Sun setting on new forest growth 2018-04-09 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This art work is provided by Mother Nature, looking through a too-close camera lens that gave the soft edges. The picture is of the forest floor looking toward the setting sun, 9 April 2018. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

ACMS students work on project 'Growing a Garden of Art' 2018-04-09 - ACMS - Adair County Middle School - 322 Gen John Adair Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Candice Flatt, Gifted and Talented Teacher, ACHS. The VSA Kentucky Arts Inclusion Project helps fund artists and supplies for projects that teach students about art they've not been exposed to. The project uses stylized art to paint a mural on the Gifted and Talented Bus Ceiling. Some of the participating students in these pictures include Maison Karnes, Jacob Fugate, Chistian Marcial-Davis, Mrs. Pat Ritter -- Artist, Lucas Powell, Ashton Flatt, and Jalissa Clements. The project was conducted at Adair County Middle School from March 26-March 30, 2018. -- CF Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CAUD Wastewater plant gets 1,920 s.f. storage facility 2018-04-09 - CAUD Wastewater Treatment Facility Campus - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. With advice and guidance from Mike Newton, a CAUD Commissioner and Director of Plant Operations at Lindsey Wilson College, a 1,920 s.f. equipment storage facility was built on at the CAUD Wasterwater Treatment Facility off Campbellsville Street on the town side of the Russell Creek Bridge. The Building is 120' long and 16 feet deep, and utilized a poured concrete retaining wall to achieve an approximately $3.00 per s.f cost. That was for materials. The construction was an inhouse job for the utility. In the future, there may be a need for doors and enclosures, but, for now, equipment is out of the elements. - EW Comments Ralph Roy Waggener - Mike Newton knows how to save money for utility Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CHS winning students at state STLP competition 2018-04-09 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Campbellsville High School students brought home several top awards from the state Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) competition on Thursday, March 29. From left, front, are sophomore Conner Riley, Campbellsville Middle School sixth-grader Thomas Lucas, junior Ben Arachi, sophomore Zoe McAninch, freshman Zachary Shaw, senior Christian Berry, sixth-grader Nathan McFarland and sophomore Grant Rinehart. Back, junior Celeste Hassman, sophomore Tristin Lopez, sixth-grader Dalton Morris, seventh-grader Ezekiel Bell, sophomore David Silva, junior Brandon Greer, freshman Colin Harris, sixth-grader Jacob Releford, juniors Hayley Stapleton and Elizabeth Sullivan, senior Austin Fitzgerald and juniors Annie Lee and Randy Harris. -- CM Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wishing you an Audrey-style violet week ahead 2018-04-09 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. These sweet violets remind me of my favorite, lovely, patient, kind mother-in-law Audrey Lee Chelf Waggener, who grew varying colors of violets year-round at her Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY home. As long as I knew her, her devotion to her family, the Columbia Baptist Church and her violets were constant. Her daughter Fay McKinley and granddaughter Mitzi Bault inherited her love of them and continue the family tradition. I was sorry to have come into the family too late to have known Mrs. Waggener's husband, my husband Ed's father, E.P. He sounds like someone I'd have enjoyed debating, especially the importance of growing more honeysuckle while he was known to have defended the necessity of chopping every sprig of it from their fencerows. Even when she'd remember how he vexed her at times, Mrs. Waggener's love of him would shine through when she'd recall scolding him and say something to me like, "how I'd love for him to walk in that door again and drape his jacket over one chair, his tie over another, kick off his shoes under another, socks tossed..." etc., all for her to pick up and clean and have ready for him to go back out to work the next morning. I hope he honored her for being the saint I thought she was. -- Linda Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

5K run/walk at LWC will honor their beloved Douglas Thiery 2018-04-09 - Photo from family collection. Columbia's 30-year nurse practitioner Diane Thiery, right, gives all the credit for keeping her large family going to her "loving, deep hearted husband, Doug", who passed away last October. Their children and families have organized a 5K walk/run at Lindsey Wilson College on April 28, 2018 which will help begin to fund a scholarship in his memory. Click 'read more' below for details on participating to help them honor their beloved Douglas Arnold Thiery. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Burkesville Street Phase - Bore Pit at Burkesville & Taylor Streets 2018-04-09 - Burkesville Street at Taylor Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Burkesville Street Phase of the Downtown Project with Kentucky's Dream Team of Contractor & Engineers, Stotts Construction, Inc. and David Bowles/Monarch Engineering is already to Taylor Street laying pipe, and is now within easy site of the contract's original goal, to and out Lancaster Street. Above, the Bore Pit for a directional bore under Burkesville Street is in place for work expected to start Monday morning. So far, CAUD General Manager reported at the Thursday, April 5, 2018 special meeting of the utility's Board of Commissioners, the work has gone extremely well, despite bad winter weather and a run of rock the utility hand not anticipated. The work, a show of the value of what experience, competence, familiarity with the terrain, and integrity can accomplish, has been done with minimum interference with traffic patterns, and public safety, that many can't appreciate what the local firm and the long time engineering association has done. - ED WAGGENER Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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