News Briefs for July 23, 2012

July 23, 2012

Corrections

Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good Competition in which Heritage Hospice is hoping to win a new Toyota vehicle Tuesday is on Facebook. Heritage Hospice is asking people to log in to their Facebook accounts and search for “100 Cars For Good” or go to www.100carsforgood.com and vote for Heritage Hospice. Tuesday is the agency’s day to receive votes in the competition in which Toyota is awarding 100 cars to 100 nonprofits in 100 days. Anyone 13 and older with a Facebook account can vote.
“High Strangeness” will run July 24-Aug. 4 at Pioneer Playhouse. Dates were incorrect in Sunday’s newspaper.
The Bate Alumni Association will host a hospitality reception from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday at Danville Country Club as part of the two-day 100th anniversary celebration of Bate High School. The place was incorrect in Sunday’s Advocate due to a reporting error.

Garrard library hosts book sale

Garrard County Public Library will have its annual book sale Wednesday through Saturday during normal library operating hours in the new meeting room behind the library. Gently used books and other materials will be on sale at reduced prices.

Free farmer’s market

Burgin Christian Church will have a free farmers market 8-10 a.m. Saturday at 300 W. Main St., in Burgin. Bedding plants, garden vegetables, baked goods and food bags will be available to the community. A free breakfast will be served.

AARP driver safety course

AARP and the Boyle County Retired Teachers Association is offering a driver safety program 11 a.m.-3 p.m. July 31 at the Boyle County Senior Citizens Center on Jean Drive. Sue and Bennie Jacobs, retired teacher volunteers, will teach the class. Register by calling them at (606) 379-2269. There will be a $5 charge for the book used in the class, which participants will keep.

There will be no driving and no tests in this course, but participants will receive a thorough review of the rules of the road, with an emphasis on defensive driving practices.

Auto insurance companies will give a discount to anyone who completes this driver safety class.

Snakes in a substation

Inter-County Energy members in a portion of Boyle and Garrard counties were without power after a snake crawled onto a regulator at the Garrard substation on Richmond Road early this morning.

The outage affected 1,650 Inter-County members in the following areas: Ky. 52 and Ky. 52 East, Ky. 39, Crab Orchard Road, Fall Lick, Gilbert’s Creek, Flatwoods and Ky. 1295.

Calls from members began coming into the Inter-County Energy dispatch center this morning at 6:10 a.m. and members were without power for a total of 48 minutes while on-call technicians repaired and reset the regulator in the substation.

Meetings

Danville-Boyle County Planning and Zoning — technical review staff, 9 a.m. Thursday at Danville City Hall conference room. The commission will meet 9 a.m. Aug. 1 at city hall. Items on the agenda include: new business of site plan for Highland Court, Barry Metcalf; chair business of preliminary plat renewal for Estate of St. James; revised budget; payment of bills and financial statements; meeting in executive session and/or personnel committee.

Reunion

Votaw Reunion — Sunday at Anderson-Dean Park. Potluck meal will begin at 1 p.m.; paper products will be furnished.

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