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Licking Valley Courier - 8.21.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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  Speaker 1: We now turn to the Lincoln Valley Courier to bring
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  Speaker 1: new news from in and around West Liberty. Your reader
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  Speaker 1: today is Janice. We begin with the addition dated Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: August the twentieth, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI
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  Speaker 1: is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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  Speaker 1: or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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  Speaker 1: printed material. Our first article is County Fair, slated for
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  Speaker 1: August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth at fairgrounds. Rides, wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: dog show and music on tap. Kids Night is August
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seventh. The Morgan County Fair will be Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and Saturday August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: at the Morgan County fair Grounds, located at four hundred
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  Speaker 1: New Fairground Road in West Liberty. The event will include
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  Speaker 1: carnival rides and special events on each night. Thursday, August
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, gates will open at five pm for Kids Night.
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  Speaker 1: Free admission tickets for kids will be available at Morgan
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  Speaker 1: County Schools the week of the fair. Tickets are also
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  Speaker 1: available for homeschool students at Giovanni's and Commercial Bank can
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  Speaker 1: be picked up the week of the fair. Adult admission
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  Speaker 1: on this date will be fifteen dollars. At seven pm,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a dog show sponsored by West Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Veterinarian Clinic. Friday August the twenty eighth, gates will open
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  Speaker 1: at five pm. At seven pm, there will be a
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  Speaker 1: wrestling event AMW micro Wrestling match. Admission will be twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollars on this date. Saturday August the twenty ninth, gates
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  Speaker 1: will open at three pm. At six pm, there will
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  Speaker 1: be a hot dog eating contest sponsored by the six
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  Speaker 1: oh six Food Truck. There will also be entertainment with
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Sexton opening the show at seven pm and Cross
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  Speaker 1: Rows taking the stage at eight pm. Admission will be
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars on this date. The event is sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: West Liberty Tourism, Giovanni's Pizza, Commercial Bank, and Bank of
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  Speaker 1: the Mountains. Bring your family and friends and enjoy all
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  Speaker 1: the rides and entertainment. Our next article is Extension Office
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  Speaker 1: Fair Market August the twenty ninth. Morgan County Extension Office
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  Speaker 1: will host the Morgan County Fair Market event on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: August the twenty ninth at the Extension Office located at
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  Speaker 1: one thousand and two, Prestonburgh Street in West Liberty. The
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  Speaker 1: event will run from ten am to four pm and
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  Speaker 1: will feature locally grown produce and handmade goods and celebration
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  Speaker 1: of the Morgan County Fair. There will also be a
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  Speaker 1: tractor show during this time. Registration will begin at ten am.
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  Speaker 1: The Morgan County Homemakers will be selling concessions and the
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  Speaker 1: four hten Club will be hosting fun carnival games as well.
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  Speaker 1: There are limited spots for vendors, so please get your
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  Speaker 1: applications in as soon as possible. For additional information regarding
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  Speaker 1: this event, contact the Morgan County Extension Office at seven
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  Speaker 1: four three thirty two ninety two. Our next article is Pardon.
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  Speaker 1: LVR ECC deals with multiple power outages in the past week.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Stacy of lv R e CC gives update praises
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  Speaker 1: lineman efforts. Editor's note Travis Stacy, manager of Administrative and
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  Speaker 1: Corporate Services for King Valley RICC, shared an update on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: August the seventeenth regarding the Electric Cooperative's efforts to restore
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  Speaker 1: power after widespread outages that resulted from multiple rounds severe
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  Speaker 1: weather over the past week. As of this writing, on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: August eighteenth, the cooperative reports only four active outages, impacting
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  Speaker 1: nine Cooperative members. We at the Courier, along with mister Stacey,
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  Speaker 1: would like to thank all linemen for their continued service.
