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6.26.25 · Springfield Sun

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Speaker 1: We now turn to the Springfield Sun to bring you
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news from in and around Washington County. Your reader today
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is Amy Jones, Timmany. We begin with the addition David Wednesday,
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June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio
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I is a leading service intended for people who are
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blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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read printed material. Bypass Tour presents driving challenges by Jane Reclines,
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June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Driving on main streets
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in Springfield has taken on new challenges in recent days
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due to the closure of the Highway one fifty bypass
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for construction of the newest roundabout at the bypass and
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Highway five fifty five. Traffic from the bypass is being
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routed through downtown on Main Street and reconnecting with the
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bypass at the traffic light by Saint Catherine. This d
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tour has greatly increased the amount of traffic on Main Street,
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having concern for so residents who have expressed fears surrounding
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the excessive speed of some of the vehicles as they
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drive through crowded areas. Another concern is the Department of
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Transportation's decision to alter the traffic lights that Walnut and
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Doctor streets, making them flashing caution lights on main Street
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and flashing stop lights on Walnut and Doctor. The Department
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of Transportation said the changes were made to ease traffic
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flows through the downtown area. However, the problem comes with
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different understandings of what to do when approaching one of
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those lights. What drivers should do is simple. A flashing
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red light means you stop and proceed when the way
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is clear. A flashing yellow or orange means to proceed
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with caution. Both Walnut and Doctor Streets have signs posted
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stating cross traffic does not stop. However, many drivers are
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treating these flashing lights like four way stop. This presents
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a risk when one driver is expecting the four way
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stop that the other driver is not. One drive her
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from Lebanon said he was taught in driver's education to
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stop at all flashing lives, regardless of color, a lesson
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is taught to other drivers that seems to be causing
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the confusion. Springfield Police Chief Sumud advises everyone to be
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careful and mindful of the other drivers on the roadway.
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The situation is temporary while the roundabout is being constructed
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community garden coming to Willisburg Park by Jane Reed Kline
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June twenty third, twenty twenty five. Fresh vegetables are important
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to a healthy lifestyle. Brad and Jamie Steiner believe this
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strongly and ask the Willisburg City Council to allow a
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community garden to be planted in an open area at
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the Willisburg Community Park. After a lengthy deliberation, the cancil
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agreed the Steiners will coordinate the garden to gainst the
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project underway. Those interested in the community garden can help
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with planting and caring for the garden, and then enjoy
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the fruits or vegetables of their labor. Frad Steiner said
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he would like to see the garden include fruit trees
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and berries in addition to vegetables. The council also discussed
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a proposal to add an occupational tax and a city
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tax on alcoholic beverages sold within the city. City Attorney
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Lizzie Coulter is to check on the requirements and draft
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an ordinance for the council's consideration. The council also inquired
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into the legalities of the city holding a rummage sale
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or auction to sell some surplus items stored in city Hall.
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Mayor Wanda Thompson asked for volunteers to help with food
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preparation and concession stand sales for the upcoming horse show
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on August second and the annual Stick Tight concert on
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August ninth at the Park. What to serve was also discussed.
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In other business, the council discussed the need to patch
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Highland Park Road and the need for the city to
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purchase some traffic cones. There also was discussion regarding the
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improper closing of Circle Drive and Sportsmen's Lane during the
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Memorial Day homecoming festival. The two are city streets but
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were closed off by residents during the festival. The council
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agreed to inform residents that those are not private roads
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and cannot be closed off by residents. The next meeting
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of the Willisburg City Council will be Thursday, July seventeenth,
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at seven pm. The city budget will be presented at
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that meeting. County endures more flooding and mudslides. By Jane
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Reclined June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, Washington County took
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another weather punch last week, four inches of rain in
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only three hours poured down on Washington County Tuesday afternoon,
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causing flash flooding and mudslides. Washington County Sheriff Jerry Pinkston
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said no one was hurt and no major property damage
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was reported, but mudslides were a result of the heavy rain.
