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- 0:01Speaker 1: We now turn to the Springfield Sun to bring you
- 0:03news from in and around Washington County. Your reader today
- 0:08is Linda Rice. We begin with the edition dated Wednesday,
- 0:12November twelfth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio e
- 0:16is a reading service intended for people who are blind
- 0:20or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
- 0:23printed material. The first articles entitled probation violation arrest leads
- 0:28to additional charges written by Jane Reid Klein. Douglas Bernard
- 0:33Bernie Lay of seventy of Springfield, was arrested on October
- 0:37thirty first, twenty twenty five, for violating the conditions of
- 0:41his probation in a twenty twenty one sexual misconduct case.
- 0:46In twenty twenty one, Lay was charged with twelve counts
- 0:49of the sexual assault of a child under the age
- 0:51of twelve and eight counts of sodomizing a child under
- 0:55the age of twelve in two separate grand jury indictments.
- 0:59Lay maintained his innocence through the court proceedings, but entered
- 1:03a guilty plea in August of twenty twenty two to
- 1:06one count of misdemeanors sexual misconduct and one count of
- 1:10wanton endangerment, for which he was sentenced to thirty days
- 1:14in the Marion County Detention Center and five years that
- 1:18was provaded for five years. Judge Samuel Spaulding accepted the
- 1:23plea agreement for Lay on Wednesday, September twenty first, twenty
- 1:27twenty two. It is in the best interest for this
- 1:30thing to be closed, said Judge Spalding in twenty twenty
- 1:33two before approving the agreement. Lay was indicted in March
- 1:38of twenty twenty one on twelve counts of first degree
- 1:41sexual abuse of a child under the age of twelve.
- 1:44The indictment identified two children by initials only to protect
- 1:49their identity. On November seventeenth, twenty twenty one, a grand
- 1:54jury handed down a separate indictment, charging Lay with eight
- 1:58counts of first degree astronomy of a child under twelve
- 2:01years of age. Both indictments alleged the incidents occurred between
- 2:06September one, twenty fifteen, and October twenty twenty. The second
- 2:11indictment did not indicate whether or not the additional charges
- 2:15involved the same children. Under the plea agreement, Lay was
- 2:19not to have contact with the children or their families
- 2:22because he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and not a felony.
- 2:26He did not have to register as a sex offender.
- 2:30The latest arrest came after Lay allegedly parked in front
- 2:33of the home of one of the victims and took
- 2:35pictures of her in the yard with her family on
- 2:38October fifteenth. He later came to the school on October
- 2:41thirtieth while the victim was at middle school basketball game.
- 2:46When asked to leave by school officials and the school
- 2:49resource officer, Leslie Wagner, he refused and became belligerate, argue
- 2:53with school officials and the yelling at the office and
- 2:56then yelling at the officer. An arrest warrant was shoot
- 3:00on October thirty first, charging Lay with two counts of
- 3:03felony probation violation, along with harassment, first degree, stalking, disorderly conduct,
- 3:10and contempt of courts. When serving the arrest warrant for Lay,
- 3:15Washington County Sheriff's deputies Tony Golden and Leslie Wagner found
- 3:20Lay at his home with his wife, daughter, and granddaughter.
- 3:23Upon entering the home, deputies detect a strong odor of marijuana.
- 3:28Deputies arrested Lay for the above charges and additional charges
- 3:32of possession of marijuana, endangering the welfare of a minor
- 3:36and misdemeanor probation violation. Ley appeared in District Court before
- 3:41Judge William M. Hall Junior on Monday in November three,
- 3:46where he pleaded not guilty. Bond was set at ten
- 3:49thousand dollars full cash, with no contact with the victim,
- 3:53her family, or Washington County Public Schools. A preteut trial
- 3:58hearing was scheduled for decay Umber One. Attorney Ted Lovett,
- 4:03who represented Lay in twenty twenty one twenty two, was
- 4:07listed as Lay's attorney for the current charges. The next
- 4:12article deputy taken to hospital after officer involved traffic accident
- 4:17written by Jane Reid Klein. Washington County Sheriff's Deputy John
- 4:22Spaulding was taken to Springview Hospital with neckpang following an
- 4:27accident on Saturday morning, November eight, twenty twenty five, at
- 4:32the intersection of Bloomfield Road and the Highway one fifty bypass.