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  Speaker 1: A message from Licking Valley RICC. Licking Valley RICC wants
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  Speaker 1: to say thank you to the members for their patients
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  Speaker 1: during the storms of the past week. We were hit
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  Speaker 1: last Tuesday, the August eleventh, resulting in over one thy
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred members outages with full restoration by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day on Wednesday, August the twelfth. Later on
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  Speaker 1: the same day, another rain in windstorm hit and already
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  Speaker 1: wind blown right of way that resulted in another nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred ninety nine members without power. Many were the same
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  Speaker 1: members from the storm just hours before. Again, linemen, tired
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  Speaker 1: and wet and missing their families, worked throughout the night
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, August the twelfth to reduce those numbers to
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  Speaker 1: just forty members the following morning. Those forty were restored
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  Speaker 1: by the end of the day. The storm that hit
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  Speaker 1: late on Sunday, augustus sixteenth and into Monday, August the seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: caused another two thousand members to be without power. Incredibly,
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  Speaker 1: the lineman had those numbers down to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight members by five thirty am Monday morning. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the linemen worked all night in numerous counties on numerous outages.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't stop. As of this statement at Monday three
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  Speaker 1: point thirty pm, our outages are down to ten members,
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  Speaker 1: with full intentions of only having one member outage by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day on Monday. I have said
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  Speaker 1: it a million times, but I will say it again.
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  Speaker 1: These linemen are resilient, dedicated, and focused on what has
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  Speaker 1: to be done. There is no stop in these guys
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  Speaker 1: until the last member is turned on. Don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: It takes all of us, but there is only a
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  Speaker 1: certain breed of people that can stay out for the
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  Speaker 1: extended hours these guys do, changing into dry clothes at
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  Speaker 1: three am on the side of a road, going without
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  Speaker 1: proper meals for days, living off whatever is in the
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  Speaker 1: diner bucket at the time. This is a tough job
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  Speaker 1: and only a few can handle, and we have some
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  Speaker 1: of the best. Thank alignment, when you see one Stacey
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  Speaker 1: Licking Valley, ricc our next article is a senior citizen.
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  Speaker 1: Senior pardon me, Senior Center meals are cut to four
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  Speaker 1: days a week. Cuts are due to reduce funding for
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  Speaker 1: Gateway Area Development District Senior Nutrition Program Morehead, Kentucky, August
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  Speaker 1: the seventeenth. On August eleventh, the Gateway Area Development District
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  Speaker 1: GAD Board of Directors approved changes to the organization's Senior
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  Speaker 1: center operations in response to a funding shortfall affecting the
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  Speaker 1: Senior Nutrition program. The changes are intended to more responsible
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  Speaker 1: aligne program expenditures with available funding, while preserving the long
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  Speaker 1: term availability and stability of nutrition services for older adults
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  Speaker 1: throughout the Gateway region, and also supporting the needs of
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  Speaker 1: the staff who provide these important services. Beginning October first,
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  Speaker 1: gad's regional kitchen will provide nutritionally qualified hot meals four
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  Speaker 1: days per week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesdays will
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  Speaker 1: be designated as a non meal service day for gad's
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  Speaker 1: congregate Nutrition program. Senior centers may continue to participate in
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  Speaker 1: pot lucks or have other events sponsored or provided by
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  Speaker 1: outside entities on Wednesdays as available. Operations of gad's home
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  Speaker 1: delivered meals will remain unchanged for current participants. However, due
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  Speaker 1: to the funding shortfall, GAD will not enroll new home
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  Speaker 1: Delivered Meals participants until further notice. Individuals seeking home delivered
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  Speaker 1: meal services will be PLA placed on a wait list
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  Speaker 1: and be contacted as funding becomes available and enrollment can resume.
