Business

The weather is once again wreaking havoc on Kentucky’s farmers.

Last year early warm weather left fields plowed and planted and schedules running about two weeks early.

This year, it looks like it could be the reverse.

According to Western Kentucky University’s  Mesonet weather station in Shelby County, the area has received about 12 inches of rain during the past 90 days, or 146 percent of what’s expected over that period.

The Shelby County Chamber of Commerce’s long-running Community Showcase figures to have its biggest year yet on Saturday, when vendors and marketers spread their wares and messages in the Mike Casey Gymnasium at Shelby County High School.

This 11th annual event, which allows companies – 55 have signed up this year – to set up tables and booths to market themselves to community members who browse, pick up goodies and get a card checked off so they can enter to win prizes, begins at 9 a.m.

For the past week crews from a Louisville television station have been in Shelby County, talking to business and industry officials and filming segments for an upcoming show in a promotional and marketing campaign encompassing the entire county.

Officials with WDRB-Ch. 41 also have been offering advertising packages to local business owners that would coincide with the hour-long show, which is scheduled to air at 4 p.m. Thursday.

What do you do if you’re an elementary teacher and a gymnast and want to try to merge all that training? You open a gym for children, of course.

Discovery Gym opened on Main Street in Shelbyville last August, and it has become a busy place for kids who otherwise might be sitting indoors, bored, waiting for warm weather.

In those six months parents have been enrolling their kids in activities such as preschool classes and gymnastics, owner Laura Shelton said.