There are ways of identifying people.

Busy people, lazy people, outgo-ing people, shy people. Then there are dog people. Canine commit-ment is a sliding scale. There are those with so much paraphernalia depicting their chosen breed that you wonder if they have a dog tat-too. And then there are the casual dog lovers, with no aspiration for blue ribbons.

Heather Mullenax, Virginia Manchester and Cathy Crecelius are differing points on the plane of dog lovers. They all got into it for their own reason and have taken dynamic benefi ts away. Span-ning ages and backgrounds, the women and their dogs tell differ-ent stories, but they all start at the same place; the Paducah Kennel Club.

Nancy Broyles, Mullenax’s mother, was drawn to dogs as a direct result of her daughter’s drive to handle them. The kennel club has a junior handler division in which children and teenagers can compete. Mullenax has always been shy, the more reserved stu-dent in school, her mother said. After she started showing dogs, however, things changed.

Her confi dence rapidly in-creased, Broyles said. Mullenax

competes with adults, some pro-fessionals, and the adults receive her and all young people with delight. Her daughter dabbles in poetry and prose, and after fi nd-ing her stride with dog handling, Mullenax had to courage to per-form her work at open mic nights.

Becoming a ‘dog person’

Most of her life Cathy Crece-lius was a cat person. She wasn’t allowed to have dogs growing up. Some childhood friends are still baffl ed when she begins to gush about her vizslas.

“My husband and I don’t have any children, and really my dogs have made a tremendous differ-ence in my life as far as compan-ionship,” she said.

Crecelius, Paducah Kennel Club agility chairwoman, said her work with agility has helped keep her fi t. An employee at WPSD-TV, Crecelius said before she got into agility, she was explicitly career-focused. Before agility, Crecelius lived to work. She now embraces working to live. It’s a new group of friends, she said. They’re not

The best of friendsBY REBECCA FELDHAUS

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Skye makes here way through a chute at The Paducah Kennel Club agility. Running properly through the chute is one of many obstacles the dogs must complete to qualify for a title.

Benefits of the canine experience

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Skye, a 19-month-old standard poodle owned by Kathy Schierbaum, jumps through a tire at the Paducah Kennel Club agility class Tues-day at Paducah Kennel Club facility in Paducah. Jumping properly through the tire is one of many obstacles the dogs must complete to qualify for a title.

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Parys, a 4-year-old standard Poodle owned by Natalie Hefner, walks on a teeter at a Paducah Kennel Club agility class Tuesday at Paducah Kennel Club facility in Paducah. Properly walking and balancing on the teeter is one of many obstacles the dogs must complete to qualify for a title.

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The construction of Julian Sellers’ bungalow in St. Paul, Minn., was started in 1926 and fi nished in early 1927. The builder was a Swedish immi-grant. The family who fi rst lived there included a married couple, their 6-year-old daughter and the wife’s mother.

Sellers learned all this by sort-ing through building permits, tax records, city directories, maps, old newspapers on microfi lm and more. A retired software engineer and a member of the Twin Cities Bungalow Club, he has chronicled the history of the structure, its environs and the people who lived in it. He even met that 6-year-old daughter

when she was in her late 80s.“It’s fun to know that other

families have lived here — chil-dren have grown up and been nurtured in this house,” said Sellers. “Each family makes it their own and has their own life and experiences here. It’s fun to get that feeling of continuity.”

Many homeowners and apart-ment dwellers across the country

are doing the painstaking work of researching the history of their home and neighborhood. Some delve into the past for practical reasons — perhaps they want to change the exterior of an old house and need to document how it once looked, or they want to create (or protest) a historic designation. Others are simply fascinated by the testament of

time.This research “feeds into the

notion of pride of place,” said Kingston Heath, professor and director of the graduate Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon. The his-tory of a house and its people can also cast light on larger historical

Who lived here? How to dig up your house’s historyBY SHIRLEY SALEMY MEYER

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NEW YORK — They may conjure up an image of a tropical paradise, but re-sort collections shown by designers may work harder than the rest of the closet.

The clothes need to be all things to all people: a holiday party frock here, a comfortable traveling T-shirt dress there. The fi rst pieces arrive on racks in November and last through February.

Consumers don’t usu-ally “shop a wardrobe” then, but they often end up buying more separate pieces than they do in the big markets of spring and fall, when there might be some head-to-toe outfi ts, says designer Diane von Furstenberg.

The impulse shopping adds up, she says, making resort very important for retailers.

“It’s for everybody,” she says. “It’s for holiday parties, for Aspen, for Vermont, for St. Bart’s and Miami, and everywhere else, even if you are staying home in New York.”

Resort has to be clothes for “real people,” agrees Carolina Herrera, who says she also likes the more informal showroom pre-sentations where she gets feedback from retailers, stylists and editors versus the fashion week runway shows that require some over-the-top drama.

“I love the idea of re-sort,” Herrera says. “You have to fi nd the details for each dress that make sense.”

“Balance” is what drives Thakoon Panichugal’s resort looks, he says, aim-ing to mix wearable with fanciful.

Von Furstenberg’s creative director Yvan Mispelaere says the word “resort” itself might be a little misleading. “That makes it sound like it’s just for the lucky ones.”

He mostly refers to it as “transition,” he explains.

