April 9, 2024
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25 Years Ago - April 13, 1999
Pathfinders, seventh-grade students from Philip A. Sharp Middle School, spent most of the day Tuesday, April 6, picking up garbage and debris on various vacant lots and streets in the city of Falmouth.
The day’s work was part of a beautification project being sponsored and funded in part by a Kentucky Team & Serve grant through the Kentucky Commission of Community Volunteer Services. The grant is administered through the Pendleton County Industrial Authority.
The one-day cleanup for Falmouth was the culminating event for the students’ yearlong study of ecology and environmental awareness. The students have studied a unit on energy. They have learned how solid waste can be used to produce energy and that plants burn solid waste and generate energy.
“I think this has really been a learning experience for us,” student Dalina Bogan said. “I never thought or dreamed about this much trash lying around just in town.”
Tabitha Zipp said she quit littering long ago. “I feel like our project is helping the community.”
Christina Morgan said, “This cleanup is also helping our environment and it helps the area to look a lot better without all the trash scattered all over.”
50 Years Ago - April 12, 1974
The tornado that ripped through Harrison County Wednesday evening has cost the Harrison Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, which serves parts of Pendleton County, at least $150,000 in damages.
The electric utility had 150 line poles downed, some broken off like a matchstick and blown as far as 200 feet from the initial site, plus 25 miles of line gone.
W.O. Penn, manager of the co-op, said that not one person was killed in the tornado in Harrison County, but that probably 150 homes were lost and also 147 tobacco barns leveled.
About 700 cows in Harrison County were reported killed by the winds and 2,000 cattle scattered.
The tornado left more than $1 million in damage in its wake.
Lights in the city of Falmouth and most of Pendleton County were out for the entire evening, coming back on about 1 a.m.
Sheriff Harold Wright reported no damage in the county, but that were was some hail and heavy rain in the southern part of the county.
State police broadcasts reported a tornado in the Falmouth area, to the east, but it traveled away from the city toward southern Ohio.
75 Years Ago - April 15, 1949
The unusually warm weather during the past winter has been very favorable for the arrival of all types of internal parasites of livestock.
This is especially true of several types of roundworms in sheep.
Sheepmen will need to be very careful in carrying out the phenothiazine program if serious losses of lambs is to be prevented.
R.C. Miller, sheep specialist, in his discussion at the annual countywide meeting, suggested that the phenothiazine salt mixture should be started in early April this year because of the warm weather.
100 Years Ago - April 11, 1924
In order to bring about a better understanding as to the position taken by the Cynthiana Business Men’s Club and the Falmouth Commercial Club relative to the proposed hydro-electric dam across Main Licking near Falmouth, the directors of the local club entertained a delegation of Falmouth business men at a diner last Friday evening.
The delightful food was served by the ladies of the Methodist Church in the church dining room, and in addition to the directors of the Cynthiana organization, the Messers. Arnold, Barker, Crecelius, Bishop, Arnold, Kirby, Berger and Hebday, all representing the Falmouth Club, were present.
It was rumored about Falmouth that the Cynthiana Business Men’s Club was exerting its efforts to stop the dam project and that letters had been written to Washington to this end.
As soon as it was learned that all the Cynthiana Club asked was that a substantial bridge be erected at Claysville so as not to inconvenience the traveling public, the meeting was converted into a social affair.
The visitors left much pleased with the attitude taken by the local club and it is believed that both Falmouth and Cynthiana will work to get this dam, if it be possible.