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Today's Features

  • Jessica Scott and Tyler Sharpe were honored with a wedding shower on Feb. 10 at Fry Baptist Church. Their son, Briley, is also pictured.

  • Summer Starre Squires and Damond Michael Jiniya, both of Nashville, Tenn., will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, Feb. 23.

    Squires is the daughter of Donna Sawyers of Albany, Ky., and Dewayne Squires of Campbellsville. Her grandparents are Jewell Squires and Elwood Squires of Campbellsville.

    She is a 2000 graduate of Campbellsville High School and attended Campbellsville University and Eastern Kentucky University. She is currently attending the New York Institute of Photography.

  • Terissa Graham of Campbellsville announces the birth of a daughter, Savannah Rose Graham, at 1:47 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 1/4 ounces and was 19 inches long.

    Grandparents are Bobby and Diane Graham of Campbellsville.

    Great-grandparents are Pauline Graham of Campbellsville, the late Leslie Graham and Leslie and Vela McKinney.

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  • The Campbellsville High School junior class chili supper originally scheduled for Friday, Feb. 8 has been rescheduled for Friday, Feb. 22 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

    The supper will be in the CHS cafeteria and will benefit the CHS junior prom.

    For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact any CHS junior or parent.

  • Campbellsville University's School of Theology and the Reuben and Jewell Robertson Worship Endowment will present "Worship and Justice" as the theme of the university's Worship Arts Conference on Feb. 28-29.

    Conference leaders will be Eric Bryant, navigator, Mosaic of Los Angeles, Calif.; Marvin McMickle, professor of homiletics, Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio; and Nathan Ivey, SEED/Community Development, Sojourn Church of Louisville. There will also be several session speakers.

  • Kentucky Heartland Outreach will be awarded a grant from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation.

    As a result, KHO is currently taking applications from low-income families in Taylor and Green counties who are in need of home repair. The repairs will be completed in the summer of 2008 and are totally free of charge to the homeowner.

    The deadline for applications is Feb. 29.

  • Experience Works, the nation's largest training and employment organization for mature workers, is searching for Kentucky's outstanding older worker. Experience Works Prime Time Awards program is part of Experience Works' national effort to raise awareness of the contributions made by older individuals and to break down barriers associated with the hiring of all older workers. Outstanding older workers from every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be honored in Washington, D.C., and in their home states for their contributions to the workforce and local communities.

  • Taylor County Public Library will host a beginning computer class taught by Guy "Scotty" Strupper.

    The class will be offered Thursday, March 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the library.

    The class will cover basic computer hardware, basic software and computer concepts, setting up printers, installing and uninstalling programs and updating Windows through www.microsoft.com.

    The class will be limited to six people on a first come, first served basis.

  • Ice cubes floating in water. Rust on a vehicle. A rock slide. Science is everywhere. Anthony Farris knows that and so do his students at Campbellsville Elementary School.

    "I try to look beyond what I see and think about the scientific aspect."

    Farris, 47, said he strives to get his students to think that way, too.

    "I want them to not just see what's there, but to think deeper, to think about the how and why."

  • Kentucky landowners, farmers, foresters, policymakers and others who have an interest in woodlands can learn more about alternative fuel sources, carbon markets, ecotourism and other issues at a state conference in Somerset.

    Some of the leading experts in the field of forestry will be speaking at "Kentucky Woodlot$: Capture the Value" conference Wednesday, Feb. 20 at The Center for Rural Development in Somerset. The conference, sponsored by 15 stakeholders, will explore the latest market trends on how to reach and "capture" the maximum value of America's forests and woodlands.

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