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8.6.26 · Springfield Sun

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Speaker 1: We now turn to the Springfield Sun to bring you
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Speaker 1: news from in and around Washington County. Your reader today
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Speaker 1: is Jerry Clem. We begin with the addition dated Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: August fifth, as a reminder, Radio Eye as a reading
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Speaker 1: service intended for people who are blind, we have other
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Speaker 1: disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material. Springfield
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Speaker 1: celebrates twenty second African American Heritage Festival by Brady Hawkins.
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Speaker 1: Springfield African American Heritage Festival was held on Friday, July
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Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty twenty six. This marks the twenty second
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Speaker 1: year that the city of Springfield, Kentucky has hosted the festival.
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Speaker 1: The festival was held in downtown Springfield and ran from
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Speaker 1: five pm to eleven pm. The African American Heritage Festival
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Speaker 1: featured a variety of food trucks offering Jamaican cuisine, soul food, barbecue, lemonade,
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Speaker 1: and more. Small Black owned restaurant were also set up
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Speaker 1: at the event, serving food such as fried chicken and
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Speaker 1: pork chops. Brenda Blake, seventy eight, of Lebanon, Kentucky, said
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Speaker 1: she has attended the African American Heritage Festival for years
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Speaker 1: and looks forward to it each year. I come to
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Speaker 1: the festival every time, Blake said. I love the atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: the people, and the music. Blake said she also appreciates
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Speaker 1: how the festival celebrates African American heritage. I'm glad that
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Speaker 1: they host the festival, Blake said. It shows the different
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Speaker 1: cultures that African American people have. Many people at the
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Speaker 1: event knew each other, greeting each other from across the
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Speaker 1: street and inviting friends to sit with them. Hundreds of
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Speaker 1: people filled the streets as they waited for the parade
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Speaker 1: to begin at six forty five pm. The parade opened
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Speaker 1: with the national anthem and featured members of the National Guard,
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Speaker 1: candidates for city council and mayor, Snappy the Tomato mascot,
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Speaker 1: and other prominent members of the community. Candy and tea
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Speaker 1: shoe were thrown to the attendees from the parade route.
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Speaker 1: The Jimmy Church Band performed the live music beginning at
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Speaker 1: seven pm, playing upbeat songs such as Dancing on the
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Speaker 1: Ceiling by Lionel Ritchie. Many attendees enjoyed the performance by singing, dancing,
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Speaker 1: cheering throughout the event. Rodney Downs and his father have
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Speaker 1: operated Uncle Spooney's, a black owned restaurant based in Bartstown, Kentucky,
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Speaker 1: have been vendors at the festival for the past four years.
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Speaker 1: Down said he sees the festival is a time to
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Speaker 1: reconnect with familiar faces. I'm from Bartstown, Kentucky, so everyone
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Speaker 1: here kind of knows each other and grew up together.
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Speaker 1: Down said, it's like an extended neighborhood being here. Down
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Speaker 1: said he loves the festival's diversity and Springfield's appreciation for
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Speaker 1: the Black community. I love that it's not just black
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Speaker 1: people who come out, but everyone town said. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: that Springfield shows its appreciation for the black community. Another year,
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Speaker 1: another successful homecoming by Jenna George. Every year, the Holy
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Speaker 1: Rosary Church in Springfield hosts their homecoming picnic, giving plenty
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Speaker 1: the chance to make time and have reason to come
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Speaker 1: back home. All of the activities began at four pm
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Speaker 1: and Mass was then held at five pm. Though even
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Speaker 1: with a perfectly outlined scheduled, weather made an attempt to
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Speaker 1: stop the fund The rain came and went, but so
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Speaker 1: did the power, meaning the further down the sun went,
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Speaker 1: the darker it became. Yet nobody in attendance let that
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Speaker 1: stop them. Plenty of games were still played like plinko,
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Speaker 1: a version of toss across the cake wheel was still spinning,
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Speaker 1: and pool tabs were a huge hit. There was something
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Speaker 1: for everyone at the event, especially with the raffle entries
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Speaker 1: and the multiple dinner options. Dinner was served from four
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Speaker 1: to eight pm and consisted of two meets per plate,
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Speaker 1: with a choice of fried chick, country ham, and mutton.