Judging from some of the trends, however, you might call it “continua-tion”: colorblocking, play-ful prints and rich textures, especially leather and lace, all popular this summer and headed into fall, had their place in several col-lections previewed in New York over the past few weeks.

Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera says

she likes to do a little ex-perimenting in her resort collection, especially with prints. “Fashion is some-times starved for color and amusement, but not here.”

She created a fanciful print featuring abstract

lovers and another one with bunnies. A lace print on gazar is a twist on a classic. “I love the printed lace. I am a bit tired of lace. This is light and graphic — it’s a new idea.”

The print is featured on a skirt with a ruffl ed hem and a halter gown with a plunging V down the back.

Some cocktail and day-time dresses are done in a very ladylike below-the-knee tea length. The whim-sy and delicate touches keep them youthful and not dowdy.

A banded red-and-or-ange dress is very graphic and wearable, and the olive-colored safari shirt-dress could be that ward-robe workhorse.

Gowns, of course, are a Herrera signature, and she spun a winner with a steely blue-colored chiffon gown with a metallic “wheat” — not gold — embroidery on sheer tulle that covered the neckline and center of the bodice for a peek-a-boo effect.

Diane Von Furstenberg

The theme of this col-lection designed collab-oratively by Diane von Furstenberg and Yvan Mispelaere is the Ameri-can roadtrip. “It’s funny for two Europeans,” says Mispelaere.

There are nods to Manhattan, Las Vegas and Memphis, Tenn., a place he’s never been — although he says von Furstenberg promises to take him.

An all-over printed sequin skirt suit in lime green, white and black with a similarly patterned silk blouse underneath has the day-to-night vibe that von Furstenberg is fa-mous for, and a robe-style romper in that same shade of green is the update of the label’s wrap silhouette.

A blue blouse has a white racing stripe down the sleeves and a black collar and cuffs, and even bolder, brighter color combina-tions include a green top with a sheer-front keyhole detail paired with a fl irty hot pink skirt, and a blush-colored asymmetrical top with a yellow fl ounce peplum and asymmetric black skorts with a razor-cut ruffl e.

Accessories, a growing category for von Fursten-berg, are worth noting, too, especially the new 440 bag, with an upright, almost lunch-tote shape, and the patchwork leather shoe-booties, with their peep toes and higher ankle shaft.

The goal was for every single look — from the dresses to the shoes — to be wearable with bare legs

or black tights, Mispelaere says.

Calvin KleinTrue to form, the Calvin

Klein resort collection is built on clean, architec-tural lines, but creative director Francisco Costa strategically inserts softer shapes — and the occa-sional sexy cutout.

A sleeveless vest-style dress with oversized pock-ets and a belted dropped waist in a luxe sandal-wood-color soft nubuck seems like it could be the traveling uniform of the jet set. A stretchy snake-skin long-sleeve shirt and matching wide-band skirt hug the body and have the same elongating effect but seems more user friendly to a broader audience.

A series of sleek jumpers with slit-front necklines and hemlines are worn with bandeau tops under-neath, which looks great on models, although the fl ashes of bare skin might make them hard to wear to the offi ce.

For evening, though, there’s no excuse to shy away from delicate halter dresses with that same open patch, although Costa does offer more modest versions with sheer overlays, too. The fi nale outfi t, a sheer ivory T-shirt over an ivory silk skirt and bandeau, is destined for a tropical beach wedding.

GucciOK, for this European

luxury house, the idea of resort — or cruise, as it is offi cially called by the house — is, in fact, all about getting away from anything mundane. “An al-luring escape to the island of Capri. A wind-swept style and exotic allusions,” creative director Frida Gi-annini says in her notes.

She takes the famous Flora pattern from the 1960s and ‘70s and blows it up into chic slim trou-sers and a short sheath with black backgrounds, and more fl owy daytime dresses with a white back-ground. There’s even a leather jacket embroidered with the signature fl oral design.

Several pantsuits have slim lapels and trousers that hang on the hips and fl are at the bottom, giving another nod to another era.

To sit at the hotel bar for evening cocktails, there are colorful mini shifts with jeweled collars and long column gowns. The candy colors make them just a bit more casual than the fabrics and embellish-ments would suggest. It’s vacation, after all.

ThakoonThis season is the icing

on the cake for Thakoon

Panichugal, who creates a frothy, upbeat, pretty col-lection with fl oral touches and shades of sherbet on T-shirt dresses, blouson tops, dressy shorts and jumpsuits. Jumpsuits, Panichugal says, do particularly well with his customer.

He thought of cupcakes a lot while designing, he says. “I only eat the cup-cake cake, but it’s the frost-ing that really inspired me and draws me in.”

For a moment, it seems, he thought of a wedding cake: He uses for several pieces a white jacquard fabric. It looks best in a halter-neck sheath.

Maybe that’s what led him to the little lingerie touches, too, including a sexy blush-colored silk tank, a peek-a-boo printed slip dress and fl irty, polka-dot tap pants.

There is a lot of mixing of textures, even some Neoprene and leather, but the mood stays light. His two lines, the signature and the more contempo-rary label called Addition, are offered as comple-ments to one another so the “angry leopard” track short could pair with the coral basketweave blazer.

Louis VuittonThe Louis Vuitton resort

collection harnesses the power of suggestion. There is very little skin shown, yet one just imagines a sultry, confi dent woman in the layered looks that come with the long silhou-ette.

