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Cooper won’t seek re-election

After 24 years of serv-ing the Ballard county community with the Bal-lard Sheriff’s office, Sher-iff Todd Cooper decided he had served long enough and withdrew his name as a candidate in the 2014 May Democratic primary elec-tion last week. Cooper said he will not seek re-election for a fifth term in office .

“The people of Ballard County have trusted me

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The food pantry at New Liberty United Methodist will be open Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

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A fire destroyed the home and all the belong-ings of Bill and Amber Bowman and their four young children recently.

If you would like to help, drop of donations at Thomas Law Office, 153 North 4th Street, Wickliffe or contact Heather Smith at (270) 841-0333 to arrange to have the items picked up.

Ballard library hours are set

Operating hours for the Ballard/Carlisle Public Library are: Fridays only on Feb. 7,14,21 an 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

Sunday night’s snow fall created a quite start to Monday’s Kevil city coun-cil meeting with one coun-cil member having a wreck prior to the meeting and an-other showing up fashion-ably late and the city attor-ney showing much later. It was also a slow day for city business.

The first issue to be dis-cussed was the car that has been parked near the post office and had been prom-ised, by the owner, before Christmas, that he would move the auto, was still there. The council came to no resolution concerning the vehicle.

Despite visits from the Ballard County Animal Control and the second reading and the adoption of a new dog ordinance in Jan-uary’s meeting, there is still a nuisance dog issue about the town.

Four juveniles were caught vandalizing the wa-ter tower and some other

Ba l l a r d M e m o -rial High S c h o o l

junior Caitlyn Mein-schein won her age

division in the Kentucky Opry’s 25th annual Talent Search

on Jan. 18 in Draffenville. The 17-year-

old performed the Patsy Monntana classic, “Cow-

boy’s Sweet-heart.”

We e k l y winners re-ceive a cash

prize and guest appearance at the Ken-tucky Opry. Performers winning in the weekly contest come back to compete in elimination rounds in April and May for a total of $2,900 in prize money.

Divisions include beginner (12 and under), junior (13-17), young adult (18-39), senior adult (40 and up), and instru-mental and other (dance, comedy, etc., for

all ages).The overall winner will receive $500 in

cash, a new guitar from Allen Music in Pad-ucah, and a guest spot on a major country music concert at the Carson Center.

Meinschein’s success in the Opry’s talent seach contest makes her the latest Ballard County resident to shine on the stage. Last year, Wickliffe’s Amanda Benson competed for the finals of the Adult division.

For more information on the Kentucky Opry Talent Search, please visit www.oprytalentsearch.com or call 270-527-3869.

Caitlyn Meinschein is shown(at left, with her guitar.) TheBallard Memorial High

School student isparticipating in

the KentuckyOpry’s 25thAnnual Talent

Search Contest.

BMHS student a weekly winner in Kentucky Opry Talent Search

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Caitlyn Meinschein per-forms on stage during the Kentucky Opry’s tal-ent search contest. The 17-year-old recently won her age division in the weeky contest.

County voters to have plenty of options on May ballotDale Turner

The Ballard County Weekly

Is it May yet?Maybe it’s something in the water this

year, or may be it’s all the cold weather making every one stir crazy and looking for something to do. Whatever the reason, there have been plenty of people looking to hold a political office.

With the election season just kicking off there is already an excitement build-ing with five contested local races headed into this year’s May 20 primary.

There are two magistrates’ races to

watch. District 1 has two candidates look-ing for the job, including Billy W. Owsley and John W. Summers. Keith Deweese

leads off the list of candidates in District 3, with Martin Flournoy, Shawn Ross and Stonnie Dennis rounding off the list (Den-

nis is registered as a Republican and will not appear on the primary ballot).

Three people are looking to fill the jailer’s position, including Donnie Hall, Jamie Hack and Michael Steele.

The Judge/Executive’s contest is sure to be an interesting challenge to keep an eye on. There are three residents yearn-ing for that title. Running for the office are Cathy McIntyre Sullivan, Joe Culver and incumbent, Vickie Viniard.

It seems the most popular post to hold is that of sheriff. Five candidates were registered to clash for the title. However,

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Sheriff’s candidates express viewsCheck out The Ballard

County Weekly’s first look at the upcoming primary election. This week, the four candidates for the sheriff’s position are profiled.

See stories on Page 6.Carey Batts

JoeGaia

Ronnie Giles

Trent Grief

richarD h. Blankenship

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On July 30, the District Board of the Ballard County Extension Office held their regular meeting. The meet-ing began with the reading and approval of the minutes. It then quickly progressed to the reading and approval of the treasure’s report and budget.

The board’s current inflow amount is calculated to be at just over $140,000 where-as the outflow at just over $120,000. One adjustment was made to the budget in concerns to relocating $6,000 from the reserve. From this amount $5,000 would be placed into the equipment budget and $1,000 would be moved to facility main-tenance. These actions were prompted by various issues occurring with the building furnace and certain pieces of

office equipment. In a matter of old busi-

ness, the credit cards that the board was looking into are going to have to be re-applied for due to a timing issue with the previous application. The cards were purported to have a $1,000 limit per card and were to be checked out only when needed.

In the new business, the board members have voted to keep the officer positions as are. The current officer seats are filled thusly: President- Keith DeweeseVice Pres.- Clayton ReedSecretary- Linda CurtisTreasurer- Tim Goodin

In recent days, the office has been working through telephone issues that are, according to the phone com-pany, the result of compat-ibility issues between the old phone system and the new fiber optic system. Though communications are man-

ageable now, the board will be investigating on solutions to this matter.

In preparation for the 100th Anniversary of the extension office under the establishment of the Smith-Cooper Act of 1914, the homemakers association have compiled a book of recipes. Besides recipes, the cookbook provides a look into the history of the ex-tension office. For inquiries contact the board office.

In addition to the cook-book, the extension board ap-proved the moving of $1,000 to the marketing budget from the reserve in preparation for a May 8th celebration. More details will be released closer to the date.

At the end of the meeting, the board conducted their member training. In large, the training was a revision of the members main duties and responsibilities.

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By Kay PressonRecently, while doing

some extensive cleaning, I discovered a Carlisle Weekly from Feb. 2, 1999. While reading it, and re-freshing memories of when I co-owned and co-operat-ed Carlisle Weekly, I came across the attached photo with this week’s column. The photo features some of the maternal side of my family, the Mensers. And, since there are both sides of my family living in Bal-lard County, I thought it would be interesting for readers to see another side of my family.

