch, who turned his
•:
talent as an auto dealership
mechanic into building and driving race'cars, shared his skills
and love of the sport with his
sons.
"He's been a mentor for me
since I began racing , building
race cars together and setting
them up together and looking at
one another as friends or as crew
chief and driver more so than we
did as father and son," said Kurt
Busch, the reigning Nextel Cup
champion.
"We meant it as Saturday
night family fun. We never
thought it would go much farther than we could afford," he
said. "We were able to meet the
right people along the way and
the right sponsors and we definitely had some results on our
sid~ to help. We took it seriously, but we were having fun, bottom line."
The brothers Busch raced
with each other - and their
father- at the local short track,
winning in various categories
before moving up in competition.
As a high school junior, Kyle
NASCAR
drove
in
six
Craftsman Truck Series races
for Roush Racing and had a pair
of top 10 finishes. After a move
to Hendrick Motorsports, he fin-
ished eighth in the American
Speed Association in 2002, then
won two ARCA stock car races
and made seven Busch Series
starts in 2003. Last year, he was
the Busch Series runner-up.
Kurt's advancement also was
fast. He began driving Cup cars
in 2001 at age 22 after finishing
second for Roush Racing in
Craftsman Trucks in 2000 and
winning
the
NASCAR
Southwest Tour title in 1999.
Last year he was crowned champion ofNASCAR's top series.
On Sunday at Las Vegas
Motor Speedway, two brothers
who once competed in go-karts
found themselves side by side in
the closing stages of the race.
Kyle outraced Kurt to finish second behind Jimmie Johnson.
"I hope this wasn't just a
fluke. Qualifying on the pole
two weeks ago in California and
finishmg second here in the race
is just a tremendous opportunity
for the whole team," Kyle
Busch said.
His pole at Fontana put him
in NASCAR's record book as
the youngest driver t0 start a
race from the front at age 19.
''I'm very proud of him," his
26-year-old brother said after
following Kyle to the checkered
flag Sunday. "Congratulations
to my little brother and it officially stops now - the advice to
Kyle - because he beat me fair
and square."
Both brothers said they share
some racing information, but
not too much. Kurt Busch runs
with Roush Racing and teammates Matt Kenseth, Mark
Martin, Greg Biffle and Carl
Edwards.
Kyle, who took over the No.
5 ride in Hendrick Motorsports
when two-time series champion
Terry Labonte opted for partial
retirement, is teammates with
Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Brian
Vickers and Labonte.
"We talk a little bit about
how the race track changes and
what kinds of setups you need to
incorporate into your car," Kyle
Busch said of his brother.
"Honestly, I'm going to him a
lot more than he is to me. You
know, there's 41 other guys out
there that we both want to beat."
Longtime racing star Martin
sees teammate Kurt Busch as a
protege and Kyle Busch as a
serious challenger.
"In my eyes, he's the most taJented young driver that's come
along since or including Jeff
Gordon - and the only one that
jeopardizes that is Kyle," he said.
Tom Busch said he always
urged his sons to keep the fenders on their cars and to race for a
one-two finish in cars that could
still start the next weekend.
Before Sunday's race, he said
he thought it was a little early in
Kyle's Nextel Cup career to
hope for a one-two finish.
Afterward, Kurt praised his
younger - but taller - brother,
who he called "shrub" when
they were growing up.
"He did it at Vegas, of all
places. I'm beside myself, really, because I didn't expect it
from him so early. The only
place I beat my little brother
today was to the media center."
When Kurt started racing, he
went with his dad to junkyards
for brakes, motors and other
spare parts.
"That way he could see how
much it took to get one to the
race track," Tom Busch said.
"Now, maybe, he'd think twice
if he had a spot that was risky.
You see a lot of dads would just
keep buying cars, but I didn't
have that dough.
"I had plenty of guys that
would sell me their old car and
we'd fix it up in the offseason
and beat them in the following
year and they'd try to trade me
their brand new car for their old
car back," he said.
Tom Busch worked as a spotter for Kyle at times last year in
the Busch series. This season his
observations come from off the
track, and are directed at both
sons.
"He said, 'It looked like your
car got a little loose in (turns)
three and four,' and I was
explaining to him, just like in
old days, then all the cameras
draped on top of me and I didn't
get into detail," Kurt said.
"He always tries to take care
of us. When we're in trouble whether it's on track or off track
-he's an experienced father."
Johnson loses points lead,
Cheating is part of
the game in NASCAR crew chief suspended
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
<J
CHl);RLOTTE, N.C.
There's~ an old saying in
NASCAR: If a team ain't
cheating, it ain't trying. With a
mud~y rule book open to various interpretations, drivers and
crews constantly push the limits to see1 what they can get past
inspectors.
"Being creative is my job,"
crew chief Chad Knaus said
when he earned his first major
penalty .in 2002. "If I am going
to get fined and penalized for
being creative, then that's just
part of it.
"Besiqles, the other guys are
cheatin'imore than we are."
Mayqe so, but Knaus and
his p~ers may start thinking
about f~llowing the rules to the
letter of the law from now on:
Knaus and two other crew
.tJ.chiefs were suspended this
week as NASCAR cracked
down op its culture of cheating.
All 'three crew chiefs will be
allowecf·to compete in Atlanta
this weekend while the
National Stock Car Racing
Commission prepares to hear
their appeals next week.
Knaus was suspended for
two weeks and fmed $35,000
after race-winner Jimmie
Johnson's car was found to be
too low following a victory in
Las V~gas. Johnson was
docked•i25 points, which cost
him his spot atop the Nextel
Cup standings.
Make no mistake about it,
Johnson should consider himself fortunate he was allowed to
keep the win.
NASCAR has a long-stand~
ing tradition of not changing
the race Winner after an event.
The argument is that it is confusing to the fan, who just
cheered his driver on to victory,
only to go home and read in the
next day's paper that his guy
~ actually didn't win the race.
But in NASCAR's push to
stop cheating - the sanctioning
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Governor Sonny Perdue
proclaimed March 16, 2005 as
'NASCAR Day' in Georgia.
In a proclamation ceremony
including : NASCAR drivers
It and offici;:tls from the Atlanta
Motor Speedway, Governor
Perdue 'praised the racing
industry for its positive influence on the Georgia economy.
"NASCAR racing brings
almost a quarter of a million
fans to the state of Georgia in
one wee).cend, creating jobs and
contributing millions to the
state economy," said Governor
Sonny Perdue. "Georgia has
known for years what others
are now realizing- NASCAR
, ~acing is one of the most entertaining and fastest growing
sports in America."
body first relied on monetary
fines, then upped the stakes to
docking points in 2002 before
issuing Tuesday's suspensions
of Knaus and the crew chiefs
for Kevin Harvick (one month)
and Kyle Busch (two weeks) taking victories just mighl be
the next step.
"It is not fair to the fans or to
the cars that are legal for a victory to be tainted," said
NASCAR spokesman Jim
Hunter. "We've tried money
and we've tried points and
nothing works. Hopefully the
light will go by some crew
chiefs taking a vacation and we
won't have to do anything else.
"But if we have to consider
further action, we will."
NASCAR might have to
because, as word spread
through the Nextel Cup circuit
about the suspensions, some
considered the penalties a slap
on the wrist.
"I've got three drivers who
would trade $25,000, 25 points
and a suspension for a win,"
said Chip Ganassi, car owner
for Sterling Marlin, Jamie
McMurray and Casey Mears.
"You want to stop cheating?
Take the wins away."
The problem is, NASCAR
never will be able to 100 percent police cheating _ because
what it deems illegal, a crew
chief might view as a loophole
in the rules.
The late Smokey Yunick
was the master of massaging
the rule book, maintaining that
if something was not specifically outlawed, it was assumed
to be legal. It led to a decadeslong feud between Yunick and
NASCAR's ruling France family, and inspectors spent hours
each week picking over
Yunick's race entries.
In one of the most notorious
Yunick stories, NASCAR questioned the fuel mileage of one
of his cars after rivals accused
him of having an oversized fuel
tank. NASCAR removed the
fuel tank, and after a heated
argument, Yunick climbed into
his car and drove it away without a fuel tank.
Now that Brian France,
grandson of NASCAR founder
Bill France, is running the
sport, he's more interested in
integrity than the tradition of
teams trying to pull a fast one
over on inspectors.
That's why the latest round
of penalties was so·. stiff, and
why NASCAR found no
humor in Todd Berrier admitting to illegally rigging
Harvick's fuel tank.
In a different day, Berrier's
boasting would have been
funny. But when he essentially
told the media he knows why
he got caught, and wouldn't
hesitate to do it again, France
and NASCAR president Mike
Helton hit the roof.
"Anybody is free to be as
aggressive against the line as
they want to be, that's their job
- to go all the way to the line but
still be in compliance," France
said. "If they miscalculate, even
in the smallest way, we have to
address it to malntain the credi·
bility of the rules process."
Car owner Rick Hendrick has
maintained that the penalties
against Knaus and Busch crew
chief Alan Gustafson were too
harsh and he is appealing. So is
Childress, even though Berrier
told reporters that his boss encourages him to tweak the rules.
But at least one driver said
NASCAR is finally on the right
track.
"It's getting to the point
where NASCAR doesn't want
to see people cheating. They
want it to be fair for everybody,
which 1 think is great," said
2000 series champion Bobby
Labonte. "By NASCAR taking
points away and fining them
and giving them suspensions; it
keeps escalating.
"It's going to get to a point
where everybody says this is way
too much. Is it too much right
now? No, but it's taking steps to
get people's attention, I guess."
In just two race weekends
each year, NASCAR will contribute $455 million to the
Georgia economy.
The Governor was joined by
Atlanta Motor Speedway
President and General Manager
Ed Clark, NASCAR Managing
Director for Licensed Products
Blake Davidson, Chairman of
the NASCAR Hall of Fame
Committee for Atlanta Mark
Lazarus and NASCAR drivers
Terry Cook, Bill Elliott, Bill
Lester and Todd Kluever.
As part of the N AS CAR
Day
2005
celebration,
NASCAR is sponsoring three
children's charities. Victory
Junction Gang Camp (VJGC)
was founded by Kyle and Pattie
Petty in honor of their son,
fourth-generation N A SCAR
driver Adam Petty.
The mission of VJGC is to
enrich the lives of children with
chronic or life-threatening illnesses by creating a racingthemed camp experience.
Speediatrics is a NASCAR
themed pediatric unit at Halifax
Medical Center in Daytona
Beach and Homestead Hospital
in Miami. Lastly, Speedway
Children's Charities provides
funds to organizations like the
Make-A-Wish Foundation to
meet the direct needs of children with medical, educational
or social challenges.
On March 20, Atlanta Motor
Speedway will host the Gold.en
Corral 500 , which is expected
to draw approximately 250,000
visitors. The Atlanta Motor
Speedway is located in
Hampton, Georg1a, which has a
population of 2,700.
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
NASCAR has turned its penalty
system up a notch, stripping
Jimmie Johnson of his lead in
the points and suspending three
crew chiefs for cheating at Las
Vegas Motor Speedway.
It's NASCAR's most severe
meting out of punishment since
the sanctioning body began
docking points in 2002.
Johnson's winning car failed
to pass inspection after
Sunday's race, falling short of
the minimum height requirement. For that, NASCAR suspended crew chief Chad Knaus,
fined him $35,000 and docked
Johnson 25 points in the Nextel
Cup standings in a swift crackdown Tuesday.
Johnson defended his crew
chief, considered among the
best in the garage, and said his
Chevrolet was too low because
a bolt came loose during the
UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
"I have 100 percent trust and
confidence in Chad that he is
going to do everything within
the rules," Johnson said.
The points reduction dropped
Johnson from firSt to second in the
standings. He now trails series
champion Kurt Busch by 10 points .
Also suspended Tuesday was
Todd Berrier, crew chief for
Kevin Harvick, who was given a
four-week sentence and fined
$25,000 for rigging the fuel tank
to appear full when it actually
wasn't during qualifying.
Alan Gustafson was suspended for two weeks and fined
$25,000 because Kyle Busch's
runner-up car was too high in
the post-race inspection.
"Guys have just got to stop
playing games with the rules,"
NASCAR spokesman Jim
Hunter told The Associated
Press. "We've got to do whatever we have to do to protect the
integrity of this sport."
Harvick and Kyle Busch also
were docked 25 points apiece.
And 25 car-owner points were
taken from Rick Hendrick, the
car owner for Kyle Busch; Jeff
Gordon, who owns Johnson's
car, and Richard Childress, who
owns Harvick's.
Hendrick and Childress said
they plan to appeal.
"I'm not disputing NASCAR 's
right to levy sanctions," Hendrick
said in a statement. "As a team
owner, I understand why these
standards are in place and have
always taken pride in the fact that
our organization has kept a very
clean record.
"In this particular instance,
though, we disagree with the
severity of NASCAR's stance
. and plan to appeal their decision. I want to make it clear that
we in no way intentionally
ignored guidelines, and I'm cer-
tain everyone understands that."
Childress echoed his fellow
team owner.
"I understand NASCAR 's
reasons for imposing a penalty,"
he said. "However, I think the
penalty they have given us is out
of line, so we have decided to
appeal their ruling."
Berrier admitted intentionally rigging the 22-gallon tank to
appear full when it had just five
gallons of gas in it - thereby
allowing the car to go faster.
The team was caught because
Harvick qualified fourth. If he
had been outside of the top five,
his car might not have been
checked following his run.
And if NASCAR officials
weren't already angry, their
patience was tested when
Berrier showed little remorse
after being caught.
"If I had to do it again, I'd
still play it to try to get away
with it, because I know how I
got
caught,"
he
told
NASCAR.com.
Hunter hopes the penalties serve
as a wake-up call to the teams.
"This is just unacceptable,"
he said. "So maybe the crew
chiefs being at home will help
remedy this issue."
None of the suspended crew
chiefs will be permitted to communicate with their race teams
via cell phone or radio during
the time they are suspended,
Hunter said.
Mears ready for big jump in NASCAR
turned 27 last Saturday.
"1 know the kind of talent
Casey has because I've watched
It took Casey Mears a while him come up through the
just to get used to having a roof ranks," Ganassi said when he
over his head on the racetrack.
moved Mears up to Cup. "He
Mears, the nephew of four- brings energy and a tremendous
time Indianapolis 500 winner work ethic to the team.".
Rick Mears, thought he was
For a while, it looked like a
born to be racing sleek open- failed experiment.
cockpit cars, not boxy, claustroMears struggled through his
phobic stock cars.
rookie season in 2003, earning no
But opportunities were · top lOs, failing to finish 10 races
scarce in the world of open- and winding up 35th in the points.
wheel racing, and in 2002 Mears
It wasn't a completely lost
found himself racing stock cars year, though. Ganassi kept
in NASCAR's Busch Series for Mears busy learning the basics
Chip Ganassi, a team owner of stock car racing, also running
who also came from an open- him in ARCA and Busch. Mears
wheel background.
showed enough to keep the boss
"I always saw myself in an happy, winning a trio of ARCA
lndyCar," said Mears, now in races and also corning up with
his third full season driving for four top-lOs in 14 Busch starts.
Ganassi in NASCAR's top
Last year, expectations were
series and his first season as high, but Mears got off to a miswhat he and his team hope will erable start before finally startbe a serious contender for a spot ing to show some strength in the
in the Chase for the Nextel Cup second half of the season - comchampionship.
ing up with a career-best finish
"The ftrst time I probably of fourth on the road course at
saw myself as a stock car driver Watkins Glen and finishing
was probably halfway or toward 22nd in the standings.
the end of my Busch season,"
After a crash in the seasonMears said. "I didn't expect to opening Daytona 500 and an
be in the Busch car. It kind of overheating
problem
at
just happened, and I didn't California, it appeared Mears
know anything about it."
might be destined for another
For Mears, who had two top- tough year in 2005. But things
10 finishes in 34 starts in Busch, turned around last Sunday in Las
moving up to Ganassi's No. 41 Vegas with a seventh-place finish.
Dodge in NASCAR's top series
That boosted Mears 13 spots
the following year was ju~t as to 15th in the standings, only 46
surprising as to most observers. points out of the coveted top-10
But Ganassi showed confi- heading into Sunday's Nextel
dence in the youngster, who Cup race at Atlanta Motor
by MIKE HARRIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Speedway.
"We really needed that after
the ftrst two races," Mears said.
"We're definitely in position now
to start making some good gains."
Ganassi agrees.
"Casey's performance last
season was a huge jump from
his first year," said Ganassi,
who also fields Cup cars for
Sterling Marlin and Jamie
McMurray. "We're looking for a
jump like that again in 2005.
We'd just like to see a little
more consistency."
A big difference in Mears is
his confidence level compared
to this time a year ago.
"Night and day," Mears said.
"From the first year and the first
part of last year, totally different. All the way around things
have gotten better, and it just
came with time and experience.
. "Anything you start out
doing, you get a couple of years
down the road and look back
and think you didn't know anything. As long as we continue to
keep learning and keep growing
the wa:y we've been doing, I
don't see any end to it."
Mears said the biggest difference he sees in himself is
patience.
"I thought I had patience," he
said. "But I've learned what that
word means now. I've learned
when to be aggressive and
maybe when to let a guy by if
he's catching me. It's all trial
and · error. Nobody can teach
you. You need to get seat time
and it's just something you learn
for yourself."
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THROUGH MY EYES
To sl ep,
Women in History
perchance,
to dream
Theresa Scott
Wow, just got through reading
this week's Family Medicine column and am amazed, and also
relieved,
to
find out that,
apparently, it
isn't just my
teenagers that
like to stay
awake half the
night
and
sleep in the
next half of the
following day.
Even more,
KathY Prater
according to
lHestvles lllltor Dr. Martha A.
Simpson, who
pens the column, staying awake
until midnight and sometimes
later, is not even their fault.
Rather, the "fault" can be found in
the hormonal shifts affecting their
teenage bodies.
And all this time, here I was,
being a bit of a "night owl" (as my
photo by Kathy J.
Prater
Theresa Morgan
Scott, Floyd
County
Extension Agent
for Family and
Consumer
Sciences, says
that the role she
plays within our
community Is
actually that of
"an advisor,"
sharing information and helping
to facilitate and
carry out local
~---=-- efforts.
(See EYES, page seven)
POSTSCRIYf
Apologies
and outrages
First off, let me apologize for
last week's rerun. I normally get
( the column to Kathy Prater sometime on Tuesday, but last week, it
· was midday Wednesday before I
even thought of it, and I was in the
middle of & deadline project.
I emailed Kathy that my timing
is off these
days. I can't
seem to keep
my
days
straight.
I suspect
this is a
c o n s e 1quence
df
adva ncin~
old age, but
I'd prefer to
Pam Shingler
think it's
centrlat~~tlllfter
because my
brain is just
too full. I liken it to a computer,
(See POSTSCRIPT, page seven )
II
Impactitig Floyd County communities
positively through extension programs
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
She comes to Floyd County by way of
Danville- and Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Florida years being spent in early childhood, after which her family returned to their
Danville, Kentucky home; the Pennsylvania
and Ohio years having been spent as she
departed college days toward the first steps in
building a career.
Beginning her working days in the food
industry as a sales representative for the food
service and food manufacturing industries,
Scott says that she spent many lonely years on
the road that left her searching for a position
that would better serve her warm personality
and love of people.
Having a bachelor's of science degree in
vocational home economics education, as well
as a master's degree in education, both from
Eastern Kentucky University, Scott says that
she was thrilled when the opportunity arrived
for her to be employed as a vocational home
economics teacher in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Though her "first love" is teaching and she
shares that her "heart will be always in the
classroom," Scott nevertheless thoroughly
enjoys the work she is now doing serving as
Floyd County's Extension Agent for Family
and Consumer Sciences. "This position is so
full of networking opportunities and I've
found, also, that this community is such a won-
derful community in which to work, that I have
to say that I simply could not be any happier
anywhere," she said.
Scott, who is, in her own words, "a very
well-rounded person," brings to her current
position a wealth of experience stemming from
a diverse background and wide expanse of
interests. Some of the areas in which she has
divested her energies since coming to the
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension
Service, include an active involvement in the
Extension Homemakers program, conducting a
diabetes support group, helping to found and
underwrite grants for the Floyd County
Community Early Childhood Education pro(See THERESA SCOTT., page eight)
THINGS TO PONDER
Productive Anger
Anger is one of those very frequently
used words in everyday speech. Wonder if
it is not said sometimes out of habit or if
the person really feels angry. Although
volumes have been written about anger its chara ristics, sources, consequences,
and control - the Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary identified the word
as being around since the 14th century and
defined it simply as "a strong feeling of
displeasure and usually of antagonism."
Anger is the most general term that labels
these feelings without conveying anything
about the intensity, justification, or manifestation of such an emotional state. As a
result, many other words have gradually
been associated with or used "same as" to
refer to anger. Rage relates to the loss of
self-control with violence when emotional,
"screaming with rage." Fury is even
greater destructive rage that can verge on
madness. Wrath tends to suggest a desire
or intent to obtain revenge or punishment.
In contrast, indignation reflects a "righteous" anger where the person views the
situation as unfair, mean, or shameful.
Since everyone is likely to feel angry at
some time in life, how would you describe
your anger - the frequency, the intensity,
why, and the outcome?
Even though many folks perceive anger
as rarely paying, research pertaining to
anger reveals that the red-hot emotion has
a positive side. Results have shown that
anger can aid in clarifying relationship
problems, finalize business deals, get political issues going, and provide people with
a sense of control during uncertain periods.
On a larger scale, anger can stimulate a
complete culture to change for the better,
such as the women's suffrage movement in
the early 1900's and the 1960's civil rights
movement.
The concept or idea of constructive
anger is yet to be defined, since it varies
according to the situation and what is happening. Generally, anger has a bad reputation due to it frequently being wrongly
connected to violence . In contrast, anger
seems to be followed by aggression only
about 10 percent of the time; aggression
happens many times without anger.
"1\Tumerous studies have demonstrated that
there are circumstances where anger (without violence) is often beneficial, such as
when it is usually "played out" in homes.
It also seems that the routine, everyday
episodes of anger are more beneficial than
the more dramatic ones. In some research
during the 1980's, anger episodes were
found to help strengthen relationships
about half of the time. More recently, a
report described how 40 percent of a group
perceived positive long-term effects of
anger episodes, 36 percent were neutral
and 25 percent expressed negative longterm outcomes. In a study involving
Russians and Americans, an anger episode Mable Rowe Lineberger,
Ph.D.
was thought to produce a po itive outcome . It was interesting that about one(See PONDER, page seven)
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�fRIDAY, MARCH
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Ponder
• Continued from p6
third of this group thought that
the episode aided them in seeing their own faults. Some
individuals, who were targets
of anger, reported, "I really
understand the other person
much better now - I guess I
wasn't listening before." An
opinion was that an assertivetype of response is always the
best choice over an angry
expression, but that the angry
statement might be an important part of alerting the other
person and "leads to deeper
understanding of the other person and the problem."
Then there's the "positive
feedback locp" that constructive anger is capable of creating. Several factors can make
the difference between constructive and destructive anger,
with regard to everyday anger.
Constructive anger results
when two individuals involved
with the issue are able to interact. The ideal is also that the
angry person verbalizes his
anger to the other person, the
target, and the target hears the
person and reacts appropriately.
Thus, the misunderstanding is
usually corrected, if the angry
feeling is justified and the
response ' is
appropriate.
Another factor supporting constructive anger is when individuals use it in terms of solving a
mutual problem, instead of just
taking the opp9rtunity to vent
their feelings. "What can we
do to solve the problem?" One
researcher stressed the importance of realizing that the outcome of an anger episode is
based on what issues are present and the social setting. If
anger is not constructive, it
moves into being an undesir-
Eyes
able emotional expression. It is
well known that anger
expressed to others can turn
into violence and aggression.
In contrast, anger "turned
inward" or kept inside and not
expressed can cause depression, health problems and communication difficulties.
A researcher at Stanford
University concluded that
anger also plays a powerful and
arguably positive role in the
workplace and in politics.
These are situations where
anger is often used for status,
power, control, and strategic
purposes rather than for emotional expression. It was interesting that people give more
support to politicians and to
colleagues who express anger
than to those who express sadness or guilt. Another study
found that anger ser'Ved as an
Dr. Lineberger is a Licensed
Psychologist with a private
practice, New Perspective
Psychological Services, in
Prestonsburg, and provides
therapy and psychological testing for all ages.
Postscript
• Continued from p6
dad liked to call me) myself,
thinking I was to blame for
passing along my bad sleeping
habits. Whew, what a relief to
know that I can blame the entire
situation on a hormonal bodily
function and not my own lack of
parenting skills.
One thing of particular interest to me was in learning that a
number of school districts
across the country have elected
to change their school day starting times to a time more suited
to these common teenage sleeping patterns. If any may recall,
I myself commented in recent
weeks, in this very column, that
if the Floyd County Board of
' Education ever desired to
change their school starting
times from the current "bright
and early" 8:15a.m. to a bit less
bright and early 10:15 a.m., that
I would stand firmly behind
them. Heck, I'll stand outside
t; the high school in one of those
sandwich signboards gathering
up signatures of those who also
support such a move if need be.
Among some of the districts
who have instituted such a
change is that of dear old
Lexington,
Kentucky.
Simpson's column notes that in
the districts that instituted
delayed school day starting
times, that significant reductions
in both absences and tardiness
~ were shown. You paying attention, members of the board?
Let 'em sleep a little bit
longer and they'll come to
empowering function following the events of September 11,
2001. Anger is probably beneficial from this perspective,
because it increases people's
sense of control. An additional
researcher further found that
angry people had a stronger
sense of control and certainty
than fearful people. However,
these tendencies are not always
justified or helpful, since angry
people are also less likely than
others to think they will have a
heart attack or get a divorce,
when they are actually more
prone for these negative events.
school wider awake, more
often, and with , I would presume, better attitudes.
Another significant finding
that I noted with great attention
was that such changes have
shown decreases in teenage car
accidents. Knowing now that I
am doing nothing more than
repeating a small segment of
Simpson's column, I have to
still point out that it has been
reported by the National
Highway Transportation Safety
Administration that young drivers (age 25 and under) are
involved in more than one-half
of all fall-asleep crashes. A fact
that comes more than a little too
close to home, considering that
one of my children's best
friends was killed in just such a
crash early last August as he fell
asleep at the wheel while on his
way home from an evening out
with friends.
Teenagers live busy lives many of them hold part-time
jobs, they are socially active
and, being in high school, they
often have time-consuming
homework assignments, not to
mention time-consuming, as
well as physically draining,
extracurricular activities.
I think it makes perfect sense
to let them sleep a little later in
the mornings before getting up
to tackle another hectic day.
So, like I said, anytime you
guys want me to wear the sandwich board, I'm ready- just make
sure it comes in "plus size."
• Continued from p6
where you have to clean out
the garbage every so often so
the machine will work. Well,
I tend to think that's true of
our brain, too - at least it is
in my case.
A technician recently
offered to show me how to
do something new on mycomputer at work, but I had
to tell him I refuse to learn
anything new until I get rid
of some of the trivia that's
filling up my memory bank.
He laughed. I was dead serious.
***
If I had written a new column last week, here are a
couple of items I wanted to
pass along.
First, the Lexington paper
had a short piece in the business section recently about
the bonuses corporate bosses
received last year.
Would you believe that
bonuses for CEOs at 100 major
US corporations went up by
close to 50 percent? The median bonus was $1.14 million.
An interesting example was
Michael Eisner, the head of
Walt Disney Co. He was
almost fired last year, but the
board, nevertheless, gave him a
bonus of more than $7 million.
Likewise, the chief honcho of Tyson Foods, John
Tyson, received a bonus of
more than $5 million, even
though he's been under
investigation
by
the
Securities and Exchange
Commission.
With
bonuses
and
salaries, the CEOs are making about 160 times as much
as the average production
worker.
Think about that when
you plan that trip to Disney
World or when you fry up a
pan of chicken.
***
Here's one to think about
when you read the warning
labels on prescriptions.
An
advisory
panel,
appointed by the Food and
Drug Administration, recently
voted that a group of strong
painkillers should continue to
be marketed - and we of all
people know how controversial some painkillers are.
Anyway, the kicker is that
10 members of the 32-member panel have direct ties to
some of the drug companies
that make the drugs being
voted on.
Some of the panelists had
been paid to speak at drug
company events, and some
received money from the
companies to do research.
Do you suppose they're
impartial? I'm a little skeptical.
18, 2005 • 87
Big Sandy Community and
Technical College Dean's List
and President's List for Fall 2004
Big Sandy Community and Technical College
(BSCTC) is proud to present the Dean's List and
President's List for fall2004. The Dean's list students earned a grade point average of 3.5 or better
during the fall 2004 semester. The President's List
students earned a grade point average of 4.0.
BSCTC DEAN'S LIST FALL
2004 (3.5 GPA or better)
FLOYD COUNTY: Brittany
Danielle Bailey, Bambi Sue
Baisden,
Kevin
Richard
Bellamy,
Danny
Paul
Blackburn,
Melissa
Ann
Blackburn, Nathaniel Curtis
Blackburn, Natasha Dawnelle
Bowling, Ashley Nicole Boyd,
Dennis Anthony Buckley, Kitty
Lynn Burchett, Diane Burke,
Michael K. Burke, Tyler John
Burke, Melanie Nicole Bums,
Jordan Brown Caldwell, Laura
Leigh Ann Carroll, Terra Lynn
Childers, James N. Clay, Jeremy
C. Click, Miranda Lynn Click,
Allison J. Clifton, Melissa
Collins, Matthew Wayne Cooke,
Lindsay
Nichole
Cooley,
Carolyn C. DelBello, Keri M.
Dingus, Ashlee Raye Ellis,
Austin Larry Francis, Paul
David Francis, Debra J.
Gambill, Kalvin R. Gamblin,
Brandy M. Gibson, Steven
Gillespie, Rebecca Madge
Goines, Gregory Scott Griffith,
Genoia Hackworth, Amber
Nichole Hall, Amber NaShea
Hall, Brandon Gene Hall, Carla
Marie Hall, Casaundra Ellen
Hall, Cassandra Jane Hall,
Leslie Sue Hall, Lucresia S.
Hall, Vickie Lynn Hall, Adam
Christopher Hamilton, Helen
LeAnn Hamilton, Abby Hansel,
Katrina Lynette Holliman,
Kevin Dale Hom, Jonathan W.
Howard, Marla Howard, Ronald
Howell, Shawn Clayton Howell,
Jason Adam Hughes, William
Cooksy Inklebarger, Della F.
Jervis, Brenda S. Johnson,
Audrey M. Jones, Jamie Sue
Jude, Jonathan Katz, Amy B.
Keathley, Joshua Kyle Kinzer,
Miranda NaShae Lafferty,
Joshua K. Lawson, Ricky
William Lemaster, Shawna
LeeAnn Little, Katherine P.
Lowe, Mary Ruth Lynn, Jeffery
Gerald Martin, Amy Nicole
Mast, Brandon Joey Maynard,
Deborah Darlene Meade, David
Brandon Meyers, Ashley Nicole
Milburn,
Foster
Darvin
Mitchell, Jerri N. Mitchell,
Gregory D. Morrison, Anita
Carol Mullins, Darah J. Mullins,
James Daniel Neeley, Nova L.
Newsome, Jenna E. Patton,
Jessica Ruth Perkins, David L.
Pigman, Janet Fay Prater, Sheila
L. Prater, Dianne Sue Price,
Jessica R. Reed, Courtney Reid,
Michele
R.
Romans,
JonathanAndrew
Russo,
William D. Schlick, Erica Renee
Shepherd, Matthew R. Slone ,
Wesley Con Smith, Jessica L.
Spears, Lloyd M. Stacy, Stacia
Nicole Stanley, Travis Daniel
Starnes, Danielle N. Steele,
Matthew D. Stephens, Scottie
Alan Stumbo, Chad D. Stump,
Cory Michael Belue Sturgill,
Amanda Elaine Tackett, Amy
Marie Tackett, Rodney W.
Tackett, Joe Dustin Taylor,
Samantha Taylor, Stephanie
Estelle Taylor, Ashley Jo
Thomas, Connie G. Thompson,
Larry Michael Watson, Amanda
Leigh Webb, Jada Denise Webb,
Benjamin Eugene Whitaker,
Gary M . Whitt, Shawn A. Whitt,
James Edward Williamson IT,
Marjorie D. Woods, Theodore B.
Wright, Larry Kevin Younce
BSCTC PRESIDENT'S LIST
FALL 2004 (4.0 GPA)
FLOYD COUNTY: Brittany
Bailey,
Dennis
Danielle
Anthony Buckley, Terra Lynn
Childers, Miranda Lynn Click,
Melissa Collins, Matthew
Wayne Cooke, Lindsay Nichole
Cooley, Carolyn C. DelBello,
Paul David Francis, Brandy M.
Gibson,
Rebecca
Madge
Goines, Amber NaShea Hall,
Carla Marie Hall, Lucresia S.
Hall,
Adam
Christopher
Hamilton, Katrina Lynette
Holliman, Kevin Dale Horn ,
Ronald Howell, Shawn Clayton
Howell, Della F. Jervis, Shawna
LeeAnn Little, Katherine P.
Lowe, Gregory D. Morrison,
Darah J. Mullins, James Daniel
Neeley, Nova L. Newsome ,
Jessica Ruth Perkins, Dianne
Sue
Price, Erica Renee
Shepherd, Matthew R. Slone,
Stacia Nicole Stanley, Travis
Daniel Starnes, Danielle N.
Steele, Matthew D. Stephens,
Scottie Alan Stumbo , Rodney
W. Tackett, Samantha Taylor,
Shawn A. Whitt, Theodore B.
Wright
Schoo[ ~ayyeninas
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• March 15-22 - "Magic Me" will
t meet, weather permitting.
• March 2 1 - Nutrition program,
6th grade.
• March 21-25 - Scholastic Book
Fair. Volunteers needed.
• March 23 - "Career Exploration
Day," 8th grade.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself a
Break Day," for all Floyd County parents/guardians. To be held at the MAC.
Registration at 8:30 a.m. Fun workshops, door prizes and free lunch.
• March 28 thru April 1 - SPRING
, BREAK!!
• If you would be interested in volunteering at AMS, contact the Y<;mth
- : 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 - Michelle
Keathley; Assistant - Sheila Allen.
• 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.
Allen Central Middle School
• March 21 - SBDM meeting, 5
p.m.
• March 23 - Career Expo.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself a
7 Break Day," 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at
Mt. Arts Center.
• March 31 - Last day to turn in
Food City receipts!!
• 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.
Duff Elementary
• Floyd County Health Dept. is at the
school each Tuesday. 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.
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.
Betsy Layne Elementary
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 - 886-081 5.
• 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.
May Valley Elementary
• 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, kinder-
garten 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
• March 24 - "Give Yourself a
Break Day," 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at
the Mountain Arts Center. Parents,
grandparents and guardians, please join
us!
• April 4 - FRC Advisory Council
meeting, 3: 15p.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 4529600 or 9607 and ask for Mable Hall,
ext. 243, or Keith Smallwood, ext. 242.
• March 28-April 1: SPRING
BRRAK!!
• "Lost & Found" is located in the
FRQ. If your child has lost any clothing or other personal 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 the W. 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.
Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself a
Break Day," for all Floyd County parents, grandparents and guardians, at
Mountain Arts Center.
• March 24 - "Let's Talk About
Drugs," Our Lady of the Way Hospital,
1 p.m., for K-3.
• 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 4:00p.m. Parents and community members are welcome to visit. For
questions, call 587-2233 - ask for
Tristan Parsons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
Wesley Christian School
• Wesley Christian Daycare and
Infant!l'oddler 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.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow Junction"
Family Resource Center
Character Words for the Month:
Tolerance and Kindness.
• March 18 - Heart Health/CPR
demonstration, 5th grade, 1:45 p.m., in
gym. Presented by Kim Sanders, OLWH .
• March 24 - "Give Yourself a
Break Day," at Mountain Arts Center,
registration at 8:30 a.m. For parents,
grandparents, guardians of Floyd
County students. Learn to relax while
you relax and enjoy guest speakers,
door prizes, and a free lunch. For more
info. , call 452-4553.
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 7:30
p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 8863863, ext. 67219. Room m207 (second
floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning Center:
Tue., 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 4:00p.m. Contact: Vanessa Tackett
- 285-5111.
• Wayland EESC: Mon., Wed. - 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 pm. 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 3:00
p.m.
• For more information about Adult
Education class schedules, contact the
David School at 886-8374. All classes
and materials free of charge .
�88 • FRIDAY,
MARCH
18, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~W~tily 2~ Changes in body clock
M~ aHectteen slee
Martha A. SirnPSQn, no, MBA
Assoeia.te Professor.
ofP•mily Mellieine
Q
uestion: My 16-yearold son won't go to bed at
bedtime. My husband and I
tum
und 9 p.m., but our son is up
until after midnight. During the week,
we all get up at about the same time, 6
a.m., but on weekends we don't see him
until after noon. What can I do to stop
this behavior? I think he is resisting
going to bed to be "cool." He seems
:tired all the time. This worries me, as
well, since he has just started to drive.
A
nswer: Mom, your concern
is well-founded. However,
your son's problem of not
getting to sleep before midnight may be
primarily due to his age rather than any
conscious effort on his part to be cool
or trendy. Adolescents have physiolog-
ically different sleep patterns than
younger children or adults.
A lot of research has been done
recently into adolescent sleep patterns.
On average, children need lO hours of
sleep nightly, adults 8.25 hours and adolescents 9.25 hours of sleep every night.
As a result, many concerned parents
want high school starting times
changed. A number of school districts
across the country have already done
These include schools in
this.
Arlington, Va.; Lexington, Ky.; and
Minneapolis, Minn. These districts
report that after the change, students
get more sleep and show reductions
in absences and tardiness.
Another important benefit of this
change is that it should lead to a
decrease in car accidents. In fact,
research reported by the National
Highway
Transportation
Safety
Administration shows that young drivers (25 or under) are involved in more
than one-half of fall-asleep crashes.
Why is it that people in this age group
don't have the same sleep patterns as
their younger siblings or their parents?
During the middle teenage years,
our biological clocks undergo a change
that makes it hard to fall asleep until
later in the evening. This could be as
late as 10 p.m. or even 11 p.m. The
problem results from a "time shift" in
the secretion of melatonin, one of the
hormones that helps regulate sleeping
and waking patterns. After age 16, the
nightly release of melatonin takes place
later than it does in early adolescence,
making it harder to fall asleep until
later in the night.
It is not clear why this change in our
body clock - or circadian rhythm occurs. Some feel this is due to the hormonal and physical changes taking
place during this developmental period.
Teenagers' erratic schedules - up
paHems
early during the week and sleeping in
on weekends - can al~o cause sleep
phase circadian rhythm problems.
So
what
can
be
done?
Understanding that this is a developmental phase can help. At the same
time, talk with your son about how he
can get better sleep. Here are some tips.
• Get about 9 hours of sleep nightly.
•
Stay on the same sleep/wake
schedule, even on weekends.
• Avoid bright lights, which signal
the body to wake up, in the evening.
• Get into bright lights as soon as
possible upon awakening.
• Avoid caffeine and nicotine after
noon.
• Avoid alcohol.
• Relax before going to bed - but
NO computer games.
umn. 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 readerquestion s@ familymedicinenews .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.
American Heart ~
Association.¥
Fighting Heart Disease a1d Slro~e
This is one of the phases he will outgrow, but it's a good idea to promote
good sleep habits at any age.
Family Medicine® is a weekly col-
Theresa Scott
• Continued from p6
gram as well as the Floyd
County Cancer Coalition, and
helping to spearhead the "Get
Moving Kentucky" program
for Floyd County.
Scott also serves, or has
served, on the following advisory boards: the Floyd County
Emergency Food Board, the
David Appalachian Crafts/St.
Vincent's Mission Advisory
Committee,
Healthy
Communities 2010 Committee,
the Clark Elementary School
Advisory Board, the Floyd
County Chamber of Commerce
Government/Civic
Affairs
Committee, and has served as a
delegate in the Mid-South
Cancer Conference (Lexington)
as well as project coordinator
for the Breast and Cervical
Cancer Project, Floyd County.
Currently, she is helping to
identify a target group of those
Still, of all the various prom the area believed to be at grams and projects in which
highest risk for colorectal can-. Scott is involved, the one seemcer, as well as preparing to ingly closest to her heart would
embark upon a new project, be the Extension Homemakers
"Weight the Reality," an 11- program. 'The Homemakers
week individualized health program has a wonderful histoimprovement weight program ry - in both Floyd County and
that will be open to public par- Kentucky. In Floyd County
ticipation at no, or minimal, alone, we have 189 members.
charge. "I anticipate lots of That's an impressive number
good things with this program," for any organization," she said.
Scott said. "We are going to be "And, as has been shown many
using the new American plate times over, there is real strength
method of learning how to eat. in numbers."
The method incorporates the
"The Homemakers program
idea of having at least two- -.>is the largest predominately
thirds of your plate be filled female organization in the state,"
with greens, fruits and grains; she continued. "It is full of leadthen a small section of protein ership opportunities, training,
and low-fat, high fiber foods." social support ...it helps its memThe Weight the Reality pro- bers to become rejuvenated, to
gram will kick.off in the .Floyd help find that all-important bal·
County area on May 5.
ance between doing for others
and doing for oneself.
This program, this office, is full
of accurate, research-based information. Information that is science-based and factual. There is a
wealth of knowledge to be found
here- information on health, dental, estate planning, retirement,
most anything a person would find
a need for," she said.
And, as always, Scott issues
an open invitation to all Floyd
Countians to become members
of the Homemakers program,
and to feel free to call upon
their county extension agents at
anytime. Scott, as well as
extension agents Ray Tackett
and Chuck Stamper, may be
contacted at 886-2668.
Theresa Scott, our Women
in History profile for this edition, .resides in Prestons;burg
with husband, Tom.
Illness doesn't stop guest
£ om enjoying park
FRANKFORT - How would
you react if a doctor told you that
you had inoperable lung cancer?
For some folks, the grim news
might prompt them to curl up
, and wait for the inevitable.
Orbin Sparks, a 77-year-old
retiree from Flemingsburg, is
having none of that. He didn't
let his illness keep him from
enjoying an elk tour recently at
jenny Wiley State Resort Park
.~n Prestonsburg.
He had the
ime of his life.
"I liked everything about it,"
he said in a recent phone interview. "They (staff) were just
out of this world."
The close-up views of the
elk were like nothing he'd ever
seen, he said.
Sparks and his daughter,
Madonna Gray of Greensboro,
N.C ., were visiting relatives in
Pike County and were guests at
Jenny Wiley on Feb. 11 when
they learned about an elk tour
the next day.
It was a cold, clear morning
when Mr. Sparks, Ms. Gray and
a half-dozen other guests
climbed into a van to make the
40-minute ride to the Addington
Wildlife Management Area in
Knott County.
During the trip, the group's
host, park naturalist Ron
Vanover, chatted with the
guests. including Mr. Sparks.
"He was very jolly," Vanover
recalled. "You would never
have known he was sick."
They quickly found out that
they had a lot in common. Mr.
Sparks asked if Ron was related
to any Vanovers in McCreary
County. In fact, that is Ron's
' home, he responded. Ms. Gray
mentioned that her aunt ran a
home
near
retirement
C:umberland Falls. Ron replied
that his mother had worked
there for 27 years.
The van climbed the gravel
ond to a grassy ridge. They
\'il.:I e met at the wildlife man-
agement area by Department of
Fish and Wildlife biologist
Karen Alexy, who answered
questions about the state's successful program to re-establish
tn elk population to Kentucky.
1 Before long, the guests saw
what they came for - a herd of
huge, majestic elk.
"We saw probably 19 bulls
and about 20 cows and calves,"
Vanover said. "At some points,
we were within 25 yards of
some of them," viewing the elk
from the comfort of the van.
Mr. Sparks reveled in the
moment.
"He was very excited,"
Vanover recalled. Mr. Sparks
snapped picture after picture as
the elk serenely paced around
the pasture.
After a while, the group
realized that hunger had overtaken curiosity, and the talk
turned to having an "old-fashioned" breakfast. On the trip
home, the group stopped by a
local restaurant known for its
down-home cuisine.
"The group thoroughly
enjoyed it," Vanover said.
After the meal, Mr. Sparks
went behind the counter to
hand out tips to the waitresses
and cooks.
"He made my day," Vanover
said. "When you think you're
having a bad day, then you
meet somebody like him, it just
makes you have a different outlook on life."
Mr.
Sparks'
daughter,
Madonna, said the tour was an
unexpected bonus for their visit.
"It's a whole experience," she
said. Neither she nor her father
expected to be able to get such
good views of the majestic animals.
"For two weeks. that's all
he's talked about," she added.
While chemotherapy slowed
Mr. Sparks down in the fall, he
has since taken several trips .
Given the prognosis, "everything that we do is a bonus,"
Ms. Gray said.
Mr. Sparks said he feels fine
and he's making plans to visit
the Land Between the Lakes
next weekend.
If everything works out,
he'll be back next fall to take
another elk tour, he added.
The park conducts escorted
van tours in the winter and fall
to visit elk habitat. The last tour
of the season was held March 5,
and tours resume in September,
October,
November
and
December. For.additional information on the elk viewing
tours, call Ron Vanover at 60688 9-1790 or e-mail him at
rvanover@charterinternet.com.
Tours provide the opportunity for close-up views of elk.
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Cline-Hancock
Mr. Clyde Francis Hancock, of Wayne, West VIrginia, and Ms.
Edith Frances Cline, of Allen, are happy to announce their
upcoming wedding which will be held on Saturday, March 26,
2005, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the Cow Creek Freewill
Baptist Church. Rev. Garner Smith, of Clarksville, Tennessee,
will officiate. Immediately following, a reception will be held In
the church annex building. The gracious custom of an open
church wedding will be observed.
Talented local artist opening
for Doyle Lawson
Floyd County's own, Chris
"Bo" Isaac and his band "The
Wheelwrights" will be opening
for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
this Saturday, March 19 at the
MAC. Bo i a very talented young
man who began his career playing
fiddle with the KentucJ...)' Opry at
the tender age of five. His grandfather Isaac ~taned giving Bo
lessons whc he was only 4 years
old. Kentucky Opry's Founder
and Director, Billie Jean Osborne,
saw this young boy and realized
that he had great potential. She
arranged for Kentucky Opry's former fiddle player, David Morris to
provide him with private lessons
and also have him perform in the
KO sho\\ Billie Jean says that
"Bo was put on Emth to entertain
- I expect to hear great things
from him. I can't wa1t to see him
on stage this Saturday."
Bo 's first bluegrass affiliation was with a group called
Shades of Tymc followed by
stints with Ernie Thacker &
Route 23. Da'v c EYans &
Rivcabend. Gerald Fvans &
Paradise. He has also done
some guest appearances with
Larry Cordle, llird Tyme Out
and now has his own band,
"The Wheelwrights."
Bo's natural talent as a musician and entertainer has made it
very apparent that he takes center
stage. His manager/agent, Ken
Carriere prc~idcnt of Goodtyme
Productions Inc, is vel) excited
to be working with Bo and says
that "there will be no stopping
him once he gets started, he has
everything going for him."
Goodtyme Productions will not
only manage Bo's career, but is
currently in preparation to record
his ftrst CD on the Goodtyme
Label. Steve Gulley from the very
talented group, Mountain Heart,
has agreed to produce Bo's first
project. The planned release date
is scheduled for this fall .
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
with Bo Isaac and The
Wheelwrights in concert this
Saturday night, March 19 at the
Mountain Arts Center. Concert
begins at 7:30PM Ticket information is available by calling
886-2623 .
Chris "Bo" Isaac
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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.; Loria 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 At. 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.
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.
Drift Freewill Baptist, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6:30p.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.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
Mornrng, 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study
& Prayer, 6 p.m.; Pastor, Rev. Stuart E. Swanberg.
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Faith Freewill Baptist, 1/4 mile above
Martin Church of Christ, Martin; Sunday
Worldwide Eqpt. on At. 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.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Randy
a.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.,
Osborne, Minister.
Wednesday Bible Study 6:00p.m.
First Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10
Upper Toler Church of Christ, 3.5 miles
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School,
Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6
p.m.; Graydon Howard, Minister.
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale
Bush, Minister.
First Baptist, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole
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
... when they
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Dr. Floyd Price, mina.m. and 6 p.m. Mike Hall, Minister.
ister.
heard that Jesus
CHURCH OF GOD
Fitzpatrick First Baptist, 1063 Big
was
coming
to
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
Jerusalem, they
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
took branches of
7 p.m.; Judith Caudill, Minister.
7 p.m.; Pastor Tommy Reed .
Community Church of God, Arkansas
palm trees, and
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
Creek, Martin; Worship Service, 11 a.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
went forth to meet
Friday, 7 p.m.; Bud Crum, Minister.
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 7: p.m.
First
Church of God; Sunday School, 10
him,
and
cried,
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg,
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. and 6
Sunday School, 10 a.m., Worship Service,
Hosanna, blessed is
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V.
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Williams, Pastor.
the King of Israel that
Grethel Baptist, State At. 3379,
Garrett
Church of God, Garrett; Sunday
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
cometh in the name
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
of the Lord.
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Bragg, Minister.
Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist;
JOHN 12:12,13
In Victory Assembly of God, Sunday
Sunday School, 9:50 a.m.; Worship
School, 10:00; Worship Service, 11:00 &
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday,
6:00; Wednesday Evening, 6:30; Gary,
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7 p.m.; David Garrett, Minister.
Stanley, Pastor.
Wor1d 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.. ; Chartes 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 Euchanst
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 Baptist, Main St., Maytown; Sunday School, 10 Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter,
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m., S: b Minister.
Varney, Minister.
Betsy Layne United Methodist, next to B.L. Gymnasium; Sunday
McDowell Firat Baptlat, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:4S am.; 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 United Methodlat, Allen; Sunday School, 9:45 am.; Worship
Middle Creek Baptist, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship SaMoa, 11 a.m. &6p.m.; Wednesday, 7p.m.; Kenneth Lemaster, Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. end 6 p.m.; Wedresday, 7 p.m.; eugene Cook, Community United Methodlat, 141 Burke Avenue (off University
Minister.
Drive and Neeley St.); Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Llghthouae Baptlat, 2194 KY Rt. 1428, Prestonsburg; Sunday 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steve Pescosolldo,
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, At. 80, Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Night, 7 p.m.; Roy Harlow,
Minister.
Rock Fork Regular Baptist, Garrett; Worship Service, 9:30 a.m.; Minister.
Salisbury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Earl Slone, Minister; Jerry Manns, Assistant Minister.
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.
Wayland United Methodist, At. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
Lucas.
a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Brad Tackett,
Sammy Clark Branch Freewill Baptist, Dana; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Servrce, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Minister.
Wheelwright United Methodist, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
Stephens Branch Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Bobby Isaac, Minister.
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
The Third Avenue Freewill Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
10:00 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11:00 a.m.; Wed. Bible Study,
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
7:00p.m.; Dennis C. Love, Pastor.
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, At. 1428, East Point; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Youth Service, 5:00 School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service. 11 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Thurs.,
p.m.; Evenrng Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of 6:30 p.m.; Buster Hayton, Minister.
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 oft Mt.. Parkway at
Study, 7 p.m., Youth Services 7 p.m.; Everyone Welcome.
Campton; Worship Service, Saturday 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, At. 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·
6262.
CHRISTIAN
First Christian, 560 North Arnold Avenue; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Jim Sherman, Minister.
Garrett Community Christian, Route 550, Garrett; Worship 7 p.m.; Elllis J. Stevens, Minister.
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donnie Free Pentecostal Church, Dwale; Services Saturday, 6 p.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m.; No Sunday Night
Hackworth, Minister.
Service.
Victory Christian Ministries, 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11:30 a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m; Sherm Williams,
PRESBYTERIAN
Minister.
Drift Presbyterian, Route 1101, Drift; Worship Service,
11 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
First Presbyterian, North Lake Drive; Sunday School, 9:30a.m.;
Betsy Layne Church of Christ, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10 Worship Service, 11 a.m.; George C. Love, Minister.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Tommy J. Spears, Minister.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Church of Christ, South Lake Drive; Worship Service, 10 a.m. and Seventh-Day Adventist, 5 miles West on Mountain Parkway;
6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Benny Blankenship, Minister.
Sunday School, 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Gary
Harold Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sheph Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James H.
Harmon, Minister.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
Highland Church of Christ, At. 23, Hager Hill; Sunday School, 10 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day S81nts; Relief
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Society/Prersthood/Primary, 9:30a.m.; Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.;
Hueysville Church of Christ; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Sacrament Mtg., 11:20 a.m., Wednesday, 6 p.m. Church Meeting
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chester Varney, House address, Hwy. 80, Martin, KY 41649; Meeting House telephone number· 285-3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
Minister.
Lower Toler Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
OTHER
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.;
Pastor Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
Lonie Meade, Minister.
Mare Creek Church of Christ, Stanville; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; the CHURCH of GOD of PROPHECY TRAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
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Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.: Thursday, 6:30p.m.
Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea market), Sunday
School, 10 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889-o905.
Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; Sunday
School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Minister.
Faith Revelation Mlnistery, 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
evening, 6:30p.m.; Wed., 6:30pm.; Lavonne Lafferty, Mrnister.
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 W.
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 frrst
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, At. 321 (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 Line:
358·2001 ; Jeff Kinslow. Pastor
Taylor Chapel Community Church, lormerly the old Price Food
Service building, located 1 quarter mile above Worldwide
Equipment, At. 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. Main St.,
Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor. .
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Pastor: D.P. Curry.
Church of God of Prophecy, Sunday School 10 a.m., worship
Service 11 a.m., Sunday Night· 6 p.m., Wednesday Nrght · 6 p.m.
Pastor Glenn Hayes. West Prestonsburg.
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210 ·,JOb LIStings
220 • Help Wanted
230 • Information
250 • Miscellaneous
260 - Part Time
270 ·Sales
280 - Services
290 · Work Wante~
110 Agricullure
115 ·ATV's
120 ·Boats
130- Cars
140 • 4x4s
150 Miscellaneous
160 · Motorcycles
170- Parts
175 · SUVs
180 ·Trucks
190 ·Vans
2~_LQ'(MENJ
18, 2005
420 • MERCHANDISE
310. auslness
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
330 - f:or Sale
Oil Field Company
has openings for
hard
working
responsible drivers.
Must be of age 21 or
older.
Must have
CDL with HAZ-MAT
and tanker endorcements, good drivmg
record and some
mechanical
appti·
tude. Please apply in
person at: Universal
Well Services, Inc.
5252 Rt. 1428, Allen,
KY 41601 606-8743487,
Accepting
applications
Mon.
thru Fri. between the
hours of Bam and
4pm.
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
21 0-Job Listing
Hicks Auto Sales
David Road
1998 Toyota Camry,
96K Miles, Loaded,
$5,995. 1999 Toyota
Corolla Auto, CD,
BOK Miles. $4 595.
1998 S 10 Extra
Cab, $3,995
Call
886-2842
For Sale 1993 Ford
Crown
Victoria.
miles.
138,000
$,1200. call
606874-0467
SALESPERSON
NEEDED, Must Have
Sales
Experience.
Call for Appointment
between 8-5 Mon-Fri,
Overhead Door of
East KY. 4 78-3000
EXCELLENT
INCOME-National
Capitol
Funding
Group Now Hiring
Court
House
Researchers.
Will
TRain to Work From
Home Using Your
Computer,
No
Experience
Necessary. Call 1·
800-440-7234
Taking application's
for
COL Driver's,
must be at least
Class B. Apply in
person at Waste
Management,
200
Garth Hollow Rd.,
Martin, KY.
For sale
1991
Toyota
Corolla
needs work $800 firm
call
606-886-8339
after 5 pm.
WELDING
POS·
TIONS AVAILABLE,
FOR SALE: 1988 call between SamPontiac Bonneville, 5pm M-F for an
no title, good for parts.
appointment to fill out
$600 obo. Call 874·
application. Call 285·
094.
9358
Prestonsburg
Health Care Center
has an opening for
Full Time C.N.A.'s.
We offer competitive
wages and excellent
benefits. If interested
please send a resume
to 147 N. Highland
50-Miscellaneous Ave., Prestonsburg,
KY, 41653 (behind
GRAVELY
Prestonsburg Elem.)
TRACTOR
FOR
or call 886-2378
SALE, electric starter
& plow.
Call 358·
NEEDED· Truck
3416
Driver, must have
CDL
and
[ 160-Motorcycles
Maintenance
Men.
For Sale 1998 Call 478•9501
Medical Secretary
Needed to work
Mon.-Fri., 9:30-4:30,
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 886-1714 or
285·9000
1\J&D-W{)ISE
FOR SALE: Honda
'93
Fourwheeler.
Honda
.97
300
Fourwhee
drive.
Looks good and runs
good Call 886 _0875 .
YAMAHA YZ80 New
tires. pro-circuit pipe. . 22G-Help Wanted
$1600. Call 606-452·
WORKERS
9599 for more info.
NEEDED-Laborers
with
COL License
· 180-Trucks
t
Needed.
Contact
Wanted used full Mary
at
Star
size pick-ups 1998 Construction, 874thru 2003, will pay
1263
cash call 800-7895301
NEEDED!
HELP
Someone to stay with
elderly lady.
For
more info" 886-3984
or 886-0837
410-Animals
RABBITS
FOR
SALE. M1ni Rex &
Holland
Lops,
6
weeks old. Call after
4pm or leave message. 377-9290
FULL STOCK WOLF
PUPPIES For Sale, 6
Weeks Old $300, Call
859-806-2188
610 • Apart~rn~~
620 • $tors.~l ·
OffioeSpace
Q3Q • H®ses
640 ~Land/Lots
500- Rf;AL J;SIATE
410 · Animals
420 - Appliances
440 - Electronics
445 - Furniture
4SO - Lawn & Garden
4SO - Yard SalE!'
470 · Health & Seauty
. 415 · Household
505 - Business
510- commercial
Property
.530- Homes
550 · Land/Lots
S70 - Mobile Homes
~ •Mo~te.flome$
660 " MiSOO!IanuOOs
670-' Comnter~t · ·
sao - Miscttlla!'l$0us
·
Prop~~;)>
' <, :·
For Sale: 8 ft' deli
570-Mobile Homes
cooler, $950 and Gas
WOLFF TANNING
NEW 3 BR, 2 BATH
convection
oven,
BEDS
$450. Call 606-886- SECTIONAL HOME.
Financing available, 2367.
Heat pump, skirting,
Free delivery & set
\wM, zone 3 insulaup within 75 miles of Kay's Wallpaper 205 tion, glamour bath,
London, KY. Bulbs, Depot Road Paintsdishwasher.
Less
Parts, Lotions at ville, Ky. Hundreds of
than
$289
per
month.
Wholesale
Prices. Patterns of Wallpaper
Call 800-405-527 4.
Call 888·554-0058
& Borders. All under
$10.00. Open Tues • (WAC)
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 -353·
6444 the home show
Fri 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
LIKE NEW 16X74
Sat.1 0 a.m to 3 p.m.
MARCH
Vinyl &
Closed Sun. & Mon. NORRIS.
MADNESS SALE!
606-789-8584.
Shingles,
Whirlpool
All lnstock Carpet,
Tub, W/D, C/A, skirt·
Vinyl, Harwood &
Ceramic Tile on Sale
ing, SBS, dishwashWhile Supplies Last
er, microwave, free
Select Style & Color
delivery & set-up for
505~Business
Plush Carpet In Stock
'·
less than $209 per
Starting at $10.95 per
S M A L L
month. Call 1·800yard Installed with BUSINESS
FOR
Pad. Select Style &
SALE. Grocery, Deli, 406-5274 (WAC).
Color Berber Carpet
Carryout & Tanning.
In Stock Starting at
Final clearance
Great
Investment
$12.95 per yard
2004 lot models and
Opportumty,
Located
Installed with Pad.
Banner,
KY 2005 models now
Select Style $ Color at
Vinyl Floor In Stock Serious Inquires Only. available! If you are
Covering Starting at Call During Business serious about pur$10.95 per yard Hours 9am-7pm 606- chasing a new home
you need to be with
Installed. Ceramic 874-9190
Tile In Stock Starting
experienced staff to
at .69 per sq. ft.,
.'530-Houses get the right home at
Cash
& Carry.
a great price. The
Porcelin Tile Starting
Home Show-South
New
1
,950
r.! ~· ft.
at $1.99 per sq. ft.,
William son, Inc. US
Home
For
ale
Cash & Carry.
located In Cuuntry 119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
C & C Carpet
Oaks
SubdiviSIOn m 606-353·6444 or toll
&Vinyl Outlet
417 HanbleyBivd. Harold, KY. Call478- free 877-353-6444
Pikeville,
9993
SMALL TRAILER
KY41501
606-437·1919
3 or 4 BR House For FOR SALE. Needs
1-800-798·1199
Sale.
Has been minor work, partially
remodeled, $49,900 furnished, $800 Call
480-Miscellaneous: or best offer. Priced 358-3416
RENTALS
470-Health&Beauty
475-Household
REAL ESTATE
STEEL BUILDINGS·
Final Clearance All
Must Go.
Repo's.
Damaged,
Cancellations! use
Your Tax Returns to
build your dream
building. Call 800·
405-7 50 1 ext. 1558.
Porch and Inside
Sale at 28 Beaver St
in Allen, KY. Firday,
March 18 & Saturday,
March 19.
to Sale.
9821
Call 889-
FOR SALE: 12x70,
2 BR, Appliances
included.
Asking
$5,000 Call 377-6040
2 Lots For Sale on
Stonecrest
Golf
Course.
Approximately 3 1/3
Acres each.
Call
886-3313
Home at Invoice,
New Double Wide
Only
$31,599,
Includes
Delivery,
Set-Up, A/C and
Skirting.
Call 888·
1 1/2 Acre Lot For 246·1 075 Fleetwood
Sale, Level House homes Homes of
Seat, Hunters Branch Louisa.
Rd.,
Martin.
KY.
$11,000 Call 763·
566·4025
FOR SALE: House
Furniture, Washer &
Dryer, Miscellaneous
·~(-~. Adult Education Teacher
Yard
& Farm
1:/:·
·l,/1
Opening·
Equipment. Grocery ~·;·:f:
.
Store
Furnishings
Job Description: Teach (part-time) students age 16
also will Rent House
RAY'S BARGAIN
and up basic education, reading, math, GED prep.,
in
and
Grocery
Store
CENTER
college prep. parenting, job skills, etc., at various
New
&
Used Pippa Passas. Call
locations throughout Floyd County.
Furniture
& 270-358-8837.
Requirements: 4-year College Degree. Teacher
Appliances @ unbeCertification and experience preferred.
-lievable prices. Come For Sale: 8 ft' refrigSend cover letter, resume, and references to
in today for incredible erated deli case,
The David School, PO Box 1, David, KV 41616.
savings. Shop At The $1000, small pizza
Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews.
Little Furniture Store oven, $400, small
& Save!!
Route. juice cooler, $150,
#122, McDowell. Call washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606·886606-377-0143.
2367.
Salyersville Health Care Center
Solid Wood Office
Desk For Sale. Call
789-6320 or 3671506
.
Director of Social Services
is recruiting for a qualified candidate to fill our Director of Social
Services Position.
MEDICAL POSITION
REGISTERED NURSE
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
Day Shift and On-Call Positions Available
Exctting opportunity to become part of the
team at Mud Creek Clinic in
Grethel, KY
Join the caring team at
Hospice of Big Sandy.
Call for an intervie\1 at 606-789-3841
Office located at 1420 Ky. Hwy. 1428
Hager Hill, Ky. 41222
seeks candidates for
Office Manager
Requirements include an associate degree
in Business Administration or equivalent.
Minimum of one year expenence tn health
care management preferred.
We offer a competitive salary and
excellent benefit package
Send resume to:
Human Resources
Big Sandy Health Care, Inc.
1709 KY Route 321, Suite 3
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Fax (606) 886·8548
Email: Lhacker@bshc.org
.
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
or 886-9007
Renovated
Apartment's, Like
New, Furnished in
March Madness!
First Month's Rent
Free with Security
Deposit Paid in Full!
Through
3/31/05.
Park
Place
Apartments
in
Prestonsburg ,
Elderly, Handicapped
& DisabledAvailable
for
Immediate
Occupancy. Rent 1
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
Call 886-0039
To ~lace ~our
a~ in t~e
~lord Coun~
Times
call Jessica at
OFFICE POSITION AVAILABLE
Corcputer Experience Preferred!
Accounts Receivable
Competitive pay plan/hospitalization,
401 K retirement plan.
·'
,445Ft.ri..le .
Hospice neither helps nor hinders death
Which is a part of thing.
Would you like to help someone to
Live their last days as pain free
As possible and offer support to the family?
We believe that people should live as
The) wish and try to enjoy their time
Left to them.
Registered Nurse, practice your medical skills
as ~ou have nem practiced them before,
61 0-Apartments
Furnished 1 bed
Downtown
Martin.
room
Apt. Central
Call between 9amheat
&
air.
Rent start5pm dailey.
285·
ing
at
$375.
month, +
3025
$300. deposit water
Located
2 bed room 1 1/2 included.
near HRMC. 606bath
Townhouse
889-9717.
also 1 bed room furnished or unfurnished
located
in
Prestonsburg
,NO
PETS call 606-886
8991
A proud tradition of providin& access to
quality health care.
BiR Sandy flellllh Care'' an Eq11al Opportrmiry t.mployer
The qualified candidate
must have:
• Bachelor's degree in social work,
or a bachelor's degree in a human
services field, including, but not
limited to, sociology, special
education, rehabilitation counseling, and psychology.
• One year of supervised social work
experience in a health care setting,
working directly with individuals.
Candidate should forward a
resume to:
505 North Mayo Trail - Pikeville, Kentucky
No phone calls, please!
Citizens National Bank
is looking for an
enthusiastic, self-motivated, individual
for the position of
Call Center Supervisor
SUMMARY
Supervises and coordinates activities of Call Center agents perfonning
customer-oriented telephone activities and various operational duties.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Associate Degree or one to two years related experience and/or
training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Mail Resume to:
Attn: Human Resources
P.O. Box 1488
Paintsville, KY 41240
An Equal Employmem Opportunity Employer
PREMIER ELKHORN
COAL COMPANY
.JOB FAIR
Monday, March 21, 2005
Now is your opportunity to work for one of the leading coal companies
in Eastern Kentucky ! Premier Elkhorn Coal Company- a subsidiary
ofTECO Coal Corporation is seeking experienced applicants for underground coal mining jobs in Pike and Letcher Counties. Positions are
available on all shifts for section supervisors, continuous miner, roof
bolter, ram car, and scoop operators, electricians, repairmen, beltmen,
and general inside laborers. MET!EMT, foreman certifications and electrical certifications are a plus.
Competitive wages and benefits include:
• Excellent Medical Plan
• Dental, Vision, and Prescription Coverage
• Up to 3 weeks paid Vacation
• Nine paid Holidays
• Four paid Personal Day
• Company paid Basic Life insurance plus Supplemental Life Options
• Long Term Care Insurance
• Short and Long Term disability beneftts
• 40l(k) Savings Plan with company match
• Company funded Retirement Plan with Retiree Medical and Life
Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Safety Bonuses
Salyersville Health Care Center
571 Parkway Drive
Salyersville, KY 41465
Qualified persons should apply during the Job Fair at the Department
of Employment Services, 138 College St., Pikeville, KY, Monday,
March 21 (8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)
Fax: 606-349-5962
Attention: B. Boso
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company subscribes to a drug free work environment and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
�FRIDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
620-Storage/Otf.i~~ .
FOR
RENT:
2
Off1ce Suites, New
Construction
900
sq. ft. each. Ample
Parking, Can be
Combined for Total of
1 ,800
sq.
ft.
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call
886-1515 for info.
650-Mobile Homes
'"' " ·
l
.
2 BR TRAILER, 1
Bath Located at Left
Fork of Bull Creek.
For More Info Call
874-2836
Trailer For Rent: On
Rt. 7 at Salt Lick, No
$300
per
Pets,
Month, Call358-4524
Trailer For Rent on
the Left Fork of
Abbott.
Call 886or
886-9076
9479
For Lease Finished
Office Space for
14x70 Mobile Home
lease in prime loca- For Rent, 3 BR,
tion near BSCTC, Excellent Condition,
(PCC) and the new $425 per month +
Food City -- 2100 -- Utilities,
Security
and
sq. ft. Ground floor Deposrt
location with up to References
five private offices, Required. 874-2082
conference
room,
kitchen, bath, parking 2 BR Trailer For
Rent Available April
lot call Today 6061st, at Branham's
424-2690 or 226· Creek.
HUD
2266
Approved, Security
Deposit
Required.
FOR LEASE- Call 828-754-4801
Utility
Storage.
sq.
ft., Small
Furnished
2,500
Concrete Floors, 15 Trailer For Rent Just
ft. Ceiling Height, 10 Off Mtn. Pwy. on Old
Overhead
Doors; 114 Call 886·8724
Suitable for General
Storage/Warehouse,
SERVICES
Light
Automotive
Repair Containing
71 0-Educational
Wash Bay, Spray
Painting
Bay.
Eqqipped with City Develop the skills
needed for the
Water and Gas Heat;
Located at 834 S. rapidly expanding
field of
Lake
Dr.,
HEALTH
Prestonsburg,
KY.
C A R E
Call 606-886-8883
Call The
from 8am-5pm, M
National
thru F, 606-889-9396
College of
Evenings
and
Business
&
Weekends. Ask for
Technology 1·
Bud.
•
800·791·4295
.iJ
~
ill
Medical
Office
For Lease: Medical
Office in McDowell
directly adjacent to
Post Office, Dollar
Store, bank, pharmacy and shop~ng
complex. 1250 sq. ft.
with 3 exam rooms, 2
offices, waiting room,
triage room, 2 bathrooms and accessories. Reasonable
Lease rates. Ready
for immediate occupancy.
For further
information or to view
property please call
606-377-2006
or
606-377-1088
Monday thru Fiday.
770-Repair/Services
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling.
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
780-Timber
D & D Tr® Service
Tree Trimming
Tree Removal
Free Estimates!
Lowest Prices
Guaranteed!
Call 606-785-0316 or
785-9810
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.
Call285-9112
FREE
PALLETS:
can be picked up
benind The Floyd
County Times.
630-Houses
900·Legals
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
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER 8365427,
AMENDMENT
NO.4
3 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT. Utility Room,
LR, DR, Built in
Vacume
Cleaner,
Heat Pump.
Very
Nice Home Located
at Kite on State Rt. 7
Call 447-2200 or
438-6104
HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cen·
tal heat & air, yard,
no pets, references
required $550 mo.
Call 886-0226.
FOR RENT 3 BR
house.
Newly
remodeled, refer;. ences
required .
886-8366.
640-Land/Lots
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
between
Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
For Rent : newly
constructed Mobile
Home Lots in new
t6AIIen , reference
required call 606874-2212
NOTICES
812-Free
In accordance with
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
FCDC Coal, Inc., 750
Town
Mountain
Road, Pikeville, KY
41501, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing underground coal mining
and
reclamation
located
operation,
1.70 mile northwest
of Grethel, in Floyd
County. The amend·
ment will add 6.14
acres of surface disturbance, for a total
area of 1180.40
acres within the
revised
permit
boundary.
The
proposed
amendment area is
approximately 1.31
mile east of Drift, in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky. The operation is approximately
1.80 mile east of KY's
122 junction with the
Simpson
Branch
County Road, and
located 0.1 0 mile
southeast
of
Simpson anch.
The
proposed
amendmen is located on the cDowell
7
1/2
U.S.G.S.
a
minute quadrangle
map. The surface
area to be disturbed
by this amendment is
owned by Stella
Martin
Hamilton,
Dorothy Martin, Ella
Martin, Cassie Martin
and Earl Martin.
The
amendment
application has been
filed
for
public
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enforcement's
Prestonsburg
Regional Office, 3140
S.
Lake
Drive,
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653. Written comments, objections, or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow
Complex, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601.
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 898·0722
AMENDMENT 1
In accordance with
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby given that
CAM Kentucky, LLC,
P.O.
Box
901,
Pikeville, Kentucky
41501, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
coal mining. and
reclamation operation, located 1 mile
northwest
of
McCombs, in Pike
County,
Kentucky.
The amendment will
add 125.88 acres of
surface disturbance,
making a total area of
227.34 acres within
the amended permit
boundary
The
proposed
amendment area is
approximately
0.5
mile west of the
Bevins Branch Road
junction with KY 194,
and located 0.2 mile
west of John's Creek.
The lat[tuqe is 37-3959. The longitude is
82-35-48.
The
proposed
amendment is located on the Thomas
USGS 7 1/2 minute
quadrangle map. The
surface area to be
disturbed by the
amendment is owned
Sue
Ellen
by
Wilkerson,
Bobbie
Thompson,
Martin
Bill
Collinsworth,
Burchett,
Ross
Harris, Ray Taylor,
and Denzil Allen. The
operation will use the
combination of surface and auger mining.
The
amendment
application has been
for
public
filed
inspection at the
KYEPPC's Division
of Field Services,
Pikeville
Regional
Office, located at 121
Mays Branch Road,
Pikeville, Kentucky
41502. 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.
PUBLIC
HEARING
NOTICE
To all interested citizens
of
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, and Floyd
County, Kentucky:
The
Governor's
Office
for
Local
Development
is
accepting application
material under the
2005
Community
Development Block
Grant
(CDBG)
Program. The City of
Prestonsburg intends
to P;:>ply for assistance to provide
funds for the administration of the proposed
Layne
Recovery Kentucky
Substance
Abuse
Center. The City will
hold a public hearing
prior to the submission of the pre-submission form. The
public hearing will be
held on Thursday,
March 25, 2005, at
12:00 noon, at the
offices
of
the
Mountain
Comprehensive Care
Center, located at 18
Front
Street,
Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The purpose of
this hearing is to
obtain
views
on
housing and community
development
needs, review proposed
activities,
review the proposed
application,
and
solicit public comments.
Technical
assistance is available to help groups
representing low and
moderate-income
persons in developing proposals.
The following information concerning
the CDBG program is
available for public
inspection at Office of
the Mayor during regular business hours:
A. Amount of funds
available, and range
of activities that may
be undertpken.
B.
Estimated
amounts of funds
proposed to be used
for activities benefiting persons of low
and
moderate
income.
C. Plans for minimizing displacement
of persons as a result
of activities associated with CDBG funds,
and plans for providing assistance to
those persons to be
actually displaced as
a result of CDBGfunded activities.
D. Records regarding the past use of
CDBG funds.
E. A summary of
other important program requirements.
on
Comments
Application
A copy of the CDBG
application material
will be on file at the
Office of the Mayor,
for citizens' review
and comment during
regular
business
hours, from March
15, 2005, through
March 25, 2005.
Comments on the
proposed application
may be submitted to
the attention of the
Mayor, until the close
of business on March
25, 2005.
Discrimination
Clause
The City does not
discriminate on the
basis of race, color,
national origin, sex,
age, religion or disability, and provides,
upon request, reasonable accommodation, including auxiliary aids and services, to afford an
individual with a disan
equal
ability,
opportunity to participate in all services,
programs and activities. Any persons.
requiring
special
needs
assistance
should contact Scott
Walker
at
the
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center
(606/886-8572)
at
least 24 hours prior to
the meeting . The
TOO number for the
hearing impaired is
1/800-648-6057.
NOTE:
ADA Contacts
Department for the
Blind
·
1/877/KYBLIND,
www.kyblind.state.
ky.us
American Printing
House,
1/800/223-1839,
www.aph.org
Commission for the
Deaf
and
Hard
of
Hearing,
1/800/372-2907,
www.kcdhh.org
For
Interpreter
Directory,
www.hcdhh.org/acc
ess/interpdir.html
State Relay TOO
Number,
1/800/648-6057
NOTICE OF
S'ALE OFAN
ELECTRIC
FRANCHISE
Notice is hereby
given that the City
Council
of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Kentucky, at
a regular meeting
held on the 28th day
of February, ,2005,
directed me, the
undersigned,
to
advertise for sale an
electric
franchise
and,
THEREFORE, pursuant to Order and
Ordinance of said
Council,
and
in
accordance with the
terms and provisions
of the same,
Notice is hereby
given that I, Peggy
Bailey, City Clerk of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Kentucky, or
in my absence, Jerry
S. Fannin, Mayor of
the City, will, at the
front door of the City
Building, in City of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Kentucky, on
the 28th day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 6:00 p.m.,
Prestonsburg Time in
the
City
of
Prestonsburg, offer
for sale an electric
franchise, in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the
aforesaid ordinance
of said City Council,
and subject to conditions
of
said
Ordinance,
which
Ordinance and conditions are as follows,
to-wit:
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.
able appurtenances
for the purpose of
supplying
electric
energy to said City
and the Inhabitants
thereof, and persons,
and
corporations
beyond the limits
thereof , for light,
heat, power, and any
other purpose or purposes for which electric energy is now or
may hereafter be
used, and for the
transmission of same
within, through , or
across said City.
SECTION NO. 1
That there be sold
at public auction to
the highest and best
bidder, the franchise,
privilege, right and
authority to acquire,
maintain, construct
and
operate
in,
above, under, across,
and along the streets,
thoroughfares,
alleys,
sidewalks,
bridges, public ways
and other public
places (as the same
now exists or may
hereafter be laid out)
of
the
City
of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
lines,
poles and
equipment for the
distribution cit electric
energy, either by
means of overhead
or underground conductors, with all the
necessary or desir-
bridges, public ways
and public places.
SECTION NO. 3
The franchise, privilege,
right
and
authority shall be in
full force and effect
for a period of twenty
(20) years from the
date of the passage
of the ordinance
granting 1t.
18, 2005 • 811
the right and privilege
to take up such portion or part of any
pavement and make
such excavation in
the streets, thorough·
fares, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, public
SECTION NO. 4
The grantee of this
franchise shall save
the City harmless
from any and all liabi lity arising in any
way from negligence
of the grantee in the
erection,
maintenance, or operating
of said lines and
appurtenances.
SECTION NO. 2
Said lines and
appurtenances shall
be constructed so as
to interfere as little as
possible with the
traveling public in its
SECTION NO. 5
use of the streets,
The grantee of this
thoroughfares ,
alleys,
sidwalks, franchise shall have
NOTICE
TO BIDDERS
City of Prestons·
burg will be ac·
cepting bids on
the construction of
two
100-stall
barns. Bids must
be turned in by
noon on Monday,
March 21. For
more information
and specifications,
contact
Mayor
Jerry Fannin at
Prestonsburg City
Hall, 886-2335.
MATTRESS SAlE
MAJOR BRAND NAMES
INCLUDING MEMORY FOAM
BELOW FACTORY WHOLESM£ PRICES!
SAVE$$$
NO CREDIT • SLOW CREDIT • BANKRUPTCY-NO PROBLEM!
FINANCING AVAILABLE
VALUES TO 81,500
VALUES TO 52,500
FIRMS
PILLOWTOPS & MEMORY FOAM
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LIQUIDATION
STATION
The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting
sealed bids for Bank Depository for the contract period of July 1,
2005, or the board approval date (whichever is later) through June 30,
2007. Sealed bids are subject to the terms and conditions of the invitation to bid. Copies of this invitation to bid may be obtained in the
Finance Department at the address below, Monday through Friday,
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., prior to the time and date specified
for bid opening, or on the internet at http://www.floyd.kl2.
ky.us/Public_Notice.html
Bids must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman, Director
of Financeffreasurer/CIO, Floyd County Board of Education, 106
North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653. All envelopes
must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope, "BID: BANK
DEPOSITORY BID."
Bids will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2005,
Eastern Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All bids must be
received by the time designated in the invitation, and none will be
considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume the
responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to deliver bids on time. Bids will be opened and read at the time and location
stated above. Advertisements for this invitation to bid are/have been
in March 13th, 16th, and 18th editions of the Floyd County Times,
and on the internet at http://www.floyd.kl2.ky.us/Pub1ic_Notice.html
Bids are scheduled to be awarded at the board meeting, held at 6:30
p.m. Eastern Standard Time, March 28, 2005, at Adams Middle
School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
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The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting proposals for Financial Audit Services for the contract period of July 1,
2005, through June 30, 2007. Proposals are subject to the terms and
conditions of the Request For Proposal. Copies of this Request For
Proposal may be obtained in the Finance Department at the address
below, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ,
prior to the time and date specified for bid opening, or on the internet
at http://www.floyd.kl2.ky.us/Public_Notice.html
Proposals must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman,
Director of Finance/Treasurer/CIO, Floyd County Board of
Education, 106 North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653.
All envelopes must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope,
"FINANCIAL AUDIT PROPOSAL."
Proposals will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23 .
2005, Eastern Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m. ,
Eastern Standard Time. Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All proposals
must be received by the time designated in the invitation, and none
will be considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume
the responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to
deliver bids on time. Proposals will be opened and read at the time
and location stated above. Advertisements for this Reque t For
Proposal are/have been in March l3 th. 16th, and 18th editions of the
on
the
internet
at
Floyd
County
Times,
and
http://www.floyd.k12.ky.us/Public_Notice.html
Proposals are scheduled to be awarded at the Regular board meeting,
held at 6:30p.m., Eastern Standard Time, March 28,2005, at Adams
Middle School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
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FRIDAY, MARCH
ways and other public places of the City
of Prestonsburg, as
may be deemed necessary for the construction and maintenance of its lines,
wires, or cables, but
whenever
the
grantee of the franchise shall begin the
erection of any lines
or ~ther equipment, it
shall promptly and
diligently prosecute
the work until completion and leave the
streets,
thoroughfares, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, public
ways and other public places where such
work is done in as
good condition of
repair as before such
work
was
commenced.
18, 2005
sidewalks, bridges,
pubic ways and other
public places of the
City, in lieu of any
street of alley rental
or of any charge for
the use and occupancy of said streets,
thoroughfares,
alleys,
sidewalks,
bridges, public ways,
or other public places
of the City, and in lieu
of any pole tax or
meter tax.
SECTION NO. 9
City Clerk of the
City of Prestonsburg,
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, is hereby
appointed
Special
City Councilmember
to sell said franchise,
privilege, right and
authority
hereby
ordered sold, and
said
Special
Councilmember
is
directed to offer said
franchise for sale at
public auction and
shall sell same to the
highest bidder at the
front door of the City
Building
in
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Kentucky, at
6 p.m., on March 28,
2005, after he/she
has advertised the
same, terms, conditions and place of
sale, pursuant to law
by inserting a notice
of sale in the Floyd
County
Times
Newspaper of general
circulation
in
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
once a week for three
(3)
consecutive
weeks prior to the
date of said sale,
said advertisement to
include
this
Ordinance.
SECTION NO. 6
Wherever in this
franchise either the
City of Prestonsburg
or the grantee thereof
is referred to, it shall
be deemed to include
the respective successors and assigns
of either, and all
rights, privileges, and
obligations contained
in this franchise shall
be binding upon, and
inure to the benefit
of, the respective
successors
and
assigns of said City
and said grantee,
whether
so
expressed or not.
SECTION NO. 7
The grantee of this
franchise
to
be
offered for sale may
make such rules and
regulations, covering
the furnishing of said
electric energy, as
may be fair and reasonable and consistent with the standard
practice
of
the
Said
grantee.
grantee may charge
such rates for electric
services as shall be
fair and reasonable.
The said grantee
shall render services
under said franchise
of like quality, that is,
adequate, efficient
and reasonable, to
that now being rendered to said City.
SECTION NO. 10
Each bidder for the
sale of said franchise, privilege, right
and authority, shall
file, as a part of his
bid, a certified copy
of his bid a Certificate
of Convenience and
Necessity from the
Public
Service
Commission
of
Kentucky,
issued
under the authority of
KRS 278.020(3).
.
SECTION NO. 8
The consideration
paid by the successful bidder for the franchise, privilege, right
and authority provided for herein shall be
complete compensation and consideration for the sale of
said franchise, privilege,
right
and
authority and for the
use and occupancy
of the streets, thoroughfares,
alleys,
SECTION NO. 11
Bids and proposals
for the purchase and
acquisition of the
franchise, privilege,
right and authority
hereby directed to be
sold shall be in writing and shall be
delivered
to the
Mayor or the City
Clerk upon the date
and at the time fixed
by the Clerk and/or
Mayor in said advertising for receiving
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
bids. Thereafter, the
Clerk and/or Mayor
shall report and submit· to the City
Council, at the time
and place to be fixed
by it, said b1ds and
proposals for said
Council's approval,
and said City Council
reserves the right for
and on behalf of the
City of Prestonsburg
to refuse any and all
bids for said franchise, privilege, right
and authority. In the
event the bids reported by the Clerk
and/or Mayor shall be
refused by the said
City Council, it may
direct, by resolution
or ordinance, said
franchise, privilege,
right and authority to
be again offered for
sale from time to
time, until a satisfactory bid therefor shall
be received and
approved. Each bid
shall be accompanied by a deposit and
each bidder shall
post bond in accordance with the provisions and requireof
KRS
ments
96.020.
However,
such deposit and
bond need not be
made by a corporation
or
person
COMMUNITY
AND TECHNICAL
COLLEGE SYSTEM
PRESTONSBURG,
KENTUCKY
Sealed b1ds will be
opened at 10:00 a.m.
EST, Friday, April 8,
2005,
at
the
Kentucky Community
and
Technical
College
System,
Office of Facilities
Management, 300
North
Main
St.,
Versailles, KY, for the
purpose of the sale of
a '91 Ford Explorer at
Big
Sandy
Community
&
Technical College.
Bid forms and other
information may be
obtained by calling
Ron
Carter
at
606/886-3863 ext.
6225,
Monday
through Friday, 8:30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The
bid(s) will be awarded to the party offering the best and highest bid. All items sold
"as-is."
The
Kentucky
Community
and
Technical
College
System reserves the
right to reject any and
all bids.
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Prestonsburg,
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SECTION NO. 12
This
Ordinance
granting this franchise shall be accepted by the grantee
thereof within sixty
(60) days from the
date of its passage.
Done
by
a
Resolution of the City
Council of the City of
Prestonsburg, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
entered at its meeting
held on the 28th day
of February, 2005.
WITNESS
MY
HAND, this the 28th
day of February,
2005.
Sharon Schoolcraft
City Clerk of the
City
of
Prestonsburg
Floyd County, KY
INVITATION
TO BID
SALE OF '91
FORD EXPLORER
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COMMUNITY
& TECHNICAL
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for survival.
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vegetation and leaves
at least 30 feet away
from your house.
You've 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 help
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.
•
Keep dry grass and
brush cut short.
•
Clean roof and gutters of flammable
materials and leaves.
WHEN.
Give dates and time
Have an evacuation
plan ready.
of sale, and rain
date information.
•
•
Remember backfiring
is illegal.
In a wildland fire
emergency, call 9-1-1 ,
your local Fire
Department, or your
local Division of
Forestry district office.
Is it mostly household goods? Nursery
furniture? Apparel?
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
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Pipeline
committee
appointed
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP)
Gov. Ernie Fletcher on
Friday formed an advisory
committee to study how
pipeline accidents affect
Kentucky's public health
and safety.
The 1 0-person panel,
called the Kentucky
Pipeline Safety Advisory
Committee, is supposed to
hold public meetings and
gather recommendations
on the matter. It would be
responsibl~ for suggesting
improvements to the federal government, which reg~ulates such interstate
pipelines, according to a
press release.
"I expect the committee
to be diligent in its efforts
to evaluate and identify
opportunities to improve
pipeline safety and help
prevent future tragedies
that could take innocent
life or degrade the commonwealth's natural
resources," Fletcher said
in a statement.
In November, a natural
gas pipeline exploded in
Floyd County. Nine people
were injured and five
homes were destroyed in
the explosion.
An oil pipeline ruptured
in Carroll County in
January, spewing 63,000
galle.- 1s of crude into the
Kentucky River. Oil spilled
into the Ohio River and
reached the water intakes
for the city of Louisville.
Fletcher said the committee would be a "proac~ive" move to improve the
safety of pipelines in
Kentucky.
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Chase ends with grisly murder-suicide by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PIKEVILLE - Kentucky
State Police officials are investigating the death of a 9month-old boy who was apparently murdered Thursday at the
hands of a man believed to be
his father.
Preliminary reports indicate
that Randall A. King, 46, of
Grayson, shot 9-month-old
Landon King twice in the head
and once in the torso before
turning the gun on himself during a pursuit along an approximate 20-mile stretch of U.S.
23.
Randall King, suffering
from a gunshot wound to his
head, was pronounced dead at
the scene at midnight by the
Pike County coroner.
Landon King, the son of
Eva Daniels, was found in the
front floorboard of the vehicle,
authorities said. He was immediately transported to the
Pikeville Medical Center,
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
photo by Mary Music
Floyd County PRIDE discussed upcoming events during an organizational meeting Friday.
Local PRIDE committee
making plans for cleanup
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - With the
PRIDE cleanup scheduled to begin
in just a matt~r of weeks, Floyd
County PRIDE is getting ready for
the big haul.
Committee members held an
organizational meeting Friday and
named Tony Grubb, of the Floyd
County Conservation District, as
chairman and Margo Barber as vice
Get up-to-the-minute
weather forecasts at
floydcountytimes.com
(See SHOOTINGS, page three)
Judge uses class
to try to fill need
by MARY MUSIC
High: 53 ·Low: 37
chairman.
This year, Floyd County PRIDE
will provide necessary supplies to
PRIDE
cleanup
volunteers.
Committee members also plan to
"lead by example" by adopting and
maintaining a stretch of highway in
Floyd County through the Adopt-aHighway Program.
Members set goals to clear out at
least one known illegal garbage
dump in the county and to seek
funding to clear out polluted water-
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Obituaries .....................A6
Sports ........................... 81
Lifestyles ...................... 85
Classifieds .................... 86
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ways, like that readily seen along the
Right Fork of Middle Creek.
Grubb asked members to bring in
digital photographs of area dump
sites and other litter-prone areas so
that members can decide which
areas need the most attention.
Currently, members are working
to obtain tax-exempt registration and
PRIDE grant funding for cleanup
projects and educational ventures
PRESTONSBURG
Area attorneys got a lesson
on ethics Friday at the
Floyd County Justice
Center, as part of a seminar
tatight by Family Court
Judge Julie Paxton.
The course, which gave
the lawyers 2.5 of the 12
continuing education credits they need each year to
maintain their practice, was
sponsored by Volunteer
Lawyers of Appalachian
Kentucky, which asked that
each attorney represent one
indigent client this year.
"We had 18 lawyers take
the course but that's not
enough," said Will Snyder,
ofVLAK.
Snyder noted that Floyd
County has been lagging in
providing free services for
the poor.
"It's a tragedy," Sny9er
said. "Today's class only
accounted for 8 percent of
lawyers in the county."
Judge Paxton echoed
Snyder's statements during
her lecture, when she
observed that the legal profession provides a good living and that "it is important
to give something back to
the community."
photo by Tom Doty
Judge Julie Paxton taught
a unit for area lawyers on
Friday and each one present will pay for the
course by offering free
legal services to one
needy client in Floyd
County.
The course detailed the
rising costs of litigation by
focusing on a growing
trend in the courts which is
seeing 65 percent of clients
trying to represent themselves. This is putting a
strain on the system and
gumming up the works by
making it difficult for other
attorneys who can't separate their opposing counsel
from the litigants. It's also a
problem for judges, who
are not allowed to give
legal advice.
Judge Paxton illustrated
(See CLASS, page three)
Henderson·
pleads guilty
Court applauds Turner for extra road money to sodomy
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
Jn side
Kentucky State
Police information
officer Scott
Hopkins, right, hosted a press conference Friday in
Pikeville about the
murder-suicide.
Randall A. King shot
9-month-old Landon
King three times
during a pursuit
along U.S. 23, then
shot himself,
authorities said.
where he died approximately
10 minutes later.
Kentucky State Police officials divulged circumstances
surrounding the murder-suicide during a press conference
Friday at the Pikeville Fire
Department Training Center.
They haven't yet established a
direct motive for the shooting,
but preliminary reports indicate that King and Daniels,
who had a "prior relationship,"
PRESTONSBURG - State Sen.
Johnny Ray Turner attended a meeting of the Floyd County Fiscal Court
Friday and received a warm welcome from the court for securing an
extra $570,000 for Floyd County
roads in the state budget during the
General Assembly's regular session
in Frankfort.
More funds might be coming the
county's way in the future, Turner
noted.
"We might be able to get ... more
for roads, if we can show the need,"
Turner said.
Turner reiterated his commitment
to the basics for Floyd County and
said, "Education, roads and water
photo by Tom Doty
State Sen. Johnny Ray Turner
addressed the Floyd County Fiscal
Court on Friday to talk about the
impact of funds being routed to the
area from the state budget.
are what we need to keep working
on. Ninety percent of the county has
water lines and that should help
(See PRIDE, page three)
attract industry."
Turner also talked about plans to
keep the Otter Creek Correctional
Complex sol vent after Indiana
begins taking back the prisoners
housed there. He said that he is
meeting Gov. Ernie Fletcher on
Monday and will bring state Rep.
Chuck Meade along to talk to the
governor about the possibility of
using the prison to house female
inmates.
Judge-Executive Paul Hunt
Thompson thanked Turner for his
efforts and said, "State government
was good to us. Our representatives
up there did excellent work."
Turner also mentioned a plan to
build a new park at Mud Creek and
(See TURNER, page three)
by TOM DOTY
before seeing the rest of his
sentence probated, will be
eligible for parole soon, as
PRESTONSBURG
he has already spent close
John Henderson, 31, of Hi to two tears in prison.
Hat, was senHenderson
tenced Friday
will have to
to seven years.
complte a sex
in prison on
offender proamended
gram as part of
charges of sexhis
sentence
ually abusing a
and will have to
child
on
have no violaChristmas day
tions of law for
2003.
five years in
Henderson
order to remain
Henderson
pleaded guilty
out of prison.
to two counts
He
is
also
of sodomy.
ordered to stay away from
Henderson, who will the victim and the child's
have to serve two years family.
STAFF WRITER
�A2 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
20, 2005
THE FLOYD C OUNTY TI MES
Odds a d Ends
• MERCER, Pa. - George
Kaminski, who has spent more
than half of his life behind
bars , has one more reason to
hate prison.
"There are no four-leaf
clovers here," Kaminski, 53 ,
told The Herald of Sharon for
Friday's editions.
Kaminski, serving time for
crimes including burglary and
~hooting at a police officer, has
collected a world record
72,927 four-leaf clovers since
1995 . He found all of them on
the
grounds of various
Pennsylvania prisons.
But now that he moved to a
minimum-security facility with
fewer clovers, he's worried
about the competition .
Edward Martin Sr., of
Soldotna, Alaska, claims to
have collected more than
76,000 four-leaf clovers. The
73-year-old retiree has applied
to Guinness to be recognized
as the new record holder.
"I've got file cabinets full of
clovers," said Kathy Dawson,
Soldotna's mayoral assistant.
"The mayor had kids from the
schools counting all these
clovers , and there are still more
to be counted."
Kaminski complained that
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The Associated Press
Today is Palm Sunday,
March 20, the 79th day of2005 .
There are 286 days left in the
year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 20, 1815,
Napoleon Bonaparte entered
Paris, beginning his "Hundred
Days" rule.
On this date:
• In 1413, England's King
Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.
• In 1727 , physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir
Isaac Newton died in London.
• In 1852, Harriet Beecher
Stowe's influential novel about
slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
was first published.
• In 1896, U.S. Marines
landed in Nicaragua to protect
U.S. citizens in the wake of a
revolution .
• In 1956, union workers
ended a 156-day strike at
Westinghouse Electnc Corp.
• In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
• In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
was convicted of armed robbery
for her part in a San Francisco
bank holdup.
• In 1985, Libby Riddles of
Teller, Alaska, became the first
woman to win the Iditarod Trail
Dog Sled Race.
• In 1990, Namibia became
an independent nation as the former colony marked the end of
75 years of South African rule.
• In 1999, Bertrand Piccard
of Switzerland and Brian Jones
of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon
around the world nonstop.
Ten years ago: In Tokyo,
12 people were killed, more
than 5 ,500 others sickened when
packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five
separate
subway
trains.
Commentator Pat Buchanan formally launched his presidential
campaign'in New Hampshire.
Five years ago: Pope John
Paul II embarked on a strenuous
and spiritual tour of the Holy
Land, beginning with a stop in
Jordan . President Clinton
arrived in Bangladesh on the
first such visit by an American
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president. Former Black Panther
Jamil Abdullah Al-Atnin, once
known as H. Rap Brown, was
captured in Alabama; he was
wanted in the fatal shooting of a
sheriff's deputy. (Al-Amin was
later convicted and sentenced to
life in prison without parole.)
One year ago: Hundreds
of thousands of people worldwide rallied against the U.S.-led
war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict.
The U .S. military charged six
soldiers with abusing inmates at
Abu Ghraib prison. The Rev.
Karen Dammann, a lesbian
Methodist pastor, was acquitted
of violating church doctrine in a
trial held in Bothell, Wash.
Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian narrowly won re-election.
Former Dutch Queen Juliana
died at age 94.
Today's
the competi tion with Martin i'
unfai r.
"The guy's got the whole
world - I have two or three
acres," K aminski said fro m the
visitor's
room of State
Correctional
InstitutionMercer , about 55 miles north of
Pittsburgh .
• AUSTIN, Texas - The
Friday night lights in Texas
could soon be without bum pin·
and grindm ' cheerleaders.
Legislation fi led by state
Rep. Al Edwards of Houston
would put an end to " sexually
sugge stive " performances at
high school athletic events and
other extracurricular competi tion-; .
"It's j ust too sexually oriented , you know, the way they're
shakin g their behinds and
going on , breaking it down,"
said Edwards, a 26-year veter-
an of the Texas House.
''And then we say to them ,
'don't get involved in sex
unless it's marriage or love, it's
dangerous out there' and yet
the teachers and directors are
hel ping them go through those
kind of gyrations ."
Under Edwards' bill , if a
school district knowingl y permits such a performance, state
funds would be reduced in an
amount to be determined by the
education commissioner.
Edwards said he filed the
bill after seeing several
instances of such ribald performances in his district.
J .M. Farias, owner of Austin
Cheer Factory, said cheerleading aficionados wou ld welcome the law. Cheering competitions penalize for suggestive movements or any vulgarity, he said.
"Any coaches that are good
won 't put that in their routines," he said.
• DANA POINT, Calif. The m ystery of the j um bo
squid is deepening.
Dead Humboldt squid are
again washing up along Orange
County's co astline, baffling
scientists who are trying to find
out why.
The Ocean Institute in Dana
Point has conducted some of
the research, shipping specimens to the San ta Barbara
Museum of Natural History
and Stanford University for
further study.
Scienti sts at the institute
thi s week dissected a 5-footlong ,
15-poun d
female
Humboldt squid that was filled
with parasites and sand . More
than a 100 squid have been
spotted since Sunday between
Dana Point and San Clemente.
Still, there are no answers.
"We still don't know what's
kil ling them," said Linda
Blanchard , lab director of the
Ocean Institute who has dissected about a dozen squid
since they first washed up
ashore in January. "All we
have right now are theories."
Scientists believe the squid
are swimming north from
Mexico to follow food sources,
forcing them to come closer to
the surface and shore . Squid
normally live and hunt 3,000
feet below the water's surface.
In Janu ary, abo ut 1,500
Humboldt squid washed up on
the Orange County coastline
about a week after an oil spill
from an undetermined source
coated more than 1 ,000
seabirds off the Southern
California coast.
(See ODDS, page sill)
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Producer-director-comedian
Carl Reiner is 83 . Actor Hal
Linden is 74. Singer Jerry Reed
is 68. Former Canadian prime
tninister Brian Mulroney is 66.
Country singer Don Edwards is
66. TV producer Paul Junger
Witt is 62. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the
Sky) is 59 . Hockey Hall-ofFarner Bobby Orr is 57 . Blues
singer-musician Marcia Ball is
56. Actor William Hurt is 55.
Rock musician Carl Palmer
(Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is
55 . Rock musician Jimmie
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Jimmy
Seales
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Actress Holly Hunter is 47.
Rock musician Slim Jim
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Chaplin is 34 . Rock singer
Chester Bennington (Linkin
Park) is 29. Actor Michael
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Lawson is 26.
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SUNDAY, MARCH
20, 2005 • A3
Horses thriving in Appalachia
on pastures that were once
rr1ountaintop mines
by ROGER ALFORD
ing the land after the coal is
extracted that has made the
mountaintops a grazing haven.
PIKEVILLE - Horses stand Coal company crews plant variat attention in grassy fields, ous grasses on the land in hopes
heads held high in a warm of preventing erosion.
breeze, while colts prance about
In addition to horses, farmers
in a postcard-perfect scene.
are increasingly putting their
What sounds like a descrip- cattle, goats and sheep on the
tion of central Kentucky's mountaintop pastures. And
Bluegrass country is actually in among wild animals, coyotes,
the heart of Appalachia, where deer and elk have found a home
mining companies in search of · there.
coal have turned once-rugged
"I think when the critics of
mountaintops into prime graz- mining talk about what they call
ing land for horses.
the destruction, they look only
"The land is just so vast," at the active operation," said
said Brian Combs, a University Bill Caylor, president of the
of Kentucky agricultural agent. Kentucky Coal Association.
"Horses can just graze and "They don't look at the
graze and graze."
reclaimed product."
Through the mining process,
Chester Wireman usually
thousands of acres that were keeps 15 to 20 horses grazing
once dense forests, mountain on his 100-acre pasture that was
peaks and steep valleys are now once a mounta.intop mine in
grasslands that provide nearly Magoffin County. He said the
perfect habitat for horses. The forage is as good on his farm as
result is a fledgling equine that in Kentucky's famed
industry in mountain communi- Bluegrass area surrounding
ties where horses were once rare. Lexington, 100 miles to the
No one knows exactly how northwest.
large the horse population is in
"I've got an old mare that
eastern Kentucky's mountain will be 29 years old in June," he
region, but the American Horse said. "She's been on a strip
Council estimates it is now mine all her life. She's fat as a
home to about 12,000 of the bear."
state's 180,000 horses.
In Breathitt County, hun"People are running horses dreds of horses roam free on
on some of these reclaimed strip some 6,000 acres of reclaimed
mines by the hundreds," Combs coal mine land. People take
said. "If reclaimed surface their horses there, turn them
mines are properly maintained, loose, and let them graze wherthey provide more than enough ever they wish. No fences limit
forage. In some places, you their travels.
Horse owners from several
have free-range grazers."
Coal companies have long counties in eastern Kentucky
been criticized for taking the leave their animals on that land,
tops off mountains in eastern called South Fork, for months at
Kentucky and southern West a time to grow fat on what has
Virginia to unearth the coal. become essentially public grazEnvironmentalists say the prac- ing lands.
Every county in eastern
tice destroys mountain vistas
and creates "moonscapes," with Kentucky had increases in horse
all the trees and vegetation populations between 1997 and
scraped away by bulldozers.
2002, according to the National
But it's the process of restor- Agricultural Statistics Service,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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the ethical problems inherent in
such a situation by explaining
that she could give advice to a
litigant but might then be more
impressed by a point made by
the opponent's attorney, which
would put the person without a
lawyer in a position to accuse the
judge of misleading him or her.
Paxton also talked about the
dangers of a lawyer helpi~g a
friend by writing motions for
him or her when they are supposed to be representing themselves. She noted that "ghostwriting" is an ethical violation as
it turns a lawyer into a silent
partner who can be held liable
later if his or her friend doesn't
get his or her way in court and
decides to report that an attorney
said, "We need places for our
youth to be able to go to." He
also mentioned plans to build
a ball park for use by the
teams at South Floyd and
Allen Central,
Turner related that h is
experiences as a coach and
teacher have impressed upon
him the need for encouraging
children's activities and said,
"Athletics are an integral part
of childhood development."
In other business the court
approved that the j ail reinstate Justin Stephens, who
returned last week from military deployment in Kosovo
and is ready to come back to
work. Jailer Roger Webb said
that he was happy to have
Stephens back after hIs ser-
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Turner
Class
Pride
a branch of the U.S. Department
of
Agriculture.
Morgan
County's horse population
swelled from 598 to 1,467 .
Magoffin County's increased
from 288 to 525, Knox
County's from 302 to 422, and
Johnson County's from 141 to
207 .
Dr. Joey Collins, a Pikeville
veterinarian who has built a
practice around horses , said he
believes the numbers have
increased far more substantially
since the last government count
three years ago. Collins said he
has seen the number of horses
for which he performs blood
tests for local competitions
grow from less than 200 to more
than 1 ,000 a year. He said he
believes that is a direct result of
the increasing acreage of grasslands on the mountaintops.
"It's made a lot of opportunities for people who want horses," he said.
Coal association president
Caylor said companies are
restoring most of the surface
mines for use as wildlife habitat, with rolling terrain and lots
of trees. However, many private
landowners want flat land, seeded in grass , so that it can be
used for agricultural purposes.
"Coal operators have an
opportunity to leave the land
dramatically better," he said.
"When you have steep inaccessible hillsides, all you can do is
grow trees on it. This gives
them other options."
Combs said he believes eastem Kentucky will play a larger
role in the horse industry in
years to come.
"When you look at central
Kentucky and what is happening down there, you have so
many of the farms being sectioned off and sold in plots or
being turned into subdivisions.
"Eventually, those farms are
going to be pushed out into
eastern Kentucky."
throughout the community.
They discussed the possibility of "piggy backing" the
Floyd
County
~ervice
Project, headquartered in
Turkey Creek, to obtain tax
exempt status,
The organization is asking community schools,
businesses and other organizations to "pitch in" during
the annual PRIDE cleanup
campaign, which is scheduled for April 9 through
April 23.
Floyd County PRIDE representatives will be on hand
during a Home and Garden
Expo at the Jenny Wiley
State
Resort
Park
Convention Center on April
9, to ijign up volunteers and handled ~tome of their motion!!,
Snyder suid that the underlyoffer Information about
vie@,
ini problem I& that people who
eun 't afford an attorney wind up
on the losing sides of decisions
and are thus robbed of any fair
County PRIDE meeting , chance of ju1Hice.
slated to be held at the
Floyd County Courthouse
upcomlni PRIDE project11 in
Floyd County.
The community h invited
to attend the next Floyd
-
Annex on April 7 , at 10 a.m .
Subsequent meetings will be
held at various locations
throughout the county.
To register your group or
receive additional information, contact Floyd County
PRIDE Coordinator Lon
May at (606) 886-0498.
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Kentucky Power employees worked Friday to fix a transformer and guy wire on this sign at Ford.
Branch. King's vehicle drove over the hill and through a rocky ravine before coming to rest in the
front lawn of a neighboring home.
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were involved in a custody dispute involving Landon King.
The Harlan County Circuit
Clerk's office said Friday that
there are no custody cases pending between King and Daniels
in Harlan County.
Laura Taylor, a family friend,
told the Associated Press that
King had apparently become
angry after Daniels asked him to
begin paying child support.
King had previously been physically abusive to Daniels, Taylor
said.
The Harlan County KSP post
rece1ved a call at 9:30 p.m .
Thursday from the mother of a
14-year-old who was babysitting Landon King at the Daniels
home in the Evarts community
of Harlan County.
Daniels was shopping for
Easter baskets, authorities said,
when King came to her home
and abducted the child at gunpoint.
Investigating officers said
King came to the home and
" had posse~ sion" of the child
prior to the abduction. He left
the premises, leaving the child
with the babysitler, they said,
and returned and forced his way
back into the home a few minutes later with the .32 caliber H
& R handgun (later used to
shoot the child) and the shotgun
that Kmg later turned on himself. Both weapons were recovered at the scene, authorities
reported.
Another 6-year-old child was
also at the Daniels residence
during the abduction, they said.
Harl an KSP officials relayed
descriptions of King's vehicle, a
2001 Ford Expedition, to surrounding police agencies. The
vehicle was spotted by Hazard
police officers at the intersection of U.S. 23 and Route 805 in
Letcher County at approximately 10:50 p.m .
King , a railroad engineer for
CSX in Russell, did not comply
to attempts to stop the vehicle,
they said.
The pursuit continued along
U.S . 23 for approximately 20
miles, KSP information officer
Scott Hopkins said, and ended
about 20 minutes later when
King's vehicle ._,n off .the road
near Ford's Branch, about three
miles south of Pikeville.
Both occupants of the vehicle had already sustained gunshot wounds by the time the
vehicle came to a rest on its side
in the lawn of a home owned by
Shannon Robinson, officials
said.
Jerry and Sherry Adkins,
owners of a neighboring mobile
home business, heard the commotion outside their business
between 11 and 11:30 p.m. Jim
Adkins said the car veered off
the road , crossed the southbound lane, tumb,led ,thro.ugl;l a
rocky ravine and a rock-filled
ditch before it landed sideways
in Robinson 's yard.
The Adkinses did not hear
gunshots or the ultimate crash at
the scene.
"You don 't see something
like this so close to home. It's
horrific and hard to understand ," Jerry Adkins said
Friday.
KSP officials would not confirm whether alcohol or drugs
were contributing factor in the
abduction and subsequent murder-suicide . Toxicology reports
are pending on King, who was
scheduled to appear for a tria] in
Harlan County in May for a
misdemeanor DUI offense.
The baby's uncle, John
Howard , told the Associated
Press that King had been drink-
ing when he came to the home::···
He also said that King, who ·
officials said married another
Grayson resident in December; ·
"knocked the door down ,'
grabbed the child out of [the .
babysitter's arms] and took off
with it."
"If things didn't go exactly
the way he wanted, he was
demanding," Taylor told the.
Assoc1ated Press. "He'd take
force to get his way. I knew he
was c..apable of anything . We
just want to wake up from this
nightmare."
King was trying to "rekindle" his relationship with·,·
Daniels, the Associated Press
reported.
Officers did not exchange
fire or have any verbal or physical contact with King during
the pursuit, Hopkins said.
King held out his hand during the pursuit and motioned for
officers to approach the driver's . ·
side of his vehicle, authorities
said, but officers did not com- •,
ply.
Authorities were at the scene· .
until approximately 3 a.m.
Friday morning and were still
struggling to make sense of the
circumstances surrounding the
incident Friday afternoon .
"I went home and kissed my
little boy," KSP Lt. Lynn Cross
said after the press conference.
Detectives Ken Crider and
Kevin Newsome contmue the
investigation.
CSX officials would not
release information about King
Friday.
Both bod1es are undergoing
autopsies at the State Medical
Examiner's office in Frankfort.
Associated Press reporter
Roger Alford contributed to this
story.
�A4 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
20, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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--
They died for truth
A pause to honor 56 journalists who lost their lives so that
others could be informed.
Freedom-loving people around the world owe a special
debt of gratitude to 56 people who lost their lives in 2004,
martyrs for their commitn:lent to an informed public.
More than 100 other journalists, including one in the
United States, were imprisoned.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, which reported the
figures, said last year was exceptionally dangerous for people
who gather and report the news. Of the 56 who died, 39 were
murdered. Others died in combat.
Iraq was the most dangerous venue - 22 of the dead were
Iraqi journalists. Another eight were local journalists in the
Philippines.
People who are drawn to a career of reporting don't seek
fame or fortune. They pursue, and are pursued by, an
unquenchable commitment to seek out the facts and make
them known.
In so doing, they provide an essential ingredient for democracy, or, as the case may be, democratic revolution. That
ingredient is an informed public.
It can be dangerous. An informed public is a threat to
tyrants (China and Cuba were first and second in the number
of journalists imprisoned last year) and to ot.,ers - drug syndicates, regional warlords and terrorists. Unchecked power, or
the lust for unchecked power, cannot abide the bright light of
truth.
Thus, we honor those who gave their lives to the cause of
informing their fellow man.
A similar, though less violent, struggle goes on even in
those parts of the world that are politically more stable. On
one side are powerful people, in and out of government, who
are dedicated to keeping their activities as far as possible out
of the public gaze. On the other are journalists who work
daily to report the news.
Even in the United States, reporting can entail a broader
effort that includes monitoring legislation to be sure the
forces of secrecy don't gain a new foothold. It can mean hiring a lawyer and going to court to defend the freedom of the
press, such as this newspaper did when the American Civil
Liberties Union tried to prevent publication of a key detail in
a bit of public business.
It can mean unpleasant confrontation, long hours of
research, extra legwork and the development of sources
inside government. At some points, it can mean going public
with formal objections to government policies, such as objections many of our fellow news organizations are voicing this
week about the Bush administration's policy of foot-dragging
on Freedom of Information requests.
Yes, we realize that none of this remotely matches the sacrifice of our brothers and sisters who gave their lives last year.
Yet knowing that they died in the same cause merits the awe
and respect of American journalists and the renewed commitment not to tire in the struggle against government secrecy.
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HRMC to
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annexation
attempt
SUBMITIED BY HIGHLANDS REGIONAL
MEDICAL CENTER
Highlands Regional Medical Center
(HRMC) will legally challenge the
annexation ordinance presented at the
Prestonsburg City Council meeting on
Monday, March 14. HRMC was
unaware that the ordinance was to be
presented and first learned about it on
Tuesday morning. HRMC firmly
believes the annexation attempt is an
effort by the mayor to resolve many of
the financial difficulties incurred by his
administration.
Highlands Regional Medical Center
opened in 1973 and since that time has
purchased water from the Auxier Water
Company, gas from the Auxier Gas
Company, sewage services from the
City, electricity from Big Sandy Rural
Electric, and fire protection from the
North Floyd Fire District, who in tum
sub-contracts with the city of
Prestonsburg. Highlands pays premium
costs for all of these services.
HRMC is the second largest employer in Floyd County and contributes significantly to the economic development
of the community through its ~DO plus
employees that live in Prestonsburg and
other parts of Floyd County. Payroll
dollars go back into the local economy
through purchases of goods and services
and payment of property taxes. Many of
Highlands' physicians and board members live in Prestonsburg, own homes,
and pay premium property taxes. As a
good corporate citizen, each year
Highlands generously donates to the
local schools, police and sheriff's
departments, the rescue squad, the fire
department, churches, Jenny Wiley
Theatre, the Mountain Arts Center,
StoneCrest Golf Course, and other organizations in Prestonsburg and Floyd
County.
As a not-for-profit organization,
HRMC turns no one. away for care
regardless of their ability to pay. Last
year Highlands provided $5 .6 million to
the community in uncompensated care,
care that was provided for local people
who had no insurance or ability to pay.
In addition, all Kentucky hospitals are
forced to pay a provider tax to the state.
Last year HRMC paid $1.2 million in
provider taxes. A very small portion of
this amount is returned to the hospital to
help offset the cost of uncompensated
care.
Highlands is not part of a hospital
chain with headquarters in another state.
It is the only hospital in the four-county
area that is not part of a chain.
Highlands is an independent, community hospital with all profits made by the
organization going back into the organization to provide new services, recruit
new physicians to the area, and upgrade
technology all toward continuously
improving patient care for the community.
Highlands' position on the annexation is firm . It will be legally challenged. Highlands contributes significantly to the economy of Prestonsburg,
is a good corporate citizen, and believes
annexation is not in the best interests of
the medical center. We ask for the support of all the people in Prestonsburg
that we have provided care for, donated
to, sponsored an event for, purchased
services from, or helped in any way.
Please contact your Prestonsburg City
Council Members and urge them to vote
no on the annexation ordinance at the
next city council meeting on March 28 .
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beyond the fJ eltway
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President Bush's efforts to sell his
peculiar "privatization" remedy for the
Social Security 'crisis' haven't been
going well. Recent polls show that Mr.
Bush gets his lowest marks on his handling of that issue.
But, like any good snake oil salesman,
he presses on. He's been crisscrossing
the country
telling people
that
Social
Security is
sick
and
that only
pri v a tization
will
make
it
well.
H i s
sales pitch
has been characteristically Bushian dismissive of evidence and encased in
syntax that is virtually impenetrable to
logic. Here's what he said the other day:
"I've been reading the newspapers
and been seeing some folks saying
'There's not a problem, he's just exaggerating.'
Well, I'm going to keep telling people
we've got a problem until it sinks in,
because we've got one. You can't dodge
whether we have a problem or not.
Because, see, the next follow-on ques-
tion to that is, if you've got a problem,
what do you Republicans and Democrats
and a few independents intend to do
about It up there?'"
He ulso Raid that, under his propo d
privatization fix. income from per onal
accounts, goe to supplement the oclal
Security check that you're going to get
from the federal government, "Sec, per·
sonal accounts is an add-on to that which
the government is going to pay you. It
doesn't replace the Social Security system."
That either means he doesn't understand the plan he's proposed (always a
possibility) or that he is outright lying
(more likely). You can't pay full Social
Security benefits and have part of the
payroll tax going into personal accounts
at the same time. There's just not enough
money to go around. The term "add-on"
is generally used to mean a payment into
a private account above and beyond what
now goes into the retirement system.
That's not what Bush is proposing.
It's always dangerous to assume that
President Bush is as dumb as he sounds.
He gets what he wants too often to be
written off as a dunce. It's far more likely
that he's deliberately trying to confuse
and frighten people about Social Security
so that they'll be stampeded into support
for his cockamamie privatization scheme.
And I wouldn't bet against him. He's
calling his shock troops into the battle.
Business groups are ratcheting up multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts and the
airwaves will soon be filled with stories
of Social Security's peril. (Like they
care.) And the people who gave you the
Swift Boat veterans (remember them?)
are joining the fight. They have been
hired by USA Next, a big-money conservative lobbying group, to trash AARP as
they did John Kerry.
They're trying to brand the · seniors
lobbying group as a left-liberal, gay mar·
ringe-loving cabal that is standing iu the
way of the brave president's efforts to
save Social Security. You would think
thnt absurd on the f ce of it, but thi!l
bunch managed to convince n lot of vot·
er that Kerry'~ Vietnam credentials
(three purple hearts) weren't as good as
those of Bush, who hid from the fray.
Maybe they can convince people that
AARP is a bunch of hippies.
Personally, I doubt that Mr. Bush will
get his plan enacted this time around but .
he might get a piece of it now, then push
for more later. That's the way the
Conservative movement works: patiently, relentlessly.
Conservatives have been talking
about getting rid of Social Security for
the past 35 years, ever since Barry
Goldwater suggested it be made voluntary. He was laughed out of the election
in 1968 but here, 37 years later, we've
got a two-term president who's pushing
privatization
voluntary Social
Security by another name - and no
•
one's laughing.
This so-called Conservative move- 1
ment is not conservative, of course; it's
reactionary. It looks longingly back on a
time when retirement was the exclusive
province of the rich.
For the rest of us, it was work 'til you
die and if you couldn't, hope you died
young. That's the golden sunset Captain
Bush is steering us into now, or trying to.
Donald Kaul recently retired as
Washington columnist for the "Des
Moines Register." He has covered the
foolishness in our nation's capitalfor 29
years, winning a number of modestly
coveted awards along the way. Email •
him at donald.kaul2@verizon.net.
�SUNDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD vOUNTY TIMES
20, 2005 • AS
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Networks preparing for .big sto y when new pope is selected
by DAVID BAUDER
AP TELEVISION WRITER
NEW YORK - With Pope
John Paul II's health declinA
ing, CBS News executive
\ Marcy McGinnis traveled to
Rome to negotiate a 10-year
lease for the rights to broadcast from the roof of a hotel
ov rloukin
St.
Peter'11
\ Square when the pope dies.
That was nine years ugo. ·
"I thought I was very smart
making a 10-year deal," she
said. "It should have been
15."
Or more, judging by the
84-year-old pope's tenacity. A
papal succession is one of
those big stories that televio;ion networks can assiduously prepare for, and they have.
They just don't know when
those plans will be needed at
a.moment's notice, and must
make sure they're not outdated when it happens.
The pope's death will be a
major story across the world
that will fill many hours of
airtime, and will be the first
such succession in the era of
24-hour news.
"John Paul II in some
remarkable way embodies the
human experience in our time
in a way that perhaps no other
figure has since Churchill,"
said George Weigel, one of
the
pope's
biographers.
"When a gigantic figure like
this leaves the stage of history, that is an opportunity to
reflect upon that history and
what it meant."
TV networks shouldn't be
so concentrated on history
that they miss how the event
will hit people in the heart,
said ABC News President
David Westin.
"There are a number of
people who are connected
emotionally to the pope,"
Westin said. "We need to
understand this."
ABC News was the only
American network to have a
full-time religion reporter,
Peggy Wehmeyer, hut the job
was eliminated several years
ago.
Now ther arc none.
"I mHy be bin ed, but I
think that's a mistake," said
Jeffery Sheler, a contributmg
editor at U.S. News & World
Report and president of the
Religious
Newswriters
Association.
Yet even Sheler concedes
that a papal succession is such
a major story that networks
know enough to have people
study for it. To a large degree,
the networks also outsource
expertise, signing up commentators like they locked up
retired generals for the Iraq
war.
Weigel,
for
instance,
signed an exclusive deal with
NBC News six years ago.
These experts an; either on
retainers where they already
talk about religious issues, or
make agreements that they
will be on call at the appropriate time.
News organizations have
also prepared a raft of material ahead of time. CBS News,
for example, has largely completed ·an hourlong primetime special on the pope that
will air upon his death,
McGinnis said.
"I have been interviewed
for obituaries on the pope for
the last 10 years and he's outlived everybody, even some
of his biographers," said the
Rev. Thomas Reese, editor of
the Jesuit weekly magazine
America and author of
"Inside the Vatican: The
Politics and Organization of
the Catholic Church."
too. sard Marjorie Weeke, probably have to check their is, will they really know? Or
For American networKs, who coordinated press cover- cell phones, pagers and com- are they just doing this so
the coverage will likely
lge for the Vatican until her puters at the door to guard you'll buy them lunch?"
resemble the aftermath of for- recent retirement. (Weeke's against any leaks, Reese said.
Reese has posted a primer
mer
President
Reagan·~
on is an NBC News producer
"They take an oath and if for journalists covering a
death: several hours of live based m Rom ).
they come out of the conclave papal succession on the
coverage when the new
"I thmk .t will all work and break the oath, the have Internet. Since he hasn't
breaks, then occasional spe·
ut," ~he 5aid. "This is rtaly. to go in and ask for forgive- signed an exclusive arrangecia! reports on the hroJ.t1Gist It's the land of improvisa- ness," Weeke said. "It's a ment with any network - he
networks. Expect cable new~ tiOn"
t~aid he's not intere ted in the
very serious thing."
networks to be ncnrly w 11-t(
The t•lectlon of a new
In 1978, cardinals over nge money - he'll be one of tho
wall on the stmy.
pope "'iII be less n religion 80 weren't allowed to vote for most visible races on TV ·
"I think for the most part
·
tory than a political one, a new pope but weren't sworn when that time comes.
people have their plan~ in dependent on old-fashioned to secrecy, so they went out
There's one question he
place," said John Stack, vice reporting,
said
Mark and told journalists what was won't answer. He won't make
president of newsgathering Lukasiewicz, chief of spe- going on, Reese said.
any predictions on a new pope.
for Fox News Channel. cials for NBC News.
"Part of it is I don't want
Now that loophole has
"Especially with (the pope's)
to look like a fool when it's
When John Paul II was been closed.
health issues of the last month selected in 1978, the room
"Once the election is over, all over," he said. "I don't
and a half, it was a case of where the cardinals met was every monsignor in Rome think anyone in the world is
people going over their swept for electronic bugs, will claim to know the inside J going to know who is going
plans."
Weeke said. Cardinals will story," he said. "The trouble to be the pope."
The big challenge will be
explaining the traditions and
the conclave of cardinals
that selects a new pope without making eyes glaze over,
he said.
"Can you imagine what
this is going to be like for
by PASTOR STEVE
town Prestonsburg. Pastors United Methodist Church on
24-hour television?" Sheler
PESCOSOLIDO
take turns offering a short mes- Good Friday, March 25th. For
said. "There's not going to be
COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST
sage - one each day. A light more information on this
much news. The conclave is
CHURCH
lunch
will be served at 12:30 · event, please call 886-8031.
private. The .cardinals when
Lastly, the community is
P.M.
Following
is a schedule
they come out of a closed
The date for Easter Sunday of' the speakers for this Holy invited again to the Eastern
event aren't going to be gl\·Kentucky Prayer Conference
ing interviews. It will be jour- changes each year. This special Week:
day
is
set
each
year
as
the
first
21,
Pastor
Monday,
March
on Substance Abuse tonight
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Sunday after the full moon Tommy Reid
(Sunday) at 6:00 P.M. at the
ists."
after
the
spring
equinox
(usuTuesday,
March
Mountain
Arts Center.
22,
Pastor
Organizing coverage i~ ,
ally March 21st). This year the John Baker
The
focus
of this special
logistical nightmare for netWednesday,
moon
is
full
on
March
25th
March
23,
Holy
Week
is
the great sacriworks: they need to lent
(Good Friday) and the Sunday Pastor Steve Williams
fice
of
Jesus
Christ
for the sins
places with good c tmcr
nght after that 1 March 27th
Thursday,
March
24,
Youth
of
the
world.
Why
would
God
views of St. Peter's, sepnr te
. Easter Sunday.
Minister
Clayton
Case
allow
His
Son
to
suffer?
It
was
facilities for dozens of shortTo
help
our
community
preFriday,
March
25,
the
only
way
to
save
people
Pastor
timers to work and hotel
pare for Easter, the Floyd Floyd Price
from the fires of hell and allow
rooms at a moment's notice in
County
Ministerial
The
community
might
also
them entry into heaven. Christ
a popular tourist town.
Association has planned a be interested in an enactment suffered so we could be saved
And woe to the net\\(1 '
<;cries of Holy Week Services. and explanation of the Jewish But His Father didn't leave
that misses the picture Vv c1
The~e \;ervices will be held at
Seder (Passover) Meal. A Him in the grave. On the third
puff of smoke indicates a n
12:00
noon
Monday
through
Christian Jew from the organi- day ... He was resurrected from
pope has been chosen.
Good Frida~ at the. Irene <:;ole ' z~iqn Jews for,,lesw;.wlll.l~~d the dead! Thus, we celebrate
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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 p.m. There will be no
charge for admission.
This year's program will feature: Home and garden topics,
booths, free herb, vegetabl e
and flo\\ er seeds. and youth
activitJes.
Seeds \\ill be distributed on
a "first-come first serve basis."
Seed quantities are limited.
For more informati on, contact Ray Tackett, Theresa
Scott, or Chuck Stamper at
886-2668.
Picking for
the American
Cancer Society
The Pike County Pickers will
be presenting a Bl uegrass benefit show at the Belfry Fire
Department on April 2. 2005.
The program is being presented
in support of the American
Cancer Society's Relay for
Life, and all profits from the
program will go to the
American Cancer Society. The
show will begin at 6:00 p.m.
·and
will
feature,
Lost
Mountain, Blackberry Jam,
Frank Hammond and Old Time
Bluegrass, Swift River and
other local performen. Anyone
interested in participating in
this event should call Mike
Morley, at (606) 63.1-1688 or
(606) 432-5848.
May Valley Elementary
school-based decision
making council to meet
There will be called meeting of
the 1ay Valley Elmenetary
chool-Based Deci ion Making
Council on March 21 and 22, at 4
p.m., in th school hbnll'y. The
meeting is open to the public nnd
everyone I ncourai!~d to attend.
ACH ' to hold SBDM
cuuncll m tina
Allen Central H1gh Sehool
will hold a culled SBDM coun·
cil meeting on undny, nt 4
p.m., in the Library on Staffing
Allocations for the 2005-2006
school year.
Adoptive parent
Support group meeting
(A.S.K.) Adoption Support
for Kentucky is sponsoring a
support group for adoptive and
prospective adoptive parents.
The meetings are held on the
3rd Tuesday of each month in
Pike County at the Department
for Community Based Services
Office , 131 Summit Drive,
Pikeville,k KY 41501, from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. Childcare will
not be provided.
We have recently started a
second meeting. This meeting
, will be held on the lst Monday
, of each month in Floyd County
at
the
Department
for
1
Com munity Based Services
Office , 1009 North Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg , KY 41653, from
6 p.m . to 8 p.m. Childcare will
not be provided.
For more information oontact
Dedra Slone, adoptive parent liaison , Adoption Support for
Kentucky, 606-432-4l10, 606422-7927 - Cell, doslone@eastky.net
Special presentation
fea turing a special Easter
play
An Easter play, "Back to the
Present," the events of the past,
present and future of what was,
is, and will be, according to the
Bible . Join us Easter day,
March 27th , at Trimble Chapel
at the junction of 23 & 80, at
11 :00 a .m .
Bring family and friends .
Everyone welcome !
UNITE Drug Coalition
The F loyd County Drug
Coalition of UNITE will host a
prayer conference on Sunday,
March 20, at 6 p.m., at the
Mountain Arts Center. Clay
County Pastor Doug Abner will
lead the service, which will
focus on garnering community
support for a May 1st march
against drugs. The community
is also invited to join UNITE
members each Saturday at l
p.m., until May 1, in a prayer
session. Prayer services will
begin this Saturday, March 19,
at 9 a.m., at the Allen First
Baptist Church.
Worship/Youth center
There is now a Worship I
Youth center in Old Allen, that
meets on Tuesdays, at 6 p.m .
Women' s Bible study meets on
Wednesdays, 2-6 p.m. (youth) .
Thursday prayer meeting is
held nt 7 p.m. All meetings nre
fr~~
nnd the center'li 11pon or is
the Daniels Creek Baptlat
Fellow hlp Church of 0 d,
pustor Henry Lewl!l. Por more
lnfof'mation. contocl Tina Hall
at 874-0544.
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.
meal.
Reservations are
required by May 1. Contact
Nancy Varney Bryan by calling
433-9200 or 433-0820. You
may also write to: P.O. Box
101, Pikeville, KY 41502 or
email to: nbryan@setel.com.
It's been 35 years, classmates,
let 's have a little fun!
Christ United
Methodist Church
March 20 - "Joy Service"
with special singing by "Voices
of Faith."
March 24 - Maundy Thursday
Service, 7 p.m.
March 27 - Sunday morning
worship service - Chancel
Choir will present ·Easter
Cantata "Behold the Lamb," at
11 a.m.
Big Sandy 4·H Club
Is seeking new members I
Do you like to have fun? Meet
new people? Help your community? Then join our club!
For more info ., contact Chuck
Stamper at 886-2668.
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 478-3310.
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 .
Diabetes Support Group
To meet on March 22 , at
McDowell ARH Hospital
(Telemed Room) , at 4:30 p.m.
Topic: Weight Management.
Guest speaker: Dr. Debra
Jacobs. For more info., contact
Theresa Scott at 886-2668.
HRMCComm.
Calendar • March
Mar. 31 - Living Well with
Diabetes, Meeting Place A&B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 5-6 p.m.
Fqr 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,
plcue email addre11 cs to
Debbie Hall Parsons or Owen
Cecil
nt:
dochnllpar11on~ @ehllfter.net.
B lfry Cll\ 1 of 1970
I planning a mini-reunion
for May 28 . Clas mates will
be responsible for their own
Basic Computer Training
To be taught by Ray Tackett
at the Martin Community
Center, located on Route 80, at
Martin, on March 18; and April
1, from 1-3 p.m . . Cost -$7.
This is an 8-week training series
designed for those who have little or no experience using computers. Space is limited - call
886-2668 today to register!
D.A.V. Chap. 18
The Big Sandy Chapter 18,
Disabled American Veterans,
of Auxier, is looking for honorably discharged veterans to
join the Chapter, which meets
at the Auxier Fire Dept., on the
1st and 3rd Fridays of each
month , at 6 p.m . Those interested may bring their DD214
and join the Chapter and
receive a D.A.V. ball cap.
Floyd County Democratic
Women's Club
Meets the 2nd Monday of
each month at 6 p.m., at
Brenda's
Restaurant,
in
~kDowell. All invited to attend.
Employment Program, Big
Sandy Area Development
District, at 886-2374. "Area
Employers are Looking for
Dependable Workers like
YOU!"
Diploma
External
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,
from 4:30-8:30. Contact Andy
Jones at 800-443-2187, ext.
186, or Linda Bell, at ext. 160
to make an appointment.
PARENTS!
Are you in need of child
care services? If so, . contact
the · Big
Sandy
Area
Community Action Program,
Inc. The office is partnering
with Eastern Kentucky Child
Care Coalition.
For more
information on how we can
help you, call Cheryl Endicott
at 886-1280, or toll free at 888872-7227.
Also, if your child is CUf·
rently enrolled in a child care
program, find out if your
provider is a member of the
STARS for KIDS NOW voluntary program for exceeding
licensing standards.
And, learn about how you
can stay home with your own
children and still earn an
income by caring for other children. Find out more by calling
Cheryl Endicott at 886-1280, or
888-872-7227 (toll free) .
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exercise
Floyd County Extension
Classes will be held Monday, .
Wednesday, and Friday, at Homemaker Club Meetings
Allen: 1st Monday, 11 a.m.,
9:30, at the Presbyterian
Church
in
Prestonsburg. at Christ United Methodist
Classes are held Monday, Church Fellowship Hall.
Cliffside/Prestonsburg:
Wednesday, and Thursday, at
3rd
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., at
11 a.m. at the old R & S
Building. Classes are offered Cliffside Community Room .
Davld: 1st Monday, 1 p.m.,
by the Floyd County Health
Department. Call the health at St. Vincent's Mission.
Martin:
1st Tuesday, 6
department, 886-2788, for
p.m., Martin Church of Christ.
more information.
Evening Quilt Group: 4th
'Earn While You Learn' Thursday, 6 p.m., Extension
The Big Sandy Area C.A.P. Office.
office is taking applications for
Maytown: 3rd Thursday, 6
its "Senior Training Program." p.m., Maytown First Baptist
You must be 55 or older to Church.
apply. In Floyd, call 886-2929;
Nimble Thimble Quilt
Johnson,
call
789-6515; Guild: lstJ3rd Wednesdays,
Magoffin, call 349-2217; Pike, 10 a.m., Extension Office.
call
432-2775 ;
and
in
Prestonsbura:
2nd
Lawrence, call 638-4067 .
Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., Extension
Office.
'
I
Aae !5 or older?
South Pr aton11bura: 3rd
If so, and you arc also unem· TueHdoy, 7 p.m., Home of
ployod, and would !Ike to mllko memben (call 886·2668 for
money while belna trAined in info.)
lkllla thnt will help you auln
employment, or become re- "Looking For a Support
employed, contact Bill Little, Group?"
Senior Community Service •Alzheimer's
Association
Care-giver Support Group Meets on the second Tuesday
of each month at the First (ii
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
p.m. at the Seton
Complex, Martin.
Offers
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month, •at 6 p.m., at the
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Martin Community Center. For
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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.
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• HOLLIDAYSBURG , Pa.
- A ;;ounty judge refused to
make an exception for two first
cousins who want to marry,
even though the couple assured
the judge they don't want to
have children.
Blair County Judge Jolene
Kopriva on Thursday denied
the marriage license application
for first cousins Eleanor
Amrhein, 46, and Donald W.
Andrews Sr., 39, of Logan
Township.
The couple say they have
been together for several years,
but Kopriva said state law bars
first cousins from marrying
because of an increased likelihood their children will have
birth defects.
The couple petitioned for an
exception after a court clerk
rejected their license application earher m the week The
couple told Kopriva their mothers are sisters.
Kopriva told the couple her
ruling would not prevent them
from being married in another
state that permits it .
About half of the states
allow first cousins to marry,
according to stateline .org, a
research site on state laws.
Johnson , who was slated to
appear in court March 22, said
he '11 never drink and drive
again.
"I feel really stupid," he
said.
• MOORHEAD, Minn.
Having a vanity plate that reads
"TIPSY" may not be such a
great idea after all.
Josiah Johnson, 23 , said his
license plate might have tipped
off the Clay County sheriff's
deputy who pulled him over
Friday after he left Coach's
Sports Pub in Moorhead.
Now he faces third-degree
drunken driving charges after
his blood-alcohol level allegedly registered twice the legal
limit.
Johnson said he bought the
personalized license plate for
his Jeep to describe the way it
rode - then kept it as a joke
when he got a Chevy Silverado
because he likes to party.
" It doesn't mean I drink and
dlive," he said. "It just means I
have a good time."
• COLUMBUS , Ohio- A
group of Girl Scouts had a very
unhappy encounter with a
Cookie Monster.
The girls stood in disbelief as
a man came to their cookie booth
at a supermarket and ran off with
an envelope containing $320.
One of the five girls from
Troop 4180 had recommended
a box of Thin Mints when the
man reached into the cash
drawer and grabbed the envelope. An adult with the girls
chased the thief but couldn't
catch him.
Troop leader Jeri Smith said
the third- through fifth-graders
were in disbelief.
"It was a bad experience .
They were really shook up,"
she said.
The girls were working their
stand inside a Kroger store
about 2:30p.m. Saturday when
the man came by and said he'd
never bought Girl Scout cookies. He handed one of the girls
$3, then said he wanted a second
box but only gave her $2 more.
When the girl pointed it out,
the man snatched the envelope .
Smith said the money would
have paid for the girls to go to
summer camp. Kroger employees took up a $25 collection,
but Smith said the girls won't
sell from a booth anymore.
•
KINGSTOWN,
St.
Vincent - Earl Daniel and Joel
Butcher will probably stay off
their feet for a while.
The
men
from
this
Calibbean island walked for six
days without sleep in a bid to
set a world record .for the
longest nonstop hike.
The hike lasted 144 hours
and seven minutes. They began
March 8 and ended Monday as
they entered the capital to a
siren of horns . It was not imme-
diately clear how many miles
they had walked.
"We said we were going to
do this, and we have done it and
have made all of St. Vincent
and the Grenadines proud,"
Daniel said.
The duo got some bad news
Tuesday: Guinness World
Records won~t recognize the
feat.Guinness World Records
Ltd. confirmed that the men had
contacted the company but said
the category would not be recognized, because it is "impossible to compare" one person's
performance with another's.
"Individuals often walk at different speeds" and "some individuals may choose a more demanding course" while "the tiine people take for necessary breaks may
vary," Guinness spokeswoman
Laura McT'Jrk said.
• POOLE - A strange sight
from Down Under startled reside~ts of this western Kentucky
co.mmunity.
Members of the Poole
Homemakers Club were at a
meeting downtown Tuesday
when they looked out and saw ·
what they thought was a kangaroo.
Nedra Wilson, first to spot
the anim.al , said it hopped up a .'
driveway and around a carport.
He then headed south on U.S.
41-A, she said.
"I bet it was going 25 mph,"
she said. "He was really getting
it. We haven't had that much '
excitement in Poole in a
while.,
Actually, the animal that
club members saw was likely a ··'
wallaby, a small kangaroo that ·
is native to Australia . There
were two of them on the loose ·,.·
after they escaped their pen .
,
The animals belong to the ·
family of Stephen and Betty ·:
Bell. The family moved to ·
Poole about six months ago.
Stephen Bell is from Australia. ,
The Bells said the animals '
escapeq sometime Monday. '
One was later recaptured and ,
the other returned on its own.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
20, 2005 . A7
Regional Obituaries
FLOYD COUNTY
Donald R. Bentley Sr., 65. of
..._¥arengo, Ohio, died Sunday,
~arch 13, at Grady Memorial
Hospital. Funeral services were
held Thursday, April 17, under
the direction of Underwood
Funeral Home, Marysville, Ohio.
J. E . Bentley, 57 , of
Teaberry, died Wednesday,
March 16, at his residence.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, March 20, at
noon, at the Samaria Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Teaberry. Burial will be in the
Elliott Cemetery, at Beaver,
under the direction of Nelson¥frazier Funeral Home.
'
Joann (Kendrick) Burchett, of
Aurora, Ohio, formerly of
Prestonsburg, died Wednesday,
February 9. Services were held at
Kindrich McHugh Funeml Home
in Solon, on Saturday, February 12.
Tennessee. Funeral services
were conducted Saturday,
March 19, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Memorial Gardens ln Richland,
Washington. Arrangements,
under the direction of Einan ' il
Funeral Home of Richland,
Washington.
Macel
Elizabeth
Thornsberry, 78, of Topmost,
died Tuesday, March 15, at her
residence. Funeral services
were conducted Friday, March
18, under the direction of Hall
Funeral Home.
PIKE COUNTY
LAWRENCE COUNTY
Mary Emily Burchett, 70, of
Ridgecrest, California, formerly
of Louisa, died Tuesday, March
1, in Ridgecrest, California.
Graveside services were conducted Saturday, March 19,
under the direction of Wilson
Funeral Home.
JOHNSON COUNTY
Edwin Aber, 84, of Robinson
Creek, died Monday, March 14,
at the Parkview Nursing &
Rehabilitation
Center,
Robinson
Creek.
Funeral
arrangements, under the direction of Hall & Jones Funeral
Home of Virgie.
Jesse Morgan Adkins, 93, of
Elkhorn City, died Monday,
March 14, 2005, at Pikeville
Medical Center. He is survived by
his wife, Erie Sanders Adkins.
Funeral services were held Friday,
March 18, under the direction of
Bailey Funeral Home.
,
Russell Cline Adkins, 62, of
Matthew Endicott, 42, of
Flat Gap, died Monday, March Dandridge, Tennessee, formerly
7, at Paul B. Hall Regional of Elkhorn City, died Thursday,
Arnold Chaffins Sr., 84, of Medical Center, Paintsville. He March 10, in Knoxville,
Garrett, died Wednesday, March is survived by his wife, Cheryl Tennessee. Funeral services
16, in the Cabell-Huntington Blanton Endicott. Funeral ser- ·were held Monday, March 14,
Hospital in Huntington, West vices were held Friday, March under the direction of Bailey
Virginia. Funeral services were 11 , under the direction of Funeral Home.
conducted Saturday, March 19, Paintsville Funeral Home.
Elder Jayson Marvin Bryant,
..£.nder the direction of Hall
'"'l'uneral Home.
Elizabeth Carter Jewett, 97, 71, of Virgie, died Tuesday,
of Flat Gap, died Friday, March March 15, at his home. He is
Emma Lou Clark, 68, of 11, at St. Joseph Hospital _in survived by his wife, Ardie
Betsy Layne, died Saturday, Lexington. Funera.l services Katherine Bryant. Funeral serMarch 12, at her residence. She were held Tuesday, March 15 vices were held Friday, March
is survived by her husband , under
the
direction
of 18, under the direction of Hall
Adis Clark. Funeral services Blackburn & Ward Funeral & Jones Funeral Home.
were held Tuesday, March 15, Home in Versailles.
under the direction of Hall
Ernest Coleman, 81 , of
Funeral Home.
Grace B. Jones, 86, of Pikeville, died Sunday, March
Paintsville, died Monday, 13, at Pikeville Medical Center.
Orville "Porchie" Clark, 91 , March 7, at Paul B. Hall Funeral services were held
of Dana, died Monday, March Regional Medical Center, in Wednesday, March 16, under
14, at the Pikeville Medical Paintsville . Funeral services the direction of Lucas & Hall
r. Center. He is survived by his
were held Thursday, March 10, Funeral Home.
ife, Fannie Edna Johnson under the direction of the
Tennessee Sanders Collins,
Clark. Funeral services were Paintsville Funeral Home.
conducted Thursday, March 17,
95, of Salisbury, North
under the direction of Hall
Lelah Combs Litteral, 77, of Carolina, an Ashcamp native,
Funeral Home.
Mobile, Alabama, formerly of died Tuesday, March 15 , in
Paintsville, died Tuesday, Salisbury. Funeral services
Henry Compton, 9S, of· March 15. Funeral services were held Satrirda!r, NHirch ' 19~
Prestonsburg , died Friday, were held Saturday, March 19, in the Elkhorn City United
March 11, at the Prestonsburg under the direction of.the Jones- Methodist Church under the
Health Care. Funeral services Preston Funeral Home.
direction of J .W. Call & Son
were conducted
Monday,
Funeral Home.
March 14, under the direction
Roy Bud Meadows, 93, of
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral Nippa, died Wednesday, March
Willie Damron Jr., 60, of
jlome.
16, at his residence. He is sur- Winchester, an Elkhorn City
vived by his wife, Nancy native, died Friday, March 11,
Orleen Castle Flanery, 77, of Wallace Meadows. Funeral ser- at Central Baptist Hospital ,
Martin, died Tuesday, March vices were held Friday, March Lexington. He is survived by
15, at her residence. Funeral 18, under the direction of the his wife, Della England
services
were
conducted Preston Funeral Home.
Damron. Funeral services
Saturday, March 19, under the
were held Tuesday, March 15,
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Willa Mae Meek, 89, of under direction of Scobee
Funeral Home.
Lewisburg, died Sunday, March Funeral Home of Winchester.
13, at her residence. Funeral
James Hall, 75, of Hi Hat, services were held Wednesday,
Elmer Goff, 64, of
died Monday, March 7, at the March 16, under the direction Raccoon, died Tuesday, March
McDowell
Appalachian of Gary's Funeral Home.
15, at Pikeville Medical
Regional Healthcare. Funeral
Center. He is survived by his
Martha Mae Lewis Pyle, 81, wife, Susie Marie Goff.
services
were
conducted
l:hursday, March 10, under the of Offutt, died Friday, March 11, Funeral services were held
direction of Nelson-Frazier at Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Saturday, March 19, under
Funeral Home.
Center, Paintsville. Funeral ser- direction of Community
vices were held Monday, March Funeral Home.
• Samuel Hicks, 88 , of 14, under the direction of
Sharonville,
Ohio,
died Preston Funeral Home.
Clyde
Darrell
"Peg"
Monday, March 14, at Hospice
Hurley, 54, of Stopover, died
of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. He is
Wanda Lee Conley Tackett, Tuesday, March 15, at
survived by his wife, Yvonne 58, of East Point, died SatUrday, Williamson
Memorial
Allen Hicks. Funeral services March 5, at Paul B. Hall Hospital, Williamson, West
were held Thursday, March 17, Regional Medical Center, Virginia. He is survived by his
under the direction of Webster Paintsville. Fu~eral services wife, Sherry Sullivan Hurley.
Funeral Home, Fairfield, Ohio.
were held Tuesday, March 8, Funeral services were held
under the direction of Jones- Friday, March 18, under the
Agnes Ann "Tad" Kidd, 75, Preston Funeral Home.
direction of Phelps Funeral
f Dana, died Tuesday, March
Services.
5, at her residence. She is surTommy Ward, 65, of
vived by her husband, Harold Kennewick, Weashington, a
Eugene Little, 78, of
Kidd. Funeral services were Paintsville native, died Friday, Pikeville, died Saturday,
conducted Thursday, March 17, February 25, at his residence. March 12, at Pikeville
under the direction of Hall Graveside services were held Medical Center. He is surFuneral Home.
Friday, March 4, at Sunset vived by his wife, Betty Jane
Ruby M. Trimble Lewis,
91, of Ivel, died Sunday,
March 13, at her residence.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March
16, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier
Funeral
Home.
., Kellie M. Marshall, fourday-old daughter of Larry
and Jennifer Brown Marshall
of Langley, died Saturday,
· March 12, at Our Lady of the
Way Hospital emergency
room in Martin. Funeral services
were
conducted
Tuesday, March 15, under
the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home .
Nora Schultz, 72 , of
Knoxville , Tennessee, forerly of McDowell , died
ednesday, March 16, at the
University of Tennessee
Medical Center in Knoxville,
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Ratliff Little. Funeral services
were held Tuesday, March 15,
under the direction of J .W.
Call & Son Funeral Home.
Vicy Varney Maynard, 77,
of Hurricane Creek, Pikeville,
died Saturday, March 12, at
her home. Funeral services
were held Tuesday, March 15 ,
under the direction of Lucas
and Hall Funeral Home.
· Lou Verda Maynard, 74 , of
Pikeville, died Sunday, March
13, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Thursday, March 17,
under the direction of J .W.
Call & Son Funeral Home .
Chester Newsome, 83 , of
Caney Creek, died Sunday,
March 13, at Pikeville Medical
Center. Funeral services were
held Wednesday, March 16,
under the direction of Hall &
Jones Funeral Home.
Delbert Puckett , 76, of
Mount Sterling, formerly of
Stone, died Monday, March
14,
at
the
Veterans·
Administration
Hospital,
Lexington. Graveside services
were held Saturday, March 19,
under the direction of Rogers
Funeral Home.
Thomas Andrew Sanders ,
64, of Ashcamp , died Saturday,
March 12, at Pikeville Medical
Center. He is survived by his
wife ,
Coralee
Johnson
Sanders. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, March 15 , under
the direction of Bailey Funeral
Home.
Dewey Leroy Scott, 69, of
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina,
died Monday, March 7, at the
Medical University of South
Carolina, Charleston. A memorial service was held at 2 p .m.
Saturday, March 19, in the
Bollin~er~ Chapel Methotlfst
Church, Valdese.
Ruth Adkins Thacker, 76, of
Shelby Dry Fork, died Friday,
March 11 , at Pikeville Medical
Center. She is survived by her husband , Danny Estil Thacker.
Funeral services were held
Sunday, March 13, under the
direction of 1ustice Funeral Home.
Floetta "Flo" Thacker, 69, of
Barberton, Ohio, an Pikeville
native, died Monday, March 14,
at her home. Funeral services
were held Friday, March 18,
under direction of HahnHostetler-Silva Funeral Home
of Barberton , Ohio.
Bernice Vanover, 49, of
Jenkins, died Tuesday, March
15 . Spe is survived by her husband , William Vanover. Funeral
services were held Friday,
March 18, under the direction
of Lucas & Hall Funeral Home.
Herma Varney, 87, of Grassy
Creek , died Sunday, March 13.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, March 16, under
the direction of Community
Funeral Home.
Minuas Frank "Sug" Wright ,
61, of Lick Fork, died Sunday,
March 13, at the Veterans
Administration Medical Center,
Huntington, W.Va. Funeral services were held Wednesday,
March 16, under the direction
of Hall & Jones Funeral Home .
Dollie Mae Doyle York, 73,
of Belfry, died Monday, March
14, at her home. Funeral services were held Thursday,
March 17, iunder the direction
of Rogers Funeral Home.
Warfield Collins, 80, of
Naugatuck, West Virginia, a
Martin County native, died
Saturday,
March
5,
at
Gainesville, Florida. He i~ survived by his wife, Minnie Black
Collins. Funeral services were
conducted Wednesday, March
9, under the direction of Phelps
and Son Funeral Home.
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
Annie Cantrell, 80, of
Salyersville, died Thursday,
March 3, at the Paul B . Hall
Regional Medical Center, in
Paintsville. Funeral services
were conducted Sunday, March
6, under the direction of
Salyersville Funeral Home .
Joseph Phillip Bailey, infant
son of Adam Phillip Bailey and
Christina Edler, died Feburary
19, at Saint Joseph East
Hospital, in Lexington. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Wednesday, February 23, under
the direction of Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Pansy Mae Arnett, 83, of
Kingsbrook Life Care Center in
Ashland ,
fo rmerly
of
Salyersville, died Sunday,
March 6 , at her "residence.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 9, under
the direction of Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Smith Howard, 76, of
Salyersville, died Thursday,
March 10, at Saint Joseph East
Hospital, in Lexington . Funeral
services
were
conducted
Monday, March 14, under the
of
Salyersville
direction
Funeral Home.
MARTIN COUNTY
Ashley Bown, 68, of
Louisville, a Martin County
native, died Thursday, March
10, in Louisville. Graveside services were conducted Friday,
March 11, at Bowen Cemetery,
in lnez. Arrangements, under
the direction of the Phelps and
Son Funeral Home.
Chalmer "Chad" Wheeler,
76, of Columbus, Ohio, died
Monday, March 14, at Mt.
Carmel West Medical Center.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 18, under the
direction of Graumlich & Son
Funeral Home.
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Lindsey Wilson favored for men's Mid-South golf title
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Championship for the upcoming spring
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LOUISVILLE - Spring
Georgetown College was
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brings with it for some
second in the pre-seacolleges the start
son poll, followed
of a new golf
b
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season.
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Conference
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College
Lindsey Wilson
coming in No. 4,
College as the solid
with
Pikeville
favorite to win the MSC
College (5), and Lambuth
(6) completing the order.
Cumberland College
14 points;
Member schools began play earlier Pikeville College - 9 points
this month. The conference tournament
Lambuth University - 5 points.
for both the men's and the women's
The women's golf coaches of the
teams is scheduled for April 15-17 at · Mid-South Conference have selected
the Stonecrest Country Club in both Cumberland College and
Prestonsburg.
Georgetown College as their favorites
The following are the placing posi- to win the MSC Championship for the
tions, total points and first-place votes. upcoming spring season. Both schools
Coaches were not allowed to vote for finished with 22 points, with
their own team. Lindsey Wilson Cumberland getting one more firstCollege - 25 points - (5 first-place place vote than Georgetown (3-2).
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Charitable gtoup
reaches settlement
with teamin
trademark dispute
BETSY LAYNE LADYCATS
for lapsed anglers
FRANKFORT
- The
Kentucky
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
(KDFWR) is practicing what it preaches by
casting out a new advertising campaign this
week to retrieve state fishermen who've gotten off the license-buying hook.
Close to 60,000 postcards will be sent to
anglers who purchased fishing licenses in
2002 or 2003, but for whatever reason, elected not to fish in 2004. The agency wants toreestablish contact with some of those "lapsed"
anglers, and encourage them to return to the
ranks of the fishing public.
Kentucky is not unlike many other states
who in recent years have discovered that the
volume of fishermen who go fishing for a year
or two, then don't, then do again is surprisingly high. Agency officials recognize that the
key to maintaining quality fishing opportunities, and being able to sustain management of
state fishery resources greatly depends on a
consistent flow of revenue from license sales.
The KDFWR is primarily funded by fishing,
boating and hunting license fees. It does not
receive a general fund allotment.
The actual "churn" of anglers over the past
two years in Kentucky numbers almost
200,000. Out of a total of just over 650.000
ASSOCIATED PRE$S
LOUISVILLE - A trademark dispute pitting the Kentucky Colonels
' charitable group against a new basketball team with the same name has
been settled.
The two sides reached a licensing
agreement recently to let the minorleague team put "Kentucky Colonels"
on· merchandise sold to fans, as long
as "basketball" also is prominently
displayed, said Glen Bastin, senior
ambassador for the Honorable Order
of Kentucky Colonels, a decades-old
charitable group.
Bastin said in an interview Thursday
that the order was satisfied the agreement would prevent confusion between
the group and the basketball team.
"They won't be able to put up
'Kenrucky Colonels' and then in very
fme print 'basketball,"' said Bastin, who
didn't disclose the deal's fmancial terms.
U.S. District Judge John Heyburn
II issued an order Wednesday dismissing each side's claims. He also
dropped any claims contesting the
order's trademark, and said the charitable group's mark and registration are
"valid and strong."
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"That was our position from day
one," Bastin said.
Michelle Kaiser Bray, an attorney
forthe basketball team's owner, did not
immediately return a call seeking comment. The team plays in the American
Basketball Association.
At a hearing last year, Heyburn
refused to temporarily block the team
from putting its name on shirts and
caps sold to fans.
The honorable order claimed it has
a trademark giving it exclusive rights
to put "Kentucky Colonels" on various merchandise. The order uses those
sales to help raise money to support
educational and charitable causes
across Kentucky.
The order did not challenge the
team's name.
Bastin said that giving the basketball
team limited rights to the name spared
the order from larger legal bills.
Heyburn's order left both sides responsible for their attorney's fees, and
Bastin said the order's legal bill ran into
thousands of dollars - money that could
have gone to charitable causes.
KD FWR casting
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
by BRUCE SCHREINER
'
(See CASTING, page two)
Kentucky students
dominate in Archery
in the Schools
National Tournament
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
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LOUISVILLE - Trigg County public
schools made it a clean sweep yesterday, winning the elementary, middle and high school
divisions of the third annual National Archery
in the Schools Program (NASP) in Louisville's
International Convention Center.
Last year's top two individual shooters
remained unbeatable, and repeated as this
year's national overall champions. Trigg
County junior Graham Cofield in the male
division and Pulaski County freshman Ashley
Rose successfully defended their 2004 titles
against about 1,800 challengers from more
than 100 schools from four states. Cofield
was nearly perfect with a 298 score out of a
possible 300. Rose fired a 283 to repeat as the
overall female shooter.
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Relgnlng 15th Region CJtamp!);m. ~it$Y.~YnEI I$ nQw
less than a week away frQrn .a.iflrs(l*'roein this year's
Q:his' Sweet1$ $~ easJ<e~~Ui'fium,rnent Above:
Senior guard Kim Olark mo~d f«:Jt.~fle ba$ketball dur·
lng a 15th Reg1on Tournament gahiei flight: Kaltlin
l-awson came In off of ~he 8$l$y bype l)ench and
helped the Ladycats tc> both the 5~th [)J:sttict and 15th
Reg1on tltles.
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Betsy Layne wm take on S<tt flc:lgiQn ·c hampion
Wasl'tington County Thursday in the openrng round of
the GJds' State Tournament.
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(See MEET, page two)
(See ARCHERY, page two)
Caudill prepping for
NFL Europe debut
Leslie fits in for
Horsemen
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
tJ
Pikeville College (5), and Lambuth (6).
A breakdown of the voting for the
women's teams follows. Cumberland
College - 22 points - (3 first-place
22
votes); Georgetown College points - (2 first-place votes); Lindsey
19 points - (1
Wilson College first-place vote); Campbellsville
University
11 points; Pikeville
College 9 points; Lambuth
University - 7 points.
Dr. James Riley and Roland
Wierwille coach the Pikeville College
golf teams.
LEXINGTON - Nathan Leslie is back playing
football. Leslie, a graduate of Prestonsburg High
School who went on to play and made a significant
contribution while a member of the Marshall
University Thundering Herd football program, has
settled in and now plays for the Lexington
Horsemen of the United Indoor Football league.
Lexington made great strides as a franchise last
season, winning a national championship.
The Horsemen opened their 2005 season last night in
Tupelo, Miss., against the Tupelo Fireants. The
Horsemen are scheduled to play their home opener
on Saturday against their border-rival, the Ohio Valley
Greyhounds. Start time in Rupp Arena is set for 7:30p.m.
Leslie played some indoor football last season,
playing for the same Ohio Valley •earn Lexington
will face less than one week from today.
"We're excited about Nathan having the opportunity to play for the Horsemen," said Prestonsburg
Coach John DeRossett. "We plan to get together a
group of people and travel to watch Nathan and the
Horseman in their home opener March 26."
Leslie, who in college played along both the
offensive and defensive lines, proved long ago that
he adjust and feel comfortable playing any position
on the gridiron.
VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES:
The
Lexington Horsemen are looking for well-organized, responsible people to help with game day
operations for eight home games.
Some of the opportunities include Program
Seller, Kids Zone, VIP Room, Runners Setup/teardown, Assisting with game promotions, Guest
Relations and Will Call.
Eoch person will be suwlied with a Horsemen staff shirt,
pro-game meal provided by Famous Dave's along with two
complirnentruy tickets to give to family or friends.
For more information, call the Horsemen office
at 859/422-7277 and ask for Carolyn Royse or Eric
Leach, or send an email o lsv@lexingtonhors\!men.com.
TIMES STAFF REPORT
photo courtesy of Lexington Horsemen
Jeremy Caudill (pictured) has moved on from
the Lexington Horsemen and Is now playing in
the NFL Europe league Nathan Leslie, another 1 r sionsburg l·llgh -=>cnoo g a uate, now
plays for the Horseman.
LEXINGTON - Former Lexington Horsemen
and University of Kentucky defensive tackle Jeremy
Caudill in now playing in NFL Europe for the
Amsterdam Admirals. Caudill was selected in the
second round of the NFL Europe free-agent draft .
Caudill, who joined the Horsemen last season
after being released by the Indianapolis Colts,
continues to pursue a career in the NFL
The former Pre tonsburg Blackcat recorded
three tackles and recovered one fumble after joining the Horsemen late last season, but made a big
impact in the postseason by coming up with eight
tackles and a fumble recovery.
A four-year letterman at the University of
Kentucky , Caudill played at both the defensive
tackle
and
defensive
end
positiOns,
tarting in every game during both his freshmen
and junior years. Caudill is a graduate of
Prestonsburg High School, where he was a fouryear starter and first-team all-state selection as a
senior, while earning Parade All-American status.
Amsterdam finished the 2004 season with a
5-5 record and a third-place league fini h.
Caudill ,md the Adnmals bc~..,m the ir 2005 campaign on April 2 when they host the Rhein Fire.
�82 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
20, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
University Heights, Corbin,
Henry Clay and Warren
Central advance in SVIeet 1 6
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - The shot
by Lone Oak's Jarad Key
rolled off the rim, allowing the
Corbin Redhounds to reach
overtime instead of heading
home with a loss.
From there, the Redhounds
knew what to do. Jordan Noble
scored twice in the first minute
of the extra session to give
Corbin control, and the
Redhounds pulled away for a
75-67 win on Thursday in a
first-round game of the Boys
Sweet 16 basketball tournament at Rupp Arena.
Other first-round winners
Thursday were University
Heights of Hopkinsville, 62-53
over
Rowan
County;
Lexington Henry Clay, 69-38
over Shelby Valley of
Pikeville; and defending champion Warren Central of
Bowling Green, 57-55 over
Covington Holmes.
In Friday's quarterfinals,
Pleasure Ridge Park (30-5) will
play crosstown rival Louisville
Ballard (29-2), South Laurel of
London (29-4) will play
Elizabethtown
(27 -4),
University Heights (31-4) will
play Corbin (21-10) and Henry
Clay (31-3) will play Warren
Central (28-4).
Noble, eighth-grader Josh
Crawford and Andrew Parks
combined for 64 points and 33
rebounds for 13th Region champion Corbin, which won its first
Sweet 16 game since 1997.
Lone Oak (23-10), the 1st
Region champion from Paducah,
was making its first Sweet 16
appearance. The Purple Rash
rallied from a five-point deficit
in the fmal three minutes of regulation and missed its chance to
win when Key's 8-footer at the
buzzer missed.
"When we got to overtime,
we kind of perked up ," Corbin
coach Tony Pietrowski said.
After Noble's two quick
overtime baskets, Corbin never
trailed again. The Redhounds
made 12-of-19 free throws in
the final 2:17 as Lone Oak was
forced to foul.
"Getting a lead early was big
in overtime," Pietrowski said.
Chase Denson scored 24
first-half points to stake Lone
Oak to a 33-31 lead, but the
Redhounds clamped down
defensively on him after that.
He didn't score for the first 13
minutes of the second half and
finished with 30 points, 11
above his average.
Noble, a senior guard, had 27
points and six rebounds for
Corbin. The 6-foot-4 Crawford
added 20 points- making 10-of12 free throws - and eight boards.
Parks, a 6-foot-4 senior, had
17 points, 19 rebounds, two
blocked shots and three steals.
Corbin, trailing by two in the
rebound category at halftime,
ended up with a 46-33 edge on
the boards. Corbin had 17
offensive rebounds.
"That really got them the
victory," Lone Oak coach Andy
Poore said.
Key added 14 points and seven
rebounds for the Purple Rash.
Warren Central's Troy
McFarland scored the game's
final seven points as the
Dragons rallied to beat
Covington Holmes. McFarland,
the Dragons' only returning
starter from last season, finished with U points, nine
rebounds and seven assists.
Holmes (24-7) led 55-50 _
matching the largest lead of the
game for either team - after two
free throws by Duran Jefferson
with 3:37left, but the 9th Region
champion Bulldogs didn't score
again, missing the front end of
two 1-and-ls in the final2:38.
Greg Rice, who led Holmes
with 21 points and seven
rebounds, fouled out with 2:28
left. To make matters worse for
the Bulldogs, he fouled
McFarland on a 3-point
attempt. McFarland made 2-of3 free throws.
McFarland then stole a pass
and made a 3-pointer with 1:35
left to tie the game. After
McFarland's free throws with
8 .8 seconds left, Holmes had
two chances to tie, but Austin
Hill missed a 17-footer and
B J. Avery was short on a desperation follow shot.
Jeremy Anderson scored 21
points to lead Warren Central. The
Dragons committed only eight
turnovers, Holmes only seven.
University Heights, the
smallest school in the tournament with only 88 students,
won in the Sweet 16 for the
first time since 1995. The
Blazers have won 24 of their
last 25 games.
Joshua Mack scored 19
points for the Blazers.
University Heights, the 2nd
Region champion, rallied from
an 11-point second-quarter
deficit by shooting 59 percent
in the second half. The Blazers
shot just 33 .3 percent in the
first half.
Rowan County (27 -6), the
16th Region champion, led 2817 with 2:57 left in the first
half, but the Vikings didn't
score again before halftime.
University Heights pulled
within 28-26 by halftime, took
the lead early in the third quarter and were ahead by nine
points in the fourth quarter.
Rowan County, led by 14
points from reserve Matthew
Daniel, pulled within 52-49
with 3:17 left, but consecutive
buckets by Patrick Metcalfe and
four free throws by Mack sealed
the win for University Heights.
Freshman forward Aaron
Boyd scored 16 points as 11th
Region champion Henry Clay
routed Shelby Valley.
Henry Clay trailed 15th
Region champion Shelby Valley
(26-6) only once, at 11-10 in the
first quarter. The Blue Devils
scored 17 of the next 19 points to
go ahead 27-13,led 32-20 at halftime and gradually extended their
lead to as many as 31 points.
Boyd also had six rebounds,
four steals and three blocked
shots, all team highs. Junior
guard Aaron Dunaway added
15 points for Henry Clay.
Patrick Tackett led the
Wildcats with 11 points and
seven rebounds. Shelby Valley,
which committed 24 turnovers,
is 0-3 in its three trips to the
state tournament.
Sou h Laurel 77,
Elizabethtown 56
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Junior center Walt Allen had 29 points
and nine rebounds as South
Laurel
rolled
past
Elizabethtown 77-56 on Friday
in a quarterfinal game of the
Boys Sweet 16 high school
basketball tournament at Rupp
Arena.
South Laurel (30-4) is the
first 12th Region team to
advance to the semifinals since
Wayne County in 1989. South
Laurel will make its flrst semifinal appearance, although its
predecessor, Laurel County,
won the 1982 title.
The Cardinals were to play
either Louisville Ballard or
Pleasure Ridge Park of
Louisville in the semifinals
Saturday.
Allen, a 6-foot-4 junior center, has scored 47 points in the
Cardinals' first two Sweet 16
·games. Against Elizabethtown,
he made his first seven shots
and scored 22 first-half points
as South Laurel raced to a 4127 halftime lead and was never
threatened in the second half.
