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.ugust 16, 2012
cSave00A0000Lot construction begins
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Ground was officially bro-
ken for the construction of a
new Save - A- Lot grocery
store in Owingsville Tues-
day afternoon at a ceremo-
ny attended by the store's
owners, corporate represere
tatives, and local officials.
The Conatser family, who
owns the Mt. Sterling Save-
A- Lot and who will be the
owners of the Owingsve
store, were on hand, along
with Owingsvine Mayor and
F'h-'st Lady Gary and Chris-
tim Hunt; Save - A- Lot
Licensed Market Develop
manager Jan Crabtree, Re-
tail Operations Director Jim
Wheat, and District Manag-
er Don Chancy;, contractor
Eddie Cox of Cornerstone
Constrution; landowners
Jerry and Brenda Maze
with their son John Maze;
along with representatives
from the Owingsvflle City
Council, Bath County/Ow-
ingsvflle Industrial Author-
ity, Gateway Area Devel-
opment District, and Bath
County/OwingsvSe Cham-
ber of Commerce President
Steve Meadow.
Mayor Hunt said, "It
takes alot ofpeople working
together to get something
like this going."
Hunt "introduced all of
large group to the assem-
bled audience and gave
each time to say a few words
beforeground was officially
broken on the project. He
said that work on this pro}
ect has been going on for
over a year, and that he Was
pleased that construction
was finally ready to begirL
Ken Conatser said, "Well
our people in Mt. Sterling.,
Save - A- Lots corporate
representatives spoke high-
ly of the Conatser family's
operations:
Jim Wheat said, "You will
be pleased with how they
operate," and Don Chaney
said, qhey operate a pre-
miere operation."
Save - A - Lot has 1343
stores nationwide and over
70°4 of them are indepen-
dently owned, according to
Jim Crabtree.
Save - A- Lot has area
stores in NIL Sterling and
Morehead, and other stores
are planned tO be opened
soon in Carlisle, Paris, and
Campton.
Ken Conatser and Eddie
COx said that, weather per-
mitling, construction of the
13,000 square foot store is
expected to be completed
by the end of December.
treatyou all just like we treat
Byrons scheduled to apPear on
Aug. 20 American Pickers
Photo by Cecil Lawson
On hand for the official groundbreaking of the new Save - A - Lot grocery store in
Owingsville, on Creekside Drive, were Jimmy Davis and Nancy Purvis, Owingsville
CRy Council; Jeff, Sharon, and Ken Conatser, store owners; Jerry and Brenda Maze,
landowners; Wayne Watson, Doug Copher, Kelly Wilson, and Tim Fawns, Bath County/
Owlngsville Industrial Authority; Steve Meadows, Bath County/Owingsville Chamber
of Commerce President;, Don Chaney, Save - A - Lot District Manager, Jim Wheat,
Save - A,- Lot Retail Operations Director, Eddie Cox, Cornerstone Construction; Jim
Crebtree, Licensed Market Development Manager;, and Gary Hunt, Owingsville Mayor.
Bear and cubs sighted near
Owingsville city limits
Photo by Cecil Lawson
• , t :j -
Frank Fritz, shown in the center with ;bhm t-shirt, was in Owingsville this
past April with fellow antique "picker" Mike Wolfe at the Byron warehouse
on North Court Street. Fritz and Wolfe are the stars of the History Chan-
nel hit Amedcan Pickers. Tom Byron uses the former family lumber and
hardware business building for storage, including several pieces of local
historical memorabilia. The Owingsville episode of American Pickers is
set to air Monday evening at 9 p.m.
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
Tom and Judy Byron of
Owingsvine are scheduled
to be featured in the upcom-
ing Aug. 20 episode "Guys
and Dolouses" on the pop-
ular History Channel show
American Pickers.
Mike Wolfe and Frank
Fritz, the show's hosts,
made a stop in Owingsville
at the Byron family ware-
house on North Court
Street in April, and they and
their crew spent the entire
day filming for the episode.
The upcoming episode's
description reads, "The
Pickers visit Tom whose
amazing collection of archi-
tectm salvage includes a
vintage theater marquee
and rare opera house rel-
ics. Later, they spend time
at a sprawling South Caro-
lina warehouse where Mike
gets in a heated negotiation
over a Victorian don house."
The Byrons said that the
show's producers had been
scouting their location and
talking with them for sev-
eral months in advance of
American Picker's arrival in
Owingsve.
They also said that they
signed a released that would
not let them do interviews
unti after the show aired.
They explained that this al-
lows Wolf and Fritz time to
find buyers for the items
they purchase on the show
without media exposure.
Wolfe owns a business
called Antique Archaeology
in Le Claire, Iowa, and he
and Fritz are self<lescribxl
"antique pickers."