My maternal grand-mother, Martha Evelyn Ford Menser, was a won-derful person. I still have my first Christmas present, a quilt “Ma Evy” made for me. Folks, I will be 67 years old in April, and this quilt is one of my most prized possessions. When I was two and a half years old, I remember us living with Ma Evy & Granddad. Ma Evy churned butter and let me help, then when finished, I got to lick the dasher. She would take me for walks on the dirt road in front of their home near Grahamville.

My maternal grandfa-ther, Joseph Daniel Menser, was originally from Hop-kinsville, and we always wondered what brought him to this end of the state. One of my friends, Leon Todd, has researched and found some Menser tomb-stones in Ballard County. These are on a farm, and are well maintained. When

the weather allows, he and his wife, Fay, have offered to take me to view the tombstones of some of my family, the Mensers.

The photo was given to me by Garnell Buck-ingham years ago, and I scanned it and gave it back to her. It is an old black and white photo, for there were no color photos back then.

See another side of my family

Off the road ...It wasn’t a good day for dairy products in Ballard County on Monday, as crews spent more than 12 hours cleaning an accident in which a truck loaded with ice cream rolled over on Dead Man’s Curve in Kevil. The truck, pictured above, was loaded with milk and took to the ditch on top of Cox’s Hill out side of Wickliffe on Monday in an attempt to avoid a piece of Ballard County Road Department equipment that had slid onto the highway while cleaning snow from Borden Road.

Helping hands ...Five girls at Ballard County Elementary School sold candy bars at school last week to raise funds for the Bowman family of Barlow, who lost their home in a fire. Shown from left are Audrey Dowdy, Addy Gos-som, Wendy Burnley, KyLee Bodell and Isabella Myers. In two days, the group raised $300 for the family from their third- through fifth-grade schoolmates. Teacher Debbie Wildharber helped the group collect the money. One of the Bowman family children is a classmate of the girls.

Shown above are (left to right, front row) William Menser (Uncle Wam), Martha Evelyn Ford Menser (Ma Evy), back row, left to right, Raymond Barry Menser (Uncle Bear), Clifton Ferguson, Dosha Menser (Aunt Dosha).

with their lives since 1990,” said Cooper. “Looking back, at the time of when I was hired, and how I was hired at the sheriff’s office in 1990 by Sheriff Vance, it was truly an act of God. Within five short years and the untimely passing of Sheriff Stevens, in 1995 I became the Ballard County Sheriff at age 27. The peo-ple of Ballard County have put their trust and faith in me since that time.”

Cooper said he appreci-ated the county residents for their kindness and sup-port during his career.

“The people of Ballard County have been very good to me, and I have tried to show my appreciation in

return, by working hard on community problems and crime issues, while show-ing the utmost respect and dignity to everyone in the community. Every life is precious and sacred, and is to be treated as such, by everyone in law enforce-ment.

“It has been a blessing and a great adventure for me to serve as sheriff,” he added.

Cooper said his decision to not seek another term was based on his belief that new ideas and a fresh approached were needed in the BCSO.

“It is time to pass the torch on to someone else with fresh ideas and a new outlook, to carry on the good work in the commu-nity,” he said.

Cooper said he wished to thank everyone for the support, concern, and re-spect shown to his office and staff over the years.

“I am looking forward to what the Lord has in store for my family and I, as we start a new chapter in our lives,” Cooper said.

property near the city hall. The juveniles were cited and will have to appear to answer to the charges.

City attorney Jeff Alford arrived after being delayed by road conditions. Alford addressed the council with information dealing with the council’s de-annexation plans of three uninhabited properties.

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KEVILContinued from Page 1

District Extension board prepares for 100th

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Obituaries

BARLOW - Harold Lee Myatt, age 86, passed away Thursday at Baptist Health of Paducah.

He was born June, 7, 1927 to Gilbert Myatt and Mary Elizabeth Bryant Myatt Tanner. He worked construction for many years, was a member of the Barlow Police Depart-ment for 35 years, served as Ballard County Deputy Sheriff, was a veteran of the United States Navy, and belonged to Wickliffe Masonic Lodge #625. He was also a member of Barlow Baptist Church.

He is survived by two sons: Ricky Myatt of Barlow, and Jerry Myatt

(Connie) of Kevil; one daughter, Connie Dal-ton (Tommy) of Barlow; one sister, Lois Mox-ness of North Carolina; four grandchildren; Lynn Myatt (Lisa) of Kevil;

Greg Myatt (Monica In-gram) of Oscar, Zach and Jacob Dalton of Barlow; and three great grandchil-dren; Daniel, Lane and Rowen Myatt.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Jean El-lis Myatt, and his parents, Gilbert Myatt and Mary Myatt Tanner.

Visitation for Harold Lee Myatt were Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 from 5-8 p.m. and on Sunday before the service at Morrow Fu-neral Chapel of LaCenter. Graveside services were Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 at Barlow Cemetery in Bar-low with Rev. Scott Fick-es officiating.

KEVIL - Chester Clay Nelson, 92, of St. Albans, West Virginia, went home to be with the Lord on Jan. 29, 2014 at New Haven Assist-ed Living in Kevil, where he had been residing to be close to his family.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 56 years, Adeline Marie Nel-son, and together they led an exemplary Christian life. He was also preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Anna

Nelson; his brothers, Opie Lee and Charles; sis-ters, Reva Stowers, Sylvia Hall, Golda Yeager, Opal Hodge, Helen McGhee and Rose Dent.

Chester is survived by his daughter, Dreama Deardorff, and husband, Robert Dear-dorff of Kevil; grandsons, Robert Nelson Deardorff of Newburgh, IN. David Lee Deardorff of Madisonville, KY and Andrew Stephen Deardorff and wife, Karey, of Madisonville, KY; great grandchildren, Claire Alex-andra Deardorff, Carli Nel-son Deardorff and Colden Clay Deardorff of New-burgh, IN.

Chester had close re-lationships with nephew, Thomas Dent, of Beaver, OH; nieces, Virginia Nelson Mobley of St. Albans and Doris Roberts of Hurricane, WV, as well as numerous other nephews and nieces.

