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The University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that over 1,550 undergraduates qualified for the Spring 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Dean's List. Norma Patel of Brownsville, KY (42210) - Biology Jelesmina Grieco of Brownsville, KY (42210) - Political Science To be included on the Dean's List, students must have completed 12 or more credits during a semester for letter grades with at least a 3.60 GPA. Congratulations to the high-achieving students who put in the time and effort to meet the academic requirements to make the Dean's List.
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submitted by: Lisa M. Anspach, Friends of Nolin Lake Special Events Coordinator
The Friends of Nolin Lake hosted the annual Rex Hurt Memorial Nolin Fest on Saturday, August 10, 2019 at the Moutardier Recreation Area. Thanks to the FONL sponsors, this event is free to the public with inflatables, live music, and a fireworks show. This year’s festival hosted food vendors with food options varying from shaved iced, funnel cakes, popcorn to ribeye sandwiches and lots in between. Several product vendors in a wide range of products and services were also set up giving attendees many options to shop. Nolin River Lake US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District Rangers and volunteers were set up sharing the importance of water safety and wearing a life jacket. Rangers on water patrol visited boats prior to the fireworks and provided a courtesy reminder of proper us of navigation lights and anchor lights providing glow sticks if any lights were out. Friends of Nolin Lake sponsors, Renegade Marina & Outdoor Center and Jacob’s Home Furnishings were set up near the FONL booth with pontoon boats and various home furnishings to view and purchase and Boy Scout Troop 597 assisted in parking the estimated 1,000 of folks in attendance. The evening ended with Andy and the Rockers rocking the stage until dark when they turned the entertainment over to the firework display over the lake. Over 180 boats were on the water and even more folks lined the shoreline and pavilion area to enjoy the show. Photography services were donated by Jackilyn Photography and are available on our social media pages. Thanks to all who came and participated in Nolin Fest 2019! Note: the thoughts and opinions expressed by Edmonson Voice guest columnists and authors of submitted articles are their own, not necessarily those of EdmonsonVoice.com Edmonson Voice Staff Report:
Each year, neighbors and visitors are needed to set aside one day to celebrate and give back to the lake that gives the community a place to live, learn, play, exercise and relax. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), volunteers can make a difference in the Nolin River Lake Community by participating in the 11th Annual Lakeshore Clean-up Campaign, Saturday, September 14th from 8:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. "This is an excellent family activity," said the USACE in a statement. "You and your children will have a ‘hands on’ opportunity to connect and make a difference." The clean-up campaign is designated an official National Public Lands Day Event. This event is sponsored by The Friends of Nolin and coordinated in conjunction with The Corps of Engineers and Nolin River Lake State Park. On Saturday, September 14th at 8:00 am stop by any of the following boat ramps to register, just check in at the registration table at Dog Creek, Moutardier, State Park, and Wax. Groups such as Scout troops, church and school groups are highly encouraged to attend, but should call 270-286-4511 to pre- register. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own water and sunscreen, but trash bags and gloves will be provided. A pontoon boat will shuttle volunteers to the shoreline to pick up trash. Afternoon activities start at 12:00 p.m. at the Moutardier picnic shelter, with food and giveaways for participants sponsored by Friends of Nolin. "We need boats and volunteers, pontoon boats are vital to this event, as they are required to shuttle volunteers and trash back and forth along the shoreline, and remember to have enough life jackets available for all passengers," stated USACE in statement. "As a token of appreciation, pontoon boat owners will be given a two nights free camping at any Nolin River Lake Corps of Engineers Campground." Tarps will be provided to line boats for trash pick-up. The USACE also said volunteers do not have to have a pontoon to help, anyone can volunteer as a registration person or zone coordinator at one of the boat ramps. To register for any one of these jobs, please contact Libby Watt at 270-286-4511. For more information, please call Libby Watt at the Nolin River Lake, Corps of Engineers Office at 270-286-4511 You can also visit the Friends’ website at www.friendsofnolinlake.org. column and photo by Josh Boyd: A brief early evening drive down nearly any rural roadway in south central Kentucky will yield numerous deer and turkey sightings among the region's winding creek bottoms and plentiful soybean fields. In an area so rich in agriculture and undisturbed countryside, it is somewhat difficult to imagine this region in absence of the whitetail deer and eastern wild turkeys that make their home here. However, this was the reality of the not so distant past. Both the whitetail deer and the eastern wild turkey, are among the greatest wildlife success stories of the modern era. Once scarce or completely absent in the entirety of south central Kentucky, both species can now be seen in abundance within the area, with overall excellent hunting being relatively common. In a mere forty years, we as hunters have seen the harvest of a whitetail deer transition from an unobtainable goal, to one achieved by many children before they graduate grade school. More recently, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife has managed the reintroduction and re-population of elk into the eastern portion of our state, where until recently, was void of this once native species. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife has also been a proponent of managing the state's growing black bear population. Open fall black bear seasons now spread as westward as Meltcalfe and Cumberland Counties. Conservation is the driving force behind the rehabilitation of Kentucky's native species. Hunters, by nature, are conservationists. We enjoy the pursuit of the species that we hunt, and in turn put significant value on the sustainability of the game we are after. We as hunters, go to great lengths to see our hunting and wildlife resources protected and secured for future generations. Through the purchase of hunting licenses and permits, conservation projects of varying nature are directly funded, in turn building a better tomorrow for sportsmen across the state. Additionally, opportunities for hands on involvement in conservation exist right in our own communities. Local chapters and branches of several nationally based, non-profit conservation agencies exist right here in south central Kentucky. These entities exist for the purpose of generating local conservation awareness, as well as for the raising of funds for reinvestment into the area's wildlife, habitat, and conservation programs. Delta Waterfowl, Ducks Unlimited, Whitetails Unlimited, Quality Deer Management Association, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and Quail Forever all have active branches or chapters open for participation within our region. Many of these organizations have yearly local banquets that allow interested individuals to attend the events and familiarize themselves with the goals of the group.
Most recently, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conducted their annual banquet last Saturday, the 10th, in Bowling Green. Whitetails Unlimited is next up on the local conservation organization event schedule with their annual banquet being held this upcoming Saturday, August 17th, at the Corvette Museum. These banquets and countless others take place within our region annually, and allow hunters an entertaining and informative gathering to join with other like minded individuals to further the goal of conservation. Biologists and wildlife technicians are also staged in various locations across the bluegrass, in order to conduct the necessary day to day operations that ensure the sustainability of the state's wildlife populations. Interested parties can place a phone call or send an email to Fish and Wildlife officials in order to inquire about avenues to assist in conservation efforts. The general public can assist in wildlife management efforts by means of providing agency officials with deer carcasses for use in testing for CWD and other known wildlife ailments, as well as by relaying any sightings of wildlife that appear to be ill or expressing abnormal behavior. Whether through the assistance of local wildlife biologists and technicians, involvement with local chapters of conservation groups, or by simply paying yearly license fees, all hunters in south central Kentucky can be an active force in ensuring the future of our hunting heritage. Together, all hunters manage a shared resource that we must be diligent in safeguarding. In doing so, we give the gift of enduring enjoyment of the outdoors and time spent afield to the future generations to follow. Master Commissioner Auction: 418 Acres In 12 Tracts, Individually, Combination, or Entirety8/14/2019 paid advertisement:
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Local retired teachers made a donation of school supplies to the Family Resource Center, the donation will be divided among the Family Resource and Youth Service Centers across the district and distributed out to kids as needed for the school year. According to Sharon Brooks, Family Resource Center Coordinator for EC 5/6 Center, donations such as these along with donations from events like Stuff the Bus are how the centers stay supplied through the school year. "We couldn’t do it without our amazing community," said Sharon Brooks. "Retired teachers have donated every year since I’ve worked in family resource and every year we appreciate it more and more." Edmonson Voice Staff Report: Local youth Scotty Hagan and his partner Ross Kearns placed sixth in the 2019 Junior B.A.S.S. National Championship which took place last weekend. They made the biggest move up the leader board during the two day finals. They went from the 32nd position of day one to sitting in the number one hot seat for a short period on day two. They led the tournament for a short while and landed a 7lb fish on the second day. The team ended the tournament with a combined weight of 16 lbs 12 ounces, putting them in 6th place overall. "We can not contain the excitement for Scotty and Ross. What a way to end the season, finishing 6th in the country," said Carlet Hagan, Scotty Hagan’s mother. "We want to thank everyone for all the support of the Hagan brothers fishing career, we are all so proud, and hope to one day bring that trophy home."