- 4:37The Sheriff's office reports that Deputy Spalding was traveling east
- 4:41on Highway one fifty when a vehicle coming south on
- 4:44Bloomfield Road failed to stop at the stop sign. Spalding
- 4:48attempted to avoid a collision, but clipped the rear corner
- 4:52of the vehicle and went off the road and into
- 4:54an embankment. Spaulding was taken to Springview Hospital by Washington
- 4:59County EMS for evaluation and released with a neck brace,
- 5:03but reports he is okay. There were no injuries to
- 5:07occupants of the other vehicle, and that vehicle received minimal
- 5:10damage as it was driven away from the scene by
- 5:13the owner. The Sheriff's Department vehicles sustained substantial damage from
- 5:17the impact with the embankment. The Actegate accident was investigated
- 5:22by the Kentucky State Police since an officer was involved.
- 5:27Next article is Washington County Child Support Office ranked top
- 5:32ten in Kentucky for the fiscal year twenty twenty five. Springfield.
- 5:37The Washington County Child Support Office has earned recognition for excellence,
- 5:42finishing ninth overall out of one hundred and twenty counties
- 5:45in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the fiscal year twenty
- 5:49twenty five. This achievement reflects strong performance in areas such
- 5:53as collections, a rearage, payments, and case establishment. I want
- 5:59to expect a ex My heartfelt appreciation to Patricia Hamilton,
- 6:03who has served in the Washington County Child Support Office
- 6:06since nineteen ninety eight, as well as the assistant Washington
- 6:10County Attorney, Elizabeth Culter, said County Attorney Tim Ash, who
- 6:14was appointed to the position on January first, twenty twenty five.
- 6:19Patricia's decades of service in tireless work, as well as
- 6:22Elizabeth seeing these matters to completion in the courtroom, have
- 6:26been central to our success. I also wish to acknowledge
- 6:30my predecessor, Bill Robinson for laying the groundwork that helped
- 6:34make this accomplishment possible. We are also grateful grateful for
- 6:38the support of our local judiciary. District Judges Amy Anderson
- 6:43and Mike Hall, as well as Circuit judges Todd Todd
- 6:47Spaulding and Kaylan Reid, have consistently supported our efforts to
- 6:51enforce child support obligations with fairness and accountability, added Ash.
- 6:57Ash said Wednesday. Ash said wash Rington County's improved ranking
- 7:02is the result of a more focused and accountable approach
- 7:05to enforcement. We have taken a strong but fair stance
- 7:09by ensuring that individuals who consistently failed to make full
- 7:13child support payments, serve appropriate jail time. Ash explained, this
- 7:17sends a clear message that child support obligations are not
- 7:21optional and must be taken seriously. Our goal is to
- 7:26maintain this standard, and through the first two quarters of
- 7:29fiscal year twenty twenty six, we have done just that.
- 7:33Our numbers are up from last year across the board,
- 7:36and we are not going to let up. Ash said.
- 7:39At the heart of this effort is the County Attorney's
- 7:42office ongoing commitment to the children and families who rely
- 7:46on child support to meet their basic needs. We recognize
- 7:50that child support is more than just a legal obligation.
- 7:53It's about making sure children in our community are provided for.
- 7:58Ash added out of this milestone, but we're not done.
- 8:02Our office remains committed to continuing this positive trend and
- 8:07raising the bar even higher in the years to come.
- 8:12The next articles entitled Candidates files to beyond local ballot
- 8:16in twenty twenty six by Jane Reid Klein. It's that
- 8:20time again. Time to start thinking about the twenty twenty
- 8:24six elections, at least for the candidates. Wednesday, November November fifth,
- 8:30was the first that candidates could file to be on
- 8:32the ballots. All interested candidates have until early January to
- 8:36file to be on the ballot for the May primary.
