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Vol. 118 No. 198
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Beshear plugs
budget shortfall
“You never really like to
dip into that, but that’s why
it’s there,” said House budget
chairman Rick Rand, D-Bedford. “It’s really conservative
how much he dipped into it. I
don’t think that will cause any
great distress going forward.”
Beshear said two goals guided his decisions: to make government as “efficient and as
lean as possible” and to protect the core services of “education, health care and public
safety.”
Beshear’s plan trims a little
more than $260,000 from the
Education Cabinet.
He did not cut the budgets of the Health and Family Services and Justice and
Public Safety cabinets. But he
did transfer $23 million from
some Health and Family Services accounts and $250,000
from the Juvenile Justice program operations fund. He said
both departments had surplus
funds over what had been
budgeted.
“The use of fund transfers
is a valuable tool in how we
manage and balance the overall budget of the Commonwealth, and one that keeps us
from making deeper cuts to
state agencies,” Beshear said
in a news release.
BY ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
ELLEN O’NAN | The Sun
Vanessa Sexton, from Sugar Creek United Methodist Church in Sugar Creek, Illinois, helps her team paint
a front porch in Paducah on Wednesday morning. The team is a part of PUMP Camp, which was established 15 years ago and is currently hosted by Broadway Methodist in downtown Paducah.
PUMP campers find ways to help
BY LAUREL BLACK
[email protected]
As summer drags on, adults can
take heart in the fact that at least
one group of teenagers isn’t sleeping in this week.
Middle and high school students
with the Paducah Urban Mission
Plunge, or PUMP Camp, are gearing up to help the needy close to
home. Before the week’s out, about
78 kids and staff will have volunteered at a local soup kitchen,
lent a hand at area ministries and
helped homeowners with muchneeded repairs.
“We really want them to grasp
the concept that God can be a part
of everyday life, whether that’s
community ministry or sharing
Christ with friends during school,”
said Casey Watson, one of the
camp’s organizers.
PUMP was born around 1997
out of Concord United Methodist Church and became a district
project the next year, Watson said.
While it’s directly endorsed by the
United Methodist Church, several
other local churches and denominations come together to make the
camp possible.
By the end of their experience,
Watson said, attendees will see
that they don’t have to leave the
country to go on a mission trip. In
fact, they can find the opportunity
in their own backyards — literally,
if they happen to live in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood.
One of the camp’s projects
on Wednesday put kids to work
on home improvement projects
through the Midtown Alliance of
Neighbors, a 501(c)3 that grew
out of the city’s revitalization plan
in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood. Since it was formed in 2008,
the alliance has helped more than
100 homeowners who are financially unable to perform necessary
maintenance on their properties,
Executive Director Sharon Poat
said.
“It was a lovely way for us to get
to know people and get to know
their needs,” she said.
Washing siding, sanding mortar
and painting homes are among the
common tasks for the teenage volunteers, Poat said.
“It’s really heartwarming to see
the kids working,” she said. “It
makes a big difference.”
Contact Laurel Black, a Paducah
Sun staff writer, at 270-5758641, or follow @LaurelFBlack on
Twitter.
FRANKFORT — Democratic
Gov. Steve Beshear plugged
a $91 million hole in Kentucky’s $9.5 billion budget on
Wednesday — marking $1.7
billion in total budget reductions during his two terms as
the state’s chief executive.
State officials announced
the shortfall last week following a year of sluggish collections on state income taxes.
Beshear said he had few
options to balance the budget because the shortfall happened at the end of the fiscal
year when most of the money
had already been spent. That’s
why his plan cut just $3 million in state spending. The
rest comes from dipping into
the various budget accounts
at several state agencies and
taking from the state’s reserve
fund.
The $21.2 million transfer
from the state’s reserves leaves
the state’s “rainy day fund” only to be used in emergencies
- with $77 million, or less than
1 percent of the state’s budget.
The Government Finance Officers Association suggests
states set aside between 5 percent and 15 percent of general
fund operating revenues.
Democrats seek votes
after birth control loss
BY DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate
Democrats suffered what
looked like a difficult setback
on birth control Wednesday,
but they hope it pays big political dividends in November.
Republicans blocked a bill
that was designed to override
a Supreme Court ruling and
ensure access to contracep-
tion for women who get their
health insurance from companies with religious objections. The vote was 56-43 to
move ahead on the legislation
— dubbed the “Not My Boss’
Business Act” by proponents —
four short of the 60 necessary
to proceed.
But Democrats hope the issue has enough life to enerPlease see VOTES | 12A
Man spraying for mosquitoes saves woman
BY BOBBIE FOUST
Herald Ledger
Besides being a successful real
estate agent and managing the
operations of revitalizing Eddyville Mall, Tim Beck wears a
third hat.
He also works for the state, and
in that capacity, he responded to
a request from Eddyville Mayor
Nancy Slaton to spray the city for
mosquitoes the evening of July 8.
That assignment turned him into
another type of hero. As Beck was
spraying along East Dale Avenue
shortly before 11 p.m., he spied
a young woman running toward
the street flailing her arms trying
to stop him.
It was Kathy Stone Brown, and
she was choking.
Brown’s ordeal began a few
minutes earlier when she was
taking her daily doses of vitamins
before retiring for the evening. “I
take a lot of vitamins,” she said.
“I was standing in my kitchen and
I took the first handful, and was
drinking water. And (the vitamins) got hung in my throat and
wouldn’t go down.
“I was panicking!” she said. “I
noticed lights of someone’s truck
coming down the road; I ran out
and started swinging my hands
and (Tim) stopped. At first, he
thought I didn’t want him to
spray at my house. I let him know
I was choking, and he performed
the Heimlich maneuver — he did
it twice and the pills came up.”
She said Beck immediately
phoned for emergency help, and
Eddyville Police Officer Brooks
Dixon and a Kentucky State Police trooper showed up.
“Tim asked me to sit down,”
Brown said. “It was a blessing
that he came along. I was just
panicking and didn’t know what
to do.”
Brown said she didn’t go to
the hospital or to a doctor and
was fine the next day. “It was
just God’s doing” that Tim came
along when he did.
“It was God.”
Beck also attributed his being
in the right place at the right time
to divine intervention. He queried: “What are the odds of me
being on that street at that exact
time?”
JOHN PAUL HENRY | The Sun
Kathy Stone Brown (right) was choking on vitamin supplements
in her home around 10:40 p.m. on July 8th when she noticed Tim
Beck passing by as he made the rounds spraying for mosquitoes in
Brown’s Eddyville neighborhood. Brown ran outside to flag him down
and he performed the Heimlich maneuver on Brown and dislodged
the pills that were stuck in her throat.
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Barbecue chefs with Barbecue on
the River recently took a group of enthusiasts through the first barbecue
judging class of the year.
Where were you when men landed
on the moon? It’s the question Buzz
Aldrin is asking everybody as the
event’s 45th anniversary approaches.
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Will Hancock,
recent graduate
of Tilghman High
School, works with
Kendall McDonald
(right), a student at
McNabb Elementary, and Zyanna
Shumpert (left), a
student at Morgan
Elementary, on
reading and writing
skills at the Grace
Episcopal Church
on Tuesday afternoon. The camp
focuses on reading skills, but the
children also go
swimming and go
on field trips in the
afternoon.
Today
Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4
p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive. Learn
to detect potential Medicare errors,
fraud and abuse. Report errors or
suspected fraud to SMP. 442-8993.
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
retirees and spouses, 11:45 a.m.,
Lone Oak Little Castle. 442-8332.
Downtown Kiwanis Club, lunch,
noon, Igert Hall at Broadway Methodist Church.
Esther Chapter Five Order of the
Eastern Star, 6 p.m., 2340 Jackson
St. 554-5076.
Paducah Citizens Police Academy alumni, 6:30 p.m., Kentucky
Oaks Mall Community Room.
Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Gen. Lloyd Tilghman Camp No.
1495, 7 p.m., upstairs, Gen. Lloyd
Tilghman Home and Civil War Museum. 443-4237.
South Paducah Kiwanis meeting,
6:30 p.m. 1640 S. 6th St., Paducah
KY 42001. Info: Jay English 270243-0392 /or Tom Emerson Sr.
270-444-6413. 441-0825.
Dance, 7-10 p.m., Traders Mall,
6900 Benton Road, Reidland. Band:
Due South. $5.
McCracken County Amateur Radio Emergency Services, 7 p.m.,
West Kentucky Navigation, 631 Marine Way.
Vietnam Veterans of America, 7
p.m., DAV building, Paducah.
Friday
Senior Medicare Patrol, 8 a.m.-4
p.m., 1400 H.C. Mathis Drive. Learn
to detect potential Medicare errors,
fraud and abuse. Report errors or
suspected fraud to SMP. 442-8993.
Matters of Life Forum, 11:30
a.m., Ledbetter Senior Center,
2401 Rudd Spees Road.
Disabled American Veterans
Chapter 118, potluck at noon,
meeting at 1 p.m., Mike Miller Park
and Activity Building, Draffenville.
906-8079 or 354-6393.
Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River City
Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919 Cairo
Road.
Agenda
The Agenda is a listing of government meetings today.
■ Crittenden Fiscal Court — 8:30
a.m., courthouse.
■ Marshall County E-911 Board —
8:30 a.m., sheriff’s office complex.
Wednesday’s lottery
Kentucky
Pick 3-midday: 3-0-6
Pick 3-evening: 5-7-2
Pick 4-midday: 1-4-2-3
Pick 4-evening: 3-1-1-9
Cash Ball: 7-12-20-28 CB 2
Cash Ball Kicker: 9-7-4-0-1
5 Card Cash: AD-7D-10C-QS-4D
Powerball: 05-15-18-26-32 PB 35 PP 3
Illinois
Pick 3-midday: 6-5-3 FB 3
Pick 3-evening: 0-2-5 FB 5
Pick 4-midday: 7-6-4-7 FB 7
Pick 4-evening: 9-9-0-7 FB 2
My 3-midday: 4-2-8
My 3-evening: 1-0-2
Lucky Day Lotto-midday: 01-06-15-33-39
Lucky Day Lotto-evening: 07-13-16-31-37
Lotto: 11-12-32-33-45-51 Extra Shot: 25
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Reading camp prepares students
BY KATIE PAXTON
[email protected]
Local elementary students
are kick-starting their return to
school with Reading Camp, a
weeklong day camp hosted by
Grace Episcopal Church and
other local churches to promote
academic growth during summer with informal educational
activities.
Reading Camp started as a
secular day camp in the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington. It
quickly spread to other Episcopal churches across the state,
the country and the world. This
is Grace Episcopal Church’s
sixth year hosting the camp.
