Allison Shepherd, general manager/advertising manager of The LaRue County Herald News, won three awards in the Kentucky Press Association’s annual Advertising Excellence Contest.
Sunrise Manor Nursing Home, 717 N. Lincoln Blvd., Hodgenville, will hold a car wash 9 a.m.-noon June 5 to raise money to send two residents on a vacation to the Ozark Mountains.
A minimum $5 donation is requested.
For more information, contact Sally Rineker, quality of life director, at 358-3103.
Yard sale benefits Hosparus
A yard sale to benefit Hosparus will be 8 a.m.-4 p.m. June 8 at Jay Rust Body Shop in New Haven
Breakfast at Upton Masonic Lodge # 749
Upton Masonic Lodge #749 will have a breakfast fundraiser 8-11 a.m. June 8 (and on the second Saturday of every month). Cost is $5 per person. For more information, call Lon Zea at 270-369-0592.
Seven Civil War veterans, whose gravestones had deteriorated, received new federal markers at Magnolia Cemetery, just in time for Memorial Day.
The Magnolia Cemetery Committee and Magnolia Lions Club worked together to identify the gravesites, order the markers and decorate with American flags.
There are now 114 identifiable veterans in the large cemetery outside Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Fair pageant applications
Applications for LaRue County Fair beauty pageants can be picked up at these Hodgenville locations: The LaRue County Herald News, 40 Shawnee Dr.; the LaRue County Extension office, 807 Old E’town Road; and Vanity Hair, 111 West Main St. For more information, call the Fair office at 234-3313 or Sandy Bell at 358-8166. The Fair begins June 14.
Friends of the Library meet
Friends of the Library will meet at 5 p.m. June 6.