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VOL. 4, No. 10
Army regs prohibit popular health bar
Hemp seeds source of
protein, banned by DA
By RACHAEL TOLLIVER
EDITOR
For anyone who relies on protein
bars as an afternoon or after
workout snack, they should be
warned about nonmilitary friendly
ingredients in their all-natural
selections.
“Strong & Kind” bars which
include Hickory Smoked, Roasted
Jalapeno, Honey Mustard, Thai
Sweet Chili, and Honey Smoked
BBQ, contain hemp seeds in their
ingredients. These seeds may contain low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, a chemical found in marijuana, which the Army believes may
be detectable in drug screening tests.
This ingredient is not included
the Kind fruit and nut bars and
a complete list can be found at
www.kindsnacks.com.
The Army’s position on the
consumption of hemp seeds, or its
derivatives, is similar to its sister
services and follows laws and
guidelines set forth by U.S. law
enforcement agencies.
Army Regulation 600-85 para 4-2,
(p) states that, “…Soldiers are
prohibited from using Hemp or
products containing Hemp oil.” And
the “…Violations of paragraph 4-2
(p) may subject offenders to punish-
ment under the Uniform Code of
Military Justice and or
administrative action.”
DOD regulations are based on
several considerations, some of
which are U.S. laws.
In this case, the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency categorized
hemp seeds, “if they contain THC...”
as an illegal product. (www.dea.gov/
pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html)
Additionally, the Department of
See KIND BARS, page A4
HRC hosts UofL MCPC, promote USAREC introduces
Martin as new DCO,
military and learning initiatives
By LT. COL. CHEVELLE
THOMAS
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
U.S. Army Human
Resources Command hosted
University of Louisville
Military Community
Partnership Council visit
Friday, at the Maude Complex
to enhance cooperation and
build ties among a number of
organizations.
As senior leaders gathered,
the conversation centered on
next steps to create and
Photo by Lt. Col. Chevelle Thomas/U.S. Army Human Resources Command Public Affairs
AIR FORCE MAJ. GEN. EDWARD TONINI (LEFT TO RIGHT), THE ADJUTANT
GENERAL OF the Kentucky National Guard, Dr. James Ramsey, President,
University of Louisville, and Maj. Gen. Richard Mustion, commander, U.S. Army
Human Resources Command, lead a discussion with members of the University of
Louisville Military Community Partnership Council, during a visit to the HRC
Headquarters at Fort Knox, Kentucky, April 6.
Victims and Families
of Fort Hood shooting
receive medals
By HEATHER
GRAHAM-ASHLEY
Lt. Gen. Sean
MacFarland, joined by
III CORPS AND FORT HOOD
Army Secretary John
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
McHugh, presented
Purple Hearts and
After nearly six
years and a legislative Secretary of Defense
Medals for the
wording change,
shooting victims from Defense of Freedom to
victims and Family
the Nov. 5, 2009,
members during the
attack on Fort Hood,
ceremony.
Texas, were recogThirteen people
nized during a Purple
were killed during the
Heart and Defense of
shooting at Fort
Freedom award
Hood’s Soldier
ceremony, Friday.
Readiness Processing
The III Corps and
Center. Another 31
Fort Hood
Commanding General See FORT HOOD, page A7
promote military and learning
initiatives. Those initiatives
are designed to further
champion their cause to
educate, employ and treat
military, Family members and
veterans, according to retired
Maj. Gen. Terry Tucker,
council co-chair and Fort Knox
partnership and vice chair,
Kentucky Commission on
Military Affairs.
“As an Army we are charged
with developing Soldiers and
managing their talent,” said
Maj. Gen. Richard Mustion,
commanding general, Human
Resources Command. “Thus,
we have created a number of
opportunities with UofL to
include unpaid internships, an
MBA intern partnership, an
Army War College fellowship
and a Strategic Short-term
Broadening Seminar.”
To date the partnership has
led to numerous ventures to
continuously invest in adult
learning and early education.
“We are very excited about
teaching college level courses
in English at Fort Knox and
See PARTNERSHIP, page A6
Louisville bridges
closing for Thunder
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT DIVISION
To celebrate Earth Day (April 22)
and Arbor Day (April 24), the Fort
Knox Natural Resources Branch will
give away free tree seedlings at the
Fort Knox Exchange main entrance
April 24 between 11:30 a.m. and 1
p.m. Available seedlings will include
Redbud, White Dogwood, White Pine,
INDEX
■ Training
A3
By FONDA BOCK
USAREC, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Like many of her
predecessors, Col.
Donna Martin had no
experience in recruiting
when she was selected
to be the deputy
commanding officer for
U.S. Army Recruiting
Command.
She confessed so to
Maj. Gen. Allen
Batschelet when the
USAREC commanding
general called her
earlier this year
welcoming her to the
team.
“He said, ‘Great,
that’s exactly what I
want. Somebody to
come in and look at this
organization from the
outside and give me a
fresh look, then tell me
what you think and ask
a lot of questions,’”
Martin said.
During her official
welcome ceremony
April 9 at the Patton
Museum at Fort Knox,
Martin called it a
tremendous honor to be
a part of the team at
USAREC and is excited
about the opportunity
to serve in the
command.
“I will give you 100
percent plus every day
as we continue to
accomplish our mission
and ensure we have the
right Soldiers
representing our
nation,” Martin said.
“Our Army has the
great responsibility of
ensuring our freedoms
and way of life
continues, which can
only be met by
recruiting the best and
the brightest men and
women our nation has
to offer. Freedom’s first
line of defense begins
right here at Fort Knox.
I truly believe we are
all a part of something
bigger than ourselves—
and I will do my part to
ensure we accomplish
our destiny.”
See USAREC, page A7
KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL
The Clark Memorial/2nd Street Bridge
will close starting today in preparation for
Thunder Over Louisville.
The schedule is as follows:
■ Today: 9:30 a.m. – CLOSED through
Sunday at 2 p.m.
■ Friday: CLOSED ALL DAY
■ Saturday: CLOSED ALL DAY
■ Sunday: CLOSED midnight to 2 p.m.
From today at 9:30 a.m. until Saturday
at 11 a.m., pedestrian and bicycle
commuters needing to cross the Clark
Memorial/2nd Street Bridge may do so only
with a law enforcement escort. To request
an escort, speak with an officer at either
end of the Clark Memorial Bridge. All
others will be directed to use the Big Four
Pedestrian Bridge. The Clark Memorial
Bridge will be completely closed—and no
escort will operate—from Saturday at 11
a.m. until Sunday at 2 p.m. The Big Four
Pedestrian Bridge will close at 9 a.m.
Saturday until 10 p.m. for all traffic. ■
AROUND KNOX
Free trees for Earth Day
provides fresh look
at organization
Photo by Stephen Moore/Fort Knox Visual Information
USAREC DEPUTY COMMANDING OFFICER COL. DONNA MARTIN
CALLED IT a tremendous honor to be a part of Team USAREC at
her welcome ceremony April 9 at Fort Knox.
INSIDE
and White Oak, while supplies last.
There is a limit of two per person.
Contact (502) 624-3629 for more
information.
Remembrance slated today
EO
Holocaust observance will be held
at 1 p.m. today at the Patton Museum.
See Knox Notes for more information.
■ Knox Notes
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Leisure
Thunder
Over
Louisville
scheduled
for Saturday
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 A3
From combat to connoisseur—
one vets journey
B RACHAEL
By
TOLLIVER
EDITOR
When Fred Minnick
joined the Oklahoma
National Guard,
becoming the bourbon
industry’s foremost
spirits tasting expert
was not on his mind. In
fact, “bourbon” wasn’t
really part of his
vocabulary. But a 20032004 deployment to
Mosul, Iraq changed all
that.
Minnick, who
attended Oklahoma
State, joined the
National Guard in 1996
to help pay for college.
“I always wanted to
serve—as a kid who
grew up loving my GI
Joe’s I think I was
influenced by that,” he
explained.
Initially he joined as
an infantryman, but
once he learned that the
Army had jobs for Army
journalists, and with the
help of a well-placed
support system, he
reclassified. By the time
he graduated and
started his job with a
marketing firm in
Wisconsin, he found
himself serving in a
mobile public affairs
detachment—the week
before 9/11.
“We knew things were
about to change for us,”
he said.
And there were new
missions and
deployments to places
like Nicaragua.
Then, Valentine’s Day
2003 his unit received
its operations order
sending them to Iraq. He
was more than half way
through his tour when
an event happened that
would affect the rest of
his life.
As insurgents’ attacks
occurred he was sent out
as a combat
photographer,
accompanied by a
videographer, to
document whatever his
command wanted
captured. He and the
MPAD were based out of
Mosul but traveled
everywhere.
“There were car
bombs going off
everywhere and we lost
Soldiers—they hit all
the police installations,”
he said. “Our unit took
on a lot of combat
camera missions.
“We’d go out and
capture the footage of
the bombing and it was
atrocious—a foot here,
blood everywhere. And
we were leaving one of
the car bombing sites
and it comes over the
di that
h we were
radio
getting attacked from
one of the mosques,” he
recounted.
Within the news
media narrative, the
military hadn’t had any
documentation that
insurgents were
shooting at forces from
the mosque because this
was before cameras were
prolific and Soldiers in
the units started
carrying them. Minnick
said his command
radioed him to get his
team over to the mosque
to document what was
happening.
“So we went over
there, and it was
intense… we were out
on the perimeter, and it
was winding down,
when a van pulled up
and fired an RPG and it
was coming right at me,”
Minnick said with effort.
The RPG hit the
ground about 10 feet in
front of him, bounced
over his head—and
never went off.
“My life had been
spared—I had a few
other incidents like that,
but that was the most
intense and I don’t know
what happened after
Staff photo by Rachael Tolliver
24 (the day of the
incident) leading that
charge, weighed on me. I
got home and didn’t
want to do anything
with anyone,” he
explained. “My coping
mechanism at the time
was running. And I
ended up breaking my
foot and I couldn’t run.”
“Things at my job
weren’t good when I
went back. I was still at
the ad agency and they
did everything for me.
They rolled out
the carpet, gave
me a corner
office and said
‘whatever you
need.’ But I
wasn’t
adjusting well.”
He said he
was angry at
everyone, and
isolating
himself. He
tried to get
help—but that
didn’t work
well. So, he
started writing
a book,
Courtesy of Fred Minnick “Camera Boy,”
FRED MINNICK IS INTERVIEWED by Fox
as part of his
News while in Iraq.
vehicle for
getting it all
out. And he would read
that. Don’t know if I
it as he wrote, to his
fired my weapon—I
know we killed them all. girlfriend who lived in
Louisville, Kentucky,
But from that moment
and who he would later
to the moment we got
marry once he moved
back to the base, I don’t
know what went on,” he there.
said.
He eventually quit his
In this same time
job stating, “I couldn’t
frame the unit lost an
handle it anymore—I
interpreter, Samir
couldn’t do it and needed
Faisal, with whom
something new.” He took
Minnick was close, and
a job as a food editor
he lost a good friend
with a restaurant trade
named David Mitts.
publication but later
Like many returning went out on his own as a
veterans, Minnick
freelance writer. In this
suffered from PTSD
way he could see a
symptoms. But the road therapist twice a week if
to recovery and some
he needed to and he was
peace was not a short
able to spend time on
one.
himself.
“All the things, all my
“I would see
personal stuff with June something and be
Courtesy of Fred Minnick
MINNICK, SEATED WITH A CAMERA, while on patrol during deployment to Iraq.
depressed for a week. I
would see someone in
uniform and it would
trigger me or I would see
white vans that would
trigger it, and trash on
the roadside made me
jumpy,” he remembered.
“And I didn’t have the
tools to deal with it. It
put me in a state of
depression and
irritability that certainly
wasn’t good for the
women I was seeing, or
for my professional
career.”
And these isolated
incidents started to
topple on each other.
In therapy he and his
counselor worked on
each issue one at a time,
peeling them back like
an onion until they
peeled away the core
event, dated June 24,
2004.
“By working on that
and what happened
there I was able to live a
whole life again. I will
never be who I was
before, but I am much
better now,” he said. “I
am able to deal with
that and I have used the
tools I have learned in
other areas of my life. It
has helped me become a
better problem solver
and helped me to
overcome a lot of fear.
Because at the end of
the day the PTSD I was
facing was fear based.
And if I can conquer
that I feel like I can
conquer anything.”
One of the ways he
said he got through the
tougher moments was a
technique he learned
called mindfulness—
touching something and
thinking of textures or
tasting something and
focusing on it.
“That technique is
incredible for learning
anything—a technique I
learned from my
incredible therapist at
the VA. And it is a good
technique for learning to
taste bourbon,” he
explained.
Which is how he has
become the industry’s
leading spirits taster,
traveling all over the
world.
There was no one
specializing in bourbon
and spirit tasting at the
time, yet publications
wanted the information,
there was a broad
audience and the
market could handle it.
Before he knew it, a new
career was born.
The first thing that
makes him a bourbon
connoisseur is knowing
the history of bourbon,
and knowing the
difference between
whiskey and bourbon—
which he learned
through thorough study.
“All whiskey is
bourbon but not all
bourbon is whiskey.
Whiskey is a categorical
term that means
distilled fermented
grains that are aged in
oak,” he explained.
“Each whiskey category
has its own set of
regulations, histories
Minnick spent a lot of
time with bourbon’s
master distillers and
learned what they
looked for when they
tested and tasted their
products.
“Woodford Reserve
Master Distiller Chris
Morris has been
influential in the way I
taste. And Jim Beam’s
Fred Noe has also been
influential,” he noted.
“But I think I have
taken a little bit of
everybody over the years
and tasted like they do,
or created my own style
out of what the distillers
do.”
When tasting
bourbon, Minnick first
looks at the color—that
tells him how it did in
the barrel. For example,
if it is five years old and
looks like a bed of straw,
he knows it didn’t age
very well. Then he swirls
it and looks for “legs.”
“In wine that
indicates sugar
content. In bourbon,
it generally
THE FOLLOWING ARE LOCAL
indicates the oils
BOURBON EVENTS MINNICK
that survived the
RECOMMENDS VISITING:
distillation process,”
■ Bourbon festival in Bardstown -he explained.
http://www.kybourbonfestival.com
And then, he
■ “In Western Kentucky there
tastes it, letting it
is a distillery called MB Roland,
roll around his
started by an Iraq veteran and they
tongue to get a feel
do music festivals throughout the
for it and let it coat
summer and I love those guys for
the entire tongue.
reasons beyond their whiskey.”
“You are looking
http://www.mbrdistillery.com/
■ The bourbon affair: Scheduled
for flavors. The
June 3-7. Events at multiple locations.
point of bourbon is
http://www.kybourbonaffair.com/
flavor—not
■ Bourbon classic—is held in
intoxication or
January-February, in Louisville.
taking it as a shot.
■ Legends series at the Kentucky
It is about picking
Derby museum. The next engagement
up the flavors,” he
in the series is slated for 5:30 p.m.,
added. “Bourbon
June 2. www.derbymuseum.org/
was meant to be
Events/Detail/1/Legends-Series-Billsipped and if you
Samuels-Jr.-Maker-s-Mark
don’t abuse the
product and enjoy it
responsibly—it’s good.”
in violation of our trade
The caramel and
agreement.”
vanilla
flavors are ones
Second is that
that Minnick said
bourbon also has to be
should be in every taste
made from at least 51
of bourbon because of
percent corn fermented
using a new barrel to
mash. The other, not in
the regulation though, is cure every time.
“And the nutmeg is
the grains they use—
my
favorite (taste) and
malted barley, wheat
can be found in a lot of
and rye.
bourbons, and when I
And last but of equal
find that it is like,
importance is that
‘Yeess,’” he explained. “I
bourbon is cured in
also love the
charred oak barrels
cornbread—the younger
which lends the unique
bourbons will have the
color and taste. While
grainy notes—I love
bourbon cures in the
finding cornbread. That
barrels it expands and
is the moment when the
contracts with the heat
which pulls the different corn flavor is soon to
become something else
wood sugars out of the
barrel. Once it is aged, it because it is baked and
ready to go.”
is mixed with a small
It wasn’t an easy road
percentage of water—
bourbon can’t be bottled to where he sits atop the
bourbon world, waiting
at less than 80 proof—
on a new batch to write
and bottled.
about and taste. But
“If the label says
looking back at Iraq as a
“straight bourbon” then
father, husband,
it has to be at least two
years old,” he explained. successful author, and a
sought-after spirits
“If it is under 4 years
expert—he said he is in
old, they have to say
a good place now.
how old it is. With no
“I love my family, and
exact age on the label,
you know it is older than enjoy my job,” he said.
“It’s exciting. This whole
4 years old.”
The second thing that thing about covering
bourbon has become like
makes him a bourbon
sports with personalities
connoisseur is knowing
and teams and styles.
how to taste and
People enjoy it and it’s a
knowing what he is
lot of fun.” ■
looking for.
and laws. Scotch is a
whiskey, Canadian
whiskey is a whiskey,
Irish whiskey is a
whiskey, and bourbon is
a whiskey. But the
similarities stop there.
Bourbon is unique from
many perspectives.”
First, he said, it has
to be made in the United
States, not just
Kentucky, but anywhere
in the United States. A
majority of it is made in
Kentucky though and
the heritage of it is made
here—its history.
“In 1964 Congress
declared it to be a
unique product to the
U.S. and gave it
geographic protection.
Any country that has a
free trade agreement
with the U.S. has to
follow our laws for
bourbon,” he said.
“So the U.K. can’t
come out with a whiskey
and call it bourbon
whiskey. They would be
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Kind bars: Consumption of seeds legal, off limits to military and civilian personnel
■ From Page A1
Justice issued a ruling on what
products that contained THC were
exempt from being treated as an
illegal drug under the Controlled
Substances Act.
In part, the ruling reads:
“Specifically, the interim rule
exempted THC- containing
industrial products, processed plant
materials used to make such
products, and animal feed mixtures,
provided they are not used, or
intended for use, for human
consumption and therefore cannot
cause THC to enter the human body.
(http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/
fed_regs/rules/2003/fr0321.htm)”
As such, the Army has written its
policy to adhere to and to enforce
these laws. The bottom lineSoldiers may not consume hemp
seeds or hemp oil.
So how can a product designed
for consumption legally contain
hemp seeds?
In 2004 the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals issued a unanimous
decision, which DEA did not appeal
to the U.S. Supreme Court,
protecting the sale of hempcontaining foods. Those foods
generally contain naturally
occurring THC at less than the
USDA guideline of 1 percent.
Industrial hemp remains legal for
import and sale in the U.S., but U.S.
farmers still are not permitted to
grow it.
