Society

How to Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims

John Null and Rob Canning — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:24:09 +0000

Monday, an EF-4 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma leaving many homes destroyed and families searching to find their loved ones. Within hours, organizations across the nation began efforts to help the victims and provide relief to disaster responders. Here’s how you can help in your area:

Hopkins County Animal Shelter Reduces Euthanasia Rate 40%

Rob Canning — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:28:21 +0000

The Hopkins County Animal Shelter has reduced its euthanasia rate more than forty percent in the last four years. The shelter had faced scrutiny for rates exceeding 65%. The euthanasia rate now stands at 23%. Last week, the shelter board discussed plans to implement programs to keep healthy or treatable animal deaths to a minimum of 10%. Shelter Director Charles Gentry said the humane society's recent success stems from working with the community.

Hopkinsville City Council Considers Expanded Sales in Alcohol Ordinance Amednment

Austin Ramsey — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:07:03 +0000

The Hopkinsville City Council will hear the first reading tonight of an amendment that would cut the fifty-year-old restriction that alcohol sales only be sold in the downtown area.

The move would essentially eliminate the four-by-fourteen-block boundary in which the sale of alcohol has been limited to since the mid-1960s.

Dietitian Laura Marbury on Healthy Eating and Fighting Weight Gain

Kate Lochte — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:42 +0000

Kate Lochte speaks with Laura Marbury, the Nutrition Affairs Program Manager for Tennessee and Kentucky about losing weight. The Southeastern Dairy Association is sending Marbury around Tennessee and Kentucky to spread her knowledge of nutrition including the fact that milk is a good source of vitamin D and how to fight the inevitable weight gain of one to three pounds a year.

Madisonville Sanitation Officials Promote City Recycling

Rob Canning — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:56:04 +0000

Madisonville sanitation officials say nearly 30% of the city's population is using the city's iRecycle program. In October, the city began the program to keeping garbage collection fees low by reducing the number of tons transported to the Hopkins County Regional Landfill. City Sanitation Superintendent Robert Janes said he hopes 70 per cent of the population will sign on by the end of the next fiscal year.

Susan & Morgan Guess Present Bullying: A Plan for Kentucky and What Kids Can Do

Kate Lochte — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:42:26 +0000

Susan and Morgan Guess presented "A Plan for Kentucky and What Kids Can Do," during the Murray Human Rights Commission's Bullying Conference on April 6, 2013 in the Barkley Room of the Curris Center at Murray State University. Here is the the audio of their nearly hour long discussion of what the Guess family has done to bring attention to the issue of bullying since Morgan's experience.

Memorial For Battle of Hamburger Hill Set

John Walker and The Associated Press — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:56:20 +0000

A memorial ceremony is being held at Fort Campbell to mark the 44th anniversary of the Battle of Hamburger Hill, one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. Members of the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade and other units fought for 12 days against North Vietnamese forces before U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured the mountain that the Americans referred to as "Hamburger Hill." The ceremony today is being hosted by soldiers and veterans from the 3rd Brigade.

TN Online Health Assessment Urged For Baby Boomers

John Walker and The Associated Press — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:50:46 +0000

Tennessee health officials are urging people to take a five-minute online assessment about whether they are at risk for hepatitis C. Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner said baby boomers are five time more likely than the general population to have the disease.

Cleanup Project Donates Used Computers to Fulton Technical School

Austin Ramsey — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:56:00 +0000

One of the agencies contracted to clean up the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is donating used computer equipment to a local technical school.

DUF6, a uranium cleanup project of Babcock and Wilcox Conversion Services, transferred 223 computers and printers to the Fulton County Area Technical Center in Hickman late last month.

Principal Tom Pyron said the center, which provides technology and trade education for area high school students, was under budget pressure that the donation relieves.

Murray Attorney on Youth Pranks and Crimes

Kate Lochte — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:07:57 +0000

Murray Attorney Mark Blankenship joins Kate Lochte on Sounds Good to discuss how youths need to realize that what used to be pranks now lead to involvement with the courts.