Twenty students from Clark,
McNabb, Farley and Morgan
elementary schools attend the
camp as rising 3rd-5th graders.
Retired licensed teachers and
volunteers from Grace Episcopal, First Presbyterian Broadway United Methodist, Fountain Avenue and Westminster
Presbyterian churches teach
the students, organize activities,
coordinate food and provide
resources such as buses, playground toys and swimming pool
access.
The camp consists of enrichment classes and field trips.
Enrichments stations include
creative writing, phonics, sight
words, drama, pleasure reading
and comprehension.
“We try to make it fun,” said
Dabney Haugh, chairwoman of
Grace Episcopal Church’s Reading Camp. “A lot of stations use
games and hands-on activities.
There are two teachers for four
children in each station. Being
able to work almost one-on-one
really makes a difference.”
One of the activities new to the
camp this year uses physical exercises such as dancing, stomping and rolling to jump-start the
brain in relation to reading.
“Based on brain research of
how a child learns, these activities that look like exercise takes
body movement and relates it to
learning,” said Jessiann McCarthy, the Christian Education Coordinator at First Presbyterian
Church and a camp volunteer
teacher. “There’s sequencing,
focusing, focus of the eye, sitting
still. Some of these skills are not
innate. When you’re learning
to read, you have to do a whole
sequence of things at once. You
can’t divorce the body from the
brain.”
In addition to classes, there
are music lessons, swimming
at Broadway United Methodist
Church and field trips each afternoon.
“It’s a packed day,” said
Haugh. “In the past we’ve had
story tellers and guest speakers
come to speak about things we
are learning about in relation to
our theme that year.”
This year’s theme is animals,
incorporating field trips to Project Hope “No-Kill” Animal Shelter, Four Rivers Sport Horse
Center, Land Between the Lakes
Nature Station and fishing at
Noble Park.
The camp is funded mostly
by donations as well as a small
grant the church received a few
years ago. Campers will receive
their own backpacks at the end
of the camp filled with donated
school supplies.
Local middle and high school
students volunteer as camp
counselors. A senior counselor
is usually a high school student, and a junior counselor is
a former camper who must have
completed at least one year of
middle school.
“It’s an honor to be chosen,”
said Haugh. “They must be mature, and they know how things
operate since they have gone to
the camp. It’s a win-win.”
Anna Reed, an 8th-grader at
Paducah Middle School, said being a junior counselor is “pretty
awesome.”
“You get to see what it is like
being a camper and helping the
Vehicle thefts prompt police warning
BY LAUREN P. DUNCAN
[email protected]
Paducah Police are reminding citizens to take precautions against vehicle breakins.
Police Chief Brandon Barnhill said in the last three to
four weeks an unusual number of break-ins to vehicles
have been reported, as well as
several vehicle thefts.
“We think those are tied,”
he said.
He said the department has
received reports of break-ins
ranging from the Lower Town
area to 32nd Street. Over the
past few weeks, neighborhood
areas have had several breakins and thefts clustered in a
period of 24 to 48 hours.
He said the department
hopes to have suspects identified and arrest warrants issued soon. Police believe more
“Don’t ever assume that what you’re
leaving in your car has no value.”
Brandon Barnhill
Paducah Police chief
than one person is involved.
Barnhill said the department is asking that people be
diligent in monitoring their
vehicles. He said many of the
cars that were broken into
were left unlocked, and some
had the keys left in them.
“Don’t ever assume that
what you’re leaving in your car
has no value,” he said. “It may
have some value to someone
else.”
He advised that if individuals must leave something in
the car, they should put it in
the trunk.
Barnhill said residents can
contact the Paducah Police
Department for advice in
organizing a neighborhood
watch program if their neighborhood doesn’t have one. He
also asked that anyone who
witnesses suspicious activity
call police.
Despite the recent spate of
car thefts, Barnhill said overall thefts in the city are down
19 percent from last year.
“The efforts (of police) over
the course of the year have
paid off,” he said.
Contact Lauren Duncan,
Paducah Sun staff writer, at
270-575-8692 or follow @
laurenpduncan on Twitter.
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LEDBETTER — Markets totaled 808 head. Compared to last week: steers and heifers sold $5 to
$6 lower; slaughter cows and slaughter bulls, $5
to $7 higher.
Slaughter cows: breaker, 75 to 80 percent lean,
1300 to 1650 lbs., $105 to $110; boner, 80 to 85
percent lean, 1200 to 1600 lbs., $101 to $111;
high dressing, $115 to $121.50; low dressing,
$97; lean, 85 to 90 percent lean, 1000 to 1300
lbs., $91 to $104; high dressing, $108 to $112;
low dressing, $82.50 to $90.
Slaughter bulls yield grade 1-2: 1130 to 1750
lbs., $120 to $128; high dressing, $133; low
dressing, $105.
Feeder steers medium and large 1-2: 200 to
300 lbs., $280 to $305; 300 to 400 lbs., $280
to $305; 400 to 500 lbs., $245 to $267; 500 to
600 lbs., $228 to $244; 600 to 700 lbs., $211
to $222; 700 to 800 lbs., $186 to $193; 900 to
1000 lbs., $146.
Feeder bulls medium and large 1-2: 300 to
400 lbs., $256 to $270; 400 to 500 lbs., $244
to $260; 500 to 600 lbs., $221 to $230; 600 to
700 lbs., $200 to $212; 700 to 800 lbs., $178 to
$192; 800 to 900 lbs., $157; 900 to 1000 lbs.,
$123.
Feeder heifers medium and large 1-2: 200 to
300 lbs., $263; 300 to 400 lbs., $234 to $244;
400 to 500 lbs., $232 to $241; 500 to 600 lbs.,
$216 to $229; 600 to 700 lbs., $199 to $209;
700 to 800 lbs., $184 to $185; 800 to 900 lbs.,
$140.
Stock cows: cows 3-9 years old, 3 to 8 months
bred, $1,175to $1,610 per head.
Stock cow/calf pairs: cows 2-8 years old with
calves at side, $1,375 to $2,000 per pair.
Head Calves: dairy, $145 to $215; beef, $210
to $340.
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campers,” she said.
Her younger sister, Addison Reed, a fourth-grader at
McNabb Elementary School,
said, “Stuff can be challenging.
I learned new sight words, new
games and about drama. My
favorites are drama, swimming
and field trips.”
Anesia Griffith, a 5th-grader
at Clark Elementary School,
said, “I love having fun here. I
like drama because we can dress
up.” She said she also enjoyed
writing a poem about herself in
creative writing and playing outside with the senior counselors.
Each camper and their parents are given a “reading contract” at the beginning of the
week to sign, which states that
they will read together at least
10 minutes a day during the
week.
“If you have a child who is
struggling with reading, take
10 minutes a day to read to
your child or have them read
to you,” Haugh said. “Let the
child choose the book because
if they’re interested, they’ll take
off. I know everyone is busy, but
I think parents will be amazed at
the difference it makes.”
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Barbecue judging class stokes interest
BY LEANNE FULLER
[email protected]
A group of barbecue enthusiasts recently gathered
at the Murray State University Paducah Regional Campus to learn from cookers
with Barbecue on the River
at its first judging school of
the year.
Barbecue on the River has
held the barbecue judging
classes since 2010, and director Susie Coiner said the
class offers a look into how
festival entries are judged.
Instructors at the first
judging school of the year,
held Saturday, included
Barbecue on the River pit
masters, certified Kansas
City Barbecue Society judges, Memphis Barbecue Network judges and the Barbecue on the River, Inc. team.
“We will take the participants through a raw product all the way to a finished
product,” Coiner said. “We
will describe our point
system, we will give them
guidelines as to what con-
stitutes something tender,
tough or raw and then we
will give them guidelines on
how one would actually formulate their score after they
taste the product.”
Coiner said that with
more than 100 volunteer
judges, Barbecue on the
River currently has enough
judges for this year’s festival. However, she said folks
who attend one of its judging schools do have a good
chance at judging in the
future. She said those interested in becoming a judge
can email Barbecue on the
River at [email protected].
“We have used a consistent base of judges throughout our 20 years, and if a
position opens up we will
pull from our archives of
who we have,” Coiner said.
She said the judging
school is typically attended
by Barbecue on the River
contestants seeking to familiarize themselves with
what judges look for and
Briefs
Bank robbery, attempted robbery connected
PRINCETON — A link between the July 9 robbery of
the Planters Bank in Princeton and an attempted robbery that ended in the suspect’s death two days later
has been confirmed by the Princeton Police Department.
James E. Hamm, 67, was killed Friday morning at the
bank, l208 N. Jefferson St.
Kentucky State Police said a man identified as Hamm
entered the bank shortly after it opened Friday armed
with a handgun and wearing a stocking over his face.
Princeton Police Chief Don Weedman, who happened
to be in the bank, instructed the man to drop his weapon. Hamm reportedly ignored that command, turned toward the chief and fired. The chief shot the man, fatally
wounding him.
Assistant Police Chief R.L. Howton said officers recovered items in a search of Hamm’s residence that connect him to a robbery at the same bank July 9, including
a large sum of cash with Planters Bank wrappers.
— Princeton Times Leader
Graves traffic stop ends with two arrests
A traffic stop early Tuesday in Graves County resulted
in two arrests. Graves County Deputy Richard Edwards saw a car with
no brake lights. The car was determined to be driven by
Jessica Hamilton, 33.
Edwards and Detective Steve Hendley conducted
a traffic stop and a field sobriety test, according to a
report from the sheriff’s department. Hamilton was
charged with driving under the influence. The passenger,
Theresa Hitchcock, 51, told police that she had oxycodone for which she did not have a prescription.
Hitchcock was arrested and the vehicle was searched.
Deputies found more pills and a smoking pipe with suspected meth inside, the report said.
Hamilton and Hitchcock were taken to the Graves
County Jail where Hamilton is alleged to have attempted
to flush suspected Lortab pills that she had hidden.
Hamilton was charged with having no brake lights,
not having a driver’s license in her possession, firstdegree DUI, second-degree possession of a controlled
substance, promoting contraband, and tampering with
physical evidence.
Hitchcock was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and
a controlled substance not properly contained.
—Staff report
I-24 bridge repairs coming to a close
A contractor for the Illinois Department of Transportation is finishing work on the Interstate 24 Ohio River
Bridge between Paducah and Metropolis, according to
the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The Illinois Department of Transportation indicated the
eastbound work zone lane restriction for deck rehabilitation work was expected to come down late Wednesday
afternoon. There will be a daytime work zone lane restriction for westbound traffic from Kentucky into Illinois
today to complete installation of pavement markings.
