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January 13, 2013 HENDERSON, KENTUCKY © No. 12, 129th year $1.75
Women join forces to improve community
■■idea is to pool resources to change the county “We’re a branch of the tion provided by POW, “the
community foundation,” IF YOU GO idea of POW is simple. Ev-
Banna-Pritchett said. eryone involved pools their
What: partnership of
By Beth smith which to live. group in Owensboro,” Kar- The women’s group financial resources and be-
Women kickoff event
[email protected] “We just started jotting en Wilson said. “I knew is called Partnership of When: 5 to 7 p.m. comes a partner to change
270-831-8334 down women” who might that Leanne and the others Women, or POW. Tuesday Henderson County. There is
be interested, said Jennifer had (a similar) idea.” Their kickoff event will Where: Ruby Moon no fundraising, no canvass-
Several years ago, an Keach. “We all had the idea,” take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Vineyard and Winery, ing, no buying somebody’s
idea took root in the hearts “But then life, kids, jobs Banna-Pritchett said. Tuesday at Ruby Moon 9566 U.S. Hw. 41A stuff, no endless meetings,
of a group of Henderson ... got in the way” said Le- “We’re all in this together.” Vineyard and Winery. More info: no car washes. You give an-
County women. anne Banna-Pritchett, add- The women said they Women in the communi- cfhenderson.org nually, and $500 gives you a
They wanted to form a ing that before they knew simply needed an opportu- ty are invited to attend to vote on where that money is
team of dedicated women it, years passed. nity, and they found it with receive more information. donated.
who would be committed “I’d been at Boulware the recently established Keach, Banna-Pritchett Jennifer Preston, are found- “Our goal is to engage 50
to making Henderson an (Mission) in Owensboro Community Foundation and Wilson, along with ing members of POW.
even better community in and heard about a women’s of Henderson. Marsha Clary Royster and According to informa- see POW, 12A
The day that It’s going
to be slick
shook Henderson
out there
Many people in Henderson recall the massive el-
lis Grain elevator explosion 25 years ago.
At right, city firemen approach the scene of the ■■rain, freezing
ellis Grain elevator explosion soon after the blast
occurred. rain expected
it was one of the largest — if not the largest —
explosions Henderson ever experienced.
The regulatory, recuperating and rebuilding dust Gleaner staff
still was settling a year later. The elevator wasn’t
reopened until nearly 21 months later and at a Plunging temperatures
reduced capacity, going from 1 million bushels to are expected to turn rain
700,000 bushels. into freezing rain and sleet
Below, firefighters and other rescue workers by midafternoon today,
remove the body of one of the victims after the according to the National
blast, which killed three and seriously injured two Weather Service in Paducah.
others. Once the precipitation
The fatalities were John Hughes, 40, of Reed; ends late tonight, the area
Gary A. Gross, 28, of Henderson; and Thomas A. could receive as much as a
kurtz, 24, of Baskett. quarter-inch of ice build-
The two survivors, both of whom were badly up, which could cause
burned, were Joseph e. Yates, 38, and Richard driving and walking haz-
Thomas, 33, both of Henderson. ards, said meteorologist
Both eventually returned to work for the grain Robin Smith of the NWS.
company, and Thomas still does to this day. Roadways will be slick-
Read and see more about this historic event est overnight tonight as
today in Frank Boyett’s “Yesterday’s news” the temperature drops to
column, Page 5A. around 20 degrees, he said.
The ice comes on the
heels of what NWS was
projecting to be between 1
to 3 inches of rain between
Saturday and today, in-
cluding heavy downpours
during thunderstorms.
The weather service is-
sued a flash-flood watch
that went into effect at 3
p.m. Saturday and contin-
ues until this afternoon.
NWS also issued a torna-
do warning for Henderson
and Union counties Satur-
day afternoon. A weather
spotter reported sighting
FiLe pHoToS BY Mike LAWRenCe / THe GLeAneR a funnel cloud or possible
tornado in Waverly shortly
after 4 p.m., as the storm
moved northwest toward
Corydon sewer customers eligible for refunds downtown Evansville.
There also was a report-
ed funnel cloud sighting in
Henderson near U.S. 41-Al-
ternate and Kentucky 425.
By frank Boyett reimbursement only for ment for the past four imburse the city for any take was made back when Central Dispatch said an
[email protected] the past four years, and years might be as much money it repaid, but it the sewer system was rati- officer was sent to the area
270-831-8342 the only amount to be re- as $100, but the city could would not do so until af- fied in November 1990; it and was unable to confirm
imbursed would be the 6 recoup that money from ter the city has repaid the first came on line in 1994. a funnel cloud sighting.
Corydon residential percent sales and use tax, the state Revenue Cabinet. money to customers. “In the ordinance, it has There were no reports
sewer customers are eli- according to Corydon “We would be refunded by Brewster stressed the the 6 percent sales tax on of damage in Henderson,
gible for refunds because, Mayor Philip Brewster. the state for the money we city has not benefited from it,” City Clerk Gloria Mills Union or Webster counties
up until recently, the city “We’re trying to figure out sent to them,” he said. “It the mistake: “It’s collect- said. from Saturday’s storm.
incorrectly was levying how to go back and gener- might hit us hard at first, ed and then we send the Kentucky Revised Stat- Rain or freezing rain
sales tax on sewer service ate a (computer) report to but we’re not going to be money to the state. It’s not ute 139.470(8)(a) provides is predicted before 1 p.m.
since the sewer system do that,” he said. out anything.” like the city is keeping that a sales and use tax exemp- today, with freezing rain
was installed in 1994. He estimated the aver- The state Revenue Cabi- money.”
A customer can get age sales tax reimburse- net confirmed it would re- It’s unclear how the mis- see RefUnDs, 12A see WeATHeR, 12A
‘Change happens’: Hospital’s free forum
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deAths, 2A 44˚/22˚ up day is the same day as your Let’s go back about moon, she pledges, she
80,000 years to a certain will eat nothing but ber-
friends & neighBors, 11A city of Henderson garbage
Cooler today with Neanderthal woman and ries, nuts and maybe a
collection service if you live
lotteries, 2A a thick cloud cover. on the proper side of the her mate, who are having few twigs several days a
Movie tiMes, 9A Rain in the north and dividing line: an awkward moment. week until she regains her
The female is examin- judy youthful form.
oSpinUionN, 4ADAY west; colder tonight in Mthoonsed aeya sctu ostfo Gmreeersn wRiivlle bre R oad. ing closely the outline her jenkIns That, my friends, is
tCvlA sschseifdiuelDess, coMics, in the west. A bit of ice Tuesday will be those east of sweetie drew of her on the called a resolution, and
S Monday morning. U.S. 41. wall of the cave where they COlUMnisT the air has been thick with
sports, 1B-12B
full forecast, 12B Wednesday will be those south live. them for eons — especially
of Clay Street/Airline Road. “Gerk,” she says, “I’m mammoth bone, but then at this time of the year.
Thursday will be those south not that big, am I?” admits that with the rhi- ■■We’re going to become
of Clay Street. Gerk studies his feet for no and bear burgers, she slender and fit.
Friday will be those south of a moment, then shrugs. has been packing on the ■■We’re going to clean
Sand Lane/Madison Street. His honey contemplates pounds.
bashing his head with a With the next new see JenKins, 12A
2A » Sunday, January 13, 2013 » THE GLEANER
Deaths
Marion N. Harpole Polly A. Morris “Binky” Crooks Tomblinson Funeral Home Henderson Chapel is in
charge of arrangements.
Marion N. Harpole, 91, Henderson, died at 5:45 a.m. Polly A. Morris “Binky” Crooks, 66, Little Dixie, died
Naomi Turley Timmons
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at West River Health Campus in Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Jewish Memorial Hospital in
Evansville. Louisville. MADISONVILLE — Naomi Turley Timmons, 94, Madison-
She was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, She was a member of Dixie United Methodist Church ville, formerly of Slaughters, died at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Jan.
George S. Harpole, who died Nov. 24, 1998. for 45 years. 11, 2013, at Brighton Cornerstone Health Care Facility in
Survivors include one daughter, Kim Harpole Murphy She was preceded in death by her father, Russell P. Madisonville.
of Henderson; three sons, Keith Harpole of Henderson, Morris Jr. She was a member of Onton United Methodist Church
George Eddie Harpole of Evansville and Roger Harpole Survivors include her husband of 46 years, Dwight and the Onton Quilters Club.
of Palm Harbor, Fla.; grandchildren; great-grandchil- Crooks; her mother, Ruth Morris of Massachusetts; She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester
dren; nieces and nephews. one daughter, Kim Oberlander of Massachusetts; one Timmons, who died in 1994; and her parents, Walter and
Arrangements are pending at Rudy-Rowland Funeral son, Todd Crooks of Henderson; one sister, Nancy Rob- Rena Crowley Turley.
Home. ertson of Massachusetts; three brothers, Rick Morris, Survivors include nieces and nephews.
Craig Morris and Derek Morris, all of Massachusetts; Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Tomblinson Funer-
John Wesley King Jr.
six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. al Home Slaughters-Hanson Chapel. Pastor Marty Robert-
John Wesley King Jr., 58, Henderson, died at 11:06 p.m. Memorial services will be at noon Wednesday at Di- son will officiate. Burial will be in Slaughters Cemetery.
Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Methodist Hospital. xie United Methodist Church in Little Dixie. The Rev. Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. today and after 9
Arrangements are pending at Benton-Glunt Funeral Wayne Nichols will officiate. Burial will be in Union a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Home. Hill Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con-
Friends may call after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the tributions to New Salem Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 57,
Sharon Ruth Murch
church. Slaughters, KY 42456.
