The public is invited to at-tend the annual observance of Veterans’ Day at Ballard Memorial High School on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 1:15 p.m. in the school’s gym at 3561 Paducah Road, Barlow. This

year’s featured speaker will be retired Army Brig. Gen. George “Buddy” Petty Jr.

Petty is a 1961 graduate of BMHS, and spoke at the fu-neral of returned Korean War veteran Cpl. William Day this

past April at the school. He currently serves as president and chairman of the board of directors for Precision Man-agement & Consulting, Inc. in Mayfield, and is a retired

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Psalms 90:10; The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of

strength they be fourscore years

Not everyone is able to reach the Golden Years of their life. Jesse Hargrove has. The Ballard County

resident has maintained the strength for more than 80 years. Now 95 years-old, Har-grove’s strength is beginning to decline. He still possesses a sharp mind even though his

body has lost a step or two. And, although hard of hearing, he still communicates well as long has he is able to understand you.

Born July 2, 1919 in Golden Pond, Ky. Hargrove’s father moved the family to Richland, coal-mining country, during the roaring 20’s. According to Hargrove, his father made “good money” by earning $17 a day. When he was old enough, Hargrove was brought to the mine to work with his dad.

The coal mine claimed it was a little behind receiving payments for the coal

Governor Steve Beshear an-nounced that Ballard County Clerk Lynn W. Lane has re-ceived a grant totaling $35,412 from the Kentucky Depart-ment for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) to preserve and man-age local government records. KDLA is an agency of the Edu-cation and Workforce Develop-ment Cabinet.

Thirty-eight grants have been awarded for a total of $562,463 from fiscal year 2015 Local Re-cords Grant Program funds.

“During the 29-year his-tory of KDLA’s Local Records Grant Program, a total of more than $22 million has been dis-tributed across Kentucky in grants to all 120 counties,” said Gov. Beshear.

“These funds have enabled local agencies to preserve, man-age and provide access to local government records, ensuring that citizens will have access to those records in the future. The funds allow agencies to fully utilize new digital technologies to provide unprecedented access to important public records.”

Lane will use the grant funds to scan aperture cards and up-load the images into the clerk’s

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Gravy Breakfast for the Ballard baseball team will be held on Nov. 15 from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m.

The event will be held at Betty’s Restaurant in Barlow.

Nov. 19The New Liberty

Methodist Church food pantry will be avail-able for local residents needing assistance from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19.

The food pantry is located at the New Lib-erty Methodist Church at 6955 New Liberty Church Rd. To get to New Liberty Methodist Church, take New Lib-erty Church Road off Highway 60, at second stop sign, the church is on the left.

Nov. 21The first application

cutoff period date for USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service consideration for 2015 funds is Nov. 21, 2014. Applications received after Nov. 21 will be held until the next cut off period, which is March 20, 2015.

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Mickey Soltys holds the trophies he won at the recent 50th Annual Illinois State Old-Time Fiddle Contest in Illinois.

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Former Wickliffe resident Mickey Soltys won the Illinois State Old-Time Fiddle Contest Sunday in Effingham. Soltys won the open division at the contest’s

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digital system and pre-serve the images on a permanent plat book.

KDLA’s Local Re-cords Program helps to preserve, protect and make available records with continuing archival value and to assist local agencies with records management through grant support, training and direct service.

With four regional ad-

ministrators covering the state and working with local officials, KDLA en-sures professional archi-val and records manage-ment assistance in county and city offices, school districts, and health de-partments. Grants have supported work in mi-crofilming, preservation, equipment, automated indexing, digital imaging systems and codification of ordinances.

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uitable access to quality library and information resources and services, as well as helps pub-lic agencies ensure that legislatively mandated documentation of gov-ernment programs is created, efficiently main-tained, and made acces-sible. For more informa-tion of KDLA resources, programs and services visit www.kdla.ky.gov or call 502-564-8300 ext. 315.