If all goes as planned, all work zone traffic control
equipment will be removed and all lanes should be open
to normal traffic flow on Friday.
Meanwhile, the U.S. 45 Irvin Cobb Bridge connecting
Paducah and Brookport, Ill., will be closed until about
July 28 to allow an underpass to be installed as part of
Paducah’s Greenway Trail.
—Staff report
Mallard Fillmore
Contributed photo
Auditor Carol Gault oversees Barbecue on the River
judging school participants Tucker McAlpin, Bob Davies and Mark Higgins at the Murray State University
Paducah Regional Campus on Saturday. Barbecue on
the River has held one-day judging schools since 2010,
and Saturday’s was the first of 2014.
enthusiasts barbecuing at
home who “like to learn the
tricks and trades of the pit
masters who are helping
give the class.”
Among the latter group is
Nicholas Holland, a lawyer
at Whitlow, Roberts, Houston and Straub in Paducah
who attended the judging
school for the first time Saturday. Holland — who has
attended Barbecue on the
River every year he’s lived
in Paducah — said he has a
hobbyist’s level of interest
in smoking and barbecuing, but had never before
considered what makes for
competition-grade barbecue.
“First we had classroom
instruction — about an
hour’s worth — on how
judging is done there: how it
differs from other festivals,
information on how to consider and judge each cut of
(meat),” Holland recalled.
“Also techniques individual
barbecuers use to make it:
woods they use, smokers
they use, how the Barbecue on the River judging is
done, what the scale is, and
what the three categories of
judging are, and how that’s
done in terms of when and
where, too.”
The highlight though,
Holland said, was the barbecue tasting at the end of
the class. Coiner explained
that the tasting doubles as
an chance for the students
to enjoy barbecue prepared
by Barbecue on the River
pit masters and an opportunity to put their new-found
judging skills to the test.
“Ribs that didn’t come off
the bone and a sauce that
was overly sweet,” Holland
recalled. “Everyone kind of
knew that it was purposeful, but it was a useful lesson. They made a mistake
on purpose in that case.”
While Holland said he
won’t enter any barbecue
competitions anytime soon
because between work and
raising two children — ages
5 and 3 — with his wife, he
couldn’t devote the necessary time to it, he found the
class to be a valuable experience.
“It was really worthwhile,” Holland said. “And
I would recommend it to
anyone who wants to learn
more about barbecuing and
about how judging is done.”
Contact Leanne Fuller, a
Sun staff writer, at 270575-8653.
PACRO plans meeting on cleanup
BY DAVID ZOELLER
[email protected]
Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization
members are planning a
face-to-face meeting on the
transition from the United
States Enrichment Corporation to the U.S. Department of Energy oversight
of cleanup operations at the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion
Plant.
According to Charlie
Martin, PACRO executive
director, USEC and DOE
officials have apparently
come to an agreement and
the meeting will give them
a chance to “explain to us
how the transition is going
to occur.”
Even though the plant
is cutting back operations,
there is still a need to understand how ongoing systems and functions like fire
protection and security are
being handled and who has
responsibility for them,
Martin said.
“There are important
issues we’d like to understand,” Martin said. “Hopefully, we can ask questions.”
Martin
recommended
the organization invite
USEC and DOE officials to
its September meeting.
Contract approval for the
site cleanup is still under review by DOE, Martin said,
which has yet to decide between two contractors.
The delay in awarding
a cleanup contract is of
particular concern as it relates to how much cleanup
money approved by Congress will be spent in this
fiscal year. Also of interest
is what impact having unspent 2014-allocated funds
roll over into 2015 will have
on the amount ultimately
approved next year, Martin
said.
“Over the long haul, this
is a significant issue for
both the DOE and the community,” Martin said.
Issues surrounding the
PGDP will once again be
a main topic of discussion
when the Paducah Area
Chamber of Commerce-led
delegation makes its annual
trip to Washington, D.C. in
September, according to
Sandra Wilson, chamber
president. The community
has always presented a
united front when it meets
with its Congressional delegation on these trips, she
said.
The board also discussed
the possibility of visiting
other gaseous diffusion
plant sites to see how waste
generated from the cleanup
of those sites was disposed
of and other issues.
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Work begins to prevent Livingston flooding
BY PAT THOMANN
Livingston Ledger
SMITHLAND — Work
began in early June to correct a problem that the
residents of Jennings and
Depot Roads in Livingston
County’s Lake City have
had to deal with for a long
time.
Livingston County Magistrate Franklin Walker has
been working for more than
a year with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers to try
to acquire a grant to pay for
needed improvements that
would alleviate flooding on
those roads when the Cumberland River below Barkley Dam rises.
Although a grant never
came through for the project, Mike Looney with
the Corps of Engineers
contacted Walker and informed him that the corps
finally had available funding for the project. The estimated cost of the project is
$453,000.
The first phase of the
project began in early June
with the installation of a
large drain line that would
divert water into the Cumberland River. The only
“The people affected by previous
flooding can now go to sleep at
night knowing they are protected.”
Franklin Walker
Livingston County magistrate
thing left to finalize that
project is the installation
of screens to prevent debris
from getting into the lines
and clogging the system.
On the discharge section
of the drain line a flapper is
being installed to prevent
water from flowing back
through the line and flooding the Depot Road area.
The flapper will remain exposed and dry until water
reaches approximately 318
feet.
When that happens, the
flapper will be pushed into
place and water will not
be allowed to flow from
the river back through the
drain as it has done in the
past. At this point, the only
way flooding can occur in
the affected areas is if an
extremely large amount of
rainfall occurs in a short
period of time. However, if
this occurs the county has
several resources that can
supply pumps to remove
the water out before it becomes a problem.
“The people affected by
previous flooding can now
go to sleep at night knowing
they are protected,” Walker
said.
Looney said, “This has
been a good partnership
with the corps, Franklin
Walker and Livingston
County to get this job done.
Nothing is assured as far as
floodwaters but we are better prepared to take care of
any issues that arise.”
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Booting dissident trustee
won’t solve MCU’s woes
The Mid-Continent University
Board of Trustees didn’t exactly
cover itself in glory Monday night
when it gave one of its members
the boot for the crime of talking
to the media.
The MCU board voted to
remove trustee Gale Hawkins,
an 11-year member, for “violating
written and approved board
policy.” Specifically, Hawkins
was said to have violated an
April 12, 2014 board resolution,
adopted by “voice vote”, saying
that “all communications with
the news media, public and/or
employees” would come from the
president or his designee and “no
trustee … shall issue any public
statements regarding the action
of the Board of Trustees and/or
issues affecting the university.”
It leads one to ask, just what
is the role of a trustee, if it is
not to communicate with the
community and university
stakeholders about issues
affecting the university?
In a July 8 letter to trustees, a
copy of which was obtained by
the Sun, Acting President Tom
Walden begins by telling trustees
that “The administration is
trying our very best to protect
the board members by obtaining
the appropriate insurance
and by responding to various
governmental agencies …”
Walden then goes on to complain
that information “leaked” to
the media contained “errors or
innuendos that are incorrect”
resulting in “rumors” that “cost
time and effort” and “complicates
and delays the possible solutions
available to the university.”
t strikes us that the best
way to fight rumors and
innuendos is for the
administration and the board
to be open about what their
problems are and what they
are doing about them. After
promising openness early on, the
administration and trustees have
gone into bunker mode, always
meeting in closed session and
not even allowing reporters into
the building where meetings are
taking place.
Hawkins may be a thorn in the
side of the administration. He
may even be a rabble-rouser. But
as a trustee for over a decade he
has a right and even a fiduciary
responsibility to speak out.
I
Those rights and responsibilities
cannot be canceled by board
resolutions.
Hawkins, in a letter obtained
by the Sun, makes some very
serious allegations concerning
the operation of MCU. He alleges
that for years the university
administration systematically
obtained federal loans for
students who did not meet the
standards and requirements for
such loans.
e also alleges that
even after the board
was informed the U.S.
Department of Education had
placed MCU on Heightened
Cash Monitoring and suspended
money for student grants and
loans, MCU did not advise
students that their grants and
loans were not Title IV money,
but instead were loans directly
from the university. Based
on that, Hawkins objects to
efforts by the university to get
those students to now sign loan
agreements with MCU and pay
the money back.
Hawkins is not alone in his
reservations about the loan
program. The Kentucky Attorney
General has stated on his website
that he too has serious concerns
about the matter.
Hawkins’ letter also suggests
the university may yet face
legal action by the Department
of Education to recover funds
that may have been improperly
obtained, which would almost
certainly bankrupt what’s left of
MCU.
These are major issues that
ought to be publicly addressed.
But the board’s response has
been a gag order on trustees
and little to no substantive
public comment otherwise. It’s
the very sort of thing that feeds
the suspicion and rumors Dr.
Walden complains of in his July
8 letter.
We continue to believe the
MCU administration needs to be
forthcoming. If there’s bad news,
MCU should disclose it. If there’s
good news, people would love to
hear it. But if the idea is to simply
circle the wagons and try to wish
the university’s problems away,
that is a strategy destined to fail.
Booting Hawkins was a blow to
MCU’s credibility, and we think
there’s little left to squander.
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Don’t fault Chelsea for making big bucks
WASHINGTON — Talons drawn, the media have
descended upon Chelsea
Clinton. Again.
Not for her frizzy hair, now
smoothed with a killer blowout, or for that preteen metal
mouth, now braces-free and
pearly white.
This time the attacks are
over how much money she
makes — for her network
television fluff pieces and
well-attended gigs on the
lecture circuit — despite her
stick-thin resume.
“The former first daughter
has never run for office, held
a public policy job or done
philanthropic work outside
her family business,” sneered
the New York Daily News.
“But that hasn’t stopped the
speaking fees from rolling
in — along with a reported
$600,000 salary as ‘special
correspondent’ for NBC
News.”
Likewise, upon learning
that Clinton Fille pulls in
$75,000 per speaking engagement, The New York Times’
Maureen Dowd asked, “Why
on earth is she worth that
much money? Why, given her
dabbling in management consulting, hedge-funding and
coattail-riding, is an hour of
her time valued at an amount
that most Americans her age
don’t make in a year?”
To which my reaction is:
Since when do you need talent or skills to be a well-paid
celebrity?
Lest there be any confusion, most compensation —
but especially compensation
that’s accompanied by a flock
of flashbulbs — is determined
not by some intrinsic measure
of worldly achievement or
moral worth but by what the
market will bear.
Witness famous-for-beingfamous reality star Kim
Kardashian.