As a young man, Chester worked with the Civilian Conservations Corps. Dur-ing the early years of WWII he worked for the Martin Company at the Baltimore, MD plant as a machinist working on production of the B26 aircraft for the war effort. He later enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served aboard the USS Yosemite in the South Pacific during the remainder of WWII.

Chester retired from Union Carbide after 36 years of service, was a member of the WV American Legion Post 73 in St. Albans.

A faithful Christian, he was a member of New Hope Baptist Church where he served both as a deacon and trustee over the course of 50 years.

Visitation with the fam-ily was from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3 at Chapman

Funeral Home of St. Al-bans. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. by pastor Duane Defoe in the Chapman Fu-neral Chapel. Interment was at the Nelson Cemetery in Griffithsville, WV.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make donations to the Lourdes Hospice, P.O. Box 7100, Paducah, Ky. 42002.

The family wishes to extend heart felt gratitude to Chester’s compassionate caregivers from Lourdes Hospice of Paducah and to the loving staff of New Ha-ven Assisted Living in Kev-il, where he resided the final two years of his life.

Morrow Funeral Cha-pel handled arrangements. There were no services in Kentucky.

Patsy Jean Shirley Bryant, 80, of La Center, went home to be with the Lord on Feb. 1 at 10:32 p.m. at Life Care Center of La Center. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 62 years, George Lamar Bryant, of La Center and sister, Helen Louise Bry-ant of Carnesville, Geor-gia.

She is survived by son, Warren Bryant and his wife, Belinda, of La Center; daughter, Gwen Meriwether and her husband, Ted, of La Center; daughter, Sybil Slusmeyer and her hus-band, Jeff, of Paducah; daughter, Nancy Davis and her husband, Kevin, of Kevil; son, Bruce Bry-ant of La Center; sisters, Ruby Mercier of Mariet-ta, GA, Mary Ann Grif-fin of Stockbridge, GA and Ruth Vince of Sandy Hook, Miss. She is also survived by 10 grand-children: Scott Bryant of Winchester; Shirley Meriwether Adams of

Wingo; Nicole Slusmey-er Overby of Nashville; Doug Meriwether of Lexington; Stefani Meri-wether of West Paducah; Paige Bryant Crum-pler of Shepherdsville; Chris Bryant of Mur-ray; Candace Bryant of Nashville; Josh Bryant of Evansville and Abby Slusmeyer of Paducah. She is survived by two great-grandchildren, Ty-ler Adams of Wingo and Conley Williams III of West Paducah.

She was a member of Milburn Chapel Cum-

berland Presbyterian Church where she served as Sunday school teacher and secretary. She volun-teered at Western Baptist Hospital Auxiliary for a number of years. She was an Avon Representa-tive for over 30 years.

Visitation was from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3 with funeral services at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4 with visitation starting at 9 a.m. at Milburn Cha-pel Cumberland Pres-byterian Church in West Paducah. Burial followed at La Center Gardens in La Center. Services were officiated by Bro. Doug Hughes.

Expressions of sym-pathy can be made in the form of contributions to the building fund of Mil-burn Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 3760 Metropolis Lake Road, West Paducah 42086.

Morrow Funeral Cha-pel of LaCenter was charge of arrangements.

Harold Lee Myatt

A.C. Parker

Chester Clay NelsonPatsy Jean Shirley Bryant

BandanaBANDANA

BAPTIST CHURCH157 Allen Street, Bandana

BANDANA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

11524 Oscar Road, Bandana

LITTLE UNIONBAPTIST CHURCH

5601 Bandana Rd., Bandana

BarlowANTIOCH

BAPTIST CHURCH315 Antioch Church Rd, Barlow

BARLOWBAPTIST CHURCH135 N. 6th Street, Barlow

BARLOW UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH

198 So. 5th Street, Barlow

FIRSTGENERAL BAPTIST

255 S. 4th, Barlow

OHIO VALLEYBAPTIST CHURCH

538 Hazelwood Rd., Barlow

HinklevillePLEASANT HILL UNITED

METHODIST CHURCH1718 Credo Rd., Hinkleville

KevilBETHEL

CHRISTIAN CHURCH12245 Woodville Rd., Kevil

HEATH CHURCH OF CHRIST10025 LaCenter Rd., Kevil

KEVIL UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH

1072 N. 1st Street, Kevil

NEW LIBERTYMETHODIST CHURCH

Kevil

PROVIDENCEBAPTIST CHURCH

4409 Monkey Eyebrow Rd., Kevil

SPRING BAYOUBAPTIST CHURCH

4575 Old Hobbs Rd., Kevil

GRACE VALLEYBAPTIST CHURCH403 Kentucky Ave., Kevil

KEVIL FIRSTBAPTIST CHURCH986 N. 1st Street, Kevil

NEWTON CREEKBAPTIST CHURCH

12800 Ogden Landing Rd., Kevil

LaCenterFAIRVIEW BAPTIST

CHURCH373 Forest St., LaCenter 665-5084

FIRST BAPTIST

CHURCH OF La CENTER421 Broadway, LaCenter

GRACE UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH3752 Paducah Rd., LaCenter

HOUSE OF PRAYERPaducah Road, La Center

LaCENTER CHRISTIANCHURCH

414 Walnut Street, LaCenter

MT. PLEASANTBAPTIST CHURCH

576 Mt. Pleasant Rd., LaCenter

NEW HOPEBAPTIST CHURCH

901 Monkey Eyebrow Rd.,LaCenter

OSCARBAPTIST CHURCH

7820 Oscar Rd., LaCenter

OSCAR UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH

intersection Michtell Lake Cut-off Rd and Turner Landing Rd

RESURRECTIONFELLOWSHIP CHURCH

6914 La Center Rd., LaCenter

ST. MARY’SCATHOLIC CHURCH624 Broadway, LaCenter

LovelacevilleLOVELACEVILLE MISSIONARY

BAPTIST CHURCH253 N. Broadway, Lovelaceville

WickliffeBETHEHEM

BAPTIST CHURCH2346 Bethlehem Church Rd.,

Wickliffe

BLANDVILLEBAPTIST CHURCH

5576 Bethlehem Church Rd.Wickliffe

CALVARY CHRISTIANFELLOWSHIP CHURCH

54 Linda Circle, Wickliffe

FAITHBAPTIST CHURCH

585 Barlow Rd., Wickliffe

FIRSTBAPTIST CHURCH

Wickliffe

FIRSTCHRISTIAN CHURCH326 N. 4th Street, Wickliffe

FULL GOSPELTEMPLE CHURCH754 Court St., Wickliffe

NEW LIBERTYGENERAL BAPTIST4214 Gum Corner Rd.,

Wickliffe

VICTORYBAPTIST CHURCH

2456 Mayfield Rd., Wickliffe

West PaducahHARMONY

BAPTIST CHURCH9215 Ogden Landing Rd.

