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Lawmakers
freeze tax
on gasoline
BY ADAM BEAM AND BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
ELLEN O’NAN | The Sun
Bill and Carolyn Marcum push grandchildren Tyler (left) and Ryleigh Marcum in swings at Chestnut Park in Murray on Wednesday afternoon. Calloway ranked first in the state for quality of life
in the 2015 County Health Rankings released on Wednesday. Calloway stands out among other
counties in the western part of the state and has consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of
Kentucky counties.
Counties facing health care
issues, making small strides
BY GENEVIEVE
POSTLETHWAIT
[email protected]
The 2015 County Health
Rankings for Kentucky released Wednesday paint a picture of a western Kentucky that
is facing considerable health
challenges, but has reason to
hope for healthier days ahead.
The rankings, a collabora-
tion between the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and the
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, measure health outcomes (how
healthy a county is now) as well
has health factors, which suggest how healthy a county will
be in the future.
Western Kentucky’s rankings vary widely, ranging from
Calloway County with the 7th
strongest health outcomes and
11th strongest health factors
in the state, to Fulton, which
ranks 101st for its outcomes
and 102nd for factors.
The report measured “health
outcomes,” by looking at how
long people live and how
Associated Press
SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France
— The first half of Germanwings Flight 9525 was chilling
in its normalcy. It took off from
Barcelona en route to Duesseldorf, climbing up over the
Mediterranean and turning
over France. The last communication was a routine request
to continue on its route.
Minutes later, at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, the Airbus A320 inexplicably began to descend.
Within 10 minutes it had
plunged from its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet to just over
6,000 feet and slammed into a
remote mountainside.
To find out why, investigators have been analyzing the
mangled black box that contains an audio recording from
the cockpit. Remi Jouty, the
head of France’s accident investigation bureau BEA, said
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Father in court after
comatose baby dies
BY KAT RUSSELL
Please see COUNTIES | 5A
[email protected]
Wednesday that it has yielded
sounds and voices, but so far
not the “slightest explanation”
of why the plane crashed, killing all 150 on board.
A newspaper report, however, suggests the audio contains
intriguing information at the
least: One of the pilots is heard
leaving the cockpit, then banging on the door with increasing
urgency in an unsuccessful at-
BENTON — A 6-month-old boy who has been in a coma
since he was found unresponsive in a bathtub full of water
on March 14 at an apartment in Hardin died on Tuesday
after being taken off life support at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville.
A statement sent to The Sun on Wednesday by Cory Jennings, the baby’s maternal great-aunt, asked people to continue to pray for the family during this “time of turmoil.”
“We are still in shock that the events of that night even
happened and are now having to deal with the inconsolable pain of his loss,” the statement read.
The baby’s father, 30-year-old John Mikulich IV, who
was arrested and charged with first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree criminal trespassing March 15,
appeared in Marshall District Court on Wednesday for a
preliminary hearing.
The hearing was to determine if there was probable
cause to send the case to a grand jury for indictment.
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France jet pilot locked out of cockpit
BY GREG KELLER AND
ELAINE GANLEY
FRANKFORT — Taxpayers will spend money to keep
heroin dealers in prison longer and give addicts a steady
supply of clean needles, and they won’t get a tax break at
the gas pump after a wild final day in the state Legislature.
After midnight, they succumbed to pressure from Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and a host of local state officials
to effectively stop a drop in the state’s gas tax that was
scheduled to take effect April 1. While the 5.1-cents-pergallon drop would have meant cheaper prices at the pump
for consumers, it would be a $150 million cut to the state’s
road fund on top of the $129 million cut that resulted from
a similar decrease in January.
Kentucky’s gas tax is tied to the wholesale prices of fuel.
The current tax is 26.2 cents per gallon. It had been scheduled to fall to 22.1 cents per gallon on April 1. Instead, lawmakers agreed to drop it to 26 cents per gallon and freeze
it so it could never fall below that.
“Our Transportation Cabinet tells me that if we don’t do
something, the transportation budget will run out of cash
by August of 2016,” Beshear said earlier in the day in urging lawmakers to freeze the gas tax.
But some Republicans were furious, arguing the state
was breaking its promise to taxpayers.
“We’re changing the rules of the game in the 9th inning,”
state Rep. Robert Benvenuti said. “When the tax dollars
(were) flying through the door, nobody complained.”
ELLEN O’NAN | The Sun
More than 170 vendors
take part in Fluor forum
Fluor Federal Services hosted an
event at The Paducah-McCracken
County Convention
& Expo Center on
Wednesday. More
than 170 vendors
showcased their
services, hoping to
do business with
the U.S. Department of Energy’s
deactivation and
decommissioning
contractor at the
Paducah Gaseous
Diffusion Plant. BY DAVID ZOELLER
[email protected]
More than 170 vendors hoping to do business with the
U.S. Department of Energy’s deactivation and decommissioning contractor at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant showcased their services at a supplier forum
Wednesday.
Fluor Federal Services, the DOE contractor, hosted the
daylong event to give prospective suppliers information
on the process of providing goods and services needed
at the site.
According to Cory Hicks, public affairs manager with
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HOUSE BUDGET CALLS FOR CUTS
COUNTERFEIT $100 BILLS PASSED
House Republicans come together Wednesday night and pass
a conservative budget that relies
on nearly $5 trillion in cuts to
eliminate deficits.
Paducah police seek help in identifying
a man (left) suspected of passing counterfeit $100 bills at several businesses.
Surveillance video showed the suspect
is a tall, thin black man who is about 30
years old.
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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. 4428993.
AARP with IRS offers free
tax service to low and moderate income individuals, with
special attention to those age
60 and older, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
McCracken County Library,
555 Washington St., Paducah.
Walk-ins welcome.
Downtown Kiwanis Club,
lunch, noon, Igert Hall at
Broadway United Methodist
Church.
Mayfield Kiwanis Club, 12
p.m. Noon-1 p.m.,Rita’s Café
in Hall Hotel, 7th St., Mayfield.
Public is welcome.
McCracken County Public
Library, evenings upstairs, 7
p.m., Kentucky Women in Traditional Music, hosted by John
Harrod and co-sponsored by
Kentucky Humanities Council.
Dance, 7-10 p.m., Traders
Mall, 6900 Benton Road, Reidland. Band: Due South. $5.
Staff report
Engineers designing the
corridor for Interstate 69 can
rebuild a key interchange
for Interstate 24 in Marshall County in a way that
preserves direct interstate
access to U.S. 62 at Calvert
City, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Wednesday.
The key to the project will
be construction of a separate
ramp — called a “flyover”
ramp — to afford traffic an
exit from I-69 North onto the
Julian M. Carroll Purchase
Parkway, which directly connects with U.S. 62 and Ky.
1523 — Oak Park Boulevard
— in Calvert City.
The I-24/Purchase Parkway interchange lies at the
western end of an 18-mile
segment of interstate on
which I-69 and I-24 run concurrently.
This interchange involves
a major fork where two interstates combine. Under
the project design, the interstates will split immediately
east of the interchange. Traffic continuing west on I-24
will bear to the right. Traffic
going south on I-69 will peel
off to the left.
Federal Highway Administration rules for interstate
highways require traffic that
is staying on a given interstate route within the confines of an interchange to do
so with no loss of speed.
However, there is no
such requirement for traffic
switching from one interstate route to another FHWA
has approved retention of a
Friday
cloverleaf ramp for this traffic movement.
Reconstruction of the interchange is part of a larger
project to upgrade the Purchase Parkway to become
part of I-69. When the corridor is complete, I-69 will
run north to south from the
Ohio River at Henderson to
the Tennessee line at Fulton.
Fifty-five miles of the cor-
Counterfeit $100 bills
passed at local stores
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. 4428993.
Staff report
Ballard-Carlisle Historical
and Genealogical Society, 257
4th Street, Wickliffe, 9 a.m. –
4 p.m., 270-335-5059. Volunteers will help with your family
research.
Paducah Knights of Columbus-Holy Rosary Knights of
Columbus, 3028 Jefferson
Street in Paducah, Fish Fry
(baked or fried catfish/shrimp
and trimmings), 4-8 p.m. Dinein or call ahead for carry outs
at (270) 443-3480.
Steak night, 5-8 p.m., River
City Eagles Aerie 3686, 1919
Cairo Road.
Agenda
Paducah police
Police seek this man in connection with the passing of
counterfeit money at Paducah businesses this week.
Wednesday’s lottery
Kentucky
Pick 3-midday: 4-7-4
Pick 3-evening: 0-3-6
Pick 4-midday: 9-2-7-2
Pick 4-evening: 7-4-4-6
Cash Ball: 9-16-28-33 CB 30
Cash Ball Kicker: 8-5-6-5-3
5 Card Cash: KC-5D-7D-9H-4S
Powerball: 7-19-23-50-54
PB 14 PP 2
Illinois
Pick 3-midday: 2-9-2 FB 1
Pick 3-evening: 4-8-0 FB 5
Pick 4-midday: 7-8-3-5 FB 6
Pick 4-evening: 6-2-8-0 FB 1
Lucky Day Lotto-midday: 4-6-1019-39
Lucky Day Lotto-evening: 1-6-7-1527
Paducah police seek help in
identifying a man suspected of
passing counterfeit $100 bills
at several businesses.
According to a news release,
police received a call Tuesday
from an employee at Walgreens on Irvin Cobb Drive
saying the store had received
what appeared to be a counterfeit bill.
On Wednesday, officers received similar reports from
A Benton man was arrested Tuesday after authorities from McCracken
and Marshall counties
pulled him over and allegedly discovered drugs and
paraphernalia inside his
car.
According to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, Monte Clark,
40, was driving erratically
on U.S. 68 West, and at
one point almost caused
a head-on collision before
he was stopped.
Authorities
reported that when they approached Clark, he exhibited signs of being under
the influence of some type
of drug.
A search of the vehicle
allegedly turned up several syringes, digital scales,
bath salts, methamphetamine and other drug par-
aphernalia, according to a
news release.
Clark was charged with
operating a motor vehicle
under the influence of alcohol/drugs, first-degree
possession of a controlled
substance (methamphetamine), possession of
synthetic drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clark was taken to the
Marshall County Jail.
New business group forming in Graves
Staff report
An area small business
and
entrepreneurship
group hopes to “spark”
business development in
the region, according to a
news release.
Graves County Economic Development, in
conjunction with the Kentucky Innovation Network
at Murray State University, has formed the new
group, called Spark.
