Today's Features

On a peaceful Sunday morning nearly 67 years ago, 35 servicemen were having a leisurely breakfast at Hickman Airfield at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Before they knew what had happened, the mess hall took a direct attack from Japanese fighter planes.

All were killed.

But that was only the beginning – for both of the attack and of its ramifications for history.

Community datebook

Support groups

Jan. 15 -- Parents of Children with Learning Differences and Attention Difficulties meets at 7 p.m. at the Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky, 2210 Goldsmith Ln., #118, Louisville. For additional information call the LDA office at 502-473-1256.

Public can attend

Jan. 15 -- Shelbyville City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 315 Washington St.

Jan. 19 -- Shelbyville Water and Sewer Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. at 1059 Washington St.

  Some of his friends smile when they hear his name mentioned. Some call him a character.

But whatever you call him, when you call him to come through for his community, he will be there.

Elmer Brown, former Waddy fire chief, is still a familiar face around the firehouse. He has been a volunteer firefighter at Waddy since 1975, with a 2-year stint as chief in the 1980s.

“It gets in your blood,” he said, with a crooked grin for which he is famous far beyond the fringes of Waddy.