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  • Centro Latino hopes to fund new...

    Officials at Centro Latino say they are excited about an upcoming wine tasting this Friday at Talon Winery – the center’s first fundraiser – that they hope will help to fund some new programs.

    Sister Pat Reno, executive director of Centro Latino, said that not only is the number of people who depend on the center growing – they served 15,000 people last year – but they have also added a couple of new services, which are extensions of the center’s GED and English as a second language classes.

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    Former Shelby teacher retires again...

    David Hedrick is a man who knows about retirement. He has retired from at least two positions in his long-standing career as a musician and choral director. This past February, Hedrick retired….again.

    This time, it was from his position as musical director of The Stephen Foster Story, in Bardstown.

    Many Shelby County residents have sung and learned under the direction of David Hedrick as choral director at Shelby County High School. It was from here he earned his first retirement after 28 years teaching.

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    New York group makes Shelbyville...

    A group of New Yorkers had such a great time celebrating the Derby in Shelbyville last year, not only did they return this year, but they plan to make the trip a tradition, they say.

    “There are a lot of determining factors, but so far it’s worked out very well for the second year in a row and we’ll keep doing it if we can,” said Bob Simons of Lockport N.Y., where the majority of the 53 people in the group reside.

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    The perfect mint julep

    If you’d like to get a mint julep at your favorite bar, you better cash in this week. This Southern staple can be hard to locate at any time other than that because a lot of bars don’t normally stock mint. And without mint all you have is, well, bourbon and sugar.

    Churchill Downs, liquor stores and bourbon distilleries want you to believe the premixed concoctions they’re selling are just as good as the basic ingredients, but, let’s be honest, nothing beats that simple blend of sugar, fresh mint, crushed ice and good bourbon.

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    New reign in Oaks parade

    Peggy Tschauner and Ellen Jacobs of Shelby County, two of the 139 cancer survivors who will be participating in the Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade May 3, are doubly excited about participating.

    That’s because the pair was chosen to walk in the parade last year, through an online selection process, the usual procedure, but a storm ruined the parade, so they were invited back again this year.

    “We got a letter last year, the Monday after the Derby, they sent out a letter last year to all of us,” Tschauner said.

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    Hundreds turn out for Rocket Games

    A day full of sunshine and mild temperatures added an extra dash of enjoyment to what was already a day packed with fun and smiles for hundreds who turned out for Shelby County High School’s Rocket Games.

    Noelle Barnes, SCHS’ complex needs counselor, the coordinator for the event, said she estimated that nearly 1,000 people were in attendance.

    “Well, we have three hundred student volunteers, and we have sold over five hundred t-shirts, and we have so many vendors and people who have come out; it’s just great,” Barnes said.

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    Shelby celebrates Earth Day 1013 at...

    Temperatures may have not been up to par, but the rest of Mother Nature’s arsenal cooperated enough on Saturday to enable visitors to the Earth Day celebration at Red Orchard to enjoy a variety of outdoor activities.

    Although there were very few children taking advantage of the spacious playground, because of muddy conditions, a crowd began collecting rapidly after the opening of the event at 10 a.m.

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    Crews make creek a bit clearer

    Put together a frosty Saturday morning, a placid lake with the sun glinting off the water, a dozen canoes and dozens of “morning people,” and what do you have?

    A crew of exuberant volunteers all set to clean up Lake Shelby by canoe, of course.

    The volunteers, consisting of Collins Army ROTC members, Clear Creek Trailblazer volunteers, and some individuals, braved a chilly morning, rain gorged waterways and muddy creek banks to participate in the annual Clear Creek Cleanup, which also included a cleanup by Boy Scouts who policed along the banks.

  • STAPLETON: Slipped discs can be...

    A slipped disc is a painful condition involving one or more of the 23 discs that cushion the bones of the spine.

    As with other causes of back pain, it is often incorrectly assumed that surgery is the only logical treatment. The truth is many of these injuries do not require surgery.

  • ‘It’s hard to imagine that kind of...

    The heinous bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday that killed three people and injured 183 others reverberated around the world and home to Shelby County.