“This is a great new program for the region. Bringing entrepreneurs and
business owners together
and providing them the
opportunities they need
for learning and networking is going to be a great
catalyst for more companies to start and grow in
west Kentucky,” said Loretta Daniel, Kentucky In-
novation Network director, in the release.
The group’s first meeting is scheduled for 5:30
to 7 p.m. Thursday at the
D&D Shoe Warehouse,
200 S. Fifth St., in downtown Mayfield.
The event is free, but
RSVPs are encouraged.
Contact the GCED office
at 270-247-0626 for more
information.
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FRIDAY
Beethoven
Staff report
A 5K race this weekend will pit
runners against a famous composer.
The Paducah Symphony Orchestra Beat Beethoven 5K run/
walk starts at 9 a.m. Saturday in
Noble Park. Runners who finish before Beethoven — who has
been training to run the 3.1-mile
race in less than 30 minutes —
will receive a free ticket to the
Paducah Symphony Orchestra’s
performance of “Carmina Burana” on April 18. A 1-mile youth
run follows at 10 a.m.
People of all ages and abilities
are invited to participate. Proceeds benefit the symphony.
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.
and lasts until 8:45 a.m. on race
day. It costs $35. Pre-registration
is open until Friday, and can be
completed online at active.com.
It costs $30. Registration for the
youth run is $15.
Awards will be given to the top
three finishers in each age group,
and all youth run participants will
receive a prize. For more information, call 270-444-0065.
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Donuts, Kirchhoff’s Bakery
and Victorian Parlor Antiques.
Police said surveillance video from Walgreens showed the
suspect is a tall, thin black man
who is approximately 30 years
old. Police also said the man
had gold around the outer edges of his top teeth.
The police department is
asking anyone with information about this man to call 270444-8550 or 443-TELL.
Traffic stop leads to Benton PSO invites
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Staff report
The Agenda is a listing of
government meetings today.
„ Murray City Council —
6:30 p.m., City Hall.
„ Paducah-McCracken
Joint Sewer Agency — 5 p.m.,
meeting facility, Northview
Street.
ridor are complete from
roughly Nortonville (Hopkins County) to the interchange of I-24 and the Purchase Parkway near Calvert
City (Marshall County).
The remaining portion of
the I-69 corridor between
Henderson and the Western
Kentucky Parkway is scheduled to have signs in place by
the end of 2015.
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, March 26, 2015 • 3A
Political compromises brokered in a Ford
BY ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
FRANKFORT — Some
of the last-minute compromises forged in
the final hours of Kentucky’s frenzied legislative session took shape
in a Ford Edge speeding
along the Western Kentucky Parkway.
There, two political rivals who share a hometown but not much else
forged a friendship that
allowed the two men
to work out differences
on a pair of high profile
bills fraught with political pitfalls.
Republican
Sen.
Whitney
Westerfield
and Democratic Rep.
John Tilley, the chair-
man of their respective
judiciary committees,
live about a half-mile
from each other in Hopkinsville. They often carpool with each other to
Frankfort to save money
on gas, forcing them
to talk about bills designed to reduce heroin
overdose deaths and to
protect the victims of
abusive dating relationships.
Both bills passed and
were enrolled on the final day of a legislative
session that had been in
danger of imploding in
a pile of partisan rhetoric on the eve of a highstakes race for governor.
Making the story more
remarkable is that West-
erfield, a former prosecutor, is running for
attorney general against
the son of Democratic
Gov. Steve Beshear, giving Democrats all the
reason in the world not
to work with him.
“We’re up front about
the politics we know
that actually sometimes
dictates the decisions
that we have to make,”
Tilley said.
“I don’t think I’d be
here today if we weren’t
able to have some of
those long conversations on that 3½ hour
drive to and from our
hometown.”
Many
lawmakers
worked on the heroin
bill, including Republi-
More than 70 small animals
seized from Reidland home
BY LAUREL BLACK
can Sen. Chris McDaniel
who wrote the first draft
that passed in January
and state Rep. Denver
Butler, a former police
officer.
But when Beshear
signed the heroin bill
Wednesday
morning
just a few hours after it
passed on the final day
of the legislative session,
he singled out Tilley and
Westerfield who “helped
lead the charge.”
The law contains
an emergency clause,
meaning it took effect
the moment Beshear
signed it. That means
firefighters, police officers and other public
safety officials can begin
giving Naloxone to hero-
in overdose victims, and
heroin users can dial 911
to report an overdose
without fear of being arrested for doing drugs in
the first place.
The dating violence
law takes effect in July.
With it, Kentucky will
become the last state
in the country to offer civil protections to
victims of abusive dating relationships. Right
now, Kentucky only allows victims of abusive
relationships to get an
emergency
protective
order from a judge if
the victim is married to,
lives with or has a child
with the assailant.
Westerfield acknowledged Wednesday there
were a number of times
he thought the bills
would die. And while
most of the negotiations
on the final version of
the bills took place in
private meetings, Westerfield said a public
hearing on the House
version won over skeptical Republicans about
a needle exchange program, which had been a
key obstacle to reaching
a compromise.
“When we ran into an
obstacle, when we had a
disagreement, we didn’t
quit,” Westerfield said.
“We didn’t want to get
up and walk away from
the table because we
knew what could be accomplished.”
Murray State to install
new president April 10
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McCracken
County
Animal Control seized
more than 70 small
animals
Wednesday
evening from the Reidland home of a woman
believed to have been
hoarding them.
Animal Control Officer Chryss George said
someone left a tip about
the animal hoarder’s
Merrydale Road residence on her truck. She
wouldn’t release the
name of the woman or
discuss details of the investigation, but in cases
such as this, George
said, charges of neglect
or inhumane treatment
would be possible.
The conditions inside the home “were not
ideal,” George said, adding that officers initially
wore masks to remove
the animals from the
home.
George said the county’s animal shelter does
not have the space to
house all the animals,
and that some of them —
the woman kept ducks,
rabbits, chinchillas and
small dogs — wouldn’t
do well in a shelter setting. Some foster families came directly to the
home and picked up
animals, leaving their
names and driver’s license numbers with animal control.
“(The animals) are
still, for all intents and
Staff report
ELLEN O’NAN | The Sun
Deputy Lindsey Miller of the McCracken County
Sheriff’s Department assesses the condition of a
rabbit found in a Reidland home along with over 70
other animals after responding to a tip of animal
hoarding on Wednesday night. purposes ... evidence,”
George said.
Neighbors said the
woman knew the names
and veterinary records of
every creature removed
from the residence during the hourslong operation. Several described
her as a big-hearted
person who saw the animals as her “babies” and
couldn’t turn any away.
Johnny Canup, a
59-year-old neighbor,
watched the scene as he
held his freshly bathed
foster dog, Koala Bear,
in his arms. He said he
knew his neighbor sheltered miniature pinschers a couple of years
ago and had been meaning to come by and adopt
one for his wife, Patsy.
The woman “always
had a lot of animals,”
Canup observed. “I
guess it just blew up on
her.”
Deputy Lindsey Miller
of the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department
said no more volunteers
or crates are needed, but
food donations can be
arranged by calling animal control at 270-3316417. She added that
many of the rescued animals had been adopted
from other shelters, and
it’s now the task of animal control to determine
which ones go where.
Contact Laurel Black, a
Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8641,
or follow @LaurelFBlack
on Twitter.
The bills were just
some of the dozens sent
to Beshear’s desk on
Tuesday as lawmakers scrambled to reach
deals in secret meetings
on the final day of the
2015 legislative session.
But as the clock struck
midnight,
lawmakers
opted to keep working
by making up a day they
had missed in February
because of a snow storm.
Lawmakers agreed to require ignition interlock
devices on the vehicles
of some repeat DUI offenders and to increase
the height requirement
for children in booster
seats. And Kentucky
became the last state in
the country to offer civil
protections to victims of
abusive dating relationships.
But other bills perished as lawmakers
could not reach an
agreement.
The heroin legislation
was lawmakers’ top priority.
In 2011, the legislature
made it much harder for
people to get prescription pain killers. In the
two years that followed,
addicts turned to the
cheaper and more readily available heroin, an
opioid with similar effects to prescription
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painkillers. As a result,
heroin overdose deaths
jumped to 230 in 2013
from just 22 in 2011,
placing pressure on lawmakers to do something.
The bill lets local governments set up needleexchange
programs
where addicts can swap
dirty needles for clean
ones in an effort to prevent disease and death.
And it toughens penalties for heroin dealers
of at least 60 grams, requiring them to serve at
least 50 percent of their
sentence before they
would be eligible for parole.
Mallard Fillmore
portance to society while
affording a new president the opportunity to
present
a
personal vision for
the institution,
Murray
State reported
in a news
release.
Davies
D a vies’ father, Dick Davies,
will introduce his son.
Gov. Steve Beshear also
is scheduled to speak.
Other speakers include Jay Morgan, provost and vice president
for academic affairs at
MSU; Murray Mayor
Jack Rose; and Rep.
Kenny Imes and Sen.
Small business
seminars coming
to town next week
Staff report
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An investiture ceremony for Robert O.
Davies as the 13th
president of Murray
State University will
take place at 2 p.m.
April 10 in the university’s Lovett Auditorium.
MSU students, faculty and staff, along
with
community
members from the region, are invited.
Davies official duties began at the university in July 2014.
The formal observance of the installation of the president
of an institution — an
investiture ceremony
— directs attention
to the mission of the
university and its im-
Area business and
economic
development
organizations
are teaming up to provide training for small
businesses.
EntrePaducah,
Paducah
Economic
Development,
Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce, and
Murray State University’s Bauerfeind
College of Business,
Small Business Development Center have
partnered to offer two
nights of small business seminars.
The sessions are
scheduled for 6 to
8 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday
at
the
MSU Crisp Center in
Paducah.
The first night’s session will cover mistakes to avoid, and
steps to take, in operating a business. The
second night will cover
financial statements,
managing cash and basic marketing. The sessions will be presented
by Chris Woolridge, district director of the small
business development
center.
”We are excited to offer seminars that address such important
functions of any business,” said Scott Darnell,
PED president/chief executive officer, in a news
release.
Sandra
Wilson,
Paducah chamber president, said about 75 percent of the organization’s
members are small businesses.
“This is a great opportunity for these businesses to receive additional information to
help them to be more
successful,” Wilson said.
