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Fishing Conditions on Lake Cumberland
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St. Jude dream home unveiled
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Bowling Green Daily News - The doors were thrown open to the newest St. Jude Dream Home on Friday afternoon, with contractors, corporate sponsors and early ticket buyers getting a sneak peek of the spacious house.
Located in the September Lakes subdivision in Alvaton, the dream home is 3,173 square feet, with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a three-car garage and bonus room.
A stone walkway snakes its way to the front door of the brick structure, and a massive lake is situated behind the house.
Each room has been furnished with showcase items from Thornton Furniture.
This is the fourth year that a St. Jude Dream Home has been built in Warren County, and this particular house is the first one in September Lakes.
“A lot of the early ticket buyers are making faith-based buys, thinking it’s going to be a good house, and when people come here and see it, they’ll think, ‘Man, this is a nice house,’ ” said Adam Fields, a spokesman for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
About half of the 7,500 available tickets for the dream home prize drawing, which are available for $100 each, have been sold up to this point, according to Fields.
Warren County is one of several communities to have hosted a dream home over the years.
The giveaway has become a popular fundraiser to benefit the hospital’s efforts to find a cure for cancer and other diseases affecting children.
A portion of the lot on which the house sits was donated for the giveaway by Matthew Cook of Grassroots Development, developer of the subdivision.
“We are extremely proud to have this as one of the anchors of our development,” Cook said.
A flurry of activity has marked the last several days at the Dream Home.
Since the groundbreaking March 6, more than 60 different contractors have contributed to the construction, which was completed last week.
On Wednesday, a special barbecue lunch was held at the site to honor the contractors for their work, the sneak peek was held Friday and the dream home will be officially open to the public at 9 a.m. today.
“We were on a fairly tight schedule starting from when we did,” said Darrel Sweets of Sweets Design Build, which led the construction effort. “You have volunteers taking time from other projects to contribute their time to this one, and everyone has pitched in and done their part.”
Sweets said that the bonus room, roughly 450 square feet of space on the second floor of the house and lined with a dozen electrical outlets, has become something of a staple in newer homes.
“For people who need that extra office space, a spare bedroom for company or a play area for their kids, the bonus room has become a selling point,” Sweets said. “Even in lower-end and medium range houses, people want flexible space.”
Gary Puckett of Quality Landscaping acted as the landscape designer for the dream home, using decorative rock rather than mulch for the garden area at the front of the house.
“I’ve been a big fan of St. Jude for years, and my heart goes out to the children that this will benefit,” Puckett said.
Among the first ticket buyers to take a look at the house were Alf and Mary McDougal of Bowling Green.
The McDougals have entered each of the three previous dream home drawings, and Art acknowledged he faced long odds in winning this year’s giveaway.
“When you buy (a ticket) you don’t expect to win, though it would be great if we did win,” he said. “I look at this as more of a donation (to St. Jude).”
Art McDougal said he liked the house for its high ceilings, although he personally preferred last year’s home, located in Olde Stone and won by Penny Wade of Scottsville.
The dream home will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. each Sunday until Sept. 6.
The drawing for the home and other prizes will take place Sept. 7 on WBKO.
In conjunction with the home, Thornton Furniture is holding free registration to win a $5,000 shopping spree.
Tickets are available for sale at the home, Hancock Fabrics or Houchens IGA. Tickets can also be bought by calling (800) 834-5461 or by visiting www.stjudedreamhome.org.
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Two arrested after car fires
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Evansville Courier & Press - Two Warrick County men are arrested and accused of setting fire to several cars in Newburgh.
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Family visitation centers need your help
Found: 1 Month 3 Weeks 5 Hours 49 Minutes ago
Lexington Hearld-Leader -
Most of us are blissfully unaware of the trouble some families have in maintaining parental contact with children.
Not all parents are modeled after June and Ward Cleaver of Leave It to Beaver fame or like Dr. Cliff and Clair Huxtable of The Cosby Show.
Some real-life parents have violent histories.
Yet most children want contact with both parents, even if there is risk to themselves or a parent because of acrimony between adults. ...
Birth records for July 13, 2008
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Evansville Courier & Press - birth records
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Kentucky boasts a summer’s worth of adventures
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Lexington Hearld-Leader - With the price of gas and the uncertain economy, this seems to be the year of the “staycation.”If you do have to stay at home this summer, you can experience a wealth of treasures here in the Bluegrass State, including a town that sprang from a meteor crash and the commonwealth’s own version of the Holy Land.I left my heart in Possum Trot (or maybe Monkey’s Eyebrow)Kentucky is known throughout the world for its Thoroughbreds, and its state slogan, “Unbridled Spirit,”says it all. However, the commonwealth did not ignore some of the less majestic members of the animal kingdom when it came to naming its towns. Visitors can stop off in Rabbit Hash in Northern Kentucky, Monkey’s Eyebrow in Western Kentucky, Beaver Bottom in the eastern part of the state, and Elkton in the far southern part of the state near the Tennessee line, which is not to be confused with Elkhorn City on the Virginia line. There is a Butterfly and a Bug (even a Bugtussle.) How about a stopover in Coon City or Possum Trot?Some Kentucky town names might even give you the shivers —Mousie, Rattlesnake and Spider. And for those who insist on the noble equine, there’s always Horse Cave.(If you want to know more about Kentucky communities with funny names, check our archives at www.kentucky.comto read stories from our occasional Project Dateline series by features writer Amy Wilson.)...