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One of the mudslides occurred along Cane Run Road. Pinkston
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told a WLKY reporter. The crews from the county and
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state worked for several hours to clean and reopen Cane
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Run Road Tuesday night. The county's average rainfall is forty
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nine inches over the course of the year. Less than
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six months in we are currently over fifty inches of rain.
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The ground was saturated before this heavy rain on Tuesday
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and could not absorb it, leading to the flooding and mudslide.
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Rain isn't the only severe weather the county has seen
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in twenty twenty five. On May thirtieth, an EF two
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tornado killed one and entered fourteen on Long Run Road
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in eastern Washington County. Jason said the multiple waves of
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severe weather puts a strain on the county's resources. Quote,
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We're a small department, so we have to call in
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some of our extra guys to help patrol the roads.
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They also ride into areas and watch for flooded roads
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to notify the public to stay off the road if
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needed and to quote said Pinkston, a part of the
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hill along Highway one fifty near Fredericktown also had mudslide
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into the road. This isn't the first time this site
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has seen a mudslide. Quote, it's made it unbearable, said Restmothers,
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a job manager for Louisville Paving. This project is supposed
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to be done in November. Now we're looking at early December.
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We need to do something, especially about that hill. We've
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had a lot of mudslides and we want to make
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sure it's as safe as possible for everybody. End of quotes,
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mother said. Road wiving the road widening project is expected
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to address that issue, adding drainage on both sides of
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the road. Previously, on Sunday, June fifteenth, the rescue squad
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responded to a partially submerged vehicle. The driver was the
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only occupant of the vehicle and had gutten himself safely
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out of the vehicle. On Monday, June sixteenth, the Sheriff's
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Office reported hazardous conditions on Highway one point fifty in
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the construction zone in the Burg near Bourbon Trail Barbecue
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and Amish Delhi for limbs down near the road. The
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office also reported standing water and fog in many areas
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on Monday. The weather is about to change. No rain
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is in the forecast for the near future. The temperatures
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are expected to hit the high nineties later this week
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and into the weekends. Moving on to page two of
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the Springfield Sun, Emma Jean Jean Conkle Russell, age eighty six,
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of Maxville, Kentucky, passed away at eleven ten pm Thursday,
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June twelfth, twenty twenty five, at the home of her
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daughter in Maxville. She was born in Pike County, Ohio,
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on October twelfth, nineteen thirty eight, to the late Carl E.
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And Vivian Brewer Conkle. She was a member of the
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Maxville Baptist Church, a longtime employee of Whitecastle Restaurant in Louisville,
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min At martin Springfield, she and the grocery in Maxville,
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and a homemaker preceding her in death with her husband,
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Sammy K. Russell on October or I'm Sorry, April twenty second,
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two thousand and nine, a granddaughter, Tara Russell, born sister
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Vivian Maxine Conkle, and three brothers Marvin Ellens Conkle, Karl
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Edwin Conkle, and Paul Allen Conkle, and her stepmother, core
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E Conkle. Survivors include two daughters, Jacqueline Jackie k Rosan
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of Mackville and Pamela and Eric Johanson of Louisville. Two sons,
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William Bill Russell and Linda of Louisville, Sammy Kay Russell
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Junior and Phil Spicer of Covington. Seven grandchildren Nathan and
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Melissa Russell, Jennifer and Tony Smith, Jamie and Jesse Russell,
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Stephanie Rushan, Jeffrey Johansson, Kristen and Earl Rochan, and Lauren Johansson.
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Thirteen great grandchildren. A sister, Donna Kay Blackwell of Idaho Hills, Idaho,
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and one brother, Ronald Lee Conkle, Senior and Kathy of Minford, Ohio.