There is no charge to
small business owners.
Registration is required
by Monday. To register, go to http://goo.gl/
xV4WCl.
by Bruce Tinsley
Stan Humphries, representing Kentucky’s General Assembly.
The investiture will be
presided over by Harry
Lee Waterfield II, chairman of MSU’s board of
regents; Sharon Green,
vice chairwoman of the
board of regents; and
Tim Miller, MSU president emeritus. At that
time, Davies will respond with his message,
“Achievement, Endeavor and Hope,” for the
university.
Davies is the former
president of Eastern
Oregon University in La
Grande.
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THOUGHTFUL
Shelter agreement
addresses past issues
The McCracken County
Fiscal Court made the
right move this week by
unanimously approving a
contract with the McCracken
County Humane Society for
animal sheltering services,
beginning in 2016.
The agreement is not
without detractors. The
vote by the Humane
Society board to enter the
agreement with the county
was not unanimous. And
before the fiscal court’s vote
commissioners heard harsh
criticism of the Humane
Society from some local
citizens who remain deeply
distrustful of the agency.
The Humane Society
continues to suffer from the
fallout of a euthanization
scandal in 2011 that
ended with the agency’s
euthanization specialist
being sentenced to jail. That
incident led the county (and
the city, via a joint contract) to
end the then-existing services
agreement with the Humane
Society. The county then built
its own ad hoc animal shelter,
which quickly developed
problems. Conditions
there were found out of
compliance with state law in
an inspection by the Humane
Society of the United States,
and there was an incident
in which five bulldogs at the
shelter died of heatstroke.
The county shelter has
also proved expensive to
operate. The county is
spending $240,000 a year to
operate the shelter and was
contemplating construction
of a new $1 million shelter
to remedy the problems of
regulatory violations at the
existing facility.
rom a fiscal perspective
in particular, the
new contract with
the Humane Society makes
sense. The four-year deal
comes with a price tag of
$217,500 a year, a savings of
$22,500 from the county’s
current operating cost, or
not quite 10 percent. The
Humane Society, which has
an endowment well in excess
of $1 million, will undertake
a $1 million expansion in the
next few months that will
roughly double the number of
animals it can care for.
F
While emotions are still raw
in some quarters from the
2011 scandal, the Humane
Society has undergone
many changes both in its
management and its board
membership. The new county
contract closely controls
euthanization practices,
which were at the core of the
2011 breach with the county.
he agreement states
euthanasia can only
be performed for the
following reasons: diminished
quality of life of the animal;
medical conditions beyond
Humane Society control;
or in cases of threatening
behavior to staff, volunteers
or the public. Euthanization
can only be performed by
veterinarians at a veterinary
facility.
The agreement also caps
what the Humane Society
can charge for adoptions and
for holding animals that are
reclaimed by their owners. It
gives the county the right to
inspect the Humane Society’s
financial records at any
time and allows the county
to appoint a member to the
Humane Society board.
We think the agreement
has been well crafted to
address criticisms and
concerns raised by some
members of the public about
the Humane Society’s past
practices. We also think
from a fiscal perspective it
makes more sense to have a
public-private partnership
between the Humane Society
and the county, rather than
having both entities operating
redundant facilities. It’s also
noteworthy that the Humane
Society has been in the shelter
business for generations. Its
expertise in the field should
not be discounted.
We credit the fiscal court
for taking this action, which
given the opposition, required
some political courage. We
think that in the end this
public-private combination
will result in better facilities
for homeless animals, better
adoption rates and lower
costs to the taxpayers. It’s
time to put the 2011 incident
in the past and move on with
the mission of providing the
best shelter services possible
in our county.
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Winning traits oftentimes add up
model. In my workday
I have spent the better
world, I found that some
part of 35 years studyof the worst damage I
ing how people gather
encountered was done by
information and how
a Smart and Active facthey make sense of that
ulty member. He knew
information to make
whose buttons to push,
decisions.
how to stir up emotions
While my research bebehind the scenes, and
gan in the late 1970s, my
then present himself as a
first practical introducsavior.
tion to human decisionBill Coscarelli That was the flaw for
making came in a graduCommunity Columnist Guba, who despite his
ate class with Dr. Egon
curmudgeonly outlook,
Guba at Indiana University. I endured the class for almost a half held to an old school belief that rational
semester before dropping out as fast as I thinking would inevitably lead to the
could after his class-wide tongue-lashing best outcomes. My wife listened and
for its poor midterm exam performance. then contributed the next refinement.
She reflected that her previous boss
Guba was the classically brilliant and
sometimes acerbic academic whose work had viewed his world as filled with “Selfwould help define his field of educational ish” and “Unselfish” actors. He found
research. This is the 39th year I have cel- that no matter what, an Unselfish person
was always better to have in an organiebrated Egon Guba Day in honor of my
first encounter with his practical analysis zation or to interact with than a Selfish
one.
of decision-making.
Hmm. Yes, that solved a problem in
I can’t ever remember the exact day
the Guba model. If we added another
to celebrate, but I’m certain it was in
dimension, then we could refine our
March. This year Egon Guba Day came
assessment of the actors in our lives in a
as a celebration at a local restaurant we
more detailed manner that would help
escaped to by switching the Jeep into
us negotiate the waves of life.
four-wheel drive at the end of the 24My faculty colleague who was so dethour, 12-inch snowfall two weeks ago.
rimental was Smart, Active, and Selfish.
I was holding forth, as academics are
prone to do, to my captured audience of Had he been Unselfish, the department
would have evolved in a healthier way.
family members and intoned the name
As my second wine arrived my teenof Egon Guba. This led to an “Aha!” moager immediately announced that the
ment at the Olive Garden dinner table
model was still incomplete. Perhaps
that created an expansion of his theory
fueled by the continual teenage angst
that I’m sharing today.
of managing parental control, she anGuba observed there were two types
nounced, “It’s power!” The problems of
of people acting in four kinds of ways.
managing one’s self in an organization
His first cut was “Smart” and “Dumb.”
had to do with who had the power. She
He then added a second dimension of
“Active” and “Inactive.” Here is a simple added a final dimension to the model:
“Power” or “Powerless.” Another flash of
table that summarizes the core of this
insight.
idea.
Active Inactive
Compliments of a cabin-fever fueled
Smart
SA
SI
escape in the midst of the snowpoDumb
DA
DI
calypse, abetted by a dinner table and
random conversation, I think I’ve found
Whether I am working professionally
or making my way in life, I find this table the next iteration of Guba’s model. Its
three dimensions provide guidance for
useful in guiding my actions. For Guba,
our actions.
(SA) was a desired way of life … smart
A Smart, Active, and Unselfish person
people doing things for what he assumed
in charge of things is somebody I want to
to be the common good.
work for or with. In fact, these attriHis feared interaction was with (DA)
butes might be what helps define what’s
types, “Dumb” and “Active.” These are
known as “servant leadership.”
the people who gum up an organization
What I don’t want is somebody who
as fast as sugar in a car’s gas tank and
gets my dinner order wrong, doesn’t care
create tensions and errors.
He theorized if you didn’t underabout my order, and has no power to
stand how things worked, and chose to
fix it when it is pointed out the order is
do nothing (DI), you were helping the
wrong — and then goes to get somebody
common good by not creating problems. else to fix it.
The Smart and Inactives (SI) were lost
Yep, dinner was insightful.
opportunity for the organization or
Bill Coscarelli is a professor emeritus
society — sitting around with good ideas from Southern Illinois University in the
that are not shared or acted upon doesn’t field of education. He consults for corpohelp anyone.
rations and other clients in training and
As I talked in the restaurant, for the
evaluation. Reach him at Coscarel@
first time, I realized the flaw in Guba’s
gmail.com.
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tempt to get back in.
“The guy outside is
knocking lightly on the
door and there is no
answer,” The New York
Times quotes an unidentified investigator
as saying. “And then he
hits the door stronger
and no answer. There is
never an answer.”
Eventually, the newspaper quotes the investigator as saying: “You
can hear he is trying to
smash the door down.”
The
investigator,
whom the newspaper
said could not be identified because the investigation is continuing,
said officials don’t know
why the pilot left. He
also does not speculate
on why the other pilot
didn’t open the door
or make contact with
ground control before
the crash.
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, airlines in
the U.S. don’t leave one
pilot alone in the cockpit. The standard operating procedure is that
if one of the pilots leaves
— for example to use the
bathroom — a flight at-
tendant takes their spot
in the cockpit. It was not
immediately clear if European airlines have adopted the same practice.
The names of the pilots have not been released.
French officials gave
no details from the recording on Wednesday,
insisting the cause of
the crash remained a
mystery. They said the
descent was gradual
enough to suggest the
plane was under the
control of its navigators.
“At this point, there is
no explanation,” Jouty
said. “One doesn’t imagine that the pilot consciously sends his plane
into a mountain.”
Jouty said “sounds
and voices” were registered on the digital audio file recovered from
the first black box. But
he did not divulge the
contents, insisting days
or weeks will be needed
to decipher them.
“There’s work of understanding
voices,
sounds, alarms, attribution of different voices,”
the BEA chief said.
Confusion surrounded the fate of the second
black box. French President Francois Hollande
said the casing of the
flight data recorder had
been found in the scattered debris, but was
missing the memory
card that captures 25
hours’ worth of information on the position
and condition of almost
every major part in a
plane. Jouty refused to
confirm the discovery.
French officials said
terrorism appeared unlikely and Germany’s
top security official said
there was no evidence of
foul play.
As authorities struggled to unravel the
puzzle, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Spanish
Prime Minister Mariano
Rajoy converged on the
remote accident site to
pay their respects to the
dead — mostly German
and Spanish citizens
among at least 17 nationalities.
“This is a true tragedy,
and the visit here has
shown us that,” Merkel
said after she and Hollande overflew the desolate craggy mountainside.
gion.
“That’s why we’re
looking at western Kentucky more as a region
than as individual counties,” Muscarella said.
“We can look at this data
and our data and know
that our population has
some challenges. But it
will help us determine
where we need to focus
our attention moving
forward.”
“We’re all working together as a coalition to
try to get data, get understanding, and come
up with ways that we
can start focusing on the
issues,” he continued.
“Lourdes may focus on
behavioral health. Baptist may focus on obesity
and access to primary
care. So we’re all working together. We’re improving, but we still
have a long way to go.”
