Aids

Nearly six in 10 Americans say our government should spend less on foreign aid. On the other hand, if Congress were to allocate what Americans think is the proper level of spending on foreign aid, it would have to increase its outlay tenfold rather than cut it. It’s one of the paradoxes of budgetary politics. According to a 2010 survey by World Public Opinion.Org, when people were asked to guess what portion of the federal budget is spent on foreign assistance, the average answer was 25 percent.

Dear Editor: Dr. Ramey's specific facts perhaps are correct, but his interpretation is flawed because he is not looking at them in the larger context. AIDS in Africa is spread primarily through heterosexual contact. If a straight person had been the first to bring it to the U.S., then the outbreak would have occurred in the heterosexual population. It was just a matter of chance. One might even suppose that if the disease had started here in the straight population we might have been moved to study and contain it much earlier than we did. Anne Lubbers Danville

Dear Editor: Jeff Hamlin's letter in the Feb. 27 edition is precisely the kind of invective that destroys constructive public discussion. Mr. Hamlin engages in a free-for-all of insult and defamation, suggesting among other things that gay and lesbian people are responsible for AIDS. I'll not address his misuse of the Biblical passages. I feel it incumbent to point out, however, that AIDS is a blood-borne illness that affects all people, gay and straight, men and women, children and adults.

Eight people graduated from the inaugural Job Readiness Program in Jessamine County last week. "It's the first time in Jessamine County that the program has offered the JRA classes as it's set up," Sue Malloy, with the Big Sandy Kentucky Works Program, said. The objective of the classes is simple - get people ready for the workforce. "First of all, they're learning about themselves," Malloy said. "They're taking a personality inventory test to figure out what direction they want to go. People think that they want to go in one direction and then they realize that they're interests are in another direction.

Dear Editor: I think a writer to this editorial page had some misconceptions about AIDS. Let us look scientifically and objectively at this disease. The U.S. was not the first place the deadly this virus was seen. It was first seen in Africa where the disease spread like a wildfire among every human being regardless of class, economic status, gender, or sexual orientation. It spread so quickly because the disease was so unknown. Enter the gay airline steward who brought AIDS to this country.

LOUISVILLE (AP) - A University of Louisville physician says another suspected case of AIDS, the deadly disease that knocks out the body's immune system, has been reported in Kentucky. The victim is the fifth suspected case of AIDS in Kentucky. LOUISVILLE (AP) - Kentuckians consumed more alcoholic beverages last year than they did in 1981, and in doing so, bucked a national trend. Part of the increase can be attributed to repeal of the state's fair-trade liquor-pricing law last July.

Dear Editor: Mykol Hamilton and David Hall both are misguided to say that I am relying on poor theology, thereby prooftexting scripture to make my point. I don't even see how one can misuse "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind," as Leviticus 18:22 says, or in the case of Romans 1:27, "and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

Sept. 3, 1985 Tom T. Hall displayed his musical talent to a crowd of several thousand fans Saturday evening to cap off the Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival. Hall and his band performed on the new stage at Lykins Park. The George Rogers Clark High School Academic Boosters authorized the purchase of $16,816 in equipment and academic aids for the high school Tuesday night, using money raised “in half” by the matching funds project begun last year.

Dec. 31, 2012 Differing interpretations of the meaning of Kiwanis were shared at Wednesday's meeting of the Winchester Kiwanis Club by Dr. Dennis Brewer, Beattyville, lieutenant governor of Division 9, Kentucky-Tennessee District. FRANKFORT (AP) -  Medical coverage for hundreds of thousands of working poor and the steady spread of AIDS loom as two of the biggest issues facing the 1988 Kentucky General Assembly. Indigent health care will be an extensive issue. IRVINE - Dondry Gay turned in four big plays in the closing seconds to give George Rogers Clark High School a 47-44 win over host Estill County and a third-place finish in the Choo-Choo Classic Wednesday night.

Drama First Baptist Church of Junction City - 6 p.m. Sunday, the church will show the motion picture "Facing the Giants" on big screens in the church's Chandler Center. The film was released in theaters in the fall of 2006. The viewing is free to the public. The church is at 3860 U.S. 127 South, two miles from the Danville Wal-Mart. For more information, call (859) 854-3253. Lenten program Trinity Episcopal Church - 6:30 p.m. March 7, William "Beau" Weston will speak.

Can you believe this? I have only been out of our house one time in the last month and that was to see a doctor! I am not really complaining (oh well, yes I am) but what happens when I never go out is I sort of run out of things to write to you about. That is what I am facing today as I face my Tuesday deadline for “The View” column. So, I have gone to my office upstairs, sat in my big ol' overstuffed chair, pushed my writing tablet over to make room in my lap for cats - Bella and Pierre.

