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Licking Valley Courier - 8.14.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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  Speaker 1: We now turn to the Lincoln Valley Courier to bring
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  Speaker 1: you news from in and around West Liberty. Your reader
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  Speaker 1: today is Janice. We begin with the addition dated Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: August the thirteenth, twenty twenty six, as a reminder of
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  Speaker 1: Radio I as a reading service intended for people who
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  Speaker 1: are blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult
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  Speaker 1: to read printed material. Our first article is klaw or
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  Speaker 1: sigh pro poorora illness reported in three East Kentucky counties.
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  Speaker 1: Cases were reported in Morgan, Floyd, and Leccher Counties Frankfort, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: August the fourth, nine cases of psycho pariasis have been
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  Speaker 1: reported in Morgan, Floyd, Leccher counties. As Kentucky health officials
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  Speaker 1: investigate a significant statewide increase in the intestinal illness. The
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Department for Public Health set that Letcher County reported
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  Speaker 1: six cases, Floyd County has reported two, and Morgan County
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  Speaker 1: has reported one. Statewide, six hundred and twenty possible cases
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  Speaker 1: or under investigation as of July twenty ninth, with two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four confirmed. The number of people hospitalized
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  Speaker 1: has increased from seven to twenty four. The Kentucky typical
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  Speaker 1: average approx. Averages approximately thirty five cases of psycho poros
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  Speaker 1: I don't know each year, with infections generally increasing during
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  Speaker 1: the summer months. Psychoporisis is caused by the microscopic psychospora parasite.
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  Speaker 1: People can become infected after consuming contaminated food or water.
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  Speaker 1: Symptoms can include diarrhea, nausea, abdomal cramping, bloating, fever, vomiting,
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  Speaker 1: and headaches. Our next article is Overdose Awareness event held
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  Speaker 1: on August eighth from New Vision Recovery Center. What an
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  Speaker 1: incredible day of community at Old Mill Park. The New
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  Speaker 1: Vision Recovery Center and ARH teamed up on Saturday, August
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  Speaker 1: eighth from Morgan County Overdose Awareness Event and Recovery Rally
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  Speaker 1: and the turnout was amazing. New Vision's very own Hunter
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  Speaker 1: Scott gave his testimony and he did an awesome job.
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  Speaker 1: We are very proud of him. This event, to honor
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  Speaker 1: those who have been lost to addiction, was concluded with
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  Speaker 1: a burn letter ceremony and lit a memorial candle. There
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  Speaker 1: is hope, and there is hope in Morgan County. It
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  Speaker 1: was a powerful reminder that no one has to walk alone.
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  Speaker 1: If you or someone may know of you may know
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  Speaker 1: is struggling with substance abuse our mental illness. We at
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  Speaker 1: New Vision Recovery Center are here to help you and
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  Speaker 1: contact us at twenty four to seven intakeline at six
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  Speaker 1: O six seven four three twenty one O seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight five nine five nine five three O four six,
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  Speaker 1: or at the website www dot New Vision Recovery dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is man charged with sex crimes against
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  Speaker 1: juvenile victim. The Kentucky State Police recently arrested a local
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  Speaker 1: man for multiple alleged sex crimes involving the juvenile victim.
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  Speaker 1: Jerald Nunning, thirty seven, of West Liberty was taken into
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  Speaker 1: custody on Friday, August of seventh on the following charges.
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  Speaker 1: Rape first degree victim under twelve years of age, sexual
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  Speaker 1: abuse first degree victim under twelve years of age, Sodomy
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  Speaker 1: first degree victim under twelve years of age. Nutting is
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  Speaker 1: currently incarcerated at the Rown County Detention Center in Morehead,
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  Speaker 1: where he is being held on five hundred thousand dollars bond.
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  Speaker 1: The case remains under investigation by KSP Trooper Corbyn Spencer
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  Speaker 1: of Post eight in Moorehead. Our next article is Morgan
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  Speaker 1: County native Penn's successful memoir. Stephen Keller's book titled Pay
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  Speaker 1: to Play was released in June. Editor's note, we would
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  Speaker 1: like to thank Morgan County native and author Stephen Keller
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  Speaker 1: and his niece Kristen Keller Allen for providing a copy
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  Speaker 1: of his book Pay to Play, Political Corruption, Corporate Greed
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  Speaker 1: and the Cost of the American Dream to The Courier.