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BCES Students of the month ...Ballard County Elementary School has announced its Students of the Month for October. Students are selected by their teachers as good examples of the positive attitude, behavior and effort that are expected of everyone at BCES. (Note: The photos were taken on Oct. 31, during “Mustache Day” of Red Ribbon Week.) Shown from left in the top photo are students in the intermediate (grades 3-5) wing of the school: (first row, third grade) Ariston Griffin, Josh Weaver, Kori Martin, (second row, fourth grade) Cole Owens, Makayla Wilkason, Molly Harris, (third row, fifth grade) Brandon Feezor, Lane Wicker, Wendy Burnley. Shown from left in the bottom photo are (first row, kindergarten) Ella Sterling, Tessa Crawford, Ayden Owens, Marley Croghan, (second row, first grade) Madalynne Bradley, Miley Parker, Michael Beasley, Madison Moreland, Noah Byrd, (third row, second grade) Cole Ballard, Eric Qualls, Chrissy Jones and Elliana Jones.

By Kay PressonToday, Friday, Oct.

31, as I type this column, while typing, as usual, memories always come to me. There are so many things that we take for granted. And, to do so .. .to take things for grant-ed, is perfectly normal. There are several holi-days and today is Hallow-een. Some folks refuse to participate in Halloween because they consider it to be evil. However, Hal-loween itself is not evil ... many churches have

“Trunk or Treat,” and there are various fund raising events. I have the blessing of being inspired to write and to draw, and was encouraged by many people, such as my won-derful Mama, to do so.

Veterans Day will be Nov. 11, followed by Thanksgiving, then Christmas. Each of these days has memories, and today, while shopping at Dollar General here in Bardwell, I noticed both eggnog and boiled cus-tard are now available.

Folks, my paternal grand-mother, Anna Mae Penn Throgmorton, used to make home-made boiled custard, and it was abso-lutely delicious.

If not for our heroes, we would not be able to have our holidays. So, thanks to everyone for your encouragement and inspiration.

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senior sales and market-ing representative of Dow Chemical Co.

Petty served in both leadership and manage-ment positions during his 35-year military career, including combat postings with the 101st Airmobile Division as a helicopter (Huey) platoon leader with the 101st Aviation Battalion and then as the helicopter operations plan-ner for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airmobile Divi-sion in South Vietnam and later with the 101st at Fort Campbell.

His last full-time mili-tary assignment was a re-sult of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. During his tour of active duty, he was the Deputy Commanding Gen-eral for Combined Arms Support Command (CAS-COM) at Fort Lee, Va., serving as the number-two person in the 800-employ-ee organization responsible for worldwide Army logis-tical training and support.

The Knoxville, Tenn., native and his wife Betsy reside in Mayfield.

BARLOW – Tony Lee Holmes, age 50, died Saturday at Baptist Health in Paducah.

He is survived by one son, Brandon Holmes of Barlow, Ky. and one daughter, Michelle Lea Holmes of West Paducah, Ky. and a step-daughter,

Lexie Hack of Barlow. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie and Marcella Holmes.

Visitation was Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Morrow Funeral Chapel in LaCenter is handling arrangements.

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they were selling so for a couple of months they issued what was known as a “bean ticket,” which was honored at the gro-cery store. Herbert H. Hoover was president at the time.

One morning, he and his father arrived at work to find the mine closed. Without warning, the mining company had packed up and left town – owing everyone, in-cluding the grocery store that honored the bean tickets.

The Great Depression had begun.

At that point, his father hitchhiked back to Cadiz, where he had family, to borrow a truck. Some man, according to Hargrove, was driving the truck when they returned and helped load their be-longings and drove them back to Cadiz. They boxed in one corner of a tobacco warehouse that had closed and been left to the city. The City of Cadiz, in return,allowed people to live there when they had no place else to go. His uncle lived in the office portion of what was “a pretty good build-ing,” Jess said.

From there, his fa-ther hitchhiked 10 miles to work for a farmer named Harry Rogers, who owned around 200 acres – a lot of land for a farmer in those days, according to Hargrove. One evening, his dad ar-rived around dark with a wagon and team. With the help of family mem-bers, they loaded what they owned and moved to the Rogers’ farm. The trip took them through some rough back country where they got stuck in a creek. Fortunately, the people who lived nearby helped push them out.