Nothing clung too much to the body, either, so there is an alluring ease that comes along with hints of the 1970s. In a mini runway presentation, models teetered in chunky, super-high platform shoes

in culottes, pajama tops, dropped-waist dresses and sequin stripe rugbys. There are short swing coats and soft, belted blazers.

Straw visor hats add a sporty vibe.

Some of the color combi-nations are a little uncon-ventional — just as you’d

expect here: lavender with brown, pink with brown, blue with brown. Come to think of it, there is a lot of brown.

A one-shouldered dress in colorblocked navy, brown and white sequins is the fi nal look.

For here or there, ‘resort’ clothes are wearableBY SAMANTHA

CRITCHELLAssociated Press

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A model wears a pastel-colored minidress from the Tha-koon resort collection.

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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — A Sheboygan museum is host-ing an exhibit of awkward moments.

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is featuring 51 photos accumulated through the popular website awkwardfamilyphotos.com. It’s the first time the col-lection is being shown in a museum setting.

Childhood friends Mike Bender and Doug Chernack launched the website in May 2009, after Bender saw an awkward vacation photo in his parents’ house. They knew there were probably other awkward family images out there so they created the site.

Within a week, the site was receiving millions of visitors a day and thousands of submissions from around the world.

Visitors to the exhibit can also share their own fam-ily photos and stories for a chance to win prizes. It runs through Oct. 27.

Museum displays awkward family photos

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LONDON — Hundreds of music fans were stranded in their cars overnight after rainstorms caused chaos on travel routes to the Isle of Wight Festival.

Long traffic jams formed after rain battered the fes-tival site on the 150 square mile island off England’s south coast, turning parking lots into inaccessible mud baths.

Ferry services resumed Friday, but Hampshire Police said both festival-goers and island residents could expect “significant delays.”

Floods cause Isle of Wight festival woes

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ATLANTA — Four de-cades ago, the movie “De-liverance” introduced the lush north Georgia moun-tains to the world.

Though many in the re-gion still bristle at the mov-ie’s portrayal of locals as uneducated hillbillies, the fi lm helped create the $20 million rafting and out-door sports industry along the Chattooga River, which splits Georgia and South Carolina.

Several movies have fi lmed in the area this year because of the natural beauty showcased in “De-liverance,” including next year’s “Killing Season” with Robert DeNiro and John Travolta.

This weekend, commu-nities along the Chattooga are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movie’s release with the fi rst-ever Chattooga River Festival, even though some locals are unhappy with the idea of reminding the world of the area’s connection to the movie.

“It’s one of those cases where some good comes out of most everything,” said Stan Darnell, chair-man of the Rabun County, Ga., board of commission-ers. “Certainly a lot of good came out of that, as far as opening up fi lm industry, the kayaking, the camp-ing.”

Festival organizers say they hope the event can be an annual draw that rais-es money to preserve the Chattooga River and pro-motes environmental stew-ardship.

The fi rst year’s theme of “Deliverance” simply cel-ebrates the movie that cre-ated the adventure sports industry there, said Pete Cleaveland, executive di-rector of the Rabun Coun-

ty, Ga., Convention and Visitors Bureau and vice chairman of the festival committee.

Events include a concert by Ronny Cox, one of the four lead actors in the mov-ie and who played on “Du-eling Banjos” in the movie. The iconic tune features the “Yankee Doodle” riff and features prominently in the movie.

The schedule also in-cludes a screening of “De-liverance” at the civic cen-ter in tiny Clayton, Ga., and a music festival in nearby Long Creek, S.C. at Chat-tooga Belle Farm.

There are also art shows

and a river cleanup.Cleaveland said he’s ex-

pecting up to 3,000 people at this year’s festival and he hopes that attendance will grow in future years. Each year will have a different theme, he said.

“We really want to raise awareness of the river and this great conservation area we have around the river,” he said.

Ed Land, who owns Chattooga Belle Farm and is on the committee that organized the festival, said some complained when organizers fi rst discussed linking the festival to the movie.

“There was some pretty stiff opposition, but as a committee, we looked at it,

fi gured it is what it is, and fi gured people will get over it. It is going to benefi t the people of the area whether they like it or not,” Land said.

The idea drew criticism during Rabun County com-mission meetings, where the board ultimately turned down a request for $1,000 funding for the festival. Darnell said that had noth-ing to do with the theme and was purely a budgetary decision.

Mountain region marks ‘Deliverance’ anniversaryBY DORIE TURNER

Associated Press

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Rafters launch from Woodall Shoals on the Chattooga River, where a scene was filmed for the movie "Deliver-ance", Friday in Clayton, Ga. Many in the region still bristle at the movie's portrayal of locals as uneducated hillbillies.

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Actor Burt Reynolds por-trayed Lewis Medlock in the 1972 film "Deliver-ance." Four decades ago, the lush northeast Geor-gia mountains were intro-duced to the world in the hit film.

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Anniversaries

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Boyarski of Paducah will celebrate their 75th wed-ding anniversary July 2 with their family.

Mr. Boyarski and the former Mary Kilvitis were married July 2, 1937, by the Rev. John J. Jenkins at the Assembly of God in Moosic, Pa. Their atten-dants were Martha Kilvitis, sister of the bride, and David Powell.

