Today's News

Just to show how old I and the class of 1974 are getting, there wasn't a girls' basketball team when we graduated in 1974.

The sport which was halted decades earlier (matter of fact Sue Smith's mother was a stand-out) started back again for the 1974-75 campaign.

At least one local young lady didn't get a chance to display her skills while still in high school.

She did go on to play at Western Kentucky University and probably goes down as one of the best female athletes ever produced in Taylor County.

National Day of Prayer is Thursday and a group will meet from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. on the Taylor County Courthouse steps to pray and sing together.

The event will be one of several around the nation offering inspirational music and prayer for those who gather.

All of those who attend will receive an "I Prayed" sticker and a balloon launch will follow the ceremony.

The event is sponsored by Bible Baptist Tabernacle.

For more information, call 465-3015.

The Central Kentucky News-Journal is conducting a local Internet reader survey to help determine reading and shopping habits.

Readers will be asked what they like to read, what they don't and their evaluation of what they do read.

And as an incentive, participants will be entered in a drawing for up to $3,000.

"But just as you excel in everything - in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us[a] - see that you also excel in this grace of giving."

-2 Corinthians 8:7

There are many worthy causes in the community, but it would seem logical that the issue of children not having enough to eat should rank near the top of the list.

If the Taylor County Food Pantry is just four weeks away from halting service due to a lack of funding, then it's obvious families in the community are going hungry - and it's going to do nothing but get worse.