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MENIFEE COUNTY
Menifee Wildcats drop district opener
The Menifee County
Wildcats dropped their
61st District opener on
Saturday, falling to the
Fleming County Pan-
thers. Visiting Fleming
County managed to edge
the Wildcats 3-2.
Following the district
loss to Fleming County,
the Wildcats dropped to
1-2. Menifee County suf-
fered its second straight
setback after defeating
Elliott County 3-1 in a
season-opener on Mon-
day, Aug. 19. In a game
played Tuesday, Aug.
20, Jackson City blanked
Menifee County 3-0.
Menifee County was
back in action at press
time on Wednesday,
hosting Bath County
for another 61st Dis-
trict game. The Menffee
County-Bath County
game ended too late to
make this edition.
Menifee County has
additional regular-sea-
son games remaining
versus Belfry (Sept. 3),
West Carter (Sept 5,
Sept. 7, Oct. 2), Rose Hill
Christian (Sept. 13, Sept.
24),. Fleming County
(Sept. 17), Rowan Coun-
ty (Sept. 19), St. Patrick
(Sept. 21, Oct. 7), Estill
County (Sept 23, Sept.
28) Bath County (Sept.
30), EUiott County (Oct
8) and Jackson City (Oct.
10).
The Menifee County
girls' soccer team is also
1-2 through its first three
games. After disman-
tling Elliott County 9-0
in a season-opener, the
Menffee County girls
dropped games to Paris
and Fleming County late
last week. Paris edged
the Wildcats 1-0 on Fri-
day. In a game on Sat-
urday, Fleming County
shut out the Lady Cats
2-0.
Extension Community Appreciation Dinner Slated
September 6th to include 4-H Country Ham Auction
Please join the Menifee
County Cooperative
Extension Service on
Friday, September 6th,
at the Farmers' Market
Pavilion on Backstreet in
Frenchburg for the 2013
Extension Community
Appreciation Dinner.
This is a free event
which allows the Exten-
sion Service to express
appreciation for the sup-
port they have received
from clientele and local
businesses throughout
the year, and to increase
awareness of the Exten-
sion Service and what it
has to offer. The event
will highlight Extension
and local businesses and
organizations, and there
will be youth activities,
entertainment, and a
soup bean supper for ev-
eryone in attendance.
In addition to booths,
activities, and entertain-
ment, there will be a 4-H
Country Ham Auction
beginning at approxi-
mately 6:30 p.m. The
hams were cured as part
of the 4-H Country Ham
project in which seven
youth participated and
five competed at the KY
State Fair. There will
be a total of eight hams
up for auction and pro-
ceeds will benefit youth
who participated in this
year's project as well as
those who participate in
2014.
Door' prize drawings
will also be held and will
include items from local of the Menifee County
artisans and a $100 Visa
Gift Card donated by
Farm Credit Services of
Mid-America.
The Extension Ser-
vice will also present the
2013 Asa Hale Leader-
ship Award. This award
is presented to an out-
standing, devoted citizen
and dedicated volunteer
Cooperative Extension
Service.
If you would like more
information about the
Extension Community
Appreciation Dinner,
or would like to set up
an informational booth,
please contact the Exten-
sion Office at 606768-
3866.
COMMUNITY
this week in Frankfort was: As always, you can leave a
The Week in Frankfort: Redistricting
Yes.
With session's, adjourn-
ment, the interim commit-
tee study period resumes.
A full 60<lay budget session
will convene in the Capitol
this coming Jan.7, 2014.
message for your legislator
By Scott Peyton, Legis-
lative Research Commis-
sion
Most folks have only a
vague idea of what 'redis-
tricting' means, and how,
really, it personally affects
them. It's not like a pro-
posed tax increase or some-
thing hugely controversial
like, say, casino gambling or
legalizing pot It's political
inside baseball to the aver-
age person. But within any
legislative body, anywhere,
it's the World Series. It has
huge personal and political
significance. The stakes
cannot be overstated.
Couple of quotes: :
'Redistricting is one of the
purest political actions a leg-
islative body can take.'
That's from John Engler,
a former governor of Michi-
gan. What he meant was,
drawing districts can deter-
mine what party controls
a chamber. The history of
that is bald, harsh, true, and
consistent, wherever repre-
sentative democracy exists.
Some call it objection-
able, raw partisan politics.
But representative democ-
racy is, by its very nature,
partisan, as ours has been
since the earliest days of
the Republic. The Found-
ers knew it would be that
way, and warned against it
- Madison in Federalist #10
wanted to %reak and con-
trol (partisanship),' - but his
effort was futile, and his and
others' cautions collapsed
almost immediately. Party
control through reappor-
tionment has been the rule,
rather than the exception,
on every level of legislative
government through our
history.
Plus it's personal. Some-
times painfully so.
'It gets very personal,
when lines are redrawn so
you lose longtime constitu-
ents you've built a bond with
over the years, been friends
with, know by face and
name, and you now have
to start over in unfamiliar
ground - or even have to
move your residence be-
cause your district has been
moved dramatically.'