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Funeral services were held at eleven a m. Tuesday, June seventeenth,
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at the Carrey and Soon Funeral Home, with Reverend Nelson
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Reynolds officiating. Buriel was at the Peter Cemetery in Maxvielle
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Servingus Honorary pallbearers were the grandchildren, great grandchildren Leland Turner
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and Lyndon Turner. Serminga's casket bearers were Eric Johansson, Jeffrey Johansson,
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Tony Smith, Lynn Davis, Kevin Davis, Nathan Russell, Earl Richardson Junior,
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Jaden Stratton, and Johnny Maxterson. Carry and Son's Funeral Home
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was in charge of the arrangement. Competitive procurement process will
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benefit LG and E KU rate payers by Jane Reid
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Climbed June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Written testimony filed
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last week for the Southern Renewable Energy Association or SRIA
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to the Kentucky Public Service Commission recommends that a competitive
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procurement process aligned with utility best practices will benefit Louisville
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Gas and Electric and Kentucky utilities LG and E and
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KU's rate payers. Testimony was filed in case number two
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ty twenty five zero zero zero four five regarding the
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construction of two approximately six hundred forty five MW natural
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gas combined cycle combustion turbine facilities and a four hundred
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MW four hour battery energy storage system or BESS. The
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testimony recommends the Commission issue in order requiring the following
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lgn E and KU issue a request for Proposals or
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RFP for the proposed veess in this preceding and that
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the companies study and consider competitively can prove a procured
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resources as the companies can tend with increases in demand,
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and to further diversify the generation portfolio. Attorney Ben Smith
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testified that a quote diverse, competitively procured generation portfolio will
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provide the best outcome for ratepayers, and an over reliance
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on commodity based energy generation such as natural gas fire generation,
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risk unforeseen price changes and underappreciated operations concerns which risk
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cost and reliability to a greater degree than broadly assumed
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end of quote. Smith's experience includes prior work for the
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North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, where his team advocated for
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policies to enable marketplaces and competition in North Carolina to
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follow for a least cost energy generation mix among the
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state's regulated utility territories. Competition SRIA executive director Simon Mayhen
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said will protect rape payers in the long run. Quote,
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Kentuckians deserved the best value from their power companies. Mayhn
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said lgn E and KU should borrow best practices from
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states like Georgia and North Carolina and competitively bid its
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power plants. Competition protects system reliability and ratepayers pocketbooks. End
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of quotes. Full testimony can be found at htt ps,
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colan slash Flash, Southern Renewable, do oorg Flash News hyphen
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updates Public record by Jane Reeves Climb June twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty five. District Court June sixteenth, twenty twenty five.
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Jacquin Lamar Burton beating twenty five miles per hour over
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the limit, fifty dollars fine plus court costs. Andrew carried
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three counts of violating EPO DVO two hundred and seventy
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days probated for twenty four months unless order a Circuit
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court to the contrary, plus court cost. Greg Ley Alan
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Gabbert beating eighteen miles per hour over the limit, possession
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of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia two hundred thirty six
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dollars fine and thirty days probated for twenty four months,
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plus court cost. William James Faillier to wear a seat
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belts driving on a suspended or revoked license one hundred
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and twenty five dollars fine plus court costs. Samara Lane
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public alcohol intoxication, disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia ten
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days to serve and twenty days probated for twenty four months,
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plus court costs. Marlon Mayhaff seating eighteen miles per hour
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over the limit, no license, no insurance, six hundred thirty
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five dollars fine plus court cost. Karen m Richter driving
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on a suspended or revoked license, receiving stolen property four
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hundred dollars fine plus court cost. Robert Arthur Wedders Junior
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criminal littering, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana sixty
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days probated for twenty four months. Cody Allen Webb seating
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five miles per hour over the limit, failure to wear
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a seatbelt thirty five dollars fine plus court costs. Tyler
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Wright leaving the scene of an accident, failure to render aid,
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driving on the suspended or revoked license, possession of an
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open alcoholic beverage container in a motor vehicle no insurance,
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thirty days probated for twenty four months. One thousand dollars
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fine and jail credit of nine hundred dollars making restitution
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plus court costs. Tyler A. Wright no insurance one thousand
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dollars five and nine hundred dollars jail credits plus court
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costs Circuit courts. From June eight to twenty twenty five,
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Stephen Miller pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and was sentenced
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to twelve months to run concurrent with Circuit court cases
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nineteen R one oh one and nineteen CR zero zero seven.