    There were a handful of persons who listed Shelby County addresses on the official marathon entry list, and some of the finished the event with an awed reaction for what happened shortly afterward.

    Susanne Busey Osberg, a Shelby County native who has lived in Boston for 41 years, said the bombing brought back the horrible events of Sept. 11, 2001, to her in a very real way.

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    Medical bills mounting for teacher...

    Rebecca Marrilla is 26 years old, an age during which most people don’t stare death in the face.

    But in September, two days after celebrating her first wedding anniversary, the harsh reality of cancer shattered her world, when she learned she had Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer.

    “When I went in [to the doctor’s office] that today, I was not prepared to hear that,” she said. “I don’t think you can ever be prepared to hear that.”

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    Shelby rated 3rd healthiest county

    Shelby Countians must be doing something right, judging by the county’s steadily rise as one of the healthiest counties in the state.

    Shelby County is up to third this year, according to the 2013 County Health Rankings of all states, complied annually by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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    Walls to be honored with...

    At Christmas, Gary Walls was surprised with a trip to Italy to see the Pope deliver the Easter Vigil at the Vatican.

    What he didn’t know then was that a new Pope would have been named – one who would resonate with Walls even more than his Catholic roots would have predicted.

    Pope Francis has become known for his commitment to service, to helping those in need.

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    Shelby family grows by 2 adoptees...

    Each day – every day for nearly 16 years – Tania Williams awoke in the orphanage in Ukraine.  Sixteen – the dreaded age that orphans in this Eastern European country “age out” to the streets, often thrown into a life of prostitution, drugs and crime. For Tania, it was a time of fear and anxiety, faced with no family and no physical or emotional support.

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    Big changes for Luci Center

    Sometimes downsizing is the best way to grow, and that’s exactly what’s going on with The Luci Center in Shelby County.

    Luci Center, a hippotherapy therapeutic riding center for children and adults with disabilities, has sold its property on Hebron Road and was planning to close Tuesday on a new location across the street.

    This 15-acre site will be built to suit the center’s unique needs.

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    VAN STOCKUM: Part 2: Remarks...

    In my 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, from 1937-1967, when I was promoted from second lieutenant up the ranks to brigadier general, I encountered a lot of interesting characters who had a lot of interesting things to say, some of them amusing and others career-changing. These appear in chronological order:

    “The Marine sentry did not salute me when I came across the gangway. I consider this a reflection on the captain of Marines.”

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    Shelby Prevention pursuing grants

    How can you put a price tag on being able to help keep kids off drugs and make the community a safer place to raise a healthy, happy family?

    That price tag is $100,000, said Elizabeth Pulliam, director of Shelby Prevention, a non-profit organization that works to provide programs, activities and community projects in order to build a drug-free community.

    That is the organization’s yearly budget that she is trying to generate by September.

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    Love brings new life to old house

    John David and Mary Helen Myles have a 174-year-old baby.

    They have restored their 2-story brick Federal-style home they bought in 2002 with such loving care that the structure, known as the Dale Place, received the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Foundation Preservation Project Award in 2006.

    Myles, a Shelby County Family Court judge, is widely known throughout Shelby County for his love of history, and he went to great lengths to ensure that the house, when restored, should be as much as like the original as possible.

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    Library audience likes the taste of...

    If you’d like to settle down with a good book, chock full of colorful characters, such as  moonshiners, long-haired, pot-growing Vietnam veterans, and even a man so scary everybody started locking their doors at night after he moved to town, you might want to check out The Cornbread Mafia, which was published last year.

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    VAN STOCKUM: Part 1: Remarks...

    I have listed below a few remarks that stand out in my memory of service in the regular U.S. Marine Corps from 1937 to 1967, in the ranks of second lieutenant through brigadier general.  They appear in chronological order:

     

    “Give it to 'em boys; give 'em what General Cheatham says!”

    – Bishop-General Leonidas Polk at the Battle of Perryville (1862), conscious of his role as an Episcopal bishop, after Maj. Gen. Cheatham had shouted to his troops, “Give ‘em hell, boys.”