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Grayson County skatepark group motivated after weekend concert event

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Twin Lakes Skatepark Project Chair Casey Keown said about 400 people came out to the Logsdon Valley Park Amphitheatre Saturday for their Rock the Park concert event.

“The turnout wasn’t quite what we expected, however, I think everybody that attended was impressed, and I think everybody had a good time,” Keown said. “I know I did.”

The Twin Lakes Skatepark Project is looking to raise $750,000 for the construction of a fully poured-in-place concrete skatepark in Grayson County. While Saturday’s turnout wasn’t as high as the group wanted, Keown said they got high praise from event participants, and the group is as motivated as ever to hit their goal and connect the community.

“A lot of people have doubted us, and maybe that’s a stigma around us being skateboarders, and I hope to kind of change people’s minds that there’s not always a negative connotation with people that are different or don’t think like everybody else,” Keown said.

The concert gave the group a big boost as they pursue their first project goal of $75,000 for design work on the skatepark.

“That includes hiring the skate park specialty construction company, all the schematics, blueprints, 3D renderings, and everything needed for the beginning of construction,” Keown said. “Looking at the numbers this morning, it looks like we did a little over $21,000.”

Visit the Twin Lakes Skatepark Project Facebook page or website to contribute to the project goal or learn more about getting involved.

Area adults encouraged to take advantage of health department’s vaccine program

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The Lincoln Trail District Health Department is reminding area adults to take advantage of the health department’s adult vaccination program.

“You may have heard our advertisements for Take Your Shot, and that’s exactly what we want folks to do,” said Health Department Public Information Officer Melissa Phillips. “As long as you’re 19 or older, you can do this adult vaccination program. We can bill pretty much any kind of insurance: Medicaid, Medicare, most private insurers.”

The health department has about 15 vaccines available for adults, including the main culprits of respiratory virus season.

“Flu, COVID, pneumonia, RSV, but even things like shingles, which some folks have a hard time finding that vaccine,” Phillips said. “Tdap, which has that whooping cough in it, that pertussis, if you’re around babies this time of year.”

Appointments to the health department can be made by phone call only.

“We want you to talk to an adult, especially our senior adults that sometimes have a hard time making those appointments online, and maybe you need more than one service, so we want you to talk to a live person, so you’ll just call the health department in the county that you’re closest to,” Phillips said. “You don’t have to live in that county to receive services from us, but we do cover Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, and Washington.”

Contact the health department or your doctor for more information on vaccinations.

Check smoke detectors as part of Fire Prevention Month

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October is Fire Prevention Month, the theme for which in 2024 is “Smoke Alarms: make them work for you!”

“Roughly three out of five fire deaths that we’ve had in the past few years, they happen in the homes where there’s no smoke alarms or ones that are not working, so we’ve gone into fires where there’s a smoke alarm but the crew that goes in said ‘I didn’t hear any smoke alarms going off,’” said Radcliff Deputy Fire Marshal Tommy Crane. 

Crane says people often take a dying battery out and fail to replace it, but when a smoke alarm sounds you typically only have two minutes to get to safety, so take the time to make sure the smoke detector is in working order. In addition to checking the batteries, check on the smoke alarm itself.

“Change them out every 10 years, so every 10 years change those smoke alarms out,” Crane said. “The effectiveness goes down through the years. The other thing is there’s new technology. A smoke alarm that was manufactured 20 years ago has a different sound than the newer smoke alarms, so the newer smoke alarms have a standard they have to meet.”

Make sure you have enough smoke alarms to cover the entire home.

“Install smoke alarms in every bedroom,” Crane said. “Install them outside of each sleeping area, and also install them on every level, including areas like your basement, even if it’s an area that’s not occupied. A lot of people, their basement has their furnace, maybe their washer, their dryer, their water heater. Those are things to consider because those things have the potential for fire.”

Visit the National Fire Prevention Association on the web to learn more about Fire Prevention Month.

Soup dinner benefiting Breckinridge County man Friday night

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Angel Carman says she has known Breckinridge County’s Braxton Criss’s grandparents Ruth and Gary Brown for years, and she says Braxton is the most cheerful and humble 18-year-old she has ever met.

“I go to the grocery store once or twice a week and there was not a time that I would go in there  when he was working that we didn’t carry on a conversation,” Carman said. “He would ask me how I was and it’s always ‘ma’am.’ He’s so polite, and he always asks about my grandson. Braxton’s just a wonderful, wonderful young man. He’s so strong in his faith and you just don’t see that nowadays. Not many 18-year-old boys are like Braxton.”

Criss was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, and to help Criss and his family cover medical and daily expenses Carman helped organize a soup dinner fundraiser which will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Hardinsburg Elementary School cafeteria.

“We’re going to have a chili and soup supper benefit fundraiser for Braxton,” Carman said. “We’ll offer vegetable soup, and we’ll not have any meat in it because there’s so many people who have Alpha Gal now. We’ll also have chili. We’ll have a choice of hot dog, grilled cheese, and peanut butter sandwiches. Coke or water. Adults are $8. Children are going to be $5. We’re also having a silent cake auction. As of right now, I think I’ve got about 18 cakes donated.”

All proceeds benefit Criss. All are welcome to attend.

“Dine in, carry out, and we’re also going to do deliveries within like five or six miles,” Carman said. “The number for deliveries is 270-668-79060, and I think we’re going to start delivering maybe after 5. We are going to be able to take debit credit cards or cash.”

Hardinsburg Elementary School is located at 1340 East U.S. 60 in Hardinsburg.

ECTC kicks off Thanksgiving Meal Drive Monday

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Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and Family Scholar House will begin collecting food for their annual Thanksgiving Meal Drive Monday.