The Cardinals, who committed only five turnovers, led
by as many as 24 points.
Elizabethtown (27-5) struggled with its shooting and foul
trouble. The 5th Region cham-
pion Panthers went 1-of-11
from the field in the first quarter and trailed 19-4.
Two Elizabethtown starters,
center Steffphon Pettigrew and
forward Warren Lively, had
three fouls by halftime.
Pettigrew, the team's leading
scorer, played just 11 minutes
before fouling out having
scored only two points.
Lively and starting guard
Quinn Harris also fouled out
for the Panthers. Kentucky
football signee Zipp Duncan
led Elizabethtown with 14
points and 15 rebounds .
Forward Eric Fields added
14 points and seven rebounds
for South Laurel.
Colonels
• Continued from p1
"If we had continued through
the process, we're certain we
would have reached this same
conclusion but it would have cost
us a lot more money,'' he said.
Bastin said the case signaled
that the order will closely guard
its trademark.
"If these guys had won, anybody could have used the term
' Kentucky Colonels' without
paying us a penny," he said.
Bastin said the order hopes to
reach other licensing agreements allowing groups to pay
for the right to use "Kentucky
Colonels." Such agreements
could become a lucrative fundraising source, he said.
Next week, the order plans to
announce nearly $ 1 .6 million
worth of grants for educational
and charitable causes state wide,
Bastin said.
The honorary title of
Kentucky Colonel is conferred
by the governor, and the order's
active membership totals about
150,000 reaching far beyond the
Bluegrass State .
Casting
• Continued from p1
anglers who bought fishing
licenses for the 2002 or 2003
license years, over 200,000 of
those people did not buy a
license in 2004. No matter what
kind of business, a fluctuation of
that magnitude in customer base
would be a major concern.
"We have some world-class
fishing opportunities and an excellent number of places people can
fish," said KDFWR's Marketing
Manager Michael Gray.
"Licenses in Kentucky are
very reasonable and fishing is one
of the most enjoyable activities an
individual, or family can do."
"We know today's lifestyle is
busy and hectic and that leisure
time is at a premium for many
families, but fishing is one of
the most inexpensive, fun and
rewarding ways parents, grandparents and children can spend
time that increases the strength
of the family unit."
"When a youngster catches a
fish, and his or her farnil y is
there to share the experience
and applaud the achievement,
that kind of interaction builds
lasting ties and values.
"It teaches confidence, creates excitement and memories
of happy times, and instills a
core level appreciation for natural resources that you just can 't
get inside a classroom or from
watching television."
"Going fishing is more than
just something to do. It's an
activity that can make life better
in many ways people don't realize."
"We hope to remind people •
of that, and at the same time ,
help solidify the agency's ability
to provide a consistent level of
resourc~
management that
results in high quality fishing,"
Gray said.
Archer~y________________________________
• Continued from p1
The event was the largest student archery event in U.S. history.
Cofield's younger brother,
Grady, an eighth grader, fired a
sizzling 290 to take overall runner-up honors to his brother, and
won the middle school ranks'
male division.
Somerset High School principal Tommy Floyd was exuberant afterward. "Archery is one
of the best things for our students I've seen in 20 years," he
·said.
"We need to flnd things that
let students feel good about
themselves and you don't have
to be the tallest, fastest or best
athletes to excel in this sport.
This was great."
Indeed, it was fourth grader
Taylor Cundiff of Hopkins
Elementary School in Pulaski
County who placed third overall
with a blistering 286.
"He stood right up there with
the best of them, all of three and
a half feet tall, and let his bow
do his talking," said Floyd. "I
couldn't be more proud."
Schools from as far away as
Georgia, Alabama and Ohio
along with studentsfrom all over
Kentucky competed in the third
annual Archery in the Schools
Program National Tournament
March 16 at the Kentucky
International Convention Center
in downtown Louisville.
Team awards for individual
states were given for the top
three teams in the Elementary
(K-6), Middle (7-8) and High
School (9-12) divisions . These
team scores were compiled from
the sum of the top 15 scores for
each team in each division. The
top five boys and girls in each
division for each state won individual awards.
National
Championship
awards were bestowed to the
three highest scoring teams in
each division. The five highest
scoring boys and girls from each
division received first through
fifth place individual National
Championship Awards.
Complete tournament result
listings, and other program
information are available on the
KDFWR website at fw.ky.gov.
The Kentucky Department of
Fish and Wildlife Resources
(KDFWR) manages, regulates,
enforces and promotes responsible use of all fish and wildlife
species, their habitats , public
wildlife areas and waterways for
the benefit of those resources
and for public enjoyment.
KDFWR, an agency of the
Commerce Cabinet, has an economic impact to the state of $4.8
billion annually. For more information on KDFWR, visit our
web site at fw.ky.gov.
2005 National Archery in
Schools
Championship
Winners: Overall Kentucky and
National Champion Male:
Graham Cofield, Trigg County
High School Overall Kentucky
and National Champion Female:
Ashley Rose, Pulaski County
High School
National Champion, High School
Division (Gr. 9-12), Team:
1st Place:
Trigg County High School
2nd Place:
Lincoln County High School
3rd Place:
Somerset High School
National Champion, Middle School
Division (Gr. 7-8), Team:
1st Place:
Trigg County Middle School
2nd Place:
Henderson Co. South M. School
3rd Place:
Northern Pulaski M . School
National Champion, Elementary
School Division (Gr. K-6}, Team:
1st Place:
Trigg County Middle School
2nd Place:
Northern Pulaski M . School
3rd Place:
Charles Henderson Middle School (Troy. AL)
National Champion, High School
Individual (Gr. 9-12), Male:
1st Place:
Graham Cofield. Trigg County High School
2nd Place:
Nathan Austill , Henderson County High
School
3rd Place:
Gentry Gray, Trigg County High School
4th Place:
Corey Skaggs, Lmcoln County High School
5th Place:
Ronnie Carrier, Lincoln County High School
National Champion, High School
Individual (Gr. 9-12), Female:
lst Place:
Ashley Rose , Pulaski County High School
2nd Place:
Mariko Nishimura, Somerset High School
3rd Place:
Campbell Courtney. Meade Co. High School
4th Place:
Tiphany Hicks, Lincoln County High School
5th Place:
Rebecca Wesson. Somerset High School
National Champion, Middle School
Individual (Gr. 7-8}, Male:
1st Place:
Grady Cofield, Trigg County Middle School
2nd Place:
Dylan Baily, Henderson County South Middle
School
3rd Place:
Keith Phillips, Henderson County South
Middle School
4th Place:
Chris Muse , Northern Pulaski Middle School
5th Place:
Matt Kennady, Trigg County Middle School
(Tie) Nathan Norris, Henderson County South
Middle School
National Champion, Middle School
Individual (Gr. 7-8), Female:
1st Place:
Anna Kmckelbein, Tngg County Middle School
2nd Place:
Tiffany Dankovic. Trigg Co. Middle School
3rd Place:
Danielle Reddick, Trigg Co. Middle School
4th Place:
Hannah Robbtns, South Laurel Middle School
5th Place:
Brooke Boils. Climon County Middle School
National Champion, Elementary
School Individual (Gr. K-6), Male:
lst Place:
Taylor Cundiff, Hopkins Elementary School ~
2nd Place:
Ryan Russell . Trigg County Middle School
3rd Place:
Rodney Holbrook. Lakeside Elemen. School
4th Place:
Chris Hendrix, Charles Henderson Middle
School (Troy, AL)
5th Place:
Jordan Miller, Northern Pulaski Midd . School
National Champion, Elementary
School Individual (Gr. K-6), Female:
1st Place:
Kendra Harper, Isonville Elementary School
2nd Place:
Cena Cherry, Monroe County Middle School
3rd Place:
Kimberly Jones. Trigg County Middle School
4th Place:
Ellen Shipley. Trigg County Middle School
5th Place:
Amber Abate. Trigg County Middle School
Alabama State Champ10n, Male:
(T ie): Clayton Baker, Charles Henderson
Middle School
Drew Tucker, Hubbertville High School
Alabama State Champion, Female:
Amber Oliver, Floyd Middle Magnet School
Georgia State Champion, Male:
Haywood Baynor, Tri County High School
Georgia State Champion, Female:
Brittany Rigdon, Marion Middle School
Ohio State Champion . Male:
Ben Sefton, Maysville School
Ohio State Champion , Female;
Kernisity White. Maysville School
Patriot golf teams open
season in Campbellsville
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Cumberland College
Patriot women's and men 's
golf teams made their first
appearances of the season
March 7 in Campbellsville at
the Campbellsville Spring
Invi tati onal.
The Patriot ladies finished
third out of four teams with a
score of 403. Elizabeth Bryant
(Irvine) finished 18th, Shannon
Schottelkotte
(Greenfield,
Ohio) came, in 16th, and Trisha
Price (Auburn, Ill.) was 15th
Sophomore
place overall.
Jennifer Kieffer (Rockford, Ill.)
shot a score of 85, landing her
in first place overall. The win
gave Kieffer her third career
win and also put her in the lead
for career wins in women's golf
at Cumberland College.
"Jenni played very well
considering the conditions,"
Cumberland College Coach
Bill Sergent commented. "I am
so very proud of her for
becoming the all-time leader in
tournament wins. She can really set a high standard for anyone to catch."
On the men's sid~. there
were nine teams competing in
Campbellsville.
The
Cumberland "maroon" team
finished fifth with a score of
321. Finishing just two slots
away at seventh was the
"white" team. Anthony Savage
(Mt. Vernon, Ohio) led both the
maroon and white teams with
his tenth place finish. All tied
for 13th place were Baron
Davis (Big Stone Gap, Va.),
Justin Price (Somerset) and
Willis Ring (Whitesburg).
Eddie Parman (London) and
Eric King (Ferguson) finished
out the top 20 for the Patriots
both tied for that slot.
"We played like we haven't
practiced much, which we
haven't,"
Sergent added.
"None of our local driving
ranges have been open much,
so all we have been able to do
is play which will only take
you so far. Next week in
Florida will really help being
able to practice as well as play
a great tournament."
Both teams are back in action
this week in the Embry-Riddle
Invitational in Daytona Beach, Fla.
photo by Steve LeMaster •
The Betsy Layne High School girls' varsity cheerleaders are also headed back to the Girls' Sweet
16 State Basketball Tournament.
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SUNDAY, MARCH
20, 2005 • 83
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Time to put the student back in student-athlete
by TIM DAHLBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
graduating with a degree within
six years of entering school.
The answer? Not very good.
The numbers are depressingThe figures are fairly new,
ly familiar, probably because yet they show the same old
Richard Lapchick has been trot- thing. Juggernauts on the court,
ting them out every March for many teams are losers in the
the last three years.
classroom.
Like the bookies in Las
TWo universities - Louisiana
Vegas. Lapchick spends the day State and Minnesota - are so
after the NCAA tournament inept at keeping players in class
selections crunching stats and that they haven •t graduated an
looking at p()ssibilities, The incoming basketball freshman
oddsmakers are looking for in 10 years, And 42 of the 65
point spreads, while Lapchlck teams - including No. 1 seeds
wants to see progress,
Illinois and Washington - don't
There's not much of that to graduate half their players.
be found in the latest numbers,
"There's a lot of scary stuff
which track the graduation rates there," Lapchick said.
of the 65 teams now caught up
Lapchick studies these kind
in the madness of March. Once of things for a living as a sports
again, they paint a bleak picture . sociologist who runs the
of athletes who chase balls Institute for Diversity and Ethics
instead of degrees and coaches in Sport at the University of
who care more about winning Central Florida. But some of
games than graduating players.
what he does is personal, driven
Using the NCAA's latest data by memories of his father, one
111on graduation rates, Lapchick of the NBA's early dominant big
looked to see how the p~ayers in men and later a college coach
the tournament stack up against himself at St. John's.
fellow athletes when it comes to
Lapchick r~members his
father, Joe Lapchick, coming
from St. John's one day in 1956
and going upstairs, as was his
custom, to change. When he
didn't come down right away,
his 11-year-old son went up to
see what was wrong.
"He was crying and I hadn't
seen him cry before. I hadn't
seen any grown man cry
before," Lapchick said. "He had
found out his players weren't
going to class and were being
passed through the system. He
was horrified on two levels, first
because he was a devout
Catholic at a Catholic school
and second because he prided
himself on a personal relationship with the players."
That relationship, Lapchick
said, consisted mainly of his
father talking to players about
girlfriends and what kind of
summer jobs they would have,
not about academics. Those
were days before television
found college ball and before
the hype of the NCAA tournament, but even then players still
got a pass.
"He had total disconnect
between himself and the academic institution," Lapchick said.
Joe Lapchick was so disturbed by what was happening
that he set up what Lapchick
believes was the first mandatory
study hall in college sports. He
and his assistant, a young coach
named Lou Carnesecca, soon
brought the university to a 100
percent graduation rate.
"When you put your mind to
it, things can really change/'
Lapchick said.
One teason Lapchick isn't so
down about this year's figures is
that things may finally be
changing for athletes on college
campuses, just as they did nearly a half-century ago under his
father at St. John's.
The NCAA announced last
month it would begin applying
sanctions against teams that
don't have a 50 percent graduation rate, beginning next year.
Teams who don't meet the mark
will lose scholarships, and
repeat offenders could be
declared ineligible for postsea-
, here, it's almost impossible to
son play.
"It's the best decision the fail," Bass said.
Lapchick was heartened
NCAA has made on this issue,"
Lapchick said. "I think we'll see when he spoke at LSD last fall
a dramatic impact on who and saw there was a new acadecoaches take into programs to mic support center for athletes.
"I think they realized they
begin with. They're not going to
risk losing scholarships or tour- had some issues they needed to
correct," he said.
nament spots."
The issues go beyond acade·
That's precisely what NCAA
president Myles Brand envisions. mic support. The new rules
"The graduation numbers mean universities will thtnk
have been embarrassing to the twice about giving scholarships
institution, but have not caw,ed to players who have no intention
any behavioral changes,'' Brand of going to class or are plannlng
said, "What we have done is to leave after a year for the
attach sanctions to poor gradua- NBA.
Coaches will now have to be
tion rates. We believe strongly
that is going to change behavior more careful about who they
recruit, and what they do to keep
over the years."
They're certainly listening at a player in school. Graduation
LSD, where athletic director rates will rise, and people won't
Skip Bertman says a new snicker when athletes a:re
emphasis in academics has referred to as student-athletes.
By then, Lapchick's numbers
every current player on track to
graduate within six years. That may stop being so scary.
includes forward Brandon Bass,
Tim Dahlberg is a national
this year's SEC scholar-athlete
sports columnist for The
of the year.
"They make it so easy for Associated Press. Write to him
you to study and get grades at tdahlberg@ap.org
No. 23 Cincinnati 76, Iovva 64 Dirt Track World Championship
by STEVE HERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS
Cincinnati expects blocked
shots and rebounds from Jason
Maxiell. But 3-pointers?
The 6-foot-7 senior had 22
points, nine rebounds, six
blocked shots, a pair of steals
and the first two 3-point baskets
of his college career Thursday
in a 76-64 first-round NCAA
tournament victory over Iowa.
The
Bearcats
(25-7)
advanced to Saturday's second
round of the Austin Regional
against Kentucky (26-5),
which won its opener 72-64
over Eastern Kentucky at the
RCA Dome.
Maxiell had missed all five 3point attempts he had taken in his
first 127 games with Cincinnati.
But in the closing minutes
against Iowa, with the game
already decided, he shot twice
from long range and hit both.
"I just felt comfortable with
my range and shot it," he said.
"It went in, so I decided to take
a second one."
The Cincinnati bench erupted.
"I knew he had it in him,"
• teammate Eric Hicks said, laughing. "One, maybe, but not two."
With the 250-pound Maxiell
dominating the inside, Cincinnati
showed a decidedly more physical game and threatened to run
away from the Hawkeyes almost
from the start.
His six blocked shots gave
him 89 for the season, second
*
~
only to the school-record 107
by Kenyon Martin in 2000.
With two other blocks by
Hicks, the Bearcats are one
short of the team-record 223
also set in 2000.
"Our guys did a real good job
defensively," Cincinnati coach
Bob Huggins said. "We got the
shooters. We were disciplined
enough to stay down most of the
time. Eric and Max were very
active, which we need them to
be .... They have to be active and
fly around the ball."
With Maxiell repeatedly
swatting away shots under the
basket and Iowa unable to hit
from the outside, the Bearcats
limited the Hawkeyes to just
one field goal and three free
throws in the first 11 minutes
of the game. Three-pointers by
Nick Williams, James White
and Arrnein Kirkland, meanwhile, sparked a 21-3 run that
put Cincinnati in control midway through the first half.
Iowa, which shot 34 percent
for the game, missed 13 of its
first 14 shots before a basket by
Jeff Horner and 3-pointer by
Carlton Reed with less than 8
minutes left in the first half.
The Hawkeyes finally started
hitting late in the period, cutting
their 18-point deficit to 32-22 at
the break, and continued their
rally early in the second half.
A 3-pointer by Greg
Brunner, who led Iowa with 20
points and 10 rebounds, pulled
the Hawkeyes to 34-29. Then,
after Maxiell hit one of two
free throws, another 3-pointer
by Horner made it 35-32.
That was as close as Iowa came.
"We thought we could get
back in it," Iowa coach Steve
Alford said. "We fought like
crazy to get back in it, but to
Cincinnati's credit they went
on another big run and we just
couldn't recover from there.
"We picked a bad day to have
a not real good shooting day."
Williams hit two straight 3pointers, Eric Hicks and
Maxiell each scored a basket
and, after an Iowa turnover,
Maxiell completed a 12-point
Cincinnati run with another
basket for a 47-32 lead. Iowa
never came closer than 10
points after that.
Another
3-pointer
by
Horner brought the Hawkeyes
within 60-50, but they then
went without a field goal for
more than six minutes. Maxiell
blocked two more shots and
put the gane out of reach with
his two 3-pointers and a dunk.
"He was making a big presence in the lane," Iowa's Adam
Haluska said. "He was throwing a lot of stuff out of there.
He caused us to take some
tough shots from outside and
they weren't going down."
White added 15 points and
Williams finished with 13 for
Cincinnati. Horner had 12
points for the Hawkeyes,
whose leading scorer for the
season, Pierre Pierce, was
kicked off the team in February
after his arrest for assault.
tickets, website set to race
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio
Advanced
presale
tickets,
reserved seats and pit passes for
the 25th Annual Dirt Track
World Championship (DTWC),
which will celebrate its silver
anniversary as one of dirt Late
Model racing's premier 'crown
jewel' races, will become available for race fans on Monday and
may be ordered using several
options. Additionally, promoters
of the esteemed race will debut a
new' website on Monday. Carl
Short and Dean Nardi will stage
the mega-event at Jim Nier's KC
Raceway in Chillicothe, Ohio, a
3/8 mile high-banked oval Oct.
13-15, 2005 culminating with a
$50,000 payoff to the eventual
winner.
The 25th Annual Dirt Track
World Championship kicks off on
Thursday evening, Oct. 13 with an
open practice session. Qualifying
and heat races will be held on
Friday evening, Oct.l4 with the
consolation race, a non-qualifiers
race and the 100-Jap Dirt Track
World Championship to be held on
Saturday evening, Oct. 15.
Sunday, Oct. 16 will serve as the
rain date.
Presale prices for individual
tickets are $40 for adult general
admission, $10 for children gen-
eral admission ages 6-11 with first-served basis.
Driver entry fee will be $ 100
children under age six admitted
free for general admission. The if pre-entered by Oct. 1. After
deadline for ordering presale Oct. 1, the driver entry fee will
tickets is Oct. 1. A ll tickets pre- be $200.
To purchase presale tickets
ordered will begin being mailed
out on Sept. 15. A presale and pit passes and/or to prethree-day pit pass will be enter a driver, money orders,
cashier's checks and credit
offered for $50.
After the October 1 presale cards may be used. The DTWC
deadline expires tickets prices will accept presale credit card
will be $50 for adult general orders with Mastercard, Visa,
and
American
admission, $15 children general Discover
admission ages 6-11 with chil- Express. To place your credit
dren under age six admitted free card order telephone the DTWC
for general admission. Three- office toll free: 800-536-5277.
day pit passes will be $60.
Tickets are also available via
Special reserved seating is mail order by sending a money
also being made available for order or cashier's check to:
the 25th Anniversary Dirt Track DTWC , P.O . Box 349, Powell,
World Championship. The top Tenn.37849.
five rows of the grandstands,
Race fans will also be able to
including the main grandstands order presale tickets from the
Dirt
Track
World
and the soon-to-be-constructed new
new grandstands in turn four, Championship website designed
will be mandated reserved seat- by Lynn Appleget of Appleget
ing. Presale tickets for reserved Associates that will debut on
seating are $45 per ticket. After Monday. Fans will also be able
October 1 reserved seating will to use PayPal to order presale
be $55. Reserved seating ticket - tickets from the DTWC website.
prices for children age 11 and The new DTWC website will be
unqer will be $15 per ticket pre- located at: www.DTWC.net
sale and $20 per ticket after Oct.
For additional information
1. A seating chart is available on about the 25th Annual Dirt
the KC Raceway website Track World Championship
(http://www.kc-raceway.com) . contact: P. 0. Box 349, Powell,
and race fans may pick their Tenu.
37849.
Telephone
preferred seats on a first-come, 865/947-0500.
Labonte determined to make
"White bass down but perhaps Bristol part of 2005 Schedule
poised for rebound
.
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
by STEVE VANTREESE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PADUCAH -There may be
relief on the way to bolster sagging white bass fishing.
An important recreational
fishing species for Kentucky
anglers, white bass in most of the
commonwealth's waters have
been on tbe skids for a while. The
'- trend is 'broader than Kentucky,
however,
with
significant
declines in fishing for at least a
couple of years across most of
the southeastern United States.
Kentucky managers anticipate relatively lean times for
white bass again this spring when
fishing for the native "stripes"
typically picks up. But the
wheels already may be turning to
reverse white bass fortunes.
"Across the Southeast,
everybody has been seeing
declines in the white bass population," said Gerry Buynak,
biologist and assistant director
of fisheries for the Kentucky
Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources. "We've
seen the same thing here."
Buynak said department
biologists have been involved in
white bass population research
for three years and findings suggest that the across-the-board
sag in numbers of "keeper" fish
is related to precipitation and
consequential water conditions.
''White bass are one of the most
highly fluctuating species, prone to
either really good or really bad
• spawning classes of fish," Buynak
said. 'There doesn't seem to be
much in between the extremes.
"And what we've seen
looks like some drought conditions and resulting low current
flows have caused some bad
year classes," he said. "The
same conditions have affected
a large area of the country."
White bass eggs are semibuoyant and require a certain
level of current flow to keep
them moving and successful,
Buynak said.
"The eggs need current to
prevent them from settling to
the bottom and getting silted
in," Buynak said.
Light precipitation and
resulting lower current flows
may have scuttled the success of
many white bass eggs, resulting
is poor spawning classes of new
fish for a few years.
"The problem only shows
up when you get a few bad year
classes of fish occurring backto-back," Buynak said. "It's too
early in our research to say, but
that's our main theory about
what's happened. It looks like a
series of bad spring spawning
conditions."
The silver lining, if there is
one, is that Kentucky Department
of Fish and Wildlife Resources
research on Barren River Lake
shows good white bass spawns in
the springs of2003 and 2004. Not
by coincidence, those springs
were wetter and current flows
were higher then.
Buynak said improved
V""n•J-ter and Y-.it... r conc1itions
could well have sown the seeds
of white bass rebounds over
most of Kentucky.
"The white bass is a shortlived fish, only growing about
six years," Buynak said. "They
get to be the size that fishermen
are interested in, 10 to 12 inches long, at about age three. The
fish that were spawned in that
first better class in 2003 should
start getting that size sometime
this summer."
Meanwhile, the Kentucky
Fish and Wildlife Commisswn
has acted on biologists' recommendations to approve a reduction in the statewide white bass
creel limit to soften the effects
of angler harvest, particularly
while the numbers are low.
The new limit, effective
March 1, 2006, will be 15 white
bass, yellow bass and/or hybrid
striped bass in combination.
Further, no more than five of
the fish may exceed 15 inches.
The regulation will replace
a straight 30-fish limit on white
bass and yellow bass combined
and a five-fish limit on hybrid
striped bass and pure striped
bass combined.
The new regulation will
protect hybrids by allowing no
more than five fish over 15
inches in the limit. White bass
seldom attain that size.
1
"The new regulation will
limit the harvest of adult \Vhite
bass and hybrids, and it also
will eliminate the identification
problems between white bass
'·''d hybdd:.," Buynak said.
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Terry
Labonte walks toward his car in
the infield during a test session
for the Food City 500. The Food
City 500 is one of 10 races
Labonte will run in 2005.
Last year when Terry
Labonte decided that he was
cutting his 2005 schedule back
to include only 10 races, he
knew one thing for certain:
Bristol was definitely going to
be one of the stops.
Labonte, whose first start at
Bristol Motor Speedway came
on April 1 , 1979, has always
been partial to the half-mile oval.
In that very fl.rst race he finished
seventh and since then, in 52
starts, his 34 top-1 0 finishes are
the most by any driver in the
Speedway's history. He also has
20 top-five showings, second
only to Rusty Wallace's 21. Toss
in a couple of wins and you've
got your answer as to why
Labonte had to make Bristol part
of his "Shifting Gears" tour.
"Bristol has always been one
of my favorite tracks," said
Labonte, during a Tuesday test
session that also included Rusty
Wallace, Kyle Busch, Brian
Vickers, Jay Sauter and Michel
Jourdain, Jr. "This was a nobrainer. As soon as I decided
that we were only running 10
races this year, I knew Bristol
was going to be one of them."
After running a full schedule
for 26 years, cutting back has
been just what the doctor ordered,
according to Labonte. While
some might have thought that not
participating in every race might
be difficult for him to handle, he
says it's just the opposite.
"Oh no, not . a problem," he
said. "It's actually kind of nice.
It's a little funny not knowing
exactly what I:m going to be
doing every Sunday, but I really
enjoy it. I'm really busy with
other things, things I haven't been
able to do over the years so I'm
not missing it. My wife says this
retirement is killing her because
I'm busier now than I was before.
"It's just that now I decide
what I'm doing. Like this
Sunday, I might just go fishing
or I might hang around the
house and catch part of the race .
I probably won' t watch it all
because I really can't stand listening to it on television."
The 48-year-old Labonte
planson running 10 races again
in 2006 and then calling it quits
for good . If he gets his way,
Bristol will again be on the list.
"I'm running the night race
next year," he said. "I can't miss
that. I would have liked to have
run it this year but things just
didn 't work out so we could.
But next year I'm doing it. I
have to run that night race one
more time.
"This has been a good track to
me and the night race (where
both of his wins came) has just
always been one that I looked
forward to. I mean, I love this
race coming up or I wouldn't be
in it. But there's nothing like that
night race; there's nothing like
the atmosphere here for that race.
If I was a fan - and I'll be that
one day - that fall race would be
the one race I'd have to see."
Charter
Communications
Pole Day is Friday, April 1 at
5:40 p.m., with the Food City
500 slated to take the green flag
at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday,April3.
The Sharpie Professional 250
gets under way at 2:05p.m . on
Saturday, April 3 .
Charter
Communications
Pole Day tickets are available
for
$15
while
Sharpie
Professional 250 tickets are also
available, beginning at $45. For
tickets , please call 423/7641161 or go to bristoltix.com.
�84 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
20, 2005
by HOWARD FENDRICH
. ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
~sing ~ter~ds but under oath .
repeate~ly deClined to respood
McG~ire ; was· just part of ~tl)\.J?e.et:i.n.g atlawm~rs qver
Thursday's show the House.. ~ng $lasSes, his goatee flecked '
Government Reform commh~ '·w;t'h gray; MCOWfre'was pre~'·
tee's hearing on steroids 1n base· . m say whether he had taken per~
ball, when la,vtuakers repeated formance-enhancing .substances or
threaterted federal le-gislation to whether he could pt'Ovide detail~
goverrt drug testing in not
about. use
other playel'!), Over
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be wouldn't
at
about
by using
HeruoUI''fume~d. strobes
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on a day
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'"That's not for me to det:ertnine¥ ers
§~ids as a probTo a couple of otber ques- lem for their,,~Sit put denied the
drugs are widely used.
tions, all )he would say is:
retired."
·
Jose Canseco, whose bestThe dark clouds over baseball selling book, "Juiced," drew
rained on Big !VIae, whose power- lawmakers' attention, said anew
ful bat once capttvated the nation~ that h€' used performance·'J know that he was in anguis!l enbancing drugs as a player.
yesterday just heing there," base3 Baltimore Orioles teammates
bail commissioner Bud Selig said Sammy Sosa and Rafael
Friday on)NBC's "Today'' show. Palmeiro said they haven't.
"E\'erybo?y has to do what they.
Mct:iwiie ~.~past has denied
"''m
bY JIM LITKE
-ASSd.CIATEO PRESS
of McGwir~ and. Can~~cd ·.····the owner. of
cracked when tliscrissi*g ')he "Brewet;_1 were likely
fates tha~, . befell . . ·young . two people in the
ballplayers Rob. Garibald\ and could recall Cortgre
Taylor J1()()ton.<But j~ w~s!l't htvestigatlou . of what
· long before ~U of. thOse >wM ¢ailed baseball's
·testified - ~gaif;l./ with . the. drug pmblem iq 1973
el):ceptlon of caosecQ '. .;. f,)egan •·· · reeJeQ off a litany
·
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has become chances thai baseball fa.ill~\!!
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perf?ftl;lance~<
·
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Canseco stepped
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notable
called on
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owned
''The
right
in the major
steroids."
gs began with
tn•·m~•..-··~t"'·~.·''"". itcher and current
. Bunnmg saying,
"maybe I m old fashioned. I
remember when players didn't
get better as they got older. We
all got worse." The day continued with the anguished stories
of two families who lost sons
to ~uicide because those kids
believed the advice from
coaches and scouts "to get bigger" meant by any means nec-
essary, including the reckless
us~.:
of steroids.
Then a few of those players
who got bigger and bettet as
they got older
the
and except for
but stilt not
;•
.
.
. :otf\et drugs; Steroids; a string of
news reports; McGwire's andro
. · admission; the arrest of a
· · •· ballplayer with steroids in his
car; and more.
"But as we know n<;>w from
30 years of history," Waxman
said, "baseball failed to regulate itself."
one commissioner
The game's new drug policy,
credits with sparking itself a product of pressure
ssance of baseball brought to bear in a previous
a crippling strike four congressional hearing chaired
earlier - was played by Sen. John McCain, is full of
"with honor and integrity."
loopholes. There are no tests for
And to the question of human growth hormones and
whether he ever used any per- amphetamines are not banned.
formance-enhancers beyond But none of this apparently
the
steroid
precursor bothers fans - attendance is up
androstenedione, which an across the board- and it hasn't
Associated Press writer noticed cost baseball its special place in
sitting on the top shelf of his America's sporting life. Yet.
locker in 1998.
Not so with McGwire.
And even to the question of
The redhead whose lightwhether all the home-run ning swing and 20-inch arms
records of recent years should captivated us all shuffled out of
be wiped off the books.
the room at the end of the day,
"I'm not here," McGwire kept , his ac~omptisbments now as
answering, "to go into mY past." deflat4d; as
his
orice .
None of the other players Bunyanesque frame. A few
save Canseco were any more minutes earli(lt, a congressman
forthcoming. /I'h¢y ~aw ·no bad asked McGwire what
steroid use in .the clubhOuse~, sage:he had for the
rarely cliscussed it; and never kids . that medic~! e
learned enougn
·. ;; believJ . t. l:iedc'stc~ro:id
potential
fronting
••rt was
late
cup
hearing on steroids in
Bunning was the first.
In a packed chamberK with
media lining the hallways outside, he sat alone at . the panel
table, answered f!Iend1y questions, many of which included .
reflections on hi~ pitching and his···
career m
Bunning
in his time
Penalties
e bar-
s. His was umong a
mg it ea~ier to
··Maybe it's
knocked the mound
mches, but I know
players are much str<m!leJ
the ball IS much more
than it was in the 50s. 60s
70s." he said.
Bunning i-; a second-term
t:uatoi l.l{hose playing career
p~nncd from 1955-71. After
rettring from the game, he spent
tie as a minor league manager
and as a sports agent.
Often called "The Big Righthander" by fellow Kentucky
R~puhlicans.
Bunning was
inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame in 1996.
Wilson
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�Sunday, March 20, 2005
FLOYD COUNTY
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MOYIESFRQM
TilE BLACKLAGOON
History
I
'He Knows
Ruby Akers
You're Alone'
Editor's Note: For yea~~ Floyd
County Times founder and fanner
publisher Nom1an Allen wrote a weektv column that looked at Floyd County
- through bis eyes. His coluinns are ·
being reprinted due to request.
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
April-time of changes, when
even the names of things become
something else. Then it is that hurricanes are known as spring
zephyrs, downpours as showers,
worms as bait, and plain laziness
as spring fever.
You're grown up when you're
old enough to know that a mirror
is to prove to you that you can be
d u m b
without
b e i n g
beautiful.
THIS
IS
A
RELIEF
April 1
has to this
Norman Allen
point
4.40 p.m.
- passed uneventfully for us.
Nobody has tipped us off to a
story that refuses to be pinned
down. We haven't been tempted to
kick any paper sacks loaded with
bricks, or anything of that nature.
Some of the boys might like to
send me chasing after striped ink,
but they know I'm too old for that
one. And I didn't, of my own volition, expose myself to the vagaries
of this day by going fishing.
PROMISE
Young Jack Hill is stage manager for the senior class-play
which will be presented here next
Tuesday night, and, intentionally
or otherwise, he paid me and a
couple of other fellows, who think
they're fishermen, a compliment.
He needs a fish, a good, big one,
as a prop, and as innocently as you
please asked me today if one of us
could furnish him with what he
needed. Some of those nearby
snickered, but I gave him my
word that I personally would see
that the fish was made available.
CONFESSIONAL
The fact of the matter is, as
some have heretofore suggested, I
am not a fisherman. There was a
(See THIS TOWN, page six)
Ruby, at home, among her many treasured gifts from family and friends.
Ruby Akers • Staying Active
by Kathy J. Prater
Features Editor
Well known throughout the county,
Ruby Akers, 86 years young, is full of
life, energy and history. Born in Floyd
County, to Tom and Anna Martin
Akers, Ruby has lived in the same
house, at Drift, since she was in the
second grade.
"Our first house burned, so Mother
had this one built," she said. "I've been
here since I was a little girl."
, Full of tales about hickory nuts,
childhood teachers and friends and
"how things used to be," Ruby is a
delight. Well educated, with a sharp
mind, Ruby likes to share stories of riding the train from Drift to Martin to
attend high school and of later years
spent attending Caney Creek College,
now known as Alice Lloyd College.
"Caney Creek was~ and still is, a
wonderful place," she said. "Why,
what would Floyd County have done
without it," she pondered as she looked
over a long mailing list of Floyd
County alumni. "They're preparing for
their annual banquet," she continued.
"And this is a list of all the people I'm
supposed to call. It's a long one," she
said, shaking her head in awe. Ruby,
herself, was recognized as "Alice
Lloyd College Alumna of the Year" for
the year 1998.
"The best thing, the very best
thing," she said, "about Caney Creek,
or Alice Lloyd as they call it now, is
that when you are there, you are a name
and not a number. They get to know
you there. I'm tickled to death when I
see a young person preparing to attend
school there."
Ruby left Caney Creek to begin
teaching in the Floyd County School
System, for which she worked for 34
years. In that time, she attended both
Eastern Kentucky University and
Morehead State College. She graduated from Morehead with a degree in
home economics.
After finishing up 34 years with
Floyd County schools, she continued to
work for four more in a federally funded health program_ "I worked as a
nutritionist," she said. "I went out to
people's homes and showed them how
to prepare balanced meals. And in the
The late 1970s/early 1980s may
have revitalized
the horror film
with pictures like
"ftlalloween" and
"Friday the 13th,"
bblt
it
also
doomed moviegoers to a seemingly
endless
cycle of hackand-slash films
which strictly folTom Dotv
lowed a new forsun Writer
mula: Teens attend
a party at a remote
location and are hunted down and
killed by a faceless maniac who is
finally defeated by the sole surviving
female, with a door to a sequel left
open_ It got tired fast, but once in
awhile, a director would manage to
make that formula work and that is
the case with this effort, which focuses on a killer who strikes at brides to
be_
The film opens with a clever
sequence,copied by "Scream 2,"
which finds a girl cheating on her
boyfriend in a parked car. The couple
hear a noise and the boy investigates.
only he doesn't return. The girl eventually leaves the car only to find the
.boy dead and a killer waiting for her.
The camera pulls back at this point
to reveal that we are seeing a movie.
A pair of women are watching the
film and one leaves for the restroom.
There she admires her engagement
ring. Once in a stall, she hears someone enter the restroom and freaks out
when she instinctively realizes it is
someone who means her harm. She
escapes back to her seat, where her
friend assures her sh~ is reacting to
the film.
This rationalization means nothing
to the figure which settles in the seat
behind them. He waits until a scream
in the film provides a perfect opportunity for him to stab the girl right
through the back of her chair with no
one noticing her yelp over that of the
film's victim. It's a chilling sequence
which at once identifies the killer as
meticulous and cruel.
The film then splits into two stories. One follows a detective who is
(See WOMEN, page six)
(See LAGOON, page six)
Journey to the depths of my pur e
by RHONDA RHEA
"CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN'S SOUL"
I carry the basic essentials of life in my purse:
aspirin, lipstick, hand lotion, credit card. You name
it, it's in there. If it's not, it will be. I seem to have
some sort of purse reflex. I can stuff things in there
·
without even knowing it.
On the positive side, I found a $5 bill in a
sneaky secret pocket last week. Even better, I
found a candy bar. Now that was interesting. It was
squished - almost liquefied - but it was still
inside the wrapper.
Unfortunately, there are other encounters now
and then that aren't exactly positive purse experiences. The other day, for example, I was making a
return and I had to do an emergency receipt search
at the customer-service counter. My purse stuff
started piling up. I pulled out five loose
LifeSavers, an old Valentine card, sunscreen, one
mitten, six kids' -meal toys (including a mini tractor
with only one wheel), three keys of unknown lock
origin and a dead cricket. But no receipt. There
were 12 tissues (none I would actually use), last
year's Christmas list, a ticket stub to the juniorhigh spring concert and the backs from four adhesive name tags.
I also found two gummi worms stuck in a hairbrush, a Denny's coupon that expired in 1997 and
a plastic Easter egg. I was pretty sure that the egg
was older than the coupon. I shook it to see if it rattled. It did. I think l made it angry.
There was also enough purse fuzz in there to
stuff a sofa pillow. How embarrassing. Inside the
purse fuzz, something green and squishy caught
my eye, and it frightened me. l gained courage by
tossing the dead cricket and drinking the candy bar. fully: "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where
Just before I dove into the fuzz, I got to the can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the
heart of my purse: my mini-Bible. It had all my heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the
family pictures tucked inside. That's when I real- depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of
ized that everything important in life could
dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
be found in my purse.
even there Your hand will guide me,
OK, if you want to get technical,
Your right hand will hold me fast ."
I didn't exactly find Jesus in my
There's no place I can go withhandbag. But I could pull but the
out Him - not the heavens, not
pictures of my husband and my
the depths, not the far side of the
children and see reminders of His
sea. I climb all the way inside my
gifts to me. And His word was
purse, and He still finds me there.
there. Granted, it smelled a little
I'm rejoicing in His love like Juicy Fruit, but it was a great
ev~n though I never found the
reminder that there's really no place
rece1pt.
I can go where I won't find the Lord's
~
For the record, I think that green
presence. Not one fuzz-covered place!
squishy thing used to be a jelly bean. l
Psalm 139, verses 7 through 10, says it beauti- guess we'll never know. One of the kids ate it.
for the
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�86 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
20, 2005
THE FLOYD C OUNTY TIMES
Jim D avidson
ur obsession with celebrities
The United States of America
knov. n as the Land of
Oppmtunity. Anything or anyone who takes away or diminishes the opportunitieli we as
Americans enjoy, should he of
concern to all of us.
While you may not
view it in the sum~;
fight, there i. n
mod rn dlty phe
r omcnon that ts
robbing millions of
Americans l f their
opportunity
to
tchieve outstandmg success or to
make a real difference during their
brief stay here on
earth. I'm referring to something
that has come to be known as
'Celebrity Sickness." The reason it is so devastating for the
person who is obsessed wtth a
celebnty, 1s that they lose too
much precious thinking and
1.;
planning time for their own
career. This is truly a shame
because they are forfeiting their
opportunity for great success in
:,vme field of endeavor.
On a recent airplane flight
into Dallas, I
had this confinned in a way
that caused me
to do some seri·
ous thinking, At
this point you
might be saying, "This is a
free country and
it's none of your
if
business
someone wants
to be obsessed
with a rock star, athlete, movie
star, singer or other well kPown
person." Granted, I will give you
that, but it's one thing to be
merely obsessed, and it's an
entirely different matter if that
obsession leads a person to harm
themselves or others in the name
of their idol.
The most famcw.s obsession
case of all took plac~;.. m March
1981, when John Hinckley shot
President Ronald Reagan and
three
others
outside
a
Washington hotel. Hinckley later
said he shot the president to
impress actress Jodie Foster.
There have been countless other
cases where some person was
stalking a celebrity and had to be
restrained. Here is the reason I
wanted to share this with you
and at least give you something
to think about. You may have
children, grandchildren or
friends who fall into this category and you may pe able to help
them. Of course, there is a possibility this person could be you.
According to research at
DeVry University and the
Southern Illinois School of
Medicine, 10 percent of the
American public is developing
an unhealthy obsession with
celebrities that can lead to
depression, anxiety and psychosis . Now I'm not that great at
math, but with 29<1 million people in our country, if we divide
that number in half to discount
for the very young and the very
old, we still have 145 million
people. When you take 10 percent of that number, you have
over 14 million people who fall
lnto this most unfortunate
lifestyle.
'This research nlso discovered
that 1 percent of the American
public has such an unhealthy
obsession with celebrities that
they are prepared to harm themselves or others in the name of
their idol. Obviously John
Hinckley was one of these. In
the past few days I have done
quite a bit of thinking about why
this has become a real prob~~m.
One of the basic reasons is
because of increased technology
we now have more time and
money and most people do not
have to work from sunup till
sundown just to make a living.
\I\! omen
• Continued from p5
meantime. if they needed to go to
the doctor or get to the grocery store,
I would take them. That's what=I
loved so much about that job. visit'ng people and helping them. 1 really enjoyed those four years."
Taking her knowledge of home
conomics and nutrition, Ruby has
J,een active for many years in the
Gene ·at Federation of Women's
Clubs, an international organization ,
serving in many roles in their
Kentucky chapter Currently. Ruby
is serving as chairperson of
Conservation Resources for the
Kentucky Federation of Women 's
Clubs, helping to organize activities
and keep track of the records of
local records statewide.
''Why, it keeps me busy," she
said, '·very busy."
Among the activitie s of the
women's club, Ruby has helped
oversee an annual horse show for
the past 35 years. art contests in
local community schools and the
granting of annual scholarship
rronies to local students. Currently,
she is helping to raise funds for the
club through the promotion of a club
cookbook, "The East Kentucky
Hospttality II Cookbook." " I love
the recipes in thi~ book," she said.
"There's a recipe for a breakfast
casserole that you prepare ahead of
ime the night before and then let sit
in the refrigerator all night. Then,
all you have to do the next morning
is get up and pop it in the oven. It's
so good, too. A complete meal in
It<>elt'."
" Almost better than the recipes,
though ," she said, "is the food history included. There's a whole history on how people used to cook and
why. And a complete section on
common folk beliefs. Anyone that
likes to read will enjoy this book."
Ruby is also active in service
with the Floyd County Conservation
District, serving as vice-chairperson
of their board, as well as supervisor.
Ruby also enjoys travel, remaining committed to "getting out" as
much as she can. She enjoys telling
of the adventures she had, some
years ago, when she volunteered to
take an elderly Floyd County
woman to California, to visit her son
- not once, but twice - and by automobile.
"She was in her 70's," she says of
her traveling companion. "I was
young then and I had a new car.
Why, I didn't think anything of taking off for California and I told her I
would take her. We had a good time,
no complaints about anything,
except for this one time when we
had a blow-out in Nevada. A man
stopped to help us on the road and
he told us what gas station to go to
after we got back on the road and of
a little restaurant across the street
from the service station. So, while
the car was being worked on, we
went to eat lunch at the restaurant.
Well, we walked in and, honey, it
was a casino! Why, people were
playing blackjack and poker and
there were slot machines all over the
place. The restaurant was in the
back of the building. Well, we
walked back there, sat down and had
just a real good lunch. The food was
really good ....on the way out, I
asked Hattie (Patton) if she enjoyed
her lunch.
"Right away and real quick, she
said, 'No.' Just like that, 'no.' I didn't know what to think because the
food had been real good. I asked
her, 'Well, what was wrong?' She
told me, ' Well, I couldn't enjoy my
food for thinking the whole time
about how I'd feel if the Lord was to
come back and find us sittin' in a
place like that.'
"I said , ' Well , Hat, we wasn't
doing anything wrong, we were just
eating !'
"Funniest thing ever was," she
finished.
"I've had a good life," Ruby said,
"Lots of memories and so Tnany
nieces and nephews and cousins
and, why, just people everywhere
that are so good to me. They bring
me lots of presents and I keep every
single thing that anyone gives to me.
I put it out where I can enjoy it,
whatever it is."
Floyd County's own - Ruby
Akers. Living life and loving every
minute of it.
Editor's Note .
The Eastern
Kentucky Hospitality II Cookbook
may be purchased at Messer s
Department Store, in Martin, from
any KFWC member, and at selected
locations throughout the area, for
$20.
lagoon
.
determined to catch the killer. His
obsession is tied to the first victim
of the mad man, a girl he was supposed to marry. The audience learns
via flashback that the killer knew
the cop's fiance and felt that she
rejected him by getting engaged to
the cop. This is more than the detective knows and it is a clever device
that gives the audience a link to the
madman.
The film also veers off to follow
a young lady named Amy who is
scheduled to get married in a week.
It is no surprise that our killer soon
shows up and begins stalking her.
When he kills the owner of a bridal
shop after Amy gets a fitting , the
murder brings our detecti ve to
town • ·o\\< he must find out which
bride is next on the list, but all he
know is she is in the city somewhere.
Meanwhile Amy keeps catching
• Continued from pS
glimpses of a man followillg her but
her fiance is out of town. Her ex
sees this as the perfect opportunity
to win her back but nobody really
believes her and all assume that she
just has the pre-wedding jitters.
The conclusion finds all of these
characters winding up at the
morgue , where they finally get the
chance to compare notes, but the
killer is on the site, too, and he has
escalated to killing anybody who
gets in his way.
This film manages to put together all of the elements of a slasher
film but goes the formula one better
by offering a plausible scenario that
Alfred Hitchcock would have had a
field day with. The final scene is a
shocker that manages to offer a
plausible reason why there will be
more killings for a sequel that never
materialized.
The director has fun with the
genre and still manages to follow its
rules. The cast is also up to the task
with fine perfonnances by mostly
unknown stage actors from the New
York area.
The film also boasts the first
screen appearance by Tom Hanks,
who drops in as a psychology student with a mess of theories about
how Freud would see Amy's stalker
as an expression of her fear of marriage. He's only on screen for about
10 minutes but does a fine job and
demonstrates a flair for comedy in
his brief appearance.
Director Armand Mastroianni
would return with several more
thrillers ("The Killi.rg Hour" and
the Civil War zombie pic "The
Supernaturals") but this one, his
first, is still his best.
Best line: "How about the time
he beat me up and took my yo-yo?"
1981, rated R.
This Town
• Continued from p5
time when I made a great show of
being one, driving off, pell-mell,
200 miles cross-country, invariably
accompanied by a young tempest, to
fish the big lakes; or braving the
worst weathers here at home. But
now I am nothing more than a casual follower of the sport.
These days, even a little chest
cold will deter me. 1 have stopped
consulting the barometer to see if
fishing conditions are right; instead,
have taken to trying gauge wind,
weather and a lot of other things that
afford excuses. A sunny afternoon,
with time on my hands, no longer
sends me pacing the house like a
caged tiger; I can miss those delectable hours now without feeling that
some of the best of life is slipping
past, and is gone forever.
Here it is April 1, and not a line
have I dampened.
That hasn't happened before,
man and boy, in thutty year.
I've even taken to staying home
on the strength of weather forecasts,
which I know are as spurious as a
Russian promise.
But shed no tears for me. Wait till
I do go fishing. Then let your sympathy flow unrestrained.
American Heart .,._
Association.
Foods
PSA
When people are dead tired, they
go to bed a lot earlier.
Another reason is the proliferation of the media. First, the
silver screen gave us access on a
regular basis to beautiful people,
and it was easy to fall in love
with them. This also gave those
with less beauty and physical
strength a way to fantasize and
to see themselves actually playing the parts or roles of the various actors, Then the clincher
catne along in the fotm of television. 'Television not only brought
us beautiful and talented people,
it also brought the games, right
into our living rooms. 'This
allowed us to see with our own
eyes the World Series , the
Masters, the Super Bowl, March
Madness, the Stanley Cup and
various other sporting events.
We now have so many choices of those who can be our idols
and our heroes. When they come
to our town or city and even if
we have to travel long distances,
we can go see them in person. If
we are lucky, we may even get to
meet them up close and J?Crsonal
with a handshake or a hug. We
can buy their CDs, tapes, books,
videos, and·hang their pictures
on our walls. That's the choice
and the right we have as free
Americans.
What I'm saying here may
not make any difference to you
at all, but I just wanted to make
you aware that many people are
in danger of an unhealthy obses·
sion with some celebrity and the
pitfalls that may result.
Personlllly, I adtrt1r~ many people and respect mnny others, but
I am not obsessed and do not
worship any of them. Here is the
real question. Is this celebrity a
good role model for young people? If they are nc>t, I will not
support them or their career.
Young people are the future of
our country and they need good
role models and celebrities they
can look up to.
Jim Davidson is a motivational speaker and syndicated
columnist. You may contact him
at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR
72034.
Click ancl Clack
Talk CarS
TOM & RAY STAND BY
THEIR WORDS ON SUV
ADVERTISEMENTS
by TOM and RAY MAGLIOZZl
wheel drive - you're going off the road,
and taking with you whoever is in your
path.
TOM: So, we're all for personal
responsibility. But it's our opinion that a
number of manufacturers are deliberately
misleading people. They 're suggesting
through their ads that SUVs can overcome
the basic laws of physics - and they
can't.
RAY: Since people are dying as a
result, we feel that these irresponsible ads
- and their misleading messages - need
to be stopped. And in America, like it or
not, a successful lawsuit - which hits
companies in the pocketbook - is the
fastest way to stop irresponsible corporate
behavior.
Dear Tom and Ray:
I've enjoyed both your radio show and
your columns , until I read today's criticisms of sport utility vehicles. I understand
your position that most people don't need
them, and I agree that some people drive
them recklessly, but to suggest that accident victims or their families sue the manufacturer is totally irresponsible. Almost
i
any product can be used inappropriately.
McDonald's says its hamburgers are good,
but eaten exclusively or in inappropriate
amounts, they'll make you fat. The answer
is not to sue McDonald's; the answer is to
be responsible for your own actions. The
same logic applies to SUV drivers. There
Dear Tom and Ray:
are pages of cautions in the owner's manI
recently left a career as a pizza-delivuals about how to drive the vehicles. Many
ery
driver
to work for an architectural phoof the cautions should be obvious, but the
manufacturers are forced to put the obvi- tographer. It involved changing cities and
ous in the manuals as a defense against giving up what little social life I had. In
people like you. You are welcome to your short, I'm rethinking the decision, and
opinions, and you are fortunate enough to thinking about going back to the pizza ll
have a forum in which to air them, but you business. My question for you folks is this:
should use good judgment in expressing The vehicle I bought for my new job is
them. To suggest that manufacturers be much too nice to use for delivering pizzas.
It is a 2003 VW GTI VR6 (vroom vroom).
sued for the irresponPlus, I won't be able
sible actions of their
to afford the paycustomers
only
ments
on the pizza
invites frivolous lawSo, if I'm
salary.
suits that will drive
going
to
return to
up the cost of autothe
night
shift
at my
mobiles for all of us .
old
job,
I'm
going
to
You
should
be
car
need
a
cheap
ashamed.
that gets reasonable
Kenneth
gas mileage (low
RAY: We're not
20s
to high teens is
at
that
good
OK) and is relative,e· a s h a m e d , "
ly easy to work on. I
Kenneth. It's somecan
spend about
thing we should
$5,000,
and I'm
probably work on.
pretty
handy
with
a
wrench.
I
~as thinking
TOM: We got a lot of hate mail about
this, Kenneth, but we're going to stand by · about a Toyota, because I hear they are
our comments. You are absolutely right that very reliable. Any help you can offer
there's a personal-responsibility component would be appreciated, and if you' re ever in
when a moron drives his SUV at 70 mph in Gainesville, Fla., and get hungry, give Five
a snowstonn and takes out a family of four Star a call and tell them Bo sent you. - Bo
TOM: What happened, Bo? Not as
when he spins into a ditch. But we think the
many
women answering the door in their
manufacturer, through its advertising
nightgowns
in the architectural-photograagency, bears some responsibility, too.
phy
business?
RAY: Television is absolutely plastered
RAY: You definitely need something
these days with video of SUVs barreling
much more pathetic-looking if you want
through snowdrifts at high speeds throwing snow in all directions as they any chance of getting decent tips. If the
move unstoppably through arctic condi- pizza-delivery guy is driving a nicer car
tions. The message is clear: If you buy our than the guy who's buying the pizza,
you're going to have tough time getting
vehicle, you'll be able to drive like this.
TOM: And so when someone DOES sympathy.
TOM: You certainly could buy a Toyota
drive like that, is he entirely at fault for the
They're easy to flnd, reliable and
Corolla.
results? Isn't the manufacturer also
responsible for telling the guy that his economical. And you can probably get a 5vehicle is designed to be driven that way or 6-year-old one for $5,000. You really
can't go wrong with one of those, and it
- even when it's not safe to do so?
RAY: If McDonald's ran advertise- meets all of your requirements.
RAY: But why not really go for the symments that said, "Eating nothing but
McDonald's day and night is good for pathy, Bo? I see you in a 1987 Hyundai
you," wouldn't you hold McDonald's at Excel, blue smoke belching out the back
least partially responsible for the health of from bad rings ... one headlight working.
TOM: Plus , it's got vinyl seats, so you
people who followed that advice - and
then had to buy SUVs because they could- can just wipe up the melted mozzarella
and spilled tomato sauce. Try doing that
n't fit into normal cars anymore?
TOM: And hamburgers are easier to with your beautiful Toyota velour! Good
understand than SUV handling. Most peo- luck, Bo.
ple know that if you eat nothing but Big
What is the most cost-effective way to
Macs, you're going to wind up in stretch
buy
a car? Tom and Ray hash it all out in
pants 30 days from now. But most people
their
pamphlet "Should I Buy, Lease, or
DON'T know what the limit of an SUV is .
It's complicated technology. So, people Steal My Next Car? " Send $4.50 (check
take their cues from the images provided or money order) to Next Car, P.O . Box
536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
by the manufacturer.
Got a question about cars? Write to
RAY: They don't know that on snow,
once you exceed the limit of the tires ' Click and Clack in care of this newspaper,
grip, it doesn't matter if you have eight- or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk
Web site at www.cartalk.com.
Finding the perfect car
for a pizza-delivery guy
�SUNDAY, MARCH
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606-874- 606-377-0143.
3487,
Accepting
applications
Mon. 470-Health&Beauty
thru Fri. between the
WOLFF TANNING
hours of Bam and
BEDS
4pm.
Financing available,
Free delivery & set
up within 75 miles of
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale
Prices.
Call 888-554-0058
Wanted used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
71 (} • l::dl,IC:iltiQn~
713 • Chikl Cwe
71 s - Elet:tdclat\
720 • Healili & Beauty
13G - L~wn & Garden
Offi~Spape
630 ·~· Houses
64!)..f,.andll<lts
SALESPERSON
NEEDED, Must Have
Sales
Experience.
Call for Appointment
between 8-5 Mon-Fri,
Overhead Door of
East KY. 478-3000
EXCELLENT
INCOME-National
Capitol
Funding
Group Now Hiring
Court
House
Will
Researchers.
TRain to Work From
Home Using Your
Computer,
No
Experience
Necessary. Call 1800-440-7234
475-Household
MARCH MADNESS
SALE!
All lnstock Carpet,
Vinyl, Harwood &
Ceramic Tile on Sale
While Supplies Last.
Select Style & Color
Plush Carpet In Stock
Starting at $10.95 per
yard Installed with
Pad. Select Style &
Color Berber Carpet
In Stock Starting at
$12.95 per' yard
Installed with Pad.
Select Style $ Color
Vinyl Floor In Stock
Covering Starting at
$10.95 per yard
Installed. Ceramic
Tile In Stock Starting
at .69 per sq. ft.,
& Carry.
Cash
Porcelin Tile Starting
at $1.99 per sq. ft.,
Cash & Carry.
C &C Carpet
&Vinyl Outlet
417 HanbleyBivd.
Pikeville,
KY41501
606-437-1919
1-800-798-1199
480-Miscellaneous
STEEL BUILDINGSFinal Clearance All
Must Go.
Repo's,
0 a m a g e d ,
Cancellations! use
Your Tax Returns to
build your dream
building. Call 800405-7501 ext. 1558.
FOR SALE: House
Furniture, Washer &
Dryer, Miscellaneous
Yard
& Farm
Equipment. Grocery
Store
Furnishings
also will Rent House
and Grocery Store in
Pippa Passas. Call
270-358-8837.
For Sale: 8 ft' refrigerated deli case,
$1000, small pizza
oven, $400, small
juice cooler, $150,
washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606-8862367.
770 - A!!pait/$etV!b$
700· Timber
agp, fi!Q-'®~$ ·
805 • Ann~Ell'its
1<10 ' Masoory
745 • IW$C~M~~!<
s~& ~ t.ost&.lf~ L .
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.
REAL ESTATE
505-Business
530-Homes
New 1,950 sq. ft.
Home For Sale
located in Country
Oaks Subdivision in
Harold, KY. Call4789993
SMALL BUSINESS
FOR SALE. Grocery,
Deli,
Carryout &
Tanning.
Great
Investment
Opportunity, Located
KY.
at
Banner,
Serious Inquires Only.
Call During Business
1 1/2 Acre Lot For
Hours 9am-7pm 606Sale, Level House
874-9190
Seat, Hunters Branch
KY,
Rd. , Martin,
$11,000 Call 763566-4025
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Career Preparation Services.
Career Readiness and Transition Services.
Developing Career Employment Opportunities
and Coordinates Placement/Career Transition
Services for Program Participation.
Competitive benefits package including
Medical, Dentat, Sick Leave,
Paid Vacation, Thition Reimbursement,
Paid Holidays and 401-K
Competitive benefits package including
Medical, Dental, Paid Sick Leave,
Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays,
Thition Reimbursement,
and 401-K Retirement
Qualified candidates should submit resume to:
Qualified candidates should submit resume to:
Human Resources Department
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps
478 Meadows Branch
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653
Fax: (606) 886-6073
Human Resources Department
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps
478 Meadows Branch
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653
Fax: (606) 886-6073
Equal Opportunity Employer
M/.1<'/V/D
Equal Opportunity Employer
MIFIVID
er, mic rowave, free
delivery & set-up for
NEW 3 BR, 2 BATH less than $209 per
SECTIONAL HOME. month. Call 1-800Heat pump, skirting , 406-5274 (WAC).
\wl\d, zone 3 insulation, glamour bath ,
dishwasher.
Less
than $289 per month .
Call 800-405-5274.
(WAC)
570-Mobile Homes
Your ad
could be
here!
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ARH
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
The Medical Centers of the Mountains
NURSING O PPORTUNITIES
ARH Home Health Services
Hazard, KY
STAFF NURSES
Adult Education Teacher
Opening
Job Description: Teach (part-time) students age 16
and up basic education, reading, math, GED prep.,
college prep, parenting, job skills, etc., at various
locations throughout Floyd County.
Requirements: 4-year College Degree. Teacher
Certification and experience preferred.
Send cover letter, resume, and references to
The David School, PO Box 1, David, KY 41616.
Qualified applicants will be contacte.d for interviews.
Requirements include graduation from an accredited
school of nursing, unrestncted Kentucky Reg1stered Nurse
licensure, valid driver's license and at least two years of
nursing experience. As an ARH Home Health nurse, you
will practice your chosen profession as a member of a
mu~idisciplinary team assisting with the preparation of
and interpretation of the client's plan of care, systemic
client assessments/reassessments with appropnate
interpretation of the findings and performance of nursing
treatments, procedures and total client care in accordance
with established agency and nursing care standards.
MEDICAL POSITION
REGISTERED NURSE
Day Shift and On-Call Positions Available
Hospice neither helps nor hinders death
Which is a part of living.
Would you like to help someone to
Live their last days as pain free
As possible and offer support to the family?
We believe that people should live as
They wish and try to enjoy their time
Left to them.
Registered Nurse, practice your medical skills
as you have never practiced them before,
For Sale: 8 ft' deli
cooler, $950 and Gas
convection
oven,
$450. Call 606-8862367.
Join the caring team at
Hospice of Big Sandy.
Call for an intmiew at 606·789·3841
Office located at 1420 Ky. Hwy. 1428
Hager Hill, Ky. 41ZZ2
Now is your opportunity to work for one o f the leading coal compani es
Responsibilities:
'"'
·.~
Appalachian Regional Healthcare is accepting resumes for
Reg1stered Nurse positions available with the not-for-profit
healthcare system's Home Health Services in Hazard, KY
Positions are also available in McDowell, KY.
has an opening for a
Bachelor's degree, three years experience in
Counseling, Human Resources or
Social Service
.···
3 or 4 BR House For
Sale.
Has been
remode led, $49,900
or best offer. Priced
to Sale. Call 889LIKE NI:W 16X74
9821
NORRIS.
Vinyl &
Shingles, Whirlpool
550-La nd/Lots
Tub, WI D, CIA, skirting, SBS, dishwash2 Lots For Sale on
Stonecrest
Golf
Course.
Approximately 3 1/3
Acres each.
Call
886-3313
has an opemng for a
Bachelor's degree in education with five years
of related experience, three o f which
must be in supervisory capacity.
810 ;Auctf~m~
-~:~:.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Education and Experience Requirements:
:
735 • Ll!gaJ
Carl D. Perkins
Job Corps Center
Education and Experience Requirements:
...
790-Travet
PREMIER ELKHORN
COAL COMPANY
.JOB FAIR
Career Transition Specialist
~O·l.egals
765 • Professionats
Carl D. Perkins
Job Corps Center
Career Development
Services Director
$5~;t • P•r$<ml!l$
370 • Services
75-5 ~ Office. .
700 .. MJmtilt"lg .
500 - ReAL. ESTATE
MEBC!'JAND!SE
When responding to
Employment ads that
have reference numbers, please indicate
that entire reference
number on the outside of your envelope.
Reference
Prestonsburg
numbers are used to Health Care Center
help us direct your has an opening for
letter to the correct
Full Time C.N.A.'s.
individual.
We offer competitive
wages and excellent
205-Business Oppt. benefits. If interested
please send a resume
SALE
PROFES- to 147 N. Highland
3K-5K
SIONALS
Ave., Prestonsburg,
WEEKLY,
FIRST
KY, 41653 (behind
YEAR POTENTIAL.
Prestonsburg Elem.)
CALL
1-800-294or call 886-2378
8654 (EX:9477)
21 ChJob Listing
ooa " Miscelfaneo~JS
7W "Mobile Hornel
M()V$1"$
'ioo -
20, 2005 • 87
in Eastern Kentucky! Premier Elkhorn Coal Company- a subsidiary
ofTECO Coal Corporation is seeking exper ienced ap pl icants for u nderground coal mining jobs in Pi ke and Letcher Counti es. Posi tio ns are
available on all shifts f or sectiol\ super vi sors. continuous miner, roof
bolter, ram car. and scoop operators, electricians , repairmen, b eltm en,
and general inside laborers. MET/ EMT, f oreman certifications and electrical certtfications are a plus.
Competitive wages and benefits include:
• Excellent Medical Plan
• Dental , Vision, and Prescri ptio n Coverage
• Up to 3 weeks paid Vacation
• Nine paid Holidays
• Four paid Personal Days
• Company paid Basic Life insurance plus Supplememal Life Options
• Long Term Care Insurance
• Short and Long Term disability benefits
• 40 I (k ) Savings Plan with company match
• Company funded Reti rement Plan wi th Retiree Medical and L i f e
Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Safety Bonuses
Qualifi ed per sons should apply during the Job Fair at the Department
of Employment Services, 138 College St., Pikeville, KY. Monday,
March 21 (8:30a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)
Premier Elkhorn C oal Company sub cribes to a drug free w ork env i ronment and is an !::qual Opportunity Employ er.
These are full time day shift positions {8:00am. - 4:30p.m.)
with minimal weekends; an average of 5 patients per day;
automated documentation; mileage retmbursement at the
rate of 40.5 cents per m1le; aM stand-by or call is m>nimal
including hourly pay even if visit is not required.
HOME HEALTH NURSE
CASE MANAGER
(OASIS/QUALITY COORDINATOR)
This nurse management position is accountable for
evaluat1ng admission, Resumption of Care and 60
day recertification OASIS data and analysis to ensure
consistent documentation and evidence-based practice;
to assure compliance with federal and state regulatory
accrediting agencies; to ensure optimal quality, clinical and
cost outcomes, and to assist in coordinating serv1ces and
resources needed by the patient by assuming a leadership
role wrth the mu~idisciplinary team.
ARH offers a very attractive salary based on education
and experience and benefrts include very low cost s1ngle
or family plan health insurance coverage; 3 weeks pa1d
vacation and 9 paid holidays annually; sick leave allotment;
l~e Insurance at group rates; Tax Sheltered Annuity
programs; non-contributory retirement plan, e!c.
Please submrt resume to or contact: Lana Smith, ARH
Director of Home Health, ARH Division of Home
Services, 100 Airport Gardens Road, Hazard, KY 41701;
e-mail: tsmith@arh.org Telephone: 606-439-6955;
or contact: Marilyn Hamblin, System Professional
Recruiter at 1-800-888-7045, Ext. 532; e-mail:
mhambtin@arh.org EOE
www.arh.org
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ARH
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
The Medical Centers of the Mountains
STAFF REGISTERED
NURSES
Hazard ARH Home Health Agency
Hazard, KY
Appalachian Reg1onal Healthcare Is accepting resumes
for Registered Nurse positions available with the notfor-profit healthcare system's Home Health Services in
Hazard, Kentucky.
Requirements include graduation from an accredited
school of nursing, unrestricted Kentucky Registered
Nurse licensure, valid driver's license and at least two
years of nursing experience. As an ARH Home Health
nurse, you will practice your chosen profession as a
member of a multidisciplinary t eam assisting with the
preparation of and interpretation of t he client's plan
of care, systemic client assessments/reassessments
with appropriate interpretation of the findings and
performance of nursing treatments, proced ures and
total client care in accordance with est ablished agency
and nursing care standards.
These are full time day shift positions (8:00am.- 4:30
p.m.) with minimal weekends; an average of 5 patients per
day; automated documentation; mileage reimbursement
at the rate of 40.5 cents per mile; and stand-by or call is
minimal including hourly pay even If visit Is not required.
ARH offers a very attractive salary based on education
and experience and benefits include:
• Ver y tow cost single or family plan health
insurance coverage
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 9 paid holidays annually
• Sick leave allotment
• Life insurance at group rates
• TaK Sheltered Annuity programs
• Non-contributory retirement plan
Please submit resume to or contact: lana Smith ARH
Director of Home Health, ARH Divi sion of Home
Ser vices, 100 Airport Gardens Road, Hazard, KY
41701; e-mail: tsmlthOarh.org Telephone: 606439-6955; or contact : Marilyn Hamblin, System
Professional Recruiter at 1-800-888-7045, Ext. 532;
e-mail: mhamblln@arh.org EOE
www.arh.org
I)
�88 •
SUNDAY, MARCH
Final
clearance
20041ot 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
SMALL TRAILER
FOR SALE. Needs
minor work, partially
furnished, $800 Call
358-3416
20, 2005
F0 R L E A S EUtility
Storage.
2,500
sq.
ft. ,
Concrete Floors, 15
ft. Ceiling Height, 10
Overhead
Doors;
Suitable for General
Storage/Warehouse,
Light
Automotive
Repair Containing
Wash Bay, Spray
Painting
Bay.
Eqqipped with City
Water and Gas Heat;
Located at 834 S.
Lake
Dr,
Prestonsburg, KY.
Call 606-886-8883
from 8am-5pm, M
thru F, 606-889-9396
Evenings
and
Weekends. Ask for
Bud.
FOR SALE: 12x70,
2 BR , Appliances
included.
Asking
MEDICAL
$5,000 Call377-6040 OFFICE
FOR
Medical
LEASE:
Home at Invoice, Office in McDowell
New Double Wide directly adjacent to
Only
$31,599, Post Office, Dollar
Includes
Deli'very, Store, bank, pharmaSet-Up, A/C and cy and shopping
Skirting. Call 888- complex. 1250 sq. ft.
246-1 075 Fleetwood with 3 exam rooms, 2
homes Homes of offices, waiting room ,
Louisa.
triage room, 2 bathrooms and accesAll Drywall, Dutch sories. Reasonable
with 2x6 walls,and Lease rates. Ready
5/12 roof pitch, ulti- for immediate occumate kitchen pack- pancy. For further
age, glass block win- information or to view
dow, and many more property please call
extras, Set up for 606-377-2006
or
viewing. For details 606-377-1088
call 606-353-6444 or Monday thru Fiday.
toll free 577-3536444 the home show
FOR RENT: 900
Sq.
Ft.
Office/Commercial
Space located next to
Reflections beauty
610-Apartments salon, 3 quarter miles
south of Martin on Rt.
DUPLEX
FOR 1.22 across from the
RENT: 2 BR Central Garth Tech. School.
Heat & Air, Total Call 285-9112
Excellent
Electric,
Condition. On US 23
630-Houses
North, 1 Mile From
Prestonsburg,
No HOUSE FOR RENT:
Pets. Call 889-9747 239 Francis Court,
Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
or 886-9007
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft.,
Suitable for office,
RENOVATED
small business or
APARTMENT'S, Like
residence. Not suitNew, Furnished in able location for chilDowntown
Martin. dren or pets. $500
Call between 9am- per month + utilities.
5pm dailey.
285- 886-6362
3025
3 BR HOUSE FOR
2 BR 1 112 BATH RENT. Utility Room,
TOWNHOUSE also 1 LR, DR, Built in
Cleaner,
bed room furnished Vacume
Very
or unfurnished locat- Heat Pump.
ed in Prestonsburg Nice Home Located
,NO PETS call 606- at Kite on State Rt. 7
Call 447-2200 or
886 8991
438-6104
March Madness!
First Month's Rent HOUSE FOR RENT
Free with Security in Prestonsburg, canDeposit Paid in Full! tal heat & air, yard, no
references
Through · 3/31/05. pets,
Park
Place required $550 mo.
Apartments
in Call 886-0226.
Prestonsburg,
Elderly, Handicapped FOR RENT 3 BR
Newly
& DisabledAvailable house .
for
Immediate remodeled , referrequired.
Occupancy. Rent 1 ences
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345 886-8366.
Call 886-0039
RENTALS
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SERVICES
71 0-Educational
Develop the skills
needed for the
rapidly expanding
field of
HEALTH
C A R E
Call The
National
College of
Business &
Technology 1800-791-4295
720-Health&Beauty
BURG,
KENTUCKY
Sealed bids will be
opened at 10:00 a.m.
EST, Friday, April 8,
2005,
at
the
Kentucky Community
and
Technical
College
System,
Office of Facilities
300
Management,
North
Main
St.,
Versailles, KY, for the
purpose of the sale of
a '91 Ford Explorer at
Big
Sandy
Community
&
Technical College.
Bid forms and other
information may be
obtained by calling
Ron
Carter
at
606/886-3863 ext.
6225,
Monday
through Friday, 8:30
a.m. to 4:00p.m. The
bid(s) will be awarded to the party offering the best and highest bid. All items sold
"as-is."
The
Kentucky
Community
and
College
Technical
System reserves the
right to reject any and
all bids.
The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting proposals for Financial Audit Services for the contract period of July 1,
2005, through June 30, 2007. Proposals are subject to the terms and
conditions of the Request For Proposal. Copies of this Request For
Proposal may be obtained in the Finance Department at the address
below, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p. m.,
prior to the time and date specified for bid opening, or on the internet
at http://www.floyd.k 12.ky. us/Public_Notice.html
Proposals must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman,
Director of Finance/TreasureriCIO, Floyd County Board of
Education, 106 North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653.
All envelopes must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope,
"FINANCIAL AUDIT PROPOSAL."
Proposals will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23,
2005, Eastern Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time, Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All proposals
must be received by the time designated in the invitation, and none
will be considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume
the responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to
deliver bids on time. Proposals will be opened and read at the time
and location stated above. Advertisements for this Request For
Proposal are/have been in March 13th, 16th, and 18th editions of the
and
on
the
internet
at
Floyd
County
Times,
http://www.floyd.k 12.ky. us/Public_N otice.html
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
Wollf Tanning
Beds
Affordable,
Convient, Tan at
Home, Payments
from $29. Free
Color Catalog, Call
Today 1-800-7815173
IN THE
FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
CIRCULATION DEPT.
ASSEMBLING NEWSPAPERS
..
770-Repair/Services
..Part"'ti~e: · :· : .
CARPENTRY
WORK FOR ALL
YOUR
BUILDING
NEEDS, both small
or large.
New
homes,
concrete
work, vinyl siding,
decks and remodeling. We also steam
clean homes, concrete and buildings.
606-886-1783 (Mike).
· Day anH night sniffs ,
Proposals are scheduled to be awarded at the Regular board meeting,
held at 6:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, March 28, 2005, at Adams
Middle School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
APPLY AT 263 S. CENTRAL AVE.
No Phone Calls, Please!
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling.
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
The Floyd County Board of Education is currently accepting
sealed bids for Bank Depository for the contract period of July 1,
2005, or the board approval date (Whichever is later) through June 30,
2007. Sealed bids are subject to the terms and conditions of the invitation to bid. Copies of this invitation to bid may be obtained in the
Finance Department at the address below, Monday through Friday,
between 8:00a.m. and 4:00p.m., prior to the time and date specified
for bid opening, or on the internet at http://www.floyd.k12.
ky.us/Public_Notice.html
repare your home,
family & community
for survival.
780-Timber
D & D Tree Service
Tree Trimming
Tree Removal
Free Estimates!
Lowest Prices
Guaranteed!
Call 606-785-0316 or
785-9810
•
NOTICES
FREE
PALLETS:
can be picked up
behind The Floyd
County Times.
900-Legals
Keep flammable
vegetation and leaves
at least 30 feet away
from your house.
•
Keep dry grass and
brush cut short.
•
Clean roof and gutters of flammable
materials and leaves.
•
Have an evacuation
plan ready.
•
Remember backfiring
. is illegal.
812-Free
In a wildland fire
emergency, call 9-1-1 ,
your local Fire
Department, or your
local Division of
Forestry district office.
INVITATION
TO BID
SALE OF '91
·FORD EXPLORER
BIG SANDY
COMMUNITY
& TECHNICAL
COLLEGE
KENTUCKY
COMMUNITY
AND TECHNICAL
COLLEGE SYSTEM
PRESTONS-
Bids must be mailed or delivered to Matthew C. Wireman, Director
of Finance/Treasurer/CIO, Floyd County Board of Education, 106
North Front Street, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653. All envelopes
must clearly be marked on the outside of the envelope, "BID: BANK
DEPOSITORY BID."
Bids will be accepted until 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 23 , 2005,
Eastern Standard Time, and will be opened at 1:05 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, Wednesday, March 23, 2005. All bids must· be
received by the time designated in the invitation, and none will be
considered thereafter. The Board of Education cannot assume the
responsibility for any delay as a result of failure of the mails to deliver bids oh time. Bids will be opened and read at the time and location
stated above. Advertisements for this invitation to bid are/have been
in March 13th, 16th, and 18th editions of the Floyd County Times,
and on the internet at http://www.floyd.k12.ky.us/Public_Notice.html
Bids are scheduled to be awarded at the board meeting, held at 6:30
p.m. Eastern Standard Time, March 28, 2005, at Adams Middle
School, 2520 S. Lake Drive, Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
Need Health Coverage?
Affordable Health Coverage:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Individuals without Group Coverage
Dependent /Students
Cobra Alternative
Self-Employed
Senior Health Plans
Small Business Owners
For a FREE quote call:
Connie Boone
859-226-5361
Toll Free 1-800-446-4106
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INDIVIDUAL
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640-Land/Lots
1
FURNISHED
BED ROOM APT.
Central heat & air.
Rent starting at $375.
month ,
+
$300.
deposit water included. Located near
606-889HRMC.
9717.
TRAILER LOT FOR
RENT on old U.S.
23 between Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
FOR RENT : newly
constructed Mobile
620-Storage/Office Home Lots in new
Allen,reference
FOR RENT: 2 Office required call 606New 874-2212
Suites,
Const~uction.
900
sq. ft. each. Ample 650-Mobile Homes
Parking, Can be
2 BR TRAILER, 1
Combined for Total of
1,800
sq.
ft. Bath Located at Left
Convenient Location, Fork of Bull Creek.
New Office Behind For More Info Call
Sav-A-Lot
in 874-2836
Prestonsburg. Call
TRAILER
FOR
886-1515 for info.
RENT: On Rt. 7 at
Salt Lick, No Pets,
For Lease Finished
$250 per Month, Call
Office Space for 358-4524
lease in prime location near BSCTC, TRAILER
FOR
(PCC) and the new RENT on the Left
Food City -- 21 00 -- Fork of Abbott. Call
sq. ft. Ground floor 886-9479 or 886location with up to 9076
five· private offices.
conference
room, SMALL FURNISHED
TRAILER For Rent
kitchen, bath, parking
Just Off Mtn. Pwy. on
lot call Today 606- Old 114 Call 886·
424-2690 or 226- 8724
2266
Yo-ur a d ccn.dd.
be 'h.erel
IS O U R
BUSINESS
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J&M
Seamless
Gunorlno & Sldlno
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
Now using Metal
Roofing
Free estimates, call anvtime
606-452-2490.
or 606-424-9858
ROGER'S
TREE
TRIMMING
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LADYCATS
HEAD TO
STATE
HRMC says annexation would cost city
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
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PRESTONSBURG
Highlands
Regional Medical Center is still challenging the city's proposal to annex the hospital and Consolidated Health Systems properties on Route 321 .
Now, they say annexation would put the
city "at risk."
The hospital argues that annexation
would require additional fire protection
services to maintain the city's Class 4 fire
rating. according to standards laid out by
the International Organization for
Standards. an organization that sets guidelines for fire protection services provided
by cities.
The hospital argues that it is more than
five miles outside of the guidelines set by
the ISO, which means the city would have
to construct and maintain another fire
department and purchase two new fire
trucks in order to protect its Class 4 rating,
assuming the city does, in fact, annex the
hospital properties.
"If the hospital were annexed, all of
Prestonsburg would be at risk,'' the hospital said in a recent press release. "A new
fire station would need to be constructed
and two new additional trucks would have
to be purchased to protect the Class 4 rating."
(See HOSPITAL, page three)
Sex offenders
slip off of
system's radar
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
A traffic stop turned into
a drug bust Sunday when
a Banner woman was
arrested after giving conent to a state trooper to
search her wh1te 1999
Oldsmobile Alero in the
Green Meadows area of
Pike County.
Ellene Lewis, 41, gave
Trooper Derek Sturgill permission to search her car
but 1t was the contents of
her purse that saw her get
arrested. Sturgill searched
the bag and found Valium,
Lorcet and Oxycontin
tablets. He also noted that
Lewis' bag contained
6,440 in cash.
Lewis was lodged at the
Pike County Detention
Center and charged with
two counts of trafficking
and one charge of possession of a controlled substance The 1 vesngat1on
by Trooper Sturgill is on
going .
3 DA V fORECAST
The hospital argues that the new statio
would need to be manned 24 hours a day',
seven days a week, which would increase
operating overhead for the city.
Currently, the hospital obtains fire protection services from the North Floyd Fire
District, which in turn subcontracts services to the city.
Prestonsburg is currently compliant
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
photo by Steve Lemaster
Betsy Layne assistant coach Ronnie Akers made good on a friendly wager, losing some of his hair following the regional championship win. Akers promised the Ladycats if they won the regional championship, he would allow them to shave his head. During a pep rally Tuesday, players took turns with the
clippers. Fans turned out to support the Betsy Layne High School girls' basketball team Tuesday
evening during the rally. Betsy Layne won its second 15th Region championship in three years last
week, beating defending champ Pike County Central in the title game. Betsy Layne will play 5th Region
Champion Washington County Thursday in the opening round of the Houchens lndustries!KHSAA Girls
Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament. The City of Bowling Green and Western Kentucky University
host the girls' state basketball tournament.
·state appeals $20,000 wreck award
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
-The
PRESTONSBURG
Transportation
Cabinet's
Department of Highways is appealing a Kentucky Board of Claims
order awarding more than $20,000 to
the estate of Joyce Weddington.
Frankfort attorney Clayton B.
Patrick,
representing
the
Transportation Cabinet, filed the
notice of appeal last week and
requested the Floyd Circuit Court
review a Feb. 2 order handed down
by the Board of Claims.
That order awarded the estate of
Joyce Weddington, and its administrator Joe Weddington, $20,400.
(See APPEAL, page three)
PRESTONSBURG
Three
registered
sex
offenders who were last
known to be living in
Floyd County have slipped
out fro{ll under the eye of a
system put in place to monitor them.
According
to
the
Kentucky Sex Offender
Registry, Floyd County
currently has 32 registered
sex offenders living in the
area. Ten offenders are in
Preo;tonsburg, with the rest
scattered throughout the
area.
However, the list notes
that three offenders have
no known address, and that
could spell trouble for
them in the future.
"If a sex offender fails
to keep the board of probation and parole apprised of
their whereabouts, then
they are subject to a charge
of failing to register, which
carries a 1-to-5-year sentence," said Assistant
Commonwealth's Attorney
Wayne Taylor.
Taylor noted that his
office takes the offense
seriously and once tracked
a man all the way to
Colorado after he had
failed to register.
Kentucky State Police
maintains a website that
disperses information on
sex offenders who are registered in the state which is
accessible from any computer with internet access.
Searches can be conducted by name, city or
county. A list will appear
that will inform users
about sex offenders registered in their area and list
each offender's name, registration date, address and
zip code. Web users can
click on the name of an
offender and w1ll be able to
find out what they w~:re
charged v.ith a'> \\ell :-.
view a photo of the offender.
The web site. http://ksp
sor.ky.us, warns that information from the site is not
to be used to hara~s a sex
offender, which is a criminal offense, but does note
that community members
are now entitled to this
information.
This year KSP instituted
another program for concerned parents which will
make sure that interested
parties
are
contacted
before sex offenders move
into their neighborhood.
The
Kentucky
Sex
Offender Alert Hotline is a
service which will alert
callers when a registered
sex offender moves into
(See REGISTRY, page seven)
Now that the hunt is over 000
High: 65 • Low: 43
For up-to-the-minute
forecasts, see
floydcountytimes.com
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Obituaries .................... A9
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Lifestyles . .. ................. 86
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What did those clues m~an?
If you read through all nine of
the clues published before the 2005
Great Easter Egg Hunt was over
and you still don't get it. you're not
alone.
The clues were designed to be a
little tricky. It just wouldn't have
been much a hunt if the egg's location had been spelled out from the
very beginning.
So what did all of those clues
mean? Here's the explanation:
• I. ''Where in the world could
I be? Look above The 'Times' and
see." - The key to this chic was
the quotation marks around the
word "Times." but some of you
started the hunt off on the wrong
foot. We caught more than a few
people gazing up at the sign on the
front of our building. But to decipher this one. all you need to do is
look at the top of the front page and
look at our name. What is above the
"Times'"! Floyd County.
• 2. "l hope that you will find
me soon. It's cold beneath the sun
and moon." Again, this clue led
several people astray. We heard
reports of a few dozen people heading to the East Kentucky Science
Center the weekend after this clue
was published. Perhaps they
thought the "sun and moon" reference was pointmg them to the planetarium, but all this clue was really
saying was that the egg was outside,
not inside.
• 3. 'Tve learned to be more
discrete. You won't find me in our
county scat." After the first two
clues, you would be excused for
thinking we were trying to trick you
again. But you would be wrong.
The egg was not in Prestonsburg,
which, of course. is the county seat
of Floyd County.
• 4. "You don't want to look
north, east or west. Looking south
would be the best." This clue was
spelled more than any other. The
egg was in southern Floyd County.
• 5. "Are you looking for something to do or see? There are parks
on either side of me." This one
seems like another fairly straightforward clue, but it isn't once you
realize that there are a lot of parks
(See CLUES, page three)
photo by Ralph B. Dav1s
The 2005 Great Easter Egg Hunt Is over. On Monday, 16year-old Justin Conley, second from left, arrived at The
Floyd County Times office with egg in tow, ready to claim
his $500 prize. Conley, a Prestonsburg High School student
and son of Linda Conley, second from right, found the egg
in its hiding place along Route 680 near Minnie, across from
the state highway maintenance garage. He received his
prize from Times Publisher David Bowyer and Advertising
Manager Kim Frasure.
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MARCH
23, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds & End
• MICHIGANTOWN, Tnd.
- A tmtle that was th·e only survivor of a pet shop fire may have
emerged with a hellish memento.
The palm-sized red-eared
slider turtle, named Lucky, was
the only animal to survive a fire
last October at Dora's A-Dora!::>le Pet Shop in nearby Frankfort,
about 40 miles northwest of
Indianapolis.
Owner Bryan Dora now says
he sees an image of Satan's face
on the critter's shell. He can spot
lips, eyes. a goatee, shoulders
and a pair of pointy horns on
Lucky's back.
'The marking on the shell
was like the devil wanted us to
knov.• he was down there," Bryan
Dora said. "To me, it's too coincidental that the only thing to
come out unscathed would have
this 1mage on it."
The image was not visible
before the fire and Dora specu~
lates the intense heat might have
caused the shell's color to
change. The turtle is healthy and
there was no change in its behavior. he said.
The cause of fire that
destroyed nine businesses or
offices in the 1912 building in
downtown Frankfort has not
been determined.
"Turtles can hold their breath
quite awhile," Dora said. "He
may have taken one breath just
before and held it through the
fire. Except that the fire went on
and on for hours."
• ANKARA. Turkey Turkey's Donald Trump is a little
kinder.
Instead of the harsh "you're
fired!" uttered by Trump in the
'The Apprentice:· Tuncay
Ozilhan, who fronts the Turkish
verston of the U.S. reality show,
ousted the first candidate vying
for a high paying job in hts conglomerate with the slightly gentler: "I don't want to work with
you."
First to go in the series that
kicked off Sunday was a
Macedonian-born cake shop
owner whose team failed to
impress with this week's task of
selling roasted chestnuts in the
streets of Istanbul.
Ozilhan is the 57-year-old
chairman of the Anadolu Group,
which was founded by his father
and another partner in the 1950s.
The group has interests in brewing, soft-drinks. the automative
sector, finance and office supplies.
In the show, which will run
for 13 weeks, eight women and
eight men compete for the lucrative monthly salary of about
$11 ,000 within the Anadolu
Group. Ozilhan fires one or more
candidates each week according
to how well they perform with
the tasks he assigns.
Ozilhan generally shies away
from media attention. But he
agreed to front the show because
of his desire to help aspiring
entrepreneurs.
"I accepted because r believe
that I can be a guide for the
young," Ozilhan said in a recent
interview. "I see it as a social
duty."
• Hil\l"SDALE, Mass. Firefighters used their wits and some snow - to battle a fire
in a remote cabin.
About a dozen Hinsdale firefighters trekked three-quarters of
a mile to the burning, one-story
seasonal camp on Bullard's
Crossing Road on Saturday
evening.
Since the road was not
plowed, fire trucks and other
vehicles could not reach the
scene, and the firefighters had to
carry their equipment - including five-gallon water cans on
their backs - to reach the cottage.
They shoveled snow through
a bedroom window and pumped
water from the cans that usually
arc used for brush fires to knock
down the cabin's flames.
Firefighters were at the scene for
more than three hours.
Fire Chief Larry Turner said it
was the first time his people ever
had to use snow to put out a
blaze.
The fire, which Turner labeled
suspicious, burned out a room in
the cabin.
• LA PORTE CITY, Iowa Stu Hemesath has earned $29.95
- as a prom date.
The high school senior from
La Porte City auctioned himself
off as a date on the Internet auction site eBay on Thursday. He
will accompany Rachel Kay, 17,
to her Cedar Falls prom.
The two say they have never
met.
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March
23, the 82nd day of 2005. There
are 283 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 23, 1775,
Patrick Henry made his famous
call for American independence
from Britain. telling the Virgima
Provincial Convention, "Give
me liberty, or gi\e me death!"
On this date:
• In 1806, explorers Lewis
and Clark, having reached the
Pacific coast, began their journey back east.
• In 1919, Benito Mussolini
founded his Fascist political
movement in Milan, Italy.
• In 193 3, the German
Reichstag adopted the Enabling
Act, which effectively granted
Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
• In 1942, during World War
II, the U.S. government began
evacuating Japanese-Americans
from their West Coast homes to
detention centers.
• In J 956, Pakistan became
an independent republic within
the British Commonwealth.
• In 1965, America's first
two-person space flight began
as Gemini 3 blasted off from
Cape Kennedy with astronauts
Virgil I. Grissom and John W.
Young aboard.
• In 1983, President Reagan
first proposed developing technology to intercept enemy missiles - a proposal that came to
.be known as the Strategic
Defense Initiative, as well as
··star Wars.''
• In 1983, Dr. Barney Clark,
recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died at the University
of Utah Medical Center after
112 days with the device.
• In 2001, Russia's orbiting
Mir space station ended its 15year odyssey with a fiery plunge
into the South Pacific.
• In 2003, a U.S. Army
maintenance
convoy
was
ambushed in Iraq; 11 soldiers
were killed, seven were captured, including Pfc. Jessica
Lynch , who was rescued on
April 1.
Ten years ago: Secretary
of State Warren Christopher met
with Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei Kozyrev in Geneva;
afterward, Kozyrev said the
U.S.-Russia "honeymoon has
come to an end." referring to
disagreements over Chechnya
and nuclear sales to Iran.
Five years ago: Pope John
Paul II pmd his respects at Yad
Vashem, fsrael's Holocaust
memorial. President Clinton
visited the western Indian village ofNayla. In a first, Speaker
Dennis Hastert named a
Catholic priest, the Rev. Daniel
Coughlin, as the new House
chaplain.
One year ago: Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
and Secretary of State Colin
Powell offered a strong defense
of the administration's pre-Sept.
11 actions as they testified
before a federal commission
reviewing the 2001 attacks. A
report by Medicare trustees said
that without changes, the federal health care program would go
broke by 2019, seven years earlier than expected.
Today's
Birthdays:
Comedian Marty Allen is 83.
Movie director Mark Rydell is
71.
Singer-producer
Ric
Ocasek is 56. Singer Chaka
Khan is 52. Actress Amanda
Plummer is 48. Actress Hope
Davis is 41. Comedian John
Pinnett is 41. Actor Richard
Grieco is 40. Country musician
Kevin Griffin (Yankee Grey) is
40. Rock singer-mus1c1an
Damon AI barn (Blur) is 37.
Actress-singer Melissa Errico
is 35. Rock musician John
Humphrey (The Nixons) is 35.
Actress Keri Russell is 29.
Actress Nicholle Tom is 27.
Country singer Paul Martin
(Marshall Dyllon) is 27.
Thought
for
Hemesath said the idea just
came to him as he was "thinking
about proms and stuff.''
"I came to school with a
thought in my head, and I told
my friends," he said. 'They
thought it was the coolest thing
in the world, so I decided to go
for it."
Hemesath posted pictures of
himself and a description to
secure some bids -which came
from people as far away as
Alaska.
"That's pretty far," he said.
"She was really interested. She
showed me her picture, but it was
just too far away for it to be a
possibility."
Hemesath wasn't shy about
his description, saying he's 5 feet
10 inches tall, 150 pounds, popular and a wrestler. He added: "I
have a lot of girls telling me I'm
pretty hot."
Kay said she e-mailed
Hemesath her phone number so
that they could get to know each
other before the big day. She said
she made her bid in an attempt to
make an ex-boyfriend jealous.
"I didn't think I'd actually
win, 1 was just playing around,"
she said. "He looks like a pretty
nice guy. I thought his write-up
was pretty funny. He says he's a
wrestler, so that's good."
The way it's set up, the Daily
News includes a seven-game
ticket in its Sunday edition.
Every day, it prints a list of 10
numbers to be scratched off the
corresponding day's game, out of
15 possible spaces. If three of the
revealed spaces show the same
dollar amount, the contestant
wins that money.
In Saturday's game, the number 13 was printed instead of the
correct number, I 2, in the list of
scratch-off numbers.
The Daily News apologized
to readers for publishing the
wrong number and said it was
putting up more than $1 million
in cash as a prize pool for those
affected by the error. A special
drawing will have five $100,000
winners, five $10,000 winners
and 12.790 other cash winners,
the newspaper said in a statement
Monday.
D.L. Blair, the judging agency
for the scratch-off game, transmitted the wrong number to the
Daily News, newspaper spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said. The
paper has no way of checking
whether the numbers are correct,
she said.
In a statement, D.L. Blair, of
Garden City, N.Y., said it "profoundly apologizes for and
regrets any inconvenience."
• NEW YORK - Lucky 13
turned out to be not so lucky in
New York.
Hundreds of people showed
up at the Dally News' midtown
Manhattan offices on Monday,
angry over an apparent misprint
in one of the winning numbers in
the newspaper's scratch-match
game.
Vanessa Dover, a 62-year-old
painter's wife, thought she had
won $100,000.
"We were all celebrating
Saturday night, jumping around:
the grandkids were screaming,"
Dover said. "We got up the next
morning and the dream was
dead."
• RICHLAND, Wash.
Army Pfc. Douglas Lambe got
on a plane in northern Iraq on the
day his son was due to be born.
As it turned out he arrived with
eight hours to spare.
In two days of flights through
40 years later
Nothing has changed
Bobby Hackworth
of Prestonsburg
Elementary
Still acts the same.
Today:
"Having only friends would be
dull anyway - like eating eggs
without salt."
Hedda
Hopper, American gossip
columnist (1890-1966).
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Kuwait, Gennany and three l' .S.
cities, '"I was calling constantly
on the phone," Lambe said. · I
was going nuts."
Not to worry He arrived at
Tri-Cities Airport in n~.:ar'Jy
Pasco about 7 p.n'1. last MorKI.ty.
His wife, Nikki, already had
arranged with her doctor to
induce labor the next mommg
but wound up going into contractions before that could hc~ppen.
"He waited around for me, I
guess," Douglas Lambe said
Fighting jet lag, the new
father brought his guitar to the
hospital and played songs by The
Who during labor. He and his
wife named their son Atuan
Devin, meaning "fiery poet;' to
reflect his Celtic heritage.
"It was incredible," Lambe
said. "He's gorgeous.''
The couple met at Rtchland
High School and dated for four
years before marrying in January
2003. Last year, Lambe JOined
the Army and spent a .few months
in Germany before being sent to
Iraq with the 502nd Engineering
Company to build bridges and
buildings.
• COUNCIL BLUFFS, lo""a
- The bunny trail led to trouble
for a mall Easter Bunny v.ho got
upset at a co-worker, police said.
Michael J. Desantiago Sr.. 36,
of Council Bluffs, was arrested
Saturday at the Mall of the Bluffs
where he had a job dressed as the
Easter Bunny. He told officers he
became upset when someone
(See ODDS, page th1rteen)
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�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
Appeal
Clues
• Continued from p1
As grounds for the appeal, the
Cabinet argues that" the Board
of Claims acted "without or in
e,.... , of powers," and that
the final order and award is
not "in conformity" with provisions of the law.
"The cabmet submits that
the Board's Final Order doe::.
not support the award and further is not in conformity w1th
the evidence presented at the
formal hearing on the matter."
Hospital
The final order was "outside the scope of current existing law." the document says.
Patrick says that the "errors
committed by the board merit
review and reversal by Floyd
Circuit Court.''
Frank Miller, legal representative
for
the
Transportation Cabinet noted
that the suit came about as the
result of a drunk driving incident from 1992, in which a
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• Continued from p1
with current ISO guidelines
because both the Prestonsburg
Fire Department and the Auxier
Fire Department respond to hospital in the event of a fire.
"The ISO information is only
one example of the misinforma1; tion or lack of information being
shared with the city council by
the mayor," the press release
said. "The hospital is appealing
to the residents of Prestonsburg
to urge council members to vote
'no· on the annexation issue.
Please don't allow the hospital to
be annexed as a "quick fix" for
the mayor's poor JUdgment and
decisions that have resulted in
financial difficulties for the city.
The quick fix may bring temporary relief for the mayor, but it is
fraught with long-term liabilities."
.._
The hospital argues that the
city does not provide "substantial services" to the hospital.
The hospital receives and
pays "a premium price" for
sewage
services
from
Prestonsburg. The hospital
installed sewage lines from the
hospital to the National Guard
Armory several years ago.
Highlands later gave the Ime
to the city. the press release says.
HRMC also employes a professional security company and
argues that it only uses the Floyd
County Sheriff's Department
and the Kentucky State Police as
"back up."
Auxier Water Company and
Auxier Road Gas Company
would continue to service the
hospital even after it is annexed,
*1
23, 2005 • A3
the hospital argues.
Mayor Jerry Fannin said yesterday that the city will continue
with plans to annex the hospital.
The hospital, he said, is not
outside of the five-mile radius
for Class 4 fire rating.
Fannin also said that the city
purchased an expensive .ladder
fire truck in order to better serve
the multilevel hospital during a
fire emergency.
"They're talking like they
don't get any services from the
city, even though Auxier Water
is supervised by us , and their
sewer is supervised by us, and
when they need police protection, it is provided by us,''
Fannin said. "The Prestonsburg
Police Department, and the hospital probably doesn 't remember
this, helped employees get to
work when the hospital was on
strike ... They get all these services and never paid anything
for the services."
Fannin said the hospital doesn't pay taxes to the North Floyd
Fire D1strict, which means the
city has been left high and dry in
the past by rendering these services to the hospital.
"Can we survive without
them? Yeah. Can the community
grow without them? Yeah.
Annexing would be a plus tor
them and a plus for us. We can
all expand and grow together
and everyone would benefit,"
Fannin said.
If the annexation proposal
goes through, the hospital argues
that the city will alienate one the
area's leading employers.
driver drove down the nwdian
on U.S. 23 and struck a guard
rail He has filed the appeal
because the Board of Claims
assigned the department 15
percent of the blame for the
mcident. saying that a warning
sign was downed which would
have told the dnver that the
guardrail would be coming up.
"This is not the sort of risk
that can reasonably be attributed to the board of transportation," \1iller wrote.
Miller also pointed out that
the board of claims erroneously assigned 85 percent of the
blame on the dnver, when
consuming alcohol before
operating
an
automobile
should have \'.arranted assigning all of the blame. It is not
known whether the sign warning of the guardrail was down
before or after the accident
but Miller pointed out that the
victim had a blood alcohol
level of 0.127.
Injured worker accuses
employer of imprisonment
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
A
Floyd County construction
worker who is suing his former
employers for an on-the-job
injury says the companies falsely imprisoned him.
Leeroy Wilson, represented
by Pikeville attorney Jonah
Stevens, filed suit this week
against Floyd County businesses
Star Construction of Tennessee
Inc. and Star Construction Inc.,
alleging that they failed to warn
him and failed to prevent a pole
from slipping and crushing his
right hand during an accident
that occurred on Route 1101 at
Printer on Nov. 19.
Stevens argues that his client
has suffered permanent bodily
injuries with "scars and disfigurement to his body and humiliation."
They are seeking compensatory damages for past and
future medical expenses and
pain .and suffering.
Stevens also argues that the
defendants "intentionally confined" Wilson in a moving vehicle after they learned of his
injury.
They refused to stop the vehicle at the nearest medical facility, the suit says, and instructed
their agents to drive past the
nearest routes to Highlands
Regional Medical Center and
Our Lady of the Way Hospital
and into Johnson county, where
Wilson was denied full medical
treatment.
Wilson was denied a tetanus
vaccination, the suit says.
Stevens claims that the company's actions were "motivated"
by economic concerns.
Their actions placed Wilson
"into a position of begging for
medical care, humiliation and
extreme emotional distress
which demonstrates oppressive
and malicious conduct," the suit
says.
Stevens argues that actions of
Star Construction Inc. are "utterly inexcusable and intolerable in
a civilized society.''
He is asking for a trial by jury
in the case.
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in Floyd County. On the other number of digits to leave some
hand, our winner did say it was doubt about the exact road,
this clue which eventually led since both Routes 680 and 1427
him to find the egg. The parks in would both qualify. It didn't
question for this clue were the work, and we received reports
Minnie Park and the Elk Hom of dozens of people scouring the
Coal Education and Recreation sides of Route 680.
Park.
• 9. "Answer this and you'll
• 6. "You'll cross the grass be close. Who does Mickey like
to get to me. Stop and look the most!" This clue was the
when you reach the trees .'' This - first to finally narrow the hiding
one was pretty straightforward. place down to a specific locaGetting to the egg required tion. "Mickey," of course, was a
crossing a small field, then look- reference to Mickey Mouse.
ing where the forest began. Of Na turally, the answer was
course, that could describe Minnie.
many places. but we never said
Had the contest gone longer,
there were three more clues
this was going to be easy.
• 7. "Ask your magistrate which would have made the
where I might be. I'm on the hunt much simpler. They are:
line between 2 and 3."
• 10. "There's another road
Apparently, quite a few people that's close to me, with three
took this clue a little too literal- lucky numbers, appropriately.''
ly. This clue was merely a refer- This was a reference to Route
ence to the fact that the egg was 680's intersection with Route
located near the border of mag- 777.
isterial districts 2 and 3.
• 11 . "Peanuts and popcorn
However, we got reports from are nowhere to be found, but at
the magistrates' offices that they least there's plenty of salt
were flooded with calls from around." This pointed to the salt
people wanting to know where dome at the state highway mainthe egg was.
tenance garage at M innie.
• 8. "I'm along a road
• 12. "lf you want to win
you've often seen. Its digits add 500 bucks, find me across from
up to fourteen." We tried to the state road trucks." Another
make this one a little more diffi- reference to the state highway
cult. It originally was to have maintenance garage, this clue
read "its three digits," but then would have put hunters on the
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�A4 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Worth Repeating ...
"Ifyou want to make enemies, try to change some~
thing."
-Woodrow Wilson
'Ame11dment '1
Congress sfia(( make no (aw respectin3 an esta6fisfiment cf refi3ion, or
tFte free exet'cise tf1erecf; a6ridaln8 tFte jreeaom of speecfi, or cf tfie
yress; or tfie rigfit of tFte yeoy[e to yeacea6(y assem6(e, ana to _petition tFte aovernmentJor a reams cfwfevances.
Our
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\A/
vv
wo11derful
hunt it was
This year's Great Easter Egg Hunt is over, the winner stopping by our office Monday to claim his prize.
While we're sure there are quite a few disappointed egg
hunters after reading that news, the hunt itself was about the
most fun we've had in awhile, and it quickly grew bigger than
we had ever imagined.
This was our second go-~ound with the Great Easter Egg
Hunt. The first, many of you may recall, was held in 2003.
And while it was also fun and captured the imaginations of
quite a few people, it was nothing compared to this year's
hunt.
We're not sure what it was, but this year the community
truly embraced the egg hunt. Everywhere we went, people
were asking us where the egg was, seeking additional clues or
just wanting to know if it had been found. Everyone, it
seemed, was hunting for that egg.
The $500 prize it offered was no doubt a big part of the
attraction, but we'd like to think.there was a little more to it
than that. For one thing, it gave everyone, young and old, the
chance to take part in a favorite childhood joy - hunting for
an Easter egg - as well as a chance to dream. And while the
game itself pitted each person against everyone else, the competition was friendly, even cooperative.
Most of all, it was fun. As much joy as we had keeping the
secret, we can only imagine the nervous delight that each
hunter must have had trying to solve the puzzle. And maybe
that's the most important thing - the chance to engage in a
friendly rivalry with your friends and neighbors.
One. thing is sure - as huge a success as this year's egg
hunt was, it will definitely return in the future. But since this
year's hunt ended a week early, we will probably need to
work on our clues and maybe our hiding places a little bit, to
make the game even more challenging. But that's a year
away.
For now, we'll just take pride in having put together a community event that was fun for all. Of course, we didn't do it
alone, and we send our deepest gratitude to the sponsors who
helped make the 2005 Great Easter Egg Hunt such a whopping success.
So, in closing, thank you to all of our readers, who helped
us have so much fun. And have a happy Easter!
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Egg~stta!
Egg-stra! Read all about it!
Wow! We'd like to say thank you to The Floyd County Times. Several of us
Floyd County for making the 2005 Great also received calls at home, and were
Easter Egg Hunt a smashing success. approached out and about in the commuHopefully you had as
nity. We were begged,
bribed, cajoled, and at
much fun with it as we
did. That's right,
times jeered at to give
Monday
afternoon
up the location of the
Justin Conley arrived
egg, but we held tight.
at our office to ransom
That was also true ~
back the egg, and
only two of us knew
walked away with a
the location, so no,
you weren't lied to .
check for $500.
Let me take a
Elsewhere Ralph has
moment to set a few
described the clues
thing's straight. Yes,
and the riddles that
we did hide the egg. A
created them, so I
rumor was apparently
won't do that here. I
floating around last
would like to apoloweek that we had not
gize
to the magisDAVIDBOWYER
trates' offices - we didactually hidden the egg.
n't actually mean they
Editor Ralph Davis and I
ventured forth into Floyd County at the . knew where the egg was, we were just
beginning of March in search of the per- narrowing down the location for you to
fect hiding place. We chose a brush-cov- somewhere along the line between
ered area at the tree line, across from the Districts 2 and 3. I understand they
salt dome at the state road maintenance received quite a few phone calls.
facility on Route 680. We thought it was
We heard of individuals, couples and
a pretty good spot. While I kept watch, groups searching all over the county. I
Ralph casually moseyed across the field am not quite sure what led several groups
and then, with a speed only achieved to the Science Center, but it is a nice
before by action heroes, stuffed the egg place for a walk and hopefully you
into a brush growth at the base of a tree. checked out the exhibit while you were
Let me tell you, Mission Impossible we there. 1 understand folks visited Stone
Crest, too, which is another great place to
are not!
Then the fun began. We received walk. I should know - due to my inabilmany phone calls about the egg here at ity to hit a straight golf ball, I've walked
great distances up there myself! More
people visited parks througho Floyd
County than ever before in the month of
March. (Actually, there are no records , so
I don't really know if it was the most; ~
please don't hold me to that statement!)
I also know that some of you scoffed
and disbelieved. You may have thought it
was a trick. but there i one young man
with an extra 500 bucks in his pocket that
will tell you otherwi e. For tf1ose that
looked but di_dn 't win. at lea t y u (hopefully) had a good titne. got some esh air,
and interacted with friends an iJleighbors. I know we did!
I would also like to thank our sponsors: Big Sandy Automotive, Brad
Hughes Toyota, Country Boy Farm
Supply, El Azul Grande , Foodland,
Giovanni's Pizza, Home Furniture , ~
Layne Brothers Ford, Linda G's Chattel,
McDowell Professional Pharmacy,
Meade's BP and Pizza Express , and
Tobacco Max . Without these fine folks
we could not have done it. Thank you,
Floyd County, for supporting them and
visiting their fine establishments.
Yes, the wheels are turning. We had
such a great time that we plan to do similar things in the future. Watch the pages
of The Floyd County Times for details!
David Bowyer is the publisher" of The
Floyd County Times. He may be reached
by
email
at
dbowyer@j7oydcountytimes .com.
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An open letter to
Mayor Fannin
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Patty Wilson
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I have learned over the last couple of
days that the city council is attemptmg to
annex Highlands Regional Medical
Center. This would take an additional 1.5
percent out of my paycheck, along with
the $232.60 for federal, $110.62 for state,
$29.66 for Medicare and $126.82 for
Social Security, which I will never see.
Over the past few months of reading
Highlands
provides services
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My name is Kelly Castle. I have
been employed at Highlands Regional
Medical Center for the past nine years
as a skilled maintenance tech. 1 wanted
to voice some concerns I have regard-
The Floyd County Times, I can understand your attempt to annex Highlands. I
believe you are trying to gain revenue for
the city because the council can't stay
within a budget. I believe there are too
many out-of-town ventures, game playing with road signs, too many people
with credit cards and elected officials
thinking they are above the citizens that
elected them.
You. personally, are an economic burden on the city. You have taken city revenue and spent it elsewhere.lf I wanted to attract business to the
city, I would bring those officials to
Prestonsburg and wind and dine them
here. Of course, this would mean one less
road trip. more time in the office and
weekends at home in your city.
So, if you don't mind, please make a
better effort in managing your revenues
so you do not have to dip into mine. As
you can see in the first few lines, I am
taxed enough already and do not wish to
be taxed unfairly and without representa- ..
tion by your council.
Aaron Davis
HRMC employee
ing the proposed annexation of
Highlands Regional Medical Center and
statements I have read in The Floyd
County Times.
I believe it is financially hard enough
to try to raise a family in this part of the
country due to the lower wages and
state, federal and now city taxes to boot.
Like state and federal taxes, local city
taxes are never seen by the working
class. These funds generally go to cut-
ting new roads to golf courses, taking
trips around the state, a raise for an
elected official or to make up for some
budgeting errors due to mismanagement
on someone's part. It is also called taxation without representation and it is
·
illegal.
I also believe that the statements
from the mayor in The Floyd County
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
23, 2005 • A&
Report projects startling obesity-fueled
drop in U.S. life expectancy, up to 5
years off average life span
by LINDSEY TANNER
AP MEDICAL WRITER
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health care costs, said lead
author S. Jay Olshansky, a
longevity researcher at the
University of Illinois . at
Chicago.
Other longevity scientists
called the research overly dire
and unlikely to single-handedly
affect Social Security.
But Olshansky said with obesity affecting at least 15 percent
of American schoolchildren,
"it's not pie in the sky. The children who are extremely obese
are already here."
Already, rising obesity rates
have shaved four to nine months
off the average life span of 77.6
years, he and his colleagues contend in the journal report.
CHICAGO - New and disputed research adds a twist to
the Social Security dilemma,
Floyd County Health Department RN Jeannie Lafferty adminis- suggesting that a nation gorging
tered a TB skin test to Jailer Roger Webb recently. The Floyd itself on bacon double-cheeseCounty Health Department is calling attention to the continued burgers will one day dramatically shorten the average U.S . life
threat of TB during National TB Day tomorrow.
span.
Obesity - especially its
alarming rise among children is the culprit, fueling a startling
reversal in life expectancy,
which likely will drop by two to
five years or more within 50
years, according to a report in
Thursday's
New
England
Journal of Medicine.
This would reverse the mostly steady increase in American
life expectancy that has
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that tuberculosis (TB) is still start on National TB Day by
around . Most everyone believes skin-testing employees at the
that TB is not a serious disease Floyd County Detention Center.
The MSU Equestrian Club
anymore. But in 2003, there All the employees will be tested
were 127 people in Kentucky on an annual basis and every
will hold its annual
diagnosed with TB.
inmate who is housed at the
MSU Open Spring
As a way to remind the pub- detention center for more than
lic that TB is still a disease that 72 hours will also be tested.
Horse Show
affects many people annually, These groups are considered at
on April 8th and 9th, 2005.
March 24 has been declared high risk for TB infection
National TB Day in the United because they are confined in a
The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday night, and
small space.
States.
5:00 p.m. on Saturday night. The show will be held at the
Other groups who are high
One of the goals of the TB
Derrickson Agricultural Complex in Morehead, Kentucky.
program at the Floyd County risk for TB infection are subThere will be Walking, Racking, Pleasure Horse, and
Health Department is to skin- stance abusers, close contacts of
Saddlebred classes, as well as a Mule class. Admission is
test those who are in high-risk someone with TB , the medical$4.00 per person.
settings. People who work in or ly under-served, racial and ethFor more information on sponsorships, or show bills,
live in high-risk settings should nic minority populations and
please
contact: Ginny Richardson at (606) 776-4453, or
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children exposed to high-risk
The Floyd County Health adults.
Katie Finkes at (937) 768-1811.
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ments in longevity that are otherwise in store," he said
Americans'
current
lift'
expectancy already trails mon
than 20 other developed coun
tries .
Dr. David Ludwig o
Children's Hospital Boston ,
study co-author, cited soberin~
obesity statistics:
• Two-thirds of U.S . adult
In a journal editorial,
University of Pennsylvania
demography expert Samuel H.
Preston calls the projections
"excessively gloomy."
Opposing forecasts , projecting a continued increase in U.S.
longevity, assume that obesity
will continue to worsen but also
account for medical advances ,
Preston said.
Still, failure to curb obesity
"could impede the improve-
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• WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
Charles E. Chaffins
Charles E. Chaffins, 67, of
Garrett, died Thursday, March
17, 2005, at Our Lady of the
Way Hospital, in Martin.
Born June 27, 1937, in Knott
County, he was the son of the
late Elisha and Ida Mae Conley
Chaffins. He was a retired coal
miner; a member of the
U.M.W.A. District 17; a member of Masonic Lodge 869, in
Wayland; and a member of the
Stone Coal Old Regular Baptist
Church, in Garrett.
He is survived by his wife,
Sadie L. Hicks Chaffins.
Other survivors include three
sons: Terry Chaffms of Garrett,
Danny Stutzman of Dunn, North
Carolina, and Charles Dwayne
Chaffins of Maysville; a sister,
Pauline Hall of Mansfield, Ohio;
six grandchildren; and three
grandchildren at heart: Jared
Michael,
Christopher and
Amber.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by a
brother, David Chaffins; and a
sister, Imogene Chaffins.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 20, at 2
p.m., at the Stone Coal Old
Regular Baptist Church, at
Garrett, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial was in the family
cemetery, at Hueysville, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the funeral
home, in Martin, and nightly
services were held at 7 p.m.
Masonic rites were conducted at
5 p.m., Saturday, by Wayland
Lodge No. 869.
(Paid obituary)
Ersey Williams
Ersey Williams, 74, of
Bevinsville, died Sunday, March
20, 2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare.
Born April 12, 1930, in Floyd
County, she was the daughter of
the late Ballard and Clearcy Hall.
She was a homemaker, and a
member of the Little Rock Old
Regular Baptist Church, at Jacks
Creek.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, James L. Williams.
Survivors include two sons:
Samuel
L.
Williams
of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and
Curtis Williams of Bevinsville;
three daughters: Annette Mullins
of Auxier, and Evetta Smallwood
and Teresa Johnson, both of
Wheelwright; a brother, Ted Hall
of Huntington, Indiana; four sisters: Maggie Slone of Indiana,
Susanna Johnson of Huntington,
Indiana, Ora Tackett
of
Bevinsville, and Mary Lou
Branham of Minnie; l1 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband and
parents, she was preceded in
death by two sons: Dudley
Williams and James (Mink)
Williams; a daughter, Stella Mae
Williams; five brothers: Arthur
Hall, William Hall, Banks Hall,
Edward Hall, and Donald Gene
Hall; and two sisters: Madge
Hall, and Margie Hall.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, March 24, at 11
a.m., at the Little Rock Old
Regular Baptist Church, at Jacks
Creek, with Old Regular Baptist
ministers officiating.
Burial will be in the Cook
Cemetery, (Frozen), at Jacks
Creek, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation is at the church, with
nightly services at 6:30 p.m.
(Paid obituary)
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Sunday
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Mae Slone
Mae
Slone,
79,
of
Wheelwright, died Saturday,
March 19, 2005, at her residence.
Born May 5, 1925, in Pippa
Passes, she was the daughter
of the late John and Bell
Slone Sparkman. She was a
homemaker and a member of
the Little Rock Old Regular
Baptist Church at Jacks
Creek.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Willie Slone.
Survivors include two sons:
David Neal Slone and Willie
Slone
Jr.,
both
of
Wheelwright; five daughters:
Janivie
Hall,
Jeraldine
Johnson, Ruby Johnson and
Emogene Engle, all of
Wheel wright; and Christine
Johnson of Melvin; three
brothers: Wiley Sparkman of
Melvin, and Willie Sparkman
and Albert Sparkman, both of
Pippa Passes; a sister, Verdie
Huff of Topmost; 21 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-greatgrandchild.
In addition to her husband
and parents, she was preceded
in death by two sons: Robert
Slone and Arie T. Slone; two
brothers: Arie Sparkman and
Adam Sparkman; and three
sisters:
June
Sparkman,
Geneva Sparkman, and Dally
Sparkman.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 22, at
11 a.m., at the Little Rock Old
Regular Bapti~t Church, at
Jacks
Creek, with Old
Regular Baptist ministers
officiating.
Burial was in the family
cemetery, (Branham Hollow),
in Wheelwright, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the
church, with nightly services
at 7 p.m.
Dickie Davis
(Paul Richard)
Wallace
Dickie
Davis
(Paul
Richard) Wallace, 55, of
Prestonsburg, died Friday,
March
18,
2005,
at
Highlands Regional Medical
Center, in Prestonsburg.
Born December 13, 1949,
in Willard, Ohio, he was the
son of Donna Jean Bolen
Moore of David; and the late
Burt Davis.
Survivors include two
sons: Mark Wallace (wife,
Donetta) of Hueysville, and
Chad Wallace of Blue River;
two daughters: Ginger Price
(husband,
Brad)
of
Staffordsvi1le, and
Lisa
Nelson (husband, Greg) of
Dwale; a brother, Tim Davis
of Hippo; three sisters: Mary
Lou Burke and Laura Davis,
both of David, and Vonda
Brown of Hippo; and seven
grandchildren: Lauren Price,
Sarah Price, Kelsey Price,
Lakyn
Wallace,
Amelia
Wallace, Katelyn Nelson and
Abby Nelson.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, March 21, at
1 p.m., at the Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin,
with Sterlin Bolen, Randy
Osborne, Jerry Manns, Vick
Ray Davis, and Kevin Davis
officiating.
Burial was in the Hicks
Family Cemetery, at Hippo,
under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier
Funeral
Home.
Visitation was at the funeral home, with nightly services at 7 p.m.
Active
pallbearers:
Brandon Spencer, Delanie
(Bush Hog) Davis, Justin
Brown, Brad Price, Chris
Goble, Timmy Bert Davis
and Shawn Davi (Paid obituary)
Pat Moore
Pat Moore, 72, of Allen,
died Tuesday, March 22,
2005, at his residence.
Born
December
19,
1932, in Logan, West
Virginia, he was the son of
the late Woodie and Millie
Dotson Moore. He was a
disabled laborer, and a
Prestonsburg
Senior
Citizen.
He is survived by his
wife, Helen Smith Moore.
Other survivors include
a son, Pat Hensley of
Columbus,
Ohio;
two
daughters: Carolyn Russo
of Cleveland, Ohio, and
Christina Lynn Reed of
Prestonsburg; a step-son,
Jonathan
WenJell
Newsome of Middleport,
Ohio; three step-daughters:
April Dawn Collins of
Ashland, Donna Louise
Ellis of Nippa, and Jenny
Elizabeth
Adams
of
Salyersville; a sister, Ruth
Moore, of Cheshire, Ohio;
and several grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in
death by his parents; a son,
Lawrence (Larry) Moore;
two brothers: Raymond
Moore, and Carl Moore;
and
a
sister,
Gladys
Kacsor.
Funeral services will be
conducted Friday, March
25, at noon, at the NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin, with Reverend
William Jarrell officiating.
Burial will be in the
Long
John
Shepherd
Cemetery, at David, under
the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home.
Visitation is Wednesday,
March 23, at 6 p.m., at the
funeral home.
(Paid obituary)
(Paid obituary)
Kaitlyn Nashae Tackett, 18 days
old, of Galveston, died Sunday,
March 20, 2005, at the CabeUHuntington Hospital in Huntington,
West Vrrginia.
Born March 2, 2005, in Pikeville,
she was the daughter of Stevie Joe
Tackett and Franchesca Case, both of
Galveston.
Other survivors include a sister,
Nataleigh Williamson of Pikeville;
her grandparents: Rickey Case of
Harold, and Tammy Case of
Pikeville; and Stevie and Jamie
Tackett of Galveston; her greatgrandparents: George • and Loraine
Howell of Pikeville; Frankie Case of
Harold; James and Phoebe Luster of
Pikeville; and Polly Tackett of
Pikeville; her great-great-grandfather, Bennie Tackett of Galveston;
and several aunts and uncles.
She was preceded in death by her
great-grandfathers: Burt Case and
Tony Tackett; and her great-greatgrandmother, Sola Tackett.
Fumal seMces will be coodocted
Thurmy, March 24, at 1 pm., at the
Nelson-Frazjer Funeral Home, in
Martin, with TOOlllly Spears officiating.
Burial will be in the Robert Hall
Cemetery, at Branhams Creek, in
Galveston, Wlder the direction of
Nelson-Frazjer Funeral Home.
VIsitation is at the funeral home.
(Paidobituary)
Julia Ann Boyd
Julia Ann Boyd, 71 , of -eanner,
died Sunday, March 20, 2005, in
Highlands Regional Medical
Center, in Prestonsburg.
Born July 31 , 1933, in Auxier,
she was the daughter of the late John
and Anna Slone Meeks. She was a
homemaker, and a member of the
Church of Christ, in Prestonsburg.
She is survived by her husband,
Marvin Boyd.
Other survivors include two
sons: Tony Lee Boyd of Pikeville,
and Stephen Craig Boyd of
Frankfort; a daughter, Anna Meade
of Radcliff; two brothers: Johnny
Meeks of Mobile, Alabama, and
Homer Meeks of Oceana, West
VIrginia; a sister, Betty Lou Tipton
of New Port Richey, Florida;
grandchildren: Kristopher, Brian,
and Mickey; and great-grandchildren: Jonathan and Joshua.
In addition to her parents, she
was preceded in death by a brother,
Martin Earl Meeks.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, March 22, at 11 am., at
the Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
in Martin, with Richard Kelly officiating.
Burial was in the Boyd
Cemetery, at Banner, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
VIsitation was at the funeral
(Paid obituary)
home.
Card of Thanks
The family of Jay Conley would like to express
their sincere gratitude to all those who helped
through this difficult time. We thank everyone for
their prayers and presence; there are so many people,
we could not begin to name you all, but your acts of
kindness did not go unnoticed. A special thanks to
the Garrett Baptist Church, and Larry Adams, whose
kind words eased our pain through Dad's loss.
THE FAMILY OF
JAY CONLEY
Card of Thanks
Ray Layne
Ray Layne, age 80, of Dema,
husband of Mary Slone Layne,
passed away Monday, March 21,
2005,
at
the
McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
He was born June 9, 1924, in
Dema, the son of the late Ben
Layne and Elizabeth Terry Layne.
He was a retired coal miner, a
member of the UMWA Local No.
1741, James W. Alley Masonic
Lodge, No. 869, Wayland,
Scottish Rite Freemasonary of
Lexington, and was a Kentucky
Colonel.
Survivors include his wife,
Mary; one daughter, Veronica
Layne (Bill) Hall of Dana; two
daughters: Margaret S. (Cecil)
Edwards of Middletown, Ohio,
and Carroll C. O'Kelley of
Panama City Beach, Florida; one
step-daughter-in-law, Mary Alice
Casebolt of Mt. Hope, West
VIrginia; one step-son, Lowell T.
(Edna) Casebolt of Somerset; six
sisters: Vema Mae (FR.) Lax of
Murray, Sue Eastridge of
Lebanon, Hassie Hall of
Winchester,
Lucille
(Earl)
Haywood of Benton, Norma Jean
Odgen of Taylor, Michigan, and
Leslie Martin of Morehead; one
granddaughter, Rebecca Thttle
(David) Lester of Mt. Sterling; six
step-grandchildren, 14 step-greatgrandchildren; and a host of
friends and relatives.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; his first wife, Olive
Martin Layne; and one step-son,
James R. Casebolt.
Funeral services for Ray Layne
will be conducted Friday, March 25,
at 11 am., at the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, in Martin, with Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will follow in the Turner
Cemetery, in Dema, under the professional care of the Hall Funeral
Home.
Visitation is after 6 p.m.,
Wednesday, at the funeral home.
Masonic services wi11 be
Thursday evening, at 6 p.m.
Kaitlyn Nashae
Tackett
Card of Thanks
The family of Agnes Ann "Tad" Kidd would like to acknowledge
with heartfelt appreciation, all those who helped in any way during
the recent Joss 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 Clergyman Mike Howard for his comforting words, and the Sammy Clark Freewill Baptist Church, the
Sheriff's Department for the assistance in traffic control, and the
Hall Funeral Home for providing dignified and courteous service.
The family of Henry Compton would like to express our appreciation to all our friends, neighbors, family and loved ones, who helped
during the loss of our beloved Dad.
We thank you for the flowers, food, and all the kindness shown.
A special thanks to our dear friend, Rev. Robert Alex Ousley, for his
comforting words, and the Slone Family for their beautiful singing.
A special thanks to the Regular Baptist Church of Hollybush for
their dinner after the funeral.
Thank you, Roger Nelson and staff, for your professional s rvices
and kindness you showed us, and the Floyd County S riff's
Department for their help.
THE FAMILY OF HENRY COMPTON
THE FAMILY OF AGNES ANN "TAD" KIDD
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ROYO.RATLIFF
Card of Thanks
The family of Rev. Morris Ray "Tootsie" Hall 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 Clergymen
Rodney Mosley and Louis Ferrari, for their comforting words,
and the Hall Funeral Home for their caring and professional
service. All your thoughts and prayers will never be forgotten.
THE FAMILY OF
REV. MORRIS RAY "TOOTSIE" HALL
Card of Thanks
The family of Emma Lou Clark 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, food, and all the
kindness expressed. 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
kind and professional service. All your acts of kindness were a
great comfort to our family.
THE FAMILY OF EMMA LOU CLARK
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Card of Thanks
The family of Edith Martin Hopkins 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 fooq, flowers, prayers,
and all the acts of kindness shown to our family. A special thank.s
to Clergyman Gene Bracken for his comforting worcis, tiJe Sheriff's
Department for their assistance in traffic control, ,md the Hall
Funeral Home of Martin, Ky., for their kind, professional, and courteous service. All your thoughts and prayers were a great comfort
to our family.
THE FAMILY OF EDITH MARTIN HOPKINS
Roy was the beloved husband of Eulene Hamilton Ratliff. He
was born January 15, 1929, in Martin, the son of the late
McFarland "MF' Ratliff and Hazel Thmer Ratliff. He passed
away October 16,2004. Roy graduated from Martin High School
in 1945, where he was a member of the Purple Flash basketball
and baseball teams. He attended Pikeville College and
Georgetown College where he was a member of rhe Kappa Alpha
fraternity (KA's). He also attended broadcasting school in
Nashville, Tennessee. Roy was a retired radio broadcaster
(Rockin' Roy) with WDOC and WPRT, salesman, and businessman. He was a member of the 1st Assembly of God at Martin, a
U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the 364th
Engineering Company Army Reserve Unit, The American Legion
Post 283, a charter member and first post commander of the
American Veterans (Amvets) Post 27, and a Kentucky CoLonel.
Roy was blessed with the gift of voice. His love for talking
about family, genealogy, sports, music, his and Eulene's travels,
history, cooking, and politics was wonderful. But talking about
our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ was his greatest
love. Roy loved to cook and he was famous for his chili on Red,
White, & Blue Day, and his holiday hams. He passed all these
gifts on to his family, for which we are thankful.
In addition to his wife, Eulene, he is survived by one son , Rory
Gregory (Lola Brashear), four daughters: Sherry Lcrraine,
Regina Robin (Zenith Hall), Cecelia Hazel (Kevin Wooten), and
Jimmie Eulene (Steve Slone); seven grandchildren: Jason,
Jeremy Roy, Stephanie, Kelley, Steven Glenn , Sarah, and Laura;
two brothers: James Burns (Lorraine) Ratliff, and Blake Ratliff.
We Love You, R.O.R. and Daddy, and Dearly Miss You.
Eulene, Sherry, Greg, Robin, Cecelia, Jamie, and families.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
23, 2005 • A7
Letters
• Continued from p4
Times regarding the hospital
getting all of our city services
for free is more than misleading. The only time that a city
police officer is here is when
they are bringing in a prisoner or being treated themselves. Therefore, the hospital
is rendering a service and not
being protected just because
there is a squad car in the
parking lot.
Our water comes from
Auxier Water, not the city
Prestonsburg. Yet the city of
Preston~urg had its new
water storage tank built on
hospital property and the hospital is not receiving a cent
from it. It might make you
wonder who is receiving a
free service. What services
that the hospital does use are
paid for at a premium rate.
As far as I am concerned,
Highlands Regional Medical
Center is not bound by any
federal, state or city lines.
Care is given to patients that
come from all over, not just
the residents of the city of
Prestonsburg.
Therefore,
Highlands Regional Medical
Center is an asset to the city
as well as the surrounding
communities as Highlands
provides a service that is vital
community
growth,
for
tourism and business as well
as revenue for local merchants that we buy suppiles or
services from.
I don't think that 1 should
be responsible for paying city
taxes, no more than I would
expect the city to repair the
pothole in the road in front of
my driveway out in the county.
Kelly Castle
Skilled maintenance
Working father
Registry
MON. UN., 7:00, 9&001
• Continued from p1
their zip code.
To use the service, one
just calls the alert line at
(866) 564-5652 and enters a,
phone number and zip code.
When a sex offender registers for your area the service
will contact callers with the
details.
The state also has a system for alerting victims of
any crime should the offender be released. The death of a
Louisville woman in 1993
led to the formation of
VINE,
the
"Victim
· Information and Notification
Everyday." This program
allows for the victim of any
crime to be notified when the
offender is released from
prison.
"It's a great program
because it's imperative that
victims be notified," Taylor
said.
Taylor pointed out that the
program will also contact
victims when an offender
goes before a parole board to
give them a chance to voice
their
opm10n .
The
Commonwealth's
Attorney's Office employs a
victim's advocate who helps
the victims of violent and
sex crimes get through the
process.
"Our advocate, Kathy
Lafferty, is superb," Taylor
said. "She is with the victim
at all times during trial and
makes sure that they are
informed about programs
like VINE."
The system requires that a
victim know the inmate's
name and it is helpful to
know their inmate number as
well. The inmate will not be
aware that someone has registered to the service, which
can be accessed at a toll-free
number, (800) 511-1670.
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MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Obesity
• Continued from p5
are overweight or obese; one·
third of adults qualify as obese.
• Up to 30 percent of U.S.
children are overweight, and
childhood obesity has more than
doubled in the past 25 years.
• Childhood diabetes has
increased I0-fold in the past 20
years.
"It's one thing for an adult of
45 or 55 to develop type 2 diabetes and then experience the
life-threatening complications
of that - kidney failure, heart
attack, stroke - in their late 50s
or 60s. But for a 4-year-old or 6year-old who's obese to develop
Type 2 diabetes at 14 or 16"
raises the possibility of devastating complications before reaching age 30, Ludwig said. "It's
really a staggering prospect."
While national attention is
starting to focus on contributors
to obesity, including the prevalence of fast food, soft drinks in
schools and cuts in physical
education classes, "what we
presently luck is u cleur, com·
prehensive nationul vision for
addressing the obes1ty epidemic," Ludwig snid.
The calculations are a stark
contrast with Social Security
Administration forecusts for
longevity and with projections
publicized in 2002 that said the
maximum human life spun will
reach I 00 in about six decades.
James Vaupel, director of the
Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research in
Rostock, Germany, co-authored
the 2002 forecast, based on data
from developed nations including the United States. He called
the nev; report "very one-sided"
and said he doubts obesity will
negate tho effects of other medical progress.
Emory University health policy expert Dr. Kenneth Thorpe
said while obesity is clearly
damaging public health, rising
rates aren't enough to resolve
Social Security's woes.
Other life expectancy fore·
casts rely on past mortality
trends; the Olshansky group
used obesity prevalence data
and previously published esti·
mates of years of life lost from
obesity.
They calculated in reverse,
assessing the fall in death rates
that would occur if all obese
Americans had a normal weight.
Their estimate shows that, if not
for obesity, life expectancy at
birth should be four to nine
months higher than the record
Freedom, an advocacy group for
the restaurant and food industry,
which ar·gues the obesity prob·
lem has been exaggerated, said
the paper should be discredited
because
co-author
David
Allison has done consulting for
makers of weight-loss products .
Allison, a bio tatistician at
the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, noted the journal
mentions his financial ties.
77 .6 years announced by the
government last montllRichard
Suzman,
a
researcher at the National
Institute on Aging, which helped
fund the study, said the projec·
tions are "possible , but I would
say unlikely." He said the best
approach is to estimate life
expectancy using historical
trends.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
AG opinion reversed on
expanded gambling
Language from the constitutional debates before adoption of the present constitution
in 1891 and later court cases
clearly indicate that horse rac•ing and other forms of gambling are not unconstitutional,
Stumbo said.
The question was posed by
Sen. Ed Worley, D-Richmond.
Although it has never come
to formal votes in the House or
Senate . the topic of casino
gambling has lingered in the
legislature for many years.
Just this year, Sen. David
Boswell, D-Owensboro, proposed a constitutional amendment to allow expanded gam-
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The
Kentucky Constitution does
not have to be amended to
allow expanded gambling,
Attorney
General
Greg
Stumbo said Monday in a
reversal of the office ·s longstanding position.
Except in very limited circumstances, opinions of the
attorney general's office are
advisory only. But the opinion
will surely be cited by advocates of expanded gambling as
the debate resumes in the run
up to the 2006 General
Assembly.
Four previous opinions
from the attorney general, dating back to 1980, have held
the constitutional section that
prohibits lotteries and other
gift enterprises has meant that
casinos, slot machines or other
forms of gambling were prohibited.
Stumbo, a former legislator
who has advocated expanded
gambling, said he wanted a
fresh look at the legal question.
Stumbo's opinion said only
lotteries are a prohibited form
of gambling under the
Kentucky ConstitutiOn. That
specific prohibition was lifted
more than a decade ago to
allow the Kentucky Lottery.
Otherwise, the constitution
has not been changed on the
topic.
The opinion was released
Monday, the day the General
Assembly was trying to complete its 2005 session.
bling.
Boswell said he will modify
his proposal for the 2006 legislature to take the opinion
into account. But he said he
will still provide some sort of
local option election provision
and ensure that the opportunity to operate casinos is not
limited to horse tracks.
The racetracks have long
been the leading proponents of
slot machines or other expanded gambling, arguing that the
additional revenue could support the horse industry.
"That won't do my community much good at all,"
Boswell said.
Others, such as developers
in northern Kentucky and
Owensboro, have argued that
they should have a shot at
casino action themselves.
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Annexing HRMC would require Additional
City Services to Maintain Class 4 Fire Rating
Highlands Regional Medical Center is continuing its challenge of annexation by the City of Prestonsburg. A
key element of the challenge and one that the Mayor may not have brought to the attention of the City Council
concerns the guidelines for city fire protection. According to the International Organization for Standards
(ISO) which sets guidelines for fire protection services provided by cities, the hospital is located over the five
mile ISO guideline for maintaining a Class 4 fire rating for a city. If the hospital were annexed, all of
Prestonsburg would be at risk. A new fire station would need to be constructed and two new additional trucks
would have to be purchased to protect Prestonsburg's Class 4 rating. The station would also have to be
manned 2417 which would further increase the operating overhead of the city. This is a situation that apparently has not been discussed with the council or the public.
Under the present system, Highlands Regional Medical Center has frre protection through the North Floyd
Fire District, who in tum sub-contracts services from the City of Prestonsburg. In the event of a fire at the
hospital, the Prestonsburg Fire Department and the Auxier Fire Department respond. Under this system,
Prestonsburg is compliant with all ISO guidelines for a Class 4 rating.
Fire protection is only one issue that does not seem to have been thought through by the Mayor. City Council
needs to be informed of the associated financial requirements that would be placed on the city and of the many
other issues and repercussions that would have to be addressed, such as police protection. The Mayor and
Council seem convinced the City is providing substantial services to HRMC. HRMC maintains this is simply not the case. HRMC receives only sewage services from Prestonsburg for which it pays a premium price.
Several years ago the Medical Center installed sewage lines from the Medical Center to the National Guard
Armory at a significant cost. Later Highlands gave this line to the city. Since that time, the city has enjoyed
additional revenues because of Highlands£ donation.
HRMC employs a professional security company on a 2417 basis. The Floyd County Sheriff's Department and
the Kentucky State police are used for back up. Highlands receives water from the Auxier Water Company, a
Public Service Commission franchised company. If in fact, Prestonsburg annexed the hospital, Auxier Water
Company would continue to be the water suppli~r. Highlands purchases natural gas from the Auxier Road Gas
Company, a Public Service Commission franchised company. If, in fact, Prestonsburg annexed the hospital,
Auxier Road Gas Company would continue to be the natural gas supplier.
HRMC maintains its position that annexation is not in the best interests of the Medical Center. The ISO
information is only one example of the mis-information or lack of information being shared with the City
Council by the Mayor. The hospital is appealing to the residents of Prestonsburg to urge council members to
vote "NO" on the annexation issue. Please don't allow the hospital to be annexed as a "quick fix" for the
Mayor's poor judgment and decisions that have resulted in financial difficulties for the city. The "quick fix"
may bring temporary relief for the Mayor but it is fraught with long-term liabilities. In all likelihood the
Medical Center will engage the city in a protracted and expensive legal challenge. The city will incur additional expenses maintaining its fire protection program, and police services will be strained. Finally, the city
will have taken a giant step in alienating one of the area's most important employers.
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�A1 0 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Legislature adjourns, leaving
vetoes sustained
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
f RANKFORT
After
reaching an agreement about taking over office space adjacent to
the Capitol, the 2005 General
Assembly sustained Gov. Ernie
Fletcher's budget vetoes, cleared
off some unfinished paperwork
and adjourned Monday.
Within the budget, the legislature had essentially evicted the
executive branch from much of
the Capitol Annex, the office
building that sits behind the
Capitol. The legislature has slowly taken over more than half the
building in the last several years.
House Speaker Jody Richards
~aid the administration has
agreed to slowly move out of the
remaining space over the next
three years.
Richards said more meeting
and office space is needed in the
annex for the legislature.
The delayed move for executive branch employees will allow
time for the $35 million renovation of the old state office building in downtown Frankfort.
Other vetoes related to operation of the old governor's mansion, duplicate projects and some
technical matters.
"The vetoes are not unreasonable," Richards said.
On its last day, lawmakers
also fixed several budget issues,
including the term of bonds sold
to finance school construction,
replaced an outlawed restriction
on electioneering near polling
places and decided to close
schools on primary election days.
A late-night cornrnittee meeting also approved the naming of
12 highways and bridges across
the state, typical of the kind of
leftovers lawmakers scraped off
their plates before leaving.
The activity ran into the
evening, as lawmakers tried to
complete their work and finish
the session a day before it had to
end under the Kentucky
Constitution, which limits the
short session to 30 working days .
The courts last year ruled that
the law that prohibited campaigning within 500 feet of a
polling place was an infringement on free speech rights. The
new restriction will be 300 feet .
Schools are already closed on
general election days, but lawmakers said since many schools
are used as polling places, it
made sense to close them on primary days as well.
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�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Floyd County HCTC students
named to Who's Who
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Floyd
County students at the
Hazard Campus of Hazard
Community and Technical
College have been named to
the 2005 edition of Who's
Who Among Students in
American Junior Colleges.
Those chosen as national
outstanding campus leaders
were considered because of
their academic achievement,
service to the community,
leadership in extra-curricular
activities and potential for
con tin ned success.
Outstanding students have
been honored in the annual
directory since it was first
published in 1966.
Students named include
Kari Liane Collins, of
Prestonsburg; Jessica Lee
Hughes, of Dana; Angela
Holbrook, of Harold; Keesha
Elaine Koontz, of Harold; Ed
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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 hoP1e 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 laundry nook. This property is
considered suitable for the Rural Development. Rural Hou~ing 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.
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Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, April7, 2005, at 11 :DO 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, bemg
Civil Action No. 04-173 KKC on the Pikeville Docket of the Unhed States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, entered on August
30, 2004, in the case ol United Slates 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
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TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (10%) 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 mterest at the rate of 1.83% per annum untl paid, due and payable in sixty (60) days
and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, tne depos~ shall be forfeited and retained by the U. ~ .
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 mbar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate claim. demand or equity of redemption of the defendant(s) and cl all
persons claiming by, through, under or against them, provided the purchase price is equal to two-thirds of the appraised value. IT 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 ng~,t 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:
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�A 12 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Audit turns up potential windfall from obscure tax
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT
A
review of an obscure local
propcrt) tax may have
uncovered a potential windfall for some local taxi ng
districts, the state auditor's
office said Tuesday.
The audit said as much as
$3 million may have gone
uncollected over five years
from a tax on invcntory-intran!iit.
The inventory-in-transit
tax is placed on personal
property located in a warehouse or distribution center
that wi II not sti).y at the location for more than six
months, and is there for the
purpose of shipment to an
out-of-state
destination.
Property that stays longer
than six months is taxed at a
different tax rate.
Prior to 1999, the tax was
collected for state use only.
In 1999, the tax was also
applied to county, municipal,
school, and other special
taxing districts such as fire
departments.
In 2000 , the General
Assembly lifted the state
portion of the tax. It also
phased out the tax for county, municipal governments
and schools over a two-year
period . But local taxing di s-
tricts were allowed to determine whether to continue to
col lect the tax.
While many d1stricts did
not vote to ex. em pt the tax, it
was often not collected.
After the audit, the
FRANKFORT
Transportation
Cabinet
Secretary Maxwell Clay Bailey
resigned Monday to head the
state's department of emergency
management.
Bailey. a retired Air Force
general, has headed the state's
Transportation Cabinet since
Gov. Emie Fletcher took office
in December 2003.
"Bailey informed me he
wanted to resign as transportation secretary in order to be considered for the position,"
Fletcher said in a release.
Bailey, 57, replaces former
director Malcolm Franklin who
resigned in January, Fletcher
spokeswoman Jeannie Lausche
said.
Bailey's current salary was
uncertain.
Lausche
said.
However, he was making
$126,250 per year as the transportation head, Lausche said.
Bailey, a 1969 Air Force
Academy graduate, was com-
to collect as much as $3 million from the tax.
Auditor
Crit Luallen
noted that communities can
choose to forego collecting
the tax, but might also find a
windfall.
You Are Not Alone.
When problems arise .....
Transportation secretary resigns,
will head emergency management
The Associated Press
Department of Revenue
reviewed 40 counties for the
2000 taxing year and 17
required additional tax bills.
The tax bills equaled
$604,062. Statewide, local
taxing districts may be able
mander of the Air Force Special
Operations
Command
at
Burlburt Field, Fla., until his
retirement from the military in
March 2002. Before becoming
transportation secretary, Bailey
worked
in
the
state's
Department of Criminal Justice
on homeland security programs.
. Fletcher appointed Bill
Nighbert as acting transportation secretary, according to a
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release. Nighbert was the
agency's commissioner of the
Department
for
Intergovemmental Affairs.
Nighbert, the former mayor
of Williamsburg , contributed
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Fletcher's inauguration. His
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Chad Ronda! Caudill, age 65,
of Richmond, Kentucky, formerly of Knott County,
Kentucky, died on Sunday,
February 13, 2005, at his home.
He was born on March 6,
1939, in Knott County,
Kentucky, the son of the late
Henry C. Caudill and Madge
Huff Caudill.
He was retired from the U.S.
Air Force, where he served as an
Air Traffic Controller with the
United States Air Force, and was
instrumental in the launch of
Apollo II.
As a Technical Sergeant,
Chad Caudill and his men were
sent to Cape Kennedy, Florida,
to control the anival and departure of helicopters, carrying dignitaries to and from the NASA
Headquarters launch site. Some
of the distinguished visitors
included former
President
Lyndon B Johnson, Vice-president AgHew, and numerous congressmen, senators and generals
from different branches of military service.
He was also active in U.S. Air
Force mobile communications ,
and traveled extensively in the
United States and foreign countries.
He was preceded in death by
his parents: two sisters: Ivallean
Brook and Stella Slone.
He is survived by four sisters:
Ellora Lockhart of Huntington,
West Virignia, Priscilla Combs
of Clinton Township, Michigan,
Arlene Barnhart of Sheridan,
Wyoming, and Christine Crisp
of Martin, Kentucky; and a host
of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted on Saturday, February
19,2005, at 11 a.m., at NelsonFrazier
Funeral
Home,
Hindman, Kentucky, with Don
Crisp officiating.
Burial followed in the G. C.
Huff Cemetery, Pippa Passes,
Kentucky, under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier .funeral Home,
Hindman, Kentucky.
Graveside services were performed by the Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.
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polir:e said.
Desantiago left the area,
cn.mgcd clothes and came back
•o tell a fellow employee he was
I .n mg. The employee told
police that Desantiago "got up in
her face and started to yell at
111r,
her."
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Desantiago threatened anothr person if he didn't get out of
hs way. police said.
He was charged with two
counts of harassment.
• OGDEN, Ark. An
.lllegedly drunken bicyclist
wound up getting a ride to jail
after a state trooper saw him take
a clumsy spill at a stat\! highway
intersection.
Don Evans, 46, was riding
where U.S. 71 and Grand Stn::~t
intersect early Saturday when he
fell from his mountain bike onto
the highway pavement.
Trooper Jamie Gravier was
about 50 feet away.
"He was pedaling through the
intersection of Highway 71 at the
Grand Street crossover and fell
off the bike. The pedals kept hitting the kick stand and he couldn't keep it up. He was in the middle of the southbound lanes of
traffic," Gravier said.
"I saw it happen and thought
'Lord, don't let someone come
aroun ltht' curw ' I t11rned on the
emergency light md po~itioncd
the <'ar to w.trn motorists .
F0ttunatchi nobod) w.ts commg
or he\\ culd ha\c been mn over:·
Gravier said.
Gravier took the man to the
bospttal , where he was treated
and relea~~d. He w ..s then taken
to the jail and c.h.trged with public into !Catton.
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Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $36,199.23 principal, together with interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of $33,689.07 plus
interest in the amount of $5,903.26 as of July 15, 2004, and interestthereafter on the prindpal at $9.4215 per day from July 15, 2004, until the
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and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a defau~ by the Purchaser, the deposit shall be forfeited and retained by the U. S.
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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
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AU-State Girls • page B3
ACMS Volleyball • page B3
Halbert honored • page B4
SARASOTA, Fla.- The Cincinnati Reds sent five players to the minors on Tuesday, including
right-hander Ricky Stone and outfielder Rob Stratton.
The Reds optioned third baseman Edwin Encarnacion anu catcher Dane Sardinha to Triple-A
Louisville. They also reassigned Stone. Stratton and left-hander Randy Keisler to their minor league camp.
The moves left the Reds with 36 players in camp, II more than the opening day limit.
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Clark named 15th
Region Player of the Year
BOWLING GREEN BOUND
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
BETSY LAYNE- Betsy Layne head coach
Cassandra Akers recently received word that
senior Kim Clark had been named the Kentucky
Assoctation of Basketball Coaches (KABC)
15th Region Player of the Year.
Clark and her team are headed back to the
Girls' Sweet Sixteen State Basketball
Tournament.
Clark. who as a junior averaged close to 17
points per game, entered the 2004-05 season
with lofty billing, ranked as the 15th Region's
top player in the The Cats' Pause Kentucky
Basketball Yearbook. She has had a stronghold
on the 58th District for a while, now, helping to
lead the Ladycats to each of the last two district
titles. Individual honors have been numerous for
Clark, who appears headed to a basketball career
1• on the next level.
The Betsy Layne senior averaged 19.3 points
and seven rebounds in three 15th Region
Tournament games on her way to a most valuable player honor. She played a key, pivotal role
in Betsy Layne's last trip to the state tournament
in 2003, too, playing welL both offensively and
defensively in the Ladycats' opening round win.
Clark and first-year Magoffin County head
coach Steve Miller - named the 15th Region
Coach of the Year after a season in which he
coached the Lady Hornets to a 24-6 record- will
each be honored Friday during the girls' state
basketball tournament.
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PIKEVILLE- A local standout who had quite
a year in her only season at Pikeville High School
will play collegiately at Pikeville College.
Megan Harris, a 5-11 senior who led
Pikeville High School to the All "A" Classic
w, state tournament this season, signed a scholarship agreement this morning.
Harris averaged 13.3 points and 10.4
rebounds per game for the Lady Panthers in her
lone season in maroon. Harris sat out her junior
campaign after transferring from Allen Central
High School. Despite missing that season, she
still scored 924 points in her high school career.
Harris, a two-time all-58th District performer. shot 46.0 percent from the field this season and hit 34.5 percent from the arc. For the
season, she connected on 72.2 percent of her
free throws.
"We think Megan has tremendous upside
,. and can be a terrific asset to our program," said
Coach Bill Watson of Pikeville College. "We've
watched her development through the years and
think she will be very valuable to the Lady Bear
program for the next four years. We're very
pleased to add her to the family.''
The Lady Bears finished the 2004-05 season
17-14 in Watson's eighth season as head coach
of the women's basketball program.
Harris will join two other signees as· freshman on the 2005-06 roster. Pikeville has already
signed Whitesburg teammates Camille Cook
and Whitney Hogg. who also helped their team
to the All "A" Classic state tournament.
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Seniors lead the way for Laclycats
Strong bench helps boost Betsy Layne
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
BETSY LAYNE - It won't be
long before four Betsy Layne
seniors - Kim Clark, Krista]
Daniels, Kristen Smith and Breann
Akers take the floor and play in a
second girls' state basketball tournament. The Betsy Layne quartet
has weathered several storms and
have two regional championships
on its side - not to mention a state
tournament win, something that has
been hard to come by for I 5th
Region girls' basketball teams .
"As a group, these seniors have
been a part of history here at Betsy
Layne High School," Betsy Layne
Coach Cassandra Akers acknowledged. "They have played in seven
regional championship games (four
All-A regional championships and
three regular regional championships) and won five regional titles
(three All-A and two regular
Regional). They are about to play in
their seventh state tournament game.
That is quite an accomplishment and
a testimony to their hard work and
dedication to this program."
With upstart Magoffin Count)'
running through the regular-season
and district tournament portion of
the season with a perfect, unblemished record against opposing 15th
Region teams, many counted the
Ladycats, champs back in 2003, out.
After Pike Central upset Magoffin
County in the opening round, the
tournament favorite exited a tournament-tested team began its run. Betsy
Layne. on its way to the regional
championship, beat Paintsville
Belfry, and then, Pike County Central
in the regional title game.
Clark entered the 2004-05 season ranked as the 15th Region's top
player and she proved that in the
regional tournament.
"Kim Clark, has scored over
l ,600 career points and leads this
team," Akers said. "She does whatever we need her to do: score, han-
Versus Kentucky, Utah hasn't fared well
by DOUG ALDEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah's history against Kentucky in the NCAA
tournament can't be much worse.
There have been five meetings in the
last 12 years and every result has been
the same - a Kentucky victory. The only
difference has been when it happened.
' '1 know we haven 't won yet, but
that doesn't really matter to me," center Andrew Bogut said.
The most notable of the meetings
wa~ the 1998 I'<CAA championship,
when Tubhy Smith and the Wildcats
~ beat the Utes 78-69. That was seven
ycctrs ago, long before anybody on
.: ithcr roster could even know where
they were going to play in college.
The Utes (29-5) are hoping to end
the school's 0-5 tournament drought
against Kentucky on Friday night in
the Austin Regional .
Less than half of Utah's current
players were around for the most recent
meeting, when Kentucky beat Utah 7454 two years ago in the second round.
Bogut, Utah's ?-foot sophomore star.
was still back home in Australia and
didn't get to watch it. First-year coach
Ray Giacoletti was still coaching at
Eastern Washington, a year away from
being hired to replace Rick Majerus.
The Utes haven't been this far in
the tournament since 1998. when they
went to the Final Four and lost to the
Wildcats in the title game.
"''ve heard a lot of history about it.
but coming into this game we're both
2-0 in the tournament. It's a whole new
year," said Utah's Justin Hawkins,
who was a senior in high school the
last time Utah played Kentucky.
Utah reached this point by beating
Oklahoma 67-58 Saturday with a dominant performance that showed the
Utes can do more than just feed the
ball inside to Bogut. The big Aussie
had seven assists and Hawkins scored
20 points to help lead the Utes.
This is also Giacoletti's first time this
deep in the NCAA tournament. I Ie wa'i
0-1 before, getting Eastern Washington
there a year ago by winning the Big Sky
(See UTAH, page three)
dle the ball, play defense, or pass.
She has the ability to take over a
game."
Clark's senior teammates have
been equally as important.
"Krista! Daniels has really come
into her own this year," Akers
added. "She is a force inside with
her ability to block shots, score,
and run the floor.
"Kristen Smith is an excellent
ball handler and defender. She
played great during the district and
regional tournament, her free throw
shooting and assist to turnover ratio
was phenomenal.
"Breann Akers, is our unsung
hero. She was the difference in the
Championship game, coming out
and hitting like she did. She is an
excellent shooter."
A talented group of non-senior
players has stepped up and played
well for Betsy ·Layne throughout
the season.
Candice Meade, who joins the
four seniors in the Betsy Layne start-
ing lineup, has played some of her
better basketball late in the season.
"Candice Meade really showed
what she can do in the championship game - seven rebounds and
eight assists was a great performance," Akers continued.
Nicole
Spurlock , Whitney
Tackett. Becky Tackett, and Kaitlin
Lawson, coming in off the bench,
provided us with steady play, especially in the Belfry game when our
starters were in foul trouble."
Fifth Region champ Washington
County (17-16) awaits Betsy Layne
Thursday in the opening round of the
Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls
Sweet
Sixteen
Basketball
Tournament. Washington County
earned the trip to Bowling Green
after beating Nelson County 55-45 in
the 5th Region championship game.
Tip-off for the opening round state
tournament game between Betsy
Layne and Washington County is set
for 2:30p.m.
Myles' transformation
a key to Louisville's run
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Shortly after Rick
Pitino became Louisville\ coach in
March 200 I, he met with each of the
players he was inheriting.
He needed only 10 minutes to size
up Ellis M)' les.
"Lazy, arrogant, disrespectful,"
Pitino recalls . "'Every bad adjective
you can come across he was."
One remarkable tran sformati on
later, the burly Myles is the corner
stone of Louisville's best season since
1997, leading the team in rebounds
(9.2 per game) and ranking second in
assists ( 115) .
The fourth-seeded Cardinals (31-4)
face top-seeded Washington (29-5) in
the Albuquerque Regional on Thursday
and Pitino knows Louisville would've
never made it this far v. ithout Myles,
the last lmk to the Denn) Crum era.
"He's the key," Pitino said "Without
him, we're not a good team. We can
play without anyone except him.''
Myles nearly didn't survi\'C P1tino 's
(See LOUISVILLE, page two)
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MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Utah
• Continued from p1
conference.
The Eagles lost in the first
round to Oklahoma State, but were
tied with the Final Four-bound
Cowboys 36-36 at halftime.
Giacoletti seems unfazcd by
the success and want<> to make
sure his team is, too after knocking
off the Sooners, who were seeded
No. 3 in the Austin Regional.
Because he knows next up
are the second-seeded Wildcats.
"We had fun on the flight
home on Saturday, but you've
got to stay focused on the
'noment or you miss an opportunity," Giacoletti said. ''I'm
sure there will be plenty of time
this spring and summer when
we can look back and feel a
sense of pride on things. But
we're right in the middle of it
right now"
Although Utah's history
with Kentucky in the tournament runs fairly deep, only five
Utes have been around for any
of the meetings.
Point guard Marc Jackson
scored 19 in the loss to the
Wildcats two years ago.
Teammates Tim Drisdom,
Bryant Markson,
Richard
Chaney and Chris Jackson (no
relation to Marc) were freshmen.
And none were around for the
other meetings with Kentucky in
1998, '97, '96 and 1993, when
the Utes' bad luck against the
Wildcats began with an 83-82
loss in the second round.
"At this point, you've got to
play somebody good. Might as
well have the opportunity get the
monkey off our back and have
coach Giacoletti get rid of that
little myth," Marc Jackson said.
''This is a different team from the
past years. Both us and them."
its in rebounding 18 times this
year. He's also become a
skilled passer, leading the team
in assists over the last nine
games, and a competent ball
handler, often bringing the ball
up the floor to beat pressure.
''I'm different in a whole
bunch of ways now," he said. "I
think I've matured into a man
now, l can handle different situations on my own."
But Myles committed five
turnovers
in
each
of
Louisville's NCAA games and
Pitino said he needs to rely
more on his teammates.
"When he doesn't try to do
too much, he really is the key
to the team," Pitino said.
"When he plays like he did in
the conference tournament, he
is brilliant, and he really helps
his team go. I am hoping he'll
do that in the next game."
The Cardinals boarded a
plane for Albuquerque about
noon EST on Tuesday.
In scouting Washington,
Pitino talked to N.C. State coach
Herb Sendek, who was Pitino's
former assistant at Kentucky.
N.C. State lost to Wa<>hington
68-64 in December and Sendek
told Pitino the Huskies are as
offensively potent as Duke or
North Carolina.
The Huskies scored 88 and
97 points in ttteir first two
NCAA victories and averaged
a Pac-1 0 best 87 points per
game during the season.
"They are the quickest team
in college basketball," Pitino
said. "'Fhe match-ups are very
difficult for us. What we have to
hope is that we make the match-
ups difficult for them as well
and that we can get in a close
ballgame, fight it out at the end
and come away with a victory."
The Cardinals have used a
2-3 zone defense much of the
season to protect a weak bench
and keep players out of foul
trouble. It worked well in
Saturday's 76-54 rout of
Georgia Tech, as the Yellow
Jackets shot 38 percent and
mustered their second-lowest
point total of the season ..
The Cardinals ranked fourth
in the nation in field-goal percentage defense (38 percent)
and Pitino said they've become
adept at playing any defensive
scheme.
"They are comfortable in
zone, they are comfortable in
man and we've had to use fullcourt press to win this year," he
said. "When you are as thin as
we are, there's not one defense
that you can rely on because you
go through so many different
things to protect your players."
Washington
left
for
Albuquerque on Monday to get
used to the city's 5,314-foot
altitude. Pitino said the altitude
will be no factor in Thursday's
game. He's talked with members of New Mexico's coaching
staff and said they told him the
key to dealiog with the altitude
change is staying hydrated.
NEXT GAME
Kentucky (27-5) vs.
Utah (29-5)
NCAA Tournament,
Austin Regional,
Austin, Texas
Friday, 9:40 p.m.
louisville
• Continued from p1
first day. Pitino was so turned
off by the "overweight problem
child" he threatened to stick
Myles on the next plane back to
his rugged childhood home,
Compton, Calif.
That was all Myles needed
to hear.
"Compton is not a place you
want to go back to," he said.
Myles acquainted himself to
the weight room and melted off
15 pounds before Pitino's first
season. Although only 6-foot-7
and hardly a leaper, Myles
slowly developed into a solid
post presence.
He got even more incentive
than Pitino could provide in
December 2001, when he
became a father.
"When my son (Ashton)
was born and everything like
that, I just had to find something, you know," he said. "Just
like I used basketball as an outlet back in Compton, I was aole
to use it to motivate myself and
realized that I have a son now
and I have to mature in some
kind of way."
His personal comeback
derailed toward the end of the
2002-03 season, when he ruptured the patellar tendon in his
right knee in a game against
Marquette. He had surgery,
underwent months of rehab and
sat out the 2003-04 season,
itching to return.
This season, Myles says
he's felt like a new person.
He's looked like a different
player, too.
Although Pitino has criticized his box-out technique,
Myles has reached double dig-
NEXT GAME
Louisville (31-4) vs.
Washington (29-5)
NCAA Tournament,
Albuequerque Regional,
Albuerque, N.M.
Thursday, 7:10p.m.
Traverse City bat-maker,
NCAA settle suit
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT - Forty-six days
into a federal court trial, a
Traverse City baseball bat
maker has settled his legal dispute with
the National
Collegiate
Athletic
Association, three aluminumbat makers and a trade group.
Steve Baum of Baum
Research and Development Co.
of Traverse City said in the
1998 lawsuit that the NCAA,
the
~porting
Goods
Manufacturers Association and
bat makers Hillerich &
Bradsby of Louisville, Ky.;
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according to the Detroit Free
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lost at least $120 million
because his bat, an ash veneer
over a plastic foam core and
other materials - was not
approved for use.
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Utah's Bogut leading
vote-getter on AP All-America team
by JIM O'CONNELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Andrew Bogut was ju t
another international player
when the college basketball season started, not even meriting an
honorable menhon in the preseason All-America balloting.
All that has changed now for
the 7-foot sophomore from
Australia. Th~ Utah center was
the leading vote-getter on The
Associated Press' All-America
team announced Tuesday.
Bogut, who averaged 20.4
points and was second in the
country in rebounding at 12.4,
was joined on the first team by
senior forwards Wayne Simien
of Kansas and Hakim Warrick of
Syracuse, junior guard J .J.
Redick of Duke and sophomore
guard Chris Paul of Wake Forest.
The voting was done on a 5-31 basis by the same 72-member
national media panel that sdects
the Top 25 each week. The balloting was conducted before the
NCAA tournament began.
Bogut received 60 first-team
votes and 330 points, 22 more
than Redick, who had 53 firstteam votes.
Simien and Paul each had 289
points with Simien getting 45
first-team votes, one more than
Paul. Warrick also had 44 firstteam votes and got 283 points.
Bogut was the only member
of the first team not to have
received any recognition after
last season. In fact, he was the
only one of the five not to have
been at least an honorable mention selection in the preseason
All-America balloting. Now
Bogut is considered a sure lottery pick, and the possible top
pick, if he decides to declare for
the NBA draft.
"The thing that impresses me
the most about Andrew is his
ability to get better as the year
went along," first-year Utah
coach Ray Giacoletti said. "I've
never seen a guy his size with
the versatility he has and the
will to win he has."
Bogut showed off his passing
skills with a season-high seven
assists in the Utes' second-round
win over Oklahoma last
Saturday, a game in which he has
a season-low 10 points on just
seven shots. That led the Utes
into the round of 16 for the first
time since their 1998 run to the
national championship game.
"We were just trying to have
a successful year and do our
best," said Bogut, Utah's first
All-America since Andre Miller
in 1999. "It just all came together these last couple of weeks."
Redick is one of the best
shooters in the game from long
range- 40.5 percent on 3-pointers - and the free throw line 93.7 percent. The 6-4 Redick
averaged 22.1 points and played
37.3 minutes per game for the
short-handed Blue Devils, who
won
the Atlantic
Coast
Conference tournament for the
sixth time in seven years and are
in the round of 16 for the eighth
straight year.
"J .J. has become a complete
player," Duke coach Mike
Krzyzewski said. "Everyone
watches his shooting ability.
He's found different ways to
score; he's become our best offthe-ball perimeter defender; he's
handled the ball; he's become a
leader for us."
Redick is the first Duke AllAmerica since Jason Williams
was selected in 2001 and 2002.
The other three All-Americas
all were eliminated from the
NCAA tournament on the opening weekend.
The 6-0 Paul had one of the
most impressive stat lines in
college basketball. He averaged
15.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.6
assists, 2.4 steals and shot 47.4
percent on 3s and 83.4 percent
from the free throw line.
He was the leading vote-getter on the AP's preseason AllAmerica team and he's Wake
Forest's first postseason selection since Tim Duncan repeated
in 1997.
"I just love the way he commands a game," Wake Forest
coach Skip Prosser said. "He's
not without flaws, but I wouldn't trade him for any point guard
in the country."
The 6-9 Simien had an outstanding career despite what
seemed like constant injuries.
He missed 28 games over his
first three years with various
injuries and he missed four
games this season after having
surgery on his left thumb. Still,
he averaged 20.3 points and
I 1 .0 rebounds while shooting
55.2 percent from the field and
81.6 percent at the free throw
line to become the Jayhawks'
first All-America since Nick
Collison in 2003.
"He had the best year of any
player I have ever coached,"
Kansas' Bill Self said. "It's
amazing the adversity he has
been through but he remains so
positive. His play is a direct
reflection of his attitude."
The 6-8 Warrick, one of the
key players in Syracuse's 2003
national championship run,
averaged 21.4 points and 8.6
rebounds while shooting 54.8
percent from the field, a stat
augmented by his spectacular
dunking ability.
"It's a special honor especially since no Syracuse player has
done it since Billy Owens in
1991 and there have so many
great players here the last few
years like Carmelo (Anthony),"
Warrick said.
Orange coach Jim Boeheim
said: "Hak was spectacular. The
dunks he made just demoralized
people. He took over games and
we struggled to score except for
him."
The second team had Illinois
guards Dee Brown and Luther
Head, Sean May of North
Carolina, Salim Stoudamire of
Arizona and Ike Diogu of
Arizona State.
The third team was Deron
Williams of Illinois, Shelden
Williams of Duke, Nate
Robinson
of Washington,
Raymond Felton of North
Carolina and Joey Graham of
Oklahoma State.
Two first-team selections
from last season - seniors
Lawrence
Roberts
of
Mississippi State and Ryan
Gomes of Providence - were
honorable mentions this season.
In addition to Roberts and
Gomes, last season's first team
included Jameer Nelson of Saint
Joseph's, Emeka Okafor of
Connecticut and Josh Childress
of Stanford.