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In case nineteen CR zero zero seven probation violation, sentence
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of two years to run consecutive to nineteen CR one
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oh one. In case nineteen R one oh one probation
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violation sentence of one year to run consecutive to nineteen
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CR zero zero seven, total sentence three years court cost weights.
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Court costs start at one hundred and forty five dollars
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and increase depending on the charges. Local farm approved from
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beginning former loan programs by Jane Reclined June twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty five, the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation or k KAFD,
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approved twenty three agricultural loans totaling five million, forty three thousand,
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seventy six dollars for projects across the Commonwealth last week
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at its monthly board meeting. Among the loans approved was
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one for Washington County for one hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars from the Beginning Farmer Loan Program or BSLP fifteen.
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Beginning former loans totaling up to three million, two hundred
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forty eight thousand, seventy six dollars were approved. The BFLP
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is designed to assist individuals with some farming experience who
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desire to develop, expand, or buy into a farming operation.
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Beginning farmers may qualify for financing to purchase livestock equipment
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or agriculture facilities, to secure permanent working capital for the
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purchase of farm estate, or to invest in a partnership
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or LLC. Deeds and land transfers by Jane green Kline
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June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five from Mary Sally Melbourne
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to David Shoemaker a house and lot in May's Subdivision
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for four hundred fifty thousand dollars. From Aaron J. Henry
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to Christopher Thomas Goodrich, the property at forty fifty eight
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Polmand Road for two hundred and ten thousand dollars from
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Timothy Bobbitt I'm sorry, Boblett to Chad Allen Parker. A
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two point zero sixty six acre track on Chaplin Road
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for two hundred forty five thousand dollars from paul O
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Borders Estate to Tiffety Wheatley. A house and lot at
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one O two East Grundy Avenue for one hundred and
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ten thousand dollars from gibelto de Leon to Catherine Elizabeth Muholland.
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A property on Grundy Avenue for two hundred and fifteen
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thousand dollars from Melissa F. Maitland to A RK of
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Wellness or ARC of Wellness Springfield. A property on Bloomfield
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Road for two hundred fifty nine thousand dollars from L. F.
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Sims Junior to Leonard M. Spaulding Junior. Lot forty three
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of Harmony Woods for thirty thousand dollars from Gasney Custom
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Homes LLC. To Taylor H. Smith. A nineteen point ninety
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six acre tract for one hundred eighty one thousand, nine
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hundred sixty dollars and ninety cents from Jeffrey D. Darnell
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Estate to Jees Property's LLC. A property on Fairview Taydum
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Road for twenty thousand dollars from Gasney Custom Homes LLC
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to Jason p Ellison. A parcel identified as Track twenty
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for four hundred sixty one thousand, seven hundred ninety dollars
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and sixty cents from Timothy R. Clement the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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A parcel of US fifty at may Viewed Lane for
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four thousand, one hundred dollars from Gasney Custom Homes LLC
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to Rebecca B. Montgomery. Tact sixteen A BAG Division number
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two for nineteen thousand, one hundred eighty four dollars from
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Gasney Custom Homes LLC to Robert Kylesenlick. Tracks thirteen of
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AG Division Number one for one hundred forty five thousand,
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eight hundred thirty dollars and thirty cents from Drew Thomas
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Noel to Jamie Lynn Pevley. The property at fourteen East
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Fork Road for thirty two thousand dollars from macin Form
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the fourth C to ron BNLLC. Tracks seven of the
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Macinfarm's Incorporated Form Division for five hundred fifty thousand dollars
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from Gasney Custom Homes to Dane Ross Simpson tracked eighteen
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of BAG Division number two for six hundred ninety five thousand,
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two hundred thirty seven dollars and forty cents from Joshua
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Woods Brote to Zachary Ai The property at twenty six
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oh two East Fork Road for two hundred seventy seven
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thousand dollars. I'm sorry that should be two hundred seventy
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seven thousand, five hundred dollars from Jeffrey Yates to Craig T. Smith.