“Everyone deserves to have a great Thanksgiving, and that includes the students at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College who may be working hard in their classes, maybe they are already in the early stages of their career and also trying to raise families, and sometimes folks just need a little assistance to get that Thanksgiving meal on the table,” said ECTC Director of Marketing and Public Affairs Sarah Berkshire. 

Berkshire said community members looking to support the college’s students have a great opportunity to do so.

“We know there are so many people out there who want to help students in that situation, and so we’ve got a lot of great partners lined up to serve as drop off sites for the Thanksgiving Meal Drive, and our goal this year is to make sure that we can serve at least 100 students,” Berkshire said.

The drive runs from October 14 through November 15.

“They can purchase and drop off a whole or partial meal,” Berkshire said. “There are two locations on our campus in Elizabethtown, and then there are about seven or eight other locations throughout the community. All of those, as well as all of the items that are needed, are listed on our website, and for those who maybe don’t have time to shop and drop off, they can make a monetary donation.”

Visit ECTC’s website or contact Chrissie Angell to learn more about ways to support the college’s students.

Hodgenville Police Department warns of possibly laced drugs

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The Hodgenville Police Department is warning residents of additional dangers with drug use. 

The HPD says on October 9 officers located two individuals in separate incidents that were passed out behind the wheel of vehicles, one at an intersection in the city and the other at a local recreational area. The police say both suspects are suspected to have taken a stimulant-type drug.

The police noted that stimulant drugs typically do not result in the user passing out as was seen in these cases. Passed out drivers who have taken drugs usually have used narcotics such as heroin or fentanyl.

These cases have led the police to believe that drugs being distributed in the area have been laced with narcotics such as fentanyl. While the HPD has not verified this to be the case, they are putting out an additional warning to the public to prepare for such reactions.

The HPD says Narcan, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, is available for free from the Lincoln Trail District Health Department as well as at the LaRue County Detention Center. Contact the HPD if you or a loved one is seeking resources for addiction treatment.

Three injured in U.S. 62 crash

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The Elizabethtown Police Department responded to a serious traffic accident in E-Town Wednesday.

“Shortly before five o’clock Wednesday evening, we responded to a motor vehicle collision in the area of the U.S. 31W bypass and U.S. 62,” said EPD Public Information Officer Chris Denham. “Our investigation revealed that a red Chevy truck driven by an adult female was traveling eastbound on U.S. 62 in an attempt to turn under the ramp to the southbound bypass. The truck crossed into the path of a westbound Chevy passenger car, resulting in a collision.”

Both of the occupants of the passenger car sustained serious injuries and were transported from the scene. The driver of the truck was also transported for medical care.

The EPD says no criminal charges are expected as a result of the crash.

Judge issues order to withhold Steven Lawson police interviews

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The Nelson Circuit Court affirmed that Steven Lawson’s police interviews will not be included in his trial.

Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III issued an order Wednesday excluding Lawson’s interviews with investigators from June 8, June 14, August 22, September 12, and November 21, 2023. Judge Simms ordered Lawson to decide whether or not to waive his right to withhold the interviews in July, and Lawson’s defense told Simms during a pre-trial conference on October 4 he would not be waiving those rights.

Judge Simms is expected to rule soon on the prosecution’s motion to merge the trials of Lawson, Joseph Lawson, and Brooks Houck into one trial. The next pre-trial conference in the case is scheduled for October 25.

Kentucky economic development secretary has high praise for Hardin County manufacturing

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Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development Secretary Jeff Noel says collaboration and strong leadership has helped Kentucky become a leader in the automotive industry, and the commonwealth needs to fight to stay at the top.

“Whichever way the world goes on in automotive, we have to win, and I’m not politically espoused on whether it’s EV, hydrogen, electric, it doesn’t matter to me,” Noel said. “All I know is if there’s going to be a different composite of what it takes to propel automotive, we have got to make sure that we are winning in that space.”

Noel was the featured speaker during the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce’s October luncheon Wednesday, the theme for which was Manufacturing Month. Noel said about 12.6 percent of Kentucky jobs are tied to manufacturing, so Kentucky must be ready to handle challenges.

“The private sector will find solutions,” Noel said. “Those solutions can be closings. Those solutions can be changing the whole floor mixture. We have to make sure as a state we’re leading in the whole manufacturing renaissance, because we have way too much to lose if we don’t.”

Noel had high praise for the leadership, education opportunities, and collaboration in Hardin County that has made the area not only a hub for growth but an example for the rest of the state to follow.

“You all are a regional hub that when we went to Europe, went to Asia, people want to know about Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky,” Noel said. “Not only are you on the map, people are talking about ‘why there?,’ ‘what’s going on there?,’ and it allows us to actually talk about other parts of the state, and we can talk about the amazing things that are happening in Hardin County.”

Noel said more information on the state’s economic plans can be found on the Cabinet for Economic Development’s website.

E-Town Christmas Christmas in the Park poster contest accepting entries

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It may be Spooky Season, but the City of Elizabethtown is also inviting area elementary students to help the city spread holiday cheer. 

The city’s Christmas in the Park Committee is once again sponsoring the Christmas in the Park Poster Contest, which is open to children in grades kindergarten through fifth.

Participants will make a poster displaying their favorite holiday scene using their own artwork on a 22 inch by 28 inch poster board. Children are encouraged to make their displays bright and colorful, and note that glitter is not permitted. Any entry that includes glitter will be disqualified.

One winner will be selected for each grade level. Each winner will receive a $50 gift card and will be invited with their parents to be recognized at an Elizabethtown City Council meeting. The winning artwork will be displayed at sponsoring banks during the holiday season.

Posters must be dropped off with a completed registration form at Elizabethtown City Hall by 4 p.m. on Friday, November 1. Find the registration form, and more information on the contest, at etownevents.com.