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A group of about 30 lawyers, district administrators, and legal service workers attended an education law conference in the Ballard County Middle School choir room on Thursday.

Laws that govern school boards are detailed and continually-changing. School districts need specialized legal counsel and help making

good decisions to avoid expensive law suits by ensuring their decisions are based in the law. The purpose of the conference was to update those involved in dealing with the disciplinary actions of compulsive problem children and those with disabilities. The speakers were Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, great-great-great granddaughter of

the county’s name sake Bland Ballard and 1960 BMHS graduate Mike Owsley . The two, Owsley and DiLoreto, represented

opposing sides of the issue, and as Myers demonstrated using a quarter, illustrated both sides need to display representation to be of value.

A mock disaster drill with mass casualties was held on Monday. The drill was organized by Emergency Management Director Travis Holder and staged on the west entrance of BCES. The exercise was an over turned school bus loaded with students. Holder told Channel 6 News

the reason for the school bus drill is that there are more and more accidents involving buses and there were two incidents last year involving Ballard buses.

Ballard School District Director of Transportation Kerry Fulcher took part in the exercise, as the school’s

crash site representative, along with district Director of Community Education Julie Thomas. Most all Ballard County emergency responders participated in the drill and it was complete with Red Cross and PHI air evacuation chopper making an appearance.

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Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, litigation director for the Children’s Law Center in Lexington, speaks at BMCS. To her left is Mike Owsley, a partner in the Bowling Green firm of English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley.

Great-great-great granddaughter of Bland Ballard speaks at BCMS

The Barlow city com-mission met in regular session on the 8th at the city hall annex. The pri-ority project for July is placement of speed bumps on Wall and Greenlawn streets.

In an effort to detour speeding traffic attempt-ing to get ahead of slower moving traffic turning East on highway 60 at the four-way the commis-sion voted unanimously to place two speed bumps on doth streets between Hwy 60 and 5th and be-tween 5th and 6th streets. The project is expected to start immediately.

Another issue on Wall Street is an abandoned pool and fish pond with standing water creating a mosquito problem in the neighborhood. The com-mission is to contact the owner to request action be taken to eliminate the problem.

A clarification of the city’s policy for replac-ing driveway sewers was discussed. The city will provide labor and equip-ment and the owner must provide the new sewer.

The policy is to replace driveway sewers only, not in drainage ditches with sewers. Sewers can

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This overturned bus was a mass casualty exer-cise. Emergency Management Director Travis holder said without practice there would be no way to be prepared to handle these situations.

the June 26 issue in an article on the Bandana Mud Bogs there were concerns over discrepancies. The first was that Egner and the Poloski’s are distant relatives. Egner says they are not related and the Poloski’s say they did not claim to being related. The fact is Egner’s nephew is married to the Poloski’s niece

The second is that Kenneth and Crystal Poloski operate the bogs: Kenneth Poloski, Sr. is the operator and Kenneth Poloski, Jr. was only acting as the spokesperson when interviewed for the article.

Finally,, Glenn Arivett had told TBCW that he and Randy and Jean Emerson had no problems with the bogs. Randy Emerson says Arivett was not authorized to speak on his and Jean’s behalf and they actually are opposed to the bogs.

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There has been a lot of publicity about the subject of bullying. Bullying is a cowardly act and has been around for many years. The majority of my childhood, my family lived in the public housing projects of Paducah. I started first grade at Heath Elementary, and in the middle of the school year, Daddy moved us to a home on Old Mayfield Road in Paducah. So, I finished the first grade at Emma Morgan Elementary. This was during the construction of Union Carbide (USEC), and there was a housing shortage in this area. Daddy worked for McGraw Construction, and after the construction, he was laid off and moved us to 109 Thomas Jefferson Apartments.We lived there for three years, and I attended Andrew Jackson Elementary (now McNabb Elementary). Then, once again, Daddy moved us to 30J Elmwood Court, where we lived for four and a half years. I attended fifth and sixth grades at

Henry Clay Elementary and seventh, eighth and half of the ninth grade at Jetton Junior High. Then, once again, we moved near TVA Shawnee Steam Plant. Once again, I attended Heath, this time in the second half of the ninth grade...started at Heath, ended at Heath.

I never was bullied except when my family lived at Elmwood Court. There, I learned how to deal with bullies. I learned that a person’s financial status does not determine their honesty or integrity. Some kids who lived outside the project called us “pore white trash.” Folks, they didn’t discourage me, they just strengthened my resolve to do better than the bullies.

