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7.10.25 · The Mountain Eagle

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Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Mountain Eagle to read news
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from Whitesburg. Your reader today is Bill than Arsdale. We
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will begin with the addition dated July ninth, twenty twenty five,
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which the publishers have donated to RADIOI as a reminder.
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RADIOI is a reading 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. The first story is food pantry now
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has less food but more customers. The number of people
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seeking food assistance in Lecter County is increasing, and the
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volume of food being received by the Letter County Food
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Pantry is shrinking. Volunteers at the food banks say, but
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Director Vicky Holbrook and Secretary Treasurer Harold Bowling said they
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will continue accepting new clients and continue delivering food. We
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are getting what we used to and we've had to
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make tough choices on what we give out, Bowling said.
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We've been so fortunate in getting some real good grants
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and we have some contacts with people that are really
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interested in helping the people here. But Bowling and Holbrook
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said the situation will only get worse as people are
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kicked off supplemental food assistance that has got me scared.
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Holbrook said, that really has got me scared. The assistance
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to buy locally produced vegetables for schools and food banks
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was cut in March.
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Speaker 2: Bowling said.
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Speaker 1: The US Department of Agriculture started by cutting three hundred
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commercial farms from the government provider list for food banks.
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On March seventh, they sent out a letter to these
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people saying we are hereby canceling your contract with the USDA,
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and we caution you not to spend your money on
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fertilizer and seed for the coming season, Bowling said. At
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the food pantry on US one nineteen North at Ermine,
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director Vicky Holbrook said she is attempting to make do
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with the food they get, but it's getting harder as
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the days go by.
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Speaker 2: Week to week.
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Speaker 1: When I start to make an order, I'm like, okay,
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are they going to have it? Holbrook said. In some things,
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we're getting fewer and fewer, Holbrook said. Bowling said some
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companies are assisting the food pantry here, and a company
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recently contacted him that does not want to be identified.
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We've been so fortunate with donations from the corporations. One
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corporate donor in California that was on the level of
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a big brokerage house or something contacted me and they said,
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we're going to stick with you because we know it's
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going to get bad.
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Speaker 2: Bowling said.
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Speaker 1: Some national companies with local locations are also helping. We
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have three dollar stores, food City, and Walmart that donate us.
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Speaker 2: Food fo every week. Holbrook said.
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Speaker 1: The pantry volunteers make monthly trips to communities around the
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county for drive up service, as well as keeping the
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pantry's Ermine location open Wednesday through Friday of each week,
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and the community deliveries are always the third Wednesday of
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the month between ten am and one pm. Bowling provides
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food by appointment from his home on days the pantry
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is closed. The only months that community visits aren't made
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are December, January, and February when the roads are too
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bad to drive on. Persons who need help can find
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out when the drive up food giveaways are by visiting
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the Lectri County Food Pantry's Facebook page. Those who have
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not signed up for the Electra County Food Pantry can
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do so at the Airmine office on US one nineteen North.
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Holbrook said the volunteer service no longer asks for income
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information if someone said they can't afford groceries. The pantry
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will help. Holbrook said it's not her business to judge
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people who are asking for food. I'm not going to
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send anybody off hungry, she said, How could I live
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with myself? The next story is wreck is fatal to
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father and child. Electric County man and his nine year
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old daughter were killed Sunday in a car crash in
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Harland County.
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Speaker 2: Tray V.
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Speaker 1: Stewart, twenty five, of Partridge and his daughter, kieren E
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E Smith, nine, were pronounced dead at eight thirty pm
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July sixth on US one, nineteen, near Cumberland. According to
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the Harlan County Coroner's Office, the crash occurred shortly just
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before six point fifty pm. Kentucky State Police, Cumberland Police Department,
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Cumberland Fire Department, Harland Rescue Squad, Harland County Sheriff's Office,
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Harlan County Coroner's Office, and Lifeguard Ambulance Service responded to
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the nine to one one call, and multiple people from
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both vehicles were flown from the scene with serious injuries.
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Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Jacobs, public information officer for
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the Harlan Post, said in a release. The highway was
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closed for about two hours while troopers investigated the collision.