2004-05 AP All-America
Basketl)all Team
FIRST TEAM
Andrew Bogut, Utah, 7-0,
240, sophomore, Melbourne,
Australia, 20.4 ppg, 12.2 rpg,
62.9 fg pet, 1.9 blocks (60 firstplace votes, 330 points).
J.J. Redick, Duke, 6-4, 190,
junior, Roanoke, Va., 22.1 ppg,
37.3 minutes, 40.5 3-pt fg pet.
93.7 ft pet (53, 30g),
Chris Paul, Wake Forest, 6-0,
175, sophomore, Lewi~ ville,
N.C., 15.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 6.6 apg.
83.4 ft pet, 47.4 3-pt, fg pet, 2.4
steals (44, 289).
Wayne Simiyn, Kansas. 6-9, '@ll
255, senior, Leavenworth, Kan.,
20.3 ppg, I 1.0 rpg, 55.2 fg pet,
81.6 ft pet (45, 289).
Hakim Warrick, Syracuse, 68,209, senior, Wynnewood, Pa.,
21.4 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 37.5 minutes,
54.8 fg pet (44, 283).
SECOND TEAM
Dee Brown. Illinois. 6-0,
185,junior, Maywood, Ill., 13.2
ppg, 4.5 apg, 50.8 fg pet, 44.6 3pt fg pet (32, 242).
Sean May, North Carolina, 69, 266, junior, Bloomington,
Ind., 16.8 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 55.4 fg
pet (23, 237).
Salim Stoudamire, Arizona,
6-1, 179, senior, Portland, Ore.,
18.6 ppg, 51.1 fg pet, 51.3 3-pt
fg pet, 91.4 ft pet (18, 189).
Ike Diogu, Arizona State, 68, 250, junior. Garland, Texas,
22.6 ppg, 9.8 rpg, 36.4 minutes,
57.5 fg pet, 2.3 blocks (1 2, 164).
Luther Head, illinois, 6-3, 185,
senior, Chicago, 15.7 ppg.4.0 rpg,
3.8 apg, 41.0 3-pt fg pet (6, 102).
THIRD TEAM
Deron Williams, Illinois, 6-3,
210, junior, :rhe Colony, Texas,
12.1 ppg, 6.6 apg (3, &8).
Shelden Williams, Duke, 6-9, ~)
250, junior, Forest Park, ·okla.,
15 .4 ppg, 11.3 rpg, 58 .S. fg pet..
3.8 blocks, (2, 81).
Nate Robinson, Washington,
5-9, 180, junior, Seattle, 16.6
ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.6 apg (1, 73).
Raymond Felton, North
Carolina, 6-l, 198,junior, Latta,
S.C., 12.6 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 7.0 apg.
44.1 3-pt fg pet (3, 69).
Joey Graham, Oklahoma
State, 6-7,225, senior, Brandon,
Fla., 17.5 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 53.2 fg
pet, 46.0 3-pt fg pet, 88.9 ft pet
(1' 61).
HONORABLE MENTION
Eddie Basden, Charlotte:
Brandon Bass, LSU; Turner
Battle, Buffalo; Tim Begley,
Pennsylvania;
Mike
Bell.
Florida Atlantic; Josh Boone.
Connecticut; Seamus Boxley,
Portland State; Darren Brooks,
Southern lllinois; Pat Carroll,
Saint
Joseph's;
Taylor
Coppenrath, Vermont; Travis
Diener, Marquette;
David
Doubley, Pacific; Jared Dudley,
Boston College; Nick Fazekas,
Nevada;
Channing
Frye,
Arizona; Francisco Garcia,
Louisville;
Ryan
Gomes.
Providence; Danny Granger,
New Mexico; Caleb Green, Oral
Roberts;
Blake Hamilton,
Monmouth; Kevin Hamilton,
Holy Cross; Chuck Hayes,
Kentucky; Chakowby Hicks,
Norfolk State; Julius Hodge,
North Carolina State; Jarrett
Jack, Georgia Tech; Willie
Jenkins, Tennessee Tech; Alex
Loughton, Old Dominion: John ._
Lucas III, Oklahoma State; Ed
McCants,
WisconsinMilwaukee; Rashad McCant .
North Carolina; Juan Mendez,
Niagara; Adam
Morrison,
Gonzaga; Yemi Nicholson.
Denver; Pele Paelay, Coastal
Carolina; Anthony Roberson,
Florida; Lawrence Roberts,
Mississippi State; Craig Smith,
Boston College; Steven Smith,
La Salle; Joe Thomp on, Sam
Houston State; Obie Trotter,
Alabama A&M; Ronny Turiaf,
Gonzaga; Eric Williams, Wake
Forest; Kennedy Winston, ,._
Alabama; Brendan Winters,
Davidson.
Cincinnati 5, Tampa Bay 3
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla. - Edwin
Encarnacion had RBI singles in
the seventh and eighth innings,
and the Cincinnati Reds scored
five times in their final two atbats to beat Tampa Bay 5-3
Monday.
Wily Mo Pcna, competing
for playing time in the Reds'
outfield, singled and scored in a
two-run seventh and again in the
eighth, when Cincinnati got
three runs with two out.
Pena, who could be the
fourth outfielder if Ken Griffey
Jr. and Austin Kearns are
healthy, IS hitting only .188 (9
for-48) this spring.
Griffey went 0-for-2 but
showed his recovery from a torn
hamstring IS going well, easily
chasing down fly balls in center
field for six innings.
Encarnacion, expected to
start at third base for Triple-A
Louisville, improved his spring
average to .389 (14-for-36) with
six RBis.
Ryan Freel was 3-for-3 for
the Reds.
Scott Kazmir allowed five
hits, walked one and struck out
five over 4 2/3 scoreless innings
for the Devil Rays.
Tampa Bay scored twice in
the first off Brandon Claussen
and got one run in the third off
Jose Acevedo.
Carl Crawford reached first to
start the game on an error by
Reds shortstop Rich Aurilia. Julio
Lugo singled and, following a
double steai,Aubrey Huff singled
in Crawford and Lugo scored on
Ed1:1nrdo Perez's sacrifice fly.
Lugo tripled and scored in
the third against Acevedo. the
only run he allowed in three
innings. The Reds' other relievers pitched four shutout innings.
Randy Keisler went the fifth ,
Todd Coffey (2-0) threw two
scoreless innings and Joe ~
Valentine pitched the nmth for
his first save.
Cincinnati began its comeback against Angel Garcia in the
seventh with three consecutive
singles by Aurilia, Pena and
Encarnacion. Pena scored on a
wild pitch.
Austin Kearns started the
eighth-inning rally with a <;inglc
off Garcia. Pena followed a s;crifice by Felipe Lopez with a
two-out RBI single off Franklin
Nunez (0-1) to make it 3-all.
Bobby Estallela then singled
to gi"e the Reds the lead and
Encarnacion hit an RBI single.
�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
South Laurel 72,
~warren Central 59
•
•
•
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON- Junior forward Walt Allen scored 30
points as South Laurel of
London won its first state basketball title with a 72-59 win
over Warren Central of
Bowling Green on Saturday
night in the Boys Sweet 16
tournament
championship
game at Rupp Arena.
South Laurel (32-4) became
only the fourth 12th Region
team to win a state title, joining
Hazel Green (1940); South
Laurel's predecessor, Laurel
County (1982); and Pulaski
County (1986).
The Cardinals, who closed
on an 11-game winning streak,
had not advanced past the quarterfinals in two previous trips
to the Sweet 16.
Warren Central (30-5) had a
21-game winning streak end.
Warren Central is the second
team in as many seasons to fail
in a quest to become the sixth
team to repeat as state champions. The 4th Region champion
Dragons ended Mason County's
bid to do so last season.
When Laurel County won
the title in 1982 over North
Hardin, it came in dramatic
fashion, on a half-court shot by
Paul Andrews. By contrast,
South Laurel never trailed and
controlled the game from the
start against against Warren
Central.
The Cardinals continually
worked the ball inside, using
their height advantage against
an undersized Warren Central
team and allowing the 6-foot-4
Allen to score I 5 points by
halftime . They also enjoyed
success from the perimeter,
going 6-of-9 from 3-point range
in the half, including 3-for-3 by
sophomore Jordan Hammonds.
South Laurel led 20-7 after
the first quarter as Warren
Central started the game 1-of10 from the field. The Cardinals
continued to roll in the second
quarter, building their lead to as
many as 18 points before
Warren Central pulled within
37-28 by halftime.
The Dragons got as close as
six points early in the third
quarter, but a 10-0 South
Laurel
run
rebuilt
the
Cardinals' lead to 47-31.
Warren Central came no
closer than 10 points after that.
Allen , the tournament's
most valuable player, finished
10-of-16 from the field and 7of-8 from the free-throw line.
He also had nine rebounds and
three assists. South Laurel shot
54.5 percent (24-of-44) from
the field, including 7-of-11
from 3-point range.
Eric Fields scored 15 points
and Ty Proffitt added 13 for
South Laurel.
Bentley basks
if,
by RICK BENTLEY
TIMES COLUMNIST
LEXINGTON - Look, forget the results. It was totally
one-sided Thursday night in
Rupp Arena. The 15th Region
lost in the opening round for
the fifth straight year, this time
being represented by Shelby
Valley, this time by a 69-38
final to Henry Clay.
The game was one-sided, as
big a difference in two teams as
you'll ever care to see.
That is one story. But forget
that. I'm asking you to set that
to the side for the next 750
words, aod consider looking at
this from another angle.
Consider Kris Bentley, if
you will.
The first time I saw Bentley
(who is no relation, by the way)
he was a sophomore and shot
his Prestonsburg Blackcats past
East Ridge in the first round of
the 15 th Region tournament.
He had floppy hair that
_, bounced when he ran, much
like his "do" the last two years
in the Valley.
That summer I heard he had
transferred to Shelby Valley,
and I thought he'd be a perfect
fit. He could fill the shoes of
the departed Paul Terry
Fleming and keep their run of
consecutive trips to the Sweet
16 alive.
But alas, it didn't happen.
Bentley and his team got back
to the region - played at
Prestonsbucg, his old school. In
the first round, they played
• Prestonsburg - his old school.
And lost. To Prestonsburg his old school.
It had to be devastating for
him. He transferred to the twotime regional champ, only to
fall to his old school in the
opening round of the region on
his old court. He had to wonder
if his dream would ever be
realized.
Forward to this, his senior
•
lfl
Sophomore Jeremy Anderson
led Warren Central with 18
points . Troy McFarland, the only
returning starter from lao;t season's team, had 13 points.
In
semifinals
earlier
Saturday, Warren Central beat
University
Heights
of
Hopkinsville 69-55 and South
Laurel outlasted Ple asure
Ridge Park of Louisville 66-65
in double overtime.
Against University Heights
(32-5), the Dragons picked up
22 points from Anderson.
Warren Central fell behind by
seven points in the first quarter,
but eventually wore down the
smallest school in the tournament. The 2nd Region champion Blazers finished 32-5.
In the other semifinal, Will
Allen scored on a put-back
with six seconds left in the second overtime to lift South
Laurel past 6th Region champion Pleasure Ridge Park (31-6).
Allen's basket capped a wild
second overtime, in which South
Laurel built a six-point lead, only
to fall behind when Pleasure
Ridge Park's JaJuan Spillman
stole the ball and scored on a
layup with 17 seconds left.
Spillman, who had hit
game-winning shots in two of
Pleasure Ridge Park's last three
games, again had the ball in his
hands in the final moments
before it was stolen by Proffitt.
Proffitt dribbled out the clock.
Rupp's glow
season, and once again his team
is the regional favorite. This
year, however, they're trying to
do it with a new J:.ead coach.
Jason Booher, the former
Shelby Valley assistant who
spent last year at Belfry, had
stepped in for Rodney Rowe.
That change was a wash,
however, as Booher was familiar with the talent and the system they ran, making for a
smooth transition.
It was during the holiday
break that Bentley had to wonder if he'd ever make it to Rupp.
Seth Kiser, the 3-1/2 year starter
at point guard, was dismissed
from the team. I don't think it's
much of a stretch to say Kiser
was the most talented Wildcat,
and his departure could have
easily meant so much turmoil
that the dream could be lost and
never again found.
But it wasn't to be. If anything, it seemed to bring the
Wildcats closer, the bond
between them and their coach
stronger. When the post-season
began, they even managed to
elude their annual loss to East
Ridge in the 59 th District
finals.
And then last Saturday, they
managed to survive a Belfry
roster that wanted to beat their
former coach more than they
wanted to win for themselves.
They survived a torrid second
half by Doug Howard, and
finally, Kris Bentley was on his
way to Rupp Arena.
Last night wasn't the way
Bentley had dreamed about
ending his career. He finished
with eight points on 3-of-10
shooting, going 2-of-9 from the
arc. He had three steals and two
assists but five turnovers in his
final game as a high school
basketball player.
But it wasn't so much (ita!)
how (ital) Kris Bentley played
in his last game as it was (ita!)
where (ital) he played it.
It was in the postgame press
conference
that
Bentley
brought it all into focus. Yes ,
the night didn't go the way
he'd hoped, but his career had .
He played with the nght teammates and for the right coaches,
and, most importantly, it had
ended at the right place.
"There are no regrets," he
said. 'Tve had the time of my
life. Even though we lost, there
are no regrets about this."
How is that for focus? How
is that for perspective from a
high school kid?
It is terrific , that 's how it is.
And then, as he elaborated,
he gave the quote I was looking
for. It is what we in the media
hope for when we've watched
our team get drubbed and have
sat through the press conference for both teams and still
have no angle for a story, no
idea what we 're going to say.
That's when it happened.
"This is where I wanted to end
my career," Kris Bentley said.
"This is where I wanted to take
my jersey off for the last time."
How sweet is that? How
good is that line? It's where he
wanted to take his jersey off for
the last time.
Thank you, Kris Bentley.
Thank you for a terrific high
school · career, for a silkysmooth jumper, and for filling
the void the Wildcats needed.
Thank you for the quote, the
line of the night , the angle for
my column.
But thanks most of all for
the perspective.
Sometimes , we look at this
through old, tired eyes. We
look at the scoreboard and see
a 31-point loss, look at the stat
sheet and see 24 turnovers and
37 percent shooting and 30
points off turnovers for the
other team, and we can't see it.
Sometimes , we need to look
through teenage eyes. From the
perspective of the young.
It is then that we truly see
what it's all about
., Cards to host high school
quarterback/wide receiver camp
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
~
he
LOUISVILLE
University of Louisville and
head coach Bobby Petrino will
hold
its
first
ever
Quarterback/Wide
Receiver
Camp for high school player
(grades 9-12) on Sunday, June 5
at the University of Louisville
Visit:
football complex. The cost for
the one-day camp is $50.
Petrino and his experienced
staff will provide detailed
instruction in the advanced
techniques of quarterback and
receiver play - the same fundamentals that helped the
Cardinals lead the nation in
scoring and total offense in
2004. High school players can
find out exactly what it takes to
be a great quarterback or
receiver- the secrets of success
that the Cards used to go 11-1
and finish the season ranked
sixth in the AP poll.
For more information, call
the Cardinal" Football Office at
502-852-632
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2005 Kentucky
High School AllState Team
Ormerod, Guffey twins
top girls' all-state team
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Sacred
Heart star Carty Ormerod and
Clinton County twins Paige
and Amber Guffey topped the
2005 Associated Press girls
All-State basketball team,
released Tuesday.
The 5-foot-9 Ormerod, y.'ho
will play at Kentucky this fall, put
up only modest numbers in her
fmal season - 16 points, six
rebounds and three assists per
game. But she also won three state
championships and two Sweet 16
Most Valuable Player trophies.
The Valkyries lost to
Assumption in the 26th
District tournament opener,
but Ormerod still left high
school with a 135-8 record.
Ormerod received 27 firstteam votes from a panel of 12
media members statewide.
Paige Guffey, a 5-9 guard,
averaged 21 points per game
this season. She was the second-leading vote getter, garnering 25. Her sister, Amber,
earned 20 first-team votes.
Amber Guffey averaged 19
points per game this season.
Amber Guffey ranked sixth
in the state in field-goal percentage (62 percent). Both
twins shot better than 80 percent from the free-throw line.
Christian County forward
Arnika Brown also made the
first team, earning 23 firstteam votes. The 6-foot Brown
was the state's ~inth-leading
Tbe 200.5 Kentucky High
School girls' Ali"State basket•
baH team, as selected by 12
members pf The Associated
Pt:eSSo (With schMl, height,
scorer, averaging 21.8 points
per game. Brown also averaged 11 rebounds per game.
Shannon Novosel, a 6-1
post player for top-ranked
Lexington Catholic, rounded
out the first team. Like
Ormerod, Novosel's numbers
weren't gaudy this year, but
the Lady Knights have won 32
of 33 games heading into this
week's Sweet 16.
County's
Rockcastle
Johnna Abney, Lexington
Catholic's Nikki Davis and
Woodford County's Destiny
Mattingly led the second team.
All of them received 16 votes.
Abney, a 5-4 guard, led the
state in free-throw percentage
(88.2 percent) and led her team
to a 27-4 record. Rockcastle
County opens the Sweet 16
against Lexington Catholic .
The 5-9 Mattingly averaged
20.8 points this season.
Knott County Central's
Kasi Mullins-Galloway, the
state's eighth-leading scorer
(22.3 points per game) and
Scott County's Rebecca Gray,
the state's 13th-leading scorer
(20 .8 ppg) completed the second team.
Sacred Heart's Taylor Kopple
was the top vote-getter on the
third team, garnering 12 votes.
Lexington Catholic's Greg
Todd was named the coach of
the year, edging Woodford
County's Jay Lucas. Woodford
County went 29-2 this season,
lo.s ing to Lexington Christian
in the 11th region semifinals.
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received):
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school Coach,
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Heart (1); Jayme Thiem, Newport
Central ClltMlic (1); EmilY Qpee.u,
Ro$e . fUll (~~~ MeJanie ~n~fh
J{9~'n Co~-n~ (!}!~. lf:'4fY J[a~ja~~
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Bunton,
boQ.i$vill~
Ballard
(~);
C1imJUe C()Qk:, Whitesburg (4);
Jayme Gilbert~ Clay County .(4);
.BrQOke .F®lkner, Harrisoo Cotl.tliy
:(p); ?~~ · :fjelds~ Phelp~ (~)~.
a~tbw- l:lll$~lQCh~ f{etit~gt;f:
(3);.
Rol).yn Jennm~s~ Blizal;Jet!lti;!wfi.f3),
Julie Web, Qli~6 County ()}; ~rltta.
~¥agga.M, Percy C()Unty centta) (3};,
AustiJI. Mclnb)$h, Qw$ley Q.'n.mt.y
(3); Pam Bell, Paducah T:il,gP.llliln
(4); ·:l;lrittanY Edelet~;, Washl!lg~oll:·
Cciuniy (2)i ESthet Fle'ming, Shelby
scltool
1st . . . .Trey Tindell , ........Calloway Co. Terry Birdsong, ...... . . .Calloway Co.
2nd .. .Curtis Pulley, .. . ....Hopkinsville/Bill Price, .. ........ . ......Union Co.
3rd .. ..Derek Adams, .. .... Muhlenberg North/David Miller, . . ..Breck.inridge Co.
4th ... Matt Morris, . .. . . . . .Franklin-Simpson/David Clark, ... .Franklin-Simpson
5th . .. .Anthony Thomas, ....Han Col Artie Braden, ...... . .. .. .... John Hardin
6th . .. JaJuan Spillman. . .. .PRP/Shawn Purlee, ..... . ..... . .... . . . .. .. .Doss
7th . . .Domonic Tilford. . .. Jeffersontown/Jeff Morrow, . . . ...... Jeffersontown
8th . ...Zack Mefford. . .... .Williamstown!Tim Mefford, ........ . .Williamstown
9th . . . .Brennan Vote!, . .....Cov. Catholic/David Henley, ....... . . . .... .Holmes
lOth . ..Keaton Belcher, .. ...Pendleton Co JChris O' Hearn. . ...... . .. Mason Co .
lith ...Bryan Turnage, .. .. ..Henry ClayfKirk Clllles, . .. . ........... Henry Clay
12th . . .Nathan Bray, . .. . . .. Somerset/Shawn Thacker, .. . ... .•........Somerset
13th ...Aaron Cash. . ..... ..Ruck.castle Col Anthony Nolan, ..... . ......Cawood
14th .. .Andrew Sewell, .... .Breathitt CoJKevin Spurlock,
....... .Hazard
15th ...Aaron Branham, ... . .East Ridge/Randy Casey, . . . ... •. . • .... . ....Belfry
16th ...Bryantt furman •.... .Rowan CoJDon Daniel, ............ .. . .Rowan Co .
KABC's Court of Honor:
1st Region : Berny Miller,
Paducah Tilghman; 2nd: Bob
Fox, Earlington; 3rd: George
Taylor, Central City; 4th: Ernie
Simpson, Bowling Green; 5th:
Ralph Dorsey, Caverna; 6th:
Harry Hardin, Fairdale; 7th:
Joe Thompson, Trinity; 8th:
Tom Creamer, Shelby Co.; 9th:
., f)l1.f1
.
Cl>UU\Y {8): ;}.naris SicWes~ ~t~
Catholic (8) ; 1aclde DiStler, $~
from each region:
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KABC Award winners
R.
23, 2005 • 83
Val~y
(2); Aseer Jtiavkase, Padooah
Tilgturtan {Z)i ~achef Lantry, Cov.
H,oly C:Wss {2); Kendra Latham,
Harlan (2)f Brooke Smith. 'Bell
Coun1y-
(2) ; . Lydia
Watkins,
Qhristittn Count)' (2)'; LaQuisna
Whart().tt, LOuisville Iroquois (2)~
Bt1ttany Bass, C<J'V. Holy Cross;.
Paula Carver, Wel;fster County ~
Colette Cole, Breathitt Count,y;.
Chelsea G~. Mercer County;
Megan HlU'l'ts, Pil<;eviUe; Krista
Hatfielli, H:eni;len~(m C1;1unty; HUi.an
Horn, Mercer County; Samantha
Howard,
Pikeville;
Shawna
Howard, Pikeville; Ashley Massey,
Cumberland; .Arnie Noll, Cov. Holy
Cro,ss.
Ken Shields, Highlands; lOth:
Woodie Crum, Harrison Co.;
11th:
Jock
Sutherland,
Lafayette;
12th: William
Marshall Clark, Somerset;
13th: J.W. "Spider" Thurman,
Clay Co.; 14th: Goebel Ritter,
Hazard; 15th: Denzil "Hoss"
Halbert, Martin; 16th: Charlie
Baker, East Carter
-:- ~: .
Allen Central Middle earns first win of
season, knocking off Betsy Layne 2-0
TIMES STAFF REPORT
EASTERN - The Allen
Central Middle defense performed flawlessly Monday
night, digging 10 Betsy Layne
attempts without an error,
Hannah Howard and Natalie
Glime each returned three.
Allen Central prevailed in the
volleyball season opener, winning 2-0. Brittany Hodge and
Brittany Johnson stopped two
attempts and Kimbo Blevins
dug up one. Howard ran the
offense three times with three
assists while Hodge and Koko
Martin sat up one kill each .
Brittany Hodge pounded in
three non-returnables for the
Rebel Offense earning three
kills and Johnson and Glime
dropped in one kill each.
The Allen Central girls
dished up nine aces on the night
while serving 83 percent.
Johnson led all servers with
three aces . Glime and Martin
each had two floor busters and
Hodge and Hannah Howard
each slapped in one.
The Rebels defeated the
Bobcats, 21 - 7 in the first
game of the match and 21 - 5
in the second game.
Allen Central traveled to
Allen Tuesday night. Results
were unavailable at press
time.
Daniels wins Yatesville
Lake Tournament
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES .
LOUISA - On Sunday, the
Tug Valley Bass Anglers held its
first tournament of the 2005 season on Yatesville Lake. After a
long winter and a late spring
everyone was excited to get the
new season started. There was a
great turn out as 26 boats competed in the e\~ent.
Yatesville Lake was down
about eight feet, which is normal winter pool. The water was
in good shape with a temperature of 44 to 47 degrees and
stained water on most of the
lake.
Spring has been late arriving
this year and the fish were really
still in their winter patterns.
Most of the fish were suspended
in 10 to 15 feet of water off of
channel banks. Late in the day
some ~f dtL ;:~:. ~ ........ ,c:d movmg
4.13 lbs-.
8th- MO (Name unavailable) (1 fish)
more shallow. This was really the
first time this year the fish have
moved to prespawn locations.
The fishing for this tournament was fair. It would have
been better if the warmer weather
had started about two weeks ago.
The main pattern for this
tournament was to fish channel
banks with jigs and crankbaits .
4.1llbs.
9th- Mike Hoskins (1 fish)
4.04 lbs .
lOth - BradTaylor (l fish)
3.61 lbs.
For more information about
the Tug Valley Bass Anglers, go
online to
A list of the top finishers
follows.
1st-Scott Daniels (5 fish)
16.65 lbs.
2nd-Timmy Robinson ( 1 fish)
6.06lbs.
3rd-Billy Rogers (1 fish)
5.15 lbs .
4th-Barry Rice (1 fish)
4.91 lbs.
5th- Brandon Staten (2 fish)
4.39lbs.
6th - Kevin Runyon (2 fish)
4.20 lbs.
lth- Ueorge Thornsbury (2 fish)
www.setel.com/-tugvalleyanglers.
t
The Tug Valley Bass Anglers
is in its 15th year of existence
and is one of the state's largest
bass clubs.
The bass club is for the serious, more dedicated tournament
fishermen.
Club meetings are held the
fir t Tuesday of each month at
6:30 p.m. at the John's Creek
Elementary School.
�84 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------inducted into 2005 Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls
Sweet Sixteen® Basketball Tournament
Halbert
Court of Honor
coach Denzil "Hoss" Halbert represented the 15th Region.
While guiding the Purple
Flash, Halbert enjoyed one of
Floyd County's most successful coaching tenures.
The KABC began the Court
of Honor program in 2002, recognizing various coaches from
each of the 16 regions, who
have set themselves apart.
Last week, the KABC also
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
LEXINGTON - The Kentucky
Association of Basketball Coaches
(KABC) inducted 16 new memhe!"'l - one from each region - into
1ts Coaches' Court of Honor on
Friday during the National
City/KHSAABoys Sweet 16 State
Basketball
Tournament.
Legendary Martin Pwple Rash
named and honored its coaches
and players of the year in each
region. East Ridge senior guard
Aaron Branham was named the
15th Region's player of the year.
Belfry first-year head coach
Randy Casey took the region's top
coaching honqr. Royd County
native Kevin Spurlock, now the
head boys' basketball coach at
Hazard High School, took the
14th Region's top coaching honor.
.
Rockca~Ue Countv
Mar23, 12:00 Pt.l
at E.A. Diddle Alene, B~l'lfrlg GIHn
Lexlnatoo Catholic
.
Henderson Counlv
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
HINDMAN - Chalk up
another honor for Knott
County Central senior and
University of Kentucky
signee
Kasi
MullinsGalloway. Knott County
Ce ntral head coach Rhett
Gibson
was
recently
informed - via letler - that
Mullins-Galloway had been
selected as the 2005 Gatorade
Kentucky Girls Basketball
Player of the Year.
The Knott County Central
senior had a phenomenal senior
season , averaging 22.3 points
per game, eighth-best in the
state.
"I wouldn't trade her for
any other player in the state,"
Gibson said during a recent
interview.
Now
in
its
20th
Anniversary season, the
Gatorade High School Player
of the Year Award honors top
high school student-athletes
in 10 varsity sports for their
athletic performance, as well
as for their achievement in
the classroom and overall
character. The award is considered by many as the top
honor in high school sports.
Selections were made by a
National Advisory Board
comprised of sportswriters
and sports-specific experts
from across the country, As
Kentucky's honoree for the
2005, Mullins-Galloway is
now a member of prestigious
Gatorade
Circle
of
Champions, joining the likes
of past Gatorade State
Players of the Year, including
Diana Taurasi, Katie Smith,
Tamika Catchings, Swin
Cash, Vince Carter, Shaquille
O'Neil and Derek Jeter. In
addition, she is now eligible
for the Gatorade National
Girls Basketball Player of the
Year award to 1::::: announced
later this month.
As part of the Lady
Patriot's honor, she will
receive both a plaque and a
banner, commemorating her
honor.
Knott County Central, led
by Mullins-Galloway, captured the 14th Region title and
will take on Iroquois Thursday
night at Western Kentucky
University's E.A. Diddle
Arena in the opening round of
this
year's
Houchens
Industries/KHSAA
Girls'
Sweet Sixteen Basketball
Tournament.
Scott.Countv
South Laurel
~outh Laurel
South Laurtl
Mar 16. 1:30PM
Elizabethtown
at Rupp Arena, lemgron
Paducah Tilahman
Washinaton Countv
BetsvLavne
Knott. Coun~ Central
KASI MULLINS-GALLOWAY
66
south Laurel
70
Park &4
Mar 18, 1:30 PM
Pleasure Rid eP rk 65
59
Mar16,8:00PM
Bullitt East
Ballard
62
41 ~o==----__;,_j
Mar19, B:IJO PM
at !Wpp Arena, Lemgton
~ump/onlhip)
Rowan Coon
South laurel
53
67
Mar 18, 6:.3() PM
at Rllpp Anlna. Lexilgton
Lone Oak
55
67
Mar17, 1:30PM
at Rupp Arena, lemgton
(ove-rlime)
~
Universi Hel hts
Co'rbln
15
61
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Mar 111, 1t30 AM
at Rupp Arana, Lexilgton
Warren Central
69
Mar 17, 6:30PM
Hen Cia
st Rupp Arena, Lexington
Shelb Valle
60
38
Mar18,1!:Cil PM
at Rllpp Aren" Lexilgton
Warren Central
Mar 17, 8:()0 PM
at Rupp AlEna. Lexilgton
Holmes
warrtn Central
S7
Warren Central
55
64
Msr2~. ti:30 PM
at E.A. Oildie Arens, Balling
Green
~
.
.
.
.
Mar 26, 11:30 AM
et EA. Diddle luana, Bollilg G1'6en
.
.
Mar 2t 1!:00 PM
Park 64
at Rupp A!ens,lemgton
.
.
Christian Academv-Louisvllle •
56
at Rupp Arena, lemgton
(double uvedme)
.
Mar24. 6:30PM
at E.A. lldole Arana, BO'tlfrlg Gnlen
61
P1easurt R
Mar26, 8:00PM
at E.A. Diddle luana, Bollilg Gillen
(tins JUbjed lo change)
.
Clinton Countv
•
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.
.
.
Mar24, 1:30PM
atE A Oiddle Amla, Bollfrlg Gfeen
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Pleasure R.
Mar2S, I:30 P\4
at EA. Oidal& Alena, Bol'lfrlg
Gillen
Msr24, 12:00 Pfd
at Rupp Alena, lemgton
(ovetlime)
Mar 16, 6:30PM
at Rllpp Alena, Lexilgton
(ovelfimeJ
'
at E.A.. !lddle Alene, Bo¥1frlg Gl!i911
Per Coun Central 60
Pendleton Coun
.
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.
Newoort Central Catholic
70
Elizabethtown
())lo Countv
Montaome!Y C(}Ulltv
77
Mar Hl, 12:00 PM
Mar 23, 8:30 PM
at EA llddle Anlna, 811¥1frlg Giaen
Mar23, e:oo f1M
63
at Rllpp Anlna, lemgton
Mar26, 10:00 AM
at EA Diddle Anma, Bollilg Gn!en
.
at E.A. !lddle AAina, B~l'lilg Gnl911
55
Mar 16, 12:!10 PM
at !Wpp luena,lexl!glon
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Rowan Countv
2005 National City/KHSAA Boys
Sweet Sixteen® Basketball Tournament
OhioCoon
Msr25, 12:00 PM
at E.A. Diddle Arana, BaM'Ig
Glaen
Msr23, 1:30PM
at EA Diddle An111e, Bo'llfrlg Gillen
South Laurel
Mullins-Galloway named Gatorade
Kentucky Girls Player of the Year
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�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Steroid hearings will make youngsters
•
more curtous,
experts warn
No. 30 Louisville
by JOE MILICIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clark wins in singles, doubles competition.
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LOUISVILLE
- Senior
Octavian Nicodim won his
match 6-3,6-4 at No.4 singles to
clinch a 5-2 win for the No. 30
ranked University of Louisville
men's tennis team over visiting
Michigan State at Bass-Rudd
Tennis Center Sunday afternoon.
''I was very pleased when we
won the doubles points and then
rolled in singles. Octavian
(Nicodim) clinched the match but
Jakob Gustaffson, Jeremy Clark
and Slavko Radman also won easily." said U ofLcoach Rex Ecarma.
The Cardinals took the doubles point with wins from the
No. 1 and No. 3 slots. Clark
paired with Gustaffson to win
at No. 1 8-6 over Nick Rinks
and Andy Formanczyk . Damar
Johnson and Mark Kennedy
won 5-2 over Cameron
Marshall and Mike Flowers.
"We felt very confident at
No.2 singles and No. 3 doubles
but knew we would need help
elsewhere and the team did it.
The match was moved
indoors when Michigan State
appealed to the officials, citing
the temperature at the start of
the match which was one
degree cooler than the rule.
''Even though this was the
warmest day of the year and we
have practiced outdoors for a
month, we were surprised
when the officials granted their
request," explained Ecarma.
The Cardinals improved to
14-7 for the season.
"Most of all I was very pleased
that our players always display
sportsmanship, dignity and class,"
said Ecarma. 'This team shows
such promise and handles adversity well not to mention represent
our school with class.
•
Sweep!
Pikeville men, women win sectional titles
TIMES STAFF REPORT
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. For one group, it has nearly
become the expected. But for the
other, it was treading new water.
The Chattanooga Sectional of
the IBC qualifying tournament
was painted orange and black on
Sunday as both the men's and
women's championships came
home to Pikeville College. Both
teams will now participate in
next month's IBC championship
touman1ent in Rockford, III.
For the Lady Bears, it
marked their fourth sectional
title in as many years, keeping
alive their streak of not only
qualifying for the national tournament but also winning the
championship along the way.
The men, however, had
experienced different luck. In
their first four years, they had
reached the sectwnal round but
never finished in the top four to
qualify for the national level.
This year, however, they not
only got through the door, they
knocked it down.
The men , ranked eighth in
the country, rolled 9667 to finish nearly 100 pins ahead of
defending national champion
Kansas University's 9578.
Toledo, ranked 36th in the latest power ratings, finished
third at 9298, with No. 10
Saginaw Valley (Mich.) State,
the national runner-up a year
ago, checking in by finishing
fourth at 9290.
Three other Top 25 teams in
the Chattanooga Sectional, No.
15 Western New England, No.
19 Florida State and No. 24
Cincinnati, all failed to qualify
for the IBC.
Nationally, the top six and
13 of the top 14 teams will be
in the national event. Only seventh-ranked Vincennes failed
to qualify from the Allentown
Sectional, where 12th-ranked
Erie Community College was
the champ, knocking off
Central Florida, who is fourth
in the country.
University of Nebraska won
the Fairview Heights Sectional,
while top-ranked Fresno State
was the champion of the San
Jose Sectional.
Pikeville will be joined by
three other NAIA schools in
the men's tournament. No. 9
Newman, No. 14 Lindenwood
and No. 16 Missouri Baptist all
qualified.
In the women's draw,
Pikeville's 9435 easily outdistanced No. 8 Kansas' 8984 to
win the Chattanooga Sectional.
No. 11 McKendree and No. 10
Purdue also qualified here. Two
other national powers failed to
qualify from Chattanooga 19th-ranked Ball State and No.
23 Florida State.
Meanwhile, in Allentown,
Morehead State squeaked past
Central Florida for the title by
finishing at 8785 to win by
23, 2005 • 85
only two pins. Top-ranked
Wichita State, which lost to
Pikeville in the 2004 championship round, easily won the
Fairview Heights Sectional,
while No.6 Fresno won in San
Jose, knocking off No. 2 West
TexasA&M.
Four of the nation's Top 16
teams did not participate this
year, choosing to take their
chances in the NCAA tournament. They were ninth-ranked
Fairleigh-Dickenson, No. 14
Sacred Heart, No. 16 New
Jersey City and 24th-ranked
Northern lllinois.
Pikeville will be one of five
schools who otherwise participate at the NAIA level in the
women's draw. The others are
McKendree, No. 13 Newman,
No. 15 Lindenwood and surprising Missouri Baptist, which
entered San Jose ranked 46th in
the latest power ratings.
The 2005 IBC championships will be held this year at
The Cherry Bowl in Rockford,
Ill., April 20-23. The top four
teams from each section in
both the men's and women's
fields will compete for the
national title.
On Thursday, each team will
roll 32 Baker games and then
be ranked 1-to-16 for the double-elimination tournament,
which begins Friday morning.
The championships will be
contested on Saturday evening
and be telecast on CSTV.
CLEVELAND - Steroid use
among h; ..} school students is
on the rise, and experts warn that
the recent focus on major league
baseball's drug problems will
only make such use increase.
While congressmen who
questioned former home run king
Mark McGwire and others say
their goal was to curb use among
teenagers, last week's hearings
increased awareness of steroids and that will lead more youngsters to try them, said Tracy
Olrich, a sports psychologist at
Central Michigan University.
"I saw very little accomplished," Olrich said. "It was
unclear exactly what the point
of it all was."
But Rep. Christopher Shays,
R-Conn., the second-ranking
Republican on the House
Government Reform Committee
that held the hearings, rejected
such criticism.
"That's pretty naive," Shays
said in a telephone interview with
The Associated Press. "That's
like saying my children, when
they grew up, didn't know about
sex. The kids know about this
stuff, and the problem is: What
are we going to do about it?"
Steroid use among high
school students more than doubled from 1991 to 2003, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. More
than 6 percent of the 15,000 students in grades 9-12 who
responded to the CDC's 2003
National Youth Risk Behavior
Survey acknowledged taking
steroid pills or shots at least once.
"I think we've had a million
kids who've cycled on these
drugs," said Charles Yesalis, a
professor of health and human
development at Penn State
University and an expert on
steroid use. Cycling means that
they've used them over a 6-12
week period or longer.
Yesalis, who gave that estimate to Congress during testimony March 10, said he thought
when former Canadian sprinter
Ben Johnson tested positive for
steroids and was stripped of his
Olympic 100-meter gold medal
in 1988 that there would be a
backlash against performanceenhancing drugs.
"It had the opposite effect,"
Yesalis said.
He
expects
baseball's
steroids scandal to lead more
young athletes to try steroids as
well.
"Now that it's in the news
every day, (teenagers) equate
steroids with doing well in
sports, making lots of money
and being successful," said
JoAnn Dahlkoetter, a sports
psychologist who works with
athletes at Stanford, though she
added that Congress needed to
address the issue.
She counsels youngsters and
sees the side effects of steroids,
such as anger and depression.
"The effects are devastating," she said. "They come to
me because they've gotten
caught or are worried about getting caught or are having problems. Sometimes they can' t handle their aggression. Their anger
gets out of control."
Yesalis said, similar to pro
sports, most people acknowledge there's a steroid problem in
high schools but think only
other schools are involved. He
calls it the "not-in-my-school
phenomenon."
Less than 4 percent of the
nation's high schools test students for steroids, according to a
2003 survey of athletic dir~ctors
by the National Federation of
State High School Associations.
"Because of the already serious constraints on our school
systems, testing is probably out
of the question for most school
districts," Yesalis said of tests
that cost at least $100 each.
A lack of testing means that
teenagers are rarely caught
using steroids.
"It's almost a 'don't ask,
don't tell' mentality," said Chad
Zimmerman, a former Carnegie
Mellon offensive lineman.
Zimmerman, who says he
never used s.teroids, remembers
the pressure to improve his performance - pressure that came
from coaches and teammates, as
well as from within himself.
He and a former suburban
Cleveland high school teammate, Nick Palazzo, said they
got little guidance on safe ways
of reaching their peak potential.
So the two started STACK magazine to provide young athletes
with alternatives to steroids.
The magazine features advice
from top athletic trainers and is
distributed to 3,100 high schools
across the country. The premiere
issue last month featured
LeBron James' high school
training regimen as its lead story.
"Everybody 's pretty much
aware that there's going to be athletes on your own team or the other
team that are going to be using
(steroids)," Zimmennan said.
Several high school students
in Buckeye, Ariz., in the fall of
2003 and in Grapevine, Texas,
last month admitted using
steroids, in each case only after
the mother of a player found
steroids in her son's room .
"You could do that story in
any town of 20,000 or more ,"
Yesalis said. "Any high school
is going to have a handful of
steroid users ."
Yesalis acknowledged there
are greater health problems facing high schools, such as alcohol abuse, but he said that doesn't mean steroids should be
ignored.
"This is more of a moral and
ethical problem than a public
health problem," he said.
One of the difficulties in discouraging the use of steroids is
that they are effective in building
muscle and strength, Yesalis said.
It's also tough to frighten kids by
warning about side effects such
as cancer, severe acne and shrinking of the testicles.
Although there have been
deaths associated with steroidssuch as the highly publicized
suicide of Texas high school
baseball player Taylor Hooton those cases are rare.
"Mom and. dad have to give
the message that it's cheating
and false glory," Yesalis said. "If
you don't do that, the kid can
see through this pretty quick."
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and
Horsemen win opener
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of
Kentucky
Wildcat Dusty Bonner tossed
five
touchdown
passes
Saturday, leading the Lexington
Horsemen to a 47-37 win over
the Tupelo (Miss.) Fireants.
Randy Bell rushed for two
touchdowns as the Horsemen
overcame a 10-point third-quarter deficit to win the opener.
Prestonsburg High School
graduate Nathan Leslie, who
after high school, went on to
play at Marshall University,
played
center
for
the
Horsemen. Leslie is in his first
season as a member of the
Lexington Horsemen.
The Ants led 30-20 with less
than two minutes remaining in
the third quarter when Bonner
got the Lexington passing
game doing.
Lexington's Chad Spencer,
another former UK Wildcat led
the Horsemen in receiving
yards with 11 catches for 50
yards and two touchdowns, all
of which came in the first half.
Passing, Bonner finished
21-for-33 for 180 yards.
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Play of bench key
to Kentucky's success
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Kentucky
basketball coach Thbby Smith has
a theory about why the Wildcats
do so well in toWllaments.
It's right there on the stat
sheet - nine players average
more than 10 minutes a game,
and four others average
between 6 and 9.3 minutes.
Smith said the team's efforts to
develop depth usually pay off
during postseason play, when
quick adjustments have to be
made, sometimes with the season on the line.
Kentucky, playing in its
46th NCAA tournament, will
bid for its 28th appearance in
the Elite Eight on Thursday,
when
the
second-seeded
Wildcats (27-5) play sixthseeded Utah (29-5) in a regional semifinal in Austin, Texas.
Of Kentucky's 15 players,
only two have not seen significant action with a game still in
doubt. Six of the eight mostused reserves are freshmen or
sophomores. Of the two upperclassmen, one, junior Ravi
Moss, is a walk-on.
Because of that depth, no
Kentucky starter is averaging
more than 29.3 minutes a
game.
"We try to develop depth
and make sure that when you
get into a tournament that a guy
like Ravi Moss has the confidence and he knows I have
confidence in him," Smith said.
"Anybody we bring off the
bench has had enough experience and playing time in game
situations that they can step up
and perform."
Sophomore center Lukasz
Obrzut is an example of that.
Seldom used for much of the
season, he played a career-high
22 minutes in a 78-71 win at
Alabama that clinched the
Southeastern Conference regular-season title.
The 7-foot sophomore from
Gliwice, Poland, only scored
two points against the Crimson
Tide, but he grabbed four
rebounds and set numerous
screens that freed up teammate
Patrick Sparks, who had 26
points and seven 3-pointers.
In a 72-64 first-round
NCAA tournament win over
Eastern Kentucky, Obrzut
scored five points in five minutes as Kentucky held off the
Colonels.
"I always try to give my best
on the court and just keep
improving every day," Obrzut
said. "Confidence comes from
practice and I just keep going
during the game and let it go."
Obrzut's emergence gives
the Wildcats two potentially
productive ?-footers off the
bench, as 7-foot-3 Shagari
Alleyne shined early in the season for Kentucky.
At power forward, Bobby
Perry and Sheray Thomas have
subbed capably for starter
Chuck Hayes. There's depth on
the perimeter, too, with Moss,
freshman point guard Ramel
Bradley, Joe Crawford and
Josh Cattier. The Wildcats' top
eight bench players have combined for 15 double-figure
scoring games this season.
Moss said it's important for the
bench players to be ready to go in
a game on a moment's notice.
"I think we can wear teams
down and we won't get worn
down because we don't play as
many minutes, so hopefully
that will pay off for us," Moss
said. "We all come in off the
bench ready to do whatever we
can to help the team."
Depth has proven critical in
previous postseason runs by the
Wildcats. In 1998, Smith's first
season as Kentucky's coach,
Cameron Mills - a former
walk-on - capably stepped in
after the mother of key reserve
Allen Edwards died right
before the SEC tournament.
During that tournament, Jeff
Sheppard, the team's leading
scorer, sprained an ankle.
Reserve
Heshimu
Evans
replaced Sheppard "and we
moved right on," Smith said.
"That's what you have to have."
Kentucky went on to win
the NCAA title that season,
beating Utah 78-69 in the
championship game.
Smith realizes that by limiting everyone's minutes, some
players won't be happy.
Crawford, a much-hyped freshman, left the team briefly in
January because of disappointment over playing time, but
then returned to the team.
"They all want to play
more," Smith said. "Each individual has to do their part in
order for us to be successful.
It's like a piece of a puzzle.
Everybody has to fit together,
and coordinating that is a challenge ... Some guys have to
learn to submit and sacrifice
sometimes for the betterment
of the team."
Villanova's Sumpter says
he'll be back from injury;
Wildcats coach not so sure
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Villanova forward Curtis
Sumpter stood in the locker
room assuring reporters that his
left knee was fine. His coach
wasn't so optimistic.
The Wildcats defeated
Florida 76-65 Sunday in the
second round of the NCAA
tournament and advanced to
the Syracuse Regional semifinals, where they might be without Sumpter against top-seeded
North Carolina.
Villanova coach Jay Wright
is assuming the worst.
"He hasn't had any X-rays
or anything, so we don't know
how serious. But I think it's
pretty serious. I'm guessing
right now. 1 know if there was
any way he could play, that kid
would play,'' Wright said.
Wright said Sumpter has a
history of not telling trainers
how bad he's hurt. The junior
missed two games this season
with a sprained right knee. On
Sunday, he went down twice in
the first 12 minutes before
going into the locker room.
Sumpter, the team's secondleading scorer at 15.6 points per
game, returned without the brace
on his right knee. He didn't play
again, instead cheering his teammates on from the bench.
He predicted he would play
Friday when Villanova plays the
Tar Heels. That would be a big
help for Villanova after Sumpter
had eight points and six
rebounds in only l 0 minutes.
"I really did think Curtis
was ready to have a monster
game," Wright said.
HOMAN'S BIG DAY: A
season facing Big 12 big men
prepared Jared Homan for his
matchup
against
North
Carolina's dominating inside
duo of Sean May and Marvin
Williams.
The Iowa State center had 19
points and a career-high 20
rebounds in Iowa State's 92-65
loss to the top-seeded Tar Heels
in the Syracuse Regional. The 6foot-10 Homan shot 8-of-19 and
had two blocks in 38 minutes.
"I think the main thing that
contributed to that is going up
against the big guys in the Big
12,'' the senior said. "I see
good post players every day in
the Big 12, so it was just another day."
Still, the Cyclones came up
short, in large part because of
May and Williams. They combined for 44 points and 32
rebounds in a dominating performance that led to a couple of
brief skirmishes with Homan.
All appeared to be forgiven
after the game, when May
made a point of talking to
Homan before heading to the
lo~ker room.
"I told him after the game,
'Just keep working, someone is
going to see the talent you
have,"' May said.
lowa State coach Wayne
Morgan believes Homan has a
chance to play professionally.
"He fights every second
he's on the court, and I think he
has a big future playing this
game," Morgan said.
AND THE BAND PLAYS
ON: The Bucknell Bison
almost didn't have a band to
play their fight song.
With the school on spring
break, Bucknell's regular band
couldn't be rounded up to
make the trip to Oklahoma
City. The Northern Iowa band
filled in during the first round
but their team lost so they went
home, forcing Bucknell officials to scramble on Saturday and into Sunday.
Athletic director John Hardt
joked Saturday that he was
going to call "Rent-A-Band,"
and he might've if someone
had given him the number.
School officials struck out
trying to borrow bands from
several high schools and colleges hecause they were on
spring break, too. That left
them with one last hope:
Oklahoma State's band, which
already was in the arena
because their team was playing
the game before Bucknell's.
After some initial hesitation,
the school agreed. The musicians seemed to enjoy it, making a big show for TV cameras
when they pulled orange
Bucknell T-shirts over their
OSU garb.
The Bison's NCAA tournament run ended with a 71-62
loss to Wisconsin.
STREAK ENDS: Louisville
forward Francisco Garcia's
streak of make free throws
ended in the first half Sunday
against Georgia Tech.
Gatcia has gone through 19
games this season without missing at the line, and he hadn't
missed in 40 straight attempts
dating back to the end of the
first half of a victory over South
Florida on Feb. 12. Then he
stepped to the line for the second time Sunday, and missed
with 11:46 to go. He rebounded
to finish 8-for-10 at the line.
It was all part of a dazzling
performance from the junior
from the Bronx. He scored 18
of his 21 points in the first half,
blocked four shots, had two
assists and a rebound all while
playing all 40 minutes of the
game.
"I feel like I'm on top my
game right now," Garcia said.
ROUGHING IT: Nick
Mathews apologized Sunday
morning if he didn't smell
good. The Villanova senior
hadn't had a shower since leaving Philadelphia on Thursday
night, and neither had his seven
classmates who have been living in a small RV this weekend.
They bought their tickets
online hours after the bracket
was announced, and they
arrived in Nashville, Tenn., on
Friday morning where they
parked behind the Gaylord
En~ertainment Center. They've
been tailgating ever since,
breaking only for Friday's 55-47
victory over New Mexico and a
trip through the nearby bars.
"We have not moved since,"
Mathews said.
They padded the RV with
cushions and pillows brought
from home with the eight men
all sleeping inside.
The parking hasn't been
cheap with the RV taking up
eight spots at $10 per space per
day with lawn chairs, a grill
and a beer bar made up from a
parquet floor strip that looks
like the Villanova basketball
court, featuring autographs
from the Wildcats and even
school president, the Rev.
Edmund J. Dobbin.
"lt 's just been the best
weekend ever," Mathews ~pid.
file photo
Kentucky
fans, coaches
and players
looked on
during a
regularseason game.
Kentucky 69, Cincinnati 60
by MICHAEL MAROT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS
Kentucky beat up yet another
neighbor Saturday night.
Kelenna Azubuike scored 19
points and second-seeded
Kentucky held Cincinnati scoreless for the final 2:41 to pull
away for a 69-60 second-round
NCAA tournament victory.
For the second straight game,
Kentucky (27-5) beat a nearby
rival. On Thursday, it eliminated
Eastern Kentucky, a school about
30 miles south of Lexington. On
Saturday it was Cincinnati,
which is about 90 miles north of
the Kentucky campus.
Rajon Rondo added L6
points for Kentucky, while
Randolph Morris finished with
11 points and 12 rebounds to
help the Wildcats avoid a second straight second-round exit.
They will face sixth-seeded
Utah in the Austin Regional
semifinals.
Nick Williams scored 16
points and Jihad Muhammad
added 14 for seventh-seeded
Cincinnati (25-8), which was
trying to become the third
s\r ight Conference USA school
to d:minate Kentucky from the
tournament. The Bearcats have
lost 15 straight to their nearby
rival and still haven't beaten
Kentucky since 1939.
The bitterness between the
two schools, who have rarely
played since 1948, was evident
throughout the RCA Dome,
where there was a Final Fouriike atmosphere. Th·~ a:owd of
40,331 set a onf'-session record
for any NCAA subregional site,
breaking the previous mark of
39,940 set in Indianapolis in
1990. Most of the fans were clad
in Kentucky blue or Illinois
orange, but as the second game
started, pockets of Cincinnati
red also appeared.
Fans interrupted each other's
chants and one fan held a sign
that read "Real Cats Wear Blue
and White, not Black and Red."
Kentucky fans even booed the
Bearcats' cheerleaders as they
led the team onto the floor.
On the court, the emotions
were even stronger. Cincinnati's
James White had an angry look
on his face during pregame
warrnups and Kentucky players
were chest bumping before
introductions.
The coaches got into it, too.
Cincinnati's Bob Huggins
worked the officials hard, and
Kentucky's Tubby Smith repeatedly stomped the floor and
walked across the sideline to
make points.
It was that kind of day - and
that kind of game.
The
difference
was
Kentucky's inside power, where
the Wildcats outscored the
Bearcats 34-12 in the paint.
Chuck Hayes sparked the
game-sealing run by posting for
back-to-back layups. Randolph
Morris followed that by grabbing an errant pass that bounced
off the front of the rim, scoring
and drawing the fourth foul on
Cincinnati's Jason Maxiell with
3:56 to go. That made it 64-59.
The Bearcats were shutout I
the rest of the way.
But Cincinnati made it closer
than some expected, especially
after a dismal start.
Kentucky used its speed to
get open from outside and take
advantage inside with a gameopening ll-0 run.
When the Bearcats got Hayes
and Azubuike in foul trouble,
though, they rallied. Cincinnati
went on a 16-5 run that gave
them a 28-26 lead.
Kentucky got off to another
quick start in the second half, •
scoring the ftrst six points and
using a 9-2 run to build a 42-37
lead. Cincinnati fought back,
getting within 58-57 with 6:05
to go, but the Wildcats allowed
just one more basket the rest of
the way.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
23, 2005 • 87
, Georgia Tech 5
by NANCY ARMOUR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
•
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -The
Louisville Cardinals are done
whining about their seeding.
They ·re making all their argumenb on the floor.
Francisco Garcia scored 18
of his 21 points m the first half
and Taquan Dean halted Georgia
Tech's last hope with a flurry of
3-pointer~. sealing a 76-54 victory that sent Louisville to the
regional semifinals for the first
time since 1997.
"I don't want to tick anybody
off. but somebody told me this is
a four seed, you're nuts. You're
absolutely nuts," Georgia Tech
coach Paul Hewitt said.
..They're as good as anybody
we've played this year."
Dean finished with 14 points,
all but two on 3-pointers, and
Larry O'Bannon added 16 for
Louisville (31-4). The Cardinals
never trailed and led by as many
as 23 points, and their stifling 23 zone limited last year's NCAA
title runner-ups to less than 38
percent shooting.
Luke Schenscher ( 13) and
Jarrett Jack (11) were the only
Yellow Jackets in double figures, and B.J. Elder was held to
just three points on five shots.
As the final seconds ticked
down, the thousands of
Cardinals fans who were lining
up Saturday night to buy leftover tickets started chanting
"Sweet 16! Sweet J 6!" Garcia
was beaming as he came out of
the game and hugged coach
Rick Pitino, who improved to
29-9 in ll NCAA tournament
appearances.
"By far it was our best performance of the year,'' said Ellis
Myles, who had nine points and
eight rebounds. ''Defensively,
we dominated . We got out of the
gatc hot and we nc:ver let them
get back into it. That's what you
have to do in this tournament."
The Cardinals thought they'd
locked up a top seed or at least a
No. 2 after beating Memphis to
win the Conference USA tournament, and they made no secret
of their disgust when they d1dn't
get one. Worse, they drew the
fourth seed in the Albuquerque
Pc ional, behind lightly regarded Washington, Wake Forest and
Gonzaga.
Well, Wake and the 'Zags are
done now, relegated to their
couches for the rest of the tournament. And Louisville can
prove It really did deserve that
top seed, playing Washington in
the regional semifinals next
weekend.
"A four seed, I don't buy it.
That's OK. We never focused in
on it. We never talked about it
0
Cardinals playing their
best when it matters most
by TERESA M. WALKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
tjr
'II
•
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The
Louisville
Cardinals
are
relaxed and playing their best
basketball of the season.
Just ask Georgia Tech.
Last year's national runnerup watched a team unhappy at
being seeded fourth hit its ftrst
six shots Sunday, including
four from 3-point rarige, as the
Cardinals routed Georgia Tech
76-54 and reached their first
regional semifinal since 1997.
"They just played an
exquisite basketball game,"
Georgia Tech coach Paul
Hewitt said. "They passed the
ball well. They spread us out.
When we took away the 3, they
went to the basket. They got to
the foul line. They played an
unbelievable basketball game."
The·Gardinals (31-4) agree.
"By far, it was our best performance of the year,"
Louisville senior forward Ellis
Myles said. "Defensively, we
dominated. We got out of the
gate hot, and we never let them
get back into. That's what you
have to do in this tournament."
In the other game at the
Gaylord Entertainment Center,
fifth-seeded Villanova downed
No. 4 seed Florida 76-65 and
advanced to its ftrst regional
semifinal since 1988 - despite
a poor game from its leading
scorer and its second-best
benched by an injured knee.
The Wildcats will play No.
I seed North Carolina on
Friday night in Syracuse.
This is the best season
record-wise for the Cardinals
(31-4) since 1983, when they
reached the Final Four and lost
to Houston m the national
semifinals.
The Cardinals now·have the
chance to prove whether or not
they deserved the No. 1 seed
they thought they et~med winning both the Conference USA
regular-season arid tournament
titles. They will play surprise
No. l seed Washington on
Thursday night in Albuquerque.
"A 4 seed, I don't buy it,"
Louisville coach Rick Pitino said.
'That's OK. We never focused in
on it. We never talked about it
again. We've done our job, and
now we're in the Sweet 16."
Pitino had worried that the
6-foot-7 Myles couldn't compete against 7-1
Luke
Schenscher under the basket.
Unfortunately for Georgia
Tech, it was Schenscher who
struggled, unable to handle the
physical Myles who constantly
stopped the Australian simply by
putting his arms in the air.
Schenscher had seven points and
only two rebounds in the ftrst
half, finishing with an ineffective
13 points and five rebounds.
Francisco Garcia keyed the
Cardinals' fast start with 18 of
his 21 points in a ftrst half in
which Louisville built a doubledigit lead within the first five
minutes. When Georgia Tech
got within nine in the second
half, Taquari Dean responded
with three consecutive 3s and
capped a 16-2 run with a layup.
Larry O'Bannon had 16
points, Dean finished with 14,and
Juan Palacios added 12 points and
a team-high 11 rebounds.
"They were shooting lightsout," Georgia Tech guard Will
Bynum said. "All four perimeter players. There is nothing we
can do about that."
Jarrett Jack added 11 points,
while Bynum . and B .J. Elder
combined to go 4-of-15 from
the floor for the Yellow Jackets
(20-12).
Villanova had everything
seemingly
going
wrong.
Leading scorer Allan Ray couldn't score, and Curtis Sumpter
turned into a cheerleader after
crumpling to the floor twice and
grabbing his left knee.
"If there was one guy that I
thought we couldn't win without, it was Curtis Sumpter,"
Villanova coach Jay Wright
said. "And I can't believe these
guys did this. I really can't. It
was an incredible effort by
these guys."
Backup Jason Fraser simply
took over with 21 points and 15
rebounds. He went 11-of-17 at
the line, and Villanova (24-7)
revived memories of its 1985
run to the national championship by dismantling Florida,
the Southeastern Conference
tournament champ.
Florida had its chance after
pulling within 44-43 early in
the seconJ half. Then, the
Gators (24-8) went on a sevenminute scoring drought, and
their chances of getting past the
second round for the first time
since 2000 disappeared in a 100 run by the Wildcats.
Anthony Roberson averaged
an SEC-high 18.2 points in the
regular season, but was just 1of-8 against Villanova as his
shooting slump extended a second straight game. Matt Walsh
finished with 12 points, but
wasn't much better at 4-of-13.
Randy Foye scored 18 for
Villanova, and Kyle Lowry
contributed a career-high 15 off
the bench.
That prompted a courtside
celebration with the Villanova
fans who were chanting, "We
want N.C."
"We must have confident
fans," Lowry said.
again," Pitino said. "We've done
our job and now we're in the
Sweet 16."
Besides, if the Cardinals keep
playing like this, their seed isn't
going to matter.
"Washington got a bum steer
getting two No. Is in their
bracket because these guys are a
No. I," Hewitt said. "We
weren't good enough to beat
them. That's why they're going
to move on. That's going to be a
good game next week."
With the way Louisville was
talking before the game, the
Cardinals were sounding like
they were the underdogs instead
of fifth-seeded Georgia Tech
(20-12). But that misconception
ended in a hurry. They shredded
Georgia Tech's vaunted press
right from the start, making their
first six shots- four from 3-point
range - and not missing until the
game was 5 1/2 minutes old.
by ELIZABETH A. DAVIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Pat
Summitt would rather count
the number of players, assistants and friends she's had during her 31 years at Tennessee
than all the victories.
Summitt tied former North
Carolina men's coach Dean
Smith for the most wins m
NCAA history - 879 - as
Tennessee
beat
Western
Carolina 94-43 on Sunday
night in the first round of the
NCAA tournament.
"It's really not about anumber," Summitt said. "It's about
people the people here at the
university, the administration,
tit all the great assistant coaches
I've had, the loyal people who
have stuck by me for years, the
people I work w1th in the office
and certainly all the players.
"When )'OU think about
women's basketball, we have a
list of who's who - AllAmericans. Olympians and
people of tmpact in this game."
Summitt has a chance to
surpass Smith when top-seeded
Tennessee (27-4) faces Purdue
in the second round Tuesday
night. with the winner advancing to the regional semifinals in
fll. Philadelphia .
Summ1tt is 879-171, while
•>
Smith was 879-254 in 36 years
with the Tar Heels.
Tennessee senior Shyra Ely
said she was glad to be part of
Summitt's victories.
"I just think it's huge not
only for women's basketball,
but college basketball," Ely
said. "I think it's awesome that
she's representing the entire
basketball nation."
Coincidentally,
Western
Carolina's coach was around
for a good chunk of Summitt's
wins. Kellie Harper was the
point guard on Tennessee's
three straight national titles
from 1996-98.
"Pat Summitt is huge for the
women's basketball game,"
Harper said. "She's been a pioneer, a legacy, a legend- all of
those adjectives. And now, her
tying Dean Smith allows her
legacy to move over to basketball, not just women's basketball, and I think a person like
Pat Summitt needs to be a legend in the game of basketball."
Harper received a standing
ovation when she walked onto
the court, but couldn't do much
to help her teams stay with the
Lady Vols.
The 16th-seeded Catamounts
( 18-14) were undersized and
outmatched from the beginning.
The Lady Vols increased the
lead to 19-8 with 13:47 left
before halftime. and had a 19-2
run that gave them a 29-point
advantage with 4 1/2 minutes
left in the first half. The margin
hit 49 on Brittany Jackson's 3pointer with 12:36 to go.
Shanna Zolman tied a career
high with 28 points, while Ely
had 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Alexis Hornbuckle added ll
points and 12 rebounds.
And, in one of Summitt's
favorite statistics, the Lady
Vols outrebounded Western
Carolina 57-36.
Chevon Keith and Monique
Dawson each had nine points
to lead the Catamounts, who
won the Southern Conference
tournament to earn the school's
first NCAA bid.
Summitt, who tops all
women's coaches with an 8617 NCAA tournament record,
began coaching at age 22 when
teams didn't offer scholarships.
She's been at the top of the
women's game for years with
six national titles and 15 Final
Four appearances.
Fitting!), Summitt tied
Smith on Tennessee's home
court at Thompson-Boling
Arena, where the Lady Vols are
252-14 since it opened in 1987.
Tennessee has never lost an
NCAA game in Knoxville,
gomg 4-5-0 since the women's
tournament began m 1982.
RPI. We knew they were going
to make a run and WC JUSt want·
ed to make our run ."
That's just what they dtd.
Bynum and Elder hit backto-hack 3s to cut Louisville's
Jead to 52-43 with 9:44 left. It
was the first time Georgia Tech
had been within double figures
since early in the first half.
But Juan Palacios made a
pair of free throws and Dean
made his own pair of 3s. After
Garcia and Elder traded mtsses
from long range, Dean made
another 3. Myles made a pair of
free throws, and Dean capped
the run with a layup. Georgia
Tech never threatened again.
"In my head, 1 didn't see an
ending like this," said Elder, one
of the five seniors on Georgia
Tech's roster. "It happens. We
came out and played hard, they
just came out and played better
than we did."
The old lion learns a few new tricks
by JIM LITKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
There's no mistaking the new
Bob Knight.
Looking an awful lot like the
old one, there he was after Texas
Tech upset Gonzaga in the
Albuquerque Regional, headed to
the round of 16 for the ftrst time
in 11 years, commanding the
spotlight again because of his
basketball smarts.
But instead of reminding
everybody else how much he
still knows, the first thing out of
Knight's mouth was how much
he's learned from this group of
kids and how his wife, Karen, is
a better coach than he is.
"She doesn't always agree
with the way I coach. She thinks
that I do a lousy job with our
post players," he said, citing just
one example.
Given the way the Red
Raiders played in the opening
half against Gonzaga's zone,
there was very little wiggle room
in that assessment. With bodies
stacked up in the lane, Knight's
intricate motion offense wasn't
creating enough space to score
and for a while you wondered
whether, like a man who's
played chess the same way his
whole life, he would stubbornly
try to win it his way or not at all.
"He won't say it, but he's a
little more laid back," his son,
Pat Knight, who doubles as
Tech's assistant coach, said
afterward. "Back then, he treated
all the players pretty much the
same. Now, with all the AAU
ball and 'just the upbringing of
kids, some kids you can't yell at
and some kids you can. He's
been really good handling that."
The way Knight handled it
Saturday was to calmly pass along
to the big men the advice that
Karen Knight, a pretty fair high
school coach back in Oklahoma,
had given her husband, and to ·let'
his guards play one-on-one in
hopes of luring the Zags out of
their zone. The changes cut into
Gonzaga's big rebounding edge
and with backcourt mates Ronald
Ross and Jarius Jackson combing
for 42 points, Tech squeezed out a
71-69 win.
It couldn't have been easy for
Knight, the ultimate control
freak, to let go with so much on
the line. After all, he spent much
of the week cutting off reporters,
railing about his practice time
and even complaining at one
point that he was forced to drink
out of a paper cup provided by
NCAA officials instead of the
cup bearing the logo of an autoparts sponsor that he prefers.
Yet when it mattered most,
Knight did the least coaching.
He watched Ross drill the gamedeciding 3-pointer with just
over a minute .left and said, "If
we had lost today and I was fishing next week, I'd think back
over this season and I'd think
about what a wonderful experience it was for me to be with
these kids, this team.
"It's as enjoyable a team to
watch and to be around," Knight
said, "as any I've ever had."
Few people would have
believed that when Knight
skulked off to Lubbock, which
may not be the end of the basketball map, but it was close. In
hindsight, it's clear how ready
Knight was for a change in both
his personal and professional
life. Pat Knight said the towns-
people aren't "real! y Basketball
Bennys. They're just happy
when you compete," and that his
father, in turn, is "more mellow,
in a sense."
What he means is that the old
man has learned to listen to
counsel besides his own, to trust
ballplayers with responsibilities
in ways he rarely did before.
· "I've never had a player that I
would have had more admiration
for than Ronald Ross," Knight
said in a rare moment of candor,
then added for laughs, "particularly when he hit that 3."
That basket was good enough
to send everybody back to the
record books for research, and
without having to remind us himself, revealed exactly how much
Knight still really knows. His 45th
tourney win means Knight trails
only Mike Krzyzewski (66), Dean
Smith (65) and John Wooden (47)
in career victories and only the
first two in Sweet 16 appearances.
Texas Tech faces West
Virginia next with a chance to
add a few more lines to Knight's
legacy. Either way. the perceetion has already shifted, no matter how subtly. Someone asked
Ross in the postgame news conference what he thought about
Knight. The one-time walk-on
was going on about hard work
and his attention to detail, when
the coach leaned over and whispered in his ear.
Ross looked back at his
white-haired coach, then proceeded to describe him in terms
you never thought you· d hear
from one of Knight' players:
. "He," Ross said, ''is a latterday Santa Claus."
And his holidays are just
beginning.
Kentucky enjoying postseason
success in the WNIT
by MURRAY EVANS
Summitt ties Smith's NCAA win record
No one was better than
Garcia. He had topped his average by halftime with 18 points
on 5-of-8 shooting, including 3of-5 from 3-point range.
''I'm playing good right now
but so is my teammates, too,"
Garcia said. "Larry is playing
great and Taquan is playing great.
I'm not really focusing on how
I'm playing as long as we win.
Like I said yesterday, if I don't
score and we win, I'm happy."
Even with Dean only playing
seven minutes because of foul
trouble, the Cardinals had a 4530 lead at halftime. But
Louisville had a big ftrst-half
lead in last year's tournament
and wound up blowing it, losing
80-70 to Xavier in the first round .
"We talked about that coming out of halftime. We didn't
ever want that feeling again,"
O'Bannon said. "It's not like
we're playing a team with a 200
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - The last
time Kentucky's women's basketball team made it this far in
the postseason, the oldest members of this year's
squad were in grade
school.
Kentucky
has
enjoyed only sporadic success in
women's hoops and
before last week
hadn't played a postseason game in six
years. Now, the
Mickie
Wildcats are enjoying their longest
postseason run in 15 years.
Kentucky (17 -15) has won
two
Women's
National
Invitation Tournament games,
including a 91-54 rout of
Chattanooga on Sunday. to
advance to the quarterfinals
against either Xavier or Indiana
State. The Wildcats also have
clinched their first winning
record in five seasons.
That's heady stuff for a program that had won one postseason game since 1990, when the
Wildcats captured the title in the
National Women's Invitational
Tournament, the WNIT's forerunner.
Kentucky's players "are
young and excited about playing
in the postseason," Chattanooga
coach Wes Moore said. "Some
teams that have been Ill the
NCAA tournament for the past
'
two or three years may not be as
excited about being in the WNIT
as they are."
Kentucky coach Mickie
DeMoss became used to long
postseason runs during 18 years
as an assistant at perennial
power Tennessee.
She said the experience of playing in
the postseason will
be invaluable to her
team, which has
three
freshman
starters, and is a
reward
for the
team's three seniors
Sara
Potts,
DeNoss
Danyelle Payne and
Keiko Tate.
"We're able to keep practicing, and for the young players.
beneficial,"
that's
really
DeMoss said. "For the seniors,
just having a taste of what the
postseason is like - I'm so
happ)' for them. It's something
they'll always remember, how
they closed out their careers at
Kentucky."
Kentucky squeaked into the
WNIT with a 15-15 record after
losing 10 of its last 12 games
during the regular season and
Southeastern Conference tournament.
But the Wildcats' attendance
numbers they averaged 5,301
fans during the regular season has convinced the WNIT to let
them host all of their tournament games thus far, including a
1 :l-o8
t trst-round win over
Eastern Michigan.
Kentucky could continue to
host through the championship
game.
The pressure of the postseason - win and advance, lose arid
your season's over - hasn't
affected her team, DeMoss said.
"It's not a feeling of pressure
with these players," she said.
"It's an air of confidence I've
seen them have. I think they look
at it as an opportunity."
Potts certainly sees it that
way. The 6-foot guard from
Rochester Hills, Mich .. a second-team All-SEC pick. scored
a career-high 32 points in the
rout of Chattanooga (25-5) and
tied her own school record by
making seven 3-pointers.
Against
the
Southern
Conference
regular-season
champion, Kentucky shot 59.3
percent from the field - its second-best outing of the season and 52.6 percent ( 10-of-19)
from 3-point range. The
Wildcats also went 11-of-11
from the free-thro-w line, tying
the school r~cord for singlegame percentage , set in 1977
with an 11-of-11 outing against
Morehead State.
'There·~ a sense of urgency
with this whole thing," Potts
said . "We've finally n;-ade it to
the postseason, and \"c'rc trying
to make the most of it.
''Evervonc on this team
believes th1s tournament is
somethmg we can win."
�88 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
New star: Edwards wins first Cup race to complete Atlanta sw
by PAUL NEWBERRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAMPTON, Ga. - Carl
Edwards had quite a weekend.
Two races . Two victories.
Two backtlip~.
NASCAR 's newest star
pulled o ff an unprecedented
sweep at Atlanta Motor
Speedway, racing to his first
Nextel Cup victory Sunday - a
day after he won his first Busch
Series race.
Edwards pulled off a daring
move on Jimmie Johnson coming off the final turn and beat
him to the line by about half a
car length to win the Golden
Conal500.
''We're on a mission ," the 25year-old Missouri driver said.
"We're here to wm races:·
Edwards became the first driver to capture his first victory in
NASCAR 's top two series on
the same weekend.
Get used to it. He's an
immensely talented driver wh,o
honed his skills on the dirt tracks
of the Midwe~t. Johnson noticed
the potential when Edwards
moved up to the Cup series for
the final 13 races last season.
"You can see his intensity, his
car control," Johnson said. "This
guy is our next superstar.''
He's also quite a showman .
After both victorie~, Edwards
climbed out of his car in front of
the main grandstand, balanced
himself on the window ledge
and did a backflip onto the
asphalt.
"It would be a shame not to
enjoy it a little bit." he said.
"I'm just trying to have a good
time.''
Johnson, going for his second
win in a row, grabbed the lead
from Edwards with 25 laps left
and appeared to be strong
enough to hold it all the way to
the finish.
But, on the final lap ,
Edwards got a great run coming
out of tum two and pulled up on
Johnson's
back
bumper.
Johnson went high coming
through turns three and four, try-
ing to block his challenger, but
Edwards went even higher.
Edwards hugged the wall and
traded paint with Johnson's car
as they roared through the trioval. Johnson bobbled slightly
just a few feet from the finish,
and Edwards slipped by on the
outside to win by a minuscule
0.028 seconds.
"That's the hardest I've ever
driven in my life," Edwards
said. 'Tm pretty proud of that."
It was another head-to-head
duel between Roush Racing
and
Hendrick
(Edwards)
Motorsports (Johnson). The two
powerful teams have split the
first four races this season, and
their drivers occupy the top five
spots in the point standings.
After racing trucks most of
last year, Edwards is running a
full schedule in both the Cup
and Busch series, trying to gain
as much experience as possible.
Clearly, he's a quick learner.
"He did it strictly on guts and
determination," car owner Jack
Roush said.
Greg Biffle held on for third ,
followed by Mark Martin and
Kasey Kahne.
Johnson led a race-high 156
laps, followed by Biffle With 151 .
Edward~ was o ut front for only
nine laps, but ran strong all day.
At least Johnson shook off
the emban-assment of being
docked 25 points and losing his
series lead because his Chevrolet
failed inspection after winning
last week's race at Las Vegas.
"We were thinking about
Victory Lane and being abk to
smile over our critics ami everyone who thought we were doing
something goofy last weekend,"
Johnson said . "We're going to
prove what this team is capable
of and change the impression
some people may have of the
team."
Johnson
second-guessed
himself for drifting high on the
track at the end of the race ,
rather than maintaining the low
line that had been working.
"I made one small mistake,"
he said. "It cost me the wi11 ."
Johnson's team wasn't the
only one to face NASCAR 's
wrath after Las Vegas. In all ,
three crew chiefs were suspended for rules violations - though
two w cr l.! in Atlanta pending
appeals - and Johnson was
docked 25 pomts.
At the driver's meeting
before the race, NASCAR president Mike Helton issued a stern
warning to the drivers and crew
chiefs. He raised the possibility
of stiffer penalties 1f teams continued to flout the mlebook.
Apparently, the message got
through . Everyone passed
inspections this time.
The race wasn't even a lap
old when 10 cars got caught up
in a huge wreck coming down
the backstretch.
Casey Mears spun off tum
two, sparking a wild melee that
took out four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon and six-time
Atlanta winner Bobby Labonte.
The race was halted for nearly
I 0 minutes while workers
cleaned up the mess.
·'I thought I Wds g• m ' • " t
through there," ,,_ td { ) ~..o o1 ,
who rammed the in 1J.: WJ
"But they all turnt.:l' down 1
front of me."
Gordon and Labont .. Lntl al
ly got back in the rae..: wtth t..:bu.
cars, but it wa~ merely to c Jil s
many points as possible t n the
high-banked oval. Lahont.: fin
ished 37th, Gordon 39th
Defending Nextel Cup dl.lmpion K urt Busch al~o was
involved in the' big wreck, but
he had on ly mmor damage. He
climbed back into contention.
getting as high as second before
a shredded tire ruined his day.
Busch wound up 32nd and
sun-endered the top spot in the
standings back to Johnson, v.ho
has an 82-point lead on Biffle
and an 87-point advantage on
Edwards . Busch slipped all the
way to fourth, 103 points behind.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. .showed no
signs of breaking out of his
slump. The race's defending
champion was slow all weekend.
starting 35th and finishing 24th.
•
Sun King leaps to No. 1 tn Run to Roses' Top 10
by RICHARD ROSENBLATT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - It's shuffle
time on the road to the Kentucky
Derby.
On a day full of Derby preps,
some surprising results elevated
Tampa Bay Derby winner Sun
King to No . 1 in this week's Run
to the Roses' Top 10.
Trained by two-time Derby
winner Nick Zito, Sun King was
the lone winner of five 3-yearolds ranked in last week's Top
10 who ran Saturday. Among
the losers were Afleet Alex and
Rockport Harbor, rated 1-2
entering the weekend.
Zito is the star of this year's
Derby chase with no less than
five contenders. Sun King, 2for-2 this year, pulled away
effortlessly when roused by
jockey Edgar Prado and won by
3 1/4 lengths.
The son of 1999 Derby winner Charismatic covered I 1-16
miles in 1:43 .98, just off the
track record of I :43.40.
"I was riding with confidence
every step of the way," Prado
said . "And when he felt the
company of another horse coming he caught another gear."
With the Derby seven weeks
away, Sun King's final prep will
be the Blue Grass Stakes at
Keeneland on April 16.
Four-time Derby-winning
trainer D. Wayne Lukas returned
to the thick of things after
Consolidator's victory in the
San Felipe Stakes at Santa
Anita. Breeders' Cup Juvenile
winner Wilko was fourth; Bob
Baffert's top Derby prospect
Roman Ruler was last, and was
taken off the Derby trail to allow
a minor foot injury to heal.
A son of Storm Cat,
Consolidator won in record
fashion, setting stakes records
for time (1 :40.11 for I 1-16
miles) and margin of victory (6
112 lengths over Giacomo).
Lukas' colt moves into the rankings at No.5 .
"It's mighty exciting to be
back (on the Derby trail) again,"
said Bob Lewis, the two-time
Derby winning owner of
Consolidator. "Wayne said he
was a different horse, and he
was right on the button."
Said Lukas: "Consolidator
went right to the head of the class."
Meanwhile, Greater Good
surged into the Top 10 at No. 6
with a victory over Rockport
Harbor and Afleet Alex in the
Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
Winning his third straight race,
Greater Good covered the 1 116 miles in 1:44.92.
Survivalist moved onto the
Derby trail with a three-quarters
of a length victory over Pavo in
the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
Pavo was disqualified to fourth
after his rider, Alan Garcia, mistakenly whipped Naughty New
Yorker in the face. Favorite
Galloping Grocer was moved up
to second from third.
Zito's other Derby hopefuls
are High Fly, No. 3 off his win
in the Fountain of Youth on
March 5, No. 10 Bellamy Road,
Andromeda's Hero and Noble
Causeway.
Lost in the Fog, the unbeaten
winner of the Swale Stakes,
was pulled off the Derby
trail by trainer Greg
Gilchrist. Also dropping out
of the Top 10 were Afleet
Alex, Roman Ruler, Wilko
and Bandini.
This week's top 10, with
Derby future wager odds (set
March 12):
I. Sun King (Nick Zito, trainer; Edgar Prado, jockey): Won
Tampa Bay Derby with ease ...
Now 2-for-2 this year for owner
Tracy Farmer ... Next start: Blue
Grass (April 16) ... Odds: 10-1.
2. Rockport Harbor (John
Servis, Stewart Elliott): Good
effort despite first loss ... This
colt is no Smarty Jones ... Next
start: Arkansas Derby (April16)
... Odds: 14-1.
3. High Fly (Zito, Jen-y
Bailey): No. 2 on Zito's hit
parade ... Worked five furlongs
in 1:02 at Palm Meadows on
Saturday ... Next start: Florida
Derby (April 2) ... Odds: 21-1.
4. Sweet Catomine (Julio
Canani, Corey Nakatani): May
be best 3-year-old on West
Coast - male or female ... First
race against boys looms ... Next
start: Santa Anita Derby (April
9) ... Odds: 16-1.
5. Consolidator (D. Wayne
Lukas,
Rafael
Bejarano) :
Dusted off supposedly strong
San Felipe field ... Could Lukas
have a fifth Derby winner? ...
Next start: Santa Anita Derby or
Blue Grass ... Odds: 44-l.
6. Greater Good (Bob
Holthus , John McKee): Winner
of Southwest and Rebel, same
races Smarty Jones won en route
to his Derby win ... Next start:
Arkansas Derby ... Odds: 28-1.
7 . High Limit (Bobby
Frankel, Ramon Dominguez):
Won Louisiana Derby on March
12 off a 4 1/2-month layoff ...
Won other two starts at
Delaware Park ... Next start:
Wood Memorial (April 9) or
Blue Grass ... Odds: 9-1.
Survivalist
(Shug
8.
McGaughey, Richard Migliore):
Won Gotham by three-quarters
of a length for second win in
five career starts ... Hall of Fame
trainer is 0-for-6 in Derby- best
finish was 2-3 with East Goer.
Awe Inspiring in 1989 ... Next
start: Wood Memorial ... Odds.
6-1 (mutuel field).
9. Giacomo (John Shirreffs.
Mike Smith): Distant runner-up
in San Felipe seems competitive
every time out ... Next start:
Santa Anita Derby ... Odds: 261.
10. Bellamy Road (Zito,
Javier Castellano): With Zito
training, what's to knock about
allowance race winner prepping
for a Derby chance? ... Owner?
Yankees
boss
George
Steinbrenner ... Next start:
Wood Memorial ... Odds:. 6- 1
(mutuel field).
KEEP AN EYE ON: Afleet
Hero,
Alex , Andromeda's
Bandini, Galloping Grocer,
Noble Causeway.
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Hot dog and a bottle of pop! Spring
has officially arrived.
Don't know about you, but I couldn't be happier about the whole thing.
As a matter of fact, I would be in favor
of declaring the ftrst day of spring a
legal holiday. Of course, since it came
in on Sunday, we'd would have had to
take Monday off, but that's generally
the way we do things anyway, right?
The ancient Romans made the coming of spring a holiday, you know. They
called it the "Feast of the Lupercal," (or
Lupercalia) and every February 15-a
bit early, at
least for this
part of the
worldthey'd gather
in the streets
and dance and
eat-wonder
if they had
soup
beans
and cornbread
in
those
days?-and
Clyde Pack
play games,
all to honor
the coming of
spring. Wouldn't be surprised if even
ole Nero himself didn't climb up on a
flat -bed chariot and hit a note or two of
"The Orange Blossom Special" or "Bile
Them Cabbage Down" on his ftddle.
Don't know what kind of winter
winds might have danced around their
scanty little togas, but the coining of
spring was obviously a pretty big deal
to them. After the winter we've just
had, maybe we ought to make a big todo about it, too. After all, what's another festival among friends, anyway?
(See OAK, page three)
Bad news
Watching the news lately, I found
myself continuously shaking my head
in total disbelief.
There's the Terri Schiavo case,
Robert Blake, Scott Peterson and nine
year old, Jessica Lunsford.
All of which are horrendous situations
making the heart ache and stomach sick.
We hear
Schiavo's
husband
telling us she
expressed to
him that she
wouldn't
want to live
hooked up to
machines .
How many of
us
have
expressed that
Kim Frasure
very desire or
request
(if
you will) to
our own spouses? And how many of us
haven't had that particular conversation with our parents? It's deftnitely
something to think about.
And so, too, is the fact that every
single human being needs to prepare a
Jiving will so that this very situation
doesn't happen to others.
Families pulled apart, having to
make such a decision for a loved one
who can't make it for themselves.
(See KORNER, page three)
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Jean Voelker Rosenberg
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Jean Rosenberg
sits among her
many treasured
possessions In
her office on the
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nlcal College,
Prestonsburg
campus, where
she employs
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those seeking
information.
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INSIDES
YESTERDAYS
We all have a variety of "chapters" in our lives, says Jean Rosenberg, program administrator of the
Big Sandy Community and Technical College's "First Stop for Parents
Career Development Center" office.
"We act according to the chapter of
our lives we are currently engaged
in," she said. "We don't look back
and say 'I made a ,,1istake.' We move
ahead- a chapter at a time."
With advice such as this, it is little
wonder that Rosenberg has managed
to touch the lives of so many within
our community. She has, it appears,
an extraordinary gift for seeing the
potential in those who, oftentimes,
have given up on even themselves.
"It is never too late to improve
oneself," she said, "It's simply a
matter of switching gears."
Rosenberg and her staff are dedicated to helping BSCTC's non-traditional students succeed in their
academic goals and in their efforts
to improve their lives. Offering a
well-blended mix of both academic
and personal counseling to those
who seek advice within her office,
Rosenberg serves as a strong advocate for women and for those who
are returning to higher education in
non-traditional roles.
Rosenberg came to Floyd County
in the early 1970s with husband,
John, and infant son, Michael. Coming from a background of working in
civil rights as an employee of the
U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., Rosenberg was soon
actively involved in improving the
new community in which she found
herself enmeshed.
Among her many notable accomplishments, Rosenberg helped found
the Floyd County Meals on Wheels
program, established by the Prestonsburg Presbyterian Church's
Christian Services Ministry, coordinating a volunteer effort from the
kitchen of her very own home.
Seeing that a need for pre-natal
childcare existed, Rosenberg established and taught a childbirth preparation class, again, in her home. As the
program grew, space was made avail(See ADVOCATE, page three)
CRITTER CORNER
n.les for cats Vlho
have a house to n.n
By Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
DOORS: Do not allow closed doors in
any room. To get door opened, stand on
hind legs and hammer with forepaws.
Once door is opened, it is not necessary to
use it. After you have ordered an ."outside" door opened, stand halfway in and
out and think about several things. This is
particularly important during very cold
weather, rain snow, or mosquito season.
Swinging doors are to be avoided at all
costs.
CHAIRS and RUGS: If you have to
throw up, get to a chair quickly. If you
cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental
rug. If there is no Oriental rug, shag is
good. When throwing up on the carpet,
make sure you back up so that it is as long
as the human's bare foot.
BATHROOMS: Always accompany
guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything-just sit and stare.
HAMPERING: If one of your humans
is engaged in some close activity and the
other is idle, stay with the busy one. This
is called "helping," otherwise known as
"hampering." Following are the rules for
hampering:
When supervising cooking. sit just
behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better
chance of being stepped on and then
picked up and comforted.
(See CRITIER, page four)
This is what the Hughes family, of Langley, calls their "morning
feeding frenzy." The cats, who all belong to the Hughes family
"all show up for a bite of mackerel early each morning."
'
�C2 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Schoo( Cafendar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• March 21-25 - Scholastic
Book fair. Volunteers needed.
• March 23 - ··career Exploration Day," 8th grade.
• March 24- "Give Yourself
a Break Day," for all Floyd
County parents/guardians. To be
held at the MAC. Registration
at 8:30 a.m. Fun workshops,
door prizes and free lunch.
• March 28 thru April 1 SPRING BREAK!!
• 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.
Allen Central Middle School
• March 23- Career Expo.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself
a Break Day,'' 8:30 a.m. to 2:00
p.m., at Mt. Arts Center.
• March 31 - Last day to
tum in Food City receipts!!
• 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
infom1ation about the center,
call LaDonna Patton, coordinator, at 358-0 134.
Allen Elementary and Family
Resource Youth Service Center
•
Call Allen Elementary
Youth Service Center at 8740621 to schedule your child's
Hepatitis B vaccination, immunizations, and WIC appointments.
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
• 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 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
pers~ms are Judy Handshoe,
coordinator, and Ruby Bailey,
assistant.
Clark Elementary
May Valley 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
• March 23 - SBDM regular
meeting, 4 p.m., 'in school
library. Open to public.
• May 5, 6 - Kindergarten
registration for 2005-06 school
year, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. If
possible, new students should
Betsy Layne Elementary
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, wellchild physicals, immunizations,
TB skin test, WlC program,
blood pressure checks, and
more. Must call the FRC at 2850321 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
• March 24- "Give Yourself
• 'The center has a one-stop
a Break Day," 8:30a.m. to 2:00
p.m., at the Mountain Arts Cen- career station satellite that is
ter. Parents, grandparents and available to the commumty as
well as students.
guardians, please join us!
• Anyone interested in Adult
• April 4 - FRC Advisory
Council meeting, 3:15 p.m., in Ed may contact the center for
mformation.
FRC office.
• All new students and visi• April 11 - Last day to tum
tors, stop by the Center, located
in Food City receipts!
• May 24, 25 - Kindergarten on the South Floyd campus,
registration for 2005-2006 Room 232, and see Mable Hall. ·
• For more information call
school year, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m., in school auditorium. The 452-9600 or 9607 and ask for
following information is required Mable Hall, ext. 243, or Keith
before enrollment: Student's Smallwood, ext. 242.
birth certificate, social security
card, immunization records, Stumbo Elementary/Mud Creek
Family Resource Center.
physical exam, and eye exam.
• March 24- "Give Yourself
Please bring these documents the
a Break Day," for all Floyd
day you register your child.
•
The Family Resource County parents, grandparents
Center is open weekdays 8 and guardians, at Mountain Arts
a.m.-4 p.m., and later by Center.
appointment. Offtce provides
• March 24 - "Let's Talk
services for all families, regard- · About Drugs," Our Lady of the
Way Hospital, I p.m., for K-3.
•
less of income.
• After School Child Care,
• April 6 - Child Abuse
3-6 p.m., school days.
Awareness Month - Booth will
• Call 886-7088 for addi- be set up in school lunchroom
tional information regarding the and Carol Jo May, of Our Lady
Prestonsburg Elementary Fami- of the Way Hospital, will be on
ly Resource Center or its pro- hand for questions and comgrams.
ments.
• April 11 , 12, 13 - Free
South Floyd Youth Services
computer class, beginners and .
Center
advanced, 5:30 to 7:30, in
• Committee sign-ups may school computer lab. If lnterestbe done through the Youth Ser- ed, call FRC center to sign up.
vices Center office.
• FRC monthly Advisory
• Walking track open to public.
(See SCHOOL, page three)
(Items taken from
The Floyd County
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and
60 years ago.)
Ten Years Ago
March 22 and 24, 1995·
While neighboring counties are bringing their 911 emergency telephone systems on line, Floyd County's five-year
effort to implement the service may be
facing a disconnection notice. The failure
of the fiscal court to pass an ordinance
authorizing the collection of the monthly
911 surcharge since 1990 may require the
county to reimburse citizens who have
been paying the special tax, which the
accumulated about $800,000 ... Floyd
County's new judge-executive pledged to
make the county's affairs more open to
the public, and that's just what happened
at Friday's fiscal court meeting. Newlyappointed Judge-Executive Bob Meyer
opened the meeting by suggesting that the
meeting be moved to a larger meeting
room, and he openly discussed the financial condition of the county...Representative Harold "Hal" Rogers (KY-5) said,
yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation
Services (NRCS) and the City of Prestonsburg have reached agreement to fix
three sites on Middle Creek in Prestonsburg .. .A retired Prestonsburg businessman was killed, and his wife was injured
in a car accident, Friday, near Ashland.
Thomas May Hereford Jr., 80, of Prestonsburg, died when his car went
through a red light and was struck by a
pickup. Hereford was pronounced dead at
the scene. Hereford's wife, Inez May
Richmond Hereford, was seriously
injured in the accident...Despite the news
that the county's funds have dwindled to
an all-time low, Floyd County magistrates
rejected a request, Friday, to hold off buying new vehicles ... Fire departments
around Floyd County kept busy this week
fighting three separate fires in three diffferent areas of the county. In Martin, a fire
that destroyed a house early Sunday
morning is under investigation for suspected arson, said a Martin Fire Department representative ... Osborne Elemen ·
tary School at Bevinsville was issued a
"bottled water only" warning last
Wednesday, after an inspection by the
Floyd County Health Department showed
sediment in the water. That warning was
lifted this week after samples of drinking
water taken at the school showed no bac-
teria was present in the water, but health
officials advised the principal to use common sense in allowing the water to be
used for cooking and drinking ...James
(Tim) Salyer, 36, of Wheelwright, was
killed Wednesday, in a tractor accident at
Wheelwright...Dennis Hom, 20, of Inez,
was charged with the attempted rape of a
Floyd County woman on March 12, at a
residence on Abbott...It finally happened,
the combination of numbers available for
the Prestonsburg 886 exchange has been
depleted. Around the end of February,
South Central Bell began assigning 889
numbers in the Prestonsburg calling
area .. .It appears that it will be July 1995,
before county officials can transfer about
$800,000 into a special 911 service
account, became the funds are not available at this time ...An attorney for Hallard
Hall, 47, a Prater Creek man who is
charged with pointing a knife at a Kentucky State Police officer said, Wednesday, during a preliminary hearing, that his
client was holding his false teeth and a
wrist-watch in his hand, when he was
wrestled to the ground during an altercation last week ...Two Harold Elementary
students, Brandis Bradley and Ashley
Hall, claimed first and second place honors, respectively, in Storytelling in the
Junior League State Competition Event of
Forensics held March 16-18, on the campus of Western Kentucky University in
Bowling Green ...A Toler creek man, facing a murder charge, pleaded guilty to
reckless homicide, Monday, in the shooting death of his brother last July. Jackie
Ray, 45, was set to stand trial on a murder
charge, Monday, before Floyd Circuit
Judge John David Caudill, in connection
with the death of Allen Thomas Ray, 53,
of Lexington ...The case of a Floyd County woman accused of stabbing another
woman two weeks ago, has been referred
to the grand jury. Pamela Jean Bates, 29,
of Wheelwright, is charged with first
degree assault, for allegedly stabbing
Genia Diane Hall, 30, on March 8, in the
parking lot at the swimming pool building
at Wheelwright. ..There died: Thomas
May Hereford Jr., 80, of Prestonsburg,
Friday, March 17, near Catlettsburg, at
the scene of an accident; Josephine Hughes Gray, 88, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formerly of Floyd County, Thursday, March 16, at Bethany Village Health
Center in Oklahoma City; Billy Ray Hin~
kle, 53, of Sebring, Florida, Thursday,
February 16; Laura Layne Davis, 79, of
Hippo, Tuesday, March 21, at Mountain
Manor Nursing Home; Curtis Hollifield,
76, of Clear Creek, Fisty, Friday, March
17, at his residence; Raney Boyd, 58, of
Wheelwright, March 18, at McDowell
Appalachian
Regional
Hospital;
Josephine May Webb, 95, of Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, Monday, March 20, at
Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge;
Erman Waddle, 69, of Prestonsburg, Saturday, March 18, at his residence; Myra F.
Smith, 67, of Prestonsburg, Saturday,
March 18, at Mountain Manor Nursing
Home in Pikeville; Alverta Samons, 46,
of Drift, Friday, March 10, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Darsie Ousley
Owsley, 88, of McArthur, Ohio, Friday,
January 20, at her grandson's residence;
Barbara L. Owsley, 54, of Gas City, Indiana, Saturday, March 18, at Marion General Hospital; Chloie Sykes Damron, 88,
of Weeksbury, Saturday, March 18, at Our
Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin; Lorraine Frasure Bryant, 49, of Harold,
Wednesday, March 22, at her residence;
Garry Grant Howard, 57, of Maysville,
Wednesday, March 22, at Meadowview
Regional Hospital, Maysville; James H.
"Bud" Stewart, 69, of Wayland, Wednesday, March 22, at Veteran's Hospital,
Lexington; Lee Kidd, 85, of Harold,
Tuesday, March 21, at Pikeville
Methodist Hospital; Bruce Jr. Jarrell, 64,
of Dana, Monday, March 20, at his residence; Carl Raymond Horn, 80, of Prestonsburg, Wednesday, March 22, at
Highlands Regional Medical Center.
Twentv Years Ago
March 20, 1985
Two fire departments plan to call it
quits in April, due to a money shortage ...Wheelwright mayor and city commission were blocked by a court order
from acting on a decision to fire two
of
the
utilities
members
commission ...Floyd County's forest fire
problem is among the worst in the
region ...There died: Ed George, 92, of
Prestonsburg, Saturday, at Our Lady of
the Way Hospital; Donald Nelson, 55,
native of Water Gap, March 1, in Arizona;
Charles A. Layne, 68, of Prestonsburg,
Thesday; Franklin Combs, 84, of
Hueysville, last Wednesday, at Our Lady
of the Way Hospital; lona Slone, 42, of
Halo, Monday, at McDowell Appalachian
Regional Hospital: Anna Lee Fenix Rice,
57, of Banner, last Wednesday, in Lexing
ton; Luna Mosley, 80, of Garrett, March
13, at Mountain Manor Nursing Home,
Pikeville; Fayus Eugene Gayheart, 45, of
McDowell, Sunday, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital,; Joe ,._
Wheeler Lewis Jr., 21, of Stanville,
March 14, in a Lexington hospital.
Thinv Years Ago
March 19, 1975
1
The fiscal court, at its March 5 meeting, voted to increase salaries of magistrates by $200 a month, bringing monthly
salaries to $560 ...For the April criminal '"'
term of circuit court, names of 82 Floyd
County residents have been drawn for
jury service. There is only one murder
case to be investigated by the grand
jury...Beginning July 1, Kentucky automobile owners will have the option of
either accepting or rejecting the new
nofault insurance benefits ...The U.S.
Shoe plant here was broken into for the
second time in two months, Sunday night,
and $250 in cash was stolen .. .Dr. Paul B.
Hall is one of 22 men, and the only east- ~\
ern Kentuckian, to be honored April 7,
when they will be inducted into the University of Kentucky Alumni Association's
Hall· of Distinguished Alumni ...There
died: Garland Gibson, 79, of Cincinnati,
0., formerly of this county, Feb. 17; Ruth
H. Jones, 37, of La Grange, native of
Floyd County, March 3, at her home; Sie
Hamilton, 80, of Grethel, Saturday, at a
Pikeville Hospital; Daisy Maynard
Collins, 62, of Cow Creek, Friday, March
14, at a Martin hospital; John Earl Harris,
54, of Prestonsburg, March 10, at the VA •
Hospital, in Lexington ...Turner Brown
Moore, 76, of Houston, Texas, native of
this county, last Wednesday: Hillard
McKinney, 48, of Mruiin, March 4, at the
VA Hospital. Lexington; Mary Elizabeth
Martin Arnett, 81, of Salyersville, native
of this county, March 12; Sherlie I. Stepp,
59, of Dayton, 0., formerly of the Johns
Creek Section. Jan. 29; Mr . Ollie Blackburn, of Rochester, N.Y.. native of thi
ley
county, in Rochester, March 1;
William~ Hicks, 54, of Halo. last Friday,
Mrs.
(Sec YESTERDAYS, page thr e)
�WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005 • C3
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Yesterdays
• Continued from p2
at the McDowell Hospital.
Fonv Years Ago
March 18, 1965
Prestonsburg businessmen issued
urgent calls here, this week, for citizens of
the county to appear at the courthouse,
Wednesday, to testify to the need for the
proposed municipally-;.operated bus
line ...Bobby Donald Morrison, 29, was
fatally injured, Friday night, when his
auto wrecked on the Cow Creek-Buffalo
road as he was driving to his home near
Endicott ...The Prestonsburg Chamber of
Commerce appealed this week to re idents to make available at least 20 rooms
for the increased number of students
expected at Prestonsburg Community
College during the fall semester...A pilot
" project to start in Floyd and three bordering counties, will provide about 250 families a trip, at federal government
expense, to some other section of Kentucky or to another state where there is
work
for
the
head
of
the
household ...Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Curt
Church, a daughter, Paula Jo, March 8, at
the Prestonsburg General Hospital ...There
died: Denzil Ratliff, 68, Saturday, at his
home at Martin; Harry Evin Mullins, 83,
Saturday, at his home at Bevinsville;
William Riley (Buddy) Collins, 86, of
Lancer, last Thursday, at the home of a
son there; Isaac Shepherd, 47, of Hite, last
Wednesday; John H. Hatfield, 57, of
Hunter, last Wednesday, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
59, of Dwale, last Thursday, at a Lexington
hospital; Hilard Hall, 49, of Wheelwright,
Friday, at the Virgie Community Hospital;
Hiram Lawson, 95, of Honaker, last
Wednesday, at the home of a daughter at
Grethel; Rev. Burley Hall, 64, formerly of
Banner, Sunday, at Eminence, Kentucky.
FihV Years Ago
Sixtv Years Ago
March 17, 1955
March 15, 1945
H. D. Fitzpatrick Jr., this week,
announced plans to construct the second
section of a Town Center shopping area in
the Court Street-Lake Drive vicinity, on
either side of the new First Nntional Bank
building ...Named to the All-Tournament
team at the conclusion of the district basketball tournament, last week, at Garrett,
were Kelly Coleman and Lowell Gibson,
of Wayland; Lowell Hughes, of Prestonsburg; Arthur Smith, Martin; Chet Curry,
Wheelwright; Gene Davis, Betsy Layne;
Justin Turner, Maytown; Edgar Rister and
Doug Chaffm, Garrett; Marvin Martin,
McDowell, and Dean McKenzie, Auxier...Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Tackett Jr.,
of Prestonsburg, a son, Robert Lowe,
March 10, at the Prestonsburg General
Hospital ...There died: Mrs. Kate Dillon, 62,
Tuesday, at her home at Ivel; Ulis Elkins,
The casualty list: Killed in actionAndy Sturgill, of Harold, in Luxembourg;
Missing-Sgt. Auburn Calhoun, of Water
Gap, in Germany since Februury 21;
Wounded-Pfc. Harry E. Layne, of Prestonsburg, February 9, on Luzon; Pfc.
Clyde Patton, February 12, on Luzon;
Claude Pratt, of Jones Fork, February 21
in France; Pvt. Palmer Moore, of Gearheart, February 10, on Luzon; Cpl.
William C. Blackburn, of Prestonsburg, in
Germany...After transcribing the statements of two men accused of stealing a
car here, Mrs. Ben Parker, stenographer
for County Attorney W. W. Burchett,
found that her own car was missing, Tuesday ... Burns Flanery, 16, was fatally
wounded, Sunday night, by an accidental
revolver shot at Martin ...There died: S. B.
May, 77, Saturday, at Langley; Mrs. Vic-
•School
toria Layne Maynard, 73, formerly of
Betsy Layne, Saturday, at Dayton, Ohio;
Mrs. Catherine Akers Rice, 85, Monday,
at lvel; Arthur Conley, formerly of Prestonsburg, Friday, at New London, Ohio;
Mrs. Josie Banks Roe, 78, Monday, at
Dwale; Marion Crider, 45, Saturday, at
Betsy Layne. ·
seventv Years Auo
March 15, 1935
More than 400 homes were flooded,
Tuesday, when heavy rains sent streams
on a rampage in this county.. .W. J. Todd'.
store was robbed here last week-the
fourth time in a year...B. F. Stamper, of
Prestonsburg, announces the birth of his
24th child, a son ...A wrecker attempting
to pull a wrecked truck onto the highway,
at Sugar Loaf, was itself overturned,
Monday, fracturing the ankle of its operator, Bernard May ...ln the wreck of the
truck, Norman Hays, of Lackey, was
injured ...There died: Mary Delores
Joseph, 19 months, February 28, at Betsy
Laye; Otto Stratton, 27, February 25, at
Tram; the eight-months-old baby of John
H. Shepherd, February 24, at Dock; Bruce
Spradlin, 28, Abbott Creek, Friday, at a
Martin hospital.
Oak
• Continued from p1
• Continued from p2
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.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Family Resource
Center
Character Words for the
Month: Tolerance and Kindness.
•
March 18 - Heart
Health/CPR demonstration, 5th
grade, 1:45 p.m., in gym. Presented by Kim Sanders, OLWH.
• March 24 - "Give Yourself
a Break Day," at Mountain Arts
~ Center, registration at 8:30 a.m.
For parents, grandparents,
guardians of Floyd County students. Learn to relax while you
relax :md enjoy guest speakers,
door prizes, and a free lunch.
For more info., call452-4553.
•
March 28-April 1:
SPRING BREAK!!
• "Lost & Found" is located
in the FRC. If your child has lost
any clothing or other personal
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
the W. 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.
Wealey Chrlatlan 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.
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 7:30 p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 886-3863,
ext. 67219. Room m207 (second floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning
Center: Tue., 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 4:00p.m. Contact:
Vanessa Tackett - 285-5111.
• Wayland EESC: Mon., Wed.
- 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm. Contact
Vanessa Tackett- 358-3400.
• Wheelwright: Mon , Wed.
- 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Contact: Penny Fell - 452-4324.
• McDowell: The., 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.
Now don't misunderstand.
It's not that I dislike winter, it's
just that ever since ·I was a Little
boy growing up in Muddy
Branch, sloshing through slush
and mud and are trying to evade
water-soaked snowballs thrown
by those older (and more accurate) old mean boys, I've hated it.
But anyway, if the Romans
can make a holiday out of
spring's arrival, so can we. We
could rope off Main Street, and
since it'd be a lot closer to
actual summertime than when
the Romans held their celebration, we could even include
some warm-weather activities,
like grass cutting, for instance.
We could have a parade of
lawn mowers. We could decorate them up with crepe paper
and balloons, divide them into
different categories -like push
and ride ... and give a big prize
to the winners . Maybe we
could even have a prize for the
best decorated weed eater.
And, since it wouldn't be
long until we could count on
sunshine on a daily basis, it
might be fun, too, if in honor of
our true Anglo-Saxon heritage
and our wintertimes spent
indoors fighting off cabin
fever, we stage a whitest-legs
contest. Of course, those
who've been to Myrtle Beach
or a tanning bed would no
doubt giggle and poke fun, but
who cares.
The possibilities are endless .
Why, with a little effort, we
might even be able to get a few
local politicians to make speeches, a few local bands to sing
some springtime songs from
beds of flat-bed trucks, and a
few local organizations to sell
lemonade. What is sure to be a
downer for some, though, is the
idea that we would strictly forbid anyone to sell chalk dogs
and velvet Elvi es for this one .
''Special Deliveries''
by
Sharon Adams, CNM
Advocate
• Continued from p1
able on the then Prestonsburg
Community College campus,
and, in 1978, Rosenberg was
- able to formally organize the
Big Sandy Family Childbirth
and Educational Association.
Rosenberg, who has an educational background in both
nursing and social work, has
served on numerous boards in
the Big Sandy area, including the
Big Sandy District Cancer Council, the Prichard Committee, and
the advisory committee of Our
Lady of the Way Hospital.
She also helped establish the
Floyd County School System's
Talented and Gifted program at
~ Clark Elementary. The program
later became a blueprint for
other such programs across the
state.
In 1987, Rosenberg took a
position as part-time program
administrator of the Prestonsburg Community College Single Parent/Homemaker Program, servicing a ten-county
area. This program eventually
evolved into what is today
known as the Ready to
Work/Work to Learn program
that is implemented through the
First Stop for Parents Career
Development Center.
Through the career development center, participants focus
on building self-esteem and setting motivational educational
and career goals. Within the
program, Rosenberg and her
staff, annually, conduct a Survival Skills Workshop where
participants are offered seminars
on topic& such as automobile
repair, money management, selfdefense and career counseling.
Rosenberg's strong advocacy
has earned her many awards and
recognition's, among them: the
Hall of Fame award, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth; the
Quality of Life award, Kentucky
Cabinet for Families and Children; the Model Program
Award, Kentucky Community
and Technical College System;
the Floyd County Hall of Fame
Award, Floyd County Chamber
of Commerce; the Woman of the
Year Award, "The Post"; the
Health Advocate of the Year
Award, National Women's
Health Network; and the Vision
for East Kentucky Women
Award, East Kentucky Women
in Leadership, presented at the
1998 East Kentucky Leadership
Conference.
Though Rosenberg has
received numerous awards and
certificates of appreciation in
recognition of her service to the
people of Eastern Kentucky, the
award she says she is most
proud of, the one most recently
presented, is the KCTCS New
Horizons College Staff Excellence Award, Big Sandy Community and Technical College.
"This award, this beautiful
award," she says as she reaches
to pick up the crystalline award,
"is the one I am most, most
proud of. I am proud of this
award because I was nominated
for it by my staff. That gives me
a wonderfully good feeling - to
know that my staff believed me
to be deserving."
And here at The Times, the
staff believes that Jean Voelker
Rosenberg is very deserving to
be named as one of Floyd County's "Women in History." Congratulations, and please, keep up
the good work!
Editor's Note: Jean and
John Rosenberg, in addition to
son, Michael, also are the parents of daughter, Ann.
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Korner
• Continued from p1
Robert Blake's being found they had been known to use
"not guilty" blew me away! I admit drugs, we know they didn't kill
I hadn't kept up with the details of her. What the trial was about was
the case, and had only seen bits and · Robert Blake killing her or not
pieces of the news regarding it. But and there were two people
what little I did see. were the stunt whom had sat in the testifying
men he had tried .to hire as "hit seat stating he wanted her dead
and tried to hire them to do it!
men" to get rid of his wife?
Then there's Scott Peterson. I
Hello!
Then ~ast night, I caught a don't think I have ever witnessed
segment saying that their testi- as cold of a human being in my
. -' monies weren't very credible life. No emotion what so ever!
How on earth someone could
because they had been known to
use drugs. Okay, so, we know 00 \l/hat this ;::-.~-. :.;.., d.:h1C is .:iv
totally unthinkable it's unreal.
The little nine-year-old, Jessica Lunsford, rips my heart out!
And when scenes are flashed on
screen of her abductor sitting in a
restaurant sipping a cup of coffee
with a smile on his face, makes
me want to jump through the
screen and shake his teeth out!
Lord, if there were ever a
time to pray it is now!
So much hatred, so much strife,
Til Next Week ..
:::'ray~
Sharon Adams, Certified Nurse Midwife
Sharon received her Diploma in Professional Nursing from Saint
Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in Huntington, WV. She earned
a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Morehead State
University and graduated from the Frontier School of Midwifery
and Family Nursing in Hyden, KY. Sharon is a member of the
National Association of Childbearing Centers, the American Nurses
Association and the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Sharon has been employed with Big Sandy Health Care in
Piestonsburg since June 2003. She provides a wide array of
women's health care services including prenatal care, labor and
delivery, family planning and gynecological services.
Physicians for Women
886-8997
23 Willow Drive, Auxier, Kentucky
(Located 0. 7 miles from Highlands Regional Medical Center.)
�C4 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Critter
tBirtfiday
• Continued from p1
For book readers, get in
close under the chin, between
the eyes and book, unless you
can lie across the book ttsclf.
When a person is reading the
newspaper, be sure to leap on
the back of the paper. They
love to JUmp.
For knitting projects or
paperwork, lie on the work in
the most appropriate manner so
as to obscure as much of the
work as possible-or at least
the most important part. Pretend to doze, but every so often
reach out and slap the pencil ·or
knitting needles.
For people paying bills,
keep in mind the aim-to hamper! First, sit on the paper
being worked on. When dislodged, watch sadly from the
side of the table. When activi·
ty proceeds nicely, roll around
on the papers, scattering them
to the best of your ability. After
being removed for the second
time, push pens, pencils and
erasers off the table, one at a
time.
WALKING: As often as
possible, dart quickly and as
close as possible in front of the
human . Take advantage of the
times when they arc on the
stairs, when they have something in their arms, when it is
dark, and when they first get up
in the morning. This will help
their coordination skills.
fLAY: This is an important
part of your life. Get enough
sleep in the daytime so you are
fresh for your nocturnal games.
Here are two favorite cat games
you can play:
~ ~ Mouse": The
humans would have you
believe that those lumps under
the covers are their feet and
hands. They are lying. They
are actually Bed Mice, rumored
to be the most delicious of all
the mice in the world, though
no cat has ever been able to
catch one. Rumor also has it
that only the most ferocious
attack can stun them long
enough for you to dive under
the covers to get them. Maybe
YOU can be the ftrst to taste
the Bed Mouse I
~ of the. H.ill:: This
game must be played with at
least one other cat. The more
the merrier! One or both of the
sleeping humans is the Hill,
which must be defended at all
costs from the other cat(s).
Anything goes. Thi~ game
allows for the development of
unusual tactics, as one must
take the unstable playing the·
ater into account.
***WARNING*** Playing
either of these games to excess
will result in expulsion from
the bed and possibly from the
bedroom. Should the humans
grow restless, immediately
begin purring and cuddle up to
them. This should buy you
some time until they fall asleep
again. If one happens to be on
a human when this occurs, this
cat wins the round of King of
the Hill.
IQY.S.: Any small item i~ a
potential toy. If a human tries
to confiscate it, this means that
it i a Good Toy. Run with it
under the bed. Look suitably
outraged with the human grabs
you and takes it away. Always
watch where it is put so you can
steal it later. Two reliable
sources of toys are dresser tops
and wasteba~kets.
EQQD.: In order to get the
energy to sleep, play, and hamper, a cat must eat. Eating,
however is only half the fun.
The other half is getting the
food. There arc two ways to
obtain food: either by convincing a human you are starving to
death and must be fed *NOW,*
or by hunting it yourself. Here
are some guidelines:
When the humans are eating, make sure you leave the tip
of your tail in their dishes when
they are not looking.
Never eat food from your
own bowl if you can steal some
from the table.
Never drink from your own
water bowl if a human's glass is
full enough to drink from.
Should you catch something
of your own outside, it is only
polite to bring it indoors to
show it to your humans.
HUMANS: Humans have
three primary functions: to feed
us, to give us attention, and to
clean the litter box. It is important to maintain our Dignity
when around humans so that
they will not forget who is master of the house. Humans need
to know basic rules. They CWl
be taught if you start early and
are consistent.
You will then have a
smooth-running household.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College
re•dedicates Building A on the Mayo Campus
Fifty years ago Building A on
the Mayo Campus of Big Sandy
Community and Technical College (BSCTC) was dedicated for
the first time. Following extensive renovation, the beautiful new
11 ,000 square ft. office and classroom facility was re-dedicated on
Monday, March 14,2005.
Dr. George D. Edwards, President of BSCTC, welcomed a standing room only crowd of alumni,
community leaders, dignitaries and
citizens to Mayo Campus's new
Building A foyer for the de4ication
ceremonies. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Finetta Mullins
from the Daughters of the American
Revolution and a fonner student of
the old Mayo Vocational School.
Clayton Case, a student at the college, sang the National Anthem.
Roger (Tucker) Daniel,. John-·
son County Judge Executive and
Doug Pugh, Mayor of Paintsville,
brought greetings from the county
and city. They talked about the
unity of the Mayo campus with the
community and the contribution it
has made over the years to the citizens of the big Sandy area.
Mayor Pugh cited the new Kentucky Highlands Entrepreneur
Center as a prime example of the
complex partnership between
, BSCTC, the city of Paintsville and
Johnson County Fiscal Court. He
said, "Together we are working to
bring new businesses to this area."
Vice President Bobby McCool
introduced two very special people who related memories and stories of the history of the Mayo
campus to a hushed crowd. Ninety four year old Escom Chandler,
Chair of the Mayo Advisory Board
for 30 years -and fonner Mayor of
Paintsville spoke about the old
Mayo Normal School, where
teachers were trained to teach and
the beginning of the Mayo Voca• tiona! School and the great men
and women who dedicated their
lives to bring education and training to the citizens of east Ken-
tucky. He told of the years when
the United States was at war and
this school changed lives by providing the skills needed to work,
earn a living <~Itd prosper. Chandler said, "Before Mayo school
was founded there was little hope
for our people. Here on this campus they were able to get training
and learn how to make a living."
Bronelle Skaggs, former Vocational Region Eleven Director
came to the podium to talk about
education and the changes that the
college has been involved with in
the Big Sandy Region. He related
how the Mayo campus has grown
and the many changes it has gone
through over the years. He told
about the little vocational school,
with a handful of dedicated teachers that grew to include 3 college
campuses and 5 area centers
which formed the old Vooational
Region Eleven. Big Sandy Community and Technical College was
formed from the consolidation of
those campuses with Prestonsburg
Community College. Skaggs said,
"Education is the key to success, I
believe it and I have seen the
results. I know this to be true."
Dr. Michael McCall, KCTCS
President, sent greetings with a
message read by Dr. Edwards,
"Enhancing technical education
at all KCTCS colleges throughout
the state has been one of our organization's top priorities. Technical education is vital to Kentutky 's ability to compete in the
New Economy and Building A
will allow us to provide both educational and economic opportunities for the citizens of this community."
Inspirational music for the
event was provided by Laura
Ford Hall, BSCTC employee, and
the Big Sandy Singers, a new
musical group made up of students from the college. Refreshments were catered by Nellie
Baldwin and Carla Perry from
BSCTC food services.
Happy 91 st, Della!
Della Crum, of Martin, will celebrate her 91st birthday on March
24, 2005. Della is the widow of the late Arvil Crum. She has nine
children, 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and three
great-great grandchildren. Della, who shares that the secret to
a rich life is to work hard and fear the Lord, will celebrate her
special day with a score of family members and friends.
Cl'few ~rrivafs
A ribbon cutting was held on March 14, on the BSCTC Mayo
campus, in recognition of the rededication of Building A.
Escom Chandler, fonner mayor of Paintsville and fonner chair
of the Mayo Advisory Board, spoke to the assembled crowd.
February 28, 2005
.-A daughter, Haylee Jo Thornsberry, to Toni Little
.-A daughter, Kenna Danae Raleigh, to Kendra Leann &
Danny Raleigh
March 1, 2005
.-A son, Tanner Nathaniel Fairchild, to Kimberly Ann &
Clifford Fairchild
.- A daughter, Lily Grace Howard, to Angela & James Howard
.- A daughter, Kara Nashea Risner, to Michelle Dawn & Kirby Risner
.- A daughter, Andra Jayne Mullins, to Emma L. Pollard
.- A son, Christopher Gadge Lockhart, to Sandra Kay &
Jimmy Lockhart
March 2, 2005
.-A son, Martin Wayne Mosley Jr., to Clarissa & Martin Mosley
.- A son, Kasdon VI') ,t O'Bryan, to Mollie & Randall O'Bryan
March 3, 2005
.- A son, Dylan Dakota Hicks, to Danyail Hicks
March 4, 2005
.-A daughter, Charla Rose Gambill, to Melinda Combs
.-A son, Joseph Howard Roscoe Meade. to Donna & Cecil Meade
March 8, 2005
.-A daughter, Sierra Sky Akemon, to Kimberly Renee &
Randy Shawn Akemon
.-A son, Zackary Lee Wright, to Maria & Randall Wright
.- A daughter, Carrie Ann Hall, to Lora Renee Hall
.- A daughter, Kellie Mechelle Marshall, to Jennifer Mechelle
& Larry Dean Marshall
.-A daughter, Ricki Lynn Carty, to Bridgett Lee Carty
March 9, 2005
.- A daughter, Adrianna Elizabeth Gail Tackett, to Christine &
Cleve Tackett
.- A son, Dylan Michael Chaffins, to Ralinda & Terry Chaffins
March 10,2005
.- A daughter, Chesa Paige McCoy, to Tiffany Leigh &
Nicholas Wade McCoy
.- A daughter, Savannah Jean Bussler, to Barbie Jean Bussler
March 11, 2005
.- A daughter, Abigail Grace Ratliff, to Billie Michelle & Todd
Anthony Ratliff
.-A daughter, Mya Alison Danielle Burgess, to Mary Lynn &
Mark Allen Burgess
.- A son, 'JYler Eugene Bellar, to Vanessa Jolene & Robert Earl Bellar
March 12, 2005
.- A daughter, Kaitlyn Cheyenne Roberts, to Elizabeth &
Jason Roberts
March 14, 2005
.- A son, Robert Dean Bolden Jr., to Samantha Grim
.-A son, Landon Blake Hunter, to Stacy & Jason Hunter
.-A daughter, Caylee Grace Caudill, to Rebecca & Terry Caudill
.- A daughter, Mallory Paige Hall, to McKella Case
March 16, 2005
.- A son, David Henry Howard Jr., to Roxie & David H ward
.- A son, Thoma Henry Howard. to Roxie & David Hm ard
Bronelle Skaggs, former
Vocational
Region Eleven
Director, spoke
of the changes
in education
seen In recent
years.
BABE - The Sheep Pig coming in April
Jenny Wiley Theatre, The
Mountain Arts Center and
Appalachian Wireless announce
April performances of BABE The Sheep Pig , a
play adapted from
the hit movie Babe.
The play depicts a
young pig's fight
against convention
to become a sheepdog - or, rather
sheep pig - in this
heartwarming production.
Farmer
Hoggett
brings
home a clever little
piglet, named Babe,
from the village fair.
Once Babe is adopted by Fly. the farm's
matriarch sheepdog,
the lonely piglet
begins to adjust to
his new home and
its inhabitants. Discovering that the
fate of most pigs is the dinner
table, Babe devotes himself to
becoming a useful member of
the farm by trying to learn how
to herd sheep. Despite the skep-
ticism of the other animals and
the kindly but conventional
Farmer Hoggett, Babe embarks
on a career in sheep herding
with some surprising and spectacular
results. When the
day of the Grand
Challenge SheepDog Trials dawns,
the whole farm
waits breathlessly to
see if Babe will triumph. BABE is
suitable for the
entire family.
The evening performance on Friday,
April
15
will
include a special
fair - a Pet Adoption Fair provided
by the Pike County
Animal
Shelter
beginning at 6 :00
p.m. Additionally,
the first 100 children under twelve-years-old
attending the Friday night performance will receive a special
piggy bank from Citizens
National Bank. Everyone is
encouraged to come early and
enjoy the preliminary activities.
Scott Bradley, JWT Artistic
Director, directs the play, with
David Gardner in charge of
lighting and Joe Campbell
managing sound. The costumes by Corey Martin and set
designed by Michael Petit truly
transform the MAC stage into
Farmer Haggett's barnyard.
Joshua Carriere, of Prestonsburg, is cast in the role of Babe.
Other cast members are Erin
Castle, Stacie Carriere, Jessica
Danielle Hall, and Emma Kathleen Smith, all of Prestonsburg;
Savannah Grace Hall and Caleb
Wheat , of Pikeville; Taylor
James Harr of Robinson Creek;
Madison Renea Martin and
Taylor Madison Moore of Martin; Austin Sadler of Grethel;
and Daniel Mark White, of
Paintsville.
All performances are at the
Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, with School Matinees
scheduled for April 13 and 14 at
9:45 a.m. Educational packages
are available for participating
schools upon request; contact the
Mountain Arts Center for school
matinee tickets. Public performances are April 15 and 16 at
7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are
$14/Adult. $12/Senior 55+,
$10/Youth (under 21). For tickets call the Mountain Arts Center
locally at 886-2623, or toll free
at 1-888-MAC-ARTS. Additional information is available
online at www.jwtheatre.com or
www.macarts .cotn.
Make plans to attend the
upcoming productions of Jenny
Wiley Theatre this season: Disney's Beauty and the Beast,
Jesus Christ Superstar, Steel
Magnolias, Isn't It Romantic
ACabaret, The Diary of Ann
Frank, and A Christmas Story.
Jenny Wiley Theatre receives
funding from individuals, corporations, the Prestonsburg Convention and Visitors Bureau, and
Paintsville Tourism Commission. Partial funding has been
provided bv the Kentucky Arts
Council, a state agency in the
Commerce Cabinet, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts .
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115- ATV's
120- Boats
130- Cars
140- 4x4's
150 - Miscellaneous
160 - Motoi'Oycles
170- Parts
175- SUV'a
1BO ·Trucks
HllO- Vane
210 ~Job Listings
220 • Help Wanted
230 - tnformallon
250 - Miscellaneous
260 , Part llme
270 •Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wanted
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300 • fiNANCIAL
310 •
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610 ~ Apar:tnents.
620 • Storagti/
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510- Commercial
410 • Health & Beauty
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. 220-Help
·, Wanted
.
Day Shift and On-Call Positions Available
Hospice neither helps nor hinders death
Which is a part of living.
Would you like to help someone to
Live their last days as pain free
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We believe that people should live as
They wish and try to enjoy their time
·
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Registered Nurse, practice your medical skills
as you have never practiced them before,
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Call for an interview at 606-789-3841
Office located at 1420 Ky. Hwy. 1428
Hager Hill, Ky. 41222
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must have:
• Bachelor's degree in social work,
or a bachelor's degree in a human
services field, including. but not
limited to, sociology. special
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thru Fri. between the
hours of Bam and
4pm.
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alternating between
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Job Description: Teach (part-time) students age 16
and up basic education, reading, math, GED prep.,
college prep, parenting, job skills, etc., at various
locations throughout Floyd County.
Requirements: 4-year College Degree. Teacher
Certification and experience preferred.
Send cover letter, resume, and references to
The David School, PO Box 1, David, KY 41616.
Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews.
Immediate .Job Openin2
Opening: IT Administrator
Requirement:
GED or High School Graduate
BS in Computer Science
would be beneficial
Responsibilities:
System and server maintenance, bill of
materials maintenance and various other
computer related duties.
Excellent opportunity with an established
truck body manufacturing company.
Needs to be self-motivated, hard-working
and dependable. Experience with Mass
and/or MRP software would be beneficial. Excellent benefit package.
Send resume to the following:
R&S-Godwin Truck Body Co.
P.O. Box 420
Allen, KY 41601
Attn: Diana Hall
E/0/E
• One year of supervised social work
experience in a health care setting,
working directly with individuals.
CREDIT REPAIR!
Candidate should forward a
resume to:
Salyersville Health Care Center
571 Parkway Drive
Salyersville, KY 41465
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Social Service
Responsibilities:
Developing Career Employment Opportunities
and Coordinates Placement/Career Transition
Services for Program Participal'on.
war~
Competitive benefits package including
Medical, Dental, Sick Leave,
Paid Vacation, Thition Reimbursement,
Paid Holidays and 401-K
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Qualified candidates should submit resume to:
Qualified candidates should submit resume to:
Human Resou,rces Department
Carl D. Perkins Job Co.rps
478 Meadows Branch
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653
Fax: (606) 886-6073
Human Resources Department
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps
478 Meadows Branch
Prestonsburg, Kentuck) 41653
Fax: (606) 886-6073
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Competitive benefit~ packa~c including
Medical, Dental, Paid Sick Lca,·c,
Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays,
Thltion Reimbur,enwnt,
and 401-K Retirement
55o·8~
of age 21 or older.
Must have CDL with
HAZ-MAT and tanker
endorcements, good
driving record and
some
mechanical
apptitude.
Please
apply in person at:
Universal
Well
Services, Inc., 5252
Rt. 1428, Allen, KY
41601
606-874-
MEDICAL POSITION
REGISTERED NURSE
Salyersville Health Care Center
is recruiting for a qualified candidate to fill our Director of Social
Services Position.
Career Transition Specialist
Responsible for Career Preparation Services.
Career Readiness and Transition Services.
W 0 R K E R S
NEEDED-Laborers
with
CDL License
Needed.
Contact
Star
Mary
at
Construction, 8741263
Director of Social Services
Career Development
Services Director
Responsibilities:
MOUNTAIN MANOR
OF PAINTSVILLE is
taking aplllcations for
a LPN, 7am-7pm
position.
Excellent
wages and benefits.
Apply In person at
1025 Euclid Ave,
Paintsville, KY from
Sam-4:40pm MonFri.
TAKING APPLICATION'S for COL
Driver's, must be at
least Class B. Apply
in person at Waste
200
Management,
OIL
FIELD Garth Hollow Rd.,
WANTED- Contract COMPANY
has Martin, KY.
Miner for Deep Mine openings for hard
in Floyd County. Call working responsi606-928-1473.
ble drivers. Must be
PART-TIME
DRUG SCREENING
TECHNICIAN needed in the Floyd
County area
6-8
hours a week involving 3 c 4 days a
wee'< 1-'ay $1 0 per
hour ~o experience
neederl, trammg provided.
Rettr-ees
encouraged to apply.
Call 1-270-735-1492,
before March 30th
regarding this posi-
has an opening for a
Bachelor's degree in education with five years
of related experience, three of which
must be in supervisory capacity.
LOCAL REBUILD
SHOP FOR MINE
EQUIPMENT is looking for 2 experienced
Mechanics. Apply in
person at 542 Mare
Creek
Road,
Stanville, KY or call
478-2882 between
7am-5pm.
'
has an opening for a
Education and Experience Requirements:
tion.
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Damaged,
use
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building. Call 800405-7501 ext. 155R
RABBITS
FOR
SALE. Mini Rex & FOR SALE: House
Holland
Lops
6 Furniture, Washer &
weeks ol~. Call after Dryer, Miscellaneous
& Farm
4pm or leave mes- Yard
Equipment. Grocery
sage. 377-9290
Store
Furnishings
FULL STOCK WOLF also will Rent House
PUPPIES For Sale, 6 and Grocery Store in
Weeks Old $300, Pippa Passas. Call
270-358·8837.
Call 859·806-2188 ·
GOVERNMENT
JOBS! WILDLIFE I
POSTAL
$16.51 to $58.00 per
hour. Full Benefits.
445-Furniture
Paid Training. Call for
Application
and
ALLEN
Exam Information.
FURNITURE
No
Experience
At.LEN,KY
Necessary. Toll Free
Furniture,
used
1·888·269-6090 ext. appliances, living I
100
bedroom suits, bunk
beds, and lots morel
HIRING
2005 Call 606-874-9790.
P 0 S T A L
POSITIONS II
FOR SALE-Solid
$ 1 7 . 5 0 - Wood Office Desk.
$59.00+/Hour.
Full Call 789-6320 or
Benefits. Paid train- 367-1506
ing/Vacations.
No
experience. Green
RAY'S BARGAIN
Card OK! 1-866-329CENTER
0801 ext. 1070
&
Used
New
&
Furniture
Appliances @ unbelievable prices. Come
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Grants for Personal
All lnstock Carpet,
Bills,School, Vinyl, Harwood &
Business, etc. $47 Ceramic lile on Sale
billion left unclaimed. While Supplies Last.
Live Operators! 1· Select Style & Color
800-57 4-1804 ext. Plush Carpet In Stock
Starting at $10.95 per
712
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personal bills, school,
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account
required.
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brands. 1-800-51 03
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FOR SALE: 8 ft'
refrigerated
dell
case, $1000, email
pizza oven, $400,
small juice cooler,
$150,
washer &
dryer, $150 pair. Call
606-886-2367.
3 OR 4 BR HOUSE
FOR SALE.
Has
been
remodeled,
$49,900 or best offer
Priced to Sale. Call
889·9821
FIRST TIME HOME
BUYERS!
$0
DOWN, NO CREDIT
OKI$0 TO LOW
DOWN! 1-800·501·
1777 EXT. 9826
550-Land/Lots
.. -. . ·
RENTALS
~
'
2 LOTS FOR SALE
610{\Qa r:tments
(' n
Stonecrest Golf
Course.
DUPLEX
FOR
Approximately 3 1/3
RENT:
2
BR
Central
Call
Acres each.
Heat & Air, Total
886-3313
Electric,
Excellent
1 1/2 ACRE LOT Condition. On US 23
FOR SALE, Level North, 1 Mile From
House Seat, Hunters Prestonsburg,
No
Branch Rd., Martin, Pets. Call 889-9747
KY, $11,000 Call 763- or 886·9007
566·4025
570-Mobile. Homes
RENOVATED
APARTMENT'S, Like
New, Furnished In
Downtown
Martin.
Call between 9am·
5pm dailey.
285·
3025
lot call Today 606- FOR RENT 3 BR
Newly
424-2690 or 226- house.
2266
remodeled
references
required.
FOR LEASE· 886·8366.
Utility
Storage.
2,500
sq.
ft., 640-Land/Lots
Concrete Floors, 15
ft Ceiling Height, 10 Trailer lot for rent
Overhead
Doors; on old U.S. 23
PrestonSuitable for General between
Storage/Warehouse, sburg and Paintsville
Light
Automotive call 606-886-9007 or
Repair
Containing 889 9747
Wash Bay, Spray
For Rent : newly
Painting
Bay.
Eqqipped with City constructed Mobi le
Water and Gas Heat; Home Lots in new
Located at 834 S. Allen , reference
Lake
Dr., required call 606·
Prestonsburg , KY. 874-2212
Call 606·886·8883
650-l\lbbilc Homes
from 8am-5pm , M
thru F, 606·889·9398 2 BR TRAILER, 1
Evenings
and Bath Located at Left
Weekends. Ask for . Fork of Bull Creek.
Bud.
For More Info Call
874·2836
MEDICAL
OFFICE
FOR TRAILER
FOR
LEASE:
Medical RENT: On Rt. 7 at
Office In McDowell Salt Lick, No Pets,
directly adjacent to $250 per Month, Call
Post Office, Dollar 358·4524
NEW 3
BR,
2
BATH SECTIONAl.
HOME. Heat pump,
skirting, \wl\d, zone 3
insulation, glamour
bath,
dishwasher.
Less than $289 per
2 BR 1 1/2 BATH
FOR SALE: 8ft' deli month Call 800-405- TOWNHOUSE also 1
cooler, $950 and Gas 5274. (WAC)
'
bed room furr.:shed
convection
oven,
or unfurnished locat- Store, bank, pharma$450. Call 606-886LIKE NEW 16X74 ed in Prestonsburg cy and shopping
2367.
NORRIS.
Vinyl & ,NO PETS call 606· complex. 1250 sq. ft.
with 3 exam rooms, 2
Shingles, Whirlpool 886 8991
KAY'S WALLPAPER
offices, waiting ronm,
205 Depot Road Tub, WID , C/A, skirtMarch Madness! triage room, 2 bathKy. ing, SBS, dishwash- First Month's Bent rooms and accesPaintsville,
Hundreds of Patterns er, microwave, free Free with Security sories. Reasonable
& delivery & set-up for Deposit Paid In Full! Lease rates. Ready
of
Wallpaper
Borders. All under less than $209 per Through
3/31/05. for immediate occu$10.00. Open Tues- month. Call 1-800- Park
For further
Place pancy.
Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 406-5274 (WAC).
Apartments
in information or to view
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m.
Prestonsburg, property please call
Closed Sun. & Mon.
or
Final
clearance Elderly, Handicapped 606-377-2006
606-789-8584.
606-377-1088
&
DisabledAvailable
2004 lot models and
2005 models now for
Immediate Monday thru Fiday.
STEEL BUILDING available! If you are Occupancy. Rent 1
SALE 20X30, 25X30, serious about pur- BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
FOR RENT: 900
30X40,
40x60 chasing a new home Call 886-0039
Ft.
Sq.
50X100: Brand New: you need to be with
Office/Commercial
Free
Delivery
if experienced staff to
Greetings
from Space located next to
ordered by 4/2/05 Toll get the right rome at Lighthouse Manor, Reflections beauty
Free 1-866-660-222 a great price. The Terry
&
Sharon salon, 3 quarter miles
1
Home Show-South Smith. We have south of Martin on Rt.
Wi.liam son, Inc. US apartments for rent 122 across from the
HIGH
SCHOOL 119, Belfry, Ky. 41514 that are efficiency Garth Tech. School.
DIPLOMA
AT 606-353-6444 or toll apartments, all utili- Call 285-9112
HOME. 6 - 8 weeks. free 877-353-6444
ties paid. For more
Low
Payments.
info call 606-886630-Houses
FREE Brochure. 1SMALL TRAILEI=l 2797.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
8 0 0 • 2 6 4 • 8 3 3 0 FOR SALE. Neeos
Benjamin
Franklin minor work, pa •1a
1 BR FURNISHED 239 Francis Court,
High
School. furnished, $80" Call APARTMENT, LA, Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
w W w · d i P I O • 358·3416
Kitchen, Large Bath, Bath 1400 Sq. Ft. ,
mafromhome.com
Must
be Suitable for office,
Clean,
FOR SALE: 12x70, Quiet. Suitable for small business or
STEEL BUILDING 2 BR, Appliances Working Man. Ready residence. Not suit·
SALEI We'll Beat All included
Asking to Move Into, Near able location for chll·
Competitor
Bids $5,000 Call 377·6040 Prestonsburg.
Call dren or pets. $500
Spec for Spec or we'll
per month + utilities.
886·3941
send you a check for
886·6362
Home at Invoice,
$200.001 1·800-973- New Double Wide
FURNISHED
1
3366. www.premier· Only
$31 ,599, BED ROOM APT. 2 BR HOUSE FOR
steel.org
Includes
Delivery, ·Central heat & air. RENT·$400
per
Set-Up, A/C and Rent starting at $375. month
+
$300
SAWMILLS Skirting.
Call 888· month,
+ $300. deposit,
located
$2,595 . 00 246·1 075 Fleetwood deposit water includ- between Paintsville &
LumberMate-2000
homes . Homes of ed
Located near Prestonsburg,
3/4
&
Lumberlite-24. Louisa.
606-889- from U.S. 23.
No
HRMC.
Norwood Industries
9717
pets,
refereances
alsomanufactu res
All Drywall, Dutch
checked call 791 •
utility
ATV with 2x6 walls,and &DStorage/Office 5761
Attachments,Log 5/12 roof pitch, ultiSkidders, Portable mate kitchen pack- FOR RENT: 2 Office 2 BR HOUSE FOR
Board Edgers and
New RENT at Garrett.
age, glass block win- Suites,
forestry equipment. dow, and many more Construction.
900 $400 per month +
www.norwoodindus- extras, Set up for sq. ft. each. Ample $300 Deposit, Call
tries.com-FREE viewing. For details Parking, Can be 478-9389 or 477Information: 1-800- call 606-353-6444 or Combined for Total of 1707
566-6899 Ext. 200-U toll free 577-353- 1 ,800
sq.
ft.
6444 the home show Convenient Location, 3 BR HOUSE FOR
STAINLESS STEEL
New Office Behind RENT. Utility Room,
OUTDOOR WOOD·
Sav-A-Lot
in LR, OR, Built In
FUR· ,580-Miscellaneous
BURNING .
Cleaner,
Prestonsburg. Call Vacume
NACES. Save $600- "'~ ·Heat Pump.
Very
886-1515 for Info.
$1200. Also, Floor FIRE
Nice Home Located
YOUR
Heat Water Tubing. LANDLORD!!! $$$0 For Lease Flnlehed at Kite on State At. 7
QUARANTEED DOWN HOMES!
Office Space for Call 447·2200 or
LOWEST PRICES!
No Rent! Tax Repos lease In prime loca- 438·6104
www.mikesheating.c & BankruptciesiNo tion near BSCTC,
om 1·800-446-4043 Credit OK! $0 to low (PCC) and the new HOUSE FOR RENT
down I For Listings,
Food City -- 21 00 •• in Prestonsburg, can$101 COMPUTERS, 1-800-501-1777 Ext. sq. ft. Ground floor tal heat & air, yard, no
Video Games! TVs 8351
references
location with up to pets,
from $1 0! Police
five private offices, required $550 mo.
Seized! Sony, JVC,
conference
room , Call 886-0226.
$0 DOWN HOMES!
Panasonic etc. Info NO CREDIT OK! kitchen, bath, parking
800-749-8128 xP686 GOV'T & BANK
REPOS. $0 TO LOW
Save on auto insurance.
DOWN. FOR LISTAt Nationwide , we go the extra mile to save you
INGS.1-800-501money. That's why we offer a variety of auto premium
1777 EXT. 7372
discounts, including our multi· car discoun~ our safe
50S-Business
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Call us and start saving money today.
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TRAILER
RENT on the
Fork of Abbott.
886-9479 or
9076
FOR
Left
Call
886-
14X70
MOBILE
HOME FOR RENT, 3
BR,
Excellent
Condition, $425 per
month + Utilities,
Security Deposit and
References
Required. 874-2802
SERVICES
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types .
New construction or
remodel i ng .
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
NEEDING
Rese i dentia l
Carpenter
for
Roofing, Siding, &
Dry Wall , Call 859494·6835
780-Tomber
D & D Tree Service
Tree Trimming
Tree Removal
Free Estimates!
Lowest Prices
Guaranteed!
Call 608·786·0316 or
786·9810
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�WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0294,
AMENDMENT 1
(1) In accordance
With KRS 350.070,
notice 1s hereby
given that M1ller Bros
Coal,
Inc.,
25
Clydean
Drive,
Leburn,
Kentucky
41831, has applied
tor an amendment to
an existing surface
coal mining operation, located 1 mile
9f
southeast
Weeksbury, in Floyd
and Pike counties.
The amendment will
add 31 .22 acres, and
will delete 2.15 of
surface disturbance,
making a total of
639.97 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
(2) The proposed
amendment area i~
approximately 1 m1le
southeast
from
Kentucky
Route
466 's junction with
Caleb Fork County
Road, and is located
on Pine Fork of
Caleb Fork, in Floyd
County and Abel
Tackett Fork of Long
Fork, in Pike County.
The latitude is 37
• degrees, 19 minutes,
09 seconds. The longitude is 82 degrees,
41 minutes, 01 seconds.
(3) The proposed
amendment is located
on
the
Wheelwright USGS 7
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
area to be disturbed
under the amendment is owned by
Collins and Mayo
Collieries Company,
Joyce N. Johnson,
Clinton & Eva Little,
and Joe & Mary
Tackett. The operation will use the surface area method of
mining.
(4) The amendment
application has been
for
public
filed
inspection at the
Department
for
Surface
Mining
lrf.· 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
tiled with the Director
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S.
127 South,
* I Frankfort, Kentucky
40601'
•
*'
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
CIVIL ACTION
NO: 00-CI-00469
KENTUCKY
FARM
BUREAU
MUTUAL
INSURANCE
COMPANY
PLAINTIFF
VS:
Willie A. Delong,
unknown spouse of
Willie A. Delong,
Estate of Eula Ann
Delong, Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
spouse of Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
of
Bill
spouse
Delong,
unknown
spouse of Connie
. , Reffett, and First
Commonwealth Bank
of Prestonsburg, Inc.
Defendants
AMENDED
NOTICE
OF SALE
By virtue of an
Amended
Default
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, ren dered
at
the
November 17, 2004,
term, in the above
• styled action, I, the
undersigned Special
M a s
e r
Commissioner, shall
proceed to offer · for
sale, on the steps of
the Old Flo)•d County
Courthouse, (behind
the Floyd County
Justice Center), 3rd
A v e n u e ,
P 1e s t o n s b u r g ,
Kentucky, to the highest and best bidder,
at public auction, on
the 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00 a.m ,
same being a day of
the regular term of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, the following
described property,
as a whole, to wit:
Certain real property and improvements,
situated in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and being more particularly described as
follows:
Court
appraised
value of the improvements or the balance
of the purchase price,
whichever is less,
with a loss clause
payable
to
the
Special
Master
Commissioner of the
Floyd Circuit Court.
Upon default of said
deposit or posting of
bond, by the purchaser, the Special
M a s t e r
Commissioner shall
immediately resell
the property upon the
same terms and conditions set out herein.
The purchaser shall
be
required
to
assume and pay all
real property taxes
assessed for the tax
year 2001, and all
subsequent years.
Any delinquent Floyd
County real property
taxes will be deducted from the sale proceeds. All bidders
must be prepared to
comply with these
t
e r m s
Announcements on
the day of sale shall
take
precedence
over matters in this
advertisement.
BEGINNING
on
Highway 404, running with Irvin Slone
line, thence up the
hill to the top joining
Harminson
Slone
Line thence around
the
hill
with
Harminson
Slone
and down the hill with
Harminson
Slone
GIVEN UNDER MY
and down the hill to
Highway 404, thence HAND, this 17th day
up the road with of March, 2005.
Highway 404 to the
CLYDE F. JOHNstarting
point,
Containing 3 acres SON
Special Master
more or less.
Commissioner
Floyd Circuit Court
Being the same
193 East Court
land conveyed to
Grantor by Eula Ann Street
Delong and being of
Prestonsburg, KY
record in Deed Book
41653
269, page 445, in the
office of the Floyd
CERTIFICATE OF
County Clerk. Also SERVICE
This is to certify that
see
Affidavit
of
Descent on Eula Ann a true and correct
Delong recorded in copy of the foregoing
Deed Book 453, was mailed, postage
page 555 in the Floyd prepaiG1, to the followCounty Clerk's office. ing : Hon. John E.
Hinkel, Jr., 300 West
The amount of Vine
Street,
money to be raised Lexington, KY 40507;
by this sale shall Mr. Willie A. Delong,
include
costs
of Blue
River,
KY
advertising of this 41607;
Mr.
Bill
..sale and the fees and Delong, Blue River,
commissions tor con- 61 Old Post Office
Street, Martin, KY
ducting this sale.
41649; Ms. Connie
The purchaser shall Reffett, 4352 South
be required to pay Hannial Way, Apt.
the sum of 10% of 236, Aurora, CO
the bid price down in 80015; Mr. Brian
cash at the time of Neal Delong, P.O.
the sale with the bal- Box 203, Blue River,
ance on a credit of KY 41607.
th1rty (30) days at the
This 17th day of
rate of 12% per
March, 2005.
annum. Further, the
HON. CLYDE F.
JOHNSON
purchaser shall be
required to execute a
bond or bonds with COMMONWEALT
sufficient surety or
H
sureties
thereon,
OF KENTUCKY
which shall have the
FLOYD CIRCUIT
force and effect of a
COURT
judgment with a lien
DIVISION
NO. II
retained upon said
C.A. NO. 99-CIproperty in order to
359
secure payment of
the balance of the FLOYD COUNTY,
purchaser price. A
KENTUCKY
purchaser shall have
PLAINTIFF
the privilege of payvs.
ing all or any part of
Edward M. Kuss,
the purchase price or Rebecca S. Kuss,
paying said bond or Norwest
Bank
bonds before maturi- Minnesota, N.A., as
ty by paying the bal- Trustee, Assignee of
ance of the principal , Oceanmark Financial
together with
all Corp.,
Wickes
accrued
interest Lumber Company,
thereon at the rate of City of Prestonsburg
12% per annum from
Defendants
the date of sale until
paid. In the event that
RE-NOTICE OF
the successful bidder
COMMISSIONis an owner of an ER'S
undivided interest in
SALE
the property herein,
BY VIRTUE OF
then and in that Judgment and Order
event, said person of Sale of the Floyd
shall take credit Circuit Court, entered
against the balance on the 12th day of
due on his or her bid April, 2004, in the
for the interest owned Floyd Circuit Court, in
in the property and the
above-styled
shall fill bond for no action, in the princimore
than
the pal
of
sum
remainder of the pur- $350,857.00, togethchase price after er with interest, costs
applying such credit, and fees, I shall prosubject however to ceed to offer for sale
purchaser's payment at the Old Floyd
of all cost of sale and County Courthouse
delinquent
taxes . door, South Central
Further, the success- A v e n u e ,
ful bidder shall be Prestonsburg,
required at bidder's Kentucky,
(behind
expense to obtain fire the
new
Floyd
and extended cover- County
Justice
age insurance upon Center), to the highany
insurable est bidder, at public
improvements from auction, on Thursday,
the date of the sale the 7th day of April,
until the purchase 2005 at the hour of
price if fully paid, to 9:15a.m., the followthe extent of the
ing 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:
Beginning at a
stake in the right of
way :>f U.S. Highway
No. ~3 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 corner
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.
County and City of
Prest onsbu rg ,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds .
(d) In the event the
D efe n dan tiC rossPlaintiff 1s the purchaser of the ~bove
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 Defendant/CrossPlaintiff and it shall
only be obligated to
pay court costs, the
fees and costs of the
M a s t e r
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:
Han. Kristen J.
Mudd
Lerner, Sampson
& Rothfuss
P.O. Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
513/241-3100
(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
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
Clerk's
County
Office, and such right
of redemption as may
exist in favor of the
United States of
P..merica, and/or the
record owners thereof.
(c) The purchaser
shall be required to
assume and pay all
Floyd County and
City of Prestonsburg
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2005, and all
subsequent years,
which are not yet due
and payable. Any and
all delinquent Floyd
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-01212
U.S. BANK, NA
(SUCCESSOR BY
MERGER TO
FIRSTAR BANK,
NA)
PLAINTIFF
William S. Kendrick
vs.
Master
Lester
Tackett,
Commissioner
Audrey
Tackett,
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY Citifinancial Services,
Inc., Commonwealth
41653
of Kentucky and
Floyd
County,
Kentucky
NOTICE OF
Defendants
Parcel No.2
Situated on the
waters of the Big
PUBLIC SALE
Sandy River in the
The following item
City of Prestonsburg, will be offered at pubKentucky.
lic sale on March 31 ,
2005,
at
First
Being Lots Nos. 1, Guaranty Bank, 36
2, and 3 shown upon Main Street, Martin,
that certain plat dated Kentucky.
July 17, 1953, and
1985
Chevrolet
prepared
by
H. G25 Van Vin #
Salisbury, Engineer, 1GBEG25H2F711 04
and filed in the Office 97
of the Clerk of the
All items are sold
Floyd County Court. "as is where is. "
These lots are adja- Seller reserves the
cent to and adjoin the right to bid and to
property now owned reject any or all bids.
by Duran Moore, in Items are to be paid
South Prestonsburg, following the sale, or
Kentucky, on U.S. satisfactory arrangeHighway #23.
ments are made with
the
seller.
Being the same Announcements at
property conveyed to the sale take priority
Edward M. Kuss and over ad. Purchaser to
Rebecca S. Kuss pay all taxes and
from Mason Moore. transfer fees.
et al by deed dated
First Guaranty
February 17, 1988, of
Bank
record in Deed Book
36 Main Street
318, Page 617, in the
P.O. Box 888
office of the Court
Martin, KY 41649
Clerk
of
Floyd
County, Kentucky.
NOTICE OF
TERMS OF SALE
Notice is hereby
given
that
Community
Trust
Bank, Inc., intends to
establish a branch
during the third quarter of 2005, at 6424
Kentucky
Route
Allen ,
1428,
Ke~tucky 40601, in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky. This notice
is published pursuant
to Federal Reserve
regulation Any person desiring to comment on the establishment
of
this
branch may do so by
submitting
written
comments within 15
days of the publication of this notice to
Banking Supervisor,
Supervision ,
and
Regulation, Federal
Reserve Bank of
Cleveland, 1455 East
Sixth
Street,
Cleveland,
OH
44114.
PUBLIC
MEETING
SOUTHERN
WATER
& SEWER
DISTRICT
10:00 a.m ., April 4,
2005
Southern Water &
Sewer District
Office
A public meeting
will take place ·at
10:00 . a.m .,
on
Monday, April 4,
2005, at the Southern
Water
&
Sewer
District Office, at 245
Ky.
Route
680,
McDowell, Kentucky,
for the purpose of
providing
general
information to the
public, regarding a
proposed water system
improvement
project. The public is
mvited to attend and
comment on such
issues as economic
and environmental
impacts,
service
area, alternatives to
the project, or any
other
pertinent
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
14th day of January,
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above-styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$55,345.68,
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 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m., the
following described
real estate, located at
23235 KY Route 122,
Melvin, Floyd County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
A certain tract or
parcel of land lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, on Abner
Fork of Left Beaver
Creek and being all
of First Party's interest in and to the following
described
property
and
obtained by deed
from
Darcus
Newsome
and
Monroe Newsome,
her husband, bearing
date of March 30,
1964, and recorded
in Deed Book 184,
Page 554, in the
office of the Floyd
County Court Clerk,
and more particularly
described as follows,
to wit:
ter of the creek to the
beginning so as to
include all land 1n
said boundary and
both lots.
Subject to all easements, covenants,
conditions, reservations, leases and
restrictions of record,
all legal highways, all
rights of way, all zoning, building and
other laws, ordinances and regulations, all rights of tenants in possession,
and all real estate
taxes and assessments not yet due
and payable.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Lester Tackett and
Audrey Tackett by
deed recorded in
Volume 249, Page
85, of the Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
records.
*Consists of housing unit and lot.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, it 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 tor 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.
(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, arid/or the
record owners thereof.
(c) 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.
(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 precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Han. Septtimous
Taylor
4830Towne
Square Court
Owensboro, KY
42301
Beginning on a
William S. Kendrick
stone marked near
Master
the center of the
Commissioner
creek,
thence
a
P.O. Box 268
ISSUeS.
straight
line
across
Prestonsburg, KY
Southern Water &
the
bottom
with
41653
Sewer District
Epison
Newsome
Hubert Halbert,
line to a stone at the
NOTICE OF
Chairman
county road, thence
INTENTION
up the road 50 feet,
NOTICE OF
TO MINE
thence on up the
BRANCH
PURSUANT
TO
State Highway to
ESTABLISHMENT Willie Harris line,
APPLICATION
Community Trust
NUMBER 836thence across the
Bank, Inc.
bottom with Willie
8027
346 North Mayo
Harris Line and wire
RENEWAL
Trail
fence to center of
In accordance with
Pikeville, KY 41501 Abner Fork or Creek,
KRS 350.055, notice
thence down the cen- 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 0.1o 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
Wheelwrigh t
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
Corporation ,
W ill
Slone Heirs.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
of
Natural Resources'
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
requests tor a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Mine
Permits, #2 Hudson
Hollow, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601 .
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO RELOCATE
GRAVES
Jerry Banks is the
owner of certain
property located at
Sage Allen Branch
(formerly known as
Motts Branch and
General
Allen
Branch) of Salt Lick
.on Right Beaver
Creek
in
Floyd
County (Deed Book
289, Page 434). He
had discovered an
abandoned cemetery
on his property which
contains two (2) identifiable graves and
possibly four (4)
unmarked graves. It
is his intention to
relocate these graves
with the assistance of
Knott Floyd Land
Company d4e to mining operatiops on his
property.
The
identifiable
graves are: Bobbie
Shepherd
and
Wanda
Hicks.
Permission to relocate the grave of
Bobbie
Shepherd
has been granted by
her next of kin. The
only other identifiable
grave is that of
Wanda Hicks, born
1926 and died 1927.
All reasonable efforts
have been made to
contact Wanda Hicks'
next of kin and to
determine if there are
other graves in this
location.
1. The cemetery
has no known official
name. It is located on
Sage Allen Branch,
approximately one
mile up Sage Allen
Branch on the left
hand side of the
branch near the resiJerry
dence
of
Banks, and has been
abandoned for many
years.
2. This notice is to
request assistance
from anyone having
knowledge of persons buried i(l this
location or the names
of their next of kin.
3. If you have any
information
about
persons buried in this
location, please contact George Adkins at
Knott Floyd Land
Company, P.O. Box
2765,
Pikevi lle,
Kentucky
41502,
(606) 874-9003.
4. This notice will
run each Wednesday
in the Floyd County
Times for a period of
60 days from January
23, 2005 • C7
12, 2005. At the expiration of 60 days
notice, Jerry Banks
will petit1on the Floyd
Fiscal Court to grant
authority to relocate
the graves whose
next of kin cannot be
located.
graves
5.
The
requiring Fiscal Court
approval to be relocated will be relocated at a perpetual
care cemetery in
Floyd County, and
will be marked by
appropriate
headstone and footstone.
The relocation will be
supervised by a
licensed
funeral
director who will have
obtained the appropriate permits from
the Health Services
Cabinet, Department
of Vital Statistics. The
relocation IS planned
to take place on or
after March 21 , 2005.
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC SALE
A public auction will
be held at Worldwide
Equipment Inc., 1977
KY
RT
1428,
Prestonsburg, KY,
41653, at 10:30 a.m. ,
March 24. 2005, to
sell a 1987 Mack
RD886SX and 1993
Great Dane trailer.
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-00620
COMMUNITY
TRUST BANK,
INC., SUCCES·
SOR IN INTEREST TO
COMMUNITY
TRUST BANK,
N.A.
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Tony Butler and
Betsy Butler; Ford
Motor Credit Company
and
Floyd
County, Kentucky
Defendants
NOTICE OF
COMM I SSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment In Rem
and Order of Sale of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
14th day of January
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above-styled action,
in the principal sum
of
$12,700.09,
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,
(beh ind the new
Floyd County Justice Center), to the
highest bidder, at
public auction, on
Thursday, the 24th
day of March, 2005,
at the hour of 9:15
a .m., the followi ng
described real estate,
located and lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly descri bed
as follows:
A tract of land in
South Martin, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
beginning at a stake
on May Waddles line
and running 80 feet
with said line to
Second
Street,
thence turning and
running with Second
Street 50 feet to
Calvin
Osborne's
line, thence tu rn ing
and running 80 feet
to J.W. Halbert's line,
thence turn ing and
running 50 feet with
J.W. Halbert's line to
the beginning.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Dennis Martin and
Gladys Martin by
deed from Lottie
Ryan, dated July 14,
1962, recorded in
Deed Book 180,
Page 306, Floyd
Clerk's
County
Office. For further
source of title, refer-
�C8 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
ence is made to the
Will of Dennis Martin,
recorded in Will Book
B, Page 590, and the
Will of Gladys Martin,
1996, recorded in
Will Book 0, Page
307, said clerk's
office.
This was conveyed
August 13, 1997, by
John
Lawrence
Maddox and Billie
Sue Maddox, his
wife, to Tony Butler,
divorced and unremarried, Betsy Butler,
widow, by Deed Book
410,
Page
440,
recorded in Floyd
County
Clerk's
Office.
The real property or
its address 1s commonly known as 37
Chestnut
Street,
Martin,
Kentucky
41649.
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, 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, 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,
Kentucky, real property taxes for the
year 2004, 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
23, 2005
real estate.
Any
announcements made on date
of sale take precedence over pnnted
matter
containeed
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Hon. Virginia K.
Baird
Baird & Baird, PSC
P.O. Box 351
Pikeville, KY
41502
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
COMMONWEALT
H
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-00977
JP MORGAN
CHASE BANK,
AS TRUSTEE
FOR EQUITY
ONE ABS, INC.,
MORTGAGE
PASS THROUGH
CERTIFIED
SERIES #2003-1
C/0 EQUITY ONE,
INC.
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Kenneth Johnson,
Georgine Johnson,
unknown defendant,
spouse of Georgine
Johnson
Defendants
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, entered
on the 14th day of
January, 2005, in the
Floyd Circuit Court, in
the
above-styled
action, in the principal
sum
of
$45,950.01, 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,
new
(behind the
Floyd County Justice
Cen-ter) to the highest bidder, at public
auction, on Thursday,
the 24th day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m., the
following described
real estate, located at
145
Elm
Street,
Wheelwright, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and more particularly
described as follows:
A tract or parcel of
land lying and being
in Floyd County,
Kentucky, on Otter
Creek of Left Beaver
Creek in the town of
Wheelwright
and
being Lot No. 108
including the dwelling
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
house and appurtenance
thereunto
belonging located on
said lot or parcel of
land
of
the
Wheelwnght subdivision as shown by first
party's map of plat in
File No. 348 records
of the Floyd County
Clerk's office.
Betng the same
property conveyed to
Georgine Johnson,
from Robert Howard
and Kolleen Howard,
husband and wife, by
Deed dated June 30,
1995, and recorded
in Deed Book 387,
Page 529, in the
Floyd County Clerk's
Office.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the succcessful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or $5,000.00 ot 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, 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
exixt 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,
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.
(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
shhall 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. Kerri L.
Nunley ·
Lerner, Sampson &
Rothfuss
P. 0 . Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
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Weeklv Writing
Buzz and Beeper
Bunny are back with
all kinds of Easter
fun.
Corner
Easter Bunny Spotted!
If the activities on
this page seem hard,
find some bunny
to help you. If it
looks easy, help
some bunny
younger than you!
In Japan, folding paper into animals, plants,
and objects is an art called origami. Try
the art of paper folding. Cut out the square,
then follow the directions, starting with A..
step 1, to make the origami bunny.
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, The latest news has let everyone know about the Easter
,: Bunny sighting. He appeared
·~ to be wearing a pink suit and
. was caught carrying a basket:, ful of eggs. The chickens may
f be pressing charges against
ill; this so-called egg-stealer!
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6th grade
~- Easter Bunny alert! Exciting
news , folks! The Easter Bunny
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';- of Maple Street at two in the
w, morning. We think that he was
~~ checking out the houses so he
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::i; playing basketball when she
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!!1 your eyes peeled for more
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(} the Easter Bunny is getting a .
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up, down, and diagonally.
You may use the same letter
more than once.
SCORING
1 - 3 = Good Start
4 - 6 = Very Good
6- 10 = Excellent
11 + = Awesome!
Kid Scoop: The Book!
Now your kids can enjoy even more Kid Scoop in our new,
64-page book from Scholastic. Great for teachers !
To order, visit: www.kidscoop.com
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Elise,
Jrd grade
On Tuesday, the Easter Bunny
was seen on 1st Street. He was
yellow and pink. He had a
mustache.
Roberto,
2 nd grade
The Easter Bunny has been
found in our town the night
before Easter. He was seen
with a truckload of chocolate
eggs. He said that this year is
going to be the best ever!
Easter Bunny
Spotted!
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Deadline: Aprill5, 2005
Published: Week of May 15, 2005
Who do you trust? Do you know why?
Can you find a picture in the newspaper
of someone you trust? Can you find a
picture of someone you would not trust?
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information· Health: Reco nize ualities that build stron character.
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Easter Bunny Spotted!
P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
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can is bigger around the middle (circumference) than it is tall. Does he win? You
decide.
GREEN LIGHT! Color the shamrock at right
bright red. That's right, red. Stare at it intensely
for a few seconds, and then shift your eyes to the
ceiling or nearby wall.
- Alakazam, would you believe the image you
see on the ceiling or wall will be green?
On the other hand, color the shamrock
green, turn to the ceiling or wall and the image·
you see will be red.
Give it a try. See if it works for you.
UN-MIX AND MATCH
WORD WORKOUT
YOU ARE provided with definitions and anagrams below to find
seven eight-letter words that fit in
the framework of letters at left .
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Newspaper reading adventures for little learners!
23, 2005 • 03
My name:
~-----~-~------~------~----~~~~Learning Buddies: Spell your child's first name, using the lines to write large letters. Use an uppercase le.tter
for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your ch1ld trace the letters With a l1nger,
crayon or pencil.
Vol. 4 No. 13
My Letters
Jelly Bean Patterns
J is for Jelly Bean
j is for jelly bean
Circle the jelly bean that comes next in each row.
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your
child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter J. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the J sound like the word
jelly bean?
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Jugs are filled with jelly beans,
Jars are filled up, too.
The Easter Bunny is on his way
With tasty treats for you.
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 ch ild 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.
Monday
Sunday
Letter Identification
Math Play
With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that start with the same
sound as the letter J
in the word jelly bean.
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.
Learni ng Buddies :
Trace and say the
number. Read the
questions. Touch and
count to find the answers.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Rhyme Time
Letter Families
The word jelly rhymes
With your child, look
with belly. Look through
at one page of the
the newspaper for
newspaper. Say, "The big
pictures of things Whose
J called ' uppercase' J is
names rhyme. Can you
looking for his little
find two pairs of
brother (sister) called
'lowercase' j. Let's see
rhyming picture
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how many big J, little j
matches we 'Can find.'
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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 started, one
digit has been entered in the diagram.
ACROSS
1. The last digit is the sum of
the other digits
3. 12-Across minus 6-Across
4. One-eighth of 7-Down
6. Same digit repeated
7. Consecutive digits in
descending order
9. 1-Down times 3-Down
12. One-fifth of 8-Down
13. Forty more than 3-Down
14. 1-Across minus 11 -Down
15. The first digit is the sum of
the other digits
DOWN
1. Consecutive digits in
ascending order
2. Consecutive digits
Batloaal
Ramben
answers
rearranged
3. 2-Down minus 7-Down
5. Six more than 4-Across
6. The first digit is the sum of
the other digits
7. The first digit Is the sum of
the other digits
8. The last digit is the sum of
the other digits
10. Consecutive odd digits in
ascending order
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Saturday
Jelly Bean Colors
Easter Egg Hunt
Bunny Search
Show your child a jelly
bean and tell him or her
what color it is. Then
look through the
newspaper to fmd pictures
of things that are the same
color as the jelly bean.
As a reward, eat the
jelly bean!
Look through the
newspaper to find and
count all of the Easter
eggs. Cut out the larger
eggs. Sort them by size
and then by color. Are
there any other ways they
can be sorted?
Give your child some
cotton balls, glue and a
section of the newspaper
with Easter art. Ask your
child to paste a bunny
tail on every bunny he
or she can find.
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 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.
Wishing
,....
�04 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
23, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
World of Wonder
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
Parts of a hypothetical gastropod
Parts of a hypothetical bivalve
Outside
The scaphopods, or tusk
shells, lie buried in the
sandy seabed. A cone.. shaped muscular foot
&~\ protrudes from the hollow
base. Tentacle-like
filaments help the mol·
t lusk capture small prey
~~ and feed. Native
· 1 Americans used the
·~ shells to decorate their
clothing.
Eight articulating
plates make up the
shell of the chiton.
About 500 species
live worldwide in
rocky tidal areas.
A muscular band
surrounds the plates
and firmly attaches
the chiton to
algae-covered rocks,
where it feeds.
columnella
teeth
aperture
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margin adductor muscle
impression
entral
margin
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concentric
ornament ornament
What is a seashell?
Seashells are natural objects.
They are the exoskeletons of a
group of animals called
mollusks. The exoskeleton
is important to mollusks
because it provides shape,
rigidity and protection from
predators.
The only cepahalopods
to produce true external
shells are the Nautiloids.
The shells are large and
lightweight. Inside,
closed chambers are
filled with gas, allowing
the shell to float. All of
the Nautiloids live in the
Indo-Pacific region.
What is a mollusk?
The phylum Mollusca includes
clams, snails, slugs, octopuses,
squid and chitons.
The Latin word mollis means soft.
The term malacology (study of
mollusks) comes from "malakos,"
the Greek word for "soft."
True Heart Cockle
All scallops "swim" by
rapidly ejecting water
from their shells.
Pen
Shells
These
When the shells are
viewed from the side,
they resemble a heart.
Sometimes the term conchology is
used for the study of shells alone.
Several features are common to
all mollusks:
Black
Hammer Shell
1. A mantle that secretes calcium
carbonate in the form of spicules
or a shell.
