Danville

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter on behalf of my friend Jamey Gay for mayor of Danville. I feel that Jamey Gay will make a great mayor for this city. I urge you to vote for this man on Nov. 2. Jamey will serve the people with concern, honesty and compassion. He is willing to listen and is also a Christian man. Give him a chance. Vote for Jamey Gay for mayor. Albert L. Taylor Danville

Danville police said a pedestrian was slightly injured after being hit by a vehicle while crossing a downtown street Monday morning. Bennie Baker, 46, of Crab Orchard was crossing Main Street in the crosswalk at Third and Main St. with the walk signal about 10:15 a.m. when he was struck by a black Chevrolet truck driven by Barry Best, 47, of Danville, who was turning left. Baker was treated by Boyle County Emergency Medical Service at the scene before being transported to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center.

The Danville volleyball team snapped a three-match losing streak Monday with a 25-23, 16-25, 25-23 win over visiting Berea. Donnesia Hunn led the team with two aces, and Cecily Allen and Jennifer Turpin each had four aces. Hunn, Sam May and Allen each had two kills, Hunn added 13 digs and May had seven digs for Danville (4-12-1). “We've lost a lot of close games this season. We are young, but learning what it takes to be successful in intense, close games,” Danville coach Abbe Milburn said.

Dear Editor, I have known Bernie Hunstad for 45 years. Although Bernie was away serving his country for 30 years, he is no stranger to Danville. We were classmates in high school, and he has always been a person of integrity. Bernie was always focused on his goals and always found ways to achieve them. His innate ability to lead has enabled him to become a high-ranking military officer; this is no fluke. I wholly concur with previous letters of Brig. Gen. Howard Hunt and Lt. Col. Jack Shepherd.

A pedestrian was injured Monday when hit by a car on East Lexington Avenue, Danville police said. Gilbert Thurman, 67, of Danville was crossing the street about 9:45 a.m. at the intersection of East Lexington and Kentucky avenues when a 2005 Mercury hit him.  The driver, Victor Carrier, 89, of Hustonville, said he was watching oncoming traffic while trying to turn right and never saw Thurman trying to cross the street, according to police....

You need to have fanny-pack, toothbrush and flashlight, arrive with a full tank of gas and wear your seatbelt and clean underwear. You should be dressed and prepared for anything. Are you ready? The Community Arts Center and Danville/Boyle County Convention and Visitors Bureau present the annual DANTASTIC Race, sponsored by M & M Electric. It’s an all-out mad dash through Danville with a $500 winning prize on the line. The DANTASTIC Race is like “The Amazing Race” you’ve all seen on TV, but with more twists and harder challenges, sending you all over Danville and Boyle County.

A Danville parking enforcement officer was transported to the hospital Tuesday after a car hit him at a crosswalk downton. Ed Dubravcak, 58, was on duty crossing from the north to the south side of Main Street about 3:15 p.m. when Tonya Alcorn, 28, of Danville, stuck him with her vehicle, Danville Assistant Police Chief Tony Gray said. Police shut down a portion of Main Street for about 15 minutes as Emergency Medical Services transported Dubravcak to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center where he was released before today, Gray said.

Nothing was taken during an attempted armed robbery Tuesday night at a Danville motel after an employee locked himself in a room and called 911. Danville police responded to a call of a possible robbery in progress at the Quality Inn at 96 Daniel Drive at 11:22 p.m. The motel sits just off the Danville bypass near Shoney's restaurant. Employee Ronald Strader, 39, told police someone about 5 feet, 10 inches to 5 feet, 11 inches tall, dressed in a waist-length dark jacket and wearing a white rubber mask pointed what he believed to be a single-barrel, wood-stock rifle at him. The employee was working alone at the hotel and did not even wait to hear the intruder speak before securing himself in a lockable storeroom off the open lobby.

When I read the letter from Linda Lussier being upset about Peoples Tobacco storage building restoration and thinking it would be terrible for kids to see tobacco being hauled by the school, well, I thought, you should be more concerned about all the beer trucks running all over Danville unloading. Nobody ever smoked a cigarette and got behind the wheel and killed somebody. We already have a restaurant that serves alcohol right next to a church on the bypass across from the Boyle County High School and middle school, and I'm sure Danville will have a strip club in the future along with their bars.

An idea that might satisfy most of those involved in the library controversy came to mind while reading Thursday's front page story. Perhaps the library could donate the Stevens building to someone willing to move it across Fourth Street to the vacant lot where the burned house previously stood. It seems this plan would save the house, use the vacant lot that isn't likely to be built upon anytime soon, and save the library the cost of demolishing the house. I would think the owner of the lot should be more than willing to sell it for a fair price and the relocated house could end up with a value that exceeds the cost of obtaining the lot and the cost to move it. Gordon Weddle Danville