Today's News

A group of longtime Carrollton-based Special Olympics Kentucky volunteers are organizing a golf outing to help increase funding for the organization. The event – “Puttin’ for Gold Golf Classic” – will be held on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, beginning with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. at Perry Park Golf Resort in Owen County.

The cost to participate is $100 per golfer and the event is limited to 18 four-person teams. The tournament fee includes golf, cart, a goody bag and a buffet dinner.

Youngsters learned science can be fun last week as they took apart old electronic equipment and use it to build something like an egg launcher.

This project was part of Camp Invention held July 13-17 at Cartmell Elementary daily from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. where 90 local children took part in learning about different aspects of science, according to local camp director Jonica Ray.

Representatives from the Lexington, firm RossTarrant Architects, gave the members of the Carroll County Board of Education the latest update on design developments for renovations to the Richard B. Cartmell Elementary School during its July 23 meeting.

Renovations at the school are needed due to overcrowding issues. The 46-year-old facility houses students in Head Start and grades four and five, while Kathryn Winn Primary, houses children in kindergarten through third grade.

It is difficult to believe that 40 years have elapsed since the United States first landed men on the moon, an event that was observed by the national media last week. In 1969, I was preparing to enter my senior year in high school. Now I qualify at many restaurants for the senior citizen discount.

I was fascinated by the astronauts and the space race as a child growing up in Madison. I took special interest in the career of one astronaut in particular after my dad told me the astronaut was from another small Indiana town only 50 or so miles away.