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Speaker 1: Once the main part of was selected, it was time
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Speaker 1: for the sides. Green Beans, corn pudding, a roll, homemade dessert,
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Speaker 1: and potato salad were a handful of choices, just to
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Speaker 1: name a few. Dinner was wrapping up and some of
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Speaker 1: the crowd was slowly gathering to say their goodbyes when
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Speaker 1: suddenly the lights and power returned. Cheers were heard across
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Speaker 1: the picnic as the music began to play. In children's
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Speaker 1: squills echoed as the bouncy houses and inflatables began to rise.
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Speaker 1: The power returning kick started the second half of the
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Speaker 1: fund as the gathering came back to life. This homecoming
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Speaker 1: picnic isn't just the normal picnic. It's one that gathers
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Speaker 1: the community from far and wide to spend time in
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Speaker 1: each other's company. Attendees mentioned returning back to Springfield from
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Speaker 1: their home states away. Meanwhile, some were just at church
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Speaker 1: with one another the day prior. It really brings everyone together,
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Speaker 1: said Kathy Kirico. I think it's just one of the
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Speaker 1: main things we really think of. It means a lot
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Speaker 1: to bring people back home and together. They can all eat,
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Speaker 1: spend time together and do all of this. Many members
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Speaker 1: in attendance expressed that the largest factor about the homecoming
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Speaker 1: picnic is making sure everyone knows they have a place
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Speaker 1: to come back to. I'm on the Homecoming committee. I'm
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Speaker 1: a groundskeeper here and I help keep the church going,
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Speaker 1: said William Fogel. But as most call him Hollywood, we
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Speaker 1: spend the whole year planning. We make sure we have
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Speaker 1: food to feed the public. We feed the families, we
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Speaker 1: feed ourselves. Everything is good. God is good. Space Night
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Speaker 1: returns to Rotary Park by Brady Hawkins. New Pioneers for
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Speaker 1: a Sustainable Future held its fifth Space Night event at
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Speaker 1: the Rotary Park at the Reservoir with partner Dark Sky International.
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Speaker 1: The event was held at Rotary Park at the Reservoir
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Speaker 1: in Springfield, Kentucky, from eight to eleven pm. The event
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Speaker 1: was free and open. A Ivory Solimbarger, who works for
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Speaker 1: the New Pioneers for Sustainable Future helped with the event.
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Speaker 1: The main goal of tonight's event is to connect people
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Speaker 1: with the night sky. Sallmbarger said, we show people how
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Speaker 1: to protect the night sky from light pollution. It's really
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Speaker 1: important that we can educate people about that. The event
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Speaker 1: had six stations to choose from a planet puzzle, coloring sheets,
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Speaker 1: a StarCraft wheel, fake planet tattoos, moonleap, and a board game.
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Speaker 1: Amy Martis from Bardstown, Kentucky, who brought her son to
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Speaker 1: enjoy the activities, said her family doesn't get to see
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Speaker 1: the night sky often. We live in town, so we
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Speaker 1: don't get to see the night sky like the stars.
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Speaker 1: Marta said, I brought my kid here for him to
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Speaker 1: see the stars and also just become educated about the sky.
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Speaker 1: After dark, attendees rotated through four additional stations. One station
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Speaker 1: taught visitors about the stories behind the constellations while allowing
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Speaker 1: them to create constellation shapes using pretzels and marshmallows astronaut themes.
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Speaker 1: Snacks and drinks were also provided, including freeze driede candy,
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Speaker 1: freeze dried fruit brownies, and astronaut themed juice. Henry Vaughan
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Speaker 1: said he came because of the telescopes and hopes of
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Speaker 1: becoming an astronaut. I wanted to come to have a
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Speaker 1: look through the telescopes they have, Vaughn said, I want
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Speaker 1: to be an astronaut when I get older. The event
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Speaker 1: featured two telescopes for children and adults to look through.
