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                                                       MAY 16, 2012 EDITION

The editor of this newspaper had about all he could handle of birds eating in a neighbor’s yard and doing their business in his. To that end, he went to a nearby farm store and came out with three artificial owls  --  creatures that are supposed to play havoc on birds. So much for supposed to and havoc. Not only did the birds buddy up to the owls  --  like the sparrow pictured above  --  they also desecrated them with misplaced droppings. (Photo by owner of fake owls)

Dundee part of new book

Dundee is included in the Kentucky Monthly magazine’s new book, “Kentucky A to Z: A Bluegrass Travel Memoir,” which now is available online and in stores across the commonwealth.

  The book is a compilation of features published in the magazine over three years and authored by Amanda Hervey.

  Each month, Steve Vest, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, randomly selected the name of a small Kentucky community and Hervey was assigned to visit the location and find a story in 24 hours or less, without doing any research before her arrival.

  At each stop, Hervey found someone with a heartwarming story to share, as well as snippets of the location’s history and culture. And along the way, readers followed Hervey as she embarked on her own emotional journey while searching for the stories of strangers. As Hervey wrote in her concluding column:“I have laughed, sung, cursed and wept my way through the alphabet and learned more then I could ever put down on paper. I never discovered the secrets of my soul over a bottomless cup of coffee at some greasy spoon or unearthed the meaning  of life while waiting on a tow truck. But I sure did learn how to pack. You see, if you wonder enough, you begin to realize what parts of yourself are strong enough to make the journey; you learn what you ought to leave behind.”

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Strawberry Fest opens on Friday

The fourteenth annual Strawberry Festival is scheduled to kick off in Beaver Dam on Friday, May 25, and continue through Memorial Day.

  Les and Jolene Johnson, the festival’s events coordinators, have packed a full schedule of activities and entertainment into the four-day downtown spectacle and are hoping for what could be the largest crowd ever.

  “The festival has grown with each passing year and we think we have what will make this year’s event the best ever,” Johnson said. “The four days are chocked with entertainment, arts and crafts and lots of good eating.”

  The festival gets underway at 6:00 p.m. Friday with carnival rides and lots of food vendors, followed by entertainment by JAMCO, with dancing, karaoke and bluegrass music at 7:00 p.m.

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Golf course taking on new role

Susan Matthews says she usually doesn’t venture into a new project if she doesn’t plan on being successful. 

  And that, she says emphatically, is what she has in mind for the former Ohio County Country Club property.

  Matthews recently announced the acquisition of the property through a lease agreement with Ron Peach, the owner, and hopes to make it a destination point for Ohio Countians and others.

  While golf long has been the focal point of the property off Kentucky 69, near Hartford, Matthews also is thinking music and lots of it. If fact, the nurse practitioner is not really sure when the course will be open for regular play.

Graduation Day