Sunday, November 14, 2010

Oh, Kentucky

The Heath Post regretfully acknowledges its negligence of the 54th-annual Telethon of Stars, broadcasting live until 1 p.m. Central today on WPSD Local 6 and the Internet from Paducah's Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. It's the nation's longest-running, locally produced telethon. At the moment--as Becky Freeman, a 17-year mainstay of the event, recalls "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" at 5:45 on a Sunday morning--more than $322,000 has been raised for Easter Seals West Kentucky in Paducah, T.L.C. of Southern Illinois, Community Developmental Services (CDS) in Martin, Tenn., and Easter Seals Southeast Missouri. Determined to not blow this story again, I am making a date with the 55th-annual Telethon of Stars on the Oct. 1, 2011, blank in my FranklinCovey planner to check out what's shaking. Plenty, I hope, with us both.

Jim Hall and the West Kentucky Star in Paducah and Amy Berry and WKDZ in Hopkinsville offer crisp, happy slide shows from two of Thursday's Veterans Day parades around Kentucky. (A Heath High School Marching Band of Pirates flutist is featured in the first.)

Not all of the Veterans Day expressions around Kentucky were warmly received, however.

Good jobs news from Bardstown, Glasgow, Lawrenceburg and Lexington.

Revisiting The Very Worst Thing.

Finally, here's a special safe-travels shoutout to the Rev. Kim Hudson, who has a challenging and rare away-and-home doubleheader on tap this morning. He's pinch-hitting a sermon at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Providence early this morning before hustling 20 miles of U.S. 41A and U.S. 41 back down through Nebo and Madisonville to lead worship at First in Earlington, where he regularly serves. (By the way, my wife and daughter and I ran down to Earlington last night to check out the church's craft bazaar/chili supper, and I was excited to discover three trophies in the fellowship hall for Earlington First's exploits--most notably, the 1960 championship!--in something called the "Hopkins County Church Basketball League." This discovery, obviously, cries out for additional coverage, and The Heath Post will advise as events warrant!)

3 comments:

  1. I had never heard of that bus wreck in Floyd County. What an awful story.

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  2. Oh, I also agree that the HP should be more aggressive in covering the Channel 6 telethon next year -- it really is one of the best local television events in the country.

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  3. Lots of gospel music now. Now playing: a quarter called "Devine Intervention." I think one of the four must be named Devine.

    A Ballard County Elementary class was on a little bit ago with a donation of better than $3,200.

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