One incident stands out in my memory of how to deal with bullies. While we lived at Elmwood Court, an older teenage girl told several of us younger teenage girls of a plan. She laughed and told us that she was going to start a girl gang....we would

ride the bus to downtown Paducah, shoplift and bring the stolen items back to Elmwood Court. There, we would divide the loot. We other girls looked at her in disbelief when she presented the plan. She asked for individual replies, and my exact words, I remember....”no, I ain’t gonna join your girl gang, but I will visit you in jail.”

Recently, one of my friends from Jetton Junior High School passed away. Although her family did not live in Elmwood Court, she had been bullied because she was overweight. One day at school, she told me of being bullied and how it made her feel so very bad. She asked me how I coped with bullies and my response was....”laugh at them and do better than them...don’t let the bullies make you cry...be strong.” She told me later that this worked.

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DiLoreto is the Litigation Director for the Children’s Law Center Inc. in Lexington and has an extensive background in child advocacy. She wrote the first Juvenile Law Manual for the Department of Public Advocacy in the early 1990’s.

Owsley is a partner of English, Lucas, Priest, and Owsley in Bowling

Green and has become one of the foremost authorities on school district law and policy in Kentucky. During the introductions Myers said he was putting together what he thought would be five or six people having a round table discussion but when he put it on the internet he said, “it was like placing electrodes on a baby Frankenstein and it took on a life of its own.” The conference drew professionals from the four river counties along with representatives from Graves and McCracken.

Myers also shared that he was adopted and Owsley’s mother was the one who had placed him with the Myer’s family.

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motorcycle riders are ex-pected to share the road-ways over this next week as bikers attend the ‘Little Sturgis’ Bike Rally in Sturgis the 17- 20. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reminds you to be alert for a massive in-flux of motorcycles start-ing about mid-week. The motorcycles, campers, and other support vehicles generate a lot of extra traf-fic along Ky. highways

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have fall T-ball this year for ages 3-7

Registration dates will be July 19 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ballard County baseball and softball fields.

For more information contact Lynda Winnans at (270) 816-6939.

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Jami J. Green, age 48, of Wickliffe, passed away at 9:45 am on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN.

Jami was a member of the Wickliffe First Baptist Church. She worked for T h o r o u g h b r e d Research Group as a Te l e c o m m u n i c a t o r. She had been attending college for the past two years and was one credit shy of her Associates degree in Science and Business Administration.

She is survived by her daughter, Kaitlin Ross Wilson and husband Christopher of Wickliffe; mother, Virginia Ruth Hammett Green of Wickliffe; granddaughter, Madilyn Grace Wilson.

She was preceded in death by her father, James Earl Green.

Jami enjoyed spending time with her family and especially the

time she spent with her beautiful granddaughter, Madi Grace, whom she adored.

Graveside services for Jami J. Green were held at 12:00 pm on Saturday, July 12, 2014 at the Wickliffe City Cemetery with Phil Elliott officiating.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to: American Cancer Society, 3140 Parisa Dr., Paducah, KY 42003.

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Bill Hamilton teamed with Jerry and Ellen Pace introduced ‘Kentucky Privileges’ at Chamber Breakfast on the 8th.

Kentucky Privileg-es is a subsidiary of a 22-year-old company called Generations Gold that provides discounts and saving on such things as travel servic-es, consumer protection services, and dining. As a member there are also retail savings available along with instant sav-

ings, cash back rewards and health services sav-ings.

According Hamilton, using the ‘Privileges’ program a person could easily save as much $300 or more a month by being diligent and ordering gift and gas cards through the pro-gram prior to making purchases.

“The biggest part” according to Pace is the availability of an identity protection called Resto-

ration Rescue; on aver-age it cost $3500 to re-store a person’s identity, says Pace and Hamilton, but with this program you can get coverage that will provide up to $5000 in restoration coverage and they will continue to represent a person (for fees) even if the coverage is used up.

The Ballard Chamber of Commerce can also benefit from new mem-berships. When a person becomes a member all

they have to do is put BCC in a referral box on the application and the chamber will receive 10% of the membership dues.

Pace said he would not have attached his name to Ky Privileges if it were not a quality product.

For more information visit www.kentucky-privileges.com and click NON-MEMBERS Ex-plore or call 800-982-9544.

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be purchased through the city at a reduced rate of ordinary retail if pur-chased by an individual.

The Kentucky League of Cities is the city’s in-surance provider at cost of $32,800 a year and re-quires $6,000 down with nine monthly payments at 6% interest. Citizens De-posit Bank has offered to loan the entire yearly cost at 4.75% interest on 12 monthly payments. The commission agreed to ac-cept the offer.