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In the next story, Jenkins woman gets probation after she
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repays liquor store. A Jenkins woman has been sentenced to
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a year's probation after pleading guilty to stealing cash from
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the Witchburg liquor store where she worked. Tosha Howard thirty seven,
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one thirty eight Railroad Hill, Jenkins pleaded guilty in Letter
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Circuit Court to theft by unlawful taking or disposition valued
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at more than five hundred dollars less than one thousand dollars.
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She was sentenced to twelve months in prison, but the
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sentence was probated for twelve months. Electric County Grand Jury
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indicted Howard in March, charging her with theft by unlawful
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taking for stealing more than one thousand dollars but less
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than ten thousand dollars from Food City, Wine and Spirits
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in Weisberg. She was also charged in the indictment with
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being a first degree persistent felony offender related to a
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two thousand, twenty one conviction on a charge of drug position.
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The grand jury returned the indictments after hearing testimony from
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Lectra County Deputy Sheriff Isaiah Jacobs, who said Howard was
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seen on video surveillance stealing cash from the store by
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manipulating the cash register during customer purchases. Court records show
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that on June twenty fifth, Howard accepted the prosecution's offer
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of a plea agreement under which she would be sentenced
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to a year's probation if she pleaded guilty to a
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reduced theft charge and paid rest to cution to Food
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City for the money she stole. In addition, the charge
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of being a persistent felony offender would be dismissed, while
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the charge of theft by the unlawful taking of more
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than one thousand, but less than ten thousand dollars a
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Class D felony, would be reduced to theft of between
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five hundred and one thousand dollars, a Class A misdemeanor.
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According to court documents, Howard did repay the money she
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stole to a Food City representative inside the Leiser Circuit
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court room on June twenty fifth, and was formerly sentenced
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on July three. Howard was one of two people who
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pleaded guilty recently and were sentenced last week by Leiser
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Circuit Judge James W.
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Speaker 2: Craft.
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Speaker 1: June Fraser, fifty seven, for Clyde Baker spur Road Hinman,
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pleaded guilty to an amended charge of a single attempt
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to intimidate a participant in a legal process, reduced from
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the three counts of intimidating a participant in the legal
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process she had been charged with. In return, she was
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sentenced to three hundred and sixty five days in the
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County jail, probated for two years. Fraser, along with William Fraser,
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sixty and another woman, fifty two year old Donna Michelle Smith,
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of twenty two sixty six Highway eleven forty eight Isism,
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were arrested in May on the intimidation charges. The witness
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being intimidated apparently works for the Child Protection branch of
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State Cabinet for Health and Family Services Department for Community
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Based Services. Donna Smith and William Fraser, who also lives
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at the same Hindman address listed for June Fraser, remain
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charged with one count each of intimidating a witness, along
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with one count each of possession or viewing of matter
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portraying a sexual performance by a miner over the age
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of twelve but under the age of eighteen. June Fraser,
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William Fraser, and Donna Smith were indicted a month after
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another resident of the home where Smith lives, Michael J. Smith,
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was indicted on the charge of first degree sexual abuse.
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That incitement came a month after Baker was indicted on
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two counts of first degree sexual abuse. Charles Moore of
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the Kentucky State Police testified to the grand jury in
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the two cases against Michael Baker. In the next story.
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Ancient fossil Native American tool found during walk along the river.
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Jessica Palumbo left for a walk along the banks of
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the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Watchburg recently
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and returned with an ancient fossil and a bone awl.
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Bone awls were crafted from the bones of animals such
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as deer and elk, and more important tools to Native
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Americans who needed to punch holes in leather and other goods.
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Many of the bone awls discovered in Kentucky date back
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to prehistoric times. The crinoid fossil shows the remains of
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marine animals related to starfish and sea urchins. They date
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back to the mid Cambrian period, when what is now
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eastern Kentucky was under the sea, and are said by
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experts to be three hundred million years older than the
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first dinosaur. The next story is what do black bears
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do in July except look for food? With black bear
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sightings now commonplace in Leicher and surrounding counties, the wildlife
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biologists at bear Wise tell us the bears are up
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to much more at this time of year than foraging
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for food. By July, cubs born this year have grown
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to the size of our raccoon or a small dog
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with big years. Yearling bears, now on their own can
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be the size of medium dug Bears of both sexes,
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mark trees and adult bears. Mate cubs smell their mother's
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breath to learn what's good to eat. Bears great memories
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help them return to proven food sources. How to tell
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the difference between a cub and a yearling. Yearling bears
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are about eighteen months old in July and out on
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their own for the first time. Sometimes people mistake these
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young bears for abandoned cubs and think they need help.