Kardashian vastly out-earns
Clinton and more accomplished public figures such as
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The new Mrs. Kanye
West charges $100,000 per
appearance, according to the
But the same principles apply
to other celebrities and political scions getting big bucks
for appearances on TV and
red-carpet events.
After all, having a brand
name like Chelsea Clinton
keynote your conference or
college lecture series can
attract better attendance, bigCatherine Rampell ger donations and more press
coverage. Televising her recognizable visage can likewise
fine celebrity journalists at
draw in valuable eyeballs.
OK! magazine, and at those
Same goes for other politigigs no one even expects her
cians’ children, such as Jenna
to deliver prepared remarks
Bush Hager, Meghan McCain
on eradicating waterborne
and Ron Reagan, who have
illnesses or racial tensions.
also been paid contributors
(In fact, it wouldn’t surprise
for the NBC family of chanme if her contracts explicitly
forbid such pontification.) On nels. What these political
starlets lack in actual joursome occasions, Kardashian
nalistic training they make
has commanded as much
up for in name recognition
as $500,000, her reported
and precious political connecpayout for attending the
recent Vienna Opera Ball. It’s tions, both of which — fairly
or not — are highly valuable
not clear what talents Karto broadcast outlets.
dashian possesses that make
Whatever the optics, I don’t
her “worth” $500,000 per
begrudge Kardashian or Clinappearance, except maybe a
ton the money they can make
talent for identifying people
by charging the market rate
willing to pay her $500,000
for their services; I instead
per appearance.
blame audiences for endowIt’s more than that, of
course. Hollywood celebrities ing these celebrity brands
like Kardashian — and politi- with value and cash-strapped
state schools for wasting
cal personalities like Clinton
money on star appearances
or Sarah Palin — can command big appearance fees be- that could instead be used for
cause the organizations hiring scholarships.
If there is any objection I
them derive some value from
have to Clinton’s speaking
the appearance, too.
gigs, it’s not the size of her
Several years ago, I did a
back-of-the-envelope calcula- paycheck. It’s the possibility
tion to determine why night- that her hosts and employclubs might be paying “Jersey ers are hiring her in order to
Shore” starlet Nicole “Snooki” buy influence with a possible
Polizzi the head-scratchingly future president (Clinton
high fee of $25,000 merely to Mere), an aspect of Chelsea
drink, dance and socialize for Clinton’s lucrative speaking
a few hours. It turned out that career that for some reason
has not been emphasized
once you took into account
in most media reports. This
the extra revenue streams
possibility is particularly
that Snooki’s name brought
troubling given the famin — from cover charges,
ily’s resistance during the
bottle service and publicity
in glossy magazines — her at- 2008 primaries to releasing
tendance might actually have information about donations
been worth several multiples to the Clinton Foundation,
where Clinton’s speaking fees
of what she charged clubs.
reportedly go. When it comes
The exact numbers probably no longer hold up today, to the Clintons, exposure is
since in recent years Snooki’s easy to come by; transparstar, if not her tan, has faded. ency, less so.
Letters
McConnell knows how to get
things done in Washington
was change then. Pocket change that is.
Sen. McConnell has always been there for us
and it is time for us to be there for him.
ROBERT TEMPLETON
Clinton
EDITOR:
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Obama since he first ran. She would be a sure
with using turn indicators
vote for any bill he wants. Especially abortion
and gun control bills. She will be obligated to
EDITOR:
vote as he says to retain support of him and
I find it strange that in this hi-tech age, so
his party.
many cars and trucks, both old and brand new,
Sen. McConnell has almost made a career
do not have turn indicators.
of extending the life of the USEC plant in
Oh wait! Perhaps it’s just that so many drivPaducah. He has consistently voted pro-life
ers haven’t figured out how to use them.
over pro-death. He has been a strong supCLYDE LAWTER
porter of the right of the people to be armed
Paducah
by opposing gun control laws. On a local note,
City made right call
he was most instrumental in retaining the
fishermen’s privilege to fish below the dams in by demolishing house
western Kentucky.
When we speak, Sen. Mitch McConnell lisEDITOR:
tens. Listening is rare in politicians. It would
Congratulations to the city for tearing down
be a grave mistake to change horses in midthe white house on 6th, between Madison
stream when he knows as well as anyone how and Harrison. Even if no one builds on it for
to get things done in Washington.
awhile, it looks better than it did.
If you are thinking of change then rememSTEVE GABANY
ber the last change we voted for. All we got
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Urban warfare feared in Ukraine as fighting continues
BY PETER LEONARD
Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — Insurgents bade tearful farewells
Wednesday as they loaded
their families onto Russiabound buses and began
hunkering down for what
could be the next phase in
Ukraine’s conflict: bloody
urban warfare.
While the pro-Russian
rebels in the east have lost
much ground in recent
weeks and were driven
from their stronghold of
Slovyansk, many have regrouped in Donetsk, an
industrial city that had a
population of 1 million before tens of thousands of
Associated Press civilians started fleeing for
Volunteers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine before being sent to the eastern fear of a government siege.
part of Ukraine to join the ranks of special battalion “Azov” in Kiev, Ukraine, on
The rebels also hold the
Wednesday. Bloody urban warfare could be the next phase in the conflict.
city of Luhansk, where
they are said to be taking
up positions in residential
and industrial zones while
lobbing artillery at government troops.
Despite the government’s
desire to minimize civilian
casualties, Ukraine’s forces could find themselves
dragged into grueling warfare inside the cities in their
battle to hold the country
together. “To respond to
this phase ... we evidently
must change tactics,” said
Valeriy Chaly, deputy head
of the presidential administration. He refrained from
specifying how.
Insurgents in Donetsk
appeared be bracing for a
bitter fight as they shipped
their relatives out of the
city. One fighter, who declined to give his name,
told The Associated Press
that not having his wife and
young daughter with him
would free him to concentrate on the battles ahead.
“It is easier for us this
way. It is easier to fight.
Your soul is not ripped into
two, because when they’re
here, you think about war
and about your family —
if they are OK or not,” he
said. “When you know that
they are safe, it is easier to
go to fight.”
Meanwhile, the U.S.
and the 28-nation European Union separately announced tougher new sanctions against Russia, which
is accused of fomenting the
unrest by supplying the
separatists with fighters
and heavy weapons — an
allegation Moscow denies.
Aldrin reflects on moon landing anniversary Quinn faces ongoing
political investigation
BY MARCIA DUNN
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— On July 20, 1969, Buzz
Aldrin was “out of town”
when the world united and
rejoiced in a way never
seen before or since.
He and Neil Armstrong
were on the moon.
They missed the whole
celebration 45 years ago
this Sunday. So did Michael Collins, orbiting solo
around the moon in the
mother ship.
Now, on this Apollo 11
milestone — just five years
shy of the golden anniversary — Aldrin is asking everyone to remember where
they were when he and
Armstrong became the first
humans to step onto another heavenly body, and
to share their memories
online.
Too young? You can also
Digital
assets may
be saved
after death
BY ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — You’ve
probably decided who gets
the house or that family heirloom up in the attic when you die. But what
about your email account
and all those photos stored
online?
Grieving relatives might
want access for sentimental
reasons, or to settle financial issues.
But do you want your
mom reading your exchanges on an online dating profile or a spouse going
through every email?
The Uniform Law Commission, whose members
are appointed by state governments to help standardize state laws, was on track
Wednesday to endorse a
plan that would give loved
ones access to — but not
control of — the deceased’s
digital accounts, unless
specified otherwise in a will.
To become law in a state,
the legislation would have
to be adopted by the legislature.
If it did, a person’s online
life could become as much
a part of estate planning as
deciding what to do with
physical possessions.
“This is something most
people don’t think of until
they are faced with it.
They have no idea what is
about to be lost,” said Karen
Williams of Beaverton, Oregon, who sued Facebook for
access to her 22-year-old
son Loren’s account after he
died in a 2005 motorcycle
accident.
share how the moonwalkers inspired you.
Celebrities, public figures, and other astronauts
and scientists are happily
obliging with videos.
“What a day that was,”
said actor Tom Hanks,
sipping from an Apollo 11
commemorative cup. He
starred in the 1995 film
“Apollo 13,” another gripping moon story.
“Going to space is a big
deal. Walking on the moon
is, literally, walking on the
moon,” said singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams,
born four years afterward.
And from London Mayor Boris Johnson, who
watched the event unfold
on an a little black-andwhite TV at an English
farmhouse: “I knew immediately it was the most
exciting thing that I’d ever
seen. I was only 5 at the
time. And it still is just
about the most exciting
thing I’ve ever seen.”
In all, 12 men explored
the moon in six landings
through 1972.
But that first moonwalk, by Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin is what
clinched America’s place as
space leader supreme following a string of crushing
losses to the Soviet Union,
which claimed title to first
satellite, first spaceman,
first spacewoman and first
spacewalker.
“U.S. 1, Sputnik nothing,”
actor Louis Gossett Jr. said
with a laugh in his video.
It’s the first big anniversary of man’s first moon
landing without Armstrong, whose “one small
step ... one giant leap” immortalized the moment.
Armstrong, long known
for his reticence, died in
2012 at age 82.
As Apollo 11’s commander, Armstrong was
first out the lunar module, Eagle, onto the dusty
surface of Tranquility
Base. Aldrin followed.
Collins, now 83, the
command module pilot
who stayed behind in
lunar orbit as the gatekeeper, also spent decades sidestepping the
spotlight.
He’s making an exception for the 45th anniversary — he plans to take
part in a NASA ceremony
at Kennedy Space Center on Monday to add
Armstrong’s name to the
historic Operations and
Checkout Building.
That leaves Aldrin, 84,
as the perennial spokesman for Apollo 11. He
will also be at Monday’s
ceremony.
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More studies reveal
new risks for niacin
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines —
A typhoon blew out of the
northern Philippines on
Wednesday after causing
at least 20 deaths, knocking out power in entire
provinces, damaging two
parked jetliners and forcing
nearly half a million people
to flee from its lethal wind
and rains, officials said.
The eye of Typhoon
Rammasun made a late
shift away from Manila,
but its peak winds of 150
kilometers (93 miles) per
hour and gusts up to 185
kph (115 mph) forced down
trees and electric posts and
ripped off roofs across the
capital of 12 million people that largely shut down
ahead of the deluge.
Although
Rammasun
packed far less power than
Typhoon Haiyan, haunting memories of last year’s
horrific storm devastation
prompted many villagers
to rapidly move to safety at
the prodding of authorities.
Of the half a million people
affected by Rammasun,
more than 423,000 fled
BY MARILYNN
MARCHIONE
Associated Press
Associated Press
Residents wade through floods as they go back to their home while Typhoon Rammasun batters suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday.
to emergency shelters, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council.
