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    DO YOU REMEMBER?
  • Nancy offers food for thought

    We were eating pizza — thin crust perfectly crisp, topped with ooey gooey decadent cheesy goodness that was just the right degree of meltiness.

    As our eyes rolled back in our heads in pizza ecstasy, my friend Tara said she had recently read that the sign of a culture in decline is its glorification of its cuisine and deification of its chefs.

    Bobby Flay and Wolfgang Puck anyone?

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  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Nov. 5, 1981)

    Area 4-H champions for their skit “Proud to Be an American” were Melissa Gibson, Jennifer Moore, Michelle Napier and Stephanie Barnes. They will compete at the Kentucky State Fair and represent the area counties of Bullitt, Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble.

    Lady Raiders Cross Country team will be one of 16 teams competing for the state championship at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington on Saturday.

    Bedford Masons Lodge #158 had past master night with soup and sandwiches.

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    RIPPLES OVER THE DIKE

    The birth of a baby boy to Charles and Hannah Jewel Hardin in Milton, in 1820 might have escaped the notice of Trimble County history buffs had it not been for a random search on the internet by Milton Mayor Denny Jackson a few years back. While searching to see what hits might turn up by keying-in “Trimble County” on his computer, Jackson came across a biographical note that began with the following:

    “HARDIN, Charles Henry, governor of Missouri (1875-1877), born in Trimble County, Kentucky, in Milton, 15 July, 1820.”

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    The value of irritating people

    Perhaps the best thing about writing a column is having a forum to work out what I believe.

    It’s also a great place to air my petty beefs and hope that somehow I can find a nugget of truth about God and his kingdom to help us all.

    But mostly I just like to publicly tattle about people who irritate me.

    For example, people who invade my personal space. This happens mostly at Walmart while at the register waiting for my grocery total.

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    LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Oct. 29, 1981)
    Milton firemen and Emergency Medical people had a pitch-in Halloween supper and party Saturday night.  They played a game called “bag-it” where three bags with wearing apparel were passed around to the players. When the music stopped, the person with the bag had to take out an article of clothing and put it on. Without a doubt, it was a festive occasion, one jolly well worth a niche in memory.

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  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Oct. 22, 1981)

     The Bedford zoning commission opened their public hearing Wednesday night with the swearing in ceremony of Charles Cochran. A KIPDA planner was there to answer questions on the 2-mile subdivision regulations from the 25-30 people who attended.

    Carl Cooper Jr. has maintained a quarter century of membership and service in the American Academy of Family Physician-the nation’s largest medical specialty organization.

  • Your emotions and you: Who is in...

  • Lost and found: A life lesson

    Tachycardia is a dangerously rapid heartbeat, arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat and dead is no heartbeat at all — and I had all three recently.

    That may be a slight exaggeration and a bit of melodrama, but the truth is I experienced severe panic recently.

    I lost my camera.

    And by “my camera” I mean the one the Chronicle gave me to use and not mine to keep.

  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Oct. 15, 1981)
     A spirited Trimble County Marching Raider Band brought home two trophies for first placements and a second place laudation from participating Saturday at the Adair County Mark Twain Marching Invitational at Columbia, Ky. They will compete Oct. 24 in the Moore High School Invitational at Louisville against 14 Class A bands.
    The Trimble County Marching Raiders Band will hold a chili supper Friday evening, Oct. 16 at the TCMS Cafeteria.

    Eldred Fisher had a community cookout and hay ride Saturday night, Oct. 10.

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  • Playing blame games with ourselves

    My daughter Alison writes a blog, “The Neurotic Housewife” (www.neuroticalison.wordpress.com).
    Recently she fumed about a woman named Beverly who, unknowingly — or maybe not — “stole” her spot at the gym. Alison wrote:

  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Oct. 8, 1981)
     Vincent Oakley cut the ribbon to officially open Shelba’s Country Inn in Milton.

    In special session Friday, the Trimble county Fiscal Court accepted the bid of Kief-Con, Madison, Ind., to install fuel tanks at the county maintenance barn.

    Southern Health Services in Atlanta, Ga. are soliciting the people of Trimble County to help approve certificate of need for 120-bed hospital in Oldham County.

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    Wired, but tired? Avoid the stress...

    When Mary Ann came into my office that first time, she had a tired, harried look on her face and seemed nervous. She related that she had no time for herself between the duties of her part time job as a nurse, the responsibilities to her ailing mother and the duties of being a wife and mother of two pre-teen daughters. With the holidays approaching, she felt added stress and found it hard to calm down and get a good night’s sleep.

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    Glory to God — and me too?

    When I was a kid we used to listen to a record album of silly songs.

    One song went: “Glory, glory, hallelujah. Teacher hit me with a ruler. She bopped me on the bean with a rotten tangerine….”

    I can’t remember the rest. But even all these years later, whenever I hear the word “glory” that stupid song pops into my head. (And now it will pop into yours.)

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    LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Oct. 1, 1981)
    W.R. Abbott received a 25-year silver plated postmaster’s service pin Monday morning. Next spring Mr. Abbott will receive his 35-year gold pin, which will be representative of the total credible years of service as carrier-postmaster, etc.  
    County sanction is sought for a $10 million hospital near LaGrange to serve Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties.

    LG&E have moved in their sign and have a huge crane to lift it into position, giving it a prominent fixture of attraction to the plant.

  • A stroke of faith changes pro’s...

    Forty-one years ago, Steve Starnes played football alongside Al Cowlings and O.J. Simpson as the Buffalo Bills fifth-round draft pick out of the University of Tampa.

    He also played for the Green Bay Packers and the (former) Boston Patriots.

    He was big and burly. Then he injured his neck and his professional football career, the dream of many little boys and grown men, was cut short. Five years ago a stroke nearly took his life.

  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (Sept. 24, 1981)
     Trimble County Marching Band continued their winning streak in Alexandria Ky. on Saturday by placing second out of eight bands. They recently received a superb first place trophy at Harrison County. They will continue their contest at Adair Co. on October 10 and at Moore on October 24.