According to University of
California at Berkeley, most of the
THC found in hemp seeds are
located in the seed hulls, which are
removed during processing. Today’s
hemp seeds are processed to reduce
levels of THC to negligible
quantities but 15 years ago
industrial hemp had higher THC
levels and the seeds were prepared
differently for processing.
The school’s wellness site also
said that companies producing
hemp today do so under a voluntary
TestPledge program, indicating
they follow quality control practices
to limit THC concentrations, so
that consumers will not fail a
drug test.
Dr. Christopher States, the
associate dean for research in the
department of pharmacology and
toxicology at the University of
Louisville School of Medicine, said a
person would have to consume a
large amount of hemp seeds to test
positive for noticeable amounts of
THC.
He explained that the cannabis
plant developed as marijuana is
grown so the THC level is high but
it has a low level of cannabidiol.
However, cannabis grown as hemp
is raised with lower
THC but will have a
higher level of
cannabidiol.
“There is a lot of data
out there that says the
amounts of THC in
hemp seeds is negligible
unless someone eats
over 300 grams, which
would be about twothirds pound of hemp
seeds,” he noted. “And
hemp seeds are a
healthy source of
protein with negligible
traces of THC (also)
hemp has cannabidiol
oil which is what
researchers are now
using for epilepsy.”
However, Capt. (Dr.)
Christopher DiPiro at
Ireland Army
Community Hospital,
said while there are
very low amounts of
THC in hemp seeds and
although most people
will not test positive
after consuming the seeds, studies
have shown 20 percent of those
tested might pop hot after eating
them.
He added that consuming hemp
seeds is not harmful beyond the
possibility of a failing a drug test.
Businesses dealing with DOD
must be aware of requirements like
AR 600-85 para 4-2, (p). Because of
this regulation, AAFES does not
carry “Strong and Kind” bars, said
Chris Ward, a public relations
specialist for AAFES, but they do
carry the basic “Kind Bars.” And
DeCA public affairs specialist Rick
Brink added that while,
commissaries carry Kind Bars, they
have also chosen not to carry Kind
& Strong bars because of the hemp
seed content.
“We strive to ensure products do
not conflict with published DOD
guidance,” Ward explained.
Kind snack bars were created out
of a “Kind need,” after the president
and CEO, Daniel Lubetzky, was
tired of working long days and not
being able to eat healthy during
those times. In his new book,
Lubetzky said he wanted something
Photo graphic courtesy of www.kindsnacks.com
that was, “a wholesome snack option
that could travel well, fill me up,
and that tasted good,” and whose
ingredients he understood.
He wrote that he wanted a
business that was profitable and
served a social goal, “our mission of
spreading kindness,” a concept that
came from one experience during
World War II.
“My father, who survived the
Dachau concentration camp during
the Holocaust, told me of a time
when a Nazi guard took risks by
throwing him a rotten potato that
provided him the sustenance he
needed to go on,” Lubetzky wrote.
“Although that soldier could have
gotten in trouble for helping a
Jewish prisoner, he acted with
compassion in the darkest of
moments. My dad always credited
the guard’s action with helping him
to stay alive.”
He explained as the company
founders brainstormed their
brand name and mission, they
settled on a concept that could
affirm their, “three anchors of
health, taste, and social
responsibility: being KIND to your
body, KIND to your taste buds, and
KIND to your world.”
In keeping with the goal of
including only ingredients that
someone could understand and
that were good for the body, when
the company came out with its
Strong & Kind bars, it added hemp
seeds.
Joe Cohen, a spokesman for
the Kind Company, said in
correspondence with this office
that the reasons the hemp seeds are
included in the those particular bars
is for nutritional benefits.
“Hemp seeds contribute protein,
fiber and other important nutrients
such as potassium and phosphorus
to our Strong & KIND bars,” he
explained. “Hemp, when combined
with the protein from almonds, peas
and pumpkin seeds, provide all nine
essential amino acids.”
Even though the DEA and DOJ
have published final rules on the
consumption of THC-containing
hemp, there is a small window
provided by the USDA at less than
one percent for THC component.
(www.usda.gov)
“Our Strong & KIND bars adhere
to USDA testing and have a THC
level of .001 percent. As referenced
by the Congressional Research
Service, a level of about 1 percent
THC is considered the threshold for
cannabis to have a psychotropic
effect or an intoxicating potential,”
Cohen said.
However, the bottom line
is—military guidance says the consumption of hemp products is off
limits, and as such military
personnel and DOD civilians are
prohibited from eating such foods.
KIND offers a variety of
nutritious bars and snack food items
that do not include hemp, and can
found by visiting www.kindsnacks.
com. ■
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T HURSDAY , A PRIL 16, 2015
A5
COMMENTARY
Sexual assault victim speaks out, ‘you are not alone’
AMERICAN FORCES NETWORK KAISERSLAUTERN
I remember the day like it
was yesterday. My heartbeat
echoed in my head as I
attempted to dry my sweaty
hands on my jeans. I was 21
years old, sitting in a Korean
court room, waiting to be
questioned by prosecutors.
How I ended up there was
unreal. Just a few months
earlier I was happy; I had a
loving husband, amazing
friends and arguably the
greatest job in the Air Force,
but the color in my world had
been stolen.
This is my story of how I
was sexually assaulted.
After a year at my first duty
station, I wanted to further my
career so I volunteered for a
short tour to Korea. I soon
received an assignment to
Osan Air Base, South Korea,
as an American Forces
Network broadcaster. It would
be difficult, I knew, because my
husband was unable to join
me, but we agreed it was a
great opportunity.
Upon arriving in Korea, I
quickly learned the
assignment was no easy task.
The days were long and work
never seemed to stop. It wasn’t
until half way through my
tour that I finally made time
to volunteer off base with a
fellow co-worker. We spent the
day helping members in the
local community practice their
English-speaking skills. After
lunch, my co-worker and I said
our goodbyes to the Koreans
and headed back to base.
The taxi dropped us off at
the street right in front of the
base. I paid the driver, thanked
him and waved goodbye to my
buddy as he left to play pool off
base.
Walking toward base, I
noticed a button on my coat
was loose, so I stopped at a
tailor shop a few feet from the
gate entrance. I walked in,
greeted the worker with
“Annyeonghaseyo,” and asked
if he could fix my button. He
nodded and took the coat from
me. When he finished, I put it
on and asked how much. He
kept saying “no charge” and
proceeded to get closer to me.
The next few minutes became
dark. He proceeded to take
advantage of me, and I just
froze. I didn’t know what to do;
I was in shock. I couldn’t
believe what was happening.
Once I snapped to, I ran as
fast as I could toward base. I
knew what had just happened
to me wasn’t right, and my
mind and body didn’t want to
believe it. It felt like my brain
kept telling me, “there’s no
way it could have happened.”
But it did.
As I sat in my room,
replaying the events in my
head, I heard the recognizable
beeping sound coming from
my computer. It was my
husband calling me via Skype.
I answered, and realizing
something was bothering me,
he asked what was wrong.
Hesitating, I slowly began to
tell him what happened that
day. I could see the anger and
frustration in his eyes; he
wanted so badly to hug and
kiss me and tell me everything
was going to be all right, but
he couldn’t.
The following day, I took his
advice and talked to my
supervisor about the events
that occurred. While
comforting me, she asked what
I wanted to do and explained
my options. We walked to the
Sexual Assault Response
Coordinator’s office and the
lieutenant there escorted me
to the (Air Force) Office of
Special Investigations, where
they took my statement. The
OSI agents were very
understanding and explained
that because this was a
Korean national, I would have
My first sergeant and
to file a report with the Korean commander drove in from
National Police. I thought it
Seoul to accompany me. Before
would end there, but that was leaving the office, my
only the beginning.
commander talked to me. He
The SARC informed me
asked me how I was doing and
this would be a long procedure if I was ready. But I will never
and recommended I use the
forget what he told me next, “I
Air Force’s new Special
have to tell you that I really
Victims Council Program to
admire what you’re doing. It
help me
takes a lot of
through the
guts, so let’s
Throughout the fourprocess; I
go out and
month ordeal, my Air
agreed.
(seek justice
Force and Army
A few
for what has
family stood by my
weeks later,
happened to
side. My special
my first
you).”
victim counselor
sergeant
We pulled
helped me through
called to tell
up to the
every step of the
me that,
police station
according to
and an officer
legal process,
Korean law,
escorted us
despite being
anytime a
into a room.
stationed in Japan.
person files a
The door
sexual assault,
opened and I
both parties must present
saw my assailant. Next to him
their account of the actions in
was an empty chair where the
front of a judge.
officer signaled me to sit.
“You will have to face him if Shaking, I managed to take
you want to keep going with
my seat at which time my
this,” he said.
assailant starts yelling. There
I echoed softly, “Face him?”
was no need for translation;
This was the last thing I
my interpreter told me he was
wanted.
accusing me of lying and
He got quiet and then told
trying to ruin his marriage.
me, “Hey, I don’t agree with
I looked around at all the
this system. You should never people who came out to
have to see him again. I will
support me—my commander,
support whatever decision you first sergeant, station manager
make, but just know our OSI
and OSI translator and, for the
translator says most women
first time in a long time, I felt
end up retracting their
safe. I remained as calm as I
statements because they’re
could and answered the
afraid of facing their
questions asked of me, despite
assailant.”
my offender being a few
After hearing that, I knew I inches away and constantly
had to do what was right.
yelling at me and my
Soon, an Air Force captain
interpreter.
from the SVC contacted me. As
This was, by far, the hardest
a lawyer, he would help me
thing I’ve had to face in my
through any legal issues and
life.
be available for support.
Weeks went by before we
Finally, the day arrived
heard anything. The judge
when I would have to face the decided to take my case to
man who assaulted me. At the court. I would have to testify
Korean National Police
again, except this time no one
Station, we would argue the
was allowed in the court room
truth over that day’s events.
with me.
“
“
By AIR FORCE STAFF SGT.
NANCY KASBERG
My special victim’s
counselor walked me to the
door of the court room. Then a
Korean officer took me in
and motioned me to sit in a
chair that had been placed in
the middle of the room. I
looked around; no one sat in
the pews and there was no
jury—just a judge, an
interpreter and a transcriber.
They all stared as the
prosecutor approached me. I
was the victim, yet somehow,
the room, the glares, the
questions, all made me feel as
if I was the offender.
A month later, I was told
the judge had found my
assailant guilty. It was a huge
relief, not only for me, but for
others as well. I learned I
wasn’t alone; many others on
base came forth and said they,
too, had experienced
harassment from this man.
The Air Force put his shop offlimits, helping to ensure others
wouldn’t fall victim to the
same crimes.
Throughout the four-month
ordeal, my Air Force and Army
Family stood by my side. My
special victim counselor helped
me through every step of the
legal process, despite being
stationed in Japan. To this day,
he continues to check up on
me from time to time. OSI
volunteered an agent familiar
with Korean law to translate
and advise my counselor and
me on the next step. Everyone
in my chain of command, my
fellow Airmen and Soldiers all
the way up to the Pentagon,
showed sincere and personal
support.
Today, with the love and
support of my Family and
friends, my wound is slowly
healing. I hope that, in sharing
my story, people may find
comfort in knowing that no
matter where you’re serving,
despite being away from
everything you know, you are
not alone. ■
Executive order prohibits federal
contractors from LGBT discrimination
By ANNE RUNG
professionals to provide these
services on a superior scale
while serving as responsible
business models with respect
The president’s executive
to 21st century workplace
order banning discrimination
equality. As the president
against lesbian, gay, bisexual,
stated when he signed the
and transgender Americans in executive order, “America’s
the workplace went into effect federal contracts should not
April 7. The executive order on subsidize discrimination
LGBT workplace discriminaagainst the American people.”
tion prohibits federal contractAlready, a majority of
ors from discriminating on the federal contractors have
basis of sexual orientation or
policies on the books on LGBT
gender identity in federal em- workplace equality. In fact, of
ployment, and prohibits all
the largest 50 federal
companies that receive a concontractors, which represent
tract from the federal governnearly half of all federal
ment from discriminating
contracting dollars, 86 percent
against their LGBT employees. prohibit sexual orientation
This action not only ensures discrimination and 61 percent
that LGBT Americans have a
prohibit discrimination based
more inclusive environment to on gender identity. In addition,
work and flourish, but also
the five top federal contractors,
better positions our contractwhich receive nearly a quarter
ing community to attract and
of all federal contracting
retain the best talent.
dollars, already bar
Every year, billions of
discrimination based on both
taxpayer dollars are spent on
sexual orientation and gender
everything from consulting
identity.
services and training, to
Still, no federal law
software development.
adequately protects LGBT
Citizens expect contracting
workers. In too many sectors
OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY
AT THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF
MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
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THE GOLD STANDARD
Partnership: UofL helping transitioning Soldiers
■ From Page A1
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, this
spring.
“Students will receive a UofL
transcript for the courses they
complete,” said Renee Finnegan,
executive director, UofL Military
Initiatives and Partnerships.
The council also addressed
at-risk youth. The Kentucky
Youth Challenge, also known as
the Bluegrass ChalleNGe
Academy, will take over the
former Walker Middle School on
Fort Knox as a new home this
fall. Said Air Force Maj. Gen.
Edward Tonini, 51st adjutant
general of the commonwealth of
the Kentucky National Guard.
The academy gives youth a
second chance to become
responsible and productive
citizens by helping them
improve their life skills,
education levels and
employment potential.
In addition, the Kentucky
National Guard has partnered
with UofL, which made the
“2015 Best for Vets” list, to give
the most deserving graduate a
three and a half year academic
scholarship, a direct investment
in building the community and
future leaders, said Tonini.
Emerging technology has
sparked growth as HRC works
with the UofL Speed School of
Engineering to attract computer
science graduates.
“Here we plan to focus our
efforts on informational sessions
on how to apply for federal jobs,
how to build a resume, navigate
the hiring process and
mentorship programs with
students,” said Mustion. “We
want to talk to them about
developmental opportunities at
HRC and the impact of veteran
preferences.”
HRC is working to arrange
installation and Maude
Complex tours for IT students,
he said.
As the Army continues to
drawdown, UofL has looked to
help transitioning veterans
make a new start for themselves
through its VetStart program,
now in its seventh iteration.
“The program is free for
Kentucky veterans starting a
business in Kentucky and has
had more than 30 individuals
complete the 10-week
entrepreneurial program,” said
Finnegan.
The focus is on start-up
training via one-on-one
mentoring and providing limited
expense reimbursements where
eligible.
Taking care of Soldiers begins
not only with education and
career options, but it also
encompasses their overall
health and welfare, which was
another topic discussed by the
council.
“Ireland Army Community
Hospital represents a regional
health care system covering six
states with a patient population
of more than 294,000 across
components, veterans and
Families.” said Col. Matthew
Rettke, IRACH commander.
“The Warrior Transition Unit
provides a triad of care to
wounded warriors, enabling
them to either return to service
or transition into the civilian
sector.”
Although Ireland is available
to service veterans all over the
region, UofL has spearheaded
alternate ways to reach eligible
patients outside of traditional
military means.
“Our Depression Center Pilot
Program, which started in
November 2013, has treated
Kentucky National Guard
Soldiers who have come home
from the war in Afghanistan or
Iraq. Some feel more
comfortable seeking treatment
at a civilian institution, and we
welcome them with open arms,”
said Finnegan. “The UofL Kent
School of Social Work has been
awarded a grant for $480,000 to
provide free behavioral health
counseling to military Families.”
In an environment of
constant demand, life stressors
may lead to illness and
potentially suicide. The Army
and UofL both recognize the
need to help Soldiers, civilians
and Families cope with ways to
heal not only the physical illness
of the body but the mind and
spirit.
To that end IRACH opened
the Fort Knox Army Wellness
Center in September 2014 in
order to provide holistic patientcentered health services, said
Rettke.
“The program looks at
improving total wellness of the
entire force for both civilian and
military teammates,” said
Mustion. “I’ve seen a real
difference in the number of
civilians actively participating
in the program focusing on
improving preventive care and
building resiliency to take care
of themselves.”
All attendees said they truly
value the partnership, and
vowed to continue to educate,
employ and treat military,
Families and veterans. ■
HRC’s Gayler receives second star,
will be new CG for US Army Europe
By DAVID
RUDERMAN
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES
COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE
Brig. Gen. William
K. Gayler, Director of
Human Resources
Command’s Officer
Personnel Management
Directorate, was
frocked with his second
star April 6 in a
ceremony at the Maude
Complex on Fort Knox.
More than 40
officers and senior
noncommissioned
officers joined Gayler,
his wife Michele, and
their daughter
Samantha for the
frocking, which was
conducted by Maj. Gen.
Stephen Townsend,
recently confirmed to
become commander of
the 18th Airborne
Corps, via videoteleconference from
Fort Bragg, North
Carolina.
The Gaylers’ two
oldest daughters, Katie
and Maggie, observed
the ceremony via
FaceTime.
Townsend recounted
first meeting and
working with Gayler
while deployed to Iraq,
where he watched him
tutor and mentor
current and future
leaders.
“I have seen him
enforce this through
the train up of a
generation of officers in
our career field,
teaching them to
develop a process of
critical thinking that
supports the Soldier on
the battlefield. He’s the
kind of commander
who is always thinking
about the Soldier on
the ground,” he said.
“This service is
about people,” Gayler
said. “Thank you to
each and every one of
you for making me a
better person. It’s
really not about me.
It’s about everyone
that ever put on a
uniform to serve our
nation.”
Gayler leaves HRC
to become the deputy
commanding general of
U.S. Army Europe in
Wiesbaden,
Germany, after
serving 14
months as
director at
OPMD. In that
time, he oversaw
the consolidation
and
reorganization of
the command
management
branch, thus
allowing HRC to
better slate
command teams
across the Army.
