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.

Come to Columbia - Where all our concrete swans are gussied up 2018-07-30 - Fountain Plaza - One Hundred Quadrant, Public Square, Down Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. When you Come to Columbia on business, for sightseeing, to solve the mystery of where the Coffey Building was located, or for culture & enlightenment, a two-tenths mile promenade around the Public Square has all manner of delights. In Red Geranium season, the concrete swans - 'Swawns' the late Dr. Steve Aaron used to call them - are gussied up with plantings by the Adair County Garden Club at this time. Remember to work in a visit to Downtown when you come to the great cultural event coming one week from today - when Darlene Campbell lectures on DNA at the monthly Adair County Genealogical Society meeting at the Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY, at organizations 5pmCT/6pmET, August 6, 2018 meeting. Downtown Columbia is a photographer's dream - don't forget to bring your camera, and don't be surprised if you spot a famous picture taker or two as you stroll. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Columbia Church of the Nazarene helps Paz-Holley Project 2018-07-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Columbia's Church of the Nazarene, 1200 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY, welcomed Robin Lewis, president of J.O.Y. Ministries and public relations volunteer for the Paz-Holley Project to their Sunday morning, July 29, 2018 service. She is shown here on arrival beside the Adair County EMS vehicle from her work. She was able to share details of the fundraising project to help a family of 12 be able to have a right-size home by Thanksgiving. She thanked the church for their kindness and help and said it was great visiting with her friends and family at the church. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Student's view from above Outram, New Zealand 2018-07-30 - New Zealand - Photo by Emma Bromley. Emma Bromley of CT, granddaughter of the late Dr. Phil Aaron of Columbia, KY, is spending the semester in New Zealand studying at the University of Otago. Their semester goes from July to November. This photo is looking out over picturesque Outram, New Zealand. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Historic Adair County Courthouse, Sunday, July 29, 2018 2018-07-29 - Historic Adair County Courthouse, 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Seen over the Fountain Plaza picnic patio canopy, under the Acapulco awning, Sunday afternoon, July 29, 2018, the clocktower on the Historic Adair County Courthouse was majestic against blue skies and lazy pillow clouds. It's a magnet for photographers far and wide, at least two others at the time. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Changing skyline of New Columbia - Pinewood, Holladay Place 2018-07-29 - From Edmonton Road/KY 80 - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The fast pace of construction on Pinewood Shopping Center's new Magic Market, left, foreground, new roadside signage at Cumberland Family Health, the recent completion of Lee's Famous Recipe fried chicken restaurant have changed the skyline in the area now known as New Columbia. The tower at right center is atop the Columbia Sleep Inn hotel, and fore right, one of the earlier retail outlets, Goodwill, on Dohoney Trace. - EW. Photo 29 Jul 2018, mid afternoon. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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