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In July, cubs of the year are about the size
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of a raccoon or a small dog. Yearlings are usually
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quite a bit bigger, closer to medium sized dogs. Fun fact,
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one way to distinguish yearlings is by their large ears.
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A yearling bear's ears or as long as they will
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ever be so as the bear gets older and bigger,
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the ears seem to shrink, but actually the bear's head
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is getting larger and wider. Cubs born this year are
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usually still with their moms. If they are left alone,
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they may cry and whimper. Yearlings seldom vocalize, but they
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do roam around looking for a home range of their own.
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Female yearlings are often allowed to share their mom's home range,
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but males are forced to move out. It may be
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several years before male yearlings find a permanent home of
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their own. Yearlings of both sexes are now trying to
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find food without their mom's help. That's why it's so
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important to make sure there's nothing around your place to
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attract them. They need to learn to find natural foods
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if they're going to grow up wild signs of bear activity.
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Bears often mark trees, especially in the summer mating season.
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Bears stand on their hind legs and scratch the trees
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with their claws and sometimes teeth. Both males and females
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mark trees. Many researchers believe bears create marker trees to
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announce they are in the area and let other bears
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know how big they are. Sometimes males will claw the
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tree above another male's markings, as is to say, I'm
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bigger than you are. Bears often deliberately scratch aromatic trees
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such as conifers, cedars, and cherry trees, or cre soap
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poles or structures, because the scent created is stronger and
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carries further than the aroma the bear leaves behind. Bears
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still want mates. Mating often begins in June and goes
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on throughout July. Mature males may be more active in
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the daytime now as they travel longer distances throughout their
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home range. Female bears ready to mate also travel throughout
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their home range. Bears are very focused on finding mates.
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Try not to hike alone. Pay attention and make noise
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if you're out in the woods. Large male bears chase
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off younger, smaller rivals, but may do battle with other
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mature males for the right to mate. This is normal
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mating behavior. Both bears may end up with wounds and scars,
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but even the loser is unlikely to be seriously injured.
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It's not safe to approach or interfere. If you're lucky
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enough to spot two bears that clearly want to be together,
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just smile and give them some privacy. Female bears can
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be ready to mate around age three, but may be
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as old as eight, depending on food availability and conditions.
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Male bears are also mature at age three, but usually
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must wait longer to mate because the youngsters can't compete
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with big, mature males. How bears find food. Bears have
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more than a hundred times as many smell receptors in
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their noses as people do, and can detect and follow
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scent trails a mile or more back to the source.
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Because bears are omnivores and much of their diet is vegetation,
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insects and carrion dead animals, their sense of super smell
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is vital to their survival. Bears have a much better
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sense of direction than most people. There built in GPS
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guides them back year after year to wherever they found food,
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whether it's the berry patch that ripens in July or
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the trash that goes out every Thursday night, cubs follow mom.
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Speaker 2: Cubs are big.
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Speaker 1: Enough now to follow mom as she goes foraging for food.
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If mom is a wild bear, she teaches them what's
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good to eat and how to find and eat specific foods.
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She shows the youngsters how to eat berries, catch fish,
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and dis for insects. She even lets them smell her
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breath so they learn to associate certain smells with foods.
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Young termites, not all lessons are good ones. If mom
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has learned to rely on human provided food sources, one
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whiff of mom's breath will teach the cubs to associate
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the smells of human food and garbage, pet food, bird seed,
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and more with a full tummy and easy meals. Instead
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of learning how to forage in the wild, they learn
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how to raid dumpsters and garbage cans, knock down bird feeders,
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empty pet food bowls, and prowl through campgrounds. If they
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grow up, they'll teach their own cubs the same behavior.