Sharon Ruth Murch, 58, Henderson, died at 5:18 a.m. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of con- Pallbearers will be James Herald, Randall Herald,
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at Methodist Hospital. tributions to Jewish Memorial Hospital, The Heart As- Larry Herald, Neal Turley, David Turley, Larry Ranes
Arrangements pending at Benton-Glunt Funeral Home. sociation or Dixie United Methodist Church. and Greg Ranes.
Lieber Street home City Commission to discuss
Funerals
Adam Miller destroyed by fire plans for Green River Road
Services for Adam Miller, 23, Dekoven, who died
Thursday, will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Whitsell Funeral Gleaner staff ly has 20-foot-wide pave-
Home in Sturgis. The Rev. Daniel Askew will officiate. ment with open ditches on
Burial will be in Caseyville Cemetery in Caseyville, Ky. Gleaner staff windows. Engineering plans for either side.
Friends may call after 10 a.m. today at the funeral However, inside there upgrading Green River The plan for the first
home. A one-story house at was fire throughout the Road are 90 percent com- phase — about a half-mile
413 Lieber St. was de- house, which was ap- plete, and the Henderson between Osage Drive and
Johnnie A. Ricks
stroyed by heavy fire proximately 900 square City Commission will re- Woodspoint Drive — is to
Services for Johnnie A. Ricks, 76, Lexington, formerly damage Saturday after- feet. view them when it meets make the road wider with
of Morganfield, who died Thursday, will be at 2 p.m. noon. The house was a “to- in a workshop at 5:30 p.m. curbs, gutters and side-
today at Whitsell Funeral Home in Morganfield. The The house was occu- tal loss,” Long said. The Tuesday evening. walks.
Rev. Dwight Jackson will officiate. Burial will be in Odd pied, but no one was home surrounding properties Palmer Engineering has The workshop is in the
Fellows Cemetery in Morganfield. at the time of the fire, said were not damaged. been working on the plans top-floor meeting room of
Friends may call after 11 a.m. today at the funeral home. Jerry Long, assistant chief Firefighters cleared the past several months in the Henderson Municipal
with Henderson Fire De- the scene shortly after conjunction with local in- Center. The only other
partment. Central Dis- 4 p.m., after having not put that involved city of- items to be discussed are
patch received a report of only to contend with fire ficials, local utilities and what priorities the com-
Brevities
a structure fire at 1:19 p.m. but also heavy rain. the state Transportation mission wants to focus on
When firefighters ar- The cause of the fire is Cabinet. The road current- during the next two years.
■■New Dawn ladies ■■Henderson City High rived at the Lieber Street under investigation, but
cancer support group, School Class of 1963 re- location, there were no it appears to be uninten-
meeting 6:30 p.m. Mon- union planning meeting, flames visible, he said, but tional, he said.
Lotteries
day, Cash Creek Baptist 5:30 p.m. Monday, The heavy smoke was coming The displaced family
Church, 19102 Kentucky Gathering Place. Anyone from the front and back was in contact with the
1078-South. Info: 860-2825. interested in helping is doors and many of the Red Cross for assistance. KENTUCKY Daily 4-evening: 8-0-0-6
■■Niagara Elementary welcome. Info: 826-5793. Pick 3-midday: 1–9–6 Daily 3-midday: 3-6-8
School’s site-based deci- ■■Jerusalem Masonic Pick 3-evening: 1–6–5 Daily 3-evening: 8-8-5
sion-making council will Lodge No. 9 business Planners to elect officers Pick 4-midday: 4–5–2–1 Lotto: 7-8-20-21-27-28
meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday meeting, 7 p.m. Monday, Pick 4-evening: 7–4–9–7 Lotto jackpot: $4.5 million
in the school media center. meal provided at 6 p.m. Cash Ball: 8–9–14–17 Cash 5: 20-28-34-36-39
Gleaner staff be presented at the meeting. Cash ball: 21 Quick draw: 2-3-5-6-8-10-11-
Kicker: 6–3–5–7–4 15-23-24-33-40-42-43-45-61-
The Planning Commis-
5 Card Cash: 5H-2D-QH-7H-8C 63-66-68-76
The Henderson City- sion also will consider a
Fire runs
County Planning Commis- request from Susan Cox ILLINOIS MEGA MILLIONS
sion will hold its annual Development LLC for- Pick 4-midday: 8-9-3-1 Jackpot: $62 million
Saturday County organizational meeting at mally to close the right Pick 4-evening: 3-2-6-1
POWERBALL
City ■■11:41 a.m. — Gas leak, 6 p.m. Monday at the Pub- of way for a never-de- Pick 3-midday: 3-0-4
10–14–21–23–47
■■1:19 p.m. — Structure First Street in Reed, Reed lic Safety Building over- veloped alley through Pick 3-evening: 6-4-2
Powerball: 7
fire, 413 Lieber St., re- VFD, returned at 12:23 looking the cloverleaf. the Dollar General Mar- My 3-midday: 6-0-5
Jackpot: $80 million
turned at 4:07 p.m. p.m. The main items on the ket property at 335 U.S. My 3-evening: 8-5-0
agenda are election of of- 41-South. Lucky Day Lotto: 5-14-20-24-27
ficers, presentation of the It also will consider a Lotto: 7-14-18-34-49-51 EDITOR’S NOTE: Lottery
Teen charged with threatening officials 2012 annual report, which request from Billy Ray, Extra shot: 21 players should check their
Lotto jackpot: $3.65 million
lists all of the office’s ac- Velma Daugherty and numbers at the outlet where
complishments the past David and Penny Wathen INDIANA they purchased the ticket or
The Associated Press of making the statements year, and approval of the to approve consolidat- Daily 4-midday: 4-1-5-6 at any official lottery outlet.
to a school counselor at the work program for 2013, ing two lots at 484 and
LEXINGTON — Court records Appalachian ChalleNGe which is the Planning 492 Newman-Stillhouse
show an eastern Kentucky Academy in Harlan Coun- Commission’s to-do list Road.
teen is facing charges after ty. The statement says the for the coming year. Planning Commission Bridal Winter Sale
accusations he threatened student threatened to Details of the annual approval is required be- Selections Continues
to kill two federal judges shoot those involved in report and work program cause the properties are
and a prosecutor. prosecuting his father on were not available, but will in a flood hazard area. Available 50-75%
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Local & Regional
Breathitt interchange in Evansville MPO plan
■■U.S. 60 bridge at Spottsville also to be replaced and Lloyd Expressway in- sewers, plus a bicycle path. begin this year.
terchange as a full clover- The project, projected to The next two phases
By John Martin derson, Ky., and replace- will be held 4 to 6 p.m. leaf will eliminate traffic cost $5.8 million, will be will widen Oak Grove to
Scripps Newspapers ment of the U.S. 60 bridge Wednesday in Room 301 lights at the intersection advertised for bids by the three lanes from Libbert
over the Green River at of the Civic Center. on the Lloyd. Construction state this spring. Road to Bell Road ($3 mil-
Reconstruction of the Spottsville, Ky. The full plan includes is scheduled for this year Oak Grove Road, a busy lion) and from Bell Road to
U.S. 41 and Lloyd Express- The Evansville MPO in- dozens of large and small and next. The listed cost corridor stretching from Indiana 261 ($5.5 million).
way interchange, along cludes Vanderburgh, War- road and bridge projects is $30.4 million. commercial development Replacing the bridge at
with projects on Oak Hill rick and Henderson coun- in the three counties. It is The second phase of in Evansville to residential Spottsville will cost $25
Road, Lincoln Avenue and ties. Numerous projects of available at www.evans Oak Hill Road reconstruc- areas in Warrick County, million, and a 2015 con-
Oak Grove Road highlight all sizes are outlined in the villempo.com. tion, from Pigeon Creek is to see three phases of struction date is sched-
the Evansville Metropolitan draft. Many of them are to “We invite the public to to Lynch Road, is to begin improvements over the uled. The plan’s other
Planning Organization’s be funded by a combina- come and ask questions later this year. Phase I was next few years. major Henderson County
new draft transportation tion of federal, state and about projects in the plan or completed in 2011. Phase I will be from project, on the Breathitt
improvement program. local sources. not in the plan,” said Craig Evansville City Engi- just east of I-164 to Libbert Parkway at Exit 68, is to
The plan for 2013-16 also An open house concern- Luebke, an Evansville MPO neer Pat Keepes said the Road, and it will widen begin this year. A new
includes improvements to ing the complete Evans- transportation planner. finished product will have Oak Grove to four lanes. northbound off-ramp and
a Breathitt Parkway inter- ville MPO transportation Previously announced a center turn lane, with The listed cost is $8.45 mil- a southbound on-ramp at
change just south of Hen- improvement program plans to remake the U.S. 41 new sidewalks and storm lion, and construction is to Kentucky 416 will be built.
Traveling Stars, partners go on
art exhibit blitz to raise money
for RiverBend Academy
displayed at
S. Middle ■■Annual event is Saturday
Gleaner staff
and Dancer: Kent Pres-
Gleaner staff “Stars: Ballroom ton dancing the Viennese
Blitz!,” an annual fund- waltz.
