Pond

Farm ponds are hard to beat for good fishing. A haven for family outings, they are often the site of a child's first catch. Farm ponds get far less fishing pressure than public reservoirs, making them quiet places to cast a line. The best farm ponds can even produce trophy bluegill, channel catfish, largemouth bass and redear sunfish. One way to improve the fishing in your farm pond is to add structure, also known as fish attractors. Structure provides cover and feeding areas for fish.

TIMELY FARMING TIPS I want to present to you some of my thoughts on pond algae, insect control on newly seeded alfalfa and on fly control for cattle. If you have questions after reading this article, please give me a call and I will be glad to give you more information. Leafhoppers on New Alfalfa Farmers should start watching their spring seeded alfalfa fields for potato leafhoppers, those very small, green insects that take only three weeks to complete development from egg to adult.

The movie version of "On Golden Pond," starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda, was a huge success but has quite a disparate tone from the stage work. "The play is different from the movie," director Liz Orndorff says. "It centers more around the humor. " Before the Fondas helped turn the movie into a hit in 1981, "Pond" was a play, written by Ernest Thompson. "Did you know that Thompson said in an interview than he originally wanted to kill Norman off, but Hollywood wouldn't let him?"

Ellis Delahousay is raking in the accolades. It's no surprise, really. He showed well as a track and field athlete at Mercer County High School, from which he graduated in 2009. He went on to study culinary arts at Sullivan University and, while a student, cooked for the Alltech board of directors during the World Equestrian Games. He created a dish that reflected his culinary point of view as well as his roots in Kentucky and New Orleans, from where he hails. Delahousay says he's considered himself a cook since he was 14. Food mattered to him and provided pleasure and enjoyment.

A Stanford woman was found in dead in a farm pond on Bowen Road in Moreland early Saturday evening. J. T. Crowe returned to his property at 2874 Bowen Road around 6 p.m. after spending the afternoon at a barbecue. Assistant Lincoln County Coroner Tony Florio said that Crowe was walking his property when he discovered Tammy Toadvine Johnson in his pond, apparently dead. Law enforcement, EMS and state Fish and Wildlife officers were called to the scene to assist in recovering Johnson.

Cleanup crews continued mitigation steps this morning after a 24-inch oil pipe ruptured on a farm in central Clark County on Monday and released thousands of gallons of crude oil into a creek bed. The state Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that at least 200 barrels - 8,400 gallons of oil - were leaked into a pond and feeder creek that runs along the properties of Frank Caudill and James Caudill on Tangleridge Lane. The spill occurred along the same Marathon Oil pipeline that dumped between 11,000 and 21,000 barrels of crude oil onto Southwind Golf Course in 2000.

Memorial Day weekend was a pleasant one for me because I had asked permission to take my daughter and her family to the pond I have talked about in the past. When I think about this body of water, the word "immaculate" always comes to mind. Every time I go there I am taken aback by the surroundings. The grass is mowed to the water's edge. There are picnic tables to be utilized should you want to have a picnic. (If you bring it in, please take it out.) There is even a gazebo at an advantageous spot on the premises.

Katherine Orton told the performers in West T. Hill Community Theatre's upcoming production of "West Side Waltz" she wanted them to know their characters better than she, the director, did. Apparently, the five-strong cast took what she said to heart, as Orton is inordinately pleased with how rehearsals have progressed. "I have been blessed with a wonderful cast," she says. Orton, director of the show, says "West Side Waltz" is a character study about a woman (Margaret Mary, played by veteran actress Adria Mahon)

I took a trip with Barry Welty and Richard Fowler of Ducks Unlimited to the Dix River Wildlife Management Area that is located a little north of Crab Orchard recently to see a new development in that area's WMA. The area is a cooperative effort of the USDA-NCRS, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. A 1,700 foot, shaped levee was being constructed to form a shallow area for waterfowl. The area was being shaped by a bulldozer as we were visiting.

Don and Susan Elmore live in Somerset but the recognize the historical importance of Stanford and the fort built here. “It was the crossroads of pioneer migration,” Don Elmore said. “All of the roads in this part of country ran through here.”  Don, a retired high school history teacher, and Susan, who still teaches as a substitute, have a passion for history and made that passion come to life in a diorama of Logan's Fort on display the the downtown Stanford branch of First Southern Bank.