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KU warns customers of recent bill-payment scam

Kentucky Utilities Company is alerting customers of a recent telephone scam asking customers to pay their bills over the phone.
The caller claims to be a utility employee and asks for immediate bill payment by credit card or pre-paid money card.  If the targeted customer does not cooperate, the caller threatens to disconnect the person’s electric service.
KU has alerted authorities and offers the following SAFE advice to residential and business customers:

Church Happenings — Week of May 15

Knights of Columbus to host chicken dinner
The Knights of Columbus will host its monthly chicken dinner Sunday at All Saints Catholic Church from noon to 2 p.m.

VBS at Finchville Baptist
Finchville Baptist Church will host vacation Bible school June 2-6 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each day.
The theme is “Kingdom Rock.”

First Baptist announces VBS
Vacation Bible school at First Baptist Church in Taylorsville will be June 3-7 from 9 a.m. to noon each day. The church is located at 115 W. Main St.

COLUMN: Cut flowers from the garden should be enjoyed indoors

The cool spring has finally ushered in May flowers. I love cut flowers from the garden. There is a simple, happy satisfaction that comes from picking a bundle of peonies for the kitchen worktable. Just be sure to shake the ants off first.
The other thing about a cool spring with adequate rain fall is that the weather is acting as a sort of preservative: all those beautiful blooms are lasting much longer than normal.

COLUMN: How is your physical, spiritual, emotional health?

In my many years as a mental health professional, I am amazed at how many people I have witnessed who spend an enormous amount of time, and often large sums of money, taking good care of their physical health with very little time spent with the balance of what also really counts — their spiritual and emotional self.

Mason named Magnet publisher

Lynette Mason, who has served as The Spencer Magnet’s advertising director and general manager for the past five years, is now the newspaper’s publisher — the first publisher to be named for The Magnet in 23 years.

Flea Market comes to Main Street Saturday

This weekend will feature a Main Street committee-sponsored companion event to the Kentucky Gourd Festival, but the committee is changing it up this year.
The inaugural Main Street Fleamarket will take the place of the arts and crafts show hosted by the committee over the last several years.
“Arts and crafts shows, with the economy the way it is, they’re not doing well,” said Jan Deigl, Main Street committee member. “So we decided to try something new. Fleamarkets are a popular attraction.”

What's Happening — Week of May 15

Girl Power Month at the library
May is Girl Power Month at the Spencer County Public Library. Beginning this Thursday, each Thursday this month at 6:30 is girls’ night out.
Girls between the ages of 13 and 18 can join in with friends for activities and conversations.
The event is sponsored by the The Center for Women and Families.

Waste tire amnesty

COLUMN: Make sense through the fog

It was foggy this morning as I walked the dog.  It wasn’t that dense, “can’t see your hand in front of your face,” kind of fog. In fact you could only tell it was there if you looked across the street, the neighbors house was just a little blurry. But then looking out a little farther, things got more indistinct, until finally everything just disappeared.

Gourders return to Taylorsville Saturday

Gourd artists and enthusiasts from across Kentucky and beyond will again gather in Spencer County this weekend to celebrate all that the gourd has to offer – from growing the unique plant to using it as a medium for artistic projects or even transforming it into a utilitarian object like a ladle or a spoon.
Spencer County Elementary School will house the Kentucky Gourd Society’s 2013 Gourd Art Show Saturday and Sunday. The theme for this year’s event is “Doodlin’ Around with Gourds.”

Trial date set in stabbing case

The Louisville man indicted earlier this year for stabbing, then dumping another man in the Elk Creek Grocery parking lot is now set to face a jury trial late this summer.
Paul C. Barr Jr., 34, of the 1100 block of Lehigh Avenue in Louisville, faces charges of first-degree assault, a Class B felony, and tampering with physical evidence, a Class D felony.
Barr appeared in Spencer Circuit Court on Thursday, and his attorney, Stephen Wright, requested a trial by jury, which Judge Charles Hickman set for August 12-13.

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