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Speaker 1: Although the sky was cloudy, attendees stayed throughout the evening
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Speaker 1: viewing a projected image of the stars while learning about
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Speaker 1: the night sky from presenters. Tiffany Taylor from Louisville brought
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Speaker 1: her three year old daughter, Ariyah White to enjoy the
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Speaker 1: space night. She loves the planets in the Solar System.
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Speaker 1: Taylor said, we thought this would be a great way
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Speaker 1: for her to experience it. Indictments note the indictment of
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Speaker 1: a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an
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Speaker 1: accusation only that the person is presumed innocent and unless
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Speaker 1: proved and guilty. The following people have been indicted by
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Speaker 1: a Washington County grand jury and were scheduled for arrayment
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Speaker 1: July twenty second, unless otherwise specified. Amaron Rayley twenty two
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Speaker 1: wanton engagement, first degree discharge of a firearm on three counts.
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Speaker 1: Honor about May thirtieth to May thirty first, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Rayley is accused of wantonly engaging in conduct which created
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Speaker 1: a substantial danger of death or physical injury to other
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Speaker 1: people or aided abetted or council, and said Act bond
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Speaker 1: was set at twenty five thousand dollars cash only, plus conditions.
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Speaker 1: Thomas Huron, Junior, twenty five Wanton endangerment, first degree discharge
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Speaker 1: of a firearm on eight counts honor about May thirtieth,
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Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty twenty six. Urine is accused of wantonly
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Speaker 1: engaging in conduct that created substantial danger or death or
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Speaker 1: physical injury to other people, or aided a betted or
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Speaker 1: council in said Act. Bond was set at twenty five
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars cash only, plus conditions to various Copeland twenty
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Speaker 1: Wanton endangerment, first agreed discharge of firearm on eight accounts
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Speaker 1: honor about May thirty to thirty first, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Copeland is accused of wantonly engaging in conduct which created
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Speaker 1: a substantial danger or death, of physical injury to other people,
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Speaker 1: or aided a betted or council, and said Act bond
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Speaker 1: was set at twenty five thousand dollars cash only plus conditions.
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Speaker 1: Sarah Hall forty six. Theft of identity or another without consent.
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Speaker 1: First count fraudulent use of credit card over one thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars but less than ten thousand dollars. Second count theft
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Speaker 1: by unlawful taking five hundred dollars less than one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: Count three persistent felony offender Count four. Count one On
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Speaker 1: or about April second, twenty twenty six to June twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: The above defendant knowingly possessed or used any current or
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Speaker 1: former identifying information of the other person, or family member
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Speaker 1: or ancestor of the other person, such that the person
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Speaker 1: or family member or ancestor's name, address, telephone number, electronic
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Speaker 1: mail address, social security number, driver license number, birth date,
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Speaker 1: personal identification number or code, or any information which could
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Speaker 1: be used to identify the person, including unique biometric data
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Speaker 1: which the intent to represent that he or she is
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Speaker 1: the other person, or the purpose of depriving the other
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Speaker 1: person of property, obtaining benefits, or property to which he
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Speaker 1: or she would otherwise not be entitled to, making financial
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Speaker 1: or credit transction using other person identity, or commercial or
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Speaker 1: political benefit, or aided, abetted, or counseled the other in
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Speaker 1: said act. Count two Honor about June eighth, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: unlawfully took or exercise control over movable property of another
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Speaker 1: person with intent to drive the other thereof obtained immovable
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Speaker 1: property of another with intent to deprive. Count three Honor
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Speaker 1: about April second, twenty twenty six through June eighth, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, the above defendant with intent to defraud the
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Speaker 1: issuer or participating party, a person, organization providing money, goods services,
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Speaker 1: or anything else of value, or any other person use
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Speaker 1: for the purpose of attaining money, goods, services, or anything
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Speaker 1: else of value a credit card obtained or retained in
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Speaker 1: violation of KRS four to thirty four point five seven
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Speaker 1: zero to four to thirty four point six point five zero.
