Spring Cleaning

The run of "The Spring Cleaning" might have changed but the quality of the piece is what theater-goers have come to expect from West T. Hill Community Theatre. Director Karen L. Logue says it was difficult to cast the challenging roles of "The Spring Cleaning," especially with a short rehearsal schedule. "It seems the best people are always the busiest, so there were a lot of scheduling conflicts," Logue adds. "And, we have not been having full houses of late and thought if we could fill the house for four shows, we would be very fortunate.

Spring is almost here - time to spruce up your house and get rid of your clutter. But this year, don't confine your spring cleaning to your home and yard. Why not "freshen up" your investment portfolio at the same time? Of course, you can't just take a mop and broom to your brokerage statement. But some of the same principles that apply to your basic spring cleaning can work just as well when you tidy up your investments. Consider the following suggestions: - Take an inventory of your belongings.

Winchester-Clark County Parks and Recreation Department employee Daniel Watts power-washes the bottom of Community Pool to remove loose paint and debris before applying a new coat of paint. The pool is scheduled to open June 3. Operational hours will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The pool is closed on Mondays.

You may or may not engage in many of the typical activities of "spring cleaning" - de-cluttering the attic, reorganizing your closets, touching up the paint, etc. - but you can almost certainly benefit from "sprucing up" your financial situation.As you survey your financial landscape, what areas might you want to tidy up? Here are a few suggestions: - Clear your portfolio of "redundant" investments. Over time, you may have built a sizable investment portfolio. But if you have too many investments that look alike, you may actually be hindering your progress toward your goals.

One man's trash is not always another man's treasure. At least it isn't for Chuck Rowe, interim corps administrator for the Danville Salvation Army. To Rowe, trash is trash, and it has become a real problem at the army's drop boxes for donated items. "Some people are using our drop boxes like they use the (solid waste) convenience centers or Dumpsters," Rowe says. "They are dumping their trash from their kitchens and other places in the home into those boxes. "When I tell people that we're finding trash in our drop boxes, they think I'm referring to trashy sofas or trashy clothes," he says.

Spring cleaning will take on a whole new meaning in Boyle County during the week of March 23-29. Two major events in the local war on litter will occur. One is Commonwealth Cleanup Week, an annual statewide program, and the other is the beginning of a new year-round local litter pickup program called HELP - Health Environment Litter Patrol. Boyle Countians will be able to participate in the statewide cleanup next week and the local HELP program year-round on a family and neighborhood basis.

A reader recently contacted me wanting advice about their nearly 3-year-old Compaq Presario model SR1103WM. Lately their computer has become extremely slow in performance. They wondered if I would recommend they purchase a brand new computer because of it. The reader uses the computer for e-mail, Web surfing, desktop publishing and for storage of photos and items from Web sites. After checking out the specs on their system on HP's Web site here, my recommendation was to upgrade their current system.

Volunteers with Asbury College's Creation Care Group put on their gloves and got to work last week cleaning one of Wilmore's most littered creek beds. After several three-hour sessions, the group removed eight truck loads of trash, 43 tires and several bags of recyclable materials. Included in the trash items were rusted pipes, mattress springs and other metal debris. Kayla Stephens, a student at Asbury College, joined four other people Saturday morning to participate in the final day of trash pick-up.