Mrs. Boyarski is a retired daycare worker for Broad-

way United Methodist Church and First Baptist Church of Paducah.

Mr. Boyarski served in the U.S. Army during World War II and retired from Claussner’s Hosiery Mill with 34 years of ser-vice.

They are the parents of Richard Boyarski, Gary Boyarski and Philip Boyar-ski, all of Paducah. They have six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Mary and Chester BoyarskiMAYFIELD — Mr. and

Mrs. Harry James Rich-ardson of Mayfi eld will celebrate their 50th wed-ding anniversary with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. July 1 at the Melber Civic Building in Melber. All friends and relatives are invited. The couple request no gifts.

Mr. Richardson and the former Nancy Gitterle were married July 14, 1962, in Chicago.

Mrs. Richardson is

employed by the Graves County Sheriff’s Offi ce. She is the daughter of Reba Cooper Gitterle of Mayfi eld and the late John Gitterle.

Mr. Richardson is the former owner/operator of Burl’s Wrecker Service and retired from West Ken-tucky Rural Electric. He is the son of the late Harry and Beatrice Benifi eld Richardson.

They have one daughter, Tina Vinson of Mayfi eld, and one granddaughter.

Nancy and Harry RichardsonFAIRDEALING — Dr. and

Mrs. Richard H. “Dick” Usher of Fairdealing will celebrate their 50th wed-ding anniversary with a trip to Colorado.

Mr. Usher and the former Mary Elizabeth Doyal were married June 30, 1962, at Third Baptist Church in Owensboro by the Rev. T.L. McSwain. Their attendants were Elizabeth Warren and Bobby Bell.

Mrs. Usher is a reg-istered nurse formerly employed by the Univer-sity of Florida Teaching Hospital, Charter Hospital

and the Health Services of the universities of North-ern Colorado and Murray State. She is the daughter of the late W.R. Doyal and Catherine Cundiff Doyal.

Mr. Usher formerly taught in Owensboro City Schools and the universities of Northern Colorado and Murray State. He retired as a professor emeritus in edu-cational psychology from Murray State. He is the son of the late William H. “Son” Usher and LaVerne Lents Usher.

They are the parents of Letitia Diane Usher of Louisville.

Dick and Mary Usher

Mr. and Mrs. Carrel Childress of Paducah cel-ebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a recep-tion June 10 at Renee’s on Cairo Road.

Mr. Childress and the former Phyllis Goodwin were married June 16, 1962, at Southside Baptist Church in Paducah by the Rev. Tildon Garner.

Mrs. Childress is a cafeteria manager at Lone

Oak Elementary School. She is the daughter of Pauline Qualls Goodwin of Paducah and the late Everett Goodwin.

Mr. Childress is a retired dairy/poultry farmer.

He is the son of the late Hubert and Hazel Chil-dress.

They have two children: Renda Childress and Ron-za Oliver, both of Paducah; and two grandchildren.

WINGO — Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lacewell of Wingo will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. July 1 at First United Meth-odist Church Young Center in Clinton. All friends and relatives are invited. The couple request no gifts.

Mr. Lacewell and the former Joan Kimbell were married July 1, 1962, by the Rev. T.Y. Smithmier at Jackson Chapel Methodist Church. Their attendants were Linda Kimbell Jack-son, sister of the bride, and Harry Lacewell, brother of the groom.

Mrs. Lacewell retired from the Hickman County School System, where she served as secretary at Fulgham Elementary and Hickman County High schools for more than 34 years. She is the daughter of the late James and Mary Kimbell. Mr. Lacewell retired from General Tire & Rubber Co., with more than 35 years of service. He is the son of the late Cecil and Francis Lacewell.

They have two children: Keith Lacewell of Wingo and Tammy Lacewell Little of Trenton, Tenn.; and two grandchildren.

Carrel and Phyllis Childress

Joan and Jerry Lacewell

SYMSONIA — Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sims of Symsonia will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 2 to 3:30 p.m. July 7 in the fellowship hall of Reidland Church of Christ. All friends and rela-tives are invited. The couple request no gifts.

Mr. Sims and the former Saundra Michael Latham were married July 4, 1962, by Perry Strong at Milburn Church of Christ. Their attendants were Ben and Pat Sims.

Mrs. Sims is retired from Western Baptist Hospi-tal. She is the daughter of Dorothy Latham Sims of Reidland and the late Larry Latham.

Mr. Sims is retired from the Tennessee Valley Au-thority. He is the son of the late Etta and Vester Sims.

They are the parents of Hans Sims of Symsonia, Hunter Sims of Lexington, Halah Sims Cox of Nash-ville, Tenn., and the late Heidi Sims. They have two grandchildren.

Saundra and Jim Sims

Picture walking up to the Dillard’s counter, two shirts in one hand, smart-phone in the other.

There’s no need to reach for your wallet, because all of the credit card infor-mation has been stored in your phone.

One tap of the phone against a small mobile reader next to the cash register, and you’re out the

door.Welcome to the new,

more intelligent world of smartphones that can dou-ble as wallets.

Just one or two smart-phones currently hold the souped-up microchip technology needed to cor-respond with mobile phone readers that access credit card and bank information. While consumers now can scan phones across bar-code readers to enter con-

cert venues and ballparks, or to board airplanes, the concept of using a phone instead of a credit card is in its nascent stages. Com-plexity, a lack of available technology, and concern over protecting fi nancial information are the chief reasons behind the slow growth.