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Speaker 1: Obituary David Lawrence Bray seventy eight. David Lawrence Bray, seventy
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Speaker 1: eight of New Hope passed away Thursday, July twenty third,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, at Baptist Health Harden. Born February third,
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight in Raywick. He was a realtor and
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Speaker 1: auctioneer and founder of Bray Auction Service. He honorably served
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Speaker 1: in the United States Army during the Vietnam Era. He
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Speaker 1: loved gardening and sharing the fruits of his labor with
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Speaker 1: everyone to enjoy. He was preceded in death by his wife,
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Speaker 1: Mary Lee Moore Bray, who died March seventh, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Two infant children, David Lawrence Bray Junior and Elizabeth Linnbray.
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Speaker 1: His parents, Cliston and Lenny Bellbray. Seven siblings Dorothy Milbourne,
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Speaker 1: Bob Bray, Kenny Bray, Earl Bray, Cliston Bray Junior, Richard Bray,
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Speaker 1: and Mary Elizabeth Bradshaw. Survivors include five children, Michael Bray, Paula,
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Speaker 1: Ted Bray, Colleen Anne Mallins, Jeff All of Bardstown, Joe
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Speaker 1: Ryder Pat of New Haven, and Kate Ulrich Matt of Bardstown.
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Speaker 1: Fifteen grandchildren Aaron, Alex Cole, Ryan, Ellie, Ben Duncan Brayden Cooper, Abbey,
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Speaker 1: Zoa Carter, Brooklyn Emerson, and Miela. Six and a half
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Speaker 1: great grandchildren. Three siblings, Iona Lee of Calvary, Irene Smith,
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Speaker 1: Larry of Louisville, and Jerry Bray, Janice of Raywick. Funeral
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Speaker 1: services for David Lawrence Bray held on Tuesday, July twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, at eleven am at Maddenley Funeral Home,
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Speaker 1: one ninety five Holy Cross Road, Loretto. Reverend Deacon Joseph R.
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Speaker 1: Dant officiated. Intermined followed at Saint Vincent de Paul Cemetery
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Speaker 1: where full military honors were conducted by the Marion County
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Speaker 1: Veterans Honor Guard. Paul bearers were grand sons Aaron, Cole
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Speaker 1: and Ryan Bray, Ben Mallins, and Duncan and Cooper Bray.
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Speaker 1: Honorary Paul brearers were grandsons Braden Ryder and Carter and
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Speaker 1: Emerson Ulrich. Briefs Dementia Support Group, a new dementia caregiver
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Speaker 1: support group, will be meeting the first Monday of each
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Speaker 1: month from ten thirty to eleven thirty am at the
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Speaker 1: Washington County Extension Office. The support group is designed to
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Speaker 1: provide safe, supportive environment to allow family, friends, caregivers, and
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Speaker 1: others interested individuals to meet regularly for mutual support and
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Speaker 1: to exchange coping skills with one another in matters dealing
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Speaker 1: with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Our support groups are free
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Speaker 1: and open to the Public Wile Washington on Wellness while
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Speaker 1: is a community coalition comprised of agencies, volunteers, officials, and citizens.
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Speaker 1: All are welcome. Our mission is to utilize community collaboration
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Speaker 1: to promote wellbeing. Our goals include raising awareness of local issues,
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Speaker 1: promoting wellbeing of our community, and addressing substance use disorders
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Speaker 1: through wellness. The next meeting was held on July twenty
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Speaker 1: ninth at noon at the Washington County Extension Office WITS Workout.
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Speaker 1: Please join us at the Washington County Public Library for
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Speaker 1: our continuing WITS Workout series. The next class, Giddy for Green,
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Speaker 1: will be held August seventh at ten am at the
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Speaker 1: Public Library Extension. On the radio every Tuesday morning around
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Speaker 1: eight thirty am, you can tune in to one hundred
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Speaker 1: point nine WLSK to get all the latest news and
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Speaker 1: happenings from the Washington County Extension Office. B Club, the
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Speaker 1: Washington County Beekeepers Club meets the first Monday of each
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Speaker 1: month at the Extension Office. All are welcome. A sewing club,
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Speaker 1: the Washington County for h Sewing Club has a new name,
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Speaker 1: Heritage Threads. The club meets at four pm each Thursday
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Speaker 1: at the Washington County Extension Office Quilting Club. The Washington
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Speaker 1: County Quilting Club meets on the third Saturday of each
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Speaker 1: month at the Washington County Extension Office. All are welcome.