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  Speaker 1: This feature story about pay to Play contains information from
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  Speaker 1: publisher's Storyteller Media and other materials provided by mister Keller,
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  Speaker 1: as well as an interview that The Courier conducted with
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  Speaker 1: mister Keller on August eighth. Miranda M. Cantrell, a Morgan
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  Speaker 1: County native, is revisiting his tumulous journey, as he says it,
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  Speaker 1: from West Liberty to Wall Street and a self pinned
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  Speaker 1: memoir that hit bookstore shelves recently. Author Stephen L. Keller's
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  Speaker 1: story takes readers through his experience at the cross section
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  Speaker 1: of high stakes global business politics and federal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: Pay to Play, Political Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Cost
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  Speaker 1: of the American Dream was published by Storyteller Media on
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  Speaker 1: June twenty third and distributed by McMillan Publishers. In July,
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  Speaker 1: the book reached Pardon Me. The book reached number two
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  Speaker 1: among he releases in Amazon's white collar crime category. Keller,
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  Speaker 1: who currently resides in Sarasota, Florida, described his memoir as
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  Speaker 1: an account of his rapid prize in and dramatic fall
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  Speaker 1: from a multi billion dollar industry, an industry he created.
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  Speaker 1: A nineteen eighty one graduate of Morgan County High School,
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  Speaker 1: Keller was a state pole vault champion as a junior
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and an all state noseguard in Class
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  Speaker 1: Double A in nineteen eighty one. He began his business
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  Speaker 1: career later that decade as a stockholder stockbroker with Dean
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  Speaker 1: Whitter Firm in Lexington, Kentucky, where a coworker introduced him
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  Speaker 1: to the burgeoning and largely unregulated market of vital insurance settlements.
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  Speaker 1: A vitical settlement is an arrangement in which which a
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  Speaker 1: terminally ill individual sells his or her life insurance policy
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  Speaker 1: to a third party for less than the mature value,
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  Speaker 1: in enabling the seller to benefit from the proceeds before death.
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  Speaker 1: The lucrative practice prompted Keller's establishment in nineteen ninety two
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  Speaker 1: of the Lexington, Kentucky based company kel co Incorporated and
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  Speaker 1: at mglank mcguides of his surname and that of his
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  Speaker 1: initial partner, Chris Conway, who departed the company early on
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  Speaker 1: to accept a job offer in North Carolina. Keller was
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven years old when he started kel Cole. Following
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  Speaker 1: the airing of the commercial and multiple major television markets
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  Speaker 1: during the Oprah Winfrey Show, kel Cole began to grow
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  Speaker 1: expedionally rapidly. By nineteen ninety eight, Keller had created the
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  Speaker 1: life settlement industry, hiring actuaries from William M. Mercer in
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  Speaker 1: Toronto to build out the structure, and taking what he
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  Speaker 1: said were the world's first scrutinized bundles of life insurance
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  Speaker 1: policies onto the New York Stock Exchange. A co founder
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  Speaker 1: of the industry's first trade association, Keller said that kel
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  Speaker 1: COO eventually came to hold sixty five percent of the
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  Speaker 1: global market worth thirty billion dollars annually. The life settlement
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  Speaker 1: industry quickly expanded beyond terminally ill patients to retire ease
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  Speaker 1: and other individuals who wished to assess their access their
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  Speaker 1: life insurance benefits prior to death. Keller indicated in his
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  Speaker 1: book that many life Settlement clients were indeed were in
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  Speaker 1: need of money for medical bills and other expenses, motivating
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  Speaker 1: them to sell their life insurance policies to Kelco. The
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  Speaker 1: success of Life Settlement took Keller to the pinnacles of
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  Speaker 1: business and political realms, including Wall Street and the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center in New York, and the White House in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. Where he encountered national political figures who would
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  Speaker 1: eventually have unforeseen impacts on his life. Keller notes that
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  Speaker 1: one such figure inspired the title of his book. Kelco's
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  Speaker 1: growth came to an abrupt hault in May of two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: when eighty federal agents rated the company's Lexington headquarters. Two
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  Speaker 1: years after the raid, kel Code sued as per a
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  Speaker 1: July ninth, two thousand and two report from the Indianapolis Star.
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  Speaker 1: In July two thousand and two, compliant filed in a
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  Speaker 1: Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis. The company accused Consiko Incorporated
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  Speaker 1: the Carmel Indiana Insurance and Finance Company now known as
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  Speaker 1: Cno Financial Group of making file some malicious allegations to
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  Speaker 1: investigate agencies that led to the raid, with particular focus
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  Speaker 1: on former vice president and Assistant General Counsel Barbara Farrington.