A joint venture estab-lished a year ago with Atlanta-based AT&T Mo-bility, Verizon Wireless,

T-Mobile USA and some of the major banks and credit card issuers, is hoping to make the mobile wallet mainstream. The venture, called Isis, is testing its mo-bile wallet with a list of lo-cal stores in Austin and Salt Lake City and with some nationwide vendors includ-ing Coca-Cola Co., Dillard’s and Champs Sports. Isis hasn’t said when the mo-bile wallet will be available in other markets or when

the venture will expand its list of national merchants, said Jaymee Johnson, head of marketing. “The mobile wallet is going to be a heck of a convenience,” said Richard Mader, executive director of the Association for Retail Technology Stan-dards, a division of the Na-tional Retail Federation.

Eventually, customers who have the Isis Mobile Wallet setup on their mo-bile phones will be able to

pay for things using it in-stead of a bank card at any store or venue that has a mobile payment system.

“There’s a huge opportu-nity there in terms of mak-ing things easier, and we’re getting into a completely new line of business that we’re very excited about,” AT&T Mobility Chief Ex-ecutive Offi cer Ralph de la Vega said in a recent in-terview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Smartphones used as wallets, but hurdles still remainBY KRISTI E. SWARTZ

Associated Press

The construction of Julian Sellers’ bungalow in St. Paul, Minn., was start-ed in 1926 and fi nished in early 1927. The builder was a Swedish immigrant. The family who fi rst lived there included a married couple, their 6-year-old daughter

and the wife’s mother.Sellers learned all this

by sorting through build-ing permits, tax records, city directories, maps, old newspapers on micro-fi lm and more. A retired software engineer and a member of the Twin Cities Bungalow Club, he has chronicled the history of

the structure, its environs and the people who lived in it. He even met that 6-year-old daughter when she was in her late 80s.

“It’s fun to know that other families have lived here — children have grown up and been nurtured in this house,” said Sellers. “Each family

makes it their own and has their own life and experi-ences here. It’s fun to get that feeling of continuity.”

Many homeowners and apartment dwellers across the country are doing the painstaking work of researching the history of their home and neighbor-hood.

Amanda Elizabeth Har-ton and Jeffery Richard Sturm Jr. will be united in marriage at 6 p.m. Satur-day at First Baptist Church of Paducah. All friends and relatives are invited.

Miss Harton is the daughter of Allen and Nancy Harton of Paducah. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Har-old Sisk, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harton. She is a 2002 graduate of Lone Oak High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational science in 2007 and a master’s degree in occupational therapy in 2009, both from Eastern Kentucky University. She is employed by Hampton Physical Therapy of Paducah.

Mr. Sturm is the son of Jeff and Mindy Sturm of Paducah. He is the grandson of Mary Partain of Hopkins-ville and the late Albert Partain, and Jack and Barbara Sturm of Paducah. He is a 2004 graduate of Reidland High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiolo-gy and health promotion from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is employed by the McCracken County Board of Education.

Kelli Diane Martin and Brandon Paul Kaufman will be united in mar-riage at 4 p.m. Saturday at Reidland Baptist Church. All friends and relatives are invited. Only out-of-town invitations have been sent.

Miss Martin is the daughter of Steve and Julie Martin of Paducah. She is the granddaughter of Jerry and Bennie Kaler of Paducah, and the late Marion and Doris Martin. She is a 2003 graduate of Reidland High School and is pursuing a nursing degree from West Kentucky Commu-nity & Technical College.

Mr. Kaufman is the son of Tony and Tammy Kaufman of Paducah. He is the grandson of Paul and Brenda King of Paducah, and Velma Kaufman of Paducah and the late Joseph Kaufman. He is a 2003 graduate of Lone Oak High School and is employed by Kaufman Masonry in Paducah.

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Janice J. Cole of Shelbyville, Tenn., an-nounces the engagement of her daughter, Janice Eliza-beth Cole, to Christopher Ryan England, son of Drs. Gary and Roberta England of Paducah.

Miss Cole is the grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cole of Shelbyville, Tenn., and the late Imo-gene and Dorman Jordan. She is a 2001 graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn. She earned bachelor’s degrees from both Vanderbilt and Belmont universities in child develop-ment and nursing, respectively, and earned a master’s degree in nurse anesthesia from Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia. She is an alumna of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She is employed as a nurse anesthetist at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, New York.

Mr. England is the grandson of Dr. Hans and Emma Conrad of Cary, N.C., and the late Dr. Lurad and Louise England. He is a 2001 graduate of Phillips Exeter Acad-emy in Exeter, N.H., and earned a bachelor’s degree in 2005 from Harvard University and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics in Lon-don, England. He earned a juris doctorate degree in 2009 from Washington University in St. Louis and works in the New York offi ce of Ropes & Gray LLP as a corporate associate specializing in private equity.

Wedding vows will be exchanged Sept. 29 at the Benton Chapel at Vanderbilt University.

Ron and Jane Dowell of Paducah and Ricky and Donna Bell of Mayfi eld announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Le-Andrea Bell, to Christopher William Hampton, son of David and Dianna Hamp-ton of Paducah.