The 2015 County
Health Rankings for
Kentucky as well as for
each individual county
can be accessed online at www.countyhealthrankings.org/
app/kentucky/.
COUNTIES
County
Calloway
Marshall
Graves
McCracken
Hickman
Carlisle
Ballard
2015
7
26
31
42
55
77
83
For example, though
statewide Kentuckians
reported an average of
only 4.3 poor mental
health days in the past
month, residents of Ballard, Fulton, Hickman
and Marshall counties
reported more than the
state average. Fulton
County residents reported the highest average number of mentally unhealthy days in
a month in the state, 7.9
days.
Also, there appear
to be far fewer mental health providers in
western Kentucky than
in the rest of the state.
The state’s average ratio
of Kentuckians to mental health providers is
621 to one. However, in
all of the western Kentucky counties for which
data were available (Calloway, Graves, Marshall
and McCracken) the
serviceable population
for mental health providers was significantly
larger than the state average.
According to the report, in McCracken
County there are 1,006
people for every mental
health professional, the
most favorable ratio in
the region. In Marshall
County, there were over
6,000 people per provider.
Muscarella was not
surprised by the numbers.
Though the region
still has a ways to go
in improving access to
mental health care, including assistance with
substance abuse issues,
2010
3
37
42
38
95
25
90
Health Factors Rankings
County
Calloway
Marshall
Carlisle
McCracken
Hickman
Ballard
Graves
Fulton
strides are being made,
he said. Both Four Rivers Behavioral Health
and the newly expanded Lourdes Behavioral
Health Institute have
strengthened outreach
efforts and increased
their staffing.
Obesity and related
health problems such
as heart disease, vascular disease and diabetes
also remain an issue
in the area, as well as
across Kentucky. According to the report,
32 percent of Kentucky
adults are obese. All
eight counties in the
Purchase were within
five percentage points of
that average.
“Though obesity is still
an issue in the area, we
are much more aware of
it now,” Muscarella said.
“For example, (the coalition is) working with
the city to try and provide more options for
people to exercise and
live a health lifestyle.
We’ve been working on
starting community gardens in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood, and
encouraging people to
take advantage of things
like Noble Park and the
Greenway Trail.”
The lack of access to
quality primary care
physicians in the region
is one issue the report
wasn’t quite able to capture. By the numbers,
it looks like most western Kentucky counties
have a better or similar
ratio of patients to primary care physicians as
the state average (1,551
residents for every one
2015
13
19
22
26
29
39
41
102
2010
10
11
49
18
62
40
73
48
physician). That’s not
necessarily the case,
Muscarella pointed out.
“That’s based on the
number of primary
care physicians in each
county,” he said. “But
Paducah’s primary service area isn’t just McCracken County, it’s every county that touches
us, including the counties above us in southern Illinois. We service
about 250,000 people.
Our physicians aren’t
just seeing patients from
McCracken County.”
On this point the report is unable to reflect
the interconnectedness
of health care in the re-
Contact Genevieve
Postlethwait, a Paducah
Sun staff writer, at 270575-8651.
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its neighboring counties,
ranking first in the state
for its quality of life.
The measurement of
“health factors” is much
more complex, assessing 30 different measures including health
behaviors, access to and
quality of clinical care,
social and economic factors, as well as the physical environment of communities.
In 2015 the rankings
measured the health of
3,061 of the 3,143 counties in the United States
within each state, not
across them. Thus, the
rankings can be used to
compare western Kentucky counties with the
rest of the state, but not
necessarily the rest of
the country.
“It’s information that
is extremely valuable,
because it gives us a
snapshot of where we
are at the moment, so
that we can decide where
we need to go next,” said
Mike Muscarella, Baptist Health Paducah’s
representative in the
Purchase District Coalition for Health, which
includes leaders from
Baptist, Lourdes, United
Way, area health departments, city governments
and more.
Muscarella and others in the coalition are
conducting a survey
of their own to assess
health challenges and
strengths in the area.
In years past, and this
year thus far, Muscarella
said the biggest regional
challenges they’ve found
are obesity and related
health issues, substance
abuse and mental health
problems, and a lack of
access to primary care.
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the 2015 County Health
Rankings fall in line
with the coalition’s observations.
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CHAPMAN AND
CANDICE CHOI
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Some
of the most familiar
names in ketchup, pickles, cheese and hot dogs
are set to come under
the same roof after H.J.
Heinz Co. announced
plans Wednesday to buy
Kraft and create one of
the world’s largest food
and beverage companies.
The deal would bring
together an array of
longtime staples in
American kitchens, including Oscar Mayer
lunchmeats, Jell-O desserts, Miracle Whip
spreads, Ore-Ida potatoes and Smart Ones
diet foods.
The combination of
the two companies —
each more than a century old — was engineered
by Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire
Hathaway
and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital,
which teamed up just
two years ago to buy
Heinz. While shoppers
are not expected to see
any major changes, the
creation of The Kraft
Heinz Co. reflects the
pressures facing some
of the biggest packaged
food makers in the U.S.
As consumers increasingly migrate away from
popular packaged foods
in favor of options they
consider less processed,
companies
including
Campbell Soup, General
Mills and Kellogg have
been slashing costs or
striking deals to update
their products offerings.
The Heinz-Kraft deal is
in many ways just the
latest example of that,
although Buffett noted
that the two companies
still have a strong base
of customers.
“I think the tastes
Kraft and Heinz appeal
to are pretty enduring,”
he said in a telephone
call to the business news
channel CNBC.
Still, the early plans
outlined by Kraft and
Heinz executives in a
conference call Wednesday focused largely on
the savings that would
be achieved through the
deal, rather than the potential for sales growth
in North America. They
said they expect to save
$1.5 billion through
moves such as combining manufacturing and
distribution networks.
James Angel, an associate professor of finance
at Georgetown University’s McDonough School
of Business, said that
will probably result in
job losses.
“Even though it is
painful for the people involved, those resources
will be freed up for other, potentially more productive, uses,” he said.
The boards of both
companies unanimously approved the deal,
which still needs a nod
from federal regulators
and shareholders of
Kraft Foods Group Inc.
The companies say they
expect the deal to close
in the second half of the
year.
If the agreement goes
through, Kraft is expected to undergo costcutting under the management of 3G Capital,
which is known for running tight ships.
The president of the
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which
says it represents 3,250
Kraft and Heinz workers in North America,
said the union will work
with the companies to
make sure they “do what
is right and responsible” and don’t let costcutting measures hurt
workers.
Military: Bergdahl Man gets $7 million
could face life in ticket in get-well card
prison if convicted
Associated Press
BY ALLEN G. BREED
AND LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
FORT BRAGG, N.C. —
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who abandoned
his post in Afghanistan
and was held captive for
five years by the Taliban,
was charged Wednesday
by the U.S. military with
desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and
could get life in prison if
convicted.
The charges are the
latest development in a
long and bitter debate
over Bergdahl’s case.
They also underscore
the military and political
ramifications of his decision on June 30, 2009,
to leave his post after
expressing misgivings
about the U.S. military’s
role, as well as his own,
in the Afghanistan war.
Bergdahl, 28, was captured by the Taliban and
held by members of the
Haqqani network, an insurgent group tied to the
Taliban that operates
both in Pakistan and Afghanistan.Last May 31,
Bergdahl was handed
over to U.S. special forces in Afghanistan as part
of an exchange for five
Taliban
commanders
who were imprisoned at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The exchange set off
a debate over whether
the U.S. should have re-
leased the five Taliban
members. Little is
known about what the
five have been doing
in Qatar, where they
are being monitored
by the government.
Wednesday’s
announcement brought
further criticism of the
exchange from some
lawmakers, including
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas and the
chairman of the Committee on Homeland
Security.
“President Obama
endangered our national security and
broke the law when
he chose to negotiate
with terrorists and
release hardened enemy combatants from
Guantanamo
Bay
in exchange for Sgt.
Bergdahl — who many
believed at the time
was a deserter,” McCaul said.
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has won $7 million off a
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his get-well card.
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Easton, got the ticket
from his father, who
lives in the hamlet of
Congers in Rockland
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Amorese had just undergone hernia surgery.
A few scratches later on
the “$7 million Golden
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and it was a good thing I
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because I was shocked.
I was — and still am —
in complete disbelief,”
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next decade, calls for
repealing the health
care law and envisions
transformations of the
tax code and Medicare.
Final passage, 228199, came shortly after
Republicans bumped
up recommended defense spending to levels proposed by President Barack Obama.
Much of the budget’s savings would
come from Medicaid,
food stamps and welfare, programs that
aid the low-income,
although details were
sketchy.
Rep. Tom Price,
R-Ga., chairman of the
House Budget Com-
mittee, called the plan
a “balanced budget for
a stronger America” —
and one that would “get
this economy rolling
again.”
Democrats rebutted
that the GOP numbers
didn’t add up and called
their policies wrongheaded.
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not going to be moving
forward under the Republican budget, they’re
going to be falling back,”
said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
The Republican-controlled Senate is likely to
approve its version of a
budget by week’s end.
White House press
secretary Josh Earnest
said after the vote that
President Obama has
been clear that he will
reject a budget that
locks in deep spending
cuts or increases funding for national security
funding without providing matching increases
in “economic security”
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Dunn earns
Eagle rank
Staff report
Bank makes donation to Happy Feet
First Kentucky employees Amanda Rorer and Kristie Stamper present a $1,500 donation to Happy
Feet Equals Learning Feet, which benefits underprivileged students in Carlisle, Graves, Livingston,
Marshall, Muhlenberg and Ohio counties. Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet is designed to provide
students in need with a quality pair of tennis shoes to help them focus better on learning and prevent
bullying. First Kentucky has sponsored this program since 2014 and has donated $3,000 to help fund
shoes for underprivileged students. Pictured, from left, are: Jerry Baird, Happy Feet Equals Learning
Feet founder/board president; Shirley Hendrix, Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet board treasurer; Kristie Stamper, First Kentucky Bardwell office manager; Amanda Rorer, First Kentucky marketing assistant/CRA officer; and Dwight Jackson, Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet vice president.
Salem boy wins conservation contest
Staff report
Finn Wooten, a
7-year-old student from
Salem, recently won the
Kentucky Junior Duck
Stamp Contest’s Best
of Show Conservation
Message.
When called by the
judges Finn said: “This
is the first thing I’ve
ever won. I’m going
to Disney World.” His
winning message was,
“A ruddy duck is better
than a muddy duck, so
let’s keep it clean.”