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Speaker 1: Contact Martha Ann Harden for details. Champion of farm safety
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Speaker 1: Dell Dopson dies at age sixty six by Ben Sheeran
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Speaker 1: Hodgenville man who dedicated his life to farm safety and
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Speaker 1: mental health has died. Dell Dobson, sixty six, founded the
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Speaker 1: State Farm Safety Program, established innovative services, and worked for
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Speaker 1: decades in the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. In a social
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Speaker 1: media post, State Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shall described Dobson's passion
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Speaker 1: for supporting farmer's mental health and educating young people about
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Speaker 1: farmer safety. Dell Dobson leaves behind a legacy that will
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Speaker 1: continue to protect Kentucky farmers for generations. Shall wrote his compassion, innovation,
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Speaker 1: and unwavering commitment to agriculture made our commonwealth a safer
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Speaker 1: and stronger place. A nineteen seventy eight graduate of LaRue
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Speaker 1: County High School, Dobson was a driving force behind the
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Speaker 1: Power of a Handshake mental health initiative and created the
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Speaker 1: Challenge Coin Farmer suicide Prevention program. In twenty twenty, he
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Speaker 1: established Raising Hope, a grassroots health and safety program created
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Speaker 1: with doctor Cheryl Witt, an associate professor and assistant dean
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Speaker 1: at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. It's all
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Speaker 1: about saving lives, Dobson said in an interview with farm Flavor.
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Speaker 1: By teaming up with building this together, we're twenty years
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Speaker 1: ahead of where we would have been by doing this individually.
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Speaker 1: Shall who promoted Dobson to the position of Director of
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Speaker 1: Farm Safety and Rural Health, also credited him with help
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Speaker 1: and create life saving training for first responders called to
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Speaker 1: Rescue farm workers trapped in grain bins, which is taught
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Speaker 1: across the state and has been adopted by other states.
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Speaker 1: Hired in nineteen ninety eight by former Agricultural Commissioner Billy
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Speaker 1: Ray Smith to establish the department's farm safety program, Dobson
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Speaker 1: served in that role under four s executive commissioners of
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Speaker 1: both political parties. Kentucky Community and tach Technical College System
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Speaker 1: President Ryan Quarrels, a former state agricultural commissioner who worked
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Speaker 1: with Dobson for eight years, said he is credited with
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Speaker 1: running and developing the national model of farm safety programs
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Speaker 1: for the United States. Quarrel said Dobson also taught as
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Speaker 1: a Kentucky Fire Commission and Commission instructor through KCTCS. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for teaching countless Kentuckians to be safe, slow down,
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Speaker 1: and look out for each other, Quarrel said, and a
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Speaker 1: social media post. Hally Harris, president and CEO of Appalachian
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Speaker 1: Regional Healthcare, said she forged a friendship in partnership with
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Speaker 1: Dobson after meeting him three years ago while both were
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Speaker 1: participating in the state's Food is Medicine initiative at the
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Speaker 1: Kentucky State Fair. He shared with me the health challenges
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Speaker 1: facing Kentucky farming community, how too many farmers were going
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Speaker 1: without preventive health care, how mental health struggles were affecting families,
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Speaker 1: and how the people who worked tirelessly to feed us
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Speaker 1: often put their own health last, Harris wrote in a
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Speaker 1: statement memorializing Dobson. Dobson's son Bobby, announced his father's death
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Speaker 1: in a faithbook post Monday evening, saying Dell Dobson was
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Speaker 1: known to many as mister farm Safety, but to his
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Speaker 1: family he was a dad, grandfather. Shooting instructor, fishing buddy,
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Speaker 1: and much more. He will be truly missed. In addition
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Speaker 1: to his son, survivors included his wife, Debora, his mother,
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Speaker 1: Annalie Dobson, two daughters, Hillary Locke Bison and Michelle Gibson,
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Speaker 1: six grandchildren, and two brothers, Dennis and Darryl Dobson, both
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Speaker 1: of Hodginville. His funeral is scheduled for one pm Saturday
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Speaker 1: at First Baptist Church, seven thirty Tonyville Road, Hodgenville. Visitation
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Speaker 1: is from two to eight pm Friday and after nine
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Speaker 1: am Saturday at the church. From the opinion page by
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Speaker 1: Ken Begley, her father's keeper, I've been with the Marion
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Speaker 1: County Honor Guard for about eight years. I'll bet I've
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Speaker 1: been to more funerals than a whole lot of preachers have.