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  Speaker 1: The updated schedule for the Morgan County Senior Center is
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  Speaker 1: as follows Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at nine am
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  Speaker 1: to three pm. Wednesday closed. GAD will continue to evaluate
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  Speaker 1: funding availability and program needs as the fiscal year processes.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is Questions emerge after Monastery opening and
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  Speaker 1: above that there is a beautiful picture of buildings out
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  Speaker 1: in the countryside and it says this property on Morgan
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  Speaker 1: Murphy Fork in Morgan County, a former wedding venue not
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  Speaker 1: far from Hazel Green in Wolf County, was the site
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  Speaker 1: of the official opening on May seventeenth of the Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Mary getam Ded Bresina Monastery by the Ytrin Orthodox tay
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  Speaker 1: Waddau Church Diocey of the United States in Canada. Photo
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  Speaker 1: from Ytrin La Facebook page. Questions emerge after opening Monastery
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  Speaker 1: Questions emerge after Monastery opening. Photos from May seventeenth opening
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  Speaker 1: have circulated on social media in recent weeks. Orthodox Christian
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  Speaker 1: denomination purchased Murphy Fork property in twenty twenty five by
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  Speaker 1: Miranda M. Cantrell. Local residents have raised questions about the
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  Speaker 1: origins and beliefs of an Orthodox Christian sect after photos
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  Speaker 1: emerged from the opening of a monastery on Murphy Fork
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  Speaker 1: of property that church leaders purchased last year. The Courier
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  Speaker 1: initially reported on efforts of the Atarian Orthodox tay Waddau
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  Speaker 1: Church in to establish a monastery locally July the tenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, following a presentation from church leadership to
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  Speaker 1: the Morgan County Fiscal Court. The following report includes a
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  Speaker 1: revisiting of that fiscal court presentation, information regarding the purchase
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  Speaker 1: of the Murphy Fort property and opening of the monastery,
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  Speaker 1: and the brief overviews of the denomination's history and beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: Church leaders appear at June twenty fourth, twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: fiscal court meeting. During a June twenty fourth, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five meeting of the Morgan County Fiscal Court, several members
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  Speaker 1: of the e Tron Orthodox taywah Dau Church Diocese of
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  Speaker 1: the United States and Canada, headquartered in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Were in attendance to introduce themselves to the community. Those
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  Speaker 1: present included the Itrinnian Orthodox tay Taiwanda church father Quborn Bayon,
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  Speaker 1: architect fickermarn Asras, real estate team leader Mussy Dawit Nugassi,
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  Speaker 1: and youth leader Hannah Mussy Nugassi. Judge executive Jim Gaysey
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  Speaker 1: asked the church father to give the invocation ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the group's presentation, during which several members noted that they've
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  Speaker 1: represented one of the oldest Christian denominations in the world
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  Speaker 1: the belief. The brief overview of the sex origin can
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  Speaker 1: be found on the Etron Orthodox Taiwan Doe Church Wikipedia page,
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  Speaker 1: including information sourced from the Catholic Encyclopedia. According to the
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Encyclopedia nineteen seventeen edition, article of the Heenashun, around
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  Speaker 1: five hundred eight bishops within the patriarchs of the Alexandra,
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  Speaker 1: Antioch and Jerusalem refused to accept two Nature's doctrine decreed
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  Speaker 1: by the Council of Caledon in four hundred and fifty one,
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  Speaker 1: thus separating themselves from the rest of Christianity. Since that time,
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  Speaker 1: this separate Christian communion came to be known as Oriental Orthodoxy.
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  Speaker 1: The Oriental Orthodox Churches, which today include the Coptic Orthodox
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  Speaker 1: Church of Alexandria, the Armenian Apostolithic Church and the Syric
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox Church and the Machloral Orthodox Syrian Church of India.
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  Speaker 1: The Ethiopian Orthodox tay Wa Doh Church and the etron
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox tay Wat Doe Church are referred to as non Chaladonian.