Miss Bell is the grand-daughter of Paul Herndon of Paducah and the late Dorthy Herndon, Mignon Sullivan of Mayfi eld and the late Buster Bell, and Bud and Martha Sulli-van of Mayfi eld. She is a 2006 graduate of Lone Oak High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2010 from Murray State University. She is an alumna of Alpha Omicron Pi and is employed by Western Baptist Hospital.

Mr. Hampton is the grandson of Wanda Carrell of Paducah and the late Clarence Carrell, and Anne McNeil-ly of Paducah and the late Don McNeilly, and T.O. and Florence Hampton of Floyds Knobs, Ind. He is a 2007 graduate of Lone Oak High School. He earned a bache-lor’s degree in accounting in 2011 and is a July candidate for a master’s degree in business, both from Murray State University. He is an alumnus of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Wedding vows will be exchanged at 5 p.m. Aug. 4 at Bellview Baptist Church in Paducah. All friends and rela-tives are invited to the ceremony and reception following at Rolling Hills Country Club.

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Terry and Jennifer Ap-ple of Murray and James Keel of Murray announce the engagement of their daughter, Lyndsi Autumn Keel, to Timothy Matthew Hughes, son of Timothy and Paula Hughes of Flower Mound, Texas.

Miss Keel is the grand-daughter of Bob and Amanda Sanders of Benton, and Jerry and Jan Boyd of Benton.

She is the great-grand-daughter of Mrs. Charleen Johnson of Benton. Miss Keel is a 2004 graduate of Calloway County High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational communications in 2008 from Murray State University and a master’s degree in business administration in 2010 from the University of Alabama.

She is employed as a lean leader with Baptist Health-care Systems in Birmingham, Ala.

Mr. Hughes is the grandson of Mrs. Doretta Hughes of Scottsdale, Ariz., and the late Tom Hughes, and Mrs. Lyzie LeJeune of Phoenix, Ariz., and the late Neil LeJeune.

He is a 2003 graduate of Saint Paul’s High School in Mandeville, La., and earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in 2008 and a master’s degree in business administration in 2010, both from the Uni-versity of Alabama. He is the owner of Game Day Done Right, an event rental company.

Wedding vows will be exchanged July 7 in Nashville.

Bryan and Missy Leatherman Powell of Linden, Tenn., announce the engagement of their daughter, Mallory Ann Powell, to Aaron Anthony Courter, son of Anthony and Michelle Courter of Linden, Tenn.

Miss Powell is the granddaughter of Danny and Marilyn Ramage of Paducah, and Tom Leatherman of Omaha, Ark.

Wedding vows will be exchanged Aug. 4 in Linden.

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Dear Annie: I am a 17-year-old who was di-agnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 10. My AS is mild and allows me to function better than most. However, I have an individualized education program and access to the learning/emotional support system in my school.

Since I have a mild type of AS, my teachers often tell me they “can’t see any hint of AS.” But they don’t realize how diffi cult it is for me to talk to them — or anyone — about my condition.

I see a therapist on a regular basis, and she has confi rmed my diag-nosis. Could you recom-mend a support group? This would be extremely helpful to me, especially since I will be leaving for college soon. — Aspie in Pittsburgh.

Dear Pittsburgh: Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder character-ized by some degree of impairment in language and com-munication skills, as well as repetitive or restrictive patterns of thought and behav-ior.

Treatment includes social skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, occupational or phys-ical therapy, special-ized speech/language therapy and parent training and support.

You sound very high functioning, which is undoubtedly why your teachers ques-tion your diagnosis.

The Online Asperg-er Syndrome Infor-mation and Support (OASIS) center has joined with MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syn-drome to provide an online support web-site at aspergersyn-drome.org. Please check it out.

Dear Annie: My hus-band and I have been together for 30 years. “Mitch” is a great guy in all aspects, except inti-macy.

There’s no romance, touching or attention. Sex is infrequent and al-ways mechanical and un-emotional.

For years, I tried every-thing — articles, counsel-ors, conferences — and nothing changes this man.

He says he just doesn’t have it in him, which to me translates as, “You are not important enough for me to want to change.”

Mitch has taught me not to feel any affection

toward him at all. I care about him, and we co-habit well together and have other interests, but we are no more than roommates. So now, in my 50s, I’m fi nished cry-ing about it, talking about it, fi ghting about it. I am DONE.

I told Mitch I no lon-ger wish to have any in-timacy with him at all. Of course, he was blown away by this and now has decided he wants to do better. But it’s too late. Those feelings are gone. To me it is like having sex with my brother. And then he had the nerve to say I am blaming him for all this. Really? What do you think? — Washing-ton.

Dear Washington: We think it’s too bad Mitch ignored your misery until now, but then, some men don’t recognize what’s at stake until you hit them over the head with it. Is there any possibility that the romance could be re-kindled?

It would be hard work for both of you and would require that you get over your anger.

But it’s not impos-sible now that you have his complete at-tention.

Please consider counseling together. It seems to us that there may be some-thing worth saving.

Dear Annie: When I read the letter from “Head in the Clouds,” I knew I had to write.

Go! Do it! I, too, had always dreamed of living overseas.

When I graduated from college, I jumped at the chance to work in Scot-land.

It was one of the best decisions of my life, and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.