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The property at twenty nine eighty five Beachland Road for
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two hundred seventy five thousand dollars from Jaffney Custom Homes
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LC to Anthony Arnold. Tracked fifteen of AG Division number
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two for fifty two thousand, eight hundred and seventy seven
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thousand dollars. Republican Women present scholarships by Jane Reed Kleines
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the Spreamfield Sun. The Washington County Republican Women's Club presents
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two scholarships on Thursday. Jordan Fry and Jesse McLain were
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with state Representative Ken King for a photo after the
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presentations at Low's Trace restaurant. The scholarships are funded with
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proteats from the annual Lincoln Dinner. Out of the Water
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a column by David B. Whitlock of Life. I wondered
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if the water was cold as I watched their pastor,
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Doctor John Diddy, study them, their clothes clinging to their
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bodies as they found their fitting out of the water
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after their river baptism. We were there with other family members,
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did see our son David Junior and his wife Kayla
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being baptized. Kayla had for years wanted baptism by immersion
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in a river. David Junior had been baptized by immersion
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when he was eight years old, but he also wanted
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to be baptized in the river with Kyla. Both have
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been followers of Christ for years. The event was a
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significant spiritual marker for them, so LORI and I wanted
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to be there for it. Rain had been in the
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forecast all weekend, and true to predictions, it rained during
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the outdoor baptism. We clutched our umbrellas as we gingerly
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stepped onto the gravely mud down to the river. Quote.
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If only the baptism had been in a church building,
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I thought it would have been so much more convenient.
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We could have stayed right there and the comfy tews,
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dry and relaxed end up clothes. As the rain peppered down,
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we listened to the pastor talk about the meaning of baptism.
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My thoughts stricted to Jesus's baptism in the Jordan River,
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when it has been simpler to get baptized in the
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Sea of Galilee, closer to where he was. That Jesus
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wanted to be baptized by John in the Jordan River,
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and in doing so, Jesus leanked his mission with a
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particular ministry of spiritual renewal. Although Jesus needed no repentance,
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he was identifying with people he would redeem through his
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death on the cross. His baptism was an intentional act.
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He just didn't happen to get baptized in the Jordan River. Baptism,
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by its nature, is inconvenient. My deceased teacher, Professor William R. Eastep,
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in his classic work The Anabaptist Story, traced Baptist to
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the Anabaptist movement, the first baptism of which was on
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January twenty first, fifteen twenty five. Doctor Eastep described the
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seminal event when anabaptism was born. Quote A dozen or
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so men slowly trudged through the snow, quietly but resolutely,
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singly or in paaris, they came by night. The child
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of the winter blowing off the lake did not match
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the chill of disappointment that gripped the little band that
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stateful night. Persecution followed their clandestine actions. How convenient was
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that eave of baptism is in a church? Baptistery where
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people applaud rather than persecute, has certain inconveniences, change of clothes,
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getting completely wet, and having to redress for the worship service.
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It seems a fitting picture of the Christian walk out
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of the water. The believer walks with Christ, which is
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not always convenient. Discipline isn't easy. It may not be
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convenient to spend time with the Lord, listen to the lonely,
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or prepare a meal for the hungry. But those inconveniences
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become joy. As Eugene Peterson phrased it, quote, joy is
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not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence
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of it. End of quotes. David and Caleb beamed with
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joy as they waded to the river bank. I noticed
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David Sho's roll sneakers. He didn't mind getting in a
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river water. Then I remember baptizing him when he was eight,
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Quote can I wear my water sheet? Dad? And quote?