Thorny Oyster
This family of
mollusks creates a
shell with projections
along the hinge.
The thorny oyster is actually a scallop.
They attach themselves to rocks or
coral and grow to 6 inches long.
2. A mantle cavity where respiration
occurs through gills (aquatic) or
through the mantle wall (terrestrial).
Excretory and reproductive organs
function there as well.
3. A body divided into three regions:
the head, foot and visceral mass.
4. Three body cavities (coelomic
spaces) for kidney, heart and gonad.
5. A ribbon of teeth (radula) used in
feeding.
Green Turbo
Turbo shells are
common worldwide.
How are they classified?
According to the characteristics of
their shells, mollusks are organized
into major groupings. Most seashells
fall within these two groups:
Gastropods (snails) have a single
shell, which spirals outward and to
one side as it grows.
Bivalves (oysters, clams, scallops
and mussels) have two-part shells
that enclose the body.
These are shells that can sometimes
be found on the beach:
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Volute imperialis
Most murex shells are
heavy-walled and spiny.
Hebrew Cone
Markings on the shell
resemble the
Volutes are am9ng the
most popular,
beautiful and expensive
of shells collected.
Scaphopods (tusk shells) have a
single shell that does not coil, but
grows in a narrow, slightly curved
cone.
All cowries are highly
polished and shiny.
Perry's Triton
All Triton shells are thick
and have tooth-like
grooves on the outer lip.
Sundial
These are small to large
shells from warm,
tropical seas.
Lettered Cone
Some Pacific cones a
have venom so
poisonous that it
can kill humans.
Polyplacophores (chitons) have a
row of eight overlapping plates.
These are the remaining groups of
mollusks:
Humpback Cowrie
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Cephalopods (octopus and squid)
have no shell,.although the chambered nautilus does have a shell
which coils flatly, in a single plane.
Neopilina are deep-sea creatures
that have a single shell which fits over
the body like a cup.
Aplacophora are also deep-sea
mollusks with no shell. Small spines
cover their bodies.
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Spider Conch
Tiger Cowrie
Distinctive finger-like
spires project from the
shell of these conches.
Only five species of
cowrie are found in
North America.
Pacific Triton
Triton shells are large
and were used as horns
by ancient peoples.
Auger shells are
very pointed. The
mollusks inside eat
marine worms.
Venus' Comb Murex
A very rare and delicate
shell from Japan.
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Friday, March 25, 2005
• Ladycats
fall in
first round
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Volume 76, Issue 36 • 75 Cen~s
Alleged burglar killed
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
briefs
Sert•iug the
Member AP, KPA, NNA
IVEL - Ronald Dillon, 33, of
Ivel. was fatally shot when he
allegedly broke into a mobile home
lot and was confronted by the manager, who shot him two times with a
handgun.
Dillon was allegedly armed with
a knife when he broke into the
home.
Kentucky State Police was called
to the scene with the report of a
break-in but arrived after the incident.
Dillon was transported to
Highlands
Regional
Medical
Center. where he was pronounced
dead.
Mike Kurt, the manager of Luv's
Mobile Homes, was m the home
that was apparently targeted by
Dillon at L0:08 p.m. when the shooting occurred. No charges were filed
(Sec SHOOTING, page three)
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG The complaining witness in
a chicken theft case spilled
the beans on cockfights in
Floyd County on
Wednesday when she testified at a preliminary hearing.
• Linda Hall, of Hi Hat.
testified that she observed
the defendant, Algon Aldo
Short, steal six chickens
out of a pen in her yard
and one more chicken several days later. She stated
that each chicken was valued at $200.
Defense counsel Jim
Adkins asked her if she
paid that much at a supermarket for chickens and
Hall countered that she
didn't purchase chicken
om the grocery, although
s'he occasionally bought
dinner at KFC. Adkins clarified his question by asking
why she would pay such a
high price and she replied,
"They were fighting chickens," and that they fought
lhe birds in Floyd County.
The case was waived to
a grand jury which will
determine if the commonwealth prosecutes Short.
Adkins asked that the
..?unty attorney investigate
the complaining witnesses
on the grounds of cruelty
(See CHICKENS, page three)
2 DAY FORECAST
photo by Drew Bewley
Local fans turned out to show their support, but disappointment awaited in Bowling Green. Fifth Region
champ Washington County beat Betsy Layne, 51-38,
Thursday in the opening round of the Girls Sweet 16,
~hanks to a late 14-0 run. The Ladycats got as close as
three points in the final quarter before falling. Betsy
Layne reigns as the 15th Region champion for the second time in three years.
Two arrested
for '03 murder
of Bypro man
photo by Mary Music
These Prestonsburg pollee officers got their man and saved a victim of a mock school shooting at
Prestonsburg High School yesterday.
Police train for school shooting
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
Prestonsburg police officers went
"the extra mile" yesterday during
a school shooting training session
at Prestonsburg High School.
Police Chief Mike Omerod
said that 80 percent of the department's officers have been trained
in rapid deployment during the
past two years.
The police department purchased equipment to continue
training in city schools. Omerod
said the Prestonsburg Police
Department will train at each city
school twice annually, an effort to
increase preparedness in case an
actual school shooting does occur.
"This training is really. based
on the same things officers would
encounter for an actual shooting
situation,'' Omerod said. "We
wanted to be able to actually train
in the school building so that our
officers are more familiar with the
layout of the building."
Officers worked in groups
alongside student volunteers,
Prestonsburg firefighters and city
employees who roleplayed victims and armed villains during the
(See TRAINING, page three)
BEVINSVILLE - Two
Floyd County residents
were arrested this week for
the murder of a Floyd
County man whose body
was found at an abandoned
strip mine nearly two years
ago.
Kentucky State Police
officials in Hazard. who've
worked with the FBI during
the ongoing investigation,
said other arrests may be
pending.
KSP Det. Donnie Kelly
arrested Susan Moore, 32,
of Langley, and Billy Jo
Johnson, 46, of Bevinsville,
in connection with the murder of Michael Ray Slone,
27, of Bypro.
Moore and Johnson
allegedly
kidnapped,
imprisoned and murdered
Slone, then threw his body
over an embankment on
M.D. Moore Road , authori(See MURDER, page three)
Mom, 5 kids lose everything in ftre Grand jury indicts 12
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
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MUD CREEK - No injuries
were reported in an early morning
fire that destroyed a Mud Creek
home yesterday.
A single mother and her five children are homeless after the blaze
engulfed the home owned by
Vernon Case at approximately 7:15
a.m. on the Big Branch of Little
Mud.
Edward Clark, assistant chief
with the Betsy Layne Fire
Department, said the house was
~!ready destroyed by the time firefighters arrived on the scene.
"The house was destroyed," he
said. "They lost everything. The
house was a silhouette of fire when
we got there. We went ahead and
knocked it down. It was already
gone when we got there."
Clark said the woman , Vernon
Case's daughter, moved into the 12
foot-by-30 foot home last fall with
h r five children. Nothing was salvaged from the fire, he said.
The cause of the fire is unknown ,
Clark said, but eyewitnesses say that
flames began in the back of the
house. ncar the kitchen area.
The family was asleep in the
(See FIRE, page three)
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - A
Floyd Covnty grand jury
returned 12 indictments on
Thursday.
Four of the indictments
were
for
drug-related
offenses. They include:
• Amy Jo King , 25 , of
Judge denies bank robber's
request for early release
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Circuit Judge
John David Caudill denied a request for
shock probation yesterday for incarcerated
bank robber Melinda Workman.
Workman, serving a J0-year sentence
for her part in the August 2003 robbery of
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(See CHARGES, page three)
The Floyd County
Times honored
one of Its own
Thursday. Press
Foreman Johnny
Adams, center,
retired after 37
years of printing
The Times. He
received a plaque
for his service
from Publisher
David Bowyer.
BB&T Bank in Prestonsburg, had asked
the judge to grant her shock probation during a hearing last month.
In a handwritten letter to Caudill,
Workman, who has served more than a
year behind bars, said that incarceration
has helped her understand her mistakes.
(See DENIED, page three)
photo by Mary Music
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with one count of promoting contraband for a June
17 incident in which she
allegedly introduced drugs
into the Floyd County
Detention Center.
• Paul Varney, 48, of
McDowell, was charged
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MARCH
25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. gasoline . Officers said they
- A yearning for breakfast use;:d blue lights and sirens to
helped end a police chase .
try to get Drinnon to pull
Jeffery Lynn Drinnon, 30, over, but he kept going until
was arrested at the drive- he saw the restaurant.
through lane of a Hardee's
Drinnon was charged with
restaurant about 5 a.m. driving under the influence,
Tuesday after leading police driving on a revoked license,
on a low-speed chase.
.evading arrest, resisting
"He turned into Hardee's, arrest and theft under $500.
pulls up to the drive-through
He was taken into custody
and rolls the window down before he could place his
like he's going to order a order.
biscuit before he goes to
jail ,"
Mount
Carmel
• SION, Switzerland Assistant Police Chief Mike Cows that lock horns in an
Campbell said. "They had annual test of strength in the
the car surrounded with guns Swiss Alps must face
drawn at the drive-through at renewed
doping
tests,
Hardee's , and he's wanting authorities have decided.
breakfast."
"There are controls for
Police began chasing racehorses and dogs, and
Drinnon after a market there's no reason to do it difreported he drove away ferently for cows," Joseph
without paying for $7 of Jaeger, chief veterinarian in
the
Valais
state,
said
Thursday.
Valais' annual cow-fighting contest - known as
"The Combat of the Queens"
pits powerfully built,
black-hided animals from
the Swiss Val d'Herens
breed against each other.
The grand final and earlier heats draw about 50,000
spectators, and a victory can
add tens of thousands of dollars to a cow's value.
Now officials will restart
the controls, halted in 2002
after six years of nothing but
negative tests, Jaeger said.
Cow
fighting,
which
began in Valais in 1922, is
based on the natural struggle
between cows for dominance
of the herd as they leave
their winter stables and head
to the Alpine pastures in the
spring.
During the largely bloodless fights, each cow tries to
force the other to submit,
using its head and horns. The
contests often end without
any physical contact between
either cow, when one of the
animals recognizes the superiority of the other.
• DETROIT - Luxury
automaker Audi wants to
start using the letter Q for its
models, a proposition that is
making rival Nissan queasy.
Nissan 's luxury Infiniti
brand has used the letter Q
since its launch in 1989.
Infiniti started with the Q45
and has also trademarked
QX56, QX4 and "the new
Q."
Audi has been partial to
the prefix A, with the A3, A4
Schools compete in Science Olympiad
Warren Vierheller of Mountain
Christian Academy competed
in"the Naked Egg Drop.
The
largest
Regional
Science Olympiad ever held
at Big Sandy Community and
Technical College took place
on Saturday, March 12.
Three hundred twenty-five
students converged on the
Prestonsburg campus, after a
snowy morning with a questionable forecast, to experience a day of science exploration.
"The Science Olympiad is
an international nonprofit
organization
devoted
to
improving ,the quality of sci-
ence education, increasing
student interest in science and
providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. These
goals
are
accomplished
through classroom activities,
research, training workshops
and the encouragement of
intramural, district, regional,
state and national tournaments. The Science Olympiad
tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series
Todav in Historv
The Associated Press
Today is Friday, March 25,
the 84th day of 2005. There are
281 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 25, 1965,
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
led 25,000 marchers to the state
capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to
protest the denial of voting
rights to blacks.
On this date:
• In 1634, Maryland was
founded by English colonists
sent by the second Lord
Baltimore.
• In 1865, during the Civil
War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.
• In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey
began leading an "army" of
unemployed from Massillon,
Ohio, to Washington, D .C ., to
demand help from the federal
government.
• In 1911 , 146 immigrant
workers were killed when fire
broke out at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company in New
York.
• In 1913, the home of
vaudeville, the Palace Theatre,
opened in New York City.
• In 1918, French composer
Claude Debussy died in Paris .
• In 1947, a coal mine
explosion in Centralia, Ill.,
claimed 111lives.
• In 1957, the Treaty of
Rome established the European
Economic Community.
• In 1975, King Faisal of
Saudi Arabia was shot to death
by a nephew with a history of
mental illness. (The nephew
was beheaded the following
June.)
• In 1990, 87 people, most
of them
Honduran
and
Dominican immigrants, were
killed when fire raced through
an illegal social club in New
York City.
Ten years ago: Two
Americans who' d strayed
across the Kuwaiti border into
Iraq were sentenced to eight
years in prison (however, David
Daliberti and William Barloon
were released by Iraq the following July). Mike Tyson was
released from the Indiana Youth
Center after serving three years
for the 1992 rape of Desiree
Washington, a beauty pageant
contestant.
Five years ago: President
Clinton briefly visited Pakistan,
where he met with the new military ruler, General Pervez
Musharraf. A weary Pope John
Paul II traveled the ancient
streets of Nazareth, Jesus' boyhood town, and celebrated Mass
in the soaring Basilica of the
Annunciation.
One year ago: Congress
passed the Unborn Victims of
Violence Act, making it a separate offense to harm a fetus during violent federal crime. The
United States vetoed a U.N.
Security Council resolution
condemning Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed
Yassin.
Russian
Evgeni
Plushenko won his third world
figure skating title, defeating
French rival Brian Joubert.
Today's
Birthdays:
Modeling agency founder
Eileen Ford is 83. Former astronaut James Lovell is 77. Movie
reviewer Gene Shalit is 73.
Feminist author Gloria Steinem
is 71. Singer Anita Bryant is 65 .
Singer Aretha Franklin is 63.
Actor Paul Michael Glaser is
62. Singer Elton John is 58.
Actress Bonnie Bedelia is 57.
Singer Nick Lowe is 56.
Actress-comedian Mary Gross
is 52. Actor James McDaniel is
4 7. Actor-writer-director John
Stockwell is 44. Actress Marcia
Cross
("Desperate
Housewives") is 43 . Actress
Lisa Gay Hamilton is 41.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is
40. Singer-musician Jeff Healey
is 39. Olympic bronze medal
figure skater Debi Thomas is
38. Singer Melanie Blatt (All
Saints) is 30.
Thought for Today: "In
every person, even in such as
appear most reckless, there is an
inherent desire to attain balance ." - Jakob Wassermann,
German author (1873-1934).
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of individual and team events,
which students prepare for
during the year. The competitions follow the format of
popular board games, TV
shows and athletic games,"
states the official rules manual.
Students
from
Allen
Central Middle School, Allen
Elementary School, Betsy
Layne Elementary School,
Holy Family School in
Ashland, Mountain Christian
Academy,
Paintsville
Independent Middle School,
Allen Central High School,
Betsy Layne High School,
Morgan County High School,
Paintsville Independent High
School, Prestonsburg High
School and the Piarist School
gathered to compete in the
Science Olympiad.
Winners qualifying for
state competition were:
•
C Division (High
and other models. But it
recently announced plans to
market SUVs named the Q7
and Q5 between 2006 and
2009.
That prompted Nissan to
file a lawsuit in federal court
Tuesday. It says Audi's use
of Q "is likely to cause confusion, deception or mistake
among customers."
Audi was still reviewing
the lawsuit and had no comment, spokesman Patrick
Hespen told the Detroit Free
Press.
• MEDFORD, Ore. Fans looking forward to
watching boys and girls play
ball this season for the
Medford American Little
League had better pack their
lawn chairs.
Two sets of bleachers at
the six-field Bear Creek Park
complex were dismantled
last week by thieves who
drove their vehicle over a1
city-owned sign in the middle of the night and made off
with about $2,000 worth of
aluminum benches, Medford
police Lt. Mike Moran said.
With opening day set for
April 11, league officials say
some spectators will have to
make their own seating
arrangements.
"People will probably be
OK without the bleachers,
but they will have to use
their own chairs," league
President Laura White said.
Moran said police have
notified several scrap-metal
business owners of the theft,
instructing them to phone
authorities if anyone turns
up trying to sell the benches.
School): Piarist School, first Elementary School, fourth
place;
Paintsville
High place; and Holy Family
School, second place; and -School, fifth place.
The top five middle
Piarist School, third place
• B Division (Middle schools and top three high
School):
Allen
Central schools have qualified for
competition
on
Middle School, first place; state
Betsy Layne Middle School, Saturday, April 16, which will
second place; Holy Family be held at Western Kentucky
School, third place; Allen University.
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CRIT LUALLEN
AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
The Commonwealth of Kentucky's Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts announces the completion of the
financial audit of the Floyd County Sheriff for the year ended December 31, 2003. The following transmittal
letter was prepared, on behalf of the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, by the firm of Ross & Company,
PLLC, Certified Public Accountants. The Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts engaged Ross & Company,
PLLC to perform the financial audit of the Floyd County Sheriff and worked closely with Ross & Company,
PLLC during our report review process.
ROSS & COMPANY, PLLC
Certified Public Accountants
800 Envoy Circle
Louisville, KY
Telephone (502) 499-9088
Facsimile (502) 499-9132
The Honorable Paul Hunt Thompson, Floyd County Judge/Executive
Honorable John K. Blackburn, Floyd County Sheriff
Members of the Floyd County Fiscal Court
Independent Auditor's Report
We have audited the accompanying statement of revenues, expenditures, and excess fees -regulatory basis of
the County Sheriff of Floyd County, Kentucky, for the year ended December 21, 2003 . This financial statement
is the responsibility of the County Sheriff. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement
based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of
America, the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Audjtin~ Standar<is issued by the
Comptroller General of the United States, and the Audit Guide for County Fee Officials issued by the Auditor
of Public Accounts, Commonwealth of Kentucky. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to
obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement.
An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management,
as well as evaluating the overall fmancial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As described in Note l, the County Sheriff's offtce prepares the financial statement on a regulatory basis of
accounting that demonstrates compliance with the laws of Kentucky, which is a comprehensive basis of accounting other than accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
In our opinion, the fmancial statement referred to above presents, fairly, in all material respects, the revenues ,
expenditures, and excess fees of the County Sheriff for the year ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with
the regulatory basis of accounting.
In accordance with Government Auditin~ Standards, we have also issued our report dated January 31, 2005, on
our consideration of the County Sheriff's internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants. That report is an integral 'part of an
audit performed in accordance with Government Auditin~ Standards and should be read in conjunction with this
·
report in considering the results of our audit.
Based on the results of our audit, we have presented the accompanying comments and recommendations, includ- ttil
ed herein, which discusses the following report comments:
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• The Sheriff Should Collect Money From The Fiscal Court That He Overpaid In Excess Fees
• Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program Expenses Should Be Paid From The DARE Account
This report is intended solely for the information and use of the County Sheriff and Fiscal Court of Floyd
County, Kentucky, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is not intended to be and should not be used by
anyone other than these interested parties.
Respectfully submitted.
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Audit fieldwork completedJanuary 31, 2005
The above transmittal letter accompanied the audit report presented to the fiscal court. KRS 43.090(2) requires
that this letter be published in this newspaper. Copies of the complete audit report, including the accompanying
financial statements and additional information, are available in the reports section of the Auditor of Public
Accounts' webside at www.auditor.ky.gov or upon request by contacting the Auditor of Public Accounts, 105
Sea Hero Road, Suite 2, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-5404 or by calling 1-800-247-9126.
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What do the Jewish
Passover and Jesus' Last
Supper have in common?
Avi Snyder, speaking on
behalf of Jews for Jesus, will
answer that question in a presentation called "Christ in
the
Passover"
at
Prestonsburg First United
Methodist Chruch Friday at 7
p.m.
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Using a visual display of
traditional Passover accouterments, the Christ in the
Passover
presentation
enhances the Christian's
understanding and appreciation of the Jewish background of the Christian
Communion. Ancient and
modern Jewish customs are
discussed and described,
with an emphasis on the
aspect of redemption which
Christ
accomplished
at
Calvary.
A table is set with the traditional Jewish Passover
items, including representative foods which explained,
but not eaten. The ceremonial seder plate, the three-compartment pouch in which the
matzo (unleavened bread) is
kept, as well as the traditional cup of Elijah are presented, and new insights to their
Christological significance
are provided.
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The program is open to the
general public. Snyder will
be available to answer ques tions those attending might
have.
'Fletcher says state using
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· The Associated Press
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The
state will be using fewer
tickets ·to the Kentucky
Derby and Kentucky Oaks
this year, Gov. Ernie Fletcher
said Thursday.
Last year, Fletcher's first
as governor, the state took
581 tickets to the Derby and
288 to the Oaks, the race for
3-year-old fillies held the
day before the Run for the
Roses. This year, the state
will be taking 364 Derby
tickets and 152 to the Oaks.
thinking about locating in
Economic Development Kentucky, expanding existSecretary Gene Strong said ing facilities or as a "thank
the tickets are in better loca- you" to company officials
tions this year.
who have already landed in
For many years, governors the state.
have played off the Derby to
Invitations this year have
invite celebrities and busi- gone to prospects from
ness prospects for wining Germany, Spain, Italy, Chile,
and dining. Strong said his Canada and Japan as well as
cabinet has invited about 60 · the United States , Strong
guests while the Commerce said.
Department has another two
The usual long weekend
dozen on its guest list.
of festivities will be even
Invitations go out to longer this year.
prospects from companies
The governor's Derby
gala will be held in a huge
tent on the Capitol grounds
on Thursday with a state dinner in the Capitol Rotunda on
Friday night after a visit to
the Oaks and then the traditional Derby Breakfast on the
Capitol campus on Saturday
morning, May 7. Only the
breakfast is open to the public.
The administration estimated a budget for all of the
events this year at nearly
$290,000, down slightly
from the actual cost in 2004.
with cultivating marijuana in
a case which goes back to
August 2000.
• Michael Watkins, 36, of
Wayland , was charged with
marijuana possess ion and
violating a protection order.
• Teddy Ch ing, 45, of
West Liberty, was charged
with three counts of drug
possession and one count of
having a controlled substance that was not in its
original container.
Other
indictments
include:
• George Banks, 23, of
Eastern, was charged with
one count of theft by deception.
• Ramona Mills, 34, of
Paintsville, was charged with
theft by deception for a 2003
incident involving over $300
belonging to Foodland.
• Jackie L . Maynard , 32,
of Inez, was also charged for
taking
property
from
Foodland on the same date.
• Johnny Stewart, 37, of
Harold, was charged with
one count of burglary for
allegedly entering someone
else's residence Feb. 25.
• Carlos Elswick, 25, of
Hi Hat, for an August 17
incident
that
allegedly
involved receiving stolen
property and an unlawful
transaction
involving
a
minor.
• John Barnett, 23, of
Martin, was charged with
possessing a forged instrument for a 2002 case that
accuses him of having a
forged $100 bill.
• Christine Jones, 45, of
Melvin, for an August 2004
case that also accuses her of
DUI, driving without a proper license, having improper
insurance and leavi ng the
scene of an accident .
One
indictment
was
sealed and won't be opened
until after the party is under
arrest.
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against Kurt at this time, but
Det. Joey Howard is still
' investigating the incident.
"We've had cases like
this before and the proce" dure is to let the detectives
collect all of the available
Training
evidence and present it to a
grand
jury,"
said
Commonwealth's Attorney
Brent Turner. "I would not
expect any kind of arrest at
this point."
The break-in occurred at
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the Luv's Mobile Home Lot
and was centered on a fully
furnished home which is
featured in commercials for
the business and contains a
big screen television and
other appliances.
training session yesterday
evening.
Officers
used
mock
weapons, air soft weapons and
protective face gear as they
searched the school for an
armed assailant during the training session.
The training will help officers be better prepared for any
type of armed encounter,
Omerod said.
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ties alleg~.
Slone, whose body was
: located on August 4, 2003 at the
abandoned strip mine in
~ Topmost, died of a gunshot
fll• wound, Kelly said.
Johnson is charged with mur: der, kidnapping and first-degree
. unlawful imprisonment. Moore,
· his alleged accomplice, faces
. felony counts of facilitation to
• commit murder, facilitation to
commit kidnapping and facilitation to commit first-degree
.
unlawful imprisonment.
Kelly would not release
information regarding the ongoing investigation, saying only
that the arrests came after "new
information came to light" in
the case.
No motive has been released.
Slone's parents, Margie and
Gleason Slone, of Bypro, are
"relieved" with the arrests, but
they offered no public comments yesterday.
"An advancement in an
investigation like this could
possibly help the healing
process for the family," Kelly
said. "We always work these
cases to the end, and a lot of
times, it can take several years.
We never forget. We try to
remain vigilant and aggressive
in pursuing them until we complete the investigation and make
the arrest."
Johnson and Moore are both
detained at the Perry County
Jail.
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to
animals and
Jimmy
Marcum, assistant county
attorney, noted that he would
pass that notion on to Keith
Bartley.
Adkins also asked, in light
of the use of the chickens, that
the court lower his client's
cash bond, which had been set
at $1,500. Judge James Allen
said he had no problem with
The Big Sandy Community and Technical College math and science division recently hosted its annual Regional Mathematics
Contest on the Prestonsburg ~ampus. The contest Includes
inter-scholastic competitions fpr each individual student. The
first- and second-place winners received a $1,000 scholarship
to attend BSCTC. There were also two $500 cash awards to the
coaches of the winning teams. The mathematics competition
will continue to be an annual event at BSCTC. Pictured is Dr.
Reza Akhlaghl, Math and Science Division Chair, at BSCTC
explaining the contest rules to local high school participants.
that motion and lowered the
bond by $500. Marcum
observed that this was the
third time that the defendant
had been involved with
allegedly stealing chickens
from Hall .
Though Adkins displayed a
sensitivity towards chickens,
the reality is that there is no
law in the commonwealth that
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Suite 2129
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
prohibits cockfighting. There
are rules against fighting animals for profit, but they are
specifically targeted at the
four-legged variety of animal.
The misdemeanor charge of
cruelty to animals also wouldn't apply in the case, as the
current statute stipulates that
the law cannot be applied to
humans or birds.
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home when the blaze began,
Clark said. A driver woke the
family and helped them make it
to safety before flames completely engulfed the home, he
said.
The Floyd County Head
Start Program is collecting
donations for the family.
Monetary donations can be
made payable to Kim Crisp,
who wil) supply proof of purchases f9r any items bought for
the family. Other donations
needed:
• Boy, clothing size 8;
shoes,2.
• Boy, clothing size 6;
shoes, 12 112.
• Boy, clothing size 4T;
shoes, 10.
• Boy, clothing size 4T;
shoes, 2 .
• Girl, clothing size 6;
shoes, 1.
• Mother, clothing size 14;
shoes 8; underwear, large; bra
42/44 DD.
• School supplies for all five
children.
• Household items.
Anyone who wishes to
donate items can contact Kim
Crisp at (606) 886-4516 or 2859546, or Head Start Programs at
the following schools: May
Valley Elementary, (606) 2854706,
or
Betsy
Layne
Elementary, (606) 478-9755.
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She also asked the judge to
consider her desire to raise her
daughter.
Judge Caudill deferred
Workman's request pending
the submi ssion of victim
impact statements in the case.
A former BB&T teller who
was there on the day of the
robbery said she sympathized
with Workman's situation , but
would not support an early
release for her.
"I looked at everyone that
came through the door in a way
that I never had before," the
teller wrote. "I left BB&T two
months after the robbery and
still to thi s day I feel the insecurity, not just while working,
but in everything I do."
Workman , 22, was arrested
along with Elijah P. Hluch , 23,
of Ravenna, Ohio. Hluch is
serving a 15-year sentence for
wanton e ndangerment, fleeing
and evading, and complicity
to commit first-degree robbery.
The ~c u p le robbed :he
BB&T Bank in the Glyn View
Plaza Shopping Center on
August 11 , 2003, and then led
police on a lengthy car chase
through Prestonsburg, Allen
and Cow Creek, where they
were later arrested.
Reportedly, Workman held
a te ller at gunpo int and
"politely" instructed her to fill
a bag she was carry ing with
cash.
Workman left the bank with
approximately $4,000 and got
into a car driven by Hluch .
Dr. Bruce Kinney
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provide specialized prenatal care covering most any
pregnancy-related medical need, and offer the newest,
most advanced gynecology treatments and surgeries.
If you're thinking about having a baby, if you need a pap
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know that the ultimate in life
is to enjoy it."
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The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun, on Terri Schiavo:
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-dead Florida
woman, took another jarring twist on Friday wher. doctors
removed her feeding tube for the third time after another lastminute attempt to save her life. Regardless of how this sad
situation turns out, there are plenty of important lessons that
we all can, and should, learn ....
So what can we learn from this tragic case? First, and most
important, making end-of-life decisions well in advance is a
must. Waiting until you're sick or about to go into surgery
isn't the right time to make these important decisions.
Instead, people should discuss their end-of-life wishes with
their physicians and with their families while they're still
healthy and able to speak for themselves. That's also the right
time to fill out the appropriate forms. If that had been done in
this case, this whole protracted fight could have been avoided.
Another lesson to be learned here is that this is not an issue
that should ever have worked its way into Congress. Nor is it
the business of the Florida Legislature or any other elected
legislative body. The proper place for thi~ to be worked out is
in the state- not the federal- courts. Better, this 'issue should
have been decided between Terri, her husband and her family, before it ever saw a courtroom ....
Los Angeles Times, on Tom DeLay:
After more than a decade of power in Congress and a full
term controlling the White House, the iron discipline of the
conservative movement is <;~racking. The most visible fight is
at its intellectual core, bu the unrest rising around a congressional scandal is far m re potent. ...
DeLay accuses his critics of using "fiction and innuendo"
to accuse him of a string of ethical breaches. If it's that simple, why would House Republicans, led by Speaker J. Dennis
Hastert, have bothered to purge the ethics committee of its
leader, Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), two other GOP legislators
and several staffers? Their mistake was to have admonished
DeLay for several infractions, including the strong appearance of trading political favors for campaign donations ....
Most House Republicans are standing by DeLay, but their
nervousness increases as next year's midterm elections
approach. The mounting charges, and a criminal investigation involving DeLay in Texas, may threaten the House
leader's reelection next year. More important is the fodder
that DeLay is providing Democrats, and not just in Texas.
... By demolishing the ethics committee rather than getting
out in front of the criminal investigations, House leaders
weaken the politically vulnerable among their own rank and
file ....
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Atlanta court shootings spur concerns in Kentucky
byJOEBIESK
AssociATED PRESS
FRANKFORT - Visitors to the Franklin
County courthouse may simply walk in and
out freely, unimpeded by security.
There are no metal detectors to screen people for hidden weapons. And, there are multiple public entrances and exits at the facility,
which houses district and circuit courts as well
as other county offices.
Armed officers, and a sign warning people
they could be subject to a search, are perhaps
the most visible signs of security. The situation
is similar at many courthouses across
Kentucky.
That wonies Tma Bryant, whose job as an
administrative assistant for the Franklin
County Attorney's Office includes taking
notes in a courtroom two days per week.
Bryant said she's hoping for beefed up security at her workplace.
"Anything can happen here. We have people that get agitated all the time," Bryant said.
''If they had a gun or weapon, they could shoot
whoever they want."
This month, a defendant in an Atlanta rape
case allegedly took a Fulton County Sheriff's
deputy's gun and killed four people, including
a judge and a court reporter. The incident has
prompted some law enforcement officials
across the country to re-examine cowthouse
security.
Currently, there are 124 courthouses or
judicial centers throughout Kentucky, including two in Jefferson and Fayette counties.
However, security at each site varies wide-
ly. Kentucky's cowthouses range from buildings equipped with. only an alar;m system to
those that have tight, modem security.
In 2001 , Chief Justice Joseph Lambert led
a task force that reviewed Kentucky cowts'
security systems. At the time, there were 26
court facilities with minimal security, 93 with
panic alarms, 19 with metal detectors and 12
with both metal detectors and x-ray machines.
Today, there are 52 court facilities with the
highest level of security in place, with three
more planned, according to Leigh Anne Hiatt,
a spokeswoman for the Administrative Office
of the Courts.
And, the recently approved state budget
called for 18 new court facility projects
throughout the state, all of which would have
topflight security, Lambert said.
"Our responsibility in this state is to do all
we can to prevent the occurrence of events
such as (Atlanta);' Lambert said.
Circuit Judge Paul Isaacs, who presides in
Scott, Bourbon and Woodford counties in central Kentucky, said security varies at each of
the cowthouses where he worl<s. Bourbon
County has a newer facility and is "far more
secure" than Scott and Woodford counties, he
said.
"Like courtrooms all over the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. on a day-to-day
basis, there is no general secwity for entry into
the court facility. On a daily basis - in those
two courtrooms - anybody can walk. n."
Isaacs said in a telephone interview. ''It's not
something that keeps my up at night, but it's a
concern."
Security is much tighter at newer facilities
such as the Jefferson County Hall of Justice
and the Jefferson County Judicial Center.
There, the public has a single entrance and exit
and must pass through a security checkpoint
that includes metal detectors and an X-ray
machine, Lt. Col. Carl Yates of the Jefferson
County Sheriff's Office said.
However, comparisons between different
courthouses throughout the state aren't fair,
Yates said. Jefferson County - which has ~
about 10,000 courthouse visitors each dayhas more courtrooms, heavier caseloads and
more people to protect, he said.
"1 think the smaller counties are counties
that are less populated and have smaller
departments. They're spread very thin," Yates
said. "They're spread thin with budgets,
they're spread thin with personnel and sometimes they're working with buildings that are
much older."
In some cases security differs depending
on the type of court involved. The Franklin
County Family Court, for instance, has metal
detectors.
Franklin County Sheriff Ted Collins said
courthouse security is "top on the list" of his
concerns. It's ~m area in which he's always trying to improve, Collins said.
Collins said he would like to see cameras
and other monitoring systems installed. But
funding is perhaps the main concern, Collins
said.
'That's one of the things I've been most
conscious about since I've been sheriff is the
security of our building," Collins said. "It troubles me. I think about it, and I'm always trying to think of something we can do."
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It isn't the wild dog's fault (previously our loyal and trusted friend) that it
Postmaster: Send change of address to:
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Taxation without
representation
Editor's note: This letter, addressed to
Prestonsburg Mayor Jerry Fannin, was also
sent to The Floyd County Times.
It is my understanding that you and the
Prestonsburg City Council are in d\scussion
concetning possible annexation of Highlands
Regional Medical Center to the city of
Prestonsburg for the purpose of taxation.
I am opposed to any annexation and hope
that you feel the same way.
I request that you send me an itemized list
of the benefits that Prestonsburg provide
HRMC and a list of proposed benefits that
would be given in return for the tax money
taken from HRMC's 400-plus employees.
If you or any of the city council members
was abandoned beside the road bewildered, starving, and now must fend for
itself by becoming vicious.
It isn't the trash's fault that it is
thrown into our ditches and streams
making our home area ugly and unclean.
Furthermore, it isn't the teacher's
fault that students do not come to
school.
It seems that the word "integrity" has
already fled from our society, and
"responsibility" is packing to leave.
Take responsibility before the word disappears and is forgotten.
Anita Stumbo
McDowell
have ever been a patient here at HRMC or had
a family member here, you know that our
billing department can provide an itemized list
of products and services for any hospital visit.
It just takes a few seconds to pull up on the
computer. I feel that it is not too much to ask
you for the same courtesy of providing an
itemized list, also.
Also, where do you derive the authority to
annex an institution and tax people who do not
live within your jurisdiction? Highlands
serve the people of Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin
and Martin counties, and most of our employees live within these counties. Ifan annexation
were to be justified, it is only right to have the
people of these counties vote on the matter
under a referendum in all four counties. There
is just something that seems underhanded and
unethical about a group of nine people (the
city council and mayor),Mr. Fannin, usurping
this authority.
According to my understanding, HRMC
and Consolidate Health Systems employees
are the only people affected by the proposed
annexation. These employees are -not being
given the opportunity to vote on this matter something called taxation without representation.
I also think it is very interesting that when
any Highlands employees have called council
members or your office, they have been asked
for their address or where they live. If you
think, Mr. Fannin, that you only have to concern yourselves with the employees who live
in Prestonsburg, you are very mistaken. 'This
action only serves to emphasize the council's
allegedly underhanded design to impose a tax
on people who did not elect them to office.
Thanks for your time, Mr. Fannin. Please
send me that itemized list of benefits.
Jason North, PharmD
Highlands Regional Medical Center
(This letter was also signed by eight other
people)
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At he Movies: 'Miss Congeniality 2:
Armed and Fabulous'
by DAVID GERMAIN
"Miss Congerafality 2: Armed
and Fabulous,"
a. Warner Bros. release, is
AP MOVIE WRITER
Armed'> Yes. Fabulous?
Hardly.
Sandra Bullock's second
time out as a tomboy federal
agent turned glam queen is far
more predictable and far less
~kable
than
"Miss
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rated PCH3 for sex-related
humor.
Running time: 115 minutes.
One and a half stars out of
four.
geniality."
took four years to cobble
to ther ''Miss Congeniality 2:
A ed and Fabulous:· yet the
se el comes off as a rush job:
th story flimsy, the antics
inc nsistent, and the characters
esse tially flexing for the next
gari! sight gag. The follow-up
has !most none of the original'~harm.
P ducer Marc Lawrence, a
freq ent Bullock collaborator
whq was one of three screenwrit rs on the first movie, is
runni'ng on empty this time as
solo writer. Lacking a decent
plot Or witty banter, director
John 'Pasquin ("The Santa
Clause") falls back on the
broadest and dumbest physical
comedy as Bullock flits from
scrappy chick to coifed and
ornamented talking mannequin.
The sequel clumsily picks
up where the original left off,
with Bullock's FBI agent
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STAFF WRITER
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Two Oscar nominated
performances can be found
in this week's releases
which also included the
DVD debut of a classic from
"Wild Bunch" director Sam
Pekinpah.
"Finding Neverland" Johnny Depp continued to
wow aud1ences with this
Oscar hopeful in which he
plays British au thor J .M.
Barrie. The film focuses on
a relationship that Barrie
formed with the four sons of
a widow and how that
friendship threatened his
already unsteady marriage
but also inspired his creation
of "Peter Pan."
Kate
Bekinsdale (''Titanic") fares
well as the widow and
Depp's mastery of the
British dialect is seamless.
"Bemg Julia" - This one
also features an American
actor doing a flawless
English accent. Here it's
Annette
Benning,
who
scores an Oscar nomination
by portraying an English
woman . She gives an allsystems-go
performance
here as a diva of the theater
who makes life hard for her
supporting players in postWorld War I London.
Benning is so good that she
triumphs over an often
undernouri shed script.
"Bridget Jones - The
Gracie Hart trying to settle
back into unstylish mode after
her reluctant makeover to go
undercover as a contestant in
the Miss United States pageant.
Rather than quickly and
painlessly writing off Gracie's
new love interest (fellow agent
Benjamin Bratt, who did not
return for the second movie),
the filmmakers choose to
weave references to him
throughout the sequel. The idea
was to give Gracie a dose of
heartbreak from which to
recover, but the shadowy presence of Bratt's character ends
up being a distraction.
With Gracie's new celebrity
spoiling her usefulness on other
undercover assignments, the
bureau concocts a public relations role, persuading her to
doll up again and hit the talk-
show circuit as the face of the
new FBI, a ghostwritten memoir about her crime-fighting
exploits in hand.
This time, though, Gracie
inexplicably embraces life as a
fashionista, becoming the sort
of accessorized airhead she
railed against in the first movie.
When her pageant buddies
Cheryl
Frazier
(Heather
Bums), Miss United States, and
master of ceremonies Stan
Fields (William Shatner) are
abducted in Las Vegas, Gracie
is pressed into action with surly
new partner Sam Fuller
(Regina King) to help find
them.
Cast and crew seem to think
vicious elbows to the gut are
the stuff of great comedy, but
the fisticuffs between Gracie
and Sam are just disagreeable,
Edge of Reason" - The cast
of the 2001 comedy (Bridget
Jones' Diary) is reunited
here for another romp
through the angst of relationships. Now that Jones
has landed her ideal man she
becomes consumed with the
idea that she could lose him.
This one doesn't measure up
to the original but will
please fans who already
enjoy the characters essayed
by Renee Zelwegger, Hugh
Grant and Colin Firth .
"Fat Albert" - If you
enjoyed the Fat Albert cartoons, then it is a stretch but
you might like this live
action take on those characters. The hilarity is supposed to begin when Fat
Albert and his gang are
wished out of the TV and
into the real world. This one
tanked at the box office and
brave viewers will learn why
when they plunk down their
hard-earned dough for this
dog.
"Bring Me the Head of
Alfredo Garcia" - Fans of
director Sam Pekinpah can
now rejoice that this classic
epic has finally reached
DVD. Pekinpah gives the
center stage here to his
favorite character actor,
Warren Oates, and places
him in an ultra-violent tale
of redemption that features
explosive shootouts and one
whopper of a finale. This
should also please fans who
are tired of today 's act10n
films, which tend to telegraph their endings from
scene one.
"Star Wars" - George
Lucas is on the attack this
week with three attempts to
separate fans from their dollars. First up is the overdue
release of the "Clone Wars."
This animated saga originally ran on Cartoon Network
in short segments. Here, all
of the episodes are strung
together
and
highlight
events between episodes 2
and 3 of the Star Wars saga.
Look for an appearance by
General Grievous, who will
be featured in the final
installment of the film ser.ies
due in May. Lucas is also
releasing new editions of
"Phantom Menace" and
"Attack of the Clones."
Each disc features deleted
even ugly at times. Their eventual odd f " .pie bonding is
painfully predictable and rings
hollow at every turn.
Far worse are the uninspired
gimmicks fabricated to put
Gracie and Sam into outlandish
situations and costumes, culminating in an insufferable masquerade as female impersonators.
Bullock's likability quotient
dries up amid her diva
demeanor, while King's crabby
expressions seem quite authentic, perhaps inspired by the
actress' inner musings over
how she got shanghaied into
this dreary mess.
Barely registering in the
supporting cast are Treat
Williams as head of the Vegas
bureau, Ernie Hudson returning
as Gracie's boss and Enrique
Murciano as a local agent who
becomes her ally. Diedrich
Bader manages a few laughs as
Gracie's stylist, though he's a
pale figure compared to
Michael Caine, another noshow from the original flick.
"Miss Congeniality
2:
Armed and Fabulous," a
Warner Bros. release, is rated
PG-13 · for sex-related humor.
Running time: 115 minutes.
One and a half stars out of four.
scenes not available on earlier editions . Consumers
might want to wait till
Christmas when all of the
films will be released in
boxed sets with these extras
and probably a few others .
Next week look out for
more Oscar-nominated films
with the arrival of the Julia
Roberts/Jude Law starrer,
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Bethel Mae
Johnson Hall
John Henry
Shepherd
Opal Montana
Howard
Bethel Mae Johnson Hall, 70.
of Hi Hat, died Tuesday, March
22, 2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
Born January 29, 1935, in
Floyd County, she was the
daughter of the late Green and
Mary Bryant Johnson. She was a
homemaker.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Hi Hall.
Survivors include four sons:
Danny Hall and Teddy Hall, both
of Hi Hat, Dwayne Hall of
Prestonsburg, and Timothy Hall
of Drift; one daughter, Fanny
Hall of Hunter; three brothers:
Kermit Johnson of Miamisburg,
Ohio, Paul Johnson of West
Carlton, Ohio, and Milford
Johnson of Price; two sisters:
Ethel Little of Weeksbury, and
of
Grethel
Johnson
Elizabethtown; 11 grandchildren,
and one great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, and
parents, she was preceded in
death by three brothern: Richard
Johnson, Dave Mullins, and
Johnny Johnson; and one sister,
Alberta Johnson.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 25, at
noon, at the Little Nancy Old
Regular Baptist Church, in Price,
with ministers of the Old Regular
Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in the Frazier
Family Cemetery, in Price, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
John Henry Shepherd, 75, of
Gunlock, died Wednesday,
March 23, 2005, at his residence.
Born June 1, 1929, in
Magoffin County, he was the
son of the late Henry and Della
Shepherd.
He is survived by his wife,
Ella Arnett Shepherd.
Other survivors include three
sons: Matthew Shepherd, Mark
Shepherd, and John Keith
Shepherd, all of Gunlock; four
daughters: Colleen Salisbury of
Hueysville, Shelia Mullin!: of
New York, Maudie Shepherd of
Gunlock, and Angeline Slone of
Garrett; a half-sister, Frankie
Prater of Gunlock; 15 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by eight
sisters: Lula Fleming, Myrtle
Shepherd, Maudie Engleman,
Bertha
Shepherd,
Leora
Stephens, Vema Shepherd,
Dora Lee Layne, and Hazel
Shepherd.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, March 26, at
11 a.m., at the Salt Lick
Community United Baptist
Church, in Hueysville, with
Carlos Beverly and Bethel
Bolen officiating.
Burial will be in the Shepherd
Cemetery, in Gunlock, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
Opal Montana Howard, age 70,
of Petersburg, Virginia, passed
from this life on Monday, March
21,2005, at her residence, following an extended illness.
She was born February 13,
1935, at Emma, the daughter of
Rev. Abe Vanderpool of Emma,
and the late Betty Shepherd
Vanderpool.
She was a homemaker.
Surviving are: her husband,
MSG Raymond Howard; two
sons: Thomas Harvey Howard
and James Russell Howard, and
wife, Josie, all of Hopewell,
VIrginia; two daughters: Mona
Rae Bagger, and husband, Lynn,
of Cana, Virginia, and Sandra Kay
Wallace, and husband, Robert, of
Reston, Virginia; one brother,
Isaac
Vanderpool
of
Andersonville, Tennessee; six sisters: Ethel Jean Scarberry of
Martn, Effie Mae Garrett of
Prestonsburg, Sarah Edith Jones
of Englewood, Florida, Phyllis
Marie Keel of South Whitley,
Indiana, Mary Alice Stratton of
lvel, and Martha Carol Kidd of
Prestonsburg; five grandchildren,
and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, March 24, at 11
a.m., in the Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, at Martin, with David
Garrett and Bethel Bolen officiating.
Burial was in the Brushy Bill
Cemetery, at Gunlock, under the
professional care of Hall Funeral
Home.
Pallbearers: Jim Howard, Tony
Short, Isaac Vanderpool, Isaac
Vanderpool II, Thomas Howard,
and Paul Scarberry.
(Paid obituary)
(Paid obituary)
Woodrdw Jarrell
(Paid obituary)
He wasn't a world traveler.
He wasn't a famous author or
actor. He grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. He
lived his life in these mountains.
But I cannot think of any person
that was more loved by his family and his many friends than
this man was. He loved his family dearly, and he loved for family and friends to visit him more
than any person I have ever
known.
Woodrow Jarrell was born
August 15, 1925, at Emma,
Kentucky. He was the son of the
late Lonnie and Oma Riddle
Jarrell.
God called Woodrow home,
March 23, 2005, after a long illness.
He is survived by his loving
and devoted wife, Janie Crum
Jarrell. They shared a love that
was an inspiration to everyone
that knew them.
He is survived by five sons:
James Edward Jarrell, Woodrow
Jarrell Jr., Ercel Lee Jarrell, and
Larry Edward Jarrell, all of
Prestonsburg, and Jackie Lee
Jarrell of Pikeville.
He is survived by four daughters, Janie Ann Blanton of
Salyersville, Linnie McKinney
of Fort Gordon, Georgia,
Crystal Lynn Howell of
Prestonsburg, and Joann Goble
of Prestonsburg.
He was preceded in death by
one son, Buddy Jarrell; and one
daughter, Helen Marie Jarrell.
He is survived by numerous
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are four brothers: John Henry Jarrell of Allen,
Cecil Gene Jarrell and Clyde
Ronnie Jarrell, both of
Prestonsburg, and Billy Ray
Jarrell of Paintsville. He has one
surviving sister, Mary Gladys
Burchett of Warsaw, Indiana.
He was preceded in death by
five brothers: Russell, Curt,
Chester (T.Y.), Luther and
James Wesley Jarrell; and one
sister, Audrey Mae Burchett.
He is also survived by many
nephews and nieces.
Woodrow is also survived by
his first wife, Hattie (Granny)
JarrelL Even though they were
divorced, they remained good
friends, and Janie and Hattie
loved each other dearly. I do not
think Woodrow would want this
obituary to be read, unless
Hattie was mentioned.
Woodrow dearly loved Cave
Run, and he was always ready
to go hunting and fishing; and
was a member of U.M.W.A.
Local Union 9845.
Woodrow leaves so many
friends who will always remember him from his years in the
coal mines, and friends he made
after he was disabled. He was
known in eastern Kentucky, by
everyone as "Nine Beard," and
that is how so many will
remember him. Woodrow was a
member of Benedict Baptist
Church, and he loved having the
church have services at his
home when he could not go to
church.
Funeral services will be
Friday, March 25, 2005, at 1
p.m., at Hall Funeral Home
Chapel, with Rev. Gordon Fitch
conducting the services.
Burial will be in the Jarrell
Family Cemetery, at Slick Rock.
Serving as pallbearers were
Arnold Jarrell, Jason Jarrell,
Warren Jarrell and Ken Jarrell.
Honorary pallbearers were all
of his grandsons and greatgrandsons.
(Paid obituary)
Katherine Stratton
Katherine Stratton, age 97, of
Dayton, Ohio, formerly of Floyd
County,
passed
away,
Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at
Heartland of Miamisburg,
Miamisburg, Ohio.
She was born January 11 ,
1908, the daughter of Rev. Isaac
Stratton and Sallie May Stratton.
She had numerous occupations,
and was well-known throughout
the area.
She is survived by one daughter, Katherine Waddell of Dayton,
Ohio; two grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by
her parents and three brothers:
WN. Stratton, Ballard Stratton,
and John Stratton.
Funeral services will be conducted Monday, March 23, at 2 p.m., at
Hall Funeral Home, in Martin.
VIsitation will begin at 12 p.m.,
prior to the funeral.
Burial will be in the Jones
Cemetery, in Allen, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
..,.,
Ray Hamilton .Jr.
Truman Akers
Truman Akers, 78, of
Bevinsville, died Monday,
March 21 , 2005, at the
Central Baptist Hospital, in
Lexington.
Born January 12, 1927, in
Naples, he was the son of
the late Andy and Wyona
Hopkins Akers. He was a
retired coal miner, a member
of U .M.W.A. Local 5899, at
Wheelwright, a member of
Masonic Lodge No. 889,
Wheelwright, and a United
States veteran.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Charlos Fern
Johnson Akers.
Survivors include his sons
and
daughters-in-law :
Randal (Gwen) Akers of
Kennesaw, Georgia, Terry
(Jan) Akers of Bevinsville;
sisters: June Miller, Ruth
Nelson, and Carolyn Akers
all of Ashland, Arbutus
Kazee of Flatwoods, and
Betty Cox of Pedro, Ohio;
grandchildren:
Randal
Aaron, Kyle , Wesley Tyler,
and Meagan Brooke.
In addition to his wife, and
parents, he was preceded in
death by six brothers: Arnold
(Big Apple) Akers, Earl Akers,
Forest Akers, Otis Akers,
Ossie Akers, and Gaylord
Akers; and two sisters: Marie
Harr and Octavia Owens.
Funeral services will be
conducted Friday, March 25,
at
1
p .m.,
at
the
Wheelwright
Freewill
Baptist Church, in Bypro,
with Louis Ferrari and John
Allen officiating.
Burial will be in the
Buckingham Cemtery, in
Bevwsville, under the direction
of
Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
(Paid obituary)
Ronald Craig (Tom)
Ray Hamilton Jr., age 66, of
Dillion
Beaver, husband of Clozetta
Ronald Craig (Tom) Di llion
Crawford Hamilton, passed 33, of Dana, was dead on arrival
away, Wednesday, March 23, at Highlands Regional Medical
2005, at Highlands Regional Center,
in
Prestonsburg,
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
Thursday, March 22,2005.
He was born March 20,
Born February 24, 1972, ir
1939, in Beaver, the son of the Pikeville, he was the son f
late Ervin Hamilton and Lillie Ronnie Dillion and Caroli e
Mae Tackett Hamilton. He was Boyd Dillion of Dana. He wa · a
a retired coal miner.
disabled construction worke .
Survivors include his wife,
He is survived by his w tfe,
Clozetta; one son, Rusty Ray Melissa Keathley Dillion.
Hamilton of Staffordsville;
Survivors, in addition t
three daughters: Kathy Lynn wife and parents, includ one
Maldonado and Mona Lisa son, Austin Tomas Dillie n of
Slone, both of Beaver, Brenda Dana; one sister, Step anie
Lee Newsome of Virgie; two Coleman of Dana; his gr dparbrothers: Ervin Hamilton Jr., of ents: Hazel Dillion Hug es of
Lexington, and Paul Eugene Martin, and Emogene J· rrell
Hamilton of Danville; four sis,l
Boyd of Dana.
ters: Elizabeth Henson of Ivel,
He was preceded in de~th by
Geneva Hall, Eva Vance, and his grandfathers: Albert Uhllion
Verdie Hamilton, all of Beaver;
and Arley Boyd.
and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services will ~e conFuneral services for Ray ducted Saturday, March 2.6, at 1
Hamilton Jr., will be conducted p.m., at the Little Salem
Saturday, March 26, at 11 a.m., · Regular Baptist Church, in
at the Hall Funeral Home Dana, with Tim McClanahan,
Chapel, in Martin, with Regular and others, officiating.
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will be in the Wilford
Burial will follow in the Boyd Cemetery, in Dana, under . .,
Hamilton Cemetery, in Beaver, the direction of Nelson-Frazier
under the professional care of Funeral Home, in Martin.
the Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the church.
Visitation is at the funeral
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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 a first-come, first-serve
basis as space permits.
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 p.m. 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
"ftrst-come first serve basis."
Seed quantities are limited.
For more information, contact
Ray Tackett, Theresa Scott, or
Chuck Stamper at 886-2668.
Women's Bible study meets on
Wednesdays, 2-6 p.m. (youth).
Thursday prayer meeting is
held at 7 p.m. All meetings are
free and the center's sponsor is
the Daniels Creek Baptist
Fellowship Church of God, pastor Henry Lewis. For more
information, contact Tina Hall at
874-0544.
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BLHS Class of 1955
Reunion to be held on friday,
L.1e 24 and Saturday, June 25.
For information, call Marvin
Williamson at 478-3310 or
Gene Davis at 874-2873.
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.
Senior Expo
Spons6red 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 ..
Christ United
Methodist Church
March 27 - Sunday morning
worship service - Chancel Choir
will present Easter Cantata
"Behold the Lamb," at 11 a.m.
liRMC Comm.
Calendar - March
Mar. 31 - Living Well with
Diabetes, Meeting Place A&B,
Highlands Medical Office
Bldg., 5-6 p.m.
For more information, call
BLHS High School Reunion
Classes of the 1930's, 1940's,
1950's and 1960's. To be held
Saturday, June 25. For info.,
Picking for
the American
Cancer Society
The Pike County Pickers will
be presenting a Bluegrass benefit show at the Belfry Fire
Department on April 2, 2005.
The program is being presented
in support of the American
Cancer Society's Relay for Life,
and all profits from the program
will go to the American Cancer
Society. The show will begin at
6:00 p.m. and will feature, Lost
Mountain, Blackberry Jam,
Frank Hamm0nd and Old Time
Bluegrass, Swift River and other
local performers. Anyone interested in participating in this
event should call Mike Morley,
at (606) 631-1688 or (606) 4325848.
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call Joe Hinchman at 874-2821
or Marvin Williamson at 4783310.
McDowell.
attend,
886-7424.
886-2668.
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
email addresses to Debbie Hall
Parsons or Gwen Cecil at:
dochallparsons@ charter.net.
Basic Computer Training
To be taught by Ray Tackett
at the Martin Community
Center, located on Route 80, at
Martin, on March 18; and April
1, from I 3 p.m. Cost- $7. This
is an 8-week training series
designed for those who have little or no experience using computers. Space is limited - call
886-2668 today to register!
Belfry Class of 1970
Is planning a mini-reunion for
May 28. Classmates will be
responsible for their own meal.
Reservations are required by
May 1. Contact Nancy Varney
Bryan by calling 433-9200 or
433-0820. You may also write
to: P.O. Box lO 1, Pikeville, KY
41502
or
email
to:
nbryan@setel.com. It's been 35
years, classmates, let's have a
little fun!
All invited to
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. atthe old R
& S Building. Classes are
offered by the Floyd County
Health Department. Call the
health department, 886-2788,
D.A.V. Chap. 18
The Big Sandy Chapter 18, · for more information.
Disabled American Veterans, of
'Earn While You Learn'
Auxier, is looking for honorably
The
Big Sandy Area C.A.P.
discharged veterans to join the
office
is
taking applications for
Chapter, which meets at the
its
"Senior
Training Program."
Auxier Fire Dept., on the 1st and
You
must
be
55 or older to
3rd Fridays of each month, at 6
apply.
In
Floyd,
call 886-2929;
p.m. Those interested may
Johnson,
call
789-6515;
bring their DD214 and join the
Magoffin,
call
349-2217;
Pike,
Chapter and receive a D.A.V.
call432-2775;
and
in
Lawrence,
ball cap.
call 638-4067.
Big Sandy 4-H Club
Floyd County Democratic
Is seeking new members! Do
Women's Club
you like to have fun? Meet new
Meets the 2nd Monday of
people? Help your community?
Then join our club! For more , each month at 6 p.m., at
Restaurant,
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info., contact Chuck Stamper at Brenda's
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Adoptive parent
Support gronp meeting
(A.S .K.) Adoption Support
for Kentucky is sponsoring a
support group for adoptive and
prospective adoptive parents.
The meetings are held on the 3rd
Tuesday of each month in Pike
County at the Department for
Community Based Services
Office, 131 Summit Drive,
Pikeville ,k: KY 41501, from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. Childcare will not
be provided.
We have recently started a
second meeting. This meeting
will be held on the lst Monday
of each month in Floyd County
at
the
Department
for
Community Based Services
Office, 1009 North Lake Drive,
Prestonsburg, KY 41653, from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m. Childcare will not
be provided.
For mote information contact
Dedra Slone, adoptive parent
liaison, Adoption Support for
Kentucky, 606-432-4110, 606422-7927 - Cell, doslone@eastky.net
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Fort e ecor
·Marriage
Licenses
Nakisha Lucas, 23, of
Michigan,
to
Hercule
Goldsmith, 28, of New York.
Shonda Ann Webb, 18, to
Gregory Donald Morrison, 18,
both of Prestonsburg.
Crystal Gayle Tackett, 27, of
Lawrence County, to JOhn
Keith Shepherd, 32, of Martin.
Marhonda Gay Hamilton, 29,
to Eddie Dale Mitchell, 39, both
of Pikeville.
Civil Suits
Filed
Discover Bank vs. Steven
Martin
and
Michelle
Newsome; complaint.
Linda Francis vs. Anthony
Francis; petition for child support and health care insurance.
Shirley
Compton
vs.
Lowell Compton; petition for
child support and health care
insurance.
April Samons vs. Harry
Conn; petition for health care
insurance.
David Allen vs. Desiree
Calhoun; verified complaint.
U.S. Bank vs. Travis
Martin,
Olive
Martin,
Commonwealth of Kentucky,
Floyd County; complaint.
Melissa Conn vs. Boddie
Noell Enterprises, doing business as Hardees and GAB
Robins North America Inc.;
complaint.
Carla Rose vs. Charlie
Rose; divorce.
Billy Auxier vs. Charles
Galion; complaint.
Alvin Craft vs. Brandi
Meade; complaint.
Valorie Osborne vs. Billy
Osborne; divorce. '
MTGIQ
Investors
vs.
Dicky Johnson and his
unknown spouse; complaint.
Jessica
Hastings
vs.
Timothy Hastings; divorce.
Transportation Cabinet vs.
Joe Weddington and the estate
of Joyce Weddington; notice
of appeal and petition for
review.
First Commonwealth Bank
vs. Joey Griffith and Carlos
Griffith; complaint.
Kayla Stewart vs. Ricky
Stewart; petition for child
support and health care insurance.
Amber Dingus vs. Michael
Braxton; petition for child
support and health care insurance.
Anna Shepherd vs. Earl
Warrens
and
Travelers
Property Casualty Insurance
Company; complaint.
Beatrice Conn vs. Garnett
Gibson Jr.; complaint.
America's
Wholesale
Lender vs. Barbara Porter, her
unknown spouse and Harbor
Federal Savings Bank; complaint.
Maye Carter vs. Robert
Carter; divorce.
Judy Craft vs. Andy Craft;
divorce.
Wasau Insurance Company
vs. Joseph Goble; complaint.
Ford Motor Credit vs.
Gregory Stumbo; complaint.
Brian Stumbo vs. Kristy
Stumbo; divorce.
Amy Terry vs. Charles
Johnson and Fuel Transport
Inc.; complaint.
Argent Mor.tgage Company
vs. Mark Blankenship and
Pamela Blankenship; complaint.
Baher Alhomsi vs. Willie
Crase, doing business as
Crase
Innovations
and
Construction,
Alchemy
Engineering Associates, H20
Lab Inc., Gary Ousley; complaint.
Leeroy Wilson vs. Star
Construction of Tenn., and
Star Construction Inc.; civil
complaint and jury demand.
Mortgage
Electronic
Registrations System vs.
Robert and Misty Burchett;
complaint.
Clyde Hale vs. Brenda
Turner Hale; divorce.
Small
Claims
Filings
Triple M Credit vs. Billy
Brown Jr. and Debbie Brown;
alleged debt.
Price Rite Market Inc. vs.
Ruben Hall; unpaid grocery bill.
Josh M. Hall vs. Randall
Innis; seeking payment of medical bill.
Charges
Filed
Lucille Tackett, 33, Hi Hat;
harassing communications.
Wesley Martin, 29, Wayland,
menacing.
Gordon
Freels,
51,
Prestonsburg; harassment.
Johnny Slone, 29, McDowell;
receiving stolen property.
Elmo Hall, 59, McDowell;
receiving stolen property.
Kenneth Fisher, 32, Melvin;
fourth-degree assault, public
intoxication.
Benjamin Franklin Dye, 34,
McDowell; violation of emergency protective order.
Sammons,
47,
Landa
Prestonsburg;
fourth-degree
assault.
Phillip Slone, 35, Beaver;
third-degree criminal trespass,
public intoxication, disorderly
conduct.
James
McKenzie,
27,
Wittensville; federal safety regulations violation: repair, maintenance, no trailer plates.
Terry Qualls, 50, Phyllis; pub·
lic intoxication.
Amanda Carroll, 25, Martin;
public intoxication of a controlled substance, possession of a
controlled substance, use/possession of drug paraphernalia, prescription in improper container.
Matthew Wright, 30, Printer;
public intoxication.
Jackie Hall, 21, Topmost;
Calendar
• Continued from p7
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Melissa Ann and Wa)ne
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Victoria Lafferty- to Judy
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Lorieth
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Crum to Jimmy and Karen
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Dottie and Robert Layne,
Pauline and Clayton Gardner.
Bo bby Dean and Brenda
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Jimmy and Karen Crum, property location undisclosed.
Delila Stephens to Geo,rge
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Hugh and Susan Akers to
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property location undis
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Marietta Reynolds to Ison
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Marcus and Mary Tackett
to Wesley Little, property
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Joshua Keith Hoover and
Jeanetta Hoover to William
Marshall, propert) located at
Right beaver.
Dannya and Roseanna
Slone to Michael and Lisa
Lafferty, property located 'at
Prestonsburg .
Lorraine Corely to Floyd
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McDowell; public mtoxication
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sion of marijuana, second-degree
promoting contraband, tampering with physical evidence.
Amanda Harrington, 22,
Wheelwright; two counts misdemeanor theft, checks, two counts
second-degree forgery.
Elinbeth Lackey, 23, Van
Lear; two counts felony theft,
checks, two counts misdemeanor
theft, checks.
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.
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.,
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misdemeanor theft.
Christine Sellards, 33, lvel;
endangering welfare of a minor.
Steven Dalton, 22. Wayland:
public intoxication of a controlled substance.
Mark Sellards, 37, I vel;
fourth-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a minor, public
intoxication.
Crystal
Osborne,
39,
McDowell; disorderly conduct.
Michael Smith, 37, Thelma;
public intoxication.
Sabrina
Blakeman, 39,
Langley; endangering welfare of
a minor, second-degree hindering prosecution or apprehension.
Stephanie Patton, 28, Hippo;
misdemeanor theft, checks.
Judy Freels, 52, Prestonsburg;
harassment.
Wesley Martin, 29, Wayland;
menacing, terroristic threatening.
Clinton Hale, 25, Auxier;
fourth-degree assault.
Samantha Thompson, 24,
Auxier; fourth-degree assault.
Christine Keathley, 30,
Pre tonsburg; harassment.
Chad Lovely, 31, Wayland;
harassment.
Grover
Keathley,
41,
Prestonsburg; harassment.
Marcia Dingus, 31, David;
harassment.
Charlene Belhasen, 30,
Prestonsburg: two counts of misdemeanor theft, checks.
Frank Conley, 21, Lexington;
public intoxication.
Delmar Kendrick, 26, Minnie;
fourth-degree assault, public
intoxication, resisting arrest.
Wayne Jervis, 59, Auxier;
menacing.
·. Anthony
Francis,
39,
McAndrews; public intoxication.
David
Hurst,
39,
Prestonsburg;
misdemeanor
theft.
Martha Davis; 56, Dwale;
harassing communications.
BJ Wood, 24, Banner; terroristic threatening.
David
Chaffins,
29,
Prestonsburg:
misdemeanor
theft, checks.
Michael Case, 44, Harold;
third-degree burglary, misdemeanor theft.
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SECTION
FLOYD COUNTY
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Bracket busted Two Pikeville players honored in classroom, two fo·r play by NAIA
TIMES STAFF REPORT
by RICK BENTLEY
TIMES COLUMNIST
I'm at a loss here.
As I write this, it's Wednesday night
fj and I'm looking at what's left of my
NCAA bracket only eight of the
Sweet 16 but all of
my Final Four and want to write
about this. I even
have an idea as to
what to do: Write
about each regional, tell you who I
Rick Bentley
think will win and
then who I'd like
to see win.
There's a problem with that. By the
time yo~ read this, it's Friday. That
it means half the Sweet 16 has already been
played. There's no need in previewing
something that's already happened, and
Marty jnst wouldn't agree to hold the
paper until last night's games were done.
I could write this and assume what I
thought would happen actually happened
last night, which would be fme except that
I've already told you I only got half the
teams right last weekend, so that would be
presumptuous of me, would it not?
So let's just start and see where we
wind up, shall we?
Tonight in Austin we have two very
.., solid matchups that should create a lot of
interest. In the opener, two of the game's
top coaches will hook up, while the
nightcap will pit two old friends one
more time.
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (didn't
think I could spell it, did you?) and
Michigan State's Tom Izzo are two of
college basketball's most celebrated
coaches, each having led teams to
national championships and each playing with somewhat inferior talent when
compared to what they're used to bringt"ng to the table.
Coach K - whose commercials have
gone down hill considerably from the
early '90s (Am I Coach "Kriz-km-ski"?
Yes I am!), by the way - has struggled
through injuries and whatnot and played
down the stretch with only six scholarship players. One of them, however, is
J .J. Redick, and that goes a long way
toward leveling the playing field.
The Blue Devils also have going for
them that Redick hasn't really done
much in the first two rounds. He totaled
23 points in wins over Delaware State
and Mississippi State , and that's very
much unlike him, Expect big things from
him this weekend.
As for Michigan State , the Spartans
have totally flown under the radar this
season. Most people talked about the Big
Ten like it was Illinois and the 15 th
Region , but that isn't the case: The Illini
and Spartans are joined by Wisconsin in
the Sweet 16.
Now, the Spartans haven't exactly
played Bird's Celtics and Magic's Lakers
- their first weekend foes totaled a 25
seed - but they're 24-6 right now. And
Izzo having a week to prepare will help.
Somebody on the NCAA Selection
Committee must really hate Mormons.
They've set up Kentucky and Utah every
year for the last 15 it seems, and
tonight's meeting will be the sixth since
1993 the teams have played in '93, '96,
'97, '98 (for the title) and 2003.
(See BENTLEY, page two)
photos submitted
Martin Junior
Pro Instructional
League AllStars. Front
•
row: Hannah
MacEihose, Seth
Hall, Dawson
Stephens,
Tanner
Hamilton, Alex
Holbrook. Back
row: Andrew
Webb, Jonathan
Mullins, Zachery
Hall, Blake
Branham, Blake
Dean.
Not pictured:
Bradley Hall.
Coaches: Kevin
Webb, Caleb
Dean.
men's basketball players Martin
Gerlero and Daniel Price were also
PIKEVILLE - With
honored. Gerlero was
the NAIA crowning
named an Academic AllDiv. I basketball chamAmerican while Price was
pions this week, it has
tabbed an Honorable
announced 1ts honors.
Mention All-American.
Among them are three
Williams and Gerlero
student-athletes from
were selected for their
Pikeville College, one
excellence in the classroom
who originally hqnored
based on the standards set
her basketball skills in
forth by the NAlA. To be
the 15th Region.
honored as a Daktronics
Selena Williams
Selena Williams was
Academic All-American, a
named an Honorable
student must be at least of
Mention All-American as well as an junior status and maintain a minimum
Academic All-American. while 3.5 grade point average.
Williams.
a
senior
from
Paintsville, is majoring in elementary
education. Gerlero, a junior from
Neuquen. Argentina, is a business
administration emphasizing management.
Price, a 6-2 senior from Jackson,
Miss., was also selected first-team
All-Mid-South Conference this
month. He finished this season averaging 14.2 points and 5.2 rebounds
per game. Price led the Mid-South
Conference by shooting 51.2 percent
from the field, and also hit 70.7 percent from the free throw line. In addition, he handed out 64 assists this
season in leading the Bears to a 24-9
record and runner-up finish in the
MSC tournament.
Williams. a 5-11 guard who after
starring at Johnson Central High
School moved on to Pikeville
College, led the Lady Bears to a 1714 record by scoring 13 .4 pomts and
pulling down 6.4 rebounds per game
this season. She shot 47.2 percent
from the field. 31.8 percent from the
arc and 74.8 percent from the line for
the year. She handed out 50 assists
and had 36 steals for the Lady Bears,
and on Senior Day, she joined the
I ,000-point club.
(See HONORED, page two)
GIRLS SWEET 1 6
photos by Drew Bewley
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Senior guard Kim
Clark posted 23
of Betsy Layne's
38 points in
Thursday's opening-round state
tournament loss.
Today, during the
state tournament,
Clark will be honored and recognized as the 15th
Region Player of
the Year.
Late 14-0 run levels Ladycats
UK recruit Edelen leads Washington
County past Betsy Layne
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
BOWLING GREEN - University of Kentucky
recruit Brittany Edelen got off to a rocky start early
on Thursday as Washington County trailed 15th
Region champ Betsy Layne for a lot of the the first
half. Betsy Layne entered its second Houchens
Industries/KHSAA Girls Sweet 16 in three years
and after distancing itself from Washington County
for most of the first three quarters, slipped in the
game's final quarter. Edelen scored 26 points and
pulled down 14 rebounds to lead 5th Region champ
Washington County to a 51 38 win over Betsy
Layne.
Betsy Layne went into the game knowing keeping very close tabs on the talented Edelen would be
a chore and a key if it had any hopes of advancing
out of the ftrst round. Edelen was held to just five
points in the first half. In the second half. she
livened up. tacking on an additional 21 points.
Edelen finished nine-of-17 from the field. The
UK recruit also connected on eight-of-11 free
throw attempts. She hit seven of II second half
shot attempts.
The Commanderettes. led by Edelen. battled
back for the come-from-behind win.
Washington County also hit the majority of its
free throws- particularly down the stretch. For the
game, Washington County made good on 21-of-29
free throws.
Betsy Layne led 32-25 with just 23 seconds
remaining in the t!1ird quarter, when fueled by the
play of Edelen, Washington County went out on a
14-0 run. most of which came in the final period.
Washington County's massive run turned a sevenpoint deficit into a seven-point lead.
Washington County reserve Lee Goatley. who
(Sec LADYCATS, page two)
Betsy Layne senior Breann Akers looked to
pass the basketball.
Martin Junior Pro
All-Stars in National
Tournament
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
K.r-;OXVILLE. Tenn. - Marlin
Junior Pro has sent two more teams into
national competition. The Martin Junior
Pro All-Stars are in Knoxville. Tenn. for
the Junior Pro Basketball National
Tournament. The Martin Junior Pro
Instructional League All-Stars. a squad
conststing
players ages 6-9. was in
competition yesterday against a team
hailing from Doraville. Ga.
Kevin Wehh and C'alch Dean roach
of
(Sec MARTIN, page two)
Martin Junior Pro Training League All-Stars. Front row: Austin
Sailisbury,_ Garran Newsome, Elias Little, Mason Nelson, Zachery
ack row: Breylee Holbrook. Cory Grigsby,
T ckett J•mmv HPiton
T1v1s owell, Gary Arnett, Cameron Hamilton, Jacob Crager. Coaches:
Steve Grigsby, Mike Little_
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25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
laaycats
Bentley
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• Continued from p1
Tho"e meetings had two
thtngs in common - Rick
Mt~jerus was the coach of the
Utes, before he began making
Jude comments about Ashle)
Judd on nutional television,
and the Cats won all five times .
Thi har;; long past funny and
crossed over to demonic. Why
continue doing this to Utah ?
What purpose does it serve?
None of it makes any sense.
And now. just fot kicks,
Majerus has announced he
thmk:s Utah will win this time.
''First of all." he said. ''I'm not
there, which is good." That
should be ahout - I'm sorry. in
Majerus-speak, it's "abute" enough to convince anybody
the streak \\ill likely continue.
I think Majerus was a fine
coach. He ne\ er had the talent
to get O\ er the top - or past
Kentucky , if there's a difference- but the guy could coach.
He make" a horrible color commentator. however. He doesn't
want to offend anyone, his
near-Canadian accent makes
him 'tough to listen to and he
thinks eve!) coach and all their
decisions are great.
But this time , he's wrong
about this game.
My Final Four: Here's the
thing: I worked this out the day
after the brackets were
announced
and
haven't
wavered yet. The four teams I
picked were still alive when the
Sweet 16 began last night, and
I still believe they'll probably
be in St. Louis next weekend.
Entering play last night, I
had predicted Oklahoma State,
Louisville, North Carolina and
Duke.
It wasn't until. oh, Tuesday
or Wednesday that it dawned
on me: I detest two of those
schools and think very little of
the coaches of the other two.
Carolina and Duke, I don't
like, and because 99.3 percent
of my readers are from
Kentucky , I don't feel the need
to explain it. The other 0.7 percent are family members I
email this to or Jason Falls ,
and they all understand too.
I've never been a huge fan of
Rick Pitino. Yes. he rebuilt the
program that Eddie Sutton left
in shambles (which explains
my feelings on him) but he did
so with in state talent (Farmer,
Feldhaus and Pelphrey) and
then turned his back on
Kentuckians, wanting them to
walk-on instead of getting the
scholarships they deserved.
So if it happens, come Final
Four Saturday, I'm screwed.
I'll have nobody to pull for.
Which is why I came up with
The Final Four I want to
See: Look, I know some of
these are no doubt gone
already, but here they are:
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (just for
kicks ... and because I really
don't care for the other three
teams in Chicago ), West
Virginia (no chance), NC State
(because of the Herb Sendek
and, of course,
factor)
Kentucky.
Says here, the former is far
more likely than the latter, but
a man can dream, can't he?
Can't he?
Martin
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the Martin Junior Pro
Instructional League team.
The Martin Junior Pro
Training League team also
entered national tournament
play yesterday, taking on a
team out of Lansing, Mich.
The Training League team,
which consists of players ages
9-11, plays under the watchful
eye of coaches Steve Grigsby
and Mike Little.
Martin Junior Pro is under
the direction of League
President Johnny Mayo.
Mayo has put in 33 years
with the Martin Junior Pro
league. Patsy Gearheart (20
years) serves as League
Director
and
Renee
Thornsberry (19 years),
Assistant Director.
Honored
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487 Northlake Drive, Suite 104, Prestonsburg. KY 41653,
behind Papa Johns
606.886.2232
: Dairq
Queen
lr•
of Prestonsburg
Williams played her high
school basketball for veteran
coach Phillip Wireman. For
her career, she finished with
1,041 points, which is good
for 15th place on the all-time
scoring list.
SPORTS FAN
went scordcss 111 the fir. t lull
finished wtth six points m<.tdc on
a pair of three-pointers dunng
Washington County's gam~.:
deciding 14 0 run.
Betsy Layne led I l-1 0 at
the end of the fir~t quarter and
took a 21-14lead into halftime
The Ladycats shot over 40 percent from the floor in the opening half and in turn. held
Washington County to just
over 25 percent.
In the opening half, much
everything went the way of
Betsy Layne. The Ladycats
outrebounded
Washington
County 17-10 in the first half.
Betsy Layne played with
confidence early on in the
game. But after Washington
County's I4-0 run, things got
quite tough for the Ladycats.
Betsy Layne led by as many
as nine points in the third quarter before the Commanderettes
came back.
Katie Filiatreau, another
highly-touted
talented
Washington County player, finished 0-of-2 from both the field
and beyond the three-point arc.
But she hit her free throws,
connecting on 11-of-12 charity
shots and finishing with 11
points. Filiatreau also pulled
down five rebounds and dished
out a team-high three assists.
Whitney Tingle added three
seven points and three assists
for the Commanderettes.
Washington County got 15
points off turnovers. The
Commanderettes recorded 10
second chance points. The
Washington County bench
out~cored
the Bet y l.t\ t:
bene h 6- I Th I adycdLS got
Jll~t I 0 potlll'- c.:ombined from
turnovers .md second chances
Bet~y
Laynt, 's ultunate
dt mise came Ia e in the tourth
yuartcr \vtth tl\ inability to
unswer til<' Washington County
sconng
The Ladycats went nearly
four minutes before scoring in
the final quarter. Clark hit a
layup with 4:34 remaining to
give Betsy Layne tts initial
fourth quarter points.
The Ladycats got wtthin
three points in the final quarter,
hut could get no closer as
Washington County pushed the
lead back out with made free
throws.
Washington County outrebounded Betsy Layne 33-29.
The Ladycats also commttted
more turnovers ( 17-12) and
committed more personal fouls
(18-13).
Senior Kim Clark. th~.: 15th
Region Player of the Year,
paced Betsy Layne with 23
points. Clark scored nine of her
23 points in the opening quarter and helped Betsy Layne
(24-9) out to the quick. successful start.
Senior
center
Krista!
Daniels added eight points and
seven rebounds, while scntor
teammates Breann Akers and
Kristen Smith followed with
four and two points, respectively.
Kaitlin Lawson came in off
of the Betsy Layne bench and
scored the only other Ladycat
point. connecting on one of
two free throw tries.
Betsy 1 ayne shot just neof-11 from behind the threepoint line. The Larlycats hit
seven-of-11
free
throw
attempts.
With the win. Washington
County ( 18-16) moves into
Friday's quarterfinals and a
second round matchup against
Paducah Tilghman (28-5), an
opening round winner over
Newport Central Catholic.
WASHINGTON COUNTY 51,
BETSY LAYNE 38
Betsy Layne (24-9):
Clark 9-27 4-5 23,
Meade 0-0 0-0 0,
Akers 2-5 0-0 4,
Lawson 0-2 1-2 1,
Daniels 4-7 0-0 8,
Smith 0-0 2-4 2 ,
Spurlock 0-0 0-0 0,
Tackett 0-2 0-0 0.
Totals 15-43 7-11 38.
Washington Co. (18-16):
Goatley 2-6 0-0 6,
Edelen 9-17 8-11 26,
Bowen 0-2 1-2 1,
Tope 0-5 0-0 0,
Filiatreau 0-2 11-12 11,
Railey 0-2 0-0 0,
Haydon 0-0 0-0 0,
Tingle 3-6 1-2 7,
Williams 0-1 0-2 0.·
Totals 14-41 21-29 51.
HalftfmeBetsy Layne 21,
Washington County 14.
3-Point GoalsBetsy Layne 1-1 1
(Clark 1-10, Lawson 0-1),
Washington County 2-12
(Goatley 2-6, Edelen 0-2,
Tope 0-2, Filia~au 0-2).
Fouled
out-~eade.
Rebounds-Betsy L~Qe 27
(Daniels 7), Washington
County 33 (Edelen 14).
Assists-Betsy Layne 11
(Daniels 3), Washington
County 5 (Filiatreau 3).
Total fouls- Betsy Layne 18,
Washington County 13.
A-4,523.
photos by Drew Bewley
Betsy Layne enjoyed various leads Thursday before
falling to Washington
County. Above: Betsy
Layne senior center
Kristal Daniels eyeJ1 the
Washington County·
defense.
·.
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�FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2005 • 83
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lex. Catholic, Scott County, South
Laurel, Montgomery County advance
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
~
BOWLING GREEN - For a
few fleeting moments, topranked Lexington Catholic
looked like it might blow a big
lead in the first round of the
Girls Sweet 16.
Knights' star center Shannon
Novosel foul.:!d out early in the
fourth quarter, and Rockcastle
County trimmed a 13-point
deficit to five with more than
three minutes left.
Keyla Snowden dashed the
Rockets' comeback hopes with
one smooth shot.
Snowden swished a 3-pointer
from the corner with 3:01 left
and the Knights (33-1) were in
control the rest of the way,
advancing to the quarterfinals
for the sixth straight season.
''KeyIa hitting the 3 in the
corner was big," Lexington
Catholic coach Greg Todd said.
"It was definitely the backbreaker," Rockcastle County
coach Chrysti Noble said.
The Knights, champions of
Region 11, will play Region
Eight champion Scott County
(31-4) in Friday's quarterfinals.
The Cardinals defeated Region
Two champion Henderson
County 79-64.
Also Wednesday, Region 12
champion South Laurel defeated
Region Three winner Ohio
County 61-52 and Region 10
champion Montgomery County
outlasted Region 16 wmner
Rowan County 55-48 in overtime.
Lexington Catholic, unbeaten in 26 games against
Kentucky teams this season,
appeared to be on its way to an
easy win over the mistakeplagued Rockets, who coughed
up 29 turnovers.
But the Knights went a
mediocre 18 of 40 from the freethrow line to keep the Rockets
within reach.
"If you told me we could
miss 22 free throws and still
hang on, I would've told you
there was no way we could do
it," Todd said. "We were able to
do a lot of positive things over
the course of the game to still be
able to survive:'
The Rockets struggled most
of the game with Lexington
Catholic's full-court pressure.
Their turnovers led to 22
Knights' points.
"We dug ourselves a hole and
couldn't get back out of it,"
Noble said.
Nikki Davis also had 17 points
for the Knights, who've won 15
in a row since a 14-point loss to
Regina High School in Ohio.
Heather Hammond scored 18
and Tara Rowe added 14 for
Rockcastle County.
Snowden gave Lexington
Catholic the lead for good early
in the second quarter, sinking
back-to-back 3-pointers to start
a turnover-fueled 12-2 run.
The Knights led 30-24 at
halftime, then opened the seco'nd half with a 10-2 burst, flustering the Rockets' offense with
more good defense. The
Rocket~ took better care of the
ball during their late rally, but
still finished with more
turnovers than field goals (18).
The teams were called for 51
total fouls, a tournament record.
Later Wednesday, Suzie
Owens had 26 points and 16
rebounds as Scott County
advanced to the quarterfinals
with a 79-64 win over
Henderson County.
Chelsia Lymon had 21 points
and eight assists and Rebecca
Gray scored 17 points for the
Cardinals (31-4), the state's
highest scoring team, averaging
79 points per game.
The Cardinals launched a 174 run in the ftrst half, led by 16
at halftime and were never challenged again, outrebounding
Henderson County 48-25.
"We approached the game
knowing it would be a game of
runs," said Scott County coach
Steve Helton. "We wanted the
last one."
Ashley Hawkins scored 14 of
her 18 points in the second half
to lead Henderson County (286), which had a 13-game win-
ning streak snapped. The
Colonels reached the Sweet 16
for the first time since 200 t.
In the night session, Taran
Johnson had 20 points and 11
rebounds as South Laurel won
its Sweet 16 debut.
Amber Neace added 14
points and seven rebounds for
the Region 12 champion Lady
Cardinals (22-10), who've won
seven straight since losing four
in a row in mid-February.
South Laurel's boys' team
won the state championship last
week, giving incentive to the
girls to do the same.
"Our community is just
ecstatic," said South Laurel
coach Konnie Snyder. "We've
heard for a week now that we
can do it, too."
Ohio County (27-5), the
state's fifth highest scoring
team, shot 32 percent (18 of 57)
and mustered its lowest point
total since a 48-47 loss to
Greenwood on Jan. 10.
"When we had to make that
big shot, it just escaped us
tonight," said Ohio County
coach Brad Johnson.
South Laurel will face
Montgomery County (25 -7),
which was helped by a late technical foul.
The game was tied at 48-all
when Rowan County's Melanie
Cornett lost the ball on a drive.
Maggie Prewitt was fouled at
the other end by Rowan
County's Kayla Penix and Penix
angrily slammed the ball on the
court, drawing the technical.
MacKenzie Lee swished the
go-ahead foul shots as Penix
walked to the other end of the
floor and started crying. Prewitt
hit two more free throws to give
the Lady Indians a four-point
lead.
"Kids are kids. You've got to
still love 'em and pat them on
the back," said Rowan County
coach Troy Thomas. "You've
got to ·Jearn from your mistakes."
Suzanne Brown scored 20
points to lead Rowan County
(23-8).
~ Lexington
Catholic's Greg Johnson Central ranked
Todd is Coach of the Year 14th in pre-season poll
by MALCOLM C. KNOX
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Lexington
Catholic girls' basketball coach
Greg Todd fits the visual bill
for a coach. He's more than 6
feet tall and wore a sweatsuit
that matched his team's royal
, blue practice uniforms at a
workout on Sunday.
He didn't sound much like
the stereotypical coach that's
presented m movies like
"Hoosiers" or "Blue Chips,"
though.
Todd·~ instructions to his
team were barely louder than a
conversational tone, as they prepared for their Sweet 16 opener
game
against Rockcastle
County on Wednesday.
"Get back to your spots," he
~ instructed. "Somebody taking a
charge could be the difference
in this game."
Todd, in his sixth year at
Catholic. knows what it takes
to win. He's coached his team
to a 32-1 record, and its third
consecutive 11th regional
championship and Sweet 16
berth. The Lady Knights beat
every Kentucky team they
played, 'including a 19-point
win over reigning state champ
Sacred Heart. Their only loss
was to Ohio state champion
South Euclid Regina.
Todd was named The
Associated Press Kentucky
girls1 basketball Coach of the
Year on Tuesday. He earned
four votes from a statewide
media panel of 12 members.
This year's trip to the Sweet
16 is Catholic's third in a row
and sixth since 1999. They won
it all in 1999 and 2001, and lost
in the championship to
Louisville Sacred Heart each of
the past two years.
"It's very humbling," Todd
said. "In our state there are a lot
better coaches than I am."
What he won't concede to,
though, is other teams' talent.
"We just feel like we've got
the most God-given ability,
with quickness and size," Todd
said, "But still on a basketball
court you have to get through
more than just being able to run
and jump and out-strength the
other team."
The Lady Knights' talent
begins with 6-foot-1 senior
center Shannon Novosel (nine
points, eight rebounds per
game) and junior point guard
Nikki Davis (11 ppg, seven
assists per game), who were
named second team All-State.
Junior forward Anaris Sickles,
who led the Lady Knights in
scoring as a sophomore,
received an honorable mention.
Novosel will attend Evansville
next year.
"Any coach you have, I
don't think you're going to get
along with 100 percent," Davis
said, "and you're not going to
understand why they do this, or
why they do that at the time.
But I guess hindsight is 20/20.
You look back and you're like,
'Wow, he really knows what
he's talking about."'
Todd sometimes tries to add
some humor. The results are
mixed.
He showed his team a play
designed to screen 5-7 Davis'
aefender and get her into the
lane uncontested.
"This play should get Nikki
a layup," Todd said. "Or a
dunk."
There were a few laughs.
"He makes kind of funny
jokes sometimes," Novosel
said. "We'll be like 'What,
coach?'"
There shouldn't be much
laughing before Wednesday's
game, though.
Rockcastle was one of the
few Kentucky teams to give
Catholic a scare in the regular
season. The Lady Knights
trailed by a point in the fourth
quarter but finally won 66-58.
Their closest games were a
couple of four-point wins over
Elizabethtown and Cincinnati
Mount Notre Dame.
'"We're by no means overconfident going into the tournament this week," Totkl said.
"It'll be a battle right down to
the wire."
The loss to Regina helped
keep their confidence in check.
The Lady Knights learned
more about themselves in the
loss to Regina than they did in
games when they scored 100
poil)tS 9r won by 30.
"We weren't quite ready for
what we were up against that
night," Todd said. "I think it
refocused us. We knew we
were heatable."
Improving his players' individual skills is where Todd says
his coaching strength is. But he
still tries to make sure his players know that life is not all about
winning basketball games,
which he ranks far behind faith,
family and academics.
"We do get caught up in
winning basketball games,"
Todd said. "Hopefully, the girls
see we're serious about basketball, but it's not everything."
Other coaches who received
votes for Coach of the Year
were Jay Lucas of Woodford
County, Chrysti Noble of
Rockcastle County, Don Rice
of
Louisville
Christian
Academy, Jill Morgan of East
Ridge and Steve Helton of
Scott County.
Garrett Christian plays
in NACA Tournament
TIMES STAFF REPORT
~
DAYTON, Tenn.- Garrett
Christian played three games
as part of the National
Association of Christian
Athletes
(NACA)
Tournament, held at historic
Fort Bluff Gymnasium in
Dayton, Tenn. Twenty-three
teams from around the country participated in what is considered one of the best high
school tournaments in the
nation. The tournament was
held March 16-19.
Division I players who
went on to join basketball programs at Louisville, DePaul
and St. John's participated in
the tournament just last year.
In its three games, Garrett
played teams from three different states and posted a 1-2
record. The Warriors, coached
by Jerry Manns, finished the
2004-05 season with a 31-4
record. Garrett school officials
are already looking forward to
a return trip to the NACA
tournament.
A breakdown of Garrett's
three NACA tournament
games follows.
Community,
Fla.
56,
Garrett 52: Community, Fla.
led at the end of every quarter
en route to a 56-52 win over
Garrett. Ryan Slone led
Garrett in scoring with 16
points. Tyler Slone added 13
points and Brian Vanderpool
pushed in 12. Robbie
Vanderpool ;JPQ M (ltthPw
Potter rounded out the Garrett
scoring with seven and four
points, respectively.
Garrett
Christian
69,
Ottumwa, Iowa 53: Ryan
Slone pulled down five
rebounds and scored a gamehigh 24 points as Garrett beat
its Iowa opponent.
David Franklin flipped in
21 points for the Warriors.
Three different Ottumwa
players reached double figures
in the scoring department.
Cleveland, Tenn.
70,
Garrett 58: Ryan Slone scored
18 points and Tyler Slone
added 15 as the Warriors came
up short against Cleveland,
Tenn. Five different players
accounted for all of the
T~"nnec;see ti":Jm'<; scoring.
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE
The
Kentucky High School Baseball
Coaches Association (KHSBCA) pre-season poll is out.
Defending state champion
Christian County tops the poll,
followed by traditional powers
Lafayette, Pleasure Ridge Park,
Trinity and Ballard, rounding
out the top-five.
Under the guidance of firstyear head coach Shawn Hall,
John~on Central broke through
and captured the 15th Region
title, playing all the way to
Applebees Park and the state
tournament. Johnson Central
won a state tournament game,
beating Ashland in the opening
round. The KHSBCA pre-season poll ranks Johnson Central
14th. The majority of Johnson
Central's talent from last season's squad returns in hopes of
another run into the state tournament.
The KHSBCA pre-season
poll ranks Lawrence County
20th. Pikeville ranked just outside of thb top-25 poll.
Paintsville also received votes.
KHSBCA2005
Pre-Season Poll
School
1. Christian County
2. Lafayette
3. Pleasure Rtdge Park
4. Trinity·Louisville
~ - Ballard
6. Lexington Catholic
7. Henry Cia)
8. Hamson County
9Male
10. Owensboro Catholtc
11. Paul Dunbar
12. St. Xavier
13. North Hardin
14. Johnson Central
IS. Covijlgton Catholic
16. Tates Creek
17. Lcxingto~ Chnstian
18. Daviess Count)
19. Holy Cross-Louisville
20. Lawrence County
21. Rockcastle County
Points
406
366
299
183
179
130
108
104
92
gg
75
69
51
51
44
38
37
35
33
32
32
22. Henderson County
23 Elizabethtown
24. Beechwood
25 Apollo
31
25
23
20
Others Receiving Votes:
West Jessamine (20), Pikeville
(19), Butler (17), Heath (17),
Eastern (16), Hopkinsville (16),
Middlesboro (16),
(15),
Ashland Blazer (11), Madison
Central ( 11), DuPont Manual
(10), Corbin (9), Paintsville (7),
Central Hardin (7), FranklinSimpson
(7),
Pulaski
Southwestern (6), Franklin
County (6), East Jessamine (6),
East Carter (3), Somerset (3),
George Rogers Clark (3), Lone
Oak (3), McLean County (3),
Simon Kenton (3), Bullitt East
(2), Glasgow (2), Pulaski
County (2), Leslie County (2),
Webster County (2), North
Laurel (2) , Bowling Green (2),
Campbellsville (1), Woodford
County (1), Southern (1), North
Bullitt (1), Sheldon Clark (1),
Nelson County (1),
photos courtesy of UVa·Wise
Host UVa-Wise and Pikeville split a pair of games Tuesday evening at Stallard Field In Wise, Va.
UVa-Wise won the first game 11·5. Pikeville took the second contest, winning 11-8.
�84 • FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY T IMES
J Ckson enioying
b nus season with Utah
by DOUG ALDEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY - Marc
Jackson thought he was done
with basketball. Now, more
than anyone on the team, he
might be enjoying Utah's
longest run in the NCAA tournament in seven years.
Jackson left the team after
the 2002-03 season, having had
enough of coach Rick Majerus
and his demanding style.
Jackson still had a year of eligibility remaining. but didn't
know it until new coach Ray
Giacolctti was hired last April.
''It's just one of those
things," Jackson said. "I didn't
think I was going to have the
opportunity. It kind of fell into
my lap."
All-American
center
Andrew Bogut has received the
most of the attention for Utah
this season, but Jackson has
also been a key.
The senior point guard is
averaging 10.7 points, second
highest on the team, and 3.7
assists. He has given Utah an
experienced player to run the
offense, which has made
Giacoletti's debut season the
best in Utah since the 1998
team made it to the championship game.
The Utes lost in the title
game to Kentucky, the same
school Utah faces Friday night
in the Austin Regional. Utah
hasn't been in the round of 16
since '98, and Jackson remembers that team well.
He was 16 and playing at
Olympus High School and following the hometown Utes. He
signed with Utah, played as a
freshman in 2000-01 before
taking a redshirt year to go on a
church mission .
Jackson returned to the Utes
in 2002-03 and helped lead
Utah to the second round of the
NCAA tournament, scoring 19
points in a loss to Kentucky.
Two years later, Jackson is the
only senior.
Jackson thought he had
played his last game after he
left the team. He was fed up
with Majerus, whose outbursts
drove many players to leave the
program early. But after
Majerus left and Giacoletti was
hired, Jackson got a call from
new Utah assistant Randy
Rahe, who had recruited
Jackson while Rahe was on the
staff at Utah State.
After checking with the
compliance office and meeting
with his former teammates and
Giacoletti, Jackson re-enrolled
at Utah for a final season. He
welcomes
Giacoletti's
approach.
"He's definitely a genuine
guy that really cares about us on
and off the court," Jackson said.
"He just one of those coaches
that keeps his mind straight
with the true concept of basketball - that there's other things
besides basketball. He keeps us
fresh and keeps us wanting to
come back to practice and
keeps us coming back hungry."
Giacoletti, who was hired
from Eastern Washington last
spring, remembered Jackson's
performance against Kentuc.ky
three years ago. He sat down
with Jackson a few times, and it
was quickly apparent Jackson
would rejoin the Utes.
And it's been a huge help.
Jackson has made 98 of his 214
field goal attempts, including
60 of 130 3-pointers. When he's
shooting well from the outside
or getting the ball to teammates,
opponents can't just focus on
Bogut inside.
Giacoletti wishes Jackson
could find another hidden year
of eligibility.
"Marc was the one guy that
two years ago I remembered,"
Giacoletti said. "To be honest
with you, that's what I envisioned of Utah basketball -this
little guy that just played so
hard an.d played with so much
passion. I thought he had graduated when I took the job, then
I found out quickly he may
have another year left. It's been
unbelievable."
Source: Eastern Kentucky's Ford to be Massachusetts coach
his appointment on Friday.
Ford, accompanied by his
wife, arrived on the Amherst
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - campus Tuesday and spent the
Eastern Kentucky's Travis Ford
past several days
meeting
with
is in line to become
the next basketball
administrators, a
faculty advisory
coach
of
Massachusetts,
committee
and
a
basketball boostuniversity source
told The Associated
ers.
Ford, 35, a forPress.
A source within
mer guard at the
the
university
University
of
administration, who
Kentucky, guided
asked not to be
the Colonels to a
Travis Ford
named, confirmed
22-9 record this
Thursday afternoon
season _ the most
that school officials had wins in a season in school hisreached an agreement with tory - and an NCAA tournaFord, and planned to announce ment bid, the school's first in 26
by TRUDY TYNAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
years. The Colonels lost in the
first round to Kentucky, but not
before giving his alma mater a
scare.
The Massachusetts job
became vacant when Steve
Lappas was fired last week
after compiling a 50-65 record
over four seasons.
Ford did not return messages
left at his home seeking comment. Jason Yellin, a spokesman
for Athletic Director John
McCutcheon, confirmed that a
news conference would be held
Friday to announce the new
coach, but would· not confirm if
Ford was the pick.
Ford played for Rick Pitino
at Kentucky. Pitino, now the
coach at Louisville and a
Louisville assistant interested
in coaching Aggies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE
Louisville assistant coach
Reggie Theus says he's interested in the head coaching position
at New Mexico State University.
Theus, a former NBA allstar, has met with Aggie athletic
director McKinley Boston twice
and anticipates another meeting
once Louisville's run in the
NCAA Tournament concludes.
The Cardinals play Washington
in the Albuquerque regional
semifinals Thursday.
''I'm getting into coaching relatively late in life," Theus said
Wednesday. "I'm not a young guy
who would want to bounce
around. I need the right situation."
Boston described Theus as a
"serious candidate" and said he
expects to talk to him again soon.
Boston hopes to name a new
head coach to replace the retired
Lou Henson around the Final
Four weekend. He said he has
conducted six official interviews.
Theus played three seasons
at UNLV and 13 seasons in the
NBA. He has been with
Louisville for two years and
previously coach the American
Basketball Association's Las
Vegas team in 2002.
•
Pikeville men, women wtn
sectional bowling titles
TIMES STAFF REPORT
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
For one group, it has nearly
become the expected. But for
the other, it was treading new
water.
The Chatt(\llooga Sectional
of the TBC qualifying tournament was painted orange and
• black on Sunday as both the
meu 's and women's championships came home to Pikeville
College. Both teams will now
participate in next month's IBC
championship tournament.
The 2005 IBC championships will be held this year at
The Cherry Bowl in Rockford,
Ill., April 20-23. The top four
teams from each section in both
the men's and women's fields
will compete for the national
title.
On Thursday, each team will
roll 32 Baker games and then be
ranked 1-to-16 for the doubleelimination tournament, which
begins Friday morning. The
championships will be contested
on Saturday evening and be
telecast on CSTV.
For the Lady Bears, it
marked their fourth sectional
title in as many years, keeping
alive their streak of not only
qualifying for the national tournament but also winning the
championship along the way.
The men, however, had experienced different luck. In their
first four years, they had rating to make the national tourreached the sectional round but nament was No. 36 Toledo,
never finished in the top four to which qualified fourth m
qualify for the national level. Chattanooga.
In the women's draw,
This year, however, they not
only got through the door, they Pikeville's 12369 easily outdistanced No. 11 McKendree's
knocked it down.
The men, ranked eighth in 11944 to win the Chattanooga
the country, rolled 12765 to fin- Sectional. No.8 Kansas and No.
ish more than I 00 pins ahead of 10 Purdue also qualified here.
No. 10 Saginaw Valley State, Two other national powers
to
qualify
from
the defending national runners- failed
up, which finished at 12657. Chattanooga- 19th-ranked Ball
Kansas, the defending national State and No. 23 Florida State.
Meanwhile, in Allentown,
champion, came in third at
12622. Toledo, ranked 36th in Morehead State outdistanced
the latest power ratings, finished Central Florida for the title.
Top-ranked Wichita State,
fourth at 12358.
Three other Top 25 teams in which lost to Pikeville in the
the Chattanooga Sectional, No. 2004 championship round, easi15 Western New England, No. ly won the Fairview Heights
19 Florida State and No. 24 Sectional, while No. 6 Fresno
Cincinnati, all failed to qualify won in San Jose, knocking off
No. 2 West Texas A&M.
for the IBC.
Three of the nation's Top 16
University of Nebraska won
the Fairview Heights Sectional, teams did not participate this
while top-ranked Fresno State year, choosing to take their
was the champion of the San .chances in the NCAA tournaJose Sectional and fourth- ment. They were ninth-ranked
ranked Central Florida won in Fairleigh-Dickenson, No. 14
Sacred Heart and No. 16 New
Allentown.
Pikeville will be joined by Jersey City.
Pikeville will be one of five
three other NAIA schools in the
men's tournament. No. 9 schools who otherwise particiNewman, No. 14 Lindenwood pate at the NAJA level in the
and No. 16 Missouri Baptist all women's draw. The others are
McKendree, No. 13 Newman,
qualified.
Nationally, each of the top 14 No. 15 Lindenwood and surpristeams in the country qualified in ing Missouri Baptist, which
the men's draw. The lowest entered San Jose ranked 46th in
ranked team in the final power the latest power ratings.
UMass alumnus, has been pushing for his hiring praising Ford's
recruiting ability, calling him a
"great fit" at Massachusetts.
At Eastern Kentucky, Ford
took over a team that had suffered through seven straight
losing seasons. He won seven
games each of his first two seasons. Then each year, his victories increased to first 11, then
14 and this year 22.
This season's squad finished
second in the' Ohio Valley
Conference and defeated Austin
Peay in the conference tournament to get the NCAA bid.
The Kentucky native began
his
coaching
career
at
Campbellsville, where he went
67-31 in three seasons at the
NAIA school.
He had no prior experience
as an assistant coach when he
was hired at Campbellsville.
But it wasn't the first time his
career changed direction.
Ford, who won academic as
well as athletic honors at
Kentucky, had taken his stockbroker's exam after being
released by the Golden State
Warriors in 1995. Instead,
Hollywood called and he got a
part in a basketball movie "The
6th Man," playing a hotshot,
point guard.
The experience revived his
interest in basketball and after
spending a season observing
Pitino, he got the job at
Campbellsville.
Eagle golf team rallies
for seventh-place finish
TIMES STAFF REPORT
The Morehead State Eagle
golf team, 1Oth after the first
round, rallied for a seventh place finish in the Grubb
Mart-Young
Oil
Intercollegiate, hosted by
Jacksonville State University
at Silver Lakes Golf Course
in Jacksonville, Ala.
The tournament's two
rounds were played on
Monday. A third round,
scheduled for Tuesday, was
canceled due to storms and
rain.
MSU shot rounds of 303
and 286 for a 13-over par
total of 589. Jacksonville
State won the tournament
with a 280-286 566 score.
Prestonsburg High School
graduate Ryan Martin and
Kyle Litter were MSU's top
individuals, tying for 20th with
146 totals, Casey Wade tied
for 25th at 147, Matt Gann tied
for 44th with a 152 and Lee
Chaney
tied for
49th with a 154 score.
Next up for the Eagle
golfers will be the EKU
Colonel Classic, April 1-2, in
Richmond.
MSU signs golfer
Jeffrey Pierce of Glasgow,
and Glasgow High School
has signed a national letterof-intent to play golf at
Morehead State University.
"Jeffrey is an exceptional
student and golfer," said Dr.
Rex Chaney, MSU's longtime golf coach. "He is a
strong player with a great
passion for the game."
Chaney indicated that
Pierce would be MSU's only
golf signee of the November
signing period.
NFL owners agree ~n
20 10 Super Bowl site
- The Associated Press
KAPALUA, Hawaii NFL owners voted 31-1 to
award the 2010 Super Bowl
to New York, provided the
New York Jets' 75,000-seat
stadium project on the West
Side of Manhattan, whose
cost now has reached nearly
$2 billion, is built.
There still are many hurdles before the Jets can break
ground on what also would be
the centerpiece of the city's
2012 Summer Olympics bid.
Earlier this week, the Jets
substantially increased their
bid for the land on which the
stadium with a retractable
roof would be built, upping it
to $720 million. The
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, which owns the
land that currently is used as
train yards, will choose
among three bidders on
March 31.
The Jets will try to beat
out the bids of Cablevision,
which owns Madison Square
Garden, and a third bidder,
TransGas Energy Systems
LLC.
There also has been substantial opposition to the project from neighborhood action
groups and others who question why New York's policemen, firefighters and teachers
are without contracts, but the
city can chip in $500 million
or so for a stadium.
Both the city and state
favor the project.
New York is in a race to
get the. 2012 Olympics with
Paris, London, Madrid and
Moscow.
�FRIDAY, MARCH
T HE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
25, 2005 • 85
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Mechanical failure at Cleveland Speedway
leads·to DNF for Brandon Kinzer Motorsport
TIMES STAFF REPORT
•
ALLEN - Just as the pendulum of good luck was swinging
the way of Brandon Kinzer
Motorsports, mechanical problems cut a very productive
evening short for the Allenbased team. Fresh off of a thirdplace finish at Cherokee
Speedway, Kinzer and crew
headed to the Southern All-Stars
(SAS)-sanctioned event at
Cl~veland Speedway, Cleveland,
Tenn. The 60-lap event paid
$5,000 to the race winner.
As always for SAS events, the
top-16 qualifiers locked themselves in to the feature event. The
remainder of the fteld battled for
starting positions in a series of BMains. Fifty-two cars took time
on the clay oval, Kin.ter posted
sixth fast time. Claiming the out-
side spot on the third row for the
feature event.
Kinzer wasted no time in
heading forward in the event. His
Barry Wright-engineered racing
machine proved to be competition worthy as he was threatening
the top threee. His momentum
took a tum for the worse on lap
43. As he passed "The Southern
Gentleman" Freddy Smith for
third place, a seal in the rear-end
failed, forcing the black and
white No. 18 pitside for the
evening.
"I can't thank Barry, Jimmy,
Earl, and Shane enough for the
car I had tonight," Kinzer said in
an enthusiastic tone. "I couldn't
of asked for a better car. 1 think
that we had a top two car,
whether or not we has something for Dale (McDowell) I
don't know. Deep down I know
that we had at least a secondplace car."
The next scheduled races ,
which roll up this weekend for
Brandon Kinzer Motors ports ,
will take the race team to
Thunder VaHey, Lawndale,
N.C., and Cherokee Speedway,
Gaffney, SC. Both events are
Southern All-Stars East events
paying $4,000 and $5 ,000,
respectively to the race winners.
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Hendrick suspensions
lifted after appeal
by JENNA FRYER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
#
13 race in Las Vegas, when
Johnson's race-winning car and
Busch's second-place car both
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An failed inspection. Johnson's
appeals
committee
on was too high and Busch 's was
Wednesday lifted the suspen- too low.
sions of ·the crew chiefs for
Knaus, crew chief for
Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Johnson, was suspended by
Busch, who were both accused NASCAR for two races and
of cheating following a race in fined $35,000. Johnson was
Las Vegas.
also docked 25 points, and Jeff
The National Stock Car Gordon was docked 25 owner
Racing Commission rescinded points because he is listed as
the two-race suspensions the car owner.
NASCAR had levied against .
Gustafson was suspended
Chad
Knaus
and Alan two weeks and fined $25 ,000.
Gustafson, and instead placed Busch was docked 25 points, as
both on 90 days probation.
was car owner Rick Hendrick.
George Silbermann, chairThe commission's ruling did
man of the three-man appeals not affect the points that were
committee, ncted that the deci- lost.
sion was by majority vote and
Hendrick on Wednesday
was not unanimous.
maintained that neither crew
"This decision pertains chief was cheating, and that the
specifically to the evidence pre- cars failed the post-race inspecsented in this appeal," he wrote. tions because of mechanical
"The Commission's rulings do issues that developed over the
not have a bearing on existing 400-mile race.
or
announced
NASCAR
"I appreciate NASCAR givenforcement policies."
ing us the opportunity to preNASCAR stiffened its sent the facts," said Hendrick.
penalty process after the March "From our perspective it's
important everyone, especially
our fans, know that we
absolutely had no intention of
breaking any rules.
"This sport has a rule book for
good reason, and it's vital it be
enforced. As an owner, I know
it's equally important to have a
just forum for teams and a fair
system of checks and balances.
We respect NASCAR's decision
and look forward to carrying
some momentum into Bristol."
The commission has yet to
hear the appeal for Todd
Berrier, crew chief for Kevin
Harvick.
Berrier was suspended for
four races for illegally rigging
Harvick's fuel tank at Las
Vegas to appear full during
qualifying. Although Richard
Childress Racing is appealing
the penalty, the team is more
concerned
with
having
Berrier's suspension shortened
and having the 25 points
Harvick was docked reinstated.
RCR maintains that because
the infraction was during qualifying, · points should not be
deducted .
Reds 9, Yankees 4
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
111
SARASOTA, Fla.
- A
slight groin strain forced righthander Ramon Ortiz out of
Cincinnati's 9-4 victory over
the New York Yankees on
Wednesday night, a late-March
setback for the Reds' rotation .
Ortiz felt discomfort in the
groin on his first pitch to Alex
Rodriguez in the fifth, prompting him to back off the mound.
Manager Dave Miley, pitching
coach Don Gullett and trainer
Mark Mann went to the mound,
and Ortiz left the game after
simulating one throw.
The Reds expect to have a better idea of how long he'll be sidelined after another examination on
Thursday. Mann said the injury
doesn't appear to be serious.
"I want to (keep) my head
up ," Ortiz said. "I want to be
ready for the season."
The Reds acquired Ortiz
from the Angels last December.
They were counting on him ,
right-hander Paul Wilson and
left-bander Eric Milton to
anchor the rotation.
Joe Randa drove in four of
Cincinnati's runs, deciding a game
missing several stars because of
injuries and a damp field. David
Parrish and Ruben Sierra hit tworun homers for New York.
The Yankees were missing
shortstop Derek Jeter and
Bernie Williams, who stayed
back in Tampa for treatment.
Jeter has a bruised left foot, and
Williams has a sore back. Both
are expected back in the lineup
by next week.
Ken Griffey Jr. was out of
the Reds' lineup as a precaution
because heavy afternoon rain
left the field damp. Griffey had
surgery in August to reattach
his tom right hamstring, and
wasn't back to full strength
when spring training began. He
has played two games in the
outfield, making the rest of his
spring appearances as a designated hitter.
Randa made the best defensive play of the game. The third
baseman leaned into the
Yankees' sunken dugout to catch
Gary Sheffield's foul in the fifth,
then hopped over the five steps
to land safely on the floor.
Randa also had a basesloaded double in the fourth
inning off right-hander Aaron
Small , a minor leaguer brought
along for a fill-in start. Randa
came around on Jason LaRue's
bad-hop single for a 4-0 lead.
Parrish hit a two-run homer
off Ortiz in the fifth, a few pitches before the Reds starter was
forced to leave the game. Sierra
hit his two-run homer in the sixth
off right-hander Todd Coffey.
Randa's single off Tom
Gordon broke the 4-all tie in
the eighth, and Luis Lopez
completed a five-run rally with
his three-run double.
Carl Edwards hackflips his
stardo
way toward
by PAUL NEWBERRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
..
HAMPTON, Ga. - When
Carl Edwards was trying to
break into racing, he had to find
a real job to pay the bills.
He dabbled in construction.
He worked as a substitute teacher.
"One day, I showed up late at
a high school," Edwards
recalled. "I had not taught there
before, and when I walked in I
had to go to the bathroom real
bad. I started saying 'Where's
the bathroom?' to anybody I
could find."
A youngster pointed toward a
door.
"I go in and go to the bathroom, and all of a sudden this girl
walks in," Edwards continued.
''I'm like 'Whoa, what are you
doing in here?' And she says,
'You're in the girls' bathroom.'
"That kid really got me on
that one. I wish I remember
what he looked like. I need to
get him back."
That student - wherever he is
- wouldn't have any problem
now recognizing Edwards. These
days, he's one of the rising stars
of NASCAR, a backflipping
phenomenon who's already
pulled off a first-of-its kind feat.
Last Saturday at Atlanta
Motor Speedway, Edwards won
his first Busch Series race. A
day later, he captured his first
Nextel Cup victory. No other
driver has won for the first time
in NASCAR's top two series on
the same weekend.
"This guy is our next superstar," Jimmie Johnson said.
The 25-year-old Missouri
driver got his first big break
when he was hired to drive
trucks for the powerhouse
Roush Racing team.
Late last season, owner Jack
Roush promoted Edwards straight
to Nextel Cup, hoping he could
revive the struggling No. 99 car.
Jeff Burton had managed only
one top-five finish in 22 races.
Sponsors were walking away.
Roush, who had four stronger
cars in his operation, was faced
with the very real prospect of having to shut down the 99.
Initially, Rous~ was grooming Edwards to step in as Mark
Martin's successor, knowing the
longtime NASCAR star planned
to retire after the 2005 season.
But those plans changed when
Burton struggled.
After Burton moved on to
another team, Edwards stepped
in for 13 of the last 14 races (he
skipped one that conflicted with
a truck commitment). During
that brief tryout, he showed plenty of promise, finishing third at
Atlanta and getting his car in the
top 10 four other times.
Clearly, Edwards was deserving of a Nextel Cup ride for
2005, but Roush also was aware
that his young driver had skipped
a stage in Jli,s develownent when
he bypassed the Busch series.
So, Roush decided to put
Edwards into both series fulltime this year. ln fact, he's considered a rookie of the year candidate in the second-tier Busch
series, but he can't win the
award in Nextel Cup because he
ran too many races last season.
Nevertheless, Edwards was
thrilled to get a ride in two cars.
"It's a perfect situation for
me," he said. ''I'm loving every
lap of it. The more laps I can
get, the better - especially with
a lot of Cup guys running the
Busch cars."
Edwards might not have as
much experience as most of the
drivers he's competing against,
but it sure doesn't show. In the
Busch race at Atlanta, he beat
out Tony Stewart and Jimmie
Johnson for the victory, surging
to the lead by passing three cars
at one time.
"He's definitely got a lot of
skill and a lot of talent," Stewart
said afterward. "That's not going
to be his only trip to Victory
Lane this year, I can tell you that.
I wouldn't be surprised to see
him win one or two Cup races."
Stewart had no idea how
prophetic those words would be.
On Sunday, Edward, pulled off
a daring move on Johnson as
they came to the finish line,
beating the Nextel Cup star by
about half a car length.
Edwards drove the waning laps
like he's been around for years. He
moved in and out. He moved up
and down. Roush wondered if it
was the act of a desperate man,
even raising the possibility of
Edwards moving aside to let
another Roush driver, Biffle, make
a run at Johnson. But Edwards
was merely searching for the best
groove to overtake the leader.
Edwards found what he was
looking for at the top of the track.
Watching his challenger in the
rearview mirror. Johnson began
to wonder if he should rno' c
higher, instead of sticking '' 1th a
lower line that was working well
On the final lap, Johnson
drifted up the track and lost a ,., t
of momentum. Edwards, nm
ning right along the uutswe
wall, got a surge coming off turn
two, hugged Johnson's bumper
as they came through three and
four, and pulled even as the) •
barreled toward the fini sh line
The cars actually touched
just a few feet from the fini h.
causing Johnson's car to wob
ble. Edwards held his hne and
won by 0.028 seconds.
"When Carl was moving
around the race track, he was
trying to find traction and see
where he could make his moYe,"
Roush said. "I thought he "'a
done, but he was just getting
started."
As Edwards was getting hi s
start in racing, competing on dirt
tracks in the Midwest, his mother persuaded him to print up
business cards. He got a deal a t ~
local printer - 2,000 cards for
$100, with his picture on the
front and his resume on the back.
"I started handing them out to
everyone," he said. "Everywhere
I went, I had a business card. I
figured someone would eventually know that I wanted to dri' e
race cars and would give me ,
chance to do it."
Edwards also developed a
move that would become hi~
signature.
At a World of Outlaws race
he spotted one of the dr·, e
doing a backflip off hi. ~..rr
celebrate a victory. Ed\~ rd
thought that "was the cool ... t
thing I've ever seen." so he
talked one of his friend-; nto
getting a trampoline and
'• Jl
practicing the maneuver
"I knew my parent<; Wol
get me one because the) t o
I would hurt myse lt
quipped.
In no time,
doing backflip of his O\\'n
moved through the rat
always raised plenty of e
with his high-flying aero.
"I thought it was
Rou h said. "The first t
won a race and did a hal
1
told him we're going to be doin!!
this a lot and he wasn't al\\ a)~
going to be lucky. But he s· i ,
'Don't worry. I'm not gom<> t
fall down . l can do 1t.' I Ql
not luck if you can do it·
Kentucky to host Georgia at Applebee's Park
TIMES STAFF REPORT
•
LEXINGTON
The
Kentucky baseball team opens its
home Southeastern Conference
schedule this weekend with a
three-game set against defending
conference champion Georgia
(11 -9, 0-3) at Applebee's Park.
The series begins Friday at
6:30 p.m. and has scheduled
games Saturday at 2 p.m. and
Sunday at 1 p.m. Friday and
Saturday's games can be heard on
WXRA 1580-AM while Sunday's
can be found at WLXO 96.1-FM.
All three games of the series
are being played at Applebee's
Park, the home of the
Lexington Legends of the
South Atlantic League (A). The
only other times the Wildcats
have played there was in 2002
when they hosted an eightgame homestand and went 5-3.
The game is the first at home
for Kentucky (12-7 . 0-3) since
March 10. Since then, the
Wildcats have been on an eightgame road swing with five
games in Bradenton, Fla., before
opening SEC play with three
games at Alabama last weekend.
photo courtesy of Kentucky
Carl Edwards put In time on dirt tracll;s throughout the Midwest before moving onto N
Edwards also saw action at Kentucky Speedway, driving the truck pictured above.
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I had the wonderful good fortune to meet and talk with a legend earlier this week- Mrs. Eula
Hall. For years, I have heard, and
read, about EUla artd all her many
accomplishments. To tell you the
truth, I was a little intimidated
about meeting her.
But, any fears I could have had
were quickly
thrown to the
fray once this
remarkable
woman shook
my hand and
asked me to
have a seat in
her
office.
S'mall
of
stature
and
Kathy Pnlll'
possessing a
llfestvln ...,, calming, quiet
Eula
voice,
Hall
could
easily fool anyone into thinking
that she was no one of any great
importance at all.
Humble to a ~ and attending to patients in the Mud Creek
Clinic as attentively as any mother hen, Eula's heart, it is easy to
Without a spleen, precau
needed to avoid deadly infe.ctions
-PaaeBB
"The .6ESI source for local and regional society news"
Email: features @floydcountytimes.com
Women in History
Eula Hall
; page seven)
photo by Kathy J.
Prater
Eula Hall still
mans an office
daily at the Mud
Creek Clinic after
more than 30
years of attending to health
care needs of
low-income
families.
PQSTSCBJYT
Trash talk
Is it just me, or does it seem to
you that there's more garbage flying around these days?
On US 23 between Prestonsburg
and Paintsville, plastic bags decorate the trees, fast food containers
line the shoulders and ditches.
Whole bags of trash can be seen
~not the kind
on the ro~i&
)eft by folks
who
are
cleaning up.
These are
dropped or
thrown from
the back of a
pickup truck.
On the
way
to
Lexington
Pam ShiOUIJr
the
other
collbtbudng writer
day, I saw a
similar crop
of debris
~~ Mountain
Parkway arid -~. -~
Who knows where the litter
(See POSTSCRIPT, page seven )
Founder, Mud Creek Clinic
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
After more than 30 years, you '11 still find
her - at the clinic daily, attending to the needs
of "her people," the low-income Eastern
Kentuckian families who would be in danger
of falling by the wayside if not for her and the
health care clinic she has founded.
Eula Hall, founder of the Mud Creek Clinic,
Grethel, will most humbly attempt to lead one
to believe that the things she has managed to
accomplish in providing for the needs of lowincome families have been no great feat. But,
we know better.
Coming from a poor family herself, Eula
grew up in Pike County watching neighbors,
friends and family succumb to illnesses such
as tuberculosis, pneumonia, complicated preg-
nancies and more. She may relate the story of
how she herself became very ill as a child, so
ill that she was embarrassed for the doctor to
see her. "I wa!> about 11 years old," she said,
"and I got pneumonia. I remember how sick I
was. Honey, I was just so, so sick. So sick that
even my hair fell out. I remember feeling
embarrassed at the doctor's office because I
couldn 't hold my head up. I just laid it down
on his desk."
Citing limiting factors such as money and
transportation, Eula shares of how many families simply went without proper health care.
She tells of the tuberculin epidemic that swept
through the region when she was young.
"Well, you know, lots of people got that old
tuberculosis. The "Consumption," they cal led
it, because it did just that - it consumed the
body ... and back in those days, people just did-
n 't have indoor plumbing. They used outhouses and so the disease just spread through the
waterways .. .it's a wonder more people didn't
get TB than they did."
Seeing "the need" for improved water systems and readily available health care, Eula
went to work. "I started with the water, then
with getting the doctors in," she said. "We
started this clinic with $1 ,400 and a group of
Appalachian volunteers, in my home."
As the clinic grew and the people came,
Eula eventually moved out of her home, into a
small trailer nearby, in order to utilize every
square inch of available space. "We tumed the
rooms into about six examination rooms and
we started out seeing patients two days a week.
Those two days turned into five, and then to
(See EULA HALL. , page eight)
THINGS TO PONDER
By Dr. Ma~ Rowe Lineberger, Ph.D.
Humor and Health
When is the last time that you had a
"real big belly laugh?" The value of
humor, happiness, and courage and their
positive jntluence t~JX>n' health, mentally
and phy i
1 ha ~n studied for years.
This look at positi~psychology moves to
more optimistic aspects of psychology and
away from the negative aspects. Even
though the concept of positive psychology
might be new on the scene, the idea of the
sense of humor Was 'been referred to for
eons, such as in biblical times and the 13th
century, wtien physicians and philosophers
described laughter and its health benefits.
With its many definitions , a recent
writer (Martin, 2001) described sense of
humor as consisting of individual differences in all sorts of behaviors, experiences,
affects, attitudes, and abilities related to
amusement, laughter, and etc. Due to
humor being extremely "all embracing," it
has been identified as such things as a personality trait , an emotional response, a
mental process, and a therapeutic intervention. In spite of humor being present in
everyone everywhere, the contentf of
humor differs for groups of people and
genders . Every culture has a set of rules,
norms, and values that decide what kind of
humor is appropriate. Examples include
Americans going for jokes havir.g sexual
or aggressive content, while Chinese are
rather restrained and concealed. In regard
to gender differences, women prefer jokes
with less aggressive and less sexual content than do men. However, both sexes are
more likely to favor women receiving the
butt of jokes. Men scored higher on creation and women scored higher on appreciation of humorous materials (Nevo,
Nevo, & Yin , 200 1).
As research has shown repeatedly, having a sense of humor has to many benefits .
Folks having a greater sense of humor
have been found to be more motivated,
cheerful, trustwotthy, and have higher selfesteem. In addition, they tend to develop
close, social relationships (Kelly, 2002) .
Having a sense of humor has also been
found to influence health. Examples are:
(1) humor's contribution to social relationships further adds health-enhancing
effects; (2) humor has an indirect effect on
stress levels, since it is suggested that having a humorous outlook on life, is likely to
minimize stressful situations and experiences; and (3) physiological functioning of
the body is also influenced by humor reduces muscle tension, increases oxygen
flow to the blood, exercises the cardiovascular region, and produces endorphins.
As mentioned earlier, humor has been
connected to positive emotional states
(Martin, 200 1) and is well known as an
indicator of mental health. An example of
the research done conccming humor and
its impact on health , emotional and physi- Mable Rowe Lineberger,
cal, was that at the Missouri Western State
Ph.D.
College with volunteer psychology stu(See PONDER, page seven)
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606-587-2200
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tradition of providing access to qualily health care."
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ullike to tnake thin as happen... } don 1t carefor just
sitting arou
d wishing things were betterofijor
being afraid to ask for what you deserve. There's no
sense in that, so I just got busy. That's what a person has
to do. "- Mrs. Eula Hall, Founder. Mud Creek Clinic
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Ponder
FRIDAY, MARCH
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• Continued from p6
• Continued from p6
dents completing two questionnaires.
One was the
Multidimensional Sense of
Humor Scale (Thorson, Powell,
& Brdar, 1997) that consists of
24 items having to do with four
different concepts- humor production, coping by the use of
humor, humor appreciation,
and attitudes toward humor.
_., The person rates the questionnaire's statements for himself
by "strongly agrees" to
"strongly disagree." A high
score on this test is associated
with a person having a great
sense of humor. Then each student responded to a mental
health questionnaire (Bargar,
1996), pertaining to the difficulty one has in a particular
area and ranges from no difficulty to extreme difficulty. A
low score on this last test is
related to low difficulty in dealing with everyday matters and
improved mental health. For
• the students involved in the
study, the overall outcome was
that as the scores Humor Scale
increased the scores on the
mental
health
survey
decreased. Thus, those with an
elevated sense of humor also
have no or little difficulty in
daily life and have greater mental health.
You can "evaluate" your
level of humor by rating how
you agree with the following
statements of the Humor Scale,
using 0 Strongly Disagree, 1
Disagree, 2-Undecided, 3Agrcc, and 4-Strongly. ( 1)
Sometimes I think up jokes or
funny stories. (2) Uses of wit or
humor help me master difficult
situations. (3) I'm confident
that I can make other people
laugh. (4) I dislike comics. (5)
Other people tell me that 1 say
funny things. (6) I can use wit
to help adapt to many situations. (7) I can ease a tense situation by saying something
funny. (8) People who tell
jokes are a pain in the neck. (9)
I can often crack people up
with the things I say. (10) I like
a good joke. (11) Calling
somebody a "comedian" is a
real insult. (12) I can say
things in such a way as to make
people laugh. (13) Humor is a
lousy coping mechanism. (14)
I appreciate those who generate
humor. (15) People look to me
to say amusing things. (16)
Humor helps me cope. (17)
I'm uncomfortable when
everyone is cracking jokes.
( 18) I'm regarded as something
of a wit by my friends. (19)
Coping by using humor is an
elegant way of adapting. (20)
Trying to master situations
through uses of humor is really
dumb. (21) I can actually have
some control o~r a group by
using humor. (22) Uses of
humor help to put me at ease.
(23) I use humor to entet1ain
my friends. (24) My clever
saying amuse others.
Now that you have your
"humor" level, use the following scale to rate your "mental
health:" 0-no difficulty; 1-a little; 2-moderate; 3-quite a bit;
and 4-extreme. (1) Managing
day-to-day (getting places on
time, handling money, making
every day decisions).
(2)
Performing your duties at
home, work, or school. (3)
Relationships with family
members. (4) Getting along
with people outside of the family. (5) Lack of self-confi-
dence, feeling bad about yourself. (6) Adjusting to major life
stresses (new job, new school,
moving, separation, death). (7)
Feeling satisfaction with your
life. (8) Overall emotional condition. (9) Maintaining a relationship with a significant
other. (10) Feeling comfortable
around people you don't know.
(ll) Accepting the authority of
others. ( 12) Expressing your
needs to others.
Being able to judge the relationship between your humor
and emotional levels, you are at
the point of deciding what you
need or want to do. Remember
that anything you can do to sustain a more positive, upbeat
frame of mind in dealing with
the daily hassles and problems
in your life contributes to your
physical health at the same
time that it helps you cope with
stress and be more effective on
the job. Your sense of humor is
one of the most powerful tools
you have to make certain that
your daily mood and emotional
state support good health.
Make sure that you have at
least one good laugh daily!
Floyd County 4-H is Second in
State LifeSmarts Championship
by Charles E. Stamper
Co. EXTENSION OFFICE
FLOYD
FRANKFORT
Floyd
County 4-H took the second
place position on March 3rd in
Frankfort in the state finals for
LifeSmarts, a consumer education game-show style competition for high school students.
Students tested their knowledge
and skills by answering questions in the areas of health and
._ safety, personal finance, environment and technology, and
consumer rights and responsibilities. Chuck Stamper, Floyd
County 4-H Extension Agent,
with the assistance of Sharon
Campbell, coached' the 4-H
team whose members included:
Shannon Hicks, Savannah
Campbell, Doug Yolk, Justin
Frasure, and Rachael Hill.
Floyd County 4-H has participated in this event for the
I! past three years. The Bracken
County High School team won
the state competition this year
and wilt represent Kentucky at
the national LifeSmarts competition in San Francisco in April.
LifeSmarts is sponsored by
the
National
Consumers
League and is coordinated in
Kentucky by the Attorney
General's Office in partnership
with the Office of Financial
Institutions, the Office of
Insurance, and the Kentucky
Cooperative Extension Service
(4-H and Youth Development
Programs), and the Better
Business Bureau. Any Floyd
County Schools interested in
learning more about LifeSmarts
for the 2006 program year may
25, 2005 • 87
originates. March winds have
flung the trash indiscriminately.
It's even worse in my little village. The only difference is that
much of the trash is oflong-standing.
Along one section of the road
where the dogs and I walk, all
manner of garbage lies at rest in
the deep ditch between the road
and the railroad track.
Beer cans, pop cans, oil and
antifreeze containers, deflated
birthday balloons, soccer balls,
footballs, basketballs, mayonnaise jars, food cans, junk mail,
car tires, cleaning buckets, various foam cups and plates,
stuffed animals, a car casing of
some kind, a bathtub and, of
course, dozens of plastic bags
- these are among ditch fillers.
At one point, full garbage
bags have been tossed in.
Our officials talk about
tourism growing our economy.
And here on the eve of the annual spring blossoming of redbuds, dogwoods and daffodils,
what an excellent opportunity!
But tourism is not going to
amount to a hill of beans as long
as we continue to tolerate the
trashing of our land.
I don't particularly want
tourists seeing this side of us.
Do you?
Eyes
• Continued from p6
see, is made of nothing but the
purest of gold.
Right in the very thick of the
everyday goings-on, Eula handled request after request. "Can
you sign this letter for me?,"
"Will you help me with this
form?," "Miss Hall, can you get
me some new glasses?" - the
requests seemed endless and
many with less patience would
have closed their office doors
and placed their telephones off
the hook.
But not Eula.
Each request, each individual, was handled with the
utmost care and dignity. And
with the utmost amount of
patience and compassion.
It's been over 30 years since
Eula first decided to "make
something happen" in Eastern
Kentucky and so set out on her
quest for quality health care and
improved water systems for not
some, but for all, within our
region.
To many in today's world, it
is money and influence that
"talks." The more you have of
it, the more you are looked up
to. But, not so for Eula Hall.
For Eula, there is no price tag on
human dignity.
And aren't we all far better
for it?
It was a pleasure, and an
honor, Mrs. Hall, to shake your
hand.
contact Chuck Stamper at the
Floyd County Cooperative
Extension
Office
at
606.886.2668 or visit the
LifeSmarts
website
at
www.lifesmarts .org.
'Best Speller' at Osborne Elementary
2nd Place Team: Floyd County 4-H LlfeSmarts Team. From left to right: Sharon Campbell,
co-coach and 4-H volunteer, Justin Frasure, Doug Volk, Savannah Campbell, Rachael Hill,
Shannon Hicks, and Chuck Stamper, 4-H agent and coach. The Floyd County 4-H team is runner-up in State LifeSmarts Championship.
Tabitha Dawn Allen has
recently been granted the honor
of being recognized as the "Best
Speller" in her school, W.D.
Osborne Elementary. Tabitha
was presented with the "Spelling
Bee Certificate of Merit" and rep-
resented her school in the countywide spelling bee, held March 3,
at May Valley Elementary, in
which she placed fifth place in
the county. Tabitha is the daughter of proud parents Gary and
Carol Allen, of Weeksbury.
Schoo( cHayyen'inas
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• March 28 thru April 1 - SPRING
BREAK!!
• 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 - Michelle
Keathley; Assistant- Sheila Allen.
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.
Allen Central Middle School
• March 31 - Last day to tum in
Food City receipts!!
• 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
Service Center at 874-0621 to schedule
your child's Hepatitis B vaccination,
immunizations, and WIC appointments.
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.
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 ,
May Valley Elementary
• May 5, 6 - Kindergarten registration for 2005-06 school year, 8:30 a.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 topic 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.
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 4529600 or 9607 and ask for Mable Hall,
ext. 243, or Keith Smallwood, ext. 242.
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 turn 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.
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 on
hand for questions and comments.
• 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 4:00p.m. Parents and community members are welcome to visit. For
questions, call 587-2233 - ask for
Tristan Par~ons, Center Coordinator, or
Anita Tackett, Assistant.
W.O. Osborne "Rainbow Junction"
Family Resource Center
Character Words for the Month:
Tolerance and Kindness.
• March 28-April 1: SPRING
BREAK!!
• "Lost & Found" is located in the
FRC. If your child has lost any clothing or other personal 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 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
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.
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 7:30
p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 8863863, ext. 67219. Room m207 (second
floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning Center:
Tue., Thur. - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Contact: Lucille Fuchs - 886-0709.
• Martin Extended Education
Service Center: Tue., Thur. - 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Contact: Vanessa Tackett
- 285-5111.
• Wayland EESC: Mon., Wed. 8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. Contact Vanessa
Tackett- 358-3400.
• Wheelwri&ht: Mon., Wed. - 9:00
a.m. to 4:00p.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
�88 • FRIDAY,
MARCH
25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
needed to avoid deadly infections~
~A. Simpson, D.O, M.B.A.
A.ssociau Profe.ssw
ofPg,mily Meslkine
Qj
estion: I am a 30year-old man. I was in a car
acc,ident when I was 14 and
had
leen removed. I was told
there was nothing to worry about
because I could live just fine without a
spleen. Is this still true? Are there
things I should be doing or not doing
bl!causc I don't have a spleen?
First, Jet me tell you a bit about the
spleen. The spleen is an organ that is in
the left, upper portion of the abdomen.
It's about the size of your fist.
One significant function of the
spleen is to serve as a reservoir forcertain blood components, especially
white blood cells that help fight infections, and platelets that are necessary
for clotting. Special types of white
blood cells are produced in great quantities in the spleen, then
released into the bloodstream to battle infections.
The spleen also filters small particles from the blood, especially bits and
pieces of worn out red blood cells and
bacteria. After recovering worn out red
blood cells, the spleen also recycles
them. When the spleen captures bacte-
A
nswer: We physicians know
more about the spleen and
what it does now than we did
16 years ago. And while it is quite true
that you can live "just fine" without a
spleen. there are some vaccinations you
should be getting on a regular basis as
\veil as things you need to know about
the special care you should take in
managing illnesses.
rial invaders, the immune system within this organ attacks and destroys them.
Because it performs these functions,
the spleen has a very large blood supply. If it's injured - like in the car
accident you were involved in - the
result can be life-threatening intern!!
bleeding. That's probably why your
spleen was removed. The operation no
doubt saved your life at the time.
The spleen is particularly adept at
helping your body fight infections
caused by what's known as "encapsulated bacteria." These are germs with
an outer coating that protects them
from the body's immune system. They
include Strep pneumoniae, Hemophilus
influenzae B, and Neisseria meningitidis, which cause pneumonia, ENT
infections, and meningitis, respectively.
Infection by this type of bacteria can
lead to an uncommon, but often fatal,
problem called overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis (OPSS) in an adult
without a spleen. OPSS occurs in up to
2 percent of people who have had their
spleens removed - sometimes as long
as 65 years after the
surgery. Unfortunately, more than
50 percent of those who develop OPSS
die. The good news is that most cases
of OPSS can be prevented with proper
immunizations.
It is advised that anyone who has
had his or her spleen removed should
have the polyvalent pneumonoccal vaccine (Pneumovax) every 6 years, the
meningitis vaccine (Menomune) every
3 to 5 years, and the hemophilus vaccine once. Additionally, a flu shot is
needed annually.
Finally, if you become ill with fever,
chills, abdominal pain, coughing, vomiting or a skin infection, see your doctor sooner rather than later. These
could be the early signs of OPSS. Also
be sure your primary care physician is
aware of your surgical his.tory and
keeps you up to date on the recommended vaccinations, which may
chang~ over time as we learn more.
Martha A. Simpson, D.O., M.B.A.,
Ohio
University
College
of
Osteopathic Medicine, P.O. Box 110,.
Athens, Ohio 4570 l, or via e-mail to
readcrq uestions @fami lymedicine-A
news.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 011 to diagnose
and recommend treatment for any_
medical conditions. Past columns are.,
available online at www.farnilymedi-~
cinenews .org.
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Association.V
'
Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke
Family Medicine® is a weekly column. To submit quesLions, write to
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• Continued from p6
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~ix.
the determination and drive
required to build the quality
health care system that is known
as the Mud Creek Clinic, Eula
simply said, "Seeing the need,
seeing the suffering ...and knowing that our people deserved bet·
ter. Everyone deserves good
health care, good water. Just
because people are poor it doesn't mean they aren't deserving.
Our people deserve it just as
much as people anywhere."
"I like to make things happen," she said. "I don't care for
just sitting around and wishing
things were better or for being
afraid to ask for what you
deserve. There's no sense in
that, so I just got busy. That's
what a person has to do."
Putting her words to action
and proving that Eastern
Kentuckians are just "as good"
as people anywhere, Eula says
she has never felt intimidated by
anyone. She has played hostess
to some of the most distin-
Our first two doctors were
volunteets from Our Lady of the
Way Hospital and we operated
out of that home for a long
time," she said.
In 1982, the makeshift clinic
burned and Eula found herself in
need of raising money in order
to rebuild. In about the space of
90 days, she had managed to
raise $102,000 to be used for the
continuance of providing health
care for needy families.
In short time, the clinic was
back up and running, in a new
building, the one presently being
used to this day. Tn the years
since, the clinic has expanded its
services through the development of a dental clinic, a food
pantry and by helping to provide
clothing for those in need. In
addition, Eula and her volunteers
prepare
a
home-cooked
Christmas dinner each year for
the entire area, feeding more than
a thousand people each year.
When asked what gave her
,: ,fe.t ,f!s sho'w off
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Ou;tpet photos file needs replenishing,
' alui we know that you have lots of
, pt;~c!J!us pies to share with us, so, .
please, send them along! And while
you're at it, help Dr. Cf!Fol 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 Prat(!r 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-mail to: carolbcac@tiusa.net.
We will be waiting to hear from you!
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personalities
Looking around the office of
known. From Betty Rollins, this amazing woman, this advoNBC News correspondent, to cate of the poor, Eula says that
Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jesse the numerous awards gracing
Jackson and a virtual host of the walls are very much apprecicongressional leaders, Eula has ated and that she feels honored
spent hours with such as these, to have received each and every
driving them around the region, one of them, but that she "never
showing them what a strip mine started out to get any awards."
looks like and what the families "I never did anything for an
living in the Eastern Kentucky award," she said, "The best
hills are like. She has show- reward I could ever receive is
cased both the sadness of the just in seeing that our people get
area, as well·as the wellspring of health care. That's better than
hope that exists within the hearts anything that could ever be written on a piece of paper."
of those who are born here.
And of all the shiny, impres"I remember taking Ted
Kennedy to meet one of our fam- sive plaques and framed citailies," she said. "Their electrici- -tions adorning her office walls,
ty had been cut off - they didn't the one thing that stands out as
have the money to pay - and they being most impressive to heris a
told him that they hadn't eaten poem written by on~, who has
that day. I saw tears well up in worked closely with her.
his eyes and as we were leaving, Though the author's name is
he took money out of his very being withheld, Eula has agreed,
own pocket and gave it to me and nonetheless, to share the followtold me to make sure that those ing words:
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photo by'
Kathy J/
Prater'•
In addition ..
to provid· I
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care services, the
Mud
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Clinic also
provides
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She cares for others or none at all,
This "Lady" of Eastern Kentucky they call Ms. Hall.
Her hours are early, her hours are late,
She makes sure "her people" keep their dates.
Some have said she's an angel from above,
Surely no common person could show this much love.
A smile will greet you and a "how have you been?"
This "Lady" states with a loving grin.
Her charities are legend and the strings she has pulled,
To make sure "her people" get through the bull.
From the top professional and yes, us all,
Have been blessed to know this "Lady Ms. Hall."
Her deeds will continue if we are lucky,
For the people she loves in this great Commonwealth of Kentucky.
For me, she represents all that is good,
And I would be honored to have her in my neighborhood.
Editor's Note: The awards
that Mrs. Hall has received
through the years are too numerous to mention in this short
space, but among them are: The
Aaron C. Brown Jr. Award, KY
Primary Care Association; the
Berea College Service Award ,
Berea College; Doctor of
Humane
Letters,
Trinity
College; the Wonder Woman
Foundation Award; the Award of
Christian
Excellence;
the
Kentucky Distinguished Service
Medal;
Kentucky
Women
Remembered, the Kentucky
Commission on Women, 1999;
and a Citation granted by the
American
Public
Health
Association, in 1974, in
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1974, those two people being ;'
writer and women's rights i
spokesperson Betty Friedan, :
and Mrs. Eula Hall . Mrs. HaU i
looks forward to receiving an '
Honorary
Doctorate
of :'
Humane Letters from Berea
College this coming May.
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Grace Flanery, of Bucks
Branch, celebrated her 93rd
birthday on Saturday, March 5,
at the Martin Senior Citizens
Center. Grace was born on
February 28, 1912, at Spurlock.
Many family members and
friends attended the birthday
celebration honoring her long
and memorable life of love and
service to others.
Eight of Mrs. Flanery's nine
children were present, along
with their spou es, children,
grandchildren, great-grandchildren and even one great-greatgrandchild.
All in attendance enjoyed a
luncheon, cake and ice cream.
Approximately 80 well-wishers
were present for the occasion.·:
The City of Martin 's . Mayor
Thomasine Robinson was also 1
present to declare the designation ;
of"Grace Flanery Day" in obser- :
vation of Mrs. Flanery being a ;
"loyal and devoted citizen and a
loving and dedicated mother."
Mrs. Flanery is the widow of
the late Parley B. Flanery.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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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;
.: unday 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, Aux1er; 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.
it !Jig Sandy Community and Technical College Baptist Student
· ~nion, J 102; Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.; Vera Joiner, 886-3863, ext.
67267.
!Jonanza 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.
~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.
Drift Freewill Baptist, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 6:30p.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.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.
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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, Min1ster.
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
a.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.,
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Randy
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Osborne, Minister.
Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
unto the Lord:
Upper Toler Church of Christ, 3.5 miles
First Baptist, Martin; Sunday School, 10
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School,
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
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Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
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p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale
p.m.; Greydon Howard, Minister.
Bush, Minister.
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First Baptist, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole.
Weeksbury Church of Christ; Sunday
Memorial); Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.;
<-~. He will bind us up.
School, 10 a.mm.; Worship Service, 10:45
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.;
a.m. and 6 p.m. Mike Hall, Minister.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Dr. Floyd Price, min~ After two days will
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Fitzpatrick First Baptist, 1063 Big
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Branch, P.O. Box 410, Prestonsburg, KY
23; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
41653; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
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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.
us up,
Community Church of God, Arkansas
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
and we
Creek, Martin; Worship Service, 11 a.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
Friday, 7 p.m.; Bud Crum, Minister.
shall live in
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 7: p.m.
First
Church of God; Sunday School, 10
Free United Baptist, West Prestonsburg;
His sight.
a.m.; Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. and 6
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service,
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V.
11 a.m. & 6:30p.m.: Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
HOSEA
Williams, Pastor.
Grethel Baptist, State Rt. 3379,
6:1,2
Garrett
Church of God, Garrett; Sunday
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
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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
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Bragg, Minister.
Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist;
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,
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Jacks Creek Baptist, Bevinsville; Sunday
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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, Mjnister.
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, 9:45 a.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 7:30p.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 Baptist, Main St., Maytown; Sunday School, 10 Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter,
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.11 · e.Jb Minister.
Varney, Minister.
Betsy Layne United Methodist, next to B.L. Gymnasium; Sunday
McDowell First Baptist, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:45 ':i.rn., 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 United Methodist, Allen; Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship
Middle Creek Baptist, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.: Worship Service, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Kenneth Lemaster, Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wedresday, 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 Serv1ce; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Mark D.
Jimmy Conley.
Walz, Pastor.
Prater Creek Baptist, Banner; Sunday School, 10 a.m; Worsh1p 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.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday Night, 7 p.m.; Roy Harlow,
Minister.
Rock J;ork Regular Baptist, Garrett; Worship Service, 9:30 a.m.; Minister.
Salisbury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Earl Slone, Minister; Jerry Manns, Assistant Minister.
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.
Wayland United Methodist, Rt. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
Lucas.
a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Brad Tackett,
Sammy Clark Branch Freewill Baptist, Dana; Sunday School, 10
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Minister.
Wheelwright United Methodist, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
Stephens Branch Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6- p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Bobby Isaac, Minister.
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
The Third Avenue Freewill Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
10:00 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11 :00 a.m·.; Wed. Bible Study,
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
7:00p.m.; Dennis C. Love, Pastor.
Tom's Creek Freewill Baptist, U.S. 23 (north of Layne Brothers); Drift Pentecostal, Drift; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Wolship 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.
M1nister.
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 School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Thurs.,
p.m.; Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of 6:30p.m.; Buster Hayton, Minister.
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, Saturday 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, Asscciate Minister.
7 p.m.; Louis Ferrari, Minister.
Goodloe Pentecostal, Rt. 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. 2976262.
CHRISTIAN
First Christian, 560 North Arnold Avenue; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Jim Sherman, Minister.
7 p.m.; Elllis J. Stevens, Minister.
Garrett Community Christian, Route 550, Garrett: Worship
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donnie Free Pentecostal Church, Dwale; Services Saturday, 6 p.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m.; No Sunday Night
Hackworth, Minister.
Service.
Victory Christian Ministries, 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11:30 a.m.,
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m; Sherm Williams,
PRESBYTERIAN
Minister.
Drift Presbyterian, Route 1101, Drift; Worship Service,
11 a.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
First Presbyterian, North Lake Drive; Sunday School, 9:30a.m.;
Betsy Layne Church of Christ, Betsy Layne; Sunday School, 10 Worship Service, 11 a.m.; George C. Love, Minister.
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.:
Tommy J. Spears, Minister.
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Church of Christ, South Lake Drive; Worship Service, 10 a.m. and Seventh-Day Adventist, 5 miles West on Mountain Parkway;
6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Benny Blankenship, Minister.
Sunday School, 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.; Gary
Harold Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Sheph Minister.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; James H.
Harmon, Minister.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATIER DAY SAINTS
Highland Church of Christ, Rt. 23, Hager Hill; Sunday School, 10 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Relief
a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Society/Preisthood/Primary, 9:30a.m.; Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.;
Hueysville Church of Christ; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Sacrament Mtg., 11'20 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m. Church Meeting
Service, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Chester Varney, House address, .Hwy. 80, Martin, KY 41649; Meeting House telephone number: 285-3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
Minister.
Lower Toler Church of Christ, Harold; Sunday School, 10 a.m.:
OTHER
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.;
Pastor Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
Lonie Meade, Minister.
Mare Creek Church of Christ, Stanville; Sunday School, 10 a.m., the CHURCH of GOD of PROPHECY TRAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
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Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.m.
Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea market), Sunday
School, 10 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889-0905.
Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; Sunday
School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Minister.
Faith Revelation Ministery, 1/4 mile above Worldwide Equipment;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.;
Randy Hagans, Min•ster.
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
evening, 6:30p.m.: Wed., 6:30pm.; Lavonne Lafferty, Minister.
Lighthouse Temple, Main St. and Hall St.; Worship Service, t2
p.m. and 7 p.m.; Wednesday/Friday, 7 p.m.; Roy Cosby, Mimster.
Living Water Ministries Full Gospel Church, Conley Fork of
Spurlock, Prestonsburg; Wednesday, 7:00 p.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 W.
Patton, Minister.
Spurlock Bible (Baptist), 6227 Spurlock Creek Rd., Prestonsburg;
Sunday School, 1Q-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. Wnght. Minister.
The Tabernacle, Rt. 321 (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.;
Ttiursday, 7 p.m.
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Zion Deliverance, Wayland; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Prayer Line:
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. Morn1ng
Service, 11 a.m.: Sun. Evening, 6:30 p.m. Kenny Vanderpool,
Pastor.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church, 10974 N. Main St.,
Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor.
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
a.m.: Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Pastor: D.P. Curry.
. 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.
COUNTRY BOY FARM SUPPLY
Jim & Rosemary
993 South Lake, 886-2450
A
MANPOWER TEMPORARY SERVICF:S
,,
First Commonwealth Bank Building
311 N. Arnold Ave. Ste. 503
Prestonsburg, KV 41653
(606) 889-9710
Offering employment solutions
for office and industrial work
US 23 Prestonsburg
1-800-446-9879
C
Citizens
National
Bank
Member FDIC
Floyd Co. (606) 886-4000 Johnson Co. (606) 789-4001
Magoffin Co. (606) 349-8800 Pike Co. (606) 432-7188
Toll Free 1-866-462-BANK (2265) www.cnbonline.com
886-8511
5000 KY HWJ. 321 Prestonsburv. Kantucky 41653
Community OwnedJNot For Profit
Member AHA and KHA
Accredlled bY JCAHO
Physician Referral
886-7586
PROMARl
HOMICINIIR
Highway 160 E.
1 (800) 511-1695
East Kentucky Metal
Roofing & Siding Supplies
East KY Metal (Next door to East KY Roof &Truss Co.)
3095 S. Lake Drive • Prestonsburg, KY 41653
Phone: (606) 889·9609 or (606) 886·9563
Your Ad
Could Be Here!
Call 886-8506
for details.
(BRAD HUGHES[,;i
TOVOT. . . . .
886..3861 or 1-877-886..3861
�810 •
FRIDAY, MARCH
11 0 · Agriculture
115 • ATV's
120 ·Boats
130 ·Cars
140 · 4x4's
1~0 · M1sceUaneous
160 • Motorcycles
170 ·Parts
175- SUV'$
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.
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
FOR SALE: 1994
Ford Ranger 4x2,
150K M1les, Call 859497-2589 or 8869626 after 5pm.
FOR
SALE-2001
Jeep
Cherokee,
Automatic,
4WD,
Good
Runnung
Condition,
Good
Work Vehicle, $3,200
CAll 478-3100 Days
& 432-1368
Evenings.
FOR
SALE-1995
Camaro, Automatic,
New Paint & New
Tires. Looks Good,
Runs Great, $3,800.
Call 606-673-4181
25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
350 • Miscellaneous
.,, $0 · Money To Lerjl;l
SSO - Services
21 0 - .)Qb 1..1stings
220 - Help Wanted
230 - Information
250 - Miscellaneous
260 - Part Time
270- Sales
280 - Services
290 - Work Wante"
4{10 - MERCHANDISE
41 0 • Animals
~0
440
445
300 •
flNANCIAL
4QO
4ti0
310 · Susiness
QpJ1orlunity
330 - For Sale
470
· 4J5
FOR SALE: Honda
'93
Fourwheeler.
Honda
'97
·300
Fourwheel
drive.
Looks good and runs
good. Call 8S6-0S75.
Home Using Your
Computer,
No
FOR SALE 1998 Experience
YAMAHA YZ80 New Necessary. Call 1tires, pro-circuit pipe. S00-440-7234
$1600. Call 606-4529599 for more info.
TEACHERS
180- Trucks
WANTED used full
size pick-ups 1998
thru 2003, will pay
cash call 800-7895301
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
205-Business Oppt.
GET PAID TO
SHOP!
(Pay No Fees) As an
indpendent contractor evaluate customer
service for gas stations, fast food, retail.
A p p I y
www.applyshopnchek.com, Email:
www.shoprecruit@sh
opnchek.com
800-669-6526 ext.
3049
210-Job listing
SALARIED
POSITION,
Plus
Bonuses Available in
Allen as ah Assistant
Office Manager. Must
have office experience and/or Business
degree. Must be able
to deal effectivly with
intense paperwork.
Fax resume to: 606874-2163 or call 606874-2162.
hours a week, involving 3 to 4 days a
week. Pay $ 10 per
hour. No experience
needed, training provided.
Retirees
encouraged to apply.
Call 1-270-735-1492,
before March 3oth
regardin gthis position.
HANDY PERSONS
NEEDED
Immediately for growing company. Must
have
dependable
vehicle, $250-$600
per week take home
pay. Call S77-8573560 Fri-Mon and
leave message.
$5001
POLICE
IMPOUNDS!
Hondas/
Chevys/
Fords/ Jeeps. Cars,
trucks, SUV's from
$500! Listings: S00749-S116 xA14S
SSO • MiscelJMeOus
750 • Mobl~ Home
M¢'1$¥$
1SS• .OifiCe
~50'~ Personlil$"
.
&i'O • Se'rvii::eW
~~·\-$9~
7W-J?!uml:>'lns
500- REAL ESTATE
()10 • Apatt(i'ielit$
620 • $1oraqe/
· Office Space
505 - Business
510- Commercial
Property .
530- Homes
'550 - Lancf!Lots
p70 - Mobile ACmes
580- Miscell~us
MOUNTAIN MANOR
OF PAINTSVILLE is
taking apllications for
a LPN, 7am-7pm
position.
Excellent
wages and benefits.
Apply in person at
1025 Euclid Ave,
Paintsville, KY from
Sam-4:40pm MonFri.
NEEDED for a small
private school, K-12,
certification preferred
but not required. For
more information contact Dr. Khattab at
606-789-5541 or fax OIL
FIELD
to 606-789-9445.
COMPANY
has
openings for hard
PRESTONSBURG working responsiHEALTH
CARE ble drivers. Must be
CENTER has an
opening for Full of age 21 or older.
Time C.N.A.'s. We Must have COL with
offer
competitive HAZ-MAT and tanker
wages and excellent endorcements, good
benefits. If interested driving record and
please send a resume some
mechanical
to 147 N. Highland apptitude.
Please
Ave. , Prestonsburg, apply in person at:
KY, 41653 (behind Universal
Well
Prestonsburg Elem.) Services. Inc., 5252
or call 8S6-237S
Rt. 1428, Allen, KY
41601
606-87 4220-Help Wanted
34S7,
Accepting
PART-TIME DRUG
applications
Mon.
S C R E E N 1 N G thru Fri. between the
TECHNICIAN need- hours of Sam and
ed in the Floyd
4pm.
County area.
6-S
TAKING APPLICATION'S for COL
Driver's, must be at
least Class B. Apply
in person at Waste
Management, 200
Garth Hollow Rd.,
Martin, KY.
M E 0 1 C A L
SECRETARY
Needed to work
Mon.-Fri., 9:30-4:30,
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 886-1714 or
285-9000
WO-tiOJ;IS¢S
640 ~ LamVLqts
650 • Mohlfe Homes
660 • Ml~ne®$
sro - Commercial
· Pt?P~
MERCHANDISE
410-Animals
7$5 • Professionals
'70$ • Constructioo
71 fJ • Educat[Qnal
713 ~ ChUd Care
71 ~ • El~ctrician
720 • Health & 8e<luty
7$0: • Lawn &Gar~ett
· 735 • Legal
74o- Masonr-y
745 • Mi$Q$ila~us
FOR SALE: 8 ft'
refrigerated deli case,
$1000, small pizza
oven, $400, small
juice cooler, $150,
washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606-S862367.
770 ~ flep.\\it/Service
780· nmwr
790· '!'ravel
~~HQ!tCf.lS
oos. AnMUnCW~enm
Bt 0 - ALiatJOOs
615 ~ t,QS t.. FOON!
Acres each.
8S6-3313
530-Houses
3 OR 4 BR HOUSE
FOR SALE.
Has
been
remodeled ,
$49,900 or best offer.
Priced to Sale. Call
889-9S21
Call
1 1/2 ACRE LOT
FOR SALE, Level
House Seat. Hunters
Branch Rd., Martin,
KY, $11 ,000 Call763566-4025
RABBITS
FOR
SALE. Mmi Rex &
Holland
Lops, 6
weeks old. Call after
4pm or leave massage. 377 9290
FOR SALE: 8ft' deli
550-Land/Lots
cooler, $950 and Gas
2 LOTS FOR SALE
convection
oven,
445-Furniture
$450. Call 606-886- on Stonecrest Golf
Course .
FOR SALE-Solid 2367.
Approximately 3 1/3
Wood Office Desk.
Call 7S9-6320 or KAY'S WALLPAPER
205 Depot Road
367-1506
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center
Paintsville,
Ky.
Has an opening for a
Hundreds of Patterns
RAY'S BARGAIN
&
of
Wallpaper
CENTER
Recreation Assistant
&
Used Borders. All under
New
& $10.00. Open Tues Furniture
High School Education
Appliances @ unbe- Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Two years of recreation experience.
lievable prices. Come Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m.
Valid Kentucky driver's license
in today for incredible Closed Sun. & Mon.
with acceptable driving record.
savings. Shop At The 606-7S9·S5S4.
Little Furniture Store
Instructs in a variety of specialty activities, including:
& Save!!
Route.
Supervise student participatiOn in recreational activities,
#122, McDowell. Call
assists in planning, implementing and coordinating a
606-3 77-0143.
50S-Business ·
REALESTATE
diversified recreation program.
S M A L L
:. 460-Yard Sale
BUSINESS
FOR
BAG SALE: Martha's SALE. Grocery, Deli,
Portion-Lancer-Water Carryout & Tanning.
Investment
Gap Rd., Marc~\ 31st Great
& April 1st. Fi 1 E~Bag Opportunity, Located
at
Banner,
KY.
for $3
Serious Inquires Only
During Business
470-Health&Beauty Call
Hours 9am-7pm 606S74-9190
WOLFF TANNING
BEDS
Financing available,
Free delivery & set
up within 75 m1les of
London, KY. Bulbs,
Parts, Lotions at
Wholesale
Prices.
Call 8SS-554-005S
Qualified candidates should submit resume to:
Human Resources Department
Carl D. Perkins Job Corps
478 Meadows Branch
Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653
Fax: (606) 886-6073
Equal Opportunity Employer
M /F!V/D
480-Miscellaneous
STEEL BUILDINGSFinal Clearance All
Must Go. Repo's,
Damaged,
Cancellations! use
Your Tax Returns to
build your dream
building. Call S00405-7501 ext. 155S.
LOCAL REBUILD
SHOP FOR MINE
EQUIPMENT is looking for 2 experienced
Mechanics. Apply in
person at 542 Mare
Creek
Road,
Stanville, KY or call
47S-2S82 between
7am-5pm.
WANTED- Contract
Miner for Deep Mine
in Floyd County. Call
606-92S- 1473·
Adult Education Teacher
Opening
Job Description: Teach (part-time) students age 16
and up basic education, reading, math, GED prep.,
college prep, parenting, job skills, etc., al various
locations throughout Floyd County.
Requirements: 4-year College Degree. Teacher
Certification and experience preferred.
Send cover letter, resume, and references to
The David School, PO Box 1, David, KY 41616.
Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews.
. MATTRESS SALE·
MAJOR BRAND NAMES
INCLUDING MEMORY FOAM
BELOW FACTORY WHOLESALE PRICES!
SAVE$$$
150-Miscellaneous
GRAVELY
TRACTOR
FOR
SALE, electric starter
& plow.
Call 35S3416
• Appliances
- Electronics
- Furniture
- Lawn & G~o
- Yard Sale<
- Health & Bealily
- Household
160-Motorcycles
1993
FOR SALE
Ford
Crown
OUTSIDE SALESVictoria.
138,000 Retail, restaurant or
miles. $,1200. call prior sales required.
606-874-0467
$2S-$30 + package.
Fax 304-529-3391 or
FOR SALE 1-991 kpwz@hotmail.com
Corolla
Toyota
needs work $SOO firm
EXCELLENT
call
606-SS6-S339 INCOME-National
after 5 pm.
Capitol
Funding
Group
Now
Hiring
FOR SALE: 19SS Court
House
Pontiac Bonneville, Researchers.
Will
no title, good for parts. TRain to Work From
$600 obo. Call S744094.
140-4x4's
480 · Miscl!Jiaoooue
490 • RearAA1iQ!l ,
495 · Wanted To Buy
NO CREDIT • SLOW CREDIT • BANKRUPTCY-NO PROf!LEM!
FINANCING AVAI!-ABLE
VALUES TO .s1,500
VALUES TO s2,500
FIRMS
PILLOWTOPS & MEMORY FOAM
s250 set
$350 set
Queen
King
$450 set
King $550 set
Queen
Intersection of Ky. At. 321 and 1107 (3 miles South of Paintsville)
TWO LOCATIONS:
Harold White Lumber Inc.
2920 Flemingsburg Rd.
Morehead, Ky. 40351
Contact Brandon Barker
(606) 462-0324
606-788-0407
Louisa, KY, Rt. 23
Contact J. R.
LIQ-UIDATION
(606) 776-5282
STA~I~If)N
•
�THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
MOBILE
Sav· <\-Lot
m 14X70
Prestonsburg. Call HOME FOR RENT, 3
BR,
Excellent
NEW
3 886-1515forlnfo.
Condition, $425 per
BEDROOM, central
air, WID, skirtirg, For Lease Finished month + Utilities.
delivery & set-up. Office Space for Security Deposit and
References
Less than $199 per lease in prime locaRequired. 874-2802
month Call 800-406- tion near BSCTC,
5274 (WAC).
(PCC) and the new
Food City - 2100 -·
W I N T E R sq. ft. Ground floor
CLEARANCE location with up to
71 O·Educational
PRICE on new 32x76 five private offices,
room, Develop the skills
Norris 4 BR, 2 BA, conference
kitchen, bath, parking
needed for the
.,_ over 2,300 sq. ft. , livlot call Today 606- rapidly expanding
ing room, den, stone
424-2690 or 226field of
fireplace, wall oven & 2266
HEALTH
microwave, cook top,
C A A E
SBS, island kitchen,
MEDICAL
Call The
oak cabinets, com- OFFICE
FOR
National
puter center.
Call LEASE:
Medical
College of
800-406-5274 Office in McDowell
Business &
directly adjacent to
(WAC).
Technology 1·
Post Office, Dollar
800-791-4295
Final
clearance Store, bank, pharma2004 lot models and cy and shopping 770-Repair/Services
2005 models now complex. 1250 sq. ft.
available! If you are with 3 exam rooms, 2 CARPENTRY
serious about pur- offices, waiting room, WORK FOR ALL
chasing a new home tnage room, 2 bath- YOUR
BUILDING
you need to be with rooms and acces- NEEDS, both small
experienced staff to sories. Reasonable or large.
New
get the right home at Lease rates. Ready homes,
concrete
a great price. The for immediate occu- work, vinyl siding,
For further decks and remodelHome Show-South pancy.
William son, Inc. US information or to view ing. We also steam
119, Belfry, Ky. 41514 property please call clean homes, conor crete and buildings.
606-353-6444 or toll 606-377-2006
606-377-1088 606-886-1783 (Mike).
free 877-353-6444
Monday thru Fiday.
SMALL TRAILER
CARPENTRY
FOR SALE. Needs
FOR RENT: 900 WORK
all types.
minor work, partially Sq.
Ft. New construction or
furnished, $800 Call Office/Commercial r e m 0 d e 1 i n g .
358-3416
Space located next to Garages, decks, etc.
Reflections beauty Concrete work & sid~
Home at Invoice, salon, 3 quarter miles ing. Free estimates.
New Double Wide south of Martin on Rt. Call 886 _8896 .
Only
$31,599, 122 across from the
Includes
Delivery, Garth Tech. School.
780-Timber
Set-Up, A/C and Call 285-9112
Call 888Skirting.
D & D Tree Service
246-1 075 Fleetwood
Tree Trimming
homes Homes of
Tree Removal
HOUSE FOR
Louisa.
Free Estimates!
RENT:
Lowest Prices
All Drywall, Dutch 239 Francis Court,
Guaranteed!
with 2x6 walls,and Prestonsburg. 2BR 2 Call 606-785-0316 or
5/12 roof pitch, ulti- Bath 1400 Sq. Ft.,
785-9810
mate kitchen pack- Sujtable for office,
age, glass block win- small business or
•
dow, and many more residence. Not suitextras, Set up for able location for chilviewing. For details dren or pets. $500
812-Free
call 606-353-6444 or per month + utilities.
886-6362
toll free 577-353FREE PALLETS:
6444 the home show
can be picked up
4 BR BRICK HOUSE behind The Floyd
RENTALS
FOR
RENT. County Times.
Basement & Carport,
3 miles from MAC on
61 0-Apartments
900-Legals
404 David Road.
DUPLEX
FOR $700 per month, Call
NOTICE OF
RENT: 2 BR Central 886-2842 or 886INTENTION
11 Heat & Air, Total 3451
TO MINE
Electric,
Excellent
PURSUANT
TO
Condition. On US 23 2 BR HOUSE FOR
APPLICATION
RENT-$400
per
North, 1 Mile From
NUMBER 836+
$300
Prestonsburg,
No month
located
5427,
Pets. Call 889-9747 deposit,
between Paintsville &
AMENDMENT
or 886-9007
Prestonsburg,
3/4
N0.4
No
R E N O V A T E D from U.S. 23.
In accordance with
APARTMENT'S, Like pets,
refereances KRS 350.070, notice
checked call 791- is hereby given that
New, Furnished in
5761
FCDC Coal, Inc., 750
Downtown
Martin.
Town
Mountain
Call between 9am- 2 BR HOUSE FOR Road, Pikeville, KY
5pm dailey.
