Surprise lilies in full bloom 2018-07-30 - Bomar Heights Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. These pretty pink Surprise Lilies are blooming beautifully all around town. I first spotted them when an aunt grew them in Metcalfe County in the 1960s and always think of her when I am "surprised by them." Credit goes to Hunter Durham who knew their official name. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

City gets sidewalk upgrade in CAUD Burkesville Street project 2018-07-30 - 800 Block of Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. A stretch of sidewalk originally poured during the administration of Mayor Coy Downey was totally replaced from from this point to about halfway to Bomar Heights at no cost to the city. The old sidewalk had to be broken up during construction of the Burkesville Street Phase of Columbia/Adair County Utility District's Downtown Project, and CAUD is bearing the cost for this benefit, Mayor Curtis Hardwick said. When the project was first designed it was thought that sidewalks from Fortune & Burkesville to Burkesville and Lancaster, on one side or the other, would be replaced, but change orders to save the utility construction costs on the new waterlines utilized a series of directional bores to avoid sidewalk destruction - meant all new sidewalks paid for by the utilities did not materialize. But in the reconstruction it was discovered that the original sidewalks poured by Mayor Downey's administration were, in fact, four-feet wide. Overgrowth had made the appear half that until the soil and turf was removed. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Election Nov 2018 - Mayor Curtis Hardwick files for 5th term 2018-07-30 - Office of Adair County Clerk, Ste 3, Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Columbia Mayor Curtis filed papers in his candidacy for re-election. The never-before-defeated-as-a-Columbia Mayoral candidate - is seeking his 5th term. Photo taken just past 1pmCT, Monday, July 30, 2018. All the prior elections were three-way races. So far he is the second mayoral candidate to file. Council member Pam Hoots, a former Mayor has already filed. 2014 write-in candidate Dr. Ben Arnold has indicated he will run, as well. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Jade Waggener 2018 Miss Pre-Teen Cumberland County Fair 2018-07-30 - Burkesville, KY - Photo from her proud dad Doug Waggener\\\'s family collection. Congratulations are rolling in from family and friends to Jade Waggener of Columbia, KY who has been chosen the 2018 Miss Pre-Teen Cumberland County KY Fair! Ten year old Jade is about to enter sixth grade at Adair County Middle School. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflowers & Butterflies of KY - Drawing nectar - Sat 27 Jul 2018 2018-07-30 - Adair County byway - Photo by Ed Waggener. Haven't seen as many roadside butterflies this year, nor their wayside cafes, milkweed as usual. This butterfly on milkweed was spotted along an Adair County byway. A welcome sight. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

WKU announces record fiscal year in philanthropy - 2017-18 2018-07-30 - Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY - Photo from Western Kentucky University. WKU surpassed its previous record of private support in a fiscal year with a new high of $45 million in private support in 2017-2018.This total includes gifts from more than 14,000 donors from all 50 states and eight countries who made more than 31,000 individual gifts. Donors direct how their philanthropy is allocated, and 786 different initiatives received support that benefited students, faculty and staff, according to John Paul Blair, Interim Vice President for Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement. - WKU Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Meal, eccentric pragmatic locavore style 2018-07-30 - Quaint peasant kitchen, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Actually, a breakfast for supper. The star the plate may be the obvious local farmers markets fresh tomatoes or slices of sweet-as-apples onion, or the back porch basil hand raised from plant from FM2, or the farm fresh eggs. But it's not doctrinaire local. Wasn't practical to get the sweet pickled ginger, mushrooms (though it ought to be), or the horse radish mayo, or frozen sweet peas and dry onion for the omelet, but it worked for a quick, very tasty meal, made in good conscience as a practicing, if not dogmatic locavore. Shouldn't get anyone shunned or churched. It was considered healthy, and we may be able to give a calorie reckoning, soon.- EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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