The tournament was held on Carroll County Thousand Acre Lake in Mackenzie, TN. Putting Together The Pieces column and photo by Josh Boyd: There is something richly unique about the moment when a hunter sits down in front of his or her computer with the intent of checking their trail camera photos. As you insert your SD card into the drive and open the photo viewing software, a level of youthful excitement overtakes you. As you click from one photo to the next, the anticipation builds, knowing that the proceeding photo could potentially be that of a true monarch of the whitetail woods. If you talk to any dedicated deer hunter today, in a matter of minutes the conversation will likely turn to something closely related to a show-and-tell session pertaining to trail camera photos that they have captured. It is a riveting experience to know that when heading to the woods, the buck that you have on camera could make his appearance at anytime. However, each year many of these photogenic whitetails fade without a trace like a lifting fog, leaving only photos as proof of their existence. Once a particular buck's existence is made known, a hunter's job has just begun. How do you turn photos into a filled tag? What must take place to turn an SD card full of images into fresh venison in the freezer? These answers are often times right under our nose, as pieces to a puzzle in the form of the very photos that initiated these questions. When attempting to form a thorough strategy to hunt a particular buck based on trail camera photos, details must be recognized to yield a pattern. Does the buck in question make his appearance at a particular time on a daily basis? Does the buck appear to be traveling in a set direction on numerous occasions? By knowing the time of day that a deer travels through an area, as well as their direction of travel, a hunter can begin to pick apart a deer's travel patterns. An observed travel pattern, along with any pre-existing knowledge of heavily utilized food sources and favored bedding areas on a given property, allows a hunter to connect the dots and further chip away at pinpointing a buck's tendencies. This knowledge better allows an individual the ability to predict when, where, and why movement will take place. Once the rough details of a deer's bed to feed and back again pattern are established, it is advisable, if possible, to employ one or two additional trail cameras in various strategic locations where you feel that the buck is likely to frequent. This allows a hunter the ability to confirm, or rule out certain areas of a property as being included in a buck's core area and home range. With additional photos from various locations, the information that you have gathered will begin to tell the buck's story. At this point, the collection of data that you have received, and continue to receive, from your trail camera monitoring serves to keep a hunter informed of any effective shifts in a buck's pattern. The varying of food sources, excessive pressure from human intrusion, and other environmental factors can all be reasons for a buck's variance in their day to day travels. Your continued monitoring will allow you to shift your strategy to compensate for slight variances in a buck's travels.
With a timeline of a deer's daily movements established with a certain degree of confidence, stands can be placed in a way to utilize your new found knowledge. Deer, especially of mature nature, tend to become quite nocturnal with time. The patterns that you have established during your late summer trail camera checks allow you to place your stands in areas with a higher prominence of daytime movement, therefore bettering your odds of an encounter during legal shooting hours. Trail cameras are a tool of extensive benefit to today's whitetail hunter. With the opening of Kentucky's archery season now less than a month away, summertime scouting begins to give way to pre-season strategizing. By taking stock of your collection of summertime trail camera photos and searching for the clues to a buck's whereabouts that they provide, you will be well on the way to tagging the buck of a lifetime. The Edmonson Voice is once again proud to be a sponsor of one of the area's premier benefit events, the 2019 Santa's Helping Hands Annual Golf Scramble. This year's event will be held at Shady Hollow Golf Club for the third consecutive year.