285- RENT at Garrett. 41501, has applied
• 3025
$400 per month + for an amendment to
$300 Deposit, Call an existing under1 BR FURNISHED 478-9389 or 477- ground coal mining
and
reclamation
APARTMENT, 1707
operation,
located
Including Utilities. 2
HOUSE FOR RENT 1.70 mile northwest
BR Unfurnished.
in Prestonsburg, cen- of Grethel, in Floyd
Call 886-8366
tal heat & air, yard, County. The amendno pets, references ment will add 6.14
2 BR 1 112 BATH
acres of surface disTOWNHOUSE also 1 required $550 mo.
turbance, for a total
Call 886-0226.
bed room furnished
area of 1180.40
or unfurnished localFOR RENT 3 BR acres within the
ed in Prestonsburg
permit
Newly revised
,NO PETS call 606- house.
boundary.
remodeled,
refer886 8991
The
proposed
ences
required.
amendment area is
886-8366.
March Madness!
approximately 1.31
First Month's Rent
mile east of Drift, in
640-Land/Lots
Free with Security
Floyd
County,
Deposit Paid in Full!
Trailer lot for rent Kentucky. The operaThrough
~.
on old U.S. 23 tion is approximately
Park
Place
Preston- 1.80 mile east of KY's
Apartments
in between
sburg and Paintsville 122 junction with the
Prestonsburg,
Branch
call 606·886-9007 or Simpson
Elderly, Handicapped
County
Road,
and
889 9747
& DisabledAvailable
located 0.10 mile
Immediate
for
of
TRAILER
LOT southeast
Occupancy. Rent 1
Simpson
Branch
FOR RENT, Large
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
The
proposed
Yard. Call 886-8366
Call 886-0039
amendment is locatFor Rent : newly ed on the McDowell
._ FURNISHED
1
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
BED ROOM APT. constructed Mobile minute quadrangle
Home Lots in new
Central heat & air
map. The surface
Allen,reference
Rent starting at $375.
area to be disturbed
required call 606month,
+
$300.
by this amendment is
874-2212
deposit water includowned by Stella
TRAILER
FOR
ed. Located near
Martin
Hamilton,
HRMC
606-889Dorothy Martin, Ella
9717.
Martin, Cassie Martin
and Earl Martin.
RENT:
On
Rt.
7
at
620-Storage/Office
The
amendment
Salt Lick, No Pets,
FOR RENT: Office $250 per Month, Call application has been
filed
for
public
New 358-4524
Suite,
inspection at the
Construction
900
Department
for
sq.
ft.
Ample
Surface
Mining
Parking, Can be
Reclamation
and
~ Conventent Locatton,
Enforcement's
New Office Behind
SERVICES
630-Houses
NOTICES
Prestonsburg
Regional Office, 3140
Lake
Drive,
S
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653 Written comments, objections, or
requests for a perm1t
conference must be
tiled with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow
Complex, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601
COMMONWEALTH
01= KENTUCKY
FL~YD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
CIVIL ACTION
NO: 00-CI-00469
KENTUCKY
FARM
BUREAU
MUTUAL
INSURANCE
COMPANY
PLAINTIFF
VS:
Willie A. Delong,
unknown spouse of
Willie A. Delong,
Estate of Eula Ann
Delong, Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
spouse of Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
Bill
spouse
of
Delong,
unknown
spouse of Connie
Reffett, and First
Commonwealth Bank
of Prestonsburg, Inc.
Defendants
AMENDED
NOTICE
OF SALE
By virtue of an
Amended
Default
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, rendered
at
the
November 17, 2004,
term, in the above
styled action, I, the
undersigned Special
M a s t e r
Commissioner, shall
proceed to offer for
sale, on the steps of
the Old Floyd County
Courthouse, (behind
the Floyd County
Justice Center), 3rd
Avenue,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, to the highest and best bidder,
at public auction, on
the 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00 a.m.,
same being a day of
the regular term of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, the following
described property,
as a whole, to wit:
Certain real property and improvements,
situated in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and being more particularly described as
follows:
on
BEGINNING
Highway 404, running with Irvin Slone
line, thence up the hill
to the top joining
Harminson
Slone
Line, thence around
the
hill
with
Slone
Harminson
and down the hill with
Harminson
Slone
and down the hill to
Highway 404, thence
up the road with
Highway 404 to the
starting
point,
FRIDAY, MARCH
Containing 3 acres bond by the purmore or less.
chaser, the Special
M a s I e r
Being the same Commissioner shall
land conveyed to immediately resell
Grantor by Eula Ann the property upon the
Delong and being of same terms and conrecord in Deed Book ditions set out herein.
269, page 445 1n the The purchaser shall
office of the Floyd be
required
to
County Clerk. Also assume and pay all
see
Affidavit
of real property taxes
Descent on Eula Ann assessed for the tax
Delong recorded in year 2001, and all
Deed Book 453, subsequent years
page 555 in the Floyd Any delinquent Floyd
County Clerk's office. County real property
taxes will be deductThe amount of ed from the sale promoney to be raised ceeds. All pidders
by this sale shall must be prepared to
include costs of comply with these
advertising of this t e r m s
sale and the fees and Announcements on
commissions for con- the day of sale shall
ducting this sale.
take
precedence
over matters m this
The purchaser shall advertisement.
be required to pay
the sum of 10% of
GIVEN UNDER MY
the bid price down in HAND, this 17th day
cash at the time of of March, 2005.
the sale with the balance on a credit of
CLYDE F. JOHNthirty (30) days at the
SON
rate of 12% per
Special Master
annum. Further, the
Commissioner
purchaser shall be
Floyd Circuit Court
required to execute a
193 East Court
bond or bonds with
Street
sufficient surety or
Prestonsburg, KY
sureties
thereon,
41653
which shall have the
force and effect of a
CERTIFICATE OF
judgment with a lien SERVICE
retained upon said
This is to certify that
property in order to a true and correct
secure payment of copy of the foregoing
the balance of the was mailed, postage
purchaser price. A prepaid, to the followpurchaser shall have ing: Hon. John E.
the privilege of pay- Hinkel, Jr., 300 West
ing all or any part of Vine
Street,
the purchase price or Lexington, KY 40507;
paying said bond or Mr. Willie A. Delc;mg,
bonds before maturi- Blue
River,
KY
ty by paying the bal- 41607;
Mr.
Bill
ance of the principal, Delong, Blue River,
together with all 61 Old Post Office
accrued
interest Street, Martin, KY
thereon at the rate of 41649; Ms. Connie
12% per annum from Reffett, 4352 South
the date of sale until Hannial Way, Apt.
paid. In the event that 236, Aurora, CO
the successful bidder 80015; Mr. Brian
is an owner of an Neal Delong, P.O.
undivided interest in Box 203, Blue River,
the property herein, KY 41607.
then and in that
This 17th day of
March, 2005.
event, sard person
shall take credit
HON. CLYDE F.
against the balance
JOHNSON
due on his or her bid
for the interest owned
INVITATION
in the property and
TO BID
shall fill bond for no
SALE OF '91
more
than
the
FORD EXPLORremainder of the purER
chase price after
BIG
SANDY
applying such credit,
COMMUNITY
subject however to
&
TECHNICAL
purchaser's payment
COLLEGE
of all cost of sale and
delinquent
taxes.
KENTUCKY
Further, the successCOMMUNITY
ful bidder shall be AND TECHNICAL
required at bidder's
COLLEGE SYSexpense to obtain fire
TEM
and extended coverPRESTONSage insurance upon
BURG,
any
insurable
KENTUCKY
improvements from
Sealed bids will be
the date of the sale
until the purchase opened at 10:00 a.m.
·price if fully paid, to EST, Friday, April 8,
at
the
the extent of the 2005,
Court
appraised Kentucky Community
Technical
value of the improve- and
System,
ments or the balance College
of the purchase price, Office of Facilities
300
whichever is less, Management,
Main
St ..
with a loss clause North
payable
to
the Versailles, KY, for the
Special
Master purpose of the sale of
Commissioner of the a '91 Ford Explorer at
Sandy
Floyd Circuit Court. Big
&
Upon default of said Community
deposit or posting of Technical College.
Director of Social Services
Salyersville Health Care Center
is recruiting for a qualified candidate to fill our Director of Social
Services Position.
The qualified candidate
must have:
• Bachelor's degree in social work,
or a bachelor's degree in a human
services field, including, but not
limited to, sociology, special
education. rehabilitation counseling. and psychology.
• One year of supervised social work
experience in a health care setting,
working directly with individuals.
Candidate should forward a
resume to:
Salyersville Health Care Center
571 Parkway Drive
Salyersville, KY 41465
Fax: 606-349-5962
Attention: B. Boso
Bid forms and other
information may be
obtained by calling
Ron
Carter
at
606/886-3863 ext
6225,
Monday
through Friday, 8:30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The
bid(s) will be awarded to the party offering the best and highest bid. All items sold
"as-is.'
The
Kentucky
Community
and
Technical
College
System reserves the
right to reject any and
all bids.
INVITATION
TO BID
Carl D. Perkins Job
Corps
Center,
Prestonsburg, Ky., is
now taking bids on
Heating/Air
Conditioning for three
apartments.
For
more information, call
Dennis Conley at
(606) 886-1037, ext.
174. The Carl D.
Perkins Job Corps
Center reserves the
right to reject any or
all bids received.
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,
owned 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
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.
having the mailmg
address of P.O. Box
408, Prestonsburg,
Kentucky 41653.
BID PROCESS:
The Floyd County
Fiscal Court will
receive sealed bids
for the sale of the
Floyd County Gas
System at the Office
of the Floyd County
Judge
Executive,
located on the 2nd
floor of the Floyd
County Courthouse,
149 South Central
Avenue, Suite 9,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653
[Telephone
(606)
886-9193] until 4:00
p.m., Local Time, on
Thursday, April 21,
2005. The sealed
bids for the sale of
the Floyd County
Gas System will be
opened
and
an
award of the bid
made to the highest
and best qualified
bidder at the Special
Meeting of the Floyd
County Fiscal Court
scheduled for Fnday,
April 22, 2005, at
10:00 a.m., Local
Time, to be held in
the
County
Courtroom, located
on the 2nd floor of
the Floyd County
Courthouse,
149
Central
South
A v e n u e ,
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky.
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.
25, 2005 • 811
bids will be returned
unopened to the bidders. Submisston 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)
days subsequent to
the opening of bids
without the consent
of the Floyd County
Fiscal Court.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pursuant to 405
KAR 8:01 0, Section
16(5), the following is
a summary of permitting decisions made
by the Departmeht
for Surface Mining
Reclamation
and
Enfo rc eme nt,
Division of Permits,
with respect to applications to conduct
surface coal mining
and
reclamation
operations in Floyd
County.
Motts Branch
Coal Incorporated
836-0300
issued 050207
Premium Elkhorn
Coal Corporation
836-5059
issued 050204
Czar Coal
Corporation
858-5064
issued 050202
To
place
your ad
S Y S T E M
Any bid received
DESCRIPTION:
later than the time
specified for receipt
The Floyd County of bids or any bid not
Gas System consists submitted with the
of a natural gas distri- necessary documen- •
bution system fur- tation shall not be
nishing natural gas to considered.
Bids
customers in the received after the
communities of Allen, scheduled
closing
Dwale, Estill, Garrett, time for the receipt of
Hueysville, Lackey,
Middle
Creek,
Immediate .Job Openin~:
Minnie, and Wayland,
and their outlying
O}?ening: IT Administrator
vicinities in Floyd
Requirement:
County,
Kentucky.
GED or High School Graduate
Documentation
BS in Computer Science
regarding the sale of
would be beneficial
the Floyd County
Gas System may be
Responsibilities:
examined by schedSystem and server maintenance, bill of
uling an appointment
materials maintenance and vanous other
with David Layne, II,
computer related duties.
or John Allen, Jr.,
Excellent opportunity with an established
during regular busitruck
body manufacturing company.
ness hours from 8:00
Needs to be self-motivated, hard-working
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
and dependable. Experience with Mass
Local Time, Monday
and/or MRP software would be benefithrough Friday, at the
cial. Excellent benefit package.
offices
of
East
Kentucky
Utilities,
Send resume to the following:
Inc.,
located
at
R&S-Godwin Truck Body Co.
Central
Avenue,
P.O. Box 420
Prestonsburg,
Allen, KY 41601
Kentucky [Telephone
Attn: Diana Hall
(606) 886-2431; FAX:
(606) 889-9196]. and
E/0/E
Call
Jessica
at
886-8506
GO'tied
"Outside Salesman"
Mining and industrial supplier in
Prestonsburg, KY, area is seeking to fill
the position of Outside Sales. Territory
will be that of eastern Kentucky.
Candidate must be an aggressive self
starter and able to work with minimal
supervision. Must be goal oriented,
motivated and self driven. Prime focus
will be expansion of product lines within an established customer base, as well
as generation of new customers. This
'~ill require excellent communications
skills, ability to research business
opportunities and the desire to succeed.
Extensive travel required. Good interpersonal skills are a must. 3-5 years
mining or indush·ial sales experience
required. Computer skills essential.
This is an opportunity for the right person to prove their skills and grow with
an established compan). CompanJ
vehicle will be provided, plus expense
account. Salary structure will be commission less monthly draw. Benefits
package included. Mail resume with
salary history to Human Resources,
P.O. Box 58, Huntington, WV 25706, or
fax to: (3041 526-4746. EOE
Thingsm
Store.
Sales Associate
Sherwin-Williams, a leader in the paint and coatings industry, has an opening at our Pikeville store
for a part-time Sales Assoc1ate. In this position, you
will assist customers, stock and pnce products,
maintain store displays, and tint and mix patnl.
Here's what you get: Competitive salary, vacation
pay, growth opportunities, company-paid pension
(minimum hours required to be eligible), companypaid training, employee discounts·; plus excellent
insurance and 401(k) for full-time employees.
Here's what you need: High school diploma or
equivalent; ability to work all scheduled hours; valid
driver's license; appropriate vehicle insurance.
Apply at: The Sherwin-Williams Company
4223 North Mayo Trail
Pikeville, KY 41501
(Tel: 606-437·4355 Fax: 606-432·3803)
An equal
opportunity
employer
M!FIDN
I
�812 •
FRIDAY, MARCH
25, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ADVERTISEMENT Surface
Mining The blasting site con- sance. Pursuant to received
by
the D1v1s1on of Waste
FOR BIDS
Reclamation
and sists of approximate- KRS 231 .080, any Department of Parks Management
Sealed bids for the
public
housing
Modernization
Project KY36P035501 (04)
will
be
received by The
Housing Authority of
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky, on April 14,
2005, at' 1:00 p.m.,
prevailing time, and
then at said office
publicly opened and
read aloud. The project consists of:
Asbestos
Tile
Abatement, Concrete
Garage Pads, HVAC
Upgrades,
and
Service
Electrical
Upgrades.
The Information for
Bidders, Form of Bid,
Form of Contract,
Drawings,
Specifications, and
other contract documents may be examined at the following
locations:
C S Design, Inc.
401 West Main
Street,
Suite 318
Lexington, KY
40507
The Housing
Authority of
Prestonsburg
#12 Blaine Hall
Street
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
Additional information is provided in the
bidding documents.
Copies of the bidding
documents may be
purchased at the following location :
Lynn Imaging
328 Old Vine Street
Lexington, KY
40507
Telephone:
(859) 255-1021
Attention: Plan
Distribution
Department
www.lynnimaging.c
om
A
Pre-Bid
Conference will be
held on April 5, 2005,
at 1:00 p.m., (local
time) at the Housing
Authority's
main
office for purposes of
answering Bidders'
questions, and to
consider any suggestions.
The Housing
Authority
of Prestonsburg
By: Brenda Harris,
Executive Director
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER 8365465
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
Mason Coal , Inc.,
P.O.
Box
2864,
Pikeville, Kentucky
41502, has applied
for a permit for an
underground
coal
mmmg
operation,
located 2.2 miles
east of Emma, in
Floyd County. The
proposed operation
will disturb 3.63 surface acres, and will
underlie
130.38
acres, and the total
area within the permit
boundary will be
134.01 acres.
The proposed operation is approximately 2.2 miles southeast
from Ky. At. 194's
junction with Ky. At.
1428, and located on
Cow Creek. The latitude is 37°38'07".
The longitude is
82°39'27".
The proposed operation is located on
the
Lancer/Harold
U.S.G.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
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
Enforcement's
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
6,
Drive,
Suite
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601 .
NOTICE OF
BLASTING
SCHEDULE
APPLICATION
NUMBER
898-0722
In accordance with
the provisions of KAR
16:120E, Section 3,
notice is hereby
given that CAMKentucky
Coal,
L.L.C., P.O. Box
1169,
Pikeville,
41502,
Kentucky
(606) 432-3900, proposes the following
blasting schedule.
The blasting site consists of approximately 110.97 acres,
located approximately 1.20 mile northeast
of McCombs, in Pike
and Floyd County,
Kentucky.
The area is located
approximately 1.07
mile southwest State
Route 194's junction
with Brushy Fork
Road, and located
1.07 mile southwest
of Brushy Fork, at
Latitude 3J039'59"
and
Longitude
82°35'48".
Detonations of explosives are proposed to
occur daily, sunrise to
sunset, from March
'05 to March '06.
Control of the blasting area will be maintained by blocking
the access roads to
the area, at least ten
(1 0) minutes prior to
the blast. Post deto·
nation access to the
blasting area will be
allowed, only after an
inspection has determined that no hazards exist. All roads
leading to or near the
blast site will remain
closed until the allclear signal is given.
After personnel are
cleared from the
area, a pre-detonation warning, consisting of one minute
series of long blasts
of an air horn or siren
will be given. The
blast signal will con·
sist of a one minute
series of short blasts
of an air horn or
siren, prior to detonation. The all-clear signal will consist of a
prolonged
blast,
sounded on an air
horn or siren following the inspection of
the blast site. These
signals will be audible over a minimum
distance of one-half
mile. Events which
could lead to blasting
at times other than
scheduled, include,
but are not limited to,
rain, lightning, or
other atmospheric
conditions
which
involve personnel,
operational, or public
safety. If conditions
occur that require
blasting at times
other than the normally
scheduled
blasting hours, the
audible
signals
described above will
be used to warn the
public of the blasting
activity.
NOTICE OF
BLASTING
SCHEDULE
APPLICATION
NUMBER
898-0721
In accordance with
the provisions of KAR
16:120E, Section 3,
notice is hereby
given that CAMKentucky
Coal,
L.L.C., P.O. Box
1169,
Pikeville,
41 502,
Kentucky
(606) 432-3900, proposes the following
blasting
schedule.
acres,
ly 263.31
located approximately 1.46 mile northeast
of McCombs, in Pike
and Floyd County,
Kentucky.
The area is located
approximately 1.60
mile southwest State
Route 194's junction
with Brushy Fork
Road, and located
1.60 mile southwest
of Brushy Fork, at
Latitude 3J039'59"
and
Longitude
82°35 ' 48".
Detonations of explosives are proposed to
occur daily, sunrise to
sunset, from March
'05 to March '06.
Control of the blasting area will be maintained by blocking
the access roads to
the area, at least ten
(1 0) minutes prior to
the blast. Post detonation access to the
blasting area will be
allowed, only after an
inspection has deter·
mined that no hazards exist. All roads
leading to or near the
blast site will remain
closed until the allclear signal is given.
After personnel are
cleared from the
area, a pre-detona·
tion warning, consisting of one minute
series of long blasts
of an air horn or siren
will be given. The
blast signal will consist of a one minute
series of short blasts
of an air horn or
siren, prior to detonation. The all-clear signal will consist of a
prolonged
blast,
sounded on an air
horn or siren following the inspection of
the blast site. These
signals will be audible over a minimum
distance of one-half
mile. Events which
could lead to blasting
at times other than
scheduled, include,
but are not limited to,
rain, lightning, or
other atmospheric
conditions
which
involve personnel,
operational, or public
safety. If conditions
occur that require
blasting at times
other than the normally
scheduled
blasting hours, the
audible
signals
described above will
be used to warn the
public of the blasting
activity.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pursuant to KRS
231.040, application
for a permit to operate a place of enter·
tainment, • has been
made by Harold E.
Meade. The name of
the proposed business of entertainment is VITO's. The
nature of the business will be dancing
and band/beer by the
drink, wine coolers.
Pursuant to KRS
231.070, the Floyd
County Attorney shall
investigate whether
the applicant lacks
good moral character, or whether the
applicant will obey
the laws of the
Commonwealth
in
the operation of the
business, or whether
the applicant, within
the last two (2) years
prior to the date of filing the application
has been convicted
in Kentucky of maintaining a public nui-
person desiring to
oppose the permits,
shall file with the
County Clerk, no
later than April 21,
2005, in writing, allegations that show
cause as to why the
applicat1on shall not
be granted. Said written information shall
be signed, dated and
reflect the current
address of said person providing the
information.
Pursuant to KRS
231.080, a hearing
has been ,scheduled
for April 21, 2005, at
the hour of 2:30p.m.,
or as soon thereafter
as same can be
heard before the
Floyd
County
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
in support of, or in
opposition to, the
granting of the permit.
HON. KEITH
BARTLEY
FLOYD COUNTY
ATTORNEY
ORDINANCE
NO. 2-2005
An
ordinance
amending Ordinance
No. 12-2003, of the
City Council, reflecting regular council
meeting times to
reflect time change of
the 4th Monday of the
month.
Adopted this the
14th day of March,
2005.
Jerry S. Fannin
Mayor
Attest:
Sharon Schoolcraft
City Clerk
ORDINANCE
NO. 3-2005
An ordinance of the
City Council, of the
City of Prestonsburg,
amending Ordinance
No. 5-2003, to show
additional committee
established.
Adopted this the
14th day of March,
2005.
Jerry S. Fannin
Mayor
for the removal from
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park of its
complete
campground sewage treatment plant and stor·
age building, plus
fencing that once surrounded the plant.
• Sealed bids must
be submitted in an
envelope
clearly
marked "Treatment
Plant Bid." Failure to
do so could result in
the void of bid.
• Verbal bids WILL
NOT BE ACCEPTED.
• Arrangements to
view the facility in
advance should be
made by contacting
Scott Ringham at
606-889-1790.
• Sealed bids will be
accepted
from
Friday, March 25,
2005, through Friday,
April 1, 2005, until
2:00p.m.
• Bids should be
submitted to:
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park
Atten:
Jonell
Tackett
75 Theatre Court
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
• All sealed bids
received
will
be
opened at 2:00 p.m.
on Friday, April 1,
2005. Attempt to notify successful bidder
will immediately follow bid opening.
• Successful bidder
will have 20 calendar
days to complete
removal of facility
from park premises.
· a. Will accept financial responsibility for
any damage that
might occur to park
property, including
but not limited to
phone lines, water
lines and electric, as
a result of the
removal process.
b. Will not dispose
of any material on
park property.
c. May not hold the
Commonwealth, its
employees or guests,
liable for any personal injury or bodily
harm.
d. Will smooth and
level area insuring
positive
drainage,
leaving no visible
indication that plant
once existed.
e. Removal must be
done so in compliance
with
the
In accordance with
KRS 350.070, notice
is hereby g1ven that
CAM Kentucky, LLC,
P.O.
Box
901 ,
Pikeville, Kentucky
41501, has applied
for an amendment to
an existing surface
coal mining and
reclamation operation, located 1 mile
northwest
of
McCombs, in Pike
County,
Kentucky.
The amendment will
add 125.88 acres of
surface disturbance,
making a total area of
227.34 acres within
the amended permit
boundary.
l't""s 'l:hat t:l:~De
year again!
YARD SALE SEASON IS HERE,
and for a limited time you can get your yard
sale advertisements at a special price.
For only $20.00, get a 2x2 display ad
for one week, plus a FREE yard sale kit.
(Includes magic marker, sign, and pricing labels).
Hunryl' bel'ore i'l:~s 'l:oo late!
YARD SALE
Everything Must Go.
EXAMPLE:
122 Mayberry Rd.
Rain or Shine.
Today Only!
Call Jessica at the Floyd County Times
606-886-8506
Lafferty's
Contracting, LLC
ORDINANCE
NO. 4-2005
Bennie Michael Lafferty, Owner
606-874-2259
An ordinance of the
City Council, of the
City of Prestonsburg,
amending Ordinance
No. 6-99, to show
additional committee
member.
Adopted this the
14th day of March,
2005.
Jerry S. Fannin
Mayor
Attest:
Sharon Schoolcraft
City Clerk
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
SEALED BID
DEPARTMENT
OF PARKS
JENNY WILEY
STATE RESORT
PARK
PRESTONSBURG
, KENTUCKY
Sealed bids will be
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
Day and night shifts
APPLY AT 263 S. CENTRAL AVE.
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E.O.E.
The
amendment
application has been
flied
for
public
Inspection at the
KYEPPC 's DiviSIOn
of Field Services,
Pikeville
Regional
Office, located at 121
Mays Branch Road
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Get both sides of the
issue when we invite
the city of Prestonsburg
and Highlands Regional
Medical Center to give
reasons to support or
reject the city's pro,. posed annexation of
Highlands. You will find
each side's argument in
Viewpoint, page A4.
Cowections
• The website for the
Kentucky State Police
Sex Offender Registry
listed Wednesday was
incorrect. The correct
address for tracking sex
offenders is http://ksp'~• sor.state.ky.us.
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Man charged with luring students for sex:
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
EASTERN
A Pike
County man has been accused
of using the internet to lure
underage Floyd County girls
for sex.
John Belcher, 24, of Elkhorn
City, was arrested Thursday
and charged with two counts of
criminal trespass, two counts of
custodial interference and one
count of unlawful transaction
with a minor.
The charges stem from
Belcher allegedly using the
internet to meet two young girls
from Allen Central High
School's special education program and luring them off
school grounds for sex. Belcher
is accused of trespassing onto
Allen Central on two occasions.
Allegedly it was on the second trip, which occurred March
16, to the school that he was
able to induce two special education students to leave the
REMEMBERING
premises with him for a sexual
encounter.
The investigation was
launched after Allen Central
principal Lorena Hall heard
information from several students about the episode which
obscured some of the facts.
Hall interpreted that there may
have been a criminal act
involved and contacted the
County Attorney's Office after
speaking with Supt. Dr. Paul
Jonathan Belcher,
24, of Elkhorn
City, conferred
with public
defender Emma
Jones after his
arralgnement for
an alleged sexual
encounter with
two Allen Central
High School special education
students that he
met over the
Internet. ·
(See ARREST, page three)
photo by Tom Doty
T H E REASON
• In Friday's article
about the arrest of
Susan Moore and Billy
Jo Johnson, who are
accused of killing Bypro
resident Michael Ray
Slone, The limes incorrectly identified Margie
Slone as Michael
Slone's mother. It
should have identified
Louise Slone as his
mother and Margie
Slone as his grandmother.
Wife charged
with ·complicity
in shooting
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
AUXIER - A continuing investigation into a
shooting last year culminated Friday with the arrest of
the victim's wife.
Kentucky State Police
arrested Sheila Dotson, 49,
of Middle Fork Road, for
her alleged connection with
the shooting of her husband, Donald R. Dotson, on
July 20.
Dotson, charged with
complicity to commit murder and three counts of
intimidati,ng a witness, is
currently lodged in the
Floyd County Detention
3DAY FORECAST
Center, as is her brother,
Michael Lester, 44, of
Williamson, who was
charged with the crime last
year.
Donald R. Dotson was
injured by a gunshot while
visiting a friend's home at
Auxier Heights on July 20.
Charges against Lester
came mainly from statements given to authorities
by Clifford Glover, who
witnessed the shooting.
Glover and Dotson were
sitting on the front porch of
the residence when Dotson
left the porch to get a pack
of cigarettes out of his
(See SHOOTING, page three)
photo by Kathy J. Prater
With the morning as dark and dreary as the story of Christ's crucifixion, a band of local Christians participated in the annual "Crosswalk" event held each year on Good Friday. The group was led this year
by Pastor Paul Aiken, of The Tabernacle Church. Carrying the cross is David Hicks.
East Kentucky Network rated
among best places to work
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
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PRESTONSBURG - Once a
month, employees at East Kentucky
Network on Village Drive parade
around the office singing Aretha
Franklin's "Respect."
The ritual, designating the company's "Employee of the Month"
award, is just one of the reasons
CEO Laura Phipps says her company is the second most favored place
of employment in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Chamber of
Commerce and the Society for
Human Resource Management
made the designation this week, listing East Kentucky Network as second among 15 other medium-sized
businesses in the state and 20 larger
companies.
The business, a communications
company that offers Appalachian
Wireless, a fiberoptic network and
paging in 18 Eastern Kentucky
counties and two counties in
Virginia, is structured around the
belief that happy employees provide
excellent service, Phipps said.
That's why Phipps insists on creating an employee-friendly work
environment.
After the serenade, employees of
the month are treated to a privileged
parking space, a plaque, $50 and
lunch with a friend.
Annual employee awards are an
even "bigger treat," Phipps said.
"We have a wide open policy and
(See WORK, page three)
Woman who crashed
into judge seeks release
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
A former Nippa resident
serving a 12-year sentence
for charges stemming from
a 2003 car accident that left
a Johnson County judge
with serious injuries is ask. ing the court to grant her an
early release.
The
commonwealth
filed a motion Thursday
objecting
to
Anita
Kimbler's request for
shock probation.
Kimbler was arrested
following a January 2003
accident that sent Johnson
County Judge Daryl Sparks
to Cabell Huntington
Hospital with serious
injuries.
According to the police
report, Kimbler, who
allegedly had a can of beer
on her possession following the accident, pulled
onto U.S. 23 from Route
3224 in front of Sparks,
who was unable to stop his
vehicle in time to prevent
the collision.
Kimbler, whose car
ended up on its side, was
transported to Paul B . Hall
Regional Medical Center,
along with her husband,
who was also injured, the
(See MOTION, page three)
Judge denies Kinslow's latest request for release
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - Testimony
from the target of a murder-for-hire
case supporting the release of the
woman 'serving time for the crime
did not sway the court.
Circuit Judge John David Caudill
signed an order Thursday denying
shock probation for Cheryl Kinslow,
a former Eubank resident who tried
to hire an undercover officer with
the Floyd County Sheriff's Office to
murder her son-in-law, Danny Hart.
Hart told Caudill during a hearing
last month that he did not oppose
Kinslow's release.
Kinslow, incarcerated at the
Kentucky Correctional Institute for
Women in Shelby County, says she
has been "clearly and drastically"
shocked by her confinement in
prison.
She was sentenced to 15 years
after pleading guilty to criminal
solicitation to commit murder Aug.
20, the result of a plea bargain
arrangement in which the commonwealth dismissed a persistent felony
offender charge against her.
Kinslow, 58, must serve eight years
of the sentence before the remainder
will be probated for five years.
She argued that she can be a productive, law-abiding member of
society if she were released.
Caudill disagreed with Kinslow's
assertion, saying in the order that her
release would send a damaging message to the community.
"To grant probation in the case at
hand in which th~ defendant flought
(See KINSLOW, page three)
Cheryl
'Kinslow, seen
here during a
baptism ceremony at the
Floyd County
Detention
Center last
year, claims
she has
turned over a
new leaf.
photo by
Mary Music
�A2 · SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds and Ends
=:-::===========____::.-=-====-=-=--- - ' ' • NEW YORK - A British
prankster has surreptitiously
hung his own humorous artwork, some of them carrying an
anti-war message, in four major
1\lew York museums over the
last two weeks.
The man, who calls himself
"Banksy" on a Web site that displays his artwork, has pulled
similar stunts at the Louvre in
Paris and the Tate museum in
London, The New York Times
reported Thursday.
Photographs taken by an
accomplice showing Banksy
carrying a painting into a museum and sticking it to the wall
near other pieces of art are also
on displayed on a Web site.
Over the last two weeks, his
artwork has been found and
removed from the Museum of
Todav in· Historv
The Associated Press
Today is Easter Sunday,
March 27, the 86th day of 2005.
There are 279 days left in the
year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 27, 1977,
582 people were killed when a
KLM Boeing 747, attempting to
take off, crashed into a Pan Am
747 on the Canary Island of
Tenerife.
On this date:
• In 1513, Spanish explorer
Juan Ponce de Leon sighted
Florida.
• In 1625, Charles I ascended the English throne upon the
death of James I.
•
In 1794, President
Washington and Congress
authorized creation of the U.S.
Navy.
• In 1836, the first Mormon
temple was dedicated, m
Kirtland, Ohio.
• In 1917, the Seattle
Metropolitans became the first
U.S. team to win the Stanley
Cup as they defeated the
Montreal Canadiens.
•
In
1958,
Nikita
Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First
Secretary of the Communist
Party.
• In 1964, Alaska was
rocked by a powerful earthquake that killed 114 people.
• In 1968, Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to
orbit the earth, died in a plane
crash.
• In 1980, 137 workers died
when a North Sea floating oil
field platform, the "Alexander I.
Keilland ," capsized during a
storm.
• In 1998, the Food and
Drug Administration approved
the anti-impotence drug Viagra,
made by Pfizer.
Ten years ago: Former
President
Jimmy
Carter
announced he had brokered a
two-month cease-fire between
Sudan's Islamic government and
rebels. "Forrest Gump" won six
Academy Awards, including
best pi<;ture and a second consecutive Best Actor Oscar for
Tom Hanks; Jessica Lange won
Best Actress for "Blue Sky."
Five years ago: The
Supreme Court decided the federal governmen,t could deny
food stamps and other welfare
benefits to people who live permanently in the United States
but who are not citizens.
DaimlerChrysler
AG
announced it would buy 34 percent of Japan's Mitsubishi
Motors Corp.
One year ago: Nearly half
a million people surrounded
Taiwan's presidential office and
blocked major streets to protest
their country's disputed presiShizuka
dential
election.
Arakawa of Japan was the surprise winner at the world figure
skating
championships
m
Dortmund, Germany.
Today's Birthdays: Lord
Callaghan, former British prime
minister, is 93. Blues musician
Robert "Junior" Lockwood is
90. Former newspaper columnist Anthony Lewis is 78.
Dance company director Arthur
Mitchell is 71. Actor Julian
Glover is 70. Actor Jerry Lacy
is 69. Actor Austin Pendleton is
65. Actor Michael York is 63.
Rock musician Tony Banks
(Genesis) is 55. Actress Maria
Schneider is 53. Rock musician
Andrew Farriss (INXS) is 46.
Movie
director
Quentin
Tarantino is 42. Rock musician
Derrick McKenzie (Jamiroquai)
is 41. Actress Talisa Soto is 38.
Actress Pauley Perrette is 36.
Singer Mariah Carey is 35.
Rock musician Brendan Hill
(Blues Traveler) is 35. Actress
Elizabeth Mitchell is 35. Hiphop singer Fergie (Black Eyed
Peas) is 30. Actress Emily Ann
Lloyd is 22. Actress Taylor
Atelian is 10.
Thought for Today:
"Often the test of courage is not
to die but to live." - Vittorio
Alfieri, Italian dramatist (17491803).
Modem Art, the Metropolitan
Mu~eum of Art, the Brooklyn
Museum and the American
Museum of Natural History. '
He has been captured on
museum security cameras wearing a hat and a beard.
Banksy said he entered all
the museums during visttors'
hours. Asked how he was able to
avoid detection, he replied in an
e-mail exchange with the Times
arranged by an intermediary:
·"You just have to glue on a fake
beard and move with the times."
''I've wandered round a lot of
art galleries thinking, 'l could
have done that,' so it seemed
only right that l should try."
Banksy was quoted as saying.
"These galleries are just trophy
cabinets for a handful of millionaires. The public never has
any real say in what art they
see."
On March 16, authorities at
the Brooklyn Museum discovered and removed one of hts
paintings that depicted a colonial-era m!litary officer holding
a spray-paint can, with anti-wm
graffiti in the background.
Museum officials said the incidents did not raise security concerns and believe they have
enough guards and other monitoring systems.
Banksy, who refused to
reveal his real name, has sold
thousands of books of his artwork in Europe, where he has
also had successful gallery
shows.
• COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa
- Customers who used the bill
changing machine at Bluffs Run
Casino found they had bigger
payoffs than any gambling
device in the place.
That's because the machine
was spitting out hunareds
n~tead oftv.entie~.
"It went on for about six
hour5," sUJd the casino's finance
dtrector, Janae Sternberg. When
the machine was shut down, 1t
turned up $46,640 short.
State records say casino
employee Judith RoedererDillard - who has since been
fired - mistakenly placed the
$100 bills in the machine about
5 a.m. Dec. 18.
"You know, some of the
guests had figured out that there
was a malfunction and they
went back - over and over and
over," Sternberg testified at
Roederer-Dillard's unemployment-benefits hearing.
Casino
spokeswoman
Christie Scott said Thursday that
the casmo rcv1ewed surveillance
tapes to try to recover some of
the money but had little luck.
Administrative law judge
Teresa K. Hillary awarded
Roederer-Dillard full unemployment benefits, saying there
was no evidence of deliberate
misconduct.
• CANTON, Ohio - The
Canton Symphony Orchestra is
shedding its uptight image and some clothes - in a fundraising calendar.
"More Than You Expect
from an Orchestra" features 18
women from the symphony, its
staff, board members and supporters in several risque poses.
"We need to change the symphony's image, to get It away
from being stuffy," said Linda
Moorhouse, the symphony's
president and chief executive
who appears atop a piano in the
2005-2006 calendar in a shimmery purple outfit.
"People always think of
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• Continued from p1
Fan ning.
Hall also spoke with the
parents of the two students.
Tl.... discussion yielded
even more information
when one parent was able
to access internet chat
records, which revealed a
sexually suggestive and
~ detailed
conversation
between the girl and a man.
County Attorney Keith
Bartley passed on the
details to Sheriff John K.
Blackburn who worked
with Sgt. Steve Little to
investigate
the
matter.
They obtained enough evidence t~ search Belcher's
home and proceeded to
Pike County where they
executed the search alongside the Pike County
Sheriff's Department.
The resulting search got
them Belcher's computer
"' and they arrested Belcher,
who was living with his
parents .
Blackburn revealed that
Belcher made a complete
confession to Sgt. Little and
downplayed the charges,
saying, "I'm a good looking
boy and I can get any girl I
want."
Keith Bartley noted that
Hall should be commended
for her correct reading of
the situation, which was
gleaned · from
student
'f!, accounts which were not
forthcoming .
"She was really excellent on working on this
with our office," Bartley
said.
Bartley also noted that
the computer that was
recovered will give hi~
office a better knowledge
of Belcher's history which
may lead to further charges
being filed down the road.
"We took his computer
and he confirmed that he
was the only one who used
it and that he had been in
touch with a third party,"
Bartley said.
Bartley also hinted that
there may be more charges
leveled at Belcher after
Kentucky
State
Police
examines the contents of
the computer ' s hard drive.
Bartley issued a statement for area families , saying, "I think this case
should be a wake-up call to
all parents. Their children's safety must take priority over their right to privacy. I have no doubt that
there are numerous sexual
predators surfing the web
for their next victim. Don ' t
let it be your child."
Fanning also • praised
Principal Hall, saying,
"She took a very aggressi ve
posture toward getting to
the truth."
Fanning noted that he
couldn't discuss the issue
further since he dido 't want
to complicate the investigation.
Belcher appeared in district court Friday morning
for arraignment and was
given a $100,000 cash
bond. His preliminary hearing, to determine if the
case is waived to a grand
jury, was set for April 1.
• continued from p1
truck. Dotson was shot as he
walked around the edge of the
home. The bullet, which was
never recovered, entered his
upper back and exited h1s upper
chest.
Glover told authorities that
he saw a white truck parked on
the shoulder of the road next to
the four lane on Route 3. He
said he saw a man walk to the
back of the truck with what
appeared to be a rifle. The man,
he said, laid the gun across the
back of the truck , fired one
shot, then left the scene.
Glover also said that the
man, later identified as Lester,
was in court during a divorce
proceeding for Dotson and his
wife . Authorities connected
Lester
with
Dotson
at
Highlands Regional Medical
Center, according to testimony
given in the case, when Glover
identified the truck as one
belonging to Dotson's brother-
Motion
pol ice report says.
At the hospital, Johnson
County Chief Deputy Darrell
Preston reported that he found
six hydrocodone pills in
Kimbler's pocket (in a prescription pill bottle labeled under her
brother-in-Jaw's name) that was
filled that day with 27 of the
pills.
Initially arrested for driving
under the influence, seconddegree possession, and no insurance, Kimbler was indicted later
that month on two counts of
Harlan County gets $50,000 to
transform mines into off-road paradise
1i
by ROGER ALFORD
AssoCIATED PRESS
EVARTS - Tony Novick
leaned against his ATV on an
Appalachian ridge top, downing a lunch of beans and franks
and enjoying the view of a distant mountain shrouded by
clouds.
The New Lexington, Ohio,
man is one of a new breed of
tourists flooding into the moun-' tains to ride four-wheelers
across seemingly endless miles
of abandoned roads left behind
when mining companies pulled
out.
"What a great place,"
Novick said on the frrst day of a
four-day visit to the remote city
of Evarts in Harlan County.
"The views are incredible. I'm
enthused to beat heck."
Local leaders have developed a plan to tum the roads
that wind around steep ridges
and mountaintops into an offroad paradise. Now state offi,. cials have stepped forward with
a $50,000 federally funded
grant to help with the cost of
the initiative.
Darrell D. Brock Jr., head of
the Governor's Office for Local
Development, visited Harlan
County on Thursday to
announce the grant from the
Federal
Highway
Admini!Wfation' s recreational
trails prqgram.
Brock said the hope is that
the Harlan County tourism initiative will beef up an ailing
f coalfield economy.
Already, people from across
the nation are coming to Harlan
County to ride the rugged trails.
Some pull in trailers laden with
all-terrain vehicles. Others
favor brjlwny rock-crawling
machines.
"It's awesome," said Brock,
who went on a trail ride after
the check presentation. "You've
got views for miles in every
direction. It doesn't get any better than this."
Novick said he decided to
vacation in eastern Kentucky
4t after reading about the rocky,
rutted mountain roads in the
coalfields. He was one of about
30 people, some from as far
away as Illinois, eating lunch at
an
isolated
picnic
spot
Thursday afternoon.
"I like the steep trails,"
Novick said. "It's nice to get up
top and be able to see everywhere, for miles."
While many other places in
Kentucky frown on off-roaders,
Harlan County welcomes them,
said Judge-Executive Joe
~ Grieshop. He believes the
tourism potential could help
spark an economic revival in
the county where unemploy-
tains for 100 miles or more,
mentis rampant.
The grant will be used to linked through a network of
develop a trailhead and recre- abandoned surface mines.
ational vehicle parking area in
McLain said he foresees a
Evarts, the coal town closest to day when counties throughout
the mountaintop mines that are the mountain region join to prohome to most of the off-road mote off-road tourism. Already,
several other counties are conactivities.
"Our town is ATV-friendly," sidering following Harlan
said Benny Coleman, owner of County'~ lead.
an Evarts hardware store. "You
"We have views that rival
Smokey
Mountains,"
can ride your ATV through the the
McLain said. "The tourism
city and not be ticketed.
Coleman said the city coun- potential is incredible."
cil made sure of that by passing
Novick agrees .
"I know, the way this is
an ordinance a year ago to give
going, they're going to have to
ATV riders that freedom.
Preston McLain, president ·buil d more motels," he said .
of the ATV club Harlan County " When people find out about
Ridge Runners, said some of this place, they're going to
the eastern Kentucky back come , and they're going to
roads wind through the moun- come back."
27, 2005 • A3
in-law.
Lester, who voluntarily
turned himself in, said he "had
nothing to do" with the shootmg and named his mother and
girlfriend as his alibis. His case
was transferred to a grand jury
last year.
Sheila Dotson is scheduled
for arraignment on March 28.
• Continued from p1
a huge teamwork atmosphere,"
Phipps said. " We are good to our
employees. They like to come to
work, apparantly
Our
employees are happy with their
jobs. They work so closely with
customers in the community and
that's a reflection on the community. It's an economic
impact, not only from payroll
taxes, but also from vendors .
They want to stay in this com-
munity."
In additi on to special recognition ceremonies at the office
and communi ty involvement
incentives, the company's 72
employees receive excellent
benefits and competitive wages.
Positions are currently available, Phipps said.
For more information, visit '
the company's website at
www.ekn.com .
Kinslow
• Continued from p1
EKC shutting down
to hire someone to murder her
son in law would send a terrible,
negative message to the citizens
The corporation, a business
Times Staff Report
of the community," Caudill
program
that
recruitment
wrote.
HAZARD - A Hazard eco- opened in 1989, has helped
This was Kinslow's second
attempt for early release. Caudill nomic development agency that bring 27 new bus inesses to
denied the last motion for shock has brought business to area Eastern Kentucky since its
probation, which was filed by communities for the last 14 inception.
The organization is in the
Kinslow's husband, David, in years is closing its doors .
Tom Jones, executive direc- process of disposing of its
October.
tor for the East Kentucky office equipment and furnishCorporation, announced closure ings. The public is encouraged
to examine and bid on items
of the organization Tuesday.
"We are out of money to listed on EKC 's website,
com.
continue operations," he said. www.eastkentucky.
• Continued from p1
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Information Age,
or Stone Age?
There's no valid reason the votes of Kentucky state legislators should not be posted online.
Certainly the legislators would rather not have their votes
displayed on the Internet where every constituent with access
to a computer could see what they are doing in Frankfort. But
the fact that it might complicate legislators' existence is not
reason enough for limiting public access to important information.
The current system of requiring the public to telephone the
offices of the clerks of the state House or Senate to find out
how legislators voted is completely unacceptable in this
Internet age where so much information is readily available
to the public.
The legislature would seem to have acknowledged the
usefulness of the Internet already by having its Legislative
Research Commission post all of the bills introduced in sessions of the General Assembly on its website and then updating those bills as the session progresses. Surely, it would be
easy enough for LRC staff to add legislators' votes both in
committee and on the floor to the website each day. One can
only conclude that the information is not provided because
state legislators have decided that they don't want it to be
provided.
Just as they fattened their pension plan during this year's
legislative session, legislators appear to be putting their own
interests above those of the public by making it as difficult as
possible for the voters to see what they are doing.
What are they trying to hide?
- The Advocate-Messenger, Danville
GA$
-Rich j~_owry C o l u m n - - - - - - - - - - Poor-mouthing
the Bush budget
After baseball, President Bush's favorite
sport is beating up on the poor. Or so we are
told by critics of the new Bush budget. New
York Ttmes hyperventilator Paul Krugman
recently wrote, "It
may sound shrill to ·
describe President
Bush as someone
who takes food
from the mouths of
babes ..." then, of
course, went on to
so describe him.
Bush has not yet
been seen swiping
Gerbers
from
babies, nor does his
budget effectively
do the same.
Critics say Bush wants to deny food
stamps to 300,000 hungry people and child
care to another 300,000 deprived kids. These
charges are baldly oversimplified and rather
rich coming from the same people who
oppose extending the most successful antipoverty program in the past 30 years - the
19% welfare-reform law.
WIIAT?LOur
office~I
·is
outsouiced11
i;{) Jndis, too.'
belli;
- Felix Frankfurter
The administration's budget proposes
tightening up eligibility for food stamps by
restoring the pre-19% eligibility requirement.
The $36 billion a year spent on food stamps
would be reduced in 2006 by $57 miUion. If
this is class warfare, it's not exactly "shock
and awe."
Both food stamps and child-care spending
- which the administration wants to hold
steady - should properly be ..:onsidered
together with welfare reform and the effort to
renew it.
Food stamps itself
could use reform.
According to Robert
Rector of The Heritage
Foundation, half of foodstamp aid goes to recipients who have been on
the program for 85 years
or more. Of the aid that
goes to families, roughly
85 percent goes to singleparent homes. Adding a
work requirement to
food stamps for the ablel:xxlied could have the same catalytic effect as
the 19% welfare reform, which reduced
dependence, child poverty and out-of-wedlock births.
Congressional Republicar1s have wanted
to reauthorize and strengthen the 1996 welfare
reform for three years now, but Democrats
have blocked them. Notably, Republicans
have proposed spending $1 billion more over
the next five years on child care. By blocking
the bill, Democrats have therefore effectively
said "no" to $200 million of additional daycare spending every year for the past three
years. Who's keeping deprived kids off day
care now?
Welfare reform relates to child-care spending in another way. As the L9% reform
decreased dependence and the amount of
money spent on cash welfare benefits, more
funds could be redirected into child care.
According to a Heritage Foundation analysis,
federal and state spending on ,child care
increased from $32 billion in 19%,to $11 billion in 2002. 1\vo-thirds of the new spending
came from funds freed up by welfare reform.
Renewing welfare reform now is so necessary because the work requirements from
19% have become obsolete. States are no
longer required to do much to encourage
recipients to work. Meanwhile, very little has ~
been done to attack the welfare problem at its
root - single parenthood - by encouraging
marriage.
The 19% reform helped slow the rate of
out-of-wedlock births, suggesting more effort
here could have results. But realizing the
necessity of strengthening welfare reform
requires viewing the poor as more than a federal line item.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National
Review.
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Driving could
be different, but
could we?
ext. 31
There's a traffic engineer in Holland
who is clearly crazy, and it seems to be
catching. Hans Monderman is the engineer
and he is under the delusion that if you
treat people like adults, they'll act like
adults, even drivers. As anyone who has
ever driven more than 15 minutes in an
American
city can tell
you, that's
nonsense,
but that's
his
story
and
he's
sticking to
it.
When a
town in his
district
comes to
Mondennan, a traffic engineer in northern
Holland, for advice on how to make its
busy central area safer, this is what he tells
them: Remove the traffic lights and speed
signs, erase the center lines dividing the
streets, get rid of the speed bumps, bicycle
lanes and pedestrian crossings. Oh yes, the
sidewalks have to go too.
"All those signs are. saying to cars is
'This is your space, and we have organized
your behavio,r so that as long as you
behave this way, nothing can happen to
you,"' Mr. Monderman told The New year-and-a-half ago, Houston, Texas, put
in the first segment of a projected light rail
York Times. 'That is the wrong story."
What he believes should replace those system, 7.5 miles of it. In the first eight
rules is the concept of shared space. a months, they had 40 collisions between
street where drivers and pedestriano ill''·' trains and cars. Forty.
If that seems like a lot, it is.
bicycles are equals and depend on mutual
Sacramento, on a similarly situated line,
courtesy to get along together.
''This is social space," he said, pointing suffered only four car-train collisions durto one of his open squares, "So when ing a like period.
But are people in Houston taking a hard
Grandma is coming, you stop, because
that's what normal, courteous human look at their dtiving habits? No. They're
blaming the trains.
beings do. Weird, huh?"
What's weirder is that it seems to be
"Are you from America?" yelled a
working. He's been at this a while now and Houston driver at a New York Times
reports that there has never been a fatal reporter. "I'm from America, 49 years.
accident on one of his roads. Other ver- Here, you're taught as a kid that flashing
sions of his shared-space idea are being lights, arms come down - train's comtried in Spain, Denmark, Austria, Sweden ing."
and Britain, and the European Union is
Typical Texas thinking, if you call that
planning a Europe-wide study of the tech- thinking. The truth is, Houstonians are ternique.
rible drivers. Even without the trains, they
He doesn't claim that the system would produce an accident rate nearly twice the
work everywhere - big city downtown national average.
intersections might be too chaotic to let
"It's the general perception," said the
courtesy in - but it has worked in bustling chief executive of Houston's Metro.
town squares around Holland and he "People in the street, elected officials.
They say, 'What's wrong with Metro?
thinks it will work elsewhere.
It's a romantic concept but, as an Why is it blaming these motorists?' As if~
American driver, I'm skeptical. Bad dri- it's a God-given right in Houston to run
ving has become the rule rather than the red lights."
exception on American roads. The bad driMaybe it is. We should ask President
vers come in two flavors:
Bush about that. He's been to Houston and
• Clueless, tho.se who have only the he has chats with God fairly often.
vaguest notion of how to operate their
Wouldn't it be a kick to see Houston try
4,000-pound machines in traffic, and ...
out Monderman's ideas though? It would
• Homicidal, those who race from be like NASCAR with pedestrians. They
light to light, blowing their horns at every could sell tickets.
opportunity and treating other cars like
gates in a slalom race, sowething to be
Donald Kaul recently retired as
missed are narrowly as possible. When all Washington columnist for the "Des
else fails these yoyos, they will pull out a Moines Register." He has covered the
gun and call it road rage.
foolishness in our nation' capital for 29
Can you really trust these people with years, winning a number of modestly covGrandma?
eted awards along the way. Email him at~'
And then there's Houston, of course. A donold.kau/2@verizon.net.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
27' 2005 • AS
Faith Extra
•
'Purpose Driven' preacher spreads Bible 1n a post-MTV world
by GILLIAN FLACCUS
AssOCIATED PRESS
LAKE FOREST, Calif.
The Rev. R1ck Warren wrote his
best-selling "The Purpose
Driven Life" to save souls, but
even he was surprised when the
man suspected of shooting his
way out of an Atlanta courthouse heard God m his words
and sun·endered.
Warren's role in the Georgia
hostage drama earlier this
month illustrates just how effectively the charismattc preacher
has helped bring Christian evangelism to mainstream America.
After 22 years spent building
one of the nation's largest
megachurches in suburban
Orange County, Warren rocketed to fame in 2002 with his nofrills pnmer on what it takes to
be a Christian in the 21st century.
His book has sold 21 million
copies and made Warren an
instant celebrity, a standardbearer for a new generation of
evangelists who has caught the
attention of President Bush and
other national policy-makers.
With his well-trimmed goatee and spiked hair, Warren
seems more like a polished CEO
than a cheerleader for Jesus. He
speaks emphatically, peppering
his conversation with precise
statistics and one-liners.
Yet Warren, who wears
Hawaiian shirts and sandals
when he preaches, also tries to
keep things simple for his audience. He says he's just telling
timeless stories in a contemporary voice.
"When David said, 'The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want,' why did he say that?
Well, because David was a
shepherd," Warren says in an
interview at Saddleback Church,
a sprawling campus of manicured lawns, airy buildings and
vast parking lots.
"Today, I don't think it's any
less appropriate for the businessman to say, 'The Lord is my
CEO' or 'The Lord is my man-
ager.' You can't just assume terminology today is understandable. I work very hard at being a
translator."
He is quick to defend his
ministry from traditionalists
who say he commercializes
faith and makes salvation too
easy with simplified biblical
passages and one-line exhortations.
"I'm never going to deny
what I believe, but I've got to
say it in a way that makes sense
to the MTV generation in a postmodem world," Warren says.
"Traditional churches think I'm
changing the message, but all
I'm doing is changing the
method."
CAP's Rejoice Respite Program
sees positive change for caregivers
Everyone knows someone
who cares for a loved one. It
might be a neighbor caring for
an aging parent or a close relative who. without fail, takes care
of a disabled son or daughter. As
a nation, we are not only living
longer lives,
but we are
caring for our
loved ones for
a longer time
as
well.
According to
statistics from
the National
Family Caregivers Association
(NFCA), an estimated 54 million people make up the caregiver population nationwide.
Just what is a caregiver?
According to the NFCA, a caregiver is anyone who assists
another who is chronically ill,
~
Lifelong
caregiver
Lila
Beavers has cared for her
daughter, Jackie Caldwell,
who has cerebral palsy, for 34
years. It is with love and a
thankful heart that she continues to care for her daughter.
Respite worker Gertrude
Moore visits twice per month
to give Irene a chance to
catch up on shopping,
errands and personal time.
aged or disabled with everything
from going to the bathroom to
making
decisions
about
finances. For some caregivers it
can be emotionally draining,
watching a loved one on a daily
basis in a debilitating state. That
is why the
Christian
Appalachian
Project has
devoted the
month
of
March to the
caregiver.
" W e
wanted to show caregivers how
much we appreciate them,'' says
Christian Appalachian Project's
Rejoice
Respite
Program
Manager
Becky
McN~w.
"When I first came to Resptte, I
felt sorry for the person who
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that's fine because they need our
help as well - but there is
another person who needs our
prayers and help and that is the
caregiver."
To show appreciation and
support for the 62 caregivers
that receive respite twice monthly for five hours at a time, a WalMart gift card was given to a
random winner caregiver,
Franks Creek resident Lila
Beavers.
Not only did she receive a
gift card, but other caregivers
received what was the first edition of the REJOICE newsletter,
which will be drafted by Becky
each month. In it are caregiver
tips, recipes, an uplifting Bible
verse, and a featured article.
This month's featured article
(See CAP, page seven)
That method apparently paid
off for Ashley Smith, the young
mother taken hostage by sus- 1
pected courthouse shooter Brian •
Nichols. During her seven-hour
captivity, Smith read aloud from
the chapter on serving others in
"The Purpose Driven Life" and
later credited the passage with
softening her captor's heart.
Raised a Southern Baptist in
tiny Redwood Valley, population 500, Warren was fascinated
with the dynamics of church
growth as a seminary student in
the late 1970s.
The fourth-generation pastor
wrote letters to colleagues at the
100 biggest U.S. churches and
sifted through demographic data
for the perfect city in which to
launch his own megachurch.
He settled on Orange
County's Saddleback Valley
because, at the time his analysis
showed it was the fastest growing region in the nation's fastest
growing county. Along with San
Francisco, San 'Diego and
Seattle, it also had one of the
largest "unchurched" populations in the country, he says.
Warren says he sent out
15,000 hand-addressed invitations, but only 205 people
showed up at his first Easter service at a local high school. Only
five were regular churchgoers.
"It was like speaking at a
Kiwanis Club. I said, 'Open
your Bible' and nobody had a
Bible. I said, 'Let's sing a hymn'
and nobody knew the song,''
says Warren, now 50. "It was
exactly who I was going after the
unchurched
Southern
Californian. We really hit our
target."
In the 25 years since, Warren
has hit his target again and again
- and widened the mark far
beyond Southern California.
Nearly 22,000 people attend
Saddleback regularly and the
church has baptized 14,000 people in the past 10 years including 2,029 in 2004. The
Web site for Warren's book says
that it's been named the•fastest
growing Baptist church in history.
Starting in the 1990s, what
he calls his "national decade,''
Warren began expanding his
influence
beyond
Orange
County.
In an ever-widening circle,
Warren and his staff trained
more than 300,000 pastors in his
church-growth philosophy and
send a weekly e-newsletter, The
Ministry ToolBox, to 138,000
pastors worldwide. His first
book, 'The Purpose Driven
Church,'' published in 1995,
sold a half-million copies most to other preachers.
Today, Warren isn't shy
about using his newfound clout
to launch what he calls his min-
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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 p.m. 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.
Picking for
the American
Cancer Society
The Pike County Pickers
will
be
presenting
a
Bluegrass benefit show at the
Belfry Fire Department on
April 2, 2005 . The program is
being presented in support of
the
American
Cancer
Society's Relay for Life, and
all profits from the program
will go to the American
Cancer Society. The show
will begin at 6:00 p.m. and
will feature, Lost Mountain,
Blackberry
Jam,
Frank
Hammond and Old Time
Bluegrass, Swift River and
other
local
performers.
Anyone interested in participating in this event should
call Mike Morley, at (606)
631-1688 or (606) 432-5848.
Adoptive parent
Support group meeting
(A.S.K.) Adoption Support
for Kentucky is sponsoring a
up port group for adoptive
.and prospective adoptive pare nts . The meetings are held
on the 3rd Tuesday of each
month in Pike County at the
Department for Community
Based Services Office, 131
Summit Drive, Pikeville,k
KY 41501, from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. Childcare will not be
provided.
We have recently started a
second meeting. This meeting
I will be held on the 1st
Monday of each month in
Floyd
County
at
the
Department for Community
Based Services Office, 1009
North
Lake
Drive,
Prestonsburg, KY 41653,
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Childcare will not be provided.
For more information contact Dedra Slone, adoptive
parent liaison, Adoption
Support for Kentucky, 606432-4110, 606-422-7927 Cell, doslone@eastky.net
Special presentation
featuring a special Easter
play
An Easter play, "Back to
the Present," the events of the
past, present and future of
what was, is, and will be,
according to the Bible. Join
us Easter day, March 27th, at
Trimble Chapel at the junction of 23 & 80, at 11:00 a .m.
Bring family and friends.
Everyone welcome!
To be held Saturday, June 25.
For info., call Joe Hinchman
at 874-2821 or Marvin
Williamson llt 478-3310.
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.
HRMC Comm.
Calendar - March
Mar. 31 - Living Well with
Diabetes, Meeting Place
A&B, Highlands Medical
Office Bldg., 5-6 p.m.
For more information, call
886-7424.
Attention: BLHS Class of
'85
Worship/Youth center
There is now a Worship
Youth center in Old Allen,
that meets on Tuesdays, at 6
p.m. Women's Bible study
meets on Wednesdays, 2-6
p.m.
(youth).
Thursday
prayer meeting is held at 7
p.m. All meetings are free and
the center's sponsor is the
Daniels
Creek
Baptist
Fellowship Church of God,
pastor Henry Lewis. For more
information, contact Tina
Hall at 874-0544.
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.
Christ United
Methodist Church
March 27 - Sunday morning
worship service - Chancel
Choir will present Easter
Cantata "Behold the Lamb,"
at 11 a.m.
BLHS
High
School
Reunion
Classes of the 1930's,
1940's, 1950's and 1960's.
It's
been
20
years!
Reunion is being planned. If
you are a classmate, or if you
know of a classmate's whereabouts, please email addresses to Debbie Hall Parsons or
Gwen Cecil at: d_ochallparsons@charter.net.
Belfry Class of 1970
Is planning a mini-reunion
for May 28. Classmates will
be responsible for their own
meal.
Reservations are
required by May 1. Contact
Nancy Varney Bryan by calling 433-9200 or 433-0820.
You may also write to: P.O.
Box 101, Pikeville, KY
41502
or
email
to:
nbryan@setel.com. It's been
3 5 years, classmates, let's
have a little fun!
Big Sandy 4-H Club
Is seeking new members!
Do you like to have fun?
Meet new people? Help your
community? Then join our
club! For more info., contact
Chuck Stamper at 886-2668.
Basic Computer Training
To be taught by Ray
Tackett
at
the
Martin
Community Center, located
on Route 80, at Martin, on
March 18; and April 1, from
I :3 p .m. Cost- $7. This is an
8-week
training
series
designed for those who have
little or no experience using
computers. Space is limitedcall 886-2668 today to register!
D.A.V. Chap. 18
The Big Sandy Chapter 18,
Disabled American Veterans,
of Auxier, is looking for honorably discharged veterans to
join the Chapter, which meets
at the Auxier Fire Dept., on
the 1st and 3rd Fridays of
each month, at 6 p.m. Those
interested may bring their
DD214 and join the Chapter
and receive a D.A.V. ball cap.
Floyd Conoly Democ1 a tic
Women's Club
Meets the 2nd Monday of
each month at 6 p.m., at
Brenda's
Restaurant,
in
McDowell. All invited to attend.
Free Body Recall classes
Free Body Recall Exerc'ise
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.
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.
PARENTS!
Are you in need of child
care services? If so, contact
the
Big
Sandy
Area
Community Action Program,
Inc. The office is partnering
with Eastern Kentucky Child
Care Coalition. For more
information on how we can
help you, call Cheryl Endicott
at 886-1280, or toll free at
888-872-7227.
Also, if your child is currently enrolled in a child care
program, find out if your
provider is a member of the
STARS for KIDS NOW voluntary program for exceeding
licensing standards.
And, learn about how you
can stay home with your own
children and still earn an
income by caring for other
children. Find out more by
calling Cheryl Endicott at
886-1280, or 888-872-7227
(toll free).
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 re-employed, contact
Bill Little, Senior Community
Service
Employment
Program, Big Sandy Area
Development District, at 8862374. "Area Employers are
Looking for Dependable
Workers like YOU!"
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: I st/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.)
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
"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,
'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 7896515; Magoffin, call 3492217; Pike, call432-2775; and
in Lawrence, call 638-4067.
East-ern
KY
Regional
Office - 24-hour Helpline,
call 1-800-272-3900 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 forMS patients
and their caregivers.
•Overeater's Anonymous
(O.A.) - Meets each Monday,
at 3:30p.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 6:30 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.
• Domestic Violence Hotline
- 24-hour Crisis Line manned
by . Certified
Domestic
Violence counselors. Call
886-6025, or 1-800-6496605.
Remember, "Love
Doesn't Have to Hurt."
•Kentucky Baptist Homes
for Children - Free, confidential
assistance
for
unplanned pregnancy concerns. Talk with someone
who cares about you and your
baby. Call 1-800-928-5242.
•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 meet the 2nd
Thursday of each month, at
Pizza Hut, in Prestonsburg.
For more information, contact
Nelva Skaggs, adoptive parent
liaison, ·
at
Blueboy@ foothills .net.
•East Kentucky S.T.A.R.S.
Homeschoolers -Will hold
m
o
n
t
h
ly 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 7-8
p.m.,
in
the
Atrium
Conference Room, 2nd floor,
May
Tower,
Pike ville
Methodist Hospital. For more
info., contact Chris Cook at
606-433-1119 or christophercook@ hotmail.com.
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Canton in the Rust Belt," she
said. "We want people to know
we have a first-class orchestra
.and some pretty classy ladies,
oo."
Symphony supporter Roberta
Gordon proposed the idea after
~eeing the 2003 hit movie
'Calendar Girls," based on the
rue story of English society
adies' posing for a calendar to
aise money for a charity.
The symphony hopes to raise
50,000.
• HOBART, Australia - A
""1lagazine has offered a
;:,983 ,000 reward to anyone who
-an produce proof of the
"Tasmanian tiger - a dog-like,
-triped creature long believed to
e extinct.
The bounty could help solve
-one of Australia's most endurng mysteries," Garry Linnell,
-ditor of The Bulletin said
"Tuesday.
The last known Tasmanian
iger
also known as
asmanian wolf, or thylacine .jied in captivity in 1936, after
aving been hunted to the verge
f extinction by European setJers . Although it was once
ound across Australia, the ani-
mal's last stand was in the
southern island state of
Tasmania.
To cash in, Linnell said tiger
hunters must produce evidence
of a live and uninjured animal.
A panel of experts and conclusive DNA testing will then be
conducted.
State Environment Minister
Judy Jackson warned that
although the animal is presumed
extinct, it remains a protected
species under state law. She
ruled out issuing trapping permits for bounty hunters .
"We will not endorse programs that lack benefit and,
indeed, pose threats to other
species," Jackson said in
statement. "It's not lost on
Tasmanians that their history
has already borne the dramatic effects of a tiger bounty."
• MONTPELIER, Vt. Noah Nielsen's sneakers may
reek something awful, but that
stench has earned him some
cold, hard cash.
Nielsen, 10, beat six other
contestants from around the
country Tuesday in the 30th
annual National Odor-Eaters
Rotten Sneaker Contest. He won
a $500 savings bond, a. $100
check for new sneakers and a
supply of Odor-Eaters products.
The secret to his success?
"No socks, ever."
"The stank was from rubbing
my toes back and forth and making them sweaty," said Nielsen,
with his trophy in hand and two
golden sneakers hanging from
his neck.
Nielsen said he also played
soccer and baseball in the threeyear-old Adidas patched together with duct tape.
"Human feet shouldn't smell
that bad," said judge Bill Fraser.
Nielsen is a veteran of the
competition. Last year he was a
runner-up in the state event.
In the week leading up to this
year's contest, he refused to take
a bath. When his parents insisted, they found him with his feet
hanging out of the tub, his father
Peter Nielsen said.
• NAPLES, Fla. - A
woman has been sentenced to 30
days in jail for killing her neighbor's Chihuahua with a shotgun,
telling the dog's owner she was
horribly frightened by the pooch.
Wanda Ziglat, 49, of Golden
Gate, pleaded no contest
Tuesday to one felony count of
animal cruelty. Senior Judge
Jack Schoonover agreed to
withhold a formal finding of
guilt of the charge.
Ziglar was arrested July 31
after admitting she shot and
killed the dog, which belonged
to her then-neighbor, Marisol
Olegnichar. Ziglar told deputies
the Chihuahua repeatedly wandered into her yard.
She said in court that she
grabbed a shotgun and fired two
warning shots into the air to try
to scare off the dog.
"I was scared by the dog. It
came out from behind my
garbage can," said Ziglar.
The dog's owner told Ziglar
that she didn't believe her.
"There's no way a 2-pound
dog was going to scare you,"
Olegnichar said.
• LINDALE, Texas When Smith County Constable
Dennis Taylor got a call reporting a stolen house, his first question was, "Is it a trailer house,
ma'am?"
"No, it's a brick house," the
real estate company representative replied.
Board by board, shingle by come out of the house. It was
shingle, for nearly three months, the house."
thieves dismantled a three-bedroom brick house in this East
• APPLETON, Wis. - An
Texas town and carted it away officer investigating a robbery at
until only a pile of rubble was a store was checking outside for
left.
footprints in the snow when he
Authorities allege Brandon noticed a quarter.
Ray Parmer, 29, and Darrell
"He walked a little further
Patrick Maxfield, 44, both of and saw another coin, and then a
Tyler, took the house apart and little further he saw another
sold it for drugs, in plain view of one," Appleton Police Sgt. Pat
ev~ryone cruising by along
DeWall said Tuesday.
Lindale's main street.
Officers followed the trail
Taylor said the men worked south for four blocks, then
slowly and haphazardly in day- turned west for a block, with the
light, with no one questioning number of coins increasing as ~
their work, because everyone they proceeded - including a
assumed it was the work of two full roll of dimes at one point, he
large retail stores laying new said.
foundations nearby.
Eventually, they found sever"It's the strangest case I've al coins on the front porch of a
ever worked in my life," Taylor home.
said. "Everybody drove by and
Two of the home's residents
waved at them."
.were arrested.
Authorities also arrested
Among the items missing
Jesse Gino Vega, 36, who is from the store were nine cartons
accused of giving cash and of cigarettes and a $785 in bills
methamphetamine to the other and coins. DeWall said the burtwo men in exchange for the glars loaded the stolen rolls of
materials from the home.
coins into a milk crate before
Officers got "about five trail- they fled and speculated that
er loads of property that came some of the rolls started break- ~
out of that house," Taylor said, ing apart and the coins fell
then paused. "Well, it didn't through the slats.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
ARC works to promote tourism in Appalachia
by PAM RAMSEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, W.Va.
The Appalachwn Regional
Commission has helped states
throughout the mountainous
region build roads and other
infrastructure, and provide
thigh-speed access to the
Internet.
Now the agency is turning its
attention to another economic
development tool - tourism.
The commission has partnered with the National
Geographic Society to develop
a "geotourism" map promoting
an eclectic mix of more than
350 attractions reflecting the
diversity of the 13-state region.
Attractions include both the
mainstream and the obscure,
from the National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum in
Cooperstown, N.Y., to what's
ii}Jbilled as the oldest continuous
flea market in Ripley, Miss.
Also featured are Civil War
sites, museums, parks, hiking
trails, festivals, historic districts, spas and resorts, celebrity
birthplaces, prehistoric Indian
mounds and notable farms.
"This map delivers a taste of
Appalachia's distinctive culture
~I
and heritage to a wide audience,
exposing this 'undiscovered
national treasure' to many firsttime visitors." the ARC said in a
news release.
Anne Pope, co-chairwoman
of the ARC, said the goal is to
spur economic growth by drawing
tourist
dollars
to
Appalachia. The region covers
all of West Virginia and parts of
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,
Maryland, Mississippi, New
York, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and Virginia.
In a 2003 report, the ARC's
Tourism Council said tourism's
overall economic impact on
Appalachia was $29.1 billion
and the industry employed a
total 601,431 workers.
"This is just one of the greatest things to come up and the
fact that this is a federal-private
partnership is unique in itself,"
said Dana Lee Tatum, president
and CEO of the North Alabama
Tourism Association. "We think
it will make a marked difference
in the number of people who
travel to this region."
The ARC paid the National
Geographic Society $180,000
to develop the map. It is being
distributed as an insert in the
April issue of National
Geographic's Traveler magazine, which has about 900,000
subscribers. Tourism offices
throughout Appalachia will distribute another 300,000 copies.
The ARC also plans to make the
map available to schools,
libraries and civic groups.
An Internet version of the
map, which has information on
about 130 attractions, went
online
March
14
at
www .national geographic .com/a
ppalachia. It contains links to
both the individual attractions
and local tourism offices.
Additional attractions will be
added every three months.
"Being
on
National
Geographic's Web site is very
exciting to me. I'm delighted ....
In my experience working with
visitors, people love a map,"
said Jeanne Mozier, vice president of Travel Berkeley Springs
in West Virginia's Eastern
Panhandle.
Mozier said the map project
gives "high-end travelers" positive exposure to Appalachia.
Renda Morris, executive
director of the Beckley
Exhibition Coal Mine in southern West Virginia, said her
attraction's inclusion provides
Reffett attends New York Life
career development conference
PRESTONSBURG
Dexter D. Reffett has been
named a member of the 2005
Career
Development
Conference of New York Life
Insurance Company, the company
announced
recently.
Members of the Development
Conference are among the most
1'J, uccessful of New York Life's
newer sales force. Qualification
for this honorable recognition
has been a standard of excellence at New York Life since
Dexter Reffett
1994.
As a member of the Career
Development
Conference,
Reffett attended the event hosted in Dallas, Texas, beginning
Tuesday, March 8 and ending
Sunday, March 13.
Reffett has been a New York
Life agent since 2004, and is
associated with New York Life's
Kentucky General Office in
Louisville.
He has worked in the financial community in Prestonsburg
and surrounding counties for 22
years. Reffett graduated from
Prestonsburg High School,
Prestonsburg
Community
College with associate degrees
in both arts and sciences,
University of Kentucky with a
bachelor's degree in accounting,
Morehead State University with
a master's degree in business
administration, Louisiana State
University with .a graduate
degree in banking and completed the National Commercial
Lending
School
at
the
University of Oklahoma.
Reffett is a native of Floyd
County and has maintained a
residence here his entire life,
being the son of the late Elmer
and Ruby Jean Reffett. He has
one son, Adam Keith Reffett,
who attends Allen Central High
School.
New York Life Insurance
Company, a Fortune 100 company, is the largest mutual life
insurance company in the
United States and one of the
largest life insurers in the
world. Founded in 1845 and
headquartered in New York
City, New York Life and its
affiliates offer life insurance,
annuities and long-term care
insurance. New York Life
Investm~nt
Management,
LLC, a New York Life affiliate, provides institutional asset
management, retirement plan
services. Other New York Life
affiliates provide an array of
securities products and services, as well as institutional
and retail mutual funds.
For more information, visit
New York Life's Web site at
www.newyorklife .com.
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CAP
(f)
offers signs of caregiver.
burnout.
"What we want here at
Respite is to help caregivers
with the everyday stresses that
they, face," said Becky, who has
headed up the program since
August of 2003. "What we've
done with the newsletter is put
in tips for care giving, special
verses and other things within it
so that it could be an uplifting
tool
for
the
caregiver.
Sometimes if you just read
~something , it can uplift you. We
wanted to do something that
would help the caregiver understand that there is someone who
cares and knows what the caregiver is experiencing. "
Respite caregivers also
received a bookmark inscribed
with the verse "God Always
Gives Enough Strength for the
Next Step.''
When lifelong caregiver
Irene Merion received the
bookmark, she cried. "[The
verse] is so true," says the
~!;loyd County resident and
mother of Jackie Caldwell, who
has cerebral palsy and is nonverbal. Jackie, who is 34, has
enjoyed the Jove and care of her
mother Irene throughout her
who is
life. For Irene Jackie's sole caregiver - participating in the Respite program has meant more personal
free time, time to catch up on
needed errands. "[RespiteJ is
wonderful," she says of the 23year-old program that is in the
process of organizing support
_,&roups for caregivers. "I~ gives
!'me ttme to go get grocenes, go
to appointments and enjoy free,
relaxing time. Mostly though, it
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gives me time just to breathe
again."
Inspirational bookmarks and
the REJOICE newsletter are
just a couple of ways that
Respite is becoming more caregiver-oriented. Hopefully, more
change will occur in the future
when CAP will open a drop-off
center for Respite participants.
The facility will be located in a
residential home in either
Johnson or Floyd County.
"We have the vision and the
plan," said Becky. "Now all we
need is the money to run it, which,
hopefully, a donor will provide."
To participants like Irene,
the drop-off facility would be a
blessing. Jackie, who enjoys
outings, could conceivably stay
at the center and interact with
other indi victuals requiring care
while Irene takes a break.
"I'm looking forward to
such a place being built and I'm
excited that CAP is taking on
such a project," says hene.
With the trust that has been
built between Jackie and
Respite
worker
Gertrude
Moore, it is with a faithful heart
that Irene looks forward to such
a place.
"We'll have to just keep
looking forward and just pray,"
said Irene, with a smile in her
voice.
The
center's
in-house
Respite services would complement, not replace, the current
in-home care services currently
provided by Respite.
"We're adding on and
expanding,"
says
Becky.
"Hopefully this will give our
caregivers even more options
than ever before."
istry's "global decade."
"He's a person of extraordinary ability and could be the
CEO of a major organization.
He reinterprets the tradition and
he does so brilliantly," says
Edmund Gibbs, professor of
church growth at the Fuller
Seminary in Pasadena.
Warren's
emphasis
on
approachable Christianity is
reflected at Saddleback, where
worshippers can choose from
nearly two dozen services that
feature different styles of live
music, from heavy metal to reggae to hula. Pastors preach in Tshirts and hand out fill-in-theblank flashcards that dovetail
with the day's sermon.
"The Purpose Driven Life"
has the same feel' with each of
its 40 lessons divided into chapters on the "five eternal purposes." Each lesson consists of a
few simple pages of large type
liberally sprinkled with drawings, quote boxes and summaries of key points.
Each lesson ends with a
"point to ponder," a "verse to
remember" and a "question to
consider."
Donna Petit, a former Roman
Catholic who joined Saddleback
Church 11 years ago with her
husband, says the church and the
book have helped her fully
understand the biblical message
behind the Catholic liturgy for
the first time.
"Religion before didn't give
me the reality of who God can
be - that he can be sleeping,
eating, breathing," says Petit, a
37-year-old stay-at-home mom.
"Pastor Rick takes these huge
concepts and squishes them
down. And because of that, it's
doable, you know, I can trust
God for today."
an opportunity to "reach out
there and give our story of our
coal heritage."
"It means a lot for the exhibition coal mine, plus I think it's
good exposure for the city of
Beckley," Morris said.
Mary Ellen Walsh, a spokeswoman for New York's State
Development office, sa1d even a
big state that's already an cstab·
lished travel destination ''welcomes any opportunity to c;howcase its vacation attractions to
travelers from around the country and around the world."
Ellis visits
South
Korea
Navy Seaman Johnathan M.
Ellis, son of Ola and John Ellis,
of Garrett, recently made a
scheduled port visit to Pusan.
Republic of Korea, while
assigned to the aircraft carrier
USS Kitty Hawk, forward
deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.
Ellis and approximately
3,200 of his fellow shipmates
had a chance to sightsee, shop
and enjoy recreational activities,
as well as participate in other
cultural exchanges with the citizens of Pusan.
USS Kitty Hawk is America's
oldest active ship and the first of
the "super carriers," commissioned April 29, 1961. Ships like
USS Kitty Hawk deploy worldwide in support of United States
commitments, to respond to
global crises and to offer a
peacetime presence.
Ellis is a 2001 graduate of
Allen Central High School.
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Obituaries
John Henry
Shepherd
John Henry Shepherd, 75,
of Gunlock, died Wednesday,
March 23, 2005, at his residence.
Born June I, 1929, in
Magoffin County, he was the
son of the late Henry and
Della Shepherd.
He is survived by his wife,
El-l-a Arnett Shepherd.
Other survivors include
three
sons:
Matthew
Shepherd, Mark Shepherd,
and John Keith Shepherd, all
of Gunlock: four daughters:
Colleen
Salisbury
of
Hueysville, Sheila Mullins of
New York, Maudie Shepherd
of Gunlock. and Angeline
Slone of Garrett: a half-sister,
Frankie Prater of Gunlock; 15
grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild.
In addition to his parents,
he was preceded in death by
eight sisters : Lula Fleming,
Myrtle Shepherd, Maudie
Engleman, Bertha Shepherd,
Leora
Stephens,
Verna
Shepherd, Dora Lee Layne,
and Hazel Shepherd.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 26, at
11 a.m., at the Salt Lick
Community United Baptist
Church, in Hueysville, with
Carlos Beverly and Bethel
Bolen officiating.
Burial was in the Shepherd
Cemetery, in Gunlock. under
the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation was at the
church.
(Paid oblluary)
Bethel Mae Johnson
Hall
Bethel Mae Johnson Hall, 70,
of Hi Hat, d1ed Tuesday, March
22, 2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
Born January 29, 1935, in
Floyd County, she was the
daughter of the late Green and
Mary Bryant Johnson. She was a
homemaker.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Hi Hall.
Survivors include four sons:
Danny Hall and Teddy Hall, ,
both of Hi Hat, Dwayne Hall of ,
Prestonsburg, and Timothy Hall
of Drift; one daughter, Fanny
Hall of Hunter; three brothers:
Kermit Johnson of Miamisburg,
Ohio, Paul Johnson of West
Carlton, Ohio, and Milford
Johnson of Price; two sisters:
Ethel Little of Weeksbury, and
Grethel
Johnson
of
Elizabethtown; 11 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband,
and parents, she was preceded in
death by one son, Frank Hall;
and three brothers: Richard
Johnson, Dave Mullins, and
Johnny Johnson; and one SISter,
Alberta Johnson.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 25, at
noon, at the Little Nancy Old
Regular Baptist Church, in
Price, with ministers of the Old
Regular Baptist Church officiating.
Burial was in the Frazier
Family Cemetery, in Price ,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation was at the church.
(Pa1d obituary)
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FLOYD COUNTY
Truman Akers, 78 , of
Bevinsville , died Monday,
March 21 , at Central Baptist
Hospital, in Lexington. Funeral
services were conducted Friday,
March 25 , under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Ruth Ann Blackmore, 38, of
Ormond Beach, Florida, formerly of Floyd County, died
Wednesday, March 23 , at her
home. Funeral arrangements,
are under the direction of
Justice Funeral Home.
Julia Ann Boyd, 71 , of
Banner, died Sunday, March 20,
at Highlands Regional Medical
Center. Funeral services were
conducted Tuesday, March 22,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home.
Charles E. Chaffins, 67, of
Garrett, died Thursday, March
17, at Our Lady of the Way
Hospital, in Martin. He is survived by his wife, Sadie L.
Hicks Chaffins . Funeral services were conducted Sunday,
March 20·, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Ronald Craig (Tom) Dillion,
33 , of Dana, was dead on arrival
at Highlands Regional Medical
Center,
in
Prestonsburg,
Thursday, March 22. He is survived by his wife, Melissa
Keathley Dillion. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 26, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
March 19, at her residence.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 22, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Katherine Stratton, 97, of
Dayton, Ohio, formerly of
Floyd County, died Wednesday,
March 23, at Heartland of
Miamisburg,
Miamisburg,
Ohio. Funeral services will be
conducted Monday, March 23,
under the direction of Hall
Funeral Home.
Kaitlyn Nashae Tackett,
infant daughter of Stevie Joe
Tackett, and Franchesca Case,
both of Galveston, died Sunday,
March 20, at the CabellHuntington
Hospital
in
Huntington, West Virginia.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, March 24, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Dickie Davis (Paul Richard)
WaUace, 55, of Prestonsburg,
died Friday, March 18, at
Highlands Regional Medical
Center,
in
Prestonsburg.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, March 21, under
the direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Ersey Williams, 74, of
Bevinsville, died Sunday,
March 20, at the McDowell
Appalachian
Regional
Healthcare. Funeral services
were conducted Thursday,
March 24, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
KNOTICOUNTY
Orleen Castle Flanery, 77 , of
Martin, died Tuesday, March
15, at her residence. Funeral
services
were
conducted
Saturday, March 19, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Bethel Mae Johnson Hall,
70, of Hi Hat, died Tuesday,
March 22, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 25, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
Ray Hamilton Jr. , 66, of
Beaver, died Wednesday, March
23, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center, Prestonsburg.
He is survived by his wife,
Clozetta Crawford Hamilton.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 26, under
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
Opal Montana Howard, 70,
of Petersburg, Virginia, a native
of Emma, died Monday, March
21, at her residence. She is survived by her husband, MSG
Raymond Howard. Funeral services were conducted Thursday,
March 24 , under the direction
of Hall Funeral Home.
Woodrow "Nine Beard"
Jarrell , 79 , of Prestonsburg,
died Wednesday, March 23, at
the
Highlands
Regional
Medical Center. He is survived
by his wife, Janie Crum Jarrell.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 25, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
Ray Layne, 80, of Dema,
died Monday, March 21, at the
McDowell
Appalachian
Regional Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mary Slone
Layne. Funeral services were
held Friday, March 25, under
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
Pat Moore, 72, of Allen, died
Tuesday, March 22, at his residence. He is survived by his
wife , Helen Smith Moore.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, March 25, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home.
John Henry Shepherd, 75 , of
Gunlock , died Wednesday,
March 23, at his residence. He
is survived by his wife, Ella
Arnett Shepherd. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 26, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Slone,
79,
of
Mae
Wheelwright, died Saturday,
Mary Rose Amburgey, 57, of
Ironton, Ohio, formerly of
Pinetop, died Friday, March 18,
at King's Daughters Medical
Center, Ashland. Funeral services were conducted Monday,
March 21 , under the direction of
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home.
Chad Ronda! Caudill, 65, of
Richmond, Kentucky, formerly
of Knott County, died Sunday,
February 13, at his home.
Funeral services were conducted on Saturday, February 19,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home.
Clevinger. Funeral services
were held Thursday, March 10,
under the direction of Jardine
Funeral Home of Strongsville.
Ernest Coleman, 81, of
Pikeville, died Sunday, March
13, at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held at
noon Wednesday, March 16,
under the direction of Lucas &
Hall Funeral Home.
Melvin Collins Jr., 69, of
Ashcamp, died Friday, March
18, at Pikeville Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Shirley
Mullins
Collins.
Funeral services were held
Sunday, March 20, under the
direction of Bailey Funeral
home.
Jerry Dean Fuller, 45, of
Steele, died Wednesday, March
16, at his residence. Funeral services were held Sunday, March
20, under the direction of
Bailey Funeral Home.
Chester A. Gray, 74, of
Bellevue, Michigan, formerly
of Island Creek, has died .
Funerall services were held
Wednesday, March 23, under
the direction of Bellevue
Southgate Michigan Funeral
Home.
Lloyd
Greer,
90, of
Pikeville, died at 1202 a.m.
Friday, March 18, at Parkview
Nursing and Rehab Center.
Funeral services were held
Sunday, March 20, under the
direction of J.W. Call and Son
Funeral Home.
Opal Honaker, 85 , of
Simpsonville, a native of Stone,
died Thursday, March 17, at the
Friendship Manor Nursing
Home at Pewee Valley. Funeral
services were held Saturday,
March 19, under the direction
of Shannon Funeral Service.
Edna Wolford Hunt, 88 , of
Phelps, died Tuesday, March
22, at the South Williamson
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, March 26, under the
direction of Phelps Funeral
Services.
David Dwayne Mosley, 40,
of Carrie, died Monday, March
21 , the result of an accident. He
is survived by his wife, Angela
Sue Barber Mosley. Funeral
services were conducted Friday,
March 25, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home.
Denise Willis Hurley, 64, of
Majestic, died Friday, March
18, at the University of
Kentucky Medical Center,
Lexington. She is survived by
her husband, Roy Lee Hurley.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, March 22, under the
direction of R.S. Jones & Son
Funeral Home.
Ruby Stacy, 68, of Leburn,
died Sunday, March 20, at the
Hazard ARMC. She is survived
by her husband, William Stacy.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday, March 24, under
the direction of Hindman
Funeral Services.
Robbie Dwayne Lamb, 40,
of Stoney Point , North
Carolina, formerly of Pikeville,
died Friday, March 18, at his
home. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, March 22, under
the direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home.
Herma Taylor Watts, 88, of
Jacksonville, Florida, formerly
of Knott County, died Friday,
March 18, at St. Luke Hospital,
Jacksonville. Funeral services
were conducted Tuesday,
March 22, under the direction
of Hindman Funeral Services.
John Richard Maynard, 67,
of Belfry, died Tuesday, March
22, at Williamson Memorial
Hospital, Williamson, W.Va. He
is survived by his wife, Jeanne
Ann Maynard. Funeral services
were held Thursday, March 24,
under the direction of Hatfield
Funeral Home.
Roy W. Scott Sr., 89, of
Sugar Land, Texas, formerly of
Pikeville,
died
Monday,
February 28. He is survived by
his wife, Genora Roberts Scott.
A private memorial service will
be held at a later date.
Diana Lynn Sellards, 51, of
McAndrews, died Monday,
March 21 , in the emergency
room at South Williamson
Appalachian Regional Hospital.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, March 24, under the
direction of Rogers Funeral
Home.
Jerry Lynn Shields, 36, of
Pikeville, died Wednesday,
March 16, at his residence.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, March 19, under the
direction of the Lucas and Hall
Funeral Home.
Beatrice Belcher Thacker,
73 , of Mouthcard, died
21 , at
Monday, March
Wellmont Bristol Regional
Medical
Center,
Bristol,
Tennessee. Funeral services
were held at noon Thursday,
March 24, under the direction
of Bailey Funeral Home.
Leo Wolford, 75, of
Jamboree, died Saturday, March
19, at his home. He is survived
by his wife, Imogene Wolford.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, March 23 , under
the direction of R .S. Jones &
Son Funeral Home.
JOHNSON COUNTY
James Edward Adkins, 36, of
Johnson County, died Sunday,
March 21 , at Highlands
Regional Medical Center, in
Prestonsburg. Funeral services
were held Thursday, March 24,
under the direction of Phelps &
Son Funeral Home.
William T. Bradley, 87. of
Kenova, West Virginia, a Van
Lear native, died Thursday,
March 17, at St. Mary's Medical
Center in Huntington, West
Virginia. He is survived by his
wife, Dorothy Sparks Bradley.
Private graveside services were
held Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m.,
at the Ridgelawn Memorial Park
in Huntington, West Virginia,
under the direction of Rollins
Funeral Home of Kenova.
Melinda Ann Branham, 50, of
Boons Camp, died Friday, March
18, at Paul B. Hall Regional
Medical Center in Paintsville.
She is survived by her husband,
Randall Branham. Funeral services were held Tuesday, March
22, under the direction of the
Preston Funeral Home.
vices were conducted Friday,
March 18, under the direction
of
Chapman's
Mortuary,
Huntington , West Virginia.
George Daniels, 68, of
Boons Camp, died Sunday,
March 20, at his residence. He
is survived by his wife, Alice
Preston Daniels. Funeral services were held Wednesday,
March 23, under the direction
of Preston Funeral Home.
James Michael
"Mike"
Daniels, 42, of Boons Camp,
died Friday, March 18, at Paul
B. Hall Regional Medical
Center, in Paintsville. He is survived by his wife , Sharon L.
Webb Daniels. Funeral services
were held Sunday, March 20,
under the direction of JonesPreston Funeral Home .
Eileen Castle Easterday, 73,
of Wabash, Indiana, a Paintsville
native, died Friday, March 11, at
Miller's Merr)r Manor East, of
Wabash. Funeral services were
held Sunday, March 13 under the
direction of Grandstaff-Hentgen
Funeral Manchester Avenue
Chapel, Wabash.
Beulah Boggs Jordan, 77 , a
native of Blaine, died Tuesday,
March 22, at St. Joseph
Hospital, in Lexington. Funeral
services were held Friday,
March 25, under the direction
of the Wilson Funeral Home.
Lelah Combs Litteral, 77, of
Mobile, Alabama, formerly of
Paintsville, died March 15.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 19, under
the direction of Jones-Preston
Funeral Home.
Lillian L. Meade, 86 , of
Paintsville, died Wednesday,
March 23 , at her residence.
Funeral services were held
Friday, March 25, under the
direction of the Jone -Preston
Funeral Home.
Ray ' Prater' Stambaugh , 86,
died Saturday, March 19, at J .J.
Jordan Geriatric Center in
Louisa. Funeral services were
held Tuesday, March 22, under
the direction of the JonesPreston Funeral Home.
Funeral Home.
Kindle Joseph Jr., 59, of
Royalton, died Friday, March
18, at Paul B. Hall Medical
Center, Paintsville. He is survived by his wife, Anna Wilson
Joseph. Funeral services were
conducted Monday, March 21,
under the direction of Magoffin
County Funeral Home.
John Henry Shepherd, 75, of
Gunlock, died Wednesday,
March 23, at his residence. He
is survived by his wife, Ella
Arnett Shepherd. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 26, under the direction
of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home .
Dannie Ward, 50 , of
Salyersville, died Thursday,
March 17, at Cabell-Huntington
Hospital. Funeral services were
conducted Saturday, March 19,
under the direction of Magoffin
County Funeral Home.
MARTIN COUNTY
Sarah Linda Carter, 58, of
Beauty, died Thursday, March
17, at Rt. 40, Inez. She is survived by her husband, Homer
Carter. Funeral services were
conducted Sunday, March 20,
under
the
direction
of
Richmond-Callaham Funeral
Home .
Bobby Ray Chafin, 50, of
Salt Rock, West Virginia, a
Paintsville native, died Monday,
March 14, at St. Mary's
Medical Center. Funeral services were conducted Friday,
March 18, under the direction
of
Chapman's
Mortuary,
Huntington, West Virginia.
Homer Chafins, 71 , died
Monday, March 14. He is survived by his wife, Irene
Marcum. Funeral services were
held Thursday, March 17, at
Woodyard Chapel.
Grace Pinson Elkins Curry,
85, of Grundy, Va., a Martin
County native, died Thursday,
March 17, at Buchanan General
Hospital in Grundy. Funeral
services were held Sunday,
March 20, under the direction
of Shortridge-Ramey Funeral
Home Chapel.
MAGOFFIN COUNTY
Jay Wendell Allen, 46, of
Salyersville, died Thursday,
March 17, at the Paul B. Hall
Regional Medical Center, in
Paintsville. He is survived by
his wife, Debbie Cole Allen .
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 20, under the
direction
of
Salyersville
Funeral Home.
Grace Carpenter, 96, of
Paintsville, died Thursday,
March 17, at Community
Hospice Care Center in
Ashland. Funeral services were
held Sunday, March 20, under
the direction of the JonesPreston Funeral Home.
Sandy May Carpenter, 63 , of
Salyersville, died Friday, March
18, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center. She is survived
by her husband, George
Carpenter. Funeral services
were conducted Monday,
March 21 , under the direction
of Salyersville Funeral Home.
Bobby Ray Chafin , 50, of
Salt Rock , West Virginia, a
Paintsville native, died Monday,
March 14, at St. Mary ' s
Medical Center. Funeral ser-
Thelma Brown Coffee , 85 ,
of Salyersville, died Thursday,
March 17. Funeral services
were conducted, under the
direction of Magoffin County
Vivian M. Slone, 83, of Inez,
died Sunday, March 20, at her
residence . Funeral services
were conducted Wednesday,
March 23 , under the direction
of Richmond-Callaham ·Funeral
Home.
LAWRENCE COUNTY
Virginia Dye Borders. 68, of
Louisa, formerly of Jenkins,
died Wednesday, March 16, at..
the Three Rivers Medical
Center
emergency
room.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 20, under the
direction of Wilson Funeral
Home.
Lin Dale Marcum, 57, of
Louisa, died Wednesday, March
16, at his residence. Funeral services were conducted Saturday,
March 19, under the direction
of Richmond-Callaham Funeral
Home.
PIKE COUNTY
Jimmy "Hamp" Adkins, 48,
of Greasy Creek Road,
Shelbiana, died Sunday, March
20, at Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, March 23, under
the direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home of Pikeville.
Morgan Adkins , 89, of
Shelbiana, formerly of Wolfpit,
died Thursday, March 24, at
Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at
1 p.m. Sunday, March 27 , in the
Lucas & Hall Funeral Home
Chapel. Arrangements are
under direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home.
James Caldwell, 93, died
Wednesday, March 23 , at
Pikeville Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements, under
the direction of Lucas & Hall
Funeral Home.
Harold Dean Clevinger, 70,
of Strongsville, Ohio, formerly
of Pike County, died Monday,
March 7, in Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Anna
Gary Dean Miller, 56, a Pike
County native, died March 10,
at his residence in London . He
is survived by his wife, Blender
Goode Miller. Funeral services
were held Monday, March 14.
Elder Wallace Muncy, 75 , of
Hatfield, died Thursday, March
17, at Appalachian Regional
Hospital. Funeral services were
held Sunday, March 20, under
the direction of the Hatfield
Funeral Chapel.
lma Jean Newsome, 74, of
Pikeville, died Wednesday,
March 23 , at Pikeville Medical
Center. She is survived by her
husband,
Alvin
Buster
Newsome. Funeral services
were held Friday, March 25,
under the direction of J.W. Call
& Son Funeral Home.
Ellene Childers Ramey, 79,
of Little Beaver, Elkhorn City,
died Monday, March 21, at her
home. Funeral services were
held Thursday, March 24, iunder the direction of Bailey
Funeral Home.
In Loving Memory of
Adam Wright
September 12, 1977 - March 26, 2003
It's surprising how often I think of you- 24
hours a day. Sometimes I tum to speak to you and
realize you're not even there. t
I guess I hold you so close to my heart, your
smiles always light up my heart.
Sometimes I think I hear your voice, and I tum
to look for you.
Someday I know you will come back for me
and Daddy.
We miss and love you so much, and someday
we'll all be together, and you told me the last day
I saw you, not to cry-it broke your heart to see
me cry-and you'd be right back.
I'm still waiting for you-it took my heart out
of my body when you didn't come back to us.
Sadly missed by
MOM, DAD, JUSTIN & FAMILY
Loving and missing you always.
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Football all-star game
~moved to Papa John's
M~eld, Labonte test
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
LOUISVILLE - Due to the ongoing renovation at the University of
Kentucky's Commonwealth Stadium,
this year's Kentucky-Tennessee allstar football game had to be moved.
The game will be played June 17 at
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in
Louisville. Kickoff for the game has
been set for 7 p.m. Kentuckian Jimmie
Reed is again serving as the game
director.
The Kentucky All-Stars will be begin
practice on the UK campus June 12.
Last season, Danville standout
Charles Penix accounted for 130 yards
of the Kentucky team's offense and
scored the game-winning touchdown
as the visiting team from the Bluegrass
State beat host Tennessee, in Neyland
Stadium, 28-23.
Prestonsburg Blackcat Nicholas
Jamerson played in last year's
Kentucky-Tennessee all-star game,
seeing playing time on defense in the
secondary and on special teams.
• Mike Jackson is the new head
football coach at Pikeville High
School. Jackson comes to the Panther
~ football program from Oldham
County. Jackson guided Oldham
County to a 6-5 record during the 2004
season.
• After 10 years at the helm, Dave
Thomas is stepping down as Pikeville
High School boys' basketball coach.
In 1999, Thomas coached Pikeville to
the 15th Region title.
Thomas also coached baseball at
Pikeville.
SPARTA - Aerodynamic changes
that helped Jeremy Mayfield to a season-best 13th-place ~extel Cup Series
finish in Atlanta last week led to a possible season-changing breakthrough
during a test at Kentucky Spe~dway on
Thursday.
After closing out last season I Oth in
the 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup,
the No. 19 team averaged a 23rd-place
finish through the first three races of
the season while working with the new
Dodge Charger body and adjusted
spoiler height mandated by NASCAR.
IROQUOIS 98,
KNOTT COUNTY CENTRAL 72
IROQUOIS (26-4) - Wharton 812 4-6 23, Reed 1-2 2-4 5, Foster 0-1
0-0 0, Mathies 3-9 1-2 7, Hickman 3(See FALL, page two)
photo courtesy of
Kentucky
Speedway
Kentucky
native
Jeremy
Mayfield
(left) was
one of two
Cup drivers
to test at
Kentucky
Speedway
this past
week.
(See SPEEDWAY, page three)
Betsy Layne ·now looks to new leaders
photos by Drew
Bewley
All of a sudden
for Betsy Layne,
the future is
now. Left:
Junior Candice
Meade will
return next season as Betsy
Layne's lone
starter back
from 1his year's
15th Region title
team.
Below: Whitney
Tackett was one
of the Ladycats
who saw a considerable
amount of playIng time In a
reserve role.
TIMES STAFF REPORT
BOWLING GREEN - Fourteenth
Region Champion Knott County
Central had its dream season end
Thursday night in the first round of the
state tournament. Iroquois, Knott
County Central's opponent in the opening round, set the tone early and went
-,) on to beat the Lady Patriots 98-72,
eliminating the 14th Region champ.
Laquisha Wharton paced Iroquois
with 23 points. Tascha Gibson added
21 points and 10 rebounds. Adia
Mathies finished with 18 points and
12 rebounds.
The Lady Raiders set a record for
first half scoring, totaling 51 points
and another record for points in a
game, breaking a mark previously set
by Perry County Central back in 2002
when the Lady Commodores posted
88 points in a state tourney game.
~
Knott County Central held its own
early on, but a 13-2 Iroquois run in the
second quarter set the two teams apart.
After that run, Knott Central struggled
to keep the margin under double-digits.
University of Kentucky signee
Kasi Mullins-Galloway paced Knott
Central with a game-high 29 points.
I Kentucky Speechvay
When changes made for the Atlanta
race led to improved results, Mayfield
and his team· made a commitment to
further explore those changes by testing during the series off week.
"We started the season with a lot or
new Chargers and, with the new rules,
we got a couple of races into it and
thought, whoa, we need to rethink this
whole thing," Mayfield said. "We were
trying to do something a little bit different.
"We went in the direction we
thought we needed to go because we
Lady Patriots
fall to Iroquois
BETSY LAYNE - Sure, it's a
long way off, but when the Betsy
Layne Ladycats take the floor for
the first time in the 2005-06 season,
in late-fall, many players will
already have big-game and tournament experience behind them.
Take for instance, Candice
Meade. Betsy Layne's starting five
consisted of four seniors - Kim
Clark, Krista! Daniels, Kristen
Smith and Breann Akers. Meade, a
junior, joined the dther four seniors
in the Ladycat starting unit.
Meade's stats may not have been as
impressive as her senior teammates, but she more than held her
own. In the regional championship
win over then-defending champion
Pike County Central, Meade took
on the role of a solid all-around
pl;tyer, dishing out eight assists and
pulling down seven rebounds.
Meade was the only Betsy Layne
starter that wasn ' t named to the
15th Region All-Tournament. But
she was deserving of the honor.
Betsy Layne
Cassandra
Akers
acknowle.dged that the
junior forward had a key
role in the Ladycats
making it back to
Bowling Green and the
state tournament, saying,
"Candice Meade really
showed what she can do
in the (regional) championship game, seven
rebounds and eight
assists was a great performance."
As most all basketball
teams do,Betsy Layne had
to battle through more
than its share of foul trouble at various times'
throughout the 2004-05
season. In the regional tournament,
15th Region fans got a glimpse of
what's to come for Betsy Layne as
several reserve players that will no
doubt next season carry huge roles
with four players leaving the program.
" Nicole Spurlock, Whitney
Tackett, Becky Tackett and Kaitlin
Lawson coming
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in off the bench provided us with
steady play in the regional tournament. especially in the Belfry game
when our starters were in foul trouble." Akers added. ·'Those players
will have to be ready to step up for
us next season."
The Betsy Layne girls' basketball
Sullivan, Marshall,
Lamb headed to Pikeville
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PIKEVILLE - Top-notch recruits keep
gravitating to the Pikeville College program.
Head coach Jerry Mynatt recently picked up
three more new Bears as a trio of talented
Eastern Kentucky seniors signed to play college football .
Pikeville High's Josh Sullivan, Breathitt
County's Justin Lamb and Magoffin County's
Bradley Marshall have all signed to play football at Pikeville College. All three high school
seniors contributed to
their school's football
program's on both
offense and defense.
Sullivan is an offensive/defensive lineman, who went into the
2004 season ranked as
the top player in Class
A, Region 4, During
the 2004 campaign, he
Jerry Mynatt
proved the lofty preseason billing to be
true, often dominating opposing players.
After transferring from Perry County
Central to Breathitt County, it didn't take
Lamb long to fit into the Breathitt County
football program. Lamb was a top target for
Breathitt County senior quarterback Jacob
Hundley. On defense, Lamb played in the
Breathitt defensive secondary. Also headed to
the next level, Hundley has signed to play
football for Division I-AA member Eastern
Kentucky University.
Marshall was also a proven pass-catcher,
starring for Magoffin County.
Earlier this year, Prestonsburg's icholas
Jamerson and John Mark Stephens and
Belfry's Doug Howard all committed to play
football for the Bears next season. The
Pikeville College football program is now
loaded with Eastern Kentucky talent.
Mynatt, who came to Pike County from
East Tennessee State University, where he
served as an assistant coach of that school's
now-defunct football program. is now 12-9 in
two seasons at Pikeville.
Last season was the best football campaign
in Pikeville College history.
Mynatt's team opened the 2004 season on
a roll. winning its first five games. Pikeville
finished the 2004 season with an 8-3 overall
record. while going 8-2 in the Mid-South
Conference. The Bears ended the campaign
with a 24-7 win over Mid-South Conference
rival Campbellsville and finished 22nd in the
national
rankings.
The
win
over
Campbellsville was Pikeville's first.
Howard Gold Medal Winner
in Winter Special Olympics
(See LEADERS, page two)
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Cats advance to WNIT Semifinals
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
LEXINGTON
- Senior
guard/forward Sara Potts sank a
jumper from the left wing with 35
seconds remaining and nailed 4-of-4
critical free-throws in the final 15
seconds, as the Kentucky women's
basketball team rallied from a 14~ point second-half deficit to defeat
Xavier, 67-62, Thursday in Memorial
Coliseum. The Wildcats overcame a
halftime deficit for only the second
time this season. UK advances to the
semifinals of the Sportsview.tv
Women's
National
Invitation
Tournament Monday, March 28 vs.
West Virginia. Game time is 7 p.m.
EST in Memorial Coliseum.
Potts scored 29 of her 31 points in
the second half, one point shy of her
career-high 32 set in the Cats' (1815) last outing vs. Chattanooga. The
Wildcats scored the game's final 14
points, including 11 from Potts. The
senior, not wanting her Kentucky
career to. end, made 12-of-23 shots
from the field. Her 12 field goals
were a career high. Senior forward
Keiko Tate ended the game with six
rebounds.
With 17 seconds remaining in the
game and the Cats leading by only
one, 63-62, Xavier sharp shooter
Tara Boothe was picked off by senior
UK guard Danyelle Payne. Potts
came away with the loose ball and
was instantly fouled. She went on to
hit 4-of-4 clutch free thrO\;VS in the
final 15 seconds to seal the win.
Payne ended the game with 11 points
and three steals.
The UK senior class of Payne,
Potts and Tate combined for 44
points and 20 rebounds.
"Wow - what a game." UK Coach
Mickie DeMoss said. "I thought we
had a great comeback. The thing I
liked about what I saw tonight was
the fact that we never quit. We kept
believing that we could win the
game. Our seniors, I could see it in
their eyes. They weren't ready for
the season to be over. Our seniors
stepped up big. fhc whole team
(stepped up big), but I saw that will
in the three seniors. I'm very proud
of this win. It's a huge win for this
program."
After falling behind by their
largest deficit, 40-26, early in the
second half, the Wildcats began to
make a comeback to ignite a raucous
Memorial Coliseum crowd of 3 ,531.
A three-pointer by Potts at the 16:52
mark brought the Cats back into the
game at 43-34. Following a pair of
Xavier free-throws, Potts made
back-to-back baskets in under a
minute, including a resounding
three-pointer at the top of the key to
pull Kentucky to within six. 45-39 .
with 14:50 remaining in the game.
Despite numerous attempts by the
Musketeers (22-10) to hold off the
Wildcats, a jumper from the left
block by Tate kept UK within six (5 l 45) at the 11:37 mark. After another
basket by Potts, a UK block on the
other end resulted in a Potts basket to
pull the Cats to within four, 53-49.
with just over nine minutes left.
"I think their star player tak.inr
over (was the difference)," Xavier
Coach Kevin McGuff said. "Sara
Potts was outstanding the whole second half, especially down the stretch.
She made every huge shot that they
needed . She played a great game."
The Cats continued fighting as
Potts hit a jumper in the lane with
7:06 left to pull UK to within two.
55-53. Xavier's Suntana Granderson
hit a three to spark a 7-0 run and put
the Musketeers ahead 62-53 with
5:18 remaining. A three-pointer by
Potts brought UK to within three, 6259, with 3:241eft.Acrafty spin move
by Potts in the lane cut the deficit to
one, 62-61, with 2:30 to go. Xavier's
three-point attempt on the ensuing
possession went wide of the hoop .
The Wildcats overcame a
mediocre shooting performance ( 11 of-28) in the first half to shoot 50 per
cent ( 16-of-32) in the second period.
UK ended the game shooting 45 percent (27-of'-60). The Wildcats trailed
34-24 at halftime and managed to
shoot on!) 1C) 3 percent ( 11 -of 'l8)
(Sco: WNIT, page three)
Tyler Howard, the grandson of Aaron "Bud"
and Aileen Howard of Garrett, placed first in
the 50-meter snowshoe race in February
during the Special Olympics Winter
Olympics, held in Wausau, Wis. He also
received a silver medal for a second-place
finish in the 100-meter snowshoe race.
Tyler Howard is the son of Greg and
Cherrie Howard.
�82 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
27, 2005
Leaders·
-------------------------------program
wasn "t
without
unknowns heading into the
2004-05 season. The graduation
of seniors Whitney Lykens and
Tabitha Witt left a void. But the
collective mix of incoming
senior talent and underclass
players pushed ahead, leading
Betsy Layne to a second regional championship in three years.
In past off-seasons, Akers
has kept her team busy during
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Fall
• Continued from p1
the summer with various
games, some played as part of
camps. Look for the Ladycats
to hit the court early on this offseason as they prepare to
defend another regional title.
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7 0-0 7, Mathies 7-9 3-4 18,
Gibson 8-11 3-4 21, Hopper 2-4
1-2 5, Cordero 0-0 0-0 0,
Goodwin 1-3 0-0 2, Coomer 1-2
2-2 4. Summers 1-3 0-0 2,
Simmons 2-6 0-1 4. Totals 3769 16-25 98.
KNOTT COUNTY CENTRAL (30-4)-Slone 0-0 0-0 0,
Mosley 4-12 3-6 11, Conley 0-0
0-0 0, Johnson 4-18 0-0 lO,
Gibson 1-1 0-0 2, Faine 1-2 0-0
2, Hall 1-7 0-0 2, He. Martin 34 4-7 10, Thomas 0-1 0-0 0,
Mullins-Galloway 11-28 6-8 29,
Pratt 0-0 0-0 0, Ha. Martin 3-6
0-1 6, Fayne 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
28-79 13-22 72.
Halftime-Lou. Iroquois 51,
Knott Co. Central 40. 3-point
goals-Lou. Iroquois
8-17
(Wharton 3-5, Gibson 2-3, Reed
1-1, Mathies 1-1, Hickman 1-3,
Foster 0-1, Goodwin 0-1,
Mathies 0-2), Knott Co. Central
3-22 (Johnson 2-10, MullinsGalloway 1-5, Thomas 0-l,
Mosley 0-6). Fouled out-Hall,
He. Martin. Rebounds-Lou.
Iroquois 50 (Gibson 12), Knott
Co. Central 43 (Johnson 15).
Assists-Lou.
Iroquois
14
(Mathies 6), Knott Co. Central 7
(Mullins-Galloway 3). Total
fouls-Lou. Iroquois 19, Knott
Co. Central 20 . A-4,415.
Horses shipped to Florida
test positive for strangles
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - At least
four horses shipped from
Churchill Downs' Trackside
training facility to Florida have
tested positive for a bac.erial
infection, a Florida official said.
Dr. William Jeter, a Florida
agriculture department veterinarian, said Thursday the horses at
Palm Meadows training center in
Boynton Beach, Ha., were shipped
from Trackside on Jan. 18.
Another horse. the first diagnosed at Palm Meadows, was
moved from an unidentified
Kentucky farm and officials are
investigating whether it had
been stabled at Trackside.
The horses are among seven
trained by Dale Romans that
have tested positive for strangles at Palm Meadows. Horses
in three barns there have been
isolated from the general horse
population.
Horses in Romans' barn at
Trackside have been tested for
the disease and are under quarantine. In December, several of
Romans' horses came down with
strangles at Churchill Downs
photos by Drew Bewley
and were kept at the track after
the barns closed Dec. 31.
Romans was in the United
Arab Emirates for Saturday's $6
million Dubai World Cup and
could not be reached for comment. Calls to his Churchill
Downs barn went unanswered.
Strangles, a bacterial infection that can cause a horse's
lymph nodes to swell and rupture, can be fatal in extreme
cases, but most horses recover.
Two other Louisville-based
trainers said Thursday they had
isolated cases of strangles in
December, the first indication
that the disease may have spread
more widely than horsemen
originally thought.
Jimmy Baker said he moved
a seemingly healthy horse from
Churchill Downs to Trackside
on Dec. 13. Three days later the
horse became ill and subsequent
testing revealed it had strangles.
Baker said the horse stayed
in his Trackside barn and was
not taken out of its stall to walk
until every other horse in the
barn had been out for the day.
"We were just really careful," he said. "Any time anyone
went in and out of the stall, we
just washed our hands and shoes
with bleach. We were very lucky
to contain it."
Because of the incubation
period, Baker believes his horse
was infected at Churchill,
although he does not know how.
Baker said Churchill is handling
the matter "extremely vy~ll" and
stressed that horses witJ\.\strangles recover and race again. His
sick horse missed 40 tr'-ining
days but is back running. • t
Trainer David Vance said be
sent a filly from Churchill to a
clinic as a precaution in early
December when she started acting abnormally. She was diagnosed with strangles and spent a
month at the clinic before going
to a Lexington farm equipped to
handle such horses.
Vance said the filly "checked
clean twice" before she was sent
to his winter barn at Oaklawn
Park in Arkansas in early
February and bas bad no other
problems.
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27, 2005 • 83
Mountaineers no longer fit underdog label
by PETE HERRERA
PRESS
I' !=)SOCIATED
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Underdogs? Not the way West
Virginia keeps knocking out
some of college basketball's
heavyweights.
The
seventh-seeded
Mountaineers extended their
stunning run in the NCAA tournament with a 65-60 win over
Texas Tech in the regional semifinals Thursday night.
"We're not one of those powerhouses _ Duke or North
Carolina - yet," said guard
Patrick Beilein after the
Mountaineers' latest win over a
higher-seeded team. "We like
being under the radar. We just
got hot at the right time."
Just about everything is
going right for the Mountaineers
(24-10) in March. Next up is a
battle with Rick Pitino's
Louisville
Cardinals
in
Saturday's regional final. ·
The Cardinals (32-4) beat
No. 1 seed Washington 93-79 in
the other semifinal.
"They have great players. It
seems like everybody is a fullback or a power forward," West
Virginia guard Mike Gansey
'said.
The Mountaineers haven't
been intimidated by size or
seedings so far.
Once a bubble team and no
better than an eighth seed in the
Big East tournament, they beat
Creighton in the first round,
took out No.2 seed Wake Forest
in double overtime and knocked
Bob Knight and the Red Raiders
out of the NCAA with another
clutch,
down-to-the-finalminute win.
The Mountaineers are in a
regional final for the first time
since 1959- the year Jerry West
led them to the national championship game.
"It's just huge for our state
and huge for our program" said
Kevin Pittsnogle, whose two
free throws with 17.2 seconds
left sealed the Mountaineers'
sixth win in seven games.
"Thrilled. It's the best word I
can use to describe it for our
state, our university and especially our players," coach John
Beilein said.
Pittsnogle scored 22 points,
the final two coming from the
free-throw line to make it 64-60.
Before stepping up to the line,
Pittsnogle got a mental assist
from his coach.
"Coach told me to think
about my wife," said the recently married forward . "That kind
of cheered me up, and I didn't
think about anything else."
Beilein said he got the tip
from talking to sports psychologists.
"They always say to make
them feel relaxed and happy,"
Beilein said. "I said 'You have a
w·onderful wife and family.
Think about that while you're
out there."'
They needed something good
to think about after watching a
62-55 lead dwindle to two
points. The Mountaineers won
despite not scoring a field goal
over the last 3:54.
Pittsnogle
carried
the
Mountaineers down the stretch
and his 3-pointer with 6:10 left
put West Virginia ahead to stay
at 56-53.
But the Red Raiders (23-11),
battling for their first trip to the
round of eight, didn't go down
easily. A three-point play by
Jarrius Jackson and a layup by
Devonne Giles - his first points
since the opening minutes, cut
West Virginia's lead to 62-60
with 1: 17 left.
With the Mountaineers on
their heels, Pittsnogle bailed
them out. Jackson stole the ball
near midcourt and raced in for a
layup, but Pittsnogle blocked it
with 57 seconds remaining. In
the battle for the loose ball, the
Red Raiders got three offensive with 16 points, but had four of
rebounds and four shots, but all the Red Raiders' 16 turnovers.
The Mountaineers, who hit
missed.
"That's exactly how I nine 3s in the 111-105 doublethought the game would go," overtime win over Wake Forest
Knight said. "I did not think it in the second round, hit six of
was going to be easy at all to their first nine 3s in this one,
including four straight to take a~
score against them." .
The ball started to roll out of. 22-14 lead with 12:03 left in the
bounds near Texas Tech's bench first half. Gansey hit three and
and Beilein's son, Patrick, man- Beilein the other.
They were still up by seven
aged to save it and call a timeout
with 30.5 seconds left to set up when Beilein scored with 9:13
left, but the Mountaineers then
the free throws.
D 'or Fischer added a free went scoreless for nearly 7 minutes. But in the end, West
throw in the final seconds.
Knight, in his fourth season Virginia made enough plays and
at Texas Tech, was in the region- defensive stops to win.
Notes: Knight stayed at 45
al semifinals for the first time
since 1994 with Indiana, the NCAA tournament wins, two
school he coached to three behind John Wooden, who is
national titles before a messy third on the career list .... Giles
divorce in September 2000. and Pittsnogle turned the game's
Knight's 854 career wins are 25 first 4 112 minutes into a one-onshy of Dean Smith's NCAA one shootout. Giles had all 10 of
Division I men's basketball the Red Raiders' points over that
stretch and Pittsnogle scored the
record qf 879.
Ronald Ross led Texas Tech Mountaineers' first seven.
LC!uisville 93, Washington 79 Arizona 79,
by EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
•
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A great coach like Rick Pitino
can make a huge impact from
the bench. A pair of top-notch
guards like Nate Robinson and
Tre Simmons most definitely
cannot.
Pitino devised a plan to get
Washington's top scorers in
foul trouble and Louisville got
a combined 10 3-pointers from
Francisco Garcia and Taquan
Dean to defeat the Huskies 9379 in the NCAA regional semifmals Thursday night.
"They are a very good basketball team," an impressed
Washington coach Lorenzo
Romar .said. "They went out
and did what was needed to
win this ballgame."
Pitino's instruction to penetrate, then kick the ball out,
was a double-whammy for topseeded
shington (29-5). It
got the Huskies guards in foul
trouble, and also led to a total
of 11 3-pointers for the
Cardinals
(32-4),
who
improved to 24-1 this season
when they make at least seven
from long range.
"Coach said when I'm open,
please shoot the ball," Garcia
said. "I saw a couple of open
shots and I took them."
The Cardinals moved on to
Saturday's regional final against
West Virginia, which beat Bobby
Knight and Texas Tech 65-60.
They also ended the debate
about whether Washington really
deserved its top seeding or
Louisville got ripped off by
being given only a No.4.
"Urn, that's not something
we think about," forward Larry
O'Bannon said. "Coach tells
us, 'You've got to go out there
and play the game,' so we.ju~t
go out there and play."
Garcia, who finished with 23
points, made three 3-pointers
and had an assist as part of a 21- finished with 18 points, Roy
5 run to close the first half and had 15 and Will Conroy had 14
help Louisville to a 47-35 lead.
points and eight assists to keep
Through most of that the Huskies within reach.
stretch, Robinson and Simmons
But neutralizing the Huskies
were languishing on the bench guards was the key, and Pitino
with three fouls . Robinson deserves a tip of the hat for
picked up his third at the 8:51 that. Not only did the insidemark, and Simmons received outside strategy work, but the
up his third with 3:50 left.
veteran coach with 448 career
"It was weird," Washington wins and four trips to the Final
guard Brandon Roy said. "I Four also mercilessly worked
was playing, kind of going the officials over the first 9 112
through the motions, I looked minutes, while the Cardinals
at Coach and said, 'Why isn't were picking up six fouls.
Nate in there?' He said Nate
Louisville only committed
had three fouls. It was kind of two more the rest of the half
disappointing."
while both Simmons and
Robinson's only field goal Robinson - neither of them
of the night came off a steal normally foul prone - found
and dunk early in the second themselves on the bench.
half.
Shortly
afterward,
"We have a normal rotation
Washington's Hak.t<en Rollins and that was disrupted tonight,"
made back-to-back baskets to Romar said. "But give
pull the Huskies within 67-61 . Louisville credit. They put us in
But less than two minutes positions where we had to foul."
later, Garcia hit his fifth 3Thus ended a very nice run
pointer to make it 76-65 and for the Huskies, who won the
the Cardinals never let the lead Pac-10 tournament and surfall below double digits.
prised pretty much everyone but
"You wonder what it themselves when they picked
would've been like if they had- up their top seeding. This was
n't been making all the 3s," their first trip to the regional
Romar said. "But they've won sernifmals since 1998, but the
31 other times this year. I'm Huskies will have to wait to
sure there are 31 other teams make the Final Four; they
who have said that."
haven't been there since 1953.
Juan Palacios shot 6-for-11
Louisville, meanwhile, is
for 14 points and Ellis Myles seeking its eighth trip to -the
had eight points and 13 boards Final Four and its first since
to help Louisville finish wjth an 1986, when coach Denny
11-rebound advantage in the Crum and Pervis Ellison led
battle between teams not known the Cards to the national title.
for their inside presence.
Pitino was last there in 1997,
Robinson finished with when he coached Kentucky.
eight points - 0-for-5 from 3- He's one game away from
point range - and Simmon~ retlllJling in this, his fourth seawent 3-for-6 for 10 points.
., son with the Cardinals.
The guards, each averaging
"They're
'real
good,"
more than 16 points this sea- Conroy said. ''They dq a lot Qf
son, struggled mightily in the things in ~heir offense that kind
second half, unable to shake of expose what we do on
, either,, J,ouisriPe's 2~3 zone>.: . , defense. They did a good job of
defense or the effects ·of sitritig ,, ''D:lakirig shots. It's one thing to
on the bench for such a long shoot them:, it's another thin&
time earlier. Jamaal Williams to make them."
· · ·
!;
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• Cont(rued from p1
...
from the floor in the opening
period.
Kentucky led 6-5 early in
the game, but trailed the rest of
the half. Xavier went on an 8-0
run to quickly build a 13-6
advantage on the first of two
free-throws by Boothe. UK
was able to trim the
Musketeers' lead to four, 1814, at the 9:29 mark on three
consecutive baskets including a
shot in deep by Humphrey to
cap off a 4-0 Cats' run. Xavier
then went on a 10-2 run to
extend its edge to ·28-16 with
.
\
...
2:42 remaining' in the frrst'l1alf.
Boothe, who came into the
game averaging '3:~ .0 points pe~
game in postseason play,
scored a team-high 25 points to
lead the Musketeers. She also
added a team-high nine
rebounds.
Speedway
• Continued from p1
+,
only had a few days to get
ready for Atlanta. When we
improved, we said we were
going to test our butts off here
this week and really figure it
out. We hit on something today
that's going to be huge for us
the rest of the year. It will get
the aero balance back where it
needs to be. This is definitely
going to be the turning point of
our season."
He also hopes Thursday's
discovery helps to bring a longawaited close to the adjustment
period with the Dodge Charger.
"A lot of teams just had to
cut their spoiler off and go rae-
ing," Mayfield said. "We had a
new nose and a new spoiler,
basically, a whole new car.
That sets you back a little bit. It
hurt us for a couple weeks, but
it only took us two weeks to
figure out that we had a lot of
work to do. A lot teams might
fight it all year long.
"If you don't get back what
you had, somebody else will.
When that happens, it looks
like you can't drive because
you have less downforce and
less forward (bite). The balance
numbers aren't where you need
them. These guys driving well
at the beginning of the year
look like heroes. It's just that
they hit on a different path."
Joe Gibbs Racing driver
Bobby Labonte also tested
Thursday in an attempt to
rebound from the poor luck
that has plagued him in three of
the four series races.
After losing an engine in the
Daytona
500,
Labonte
rebounded with a 12th-place
finish in the second race of the
season in California. His resurgence was stopped cold when
his involvement in early-race
accidents in Las Vegas and
Atlanta caused his plummet to
37th in the series standings.
Oklahotna State 78
by RICK GANO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROSEMONT, lll.- Give the
ball to Salim Stoudamire and
get out of his way. That's what
Arizona did Thursday night.
Stoudamire hit an off-balance jumper from the left side
with 2.8 seconds left, sending
Arizona to a thrilling 79-78
victory over Oklahoma State
in the Chicago Regional semifmals and within one win of
the Final Four.
When John Lucas' lastditch attempt went off the rim
at the buzzer, the Wildcats had
another memorable victory
under coach Lute Olson.
Arizona (30-6) will meet
on
top-seeded
Illinois
Saturday for a trip to St. Louis.
The Illini (34-1) defeated
Wisconsin-Milwaukee 77-63
Thursday.
Stoudamire scored I 0 of his
19 points in the final 4:35 of
the game and the Wildcats shot
66 percent (31-of-47).
Scoreless in the second half
until six minutes remained,
Stoudamire drove for a basket and
then hit two NBA-range 3-pointers to getArizona within 76-75.
After a defensive stop,
Arizona's Channing Frye hit a
short jumper, putting the
Wildcats ahead 77-76 with a
minute to go.
Joey Graham, who led
Oklahoma State (26-7) with 26
points, then drove to the middle, lowered his shoulder and
dropped in a short shot from the
lane to give OSU its last lead at
78-77 with 18.8 seconds left.
· After a timeout, Stoudamire
waved his hand to clear out the
floor and then maneuvered
past Daniel Bobik and popped
in a jumper from the left side,
' putting the Wildcats up 79-78
with 2.8 seconds left.
"I knew when it came down
to crunch time I was going to
~tep up," Stoudamire said. "I
practice that shot everyday.
Coach is always on me about
going hard, I guess it paid off."
Arizona had a foul to give,
cutting the clock to 1.3 seconds, but the Cowboys still
managed to get off a decent
shot. But Lucas' attempt from
the corner hit the rim, denying
coach Eddie Sutton a second
straight trip to the Final Four.
"When I let it go, I thought
it was going in," Lucas said.
"When it hit the back of the
rim my heart just dropped.
This is my last time wearing
an Oklahoma State jersey. It's
just a real sad moment.
Olson is now 3-0 against
Sutton, his fellow 700-victory
club· member, but this was
their first meeting ever in the
NCAA tournament.
Saddled with two early
fouls, Stoudamire played just
10 first-half minutes, but when
the game seemed to be slipping away, he was there at the
end.
Hassan Adams also finished
with 19 points and had 10
rebounds for Arizona, and Frye
added 15 points and 10 boards.
Graham, who'd scored just
15 points total in his team's
first two tournament games,
was a different player
Thursday night, but it still
wasn't enough.
JamesOn Curry and Graham
hit back-to-hack 3-pointers and
the Cowboys overcame an
early seven-point second-half
deficit to lead 52-51.
But the persistent Adams
connected on his third 3-pointer and then followed up his
own miss on the second try to
put the Wildcats up 59-56, a
lead that went to five when
Frye hit a short jumper.
Graham hit a pair of 3pointers and Stephen Graham
made a three-point to give the
Cowboys a 69-65 lead.
Stoudarnire drove for a basket and after a 3-pointer by
Curry he answered with one
from NBA range, cutting the
Cowboys lead to 72-70 with
3:57 left.
Adams scored 10 first-half
points, took charge of the
Wildcats'
offense
with
Stoudamire on the bench with
two fouls and put Arizona up
at the break 41-38 by hitting a
3-pointer just before the
buzzer.
Arizona shot 70 percent in
the first half, making 16 of 23
shots and built an early 10point lead.
"We take great pride in our
defense,"
Sutton
said.
"Tonight, they just shot lights
out."
But with Stoudamire off the
floor earlier, the Cowboys
took off on an 11-3 run, tying
the game at 30-30 as Lucas
and Ivan McFarlin hit back-tohack three-point plays and
then taking a lead on two free
throws by Graham.
Stoudamire, who had five
3-pointers and 28 points in
second-round victory over
UAB, came out firing.
. He hit a pair of long-range
'3s,' banked in another basket
and the Wildcats also got three
field
goals
from
Ivan
Radenovic to jump out 21-11
eight minutes into the game.
Fife becomes
NCAA's youngest
hoops coach
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WAYNE, Ind. Forriler Indiana basketball star
Dane Fife became the nation's
youngest Division I coach when
he was hired by IndianaPurdue-Fort Wayne.
Fife, 25, was a catalyst on the
Hoosiers' Final Four team that
lost to Maryland in the 2002
NCAA championship game.
Fife takes over a program
that has struggled badly since
receiving approval to move up
from Division II in 2000.
Coach Doug Noll was fired in
January after going 40-119 in
more than five seasons with the
Mastodons, including a 3-13
record last season before his dismissal. He was replaced by Joe
Pechota, and IPFW finished 7-22.
Fife spent the last two seasons on Mike Davis' staff at
Indiana.
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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WILLIAMSBURG
Cumberland College's men and
women's golf teams recently
traveled to Daytona Beach,
Florida, to take place in the 15th
Annual Eagle Invitational. The
Patriot Ladies finished fifth out
of nine teams, and the men finished 12th out of 21 teams.
The women's team was led
by Jennifer Kieffer (Rockford,
ill.) who shot l iv, and landed
the 12th place spot out of 42
others. Behind her was senior
Trisha Price (Auburn, ill.) who
placed 23rd, and Katie Bowers
(Cadiz) coming in with a 25th
place finish. Elizabeth Bryant
(Irvine) placed 29th, a'ld
Shannon
Schottelkote
(Greenfield, Ohio) came in at
32nd place, respectively.
Cumberland's men .e ntered
two teams in the Eagle
Invitational, one slid into a 12th
place finish and the other came
in 20th out of 21 teams. Leading
the way for both Patriot teams
was Barron Davis (Big Stone
Gap, Va.) who finished 25th. Eric
King (Ferguson) putted a 153
landing him in 37th. Trailing
closely behind was Eddie
Parman (London) who shot a
155 and came up with a 49th
place finish. Anthony Savage
(Mount Vernon, Ohio) rounded
out the top 55 with his 54th place
finish. There were over 100 men
competing.
�84 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
27, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Jerry Kilgore named Food
City 500 Grand Marshall
TIMES STAFF REPORT
photos by Jamie Howell
This past week, Adams Middle visiting John M. Stumbo as the Floyd County grade school vol·
leyball season got underway.
BRISTOL, Tenn.
On
Sunday, April 3, former Virginia
Attorney
General
and
Republican
candidate
for
Governor Jerry Kilgore will
have the honor of saying the four
most famous words in motorsports - "Gentlemen, start your
engines," at the 2005 Food City
500 at Bristol Motor Speedway
Kilgore, a Gate City, Va.
native, was chosen by Food City
to be this year's Grand Marshal.
He will officially send the field
of 43 NASCAR Nextel Cup
Series drivers off for the start of
the Food City 5.00 at the
"World's Fastest Half-Mile" in
Bristol, Tenn.
"Jerry Kilgore is the perfect
choice for our 2005 Food City
500 Grand Marshal because of
his leadership in state government and he is dedicated to the
ideals of the people of the
Commonwealth of Virginia,"
said Steve Smith, chief executive
officer and president of K-VA-T
Food Stores Inc., Food City's
parent company headquartered
in Abingdon, Va. "Jerry h~s
worked hard to represent all of
Virginia but never forgetting his
roots in southwest Virginia.
Being a Scott County native he
understands our region and the
needs of his community."
"As a lifelong NASCAR fan
and a
native Southwest
Virginian, it is a tremendous
honor to be the Grand Marshal
of the Food City 500 ," said
Kilgore. "As I am saying the
four most famous words in
motorsports, I will say it with
great pride for all that this race
brings to this region."
Jerry Kilgore served as
Virginia's 42nd Attorney General
from January 2002 through
February 2005. Prior to his election as Attorney General, Kilgore
served as Secretary of Public
Safety for then Governor George
Allen. Kilgore also served on the
front lines of law enforcement as
both a State and Federal prosecutor. Kilgore received his law
degree from the Marshall-Wythe
School of Law at the College of
William & Mary in 1986 and is a~
graduate of University of
Virginia's College .at Wise (formerly Clinch Valley College of
the University of Virginia).
Kilgore, 43, is a partner with the
Richmond-based law firm of
Williams Mullen and is married
to a former public school teacher,
Marty Kilgore. The Kilgore's
have two young children, Klarke
and Kelsey.
The Food City 500 is the fifth
stop on the 36-race NASCAR
Nextel Cup Series schedule.
Kurt Busch is the defending
Food City 500 champion.
The green flag will wave at ~
1: 15 for the start of the Food
City 500 on Sunday, April 3.
The event will be televised live
on FOX.
11 Cup drivers to participate
in Sharpie Professional 250
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Allen Central beats MCA 2-1
TIMES STAFF REPORT
EASTERN - The Allen
Central Middle School Rebels
gained its second win Thursday
evening with consistent setting
by Koko Martin and Hannah
Howard and a strong attack
game hy Brittany Hodge,
Natalie Glime and Koko
Martin.
Mountain
Christian
Academy put up a strong effort
but their defensive effort was no
match for the Rebel serves and
power offense. Hodge served 17
times, committing only one
error and landing two aces.
Sasha Jones came off the bench
and had five serves and pound-
ing in two aces while committing
no
errors. Brittany
Johnson, Glime, Martin, and
Tiffany Clark skidded in one
ace each. Allen Central committed only seven serving errors
in 48 attempts for 85 percent.
The defense was not a high
point for the Rebels as they
committed 15 errors in 61
attempts for an average of 75
percent. However, Kimbo
Blevins committed two errors
in t)J attempts for 82 perct:;nt.
enabling the setters to run the
Allen Central offense. Jones
dug up five without an error
and Kristin Reed recorded si-">
digs with one error.
Martin and Hannah Howard
ran the offense twenty-two
times while committing three
errors and earning eight assists,
four assists each. Glime set up
Martin once. Hodge pounded
in three kills in six attempts for
a .333 attack percentage and a
.833 hitting percentage. Glime
slapped in two kills out of three
attempts for a kill ratio of .333
while hitting .667, and Martin
dropped in two for a kill percentage of .250 and a hit average of .750. Blevins also
smacked a kill for the night.
The Rebels are improving
with each match and travel to
South Floyd to take on the
Raiders April 4.
One phone called
changed Robertson's world
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla.- Fifteengame
winner
Jeriome
Robertson was relaxing at his
California home, nearing the
end or what should have been
an enjoyable offseason, when
the phone rang.
Houston Astros manager Jimy
Williams was on the line, and that
wa~n 't a good sign. Managers
don't usually call players at home
in January unless something significant 1s going on - usually,
something bad.
This was bad .
··1 remember it !Ike it was
yesterda:,- ," said Robertson.
who can recall every detail
from that January 2004 conversation. ··Basically I was told I
wasn't going to be in the rotalion.'"
Robertson, 27. has been trying to get back ever since.
The left bander bounced
from Houston to Triple-A
Buffalo to Cleveland and then
to Montreal's Triple-A team in
Edmonton last year. a slippery
' slope that left him without a job
in the offseason. fhc Cincinnati
Reds had a couple of openings
in their rotation. and offered
him a chance to compete on a
mmor league contract.
He got the locker vacated by
team cnptmn Barry Larkin,
who retired in the offseason.
He got a promise that the Reds
would give him a close look.
With a dozen days left
before the season opener.
Robertson is trying not to think
too much about whether he'll
be playing in Cincinnati or
Triple-A Louisv11lc next month.
"Nothing's been said," he
said. "If you start reading into
stuff too much. it doesn't do
you any good as a player."
The rotation has three fixtures:
opening day starter Paul Wilson,
left-bander Eric Milton and righthander Ramon Ortiz. TI1e leading
candidates for the last two spots
are
left-bander
Brandon
Claussen, who has no minor
league options left, and right-hander Aaron Harang. who went I 09 for the Reds last season.
Claussen has pitched well
this ~pring, posting a 2.08
earned run average in five
appearances. Harang has a 4.08
ERA in five games, while
Robertson is at 4.09 after five
games.
lt has come down to the last
two weeks of spring training,
something that's second nature
for Robertson. This time of the
year is always a fight.
He and Tim Redding were
competing for the final spot in
the Astros' rotation in 2003,
until Houston got nd of Shane
Reynolds and kept thc1~ both.
Robertson had a breakout season - 15-9 (the most wins by
an)' rookie in Astros history)
a'1d a 5 10 ERA in 31 sta1ts and
one relief appearance. He gave
up 23 homers and 180 hits in
160 2-3 innings.
The 15 wins were nice. but
the Astros were determined to
do better much better. They
brought in Andy Pettitte and
Roger Clemens in the offseason. prompting that unforgettable January phone call to
Robertson.
"Basically I was told I wasn "t going to he in the rotation
because of Pettitte and
Clemens,"' Robertson said. "It
was rough to handle after havmg a year in the big leagues.''
It kept getting rougher. The
Astros
:raded
him
to
Cleveland, which sent him to
the minors. He appeared in
eight games for the indians as a
reliever
an unaccustomed
role and got hit hard. Then,
he was dealt to Montreal
Now, he's just looking for a
chance to get back into a major
league rotation and show that his
rookie season - the one that went
into the Astros' record book wasn't a fluke. He'll have his
answer in a few more days ..
"You guys come up to us
asking where we stand," he
sJid. ·'ln this situation, I don't
think anybody knows.''
BRISTOL, Tenn. - The field
of drivers who will try to qualify for the Busch Series Sharpie
Professional 250 Saturday at
Bristol Motor Speedway has a
distinctive NASCAR NEXTEL
Cup flair as a total of 11 of the
series' pilots will do double duty
on race weekend.
Among the Cup drivers who
will be working on Saturday and
Sunday is Carl Edwards, who
just came off his first Cup win
last weekend at Atlanta. The
back-flip
loving
Edwards
already has found success at the
half-mile oval, having captured
the checkered flag in last
August's Craftsman Truck Series
race, the O'Rei1ly"200, Edwards'
only Cup start at BMS came last
August, where he finished 33rd.
Not surprisingly, seven of the
other 10 Cup drivers who will
compete
in
the
Sharpie
Professional 250 have recorded
wins in NASCAR Busch Series
action at Bristol. Kevin Harvick,
whose last Bristol Busch win
came in the spring of 2003, has
three wins. Matt Kenseth and
Michael Waltrip have two wins
apiece while Jeff Burton, Dale
Jarrett, Sterling Marlin and Jeff
Green each have one win.
Neither Jeremy Mayfield, Greg
Biffle nor Joe Nemechek have
found their way to Bristol's
Victory Lane yet.
The nuMber of NEXTEL
Cup drivers competing in the
Sharpie Professional 250 is no
surprise to Marlin.
"It's a good place to race a
couple of times in a weekend,"
he said. "It's always a fun race,
plenty of excitement and Bristol
always gets a really big crowd
in here for that race. The fans
get to see really some beating
and banging and a lot of action. ~J
It's a good one to watch and it's
not too hard on you to come
back after that one and race 500
laps the next day."
Other
former
winners
entered include David Green,
Steve Grissom, Jason Keller,
Jeff Fuller, Kenny Wallace and
Martin Truex, Jr. Those going
after their first Bristol wins
include Shane Hmiel, Randy
LaJoie, Justin Labonte and
Michel Jourdain, Jr.
Truex, Jr., is the defending
champion of the Sharpie ~
Professional 250 which takes the
green flag at 2:05 p.m. on Satuiday,
April2. Tickets for the race, as well
as Charter Communications Pole
Day on Friday, April 1, are still
available. Sharpie Professional\250
tickets costs begin at $45 while
tickets for Pole Day, which feature
Cup qualifying at 5:40 p.m., are
only $15.
Alabama drops out of
running for Hall of Fame
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLADEGA,
Ala.
Alabama has dropped out of the
race to be home to the
NASCAR Hall of Fame, leaving·
six other states in the running.
Alabama had proposed
building the NASCAR hall
between Birmingham and
Talladega, which is about 40
miles east of Alabama's most
populous city and home of the
International Motorsports Hall
of Fame
and
Talladega
Superspeedway.
The director of the Alabama
Development Office, Neal
Wade, said Alabama has withdrawn from consideration for
the project, which is expected to
cost the winning location a hefty
financial commitment.
"We've looked at it very
carefully. We think it's in our
best interest to focus on what we
already have," Wade said.
Others still in the running for
the Hall of Fame are Charlotte,
N.C.; Atlanta; Daytona Beach,
Fla.; Kansas City, Kan.; and the
states of Michigan and Virginia.
Ramsey Poston, NASCAR
managing director for corporate
communications, confirmed that
Alabama had withdrawn from
consideration for the project.
Wade said he feels it would be
in Alabama's best interest to focus
on the two major NASCAR races
at Talladega Superspeedway and
the state's four major automotive
manufacturers.
Local and state governments
in some areas have reportedly
committed as much as $60 million to $75 million to land the ~
Hall of Fame.
"This was something that
was going to take major corporate and government commitment to have any chance of succeeding," Wade said.
Alabama's bid was hurt
when Hall of Fame driver
Bobby Allison, a native of
Hueytown in . Birmingham's
western suburbs, came out in
support of locating the museum
in the Charlotte area.
Reds 3, Devil Rays 2 ·
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Hideo Nomo turned in his second consecutive solid performance for the Tampa Bay Devil
Rays on Thursday night in a 3-2
loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
Nomo allowed one run and
two hits in six innings. The
right-hander held Philadelphia
without an earned run last
Saturday, giving up only two
hits in four innings.
"I was able to bring the loca-
tion of the ball down in the
strike zone," said Nomo, who
struck out five and walked two.
"I think I'm doing pretty good."
Hours earlier, the Devil Rays
released left-hander Denny
Neagle, who ~as also trying to
revive his career.
"In my mind, I felt like I was
getting there," Neagle said. ·'But
again, I've been around long
enough to understand the ins and
outs of the game, and sometimes
situations just aren't a good match."
The Reds weren't much of a
match for Nomo, who allowed
just a two-out homer to J6e
Randa in the second.
Cincinnati starter Aaron
Harang also was solid in five
scoreless innings. Fellow righthander Ryan VVagner gave up
one run in the eighth, but earned
the win when the Reds scored
twice in the ninth off Lance
Carter.
~
Aubrey Huff had an RBI single for Tampa Bay.
Cincinnati has won four in a
row and seven of eight.
ON A DIAMOND NEAR YOU ...
Several area high r,chool
baseball and softball teams will
begin their respectiv~ seasons
this week. Some that don't
begin play this week will get
things going next week. More
on the 2005 high school baseball and softball seasons will
appear in Wednesday's edition.
�Sunday, March 27, 2005
Fealllre.~
F.ditor
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Happy ending doesn't change
~ ~W Jim Davidson • page B6
lid Click and Clack Talk Cars • page B6
' l~ck
of side air bags
see pg. 86
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Women in History
This Town,
That World
Maxine S. Bierman
Editor's .Vote: For )'em:~. Fiord
Coun~)' Times founder and j01·iner
publisber ,\annan AllenuTote a u·eek1)' column/bat looked at Fiord Count]·
- tbrougb bis eres. His coluimzs are ·
being reprinted due to request.
NATURE DOES HER BEST
Black and green form the
springt1me color scheme in this
county. Blackened hillsides
burned as the result of carelessn e s s ,
sometimes
by uncaringness~ a
Big Sandy
black from
coal dust.
Nature,
abused so
cruelly and
so often,
Norman Allen
c o m e s
back
for
more with its annual contribution
of green, in a valiant effort to hide
at least part of what man has done.
MOVIES FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
'House of
1,000
Corpses'
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
fortitude that all mountain women possess." So, in essence, in choosing to
honor Jenny Wiley, she chooses to
honor all Appalachian women.
Born January 3. 1929, Maxine is the
daughter of the late Dennis and Celia
Patrick Selvage
On December 25.
1949. she was married to George
Randolph Watson Jr. The couple had
two children. Sharon LaNe!! Watson
Bingham, a former Floyd County
school teacher, now deceased, and
Karen Lee Watson Bingham, the owner
of child care center, Karen's Kare,
The sequel to
this film, "The
Devil's Rejects,"
is scheduled to
invade area theaters this summer
so the Lagoon
thought it would
be an appropriate
time to take a
Tom Dotv
look
Rob
Stan Writer
Zombie's debut
which
feature
caused quite a stir when Universal
Pictures decided not to release it
(eventually Lion's Gate Pictures took
the plunge). At the time it was
rumored that Universal deemed the
film too gory, but it turned out that
Zombie had fashioned a film that
relies on style over gore for its scares.
and succeeds admirably.
The real problem was that the film
spent more time exploring its homfic
villains than its heroes who, in the
film's only weakness, are just victims
in waiting throughout the course of
the movie. This approach probably
bothered the execs at Universal even
more than the gore quotient since it
makes the film appear to favor its villains.
Zombie's love of horror films ts
apparent from the outset as the film
opens with a television broadcast by a
late-night horror movie host called Dr.
Wolfenstein. The show is interrupted
by a commercial for Captain
Spalding's horror themed roadside
attraction stand, which boasts a mur-.
der ride and tasty fried chicken, and
the action segues to that location.
Spalding is an imposing figure
who dresses as a clown and has all of
the charm of a rattlesnake. Two thugs
charge into his store to rob the premises and quickly realize that they have
made a big mistake. Spalding barely
has time to mop up afterwards before
the film's antagonists show up for a
tour.
The two couples who show up are
on a tour of bizarre roadside attractions. Their idea is to write a book on
the subject but it is readily apparent
(See WOMEN, page six)
(See LAGOON, page six)
Maxine,
with
Mr.
Arville
Wheeler, author of "The Legend
of Jenny Wiley," at the first
Jenny Wiley Festival, held in
October, 1982.
MY FRIEND!
Paul
C.
Linkous,
of
Wheelwright, again takes time to
write a friendly note to accompany his renewal to this publication.
After reading it. I feel a little
guilty about charging the guy for
his paper. He writes:
"While we have many things in
Floyd County that could and
should be improved, your paper is
not one of them. It is about the
best edited and comprehensive
coverage of news of any weekly
paper I have seen. It's a pity your
fishing falls sl1ort of your editorial
ability. On the other hand, if it did
not, fish would be but a memory
for other fishermen."
Life is beautiful. sometimes,
isn't it?
The dedication of a monument honoring the Jenny Wiley
Festival. Shown, from left to right, are: Miss Jenny Wiley
1987, Erica Turner; Maxine S. Bierman, Gregory Stumbo,
Mr. Stumbo's daughter, and Ann Latta, then mayor of
Prestonsburg.
photo by Kathy J. Prater
Maxine today, at home on a recent afternoon enjoying
looking at photos of some of the first Jenny Wiley
Festivals and sharing her memories of those pleasant,
and hectic, days.
~
Maxine Bierman·
Founder, Jenny Wiley Festival
LIGHTLY DOES IT
The Jefferson Reporter at
Buechel, Ky., recently printed this
diet that has been making the
rounds, and we pass it on to folks
like yours truly, who don't diet,
anyhow:
MONDAY -Breakfast: Weak
tea; Lunch: One bouillon cube in
one-half cup diluted water:
Dinner: One pigeon thigh; three
ounces prune juice (gargle only).
TUESDAY- Breakfast:
Scraped crumbs from burned
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDITOR
Born in the very shadows of the
place where Jenny Wiley escaped from
her Indian captors, near East Point, on
the Floyd-Johnson County line,
Maxine remembers that as a young girl,
her mother allowed her to borrow an
ancient copy of the story of Jenny
Wiley's life from an elderly neighbor.
Little did she know then that one
day she would be moved to co-found
the City of Prestonsburg's Jenny Wiley
Festival.
For years, Maxine had the idea in
her mind to honor the young white
woman who was held captive for so
many years by a tribe of savage Indians
and who watched in silent desperation
as her brother and five of her own children were ki lied at their hands.
Maxine says that she has long honored and held in the highest regard "the
spirit of Jenny Wiley." In her own
words, taken from a speech that she
presented at the very first Jenny Wiley
Festival, in 1982, Maxine says that
Jenny Wiley "represents the will and
(See THIS TOWN, page six)
Will she ever smile again?
~
by ANA WEHIPEIHANA
FROM "CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE NURSE'S SOUL"
~
I stare quietly at the purple, swollen little face
that lies in sharp contrast to the crisp whiteness
of the pillow. Her eyes are closed. She lies
sleeping. As I silently tend to her care, I despair
that she might never smile again, let alone laugh
and run with friends.
Her world has been shattered, violently beaten by a person whose job it should have been to
love and protect her. Her innocence is lost. For
four days she lays quietly in this hospital bed,
not speaking, not moving, just silently watching
those around her. Her mother sleeps on the
makeshift bed beside her.
Satisfied that she is resting comfortably, I
move to leave, when her eyes flicker open. Two
sad, little brown slits appear. and her gaze moves
about the room, coming to rest on me. She says
nothing, just silently watches. I greet her by
name and remind her of mine, then chat quietly
with her about the beautiful day that lies outside
her darkened room. As I have for the last four
days, I make little jokes and chat happily about
different things as I tend to her. Keeping eye contact with her, I smile and carry on with the conversation. not really expecting her to reply.
I am aware that outside this room my many
other responsibilities pile up. The ward is
extremely busy. and I have other children and
families in my care. I should be moving on, but
I am drawn to this silent, sad little girl and her
unspoken needs.
Quietly, I begin to bathe her eyes and motionless face, hoping to soothe and heal more than
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just the swollen and discolored flesh. Eventually
·time moves on. and I explain to her that I need
to go, but that I will be back shortly to see her. I
make sure she can reach her bell and explain to
her that she can ring it if she wants me
for anything before I return. I share
a last little joke with her about the
kitten I know she has at home
and turn to put away my equipment.
Then 1 hear it. I slowly turn
back to her. What was that
sound? Had it come from her? I
find it hard to believe my own
cars. but there again she gives a
tiny, almost inaudible ... giggle.
I stand in shock as her remaining
crooked little teeth appear in the tiniest, most
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"What's your name again?" she whispers.
· Quietly, I sit down beside her and take her
hand. I whisper my name.
"Will you be my nurse tomorrow?"
I smile and tell her I would really
love that. Happy with my answer,
she settles back down on her pillow and dozes back off to sleep.
As I watch her, I notice her
face seems softer, more peaceful somehow. A tiny smile still
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MARCH
27, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Jim ~I)avidson
A true American success story
There is a man and his wife
who live in Columbia, Mo., who
have become a true American
success story. Harry and Lina
Berrier have been producing a
fantastic barbecue sauce in their
basement for over
25 years and selling
it in large quantity
all over the country.
However,
that's
only half the story.
Several months
ago I was on a
flight
into
Baltimore, Md.,
and had a very
pleasant
young
lady as a seatmate
who was also from
Columbia, Mo. As we talked, I
told her about our "Project: Give
Back" campaign to improve literacy across the country and she
then told me about the Berriers,
who are also in the mode of giving back.
From 1948 until his retirement in 1983, Dr. Harry Berrier
was a veterinary pathologist at
the University of Missouri. He
also founded the American
Society for Veterinary Clinical
Pathology,
which today has
more than 400
members in the
United States
and 15 foreign
countries.
That's
the
professional
side of this fantastic gentleman, but his real
passion is his
basement business of making barbecue sauce,
which began almost by chance.
As he says, "I couldn't f~..qd a barbecue sauce fit to eat and so I
started making my own."
More than 30 years ago,
Harry, who has a knack for
unusual kitchen concoctions,
started making a bowl of sauce
for every meal. He ''-'oold share it
with friends who came over for
dinner and soon everyone he
knew was raving about the
sauce. In 1975, the recipe was
patented and a small business
was born. In the beginning,
Harry made the sauce in his
kitchen in a small mixer. He
quickly had to move the operation downstairs, and now it is one
of only a few basementapproved operations by the
Missouri Department of Health.
Since Missouri is known as
"The Show-Me State," he was
fortunate enough to secure the
patent as the "Show-Me" barbecue sauce. His sauce is made in a
40-gallon mixer and pumped into
four 55-gallon tanks for bottling.
Because he was a veterinarillJl
by profession, it was easy to take
his knowledge of science and
apply it to the fme. art of making
.
barbecue sauce. While Harry is
the one who gets all the glory for
the creation of the sauce, it is his
wife Lina, who really controls
the business. Not only does she
do all the weekly ordering, she
keeps the books straight, trains
new employees and spends nearly all of her free time bottling
sauce. She is also a professional
in her own right. For many years
she served as a piano and voice
instructor at Stephens College.
The business has grown
steadily over the years. It has
now reached the point where
each year it earns over twice
what Harry ever made teaching.
Several years ago they made the
decision to remain small and
only produce the amount of
sauce they could personally ha,ndle. This means they have turned
down orders for as many as 500
cases from large chain stores.
What's so ironic is they have
never spent a dime for advertising. They sell about 480 gallons
a week in the summer and about
half that in the winter months.
The sauce is that good. Dr.
Women
• Continued from p5
located on the Armory Road, in
Prestonsburg.
Following the death of her
first husband, Maxine later met
and married Edward Bierman,
with whom she co-founded the
Jenny Wiley Festival. Maxine
relates that she served as director of the festival for 14 years
bef01e retiring from the post.
Four of those years followed the
death of her second husband.
"I just finally saw that I had
to turn it over to someone else,"
she said. "It was. a lot of work
for just one person after Ed was
gone."
Maxine is proud to report that
the festival was, and still
remains, a big boost to the county's economy. "The fabric stores
sell materials, feathers, beads
and all so people can make the
costumes the young people wear.
Then, in turn, the seamstresses
are hired to make the costumes.
Vendors come in and sell their
food and novelties and, well, it's
just a time when everyone can
have fun and profit," she said.
"The children are all so cute
in their costumes," she said with
a smile. "I'm just proud to see
everyone learning to be proud of
their heritage ... that's why I started it, " she continued, "so that
everyone could remember our
heritage, and to teach the children to be proud."
Maxine shares that Jenny
Wiley was born in the month of
October, died in the month of
October and was captured by
Indians in the month of October.
"October is the month of the
falling leaves. Our festival symbol shows falling le~tves and the
Indian maiden is making the sign
of the falling leaf with her
hands," she shared.
"Becky
DeRossett drew that symbol. I
think it's beautiful."
Proceeds from the Jenny
Wiley Festival financed the electrical system in the city municipal parking lot, which includes
underground wiring and outletboxes on the sides of South Lake
Drive, Court Street and the lot's
center.
The endeavor cost
approximately $8,000.
In addition to having founded
the Je~ny Wiley Festival,
Maxine also has owned and
operated her own beauty salon,
Maxine's Beauty Salon, in
downtown Prestonsburg since
1952. "I still have some cus-
tomers that I have to stay open
for," she said. "I look forward to
seeing them on a regular basis,
too."
She also played an active role
in organizing the Big Sandy Area
Chapter 220, Mended Hearts,
Inc., and acted as their first president for 1988 thru 1991. She is
an active member of the First
Christian
Church,
Arnold
Avenue, Prestonsburg; a longtime member of the Order of the
Eastern Star,Adah Chapter 21; a
lifetime
member
of
the
Prestonsburg Woman's Club;
White Shrine of Jerusalem; V.F.
W. Ladies Auxiliary; and the
Hillbillies of South Carolina.
She remains active and keeps
busy by assisting in the daily
runnings of her daughter Karen's
child care center.
Maxine
Jewell
Selvage
Bierman, The Floyd County
Times is honored to herald you
as one of Floyd County's
"Women In History." We thank
you for the many bright October
days spent laughing, sharing and
making memories with friends
and family during our city's
annual Jenny Wiley Festival
Days!
lagoon
• Continued from p5
that this excursion will never make
it to the page as they have entered
the last chapter of their quest.
Before you know it, they are
trapped by a homicidal family and,
after a little entertainment, including a surreal talent show, they are
mercilessly slaughtered secure only
in the knowledge that they are in
the hands of experts who have done
this type of thing over a thousand
times.
That's pretty much the plot folks,
but if this movie were a cake then it
is more than enough to fill your
appetite, since Zombie is more concerned with the icing. The film is so
well dressed with atmosphere that
the thin plotting proves more than
sufficient for the mayhem on hand.
Zombie is obviously shooting
for a return to the horror shows of
the 1970s but doesn't let his efforts
stop there. The film most closely
resembles Tobe Hooper's classic,
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Like that film, he uses a desert setting and chooses to focus on the
strange dynamics of the family of
killers rather than develop his vic-
tims.
The house is also a character in
the film and is garishly decorated
with all manner of trinkets which
suggest that the family has been
feasting on weary travelers for centuries. The basement is a slew of
subterranean caverns that hint at a
rich tradition of bloodletting as
well as acting as a holding pen for
extended family that are too gruesome to live in the house proper.
All of these trimmings hint at a rich
history of mayhem that, unfortunately, is never fully explored.
Zombie manages to incorporate
tributes to all of his influences and
some of them may surprise viewers. His family of killers, for
instance, are all named after characters from films by the Marx
Brothers and each is a character in
his own right that could p~obably
carry an entire film on its own,
Here Zombie truly shows his
hand by casting an eccentric b1end of
1970s talent that other directors,
with the exception of Quentin
Tarantino, stopped using years ago.
The standout is Sid Haig as
Spalding. Haig acted in every kind
of genre film in the 1970s and was
normally cast as a heavy. Here he
relishes his role as a second-rate carnival pitchman/serial killer and
chews up the scenery like a rabid
dog. He also hosts the DVD and
harangues viewers if they take too
long to select an item from the menu.
Seventies film fans who also
liked the music of the period will
be wowed by the soundtrack.
Zombie weighs in with a remix of
the classic Commodores song
"Brick House" and even finds room
for Hee Haw star Buck Owens and
yodeler Slim Whitman.
All in all it's 90 minutes of
creepy atmosphere and just a little
plot for those who insist on such
things. At once a love letter to the
classic horror films of the 1970s
and a reminder that films can still
take chances in an age of CGI creature feature flicks where the biggest
monster tends to be the budget.
Best line: "That's a great story
Goober. Now how much do we owe
you?"
2002, rated R.
'This Town
• Continued from p5
toast; Lunch: One doughnut hole
(without sugar); One glass of dehydrated water; Dinner: Three grains
cornmeal, broiled.
WEDNESDAY -Breakfast:
Shredded eggshell skin; Lunch:
One-half dozen poppy seeds.
Dinner; Bee's knees and mosquito
knuckles sauted in vinegar.
THURSDAY- Breakfast:
Boiled-out stains of old tablecloth;
Lunch: Peel of an orange; Dinner:
Three eyes from Irish potato (diced).
FRIDAY -Breakfast: Two lobster antennae; Lunch: One tail joint
of sea horse; Dinner: Rotiserie
broiled guppy fillet.
SATURDAY -Breakfast: Four
chopped banana seeds; Lunch:
Broiled butterfly liver; Dinner; Jelly
vertebrae a Ia centipede.
SUNDAY- Breakfast: Pickled
humming bird tongue; lunch: Prime
rib of tadpole; aroma of empty custard pie plate; Dinner: Tossed paprika and clover leaf salad.
Note: A seven-ounce glass of
steam may be consumed on alternate days to help in having something to blow off.
AFTERTHOUGHT
A high school student ask~d me,
the other day in preparation of a
thme she was writing, why some
people do not read. As usual, I give
an excellent imitation of the guy
who doesn't know as much as he
should, finally contrived to come up
with these reasons:
Some are too lazy; others have no
intellectual curiosity; some have
more material int~rests, and still others just don't know how.
Now I have thought of another
reason, and I hasten to pass it on to
the student.
Some own television sets.
And on that note, I remind all and
sundry that this is National Library
Week ... And I am reminded that I am
deep in debt to the Floyd County
Library for a book I borrowed.
·WELCOME HOME!
J. E. Akers was back in
Prestonsburg this week after an
absence of two years and five
months spent in the Pacific
Northwest. We formed a one-man
welcoming committee for him.
Were we glad to see him home!
While he was away he changed
addresses so often we thought we
would have t0 add another man to
the payroll to keep his paper going
to the right postoffice.
Berrier sent me a free bottle of
his sauce and I have since
reordered and sent him a check. I
have also made the decision to
never be without it again.
The bookkeeping is simple.
You send them an order and they
send the sauce along with a statement. When you receive your
order, you send them a check.
When I began I said that the
barbecue sauce business is only
half the story. The other half is
the main reason I made the decision to feature this wonderful
couple in a column. When some
people retire you never hear of
them again. Not so with the
Berriers. They have worked very
hard to benefit their community
and they have also made a commitment to a cause they believe
in. The sauce business has a philanthropic purpose, growing from
Harry's roots as a farm boy and
veterinarian.
Much of the profits from their
business are going into a trust
fund held by the Missouri
Department of Conservation, to
create a wildlife sanctuary or a
park. To further their commit- •
ment to animals and the outdoors, the Berriers are going to
change their will to leave a large :
percentage of the business to the
trust fund.
To me, this is what "Giving •
Back" is all about. If we wish to
really succeed, we should strive
to make a difference in the lives ·•
of others while we are here, then
give back so that future
Americans can enjoy the same •
blessings we have had.
I have no motivation here
other than bringing good people
and good products together, and .
if you would like to order some ·
"Show-Me" barbecue sauce, the •
address is Harry Berrier, 1250
Cedar Grove Blvd.S, Columbia,
MO 65201, or call (573) 4425309. They will be happy to send
you an order form that lists the
various prices.
Jim Davidson is a motivation- '
al speaker and syndicated-'
columnist. You m£lY contact him
at 2 Bentley Drive, Conway, AR ,
72034.
Click ancl Clack
Talk Can
Happy ending doesn't change
lack of side air bags
by TOM and RAY MAGLIOZZI
Dear Tom and Ray:
On your radio show recently, I heard you
say you liked a car called the Scion xB, but
couldn't recommend \t because it was missing some crucial safety features. Then I read
this in an e-mail newsletter sent out by folk
singers Pete and Maura Kennedy. Perhaps
it'll make you change your mind?
"Early Monday morning, Pete and I had a
serious auto accident. ... There weren't any
other cars on the road - a very quiet night.
When all of a sudden, a car came speeding
like mad up the same lane we were in (the
middle). Pete saw it coming in the rear-view
(he was driving), and I heard it. It sounded
like a train. Pete said, 'Hold on, this guy is
coming fast.' He couldn't really change
lanes, just grip the wheel and hope the guy
got around us fast. The driver of the other car
did one of those video-game-like moves
where he got right up behind us, jerked his
steering wheel to the left to pass, and then
jerked the wheel right again immediately
after passing us to get back in our lane.
Unfortunately, he hit us on the way back into
our lane. We were going 65, and we think he
was going somewhere
between 100 and 110
mph. We went flying
into the median strip
and started somersaulting. y./e rolled at
least once on top of
the guardrail. I think
we're alive today
because our car
(Scion xB) has roll
bars and state-of-the'art safety features. If it
dido 't, the car would
have probably been
sliced in two, and us with it. We were also
both wearing our seat belts. The air bags
deployed, and we couldn't see anything outside the car as we rolled across the median
strip .... As we crashed and rolled, we kept
expecting to cross into the t:r).lck lanes
beyond the median and get hit by one of the
big rigs. As the car was spinning, we kept
thinking, 'We're going to die now' ... just
kept waitirig for the lights to go out. When
the car came to a stop, we smelled the smoke
from the air bags and thought the car was on
fire. My door wouldn't open, and I tried to
kick it open but we got out Pete's door, and
we found that we were still in the median.
Our car had come to a rest upright. The other
car was also in the median, still upsidedown,
with at least two people trapped inside. The
EMTs told us that there were no fatalities, but
that the other carload were hurting - serious
back injuries. They had to be cut out of the
vehicle. I don't have any idea why they were
driving like they were. They had no reason to
pass us in the manner that they did .... Our
insurance finds us 0 percent at fault. We
spent the rest of the day in and out of the hospital, getting checked up. We're pretty
exhausted now, as you can imagine, but
we're OK, and very happy to be alive, the
two of us! ... We have traveled half a million
miles together by car since we started playing music together 11 years ago. We intend
to go at least another half a million more! Pete and Maura Kennedy"
Thanks.- Paul
RAY: Well, first of all, we're thrilled to
hear that nobody was killed. And that after
they treat the speeding driver for his back
injury, they'll be able to give him a nuclear
dope-slap and take away his license.
10M: We hate hearing about accidents
like this. They aren't caused by bad weather,
poor road conditions or vehicle failure;
... .
~.
....
.~
they're caused by jerks. Some guy (usually a - •J
guy) who says, "Hey fellas, watch this!"
RAY: The reason we're not recommending the Scion xB.yet is because it doesn't
come with side-impact air bags. In the kind
of accident these folks had - a rollover - the structure of the roof did its job, and kept
the vehicle from collapsing around them.
That's great. The seatbelts (very important!)
kept them in their seats, so the rest of the
safety features - like the front air bags - ~
could also do their jobs.
TOM: But if they had been in another
kind of accident - if they had been hit in the
side by a fast-moving vehicle, or if they had ~
skidded and slid sideways into a tree or telephone pole - the intrusion into the side of
the car could very well have killed them.
RAY: Since this vehicle is marketed to
kids and young people, who tend to have lots
of accidents, we think it's especially important that it have every reasonable safety feature available. And side air bags have been
proven to save lives.
10M: We have no problem with Toyota
(which makes Scion) making a cheap, little
car and selling it to kids. In fact, we like the
xB, and had fun driving it. We just want it to
be safer. So until it offers side-impact air ~
bags, no kid of mine will be driving around
in a Scion xB.
The car that starts by itself
Dear Tom and
Ray:
Our
1990
Plymouth
Laser
starts automatically.
