Small Business of the Year: Columbia Magazine 2024-07-27 - Adair County, KY . Columbia Magazine was voted the 2024 Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year. Columbia Magazine was started by Linda Waggener as a small black and white monthly print magazine back in 1997. After the turn of the century CM migrated to the first online local news and features publication in the region with Pen Waggener as webmaster. Since Ed and Linda began posting daily updates in 2006, Columbia Magazine format has stayed the same, and thanks to sponsors, it is the only news site that does not require any login, password, nor personal information, to read it - just pull up the website www.columbiamagazine.com and 25 years of stories and pictures are all right there - ready to enjoy. Linda, center, is pictured with, from left: Columbia Adair County Chamber President Landon Edwards, State Senator Max Wise, State Representative Amy Neighbors and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ellen Zornes. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Health Advocate of the Year: Stacey Biggs 2024-07-27 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The 2024 Chamber of Commerce Health Advocate of the Year is Stacey Biggs, center, the TJ Health Executive Vice President of Marketing, Planning and Development. She serves as liaison for health care with our state legislature and our state hospital association. She and her husband Craig are Adair County natives. Stacey's name has become synonymous with TJ Health Columbia. She works tireless to make sure Columbia and our surrounding area has what it needs for Emergency Rooms and Primary Care Facilities. Stacey is a member of the South Central Kentucky Red Cross and will be serving as its Board Chair this year. She is pictured at the annual banquet with Columbia Adair County Chamber President Landon Edwards, State Senator Max Wise, State Representative Amy Neighbors and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ellen Zornes. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Travel: Piute Reservoir 2024-07-27 - near Circleville, UT - Photo by Robert Ellis, Robert Ellis Woodworking. Robert writes, "This picturesque reservoir is past the community of Circleville and is fed by the Sevier river. The Butch Cassidy boyhood home is only minutes away." More at stateparks.utah.gov/parks/piute. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Grady Lewis at first business event 2024-07-26 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Master Grady Lewis, born January 30, 2024 is the little son of Christopher and Meg Lewis. He made his first business event at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet and is pictured in the arms of his grandmother Ann. He is the third grandchild of Ann and Leon Lewis. He is also the grandchild of Steve and Julia Hartfield of Greensburg. Grady has an older brother, Griffin, and sister, Greyson. Sharing the table at right at the July 19th banquet are Nick and Natalie Fudge, and at the far end of the table are Paige and Derek Nickel. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Employee of the Year: Zack Humphrey 2024-07-26 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The 2024 Chamber of Commerce Employee of the Year is Zack Humphrey, USPS mail carrier born and raised in GreenCounty, in the Ebenezer Community. Zack started his career fourteen years ago with the Greensburg Post Office as a part time/fill in mail carrier when his neighbor told him about an opening there. He found he really enjoyed carrying the mail and was able to transition into a full-time position in Columbia's Post Office and he and his wife Amber became Adair Countians. Zack has the downtown and surrounding city route and those who have him as their mail carrier consider themselves fortunate indeed. Besides carrying the mail, he likes to fish, golf and hunt. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Butterfly: Hackberry Emperor 2024-07-26 - Central Kentucky - Photo by Pen. According to butterfliesandmoths.org, hackberry emporor butterflies are common in the Eastern United States, and can be found along wooded streams, forest glades and river edges, and wooded roadsides. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Betty's Hot Bar 2024-07-26 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Some of the great things on Betty's hot bar on Friday, July 26, 2024. Comfort foods like meatloaf, pinto beans and chateau veggies, plus cole slaw and pear with cottage cheese for a cooling finish. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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