Four-man teams are $200 per team and hole sponsorships are available for businesses or individuals for $50 each. Over $1000 worth of prizes will be awarded. Check out all the details on the official event flyer and contact anyone listed for more information. submitted by Edmonson County native Jamie Sizemore, Feeding America Executive Director:
As the month of August begins, so does another school year. New clothes and shoes are a must, as well as a book bag filled with the necessary school supplies. School children, all decked out with their new things, look forward to seeing classmates after the long summer break. Unfortunately, though, there will be a group of kids, at each school, in every grade, who will look forward to having a constant supply of adequate food every school week in their book bag. One in five children who live in central, south central, and western Kentucky are food insecure, meaning they may not know where their next meal will come from. Those who attend school have breakfast and lunch covered, but when Friday rolls around, anxiety sets in. For that one child, it’s not what time will we eat over the weekend, but will there be enough food in the house, if any, to eat. To help alleviate food insecurity in children, school professionals and guardians turn to Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH) for the BackPack Program. Through this program, pre-packed bags of 12-15 kid-friendly, single serve food items are discretely placed in the child’s backpack on the last day of the school week, with the goal to help and feed the child over the weekend. The food items, such as shelf-stable milk, cereal, tuna, vegetables, beef ravioli, peanut butter, oatmeal, granola bars, fruit cups, macaroni and cheese, raisins, and more, often make the difference in the long hours of a weekend for a child. Each one of the bags only costs $3 to fill and distribute, $120 per child ensures their nutritional needs for the 40 full weeks of school. Now in its 13th year, the FAKH BackPack Program was created to help alleviate childhood hunger across rural Kentucky. During the 2018-19 school year, the program served over 5,500 children each week in 34 counties, including Edmonson County. Together, school nutrition programs and the BackPack Program continue to bridge the gap between hunger and a child’s stability. For the one out of five children in rural Kentucky, the programs make all the difference in how the child will develop and learn. For more information about the BackPack Program, or to sponsor a child in Edmonson County for this school year, visit www.feedingamericaky.org, call 270-769-6997 or toll free 877-532-2767. Jamie Sizemore is the Executive Director for Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland, which provides hunger-relief programs in 42 central, southcentral, and western Kentucky counties. She can be reached at 270-769-6997 ext. 103, toll free 877-532-2767, or www.feedingamericaky.org. Note: the thoughts and opinions expressed by Edmonson Voice guest columnists and authors of submitted articles are their own, not necessarily those of EdmonsonVoice.com Edmonson Voice Staff Report:
The following counties have been selected to receive an award of Federal Funds through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county: Butler $5,902 Edmonson $5,365 Metcalfe $6,341 Monroe $6,390 The selection was made by a National Board that is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red Cross, Catholic Charities USA, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, The Jewish Federations of North America, The Salvation Army, and United Way Worldwide. The Local Board was charged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country. A Local Board comprised of the area Judge Executives and community/business representatives will determine how the funds awarded to these counties are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service agencies in the area. The Local Board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds available under this phase of the program. Under the terms of the grant from the National Board, local agencies chosen to receive funds must: 1) be private voluntary non-profits or unit of government, 2) be eligible to receive federal funds 3) have an accounting system, 4) practice nondiscrimination, 5) have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs, and 6) if they are a private voluntary organization, have a voluntary board. Qualifying agencies are urged to apply. Organizations applying must have an accounting system and have the ability to be their own fiscal agent. Public or private entities interested in applying for EFSP funds must contact Community Action of Southern Kentucky, 921 Beauty Avenue, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101, (270)782-3162, for an application. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 4:00 p.m., Central Standard Time. Moriah Peterson, story and photos: Classic cars and trucks, sports cars, motorcycles and just about everything in-between filled the parking lot of The Edmonson Center on Saturday, August 3, 2019. The event included a car show, auction, and 50/50 raffle which all raise money for the Edmonson Center resident activity fund. All donations received from car registration also goes into the fund. This year's show had 79 entries. Awards were given to the top 25 along with the following categories: Best of Show- Doc Croslin 1957 Chevy Bel Air Best Ford - Darrel Weaver. 1964 Ford Falcon Best GM - David Lightfoot. 1950 Oldsmobile SW Best Mopar - Tim Pennington. 1934 Plymouth Sedan Best Motorcycle - Jeff Schroeder. 2013 Harley Streetglide Best Rat Rod - James Shepherd. 1947 Chevy Truck Best Owned By Cancer Survivor- Sonny Basham. 1941 Chevy Truck Resident’s Choice- Morris Bowman. 1965 Chevy C-10 Best Engine- Phil Huffel. 2003 Chevy Corvette Best Paint-Gary Carney. 1967 Chevy Z28/RS Camaro Best Interior- Bill Plumlee. 1932 Ford Custom Best Work In Progress- Jerry Shields. 1950 Chevy Truck Oldest Car- Jim Devore. 1926 Ford Coupe This year the center raised $6950.00 for the resident activity fund.
"To have this much support from a rain date is just unbelievable," said Edmonson Center Senior Admissions Director Scott Lindsey. "We are truly blessed with a fantastic community and we would like to thank all our sponsors, the attendees, and the car owners, this event wouldn't be possible without them." Click the flyer to visit the complete listing with more photos!
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