Eventually, still dur-ing the depression, they left their furniture be-hind and relocated to Ballard County, where they moved in with his mother’s family. Dur-ing that era, all the roads were still gravel and dirt but his father found a job with a road contrac-tor putting a concrete road from Wickliffe to Bardwell. By the time the job ended they had moved to Carlisle Coun-ty.

At the conclusion of the road construction job, the family moved to sharecropping and, shortly thereafter, Har-grove entered into a Civilian Conservation Camp. CCC’s were de-veloped as part of Frank-lin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. There he received shelter, clothing and food, along with a small monthly wage of $30 – $22 of which went to his family as a means of sup-port.

With his $8 a month

he was able to buy a car and began driving to Wickliffe on Satur-day evenings. While at a restaurant with mutual friends, he met 14-year-old Mildred Laverne Crews. Mildred, who was affectionately re-ferred to as “Pete” by friends and family, was a farm girl who had stayed with a friend in town. Hargrove asked to walk her home. She agreed, al-though not to a first kiss which her new friend had requested. The two went on to date and planned to be married after she had turned 18 and graduated from school.

Quickl thereafter came the bombing of Pearl Har-bor and the start of World War II. Figuring to be drafted, Hargrove left for New Orleans where he enrolled in the Maritime Service. There was rea-soning behind his choice of military service, he said. The maritime ser-vice paid 100 percent war bonds and $100 dollars for each time you were attacked en route or in a city that was bombed. The next three months, he said, were spent in a naval training facility in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Following the com-pletion of training, he shipped out for Calcutta, India, with the Merchant Marines. Loaded with war materials such as mustard gas packed in glass containers, bombs and unassembled crated airplanes, they were a solitary fleet to them-selves. Classified as too dangerous to be ac-companied, they were required to voyage inde-pendently without pro-tection. When the planes were off-loaded they were assembled, loaded with cargo and flown to Burma to deliver the sup-plies.

Entering a river in-let was one of the most dangerous points of his journey, Hargrove re-members. The narrow entrance was a perfect ambush location and Japanese forces waited for the opportunity. The ships would only enter the mouth of the river during the night and then with engines on idle speed to lessen any noise factor.

Zig-zagging their way across the oceans as an evasive tactic on four different solo trips, he was told by his captain they had traveled enough miles to have circled the earth two and one-half times. On one occasion while off loading, the city came under attack although his ship was not

a target of the bombing. The finial trip sent

them for a second time to Karachi, India. There, they were ordered to pick up 300 monkeys to be brought back to the United States. The mon-keys were used in lab ex-periments in search for a cure for polio.

Being part of the Mer-chant Marines, Hargrove was in the naval reserves. Called to active duty, he spent the next three months in a Great Lakes training facility and was then shipped to Norfolk, Va. for amphibious inva-sion training. During the training, he was injured and received two opera-tions which delayed his deployment and separat-ed him from his buddies.

After his recovery, he was assigned to an unfa-miliar crew and sent to Pearl Harbor for landing training. By the time of his arrival, the islands had been secured. His job was to scour the is-lands for gasoline to be gathered and shipped to Tinian Island for use in B-29 bombers (Tinian was used for island hop-ping along with Guam and Siapan to bomb Ja-pan).

An invasion of Japan was expected, he says. And, as fate would have it, he was positioned to be one of the soldiers sent to invade the Japa-nese homeland. It was es-timated that 1 million U. S. and allied men would have lost their lives dur-ing the battle and, Har-grove expects he would have probably been one of them.

After the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Na-gasaki and Hiroshima, the Japanese were still reluctant to surrender. Following threats by the U.S. to use another bomb on Tokyo, the Japanese forces eventually surren-dered. Although America and allied forces were criticized for dropping the atomic bomb, Har-grove credits it to saving his life.

After the war was over, he and his crew were ordered to pick up 120 amphibious marines from Okinawa and deliv-er them to China. While there, a typhoon struck. An LSM was not made to ride out typhoons, he said. As a result, he and most of the crew devel-oped sea sickness. Un-derwater mines had been loosed from their moor-ings by the typhoon, cre-ating a deadly scenario for the crew. A great deal of their time was spent in watching for, and ex-ploding mines, before

they could contact the ship.