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The Mountain Eagle - Mr. and Mrs. Bonell Watts announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their son, Scott Allen Watts of Letcher, to April Michelle Barrett Watson of Beaver Dam. The bride-elect is the daughter of Judy Barrett of Beaver Dam and the late David Watson....
Fuel costs hinder services to needy
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Bowling Green Daily News - How do you chose between gas and food? That was one question asked this morning by a motorist filling up her Chevy Trailblazer at Kroger on Campbell Lane.
“That’s what it may come to,” Allyson Schoup said, noting that food prices are rising along with gasoline because of transportation costs and flooding in America’s breadbasket.
Gas prices rose citywide Monday from $3.95 a gallon to $4.16 and then settled in at $4.09 a gallon for regular unleaded.
Schoup, who lives on an Army base in Germany with her husband and daughters, is in Bowling Green with her daughters for the summer.
“This is sort of a slap in the face,” she said. “Prices are much cheaper on the base.”
Schoup said her family already takes advantage of free activities, including programs at the library and free movies, but at some point it will be too costly for some people to get to those free activities.
“That was $70 worth of Kroger gas,” she had just remarked to her two daughters sitting in the vehicle.
For Kroger customers with a Kroger card, the gasoline was among the cheapest in town. It was a base price of $4.09 for regular. But a Kroger cards chops off 3 cents a gallon and if you have spent at least $100 on groceries since your last fill up, you get 10 cents a gallon off. Most other stations were selling it for $4.09 a gallon.
Schoup said if gas continues to go up, people will have to make sacrifices.
“But how do you pick between gas and food?” she asked.
Susan Higgins of Bowling Green was doing something at Kroger she rarely does - fills up.
“I travel a lot so I watch what gas costs and get it where it is cheaper,” Higgins said. “It seems to be cheaper in smaller towns.”
Beaver Dam is a favorite fill-up spot, typically 6 cents a gallon cheaper than Bowling Green. Higgins said she guesses it’s because demand is lower there than in Bowling Green.
She filled up today because “my husband gave me his credit card,” she said.
Higgins acknowledges that she doesn’t drive a very economical car, a GMC Envoy, which gets just 14 or 15 mpg on the highway.
“But I have a large family so I have to have it,” she said.
In Rockfield, Kathy Green was filling up her Saturn Vue at the IGA.
Green of Rockfield said she saw that gas prices had risen Monday, but she had also heard that oil went down this morning.
Oil in the past two days has dropped $8 a barrel.
“So I was a little surprised that gas was still up,” Green said.
Green is lucky - she works just a short distance away in Woodburn and her car gets about 24 mpg.
“But there are some young ladies there who are just making ends meet,” she said.
The nursing home administrator recently took a new job closer to her home, Green said.
“She was having to drive 45 minutes so I can’t blame her,” Green said.
At the Shell Station on Russellville Road, Nancy Smith of Rockfield was filling up her PT Cruiser for a trip to Evansville, Ind., to visit her daughter.
“I was just thinking about how much cheaper this trip used to be,” Smith said.
She estimates it will cost about $70 to make the round trip with her vehicle, which gets about 24 mpg. A year ago, gas was about $2.90 a gallon, so the same trip would have been $50.
Smith said she is not yet ready to cut back on the once-a-month visits with her daughter, but she will cut out longer trips and will otherwise economize.
“I will have to do more than one thing in a trip,” she said.
Gasoline prices are affecting every aspect of the economy. Wall Street analysts expect the stock market to remain volatile if prices continue to raise and U.S. automakers continue to lay off workers because consumers are no longer buying the big gas guzzlers they had been producing.
General Motors is considering lopping off more of its brands that have had sluggish sales, including the Hummer.
— The Associated Press contributed information to this article.
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Firefighters present plaque to vocational students
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Glasgow Daily Times - Firefighters with the Glasgow Fire Department recently made a presentation to the Barren County Area Vocational Center. ...
Junior Ranger program delights many
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Glasgow Daily Times - Mammoth Cave National Park?s Junior Ranger Program has recently become very popular, not only among the children who participate in the program, but their parents, too. ...
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