Elephant Ears growing tall in Ruby's garden 2017-08-05 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Elephant Ears are getting so tall they hide the pretty blossoms in the window box behind them in Ruby Smith's garden. This fall she will take the bulbs inside for the winter. She has been growing and caring for them for so many years she says she always has plenty to share. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The tire swing is now part of her flower garden 2017-08-05 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). When the grandchildren outgrew the tire swing, it got incorporated into Ruby Smith's flower gardens. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ruby Smith shares her new garden feature, the gnome house 2017-08-05 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Ruby Smith is happy to share the variety of flowers she grows, but this season she is most proud of her new garden feature -- a gnome house made around a huge old tree that had to be cut. Ruby said she instructed the tree people to leave a good bit of its lower trunk for a project she intended to do; they questioned her wishes but she held firm. Her son Steve then worked with her idea and completed the gnome house on the tree trunk. It resulted in the newest garden feature in her yard that admirers call the best kept secret in Columbia. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

VFW Commander Joe Hare 2017-08-05 - Adair County Fairgound Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). At this point on monument moving day, Thursday, August 2, 2017, all was going - not as planned; plans changed with new discoveries about the monument - smoothly - so smoothly he was giving instruction to his personal photographer on pictures to take. - EW. Clicking Read More accesses the "Moving the Monument" album. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CU awards certificates for Intensive English Learning 2017-08-05 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Joshua Williams. IELP: Intensive English Learning Program (IELP) certificates were awarded to five South Korean students at Campbellsville University. From left are: Front row -- Chaeyeon Kim; So Youn Min; Seonwoo You; Hye Su Cho; Jinseo Baek; Raquel Cunha, secretary for ESL; Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic affairs; and Dr. H. Keith Spears, vice president for communication and assistant to the president. Back row -- Dr. Mego Haralu, director of international education; Andrea Giordano, executive director for ESL; Vicky Campbell, adjunct ESL instructor; Tim Hooker, ESL programs director; and Bobby Parrish, adjunct ESL instructor. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Beijing Information Management Schools certificates given out 2017-08-05 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Joshua Williams. BIMS: Fifteen Beijing Information Management Schools (BIMS) certificates were awarded to students from China during the summer ESL completion ceremony at Campbellsville University. From left are: Front row -- Dr. H. Keith Spears, vice president for communication and assistant to the president; Wenyi Jin; Dr. Kwang Suh, director of Asian studies and the Intensive English Learning Program; Yingsha Zhu; Bowen Song; Yurui Yang; Vicky Campbell, adjunct ESL instructor; Sihan Zhou; Raquel Cunha, secretary for ESL; Kassie Little, ESL summer program activities coordinator; Jinjing Yang, BIMS summer chaperone; Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Edwina Rowell, adjunct ESL instructor. Middle row -- Zexuan Fan; Kun Wei; Bobby Parrish, adjunct ESL instructor; Dr. Mego Haralu, director of international education; Ruiwen Yao; Zhenmin Li; Qiaochu Gai; Yulong Chen; and Nuohannan Chen. Back row -- Yuxi Lin; Dayuan Chen; Huang Jianxiang; Andrea Giordano, executive director for ESL; Joshua Detherage, instructor in ESL; and Tim Hooker, ESL programs director. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair County Bibles, Bible Storybooks, in Uganda 2017-08-05 - Rugarama, Uganda - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, retired district forester, Kentucky Division of Forestry, President of Homeplace on Green River. Brother Sam Tindimwebwa, the tallest, above, is passing out more Adair County Bibles in Rugarama, Uganda. The Bibles were donated by J.O.Y. Ministries and about half were mailed with donated funds from 3trees Church, Where He Leads Me Ministry, and individuals. I have many more Bibles and Bible Storybooks to mail. If you feel an unction to help, make your check to: Where He Leads Me Ministry, c/o Billy Joe Fudge, 145 Keen Drive, Columbia KY 42728. By the way, love the old brick church. Those windows are awesome. - Billy Joe Fudge Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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