Scenic Adair County - pumpkins in the creek 2022-10-04 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Someone with the holiday spirit placed pumpkins in the Sam Coffey Hole making ready for fall and Halloween. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Continued upgrades to Columbian Theater 2022-10-04 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Columbian Theater is NOT one of the businesses that have applied for the ARPA fund grant by the City of Columbia yet work continues by the Adair County School Board to restore and reopen the building. The letters were painted last week as work to turn on the historic lights for Downtown Days is completed. Thirteen businesses have been approved in the first round of funding in the ARPA grant projects. Approved applicants include plans to do: windows/doors for energy efficiency, painting, awning, and other exterior items. There can be no neon colors used in the building(s) on the square. You are required to complete within six months (or, can request an extension). The Columbia City Council allocated a portion of the ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding to a grant program to be utilized by local small businesses. Enthusiasm for the improvements has brought the business community together and jobs have been created for painters and craftspersons. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Morning crew at Bellas having to relocate for breakfast 2022-10-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Mike Watson. The morning crew, in part, patrons of SugarBella's restaurant breakfast team, said goodbye to their top of Jamestown Hill location at the end of September as it was the last day for the restaurant to be open. They will scatter and look for a new location to meet and eat and get updates on the news of the day. From left are: Mike Watson, Dick Scholl, Billy Pickett, "Bella", Richard Phelps, Larry Legg, Joe Lynn Barbee, John Ballou, and Darrell Harris. A couple missed the photo, but were there is spirit, including Ronnie Holt. If anyone knows of another breakfast meeting location that serves homemade biscuits, gravy, bacon, sausage, eggs and hot coffee, please click ‘contact’ below and share the news - we’ll report. Meanwhile, new Columbia Magazine’s newest “What’s Cooking” sponsor, Highway 206 Foodmart, (formerly Patty’s Liberty Road location) opens at 5:30amCT and is cooking breakfast and lunch six days a week. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Postcards from LWC: Riyanuddin Syed 2022-10-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson College. By Landon Simmons Meet Riyanuddin Syed! Riyanuddin comes from India, and found that the most difficult part of moving to the U.S. was leaving his family behind. In spite of this, Riyanuddin found that getting his Master of Science and Technology Management at Lindsey Wilson was worth the change. "LWC provides student centric courses," Riyanuddin says, also noting that the degree offers "a wide range of subjects that I can gain knowledge in-depth" which will help boost his career. A favorite tradition from his home is Eid-ul-Fitr (Ramadan Mubarak), at which Riyanuddin loves to interact with others and "eat a variety of cuisines." A fun fact about Riyanuddin is that he doesn't take pictures on his phone, opting to live in the moment and to "keep every memory in [his] heart." We're so glad to have Riyanuddin as a part of our Blue Raider family! Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Have you seen Butters? 2022-10-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Shannon Sexton. Shannon writes, "Butters the cat decided to join us for church on Sunday and hitched a ride in the engine of my daughter's car. She made her getaway in the parking lot of 3Trees Church in the Pinewood Shopping Center. We've made multiple trips to look for her and have alerted the local businesses in the shopping center. If anyone happens upon Butters in Pinewood or the nearby residential areas, please call Bruce at Adair Co. Kwik Lube (270-380-1300) so we can wrangle her up and get her back home. She is slightly larger than in the photo." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

RIDES: Comparing electric and regular Ford 150 trucks 2022-10-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Electrifying American vehicles is still in its infancy but it's growing by leaps and bounds. Dan Franklin, at left, and his son Nathaniel, talked about electric vehicles - including the two F150 fully electric trucks on the lot in Columbia - with Tom Waggener who shares his EV experiences over the past five years in the article linked to this picture. For the record, Moms Barbara Franklin and I are still hanging with our gas powered vehicles, and just beginning to consider hybrids, maybe, but we're a long way from the idea of a fully electric vehicle. We do trust our family, however, as Dan, Nathaniel and Tom agree that a sea change is happening in the auto industry and our world might as well get used to EVs for our future driving. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Great Blue Heron 2022-10-04 - Central Kentucky - Photo by Pen. A closeup view of a Great Blue Heron. According to audubon.org, the Great Blue's diet is "Highly variable and adaptable. Eats mostly fish, but also frogs, salamanders, turtles, snakes, insects, rodents, birds. Has been seen stalking voles and gophers in fields, capturing rails at edge of marsh, eating many species of small waterbirds." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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