Dakota Meyer Day, Sunday, October 2, 2011

Dakota Meyer arrives back in Columbia this weekend in anticipation of his hometown's celebration of his receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Dakota Meyer Day Committee encourages every Adair Countian to turn out for the huge events planned for the day, Sunday, October 2, 2011, at 2pmCT, at Blue Raider Stadium, 820 Hanley Drive, Columbia, KY.

A rolling procession, led by over 150 Patriot Guard Rider motorcylists, will begin at 1:30pmCT, starting at Campbellsville and Adair Veterans Highway, and will come through town, up Jamestown Hill, and down Russell Road to the entrance of Blue Raider Stadium.- ANN YOUNG. Photo by Ann Young

---

• Support the Dakota Meyer $1 Million Challenge Donate now at dakotameyer.com
• Area School Dakota Meyer Challenge started Monday, September 26, 2011: ACHS accepts challenge in Dakota Meyer Scholarship Initiative

---

Mayor, Mark Harris
County Judge Executive, Ann Melton
Cordially invite you to an event:
"For Those Who Gave All"
Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Dakota Meyer
To be honored at 2pmCT, Sunday October 2, 2011
LWC Blue Raider Stadium, 820 Hanley Lane, Columbia, KY

---

• DAKOTA MEYER Congressional Medal of Honor Presentation Day Edition
  On Thursday, September 15, 2011, CM devoted CM's Front Page primarily to the A Red Letter Day in Adair County History: The presentation of the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama at the White House at 1:30pmCT. Use TO VIEW ANOTHER DAY to access Daily News leading up to event and subsequent daily papers. The Dakota Meyer Story is archived in the Adair County Veterans List. As of today, some 80 Dakota Meyer Entries are on CM.

SUNDAY with CM, September 25, 2011
was, as usual, Literary Day on ColumbiaMagazine.com:

It was a HUGE day for columns, poets, commentary, news, photos, and more. There were 21 photos, including several from the best ADAIR performance of the 2011 Marching Band Season at the BOA Regionals at Richmond, KY. The day is worth revisiting. Here are links to selected Sunday, September 25, 2011, features and a few others. -EW

• Tom Chaney: Of writers and their books. Tom Chaney: R729: The new canary
• Chris Bennett: Travel/History Investigation: Chris Bennett Travel/History Floyd Collins Research with six photos
• Wilmoth Foreman: Poetry. Wilmoth Foreman: Somewhere On A Poetry Path
• Billy Joe Fudge Kentucky Color: A Breakfast of Crabapples
• Billy Joe Fudge Kentucky Color: Silage chopping in Southern Kentucky
• Chuck Hinman: Chuck Hinman. IJMA No. 116: The Flour Mill at Blue Rapids, Kansas
• Jim: Local History: 100 years ago: odds and ends from the News
• Teresa Kindred. A Kindred Spirit: A Kentucky Boy Receives the Medal of Honor
• Carol Perkins: Calamity at the Checkout
• Robert Stone. Poetry:Poetry by Robert Stone: The choice to hear, a sonnet
• Robert Stone. Haiku: Haiku written July- August 2011 by Robert Stone
• Rev. Joey N. Welsh. Another Angle: To take a licking and keep on ticking
• Sharon Whitehurst: The Whitehurst Diaries: Garden Spiders/photos by Devin Gould (Monday, 2011-09-26)