Commander Joe Hare addresses Walmart Veterans Breakfast 2013-11-11 - 411 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. VFW Post Commander Joe Hare gave the welcome to the Columbia Walmart Supercenter Veterans Program this morning, Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2013. The breakfast had an unusually large crowd this year. Also on the speakers stand are Andy Watts, Walmart Assistant Store Manager; Drew Mitchell, Walmart Store Manager; Audrey Jones, Assistant Manager; and, far right the main speaker, former Kentucky State Senator Vernie McGaha. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Veterans Day 2013-11-11 - Downtown, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener . Veterans Day is being observed by two Downtown Restaurants today. Cafe on the Square, sign above is closed, as is TaP's Diner. It's a Federal, State, and County holiday, so government offices are closed, in general. There won't be any election filings today. And, of course, the Post Office is closed. Schools, on the other hand, are in session. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Aerial view focusing on Adair County Primary School 2013-11-11 - Adair County School Campus, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Adair County Primary Center, foreground, with its sweeping Col. Casey Drive frontage is in the foreground, emphasized with its fresher, blacker line, is for a short time, the newest facility on the transforming Adair County School Campus. Col. Casey Drive stretches from the Adair Veterans Memorial Highway (which makes a grand bend around the school), to the campus meridian, Indian Drive, where, at Adair County High School the soon to be newest facility The Adair County ATC/Career Readiness Center Addition is projected to open in August 2014. The photo was taken Sunday, November 10, 2013. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Veterans Day 2013 - A Glorious Sunrise 2013-11-11 - Greater Gadberry, KY - Photo by Charles Marshburn. What a beautiful sunrise on this special day. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Existing Grant-Baker Agriculture Facility 2013-11-11 - ACHS, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The entrance to the Grant-Baker Agricultural Facility. It's not so well known as it should be. The Ag Department at Adair County High School, hidden away from the meridian throughfare - Indian Drive - on the Adair Schools Campus, is not a household work - perhaps not even in farm homes. The addition of the Adair County ATC/Career Readiness Center Addition should change that. Grant-Baker is named for two iconic Adair County Educators, Norman Grant and Sammy Baker. While the addition is not a part of the Agriculture Department, it does provide courses formerly offered only or mostly to FFA students and will free time formerly allocated to welding for other Ag subjects. Two new ATC Center faculty members' salaries will be paid for by the Lake Cumberland Area Technial Center, as will administrative services of Principal Jeff Adams. "Everyone is coming out a winner with the new satellite vocational center," Superintendent Alan W. Reed said. The addition will be built in an area beside the exhaust ventilator domes, left in the photo. "In the future," Supt. Reed said, "we'll continue to take steps to give our Agricultural Facilities entrances the prominence they deserves, with improved signage and landscaping - and other aesthetic touches." Those touches are being added to the campus already, as signage is upgraded at a pace the budget allows. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Layout of new addition to school 2013-11-11 - ACHS, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia KY - Photo photo of architect drawing. The encircled portion of the drawing shows the Adair County ATC/areer Readiness Center Addition. floor plan to be added onto the Grant-Baker Agriculture Facility at Adair County High School. It will include one new entrance to the addition through a vestibule entering into a new classroom, with access to the large welding area equipped with $298,024 equipment including band saw, drill press, drop saw, pedestal grinder, a Harris straightline cutting machine, metal shear, Fischer Bend Jig, and Table. While it is referred to as a welding addition, Columbia metals fabrication CEO Anthony Janes noted that the skills taught are more comprehensive than just TIG and MIG Welding; students can acquire complete fabrication management skills - craftsmanship very much needed in many of Adair County's existing industries - his own Fabco, Jim Hadley's Majestic Yachts, and Rob and Ken Wilkerson's Assisted Transportation Systems (ATS). Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Where new satellite campus will go 2013-11-10 - ACHS, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Superintendent Alan W. Reed, above points to the general areas of the new welding center to be built as an addition to the Agriculture Department Building at ACHS. The area he's pointing to on the left will be a welding facility with $298,024 of the latest TIG and MIG welding equipment and metal fabricating machines. The area on the right will be a classroom facility. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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