West Paducah

Church Directory

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Church Page please contact Lisa at (270) 335-3700.

Patsy JeanShirley Bryant

WICKLIFFE – A. C. Parker, 92, formerly of Wickliffe, died at his resi-dence in Lakeland, Fla. on Jan. 30 at 7:44 p.m. He was of the Baptist faith and worked as a riverboat captain.

He is survived by his daughter, Sue Bowland and husband, Don of Springfield, TN and son, Eddy Parker and wife, Nancy of Lakeland, FL; eight grandchildren and sixteen great grandchil-dren. Mr. Parker was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Evelyn O’Conner Parker; his parents, Tona Parker and Caroline Cowan Ben-nett; his daughter, Jayne Roberts and two sisters.

Services will be Sun-day, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. at

Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Wickliffe with Rev. Lynn Releford offi-ciating. Burial will follow in Wickliffe City Cem-etery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 9, until ser-

vice time. There will also be a memorial at his home in Lakeland on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.

You may go online to light a candle or leave a message of sympathy for the family at www.milne-randorr.com

Harold Lee Myatt

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Opinion

Thanks for the supportDear Editor,

I have rec’d a lot of notes, phone calls and personal contacts from the citizens of Ballard County over the last week, concerning my decision not to run for re-election for Ballard County Sheriff. The love and sup-port that I have received has been overwhelming. Again, I want to thank the Ballard County community for al-lowing me to serve them for the last 24 years! This deci-sion has been difficult, but it is “time for a change” as someone has said, and the Lord has clearly given me the ability to see that is time for me to leave the sheriff’s office next January.

I want to publicly thank

the following people for be-lieving in me:

The Ballard County Dem-ocratic nominating commit-tee, retired Sheriff Herby Vance, the late Sheriff Jack Stevens and family, the late Chief Roy Batts and family, the late Will Shadoan and family, the late Sheriff and Jailer Bob Taylor and fam-ily, Mike Stacy and family, Lynn Lane and family, Faye Oldham Haney and family, Delores Hatler and family, Judge Keith Myers and fam-ily, retired Judge and School Superintendent Bob Buch-anan, Judge Vickie Viniard, and retired Judge Executive Bill Graves. All these people were mentors to me and their families have been an inspi-ration to me and encouragers of mine. The named elected officials help me learn how to work in the capacity of

county government. I have had to make very difficult decisions over the years and I know some people have not been happy about some of the decisions. Please be aware, that on a regular and daily basis I have been in prayer for our community and over the people of the community and how we at the sheriff’s office should handle each and every case, decision, and person in which we come in contact with. God has had his hand on our office and how we tried to handle each and ev-ery situation that has arose. Please pray for the next election and be in prayer for the winners as they take of-fice January 2015, to lead Ballard County in the direc-tion of God’s will!

Thanks and God Bless!Todd Cooper, Sheriff

Locals will need numbers

As a reminder, starting Feb. 1, all local calls must be dialed with the area code + the local number. This includes calls made from wireless phones. If you have contact numbers pre-pro-grammed with seven digits, you will need to add the 270 area code for the calls to complete. Starting at mid-night, we will begin the con-version to 10-digit local di-aling. If you have technical issues or questions, please contact us at 270-665-5186 or via email at [email protected].

Stephen P. Jones IIIT/Network Manager

Ballard Telephone Coop.

Main Street grant is currently in the works

The project on the Main Street Grant from the Department of Local Government in Frankfort is in the process. The low bidder for the $10,000 grant construction was Greif Construction a local company. There were no businesses in the de-fined main street area that wanted to remodel their building facades and provide a 50% sharing of the cost, so the next option taken by Chan Case and the council was for benches and lighting in the Main Street section. In preparing the grant, Larry Kelley, the former council Main Street Director, de-fined the area to be improved as the area around the Ballard County Court House. Cathy Hurt has chaired this project with Councilwoman Judy Hall with help from Lynn Lane and Judge Executive Vicki Viniard. Some of the benches and lighting will be on the Fourth Street east side at the court house sidewalk facing the Fourth Street (Hwy 51) businesses. New Page donated another $6,000 for this beautification project and has helped the region with various projects. All of our local busi-nesses and industries usually help in any way they can and everyone should be aware of their gener-osity.

I have suggested to the city council members that Wickliffe needs to return to the Commission style of city government and have this option on the November ballot for the voting city residents to vote and change to this Commission style of city government. Under the current form of city government, which was adopted when Keith Kelley was Mayor of Wickliffe, the Mayor-Council form of city management was voted into law. The Mayor has very exclusive executive powers and the council is only involved as a single body that has legislative powers. The duties of the Mayor, if done correctly under the current and existing Mayor-Council authority, requires more effort on the Mayor’s part versus the Commission form of city management. Under the Commission Council, the Mayor’s duties are limited and the council makes all the Executive and Legislative decisions. Under this intended Commission form of city management, it is less likely that nepotism and employee terminations can be controlled by an elected Mayor since the decision is made by a four person council and the Mayor as a five person decision making body. Mayor Case actually oper-ated this way when he established duties for each of his council members to oversee various city department operations. We do some of this now with David Phillips handling the Warehouse opera-tion and George Lane handling the Fire Depart-ment, and Larry Hammett chairing the Cemetery Committee and city recreation facilities. The Commission body would have to departmental-ize the city operations, such as, water and sewer, administrative, street and cemetery maintenance, and economic development, warehousing, etc. Then a committee or specific council person would be responsible for that department although the five member council could over-ride any actions of the department chief. The council would con-trol all actions of the city as one body and without one person being responsible for the city’s opera-tions. The Mayor would not be the soul executive with full power over most of the city functions and the employees. Finding a retired person with the time to do a good job for the citizens is becoming more difficult and the change to a Commission style would allow working citizens to be Mayor and all the cities operations would be the responsibil-ity of the five member council, which includes the Mayor, only as an equal member.

