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ATTENTION READERS!! Call in upcoming birth- days at 270-864-3891 or drop them o at our oce located at 412 Courthouse Square. Next week’s list will be Sept. 24-30. These listings are FREE! Please submit them by Mondays at 5 p.m. or that week’s paper. Page 2— Cumberland County News —September 17, 2014 Letters to the Editor must be on subjects relevant to the readers of this publication. The Cumberland County News reserves the right to edit or reject any letter for brevity, content and clarity and to limit frequent writers. Please keep letters to 500 words or less. Form letters and mass e-mail letters will not be published. Letters should not contain libelous statements. All letters must be signed by the writer and must include the full address and telephone number for verication. Anonymous letters will not be printed. Letters to the Editor and other articles on this page do not necessarily reect the opinions of the Cumberland County News publisher and staff. Letters to Editor Policy Opinions Cyndi Pritchett – Editor Sarah Stockton – Advertising Manager Billy Guffey – Advertising Design and Layout Paula Gunderman – Typesetting USPS 139-900 412 Courthouse Square, P.O. Box 307 Burkesville, Kentucky 42717 Phone (270) 864-3891 • ccn@burkesville.com The Cumberland County News is published each Wednesday at Burkesville, KY and is entered as a periodical at the Burkesville Post Ofce. Subscribtion rates are: $19.00 (including tax) per year in Cumberland and adjoining counties; $27.00 (including tax) elsewhere in KY; and $30.00 out-of-state (no tax). POSTMASTER: Send address changes to P.O. Box 307, Burkesville, KY 42717. Member of the Kentucky Weekly Newspaper Association, the Kentucky Press Association, the National Newspaper Association, and the Burkesville-Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce. © Copyright, Cumberland County News, 2014 Cumberland County News Happy Birthday to you! Jo’s Bookmark Sept. 17-23 Tony Smith - 17th John Webb - 17th Daryl Claywell - 17th Stephen Shelley - 17th Tom Ellis - 17th Paul Sharp - 17th Nancy Burns - 17th Jamie Spears - 17th Barry Joe Garner - 17th Katelyn Pitcock - 17th Shelley Flowers - 17th Gladys Poore - 17th Jerry Shoopman - 18th Bonnie Willis - 18th Jared Scott - 18th James W. Dyer - 18th Mark Thacker - 18th Rodney Groce - 18th David Thacker - 19th Christie Wray - 19th Nelda Fletcher - 19th Jennifer Wilson - 19th Christie Groce - 19th India Rush - 19th Marie Cope - 19th Darlene Spencer - 20th Skylar Willis - 20th Linda Porter - 20th Parker Hickman - 20th Shirley Thompson - 20th Bradley Wray - 20th Tamara Harris - 20th Becky Rush - 20th Ruby Wright - 20th Steve Morgan - 21st Jackie Ryan Dyer - 21st Justin Wright - 21st Kristy Flowers Poindexter - 21st Bethany Vibbert - 22nd Larry England - 22nd Ashley Parrish - 22nd Andrea Skylar Claywell - 22nd Melissa A. Harris - 22nd Dewey Wright - 22nd Nina Webb Skipworth - 22nd Jack Webb - 23rd Peggy Branham - 23rd Curtis Austyn Groce - 23rd Michael Sherman Arms - 23rd Dylan Radford - 23rd Gale Moons - 23rd Kyle Willis - 23rd Corey Anderson - 23rd Becky Nuetzman - 23rd Abigail Marie Mason - 23rd Makayla Cockrill - 23rd 8th ANNUAL STEEL HORSE STAMPEDE BENEFIT RIDE Sunday, Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. Rain or Shine Sign up at 12 noon at the First Christian Church on the square in Burkesville This is the ride and meal you don’t want to miss! I you rode the rst seven you know what to expect— i you didn’t you are in or a treat! Ater riding the twisty backroads o Cumberland, Adair, Russell and Clinton counties, we have a great home-cooked meal prepared by the churches o Cumberland County at the Cumberland County High School in Burkesville, KY. The loop is about 80 miles and includes stops at the Trout Hatchery below Wol Creek Dam where we will have ree cookies and cokes. Then to the CCHS gym or a great home-cooked meal! Only $20 or the ride and the meal! Add $10 or a passenger, including their meal, and all money goes to “We Care,” a local group that helps and supports cancer patients, and the Cumberland County Search and Rescue Squad. Don’t orget to bring some extra money or our Auction! We will have some great items to bid on, including a homemade Steel Horse Stampede Quilt! I your church service is not over in time or you to get here and ride, then come to church with us! Wear your riding gear —you will be welcome! Church service begins at 10:30 a.m. Follow our Facebook page at Steel Horse Stam- peded Burkesville Kentucky. Great twisties! T-Shirts to the frst 500 riders! One of the best meals you could ever want! Great auction items! Great door prizes! Rain or Shine! For more information call Leon or Den- nis Smith at 270-433-7135 or 406-3302. Dear Editor: Recently our Fiscal Court revised the county ordi- nance that regulates