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Young bears leaving Eastern Kentucky now but will find their
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way back to mountains even though they were born in
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Eastern Kentucky. Young male black bears often leave the region
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during this time of year, leading to a rise in
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bear sightings across the state. We typically hear about sightings
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of black bears in unusual areas in early summer as
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they roam out of mountain counties, said John Hast, Bear
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Program coordinator with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
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These juvenile bears can easily wander into populated areas, even
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city centers, because they don't yet know any better. Confused
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and scared, they may hide during the day and exit
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the area at night. Residents should keep their distance, remove
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all food sources, and let the bear move on when
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he feels safe to do so. In early summer, young
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male bears may get pushed out of areas where they
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were raised in eastern Kentucky by older and more dominant
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male bears. These juveniles may wander up to several weeks
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or more into unfamiliar territory in search of good health,
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habitat and prospective mates before returning to the mountains. Bears
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can travel twenty miles or more in a day if undisturbed.
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Black bears have a natural fear of people and dogs,
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and adverse encounters are extremely rare. Kentucky Fish and Wildlife
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advises the public no matter where they live in the
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state to never approach or feed a bear, which can
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result in a negative encounter. If you encounter a bear,
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keep a safe distance and don't approach it. If you
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feel a bear is posing in immediate danger, call local
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law enforcement immediately. Residents of an area where a bear
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has been spotted should secure their garbage in a garage
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or other building, not leave pet food outside, and clean
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and securely store barbecue grills. These are all best practices
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in general for people to prevent problems with wildlife. Also,
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people should not use bird feeders in bear range or
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in areas where they have been recently observed. It is
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a violation of Kentucky law to feed bears or to
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knowingly leave unsecured food available for them to consume. In Kentucky,
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hunting bears is regulated and limited to defined seasons in
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the established bear zones in eastern Kentucky to insure a
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sustainable and healthy population. The next story is Parenting Second
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Time Around.
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Speaker 2: P A s T A PASTA.
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Speaker 1: A workshop on parenting a Second Time Around will begin
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at ten thirty a m July sixteenth at the Jenkins
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Public Library. The workshop is sponsored by the Letcher County
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Extension Service. The next headline is Weisburg police said driver
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fled after the attempted stop. Auto is found in Cumberland.
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Cumberland police have recovered a car Tuesday that fled from
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Whitesburg police, but the driver escaped on foot, police said.
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According to Whitesburg Assistant Chief Justin Hunsucker, a city patrolman
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attempted to pull over a different vehicle, but the silver
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BMW between him and the targeted vehicle took off when
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he pulled up behind it. The officer chased the BMW
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but lost it in the Little Collie area, Hunsucker said
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Cumberland police saw the car and attempted to pull it over,
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but the driver fled again. He said the car stopped
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on a dead end road and the driver fled on foot.
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Hunsucker said he and another officer recovered the same car
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from Cumberland two years ago, with whom he believed to
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be the same person driving it. Hunsucker said the car
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was owned by the mother of the suspect's girlfriend and
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was reported stolen, but now belongs to the girl friend.
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He said, while the suspect might have had permission to
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drive the car this time, he now has a suspended license.
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The next story is Perry boy charged in murder. A
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sixteen year old boy is charged with murder in the
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shooting death of Wallace Cornett at Viper on Monday. The
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teen was arrested on Tuesday by the Perry County Sheriff's Department.
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His name has not been released. According to Perry County
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Sheriff Joe Engle, the shooting occurred at one fifty seven
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p m. July seventh, inside a home at nineteen o
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five Middle Fork of Mace's Creek. Cornett, sixty three, was
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from Robert Preshier Branch. Engle said the teen shot Cornet
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at close range with a shotgun. In the next story,
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Harlan a t V mishap is fatal and Anderson County
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man is dead after a utility terrain vehicle accident on
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Black Mountain in Harlan County. The incident occurred Saturday, July fifth,
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on a trail in the Black Mountain Adventure Park at Everts.
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The Harlan County Coroner's Office identified the victim as twenty
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two year old Brady M. Castle of Lawrenceburg. Kentucky State
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Police for investigating the accident, but Coroner John Derrick No
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said in a news release that Castle died as a
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result of injuries received when his UTV rolled over. The
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crash occurred about three twenty pm Saturday, and Castle was
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pronounced dead at six forty pm. The incident is still
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under investigation. The next story is Harrison becomes president at SKCTC.