It has happened
twice: once in the '
rain in the middle of ·
the night, and once in
sunshine in the middle of the day. When
this happens, we cannot shut it ofJ with
the ignition key, and .
we have to pull the
ignition fuse. Why does this happen? - •
Randy
TOM: It might be trying to run away from home, Randy. Do you ;wash it enough?
RAY: This car has something called an
auto-shutdown relay, and I think that's your ;
problem. Rather than route a huge amount of
electricity through the ignition switch on
your steering wheel, the electricity to run the :
car goes through a ~lay instead, which is
safely on the engine side of the firewall. So, ,
when you tum the key to the "start" position, you're actually energizing that relay. For '
some reason, the relay in your Laser is ener- •
gizing itself.
TOM: On a 15-year-old car, it could be
malfunctioning for any number of reasons. It.
could be rusty, it could have water in it, or it
could just be worn out.
RAY: On most cars, the starter relay
would simply cause the car to crank until the •
battery was dead - which wouldn't take ,
long. But because you have this auto-shutdown relay, the relay can actually allow the _
car to run, as it energizes the coil, too. That's
what I think is happening.
TOM: Ask your mechanic to replace the'
relay, and I think you'll be able to sleep
soundly at night, Randy - and, like I do, :
during the day, too.
Stop the madness! You can stop driving •
like a knucklehead, and you'11 help your car
in the process. Learn how your driving:,
habits can hann your car in Tom and Ray's
pamphlet "Ten Ways You May Be Ruining
Your Car Without Even Knowing It!" Send
$4 50 (check or money order) to Ruin, P.O.
Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.
Got a question about cars? "Write to Click
and Clack in care of this newspaper, or em£lil them by visiting the Car Talk Web site at
www.cartalk.com.
�SUNDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
27, 2005 • 87
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tions, fast food, retail. Miner for Deep Mine
A p p I y
in Floyd County. Call
www.applyshop- 606-92S-1473.
nchek.com, Email:
www.shoprecruit@ sh
MOUNTAIN MANOR
opnchek.com
OF PAINTSVILLE is
S00-669-6526 ext.
taking apllications for
3049
a LPN, 7am-7pm
position.
Excellent
210-Job Listing
wages and benefits.
Apply in person at
SALARIED 1025 Euclid Ave,
PCSITION,
Plus Paintsville, KY from
Bonuses Available in Sam-4:40pm MonAllen as an Assistant Fri.
Off1ce Manager. Must
have office experiFIELD
ence and/or Business OIL
COMPANY
has
degree. Must be able
openings
for
hard
to deal effectivly with
intense paperwork. working responsiFax resume to: 606- ble drivers. Must be
874-2163 or call 606- of age 21 or older.
874-2162.
Must have COL with
HAZ-MAT and tanker
OUTSIDE SALES- endorcements, good
Retail, restaurant or driving record and
prior sales required. some
mechanical
$2S-$30 + package.
Fax 304-529-3391 or apptitude.
Please
apply
in
person
at:
kpwz@hotmail.com
Well
Universal
E X C E L L E N T Services, Inc., 5252
INCOME-National •Rt. 142S, Allen, KY
Capitol
Funding 41601
606-874Group Now Hiring 3487,
Accepting
Court
House applications
Mon.
Researchers.
Will thru Fri. between the
TRain to Work From hours of Sam and
Home Using Your
Computer,
No 4pm.
Experience
Necessary. Call 1- TAKING APPLICAS00-440-7234
TION'S for COL
Driver's, must be at
T E A C H E R S least Class B. Apply
NEEDED for a small in person at Waste
private school, K-12, Management,
200
certification preferred Garth Hollow Rd.,
but not required. For Martin, KY.
more information contact Dr. Khattab at
606-7S9-5541 or fax M E D I C A L
S EC R E TA R y
to 606-7S9-9445.
Needed to work
Mon.-Fri., 9:30-4:30,
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experience.
Call 8S6-1714 or 2S59000
Classifieds
Work!
eel() • F>~t$01UIIs
Mov~$
41 0-Animals
Pff){l&l1y
FOR SALE: 8 ft' deli
cooler, $950 and Gas
convection
oven,
$450. Call 606-SS62367.
RABBITS
FOR
SALE. Mini Rex &
6
Holland Lops,
weeks old. Call after
4pm or leave message 377-9290
KAY'S WALLPAPER
205 Depot Road
Paintsville,
Ky.
Hundreds of Patterns
Wallpaper
&
of
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open Tues445-Furniture
Fri. 10 am. to 5 p.m.
FOR SALE-Solid
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m.
Wood Office Desk.
Closed Sun. & Mon.
Call 7S9-6320 or 367606-7S9-85S4.
1506
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
606-377-0143.
460-Yard Sale
BAG SALE: Martha's
Portion-Lancer-Water
Gap Rd., March 31st
& April 1st. Fill aBag
for $3
REAL ESTATE
505-Business
S M A L L
BUSINESS
FOR
SALE. Grocery, Deli,
Carrybut & Tanning.
Great
Investment
Opportunity, Located
at
Banner,
KY.
Serious Inquires Only.
Call During Business
Hours 9am-7pm 606S74-9190
550-Land/Lots
2 LOTS FOR SALE
on StQnecrest Golf
Course.
CHURCH
YARD
Approximately 3 1/3
SALE, .April 2nd at
Call
Acres each.
the Law Offices of
886-3313
Sheridan Martin. Off
U.S. 23 in Allen
1 1/2 ACRE LOT
across from Double
FOR SALE, Level
Kwik. Chidren and
House Seat, Hunters
Adult Clothes, Knick
Branch Rd., Martin,
Knacks
and
KY, $11,000 Call763Miscellaneous Items.
566-4025
For More Info Call
874-4034
570-Mobile Homes
NEW 3 BEDROOM,
central air, W/0, skirting, delivery & set-up.
Less than $199 per
Financing available,
month. Call 800-406Free delivery & set
5274 (WAC).
up within 75 miles of
London, KY. Bulbs,
WINTER
Parts, Lotions at
C L E A RA NC E
Wholesale
Prices.
PRICE on new 32x76
Call 888-554-0058
Norris 4 BR, 2 SA,
480-Miscellaneous over 2,300 sq. ft. , living room, den, stone
STEEL BUILDINGS- fireplace, wall oven &
Final Clearance All microwave, cook top,
Must Go.
Repo's, SBS, island kitchen,
Damaged,
oak cabinets, comCancellations! use
puter center.
Call
Your Tax Returns to
S00-406-5274
build your dream
building. Call S00- (WAC).
WOLFF TANNING
BEDS
405-7501 ext. 155S.
FOR SALE: S ft'
refrigerated deli case,
$1000, small pizza
oven, $400, small
juice cooler, $150,
washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606-SS62367.
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
Immediate .Job Opening
Opening: IT Administrator
Requirement:
GED or High School Graduate
BS in Computer Science
would be beneficial
Responsibilities:
System and server maintenance. bill of
materials maintenance and various other
computer related duties.
Excellent opportunity with an established
truck body manufacturing company.
Needs to be self-motivated. hard-working
and dependable. Experience with Mass
and/or MRP software would· be beneficial. Excellent benefit package.
Send resume to the following:
R&S-Godwin Truck Body Co.
P.O. Box 420
Allen, KY 41601
Attn: Diana Hall
J-:./0/b
730 • Lawn t. Garden
735 ·lrlgat
740 - Masonry
7 45 • MiScellaneous
a great price. The
Home Show-South
William son, Inc. US
119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
606-353-6444 or toll
free S77-353-6444
SMALL TRAILER
FOR SALE. Needs
minor work, partially
furnished, $SOO Call
35S-3416
Home at Invoice,
New Double Wide
Only
$31,599,
Includes
Delivery,
Set-Up, A/C and
Skirting. Call 8S8246-1 075 Fleetwood
homes Homes of
Louisa.
$10 • Se.rvlces\
7W~P!Umpmg
~-t:fQ-t~l!l
805 ~ ArmOUil~e®i
81 () - AuctJolls
.
815 • tosf& F6und'''
March Madness!
First Month's Rent
Free with Security
Deposit Paid in Full!
Through
3/31/05.
Park
Place
in
Apartments
Prestonsburg,
Elderly, Handicapped
& DisabledAvailable
for
Immediate
Occupancy. Rent 1
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
Call 8S6-0039
~0.
\:.¢gal$
.
FOR RENT: 900
Sq.
Ft.
Office/Commercial
Space located next to
Reflections beauty
salon, 3 quarter miles
south of Martin on At.
122 across from the
Garth Tech. School.
Caii2S5-9112
.630-Houses
2 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT at Garrett.
$400 per month +
$300 Deposit, Call
47S-93S9 or 4771707
HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cental heat & air, yard, no
pets,
references
required $550 mo.
Call SS6-0226.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
239 Francis Court,
Prestonsburg. 28R 2
Bath 1400 Sq. Ft.,
Suitable for office,
small business or
residence. Not suitable location for children or pets. $500
per month + utilities.
SS6-6362
,
4 BR BRICK ,HOUSE
FOR
J RENT.
Basement &,Carport,
3 miles from MAC on
404 David Road.
$700 per month, Call
SS6-2S42 or SS63451
FOR RENT. 3 BR
FURNISHED
1
house.
Newly
BED ROOM APT.
remodeled, referCentral heat & air.
ences
required.
Rent starting at $375.
S86-S366.
$300.
month,
+
deposit water includ640-Land/Lots
ed. Located near
HRMC.
606-SS9Trailer lot for rent
All Drywall, Dutch 9717.
on old U.S. 23
with 2x6 walls,and
between
Preston5/12 roof pitch, ultisburg and Paintsville
mate kitchen packcall 606-8S6-9007 or
age, glass block win- FOR RENT: Office
SS9 9747
dow, and many more Suite,
New
extras, Set up for Construction.
900
TRAILER
LOT
viewing. For details sq. ft. Ample Parking,
FOR RENT, Large
Yard. Call SS6-S366
call 606-353-6444 or Can be Convenient
toll free 577-353- Location, New Office
6444 the home show Behind Sav-A-Lot in
For Rent : newly
Prestonsburg. Call 2 BR HOUSE FOR constructed Mobile
886-1515 for info.
RENT-$400
per Home Lots in new
RENTALS
month
+
$300 A II en , reference
For Lease Finished deposit,
located required call 606Office
Space
for
_between
Paintsville
& 874-2212
61 0-Apartments
lease in prime loca- Prestonsburg,
3/4
DUPLEX FOR RENT: tion near BSCTC, from U.S. 23. No
2 BR Central Heat & (PCC) and the new pets,
refereances
Air, Total Electric, Food City -- 2100 -- checked call 791Excellent Condition. sq. ft. Ground floor 5761
On US 23 North, 1 location with up to
Mile
From five private offices,
Adult Education Teacher
Prestonsburg,
room,
No conference
Opening
Pets. Call SS9-9747 kitchen, bath, parking
lot call Today 606or S86-9007
Job Description: Teach (part-time) students age 16
424-2690 or 226and up basic education, reading, math, GED prep.,
RENOVATED 2266
college prep, parenting, job skills, etc., at various
APARTMENT'S, Like
locations throughout Floyd County.
MEDICAL OFFICE
New, Furnished in
Requirements: 4-year College Degree. Teacher
FOR
LEASE:
Certification and experience preferred.
Downtown
Martin.
Medical Office in
Send cover letter, resume, and references to
Call between 9amMcDowell
directly
The David School, PO Box 1, David, KY 41616.
5pm dailey.
285- adjacent to Post
Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews.
3025
Office, Dollar Store,
bank, pharmacy and
1 BR FURNISHED shopping complex.
APARTMENT, 1250 sq. ft. with 3
rooms,
2
Including Utilit1es. 2 exam
offices waiting room,
BR Unfurnished.
triage room, 2 bathCall S86-S366
rooms and accesAppalachian Regional Healthcare
The Medical Centers of the Mountains
sories.
Reasonable
2 BR 1 1/2 BATH
TOWNHOUSE also 1 Lease rates. Ready
NURSING OPPORTUNITIES
bed room furnished for immediate occuARH Home Health Services
or unfurnished locat- pancy. For further
Hazard, KY
information
or
to
view
ed in Prestonsburg
call
property
please
,NO PETS call 606STAFF NURSES
606-377-2006
or
SS6 S991
Appalachian Regional HeaHhcare is accepting resumes for
606-377-1 OS8
Registered Nurse positions available with the not-for-profit
healthcare system's Home Health Services in Hazard, KY.
Monday thru Fiday.
~3
ARH
Positions are also available in McDowell, KY.
8equirements iQclude graduation from an accredited
school of nursing, unrestricted Kentucky Registered Nurse
licensure, valid driver's license and at least two years of
nursing experience. As an ARH Home HeaHh nurse, you
will pract1ce your chosen profession as a member of a
multidisciplinary team assisting with the preparation of
and interpretation of the client's plan of care, system1c
client assessments/reassessments with appropriate
interpretation of the findings and pertormance of nursing
treatments. procedures and total client care in accordance
with established agency end nurs1ng care standards.
"Outside Salesman"
Mining and industrial supplier in
Prestonsburg, KY, area is seeking to fill
the position of Outside Sales. Territory
will be that of eastern Kentucky.
Candidate must be an aggressive self
starter and able to work with minimal
supervision. Must be goal oriented,
motivated and self driven. Prime focus
will be expansion of product lines within an established customer base, as well
as generation of new customers. This
require excellent communications
skills, ability to research business
opportunities and the desire to succeed.
Extensive travel required. Good interpersonal skills are a must. 3-5 years
mining or industrial sales experience
required. Computer skills essential.
This is an opportunity for the right person to prove their skills and grow with
an established compan~. Company
vehicle will be provided, plus expense
account. Salary structure will be commission less monthly draw. Benefits
package included. Mail resume with
salary historl to Human Resources,
P.O. Box 58, Huntington, WV 25706, or
fax to: (304) 526-4746. EOI:
These are full time day shift positions (8:00am. -4:30p.m.)
with minimal weekends; an average of 5 patients per day;
automated documentation; mileage reimbursement at the
rate of 40.5 cents per mile, and stand-by or call is minimal
including hourly pay even if visit is not required.
HOME HEALTH NURSE
CASE MANAGER
(OASIS/QUALITY COORDINATOR)
Tnls nurse management position is accountable for
evaluating admission, Resumption of Care and 60
day recertification OASIS data and analysis to ensure
consistent documentation and evidence-based practice;
to assure compliance with federal and state regulatory
accrediting agencies; to ensure optimal quality, clinical and
cost outcomes, and to assist 1n coordinating services and
resources needed by the patient by assuming a leadership
role with the mullidisciplinary team.
,,m
ARH offers a very attractive salary based on educat,on
and experience and benefits 1nclude very low cost single
or family plan hea~h insurance coverage; 3 weeks pa1d
vacation and 9 paid holidays annually; sick leave allotment;
l~e 1nsurance at group rates; Tax Sheltered Annuity
programs: non-contributory retirement plan, etc.
Please submit resume to or contact: Lana Smith, ARH
Director of Home Health, ARH Division of Home
Services, 100 Airport Gardens Road, Hazard, KY 41701;
e-mail: lsmfth@am.org Telephone: 606-439-6955;
or contact: Marilyn Hamblin, System Professional
Recruiter at 1-800-868-7045, Ext 532; e-mail:
mhamblin@am.org EOE
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www.arh.org
�88 • SUNDAY,
MARCH
650-Mobile Homes
TRAILER
FOR
RENT: On Rt. 7 at
Salt Lick, No Pets,
$250 per Month, Call
358-4524
SERVICES
71 0-Educational
Develop the skills
needed for the
rapidly expanding
field of
HEALTH
C A R E
Call The
National
College of
Business &
Technology 1- ·
800· 791-4295
720-Health&Beauty
Wollf Tanning
Beds
Affordable,
Convient, Tan at
Home, Payments
from $29. Free
Color Catalog, Call
Today 1-800-7815173
770-Repair/Services
CARPENTRY
WORK
all types.
New construction or
remodeling.
Garages, decks, etc.
Concrete work & siding. Free estimates.
Call 886-8896.
780-Timber
0 & 0 Tree Service
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
behind The Floyd
County Times.
900-Legals
INVITATION
TO BID
SALE OF '91
FORD EXPLORER
BIG SANDY
COMMUNITY
& TECHNICAL
COLLEGE
KENTUCKY
COMMUNITY
AND TECHNICAL
COLLEGE SYSTEM
PRESTONSBURG,
KENTUCKY
Sealed bids will be
opened at 10:00 a.m.
EST, Friday, April 8,
2005,
at
the
Kentucky Community
and
Technical
College
System ,
Office of Facilities
Management,
300
North
Main
St. ,
Versailles, KY, for the
purpose of the sale of
a
'91 Ford Explorer
at
Big
Sandy
27, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Community
&
Technical College.
Bid forms and other
information may be
obtained by calling
Ron
Carter
at
606/886-3863
ext.
6225,
Monday
through Friday, 8:30
a m. to 4:00 p.m. The
bid(s) will be awarded to the party offering the best and highest bid. All items sold
"as-is."
The
Kentucky
Commun1ty
and
Technical
College
System reserves the
right to reject any and
all bids.
NOTICE OF
BLASTING
SCHEDULE
APPLICATION
NUMBER
898-0721
In accordance with
the provisions of KAR
16:120E, Section 3,
notice
is hereby
given that CAMKentucky
Coal,
L.L.C .,
P.O.
Box
1169,
Pikeville,
41502,
Kentucky
(606) 432-3900, proposes the following
blasting
schedule.
The blasting site consists of approximately 263.31
acres,
located approximately 1.46 mile northeast
of McCombs, in Pike
and Floyd County,
Kentucky.
The area is located
approximately 1.60
mile southwest State
Route 194's junction
with Brushy Fork
Road , and located
1.60 mile southwest
of Brushy Fork, at
Latitude 37°39'59"
and
Longitude
82°35 ' 48 " .
Detonations of explosives are proposed to
occur daily, sunrise to
sunset, from March
'05 to March '06.
Control of the blasting area will be main·
tained by blocking
the access roads to
the area, at least ten
{1 0) minutes prior to
the blast. Post detonation access to the
blasting area will be
allowed, only after an
inspection has determined that no hazards exist. All roads
leading to or near the
blast site will remain
closed until the allclear signal is given.
After personnel are
cleared from the
area, a pre-detonation warning, consist-
ing of one minute
series of long blasts
of an air horn or siren
will be given. The
blast signal will consist of a one minute
series of short blasts
of an air horn or
siren, prior to detonation. The all-clear signal will consist of a
prolonged
blast,
sounded on an air
horn or siren following the inspection of
the blast site. These
signals will be audible over a minimum
distance of one-half
mile Events which
could lead to blasting
at times other than
scheduled, include,
but are not limited to,
rain, lightning, or
other
atmospheric
conditions
which
involve
personnel ,
operational, or public
safety. If conditions
occur that require
blasting at times
other than the norscheduled
mally
blasting hours, the
audible
signals
described above will
be used to warn the
public of the blasting
activity.
PUBLIC
NOTICE
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park in conjunction with PRIDE
(Persona l
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
removed. The use of
some type of pontoon
or barge will be necessary. This will be
the responsibility of
the contractor.
Interested contractors must attend a
pre-bid meeting 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 information,
contact:
Scott Ringham or
Ron Vanover, at
Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park, at 1606-889-1790
NOTICE OF
BLASTlNG
SCHEDULE
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0292
In accordance with
the provisions of 405
KAR 16:120, Section
3, notice is hereby
given that The Raven
Co. , Inc. , P.O. Box
547,
Bluff
City,
Tennessee 37618,
{423) 538-9009, proposes the following
blasting
schedule.
The blasting site consists of approximately 257.57 acres,
located at Grethel, in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky.
The area is located
approximately 1.54
mile south from State
Route 1426's junction
with State Route 979,
and
located
at
Grethel, at Latitude
3r30'15"
and
Longitude 82°37'56".
Detonations of explosives are proposed to
occur daily, sunrise to
sunset, from April 1 ,
2005, to March 31,
2006.
Entry to the blasting
area will be regulated
by signs and barriers.
An authorized company representative
(flagman) will prohibit
access to the blasting
area by unauthorized
persons at least ten
minutes prior to each
detonation. The predetonation warning
signal shall consist of
a one {1) minute
series of long siren
blasts, five (5) minutes prior to detonation. The blast signal
shall consist of a one
(1) minute series of
short siren blasts
prior to detonation.
The all-clear signal
shall consist of a prolonged siren blast,
following the inspection of the blast site.
All roads leading to or
near the blast site will
remain closed L.ntil
the all clear signal s
given. The warning
and all clear signal
will be audible w1thm
one-half (1/2) m1le
from the blast point.
Signs will be posted
and maintained that
outl ine the blAsting
schedule and the
meaning of the blast
warning
s1gnals.
Events which could
lead t o blasting. at
times o ther than
scheduled include,
but are not limited to,
rain, lightening, or
other
atmospheric
wrich
conditions
involve personnel,
operational, or public
safety. If conditions
occur that requ1re
blasting at times
other than the normally
scheduled
blasting hours, the
aud ible
s1gnals
described above will
be used to warn the
public of the blasting
activity.
Director of Social Services
Salyersvil le Health Care Center
is recruiting for a qualified candidate to f ill o ur Director of Social
Scrvtccs Position.
T he qualified candidate
must ha,·e:
Sales A s sociate
Sherwin-Williams a leader •n the pa 'lt "nd coatings industry, has an openirg at our Pkeville store
for a part-time Sales Associate h ' s nos1tion ~ou
will assist custorrers c;tock and pr ce products,
maintain store displays, and hrt a1 j rrhx pa1rt.
• Bachelor's degree in social work.
or a bachelo r's degree in a human
services field, inc luding, but not
limited to, sociology, special
education, rehabilitation counseling, and psychology.
Here's what you get: CoMpetitive "31ary, vacatton
pay, growth opportunities. company-paid pens1on
(minimum hours reqUired to be eligible). companypaid training. employee dtscounts plus excellent
insurance and 401 (k) for full-time employees
• One year of supervised social work
experience in a health care setting,
working directly with individuals.
Here's what you need: High school dioloma or
equivalent; ability to work all scheduled hours. valid
driver's license; appropriate vehcle msurance.
Candidate should forwar d a
resume to:
Apply at: The Sherwtn-Williams Company
4223 North Mayo Trail
Pikeville, KY 41501
,
(Tel: 606-437-4355 Fax: 606-432-3803)
Salyersville Health Care Center
571 Parkway Drive
Salyersvi lle, K Y 4 1465
Fax: 606-349-5962
Attenti on: B. Boso
ROGER'S
TREE
TRIMMING
Free Estimates
CALL
606-889-9189
FRASURE'S
RENTALS
Office Space, Ret ai l Space, Houses,
Apartments,
Mobile 'Homes and
Lots.
CALL
606-886-8366
FIREWOOD FOR SALE
Seasoned hardwood,
split and delivered to
your location.
Call874·9996
An equal
opportunity
employer
M!FIDN
.J&M
Lafferty's
Contracting, LLC
Dennie Michael Lafferty, Owner
•
606-874-2259
* New Construction &
Remodeling
* Metal - Shingle Roofs
* Concrete
* Certified Master Electrician
* Backhoe Jobs
* Free Estimates & Fully Insured
j~S
Lawn & §arden
Service
For all of your lawn, garden,
landscaping, hillside c leaning, & tree trimming needs.
Satisfaction Guaranteed !!!
Free estimates, call :
(606) 886-9602
Mine Safety &
First Aid Training
Newly Employed
24 hr. Class (surface}
4G hr. {underground)
8 hr. refresher
(surface & underground)
Afso Electrical Classes
285-0999
seamless
Gunerlna. Siding
and Metal Re ling
Located at
Weeksbury, Ky.
14 Years Experience
Free estimates. call anytime
226-2051
606-452-2490, 606-424-9858
.
: ' '
~J&L ~
Electric al C ontracting
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
TRIPI.E 's.~: .
CONSI'a"-.C.tl~-~~~~
No J ob Too Big or Too Small!
RESlOEN riAL OR COMMERCIAL
606·265-3336 or 606-265-4678
New Construction • Remodeling
Vinyl Siding • Window Replacement
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Board settles
another suit
in secret
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~Pike
man
killed in
ATV crash
by MARY MUSIC
S TAFF WRITER
The Associated Press
SHELBIANA - A
Pike County man was
killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving on collided with a
truck on Route 2552.
.,
Shane Newsome, 37,
of Shelbiana, was traveling east on the highway Thursday night
without is headlights
on, sta e police said.
The crash occured
around 8:30 p.m.
Newsome's Honda
ATV hit a vehicle driven
by Jennifer Coleman
head-on. Newsome left
the roadway and tumbled over an embank~ ment, police said.
He was pronounced
dead by the Pike
County Coroner.
Volume 76, Issue 38 • 75 Cents
photo by Tom Doty
Supt. Dr. Paul Fanning, Carol Stumbo and Jeff Stumbo listened while Mickey McGuire questioned the practices of site-based council elections at area schools at a school board meeting on Monday.
School board membei- raises
questions about promotion
PRESTONSBURG
A lawsuit against the Floyd
County
Board
of
Education was dismissed
Monday, after the court
accepted a confidential settlement in the case.
Circuit Judge John
David Caudill signed an
order dismissing a civil
suit brought out in 2002
against the board and
Adams Middle school
teacher and coach Charles
R. Collins.
In the suit, Nancy
STAFF WRITERS
MARTIN - One of the defendants in the lawsuit brought by parents of May Valley Elementary special education students who alleged
mistreatment of their children at the
hands of a teacher's aide has been
promoted.
Tanya Williams, former assistant
principal at the school who was listed as a defendant in the May Valley
abuse case in 2003, is now serving as
the school's principal. She replaces
interim principal Fonzo Akers , who
took principal Carole Combs' position after she retired this year.
"I thought the board had a nepotism pohcy," board member Mickey
McGuire said yesterday. "Five or six
of her family members work at May
Valley."
Williams' promotion came after
the board spent "millions," according to McGuire, in a confidential settlement agreement in January
against her and six other employees
at the school, including now retired
principal Carole Combs.
McGuire, who said he's been
"threatened" by the board to release
any information regarding the suit,
initiated a brief but heated discussion about the hiring - without
mentioning Williams' name - during the school board meeting
Monday night.
"We don't need to hide our head
in the sand on this," McGuire said,
asserting his opinion that it isn't
right for the board to promote an
A presentation was also made by
Adams school resource coordinator
Rebecca Hicks. She highlighted
what the school is doing to better
prepare students for academic testing. Among the innovations she discussed was switching test formats at
the school to multiple choice so that
they mirror the testing methods
employed by standardized testing.
Hicks also illustrated that recent
innovations at the school include
adding algebra for eighth-graders
who exceed the skill levels required
of most eighth-graders and said that
keeping children challenged will
also keep students interested in the
curriculum. She also talked about
training for teachers and announced
the success of a "Learning Skills
Inventory" test which alerts teachers
to the strongest learning skills of
their students by indicating which
students. learn best by audio, visual
and inquiry based teaching.
The evening was also a chance
(See SECRET, page ten)
Wife pleads not guilty to
involvement in shooting
by TOM DOTY
S TAFF WRITER
by TOM DOTY
and MARY MUSIC
Bieger, mother of a former
Adams Middle School student, asked for compensatory damages after he~
son was injured whil~
· playing tackle football in
the school hardwood gymnasium during physical
education class on Nov. 8,
1999.
Collins was supervising
the child, Bieger argued,
and shouldn't have allowed
the sport to take place on
the hardwood floor.
Bieger's attorney, Tom
Anderson, of Pikeville,
'
PRESTONSBURG
Sheila Dotson , 49, of
Paintsville was arraigned
Monday in circuit court on
charges that she was complicit in the shooting of her
husband, Donald.
Donald Dotson was shot
in Auxier last July and his
brother-in-law
Michael
Lester, Sheila's brother,
has been charged with that
incident and is scheduled
to go to trial on April 25.
Sheila Dotson was also
charged with three counts
of intimidating witnesses
scheduled to appear at the
trial of her brother. She
pleaded not guilty Monday.
Judge Danny Caudill set
Dotson's bond at $225.000
cash, which was recom-
(See PROMOTION, page three)
Topmost man killed
Board, principals talk attendance in wreck on U.S. 23
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - School
board members and local principals
focused on strategies for increasing
student attendance during the
board's regular meeting Monday
night at Adams Middle School.
Area principals discussed methods that worked and a consensus was
reached that parent involvement in
school activities was key to maintaining student interest.
(See BOARD, page ten)
by TOM DOTY
S TAFF WR ITER
PRESTONSBURG
Jamey Wicker, 31 , of
Topmost,
was
killed
Monday evening when his
2003 Ford Mustang collided with a 2002 Dodge
pickup driven by Billy J.
Osendott, 43, of Inez.
The incident occurred
around 6 p.m. on U.S . 23
during a heavy downpour.
According to a witness,
Wicker was proceeding
south near the Holiday Inn
in Prestonsburg. when his
vehicle began hydroplaning. Wicker's vehicle lost
traction on the road and
barreled onto the northbound lanes, where it collided with Osendott's
truck.
Wicker was pronounced
(See WRECK, page three)
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Doctor gives up getting money
for proofreading mistake
City shows half-million-dollar surplus
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - The
city announced a surplus in
revenue of nearly $500,000
during a regularly scheduled
meeting Monday, but members
still refused to pay a local doctor for an alleged $1 ,01 9.50
proofreading mistake.
Dr. Phillip Simpson, former
owner of C & S Signs, asked
for a reimbursement of his personal expenses during a March
14 city council meeting. He
returned in front of the council
Monday, armed with rubbings
of the Prestonsburg High
School's Reatherford-Salyers
Memorial Plaque, to point out
that city council members did
not properly proofread the rubbing before the plaque was
produced.
The interlude during the
meeting Monday was a bit
heated, at times, with Simpson
laying fault against Mayor
Jerry Fannin and newly
appointed council members
who weren't on board at the
time of the alleged mistake.
The council argued that
Simpson was made aware of
all mistakes prior to the production of the plaque, which
(See COUNCIL, page three)
photo by Mary Music
Dr. Phillip Simpson asked city council members for the second time
Monday to reimburse him for an alleged "proofreading mistake" he says
they made last year. City council members, arguing that there were no
mistakes, turned him away.
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MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Odds & Ends
• ENTERPRISE, Ala. A 7-year-old who apparently
wanted to play with friends
couldn't wait.
He drove off in his father's
truck, eventually running it
into a ditch before police officers managed to coax him out
0f the vehicle.
The boy was driving the
big, dual-wheel truck erratically along Highway 27 when
other drivers called police
Thursday morning, saying
they couldn't see anyone
behind the wheel.
The boy apparently got the
keys while his father, who
was not identified, was sleeping, and he was trying to
drive to an Enterprise day
care center, police said.
Capt. Mike Lolley said the
boy was near a convenience
store when the vehicle
swerved into a ditch.
The boy rolled up the windows and locked the doors as
police
approached.
He
pressed the gas pedal and the
truck sent mud and dirt flying
but didn't move.
Officers coaxed him out by
telling the child they would
take him to play with his
friends, then took him to the
police station.
• FARGO, N.D. - You
remember the Chicago cows?
The Cincinnati pigs? The
giant frogs in Toledo, Ohio?
Some think maybe it's time
for Fargo to get into the act
with a public art display of
huge fiberglass bison .
Martha Olsen, executive
director of the Lake Agassiz
Arts Council, is talking with
local businesses and artists to
try to gauge community support.
"We would want to make it
as big and fun as it can be,"
she said.
A similar project
"Sunny in DL," using sunfish
as the theme - was a success
in Detroit Lakes, Minn.
Teri Nelson was one of the
organizers in Detroit Lakes,
and
the Detroit
Lakes
Cultural Center aided in fundraising efforts. Nelson said
the cultural center initially
expected to have 20 fish, but
ended up selling 50.
Olsen said the sale or
sponsorship of the bison
sculptures would benefit the
local arts community.
• VILLE PLATTE, La. Judge Thomas Fuselier didn't
have far to go to report for
jury duty - he just walked
across the hall.
Fuselier was summoned
for possible jury duty in the
trial of a Morrow couple
accused of killing and then
dismembering a Texas couple.
The only other judge in the
13th Judicial District is the
one presiding over the trial Judge Larry Vidrine.
Fuselier spent all of
Monday
afternoon
in
Vidrine's courtroom, waiting
to be called for questioning,
but he wasn't selected.
Of the 75 people called for
the first jury selection, about
50 actually showed up,
including Fuselier. The judge
handled his courtroom matters
before walking across the hall
to his colleague's courtroom
for jury service. Vidrine even
offered to excuse his fellow
judge, but Fuselier refused.
"I ask people to show up
for jury duty, and I will do the
same," he said.
Eleven of the 12 jurors for
the trial were seated, and the
jury
selection
resumes
Tuesday.
• YARMOUTH, Mass.
One of Yarmouth's most popular couples returned to town
earlier this month to find that
their home had been washed
out to sea.
Don't worry. They are
rebuilding.
Oscar and Olive, a pair of
ospreys who have made
Grays Beach their home for a
number of years, found that
the nest they have been building over that time, was gone
when they showed up earlier
this month.
The nest was built on a
platform atop a town-installed
pole at the beach. But sometime during this harsh winter,
the pole was knocked down.
The town put the pole back
up, but the nest was gone. On
Monday, Oscar and Olive
started construction.
"Essentially, they're start-
Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March
30, the 89th day of 2005.
There are 276 days left in the
year.
Today's Highlight in
History: On March 30, 1981,
President Reagan was shot and
; seriously injured outside a
Washington, D.C., hotel by John
W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded
were White House press secre' tary James Brady, a Secret
, Service agent and a District of
Columbia police officer.
On this date:
• In 1822, Florida became
: a United States territory.
~
• In 1842, Dr. Crawford W.
1 Long of Jefferson, Ga., first
• used ether as an anesthetic
, during a minor operation.
;
• In 1867, U.S. Secretary
: of State William H. Seward
; reached agreement with Russia
• to purchase the territory of
.' Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal
' roundly ridiculed as "Seward's
: Folly."
• In 1870, the 15th amendment to the Constitution, giv; ing black men the right to
j vote, was declared in effect.
;
• In 1870, Texas was read; rnitted to the Union.
• In 1945, the Soviet
Union invaded Austria during
World War II.
•
In 1955, "On the
Waterfront" won the Academy
Award for best picture of
1954, while its star, Marlon
Branda won best actor; in an
upset, Grace Kelly won best
actress for "The Country
Girl," beating out Judy
Garland for "A Star Is Born."
• In 1979, Airey Neave, a
leading member of the British
parliament, was killed by a
bomb planted by the Irish
National Liberation Army.
• In 1986, actor James
Cagney died at his farm in
Stanfordville, N.Y., at age 86.
• In 2002, the Queen
Mother Elizabeth of England
died in her sleep at Royal
Lodge,
Windsor, outside
London; she was 101 .years
old.
Ten years ago: Tens of
thousands
of
Rwandan
refugees, fleeing violence in
Burundi, began a two-day trek
to sanctuary in Tanzania. Pope
John Paul II issued the ll th
encyclical of his papacy in
which he condemned abortion
and euthanasia as crimes that
no human laws could legitimize.
Five years ago: In the
midst of the 2000 presidential
campaign, Vice President Al
Gore broke with the Clinton
administration, saying he supported legislation to allow 6year-old Elian Gonzalez to
remain in the country while
the courts resolved his custody
case. Russia's Alexei Yagudin
won his third title in the World
Figure
Skating
Championships.
One year ago: In a reversal, President Bush agreed to
let National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice testify publicly and under oath before an
independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks. British-born broad-
caster Alistair Cooke died in
New York at age 95.
Today's .
Birthdays:
Singer Frankie Laine is 92.
Actor Richard Dysart is 76.
Actor John Astin is 75. Game
show host Peter Marshall is
75. Actor-director Warren
Beatty is 68. Rock musician
Graeme Edge (The Moody
Blues) is 64. Rock musician
Eric Clapton is 60. Actor
Robbie Coltrane is 55. Rap
artist MC Hammer is 42.
Singer Tracy Chapman is 41.
Actor Ian Ziering is 41. Singer
Celine Dion is 37. Actor Mark
Consuelos is 35. Singer Norah
Jones is 26.
ing from scratch," Yarmouth
Nat ural Resources Officer
Bill Bonnetti said.
Ospreys, also known as
fish hawks, tend to mate for
life, Bonnetti said. They winter in warm places and usually come back to the same spot
in the spring to raise their
young.
"They're very territorial,"
said Dottie Segerman, 70,
whose house overlooks Grays
Beach.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.- A
jail inmate swallowed what
could have been his key to
freedom.
During a sweep of the
high-security wing of County
Jail, deputies discovered that
inmate Jose Angel Juarez had
swallowed a handcuff key. Lt.
Craig Wilson said Juarez set
off the metal detector during
a walkthrough screening.
At first, deputies weren't
sure what set off the metal
detector, but they knew it was
in Juarez's midsection, so he
was taken for an X-ray. A l
112-inch handcuff key could
be seen in Juarez's belly.
"It's our belief that the
inmate would be using this to
escape from custody," Wilson
said.
Juarez, 29, is awaiting trial
on felony charges of conspiracy, assault with a deadly
weapon, kidnapping, robbery
and carjacking, stemming
from a Dec. 18, 2003, robbery
of Farm Fresh Produce.
His alleged partner in the
robbery, Francisco Antonio
Alvarado, 25, pleaded guilty
in October to robbery, conspiracy, assault and receiving
stolen property and was sentenced to 10 years, four
months in prison.
It wasn't known where
Juarez got the handcuff key.
Deputies waited for the
key to eventually emerge.
• LA PINE, Ore. - A bit
of the big city is coming to La
Pine.
The town south of Bend is
getting its first traffic light,
according
to
Deschutes
County officials. But because
of a land survey discrepancy,
the light won't be installed at
Thought for Today:
"God is the sum of all
possibilities."
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Bashevis Singer, Polishborn American Nobel
Prize-winning
author
(1904-1991).
the intersection of Huntington
Road and First Street until
next year.
"I think the light is going
to have a real impact ... especially on people's perceptions
of La Pine," said Gary Judd,
traffic engineer for Deschutes
County. "La Pine is a very
fast-growing area, and some
people just don't understand
that it's becoming a little
city."
La Pine is a rural town of
about 5,800 residents just
under 30 miles south of Bend.
Four-way stop signs will
be installed at the intersection
this summer to address traffic
problems until the stoplight is
installed.
Patti Oatman, a receptionist at the La Pine Community
Clinic - on the northeast corner of the intersection - said
something needed to be done.
"It's the worst spot ever,"
she said.
The county plans to widen
both Huntington Road and
First Street to allow for ·leftturn lanes. But first, land survey discrepancies that were
discovered in the 1970s must
be resolved.
• HOBART, Ind. - While
there's nothing special about
U.S. Postal Service workers
being terrorized by dogs, the
size of one here is raising
eyebrows.
Mail carriers said they
were recently unable to deliver mail to homes along a section of Guyer Street in this
northwestern Indiana city
because of a 4.5-pound
Chihuahua named Bobo.
"The little Chihuahua was
10-foot tall when he was on
the street," said Florence
Page of the Hobart Humane
Society, which picked up the
dog twice for running loose.
"It's kind of comical, you
know, but after a while it's
not any more."
She said there were no
reports of •the dog actually
biting anyone, however.
Police have nonetheless
ticketed the dog's owner,
Vicki Seber, twice in recent
weeks for violating a city ordinance requiring pet owners to
keep their animals restrained.
Hobart police officer Ron
Schalk said he had no option
but to cite Seber for allowing
the dog to run loose.
"The biggest thing I was
concerned with is there were
a lot of residents that week
who couldn't get their mail,"
he said. "The little Chihuahua
was running around being
aggressive and trying to bite ~
people's ankles."
• FARGO, N.D. - Three
men got into a lot of trouble
when they appeared to have
more spare change than they
could handle.
The men, ages 18, 19 and
20, rolled a water cooler jug
full of coins into a Union
State Bank on Tuesday to
cash in the money, police
said. Inside was $1,800 worth
of coins.
"I don't know how they got
it out of the trunk," said
Henry Wegter, the bank's vice
president and branch manager.
The men couldn't lift the
jug to the counter, so the bank
gave them bags to help get it
to a coin sorter. Someone at
the bank later called police to
tell them about the strange
episode.
Police believe at least one
of them stole the jug on
Tuesday from a home.
The three men were arrested Wednesday in a parking
lot. Inside the suspects' vehicle, police found a handgun,
ammunition, a small amount
of cocaine and marijuana,
said Lt. Tod Dahle.
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Promotion
30, 2005 • A3
Council
• Continued from p1
employee that, he said, cost the disllict "millions" as a defendant in the
lawsuit.
1 Stumbo said, "It's easy to
r-.
make accusations without one shred
of proof."
Board member Sherry Robinson
argued that the board currently has
"no system of checks and balances"
on site-based committee elections
~ and actions. The school site-based
council oversees hirings and firings
at the school.
At the meeting, McGuire, questioning the logic behind Williams'
appointment, challenged the board
to do something about site-based
council elections.
McGuire implied that site-based
councils are unchecked and that it
appears that positions on such councils are often given out and that
resllictions may be necessary. He
fwther argued that the board should
have representatives at the elections
but was shot down by Supt. Dr. Paul
Fanning, who argued that such a
~ presence by the board at elections
could be seen as interfering.
The issue seemed to divide the
board with members Dr. Chandra
Varia and Robinson agreeing with
McGuire while Carol Stumbo and
and Jeff Stumbo appeared to want to
table the issue for later discussion.
McGuire noted, "I think it shows
corruption in our system. It's very
disturbing."
The
lawsuit,
filed
by
Prestonsburg
attorney
Ned
Pillersdorf, targeted Marty Mullins,
33, a former instructional aide
• accused of abusing seven behavioral
disorder students between January
and September 2003. It also named
Williams, as vice principal, former
principal Combs, three May valley
staff members and two unspecified
school employees.
Students, ranging in age from 5
to 11 , allege that school officials
were aware of and " deliberately
indifferent" to a brutal campaign of
mental and physical abuse inflicted
on them by Mullins, who now faces
criminal charges for the alleged incidents.
.,
The children all claim to have
witnessed or experienced Mullins,
shove, push, kick, punch, pinch,
twist their arms behind their backs,
twist their wrists, use pressure points
to bring them to their knees, slam
them against walls, sit on them or
lock them in the bathroom as pWlishment.
One 11-year-old claimed that
"Mr. Mullins has made many threats
to cut my [expletive deleted] head
off."
The student reported the alleged
abuse to his teachers, including special education teacher Mattie Donta.
Donta did not respond to the complaint and Mullins denied the abuse,
the lawsuit claimed.
On at least six occasions either
one of the children or the child and a
parent reported abuse to Combs
and/or Williams, the suit says. The
alleged victims claim principal
Combs refused to investigate, saying that Mullins was "like a big
teddy bear" and that he "loves kids".
Combs and Williams allegedly
told the student's mother they were
"tired" of the complaints and that
they did not believe the reports.
"I'm sure they [my clients] are
disappointed," Pillersdorf said yesterday. "We wouldn't have filed a
lawsuit against Mr. Mullins if we
felt there were no ba~is to do so. We
dismissed several defendants out of
the lawsuit, including Dr. Fanning,
but we did not dismiss her
[Williams]. We settled all claims
and she only left when the case was
resolved."
Part of the settlement in the case
specified a call for change in incident report filing procedures.
The Floyd County Tunes has
filed a second open records request
with the board of education to view
the mutual release and settlement
agreement from this lawsuit. The
board contends that the compensatory damages awarded to the
seven families affiliated with the
lawsuit are confidential.
But former Attorney General
Ben Chandler and his assistant,
James M. Ringo, filed an opinion on
August 30, 2001, saying that a
school disllict settlement, sealed or
unsealed, is public record and cannot be withheld from public disclosure.
Supt. Paul Fanning was not
available for comment yesterday.
Williams did not return inquiry
calls.
Assistant
Commonwealth's
Attorney Wayne Taylor said yesterday that criminal allegations against
Mullins have not yet been presented
to a grand jury.
• Continued from p1
cost the city $5,400 m two
installments.
At one point, Fannin told
Simpson that he would pay the
money out of his own pocket
if Simpson could prove that a
city council member "signed
off' on the mistakes.
Simpson left dissatisfied
with the council's reaction.
"Well, never let it be said
that I am going to beat a dead
horse. Apparently, the horse is
dead," he said before "agreeing to disagree" and leaving
the meeting.
In other news, member Don
Willis, who sits on the council's financial and revenue
committee, reported that the
city has a surplus of $492,469 .
Council members, prompted by a proposal made by
member Gormon Collins, also
passed a motion to "earmark"
delinquent taxes owed to the
city for recreational fields at
Stonecrest. City clerks are
now compiling delinquent
taxes owed by city residents
over the past seven years,
Fannin said.
The council passed a
motion to place all collected
delinquent tax money into a
special account that would go
toward
finishing
the
Stonecrest recreational complex.
The city also opened bids
during the meeting from two
local companies opting to
construct two horse barns at
Stonecrest, where a horse
ring has already been constructed.
Members voted to accept
the lowest bid - $186,500 for
labor and materials from Hi
Tech
Construction
in
Prestonsburg - but agreed to
have a local architect look
Wreck
• Continued from p1
dead at the scene by Floyd
County Coroner Roger Nelson,
and a passenger in Osendott's
vehicle was taken to Highlands
Regional Medical Center and
later airlifted to Cabell
Huntington Hospital.
An investigation into the
accident has been opened by
the
Prestonsburg
Police
Department.
The Prestonsburg Police
were assisted at the scene by
the
Prestonsburg
Fire
Department, the Floyd County
Sheriff's Department and
Kentucky
Vehicle
Enforcement.
That stretch of U.S. 23
between Allen and the Holiday
Inn has seen a fair share of
accidents over the years. Police
Chief Mike Omerod observed,
"We've had an abnormally
high frequency of accidents
there ."
Nelson observed that he has
been called to several wrecks
on that stretch of U.S. 23 that
passes the Holiday Inn. Nelson
noted that he had pronounced
11 accident victims dead from
the area over the last year.
The road there was resurfaced last year, which may
have combined with other elements to make that stretch of
road more treacherous during
heavy rains.
Nelson observed that there
was a lot of water running
across the road on Monday and
that one should drive cautiously when proceeding through
the area, especially during
storms.
over the bids before accepting
it officially.
In other news, the council :
• Passed a motion to leaseto-own a $73,000 back hoe for
the city.
• Announced this year 's
PRIDE cleanup schedule . The
city will pick up only one
truckload per household this
year. They will only accept
calls for pickup from April 9
to April 23.
• Appointed former council member Robert Allen to
the city's ethics committee
and reappointed C.J. McNally
and Linda Howard.
• Discussed the need to
provide a skating park for area
skateboarders. Mayor Fannin
said that the city can obtain a
grant for up to $30,000
through AEP to construct the
skating ramp, but due to insurance purposes, the ramp must
have a fence around it and
allow no more than a three
foot jump.
• Passed a m otion for city
police officers to enforce
parking problems on Court
Street. Council members said
the most of the problem comes
from employees of the businesses.
"Businesses complain, we
go up there and write tickets
and then the businesses complain that we run all the people off," Prestonsburg Police
Chief Mike Omerod said during the discussion. The council passed the motion after he
said his department would
have no problem enforcing
parking regulations.
• Announced the advertisement for a new golf pro
manager at Stonecrest.
• Held the first reading of
an
ordinance
to
allow
American Electric Power to
renew its franchise agreement.
Wife
• Continued from p1
mended
by
Assistant
Commonwealth's
Attorney
Wayne Taylor. Taylor said that
it was appropriate as it was the
same bond that her brother is
being held on. A motion was
also made by Taylor to consolidate the cases against Lester
and Dotson.
Judge Caudill set a pretrial
conference for Friday on . the
matter which involves several
issues.
Defense cvunsel Steve
Owens has a quandary as he
represents both Dotson and
Lester. He will argue on
Friday to keep the matters sep-
arate as it will provide an
opportunity for a conflict of
interest if the two are tried
together.
The probiem for Owens is
that dual representation for the
pair could cause a conflict if
representation of either client
means entering evidence that
could hurt the other. Owens
will also argue for a bond
reduction for Sheila D otson.
The commonwealth will be
arguing that the cases are
linked in that the charges
against Dotson have to do with
intimidating w itnesses who
could hurt her brother's case.
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AGAINST
FOR
oday we had hoped to give you all of the information you need to decide where you stand on the
issue of the City of Prestonsburg annexing
Highlands Regional Medical Center. In order to do that,
we asked for Kathy Rubado, director of public relations
for HRMC, and Jerry Fannin, mayor of Prestonsburg, to
present the pros and cons of this annexation and how it
affects the city and the hospital.
If you are like me, you were left somewhat wanting. To
begin with, instead of the 500 to 550 words we asked for,
both Ms. Rubado and Mr. Fannin exceeded their target by
a pretty hefty margin. We also asked that both sides be
presented plainly, only discussing the specific pros and
cons to their respective side. Unfortunately, we still got
some negative rhetoric and rebuttal which continues to
cloud the issue. We did get some thought-provoking material not aired before (you just have to look a little harder
for it).
Obviously, foremost in this debate is the city tax.
Naturally the city wants to increase revenue, and, just as
naturally, the employees at the hospital don't want to pay
it. (We don't blame you; we don't like paying it either!)
But this issue goes deeper than the money. Are there specific benefits to HRMC with annexation? Specific drawbacks? How about Prestonsburg? Are there other benefits
besides tax revenue for annexation? Are there any longterm drawbacks to this move?
What we can tell you so far is that we don't think it's
all been answered. To listen tD the city's side, it's all
peaches and cream. To hear the hospital tell it, it's all
gloom and doom. We will say that we don't think it was
handled well by the city when they dropped this bombshell with no input from the hospital. We also think it was
over-the-top for the hospital's initial reaction to be "we'll
sue".
Come on folks, can't this be done a little more professionally on both sides? A meaningful dialog between the
two parties is the best course of action, searching for a
middle ground that ultimately benefits the citizens of
Prestonsburg, Floyd County and the surrounding areas.
Log on to our website at www.floydcountytimes.com
and vote in our online poll. Let's have some input!
CIRCULATION MANAGER
At issue: Prestonsburg's proposed
annexation of Highlands Regional
Medical Center
ext. 31
Working together
benefits everyone
Annexation not a
benefit for hospi~al
by JERRY FANNIN
by KATHY RUBADO
PRESTONSBURG MAYOR
HRMC DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
I
n the late 1960s, a group of community leaders and
health care professionals had a dream, a dream that
would take health care to a higher level in Prestonsburg,
Floyd County and surrounding areas.
With the help of citizens of Prestonsburg and men like Dr.
George Archer, Burl Spurlock, Marvin Music, Ed Music and
Chalmer Frazier, to name a few, that dream became a reality.
That reality was Highlands Regional Medical Center.
From the beginning, the intention was to enhance the community and the region by providing quality health care and by
belonging to the community, but the dream fell short of fulfillment. We have a modem, 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. This was not the dream of those
whose vision created Highlands Regional Medical Center.
I would like to take this time to respond to some of the
questions and concerns raised by Highlands Regional and
their employees.
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.
HRMC is correct in assuming
that Auxier Gas
Company
would still supply natural gas,
since the PSC
does franchise
and set boundaries for companies that supply natural gas.
HRMC claims to pay premium rates for sewer service. The
truth is they pay the same rate as everyone outside the city
limits. Upon annexation of HRMC, their sewer rates would be
lower, providing them additional savings. Savings in water
and sewer rates would amount to approximately $100,000
annually.
HRMC claims they constructed the sewer system and gave
it to the city. In reality, this sewer system consisted of a 6-inch
sewer line and a pump station, for which they receive partial
grant money for their cost. As with any development, HRMC
ran a line to tie in with the city system. When completed, they
turned it over to the city to relieve themselves of any future
upkeep or maintenance costs. Prestonsburg City Utilities is
currently doing $1.2 million in water line upgrade, including a
new water tank to serve HRMC. When completed, HRMC
will no longer have to maintain their own water tank, resulting
in money saved.
No law enforcement agency is "back-up" for a security
company. HRMC has security guards that perform tasks that
law enforcement does not. However, they have no authority to
enforce laws, make arrests or to deal with situations that
require intervention by the police. Security guards perform
important functions in facilities security and situations such as
labor disputes. But don't be led to believe they take the place
of professiona1ly trained, certified police officers or deputies.
If they did, the Prestonsburg Police Department would not be
called to HRMC on occasions when the Floyd County
Sheriff's Department or Kentucky State Police are unable to
respond.
The City of Prestonsburg does not contract with the county
to provide fire suppression in the North Floyd Fire District.
This is a service paid by tax levied by the county. Highlands
Regional Medical Center does not pay. this tax because
Highlands Regional Medical Center does not pay property tax.
HRMC does not pay for their fire service. Everyone in the
North Floyd Fire District and those who live and work in
H
ighlands Regional Medical Center believes annexation by the City of Prestonsburg is not in the best
interests of the medical center or the city.
Highlands Regional Medical Center was established in
1973 as a not-for-profit regional medical center designed to
provide health care services for the residents of Floyd,
Johnson, Martin and Magoffin counties regardless of their
ability to pay. For this reason, Highlands was constructed a<;
near the junction of county lines as possible and nbt in the
City of Prestonsburg. Each year, Highlands provides between
four and five million dollars in uncompensated ch~ty care to
the area.
~
Highlands purchases water from the Auxier Water
Company and gas from the Auxier Road Gas CompanY,,
Public Service Commission franchised companies not ~anaged by the City. Police protection is provided by the Aoyd
Coutity Sheriff's Department and the Kentucky State Police.
Highlands does
use city sewage
services and
pays the city a
premium price. ~
Over twenty
years ago,
Highlands constructed sewage
lin~s from the
Medical Center
to the National
Guard Armory
and donated
them till the
city, allowing
other residents
along the way
to access
sewage services. The
donated line
has ren!lered
the city revenues for many
years.
Highlands
recently
allowed the city to construct a new water tower on Medical
Center property and never charged the city for the use of the
property.
Highlands receives fire protection services from the North
Floyd Fire District who pays the city nearly $100,000 a year ..
for the service and the funds go directly into the city's general fund and are not even earmarked for fire protection. ln the
event of a fire at the Medical Center both Auxier and
Prestonsburg Fire Departments would respond. The big ladder fire truck was originally purchased by the City to service
the Highland Terrace Apartment complex so the city's fire
rating would not go up. Since then, other "tall" buildings
have been built in the city that require them to keep a ladder
truck. If annexed, providing coverage for the Medical Center,
which is located five miles from the center of town, could
affect the fire rating of the City and drive the need for additional fire stations and equipment, resulting in higher taxes
for City residents.
The Mayor has stated that it is time Highlands stepped up
to the plate and provide some benefit to the community. In
r- ;
the past three years, Highlands has given over $165,000 to
more than 100 Prestonsburg based organizations. These gifts
have been as direct giving or sponsorships to diverse organizations such as the Jenny Wiley Drama Association, the
Mountain Arts Center, the local school organizations,
Stonecrest Golf Course, various food pantries, police and fire
department projects, Big Sandy (KCTCS), sports programs,
the Floyd County Rescue Squad, and many, many others.
Highlands was unaware of annexation plans until the
morning after the ordinance was read at the March 14 City
Council Meeting. It is Highlands' understanding that annexation had not been discussed in any prior meeting of the current city council. The Medical Center would have preferred
to be notified in order to be present at the meeting and discuss the issues involved. Highlands would never prf)vide care
to a patient without the patient's consent and would think that .,
before a city ordinance was invoked that would impact all
(See FOR, page seven)
(See AGAINST, page seven) ·
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
30, 2005 • AS
Sandwich and bowl of cereal meets government guidelines
by LIBBY QUAID
AssociATED PREss WRITER
WASHINGTON
Go
ahead, have a piece of bread.
Have three. Make it wholegrain, and you'll be following
government advice for eating
right.
. Three se;vings of whole
grains each day will reduce your
risk of heart disease and type 2
diabetes. It· doesn't have to be
bread. Brown or wild rice, oatmeal, eold cereal flakes, popcom - without the salt and butter- and even trail mix will do.
Of all the new advice in the
government's new dietary
guidelines, eating enough whole
grains ma1 prove the easiest.
But i,f,eating whole grains is
so easy, then why aren't people
doing it now? Most Americans
are eating one serving or less
each day, according to the
Agriculture Department.
One reason may be that a little sleuthing is needed to figure
out which foods have whole
grains.
Just because a bread slice is
dark, or a cracker looks grainy,
doesn't mean the whole grain is
there. They could be darkened
by molasses or other coloring.
You need to look on the
ingredient list to make sure
you've got whole grains. The
words "whole" or "whole grain"
should come before the grain
ingredient. And that should be
the very first thing listed .
Food companies are trying to
make to make it easier. General
Mills Inc. last year converted all
its breakfast cereals to whole
grain and now puts a big
"Whole Grain" logo on the front
of the box.
Some companies are using a
black-and-gold label shaped like
a postage stamp for identifying
products that contain whole
grains. Bruegger 's Bagels ,
Kashi, Gardenburger
and
Snyder's of Hanover are among
those using the stamp, which
was developed by Oldways
Preservation Trust, a Boston-
based think tank that specializes
in food issues.
Once purchased, eat three
ounce-equivalents a day. It's not
hard to do. These measurements
equal about an ounce:
• A half-cup of cooked cereal, rice or pasta.
• A slice of bread.
• 1 cup of cold cereal flakes.
• An ounce of dry pasta or
rice.
"If you have a cereal high in
whole grains, and you have a
sandwich with whole grain
bread for lunch, you can get
your number of servings right
there," said Joanne Lupton, a
TexasA&M University nutrition
professor who helped write the
guidelines.
Mark Andon, technical director for nutrition at Quaker, said a
cup of oatmeal for breakfast
counts as two servings of whole
grains.
"When you think about a
snack, think about trail mix. It's
not weird food," said K. Dun
Gifford, president of Oldways.
This effort may seem to contradict the thinking behind popular low-carb diets such as
Atkins and South Beach. But
while both of those diets insist
that people eliminate most carbohydrates in the first two
weeks, after that it's all about
choosing "good" carbs , such as
whole grains.
Scientists don't quite understand how and why whole grains
are good for you.
"It would be nice 'if we knew
the answer to that question;
unfortunately, we don't," said
Lupton. "It's not just the fiber.
It's something in addition to that
that has to do with having the
whole grain."
A whole grain is the entire
seed or kernel - from grains
like wheat, oats, com or rye.
They are packed with fiber, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins
and minerals, and besides helping guard against heart disease
and diabetes , they also contain
cancer-fighting antioxidants and
other nutrients.
They lose the good stuff
when grains are refined or
processed. Manufacturers generally fortify their food with
nutrients, but it's not the same.
To promote Pepperidge
Farm's new line of whole grain
bread, the company signed up
celebrity chef and Food
Network host Bobby Flay to
create sandwich recipes. Among
his recommendations are whole
wheat with grilled salmon salad
and lemon mayonnaise, or
grilled eggplant, zucchini and
., State to replace monthly Medicaid cards
Family Services. It should also
help providers, who can use a
~ORT Kentucky card-reader or access the cabiis replacing its inconvenient, net's Web site to determine
often invasive and occasionally patient eligibility for Medicaid.
Medicaid , which is financed
embarr~ssing Medicaid cards
with a lifetime credit-card sized with state and federal funds ,
plastic. version that officials say . pays for health care for the poor
will !lflVe money and headaches. and disabled. Medicaid also
There are about 685 ,000 pays for long-term care for the
Kentuckians on Medicaid who elderly.
will be receiving the card in the
Holsinger and Gov. Ernie
coming months, replacing the Fletcher, during a news confermonthly ,sheets that were costly ence to announce the initiative,
said it is expected to save about
and cum~rsome .
The cards should help reduce $1.3 million in postage and staff
some ofthe stigma for Medicaid time.
patients who seek treatment,
Medicaid recipients now
said Secr~tary James Hols~nger receive monthly documentation
o{ the Cabinet for Health .and of their eligibility. Entire famiThe Associated Press
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lies are included on the sheets of
paper.
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up with as many as seven different Medicaid cards for the various facets of coverage. And they
are not really cards at all, but
ordinary sheets of paper with
about a third of each sheet colorcoded to reflect coverages.
The information on the
sheets included all the family
members, causing an array of
problems all by itself, Holsinger
said. The sheets also displayed
numerous items of personal and
medical information about all
the eligible family members.
The information on the new
cards is contained on magnetic
strips.
About 100,000 of the cards
are already in the hands of
Medicaid recipients in Fayette
and Clay counties. Jefferson
County Medicaid patients,
except those in the Passport program, will get theirs in April.
About 258,000 patients in eastem and northern Kentucky will
follow in May with the remaining patients in western and
southern Kentucky to follow in
June.
roasted red pepper with roastec
garlic mayonnaise.
In his Manhattan and La
Vegas restaurants, Flay ervt"
dishes made with more exotiL
whole grains , such as quino
and faro . But he thinks mos
people will tune out if you tt) t<
interest them in foods the)
aren't used to eating .
"I wouldn't tell people to g<
out and make faro salad. Jf the
can just open up a loaf of brea
and make a sandwich, they're
more apt to do that," Flay said.
Grace Flanery, widow of the
late Parley B. Flanery, daughter
of the late James and Emma
Frasure Ousley, sister of Willard
(Lillian), Orville (Alvie), and
Dewey (Winnie) Ousley, all of
Prestonsburg; and mother of Bill
(Judy) Flanery, Jackson, Mich.;
Eunice (Arnold) Hall , Martin,
KY; Joe (Barb) Flanery, Scott's
Depot, WV.; Nora (Gerald)
Tomberlin, Weaverville, NC;
Doris (Charles) Porter, Unicoi,
TN; Emma (Alger) Pigman,
Hindman, KY; Mavis (Elman)
Blair, Lexington, KY; Bryan
(Joan) Flanery, Ashland, KY; and Flo (Bartley) Bartrum, St.
Louis, MO; celebrated her 93rd birthday with a party on March
5, 2005, at the Martin Senior Citizen's Center. The party was
attended by more than 80 friends and relatives who enjoyed
lunch and birthday cake. Mrs. Flanery received many beautiful
and useful gift.s.
Several photo albums containing old pictures of Mrs. Flanery,
her family and friends, were on display. The attendees and Mrs.
Flanery reminisced about her life, including her career as a
school teacher, mainly in one-room schools , sometimes riding a
horse across a mountain in all types of weather. Her neighbors
discussed her role as a community leader, offering tutoring to the
children at no cost. Many term papers would not have been
written without access to her set of encyclopedias, the only ones
on Bucks Branch at that time.
The Mayor of Martin, Thomasine Robinson, presented Mrs.
Flanery with a proclamation designating March 5 as "Grace
lflanery Day" in th~ town of Martin,recognizing her contributions
to the community. Mrs. Flanery would like to extend her gratitude
to her family and friends for making the day so special to her.
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Newman
Nannie "Nan" Newman, age
89, of Grethel, wife of the late
Robert Newman, passed away
Friday, March 25, 2005, at her
residence.
She was born May 30, 1915,
in Floyd County, the daughter of
rhe late John Tackett and
Margaret Hamilton. She was a
member of the Pilgrim Home
Regular Baptist Church, in
Grethel.
She is survived by four sons:
Travis
Newman,
Melvin
Tackett, Willis Newman, and
Kenneth Newman, all of
Grethel; two daughters: Lizzie
Branham of Harold, and
Margaret Wright Hall of
Grethel; two brothers: Emmitt
Tackett of Ivel , and Bert Tackett
of Albion, Michigan; 19 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband and
parents, she was preceded in
death by one son, Raymond
Newman; one daughter, Inis
Newman; five brothers: Charlie,
Evan, Willie, Andy, and Kenis
Tackett; and one sister, Pearl
Hunt.
Funeral services for Nannie
"Nan" Newman were conducted
Monday, March 28, at 11 a.m.,
at the Pilgrim Home Regular
Baptist Church, in Grethel, with
Regular Baptist ministers, and
Elders Clinton Moore, and
Jimmy Hall officiating.
Burial was in the Newman
Family Cemetery, in Grethel,
under the professional care of
the Hall Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation was Saturday, at the
Little Rosa Regular Baptist
Church 'in McDowell; and
Sunday, at the Pilgrim Home
Regular Baptist Church, in
Grethel.
Pallbearers:
Kenneth
Newman II, Willis Dean
Newman, James Branham Jr.,
Travis Scott Newman, Timmy
Newman, Kelly Newman,
Kevin
Newman,
Donnie
Newman, Jason Newman,
Randal Newman, and Jeff
Newman.
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Daniel Kevin
Hatfield
Daniel Kevin Hatfield, 28, of
Hi Hat, died Friday, March 25,
2005, at the McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital
emergency room.
Born February 22, 1977, in
McDowell, he was the son of
betty Mullins Hatfield Moore of
Hi Hat, and step-father, Terry
Moore. He was disabled.
In addition to his mother and
step-father, survivors include
one son, Daniel (DJ.) Hatfield
of McDowell; two brothers: Ray
Hatfield of Price; and Terry
Eddie Moore of Hi Hat; one
step-brother, Daniel Motherwell
of Hi Hat; two step-sisters:
Holly Motherwell, and Kayla
Motherwell, both of Hi Hat.
He was preceded in death by
his father, Ray Hatfield.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, March 29, at I p.m., at
the Little Nancy Old Regular
Baptist Church, in Hi Hat, with
ministers of the Old Regular
Baptist Church officiating.
Burial was in the Newman
Cemetery, in Hi Hat, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the church.
(Paid obituary)
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Jerry Neil Tackett
Jerry Neil Tackett, 48, of
Beaver, died Saturday, March
26, 2005, at St. Joseph Hospital,
in Lexington.
Born January 9, 1957, in
Martin, he was the son of Rebecca
Baldridge Tackett of Beaver, and
the late Willie Tackett. He was a
disabled coal miner, and a member of the Tackett Fork Freewill
Baptist Church, where he was a
former pastor.
He is survived by his wife,
Deborah Light Tackett.
In addition to his mother and
wife, other survivors include four
sons: Jerry Dwayne Tackett of
Ligon, and Anthony Craig
Tackett, Joshua Ray Tackett, and
Dustin Ryan Tackett, all of
Beaver; four brothers: Andy Jack
Tackett of Somerset, and
Douglas Keith Tackett, Larry
Dwayne Tackett, and Arthur
Boyd Tackett, all of Beaver; three
sisters: Luetta Miller of Tipp
City, Ohio, Judy Gail Vance of
Beaver, and Debra Hall all of
Grethel; and three grandchildren:
Gage, Austin, and Gabrielle.
In addition to his father, he was
preceded in death by one sister,
Glenda Gaye Tackett; and one
grandson: Taylor Chance Tackett.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, March 29, at 1
p.m., at the Tackett Fork
Freewil1 Baptist Church, at
Beaver, with Freewill Baptist
ministers officiating.
Burial was in the Hall
Cemetery, in Grethel, under the
direction of Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the church.
(Paid obituary)
Elva Case
Elva Case, 60, of Ky. I91,
Campton,
died
Sunday,
February 27, 2005, at his residence.
Born in Honaker, Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
on
Tuesday, May 2, 1944, Elva
was a son of the late John
Henry and Nancie (Adams)
Case.
In addition to his parents,
Elva was preceded in death by
one grandson, Keith Hunter
Taulbee.
He was a farmer and coal
miner, a member of Stillwater
Holiness Church, at Campton,
and served in the U.S. Army as
a private. in the Vietnam War.
Survivors include his wife,
Laura Bolen Case; two sons:
Samuel M. Case and wife,
Christina, of Los Angeles,
California; and John Dwayne
Case and wife, Shirley, of
Campton; four daughters:
Jewel Boyd and husband,
Phillip, Amy Jarrel and husband, Ronnie, and Elizabeth
Taulbee and husband, Merrell,
all of Campton, and Evelyn
Kidd and husband, Brian, of
Harold; three brothers: Lowell
Case of Louisa, and Edessel
Case and Timothy Case, both
of Honaker; two sisters: Glena
Damron of Honaker, and
Jewell Kidd of Cannel City;
and 15 grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday,
March 2, at Stillwater
Holiness Church, with Bro.
Harold Damron officiating.
Interment followed in the
Taulbee Family Cemetery, at
Campton, with Porter and Son
Funeral
Directors,
of
Campton, in charge of
arrangements.
Pallbearers were Merrell
Taulbee, Sam Boyd, Nicky
Kidd, Wayne Fannin, Phillip
Kidd, Todd Kidd, Ronnie
Brewer, and John Case.
Mike Wireman
Mike Wireman, age 37, of
Hueysville, passed away on
Saturday eyening, March 26,
2005, at his residence.
He was born December 24,
1967, in Columbia City, Indiana,
the son of Ondie and Kathleen
Whittaker Wireman.
He was a member of the
National Guard, and attended the
Upper
Quicksand
Free
Pentecostal Church at Hueysville.
Surviving are his parents,
Ondie and Kathleen Wireman of
Hueysville; one brother, Chris
Wireman of Hueysville; two sisters: Athlene (William) Patton of
Versailles, and Kim (Brian)
Tussey of Kendalville, Indiana;
three nephews: Jason (Mallory)
Patton, Daniel Tussey, and
Andrew Tussey; one niece,
Hannah Patton; and nine aunts,
four uncles, and several cousins.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 30, at
1 p.m., in the Hall Funeral
Chapel, in Martin, with Roger
Bolen, Earl Miller, and Bill
Tussey Jr., officiating.
Burial will be in the Shepherd
Cemetery, at Hueysville, under the
direction of Hall Funeral Home.
Visitation is at the funeral
home.
(Paid obituary)
Everett "Hoe
Handle" Crisp
Everett "Hoe Handle" Crisp,
53, of Martin, died Sunday,
March 27, 2005, at Our Lady of
the Way Hospital, in Martin.
Born June 8, 1951, in Martin,
he was the son of the late
Everett and Geneva Thacker
Crisp. He was a disabled veteran, also a member of the VFW
Chapter 5839, Presronsburg.
Survivors include one brother: Robin Michael Crisp of
Martin; one sister, Sheila Lee
of Martin; and several nieces
and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by his
grandparents: Bill and Sarah
Samons Crisp, and Noah and
Rosa Click Thacker; and two
sisters: Jane Sharon Crisp and
Rose Carol Hall.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 30,
at II a.m., at the NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin, with Chuck Hall officiating.
Burial will be in the Crisp
Family Cemetery, Arkansas
Creek, Martin.
Visitation is at the funeral
home
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Card of Thanks
The family of Orville "Porchie" Clark would
like to express our appreciation to all those friends
and loved ones who helped to comfort us during
our time of sorrow. We thank you 'for the flowers
and food. A special thanks to Clergymen Shane
Powers and Hershell Kidd, and Hall Funeral Home
for their caring and professional services.
THE FAMILY OF ORVILLE
"PORCHIE" CLARK
Card of Thanks
THE FAMILY OF MACEL ELIZABETH THORNSBERRY
Lonnie Gene Shepherd, 23,
of
Prestonsburg,
died
Saturday, March 26, 2005, at
Highlands Regional Medical
Center.
Born September 23, 1981, in
Prestonsburg, he was the son
of James and Wilma Allen
Shepherd of Prestonsburg. He
was disabled.
In addition to his parents,
survivors include one brother,
Gregory (Amy) Shepherd of
Prestonsburg; and two nieces:
Jamie and Haley Shepherd.
He was preceded in death by
one brother, James Shepherd
Jr.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Tuesday, March 29, at
1 p.m., at the Father House
Church
at
Abbott,
in
Prestonsburg, with Jeanette
Wright officiating.
Burial was in the McGuire
Cemetery, Big Branch, Abbott,
Prestonsburg, under the direction of Nelson-Frazier Funeral
Home, in Martin.
Visitation was at the church.
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ST. MARTHA CHURCH
Water Gap
Masses: 5 p.m., Sat.; 11:15 a.m.
Sunday
In Loving Memory
of Tom Dillion
A loving son, brother, uncle, husband, and especiall ather.
Tom, you will be loved always and missed everyd y.
I know you are in Heaven watching over all of us.
You loving wife,
Missy
Card of Thanks
The family of Ray Layne 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 Old Regular Baptist ministers, for their comforting words, the staff and doctors at the
McDowell Appalachian Regional Hospital, the Hall Funeral
Home, 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 RAY LAYNE
Card of Thanks
The family of Julia Ann Boyd would like to express
their heartfelt appreciation during this difficult time. We
thank all those who brought food, sent flowers, or spoke
kind, comforting words. A special thank-you to the
Prestonsburg Church of Christ for their flowers, food,
and excellent service; to Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home
for their services; and the Sheriff's Department. Also '
special thanks to the pallbearers: Joe Ryan, Paul Jarrell,
Oscar Rice, Mike Hall, Kennis Hall, and Micky Meade.
.
FROM THE FAMILY OF MARVIN BOYD
Card of Thanks
The family of Arnold Chaffins Sr., 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, food, and all the kindness expressed. A special thanks to the Old Regular Baptist ministers for his comforting words, the Sheriff's Department for their
assistance in traffic control, and to the Hall Funeral Home for their
kind and professional service. All your acts of kindness were a
great comfort to our family.
THE FAMILY OF ARNOLD CHAFFINS SR.
Card of Thanks
The family of Mace! Elizabeth Thornsberry 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 the Regular Baptist ministers for their comforting
words, the Providence Old Regular Baptist Church, 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.
Lonnie Gene Shepherd
The many acts of kindness shown during the illness and upon the
passing of Louise Williamson Carey will be forever in our hearts. We
are deeply grateful to those who visited with her, sang hymns, cared for
her needs, and lifted her in prayer. She had a host of wonderful neighbors and faithful friends.
Thank-you to those who sent flowers and spoke words of comfort in
our sorrow. Dr. Ken LeMaster's tribute to her was perfect. Her s i'll
friends and family who served as pallbearers arc ,,.,
"nreciated.
Hall Funeral Home was gracious in guiding through
u1lficult time.
We would like to e;w;tend special thanks to the administration and staff
of Riverview Health Care Center for their exceptional care of our
beloved family member.
THE FAMILY OF LOUISE WlLLlAMSON CAREY
CAROLYN WILLIAMSON, LYNN AND JOHN POLK
With the help of the Lord, I will try to write an obituary of my brother, Tom Dillion. Tom was born February 24, 1972, and left this world
on March 22, 2005 -making his stay here on earth (33 years and 26
days). He was the son of Ronnie Lee and Caroline Dillion. He was
married to Melissa Keathley on August 19, 1990 , and unto this union
was born one child (Austin-Tomas-Craig Dillion).
Tom made friends wherever he went, and he was loved by each of
them. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. But' most of
all by his son, Austin, who was always with his dad.
I know that we did not come here to stay forever, and that we an must
die, but when death comes so unexpectedly-it is really hard tp deal
with. I ask myself, why? Why my brother? Only God knows the
answer!! 1! I pray that God will give us the strength and the courage to
go on without him. Most of all, I pray that he is resting in the arms of
Jesus!!!! By the grace of God we will all meet again someday.
Tom, I know that you always looked out for me when you were here
on earth, and now I know I have an angel in Heaven looking out for
me, and our family!!!
Written by:
His loving sister,
Steffy
ill
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When Tomorrow Starts Without Me
When tomorrow starts without me, and rm not there to see
If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me.
I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today,
While thinking of the many things we didn't get to say.
I know how much you love me, as much as I love you,
And each time you think of me, I know you'll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name and took me bv the hand
And said my place was ready in heaven far above,
And that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly 10\·e.
But as I fumed to walk away, a tear fell from my eye,
For all my life, I'd always thought 1 didn't want to die.
!had so much to live f01; so much left yet to do,
It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you.
:fty
!thought of all the yesterdays, the good ones and the bad,
l thought of all the love we shared and all the fim we had.
If I could relive yesterday, just even for a while,
l' d say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile.
But then I fully realized that this could never be,
For emptiness and memories would take the place of me.
And when l thought of worldly things I might miss come tomorrow,
l thought of you, and when I did, my h~art was filled with sorrow.
But when I walked through heaven's gates, I felt so much at home,
When God looked down and smiled at me from His great golden
throne.
He said, this is eternity and all I've promised you,
Today your life on earth has past, but here life starts anew.
l promise no tomorrow, but today will always last,
And since each day's the same way, there's no longing for the past.
You have been faithful, so trusting and so true,
Though there were times you did some things you knew you
shouldn't do.
But you have been forgiven and now at last you're free,
So won't you come and take my hand and share my life with me?
So when tomorrow starts without me, don't think we'refar apart,
For e1•ery time you think of me, I'm right here in your heart.
A Burial Fund has been established at Community Trust Bank.
All donations may be made out to Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home
and are greatly appreciated by tile Dillion Family.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
•
'End of life issues' can be
wrench·n
omplex
i
ed legal and political debate are really values."
over whether her feeding tube
Dr. Terry Gutsgell, medical
director of the Lexington-based
should be removed.
The panelists Tuesday agreed hospice, said the Schiavo case is
that a written statement of an the exception. Hospitals, famiindividual's wishes, sometimes lies, doctors and hospices roucalled an advance directive or a tinely take people off ventilaliving will, can help resolve tors, withdraw or never start
such disputes or prevent them feeding tubes.
"It happens every day in this
from happening.
Ironically, some members of country," said Gutsgell.
the panel, which included a neuThe dying process, as
rologist, medical director of a Gutsgell called it, is widely mishospice, two medical ethics spe- understood. Properly cared for,
cialists and a philosopher, did even people in persistent vegetanot have their own such signed tive states who have their food
'and water withdrawn do not sufdirectives.
Sherry Weisenfluh, a social fer.
"Patients do enter a state of
worker at the Hospice of the
Bluegrass, said if anything good profound calm and peacefulcomes from the Schiavo specta- ness," Gutsgell said.
cle in Florida, it will be to force
Dr. Charles Smith, a profespeople to think about such sor of neurology and an aging
specialist, said someone in a
things.
"It's not easy," Weisenfluh persistent vegetative state can
said. "What's underneath that exhibit such things as open eyes
by MARK R. CHELLGREN
AssoctATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - The title of
the seminar at the University of
Kentucky medical center "End of Life Issues" - belies
the often wrenching and complex decisions that must be
made when you or someone
close is approaching death.
"It's very difficult to look
their loved one in the face and
say, 'What would you want?' "
said Patricia Ryan, a nurse and
associate in the program for
bioethics at the medical school.
The seminar, and public
attention across the U.S., has
focused on the topic as the bitter
debate rages about the fate of
Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged
Florida woman in a persistent
vegetative state for nearly 15
years. Schiavo's husband and
parents have been in a protract-
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operates on a regional concept.
Without water and sewer service from this city, areas jn the
county could not grow. The
sign at U.S. 23 and Route 114
says, "Welcome to
Prestonsburg and Floyd
County." The community
extends beyond the limits of
city boundaries. HRMC needs
to start paying for their share of
the community's future.
Prestonsburg continues to grow
and since my administration,
no payroll tax increase has
been voted for, it is only fair to
spread the tax rather than
increase taxes on existing
employees within Prestonsburg.
I am asking the citizens of
Prestonsburg and those in the
region to support the annexation
of Highlands Regional Medical
Center. The growth and development of our community relies
on revenues. Revenues collected
in Prestonsburg provide signifi-
Prestonsburg pay it for them. In
1985, the Prestonsburg Fire
Department purchased a ladder
truck to service First
Commonwealth Bank, Highland
Terrace and Highlands Regional
Medical Center. The replacement value of this piece of
equipment alone is $500,000.
HRMC is not beyond the
five-mile ISO guideline for a
Class 4 fire insurance rating.
Even if they were, their rating
would not affect the rest of the
city. The ISO can establish
more than one fire class within
a city. For example, Thunder
Ridge does not affect the ISO
rating for the rest of the city.
Occupational tax is based on
1.5 percent of gross wages: If
this would be such a burden on
employees, HRMC could offset
the tax on employees with the
money it will save on water and
sewer.
The City of Prestonsburg
cant funds to assist in the operation and marketing of the
Mountain Arts Center,
Kentucky Opry, Jenny Wiley
Theatre, Stonecrest Golf
Course, Archer Park and
Prestonsburg Senior Citizens
Center. These facilities are not
just to the benefit of
Prestonsburg residents; they are
utilized and enjoyed by citizens
from our surrounding region. It
is vital to consider Prestonsburg
as a progressive community
with the potential to expand.
Other communities benefit from
the employment and revenues
generated by their respective
health care facilities. Highlands
Regional Medical Center is one
of the only medical facilities in
the state of Kentucky that is not
within corporate city limits. The
City of Prestonsburg welcomes
the partnership with Highlands
to enhance and foster continued
economic growth.
MEET DR. QURESHY
and movement that can be mistaken by lay people for consciousness. In fact, he said, such
patients have no awareness of
self or the environment.
"These
are
automatic
processes that occur in the ner·
vous system," Smith said. "It'
an illusion."
Withholding food and water,
unlike something like disconnecting a ventilator or other artificiallife-extending machine, is
viewed differently among the
general public, Weisenfluh said.
"Food equals love," she said.
Sara Rosenthal, director of
the bioethics program at UK,
said there is still a debate about
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involved parties, the Mayor
would have had the courtesy to
inform the Medical Center and
engage in a productive dialogue
concerning the issues for both
sides and prevent the possibility
of a lengthy legal challenge.
Highlands will oppose the
annexation in court if necessary.
A number of proven cases support the theory that corridor
annexation is not legal and
other cases show that a city
cannot annex a company, or
institution, to simply obtain tax
revenue. Contrary to what
Council has been told, the
League of Cities will not provide legal counsel for the City
in this matter. They only provide legal counsel for liability
cases. This case will not be
decided in the local court system with local attorneys and the
Medical Center will prevail.
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
No movement in lawsuit that sparked
I
(iebate on overweight trucks
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
IlnadcPIKEVILLE
- Lawyers have
no moves yet to restart a lawsuit that sparked debate among legislators about whether truckers
should be allowed to haul heavier
loads of sand, oil, gravel and other
natural resources.
Pike County Circuit Judge
Eddie Coleman left the lawsuit in
limbo more than four months ago
to give the General Assembly time
to deal with the issue. However,
legislative efforts stalled earlier this
month, shortly before the General
~ssembly adjourned for the year.
' Jon A. Woodall, a Lexington
attorney representing D .R.T.
!rrucking of Pikeville, said he plans
to meet with his client next week to
discuss what action to take now.
The company claims in the lawsuit
that Kentucky's weight limits
unconstitutionally favor coal
haulers.
"I suspect when we sit down
and talk about this that a decision
will be made one way or the other,
either to go forward with the lawsuit or simply to walk away from
it," Woodall said. "Frankly, my gut
ft llni i · we wlll j Ofo1wnrd with
Kentucky Coal Association, aid
the next ~tep in the case is up to the
trucking company.
"For the record," he said, "I'd
like to see the plaintiff not pursue
this lawsuit."
State Rep. Howard Cornett proposed a bill that would have
allowed loaded trucks hauling natural resources to weigh 60 tons,
instead of the 40 tons currently
allowed under state law.
The legislation, Cornett said,
was intended to give truckers hauling sand, gravel, rocks, oil and natural gas the same leeway that coal
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whether food and water should
be considered medical trea •
ment.
Under Kentucky law, it is
haulers already receive.
possible to withhold food and
Only coal trucks with pennits water and unusual medical treatare allowed to exceed the 40-ton ment from someone who cannot
weight limit under current law.
make his or her wishes known.
The Kentucky Coal Association In order of priority, those who
took no position on the failed legis- can make such a decision are a
lation, even though it had serious judicially appointed guardian,
ramifications for the coal industry, the spouse, an adult child of the
especially if it failed. That's patient or a majority of the chilbecause a judge could rule that the dren, the parents and then other
exemption granted to coal haulers relatives.
is unconstitutional and should be
The courts have also said a
discontinued.
person's comments about future
"A lot of people feel like, if that medical care can be taken into
lawsuit is pursued, we could lose account, even if there is no writeverything," Caylor said.
ten directive.
Rosenthal said the entire discussion is difficult because it
raises questions about mortality
that
are
uncomfortable.
Nevertheless, "We're all just a
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THUR DAY, APRIL 7, :10015 AT 11:00 A.M.
AT THE liTE OF THE BELOW DB CRIBBD PROPERTY
Bill Cnylt\r, Pf\l!ilOOftt of the
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
256 MART MEADE BRANCH - PRESTONSBURG
IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Protect your familyProtect yourself!
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, 1 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.
If you need a Will,
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CALL OR STOP BY
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Prestonsburg, KY
Notice Is hereby given that on Thursday, April7, 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 dally 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 1.63% per annum until paid, due and payable Insixty (BO) days
and lAid bond having tho offoct of AJud;mont. Upon 1 doiAult by tho Purchmr, tho dopolltohAII bolorfoltod and rot11lnod by tho u. s.
Marohlllllll 11 pllrt of tho prooood1 of tho ulo, 11nd tho proporty lhAII llglllnb off@rod for 111111 IUbjllot te oonflrm11tlon by tho Court,
ihlaaalo hAll bo In bar and lorooloauro of all right, Iiiio, lntoroot, oatato claim, domand or oquity of rodomptlon of tho d11fondant(1) and of all
~1r1cne claiming by, through, undor or agalnet them, provided the ~urchm prlct 11 equal to two·thirde of tho appraieed value. It the
purchase price Is not equal to lwo·thlrds of the appraised value, the Deed shall CQntaln lienInfavor of the defendant(a) 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
Tale hone: 606·886·9545
110 WHifiH Orlvt P.O. Box 148-lvtl, Ky. 411142
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�A10 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
13 plead guilty to UNITE ·
tlrug roundup charges
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
Qperation UNITE's last drug
t:oundup, executed Dec. 8,
moved into the court phase this
past week with 13 defendants
entering guilty pleas to trafficking charges in circuit court.
In all, 43 years in recommended sentences were agreed to
as the latest roundup took on a
human face as each defendant
appeared before Circuit Court
Judges John David and Danny P.
Caudill.
Monday saw five of the
defendants appear in Danny
Caudill's court for a grueling
eight-hour session which was
necessitated by other defendants
appearing as well as the fact that
many of the defendants were nervous and had a hard time
responding to queries from the
judge.
Danny Caudill treated each
defendant with individual attention. Everyone who came before
the bench was subjected to a set
of questions to make sure that
each fully understood what legal
rights they were giving up by
entering pleas.
Several defendants were obviously nervous while others
seemed confounded by court language. The judge wound up
br~aking down his questions into
simpler language for most of the
defendants and several broke
down in tears when they realized
that pleading guilty to a felony
meant having to go to jail to
await formal sentencing.
Most defendants were in their
20s and 30s and had no significant history with the court.
Several young mothers were present with their babies while one
young man, whose plea didn't
get entered until late in the day,
was asking people during a
recess what might happen if he
changed his plea at the last
minute.
Each received the same treatment from Judge Danny Caudill,
who later noted that it was paramount that people entering pleas
understand the rights they are
giving up.
"If there is any hesitancy or
indication that they don't fully
understand what they're doing,
we make a renewed effort," '
Danny Caudill said. "We don't
want anyone entering a plea
unless it's of their own free will."
Entering a plea means that the
defendant is forgoing several
rights guaranteed to them in the
Constitution, which include the
right to a speedy trial and the
right to ftle an appeal later.
Board
Secret
for May Valley to show off its
colors and several students who
have entered academic meets
were applauded for their
efforts, which were posted
throughout the library where
the meeting was held. Exhibits
studying various topics from
history to physics, which were
prepared by students, were on
display -and represented hours
of work by students who were
required to submit project proposals, keep logs of their activities and present their final
works with an emphasis on
clearly communicating their
ideas.
Eighth-grade teacher Lisa
Pelphrey highlighted the efforts
of students and made sure to
recognize projects that were
entered in area fairs regardless
of whether or not they won
prizes.
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SURGEON GENERALS WARNING C1gmrt1o '"'oke
contains carbon monoxide
and his assistant, James M.
Ringo, filed an opinion on
August 30, 2001, saying that a
school district settlement, sealed
or unsealed, is public record and
cannot be withheld from public
disclosure.
Supt. Paul Fanning was
unavailable for comment.
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weeds named in this law are Johnson grass, giant foxtail, Canada thistle,
nodding thistle, multiflora rose, black nightshade, wild cucumber and
kudzu.
Persons who own property adjacent to state right of way and who are involved in eradication efforts on their property can submit a written application to the highway district office in their area. Applications and addresses of each district office will be located at state highway garages.
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U.S. GOVERNMENT FORECLOSURE SALE
THURSDAY, MARCH 31,2005 AT 1:00 P.M.
AT THE SITE OF THE BELOW DESCRIBED PROPERTY
HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED AT
1688 HWY 1428 - 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, 1 bath, and a laundry room. 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 $10,050.00.
Payment of current year's property taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser.
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THE EXHIBIT INCLUDES:
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filed a motion to approve a confidential settlement in the case
on March 11.
That motion notes that both
parties reached a confidential
settlement during a March 2
mediation hearing.
Anderson wrote in that
motion that the terms of the settlement are "fair and equitable
considering all factors."
He did not return inquiry
calls yesterday.
The Floyd County Times
submitted an open records
request to obtain information
about the settlement. Former
Attorney General Ben Chandler
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Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 1:00pm., at the property site, at 1688 Hwy 1428, Prestonsburg, in Floyd County,
Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $36,199.23 principal, together with interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of $33,689.07 plus
interest in the amount of $5,903.26 as of July 15, 2004, and interest thereafter on the principal at $9.4215 per day from July 15, 2004, until the
date of Judgement, plus interest on the Judgement amount (principal plus Interest to the date of judgment) at the rate of 2.14% 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. 04-65 DCR on the Pikeville Docket of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, entered on October 1, 2004, in
the case of United States of America vs. Carmel Kidd, the Unknown Spouse of Carmel Kidd, Draxie Kidd and the Unknown Spouse of Draxie
Kidd, the following described property will be sold to the highest and best bidder:
House and Lot located at 1688 Hwy 1428 Prestonsburg, Floyd County, KY.
Being the same property conveyed by Deed dated April 26, 1989, and recorded in Deed Book 327 Page 58 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 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 defaull 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
Te!e hone: 606-886-9545
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
30, 2005 • A11
AuthOrities crack down on
Knott County drug trade
The Associated Press
HINDMAN - Police began
rounding up alleged drug dealers
in Knott County on Monday,
capturing 22 of 37 people named
in indictments.
Detectives from Operation
UNITE, the anti-diUg task force
in eastern Kentucky. led the
roundup that began at 7 a.m.
ing. We're making it known
we' re alive and well in Knott
County."
Engle said getting drugs off
the streets in eastern Kentucky
requires everyone to work
togctheJ.
"If we all get involved and do
our part, amazing things can happen,'' she said . ''It's time we get
angry at the problem."
Happy Birthday
Dad:
March 28, 2005
Highlands Medical Office Building
Suite 2129
Prestonsburg, Ky. 4 t 653
EST.
Mike Luttrell, who heads
Operation UNITE's investigations in the Ki!ntucky River area,
said the roundup was a first in
Knott County and was the result
of months of undercover investigations conducted with assistance from the local sheriff's
office.
"This day's been a long time
coming," said UNITE Executive
Director Karen Engle. "This is
law enforcement's grand open-
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That on this bench
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I close my eyes and think of home
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I see the house, the place where
our conversations took place,
And I see my father's face.
I see hla hands so rough and worn,
His face so brown and wise,
But most of all, when I look back,
I see hla smiling eyes.
Many miles I followed him,
My legs so short and small,
When I would tire and fall behind,
His helping hand I would find.
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I can sometimes clearly hear
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THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Physicians are the
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National Doctors Day was chosen to
mark the first use of anesthesia for
surgery by Crawford W. Long, MD in
Jefferson, Georgia on March 30, 1842.
His legacy of caring began in the mid1800s when little surgery was done
because of the unpredictable effects of
preparations used for pain control. Long
believed that surgery could be performed
without pain and experimented with · a
sulfuric ether mixture and successfully
anesthetized a patient to remove a neck
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
30, 2005 • A13
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tumor. Long performed only six surgeries over the next two years and
received little recognition for his discovery. However, when a notable physician
in Boston discovered the same use for
ether, great recognition was given him
and with Boston being a busy port city
the news spread throughout the world
within a year. In 1935 the Southern
Medical Association first celebrated
Doctors Day in Long's memory and the
tradition has continued to this day.
At Highlands Regional Medical Center, Doctors Day is celebrated each year to
recognize the dedicated efforts of Highlands Medical Staff. Highlands salutes
these men and women for their commitment to medical excellence, to alleviating
human suffering, and to improving the quality of life by providing the best in high
quality care and service for their patients and the community. ·
HIGHLANDS
REGIONAL
The Medical Center of Eastern Kentucky sm
A Subsidiary of Consolidated Health Systems
HRMC 886-BSII
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ANESTHESIOLOGY
Mary Jo Ratliff, M.D.
David M. Ratliff, M.D.
Erlindo Valera, M.D.
ASTHMA/ALLERGY
Leonor Pagtakhan-So, M.D.
CARDIOLOGY
P.S. Chandrashakar, M.D.
Natasha lliskovic, M.D.
Ahmed Malik, M.D.
Edgar Massabni, M.D.
Brahmaji Puram, M.D.
Anthony Villarosa, M.D.
CARDIAC, THORACIC & VASCULAR
SURGERY
Thomas A. Donohue, M.D.
Dennis Havens, M.D.
CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE/
PULMONOLOGY
Srinivasu M. Ammisetty, M.D.
Celso Ebeo, M.D.
Anand Mohan, M.D.
DERMATOLOGY
Ronald Hall, M.D.
Timothy Lavendar, D.O.
Oscar Thompson Ill, M.D.
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
L. James Black, M.D.
Cristian Gabor, M.D.
Elena Gabor, M.D.
Elzer Fuller, M.D.
Raymond Jackson, M.D.
ENDOCRONOLOGY
Nibia Rodriguez, M.D.
FAMILY & GENERAL PRACTICE
Betty Coleman, M.D.
Larry Coleman, M.D.
Frederick Cox, M.D.
William Fannin, M.D.
Kermit Gibson, D.o·.
S. Jerry King, M.D.
Ronald Mann, M.D.
Thad Manning, D.O.
David Martin, M~D.
Paul Maynard, M.D.
Don Morando, D.O.
Charles Nichols, M.D.
Ronnie Parker, D.O.
E.D. Roberts, M.D.
Daniel Stamper, M.D.
' Chad Thacker, M.D.
John Triplett, D.O.
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HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Syed Hassany, M.D.
Vijaya Puram, M.D.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE/
HEMATOLOGY
Tamara Musgrave, M.D.
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Dale Adkins, M.D.
William Johnson, M.D.
Lela Maynard, M.D.
Paul Maynard, M.D.
Oleksandr Stupnytskyi, M.D.
MEDICAL DETOXIFICATION
John Scanlon, D.O.
NEONATOLOGY
Ruth Ann Shepherd, M.D.
Siraj ZiaUddin, M.D.
NEPHROLOGY
Ravinder Bhagrath, M.D.
Sujatha Reddy, M.D.
Ghazala Quddus, M.D.
Shahzeb Naqvi, M.D.
NEUROLOGY
Naveed Ahmed, M.D.
Sujata Gutti, M.D.
NEUROSURGERY
Damien Jensen, M.D.
OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY
Aaron Crum, M.D.
Tina Gaunt, M.D.
Rick McClellan, M.D.
Tom McGuire, M.D.
James Pigg, M.D.
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Kay Hazelett, M.D.
Charles Wheeler, M.D.
ORAL SURGERY
William R. Anderson, D. M.D.
Chad Street, D.M.D., M.D.
Robert Wagner, D.M.D.
ORTHOPAEDICS
Keith Hall, M.D.
Anbu Nadar, M.D.
Steven Shockey, M.D.
OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE
MEDICINE
William Betz, D.O.
Joan Radjieski, D.O.
Edward Stiles, D.O.
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Gregory Hazelett, D.O.
Suri Ambala Vanan, M.D.
Manosh Vongvises, M.D.
PATHOLOGY
Sheila Combs, M.D.
James Dennis, M.D.
PEDIATRICS
M. Sudi Alimam, M.D.
Debra Bailey, M.D.
Tatianan Bendiovkova, M.D.
Rosanne Coleman, M.D.
Byron Crider, M.D.
Muhammad ldrees, M.D.
Jyothi Mettu, M.D.
Seema Sachdeva, M.D.
Aaronda D. Wells, M.D.
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
AI Pelphrey, D.M.D
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PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY
Rakesh Sachdeva, M.D.
PLASTIC SURGERY
Mary Lyn T. Lu, M.D.
PHYSICAL MEDICINE &
REHABILITATION
Scott Akers, M.D.
PULMONOLOGY
R.V. Mettu, M.D.
RADIATION THERAPY
Brad Collett, M.D.
Raghuram S. Modur, M.D.
RHEUMATOLOGY & GERIATRICS
Haider Abbas, M.D.
RADIOLOGY
Dennis Halbert, M.D.
Anthony Kendall, M.D.
Alex Poulos, M.D.
Larry West, M.D.
SURGERY
Rao Bhatraju, M.D.
William Gaunt, M.D.
Oon Leedhanachoke, M.D.
Grady Stephens, M.D.
UROLOGY
John Scott Ill, M.D.
Mark J. Swofford, D.O.
Brett Akers, D.O.
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FLOYD COUNTY
Sports Editor
Steve LeMaster
Phone: (606) 886-8506
Pax: (606) 886-3603
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Rain returned in the area Monday, forcing several high school baseball and softball teams to
postpone games. Many area teams will play few or no games this week before getting busy with
contests next week during the first full week of April. In high school baseball last night,
Prestonsburg was playing host to Sheldon Clark.
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Kinzer team races to third-place finish at Cherokee SpeedWay
TIMES STAFF REPORT
ALLEN - The newly-acquired
Southern All Stars-East Series, part
of the Southern All Stars (SAS)
Series visited Cherokee Speedway in
Gaffney, S.C. over the weekend for a
40-lap, $4,000-to-win feature race.
The Brandon Kinzer Motorsports
team was in attendance as Cherokee
Speedway has become a home away
from ·home of sorts for the Floyd
County-based Late Model race team.
The Kinzer team has been quick to
find success at the Gaffney, S .C.
venue, and this past weekend was
utilized as an R&D Test as of sorts.
Just as is the case in the SAS
events, the SAS-E series top-16 qualifiers locked themselves into the feature event. Of the 16 cars present, the
Kinzer team posted the sixth- fastest
time, securing itself an outside third
row starting spot.
In typical Brandon Kinzer fashion, the Allen driver wasted no time
in moving forward. At the expiration
Magrini leads Horsemen
past Greyhounds
of the 40 laps, the No. 18 Kinzer
Drilling, Barry Wright Racecars,
Ranger Contracting, Eastco Supply,
Alert Oil & Gas, Commonwealth
Chiropractic, Allstar Performance,
Tim Short Automotive, Panther
Motorsports Design Dodge Intrepid
SXT finished in third place.
"We came down here with intentions of trying several new things,"
said Kinzer. "The track surface did
some things that we weren't ready for
and we had to hurry up and make some
changes to make the car competitive.
I'm happy with how things turned out,
now we're for ready next weekend."
The next scheduled races for
Brandon Kinzer Motorsports roll up
later this week- Friday and Saturday
-at Volunteer Speedway. The pair of
events are unsanctioned and pay lllll~~"
$3,000 to win on Friday night , and
$10,000 to win on Saturday.
For more information on Brandon
photo courtesy of Brandon Kinzer Motorsports
Kinzer Motorsports, go online to
Brandon Kinzer raced his way to a third-place
www.brandonkin~:er.com
finish over the weekend at Cherokee Speedway.
BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY
12 races, 12 winners highlight
opening round of Sunoco Bracket
Series Action
TIMES STAFF REPORT
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LEXINGTON - Paced by rookie wide
receiver Eric Magrini's first three career touchdowns, the Lexington Horsemen scored early
and often Saturday evening on their way to a
.63-62 win over border-rival Ohio Valley in
Rupp Arena in Lexington's 2005 home opener.
Prestonsburg High School grad Nathan
Leslie is in his first season with the Horsemen.
Last season, Leslie played for the Greyhounds.
Leslie plays along the Lexington offensive and
defensive lines.
The Horsemen (2-0) , who raised the 2004
national championship banner prior to kickoff,
were led by quarterback
Dusty Bonner, who completed 17-of-29 passes
for 196 yards and six
touchdowns . Running
back Derek Homer
rushed for 36 yards and
two touchdowns, while
rookie
Randy
Bell
rushed for 35 yards and a
Nathan Leslie
touchdown, and caught
four passes for '56 yards
I
and
a
touchdown.
Magrini finished the game with 33 yards receiving and kicker Justin Hutton connected on his
" only field-goal attempt, a 39-yarder in the second quarter.
Lexington got on the board early to begin the
game as Bonner found Magrini in the end zone
from two yards out less than three minutes into
the game to take a 7-0 lead at the 11 :45 mark of
the first quarter. On the Horsemen's second possession of the game, Bonner threw to Bell , who
broke free for a career-high 40-yard run with
6:52 remaining in the first quarter to push ·
Lexington.'s edge out to 13-0.
Ohio Valley 's Lamonte Coleman ran it in
from the 4-yard line with 4:45 left in the opening period to cut the Greyhounds' deficit to six,
, 13-7, with 4:39 left in the opening quarter, but
Lexington used an illegal formation call against
Ohio Valley to score their third touchdown of
the quarter. Homer's 1-yard run put the
Horsemen up 20-7 at the 55-second mark.
The Greyhounds opened the second quarter
with a touchdown and followed with another TD
on their next possession. The Horsemen were
only able to manage a field goal during that
stretch and Ohio Valley pulled to within two, 2321 , at the 5:11 mark of the second quarter.
Two Lexington touchdowns late in the second quarter allowed the Horsemen to take a 3727 advantage into the locker room at halftime
after Magrini caught a two-point conversion
toss from Bonner to cap Homer's 1-yard touchdown run.
Magrini completed the hat trick to begin the
third quarter with a touchdown with 13:01 left
in the period to give the Horsemen a 44-27lead.
Ohio VaHey scored twice in the third quarter to
narrow Lexington 's advantage to 44-41 , but
Bonner had different plans for the Horsemen in
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is 2:05 p.m. Tickets for the Busch race remain
available.
The NASCAR Nextel Cup race, the Food City
500, which is again sold out, will be held Sunday
at 1:15 p.m.
Kentucky roots run deep at Bristol Motor
Speedway.
Kentucky native Darrell Waltrip , with 12 victories , still has the most career wins at Bristol.
Waltrip, a native . of Owensboro , won seven
straight races from 1981-84 . Rusty Wallace has
nine wins at the Bristol track.
Before his untimely passing, Dale Earnhardt
BRISTOL, Tenn .. - Winning in the
Sunoco Bracket Series at Bristol Dragway
never comes easy as the opening weekend's doubleheader start to the 2005 season proved. A dozen racers claimed victories in the 12 races and only one of them
was able to combine a win with an additional appearance in finals.
The opening weekend races, held
March 12-13, included several area racers,
including a Pike County racer who
claimed a season-opening victory.
Three-time defending champion Mike
Gill was able to do just that en route to
dominating the Smith Bros. Pro Bike class,
winning on Saturday and finishing in the
runner-up position on Sunday.
Gill, who hails from Elizabethton, rode
his 1992 Suzuki to the Saturday win over
Jon Swafford of Candler, N.C., and followed the win with a runner-up finish to
Morristown's Dustin Lee on Sunday. Gill's
identical reaction times of .043 in the
finals on both days were the best of the
three racers making it that far. His victory
came after posted an elapsed time of 5.860
at 114.26 mph compared to Swafford's
.058 reaction time, 6.298 elapsed time and
107.13 mph. Lee was able to top Gill on
Sunday by overcoming a .078 reaction
time with a 6.659 ET and 102.72 mph run.
Scott Sanders, of Hellier in Pike
County, claimed the Super Pro win on
Saturday of the opening weekend, getting
off the line in .017 seconds with an ET of
5 .039 and speed of 135.36 mph. Charles
Patterson of Rockwood, Tenn. drove his
1967 Plymouth to 105.87 mph after a .027
reaction time and a 6.398 elapsed time to
claim Sunday's victory. Mike Ridge of
Powell , Tenn . and Don Brandon of
Johnson City finished second on Saturday
and Sunday, respectively.
In other action on Saturday, former
track champ Neal Church of Boone, N.C.,
continued his momentum from 2004 by
winning the Hayworth Tire Pro class on
Saturday. Church, who recorded two runner-up finishes in 2004, cut a .022 light
with a 6 .103 ET to beat Jerry ~oore of
Princeton , W.Va. Brandon Bailey of G lade
Spring, Va. outran Piney Flats' Michael
Buckles on Sunday with a .078 reaction
time and 6.659 ET to claim the victory in
race No.2 of the season.
Other winners on Saturday were Jason
Nelson (Bluff City, Tenn.) in Sportsman.
Avery Denton (Bristol, Va.) in First Class
Travel Junior Dragster Division 1 and
Andy Bayless (Clinton, Tenn.) in First
(See BRISTOL, page two)
(See SANDERS, page two)
photos courtesy of
Bristol Motor
Speedway
Above: Scott
Riggs and
Southwest
Virginia native
Eric McClure
sped past the
start/finish
line during a
testing session.
Middle:
Morgan
McClure
Motorsports
and driver
Mike Wallace
hope to return
to Victory
Lane at BMS
in the Food
City 500.
MMM claimed
its first career
victory at
Bristol in
1990 with driver Ernie
lrvan.
Left: Scott
Riggs looked
on as crew
members
make adjustments.
Many locals head to
Bristol for spring race
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PRESTONSBURG - The upcoming weekend
will prove to be one of the biggest weekends of
the year for area racefans. Several area NASCAR
fans , many here in Floyd and surrounding counties, hit the road each spring and fall and travel to
Bristol Motor Speedway. Some even purchase and
often renew season ticket packages. Many often
load up their camper or RV of choose and head to
Southwest Virginia, and then on into Tennessee.
This spring's NASCAR Busch Series race, the
Sharpie Professional 250, has been scheduled for
Saturday afternoon. Start time for the Busch race
Megan Ha • moving
~:on to Lady Bears
TIMES STAFF REPORT
PIKEVILLE - The Pikeville
College women's basketball program
has added another talented Eastern
Kentucky player. A local standout who
had quite a year in her only season at
Pikeville High School will play collegiately at Pikeville College.
Megan Harris, a 5-11 senior who
led Pikeville High School to the All
lri "A" Classic state tournament this sea-
Pike Countian Sanders
claims Super Pro win
son, signed a scholat:ship agreement
last week.
Harris averaged 13.3 points and
10.4 rebounds per game for the Lady
Panthers in her lone season in maroon.
Harris sat out her junior campaign
after transferring from Allen Central
High School. Despite missing that season, she still scored 924 points in her
high school career.
Harris, a two-time all-58th District
performer while playing in Floyd
County, shot 46.0 percent from the
field this season and hit 34.5 percent
from the arc. For the season, she connected on 72.2 percent of her free
throws.
"We think Megan has tremendous
upside and can be a terrific asset to our
program," said Coach Bill Watson of
Pikeville College. "We've watched her
development through the years and
think she will be very valuable to the
(See HARRIS, page two)
Elite Eight run, deep bench
bode well for Kentucky's future
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
.
LEXINGTON - The Kentucky
Wildcats entered the basketball season
a mystery of sorts , with three new
starters, including two freshmen. They
finished as one of the favorites for
national honors next season.
That didn't make their exit any less
frustrating. For the second time in
three years , the Wildcats entered a
regional final as the favorite, only to
lose. Two years ago, it was Marquette
that "tunncd Kentucky This time
Michigan State edged the Wildcats 94-
88 in double overtime on Sunday.
"It was a great game , and sometimes you get
it and sometimes
you
don ' t , "
K e nt ucky
senior fotward
Chuck Hayes
said after his
s t a n do u t
career ended
one game shy
of hi ultimate
Tubby Smith
"You
goal.
(See FUTURE, page two)
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MARCH
30, 2005
THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Harris
Future
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Lady Bear program for the next four years.
We're very pleased to add her to. the family."
The Lady Bears finished the 2004-05 season 17-14 in Watson's eighth season as head
coach of the women's basketball program.
Harris will join two other signees as freshman on the 2005-06 roster. Pikeville has
already signed Whitesburg teammates Camille
Cook and Whitney Hogg, who also helped
their team to the All "A" Classic state tournament.
During her sophomore year of high school,
Harris received recognition at the University
of Tennessee camp by being chosen for the ·
All-American All-Star Team. She received district and regional honors for all-tournament
teams and has been recognized at the Blue
Chip All Star Camp as the 3-Point Shooting
Champion and Free Throw Champion.
She is the daughter of Annette Ward of
Banner, and Gary Harris of Prestonsburg. She
is the granddaughter of Florene and Taylor
Harris of Prestonsburg and Warnie and Madge
Spurgeon of Hager Hill.
Harris has played basketball for 13 years.
MEGAN HARRIS
Sanders
Class Travel Junior Dragster
Division 2. Sunday's winners
were
Mack
McMillan
(Clinchco, Va.) in Sportsman,
Austin Olinger (Kingsport) in
Junior 'Dragster Division 1 and
Michelle Black (Winston
Salem, N.C.) in Junior Dragster
Division 2.
The Sunoco Bracket Series
will resume action on Saturday,
April9.
Bristol
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also visited Bristol's victory
lane nine times.
April l marks the anniversary
of Earnhardt's first NASCAR
victory, which came on that date
in 1979. The 1979 season was
Earnhardt's rookie year on the
NASCAR racing circuit.
Cale Yarborough is a third
driver with nine Bristol wins.
Featured on the cover of
this spring's Food City 500 are
NASCAR veterans Wallace,
Mark Martin and Terry
Labonte, all of whom are either
retiring this year or cutting
back on their schedules after
long and successful careers.
Individual stories will profile the careers of all three drivers, highligfiting their accomplishments at Bristol Motor
Speedway. All three were
named in 1998 as one of 50
greatest drivers in NASCAR
history and have experienced
success at BMS' half-mile
oval. Wallace has found his
way to victory lane nine times
while both Martin and Labonte
have each picked up a pair of
wins . This will be the last
spring race for Wallace and
Martin, both of whom are giving up their NEXTEL Cup
rides at the end of 2005, while
Labonte is running 10 races
both this year and next.
Track and NASCAR information, including schedules,
seating charts, past winners,
and entry lists is also included
in the program. Scanner frequencies for both NEXTEL
Cup and the Busch Series also
will be included.
The program will be available during the event and will
sell for $15, which includes
the program in a protective
plastic sleeve, a 1:64 scale
event die-cast car and a t-shirt.
The program alone may be
purchased for $10 .
Any programs that remain
after the race weekend will be
sold in the BMS souvenir store,
Speedway World. Information
concerning how to order the programs online will be made available after April 3 at www.bristolmotorspeedway.com.
There's many stories to follow
at this year's Bristol spring race.
Wallace is expected to make
his 675th career start in
Sunday's Food City 500.
Martin is expected to make his
550th consecutive srait.
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figure if you give everything
you have and with all the hard
work, you know you will get the
result that you want."
That Kentucky (28-6) would
be in position to play for a Final
Four berth seemed somewhat
improbable in November, as the
Wildcats entered the season
with three new starters.
While junior guard Patrick
Sparks, a transfer from Western
Kentucky, was somewhat of a
known quantity, two starters
were freshmen _ point guard
Rajon Rondo and center
Randolph Morris. Rondo and
Morris joined guards Joe
Crawford and Ramel Bradley to
form one of the nation's most
touted freshmen classes.
None of the freshmen
became immediate stars, and
Crawford even left the team
for a week in January in a dis-pute with coach Tubby Smith
over playing time. But by season's end , all four players had
made significant contributions, and Rondo had set a single-season school record for
steals with 87 .
It wasn 't just the freshman
class that developed. The team's
four sophomores - centers
Shagari Alleyne and Lukasz
Obrzut and forwards Bobby
Perry and Sheray Thomas - also
became part of Smith's deep
playing rotation.
The
7-foot-3
Alleyne
received most of the early headlines, as he scored in double figures in three of the team's first
six games. His playing time
dwindled as the season progressed because of academic
issues , but the 7-foot Obrzut
emerged late in the season as a
contributor.
With Morris in foul trouble
during a regional semifinal,
Obrzut and Alleyne teamed to
frustrate Utah All-America center Andrew Bogut, keying the
Wildcats' 62-52 win.
Thomas missed the season's
first month after surgery to
remove a tennis ball-sized
benign tumor in early October.
He returned by mid-December
and helped Perry spell Hayes
along the frontline.
Bradley, Crawford, the four
sophomores and junior walk-on
Ravi Moss each averaged between
6.4 and 12.3 minutes per game.
Kentucky's light early schedule - Coppin State, Ball State,
Georgia State and Tennessee Tech
- resulted in a 4-0 start, but a trip
to North Carolina on Dec. 4 gave
the Wildcats their frrst loss, 91-78.
A highlight of the season
came Dec. 18 , when the
Wildcats rallied from a 16-point
halftime deficit to win 60-58 at
eventual Final Four qualifier
Louisville. Sparks became an
instant legend by making three
free throws with less than a second left to win the game.
Kentucky's only home loss
came Jan. 9 as Kansas - without
standout Wayne Simien - beat
the Wildcats 65-59. Kentucky
then reeled off a nine-game winning streak before talk of an
undefeated
Southeastern
Conference campaign ended with
a 73-61 loss at South Carolina.
A 78-71 win at then-No. 16
Alabama on Feb. 26 clinched
Kentucky's 43rd SEC title- and
its fifth in Smith's eight seasons
at the helm.
A loss to Florida in the SEC
tournament final cost the
Wildcats a No. 1 NCAA tournament 'seed, but as a No. 2 seed,
they beat two nearby rivals Eastern
Kentucky
and
Cincinnati - and ' dispatched
Utah before the loss to
Michigan State.
Four starters will be back next
season, assuming Azubuike, the
team's leading scorer at 14.7 points
per game, doesn't try to jump to
the NBA. The 6-foot-6 junior
swingman said after the game
Sunday that "I really haven't even
thought about that now."
The Wtldcats should return 11
of their top 13 players and will lose
only two seniors - 6-6 forward
Hayes and reserve Josh Carrier.
Hayes averaged 10.9 points
and a team-high 7.7 rebounds
per game this season and started
every game beginning midway
through his freshman season _
110 straight, matching the
school record set by Alex Groza
from 1946 through 1949.
Hayes finished 35th on
Kentucky's career scoring list
(l,Zll points), seventh on the
school's rebounding list (910),
ninth in blocked shots (128) and
eighth in steals (1 70).
"He understands what sacrifice
means and commitment means,"
Smith said. "He is a living example for all players to follow."
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the fourth quarter.
Bonner ,threw an 11-yard
pass to former Ohio Valley player John Kendall Cooper to begin
the fourth quarter as the
Horsemen began to pull away,
50-41 with 14:30 remaining in
the
game. Though
the
Greyhounds would score again
to come within two, 50-48,
Bonner found Magrini for his
fourth touchdown of the game,
giving Lexington a 56-48
advantage with just under 10
minutes left.
Ohio Valley evened the score
at 56 with just over six minutes
remaining before a four-play
drive by Lexington resulted in a
2-yard rush for touchdown to
give the Horsemen a 63-56 lead
with 2:11 left, but the
Greyhounds , staying true to
form , struck back with a touchdown with 18 seconds remaining . The two-point conversion
would be intercepted as the
Horsemen held on for the win.
The Horsemen return to
action Saturday when they travel to Evansville , Ind. , to face
the Evansville Bluecats. Kickoff
is slated for 8 p.m. and the game
will be carried live on Supertal.k
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
30, 2005 • 83
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Michigan State 94, Kentucky 88, 20Ts
by JAIME ARON
" SSOCIATED PRESS
sitting next to the films when of a news conference.
"You figure if you give
I:lzo began slamming away. "It
everything you have, you get
was either put up or shut up."
lzzo struck again during the what you want: But sometimes,
delay. While officials reviewed you don't,:• , s,aid Hayes, who
Sparks' shot, Izzo got busy. He ends his career tied for the most
told his team to presume it was consecutive starts in school hisgood and start focusing on what tory yet ~ever got past the
to do next. Holding his clip- regional finals.
Since winning the champiboard, he told his huddle, "Now
let's beat them a second time."
onship in 1998. coach Tubby
This was the third of four Smith's first tear in Lexington,
regional finals that needed over- Kentucky is 0-for-3 in the round
time this weekend. Only once, of eight. The Spartans also elimin 1992, had even two games inated 'them in '99. This loss
· also deprived the Bluegrass state
this round gone to OT.
The young Wildcats (28-6) of having two teams in the Final
were supposedly a year away Four; only Louisville will be
from greatness. While they'll be there now.
expected to go even further next
Instead, there's the chance
year, that's too late for their best for a -title-game matchup
player, Chuck Hayes, the lone between 'a different set of
senior lost from the top of their regional rivals: Michigan State
and lllinois, the only team that
deep rotation.
Hayes, who played for Izzo on finished ahead of the Spartans in
the U.S. Pan Am team two years the Big Ten this season.
The Spartans were led by
ago, hugged Torbert, Hill and
Anderson, then shook bands with sophomore Shannon Brown,
Izzo on his way to the bench with whose 24 points on 8-of-10
a few seconds left. He began cry- shooting with five 3-pointers
ing and didn't stop until the start helped earn a Final Four reunion
Plenty of anxious moments waiting
for officials' ruling on Sparks' shot
Pitino has Cardinals
on 'a great ride'
by JAIME ARON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas- The wait,
everyone agreed, seemed to
take forever. And that was just
to see whether Patrick Sparks'
buzzer-beating shot was going
to fall into the net.
Then, the real drama began.
With a Final Four berth on
the line for Kentucky and
Michigan State, referee James
Burr and his crew wanted to
take their time to make dam
sure they were right before ruling whether Sparks had just
made the most miraculous shot
in an NCAA tournament
already overflowing with signature moments or if it was
simply too good to be true.
And, boy, d~d they ever take
their time: 6 minutes, 25 seconds, according to a stopwatch
review by CBS on Monday.
"It seemed like it lasted for
an eternity," Wildcats coach
Tubby Smith said.
After a zoom shot of Sparks'
right blue-and-white sneaker
• showed that the tip of his toe
was not clearly on the line, Burr
flashed the last three fingers on
each hand, making it a 3-pointer that tied the game at 75, forcing overtime. The Wildcats
rode the momentum to a quick
lead, but couldn't hold it and
the Spartans wound up winning
94-88 in two overtimes.
Regardless of what happens
in St. Louis this weekend, the
college basketball world will be
buzzing for quite a while over
this one, a shot that's guaran~ teed to be a staple of March
Madness moments for generations to come because it featured so many elements, from
the rim action to the long delay.
Especially the long delay.
"I was just praying and hoping that from the angle they
were seeing it was a clear-cut
3-pointer," Kentucky star
Chuck Hayes said. "I didn't
want it to end like that."
While Wildcats fans tried
consoling themselves Monday,
there was a lot of back-patting
in the NCAA offices. The folks
~ who set up how to handle these
types of situations credited
officials for a job well done,
regardless of how long it took.
"You have to get the play
right, whatever it takes," said
Hank Nichols, the NCAA's
national coordinator of officials. "I thought they did a
good job."
Ed Bilik, editor of the men's
basketball rules committee,
called it "probably the most
critical call we've had made
with f.ijlay because it was in
~ the r~gipnal finals - and it was
exactly/right."
The NCAA has no time
limit, unlike the NFL, which
gives officials 90 seconds to
make up their mind. A big difference, however, is that this
was at the end of the game,
while NFL replays most interrupt the flow of action.
Bilik said he didn't recall a
time limit ever being discussed. It may come up now,
he said, "but I'm not sure that's
going to amount to anything."
~
NCAA officials pointed out
">
with high school teammate Dee
Brown of the Fighting lllini.
Maurice Ager added 21 points
for the Spartans, while Paul
Davis had 15 and 11 rebounds.
Randolph
Morris
Jed
Kentucky with 20 points and
Hayes had 16 points and five
rebounds. Sparks scored 15, all
on 3-pointers. The Wil'dcats had
been 19-0 when he made at least
two 3s.
Notes: Kentucky's Ramel
Bradley collided with Anderson
in the fmal minute of regulation
and had to be taken to the locker room. He returned with a
huge bandage on his chin just
before the start of overtime ....
This was the sixth time the
teams have played since 1999.
All have been decided by seven
points or less . ... Brown made
his first eight shots and the
Spartans made their first eight of
the second half. ... The Wildcats
shot 45 percent, the first time
they were under 50 in the tournament .... Michigan State made
10 3-pointers, matching its total
for the first three rounds.
matic moments in a weekend players. MSU also went from
filled with them.
1999-2001, winning it all in
The Wildcats forced the first 2000.
AUSTIN, Texas- To every- overtime with a 3-pointer that
"After what these guys have
one who has ever chided bounced four times on the rim been through, this one is the
Michigan State's upperclassmen before falling through, then took most satisfying," Spartans coach
for being soft, weak and under- five minutes before being Tom Izzo said.
achieving, the Spartans now declared good. The referee knew
The Spartans will take on
have the perfect rebuttal: a Patrick Sparks let it fly in time, North Carolina, which topped
gutsy, tough, double-overtime he just wasn't sure whether the Wisconsin 88-82 on Sunday in
win over Kentucky_ and a tick- tip of Sparks' right foot was the final of the Syracuse
et to St. Louis to show for it.
behind the line. After asking Regional.
And, get this, after knocking CBS for a zoomed-in replay, he
Jzzo boosted his reputation
off Duke and Kentucky to get to flashed the last three fingers on ·by more than upping his Final
the Final Four, their next foe is each hand.
Four total. He's motivated and
North Carolina, giving seniors
Rejuvenated,
Kentucky calmed this club the last few
Alan Anderson, Kelvin Torbert scored the first four points of weeks with tricks that would
and Chris Hill the chance to · overtime - then fizzled . Tied in even impress Final Four counreally go out in style.
the final minute, leading scorer terpart Rick Pitino, who has
"We had plenty of potholes Kelenna Azubuike missed badly written books on leading and
and valleys - even black holes - on an ugly shot, got the ball succeeding.
durin~ this journey," Hill said.
back but was still holding it
He started on Selection
"We have been through it all, when time expired.
Sunday by taking a hammer and
but here, at the end of the day,
Michigan State (26-6) went bashing videotapes of their last
we are still standing."
ahead 4 seconds into the second two games, a victory over Penn
He was talking about his OT, and that was it. The State and a loss to Iowa in the
career, but could've been talking Spartans led the rest of the way, Big Ten tournament.
strictly about Michigan State's protecting it by hitting 11
"We said it was going to be a
94-88 victory over Kentucky, straight free throws to secure new season," said Anderson·,
which took two overtimes and their fourth Final Four in seven who missed key free throws
featured some of the most dra- years - but first for this group of against Iowa and happened to be
that the only things that can be from friends watching TV.
reviewed are whether the shot ' Among those holding a phone
beat the buzzer and whether it with one hand and gesturing
was worth two or three points. wildly with the other was Saul
So for any overzealous Smith, son of the Wildcats
Kentucky fans or pessimistic coach, who apparently liked
Spartans fans who thought offi- what he was told because he
cials also might've been con- left his seat next to Kentucky
sidered tacking on a foul fan-actress Ashley Judd and
against
defender
Kelvin leaned over the railing to shout
Torbert, it never happened.
advice to the officials.
Inside the Erwin Center on
- Judd went from bouncing
Sunday evening, everyone was up and down to fiddling with
just trying to get a grip on what an extra Kentucky T-shirt,
they'd seen, much less sort out draping a blue one over the
the technical details.
white one she was wearing.
Immediately after the ball She tucked it into her collar,
dropped, Sparks was the then pulled it back out.
calmest man in the building.
- Spartans coach Tom Izzo
He walked away slowly, his stood with his hands on his
right index finger pointed ... hips, then hitched his pants and
then went wild, even going crossed his feet. He looked up,
over to press row to smack the collected his thoughts, and
hand of CBS announcer Billy began pa5ing. Players had
Packer before being mobbed pulled ontu the court the stools
by teammates.
they use during timeouts, but
Directly across the court, only a few were sitting.
officials already were kneeling
Remembering
overtime
around a monitor. Once the games lost because he hadn't
attention focused on them, the re-energized his team, Izzo
16,239 fans turned silent, as grabbed· the white dry-erase
did many living rooms and board he uses to diagram plays,
sports bars in the country. In an huddled up his players and
instant, Sparks' shot became said, "Now let's beat them a
the basketball equivalent of the second time."
hanging chads from the 2000
They did. But the lasting
election.
memory will be what happened
Among the sights during the first time.
those nervous minutes:
AP sports writers Michael
- Fans frustrated that the
overhead scoreboard was Marot in Indianapolis, Jim
showing the NCAA logo, and Vertuno in Austin and Connor
not the CBS feed, pulling out Ennis in New York contributed
their cell phones to get reports to this story.
Several family members will
an injury. The maladies literally
ranged from head to toe - from meet Pitino in St. Louis. Pitino's
Palacios' scratched cornea to the wife and Minardi's sister,
LOUISVILLE - Rick Pitino stress fractures in Otis George's Joanne, made sure Billy Minardi
is right on schedule.
wasn't forgotten as the Cardinals
right foot.
Somehow, the Cardinals kept were dueling West Virginia.
College basketball's great
Joanne Pitino was watching
rebuilder needed four seasons to winning.
guide Louisville from crum"That's what makes this sea- from the family's Louisville
bling decay to the Final Four, son so fulfilling ," Pitino said. home, where a portrait of her
just like he did at Kentucky in "Everything you believe in as a brother hangs in the living
the early 1990s. He got coach, every principle, every room . When Pitino returned
Providence there in two years in dream, has come true. You have from Albuquerque on Saturday
the mid-1980s and is the first to overcome injuries and most of night, he noticed the portrait
coach to take three
the times, you lose. was sitting in a chair.
teams this far in the
"This year, the
The next morning, Pitino
guys wouldn't take asked his wife why she had
NCAA tournament.
The
Cardinals
taken the picture down. She said
any losses."
(33-4), in their first
Pitino p~anned to she prop~d it up in the chair,
Final Four since they
meet w,i,t:h ,h,.is play- fa<;:illg the. televisi9n.
won it all in 1986,
ers on Monday night
"She said, 'They were shootplay Illinois (36-1)
and explain what - ing so well and you guys were·
in St. Louis on
they should expect I out of it. Only he could pull us
Saturday.
from the· busy week. through this ,"' Pitino said.
"It happens so
He wasn't going
Pitino said Monday he ha~
Rick Pitino
fast," Pitino said.
to offer any pro- already broken down six tapes of
"The NCAA starts,
found advice.
the Illini and joked he would
the season ends so abruptly. It
"Have fun, enjoy it. It's a need the whole week to devise a,
goes on, and you don't expect once in a lifetime experience," game plan. Pitino has never me~
anything. We haven't really Pitino said. "It's like being a Illinois coach Bruce Weber but
been able to catch our brea'th. great pianist and going to admires the job he's seen on film ,
It's been a great ride."
Carnegie Hall. It's a great act · "He runs great offensive sets,
It
nearly
ended
in going to Broadway. It's what we he gets his players spaced propAlbuquerque, where hot-shoot- all dream about."
erly, they play hard defensiveing West Virginia put Louisville
Pitino will be coaching in his ly," Pitino said. "If it wasn't for
in a 20-point hole and led by 13 fifth Final Four, but the first with- a step-back shot at Ohio State,
at halftime.
out his brother-in-law and best they would' ve had a perfect seaPitino wasn't sure the friend, Billy Minardi, who died in son, which is unheard of in this.
Cardinals would come back, but the Sept. 11 , 200 1, terrorist attacks day and age. They're a hell of a
they defied the 5 ,300-foot alti- on the World Trade Center.
basketball team."
tude and rallied from a doubledigit deficit for the fourth time
this season in a 93-85 victory.
''They're very resilient, very
tough-minded," he said of his
team. "Whatever has made them
tough, they're tough. I'm just a
pussycat following their coattails. I just sit back and marvel
at what they accomplish."
And Pitino sees them ohly
getting better. The Cardinals
have won 22 of their last 23 and
new stars keep emerging.
Senior
guard
Latty
O'Bannon scored 24 secondhalf points against the
Mountaineers and has averaged
18.6 points in Louisville's last
nine games, all victories.
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Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
right arm.
The potential seemed pretty
Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
shaky early in the season.
Closed Sunday
Before it even began, Pitino
was kicking himself for recruiting high school stars Sebastian
Located 1/4-mile from U.S. 23,
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Improbable victory puts
Pitino back in Final Four
by EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Rick Pitino has coached more
dramatic games. He has coaxed
teams to bigger comebacks. He
has never. though, been
through anything quite like the
kind of win that earned him a
ticket to this year's Final Four.
Trai I ing by 20 against a West
Virgima team on a practically
unheard-of shooting streak, all
Pitino could do was hope his
Louisville team still had a
chance once the Mountaineers
finally cooled off.
The Cardinals did, and now
one of the best coaches in the
game has added yet another
impressive entry to his resume:
He is the only men's coach to
take three different programs to
the Final Four - Providence,
Kentucky, and now, Louisville.
"It is one of those nights that
makes legends,·· Pitino said
after the come-from-behind 9385 overtime win Saturday.
'Tve been involved in maybe
the greatest NCAA game ever.
You have to walk off the court
and have a feeling inside that is
inJescribable. If you're in this
game long enough, you will
see the victorious side."
Pitino wasn't on the victoriou~ side m the "greatest game"
he speaks of. That was
Kentucky's 104-103 loss to
Duke in 1992 - the Christian
Laettner game.
And while Saturday's classic in The Pit might not have
lived up to that game, it was
close - and Pitino liked the
result much better.
In notching his 449th career
win, Pitino gets credit for pushing his players to their limit.
scrapping the 2-3 zone he used
much of the season when his
team was injured and undermanned, and insisting that the
game wasn't over.
"I looked at Coach, and he's
been in that position before,"
said Taquan Dean, whose 3point shooting kept Louisville
in range. "He told us to stay
calm. We're still going to stay
in this game."
Back in 1994, Pitino 's
Kentucky Wildcats trailed LSU
by 31, only to pull off the best
comeback in college hoops history for a 99-95 win. That comeback came in February, though,
not March, and it was against a
so-so team, not one playing the
way West Virginia was.
The Mountaineers made 18
of 27 3-point shots, a mark second only to Loyola Marymount
for the most in tournament history. They made shots from 30
feet, banked them in off glass,
watched them bound high off the
rim and scoot through the hoop .
Pitino said he wasn't as concerned about all those shots
dropping, as what the shots did
to his team's confidence.
But to ask a seven-man rotation - minus star player
Francisco Garcia for the final
9:02 to press and trap like that
- at 5,300 feet in Albuquerque,
no less? On most nights, it would
have been too much to ask. Yet
somehow, the Cardinals kept
answering.
"To have no substitutes and
do that, is why it's so incredibly remarkable to me," Pitino
said.
Next, a trip to St. Louis and
a matchup in the national semifinals against Illinois. The Illini
are already established as 2
1/2-point favorites, and by
many accounts, they've got the
more talented squad.
Louisville has talent, too,
though. And as amazing as the
comeback was, Pitino said he
always thought the Cardinals
had the stuff to win a championship.
"Sometimes I think overachieving means you go
beyond your capacity to try and
win," he said. "And I think
these guys have done that all
year, but I think they're a very
talented team."
So close to Final Four,
Mountaineers return as heroes
by JOHN RABY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLbSTON, W.Va. The 3-pointers came at a nearrecord pace . A few more might
have gotten West Virginia into
thl! Final Four.
Instead of second-guessing
what could have happened in a
93-85
overtime loss to
Louisville in the NCAA region
.al finals, the Mountaineers
1s<nored their tournament run
1and returned to Morgantown on
! Sunday as heroes.
: A squad on the brink of not
'making the tournament less
than three weeks ago received
:a herth for the first time since
1998 and made its best show1ing stnce Jerry West's 1959
)squad went to the national title
I,same.
The team returned from
Albuquerque on Sunday night
llnd was greeted hy thousands
of well-wishers at the WVU
Coliseum to the cheers of
. "Thank you, Mountaineers."
: "The only v.ay we lost in this
·game was on the scoreboard.
, We did not Jose in any other
way," Coach John Beilein told
· the crowd. "Our team and our
coaching staff, we've hurdled
so many battles over these three
years. The kids behind me, we
worked very hard for each
other. lt's been a great run."
The players can be enthusiastic about what's in store in
2005-06.
Leading scorer Tyrone
Sally, center D ' or Fischer and
reserve Durie! Price were the
only seniors on the team that
went 24- 11 and stole the hearts
of West Virginians with their
i
maddening March run.
Kevin Pittsnogle, who didn't start until the season's midpoint and led the Mountaineers
in scoring in half their games
after that, will be the centerpiece. West Virginia also
returns starters J.D. Collins,
Mike Gansey and Joe Herber
and key backup Patrick
Beilein.
But next season also marks
the beginning of a tougher Btg
East that wekomes Louisville,
Cincinnati, Marquette and
DePaul. That ceitainly will make
it more difficult for West Virginia
to earn one of the conference's
NCAA tournament bids.
After what happened since
early February, anything is possible.
"We could be in a situation
next year where we are struggling and back on the bubble
again," Beilein said after the
game Saturday night. "I completely expect that is going to
be like that because our league
is so difficult."
Whether the coach will be
back is a more pressing question. When he took the job in
April 2002, Beilein said he
planned to stay in Morgantown
"for a very, very long time - as
long as WVU will have me."
Lately, though, his name has
been floated as a candidate for
the vacant job at Virginia.
Beilein and WVU athletic
department officials deflected
talk about his job status last
week to concentrate on the
tournament.
"I don't have any thoughts,
other than I have a contract
with West Virginia and I plan
on coaching there," said
Beilein, who is signed through
the 2009-10 season.
One thing is clear. He did a
splendid job in 2004-05.
There was the 10-0 start,
including wins over ranked
teams George Washington and
North Carolina State. There
was a puzzling loss to Marshall
that started a five-game losing
streak.
Then came the turning
point, a Feb. 5 overtime win
over a ranked Pitt;.burgh team
in which Pittsnogle started in
place of an ill Fischer and
scored a career-high 27 points.
That
jump-started
the
Mountaineers' stretch drive
that brought wins in 12 of their
final 16 games.
They beat Providence,
Boston College and Villanova
in the conference tournament.
They needed Sally's lastsecond dunk to b.::at Creighton
in the first round of the NCAA
tournament, Gansey's
19
points after regulation to outlast Wake Forest in double
overtime, and Pittsnogle's 22
points and late free throws to
eliminate Texas Tech.
Against heavy favorite
Louisville, West Virginia made
18 3-pointers, the second most
in the history of the tournament. But Louisville switched
from a zone to a man-to-man
defense and overcame a 20point deficit.
"I guess it is real tough to
sink in with what happened,"
Gansey said after the game,
"but I mean we had a great
year."
One that will be talked
about in the Mountain State for
a long time.
Louisville 93, West Virginia 85, OT
by EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Louisville game plan? Hah!
West Virginia's hotshot shooters
turned that into little more than
a cheesy souvenir.
Louisville's trip to the Final
Four? That looked like a lost
cause, too.
The master motivator himself,
Cardinals coach Rick Pitino,
admitted he was lying when 11e
told his players at halftime that he
was sure they were going to win.
Almost every road to a championship takes at least one unexpected twist, though, and none
was more astonishing than the
second-half rally the Cardinals
staged Saturday to earn a 93-85
overtime win and a trip to college basketball's biggest stage.
"I've never seen anything
like it in my life," Pitino said.
Cramping, limping, barely
able to run, Larry O'Bannon
scored 24 points and Taquan
Dean had 23 to lead fourthseeded Louisville (33-4) back
from a 20-point deficit to the
scintillating victory in the
Albuquerque Regional final.
Seventh-seeded
West
Virginia (24-11), trying to make
the Final Four for the first time
since 1959, went home despite
making 10 3-pointers in the first
half and sending Pitino and the
Cardinals into shock.
"I've never abandoned a whole
scouting report at halftime," he
said. "But it had to be abandoned."
Pitino instructed his players to
scrap its zone defense, start trapping and pressing, and play more
aggressively on offense. They
followed his directions and, in
doing so, they helped him make
history - becoming the first
coach to take three men's programs to the Final Four.
First it was Providence. then
Kentucky three times, and now
this. The Cardinals will play
Arizona or Illinois next
Saturday in St. Louis.
"Certainly, having been to
three different schools, I have
nothing but respect for him
because I know how difficult it
is," said Vivian Stringer, who
did it on the women's side, with
Cheyney, Iowa and Rutgers.
Louisville had every reason
to pack it in after the
Mountaineers took a 38-18 lead.
And it wasn't just that coach
John Beilein's team made II of
its first 16 field-goal attempts.
or that it shot I 0-for-14 from 3point range in the first half, or
that it made a total of 18 from
long range, second to only the
1990 Loyola Marymount team
in the history of the tournament.
It was also the way some of
the shots fell.
Beilein's
son,
Patrick.
banked one in from an awkward
angle in front of the Louisville
be~ch. He made another from
the 'B' in the New Mexico
''Lobos" logo set about 30 feet
from the basket.
"They were falling out of
bounds, shooting from halfcourt and banking them in,"
Pitino said. "You've got to give
them all the credit in the world."
Pitino spent much of the first
half in an unfamiliar pose- sitting on the bench, watching shot
after shot fall and hoping that
when the wave ended, his team
would still have a chance.
Turns out, the Cardinals did.
"That's the beauty of this
game - expect the unexpected,"
John Beilein said.
Louisville pulled within
arm's distance many times in
the second half, but on every
occasion, Johannes Herber or
Kevin Pittsnogle (six 3-pointers,
25 points) made 3s to keep the
Mountaineers ahead.
Not until O'Bannon, the
region's most valuable player,
slithered through the defense and
made a layup with 38 seconds
left did Louisville tie it at 77 _
the first tie since 3-all. And not
until overtime began did West
Virginia finally start missing.
"I wouldn't say we were
worn out," Pittsnogle said . "We
still had a lot of gas left. We just
couldn't make the key plays
when we had to make them."
Led by Dean's seventh 3pointer and four free throws by
O'Bannon,
the
Cardinals
opened it up in overtime.
VVhen the buzzer sounded,
Pitino starteli hugging players,
and O' Bannon chucked the ball
toward the ceiling at The Pit,
which hosted a game almost as
exciting as the 1983 final when
Jim Valvano and North Carolina
State won their improbable
championship.
"Just to come out and accomplish something ... of this magnitude just makes it that much
sweeter," 0 ' Bannon said.
Louisville made its eighth
Final Four despite playing the
final 4:02 of regulation and overtime without arguably its best
player, Francisco Garcia, who
couldn't avoid the fouls as the
Cardinals started trapping, pressing, doing whatever they could to ~
disrupt the torrid Mountaineers.
Both teams had chances to
win in regula~on. J.D. Collins
had his 10-foot jumper swatted
by Brandon Jenkins, then in
transition, Dean got a good look
with about 3 seconds ieft, but
the shot rimmed off.
Once Louisville's domination of overtime was complete,
the stats didn't seem so lopsided. Sure, the Mountaineers
made more 3s - 18-to-11 to
combine for an NCAA tournament record - but the overall
field-goal shooting was 55.3 ~
percent for West Virginia to 55.2 ~'-'
to Louisville. Percentages like
that almost always guarantee
victory in modern-day hoops.
Only one team cou1d win,
though, and the Mountaineers
were sent home, corning oh, so
close to their first trip to the
Final Four since Jerry West
donned the gold and blue.
"The scoreboard is the only
place we lost today," Beilein said.
Louisville, meanwhile, is
moving on. The Cardinals made it
back to the Final Four for the first
time since 1986, when Denny
Crum and Pervis Ellison led them W
to their second national title.
Now, it's Pitino trying to
bring his second national championship back to the Bluegrassbut this time to Louisville, not
Kentucky.
"My pride level for this basketball team is as high as it has
ever been," he said.
Notes: The 33 wins match
Louisville's high for a season.
The Cardinals won 33 en route
to the national title in 1980. ...
The last No. 4 seed to advance
to the Final Four was Ohio State
in 1999 .... West Virginia was
trying to become the highestseeded team to make the Final
Four since LSU (lith) in 1986.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT
Play-in Gam~
Oakla11d, Mich. 79,Aiabanul A&M 69
SYRACUSE REGIONAL
First Round
Friday, March 18
AI DCU Ccmer
Wol'ccster. Mass.
North Carolina State 75, Charloue 63
ConneCtiCUt 77. Centml Florida 71
At Charlouc Coli;eum
Charlonc. N.C.
Iowa Stale 64 . Minnesota 53
North Carolina 96. Oakland, Mich. 68
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Florida 67. Ohio 62
Villanova 55. New Mexico 47
At The Ford Center
Oklahoma City
Wbconsin 57. Northern Iowa 52
Bucknell 64, Kansas 63
Second Round
Sunday. March 20
At DCU Center
\Vorccstcr, Mn~~.
North Carolina State 65, Connecticut 62
At Charlonc Coliseum
Charlonc. N.C.
North Carolina 92,lowa State 65
At The Gaylord Entertainment Cemer
Nashville. Tenn.
Villanova 76, Florida 65
At The Ford Center
Oklahoma City
Wisconsin 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
Sunday. March 27
At The Carrier Dome
Syracuse. N.Y.
North Carolina 88. Wisconsm 82
CHICAGO REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday. March 17
At The Wolstein Cemer
Cleveland
Wisconsin-Milwaukee 83. Alabama 73
Boston College 85. Pennsylvania 65
At The RCA Dome
Indianapolis
Nevada 6 t. Texas 57
Illinois 67, Fairleigh Dickinson 55
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise. Idaho
Arizona 66. Utah State 53
UAB 82. LSU 68
Friday, March 18
At The Ford Center
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma S. 63. Southeastern Louisimla 50
Southern lllinois 65. Saint Mary's, Calif. 56
Second Round
Saturday. March 19
At The Wolstem Center
Cleveland
Wisconsin-Milwaukee 83, Boston C. 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 Illinois 77
Semifinals
Thursday. March 24
At Allstate Arena
Rosemont, Ill.
Illinois 77 , Wisconsin-Milwaukee 63
Arizona 79. Oklahoma Stale 78
Charnpionsh1p
Saturday, March 26
AI Allsidle Arena
Rosemont, Ill.
llhno1s 90. Anzona 89, OT
AUSTlN REGIONAL
First Round
Thursday. March 17
At The RCA Don1e
Indianapolis
Kentuck 12. Eastern Kentucky 64
Cinc1nna1i 76,Iowa 64
At The McKale Center
Tuc~on . Ariz.
Oklahoma 84, Niagara 67
Utah 60, Texas-EI Paso 54
Friday, March 18
At DCU Center
Worcester. Mass.
Vermont 60, Syracuse 57
Michigan State 89. Old Dominion 81
At Charloue Coli>cum
Charlotte, N.C.
Duke 57. Delaware State 46
Missis,ipp1 State 93, Stanford 70
Second Round
Saturday. M•rch 19
At The RCA Dome
Indianapolb
Kentuck) 69. Cincinnati 60
At The !>!<Kale Center
Tucson, Anz.
Utah 67, Oklahoma 58
Sunday. March 20
At DCU Center
Worcester, Mac;s.
Michigan State 72, Vermont 61
At Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, N.C.
Duke 63. MISsiSsippi Stale 55
Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At The Fr.rnk Erwin Center
Austin, Texas
Michigan State 78, Duke 68
Kentucky 62, Utah 52
Championship
Sunday. March 27
AI 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
Wost VirginJa 63, Creighton 61
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise. Idaho
P•JCific 79. Plllsburgh 71
Washington 88, Montana 77
At The McKale Center
Tucson, Ariz.
Gonwga 74, Winthrop 64
Texas Tech 78, UCLA 66
Friday. March 18
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Louisville 68. Loui>iana-Lafayelle 62
Georgia Tech 80, George Washington 68
Second Round
Saturday, March 19
At The Wobtein Center
Cleveland
West Virgmia Ill. Wake Forest 105, 20T
At Taco Bell Arena
Boise, Idaho
Wa>hinglon 97. Pacific 79
AI The McKalc Center
Tucson, Arit.
Texas Tech 7 t. Gonzaga 69
Sunday, March 20
At The Gaylord Entertainment Center
Nashville. Tenn.
Louisville 76, Georgia Tech 54
Sem1finals
Thur&day. March 24
At The Pit
Albuquerque, N.M.
Louisville 93. Washington 79
West Virginia 65, Texas Tech 60
Championship
Saturday. Murch 26
At The Pit
Albuquerque, N.M.
Louisville 93. We t Virginia 85. OT
FINAL FOUR
At Edward Jones Dome
St Louis
National Semifinals
Saturday, April 2
llhnoos (36-1) vs. LouiSville (33-4), 6:07p.m.
N. Carolina (31-4) vs. Michip~ S.(26{i), 8:47p.m.
Championship
Monday. April 4
Illinois-Louisville winner vs. North
~) Carohrw-Michigan Stale winner
MSU's Cheney named
OVC Player of the Week
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
MORHEAD - Morehead
State University sophomore
catcher Donald Cheney, one
of only 37 collegiate catchers
on the Johnny Bench Award
watch list, is this week's
Ohio Valley Conference
Player of the Week.
In MSU's three-game
sweep of conference preseason favorite Austin Peay,
Cheney had six hits in I 0 at
bats with four runs scored on
double, two home runs and
eight runs batted in. The
Cridersville, Ohio, native had
a 1.000 slugging percentage
and a .571 on base percentage. In MSU's 12-8 win on
Sunday, he had two three-run
home runs and a sacrifice fly,
knocking in seven runs.
Cheney went four-forfour at the plate and had two
three-run home runs and a
sacrifice fly to account for
seven runs batted in to power
Morehead State to a 12-8 win
over Austin Peay on
Saturday and to ·a sweep of
the three-game Ohio Valley
Conference series.
MSU is now 10-13 overall, 3-0 in the OVC, while
Austin Peay fell to 11-10
overall and 0-3 in the league.
Cheney's three-run home
runs came in back-to-back
innings, the seventh and
eight, when MSU was break-
ing open a close game. The
Eagles also got a two-run
home run from Bryan
Ingram. MSU starter Lance
Johnston pitched five innings
and raised his record to 3-2
on the season.
Cody Youngblood and
Jared Walked each knocked in
two runs for the Governors.
APSU starter Devin Thomas
(2-3) took the loss.
MSU committed only one
error in the three-game series.
Morehead State used outstanding pitching and timely
hitting to sweep a doubleheader from Austin Peay in
the Ohio Valley Conference
opener for both teams Friday
(March 25) at Allen Field.
MSU won the opener 4-2,
then took the scheduled
seven-inning nightcap 4-3 in
eight innings.
In the opener, Adrian
Duran (4-2) pitched seven
and one-third innings of fivehit baseball to pick up the win
for MSU. Dan Klausmeier
pitched the final inning and
two-thirds to get his third save
of the season. Senior second
baseman
Lance
Seasor
knocked in two of the Eagle
runs and scored the other two.
Klausmeier (1-0) got the
win in the second game with
two innings of one-hit relief.
Starter Shane Lucci allowed
five hits in his six inning of
work.
No. 26 Cards top
William & Mary 5-2
30, 2005 • 85
West Virginia 80,
Kentucky 75, 20T
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON
West
Virginia ended its offensive
drought just in time against
Kentucky.
West Virginia squandered a
22-point second-half lead, but
rode a 31-point, 1I -rebound performance by Meg Bulger to an
80-75 double-overtime win over
Kentucky in the semifinals of
the Women's NIT on Monday
night at Memorial Coliseum.
West
Virginia
(21-12)
extended its longest postseason
run ever and will play
Southwest Missouri State on
Thursday in the tournament's
·
title game.
"Every time they took the
lead, one of our young ladies
came down and hit a big shot,"
West Virginia coach Mike Carey
said. ''I'm very proud of that.
This was a tough place to play,
probably the loudest place
we've played in all year."
West Virginia was scoreless
for more than II 112 minutes in
the second half and lost its sizable lead before rallying and
outscoring Kentucky 14-9 in the
second overtime.
Bulger, a sophomore guard
and the leading scorer in the Big
East Conference, had eight
points in the second overtime
and went 4-of-4 from the freethrow line in the final 26.8 seconds.
"She took the ball to the basket more," Carey said. "I
thought in the second ove1time,
we finally started pushing the
ball on a miss.
"It seemed like when we got
the 22-point lead, we played not
to Jose. We didn't play to win.
We were a little bit tentative.
Finally in that second overtime,
I said, 'Let's push it.' and we
were able to get six points off
the break."
West Virginia shot 11-for-23
from 3-point range. Sherell
Sowho led the way, going 5-for-7
and scoring 21 points. Bulger,
who set a school record with her
fifth 30-point game of the season,
shot 4-for-9 from 3-point range.
West Virginia led 49-27 with
16:43 left, but didn't score again
until 5:09 remained . After
Sowho's 3-pointer put the
Mountaineers ahead by 22
points, West Virginia had just
three baskets and nine points in
the final minutes of regulation.
'That's not a pretty stat,"
Bulger said of the scoring
drought. "It's something you
never, ever want to happen in a
game. But luckily we pulled
together in the end, and our
defense kept us in it when we
weren't scoring."
Kentucky (18-16) took its
first lead at 53-52 with 2:27 left
in regulation. West Virginia
regained the lead before Sara
Potts made a 6-footer with 7.8
seconds left to tie the game.
''I don·t think this team has
ever given up during a game,"
said Potts, who scored 29 points
after scoring 32 and 31 points in
Kentucky's
two
previous
games. Entering the WNIT, the
senior guard's career high was
30 points.
After a West Virginia
turnover, Kentucky freshman
Samantha Mahoney missed a
well-guarded 3-pointer at the
buzzer.
The teams traded the lead in
the first overtime. West Virginia
went just 4-of-8 from the line,
and Potts made two free throws
with 15.9 seconds left to tie the
game at 66. Yolanda Paige
missed at the buzzer for West
Virginia.
Kentucky didn't score for the
first 3 minutes of the second
overtime. Bulger scored with
1:53 left to give West Virginia a
72-66
lead,
and
the
Mountaineers shot 6-for-8 from
the line to help seal the win.
"We had to exert a lot of
energy in the game," Kentucky
coach· Mickie DeMoss said. In
the second overtime, "it may
have caught up with us."
Freshman center Sarah
Elliott finished with 14 points,
12 rebounds and five blocked
shots for the Wildcats, who
matched their season high with
23 turnovers and completed
their longest postseason run.
Kentucky hit just 3 of 17
shots from beyond the arc,
including 2-of-10 by Potts.
Paige had 12 assists for West
Virginia, giving her 892 in her
career and tying the senior for
eighth on the NCAA Division I
career list.
Clalk wins in singles, doubles play
TIMES STAFF REPORT
win the next three completed
matches as Jhonny Berrido
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.- topped Fish 6-3,6-4 at No.6,
The University of Louisville Radman defeated O'Brien 7men's tennis team defeated 5, 6-3 and Gustafsson beat
host William & Mary 5-2 Kelleher 7-6(4), 6-3 at the
Saturday at the College's three-spot to clinch the tea1:1
Busch Tennis Courts. The victory, before Kader, ranked
26th-ranked
60th in the nation
in singles, closed
Cardinals
out the contest
improve to 15-8
with a 6-7,7-6,6on the season.
2 win over the
William &
Mary opened the
Cards' No. 54
contest by winranked Johnson at
the top seed.
ning the first
completed dou"William
&
bles match, with
Mary is a very
senior
Jeff
tough and NCAA
Kader and freshtournament expeJeremy Clark
man
Alex
rienced
team,"
said U of L head
Cojanu outlasting Damar Johnson and coach Rex Ecanna. "We
Mark Kennedy, 9-8 (1), at played with purpose and pasNo. 3. Louisville's Jhonny sion and we are on a mission
Berrido and Slavko Radman to be successful. It took
teamed to beat Alex Fish and everything we had to beat this
Colin O'Brien 8-5 at No. 2 team and I' m proud of our
and the Cardinals' No. 34 players who won both singles
ranked doubles team of and doubles. Slavko Radman,
Jeremy Clark and Jakob Jakob Gustafsson, Jeremy
Gustafsson clinched the Clark and Jhonny Berrido put
point, edging Sean Kelleher in a full day's work and I
and Stephen Ward 9-8 (2) at applaud their efforts."
U of L will play host to
the top seed.
The Cardinals won the IUPUI and Morehead State
No.5 singles match for a 2-0 in a doubleheader today at
lead. Cojanu got the Tribe on the
Bass-Rudd
Tennis
the board with a 6-4, 6-2 win Center. Matches are schedat No. 4 over Octavian uled for I p.m. and 5:30p.m.
Nicodim. U of L went on to respectively.
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LOUISVILLE
-The
University of Louisville football team will kick off its
2005 spring drills with a 4:00
p.m. workout on Thursday at
the Papa John's Football
Complex.
The Cardinals' workouts
are open to the public, but
spectators are encouraged to
call the U of L Sports
Information Office.
The Cardinals will have 15
practices between Thursday
and April 22 when the team
will conclude spring drills
with the annual Red & White
Spring Game at 7:30 p.m.
Louisville is coming off a
memorable 11-1 season that
included a trip to the
AutoZone Liberty Bowl and
a school record No. 6 AP
ranking. The Cardinals
defeated No. 10 Boise State,
44-40, in the Liberty Bowl to
cap one of the best seasons in
school history.
Offensively, the Cardinals
return 10 players who started
at least one game in 2004 and
lost five starters. The offensive. line will be one of the
key positions with four of
five starters returning. On
defense, the Cardinals biing
back seven players with
sta1ting experience from a
year ago, but did lose six
starters. Louisville has 45
lettermen returning.
Practice times for the
spring:
March 31-4 p.m.
April I -3:30p.m.
April 2 -Noon
April 3 - Noon
April6- 4 p.m.
April 8 - 3:30 p.m.
April9- 10 a.m.
Aprill2- 4 p.m.
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April 15- 3:30p.m.
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April 18 - 4 p.m.
Aprli 19-4 p.m.
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MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Lexington Catholic 59, Clinton County 54
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOWLING GREEN - Three
years in the making, the girls
state high school basketball
championship was worth the
wait for Lexington Catholic.
The Lady Knights had
reached the title game the previous two years. but lost both
times to powerful Sacred Heart.
This time, Lexington Catholic
was the heavy favorite and had
!o withstand a record-setting
shooting
performance
by
Clinton County to end its championship drought.
But the Lady Knights did it,
capping a 29-game season
sweep of in-state competition
with a 59-54 win over the Lady
Bulldogs on Saturday.
"It's definitely better on this
end," said Knights' guard Nikki
Davis.
Toumament Most Valuable
Player Anaris Sickles scored 12
of her 16 points in the second
half for the Lady Knights (36l), also the 1999 and 2001 state
champions.
This title game was hardly
the foregone conclusion many
thought it would be as the Lady
Bulldogs sank a toumament
record 11 3-pointers and led 5453 entering the final minute.
Sickles scored inside with 59
seconds left to put Lexington
Catholic up 55-54. The ball
barely cleared the rim.
"Praise the Lord, it went in,"
Sickles said.
On Clinton County's next-tolast
possession,
Jessica
Cummings got open in lhe corner 20 seconds later, but fired an
airball.
Sickles coolly sank two free
throws with 20.7 seconds remaining for a 57-54 Catholic lead.
With the final seconds ticking off, Amber Guffey shot an
off-balance 3-pointer from the
top of the key. It thudded off the
side of the rim and Shannon
Novosel corralled the rebound.
She hit two foul shots with 3.5
seconds left to finally put the
game out of reach.
"We had to bring our A-plus
game to finish that game out,"
said Lexington Catholic coach
Greg Todd.
As the buzzer sounded, the
Lady Knights rushed to midcourt, dancing and hugging, as
confetti poured onto the court.
Most of the Lady Bulldogs
sobbed as they watched the celebration from their bench.
"We shot the ball well," said
Clinton County coach Ronnie
Guffey. "But their press just
kept wearing and wearing on us.
They've just got so many players that can play.'"
Amber Guffey scored 20
points and twin sister Paige
Guffey added 14 as the Region
Four Lady Bulldogs (32-6), who
broke their own single-game
tournament record for 3-pointers
in a game, going 11 of 23 from
beyond the arc.
Clinton County was playing
in its first championship game in
any sport, and about 2,000 residents made the 100-mile drive
to Bowling Green.
They had plenty to cheer
about at the start, as the Lady
Bulldogs jumped to a surprising
6-0 lead. The lead ballooned to
nine, at 22-13, before the Lady
Knights stiffened their defense.
They still trailed l -22 at halftime, the only time they trailed
at the break in the tournament.
The lead changed hands six
times in the third quarter as
Lexington Catholic attacked the
basket and Clinton County continued to sink 3-pointers.
"We knew each possession
was precious," Sickles said.
The Lady Knights generated
17 points off 13 Clinton County
turnovers in the first three quarters, but the Lady Bulldogs were a
sharp 9 of 17 from 3-point range.
Paige Guffey sank Clinton
County's lOth 3-pointer of the
game 20 seconds into the fourth
quarter as the Lady Bulldogs'
lead swelled to four.
Sickles scored twice in the
lane to guide Lexington Catholic
back to the lead. The Lady
Bulldogs kept answering, though,
taking a 50-49 lead on Paige
Guffey's 3-pointer with 2:19 left
in the game, Clinton County's
record-setting 11th of the game.
"If you stay close, you never
know how somebody is going to
react," Ronnie Guffey said. "We
did that and we had a shot."
But they needed one more
and couldn't get it, as the Lady
Knights surged to their third
state title in seven seasons.
"We kept telling the kids to
just stick to the game plan and
finish," Todd said. "That was
one of the higher-level finishes
I've seen."
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.Louisville assistant Reggie
Theus confirmed Saturday
night he has accepted the head
coaching job at New Mexico
State.
"I think that job has great
potential," the former NBA star
said shortly after Louisville
advanced to the Final Four
with a 93-85 win over West
Virginia in the Albuquerque
Regional championship game.
New Mexico State has
scheduled a news conference
Monday to announce Theus'
hiring .
Theus, who has been on
Rick Pitino's staff for two
years, said details of his contract with New Mexico State
are still being worked out.
This will be Theus' first
head coaching job in Division
I. He expressed excitement and
confidence that he can turn
around a program that finished
6-24 last season, the Aggies'
worst season since 1966.
"What sells that program for
me is you can sell the future,"
Theus said.
Theus said New Mexico
State is committed to improving all of its athletic programs
under the leadership of athletics director McKinley Boston.
Boston, a former athletics
director and vice president at
the University of Minnesota,
was hired by NMSU in
December.
"It's going to be a new
beginning," Theus said. "I
know everybody is on the same
page ot: I wouldn't have taken
the job."
Theus would not comment
on the length of his contract or
the salary, but noted that the
details that need to be worked
out are "relatively small ."
He said he will accompany
Louisville to St. Louis for the
Final Four, where the Cardinals
will play Illinois. He said he
does not expect to meet with
the NMSU players until after
the Final Four.
Theus, 47, joined Pitino's
staff in 2003 . Before that he
was a volunteer assistant for a
year at Cal State Los Angeles.
He also was head coach of the
Las Vegas Slam of the ABA
during the 2002 season.
Theus said he has learned
much from Pitino about the game
and about being a head coach.
"I've had conversations with
coach Pitino about when he's
taken over programs," Theus
said. "I've had some great
words of wisdom from him."
Theus also said Pitino supported his decision to take the
job with the Aggies.
"When coach hired me, he
asked me, 'Reggie do you want
to be a head coach?"' Theus
said. "I said absolutely. He said,
'Good, I hire future head coaches, not assistant coaches."'
Theus, who played for Jerry
Tarkaruan at UNLV from 197678, spent 13 years in the NBA
with Chicago, Kansas City,
Sacramento, Atlanta, Orlando
and New Jersey. He was a twotime All-Star with the Bulls in
1981 and 1983 and is one of
only five players in NBA history to score at least 19 ,000 points
and have at least 6,000 assists.
Theus takes over a program
that operated this past season
under interim coach Tony
Stubblefield. Stubblefield took
over after longtime coach Lou
Henson was stricken with viral
encephalitis last September.
Henson, 73, was left partially paralyzed by the disease.
Unable to walk on his own
and in a wheelchair, Henson
retired in January, 21 wins shy
of becoming only the fifth
coach in Division I history to
win 800 games.
Henson has battled a series
of health problems in recent
years. He was diagnosed with
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a
form of cancer, two years ago.
The cancer is now in remission.
Henson was the Aggies'
coach from 1966 to 1975 and
from 1997 until his retirement.
He also spent 21 seasons at
Illinois and led both the Aggies
and lllini to the Final Four.
Henson's first team at New
Mexico State in 1966-67 finished 15-11 and went to the
NCAA toumament. The previous year NMSU was 4-22.
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Final Derby preps begin this
weekend; Sun King still No. 1
by RICHARD ROSENBLATT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Let the final
auditions commence for the
Kentucky Derby.
High Fly and Bandini, the 12 finishers in the Fountain of
Youth Stakes at Gulfstream
Park, are ready to go at it again
in Saturday's $1 million
Florida Derby.
And with the 1 1/8-mile race
just five weeks before the
Derby (May 7), it's unlikely
any of 3-year-olds in the field
will compete again before the
run for the roses.
In the past, the Florida
Derby was held the second
weekend of March, allowing
trainers the option of one more
prep race. Now, most trainers
agree there's not enough time
to throw in another one.
For history buffs, the last
horse to win the Kentucky
Derby off a layoff of five
weeks or more was Needles in
1956. Nick Zito, who trains
High Fly, calls the new placement of the Florida Derby "no
man's land."
Nonetheless, Zito also will
send out Noble Causeway in
the Grade I race.
Bandini is trainer Todd
Pletcher's top Derby hope, and
the colt moves into this week's
Run to the Roses' Top 10 at No.
9. Pletcher's Proud Accolade
fell off the Derby trail after a
fourth-place finish in the
Rushaway Stakes at Turfway
Park on Saturday, but the trainer may have another prospect
in Flower Alley, surprise winner of the Lane's End Stakes.
Next stop for Flower Alley
is either the Blue Grass Stakes
at Keeneland or the Arkansas
Derby at Oaklawn Park - both
April 16. "We're on a tight
schedule," Pletcher said.
Zito's Sun King remains No.
L this week, with Rockport
Harbor a shaky No. 2 after
trainer John Servis called in a
blacksmith to work on the colt's
bothersome right rear hoof.
A few Derby hopefuls were
on the move over the weekend:
Tampa Bay Derby winner Sun
King and trainer Bobby
Frankel's Louisiana Derby
winner High Limit were among
dozens of horses shipped to
Churchill Downs from Palm
Meadows Training Center in
Florida after an outbreak of
strangles (a contagious disease).
It was an unlucky week for
trainer Patrick Biancone, who
saw two Derby prospects drop
from
Derby
contention.
Scipion, winner of the Risen
Star at the Fair Grounds, fractured a bone in his right rear
leg, and San Rafael Stakes winner Spanish Chestnut was a dismal sixth in the Lane's End.
This week's top 10, with
Derby future wager odds (set
March 12):
1. Sun King (Nick Zito,
trainer; Edgar Prado, jockey):
Now at Churchill Downs after
leaving Florida due to outbreak
of contagious disease (strangles) in nearby barn at Palm
Meadows Training Center ...
Tampa Bay Derby winner is 2for-2 this year ... Next start:
Blue Grass (April 16) ... Odds:
10-1.
2. Rockport Harbor (John
Servis,
Stewart
Elliott):
Blacksmith flown in to work on
bothersome right rear hoof ...
Still on Derby trail ... Next
start: Arkansas Derby (April
16) ... Odds: 14-1.
3. High Fly (Zito, Jerry
Bailey): Slight fever canceled
weekend workout plan ...
Moves to Gulfstream from
Palm Meadows !or final tuneup
early this week. Next start:
Florida Derby (April 2) ...
Odds: 21-1.
4 . Sweet Catomine (Julio
Canani, Corey Nakatani):
Eclipse Award-winning filly
still on target to test the boys ...
Santa Anita Oaks winner has
five victories in six career starts
... Next start: Santa Anita
Derby (April9) ... Odds: 16-1.
5. Consolidator (D. Wayne
Lukas, Rafael Bejarano): San
Felipe winner likely headed to
Kentucky for final prep ... Next
start: Blue Grass ... Odds: 44-1.
6. High Limit (Bobby
Frankel, Ramon Dominguez):
Also shipped to Churchill from
Florida ... Won Louisiana
Derby off 4 l/2-month layoff to
boost his record to 3-for-3 ...
Next start: Wood Memorial
(April 9) or Blue Grass ...
Odds: 9-1.
7. Greater Good (Bob
Holthus, John McKee): Not
most impressive 3-year-old,
but consistent with three
straight wins ... Next start:
Arkansas Derby ... Odds: 28-1.
8.
Survivalist
(Shug
McGaughey,
Richard
Migliore): Trainer hopes to
have first Derby starter since
Saarland finished lOth in 2002
... Next start: Wood Memorial
... Odds: 6-1 (mutuel field).- I.
9. Bandini (Todd Pletcher,
John Velazquez): Pletcher had
34 Derby nominees; this may
be his lone hope ... Finished
strongly behind High Fly in
Fountain of Youth ... Next start:
Florida Derby ... Odds: 14-1.
10. Bellamy Road (Zito,
Javier
Castellano):
Also
shipped to Churchill from Palm
Meadows over the weekend.
Next start: Wood Memorial ...
Odds: 6-1 (mutuel field).
KEEP AN EYE ON: Afleet
Alex, Don't Get Mad,
Galloping Grocer, Giacomo,
Noble Causeway.
Become a Kentucky
organ & tissue donor.
Casey turns into
Reds' top recruiter
by JOE KAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARASOTA, Fla. - Sean
Casey's offseason routine went
something like this: Pick up a
bat and take a few 1swings, pick
up the phone and make a few
calls.