He will go on to the
national contest in
mid-April. He and more
than 400 other students
will receive various
prizes including cash,
T-shirts, art supplies,
and certificates.
With the contest, students from around the
U.S. submit drawings
to their state, territory
or district competition.
Winners from these
competitions, called
the “Best of Show,” are
then submitted to the
Federal Junior Duck
Stamp Design Contest.
One image from the 54
Best of Show entries
will become the next
Junior Duck Stamp.
Finn
Every July a new
Junior Duck Stamp is
released by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife
Service. The stamps
are sold online by the
U.S. Postal Service and
Amplex Corporation for
$5 each. Proceeds from
stamp sales are invested
in the program to fund
scholarships for national contest winners,
state programs, marketing and environmental
education materials.
For information on
participating in the
Kentucky Junior Duck
Stamp Contest visit
www.fws.gov/refuge/
clarks_river/KJDS.
html.
BENTON — Samuel
Thomas “Sam” Dunn,
18, has earned the
highest advancement
award the Boy Scouts
of America offers to
Scouts, the Eagle Scout
Award. He will be
honored in an Eagle
Court of Honor ceremony beginning at 2
p.m. Sunday at Benton
First United Methodist
Church. All friends and
relatives are invited. A
reception will follow
the ceremony.
A member of Troop
4, chartered by the
Concord United Methodist Church, formerly
chartered by the Concord Lions Club, Dunn
is one of approximately
4 percent of all Boy
Scouts who attain the
Eagle rank, Scoutmaster Stan Hunt said.
Each candidate must
earn 21 merit badges
and successfully complete a community,
church or synagogue
related service project
to earn his Eagle. Dunn
chose to refurbish the
outdoor classroom
at Heath Elementary
School.
He has served as
Assistant Senior Patrol
Leader, Senior Patrol
Leader and been a
member of the Order
of the Arrow. Dunn has
attended numerous
Dunn
camps and hiked more
than 80 miles at the
Philmount Scout Ranch
in Cimarron, New
Mexico.
Dunn is a member
of Benton First United
Methodist Church.
He is a football letterman and a two-time
all-conference player.
Dunn lettered in track
and field and is an AP
Scholar. He is a senior
at Marshall County
High School. He plans
to attend the University
of Louisville in the fall.
He is the son of Tom
and April Dunn of Benton. He is the grandson of Bobbie Lane of
Murray, Barbara Lane
of Paducah and the late
Tom Lane, and Robbie
Dunn of Benton and
the late James Dunn.
Karate students bring home honors
Paducah Civic Beautification
March House of the Month
The home of Lisa Massey, 1919 Jefferson St., was chosen as
March House of the Month by the Paducah Civic Beautification
Board.
World Champion Karate Academy of Paducah, under the direction of Sensei Joshua
Smith, traveled to Bowling Green on March 14 to compete in the Tournament of
Champions. The tournament draws the best martial arts competitors from the
Southeastern region of the U.S. After competing in their respective divisions, the 16
students were awarded 11 first-place, seven second-place, six third-place and six
fourth-place trophies. WCKA students include, front row, from left, Clark Garrott, Demonte Robertson, Arianna Minter, Darius Hutchinson and Matthew Ozga; and second row, from left, Clay Tucker, John Tucker, Josh Smith, Tallon McClure, Ed Keenan,
Cassondra Douglas, Dawn Ozga and Steven Gagnon.
Education Notes
Staff report
Ashleigh Burton of South Fulton, Tennessee,
a junior at the University of Tennessee at Martin,
won first place in the radio news reporting competition at the Southeast Journalism Conference
hosted recently in Atlanta. Burton is the production director for the university’s student-run radio
station, WUTM 90.3 FM, which was named the
best college radio station in the South for 2014.
West Kentucky Community and Technical College student Kimberly Sporea of Calvert City received the 2014 Zonta Scholarship from the Zonta
Club of Paducah. The $500 scholarship is awarded
annually to a non-traditional female student pursuing a college degree to help pay for tuition, books
or any expense that will enable student recipients
to further their education.
Clay Chandler of La Center has received the
Midwest Achievement Award scholarship to attend
Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau for the 2015-16 academic year. Chandler is
the son of Rod and Michele Chandler of La Center
and is a 2013 graduate of Ballard Memorial High
School.
Hickman resident David Weatherly, who
graduated in December 2014 from the University
of Tennessee at Martin, was voted by his classmates to receive the Kelly W. Murray Excellence
in Portfolio Management Award for the fall 2014
semester. The award recognizes outstanding effort
and dedication managing the UT Martin TVA stock
portfolio in conjunction with the TVA Investment Challenge. TVA’s Investment Challenge is a
partnership between TVA and 25 universities in its
service territory that provides a real-world learning experience in portfolio management by allowing students to manage actual stock portfolios.
Weatherly earned a bachelor of science in business
administration degree with a major in finance. He
plans to work full time in the financial services
industry while pursuing a master of business
administration degree at UT Martin. Weatherly
is president of the Fulton County Board of Levee
Commissioners and Weatherly Farms Inc. He is
serving his second term as mayor pro tem for the
city of Hickman.
Cammie Jo Bolin of Murray and John Scelzi
of Paducah have been named to the Dean’s List for
the fall 2014 semester at Centre College in Danville. Bolin, a graduate of Murray High School, is
the daughter of Evelyn and James Bolin of Murray. Scelzi is the son of Jane and James Scelzi of
Paducah and a graduate of Lone Oak High School.
To be named to the Dean’s List, students must
maintain at least a 3.60 grade point average.
Nicholas Hunerkoch of Metropolis, Illinois, has received the Regents’ Scholarship
to attend Southeast Missouri State University
in Cape Girardeau for the 2015-2016 academic
year. Hunerkoch is the son of Doug and Denise
Hunerkoch of Metropolis, Illinois, and is a senior
at Massac County High School.
The following local students are December 2014
graduates of the University of the Cumberlands
in Williamsburg: Leigh Bright of Gilbertsville,
Carmel Brown of Mayfield, Carrie Burnett of
Mayfield, Sheila Culver of Benton, Kyle Davis
of Dawson Springs, David Elliott of Mayfield,
Lisa Ferguson of Clinton, Mandi Fordham
of Cadiz, Amanda Johnson of Almo, Wesley
Morehead of Kevil, Mariano Padilla of Eddyville, Diana Parrott of Paducah, Crawford
Shirley of Wickliffe, Cassandra Steele of
Paducah, LaTosha Sutton of Paducah and John
Tedford of Paducah.
Obituaries/Nation
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The Paducah Sun • Thursday, March 26, 2015 • 9A
Wilmer Rogers
Associated Press
Eliza O’Neill, 5, father Glenn O’Neill and brother
Beckham O’Neill, 8, play in their backyard Feb. 24
in Columbia, S.C. Glenn and Cara O’Neill started
the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation in hopes of saving Eliza, who suffers from the rare Sanfilippo
Syndrome and is beginning to lose her ability to
speak.
Science, patients
driving rare disease
drug research surge
BY LINDA A. JOHNSON
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. —
The global pharmaceutical industry is pouring
billions of dollars into
developing treatments
for rare diseases, which
once drew little interest
from major drugmakers but now point the
way toward a new era
of innovative therapies
and big profits.
The
investments
come as researchers
harness recent scientific advances, including the mapping of the
human genome, sophisticated and affordable genetic tests and
laboratory robots that
can screen thousands
of compounds per hour
in search of the most
potent ones.
“It’s a very, very
promising time,” said
Jimmy Lin, a National
Institutes of Health
cancer researcher who
co-founded the Rare
Genomics Institute.
By definition, a rare
disease is one that
strikes fewer than
200,000 Americans,
sometimes only a few
dozen. But with 7,000
rare diseases known
to doctors, and more
emerging all the time,
nearly 1 in 10 Americans has a rare disease.
For most, there is no
treatment, let alone a
cure. Just getting an
accurate diagnosis often requires a medical
odyssey, and 30 percent of children with a
rare disease die before
age 5.
For decades, drugmakers were reluctant to invest in raredisease
treatments,
preferring to focus on
mass-market
drugs
for cholesterol, heart
trouble and other common problems. Then,
starting a decade ago,
patents on some of the
industry’s most lucrative medicines began
to expire, and cheap
generic drugs started
wiping out tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue.
So many companies
shifted money to raredisease drugs, knowing
that those medicines
cost less to develop and
will face limited competition. Some already
sell for $100,000 or
more for a year of treatment, although drugmakers usually give
financial aid to patients
and big discounts to insurers and government
health programs.
“They’re recreating
the blockbuster,” said
analyst Steve Brozak
of WBB Securities.
“There’s more money,
fewer patients and it’s
10 times easier to defend high prices to payers.”
Last year, the Food
and Drug Administration approved a record
17 medicines for rare
diseases. More than
450 others are in development to treat a wide
variety of ailments —
rare cancers, sickle-cell
disease, the hormonal
disorder Cushing’s disease and a bleeding
ailment called thrombocytopenic purpura,
as well as hemophilia,
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
and pulmonary fibrosis.
Patient-advocacy
groups are getting better at raising money for
research and building
registries of patients
that could be used to
recruit participants for
drug studies, a process
that otherwise can take
years.
In the 1970s, only a
handful of rare-disease
drugs got approved.
Then the 1983 Orphan
Drug Act helped rouse
interest by providing
expedited drug reviews, tax credits and
other benefits for drug
companies.
MILBURN — Wilmer
Ray “Joe” Rogers, 89,
of Milburn, died at 12:15
a.m. Tuesday, March 24,
2015, at Mills Health &
Rehab in Mayfield.
Mr. Rogers served in
the U.S. Army during
World War II. He was
a retired maintenance
man with Carlisle County Schools and a member of Bardwell Veterans
of Foreign Wars and
Arlington Assembly of
God.
He is survived by one
daughter, Angela Burgess, of Milburn; one
son, Duane Rogers, of
Milburn; five grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
He was preceded in
Linda Allbritten
death by his wife, Anna
Rose Burkett Rogers,
and one son, Jimmy
Ray Rogers. His parents
were John Plummer and
Minnie Hasty Rogers.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Friday, March 27,
2015, at the Milner &
Orr Funeral Home of
Arlington with the Rev.
Gleen Rushing officiating. Burial will be at St.
Jerome Cemetery.