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  Speaker 1: The suit cited a November nineteen ninety eight letter to
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  Speaker 1: California Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner titled Life Insurance Fraud that
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  Speaker 1: named Kelco. It argued that the traditional insurance stood to
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  Speaker 1: lose from Kelco's model because investors who acquired the policies
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  Speaker 1: kept paying premiums while insurers relied on policies lapsing for revenue.
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  Speaker 1: The Kelco claimed losses exceeding one billion dollars. Farrington denied wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: In May of two thousand and one document file with
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  Speaker 1: the suit. She stated she had no personal knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: Kelco or its principles helped prepare false insurance applications, and
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  Speaker 1: describe the nineteen ninety eight letter as a general statement
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  Speaker 1: about patterns found when investigating suspicious applications. She left CONSIKO
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  Speaker 1: in February two thousand and two and has since died.
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  Speaker 1: Kel Co voluntarily dismissed the suit as Keller and other
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  Speaker 1: executives turned to defending themselves against federal charges. The claims
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  Speaker 1: were never adjutuated or in the allegation against CONSECO and
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  Speaker 1: Farmington Farrington were never tested in court. Federal indictments of
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  Speaker 1: Keller and other Kelco executives followed. In Charges against Keller
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  Speaker 1: included mail fraud, wired fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy stemming
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  Speaker 1: from allegations of clean sheeting the falsifying of statements such
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  Speaker 1: as medical and lifestyle information on life insurance applications. Keller
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  Speaker 1: stated that clean sheeting is an industry term rather than
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  Speaker 1: a criminal offense, and that no federal statue uses it.
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  Speaker 1: There is a two year period for insurance companies to
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  Speaker 1: determine if policy applicants are lying. Keller said kel Code
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  Speaker 1: didn't sell the policies to the original policyholders. We only
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  Speaker 1: bought policies from those people who sold them to third
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  Speaker 1: party investors through the mail. Offenses involving insurance are also
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  Speaker 1: generally addressed by state statue, which were wrote in Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: not federal law. Following his conviction, Keller fled the United
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  Speaker 1: States and eventually settled in Panama for an extended period
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  Speaker 1: before he was apprehended by federal authorities in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and four. Keller was initially sentenced to fourteen years in
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  Speaker 1: federal prison, but his sentence was subsequently reduced to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred twenty months. He served eight and a half years
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  Speaker 1: at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, where he
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  Speaker 1: began handwriting Pay to Play. The Courier spoke with Keller
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  Speaker 1: amid the early success of the memoir, which has drawn
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  Speaker 1: more than sixty reader reviews, averaging five stars. Written in
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  Speaker 1: the style of a thriller, the three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven page memoir has drawn comparisons from reviewers to the
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  Speaker 1: legal suspense novels of John Ris. Keller, who graduated from
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  Speaker 1: Georgetown College in Kentucky, said he approached his business pursuits
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  Speaker 1: with the same passion that drove his athletic endeavors. It
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  Speaker 1: was quite a ride, Keller said of his experience, and
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  Speaker 1: it all happened very quick, but it wasn't overwhelming. Like
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  Speaker 1: with pole vaulting, I set out to be number one.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to win at all costs. I applied pole
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  Speaker 1: vaulting to business to be an efficient as I possibly could.
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  Speaker 1: I started with new process of treating insurance policies as assets.
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  Speaker 1: We are told early on that you have to die
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  Speaker 1: to collect insurance benefits. Life settlement was a new way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking the life insurance business model is that we
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  Speaker 1: want to take you take out a policy, but they
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  Speaker 1: often start raising the premiums as you get older. A
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  Speaker 1: large percentage of life insurance policies eventually laps for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: Though Keller described his escape to Panama as a desperate
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  Speaker 1: move that he attributed to one hundred percent loss of
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  Speaker 1: confidence in the justice system, he also expressed contrition in
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  Speaker 1: his book Forward. I Am not without flaws and I
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  Speaker 1: have regrets. Keller wrote, namely that I placed at times ambition, greed,
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  Speaker 1: and a competitive spirit ahead of my more noble intention
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  Speaker 1: bringing dignity to people at the end of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: This book is my way of giving those people the
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  Speaker 1: answers they deserve and reclaiming our narrative. It's time to
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  Speaker 1: set the record straight. Since his release from prison, Keller
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  Speaker 1: has married Morgan County native Norma Jones Keller, formerly of
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  Speaker 1: Canal City, Kentucky or Cannell City, Kentucky, and continue to
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  Speaker 1: offer college scholarships to Eastern Kentucky students through the Stephen L.