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Speaker 1: The Honor Guard has been in existence since nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: six and has rendered honors for some four thousand veterans
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Speaker 1: over the years. I believe I could write a book
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Speaker 1: over everything I've seen in just the last eight years.
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Speaker 1: There have been big funerals with so many friends and
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Speaker 1: family members that the possession goes on forever. There have
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Speaker 1: been some that don't have enough folks for the Paul bearers.
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Speaker 1: One time nobody was there, but us. Funerals can be
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Speaker 1: happy when the person has lived a good, long life
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Speaker 1: and left so many people with warm feelings in their hearts.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to be sad during those times. But sometimes
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Speaker 1: a person's life, for whatever reason, was too short. The
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Speaker 1: feelings of grief are so thick to see the departed
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Speaker 1: leave this earth with so much left unsaid and undone.
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Speaker 1: It's maddening for the folks attending. But I want to
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Speaker 1: tell you about one funeral I saw the other day.
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Speaker 1: It was a reminder of what life and death on
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Speaker 1: the earth is all about. It gives me hope and
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Speaker 1: love and makes me feel as if I saw the
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Speaker 1: face of God when it happened. It came from a
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Speaker 1: little girl who looked to be about three. We were
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Speaker 1: over in Bardstown rendering honors for a veteran at a
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Speaker 1: local funeral home. We do those sometimes when requested. The
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Speaker 1: honor guard had arrived early and we were waiting in
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Speaker 1: the parking lot for the services to end. I noticed
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Speaker 1: a father coming out with a little girl in a
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Speaker 1: frilly dress. She was so cute it just made me
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Speaker 1: smile to look at her. I figured out that she,
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Speaker 1: of course didn't know what was going on and got
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Speaker 1: restless inside, so her dad took her out to wait
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Speaker 1: for the end. I looked at her father and said,
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Speaker 1: looks like you have a little princess there. He smiled
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Speaker 1: and walked on. A few minutes later, the doors opened
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Speaker 1: up and folks were coming outside. So we could do
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Speaker 1: the honors for this veteran. We lined up the flags, bugle,
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Speaker 1: and rifles. The command came for us to fire our
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Speaker 1: three round volley, which we held our rifles at present arms.
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Speaker 1: The bugler was called to sound taps. Taps has a
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Speaker 1: long history in the military, and it is particularly mournful
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Speaker 1: sound that can make the hardest heart break when it
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Speaker 1: is for someone you know. I looked from behind my
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Speaker 1: m one rifle and saw the dad with the little girl.
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Speaker 1: She was standing by his side. I believed it was
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Speaker 1: his father that the bugle sounded. He began to gently cry.
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Speaker 1: The girl looked up to see the tears. She then
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Speaker 1: raised her arms and motioned for him to pick her up.
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Speaker 1: He reached down and brought her into his arms. She
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Speaker 1: reached out and touched the tears with those dainty fingers.
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Speaker 1: She then took a little tissue and started to dab
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Speaker 1: the tears away. It was at this point that the
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Speaker 1: father had to smile. He took the tissue and wiped
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Speaker 1: his eyes. Sometimes it takes the smallest fingers to heal
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Speaker 1: the deepest wounds. It was a powerful moment for me,
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Speaker 1: and one that I will always remember because I know
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Speaker 1: that scene came from God. The Almighty always seems to
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Speaker 1: say the most to us with the fewest words and actions.
