Love

Artez Costello, the 7-year-old son of Barbara Ingram, recently received his first haircut. Artez donated more than 14 inches of hair to Locks of Love, which makes wigs for patients who lose their hair.

Express your appreciation and gratitude to someone you love by sponsoring a special ornament on the Fort Logan Hospital Auxiliary holiday tree. Ornaments are now available for purchase in the hospital's Gift Shop, and cost $3 or $5 each. Ornaments may be purchased in honor of or in memory of a loved one, friend or significant person in an individual's life. All donors and honorees will be recognized at a special celebration later this year. For more information, please call (606)

Forty participants competed in the Relay for Life Cornhole Tournament and cookout Tuesday at Palmer Engineering, raising $500 for the American Cancer Society. The team of Ralph Schuler and Dennis Wallace won first place. The second-place team was Jeff Rose and Robert Oney. The Relay for Life is June 8.

“The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex, and the Brain.” By Judith Horstman, c.2012, Jossey Bass, $25.95/$30.95 Canada, 242 pages, includes index.   Your telephone is your new best friend. That's because it's the direct line between your ear and the voice of the one with whom you've fallen in love. Your phone is never far away because keeping it close lets him whisper endearments, share her thoughts, or spill secrets.  Your telephone rings, you smile.

This Christmas, even the four-legged community members won't be left out. After watching “Dog Tales” on the Animal Planet network, a Saturday tradition for Donna Campbell and her own dog, she learned about Operation Blankets of Love. The program was created by Eileen Smulson in California to provide animal shelters with blankets to put in animal cages. “The shelters don't have money in their budgets for luxuries,” Campbell said. Smulson's efforts eventually became a non-profit organization known as Operation Blankets of Love, and the collection has grown to include any items a dog or cat might need while living in a shelter.

To the editor: In a recent editorial you suggested Christians should be more tolerant. As a Christian, I am taught to love the sinner but not the sin. Nowhere in the Bible am I taught to tolerate sin. Lea Woodridge

We, the parents and brother of John Shockley, would like to thank everyone for all the love shown to our family! Your prayers have helped us so much! May God bless each one of you greatly! John died suddenly and without warning, and the pain will be with us for a long time. But God has a way of easing that pain and giving us comfort. Our trust is in Him and our faith is strong in knowing that some day we will see John again. We pray that all who read this will understand that God is our refuge and our prayers are with Karen at this time.

Livia Satterfield has been on both sides of Operation Christmas Child, the Samaritan's Purse program that provides gift shoe boxes to thousands of children around the globe who live in poverty or in war-torn countries. The 22-year-old native of Romania, who now lives in Sharpsburg, Ga., recently was at First Baptist Church in Junction City to tell her story of transformation from a recipient of a shoe box to a giver of one during a program to kickoff the local Operation Christmas Child campaign.

Dear Editor: When my brother-in-law, Jim Trachsel, was killed, I rushed as fast as I could to be with my sister during the terrible time of human violence that Bonnie and her sons were facing. As the minutes slowly turned into hours, I was mesmerized by the love and kindness given to Bonnie and her sons. The community's response came within minutes of Jim's death, and has continued throughout the following weeks. At the time of Jim's murder, the friends of Bonnie, Jim, Tyler and Ryan came and just took over the home, preparing the food people brought, taking care of the phone calls, answering the door, and shopping for things that were needed.

As many of you know, we have a resident horse named Ginger. She is a 5-year-year old chestnut mare who, Jean says, is very sweet, kind, uncomplicated and who absolutely loves peppermint candy. And, because Jean loves to spoil her four-legged friends, including moi, she gladly supplies them for her every day. The only other thing Ginger enjoys is nose kisses and, apparently, she will eagerly bend her head down to make nose kisses a part of every day visits. However, not long ago, Ginger surprised everybody.

Over a month ago Huntington (W.Va.) Prep sophomore point guard Nevell Provo said that teammate Andrew Wiggins had Kansas No. 1 on his recruiting list. That came as a bit of a shock because the logic was that Kentucky and Florida State were the leaders for the nation's top high school prospect. However, Provo's proclamation came true Tuesday when the 6-8 Wiggins announced he was going to Kansas and not UK, Florida State or North Carolina. So why Kansas? Provo said at the time Wiggins had listed the pros and cons of each team on his recruiting list and Kansas was the clear winner.