Beginning Monday, raiser for RiverBend Table seats, $125, in-
South Middle School will Academy, is coming up clude the pre-party bash,
be the temporary home to Saturday at the Hender- the show and after-party
a traveling exhibit that fea- son Fine Arts Center. celebration and can be
tures art made by students The stars and their purchased through River-
with disabilities. partners in this year’s Bend Academy by calling
“A Matter of Perspec- event are: 827-9420.
tive” is an annual juried ■■Star: Ethan Evans Show-only tickets are
exhibit that showcases art- and Dancer: Lisa Lewis, $15 and can be purchased
work crafted by students dancing the Lindy. through the Henderson
with disabilities across ■■Star: David White- Fine Arts Center box of-
Kentucky. This year’s ex- sides and Dancer: Sarah fice at 831-9800.
hibit features 28 pieces Sunshine through the fog Mike Lawrence/The GLeaner Zigler, dancing the rum- RiverBend Academy,
of artwork in a variety of ba. in The Soaper Building
styles and media, accord- ■■Star: Mary Fuller and in downtown Henderson,
ing to a news release. The morning sun shines through a layer of fog Saturday morning, on the Ohio river near Dia- Dancer: Bruce Hensley, is a nonprofit organiza-
The exhibit travels to mond island in henderson county. dancing the West Coast tion that seeks to serve all
schools, libraries, galler- swing. ages and all walks of life
ies and other public plac- ■■Star: Laura Kirtley by providing arts instruc-
es across the state. It can and Dancer: Ryan Linger- tion in the areas of music,
be viewed at South from felt, dancing the cha cha. performing arts, culinary
Briefs
Monday through Friday. ■■Star: Denise Clark and visual arts.
“A Matter of Perspec- and Dancer: Patrick In 2012, RiverBend
Forum follows up
tive” is sponsored by the and the next steps to be The charges are low Burkhalter, dancing the Academy has provided
State Organization on health issues taken will be presented at cost, and discounts are tango. approximately $23,000
Arts and Disability VSA Thursday’s update, which available for children 12 ■■Star: Brent Bridges in scholarships for art
Kentucky. VSA Kentucky, A follow-up to the com- will be held from 2 to 4 and younger, senior citi- and Dancer: Sadia Brinn instruction, which the
which is affiliated with munity health forum con- p.m. in Classrooms 1 and 2 zens and HCC students. dancing the mambo. “Stars: Ballroom Blitz!”
the John F. Kennedy for ducted in January 2012 at Methodist Hospital. The clinic offers clean- ■■Star: Kim Terry and event helps support.
the Arts program VSA, is will be held Thursday ings and sealants. Hours are Dancer: Teresa Sheets For more information,
HCC Dental Clinic
a statewide nonprofit orga- afternoon at Methodist 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, dancing the rumba. visit www.riverbendacad-
nization that provides art Hospital. accepting patients Wednesdays and Fridays. ■■Star: Diana Golday emyarts.org.
education and inclusion The three main prob- Call 831-9708 to sched-
programs for children and lems identified in the im- The Henderson Com- ule an appointment.
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opinion “Give light and the Visit thegleaner.com
people will find to view editorials, letters
their own way” to the editor and columnists
Community House could cause chaos with shutdown
kicks off 2013 You have to admire the raise the debt ceiling move in to quell the vio-
quirkiness of the ideas be- means sticking it to Presi- lence. Armed gangs would
ing put forward to solve dent Barack Obama and patrol election booths.
our fiscal mess, in lieu of not letting him spend more Nobody would resolve
with good news doing the real work of gov- money. disputes among states.
erning. ANN There are a few prob- Goodbye to flu vaccines
The most interesting McFEATTERS lems with this thesis: The and major road improve-
is the trillion dollar coin, debt ceiling refers to pay- ment projects.
which would be minted COLUMNIST ing for what Congress al- To avoid a government
out of pure platinum and ready has spent. The presi- shutdown if the debt ceil-
Many had a pretty bad stored by the Treasury De- China will keep lending dent of the United States ing is not raised, some
year in 2012 and wished it partment as an asset. Pre- money to us. Eventually, does not spend money; want the president to
past with a hearty, “Good sumably, we would all go we would all have to speak Congress does. invoke the 14th Amend-
riddance.” Many predict to our safety deposit boxes Mandarin, forget about the No Congress has ever ment and go ahead with
an even worse year in 2013. and pull out our platinum Internet and give them the voted against raising the borrowing. This undoubt-
Before we teeter on the dAvid jewelry and take off our West Coast. debt ceiling. The nation edly would invite another
edge of yet another fis- dixoN wedding rings and send Of real currency (ha would have no money to impeachment crisis.
cal cliff while our leaders them to Washington. (Just ha) in the House at least, pay its debts. No one would Some want Obama to
doodle their lines in the EDITOR sorting the real from the is the idea of refusing to lend to us. We would lose issue IOUs or scrip to
sand or we endure another fake would be quite a feat.) raise the debt ceiling and all financial respect. Soon government workers and
unfathomable act of vio- up before all the county The resulting coin shutting down the govern- we would be living in a ba- contractors, Social Secu-
lence fueled by hatred or government grown-ups to would be so gigantic it ment. This would cause nana republic without the rity recipients and hospi-
madness, let’s look on the present their plan to make would need a cavernous worldwide recession and bananas. tals and doctors treating
bright side of the new year. the county fairgrounds new government facil- financial instability but, Many believe Washing- the elderly.
At least close to home safer by installing new ity, which every legisla- no matter, those spend- ton wastes so much money When Treasury got
there’s been some good traffic control signs. tor would want in his/her thrift bureaucrats would the only way to stop it is enough money, scrip could
news stories to report, all “There are cars go- state. It would never get be taught a lesson. When to close it all down. That be redeemed for cash. The
in just the past week: ing every which way and built because that would their offices had no heat may sound appealing. But precedent is California,
■■The Henderson Coun- someone could get hurt,” take an act of Congress, or power and all activity it would mean chaos. which ran out of money
ty Detention Center was young Miss Fambrough and it’s clear Congress by government ceased — There would be no So- in 2009 and issued scrip
one of just three jails in explained to the court. doesn’t know how to act. inspecting food, watching cial Security checks, no until the legislature got
the state of Kentucky cho- The Scouts set a good Strangely, the White out for terrorists, keeping grants to researchers on its act together to permit
sen to run a new substance example in another way as House did not immedi- airplanes in the air, mak- the brink of new discov- redemption.
abuse program. well. In a move that might ately ridicule this idea. ing the big boys play fair eries, no air traffic con- One wonders how many
The state will pay the not occur to some adult Then there is the let’s- — they’d be sorry. trollers, no disaster relief, grocery stores and power
county to house 50 fe- citizens, they refused the make-friends-with-China This idea comes from no pay to soldiers or their companies would be sym-
male inmates who will go county’s offer to pay for policy. Since every dollar people who were elected families, no safety stan- pathetic to people clutch-
through a six-month pro- the new signs. Instead we spend that isn’t related to Congress apparently dards for hospital equip- ing handfuls of paper scrip
gram of drug abuse treat- they passed $200 along to to entitlement spending without ever taking Eco- ment or bioengineered waiting for Congress to au-
ment. The treatment pro- the county that they had such as Medicare or So- nomics 101 or learning new foods or air pollu- thorize its debts to be paid.
gram will also be funded raised to support their cial Security is borrowed what the debt ceiling ac- tion standards. If civil There is a more reason-
by the state. project. from China, the idea is to tually means. unrest broke out in cities, able solution. It’s called
The new program will ■■Speaking of good citi- become best buddies so They think failing to no Army reserves would compromise.
bolster the county jail’s fi- zens, you might have seen
nancial position, and more the story last week about
importantly might be the Army veteran and local
way some people get out Constable Jackie Williams’
of the vicious cycle of drug personal campaign to
abuse, crime and incarcer- make sure American flags
ation. are properly displayed and
“Hopefully it will help disposed of when they are
people, help get them back in disrepair.
on the right track,” said He’s seen it all during
County Judge-executive his travels around the area,
Hugh McCormick. “Not and a tattered flag or one
everybody sitting in a jail not properly displayed gets
today needs to be in a jail. his patriotic dander up.
Some of them need to be If you have a flag that’s
in substance abuse pro- seen better days and don’t
grams.” know how to dispose of it
It looks like a win-win. with the proper respect,
■■Trout fishing at Sandy give Williams a call at 831-
Lee Watkins Park? 0634. He’ll take care of it.
County officials said last “This is about our vet-
week that the Kentucky erans,” he said. “This is
Department of Fish and about our country. It’s
Wildlife is likely to include about our flag.”
our new park in a program ■■Local high school bas-
that stocks lakes with trout ketball fans are having a
every winter and opens good year so far and look-
them to fishing. ing forward to even better
It would be bonus to times ahead.
fishermen who have al- Going into Friday night
ready enjoyed the fishing games, the Henderson
at Sandy Lee and are look- County Colonels were
ing forward to the park re- 13-2 and the Lady Colo-
opening. Work on a new nels were 11-1. They’ve
handicapped accessible both beaten some good
lake is going on out there area teams along the way.
as well. Both teams play hard and
A devotee of farm pond with heart.
fishing, I’ve never fished On the girls side, Jeff
for trout. Would I need a Haile has been at the
fly rod? I might get so tan- coaching helm for 27 years
gled up in the line I’d need and is working his magic
to be rescued from myself. yet again. We’re lucky to
But as they say, “A bad have him. Education must be national security priority
day fishing is better than Boys coach Tyler Smith-
a good day at work.” hart, a former Colonel in
■■The same day the his second year as a head
good news for Sandy Lee coach and first year here, is President Barack is that we’ve had the big- tion. That is unacceptable.
Park was reported, Hen- getting the hometown fans Obama completed his na- gest economy in the world So here’s the thing. We
derson Fiscal Court had pumped up as well. tional security team last that can support this in- know what works. There
high praise for two young From good citizens to week, naming his choices credible armed force that are kids out there who are
members of our commu- good basketball, maybe for secretaries of state and we have. And if we start doing great, even from
nity for doing their best as 2013 won’t be so gloomy defense and the director of MARTiN falling behind economi- the most disadvantaged
citizens. after all. the CIA. But he forgot to SCHRAM cally, we will start falling backgrounds in the poor-
Brynna Phillips and announce one official who, behind from a national est neighborhoods, still
Lauren Fambrough, fifth- Contact David Dixon at 831- by his own words, will be COLUMNIST security perspective — producing outstanding
graders with Niagara Girl 8333 or ddixon@thegleaner. key to setting America’s there’s no doubt about it. results.”
