Crider brings drama back to HHS Drama is alive and well at Harlan High School thanks to Kevn Crider. He and his ‘Dragon Drama’ students did themselves proud recently by presenting the well-known comedy Greater Tuna. The play was originally designed for only two actors to play the entire cast of over 20 eccentric characters of both genders and various ages; however, it also lends itself to accommodating each of the aforementioned roles individually. Crider chose to use the la...
Don’t break the bank, stay cool With the days finally getting warmer, many of us are looking forward to summertime and making plans for all of the activities we want to do and events we want to attend. Summer can be a lot of fun, but many summertime adventures can also be expensive. Preparing now for summertime expenses can help soften the blow to your wallet.
Many people do not include summertime expenses, such as vacations, concerts, summer camps, trips to the pool and go...
Hitting the track to fight diabetes We know it’s still two weeks away, but my 4-year-old grandson, Tyler Kane Ochs, and I are still seeking sponsors for our participation in Team TKO’s Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes event on June 1 at Keeneland.
So far, 15 of my column readers have sent us checks and one person made an online donation. But, as that cute little girl says in a wildly popular television commercial, “We want more. We want more. We want more!”
Actually, I’ve been l...
Being content with life is a gift I recently caught myself thinking about the state of my life. Things were calm and peaceful. I was almost finished with physical therapy and ready to start wellness. I was almost ready to get rid of my cane. The road since retirement was feeling a lot less shaky. The people in my life all seemed to be in pretty good shape. Some people might even have called my day to day life boring, but I was content.
I told someone that I really thought “bo...
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Judith Victoria HensleyThe Harlan Daily Enterprise
The hottest ticket in town, again May and June are the months for commencements. High schools, colleges and universities present diplomas and confer degrees by the thousands. There are traditions, pomp and protocol surrounding each one.
Locally, one of the most heavily attended graduations is that of Sunshine Pre-School’s K-4 class. For years, I have called it the “hottest ticket in town” and one had better arrive early to claim a seat at Harlan Baptist Church.
Director Pat ...
Time to think about termites Springtime, with its warmer temperatures and more abundant rainfall, is typically when many winged termites emerge inside homes and other structures. Termites swarm from the colony to disburse, fall to the ground, find mates, and start new colonies in the soil.
From now through the end of May, you might see swarms of winged termites, called swarmers, inside your home, signaling an infestation that can cause extensive and costly damage. Since ...
Motherhood not for wimps, wannabes Mother’s Day is upon us. Let children young and old and in between make this day an important one. Busy schedules, distance, illness are not acceptable excuses for letting the day pass without letting mothers know they are loved.
The celebration of Mother’s Day goes back to the ancient Romans and Greeks. In the United Kingdom, a Sunday was set aside for Mothering Sunday. It has been celebrated in the United States for about 100 years. It is o...
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Judith Victoria HensleyThe Harlan Daily Enterprise
History of Mother’s Day revealed This coming Sunday will be Mother’s Day and the history of the day’s commemoration is an interesting one.
Mother’s Day originated in America and was founded by West Virginia native Anna Jarvis. Anna’s mother, Ann Jarvis, had founded Mothers’ Day Work Clubs in five cities to improve sanitary and health conditions. The Mothers’ Day Work Clubs also treated wounds, fed and clothed both Union and Confederate soldiers with neutrality.
On May 12, 1...
4-H Teen Conference deadline is Friday With summer just around the corner, it is time for Kentucky 4-H teens to register for the 2013 Kentucky 4-H Teen Conference. The conference takes place at the University of Kentucky June 10 through 13 and is open to all 4-H’ers who have graduated eighth grade through the age of 18.
During the conference, 4-H members have the opportunity to experience dorm life in UK residence halls, attend educational and recreational workshops and meet new f...
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4-H Teen Conference deadline is FridayThe Harlan Daily Enterprise
The Lord will direct our paths Tim Tebow wrote on his Twitter account this week, Proverbs 3:5 – 6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” He wrote this after being dropped from his NFL team this week.
Sometimes we want to see the whole path, but we only get to see one step at a time. If we know who is directing our path, we can go forward with the assurance th...
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Judith Victoria HensleyThe Harlan Daily Enterprise
May Day heralds arrival of summer Today is May Day, the first day of the fifth month. A traditional day of festivities throughout the centuries, May Day is most associated with towns and villages celebrating springtime fertility (of the soil, livestock, and people) with community gatherings. The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers.
Celebrated in Ireland since pagan times, traditionally, bonfire...
Tips to start gardening green Living green, green energy, a green environment. We can pick up any magazine, watch any television show and learn about living green. Have we reverted back to the early 70s? No not really. But we want to make good use of what we have while preserving our environment for our children and grandchildren.
How can you incorporate green gardening into your existing garden and reclaim a connection with the natural world. Green gardening means lettin...
A summer visitor has returned There is a little shelf high on the wall just inside my garage door where I keep a whet stone and half a dozen inexpensive, but razor- sharp, fillet knives out of the reach of children and most other people who should not be handling dangerous cutting tools.
I haven’t needed the knives recently because the water has been too high to fish, but tonight I need to put an edge on a cheese knife and couldn’t find my Amish knife sharpener. I went to...
Show wisdom, integrity when it comes to money Since my recent and unexpected retirement, I am more acutely aware of money matters than I probably ever have been. When we are young, we know there are jobs out there if we are willing to go after them and work hard. We believe hard work will be enough to make a decent wage and put enough money in our hands to make it in this world.
I have been in some really tight places in my life financially — harder than I even like to remember. The memo...
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Judith Victoria HensleyThe Harlan Daily Enterprise
Optimism through doom and gloom It seems that in this day and time, it is so easy to look around and find things to be pessimistic about. For instance, happenings around the world seem to be all doom and gloom.
There also seems to be so little humor in the news or in daily life. Recently I was told an anecdote that was so unusual, simple and clever when it was told to me by a friend, we had a good laugh together. Here’s the story.
It seems there was an elderly lady well in...
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