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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Volume XXIV, Number 74

Council recommits to Main Street goals

By JARED NELSON
The Times Leader

Princeton City Council

members are continuing
the citys commitment
to participate in the Kentucky Main Street Program, in hopes that a new
state administration may
offer funding support.
The
council
voted
unanimously Monday to
approve an annual letter
of commitment to the program, from now through
the end of January 2017.

Police
seeking
alleged
thieves
Staff Report The Times Leader

A Hopkinsville man
was arrested and two other suspects are still wanted following a shoplifting
complaint at Princeton
Walmart on New Years
Day.
Princeton Police responded to a shoplifting
complaint at Walmart on
U.S. 62 West at 2:30 p.m.,
Friday, Jan. 1.
Three suspects had
reportedly left the scene.
One of the suspects fled
on foot through the parking lot across 62 West.
At approximately 3:29
p.m., officers received a
call of a subject, matching the description of the
suspect, asking to use the
phone at a residence on
Old Wheatley Lane.
The suspect was later
spotted on 62 West by
Caldwell County Coroner
Dewayne Trafford and
then located by Caldwell
County Sheriffs deputies
on Varmint Trace Road.
Please turn to Shoplifting
Page A-5

At the same time, council members and city officials discussed the status
of the program and its
costs and benefits to the
city.
The commitment letter, essentially identical to
those signed in each of the
past two years, involves
both the city and the local Renaissance on Main/
Main Street Committee.
Among its clauses are
requirements the city and
committee employ and
maintain a part-time Main

I think we get
a good return
on our money.
Danny
Beavers
Street executive director,
responsible for the day-today administration of the
program.
The local committees
board must include rep-

resentation from both the

public and private sectors
and meet at least nine
times a year, with subcommittees for design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization.
The group is charged
with developing and implementing a comprehensive approach to downtown revitalization using
the trademarked FourPoint Approach and Eight
Principles ascribed by the
National Main Street Center.

The group must also

provide data and statistics
for monitoring the programs progress.
Among the letters other requirements are directions that the group establish a seven-point historic
preservation ethic and establish broad-based community support for the
program.
The letter also instructs
the group to write their
state senator and representative to let them
know the importance of

the Main Street program

and the public funds given
to the Kentucky Heritage
Council from the state.
City Council member Kelly Crisp noted
that funding, or the lack
thereof, during discussion
of the commitment letter
Monday.
Crisp said that he felt,
based on input gathered at
Kentucky League of Cities
sessions, that cities were
dropping out of the Main
Please turn to Council
Page A-4

FEMA grant application under way

Tornado shelter pursued in Lyon

Staff Report The Times Leader

A Lyon County park

and
sports
complex
could have its own severe
weather shelter in the
near future, if a federal
grant application being
prepared now is successful.
Lyon County officials
announced plans for the
shelter at Lee S. Jones
Park Monday morning.
The county is applying for funding through
the Federal Emergency
Management Agencys
Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program.
The grant application
is being prepared by the
countys lead grant writer, Eddyville Police Lt.
Jaime Green.
Green said Monday
that the county was eligible to apply by meeting disaster requirements
during the major winter
storms in February and
March of last year.
The county submitted
a letter of intent for the
grant program in November.
Funding was initially
sought for three projects,
Green said: the tornado
shelter, a generator for
the county health department, and weather radios
for distribution to the

TIMES LEADER/Jared Nelson

Lyon County Magistrate Bobby Cummins (from

left), Eddyville Police Lt. Jaime Green, the countys lead grant writer, and county Judge/Executive

Wade White announced plans this week to seek

FEMA grant funding for a new tornado shelter at
Lee S. Jones Park.

community.
Originally, she added,
all three projects were
denied.
Later, Kentucky Emergency Management officials notified Green

health department generator was also authorized a few days later, she
noted.
The shelter grant application, which will encompass more than 35

that the status of the request had changed, and

the county was now approved to submit a full
application to FEMA for
the storm shelter.
Application for the

pages, is due by March 1,

Green said.
The project carries
an estimated cost of
$500,000.
Please turn to FEMA
Page A-5

Local writers kick off course at area high school

Staff Report The Times Leader

A Union County High

School teacher has been
tapping into the intellectual resources offered by
two local men in an attempt to get his students
excited about reading and
writing.
Teacher David Drennan invited Tom White of
Kuttawa and Dale Faughn
of Fredonia to speak with
students in his English
class at Union County
High in Morganfield this
past year.
White, an author and
avid outdoorsman, spoke
to Drennans students and
encouraged them to become lifelong readers.
I had met Mr. White
in a class at Madisonville
Community College where
we became great friends,
said Drennan. He inspired me to publish my
first book and also to help
others reach their potential in reading.
Drennan
introduced
Whites book, Adventures
Past, to his junior and senior students.

Faughn,
White
featured
Adventures Past became the first required
reading for my new class
this year, said Drennan,
who implemented a new
course called Outdoorsmans English, which is offered to junior and senior
students at Union County
High this year.
This is the first time a
class like this has been offered at the high school.
I heard a presentation
about classes based upon
student interest and decided we should try it, said
Drennan.
The English department at our school built
the
new
curriculum
around the outdoors. This
class engages students in
English and reading curriculum but is geared to-

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ward their interest.

Outdoorsmans English
is unique as the class is
conducted outside.
Drennan said White
served as our springboard
in developing the class.
His presentation comments directed me to look
for literature that created
strong student engagement, said Drennan.
Mr. White also gave
us copies of Adventures
Past on temporary loan to
guarantee the class could
get off to a great start.
It was very fitting to
read about Mr. Whites
outdoor adventures in an
outdoor setting.
Drennan said the new
class is also based around
the core idea that all students can become leaders.
They saw this leadership modeled for them
in Mr. Tom White and
also Mr. Dale Faughn of
Caldwell County, said
Drennan.
Faughn led a two-day
poetry clinic for students
at Union County High in
October.
Faughn,
a
retired

FURNISHED PHOTO

Dale Faughn, retired Caldwell County

educator and a Kentucky poet laureate, conducted a two-day poetry

Caldwell County educator

and published poet who
was named Kentucky Poet
Laureate in 1986, spoke to
the same class White had

visited.
His poetry clinic was a
huge success, said Drennan. He read a couple
of poems and guided stu-

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other poems.
The following day, he
Please turn to Local
Page A-8

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Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B 1-5, 8
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