A Thin Line:Teen overcoming battle with Anorexia

Imagine being afraid to sit down because you believed it caused Imagine spending hours in the grocery store studying nutrition labels. Imagine being fed through a tube down your nose. Imagine just being scared of food. That was Andonis Papalouca two years and 116 pounds ago as he battled Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by a person’s refusal to eat in order to lose weight.

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Beaver Dam parade kicks off Yule season Saturday morning

You don’t necessarily have to watch out, you can cry and pout if you want to, but Santa Claus still is coming to town. At least he’ll be in Beaver Dam and Centertown this Saturday. And if you need any more encouragement concerning his annual arrival, think Christmas parades. The annual Hartford-Beaver Dam parade will be staged in Beaver Dam this year and, weather permitting, will start through the downtown district at 10 a.m.

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Hartford city council appoints Hendricks mayor until January

Mayor pro-tem Charlotte Hendricks, during a special-called meeting of the Hartford City Council Monday night, was appointed mayor of Hartford until Jan. 1. The council’s action came as a result of the death last week of Mayor Earl Russell. Come January, the council will again name a temporary mayor who will fill the position until November, 2007 when an election will be held to fill the post for the remaining three years of what would have been Russell’s sixth term in office.

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RVC movie release delayed to spring

Director Aaron Hutchings had originally intended for his independent film “Red Velvet Cake” to premier this month but some financial snags and a desire to put out the best product possible has delayed the release. According to Kentucky Digital Media’s (KDM) Web site, the movie, which was primarily filmed on location in Ohio County throughout the month of June, is scheduled to come out the spring of 2007. “We’ve had to set the project back until we find three producers,” said Hutchings, owner of the Louisville-Based KDM. “If tomorrow we get the producers, we could get it out in 30 days.”

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OCHS hosting poetry night

For one night, Thursday, November 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m., the Ohio County High School media center will be transformed into a coffee shop for “An Evening of Poetry at OCHS.” The event will feature OCHS students, teachers, and staff expressing themselves through the reading of their poetry and the poetry of others. The special guest for the program will be Dr. Richard Taylor, professor of English at Kentucky State University. Taylor was Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 1999 to 2001 and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife own and operate Poor RIchard’s Books, an antique book store.