China was on the verge of a communist government takeover but they completed their assignment, delivering the marines and setting up communications be-fore leaving. Returning to Pearl Harbor and then onto the U.S., Hargrove completed his service and received an Honor-able Discharge.

Hargrove and Pete raised eight children, he said.

“I escaped death in several different places but the Lord provided for me to come back home and raise a big family,” he said.

The couple bought a 97-acre farm in Slater in 1961. Hargrove was a true entrepreneur. Not only did he raise tobacco but had hogs, as well, and, at one point, built wooden pallets.

Eventually Hargrove gave up the farm and moved to LaCenter to be near and help care for Pete, who had suffered a massive stroke and was left unable to care for herself.

Hargrove missed the veterans’ trip to Washing-ton D.C., which he helped to organize, due to Pete’s declining health. He said he loved her and wanted to take care of her until she died. After 62 years of marriage Pete passed away at LifeCare Nurs-ing Home. She has been gone for six years, as of the time of this writing

Hargrove, to his credit, was born again and became a Christian in 1939. He pastored a few independent Baptist churches during his life time.

Editor’s note: I have known Jesse Hargrove for almost 40 years. He was one of the first people I met after coming to this area. Jess was nearing 60 years old at the time and I was still in my late teens and in good condition, so I thought. He and his son-in-law were partners raising about 40 acres of tobacco. The first day I worked with Jess I left the patch after 12 hours and when I left he was still working. I continued to cut tobacco for him that year and the next. I have eaten at his table, sweated in the field next to him and even borrowed money from him. It was my plea-sure to be allowed to write this abbreviated story of his life. By the way, Pete made the best fried apples I have ever eaten. Every now and then I wish I could taste another one.

The 2015 Relay For Life of Ballard County will take place on June 12, and will run from 6 p.m.-midnight, at BMHS.

Five teams have already signed up for the event.

For more information call 1-800-227-2345.

Relay For Life set for June 12

Hargrove said his faith in God helped him return from WWII and raise a large family.

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The Following Businesses & Individuals Proudly Salute Our Veterans

Ballard Co.Senior

Citizens307 Lake Dr

Barlow , Ky 42024270-334-3115

“We Thank You for your service”

In Honor of Tony

PhillipsFor your Service to

our county!Love,

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Hillbilly Café

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270-335-5111“We ProudlySupport OurVeterans!”

Cindy’s Flowers & Gifts380 W Kentucky DrLa Center, Ky 42056

270-665-8500“Thank you for

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“We support our veterans”

In Loving Memory of James CampbellThank you foryour Service

New Wave Homes & Improvements233 Kentucky AveKevil, Ky 42056

270-462-4011“Thank you for your

service”In Honor of

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City of Wickliffe

321 Court St.Wickliffe, Ky

270-335-3557“Thank you for your service!”

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Veterans!”

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our Veterans!”

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across from courthousein Wickliffe

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Clarence AustinU.S. Navy Veteran

Bill HartU.S. Navy Veteran

Virginia BurkhartU.S. Army Veteran

Bill CosbyU.S. Army Veteran

Gordon BondurantU.S. Army Veteran

James CampbellU.S. Army Veteran

David Polk JuettU.S. Army Veteran

John BeaversU.S. Marines

Billy Wayne ChapmanU.S. Navy Veteran

John Knudsen U.S. Navy Veteran

Melvin Lee CrewsU.S. Army Veteran

Sam BryantU.S. Army Veteran

Larry CardwellU.S. Army Veteran

Dennis CzerniejewskiU.S. Army Veteran

Justin BeaversU.S. Marines

Ashabel-Burnett BlankenshipU.S. Army Veteran

Marcus KnudsenU.S. Navy Veteran

Dan PriceU.S. Air Force Veteran

Ronny O. BuchananU.S. Army Veteran

Paul W. CaseU.S. Army Veteran

Don DupoysterU.S. Navy Veteran

Bill McGeeU.S. Navy Veteran

Marshall PennebakerU.S. Navy Veteran

Lcp. Danny R. WellsU.S. Marine Veteran

We Proudly Salute ourVeterans and all the men and womenwho have served to protect our freedom!

