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Group plans to get Capitol Fountain running again
Found: 1 Month 4 Days 5 Hours 6 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - Martha Moore says Kentucky history is in her blood. As president of the Franklin County Trust for Historic Preservation, she led the restoration of the historic Glen Willis House.
And now she has her sights on getting water flowing in Frankfort's Old Capitol Fountain again, The (Frankfort) State Journal reports.
The fountain was built in 1839 under the administration of Gov. Charles Wickliffe and has not functioned since 1960, Moore said. The last time it was used, leaking water turned up several blocks away.
The people of Frankfort were probably energized when the fountain was built before the city even had paved streets, Moore said, and restoring it could have a similar effect in the 21st century.
"There's nothing prettier than running water," she said....
Storytelling Myths and Tales at Wickliffe Mounds
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 15 Hours 41 Minutes ago
WPSD 6 News - Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site will present storytelling sessions with local author Geraldine Marshall Gutfreund....
Small Ky. churches face large vacancies in pulpit
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days 1 Hour 56 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - Kentucky churches need what would seem an absolute requirement for houses of worship: pastors.
Eight churches in the West Union Baptist Association, which consists of Southern Baptist churches in McCracken and Ballard counties, are without permanent pastors. Eight more are without pastors in the West Kentucky Baptist Association, which consists of Carlisle, Hickman and Fulton counties.
Oscar Baptist Church, located near the Ballard County Wildlife Management Area, has been without a pastor for two months.
But the small church has faith that the right person will come along, said Carolyn Wildharber, a pulpit search committee member.
"In the first month we called a list of names (to fill in) and I was so excited," she said. "Out of the four people I called, all of them knew where Oscar was located. No one said, 'I don't want to come to that church.'"...
Mother Who Gives Birth to Stillborn Child Reaches Out To Help Others
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 5 Days 16 Hours 22 Minutes ago
WPSD 6 News - A local mother shares the heartbreaking story of her child's death, to prevent it from happening to others....
Patoka Lake center has several programs
Found: 1 Month 2 Weeks 6 Days 12 Hours 54 Minutes ago
The Courier-Journal - Patoka Lake Visitor Center, 3084 N. Dillard Road in Birdseye, is offering several free programs:...
4 polygamist sect members post bond in Texas
Found: 2 Months 3 Days 8 Hours 42 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader - Four polygamist sect members indicted on charges of sexual assault of a child were released from jail late Wednesday after posting bond.
Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran said the men - Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36; Allan Eugene Keate, 56; Michael George Emack, 57; and Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33 - posted bonds of $100,000 per charge and were likely headed home to the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. They had been jailed since turning themselves in more than a week ago.
Each of the men from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which runs the YFZ Ranch, was indicted last month on one count of sexual assault of a child. Merrill Leroy Jessop faces an additional charge of bigamy.
Under the conditions of their bonds, the men must stay in Schleicher County unless they notify authorities and must stay away from their alleged victims.
They were indicted July 22 along with imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, who was also charged with sexual assault of a child, and Lloyd Hammon Barlow, a 38-year-old physician who was charged with three misdemeanor counts of failure to report child abuse. Barlow posted bond last week....
Work force getting a bit grayer
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 1 Day 2 Hours 52 Minutes ago
Bowling Green Daily News - In a small but noticeable increase, more people statewide who have reached retirement age are spending their golden years in the work force.
A report released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Kentucky’s proportion of people 55 and older in the labor force has increased this decade.
Looking at the period from 2001-04, the census bureau determined that the population of employed Kentuckians between the ages of 55 and 64 has increased to more than 10 percent of the workforce.
Meanwhile, Kentuckians aged 14-44, while still comprising a clear majority of the work force, have seen their representation decrease this decade to below 70 percent.
The report predicts that the amount of older workers will grow in the future.
“National projections indicate that the population 65 and older will increase from about 1 in 8 people to 1 in 5 people by 2030, so that older workers will likely compose an increasingly larger proportion of each state’s workforce,” the report states.
