8 - April 6, 2017 Your Hometown Newspaper News Outlook
Bicentenial cont.
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are growing."
While he said that exact
numbers are hard to come
by, the closest comparison
for economic growth and
growth in tax revenues
from the sale of alcohol in
the county are with the city
of Grayson in Carter Coun-
ty.
Grayson voters went
wet in 2013, and Whisman
said that the city collected
around $213,000 in addi-
tional tax revenues in its
first year.
Grayson has just over
4000 people, and Carter
County has a population of
around 27,000, over twice
as large as Bath County.
Whisman said that this
is an imperfect comparison
because of the difference
in population and because
Bath County has three in-
corporated dries.
He said that while the
county and cities would
benefi.t from tax revenues
from alcohol sales as well as
inventory taxes and proper-
ty taxes, businesses would
also benefit from the sales.
The number of alcohol
licenses available would be
determined by population
and by the state and a local
alcohol beverage control of-
ricer.
"It is all very hard to cal-
culate," he said.
Whisman said he also
took issue with many things
said in a letter to the edi tor
in last week's News-Out-
look by Rev. Lowell Rice,
Langley Fran-
kling with
Elliottville
sculptor Sam
McKinney, with
a small-scale
version of the
proposed stat-
ue of Eugene
Minihan with
his reknown
saddle.
urive Bobby Rogers remem-
Minihan cont. fron
page 1.
bers his grandfather hav-
ing a ' very good" Minihan
saddle, and his father using
tville, Kentucky, near More- one as well. "If I was out at
head. Anyone donating an auction and saw one for
$250 or more will receive sale, I'd definitely be inter-
as a souvenir a handcrafted ested in it," he said.
mini-statue of a Minihan Many apprentices copied
saddle, a $20 value and suit- the "spring tree" saddle
able to be placed on desk- design, including John and
tops. Thomas Salmons, who
According to Tallarigo, opened their own saddle
the project originated with shop in Mt. Sterling around
Langley Franklin, who was 1900 and were known for
inspired by similar statues sewing Minihan's pattern
in his hometown of West into their saddles.
Liberty, longed for some Gary Hunt, a retired
means to memorialize Mini- schoolteacher now serv-
I han and approached Bath ing as Owingsville mayon
County and Owingsville spoke of the need to "ex-
officials with the idea. "I tend" Minihan's legacy "to
think there's interest in it," our children, and to visitors
Langley said, "and it's still here. It's a great resource
growing." Franklin also ell- for our people here. Eco-
visions a "Kentucky Planta- nomic development takes
rion Saddle Trail" along 1-64 all kinds of shapes and
in the area to further spot- forms. Hopefully, down the
light the story of Minihan road, this will pay off for all
and similar saddle makers, of us."
As part of a very labor- Tallarigo, who said she
intensive process, Minihan loves history, feels a certain
took a standard Somerset connection to Minihan.
Broad Cantle saddle tree "I want to help honor
and removed the center of my Native American heri-
the tree bars, then splicing tage and keep it alive by
in pieces of stiff leather to handcrafdng beadwork, so
make what amounted to I can relate to the crafts-
a hinge, thus creating the manship of how the saddles
first, and most successful, were made," Tallarigo said.
flexible tree design. Each "What I have enjoyed the
saddle was tailor-made to most about this project is
fit the individual. Original seeing the craftsmanship
Minihans are highly prized and the heart that went into
possessions that have been making each one of these
passed down through gen- saddles."
erations." Other EKU students
who has been a long-timeBath Cou0tyJudge-Exec- who played leading roles
outspoken critic of alq hol -
sales in the county. ,' the coun
Whisman said that llow- ing the petition drive.
ing the legal sale of alcohol
in the county would not en-
courage underage drinking
but would do a great deal to
curtail it by regulating its
sale and by running illegal
bootlegging sales of alcohol
out of business. He also
noted that local ordinances
could be passed to regulate
outdoor advertising of alco-
hol sales.
Whisman claimed . that
Rice said many things in the
editorial that are outland-
ish, such as people from
outside the county and even
He agreed with Rice that
"no one wants to see more
drunks on the road, but the
fact is that there is already
going on, and it's not going
to stop."
"I disagree with people
who say, Tnere is no such
thing as responsible drink-
ing.' There are people
who drink responsibly, and
you're not going to solve
that problem by taking it
away from people."
The News-Outlook will
continue to follow this story
as it develops.
with the project included
Kailynn Eggett and/Kerie
Steele.