In our county politics, I admire the fact, that the sisters, and cousins, and daughters put into these grossly overpaid county positions by their relatives are coming out of the ranks of that county office. Being brought up through the ranks by their relative and boss, although a bit tilted, is common among cities and counties in Ballard County. All of these family employees have done a good job on the surface and few have been challenged after being handed the job. It is particularly proper to me that Sheriff Cooper protected his deputies and employees from others outside the depart-ment from running for Sheriff by filing again and then dropping out on the last day of filing. Now we have four very qualified and experienced candi-dates for Sheriff rather than having an inexperi-enced candidate. There ought to be points for any employee that has worked in his department that wants to advance after years of experience rather than having some outsider push them out in a popularity contest. Experience in any county office should trump politics. In most cases, experience has worked for our elected offices despite the politics and nepotism.

Can you live with the cost of ‘the game’$5 million for a 30-sec-

ond spot for a Super Bowl ad is what a television report-edly stated Friday morning ($4 million by my Google research). Super Bowl ad-vertising is in a completely different category from all other advertising occasions, including Black Friday (and now Black Thursday), ac-cording to the same report. Advertisers spend all year working just for this one chance to attract prospective buyers to their products.

A quick look at the num-bers;

*$25,000 trophy (21” tall & 6.5lb)

*$500-$2,600 per ticket (scalped 3-4 times; 2,600x3.5 = $9,100)

*$46,000 paid per losing player

* $92,000 paid per win-ning player

* 1 diamond in SB 1 ring vs. 243 diamonds in SB 47 ring

* $700,000 for a private luxury suite at stadium

* 18-month preparation by Verizon to handle smart phone use

* 39 million estimated SB parties

* 110 million estimated viewers (1/3 the total. U.S. population estimated at 314 million)

*$ 10 million in bets*$5 million cases of beer

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five spots worth $20 mil-lion.

With these kinds of num-bers it’s easily evident how much significance is placed on this one day by advertis-ers. Now the real question that matters is what will this day cost you? Have you ever wondered why Sunday, why not Saturday, or Friday night? Just considering the amount of people estimated to view the Super Bowl it’s certainly clear how much value is placed on watching to see how much pain can be inflicted by, or on, the op-posing team’s players.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love the game of football. What I hate watching is these over-sized humans trying to

see just how hard they can hit someone and how much hurt or injury they can pro-duce on an opponent. It’s no longer a sport but a bunch of gladiators squaring off in an arena, not much different than the Roman Coliseum, to see who will walk away alive.

I’m trying to go some-where with this but failing miserably.

Guilty! Just as guilty as anyone else, no, more guilty because I know better. I sit around on Sundays and watch football all day long. While life goes on around me, I sit idly by watching as my children grow up. Shame on me! The day will come when I regret not giv-ing every effort and every ounce of time allotted me to use on my children, or any other human being who’s path I might have crossed in the course of any day that God has given me … if I were out and about instead of being hold up, isolated from the world in my home, watching television, as life goes on just out side.

So why am I so hard on myself? Because the day will come when I will have to give an account of my life, just as you will, for the time and opportunities I was given and what I did with them.

I don’t believe a simple act of watching a football game will condemn me (my soul) or you to an eternal life of separation from the presence of God in a devil’s hell. But I do think it has the potential to do just that. “Oh, I don’t believe that,” you might be thinking to yourself. “Has this guy lost is mind?”

The answer to that ques-tion is, maybe.

But if I don’t say what I believe I surely will lose my mind. I wasn’t raised in church and taught all the doctrines of the Chris-tian ways. I believe what I believe because I read it; someone didn’t tell me what to believe. I knew when I read for the first time, Rev 3:16; I wish you are hot or

cold, but you are only luke warm, I will spue you out of my mouth; that being trans-lated means, you make me sick and as hard as I might I won’t be able to keep from puking you out; the reason for the spue (spew). The upside, he told (warned) me before it happens. Oh yeah, consider which church he warned; the 7th and last in the list. Could we be that church, the last generation of this age, the age before the revealing of the evil one?

Ok, I got through that rant.

I think you can use things, such as your desire for something (watching the Super Bowl), to tell yourself where you stand in your dedication to “Do-ing What Jesus Would Do” (DWJWD) rather than ask-ing, “What Would Jesus Do” (WWJD). Remember that acronym from a few years ago? I hated it.

Is drinking beer wrong? Is gambling wrong? Ac-cording to the numbers, it’s not. There was a time in the church community it was considered absolutely hellish, and anyone who took part of such things was considered either a sinner or backslidden. It’s no longer that way, Political Correct-ness (PC) has taken over the church and people are afraid they might “offend” someone if they are told something is wrong, all the while growing colder and colder and not even realiz-ing it. PC dictates that the church has to be tolerable and accepting of all things just the same as the rest of the world. How then can

you “come out from among them and be ye separate” if everything is acceptable and nothing is sinful.

Are you a “Christian” and exchanged football for attending church, sat and watched $20 million beer commercials? The Bible says what a man takes part of he says amen (agrees) to. “Well, I’m a Christian, and I watched the Super Bowl and I’m not going to hell” you might say. OK, I’m not judging just extending food for thought. Remember, I said I was more guilty than anyone. These are just my thought being expressed on paper.

So where was I during the Super Bowl? Where do you think I got the time to write this, I abstained from watch-ing? That doesn’t mean I’m holier than you are, Lord knows I don’t think that at all. What it means is, I was just as tempted to watch but I chose to do something else … actually, it’s all I can do to keep from going to the other room and doing just that, watch the game, I mean.

I’m just trying to “stir myself up,” repent and catch on fire and Do What Jesus Would Do. Gal 6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

It’s not really popular, you know, to DWJWD. What’s popular is to talk about it and just agree to it and then camouflage into the background of every day life and excuse ourselves as just being humans, instead of conducting our lives in a manner that would cause us to stand out.

It’s a good thing the Apostle Paul didn’t adapt that attitude.

Ok, I’m done, finished, finito.

But the question still beckons, what will this day cost you? Your soul? M’t 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Dale’sCorner

ByDale Turner

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Letter to the Editor

Ballard County Elemen-tary School student Avriel Turner won first-place in a recent essay contest. The essay, which is being re-printed below, is being sent to the state contest.