A grant for security surveillance cameras will be researched for the pro-tection of city hall work-er. The concern arose af-ter a recent stabbing of a city water bookkeeper by an angry citizen in Caru-thersville Mo.

The interior of the jail is scheduled for painting as an Eagle Scout project this fall.

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With the May primaries still a recent memory, it is hard to realize that we are in the middle of an election year. Across the state, local elections are set to appear on the ballot in November and politicians are working to position themselves for upcoming statewide elections. It’s against this backdrop that a number of candidates have placed Hickman County on their itinerary this month.

We are all familiar with the Fancy Farm Picnic—an annual event featuring BBQ

and political speaking that has grown into one of the key political venues in the state. The week leading up to the picnic is usually filled with fundraisers and meet-and-greets for candidates. This year the political week kicks off in Hickman County where, on Monday, July 28, politicians from across the state will descend upon Columbus-Belmont State Park to speak and visit with constituents. Among those who will be in attendance, include: State Representative Steven

Rudy, State Representative Richard heath, State Representative Kenny Imes, State-SenateCandidate Danny Carroll, State-Representative Candidate Randy Bridges, S t a t e - R e p r e s e n t a t i v e Candidate Keith Travis, and Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, who will serve as the keynote speaker for the evening. In addition, a representative from Senator Rand Paul’s office will be attending. The event starts at 6 p.m. and free grilled hot dogs, chips, and drinks will be

available.“Picnic and Politics in the

Park,” as the event is being called, was organized by Jason Batts, founder of the Jackson Purchase Republicans, who has been working hard the last few weeks to present this opportunity to hear from candidates and elected officials in Western K e n t u c k y. “ T h e J a c k s o n Purchase area of Kentucky is the furthest part of the state from Frankfort and Washington,” Batts said. “This can have its advantages,” he

joked, “but, this venue will give people and candidates an opportunity to meet each other and discuss the issues impacting our area.”

Picnic and Politics in the Park is free to attend. Any person or business willing to help make the event possible by making a small donation is encouraged to contact Jason Batts at (270) 653-6924. All sponsors will be recognized at the event. Everyone is encouraged to come out and enjoy an afternoon of picnic and politics in the park.

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Cottonmouth, scientific name Agkistrodon piscivorous.

Summer is here! That means a lot more folks are fishing and engaging in other out-door pursuits. With Ballard County hav-ing many acres of cypress swamp and lowlands make it prime territory for the Cottonmouth, sci-entific name Agkistrodon piscivorous.

A heavy-bodied, dark colored snake. The color may range from dark brown to olive to black. The cot-tonmouth is marked with dark dumbbell shapes and individuals tend to grow darker with age. There is a dark band through the eye. This snake is a pit viper and is poisonous. When disturbed this snake will often coil and open its

mouth showing the white interior, hence the name cottonmouth. Average length is 20 to 40 inches.

The cottonmouth is ovoviviparous and gives birth to live young. The young may number from 1 to 16 but 5 to 8 are more common. They are bright-er colored than adults and have a yellowish to green-ish tail tip.

The cottonmouth is a pit viper and should be identi-fied as such. The only oth-er pit viper that resembles the cottonmouth is the copperhead. The copper-head is a much lighter col-ored snake and has a very light instead of dark stripe through the eye.

Swamps, rivers, shal-

low lakes, and drainage ditches are common lo-cations for this snake. It may be found away from the water during spring and fall when it migrates between water and rocky hillsides or bluffs to hiber-nate.

Cottonmouths will eat almost anything but seem to prefer sirens, frogs, and fish. This animal will sometimes eat car-rion, which is rare among snakes.

Contrary to some folk-lore beliefs this snake can and will bite under water.

The yellow tail tip may be used to lure frogs and other small prey close enough to capture.

Ag UPDATEBy Tom Miller

Ballard County Extension Agentfor Ag and Natural Resources

Mother Nature threw some curve balls to the wheat crop over the grow-ing season. Now at har-vest time, some growers are finding out their crop safely weathered the sea-son, while others are dis-covering they struck out.

The wheat growing season started off rocky for many producers when cool weather patterns dur-ing the fall delayed corn harvest and subsequent wheat planting. Record low temperatures during the winter slowed crop development and threat-ened to potentially delay harvest, said Carrie Knott,

grain crops specialist with the University of Ken-tucky College of Agricul-ture, Food and Environ-ment.