poul- try house operation. The decision ell strongly in avor o the corporate party involved. The pro/con input rom citizens was active, sometimes heated. What can be said is that both sides presented their cas- es as strongly as possible. Sometimes the points being raised were more than just a little embellished. The pro-corporate side correctly pointed out the obvious in that our county oers little in the way o job opportunity and o real in- come potential. The issue o our young olks leaving the area is real and in sore need o attention. Their answer was more chicken houses. Sorry, but their logic eludes me. In keeping with the or- dinance, the company will restrict contracts to owner/ operators only. In order or the owner to realize a live- able return on his HUGE dollar investment and debt- load, he is encouraged to operate without hired help. So, i 10 new contracts are written there will be 10 op- portunities or a armer to run his own operation. But, in all honesty, these are not 10 new job opportunities in the county. Rather it’s more likely a case o 10 area men already engaged in other aspects o arming taking on yet another workload. There should be no need or out- side help other than at chick delivery time when a num- ber o people are needed to prevent rantic birds rom congregating in corners and suocating. The only other time help is needed is when the birds must be caught, caged and loaded aboard the truck. In both cases the usual procedure is to hire on experienced handler crews who go about the area providing such ser- vice. They are oten migrant workers. I ail to see how the process will avorably impact our local county job market. Increased poul- try house production here will simply mean a greater work load and greater em- ployment at the processing plant in Clinton County. Our youngsters leave looking or opportunity. I don’t think you’ll impress them with the oer o a career consist- ing o occasional stints as a manure shoveler. I honestly wish every level o success or any individual who does elect to come under contract. Just be absolutely certain o what risks you are acing should your own operation alter or i market demand declines or i you are inca- pacitated. A million dollars is a LOT o money to carry as a debt load. Please allow me to oer a suggestion that does stand a better chance o improving our economy and o keeping our kids at home. More local jobs. A wider window o opportunity or existing armers. One VERY promising concept is in- dustrialized hemp. Jamie Comer, our current state Commissioner o Agricul- ture, is strongly in avor o the idea. U.K. is, as you read this, is currently harvesting hemp rom 10 dierent test- plot sites across the state. Other states are actively looking closely at establish- ing their own production. The industry is already extremely active in Europe. Many old-timers here recall Kentucky being a heavy hemp producer-and that was in the days when the principal use or hemp was in making rope (back beore DuPont introduced nylon). Today hemp is a component o many product includ- ing plastics, abrics, paper, lubricants and even “hemp- crete.” All the good things you know about concrete are enhanced with hemp-crete, plus, it is a airly good insu- lator in its own right. Hemp is an agricultural product that a armer can generate with an initial capital outlay o a mere raction o what it costs to be a contract poultry producer. In act, most arm- ers already have the basic equipment needed to start. As everyone is aware, the real money in any ag product is not in producing it but rather in processing and in marketing it. My sug- gestion—the Fiscal Court should consider reconvening the Ag Committee assem- bled to study the chicken industry proposal. They struck me as a well-rounded group o knowledgeable and committed citizens. Have them research the various applications o a hemp crop insoar as what processing might be accomplished with local resources and labor in order to maximize the value o shipped material. Per- haps a consortium, a co-op, o local armers might pool their resources as in invest- ment in a production acility right here in Cumberland County. A site such as the vacant Stephens building oers a huge space or a variety o processing steps. Imagine. A new work-site in Burkesville actually within walking distance or scores o local citizens. Our local Ag Extension Oce could serve as a perect source o identiying the potentials o a new crop and or compil- ing actual perormance data regarding actual industry experience in Europe. There is no reason Cum- berland County cannot prove to be an eventual industrial leader oering a sorely need and protable product. And it sure beats shoveling manure. Vince Konsavage Burkesville, KY To The Editor: Judge Executive Phelps: Let’s do the numbers: you said a $10,000,000 yearly tourist trade…. Against maybe $70,000 yearly hired wages or all 40 anticipated chicken house operations. That’s imagining that the amily arm hires out help as do all the other amily arm run our house chicken operations according to the USDA. (I gured $10/hour labor because that’s what I pay hired help). Add to that the $35,000 a year that we’ve heard an average our house operation nets. Multiply that by the ten operations o our houses each and we get $350,000. $70,000 = $420,000 a year income to the county… And o course, let’s also gure in trucking and mechanics….. all together what: $500,000? $600,000?