Opinion

Many of you know us as Elvis and Meat Loaf and for almost a decade now you have packed the house for our shows in Hardin County. Please allow us to thank each of you who supported the recent show Legends of Country Music at Pritchard Community Center, featuring the Perkins Brothers and Friends. Your support helped Ruth Ann Baker’s feast on the word food ministry program. Your support gave local entertainers a sold out, standing room only crowd.

The fifth in a series about
local cancer survivors.
In 1995, we had promised our two daughters that we would move to Kentucky in 1997. I began to cough. Two to three rounds of antibiotics — no change.  
Then came such a whirlwind of medical activity — enough to make one dizzy — X-rays with contrast, bone scans, biopsies, etc. Then we got the diagnosis: the BIG C, upper right lobe of this non-smoker’s lung.

THE KENTUCKY STANDARD EDITORIAL BOARD

Senate Bill 41, sponsored by Sen. Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, has passed the Senate and has been sent to the House for approval.

If passed the bill would allow those registered as Independent to vote in party primaries traditionally held in May.

Last week was a small victory for the public's right to know thanks to The Courier Journal, which played the important role of watchdog.

All of it started when the CJ asked the state's court system why 3,600 cases had been sealed from public view during the last decade. Sadly when asked, the court system officials admitted they knew little about the cases - including why they were closed, if they were closed properly and if they should remain closed at this time.

Hodgenville Woman’s Club wants to thank everyone for the contributions to our raffle baskets. We thank all the members who donated items and the following:  The Lincoln Museum, Lincoln Days, Sweet Shop, James Ard, Hardin Memorial Hospital Gift Shop, B.J. Clark, The LaRue County Herald News, Garrett’s Furniture, Nancy’s Gift Shop, LaHa’s Red Castle and Lee’s Garden Center. 

Winner of the Basket of LaRue was Kathy Barnhill.

Opal Dail

Hodgenville Woman’s Club

Each October, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities and its member and affiliate institutions mark Christian Higher Education Month.

House Resolution 300 in June 2003 declared the special month, which celebrates the role of Christ-centered colleges in America’s history and in students’ lives.

Campbellsville University, located in south central Kentucky, is one of those colleges.

     Main Street’s Annual Festival of Trees will take entries for a few more days.

     This is a fun way for an organization, a business, a church or individual to make money for a non-profit cause. We’ll take trees of almost any size including table trees, plus wreaths, centerpieces, banners and more.     

     We don’t guarantee results, but last year every single item was sold in the silent auction.

There’s a difference between the public’s right to know and what the public “ought to know.”

It’s a discussion my husband Bud and I have had several times.

Kentucky’s open meetings and open records laws are near the top of the heap in comparison to other states. The Attorney General’s office sides with the taxpayer nearly every time when a question arises about access to records.

But there are a few loopholes that could be filled.

The annual “Hours of Prayer,” a worldwide program, will be 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23.

Please join in one hour of prayer for the nursing homes, various types of care centers and their residents around the world. This is the hour we can all come together as a like-minded body of Christian believers. Even though we may be far apart in location, we can become united in spirit.

Other locals around the country and the world will be praying.