Under his
leadership,
OPMD initiated
the launch and
Photo by David Ruderman/Human Resources Command Public Affairs
development of
the cyber
SAMANTHA GAYLER ATTACHES A TWO-STAR PATCH to her father’s
branch,
uniform during a frocking ceremony for Maj. Gen. William Gayler, at the
identifying key
Maude Complex on Fort Knox April 6. Gayler, head of U.S. Army Human
personnel to
Resources Command’s Officer Personnel Management Directorate, is
manage this
slated to become deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe.
emerging career
1990-1991; former
such as selection and
field, the first Army
Yugoslavia/Bosniaseparation boards,
branch to be stood up
Herzegovina, 1995being
employed
to
since 1987. OPMD also
1996; Operation Iraqi
maintain
a
properly
expanded broadening
Freedom I, 2003;
balanced
force
aligned
opportunities,
Operation Iraqi
to
projected
end
including strategic
Freedom V-VII, 2005strength
targets.
seminars at the
2006; and Operation
Gayler
also
led
the
graduate education
Enduring Freedom X,
charge
in
raising
level. A similar
2010-2011. ■
awareness
to
explain
emphasis on positions
the
new
Officer
with private enterprise,
Evaluation Report,
such as Training with
with its emphasis on
Industry, also
rater accountability,
contributed to refining
clear assessment
talent management
messaging, and revised
within the force.
counseling and support
Gayler traveled
forms. The new OER
widely during his
will enable Army
tenure at HRC,
leadership to maintain
engaging senior Army
readiness to meet
leaders and troops in
future requirements
the field to explain the
while building a
capabilities of the
leadership that brings
officer inventory to
meet requirements and depth and experience
increase the percentage to the force.
His previous
of field units meeting
command
assignments
the Army Manning
include deputy
Guidance.
commanding general
He emphasized the
(Support), 7th Infantry
need for leaders across
Division; commander,
the force to exercise
101st Combat Aviation
transparency,
Brigade; and
compassion, and
commander, 3rd
commitment in
Battalion, 159th
explaining the Army’s
Combat Aviation
need to manage
Brigade, in addition to
drawdown
a wide range of other
requirements
mandated by Congress. assignments in the
Army.
He insisted on honesty
Gayler’s major
and openness in a
deployments include
dialogue with Soldiers
Operation Desert
to explain the forceShield/Desert Storm,
shaping mechanisms,
FORT KNOX
COMMUNITY
SCHOOLS
School calendar
of events online
ITEM SUBMISSION
The Fort Knox Schools
system has assembled a
master calendar showcasing
schools’ activities of interest
to parents and other
community members. The
calendar lists events, except
sports, scheduled in all four
Fort Knox Schools. Current
examples are a band
performance, a luau spring
dance, and a scholastic book
fair. Parents with children in
different schools and grades
can now more easily plan to
attend school events. The
master calendar is online at
www.am.dodea.edu/knox/
FKCSCO/Pages/SEI.html.
FKHS yearbook on
sale now
The Fort Knox High
School yearbook is currently
on sale for $55. An engraved
nameplate is available for
an additional $5. Check or
cash can be accepted at the
high school. Payments
should be brought to Ms.
Hibberd. Credit card orders
can be made online at
yearbookordercenter.com.
The school code is 10460.
FKHS holding
registration
All items for this page
should be submitted to
Jerry Leitzell at
[email protected].
guidance counselor. Scott is
in Bldg. 7474, 266
Mississippi St.; phone 6246572 or 624-2236.
School Information
Guide now
available online
The Fort Knox
Community Schools
Information Guide is
available. Guide contents for
school year 2014-15 include
key programs and services,
the calendar, policies,
immunization requirements,
and much more. Download
the FKCS Guide (433KB
PDF) to print and keep. Go
to www.am.dodea.edu/knox/
fkcsco/and then click on
FKCS Guide.
Parents can contact
FKCS board via
web-based
email system
By JERRY LEITZELL
By JERRY LEITZELL
FORT KNOX COMMUNITY
SCHOOLS
During April, the Fort
Knox Community Schools
will hold annual student
re-registration for next
school year.
Parents and legal
guardians of students
presently enrolled will
receive re-registration
information to review, sign
and return to the child’s
school.
Sponsors should sign the
600 form, if available.
However, if the spouse or
guardian signs the form, a
copy of his or her military
ID, marriage certificate or
power of attorney is
required.
The following is each
school’s reregistration
schedule, location and the
phone number that student
sponsors with questions may
call:
■ Van Voorhis
Elementary School was sent
home re-registration packets
and have re-registration
through tomorrow from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. daily in Bldg.
5550, 120 Folger St.; phone
624-5854 or 624-8519.
■ Scott Middle School:
sixth, seventh and eighthgraders received
re-registration materials to
take home. Parents should
return the completed
materials to Scott school by
Friday. Course selection
information was handled
separately through the
Parents and legal
guardians of students
attending the Fort Knox
Community Schools are
invited to contact the board
of education via its webbased email system.
Established in October
2008, the system aims to
inform the board members
and the superintendent of
specific issues in a timely
fashion.
Dr. Frank Calvano, the
Kentucky District
superintendent, said that
the web-mail system would
give the board time to
address the issues—
questions, comments and
concerns—before the next
monthly board meeting.
“All board members will
see the emails,” he said.
Calvano also said student
sponsors could use the web
page link to submit a
proposed agenda item.
“We prefer use of the
email system so we can
prepare to answer at the
board meeting,” said
Calvano.
Using the system would
not replace public
participation at a board
meeting, he said, “but the
board might have to get
back to them the subsequent
month rather than being
able to answer questions
immediately.”
The web link is www.am.
dodea.edu/knox/fkcsco/
Pages/BoardofEducation.
htm.
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Photo by Daniel Cernero, III Corps and Fort Hood Public Affairs
JEFFREY AND SHERYLL PEARSON PAUSE TO LOOK AT THE PORTRAIT of their son, Pfc. Michael Pearson, before the start of the Fort
Hood Purple Heart and Defense of Freedom Medal Ceremony at III Corps Headquarters on Fort Hood, Texas, April 10.
Fort Hood: Victims feel validated, terrorist activity acknowledged
those who worked to
distract the shooter so
were wounded by
others could escape and
gunfire. The gunman
those who provided
was convicted and
emergency aid to the
sentenced to death in
wounded.
September 2013.
“Their bravery has
“We honor the
been
matched only by
memories of the 13
their
resilience—the
souls laid to eternal
spirit
of which is seen
rest (and) pay tribute to
throughout the Army,”
their sacrifice,”
said MacFarland,
MacFarland said. “We
also remember the acts noting the 20th
Engineer Battalion on
of courage and
selflessness by Soldiers Fort Hood, which lost
four Soldiers that day
and civilians, which
and had 11 wounded;
prevented an even
and the 467 Medical
greater calamity from
Detachment, an Army
occurring that day.”
Reserve unit based in
Purple Hearts were
Madison, Wisconsin,
presented to
representatives of 10 of which had three
Soldiers killed and four
the Soldiers killed on
wounded in the
that day, as well as to
shooting. “Despite these
26 of those wounded.
losses, both units
The Defense of
deployed to
Freedom Medal, the
Afghanistan within
civilian equivalent of
months,” he said.
the Purple Heart, was
Retired Gen. Bob
presented to the family
Cone, III Corps and
of Michael Cahill, the
lone civilian contractor Fort Hood commanding
general at the time of
killed that day, as well
as to Kimberly Munley, the incident, recalled
the resilience and
the Department of the
bravery in face of that
Army civilian police
adversity.
officer, who was shot
Less than two
when she responded to
months into command
the scene.
on Fort Hood, Cone was
Purple Hearts for
on his way to speak at
four Soldiers wounded
and the Families of two a college graduation
ceremony at Howze
Soldiers killed will be
Auditorium, which
awarded at local
ceremonies throughout shared a parking lot
the nation, MacFarland with the SRP site,
when he was alerted to
said. They will not be
avoid the area.
forgotten.
He remembers the
“We honor them, as
tragedy and pain of
well,” the general said.
The recipients hailed that day, but also the
way the installation
from 21 states and
and surrounding
units from across Fort
Hood and throughout
community rallied.
the United States, and
“I think what struck
of those killed, seven
me most was the
were active duty, five
tremendous sense of
were reservists, and one purpose and resilience
was a civilian
of the Soldiers, civilians
contractor.
and first responders as
“Hundreds of lives
the scene,” Cone said.
have been woven
“At the moment of
together by this single
greatest need, these
day of valor and loss,”
professionals were at
MacFarland said.
their very best, using
“Although no words
their combat training
can resurrect those we
to respond to the crisis,
lost or completely erase to treat and evacuate
the scars, today’s
the wounded, and care
ceremony is an
for each other.”
opportunity to provide
Cone also was struck
a sense of closure to
by the response from
those who were injured the Central Texas
or those who lost a
community.
loved one.”
“The outpouring of
He applauded the
support for everything
bravery of the first
from blood transfusions
responders who rushed to local hospitality for
into the active scene,
Families, to financial
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contributions, was
simply amazing,” the
former III Corps
commander said. “In so
many ways, the
community’s response
truly represents the
remarkable bond
between this
installation and this
community.”
Heroes stepped up
that day and continue
to support those
wounded and the
Families of those killed,
Cone said. Survivors
have changed and
adapted, and Cone has
seen the progress made.
“I have monitored
many of you as you
have struggled,
adapted, triumphed or
stumbled,” he said.
While there has been
much pain, there has
also been great
progress. That is the
essence of being a
survivor (and) that is
the essence of being a
victor over a terrible
incident like this.”
Capt. Dorothy
Carskadon, a reservist
with the 467th Combat
Stress Control Unit on
the day of the attack,
returned to her civilian
job as a social worker at
a veterans’ center
following the incident.
Working with
combat-theater
veterans and their
Families aided her
recovery, Carskadon
said.
“It really helped me
move through the
issues that I needed
to move through,”
she said. Carskadon
said she has found
an outpouring of
support for herself
and her spouse from
her community,
church, Family and
friends.
“It is overwhelming,”
she said. “It has been
overwhelming since
day one.”
Receiving the Purple
Heart validates her
experience, Carskadon
said.
“It validates that it
was a terrorist activity,”
she said. “It draws a
line, a distinction
between workplace
violence and
terrorism.” ■
Martin said her
door will always be
open, and she will
always be willing to
“get her hands dirty”
in support of the
mission.
“As former Secretary of State and
(retired) Gen. Colin
Powell once said, ‘A
dream doesn’t become
a reality through
magic; it takes sweat,
determination and
hard work,’” she said.
“I look forward to
contributing my
sweat, determination
and hard work along
with you, as we
accomplish our goals
and put boots on the
ground!”
Martin has been a
commander at every
level and has served
in military police units
in the United States
as well as Saudi
Arabia, Afghanistan
and Germany.
Batschelet
described Martin as a
tested leader whose
display of great energy
and talents led to her
being selected for
many key
assignments,
preparing her for
significant
responsibility.
“Donna’s diverse
assignments have
provided her with an
incredible wealth of
experience,”
Batschelet said.
“Only a dynamic
leader who knows how
to build a team while
ensuring the very best
quality of life for
everyone under her
command can compile
a distinguished record
such as hers,” he
added. “These
assignments and
senior command
positions have more
than prepared her to
be USAREC’s deputy
commanding officer.
USAREC is fortunate
the Army chose to lend
us this great leader.
We will face the
challenges and
transitions of
providing the Army’s
strength together.”
Martin was
commissioned a
second lieutenant in
the Military Police
Corps in 1988.
Married 20 years, she
and her husband,
Chris, have a son,
Christopher who is at
the University of
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Debts
Debts settled for
Spc. Michael Nixon
Anyone with debts owed
to or by the estate of Spc.
Michael W. Nixon, Warrior
Transition Battalion, must
contact 1st Lt. Pamela
Fabiano, the summary courtmartial officer for the Soldier.
Nixon died on Fort Knox
April 7.
Fabiano can be reached
at (502) 500-0725 or
pamela.c.fabiano.mil@mail.
mil.
Court-Martial
Soldier found guilty,
reduced rank
Pvt. E2 David Montoya,
19th Engineer Battalion, was
found guilty of two
specifications of willfully
disobeying a superior
commissioned officer, two
specifications of sexual
assault, and abusive sexual
contact March 26. He was
sentenced to be reduced to
private (E-1), confinement
for 33 months, and to be
discharged with a
dishonorable discharge.
Activities on post
Families eligible
for grants
Surviving Family
members of military and
government employees who
lost their lives in service to
the nation may apply be
eligible to apply for the
chance to receive educational
grants from the Folded Flag
Foundation. To apply or for
more information, go to www.
foldedflag foundation.org/
apply.
Library showing
Ken Burns series
The Barr Memorial
Library will continue to show
“The Civil War,” a series of
films by Ken Burns Saturday
at 1 p.m. This event is free
and open to the public.
Future episodes will be
aired April 25. For more
information, call (502)
624-1232.
Holocaust remembrance
scheduled today
Fort Knox commemorates
“Days of Remembrance
Observance,” to memorialize
the six million Jews
murdered in the Holocaust—
as well as the millions of
non-Jewish victims of Nazi
persecution.
The event will be today
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at
Patton Museum’s Abrams
Auditorium. This year’s guest
speaker is Jimmy Gentry,
one of the first liberators of
the Dachau Concentration
Camp during World War II.
This year’s theme is:
“Learning from the
Holocaust: Choosing to Act.”
For more information,
contact the Installation
Equal Opportunity Office at
(502) 624-3510/4583.
Customers invited
to council meeting
Customers of the Fort
Knox Exchange and
Commissary are invited to
attend the Quarterly
Exchange/Commissary
Council meeting, which will
be held at 1 p.m. April 24 in
the Saber & Quill’s Bullion
Room. The council is
comprised of a cross section
of Exchange and
Commissary customers who
meet with and advise store
managers of customers’
needs and wants. Council
members assist in improving
customer service by
obtaining the benefits of
customers’ attitudes through
suggestions, discussions and
opinions concerning items
sold in the Exchange and
Commissary.
Applications accepted
for fellowship
Army Community Service
is now accepting applications
for 2015 Military Spouse
Fellowships. The application
period for the FINRA
Foundation Military Spouse
Fellowship Program is open
through Friday. The program
provides military spouses
with the education and
training needed to earn the
Accredited Financial
Counselor® designation. If
you know someone who
might be a good candidate,
please encourage him or her
to apply. Apply online at
www.militaryspouseafcpe.
org/application.
Allergy clinic hours
of operation
Due to upcoming provider
deployments, the IRACH
allergy clinic will not be able
to continue extended hours of
operation. The allergy clinic
hours of operation are
Monday to Friday from 7:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Extended hours are no
longer available but walk-in
service for allergy shots are
available:
Monday and Wednesday:
7:30-11-45 a.m. or 1-3:30 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday:
1-3:30 p.m.
Friday: 7:30-11-45 a.m. or
1-2:30 p.m.
To contact the allergy
clinic front desk, dial (502)
624-9423. If you have any
concerns, contact the patient
advocate at (502) 624-9011.
Appointment available
for PHA-Part 2
Active duty Soldiers can
now book their Annual
Periodic Health Assessmentpart 2- with the Military
Readiness Clinic by calling
(502) 624-9626/9635 or
sending a Relay Health
Message with a Subject: PHA
part 2 Appointment. The
online part 1 of the PHA will
be completed prior to calling
for an appointment. Contact
Capt. Ronaldo Prudente at
(502) 624-9647 for more
information.
New York special
election set May 5
New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo ordered a special
election to be held May 5, to
fill the seat vacated by
Staten Island congressman
Michael Grimm of the 11th
Congressional District. The
district includes the New
York City borough of Staten
Island and parts of the
borough of Brooklyn. Contact
your unit voting assistance
officer or the iInstallation
voting assistance officer, Ted
Rivera, at (502) 624-7325, or
at email: usarmy.knox.
imcom-atlantic.mbx.dhr-agvoting-assistance for more
information or assistance.
Register to
vote by mail
The Federal Post Card
Application registers you to
vote, and acts as a request
for your state absentee
ballots for the year. It is
important to complete a new
FPCA annually, every time
you move or at least 90 days
prior to the election you want
to vote in. Make sure your
ballots arrive in 2015.
Register now and request
your ballots for the year.
Complete a new FPCA is
easy and can be found at
www.FVAP.gov. Remember,
the only way your local
election official knows how to
reach you is with the
information you provide.
If you experience any
issues or have questions,
FVAP’s call center is
available at (800) 438-VOTE
(8683), DSN 425-1584, or at
[email protected]. Or, contact
your Unit Voting Assistance
Officer or the Installation
Voting Assistance Officer
(Ted Rivera) at (502) 6247325, email: usarmy.knox.
imcom-atlantic.mbx.dhr-agvoting-assistance.
Program helps vets
bridge gap
A career development
program designed by
veterans for veterans—its
objective is simply to help
veterans live a dynamic life,
and help bridge the gap in
military to civilian transition
that challenge many of its
service personnel. Visit the
website to get an
independent certification(s)
and create a modern resume
at www.veteran-success.org.
Other information,
associations and programs
for vets is available. Email
James_A@veteran-success.
org, or call (270) 312-8628 for
more information.
SFAC to hold free
fly fishing classes
Local fly fishing
volunteers are ready to work
with Soldiers and veterans
with all types of disabilities
instructing them on the
basics of fly fishing.
Techniques include fly
casting, fly tying, rod
building and the program
includes one-day and multiday outings where
everything is provided to
participants for free. Classes
are free and held the first
and third Wednesday of the
month on Fort Knox, at the
Warrior Transition Complex
Bldg. 500, SFAC meeting
room, 533 Spearhead
Division Ave.
For more information or
to volunteer, contact Larry
Drake at (502) 964-6887 or
[email protected]
This program is
sponsored by Project Healing
Waters, a national 501(C)(3)
nonprofit organization that
has programs in more than
160 DOD and VA hospitals,
clinics, and Warrior
Transition units.
Yoga for veterans
Robley Rex VAMC Yoga
Series is available Tuesdays
from 1-2:30 p.m., at the Fort
Knox Religious Education
Center, Bldg. 4768, 8th
Armored Division Road, Fort
Knox. It’s open to male and
female veterans. No appointment needed. For more
information, call Dr. Patti
Weiter at (502) 287-6442.
Hearts Apart
meets monthly
Hearts Apart “get togethers” provide a supportive
group setting for activities,
opportunities to learn about
available resources, life skills
and to network with other
spouses that are left behind
in our area. Meetings are
held at the ACS Bldg. 1477,
411 Eisenhower Ave. Child
care is free. Parents must
make reservations for their
children and ACS will
provide a voucher to cover
cost of hourly care as long as
funding is available. For
more information, contact
Arlene Ratliff at (502) 6247794/8391.
Hearts Apart is in
partnership with the Blue
Star Card program, an
award-winning program that
also supports spouses of
Soldiers. Check the Family
and MWR website, http://
www.knoxmwr.com for all
the latest Blue Star Card
and Family and MWR events
or visit on Facebook, http://
facebook.com/knoxmwr.