Scout Troop 1279, showed com global security priorities. top 20 nations in math and And the single-most im- Obama went on to the
Namely, his secretary of science and test scores — portant determinant of need for “great teachers”
education. and jobs and contracts are how we do economically and measured progress.
It is a proposition the going overseas,” Yabraian is going to be the skills of The more he got into his
president signed on to began. “You’ve called edu- our workforce. And you’re education spiel, the fur-
two years ago. But it hasn’t cation a national priority. exactly right. We used to ther he got from the prop-
been discussed much since But do you think it is time be at the top of the heap osition he’d embraced: In
then. Not nearly enough, to label education funding when it came to math and a world made small by its
Editorial PagE in fact. a national security prior- science education; we are global economy, education
It was on Oct. 12, 2010, in ity?” now 21st and 25th, respec- must now be a national se-
an arena not usually asso- It was a question and tively, in science and math. curity priority.
DAVID DIXON
ciated with policysetting proposition Obama clearly We used to be No. 1 in the Hopefully, Obama will
EDITOR
that Obama was asked hadn’t anticipated. proportion of college grad- soon announce that his
to consider a new way of “I think it’s a national uates in the world. We’re excellent Education Sec-
looking at U.S. education security priority,” he be- now ranked around ninth. retary Arne Duncan will
policy priorities. The pres- gan; he had that furrowed- Other countries are mak- be staying for another four
CONTACT US ident was performing like brow look he gets when he ing huge investments. years.
Phone: [phone] the ringmaster in a one- knows it’s time to be think- “China is doubling, tri- Duncan is not one who
ring circus at a town hall ing on his feet. The more pling, quadrupling the seeks to solve our edu-
Fax: [phone]
webcast at The George he thought, the more he number of college gradu- cation problems by just
Washington University, warmed to the proposi- ates it is generating. It is throwing money at them.
OPINION POLICY just weeks before the mid- tion. putting huge resources But he knows the security
The Gleaner’s Opinion Page is an open forum for viewpoints — term election. “Look, there has never into it, because they un- of our coming generations
yours, theirs and ours. The newspaper encourages comments from Obama called on a been a nation on Earth that derstand that unless they depends upon us spending
its readers, either through letters or more lengthy citizen columns. young woman in the front lost its economic edge and want to build low-wage wisely, and sufficiently,
Letters must include the signature, address and phone number of
row, Francesca Yabraian maintained its military manufacturing plants for now.
the writer. Only signed, verifiable letters will be published. Ques-
from Texas, who is now edge,” Obama said. “And the duration of the 21st As Official Washington
tions about newspaper viewpoints or the Opinion Page in general
a career employee at the the reason we have the century, they’ve got to is just weeks away from
U.S. Department of Agri- most effective military on start moving up the value another of its self-inflicted
culture, and who that day earth, in the history of the chain in the economy. deadline crises about the
Your Turn asked a question you’d world, is first and foremost They’ve got to start pro- debt ceiling and budget
expect to hear at a think because we have unbeliev- ducing more engineers cutting, we must never
Do you have an opinion on these or other issues? Send
tank symposium, not a able men and women in and scientists. India un- again forget the reality
your letters to Editor, The Gleaner, Box 4, Henderson, KY
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Letters must be signed and include a phone number for “Mr. President, you have fices on our behalf every has long understood that. tioner brought to the presi-
verification. pointed out that U.S. stu- single day. And yet, here we are, los- dent’s attention, and ours,
dents have fallen from the “But the second reason ing that first-place posi- two years ago.
THE GLEANER « Sunday, January 13, 2013 « 5A
Perspective
Grain elevator blew its top, killing three men in January 1988
The sun was going
down Jan. 15, 1988, when
a dust explosion blew the
top off the Ellis Grain Co.
elevator on Fifth Street,
killing three men and in- frank
juring two others. boyett
It was one of the most
powerful explosions — if CoLUMNIsT
not the biggest — Hen-
derson has ever experi- months convalescing.
enced. Chunks of concrete Joseph E. Yates, 38,
weighing 100 pounds were was the other survivor;
tossed 75 yards or more, he was taken to the hos-
and large steel girders pital by private vehicle
were “curled around like almost immediately after
a noodle,” according to En- the blast, where he ini-
gineer Jerry Spencer, the tially was listed in criti-
first firefighter to reach the cal condition with facial
scene. and hand burns.
The 10-inch-thick, steel- Two the fatalities —
reinforced concrete shell Gary A. Gross, 28, and
around the top 110 feet of John Hughes, 40 — had
the 207-foot-tall elevator been working on the
was blasted to fragments. same level as Thomas,
It took a long time for but their bodies were
the dust to settle. found on the ground. The
It also took a long time other victim was Thomas
for the rescue to be com- A. Kortz, 24, who, like
pleted. The Henderson Yates, had been working
Fire Department was on at the base of the south
the scene within minutes, headhouse.
but Richard Thomas, who Coroner Don Cantley
had been working high up said the men were prob-
Mike Lawrence/The GLeaner
in the elevator when it tore ably killed almost instan-
itself apart, was stranded taneously by the concus- richard Thomas calls for help after the ellis Grain co. elevator explosion. Thomas somehow survived the blast but was strand-
120 feet off the ground sion of the explosion; if ed 120 feet in the air. he was finally rescued three and one-half hours later with the help of a borrowed crane, but spent 25 days
with a pelvis broken in five nothing else, they were hospitalized and nearly nine months convalescing.
places and third-degree certainly unconscious by
burns over 30 percent of the time they were buried state Occupational Safety equipment to fill the bins, to take action against the on Second Street, also be-
his body. under fallen concrete. and Health Compliance which were repaired and Rev. Eugene Remole of tween Adams and Alves,
Firefighters bravely A plaque in the eleva- Division, but they drew retained. The end result Mount Pleasant Baptist and the Louisville, Hen-
worked their way up the tor’s office said the facili- the same conclusions. was a facility that could Church for selling soft derson & St. Louis (often
crumbling structure to ty had gone 11 years with- The state agency issued contain 700,000 bushels drinks without a license called the Texas) was
him. Assistant Chief Lar- out a lost-time accident, two “serious” citations to instead of its original ca- during a church pic- at Third and Alvasia
ry Henshaw comforted but the fallout of the blast the company in the sum- pacity of about 1 million nic because it was clear streets.
Thomas and covered him raised multiple concerns mer of 1988. bushels. he had been doing it to
with his coat as night fell about the elevator, which The explosion drew re- The elevator once benefit the church, The 50 years ago
and rescuers tried to figure dated from 1955. gional and national atten- again began accepting Gleaner reported Jan. 10, A plan by the state De-
out how to get him down. A joint investigation by tion, not only for its dead- grain Sept. 26, 1989. But 1913. partment of Commerce for
Dressed only in his shirt- the state Fire Marshal’s ly force, but also because neither of the two sur- Two other men unaf- the re-use of Camp Breck-
sleeves, Henshaw worked Office and the Henderson it had come on the heels vivors of the blast were filiated with the church inridge met with general
for two hours in 35-degree Fire Department released of newly enacted federal there. Thomas became were not so lucky and approval from local offi-
weather. its findings April 4; inves- safety regulations. It a truck driver before re- were fined $25 each. cials interested in the top-
The fire department’s tigators had quickly ruled played a prominent role turning to work for Ow- ic, The Gleaner reported
aerial ladder truck out human error, and al- in congressional hear- ensboro Grain Co. — the 75 years ago Jan. 12, 1963.
reached only 85 feet high, most nearly as quickly ings about those regula- parent firm of Ellis Grain The L&N Railroad The plan called for
while a truck brought in surmised that it was mul- tions. — in 1991, where he still honored L.W. Rogers af- 25,000 acres to be used
from Evansville was only tiple explosions. A year after the blast works in Owensboro. ter he had spent nearly 39 for agriculture, about
100 feet tall. Hazex Con- The final conclusion a hearing was scheduled Yates continued to work years in the company’s 5,000 acres to be used for
struction Co. came to the was that a flash fire ig- in Owensboro because for awhile for Ellis Grain, service, The Gleaner re- industrial development,
rescue with a crane that nited by an overheated the firm was fighting but at the elevator near ported Jan. 16, 1938. mostly along U.S. 60, and
was being used to demol- bearing had started in the $980 fine the state Geneva. Rogers had been tick- another 5,000 acres be set
ish the old J.J. Newberry the north headhouse, had levied, but it was “I’ve still got scars on et agent here since 1900, aside for hunting and wild-
building downtown, but raced through connec- canceled after the state my hands, but it hasn’t when construction had life habitat. The question
even it was 10 feet short tions to the south head- agreed to a settlement in made a big change in my just begun on Union Sta- of whether the coal and oil
of Thomas, although that house, where it sparked a which the firm paid a fine life,” Yates said in a story tion, which opened in rights should be sold sepa-
was high enough that second explosion that in of $490 although not ad- published exactly a year 1902. At that time the rately was left unresolved.
firefighters could reach turn stirred up a massive mitting any liability. after the explosion. “I’ll L&N station was where No mention was made
the rescue basket it lifted. cloud of dust for the final Demolition began in never forget the pain and the old L&N freight of returning the land to
After three and one- cataclysmic explosion in mid-March of 1988. The the guys who got killed. warehouse is currently the farmers who original-
half hours a precarious the enclosed space at the grain firm spent nearly But you take one day at a located, between Adams ly owned it prior to World
high-angle rescue final- top of the south head- two years razing the time and you get on with and Alves streets. War II.
ly got Thomas, 33, back house. two headhouses, which your life.” There were also two
on the ground, where Separate investigations contained the machin- other railroad stations Frank Boyett can be reached
he spent 25 days in the were done by insurance ery for moving grain, 100 years ago in town back in 1900: at [email protected]
hospital and nearly nine investigators and the and installing exterior Court officials declined The Illinois Central was or 831-8342.
