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By: Lovina Eicher

It's 7 a.m. and the children just left for school. My husband, Joe, has been at work several hours already and daughter Elizabeth left for her job at 5:15 a.m.

Joe tilled part of the garden last night. Daughter Susan, 17, and I, want to get some garden planted today. Spring is such a lovely time of the year but there's a lot of work involved. Susan mowed our grass on Saturday for the first time this year. Last year we were mowing in March already due to the early spring we had.

As the weather warms, Kentuckians are firing up their grills for tasty burgers and steaks.  Gov. Steve Beshear recognizes this American tradition and is proclaiming May 2013 “Beef Month in the commonwealth of Kentucky.”

“I encourage all Kentuckians to support Kentucky’s beef cattle industry and to salute our cattle farmers during the month of May for their contribution to Kentucky’s agricultural and rural economy,” said Gov. Beshear. “The Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund has helped make this industry top-notch, with more than $67 million supporting projects related to the cattle industry in Kentucky since 2001.”

Agriculture Commissioner James Comer returned to Kentucky confident that the federal government will act to legalize industrial hemp production in the near future. Comer’s plane from Washington, D.C., landed in Kentucky at 1 a.m. EDT, and he was back in the office hours later to report on three days of meetings with administration officials and lawmakers.

“I feel like we had a very successful trip,” Comer said. “We had some great meetings with key people on both sides of the political aisle. We were able to educate people about the economic potential of industrial hemp. And we got a lot of media coverage that enabled us to raise awareness about hemp on a national level.”

The HMH radiology department can add another feather to its cap. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services received re-accreditation by the American College of Radiology. The program is accredited for Hitachi Open MRI for adult and pediatric patients.

The entire program is evaluated on the facility, personnel qualifications, image quality, equipment, quality control procedures and protocols. This involved an extensive application process. MRI Radiology Technologists, Abigail Coffee and Noelle Currans have worked on the project for the past year, along with the medical director of radiology, Dr. Doug Crutcher.

Pendleton County Fiscal Court meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m., May 14, 2013.

Tentative agenda will go as follows: Call to order, prayer, pledge, approval of agenda, approval of minutes, presentation of treasure's report, award bids on blacktop, approve resolution and blacktop agreement with rural and municipal aid, discuss and possible award bids on Jagg and Hayes Station bridges, discuss of flush hydrants on county water lines, possible award of 911 console installation at dispatch bids, possible award of air condition installation in dispatch quotes, possible award of grounding installation at EOC/dispatch bid, possible award of purchase of large screen computer monitor quotes, possible award of fiber connections sole source, possible award of 911 dispatch camera and installation sole source bid, possible award of 911 radios installed at state price contract, approve 911 dispatch electrician bid, award ADF Grant application to City of Butler for cruiser, approve athletic park maintenance projects, approve Jimmy Roseberry to cemetery board, second reading of flood damage ordinance, approve jailer copier lease agreement, approve part-time employee at Animal Shelter (Taylor McClanahan), county road and LGEA public hearing, second reading of county budget for fiscal year 2013-2014, Rumpke Landfill update, transfers, pay bills, closing remarks by Judge Bertram/magistrate and adjourn.

By Marla Toncray, The Ledger Independent

Company officials with The Old Pogue Distillery, LLC, announced the release of the first barrel aged whiskey distilled in Maysville in more than 70 years.

The limited quantity brown spirit will be available only at The Old Pogue Distillery in Maysville beginning at 1 p.m., on Wednesday, May 1. The release of Five Fathers Pure Malt Rye Whiskey, a barrel aged, 55 percent alcohol by volume (110 proof) whiskey, is the culmination of several years of planning by the Pogue family, and is the first barrel aged whiskey distilled and aged by one of Kentucky’s legendary bourbon whiskey families since before Prohibition.

I hope I am wrong, but my thinking is that in our near future we will have to revert back to pioneer methods. I probably won’t be around when this change takes place, and I hope I’m not, but it is coming.

Our society has become so dependent on our government that when a need arises we stand with our hands extended and say, “What are they going to do?”

(Marvin Sullivan in his recent poignant piece entitled, “Mother,” said he sometimes calls his wife, “Mother” because she is in some ways a Mother to him, particularly after losing his birth Mother at a very early age. This is not meant to diminish Marvin’s explanation, but I have a friend who calls his wife, “Mother.” When I queried him as to why, he said that he forgets names easily and he was afraid he might forget her name; therefore, to be safe, he just calls her “Mother.”)

My Mother lived to be 90 and was laid out at Deaton’s Funeral Home, 15 years ago this past February. Family and friends had been notified of her demise and her extended family gathered in to show their last respects. It was not an unhappy occasion, for Mother had lived a long and rich life and had spent the last five years in Sayre Christian Village / Nursing Home in Lexington.  Even in the Nursing Home she adjusted well and made friends with other patients, some in worse physical shape than she.

Dear Editor,

What a beautiful day for the Knoxville Christian Church as they picked up litter on Hwy 467. Over the winter the litter had accumulated for our spring clean-up. We were very busy making our county clean. There were a lot of cans, bottles, paper and trash from fast food restaurants. After we were finished we had picked up 27 bags of litter. We are proud of our county and want to keep it clean. Please don't throw out your trash!

Karen Kells