4 • September 9, 2009
Your Hometown Newspaper
Bath County News-Outlook
The mornings have
always been my fa-
vorite time of the day.
Even when I was a
young boy coming here
to live with my grand-
parents, no other part
of the day was better
than when I would roll
out of bed and join my
grandpa and dad out
in the fields. Grandpa
was always the first
one up in the house and
would already be out-
side at the chicken coop
rounding up fresh eggs
for breakfast. The sun
wouldn't even be break-
ing over the hillside
before grandma began
cooking.
It was that wonder-
ful aroma that would
wake me. All the smells
blending together in
the air, but you could
always tell what was
on that stove top. When
my grandparents had
lived here by them-
selves, before grandpas'
heart attack, I'm sure
they still ate a lot in the
mornings...grandma
always preached that
breakfast was the most
important meal of the
day. Hickory smoked
bacon, sausage patties,
fried taters, eggs any-
way you could possibly
want them. You would
never go hungry, that's
for sure?
Finally the sun would
begin peaking its soft
The Smokers
Lounge
By
James Smith
orange glow upon our
home just about the
time we would all sit
down at the table, and
after cooking so much
for so many I was al-
ways surprised that
grandma actually had
the strength to eat. Ev-
ery time mom would
offer to help, grandma
just wouldn't have it.
She would say that
she had been doing the
same thing all her life
and was still capable
now as she was back
then. She was a very
proud woman, a little
stubborn at times, but
she always meant well
and I know that it gave
her a sense of achieve-
ment as well as happi-
ness and appreciation.
We would all stuff our
bellies full and then
compliment her on just
how down-right deli-
cious it was.
Through the years
morn asked to help
more and more, and af-
ter grandmas arthritis
became almost unbear-
able for her, she began
to let morn help out.
Like I said, she was
a proud and stubborn
lady, but even the best
know when it's time to
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PUBLIC NOTICE
The Bath Fiscal Court will hold a public hearing on September 16, 2009 at
6:00 p.m. At the Bath County Ambulance Service for the purpose of obtaining
comments from the public regarding the proposed tax rate.
The tax rate levied last year was 0.063 and produced revenues in the
amount of $181,493. This year's compensating rate is 6.4 and will produce
revenues in the amount of $190,852. The Bath County Fiscal Court proposes
a tax rate of 6.6 which will produce a total of $196,816 in revenues.
Revenue expected from New Property is $6,708.66: revenue expected
from Personal Property is $33,257.64; revenue expected from Motor Vehicle
is $53,396; and revenue expected from Watercraft is $1,648.
Revenue received in excess of last year's revenue will be used for general
operating expenses.
The Kentucky General Assembly requires that the Bath County Fiscal Court
publish this notice with the above information contained herein.
Published in The Bath County News Outlook on September 9, 2009.
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give in. Time kept up
its wicked little game,
and eventually morn
was the one up before
the sun cooking for us
after we lost grandma
in the winter of eighty-
six. Funny how good
things go away, but the
memory of them never
does.
After a good, hearty
breakfast, and my dad
and grandpas first
smokes of the day, it
was time to go to work.
My little brother would
never go out with us
into the fields or the
barns unless he was
made. Farm life just
never was for Jimmy,
but for me it was Shan-
gri-La in disguise. Jim-
my would just become
annoying and bother-
some so much that dad
would have to send him
back up to the house,
but not before spend-
ing a little time in the
woodshed for a little
butt blistering?
Me, I loved it...every-
thing about it just in-
trigued me. From the
crops to the livestock,
harvesting to feeding.
It's not easy at all. It's
a full days job from sun
up to sun down, nothing ily of ducks made their
but pure hard manual home right here on this
labor! But it's honest land. I would mostly
labor, money made the watch and learn until I
right way. grew up and began do-
Grandpa and dad ing it all the same as I
wouldn't let me do too
much at such a young
age, but there was a lot
I did get to do. Mostly
it was feeding, which
was just fine with me
because of my love for
the animals. Chickens,
pigs, cows...even a fam-
do to this very day.
A farmer's income
comes from two dif-
ferent places, his live-
stock and his crops. My
grandfather barely ever
sold any of his animals
and never really had to
because of the endless
rows of corn, beans and
other vegetables. Then,
one night in the early
fall of eighty-nine, a ter-
rible frost came down
from the north while
we slept and destroyed
almost every crop in the
fields. We were all dev-
astated and terrified at
the same time. The bank
payment was already
late and now there was
nothing to sell.
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