After months of planning and construction, a fishing pier accessible to disabled anglers on Butler Lake was officially opened during a ribbon cutting ceremony at General Butler State Resort Park.
11/13/2009
Album ID: 888284
Photos by By Sara Denhart
Walking to bring awareness
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Dozens of people band together for third annual Disabilities Awareness Week walk in Carrollton. The third annual walk had a record number attend. The event was organized after the death of Rickey Sandusky’s mother, who had a wish for her son to graduate high school. He did graduate following his mother’s death.
11/10/2009
Album ID: 885639
Photos by David Hill
Honoring Korean War Veterans
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As part of this year’s Veterans Day observance, Carrollton’s American Legion Post 41 honored local Korean War veterans. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice in 1953.
11/9/2009
Album ID: 885615
Photos by Ken Ritchie
First come, first served
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Swine flu vaccine arrives in Carroll County; hundreds line up to receive first doses in area. A throng of people waits outside the Three Rivers District Health Department in Carrollton to get their dose of the H1N1 flu vaccine on Thursday. The health department had 325 doses available in shot and spray forms. The spray form was given to people between the ages of 2 and 49. Shots were given to other age groups as well as any pregnant women and anyone with breathing problems and allergies.
10/23/2009
Album ID: 872004
Photos by Ken Ritchie
PROMOTING READING NATIONWIDE
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Isabella Perry, 5, left, Blake Wright, 9, Clayton Wright, 7, Taylor Lair, 8, and Brayden Lair, 4, listen to readings of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” in English, then in Spanish at the Carroll County, Ky., Public Library on Thursday. The program was part of the Read for the Record program in which people all over the United States and in other countries read the same book on the same day.
10/9/2009
Album ID: 861912
Photos by Ken Ritchie
ENGLISH SCHOOL HOLDS FIRST-EVER REUNION
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MEMORIES: The English School held its first-ever schoolwide reunion and open house recently. The school was open from 1929 to 1963 for children in first grade through high school, depending on the operation years. More than 500 people from all over the country attended the reunion.
10/7/2009
Album ID: 858460
Photos by David Hill
Down on the Farm
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Seniors go back to days growing up
on the family farm during annual event. The 2009 Senior Event on Thursday evening at Point Park in downtown Carrollton was filled with high spirits even though the sky was full of clouds and it could rain at any time.
10/2/2009
Album ID: 856530
Photos by Ken Ritchie
TOBACCO FESTIVAL COMES TO CARROLLTON
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Keagan Hatton, who won first place in the 3-year-old Sweet Pea Contest, waves to the crowd as he rides a straw horse during the Carroll County Tobacco Festival parade. Coming down Fifth Street in the final stretch of the outhouse race, “Stroker Ace,” representing the Carroll County Public Works, is headed for victory over “Pigs ‘R’ Us,” representing the Carrollton Police Department. Racing for Stroker Ace are Jimmy Luhn, Brandon Luhn, Aaron Ricketts and Alex Contreras. Police department racers are officers Tim Gividen, Justin Doll, Michael Jump and Daniel Embry.
9/29/2009
Album ID: 848125
Photos by David Hill
CPD Shop With A Cop Trail Ride
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This weekend was full of activity as the Carrollton Police Department held its annual fundraiser for Shop With A Cop. The fundraiser, which was a horse trail ride through the county, raised nearly $1,500 for the Christmas charity event and 81 riders participated.
Two of the many riders in Saturday’s Shop With A Cop Trail Ride make last-minute adjustments before hitting the trail for a worthy cause.
9/14/2009
Album ID: 836182
Photos by David Hill
A PUBLISHER’S WORLD
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PRINTED: Right, Gray Zeitz talks about a career in the printing business during the Wednesdays@1 program at the Carroll County Public Library. Zeitz is the operator of Larkspur Press in Monterey, where he and his associates publish special-edition and first-edition books using the older methods of letterpress printing and use woodcut designs for cover art. Above, several of the books published were on hand for the audience to see during the program.