Friends may call from
5 to 9 p.m. Thursday,
March 26, 2015, at the
funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to
Disabled American Veterans, 1133 Murray St.,
Paducah, KY 42003.
Robert Grubbs
PRINCETON — Robert James Grubbs, 92,
of Kuttawa and Princeton, died at 12:25 a.m.
Wednesday, March 25,
2015, at River’s Bend Retirement Community in
Kuttawa.
He was a member of
Fairview United Methodist Church in Eddyville,
a lifetime member of
the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, a member of the
American Legion, and a
World War II veteran. He
retired after 45 years at
the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo,
California.
He is survived by one
sister, Goldia Parish of
Eddyville; two grandchildren, Jamie Boswell of
KIRKSEY — Linda Cochran Allbritten, 62, of
Kirksey, died Monday,
March 23, 2015, at Baptist Health Paducah.
She was a member of
First Christian Church in
Murray and she retired
as a child care giver.
She is survived by her
husband, Tim Allbritten,
of Kirksey; one daughter,
Laura Elizabeth Darnell
Roadenberg, of Atlanta,
Georgia; one son, Clifton
F. Darnell, of Murray;
one sister, Shirley Martin, of Murray; and two
grandchildren,
Dillon
Darnell Thomas and Ava
Elizabeth Roadenberg.
Her parents were Clifton Howard and Laura
Nell Nanny Cochran.
Services will be at 2
Princeton and Gay Ann
George of Plainfield, Illinois; and one greatgranddaughter,
Allie
Paige George of Plainfield, Illinois.
He was preceded in
death by one daughter,
Loretta J. Boswell; one
brother; and two sisters.
His parents were Robert
and Allie Sayler Grubbs.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Saturday, March 28,
2015, at Dunn’s Funeral
Home in Eddyville with
the Revs. Steve McVay
and Jerrell White officiating. Burial will follow
in Rolling Hills Cemetery. Friends may call
from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday,
March 27, 2015, at the funeral home.
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MURRAY — Rosalee
Kelso, 83, of Murray
died Tuesday, March 24,
2015, at Spring Creek
Health Care in Murray.
She was a member
of Sugar Creek Baptist
Church. She was a retired
beautician and the former owner of Rosalee’s
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Mrs. Kelso is survived
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three sons, Ronnie Kelso
of Murray, Joe Kelso of
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of Murray; 12 grandchildren; and 19 greatgrandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Robert Howard Kelso;
five sisters; and two
brothers. Her parents
were Finious E. and
Rosie E. Nimmo Williams.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Friday, March 27,
2015, at J.H. Churchill
Funeral Home. The Rev.
Jordan Roach will officiate, with burial in the
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Friends may call from
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March 26, 2015, at the
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HICKORY — Walter Allen, 45, of Hickory, died at 5:15 a.m.
Wednesday, March 25,
2015, at his home. Arrangements were incomplete at the Brown
Funeral Home in Mayfield.
MARION — Elizabeth Ann DeBoe, 88, of
Marion, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at
her daughter’s home in
Marion. Arrangements
were incomplete at Boyd
Funeral Directors in Salem.
p.m. Friday, March 27,
2015, in the chapel of J.H.
Churchill Funeral Home
with the Rev. Ruth Ragovin officiating. Burial to
follow in the Murray City
Cemetery. Friends may
call from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 2015, at
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Murray, KY 42071; or
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Phyllis Hicks
Phyllis Hicks, one of
the most caring Christian women, was called
Home
on
Sunday,
March 22, 2015, following a long, five-month
hospitalization.
Phyllis was
a wonderful
woman
and a big
supporter of her
Hicks
family,
her church, Melbourne
Heights Baptist Church,
her husband, Pat, and
the Kentucky Grocers
Association. Both Pat
and Phyllis were inducted into the KGA/KACS
Hall of Fame in 2010.
Phyllis always had a
great interest and love
for helping children.
While living in Mayfield,
Kentucky, she opened
her home as a boarding
home for children attending the Charles L.
Shedd Research Academy. During those eight
years, 51 children lived
with Phyllis, Pat and
family.
Once she moved to
Louisville, she continued
her interest in helping
children at the church
day care and also helped
many senior citizens.
She was preceded in
death by her father, Carlton Eugene Edwards;
mother, Charlene Shaw;
her stepparents, Howard L. and Bebe Shaw;
one sister, Helen Hunt;
and one brother, Chris
Hunt.
Phyllis is survived by
her husband of 55 years,
Pat Hicks. Also surviving
are one daughter, Tanna
Edelen (Jeff) of Lawrenceburg,
Kentucky;
two sons, Jeff Hicks of
Mayfield, Kentucky, and
Patrick A. Hicks (Andrea) of Keller, Texas;
four sisters, Anna Gean
Davidson of Marion, Illinois, Patricia Shaw of
Lexington,
Kentucky,
Ann Powers (Pat) of
Mayfield,
Kentucky,
and Marilyn Rivers of
Tampa, Florida; two
brothers, Donald Shaw
(Paula) of Murray, Kentucky, and Henry Hunt
of Zanesville, Ohio; 10
grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Louisville
visitation
will be at the Highlands Funeral Home,
3331 Taylorsville Road,
Thursday, March 26,
2015, between the hours
of 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. with
services on Friday at 11
a.m.
The Mayfield visitation will be at Byrn Funeral Home, 1020 Paris
Road, on Sunday, March
29, 2015, from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Graveside services will follow
at 2 p.m. Sunday at Mayfield Memory Gardens.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy
can be sent to the Kentucky Grocers Association Scholarship Fund,
512 Capital Avenue,
Frankfort, KY 40601,
or the charity of your
choice.
Karen E. Brown
TAMMS, Ill. — Karen E.
Brown, age 72, of Tamms,
Illinois, passed away
at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday,
March
24, 2015,
at
her
r e s i dence.
Karen
was born
in Cairo,
Illinois,
on SepBrown
tember 15,
1942, daughter of the
late Milford Dunning
and Georgia (Coleman)
Dunning. Karen was a
faithful member of the
Tamms United Methodist Church, where
she served as the Youth
Group Sponsor, Vacation Bible School Superintendent, church custodian and was a member
of the United Methodist
Women’s group. Karen
was a volunteer for many
years for the Tamms Fire
Department’s annual 4th
of July celebration.
Karen was a dedicated,
professional and devoted
19 year funeral director’s assistant for the
Jones Funeral Homes in
Tamms and Villa Ridge,
Illinois.
Karen loved her work
and helping serve the
families in Alexander
and Pulaski counties.
Karen was preceded
in death by her parents,
Milford and Georgia
Dunning; and a brother,
Gary Dunning.
Survivors include her
husband, David Brown
of Tamms; a daughter
and son-in-law, Traci
and Greg Bradford of
Ingleside, Kentucky; a
son and daughter-in-law,
Scotty and Debbie Brown
of Shawneetown, Missouri; a brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Mildred Dunning of Union
City, Tennessee; three
grandchildren, Shannon
McDaniel, Gary Brown
and Ashley Palmer; four
great-grandchildren;
several nieces and nephews; and many friends.
Funeral services will
be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015, at
the Jones Funeral Home
Tamms with Rev. Pete
Vinson and Pastor Brent
Gordon officiating. Interment will follow in the
McCrite Cemetery in rural Tamms.
Friends may call Friday between 4 to 8 p.m.
at the Jones Funeral
Home Tamms. Expressions of sympathy may
take the form of memorials to: the Celtic
Hospice in memory of
Karen E. Brown. Jones
Funeral Home Tamms is
in charge of the arrangements.
Joseph Preston Tabor
Joseph Preston Tabor,
age 29, of New Orleans,
formerly of Paducah,
was called home to be
with his Heavenly Father on
March 1,
2015.
H
e
was truly loved
by
all
and will
be sadly
missed.
Tabor
His
love
for others was beyond
compare. We will miss
his smiling face and his
laughter as he awaits us
joining him in heaven.
Joseph loved music and
dancing. He is dancing
and singing with the angels now.
He is survived by his
parents, Elizabeth and
Danny Tabor of Sparta,
Tennessee; three brothers, Kenneth Tabor and
wife, Tiny from Crossville, Tennessee, Timothy Tabor from Washington State, and Josh
Tabor and wife, Courtney from Metropolis, Il-
Hazel Eskew
MARION, Ky. — Hazel
M. Eskew, 84, of Marion,
Kentucky, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015,
at Livingston
County
Hospital
in
Salem,
K e n tucky.
Surviving
Eskew
are
her
children, Brenda (Mike)
Taylor of Princeton,
Kentucky, Judy (Steve)
Dack of Lexington,
Kentucky, Steve Eskew
of Marion, Kentucky,
and Darlene Eskew of
Marion, Kentucky; sisters, Mary Riley of Louisville, Kentucky, Nellie Johnson of Desoto,
Texas, Dortha Mann
of Lakeland, Florida,
Jennifer Wright
MAKANDA, Ill. — Jennifer Lyn Moore Wright,
38, of Makanda, died
at 4:25 a.m. Thursday,
March 19, 2015, at her
home. She was of the
Baptist faith.
She is survived by her
mother and stepfather,
Marcia and Will Grant;
her father and stepmother, Gene and Barbara Moore; three sons,
Issic Eligah Thompson,
Dalton Wright and Joseph Smith; two broth-
linois; his grandmother,
Sue Tabor of Paducah,
Kentucky; two uncles,
Gary Tabor and Steve
Tabor, both of Paducah,
Kentucky;
and
five
aunts, Debbie Stainback, Betty Davis, Cindy
Wring, Lauri Jones, all
of Paducah, and Barbara
Langly of North Carolina.
He was preceded in
death by his grandfather, Silas Tabor; grandparents, Ed and Betty
Jones; one aunt, Sandra
Chestnut; and one cousin, Joey Harris.
A memorial service
will be held at 5:00 p.m.
Friday at the Keeling
Family Funeral Home
with the Rev. Topper Council officiating.
Friends may visit with
the family from 4:00
p.m. until the funeral
hour.
Joshua, you will live in
our hearts forever. Until
we meet again, on that
Heavenly shore.
Online messages may
be sent to www.keelingfamilyfuneralhome.com.
ers, Timothy Moore and
William Grant II; one
sister, Amanda Grant;
and one stepsister, Nicki
DuBois.
Memorial
services
will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015, at
Bailey Funeral Home in
Vienna. Robert Schierbaum and Dale Schierbaum will officiate.
Friends may call after
noon Saturday, March
28, 2015, at the funeral
home.