In a shantytown at the
edge of Manila Bay, hundreds of people fled when
strong winds started to tear
tin roofs off their shanties.
Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada said his city staged
anti-disaster drills two
weeks ago precisely to pre-
vent massive deaths during a catastrophe and he
was relieved that only a few
residents sustained injuries
Wednesday.
While the low human
toll has been attributed to
the typhoon skipping Manila, Estrada believed the
public’s higher awareness
of anti-disaster maneuvers
saved many lives. He acknowledged that the wind
and rain weren’t as deadly
as many have feared and it
was a good time for everyone to hone their survival
skills.
“It was like a drill,” Estrada told The Associated
Press.
Officials reported at least
20 deaths elsewhere, mostly people who were pinned
by falling trees and electrical posts.
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary pause
BY IBRAHIM BARZAK
AND DANIEL ESTRIN
Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
— Israel and Hamas
agreed to a five-hour U.N.
brokered “humanitarian”
pause to their 9-day-long
battle, offering the most
encouraging sign yet that
the fierce fighting could
come to an end.
Israel’s bombardment of
Gaza has killed more than
200 Palestinians, including
four boys struck on a beach
Wednesday by shells fired
from a navy ship. Israel
said it would hold its fire
today from 10 a.m. (0700
GMT, 2 a.m. CDT) under
a plan to allow Palestinians to restock food, water
and other necessities. But
it vowed to retaliate “firmly
and decisively” if Hamas
or other militant groups
launch attacks on Israel
during that time.
Later, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said
that following consulta-
tions with various factions
the Gaza militants had decided to respect the pause
as well and would refrain
from firing rockets during
those hours as well.
Robert Serry, the U.N.
special coordinator for the
Middle East peace process,
had asked Israel to agree to
a “unilateral humanitarian
pause” so that the supplies
can be delivered to Gaza,
said U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. Serry
will “urge the parties in
Gaza to respect that pause,”
Haq said.
Israel previously had
halted its fire for six hours
Tuesday after Egypt put
forward a cease-fire proposal that unraveled. Abu
Zuhri said Wednesday his
group had formally rejected the plan, bemoaning
what he called little support from the Arab world.
But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met
Wednesday in Cairo with a
senior official from Hamas
to try to salvage the Egyptian proposal.
In Washington, President Barack Obama said
the U.S. supports Egypt’s
continued efforts to restore
the 2012 cease-fire and will
use all of its diplomatic resources and relationships
to secure a deal to end the
violence.
Israel’s military said its
forces bombed at least 150
targets in Gaza on Wednesday. It did not provide
more specifics, but the
Gaza Interior Ministry’s
website said 30 houses,
including those of senior
Hamas leaders Mahmoud
Zahar, Jamila Shanti, Fathi
Hamas and Ismail Ashkar,
were targeted.
Zahar was a key figure
in Hamas’ violent takeover
of Gaza in 2007, while the
other three were members
of the Palestinian parliament elected in 2006.
Many Hamas leaders have
gone into hiding since Israel began its bombardment
July 8 in response to rocket
attacks from Gaza.
Gaza
health
official
Ashraf al-Kidra said the
Palestinian death toll rose
to 222, with 1,670 wounded. Only one Israeli has so
far died in the conflict — a
civilian distributing food
to soldiers in southern Israel on Tuesday evening
— largely because of the effectiveness of Israel’s Iron
Dome air defense system in
downing incoming rockets.
The four boys, who were
cousins aged 9 to 11, were
killed on the beach beside
a coastal road west of Gaza
City, al-Kidra said. Seven
others — adults and children — were wounded in
the strike, which Palestinian human rights activist
Khalil Abu Shamalla and
Palestinian health officials
said came from an Israeli
naval vessel.
Hussam Abadallah, a
waiter at the beachside alDeera hotel, said the strike
happened about 4 p.m.
New details from two
studies reveal more side
effects from niacin, a
drug that hundreds of
thousands of Americans
take for cholesterol problems and general heart
health. Some prominent
doctors say the drug now
seems too risky for routine use. Niacin is a type
of B vitamin long sold
over the counter and in
higher prescription doses. Some people take it
alone or with statin medicines such as Lipitor for
cholesterol problems.
Niacin users’ main
complaint has been
flushing, so drug companies have been testing
extended-release
and
combining other medicines with it to minimize
that problem. Introduced
in the 1950s, the drug
hadn’t been rigorously
tested until recent years
when makers of prescription versions were seeking market approval.
The two studies were
testing prescription versions of niacin, and the
bottom line — that it
didn’t help prevent heart
problems any more than
statins alone do — has
already been announced.
Some of the side effect
information, including
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a troubling rise in deaths
among niacin users in one
study, also was known but
many doctors have been
waiting for full details and
verification of the results
before drawing firm conclusions about the drug’s
safety and effectiveness.
Those details are in this
week’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The larger study suggests that “for every 200
people that we treat with
niacin, there is one excess
death,” plus higher rates
of bleeding, infections and
other problems — “a completely unacceptable level”
of harm, said Dr. Donald
Lloyd-Jones of Northwestern University in Chicago.
“Niacin should not be used
routinely in clinical practice
at all.” He co-led a panel for
the American Heart Association and American College
of Cardiology that recently
issued new cholesterol
treatment guidelines. The
group did not recommend
niacin but said it could be
considered for certain patients. If the panel had seen
the new results, it “almost
certainly” would have recommended against niacin’s
routine use, Lloyd-Jones
said.
Heart specialists stress
that patients never should
stop taking any medicine
without first talking with
their doctors.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 10:00 A.M.
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Friday – July 18 • Family Night • 6:30 p.m. Start
(Panel Style) – Come with your whole family!
GLEN COLLEY • Godly Balance – in Christian Mommas & Daddy’s
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8:30 a.m. • ROBERT TAYLOR
“Keynote”- Godly Balance
1:30 p.m. • Open Forum
(All Lectureship Participants)
CLIFF GOODWIN- Moderator
9:15 a.m. • GARLAND ELKINS
Godly Balance – Not Compromise
2:30 p.m. • CLIFF GOODWIN
Godly Balance – Tolerance
10:00 a.m. • GARY COLLEY
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For further information call (270) 832-1167.
Sunny Slope Church of Christ, 6670 Old Mayfield Road, Paducah, KY 42003.
This home has public water and a private septic system and is located in a residential neighborhood. It has 2,107 square feet and
consists of a living room, kitchen, four bedrooms, and two bathrooms. This property is considered unsuitable for the Rural
Development Housing Program. This would be an excellent buy for an investor interested in rental property or for resale after
repairs. An open house will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM. Payment of the current year’s property
taxes are the responsibility of the purchaser. The minimum acceptable bid for this property is $75,710.00 Clear title to this
property is not warranted. The U.S. Marshal’s Deed is not a general warranty deed. Buyers are advised to have the property’s
title examined. Written notification regarding encumbrances on the property must be made to the Mayfield, KY Rural Development Office within 30 days.
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LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, at 150 Lovelaceville – Florence Station Road, Paducah,
Kentucky, in order to raise the sum of $138,861.57 principal, together with interest credit subsidy granted in the amount of
$3,260.73, plus interest in the amount of $13,705.88 as of April 26, 2013, and interest thereafter on the principal at $19.2135 daily
from April 26, 2013, late charges of $388.82 and fees of $5,217.62, until the date of Judgment, plus interest on the Judgment
amount (principal plus interest to the date of Judgment) at the rate of 0.13%, computed daily and compounded annually, until paid
in full and for the costs of this action, pursuant to Judgment and Order of Sale, being Civil Action No. 5:13CV-111-R on the
Paducah Docket of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, entered on November 22, 2013, in the
case of United States of America vs. Bobbi Kirk, et al, the following described property will be sold to the highest and best bidder:
Being a 1.49 acre tract as shown by Waiver of Subdivision Plat of the George Durbin Property of record in Plat Section “H”, Page
541, McCracken County Clerk’s Office. Being the same real estate conveyed to Bobbi Kirk, a single person, by Deed from Jeffery
Caudle and wife, Shannon Caudle, dated May 18, 2010, recorded on June 4, 2010, at 10:50 a.m. and of record in Deed Book
1189, Page 512, in the McCracken County Clerk’s Office.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten percent (10%) of the bid price (in the form of a Certified Check made payable to the U.S. Marshal) on the
day of the sale with good and sufficient bond for the balance, bearing interest at the rate of 0.13 % per annum until paid, due
and payable in 45 days and said bond having the effect of a Judgment. Upon a default by the Purchaser, the deposit shall be
forfeited and retained by the U.S. Marshal as a part of the Proceeds of the sale, and the property shall again be offered for sale
subject to confirmation by the Court.
This sale shall be in bar and foreclosure of all right, title, interest, estate claim, demand or equity of redemption of the defendant
Bobbi Kirk, et. al. and of all persons claiming by, through, under or against them, provided the purchase price is equal to twothirds of the appraised value. If the purchase price is not equal to two-thirds of the appraised value, the Deed shall contain in a
lien in favor of the defendant Bobbi Kirk, et. al. reflecting the right of the defendant Bobbi Kirk, et. al. to redeem during the period
provided by law (KRS 426.530). Under law, the purchaser is deemed to be on notice of all matters affecting the property of record
in the local County Clerk’s Office.
Inquiries should be directed to:
Jerry M. Cloyd, Area Director,
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AREA OFFICE
Mayfield , Kentucky Telephone: (270) 247- 9525, Extension 4
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Eckelkamp scores perfect
36 on ACT reading section
Staff report
Banterra Bank Commercial Officer Keith Wilke, center, and Margaret Turner, right,
Banterra Bank branch manager, present a $2,000 gift to Lourdes Foundation’s
Sister Marie Moore Patient Mission Fund to Tara Miller, president of the Lourdes
Foundation.
Banterra Bank donates
to Lourdes Foundation
Staff report
Banterra Bank made
a $2,000 gift to Lourdes
Foundation’s Sister Marie
Moore Patient Mission
Fund, which supports the
needs of indigent patients
with medications, transportation, medical equipment and clothing when
they are discharged from
Lourdes.
“We are so grateful to
Banterra for their generous gift,” said Tara Miller,
president of Lourdes
Foundation. “Each year
we see the financial
struggles of our patients
increase. Contributions to
our Patient Mission Fund
are critical to our ability to continue providing
needy patients with the
resources they need to
return to health.”
“At Banterra, we strive
to support the communities that we serve and we
are honored to contribute
to this worthy Paducah
cause,” said Keith Wilke,
commercial officer for
Paducah’s Banterra
locations. “Sister Marie
Moore Patient Mission
Fund with the Lourdes
Foundation particularly
serves patients that are
less fortunate and need
financial assistance, and
we feel it is important to
assist those in need when
we are able.”