Vet clinic open for
vaccines, sick call
The Fort Knox Veterinary
Clinic, located at 192 Tank
Battalion Rd., Bldg. 1006, is
open to active duty, National
Guard, U.S. Army Reserve,
Family members and
retirees. The clinic is open for
sick call, routine vaccines,
heartworm testing, parasite
prevention, on-post pet
registration, interstate and
international pet
requirements and
certificates. The clinic’s hours
are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4
p.m. and closed all federal
holidays and at noon on the
last calendar weekday of the
month. The clinic doesn’t
offer emergency services.
For more information, call
(502) 624-5819/3271.
Nichiren Buddhism
meet Tuesdays
The weekly introduction
to Nichiren Buddhism
meetings are held every
Tuesday from 6 to 7 p.m. at
the Religious Annex, Bldg.
1487. For more information
concerning Nichiren
Buddhism, call Dr. Bob
Drake at (316) 305-1179 or
Mike Lewis at (270) 3007535.
SOS group
holding meeting
The Survivor Outreach
Support Group holds meetings to provide information,
resources, guest speakers,
financial workshops, Family
activities, compassionate
support and friendship, open
to Families of fallen Soldiers.
For more information,
contact Survivor Outreach
Services at (502) 624-2006.
Post offers services
for special needs kids
If you are an active duty
or full-time civil service
family living on post and
have concerns about your 0-3
year old child’s development,
call Educational
Development Intervention
Services at 624-9552 for
in-home developmental
screening. No referral
necessary. If you have a
concern about a child 3 years
and older, call Dennis
Labriola at 624-2345 x 4111
for school services.
Off-post activities
EAA providing free
flights Saturday
Explore aviation with free
airplane ride. The Vine Grove
Chapter of the Experimental
Aircraft Association will
provide Young Eagle flights,
free for youth between the
ages of 8 and 17, Saturday at
the Vine Grove Airport,
weather permitting. The
flights will be given from 9
a.m. to noon. A permission
slip, properly authenticated
by a parent or guardian, is
required, and will be
available at the airport.
Donations to support Young
Eagles or EAA Chapter 657
are accepted, but not
required.
The primary goal of the
Young Eagle flight program
is to introduce youngsters to
the thrill of aviation, and to
provide a memorable flying
experience. Each participant
will be given a certificate
signed by their pilot and
world-renowned aerobatic
pilot Sean Tucker, the
National Young Eagle
chairman. Additionally, their
name will be entered in the
official Young Eagle Logbook
maintained by the EAA at
Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
For additional
information, contact Dick
Ardisson at (270) 351-7138,
or the chapter through the
Vine Grove Airport at (270)
877-0131.
Keeneland offering
free admission Sunday
Military Appreciation
Day at Keeneland Race
Track, located in Lexington
Kentucky, is scheduled for
Sunday. All active duty,
Reserve, veterans and
military Families receive free
general admission with a
military I.D., DD214, veteran
I.D. or other form of military
I.D. at any pass gate.
Visit the Marathon’s
Military Family Zone in the
North Terrace from noon 4p.m. for free food, live music
and more. And in honor of
Month of the Military Child,
we’ll have special giveaways
and activities for military
children throughout the day.
AG Regimental ball
tickets on sale
The Gold Vault Chapter
of the Adjutant General’s
Corps Regimental
Association invites you to
attend the 2015 AG
Regimental Ball, May 8, at
the Galt House, located at
140 North 4th St, Louisville.
The hotel group rate code is
“AG Ball 2015” if you book
before Wednesday. Social
hour begins at 5 p.m. Ticket
price: sergeant (E-5)/GS-7
and below are $40. All other
ranks are $50 before April
27. For ticket purchasing and
general questions, contact
your unit representative or
email one of the committee
members at Sayquan.d.
[email protected],
[email protected],
michelle.l.schaumburg.mil@
mail.mil or ashley.a.smith.
[email protected].
Alliance sponsoring
Brain Walk and Talk
The Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky is sponsoring a Brain Walk and Talk
May 9 at E.P Tom Sawyer
Park in Louisville. Your
participation in this year’s
event helps BIAK continue to
serve survivors, family
members, caregivers and all
those who desire to make a
difference in the life of
individuals with brain
injuries and their families.
Participants can register
online, and download a
sponsorship packet at https://
biak.myetap.org/fundraiser/
biakbrainwalk2015. Onsite
registration starts at 8 a.m.,
the walk begins at 10 a.m.
For more information, call
Chell Austin at (502) 4930609 or visit www.biak.us.
Community Center has
Tai Chi Chaun classes
Yang Traditional Family
Tai Chi Chuan classes will be
offered at the Colvin Community Center in Radcliff
every Thursday evening at 6
p.m. The first class is free;
subsequent classes are $3
each, per person. Colvin
Community Center is located
at 230 Freedoms Way,
Radcliff. Call (270) 351-4079
for more information.
Closings
IRACH allergy clinic
closed April 28
The Ireland Army
Community Hospital’s
Allergy and Immunization
Clinic will be closed April 28
for training. It will be open
for administrative purposes
only. It will be open for all
beneficiaries during normal
operating hours April 29.
Yard, garage sales
Red Cross holding
yard sale
The Fort Knox chapter of
the American Red Cross will
host a yard sale April 25
from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at
Bldg. 119, next to the new
pharmacy.
For more information, or
to ask questions, call Sandy
Bousum or May Giulitto at
(502) 624-2163.
Classes, training,
testing
Free ACT, SAT programs
available online
The SAT or ACT
PowerPrep™ Program is
available online (cloud
version), DVD and books. It
includes more than 11 hours
of video instruction and
3,000 plus files of
supplemental test prep
material, thousands of
interactive diagnostic tools,
sample questions, practice
tests and graphic teaching
illustrations. Students select
the training they need and
can study at their own pace.
If you or someone you
know would like to request
an SAT or ACT PowerPrep
Program, visit www.
eKnowledge.com/
GoldStandard or telephone
eKnowledge (951) 256-4076.
The eKnowledge
Sponsorship covers the
complete $250 purchase
price for the SAT or ACT
Test Preparation Program.
The student pays for just the
cost of delivering the
program: DVD student fee of
$17.55 for the cost of materials, support and shipping,
online cloud student fee of
$19.99 for student support
and streaming.
For questions or more
information, contact Lori
Caputo, by email at
LoriCaputo@eKnowledge.
com or by calling (951) 2564076 and reference The Gold
Standard.
Red Cross offering OJT
These programs which
fall under the Red Cross offer
the following opportunities
and valuable job experiences:
Medical Support Clerk
Program:
Six months on the job
training as a medical support
clerk at Ireland Army
Hospital Program is free for
veterans and their
dependents, dependents of
active duty, Reserve and
National Guard Soldiers.
For more information, call
the Fort Knox Red Cross
Office at (502) 624-2163.
Ed Center instructs
BSEP classes
The Fort Knox Army
Education Center offers
monthly morning or weekly
afternoon concentrated Basic
Skills Education Program
classes, to prepare students
for college, general technical
score improvement or armed
forces entrance examination
testing.
Visit the education center
Bldg. 1174, or call (502) 6244136, 2427 for further
information.
Off-post religious
activities
Morning Star sponsoring
fellowship service
The Morning Star
Missionary Baptist Church,
located at 1106 S. Wilson Rd.,
Radcliff, is sponsoring its
annual Praise Fellowship
Service, “When Women
Praise” Friday at 7 p.m.
For more information,
contact the Rev. Shirley
Gamble at (270) 300-4616.
New Hope
holding conference
New Hope Missionary
Baptist Church will hold its
annual conference Wednesday-April 17 with a start
time of 6:15 p.m. each night.
Guest speakers include
Pastors William Curle and
O.C. Jones and Dr. Paul
Chitwood. Guest speaker for
the April 17 men’s workshop
is Rev. Curtis Woods and
Evangelist Teresa Coffie will
be the guest speaker for the
women’s workshop. There
will be power pack seminars
which include subjects like
pulling down strong holds,
the power of worship, the
power of prayer and
transforming power of
scripture.
The conference includes
the entire family and each
night there will be a youth
service taking place in the
gymnasium.
Stovall UMC
dedicating playground
Stovall United Methodist
Church, 949 Rogersville
Road, Radcliff, cordially
invites the community to
celebrate the dedication of
the recently completed
playground April 25 from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. The Stovall
UMC Family will provide a
free hot dog, chips and drinks
beginning at 11 a.m., with
the formal dedication
ceremony at 12:30 p.m.
Games and outdoor activities
may also be provided. Rain
date will be after church
April 26 at 1:30 p.m.
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FMCRA allows government to claim
reimbursement for negligent actions
Recovered millions
from third parties
party. A significant restriction on
the government’s use of the
FMCRA is that actions can be
directed only at negligent third
parties.
Recovery from the liable
By JULIE SNYDER
CADET COMMAND AND FORT KNOX OFFICE
tortfeasor is but one source,
OF THE STAFF JUDGE ADVOCATE
although a major one, of
potential recovery actions by the
In 1944 a Standard Oil truck
government for the free medical
negligently struck a member of
the military. Although there was care it renders its employees,
dependents, and veterans. But
no statutory authority, the
United States sued Standard Oil what does this all truly mean?
Generally, there are three
of California in an effort to
circumstances
in which a Fort
recoup the $123.45 in expenses
Knox unit or facility might
for medical care that the
receive money as a result of the
government furnished to the
FMCRA. Those involve military
injured service member.
pay, the cost of replacing or
In a landmark decision,
United States v. Standard Oil of repairing damaged governmentowned real property, and
California, the Supreme Court
health care costs incurred at
rejected the government’s claim
Ireland Army Community
on the grounds that it could not
Hospital. It is important to note
create a new basis for suit
that recovery is never sought
without statutory authority.
Years later, Congress formulated against a Soldier. The recovery
action is against the automobile
a method allowing the
government to recover the value insurance or liability insurance
company.
of medical care furnished to
And it is the claims office
persons who had been injured by
personnel
assigned to the Office
third party tortfeasors and in
of the Staff Judge Advocate are
1962 the Federal Medical Care
responsible for pursuing
Recovery Act was passed.
recovery action against the
The FMCRA allows the
negligent third party or their
government the right to
insurance carrier.
reimbursement from negligent
For example, if Sgt, Jones, due
third parties for the cost of
to
no
fault of his own, is struck
medical care furnished to injured
by
a
drunk
driver, not only can
beneficiaries at government
Sgt. Jones sue the negligent
expense.
driver but so may the United
Since its inception in 1963,
States. OSJA claims personnel
the Recovery Act has been the
may pursue recovery action
government’s most potent
against the drunk driver and his
weapon for initiating personal
or her insurer. Once the recovery
injury or property damage
is made, money for lost wages is
claims against third party
deposited directly back in to the
tortfeasors as there have been
injured Soldier’s unit and its
millions of dollars recovered
Operation and Maintenance
annually under the provisions
account rather than into the
found within the FMCRA.
United States Treasury or other
However, the Recovery Act is
Department of Defense accounts.
not an all encompassing
Another example is that if any
legislative mandate to the
Department
of the Army
government for personal injury
beneficiary—Active
duty, retiree,
claims against any conceivable
Sexual assault, threat
to Army’s core values
‘Not in my Army’
By JENNIFER
STREETER
commitment to prevent
incidents of sexual
FORT KNOX SEXUAL ASSAULT
harassment and sexual
RESPONSE COORDINATOR
assault through a
comprehensive policy
April is Sexual
Assault Awareness and that centers on
Prevention Month. The awareness, training and
2015 campaign slogan
education, victim
is “Eliminate Sexual
advocacy, response,
Assault: Know your
reporting and
part. Do your part.”
accountability.”
What does this slogan
Fort Knox has
mean exactly?
scheduled several
First, every service
events throughout the
member, at every level
month to promote
in our military, must
SAAPM. One event is
know, understand, and
the Fatigue Clothesline
adhere to service values display at Gammon and
and standards of
Natcher Physical
behavior in order to
Fitness centers. The
eliminate sexual
clothesline project is a
assault and other
way for victims of
inappropriate
sexual assault to voice
behaviors.
their thoughts and
Second, each member feelings about their
of the Army community experience. The project
has a unique role in
serves as part of the
preventing and
victim’s individual
responding to sexual
healing process and
assault. We must
also allows the public to
recognize our part in
have a small glimpse
stopping this crime
into the lives of sexual
starting with our own
assault victims and the
awareness and knowing
impact the assault has
when and where to
had on them.
intervene.
You’re invited to
Lastly, we have to
stop by the facilities
act. If we see a crime or
and show your support
inappropriate behavior
for the courage being
unfolding, we must step
displayed. When we all
in to prevent it. We
develop a “not in MY
each need to add our
Army” mentality and
voice to the call to end
take responsibility for
this crime.
“The goal of SAAPM what goes on within our
community, we all
is to raise public
awareness about sexual become a part of the
violence and to educate solution.
Please help us put an
communities and
end to sexual assault
individuals on how to
and harassment.
prevent it. Sexual
Our ultimate goal at
assault is a threat to
the Army’s core values,” Fort Knox is zero
said Col. T.J.. Edwards, incidents, and 100
percent reporting. If
Fort Knox Garrison
you or someone you
commander. “The
know need assistance
Sexual Harassment/
the Fort Knox 24 hour
Assault Response and
hotline number is (502)
Prevention Program
851-3779. ■
reinforces the Army’s
or Family member—is injured
off-post, they would have
standing to sue the at-fault
individual, and if treated at a
military treatment facility like
IARCH, the claims office can
recover the “reasonable” cost of
treating that individual directly
from the at-fault party or their
insurer.
But what happens when the
treatment is unavailable at the
local MTF, as is often the case?
Tricare Prime beneficiaries are
often referred to civilian
physicians off post. When
treatment or health care
products are delivered by a
civilian facility, and the MTF is
billed, the law provides that the
MTF can recover those costs as
well.
In a similar way, when Fort
Knox property—like a street
sign, fence or other government
owned property—is damaged by
the negligence of a civilian, the
claims office can recover the cost
of repairing the property. The
money is directed back to the
installation for the repair or
replacement of that property.
Units can assist in the
recovery mission by notifying the
claims office of potential
recovery situations. Timing is
important when it comes to the
FMCRA because in most
instances, there is a statute of
limitations and the claims office
must file the recovery claim
within three years of the
incident.
Unit commanders and
managers of DA facilities need to
be on the look out for events like
these. If you have questions
about these laws or are aware of
an accident for which a recovery
action should be initiated,
contact the claims office at
the Fort Knox OSJA at
(502) 624-6913 or emailing
[email protected]. ■
Thursday, April 16, 2015 A9
BBB’s Scam Tracker allows
consumers to report schemes
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU
The Better Business
Bureau serving
Louisville, Southern
Indiana, and Western
Kentucky is proud to
announce a new way for
consumers to report
scams.
BBB’s Scam Tracker
is a website that allows
consumers to report
schemes and review
other cases of fraud
occurring across the
United States and in
their local areas.
Consumers can also see
what types of scams are
trending.
Each report details
the scam, how much
money the victim has
lost (if any), gives tips
on how the scam works,
and provides tips on
what you can do to
protect yourself against
scams.
Nearly 400 scams
have been reported, so
far, across the country.
BBB’s President and
CEO, Charlie Mattingly
said, “BBB Scam
Trackers allows the
public to report con
artists working the
phones, emails, and
streets, not only in
Louisville, but across
the nation.”
Reported scams
include IRS imposter
scams, foreign lotteries,
sweepstakes, debt relief,
fake tech support,
government grants,
work-from-home scams,
and more.
If you hear about a
scam, report it by going
to: http://www.bbb.org/
scamtracker/louisville.
Of course, you can
still call BBB to report
scams, at (800) 3882222. ■
NCO of the Year?
Photo by Sgt. Raymond Diaz
STAFF SGT. CHRISTOPHER BAKER, A CHAPLAIN ASSISTANT
WITH U.S. ARMY GARRISON at Fort Knox, recently competed
against 32 installation noncommissioned officers from places like
Fort Drum, New York; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Stewart,
Georgia; Fort Rucker, Alabama and Fort Campbell, Kentucky in the
Installation Management Command Atlantic Region NCO of the
Year competition. He competed in land navigation, (day and night),
physical readiness training, the Army Physical Fitness Test, the 6
mile ruck march, weapons qualification, NCOER, warrior task and
drills and a formal board. He will now compete for the IMCOM NCO
of the Year, May 5-8, in San Antonio, against the central region,
Pacific region, and Europe region NCOs of the Year.
EYE EXAMS
$45
SOFT
CONTACT
LENS EXAMS
$65
LeClairʼs Optical
270.351.5367
171 E. Lincoln Trail Blvd.
Radcliff, KY 40160
* Some insurance or discounts may not apply with offer.
Eye exams available with independent optometrist
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A10 Thursday, April 16, 2015
ECTC hosting annual
Early Childhood
Conference Saturday
TAX TIME
Tax season ends, filing extensions
available for deployed Soldiers
By CAPT. STEPHEN
ESPOSITO
income tax return because not file, or do not file on
the definition of gross
time. First, any tax
FORT KNOX TAX CENTER
income is so broad and the payments are due by your
threshold to file is so low.
deadline and failure to pay
The deadline for most
If you are claimed as a
may result in interest and
tax filers was Wednesday.
dependent,
typically
you
penalties. Second, if you
There are exceptions to
must
file
if
you
are
single
are required to pay you
this deadline for those who
may be hit with a failure to
were deployed in support of with unearned income of
over $1,000 or your earned file penalty as well. If you
a combat operation or out
income was over $6,200.
wait to file until more than
of the country April 15.
You must also file if you
60 days after your deadline,
But if you are past your
owe any special taxes
the minimum failure to file
deadline here’s what you
including additional
penalty is the smaller of
should do:
required
tax
on
an
IRA,
$135 or 100 percent of the
First, you should
household employment
tax you owe. In addition to
determine if you have to
taxes, also known
the failure to
file a tax return. Not
as “The Nanny
pay penalty
IF YOU GO...
everyone has to file a tax
Tax,”
have
and interest,
return, although you may
You can reach the Fort
earnings on selfthese costs can
want to file anyway. For
Knox Legal Assistance
employment of at
really add up
most people, you must file
Office at (502) 624in addition to
if you are single with gross least $400, or owe
2771 or during
the individual
whatever tax
income of at least $10,150
operating hours at room
shared
is owed to
married filing jointly with
129, Pike Hall, Bldg.
responsibility
begin with.
gross income of at least
1310.
payment for
Even if you
$20,300, married filing
failing to have
are not
separately with gross
minimum essential health
required to file a tax
income of at least $3,950,
care coverage all year
return, you may want to
head of household with
without an exemption.
file in order to get money
gross income of at least
The best thing to do at
back. For example, if you
$13,050, and qualifying
this point if you are
had income tax withheld
widow(er) with gross
from pay you could get that
income of at least $16,350. required to file is file your
Gross income means, “all taxes as quickly as you can back by filing a tax return.