For winning the local essay contest, Turner re-ceived a $20 prize.

Hi. My name is Avie Turner and I’m excited to tell you about my grandpa. His name is Tony Phillips and he is seventy-one years old. I love listening to the stories he tells about the exciting life he has lived; He tells about how he was drafted into the military in 1964 when he was just twenty-two years old. He went on to fight in the Ko-rean War, and was stationed at Camp Kasey. After the war was over he became the driver for the Company Commander. The Com-mander was not allowed to drive himself because they were scared that he would become a target and get killed. I think it’s really cool that he learned to use ‘Wan’ which is Koran Money. He says that $270 Wan is equal to $1 in U.S. money. My grandpa’s favorite color is blue, which is probably be-cause he is a huge Kentucky Wildcat basketball fan. He also enjoys watching Na-scar. His favorite driver is Jimmie Johnson. He has even met Dale Earnhardt and has an unused ticket to Richard Petty’s last race!

He collects clowns, which may seem like a pretty strange thing to collect, but I believe he chose clowns because they are humorous and he is a very funny man. I’m pretty sure my grandpa could never run out of sto-ries, and I’m glad because I could listen to them all day. It’s pretty scary to think that he only has 30% of his heart functioning due to having two heart attacks. It’s good that he has 30% though, because the doctors told him he would never have over 25%. He gradu-ated from Ballard but he has lived many different places like Georiga, Illinois, and Florida. My Grandpa and I really like to pick on each

other, but just for fun of course. One time I told him I wanted him to buy me a camel, so he spent the next couple of days searching almost all the stores in Pad-ucah until he finally found a statue of a camel to buy for me, which I ended up nam-ing Harold, just for giggles.

I really love that camel because it will always re-mind me of my grandpa and how much we love to joke with each other. I love a lot of things about my grandpa, but what I love the most is the fact that it doesn’t seem to matter to him that we’re not blood related, which is good, because it doesn’t matter to me either.

Although I usually try to profile something that is common in this area this week’s column is a little different. The Sandhill Crane, scientific name Grus Canadensis, does migrate through Kentucky but does not follow the Mississippi Flyway. Two major migration routes exist for the sandhills, an eastern and western. I will not discuss the west-ern here as it does not af-fect us locally. The east-ern route passes through East Central Kentucky as the cranes fly from the great lakes states enroute to wintering grounds in Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. About 10,000 of these birds winter at the Hiawassee Wildlife Ref-uge near Dayton, Tenn. I was lucky enough to visit and photograph this flock last week. Occasionally, Sandhill Cranes do fly through our area. I have seen them fly through Marshall County and just a couple of weeks ago I had a gentleman that lives in Ballard County near the Ohio River tell me that he sees a few every spring. While migrating they may be flying very high and form a “V” pattern like geese. Their call however gives them away. Emit-ting a loud nasal trill that can be heard for miles is a dead giveaway. Sandhill Cranes stand nearly 4 feet tall, weigh up to 15 pounds and have a wingspan nearly 7 feet across! This has been the third year that Kentucky has issued permits to hunt Sandhill Cranes. Although the sea-son has been controversial, as sandhills increase in numbers they rapidly de-

plete grain fields that have been planted for other mi-gratory waterfowl. Most of the birds harvested in Kentucky have been in Hardin and Barren Coun-ties with a jump in the number taken each sea-son. Kentucky only issues 400 permits per year. In spring the Sandhill Cranes migrate back toward the great lakes region where they will lay 1 to 3 eggs, raise their young, and get ready to start their migra-tory trip all over again. Sandhill Cranes mate for life.

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Avriel Turner is shown with her grandfather, Tony Phillips.

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Pretty passers ...Several Ballard Memorial High School football players attended the El-liott Quarterback Academy camp in Evansville, Ind., on Jan. 26. Shown from left are players (front row) Eric Marinelli, Hunter Bray, Devon Bled-soe, Andrew Burton, (back row) Ballard Assistant Coach Jamie Bray, EQA instructors Aaron Elliott and Joey Elliott, and Ballard Head Coach John Elliott.

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Ballard Memorial High School used a 30-21 second-half run last Friday evening and cruised to an impressive 59-49 win over the Livings-ton Central High School Cardinals.

BMHS was led by dou-ble-digit performances by three players, including Kegan Cooper, Clay New-ton and Trevor Langston. Cooper finished the game with a team-leading 14 points. Langston and New-ton added 12 and 11, respec-tively.

Ballard Memorial bat-tled its way to an early lead against the Cardinals. The

BMHS squad pounded out a 17-11 spree in the first eight minutes and caried an 8-point lead into the sec-ond.

Livingston Central staged a run of its own in the sec-ond. The Cardinals ralied to within one, at 28-27, with a 17-12 effort in the frame.

The Bombers blew the game open in the third. BMHS posted a 15-6 run in the period and cruised into the fourth quarter holding a 44-34 advantage.

Devon Bledsoe also played well for the Bomb-ers, finishing with nine points.

Ballard boys upend Livingston County, 59-49

Abbi Denton scored 14 points and Leah Shelley added 13 more on Friday and led the Ballard Memori-al High School Lady Bomb-

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Carey Batts

Carey is a Ballard Coun-ty native and has been em-ployed by the Ballard Coun-ty Sheriff’s Department over 20 years and worked 4 years at the jail prior to his time with the department. He started with the depart-ment in 1994 under Jack Steven’s term as sheriff. He attended the Kentucky Po-lice Academy voluntarily before it was a mandatory requirement of the state.

Carey said he spent 5 years assigned to the West-ern Area Narcotics Team (WANT). He and Todd Cooper became deputies just a couple of years a part and he has never considered running for sheriff until now. He says that he respects and admires Cooper and the job that he has done during his time as sheriff.

Carey said his father was a LaCenter City police offi-cer for 20 years and he has been around law enforce-ment most of his life. He also says, “he really desires to have the job as sheriff and doesn’t’ take the posi-tion lightly”

As senior officer on the force, his years of service, and his good working rela-tionship with surrounding counties and their sheriffs makes him an excellent candidate for the job.

He added that, “he hopes Ballard County residents respect and believe in him enough to vote for him.”