Each year, the Sister
Marie Moore Patient Mission Fund assists approximately 500 patients.
Community Christian
Academy senior Shannon Eckelkamp obtained
a perfect 36 score on the
Reading section of the
ACT test taken in June.
The daughter of Gary
and Kathy Eckelkamp,
Eckelkamp has been a
CCA student for 12 years.
Eckelkamp plays flute
in the CCA Band and has
participated in both the
All-District and Quad
State Bands. She also
plays in the Paducah
Community Band.
She is on the All-A
honor roll and a member
of the National Honor
Society,
serving as
its vice
president her
junior
year and
as president her
Eckelkamp
upcoming senior year. She is member
of the CCA Student Council and will serve as its vice
president in the fall.
Eckelkamp is a member
of the Drama Club and
will begin her third term
as president of the club.
Last spring she com-
peted in the Regional 4-H
Speech Contest and will
be going to the state later
in July.
She is a member of Girls
in Fellowship to Serve
(GIFTS CLUB) and was
elected as its vice president.
Also an accomplished
athlete, Eckelkamp plays
on both the CCA volleyball
and tennis teams. She was
named to the All District
Volleyball Team and is
cheer captain of the Warrior Cheerleading Squad.
Eckelkamp is a member of Oak Grove Baptist
Church and serves on the
Worship Team there.
Fundraiser benefits The Lily Pad
Lakes Area American Saddlebred Association, Inc. and Paducah Elks Lodge No.
217 recently donated $1,250 to The Lily Pad at Easter Seals West Kentucky. LAASA
raised $1,000 by hosting the Paducah Charity Horse Show at Carson Park, along
with donated money from sponsors and other club fundraisers. The Paducah Elks
Lodge No. 217 managed the concessions during the horse show and donated an additional $250. Easter Seals President Danny Carroll said The Lily Pad, a new program
at the center, has grown faster than expected and the donations will be used to purchase iPads for the children. Pictured are (left to right): Becky Damron, LAASA, Inc.,
Paducah Charity Horse Show Manager; Danny Carroll, president and CEO of Easter
Seals West Kentucky; and Carl Walker, representive for Paducah Elks No. 217.
Paducah
House of
the Month
The home of Brandon McClain, 1121 Monroe St.,
has been chosen the July
House of the Month by the
Paducah Civic Beautification Board.
McCracken County Distinctive Home
The McCracken County Civic Beautification Board has chosen the home of Benny
Brown, 145 Mulberry Place, as the Distinctive Home of the Month for July.
Education Notes
Three area students are spring
2014 graduates of Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.:
Cara Leiona Wilson of
Paducah graduated summa cum
laude with a bachelor of arts in
French; Carl Christian Williams of Murray graduated
with a juris doctor in law; and
Melissa Megan Hale of Cadiz
graduated cum laude with a doctor of pharmacy in pharmacy.
Allison Fuqua of Marshall
County is a recipient of the
University of Louisville Dataseam Scholar award. She is one
of 10 students selected annually for this four-year award. As
part of the partnership between
Dataseam and the University of
Louisville, the university provides scholarships to Dataseam
students as part of their giveback
to the program.
Christian Wingfield of
Paducah has been named to the
honor roll at Oklahoma Christian
University in Oklahoma City for
the spring 2014 semester. Wingfield is a junior psychology major.
Cammie Jo Bolin of Murray
has been named to the dean’s
list for the winter/spring terms
at Centre College in Danville,
an honor reserved for students
who maintain at least a 3.60
grade point average. Bolin is the
daughter of Evelyn and James
Bolin of Murray and is a graduate
of Murray High School.
Several area students were
named to the dean’s list for the
spring 2014 semester at Harding University in Searcy, Ark.:
Kelsey Colley, a senior from
Farmington; Daniel Hoyer,
a senior from Brookport, Ill.;
Grace Allen, a senior from
Paducah; Victoria Reinhardt,
a junior from Paducah; MilesThompson, a senior from
Paducah; and SkylarWatson, a
sophomore from Murray. To be
eligible, a student must be carrying 12 or more hours with a 3.65
or higher grade-point average
and no incompletes.
The following students were
among undergraduate students
who received degrees during
spring commencement exercises at Southeast Missouri State
University in Cape Girardeau:
Stephannie Goodrum of Clinton graduated with a bachelor of
science in nursing with a major
in nursing; Ashley Harris of
Paducah graduated magna cum
laude with a bachelor of science
with a major in mass communication/public relations option;
and Amy Turner of Mayfield
graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing with a major in
nursing.
Nikisha Baker of Metropolis,
Ill., has received the Education
Access Program Award to attend
Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau for the
2014-2015 academic year. Baker
is the daughter of Donna Porché
of Metropolis, Ill., and is a 2014
graduate of Massac County High
School.
Lesley Nash of Paducah,
Madisson Turner of Metropolis, Ill., and Amanda Gauthier
of Sturgis are spring 2014 graduates of the University of Evansville, Ind.
Sarai Holstein of West
Paducah has received the Midwest Achievement Award to
attend Southeast Missouri State
University for the 2014-2015
academic year. Holstein is the
daughter of Thomas and Tara
Holstein of West Paducah. She
is a 2014 graduate of Shawnee
Community College and a 2011
graduate of Heath High School.
Benton resident Shea Wilson
was one of only nine students
across Kentucky to be recently
named to the 2014 Kentucky
Physical Therapy Association AllAcademic Team (KPTA). KPTA
and RehabCare, a leading provider of rehabilitation services,
bestowed the honor and selected students from Kentucky’s
PTA and Doctorate of Physical
Therapy (DPT) programs.
Students are chosen for the
competitive team based upon
academic and clinical performance, extracurricular, campus
and community service activities,
participation in physical therapyrelated activities and organizations, and a personal statement
discussing the student’s career
goals and the importance of being an advocate for the physical
therapy profession.
Wilson volunteers both on
the WKCTC campus and in the
community. She is the 2014 PTA
class president, and recently
volunteered with the college’s
Health Career Craze Camp to encourage middle school and high
school students to learn about a
career in physical therapy. She
also participated in the Miami/
Marquette Challenge, a grassroots fundraising effort coordinated and carried out by physical
therapist and physical therapist
assistant students across the
country to raise money for the
Foundation of Physical Therapy
Research.
Wilson will graduate from
the college’s PTA Program in
December and plans to transfer
to Murray State University to
earn a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in physical therapy, and
then continue her education with
a doctorate degree in physical
therapy.
Members of the KPTA All-Academic Team will be recognized
at the KPTA Fall Conference in
Lexington in September, and will
receive cash scholarships from
RehabCare(R), a leading provider of rehabilitation services.
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Funeral notices
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Stacey Allgood Nickell
LEDBETTER — Stacey Allgood Nickell, 54, of
Ledbetter passed away on
Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at
her residence.
Mrs. Nickell was retired from West Kentucky
Community & Technical
College as the Director
of Library Services. She
was also a member of The
Kentucky & American Librarian Association.
Surviving are her husband, David Nickell of
Ledbetter; two daughters,
Tess Nickell of Ledbetter and Hannah Nickell
of Ledbetter; two sisters,
Deborah Pascua of Louisville and Laura Bolin of
Shelbyville; two nephews,
Eli Nickell of Eddyville
and Josh Pascua of Tallassee, Fla.; and two nieces, Kate Vance of Louisville and Lizzy Nickell of
Cincinnati.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,
Douglas Allgood and Mary
Ann Allgood; and her stepmother,
Mary Jo
Allgood.
Memorial services will
be at 4
p.m. on
Friday,
July 18,
2014, at
Nickell
Smith
Funeral Chapel.
Friends may call from 2
to 4 p.m. Friday, July 18,
2014, at the funeral home.
Online condolences may
be left at www.smithfc.
com.
Smith Funeral Chapel of
Smithland is in charge of
arrangements.
Mary Henson
Mary Henson, 94, of
Paducah, passed away at
11:50 a.m. Monday, July
14, 2014, at Parkview
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Paducah.
She had worked for
Magnavox on the assembly line.
Mary
is survived by
her two
daught e r s ,
Gloria
H a r ris and
h u s b a n d Henson
Jimmy
of Paducah, and Pam
Shoulta and husband
Steve of Paducah; two
sons, James T. Henson
and wife Katherine of Bonita Springs, Florida, and
Rickie Henson and wife
Cathy of Paducah; ten
grandchildren; three step
grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; two greatgreat-grandchildren; and
several nieces and neph-
Donald Clark
Donald Raban Clark, 76,
of Paducah died Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at
Paducah Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at Lindsey Funeral Home.
Effie Shaffer, 100
MARION — Effie D. Shaffer, 100, of Marion, Ky.,
died Tuesday, July 15, 2014,
at Crittenden County Nursing and Rehab.
She was a member of
Marion General Baptist
Church and Bethlehem
White Shrine number 20.
She is survived by her
daughter, Linda Cook of
Marion, Ky.; two grandsons, Chris Cook of Marion, Ky., and Charles Cook
of Kuttawa, Ky.; and two
great-grandchildren, Caroline and Ashleigh Cook,
both of Kuttawa, Ky.
She was preceded in
death by her husband, Jesse Shaffer; and two sisters.
Her parents were Dallas
and Eula Dixon.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Friday, July 18, 2014, at Gilbert Funeral Home with interment in Mapleview Cemetery. Friends may call from
5-8 p.m. Thursday, July 17,
2014, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy
may be made to: Marion
General Baptist Church,
West Bellville St. Marion,
KY 42064; Barnett Chapel
Church, Barnett Chapel
Road, Marion, KY 42064;
or World Our Parish P.O.
Box 194, Wilmore, KY
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ews.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Earl Trafton Henson; four
sisters; three brothers;
one great-granddaughter;
and one stepgrandson.
Her parents were William
Bolen Gordon and Mattie
Frizzell Gordon.
Funeral services for
Mary will be 10 a.m. Friday, July, 18, 2014, at
Milner and Orr Funeral
Home of Paducah with
Rev. Jimmy Franks officiating. Burial will follow at Bolton Cemetery in
Symsonia. Visitation for
Mary will be from 5 p.m.
until 8 p.m. Thursday,
July, 17, 2014, at Milner
and Orr Funeral Home of
Paducah.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to:
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St.
Jude Place, Memphis TN,
38105.
You may leave a message of condolence or light
a candle online at www.
milnerandorr.com.
EDDYVILLE — Joel Lynn
Gresham, 56, of Eddyville
died Tuesday, July 15, 2014,
at Lourdes hospital.