Carolyn Dooms of Marion, Kentucky, Sharon
Richardson of Hanson,
Kentucky, and Wanda
Gal of Calhoun, Georgia; brothers, Robert
Roberts of Marion, Kentucky, and Gary Roberts
of Eddy, Texas; grandchildren, Jeff Butler and
Shelley Taylor; and two
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Earl P. Eskew; parents,
Luther and Lucy Wesmoland Roberts; and
sister, Benny Roberts.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015, at
Gilbert Funeral Home in
Marion, Kentucky, with
interment in Mapleview
Cemetery. The family
will receive visitors from
5-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Gary Swatzell
PRINCETON — Gary
Swatzell, 64, of Princeton died Tuesday,
March 24, 2015, at
Vanderbilt
University Medical Center in
Nashville, Tennessee.
He attended Lamasco
Baptist Church and was
a retired tobacco farmer
and truck driver for
Max Arnold.
He is survived by
two sons, Chad Swatzell of Mountain City,
Tennessee, and Lucas
Swatzell of Brentwood,
Tennessee; one daughter, Becky Coggeshall of
Louisville; three grandchildren, Claire Coggeshall, Grady Coggeshall
and Everly Swatzell;
two brothers, Rodger
Swatzell of Henderson
and Dana Swatzell of
Cerulean; three sisters,
Linda Rider and Connie Marsh, both of
Hopkinsville, and Judy
Chapman of Herndon;
and several nieces and
nephews.
His parents were
George Edward Swatzell and Esther Lee
Malone Swatzell.
Services will be at
2:30 p.m. Sunday,
March 29, 2015, at Morgan’s Funeral Home
in Princeton with the
Rev. Dean Ray officiating. Burial will follow
in Rogers Cemetery in
Christian County.
Friends may call from
11 a.m. until the service
time Sunday at the funeral home.
Patricia Seay
MAYFIELD — Patricia
Ann Seay, 85, of Danville, Indiana, formerly
of Mayfield, died Saturday, March 21, 2015, at
her home.
She was a retired
teacher, former owner
of the Podunk Trading Post and a member
of St. Joseph Catholic
Church in Mayfield.
She is survived by two
daughters, Susan Sheerin of Carmel, Indiana,
and Jeanne Lawrence
of Avon, Indiana; four
grandchildren, Tricia
Brownell and Stephanie
Reeve, both of Fishers,
Indiana, John Sheerin
of San Francisco, and
Jeannette DeBol of Cincinnati, Ohio; and five
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Harold B. Seay. Her
parents were Phillip
and Jeannette Smith
O’Brien.
Funeral Mass will be
at 2 p.m. Friday, March
27, 2015, at Byrn Funeral Home in Mayfield
with the Rev. Eric Riley
officiating. Interment
will follow in Rhodes
Chapel
Cemetery.
Friends may call from
12-2 p.m. Friday at the
funeral home.
Harold Keith Caylor
KEVIL, Ky. — Harold
Keith Caylor, age 67, of
Kevil,
K e n tucky,
passed
a w a y
Thursd a y ,
March
19, 2015,
at 4:33
Caylor
p.m.
at
Baptist Health Paducah.
Mr. Caylor was a native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and was a member of the Twelve Oaks
Baptist Church. He was
a veteran of the U.S.
Army and worked as an
analyst for TVA.
Surviving are his wife,
Leda Houston Caylor;
one daughter, Gail Caylor of New Mexico; one
son, Michael Caylor of
San Antonio, Texas; two
brothers, Thomas Melvin Caylor of Kevil, Kentucky, and Donald Gordon Caylor of Tucson,
Arizona; and one grandson, William Stockoff of
Oregon.
He was preceded in
death by his parents,
Thomas Clyde Caylor
and Barbara Blount McClurg Caylor.
A memorial service
will be held Saturday,
March 28, 2015, at 2:00
p.m. at the Twelve Oaks
Baptist Church with the
Rev. Brent Lyon officiating. Friends may visit
with the family at the
church from 1:30 p.m.
till funeral hour.
In lieu of flowers, the
family request memorials be given to: the Annie Armstrong Offering,
c/o Twelve Oaks Baptist Church, 2110 New
Holt Rd., Paducah, KY
42001; or the Wounded
Warrior Project, P.O.
Box 758517, Topeka, KS
66675.
Keeling Family Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Jack L. Smith
CALVERT CITY — Jack
L. Smith, 67, of Calvert
City passed away at 5:53
a.m. Tuesday, March 24,
2015, at Lourdes hospital.
Mr. Smith was a Security Guard and partowner of Kentucky Special Police, a veteran of
the United States Navy,
a member of First Baptist Church of Paducah
and American Legion
Post 31 of Paducah.
He is survived by his
wife of 49 years, Darlene Smith of Calvert
City; son, Jack Smith
of Calvert City; daughter, Catrina Roberts
and husband, A.J. of
Paducah; two brothers,
David Welch of Cocoa,
Florida, and Mike Welch
of Washington, Illinois;
two sisters, Susan Smith
of Glasgow, Kentucky,
and Phyllis Sidener of
Jensen Beach, Florida;
three
grandchildren,
Ricki Smith, Dylan Rob-
erts and Andrea Jones;
two
great-grandchildren, Charlee Ann Roberts and Coraline Jones;
and several nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in
death by his parents, Arthur and Gloria Welch;
and daughter, Tammy
Smith.
Funeral services will
be held at 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, March 28,
2015, at Hughes Funeral
Home of Paducah with
Rev. Tommy Tucker officiating. Burial will follow
at Mt. Kenton Cemetery
with Military Honors.
Visitation will be held
from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. Friday, March 27,
2015, at the funeral
home. You may leave a
message of sympathy or
light a memorial candle
online at www.hughesfuneral.com.
Hughes Funeral Home
of Paducah is in charge
of arrangements.
Marianna McClaran
MAYFIELD — Marianna Willett McClaran,
97, formerly of Mayfield,
died Saturday, March 21,
2015, at her daughter’s
home in Franklin, Tennessee.
She is survived by five
children, Joseph Rex
Trevathan, of Chandler,
Texas, Joe McClaran,
Glenn McClaran and
Dickie McClaran, all of
Mayfield, and Ann McClaran Kesley, of Franklin, Tennessee; eight
grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren;
and
one sister, Bertha Mae
Schoenborn, of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
She was preceded in
death by one son, John
W. (Pete) McClaran.
Funeral Mass will be
at 11 a.m. Friday, March
27, 2015, at St. Jerome
Catholic Church in Fancy Farm, where friends
may call after 9 a.m.
Friday, March 27, 2015.
Burial will be in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Friends
may
call
from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 2015, at
Brown Funeral Home in
Mayfield.
Donations can be
made in Mrs. McClaran’s name to St. Jerome
Catholic Church, 20 Ky.
339 N., Fancy Farm,
KY 42039; or Guardian
Hospice – “Last Wish
Fund”, 741 Cool Springs
Blvd. No. 102, Franklin,
TN 37067.
Lorene Lyonhurst
MAYFIELD — Lorene
E. Lyonhurst, 94, of
Mayfield, died Tuesday,
March 24, 2015, at the
home of her son.
She was a member of
The Church of God in
Paducah.
Mrs. Lyonhurst is survived by one son, Donald
L. Lyonhurst, of Mayfield; two grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in
death by her husband,
Lincoln Lyonhurst; one
brother and one sister.
Her parents were Floyd
and Sara Emily Rogers
Dowdy.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Friday, March 27,
2015, at Byrn Funeral
Home in Mayfield. The
Rev. Rick Beam will officiate. Burial will be in
Mayfield Memory Gardens Friends may call after 10 a.m. Friday, March
27, 2015, at the funeral
home.
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COURT
fice to be interviewed and
repeatedly changed his
story, Hilbrecht said.
“His initial statements
were that he didn’t know
how the baby got into the
tub or how the water had
turned on,” Hilbrecht testified. “He later changed
that to he believed the
2-year-old was capable
of plugging the drain and
turning the water on and
then dropping the infant
into the tub.”
During the interview,
Mikulich had also admitted to smoking marijuana and taking Xanax and
methadone, the detective
said.
Hilbrecht said Mikulich was interviewed
again a few days later and
tried to blame the incident on Littleton, saying
he had left the apartment
and came back to find
Littleton with the baby.
Hilbrecht was also
asked during his testimony to describe the child’s
injuries.
cigarette) on the floor.”
According to the arrest
report, detectives also
noted Mikulich had red
eyes and was slurring his
speech.
Hilbrecht added that
investigators found marijuana, Xanax and a pipe
in the bedroom.
Also in the apartment
that night were Mikulich’s 2-year-old son and
family friend Jeremy Littleton, 27, who had found
the baby floating in the
bathtub and called 911.
“(Littleton) said that he
heard bath water running
for quite some time — so
much so that he finally
got up to check and see
why it was running for so
long,” Hilbrecht testified.
“(Littleton) observed the
2-year-old standing in
the hallway area pointing
toward the bathroom, so
he went in there and discovered the 6-month-old
floating in the tub.”
Mikulich was later
taken to the sheriff’s of-
CONTINUED FROM 1A
In court, Detective
Matt Hilbrecht of the
Marshall County Sheriff’s Department testified
about what the investigation has gleaned so far.
Hilbrecht said he a received the call to respond
to a Hilldale Lane apartment around 9 p.m.,
and when he arrived the
baby had already been
transported to Marshall
County Hospital in critical condition.
The child was later
flown to Kosair Children’s Hospital where he
remained in a coma and
on life support for 11 days.
While deputies investigated, Hilbrecht said, Mikulich was sitting in the
kitchen and appeared to
be under the influence of
some type of drug.
“When we first got
there, he was falling
asleep,” Hilbrecht said.
“He was nodding off so
much … he dropped (his
KAT RUSSELL | The Sun
John Mikulich IV, 30,
charged with first-degree
wanton endangerment and
first-degree criminal trespassing, sits in Marshall
District Court and waits
for his preliminary hearing to start. Mikulich was
charged after his 6-monthold son was found floating
in a bathtub at his Hardin
apartment. After 11 days
in a coma, the baby died
Tuesday.
“(At Kosair) they discovered that the child
had skull fractures —
they called it a bilateral
fracture — on both sides
of the skull … either from
blunt force trauma or he
had been dropped,” the
detective said. He added
doctors found evidence
retinal
hemorrhaging
and bruising around the
child’s throat and neck.