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Doctor Lee Harrison became the new president of Southeast Kentucky
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Community and Technical College July first, as the college entered
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its sixty fifth year. She succeeds interim president doctor Patsey Jackson. Harrison,
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who most recently served as s k ctc's Dean of
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Advancement and Public Relations, brings more than twenty five years
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of experience in higher education administration. In the next story,
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city council meeting canceled. The regularly scheduled Witsburg City Council
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meeting for July eighth at six thirty p m. At
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City Hall was canceled due to an unexpected emergency. The
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meeting will be rescheduled as soon as possible. And In
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the next story, Pollinators, a workshop on pollinators will be
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held at noon July seventeenth at the Letter County Extension Office.
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Each participant will go home with some pollinator flowers to
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register calls. Sixty three three two three six y two.
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The next story is Gabby's Fishing Fever by Greg Gabby
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Caudle tips on fishing with crank baits. After doing a
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series on jigs for a few weeks, I'm going to
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write some articles and release videos on basic crank bait
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fishing for bass over the next few weeks. If you
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would like to see my weekly fishing videos on Thursday mornings,
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I post them on Facebook.
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Speaker 2: All you need to.
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Speaker 1: Do is search Greg Caudle or the Fishing with Gabby homepage.
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Crank baits come in three basic types, shallow, medium, and
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deep diving models. In this article, we'll start with the
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shallow diving or running baits. These baits typically run from
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just under the surface to around four feet deep. This
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bait is probably the most common of the three used
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by most bass anglers. Minnows and shad are among the
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favorite foods for bass in the shallow water areas, and
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most of the shallow running baits will resemble a bait
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fish in size and color. Most of the crank baits
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have a tight side to side action to resemble a minnow,
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making any shad color pattern on these baits a great choice.
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These baits are designed to make them run shallow or deeper.
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The baits are made with a bill or limp on
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the front of the bait. As the bait is retrieved,
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the water pushes against the bill and causes a resistance.
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This makes the bait run at a designed depth. The
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shallow runners have a smaller bill and the deep divers
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have a larger bill. However, other things also affect the
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running depth of the bait, including lime size. Smaller, lighter
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line has less resistance in the water and will let
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the bait run deeper. Heavier line will have more water
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pull and make the bait run shallower. But retrieve speed
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also affects the running depth. The slower the retrieve, the
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shallower a bait will run. The faster the bait is retrieved,
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the deeper it will run. Rod position also affects running depth.
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The higher you hold the rod tip during the retrieve,
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the shallower the bait will run, and the lower you
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hold the tip it will run some deeper. Stay tuned
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for some in depth videos on crank bait fishing on Facebook,
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on fishing with Gabby God bless you all, the next
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story is teammates love what Trent Noah is bringing. By
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Larry Vaught, He's not being mentioned as one of the
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prominent players on next year's Kentucky team, but sophomore guard
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Trent Noah of Harlan County certainly has the support of
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teammates and coaches. I think the expectations for Trent are
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very high because of his skill set. Colin Chandler, another
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sophomore guard, said, and you can't really look back on
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last year. I mean, you can look at what he's done,
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the potential he shows, but he's going to be a
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completely different player, a better player. He's had months to
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work on his game, and I think everyone in Kentucky
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knows what Trent is capable of, and so I think
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he's just going to continue to get better. And he's
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always exciting to watch, even if there were times where
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me and him weren't playing in games. There's a lot
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of things behind the scenes that people don't see and
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the spurts that he shows. Coach Mark Pope said when
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the season ended that Noah had made tremendous strides on
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the defensive end, considering he basically only played zone defense
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in high school. Pope recalled late in the season when
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he had Noah guarding Alabama's Mark Sears, the twenty twenty
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three twenty four sec Player of the Year. When he
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first got here, the speed and athleticism was shocking to him,
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and every day he picked up more and more. By
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the end of the season, he just felt like he belongs.
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Hope also expects Noah to be better off the bounce
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as a sophomore and be more physical on both offense
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and defense. This concludes the reading of The Mountain Eagle.
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