If you are eligible for the
income you received in the with all of the information
you have available. Later,
Earned Income Credit,
form of money, goods,
you can file an amended
Additional Child Tax
property and services that
tax return to correct errors Credit or American
is not exempt from tax,
Opportunity Credit, you
including any income from made. The IRS will
could get money back by
sources outside the United typically work with you to
resolve this tax situation if filing a tax return. The only
States or from the sale of
your main home even if you you have filed a tax return. way to get this money back
If you have not filed a
is to file a tax return.
can exclude part or all of
return there is usually
The Fort Knox Tax
it.”
little the IRS can do to
Center is now closed, but
The majority of service
work with you at that
the Legal Assistance Office
members, retirees, and
point.
assists eligible individuals
Department of the Army
The IRS has penalties
with legal issues, including
civilians will fall in to one
for those who are required
preparing tax returns
of these categories requirto file a tax return but do
outside the tax season. ■
ing filing of a federal
Southern Baptist Southern Baptist
NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. O.C Jones, Sr., Pastor
Worship Service - 8 & 11 A.M.
Teen Church - 4th Sun. - 11 A.M.
Sunday School - 9:30 A.M.
Hour of Prayer - Mon. & Fri. - 11-12 P.M.
Discipleship Training & AWANA - Wed. - 6:30 P.M.
1591 Hill St. • Radcliff • 351-6808 • fax 352-0960
[email protected] • www.newhopembc.net
MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Faron Knopp
Sun. Bible Study for all ages - 9:30 A.M.
Sunday Morning Worship - 10:45 A.M.
Awana - Sunday at 5:00 P.M., Worship 6PM
Wed. Prayer, Praise & Preaching - 6:30 P.M.
1182 South Jones Street • Radcliff
270-351-3524
www.mill-creek-baptist.com
Praying for Our Troops
VALLEY VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH
501 Valley View Drive, Vine Grove, KY
Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship – 10:55 a.m.
270-877-2150
www.valleyview-ky.org
Rineyville Baptist Church
5629 Rineyville Rd.,
Rineyville, KY
Sunday School 10:00 A.M.
Sunday Worship 9:00 and 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Evening Worship 6:45 P.M.
Youth 6:00 P.M.
270-737-7361/www.rbcky.org
Korean & English Services
NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH
Hyuk J. Lee, Pastor
Sunday School: 9:50 A.M.
Main Service: 10:50 A.M with lunch after.
Sunday/Wednesday Night Services 6:30P.M.
Morning Prayer 6A.M.
140 Logan Street - Radcliff
270-352-1736
SEVERNS VALLEY BAPTIST
CHURCH
Bill Langley, Pastor
Sunday Worship – 9 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.
Sunday School – 9 & 10:45 a.m.
1100 Ring Road, Elizabethtown
270-765-7822
www.severnsvalley.org
Most people want a Church they can
call “HOME”
With that in mind, our INVITATION to you from
Vine Grove Baptist Church is
WHOEVER YOU ARE, COME AS YOU ARE,
WHENEVER YOU CAN.
Our COMMITMENT to you as a church body, is to
share the truth of the Good News of Jesus Christ that
“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved.”Our PROMISE to you is to teach you the
promises made by God.
If youʼve been thinking, praying, searching and hoping
for a place to belong, we say “Welcome Home”.
VINE GROVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
408 W. MAIN ST.
VINE GROVE, KY
Assembly of God
GLAD TIDINGS
CHRISTIAN CENTER
Larry Powell, Pastor
Sunday School - 9:30 A.M.
Sunday Morning Service - 10:45 A.M.
Wednesday - 6:30 P.M.
515 By Pass Rd., Brandenburg,
Ky. 40108 • 270-422-2020
CALVARY ASSEMBLY OF GOD
LiFE Studies - 10 A.M.
Celebration Service - 11 A.M.
Wed. Night Family Ministry - 7 P.M.
1905 N. Miles Street, Elizabethtown
270.737.6940
www.calvaryconnects.com
270-877-2311
Sunday School 9:30 A.M.
Sunday Worship - 10:45 AM
Wednesday - 6:00 PM Youth, AWANA
6:30 PM Bible Study - Auditorium
95 Park Avenue, Radcliff
270-351-6055/www.stithton.org
CONNECTIONS CHURCH
301 West Lincoln Trail Blvd.
(old The Book Store)
Radcliff, KY 40160
Dr. Jim Shaw, Senior Pastor
Sunday 10:45 A.M.
Loving God, Loving People
Sunday Traditional Service - 9:00 A.M.
Sunday School - 10:00 A.M.
Sunday Contemporary Service - 11:00 A.M.
Wed. Night Communion Service - 6:15 P.M.
275 South Woodland Drive
Radcliff, KY 40160 • 351-3290
www.radcliffumc.org
VINE GROVE UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
Johnny Craig, Pastor
Sunday School - 9:45 A.M.
Worship-traditional - 11:00 A.M.
Intermittently Wednesday Adult Bible Study - 7:00 P.M.
1st & last Thurs. of the month - Food Pantry - 5:00 P.M.
306 High Street, Vine Grove, KY 40175
270-877-5231
[email protected]
www.vinegroveumc.com
STOVALL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Patricia Smith, Pastor
Sunday Worship - 11:00 A.M.
Stovall
949 Rogersville Rd.
Radcliff, KY 40160
270-351-0250
THE HIGH GROUND UMC
Coffee & Child drop off @10:45
Worship at 11 a.m.
North Park Elementary School
1080 N. Logsdon Parkway // Radcliff
[email protected]
Church of God
in Christ
New Life Tabernacle
Cedric L. Jones, Sr., Pastor
Sunday School - 10 A.M., immediately
following Sunday Morning Worship Service
Sunday Evening Classes - 6 P.M.
Friday Prayer/Service - 7 P.M.
Presbyterian
HERITAGE ITN’L CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
Aubrey & Jannie Jackson, Pastors
Sunday School - 10:00 A.M.
Sunday Worship - 9 & 11 A.M.
Wednesday Night - 7 P.M.
660 Knox Blvd., Radcliff • 351-7770
GRACE REFORMED CHURCH
(PCA)
David Atkisson, Pastor
Worship 10:00 a.m.
Sunday School 11:30 a.m.
1105 Woodland Drive
Elizabethtown • (270) 769-0173
www.grcpca.org
To place an ad for Your Place
Of Worship, contact
Nancy Turner, 270-505-1480
development and autism
spectrum disorders, as well as
For the ninth year in a row, other areas of child
development.
Elizabethtown Community
“We have to provide high
and Technical College will
quality
training for employees
host the Early Childhood
at
child
care and preschool
Conference, one of the largest
centers
if
we expect them to
of its kind in the state.
provide
a
high quality
“Our goal is to provide
experience for students,” Page
quality training for people
said. “Not only are conference
working in child care and
participants receiving
preschool teachers,” said
pertinent information, they
Martha Page, program
also have an opportunity to
coordinator and assistant
collaborate with other
professor of Interdisciplinary
Early Childhood Education at professionals in their field
with similar concerns. They
ECTC.
The conference will be held can trouble shoot problems in
a face-to-face, interpersonal
Saturday with the theme of
format.”
“Ready Set Go! School
The conference has space
Readiness Birth to Preschool.”
for
275 participants and those
It’s a full-day event that
includes keynote speakers and interested can sign up until
the day before the conference
workshop presentations, all
or until all spaces are filled.
with the objective of helping
“It’s open to the general
prepare children to be
successful in school. “It begins public, but our audience
objective is students majoring
in the cradle,” Page said.
This year’s keynote speaker in early childhood education,
those working in child care
will be Nicki Patton Rowe,
and preschool teachers,” Page
early childhood consultant
and trainer. Rowe will discuss said.
She also said that by
what learning looks like
attending, child care providers
inside the brain and how the
can earn five of the required
brain processes text, among
15 training hours they must
other things. Also speaking
have each year.
will be former Kentucky Gov.
“It is so important that
Paul Patton, who will describe
when he first learned how the child care providers no longer
assume that young children
brain develops and how that
fit a mold or develop at the
changed his perspective of
same rate,” Page said. “Each
what teaching and learning
child must be given
should look like during the
first five years of a child’s life. opportunities to reach his/her
highest potential.”
The workshop
For more information,
presentations consist of
contact Martha Page at (270)
training on such subjects as
706-8499 or mpage0003@
infant massage, signing with
infants and toddlers, language kctcs.edu. ■
ECTC
Apostolic
THE CROSSROADS, U.P.C.
A.J. Dummitt, Pastor
Services: Sunday 10:00 A.M.
& 6:30 P.M.
Thursday 6:30 P.M.
Home Friendship Groups Meet Weekly
The Multi-Ethnic Worship Center
Join Us Soon/Call for ride.
182 Vine St. • Radcliff • 270-351-6060
Full Gospel
Kentucky Church
FULL GOSPEL KENTUCKY CHURCH
Korean and English Services
Steven Song, Pastor
Sunday Services: 11:00 a.m.
Sunday & Wednesday Evening Service: 7 p.m.
Lunch between services on Sunday
11:00 a.m. Youth Group and Childrenʼs Church
Parents Night Out 7 - 9 p.m. Fridays
1012 N. Hill Street, Radcliff, KY 40160
270-351-5001
Church of Christ
NORTH HARDIN CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday Bible Study - 10:00 AM
Sunday Worship - 11:00 AM
Sunday Eve. Worship - 6:00 PM
Wed. Bible Study - 6:30 PM
1804 Sam Steward Dr.
(off Joe Prather Hwy)
Radcliff, KY • 270-723-3650
VALLEY STATION CHURCH
OF CHRIST
Bible Study Sun. 9:30 AM
Wed. 7:30 PM
Sunday Worship - 10:30 AM & 6 PM
1803 Dixie Garden Dr.
P.O. Box 72380, Valley Station, KY 40272
502-937-2822 • www.vscoc.org
Korean
American
Your Place of Worship
Could Be Here. Call
today! 270.505.1480
FIRST KOREAN BAPTIST CHURCH
Korean and English Services
Yong Kyu Cho, Pastor
Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.
Main Service: 10:30 a.m. with lunch after
Sun./Wed. evening services - 6:30 p.m.
Children/Youth Programs Available
Weekly Morning Prayer - 6:00 a.m.
546 Sunset Drive, Radcliff
270-351-1700, 270-352-1800
Seventh-Day
Adventist
African Methodist
Episcopal
578 South Lorraine Street • Radcliff
(right off of Elm St.) 270.351.7788
Larry P. Vance, Pastor
STITHTON BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. Gregg Curtis, Pastor
RADCLIFF UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Darren Gillespie, Pastor
www.stovallumc.org
www.glad-tidings.org
Bible Study - Sun. 9:30 am
Worship - Sun. 10:50 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:00 pm
Food Pantry, 5:00 p.m., 1st and
last Thursday of the month.
United
Methodist
By JAIME THOMAS
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Michael Harris, Pastor
Sabbath School Sat: 9:30 AM
Worship Sat: 11:00 AM
1226 S. Wilson Rd. • Radcliff
31 W S. right on Blackjack Rd. right on
Wilson Rd. 2 blocks down on right.
352-2256
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Brian Hadley, Pastor
Sabbath School Sat: 9:30 AM
Worship Sat: 11:00 AM
215 N. Mantle Ave., Elizabethtown
Take 31 W South to Mantle Ave. Turn left
(at KFC) 1 1/2 blocks on the right
270-735-9849 • www.elizabethtownchurch.org
EMBRY CHAPEL
David L. Chavous, Pastor
Sunday School - 9:30 A.M.
Sunday Worship Service - 11:00 A.M.
Wednesday Praise Service- 6:00 P.M.
Wednesday Bible Study - 6:15 P.M.
P.O. Box 731, 401 Skyline Drive
Elizabethtown • 270-737-5327
Your Place of
Worship Could Be
Here. Call today!
270.505.1480
NonDenominational
FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY FULL
GOSPEL CHURCH
Bishop Wilhelmina D. Jackson, Pastor
Sunday School - 9 A.M.
Sunday Worship - 10 A.M
Wed Night Bible Study - 7 P.M.
600 Shelton Rd, Radcliff, KY 40160
(270) 352-3411
Lutheran
Evangelical Lutheran Church, NALC
Pastor, Pam Thorson
904 N. Mulberry, Elizabethtown
Sunday School - 9:15 AM
Worship Service - 10:30 AM
765-4212
FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH
WISCONSIN SYNOD
Peter Martin, Pastor
Sunday Service - 10:00 A.M.
Adult Bible Study Sunday and Sunday
School - 11:30 A.M.
www.faithinradcliff.org
377 E. Lincoln Trail Blvd.
Radcliff • 352-4545
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH LCMS
Pastor David Tannahill
Sunday Service - 10:30 a.m.
Sun. School & Bible Study 9:30 a.m.
398 Knox Avenue
Vine Grove
270-877-2855
www.GraceVineGrove.org
GLORIA DEI
LUTHERAN CHURCH
(MISSOURI SYNOD)
Pastor, Monty Gleitz
1701 Ring Road East
(next to Target)
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Church: 270-766-1503
Wednesday Service: 7 pm
Sunday Service: 9 am
Sunday School: 10:15 am (EST)
www.gdlchurch.org
Christian
THE POTTER’S HOUSE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
John Hildebrandt, Pastor
Sunday School - 10:00 A.M.
Sunday Service - 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Night - 6:30 P.M.
Wed. Night Service - 7:00 P.M.
549 N. Wilson Rd. • Radcliff • 352-4047
Spanish Church
Pastores Marcelino & Christella Morales
117 N. Mulberry St., Elizabethtown, KY 42701
www.iglesialavina.com
270-360-1272
Martes: Oración & Discipulado 7:00 pm
Domingos: Servicio de Poder & Milagros 11:30 am
Viernes: Servicio & Testimonios/ Especiales 7:30 pm
www.radioluzky.com
THE GOLD STANDARD
Thursday, April 16, 2015 A11
Soldier sets new goal, accepted to West Point
By STAFF SGT. WAYNE
WOOLLEY
will join the Class of 2019 at
the U.S. Military Academy at
NATIONAL GUARD
West Point, New York. He will
Pfc. Nathaniel Okyere-Bour be among 25 Army National
learned early that following a Guard Soldiers accepted
directly to West Point this
dream requires sacrifice.
year. Eleven others will attend
When the New Jersey
Army National Guard Soldier West Point’s preparatory
was 3, his mother sent him to academy.
In the end, Okyere-Bour’s
Ghana to live with her family
while she followed her dream New Jersey National Guard
leaders helped pave the road
of becoming a nurse. She
from Fort Jackson to West
brought him back to New
Point.
Jersey after she had
When Okyere-Bour joined
completed bachelor’s and
master’s degrees and landed a Company F, of the 250th
job as an intensive-care nurse Brigade Support Battalion, as
a wheeled-vehicle mechanic
at a prestigious Manhattan
two years ago, the unit’s
hospital.
leaders say he caught their
The example led Okyereattention with stellar
Bour to set lofty goals as he
grew up in a small Jersey City performance—and it was his
insistence that helped him get
apartment. He achieved the
first by gaining admittance to into West Point.
They ultimately agreed. All
Jersey City’s McNair
of the officers
Academic
and nonHigh School.
How could we not?
commissioned
As graduation
He’s one of those
officers in
from the elite
Soldiers who does
Okyere-Bour’s
magnet school
everything right the
chain of
approached,
first time and does
command
the target
wrote letters of
shifted to top
it when you ask and
recommencolleges,
never, ever asks
dation.
including
‘Why?’
“How could
Duke
Sgt. 1st Class
we
not? He’s
University
Dennis Mahon
one of those
and the
Platoon sergeant
Soldiers who
University of
does everything right the first
Chicago. He got in. But the
time and does it when you ask
money was not there.
and never, ever asks ‘Why?,’”
So in 2013 Okyere-Bour
said Sgt. 1st Class Dennis
enlisted in the New Jersey
Mahon, his platoon sergeant.
Army National Guard—with
“We knew it would be a hell of
the aim of using a tuition
an achievement if he did it,
waiver to attend Rutgers
and we were pulling for him.
University. But something
happened at basic training on Who knows, he may be a
Fort Jackson, South Carolina. general some day.”
Sgt. James Diana, his
Okyere-Bour set a new goal.
“The battalion commander squad leader, said the unit
made accommodations to
spoke to us. He talked about
allow Okyere-Bour to make
how he went to West Point
up drill time that he missed
and what it meant to him,”
Okyere-Bour recalled recently. during the arduous
application process.
“I thought, ‘That’s what I
“We knew that if he got in,
want.’’”
it would reflect well on all of
On June 29, Okyere-Bour
“
us, our unit and the
Guard,” Diana said.
“West Point isn’t
going to be easy. But
I know he can do it.”
It turned out that
the person who
taught Okyere-Bour
to dream big, his
mother, Elizabeth, at
first didn’t realize
the magnitude of her
son’s achievement.
“I grew up in
Ghana,” she said
with a laugh. “I
didn’t know
anything about West
Point.”
But it became
clear when she told a
co-worker at Mount
Sinai Hospital about
the acceptance letter.
“He was like
U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht
‘what?’ The next
thing I knew there
NEW JERSEY ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PFC. NATHANIEL OKYERE-BOUR STANDS at
was a crowd of
the Morristown Armory with his acceptance letter from the U.S. Military Academy at
intensive-care
West Point, New York, March 27. Okyere-Bour is a wheeled-vehicle maintenance
nurses jumping up
specialist, assigned to the 250th Brigade Support Battalion, and is a student at
and down,” Kathleen Rutgers University.
Okyere-Bour said.
“Then I understood
Okyere said he is ready.
what my son had done. It was
“I realized I love the Army
a very big deal.”
when I was at basic training,”
Okyere-Bour said he has
Okyere-Bour said. “I want to
not decided what he will study do everything I can for the
at West Point. He is not sure
Army and I think the best
what branch he will request
thing I can do is become a
either, although he said the
leader. I believe I can make
officers in the field artillery
it.”
unit his company supports
He will have a lot of
have assured him there’s only Soldiers in New Jersey pulling
one branch to pick, and its
for him.
acronym is “FA.”
