Falmouth outlook (The), 2014-01-07

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Volume 107 - Issue 47 Serving Pendleton County SinCe 1907 Tuesday, January 7, 2014 www.falmouthoutlook.com $1.00
More citizens
Family needs
financial help
file for county
and prayers
offices
The Donald Horn family
from Hogg Ridge Road has
suffered a heartbreaking year.
Donald Horn passed away on Those filing for offices this past week are as
March 20, 2013 from compli - follows:
cations stemming from diabe - Darrin W. Gregg (D) filed to run for Magis-
tes. Then on December 31, trate District 3.
2013, Amber Horn (Donald's Joyce Gillespie Brown (D) filed her papers
daughter) passed away from to run for Magistrate District 4.
bacterial meningitis, she was The deadline to file for county offices
31 weeks pregnant, her baby county-wide is 4 p.m. on January 28, 2014.
also passed. Amber grew up on
Hogg Ridge Road in Pendleton
County, was an only child, and
leaves four children, the oldest
only five years old.
With three of these terrible
losses in less than a year Don -
ald's wife Tonya Horn and
Amber's mother is desperate
for financial help. Tonya
Horn’s mother passed away on
January 3.
A fund has been set up at
Fifth Third Bank. Donations
can be made at any Fifth Third
Bank and it is the Amber Horn
Memorial Fund, the family
will greatly appreciate any
help you can give.
Size clothing for the chil -
dren are at follows: Tyrell, age
5, wears a size 5; Rhianna, 4,
wears a size 5-6; Tianna, 2,
wears size 4; and Brianna, 8
mos. wears 12 month. Firemen work to get down to the vehicle and help to get the driver out. Photo by Jessie Beckett.
If you have any questions
you can reach Susan Jones at Icy road cause of single-vehicular
[phone] or Tonya Horn
REP. TOM MCKEE
at [phone].
accident on Pendleton Hill Rep. Tom McKee
honored by KAFCS
Icy road conditions on U.S. 27 ton Hill and advised him that the Cincinnati Medical Center with a
were the cause of a single-vehicular vehicle she had been following had broken leg. From the Cynthiana Democrat
accident which occurred north of disappeared in front of her. In U.S. 27 was shut down to one
Falmouth Thursday, January 2, response Reams drove up the hill lane for a time till the scene was The Kentucky Extension Association of
2014. Carla Ishmael, 50, of Butler, and back down, but saw nothing. It cleared. Kentucky State Police and Family and Consumer Sciences names Rep.
was traveling southbound when she was on his second run up the hill that the Pendleton County Sheriff's Tom McKee as its 2013 Honorary Member. The
lost control of the 2002 Suzuki SUV he noticed trees disturbed and bro - Office assisted with traffic control. honor was presented at the KEAFCS Awards
she was driving and went over the ken off. On closer investigation, he Midwest Towing removed the dam - Luncheon at the Embassy Suites in Lexington
embankment on Pendleton Hill. discovered a black SUV resting on aged vehicle from the scene. by Harrison County FCS agent Benita Peoples.
There were no passengers in the its top. Fortunately, the goodness of a He was nominated by Dr. Ann Vail, Director of
vehicle. Ishmael was trapped in her vehi- concerned citizen saved the injured the School of Human Environmental Sciences.
According to Kentucky State cle and the Falmouth Fire Depart - driver from the serious threat of McKee’s lifelong commitment to agricul -
Trooper Kyle Reams, a driver ment used the jaws of life to free her. exposure from the freezing tempera- ture, community and extension is in alignment
stopped to speak with him where he She was then transported by Pendle- tures. with the principles of KEAFCS. They are exem-
Residents without was parked at the bottom of Pendle- ton County EMS to University of plified in his concern for, not only the people he
represents, but for all people and in his belief
heat can find a
that it is his responsibility to give the best of his
Arctic air brings below zero temperature
ability to educate and advocate for farming,
place to stay
farming families and the right of all families to
Record cold temperatures not seen wind chill of 18 below zero. be able to access healthy and affordable foods.
