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  • Veterans Upward Bound to offer online instruction

    Veterans Upward Bound at Western Kentucky University has completed designing an online instructional program for veterans who are unable to attend the program in person. 

    This opportunity offers flexibility for the program to meet the needs of participants. Veterans who wish to take advantage of this free service must have a computer connected to the Internet to be able to participate.

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  • Sunrise Manor Volunteers name officers

    Sunrise Manor Volunteers president Rita Smith announced officers for 2010 at the organization’s semi-annual meeting held in the activities center April 20.

    Elected by acclamation for two-year terms are Jim Kessler, secretary; Wanda West, treasurer; Juanita Sprowls, assistant treasurer; Tickle Ragland, historian.

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  • ECTC honors banquet recognizes students

    The Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Honors Banquet recognized outstanding academic achievement  April 30 at Pritchard Community Center in Elizabethtown. Several categories of achievement were honored:

    Honors Students

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  • Extension Homemakers are generous with time, donations

    Last week the Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association held its annual state meeting in Lexington. Two local members, Patsy Thomas and Mary Lou Owen, attended as voting delegates for LaRue County.

    One project that Extension Homemaker members promote statewide is the UK Ovarian Cancer Screening Program. Since 1977, Homemakers have donated over a million dollars for this cancer research program.

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  • Food ministry benefit is Saturday

    WJCR 90.1 FM is having a food ministry benefit and festival on May 15.

    The event will be held at 13101 Raider Hollow Road, Upton. Signs will be posted.

    Gates open at 9:30 a.m. Admission is three canned goods per person.

    A benefit auction begins at 10:30 a.m. to raise money for the food ministry.  Last year the auction consisted of 600 donated items and generated more than $5,300. Items include furniture, antiques and a 32-inch television.

    Children’s activities include clowns, face painting, slides and inflatables.

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  • Wilson offers earth-friendly basketball

    Jeffery Sallee was the winner of the new “ReBound” basketball from Wilson that came on the market for Earth Day.  Jeffery was the first in LaRue County to get one of these “recycled rubber” earth friendly basketballs. Those who registered at the Solid Waste Booth during the March Expo were given a chance to win this new basketball. 

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  • 'Dinner with the Dearly Departed' brings history to life

    “Dinner with the Dearly Departed” will take place beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in Elizabethtown City Cemetery. The meal will be provided by Shoney’s and the sponsor again is Brown Funeral Home.

    The event, held among the tombstones, will feature a catered meal and living history from some of the cemetery’s prominent residents.

    “It’s something different, a unique way to bring Elizabethtown’s history to life, no pun intended,” said Heritage Council Director Dana Beth Lyddan.

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  • Radcliff Chamber to sponsor 'Hooray for Heroes' Saturday

    More than 4,000 active duty, retired and reserve military and their family members are expected for a day of fun, refreshments and entertainment at the fifth annual Hooray for Heroes 11 a.m.-5 p.m. May 15 in the adjoining parking lots of Stithton Baptist Church and Wal-Mart in Radcliff. 

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  • State Theater to show 'The Very Worst Thing'

    "The Very Worst Thing," a documentary film about the worst school bus crash in U.S. history, will be screened at the historic State Theatre 8 p.m. May 14.  Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the State Theater box office, and a limited number of tickets are also available for online purchase at www.theveryworstthing.com. 

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  • Main Street volunteers plant, tidy up Lincoln Square

    If you are wondering how those flowering planters miraculously bloom on the square or how the pocket park between the Woman’s Club building and the Masonic building is maintained, here’s the answer. Main Street does it, partly through purchase of plants and rock and partly through volunteers planting and weeding efforts. Sometimes we are assisted by supervised inmates.

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