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  Speaker 1: Keller Foundation. These scholarships have been given to at least
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  Speaker 1: two kids per year since nineteen ninety eight. Keller said
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  Speaker 1: this is for kids from Eastern Kentucky who are having
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  Speaker 1: a hard time, and I encourage any students in need
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  Speaker 1: to reach out. Additional information regarding the Stephen L. Keller
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  Speaker 1: Scholarship can be found at www dot BGCF dot org
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  Speaker 1: forward slash All Scholarships. Keller has also established the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Restoration Foundation, which feature focuses on education, research, and reforms
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  Speaker 1: intended to promote fairness and accountability in the federal justice system.
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  Speaker 1: Among these issues, the foundation is examining when conduct traditionally
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  Speaker 1: regulated under state law becomes the basis for federal criminal prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: Additional information regarding that Justice Restoration Foundation is available at
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  Speaker 1: Justice Restoration Foundation dot org. Following Pay to Play's publication,
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  Speaker 1: Keller has held multiple book signings and appeared on various podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: including Inside True Crime hosted by Matthew Cox. There is
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  Speaker 1: no way in my wildest dreams that I would have
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  Speaker 1: ever remotely begun to even conceive where Pay to Play
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  Speaker 1: has taken me, Keller said, I'd like to thank everyone
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  Speaker 1: who has taken the time to read my story. Pay
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  Speaker 1: to Play can be purchased on Amazon and anywhere books
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  Speaker 1: are sold, as well as through Keller's website https Coveland
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  Speaker 1: Forward Slash Forward Slash Stephen Nashkeller dot com. Our next
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  Speaker 1: article is Kentuckians are encouraged to drive responsible. The Responsible
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend Drive Sober or Get pulled Over campaign
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  Speaker 1: runs August the nineteenth through September seventh, Frankfurt, Kentucky. August six,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Team Kentucky reminds travelers to plan ahead
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  Speaker 1: for a safe and sober right home to help keep
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  Speaker 1: roads safe as Kentucky in celebrate the unofficial end of
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  Speaker 1: summer during the upcoming Labor Day weekend. The awareness campaign
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  Speaker 1: is part of a broader effort state transportation officials are
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  Speaker 1: making alongside law enforcement, to improve highway safety by discouraging
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  Speaker 1: impaired driving. This Labor Day, Let's all do the right
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  Speaker 1: and what's right and look out for our neighbors by
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  Speaker 1: making smart decisions that keep everyone safe on the roadway,
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  Speaker 1: said Governor Andy Scheer. Do not drink and drive, put
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  Speaker 1: the phone down, buckle up, and drive the speed limit.
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  Speaker 1: Too many crashes and tragedies on our roadways can be
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  Speaker 1: prevented by taking simple steps that ensure everyone makes it
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  Speaker 1: home safely. Although impairent driving enforcement is a year round effort.
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  Speaker 1: Crashes tend to increase over holiday weekends. The Kentucky Office
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  Speaker 1: of Highway Safety KOHS is joining the National Highway Traffic
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  Speaker 1: Safety Administration and law enforcement agencies across the country in
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  Speaker 1: Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Awareness and Law Enforcement
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  Speaker 1: safety campaign reminds reminding drivers to make a plan before
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  Speaker 1: drinking or using impairing substances, and to always chew, use
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  Speaker 1: a safe and sober ride home. During the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Labor Day holiday weekend, there were sixty nine crashes
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  Speaker 1: involving an impaired driver, resulting in forty nine injuries and
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  Speaker 1: three deaths. While the number of impaired driving crashes decreased
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  Speaker 1: from seventy six in twenty twenty four to sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, the number of injuries increased from
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  Speaker 1: forty four to forty nine and deaths increased from one
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  Speaker 1: to three. Drivers are advised to follow these tips to
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  Speaker 1: stay safe before the festivities began. Plan a way to
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  Speaker 1: get home safely at the end of the night. If
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  Speaker 1: you are impaired, use a ride booking company or taxi,
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  Speaker 1: call taxi, call a sober friend or family member, or
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  Speaker 1: use public transportation to get home safely. If you see
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  Speaker 1: an impair driver safely pull over in contact law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: You may dial the Kentucky State Police toll free direct
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  Speaker 1: line at one eight hundred two two two fifty five
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  Speaker 1: fifty five or call nine to one one. Provide a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle description, license number, location, and, if possible, direction of travel.
