New Cook Out headed to Columbia 2019-11-19 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Word from Mayor Hoots is that Cook Out, a North Carolina based hamburger chain, is slated to take over the currently empty building that once housed the Dairy Queen and was most recently home to Dickies Barbecue. Hoots says, "We are pleased that they are locating in Columbia." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Giving thanks at ISP House 2019-11-19 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Marie Kurata. From left to right: Mayu Satoh and Maho Muramatsu from Tokyo and Marie Kurata from Seto. Three LWC students from Japan sharing a home cooked meal; Oyakodon is a one-bowl meal consisting of a bed of rice topped with chicken and egg (hence the name 'Oyako', meaning 'parent and child') and seasoned with soy sauce, mirin, and dashi. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Health Department educators 2019-11-19 - Columbia - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Lake Cumberland District Health Department recently received a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grant. Adair/Casey County Health Educator Jelaine Harlow, center, has taken the position of Health Education Coordinator-Grant Manager. The grant allowed for hiring two new Health education staff, Crystal Kingrey, left, and Alyson Shepherd. Crystal will be transitioning into the vacant Adair/Casey position and Alyson will soon be moving into her office in Pulaski Health Department. The open grant position will be filled soon. They are pictured here at the November WATCH Coalition meeting at the Health Department in Columbia. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Checking the wind for scent of hunters 2019-11-19 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The deer took only a moment to look, listen and smell for the scent of deer hunters who might be nearby in the season, then was off into the woods. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

OCC 2019: Drop off center ribbon cutting 2019-11-18 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Mark Fudge. The Operation Christmas Child Processing Center located at the Columbia First Church of the Nazarene Wheet Fellowship Hall held the ribbon cutting ceremony Monday afternoon at 5pmCT. Pictured are: Tricia Cole, Judy Cole, Taylor Cole, Jace Cole, Zack Bullock, Christine Williams, Denise Fudge, and Mark Fudge. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Singing and playing, I've Got Jesus On My Mind 2019-11-18 - Columbia - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. If you haven't heard Sharon Payne singing "I've Got Jesus On My Mind" in memory of her brother Joe, you will want to get to the next event where she is available and just bask in her music. What a gift! Or, you could join her at a City Council meeting and request she sing it after the Pledge to the Flag. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Prayers over the food, the people and the work 2019-11-18 - Columbia - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Rev. Paul Patton gave one of the prayers at the Joe Payne memorial community Thanksgiving Luncheon. Blessings were asked over the people in the audience, the work of the scholarship fund for students and the food. Also on the program behind him were Rev. Bobby Bowe, left, and Rev. Billy Payne, seated at right. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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