TrentGrief

William Trent Grief has called Ballard County home for his entire life. Trent be-gan his career in emergency services directly out of high school in 1990 as a member of Ballard County Rescue, Kevil and LaCenter fire departments and Ballard County EMS. Trent came on board the Ballard County Sheriff’s Department as spe-cial deputy in 1998 and be-gan working as a full-time LaCenter police officer in 2001. In 2002, he graduated from a 16-week course at the Law Enforcement Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Train-ing at Richmond. Trent be-gan full time on the force in 2007 and remains today.

He believes he is a people person and has worked well with the community and with the counties emergency responders departments. He is also one of the only two officers on the department to hold an Advanced Road Impaired Driving (ARIDE) certification.

His goal is to run an hon-est and professional depart-ment.

Trent has worked two full time jobs and is ready to be just a “full” time sheriff. “As our community continues to grow, our Law Enforcement efficiency and expectations should grow with it.”

Trent is asking for your vote.

incumbent Todd Cooper withdrew late Tuesday af-ternoon just as the deadline to file arrived, leaving the remaining four - all deputy sheriff’s - to vie for the coveted gold star. Running will be Carey Dean Batts, Joe Gaia, Ronnie Giles Jr. and William Trent Grief.

Now try to imagine the road that lies ahead of them as they begin what will surely be a long trek to the finish line and the awaited prize. Each will be trying to convince voters county-wide to believe they are the most deserving of their X on ballot day.

All are nearly equally qualified in any category pertaining to the position. They all are respected county wide, and all are friendly, likeable and per-sonable with genuinely good personalities.

Each candidate will have mutual friends and acquaintances helping per-suade that their candidate will be the best choice.

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Carey Batts

JoeGaia

Joe was born in Ballard County and started at the Ballard County Sheriff’s Department in 1996. Joe interned with the depart-ment during Jack Stevens’ term as sheriff, while at-tending Murray State Uni-versity, where he majored in criminal justice and is only nine credit hours short of receiving a Bachelors Degree. He also was em-ployed as a guard at USEC for one and a half years and was a LaCenter city police officer for another year.

Joe was the first of the four deputies to register as a candidate in the election and is “confident he will be an effective sheriff.” He wants to have an “open door policy” and feed back from the citizens.

Joe says “he is all about community” and being in-volved with local leaders. Joe also wants to ensure the citizens he intends to make sure their tax dol-lars are being utilized in the most effective possible way.

Joe would like to urge voters to choose him on Election Day.

Joe Gaia

RonnieGiles

Ronnie Giles Jr. was born and raised in Ballard County and has served on the Ballard County Sheriff’s Department since 1991. In 2004 he was assigned by Todd Cooper to serve with the Kentucky State Police on the Drug Enforcement Special Inves-tigations (DESI) Task Force Division. Ronnie is saddened by the retirement of Cooper and says, “Todd has done an outstanding job as sheriff and has been an even better friend.” He also says he has always maintained from his first day on the force that “he would run for sheriff the day Todd retired.”

He says that the county is fortunate to have such a well-trained and dedicated law enforcement agency and he intends to build upon the leg-acy that will be left behind. He also wants to remind peo-ple that there is more respon-sibility to being sheriff than just law enforcement. Ronnie makes no promises except to do the very best job possible and that his ultimate goal is to “continue to serve and pro-tect the citizens of this great county,” and “would like to ask for your support.”

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All will have to run an equally clean race (not that any would consider mud-slinging) while try-ing to sway voters their direction. They will have to continue working side-by-side while competing against one another. If you have ever competed for anything, you know win-ning is everything, and at the end when one emerges victorious they will have to pick up the broken pieces of their hopes and settle into, and accept, their new roles while the personal-ity and atmosphere of the department they have all been accustomed for so long will inevitably under go changes.

Basically what the sher-iff’s race boils down to is who has the most family and friends, or who has the most family with the most friends. For these four can-didates it’s simply in the voters’ hands.

As anticipation grows for election night, it is ap-prarent no matter what the outcome Ballard County will be the biggest winner.

I have never been a winter time person. I love the spring. The freshness of the trees, grass and flowers as they come alive after the dead of winter al-ways makes me feel wonderful.

I don’t even com-plain when it gets so hot I can hardly breathe in the summer. I always say the heat beats the cold winter any day. I also love the beauty of fall. I just can’t enjoy it as much knowing win-ter is on its way. This winter has just about took its toll on me! Peo-ple I talk to seem to feel the same way. This is one thing that is totally out of our control.

I am praying for ear-ly spring. I have heard talk of seeing robins

flying around. This is always a good sign or so they say, that spring is going to come early.

We only have 28 days in Feb. I figure when we hit March we surely are there, or pretty close. I will try to focus on the beauty that is coming with the spring and just keep on going with the flow of old man winter.

What else can we do, right?

God Bless!

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Winter is taking its toll on me!

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Last Friday, I attended the Ky Commodity Con-ference in Bowling Green, KY. I enjoy this meeting every year and I think it would be a good meeting for a few more of you to at-tend. It usually starts with a morning of good infor-mation, followed by lunch and several speakers. The important part of the meet-ing is the afternoon, where each of the crop associa-tions, corn growers, small grain growers and soybean growers, have individual meetings.

This year the trip did not start out as good as usual, because I hit snow about Calvert City and had to drive slower the rest of the way to Bowling Green. It turned a 2 ½ hour trip into 3 ½ hours. After I finally got there, the morning edu-cational sessions had good information. Marty Ruikka, ProExporter Network gave a presentation on modeling for grain marketing. After a very extended discussion on how his company comes up with price models for the next 10 years, his im-portant information was that they expect corn prices to be in the $4 area for the next 10 years. They expect the soybean price to be in the $10 area. I thought the most telling part of the talk was that the price of oil is still the main support for the price of grains and nobody was predicting a great drop in oil prices over the next 10 years. However, the role of ethanol being one of the main reasons for the price of corn to be so high was going to be replaced by soybeans and the needs of China for more soybean purchases. His group pre-dicts that instead of corn driving soybean prices, soybeans would now be driving corn prices. That is interesting for us, because we have very little ground that is in continuous corn production, but we could easily change to a mix that had more soybeans in the rotation.

