New Board

Clark County Judge-Executive Henry Branham, right, swore in the new board of trustees for the Clark County Public Library Wednesday afternoon. Pictured from left are: Cindy Codell, Jennings Mace, Dee Ott, Eddie Williams and Harry Enoch.

Greg W. Caudill of Danville and Daryll W. Martin of Memphis, Tenn., were elected to Centre College's Board of Trustees during its spring meeting in April. Caudill is president and CEO of Farmers National Bank, where he has worked for 27 years. He serves on the board of directors for Bluegrass Tomorrow and the Boyle County Industrial Foundation. He also is chairman of the Heart of Kentucky United Way and chairman of the Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center board of directors.

To the editor: This letter is in response to a letter printed in The Interior Journal on November 7, 2007. First let me say that I do not want to take away anything from what Agnes Peavyhouse and the other members of the Humane Society accomplished. I am sure it was a long and difficult struggle to get the current shelter operating and a bigger shelter built. When I went to my first meeting in August, I had no intention of becoming a board member. I was excited to learn we had a Humane Society and wanted to be part of it. However, when it became clear that the organization had not been active for several years, had been dissolved by the state, had no members, no board, and did not seem eager to provide information or be open to discussing different views from those present, I became concerned.

Fort Logan Hospital has new members and officers on its board of directors. The new members are Dr. Forrest Wayne Calico and Sheree Gilliam. New officers are Lonnie Pruitt, chair; Cliff Ed Irvin, vice chair; and June King Bastin, secretary. Dr. Calico is a Lancaster native who now lives near Crab Orchard. He is a retired family practice physician, a healthcare administrator who most recently worked as senior advisor on quality for the National Rural Health Association, is active in The Church at Cedar Creek, a member of the Lincoln County Health Department's Board of Directors, and works with Leadership Lincoln County.

STANFORD - Lincoln County Fiscal Court approved the second reading of an ordinance Friday that officially disbanded the county's 911 board and is looking to start over again, possibly with Garrard County as a partner. Part of the new ordinance abolished the original 1991 ordinance that established the board. It created a new board with the sheriff, county attorney and 911 Center director as permanent members. It has yet to be determined how the other four board positions will be filled.

The vacant fifth seat on the Jessamine County Board of Education has been filled, board Chairman Karl Smith said Thursday. Joann Rohrback, a former Jessamine County school board member, will represent district 3. She was appointed by state Commissioner of Education Gene Wilhoit and sworn in before a special board meeting Thursday evening. Rohrback has joined the board too late in the year to be on the November ballot. She will be up for election in 2007. The district lost representation in May, when Chris Stansbury left because he moved out of the district for family reasons.

In a special meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, members of the Lincoln County Fiscal Court plan to appoint members to a new park board and discuss hiring a director for the new First Southern Veterans Park near U.S. 150. County Judge-Executive Buckwheat Gilbert said the advertisement for the position brought in nearly a dozen resumes and a park board needs to be established to hire a director. Gilbert said the board be set up with seven or eight people from different communities throughout Lincoln County.

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center and parent company Ephraim McDowell Health announced a reorganization Wednesday, leaving hospital president Barry Michael without a job. McDowell Health CEO Clark Taylor will take over Michael's job as boss of the medical center, where 1,100 of the health care company's 1,500 workers are employed. The move, which also includes merging the two entities' boards, comes with the hospital preparing to begin a major expansion and the organization seeking to unify its message, Taylor said in a press release.

Dear Editor: The newly composed Boyle County school board has finally revealed its true nature. We saw hints of it during the controversy over the marching band's request to use the football field. Having been personally involved with that controversy, I can state that Dr. Pam Rogers worked as hard as she could to find a solution for this issue. It was solely the school board that voted on that issue (5-0) and thereby invited the storm of criticism. Squarely behind that 5-0 vote were Alane Mills and Steve Tamme.