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    An example of being Fibromyalgia...

    I had a client named Sam who had a variety of fluctuating symptoms ranging from aches and pain to depression, insomnia, anxiety and exhaustion. Although the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia usually involves women patients, he was given this diagnosis by his physician. When Sam came to me he was at his wit’s end. We started a Fibro-free Quality of Life Treatment Program which includes a once-a-month core program with take-home follow-up activities, add-on options and free support activities.  

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    LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (July 16, 1981)

    The new principal for TCHS is Larry Moore. He is a graduate of Hanover College and Ball State in Muncie, Ind. and recently taught at Southwestern in Madison. His wife, Carolyn Moore will continue her assignment in Southwestern.

    The 4-H youth Fair and Peach Festival will be Friday and Saturday at the Trimble County Middle School. Exhibits, booths, fun and games will be available for everyone. Dancing both nights at 9 p.m. On Sunday at 1:30 p.m. a horse show will be held on the grounds of the Saddle club.

  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (July 9, 1981)
    Eileen Lantz will become the home agent in Trimble County on Aug. 3, replacing Cecilia Oak, who has resigned. Cecilia and husband Jerry Oak just had their second child, Sarah, who joins her two-year old sister, Stacy.

  • Winning the conflict could mean...

    I’ve recently discovered the secret to getting rid of internal turmoil and stress – I’ve stopped listening to news talk radio and political talking heads shows on TV.

    Instead, I listen to my iPod – music and podcasts of sermons and science, food and history. It’s amazing how my inner agitation and anxiety have gone way down, and I haven’t missed a thing. I still know what’s going on in the world – I do work for a newspaper – without having to endure all the yelling.

  • LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago (July 2, 1981)

  • Random God musings

    Occasionally I clean out my column ideas folder and come across random notes and musings, sometimes written in the middle of the night, sometimes in the margin of a church bulletin during a song or sermon during a worship service.

    None of the ideas are big enough for a full-blown column, but they may be helpful to someone reading this. So, here are some random thoughts and miscellaneous musings:

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    A Madison Regatta memory

    Madison Regatta race week is my favorite time of the year in the Ohio River Valley. As far as I’m concerned, those of us who live in Trimble County, Kentucky, and Jefferson County, Indiana, are the luckiest people on Earth.

    Those who live in other localities don’t know what they’re missing.

    I moved to Trimble County in 1999. But my obsession with the Madison Regatta began long before that.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (June 25, 1981)
    The 4-H of Trimble County will sponsor a fair on the high school grounds July 17 and 18.

    Trimble County Water District through their chairman Carroll Thomas Ralston has a pre-application pending for $472,500 Federal assistance relative to 5 miles of water main extensions serving 30 customers, a water storage tank, a maintenance and storage building and a water pumping station.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (June 18, 1981)
    The Trimble Banner Democrat is moving to the building remembered by some as the old Pecar building. A move from the present main street location will take place around July 1.

    Mary Ann Bowman, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Ronald Bowman, graduated from Sullivan Junior College of Business on Friday, June 12.

    Steve Joslin, son of Mr. And Mrs. David Joslin was honored on the Dean’s List for the Spring Semester, 981 at Western Kentucky University.
    Annual Corn Creek Reunion was held last Sunday.

  • LOOKING BACK

         30 Years Ago
    (June 4, 1981)
    Debbie Moore, Ninetta Thompson, Howard Bentley and Larry Chandler, of the Trimble Co. EMS have successfully competed their certification classes with the American Heart Association to teach cardio pulmonary resuscitation classes.
    Trimble 4-Hers planted flowers around the courthouse as part of 4-H Community Pride project.
    Ann Yager-Powell graduated from U of L with a Master of Education degree.
    Corn Creek Church will hold its annual reunion Sunday, June 14.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (May 21, 1981)
    Debbie Shelton, first year band director at Trimble County High School, took the band to Cincinnati to enter for ratings only class against schools for West Va., Ind., Ill. and other schools in Ky. Then she decided to go for competition in the concert class, thinking a third place would be nice, but it wasn’t third. It was first and the “enthusiasm reveled that of any triumphant event” commented one band booster.

  • When the trumpet sounds

    I’m writing this on May 21 and if you’re reading it the end of the world didn’t happen as California preacher Harold Camping predicted.

    Actually, that’s not quite accurate. He predicted that Jesus would return on that day (today as I write this) and take all those who believe in him to heaven, leaving those who don’t behind.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (May 21, 1981)
    There are now approximately 150 workers employed in construction at the LG&E Company in Wises Landing. As the work progresses, at least 500 construction employees will be employed there, and the total payroll will be about $14 million per year.

    A new doctor is coming to Trimble County. Dr. Roderick H. McGregor from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia is waiting for immigration papers and hopes to relocate by mid-summer.

    Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins addressed the graduating class of 1981.

  • Storefront preacher exhibits grace

    I ran into Randy Riggs last week.

    It’s been a few years since I’ve seen him, and every time I do he oozes God.

    The rest of this column is a rerun of what I wrote about my first encounter with him in October 2000:

    I don’t know Randy Riggs well, but I love him with all my heart. That’s because God used him to whack me over the head when I needed whacking.
    Sometimes God does that.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (May 7, 1981)
     PVA Don Tandy has issued a recapitulation of the property tax roll, and the total assessment, minus motor vehicles and bank shares, amounts to $83,721,833.
    Vanessa Barron was chosen to represent Trimble County in the Youth to Washington contest sponsored by Shelby Rural Electric. She will join fifty young leaders from all over Kentucky who will participate in the National Rural Electric Youth Tour June 12-19.
    More than one hundred alumni attended the TCHS banquet coming as far away as Texas.

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (April 30, 1981)
    Trimble County Schools held their classified personnel dinner Friday night with awards going to bus drivers, custodians, cooks and other personnel who keeps the schools safe and clean for students.

    Guy McClure provided in his will that a chapel be prepared at the Trimble County Nursing Home. A dedication service will be held May 10 and opened to everyone.

    Jamie Hargrove will address graduates of Trimble County High and Milton High schools May 9.

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    LOOKING BACK

    30 Years Ago

    April 23,1981

    The iron gates at the entranceway of Moffett Cemetery were stolen Thursday or Friday of last week. Placed there more than 90 years ago, the gates definitely are antique vintage and, doubtless, very valuable. Vincent Oakley discovered the gates missing Saturday morning. He said the gates would be easily identified by the lions’ heads so decoratively atop the iron uprights of the gates.

  • Debate: How should we celebrate the...

    Recently, someone asked on a Christian Website: How should you celebrate the day after Easter?

    We’ve all heard the debates over how to celebrate the actual holiday, with Christians arguing with each other over whether or not the pagan symbols of eggs, furry bunnies and marshmallow Peeps are spiritually detrimental.

    But the day after Easter? Don’t we all just go back to work with leftover ham sandwiches in our lunch boxes?

  • LOOKING BACK

     30 Years Ago (April 16, 1981)
    Work is pacing along ahead of schedule on the extensions to Trimble Water District No. 1, and work is 55 percent complete overall, Merle Jackson, commissioner, said this week. Jackson said after the 26 miles is completed, 122 new users will be served.

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    RIPPLES OVER THE DIKE

    Editor’s note: The following is the conclusion of the story of Seaman first class George Stanley Abbott, the last Trimble County casualty of World War II.

    George Stanley Abbott, Seaman first class, United States Naval Reserve, was aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis when—shortly after 12 a.m. on July 30, 1945—the large cruiser-class warship was rocked by explosions. Two Japanese torpedoes detonated near her bow. Abbott, a Trimble County farm boy, had joined the Navy two years earlier.