The first baseman honed his
swing and his sales pitch. He
helped persuade free agents to
choose the Cincinnati Reds over
teams that had higher profiles
and bigger payrolls. The phone
bill jumped and the roster filled
up.
In an offseason when he supplanted Barry Larkin as the face
of the Reds, he also became
their best recruiter, helping general manager Dan O'Brien convince free agents that Cincinnati
was the place for them.
"I told Dan, 'I need to get a
separate check as assistant general manager,"' Casey joked
Saturday.
Casey doesn't n~ed another
check - he's got two years left
on a $28.9 million contract that
is the second-biggest on the
team, trailing only Ken Griffey
Jr.'s nine-year, $116.5 million
deal. For peace of mind, what
Casey really needs is a trip to
the playoffs.
Since he came to Cincinnati
from Cleveland on the eve of
the 1998 season opener for
starter Dave Burba, Casey has
made the All-Star team three
times and missed out on the
playoffs every time. The closest
he came was 1999, when the
Reds lost a one-game playoff to
the Mets for the NL wild card
berth.
The Reds haven't even come
close to the postseason since
2000, giving Casey a growing
sense of urgency. At age 30, he
knows there are only so many locker that Larkin had for so
many years, a reminder of the
chances left.
So, he worked the phones changing times.
"I've never been in
over the winter,
the clubhouse without
trying to help the
Barry, so it's differfront
office
ent,"
Casey said. "It's
improve a team
just
weird.
The
that has had four
Cincinnati Reds withstraight losing seaout Barry Larkin - it
sons, its longest
hasn't been that way
such stretch since
for about 20 years."
1945-55. He chatNow, it's Casey's
ted up starter Eric
tum.
Milton, relievers
Sean Casey
Over ·the last few
Kent Mercker and
years, the affable
David Weathers ,
third baseman Joe Randa and infielder has gradually assumed
shortstop Rich Aurilia, all of a bigger role in the clubhouse.
He'll do a celebration dance in
whom signed on.
Closer Danny Graves and the clubhouse after a win. He'll
starter Paul Wilson also made give advice on how to deal with
courtesy calls on behalf of their a setback.
'The longer you're here, the
team in the offseason, but no
one did it with quite the same more guys are going to come to
you and ask you things like,
gusto.
"I want to win here," Casey 'What's going on here?'" Casey
said. "The only way to do that is said. "Anyone who's here is going
to get quality players to come to to take on a leadership role."
When he was a budding
Cincinnati. That's the ultimate
major leaguer, Casey was nickgoal. We're all in this together.
"You can only play for so named "The Mayor" because
long. For me, it's like, 'Hey, I've he'd chat with opposing players
got a few more good years left, at first base, sort of like a politihopefully we'll win.' That's the cian who knew everyone. When
thing everybody wants. In '99 he'd cross the basepaths with
we .were"one game short, and I'd one of the game's biggest stars,
like to get back to that atmos- he might call him "Mr." in wideeyed respect.
phere."
In another indication of his
Casey will have a lot to do
changing role, Casey finds himwith how it turns out.
When the club decided not to self on the other end of the aduoffer Larkin another contract at lation these days.
"Sometimes you'll be in conthe end of his 19th season in
Cincinnati, Casey became the versation with the young guys,
position player with the most and you can tell," he said.
tenure in Cincinnati. Only clos- "Anytime you're young and in
er Danny Graves has been the big leagues , you're in awe of
around longer - he came to the the whole thing. I don't know if
anyone comes across like, 'Hey,
Reds a year earlier.
When Casey looks across the I'm talking to Sean Casey,' but
clubhouse this spring, he sees there's that fresh exuberance of
pitcher Jeriome Robertson in the being there."
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POISON OAK
The young
and the shoeless
._ These days, young people just don't
seem to enjoy the one activity that we
coal camp kids looked forward to most,
with the coming of spring and the
impending summer: going barefooted.
Just as soon as Mom felt the ground
was "warm
enough," off
those shoes
would come.
Her decision
usually resulted not from
the use of a
thermometer,
but from little
brother Joe's
asking her at
least 20 times
a day (I put
Clyde Pack
him up to it)
what the ternperature was. Finally, she'd relent,
probably thinking that even if we took a
cold it would be better than the constant
aggravation she was having to endure.
Actually, it was kind of silly on our
part, because a 1940 coal camp was
fraught with danger for the young and
shoeless. Broken glass, sharp rocks,
~nd briars, not to mention fresh cow
manure, were just lying in wait, ready
to ambush our tender soles, when we
found ourselves too preoccupied, with
some sort of devilment, to look where
we were going. It wasn't more than a
day or two after we'd been set free
from the bonds of stiff leather, that at
least two or three kids in the camp
would be wearing old socks, which,
more often than not, were fighting losing battles while attempting to hold in
place a turpentine-saturated rag that
our moms had tied, when we'd sliced
(See OAK, page three)
KIM'S KORNER
Blessed Day
Here's hoping everyone's Easter
Sunday was
as
blessed
and joyful as
ours.
We
attended
Easter Services at my
brother and
sister-inlaw's church,
Garrett First
Baptist.
Talk about
Kim Frasure
"Fulla
House" it was
a "Full" House!
Pews packed side by side, chairs
along the walls, yes people and Iittle
one's everywhere.
~ The singing was beautiful, and
young Zack Bragg blessed our socks
off with the most heartwarming, tear
jerking song so perfect for the day 's
occasion.
Pastor Randy Osborne's sermon
was such a blessing, and then during
the alter call; three lives were dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ. Two of
which , were a Mother and Daughter
adding such a special touch barely a
dry eye was left in the place.
Colby and Kennedy looked like
absolute dolls! Kennedy made her
rounds telling everybody "Happy
(See KORNER, page three)
YESTERDAY$
(Items taken from The Floyd County Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.) page C2
Woman's Club • page C3
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"The s.fSI source for local and regional society news"
Women in History
Linda Jan1es
photo by Kathy J .
Prater
Though Linda
James stays
busy with her
business, LJ
Productions,
God and family
remain the top
priorities In
her life.
Recording Floyd County's history
by Kathy J. Prater
FEATURES EDtTOR
You've seen her all over town filming our children engaged in
school activities a nd community
events and playing their hearts out to
score a victory for their school team .
She records our town's parades and
festivals, church worship services,
community holiday get-togethers,
weddings, graduations , and public
meetings. Her name is Linda Davis
James and she is at work each day,
recording Floyd County's history
and creating an audio/visual memory
book of our daily lives.
"I only do good news," she says with
an engaging smile. ''There's enough
other people covering all the bad - I only
want to cover the good stuff."
Linda, married to Freddie James,
Director, Prestonsburg Tourism
Commission, for over 30 years,
shares that though she loves her business and enjoys working with all the
people she comes in contact with
through its operation, that the priorities of her life lie in her service to
God and family.
"To me, that's what life is about,"
she said. "Nothing is more important than knowing God and being
close to family."
Linda, a 1969 graduate of Prestonsburg High School, began dating
Freddie James her sophomore year.
Following graduation. the two
enrolled in school at Eastern Kentucky University, in Richmond.
Afterwards, the couple moved to
Frankfort and while Freddie worked
in a state agency department, Linda
made a decision to forego a career in
option of being a stay-at-home mom.
"I have never regretted that decision," she said. "Home is where I
wanted to be. I didn't want to send
my boys off to day care or to a
babysitter, I wanted to be there for
them and I'm glad that I was able to
be. My most important job has been
raising my family."
"I have a great husband," Linda
said. "He supports me, he doesn't
boss me, he gives me good advice,
and, he doesn't get mad if I don't
take it." After more than three
(See LINDA JAMES, page three)
CRITTER CORNER
Defining the Prob em
By Dr. Carol Combs-Morris, DVM
"Only 42% of cat guardians and 39% of
dog guardians are aware of the pet overpopulation problem." Can this possibly be
true? I found this quote from the Massachusetts SPCA survey of 1993, and it reinforced an article I read somewhere recently. The article basically said that people
who work with animals all the time don't
realize that many pet owners, let alone
John Q. Public, have no idea that a problem even exists.
Itthat's true, then it means that much of
what we say falls on deaf ears, because the
average person may have no concept of the
scope or even the existence of pet animal
overpopulation. I am probably preaching
to the choir here, because most people who
take time to read this column already know
ment
what's going on . But maybe, just maybe,
someone who would normally never read
this is sitting in a hospital lobby, or in a
parking lot waiting to pick the kids up
after practice, or is killing time before the
ballgame comes on TV For whatever reason, someone may be reading a pet article
for the ftrst time. This one is for you.
Please stay with me. This is depressing, this is heartbreaking, but this is real.
Ignoring it will not make it go away. In
fact, the only way for us to get control of
the problem is to understand it. So I am
not goi ng to go into graphic details; I just
want to present the facts. Trouble is, the
numbers are so high that it is difficult to
make them seem real. Until you have
seen them first-hand, it is hard to think of
them representing individual animals.
Did you know, that in the United States,
we kill around 350 healthy, adoptable ani(See CRITTER, page four)
This is "Cool Hand Luke," a Basset Hound owned by Maranda
Sturgill, of Dwale. According to his owner, Luke likes to play
with "those cute little quacking duck toys that we buy him at
Wai-Mart." He also enjoys burying his doggie biscuits outside.
�C2 • WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES ·
Schoo( Cafendar
Adams Middle School Youth
Services Center
• If you would be interested
in volunteering at AMS, cont}:tct
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.
Allen Central Middle School
• 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 8740621 to schedule your child's
Hepatitis B vaccination, immunizations , and WIC appointments.
Betsy Layne Elementary
• The Betsy Layne Elementary Family Resource Youth Ser-
vice 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 4785550 or 478-9751, ext. 310.
• Brian H. Akers, Center
Coordinator; Charlotte Rogers,
Program Assistant II; Debra
Hayes, School Nurse.
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
center weekly and sees WlC
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.
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.
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
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 turn
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 ElementaryNiud Creek
Family Resource Center.
• April 6 - Child A~use
Awareness Month - Booth will be
set up in school lunchroom and
Carol Jo May, of Our Lady of the
Way Hospital, will be on hand for
questions and comments.
• 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
ftrst Wednesday of each month,
at 4 p.m. Call for more info.
• Lost & Found· located m
Family Resource Center.
• Resource Center hours are
8:00 a.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.D. Osborne "Rainbow
Junction" Fll!mlty Resource
Center
Character Words for the
Month: Tolerance and Kindness.
• "Lost & Found" is located
in the f1RC. If your child
lost any clothing or other personal items, please remind them
to check in the FRC. Items not
claimed within 2 weeks,
become the property of the
FRC.
• Rainbow Ju~ction Family
Resource Center is located in
the W. D. Osborne Elementary
School. Hours of operation - &
a.m . to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday, or later by appointment.
Call 452-4553 and ask for Cissy
(See SCHOOL, page thr~
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. (Items taken from
The Floyd County
Times,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and
60 ye_ars ago.) ·
Ten Years Ago
March 29 and 31, 1995
Three Prestonsburg attorneys have
filed a class action lawsuit seeking
refunds of over $800,000 paid to the
Floyd County Fiscal Court for a 911 service .. .Floyd County's solid waste commissioners want a representative from the
state auditor's office to explain to them,
and the public, why $2.5 million in "user
fees" cannot be accounted fQr.. .Inez May
Richmond Hereford, 80, of Prestonsburg,
died Monday night of complications from
injuries she received in a car accident, in
which her husband, Thomas May Hereford Jr., was killed on March 17, near
Ashland ...Kentucky State Police have
apparently begun a review of Prestonsburg City Council records, but a
spokesman for the agency declined to
comment on the issue, Tuesday.. .Floyd
Circuit Judge John David Caudill denied
a request, Monday, that he recuse himself
from the case of a Flo d District Court
Clerk accused of holding two state policemen at gunpoint, and ordered that the
clerk take a leave of absence from her
duties ...Prestonsburg's effort to cut waste
and control garbage disposal costs
through a recycling program is expanding, Mayor Jerry Fannin 'said Monday.
Fannin said city sanitation crews have
begun picking up cardboard, and will
soon add newspapers to the list of waste
that city residents may separate for recycling ...Floyd County businessman Paul
Gearheart has been named fust runner-up,
Kentucky Small Business Person of the
Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) ...Floyd County Attorney
Jim Hammond filed suit, Thursday, asking the court to decide if the county may
retain funds received over the last five
years from a monthly surcharge for
implementation of a county-wide 911 service ...Five years and 500 tons later, residents who are against Medisin Inc., still
don't have the action or the .answers they
. are seeking; which is to shut down the
company's incinerators ...Monday morning could be quite busy at the Floyd
County Sheriff's Office, became the 1994
property tax bills will be mailed over the
weekend. Workers in the sheriff's office
have been spending the last week or so
stuffing thousands of envelopes so that
tax revenues can begin to be collected by
April 3 ...Spring is the air and the City of
Prestonsburg is getting ready to do some
spring cleaning. For the month of April,
Prestonsburg Public Works will pick up
all those odds and ends in and around
your house, free of charge .. Members of a
Prestonsburg planning commiSSion
quadrupled acreage needed for a proposed 18-hole championship golf course,
to include a recreation complex that could
be bigger than the city. At a meeting, Saturday, of the Prestonsburg Golf Course
Board, board members expanded the proposed 150-acre project, fust studied by
the city for the golf course to 637 acres
for the new plan ...There died: Lima Jean
Mastin, 81, of Lawrenceburg, formerly of
Floyd County, Tuesday, March 28, at the
Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Lawrenceburg; Anderson Hatfield, 97, of Prestonsburg, Thursday, March 23, at Highlands
Regional Medical Center; Inez May Richmond Hereford, 80, of Prestonsburg,
March 27, at King's Daughters Medical
Center; Emma Thomas Nelson, 54, of
I vel, Monday, March 27, at King's
Daughters Medical Center, Ashland, following injuries sustaind in an automobile
accident; Estel Story, 82, of Teaberry, Saturday, March 25, at McDowell
Appalachian Regional Hospital; Alice
Hazel Sammons Rose, 84, of Prestonsburg, Saturday, March 25; Howard Rose,
71, of Prestonsburg, Tuesday, March 28,
at Highlands Regional Medical Center;
Carl G. Ford, 82, of Berea, Sunday,
March 26, at Berea Hospital; Dewey
"Cube" Howard, 91, of Banner, formerly
of Leslie County, Friday, March 24, at
Riverview Manor Nursing Home, Prestonsburg; Burnard Conley, 60, of Martin,
Sunday, March 26, at Knott County Nursing Home; Delbert Haley, 70, of Wheelwright, Monday, March 27, at Knott
County Nursing Home; James Rayburn
Stone, 55, of McDowell, Thursday,
March 23, at his residence; Wilburn Page,
46, of McDowell, Saturday, March 25, at
the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington; Bessie Dutton, 62, of
Weeksbury, Thursday, March 23, at
McDowell Appalachian Regional Hospital; Oscar King, 71, of Green Cove, Florida, formerly of Harold, Saturday, March
25, at Specialty Hospital in Jacksonville,
Florida; Harold Baldridge, 65, of Garrett,
Monday, March 27, at his residence;
Mabel Frazier, 78, of Noblesville, Indiana, Sunday, March 26, at Riverview
Hospital in Noblesville; Joe Jack Daniels,
70, Sunday, March 26, at King's Daughters Medical Center; Barbara Allen Bent-
ley, 61, of Langley, Tuesday, March 28, at
McDowell Appalachian Regional Hospital; Plina Jane Hicks, 83, of Honaker,
Tuesday, March 28, at Mountain Manor
Nursing Home, Prestonsburg; James
"Jim" Cooley, 69, of Prestonsaburg,
Wednesday, March 29, at the V.A. Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia;
Twentv Years Ago
March 27, 1985
Two poachers received stiff penalties in
Floyd District Court, last week, in a case
that was closely watched by area sports
clubs and conservationists ...Union miners
of the National Mines Corporation may
have scored a sizable victory in the tentative agreement that could return 275 back
to work ...There died: Ruth Ann Compton
Sturgill, 93 , of Harold, March 17, at
Pikeville Methodist Hospital; Charles
Allen Layne, 68, of Mays Branch, March
19, at Veterans' Administration Hospital
in Cleveland, Ohio; Sarah Turner, 73, of
Garrett, Saturday, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center; Sarah Hunt, 90, of
Stanville, March 22, at Riverview Manor
Nursing Home, Prestonsburg; Dollie
Woods, 73, of Emma, Friday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Ella A.
Sisco, 73, of West Prestonsburg, Sunday,
at Highlands Regional Medical Center;
Phillip Ernst, 75, of Abbott Creek, last
Wednesday, at Highlands Regional Medical Center; Agness Stewart Music, 78, of
Auxier, March 10, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center.
Thinv Years Ago
March 26, 1975
Preparation of the Jenny Wiley campground has been underway more than a
year. The work there involved construction of 128 camp pads, a water and sewage
system...Prestonsburg police reported that
an estimated $1 ,500 worth of "hard" drugs
were taken in the burglary of Reid's Pharmacy in the Archer Clinic building
here ...The McDowell Daredevilettes lost
to the Sheldon Clark girls in the championship game of the 15th regional girls'
basketball toumament .. .James A. Murphy,
45, of Langley, died early Monday afternoon of injuries in the wreck of an auto in
which he was a passenger...There died:
Vertie Slater, 81, of Garrett, Tuesday,
March 18, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin; Evalille Johnson, 81, of Martin, Sunday, at Our Lady of the Way Hospital; Isaac Hall, 68, formerly of McDowell, Sunday, at his home in Beech Grove,
Ind.; Robert McKinney, 68, Sunday, at his
home at Harold; Frank Kidd, 90, of
Honaker, last Tuesday, at Methodist H pital, Pikeville; Hiram GibsQn, 75, of
Wayland, March 18, at Methodist Hospital, in Pikeville; Grover Caudill, 63, of
Toptp.ost, Sunday, at Highlands Regional
Medical Center; Jessie Goble, 73, at her
home at Ivel, last Thursday; John Henry
Bryant, 51, of Wellington, 0., formerly of
Orkney, last Wednesday, at Allen Memorial Hospital, in Wellington; Minnie Emily
Witten, 79, of Wittensville, Sunday, at her
home; Press Shepherd, 70, of Hueysville,
Saturday, at Our Lady of the Way Hosrf
tal, Martin.
Fonv Years Ago
March 25, 1965
Tragedy struck twice on Middle Creek,
at almost the same hour, Tuesday, claiming the lives of Curtis Fitzpatrick, 53, of
Garrett, who died of burns suffered at
David, and Mack Howard, 31 , of Flat
Gap, who was fatally crushed as a truc:f
was being unloaded near the intersection
of the Mountain Parkway and the David
road ...A two-day hearing on the application of Prestonsburg businessmen for a
bus franchise to serve a large portion of
the county, and connect several areas with
Prestonsburg, ended ...An investigation
made this week by members of the police
department into the poisoning of a number
of dogs, has uncovered the names of purchasers of poisons, it was learned, Tuesday.. .Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Campbell, a son, Joseph Wesley, March 15 ,
the Prestonsburg General Hospital; to
and Mrs. Jobie Click Jr., of Martin, a
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, March 16, at
Our Lady of the Way Hospital, Martin; to
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Bussey, of Northport, Long Island, New York, formerly of
Prestonsburg, a daughter, Kelly Anne,
February 20 ...There died: H. T. Allen, 63,
Wednesday, at his home here; Austin Hall,
82, of Topmost, Tuesday, at the Beaver
Valley Hospital, Martin; James Allen, 66,
of Hueysville, last Thursday, at the home
of a sister at Hueysville; Samuel E. H ~
(See YESTERDAYS, page three)
�WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005 • C3
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
--Yesterdays
• Continued from p2
ton, 84, of Garrett, Saturday, at the Beaver being worked out for the possible adminValley Ho pital, Martin; Bertha Combs istration of polio vaccine to approximate... Branham, 60, Floyd County native.
ly 3 ,400 first and second grade school
children in this county ...Dick Davis, 49,
'·
Prestonsburg Gas & Water System superintendent, and his wife, Lucille, 44, were
seriously injured, Sunday, when their auto
March
24,
1955
was involved in a smashup near Lexing1
, ·'
ton ...Wayland's Kelly Coleman estabPrestpnsburg High School, as operated lished a new all-time eastern Kentucky
. by the Prestonsburg independent school individual scoring record with 1,174
district, will cease to exist as of August 15, points in 36 games~ ..Born: to Mr. and Mrs.
•'· this year...The City Council at a special Richard Crisp, of Martin, a son, Phillip
·meeting, Wednesday night, named Harry Derae, March 14; to Mr. and Mrs. Glyn
. "Sandige to fill the vacancy in the office of Arthur Hughes, of Prestonsburg, a son,
·. Mayor here till the November election. March 20, at Our Lady of the Way Hospi. ·Curtis Clark resigned the post to take the tal, Martin ...There died: William Meadoffice of U. S. Marshall for the Eastern ows, 69, of the Katy Friend section,
district of Kentucky...Auxier High School Wednesday, at the home of a son at West
.~·:was given a reprieve from suspension as Prestonsburg; Sallie Bentley, 84, Monday,
.. ~ an accredited school, Wepnesday, when at her home at Garrett; John Boyd, 84, last
. Mark Godman, head of the bureau of Sunday, at his home at Dana; Alice Wolfe,
.. instruction, declared he is certifying the 44, of Wayland, last Saturday, at the
·•~ school
as
an, emergency High Paintsville Hospital; Rev. Malcolm Hub'·' School. ..Last years rumors. tha~ there are bard, 84, former Floyd County Magistrate,
huge cottonmouth moccasms m Dewey · March 9, at his home near Oakhill, Ohio.
Lake, and a more recent rumor that the
__ Dewey Dam has sprung a leak, were
called "fantastic" by J. R. "Red" Weaver,
reservoir manager.. .Detailed plans are
•,:
Flttv Years Ago
...
Sixtv Years Ago
March 22, 1945
Surfacing of the remaining eight miles
of the Left Beaver highway, from Gearheart to Wheelwright, was approved, this
week, by the War Production
Board ...The week's casualty report: The
dead-Astor Salisbury, of Mud Creek,
Palmer Moore, of Gearheart, Clark
Mills, of Melvin; T-5 Mitchell Ousley, of
Langley; Charles L. Brooks, formerly of
Betsy Layne; Wounded-Pfc. Melvin
(Nick) Martin, of Wayland, T-5 Paul
Burke, of the Middle Creek Road; Pfc .
Jack Pitts, of Pyramid; Pvt. Earman
Bayes, of Brainard; Pvt. Oval D. Pack,
of Drift; Elige Goble, of Woods; Charlie
Jones, of Hueysville; Pfc. Jim Stumbo,
of McDowell ...Henry Cline, 47, former
Prestonsburg man, was burned to death,
Monday, in a blaze which destroyed his
home near Catlettsburg ...Born: to Mr.
and Mrs. V. A. Smiley, March 19, their
third daughter...There died: Wendell
Spurlock, 36, Saturday, at his home here;
Rev. Sam G. Rice, 67, Monday, at Banner; Frank Smith, 30, of Tram, Saturday,
at a Pikeville hospital; Sarah Baker,
about 75, Monday, at Lancer; Gypsie
Belle Pitts, 39, and her newborn son,
Wednesday, at the Prestonsburg General
Hospital.
Sevefttv Years Ago
March 22, 1935
Eleven school buildings- six of the
one-room variety-are planned by the
Floyd County Board of Education,
County Superintendent Ballard Hunter
announced this week. The largest will
be a four-roomer at Clear Creek ...The
Inez Indians lost in the semi-finals of
the state basketball tournament, last
week,
to
St.
Xavier
of
Louisville ...Home of George W. Allen
was destroyed with almost all its contents, at Maytown, by fire, Friday noon.
A day later, the home of Levi Rupe at
Knotley Hollow went up in flames, with
all the belongings of a family of
15 ...There died: W. R. Hurd, 73, March
15, at Banner; the Rev. James Fraley,
71, at Wayland; J. W. (Willie) Hatcher,
65, at-Allen, Saturday; Vernie Hall, 9,
formerly of Halo, March 12, at Myra,
Pike County, when hit by a truck.
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Oak
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- 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 1 p.m.
••
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I
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 7:30 p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 886-3863,
ext. 67219. Room m207 (second floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning
Center: Tue., 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 4:00p.m. Contact:
Vanessa Tackett - 285-5111.
• Wayland EESC: Mon.,
Wed. - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Contact Vanessa Tackett - 3583400.
• 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.
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Easter" and when it's coming
the . !'llo,uth of a two year
, old there lS
sweeter sound on
' earth, espetlhlly when she looks
- · ' like an angel.
-.· Our girls had gone separate
, .ways visiting with their husband
. · ' and boyfriend's families, but
· ' made it to 'o ur house for Easter
- .dinner. ,1
Having Mamaw Judy visit'= ing for ,Uhe holiday weekend
made it s.oecial too.
r
Just 1J~ we had finished eat: '•'ing, the men in the house found
· :the "Game"!
r
Novy sitting still to watch a ball·~from
eo
game on TV is not my cup of tea.
No matter how much I love
the Cats, there's laundry, dishes,
yadaa,yadaa,yadaa!
Well, not this time! Why, I've
never seen so much commotion,
screaming, and yelling in my
living room in my life.
Two over-times , and one
nerve wracking ballgame!
I couldn't help but smile as I
looked around the room and felt
so blessed to have the girls,
Robert, Larry, Spouse and
Mamaw Judy all around and
having such a good time.
Something happened all of
our instep on a broken Clorox
bottle ...or had taken off a toenail on a big rock.
When we went to church, of
course, we had to wear our
shoes. The same rule applied
when we went to town on Saturday mornings to the show.
Mom would say she didn't
want people to think we didn't
have shoes. But when it came
to her insisting we wear shoes
to town, there was no argument
from us. Our chief mode of
transportation was our feet.
Walking the railroad tracks
through Greentown on a hot
summer day was pure torture,
even with our shoes on, and I
doubt there were enough shady
spots on the sidewalks of
Paintsville, to have kept us
from blistering our feet.
However, I can remember
one negative to her iron-clad rule
about "no shoes, no town." To
this day, I don't know how the
final episode of the cliff-hanging
serial "Undersea Kingdom"
turned out. Crash Corrigan had
gotten himself into a terrible
pickle, and we'd talked about the
possibilities of his escape, off
and on, all week long. But
wouldn't you know, come Saturday morning, Joe, having
stepped on a rusty nail earlier in
the week, had such a wad of bandage on his foot that he couldn't
get his shoe over it. Rules were
rules. No shoes, no town. No
town, no show. Of course, there
was no way on earth that Mom
would let me go without him.
We tried to find out what
happened to Crash, but everybody we asked who had seen
that final episode, knowing we
really wanted to know, either
wouldn't tell us, or would just
say that Crash got killed. We
didn't believe that, of course,
but as far as we were concerned, he might as well have
met his demise. We never knew
the difference.
For the most part, though,
going barefooted in the summertime was a perk we coal
camp kids really enjoyed.
sudden (that I missed) the guys
were jumping to their feet, and
Mamaw Judy was fanning herself with none other than a Sunday edition of the Times.
It was hilarious! I couldn't
help but think how many people
in this entire state were sitting
on the edge of their chairs in
such excitement.
And though our beloved Cats
losl, still I couldn't help but feel
so blessed to have such a wonderful day.
Til Next Week
May God Bless ...
It,
- ·'•
~l·Linda
James
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decades together, Linda and her
~ husband still share loving
glances as they exchange words
of endearment, evidence that
they not only still love one
another after an these years, but
that they have a committed
respect for one another, also.
"Family is what it's all
, about," says Linda. "I grew up
:~·with a mdther and daddy who
•:•taught me a good work
r,, ethic ... with family who got
i -. together often for reunions and
.. holidays. I thank God for that. I
· give God the credit for anything
if I've ever been able to do, for this
•:. · business, for everything. I thank
,. God that I'm a Christian, thatl'm
saved and that I know I'm going
1
to Heaven. In the meantime, I
·hope that I continue to carry on
~·.~ our family traditions and help
'' r, people like ,my aunts, who are in
,., their 80's, }'till do today."
Linda and Freddie left Frank-·:i'fort to return to Floyd County in
1986 where Freddie has over-,, seen the tourism commission
and where Linda began working
part-time for Charter Communications. "I started out just work' ing two days a week, helping
, with the first of the month
'. things, payments and that sort of
.- thing. Then I got the opportuni• ty to begin learning about video''' taping ...that got to be more time, consuming that I intended - I
still had a son in school at that
. •' time - so eventually, I was able
· to set up an office in my home.
· · ' That way, I could still do the
,;'• work, and take care of my fami. · Iy at the same time," she said.
•, , In 1992, Linda started her
' 'own business, L J Productions,
·_,:,·and has found her services in
~high demand ever since. Videotf..
I
'
0
,
~
taping local events and family
activities, Linda says that she
takes pride in offering a service
that enables those who are
unable to leave their homes due
to illness, lack of transportation,
or other hindr?P<::es , to still participate in chmch worship services, school ballgames and
civic meetings. "The greatest
compliment I ever receive," she
said, "is when someone tells me,
'Thank you' for ft!Iillng a game,
a church service or whatever
because if I hadn't been there,
they wouldn't have been able to
'be there' either."
"I film the city council, fiscal
court, and board of education
meetings because I know that
people are busy and that they
can't always be there. That way,
they can watch the meeting and
make up their own minds about
what they think, " she continued. "I like to think as myself as
being the eyes of the people
who can't get out, I'm the eyes
for the community."
Linda also shares that without
the cooperation of Charter Communications, her daughter-in-
law Dannette, son Allen, Freddie, and friend Darrell Leslie,
who helps with sports commentary, that she would "be crazy."
"I couldn't do it without each
and every one of them," she
said. "They're all a part of it."
Linda is the daughter of
Maycel and the late Wayne
Davis, of Allen. She has two
sisters, Waynette Davis Keebaugh and Ocie Davis May. She
and husband Freddie have two
sons, Allen and Brett. Allen and
wife, Dannette, have blessed
them with three beautiful grandchildren , Abby, 5, Anna, 4 and
new arrival Freddie Allen
James, IV or "A. J." as his family affectionately calls him. Son
Brett has also blessed them with
a beautiful granddaughter,
Haley, 3 1/2.
"It's all about family," says
Linda as she summarizes her
beliefs on what life is all about.
"Family and the stripes of Jesus
-that's what will save us."
Congratulations, Linda, for
being one of Floyd County's
Women in History. It's an honor
well deserved.
Old Photographs Restored
Have those
irreplacable
photos repaired
now, before
further deterioration.
Creases ,specs, tears,
and stains removed.
Also prints made
from photos.
Phone 886·1545
886-3562
Members of the Drift Woman's Club met In January at the vrola Bailey Community Center.
Here they are shown with several of the books that the club will donate to area schools. From
left to right are: Ruby Akers, Jan Galienett, Celia Little, Sherry Hall, Mary England, Mable Littleton, Kathie Keithman,Tootsie Akers, Alice Osborne and Sue Jones.
GFWC-KFWC Drift
Woman's Club News
The GFWC-KFWC Drift
Woman's Club meeting was
held on January 17, at the Viola
Bailey Community Center
Building. Presiding President
Alice Osborne read a poem
entitled "A New Start." Hostess Shirley Belcher gave the
blessing and Tootsie Akers followed in leading the Pledge of
Allegiance to the American
Flag. Jan Gallenette displayed
a table of books that will be
donated to the McDowell Elementary School, Osborne Elementary and South Floyd Middle School. The cost of the 136
books is valued at $1 ,444.
President Osborne then presented Kathie Keithman, a
retired Johnson County teacher.
Keithman spoke on the topic
"Life's Lessons,'' sharing five
lessons that she had learned over
the years. She used personal
illustrations from her own life to
punctuate her presentation.
Keithman credited her parents in their decision to have
her dedicated to the Lord as an
infant She shared that her parents took her to church as a
child and taught her about
Christ. She says that this teaching formed the basis of her life
and her service to the Lord.
She warned of Satan and how
he seeks, like a lion, to devour.
She advised that young people
should not allow themselves to
be unequally yoked with unbelievers. She reflected on how
God has kept her free from
inadvisable relationships.
The importance of studying
the Bible was emphasized and
the scripture ll Timothy 3:16
was read. She concluded her
talk by stating the importance
of becoming a living sacrifice
in order to serve God. Keithman, who has been struggling
with cancer for the past three
years, shared her belief that
God allowed the cancer in her
life for a reason. She shared
that she counts her trials a joy.
Taking a scripture from the
book of James, chapter one,
she began a ministry of writing
gospel tracts, which are now
being translated into Spanish.
Keithman also serves others
by making beret style hats (650
thus far) to be given to cancer
patients who have lost their
hair. She praised God for what
He has done in her life.
Following, the monthly
business, secretarial and treasury reports were given.
Newspapers were also collected to be taken to the Floyd
County Animal Shelter. Members also turned in the proceeds
thus far collected from sales of
the Kentucky Hospitality
Cookbook II.
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30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Critter
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nals EVERY MINUTE? Now
jon't go blaming the shelters
lor that. Those animals are the
tucky ones. They were given a
:hance for adoption, and many
found new homes . As for the
others. they were cared for and
well-fed and their lives were
humanely ended. We don't
1ave statistics on the others that
were abandoned, lost, or otherwise unaccounted for. Litters
of puppies are set off beside the
road. (Sometimes this is done
by misguided owners who fantasize that they will toddle off
to find good homes. Other
times it is done by a person
who just wants them out of
sight and out of mind.) Barn
cat populations get out of hand
and go feral. Roaming dogs
join up to form packs that are
more wild than domesticated.
Many of these animals live
short, miserable lives and meet
a violent death.
The sheer reproductive ability of our domestic pets is staggering. For every person born
today in the country, seven
puppies and kittens will also be
born. This discrepancy makes
it obvious that there are just not
enough homes to go around.
Most dogs go through two heat
cycles per year, producing an
average of 6-10 puppies per titter. In six years' time, one
female dog and her offspring
can theoretically produce
SIXTY-SEVEN THOUSAND
dogs . Cats are even more prolific - able to produce three ,
and sometimes four, litters per
year with 4-6 kittens per litter.
That has the potential to
become FOUR HUNDRED
AND TWENTY THOUSAND
cats within seven years.
So what, you say - you
don't even have a pet. It doesn't concern you. Well, actually
it does-on the average, it costs
around $100 to capture, house ,
feed , and eventually kill a
homeless animal. Guess whose
taxes pay for this? And if
you' ve ever had your garbage
knocked over by stray dogs or
endured the sound of roaming
cats fighting and mating under
the house, you ' ve been affected
directly by the problem.
So, now that you're aware of
this, what can we do about it?
Obviously, responsible care of
our own pets is the first step.
Don' t let them roam, and have
them fixed. In fact, spaying
and neutering as many animals
as possible is the single most
effective thing we can do-shut
down those kitten and puppy
factories!
Public education is important, too. So now that you're
conscious of the problem, make
others aware-talk about what
you can do to help. Call your
local shelter, rescue organization, vet's office, or just the
neighborhood " cat lady".
You'll be surprised at the number of ways you can be of assistance. They can put you in
touch with programs and organizations you may not have
even known existed. You don't
have to scoop poop or deal with
injured or homeless animals if
it distresses you too much. You
can help with a fundraiser,
drive your elderly neighbor to
the vet to keep her eat's spay
appointment, drop off a book of
stamps or some copy paper to
the SNOOP folks. You might
be able to transport a furry passenger with you on your next
trip for the TRAIN organization. Buy a Spay/Neuter license
plate for your vehicle instead of
a regular one. BoiTOW a live
trap and help the man down the
road catch the feral cats he's
been feeding so he can have
them fixed (so they don't tum
into 420,000 felines!)
If we know about a problem,
we can face it, and if we face it
we can fix it. It's going to take
time and it's going to take
cooperation, but we can do it.
We have to, if we call ourselves
humane.
I ask for the privilege of not being born ...
not to be born until you can assure me
of a home and a master to protect me,
and the right to live as long as 1 am able
to enjoy life ...
not to be born until my body is precious
and men have ceased to exploit it
because it is cheap and plentiful
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Eastern Kentucky sites featured on map of Appalachia by National
Geographic Society and Appalachian Regional Commission
Frankfort - Thirty tourist
sites m the Appalachian Region
of Eastern Kentucky are featured on a map appearing in the
April 2005 issue of National
Geographic Traveler magazine
'lS part of a major tourism proect of the Appalachian Region11 Commission and the Nation11 Geographic Society. The proJect represents a "first-of-its<ind" collaborative effort
between the two organizations
:o promote Appalachia and its
'undiscovered treasures."
"I have never found an area
::IS beautiful or as scenic as the
great Commonwealth of Ken:ucky,
particularly
the
1\ppalachia area," said Governor
Ernie Fletcher. "I am proud that
Kentucky and Appalachia are
aeing recognized in National
Geographic Traveler. While
Kentuckians have always known
,he area is a treasure, now the
nation will be informed as well."
Randy Fiveash, Commis5ioner of the Kentucky Department of Tourism, stated, ''This
map project represents a great
partnership
between
the
Appalachian Regional Com-
mission (ARC) , the National
Geographic Society and all the
ARC member states. It is a partnership that has provided a significant marketing tool for Kentucky as it showcases our rich
history and cultural heritage by
way of the thi1 ,y sites. It is marketing projects like this that will
help Kentucky in our efforts to
increase tourism to our state."
The Kentucky map locations
range from tourist attractions
such as Mammoth Cave
National Park and the Kentucky
Artisan Center at Berea to festivals, scenic byways, restaurants, crafts shops and historic
sites. The Kentucky Department of Tourism, along with the
help of local tourism commissions, Area Development Districts, Southern and Eastern
Kentucky Tourism Development Association, Eastern Kentucky University and the Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails
identified and recommended
potential sites from the state.
National Geographic made the
final selections and in all, 356
sites are listed across the 13state Appalachian region.
The tourism project consist~
of a printed map, including the
30 Kentucky sites, which will
be inserted in the April issue of
National Geographic Traveler
magazine and delivered to
more than 900,000 subscribers
nationwide and read by over
four million people across the
country. An additional 300,000
maps will be distributed by the
state tourism offices of the
ARC's 13 states to targeted
traveler mailing lists, regional
welcome centers, and tourism
trade shows. The ARC will also
distribute the maps to schools,
libraries, and civic organizations throughout Appalachia.
Additionally, an online version
of the map is available at
www .nationalgeographic .com
<http://www.nationalgeographic.coml> . Kentucky sites may
also be accessed through the
Kentucky Artisan Heritage
Trails
at
www.kaht.com
<http://www.kaht.coml> .
THE MOUNTAIN ARTS
CENTER, home of Kentucky
Opry in Prestonsburg is among
32 Kentucky sites featured on
an exclusive full-size map of
Appalachia in the April issue of
National Geographic.
Keith Caudill, Operations
Director of the Mountain Arts
Center, expressed great pleasure
at being among those chosen by
National Geographic's editors
and featured in the national publication. "We have an impressive tourism product in
Appalachia- it's just a matter of
getting more people to discover
it," Caudill remarked. "We're
proud to be listed on the map
with all the other wonderful
attractions and hope that we'll
see more visitors dropping by
and staying for a while."
Kentucky sites on the map
include arts centers, historic inns
and bed and breakfasts, handmade craft shops, scenic and historic parks and attractions.
for Kentucky AARP chapters
was discussed. The workshop
will be held on October 24th,
25th and 26. in Louisville.
Renewal of the chapter's
corporation status was discussed, and Gwen Miller was
named to the Board of
Trustees to replace Sarah
Laven who is ill.
Burieta Gearhart reported
on the Tax-Aide program
which is currently in progress.
She reported that they had
assisted more than 100 elderly
and low income taxpayers.
John Rosenberg addressed
the group, and spoke of predatory lending; he also encouraged
the chapter to become more
active in the conimunity and in
the matters of the state office.
The election of officers
was conducted, and the following were elected: to serve
the chapter for 2005:
James E. Goble, president
Irene Hester, vice-president
Elizabeth B. Castle, treasurer
Marie Goble, secretary
These officers will be
installed at the meeting to be
held Friday, April15.
John Rosenberg agreed to
be the chairman of the chapter's Legislative Committee,
and Garnett Fairchild agreed
to become a chaiJ:person.
Present at the meeting were
James E. and Marie Goble,
Royce and Nola Mayo, Norman and Gwen Miller, Elizabeth B . Castle, Jane Back,
Irene
Hester,
Garnett
Fairchild, and a guest, Marissa
Thompson. ·
held on Mayo campus
Skills USA YICA held its
regional competition on the
Mayo Campus, Big Sandy
Community and Technical
College, on Friday, February
18. High school students from
five area technology centers
competed in skill and leadership contests . Winners from
each competition will compete
in Louisville in April. Area
schools represented were Belfry (Pike) , Floyd County,
Magoffin County, Martin
County, and MiHard (Pike) .
Visit.
Annette
s. Ward,
principal,
Belfry
Area
Technofogy Center, presents
award to
a student
winner.
"W'VV'W...tl.oydcoun:tyt.imes.com
Day is an annuat hands-on
preservation event created by
CWPT. Volunteers gather at designated Civil War sites to help
with routine repairs art,d maintenance. Activities can rd,nge from
raking leaves and hauling trash
to painting signs and trail building. In exchange for their hard
work, participants receive Tshirts and have an opportunity to
hear local historians describe the
significance of the site.
Among the sites that will be
benefiting from Park Day activities this year are: Kennesaw
M ountain Battlefield in Georgia, Perryville Battlefield in
Kentucky, and Chancellorsville
Battlefield in Virginia. "These
are the hallowed fields where
our ancestors gave their lives.
We cannot allow them to fal l
into
disrepair,"
remarked
Lighthizer.
With 70 ,000 members,
CWPT is the largest nonprofit
battlefield preservation organization in the United States. Its
goal is to preserve our nation's
endangered Civil War sites and
to promote appreciation of these
hallowed grounds. CWPT's
website is located at www.civilwar.org.
For a list of the participating Park
Day sites, visit http://www.civilwar.org/parkdaybtm.
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ACHS student
granted USAA award
President
by Kasey, 3rd grade
If I were president, I would
change some laws. I would
make Bible and recess longer. I ·
would also make a lot of shelters for the homeless . I would
give $1000 a week for the
tsunami Relief Aid.
That's what I would do if I
were president.
The Woman I
Admire Most.
by Logan, 6th grade
VICA competitions
Washington , D.C . - The Civil
War began as a struggle
between armies of untrained but
enthusiastic volunteers . Seven
generations later, another army
of volunteers is abou t to
descend on America's Civil War
battlefields - only this horde of
dedicated men and women will
be armed with paint brushes,
trash bags and weed whackers .
On Saturday, April 2, 2005,
history buffs and preservationists of all ages will join forces to
clean and restore Civil Warrelated battlefield s, cemeteries
and shrines . The nationwide
effort - dubbed Park Day - is
underwritten with a grant from
The History Channel. Park Day
is also recognized by the U .S.
Department of the Interior as a
"Take Pride in America" event.
More than 90 historic sites in 24
states are expected to participate
in Park Day 2005 .
"Civil War sites are often the
victims of their own popularity," noted Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) President
James Lighthizer. "Without
proper maintenance, battlefields
can suffer from the ravages of
both time and tourism. Our goal
is to spruce up these links to
America's past so they can be
enjoyed by all."
Now in its ninth year, Park
The Kentucky Department of
Tourism, an agency of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet,
exists to promote The Commonwealth as a travel destination,
to generate revenue and create
jobs for Kentucky's economy.
Jenny Wiley AARP, 3528
lects OHicers for 2005
Jenny Wiley Chapter No.
3528, AARP, held an election
of officers at the meeting
which was held on Friday,
March J 8, at the Presbyterian
Church , Prestonsburg.
The meeting was called to
order by the president, James
E . Goble, and all present
joined in the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag.
Marie Goble read the minutes of the last meeting, and
Garnett Fairchild presented
the treasurer's report. Both of
these reports were approved.
The matter of the severe
weather warning radios, presented by Jessica Runyon at
the last meeting was discussed, and the president will
pursue this.
The 2005 annual workshop
Volunteers needed to clean
up Civil War Battlefields
and historic sites - April 2
Bianca Lyn Hynes, of Way- .
land, has been named a United
States National Award Winner
due to honor roll achievements
at Allen Central High School.
Bianca was nominated for this
award, an honor achieved by
fewer than 10 percent of all
American high school students
by her counselor, Laura Kidd.
Biam:a will appear in the
United States Achievement
Academy Official Yearbook, a
national publication.
The Academy selects USAA
winners upon the exclusive recommendation of teachers , coach-
es, counselors, and other qualified sponsors and upon the Standards of Selection set forth by the
Academy. The criteria for selection include a student's academic
performance, interest and aptitude,leadership qualities, respon- ~
sibility, enthusiasm , motivation
to learn and improve, citizenship,
attitude and cooperative spirit,
t.lependability, and recommendation from a teacher or director.
Bianca is the daughter of
Doreen Hynes. of Wayland. She
is the granddaughter of Frank
and Carol O 'Connor, of Cliffwood Beach, New Jer ey.
r.Jfew ~rrivafs
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The woman I admire most is
my mother because no matter
what, she stands by me. Even
when I get into trouble. I love her
very much and she does the same.
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March 15, 2005
.-A son, Andrew Wayne Slone, to Kathnna & Stacey Slone
.-A daughter, Hale Danielle LaShea Howell, to Rosanna &
Jerry Howell
March 16, 2005
.-A daughter, Kylie Dawn Elste, to Charlette & George Elste
March 17, 2005
.-A daughter, Olivia Grace Combs, to Jennifer Susanne &
Paul Alan Combs
March 21, 2005
.- A daughter, Emily Elizabeth Adkins, to Shonda Daher
Shepherd
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STEEL BUILDINGSFinal Clearance All
Must Go. Repo's,
Damaged,
Cancellations! use
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build your dream
building
Call 800405-7501 ext. 1558
FOR SALE: 8 ft'
refrigerated
deli
case, $1000, small
pizza oven, $400,
small juice cooler,
$150, washer &
dryer, $150 pair. Call
$ GRANTS AVAIL- 606-886-2367.
ABLE
$
FREE
APPLICATION!!! FOR SALE: 8ft' deli
I N S T A N T cooler, $950 and Gas
oven,
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OF 2367.
$50,000 IN GRANT
MONEY!!
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Ky·
9035 CLAIM 30(Not pa.lntsvl'lle·
valid 10 NY, VT, FL, Hundreds of Patterns
OH, IL, NC)
of
Wallpaper
&
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open TuesFri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p, m.
410-Animals
Closed Sun. & Mon.
606-789-8584.
RABBITS
FOR
SALE. Mini Rex & FAMILY
HEALTH
Holland
Lops, 6 CARE
w/
weeks old. Call after Prescription Plan!
4pm or leave mes- $69.95/mo: Best netsage. 377-9290
work, Excellent coverage. No limitations,
includes
Dental,
445-Furniture
Vision, Pre-existing
'
Cond OK! Call: WCS
ALLEN
1-800-288-9214 ext.
FURNITURE
2361
ALLEN,KY
Furniture,
used
appliances, living I NO RENTI$0 DOWN
bedroom suits, bunk HOMES! GOV'T &
beds, and lots more! BANK REPOS! NO
CREDIT OK. $0 TO
Call 606-874-9790.
LOW DOWN! FOR
FOR SALE-Solid LISTINGS, CALL 1Wood Office Desk. 800-501-1777 EXT.
Call 789-6320 or 9811
367-1506
STEEL BUILDING
SALE! We'll Beat All
RAY'S BARGAIN
Competitor
Bids
CENTER
&
Used Spec for Spec or we'll
New
Furn1ture
& send you a check for
Appliances @ unbe- $200.00! 1-800-973lievable prices. Com .. 3366. www.premierin today for incredible steel.
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savings.
The Little Furniture SAWMILLS
Store
&
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Route.
#122, LumberMate-2000
Lumberlite-24.
McDowell. Call 606- &
Norwood
Industries
377-0143.
alsomanufactu res
ATV
460-Yard Sale utility
Attachments, Log
BAG SALE: Martha's Skidders, Portable
Portion-Lancer-Water Board Edgers and
Gap Rd., March 31st forestry equipment.
& April 1st. Fill aBag www.norwoodindustries.com-FREE
for $3
Information: 1-800YARD 566-6899 Ext. 200-U
CHURCH
SALE, April 2nd at
the Law Offices of $1 01 COMPUTERS,
Sheridan Martin. Off Video Games! TVs
U.S. 23 in Allen from $101 Police
across from Double Seized! Sony, JVC,
Kwik. Chidren and Panasonic etc. Info
Adult Clothes, Knick 800-749-8128 xP686
Knacks
and
Miscellaneous Items MEDICARE
DIAFor More Info Call BETICSFree
874-4034
Meter!!! No Cost
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Fridge, Baby & Adult
school, new business. $49 BILLION
Left unclaimed from
2004'.
Live
1-800Operators!
606-6081 Ext #64
MERCHANDISE
Information: 24 hour . .•••••••••••••••~
recording 1-800-7966567
GOVERNMENT
JOBS! WILDLIFE I
POSTAL
$16.51 to $58.00 per
hour.
Full
Benefits. Paid
Training. Call for
Application
and
Examlnformation. No
530-Houses
NEW 1,950 SQ. FT.
HOME FOR SALE
located in Country
Oaks Subdivision in
Harold, KY Call 4789993
fireplace, wall oven &
m1crowave. cook top,
SBS, island kitchen,
oak cabinets, computer center. Call
800-406-5274
(WAC).
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to 4 roomsjust pay
41.99 per month for
133 channels anddlrectv will upgrade
you to 21 0 channels
for 3 months. Call
888-777-7115
Sales Associate
50S-Business
SMALL BUSINESS
FOR SALE. Grocery,
Deli, Carryout &
Tanning .
Great
Investment
Opportunity, Located
at
Banner.
KY
Serious Inquires Only.
Call Dunng Business
Hours 9am-7pm 606874-9190
Sherwin-Williams, a leader in the paint and coat·
ings industry, has an opening at our Pikeville store
for a part-time Sales Associate. In this position, you
will assist customers, stock and price products,
maintain store displays, and tint and mix paint.
Here's what you get: Competitive salary, vacation
pay, growth opportunities, company-paid pension
(minimum hours required to be eligible), companypaid training, employee discounts; plus excellent
insurance and 401 (k) for full-time employees.
Here's what you need: High school diploma or
equivalent; ability to work all scheduled hours; valid
driver's license; appropriate vehicle insurance.
Apply at: The Sherwin-Williams Company
4223 North Mayo Trail
Pikeville, KY 41501
(Tel: 606-437-4355 Fax: 606-432·3803)
An equal
opportunity
employer
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HOUDAY
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429-4 788
2973 PIEDMONT RD. • HUNTING
~
BR Unfurnished.
Call 886-8366
2 BR 1 112 BATH
TOWNHOUSE also 1
bed room furnished
or unfurnished located 1n Prestonsburg
,NO PETS call 606clearance 1 BR FURNISHED 886 8991
Final
sstr.lanc17Lots
2004 lot models and APARTMENT,
2 LOTS FOR SALE 2005 models now Including Utilities. 2
on Stonecrest Golf available! If you are
C o u r s e . serious about purAPPLICATIONS BEING
APARTMENTS
Approximately 3 1/3 chasing a new home
ACCEPTED FOR
FOR RENT
1·BEDROOM
Acres each .
Call you need to be with
1. 2 3, 4 Bedrooms
experienced staff to
APARTMENTS FOR
886-3313
PERSONS
available lor extremely
get the right home at
low-Income
people at
55
AND
OLDER
a
great
price.
The
570-Mobile Homes
Highland Heights Apts.
Located behind Wendy'•
Home Show-South
in Goble-Roberts Addn.,
2005 28x56, 3 BR 2
and Pizza Hut In Pre&·
William son. Inc. US
and Cliffside Apts. on
tonaburg.
All
utlllllel
are
BA,
2x6
walls, 119, Belfry, Ky. 41514
Cliff Road, Prestonsincluded end the rent Is
Ultimate Stamless 606-353-6444 or toll
burg.
Computerized
baaed upon gross monthly
learning centers offer
Income. Several activities,
Steel Kitchen pkg. free 877-353-6444
auch as line dancing,
soclaVeducational proOnly 2 left, $54,000
SMALL TRAILER
crafta, bingo, movies, hair
grams for children and
salon and church aervlcea.
Call 606-638-4663
FOR SALE. Needs
adults. All utilities
The
apartments
are
furincluded at Highland
minor work, partially
nished with a refrigerator,
Hgts., utility allowance
200516x80, 3 BR 2 furnished, $800 Call
stove, emergency alarm
at Cliffside. call (606)
system, and air conditioner.
BA, V1nyl Siding, 358-3416
886..()6()8, 886·1927, or
YOUR ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOL
DIPLOMA m 30-days
or less.No classes.
FREE
evaluation.
Kitchen
www.Finish HighScho Premium
Home at Invoice,
ol.com 1-866-290- pkg. One in Stock!
New Double Wide
6596
Call 606-638-4663
Only
$31 ,599,
Includes
Delivery,
DIRECTV FREE 3
1984 14x70, Will Set-Up, A/C and
ROOMS SYSTEM
& Set! Skirting. Call 888Deliver
installed & delivered
$5,900, call 606-638- 246-1075 Fleetwood
free. Say goodbye
4663
homes Homes of
to cable forever + 3
LOUISa.
months
FREE
Used
2005
16x76,
HBO/CINEMAX. Call
All Drywall, Dutch
1 -800-694-8644 . Lived in only Six
with 2x6 walls,and
Months!
Looks
Brand
www.dtv2day.com
5/12 roof pitch, ultiNew! Call for Pnce!
mate kitchen packVIAGRA
$5.00, 606-638-4663
age, glass block winCIALIS $6.25 Why
dow, and many more
pay more? Lowest
The Home Show, extras, Set up for
Priced Refills and
Louisa, KY.
viewing. For details
Free Shipping!! 1Stop in to see our call 606-353-6444 or
866-402-5400
large selection of 24, toll free 577-353& 32 wides. 6444 the home show
NEW COMPUTER- 28,
Bad cred1't okay. No Alson check out our
credit
check 42' wide. 2005 sinChecking
account glewides in stock
610-Apartment
required.
Name 17151 Highway 23,
brands. 1-800-510- Louisa, KY
DUPLEX
FOR
3
5
1
1
RENT: 2 BR Central
www.bluehippoPC.co
NEW
3 Heat & Air, Total
m
BEDROOM, central Electric,
Excellent
air, W/D, skirting, Condition. On US 23
$$FREE
CASH
delivery & set-up. North, 1 Mile From
M 0 N E Y $ $
No
2005!Never Repay! Less than $199 per Prestonsburg,
Pets.
Call
889-9747
Call800-406month.
Grants fo; Personal
or 886-9007
B i II s , S c '1 o o ;, 5274 (WAC).
Business,
et(
Approximate I v
WINTER
$49billion
left CLEARANCE
unclaimed 2004. Live PRICE on new 32x76
Operators! 1-800- Norris 4 BR, 2 BA,
284-9577 ext. 80
over 2,300 sq. ft. , living room, den, stone
$
GOVERNMENT
GIVES BACK $MINIPOSITIONS AVAILABLE
MUM OF $5,000
Direct Care Provider
GUARANTEED!!
Join
a
growing organization committed to
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providing
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THE
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UTES!!!DO
NOT
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HESITATE!! 1-866Apply in person, or submit a resume to:
CLAIM
541-9032
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
101 ONot valid in NY
4663
US
23 South (at old Unisign Building)
VT, FL, OH, IL, NC)
P.O. Box 468 Allen, Ky. 41601
REAL ESTATE
R E N0 VAT E D
APARTMENT'S, Like
New, Furnished in
Downtown
Martin.
Call between 9am5pm dailey.
2853025
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
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 admlsalon
or employment In subsl·
dlzed housing on accoun1
of race, color, creed, religion, sex, nation·
al origin, age,
_
familial status or
disability.
~~
®
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
G)
status.
,......
"Outside Salesman"
Mining and industrial supplier in
Prestonsburg, KY, area is seeking to fill
the position of Outside Sales. Territory
will be that of eastern Kentucky.
Candidate must be an aggressive self
starter and able to work with minimal
supervision. Must be goal oriented,
motivated and self driven. Prime focus
wiU be expansion of product lines within an established customer base, as well
as generation of new customers. This
wiU require excellent communications
skills, ability to research business
opportunities and the desire to succeed.
Extensive travel required. Good interpersonal skills are a must. 3-5 years
mining or industrial sales experience
required. Computer skills essential.
This is an opportunity for the right person to prove their skills and grow with
an established company. Company
vehicle will be provided, plus expense
account. Salary structure will be commission less monthly draw. Benefits
package included. Mail resume with
salary history to Human Resources,
P.O. Box 58, Huntington, WV 25706, or
fax to: (304) 526-4746. EOE
Public Meeting Notice
The City of Prestonsburg is in
the process of updating its
Comprehensive Plan for the
community's development. In
order to provide its citizens the
opportunity to contribute to the
Comprehensive Plan, the City of
Prestonsburg will hold public
meetings on Thursday, March
31, 2005, at 6:00 p.m., and
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, at
11:00 a.m., for community input.
The meetings will be held at Big
Sandy
Area
Development
District, 110 Resource Court,
Prestonsburg, KY.
Contact Denise Thomas at
BSADD for additional information, 606-886-2374.
Cl\IIA's
$1,500 sign on bonus!
We are currrently hiring for 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.
Salyersville
Healt:h 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 wages. Call or
stop by for a tour and
interview to join our
caring team!
Salyersville
Healt:h Care
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
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FURNISHED
1
BED ROOM APT.
Central heat & air.
Rent starting at $375.
+ $300.
month,
deposit water included. Located near
606-889HRMC.
9717.
at Kite on St. Rt. 7,
Call 438-61 04
FOR RENT: Office
Suite,
New
Construction.
900
sq. ft.
Ample
Parking, Can be
Convenient Location,
New Office Behind
Sav-A-Lot
in
Prestonsburg. Call
886-1515 for info
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5761
call
791-
NOTICES
.·: :. 812-FREE ·.
2 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT at Garrett.
FREE PALLETS:
$400 per month + can be picked up
$300 Deposit, Call behind The Floyd
478-5389 or 477- County Times.
1707
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850-Personal
HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cenWhen responding
tal heat & air, yard,
no pets. references to Personal ads that
required $550 mo. have reference numbers. please indicate
Greetings
from Call 886-0226.
that entire reference
Lighthouse Manor,
number on the outTerry
&
Sharon FOR RENT 3 BR
side of your enveSmith.
We have house .
Newly lope.
Reference
apartments for rent remodeled , refer- numbers are used to
that are efficiency ences
required. help us direct your
apartments, all utili- 886-8366
letter to the correct
individual.
ties paid. For more
info call 606-886- HOUSE FOR RENT:
SECRET
2797.
Harold, Ky, Pin Hook
ENCOUNTERS
1Hill, 1st house on left
1 BR FURNISHED going up hill. Call 800-442-MEET .69
p/mLadies Free!! 1APARTMENT, LR, 478-5228
800-201-TALK VISIT
Kitchen, Larg~ Bath,
- singles.com
Clean,
Must
be 3 BR HOUSE FOR
Quiet. Suitable for RENT: Utility Room,
START
DATING
Working Man. Ready Living Room, Dining TONIGHT! Have fun
to Move Into, Near Room,
Built
in meeting eligible sinPrestonsburg. Call Vacume
Cleaner, gles in your area. Toll
1-800886-3941
Very Free.
Heat Pump.
Nice Home Located ROMANCE ext. 9735
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
March Madnes~l
First Month's Rent
free with Secumy
Deposit Paid in Full!
Through
3/~.
Park
Place
Apartments
in•
Prestonsburg ,
Elderly, Handicapped
& Disat:JiedAvailable
for
Immediate
Occupancy. Rent 1
BR/$309, 2 BR/$345
Call 886-0039
For Lease Finished
Office Space for
lease in prime location near BSCTC,
(PCC) and the new
Food City -- 21 00 -sq. ft. Ground floor
location with up to
five priyatEl o~i.ces ,
conference
room ,
kitchen, bath, parking
lot call Today 606424-2690 or 2262266
ME D I CAL
OFFICE
FOR
LEASE:
rv1edical
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 accesseries. Reasonable
Lease rates. Ready
for immediate occupancy.
For further
information or to view
property please call
606-377-2006
or
606-377-1088
Monday thru Fiday.
FOR RENT: 900
Ft.
Sq.
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 285-9112
630-Houses
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
4 BR BRICK HOUSE
RENT.
FOR
Basement & Carport,
3 miles from MAC on
404 David Road .
$700 per month, Call
886-2842 or 8863451
2 BR HOUSE FOR
per
RENT-$400
+
$300
month
deposit,
located
between Paintsville &
Prestonsburg,
3/4
from U.S. 23. No
pets,
refereances
900-Legals
640-land/lots
Trailer lot for rent
on old U.S. 23
between
Prestonsburg and Paintsville
call 606-886-9007 or
889 9747
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO. 836-0294,
AMENDMENT 1
(1) In accordance
TRAILER
LOT
with
KRS 350.070,
FOR RENT, Large
notice is hereby
Yard. Call 886-8366
given that Miller Bros.
Coal,
Inc. ,
25
For Rent : newly
Clydean
Drive,
constructed Mobile
Leburn ,
Kentucky
Home Lots in new
41831 , has applied
Allen ,reference
for an amendment to
required call 606an existing surface
874-2212
coal mining operation, located 1 mile
650-Mobile Homes
southeast
of
Weeksbury,
in
Floyd
14X70
MOBILE
HOME FOR RENT, 3 and Pike counties.
Excellent The amendment will
BR,
Condition, $425 per add 31.22 acres, and
month + Utilities, will delete 2.15 of
Security Deposit and surface disturbance,
References making a total of
Required. 87~-2802
639.97 acres within
the amended permit
SMALL FURNISHED boundary.
TRAILER
FOR
(2} The · proposed
RENT: Just off Mtn.
amendment
area is
Pwy. on Old 114, Call
approximately 1 mile
886-8724
southeast
from
Route
660-Miscellaneous Kentucky
466's junction with
FIRE
YOUR Caleb Fork County
LANDLORD!! !$$$0 Road, and is located
DOWN HOMES!No on Pine Fork of
Caleb Fork, in Floyd
Rent! Tax Repos &
County, and Abel
Bankruptcies!No
Tackett Fork of Long
Credit OK! $0 to low
Fork, in Pike County.
down! For Listings,
The latitude is 37
1-800-501-1777 Ext.
degrees, 19 minutes,
8351
09 seconds. The longitude is 82 degrees,
$0 DOWN HOMES!
41 minutes, 01 secNO CREDIT OK!
onds.
GOV'T & BANK
(3) The proposed
REPOS. $0 TO LOW amendment is locatDOWN. FOR LIST- ed
on
the
I NGS . 1-800-501- Wheelwright USGS 7
1777 EXT 7372
1/2 minute quadrangle map. The surface
SERVICES
area to be disturbed
under the amend71 a-Educational . ment is owned by
Collins and Mayo
Develop the skills Collieries Company,
needed for the
Joyce N. Johnson,
rapidly expanding Clinton & Eva Little,
field of
and Joe & Mary
HEALTH
Tackett. The operaC A R E
tion will use the surCall The
face area method of
National
mining.
College of
(4) The amendment
Business &
application has been
Technology 1filed
for
public
800-791-4295
inspection at the
for
Department
Surface
Mining
770-Repair/Services
Reclamation
and
CA.RPENTRY Enforcement's
WORK
all types. Prestonsburg
Office,
New construction or Regional
remodeling . 3140 South Lake
Garages, decks, etc. Drive, Prestonsburg,
41653.
Concrete work & sid- Kentucky
ing. Free estimates. Written comments,
or
objections,
Call 886-8896.
requests for a permit
D & D Tree Service conference must be
filed with the Director,
Tree Trimming
Division of Permits,
Tree Removal
#2 Hudson Hollow,
Free Estimates!
U.S.
127 South,
Lowest Prices
Frankfort,
Kentucky
Guaranteed!
40601
.
Call 606-785-0316 or
785-9810
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. I
CIVIL ACTION
NO: 00-CI-00469
KENTUCKY
FARM
BUREAU
MUTUAL
INSURANCE
COMPANY
PLAINTIFF
VS:
Willie A. Delong,
unknown spouse of
Willie A. Delong,
Estate of Eula Ann
Delong, Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
spouse of Brian Neal
Delong,
unknown
spouse
of
Bill
Delong,
unknown
spv..::>e of Connie
Reffett, and First
Commonwealth Bank
of Prestonsburg, Inc.
Defendants
AMENDED
NOTICE
OF SALE
By virtue of an
Amended
Default
Judgment and Order
of Sale of the Floyd
Circuit Court, ren dered
at
the
November 17, 2004,
term , in the above
styled action, I, the
undersigned Special
M a s t e r
Commissioner, shall
proceed to offer for
sale, on the steps of
the Old Floyd County
Courthouse, (behind
the Floyd County
Justice Center), 3rd
Avenue ,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky, to the highest and best ' bidder,
at public auction, on
the 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00 a.m. ,
same being a day of
the regular term of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, the following
described property,
as a whole, to wit:
Certain real property and improvements,
situated in Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
and being more particularly described as
follows:
BEGINNING
on
Highway 404, running with Irvin Slone
line, t hence up the
hill to the top joining
Slone
Harminson
Line, thence around
the
hill
with
Harminson
Slone
and down the hill with
Harminson
Slone
and down the hill to
Highway 404, thence
up the road with
Highway 404 to the
starting
point,
Containing 3 acres
more or less.
Being the same
land conveyed to
Grantor by Eula Ann
Delong and being of
record in Deed Book
269, page 445, in the
office of the Floyd
County Cle'rk. Also
see
Affidavit
of
Descent on Eula Ann
Delong recorded in
Deed Book 453,
page 555 in the Floyd
County Clerk's office.
The amount of
money to be raised
by this sale shall
include
costs
of
advertising of this
sale and the fees and
commissions for conducting this sale.
The purchaser shall
be required to pay
the sum of 10% of
the bid price down in
cash at the time of
the sale with the balance on a credit of
thirty (30) days at the
rate of 12% per
annum. Further, the
purchaser shall be
required to execute a
bond or bonds with
sufficient surety or
sureties
thereon,
which shall have the
force and effect of a
judgment with a lien
retained upon said
property in order to
secure payment of
the balance of the
purchaser price. A
purchaser shall have
the privilege of paying all or any part of
the purchase price or
paying said bond or
bonds before maturity by paying the balance of the principal,
together with all
accrued
interest
thereon at the rate of
12% per annum from
the date of sale until
paid. In the event that
the successful bidder
is an owner of an
undivided interest in
the property herein,
then and in that
event. said person
shall take credit
against the balance
due on his or her bid
for the interest owned
in the property and
shall fill bond for no
more
than
the
remainder of the purchase price after
applying such credit,
subject however to
purchaser's payment
of all cost of sale and
delinquent
taxes.
Further, the successful bidder shall be
required at bidder's
expense to obtain fire
and extended coverage insurance upon
any
insurable
improvements from
the date of the sale
until the purchase
price if fully paid, to
the extent of the
Court
appraised
value of the improvements or the balance
of the purchase price,
whichever is less,
with a loss clause
payable
to
the
Special
Master
Commissioner of the
Floyd Circuit Court.
Upon default of said
deposit or posting of
bond, by the purchaser, the Special
M a s t e r
Commissioner shall
immediately
resell
the property upon the
same terms and conditions set out herein.
The purchaser shall
be
required
to
assume and pay all
real property taxes
assessed for the tax
year 2001 . and all
subsequent years.
Any delinquent Floyd
County real property
taxes will be deducted from the sale proceeds. All bidders
must be prepared to
comply with these
t e r m s
Announcements on
the day of sale shall
take
precedence
over matters in this
advertisement.
GIVEN UNDER MY
HAND, this 17th day
of March, 2005.
CLYDE F. JOHNSON
Special Master·
Commissioner
Floyd Circuit Court
193 East Court
Street
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
CERTIFICATE OF
SERVICE
This is to certify that
a true and correct
copy of the foregoing
was mailed, postage
prepaid, to the following: Hon. John E.
Hinkel, Jr., 300 West
Vine
Street,
Lexington, KY 40507;
Mr. Willie A. Delong,
Blue
River,
KY
41607;
Mr.
Bill
Delong, Blue River,
61 Old Post Office
Street, Martin, KY
41649; Ms. Connie
Reffett, 4352 South
Hannial Way, Apt.
236, Aurora, CO
80015; Mr. Brian
Neal Delong, P.O.
Box 203, Blue River,
KY 41607.
This 17th day of
March, 2005.
HON. CLYDE F.
JOHNSON
.......
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
C.A. NO. 99-CI-359
FLOYD COUNTY,
KENTUCKY
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Edward M. Kuss,
Rebecca S. Kuss,
Norwest
Bank
Minnesota, N.A., 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,
(beh ind
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
9:15a.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:
Beginning at a
stake in the right of
way of U.S. Highway
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 corner
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 conveyed 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
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
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 and
City of Prestonsburg,
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 and City of
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, real estate
taxes will be paid
from the sale proceeds.
(d) In the event the
Defendant/ CrossPlaintiff 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 Defendant/CrossPlaintiff, and it shall
only be obligated to
pay court costs, the
fees and costs of the
M a s t e r
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.
Mudc;l
Lerner, Sampson
& Rothfuss
P.O. Box 5480
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201-5480
30, 2005 • C7
513/241-3100
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky [Telephone
(606) 886-2431; FAX:
(606) 889-9196], and
having the mailing
address of P.O. Box
408, Prestonsbu'rg ,
Kentucky 41653.
BID PROCESS:
NOTICE OF
The
Floyd County
PUBLIC SALE
The following item Fiscal Court will
will be offered at pub- receive sealed bids
lic sale on March 31, for the sale of the
2005,
at
First Floyd County Gas
Guaranty Bank, 36 System at the Office
Main Street, Martin, of the Floyd Cou['lty
Judge
Executive,
Kentucky.
1985
Chevrolet located on the 2nd
G25 Van Vin # floor of the Fldyd
1GBEG25H2F711 04 County Courthouse,
149 South Central
97
All items are sold Avenue, Suite 9 ,
"as is where is." Prestonsb ur g ,
41 653
Seller reserves the Kentucky
(606)
right to bid and to [Telephone
reject any or all bids. 886-91 93] until 4:00
Items are to be paid p.m., Local Time, on
following the sale, or Thursday, April 21 ,
satisfactory arrange- 2005. The sealed
ments are made with bids for the sale of
the
seller. the Floyd County
Announcements at Gas System will be
and
an
the sale take priority opened
of
the
bid
award
over ad. Purchaser to
pay all taxes and made to the highest
and best qualified
transfer fees.
at the Special
bidder
First Guaranty
Meeting of the Floyd
Bank
County Fiscal Court
36 .Main Street
scheduled for Friday,
P.O. Box 888
April
22, 2005, at
Martin, KY 41649
.. 10:00 a.m. , Local
ADVERnSEMENT • Time, to be held in
OF BIDSthe
County
REQUEST FOR
Courtroom, located
on the 2nd floor of
QUALIFIED
the Floyd County
BIDDERS
Courthouse,
149
FOR _THE SALE
South
Central
OF:
A v e n u e ,
FLOYD COUNTY P r e s t o n s b u r g .
GAS SYSTEM
Kentucky.
A qualified bidder
The Floyd Co~nty will be requ ired to
Fiscal Court will provide all necessary
receive sealed bids proof of the bidder 's
from qualified bidders financial , technical ,
for the sale of a NAI- and managerial abiliURAL GAS DISTRIB· ty to purchase, operUTION
SYSTEM, ate, and maintain the
owned
by Floyd Floyd County Gas
County, Kentucky, by System. An award of
and tftrou!1f1 the the bid and the sale
Floyd County Fiscal of the Floyd County
Court, and operated Gas System shall be
and managed by contingent upon the
East
Kentucky approval of the sysUtilities, Inc. , pur- tem's transfer by the
Public
suant to a lease Kentucky
agreement.
The Service Commission.
Any bid received
Floyd County Fiscal
Court will receive later than the time
sealed bids for the specified for receipt
sale of the Floyd of bids or any bid not
County Gas System submitted with the
until 4:00p.m., Local necessary documenTime, on Thursday, tation shall not be
considered.
Bids
April21 , 2005.
s y s T E M received after the
scheduled
closing
DESCRIPTION:
The Floyd County time for the receipt of
Gas System consists bids will be returned
of a natural gas distri- unopened to the bidbution system fur- ders. Submission of
nishing natural gas to a bid shall be concustomers in the strued as evidence
communities of Allen, and confirmation that
bidde r
has
Dwale, Estill, Garrett, the
Hueysville, Lackey, reviewed all necesMiddle
Creek, sary documentation,
Minnie, and Wayland, has made all necesand their outlying sary site visits, and
vicinities in Floyd has conducted suffiCounty,
Kentucky. cient due diligence to
D o c u me n tat ion allow its submission
regarding the sale of of a bid and bona fide
the Floyd County offer for the system.
The Floyd County
Gas System may be
examined by sched- Fiscal Court reserves
uling art appointment the right to reject any
with David Layne, II, and all bids or to
or John Allen, Jr., waive any formalities
during regular busi- in the bidding. No bid
ness hours from 8 :00 may be withdrawn for
a.m. to 4:00 p.m ., a period of sixty (60)
Local Time, Monday days subsequent to
through Friday, at the the opening of bids
offices
of
East without the consent
Kentucky
Utilities, of the Floyd County
Inc.,
located
at Fiscal Court.
Central
Avenue,
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
IN THE
FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
CIRCULATION DEPT.
ASSEMBLING NEWSPAPERS.
·,family
rvival.
vour local fire
depanment or vour local
Division of Forestrv oftice
APPLY AT 263 S. CENTRAL AVE.
No Phone Calls, Please!
E.O.E.
�C8 • WEDNESDAY, MARCH
COMMONWEALTH
OF KENTUCKY
FLOYD CIRCUIT
COURT
DIVISION NO. II
CASE NO.
04-CI-01212
U.S. BANK, NA
(SUCCESSOR BY
MERGER TO
FIRSTAR BANK,
NA)
PLAINTIFF
vs.
Lester
Tackett,
Audrey
Tackett,
Citifinancial Services,
Inc.. Commonwealth
of Kentucky and
Floyd
County,
Kentucky
Defendants
NOTICE OF
COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
BY VIRTUE OF
Summary Judgment
and Order of Sal~ of
the Floyd Circuit
Court, entered on the
14th day of January,
2005, in the Floyd
Circuit Court, in the
above-styled action ,
in the principal sum
of
$55,345.68 ,
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 31st day of
March, 2005, at the
hour of 9:00a.m. , the
following described
real estate, located at
23235 KY Route 122,
Melvin, Floyd County,
Kentucky, and more
particularly described
as follows:
A certain tract or
parcel of land lying in
Floyd
County,
Kentucky, on Abner
Fork of Left Beaver
Creek and being all
of First Party's interest in and to the following
described
property
and
obtained by deed
from
Darcus
Newsome
and
Monroe Newsome,
her husband, bearing
date of March 30,
1964, and recorded
in Deed Book 184,
Page 554, in the
office of the Floyd
County Court Clerk,
and more particularly
described as follows,
to wit:
Beginning on a
stone marked near
the center of the
creek,
thence
a
straight line across
the
bottom
with
Epison
Newsome
line to a stone at the
co~Jnty road, thence
up the road 50 feet,
thence on up the
State Highway to
Willie Harris line,
thence across the
bottom with Willie
Harris Line and wire
fence to center of
Abner Fork or Creek,
thence down the center of the creek to the
beginning so as to
include all land in
said boundary and
both lots.
Subject to all easements. covenants,
conditions, reservations, leases and
restrictions of record,
all legal highways, all
rights of way, all zoning, building and
other laws, ordinances and regula-
30, 2005
tions, all rights of tenants in possession,
and all real estate
taxes and assessments not yet due
and payable.
Being the same
property conveyed to
Lester Tackett and
Audrey Tackett by
deed recorded in
Volume 249, Page
85, of the Floyd
County,
Kentucky,
records.
*Consists of housing unit and lot.
TERMS OF SALE
(a) At the time of
sale, the successful
bidder, if the other
than the Plaintiff,
shall either pay cash
or 10o/o 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, 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 there-
of.
(c) 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.
(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 precedence over printed
matter
contained
herein.
Plaintiff's Attorney:
Hon. Septtimous
Taylor
4830 Towne
Square Court
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Owensboro, KY
42301
William S. Kendrick
Master
Commissioner
P.O. Box 268
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS
Sealed bids for the
public
housing
Modernization
Project KY36P035501 (04)
will
be
received
by The
Housing Authority of
Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, on April 14,
2005, at 1:00 p.m.,
prevailing time, and
then at said office
publicly opened and
read aloud. The project consists of:
Asbestos
Tile
Abatement, Concrete
Garbage
Pads,
HVAC Upgrades, and
Electrical
Service
Upgrades.
The Information for
Bidders, Form of Bid,
Form of Contract,
Drawings,
Specifications, and
other contract documents may be examined at the following
locations:
C S Design , Inc.
401 West Main
Street,
Suite 318
Lexington, KY
40507
The Housing
Authority of
Prestonsburg
#12 Blaine Hall
Street
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
Additional information is provided in the
bidding documents.
Copies of the bidding
documents may be
purchased at the following location·
Lynn Imaging
328 Old Vine Street
Lexington, KY
40507
Telephone:
(859) 255-1021
Attention: Plan
Distribution
Department
WWW.~ r i I a;j"g_cx:m
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Pre-Bid
Conference will be
held on April 5, 2005,
at 1 :00 p.m. , (local
time) at the Housing
Authority's
main
office for purposes of
answering Bidders'
questions, and to
consider any suggestions.
The Housing
Authority
of Prestonsburg
By: Brenda Harris,
Executive Director
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER 8368027
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 0.10 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
3J022'09". 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
Corporation,
Will
Slone Heirs.
The application has
been filed for public
inspection at the
Department
of
Natural Resources'
Prestonsburg
Regional
Office,
3140 South Lake
Drive, Prestonsburg,
KY 41653.
Written comments,
objections,
or
the David and Martin
U.S.G.S.
7-1/2
minute quadrangle
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 , , J. RichmondHeirs, Dosie Bailey,
et al. , Delphia M.
Hale & Carol S.
Wireman, and Knott
Floyd
Land
Company, Inc. The
operation will underlie
surface
area
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COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Natural Resources,
COUNTY OF FLOYD ... SCT
Division of Mine
I, Douglas Ray Hall, Clerk of the Floyd District Court, do hereby certify that the followReclamation
and
ing settlements of estates have been filed in my office. Anyone desiring to take excepEnforcement's
tions to said settlements must do so on or before April 30, 2005, at 10:00 a .m .
Prestonsburg
Settlement
Case Number
Estate Of:
Fiduciary
Date Filed
Regional
Office,
02·14·05
Margaret
Tackett
Final
03-P-00422
James Tackett
3140 South Lake
02-22-05
Brenda Clevenger
James Clevenger
Final
04-P-00072
Drive, Prestonsburg,
02-23·05
Pauline
Vaughn
Kentucky
41653.
03-P-00079
Amos
Vaughn
Final
Written comments,
02-24·05
Maxine Goble
Carl Goble Jr.
Final
04-P-00273
objections,
or
02·24·05
Peggy A. Steele
Final
03-P-00315
Millard Hamilton
requests for a permit
02·25·05
Charles Dutton
Chester Dutton
Final
02-P-00241
conference must be
03-03-05
Brent Allen
Geraldine Allen
Final
01-P-00150
filed with the Director,
03·11·05
John Wnek
Elva Wnek
Final
04-P-00230
Division of Permits,
03-18-05
Donald
Hurt
Final
04·P·00197
Hobert
Hurt
#2 Hudson Hollow,
03·11·05
lena
Fleming
Jeffery
Fleming
Final
01-P-00339
127 South,
U.S.
03·14·05
William Meade
Hattie Mitchell
Final
03-P-00424
Frankfort, Kentucky
Monroe & Myrel Samons 03-21 -05
Final
02-P-00308
Nell B. Samons
40601 .
NOTICE
(OF FINAL SETTLEMENT)
requests for a permit . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of
Mine
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Permits, #2 Hudson
COUNTY OF FLOYD
Hollow, U.S. 127
I, Douglas Ray Hall, Clerk of the Floyd District Court, do hereby certify that the following persons have been
South, Frankfort, KY
appointed fiduciaries by the District Court. All persons indebted to an estate should settle with the fiduciary with40601.
in six (6) months from the date of appointment.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTS
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NO.
836-0315
In accordance with
the provisions of KRS
350.055, notice is
hereby given that
Motts Branch Coal,
Inc., P.O. Box 2765,
436 Daniels Creek
Road ,
Pikeville,
Kentucky 41502, has
applied for a permit
for a surface coal
mining and reclamation operation, affecting 205.7 acres, and
will underlie an additional 14.4 acres,
located
Date of Appointment
02·08·05
02·18·05
02·24-05
03·01-05
03-03-05
03·03·05
03-03·05
04-04·05
03·04-05
03-04-05
Case Number
05-P-00044
05-P-00056
05-P-00057
05-P-00061
05-P-00062
05-P-00063
05-P-00064
05-P-00067
05-P-00068
05·P000069
Estate of:
Charles Jason Slone
lee New
Alex Prater
Shane Eric Brown
Louise Carey
Wendell Meade
John T. Chaffins
Auddie Hall
Margie Collins
Raymond Collins
03-07-05
03-11-05
03-09·05
03·11·05
03·14·05
03·15·05
03-17·05
03-18·05
03-22·05
03-22·05
03-23-05
03·24·05
05-P-00070
05-P-00074
05·P-D0075
05-P-00078
05-P-00080
05-P-00081
05-P-00082
05-P-00083
05-P-00084
05-P-00085
05-P-00086
05-P-00089
Alan Mae Robinson Ryan
Denis Martin
Wanda L. Tackett
Delmer Tackett
Barry E. Little
David M. Hall
J. E. Bentley
Arthur Lewis
Orleen Flanery
Carl Baldridge
Orville Clark
William W. Hall
Fiduciary
Melisa R. Slone
Debra (New) Belville
Velvia Prater
Janice Carol Jackson
Myra Lynn Williamson Polk
Nellie L Meade
Roger Chaffins
Teresa Frasure
Copa Hansford
Copa Hansford &
Phillip Collins
Claude A. Ryan
Freda Martin
Wade D. Tackett
Delores Tackett
linda J. little
Geneva G. Hall
Melissa Jameson
Teressa l . Lewis
Merleen Combs
Jennie Baldridge
Fannie Edna Clark
Audrey Hall
Jerry Patton
Jerry Patton
Dwigh1 S. Marshall
Dwigh1 S. Marshall
Ralph B. Stevens
Anthony C. Davis
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Thomas Moak
•
Gary C. Johnson
miles ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ .
of
Hueysville, in Floyd
County.
The proposed operation is approximater. :First. ~id
ly 1.5 mile northwest
; Newly Employed ·· '
from Route 2029's
·:~~~ .;tltflplas~ (surface) . . . .
junction with
KY
northea~
2 .9
.:ti·;,):;,Ml~~ •. sateJy &?.
Trai-ning _,
<
+> t'O ttr~..(underground)
1
Route 7, and located
in Salyers Branch
and Raccoon Branch
of Saltlick Creek, and
Grassy Creek of
Licking River.
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~~$~. &1$Ctrlcal ClasS$s
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March 30, 2005
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MARCH
30, 2005
CHILDREN FIRST • THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
·Academic and Future Problem Solving
District 75
Academic Meet,
AMS Future
Problem Solving
team: Pam
Gibson, Micaya
Canterbury,
Jessica
McKinney,
Brittney
Compton.
Regional
Academic
Winners
advancing to
State
Competition:
Felicia
Keathley,
Michelle Ellis,
Tyler Gayheart,
Adam Kimbler.
District 75 Academic Meet, first
place team:
Cody McCoy, Tyler
Gayheart, Felicia Keathley, Pam
Gibson, Tara Rohr, Mrs. West,
Jessica McKinney, Danielle Ousley,
Mason Holbrook, Michelle Ellis,
Brittney Compton, Mrs. Marsillett,
Jorden
Baldridge,
Micaya
Canterbury, Adam Kimbler, Vincent
Hayes, Shane Williamson.
Pennies For Price ft~~ni:;h~orp~~~;
In memory of Reba Price.
the students of Adams Middle
School
chose
Abraham
Lincoln's bi1thday to collect
drive was called
'·Pennies for Price" in remembrance of a wonderful teacher
and friend. May the colors of
Mrs. Price's life be remem- •
bered by each of us in our
daily lives. The school collected $833.11, which will benefit
the
Cystic
Fibrosis
Foundation.
''Ce/1-ebration ''
;.students in Carole Bentley's 7th grade science
r class at Adams Middle School had a "Cell~ ebration" after their research and study of
r.plant and animal cells. As a culminating activ~:ity, students constructed a model to depict the
·organelles contained in both types of cells.
Students had the opportunity to construct
·their model in various ways. Some students
·chose to use styrofoam, boxes, etc., while others chose to construct an edible cell. After the
presentation of the model and submitting of
the key which accompanied the model, students shared their "cells" with the rest of the
class in a "Cell-ebration" party. Row 1 -Josh
Blackburn, Scotty Morgan, Brittany Peppi,
·Brittany Rose. Second Row-Amnber Hall,
• Kim Chaffins, Danese Chaffins. Row 3r Sherman Hackworth, Everet Haney, Beth
'Collins, Amber Yates, Brooke eade, Heather
, Joseph, Emily Baldridge, Nick lone
Students in Carole Bentley's 7th grade science
class at Adams Middle School had a "Cellebration" after their research and study of
plant and animal cells. As a culminating activity, students constructed a model to depict the
organelles contained in both types of cells.
Students had the opportunity to construct
their model in various ways. Some students
chose to use Styrofoam, boxes, etc., while others chose to construct an edible cell. After the
presentation of the model and submitting of
the key which accompanied the model, students shared their "cells" with the rest of the
class in a "Cell-ebration" party. First rowClarissa Sherman, Stacy Perry, Kendra Artrip,
Emily Branham, Sarah Salyers, Debra
Necessary, Amanda Mullins. Row 2-Jerry
Hicks, Nikka Shell, Ashley Holbrook,Savannah
Wright, Stephanie Spears, Stephanie Yuhas
Brad Little, Kyle Gearheart, Kyle Williams,
Adam Messer.
r'
Students chose either a plant or animal cell
and constructed the cell from various materials. Some students chose to construct their
cell out of edible products, which they later
shared with the rest of the class in a "Cellebration." It was a "sweet" party that will .
hopefully stay in the minds of the students
FOREVER!!! Rachel Webb, Destiny Akers,
Jonna Craft, Brittney Coyer, Josh Craynon,
Nick Conn, Brandon Hall. Second rowlaToshia Ferrell, Austin McKinney, Mason
McCoy, Nikki Bradley, Kate Herrick, Jessica
Pennington, Brad Hicks. 3rd row-Michael
Burchett, Shenna Bays, Brooke Taylor, Dixie
Shepherd, Brittney Compton, Felicia Keathley,
Ashley Coburn, Brad Stanley, Cody McCoy.
AMS students experience the past while visiting the Van lear Museum.
AMS students toured the Van lear
Historical Museum to learn information on
Coal Camps and the heritage of East
Kentucky.
Students are working in cooperative groups
on a cookie mining activity where students
practice using economy concepts and information related to coal mining.
Coal - Our Heritage
Adams Middle School students recently participated in
a unit entitled ""Coal - Our
Heritage,
Our
Future".
Through research. gue~t
speakers, class activities, and
a trip to a local historical
museum, the class gained an
awareness of the great impact
the coal industry has made in
our lives, and in all America.
Students learned of the
impact of the coal industry in
the future, both in jobs and as
a needed resource. Using the
knowledge gained, students
created projects and presented a coal fair so all of the students in the school could
learn more about coal.
Projects were presented in
of
Math,
the
areas
Technology ,
Literature,
Social Studies, Art, and
Music. Project winners will
go on to the Cedar Coal Fair 4ltl
in May. Thanks to everyone
involved, studtmts, parents,
community members, and
teachers.
The ACHS Good Sam's Club honored the Future Problem Solving Team for finishing first in the district and the ACHS Academic Team for their accomplishments in the academic season.
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30, 2005 • D3
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Math Club rr
Day
The ACHS Math Club sponsored its
second annual :rt (pronounced "pi") Day
celebration on March 14. This day is celebrated as rt Day because the approximate value of :rt is 3 .14.
President Brock Kidd, Vice President
Josh McKinney, Secretary Lyndsey
Frasure and Treasurer Kayla Sheppard
to Chris Branham for nailing Mrs. Moore
with a pie!
There was a contest to see who could
memorize the most digits of :rt. Josh
Lawson and Tiffany Owens both gave it a
good try, but Kayla Sheppard beat their
efforts by memorizing 81 digits.
ACHS Math Club would like to thank
McDonald's Restaurant and Eddie
Hamilton for their efforts to help us make
the day a success.
Additional activities and news for the
Math Club can
be
found
at
www.achs .floyd .k 12 .ky.us/mathclub.htm
made daily announcements of :rt facts
during the week leading up to March 14.
Facts were gathered from a variety of
resources, including several websites.
Math Club funds were used to purchase apple pies from McDonald's for
everyone at ACHS. Math students
brought in posters with :rt facts for display
around the school.
A question requiring the use of :rt was
posted at the office for students to
answer. Students who answered correctly
got the chance to throw a pie at a math
teacher of their choice. Congratulations
Science Olympiad
Allen Central High School's
Science Olympiad team participated in regional competition at
Big Sandy Community and
Technical College on March 12.
Team members who received
awards at the regional level are
Tiffany Owens and Brittany
Waugh, first place in tower building; Brinany Frasure and Melissa
Noble. first place in cell biology;
and Courtney Hall and Kayla
Sheppard. first place in chemical
~ identification. These first-place
winners will advance to state
competition April 16 at Western
Kentucky University.
Second-place winners are
Jared McKinney and Brandy
Parsons, in astronomy; Courtney
•
Hall and Brittany Crisp, in forensics; Michael Duff and Sabrina
Howard, in dynamic planet;
Kayla Moore and Kim Osborne,
in disease detectives; and Zach
Griffith and Josh Manuel, in fossils.
Third-place
winners
are
Brittany Frasure and Melissa
Noble, in practical data gathering;
Shane Kinzer and Ben Reed, in
bottle rockets; Michael Duff and
Sabrina Howard, in dynamic
planet; Lyndsey Frasure and
Kortney Osborne, in mission possible; and Michael Duff and
Sabrina Howard. in forestry.
Allen
Central's
Science
Olympiad teams are coached by
Patricia and Robert Mayton.
The Allen Central High School Future Problem Solving Teach finished first in district competition. The team is coached by Sandy
Mullins. Pictured from left to right are Brock Kidd, Courtney Hall,
Kim Osborne, Kayla Sheppard and Josh McKinney.
On March 4, Mrs. Gayheart's class went on a community-based instruction trip. The lesson for the
day was learning community resources and shadowing job occupations. They made several visits
to different area businesses and resources. In the city of Martin, they visited the new site of the
new flood project and were thrilled to job shadow with Joan Wright, the flag lady at the site. She
was so nice and helpful to the class. From there they went to visit Mountain Comprehensive Care
Greenhouse, Wai-Mart, McDonald's and back to school
GfT Leadership Workshop
ACHS ninth-, 10th- and 11th-grade GIT students attended a workshop at PHS. The workshop was filled with different
hands-on activities and discussions.
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30, 2005
Elizabeth Howard, first place
·English composition
Regional Academic
Competition
CHILDREN FIRST• • THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Clyde Hamilton, second place math
Michaela Tussey, fourth place social studies
Winning team
Allen rentral Middle School students represented their county and school admirably in the
Regional Governorfs Cup Competition. In the
area of mathematics Clyde Hamilton placed second, in the area of English Composition
Elizabeth Howard placed first, and in the area of
social studies Michaela Tussey placed fourth.
The Future Problem Solving team placed third.
This team consisted of Staci Carriere, Elizabeth
Hughes, Evan Lawson, ar::i Lauren Moore. The
quick recall team placed fourth. Competing for
ACMS in quick recall were Clyde Hamilton,
Michaela TUssey, Keith Williams, and Evan
Lawson. ACMS was awarded third place overall
in the competition.
ACMS shines at. Regional
Science Olympiad Competition
Allen Central Middle School
was elated \'.ith their performance at the Regional Science
Olympiad competition. They
placed fii·st overall with multiple awards in the various categories. The Scieuc~ Olympiad
Team is coached by Mr. Greg
Nichols,
Mrs.
Rebecca
Coleman, Mr. Coley Martin, Mr.
Larry Begley and Mrs. Ashley
Rosen. Assisting in events were
Mrs. CC Prater and Mrs. Lynn
Handshoe.
Awesome Aquifer: Second,
Keith WilliamsfJon Hudspeth
Bottle Rocket: First, Zac
Goble/Ciy..:e Hamilton; second,
Breanna DufffBrittany Clark
Bridge Building: Second,
Josh Davis/Tiffany Clark; third,
Christian Francis/ Blake Meade
Compute This: First, Staci
Carriere/Evan Lawson; second,
Keith Williams/ Clyde Hamilton
Experimental
Design:
Second, Lauren Moore/Brianna
Castle; third, Evan Lawson/Liz
Howard! Erika Crager
Meteorology: First, Keith
Williams/Keisha Reid
Mission Possible: Third,
Christian Francis/Blake Meade
Road Scholar: Ftrst, Chelsie
Cordial/Elizabeth Hughes
Robo-Billiards: Second, Josh
Davis/Brendon Ousley
Science of Fitness: First,
Brittany
Johnson/Lauren
Moore;
second;
Liz
Howard/Elizabeth Hughes
Sounds of Music: Second,
Staci Carriere/Jordan Duff
Water Quality: Third, Evan
Lawson
Write It/Do It: First,
Eliizabeth
Hughe$/Chelsi
Cordial
Allen Central Middle School Progresses to
State Governors Cup Competition
Allen Central Middle
School was delighted that
three students progressed on
to state academic competition. Clyde Hamilton will
represent ACMS in mathe -
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will represent ACMS in
English Composition, and
Michaela Tussey wNI represent
ACMS
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Social
Studies.
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Elementary
4-H projects
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On Saturday, Feb. 26,
the Allen Eagles elementary academic team competed in the Governor's
Cup District Academic
Meet, held at Betsy Layne
Elementary.
The following students
placed in written assessment and moved on to
compete at the regional
meet March 19 at Carr
Creek Elementary.
Pictured left to right
are:
• Zachary Rowe, second in math.
• Aaron Griffith, third in
social studies.
• Bryson Williams, fifth
in science and second in
writing composition.
• Abby Goodman , first
in language arts.
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and Brittany Hurd.
Sixth grade: Laura Isaac, Cody Boyd and
Devon Delpont.
Seventh grade: Erica Meade and Samantha
Williams
First-place winners, grades 4-7, Samantha
Williams, Jamila Donta, Kristian Waugh and
Laura Isaac.
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• Kelly Garrett, first in
arts and humanities and
fifth in writing composition .
The future problem solving team finished in first
place and the quick recall
team came in first place by
winning all four rounds of
quick recall.
Overall, the team came in
first place, making them the
elementary district champions for 2005 .
The team is coached by
Amy Banks.
Kindergarten:
Emily
Hunt, Cory Goble, Haley
Stevie
Boyd,
Wright,
Agripina Crace and Steven
Robinson.
First grade: Clydea Conn,
Tera Music and John Wesley
Cooksey.
Second grade: Brandi
Tackett,
Castle,
Noah
Innis,
Whitney
Codie
Gillespie, Dustin Howell and
Katalin Marsillett.
Third grade: Montana
Lemaster, Cody Bradley,
Lakeisha Jervis , Joshua
Adkins. Allie Adkins and
Nick Hall.
Fourth grade: Ashley
Justice, Kassidy Frasure,
Sonjia Meade and Cody
Jarrell.
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Character
Education
Each ·home room in our
primary elected two representatives for excellent character during the month of
January. Winners were:
Pennies for Patients
Anita Vanover's kindergarten class celebrated St. Patrick's Day by having green eggs and ham.
She also read "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss to them.
Allen Elementary students collected $547.60 for Pennies for Patients. This money goes to the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Mrs. Rita Crisp's second-grade class collected the most
money for grades K·4 and Mrs. Tammy Noble's fifth-grade class collected the most money for
grades 5-8.
Spe lin
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Emily Bryant, seventh-grade student at
Allen Elementary, was the school spelling
bee winner and went on to district competition.
Quick Recall Team
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Creating
Slide Shows
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Sixth-grade students do assignments using powerpoint slide shows, assisted by lab
instructor Mrs. Daniel, classroom teacher Mrs. Bradley, and TRT Patricia Adkins.
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Third grade science teacher Dana Tackett and students working with crystals.
The forensics team placed first in the region. The team Is coached
by Connie Newsome.
Sixth-grade student Taylor Watkins was the school spelling bee
winner.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
30, 2005 • 07
Designing
a Coat
Of Arms
Betsy Layne High School named
Central Kentucky Blood Center's
High School of the Year
Russ
Cassady,
Donor
Recruitment
Specialist
From
Central Kentucky Blood Center presents Betsy Layne High School the
Award of Excellence as they were
named Central Kentucky Blood
Centers Regwnal School of the
Year.
0'>crall this past year, Betsy
Layne High School collected 128
units of blood for patients in hospitals across Central and Eastern in
"-· just three drives at the school - an
~ impressive number for any sponsor.
However, this year. that number
also translated into both making
Betsy Layne the highest-collecting
school in CKBC's East Kentucky
Mobile area, but also making it one
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of the highest-collecting sponsors in
the area.
To give you some idea of their
accompli::.hment, the Ea~t Kentucky
Mobile area includes nine counties,
encompassing Floyd, Pike, Johnson,
Martin. Magoffin, Letcher, Perry,
Knott and Breathitt.
In a letter from Russ Cassady,
Donor Recruitment Specialist from
the Central Kentucky Blood Center
he stated, "Let me stress that lives
across
Central
and
Eastern
Kentucky were saved or sustained
because of the efforts you choose to
undertake and the willingness of our
donors to share the lifesaving gift of
blood .... You have made a difference
in many lives."
Betsy Layne High School Students Design
Departmental Shields
Betsy Layne High School art students have been working on designing a Coat of Arms for each of the
departments within the school.
According to teacher Shannon
Shepherd, after a discussion of the
history of Heraldry and Coats of
Arms and the relationship of our
school crest and how it represents us,
the students were assigned to teams
and given a job. Their job was to treat
the assignment as if they were
employed by an advertising agency
and they were hired to design and create a crest for their assigned department. The students used all sources of
media to explore images that could be
used for the shields. They consulted
with their respective departments to
get ideas for color, design, and more
before actually beginning the project.
Rough drafts/layouts were completed
and once the final designs were
decided the design was drawn on plywood. The plywood was then cut out
with a gig-saw, sanded, and the wood
was prepared for painting. The finished Coats of Arms will be hung
with pride throughout Betsy Layne
High School.
Clark Elementary students participate in Science Fair
Forty-three 5tudents at Clark
Elementary created exhibits for
the school's Science Fair, held
February 23. 2005. The main purpose for hosting a Science Fair
was to give students the opportunity to apply scientific knowledge.
Students used scientific inquiry
~~ methods to conduct an experiment
of their choice. The experiment
wac;; done at home under parental
supervision. Students followed
steps that included: developing a
question, forming a hypothesis,
conducting the experiment, keeping a log or journal as they collected data, reviewing their findings,
and interpreting the data to draw
conclusions. Some of the scientific terms students learned
jnclude: hypothesis, dependent
variable, independent vmiable,
data, findings, and scientific
inquiry.
Two school winners, Chris
Cook, a fifth grade student from
Mrs. Starr's room, and Dalton
Shepherd, a fourth grade student
from Mrs. Madden's room, were
chosen to represent Clark
Elementary at the regional
Science Olympiad held at the
East Kentucky Science Center in
Prestonsburg.
Scientific Inquiry: Checking
Plant Growth and Bread Mold
Chris Cook, a fifth grade stu"'\ dent from Mrs. Starr's room,
did an experiment using scientific inquiry procedures to learn
about plant growth. Chris posed
the question: Which of three different plants - Morning Glory,
Petunias, and Impatiens grow fastest in Miracle Grow?
Dalton Shepherd, a fourth grade
student from Mrs. Madden's
room, did an experiment to
check growth of mold. Dalton's
scientific inquiry question was:
Which type of white bread Betsy Ross or Heiner'~ moistened with (warm or cold)
water will mold the fastest and
in what environment? Both
Chris and Dalton's work represented Clark Elcmentm·y at the
regional Science Fair hosted by
the East Kentucky Science
Center. Their work was part of
122 other sc1ence projects from
schools throughout the region.
Mrs. Blanton's room; Daniel
Ousley, Jordan Slone, Garrett
Hammonds,
from
Mrs.
Hunsucker's room; First grade
(P2): Brianne Hatfield, from Ms.
Key's room, and Jared Little,
Nash Holbrook, Thomas Ross
from Mrs. Blanton's room; and
Kindergarten (Pl): Christopher
Little from Mrs. Barrows' room.
Also, participating were Ms.
Allen and Mr. Ippel. Coordinating
the celebration event was Mrs.
Overall grade level winners at
Clark Elementary's Science Fair
received ribbons for distinction of
their work. The following students were school grade level
winners. Fifth grade winners
were: 1st place, Chris Cook, Mrs.
Starr's room; 2nd place, Victoria
Hammonds,Ms. Osborne's room;
3rd place, Chase Baldridge, Mrs.
Starr's room; fourth grade winners were: lst place, Dalton
Shepherd, Mrs. Madden's room;
2nd place, Sean Ly, Mrs. Parsons'
room; and 3rd place, Patrick Pitts,
Mrs. Madden's room; third grade
(P4) winners were: 1st place,
Terry Adams, Ms. Wicker's room;
2nd place, Elizabeth Campbell,
Ms. Wicker's room; and 3rd
place, Blake Baldridge, Ms.
Wicker's room; second grade (P3)
winners were: lst place, Jordan
Slone. Mrs. Hunsucker's room;
2nd place, Garrett Hammonds,
Mrs. Hunsucker's room; 3rd
place. Jackie Kidd, Mrs.
Blanton's room; first grade
(P2)winners: 1st place, TI1omas
Ross, Mrs. Blanton's room; 2nd
place, Jared Little, Mrs. Blanton's
room; 3rd place, Brianne
Hatfield, Ms. Key's room; and the
To the Students of Floyd County:
On behalf of the Floyd County Board of Education, I want to
say how proud the board members are of the students of Floyd
County and your achievements. The work that you do each day to
meet your goals and those set by your teachers and coaches ifl
important to us.lt is why we serve on this board. Congratulations.
Keep setting higher goals for yourselve~. You can reach them. We
believe in you.
Carol Stumbo, Chair of the Floyd County Board
kindergarten (Pl) winner was
Christopher Little from Mrs.
Barrows' room.
The following students participated in Clark Elementary's
Science Fair. At fifth grade:
Kelsey Boyd, Tyler Monday,
Victoria Hammonds, Sammantha
Howard, Barry Hall from Ms.
Osborne's room; Adam West,
Chase Baldridge, April Spears, ·
Kelli Wright, Chris Cook, Jamie
Sherman,
and
Bethany
Thornsbury from Mrs. Starr's
room; Fourth grade: Allison
Rowe, Daphne Shae Cook, Sean
Ly, Josh Stambaugh, Megan
Ward, from Mrs. Parsons' room;
Salena Coburn, Tahlia Holland,
Lemanuel Ousley, Patrick Pitts,
and Dalton Shepherd from Mrs.
Madden's room; Third grade (P4) students: Terry Adams III,
Joshua
Ousley,
Elizabeth
Campbell, Drew Wright, Candace
Whited, Blake Baldridge, and
Christopher Dingus from Ms.
Wicker's
room;
Rachel
Williamson, Michaela Parsley,
Bradley
Ousley,
Gabrielle
Waddles, Mrs. Campbell's room;
Second grade (P-3) students:
Jackie Kidd, Tamcra Tuttle from
Deborah Darby.
Each student received a certificate of recognition, a ticket to the
East Kentucky Science Center, a
kite, refreshment and a little time
to share conversation about their
science projects with their classmates.
Judges
rating
Clark
Elementary students' exhibits
were: Rebecca Blanton, Donna
Dyer, Angela Marshall, and Pam
Meyer.
Clark Elementary donates
money for tsunami victims
Souther)1 Asian people were hit hard by the Tsunami. Fifth grade
students at Clark Elementary students decided to help.
Victoria Hammonds, Kelsey Boyd, Samantha Davis. and
Sammantha Howard got busy collecting money for this disaster that
affected so many people. Money donations were given by the students and faculty at Clark Elementary. They collected a total amount
of $336.36. The money is being donated to the Tsunami fund at our
Local Wal-Mart in Prestonsburg.
Compliments of
PAUL H.
THOMPSON
Floyd County
Judge/Executive
We Support All Academic Endeavors.
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MARCH
30, 2005
CHILDREN fiRST • THE fLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Students from St. Ambrose University remove rocks
that were washed onto The David School baseball
field during summer floods.
Students from The David School, St. Ambrose University and Notre Dame University worked together to collect litter from the mouth of
Route 404.
David School and St. Michael's College students relax one afternoon to watch UK defeat EKU in round one of the NCAA
Tournament.
Junior Amanda Smith and St. Michael's College student Kate
Lesniaski timeline volcanic eruptions in science class.
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March
Madness
in David
Across the state this
month,
thousands
of
Kentucky residents have
been focused on March
Madness and UK's pursuit of
excellence. Here in Floyd
County, The David School
has its own version of March
Madness. Since its inception, The David School has
relied upon volunteers in
order to subsist and grow for
over 30 years. Every spring,
students and staff look forward to the arrival of college
groups, coming in service to
David in lieu of other spring
break destinations. This
March has been no different.
Groups from St. Ambrose in
Iowa, Notre Dame
in
Indiana, St. Michael's in
Vermont and Edgewood
College
of
Wisconsin
descended upon the campus
for a week of hard labor and
education.
As always, the hard working college groups were
open to whatever work the
school needed done. Some
were able to lend their skills
to teaching in the classroom
and tutoring students. Others
assisted with community
beautification including collecting garbage along Route
404. Still others painted,
cleared rocks left by summertime floods and assisted
in the daily lunch preparation.
But, it wasn't all work and
no play. During the weeks,
college students challenged
David School students to
basketball or card games. On
one particular evening, local
caller, Ron Vanover, enter-
tained our visitors with a
night of genuine square
dancing.
David School students
also benefited greatly from
the interaction with these
college students. Working
with volunteers in community projects our students
learned about other cultures,
leadership skills, risk taking,
etc. They put in action learning beyond the confines of
classroom walls. The interaction with college students
of dissimilar backgrounds
enabled David School students to have reflective conversations with other students who are not as different as what was initially
thought. Our students grew
in ways from the experience
that cannot be measured by
paper and pencil. Their horizons were broadened beyond
the boundaries of Eastern .lo.
Kentucky and they devel- ~~
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that will last a lifetime.
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students Matthew Combs and Jordyn
Hansford were chosen to represent Duff as
King and Queen for the presentation.
Students from Mrs. Duncan's 2-3 primary class read
Accelerated Reader books to reach their reading goal. They
received a coupon for a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut.
Pictured: top row: Joe Little, Kasey Tackett, Tyler Manns,
Kayla Johnson Bottom row: Willis Hunter, Brian Coburn,
Chelsea Martinez, Jordan Cole
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Mrs. Ratliff's 4th grade class has been exploring their family heritage. Students
collected pictures and researched their family tree. They took that information to
art class and created a scrapbook collage. Their scrapbooks included pictures of
their family and themselves, along with their family tree. Pictured are Latasha
Whitaker and Austin Salisbury.
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Duff lementacy
Dylan
Shepherd,
Duff
Elementary fifth-grade, first
place Science Fair Winner.
Science Project: How Much
Will It Hold? (Soil water
absorption)
Gary Arnett, Duff Elementary
fourth-grade student, first place
Science Fair winner. Science
Project: How Do Barometers
Work? Gary also won second
Place in the Regional Science Fair.
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McDowell
fifth-grade
students are ready to do
their best on April's
upcoming assessments.
They have come up with
their own class motto to
motivate
them:
"McDowell fifth grade:
Where NOVICE is not an
option."
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Wicker's World
Three members of the
South Floyd High School
basketball team, Stephen
Stanley, Burriett Little and
Matt Little, read to firstgrad.e students during
Read Across America
Week.
We \wOuld like to congratulate the Student Technology
Leadership Program (STLP) Computer Club for having a
great year. After a slow start, the club grew to seven
members and took part in the Regional Showcase at
Jenny Wiley State Park. They also completed a Hillbilly
Jeopardy computer game that can be used by all classes in the school to help further the study of our heritage.
In addition to having a great year, the club was honored
at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference
(KTLC) in Louisville on March 4, 2005. The club was
given the Silver Award for Outstanding STLP Computer
Clubs. Less than 200 schools across the Commonwealth
• received this award and the McDowell Club was the only
T7 Floyd County School to receive such an award.
The STLP Club is sponsored by Mr. Bernard Shayne
Wicker. The members of the club are Savannah Huff;
Sabrina Collins; Savannah Collins; Kennedy Hall; Casey
Stewart; Tiffany Sanders; and Andrea Hamilton.
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MCAMiddle
School
Academic Team
Mountain
Christian
Academy's Middle School
Academic team
Placed 3rd in Quick
Recall and 5th in Future
Problem Solving.
,
MCA also won the
Sportsmanship
Award.
Elizabeth Davis Placed l st
in Arts and Humanities
and Shikha Sachdeva placed
5th in Math.
Both girls will advance to
the state competition.
MCA's Elementary Academic Team
Are Regional and District Governor's
Cup Champions
MCA placed 1st in
Overall and 1st in Quick
Recall in· the District and
Regional
Academic
Competitions. They placed
3rd in Future Problem
Solving in the District.
Individual Winners for
Regional:
Swathi Gutti placed 1st
in Language Arts and 2nd
in Science.
Aanchal Saraf placed
1st in Arts and Humanities
and 3rd in Math.
Cameron Love placed
2nd in Language Arts.
Ashley Heywood Placed
5th
in
Arts
and
Humanities.
Individual Winners for
District:
Aanchal Saraf placed
1st in Arts & Humanities
and 1st in Math.
Swathi Gutti placed 1st
in Science.
Cameron Love placed
2nd in Language Arts.
Jacob Bartley placed 3rd
in Math.
Ashley Heywood placed
5th in Arts and Humanities
Sam Kilburn placed 6th
in Science.
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ountain
Geography ee
Elizabeth Davis has
qualified to compete
In the National
Geographic Bee. The
State finals wll be
held
in
Bowling
Green
on April 1st.
Bertha Wright shares information about her motorcycle racing accomplishments with Mrs. Mynhier's class. The students are working on self-selected research projects and
Mrs. Wright's input was used to gather information.
Miss Campanella's 8th Grade Science
rio
MCA's 8th graders are studying about the human body In Miss Terri Campanella's Science class. They did an experiment to
find
out how much skin covers the body by wrapping someone In newspaper and then measuring it.
Students busy themselves working on a project which incorporates geometry and art.
Students are hard at work using various forms of technology to enhance their learning.
Supporting Heart
Disease Awareness
For Women
Staff and students at OU wear red
to support awareness of heart
disease for women.
Our fourth grade students were also presented with the program about heart
health and the proper way to administer CPR.
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eral questions pertaining their safety while waiting at the bus stop, riding the bus and how/where to exit safely from the bus. Buster also answered students questions about safety concerns. Buster
then entertained the students with a little bit of dancing. Not only did students review safety issues, they also enjoyed talking with Buster the Bus. We would like to thank the Department of
Transportation for this program.
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address. We have received cards from Claudeville, Va., Hillsville, Va., Draper, Va., Newhall, W.Va., and Cedar Point, N.C.
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party decorations and punch and cake.
OES primary students celebrated Dr. Suess week by decorating a white glove to resemble a book character. The designs
ranged from Golidlocks to Humpty Dumpty.
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Alice .Osborne from the Drift Women's Club donated books to
the OES library. Thank you Mrs. Osborne ad the Drift Women's
Club!
Kim Sanders, with Our Lady of The Way Hospital's educational department, gave a presentation to our sixth grade classrooms
on heart health and also demonstrated the proper way to administer CPR. She used several resources to teach the students
such as pamphlets, artery/heart charts, the skeletal system and a video. The students had many questions. Their teacher Mrs:
Joyce Johnson was also very interested and helpful concerning ,this subject.
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Spelling
Bee
The spelling bee room winners from OES are Kendra
Hall, Tabitha Allen, Sydney
little, Tyler Hall, Dakota justice, Courtney Slone, Leann
and
Rebecca
Tuttle,
Branham. The overall school
winner was Tabitha Allen.
These students participated in W.O.
Osborne's Science Fair in February.
Each student project had to include
the Scientific Method and involve
collection of data over time. Chris
Tackett, Tylan Branham, and Erica
Tackett went on to compete in the
Regional Science Fair held at the
East Kentucky Science Center held
on the campus of the Prestonsburg
Technical College. Shown are Erica
Tackett, Allie Hall, Cheyenne Sloan
Chris Tackett, Sara Caldwell, Tyla~
Branham, Meshawna Ray, Jasmine
Parker Not pictured are Leah
Johnson, Kaitlin Daniels.
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4-H
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The third- and fourth-grade
classes presented their 4-H project for judging on March 15.
Many students received first
place ribbons for their outstanding work. The following students submitted a 4-H project:
Third Grade
Mrs.
Turner:
Cathryn
Calhoun. Allison Hale, Kaylee
Collins, Austin Bailey, Kaitlyn
Campbell, Samantha Lafferty,
C. J. Ousley, Rachel Layne,
Christian Lafferty, Brandon
Htcks,
Destinee Stewart,
Stratton Rorrer, Allyson Collins,
Galen Greene, Summer Ousley,
Tyler Honeycutt
Mrs.
Conn':
Allison
Hackworth, Mitch Fields,
Jordan Bach, Nick Gibson,
Destiny Olcott, Shayla Bray,
Joshua
Coahran,
Marissa
Thompson, Jackie Goble, Eric
Collins,
Kendra
Hayden,
Brittany Hayden, Johnathan
Boyd, Aaron Sanders
Jennifer Wells: Kayanna
Mullins, Britney Sparks, Seaton
HalL Aaron Crider. Ashley
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Case, Samantha Hall, Elizabeth
Hitchcock, Kierra Shelton
Mrs. Little: Austin Bertrand,
Hunter Brown, Haley George,
Taylor Hackworth, T.J. Hagci,
Makala Jones, Jenna Little,
Jordan Marcum, Macy Minix,
Chastity Sizemore. Allyson
DeRossett, Brooke Hatfield,
Katelyn
Rose.
Nathan
Blackburn, Zachary Blackburn,
Kaegan Dove, Kelsey Hall,
Haley Howell
Mrs. Justice: Griffin Baker.
Christopher Jacob Blair, Kendra
Gambill, Weston Martin, Josh
Crider,
Ashleigh
Hayton,
Nickey Hitchcock, Bethany
Johnson, Brittany Jones. Jessica
Powell. Kristen Hall, McKinzie
Spears, Quentin Click
Fourth Grade
Mrs. Goble's Room: Derek
Newsome. Chel~ea Dickerson,
Lba Ratliff, Clarissa B1yant,
Jessica Hartis, Andrew Noble,
Royce Compton, Taylor Goble,
Chase Shepherd, Jonathan
Murrell. Rachael Hall, Tori
Nairn, Hannah Hitchcock,
Jimmy Brown
Ms. Minix's Room: JD
Adams, Nathan Armstrong,
Allyson Branham, Savannah
Bryant, Derick Burchett, Paige
Caudill, Rachel Dingus, John
Gullett, Brittani Hall , Morgan
Haywood, Caitlyn Horne, Clay
Lemaster, Mckinley Minix,
Elexius Spurlock
Mrs.
Cornett's
Room:
Bethany Scarberry, Elizabeth
Collins, Nick Hites, Andrew
Combs, Carlos Garza, Shelby
Blackburn, Cody Holbrook
Fifth grade Mrs. Holland,
Mrs . Shepherd, Mrs. Combs
Blue
Ribbons-Amber
Childers, Dre\\ Diddle, Alex
Garner, Joseph Jamerson,Kim
Jarrell, Kelli Martin, David
Patrick, Makayla Hitchcock,
Charlie Joseph (2), Jessica
Lafferty, Chad Ousley, Kristany
Setser, Trinity Stewart, Rheagan
Wills (2), Austin Newsome,
Zachary Romans, Evan Bays,
Hannah Hackworth, Mickale
Roberts, Clara Potter, Emtly
Hammonds, Ashton Sizemore,
Megan Newsome, Hayley
Slone.
Red
Ribbons-Natasha
Burchett, Myles Minix. Corey
Lewis, Lisa Bray, Leanna Goble
(2), Jessica Russell, Kristany
Setser, Anthony Collins. Casey
Hall, Robert Osborne, Kevin
Owens, Amanda Phillips. Amy
Rice, Olivia Setser.
White Ribbons-Cole Allen,
Storme Collins, Danny Conn.
Tyler Shelton, Amber Childers,
Lauren Fitch, Hope Goble, Kim
Jarrell, Stella Spears. Jamie
Wallen.
Green
Ribbons-McKinna
Blackburn, Ashley Jervis.
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Senator Johnny Ray Turner presented the forensics team with certificates for placing 2nd place in the regional competition and qualifying for state. Team members are (L-R) Clay Lemaster, Hannah
Spurlock, Amber Hayden, Leanna Goble, and Cody Holbrook. The team is coached by Melissa Turner. The Forensic Team presented their speech and drama pieces for the students and teachers at
Prestonsburg Elementary. They will compete at the Kentucky High School Speech League State Competition in Bowling Green, Ky. Leanna Goble tells the Appalachian Folk Tale, Soap, Soap, Don't
Forget the Soap, which she will compete with at the state level.
Students from Mrs. Allison's room help celebrate Read
Across America by wearing hats.
Mrs. Goble's fourth grade Science classes have been studying
magnets. Students used bar magnets and button magnets to
investigate how they attract and repel.
Prestonsburg Elementary celebrated Read
America with our Cat in the Hat, Clara Potter.
Across
A tornado drill was held at Prestonsburg Elementary on March
11.
Mrs. Jennifer Wells' third Grade class at Prestonsburg Elementary looks on as they participate in
a science experiment that included the creation and eruption of their very own volcano.
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Students in the seventh and eighth grades at South Floyd Middle School participated in Pi Day. The activities included finding the volume and surface area of cylinders and spheres. Two of the
eighth-grade classes assisted two seventh-grade classes in finding surface area and volume, since they had not had it before. There was collaboration between Mr. Huff (seventh-grade teacher)
~ and Mrs. McKinney (eighth-grade teacher). The language arts teacher in the seventh grade also participated by reading Sir Cumference (Pi) to her language arts classes. All students participated,
including all special needs students.
Recently, in Mrs. Joann Mullins' language arts class, students completed a unit on various conflicts throughout
history Students wrote poetry, created feature articles, interviewed community members and used technology
to illustrate their learning by creating PowerPoint presentations.· Students were asked reflect upon the past in
order to understand the world today and the changes that have taken place.
Mrs. Joann Mullins' language arts class
Soldier of
War
How Did ,We Get Involved?
by Zach Brown
by Ethan Gayheart
I see it all in my eyes
The hate. the bloodshed and
despise
I see the beaches as I walked
With so many but seemed so
alone
I think or my cause and why
here
l thmk about home and shed
a tear
I ~ee ht · face. an evil man
Hitler shaking the Devil's
hand
We will win this war, I know
we will
l sec my friend in the distance
He's lying still
I hear a shot and then I fel1
A wound to my heart
Death 1 can feel
I close my eyes. I lay still
I was just another number
shot down
ln the reach for world peace
A so dier whose blood
washed a fore1gn beach
I'm
Vietnam, halfway across
the world and we still end up
getting involved. How exactly! Well, it all erupted in
1961 , when the United State
decided to aid southern
Vietnam leader :-.Tgo Ninh
Diem in the war between
1\orth and South Vietnam.
Though knowing his regime
to be corrupt and tyrannical,
the United States agreed to
provide Diem with the
requested aid because, as
unsavory as he might be, he
was an anticommunist and
was fighting against commu ~
nism, a political ideology
that the United States had
long opposed.
The fighting got worse
through the years. so the
l nited States gave more and
more military assistance to
the South Vietnamese cause.
Atr forces started to bomb
North Vietnam. Then the
United States began to dispatch troop~ to the conflict.
By 1961, over half a million Americans had been
committed to the fighting.
This caused much controverSj back at home, especially
in
teens.
They
despised
going to war and risking
theit own lives for a useless
cause. The Vietnam War
came to be known as the
most hated war in United
States history.
By the time all was said,
the United Stutes would pour
a staggering $150 billion
into the conflict. The outcry
reached such proportions,
both at home and abroad,
that the United States began
a grad ual withdrawal of its
troops in 1969. Then. in
1973, upon the signing ofa
ccascfire pact with the North
Vietnamese, all the remain~
wg L n ited States troops
departed. After all the fighting and all the destruction,
many humans died. The toll
added up to more than
55,000 servicemen kiUed,
153.000
wounded;
and
upward of 3,000 missing in
action. We, the Americans,
paid an extreme and terrjble
price for a war that we never
should have been involved
in.
It's 2005, the Vletnam
War has been long since
over. It may have ended over
30 years ago, but still to this
day. there is a large amount
of brave soldiers missing in
a<:tion. lt seems like the government has long forgot
about them. No matter what
we do, we can n('lver change
the past, but we are still able
to change the future by look·
ing towards the fu ture for
answers. By this, I pray that
America never has to suffer
such Losses agnln.
The Divided Is
Reunited
by Savannah ~istian BarUey
I'm happy now, yes, lam free,
For the first time in 20 years
I get to see my family.
The tears I've cried ...
The sorr6wTvc. felt,
Those feelings left me
When that hated wall fell.
N<>w tears fall down my face,
As this great miracle has taken place.
The guards and .s oldiers stood in awe,
As we knocked down the Berlin Wall.
No More War
by Misty Dawn Hlll .
It's been awhile.since I've seen home
lfeet like I am all alone
Sitting here with nowhere to go
So when l fight 1 stay low_
I c~ 't wait till it ends
Sqlcan stan myHfe again.
Go home to my family
Where I can live happily.
But those plans were over
As .I feelinto green clover.
Lying there sllficring
I thought M more war.
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Exploring the
Solar System
3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Blastoff! The third grade classes at Stumbo
Elementary are blasting off into outer space. Students got to
explore and get an in depth look at the planets of our solar system by using the Internet. The students then created a post card
about one of their favorite planets by using the information that
they found.
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30, 2005
CHILDREN FIRST • THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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Students at Stumbo Elementary celebrated Read Across America despite the weather conditions. Our Middle School teachers read to the primary classes and the Primary teachers read to the upper
grades. The Cat in the Hat visited the primary and distributed books to our students. Red Across America shirts were worn as we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday as well as other exciting activities.
News at JMS
John M. Stumbo Elementary Academic Team
The John M. Stumbo Elementary Academic Team competed in the District 115 Governor's Cup
competition on February 26, 2005 at Mountain Christian Academy. Pictured above is: Zak Tackett
who placed 2nd in science, Courtney Taylor who placed 5th In Language Arts, and Ashley Gilleple
who placed 4th in English Composition. The Stumbo Future Problem Solving team also placed
4th at this competition. Schools that are included in the District 115 competition include:
Mountain Christian Academy, May Valley, McDowell, Duff, and Stumbo Elementary. The following
students from Stumbo Elementary competed: Nakeia Hall, Tanner Martin, Crit Mitchell, Zak
Tackett, Courtney Taylor, Ashley Hamilton, Hunter Bailey, and Ashley Gillespie.
Abby James and Lauren Nelson enjoy learning about dental
health. Mrs. Geneva discusses dental flossing by using a glove,
peanut butter and yarn.
• Wulfe Bros. come to
John M. Stumbo Elementary
and provide students with a
social studie\ program about
the wild west. This program
was sponsored by the Mud
Creek Family Resource
Center. (see next email for
pictures).
• Three teachers from
Stumbo
Elementary
(Suzanne Spencer, Melissa
Little, Lisa Slone) visit
Louisville to participate in
the
Kentucky
Reading
Project's Share Fair where
teachers across the state
come together to learn more
about how to better assist
their students with reading
and language arts skills.
These teachers participated
in a two week long program
Kindergarten class enjoys a visit from the tooth fairy, courtesy
of Dr. Lee Boyd.
last summer and other meetings throughout the year.
• The l\1ud Creek FRYSC
scheduled
with
Ranndi
Jarrell from the Floyd Co.
Health Department presented
Dental Hygiene program for
students
at
Stumbo
Elementary.
Students
received toothbrushes and
toothpaste to help reinforce
concepts learned during the
program.
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Mrs. Geneva's kindergarten class enjoys learning about dental
floss.
Morgan and Ben enjoy
making sundaes.
1OOth Day of School
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Grace and Hannah show their 100 pennies. The students placed
the pennies m the middle of the gym floor before counting them
all.
Wesley Christian '5chool celebrated the I OOth da} of school
Thl: stutk'nh ended the thl) hy
doing 100 exercises. bringing in
I 00 pennies and making sundae:-. The pennies were counted
and the mone\ was given to th
tsunami relief aid.
�weekiV Writing
Corner
Riddle Roundup
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ou are captain of the starship Phoolhearty. For months,
I'm gray. I have a trunk, a tail
you and your crew have been headed to Planet
• and four legs. What am I?
Zeejokesonyu. Your mission is to bring back data on
· A: A traveling mouse!
the planet's animal life. You reach the planet on April Fools'
Maya
Day. An urgent message from your commander says to solve "
the puzzles and accomplish your mission- that's no joke!
6th Grade
'. A box without hinges, key or
wirst your crew looked for animal life and made notes
·• lid, yet golden treasure inside
~about what they saw. Your crew's data pads are shown
• is hid.
here. Only one of them has correctly identified all of the
creatures in this place. The others are playing an April Fools'
: A:Anegg.
_ •. . ., ......,joke on you!
6t11 grade
Use the Lifeform Analyzer to find out who is right.
i It cannot be seen, cannot be
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow multiple step directions; Math Reasoning : Problem
solving using multiple strategies.
' felt, cannot be heard, cannot
' be smelled. It lies behind stars
• and under hills, and empty
it fills. It comes first and
after, ends life and
laughter.
Dark
1 Whishelo
Daniella \
1 Gluggle
6th grade .
9 Unidentified
are a pair, we dart here and :
creatures
: there, although we always stay
lshtelly
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Zulpter
: shed tears, show our pleasure
' or fears and you'll find us on
.: everyone's face.
• A: Eyes
Jerri
1 Whishelo
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6t" grade
2 Gluggles
: What word starts with and
7 Unidentified
• ends with only one letter?
creatures
: A: Envelope!
2 lshtellies
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Gluggle: Six legs, pointed tail
1 Zulpter
4th grade
Zulpter: Striped-top body, curly antenna
:What has a neck but no head?
· 1 Whishelo
2 Gluggles
9 Unidentifiable
creatures
2 lshtellies
2 Zulpters
liEUTENANT
SANDY SUNDAE
2 Whishelos
1 Gluggle
5 Unknown
creatures
1 lshtelly
2 Zulpters
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Whishelo: Pointed tail, spotted body
lshtelly: Long body, two sets of wings
·A bottle!
kind of table has no
.legs?
· A multiplication table!
Lindsay
St11 grade
has four legs and flies?
·:· A: Two pairs of pants!
Harsh
6th grade
' A Harry Potter riddle:
: What do you get when you
: cross Hogwarts with a bowl of
: cereal?
: A: Snape, Crackle and Pop!
Lieutenant Sundae has
found three creatures to
bring back to Earth for the
Space Creature Zoo. She
must use the Landing Pod
to shuttle the three critters
to the spaceship. She has
room for only one creature
at a time in her Landing
Pod. How can she carry all
three creatures to the
spaceship without them
destroying each other?
Ally, .: '
WARNING: Read what
each creature is saying!
I attack
spotted
creatures!
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Kid Scoop: The Book!
Now your kids can enjoy even more Kid Scoop in our new,
64-page book from Scholastic. Great for teachers!
To order, visit: www.kidscoop.com
Fool Around with Words
Look through the newspaper for five
words that you don't know. Write each
word on a piece of paper and look up the
definition. See if you can use the words
in your conversations.
Standards Link: Vocabulary: Use a dictionary to find the meaning
of words; Research: Understand the purpose of a dictionary.
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: A: Because if they flew over
•. the bay, they would be bagels!
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In each row, circle the creature that should come next.
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do seagulls fly over the
LIFEFORM
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6th grade
knock. Who's there?
. Candy who?
Candy cow jump over the
•moon?
6th
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week's Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
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words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Riddle
Roundup
Deadline: April 24, 2005
Published: Week of May 22, 2005
Send your story to:
Riddle Roundup
P.O. Box 390
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
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MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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BRIDGING THE YEARS
WITH NUMBERS
STRUNG UP! See if you can trace through strings
to find a path that reaches the kite still in one
piece above.
FACE VALUE! Are you observant? Here's a test: On which side- front or back
- of most U.S. coins is the coin's value given? Can you answer? If you don't
know, guess.
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NOTE SO FAST! Our turtle friend at right is deciphering a brief message left
for him by Mr. Hare, his fleet adversary in a foot
race. Aside from a put-down salutation, which
simply reads backwards, the message consists
of four short words whose letters are scrambled
and need to be rearranged.
Let's see how quickly you can unscramble
the letters and have the message make sense.
Time limit: 60 seconds or less.
HERE'S your chance, in a
manne-r of speaking, to
bridge the years with
numbers. Contractions of
four consecutive upcoming
years, beginning with '00, are
in place at left. You are asked
to fill the blanks with
numbers 4 through 15 so that
each row, column and
corner-to-corner diagonal
totals exactly 30.
As an aid, let it be
known that numbers in
diagonal top left to bottom
right are 13, 00, 10 and 7
(total 30). And as a further
clue, practically a giveaway,
number in bottom left corner
is 8. Take it from there.
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My name:
-----------------------------Learning Buddies: Spell your child's first name, using the lines to write large letters. Use an upperc~ le.tter
for the first letter in the name and lowercase letters to spell the rest. Have your child trace the letters with a f1nger,
crayon or pencil.
My Letters
Dis for Dime
dis for dime
Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your
child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase
letter D. Say the letter as you trace it.
How many words or pictures can
you find on this page that start
with the D sound like the word
dime?
My Rhyme Time
Who lias time
Learning Buddies:
Trace and say the
number. Read the
questions. Touch and
count to find the answers.
To find my dime?
Found your dime
Under the lime!
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.
My Sentence
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Sunday
Monday
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Identification
With your child, look
through the newspaper to
find pictures of things
that start with the sam~
sound as the letter D
in the word dime.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Math Play
Dime Words
Big D, Little d
A Dime is a Circle!
Newspaper Cut-Ups
My Name Dot-to-Dot
Point to the number
10 in the newspaper.
Have your child say the
number and, if it's large
enough, have your child
trace the number.
Have your child find
words in the paper that
have 10 letters. Start by
selecting a word and
counting each letter with
your child. Then say.
"That word is like a dime.
It has lO letters!"
With your child, find
every uppercase letter
D on one page of the
newspaper. Draw a small
circle around each one.
Then try to find a
lowercase letter d for each
uppercase letter D. Draw
a line to connect the
letters.
Show your child a dime
and explain that its shape
i.s a circle. Then
look through the
newspaper for more
pictures that are
circles.
Cutting newspapers is a
.great way for children to
develop small motor
skills. Give your child safe
scissors. On a sheet of
newspaper, draw a
large circle. Have your
child cut along the lines
to cut out the circle.
On one sheet of
newspaper find the letters
that spell your child's
name. Make a dot next to
each of the letters.
Number the dots in the
order that spells your
child's name. Then let
your child connect the
dots!
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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, subtract 4. If the number is less
than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. Start at the up~ per left-hand corner and check one of your key numbers, left
Wto right. Then read the message the letters under the
checked figures give you .
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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 m the dl8gram. To
help you get started, one
digit has been entered in
the diagram.
Batloaal
Bamber&
answers
ACROSS
1. Consecutive digits in
ascending order
3. The last digit Is the sum of
the other digits
5. 1-Down plus 11-Down
7. Five times 8-Down
9. SiK times 10-Down
11 . Three times 3-Across
14. Four times 18-Across
17. Two more than 14-Down
18. The first digit is the sum of
the other digits
19. Nine less than 6-Down
DOWN
1. One-fourth of 15-Down
2. 14·Down minus 11 -Down
3. Consecutive digits in
ascending order
4 . 13·Down minus 12·Down
5. Two times 1-Across
6. 3-Down plus 14-Down
8. Nine more than 10· Down
10. The last digit Is the sum of
the other digits
11 . The last digit is three times
the first digit
12. 3-Down minus 2-Down
13. Consecutive digits tn
ascending order
14 Same digit repeated
15. 19-Across minus 11-Down
16. Silcty less than 13-Down
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MARCH
30, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Until the 1940s,
most pay phones did
not use coins; they
only accepted tokens.
Today, many pay
phones only accept
credit cards.
World of Wonder
EXPLORING THE REALMS OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
Sound waves of a person singing
In 1889, the
first coinoperated
pay phone
was installed
Sound waves from a human
voice are complex because
we modulate both frequency
(i.e., pitch) and amplitude (i.e.,
volume) simultaneously.
in a bank in
Hartford, Conn.
The word "telephone" is derived from the Greek words for "far" and
"sound." Telephones are a vital communication link for people
around' the world. Today, cellular phones and the Internet have
revolutionized personal and business communications. It is
estimated that 94 percent of American households have telephones,
but a third of the world's population has never used one.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, who
was deaf, was a portrait painter and
musician. His father taught the deaf to
speak and wrote textbooks on visible
speech.
In 1870, the family emigrated to Brantford,
Magnet, fine
A telephone has three main
Ontario, Canada. The following year, Bell
wires
and a
parts: a dialing mechanism,
moved to Boston, where he lectured
diaphragm
Alexander Graham Bell
a transmitter and a receiver.
and taught elocution to deaf teachers
(1847-1922)
and students. In 1873, he became a
The telephone Earpiece
professor at Boston University.
is really a
In 1874, while visiting his father in
simple device. Electric currents from the
Brantford, Bell realized that to transmit
caller produce a magnetic
Today's
speech electrically he would need an
reaction. This magnetic
phones may
"induced undulating currenf' or, in
force causes a magnet in
be smaller
layman's terms, continuous electrical
the earpiece to vibrate.
and have
waves of the same form as soundwaves.
The vibrations travel along
more bells
fine wires to the diaphragm,
On his return to Boston, Bell continued
and whistles,
which creates sound.
to work on his idea of improving the
but the basic
telegraph by making it talk. On Feb. 14,
technology
Telephones are
1876, Bell's friend and associate Gardiner
has not
connected through
Hubbard filed a patent for the talking
changed
a network of
telegraph. The patent was issued on
much since
computers, wires
March 7, 1876. Three days later, on
its invention
and buried cables,
March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell
more than a
radio transmitters,
succeeded in speaking the first sentence
century ago.
receivers and
ever transmitted via electricity: "Mr. Watson,
satellites.
Speaking into
come here, I want you."
the mouthpiece
The first telephone company, the Bell
creates an electric
Telephone Company, was established on
current. This
July 9, 1877.
electric copy of
MouthJ)iece or
Bell always said that he would rather be
your voice travels microphone
remembered as a teacher of the deaf.
by wire or by
Vibrating -~
But his invention of the telephone was so
A wire coil makes an
radio waves to
diaphragm
electric current when the
important that it will always overshadow his
another phone.
armature (moving part
teaching accomplishments.
of an electromagnetic
Looking back: A brief overview of form and function
The earliest telephones
came with instructions such
as ''When you are not talking, you should be listening."
Since its invention,
the telephone has
undergone many
transformations.
Some changes dealt
with using new technology. Other changes
have focused more
on fashion, design
and form.
device) vibrates.
By the end of the 19th century,
telephone design became less
decorative and more practical.
In the early 1920s, upright or
"candlestick" telephones were
The 1878 "coffin" style phone popular in urban areas and
used a wooden handle to
wood-wall phones were favored
transmit and receive. In 1879, in rural areas.
the "Blake" transmitter was
The one-piece handset was
installed in thousands of
introduced in Europe as early as
phones. It used a battery
the 1890s, but did not become
instead of a wooden crank:
popular in North America until
1905 The
well into the 1920s.
1an The first
commercial telephone
was about the size
of a shoe box.
"automatic"
electric
Strowger
telephone
In 1927, the first Cross-Atlantic
phone service began (at a cost
of $75 for the first three -minutes).
Radio waves
Cordless phones
have two parts:
the base and the
handset. The base
is plugged into the
telephone jack in
the wall. When a
call comes in, radio
waves are sent to
the handset.
Electronic
components
are linked
by metal
tracks.
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Use a knot
or paper
clip to
keep the
string from
slipping
through
the hole.
Phone fun!
Use string and two paper cups to make a
telephone. Put holes in both cups and thread
the string into the cup. Tie knots
so the string won't fall out, or use paper clips
to keep the string from slipping out. Have a
friend take a cup and you take the other.
Stretch the string tightly and listen while a
friend talks. Take turns.
Experiment with different supplies, and
log your experiments in a notebook.
Try using thick yam, nylon or metal string.
Use different lengths of string. Does it make
a difference?
What happens if you use tin cans or plastic
yogurt cups instead of paper cups? Do foam
cups work as well?
Does it matter if you whisper or speak in a
normal or louder voice?
Touch the string while a friend is talking.
What is happening?
The keypad is attached to a
circuit board. Components
and tracks create pathways
used by electronic currents.
In the 1950s, telephone companies
began offering phones in different
colors. In some cases they simply
painted the old phones new colors.
The '1960s saw the introduction
of the ''touch-tone" phone in both
desk and wall versions. At this time
people did not buy their phones;
phones were rented from the
telephone company.
SOURCES: World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc.; AT&T;
Bruce County Museum (Ontario); www.telephonymuseum.com;
aboutcom; The Telephone, Antheneum Books for Young
Readers
As earty as the 1930s, fax machines were
being used by news services to transmit (via
telephone wires) photographs and printed
material. The word '1ax" is from the word
'1acsimile," which means an exact copy.
In the 1980s, fax machines became smaller,
faster and more affordable, leading to wide.
use in business.
Cell phones made their debut in the mid1980s. At first they were quite large contrapIn the 1970s, "modular" connections tions, but over the years they evolved into
pocket-sized phones combined with
allowed phones to be plugged into
a jack. This resulted in people buy- computerized technology for transmitting
photos and facsimiles, text messages and
ing phones and a boom in tele.
storing data.
phone design and fashions.
By the end of 1880,
47,900 telephones
were in use in the
United States.
1890s Western
Electric common
battery telephone
1878 The "coffin"
style telephone
Mid-1890s
Nickel-plated
desk telephone
By the mid-1890s three
different systems were being
used to signal the operator or
party. The magneto system
sent an electric signal by
turning a crank. The common
battery system signaled the
operator when the receiver
was taken off the hook. And
the automatic system used
buttons or a dial to directly
signal the party (which eliminated the need for an operator).
In the 1930s,
phones began to
incorporate the
ringer, network
and handset into
a single unit.
In 1958, AT&T introduced the
first commercial modem.
In 1962, the Telstar I
communications satellite
was launched.
In 1948, there
were 30 million
phones in
service in the
United States.
1956
Princess
phone
The first U.S. commercial
cellular system went into
operation in 1983. The
same year, the Bell
System was divested and
split into "Baby Bells."
By 2002, most phones
around the world were
cell phones.
1920s and
'30s Western
Electric desk
In 1971, there were more than 100 million
telephone
phones in service in the United States.
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Telethon to benefit treatment facility
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
briefs
~
Road crews
release work
schedule
PAINTSVILLE - A local organization
is seeking donations to establish a 90-day
residential drug treatment facility for
women in Johnson County.
Hope in the Mountains, headed by husband-and-wife team Jimmy and Renee
McCoy. of Thelma, will host a telethon
SIGNS
Superintendents Glen
Tackett and Bud Akers of
Highway District 12 today
announced work schedules from Monday, April 4
through Friday, April 8 for
the Minnie and Allen
Maintenance Garages:
• Monday, April 4:
Cleaning cuts along shoulder of Route 3, Auxier
Road.
• Tuesday through
Friday, April 5-8: Cleaning
cuts along shoulder of
Route 321 in the area of
Thunder Ridge.
• Monday and
Tuesday, April 4 and 5:
replacing drains with slotted pipes on Route 979
between mile points 14
and 15 (near Buggy Bath
Car Wash) and at mile
point 17 (below the new
bridge).
• Wednesday, April 6:
removing small slides at
• the 11.3 mile marker on
Route 1~2.
• Thursday, April 7:
shoulder work on Route
122 at the junction of
Route 680 and on Route
680 between Turkey Creek
and the state garage.
• Friday. April 8: pothole patct}ing on Route 7
from mile /points zero
through Six.
Maintenance work is
scheduled on a tentative
., basis ahd is subject to
change, depending on
weather conditions and
emergencies.
Sunday on WYMT.
They aim to raise $500,000 for the
facility, which they plan to open Sept. 1
with a minimum of 25 clients.
The organization is in the process of
purchasing and home and 140 acres of
property on Lick Road on Route 1750 for
the residential treatment and recovery center.
"It's the most perfect setting for a
0 F
women's treatment facility," said Renee
McCoy, a nurse who also works with the
Ready to Work Program at the
Prestonsburg Campus of Big Sandy
Community and Technical College. "With
140 acres, there's room for expansion. As
soon as the first woman is admitted, we
will start plans to begin a men's facility."
The property is virtually isolated and is
"peaceful and tranquil," she said, pointing
out that an additional apartment and smaller home on the property will serve as an
appropriate house for graduates of the
treatment program who aren't quite ready
to return home.
The facility will maintain flower, vegetable and, possibly, a Christmas tree garden, she said.
(See TELETHON, page three)
Prestonsburg
being surveyed
for threats
SPRING
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
photo by Mary Music
Signs of spring were
blooming at Jenny
Wiley State Resort
Park yesterday. The
menu? Trucks dodging ducks and fish
food.
2 DAY FORECAST
PRESTONSBURG
Prestonsburg is one 60
small and medium sized
communities throughout
the state that has been targeted for a Homeland
Security threat assessment.
Two
teams
of
Kentucky
Community
Preparedness
Program
assessors, heading what
Gov. Fletcher calls the
state's
"Premier
Homeland
Security
Initiative," will be touring
16
facilities
in
Prestonsburg next week to
conduct
vulnerability
assessments.
The team will analyze
facilities, structures, security policies and their relationship to each other. The
initiative, focusing on
hostile acts and crime, is
in an attempt to identify
security
weaknesses
through a system of risk
assessments and recommendations for improvement.
"When people think
about terrorism, they think
internationally, but the
truth is domestic terror-
ists, whether that be in the
form of a local extremist
group or someone opening
fire in a school or business, could cause just as
much devastation to a
community, and that is
really where we are focusing," KCPP Team Leader
Drexel Neal said. "By
going through tpis process
a community is helping to
prepare itself from any
kind of catastrophic event,
whether it is an attack or a
natural disaster."
Prestonsburg Police
Chief Mike Omerod,
coordinator of the city's
assessment program, said
yesterday that assessors
Will tour courc buildmg· 1
water and sewer plants,
Highlands
Regional
Medical Center. and the
four schools located in
Prestonsburg.
"They'll be looking for
security vulnerabilities,"
he said. "Let's say, for
instance, that someone
wanted to do something to
the water treatment plant
to shut it down, or some
kind of terrorist act .at a
city facility. They'll examine the security there and
(See SURVEY, page three)
Police investigating
vehicle break-ins
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ACHS case heads· to grand jury
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG - A
Pike County man accused
of trespassing on the
grounds of Allen Central
High school and engaging
in sexual contact with a
special education student
saw his case passed on to a
grand jury Thursday during
a district court hearing.
Jonathan Belcher, 24, of
Elkhorn City, is accused of
two counts of custodial
interference, two counts of
trespassing and one count
of an unlawful transaction
with a minor for the incidents which allege that he
visited Allen Central on
two occasions and took two
special education students
off the grounds on the second visit for a sexual
encounter which took place
across the street from
school grounds.
Sgt. Steve Little, of the
Floyd County Sheriff's
Department, testified at the
hearing and recounted how
the case was formed. He
was given the assignment
after an investigation by
Allen Central's principal,
Lorena Hall, who later contacted
the
County
Attorney's Office when she
determined that a crime
may have taken place.
Little testified that he
spoke to both students and
their parents and was able
to recover an online conversation between one student and Belcher because
the student's parents had
installed a parental guard
on their home computer
which saved the exchanges
which began in a chat
room.
Little also testified that
he was able to view an
online profile of Belcher
which included a picture
that later helped identify
him when they arranged to
serve an arrest warrant.
Little stated that Belcher
allegedly met the students
on two occasions at the
(See CASE, page three)
photo by Tom Doty
Joanathan Belcher, 24,
of
Elkhorn
City,
appeared at a preliminary hearing Thursday
regarding charges that
he took two special
education students off
of school grounds for a
sexual encounter.
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WRITER
PRESTONSBURG
The sheriff's department
and Prestonsburg Police
have pooled their efforts
to investigate a series of
break-ins that targeted
cars parked at ball games
and other events in the
area.
Sgt. Steve Little, of the
sheriff's
department,
reported that he and
Officer Mike Conn, of city
police, got a break in the
case when they discovered
that the perpetrators were
dumping evidence of the
crimes off area bridges.
The pair have retrieved
many items for the victims
by searching under area
bridges after they discovered the first dump site in
Auxier. Little said that
victims in the case will be
getting some of their property back and hinted that
an arrest is imminent and
that they have gotten a fair
amount of cooperation on
the thefts.
"I just want people to
know that we have been
actively
investigating
these theft and we have
already gotten belongmgs
back to some victims,"
Little said.
Little noted that a similar case involving car
break-ins during a district
finals game held at Betsy
Layne is al o coming
together. Kentucky State
Police is investigating
those thefts, but all agencies are cooperating on the
matter, which appears to
be interrelated.
�• A2 • FRIDAY, APRIL
1,
2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
En s
s
• OLYMPIA, Wash. Lawmakers want to slip a
secret ingredient into the state
budget: Spam.
Along with tax increases
on cigarettes and hard liquor,
the recently released Senate
budget proposal would slap a
higher tax on canned meat.
Spam, Vienna sausages,
potted ham, chili con carne no tinned meat would be
spared the higher tax rate.
While the business tax is paid
by the producer, taxes have a
way of trickling down the
food chain.
One taxpayer was outraged.
"They're actually raising
taxes on poor people who
can't really afford it," said
Richard Wilson. "You know
they don't have much money
if they're eating chili out of a
can."
Even some who believe
lawmakers should raise taxes
to pay for human services felt
a twinge of sorrow.
"I'm torn between my love
for Vienna sausages and my
love for state services," confessed Olympia lobbyist
Lauren Maughan, who called
the canned meat product a
"guilty, guilty pleasure."
With a budget shortfall of
$1.6 billion for the upcoming
two-year budget cycle, legislators say they'll take money
where they can get it including a tin of meat.
"Guess I better stock up on
jalapeno chili," said Debbie
Culwell, a state employee on
her lunch break.
he didn't really want.
Police said they were
searching for a gunman who
ran up to a woman while she
was walking her dog Monday
night and grabbed the bag she
was holding. It contained
poop.
When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw
it down in disgust, pointed his
gun at the 32-year-old woman
and demanded money, San
Diego police detective Gary
Hassen said.
He then aimed his .22-caliber semiautomatic at the dog.
named Misty, and pulled the
trigger twice but the gun didn't fire, Hassen said. The robber, who was believed to be in
his 20s, ran to a waiting small,
silver car and fled, police
said.
• SAN DIEGO - This
mugger was left holding a bag
•
VICTORIA, Bntish
Columbia - Homeless people in British Columbia's capital city may still be cold, but
at least they can now get
clean, dry socks.
McGregor Socks, Canada's
largest sock manufacturer,
agreed to donate 6,500 pairs
of socks after Michael
Bloomfield, who runs a local
environmental
foundation,
caJied the company's head
office in Toronto last fall.
"I just looked on the
Internet and said, 'Who's the
chairman?".' said Bloomfield.
··r sent a letter and followed it up with a phone call
and just kept (the chairman)
on the phone until we had a
yes," he said. "We have people in need here. I appealed to
him to help us here."
Officials believe there are
about 700 permanent homeless people in Victoria and as
many as 1,500 at times.
"Any one of us could be
down on our luck at any point
in time," said Bloomfield. "I
would like to think that we
live in a society that would
help those in need.''
• GREAT FALLS, Mont.
- A former postmaster has
been sentenced for doing
something many might cheer:
tossing away· advertising
fliers rather than cramming
them into post office boxes.
Athena Mosxona was sentenced to 10 days of probation
Wednesday.
"I'm really sorry," Athena
Mosxona tearfully told U.S.
District Judge Sam Haddon.
"I did not know I was creating
a criminal act, and if I had to
do it all over again. I'd stuff
every single box with every
one of those things.''
Mosxona, 61, supervise~
the
Blackfoot
Indian
Reservation's Heart Butte
post office for 19 years before
taking an early retirement
after her indictment in
November on a felony mail
destruction count .
The Valier woman pleaded
guilty
after
prosecutors
reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. She must also pay a
$10 court fee.
"I find the absence of a
clear directive from her
employer to be Qf significance," Haddon Said. The
judge also called the prosecu-~
tion an "overzealous use of
the power of the court to
affect the lives of our citizens."
Letcher County man arrested in Little Shepherd Trail murder
The Associated Press
WHITESBURG
Authorities arrested a Letcher
County man for the murder of
a woman whose body was
found earlier this week near
Little Shepherd Trail.
Shannon
Dewayne
Garland, 29, of Oven Fork,
was charged with the murder
shortly after 9 p.m. EST on
Wednesday, said Letcher
County Sheriff Danny Webb.
Garland pleaded not guilty
Thursday morning, and was
ordered held without bond
pending a preliminary hearing
next week.
Webb said local residents,
alarmed that a murderer was
on the loose, were relieved
when an arrest was made in
the case. The sheriff said the
murder resulted from a "a
domestic situation."
An autopsy confirmed that
the partially decomposed
body was Lisa Jenkins, 39, of
Partridge, who had been missing for nearly a week.
Jenkins' body was found
Monday near Little Shepherd
Trail, a remote tourist attraction on Pine Mountain.
Kentucky
State
Police
Detective
Tony
Watts
dec! ined to say how she was
killed.
However,
Webb
said
Jenkins was murdered at
Garland's home and her
body taken up on the mountain and was partially buried
about 15 feet from the trail.
Jenkins, a mother of five.
was reported missing after
she failed to return home
from a trip to Whitesburg last
Wednesday. Jenkins' mother,
Madge Miles of Cumberland,
told the Letcher County sheriff's department that her
daughter was last seen on the
morning of March 22 when
she left her home to give a
Today is Friday, April 1, the
9lst day of 2005. There are 274
days left in the year. This is
April Fool's Day.
Today's Highlight in
History: On April I, 1945,
American
forces
invaded
Okinawa during World War II.
On this date:
• In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio,
became the first U.S. city to pay
its firefighters a regular salary.
• In 1918, the Royal Air
Force was established in
Britain.
• In 1933, Nazi Germany
began persecuting Jews with a
boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
• In 1946, tidal waves struck
the Hawaiian islands, resulting
in more than 170 deaths.
• In 1960, the first weather
satellite, TIROS-One, was
launched from Cape Canaveral,
Fla.
• In 1963, most of New
York City's daily newspapers
resumed publishing after a settlement was reached in a 114day strike.
• In 1970, President Nixon
signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and
television, to take effect after
Jan. 1, 1971.
• In 1983, tens of thousands
of anti-nuclear demonstrators
linked arms in a 14-rnile human
chain spanning three defense
installations in rural England.
• In 1987, in his first major
speech on the AIDS epidemic,
President Reagan told doctors in
Philadelphia, "We've declared
AIDS public health enemy
number one."
• In 2003, American troops
entered a hospital in Nasiriyah,
Iraq, and rescued Army Pvt. 1st
Class Jessica Lynch, who'd
been held prisoner since her unit
was ambushed on March 23.
Ten years ago: United
Nations peacekeepers officially
took over from the U.S.-Ied
multinational force in Haiti.
With U.S. Defense Secretary
William Perry looking on,
Ukraine began the process of
dismantling its nuclear missiles.
More than 1 ,500 mourners
attended a vigil for MexicanAmerican
singer
Selena
Quintanilla-Perez in Corpus
Christi, Texas, where she'd been
shot to death the day before.
Five years ago: President
Clinton, speaking at a fund-raiser for his wife's Senate campaign, accused New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of
enlisting a "right-wing venom
machine"
against
Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Michelle
K wan won her third World
Figure Skating title.
One year ago: President
Bush signed into law new protections for the unborn that for
the first time made it a separate
federal crime to harm a fetus
during an assault on the mother.
Michigan won the NIT championship with a 62-55 victory over
Rutgers.
Actress
Carrie
Snodgress died in Los Angeles
at age 57.
Today's Birthdays: Actor
George Grizzard is 77. Actress
Jane Powell is 77. Actress Grace
Lee Whitney is 75. Actress
Debbie Reynolds is 73. Country
singer Jim Ed Brown is 71 .
Actor Don Hastings is 71. Blues
singer Eddie King is 67. Actress
Ali MacGraw is 67. R&B singer
Rudolph Isley is 66. Reggae
singer Jimmy Cliff is 57. Jazz
musician Gil Scott-Heron 1s 56.
Rock musician Billy Currie
(Ultravox) is 53. Movie director
Barry Sonnenfeld is 52. Country
singer Woody Lee is 37. Movie
directors Albert and Allen
Hughes are 33. Tennis player
Magdalena Maleeva is 30.
Singer Bijou Phillips is 25.
Actor Sam Huntington is 23.
Actor Josh Zuckerman is 20.
Thought for Today: "Si
mi abuela tuviera ruedas seria
una bicicleta.'' (If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a
bicycle.) - Spanish proverb.
was found Monday by a
friend of the family who was
helping search the area.
AuthorHies believe the
body had been hidden unde~
dirt and other debris, but
became exposed during high
winds and heavy rains.
Stumbo encourages
1
living wills'
Todav in Historv
The Associated Press
friend a ride to the bank.
The car Jenkins was driving - a beige 1988 Ford
Tempo - was found abandoned the next morning near
the
entrance
of Little
Shepherd Trail off U.S. 119.
Authorities said the body
by JOE BIESK
AssociATED PRESS
FRANKFORT
Kentucky residents should
consider signing so-called
"living wills'' to ensure there
is no ambiguity about their
wishes in case they become
permanently incapacitated,
Attorney
General
Greg
Stumbo said Wednesday.
Recent debate about the
Terri Schiavo case in Florida
has sparked questions about
what people in Kentucky can
do to ensure their personal
wishes are carried out if they
become incapable of making
such decisions, Stumbo told
reporters Wednesday. But
many Kentuckians don't have
wills, much less living wills,
he said.
"Because of the terrible
situation facing the family of
Terri Schiavo, we have been
made more aware of the need
to make clear our intentions
as best we can before the
time that we might become in
a situation much like she
faces today," Stumbo said.
Schiavo, a brain-damaged
Florida woman, has been the
subject of swirling debate
over whether her life-sustain ing feeding lube should be
removed. Her husband and
parents have been engaged in
a legal battle over the issue.
She has been in a persistent
vegetative state for about 15
years.
Stumbo encouraged citizens to visit the Kentucky
Attorney General's Office's
Web site or call his office to
obtain a copy of a living will
form, which is also sometimes referred to as an
advance directive.
People also should designate a person to act as their
health
care
surrogates,
Stumbo said. That way, they
should be able to avoid a controversy similar to the
Schiavo case, he said.
Living will forms can be
downloaded from the attorney general's Web site at
www .ag .ky .gov/livingwill.
People should read and sign
the forms, which also address
organ donation and the
option for someone to not
authorize that their life-support be removed. To stand up
in court, the forms must
either have signatures from~
two witnesses or be notarized.
Kentucky Right to Life
Association executive director Margie Montgt>mery complained that the form doesn't
include enough fnformation
to help people make informed
decisions.
Rather than assuMing life,
the form Stumbo promoted
"looks like a death will,"
Montgomery
said.
The~
prompt asking people about
their organ donation desires
may also influence decisions,
Montgomery said.
"We are horrified by the
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Telethon
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The vision to open the facility,
McCoy said, came from a conversAtion she and her husband
had last year. Since that time,
they've gathered support from
several people in surrounding
communities, including Johnson
County Judge-Executive Tucker
Daniels and Family Court Judge
John David Preston, who will
• participate during the telethon
Sunday alongside recovering
addicts who will give their testimonies.
Board member Thelma Crider,
of
TLC
Child
owner
Development
Center
m
Paintsville, said the goal is more
than just rehabilitation. Facility
coordinators will implement
GED and work placement programs for women who need additional assistance, she said.
"It's a hard job getting off
drugs and it's the extra support
that's needed," Crider said .
"We're trying to teach them a dif.,. ferent way of life, a different way
of looking at themselves. And
we're so excited we can't stand it.
Every family, in one way or
another, has been touched by
drugs . It's not just the poor people, it's the middle and upper
class people. Drugs don't care
who they hurt."
Jimmy McCoy, a BSCTC
Human Services student and the
organization's president, says the
same thing about his experience
with drugs.
He's been clean now for "five
years, one month and 12 days."
"I was addicted to anything
that made me feel better for five
seconds or longer," he said.
"Pills, booze, coke, weed - it
didn't matter to me, I had to get
high. During the last 19 months
that I was using drugs, I was in
rehab seven times. I O.D.'ed
three times and spent five weeks
in a psych ward. I was suicidal
and very dead to the world ."
The road to recovery for
Jimmy McCoy came after he
woke up one morning in his living room floor.
"I was separated from my second wife and had been bingeing
for a couple of weeks," he said. "I
got up, walked into the bathroom,
turned the light on and looked in
the mirror. For the first time in my
life I seen death in my eyes. I
weighed 150 pounds , if I was
lucky. I'm 6-foot-3. I asked God
to help me or I wa~ going to kill
myself right there . I found a spiritual awakening, a peace in my
heart that I never felt before. I
knew then that something had
changed for me."
McCoy said he poured out his
booze and flushed approximately
$1,000 worth of pills that day. He
stayed home, alone, for the next
11 days and detoxed himself
before entering a treatment center.
Though he says he has lost the
cravings for his addiction,
McCoy still gets a "desire to get
high." It's a "mental disease ," he
says, that "you learn how to deal
with."
McCoy, who finished his
practicum at the Layne House
Substance Abuse Center yesterday, still regularly attends
Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
He says he wants to help others
and learn how to forgive himself.
"It helps me find forgiveness
for myself," he said, "for the way
I used to hurt people - my
daughter found me once when I
0 .D.' ed - for being the liar and
the cheater that I. used to be. I was
never faithful to no one except for
dope. It's [forgiveness] something I need for me. Everybody
has forgiven me, but I still can't
come to terms with it yet ... I
always based my life on money,
material things, even women.
Today, I base my life on what I
feel inside. I want to help other
people. I've seen too many
friends die because they couldn't
stay off of drugs. People think
that addicts are bad people, but
they' re not. Helping them will
help me forgive myself for all
I've done."
The mental disease of drug
addiction requires a "spiritual
awakening," Renee McCoy said.
That's why Hope in the
Mountains is asking area churches to donate $1 per member each
month in order to help maintain
the facility.
The organization also plans to
turn a former methamphetamine
lab, discovered earlier this year
near TLC, into an upscale consignment shop that will support
the treatment center.
Grants are available both publicly and privately, she said, but
most of those funds don't apply
for "upstart funding."
"This thing is bigger than we
are," she said. "Everybody's
motives are pure. No one is out to
put anyone out of business or to
start up a get-rich-quick scheme.
We just want to help people."
To donate, tune in to the
telethon program on WYMT
Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.
Donations can also be mailed to
273 Horseshoe Street, Thelma,
KY 41260.
Hope in the Mountains is a not
for profit, private organization.
Other board members include
Tammy
Compton,
human
resources instructor at the
Prestonsburg Campus ofBSCTC;
Paintsville·Herald Editor Loretta
Tackett; Inez Baldridge, owner of
Enchanted World Travel; and
Thelma
Crider 's
husband,
Ottway.
1, 2005 • A3
Hungry residents in Appalachia
receiving diet food
by ROGER ALFORD
ASSOCIAT ED PRESS
PAINTSVILLE - A su rplus of die t food fo r the
overweight has be en a boon
for
the
hungry
in
Appalachia.
Unsold crates of low-carb
energ y bars, shakes a nd
breakfast m ixes have been
pouring into the Chri stian
Appalachian Project to be
distributed in mountain communitie s. For pe ople who
might otherwise go hungry,
diet food beats no food at
all.
"You can' t go wr ong w ith
giving an y ki nd of food
away," said Ken Slone , manager of the ch arity's warehouse some 25 miles from
the spot where President
Lyndon Johns on declared
war on p o verty in 1964.
" When you ' re feeding people , you ' re doi ng a good
thing."
Since Septe mber , th e
charity has received 14
truckloads of food f rom
Atkins Nutritionals, the New
York company f amous for
the low-carb diet. Slo ne said
each truck loa d contained
about 1 ,300 c as es of energ y
bars, shakes and breakfast
mixes that are being distributed to churches and other
organizations that m ini ster
to the needy .
"The Atkins products
have really been a li fe saver
for us," said the Rev. Brooks
Kerrick,
founder
of
Extended Hands Ministries ,
wh ich serves residents in a
rural area with double-digit
u ne mployment
rates.
" They' ll sure keep your
b elly button from rubbing
your backbone ."
Atkins N utritional said in
a statement Wednesday that
the co mpany routinely provides free foods to charitable
o rganization .
Those w ho follow the
food indu stry say changes in
the publi c 's appetite for lowc arb foo ds may be lea\ ing
manufac turers with more
product to give away.
A recent study by the
independent marketing company NPD Group found that
the percentage of American
a dults on any low-carb diet
in 2004 peaked at 9.1 percent
in
February
and
dro pped to 4.9 percent by
early No vember.
B o b G oldin , executive
vice president of Technomic
Inc.,
a
food
industry
research and consulting
firm, said Jllany comp anies
overpro duced
low -carb
foods tryin g to cash in on the
d iet craze a nd now are stuck
with large amounts of it.
" The market h as just
. cratered fo r those products,"
he said. "Typically when it
shows up in food banks, it's
got ve ry little commercial
value ."
The Rev. John R ausch, a
Roman Catha! ic priest who
serve s on the board of the
C atho lic
Comm ittee
of
Appalachia, said poverty is
widespread in th e region
because of a lack of goodpaying jobs. People are left
to work in service job s,
many of whic h pay on ly
minimum wage .
"People's choices for jobs
are really dim inishing," he
said. "You have the service
sector, Wal-M a rt and fastfood outlets , which give
pretty much minimum wage,
but it isn't enough to really
maintain a household."
As a result, R ausch said
the poor in mountain communities may have to ch oose
between buying medicine
and buying groceries, leav ing them dependent on ministries like Extended Hands.
"To be honest, I don't
know if an yone's going to
starve to death, but they will
have poor health because of
bad nutrition," he said .
Slone said the Christian
Appal achian P roject, which
has fed and clothed the poor
in the mou ntain region for
40 years, receives an assortment of donated goods for
the poor, from clothing to
furniture, even cosm etic
products from time to time .
All the donations are d istributed at no charge.
And, S lone said, die t
products are only a portion
of the foods the ministry distributes. He said large c ompanies like Wal-Mart rou tinely donate canned goods
for the needy in Appalachia.
"We distrib ute everything
we get," he said. "It's always
a good feeling to help people."
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see what can be done to prevent
it."
The program, piloted last
year 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 will escort the
assessment teams next week.
Once the assessment is complete, Prestonsburg will be certi-
fied as a "Ready and Prepared
Kentucky Community" and will
be eligible for up to $l0,000 in
reimbursement funds to make
recommended security changes.
"If you look at any community in any state, you're going to
find some weaknesses ," Omerod
said. "We're probably one of the
few states who are participating
in it."
An
extension
of the
Department of Criminal Justice
Training's homeland security
initiative, the KCPP is funded by
a $2.4 million grant from the
Kentucky Office of Homeland
Security. The Department of
Corrections and Justice Training
will implement the program in
60 communities throughout the
state during the next 12 month
period.
Assessors
will
be
in
Prestonsburg from April 4 to
April 8.
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school on March 14 and 16 and that
he spoke with Belcher on March 24
at the Prestonsburg Police
Department, where Belcher gave
consent to a videotaped interview
and discussed some details of the
meetings. little said that Belcher
"admitted sexual actions took place"
during the second meeting.
~
The first meeting was during a
' school talent show which little said
"was only open to parents and staff
of the school." Little said that the
second meeting was two days later,
during school hours, and that
Belcher parked at the school's bus
ramp where the students met him
and left campus in his vehicle.
little testified that the students
were handicapped and aged 15 and
16. He reported that he was told that
Belcher engaged the 16-year-old
student in oral sex on that occasion.
Judge James Allen ruled that the
case will move on to a grand jury,
which will determine if Belcher iS
indicted.
Belcher has dismissed the services of the public defender and
hired Pikeville attorney Larry
Webster, who appeared at the hearing. Webster asked to have
Belcher's $100,000 cash bond
reduced and was denied. He also
asked that the county attorney seize
the computers of the alleged victims
in the case.
Assistant County Attorney
Jimmy Marcum responded that he
would pass the request on to County
Attorney Keith Bartley but that it
was up to him to decide if he needed the computers. Webster countered that the fuJI contents of the
computers should be taken like his
client's computer was by authorities.