- against an estab- lished $10,000,000 tourist trade. Against the comort o your mom’s back yard? Against my air? Against your water? What are you thinking o? The numbers are whacky. Joe Knoepfer Kettle, KY Dear Editor: At last Tuesday’s Fiscal Court meeting our Magis- trates and County Judge unanimously granted Key- stone everything they re- quested regarding the pro- posed radical expansion o their chicken acilities. There were two reasons that struck me as to why this expansion was granted. First, was that a armer must be ree to do as he wished on his land. It was bit ironic and sad that this particular exercise in ree- dom involved taking on a million dollar debt, signi- cant risk, and having every aspect o the operation be dictated by Keystone. Is a CAFO really considered ‘arming’? But today’s arm- er does need lots o ertilizer. It seems the traditional, more complex and sustain- able rotational models were deemed too inecient. As one time Agriculture Sec- retary Earl Butts said, ‘get big or get out’. Sadly, many did ‘get out.’ But at no time was it stated that providing a ew armers with means a cheaper alternative to ossil based ertilizer was a reason or the expansion. Second, over and over, we were assured that this expansion would result in a signicant improvement in our County’s unemploy- ment situation. That the expansion would provide opportunities or our young people to either stay or re- turn to our county. A petition signed by near- ly 100 county residents in opposition was presented. Opposing arguments in- volved the obvious stench, the specter o tons o eath- er-laced ecal litter alot in the wind, loss o property value and that the majority o jobs created would be at the processing acility. O what benet was Keystone creating more positions o the type they already couldn’t ill? Additionally, that Cumberland County’s exceptional eco-region des- ignation and topography made it unsuitable or this expansion. For this reason the litter rom the planned additional 70 houses and 1,750,000 chickens pre- sented a clear threat to our waterways. At the very least, i this expansion goes orward, Keystone should have to stand by their assertion regarding job creation. It’s surely justied, should our employment data not refect the explicitly promised im- provement, a tax be imposed on each and every load o e- ‘Abortion is sacred,’ Planned Parenthood volunteer tells Missouri legislators Submitted by the Right to Life of the Cumberlands group As Missouri state legisla- tors grappled with whether to extend the waiting period or an abortion to 72 hours, a Planned Parenthood vol- unteer had a simple mes- sage or them: “Abortion is sacred.” Those words, emblazoned on a sign held by Juleigh Snell on the south lawn o the state capital in Jeerson City, spoke or many o those present at the “Stand With Missouri Women” rally yes- terday morning. Snell, who describes hersel as an athe- ist, drove 150 miles rom her home in Alton, Illinois – the hometown o Eagle Forum ounder Phyllis Schlafy – or the demonstration on the capitol steps. “Our health care, our bod- ies, our choices,” Snell told The Missourian at one o two rallies designed to sway lawmakers. Pivoting rom its previ- ous depiction o abortion as a necessary evil, the abortion industry and its political stalwarts have in- creasingly begun describing abortion as a positive, even holy, event. Last August, Wendy Davis said she launched the 11-hour libuster that thrust her into the lime- light, because “sometimes you have to take a stand on sacred ground.” Two months earlier, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reerred to the issue o abortion as “sacred ground” while defecting a question rom a reporter rom The Weekly Standard. Topless protesters with the group Femen chanted “abortion is sacred” while attacking the Archbishop o Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, in February. The pro-abortion rally – which was led by the state chapters o NARAL, the cal litter disposed o in this county, and that the citizens o Cumberland County be compensated or their sacri- ce and the additional risk imposed on their property values, environment and health. Mary Keogh Burkesville, K See Sacred on Page 7
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