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He had asked, peering up at me a tinge of
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fear in the child dies, perhaps anticipating that I would
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say no. When I asked why, I learned he was
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afraid of losing his footing on the slippery baptiste floor
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and sliding under the water. Of course he can, davy,
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I answered, hugging him, You wear whatever helped keep you studied.
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Neither then nor now will he lose his fitting as
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long as he stays grounded in Jesus Christ, who carries
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us in his arms on rainy days in the river
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as well as dry days, as the warm water of
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the church baptistery in rain or snow, sunshiner storms, our
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Lord is the same guiding us out of the water
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from the river shore, through a valley of death's shadow,
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and to the green pasture of life with him forever.
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Needle in a Haystack by Sister Joel Goobler, Breast of Ecology,
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June twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. How often have we
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heard quote, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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End of quote. I'm not sure I've ever seen an
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actual haystack, except in pictures. These days, modern machinery cuts
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the deposits hay into the round and square bells and
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even covers them with plastic for protection from the rain.
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Hay differs from straw and then it comes from plants
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such as oats, ride grass, bermuda, grass, clover, and alfalfa,
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and is harvested before plants make heat. Their weaves are
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patched with nutrients. Straw, however, consists of stems left behind
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after the grains are harvested and is low with nutrients.
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It is used for stuffing mattresses, making baskets and hats, mulch,
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insulation in walls, and of course scarecrops. I enjoy watching
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our farmer here transport a veil of hay to the
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top of one of the hills while the cows, recognizing
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the tractor, all head in that direction. He drops it
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on the ground and its slowly rolled down a while unwinding,
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leaving a long path of hay for their mule. Another
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new experience for a city girl my thoughts to speak
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by James reed Klein, editor of The Spring Cold Sun.
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As I have traveled through different areas of this great
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country of ours, I've noticed some surprising driving roles in
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various states or ways they interpret the driving roles. For example,
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in Virginia, drivers often stop at the end of an
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on ramp of an interstate. Yes, according to people I've
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spoke to on a visit there, the driving instructions are
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teaching new drivers to stop. I don't understand. You were
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on the on ramp. There is an acceleration lane. See,
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you can get up to speed emerge into traffic. So
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Virginia's stop, then try to merge. In the Chicago area,
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a speed limit sign is merely a suggested minimum. That
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in South Carolina I learned last week. If the speed
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limit sign says sixty, it means sixty, not sixty five,
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not sixty two, not even sixty one. Sixty is a
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limit and you do not exceed that. I had wondered
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what Kentucky's court was, and now I know see page
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one or what I read earlier. We stopped for flashing
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caution life. Why was I in South Carolina this week?
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This proud mem all went to Paris Island, South Carolina
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for her grandson's graduation from Marine basic training. My grandbaby, yes, baby,
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is no longer a boy. He is a US Marine
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and headed to Campbell June for his next portion of
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his training. Carter, Baby, don't drink the water. Now. I
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am back in beautiful Springfield and struggling to catch up.
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Even though I worked from the roads, I fell behind
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a bit on my duties as your editor. I'm getting
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back on tracks and hopefully remotivated. We recently moved the
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Lebanon Enterprise office into the Sun's office in Springfield. Alice
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and I are no longer wasting valuable time going back
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and forth trying to maintain two offices. Since the staff
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for both papers consist of Alice, who handles all the
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business men, letters, as bills and circulation, me and one
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part time writer working remotely from Richmond. Time is extremely
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valuable and something we have little of. I am still
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a course looking for a reporter to help with both
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the Springfield Sun and the Lebanon Enterprise. As hard as
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I try, I can't be in multiple places at the
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same time, and I can't know everything that is happening
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in both counties. I appreciate all the help I have
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received from the readers of the Sun. Your help and
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support has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. Thank you. This
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concludes excerpts from recent editions of the Springfield Sun. Your
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reader has been Amy Jones to me on behalf of
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everyone here at radio. I thank you for listening, Keep
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on listening and have a good day.