Judge Allen, sitting in for Judge
Eric Hall, who was attending a
funeral, said, "You can file an appropriate motion if you want the computers and the colllt will hear it."
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The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on Social Security:
Whatever one's views about the state of the Social Security system, and people have wide disagreements about its finances and its
future, there is no doubt that President Bush's push for radical
changes in the system has provoked a healthy debate.
Americans must consider how the country is going to pay for
retirement of baby boomers. The aging of the population is going to
put profound financial stresses on not only Social Security, but
Medicare and Medicaid, the health-care programs for the elderly
and the poor. ...
While Bush and his critics disagree on the financial prospects for
Social Security, the actuarial realities are that changes made now
can make a substantial difference down the road ....
The issue of Social Security is one that requires, because of its
vast impact on so many American families, a bipartisan solution
that can be adopted by the Congress and accepted by the people. A
partisan fight helps to shed light on the issue and sharpen debate on
the options, but an ultimate solution has to be built around some
consensus across party lines.
The Press and Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., on drilling in
Alaska:
If President Bush and the Republican Congress succeed in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling, they ought
to be willing to at least make two concessions to reality.
First, they should provide an absolute guarantee that none of that
oil will ever be exported to another country.
Second, they should acknowledge that drilling in ANWR is tantamount to tapping the nation's fmal keg- and that means there can
be no further delay in developing alternative sources of fuel or vehicles that run on them.
The battle over ANWR is not yet over, and even some
Republicans who favor drilling acknowledge that no matter how
much oil we may find there, it won't buy us much time or much
relief from OPEC- not if the United States doesn't begin seriously
to curb its consumption ....
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Ideas
FRANKFORT - In the months leading up to the 2005 General Assembly,
only the most hopelessly optimistic predicted much more than grudging cooperation.
The 2004 session ended with such
recrimination and poisoned partisanship
that the inability to reach an agreement
on a budget was only the most obvious
failure. Democrats in the House majority,
Republicans leading the Senate and GOP
Gov. Ernie Fletcher exchanged blame.
Move ahead a year and the atmosphere and accomplishment was dramatically different.
Late last Monday night, when the
2005 session was ending, Senate
President David Williams, historically
one of the chief purveyors of partisanship, was extolling the virtues of cooperation and promising it would last into the
future.
"I believe that this Senate is healthier
today than it's ever been," Williams said.
"To predict a few months ago that it
would have turned out as well as it did,
no one could have accurately predicted
that," House Speaker Jody Richards said
in an interview.
The causes of the change are many
and varied.
In early 2004, Fletcher was the ftrst
Republican to. occupy the Governor's
Mansion since 1971. House Democrats
and even Senate Republicans were
adjusting to the new governor.
Fletcher stumbled badly. He dragged
his feet in making his own budget and tax
proposals. And he attacked the legislature, a strategy that a quick check with
his predecessors or even a review of
recent history would have shown to be a
mistake. But the new occupants of the
Capitol ftrst floor were not of a mind to
seek advice from much of anyone.
The 2004 legislative elections
loomed.
When Fletcher revealed that teachers
and state employees faced huge increases in health insurance costs, there was a
minor revolt.
The October 2004 special session to
pay for health insurance coverage and
ensure pay raises for public employees
eased some of the pressure.
But then a Franklin County Circuit
Court judge ruled that Fletcher and the
legislature were violating the Kentucky
Constitution - Fletcher for spending
money without a legislatively enacted
budget and the legislature for failing to
appropriate money. Judge Roger
Crittenden said after June 30, 2005; the
end of the ftscal year, no money could 'be
spent on anything but essential services
without a legislative appropriatiOn.
In November, House Demoo-ats lost
seven seats of their majority in ~ House
and Republicans picked up a couple of
more Senate seats.
In December, Fletcher met privately
with lawmakers and both sides tnade
noises about being nice. But Fletcher
again refused to disclose any of his
spending or tax proposals, prompting
concerns about the same sort of time
squeeze in the coming 30-day session
that helped torpedo the 2004 session.
Another hurdle seemed 11 be the
requirement in the short sessio that any
tax or budget measure would require a
three-fifths majority of both chambers to
pass.
The turning point may have 'been a
late-afternoon, closed meeting of1House
Democrats where they emerg~d to
declare they intended to work with
Republicans to produce the budget and
(See CAPITOL IDEAS, page five)
Letter s
Auxier water
not 'supervised'
I normally try to avoid political issues,
but when I read the mayor of
Prestonsburg's statement that Auxier
Water Company was supervised by
Prestonsburg, I felt I had to respond.
Auxier Water Company is, and always
has been, a privately owned water company operated under the guidelines of the
Public Service Commission. All of our
expansions and upgrades are paid for
from loans from local banks and with personally guarantee, not with grants or aid
from the county, state or federal government.
An agreement was reached with the
city of Prestonsburg in 1967, that if we
would purchase our water from
Prestonsburg, we would have the right to
serve the hospital. That agreement has
been tested before the Public Service
Corrunission and was upheld.
We buy our water from the city of
Prestonsburg at their "out-of-town" rate
(which is higher per unit than any city
customer) and resell it to our 900-plus
customers, one of which is Highlands
Regional Medical Center.
If Prestonsburg succeeds in their
annexation effort, the only way the hospital could save money for water is if
Prestonsburg reduced their rate to Auxier
Water Company. We would be happy to
pass that rate reduction on to all our customers, but I don't think that will happen.
It would be a significant reduction of revenue for Prestonsburg's Utility Company.
No one can dispute the fact that I
supervise all aspects of the Auxier Water
Company!
Philip Ward
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Spring cleanup
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com1ng
Spring in southern and eastern
Kentucky means blooming flowers
and redbud trees. The only way to
make spring prettier in our region is
to clean the trash out of the scenery.
To do just that, I invite Floyd
County residents to pitch in during
the PRIDE Spring Cleanup, April 923.
Your local PRIDE Coordinators
have organized cleanup events for
volunteers, as well as opportunities to
dispose of the bulky trash you collected over the winter. PRIDE will provide the cleanup supplies and T-shirts
for volunteers. It is up to Floyd
County residents to provide the manpower to clean roadsides, hillsides,
and waterways.
Volunteers can make a difference
by joining Floyd County's Spring
Cleanup team. Since PRIDE began in
1997, just look at what Floyd
Countians have accomplished together: I ,499 volunteers worked 6,451
hours. 1,551 appliances and 414 tons
of appliances collected. 61,195 tires
collected. 447 bags of trash and 4,708
tons of trash collected.
Clearly, Floyd County is cleaner
today, thanks to the people who have
pitched in with PRIDE - Personal
Responsibility In a Desirable
Environment. In addition to volunteering during the annual Spring
Cleanup, here are some things Floyd
Countians can do every day to keep
the community clean: make sure trash
doesn't blow out of the back of
trucks, have trash picked up regularly
by a licensed garbage hauler, and
report littering and illegal dumping to
the county's solid waste coordinator.
To Jearn about Spring Cleanup
events in your area, please call
PRIDE Coordinators. Lon May at
886-0498, Tom Harris at 886-3537, or
Tommy Robinson at 358-2316.
Richard Thomas
PRIDE Executive Director
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FRIDAY, APRIL
1' 2005 • AS
At the Movies: 'Sin City'
by DAVID GERMAIN
AP MOVIE WRITER
"Sin City" is simultaneously
the most boldly original comicbook adaptation yet and one of
the nastiest films in a long
while.
With wicked glee, director
Robert Rodriguez piles on and
., piles on, his frenetic hodgepodge of imagery often dazzling yet hurled so fast and
thick, the result is the cinematic equivalent of being hit by a
·
bus.
This two-hour bullet-train of
a picture is packed with images
startling in their originality and
action that frequently flirts with
utter odiousness. The movie is
a masterful technical achievement with the emotional underpinning of a stunted male adolescent.
Adapted
from
Frank
~ Miller's noirish comics, "Sin
City" is a movie where men are
men and women are target
practice, there for the slapping
and stabbing and shooting, and
any other indignities their male
masters dream up.
In a traditional full-color
film, the gore of "Sin City"
would make the movie
unwatchable. Presenting it in
stark black-and-white, with
occasional splashes of color,
makes the movie's blood and
guts palatable, thoi.!gh only
barely so in its most extreme
• moments.
The Jekyll-and-Hyde filmmaker (Rodriguez also is the
man behind the "Spy Kids"
family flicks) takes the carnage
even beyond that of his blood-
by TOM DOTY
STAFF WAITER
The last week of March featured only a few releases but
they prove\1,1 meaty enough to
satisfy nio&t,r.enters.
"Closer" - The performances are the selling point for
this film which garnered two
Oscar nominations for its supporting players, Natalie Portman
and Clive Owen. The story fol14'; lows the disintegration of two
couples and plays as a collection
of the ugliest moments in the
lives of all four players. Director
Mike Nichols ("The Graduate")
gets brilliant performances out
of all of his players, which
include the toplined Julia
Roberts and Jude Law.
"After the Sunset"
Director Brett Ratner ("Rush
Hour") puts together a light
comedy here that goes down
easy but won't stick in your
memory for long. Pierce
~ Brosnan and Salma Hayek star
as thieves who come to
Bermuda to rip off a luxury
liner. The complications ensue
when they rub up against a
crime boss, played by Don
Cheadle, who wants a piece·of
their score. They also have to
contend wi1h a dogged, if not
too bright, detective played
with dimwitted charm by
Woody Harrelson.
"Crimson Rivers 2: Angels
of the Apocalypse" - French
film star Jean Reno ("The
Professional") returns as a hardboiled Parisian cop who specializes in serial murderers.
Here he is on the trail of a killer
·'srn City.''
released
by Miramax's
Dimension F'ilms banner, is rated
R for sustained strong stylized
violence, nudity and sexual contenl, including dialogue.
Running time: 124 minutes.
Two stars out of four.
soaked vampire tale ''From
Dusk Till Dawn."
With a huge, well-chosen
cast and the blessing of Miller,
who was on set as Rodriguez's
co-director, "Sin City" is a gloriously stylized world unlike
anything you· ve seen before on
screen.
As he did with much of "Spy
Kids 3-D: Game Over,"
Rodriguez shot the actors
against green-screen . backgrounds, using computer-generated visual effects to add the
jutting buildings, seedy alleys
and other bleak backdrops of
Miller's Sin City.
The filmmakers spm three
tales of corruption and violence, the stories and some of
the characters loosely interconnected so the trilogy flows
seamlessly, without the abrupt
transitions of most anthology
movies.
The most engaging story is
that of the hulking, not-so-gentle giant Marv, played by
Mickey Rourke, unrecognizable behind makeup that makes
his face resemble a carved cinderblock.
After an unaccustomed night
of sexual bliss with the beauti-
ful prostitute Goldie (Jaime
King), Marv wakes to find her
dead and goes on a vengefw
rampage to identify her killer.
"When I need to find something out, I just go and find
people who know more than me
and 1 ask them. Sometimes, I
ask pretty hard," says Marv in a
delicious bit of understatement.
The one honest cop in Sin
City, John Hartigan (Bruce
Willis), is at the center of
another hunt as he scrambles to
save an 11-year-old girl from a
sexual predator (Nick Stahl).
Hartigan's story picks up eight
years later as he again encounters Nancy (Jessica Alba), now
an exotic dancer, and is reacquainted with her tormentor,
who has mutated through medical treatment into a glowing
fiend known as Yellow Bastard.
The hero of the third story is
ex-photographer Dwight (Clive
Owen), a pal to the prostitutes
of Sin City who tries to help
them cover up the death of a
vicious, crooked cop (Benicio
DelToro).
Among the roster of other
key Sin City denizens: Gail
(Rosario Dawson), the ironfisted leader of the town's pros-
who is targeting victims who finales ever captured on cellushare the name and occupation laid. The historic fight which
of
disciples
of
Jesus. finishes the film has ah• ays
Christopher Lee costars.
been a hot subject for Japanese
"Kagemusha"
Akira filmmakers and is also the tocus
Kurosawa 's 1980 war t:pic ~ qf.a science fiction film, recentfinally hit DVD this week rn 'an , ly relea'>ea. on D'VD, called
extras-packed edition from the "G.I. Samurai." That film feaCriterion Collection. The peo- tures Sonny Chiba ("The
pie at Criterion only put out a Streetfighter") as a general in
few discs a year but each is jam World War IT who finds himself
packed with excellent bonus and his company transported to
material . This one features an the same battle portrayed in
interview with Amencan film- "Kagemusha." His modern
makers Francis Ford Coppola weapons and tactics make it a
and George Lucas. Each was decidedly one way battle and
vital in bringing this film to Lhe the film culminates in yet
screen and put up their own another brutal slaughter. Both
money to see the film made. films are worth your rental dolKurosawa, despite his track lar, though the Chiba one is
record of critically lauded films, more focused on the action elecould not get financing from ments of the story.
Japanese investors for this
Next week look for the debut
"dream" project. George Lucas, of the "Daredevil" sequel,
who cited Kurosawa as a major "Elektra," which focuses on the
influence for "Star Wars," assassin character from that
invested in the film with little film who is portrayed, once
expectation of profits but a again, by "Alias" star Jennifer
burning desire to see the fin- Garner.
ished product. It was a good
Shopper Alert: Wal-Man has
investment and stands as one of stocked their discount DVD
Kurosawa's best films as well shelves this week with a slew of
as the most expensive produc- films struTing Clint Eastwood.
tion ever mounted in the history Each is priced at $5 .50 and
of Japanese film. The film tells includes documentaries on the
of the final days in feudal times films and the star himself.
and focuses on the Takeda clan. Everything from Eastwood's
The clan loses its leader and westerns, comedies and Dirty
places a lookalike in his throne Harry flicks are included.
so as not to upset the balance of Check them out; they won't last
power. The leader, a petty thief, long at that price.
is soon tested when the clan
Hollywood
News
must engage in a major battle. Department:
Actor
Tom
The fight scenes here arc top Sizemore ("Heat") will have to
notch and the introduction of serve a 17-month sentence for
gunpowder turns the tide of bat- testing positive for drugs, maintle in one of the most brutal ly methamphetamine, which
titutes; Miho (Devon Aoki), her
deadly samurai ally; the cannibalistic killer Kevin (Elijah
Wood in a role as far from his
heroic Frodo Baggins as imaginable);
.a..,b
(Michael
Madsen), Hartigan's turncoat
partner; Shellie the waitress
(Brittany Murphy); Marv's
nursemaid Lucille (Carla
Gugino, the "Spy Kids" mom
who tosses aside family-film
values with an amazing nude
scene); Sen. Roarke (Powers
Boothe), Yellow Bastard's plotting father; street-wise young
hooker Becky (Alexis Bledel);
Manute
(Michael
Clarke
Duncan), a mountainous mob
enforcer; and Josh Hartnett as a
seductive hit man.
Rodriguez pal Quentin
Tarantino spent a day as "guest
director," overseeing a perversely funny scene in which
Owen and Del Toro drive
through the rain.
''Sin City" is meant as good,
gory fun, an homage to the
manly men and brazen broads
of Raymond Chandler and
Dashiell Hammett.
Yet the sexism of "Sin City"
often slips into misogyny. What
may work as pulp entertainment on a comic-book page
read in privacy becomes unsettling when played out graphically on a movie screen as an
orgy of violence against
women.
"Sin City," released by
Miram'ax's Dimension Films
banner, is rated R for sustained
strong stylized violence, nudity
and sexual content, including
dialogue. Running time: 124
minutes . Two stars out of four.
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tax plans.
Rep. Charlie Siler, a
Williamsburg Republican, combat veteran and one of the
calmer observers of life in the
House, observed that the narrowing of the Democratic major~ ity encouraged their new magnanimity.
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It turned out that, with neither
party having the necessary super
majority in either chamber, they
were forced into bipartisanship.
Fletcher also abandoned his
attacking tactics and, as his predecessors learned, a carrot
works far better with legislators
than the stick.
"There's no question I've
learned a lot in a year," Fletcher
said last week. "I think we've
developed a lot more trust and a
better relationship with the legis-
lators."
Fletcher said the absence of
election pressure also eased tensions.
When votes were taken, those
against the tax and budget bills
could be counted on one hand.
"This was an unprecedented
show
of
bipartisanship.''
Fletcher exclaimed last week. "I
couldn't be more pleased with
the session."
The real test, though, may
come in 2006. Rep . Harry
Moberly, D-Richmond, the
chairman
of the
House
Appropriations and Revenue
Committee, predicted the legislature would never again leave
without a budget or at least a
spending plan.
But how it happens is still at
issue. Next year brings anoLher
round of legislative elections.
And the possibility that the tax
changes and economy will not
work as hoped, leaving little
money just as some overdue
bills come due.
For Richards, a House mem
ber since 1976 who took himself
out of the 2007 governor's race,
said the future of the institution
of the legislature may hang in
the balance of the 2006 session
and the continuation of some
degree of cooperation.
"Frankly, it must. For the
good of the commonwealth and
for the long-term health of the
institution of the General
Assembly," Richards said.
Mark R. Chellgren is the
Frankfort correspondent for The
Associated Press.
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1, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
Heartland buys
Williamson
Daily News
SPARTANBURG, S.C.Mid-South Management Co.
Inc., of Spartanburg, S.C.,
announced Thursday the sale
of the Williamson (W.Va.)
Daily News and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland
Publications
LLC,
of
Jacksonville, Fla. No terms
were disclosed.
Andrew
Babb,
MidSouth's president, said the
sale is a result of a new
strategic direction for his
company in which it is concentrating on clusters of
newspapers in the Southeast.
Mid-South and its affiliate,
Crescent Media Group,
which is owned by Babb,
publish 19 newspapers and a
magazine in Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia and
Alabama.
Last week Crescent Media
acquired the Easley (S.C.)
Progress and Powdersville
(S.C.) Post, both located in
Pickens
County
where
Crescent already owns The
Pickens Sentinel.
Michael
Bush,
Heartland's president, said,
"We are very excited by having the Williamson Daily
News join our family of
community of newspapers.
Mid-South has been a wonderful steward of this newspaper, and we will be proud
to continue the traditions of
fine newspapering which
they have established."
Bush said that Heartla ld
plans on strategically growing the company through
acquisitions. "Williamson is
in an area of the country we
really enjoy and in which we
have already estabJished
ourselves with several newspapers."
Heartland currently operates 22 weekly and daily
newspapers, including The
Floyd County Times.
"Of course we will miss
our association with the parent company we are familiar
with, but we look forward to
a
strong
future
with
Heartland
Publications,"
Publisher Sandra Hurley
said. "Heartland is familiar
with West Virginia and
Kentucky and the communities we serve. They are making a significant investment
into our employees and our
newspapers."
Mid-South had owned the
Williamson Daily News
since acqumng it from
Ogden Newspapers in 1963.
The Gilbert (W.Va.) Times
and The Independent Herald
of Pineville, W. Va., two
weeklies
close
to
Williamson, were purchased
in 2000.
Fletchers, deputy chief
of staff· flying to games
at state expense
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT - The state
is picking up the check for Gov.
Ernie Fletcher's trips around the
country to watch Kentucky and
Louisville in the NCAA men's
basketball tournament along
with first lady Glenna Betcher
and Deputy Chief of Staff Dick
Murgatroyd.
Doug Hogan, Fletcher's
spokesman, defended
the
expense, saying Fletcher is
obligated to attend the games
and has helped promote
Kentucky on his journeys.
But Richard Beliles, chairman of the government watchdog group Common Cause of
Kentucky, said he didn't
approve of the expense.
Beliles said he is "really
excited" about the tournament,
but "with this state's fmancial
condition, I don't think we
should spend money on things
not really necessary. I don't
think it's necessary for the governor to fly all over the country
for basketball."
The
Fletchers
and
Murgatroyd are using both commercial flights and the state's
Beechcraft King Air turboprop
to get to games. They have also
flown, along with state police
who always travel with the governor, on two private jets, one
belonging to Terry Stephens of
Russell Springs.
Stephens, who owns a pipe
and steel company, is the fatherin-law of state Senate President
David Williams, R-Burkesville.
He has made $3,000 in contributions to Fletcher. It was
unclear whether Stephens has
done business with the state.
Fletcher flew on another private plane last weekend from
Austin to Albuquerque and
back, Hogan said. He said he
did not know who owns that
plane but that the state
Republican Party is expected to
pick up the tab.
The governor can accept
gifts, such as plane rides, as
long as they are properly reported.
The King Air costs the state
$800 an hour and commercial
flights are $500 or more. There
are also hotel room and meal
costs. The Fletchers and
Murgatroyd pay for their own
game tickets.
Hogan said he could not provide specific costs for the trips
until all the bills are in. But he
defended the expenditures as
good for the state.
"He's an ambassador for the
state, coming into contact with
fans and alumni who might be
interested in Kentucky business
opportunities," Hogan said. "It's
really not an option for him. It's
an obligation, and he is being as
frugal as possible."
While in Austin last weekend
to see the University of
Kentucky play, Fletcher attended some "economic development meetings" for Kentucky,
Hogan said. He declined to
specify whom Fletcher met or
what was discussed.
The
Fletchers
and
Murgatroyd plan to watch U of
L play in this weekend's Final
Four in . St. Louis, and will
attend Monday night's championship game no matter who is
playing.
Fletcher will meet with
NCAA officials in St. Louis this
weekend in hopes of luring a
tournament game to Kentucky
soon, Hogan said.
Hogan also said Fletcher has
been mentioned often on sportscasts and has had several national media interviews, which help
promote the state.
Fletcher and Murgatroyd
watched UK play in the first
round on March 17 in
Indianapolis against Eastern
Kentucky University. The next
day, they traveled to Nashville
for Louisville's first-round
game with Louisiana-Lafayette.
They did not attend the secondround games.
Last weekend, the Fletchers
and Murgatroyd went to Austin.
for UK's Friday night victory
over Utah, then to Albuquerque
for Louisville's win over West
Virginia. They returned to
Austin and saw UK's doubleovertime loss to Michigan State
Sunday.
The three and their security
detail will fly commercial to St.
Louis this weekend from New
York City, where the governor
and Murgatroyd are meeting
with Wall Street experts about
the state's bond debt. The three
are expected to fly back to
Kentucky Tuesday morning on
the King Air, which will be sent
to St. Louis for them, Hogan
said.
Fletcher bought tickets to the
regional games from U of L and
UK, Hogan said. The Final Four
tickets were purchased from the
NCAA.
"The tickets either were purchased on their personal credit
cards or the state will be reimbursed," he said.
Bert Donat/l{ln Jr.
Bert Donathan Jr., 70, of
Wellington, formerly of Floyd
County, died Monday, March 28,
2005, at St. Claire Regional
Medical Center, in Morehead.
Born September 10, 1934, in
Pike County, he was the son of the
late Bert Donathan Sr., and Rittie
Lee Tackett Donathan. He was a
disabled factory worker, and a
member of the Pentecostal Onrrch.
He is survived by his wife,
Roberta Newsome Donathan.
Other survivors include three
sons: Doyle Dwight Donathan of
Advance, North Carolina, and
Phillip Dale Donathan and Bert
Donathan, both of Taylorsville,
North Carolina; a daughter, Rittie
Lea Young of Russell; two sisters:
Martha Hopper and Bertha
Martinko, both of Marion, Ohio; 11
grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In addition to his parents, he was
preceded in death by five brothers:
Kermit
Donathan,
Earnest
Donathan, Curtis Donathan, Ed
Donalhan, and Buster Donathan.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday, March 31, at 11 am., at
the Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home,
in Martin, with Reverend Donnie
Hall officiating.
Burial was in the Ike Roberts
Cemetery, in Grethel, WKier the
direction of Nelson-Frazier F\meral
Home.
Visitation was at the funeral
Home.
(Paid obiruary)
Ronald Scott, 51 , of
Somerset, died Tuesday, March
29, 2005, at his residence.
Born November 8, 1953, in
Floyd County, he was the son of
Vienetia Powers Scott of
Somerset, and the late Posey
Scott Jr. He was a disabled truck
driver, and a member of the
Church of God.
In addition to his mother, survivors include a son, Cody
Scott of Granite Falls, North
Carolina;
two daughters:
Lilnetta Scott of Louisvile, and
Cynthia Scott of Somerset;
three brothers: Donald Scott
(twin) of Burton, Bobby Scott
of Somerset, and Frankie Scott
of Weeksbury; two sisters:
Bonida Scott of Cedar bluff,
Alabama, and Kaye Bates of
Somerset; and three grandchildren: Heaven, Cain, and Haley.
In addition to his father, he
was preceded in death by a
brother, Clyde Scott.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, April 1, at 1 p.m.,
at the Wheelwright Freewill
Baptist Church, in Bypro, with
Louis Ferrari officiating.
Burial will be in the Dr. WD.
Osborne Cemetery, in Bypro,
under the direction of NelsonFrazier Funeral Home, in
Martin.
Visitation is at the church.
(Paid obituary)
Mildred Carleen George Branham
Mildred Carleen George
Branham,
age
76,
of
Prestonsburg, widow of Thomas
Edward Branham, passed away
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, at
King's Daughters Hospital,
Ashland.
She was born August 12,
1928, in East Point, the daughter
of the late Thomas George and
Edith Stephens George. She was
a homemaker, a member of the
First United Methodist Church,
Prestonsburg, and a member of
the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include three
daughters: Sandra Branham
Goble and Jamie Branham, both
of Prestonsburg, and Tommie
Sue Campbell of Mousie; one
sister, Thelma Thomas of South
Shore; two grandchildren: Tracy
Click and Alan Goble; four
great-grandchildren: Lauren
Click, John Mark Click,
Brandon Goble, and Allison
Goble.
In addition to her husband
and parents, she was preceded
in death by one son, John
Robert Branham; three sisters:
Effie George Cook, Elvie
George, and Annie George; and
three brothers: Arthur George,
Edd George, and Homer
George.
Funeral services for Mildred
I look at your picture
every day,
I think of you in only the
best of ways.
You are missed more
than you'll ever know,
I don't understand why
you had to go.
I know you're with the
angels now,
You've gone home to be
with Jesus, high above
the clouds.
I'll see you again, each
night I pray,
I love you, Lois, and
happy birthday.
In Remembrance
of her birthday,
March 28th
Sadly missed by all
family and friends.
Branham will be conducted
Saturday, April 2, at 1 p.m., at
the First United Methodist
Church, Prestonsburg, with
Clergymen Mark Walz and
Ste~<e Pescosolido officiating.
Burial will follow in the
Richmond
Cemetery,
Prestonsburg, under the professional care of the Hall Funeral
Home, Martin.
Visitation is after 6 p.m.,
Thursday, at the funeral home,
and after noon, Saturday, at the
church.
Pallbearers: Alan Goble, John
Click, Jason Goble, Adam
Dixon, Bill Thomas, Dave
Blevins, and Timmy Cook.
Honorary: James Goble, Tim
Allen, Tommy Hall, John
Anthony Campbell, Tommy
Cook, Tom Scott, John
Furcolow, Robert Burchett,
Prent Ball, and Bill Howard.
Mike Wireman
Jeffrey Ray
Johnson
Ronald Scott
Mike Wireman, age 37, of
Hueysville, passed away on
Saturday evening, March 26,
2005, at his residence.
Mo
He was born December 24,
1967, in Columbia City,
Indiana, the son of Ondie and
Kathleen Whittaker Wireman.
He was a member of the
National Guard, and attended
the Upper Quicksand Free
Pentecostal
Church
at
Hueysville.
Surviving are his parents,
Ondie and Kathleen Wireman
of Hueysville; one brother,
Chris Wireman of Hueysville;
two sisters: Athlene (William)
Patton of Versailles, and Kim
(Brian) Tussey of Kendalville,
Indiana; three nephews: Jason
(Mallory)
Patton,
Daniel
Tussey, and Andrew Tussey;
one niece, Hannah Patton; and
nine aunts, four uncles, and several cousins.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, March 30,
at 1 p.m., in the Hall Funeral
Chapel, in Martin, with Roger
Bolen, Earl Miller, and Bill
Tussey Jr., officiating.
Burial was in the Shepherd
Cemetery, at Hueysville, under 1~
the direction of Hall Funeral
Home.
Visitation was at the funeral
home.
Pallbearers: Jason Patton,
Charlie Hicks, Tonx Bolen,
David Tussey, Ryan Tussey,
Shepherd,
Adam
Mike
Zimmerman and Willie Patton.
Honorary: Daniel Tussey,
Andrew Tussey, Larry Dudleson, Jackie Howard, Quent
Zimmerman, Carl Vanderpool 1111\
and Donnie Howard.
~
Jeffrey Ray Johnson, 36, of
Buckingham,
died
Wednesday, March 30, 2005,
at the U .K . Medical Center,
in Lexington .
Born January 8, 1969, in
McDowell, he was the son of
the late Grover and Marie
Hall Johnson. He was disabled.
Survivors include four
brothers: Elmer Ray Johnson
(Rhodean),
Gary
Dale
Johnson (Dottie), Les ter
Johnson (Kaye), and Dennis
Johnson , all of Buckingham;
five sisters: Pearl Pigg (Paul)
of Columbus, Ohio, Delina
Slone (Gary) and Donna
Compton (Elbert), both of
Prestonsburg,
Belinda
McKinney (Larry) of Toler,
and
Dorotha
Samons
(Mickey) of Bevinsville; a
sister-in-law, Darleen Harris;
and several nieces and
nephews.
In addition to his parents,
he was preceded in death by
one
brother,
Clifford
Johnson; and two sisters:
Juanita Johnson and Eula
Faye Johnson.
Funeral services will be
conducted Saturday, April 2,
at noon, at the Joppa Old
Regular Baptist Church, in
Melvin, with Old Regular
Baptist ministers officiating.
Burial will be in the
Buckingham Cemetery, in
Bevinsville, under the direction
of
Nelson-Frazier
Funeral Home, Martin.
Visitation is at the church,
with nightly services at 6:30
p.m.
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James Walker
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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 Hom, 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. Hom 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 Home,
Hilliard, Ohio.
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1, 2005 • A7
Recor
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Marriage
Licenses
Julie Rachele Yates, 25, of
Pikeville, to Jonathan Otto
Morris, 26, of Prestonsburg.
Paula Dawn Gayheart, 32, of
Indiana. to Milton Dec Chaffins.
38, of McDowell. •
Tammy Renea Hall , 34, of
McDowell, to Christopher
Lawrence Clark,
26, of
Baltimore, Md.
Civil Suits
Filed
Chad Hall vs. Danny H.
Hamilton; verified complaint.
Kasey Jo Williamson vs.
Bennie Williamson; divorce .
Julia Lynn Vanderpool vs.
Eric
Todd
Vanderpool;
divorce.
Cynthia
McCarty
vs.
Charles McCarty; petition for
annulment, petition for paternity judgment and sole custody to establish child support.
Jessica Flanery vs. Tony
Flanery; divorce.
Monarch
Capital
Corporation
vs.
Michael
Vance; complaint.
James Trusty vs. Linda
McKenzie; complaint.
Tonya Patrick vs. Kestner
Dotson and Donald R. Cluett:
complaint.
Floyd County vs. Penny
Parker; complaint.
Selena Mercer vs. Kenneth
Mercer; petition for health
care insurance.
Sherry Lewis vs. Vernon
Davis: petition for health care
InSUH\llCe .
Dennis Buckley vs. Tina
Conaster; petit ion for child
support and health care insurance.
Ralph King vs. Casey
Coli ier; petition for child support and health care insurance.
Brittney McKinney vs.
Trina Conley; complaint.
Patricia Kmgsley vs. Eric
Kingsley; divorce.
Polly Bradley vs. Mary
Jane Nickols Interiors , complaint.
Jami Blackburn vs. Connie
Kingsley; petition for health
care insurance.
Anita Hayden vs. Larry
Hayden; dtvorce .
Patricia Duff vs. Deborah
Beverly; complaint.
Appleton Capital. LLC vs.
Bradford Hall; petition and
application to confirm and
enforce arbitration award.
MONA America Bank, NA
vs . Chris Gilley; complaint.
John Ferrari vs . Jill S.
Ferrari; divorce .
Option Card, LLC vs. Bill
Jones; complaint.
Great
Senecafin
Corporation
vs.
Peggy
Compton; complaint.
Deborah Miller vs. Ralph
Cordle; complaint.
Small
Claims
Filings
Jan's Enterprises, Inc. vs.
Steve Castle; unpaid rent.
Charges
Filed
-~-
Michael
Watkins:
35,
Wayland; possession of marijuana, violation of EPO/DVO.
Ruben Hall Jr., 51. Hi Hat;
harassment.
Evelyn Hall, 28, Teaberry;
misdemeanor theft (checks).
lrvm Adkins, 35, Harold; terroristic threatening.
Teresa McKinney, 38, Harold;
fourth-degree assault.
David
Ferrell.
39,
Prestonsburg; six counts of misdemeanor theft (checks).
Randy
Tackett.
35,
Wheelwright;
fourth-degree
aggravated
assault (spouse
abuse).
Charles Boyd, 45. Harold;
public intoxication.
Richard C. Elliott, 29,
Honaker; public intoxication.
Tiffany
Robinson,
25,
Prestonsburg;
fourth-degree
assault, disorderly conduct, thirddegree criminal trespass.
·Bret Short, 41, Prestonsburg;
public intoxication.
Jeremy
Bellamy,
21,
Lexington; third-degree criminal
trespass.
Mary
Robinson,
44,
Prestonsburg; resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, fourth-degree
assault.
Randy Baldwin, 44, public
intoxication, prescription not in
original container. possession of
an open alcoholic beverage in a
motor vehicle.
Lance Collins, no age listed,
Harold: public intoxication.
Stacie
Puckett.
24,
Salyersville; public intoxication,
disorderly conduct.
Josh Moore, 19, Prestonsburg;
harassment.
Amburst Brown, 58. Langley;
harassing communications.
Joe Greene, 39, Printer: terroristic threatening.
Jonathan Belcher, 23. Elkhorn;
ful transaction with a
minor. second-degree criminal
trespass, two counts of custodial
interterl!nce.
Btiau Wells, 28. East Point:
custodial interference.
Manis Risner. 46, Martin;
felony theft.
Agon Aldo Short, 36. Mousie;
misdemeanor theft. felony theft.
Emily Hall. 21, Teaberry;
felony theft.
Larry Spears, 47, Banner;
felony theft.
Wayne Jervis, 59, Auxier;
menacing. public intoxication.
Phillip Wallace. no age listed.
Harold: third-degree criminal
trespass.
Greta Ousley, 19, Martin; public intoxication.
Clifton G. Jordan, 22,
Prestonsburg; public intoxication.
' Caleb J. Muse, 21, Betsy
Layne; third-degree criminal trespass.
Amanda
Stevens,
20,
Prestonsburg; public intoxication.
Donny Newman, 21, Grethel;
public intoxication.
Powers,
20,
Kevin
Prestonsburg; public intoxication.
Anthony B. Francis, 39,
McAndrews; public intoxication.
Steven E. Dalton, 22,
Wayland; violation of a protective
order.
Orville Vanhoose, no age listed, Paintsville; shoplifting.
Jackie Crum, 41. Eastern; driving under the influence. failure
to produce insurance card, no
operators license, failure to wear
seat belt.
Uit: a\\
Jeremy Tackett, 29. Ligon;
second-degree promoting contraband.
Boyd Clifton, no age listed,
Harold; misdemeanor theft.
Donald Collins, no age listed,
Isom; public intoxication.
Steven Scott McKinney, no
age listed, Printer; first-degree
criminal trespass, fourth-degree
assault.
Stephen Chafin, 41 , Garrett;
public intoxication.
Jack
Burchett,
34,
Prestonsburg; third-degree criminal trespass.
Inspections
Wayland Kwik Mart, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Thetmometers not provided for
all refrigeration and freezer
units, wiping cloth use not
restricted, faucet leaking at hand
wash sink in food prep area,
women's restroom without
soap , mop stored in contact with
floor Score: Food 94, Retail 98 .
Dollar General, McDowell,
regular inspection . Violations
noted: No easy to see thermometers in upright refrigerator
display
units,
employee
restroom door not self-closing.
Score: 97.
Our Lady of the Way
Hospital, cafeteria, regular
inspection. Violations noted:
Wiping cloth not properly
stored. Score: 99.
Long John Silver's, Martin,
regular inspection. Violations
noted: Several refrigeration
units lack conspicuous thermometers, chemical test strips
not readily available at three compartment
sink,
mop
observed stored on floor. Score:
96.
Triangle Market, ,\ ]ar1in, re!!ular inspection. Violations
noted: Thermo meters not provided for all fridge and freezer
units , pet food stored on tloor,
ceilmgs in disrepair, mop stored
on floor. Sco re: 95.
Hobert's
'
P1zza.
Preston sburg, regular 'nspcction. Violations noted· Proper
hair restraints not in use , piua
box stored on tloor, leak in drain
of three-compartment '>ink . no
soap in employee restroom,
floor in food prep area in di-;rcpair, wet mop stored on floor
Score: 93.
Baptist
Day
Care,
Prestonsb urg , regu lar inspection. Violations noted: Hoor ttle
in food prep area in disrepair.
Score: 94.
Dingus M ob ile Home Park,
Martin, regula r inspection.
Violations noted: Mobile horne
lots not numbered, some mobile
home units fail to meet lot size
compliance. small amount of
accumulated debris, park lighting not in compliance. Score·
92.
Property
Transfers
Community
Trust
and
Investment Company, as lf!IStee
of the Brittany E. M itchell Trust,
to Charles Mitchell, pro pert}
located at Daniel's Creek.
Loretta Sue ~ewman to
Jamie Brent and Marlena
Newman , property located at
Frazier's Creek.
Bill N . and Jennifer Slone to
John B. and Lorenc Hamilton.
property locaFed at Burton
Village Subdivision
Stumbo sues over shift of funds fror:n
tuition
program
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FRANKFORT
State
Attorney General Greg Stumbo
on Wednesday asked Franklin
' County Circuit Court to decide
~ whether the General Assembly
had authority to shift funds
away from Kentucky's prepaid
college tuition program.
Also Wednesday, Deputy
Finance Secretary John Farris
said Finance Secretary Robbie
Rudolph would recommend
suspending new enrollments in
the program.
Lawmakers this year decided to move $13 .7 million from
the
Kentucky
Affordable
Prepaid Tuition program and
repealed a law that allowed
KAPT to use money from
unclaimed property to cover
shortfalls.
Stumbo said a lawsuit he
filed Wednesday afternoon is
intended to protect KAPT and
is simply asking to solve a
question of Jaw. However,
Stumbo said, the program is
"certainly sound" and not in
jeopardy regardless of the
case's outcome.
"Although, if the money is
withdrawn, it would be more
likely that additional money
would have to be put in at a
later date to fulfill the obligations of the contract," Stumbo
told reporters .
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In the suit. Stumbo said the
transfer of funds is unconstitutional because the public
money has been mingled with
private funds.
''Because
the
General
Assembly has no authority to
transfer private funds to the
general fund, the transfer of
money from agencies in which
public and private funds are
commingled cannot be differentiated, and is unconstitutionaL" according to the lawsuit.
KAPT allows participants to
offset tuition increases by locking in current rates. There have
been about 8,900 KAPT contracts sold since the program's
inception, according to the suit.
•
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a,. •
Rudolph, who sits on the
KAPT board, said through
Farris that the program was
self-sufficient when it was first
approved five years ago
because its investment returns
outpaced tuition increases.
But investments have lagged
in recent years, causing KAPT
to face projected long-term
deficits, said Farris, who has
voted on KAPT issues as
Rudolph's proxy on the board.
"I don't want to shut down
the idea forever, but at this time
- until the investment landscape changes - we would
support a moratorium," Farris
said.
Rudolph was traveling and
~
unavailable for comment.
Farris said Rudolph would
submit the recommendation to
Gov. Ernie Fletcher. Fletcher
policy adviser Brian Crall said
the governor asked Rudolph to
study KAPT but hasn't decided
whether to support an enrollment moratorium.
The
Kentucky
Higher
Education
Assistance
Authority, which will take full
control of KAPT on July 1, will
make the decision on suspending enrollments.
Lawmakers
insist
that
KAPT will meet its obligations.
Lawmakers also denied that
their actions, which they said
were intended to help balance
the budget. are unconstnutional
or threaten KAPT.
Faced with a long-term
shortfall due to recent tmtion
increases that outpaced the program's investment ean•mgs . the
KAPT board in December
withdrew $ 13 .7 m.llton from
the unclaimed property fund .
Before the legis lature's latest action, KAPT had been
allowed to use .u p to 75 percent
of the state's unclaimed property, whtch the Treasury said is
worth about $150 million, as a
reserve fund . Such property
includes stocks. cash and valuables turne.d over to the state
after being abandoned in safedeposit boxes.
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1, 2005
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SECTION
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Phone: (606) 886-8506
Fax: (606) 886-3603
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Rebs win wood bat opener
HINDMAN - Allen Central edged Pike County Central 9-8 Wednesday evening in the opening
round of the East Kentucky Wood Bat Invitational. The Rebels jumped out to an early 6-0 lead and
won, despite a relentless Pike Central effort. The Hawks scored their eight runs on just two hits.
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Johnson Central lets Trimble go
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
PAINTSVILLE- As a high school player, a starting guard, no less, Les Trimble
helped lead Johnson Central High School to
the 1984 Boys' Sweet 16 State Basketball
Tournament. In 2000, Trimble had a dream
fulfilled, when after going through a dominating run in the middle school boys' basketball ranks, he returned to his high school
alma mater, replacing outgoing coach
Johnny Ray Turner. Trimble made the move
up to JCHS from Johnson County Middle
School, replacing Turner, who after a
•
Notes on NCAA
Final Four Weekend
regional title run, had stepped down. On
Tuesday, Trimble's four-year run as JCHS
head coach came to an end when, via a spur
of the moment meeting, he was notified that
he would not be back to lead the Golden
Eagle boys' basketball team. Trimble admitted he didn't see Tuesday's decision coming
and had looked forward to preparing a JCHS
team for next season.
"I dreamed of coaching at Johnson
Central and that becoming a reality was special," said Trimble. "We had some great seasons and attained many goals we set out to
accomplish. Unfortunately the dream of
reaching Rupp never happened but it wasn't
without effort and hard work. I cherish the
opportunity I was given and wish my players and the program the best of luck. I feel
the program gained a lot of respect throughout Kentucky."
For the Johnson Central boys, the 2004-{)5
campaign included a 57th District championship and a run into the 15th Region
Tournament Semifinals. The Golden Eagles fmished the season at 19-10. In four seasons at the
helm of the program, Trimble coached Johnson
Central to a pair of district titles. Trimble posted
a 5-2 record in 57th District play and a 3-3
(See TRIMBLE, page two)
· Blackcats start out 0-2
by RICK BENTLEY
Notes, one-liners and odds and ends to
kick off your Final Four weekend:
• In preparation for an article you'll
(hopefully) read next week, I spent part of
Wednesday morning on the telephone
with country music singer David Lee
Murphy. When we finished the interview,
he had a few questions for me.
"What do y'all think about Coach
Pitino?" he asked.
Seems no matter who you are or what
• your line of work, this weekend's Final
Four in St. Louis is the popular topic of
conversation.
I
plan on being
home to watch
.Saturday's games.
·d Lee will be
catching the highlights
between
shows at the Grand
Ole Opry.
The Final Four
Rick Bentley
was the favorite
.t)
topic on Monday
night's edition of
The Sports Guys , where the panel was
split as to who to pull for.
The interesting team is Louisville and
how folks feel about Rick Pitino's club.
Some pull for the Cards because they're
what passes for a local team with the Cats
meeting an untimely demise. Some just hate
the Cards and won't pull for them at all.
I'm not a big UotL fan because of
Pitino, someone who I think has been,
since the passing of Adolph Rupp, both
the best of times and the worst of times for
Kentucky.
~
But I'll tell you this much: If I can't be
happy on Monday night, it wouldn't bother me to see my friends Sam Smith, Brian
Prater and Gene Layne doing a dance.
Besides, who else you gonna pull for?
Carolina?
So I suppose it'll be UofLin one game
and Michigan State in the other. With any
luck, one of them will be around for One
Shining Moment on Monday night.
• Baseball and softball seasons have
begun locally, and this promises to be an
interesting year for the spring sports.
As many of you know, the KHSAA has
changed the way three-team districts
begin postseason play. In years past - and
earlier this month for roundball clubs the teams drew, with two playing in the
opener and the other awaiting the loser. If
the winner of the second game wasn't the
team that lost the ftrst one, there would be
a championship game. If not, it was over.
PRESTONSBURG- There's a new coach leading the
Prestonsburg High School baseball team. Bob Shepherd is
in his first season at the top of the Blackcat baseball program. Prestonsburg got off to an 0-2 start earlier this week,
dropping games to Sheldon Clark and Magoffin County.
Shepherd sent his team into its first game of the 2005
season Tuesday night. The Blackcats hosted Sheldon
Clark in the season-opener and failed to find offense. The
Cardinals, again taking on the role of a 15th Region contender, beat Prestonsburg 11-0. Sheldqn Clark, coached
by Mike Hall, got stronger as the game progressed, downing Prestonsburg in just six innings.
On Wednesday night, Prestonsburg returned to the diamond in action against Magoffin County. The Blackcats
played better, but still finished short of a win as host
Magoffin County prevailed, winning 6-5.
Prestonsburg entered the season with a lot of excitement
surrounding a program that has shown much improvement
each of the past two seasons. Junior Brenton Hamilton,
who starred for Pikeville last season, will give Prestonsburg
a boost throughout the 2005 season, both through his pitching and hitting.
(See BENTLEY, page two)
(See BLACKCATS, page two)
LEXINGTON - The University of
Kentucky football team held its first
spring football practice Wednesday
morning, a two-hour, 15-rn.inute workout
at Commonwealth Stadium.
Clad in helmets, jerseys and shorts,
and enjoying a warm day, the Wildcats
worked on fundamentals in position
groups before ending the practice with a
short team period. Coach Rich Brooks
was encouraged by the practice.
"We didn't make as many alignment
mistakes as I anticipated on the frrst day,"
Brooks said. "The young guys are learning where they fit.
"I was impressed with how (quarterback) Andre' Woodson threw the ball. He
threw the ball accurately and made good
decisions with few poor reads. I was
encouraged by that."
Defensive coordinator Mike Archer,
who is switching from the 3-4 alignment
to the 4-3 system, has a busy spring ahead
in implementing the change.
"It was the frrst day and there's a
learning curve with new assignments and
new terminology," Archer said. "I saw .a
lot of good things. It was a good start."
Kentucky will practice a total of 15
times during the spring, including the
Blue/White Spring Game on April 23.
The next practice is scheduled for today
at 9 a.m. Practices are held in
Commonwealth Stadium or the Nutter
Field House. Practices are open to the
public and media.
photos by Jamie Howell
Prestonsburg dropped its season-opener Tuesday,
falling to visiting Sheldon Clark. Junior Brenton
Hamilton saw time on the mound during the opener.
by STEVE LeMASTER
SPORTS EDITOR
Kentucky All-Stars
announce tryout invitees
TIMES STAFF REPORT
LEXINGTON - Betsy Layne senior
Kim Clark, Knott County Central senior
Kasi Mullins-Galloway and East Ridge
senior Aaron Branham are among the
seniors invited to try out for the Kentucky
All-Stars girls' and boys' basketball
teams. Mullins-Galloway was named the
14th Region player of the year and Clark
took the 15th Region's top individual
girls' basketball honor. Branham was
named the boys' 15th Region Player of
the Year.
Two of the all-star tryout invitees will have
locked up spots on the team later this month.
Mr. and Miss Basketball, who will be
announcedAprill5 in Frankfort, both have
guaranteed spots on the ali-star teams.
(See TRYOUTS, page two)
AC 3, PCC 0
•
the mound
Tuesday
evening and
pitched Betsy
Layne to a win
over visiting
East Ridge.
Case and a host
of his Betsy
Layne team·
mates also provided offensive
pop when at the
plate.
More on the
game appears
inside today's
edition.
Kentucky holds first
spring football practice
TIMES STAFF REPORT
TIMES COLUMNIST
/If Derek Case took
photo by Steve LeMaster
Les Trimble, pictured talking with his team during ~ ti':'eout
in the 15th Region Tournament Semifinals, says he d like to
one day return to coaching.
Rebels open with win
TIMES STAFF REPQRT
HAZARD- Allen Central, under the guidance
of new head coach Kenneth Johnson, opened the
2005 baseball season on the road Tuesday evening
against the host Perry County Central, a p~r~nnial
14th Region contender. The Rebels got going early
on and went on to beat Perry Central 3-0.
Johnson enters the Allen Central program following the departure of Craig Kidd, who spent one
season at the helm of the Rebel baseball team.
On Tuesday evening, the Rebels picked up all of the
runs they would need for the victory in the first inning.
(See AC, page two)
photo by Tony
McGuire/Hazard
Herald
Allen Central
senior Ryan
Hammonds
was one of
several
Rebels who
came ready
to play
Tuesday on
the road at
Perry County
Central. Allen
Central got
the season
off on a winning note
with a 3-0
shutout win
over the
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1, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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As confusmg as I managed to
write that. it certainly wasn't
much prettier to sec unfold.
But nov. . the teams will seed.
The top team will get the bye
and an automatic spot in the
championship game, which
translates to an automatic slot in
the regional tournament.
Now, how many times do
you think three teams can play
four games and there not be a tie
for the top spot? Those tiebreakers are critical, says ht"re.
particularly for the 59th
District's softball teams.
In years past, those three
have been unbelievably close in
talent. Nov.. one will automatically be in the region while the
other two will have a dog fight
for the one remaining spot.
The reason for this is to prevent what has lwppened to
David Rowe and Pike Central
twice in recent years. They've
got the thrill of winning the district title \\ htle sitting in the
stands.
It will prove to be an interesting spring.
• Baseball season also will
be interesting to follow to see
how two of our region's teams
fare.
Without singling anybody
out, it wa~ clear that heading
into last year's region Pikeville
was the overwhelming favorite.
Then they got knocked off and
Johnson Central not only won
the title but also advanced to the
state sem1finals.
One year later, most of
Pikeville's talent is back. And,
so is Johnson Cenu·al's.
There's
also
Belfry,
Paintsville,
Betsy
Layne,
Prestonsburg and Sheldon qark
to contend with.
Sounds like a fun spring to me.
• Meanwhile, Major League
Baseball kicks off Sunday night
with one that has a lot of people
chuckling. The Yankees and
George Steinbrenner wil I be in
Boston to watch the Red Sox
unveil the championship banner
and receive their World Series
rings .
Closer to home, the two
teams most locals pull for are
Cincinnati and Atlanta. whose
seasons seem to cling to one
thought each: For the Braves,
it's can John Smoltz make it as a
starter after multiple years as a
closer and several arm problems.
And in Cincinnati, it's that
age-old question, can Junior
Griffey play in 140 games?
If either happens, we could
have a lot to cheer for come
September.
• And finally ...
Friends come to us from odd
places from time to time. One of
my good ones is a young man
who worked for me at Pikeville
College for four years.
Josh Childers is 14 years
younger than me, and that in
and of itself should preclude us
from having more than an
employer-employee relatiQnship. But that wasn't nearly the
case. Josh and I got to know
each other and our friendship
thrived as his grade-point average rose through the years.
One night he showed up for
work and casually mentioned
he'd been seeing a new girl. He
asked if I knew Keri Fletcher. I
said I knew of her, but was very
familiar with her family. Her
mother, Kathi, is guidance
counselor at East Ridge and had
been at Elkhorn City for years.
Her Aunt Keri Ann and
Cousin Julie were cornerstones
of B.J. Elswick's Lady Cougar
team that played in the state
semifinals in 1991.
Through the course of their
relationship, I've counseled Josh,
which often consisted of nothing
more than laughing at him, and
cons1stently offered him only a
single piece of advice.
Don't screw it up.
Friday night as we gleefully
watched Michigan State take
Duke out (sorry Drew, it had to
be said), I got a call from Josh.
He wanted to let me know he
hadn't screwed it up.
They're now engaged.
If you see them, it is proper
to offer congratulations.
And one more thing: Keri, I
wish you luck.
You're going to need it.
Prestonsburg was due buck in
action last night, participating in
the East Kentucky Wood Bat
Invitational at Knott County
Central. Other teams in the wood
bat tournament include Knott
Central, Pike Central, Silver
Grove, Harlan, Whitesburg and
Boyd County. The tournament is
slated to run through Saturday.
DOWN
SOUTH:
The
Pikeville High baseball team
got a win Wednesday at
Charleston , S.C . The Panthers
beat Stall , S .C , convincingly,
15-1. With the win, Pikeville
improved to 2-l.
In other high school baseball games played Wednesday
evening , Williamson (W.Va.)
beat border rival Belfry 7-5.
Sheldon Clark topped Shelby
Valley 13 2 in five innings,
Whitesburg downed Wolfe
County 5-3, Johnson Central
rolled over Leslie County, 145, East Carter shut out Elliott
County 10-0 in five, frames,
and Ashland Blazer mpped
Raceland 6-5.
photo by Jamie Howell
Prestonsburg's Dalton Taylor hit the ground Tuesday, avoiding a hard throw from the Sheldon
Clark pitcher.
Trimble
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regional tournament worksheet.
In four years under Trimble,
Johnson Central had a 66-46
overall record, fourth best
among all 15th Region teams.
There is more to life than basketball and Trimble will make the
most of the newfound free time.
''I have a beautiful wife,
Shana. and four kids, Luke, Madi.
Reece, and Taylor," Trimble
added. "Although basketball consumed me while coaching and
practicing it was put in perspective when I was in my home. I
have many interests other than
coaching and will enjoy the
down time."
The former Johnson Central
player turned head coach wants
to coach again. However, he
doesn 't want to jump into just
any coaching situation.
"I will coach again but I want
the situation to be one in which I
feel wanted and am supported
fully," Trimble concluded
JCHS officials have&gun a
search for a new boys' basketball coach.
AC
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Allen Central junior pitcher Tyler
Turner earned the win, tluuwing
a complete game shutout.
Allen Central enior Wilfreda
Dominguez led off the game
with a hard single to centerfield.
Dominguez, a three-sport athlete
for the Rebels, was then joined
on base by Thrner. Allen Central
picked up a pair of runs later
in the inning when Raymon
Spurlock drove the ball to the
leftfield fence, allowing the
Rebels to exit the first inning
with a 2-0 lead.
( Justin Jacobs provided an
insurance run for the Rebels in
the third inning after collecting
a two-out walk. Jacobs moved
to third base on a pickoff move
that went wide of its mark. He
then scampered home on a wild
pitch. giving Allen Central the
decisive 3-0 advantage that
would hold up. The run proved
to be the last of the game.
I
Turner, now a thrfe-year
starter for the Rebels, t~tew the
complete game, gi'vinkup just
four hits. He was backed up by
a stellar defensive performance
by his teammates, allowing the
Rebels to collect their ftrst win
of the young season.
Allen Central was scheduled to be back in ac;tion yes- a \
terday, weather pewuitting, ,playing at home agai~ t visiting Shelby Valley.
Tryouts
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Tryouts to round out the rosters will be held April 15-16 at
Georgetown College.
Kentucky will play Indiana
in the 65th summer basketball
series in Bowling Green on
June 18 and in Indianapolis on
June 25.
Girls' all-star invitees Johnna Abney (Rockcastle Co.);
Adaeze
Azubuike
(Lex.
Catholic); Brittany Bass (Cov.
Holy Cross); Ashley Bell (Wayne
Co.); Paula Carver (Webster
·Co.); Kim Clark (Betsy Layne);
Melanie Cornett (Rowan Co.);
Jackie Distler (Sacred Heart);
Amy Etherton (Buliitt Central);
Ciara Gibbs (Lou. Central):
Amber Guffey (Clinton Co.);
Paige Guffey (Clinton Co.);
Heather Han1mond (Rockcastle
Co.);
Ashley
Hawkins
(Henderson Co.); Aseer ltjavkase
(Tilghman); Jenne Jackson
(North
Hardin);
Hannah
Jefferson (Bracken Co.); Robyn
Jennings (Elizabethtown); Taran
Johnson (South Laurel); Taylor
Kopple (Sacred Heart); Julie
Leach (Ohio Co.); Erica Lee
(Mercer Co.); Britta Maggard
(Perry
Central);
Destiny
Mattingly (Woodford Co.):
Austin Mcintosh (Owsley Co.);
Maggie
McKemie
(Lou.
Christian Academy); Kasi
Mullins-Galloway
(Knott
Central): Shannon Novosel (Lex.
Catholic);
Cady
Ormerod
(Sacred Heart); Brittany Pittman
(Tates Creek); Tara Rowe
(Rockcastle Co.); Jayme Thiem
(Newport Catholic).
Boys' all-star invitees- Derek
Adams (Muhlenberg North);
Keaton Belcher (Pendleton Co.);
Zach Berry (Trinity); Aaron
Branham (East Ridge); Nathan
Bray (Somerset); Jared Carter
(Scott Co.); Aaron Cash
(Rockcastle
Co.);
Derrick
Endicott (Lawrence Co.); Eric
Fields (South Laurel); Bryantt
Furmann (Rowan Co.); Maurice
Grinter (Fairdale); Olajide Hay
(Henderson Co.); Sahiou Jassey
(Rose Hill); Ra 'von Lee
(Ballard); Matthew Martin
(Clark Co.); Troy McFarland
(Warren Central); Zach Mefford
(Williamstown); Matt Morris
(Franklin-Simpson); Jazz Neal
(PRP);
Curtis
Pulley
(Hopkinsville); Will Reeves
(Ballard) ; Tory
Robertson
Saxton
(Frankfort);
Brett
(Trinity); Kyle Saxton (Trinity);
Andrew Sewell (Breathitt Co.);
Steven Sexton (Wayne Co.);
Michael
Spann
(West
Jessamine); JaJuan Spillman
(PRP); Anthony Thomas (Hart
Co.);
Domonic
Tilford
(Jeffersontown); Trey Tindell
(Calloway Co.); Bryan Thrnage
(Henry Clay); Brenna Votel
(Cov. Catholic).
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keeping their catch.
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through March 31 annually on
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Camp Creek in Whitley County.
Beaver Creek in Wayne County
from the KY 90 bridge upstream
the KY 200 bridge, Cane Creek
in Laurel County, Casey Creek
in Trigg County, East Fork,
Clarks River in Calloway
County from mouth of Bee
Creek upstream to Old Salem
Church Road bridge, East Fork.
Indian Creek in Memfee
County, Elk Spring Creek in
Wayne County, Left Fork,
Beaver Creek in Floyd County,
Lick Creek in Simpson County, ·
Middle Fork. Red River m
Powell County inside Natural
Bridge State Park, Otter Creek
in Meade County and Rock
Creek in McCreary County
All trout caught during thi
delayed harvest ·ea on must be
immediately released and only
artificial lures may be Used. The -,.
delayed harvest season
Swift
Camp Creek in the Red River
Gorge National Geological
Area in Wolfe County continues through May 31.
The statewide daily creel
limit is eight trout of which
only three may be brown trout.
There is no mm 1mum size
limit. Brook: trout must be
released.
In order to keep trout to eat
from these stream, from March
31 through September 30,
anglers must possess a \alid •
trout pennit.
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�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
1 2005 . 83
I
Kentucky lays groundwork for future
by MURRAY EVANS
K:::ISOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON - Kentucky
senior Sara Potts carried the
Wildcats to their longest postseason run ever this basketball
season. She believes the team's
freshmen - three of whom were
starting by season's end - can
sustain that positive momentum
for years to come.
Under second-year coach
Mickie DeMoss, Kentucky
improved from 11-17 to 18-16
this season, the Wildcats' first
winning campaign since 19992000. The team also fmished
strong, winning three games in
the Women's National Invitation
Tournament before falling 80-75
in double overtime in the semifinals to West Virginia.
"I've seen this program
change since I got here four
years ago," Potts said. "I think
this program is on its way up.
"It's been exciting to be here
and to have the opportunity to
play these games. Hopefully this
will help the team grow and be
ready for next year."
Potts isn't the only person
who thinks Kentucky's future is
bright. During the Wildcats'
WNIT run, opposing coaches
consistently
referred
to
Kentucky as a program on the
rise. After the Wildcats routed
Southern Conference champion
Chattanooga 91-54 in the second round, Chattanooga coach
Wes Moore told Kentucky
reporters to "enjoy the next few
years."
DeMoss' highly touted freshman class took a hit when guard
Sade Buley was arrested in
December on a felony theft
charge and subsequently was
suspended from the team. Buley
eventually pleaded guilty in
Fayette County District Court to
a reduced charge of misdemeanor theft and since has
transferred to Gulf Coast (Fla.)
Community College.
In January, Kentucky lost
another freshman when 6-foot-3
center Eleia Roddy suffered a
season-ending knee injury.
But the other three freshmen
- 6-6 center Sarah Elliott and
guards Samantha Mahoney and
Chant Bowman - all became
starters, joining Potts and
sophomore
guard
Angela
Phillips. Mahoney (10.6) and
Elliott (10.4) both had doublefigure scoring averages.
"I want those freshmen to
hurry up and become sopho-
Recruited for character, O'Bannon
becomes star for Cardinals
by CHRIS DUNCAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE- When Rick
Pitino started recruiting for
Louisville, he was looking for
more than talent and size. He
wanted players who worked
• hard in school, were attentive
and respectful.
Larry O'Bannon was that
kind of player.
"Larry, I thought, was really
the type of character we wanted in the program to help build
what we were trying to build,"
Pitino s~id Tuesday.
An ~counting major who's
been a regular on the athletic
department's academic honor
roll, O'Bannon has finally
bloomed into a star on the court
"" and Louisville is playing in the
~ Final Four because of it.
The 6-foot-4 senior ·guard
has averaged 19 points and
shot 59 percent in the
Cardinals' last nine games. He
scored 14 second-half points to
propel Louisville (33-4) past
West Virginia and into
Saturday's semifinal against
Illinois (36-1).
"He just keeps rising, getting better, more confident,"
Pitino said.
~
Few Division I-A programs
- includmg Louisville - were
interested in O'Bannon when
he came out of Louisville's
Male High School, where former Cardinals great Darrell
Griffith played. O'Bannon was
headed to Dayton before Pitino
replaced Denny Crum.
Junior Bridgeman, a former
Louisville star whose son
played with O'Bannon in high
school, started lobbying Pitino
to give O'Bannon a chance.
"Just being around him, you
just saw he was serious about
trying to accomplish something
in life, that he had his head on
straight," Bridgeman said.
"Sure, you're always looking
for the 7-foot-8 kid who can do
everything. But here was a kid
who wanted to play at
Louisville, who was good
enough to play at Louisville,
and I vouched for his character
because of the type of person I
knew he always was."
O'Bannon didn't show
much when Pitino saw him
play in person for the first time.
But Bridgeman's endorsement
kept Pitino interested.
"I could see he was a little
down about the way he played,
but that was not going to deter
me from the character issue,"
Pitino said. "Here's a kid from
the 'Ville who has great character, whom I'm sure has potential. It was a no-brainer for me."
Early on, O'Bannon struggled to accept a limited reserve
role. He clashed with Pitino
just before the Cardinals were
going to play Butler in the second round of the 2003 NCAA
tournament.
Pitino suspended him, the
Cardinals lost 79-71 and
O'Bannon reassessed his priorities.
"That was a big turning
point," O'Bannon said. "From
then, I just had to look in the
mirror and decide what I really
wanted to do. That's led to
where I'm at today."
He started 21 games as a
junior. showing glimpses of
explosive scoring ability. But
the knock against O'Bannon
remained that he was too nice,
not aggressive enough - that
his best trait off the court was a
detriment on it.
Pitino told him he had to
change, so O'Bannon spent
most of last summer in the
weight room and working on
his speed.
Pitino saw just how much
O'Bannon had changed last
Saturday, when O'Bannon
dove to the floor to wrestle for
a loose ball.
"I almost had a cardiac
arrest," Pitino said jokingly.
"For three years, he wouldn't
have thought of that. But he's
doing that right now, and that's
because of the weight room.
He's become a much tougher
person on the court."
But he hasn't lost his soft
side.
This season, O'Bannon
often spoke to children at
churches and hospitals. He also
delivered
the
graduation
speech at his elementary school
and tries to personally respond
to a growing number of letters
from fans.
"I definitely feel that's a
responsibility, being from here
and seeing what Darrell
Griffith and the local heroes,
what they've done for the university and then what they go
back and do in the community," O'Bannon said. "It's definitely a responsibility for what
to pay back for the community
for all the support they've
showed me."
~Cardinal
fans rock
downtown Louisville
by MALCOLM C. KNOX
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE - Someone
who didn't know better might
have thought it was a rock concert Tuesday afternoon.
Thousands of fans arrived
""' up to 2 1/2 hours early to post
""' near the stage. They carried
signs declaring their love for
their favorite performers. By
the end, voices had gone hoarse
from screaming and people
kept dancing to the music long
after the main act was gone.
But neither Usher nor Linkin
Park performed at Louisville's
4th Street Live downtown
entertainment district.
The Louisville Cardinals,
bound for their first trip to the
NCAA Final Four since 1986,
were the headliners.
Kimber Goodwin, director
of marketing for the Cordish
Co., wbich owns 4th Street
Live, estimated the crowd to be
at least 17,000 strong, nearly the
capacity of the Cardinals' home
venue, Freedom Hall. The company ran out of admission
bracelets at 10,000, she said.
Some fans knew that positions
near the stage would be prime.
Brenda Haines and her 14year-old daughter, Brittany, of
Taylorsville, about 30 miles
from Louisville, arrived 2 1/2
hours before the scheduled 5
p.m. start time.
..
Brittany wanted to see junior
forward Francisco Garcia.
"He's cute," she said.
Sixteen-year-old Meredith
York and 18-year-old Erica
Klimchak got there a couple of
hours early as well.
"We sat here and parked
ourselves here, and we're not
leaving until we see coach
(Rick) Pitino and Francisco,"
York said.
The players and coaches
arrived about an hour after the
scheduled start time. Until
then, the Louisville cheerleaders and dance team and D .J. KDog kept the crowd involved
with cheers and music, and the
Cardinal Bird mascot danced
and crowd-surfed.
When Pitino took the stage, the
cheers became a deafening roar.
Pitino, just coming from
practice in a black sweatsuit,
tried to talk but paused when
he realized that the microphone
and speakers were useless
against the fans' screams.
"You have to excuse me,"
he said. "I'm a little nervous.
I've never seen a crowd this
big in my life."
Pitino introduced his coaching staff and players, with
Garcia and hometown product
senior guard Larry O'Bannon
drawing the most noise.
O'Bannon, Garcia and a few
other players spoke to the fans.
Most kept their speeches short,
giving thanks for the support.
Senior center Ellis Myles
grinned and laughed on stage,
f"rnharrassc~ ~~ :!.v .:-.Jmiratioii,
when he was handed the mike.
Junior guard Taquan Dean
wasn't shy, though, when his
tum came.
"This is for you all," he
yelled to the crowd as he
jumped up and down.
Louisville Mayor Jerry
Abramson declared March 29,
2005, Cards March to the Arch
Day in the city and presented
Pitino with the proclamation on
a plaque.
Louisville won the NCAA
championship in 1980 and
1986 and hasn't since been to
the Final Four. Darrell Griffith,
who led the 1980 Cardinals to
the NCAA championship, was
at the pep rally.
"We had a long hiatus,"
Griffith said. "The frrst step
was hiring Rick. It was just a
matter of time."
Lancaster Gordon, who
played for Louisville from
1980 to 1984, was at the rally
also . Gordon didn't wm a
championship but helped the
Cardinals to consecutive Final
Four appearances.
The spirit and support he
saw Tuesday were the reasons
he chose to play at Louisville.
"You want to go where basketball is king," he said. "And
basketball is king here."
The Cardinals (33-4) will
play Dlinois (36-1) at 6:07 p.m.
EST Saturday for a chance to go
to the championship game
against either Michigan State
(:?.G-6) or North Carolina (31-4)
mores," DeMoss said. "They got
a lot of playing time this year.
They'll be a little bit older next
year, a little bit more seasoned. I
like the future, and I like the
way it looks."
Kentucky started the season
13-5, a stretch that included
home wins over Wake Forest which then was receiving votes
in both polls - and two eventual
NCAA tournament qualifiers,
Southeastern Conference rivals
Georgia and Mississippi. The
71-63 win over then-No. 18
Georgia on Jan. 13 was
Kentucky's first over a ranked
team in five seasons.
After the 70-63 win over
Mississippi three days later,
Kentucky went into a tailspin,
losing nine of 10 games against
SEC foes. A win in the regularseason finale against Arkansas
ended the skid and guaranteed
Kentucky at least a .500 record,
the minimum needed to qualify
for the WNIT.
The two-week break between
the SEC tournament and WNIT
seemed to refresh her team,
DeMoss said. It also didn't hurt
that Potts, the team's leading
scorer at 15.6 points per game,
stepped up her performances.
Entering the tournament,
Potts' career high was 30 points.
She scored 19 points in a firstround 79-68 win over Eastern
Michigan, then had 32 against
Chattanooga and 31 in a 67-62
quarterfinal win over Xavier,
including 29 in the second half.
She scored 29 points against
West Virginia.
"I thought she had such a will
to win and fight and leave it all
on the court," DeMoss said.
For the second straight season, Kentucky set an attendance
record, drawing 90,663 fans for
19 home games, an average of
4,772. Eight years ago, the
Wildcats' average home crowd
was 682 fans.
· Athletics director Mitch
Barnhart said the university will
continue selling $20 season tickets as part of its overall plan to
market the program. The
women's team also will continue to play a handful of games at
Rupp Arena, he said, but will
play the majority at Memorial
Coliseum.
"Mickie has done a remarkable job of increasing the talent
level and recruiting some of the
kids that have the ability to win
games in this league," Barnhart
said. "Going forward, I think the
future is very bright."
Tennessee 59, Rutgers 49
by DAN GELSTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA-Tennessee
already gave coach Pat Summitt
the record for career wins in this
tournament. On Tuesday night,
the Lady Vols gave her something
even more meaningful - a trip to
the Final Four.
Shanna Zolman broke out of
a slump with a couple of big
baskets down the stretch, Nicky
Anosike scored 14 points and
the top-seeded Lady Vols beat
No.3 seed Rutgers 59-49 in the
Philadelphia Regional final .
Tennessee will play Michigan
State (32-3) in the national semifinals in Indianapolis on Sunday
night. The top-seeded Spartans
beat Stanford 76-69 in the
Kansas City Regional fmal on
Tuesday night.
"They were tough down the
stretch," Summitt said. "We had
some big plays from a lot of dif.
ferent people."
The Lady Vols (30-4) are in
the Final Four for the fourth
straight year, fifth time this
decade and 16th time overall, all
under Summitt. She extended
her NCAA record with her
882nd career win.
Tennessee survived a long
scoring drought, woeful shooting and a fme performance by
Rutgers' Cappie Pondexter in
avenging a December loss to the
Scarlet Knights (28-7).
For the frrst time in the tournament, Tennessee's win didn't
come easy.
Pondexter scored 25 points
and made nine of the Scarlet
Knights' 18 baskets, but she had
little help until it was too late. The
Scarlet Knights' physical defense
kept them in it until the end.
"We will be a Final Four
team," Pondexter said. "All we
can do is get better."
Rutgers seemed poised to
pull within three on Matee
Ajavon's shot from the left side,
until it was reviewed by officials
who determined it was a 2-point
basket. That made it 49-45.
Then Essence Carson had a steal
for Rutgers and was fouled by
Loree Moore.
Carson calmly sank the free
throws - her fust two points of
the game - pulling Rutgers to
49-47 with 1:08 left.
Tennessee, though, sank its
last 12 free throws and that was
just the cushion the Lady Vols
needed to win their 12th straight
game. The Lady Vols made 29
of 35 free throws; Rutgers was
just 8-for-13.
Tennessee's free throws compensated for only 31 percent
shooting from the floor.
"It was rough," Rutgers coach
C. Vivian Stringer said. "I can't
say they wanted it more because
I didn't know anybody that wanted it more than ourselves."
Ajavaon scored 12 points.
Chelsea Newton left midway
through the first half with a knee
injury. She returned early in the
second half with a brace and
plenty of tape on her leg and
scored only two points.
The Lady Vols went over 12
minutes without a basket bridging the frrst and second half.
They were rushed into bad shots,
missed a couple of easy attempts
under the basket and committed
seven turnovers in the first 8
minutes of the second half.
Rutgers used a 9-0 run and
grabbed the lead for the frrst
time since scoring the frrst two
baskets of the game. The lead
was short lived.
The Lady Vols went ahead on
a couple of free throws and
Zolman's fast-break layup
pushed the lead to 43-39.
Zolman, who missed seven of
her frrst 10 shots, buried a 3pointer for a 46-41 lead.
"We were really focusing on
trying to go inside, but I saw a
man go on a screen, so I had to
take it," Zolman said of her 3.
Tennessee reached its 15th
30-wins season and frrst since
1997-98 - the last of its three
straight national championships.
Zolman and Shyra Ely are
ready for a happy homecoming.
The former Miss Indiana
Basketball duo have made it a
mission to return to their home
state for the Final Four- Ely even
scribbled "Homeward Bound" on
the back of her sneakers.
"I told my mom, just don't
give away tickets," said Ely,
who scored nine points. "If
you'.ve been to a Tennessee
game. I'll give you a ticket."
Brooks: Entering spring, Woodson
looks like Kentucky's starting QB
by MURRAY EVANS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEXINGTON
Andr
Woodson enters spring football
practice as Kentucky's No. 1
quarterback.
Whether the sophomore
keeps that job won't be decided
for a few months, Kentucky
coach Rich Brooks said
Tuesday, the day before the
Wildcats opened spring drills.
But Brooks expressed confidence that Woodson will continue to mature in the role for
which coaches groomed him
last season.
"He's just got a smile on his
face more often," Brooks said.
"He's more excited. He's just
chomping on the bit to be the
guy, and that's different than the
way he's acted in the past."
Woodson started one game
and saw action in six others last
season, backing up senior Shane
Boyd. Woodson completed 54
of 88 passes for 492 yards and
two touchdowns and threw only
one interception but had trouble
holding onto the football, fumbling four times.
Woodson needs to improve in
that area, Brooks said, if he is to
hold off redshirt freshman Joe
Joe Brown and highly touted
incoming freshman Curtis
Pulley. Brooks won't decide on
the starter for Kentucky's Sept. 3
season opener against Louisville
until preseason practice starts.
"It's my assumption that
Andr Woodson is clearly the
guy going in this spring,"
Brooks said. "Coming out this
spring, I'd expect he'd be the
guy, but I can't tell you that he
will be. We'll wait and see how
it unfolds after 15 practices.
"Whoever goes into the fall as
No. 1, assuming tt's Andr, it's his
job to keep if he can hold off the
challenge of either Joe Joe Brown
improving over the sununer or
Curtis Pulley coming in and
lighting it up. We're certainly in a
position where we can take a
long, hard look at Curtis Pulley,
because we only have two other
scholarship quarterbacks."
Brooks isn't thrilled with
having a sophomore, a redshirt
freshman and a true freshman as
his top three quarterbacks- he'd
prefer a blend of experience and
youth - but said that's a visible
reminder of the 19 scholarships
lost from 2002 to 2004 because
of NCAA sanctions.
Brooks said the Wildcats will
have 77 or 78 players on scholarship this spring - still shy of the
NCAA maximum of 85, but better than in 2003 (68) or 2004 (73).
Brooks has awarded scholarships to four returning .players:
guard Trai Williams, cornerqack
Karl Booker, tailback Andrew
Hopewell and long snapper
Jason Dickerson. Center Matt
McCutchan, who started 10
games last season as a walk-on,
might receive a scholarship in
the fall, Brooks said.
Four players have been suspended from the team indefinitely because of academic concerns. Brooks earlier announced
the suspension of senior linebacker Chad Anderson, who led
the team in tackles as a ophomore but who slumped last eason and lost his starting job.
The other three suspended
players are redshirt freshman
linebacker Gabriel Wallace,
sophomore tailback Tony Dixon
and sophomore wide receiver
Lonnell
Dewalt.
Dewalt
blocked a school-record seven
kicks last season, while Dixon
started six games - including a
105-yard outing in a win over
Indiana - before being sidelined
by an injury.
''I count on nobody I can't
count on - that's why they're
suspended," Brooks said. "If
they can't take care of business
as a normal student should, I'm
not going to count on them, and
that's a message to the rest of
the team."
Brooks said that he doesn't
expect all four players to return
to the team but that one or two
of them might.
Redshirt freshman offensive
lineman Kane Hannaford also
has left the team for personal
reasons, Brooks said.
Players recovering from
injuries who won't participate in
contact drills this spring include
tailbacks Arliss Beach (shoulder) and Draak Davis (quad),
linebacker Wesley Woodyard
(ankle) and wide receiver
Keenan Burton (wrist). Some of
them could be cleared for contact before practice ends April
23 with the annual Blue-White
Game.
Kentucky will run more oneback sets and the passing game
will be more prominent on
offense. Brooks said. The
Wildcats also will switch to a 43 defensive alignment after two
years in a 3-4 set.
Kentucky finished 2-9 in
2004 after a 4-8 finish in
Brooks· first season, but Brooks
said he's optimistic about
Kentucky's fortunes in 2005.
"Hope springs eternal in all
football fan , and it certainly has
to in I\.entucky football fans,
because my tenure is not the
only one that has. tarted with
less-than-stellar success," he
said. "Coming out of probation,
fan are hopeful, and now it's
our job as a team to go out and
bring that hope to fruition."
�84 • FRIDAY,
APRIL
1, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
SLIDING I •••
photos by Tony
McGuire/Hazard
Herald
Above: A
Commodore
slid in safely
under a Rebel
tag Tuesday
evening. The
Perry Central
pitchers
worked the
Allen Central
baserunners.
But the Rebels
made it In
safely.
Junior Jared Tackett has enjoyed much success as a member of the Cumberland College track
and field team.
Good Finish, Better Start
ackeH continues to find track success
TIMES STAFF REPORT
WILLIAMSBURG
- On
March 3, Jared Tackett, a 2002
graduate Jenkins High School
graduate ran in his first NAIA
Indoor National Championship
meet for the Cumberland College
Patriots Distance Medley Relay.
The success has carried over into
the outdoor sea<;on.
The Patriot 400-meter relay
team, which Tackett runs second
leg. not only ran away from the
competition at the Emory
University Track and Field
lm'Itational on March 26, they
automatically qualified for the
NAIA
Outdoor
National
Championships to be held in
Louisville from May 26-28. In
addition, the relay team broke
the Cumberland College 400
meter relay record with a time
of 41.58 seconds, a record that
has been standing for twentyseven years. This is the second
record Tackett
holds
at
Cumberland
College.
In
February of this year, he set the
school record in the Pentathlon.
"It's great to have such great
success in our first meet,"
Tackett said. "Overall, this is the
most talented sprinting team
we've had since I've been at
Cumberland. We have great leadership in our coaching staff,
which has really turned our
sprinting program into a great
success in only a couple of years.
It's just great to be a part of it."
The Patriot 1600-meter relay,
which Tackett anchored, hit the
provisional qualifying mark for
nationals and stands just one
econd away from automatically
ualifying.
"We had a great first meet and
} think the team is happy overall
ith everyone's performances,"
Tackett added. 'T m proud of how
this team is coming together."
Tackett,
a
junior
at
Cumberland, also has the privilege of being the team captain,
something he feels is a testament that hard work and dedication truly pays off.
'Tm JUSt happy I've had the
chance to run and compete with
the athletes on our team,"
Tackett conferred. "Being one
of the leaders on the team is
something words can't describe.
I just want to be a positive influence and serve as an example
that if you train hard and believe
in yourself and your teammates,
great things will happen."
Tackett is the son of Harvey
and Jan Tackett of Jenkins, and
the grandson of James F. and
Jean Tackett of Jenkins, and
Julius and Juanita Mullins of
Melvin.
The Cumberland College
Patriots Track team will travel
to Emory again this corning
weekend at the Emory Classic,
located in Atlanta, Ga.
Five finalists named for college
basketball's Wooden A\Vard
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Utah's
Andrew Bogut, Dee Brown of
Illinois, Sean May of North
Carolina, Duke's J.J. Redick
and Wayne Simien of Kansas
were named finalists for the
John R. Wooden Award as college basketball's player of the
year Tuesday.
The award will be presented
April 9 from the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.
More than 1 ,000 national
sports writers and college basketball experts cast their votes,
which were due Monday.
Brown and May will play in the
NCAA Final Four this weekend in St. Louis.
Voters chose a 10-member
Wooden All-American team,
with the top five vote getters
being named Wooden Award
finalists.
The other Wooden AllAmericans are: Francisco
Garcia of Louisville, Chris
Paul of Wake Forest. Salim
Stoudamire of Arizona, Hakim
Warrick of Syracuse and Deron
Williams of lllinois.
Garcia and Williams also
will play in this weekend's
Final Four. Bogut, a 7-foot
sophomore,
announced
Monday that he will enter the
NBA draft in April.
Connecticut's Jim Calhoun will
receive the Legends of Coaching
award during the ceremony.
Coaches among those being
watched by scalping police
by JIM SALTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Police and the
NCAA will be watching closely
for ticket scalpers - including
coaches - as coHege basketball
fans converge on St. Louis for
the sport's grand event.
St. Louis is hosting the men's
Final Four for the flrst time since
1978. The 46,688 seats at the
Edward Jones Dome were sold
out months ago, and with a large
contingent of Illinois and
Louisville fans coming
Champaign, Ill., is just 2 1/2
hours away, Louisville four hours
-ticket scalping is a big concern.
Based upon past experience,
some of those scalpers will be
coaches. Every Division I coach
has a chance to obtain tickets,
and some have been known to
sell them for a profit.
"I would say there has been a
problem with coaches," saidL.J.
Wright, director of the NCAA's
Dtvision I Men's Basketball
Championship. "It is a problem
the basketball committee is trying to work through and deal
with."
Earlier
this
month,
Minnesota Vikings coach Mike
Tice acknowledged scalping
some of his personal ticket allotment for the Super Bowl, violating NFL rules. Wright said
NCAA coaches also have been
known to resell their tickets.
Sometimes, Wright said, it's
an innocent mistake. A coach
will decide not to attend the
Final Four and will give his
tickets to an acquaintance. If
that acquaintance scalps the
tickets, they can be traced to the
coach.
Doug Elgin, commissioner of
the St. Louis-based Missouri
Valley Conference that helped
lure the Final Four to the
Gateway City, believes coaches
have gotten the message and
either attend the game or leave
the tickets unused.
"People are not willing to
take the risk of losing future
ticket privileges by giving them
to someone other than a trusted
relative or friend," Elgin said.
Punishment for coaches
caught scalping tickets is loss of
ticket privileges for up to five
years. It's also a crime in
Missouri to resell tickets at
more than face value. First-time
violators can face up to 15 days
in jail, with a third offense perhaps bringing up to a year
behind bars.
Both the NCAA and St.
Louis police will have undercover officers posing as ticket
buyers, seeking out scalpers on
the streets and at downtown
hotels.
The potential for scalping is
huge, given the scarcity of tickets. Only about 10,000 were
available to the general public,
and those tickets were sold out
in May through a random online
drawing.
The rest go to organizations
and individuals with ties to the
NCAA. Each of the four teamsIllinois, Loui ville, Michigan
State and North Carolina _ gets
4,500 each: the local organizing
committee gets 10 percent, or
about 4,600; each of the 300plus Division I schools gets
tickets, as does the National
Association of Basketball
Coaches.
Recipients of the NCAA
allotment pay face value, which
this year ranges from $110 to
$170 per ticket. But scalpers can
get much more.
Fans seeking to buy tickets
through brokers and online are
finding prices ranging well into
five figures. Adrian Hochstadt, a
44-year-old Chicago attorney
and Illinois alumnus, began
posting Web messages several
weeks ago, seeking tickets in
anticipation that the top-ranked
Illini would make it to St. Louis.
He bought tickets about a
month ago on eBay- two tickets for all three games for $720.
Face value was $260.
Hochstadt figures he got a
bargain - he checked eBay after
the Illini 's victory in the regional finals and found similar seats
selling for $1,300.
"I think Illinois' success
drove up the price because
we're so hungry- we've never
won a national championship,"
Hochstadt said. "It's a once-ina-lifetime chance."
For fans coming to St. Louis
on the hope of finding tickets on
the street, Wright urged caution.
''Just because of counterfeit
tickets in the past, we would
encourage folks to be careful,"
Wright said. "It's just one of
those things where unfortunately there are some bad folks out
there who want to take advantage of the fans."
On the Net:
http://w ww2.ncaa.org
Barron Davis (left) and Jennifer Kieffer were each honored with Mid-South Conference nods.
Patriot golfers grab MSC
Golfer of the Week honors
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
WILLIAMSBURG - For
the first three weeks of the
spring golf season, a Patriot has
received Golfer of the Week
from
the
Mid-South
Conference.
For the men, Barron Davis
(Big Stone Gap, Va.) received
Golfer of the Week for the
weeks of March 20th and
March 27. For the week of
March 20, Davis placed 23rd at
the Embry-Riddle Toumament
shooting a two-round score of
151. For the week of March 27,
Davis shot rounds of 71 and 72
to win individual honors by
three strokes. Hi two-round
score wa 143, being one under
par.
For the women, Jennifer
Kieffer
(Rockford,
Ill.)
received Golfer of the Week for
the weeks of March l3 and
March 20. For the week of
March 13. Kieffer placed first
tn
the
Campbell ville
Tournament, winning by two
strokes with a round of 85. For
the week of March 20th,
Kieffer Jennifer placed llth
overall in the Embry-Riddle
Tournament, shooting a two
round score of 170.
The Patriot men are now in
action in the Southeastern
Kentucky Intercollegiate. The
Patriot women will not see play
again until April 8-9 at the
Pikeville College Invitational.
�FRIDAY, APRIL
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
1, 2005 •
Floyd County NWTF
holds fourth annual banqu
TIMES STAFF REPORT
•
Betsy Layne is the under the direction of new head coach Frank Martin.
Above: Cody Click and Brandon Kidd added to the Betsy Layne attack, both offensively and defensively.
The Floyd County Chapter
of the National Wild Turkey
Federation had its 4th Annual
Hunting Heritage Banquet Feb.
5 at the Wilkinson-Stumbo
Convention Center. The chapter reported that this year's
banquet was its best to date.
The National Wild Turkey
Federation is a national, nonprofit, educational conservation organization comprised of
state and local affiliates working for the restoration and wise
management of the American
Wild Turkey and other valuable
natural resources. It supports
scientific wildlife management
on public, private, and corporate lands. It also supports traditional American sport hunting and every citizen's right to
enjoy clean air and water and
an esthetically pleasing outdoor environment.
The local chapter supports
various youth programs, which
includes an annual scholarship
award to an outstanding graduating senior pursuing an education in conservation, 4-H programs, Archery in Schools
Programs, an annual Jakes
(juniors acquiring knowledge,
ethics, and sportsmanship)
Event for members 17 years of
age and under.
This year's event will be
June 11 at Camp Shawnee. The
group supports Wheelin'
Sportsmen Programs and
Women in the Outdoors
Programs.
"We would like to thank
everyone that participated in
our Banquet and we hope you
enjoyed the dinner and actives
as much as the banquet committee," said Paul Hagans,
Floyd
County
NWTF
President.
Sponsors and donors that
make the Floyd County NWTF
events possible include Adams
Auto Parts - Harry Adams,
Advance Auto Parts - Mike
Hunter, Bobby Rowe Law
Offices - Bobby Rowe, Brad
Hughes Toyota, Charlottes Tax
- Charlotte Goble Cook, East
Kentucky Tire/ ATV Direct,
Danny
Bragg,
Citizens
National Bank, C & S Signs Brian Marcillett, Kentucky
Wholesale Tobacco Co. Luther Baldridge, Ebony &
Ivory Beauty Shop - Anna
Risner, Jan's
Florist
Thomasine Robinson, Joanie
Davis, H-C-D Construction Kevin Davis, Dewey Lake Fish
and Game Club,
First
Commonwealth Bank, Floyd
Co. Clerk - Chris Waugh,
Floyd Co. Sheriff - John K
Floyd
Green
Blackburn,
Insurance Agency - Floyd
Green, Food City Stores- Wick
Hayton & Kenneth Spurlock,
Gearheart Communications Paul D. Gearheart, , Jenny
Wiley Florist, Johnson - Floyd
Coal Co.- Buck Combs, Jones
Pack & Associates - Thomas J.
Jones, Kentucky Crystal Water
- Anthony Hawkins, Paul
Hagans, Hagans Hand Crafted
Calls - Paul Hagans, Hall
Funeral Home - Tom Hall,
Hylton's Taxidermy - Leon
Hylton, Kentucky Classics
Auto Sales - Steve Ousley,
Kentuckiana Election SVC Joe R. Bolton, Lafferty's
Garage - Johnny Lafferty,
Layne's Ace Hardware - Rick
Layne, MarkWest Hydrocarbon
- Keith Hayes, Law Office of
Vanover Hall & Bartley - Keith
Bartley, James
Marshall,
Martin Diary Queen - Curt
Stamper, Mary Kay Consultant
- Deborah Hagans, Merion
Bros. Monument Co. Inc. Derwin Merion , Messer's
Dept. Store - Denver Ousley,
Kenny Mitchell, Moak and
Nunnery PSC -Thomas Moak,
Monogramming and Mon.:
Lee
Bogan,
Mount·un
Computer, Mountin ' Mark'
Taxidermy - Mark Hurl ~.
Music Carter - Chris Cat ter,
Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home Roger
Nelson,
Ncsb1t'
Engineering
INC
Prestonsburg Auto Mart - John
and Patsy Goble, Honda of
Prestonsburg
Stc\C
Blackburn, Prestonsburg Wal
Mart, Steven Reed, Paul E.
Robinson, Rudd Equipment
Bobby Cyrus, Save-A-Lot
Food Store - Dewayne ScoJt,
Jimmy
Webb,
State
Representative 95th Dist
Charles "Chuck" Meade.
Smoke Shack of Ea tern
Kentucky - David Garrett,
Styles Hair & Nail Design,
Surnlners Equipment Co
(
P. Perry Summers , T & K St >n!;
and More, Dr. Roger Tau ett
DMD, Veterinary Clinic
Rudolf Ousley DVM, Waltum
Engineering INC - Jerry
Howard, Watson Trucking Larry Watson, and Whayne
Supply Co. - Mark Miller.
"We especially want to
thank Mary Bennett and her
staff at Jenny Wiley State
Resort Park for the good food
and accommodations at the
Wilkinson-Stumbo Convention
Center, Ron Vanover for his
beautiful presentation of the
Nation
Anthem,
Phillip
Childers
our Auctioneer,
Blaine's Guns and Bows our
firearms dealer, The Floyd
County Times, WMDJ , and ·
Q95 Radio for their media sup
port. We also want to thank
Martin Mayor Thomasine
Robinson for a great place to
meet at City Hall and State
Wide Press for our spectal
printing needs," Hagans added
The Floyd County chapter
meets the first Thursda) or
every month at Martin City
Hall at 7 p.m.
Bobcats blast East
•
Ridge tn opener, 16-6
by STEVE LeMASTER
SibORTS EDITOR
ALLEN - Junior pitcher
Derek Case went the distance
Tuesday. Case hurled Betsy
Layne to a 16-6 win over visiting East Ridge. The game was
the season-opener for both
teams.
For Betsy Layne, Frank
Martin earned his first win as
head coach the Bobcats. A former assistant coach, Martin took
over for Duran Newsome, who
coached Betsy Layne to a 58th
~ District title last season.
Following Tuesday's win,
Martin acknowledged the strong
team-effort put forth by his
Betsy Layne squad. The
Bobcats scored early and often
en route to the 16-run performance.
Several
different
Bobcats got in on the offensive
onslaught.
"Everybody used their bats that's what we want to do," said
Martin. "The bats have really
been working hard- we're making other team's defenses work.
It was a real nice team effort."
Betsy Layne got in a pair of
scrimmage games prior to
Tuesday's season-opener. The
Bobcats took on Magoffin
County in two separate exhibition contests. In two scrimmages
and Tuesday's season-opener,
Betsy Layne has plated a combined 50 runs.
"We're telling our kids to go
up to the plate and look to hit the
ball," Martin added. "Overall,
offense is key to what we're
doing. Our defense is solid- this
is a real good group of boys. A
lot of people are stepping up; a
lot of younger kids are also helping us in some different places."
The Bobcats were slated to
take to the road last night for a
doubleheader against Belfry.
Betsy Layne is scheduled to
take on Allen Central Tuesday
in a Floyd County Conference
opener for both teams.
photo courtesy of Bristol Motor Speedway
Food City will be an associate sponsor for driver Mike Wallace and Morgan-McClure
Motorsports.
Food City teams up with
Morgan-Mcclure Motorsports
TIMES STAFF REPORT
Acevedo among
five cut by Reds
THE A SOCIATED PRESS
SA SOTA, Fla. - Righthander Jose Acevedo was
among five players sent to the
t minors Wednesday by the
Cincmnatl Reds, who still have
31 players in camp.
The Reds optioned Acevedo
and right-hander Todd Coffey to
Triple-A Louisville. Catcher
Bobby Estalella, outfielder
Jason Romano and left-bander
Jeriome Robertson were reassigned to the minors.
The Reds later granted
Estalella 's request to release
h1m so he could try to get a
major league job with another
team.
Acevedo, 27, was considered
.,. one of the Reds' best young
s tartmg prospects in 2001 ,
when he was promoted from
Double-A. He won a spot in the
rotation last year, but went 5-12
with a 5.94 ERA in 27 starts and
12 relief appearances.
Acevedo was trying to win a
spot in the bullpen this spring,
but struggled early in camp.
The Reds plan to make their
final roster cuts following an
exhibition Saturday against
Toronto in Louisville. They
have to be down to the 25-man
li limit for the season opener on
Monday.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Fans
attending the Food City 500 at
Bristol Motor Speedway on
Sunday will see two local companies team up for a great day
of racing on the high banks of
Bristol. Food City has formed
a partnership with MorganMcClure Motorsports and dri. ver Mike Wallace for a onerace associate sponsorship.
"We are neighbors with
Morgan-McClure in Abingdon,
Virginia and have watched
their racing endeavors for years
and are so proud to have a
locally owned team to root for
on the NASCAR Nextel Cup
level," commented Food City
president and chief executive
officer, Steve Smith.
"Mike
Wallace has been a good friend
and supporter of our Food City
Family Race Night events for
years and we are thrilled he
will be piloting the car," commented Smith.
The
Morgan-McClure
Motorsports No. 4 Lucas
Oil/Food City Chevrolet will
debut during qualifying for the
Food City 500 today.
"We are looking forward to a
great run for Mike and the No. 4
team and we hope to visit them in
Victory Lane," stated Smith .
"The stands will be full of Food
City associates and I am sure
they will enjoy rooting for a local
team, their employer and a great
race car driver," Smith added.
"We are honored to carry
the Food City logo on our race
car this weekend," said Larry
McClure, president and team
manager for Morgan-McClure
Motorsports, Inc. "We earned
our first pole position (1988)
and won our ftrst race (1990) at
the Bristol Motor Speedway, so
this track will always be special to the team."
"I have always been a big
supporter of the Food Cit)
management team," said dri r
Mike Wallace. "We tested
very well this past Thursday at
the Bristol track and it will be
an honor to represent one of the
finest NASCAR Nextel Cup
event sponsors on the circuit."
M o r g a n - M ·c C I u r e
Motorsports, Inc., (www morgan-mcclure.com) based in
Abingdon, VA, is a 14-time winner in the NASCAR Nextel Cup
Series, including three victories
in the prestigious Daytona 500
event in 1991, 1994, and 1995.
Headquartered in Abingdon ,
Virginia, K-VA-T Food Stores
operates 90 retail food outlets
throughout the tri-state region ·
of
Southeast
Kentucky,
Southwest
Virginia
and
Northeast Tennessee.
Higgins to leave Weste
Kentucky squad
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOWLING GREEN-Western
Kentucky sophomore Josh Higgins
has been granted his release from
the Hilltoppers' basketball team and
will transfer, coach Danin Hom
said Wednesday.
Higgins, a 7-foot, 275pound center from Dayton,
Ohio, played in 27 games as a
sophomore. He missed the start
of the season after undergoing
arthroscopic knee surgery in
November. He averaged 2.6
points and 1.7 rebounds per
game for Western Kentucky,
which finished 22-9 and played
in the National Invitation
Tournament, beating Kent State
and losing to Wichita State.
Higgins tied a career high
with 11 points in a Dec. 22 win
over Kentucky State and had a
season-best seven rebounds !11
a win over New Orleans t he
first round of the Sun B I
Conference tournament.
As a freshman, he averag~tl
2 .7 points and 2 .4 rebounds per
game in 27 appearances .
"We appreciate Josh's efforts
and contribution to the program
the last two years,'' Hon
"We wish him great sucn·
his future endeavors."
�Friday, April. 1, 2005
FLOYD COUNTY
l<'eatures Editor
Aathy Prater
Phune: (606) 886-8506
Fen- (606) 886-3603
,Uembers:
A.\\'ociated Press
1\.t ll(ucky Press Association
Natwnal Newspaper Association
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Betsy L. Elem. • page B7
Clark Elementary • page B7
Duff Elementary • page B7
Perfection
not required
r
It's spring break and I'm at
home cleaning my dirty house
ami, hopefully, even planting a
few flower bulbs. The kids are all
at home and I'm hoping that will
be a good
thing, since
they
are
younger thim
me and full of
unbridled
energy
meaning that
they should be
good housecleaning comKathV Prater
panions (note
lifestvles editor
the
word
"should").
But, you know
how that usually goes - full of
energy when it comes to friends
and social activities, a little deadheaded when mom points out the
vacuum cleaner and lawnmower...
Anywho. I'll be back next
week, and, I'm supposing, no
worse for the wear.
ln the meantime, enjoy the following Little inspirational message sent along by friend and former co-worker Sherri Kinzer:
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www.floydcountytimes.com
THROUGH MY EYES
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MAC Present • page B7
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lm Jenny Wiley • page BB
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KY Highlands Entrepreneur Center launches program for juniors.
by Linda Lyon
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
BSCTC
Tim Robinson, Director of The
Kentucky Highlands Entrepreneur
Center in Paintsville, announced today
that they are searching for the next generation of great entrepreneurs. Select
youth will be offered a chance to participate in eSPIRE, an exciting new youth
entrepreneurship program.
Fifteen rising juniors will become
The Cracked Pot
A Chinese Fable
A water bearer in China had
(See EYES, page seven)
POSTSCRIPT
'Merit pay?
Reading the business news
these days is
almost
as
aggravating
and depressing as reading the general news.
L a s t
week I read
that another
CEO got a
million-dolPam Shingler
lar-plus
con~butlnu wrtter
bonus,
adding to
his already multi-million-dollar
salary.
The bonus is maddening
enough. Again, I have to ask, who
i:-. worth that kind of money?
The media income in this area
is way less than $30,000. But if
that were the case, this man's
bonus in itself would pay the
salaries of more than 35 people.
The ironic part of this business
brief, however, is that the CEO in
question
is
the
head of
ChoicePoint, the company that
accidentally let loose on the world
financial and personal data on
hundreds of thousands of people.
A big OOPS!
All of these people are now at
style, personality, & entrepreneurial
traits
• Leadership: overview of economic and civic entreneurship
*Idea Generation: "brainstorming"
your project
• Entrepreneur Academy: participation i11 national entrepreneur training
program in business planning
• Business Fair: competition with
other eSPJRE students for thousands of
dollars in start-up capital
involved with the entrepreneur center in
Paintsville. Graduates from eSPIRE,
will have the business development
tools and resources needed and a chance
to compete for money to start their own
business or service organization.
The jive elements of the
program will include:
• Discovery: assessment of learning
Interested youth should contact the
Kentucky Highlands Entrepreneur
Center in Paintsville for more information and to pick up an application.
Contact Tim Robinson at (606) 7895486 or tim@kyhighlands.com.
The
Kentucky
Highlands
Entrepreneur Center is a partnership
between Big Sandy Community and
Technical College, the City of
Paintsville and the Johnson County
Fiscal Court.
Former Times staffers emphasize
creativity with new literary magazine
by MARY MUSIC
STAFF WRITER
There's a new literary movement
in the mountains, one that takes the
notion of traditional Appalachian literature to another level.
Founders
Sheldon
Lee
Compton and Jarrid Deaton, former headliners at the Floyd
County Times, are the publishers
and editors of a new literary magazine, Cellar Door.
The pair, working alongside art
director Cynthia Ramey, who is
also a former FCT employee,
founded
the
magazine
in
November. The second edition of
the quarterly publication was
released in February.
"The question we're most often
asked is how we got started and
the most frequent answer is that
we just stopped talking and started
working," Compton said.
Compton and Deaton, who
faced opposition from local printers when they initially sought publication, say they wanted to create a
"voice for fiction and poetry that
pushes the boundaries and inspires
growth in contemporary literature."
"With Cellar Door, we are
willing to put it all on the line in
order to get real creativity, real
thought, real emotion, back into
the literary world," Deaton said.
"Literature is not about being safe.
It's not about pleasing the crowd
or going with the flow of things.
It's about daring, jumping off the
cliff and building your wings on
the way down. It's about having
your own unique voice and refusing to compromise when it comes
to your vision. That is what we
stand for and promote with Cellar
Door magazine."
The magazine's uniquely fearless literary vision caused problems when Deaton and Compton
took their first copy to the printers.
Compton says the magazine's
biggest challenge during those initial stages was "overcoming the
hurdles" that its content presented.
"We were actually turned away
by local printers who cited content, basically graphic themes, as
the reason for turning us away,"
Compton said. "We later bid the
project out and printed our first
issue at far less than half the cost
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that other printers estimated. So it
worked out well."
Deaton says the magazine's content comes from an "exciting new
breed" of authors whose artistic
visions step away from the familiar
"coal worship" scenarios seen in
current Appalachian publications.
"Although we are a literary
magazine in Appalachia, we arc
not an Appalachian literary magazine. You will find no coal worship in our pages or reminiscing
about just how rewarding it is the
churn butter," Deaton said. ''It's
time to move forward, not into the
past. There are many writers in
Kentucky who are part of this
exciting new breed. as it were. Our
first issue has a story by Joey
Goebel. who is from Henderson.
He recently published his second
novel, Torture the Artist, and is
working on his third."
Since its first publication. and
with the help of online advertising, Cellar Door ha been very
well received by the creative com-
munity. Copies of the magazine
can be found in England, Japan,
Canada and in nearly every U.S.
state.
The magazine has also been
given a stamp of approval from
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of
Fight Club, as well as many other
authors and literary journals aero s
the globe, Deaton said.
"It's an exciting time right now
for literature, and for u in particular," Compton said. "To be
(See CELLAR DOOR, page eight)
(See POSTSCRIPT, page seven)
TIDNGS TO PONDER
School Violence
Whenever an imbalance in society's
hehaviors becomes significant, one can
predict that more results of psychological
research will follow, in an effort to clarify
the situation as much as possible. So it has
been with school violence. Some time ago,
the characteristics of violent-acting adolescents were discussed, based on an article in
The Forensic Exammer. The most recent
journal (May/June 2000) had an article
about the assessment of dangerousness in
school children. Although the info was presented for school psychologists, most likely parents and other adults in children's
live~ can also benefit from having as much
knowledge as possible about the topic.
Adults need to be aware and be willing to
follow through, since the behaviors are
prone to occur at home and some of our
schools do not have school counselors.
Even though everyone should be more upto-date generally, nonetheless, the media
keeps reporting extreme episodes across
the nation that tended to have telltale signs
before the action. Most importantly for us,
significant acting-out behaviors - violence
and threats of violence - have continued in
our nation's classrooms.
The journal's present article placed the
emphasis on the professional's need to
determine the "History of Dangerousness"
- if potentially dangerous patterns have
become firmly entrenched within the student's behaviors. There need to be con-
cerns if the child shows a pattern of antisocial thinking and behaviors that persist and
intensify over time. Exa~ple include
lying, blaming others, refusing to take
responsibility, taking the easy way out
rather than putting forth effort, demon trat
ing a need to control others through deception, intimidation, or physical force. and
failing to develop a concept of injury to
others and empathy.
Needless to say, the hi tory of the ~·~~
dent's behaviors should include the tYJ
victim and relationship to
The
antisocial person is un ympau , uc of classmates who he or she sees as gullible or
weak. After identifying their classmate's
weaknesses, the chronic acting-out kid will
pinpoint targets to pick upon and bully.
There have been instances where even a
severely handicapped child has been the
focus. The following points need to have
attention and clarification: (I) relationship
to the victim -social or one of power; (2)
type of vioknce used- direct or indirect; (3)
quality of the violence explosive, calm
matter of fact. or predatory: (4) quantity,
extent and how severe, of the violent act whether or not the amount of the insult
ex<.:eeded the amount of the "cause," such a~
"J hit him in the head with a hammer
because he spit at me": (5) weapon used verbal threats. physical Ioree with fists, or
dub/gun: (6) degree of socialization- single Mudent or a gang in the home or at
school; (7) timing, stres or a sociated with
the event, or a cyclical pattern - "Every
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FRIDAY, APRIL
E~~ ----------------------------------two large pots. Each hung on the ends of
a pole which he carried across his neck.
One pot had a cmck in it, while the
other pot was perfect and always delivered
a full portion of water. At the end of the
long walk from the stream to the house,
the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily,
with the bearer delivering only one and a
half pots full of water to his house.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud
of its accomplishments, perfect for
which it was made.
But the poor cracked pot was
ashamed of its own imperfection, and
miserable that it was able to accomplish
only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived
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to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the
water bearer one day by the stream ... "I
am ashamed of myself, because this
crack in my side causes water to leak
out all the way back to your house."
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you
notice that there were flowers only on
your side of the path, but not on the
other pot's side? This is because I have
always known about your flaw, and so I
planted flower seeds on your side of the
path. Every day as we have walked
back, you've watered
them. For two years I have been able
to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my table. Without you being just
the way you are, I would not have this
beauty to grace my house."
Postscript
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risk of having their financial information
misused by identity thieves and other dishonest vermin.
I can 't say that I understand it completely, but ChoicePoint is one of the growing
number of companies that collects all manner of information about all of us.
Everything is in their databank, from
our Social Security numbers to our credit
card numbers and balances to the model of
our refrigerator to the kinds of medicines
we're taking.
Apparently, everything about us can be
reduced to a folder in a know-all computer
in an office, in this case, in Atlanta. It's
rather humbling.
It's also scary when we think of what
kind of damage could be done to us with
just a tiny bit of information about us. In
the wrong hands, that nugget could ruin us
financially. Who knows what else can be
used negatively?
But, now back to where we started. The
CEO, whose board saw fit to give him that
overly-generous bonus, is the head of
ChokePoint, which scattered all that data
about all those people.
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Speaking of Atlanta, I recently visited
my old college friend who lives north of
the city in an area that was once rural, but
is now suburban and growing more so.
Ruth lives on her share of her late
grandmother's farm. Her brother has
already been persuaded to sell his acreage
to a developer, and the pressure is on her.
The offers have steadily risen. The latest
quote? $70,000 an acre!
She says she will not sell.
I say it would be mighty tempting.
Moral: Each of us has our own
unique flaws. We're all cracked pots.
But it's the cracks and flaws we each
have that make our lives together so
very interesting and rewarding. You
must take each person for what they
are, and look for the good in each one.
For that reason I say..."Blessings to
all my crackpot friends."
BSCTC sent• or
students explore ideas
Ponder
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time he has to read he blows up"; (8) possible causes such as head injuries and/or witnessing violence in the home; and (9) the
kind of pattern that exists -does the actingout child display guilt, remorse, empathy, or
anxiety about his deeds? Is it done for
excitement or for control? Does he fail to
take responsibility for his own actions?
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In 1997, a major researcher indicated
that there are five factors associated with a
child's potential for dangerousness.
Atmosphere - If there is discord in the
family, the risk of dangerousness increases.
Whereas, it has been repeatedly documented that "violence is not solely the domain
of the impoverished, criminal, marginal, or
inhuman. Bonding - "If a child did not
bond with a parent the risk of dangerousness is greater. Is the child close to one or
both parents ... birth complications combined with early maternal rejection predispose the child to violence." Criminality If one or both parents have a history of
legal problems, the child's risk for dangerousness is greater. Discipline - "If discipline is to harsh or abusive or not sufficient, and without control, the risk for dangerousness is greater." In these instances,
the following examples come to mind; i.e.,
the paTents are over controlling and the
child does not have an opportunity to prac-
tice interacting with others; and a parent
who is physically and verbally abusive to
the child. Exclusive Parental Attention "The less parental attention the greater the
risk of dangerousness." Family size and
spacing between births are likely to impact
on this factor. An example is parents who
do not provide consistent limits with predictability - the father may not pay attention to what the child does until "it has
gone too far" or does not allow the mother
to maintain boundaries, but does not do as
he threatens the child. Thus, children often
do not learn to develop inner control
because their parents have always tried to
keep them "happy", at any cost.
In addition, three other indicators have
been recognized as increasing the child's
risk of dangerousness: (1) absence of the
father - this is when the father is not in the
home; (2) gender - seems children are
more prone to display violent behaviors, if
he come from an all male family; and (3)
running away - the child with a history of
running away from home tends to have a
greater risk of dangerousness.
Since we will continue to learn more
about the risk of dangerousness in our students, we need to have a method for applying it so that our children and families will
benefit. As with most knowledge, it
becomes even more valuable, when it is
applied. Society, especially our children,
are the winners. Since our students may
not always have a school counselor, this is
one of those times that community members, such as family members, neighbors,
fellow church-goers, ball team coaches,
and etc, as in a village, can learn to step
forward and do what needs to be done in
appropriate fashion. This does not mean
be cruel, uncaring, and insensitive in one's
behaviors, but rather to gather basic information, examine closely the child's likelihood to act-out, and then speak to the
child's parents and/or school staff in a supportive manner. Before doing so, considerations need to focus on the probability of
acting-out behaviors. Although future
behaviors cannot be guaranteed, "the more
of the risk factors and indicators present,
the higher the probability of dangerousness." What is the child's rate of dangerousness- how often does it happen? Is the
child angry, talking of revenge, and/or
made plans? How severe is the insult, the
extent of assault and injury? Was the victim a random victim or a targeted victim?
Do you know any children that tend to fit
into these categories? What if"something"
dangerous happened that you "knew"
about and you had not spoken up?
Big Sandy Community and Technical College senior nursing
students create and present diversional activities for the hospitalized child as part of Nursing 204 critical criteria. Pictured
are Emily Brown, left, and Beth Crisp.
MAC PRESENTS Mary James Keene
"A Visually-Pleasing Oil Paint Exhibit...
Mary James Keene takes
painting rocks and reels to a
much higher plane than usual.
Her impressionistic style draws
you into a scene, and you can
hear the water passing rapidly at
your feet...you can hear the (
birds and feel other small forest
creatures scampering about.
Ms. Keene says she has a
clearer understanding of the
way she views things since a
class taken a few years ago
taught by Bob Ross. She has
adapted his style of painting
contours and light, but her
paintings are still her own
device.
Ms. Keene's paintings are all
done in oil, and are displayed in
hand-made frames. The gallery
is open daily from 10 am to 6
pm and Saturday from 10 am to
4 pm. Please don't miss this
opportunity to step into this
beautiful exhibit.
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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 - Michelle
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 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, 8:30 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 Depru1ment
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 infom1ation .
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 4529600 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 on
hand for questions and comments.
• 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 4:00p.m. Parents and community members are welcome to visit. For
questions, call 587-2233 - ask for
Tristan Parsons, Center Coordinatoc, 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. [f your child has lost any clothing or other personal 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 the W. 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
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 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 :30
p.m. Contact: Jason Cassell - 8863863,ext. 67219. Room m207 (second
floor, Library).
• Auxier Lifelong Learning Center:
Tue., Thur. - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Contact: Lucille Fuchs - 886-0709.
•
Martin Extended Education
Service Center: Tue., Thur. - 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Contact: Vanessa Tackett
- 285-5111.
• 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. 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.
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1, 2005
THE FLOYD COUNTY TIMES
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M~fiine treatment for reader's hot flashes
Martha A. Simpson, no, M.B.A
Associate Professor
ofF~J.mily Mesliane
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uestion: Are there
any new medications or supplements that are available
for
t flashes of menopause? I
don't want to take hormones, but I need
something to help me get through this.
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nswer: Vasomotor symptoms of menopause - hot
flashes - affect about 85
percent of all women in what doctor's
call the perimenopausal period. This is
the phase before menopause actually
takes place, when ovarian hormone
production is declining and fluctuating,
causing a host of symptoms. It usually
occurs three or four years before
menopause, but can start as early as 10
to 15 years prior to menopause.
Whenever the vasomotor symptoms
of perimenopause begin, they typically
last for several years. The symptoms
usually consist of flushing and an unexpected feeling of warmth or heat that
moves up toward the head, frequently
associated with sweating. While generally only lasting a few
minutes, such hot flashes can cause
significant sleep deprivation if they
occur frequently during the night.
Hot flashes can also be associated
with palpitations and dizziness. For
many women, using estrogen supplementation to lessen these events is not
an option. The good news is that there
is ongoing research into non-hormonal
treatments. Here are a few tips that you
can try on your own and a couple of
things you may want to discuss with
your physician.
Early research found that exercise
lessened hot flashes, but some more
recent studies provide evidence that
this may not be true. Some women
have found that practicing yoga, as well
as various forms of meditation, can be
quite helpful.
Caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and spicy
food can make hot flashes worse. You
should avoid these things. Niacin,
Vitamin B-3, should also be avoided it can cause flushing even in those who
are not menopausal.
Some non-hormone based medications are being used to lessen hot flashes. All are showing some promise, but
not in everyone. One that has seen
some success is venlafaxine (Effexor).
This medication is classified as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
(SSRI). You may have heard of SSRis
as a treatment for depression. Why
they help some women with
menopausal symptoms is still not
understood. Other drugs in this class
are also being studied; these include
paroxetime (Paxil) and sertraline
(Zoloft). An older blood pressure medication called Aldomet is also being
investigated as is the clonidine
patch - used for blood pressure as
well as smoking cessation. These
drugs are all commonly prescribed
medications, but this doesn't mean
your physician should necessarily prescribe them for you 4 He or she will
need to review your personal medical
history and your current symptom pattern before deciding if any of them
should be tried as a treatment for your
menopausal symptoms.
A small study has recently been
done using an antihistamine called cetirizine (Zyrtec) to decrease vasomotor
symptoms. It has yielded some promising results, but more research will be
needed before most physicians will feel
comfortable using this medication for
the treatment of hot flashes.
Herbal and over-the-counter products like Vitamin B, Vitamin E, evening
primrose oil, and certain soy proteins
may have some benefit in some
women. However, I caution you not to
try any supplement to treat yourself
without first having an in-depth discussian with your physician.
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Athens, Ohio 45701, or via e-mail to ·:
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column is provided as an educational ~;
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judgment of your personal physician,
who should be relied on to diagnose ·
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WOMEN FOR CHRIST
Inspirational Speaking, Singing and Fellowship!
Saturday,Apri/30
lOam to3 pm
Mountain Arts Center
Prestonsburg, Ky
Special guest speaker,
Barbara Joiner, will present her
inspirational messages both
during the morning and after-
noon session. Special music
will be provided by Kerry
Beach and Mary Holbrook, and
testimonies will be given by
Patty Speath and Medina Allen.
It's planned to be a day of great
inspiration and dedication to
Christ. The morning session
will begin at 10 am, and after a
brief break for lunch, the afternoon session will begin around
1 pm and close around 3. A $7
boxed lunch will be provided.
For more information call
(606)432-2660
or
the
Mountain Arts Center toll free
(888)MAC-ARTS
Tickets are $7 and available
at your local Christian Bookstore
and the Mountain Arts Center
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included in reading series and
discussion panels across the area
and then the nation was something we didn't anticipate when
we started the magazine. To
have become actively involved
in that setting has been a great
pleasure and privilege. We can
only expect to grow and become
more involved as our efforts
become more focused."
Compton and Deaton will
take part of Morehead State
University's Spring Reading
Schedule. They will be reading
some of their own work along
with poet George Eklund, who
will read one of his pieces published in the first issue of Cellar
Door.
"We plan on Qringing the literary thunder and never looking
back." Deaton said.
The Cellar Door reading will
be held at the Kentucky Folk Art
Center in Morehead on April 19
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copies of the magazine can be
purchased online (www.geocities .com/cellardoormag)
or,
locally, at Readmore Bookstore
in Prestonsburg.
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Jenny Wiley Theatre is hiring for ·~
the following Sumn1er positions
located at 121 Theatre Court,
Prestonsburg, KY
Box Office Staff
Concessions Manager
Concessions Staff
Gift Shop Manager
No phone calls, please.
All appli~ants must:
• Be 17 years of age or older
• Have a valid driver's license
• Be available for work from
May 15, 2005-August 21, 2005
• Apply in person at the
Jenny Wiley Theatre office
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For students interested in a
great learning experience, Jenny
Wiley Theatre recommends
joining the JWT Summer
Volunteer Program. The following positions are available:
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Ushers
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Costume Shop Assistants
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Concession Volunteers
All applicants must:
• Be 16 years of age or older
• Be available for volunteer
work from May 15, 2005 August 20, 2005
• Apply in person at the
Jenny Wiley Theatre office
located at 121 Theatre Court,
Prestonsburg, KY
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Training for Park Rangers
Jennifer Chester, Associate
Professor/Business Liaison at
Hazard
Community
and
Technical College, teaches
Park
Rangers
a
"P.C.
Essentials"
class
which
includes instruction on using
Windows, the Internet, and
ty for many state agencies
where all who get involved
benefit," noted Mrs. Chester.
Those interested in having
classes taught for their employees can schedule a time by calling Mrs. Chester at 487-3136
or 800-246-7521, ext. 73136.
basic computer hardware. A
total of 20 Park Rangers participated in the class at Natural
Bridge State Resort Park.
Major Charles Cole praised the
training and said he looked forward to doing more. "This is an
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a~d '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 yo.u 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..mail to: carolbcac@tiusa.net.
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This devotional and direct9ry is made possible by'"i~~se businesses who ~ncourage 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.
~ 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, 6:30 p.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.
lg 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,
Jt_inister.
~aniels 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.
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.
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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 Chrllt, 66 Turi<ey
Rrst 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.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Randy
a.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.,
Osborne, Minister.
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Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m.
First Baptis~ Martin; Sunday School, 10
Upper Toler Church of Christ, 3.5 miles
in
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a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday
up Toler Creek on right; Sunday School,
Evening Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 7
There is no God.
10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6
p.m.; Graydon Howard, Minister.
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Tommy Dale
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Bush, Minister.
First Baptist, 54 S. Front St. (Irene Cole
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, mina.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 Service,
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,
p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Steven V.
11 a.m. &6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Williams, Pastor.
Grethel Baptist, State Rt. 3379,
Garrett Church of God, Garrett; Sunday
(Branham's Creek Rd.); Sunday School,
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
6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.
Bragg, Minister.
Highland Avenue Freewill Baptist;
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,
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day Evening, 6:30; Gary Stanley, Pastor.
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 Uttle Paint Road, East Point;
Jim Price, Minister.
Sunday School, 9:45a.m.; Worship Sei'Vice, 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.
6:00 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting and Bible Study, 7:00 p.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 Uttle, 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 Baptist, Main St., May1own; Sunday School, 10 Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Garfield Potter,
a.It.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.; Bob Minister.
Varney, Minister.
Betsy Layne United Methodist, next to B.L. Gymnasium; Sunday
McDowell First Baptist, McDowell; Sunday School, 9:45 a.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 United Melhodlst, Allen; Smlay School, 9:45am.; Worship
Middle Creek Baptist, Blue River; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. &6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Kemeth Lemaster, Minister.
Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wedresday, 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.; We.dnesday, 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, Suntiay 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, 9:30 a.m.; Minister.
Salisbury United Methodist, Printer; Sunday School, 10 a.m.;
Earl Slone, Minister; Jerry Manns, Assistant Minister.
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.
Wayland United Methodist, Rt. 7, Wayland; Sunday School, 10
Lucas.
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, 6:30p.m.; Minister.
Wheelwright United Methodist, Wheelwright; Sunday School, 10
Pastor, Robert Shane Powers.
a.m.;
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.;
Stephens Branch Missionary Baptist, Stephens Branch; Sunday
Bobby Isaac, Minister.
Service, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, 6 p.m.
The Third Avenue Freewill Baptist; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Vogle Day United Methodist Church, Harold; Sunday School,
10:00 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service, 11 :00 a.m.; Wed. Bible Study,
Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m.
7:00p.m.; Dennis C. Love, Pastor.
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 School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Thurs.,
p.m.; Evening Service, 6:00 p.m.; No Service the 1st Sunday of 6:30p.m.; Buster Hay1on, Minister.
each month; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Jody Spencer, Minister.
Free Pentecostal Church of God, Weeksbury; Sunday Schoof, 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, Saturday 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, Rt 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.
Une; ; Worship Service, 6:30 p.m.; Mike D. Caldwell, Minister. 2976262.
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CHRISTIAN
First Christian, 560 North Arnold Avenue; Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Trinity Chapel Pentecostal Holiness, Main St., Martin; Sunday
School, 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 7 p.m.; 2nd Sat., 7 p.m.; Thurs.,
Worship Service, 11 a.m.; Jim Sherman, Minister.
Garrett Community Christian, Route 550, Garrett; Worship 7 p.m.; Elllis J. Stevens, Minister.
Service, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30p.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m.; Donnie Free Pentecostal Church, Dwale; Services Saturday, 6 p.m.;
Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m.; No Sunday Night
Hackworth, Minister.
Victory Christian Ministries, 1428 E.; Sunday School, 11:30 a.m.; Service.
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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.
Church of Christ, South Lake Drive; Worship Service, 10 a.m. and
6 p.m. ; Wednesday, 7 p.m.; Benny Blankenship, Minister.
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, 6:30 p.m.
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 telephone number: 285-3133; Ken Carriere, Bishop.
OTHER
Pastor Atha Johnson welcomes everyone to attend services at
the CHURCH of GOO of PROPHECY TRAM KENTUCKY. Sunday
school10 a.m., Worship service 11 a.m.
Drift Independent, Drift; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Thursday, 6:30p.m.
Grace Fellowship Prestonsburg,(next to old flea market), Sunday
School, 10 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Bill Stukenberg, Pastor 889-0905.
Faith Deliverance Tabernacle, West Prestonsburg; Sunday
School, 10:30 a.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.; Don Shepherd, Minister.
Faith Revelation Mlniatery, 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
evening, 6:30 p.rn.; 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, 7:00 p.m., Sunday Evening,
6:00p.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 W.
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. 321 (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, 6:30 p.m. Prayer Line:
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. Main St.,
Martin; Rev. Ellis J. Stevens, Senior Pastor.
Rising Sun Ministries, 78 Court Street, Allen, Ky.; Sunday, 10:30
a.m.; Wednesday, 6:30p.m. Pastor: D.P. Curry.
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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available.
Benefits available and
pay based on experience. Please mail
resume to: 171 Abbott
Creek
Rd.,
Prestonsburg,
KY
41653 or fax to 606886-Q834. Call 606886-9845 with any
questions.
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D E N T A L
A S S I S T A N T
Send
NEEDED,
Resumes to:
419
1iown Mtn. Rd
. ., Suite
105 · Pikeville,
41501
alternating between
Prestonsburg
and
Martin Office, prefer
some Secretarial and
Billing Experi3nce.
Call
886-1714 or
KY
285-9000
FOR SALE: 1995
LOCAL REBUILD
Toyota 4-Runner V6,
SHOP FOR MINE
3.0 Engine, AC,
EQUIPMENT is lookCruise
Control,
445-FliTiiture
ing for 2 experienced
AM/FM CD Player,
EXCELLENT
Excellent
Shape.
Mechanics. Apply in FOR
SALE-Solid
. ·120-Boats
$3,500 Firm, 886- INCOME-National
person at 542 Mare Wood Office Desk.
Capitol
Funding
FOR SALE:
1990 3956 or 791-1579
Creek
Road, Call 789-6320 or
Group Now Hiring
Stratos 201 Bass
Stanville, KY or call 367-1506
EMPLOYMENT
Court
House
Boat, 20' 10" Long,
478-2882 between
Researchers.
Will POSITION
200 HP Evinrude
RAY'S BARGAIN
7
TRain to Work From AVAILABLE: Two- am-Spm.
Outboard.
1996
CENTER
When responding to
Stratos Tra11 Trailer, Employment ads that Home Using Your Way
Radio
New
&
used
No T e c h n 1 c 1 a n . MOUNTAIN MANOR
New Seats & New have reference num- Computer,
OF PAINTSVILLE is Furniture
&
Trolling Motor Nice bers, please indicate Experience Installation and repair
Appliances @ unbeNecessary.
Call
1FM
of
commercial
Boat, $5,900 Firm, that entire reference
taking apllications for lievable prices. Come
Two-Way
Radio a LPN, 7 am-7 pm in today for incredible
Call 874-9381 Days, number on the out- 800-440-7234
Equipment
and position.
or 886-6833 after side of your enveExcellent savings. Shop At The
lope.
Reference
TEACHERS Systems, including wages and benefits. Little Furniture Store
7pm.
numbers are used to NEEDED for a small portables, mobiles,
Apply in person at & Save!!
Route.
help us direct your private school, K-12, base
stations, 1025 Euclid Ave, #122, McDowell. Call
130-Cars
letter to the correct certification preferred repeaters, tower sites,
Paintsville, KY from 606-377-0143.
individual.
but not required. For etc. Applicant must
Hicks Auto Sales
Sam-4:40pm Monmore information con- have high school
David Road
460-Yard Sale
2003 Eddie Bauer
205-Business Oppt. tact Dr. Khattab at diploma or GED, plus Fri.
year
606-789-5541 or fax 2
Explorer 12K Miles,
YARD
FIELD CHURCH
A COKE/M & M
college/Associates OIL
to 606-789-9445.
$14,995. 1997 Olds
SALE, April 2nd at
RTE. Local hi-traffic
has
degree in electronics COMPANY
Bravada, Uke New,
the Law Offices of
acct's, limited opporCOMMISSION or 2 years vocational openings for hard Sheridan Martin. Off
60K Miles, $6,500.
tunity, invest $2,000
SALES-Nation's #1 school in electronics. working responsi- U.S. 23 in Allen
1993 Ford Explorer,
+ Up, proven (800) Window Saler is lookWork Experience in a ble drivers. Must be across from Double
$2,250. Call 886549-0203
ing for a In Home related field may be of age 21 or older. Kwik. Chidren and
2842 or 886-3451
Sales Person for East considered in lieu of Must have COL with Adult Clothes, Knick
LOOKING
TO
Excellent
KY Area.
Contact school.
FOR
SALE-2001
and
HAZ-MAT and tanker Knacks
START OR EXPAND
package
Window World, Inc. at benefits
Jeep
Cherokee,
Miscellaneous Items.
YOUR BUSINESS,
offered. Location of endorcements, good
1-800-353-4313
Automatic,
4WD,
For More Info Call
or having trouble getwork is headquar- driving record and
Good
Runnung
874-4034
ting a loan? We can
mechanical
CHARTER tered in Prestonsburg, some
Condition,
Good
help! No up front fee,
COMMUNICATIONS KY. In field work is apptitude.
Please GARAGE SALE at
Work Vehicle, $3,200
fast & easy approval
is always looking for performed in Eastern apply in person at: Cleo's Interiors, large
CAll 478-3100 Days
on all types of loans,
dynamic individuals KY and Southwestern Universal
Well selection of jeans,
& 432-i 368
call toll-free 866-681who like challenge WVA.
Wages are Services, Inc., 5252 computer, satellite,
Evenings.
1264
and an opportunity for negtiable dependent Rt. 1428, Allen, KY lots of clothes.
4
success. The follow- on
41601
606-874miles
experience.
1993
from
FOR SALE
ALLEN TO HERALD
ing career opportuni- Resume may be 3487,
Accepting Prestonsburg on Mtn.
Ford
Crown
ALLEN TO
ties
are available:
Mon. Pwy. Call 886-6061
faxed to 606-886 - applications
VIctoria.
138,000
WHEELWRIGHT
BROADBAND
3198 or mailed to:
miles. $,1200. call
thru Fri. between the
The
Lexington
TECHNICIAN I
606-874-0467
Highland
hours of 8am ancj y A R D S A L E :
Herald-Leader has 2
Dept: Technical
Communications
Saturday, April 2 from
Morning
Paper
4pm.
Sertvices & Install
8am-3pm, 1.3 Miles
P.O. Box 790
FOR SALE 1991
Routes Open in the
Location:
Prestonsburg, KY
Abb 0 tt c
k
Toyota
Corolla
Floyd County Area.
ree .
M E D I C A L up
Prestonsburg, KY
needs work $800 firm
41653
A
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u
a
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i
u
m
s
,
Routes Take About 2Under
limited
S E C R E T A R Y Compound Bow, Mini
call
606-886-8339
3 Hours Daily With an
supervision, perform
after 5 pm.
220-Help Wanted Needed to work Fridge, Baby & Adult
Approximate Profit
cable television instalMon.-Fri., 4-8pm and Clothes, Paperbacks,
Potential of $800lations, disconnects
FOR SALE: 1988
ARCHER PARK is every other Sat., etc.
$1 ,000
Monthly.
and service changes now accepting appliPontiac Bonneville,
Dependable
POSITIONS AVAILABLE
for residential and cations for summer
no title, good for parts.
Transportation and
business customers. workers. Lifeguards,
$600 obo. Call 874Direct Care Provider
Ability to be Bonded This is an entry-level grill workers; etc.
4094.
Join a growing organization committed to
Required, Call1-800position for this job Aplly at the main
providing quality services to invididuals with mental
274-7355
(EXT
family. The expecta- office Monday-Friday
retardation/developmental Disabilities.
140-4x4's
3368)
Must be 21 years of age, have a valid driver's license
tion is to move into the 9am-4pm, No phone
(OCPs do some transporting of individuals) and must
next level within the calls please.
FOR SALE: Honda
GET PAID TO
be able to work flexible hours and weekends.
required time frame.
'93
Fourwheeler.
SHOP!
Apply In person, or submit a resume to:
300 (Pay No Fees) As an Benefits include paid
Honda
'97
vacations,
floating
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
drive .
Fourwheel
indpendent contrac4663 US 23 South (at old Unisign Building)
Looks good and runs tor evaluate customer h o l i d a y s ,
medical/dental/vision
P.O. Box 468 Allen, Ky. 41601
good. Call 886-0875.
service for gas stainsurance available
tions, fast food, retail.
and 401K plan.
.----------------------.
150-Miscellaneous A p p I y
Apply On-Line at:
www.applyshopwww.charter.com
THE PRESTONSBURG AND
2002 VIKING POPnchek.com, Email:
EEO/AA Employer
UP CAMPER, 3-Way
FLOYD COUNTY
www.shoprecruit@sh
System, $4,000, only
opnchek.com
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
EMS/AMBULANCE
used 4 times. Call
800-669-6526 ext D I S P A T H C E R
IS IN NEED OF APPLICATIONS
886-1756
3049
NEEDED: Full and
The Rental Assistance Program assists eligible famiPart-time shifts avail21 ().Job Listing
160-Motorcycles
lies with rental payments to landlords on the private
S A LA R I E D able. H.S. Diploma,
market. This assistance Is available in Floyd County,
FOR SALE 1998 POSITION,
Plus typing and computer
and the Prestonsburg area.
knowledge required,
YAMAHA YZ80 New
Bonuses
Available
in
excellent
communicaYOU MAY APPLY AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
tires, pro-circuit pipe.
as an Assistant . - - - - - - - •
$1600. Call 606-452- AIIen
Office Manager. Must
Existing Section 8 Office-Apartment 37,
9599 for more info.
NEEDING
have office experiGreen Acres, Prestonsburg, KY 41653
ence and/or Business
Dixie Apartments-South Roberts Drive
FOR SALE: 1997
degree. Must be able
Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653
Kawasaki ZX 6 Ninja, to deal effectivly with
Floyd County Central Office
Red,
Like
New. intense paperwork.
402 John M. Stumbo
$3,000 OBO, Call Fax resume to: 606- in Floyd County.
Langley, Ky. 41645
886-8662 after 5pm.
874-2163
Ivy Creek Townhouses
Must have own
Ivy Creek Rd., lvel, Ky. 41642
180-Trucks
A
NURSING equipment. ConLeft Beaver Creek Townhouses
HOME IS NOT YOUR tinuous mining
Minnie, Ky. 41651
WANTED used full ONLY OPTION-Call
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
size pick-ups 1998 Caring Hearts In method or con·
ventional.
Your
Judy Flanery, 606-886-1235
thru 2003, will pay Home
Care,
the
Fax: 606-886-0900
cash call 800-789- affordable solu'tion for option.
TOO: 1-800-648-6056 (Hearing Impaired)
5301
you. For as little as
$3.50 per hour you
WE DO BUSINESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
can keep your loved
IQuM. "OUMfQ
THE FAIR HOUSING LAW
928-1473.
OPPORTUNITY
ones
at
home ..
AUTOMOTIVE
EMPLOYMENT
CONTRACT
MINING
co.
____
.._
Call
_.
IVERCHANilSE
HUGE YARD SALEGable Roberts, 162
Wells Dr., Lots of
New & Like New
Clothing , Lots of
Other Items, FRi &
Sat
3 FAMILY YARD
SALE-April 1st &
2nd, oak furniture, living room suite, wood
desk, weight lifting
machine, hoe interior,
mens, womens &
childrens clothing,
jogger stroller, comforter sets, too much
to mention, don't
miss this one! Goble
Roberts
across
bridge, follow signs.
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-Miscellaneous
FOR SALE: 8 ft '
refrigerated deli case,
$1000, smaU pizza
oven, $400, small
juice cooler, $150,
washer & dryer, $150
pair. Call 606-8862367.
FOR SALE: 8 ft' deli
cooler, $950 and Gas
convection
oven,
$450. Call 606-8862367.
To
place YOU!'
ad call
886-8S06
CM:A's
$1,500 sign on bonus!
'We are currrent:ly hiring for an open Cl\IIA
position, 3 p.m.-11 p.m.
'We offer an excellent:
benefits package and
competitive ""ages. Call
or stop by a tour and
intervie"" to join our
caring t:eam.
Salyersville
Health Care
571 Parkway Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
CNA's
VVe are currently hiring for open CNA
positions. VVe offer an
excellent
benefits
package and competitive "W"ages. Call or
stop by for a tour and
int:ervie"W" t:o join our
caring team!
Salyersville
Heal-th Care
571 Parkw·ay Drive
(606) 349-6181
E.O.E./A.A.P.
RN/LPN
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 fuU-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.
Request for Bids from
Certified Installers fo~
Septic System Installation
The Big Sandy Area Development District in conjunction with PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In a Desirable
Environment) is soliciting bids from installers desiring to
install septic systems for southern and eastern Kentucky.
The successful bidder will be required to complete installation of the systems within sixty (60) days of the date of the
award.
The Scope of Work, Request for Bid, and General
Conditions is available upon request. Individual bids will
be accepted and contracts awarded for projects In the
counties of Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike and Magoffin.
Interested installers should send statements and proposals to Big Sandy Area Development District until
April15, 2005, at 4:00p.m. Faxed or email proposals will
not be accepted. Liability insurance in the amount of
$300,000 and proof of worker's compensation insurance or
a worker's compensation exemption form is required with
each bid .
A selection committee will review, evaluate, and rate
each bid, based on their submitted Bid. The Big Sandy
Area Development District will contact the installer with
the winning bid and enter into negotiations. If the parties
are unable to negotiate a satisfactory agreement, the
second ranked installer will be contacted. Once an installer
has been selected, all unsuccessful installers will be
promptly notified. The Selection Committee w ill adhere to
the provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Section 3. No person shall be excluded from participation
in, denied benefits of, or subjected to discrimination in the
implementation of this program on the grounds of race,
color, national origin or sex. Females and minorities are
encouraged to apply.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
provides funding for this project. The formal solicitation of
seeking qualified installers is being conducted to fulfill the
requirements of the funding agency.
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KAY'S WALLPAPER
205 Depot Road
Paintsville,
Ky.
Hundreds of Patterns
of
Wallpaper
&
Borders. All under
$10.00. Open TuesFri. 10 am. to 5 p.m.
Sat.10 a.m to 3 p.m.
Closed Sun. & Mon.
606-789-8584.
FOR RENT: 4 Room
Bachelor Apartment,
1 and 2 Bedroom HOUSE FOR RENT:
Trailer. All Nice & 239 Francis Court,
Roomy,
Clean, Prestonsburg. 2BR 2
Bath 1400 Sq Ft. ,
Private, All have AC
Suitable for office,
and Furnished. Near
small business or
Jenny Wiley Lake in residence. Not suitPrest 0 n s burg · able location for chilSuitable for Working dren or pets. $500
People. Call 886- per month + utilities.
FOR SALE: Roland 3941
886-6362
ep-97 Digital Piano
with Stand and Seat, NOW RENTING Park 3 BR HOUSE FOR
~ ~ke New. $9.00 OBO Place Apartments in RENT, LR, Kitchen,
886-8662 after 5pm. Prestonsburg, DR
Bath
& 1/2,
Available for immedi- Creekside
3-D
FOR SALE:
Subdivision on Abbott
ate occupancy. Rent
Competition
Bow,
Rd., $550 per month,
BR/$309,
2
Hoyt Alphatec with 1
886-6186 or 886ASK
Toxonics
Sights, BR/$345.
8286
ABOUT
OUR
MOVE
$500 OBO, Call 886IN SPECIAL,
Call FOR
8662 after 5pm.
RENT
IN
886-0039
MARTIN AREA·3 BR
FOR SALE: 10 inch
Home, $425 per
Bridge Steel, 24 NOW
RENTING month, $300 deposit,
Pieces, 5 ft & 12 ft in P i n e w o o d Reference Required,
Length, Call 285- Townhomes, Brand Call 285-1065
1293
New 2 & 3 BR
HOUSE FOR SALE Townhomes
Rt. 7 4 BR BRICK HOUSE
RENT.
South. ASK ABOUT FOR
OUR
MOVE IN Basement & Carport,
3 miles from MAC on
SPECIAL
Rental 404 David Road.
Assistance Available! $700 per month, Call
530-Houses
Stave, Refridgerator, 886-2842 or 886in
Prestonsburg, Dishwasher,
W/D 3451
3BR, Some furniture Hook Ups. Call 349included, $45,900, 7000
2 BR HOUSE FOR
Call anytime 889per
RENT-$400
9821
+
$300
RENOVATED month
2005 28x56, 3 BR 2
deposit,
located
APART~ENT'S, Like
between Paintsville &
New, Furnished in
Prestonsburg,
3/4
570-Mobile Homes
Downtown
Martin. from U.S. 23.
No
BA,
2x6
walls, Call between 9am- pets,
refereances
285- checked call 791• Ultimate
Stainless 5pm dailey.
Steel Kitchen pkg. 3025
5761
Only 2 left, $54,000
Call 606-638-4663
1 BR FURNISHED 2 BR HOUSE FOR
APARTMENT, RENT at Garrett.
2005 16x80, 3 BR 2 Including Utilities. 2 $400 per month +
$300 Deposit, Call
BA, Vinyl Siding, BR Unfurnished.
478-5389 or 477Premium
Kitchen Call 886-8366
1707
pkg. One in Stock!
Call 606-638-4663
2 BR 1 1/2 BATH
TOWNHOUSE also 1 HOUSE FOR RENT
in Prestonsburg, cen1984 14x70, Will bed room furnished tal heat & air, yard, no
Deliver
& Set! or unfurnished locat- pets,
references
$5,900, call 606-638- ed in Prestonsburg required $550 mo .
,NO PETS call 6064 4663
Call 886-0226.
886 8991
REAL ESTATE
Used 2005 16x76,
Lived in only Six
Months! Looks Brand
New! Call for Price!
806-638-4663
FURNISHED
1
BED ROOM APT.
Central heat & air.
Rent starting at $375.
+ $300.
month,
deposit water includThe Home Show, ed. Located near
HRMC.
606-889louisa, KY.
9717
Stop in to see our
·
large selection of 24,
28,
& 32
wides. 620-0ffice/Storage
Alson check out our FOR RENT: Office
42' wide. 2005 sin- Suite,
New
glewides in stock. Construction.
900
17151 Highway 23, sq. ft.
Ample
Louisa, KY
Parking, Can be
Convenient Location,
Final
clearance New Office Behind
in
2004 lot models and Sav-A-Lot
2005 models now Prestonsburg. Call
available! If you are 886-1515 for info.
serious about purchasing a new home For Lease Finished
you need to be with Office Space for
experienced staff to lease in prime loca• get the right home at tion near BSCTC,
a great price. The (PCC) and the new
Home Show-South Food City •• 2100 William son, Inc. US sq. ft. Ground floor
119, Belfry, Ky. 41514 location with up to
606-353-6444 or toll five private offices,
conference
room ,
free 877-353-6444
kitchen, bath, parking
All Drywall, Dutch lot call Today 606with 2x6 walls,and 424-2690 or 2265/12 roof pitch, ulti- 2266
mate kitchen packMEDICAL
age, glass block winFOR
dow, and many more OFFICE
Medical
extras, Set up for LEASE:
viewing. For details Office in McDowell
call 606-353-6444 or directly adjacent to
toll free 577-353- Post Office, Dollar
6444 the home show Store, bank, pharmaDUPLEX FOR RENT: cy and shopping
complex. 1250 sq. ft.
with 3 exam rooms, 2
offices, waiting room,
triage room, 2 bathrooms and acces61 0-Apartments
sories. Reasonable
2 BR Central Heat & Lease rates. Ready
Air, Total Electric, for immediate occuExcellent Condition. pancy. For further
On US 23 North, 1 information or to view
Mile
From property please call
or
• Prestonsburg,
No 606-377-2006
606-377-1088
Pets. Call 889-9747
Monday thru Fiday.
or 886-9007
RENTALS
To place
your ad
call Jessica
at88&8506
FOR RENT: 900
Sq.
Ft.
Office/Commercial
Space located next to
Reflections beauty
salon, 3 quaJ1er miles
south of Martin on Rt.
122 across from the
Garth Tech. School.
Call 285-9112
FOR RENT 3 BR
house .
Newly
remodeled , references
required.
886-§3p6.
\.
HOUSE FOR RENT:
Harold, Ky, Pin Hook
Hill, 1st house on left
going up hill. Call
478-5228
3 BR HOUSE FOR
RENT: Utility Room ,
Living Room, Dining
Room,
Built
in
Vacume
Cleaner,
Heat Pump.
Very
Nice Home Located
at Kite on St. Rt. 7,
Call 438- 61 04
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 606874-2212
650-Mobile Homes
Vynil Siding, Enter &
Exit
Painting,
Concrete Walks, Any
Size Metal Buildmg &
Storage
Building.
Call Roger Honeycutt
886-0633,
Free
Estimates, 29 Years
Experience.
and best qualified
bidder at the Special
Meeting of the Floyd
County Fiscal Court
scheduled for Friday,
April 22, 2005, at
10:00 a.m ., Local
Time, to be held in
the
County
Courtroom, located
D & D Tree Service on the 2nd floor of the
Floyd
County
Tree Trimming
Courthouse,
149
Tree Removal
Central
South
Free Estimates!
A v e n u e ,
Lowest Prices
Pres t onsburg,
Guaranteed!
Call 606-785-0316 or Kentucky.
7E. 5 - 9 8 1 0
A qualified bidder
will be required to
NOTICES
provide all necessary
proof of the bidder's
financial , technical,
812-Free
and managerial ability
to purchase, operFREE
PALLETS:
ate, and maintain the
can be picked up
Floyd County Gas
behind The Floyd
System. An award of
County Times.
the bid and the sale
of the Floyd County
Gas System shall be
900-Legals
contingent upon the
approval of the system's transfer by the
ADVERTISEMENT
Public
Kentucky
OF BIDSService Commission.
REQUEST FOR
QUALIFIED
Any bid received
BIDDERS
later than the time
FOR THE SALE
specified for receipt
of bids or any bid not
OF:
FLOYD COUNTY submitted with the
necessary documenGAS SYSTEM
tation shall not be
Bids
The Floyd County considered .
received
after
the
Fiscal Court will
closing
receive sealed bids scheduled
from qualified bidders time for the receipt of
for the sale of a NAT- bids will be returned
URAL GAS DISTRIB- unopened to the bidUTION
SYSTEM, ders. Submission of
owned
by Floyd a bid shall be conCounty, Kentucky, by strued as evidence
and through the and confirmation that
bidder
has
Floyd County Fiscal the
all
necesreviewed
Court, and operated
and managed by sary documentation,
East
Kentucky has made all necesUtilities, Inc., pur- sary site visits, and
suant to a lease has conducted sufficient due diligence to
agreement.
The
Floyd County Fiscal allow its submission
Court will receive of a bid and bona fide
sealed bids for the offer for the system.
sale of the Floyd
The Floyd County
County Gas System
Fiscal
Court reserves
until 4:00 p.m., Local
Time , on Thursday, the right to reject any
and all bids or to
April 21 , 2005.
waive any formalities
in th~ bfdding. No bid
S Y S T E M
may be withdrawn for
DESCRIPTION:
a period of sixty (60)
The Floyd County d~ys subsequent to
Gas System consists the opening of bids
of a natural gas distri- without the consent
bution system fur- of the Floyd County
nishing natural gas to Fiscal Court.
customers in the
communities of Allen,
Dwale, Estill, Garrett,
Hueysville, Lackey,
Middle
Creek,
Minnie, and Wayland,
and their outlying
vicinities in Floyd
Kentucky.
County,
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.
14X70
MOBILE
HOME FOR RENT, 3
BR,
Excellent
Condition, $425 per
BID PROCESS:
month + Utilities,
Security Deposit and
The Floyd County
References Fiscal Court will
Required. 874-2802
receive sealed bids
for the sale of the
SMALL FURNISHED Floyd County Gas
TRAILER
FOR System at the Office
RENT: Just off Mtn.
of the Floyd County
Pwy. on Old 114, Call
Judge
Executive,
886-8724
located on the 2nd
floor of the Floyd
SERVICES
County Courthouse,
149 South Central
Avenue,
Suite 9,
770-Repair/Services
P r estonsburg,
CARp· ENTRY Kentucky
41653
WORK
all types . [Telephone
(606)
New construction or 886-9193] until 4:00
remodeling . p.m., Local Time, on
Garages, decks, etc. Thursday, April 21 ,
Concrete work & sid2005. The sealed
ing. Free estimates.
bids for the sale of
Call 886-8896.
the Floyd County
NEW HOMES & Gas System will be
and
an
REMODELING opened
award of the bid
Room
Additions,
Porches
& Decks, made to the highest
NOTICE OF
INTENTION
TO MINE
PURSUANT TO
APPLICATION
NUMBER 836·
5465
In accordance with
KRS 350.055, notice
is hereby given that
Mason Coal, Inc. ,
P.O.
Box
2864,
Pikeville, Kentucky
41502, has applied
for a permit for an
underground
coal
mmmg
operation,
located 2.2 miles
east of Emma, in
Floyd County. The
proposed operation
will disturb 3.63 surface acres, and will
underlie
130.38
acres, and the total
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 3r38'07".
The longitude is
82°39'27".
The proposed operation is located on
the
Lancer/Harold
U.S.Gi.S.
7
1/2
minute quadrangle
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
for
Department
Surface
Mining
Reclamation
and
Enfo r cement ' s
Prestonsburg
Regional Office, 3140
South Lake Drive,
Suite
6,
Prestonsburg ,
Kentucky
41653.
Written comments or
objections must be
filed w1th the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow,
U.S. 127 South,
Frankfort, Kentucky
40601 .
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
NOTICE
liability and worker
1 will not be respon- compensation insursible for debts after ance. For more inforMarch 17, other than mation, contact: Scott
my own.
Ringham or Ron
Larry Combs
Vanover, at Jenny
Wiley State Resort
Bulan, Ky.
Park, at 1-606-889PUBLIC NOTICE 1790.
Pursuant to KRS
REQUEST FOR
231 .040, application
for a permit to operPROPOSALS
ate a place of enterThe Floyd County
tainment, has been Schools is soliciting
made by Harold E. companies qualified
Meade. The name of to perform an Energy
the proposed busi- Service
Provider
ness of entertainment Contract (ESPC) prois VITO's. The nature ject in the school disof the business will trict. A request for
be
dancing
and proposal is available
band/beer by the at the Floyd County
drink, wine coolers. Schools
Website
Pursuant to KRS (www.floyd.k12.ky.us
231.070, the Floyd ) or by contacting
County Attorney shall Gregory
Adams ,
investigate whether Director of Facilities
the applicant lacks at (606) 874-9569. A
good moral charac- mandatory pre-proter, or whether the posal conference will
applicant will obey take place on April
the laws of the 11 , 2005, at 1 p.m. ,
Commonwealth
in local time , at the
the operation of the District Maintenance
business, or whether Facility, located at 23
the applicant, within Martin Street, Allen ,
the last two (2) years Kentuc k y .
prior to the date of fil- Respondents must
ing the application contact the contact(s)
has been convicted listed below at least
in Kentucky of main- 4~ hours prior to the
taining a public nui- conference to indisance. Pursuant to cate their intention to
KRS 231.080, any attend. Failure to
person desiring to contact the Floyd
oppose the permits, County
Public
shall file with the Schools shall be reaCounty Clerk, no son to eliminate the
later than April 21 , respondent from con2005, in writing, alle- sideration. Access for
gations that show site visits will be
cause as to why the scheduled at the preapplication shall not proposal conference.
be granted. Said written information shall
Gregory Adams or
be signed, dated and
Linda Hackworth
reflect the current
Floyd County
address of said perPublic Schools
sqn providing. ~ the
~~ .Martin Street
information.
Allen , KY
Pursuant to KRS
41601
231.080 , a hearing
has been scheduled
NOTICE OF
for April 21 , 2005, at
INTENTION
the hour of 2:30p.m.,
TO MINE
or as soon thereafter
PURSUANT TO
as same can be
APPLICATION
heard before the
NUMBER 836Floyd
County
5427,
Judge/Executive at
Amendment No. 4
the Floyd County
In accordance with
Justice Center, 2nd
floor in Prestonsburg, KRS 350.070, notice
Kentucky. The Floyd is hereby given that
C o u n t y FCDC Coal, Inc., 750
Mountain
Judge / Executive Town
shall hear evidence Road, Pikeville, KY
in support of, or in 41501 , has applied
opposition to, the for an amendment to
granting of the per- an existing underground coal mining
mit.
and
reclamation
located
operation,
HON. KEITH
1.70 mile northwest
BARTLEY
FLOYD COUNTY of Grethel, in Floyd
County. The amendATTORNEY
ment will add 6. 14
acres of surface disturbance, for a total
PUBLIC
area of 1180.40 acres
NOTICE
within
the revised
Jenny Wiley State
permit
boundary.
Resort Park in conThe
proposed
junction with PRIDE
( P e r s o n a l amendment area is
Responsibility In A approximately 1.31
D e s i r a b l e mile east of Drift, in
County,
Environment) is solic- Floyd
Kentucky.
The
operaiting bids from contion
is
approximately
tractors for the cleanup and appropriate 1.80 mile east of KY's
removal and disposal 122 junction with the
Branch
of man-made debris Simpson
County
Road,
and
deposited along the
park shoreline of located 0.10 mile
Dewey Lake. Area of southeast of Simpson
clean-up will include Branch.
The
proposed
both shorelines from
the park's marina amendment is locatupstream
approxi- ed on the McDowell
7
1/2
mately 3 miles. As U.S.G.S.
minute
quadrangle
much
man-made
debris as possible, map. The surface
including some heavy area to be disturbed
items such as appli- by this amendment is
ances, is to be owned by Stella
Hamilton,
removed. The use of Martin
Dorothy
Martin,
Ella
some type of pontoon
Martin,
Cassie
Martin
or barge will be necessary. This will be and Earl Martin.
The
amendment
the responsibility of
application
has been
the contractor.
filed
for
pub lic
Interested contractors must attend a inspection at the
for
pre-bid meeting on Department
Surface
Mining
April 14, 2005. The
and
meeting will be held Reclamation
at Jenny Wiley State En f or ce ment ' s
Resort Park in the P r esto n sburg
& Regional Office, 3140
Recreation
Lake
Drive,
Interpretation Office. S.
~'estonsburg ,
KY
41653. Written comments, objections, or
requests for a permit
conference must be
filed with the Director,
Division of Permits,
#2 Hudson Hollow
Complex, U.S. 127
South, Frankfort, KY
40601
T his is the final
advertisement of the
application. All comments, objections, or
requets for a permit
conference must be
received within thirty
(30) days of today's
date.
UNITED STATES
DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN
DISTRICT OF
KENTUCKY
PIKEVILLE
CIVIL ACTION
NO. 93-305-DLB
KENTUCKY
WEST VIRGINIA
GAS CO.
ETAL
PLAINTIFFS
vs.
ADVERTISEMENT
TIMMUS LAND
CO. ET AL
DEFENDANTS
By order entered on
February 4, 2003, the
Court awarded royalties to the persons,
corporations
and
entities hereinafter
set forth because the
following were determined to be the persons, entities, heirs
or beneficiaries of
those who should
have been paid royalties by Kentucky
West Virginia Gas
Company for a production
period
between 1979 and
1983.
The undersigned
Special Master has
forwarded checks in
payment of those
royalties to the individuals and entities
set forth below and
those checks have
either been returned
to the undersigned
or, for some other
reason, have not
cleared the bank
upon which they
were written.
Any of the individuals listed below who
wish to claim their
royalty check should
make their plaim with
un~ersi gned
the
Special Master at the
address listed below
in writing and should
provide the undersigned with a copy of
a government issued
photo identification
card together with a
daytime telephone
number in the event
questions
shou ld
arise. In the eve nt
that any of the individuals set forth
below are deceased,
the written claim
should be accompanied by a photocopy
of the decedent's
death
certificate
together
with
a
recorded will or affidavit of descent
establishing the heirs
or beneficiaries of the
deceased party.
Any of the corporations or entities listed
below should provide
the
undersigned
Special Master with
written evidence of
the authority to act on
behalf of the corporation or the person
requesting payment,
together with a daytime phone number
in the event questions should arise.
Any person or entity
requesting payment
of royalty pursuant to
this advertisement
should provde satisfactory documentation to the undersigned establishing a
relationship to the
Kentucky
West
Virginia
Gas
Company
Lease
which generated the
royalty.
Prova
James
Amburgey,
Mabel
Holbrook Amburgey,
Ottis Jay Amburgey,
Phillip H. Amburgey,
Valeria Amburgey,
Am erican Orthodox
Arch Diocese of
Lexington
Elizabeth Ann Back,
Baldwin,
Fannie
Bertha I. Ball, Luc1an
G. Ball, William H.
Ball,
Charlotte
Rinehart
Banks,
Sylvia
Martin
Bartrum,
Olive
Behrle, Jerrie H
Billips Bell, Lenore •
Mossman Bennett,
Bentley, •
Gladys
Linda Berringer, Big
Sandy
Co.
Inc. ,
Susan Biggs, Lassie
Biliter, Johnda Cline
Billiter, Edna Bishop, •
Janivieve Blackburn ,
Patricia
Martin
Blackburn, Blackley
Elkhorn
Coal
Corporation, Eulah
Blair, Agent, Tilman
Blair, David Blevins,
Betty A. Bower, Rolla
T. Bowman , David N.
Brashear, Edward B.
Brashear,
Tommy
B reu n ~g.
Patricia
Elaine
Brewster,
Bernie A. Brown,
Cindy K.
Brown,
Steven R Brown ,
Terry
L.
Brown,
Susan A. Browning,
Theresa
Farler
Browning,
Joyce
Burchett.
Calhoun,
Ada
Joseph Carte~ N.
Eugene Carter, Paul
Carter, Robert Carter
Jr., Sharon Chatfield,
Rosemary Coleman,
Timothy F. Coleman,
Lana Collier, Pauline
Collier, Roberta Collins, Bradley David
Combs,
Charles
William Combs, Marvin L. Combs, Paul C.
Combs, Amy Elizabeth Combs, Ben F.
Con ley, John D.
Conley, Robin Cook,
Greenville
Cordle,
Gale Cornett, Kelley
Michelle
Corrick,
Frederick
Gerald
Cox, Scotty Crawford, Mary Wolfe
Cutler.
Terry C. Dameron,
Ada Daniels, Anna
Miriam Daughterty,
Betty L. DeGarmo,
Josephine B DeHaas, Lora Mae
DeRossett, Angela
Marie • Deweese,
Lottie Mae Dixon,
Brenda Sue Donahue, Hazel T. Dotson.
Felicia Ecton, Alice
Eldridge, Ruth Ellis,
Marjorie
Esposito,
Ronald A
Estep,
Ruby Evans, A.W.
Eversole.
Carl
Joseph
Eversole,
Lucy Lee Eversole.
Philip
Fairchild,
Samuel
Farler,
Barbara McCoy Fazi,
Billie
T.
Fields,
Deborah R. Fields,
Jeanette F. Fleming,
Jean Moon Forsyth,
Gregory M. Foster,
John
R.
Foster,
Beatrice Francisco,
Forrest
Franklin,
Nora Franklin, Freda
Fulp.
Darrell T. Gangle, .
Rita D. Goodwin,
Grace Greer, M.M.
Greer, Donna Sue
Griffith,
Gleima
Onettee Gross.
Jo Wolfe Hagan,
Candice Ruth Hall,
Katherine
Justin
Hamilton,
Matilda
Hamilton, Ray Hamilton, Sterling Hamilton, June Bolton
Hawks,
Bessie
Jo
Ray
Hayes,
Hogan, Rajene E.
Hogue, Richard F.
Hogue, Vonda Renee
Hollus, Virginia Lynn
Hook, Theodore L.
Hudson, Mary Ann
Hutchins.
Bernadine
Wells
Isaac.
Douglas
Paul
Jacob, Edna B Jennings, J.W. Jennings,
Carroll
Johnson,
Lorena
Johnson •
Maxine
Johnson
Heirs, Phyllis Johnson,
Vivian
Cox
Johnson,
William
Bryan Johnson Paul
Jones
Jr.,
Mary
Jones.
Maxine
Kelley,
Johnnie Faye Kemp,
Pamela Kidwell , K1tty
E. Koch Susanne C.
Kreitz.
Doris Leslie, J.O.
Lewis, Linda Lynch.
Lucy Dean Madden.
Betsy Ruth Magness,
Lillian Mann, Juanita
Marcur,
Andrew
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FRIDAY, APRIL
Jackson
Martin,
Elizabeth L. Martin,
John Paul Martin,
Mattie E. Martin,
Michael
Jason
Martin, Noah Martin,
Rosemary
Martin ,
Thomas B. May Jr.,
Leroy
McCoy,
Maureen T. McCoy,
Seth McCoy, Vicky
Lynn McGill, Gail
Mcintosh,
Charles
Miller,
Mabel
R.
Miller, Mildred L.
Miller, Wynona J.
Morguson, Mollie T.
Morrison, Bettye T.
Morzi, Minnie Mullins,
Troy
C.
Mullins,
Pauline A. Muncy,
Lisa Murray.
Annie
Napier,
Bonnie
Newman,
Jessie Newman, Ray
Newman, Sam-AK
Newman,
Willard
Newman,
Sandra
Nunnelly.
Osie M. Patrick,
Orville Phillips, Mary
Josephine Pigman,
Robert Polins, Buford
Prater,
Mary
E.
Prince, Pompey Coal
& Coke Company
Inc.,
Estate
of
Howard Porter, Helen
Potter (Committee for
Ben
Reynolds),
Helen
L.
Potter,
George C. Preston.
Marie E. Rapp,
Sarah
Melissa
Redmond, Elizabeth
Cornett Reed, Bessie
Reynolds, J.E. Reynolds, George Reynolds, M.T. Reynolds,
Janice
Rhoades,
Doris Rickman, Murl
Riddle, Lillie Risner,
Gary Ritchie, Edward
Laughlin
Roberts,
Emma
Robinson,
Ronya
Robinson,
Betty A. Ross, Patty
Rowe,
Betty
Jo
Martin Rucks, Golda
C. Ryles.
Ruth P. Sercombe,
Dwayne
D.
Sizemore, Jerry or
Jewell
Sizemore,
Gerald
Eugene
Slone, Pearl Smith,
Reatha Sue Smith,
Anna Louise Snyder,
Myrtle
Souder,
George
Sowards,
Jacqueline
Spear,
Jackie Spears, Virgil
Spears, Billie Kathryn
Stanfill, Julius M.
Steele,
Bonnie
Stephens, Judith Kay
Stephens, Lorraine
Johnson
Stiltner,
Bobbie Sue Stocksdale, Patty Stratton.
Lucien Taylor Jr.,
Sidney Taylor, Tracy
G. Taylor, Bruce Carl
Thacker, Richard D.
Thacker, Beatrice C.
Thibodeaux,
Rosa
Lee Thomas, Lola
Young
Thompson,
Linchie
Townsley,
Janet A. Trissell,
Trivette
Maurice,
Warren F. Trivette.
Cynthia
Lynn
Wagner, Daniel Lee
Wagner, Debra Ann
Wagner, Mary Ward
Walters,
Alonzo
Watts, Leo V. Watts,
Mary Jane Watts,
O'Dell Watts, Vina
Watts, Sara Wells,
Anita
Whitaker,
Luther Dean Whitaker, Randall Wayne
Whitaker,
Roland
Whitaker,
Ronald
Clay Whitaker, Susan
Ellene Cornett Whitaker,
Carla
Ann
White, · May Grace
Whitehead, Donna
Williams,
Irene
Williams, Evelyene
Morrison
Wilson,
J.
Wilt,
Bonnie
Rebecca Wise, Mary
T. Wolfe, Samuel T.
Wright Ill, S.T. Wright
Jr., Haskell E. Wurts.
0. JOHN SHORT
SPECIAL MASTER
P.O. Box 1777
Ashland, KY
41105-1777
(606) 325-4653
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1, 2005
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FLOYDCOU
bri e fs
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
10
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
*
(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
~== HIGHLANDS
iE=REGIONAL
The Medical Center of Eastern Kentucky sm
�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.
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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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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.
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The program prepares graduates for entry-level practice
with individuals, couples, families, groups, organization and
communities. The curriculum
covers the history and ethics of
social work; biological, psychological, and social theories,
research, law and social policy.
Students
interested
in
enrolling in the program should
have completed an associate
II
degree or the first 64 hours of
undergraduate work, including
general education requirements.
Additional information may
be obtained by contacting
Bishop at the Post Secondary
Education Building of BSCTC
campus, MSU room 209, at
(800) 648-5372, or locally at
886-3863. Inquiries will also
be answered via email to
e.bishop@ moreheadstate .edu.
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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
•
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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
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-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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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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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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March 21 , at Highlands
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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
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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
• Continued from p1
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,
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James Lay, Ben Adkins,
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Bradley, Jordan Bland, Larry
Pickelheimer, Jr., Shannon
Reed, Jeff Alsip, Robert Fletcher
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Steve Casebolt, Jr., Johnny
Wheeler, Roger Williams, Steve
Barnett, Duane Chamberlain,
Dusty
Moore,
Jason
Montgomery, Chuckie May,
Doug Smith
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Greg Johnson,
Eddie Carrier, Jr., Matt Miller,
Donnie
Moran,
Whitney
McQueary, Randy Korte, Bryan
Barber, Eric Myers, Shannon
Thornsberry, Devin Sebree
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Heat No. 6: Timmy Yeager,
Michael England, Blake Chinn,
Rick Combs, Dave Kirker,
Bobby Wolter, Jr., Randy King,
Alan Haycraft, Chad Smith,
Jeep VanWormer
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Jesse James Lay, Rod Conley,
Chris Combs, Spensor Watson,
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Michael Bradley, Tim Tungate,
Tyrel Todd, Tony Tra:ficant, Jeff
Raisor, Mike Hawley
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Williams, Steve Barnett, Duane
Chamberlain, Rick Combs,
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Montgomery, Dusty Moore,
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Wolter, Jr., Devin Sebree
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Bass
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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
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~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
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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.
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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
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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
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Weber coached Southern
Illinois for five seasons, compiling a 103-54 record and
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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
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Utah's Bogut AP
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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$600 obo. Call 874- E q u I t a b I e
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'93
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Honda
'97
300 will be responsible for
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good. Call 886-0875. including the engineering,
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possess a related BS
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with related experiFOR SALE 1998 ence in managing a
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Cooper,
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$1600. Call 606-452- Waukesha,
and
White
Superior
9599 for more info.
manufactured units.
FOR SALE: 1997 Expertise in compresKawasaki ZX 6 Ninja, sor design and operaRed ,
Like
New. tions with emphasis
$3,000 OBO, Call on preventative main886-8662 after 5pm. tenance programs as
well as a working
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180-Trucks
or automation sysWANTED used full tems is highly desired.
candisize pick-ups 1998 Successful
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applicable
cash call 800-789- with
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BROADBAND
TECHNICIAN I
Dept: Technical
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Location:
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Under
limited
supervision, perform
cable television installations, disconnects
and service changes
for residential and
business customers.
This is an entry-level
position for this job
family. The expectation is to move into the
next level within the
required time frame.
Benefits include paid
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insurance available
and 401 K plan.
Apply On-Line at:
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helpful. On-site training
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Benefits available and
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Please mail
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KY
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EMPLOYMENT
P 0 S I T I 0 N
AVAILABLE: TwoWay
Radio
Te c h n I c I a n .
Installation and repair
of commercial FM
Two-Way
Radio
and
Equipment ·
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
offered. Location of
work is headquartered in Prestonsburg,
KY. In field work is
performed in Eastern
KY and Southwestern
WVA.
Wages are
negtiable dependent
on
experience.
Resume may be
faxed to 606-8863198 or mailed to:
Highland
Communications
P.O. Box 790
Prestonsburg, KY
41653
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ARCHER PARK is
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j
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480-Miscellaneous
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oven, $400, small 1293
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juice cooler, $150,
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ing for 2 experienced
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&
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=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
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Please do not call or come by the Pepsi facility, there will be no
exceptions to the hiring process.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-
=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
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large selection of 24,
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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
~~
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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
People Making
Technology Work™
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3, 2005
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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.
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Hardwood Flooring
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