Commissioner of Ag-riculture, James Comer gave a short presentation at lunch and the after din-ner speaker was Evelyn Browning-Garriss, The Weather Whisperer. I re-ally enjoyed her presenta-tion. She made the point that the climate is always changing and the many weather events happened in cycles. If you could look back at history and deter-mine the cycles you could more easily predict trends in the weather. She made the point that unlike what you hear now in the news, we have been much warm-er in the past. When the Vikings discovered Green-land it was much warmer than now and was actually green, not snow covered like now. Her important predictions for us were that because of all the volca-nic activity in the northern hemisphere over the last several years, the north

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pole region was colder than normal and we would keep getting these clipper sys-tems and the cold air that we are now experiencing for the rest of the winter. However, she also said that an El Nino would form in the Pacific this year and for us that usually meant a little cooler temperatures and more precipitation and it looked like a good crop year again for Kentucly.

The commodity sessions were interesting as each group elects new members and elects officers and tries to determine the needs for each commodity for the coming year. Research possibilities are discussed; ways to effectively spend check off dollars are dis-cussed. Really, it was a good afternoon that a few more you probably need to be involved in. We have had great representa-tion on the soybean board for years, first with Benny Cooper and now with Allen Pace but there is room on the other boards for farm-ers from our county to get involved. If you would like more information please let me know, and I will connect you to the right people.

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2014 ScheduleDATE RACE TRACKFeb 15 The Sprint Unlimited .............DaytonaFeb. 20 Duel 2 ....................................DaytonaFeb 20 Duel 1 ....................................DaytonaFeb 23 Daytona 500 .........................DaytonaMar. 2 Sprint Cup Series .................. PhoenixMar. 9 Sprint Cup Series .............. Las VegasMar. 16 Sprint Cup Series .................... BristolMar. 23 Sprint Cup Series ........California AutoMar. 30 Sprint Cup Series ............. MartinsvilleApr. 6 Sprint Cup Series ....Texas SpeedwayApr. 12 Sprint Cup Series ..............DarlingtonApr. 26 Sprint Cup Series ...............RichmondMay. 4 Sprint Cup Series ...............TalladegaMay. 10 Sprint Cup Series ...............KansasMay. 17 Sprint Cup All-Star Race ..CharlotteMay. 17 Sprint Cup Series Showdown .CharlotteMay. 25 Sprint Cup Series ........... CharlotteJun. 1 Sprint Cup Series ................ DoverJun. 8 Sprint Cup Series ............. PoconoJun. 15 Sprint Cup Series ............ MichiganJun. 22 Sprint Cup Series ............ SonomaJun. 28 Sprint Cup Series ........... KentuckyJul. 5 Sprint Cup Series ............. DaytonaJul. 13 Sprint Cup Series New HampshireJul. 27 Brickyard 400 .............. IndianapolisAug. 3 Sprint Cup Series ............. PoconoAug. 10 Sprint Cup Series .... Watkins GlenAug. 17 Sprint Cup Series ........... MichiganAug. 23 Sprint Cup Series ................ BristolAug. 31 Sprint Cup Series ............... AtlantaSep. 6 Sprint Cup Series ......... RichmondSep. 14 Sprint Cup Series ............ ChicagoSep. 21 Sprint Cup Series New HampshireSep. 28 Sprint Cup Series ................ DoverOct. 5 Sprint Cup Series .............. KansasOct. 11 Sprint Cup Series ........... CharlotteOct. 19 Sprint Cup Series .......... TalladegaOct. 26 Sprint Cup Series ........ MartinsvilleNov. 2 Sprint Cup Series Texas SpeedwayNov. 9 Sprint Cup Series ............. PhoenixNov. 16 Sprint Cup Series ....Homestead-Miami

2014 Sprint Cup Series Team ChartNo. Driver Car Sponsor Crew Chief1 Jamie McMurray Chevy McDonalds Keith Rodden2 Brad Keselowski Chevy Miller Lite Paul Wolfe3 Austin Dillon Chevy Bass Pro Gil Martin4 Kevin Harvick Chevy Budweiser Rodney Childers5 Kasey Kahne Chevy Great Clips Kenny Francis7 Michael Annett Chevy Flying J/Pilot Tommy Baldwin Jr.9 Marcos Ambrose Ford Stanley Tools Drew Blickensderfer10 Danica Patrick Chevy Go Daddy Tony Gibson11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Darian Grubb13 Casey Mears Chevy Geico Bootie Barker14 Tony Stewart Chevy Mobil 1 Chad Johnston15 Clint Bowyer Toyota 5 Hour Energy Brian Pattie16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M Matt Puccia17 Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Ford Nationwide Ins. Mike Kelley18 Kyle Busch Toyota Interstate Battery Dave Rogers20 Matt Kenseth Toyota Dollar General (27) Jason Ratcliff21 Trevor Bayne Ford Motorcraft Donnie Wingo22 Joey Logano Ford Pennzoil Todd Gordon23 Alex Bowman Toyota Dr. Pepper Dave Winston24 Jeff Gordon Chevy Pepsi Max Alan Gustafson26 Cole Whitt Toyota Swan Energy Randy Cox27 Paul Menard Chevy Menard’s Slugger Labbe30 Parker Kligerman Toyota Swan Energy Steven Lane31 Ryan Newman Chevy Caterpillar Quicken Loans Luke Lambert32 Terry Labonte Ford TBA Dan Stillman33 Brian Scott Chevy Shore Lodge Nick Harrison34 David Ragan Ford TBA Frankie Kerr41 Kurt Busch Chevy Haas Automations Daniel Knost42 Kyle Larson Chevy Target Chris Heroy43 Aric Almirola Ford Smithfield Trent Owens47 AJ Allmendinger Chevy Clorox Brian Burns48 Jimmie Johnson Chevy Lowe’s Chad Knaus51 Justin Allgaier Chevy Brandt Steve Addington52 Bobby Labonte Chevy TBA TBA55 Brian Vickers Toyota Aaron’s Billy Scott66 Michael Waltrip Toyota TBA TBA Jeff Burton Toyota TBA TBA77 Dave Blaney Ford TBA Pete Sospenzo78 Martin Truex, Jr. Chevy Furniture Row Todd Berrier83 Ryan Truex Toyota Burger King Dale Ferguson87 Joe Nemechek Toyota TBA Scott Eggleston88 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Chevy Nat. Guard/PepsiCo Steve Letarte92 Brian Keselowski Ford TBA TBA95 Michael McDowell Ford TBA Wally Rogers98 Josh Wise Chevy TBA TBA99 Carl Edwards Ford Fastenal Jimmy Fennig

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