Hickman

Registered voters in the C102 - Little Hickman precinct voted by a count of 109-8 Tuesday to allow alcohol sales in the area at a winery, according to Jessamine County Clerk Eva McDaniel. Tom Beall, owner of First Vineyard Winery at 5800 Sugar Creek Pike, submitted a petition for the vote to the county clerk’s office. The vote will allow a small farm winery to sell wine on its site only, according to Kentucky Revised Statute 243.155. The facility can serve 6 ounces of alcoholic beverages per day to each patron who is of legal drinking age, according to the statute.

today - Winchester Board of Commissioners, 5:30 p.m., commission chambers, City Hall. - Clark County Kiwanis Club, 6 p.m., The Steak House, West Lexington Avenue. - Vacation Bible school, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), corner of Hickman and Highland Streets, 6-8:30 p.m., pre-school through fifth grade. For more information, call 744-3181. - Clark County Board of Education, 6:30 p.m., school board office, Lexington Road. - The East Clark County Water District Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m., 118 Hopkins Lane.

Winchester Fire/EMS paramedics Gary Conn, top photo, left, and Dan Gurecky, right, and Roger Smallwood with Winchester Municipal Utilities check the flow pressure of a hydrant at the corner of South Main and Hickman streets. Winchester Fire and WMU check hydrants once a year to insure they are operating correctly, to check the flow pressure and to flush the lines of sediment and rust. Smallwood, left photo, uses a quick method to check the chlorine amount in the water. Crews will check over 1,200 city hydrants over the next couple of weeks.

July 28, 1957 Old Hickman School at the corner of Hickman and Highland Streets - scheduled to be closed with the opening of two modern elementary schools in the city -will be back in use as a public school in September. Five rooms of the school will be used by the Clark County Public Schools to care for an overflow of county school pupils. Mrs. Thomas J. Stevenson has returned to her home on Boone Avenue following a ten days' visit with relatives and friends in Nashville and Springfield, Tenn.

TODAY - Vacation Bible school, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), corner of Hickman and Highland Street, 6-8:30 p.m., pre-school through fifth grade. For more information, call 744-3181. - Winchester Lions Club board of directors, 6 p.m., Bingo Hall, Bypass Road. FRIDAY, JULY 20 - Vacation Bible school, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), corner of Hickman and Highland Street, 6-8:30 p.m., pre-school through fifth grade. For more information, call 744-3181.

Sandy Jude began as the new music director at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) on Oct. 17. Jude is a 1976 graduate of Morehead State University, where she received a bachelor of music education degree. She continued her studies, receiving a Rank II in music education from Eastern Kentucky University in 1979. She has worked with many children in Clark County serving as a music teacher in the Clark County school system for 30 years. Jude will be working with adults and children at First Christian.

HOMEMAKERS CLUB MEET TUESDAY The Town and Country Homemakers Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Mary Lou Shearer. HOME ECONOMICS GROUP TO MEET The Clark County Home Economics group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church on Main and Hickman streets for a program brought by Carolyn Burtner on "Youth at Risk. " Hostesses are Carolyn Taylor and Nancy Strosnider. Box lunches from J.K.'s will be available. QUILTER'S DAY NEXT SATURDAY A Quilter's Day Out will be held Saturday, March 17, at the Clark County Extension Office, 1400 Fortune Drive.

A Jessamine County man drowned Saturday evening after the horse he was riding slipped and fell into the rain-swollen Hickman Creek near Brumfield Lane in southern Jessamine County. Firefighters from the Jessamine County Fire District found the body of Danny Reynolds, 56, around 9 a.m. Sunday, approximately a half mile from where he and his horse went into the water, fire chief Mike Rupard said. Reynolds was pronounced dead by Jessamine County Coroner Michael Hughes. Reynolds was riding with several friends around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when he guided his horse into the creek, Hughes said.