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Lawrence DurbanU.S. Veteran

Dean KrapsU.S. Army Veteran

Willie GarnerU.S. Army Veteran

Raymond Marshall HammettU.S. Army Veteran

Earl HinkleU.S. Navy Veteran

Harold Arnold GillU.S. Army Veteran

Earl HargroveU.S. Army Veteran

Jeff BoneU.S. Marines Veteran

James EarnestU.S. Army Veteran

Don KrapsU.S. Navy Veteran

Maurice GibsonU.S. Army Veteran

William HammettU.S. Army Veteran

Juanita ‘Midge’ HowleU.S. Army Veteran

James Earl GreenU.S. Army Veteran

Harold Lee MyattU.S. Navy Veteran

Forest JenkinsU.S. Army Veteran

Tommy J. WellsU.S. Navy Veteran

Edward Hopkins HowleU.S. Navy Veteran

Earl GidcumbU.S. Navy Veteran

James ‘Fred’ HardyU.S. Navy Veteran

William ‘Billy Hop’ HowleU.S. Army Veteran

William HagoodU.S. Army Veteran

Ray HartU.S. Marines Veteran

Tommy JuettU.S. Army Veteran

Dear Veterans:Here’s our Thank You. Any U.S. veteran can now receive The

Ballard County Weekly for only. $15 a yearThe Following Businesses & Individuals Proudly Salute Our Veterans

NAPA Auto Parts

would like to say, “Thank you for protect-ing our rights and our freedoms.” For those that have served and are still serving today we would like to say

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Located in LaCenter and Kevil“We are so thankful for our veterans and

we salute you!”270-665-9222

Lisa’sHair Port204 Phillips Drive,

Wickliffe, KY“ God BlessOur Troops”

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ReflectionsLocated in Barlow, Ky.

“God BlessOur Troops!”

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The employees of Cooper Lumber and

their familieswould like to say Thank You to our

Veterans foreverything that they

have done andcontinue to do for us.

CitizensDepost Bank

Located in Wickliffe, Ky.“God Bless the

U.S.A.”270-335-3392

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Community members are invited to a second Community Café session at Ballard Memorial High School on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the school’s media center at 3561 Paducah Road, Barlow.

Principal David

Meinschein said there would be coffee and donuts, and after a brief progress report on the school, community members could offer feedback and ideas in a listening session.

Community Café sessionset at BMHS for Nov. 18

Red Cross Disaster Services volunteers presented The Pillowcase Project to over eighty Ballard County 2nd graders and their teachers on Wednesday, October 22. The Paducah Area Red Cross Chapter has worked with students for the past 3 years to ensure area counties are prepared when a disaster may strike and so that students feel calmer in this situation. The presentations were led by Pat Jordan, Disaster Volunteer of the Paducah Area Chapter and Barbara Jones, Volunteer Disaster Specialist of Ballard County and Paducah Area Chapter board member.

The Pillowcase Project is an interactive preparedness program designed for youth ages 7 to 11. The program aims to increase awareness and understanding of natural hazards, teach safety and emotional coping skills, as well as the importance of personal preparedness. Students learn the best ways to stay safe and how to create their own emergency supply kits by packing essential items in a pillowcase for easy transport during a disaster. Students also have the opportunity to decorate and personalize

their pillowcases and share what they’ve learned with friends and family.

The Pillowcase Project was created by the American Red Cross’s Southeast Louisiana Chapter and implemented in New Orleans schools following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They learned that Loyola University students carried their valuables in pillowcases when they were evacuated for Katrina. This inspired Wilkins and her team to work with an art therapist to create a program in which children living in makeshift communities across New Orleans during Katrina recovery decorated pillowcases to hold their belongings.

Those who would like to help people affected by disasters like fires, tornadoes, floods and other crises can make a donation to American Red Cross Disaster Relief. People can donate by visiting www.redcross.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS or texting the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. These donations enable the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from disasters big and small.

Red Cross volunteers deliver ‘Pillowcase Project’ to Ballard Elementary students

BCES Speech Festival winners honored ...