The report also states that this development will have implications for many job sectors which had been planning for the loss of experienced workers and the payout of pensions.
The trend toward an increase in older workers is not limited to a specific region - 111 of Kentucky’s 120 counties saw more people 55 and older employed in 2004 than in 2001.
In Bowling Green, 9.7 percent of the labor force is between the ages of 55 and 64, just off the statewide total of 10.2 percent.
“The age of the work force is one of the many characteristics that companies and site selectors consider when they’re considering a region for possible investment,” said Jim Hizer, president of the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce.
In metropolitan areas, which includes Bowling Green, educational services is the industry sector with the largest number of older employees, with 19.2 percent of employees being at least 55 years old.
The sectors with the four next-highest percentages of older workers are real estate and rental/leasing, agriculture, arts/entertainment/recreation and other services (not including public administration).
Many reasons are offered for the increase in older workers - economic necessity, an interest in starting a second career and employer incentives leading to delayed retirement.
An increase in workers older than 55, especially if they move in from another community, can cause a deepening of that community’s labor pool.
Hizer said local economies are best able to weather that development if their population base is younger to start with and if a large portion of the population has high academic attainment.
“Life expectancy has been extended further out,” Hizer said. “People are living longer, healthier lives, which means they have more to offer to society and employers.”
High-water mark
Edmonson County has the largest proportion of workers 55 and older, with 20.5 percent of the county’s labor force in that age bracket.
The county is one of only two counties in the state - Ballard County being the other - in which more than 1 in 5 employees are at least 55 years of age.
Edmonson County Judge-Executive N.E. Reed said the figures were not necessarily surprising.
About 45 percent of the county’s labor force is in the manufacturing and education industry sectors, according to census bureau data, and Edmonson County Schools and Mammoth Cave National Park are among the county’s largest employers.
“A lot of those people, once they begin with those employers, are very loyal to them,” Reed said.
While the county has seen an increase in its population since 1990, attracted by the relatively low cost of living, several residents opt to commute to jobs in Warren County and elsewhere, Reed said.
“Second profession”
James Cook sees the new faces all the time, and many of them are old enough to have gone to school with him.
As a Realtor for Prudential in Bowling Green, Cook, 61, is teaching these new faces the fundamentals of the real estate business.
He has witnessed more retirees in recent years attempt to enter the field of real estate.
“Real estate is what’s known as a second profession,” said Cook, who entered the business 40 years ago. “I think with the advancement of medicine, people are staying more active longer and want to be in some type of profession. They don’t like the sitting in a chair on the front porch business.”
Real estate has attracted a significant proportion of people who have retired from other careers.
Cook believes real estate is seen as a target for older workers because of the opportunities it affords to agents to travel and interact with many people on the job.
In fact, older real estate agents are sometimes preferred by retirees looking for a new home.
“If you have a client looking for a house, they might look for (an agent) close to their age to work with,” Cook said.
In his classes, Cook advises would-be agents that this is a full-time profession requiring just as much effort as what they put forth in their first careers.
As for his own future, Cook imagines he will be selling properties as long as he’s able to do so.
“I don’t think I’ll ever retire,” he said. “I enjoy what I do, and I’ll do it as long as my health will let me.”
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More Charges in Robbery Spree
Found: 2 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days 8 Hours 50 Minutes ago
WPSD 6 News - The Suspects and the charges are piling up in connection with an area man now suspected in as many as 70 robberies....
Youth group sues Louisville's Evangel World Prayer Center
Found: 3 Months 1 Day 15 Hours 32 Minutes ago
The Courier-Journal - Four adults and 22 children are suing Evangel World Prayer Center, one of Louisville's largest churches, alleging they were sickened by carbon monoxide two years ago while riding a bus rented from the congregation....
Youth group sues popular Evangel church
Found: 3 Months 1 Day 21 Hours 41 Minutes ago
The Courier-Journal - Four adults and 22 children are suing Evangel World Prayer Center, one of Louisville's largest churches, alleging they were sickened by carbon monoxide two years ago while riding a bus rented from the congregation....
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