He was a retired construction worker and member of Suwanee Furnace
Baptist Church.
He is survived by two
sons, Austin Gresham of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and Zachary Gresham of Kuttawa;
Austin and Zach’s mother,
Kathy Gresham of Kuttawa;
one grandson, Alex Gresham; one brother, Ronnie
Gresham of Jefferson City,
Dianne Pollard
Mo.; and one sister, Gena
Allen of Cadiz.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Eugene
Gresham and Jewell Sexton
Gresham.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
Friday, July 18, 2014, at the
Lakeland Funeral Home
with the Rev. Don Short
and Ronnie Gresham officiating. Burial will follow
in Macedonia Cemetery in
Lyon County. Visitation will
be from 5-8 p.m. Thursday,
July 17, 2014 at the funeral
home.
Dianne Smith Pollard, of Hattiesburg, Miss.; one
69, of Peekskill, N.Y., for- brother, Voris Smith Jr. of
merly of Paducah, died at Evansville, Ind.; three sis5:20 a.m. Sunday, July 13, ters, Carolyn Sebree and
Sharon Burgher, both of
2 0 1 4 ,
at NewEvansville, Ind., and Brenda Quinn of Peekskill, N.Y.;
burgh
Health
two grandsons; and several
C a r e
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Center
of NewShe was preceded in
burgh,
death by one son, Glenn
“Spin” Pollard, and two sisInd.
S h e
ters. Her parents were Rev.
was
a
Voris G. Smith Sr. and Lucille Jefferson Smith.
m e m b e r Pollard
of Liberty
Graveside services will
Baptist Church and a 20- be at 11 a.m. Friday, July
year employee as a dietitian 18, 2014, at Oak Grove
Jean Dixon
at the Veterans Adminis- Cemetery with the Rev. Altration Hospital of Peek- fred Anderson officiating.
CADIZ — Jean Ramey nie Ramey of Murray; one skill, N.Y.
Friends may call from 10Dixon, 62, of Orange City, sister, Susie Ramey CreekShe was survived by one 10:30 a.m. Friday at PettusFla., formerly of Cadiz, died mur of Cadiz; and six grand- son, Graland “Gee” Smith Rowland Funeral Home.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at children.
Halifax Hospice Center in
She was preceded in death
Orange City, Fla.
by her husband, James
She was a homemaker Douglas Dixon; and four
Samuel Miner
and member of East Cadiz sisters. Her parents were
Baptist Church.
Frank and Julia Ramey.
CLINTON — Samuel Lee
He was preceded in death
She is survived by one
Memorial services will Miner, 60, of Owensboro, by three brothers; and two
son, James Jared Dixon of be at 4 p.m. Saturday, July formerly of Clinton, died at sisters. His parents were
North Carolina; two daugh- 19, 2014, at Goodwin Fu- 1:55 a.m. Sunday, July 13, Robert Miner and Augusters, Jennifer Marie Dixon neral Home with the Rev. 2014, at Owensboro Health tus Gibson Miner.
Padgett and Julie Mae Greg Creekmur officiating. Regional Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Dixon, both of Orange City, Friends may call from 2-4
Samuel was formerly em- Friday, July 18, 2014, at
Fla.; two brothers, James p.m. Saturday at the funeral ployed at both Hilliard’s Green Valley Missionary
Ramey of Cadiz, and Ron- home.
Farm and Seed Company Baptist Church in Clinton
and Black’s Farm.
with the Rev. Eugene McHe is survived by three Donald and Wendell D.
Ruth Kreps
brothers, Harry Miner and Gray officiating. Burial will
Robert Miner Jr., both of be in Clinton Cemetery.
WINGO — Ruth (Rose) great-grandchildren; one Clinton, and Charles Les- Friends may call at the
Rosella (Morford) Kreps, great-great-grandchild; and lie of Cleveland, Ohio; one church after 10 a.m. until
79, of Wingo died at 8:35 several nieces and nephews. sister, Mary Crumble of the funeral hour.
a.m. Monday, July 14, 2014,
She was preceded in death Clinton; and several nieces,
Pettus-Rowland Funeral
at her home.
by one son, David Denman, nephews, great nieces and Home is in charge of arShe was a member of Fel- and a brother. Her parents nephews, and cousins.
rangements.
lowship Baptist Church.
were Lester and Oma Stead
Ruth is survived by her Morford.
husband, Gene Kreps; sevMemorial services will be
Charles Bell
en sons, Edward Denman, at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 17,
David Leonard, Timothy 2014, at Fellowship Baptist
MURRAY — Charles
Arrangements were inFinney, Jesse Finney, Eu- Church in Wingo with the Bernard Bell, 89, of Mur- complete at Blalock-Colegene Kreps Jr., Michael Rev. Paul Bogard officiat- ray died Wednesday, July man and York Funeral
Kreps and Raymond Kreps; ing. Friends may call at 2 16, 2014, at Spring Creek Home.
two daughters, Rosanna p.m. at the church Thurs- Health Care.
Lee and Dawn Kumley; one day.
brother, Leonard Morford;
Brown Funeral Home in
one sister, Lois Bankov; sev- Wingo is in charge of arMore obituaries, Page 11A
eral grandchildren; several rangements.
Kirby clarification
The location of memorial
graveside services for Ruby
Mae Kirby, 88, of Paducah
will be at 11 a.m. Friday,
July 18, 2014, at New Liberty Cemetery in Huntingdon, Tenn.
Gary Wilson
MAYFIELD — Gary Z.
Wilson, 66, of Mayfield
died Tuesday, July 15, 2014,
at Baptist Health Paducah.
He retired from General
Tire and Rubber Company
after 33 years of service.
He is survived by his wife
of 18 years, Suzanne Cates
Wilson; and three sons:
Marc Wilson and Shawn
Wilson of Nashville, Tenn.,
and Trent Wilson of Murray.
His parents were J.T. and
Nina Le Mastus Wilson.
Private memorial services will be held later.
Byrn Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
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MURRAY — Rudolph
Richard Smaistrla II, 64, of
Murray died Tuesday, July
15, 2014, at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
He is survived by three
sons, Jason Richard Smaistrla of Dayton, Texas, Brian
Allen Smaistrla of Webster,
Texas, and Adam Richard
Smaistrla of SanJon, N.M.;
one sister, Judy Nichols of
Kirksey; and three brothers, Daniel C. Smaistrla of
Australia, Edward Smais-
trla of Alvin, Texas, and
William J. Smaistrla of
Manvel, Texas.
His parents were Rudolph Richard Smaistrla Sr. and O’Tilia Jerek
Smaistrla.
Private services will be
held at a later date. Online
condolences can be left at
www.yorkfuneralhome.
com.
Blalock-Coleman
and
York Funeral is in charge of
arrangements.
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MAYFIELD — Quintin
Williams, 48, of Mayfield
died at 4:25 a.m. Tuesday,
July 15, 2014, at Jackson
Purchase Medical Center in
Mayfield.
He was a member of His
House Church in Mayfield.
He is survived by his
wife, Cindi Bisping Williams; one daughter, Jeri
Hayes of Mayfield; one son,
Dyon Hobbs of Mayfield;
one stepdaughter, Amanda
Gleffe of Tinley Park, Ill.;
one stepson, Mikael Hoagland of Mayfield; his stepfather and mother, Jesse
and Carol Hall of Chicago;
four sisters, Stephanie Williams of Memphis, Tenn.,
Melony Williams of Skokie,
Ill., Lesly Bolland of Utah,
and Lori Hall of Evanston,
Ill.; one brother, Nairobi
Stephenson of Lincoln, Ill.;
and seven grandchildren.
Memorial services will be
at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 20,
2014, at His House with the
Rev. Chad Lamb officiating.
There will be no visitation. Brown Funeral Home
in Mayfield is in charge of
services.
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Obituaries continued from Page 10A
Darrell Sanders
KARNAK, Ill. — Darrell
Sanders, 88, of Karnak
died at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday,
July 15, 2014, at Metropolis
Nursing and Rehabilitation
Center in Metropolis.
Mr. Sanders was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having
served in World War II. He
retired as an independent
truck driver. He was a 32nd
Degree Mason and a member of the Belknap Masonic
Lodge No. 822. He was of
the Baptist faith.
Mr. Sanders is survived
by two sons, Jerry Sanders
Blanche Watson
of Arlington, Wash., and
Danial Sanders of Columbus, Ind.; one sister, Anna
Barnett of Karnak; two
grandchildren; and several
nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Norma Wallace
Sanders; four brothers; and
three sisters. His parents
were Roscoe and Winifred
McKenzie Sanders.
Memorial services will be
conducted at a later date.
Wilson Funeral Home in
Karnak is in charge of arrangements.
Frankie Haney
MARION — Graveside
services for Frankie Helen
Haney, 65, of Marion will
be at 11 a.m. Friday, July
18, 2014, at Tyner’s Chapel Cemetery in Crittenden
County.
Ms. Haney died Saturday, July 12, 2014, at her
daughter’s home in Metropolis, Ill.
She was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church and
worked in the housekeeping department of Family
Practice Clinic in Marion.
Ms. Haney is survived by
her daughter, Laura Pack
of Metropolis; her son, William Haney of Fisher, Ind.;
a sister, Brenda Winders of
Marion; a brother, William
Asbridge of Paducah; her
mother, Elizabeth DeBoe
of Marion; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her father, William Asbridge.
There will be no visitation. Myers Funeral Home
in Marion is in charge of arrangements.
VIENNA, Ill. — Graveside
services for Blanche Jones
Watson, 97, of Vienna will
be at noon Saturday, July
19, 2014, at Independence
Cemetery in Pope County.
Hillis Jones will officiate.
Mrs. Watson died Sunday, July 13, 2014, at her
home.
Survivors include four
children, Bob Watson of
Grand Chain, Don Watson of Ottumwa, Iowa,
Pat Duncan of Vienna and
Brenda Whittenberg of
Buncombe; eight grandsons; eight great-grand-
children; four great-greatgrandchildren; and one
sister, Joyce Choate of Metropolis.
She was preceded in
death by her husband of
60 years, Joseph Arlie
Watson; an infant son,
Jackie Watson; and seven
siblings.
Friends may call from 10
to 11 a.m. Saturday, July
19, 2014, at Bailey Funeral
Home in Vienna.
Memorials may be made
to Hospice of Southern Illinois, 204 Halfway Road,
Marion, IL 62959.
Dwight Brinn
MURRAY — Dwight H.
Brinn, 67, of Murray, formerly of Paducah, died
Sunday, July 13, 2014, at
his home.
He was a veteran of
the U.S. Army and was a
business owner. He was a
member of Glendale Road
Church of Christ.
