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Dear Editor: My mother has Alzheimer's and has been attending Boyle County Senior Citizens Adult Day Care for almost three years. Our experience with the day care has been wonderful. Anita Pike and her staff are some of the most caring people I know. They provide a safe, clean, and loving environment for the clients. Each morning we are greeted with a smile and true concern. They provide a nourishing breakfast, lunch, and snack as well as administer medicine to those who need it. They help my mother with eating, taking medicine, and with her personal needs, none of which she is able to do alone.

A lot of people start second families. A lot of people start second careers. Sophronia Reese is doing both at the same time. Reese is a volunteer in the Bluegrass Community Action Agency's senior companion program, and she recently was recognized for her work in the program, receiving the Jack B. Stith Pursuit of Excellence Award at last week's Heart of Kentucky United Way Recognition Banquet. The award honors the memory of Stith, who was a longtime funeral director and involved in many community programs, projects and events.

Entrepreneur coach Dan Sullivan spoke at the Million Dollar Round Table International meeting a few weeks ago. He said that entrepreneurs often neglected people who were their best clients. He compared it to marriage. When people are in a courtship, he said, no one is ever "too busy. " Once they get married, the spouse is often secondary to factors like work, family and other interests. Many spouses, Sullivan said, could be accused of "bait and switch. " They were sold one type of relationship and got another.

Jessamine Countians now have a new place in town where they can go to pump some iron. Fitness Plus II, located in Bellerive Plaza, about a mile from Man O' War Boulevard, hosted its official grand opening Monday. The new business is owned by Josh Sato, and the location is the first independent licensed branch of Fitness Plus. The company was founded by Sheila Kalas in 1995 and is recognized as Lexington's longest-standing personal training company. Fitness Plus is more than just a gym; it's a personal training studio that focuses on wellness.

Gov. Steve Beshear's proposed budget for the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services contains "unacceptable cuts that would harm seniors and their families," the executive director of the Danville-Boyle County Senior Citizens Center told a legislative panel Thursday in Frankfort. The proposed cuts are "very serious" because current funding levels do not meet the needs of center clients now, and cuts would only make it more difficult to provide services, Jackie Sims said in a prepared statement she read to the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee.

New programming has become a recent focus for STRIDE and its clients, and Saturday is the annual ball to raise money for the program. The eighth annual STRIDE Winter Ball, which features food, drinks and live music for its attendees, will help fund new programs for local adults with disabilities, said STRIDE director Lauren Mink. The organization recently started continuing education classes after clients requested them, Mink said. Some of the classes focus on telling time, counting money, reading maps and doing laundry.

Dear Editor, In the summer of 1971 a family moved to Danville. The five children enrolled in the Danville schools. Within months all had jobs: paper boy, local theater, Hallmark, a gift shop. The oldest boy started cooking breakfast at the children's home at 5 a.m. Then he picked up and carried clients to the Pioneer Opportunity Workshop and then went to school. After school, he carried the workshop clients home. Then he reported to Kentucky Fried Chicken and worked until 10 p.m. He worked hard to maintain good grades, with a strong desire to graduate.

It recently occurred to me I’m in my third decade practicing law. The 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Granted, I was first licensed in 1999, but it’s still a true statement. Clients have come and gone, as have attorneys and judges. Some clients come in for a case, and I spend a great deal of time with them, but after the case is over, the only time I see them is at the grocery store. Other clients return to the office within weeks or months. My law practice is a constant mix of new clients and repeat clients.

For $7,900, 19 senior adults in Clark County can receive a hot meal once a day for six months. The Clark County Generations Center, operating under the umbrella of Kentucky River Foothills, currently feeds 50 seniors each day through its home meal delivery program, and approximately 50 more eat their midday meal at the center. But there are still more seniors in need. Currently, 19 Clark County seniors are on a waiting list, hoping the center will obtain enough funding to add them to the program.

There's a reason why Earl Boggs has had his hair cut at the same place for the last 25 years. "Good barbers are hard to find. And when you find one, you keep coming back," he said. Boggs is one of many of Leon Goodlett's clients who frequent his tiny barbershop on Maple Street, bypassing all the beauty salons with their modern equipment, fancy chairs, televisions and rows of hair-care products on the shelves. "He does it the old-fashioned way," Boggs explained. "At those newer places, they don't cut your hair close enough.