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Walking in a winter wonderland is supposed to enjoyed closer to Christmas than Easter, but on Monday Shelby Countians got their first chance of the season.

The National Weather Service reported amounts of 5 to 6 inches across Shelby County from an overnight snowfall, the maximum recorded in any county, although some readers displayed rulers in snow that pushed 7 inches in depth.

Doubtless some early blooms were confused as they tried to poke their heads through the snow to take advantage of the sunshine that followed.

Did you ever wonder who determines how many disabled-parking spaces a business or public facility should have and where they should be placed?

Gail Renfro, director of Human Resources for the Shelby County Fiscal Court, said those specifications are regulated by the Kentucky Office of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“The ADA determines how many [parking] spaces a business should have,” she said.

Studies constantly are proving that what you eat can be as powerful and more potent than a prescribed drug. Recently, it was proven that the presence of fresh apples in your diet could improve your memory and sustain brain health.

Shelby County’s pastoral countryside and get-away-from-it-all-draw have beckoned many a family to relocate to a setting that gives their children a chance to experience a simpler lifestyle, and it was those very magnets that attracted Mike and Gaye Cox to Shelby County more than 20 years ago.

Gaye Cox, having grown up in Mississippi, met Mike, an Air Force kid, in school. They married young and ended up moving to Colorado. They decided early in their marriage that Gaye Cox would forgo working outside the home in order to work full-time raising their six children.

Following in the footsteps of a nationwide trend toward healthy eating and tracing food from farm to table, Shelby County is getting its first community garden.

The North Central Health District and Shelby County government have worked together to set aside a plot of land – at the confluence of Kentucky, 11th and Equity streets, behind the North Central and Shelbyville health departments – for the first garden area.

Was Coty Brewer all shook up when he and his bride, Sara Morgan, tied the knot on Valentine’s Day?

Probably so, because he and his bride were married on live television by Elvis – or close enough anyway.

Elvis Presley impersonator Otis Berry, a minister who owns and operates Indiana’s Chapel in the Hill, journeyed to Louisville on Tuesday to perform the ceremony for the couple on WHAS-Channel 11’s Great Day Live,a daily entertainment and talk show hosted by Terry Meiners and Rachel Platt.

What would happen if World War II and Vietnam era veterans put their heads together to identify an area where they could really use some help?

It didn’t take about 17 members of the VFW Post 1179 in Shelbyville very long to do just that Monday night.

“We need to learn how to use a computer,” was the general consensus around the long table where the vets met to brainstorm.

“I have a computer; I just don’t know how to turn it on,” one said.

After proclaiming Friday to be “Wear Red Day,” Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty glanced around at the sea of red, pink and mauve-clad women at a luncheon.
 

“Wow, I thought the Cardinals were playing today when I first came in here,” he said, as the crowd laughed.

The event, Go Red for Women, was held at the Shelby County Extension Office in recognition of American Heart month in February.

Dance instructor Bob Devers changes the CD in the stereo, and about 20 people line up and start dancing to the Fat Joe and Nelly hit "Get It Poppin'."

Not a song you would expect to hear in a line-dancing class.

It's not just rap music, but pop, country and oldies tunes fill the space reserved for the class at the Family Activity Center at Clear Creek Park in Shelbyville on Friday evenings.

One of the participants, Alma Clark, said she has been line dancing for 20 years.

"I just love it," Clark said.