- 8:40Those filing as of Friday, November seventh were County Judge
- 8:44Executive incumbent Tim Graves, Democrat, County Attorney incumbent Tim Ash, Republican,
- 8:52County Clerk incumbent Brett filltrow Berry Democrat, County Jailer incumbent
- 9:00Joe Mudd, Republican, Magistrate District four, Stan Kenny Harden, Republican
- 9:07Magistrate District sixth incumbent Philip Carrico, Democrat, and Sheriff incumbent
- 9:14Jerry Paxton, Democrat. Sheriff Joe Carpenter, Republican. The next articles
- 9:21entitled Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP
- 9:26Food Aid payments. The Supreme Court on Friday granted the
- 9:30Trump Administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order
- 9:35to fully fund SNAP food Aid payments am that the
- 9:39government's shut down, even though residents in some states already
- 9:43have received the funds. A judge had given the Republican
- 9:47administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental
- 9:51Nutrition Assistance Program, but the administration asked an appeals court
- 9:56to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more
- 9:59money than is available in a contingency fund and instead
- 10:03allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for
- 10:07the month. After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene,
- 10:12Supreme Court Justice cannot Kitanja Brown Jackson issued in order
- 10:17late Friday, pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments
- 10:22until the appeals Court rules on whether to issue a
- 10:24more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts. Her
- 10:31order will remain in place until forty eight hours after
- 10:34the appeals court rules, giving the administration time to return
- 10:37to the Supreme Court if the appeals Court refuses to
- 10:40step in. The food program serves about one in eight Americans,
- 10:46mostly with lower incomes. Officials in more than half a
- 10:49dozen states confirm that some SNAP recipients already were issued
- 10:54full November payments on Friday, but Jackson's order could prevent
- 10:59other states from initiating the payments. Trump's administration told the
- 11:03Supreme Court that the fast acting states were trying to
- 11:07seize what they could of the agency's finite set of
- 11:10remaining funds before any appeal could even be filed, and
- 11:14to the detriment of other states allotments. Once those billions
- 11:19are out the door, there is no ready mechanism for
- 11:22the government to recover those funds. Solicitor General d John
- 11:27Swyer wrote in the court filing. Many SNAP recipients face uncertainty.
- 11:33The court wrankling prolonged weeks of uncertainty for Americans with
- 11:37lower incomes. An individual can receive a monthly maximum food
- 11:42benefit of nearly three hundred dollars and a family up
- 11:45to four nearly a thousand dollars, although many received less
- 11:49than that under a formula that takes into consideration their income.
- 11:54For some SNAP participants, it remained unclear when they would
- 11:58receive their benefits. The legal battle over SNAP takes another
- 12:02twist because of the federal government shutdown. The Trump administration
- 12:07originally had said SNAP benefits would not be available in November. However,
- 12:13two judges ruled last week that the administration could not
- 12:16skip November's benefits entirely because of the shutdown. One of
- 12:21those judges was US District Judge John J. McConnell Jr.
- 12:26Who ordered the full payments Thursday. In both cases, the
- 12:30judges ordered the government to use one emergency reserve fund
- 12:33containing more than four point six billion dollars to pay
- 12:37for SNAP for November, but gave it leeway to tap
- 12:40other money to make the full payments, which cost between
- 12:44eight point five billion and nine billion dollars each month.
- 12:49Last Monday, the administration said it would not use additional money,
- 12:53saying it was up to Congress to appropriate the funds
- 12:55for the program and that the other money was needed
- 12:58to shore up other old hunger programs. Thursday's federal court
- 13:03order rejected the Trump administration's decision to cover only sixty
- 13:07five percent of the maximum monthly benefit, a decision that
- 13:11could have left some recipients getting nothing for this month.
- 13:15In its court filing's Friday, Trump's administration contended that the
- 13:19judge usurped both the legislative and executive authority in ordering
- 13:24SNAP benefits to be fully funded. This unprecedented injunction makes
- 13:29a mockery of the separation of powers, Sawyer told the
- 13:33Supreme Court. Moving along to the next article, entitled hands
- 13:38free driving legislation proposed for twenty twenty six from Frankfort,
- 13:44Kentucky may join its neighbors next year, in implementing hands
- 13:48free driving legislation. Senator Jimmy Higden, a Republican from Lebanon,
- 13:54told the Interim Joint Committee on Transportation on Tuesday he
- 13:57plans to file South Carolina's version of the hands free
- 14:01driving bill in twenty twenty six. Higden also serves as
- 14:05co chair of the committee. This is not the first
- 14:08time Higden has sponsored this type of legislation. The proposed
- 14:13legislation would close current loopholes by requiring hands free technology
- 14:18for cell phones be used while driving, Higden said, adding
- 14:22what he believes this version would address some concerns other
- 14:26lawmakers had about previous drafts of the bill. Distraction free
- 14:30driving advocate Elsa Burns testified in favor of the legislation
- 14:35alongside Higdon. In twenty twenty two, Burns's daughter, Kimberly, was
- 14:40killed when a distracted driver struck her vehicle in Louisville.