Taking the plunge without the absolute sup-port of parents and fami-ly may prove challenging, but “Head in the Clouds” will learn so much about herself, including how strong she really is. Go! — Oregon.

Please e-mail your questions to anniesmail-box@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndi-cate, 737 3rd Street, Her-mosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HONOLULU — The bil-lionaire poised to buy a Hawaiian island is an os-tentatious and eclectic man who does everything in a big way.

And those familiar with Larry Ellison say buying an island the middle of the Pacifi c is right up his alley.

“The possibilities are limitless” for Lanai, home to about 3,200 residents, said Mike Wilson, who wrote the fi rst biography of Ellison, “The Differ-ence Between God and Larry Ellison: (asterisk)God Doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison.”

Ellison built Oracle Corp. with $1,200 in 1977 and is the world’s sixth richest billionaire. He inked a deal to buy the vast majority of Lanai from fellow billionaire David Murdock, whose company Castle & Cooke Inc. owns 98 percent of the island’s 141 square miles.

While Ellison’s plans for the island have yet to be revealed, he’s likely to do something “epic and grand,” Wilson said Thursday.

“He could build the world’s largest rare but-

terfl y sanctuary, a medi-cal research facility to help him live forever or a really cool go-cart track,” Wilson said — but only half-jokingly, because those are the kinds of outlandish interests El-lison has.

As a man who feels cheated by a limited life-span, he’s like a kid who never grew up but yet is a great visionary, Wilson said.

Ellison is known for fl aunting his fortune like a playboy, driving fancy cars, wooing beautiful women, fl ying his own jet and spending $200 million to build a Japa-nese-themed compound in California’s Silicon Valley.

Wilson said the high-tech maverick won’t be concerned with how his lifestyle will jibe with a

laid-back island where longtime residents are grappling with the loss of their pineapple fi elds to make way for luxury development: “I don’t think his primary concern is fi tting in with what Hawaiians want.”

While Lanaians are eager for someone who might restore agriculture to the island’s economy or someone who appreci-ates the unique culture of Hawaii, residents also are familiar with living on what Castle & Cooke calls the largest privately held island in the United States.

“Lanai folks have al-ways been sort of this un-der this benevolent own-ership, which goes back to the Dole days,” Univer-sity of Hawaii historian Warren Nishimoto said of Lanai’s ownership in the 1920s by the founder of Dole Foods Co. “They never felt comfortable about what the future is

for the island. It’s at the whims of an owner.”

Ellison is “not a human bull-dozer,” and appreci-ates the beauty of nature, Wilson said.

The magnate has a love for the ocean, evidenced by his successful quest for the sailing prize Ameri-ca’s Cup, his numerous yachts and his thrill-seeking attraction to the power of the sea.

In 1991, he broke his neck and punctured his right lung while body-surfi ng in Hawaii. In an interview recalling the accident, Ellison said the beach was closed that day because of waves as high as 15 feet, but he attempt-ed to catch one anyway.

In 1998, he won a 725-mile yacht race in the South Pacifi c, but only after overcoming a fero-cious storm that killed six sailors.

But beyond boating or jetting into Lanai, his ties to the island aren’t clear and his forays into tourism — the economic engine that has driven the island under Murdock’s ownership — are limited, if nonexistent.

“He’s capable of any-thing,” Wilson said. “Lanai may be in store for the grandest preservation effort Hawaii has ever seen. Or it may be in line for the most grotesque development effort it has ever seen.”

Flashy Oracle founder’s next buy: Hawaiian islandBY JENNIFER SINCO

KELLEHERAssociated Press

“He’s capable of anything. Lanai may be in store for the grandest

preservation effort Hawaii has ever seen. Or it may be in line for the

most grotesque development effort it has ever seen.”

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It doesn’t matter the age, Crecelius said. Teenagers mingle with men and wom-en in the golden years of life as they strive to achieve the cooperation handlers can achieve with their dogs in agility trials.

As Crecelius described the feeling of working with her dog, her throat got tight.

“I have never felt any-thing so wonderful as when I’m running with my dog and we’re in sync with one another,” she said.

“When you compete with your dog and everything goes right, and you’re to-gether, it’s like running the Olympics. It’s unbelievable the feeling of pure joy that you have and your dog has.”

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Virginia Manchester, like many of her kennel club peers, are adamant that the group is open to any dog lover, and cat lover for that matter. Manchester, works with obedience training and competition. The group

offers training for pup-pies and older dogs, and Manchester has become enchanted with the struc-tured levels of competition, showing how well-trained dogs can strut their stuff not matter their pedigree.

Manchester has always been a dog person. Her breed is the parson rus-sell terrier. “I would not be without a dog,” she said. “A dog gives you unconditional love. You can come home from work, be in the worst mood, and that dog meets you at the door, and he says, ‘I’m here, and I love you.’”

She’s honed her insight into both humans and animals in her time with obedience training, she said. Dogs are bred for so many purposes, and it doesn’t take a professional to give a dog a happy life. The animals give the same in return, she said.

There’s no requirement, no test, to get into the Paducah Kennel Club. If you’re a good dog owner and an animal enthusiast, the door is open.Call Rebecca Feldhaus, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651.

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NEW YORK — A fi rst-person lament by a former State Department offi cial on “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” has attracted

more visitors to The Atlantic website in a 24-hour period than any magazine story the site has ever published.