After the detective’s
testimony, Mikulich’s attorney Jamie Jameson,
of the Department of
Public Advocacy in Mur-
ray, pointed out that the
investigation is still ongoing and includes the
role of Jeremy Littleton.
He also noted that a
wanton endangerment
charge does not imply
his client caused intentional harm to the child.
“I think what we have
here is I have a client
who lost an infant child,”
Jameson said after the
hearing. “I think this is
all going to shake out to
be what it sounds like it
is — a tragic accident.”
Jameson also asked
the judge to reduce Mikulich’s $10,000 bond,
saying his client could
afford to pay 10 percent
of $2,500.
District Judge Mark
Telle denied the request, saying, “In light
of the totality of the circumstances and the fact
that the infant has now
passed away … the bond
that has been set is reasonably appropriate.”
The child’s autopsy
is scheduled for 7 a.m.
today at the medical examiner’s office in Louisville. Marshall County
Sheriff Kevin Byars
said the autopsy results could lead to more
charges being filed.
A grand jury is scheduled to meet on April
16. If indicted, Mikulich
will be arraigned April
20 in Marshall Circuit
Court.
Contact Kat Russell, a
Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8653.
FORUM
CONTINUED FROM 1A
Fluor Paducah, what started
out as a floor plan of 1,400
square feet of exhibit space
grew to almost 40,000 square
feet.
“We were estimating about
80 or so vendors, and we had
over 170,” Hicks said. The turnout demonstrated that “the
excitement about being able to
work with us, and us being able
to work with them, has really
grown.”
Because past operations at
the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, both under DOE
and the United States Enrichment Corp., have had such an
large economic impact on the
region, “It’s not surprising that
folks would want to participate
in the new mission going forward,” said Bob Nichols, Fluor
Paducah director of plant facilities, operations and infrastructure.
Paducah Mayor Gayle Kaler
and McCracken County JudgeExecutive Bob Leeper gave
brief remarks to open the forum.
Kaler stressed the need to
keep the area’s highly skilled
workforce employed at the site.
She said local officials continue
to work to ensure the federal
government continues to fund
ongoing cleanup efforts at the
site.
Leeper praised the efforts of
Kentucky’s congressional leaders in supporting funding for
the site.
Fluor was awarded a threeyear contract, valued at approximately $420 million, last July.
The transition from USEC,
which leased the Paducah
plant from DOE in 1998 and
enriched uranium there for the
global nuclear fuel market until
May 2013, back to DOE control
was completed last October.
“The mission really has
changed,” said Nichols. “USEC
was in a production mode, and
we are here basically to take the
site and transform it into a deactivation project. We have to
go into the facilities and clean
out hazardous materials ... so
we can bring the facility down
to a hazard condition that is
about as minimum as you can
get, more like an industrial facility.”
Nichols said work at the site
will continue for years to come,
“probably until the 2030s.”
“We know there’s a tremendous amount of work that has
to go on, a lot of infrastructure
we’re going to have to adjust
over time,” Nichols said. “And,
the community is going to have
to bring to bear the support to
supply those needs.”
In July, Fluor will transition
all of the remaining remediation work being done at the site
now by LATA Environmental
Services of Kentucky, another
DOE contractor, Nichols said.
“Their (LATA Kentucky)
work was some demolition,
some deactivation, groundwater and environmental cleanup,
things of that nature,” he said.
LATA Kentucky’s contract will
end, and the work they have
been doing will be assumed by
the Fluor contract, according to
Nichols.
“Since DOE has total control over the entire site, it only
made sense that you roll that
into one single contract going
forward,” he said. “We believe
that’s the most effective way to
get this work done.”
While LATA Kentucky’s contract will effectively end in July,
its parent company, LATASharp Remediation Services,
will continue at the site as a
teaming partner with Fluor,
Nichols said. The majority of
LATA employees would transition to Fluor as well, he said.
Fluor will also have a sec-
Paducah 5-Day Forecast
Today
Tonight
47°
Friday
49°
26°
33°
Some rain and a
thunderstorm
Patchy clouds and
chilly
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; chilly
Almanac
Paducah through 6 p.m. yesterday
Sunday
58°
43°
Mostly sunny and
cold
Variable cloudiness
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
Apr 18
6:50 a.m.
7:12 p.m.
11:37 a.m.
1:09 a.m.
UV Index Today
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1
2
2
1
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High;
8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme
Regional Forecast
Kentucky: Periods of rain today, except a
couple of showers and a thunderstorm in the
south and east.
Illinois: Mostly cloudy, breezy and cooler
today; a little morning rain in the south and
eastern parts.
Indiana: A little rain today, except periods
of snow and rain with little or no accumulation in the west.
Missouri: Cooler today; a passing morning
shower in the south. A bit of snow or flurries
in the west tonight.
Arkansas: Breezy and cooler, a thunderstorm during the morning; however, dry in
the west today.
Tennessee: Cloudy today. A couple of
showers and a thunderstorm. Turning colder
tonight with periods rain.
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day.
66°
42°
Warmer with a
t-storm possible
Evansville
49/32
Carbondale
51/31
Owensboro
48/32
Cape Girardeau
50/33
Cadiz
53/32
Paducah
47/33
Sun and Moon
Last
Apr 11
Monday
47°
29°
Precipitation
Full
Apr 4
Around the Nation
St. Louis
52/34
77°
57°
62°
40°
83° in 2007
18° in 1955
24 hrs ending 6 p.m. yest. 0.00”
Month to date
8.08”
Normal month to date
3.08”
Year to date
15.37”
Last year to date
7.68”
Normal year to date
10.67”
First
Mar 27
Contact David Zoeller, a
Paducah Sun staff writer, at
270-575-8676. Around the Region
Temperature
High
Low
Normal high
Normal low
Record high
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ond teaming partner, Chicago
Bridge & Iron, which has a
background in nuclear maintenance and management.
When Fluor assumed the
contract in October, there were
approximately 300 employees,
according to Nichols.
“From there, we’ve just
grown the employment to
meet the deactivation mission,” he said. “Our projection
shows that we should be up (to
a workforce) around 650-700
employees by the end of the
August-September.”
The total number of employees will fluctuate somewhat as
subcontractors are brought in
for certain periods of time to
perform certain tasks, Nichols
said, but will “fundamentally
be hovering around the 650700 mark.”
Clarksville
57/33
Blytheville
51/34
Shown is
today’s
weather.
Temperatures
are today’s
highs and
tonight’s
lows.
Union City
49/32
Memphis
61/38
Belleville, IL
Bowling Gn., KY
Bristol, TN
C. Girardeau, MO
Carbondale, IL
Charleston, WV
Chattanooga, TN
Clarksville, TN
Columbia, MO
Evansville, IN
Ft. Smith, AR
Hopkinsville, KY
Indianapolis, IN
Jackson, KY
Jackson, TN
52/32/pc
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Pulaski
67/36
Jackson
59/33
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Fri.
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City
Nashville
68/36
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49/25/c
50/27/c
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47/26/c
57/32/c
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City
Today
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Joplin, MO
Kansas City, MO
Knoxville, TN
Lexington, KY
Little Rock, AR
London, KY
Louisville, KY
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Owensboro, KY
Peoria, IL
St. Louis, MO
Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
Terre Haute, IN
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National Summary: A surge of warm air in the Appalachians
and Atlantic Seaboard will be accompanied by areas of rain and
thunderstorms today. Drenching rain and the risk of flooding will
accompany a strong cooldown over the Ohio and lower Mississippi
valleys. Spotty snow will affect the Dakotas and Upper Midwest.
Warmth will expand in much of the West.
City
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Baltimore
Billings
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Las Vegas
Paducah
Owensboro
Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)
Flood
24-hr Mississippi River
stage
39
38
Stage Change
44.14
24.00
-0.42
-2.70
24-hr
Full
Pool Elevation Change
Smithland Dam 40 43.61
Lake Barkley
354 356.35
Kentucky Lake 354 356.24
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+0.05
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stage Stage
Cairo
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Little Rock
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Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Jose
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
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62/46/sh
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Around the World
Lakes and Rivers
Ohio River
Today
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
40
47.67
24-hr
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12A • Thursday, March 26, 2015 • The Paducah Sun
paducahsun.com
STORE WAS CLOSED WEDNESDAY TO MARK DOWN PRICES
ON MANY ITEMS THROUGHOUT OUR STORE TO SPEED UP SELLING!
NOTHING HELD BACK!
4
GREAT
RECEIVE ALREADY LOW SELL-OUT
SALE DAYS!
PRICES PLUS YOUR CHOICE:
2 YEARS INTEREST FREE FINANCING
OR
TERMS OF SALE
DEDUCT AN ADDITIONAL 10% OFF
ALREADY LOW SALE PRICES!
Thursday 10-7
Friday 10-7
Saturday 10-6
Sunday 12-5
- ALL SALES FINAL.
- ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE.
- NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.
- CREDIT CARDS WELCOME.
- DELIVERY & FINANCING AVAILABLE.
FAMOUS BRAND NAMES - ALL ON SALE!
Ashley • Broyhill • Legacy • Universal • Klaussner • Best
Thomasville • Lane • Serta & Many More!
THE GREAT $4,000,000
TOTAL FURNITURE SELL-OUT!
SALE BEING HELD IN BOTH STORES!
JUST A SAMPLE OF FANTASTIC
SAVINGS!
WAS
NOW
KING MATTRESS SET
RECLINERS STARTING AT
ENTERTAINMENT ARMOIRE by Standard
SECTIONALS STARTING AT
COMPUTER DESK & HUTCH by Ashley
7-DRAWER CHEST by Broyhill
UPHOLSTERED KING BED STARTING AT
RED-DOTTED LAMPS & ACCESSORIES
$1,650
$398
ONLY
$296
$1,799
$538
NOW
$798
$986
$394
$1,505
$598
ONLY
$259
SAVE 60% OFF!
COME EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION!
CUSTOM ORDERS
AT GREAT
DISCOUNT PRICES!
LIMITED TIME!
NEW MERCHANDISE
ARRIVING DAILY AT
DRASTIC SALE PRICES!
EVERYTHING MUST & WILL BE SOLD!
*24 MONTHS, NO INTEREST, EQUAL PAYMENTS ON APPROVED CREDIT. EXCLUDES PRIOR SALES & SPECIAL ORDERS.
© Lynch Sales Company 2015