- 14:44She was thirteen days away from turning two. Burns said
- 14:48their vehicle was at a complete stop in a construction
- 14:51zone and Kimberay was properly restrained in her car seat
- 14:55when the collision happened. She said. The driver of the
- 14:58other vehicle admitted he distracted will never know her full
- 15:02potential because of the reckless driver who, by the way,
- 15:06was not prosecuted only because he said he wasn't paying attention.
- 15:11Burns said he had no drugs in a system he
- 15:14had no alcohol. Higden told the committee that around twenty
- 15:18percent of Kentucky's eight hundred and fourteen vehicle collision fatalities
- 15:23in twenty twenty three were caused by distracted driving. Under
- 15:28Bill Request two thirty eight, or the Phone Down Kentucky Act,
- 15:33drivers would be prohibited from using any part of their
- 15:35body to use a mobile electronic device while driving. Higden
- 15:41said the legislation defines a mobile electronic device as a
- 15:45cell phone, portbo computer, GPS, electronic gaming system, or any
- 15:50device used to communicate, display, or record digital content. The
- 15:55bill includes exceptions for certain radio communication devices and if
- 15:59a driver needs to report an emergency, accident or safety hazard.
- 16:04Kentucky remains to be one of the few states without
- 16:07a comprehensive handheld phone ban, despite rising fatalities. Higdon said
- 16:13VR two thirty eight would require violators to pay a
- 16:16one hundred dollars fine. Collective finds would be distributed to
- 16:20the Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund, the Kentucky Trauma Care
- 16:23System Fund, and the Veterans Program Trust Fund. Higden said.
- 16:28He told the committee he believes reducing fatalities as a
- 16:31winnable battle. We can with this piece of legislation, Higdon added.
- 16:37Senator Brandon Smith, reat Republican from Hazard, said he is
- 16:40happy to lend his support to Higden's legislation, but would
- 16:44like to see a community service requirement added to the
- 16:47penalty provision. I do think that sometimes people make mistakes,
- 16:52but to make them go through and have some part
- 16:54of this where they have to spend some time either
- 16:57working on cases or seeing the results of their actions,
- 17:00maybe the first time we catch somebody, we help them
- 17:03never do this again. Smith said. Representative Anne Gay Dunworth,
- 17:08Democrat from Lexington, said she also supports the legislation, but
- 17:12has concerns about officer being able to catch a violator
- 17:17in the act. I would encourage other opportunities for enforcement,
- 17:20she said. Higdon said he believes the legislative process we
- 17:24would create an opportunity for Dunworth to suggest that change.
- 17:28The Kentucky General Assembly cannot take action on new legislation
- 17:33until the twenty twenty sixth. The legislation session begins on
- 17:37January sixth. Will now turn to the opinion section. The
- 17:41first articles entitled bicycles. Get a bicycle You will not
- 17:45regret it if you live. Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle.
- 17:49Let me start off by saying that nobody knows more
- 17:52about running a bicycle than me. I was raised in
- 17:55an age when parents had one car and it was
- 17:58not for transparting kids around town. In those days, you
- 18:01either walked or biked. In fact, Saint Dominic's school used
- 18:06to have a place for kids to park their bikes
- 18:08in one huge heap when they came to school each day.
- 18:11Hard to believe, isn't it. These days you'll see a
- 18:13huge line of cars outside schools in the morning and
- 18:16afternoon to drop off or pick up kids while it's
- 18:19in session. You hardly ever see a kid ride a
- 18:22bicycle anymore. I was sixty eight last month, and growing
- 18:26up in the fifties and sixties was a different time.
- 18:29I had a paper route at ten and routinely delivered
- 18:32the now defunct Louisville Times several miles around Springfield seven
- 18:37days a week for three years. Papers were important then too,
- 18:41You youngsters can think of them as prehistoric Internet miss
- 18:45delivering one in your parents would get a call from
- 18:48irate customers telling them what a lazy slug you were.
- 18:51Maybe that's where I got the nickname slug Off from
- 18:54local adults. I tell you all this so you realize
- 18:57that it's not my fault if my kids didn't inherit
- 19:00my talent or enthusiasm for the bike. I was teaching
- 19:03my oldest to ride a bike about thirty years ago.
- 19:06She was pretty coordinated, or so it seemed. It did
- 19:09not go well. First, we proceeded with the old standard
- 19:12of putting the kid on the bike and running beside them.
- 19:15I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, isn't the first
- 19:18step riding a bike with trading wheels. That's for sissy's.
