Letters

Starting Jan. 5, Owen County was faced with extreme cold temperatures which caused some major waterline breaks that affected the county’s public water system.
The extreme temperature made it very difficult to isolate, locate and repair the breaks. The obstacles at hand caused the repair time and the loss of water currently in the infrastructure of the water system to be much greater then normal.
The county was faced with almost a complete depletion of water and had entered into a crisis situation.

I, Greg Estes, am announcing my candidacy for sheriff. I’m a 41-year-old lifelong resident of Owen County. I’m married to Jennifer (18 years), with two children, Adam, 17 and Cagan, 13. I’m the son of Porky Estes and Judy Goodrich Estes. I’ve been employed by the City of Owenton for nearly three years and am in my third year as assistant chief of the Owen County Volunteer Fire Department and am a member of the Owen County Search and Rescue Squad.

I would like to thank everyone who worked and are still working on our waterline breaks. I heard talk of some complaints and some that were just awful. We take things for granted this day in time. I remember when all you had was water heated on a stove. A pan of water and wash rag to take a bath. When we were little a wash tub was our bath tub. Most of us have life easy now, some still don’t and I hope they will.

I’ve been reading God’s word for about 40 years and studying deeply for half that time.
I have heard it said many times that Jesus turned water into wine. That’s true, he did. But I would like to say that he did not give alcoholic drinks to the people at the wedding and feast.
If you really know our savior, Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for each of us, because he was and is the only perfect sacrifice – you would know that is not the character of Jesus Christ.