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LCHS SBDM Meeting

The LCHS Site Based Council will meet 4:30 p.m. July 14 in the conference room.

Registration

Registration for all LCHS students is 8 a.m.-5 p.m. July 22 at the LCHS media center. Be prepared to pay textbook fees of $60 and laptop fees of $20. Laptop fees may be paid up through fall break.

Freshman orientation

LCHS freshman orientation is 6-7:30 p.m. July 29 in the auditorium.

Catlett Mather reunion

The descendants of Edd and Cynthia Mather Catlett will have a reunion at noon July 17 at Pritchard Community Center in Elizabethtown. A silent auction will be held for expenses of next year’s reunion. Bring anything you wish to donate. Bake-off contest for cakes, pies, cookies and candy. All relatives and friends are invited. For more information, call Lorena Catlett Russell at 358-3551.

Periods of heat stress call for cattle producers to be vigilant in making sure their animals are adequately prepared. One of the most important things producers can do is provide cool, clean drinking water. Providing an adequate source of drinking water helps to keep animals’ internal body temperatures within normal limits. Above-ground water lines need to be shaded so they do not act as solar water heaters and make the water too hot to drink.

Kentucky Joe to speak at Beef Cattle Association meeting

Research shows that rollover protective structures, when used in combination with a seatbelt, are 98 percent effective in preventing death and serious injury in the event of a tractor overturn. Nevertheless, more than a third of tractors in use today – and perhaps as many as 50 percent in Kentucky – still do not have these lifesaving structures.

ALL SCHOOLS

Aug. 5 – First day of school

LCHS

Registration

Registration for all LCHS students is 8 a.m.-5 p.m. July 22 at the LCHS media center. Be prepared to pay textbook fees of $60 and laptop fees of $20.

Freshman orientation

LCHS freshman orientation is 6-7:30 p.m. July 29 in the auditorium.

Open House

Open house for all LCHS students is 6-7:30 p.m. Aug. 17. For more information, call the school at 358-2210.

ALES

If all goes as planned, 2008 LaRue County High School graduate Shelby Haun will be living in an English castle this fall.

Haun, a sophomore social work major at Western Kentucky University, is spending her fall 2010 semester at Harlaxton College in Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

Since 1971, the University of Evansville has owned Harlaxton College, which was built in the 1830s. Thanks to a partnership with Evansville and Harlaxton, Western sends a group of about 25 students every semester to study there.

Ticks are a part of summer. Several species exist locally with the most common being the “dog tick.” Mowing can help with ticks, but they are mobile so mowing is not very effective.

If there is a tick problem in the yard, it can be treated with an insecticide but often people do not get the results they expected. The problem is not with the insecticide but with the amount of water used to apply it. It takes a large volume of water because all the plant tissue in the treated area must be covered with the insecticide.

Buffalo Church of the Nazarene VBS

Buffalo Church of the Nazarene will hold Vacation Bible School 6:30-8:30 p.m. through July 9 for ages 4 through 12th grade. For more information, call 849-4497.

Mount Zion holds VBS