Today in history
Today is Sunday, Jan. Weaver was named sec- Pete Townshend was authoritarian Arab al- years in prison for mur- on New York’s Long Is-
13, the 13th day of 2013. retary of Housing and arrested in London on lies to satisfy frustrated dering Stephany Flores, a land.
There are 352 days left in Urban Development suspicion of possess- desires for democracy in young woman he’d met at
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Today’s highlight in Johnson; Weaver became children. (Townshend his harshest criticism freed some of its most “Life is a dream for the
history: the first black Cabinet said he was only doing for Iran, branding it “the famous political prison- wise, a game for the fool,
On Jan. 13, 2012, the member. research for an autobi- world’s leading state- ers, sparking jubilation a comedy for the rich, a
Italian luxury liner Costa In 1978, former Vice ography dealing with sponsor of terror.” among their supporters. tragedy for the poor.”
Concordia ran aground President Hubert H. his own suspected child- One year ago: A Pe- Veteran TV newsman — Sholom aleichem,
off the Tuscan island of Humphrey died in Wa- hood sexual abuse; he ruvian court sentenced Richard Threlkeld, 74, Russian author-humorist
Giglio and flipped onto verly, Minn., at age 66. was eventually cleared Joran van der Sloot to 28 was killed in a car crash (1859-1916).
its side; 32 people were In 1982, an Air Florida of possessing porno-
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DiD you know?
Nation &World
By 1944, the average time to build a merchant
fleet Liberty ship was 42 days.
Source: www.nps.gov
Reddit
Across the nation
co-founder district of columbia Members from across
the country participated
Treasury: $1 trillion
in 22 projects throughout
Swartz, 26, coin likely illegal the District of Columbia on
Friday in honor of their 22
WASHINGTON — Forget founders.
kills self about the government They will hold a rededi-
minting a $1 trillion coin to cation luncheon and gala
solve its debt-limit crisis. on Saturday that will be
By Verena Dobnik Treasury Department emceed by actors Tim Reid
Associated Press spokesman Anthony Coley and Daphne Maxwell Reid.
said Saturday neither his The gala will honor mem-
NEW YORK — A co-founder department nor the Fed- bers, organizations and in-
of Reddit and activist who eral Reserve believes the dividuals who represent the
fought to make online con- law can or should be used sorority’s mantra, including
tent free to the public has to produce such a coin to the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Joh-
been found dead, authori- avoid a coming battle with netta B. Cole, the director
ties confirmed Saturday, Congress over government of the National Museum of
prompting an outpouring borrowing. African Art; comedian Bill
of grief from prominent Some of President Cosby and his wife, Camille;
voices on the intersection Barack Obama’s liberal former U.N. Ambassador
of free speech and the Web. allies have been promoting Andrew Young; syndicated
Aaron Swartz, 26, associated press the coin strategy. radio host Tom Joyner; and
hanged himself in his Urooj Khan (center) holds a ceremonial check in chicago for $1 million as winner of an illinois The government has U.S. Surgeon General Re-
Brooklyn apartment instant lottery game. at left, is Khan’s wife, shabana ansari. Khan, 46, who owned several dry- reached its $16.4 trillion gina Benjamin.
weeks before he was to go cleaning operations and some real estate, died just days before he was to collect his winnings. borrowing limit. By late The festivities culminate
on trial on accusations he February or early March, on Sunday, the sorority’s ac-
stole millions of journal Family saga hits spotlight Treasury will run out of tual centennial.
articles from an electron- ways to cover debts and
california
ic archive in an attempt to could begin defaulting on
make them freely avail- government loans. Early freezes will
able. If convicted, he faced in lottery winner’s death White House spokes-
shock state senses
decades in prison and a man Jay Carney says Con-
fortune in fines. gress has two options at its
He was pronounced dead disposal: either pay the tab SAN DIEGO — Californians
Friday evening at home in ■■Chicago man death. Then his ex-wife husband’s death,” said Al- for its spending or send the are bundling up with
Brooklyn’s Crown Heights came forward, announc- Haroon Husain, who is rep- nation into default, which sweaters and gloves and
neighborhood, said a spokes- was poisoned ing in anguish she hadn’t resenting Ansari in the case would have serious eco- stocking up on firewood as
woman for New York’s chief seen her daughter in more that will divide up Khan’s es- nomic consequences. they endure the latest win-
medical examiner. with cyanide than a decade and hadn’t tate, including the $425,000 ter storm that has brought
Delta Sigma Theta
Swartz was “an ex- even known she was still in lottery winnings. very unseasonable freez-
traordinary hacker and By Jason Keyser in the U.S. Ansari and other rela- celebrates 100 years ing temperatures.
activist,” the Electronic Associated Press The slowly emerging tives have denied any role The National Weath-
Frontier Foundation, an family back story and in his death and expressed WASHINGTON — The nation’s er Service said records
international nonprofit CHICAGO — In the week ever-expanding cast of a desire to learn the truth. capital is swarming with could fall as the cold snap
digital rights group based since news surfaced a Chi- characters have added lay- Authorities remain women wearing crimson stretches into the weekend.
in California wrote in a cago man was poisoned to ers of intrigue to a baffling tight-lipped about who and cream, as one of the “It’s only going to get
tribute on its home page. death with cyanide just be- case in which authorities they may suspect. In the country’s largest African- colder,” NWS weather
He “did more than al- fore he was to collect a lot- have revealed little and coming weeks, they plan American sororities gath- specialist Bonnie Bartling
most anyone to make the tery payout, surprising de- everyone is wondering: to exhume the 46-year-old ers to celebrate 100 years of said. “Early Sunday, you’re
Internet a thriving ecosys- tails about his convoluted Who did it? Indian immigrant’s body, sisterhood. looking at possibly mid-30s
tem for open knowledge, family saga have trickled The victim’s relatives which might allow investi- More than 12,000 mem- in downtown Los Ange-
and to keep it that way,” out daily. hint at family squabbles. gators to determine exactly bers of Delta Sigma Theta les.” Long Beach could see
the tribute said. Urooj Khan’s widow and And Khan’s wife, Sha- how he was poisoned and Sorority Inc. are convening temps dip into the low 30s,
Swartz was a prodigy siblings fought for months bana Ansari, has endured to gather more evidence for to mark the organization’s she said.
who as a teenager helped over the businessman’s es- clutches of reporters out- any possible trial. centennial this weekend Freeze warnings were
create RSS, a family of tate, including the lottery side the family home and Khan seemed to be with activities including issued for Sunday morn-
Web feed formats used to check. His father-in-law business, asking even living the American community service, a re- ing across wide swaths
gather updates from blogs, owed tens of thousands of whether it was a lamb dream. He had come to dedication and an awards of the L.A. Basin and San
news headlines, audio and dollars in taxes. or beef curry dinner she the U.S. from his home ceremony. Diego County. Residents
video. He cofounded the His 17-year-old daugh- made for Khan on the in Hyderabad, India, in “We want people to un- were being urged to cover
social news website Red- ter from a previous mar- night he died. 1989, setting up several derstand that we are still outdoor plants and bring
dit and the group Demand riage had moved out of “She’s just as curious as dry-cleaning businesses called to serve,” said Gwen- pets inside.
Progress, which fights In- her stepmom’s home and anyone else to get to the and buying into some dolyn Boyd, chair of the so-
ternet censorship. into his sister’s after his bottom of what caused her real-estate investments. rority’s centennial events. Wire services
Offensive
Across the world
syria egypt on militants
Syrian troops secure Protesters, security
strategic suburb forces hit by birdshot heats up
DAMASCUS — Syrian CAIRO — A dozen masked
troops advanced in a stra- attackers fired birdshot in Mali
tegic suburb of Damascus late Saturday at protesters
and bombarded other who have camped outside
areas around the capi- Egypt’s presidential pal- By Rukmini Callimachi
tal Saturday in a push to ace in Cairo for the past and Baba Ahmed
secure President Bashar month, wounding several Associated Press
Assad’s seat of power as along with security forces
rebels make gains in the standing watch nearby, BAMAKO, Mali — The battle
north. witnesses said. It was the to retake Mali’s north
A government official latest in a series of shoot- from the al-Qaida-linked
said regime forces had ings of protesters in Egypt. groups controlling it began
taken much of Daraya, an Paramedic Mohammed in earnest Saturday, after
area on the edge of a major Sultan put the total num- hundreds of French forces
military air base just south ber of wounded in the at- deployed to the country
of the capital, after nearly tack at 15, including nine and began aerial bombard-
two months of heavy fight- members of the security ments to drive back the
ing anti-regime activists forces and six protesters. Islamic extremists.
say has killed dozens of At the same time, na-
Newspaper’s gifts to
people and uprooted tens associated press tions in West Africa au-
of thousands more from Mubarak questioned a man identified as French security agent denis allex pleads for his release, in a 2010 video thorized the immediate
their homes. posted on an islamic militant website, from the somali militant group al-shabaab who have deployment of troops to
The announcement CAIRO — An Egyptian been holding him for nearly a year. Mali, fast-forwarding a
came a day after rebels and prosecutor placed a new military intervention that
Islamic militants seeking detention order on Hosni Raid to free French hostage was not due to start until
to topple Assad took full Mubarak on Saturday after September.