"A Quilted History: The
Kentucky Riding Saddle,"
a documentary on the sub-
ject directed by EKU faculty
member Chad Cogdill, Mc-
Spirit and Neil Kasiak, oral
historian with EKU Librar-
ies, is airing on Kentucky
Educational Television this
spring and helping to raise
awareness of the region's
heritage and Minihan's con-
tributions. It will air on KET
Kentucky on Monday, April
10, at 5:30 a.m. EDT, and
again on Tuesday, April 18,
at 11:30 a.m. EDT.
planned so far for the year:
* Saturday, April 22, Bi-
centennial Celebration at
the Sharpsburg Commu-
nity Center
- 11 a.m. Bath County
Memorial Library Sharps-
burg branch will present a
slide show of citizens past
and present, yearbooks
from the old Sharpsburg
High School will be on
display; there will be spe-
cial events in the class-
room with Holly Howard
and the Bath County Arts
Council and others; local
craft vendors will be set
up in the gymnasium with
baked goods, clothes, rio-
ral, jewelry, shoes, and
Mary Kay cosmetics; Co-
operative Extension Agent
for Consumer Sciences
Nicole Gwishiri will be on
hand with food samples,
recipes, and incentives for
healthy living
- 11:30 - 1:30 p.m., live
music and the Bath Coun-
ty Cattlemen's Association
will have steak sandwich-
es for sales; and Coopera-
tive Extension Agent for
Agriculture Robert Am-
burgey will be on hand
- 2 p.m. Jamie's Dance
Studio will be performing
in the gym
- WKCA will be on hand
for a live broadcast during
the festivities
* Saturday, June 3, Re-
lay for Life of Bath County
will be having a Relay
event at the community
center for Sharpsburg and
Bethel
* Saturday, July 8,
Sharpsburg Community
Day, in which Main Street
will be closed off, events
at the old fire station, in-
cluding Gospel singing
from the Sharpsburg Bap-
tist Church and Greater
First Baptist Church
Men's Group; and Citi-
zensBank will be hosting
an ice cream social for
Customer Appreciation in
the afternoon
* Saturday, September
23, dedication of the Ma-
jor General Henry T. Al-
len historical Memorial
placard and a ceremony
to recognize local vet-
erans at the community
center, which will include
Sharpsburg branch.
Mayor Clemons told
Richter and Crump that
the library is a great asset
to Sharpsburg. '
In other matters:•
* Mayor Clemons an,
nounced to council memi
bers that the 2016 delim
a flyover from the Ken- quent tax
tucky Air National Guard,
and speakers Rep. Andy
Barr, Rep. Sannie Overly,
Col. Lashawn Jones, and
James MorrisJones. Oth-
er local military units are
also planned to be in atten-
dance.
* Saturday, November
18, Sharpsburg Christmas
Parade, with the theme
Red, White, & Blue
* December events
are not finalized, but
the Sharpsburg Baptist
Church is planning on
having a live Nativity this
year.
Council members also
heard from Bath County
Memorial Library Direc-
tor Michael Richter and
newly promoted Assistant
Director Christi Crump
who shared the library's
financial audit for the past
four years and discussed
upcoming events at the
library, including a con-
test to design the library's
patron cards (designs due
April 15), an heirloom to-
mato seed program (this
Thursday), an upcoming
photo walk around Ow-
ingsville (Saturday, April
8), and events on Bicen-
tennial Day (April 22).
Richter said that ex-
tensive renovations at
the Main Branch have al-
lowed more materials, in-
cluding more periodicals,
to be circulated through
the Sharpsburg Branch.
Crumps said that Use of
the Sharpsburg Branch
is increasing, including
circulation and use of the
computers and internet.
Richter added that
because Crump will be
world'ng more in Owings-
ville in the future, he is
working on getting a con-
sistent staff settled at the
amount
fallen from $2053 to 8683
due to people paying this
year's back taxes. 'i-
* A survey of Back
Street was completed
by Allen Justice behind
Peck's Farm Supply to de:
termine right of way dis-
tances, but the report was
not available at the rime of
Monday's meeting.
* Council members ap-
proved written contracts
for city sub-contractors
due to worker's compen-
sation regulations. These
coatracts were with Bill
Clemons (mowing at city
hall and the community
center), $340 a month;
George Wilson (mowing
at the city park), $225
a month; and Terence
Clemons (mowing at old
Sharpsburg Cemetery) i
$150 a month.
* Council members also
approved an annual fair
housing resolution and
proclamation of for build'
ing and safety awareness?
* A household shower
to benefit two Sharpsburg
residents who had their
homes severe!y damaged
in the March 1 storm will
take place this Sunday,
April 9, from 1 to 3 p.m. at
the Community Center.
* The National Work
Zone Safety Memorial
Wall, which contains the
name of the late Kend-
ale Ashby, who died in
a workzone accident in
2014, will be on display at
the Community Center on
May 19 - 20 as it travel
across the country. His
sister, city clerk Tonya
Ashby, will take part in a
news conference in Frank.
fort in connection with the
Memorial.
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