When Mahon, the platoon
In the meantime, Okyeresergeant, announced at a
Bour will finish out his first
recent drill that Okyere-Bour
year at Rutgers. Although the had made it into West Point,
credits will not transfer to
the formation applauded for
West Point, he said the classes more than a minute.
will prepare him for the
“Pvt. Okyere worked very
academic rigors that await.
hard to achieve something
“I’m just excited to get
most people just can’t do,”
there and start,” Okyere-Bour Mahon told them. “We should
said. “And I know that if it
be proud of him—and remind
took that much work just to
ourselves that only through
get in, what’s coming isn’t
hard work do we achieve what
going to be easy.”
we want.” ■
“
Cultural change required
to end sexual offenses
in military
By STAFF SGT.
JENNIFER JOHNSON
JFHQ-NCR/MDW PUBLIC
AFFAIRS
More than a
thousand service
members and civilians
from the Joint Force
Headquarters-National
Capital Region/U.S.
Military District of
Washington and its
interagency partners
recently gathered
during the annual
Sexual Harassment/
Assault Response and
Prevention professional
development training.
During the April 7
event, Donna Ferguson
spoke about “Cultural
Change is a Mind
Change: Bridging the
Gap” on Joint Base
Myer - Henderson Hall.
Ferguson, who was
the keynote speaker,
serves as behavioral
science education and
training deputy
division chief for the
U.S. Army Military
Police School. She
explained that cultural
change is required to
put an end to sexual
offenses in the military
and its surrounding
communities.
“If you have to
change a culture, then
you have to voice your
opinions,” Ferguson
said. “Anyone to affect
change and inspire
others.”
Ferguson
highlighted that sexual
assault is a personal
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topic and people tend
not to talk to it, but
talk around it.
“Strongholds are a
particular attitude that
prevents people from
embracing change,”
Ferguson said.
“Strongholds regarding
sexual assault usually
create barriers that
make it difficult for
people to adjust their
way of thinking. Letting
go of your strongholds
can ultimately change a
culture. If you change
the mind, the heart will
follow.”
Sexual Assault
Awareness and
Prevention Month is
observed each April to
raise awareness and
educate communities
on the prevention of
sexual violence.
“The harder you try
to break the bad
behavior, the worse it’ll
get,” Ferguson said.
“The first thing you
need to change is your
thoughts. Once you
change your thoughts,
it’ll change your words
and then ultimately
change you.” ■
THE GOLD STANDARD
A12 Thursday, April 16, 2015
Kentucky AG issues warning
on scam targeting elderly
By ALLISON GARDNER MARTIN
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Kentucky Attorney Gen. Jack
Conway and the Kentucky Cabinet for
Health and Family Services
Department for Aging and
Independent Living is warning
consumers of a reported scam
targeting Kentucky’s seniors.
DAIL has reported to the attorney
general that it has received multiple
reports of an individual or individuals
who falsely identify themselves as a
representative of the “Division of
Aging” offering a complimentary Life
Alert system paid for by the state. The
callers are telling consumers all they
need to do to receive this service is to
verify some personal information.
“Please warn your family, friends
and neighbors not to fall prey to this
scam targeting our seniors,” said
Conway. “The Department for Aging
and Independent Living is not
involved, nor would it call seniors at
home to request personal information.
If you or someone you know receives
such a call, please hang up, and do not
provide personal information over the
phone to someone you did not call or
do not know.”
Kentuckians who have received
such a call and have questions or
concerns should contact Conway’s
Office of Consumer Protection at (888)
432-9257.
As a reminder, never provide
personal information to unsolicited
callers. The caller may use the
information to either take money from
your bank account or steal your
identity.
Beware of callers offering “free”
items. Never engage in conversation
with these callers. Hang up the phone
immediately. If it sounds too good to
be true, it probably is.
Never commit to offers over the
phone. Take the time to research any
offer by asking friends, family or
contacting the attorney general’s
Office of Consumer Protection.
If you or someone you know has
been a victim of identity theft, contact
law enforcement and visit http://1.usa.
gov/1bchVgT.
For more identity theft protection
tips, visit the attorney general’s
website at http://1.usa.gov/18TrShi.
For more information regarding
services provided by the Department
for Aging and Independent Living, call
(502) 564-6930. ■
Performance Triad changes
officer’s career, lifestyle
By DAVID VERGUN
she was feeling more
first place in her age
productive at work.
group for being the
At
the
same
time,
most improved.
Capt. Frances Young
she
said
she
changed
People at work took
used to have doughnut
her
diet.
She
added
a
notice
too, she said,
day with her family
variety
of
fruits
and
particularly
after she
every weekend.
vegetables
to
her
diet
had
to
get
new
After filling up on
and did the same for
uniforms after dropping
donuts with her
her children. The kids
down two sizes.
husband and two
started
to
enjoy
As the weeks passed,
children, ages 3 and 4,
snacking
on
healthy
Young
grew stronger
she said she would get
foods,
she
said.
and
stronger.
The
an initial sugar rush
She
also
dumped
ultimate
motivation
and then feel sleepy
and crash for the rest of doughnut day, replacing pump came in August
that
2014,
the day.
activity
when
Once I changed
Young, who is the
with
she
officer in charge for the
my nutrition to
weekend
volunMother Baby Unit at
eating more
park
teered
Darnall Army Medical
mindfully, I was
day,
for air
Center on Fort Hood,
where
assault
able
to
have
Texas, said she was not
she
and
school,
an improved
just tired all the time,
the
someshe was feeling
quality
children
thing
depressed with how she
of sleep.
play
in
she
was feeling about
the
playsaid
Capt.
Frances
Young
herself and her lack of
ground.
she
motivation.
“I
would
And, it was not just
honestly
was
already
never
have
dreamed
of
doughnuts, Young said.
getting
around
seven
to
doing.
She would snack on
eight hours of sleep per
The school is tough,
junk food throughout
night,
but
it
was
a
poor
she
said, and includes
the week and was
quality
of
sleep,”
she
12-mile
ruck marches
“completely oblivious to
said.
“I
was
sleeping,
or
and
rappelling
out of
serving size and
shall
I
say,
crashing
due
helicopters.
She
said
healthy foods.” She said
to
poor
dietary
choices
she
thrived
on
it
and
she was pushing the
and
would
come
home,
passed
the
course.
Army height/weight
eat a big bowl of ice
Young is now
limits too.
cream
or
cereal
before
transitioning
to a new
Fitness was taking a
bed
as
a
snack
and
fall
job
at
the
medical
hit as well. Young said
asleep, only to wake up center—as officer in
activity was basically
in the middle of the
charge of the
just preparing for the
night,
hungry
again.
postpartum section.
twice-a-year Army
“Once
I
changed
my
“Performance Triad
physical fitness test.
nutrition
to
eating
more
really
changed every
She said she was doing
mindfully,
I
was
able
to
aspect
of my career and
the bare minimum
have
an
improved
qualmy
lifestyle,”
she said.
necessary to pass.
ity
of
sleep.
Exercising
“I’ve
been
able
to do
So out of shape she
things I thought I’d
was, she said she could and increasing my actnever be able to do.
not do a single pull-up, ivity level also helped
ensure
I
was
sleeping
“It’s exciting because
lunge, or even hold
through
the
night
and
I
feel
like if I can do it
herself up on a foam
waking
up
re-energized
anyone
can,” she said.
roller.
for
the
next
day.”
“It’s
really
incredible
October 2013 marked
After
three
months
how
much
your
life
the low point in her life,
of fitness improvement, changes.”
Young said. That is
Young took it up a
Performance Triad is
when her weight was
notch
and
in
January
important
for everyone,
the highest and her
2014,
she
entered
her
but
it’s
especially
imporfitness was the lowest.
That month, she said gym’s body transforma- tant for Army leaders,
she saw a Performance tion challenge. She was she said.
up against many others
“We can’t take care of
Triad flyer, and
in
her
age
category
our
Soldiers unless we
something clicked. She
from more than 650
first take care of
realized that she
national gyms. She took ourselves,” she said. ■
needed to make a
change before her life
spiraled out of control.
Performance Triad is
the Army’s focus on
sleep, activity and
nutrition, as a way to
improve resilience and
reduce injuries.
Young joined a gym,
“I was able
got a personal trainer
to obtain my
and started strength
Bachelors in 24
training three times a
week, and cardio four
months and my
times a week.
MBA in 16 months.”
Right away, she said
Christina Turner
she noticed
Business Management ‘09
improvements in her
MBA-HR Management ‘14
strength and running
speed, and her mood
improved. Besides that,
ARMY NEWS SERVICE
“
MEDCOM has shortfall despite
hiring more than 1,800 civilians
By J.D. LEIPOLD
evidence-based practice
and cutting-edge
research, which now
delivers care far forward
through tele-health
efforts.
“The Military Health
System review validated
our pathway to improve
safety and quality of
care to our Soldiers, our
Families and those
retiring,” she said.
Horoho said that
Army medicine’s focus
was based on four
priorities: deployment
medicine and casualty
care; readiness and
health of the force; the
capability to keep a
ready and deployable
medical force and to
assure the health of
Families and retirees.
“However, all the
lessons learned and
progress we have made
as a result of the last 13
plus years of persistent
conflict and our focused
efforts at continuous
improvement along our
four priorities are at
risk of being slowed,
halted and reversed,
given an unstable
environment and the
detrimental second- and
third-order effects of
sequestration.” ■
are the backbone,
stability and glue of our
system,” she said.
Another
Speaking about the
sequestration could
2016
defense health
mean the loss of more
program
budget, Horoho
than 6,000 medical
first
highlighted
the
personnel from the
accomplishments
of
Army, the service’s
Army
medicine,
citing
surgeon general told
the development of a
senators, March 25.
ground-breaking vaccine
Lt. Gen. Patricia
for Ebola; the promotion
Horoho testified before
of the Performance Triad
the Senate
and increasing the
Appropriations
impact of readiness
subcommittee on
touch points that include
defense about the fiscal
2016 budget request and embedded providers,
Soldier Centered
its potential impact on
Medical Homes, dental
the Army Medical
clinics and garrison
Command.
medical facilities.
“The Army is
“Our Soldiers’ readipreparing to draw down
ness remains our No. 1
to an active-duty endpriority,” she said. “We
strength of 450,000
Soldiers that will result added combat power
back to the force by
in a reduction of more
reducing the number of
than 800 active-duty
Soldiers who were nonMEDCOM personnel,”
deployable due to health
Horoho said. “If sequesreasons—we made
tration returns, the
Army may be compelled tremendous strides in
our transformation from
to reduce active-duty
a health care system to a
strength to 420,000—
leading to an anticipated system for health.”
She said the journey
reduction of greater
Army
medicine is
than 3,000 active-duty
moving
along has made
MEDCOM personnel.”
it
a
highly
reliable
In her written
organization
for safety
testimony she wrote
and health care delivery
that based on Army
through the use of
Medical Command’s
experience from the
2013 sequester,
MEDCOM expects to
lose an additional
3,000 civilians across
the command. Further,
the damage to the
civilian work force—
despite aggressive
hiring actions since
2014—has still left a
shortfall of more than
1,800 civilians.
“While many think
of MEDCOM as greensuit healthcare
providers, the reality is
civilian employees
comprise 60 percent of
the workforce—they
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THE GOLD STANDARD
Thursday, April 16, 2015 A13
JOBS FOR MILITARY FAMILY MEMBERS
Employment opportunities plentiful in, around Knox
ACS EMPLOYMENT
READINESS PROGRAM
The Army
Community Service
Employment Readiness
Program provides
employment information
and other supportive
services primarily to
Family members who
are relocating as a result
of a military or civilian
sponsor’s permanent
change of station. Other
categories of personnel
who are eligible for
services are nontransitioning military
personnel, retirees and
their spouses.
In order to assist
clients in finding
suitable employment,
local employers are
encouraged to send job
listings which are then
posted on an employment bulletin board.
Current vacancies
include but are not
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General Clerk II - ServiceSource Inc. Fort Knox
Patient Registrar - Hardin Memorial
Hospital - Elizabethtown
Receiving Associate - Store Academy
Sports + Outdoors - Elizabethtown
Patient Services Representative - Aspen
Dental - Elizabethtown
Merchandiser - Frito Lay - Elizabethtown
Grant Writer - USA Cares, Inc - Radcliff
Phlebotomist - LabCorp - Elizabethtown
COOK II - Commonwealth of Kentucky Hardin County
Independent Consultant - Jill Prescott Elizabethtown
Exercise Planning and Training
Specialist Job - Booz Allen Hamilton Radcliff
Educational Specialist - JROTC Job SAIC - Fort Knox
Rural Carrier Associate - United States
Postal Service - Elizabethtown
Management Training Program America’s Car-Mart - Elizabethtown
Operations Intern - Beam Inc. Clermont
Vehicle Title Clerk - All State Title
Service - Shepherdsville
Business Systems Analyst - US Army
HRC Job SAIC - Fort Knox
Inpatient Dialysis Patient Care Tech
(PCT) - Fresenius Medical Care Elizabethtown
Insurance Specialist - Hardin Memorial
Hospital - Elizabethtown
Operations Management Trainee - UPS Shepherdsville
Community Business Development
Manager - Barnes & Noble - Elizabethtown
Training and Development Specialist Metalsa - Elizabethtown
General Laborer (Warehouse / Lumber
Yard) - 84 Lumber Company - Radcliff
Member Services Representative (Part
Time) - Planet Fitness - Elizabethtown
Outbound Fulfillment Associate - eBay
Enterprise - Shepherdsville
Installation Leader - Hallmark Shepherdsville
Cashier Team Member - Target Elizabethtown
Coder - Hardin Memorial Hospital Elizabethtown
Delivery Driver - Shepherdsville NAPA Shepherdsville
Inventory Associate - WIS International Elizabethtown
Human Resources Business Partner Hardin Memorial Hospital - Elizabethtown
Operations Buyer - Altec Industries Elizabethtown
Customer Service Specialist - Best Buy
- Elizabethtown
Service Writer - CC Powersports Shepherdsville
Inventory Supervisor - WIS International
- Elizabethtown
Quality Assurance Supervisor - Radar
Staffing - Elizabethtown
Financial Analyst - Metalsa Elizabethtown
PCA Float - Hardin Memorial Hospital Elizabethtown
Environmental Services Asst. - Hardin
Memorial Hospital - Elizabethtown
IT Support Specialist - Johann
Haltermann Ltd - Brandenburg
Direct Support Staff (Residential) ResCare - Elizabethtown
General Manager - Elizabethtown
Summit Polymers, Inc. - Elizabethtown
Site Leader - eBay Enterprise Shepherdsville
Maintenance / Housekeeping - Pilot
Flying J - Shepherdsville
Quality Manager - Tower International,
Inc. - Shepherdsville
Customer Service Representative Parttime - Marathon Petroleum - Elizabethtown
Lab Technician - American Air Filter
Company Inc - Louisville
Part-Time Sales Leader - Management
Pier 1 Imports - Elizabethtown
Inventory Associate and Driver - WIS
International - Elizabethtown
Primary Maintenance - McDonald’s Glendale
Store Manager - Radcliff Kentucky
Family Dollar - Radcliff
Military & Family Life Counselor Magellan Health Services - Fort Knox
Service and Training Manager - Old
Navy - Old Navy Stores and Field Elizabethtown
Retail Cashier - Pilot Flying J Shepherdsville
Administrative Assistant II - Manpower Lynnview
Tool & Die Maker - Metalsa Elizabethtown
Janitor - Spartan Staffing Elizabethtown
Citizen Foster Care
Review boards
seeking volunteers
By JAMIE NEAL
PUBLIC INFORMATION SPECIALIST
KENTUCKY COURT OF JUSTICE
Citizen Foster Care
Review boards in 46
counties are seeking
volunteers to make a
difference in the lives of
local children in foster
care. Volunteers are
needed to review cases
of children placed in
foster care because of
dependency, neglect or
abuse to ensure these
children are placed in
safe, permanent homes
as quickly as possible.
Volunteers are
needed in every region
of Kentucky. The
counties most in need of
volunteers are
Anderson, Barren, Bell,
Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle,
Breathitt, Bullitt,
Calloway, Carter, Casey,
Christian, Clark, Clay,
Clinton, Daviess,
Fayette, Floyd,
Franklin, Graves,
Hardin, Harlan,
Henderson, Hopkins,
Jefferson, Jessamine,
Laurel, Letcher,
Lincoln, Madison,
Magoffin, McCracken,
Nelson, Oldham,
Owsley, Perry, Pike,
Pulaski, Rockcastle,
Russell, Scott, Shelby,
Spencer, Taylor, Whitley
and Wolfe.
Volunteers are not
required to reside in the
county where a board
meets.
The Kentucky
General Assembly
created the state
CFCRB in 1982 as a
way to decrease the
time children spend in
foster care. CFCRB
volunteers review
Cabinet for Health and
Family Services files on
children placed in outof-home care and work
with the cabinet and
courts on behalf of the
state’s foster children.
The volunteer
reviewers help ensure
that children receive
the necessary services
while in foster care and
are ultimately placed in
permanent homes.
All volunteers must
complete a six-hour
initial training session
and consent to a
criminal record and
Central Registry check.
A recommendation is
then made to the chief
judge of the district
court or family court for
appointment.
Individuals who are
interested in
volunteering may get
more information and
apply to volunteer on
the CFCRB web page at
http://courts.ky.gov/
courtprograms/cfcrb/
Pages/default.aspx.
Potential volunteers
are encouraged to apply
as soon as possible so
they may be scheduled
for training. ■
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Specialist - HQDA
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Natural Bridge State Park to host
Herpetology Weekend Fri.-Sat.
KENTUCKY DEPT. OF PARKS
to observe reptiles and
Natural Bridge State amphibians in their
native habitat. This is a
Resort Park is hosting
great opportunity for the
Herpetology Weekend,
entire family to come
Friday and Saturday.
This weekend is a great enjoy nature and see
way to learn about some some fairly secretive
wildlife up close and
of nature’s most
personal.
misunderstood critters:
All field trips depart
snakes, lizards, turtles,
from the Hemlock Lodge
salamanders and frogs.
lobby. Saturday morning
On Saturday
trips will stagger starts
experienced herpetologists will lead morning from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.,
and afternoon field trips and the Saturday
into the Red River Gorge afternoon field trips
will stagger starts from
and surrounding areas
1:30 to 2:15 p.m.
Evening presentations by leading experts
in the field will begin at
7:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday in the
Woodland Center. A live
reptile show will be
presented by the staff of
the Kentucky Reptile
Zoo Saturday night.
On-site registration
fee is $10 per adult, $3
for ages 13-17 and free
for ages 12 and under.
Registration opens 30
minutes prior to field
trip departure or
presentation.