Ballard County Elementary School

announced the winners of its Speech

Festival on Oct. 28. Shown from left in the top photo are

kindergarten winners Angelina Thorn, first

place; Arianna Thorn, third place; and

Aubrey Alexander, second place. In

the photo second from the top are first grade winners (from

left) Lola Munsell, third place; Jolan

Gorostiza, first place; and Chayton Gorostiza, second place. In the third

photo from the top are the second grade

winners Hannah Meyers, first place;

Kalyn Hayden, second place; and Ocean

Sullenger, third place. In the fourth photo are

third grade winners Hayes Gibson, first

place; and Katie Duncan, second place. In the fifth

photo are fourth grade winners Molly Harris,

third place; Izabella Hearn, second place;

and Mackenzie Shrum, first place. In

the sixth photo are fifth grade winners

Paige Treiling, second place; Isabella Myers, first place; and Chloe

Treiling, third place.

Congratulationsto all the

winners inthe BCES

SpeechContest

The Ballard Memo-rial Band of Pride made its sixth consecutive trip to state competition on Nov. 1, and came away with a 12th-place finish in Class 1A. The band finished 13th the last two years.

tudents at Ballard Coun-ty Elementary and BMHS went out to the football field to cheer a special per-formance of the show just prior to the group’s leaving for Lexington on Oct. 31.

Ballard’s Band Director is Heather Waters.

BMHS takes 12th place at state meet

Commonly seen from mid summer through fall around old buildings and such is the Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Argiope aurantia.

They seem to prefer overhangs of buildings on which to suspend their web that may be up to two feet in diam-eter with support runners reaching several feet in length. The web is dis-tinctive as it spans out in a radial pattern and has a zig-zag pattern woven down the middle that is called a stabilimentum. Several theories exist about the reason for the stabilimentum which in-clude camouflage for the spider, making the web more visible to prevent larger animals such as birds from damaging it,

or that it possibly reflects ultravilot light and thus helps to attract insects.

When disturbed this spider tends to bounce its web in and out. Some theorize this is to make it more difficult for a predator to zero in on. I think it more likely though since movement would only increase vis-ibility to predators that this is an effort to more securely entangle poten-tial prey that is disturb-ing the web.

Once an insect is en-snared in the web the spider injects the hap-less victim with venom and wraps it in silk for good keeping. With the meal secured, she will often repair damage to the web before returning for lunch.

Tiny spiderlings hatch in spring. Some may re-main in the vicinity but many exude a single strand of silk and when caught by a breeze will ride the winds until it catches on some object. This is called ballooning. The young spiders then spin a web that grows as the spider does. Rarely noticed until about mid summer when they start to attain size. The male is much smaller than the female and dies shortly after mating. Sometimes

he is eaten by the female. She will then lay up to three or four clusters of eggs over a season. Each cluster is enclosed in a silken case that may be up to an inch in diameter and contain up to a thou-sand eggs. These egg cases are often placed near the center of the web and are guarded by the adult female until she is killed off by the first hard freeze of the year.

With the recent cool spell adults may be al-ready gone by the time

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50th anniversary — the same championship won three years in a row by Alison Krauss starting at age 13.

Known in the Car-bondale, Illinois area for playing in the Irish band the Dorians, and square dances held by the South-ern Illinois Friends of Tra-ditional Music and Dance, Soltys can be seen playing electric guitar with the new classic country band Uncle Pecos at Hangar 9 Nov. 29. He currently works at Southern Illinois Univer-sity’s Morris Library.

Born in West Virginia, Soltys grew up in Wick-liffe, Kentucky. Although he initially wanted to play trumpet, Soltys took a few guitar lessons at age 13 and then taught himself on banjo, fiddle, and man-dolin. He graduated from Ballard Co. High in 1978 and then Murray State University where he re-ceived double bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics in 1982 and a master’s degree in 1983. A lover of bluegrass and old-time music, Soltys learned from listening to old time fiddler Pete McMahan in Missouri between 1984-87, where Soltys attended

Univeristy of Missouri studying statistics. There he met Charlie Walden, multiple winner of the Missouri and Illinois state fiddle championships.

Soltys beat his long-time friend Waldenby one point in the Illinois Old-Time fiddle contest this year! Fiddlers are judged on old time fiddling style, danceability, rhythm and timing, and tone qual-ity. Soltys played the hoe-down Lantern in the Ditch, Red Fox Waltz, and Reu-ben’s Ridge — a McMa-han composition. Alison Krauss won the contest in ’84, ’85, and ’86.