Fortunately, harvest is only slightly behind. As of June 30, the Kentucky of-fice of the National Agri-cultural Statistics Service reported that 71 percent of the crop was harvested. This is just below the five-year harvest average of 78 percent.

With yields averaging around 70 bushels per acre and good test weights, many growers thought they had dodged a bullet. While most did, others are

learning their crop didn’t come out of the season unscathed, as they are en-countering high levels of the fungal toxin deoxyni-valenol, also known as DON, in their crop.

“Typically, high levels of DON are correlated with high levels of Fusari-um head blight,” said Don Hershman, UK extension plant pathologist. “The appearance of head blight on heads is usually visible in the field, but this year, symptom expression was minimal in many cases.”

So far, high levels of DON are in spotty loca-

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tions across the state. Her-shman said the high levels could be due to a combi-nation of factors, many of which farmers could not control despite their best efforts.

The crop growth was extremely uneven this year, which lengthens the period of head emergence. The plant is most suscep-tible to Fusarium just after head emergence, when the crop begins to flower. The longer period could have exceeded the time that a foliar fungicide would be effective or may have re-sulted in only a portion of the wheat tillers receiv-ing protection when they needed it.

The extensive cool and wet period this spring also caused growers to delay fungicide applications.

“This is a very common conundrum,” Hershman said. “The very conditions which favor head scab de-velopment and demand a fungicide application are the same conditions that make it difficult or even impossible to spray.”

The crop could also have been infected by the Fusarium pathogen later

during grain fill.“This is not an ex-

tremely common scenario, but when it does occur, it is usually associated with cool, wet weather during grain fill,” he said. “These are exactly the conditions experienced during much of the grain fill period for many fields throughout Western Kentucky this spring.”

Due to a lack of symp-toms, many growers are not discovering the issue until they arrive at the mill or grain elevator.

“Numerous reports in the western part of the state, where the majority of the wheat has been har-vested, indicate problems with DON levels exceed-ing industry allowances,” Knott said. “There are several reports that DON levels are so high that loads are being rejected or penalized with significant price reductions.”

Programs of the Ken-tucky Cooperative Exten-sion Service serve all people regardless of race, age, sex, color, religion, disability or national origin. For addi-tional information, contact the Ballard County Exten-sion Office, 110 Broadway, LaCenter, 665-9118.

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Local Man Asks For Your Vote This FallAs “Write In” For Ballard County Sheriff

Mr. Billy Wayne Wildharber of LaCenter, Kentucky, has officially announced and filed paperwork in the upcoming fall election as a ‘Write In’ candidate for Ballard County Sheriff.

Billy Wayne was born and raised in Ballard County and resides in the LaCenter area, where he lives with his wife, Stephanie, and their daughter, Brooklyn.

Billy Wayne has accumulated a vast amount of law enforcement experience over the many years. He began his service with the Barlow Police Department in 1991 and then onto the Ballard County Sheriff Office 3 years later while serving as a deputy and ultimately as their K9 officer performing drug interdiction, as well as spending a large amount of time in the local schools educating the children of the dangers of drugs. He also served on the Western Area Narcotics Task Force providing drug interdiction for the entire region.

His training qualifications include Kentucky Certified Police Officer, Drug Commander Courses, Tactical Weapons Certification, Rapid Response Training For Active Shooters, as well as Federal training that he received in his 12 years of employment as a Federal Security Officer at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, where he held a Class (Q) Security Clearance.

When asked why he decided to throw his hat in the ring and run as a (Write-In) for this fall’s election, he simply replied, “Law Enforcement is my passion. It’s what I love. I feel that our county and its citizens deserve the highest level of protection, professionalism and proactive law enforcement and I am willing and prepared to provide that.” Billy Wayne also added, “I am not looking for a quick 4-year term. I want to be this county’s career sheriff while dedicating myself to this county, its citizens and the office of Sheriff 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and I want to continue to do that for as long as the citizens will allow me to.”

Currently, Billy Wayne serves as a Special Deptuy for the Sheriff’s Department and spends his spare time with his family, and also introducing the youth of this county and from other areas to the outdoors in the areas of hunting, fishing and archery.

“I feel that getting the young people involved in the outdoors and spending real time with them, we are teaching them how to be good stewards to the land and the wildlife. Every day they spend in the outdoors they are developing skill sets that will help them later in life. It teaches them self-reliance, builds confidence and creates memories that last them a lifetime. One of my goals as the next sheriff is to find ways to connect with our youth and while educating them about the real dangers of drugs and to be there for them as a positive role models day in and day out.”