For more information
about Herpetology
Weekend at Natural
Bridge State Resort
Park, contact the
Natural Bridge
Naturalist Office at
(606) 663-2214 or email
[email protected]
Natural Bridge State
Resort Park is 52 miles
southeast of Lexington
and 2 miles off the
Mountain Parkway at
Slade, exit 33. ■
‘Blues Traveler’ to headline Fest-a-Ville
Admittance to free
concert with Pegasus pin
platinum, New Jersey based band
is set to release their 12th studio
album, “Blow Up the Moon,” this
year. The album will feature
musical guests including Jewel,
KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL PRESS OFFICE
Plain White T’s and ‘N Sync’s JC
One of the coolest jam bands
Chasez.
around, Blues Traveler, will
Blues Traveler, still led by John
perform at the Kentucky Derby
Popper, is best known among fans
Festival’s Waterfront Jam,
for their insanely infectious live
presented by the John R. Elliott
shows. The group defined mid-90s
HERO campaign. The Grammy
pop music with their harmonica
winning blues-rock band will take laced Top 40 singles “Hook” and
the stage at 9 p.m. for the free
“Run Around”, which won the
concert April 25, at Kroger’s Fest- 1996 Grammy Award for “Best
a-Ville. A 2015 Pegasus Pin is
Rock Vocal Performance by
your ticket to the free show.
Group.” In 2012, Blues Traveler
Currently rounding out
released their 11th studio album,
BillBoard’s Artist 100 Chart after “Suzie Cracks the Whip.”
rereleasing four of the group’s
The Kentucky Derby Festival
classic albums on vinyl, the multi- Waterfront Jam will include live
music on two stages at Kroger’s
Fest-a-Ville featuring over 30
local and regional bands and
seven national acts from April 23
to May 1. Admission to all
concerts is free with a 2015
Pegasus Pin.
The John R. Elliott HERO
Campaign for Designated Drivers
is a nonprofit organization that
seeks to prevent drunken driving
by promoting the use of safe and
sober designated drivers. It was
established in memory of Navy
Ensign John Elliott of New
Jersey, who was killed by a
drunken driver in July 2000, two
months after graduating with
distinction from the United
States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland. ■
Saturday’s air show line up released
KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL
PRESS OFFICE
Derby Dinner Playhouse
Seven Brides
for Seven
Brothers
showing at
Derby Dinner
DERBY DINNER PLAYHOUSE
Derby Dinner
Playhouse will close out
their 40th anniversary
season with the musical
“Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers” which runs
through May 10. For
ticket information, call
(812) 288-8281 or visit
www.derbydinner.com.
“Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers” is a
classic American
musical that will take
you back to the glory
days of the movie
musical. Full of
romance and footstomping dances, this is
the saga of a young
bride in the Oregon
wilderness who plans to
pretty up her six rowdy
brother-in-laws to
marry them off. Add an
abduction, an
avalanche, and a seven
shot-run wedding, and
you’ve go a rip-roaring
musical full of
boisterous fun.
“Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers” is
based on the popular
MGM film and “The
Sobbin’ Women” by
Stephen Vincent Benet.
The musical was
written by Lawrence
Kasha and David
Landay with music by
Gene dePaul and lyrics
by Johnny Mercer. ■
The Kentucky Derby
Festival has released
the line-up for this
year’s Thunder Over
Louisville Air Show.
The 2015 show, set for
3 p.m. Saturday, will be
nonstop with military
and civilian air acts. A
full list in alphabetical
order is below.
The show includes
an appearance by the
U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds.
The Air Force Team
will send two jets for
this year’s show.
Although the jets will
not be able to perform
the aero-batics of the
Thunder-birds
demonstration due to
changes with the air
box, they will still be a
featured air craft in the
air show. While in
town, the Thunderbirds
will participate in a
Civil Air Patrol class,
visit local schools and
make an appearance at
the Air Force
recruitment booth on
the South Great Lawn
at Thunder.
“We’re thrilled to
have the Thunderbirds
return after nearly 20
years,” said Kentucky
Derby Festival
President and CEO
Mike Berry. “We have
always appreciated the
support our show
receives from all
branches of the
military. And this year
is no different.”
Also on tap for this
year’s show are the
Army’s Golden
Knights, performing
two parachute
demonstrations;
the Kentucky Air
National Guard
returns with their
C-130; as well as the
U.S. Marines Harrier
demonstration.
Other acts in this
year’s line-up include
Team AeroDynamix—
the world’s largest air
show team with 11
aircraft, as well as
Staff photo by Rachael Tolliver
A LARGE GARRISON SIZE AMERICAN FLAG FLIES over the
crowd at the annual Thunder over Louisville show, just before
the firework display. This flag is slowly flown upriver back and
forth from the Indiana side of the Ohio River, to the Kentucky
side and is always spot lit.
Trojan Horseman, Bill
Leff Nightshow, among
others. Other performers on the list include:
■ Acemaker - http://www.
acemaker33.com/
■ Billy Werth - http://www.grayout.
com/
■ Canadian Harvards - http://www.
canadianharvards.com/
■ Cliff Robinson - http://
cliffrobinsonaerobatics.com/
■ F-86 Sabre - http://fsxf86de
moteam.weebly.com/index.html
■ Flash Gordon - http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Aero_L-39_Albatros
■ Kate Kyler - https://www.
facebook.com/katekyeraerobatics
■ Lee Leet’s Super Tucano http://www.warbirddepot.com/
aircraft_trainers_tucano-leet.asp
■ Nick Coleman T-Craft - http://
en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Taylorcraft_
Aircraft
■ P-51 Demo - http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/North_American_P-51_
Mustang
■ UPS 767 - http://www.ups.com/
aircargo/using/services/services/
domestic/svc-aircraft.html.
After the air show
spectators are encouraged to stay for one of
the largest firework
shows in North America which kicks off the
three-week long celebration leading up to
the Kentucky Derby.
The show includes
nearly 60 tons of fireworks all choreographed to music. ■
Starts Friday, April 17
WAYBUR
THEATER
(502) 942-4284
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (PG) 7 p.m.
Friday.
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (PG) 7 p.m.
Saturday.
“Spongebob Squarepants Movie:
Sponge Out Of Water” (PG) 1 and 5
p.m. Sunday.--FREE CYSS showing.
Closed Monday-Thursday.
MOVIE
PALACE
Elizabethtown
(270) 769-1505
“The Longest Ride” (PG-13) 1:30, 4,
6:30 and 9 p.m.
“Woman in Gold” (PG-13) 1:30, 6:30
and 9:30 p.m.
KDF courtesy photo
KDF schedules
Balloon Glow
for April 24
KDF PRESS OFFICE
One of the most
anticipated events of
balloon race weekend
is the U.S. Bank
Derby Festival Great
Balloon Glow at 6
p.m., April 24 at the
Kentucky Expo
Center. This
spectacular event
truly rivals the race
in popularity with
more than 50,000
fans in attendance
annually!
The U.S. Bank
Derby Festival Great
Balloon Glow is a
companion event to
the Great Balloon
Race—the balloons
inflate in their launch
position on the field,
but do not ascend. As
the pilots fire their
burners, visitors
watch as the balloons
glow against the
blackness of the night
sky, synchronized to a
special musical score.
You are invited to
walk around the field
and talk to the pilots
as they have more
time to show off their
balloons than on race
morning. KDF
President Michael
Berry said. “Even if
you plan on coming to
the race, you don’t
want to miss the
unique beauty of the
glow. It’s a one-of-a
kind experience!”
Admission is free
with your 2015
Pegasus Pin®.
But parking at the
KEC is $8. ■
Cumberland Falls sponsors
photog weekend April 24-26
By BRET SMITLEY
Smoky Mountain
Field School. His
photographs have
appeared in
Cumberland Falls
State Resort Park will numerous
publications.
host its Nature
Dempster has taught
Photography
Weekend April 24-26. many workshops and
has led photo tours all
Nature
over the country. He is
photography buffs
well known for his
will enjoy this
images of horse races
weekend, which
and lighthouses.
features a 24-hour
Registration is
digital competition.
required
and is
Photographers
limited to 100
with all skill
participants.
levels can
For a
pick up
registration
helpful
form, contact
tips from
Bret Smitley
guest
at BretA.
speakers.
[email protected]
There will
be classes for amateur or at (800) 325-0063.
and accomplished
The park is also
photographers and
offering a 10 percent
plaques will be given
lodging discount to
in several categories.
participants for this
The cost is $40 per
event.
person.
Cumberland Falls
This year’s
State Resort Park
speakers will be
near Corbin has a
Kendall Chiles and
lodge, Riverview
Daniel Dempster.
Restaurant, cottages,
Chiles is a
hiking trails, fishing,
photography
other recreational
instructor at the
activities and a great
University of
view of Cumberland
Tennessee and the
Falls. ■
KENTUCKY DEPT. OF
PARKS
“Furious 7” (PG-13) 1:30, 2, 6:30, 7,
9:30 and 9:45 p.m.
“Cinderella” (PG) 1:30, 4, 6:30 and 9
p.m.
“It Follows” (R) 9:30 p.m.
“Divergent Series: The Insurgent” 2D
(PG-13) 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
“Get Hard” (R) 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30
p.m.
“Home” 2D (PG) 1:30, 2, 4, 6:30, 7
and 9 p.m.
“Monkey Kingdon” (G) 1:30, 4, 6:30
and 9 p.m.
“Unfriended” (R) 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30
p.m.
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (PG) 2, 4:30,
7 and 9:30 p.m.
SHOWTIME CINEMAS
Radcliff
(270) 351-1519
“The Longest Ride” (PG-13) 2, 4:30, 7
and 9:30 p.m.
“Furious 7” (PG-13) 2, 7 and 9:45
p.m.
“Divergent Series: The Insurgent” (PG13) 2 and 7 p.m.
“Get Hard” (R) 4:30 and 9:30 p.m.
“Home” (PG) 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (PG) 2, 4:30,
7 and 9:30 p.m.
HISTORIC STATE
THEATER
(270) 234-8258
Despicable Me
Rated: PG
April 17 - 7 p.m.
'Elizabethtown' the movie
Rated: PG-13
June 5-6 - 7 p.m.
Classic Film Series - 'The Wizard
of Oz'
Rated: G
June 19-20 - 7 p.m.
Tickets to these films are $3 each.
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B1
Should oneand-done
rule be
abolished?
There are some
sports fans who believe
the one-and-done rule
needs to go away in
college
basket-ball.
I must
admit I’m
on the
fence
about it.
A small
part of
Catrina
me
Francis
believes
Senior staff writer it should
be
abolished because I
don’t see how one year
of college is
instrumental to a
player’s development.
On the other hand,
there are some
advantages to going to
college, even if it’s for
one year.
I also think some
players attend college
as a mere formality.
Once the season ends
it’s a forgone conclusion
he will enter the draft.
But, is that the right
decision?
I know there have
been a handful of
talented players who
successfully made the
jump from high school
to the NBA such as
Kevin Garnett, LeBron
James and Kobe
Bryant. Attending
college for one year
wouldn’t have made a
difference because
those players were
ready for the NBA. I’ve
always believed James
is freakishly athletic
because he had a man’s
body and NBA skillset
as a teen, and I
honestly think he
would have run over
college players. Going
to college wouldn’t have
made him better, I
believe he would have
regressed.
If players are NBA
ready I don’t see a
problem with them
declaring for the draft
as an underclassman,
however, the reality is
most aren’t ready and
would benefit by
remaining in school to
develop their game.
But, developing their
game isn’t the only
reason for remaining in
school. Athletes must
remember they are in
school because they are
students. It’s often easy
to push academics to
the side and focus on
basketball, but if there
is an injury and it
becomes worse once a
player is drafted, what
is the fall-back plan?
Having a college degree
makes things much
easier.
For example, seven,
almost half of the
Kentucky Wildcats
roster, declared for the
NBA draft. Are they
ready to play
professionally? I think
two are ready, and
those two will be lottery
picks.
Karl-Anthony
Towns, a 6-foot-11
freshman power
forward/center, is more
than ready. As the
saying goes, “You can’t
teach height.” However,
it will be Towns’ athletic ability, offensive
and defensive skills as
well as his height that
will ensure he’s a top
pick in the draft.
Towns’ improvement
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WCAP boxer wins ninth Golden Gloves
Focusing on long
road to summer
olympics in Rio
By TIM HIPPS
U.S. ARMY INSTALLATION
MANAGEMENT COMMAND
Twenty-year-old Pfc.
Rianna Rios won her
ninth Golden Gloves
state crown March 27,
and has begun focusing
on the long road to the
2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio de
Janeiro.
Rios earned a
unanimous decision
over Katina Melendrez
in the women’s 132pound division of the
2015 Colorado Golden
Gloves Championships
at the Crowne Plaza
Convention Center in
Denver.
Rios won seven
Golden Gloves belts in
Texas before joining
the U.S. Army World
Class Athlete Program
at Fort Carson,
Colorado, where she is
training for a shot at
making Team USA for
the Olympic Summer
Games.
“It’s my time,
definitely,” she said.
“It’s time for Rios in
Rio.”
The first victory of
Rios’ amateur career
came at age 11 in a
Texas Golden Gloves
competition at 106
pounds.
“I went 0-and-3 my
first three fights,” said
Rios, a native of Ben
Bolt, Texas. “And then I
got my first win at the
Golden Gloves when I
was 11. It was pretty
sweet.”
Rios won more Texas
Golden Gloves belts at
ages 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
and 17. She missed the
annual tournament at
Photo by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs
U.S. ARMY WORLD CLASS ATHLETE PROGRAM BOXER PFC. RIANNA RIOS, RIGHT IN RED,
OF FORT CARSON, COLORADO, WINS a unanimous decision over Katina Melendrez in the
women’s open 132-pound division finale of the 2015 Colorado Golden Gloves Championships
at the Crown Plaza Convention Center in Denver, March 27.
age 18 to attend Army
Basic and Advanced
Individual Training. At
19, she became a
Colorado Golden
Gloves state champion.
At the 2015
Colorado Golden
Gloves Championships,
Rios pressured
Melendrez into taking
two standing-eight
counts in the first of
four two-minute
rounds.
“She was really not
wanting to let go
tonight—just holding
and holding, but that’s
part of boxing,” Rios
said. “That’s part of
trying to stay on the
outside, though. When
they get inside, they
start holding. I’m a
little shorter, so they
always want to keep
me on the outside.
That’s something I’ll
have to get used to,
being at a heavier
weight class.”
Rios recently
completed a five-week
strength and
conditioning program
with WCAP strength
and conditioning coach
Maj. Jason Barber. She
bulked from 125 to 140
pounds before cutting
to her current
competitive weight of
132 pounds for the
2016 U.S. Olympic
Team Trials for Boxing.
“Maj. Barber did an
awesome job with our
strength and
conditioning program,”
Rios said. “I felt a lot
stronger at this
tournament than I did
in January when we
fought at nationals.”
Earlier in the
evening, U.S. Army
World Class Athlete
Program head boxing
coach Staff Sgt. Charles
Leverette was inducted
into the Colorado
Golden Gloves Hall of
Fame. With Rios in
control of her bout
throughout, the WCAP
duo shared a double
celebration in the ring.
“Coach Lev keeps it
fun,” Rios said. “He
doesn’t put a lot of
pressure on you. He
doesn’t yell at you. He
motivates you in
different ways coaches
don’t usually motivate
you.
“Being in there
laughing with him, I
was so relaxed and
calm. I was able to stay
patient and calm in the
ring, also. When I went
back to the corner, he
was laughing and
taking selfies with me.
It kept me calm and
kept me composed. It’s
just the way he
coaches. And it works.”
Rios was proud to be
a part of Leverette’s
Hall of Fame induction
night, and even more
content to add another
Golden Gloves belt to
his coaching resume.
“Instead of napping
or resting, I was here
watching him receive
his Hall of Fame ring,”
she said. “It’s awesome
to see a coach get that.
He works hard, so
Eagles
baseball
wins,
record
now 4-3
definitely I’m going to
get to where I want to
be because of him.”
Her championship
bout went the distance,
but Rios took it in
stride almost as if she
was working out at
WCAP’s “House of
Pain” boxing room on
Fort Carson.
“I was trying so hard
to finish it,” Rios said.
“I should have been
able to stop her, but
there were
circumstances where
she would hold me
most of the round. I
had to realize that I
wasn’t going to stop her
and just work.
“I was definitely in
control. I did what I
wanted.”
Rios estimated that
she is about 80 percent
where she need be to
earn a berth on the U.S.
Olympic Team.
“It’s all based on how
your camp goes,” she
said. “When we get
back into to camp, it’s
going to be 110 percent
the whole way through.
I feel I’ll be at my best
at our next qualifying
tournament (for the
U.S. Olympic Team
Trials for Boxing), so
I’m definitely going to
qualify at the next one.”
On the long road
toward Rio de Janeiro,
Rios said she
appreciates support
from family, friends,
fellow troops, the U.S.
Army Installation
Management
Command and WCAP.
“This was awesome,”
she said. “I had my
teammates here
backing me up. It’s
always nice to win and
see your improvements
and see what you need
to improve on. So we’re
going to go back, look
at the tape, and then
build up from there.” ■
Former UK
QB, KYNG,
inducted into
KHSAA
Hall of Fame
By CADET ZACHARY DOOLEY
STAFF REPORT
133RD MPAD
On Friday the Fort
Knox baseball team
defeated Burgin 5-4
and now sport a 4-3
record. Sophomore
Jacob Roewe was
2-for-3 at bat and had
stole three bases. This
is Roewe’s first year
playing for the Eagles.
The winning pitcher
was eighth-grader
Zane Zarazee who
threw five strikeouts
in five innings. Senior
Jon Box, the relief
pitcher, threw for six
strikeouts in two
innings.
Although the team
hadn’t played in two
weeks because of
weather and spring
break, head coach
Sam Wilson said they
looked good.
“My guys hung in
there,” he said about
the win. “They had us
down and my team
won the game. They
didn’t give up.”
The Eagles next
game is at home today
at 5:30 p.m. against
John Hardin. ■
Former Kentucky National
Guardsman and University of
Kentucky quarterback Freddie
Maggard was inducted into the
Kentucky High School Athletic
Association Hall of Fame
March 21.
Maggard, formerly of the
1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, is
currently the Kentucky National
Guard’s Community Relations
liaison.
Calling himself a “team-first”
person, Maggard said of his
accomplishments, “So many
contribute to all 10 of the
Kentucky High School Athletics
Association Hall of Fame
inductees. From Little League
coaches to the folks that help to
prepare game fields, nobody gets
to that level alone. The collective
should be celebrated, not the
individual.”
Maggard’s accomplishments at
Cumberland High School include
12 varsity letters in three sports.
