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There was farm equipment operating on Red Orchard Farm again Monday morning. But the workers were setting not tobacco but 5,000 native Kentucky trees.

"We put them out in rows to make them easier to maintain," said Ben Lyle, with the Kentucky Division of Forestry. The division is partnering with Shelbyville/Shelby County Parks and Recreation to plant the seedlings.

After 28 people reported becoming ill from food they ate at Claudia Sanders Dinner House on Easter Sunday, the county health department has asked the restaurant to close until they receive back tests that identify the organism responsible for causing the illnesses.

North Central Public Health Director Renee Blair said the department is working with the restaurant to determine what has caused the illnesses.

"We don't have any definitive results yet," she said. "We have gone out and quarantined all the food in the refrigerator that was left over from Sunday."

Shelbyville City Council started fresh Thursday, March 20, when they had a first reading of a new ordinance that repeals the alcohol sales regulatory license fee.

Two weeks ago when the council met there were two drafts awaiting them, both repealing the tax. The difference between the two was that one ordinance called for the refunding of any amounts that had been collected by the fee, and the other did not.

At that time, the council approved the ordinance that did not require the money to be refunded, deciding to discuss what will be done with the funds at a later date.

Maggie Bishop expects this summer to be the most difficult and yet rewarding of her life.

Bishop, a 2006 graduate of Shelby County High School, will spend the summer in Nicaragua working with a program that reaches out to underprivileged street children.

The program that she will be working with, Los Quinchos Street Outreach, is designed to get children off the street and to teach them how to live a better life.

Currently the program serves more than 200 children.