- 19:21In my professional opinion, nobody's going to hold you up
- 19:24in life, so why start something like that early? On second,
- 19:28after the kid gets a little bit of confidence, you
- 19:30give support while running by the bike and then launch
- 19:33them with a mighty push. This is preceded by screaming
- 19:37paddle pedal in an excited tone. It depends on your
- 19:41strength and the push as to how long the kid
- 19:44will stay up it's my experience the kids will be
- 19:47so busy trying to pedal that they don't think to
- 19:49put their feet down when they start to lose momentum
- 19:51and fall sideways. Here's a helpful hint for future bike instructors.
- 19:56Stuff your pockets with plenty of tissue before this phase.
- 20:00Laughing you're going to do will surely make your eyes
- 20:02tear up. A few bandages for the kid wouldn't hurt either. Third,
- 20:06find a big hill. You could push the kid down.
- 20:10A grasshill's fine, but I prefer good old blacktop. I
- 20:14took the kid over to my brother lass house for
- 20:16a third lesson. He had a great blacktop road on
- 20:19a good hill in a quiet neighborhood. It was now
- 20:22time for the solo ride. She started in the driveway,
- 20:25then biked up the hill and was really doing well.
- 20:28Then she turned and started down the hill. The speech
- 20:31was building up to. The speech was building up to
- 20:35was impression and caused me some concern. If she had wings,
- 20:38I believe she would have left the ground. I called out,
- 20:41put on the brakes. She was a blur as she
- 20:44passed me. Yet in the passing I did notice her
- 20:47glance sideways at me. She had a puzzled look while
- 20:50silently melding the word brakes. I knew right then that
- 20:54I would have to add another step to my bike
- 20:56riding lesson plan. Well, who amongers is perfect? The road
- 21:01intersected with another road to form a tee. The front
- 21:04wheel hit the big decorative rock in Subody's yard. When
- 21:07she left the road, she did a very graciul flip
- 21:09in the air and landed on her face. The next
- 21:12day she had a really impressive black eye with all
- 21:15kinds of pretty colors. Of course, it was nothing compared
- 21:18to the one I had after my wife saw what
- 21:20had happened. Just kidding wives, what do they know about
- 21:24bike riding? Anyway, I felt pretty bad about the whole thing,
- 21:28so that next Saturday I decided to make everything up
- 21:31by taking the kids to Hearty's for lunch. My kid
- 21:33was a little bit self conscious about her eyes, so
- 21:35she immediately hunched over her meal, trying to hide it
- 21:38while eating her hamburger. We are just about done when
- 21:42an older gentleman came over and tapped me on the shoulder.
- 21:44He started saying, I just wanted to tell you that
- 21:47I've been watching your family and you have the best
- 21:49man of kids I've ever seen, and I don't know
- 21:51how you do. He didn't get to finish that statement.
- 21:55About that time, my kid quit hunching over her meal
- 21:58and looked up while giving him a big smile with
- 22:01that black eye covering half her face. He looked at
- 22:04the black eye, He looked at me. Then he slow
- 22:07the edge out of hearties without showing his back to me.
- 22:10I still remember the disturbed look he had. Wonder what
- 22:13got into him. Mussel remembered something he had to do.
- 22:16We left shortly thereafter before the police showed up looking
- 22:19for someone. I can't wait to teach my grandkids to
- 22:22ride their bikes. Strange, but I haven't been asked yet
- 22:26to give instructions. The next article is entitled The One
- 22:31who Never leaves, the One behind. Laurie and I looked
- 22:35at each other in desperation, and his tears filled our eyes.
- 22:38We had given up max O Schnauzer was lost forever,
- 22:42or so it seemed. Max is close to fifteen. I'm
- 22:45not sure what that is in dog ears, but Max
- 22:48is old. If there is such a thing as doggy dementia,
- 22:52I'm pretty sure Max has it. He wanders the house,
- 22:55confused about where he is, stopping and staring at the wall,
- 22:59or finding himself hopelessly stuck in a corner. Max was
- 23:02lost has lost some teeth, so I fed him my
- 23:05hand most of the time when we let him out,
- 23:08he wanders around in circles. I followed him across the yard,
- 23:11watching him walk around and around. The other night, we
- 23:15let him out in the backyard for a few minutes.
- 23:17We left the back door open with the porch light
- 23:19on while we waved inside, so it seemed safe for
- 23:22maximby alone. Kobe, our daughter's golden doodle, was with us.