Maggard led the Cumberland
football team to two state
championship game appearances
all while garnering All-State
honors as a quarterback and
defensive back in 1986. Maggard
was a three-year starter, 1,000
Photo by Clinton Wood, 84th Training Command Public Affairs
MAJ. GEN. SCOTTIE CARPENTER, COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE
84TH TRAINING COMMAND, THROWS OUT the first pitch during a
Fort Knox High School home baseball game Friday. Fort Knox defeated
Burgin 5-4.
See HALL OF FAME, page B2
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B2 Thursday, April 16, 2015
Competitors test strength, endurance during triathlon
Event attracts
people from all
over southeast
By LAURA LEVERING
FORT GORDON PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE
Competitors from a
wide range of athletic
abilities tested their
strength and endurance
during Fort Gordon,
Georgia’s, second annual
“Dare to Tri” sprint
triathlon March 28.
Nearly 200 participants braved morning
temperatures that barely reached 40 degrees for
the first part of the race.
The competition kicked
off in waves beginning
with a timed 300-meter
swim in the Fort Gordon
indoor pool. From there,
competitors headed
outside to a transition
area where they
retrieved their bike and
gear for a 12-mile course
that ended where it
began, giving competitors another chance to
change their athletic
gear. The race ended
with a 5-kilometer run
around Barton Field.
Competitors were given
2 hours and 15 minutes
to complete the race.
The triathlon was the
second event in the
Georgia Triathlon series,
and third in the Fort
Gordon Run Series this
year. The triathlon’s
theme, “Dare to Tri,” was
created with a hope that
athletes new to the
event would register and
compete.
“The whole idea about
‘Dare to Tri’ is to get
newcomers out here to
try it,” said Neil Smith,
sports director,
Directorate of Family
and Morale, Welfare and
Recreation.
“ It’s getting folks
exposed to another
activity that’s fun, it’s
healthy, and maybe
provide a positive
change in lifestyle by
getting to do something
different,” said Smith.
The event attracted
people from all over the
Southeast. Several drove
all the way from North
Carolina to participate.
Sophie Bowles, Fort
Bragg, North Carolina,
was one of them. Bowles
and her sister, Aubrey
Lonsberry, who is
stationed at Fort
Gordon, decided to
register together. It was
the first triathlon either
had competed in, and at
25-weeks pregnant, it
was a major
accomplishment for
Bowles.
“This whipped my
butt,” Bowles said. “ The
run itself was difficult,
but being able to see the
finish line during the
whole run kept me
going.”
An avid runner, Lonsberry had reservations
about the swimming
portion at first, but once
she got in, she was
happy she went for it.
“I think once you get
over the intimidation
factor of maybe coming
in last, it felt good to get
out there and give it
your best effort,” she
said.
She did just that.
Finishing in 1:45.25,
Lonsberry came in
eighth place for the
military female category.
Finishing first in the
same category was
Brittany Fearnside, Fort
Bragg. Like Bowles and
Lonsberry, it was also
Fearnside’s first try at a
triathlon. She was
surprised she did so
well, and plans to
participate in more.
“It was definitely an
experience,” Fearnside
said. “Just the overall
idea of doing a swim,
bike, and run together …
it was really good.”
It took a lot of work to
make the triathlon
enjoyable as possible,
especially for those new
to the sport, said Col.
Samuel Anderson, Fort
Gordon’s garrison
commander. On top of
careful planning and
preparation of the event,
Anderson said MWR
made 25 bicycles
available to train on, and
the indoor pool was open
earlier than normal for
those who wished to
train for the event.
Unique to other
triathlons, Anderson
said the “Dare to Tri”
was the only one in an
estimated 50-mile radius
that took place at an
indoor pool. Most take
part in a lake or similar
body of water. Having
the swim portion indoors
is a good introduction to
the sport.
“For most
(newcomers), a triathlon
in the lake is too
intimidating for them to
try,” Anderson said. “This
one was designed so that
if they get tired, they can
hang on the rail, and
there’s no shame in that.
Photo by Bill Bengtson, Fort Gordon Public Affairs Office
DEALING WITH WIND CHILL AND WET, post-swim clothing
Saturday morning is Drew Brown, 17, of North Augusta, South
Carolina, in his final few seconds of the triathlon’s bicycling portion.
That’s what makes this
race so good.”
Anderson was deeply
involved in organizing
last year’s inaugural
triathlon, and competed
in both. He said he looks
forward to the triathlon’s
return next year as part
of the run series,
intended to get the
community outside and
healthy.
“It’s a good way to
bring the military
community together in a
way that is fun and
healthy,” Anderson said.
“For the people who
aren’t on Fort Gordon,
it’s also a chance to
showcase the
installation to them and
see the type of effort that
we put into our sports’
programs.” ■
Commentary: Remaining in college provides extra benefits, education to athletes
■ From Page B1
and expansion of his game is
one of the reasons why he’s
projected to be one of the top
picks.
Playing against NBA
players is nothing new to
Towns because he’s been
competing against them since
he was 16 year old playing for
the Dominican Republic
national team.
There is also a strong possibility Towns will be the No. 1
pick in the draft. If he isn’t
the top pick he will definitely
be one of the top three picks.
Willie Cauley-Stein, a
7-foot junior center, may not
be the most offensively
polished center in the draft,
but he is a great defender and
incredibly athletic. He will be
an asset and he too is a
lottery pick, and an example
of how remaining in school
improves your game and
chances of being a top pick.
The chances of being a
lottery pick for the remaining
five players drops off
tremendously. Freshman
power forward Trey Lyles
should probably return to
school and work on his game.
He will also have an
opportunity to showcase his
abilities, which was difficult
to do playing behind Towns. I
don’t know if he’s had a
chance to fully show how well
he can play. But, he will
probably be a late first-round
pick. I just don’t know how
much he can contribute to a
team which needs help now.
Freshman shooting guard
Devin Booker is another
Wildcat who should remain
in school. Although he shoots
41.1 percent from three-point
range and is probably the
best shooting guard in this
year’s class, I question his
stamina. Does he have what
it takes to play big minutes in
the NBA? Will he be reliable
down the stretch of a close
game? At this point, I don’t
think so. I know as a rookie
he won’t be asked to carry a
team, but if he’s a lottery pick
he will be expected to carry
his weight to justify being a
high draft pick.
Since the Harrison twins
returned to school after
coming up short in last year’s
title game, I thought they
would stay one more year.
Even though Andrew
improved his defense, ball
handling and decision
making, he’s a terrible
shooter. He shot 37.6 from
two-point range this year,
which is horrible for a point
guard. If he had difficulties
shooting from two-point
range in college it won’t be
easier in the NBA.
Andrew’s problems stem
from him not being a pure
point guard or shooting
guard. If he plays the point
he will have a slight
advantage over most NBA
point guards. But, if his
shooting doesn’t improve he
will be an offensive liability.
When I think about a point
guard being an offensive
liability Rajon Rondo comes
to mind. Even though Rondo
is an unselfish point guard,
good defender and walking
triple-double, opposing teams
often leave him alone because
he isn’t a great shooter and
he’s atrocious from the freethrow line. His career free
throw percentage is .614,
which is horrible for a guard,
especially your point guard. A
lottery team might look at
Andrew and think he’s Rondo
light. I don’t think he is.
His twin brother Aaron’s
numbers aren’t much
better. He shot 31.6 from
three-point range, which
is baffling considering he
hit a few clutch shots last
year.
He is currently listed as
No. 73 on the list of the top
100 players on the
DraftExpress list.
The University of
underclassman who declared
for the draft. Dekker is also a
fundamentally sound player
who benefited by remaining
in school. If he wants to
thrive in the NBA he needs to
work on creating his own
shot.
I am a little surprised that
Duke freshman Grayson
Allen didn’t cash in on his
strong play from the title
game. If he had entered the
draft I think he could have
been a first-round pick. I
believe he made the right
move by remaining in school.
Although Allen didn’t shy
away from the moment of the
title game, he needs to stay in
school and develop. Duke
head coach Mike Krzyzewski
is one of the best in college
basketball. Allen’s game will
develop, he will become a
better player and his stock
will rise under Krzyzewski.
While I believe it’s great
for these players to cash in on
their talents and earn seven
figures as a teenager, I’m still
torn about allowing them to
play in the NBA because they
learn more than basketball
while attending college.
The question still remains,
should the NBA continue to
allow these teenagers to play
in a league of men? I wish I
knew the answer. ■
CrossFit emphasizes whole body fitness
Hall of Fame: ‘Team-first’ person
■ From Page B1
point scorer and earned
All-State honorable
mention while leading
Cumberland to two
district titles. In
baseball, Maggard was
a four-year starter and
All-State selection as a
pitcher and center
fielder. He posted a 28-1
record, a .400 career
batting average and led
Cumberland to three
consecutive regional
championships. He was
drafted by the Kansas
City Royals in the 1987
Major League Baseball
draft.
Maggard later went
on to be a two-way star
at the University of
Kentucky. While at the
University of Kentucky,
Maggard was a team
captain and was named
three-time All SEC
Academic Team.
Maggard offered a
word of advice to other
aspiring athletes,
“Growing up I played
football, basketball and
baseball. My community
name on the front of the
jersey was more
important to me than
my name on the back.
Play em all, let the
scouts and recruiters
sort it out.” ■
Kentucky isn’t the only school
to lose freshman players.
After strong play during the
NCAA tournament, Duke
freshman center Jahlil
Okafor and small forward
Justise Winslow will enter
the draft. I think these two
are ready. Okafor is a big
body and is ready to compete
in the NBA.
Although he has various
moves on the offensive end of
the floor, I think his defense
is a little shaky. He might
have a few problems playing
lock-down defense in the
NBA.
His polar opposite is
Winslow, who is a lock-down
defender and will cause havoc
on opposing teams. However,
he needs to develop a
consistent jump shot and
become a better ball handler.
I think some of these oneand-done players need to look
at senior power forward
Frank Kaminsky from the
University of WisconsinMadison. Kaminsky
remained in school for four
years and it’s paid off. He was
also the national player of the
year. Kaminsky is
fundamentally sound and he
will be perfect stretch four in
the NBA.
Kaminsky’s teammate
Sam Dekker is another
By SPC. KENDIRX LIMA
exercises and fundamentals used by
advanced athletes, but are scaled back
for beginners.
With its focus on a varied mix of
According to Perez, being able to
high intensity exercises and functional
scale
resistance and intensity makes
strength conditioning, the fitness
CrossFit ideal for people of all fitness
philosophy CrossFit has caught the
levels.
attention of professional athletes and
“CrossFit can be intimidating for
fitness trainers across the world
some,”
said Perez. “But the workouts
looking to gain a competitive edge.
are designed to take into account
For Soldiers seeking more of a
different levels of ability. It’s all just a
challenge than the standard physical
readiness training exercises, CrossFit matter of getting started on the
program.”
represents a new workout regimen
Other Soldiers have experienced
with a special emphasis on whole body
the CrossFit integration and agree.
fitness.
“I was always a little scared to try
According to its supporters, the
CrossFit
because of how physically
results are well-rounded, Soldier—
demanding
it seemed,” said Pvt.
athletes prepared for any physical
Summer Adkins, an early warning
challenge.
systems operator with Battery A. “But
Seeing the potential benefits to
after doing it here, it’s something I
Soldier readiness, the 6th Battalion,
plan on continuing. The instructors
52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment
were highly experienced and knew
employs the help of its own veteran
what physical level each Soldier was
instructors from the Hit 2 Kill box,
at and helped them build themselves
CrossFit lingo for gym, on Suwon Air
stronger.”
Base, South Korea, to help prepare
Since the program began, many
their newest Soldiers for their tour
Soldiers have seen their scores
with the Iron Horse Battalion.
on the Army Physical Fitness Test,
In addition to Korean culture and
commonly known as a PT test,
first aid training, every new Soldier
increase dramatically in just a few
receives at least three sessions of
weeks’ time.
fitness training at the Hit 2 Kill box
“Without a doubt CrossFit improves
operated by Chief Warrant Officers 3
Soldiers’ fitness,” said Hudgins. “Doing
Bradford Hudgins, standardizations
officer with 6-52 ADA, and Juan Perez, these types of workouts that are
measurable and timed, they easily
tactical director with the unit.
translate into a PT test, so we’re
The initial workouts for new
mentally and physically preparing
Soldiers typically involve pushups,
pull-ups, squats, rows, planks, burpees them for that test. A PT test is just
and sprints, incorporating the same
another basic CrossFit workout.” ■
6-52 ADA UNIT PUBLIC AFFAIRS REPRESENTATIVE
Courtesy National Guard
FORMER KENTUCKY NATIONAL GUARDSMAN AND
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY QUARTERBACK FREDDIE
MAGGARD with his wife, Chief Warrant Officer Jennifer Maggard.
Freddie was inducted into the Kentucky High School Athletic
Association Hall of Fame Saturday, March 21. A former member
of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, Freddie is currently the
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complete this form in its
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PERSONAL household items.
Deadline is
1 p.m., Friday
Ad will appear in next
weekʼs edition.
Limit Of One Ad Per Week Per
Household for each category.
Ads may be dropped in the box at the Public
Affairs Office on Fort Knox, or mailed to the
address on the form. Ads mailed will be
submitted as they are received.
miscellaneous
camper
Wrought iron patio set, table and 4
chairs with cushions, $120. Phone
(270) 351-3859.
1988 Fleetwood Southwind motorhome, 34', 56,226 miles, has Chevy
chassis with workhorse 454 gas
engine, hydraulic power leveling
jacks, backup camera, sleeps 6,
$24,000. Phone (270) 766-7275 or
(270) 877-6876.
Lladro glossy and Hummel figurines: Ladro: Madrid Boy #4898,
$95; Mechanic Boy #4897, $95; Girl
Painting Nails #1082, $75; Clown
#5278, $75. Hummel: Little Goat
Herder TM3 #200, $70; Chimney
Sweep TM3 #12, $50; Barnyard
Hero #195 TM4, $75; Boots TM5,
#143, $80; Little Hiker #16, TM2,
$75. Phone (270) 737-1828.
Three lawn mowers; Weed eater,
gas powered; Weed eater, runs on
battery; Three sets of golf clubs and
push carts. Phone (270) 352-3121.
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The following property
transfers are listed on
deeds at the Hardin County
Clerk’s Office in
Elizabethtown. FMV means
fair market value and
typically is based upon
assessed taxable value.
Your Community Bank to
Kentuckiana Real Estate
Holdings LLC, 109 Pear Orchard
Road, Elizabethtown, in lieu of
foreclosure. FMV: $105,329.12.
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development to Benjamin
Eugene Sheeran, 413 Crume
Road, Vine Grove, $47,000.
Jeanne H. Lenning to Jeanne
H. Lenning and Robert L. Lenning
Jr., 189 Limestone Lane,
Rineyville, love and affection.
FMV: $66,000.
Josh Wright and Sara Denise
Wright to Diana C. Sego, Lot
48A, Avery Estates, $150,000
Sam R. and LaDonna Clayton
to Shawn Dunaway, 1402 N.
Miles St., Elizabethtown,
$120,000.
Martha Long Revocable Trust
to Ronald L. Szabo, Lots 22 and
23, Edelen Heights Subdivision,
Vine Grove, $45,000.
Laura A. Leightman to Kallie
Berenstein, 148 Rolling Heights
Blvd., Radcilff,
Erin and Jeffrey D. Clevinger
to Cartus Financial Corp., 180
Glendale-White Mills Road West,
Glendale, $208,000.
Cartus Financial Corp. to
Talana and Aaron Tyler Lasley,
180 Glendale-White Mills Road
West, Glendale, $208,000.
Ashley and Dustin R. Maudlin
to Nicholas J. and Brianna
Sylvester, Section 1, Lot 12,
Amber Fields Subdivision,
$113,000.
Jason Allen Toth and Kierann
Elizabeth Smith Toth to Summer
H. Jenkins, 206 Applewood Lane,
Elizabethtown, $104,000.
Kenneth Herrington to
Sascha T. Teems, Section 2, No.
14, Mill Station, $130,000.
Fox Lair Properties LLC to
Will Harris Homes LLC, Lot 38B,
Covington Ridge, $25,000.
Fox Lair Properties LLC to
Will Harris Homes LLC, Lot 39,
Covington Ridge, $25,000.
William R. and Sandra L.
Hawkins to Herbert D. and
Elizabeth Jones, 1814 Lakewood
Drive, Elizabethtown, $178,900.
Blanchard Revocable Trust to
Brandon R. and Erica Routt,
property on Eldorado Street,
Sonora, $4,500.
E-town Homes Inc. to Taimas
D. Williams, Section 1, Lot 20,
Winding Springs Subdivision,
$145,500.
Bazaar Advertisements will only be accepted when submitted on
this form. Be sure to complete this form in its entirety.
Norma R. Jones to Anthony
C. and Kimberly L. Evans, Lots
48-51, The Highlands No. 3,
$174,900.
Norman Gene Slinker to Terry
Burchell, 1970 Hodgenville Road,
Elizabethtown, love and
affection. FMV: $79,400.
Norman Gene Slinker to Ella
Dillard, 1954 Hodgenville Road,
Elizabethtown, love and
affection. FMV: $16,300.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
to Richard Townsend, 110
Burgundy Court, Vine Grove,
$176,000.
Trustees of American Federal
Government Employees Local
2302 to The Crossroads United
Pentacostal Church Inc., property
off Ky. 144, Radcliff, $55,000.
Gordon Board to Scott Clark,
Lots 1A and 2A, Memory Lane
Subdivision, $36,000.
Estate of Inez Lloyd Wells to
Lucinda Wells, Unit 510H,
Pennsylvania Square,
Elizabethtown, $139,900.
David D. Wade to Bryan D.
and Sabrina L. Barner, 11.01
acres at Ky. 1607 and Middle
Creek Road, $265,000.
IBP 1 LLC to A&E Rickett
Properties LLC, 110 Kenilworth
Court, Radcliff, $135,000.
IBP 1 LLC to A&E Rickett
Properties LLC, 100 Kenilworth
Court, Radcliff, $135,000.
IBP 1 LCC to John Adam
Rickett, 107 Braxton Court,
Radcliff, $135,000.
A&E Rickett Properties LLC to
Donald E. Atteberry, 110
Kenilworth Court, Radcliff,
$165,000.
Nedra Charbonneau to
Sharon W. Plants, property in
Royal Oaks Subdivision, settle
property line dispute, no
monetary consideration. FMV:
$108,500.
Navneet and Janelle Kaul to
Dustin A. Ward and Jessica Lyn
Howard, 531 Roswell Drive,
Elizabethtown, $235,000.
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2,716 finished sq. ft. of living space. 4
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