The piece by Anne-Marie Slaughter described her struggles balancing a high-

powered career with raising her two sons.

“I knew this was going to resonate,” said Slaughter in a phone interview, but “I did not expect it to go viral quite this fast.”

Slaughter, 53, served as the fi rst female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in Wash-ington, D.C., and commuted home to Princeton, N.J., on weekends while her hus-

band, Andrew Moravcsik, a professor at Princeton, served as primary caregiver for their two boys.

In the article, she recalls a glamorous reception she attended with the Obamas

and other VIPs where she couldn’t stop thinking about her 14-year-old son, who was “skipping homework, dis-rupting classes, failing math, and tuning out any adult who tried to reach him.”

Record hits on mag’s ‘Can’t Have It All’ storyBY BETH J. HARPAZ

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Five hospitals sit within an easy drive of my Indianapo-lis home. It’s comforting to know, considering that my wife will deliver our second child in late August.

But that information will become temporarily useless next month when we take our annual family vacation to Holden Beach, N.C., a strip of Atlantic Ocean. It re-quires planning and prudent steps that doctors recom-mend for all travelers, re-gardless of whether they are great with child.

1. Do a little research

If you’re staying some-where for more than a few days, do a quick Internet search to learn what health care help might be avail-able, especially if you have a medical condition. In our case, a new medical center with birthing rooms and a nursery is located roughly 30 minutes inland from the beach house if the baby comes early.

2. Pack smartlyMake sure your prescrip-

tions are updated and fi lled. Bring more than just the medicines or vitamins you take daily. Include things like an inhaler if you have occasional bouts of asthma or Benadryl if that’s your go-to treatment for an allergy fl are-up.

Bring a form with your medical history if you have an ongoing or chronic condi-tion, allergies or something unusual like a rare blood type.

3. Avoid waiting too long

Don’t let your desire to re-lax and have fun on the vaca-tion prevent you from acting quickly if necessary.

Seek emergency care im-mediately if you have a his-tory of heart problems and wake up one morning with chest pain, if you have a ter-rible headache that leads to blurry vision or if you have signs of a stroke like a sudden numbness on one side of the body.

3 steps to avoid health care hassles on vacation

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Clark — Caleigh Rae Clark, daughter of Ryan and Melissa (Kaufman) Clark of Boaz, May 24, Western Baptist Hospital. Grand-parents are Mike and Cathy Kaufman of Boaz, and Ricky and Sheila Clark of Paducah. Great-grandparents are Paul and Dorothy Kaufman of Paducah, Louise Mc-Whorter of Fulghman, and Donald and Barbara Sills of Paducah.

Risley — Kendall Jaiden Risley and Camryn Maken-zie Risley, daughters of Jeff and Julie (Hinkebein) Risley of Paducah, May 24, West-ern Baptist Hospital. Grand-parents are Clem and Brenda Hinkebein of Benton, Sam and Brenda Whicker of North Vernon, Ind., and Ron

and Deb Risley of Brook, Ind. Great-grandparents are Lou-ise Hinkebein of Benton and Harold and Betty Risley of Kentland, Ind.

Martin — Emerson Da-vid Martin, son of Johnathan David and Stacey Emilie (Beans) Martin of Paducah, May 25, Lourdes hospital. Grandparents are David and Bobbie Wrinkle of Paducah, Lewis Beans of Paducah, and Greg and Melinda Martin of Paducah. Great-grand-parents are Minnie Hess of Pana, Ill., Soncie Martin of Paducah, Shirley Wrinkle of Paducah, and Phill and Mar-guerite Beans of Joppa, Ill.

Duke — Jonah Ryan Duke, son of Ryan and Bran-di (Burnham) Duke of Hick-ory, May 25, Western Baptist

Hospital. Grandparents are Sammy and Amy Burnham of Dyersburg, Tenn., and Monty and Lora Duke of Wingo.

Bowers — Adelynn Grace Bowers, daughter of Shelly Bowers of Calvert City, May 26, Western Baptist Hospi-tal. Grandparents are Wesley and Lori Bowers of Paducah, and James and Penny Katschke of Calvert City. Great-grandparent is Lois Baldree of Lone Oak.

Walker — Tanner Lee Walker, son of Stewart and Jessica Walker of Eddyville, May 30, Western Baptist Hospital. Grandparents are Denver and Kim Robertson of Marion, David and Dar-lene Bloodworth of Kuttawa, and Bill and Martha Holling-

sworth of Kuttawa. Great-grandparents are Aliene Tabor and Ruth Evelyn Rob-ertson, both of Marion.

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Edwards — Emerson Kay Edwards, daughter of Aaron and Bethany (Wright) Edwards of Paducah, May 30, Western Baptist Hospi-tal. Grandparents are Greg and Debra Henderson Ed-wards of Benton, and James and Sheri Thornton Wright of Paducah. Great-grand-parents are Will D. and Anita

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Clark — Annie Gray Clark and Sawyer Rowe Clark, daughter and son of Keith and Emily (Scott) Clark of Belmont, N.C., May 30, Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C. Grand-parents are Tommy and Sherma Scott of Mayfi eld, and Charles and Alice Clark of Lebanon. Great-grand-parents are Norma Powell of Benton and Helen Clark of Lebanon.

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