He was preceded in death
by one brother.
His parents were Herbert
J. Brinn and Dorothy Brinn
Puckett.
He is survived by his
wife of 30 years, Janet
Hart Brinn; a son, Justin
Z. Brinn of Murray; and
a daughter, Shannon N.
Brinn Crawford of Savetha,
Kan.
There will be a private
family burial at Murray
City Cemetery.
Imes Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Expressions of sympathy
may be made to Glendale
Road Church of Christ, 1101
Glendale Road, Murray, KY
42071.
New brain protein tied to Alzheimer’s disease
Autopsies on 342 brains revealed that people who had
the new protein were 10
times more likely to have
been mentally impaired
when they died than those
without it.
The study was discussed Wednesday at the
Alzheimer’s
Association
International Conference
in Copenhagen, where researchers also described a
new type of brain imaging
that can show tau tangles
in living people for the first
time.
For many years, the only
Associated Press
Scientists have linked a
new protein to Alzheimer’s
disease, different from the
amyloid and tau that make
up the sticky brain plaques
and tangles long known to
be its hallmarks.
The discovery could give
a new target for developing drugs and other treatments for Alzheimer’s, the
most common form of dementia. It also might help
explain why many people
have plaques and tangles
in their brain yet show no
symptoms of the disease.
sure way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease was after
death, when brains could
be examined for amyloid
and tau. Several companies
now make imaging agents
that can reveal amyloid on
brain scans, and the new
research shows an experimental product from Eli
Lilly & Co. can do the same
for tau.
“I think it will transform
the field” because tau correlates better with symptoms
than amyloid does, said Dr.
Clifford Jack, a Mayo Clinic
dementia expert with no
role in that work.
“This is very important,”
agreed Laurie Ryan of the
National Institute on Aging, which funded both
studies. It should help diagnose Alzheimer’s and enroll people in studies testing treatments, she said.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital described the tau work.
Scans on 56 older people
believed to be cognitively
normal showed that tau
buildup in several brain regions correlated with memory decline.
Associated Press
Syria President Bashar Assad laughs as he gives
a speech shortly after he was sworn in for his third
seven-year term in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday.
Assad was sworn in despite the bloody civil war ignited by a mass uprising against his rule.
Assad declares
victory in Syria
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Sunset tonight ............. 8:14 p.m.
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Today
grinding on without reprieve, with 170,000 dead
and a third of the country
displaced.
While combat continues along all major
front line towns and cities across the country —
opposition activists say
more than 400 people
have been killed in the
past three days alone —
much of the fighting has
now shifted.
Rebels once focused on
Assad’s forces are now simultaneously fighting increasingly belligerent jihadis seeking to expand a
cross-border fiefdom they
carved out with neighboring Iraq.
Associated Press
BEIRUT — In a lavish ceremony, a smiling
and confident President
Bashar Assad was sworn
in for a third seven-year
term on Wednesday,
praising his supporters
for “defeating the dirty
war” and denouncing insurgents who have “failed
in trying to brainwash you
or break your will.”
As he declared victory,
the Western-backed push
to topple him or reach
a political deal seem increasingly elusive.
And while new conflicts in the region have
grabbed attention, Syria’s
three-year-old civil war is
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Chattanooga, TN
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Atlantic coast today as cool air stretched from the Midwest to the
Appalachians. Drenching storms will affect the Florida Peninsula and
portions of Texas, the southern Plains and southern Rockies. More
heat is in the offing for the interior Northwest, while seasonable air
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12A • Thursday, July 17, 2014 • The Paducah Sun
From Page One/World
paducahsun.com
Egypt sentences 7 Assange’s detention order upheld
men to life in prison
BY KARL RITTER
Associated Press
BY SARAH EL DEEB
Associated Press
CAIRO — An Egyptian
court sentenced seven men
to life in prison on Wednesday for sexual assaults on
women during public rallies in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, in the first such
heavy sentences since the
government vowed to crack
down on rampant sexual
violence.
Sexual harassment has
long been a problem in
Egypt, but assaults have
become more frequent and
brutal since the 2011 overthrow of longtime ruler
Hosni Mubarak, with frenzied mobs targeting women
who take part in political
gatherings.
The charges stemmed
from four different incidents of sexual assault this
year and last year, including during celebrations of
the inauguration of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi
in June. Videos of the brutal attacks posted online
caused a public outcry, and
pushed the new leader to
make the highest profile
condemnation of the escalating phenomenon and
order a crackdown on perpetrators. A week later, 13
suspects were sent to trial
in a speedy referral aimed
at sending a message of deterrence.
“This is the first verdict in
a case of sexual assault in
the history of this country,”
said Mozn Hassan, director of Nazra for Feminist
Studies, which provides
legal representation for
victims. “This could open
the door for ending impunity in such cases.”
The sentencing session
was aired live on TV, indicating the government
hoped it would serve as a
deterrent.
Judge Mohammed elFiqqi sentenced the seven men to life in prison,
with four of them receiving multiple life sentences. An eighth defendant
received two 20-year jail
sentences and a ninth
received a single 20-year
sentence. The five were
given multiple sentences
after being found guilty
of taking part in more
than one attack.
Hassan said she hoped
the verdicts were not the
last, and that authorities would investigate
the 500 cases of sexual
violence in Tahrir Square
since 2011 that her center
has documented. Sexual
violence is often unreported, particularly in
conservative countries
like Egypt, because women are ashamed to come
forward, and where it is
hard to identify perpetrators during the attacks by
dozens of men.
Scenes of women being attacked by frenzied mobs have sullied
political rallies in the
square made famous by
the revolt that toppled
Mubarak.
STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court on Wednesday
upheld its detention order
on Julian Assange, reaffirming the legal basis for
an international warrant
for the WikiLeaks founder
which has kept him hiding
in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years.
One of Assange’s defense
lawyers, Per Samuelson,
said they would study the
judge’s decision in detail
and then “write a juicy, toxic appeal” to a higher court.
“Our legal arguments are
solid and powerful,” Samuelson told The Associated
Press. “That they didn’t
work could be because the
judge didn’t give herself
enough time to think.”
Last month, Assange’s
lawyers filed a court petition to repeal the detention
order — imposed by the
Stockholm district court in
November 2010 — on the
grounds that it cannot be
enforced while he is at the
embassy and because it is
restricting Assange’s civil
rights.
Assange has not been
formally indicted in Sweden, but he is wanted for
questioning by police over
allegations of sexual misconduct and rape involving
two women he met during
a visit to the Scandinavian
country in 2010. He denies
the allegations.
Swedish
prosecutors
have ruled out the possibility of questioning him in
Associated Press
Tomas Olsson, left, and Per E. Samuelsson, Julian Assange’s lawyers, talk to media
prior to a public court hearing in Stockholm on Wednesday.
London.
“Julian Assange is evading justice by seeking refuge at Ecuador’s embassy,”
lead prosecutor Marianne
Ny said. “He needs to make
himself available in Sweden for remaining investigative measures and a potential trial.”
Even if Sweden had
dropped its case against
Assange, he would face immediate arrest by British
police for violating his bail
conditions when he fled
officials and sought refuge at the embassy. Police
have maintained a constant
presence outside the embassy since then.
In a meeting last month
with reporters at the embassy to mark his second
year of hiding, Assange
said he had no intention of
going to Sweden because
he has no guarantees he
wouldn’t subsequently be
sent to the U.S., where an
investigation into WikiLeaks’
dissemination
of
hundreds of thousands of
classified U.S. documents
remains live.
In a video link during the
meeting, he also talked to
Ecuadorean Foreign Min-
ister Ricardo Patino, who
told journalists that negotiations with Britain over Assange’s fate were at an impasse and that there would
be no attempt to force him
back to Sweden.
“We will protect Julian
Assange for as long as necessary,” he said.
Ny, the prosecutor, said
she wasn’t aware of any investigation in the U.S. and
that she hadn’t had “any
sort of contact” with U.S.
authorities.
“The only contacts we’ve
had have been with Britain,” Ny said.
VOTES
CONTINUED FROM 1A
gize female voters in the
fall, when Republicans are
threatening to take control
of the Senate. GOP senators said Wednesday’s vote
was simply a stunt, political messaging designed to
boost vulnerable Democratic incumbents. The
GOP needs to gain six seats
to seize control.
“Democrats are just trying to win an election,” Sen.
Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,
said bluntly.
But Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
said the Republicans were
the ones “out of touch with
reality.” He promised that
Democrats would continue
to press the issue.
Women have proven crucial in electing President
Barack Obama and members of his party. And Democrats desperately need a
strong turnout as they defend 21 Senate seats to the
GOP’s 15, many in Republican-leaning states where
Obama’s abysmal approval
ratings are a likely drag.
Last month, the Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 that requiring closely held companies
to pay for various forms of
women’s contraception to
which they object violates
the corporations’ religious
freedom. The decision
marked the first time the
high court had declared
that businesses can hold
religious views under federal law. “Five men on the
Supreme Court rolled back
the clock on women in
America,” said Sen. Patty
Murray, D-Wash.
A Senate veteran — the
four-term Murray — and an
incumbent locked in a tight
race — Colorado’s Mark
Udall — joined forces in
pushing the legislation that
would have reversed the
court’s decision by providing access to contraception
through insurance plans at
businesses that object on
religious grounds.
Republicans
asserted
that the government
must accommodate the
deeply held religious beliefs
of Americans, including the
owners of Hobby Lobby,
the Oklahoma-based chain
of arts and craft stores that
challenged the contraceptives provision in the law.
“The issue in Hobby Lobby is not whether women
can purchase birth control,
it’s who pays for what,” said
Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.,
in remarks on the Senate floor. “Those of us who
believe that life begins at
conception have moral objections to devices or procedures that destroy fertilized
embryos.”
Fischer said the Green
family, which owns Hobby
Lobby, has similar objections and “they don’t want
to use their money to violate their religious beliefs.”
She said the company’s
health coverage does pay
for 16 of 20 forms of contraception, including birth
control pills. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Democrats
“think they can score political points and create divisions where there aren’t
any by distorting the facts.”
McConnell joined with
two Republican women,
Fischer and Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, in
backing separate legislation
that would reaffirm current
law on access to contraception and in calling for
a Food and Drug Administration study on whether
contraceptives could be
sold over the counter without a prescription.
In one of the most closely
watched races in the country, McConnell faces Democrat Alison Lundergan
Grimes in his bid for a sixth
term.
On Wednesday’s vote,
three Republicans broke
ranks with their party —
Susan Collins of Maine,
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
and Mark Kirk of Illinois —
and backed the Democratic-led legislation.
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