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Northern Lights: Benefits of the Modern Age
 2025-11-15 - Fairplay, KY - Photo courtesy Veronica Arnold. Veronica generated this chart of solar cycles and geomagnetic storms and the rise of smart phone ownership, making the correlation is easy to see. She says, "The current cycle of solar storms is active and many have access to phones with night cameras, so we are able to catch and share more easily. In addition, alerting people to this phenomenon using social media creates an awareness of the phenomenon that we didn't have before."
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Chris Reeder files for Adair County Judge Executive
 2025-11-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Chris Reeder. Chris Reeder has filed to run for Adair County Judge Executive in 2026, submitting his paperwork on November 5, 2025. From left to right, Perry Reeder, Ashley Reeder, Deeanna Reeder, Windy Reeder, Chris Reeder candidate for Adair County Judge Executive, and Helden Adams.
Every candidate in our core area, Adair and surrounding counties, is invited to send a picture from their experience signing up for office that we may share with Columbia Magazine readers. Please include names and details. Just click 'contact' in the menu at the top left of this page.
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Dr. C.C. Howard
 2025-11-15 - 2300 block of Summer Shade Road, Summer Shade, KY - Photo courtesy Billy Joe Fudge. This newspaper clipping of Dr. Howard brought back memories of a harrowing trip across curvy country roads so that Dr. Howard could perform an emergency appendectomy on then 5-year-old Billy Joe Fudge.
Dr. Howard's birthplace in Summer Shade is home Kentucky Historical Marker 1503, noting his contributions to health care in the region:
Front description: Dr. C. C. Howard, an outstanding physician and citizen of Barren County, was born in Summer Shade, Kentucky, 1888. Began his medical career in Glasgow. He opened a private hospital there, 1914, and later helped build Glasgow's first community hospital. Dr. Howard encouraged passage of an act which created 6 regional tuberculosis hospitals in Kentucky.
Reverse Description: Local Humanitarian - Dr. Howard was instrumental in the establishment of Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund. Among the numerous awards he received were the Governor's Medallion for outstanding leadership in the field of rural medicine and the Kentucky Medical Association's first Distinguished Service Award. In 1947, he opened the Howard Clinic. Died, 1971. (history.ky.gov.
Click 'read more' for Billy Joe's recollection of that life-and-death run. He says, "Dr. Howard would and has always held a place of very high esteem and respect in our household and in fact all of The Great Wooded South."
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