control of the northwest- the ousted ex-president was The decision to be-
ern Taftanaz air base in questioned over valuable gin the military opera-
in Somalia results in chaos
a significant blow to the gifts he allegedly received tion was taken after the
military. from the country’s top fighters, who seized the
newspaper as a show of loy- northern half of Mali nine
israel
alty while he was in power, By Jamey Keaten but stepped up domestic tionwide broadcast. months ago, decided ear-
Roads blocked to a security official said. and Abdi Guled counterterror measures to French Defense Min- lier this week to push even
The public funds pros- Associated Press protect public places and ister Jean-Yves Le Drian farther south to the town
Palestinian tent site
ecutor ordered Mubarak to transportation networks. said Allex was killed by of Konna, coming within
be held for 15 days pending MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Confusion surrounded his captors and one French 30 miles of Mopti, the first
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime investigation, the official raid to free a French intel- early reports of the failed soldier was missing and town held by the govern-
Minister Benjamin Netan- said. The former presi- ligence agent held captive rescue of the French agent, one dead, along with 17 ment and a major base for
yahu closed roads leading dent already is serving a in Somalia for three years known by his code-name Islamists. The Defense the Malian military.
to a strategic West Bank life sentence after being went horribly wrong, leav- Denis Allex. He was cap- Ministry earlier said two Many believe if Mopti
site Saturday night in convicted of failing to stop ing 17 Islamists and at least tured in Somalia on July commandos were killed were to fall, the Islamists
preparation to evacuate killings of protesters dur- one French commando 14, 2009 — Bastille Day — in the fighting in the So- potentially could seize
Palestinians who pitched ing the 2011 uprising that dead in a mud-caked farm- and last seen in a video re- mali town of Bulomarer, a the rest of the country,
tents there to protest plans overthrew him. But he is ing town deep in militant leased in October pleading small farming community dramatically raising the
to build a Jewish housing scheduled to hear a ruling territory. for the French president to under Islamist control for stakes.
project. on his appeal today, and In the chaotic after- help him. four years. The potential outcome
Palestinian activists the detention order could math of the firefight, the But it was clear a dan- “It was an extremely was “a terrorist state at
erected tents in the area prevent him from walking hostage’s fate was unclear gerous raid the French dangerous mission,” Le the doorstep of France
known as E-1 on Friday free pending retrial were Saturday. The Islamists defense minister said was Drian said. “Everything and Europe,” French
saying they want to estab- the appellate court to rule denied French claims he planned with the utmost of indicates Denis Allex was Defense Minister
lish a village there. in his favor. was killed and said they care had encountered se- killed.” Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
Netanyahu’s office said The security official had a new prisoner — a rious problems from the The militant Islamist France scrambled
Saturday night that the said Mubarak was ques- wounded French soldier. moment the helicopters group al-Shabab, which Mirage fighter jets from a
state is petitioning the Su- tioned over an estimated The botched rescue in swooped in. held Allex for more than base in neighboring Chad,
preme Court to rescind an $1 million worth of watch- East Africa came the same “This operation could three years, said Saturday as well as combat helicop-
earlier injunction block- es, pens, bags, belts and day French airstrikes in not be achieved despite he remained alive and in ters beginning the aerial
ing the evacuation. In the jewelry he reportedly re- the West African nation the sacrifice of two of our its custody, as was a new assault on Friday.
meantime, he ordered the ceived from the official Al of Mali targeted resurgent soldiers and doubtless the captive — a French com- It also has sent in
area declared a closed Ahram newspaper. rebel Islamists. French murder of our hostage,” mando wounded in fight- hundreds of troops to the
military zone and shut off officials said the two op- French President Francois ing. There are also seven front line, as well as to
access. Wire services erations were unrelated, Hollande said in a grim na- French hostages in Mali. secure the capital.
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special events 411 S.E. Riverside Drive, Evansville, www.emuseum.org. Louisville
eagle Watch Weekends: Today at Kentucky Dam Village State Galleries tHe KentUcKY centeR
Resort Park, 800-325-0146; Jan. 26-27, Lake Barkley State Resort “56th Mid-states art competition”: Through March 3.
Broadway Series:
Park, 800-325-1708; Feb. 2-3, Kenlake State Resort Park, 800-325- “eric Forstmann still life”: Through March 3, Main Gallery.
“Flashdance”: This Tuesday through Jan. 20.
0143. Details: www.parks.ky.gov. “Mary Dannettell’s evansville”: collection of Evansville
“Million Dollar Quartet”: Feb. 12-17.
artifacts, through March 10.
“lincoln and the Methodists”: Lecture by northern Kentucky Tickets: www.broadwayacross america.com.
attorney and historian Paul Whalen, 6:30 p.m. this Tuesday, First cHilDRen’s MUseUM oF evansville
United Methodist Church, 338 Third St. Public invited. 22 S.E. Fifth St., Evansville Nashville
“stars: Ballroom Blitz!”: Benefit for RiverBend Academy, this Museum hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. tennessee peRFoRMinG aRts centeR
Saturday, Henderson Fine Arts Center. Table seats, $125, include Sunday. Admission: $7 for 18 months and older. Broadway Series:
the pre-party bash, the show and after-party celebration, through tHeateR “catch Me if You can”: Jan. 22-27.
RiverBend Academy, 827-9420. Show-only tickets, $15, Henderson Evansville “traces”: Feb. 19-24.
Fine Arts Center box office, 831-9800. Stars Ballroom Blitz Holiday “cathy Rigby in peter pan”: March 1-3.
Package, $300, includes six weeks of ballroom dance lessons tHe centRe “american idiot”: March 5-7.
(valued at $94) and two tickets to the 2013 “Stars: Ballroom Blitz” “West side story”: 7 p.m. today. “Flashdance”: March 19-24.
(valued at $125 each). “charlotte’s Web”: 9 a.m. and noon Jan. 25. “Rock of ages”: April 19-20.
Harlem Globetrotters: 7 p.m. Jan. 22, Ford Center, downtown “a chorus line”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20. “Disney’s the lion King”: May 7-June 2.
Evansville. “Mark twain tonight”: 7:30 p.m. April 5. Tickets: www.tpac.com.
Tickets:www.smgevansville.com.
Kentucky Reptile expo: 10 a.m. Jan. 26, The Centre, downtown MUsic
Evansville. UniveRsitY oF evansville tHeatRe Evansville
Mid america Motorcycle expo: 10 a.m. Jan. 26-27, The Centre, “the Heidi chronicles”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15-16, Feb. 21-23; 2 p.m.
FoRD centeR
downtown Evansville. Feb. 17 and Feb. 24.
“Romeo and Juliet”: 7:30 p.m. April 12-13, April 18-20; 2 p.m. April luke Bryan: “Dirt Road Diaries Tour,” this Thursday.
Young artist competition: Presented by Evansville 14 and April 21. Winter Jam: Featuring TobyMac, Jan. 31.
Philharmonic Orchestra, 1 p.m. Jan. 22, The Victory Theatre, Tickets: 812-488-2031. Box office: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. alan Jackson: Feb. 8, with special guests Gloriana and Greg
downtown Evansville. For grades 6-12. Cash prizes: $1,000, $600 Bates.
and $300. Application deadline: Jan. 22. Information: UniveRsitY oF soUtHeRn inDiana tHeatRe Kid Rock: April 1.
812-425-5050, ext. 316. “twilight — los angeles 1992”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22-23, Feb. Brit Floyd: “The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show,” April 19.
“Meet John Henry”: Black History Month program and Southern- 26-March 1; 2 p.m. Feb. 24. Jason aldean: “2013 Night Train Tour” with Jake Owen and
style meal hosted by Henderson County Public Library, 1:30 p.m. “avenue Q”: 7:30 p.m. April 12-13, April 16-20; 2 p.m. April 14. Thomas Rhett, April 25.
Feb. 2, Presbyterian Church of Henderson, 100 S. Main St. across Tickets: 812-465-1668. Tickets: Ford Center Ticket Office, ticketmaster.com or 800-
from library. Registration: www.hcpl.org or 826-3712. 745-3000.
Owensboro
“the Really Big ‘Game’ show”: 7 p.m. Feb. 9, The Centre, tHe centRe
downtown Evansville. RiveRpaRK centeR Rodney carrington: “Laughter’s Good” Tour, 8 p.m. Feb. 16.
“Kentucky crafted — the Market”: March 2-3, Lexington Broadway Series: Jim Gaffigan: “The White Bread” Tour, 7 p.m. March 29.
Convention Center. Tickets on sale: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/ “shrek the Musical”: Jan. 28. Daughtry/3 Doors Down: 7 p.m. March 4.
KentuckyArt/2013Market.htm. “the Rat pack is Back”: March 8. casting crowns: “The Acoustic Sessions Live,” 7 p.m. April 11.
“elvis lives”: March 25.
Downtown Henderson project annual awards Breakfast:
Tickets: www.riverparkcenter.org or 270-687-2787.
7:15-9 a.m. Feb. 22, First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. See Calendar, 8a
Reservations/information: DHP office, 827-0016 or email beth@
downtownhenderson.org. Nominations for Heart of Henderson,
Volunteer of the Year and Design & Preservation Awards accepted
through Feb. 1. Application forms: 131 N. Main St.
“shades of Red”: Women’s Heart Health Awareness event, Feb.
22, Henderson County Expo Center.
HenDeRson Fine aRts centeR
Box office: 831-9800.
HenDeRson aRea aRts alliance
“shrek the Musical”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10.
ladysmith Black Mambazo: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19.
Jack Hanna’s “into the Wild live!”: 7:30 p.m. April 12.