Dec. 31, 2012 Differing interpretations of the meaning of Kiwanis were shared at Wednesday's meeting of the Winchester Kiwanis Club by Dr. Dennis Brewer, Beattyville, lieutenant governor of Division 9, Kentucky-Tennessee District. FRANKFORT (AP) -  Medical coverage for hundreds of thousands of working poor and the steady spread of AIDS loom as two of the biggest issues facing the 1988 Kentucky General Assembly. Indigent health care will be an extensive issue. IRVINE - Dondry Gay turned in four big plays in the closing seconds to give George Rogers Clark High School a 47-44 win over host Estill County and a third-place finish in the Choo-Choo Classic Wednesday night.

Community Education, a program of the Clark County Schools, is offering two winter sessions of state registered nurse aide training: Session I : Tuesday/Thursday evening classes, Jan. 3 - Feb. 21, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Session II : Saturdays, Feb. 23 - April 20, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Each session is 75 hours and will consist of classroom instruction and clinical time. Cost is $270 (includes nonrefundable $10 registration fee). Additional costs include textbook and state exam fee. Call 745-3946 for more information or email lisa.stephens@clark.kyschools.us.  Checks can be made payable to Community Education and mailed to 24 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 220, Winchester, KY 40391.

At lunch this Friday, emptying your bowl means filling one for someone else. It means helping Clark County Community Services continue working in the community, and lending a helping hand during the holiday season. The Clark County Empty Bowls project will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on Windridge Drive. For $15, participants get a handmade bowl and lunch, with all proceeds going to Community Services. “I think it's run pretty smoothly, and I¿think the church there has been a good venue for that.

Linda Porter's letter, in which she expressed her disbelief that disadvantaged Southern Caucasians could support candidates that would gut programs they depend on, had to be answered. “Depend” is the key word here, as in dependency, which is different than aid, which is what these programs were started for. Now they are seen by a growing class in our society as less aid and more a way to live. This is a skewed view of our relationship with our national government, in that we must support the candidate who will either continue these programs or increase them with something new.   Aid to those in need is far different than living a life on government support and it knows no race.

Chris Woolard knew when he came to Kentucky as associate athletics director of basketball operations to work with coach John Calipari that he had a chance to be part of something special. However, even Woolard admitted he was not quite expecting a 38-2 record and national championship like the Wildcats achieved in his first season. “This was one of the best years of my life. I came in on a very special season, but the expectation when you come to Kentucky is to have success like we have had the last three years,” Woolard said during a talk at the Ohio UK Convention last weekend in Franklin, Ohio.

Kentucky singer/actress Laura Bell Bundy didn't need a lot of persuading to join Montgomery Gentry at Buster's Billiards and Backroom in Lexington on Wednesday night for a benefit concert to help relief victims through the Kentucky Red Cross. “I want to help the people of my home state as much as I can. The tornado was devastating, and if I can sing and entertain to raise funds for them, I will. In fact, we (Montgomery Gentry and concert sponsor 98.1 The Bull), along with other country music artists, have been trying to plan a concert for the last few months so I'm very glad this came together.” Bundy, 31, has performed in a number of Broadway roles as well as appeared on TV and in films.

A state construction-grant program could help the Jessamine County Public Library expand to meet the growing needs of its patrons, but funding might not make it to the books in a tight budget. The Jessamine library is one of 23 in Kentucky planning an expansion that would benefit from the Kentucky Public Library Facilities Construction Grant program, in which the state pays a portion of the debt service for 20 years. The grant requires appropriations from the state legislature of $2 million in 2012-2013 and $4 million in 2013-2014 and each following year.

Steve Caudill was at home in Winchester on May 22 when he heard the news about the tornado in Joplin, Mo. “I kept watching this thing on TV, and I told my wife, 'I wonder what I can do to help,'” said Caudill, a former law enforcement officer  who is well-known as a Daniel Boone re-enactor. His church, Calvary Christian, soon organized a trip to Missouri to deliver supplies, and Caudill accompanied other church members to the devastated city on June 18. While in Joplin, Caudill realized that people from all over the country had been generous in donating necessary supplies, like water.

The Clark County Fiscal Court approved a county road aid co-op contract of $468,013 between the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the court for the 2012 fiscal year, which begins July 1. The court also approved a resolution to accept all roads and streets referred to in the contract as a part of the county road system. The contract is between the commonwealth, the Transportation Cabinet, the Department of Rural and Municipal Aid and the Fiscal Court. The county will receive 60 percent of its total allocation minus 3 percent set aside for emergency funds.