2 Jan 2021
Covington High School graduate Nick Sandmann challenged his former lawyer, L. Lin Wood, after he claimed that Vice President Mike Pence could face arrest, imprisonment, and execution for treason.
“I’m sorry but what the hell,” Sandmann wrote on Twitter, sharing Wood’s message:
I’m sorry but what the hell https://t.co/oDBEmA8pwX
“If Pence is arrested, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will save the election,” Wood wrote. “Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward and will sing like a bird and confess ALL.”
Economy, finance, and budgets
Even some large American cities aren’t known nationally for any particular thing. Midsize Lexington, Kentucky, is famous for three: bluegrass, bourbon, and basketball. Bluegrass is its glamorous horse industry, where the global elite come to buy or raise thoroughbreds. Basketball is the powerhouse University of Kentucky Wildcats, the most successful team in college basketball history. And bourbon is America’s super-trendy signature spirit, most of it distilled in Kentucky, near Lexington.
Less well known is that the city is also an innovator in urban planning. Lexington implemented a highly successful city-county merger in the 1970s. More notably, Lexington drew America’s first urban-growth boundary in 1958 to protect the horse farms that begin immediately outside the developed area. The planning decisions that Lexington makes in the coming years may profoundly shape the city’s future in particular, what happens to its signature horse industry.
Owensboro Community & Technical College will be offering two online social work courses for the spring semester that will both be transferable to both Brescia University or Western Kentucky University.
The courses, introduction to social services and crisis intervention, are both three-hour classes that will begin Jan. 11 and run through May 1. Introduction to social services also includes a lab and provides an overview of the programs and challenges faced by professionals in the field. Crisis intervention focuses on intervention theory, suicide prevention and risk assessment techniques, according to OCTC.
Both courses are taught by Cori Douglas and Amanda Greenwell, who are licensed and working in the field of social services.
Juanita Purvis Shacklett
March 8, 1917 Oct. 14, 2020
Juanita Bohannon Purvis Shacklett, born March 8, 1917, passed away peacefully at her home in Davis on Oct. 14 at the age of 103 1/2.
Juanita’s beautiful smile and generous heart were beacons of warmth to all who knew her and she remained lucid and vivacious until the end of her life.
Juanita was born in Kentucky on March 8, 1917, the eldest child of Cleo Purvis and his wife Lily Bohannon Purvis. As a young woman, she graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., and subsequently earned a master’s degree from Lexington Theological Seminary.
She served as an editor of children’s publications in St. Louis, Mo., before moving to New York, N.Y., in 1955 to become a writer and editor of children’s publications at Friendship Press. In 1958, she married Dr. Comer D. Shacklett, a research chemist at E.I. duPont de Nemours, Inc.
By Nathan Zuercher, sports information assistant
The Beavers suffered their first loss of the season on the road at Transylvania University on a rainy Saturday, Dec. 12. The Beavers lost 83-61, shooting a mere 29.9 percent from the field, compared to Transylvania s red-hot 52.9 percent from the field.
The Bluffton shooting woes started in the first period and did not stop as the Beavers hit just 3-of-15 in the opening quarter while Transylvania was drilling 9-of-12 attempts. Junior Brianna Gillig (New Riegel) netted Bluffton s first points with a triple at the 8:12 mark. The visitors then watched helplessly as the Pioneers went on a 14-0 scoring run before senior Kylie Brock (Villa Hills, Ky./Dixie Heights) knocked down a jumper at the 2:59 mark to halt the spurt. The Beavers trailed 26-10 at the end of the first.