GleMa MaHR centeR
Madisonville
Box office: 270-821-2787
orchestra Kentucky “Blood, sweat, tears, earth, Wind,
Fire ...
& a little chicago”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1.
Darryl van lee in Rubycat lawson’s Roadhouse lounge”:
7:30 p.m. Feb. 7.
allen vizzutti: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19.
“Monty python’s spamalot”: 7:30 p.m. March 7.
the Russian national Ballet presents “swan lake”: 7:30
p.m. March 12.
the Depue Brothers Band: 7:30 p.m. March 21.
euclid Quartet: 7:30 p.m. April 15.
the Berenstain Bears live! in “Family Matters”: 7 p.m.
April 16.
“an evening With Gary puckett & the Union Gap”: 7:30
p.m. April 20.
exHiBits
RotUnDa GalleRY
“Journey into nature”: Digital photography exhibit, through Feb.
4. Photographers: Allen Campbell, Lowery Igleheart Keach, Emily
Mabee, Alan Mayo, April Robinson, Betty Smithhart, Gene Stinson,
T.J. Byrd, Gerlad McDowel, Al Perry, Rita Kent, Brent Michael, Lisa
Ryan-Hutton, Stephen Chandler. Henderson County Public Library,
101 S. Main St., 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday-Saturday; 1:30-5 p.m. Sunday.
“the coming of spring”: OVAL members invitational, Feb.
18-April 4.
“a Fresh perspective”: Henderson Society of Art/OVAL exhibit,
April 16-June 1.
“Rebecca Goodman & Friends”: June 15-Sept. 15.
“Wildlife photography competition”: Sept. 25-Jan. 3.
Location: Henderson County Public Library. Information: jule@
ohiovalleyart.org, 860-1930 or www.ohiovalleyart.org.
GalleRY @ tHe BanK oF HenDeRson
“stitched art”: Six area fabric artists, Jan. 17-April 12.
“Wildlife art”: Work of DeVere Burt, Ann Giese, Mary Lou Holt,
John Agnew, Debbie Lentz, Linda Bittner, Diane Wunderlich, April
18-June 3.
“Rodenberg times two”: David and Barbara Rodenberg, June
14-Aug. 30.
“christmas card competition & exhibit”: Oct. 15-Jan. 15, 2014.
Location: 201 N. Main St. Information: [email protected], 860-
1930 or www.ohiovalleyart.org.
FiRst MetHoDist cHURcH
“art of Well Being”: Open Invitational, Feb. 24-March.
Location: 338 Third St. Information: 827-9831.
HenDeRson Fine aRt centeR GalleRies
“the art of Recycling”: Fine art created from recycled materials,
presented by Ohio Valley Art League, Oct. 9-Nov. 21.
“Winter Wonderland iv”: Presented by OVAL, Nov. 25-Feb. 1,
2014.
aUDUBon state paRK
natURe, otHeR
owl prowls: 3:30 p.m.-dusk Jan. 20; 4 p.m.-dusk Feb. 3, Feb. 17.
Meeting spot: main boat ramp/information station, Bluegrass Fish
and Wildlife Area in Warrick County.
“the Great Depression’s impact on tri-state life”: Program
by local historian Harold Morgan, 1 p.m. this Saturday.
“Walk on the Wild side”: Nature programs for ages 3-5, 10 a.m.
Bird Observation Center. Jan. 25: “Groundhog Day Dilemma”. Cost:
$2.
“Honeybees — a sweet success”: Program by Paul and Betsy
Stone of Stone Hill Honey Bee Farm, 10 a.m.-noon Jan. 26.
Friends of audubon annual luncheon: Noon Jan. 28.
Information: Julie McDonald at 826-2247 or juliea.mcdonald@
ky.gov.
visUal aRts
adult artists Retreat: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. this Friday and Feb. 15,
March 15, April 12, May 1. Bring supplies. Potluck lunch. Speakers
and noon program vary monthly.
“audubon Museum, traveling exhibit”: First in 75th
anniversary exhibit series, opens Jan. 28 at Friends of Library
Annual Luncheon, closes Feb. 10.
tiny tot’s art, “little Rembrandts”: 10:30-11:30 a.m., first
Friday of the month. Preregistration required. Feb. 1: “Hearts for
Me & You;” March 1: “Funny Bunnies.”
audubon adult art series:“Basic Design” taught by Marka
Kroeger, Feb. 16 and Feb. 23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $40.
Contact: Kim McGrew-Liggett at 827-1893 or [email protected].
MUseUMs
evansville MUseUM oF aRts, HistoRY anD science
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CAlendAr and open to everyone. Covers: Basic estate
planning — terminology, why you need an Recovery groups
from 7A
estate plan, what materials you need to
get together, the components of the plan, aLCoHoLiCS anonyMouS Happy Hour for people needing help or
“Scooby Doo Live Musical Mysteries”: 6:30 wills, power of attorney, and long term care Sunday through Saturday: information.
p.m. April 17. insurance, Medicaid and advanced directives. weaVerton group 12:30-1:30 p.m., women only,
CaSino aztar HooSierS Lounge Registration: Extension office, 826-8387. 401-I Hoffman Drive open discussion. No smoking. aL-anon
Sunday: 8 a.m., 10 a.m. 7 p.m., Al-Anon helps family members
Blame the radio: 7-10:30 p.m. this Tuesday- winter Sunday Lesson Series: The Dance open discussion. MiraCLeS on MCKinLey of alcoholics.
Wednesday. Hall, 1401 Powell St. 2 p.m. today, Basic Waltz Monday: noon, open Monday, wednesday, United Methodist Church, 213
Jimmy Church Band: 8 p.m. this Friday- Class taught by Randy and Kathy Osburn; 3:30 discussion; 5:30 p.m., closed Saturday: 7-8 p.m., men S. Morgan St., Morganfield
Saturday. p.m. today, West Coast Swing Class taught discussion. and women, speaker/open- Open to all. Information: 270-
Velair 7: 7-10:30 p.m. Jan. 22-23. by Bruce Hensley. Cost: $5 each; no partner tuesday: noon, 5:30 p.m., open discussion. 389-1511, 270-952-1819, 270-
two-tone express: 8 p.m. Jan. 25-26. required. Information: 577-9807 or www. discussion. 952-4113 or 270-389-0649.
the Marlinaires: 7-10:30 p.m. Jan. 29-30. thedancehall.org. wednesday: noon, open- aL-anon thursday: 8 p.m.
Midnight Special: 8 p.m. Feb. 1-2. HenDerSon County puBLiC LiBrary discussion; 5:30 p.m., closed wednesday: 7 p.m.,
Stompbox trio: 7-10 p.m. Feb. 5-6. discussion, Big Book. 401-I Hoffman Drive, open narCotiCS anonyMouS
“Beginner Bridge”: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays
Information: www.casinoaztar.com. thursday: noon, open discussion, no smoking.
and Thursday starting this Tuesday for eight a Step ForwarD
discussion; 5:30 p.m., open thursday: 7 p.m., First Chris-
eVanSViLLe pHiLHarMoniC weeks. Fee: $20. discussion. tian Church, 830 S. Green St., Zion United Church of Christ,
Tickets: Victory Theatre box office, 812-425- Information and sign-up: 826-3712 or www. Friday: noon, open discussion; open discussion, no smoking. 437 First St.
5050 or online at www.evansvillephilharmonic. hcpl.org/classes. 6:30 p.m., speaker/open. Sunday: 4 p.m., open.
org. Saturday: 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 7 union County aa groupS Monday: 7 p.m. “Monday Nite
HenDerSon CoMMunity CoLLege
Performances at Victory Theatre unless noted. p.m., open discussion. Sunday: 7 p.m., St. Agnes Raw,” literature study.
“Mostly Mozart — a night in Vienna”: 7 adult Learning C enter, Sullivan Parish Hall, 504 Mulberry St., tuesday: 7 p.m., open.
p.m. this Saturday. technology Center, free enrichment classes FounDerS group open discussion. Information: thursday: 7 p.m., open.
“Mancini Magic”: 7 p.m. Feb. 2; 2 p.m. Feb. 3. in math, reading and English for students First Christian Church, 830 S. Joe at 270-822-4914 or Bubba at Saturday: 2 p.m., open.
“Beethoven’s King & emperors”: 7 p.m. needing to pass the GED test or brush up Green St. 270-748-3545.
Feb. 16. for college. New student orientation: Every tuesday: 6 p.m., no smoking. Monday: 7 p.m., United Meth- warM
“the orient express”: 7 p.m. March 16. Monday at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. odist Church, 213 S. Morgan St., 56 N. McKinley St. information:
eykamp String Quartet: 7:30 p.m. March 19, Learning center hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday DiSCoVery group Morganfield, Big Book, open 826-0036.
Wheeler Concert Hall, University of Evansville. and Wednesday and 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and First Christian Church, 830 S. discussion. Information: Leo at Sunday: 12:30 p.m., women
Thursday. Information: 831-9648. Green St. 270-952-8494 or 270-389-0649, only; 6 p.m., open discussion.
thursday: 8 p.m., no smoking. Danny at 270-822-5514 or 270- tuesday: 12:30 p.m., women
Owensboro riVerBenD aCaDeMy, SCHooL oF ViSuaL anD
952-4244. only; 6 p.m., open discussion.
perForMing artS proMiSeS group
owenSBoro SyMpHony orCHeStra tuesday: 7 p.m., Sturgis First
Tickets: RiverPark Center box office, 270-687- 145 N. Main St. First United Methodist Church Presbyterian Church, Ninth and CryStaL MetH anonyMouS
27287 or online at theoso.com. Classes in voice, Tiny Notes, dancing, 338 Third St., no smoking. Kelsey streets, open discussion. 1504 Loeb St.