- 23:27Max and Kobe get along fine, but even Kobe was
- 23:31watching out for Max. But that night, after about five minutes,
- 23:35we couldn't find Max. Laurie and I quickly formed a
- 23:38search party. She went one way, I another with our flashlights,
- 23:42with campus every inch of our property. I even walked
- 23:45part of the neighborhood, then trumped in the field behind us,
- 23:50where the only thing I found was briars and thistles.
- 23:53Mac is not able to run and his ability to
- 23:55walk is limited. We couldn't imagine a cayok coming into
- 23:58our yard the lights on and Kobe there after about
- 24:02an hour, we had given up hope. I guess I'll
- 24:05wait till morning, go out in the fields and find him,
- 24:07But he will never survive the night, I said, bemoaning
- 24:10our futile search and rescue mission. Let's walk down the
- 24:14street toward the highway one more time, Laurie said, Kobe
- 24:17had been barking in that direction when I asked him
- 24:20if he knew where Max was. Unsuccessful in our search,
- 24:23we were trudging back when I looked at the neighbor's
- 24:26house and there was Max stuck beneath a pickup truck.
- 24:30We grabbed Max, holding him tight, rejoicing like a first
- 24:33responder who has rescued someone lost in the willness. Now
- 24:37here's the thing. Max never even knew he was lost.
- 24:40It was up to us to go and find him.
- 24:43How many times have I wandered from my Lord, never
- 24:46realizing the danger I was in? How often have I
- 24:49roamed in life, circling myself with myself? What a by
- 24:52the times I had been unaware of how I was
- 24:55inconvencing others, even to the point of hurting people that
- 24:58I loved. But like a good chef, my Lord is there.
- 25:01He's come after me multiple times. It's not that I've
- 25:04ever thrown down the gauntlet of open rebellion, but I've strayed,
- 25:08and am I drifting like Max? I've gotten stuck, if
- 25:11not under a pickup truck, at least in precarious situations.
- 25:15After the Psalmas spent one hundred and seventy five verses
- 25:18in the Bible's longest chapter, proclaiming the wonder of the
- 25:21Lord and his word, he concludes, I have wandered off
- 25:25like a lost sheep, coming for your servant. For I
- 25:28do not forget your commands. Saw I'm one nineteen seventy six.
- 25:35And even when we leave on purpose, running with our
- 25:37rebellious legs for the far country, our Lord is sensitive
- 25:41to the slightest twitch in the repentant heart as we
- 25:44long for home. In the Parable of the Lost Sheep,
- 25:47Jesus tells of all the Shepherd tells of the shepherd
- 25:51who leaves the ninety nine to search for the One,
- 25:54and when he finds the lost one, he joyfully puts
- 25:57it on his shoulders, kind of like we held now
- 26:00our arms. My master knows my heart better than I do.
- 26:04That makes me even more grateful for him. The One
- 26:06who never gives up. The one with perfect rescue mission
- 26:10made effective for us when he carried across up a
- 26:13hill called Golgatha, making forgiveness possible for all of us
- 26:18who have come to end ourselves, to the end of ourselves,
- 26:21yearning for mercy, even when we aren't sure why we
- 26:25are crying for it, not even totally aware of the
- 26:28danger we are in. Lost in the night, and now
- 26:32to our last article. Modern gun deer season opened November eighth.
- 26:36Kentucky's biggest hunting season started last weekend Frankfurt. Deer hunters
- 26:41have been a field since September with the opening of
- 26:43archery and crossbow seasons. The modern gun deer season, Kentucky's
- 26:48biggest hunting season, opens Saturday, November eighth, twenty twenty five,
- 26:52lasting for sixteen days. The season runs through Sunday, November
- 26:55twenty third. Kentucky's home to a bountiful herd of white
- 26:59tailed dearer, offering many hunting opportunities and providing a sustainable
- 27:03source of lean protein for the table hunters. Harvedstad near
- 27:07one hundred fifty thousand deer last year, with modern gun
- 27:10season accounting for the most deer harvested annually, providing an
- 27:13abundance of free range and locally sourced wild venison for
- 27:17the table. The Kentucky Department Official Wildlife Resources offers a
- 27:21wealth of resources to assist new and experienced hunters alike.
- 27:25Learn about public lands available for hunting, season dates, licenses needed,
- 27:29and more by going online to fw dot Ky dot
- 27:33gov and searching under the keywords deer hunting. This concludes
- 27:39excerpts from the recent editions of the Springfield Sun. Here
- 27:42reader has been Linda rice On behalf of everyone here
- 27:45at ready to Ali. Thank you for listening, keep on listening,
- 27:48and have a great day.