That's from a longtime
surveyor of the legislative
landscape who's seen many
redistrictings over 30 years,
the political and personal
pain they create, and the
court interventions they fre-
quently draw- as the most
recent attempt did, in 2012.
At bottom, redistricting
seems simple. The cen-
tral concept is 'one person,
one vote,' which means we
all have roughly the same
voice in Frankfort (our
Legislature) or Washington
(Congress).
That means districts have
to be more or less equal in
population. But other fac-
tors also enter in, including
cohesiveness - counties
shouldn't (the law says) be
split unless absolutely nec-
essary, and gerrymander-
ing (stringing geographical-
ly and culturally unrelated
counties together in odd
combinations to give one
party an advantage) is con-
sidered, judicially, a no-no.
It's a complex techni-
cal task anyway, but with
partisan politics dribbled
freely into the mix, it often
becomes a witch's brew of
facts, near-facts, guesses,
and motives only specula-
tive that end up, often, in
court, challenged by one
aggrieved party or another,
or several. The most recent
Kentucky plan, passed in
2012, ran quickly aground
in the state Supreme Court
But this past week, on
a third try, the Kentucky
General Assembly met, this
lime in special session, and
in the minimum five days
required to pass a bill, put
forth and passed a plan that
- given the near-impossible
challenges facing them -
probably raised fewer obvi-
ous objections than any in
recent memory.
The redrawn lines would
create four new House dis-
tricts and pair.eight incum-
bents in four other districts
- four Democrats and four
Republicans, an even split
- numbers considered fairly
negligible in any case
Still, not everyone's
happy. But no one ever is,
entirely, in this bloodiest of
political processes. Yet it did
pass both chambers with
overwhelming majorities.
On its face, it seems to ad-
dress the judicial objections
to the first proposal in 2012,
which was basically that too
many counties were split
Any assumption of court ap-
proval, of course, remains
in the air. This is where re-
porters resort to the clichdd
shibboleth 'Stay tuned.'
Two-thirds of the House's
minority Republicans, in-
eluding all its leadership,
voted yea on the bill. Only
two House Democrats vot-
ed no, mostly on concerns
that fast-growing areas
were being chopped up too
drastically. As redistricting
goes, this proved as close
to €onsensus as ,we're ever
likely to get.
The bill blew through the
House like a gale Wednes-
day, on an 83-17 vote - a
harbinger that the special
session would indeed end
Friday, with full expectation
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Owingsville Church of Christ
5410 Highway 60 East
Owingsville, KY. 40360
for our
Annual Home Coming
September 8, 2013
DAN MURPHY FROM MT STERLING
Sunday Bible class 10:00 AM:
Sunday AM worship 11:00 AM:
(A Covered Dish Dinner will follow our morning worship service)
Sunday PM 1:30 PM:
CASA NEEDS VOLUNTEERS
Who are CASA Volunteers?
CASA Volunteers are EVERYDAY people who care about
children! A CASA must be at least 21 years of age and
pass a criminal background check to volunteer on a case.
Volunteers of the CASA Program for Braken, Fleming,
and Mason Counties, Inc. come from all walks of life and
backgrounds: many work fulLtime, some are retired, some
are stay-at-home moms.
"Serving Bath, Fleming, & Mason Counties"
What Does a CASA Volunteer Do?
Once a volunteer is trained and accepted to the program,
the CASA will be appointed to an abuse and/or neglect
case by the juvenile judge. 3he CASA will conduct through
research on the background of the case by reviewing docu-
ments and interviewing everyone involved--including the
child. A CASA volunteer provides the judge with informa-
tion that will help him make informed decisions about the
case.
The CASA Mission
To find a safe and loving home as soon as possible for the
children we serve.
Become a CASA volunteer, and help protect our most
vunerable citizens. IT WILL TRULY WARM YOUR
HEART.
For more information, contact CASA at 606-563-7431. A
new volunteer training class will start in mid September.
of quick Senate approval (its
plan seems well-received by
the chamber) and the near-
certainty that Gov. Steve
Beshear would sign it int 9
law posthaste.
Once again, this iteration
of the Kentucky General As-
sembly has shown its abil-
ity to get hard things done,
harmoniously. Some say
Congress should look to
Kentucky for schooling on
how to govern with a split-
party government. Here, in
the Commonwealth, right
now, it's working.
Jefferson, as always,
nailed it cold:
"We have no interests nor
passions different from our
fellow citizens. We have the
same objective: the success
of representative govern-
ment ..... Our experimenLis
to show whether man can
be trusted with self-govern-
ment'
It's still an American
question after more than
at 1-800-372-7181. The LRC
website, www.lrc.ky.gov, is
a wealth of legislative infor-
marion, including meelkng
schedules and pre-filed bills.
Senate' President ' Robert Stiveis', R-Ma'lCi:msier: (leh);
confers with Senate Oemocratlc Floor Leader R.J. Palm-
er, D-Winchester, prior to the start of the day's legisle-
tive session in the Kentucky Senate, (Photo by LRC
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