“Mountain Magic”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23. acting, visual arts and culinary arts. Private Information: WARM, 826-0036. Information: Bill at 944-806- information: 577-5108
“Magic Beatles”: 7:30 p.m. March 23. lessons and group lessons available in voice, tuesday and thursday: 6-7 7076 or 270-952-8062, Luke at Monday: 6-7 p.m.
“romantic Magic”: 7:30 p.m. April 20. violin, fiddle, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, p.m., open discussion. 270-997-0107. CeLeBrate reCoVery
bass guitar, double bass, keyboard, piano thursday: 7 p.m., United
reSiDing in reCoVery/aa 985 Bend Gate Road
Support groupS and music theory. Methodist Church, 213 S.
38 N. McKinley St. Information: 826-3593.
Healing Journey Bereave ment Support For more information or to register for Morgan St., Big Book Study,
Information: 826-0640. Monday: 5 p.m., Fellowship.
group: 12-week program, meets Tuesdays classes, visit www.riverbendacademyarts. open discussion. Information:
Sunday: 2 p.m., WARM Monday groups at 5:30 p.m.:
from 6-7:30 p.m., St. Anthony’s Hospice. org or call 827-9420. Leo at 270-952-8494 or 270-389-
Residences Community Welcome Newcomers
Refreshments provided, open to public, space 0649, Bill at 270-952-2078, Clara
is limited and preregistration is required. yMCa Building, open discussion, men at 270-389-1511. Hurts of Life/Addictions
Registration/information: 826-2326. group exercise class schedule (classes are and women are welcome. Friday and Saturday: 7 Welcome Home Veterans and
free with Y member ship): p.m., UC Senior Center, 225 N. Families
Divorce recovery: For adults and children, today: RIPPED, 2 p.m. warM Richards Lane, Step Study, open Codependency/Family
6-8 p.m. Mondays, Henderson General Baptist Monday: RIPPED, 5:35 a.m.; Reebok Cycle, 8:05 Women’s Addiction Recovery discussion. Information: Leo at The Landing Alateen/girls
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Screen Test
‘Promised Land’ doesn’t dig deep enough
By Christy Lemire that some cute, exciting
Review
Associated Press outsider will waltz in and
woo her. The actress, and
“Promised Land” of- Damon, collaborating the character, deserve
fers an experience that’s with Van Sant for the better. Similarly, Sue
alternately amusing and third time as both screen- enjoys a brief flirtation
frustrating, full of im- writer and actor (follow- with the sarcastic conve-
passioned earnestness as ing “Gerry” and the Os- nience store owner (Titus
well as saggy sections. car-winning “Good Will Welliver) whose charac-
Director Gus Van Sant Hunting”), stars as Steve ter is underdeveloped and
has the challenging task of Butler, a salesman travel- yet so briefly intriguing,
taking the divisive, high- ing the country on behalf you’d like to know more
tech practice of fracking of a bland behemoth of an about him. All of this feels
and trying to make it not energy corporation. half-heartedly wedged-in.
just human but cinematic. Having grown up on Steve and Dustin ob-
Working from a script by an Iowa farm himself and viously function as two
co-stars Matt Damon and seen how an economic sides of the same coin,
John Krasinski, based on downturn can devastate but their confrontations
a story by Dave Eggers, he a small town, Steve is a don’t crackle the way
succeeds in fits and starts. likable everyman who they should because ev-
The impoverished seems genuinely invested eryone involved is just so
small town that’s the tale’s in what he’s selling. But darn nice. But there is an
setting, a place in need of he’s also a pragmatist, as appealing gray area sug-
the kind of economic re- evidenced by the play- gested in Damon’s charac-
juvenation that extracting fully cynical give-and- ASSoCiATED PRESS ter. For a while, we’re not
natural gas could provide, take he enjoys with his Matt Damon stars as Steve Butler in Gus Van Sant’s contemporary drama, “Promised Land,” a quite sure whether he’s a
is full of folksy folks partner, Sue, played by Focus Features release. true believer or an oppor-
whose interactions with a dry, sharp Frances Mc- tunistic climber — that is,
the main characters don’t Dormand. ing community of McKin- methods in increasingly rie DeWitt co-stars as a until some major and im-
always ring true. “Prom- Famously for his ef- ley in western Pennsylva- vocal ways. winsome grade school plausible plot twists make
ised Land” has its heart ficiency in persuading nia. Outspoken old-timer But even as Steve strug- teacher with dismayingly his stance forcefully, in-
on its sleeve and its pro- rural residents to sell Frank (Hal Holbrook), the gles to close the deal, he half-baked romantic con- disputably clear.
environment message is their land for the drilling high school science teach- finds himself growing nections to both Steve and “Promised Land,” a Fo-
quite clear, but it’s in the rights, Steve runs into an er, and flashy, charismatic entrenched in the daily Dustin; essentially, it’s as cus Features release, is
looser and more ambigu- unprecedented challenge environmental crusader rhythms of this idyllical- if she’s waiting around rated R for language. Run-
ous places that the film when he and Sue arrive in Dustin (Krasinski) dare ly charming little nook of the local watering hole ning time: 106 minutes.
actually works. the depressed dairy farm- to question the company’s the heartland. Rosema- on karaoke night, hoping Two stars out of four.
Movie capsules
Here are capsule descriptions of Aways:” Two young people ian McKellen, Richard Armitage. daughter, Cosette. The fateful language, some drug use and
some of the more current films journey through the dreamlike Rating: PG-13. decision changes their lives sexual content).
showing at local theaters: worlds of Cirque du Soleil to find “Hitchcock:” A love story between forever. Cast: Hugh Jackman, “Parental Guidance:” Artie
Recent release each other. Cast: Erica Linz, Dallas influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway. and Diane agree to look after
“A Haunted House:” A couple Barnett, Lutz Halbhubner. Rating: and wife Alma Reville during the Rating: PG-13 (for suggestive their three grandkids when their
move into their dream home but Not available. filming of “Psycho” in 1959. Cast: and sexual material, violence and type-A helicopter parents need
soon learn that a demon also “Django Unchained:” With the Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, thematic elements). to leave town for work. Problems
resides there. Cast: Marlon help of his mentor, a slave-turned- Scarlett Johansson. Rating: PG-13 “Lincoln:” As the Civil War arise when the kids’ 21st-century
Wayans, Essence Atkins, Marlene bounty hunter sets out to rescue (for some violent images, sexual continues to rage, America’s behaviors collide with their
Forte. Rating: R (for crude and his wife from a brutal Mississippi content and thematic material). president struggles with continuing grandparents old-school methods.
sexual content, language and some plantation owner. Cast: Jamie “The Impossible:” An account carnage on the battlefield as Cast: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler,
drug use). Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo of a family caught, with tens of he fights with many inside his Marisa Tomei. Rating: PG (for
“Gangster Squad:” A chronicle DiCaprio. Rating: R (for sexual thousands of strangers, in the own cabinet on the decision to some rude humor).
of the Los Angeles Police content, violence and gore, mayhem of one of the worst natural emancipate the slaves. Cast: “Promised Land:” A salesman
Department’s fight to keep East profanity, alcohol and drugs and catastrophes of our time. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David for a natural gas company
Coast Mafia types out of LA in some frightening and intense Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Strathairn. Rating: PG-13 (for an experience life-changing events
the 1940s and 1950s. Cast: Sean scenes). Holland. Rating: PG-13 (for intense intense scene of war violence, some arriving in a small town where his
Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. “The Guilt Trip:” As inventor realistic disaster sequences, images of carnage and brief strong corporation wants to tap into the
Rating: R (for strong violence and Andy Brewster is about to embark including disturbing injury images language). available resources. Cast: Matt
language). on the road trip of a lifetime, a and brief nudity). “Monsters Inc.:” Monsters Damon, Frances McDormand,
“The Helpers:” Seven friends quick stop at his mom’s house “Jack Reacher:” A homicide generate their city’s power by John Krasinski. Rating: R (for
on a road trip to Las Vegas break turns into an unexpected cross- investigator digs deeper into a case scaring children, but they are language).
down near a rest-stop motel, country voyage with her along for involving a trained military sniper terribly afraid themselves of “Silver Linings Playbook:” After
where they encouter a seeminly the ride. Cast: Barbra Streisand, who shot five random victims. children contamination. When a stint in a mental institution,
helpful group of people. Convinced Seth Rogen, Kathy Najimy. Rating: Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, enters Monstropolis, the top a former teacher moves back
to stay overnight, they friends PG-13 (for language and some Richard Jenkins. Rating: PG-13 (for scarcer Sulley finds his world in with his parents and tries to
wake up in their rooms to a risque material). violence, language and some drugs disrupted. Cast: Billy Crystal, John reconcile with his ex-wife. Things
gruesome and bloody terror. Cast: “The Hobbitt: An Unexpected material). Goodman, Mary Gibbs. Rating: G. get more challenging when Pat
Kristen Quintrall, Denyce Lawton, Journey:” A curious Hobbit, Bilbo “Les Miserables:” in “Not Fade Away:” Set in meets Tiffany, a mysterious
Christopher Jones. Rating: R (for Baggins, journeys to the Lonely 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, girl with problems of her own.
terror, intense and frightening Mountain with a vigorous group who for decades has been hunted a group of friends form a rock Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer
scenes, violence and gore). of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure by the ruthless policeman Javery band and try to make it big. Cast: Lawrence, Robert De Niro. Rating:
Still showing stolen from them by the dragon after he breaks parole, agrees to John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will R (for language and some sexual
“Cirque du Soleil — Worlds Smaug. Cast: Martin Freeman, care for factory worker Fantine’s Brill. Rating: R (for pervasive content/nudity).
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