Opinion

True Way Ministries is working once again on a food bank for Christmas. We build food boxes for the hungry by doing fundraisers during the year. This year we are having a yard sale and would like to ask the community if they have any unwanted items they could donate to us. We need the items by Aug. 14.

Please contact us at 358-0263, 270-401-2072 or 358-0385 for more information or pickup of items. Any items are accepted.

Darlene Daughtery

Is there anyone else amazed that she or he has lived to see some amazing things?  

I graciously agreed today to complete a brief survey online for a national group. One of their questions: to how many of these social networks do you subscribe; my response was “none.” But I was amazed that there were a dozen of them, some of which were brand new terms to me. The good news: the sun has continued to appear each day though I haven’t subscribed to any of them or even knew about some of them.

There is a common myth that small towns are sleepy and boring; that they see little action and virtually no scandal. To those who succumb to this myth, I say look again " and this time, try to see things from the perspective of a reporter.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced government farm subsidies in the 1930s. At the time, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace called them “a temporary solution to deal with an emergency.”

That emergency – plummeting farm-household incomes and massive farm failures – impacted 25 percent of the U.S. population.

We would like to offer additional information about the gas pricing story from last week. Several people have asked about the city purchasing gas from a convenient store rather than Bault Oil.

The City of Hodgenville does not have a contract with Bault Oil Company. A contract has never existed with the city for fuel or oil purchases.

Rickey Shelton

Bault Oil Company

It is a typical scene in our office.

A person – generally irate – although sometimes simply confused – walks through the door, picks up a paper from the stand and slaps it on the counter.

Wait – I take that back. Sometimes they are angry and confused.

Sometimes they shake the paper.

Other times, they turn a few pages and jab a finger at an article.

“Who wrote this?” they demand.

Sometimes they add a few choice words.

Our sincere appreciation goes to the Hodgenville, Buffalo and Magnolia Fire Departments for their tenacious effort and unselfish work they gave to save the surrounding property when our barn was destroyed by fire June 17.

These wonderful groups of people exhibit their valuable importance when disaster is experienced by people of LaRue County.

Nile and Ruth Riddle

“Root canals get a bad rap.”

During the last few years, I have wished more and more that I had written down all the stories my mom and dad told me when I was growing up.

No matter how hard I try to remember, some of those details have slipped away. But every now and then, something will jolt a memory – like the jolt you get when the rickety bus you’re riding in hits a pothole.

Two weeks ago, I had a chance to re-visit the story of how my parents met 60 years ago – on a bus bound for Fort Knox.