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  Speaker 1: The group's primary spokesman, Joseph Emerson, told the court that
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  Speaker 1: the diocese had identified for a monastic facility a facility
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  Speaker 1: a local property, which the real estate team leader stated
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  Speaker 1: was the former wedding venue on Murphy Fork. This is
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  Speaker 1: a momentous time for us. As Moron said, for the
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  Speaker 1: past two and a half years, we've been on a
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  Speaker 1: journey trying to locate a monastery within the United States.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, we came to Morgan County looking
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  Speaker 1: at a property and met with Judge Executive Jim Gazey
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  Speaker 1: and his office staff. That meeting really solidified for us
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  Speaker 1: what Morgan County represented. We saw in the choices that
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  Speaker 1: we were making that you have a deep root in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: a community really deeply rooted in Christ and kindness in
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  Speaker 1: a really deep history and mountains and flowing landscape that
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  Speaker 1: connect you to nature. We are really excited and grateful
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  Speaker 1: that we have been able to identify a property within
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  Speaker 1: Morgan County. As Sirt Maron gave a brief history of
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  Speaker 1: the ETN Orthodox Tewa dou Church before elaborating on his
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  Speaker 1: diocese plans for the Morgan County monastery, which would be
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  Speaker 1: the organization's first in the United States. Why a monastery
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  Speaker 1: in Morgan County, Amaron asked, A monistic life is really
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  Speaker 1: focused on nothing more than Jesus Christ. John the Baptist
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  Speaker 1: as well as Christ went into the wilderness. The mountains
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  Speaker 1: and valleys, etc. Represented a way of connecting to God.
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  Speaker 1: For Christ, we have been on this journey for quite
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  Speaker 1: a while. We have identified a property that we know
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  Speaker 1: will represent our deep roots and connect those dots with
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  Speaker 1: Morgan County. Additionally, as Maron stated that the group's hopes
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  Speaker 1: to grow in the community and be part of Morgan County.
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  Speaker 1: Our end goal is a prayer campus. As Moron said,
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  Speaker 1: the monks will live in the monastery and really dedicate
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  Speaker 1: their lives to loving and serving Christ through discipleship and
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  Speaker 1: full time intercession with those who are in need. It's
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  Speaker 1: a place of solitude and we take nature and incorporate
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  Speaker 1: that into it. As Moron further noted that the focus
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  Speaker 1: of the monastic life is prayer and the healing of
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  Speaker 1: the soul and allowing for people to come into the
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  Speaker 1: monastery for the spiritual cleansing amend the pressures of daily life.
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  Speaker 1: Church leaders also identified indicated that the monastery residents would
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  Speaker 1: be farming and cattle at the Murphy Fork site. Real
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  Speaker 1: estate team leader Mussey dwat Nigasse concluded the presentation by
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  Speaker 1: reiterating the group's desire to locate in Morgan County. The
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  Speaker 1: jewel of eastern Kentucky is Morgan County. Nagaissey said, that
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  Speaker 1: is what I heard about when I found this area.
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  Speaker 1: I was so happy. The rolling hills, the trees, the flatland.
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  Speaker 1: This is an amazing place. We just want to be
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  Speaker 1: part of that. I just want to tell you thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. Purchase of property and opening of monastery,
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  Speaker 1: as previously noted in the Courier into October twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: the Etrenine Orthodox Taywado Church Diocey of the United States
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  Speaker 1: in Canada purchased the Morphy Murphy Fork property from CBK
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  Speaker 1: Farms LLC and Barker Family Farms LLC for two million,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred ninety thousand, four hundred dollars. Lynda Bradley, an
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  Speaker 1: employee of the Judge Executive's office, told The Courier last
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  Speaker 1: year that the wedding's venue previous owners were Pike County
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  Speaker 1: natives who had relocated to Florida prior to the church
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  Speaker 1: members June twenty twenty five presentation to the Fiscal Court.
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  Speaker 1: The church diocese hosted the official opening of the monastery
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  Speaker 1: in May twenty twenty five, with members from throughout the
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  Speaker 1: United States and Canada attending service, as well as invited
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  Speaker 1: guests Judge including Judge Executive Jim Gaysey and his wife Lisa.
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  Speaker 1: In May nineteenth, Facebook posting from the event, which surfaced
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook in recent weeks, church members were pictured in
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  Speaker 1: ceremonial robes and hats, with women also wearing traditional headcover rings.
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  Speaker 1: Church beliefs. The following is the etrenin Orthodox te Wadoh
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  Speaker 1: Church creed as it appears on the Domination's website. Denomination's website.
