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The annual LaRue County 4-H candy sale begins Nov. 18 when 4-H members may pick up candy at the Extension Service office at 807 Old Elizabethtown Road across from Magnolia Bank. Parents must sign a permission form in order for members to participate. 

Members will be selling a variety of candy bars including caramel, crisp, peanut butter and milk chocolate with almonds for $1 each.

For each 40 candy bars sold, the member’s name will go in a drawing for a $50 gift card to Wal-Mart.

A LaRue County woman won top honors at the National FFA Convention in October.

Emily Carol Johnson, 20, was the national winner of the Floriculture-Entrepreneurship/Placement Proficiency Award. She was the only entrant from Kentucky to win an event.

Republicans meet

The LaRue County Republicans will host special speaker Jim Weise, 2nd District GOP chairman, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at the LaRue County Courthouse. The meeting will be in the first floor small courtroom. Open to public. For more information, call Eric Devary at 358-8386.

Managing your meals

Sunrise Manor Volunteers bake sale

Sunrise Manor Volunteers will hold a bake sale beginning at noon Nov. 20 at Hometown IGA.

Christmas Bazaar

Family Worship Center on Tanner Road will have a Christmas bazaar 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 20-21.

South Fork breakfast

South Fork Baptist Church will have a country breakfast 7-10 a.m. Nov. 21 and a variety sale 7 a.m.-2 p.m. in the fellowship hall behind the church. Donations benefit the Africa mission team 2010.

Bethlehem fundraiser

Campbellsville University has joined two other private institutions in Kentucky in establishing a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society specifically for education majors.

Installation for the new members, students and faculty, of CU’s KDP chapter, Alpha Epsilon Omicron, was held in Ransdell Chapel.

About 30 initiates, including students and faculty, were installed as members of the society as the chapter plaque was presented.

Student officers of the organization include Amber Jinnett of Hodgenville, secretary.

Kentucky sheep and goat producers voted in favor of check-offs to assess themselves at a rate of one-half of 1 percent of the net market price of their animals.

In separate referenda held Oct. 1 in county Extension offices throughout the state, goat producers approved check-offs by a 75-41 vote, and sheep producers approved by a 32-12 count.

A date when check-off funds will begin to be collected has not been determined.

The North American International Livestock Exposition has five local entries from Ashley Hornback of Magnolia entering a limousin in the beef division; and Cody Howell and Tyler Howell, both of Hodgenville, have entered two head of beef in the junior hereford division.

Meredith Heath and Weston Heath of Hodgenville have entered five head of cattle.

The 2009 tobacco growing season is over, stripping is under way and receiving stations will be opening soon.

But now is the time to start planning for next year and LaRue County farmers need to begin prepare to manage diseases in the 2010 burley crop.

A LaRue County resident was among the winners in the National Agricultural Proficiency Awards Pageant announced Oct. 23 at the 82nd National FFA Convention.

In the floriculture category, Emily Johnson was honored in the entreprenuership/placement category.

She took agriculture classes and served as chapter secretary for the LaRue County FFA. She also works at Lee’s Garden Center, a local nursery and landscape store. She is attending the University of Kentucky, studying to be an agriculture teacher.