Joe VanArsdale secured traffic checkpoint 2012-03-27 - KY 61 at Weed-Sparksville RD, Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Kentucky Highway Department veteran employee Joe VanArsdale was in charge of the traffic checkpoint at the intersection of KY 61 and Weed-Sparksville Road. Southbound traffic was diverted across Weed-Sparksville (historically: Meatskin Road) to KY 80 West, to Chestnut Grove Road at Nell. In the background, right, is the old Sparksville Grade Center, behind which towers the new Columbia/Adair Utility District's newest improvement, the 750,000 gallon Sparksville storage tank. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cleanup truck on standby in case it's needed 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. A full complement of response teams swarmed at the Sparksville scene today. The Garrison Construction truck, with specialist operator Andy Collins, was parked on standby just in case a clean up of hazardous material were to occur, according to Garrison spokesperson Mike Mitchum. Garrison Construction is a sub-contractor or joint-venture partner of Evergreen Environmental of Louisville, KY, a Jerry McCandless (Lindsey Wilson College trustee for whom McCandless Hall is named) company. Should a clean up be needed, Garrison would remove any contamination to EPA standards, restore the contour, and re-seed or re-sod the area. The landmark structures in the background are the one time W.L. Harvey General Store and the Yank Loy Garage and Store. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Janie Potts, Breeding Area Volunteer Fire Dept. 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Janie Potts,, Columbia, KY, a firefighter with the Breeding Area Volunteer Fire Department, displays a fireman's boot from a pair she is giving to her grandson. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ellis Towing Service called in for specialized removal work 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. This specialized tow truck from Ellis Towing and Transportation Systems of 515 Old Bloomfield Road, Bardstown, KY. had to be brought in from Bardstown, KY, to move the overturned explosives truck - owned by Austin Powder Company of Willisburg, KY and operated by Robert Cox of Bardstown - from the scene in Sparksville, KY. The wreckage necessitated the closure of KY 61 today, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. The photo was taken shortly after 10amCT, shortly after the truck arrived. Sources were estimating a minimum of 6 hours for the removal to be completed to 8 hours or longer before the road would be re-opened. Ellis Towing bills itself as "Central Kentucky's Largest Towing Service." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Greg Thomas, Adair Co. Emergency Disaster Coordinator 2012-03-27 - KY 61, Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Greg Thomas Adair County Emergency Disaster Manager, was on the scene with the Hazardous Materials truck. Quite fortunately, a potentially dangerous situation was handled without further incident after the explosives truck overturned just south of Bird Road on KY 61 in Sparksville, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Poke Sallet Days are here early this year: March 27, 2012 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Good eating days are here. Young tender sprouts of poke has arrived early this year. Not enough for a whole mess yet in this one-stalk patch, but it's the start of the makings of one of the best meals of the year: Poke, Cornbread, Green Onions, Coleslaw, and Catfish. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Old Jericho, Adair Co., KY: Jericho Schoolyard, Jim Riall Store 2012-03-27 - Photo by George Rice. George Rice found this rare photograph, taken, he believes with his Argus 620 camera. The year, he believes, was 1950, the year the Taylor County RECC brought electric to Jericho. He can't identify the four boys pitching horseshoes, but the location is the south part of the Jericho School/Charity Baptist Church campus. It was all one unit then. gravel road today is Holmes Bend Road, and across the road, the white building, is Riall's Store, operated by the late Jim and Eva Riall. It served as the shopping mall for Jericho, and housed the United States Post Office at Holmes, KY, Jim Riall, Postmaster. The grazing cows are in the Hyler Bault field, the homeplace of their son, Horace Bault. George Rice hopes that someone will recognize the athletes. The road to the right was the Mt. Carmel Road, which followed roughly the path of Corbin's Bend Road, along the Jericho Cliffs. At the end of the bluff, the road forked: The left prong went to Kelleyville, and the right to Mt. Carmel School and on down to the Rufus Dulworth and Mont Corbin Farms, with season fords across Green River. George Rice says surely someone from the era will remember the names of the athletes, above. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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