The more Centre College golf coach Bruce Brown watched Allison Hancock play, the more he liked what he saw from the then-Sayre High School player. “At that time, she was a good player. On the golf course, she was really serious. She didn't goof around,” said Brown, the former head pro at Old Bridge Golf Club. “She had the right mechanics then, but not the maturity to work her way around the course like she has now. That just comes with age. She knows when to punch out and what to do. She is so smart now on the course.

LEXINGTON - Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel said his injured knee is “doing good” and that his physical therapist tells him he's ahead of schedule recovering from the torn anterior cruciate ligament he suffered in UK's loss at Florida Feb. 12 that ended his season - and college career since he's put his name into the NBA draft. Noel said he is trying to “take things slow” as he focuses on his therapy but being patient has not been easy. “It's hard to be patient, especially during the season seeing my teammates out there playing and just wishing I was out there playing with them.

Arlene's spirit joined our Creator at 7:07 a.m. April 5. She would have said everything worked out just the way it was supposed to according to God's plan. Arlene leaves behind a legacy of love, faith, hope and laughter. Her love for God and her family were evident not only in her active participation in church but in her daily life, where she allowed God to lead her in every decision, including allowing love and faith to work together when Arlene met her husband, Steve, at church. Everyone who knew Arlene noted her brilliant mind, and that intelligence combined with her hope led to two successful careers.

Did you know that the week of April 8 through April 14 is designated as National Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week? The event is designed to recognize the hard work performed by animal control agencies throughout the country and helps improve the image of these hard-working employees who provide quality services, education training and support. The week is set aside to recognize the men and women of animal control who risk their lives and spend huge amounts of personnel resources, including time away from family and friends, while serving the public.

When she was younger, Reagan Jennings never enjoyed writing. She remembers one long piece at the end of her fifth-grade year, followed by the encouragement of her McGuffey Sixth Grade Center teacher Vickie Robbins being the two things that pushed her to become more interested. “It's really been this year that my teacher made me love it more. She's really been my whole writing inspiration,” Reagan said of Robbins. Reagan, who is 12 and lives in Danville, already has written a book, the first in a series that she hopes to publish one day. “I don't care about the money or anything,” she said smiling, explaining that she wants to know that her books have impacted someone.

Glenn Thornberry is breezing through his birthday this year. “I don't give it the first thought,” he said. Thornberry, who turns 104 today, has been a businessman in Clark County for 78 years. He was born in Elliott County and received a business and banking degree in college in the late 1920s. He was president of the Winchester Country Club as well as being active on the board. He was also in the banking and grocery business in Olive Hill for a few years before he served as president of Kentucky Food Stores and is now president of Thornberry's Markets, Inc. “The first store I had was in Winchester.

The best part about living in Stanford is if you don't know what you are doing, others do. I am so humble, so grateful and so very happy I live here. Recently I had pneumonia and had a bad fall that broke my foot in three places, and head staples (to hold the brains back in…LOL) I was astounded at all the calls, the Prayers, the get well wishes, best wishes, cards, flowers, offers to do for me, to take me, to come get me and of course all the Chicken Soup I needed. Most of you know I have lived all over the UNited States in big cities and other countries, but I never feel so loved and taken care of as I have these past 16 days in this small town, so please never criticize or knock small town living, it is the Greatest!

Where could you go last week to learn about flamenco, the liberation of a concentration camp and Madonna? East Jessamine Middle School -  that's where. East Middle hosted its first “I Love History Day” on Valentine's Day, with 43 students displaying months of research on their chosen history topics that fit the theme of “turning points in history.” The 34 presentations last week will be at a preliminary competition Saturday leading up to the district competition at Eastern Kentucky University's “History Day,” sponsored by the Kentucky Junior Historical Society.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I have to tell you about the love I have seen this past week. I have a question to pose to my readers. When is the last time you have been in a nursing home? If you are like myself, it is something you have not had the urge to do unless you are visiting a loved one who has been placed there. To be honest, that has been my experiences up to this point. I had only visited the nursing homes to go see aunts from both sides of our family.