Bruce & Patsy Wilson - Out sharing summer's bounty 2018-07-31 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Bruce and Patsy Wilson were out last night delivering huge Heirloom tomatoes and 20 pound watermelons to gardening challenged friends. The watermelons were perfectly ripe and sliced open with just a suggestion from a knife blade and were as sweet as honey. The Heirloom tomatoes, almost uniform in size provide platter size tomato steaks and barely need any seasoning to enjoy. Raising watermelons is a family tradition. Bruce Wilson's father Ivy Wilson was a legendary watermelon man, both in Russell County and later in Adair, back when most Kentuckians thought good watermelons could only come from Seymour and Vincennes, Indiana. There were times, back in the days when thieves were more practical and properly prized watermelons that growers had to go to extreme lengths to keep melon crime down. Now, with dumb opportunistic, dummy-see-dummy-do crime in vogue, watermelon stealing is no longer a big deal for growers, Bruce said. But for food-for-heath people, those with so much conscience they empathize with rocks, watermelon is prized, for many reasons - most lately, they say that it's known as Viagra-off-the-Vine - good for the libido. Before the pair could relate a chapter in their wonderful biographies, they were off, like Santa Claus for their two final deliveries. - EW. Paired Photo. See - Watermelon so ripe it almost sliced itself Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ashleigh Lewis receives award for exemplary service 2018-07-30 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Ashleigh Lewis, center, who served as an AmeriCorps FRYSC tutor at Campbellsville Middle School last school year, received the Family Resource and Youth Services Center (FRYSC) Corps Exemplary Service Award. Presenting the award are Carie Kizziar, FRYSC Corps member coordinator, at left, and Heather Musinski, FRYSC Corps program director. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Watermelon so ripe it almost sliced itself 2018-07-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This watermelon was so ripe that when the knife touched it, it almost opened itself with no further slicing -- and the taste was perfectly sweet! It came from Bruce Wilson's organic watermelon patch in Adair County. - EW/LW Paired Photo. See - Bruce & Patsy Wilson - Out sharing summer's bounty Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

At the Joe Johnson Little League Park 2018-07-30 - Doc Walker Road opposite the Industrial Park, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. A quiet moment at the Joe Johnson Little League Park finds the field and fencing in better shape as work continues on it this summer making improvements. The banner proclaims it, "Home of The Future Indians." - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Surprise lilies in full bloom 2018-07-30 - Bomar Heights Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. These pretty pink Surprise Lilies are blooming beautifully all around town. I first spotted them when an aunt grew them in Metcalfe County in the 1960s and always think of her when I am "surprised by them." Credit goes to Hunter Durham who knew their official name. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

City gets sidewalk upgrade in CAUD Burkesville Street project 2018-07-30 - 800 Block of Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. A stretch of sidewalk originally poured during the administration of Mayor Coy Downey was totally replaced from from this point to about halfway to Bomar Heights at no cost to the city. The old sidewalk had to be broken up during construction of the Burkesville Street Phase of Columbia/Adair County Utility District's Downtown Project, and CAUD is bearing the cost for this benefit, Mayor Curtis Hardwick said. When the project was first designed it was thought that sidewalks from Fortune & Burkesville to Burkesville and Lancaster, on one side or the other, would be replaced, but change orders to save the utility construction costs on the new waterlines utilized a series of directional bores to avoid sidewalk destruction - meant all new sidewalks paid for by the utilities did not materialize. But in the reconstruction it was discovered that the original sidewalks poured by Mayor Downey's administration were, in fact, four-feet wide. Overgrowth had made the appear half that until the soil and turf was removed. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Election Nov 2018 - Mayor Curtis Hardwick files for 5th term 2018-07-30 - Office of Adair County Clerk, Ste 3, Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Columbia Mayor Curtis filed papers in his candidacy for re-election. The never-before-defeated-as-a-Columbia Mayoral candidate - is seeking his 5th term. Photo taken just past 1pmCT, Monday, July 30, 2018. All the prior elections were three-way races. So far he is the second mayoral candidate to file. Council member Pam Hoots, a former Mayor has already filed. 2014 write-in candidate Dr. Ben Arnold has indicated he will run, as well. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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