If anyone in the county does for the last 19 years have hit Pendleton The forecast for snow didn’t come He accepts opportunities to empower individu -
not have heat in their homes County. Temperature on Jan. 6 early through but arctic winds are here and als, families, and communities and has a will -
there is a place they can go with morning was at 7 degrees with an even are expected to blanket the state with ingness to meet the challenges of the changing
heat. Any one needing help can colder wind chill, by noon the tempera- minus below wind chill until later in times with innovative ideas and legislation.
call the Pendleton County Dis- ture plummeted to 1 degree with a wind the week. Rep. Tom McKee has represented the 78th
patch at [phone] or Mike chill factor of -2 below. At 3 p.m. the Pendleton County schools were MCKEE PAGE 3
Moore at [phone]. temperature was at 0 degree with a ARCTIC AIR Page 3
1,000 Point Club at PCHS
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Pictured above are, from left: Son Morgan Bay, 18, father David
Bay, and son Spencer Bay, 16, of Butler. The two sons have followed
in their father's tradition with their musical abilities.
Those athletes pictured above were honored as being in the 1,000 Point Club at Pendleton County High School on January 3. Not all Family Tradition – Excellence in Music
members were present. Show above, from left: Mark Browning, Timmy Cooper, Mason Monroe, Kelsie Pugh, Nancy Moreland Wood,
Bill Turner, Talbert Turner. Back Row: Joey Verax, Dickie King, Megan Wood Ramsey, Rick Elrod, Nick Turner, Keaton Belcher and
The Kentucky Music Educa- auditions are blind auditions for
Andrew Gosney.
tors Association held their year- two judges plus a sight reading
ly All-State Band auditions for audition in the second round.
Athletes honored between ball games at Pendleton County High School
high school students. This year, Both Bays study privately
for the first time two siblings and practice several hours a day.
Over the almost 100 seasons Georgia and South Carolina but Wildcat history that posted 30 Timmy Cooper hold two different 1st chair hon- Both are alumni of the Interlo -
of Ladycat and Wildcat basket - all was honored for their mile - wins and lost in the 10th Re - Cooper is familiar to Wild - ors at the same time. Morgan chen Summer Arts program, the
ball only 21 times has a player stone they had reached and set gion Finals under coach Rich - cat fans as a long range 3-point Bay a senior at Pendleton Coun- top summer arts program in the
that laced them up for PCHS a goal for future generations ard Gulick. In two seasons, shooter who never found a 3-point ty High School is first chair world. Both are members of the
scored 1,000 points in their ca - of Wildcat and Ladycat stars this long range bomber scored shot he wouldn’t take and couldn’t Trumpet and Spencer Bay a Cincinnati Symphony Youth
reer. A number that shows how to have their names added to 1,000 plus points including make. He holds the career record junior at Pendleton County Orchestra and members of the
difficult it truly is to be a consis- the 1,000 point club banner. averaging over 20 points per for most 3-pointers made in a High School is first chair French University of Cincinnati’s Col -
tent scorer long enough to reach game in 1961 with a high of 44 career. But it was on a night in Horn. Their dad David Bay was lege Conservatory of Music
the 1,000 point milestone. Dickie King points against Walton Verona. Brooksville that the legend of first chair French Horn in 1981, Preparatory Brass Choir.
Not all could join them as King played for the first two During that senior season, he Timmy Cooper was made. The in the Kentucky All-State Band Morgan has been a member
some are in California, Florida, Wildcat basketball teams in was Honorable Mention All- Cats trailed Bracken County en - as well. of the Tri-State Trumpet Ensem-
PCHS history, 1959-61 and is State and was voted the #2 tering the fourth quarter by a The All-State auditions are ble, The Governors School for
our first member of our 1,000 player in the 10th Region. He sizable margin and despite tight done in two parts, a regional the Arts and a semi-finalist in
point club. Dickie was a key continued his career at Cum - man-to-man coverage , double audition and a second round the National Trumpet Competi-
member of the first team in berland College. ATHLETES Page 9 audition at Elizabethtown. Both tion in Washington D.C.