Lexington

Kenneth “Ken” Wesley Garrard, 53, of Lexington, went to be with his heavenly father on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at St. Joseph Medical Center. He is survived by his daughter, Crystal Smith. A celebration of Kenneth's life will be 4 p.m. Thursday, March 7 at Broadway Baptist Church in Winchester. Smith and Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Nicholasville police arrested a Lexington man and charged him with second-degree indecent exposure. The incident allegedly occurred just after midnight, Tuesday, April 3, when officer Gil Rendon came across 19-year-old Preston K. Turner, of 720 S. Main St. No. 2 in Lexington, near the intersection of Beauford Place and Main Street. “I observed (the) above subject expose his buttocks and genital area (from behind) toward (the) traffic on Main Street,” Rendon wrote in the arrest citation.

Richard and Brenda Parido announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Dawn Hays, to James Nathan Andrew Ritchie of Millersburg, the son of Dale and Tammy Ritchie of Millersburg. The bride-elect is a graduate of George Rogers Clark High School and Motif Beauty Academy. She is currently employed by All For You Salon and Spa in Winchester. The prospective groom is a graduate of Bourbon County High School and the International Diving Institute in Charleston, S.C. He is currently employed at Marine Solutions Incorporated in Lexington.

Harry L. Kidd Jr., age 87, of Lexington, Ky., departed this life on Feb. 19, 2013, at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was born in Vienna, Va., on Oct. 8, 1925, to the late Harry L. Kidd Sr. and Maude Alford Kidd of Fairfax County. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving during World War II. He graduated from Asbury University in Wilmore, Ky. in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He married Christine Beulah Hahn, a classmate, at Asbury on May 27, 1951. He felt a call to ministry, earning a Bachelor in Ministry degree from Westminster Seminary on May 22, 1956, while serving several churches.

A Lexington man sits behind bars after he allegedly assaulted another man causing life-threatening injuries, according to the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office. The alleged incident occurred on Vince Road in Jessamine County around 7:30 p.m. New Year's Eve. JSO chief deputy Allen Peel said 36-year-old Curtis L. Flora and 32-year-old James Dean Wallace, both of Lexington, got into an argument in a car on Vince Road. Flora was arrested and charged with first-degree assault.

A Nicholasville man was among three killed in a shooting last Tuesday, Jan. 4, in Lexington. Ronnie L. Sparks, 28, of Nicholasville died along with Donald L. Adams Jr., 33, and Donald L. Adams Sr., 57, according to the Fayette County coroner’s office. The three men were found in Adams Sr.’s residence at 2169 Shaker Run Road in Lexington last Tuesday afternoon. One was pronounced dead at the scene; two were taken to the University of Kentucky Medical Center before being pronounced dead.

It was dark and Justin Conover-Bowman was wearing dark clothing Sunday night at 9:43 p.m. when he was hit by first an SUV and then a minivan as he attempted to cross Richmond Road at Fontaine in Lexington. He died of his injuries a short time later, according to Fayette County Deputy Coroner John McCarty. “He was attempting to cross Richmond Road - north to south - and he was not in a crosswalk,” McCarty said. “He was struck by one vehicle and then another.” Conover-Bowman, 33, was formerly of Harrodsburg and was the son of Cindy Conover of Lancaster and Greg Bowman of Harrodsburg.

LEXINGTON - WHITE FLAG Performance Group, a Baltimore theatre company co-founded in January 2012 by Danville native Rowen Haigh, announces the kickoff of their inaugural summer tour this June, hosted by Actor's Guild of Lexington. WHITE FLAG brings to AGL an original play, “Really You Should Use Bullets,” a tragi-comedy that takes the audience on a jaunt through the afterlife.  Within the episodic structure of a hero's journey, “Really You Should Use Bullets” presents the story of a clown navigating the underworld in an effort to find where she belongs.

A former Lexington mayor will spotlight that city's Hunt-Morgan House at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the March 14 Second Thursday program at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum. H. Foster Pettit, mayor of Lexington from 1972 to 1978 and a partner with Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, will speak. Pettit and his wife Brenda are co-chairs of the 2013 BGT Antiques and Garden Show. He was a state representative from 1964 to 1970 and served on the Kentucky State Crime Commission from 1967 to 1971. Pettit served as president of the Kentucky League of Cities in 1976.

Jessamine County could have split representation in the Kentucky House of Representatives as soon as the end of the week, with historically conservative Wilmore joining a Lexington district currently represented by a Republican. The county, which is currently entirely in Democratic Rep. Bob Damron's 39th District along with a small portion of southern Lexington, had to be split after its population of 48,586 in the 2010 Census was larger than the legislative district size. A plan from the Democrats in the House approved last week would move the Harrodsburg Road corridor and all of the city of Wilmore into Rep. Stan Lee's 45th District.