Extension

On May 4, President Obama declared 14 Kentucky counties as disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that started April 26 and, in some places, continues.

Carroll County is on this list, along with Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Gallatin, Kenton, Lawrence, Morgan, Nicholas, Oldham, Owen and Washington.

Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service hosts its first Extension Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 21 at our office at 500 Floyd Drive in Carrollton.

We invite all residents to come out and learn about our programs, enjoy lunch and have the chance to win a big screen television donated by McNeal’s Hardware. We hope you will stop by.

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guidelines to fight obesity

The North Central Kentucky Hay Day is Thursday, May 12, at the Henry County Fairgrounds in New Castle. Exhibits will be on display  from 9: a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

A friend of mine posted on Facebook that if April showers bring May flowers, look out.

So far he has been wrong since it has been May showers too.

The Carroll County Mesonet station reported 12.38 inches of rain for April, which is about 10 inches more than we received a year ago. We are already at more than 3 inches for May. I have been down to Henderson where the river was higher and there is a lot of land flooded down that way and the radio was reporting that the entire town of Smithland was being evacuated. As bad as it is here, someone else has it worse.