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  Speaker 1: If you know people who are about to drive or
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  Speaker 1: ride while impaired, take their keys and help them make
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  Speaker 1: other arrangements to get to their destinations safely. Where a
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  Speaker 1: seat belt it is not only the law, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also the best defense against an impaired driver. Buckling up
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  Speaker 1: helps prevent injury and death if you are involved in
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  Speaker 1: a crash. For more information on drug driving, visit ky
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  Speaker 1: drivesober dot com. Our next article is County Fair slated
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  Speaker 1: for August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth at fairgrounds. Rides, wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: dog show and music on tap Kids Night is August
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh. The Morgan County Fair will be Thursday, Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Saturday August twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: at the Morgan County Fairgrounds, located at four hundred New
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  Speaker 1: Fairgrounds Road in West Liberty. The event will include carnival
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  Speaker 1: rides and special events on each night. Thursday August twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: gates will open at five pm for Kids night free admission.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets for kids will be available at all Morgan County
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  Speaker 1: schools the week of the fair. Tickets are also available
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  Speaker 1: for homeschool students at Gievani's and can be picked up
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  Speaker 1: the week of the fair. Adult admission on this date
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  Speaker 1: will be fifteen dollars. At seven pm, there will be
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  Speaker 1: a dog show sponsored by the West Liberty Veterinarian Clinic.
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  Speaker 1: Friday August the twenty seventh, gates will open at five pm.
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  Speaker 1: At six seven pm, there will be a wrestling event
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  Speaker 1: am W micro wrestling match. Admission will be twenty dollars
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  Speaker 1: on this date. Saturday August the twenty ninth, gates open
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  Speaker 1: at three. At six pm, there will be a hot
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  Speaker 1: dog eating contest sponsored by the six oh six Food Truck.
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  Speaker 1: There will also be entertainment, with Isaac Sexton opening the
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  Speaker 1: show at seven pm and Crossroads taking the stage at
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  Speaker 1: eight pm. A mission will be twenty dollars on this date.
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  Speaker 1: The event is sponsored by the West Liberty Tourism Giovanni's Pizza,
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  Speaker 1: Commercial Bank and Bank of the Mountains. Bring your family
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  Speaker 1: and friends and enjoy all of the rides and entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is Extension Office Fair Market August the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth. The Morgan County Extension Office will host the
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  Speaker 1: Morgan County Fair Market event on Saturday, August the twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninth at the Extension Office located at one thousand and
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  Speaker 1: two Prestonburg Street in West Liberty. The event will run
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  Speaker 1: from ten am to four pm and will feature locally
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  Speaker 1: grown produce and handmade goods in celebration of the Morgan
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  Speaker 1: County Fair. There will also be a tractor show during
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  Speaker 1: this time. Registration will begin at ten am. The Morgan
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  Speaker 1: County Homemakers will be selling concessions and the four hten
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  Speaker 1: Club will be hosting fun carnival games as well. There
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  Speaker 1: are limited spots for vendors, so please get your applications
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  Speaker 1: in as soon as possible. For additional information regarding this event,
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  Speaker 1: contact the Morgan County Extension Office at seven four three
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  Speaker 1: thirty two ninety two. Our next article is Blood Drive
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  Speaker 1: is scheduled for Thursday, August the twentieth at West Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Christian Church, Lexington, Kentucky. Only you can prevent blood shortages
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  Speaker 1: That starts by donating blood at an upcoming Kentucky Blood
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  Speaker 1: Center drive in your community. Blood cannot be manufactured. That
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  Speaker 1: means the health of the blood supply and the patients
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  Speaker 1: who rely on it for a variety of needs is
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  Speaker 1: entirely dependent on donors giving blood drives like this one.
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  Speaker 1: The Morgan County Community Blood Drive is will one through
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  Speaker 1: six pm Thursday, August the twentieth at the West Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Christian Church Fellowship Hall located at three or four Prestonburg
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  Speaker 1: Street in West Liberty. Donors will receive a limited edition
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  Speaker 1: only you Can Prevent Blood Shortages t shirts and a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen dollars Walmart gift card while supplies last, as a
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  Speaker 1: thank you for doing their part to ensure a healthy
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  Speaker 1: blood supply. This ludes excerpts from recent editions of The
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  Speaker 1: Linking Valley Courier. Your reader has been janis on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of everyone here at radio. I thank you for listening,
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  Speaker 1: keep on listening, and I hope you have a very
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  Speaker 1: good day.