• It's 13 days to $40,000 for Mary's House goal target. As of July 16, 2012, cash in hand totals $10,571.00. See: Mary's House, latest numbers for information on helping.
• It's 22 Days Until Adair County District Schools for the first day of School for students, Wednesday, August 8, 2012. 2012-2013 Adair Co. School Calendar

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WEATHER: Columbia, KY/NWS Weather Forecast: WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2012

Hazardous Weather Outlook. Issued at 3:56AmET, Wednesday, July 18 for Wednesday, July 18, 2012 "ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. . . HEAT INDICES WILL PEAK IN THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE FOR A FEWHOURS THIS AFTERNOON." - NWS.

For information on Hazardous Weather, if any, click to Hazardous Weather

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. this forecast from update at 3:15amCT July 18, 2012

Overnight - Partly cloudy, with a low around 70. Calm wind.

Wednesday - Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night - Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Click to National Weather Service for Columbia, KY

The Kentucky Mesonet is The Commonwealth's Official Source for Weather and Climate Data.
Mesonet stations are live in: Adair - Casey - Cumberland - Metcalfe - Taylor

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Quick links to Sunday with CM Columns - plus some - your comments welcome on editorial choices - added since Sunday, but appropriate to Sunday with CM, items:
direct links to articles, columns, poems and/or photos possibly with other important links, are posted next:

• Tom Chaney: Of Writers and Their Books - Tom Chaney: An Island at the Center of the World
• Billy Joe Fudge: Local History - Kentucky Color - Antioch School around 1940
• Chuck Hinman: Reminiscence - Chuck Hinman: Saturday Night Live From Wymore, Nebraska. Memories of anticipation and participation in a tradition a lot of us knew a few decades ago: The weekly trip to town
• Carol Perkins: Humor/Advice - Carol Perkins: OOPs.

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