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Speaker 1: It was at that moment that his smile love shines
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Speaker 1: through and cannot be mistaken for anything else. The messenger
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Speaker 1: is always so appropriate. In this case, it came with
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Speaker 1: the purity that only a child can have. I thank
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Speaker 1: God for letting me witness what I saw. God does exit.
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Speaker 1: God is great. Maybe I should rob a bank by
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Speaker 1: doctor James L. Snyder. Throughout my life, money has been
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Speaker 1: quite a challenge. I was a pastor for almost fifty years,
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Speaker 1: and as a pastor, I did not get much of
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Speaker 1: a salary, barely enough to get by on. But I
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Speaker 1: didn't become a pastor for the money, or I would
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Speaker 1: have become an evangelist. I didn't say that, did I.
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Speaker 1: Both the gracious Mistress of the parsonage, and I worked
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Speaker 1: to be as frugal as possible with our budget. We
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Speaker 1: tried our best not to spend our money on things
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Speaker 1: we didn't really need. Then when children came along, we
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Speaker 1: certainly changed our budget. As a young kid, I was
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Speaker 1: frugal with my money. I didn't make very much money,
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Speaker 1: but I always made sure most of it went into
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Speaker 1: my little piggy bank. Every week, I would look at
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Speaker 1: my piggy bank and count the money. Several times. I
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Speaker 1: knew how much I had, but I enjoyed counting it
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Speaker 1: and looking at it. Not now that I'm older, but
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Speaker 1: not much wiser. I check out my savings account every week,
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Speaker 1: at least once a week, sometimes several times during week, Okay,
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Speaker 1: every day. I enjoy looking at the money in my
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Speaker 1: savings account. What I enjoy most is seeing the interest
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Speaker 1: I'm earning in my savings account. Like my father used
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Speaker 1: to say, a penny earned is a penny saved. I
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Speaker 1: want my pennies in my savings account to earn interest.
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Speaker 1: That money was for emergencies, and boy, when I had
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Speaker 1: to take money out of my savings account, it was
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Speaker 1: the hardest thing I ever had to do. It was
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Speaker 1: easy putting it in, but it was very difficult to
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Speaker 1: pull it out. I know the savings account was for emergencies,
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Speaker 1: but I had a hard time defining emergencies. Sometimes the
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Speaker 1: greatest Mistress of the parsonage steps in and helps with
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Speaker 1: the definition. Every time something happened unexpectedly in a financial
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Speaker 1: area of my life, I really wrestled with drawing the
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Speaker 1: money from my savings account. I know it had to
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Speaker 1: be done, but I kicked it down the road as
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Speaker 1: far as I could. Just the other week, there was
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Speaker 1: a mechanical problem with that Sissy Van. It was a
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Speaker 1: problem that needed to be fixed, and it was around
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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. I never kept that much in my
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Speaker 1: checking account because I prefer most of my money to
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Speaker 1: be where it is in my savings account. When I
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Speaker 1: got the bill, I was very sad. I looked at
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Speaker 1: my savings account and then looked at the bill for
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Speaker 1: the Sissy Van. I was not too happy about it.
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Speaker 1: It was almost as much as my Social Security check
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Speaker 1: each month. As I was looking at my savings account online,
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Speaker 1: the Gracis mistress of the parsonage, came in and asked
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Speaker 1: about getting her mechanic bill paid. I finally had to
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Speaker 1: move the money from my savings account to my checking account.
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Speaker 1: That was the hardest thing I ever did. I sighed
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Speaker 1: very deeply and closed the computer. Then I picked up
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Speaker 1: my check book and said to the gracious mistress of
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Speaker 1: the parsonage, let's go get your sissy. Van Later that
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Speaker 1: day I read Ecclesiastes, Chapter five, Verse ten. He that
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Speaker 1: loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he
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Speaker 1: that loveth abundance with increase. This is also vanity. As
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Speaker 1: much money as I have in my savings account, there
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Speaker 1: will always be some emergency that needs me to withdraw it.
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Speaker 1: This concludes excerpts from recent editions of The Springfield Sun.
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Speaker 1: Your reader for today has been Jerry klem On, behalf
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