Richard Hickman Prewitt, 74, departed this life on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center following a brief illness. He is survived by two sons, David J., who resides in Texas, and Jacob H. who resides in Lexington; brothers, David E. who resides in Pennsylvania, William C. who resides in South Carolina; and a sister, Mary T., who resides in Paris, France. Richard was born and raised in the Philadelphia, Pa., area, the son of Richard and Jean Prewitt.

Registered voters in the C102 - Little Hickman precinct voted by a count of 109-8 Tuesday to allow alcohol sales in the area at a winery, according to Jessamine County Clerk Eva McDaniel. Tom Beall, owner of First Vineyard Winery at 5800 Sugar Creek Pike, submitted a petition for the vote to the county clerk’s office. The vote will allow a small farm winery to sell wine on its site only, according to Kentucky Revised Statute 243.155. The facility can serve 6 ounces of alcoholic beverages per day to each patron who is of legal drinking age, according to the statute.

A rain-slicked road is thought to be the cause of a single-car wreck on East Hickman Road around 9 a.m. Thursday. According to Jessamine County Sheriff Deputy Gerald Wheeler, a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu was traveling southbound when the driver lost control, spun around and apparently accelerated into a tree in a ditch just off the southbound lane. Leslie Flexter, 18, of Nicholasville was transported to the University of Kentucky with undisclosed injuries where she was listed in stable condition.

What to do with Fido is a dilemma that many families face when it comes time to go on vacation or to take a short trip out of town. For more than five years Hickman Creek Kennel, located at 2096 Union Mill Road, has provided accommodations that would be the envy of most dog owners. HCK offers a wide range of service options from the basic room and board for $24 per day to luxury suites, equipped with a couch for Fido to sprawl out on, a doggy bed and television for $38 per day. The high-end kennel is the brainchild of owner Lisa Scott, an admitted animal lover whose professional background is 180 degrees from her present occupation.

Derek Hickman has joined the ministry team at Winchester First United Methodist Church as minister of youth and youth choirs. Hickman grew up in Ohio and Indiana as his family ministered at two different churches. At 15, he and his family moved to Hobe Sound, Fla., where his father pastored. Hickman and his wife, Tara, a muscian, have been married for 12 years. The couple has four children, Lauren, Cameron, Sophia and Reagan. Among his projects, Hickman conducts weekly outreaches to local skateboarders and conducts a coffee house ministry at Expressions Tuesday nights.

Beginning May 12, East Hickman Road (Ky. 1981), will be closed to through traffic because of safety improvements, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Flashing signs were erected last week at each end of the road, warning motorists of the upcoming road work and giving them time to plan an alternate route. The $164,091 project will widen and straighten two dangerous curves, approximately four-tenths of a mile, on the heavily traveled connector between Union Mill Road and Tates Creek Road, David Thacker, chief information officer for KTC said.

Eckman and Sylvia Blankenship can step down from their front porch, take a few steps left, and be in Virginia. If Barbara Lynn does the same thing, she's on the bank of the Mississippi River, looking into Missouri. No Kentucky residents could be farther apart. The little frame house at 1156 Lower Right Fork of Lower Elk Creek, Stopover, Ky., is the only home Sylvia has known for 74 of her 84 years. It's where she was born and reared until age 16 when Eckman, now a spirited 91, came over from Virginia and claimed her as his bride.

Sandy Jude began as the new music director at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) on Oct. 17. Jude is a 1976 graduate of Morehead State University, where she received a bachelor of music education degree. She continued her studies, receiving a Rank II in music education from Eastern Kentucky University in 1979. She has worked with many children in Clark County serving as a music teacher in the Clark County school system for 30 years. Jude will be working with adults and children at First Christian.

July 28, 1957 Old Hickman School at the corner of Hickman and Highland Streets - scheduled to be closed with the opening of two modern elementary schools in the city -will be back in use as a public school in September. Five rooms of the school will be used by the Clark County Public Schools to care for an overflow of county school pupils. Mrs. Thomas J. Stevenson has returned to her home on Boone Avenue following a ten days' visit with relatives and friends in Nashville and Springfield, Tenn.