VFW Commander Joe Hare 2017-08-05 - Adair County Fairgound Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). At this point on monument moving day, Thursday, August 2, 2017, all was going - not as planned; plans changed with new discoveries about the monument - smoothly - so smoothly he was giving instruction to his personal photographer on pictures to take. - EW. Clicking Read More accesses the "Moving the Monument" album. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CU awards certificates for Intensive English Learning 2017-08-05 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Joshua Williams. IELP: Intensive English Learning Program (IELP) certificates were awarded to five South Korean students at Campbellsville University. From left are: Front row -- Chaeyeon Kim; So Youn Min; Seonwoo You; Hye Su Cho; Jinseo Baek; Raquel Cunha, secretary for ESL; Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic affairs; and Dr. H. Keith Spears, vice president for communication and assistant to the president. Back row -- Dr. Mego Haralu, director of international education; Andrea Giordano, executive director for ESL; Vicky Campbell, adjunct ESL instructor; Tim Hooker, ESL programs director; and Bobby Parrish, adjunct ESL instructor. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Beijing Information Management Schools certificates given out 2017-08-05 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Joshua Williams. BIMS: Fifteen Beijing Information Management Schools (BIMS) certificates were awarded to students from China during the summer ESL completion ceremony at Campbellsville University. From left are: Front row -- Dr. H. Keith Spears, vice president for communication and assistant to the president; Wenyi Jin; Dr. Kwang Suh, director of Asian studies and the Intensive English Learning Program; Yingsha Zhu; Bowen Song; Yurui Yang; Vicky Campbell, adjunct ESL instructor; Sihan Zhou; Raquel Cunha, secretary for ESL; Kassie Little, ESL summer program activities coordinator; Jinjing Yang, BIMS summer chaperone; Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Edwina Rowell, adjunct ESL instructor. Middle row -- Zexuan Fan; Kun Wei; Bobby Parrish, adjunct ESL instructor; Dr. Mego Haralu, director of international education; Ruiwen Yao; Zhenmin Li; Qiaochu Gai; Yulong Chen; and Nuohannan Chen. Back row -- Yuxi Lin; Dayuan Chen; Huang Jianxiang; Andrea Giordano, executive director for ESL; Joshua Detherage, instructor in ESL; and Tim Hooker, ESL programs director. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair County Bibles, Bible Storybooks, in Uganda 2017-08-05 - Rugarama, Uganda - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, retired district forester, Kentucky Division of Forestry, President of Homeplace on Green River. Brother Sam Tindimwebwa, the tallest, above, is passing out more Adair County Bibles in Rugarama, Uganda. The Bibles were donated by J.O.Y. Ministries and about half were mailed with donated funds from 3trees Church, Where He Leads Me Ministry, and individuals. I have many more Bibles and Bible Storybooks to mail. If you feel an unction to help, make your check to: Where He Leads Me Ministry, c/o Billy Joe Fudge, 145 Keen Drive, Columbia KY 42728. By the way, love the old brick church. Those windows are awesome. - Billy Joe Fudge Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Red Lick UMC new chairs, boxes for Operation Christmas Child 2017-08-05 - Red Lick United Methodist Church, 3976 Mosby Ridge Road, Edmonton, KY - Photo by Bill Lagermann. Chris Mullins, Chris Lagermann, and Carol Mullins display the new plastic boxes that Red Lick United Methodist Church will pack with gifts for Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child in November. The 120 boxes were paid for through a "Live Generously Action Team" program through Thrivent Financial. They also show six boxes containing 24 new chairs that were purchased through the Thrivent Financial Direct Choice program. The congregation is grateful to Thrivent and Representative Raeann Kusch for their support and will be sitting pretty on the new chairs! - Chris Lagermann Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

ESL students celebrate 2017 completion at CU 2017-08-04 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Joshua Williams. ESL: Those receiving English as a Second Language certificates from Campbellsville University are, from left, fourth and fifth persons, Yurui Yang of China and Hitomi Kosuke of Japan. Making the presentations were from left: Andrea Giordano, executive director for ESL; Dr. Mego Haralu, director of international education; Dr. Kwang Suh, director of Asian studies and the Intensive English Learning Program; Yang and Kosuke; Tim Hooker, ESL programs director; Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic affairs; Raquel Cunha, secretary for ESL, and Dr. H. Keith Spears, vice president for communication and assistant to the president. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Garry Coomer, Lindsey Wilson College icon 2017-08-04 - Fairground & Young Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). A towering figure at Lindsey Wilson College, Garry Coomer, watched the removal work on the VFW War Memorial monument Thursday, August 3, 2017. In November of 2017, Mr. Coomer will have been at Lindsey Wilson College for 47 years. No one else is close to his length of service in the history of the school. Few people in Columbia have had so many honors: A Campus Street is named for him. His name is on plaques across the campus, including one in the new VFW Hall. In all likelihood, he'll be around for his half-century mark at the school, where he is a very popular man on campus. He works in one of Columbia's biggest employers, Plant Operations at Lindsey Wilson College, where some 80 individuals work. Mike Newton is the Director of the Department, and works closely with Coomer. - CM. Clicking Read More accesses the photo album, "Moving the Monument to the new VFW headquarters." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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