They scavenge the Ameri-
can counTside looking for
items of unique historical
and collectl%le value. Their
finds are chronicled each
week on the show. They are
assisted on the show by of-
rice manager Daniel Colby
Cushman.
Don't miss the new epi-
sode on Monday, Aug. 20, at
9 p.m. on the History Chart-
net
OPD helps located missing
Tennessee woman under Silver Alert
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
had Alzheimer's disease.
Sutherland said that Ev-
erman made a call to Of-
ricer David Adams, who
initiated a traffic stop.
The woman told Offi-
cers Everman and Adams
that she was "looking for
mentia, and' othermental
illnesses.
Wolfe was taken to be
checked at a local hospital,
where she was reunited
with her family.
Sutherland said that her
family had been looking
An elderly Tennessee
woman who was reported
missing Monday evening
under a Tennessee "Silver
Photo by Cecil Lawson
This hollow, which is part of the Prickly Ash Creek drainage area at the
northern edge of Owingsville, provided cover for the escape of a bear and
two cubs last Tuesday at a residence on Hwy. 36 West.
life offidals who gave him search of alternate foods."
By Cecil Lawson two pieces of advice for lo-
KyNewsGroup
cecil@kynewsgroup.com
There are bears on the
edge of town.
This is not a joke.
According to Bath County
Sheriff John 'q'uffy" Snede-
gal', he received a call about
a bear sighting last Tuesday
on West Highway 36, at the
Owingsville dty limits.
Snedegar said that when
he arrived near the resi-
dence of Doug and Pam
Toy, he witnessed a black
bear and two cubs walking
back into the woods and
hollow behind their house.
'They got away before I
could get my camera out of
the truck," he said.
The hollow behind the
houses drains into Prickly
Ash Creek, which is a heav-
ily wooded and sp,'sely
populated area.
Snedegar said that he had
cal residents - don't throw
out your scraps, and shoo
bears away if anyone sees
them around.
Snedegar added that he
would "do a little more than
shoo them away."
Bear sightings around
human residences and
dwellings are up this year,
mainly due to weather and
foraging conditions for for-
est animals and the end of
breeding season for black
bears in July.
According to a July press
release from the Kentucky
Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources, bear
biologist Steven Dobey is
quoted as saying, "h most
areas of eastern Kentucky,
this summer's wild berry
crop disappeared quickly.
This is a very important
food source for this time of
year and with it gone, bears
are roaming extensively in
Holly Bay Campground
at Laurel River Lake and
the Great Meadows Camp-
ground in McCreary Coun-
ty were both temporarily
closed at the end of July fol-
lowing bear encounters by
campers. They were re-
opened after garbage was
removed from both camp-
grounds.
Fish and Wildlife Re-
sources Department of.
fidals advise that in resi-
dential areas to not leave
garbage outside as night
and to avoid leaving food
scraps outside. Even bird
seed in a bird feeder will at-
tract a hungry bear. They
also note that is illegal to
feed wild animals.
Snedegar said that he was
told by fish and wildlife offi-
cials that the bear and cubs
will probably move on to an-
other area and shouldn't be
a problem there.
spoken with fish and wild-
Bridge project finished, US 60 has re-
opened near Bath-Montgomery County line
TRAFFIC ONE LANE FOR NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS
of Highways District 9
structures and mainte-
nance crews have worked
since July 30 to reopen the
roadway -'removing the
old bridge and replacing it
with a new arched alumi-
num culvert.
Roadway surface work
the Work site will be one
lane controlled by tempo-
rary signals for the next
several weeks.
Motorists should heed
all warning signs, sloW
down in work zones, re-
main aware of workers and
construction equipment
Work to replace an ag-
ing culvert bridge under
US 60 near the Bath-Mont-
gomery county line is fin-
ished, and the highway
has reopened following its
closure at mile marker 2
just west of Wildwood Es-
tates.
Alert" was found by Ow-
ingsville Police officers
early Tuesday morning
and returned to. her family.
Asst. Owingsville Police
Chief John Sutherland
said that Officer Wes Ev-
erman was on foot patrol
around 1:30 ,a.m, check-
hag the town's buildings,
when he noticed a silver
Mercury Marquis weav-
ing and :whose driver ap-
peared confused, as if she
food and gas."
Further investigation re-
vealed that the woman was
Alma Wolfe, 75, of Hender-
s0nville, Tennessee. They
discovered that a "Silver
Alert" had beenlssued for
her Monday eening.
The Silver Alert is simi-
lar to the Commonwealth
of Kentucky's Golden
Alert, which is a public no-
fificati0n system issued for
missing elderly persons
who have Alzheimer's, de-
for her all day Monday. Kentucky Department
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