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  Speaker 1: We believe in One God, God, the Father, the pancreator Creator,
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  Speaker 1: of heaven and earth, and of all things seen and unseen.
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  Speaker 1: We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten
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  Speaker 1: Son of God, forgotten of the Father before all ages,
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  Speaker 1: light of light, true God, of true God, begotten, not created,
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  Speaker 1: of one essence with the Father by whom all things
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  Speaker 1: were made, who for us men and for our salvation,
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  Speaker 1: came down from heaven and was incarnate with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man, And he
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  Speaker 1: was crucified for us under conscious pilot suffered and was buried,
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  Speaker 1: And on the third day he rose from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: according to the scriptures, ascended into heaven. He sits at
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of his Father. And he is coming
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  Speaker 1: again in his glory to judge the living and the dead,
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  Speaker 1: whose kingdom shall have no end. Yes, we believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who
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  Speaker 1: proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son,
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  Speaker 1: is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And
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  Speaker 1: in one Holy Catholic and a apothclyph Church, we confess
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  Speaker 1: one baptism for the remission of sins. We look for
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection of the dead and the life of the
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  Speaker 1: Age to Come. Amen. Church members further affirm their leaves
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, Resurrection, the Holy Trinity, and the Bible, and
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  Speaker 1: the Orthodox Church Statement of Faith, which can also be
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  Speaker 1: read in full on their website. Additional information regarding the
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  Speaker 1: Etron Orthodox tay Waha Dooh Churchedicee of the United States
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  Speaker 1: and Canada visit their website. Our next article is Magistrate
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  Speaker 1: Heir's concerned to Road Department, Pardon me Foreman, Assistant Foreman
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  Speaker 1: and Fiscal Court Court members approved purchase of salt trucks
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  Speaker 1: brush cutter at August the eleventh meeting by Miranda m Cantrell,
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  Speaker 1: Mangister and Eric Palfrey aired concerns to Road Department employees
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  Speaker 1: during the special August eleventh meeting of the Morgan County
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  Speaker 1: Fiscal Court ahead of a vote to purchase additional equipment
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  Speaker 1: for the crew. Following the roll call, during which the
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  Speaker 1: absences of Magistrates Leroy Phipps and Tyler Keaton were noted,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Executive Jim Gaizey announced the first agenda item involving
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  Speaker 1: the proposed purchases of a truck and a brushcutter for
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  Speaker 1: the Road Department, County Treasurer and pardon me. Sheena Easternly
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  Speaker 1: told the court that she had included quotes for an
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  Speaker 1: extended camp truck with a winter eyed snow and salt
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  Speaker 1: package and a brushcutter in magistrate's meeting information. The Treasurer
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  Speaker 1: also noted that the above mentioned items were discussed during
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  Speaker 1: the previous court meeting on July the thirtieth, and directed
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  Speaker 1: questions regarding the quotes to Road Department Foreman Shaan Ratliffe
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  Speaker 1: and Assistant Foreman Shannon Bowman. Magistrate Eric Heilfrey stated that
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  Speaker 1: he wished to speak prior to discussion of the agenda items,
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  Speaker 1: so I asked these guys to give me a list
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  Speaker 1: of equipment. Pelfrey said, in a reference to Foreman Ratliffe
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  Speaker 1: and assistant form and Bowman. I'm one hundred percent about
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  Speaker 1: getting people what they need to work with. But when
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  Speaker 1: you go on every road in my district and they're awful,
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  Speaker 1: limbs hanging over the road, weeds so high they're falling
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  Speaker 1: over in the road, something's got to be done. I
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  Speaker 1: told you all three weeks ago that the roads in
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  Speaker 1: my district were awful and we need to do something,
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  Speaker 1: but I never got a response back. So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care a bit. My vote is to get
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  Speaker 1: you all whatever you want if we can't afford it.