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Black and Yellow Garden Spider

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Barlow gets EDAP grant ...The City of Barlow received a grant for $200,000 from DRA (Delta Regional Authority) State Economic Development Assistance Program for infrastructure improvements associated with the new Ballard County Senior Citizens Center. Pictured from left: Dept. for Local Government Commissioner Tony Wilder, Ballard County Judge Executive Vickie Vineyard, City of Barlow Mayor John Wood, and Delta Regional Authority Federal Co-Chairman Chris Masingill.

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BCMS Students of the Week ...Each week at Ballard County Middle School, three students (one from each grade) will be selected and named Students of the Week. Students are nominated by teachers for outstanding behavior or performance. Shown from left are BCMS Students of the Week for Nov. 3: (shown from left) eighth-grader Emma LeFevre, seventh-grader Carrie Woodall and sixth-grader Nevaeh Wade. Selectors said LeFevre is hard-working, helpful to her classmates and always respectful; Woodall participates well in class, is respectful and helpful; and Wade is a delight to have in class, kind and considerate to everyone.

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THE BALLARD COUNTY WEEKLYPAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 2014

The Ballard CountyWeekly Proudly Supportsall the Area’s high School Seniors

Ballard MeMorial high SChoolSenior Spotlight

By Breanna Jones Spunky and sweet are

two words that perfectly describe senior Brianna Dowdy.

Brianna is the daugh-ter of Elizabeth and Ter-ry Dowdy and currently lives in Barlow. She is also an active member of LaCenter Christian Church. Brianna has been a member of Dra-ma Club for two years and a member of FC-CLA for one year.

Outside of school, she enjoys fishing,

sleeping in, and playing on her Xbox 360. Bri-anna hopes to leave be-hind her knowledge and

hopes to be remembered by her peers as a quiet girl with a big smile. Her favorite thing at BMHS is field day.

Brianna plans to go to college and become a preschool teacher.

FAVORITESTeacher: Mrs. CookseyMovie: “Captain America and the Winter Soldier”Song: “Fancy”TV Show: “Switched at Birth”; “The Fosters”Video Game: “Call of Duty Ghost”Food: Nachos and Pizza RollsSchool Food: Pizza

By Dakota Stigall Senior Ben Giles may

appear to be your typi-cal skinny teenager, but there is way more than meets the eye. He is a familiar face on the football field as a color guard member of the state-ranking Band of Pride. On the occasional weekend, however, Ben puts away the flags and tests his will in Spartan Races. According to its website, Spartan Race is a “true adventure…with course lengths of 3 - 12 miles…filled with mud, water, and signature ob-stacles.” Ben participat-ed in one of the races in Laurel, Ind.

Although the Spar-tan Race is Ben’s most memorable experience, he has made many lifelong memories at BMHS, too. Ben is a 3-year member of track, and a 2-year member of band and color guard. In

color guard, he holds the position of section lead-er. Ben has also been involved in Academic Team for four years, broadcasting for two years, Spanish Club for two years, and Drama

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In her spare time, Sydney loved riding horses with her parents, Sam and Lorie Book-ing, or hanging out at Hot Topic, where she

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After high school, Sydney’s plans include going to college to ma-jor in dermatology and minor in art.

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DRAFFENVILLE - Ballard Memorial finished runner-up to McCracken County in the 1st Region Volleyball Tournament on Thursday. Prevailing in the 1st Region Volleyball Tournament championship match, McCracken County blanked BMHS, 3-0.

McCracken County defeated Ballard Memorial 25-8, 25-15, 25-10.

Following the loss, Ballard Memorial ended its season at 26-13.

Prior to competing in the 1st Region Volleyball Tournament, BMHS captured the 3rd District championship with a a 25-

15, 20-25, 26-24, 25-20 win over Graves County in the district title tilt.

With the win, McCracken County moved to 32-7 and advances to the state tournament. McCracken County will meet Letcher County Central in the opening round.

BMHS finishes runner-up to McCracken