In closing Billy Wayne added, “My goal is simple. I want to be the next sheriff of Ballard County and if the citizens of this county will honor me with their Write-In vote I will personally do everything within my power to provide them with the high level of proactive law enforcement that they have become accustomed to for the past 20 years.

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THE BALLARD COUNTY WEEKLYPAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2014

Winners at the 2014 Ballard County Fair pageant included (Top) Dalaney Darland, Grace Webster, Lindsay Tat-um annd Emily Hurt Grace Webster (at right) competes in the pageant.

Haley Allen and her little sister (bot-tom) show offer the trophy she won.

The fire trucks, police cruisers and ambulances at Baptist Health Pad-ucah early today weren’t there for an emergency. They were on a different mission – to spread the word about breast cancer awareness.

Representatives from 12 public safety agencies throughout western Ken-tucky joined 24 breast cancer survivors, as well as hospital doctors, nurse and staff, to film the hos-pital’s fourth annual Pink Glove Dance video:

Paducah Fire Depart-

ment, Paducah Police, Paducah Bomb Squad, McCracken County Sheriff’s Department, Kentucky State Police, PHI Air Medical, Mercy EMS, Ballard County EMS, Carlisle County EMS, Livingston County EMS, Murray-Calloway EMS and Reidland-Farley Fire Department. WPSD Local6 also par-ticipated.

The national Pink Glove Dance video con-test reminds women to get annual mammograms for early detection of breast cancer. See Pink-GloveDance.com.

“We are thankful to our public safety work-ers for partnering with us this year on the video,” said Bonnie Schrock, Baptist Health Paducah chief operating officer. “We are excited to show the country how our hos-pital teams with dedicat-ed emergency workers daily in providing for the health and well-being of our community.”

For this year’s entry in the contest, local sur-vivors held signs noting a significant date in their lives, as they danced to “Best Day of My Life” by American Authors. Some marked the dates they were cancer-free; others said “Today” and “Every Day” are the best

days of their lives.Survivor Icy Gardner

chose “8-30-06” to rep-resent her five-year sur-vivor mark. “I feel so blessed to be a survivor and to have been dancing today with so many oth-ers,” said Gardner, who works in compliance at Baptist Health Paducah. “Not to mention, I got my first ride in a fire truck, got my picture made with a state trooper and enjoyed sitting next to some good-looking firefighter. All in all, it was a very good time.”

The hospital’s video has placed in the na-tion’s Top 8 each of the past three years. The top winners earn cash prizes for breast cancer chari-ties, so Baptist Health Paducah asks for your votes to support the Ken-tucky Cancer Program’s Horses and Hope breast cancer education pro-gram. Vote once daily Sept. 9-23 at PinkGlove-Dance.com.

Also, to enter the con-test, Baptist Health must raise $2,000 for its char-ity, the Your Fight Fund, which benefits local can-cer patients and services. Donations can be sent to Baptist Health Founda-tion Paducah, c/o Pink Glove 2014, 2501 Ken-tucky Ave., Paducah Ky. 42003.

Two separate proposals were introduced by La Center residents for the Celebration Plaza at the city’s commissioners meeting on the 8th.

The first was a ‘Little Free Library.’ The idea, presented to the commission by Terra Bowles, is fashioned from a program she had been involved in while living in Louisville. Bowles, the executor of the Jan Nave Bowles Memorial Fund, desires to sponsor and maintain a location where the community can share books called ‘Take a Book, Return a Book’. She described the library as resembling a “very large bird house” about two feet by two feet square and around three feet tall. Bowles intends to have a contest for the art department from BMHS for the design and painting. She plans to keep the books stocked by community

donations and has more then 100 already.

Glyn and Judith Webb approached the commission with an offer to volunteer their time to do restoration and clean up work around Celebration Plaza. They are looking at replacing the missing bricks, cutting down dead trees, and reviving plants. Approval was granted to the Webbs for the use of what tools and supplies the city could help with.

Although inspectors prefer rubber mulch in playground areas, according to the maintenance department, there won’t be in La Center’s yet. At a cost of $12,000 the commission agreed the use of play sand for $800 in the new play area at the park. The commission will research grants for rubber mulch that should be available in December.

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State champion ...Holly Doom recently won the 2014 Kentucky State 4-H Contest’s Show-manship III award. She placed third out of 54 entries in the contest.

Honoring Della ...A dedication service of this memorial bench pictured was held at the Barlow House Saturday in honor of Della Johnson. Della was director at the museum for 24 years.