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  Speaker 1: But when it's raining, these guys don't need to sit
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  Speaker 1: up there at the garage all day. They can brush
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  Speaker 1: cut in the rain, they can mow roads in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't a thing that says you can't. Something's got
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  Speaker 1: to be done. Assistant form and Bowman responded, it's not
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  Speaker 1: your district, it's all of the districts. But here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: Magistrate Pelfrey continued, you guys were on May Branch and
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  Speaker 1: I ask you to stop by and just do it
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  Speaker 1: on the way back. Instead of that, you drove all
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  Speaker 1: the way to White Oak to May Branch, and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you doing that road, but there were roads I
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  Speaker 1: asked you to do before that, and you took the
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  Speaker 1: tractors and everything past those roads to get back to
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  Speaker 1: the county garage. Why why not leave them in one
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  Speaker 1: district and do all the roads in that district and
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  Speaker 1: then move on to another district. Right now, you're skipping
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  Speaker 1: all over the county and nothing's getting done. You're getting
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  Speaker 1: the road here and a road there. When you can
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  Speaker 1: get all of a district at once. To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: we've apardonment. To be honest, we've about got to have
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  Speaker 1: it year round. There's nothing that says you can't brush
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  Speaker 1: cut in the winter. Foreman Ratlift address Magistrip Halfrey. You're right,
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  Speaker 1: Ratliff said, except for us not having the equipment to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Mandristript Palfrey cited the possibilities of legal issues.
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  Speaker 1: I called you about Old Elam Road, Palfrey said. People
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  Speaker 1: are telling me, Hey, what's going to happen if I
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  Speaker 1: come around this curve and hit somebody because I can't see?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Do I sue the county? What am I supposed to say?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I told you guys, I said, I'll take my own
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: equipment and do it. Just let me know if you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: can't get to it. I never got a response back.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Foreman Ratliff stated that the crew had mowed Old Elam Road.
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  Speaker 1: As an additional discussion ensued. This is just frustrating, Palfrey said.
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  Speaker 1: We put out a ton of taxpayer money. You've got everything.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: We've spent millions. I don't know how much exactly on equipment.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: What do we need? How many people do we need?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: When we went almost a year without a brushcutter Foreman
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Ratleft responded, I got the brush cutter fixed and got
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: them both going, and now one's down again. We can
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: run two crews at most any day. Magistrate Halfrey asked
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: what the Road Department needs in regarding to ditching more people.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Forming Ratlift responded, you can't mode ditch. You can't do
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: all of this. Magistrate Tommy Fannin opened on the ditching
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and various other Road departments issues. I've said it before,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: but there's a lot coming out of the Road Department
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: up there that I feel like shouldn't. Fannin said. The
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: sheriff's gas and that office manager or whatever, she don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: need to be on there because it's of no benefit.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: They do need help. There's a lot more to be done.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Magistrip Pelfrey asked the Treasurer Easterly about how many more
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Road Department employees could be added to the budget. The
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Road Department payroll was budgeted for the current employees with
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a three percent raise. Easternly responded as Foreman Ratlift noted
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that the department currently has eight employees. Foreman Ratlift also
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: indicated that the department previously had fourteen employees when his
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: tenures as Road chief began last year. Magistrate Palfrey further
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: discussed magistrate's authority as pertaining to road issues. People just
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: don't understand that as a magistrate, I can't go up
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: there and say, hey, you go there and do this.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Pelfrey said, that's not my job. Magistrate Fannin concurred, no,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: we just make suggestions, Fannin said. Magistrate Palfrey concluded his remarks,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I can't force anyone to do anything, Pelfrey said, I've
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: said my piece. Judge Executive Jim Gazey asked if court
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: members wish to ask questions and make additional comments. I'm
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about getting them what they need. Magustrip Brandon Evans replied,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: before inquiring about the cost of the salt truck and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: brush cutter. This concludes excerpts from the recent editions of
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: The Licking Valley Courier. Your reader has been janis on
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: behalf of everyone here at radio. I thank you for listening,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: keep on listening, and I hope you have a very
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: good day.