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– Photo by LAURA HAGAN
Sheila Martin looks at the quilt on display at the Walk for Awareness of Congenital Heart Defects on Saturday. The quilt is designed by the families of children with CHDs and each square honors a different child.

Watching all the children running around at the second annual Walk for Awareness of Congenital Heart Defects on Saturday, one would never know that a few of them had overcome great odds in their first years of life.
The Walk For Awareness was sponsored by God’s Special Little Hearts, Inc. and the Owen County Extension Homemakers and works to raise awareness of Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) and also to help fund research efforts on CHDs at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Berea-based artist Alfredo Escobar travels the country looking for faces that tell a story; he then sketches those stories into graphite portraits. Escobar will travel to Owen County this weekend, as his works are showcased alongside artwork from four others in the gallery at Elk Creek Winery through the end of April.
The opening reception, which runs from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, will kick off a two-month exhibit entitled

Middle School student makes state spelling bee

W-a-l-t-z.
That was the first word of the District Spelling Bee last Friday that will be sending the winner to the Derby Festival Spelling Bee on March 17 in Louisville. It was followed with words like fiesta, apathy, bonanza, caboose and candidate.

Looking back on the flood

of 1997

It has been 10 years.
The first week of March, 1997, several parts of Owen County were only accessible by boat. Homes were damaged, families lost all their belongings, and a community joined together to bring relief. On Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, it began to rain. It rained for 12 hours. Creeks backed up and the water began to rise. An estimated 12 inches of rain fell in the county over the weekend. Monterey Baptist Church pastor Tony Watkins remembers it well.

Picture taken of

Monterey City Park, 1997

Kentucky American Water chooses water line route

Kentucky American Water has chosen to use the southern route of three water lines it proposed for a new plant. The proposed water line on the southern route runs primarily through northern Franklin County. It would be used by a proposed facility on the Kentucky River in southern Owen County to transport treated water from the plant to a facility in Fayette County.

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