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The Spencer Magnet recently garnered 15 Kentucky Press Association awards at the annual Excellence in Kentucky Newspapers competition, including first place General Excellence in the weekly class 2 category.

In 1870, just five years after Marcellus Jerome Clarke was hanged near 18th and Broadway in Louisville, reports of his ghost and that of a woman in white caused goose bumps galore.
Clarke was accused of being the infamous Confederate guerrilla Sue Mundy and was executed following a quick courts-martial by the Union.

Considering how the quest for exotic spice fueled exploration around the world in the 15th century it is no wonder that our favorite holiday flavors herald from around the world. From Southwest India to Southeast Asia we find cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and mace.

Christmas play at Spencer Christian

Spencer Christian Church’s elementary Christmas play will be Dec. 12 at 6 p.m.

The play is entitled, “Camel Lot.” Refreshments will be served following the show.

All are welcome.

For more information, call 477-9617.

Grace Chapel to host revival starting Wednesday

Grace Chapel will host a revival Dec. 8, 9, 11, 12.

The evening services will be held 7 p.m. and the Sunday service will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Most people love Christmas.  They love the bows and the boxes, they love the getting and giving of gifts.  Some people love the idea of the “Christmas Spirit,” when joy and goodwill invade our hearts.  Then there are people who love those Christmas movies, you know the ones where hard hearts melt, the sad find happiness again, and little puppies find homes.

When Mount Eden resident Belinda Sheeley and her husband returned home from dinner Friday evening in Taylorsville, it was as if a mail bag from the past had been spilled on their lawn.

As Sheeley and her family scrambled to collect letters, cards and envelopes, it quickly became apparent that the pieces were more than just someone’s lost mail.

They were mementos from a bygone era. Sheeley said most of the envelopes were stamped 1957 and some were addressed to places as far as Fargo, ND.

The Taylorsville square will be transformed into a magical winter wonderland this Saturday as the residents gather for the 2010 Christmas on Main Street festival.

Planning Committee Chair Gordon Deapen said this year’s event was moved from Friday to Saturday to help accommodate more families, in hopes that anyone who couldn’t attend Friday evening could participate in the planned Saturday afternoon and evening events.

“It just keeps getting better and better,” Deapen said at a committee planning meeting Monday afternoon.

On Sunday, Nov. 14, we went to a Russel Ray Fryman Day at Cynthiana. Russell Ray is one of our lay mission team members. What an inspiration he is. He would bring his guitar and sing, and he would get so happy he would preach a little too.

My favorite song he would sing was, “I Feel Good.”

The chorus went like this: “I feel good just to know I’ve been redeemed. It makes me feel good.”

Each year, I like to pass along the following tips and information about the most popular plant of the holiday season, the poinsettia.

Traditional red and green colors are well represented in the flowers available for the holidays. Poinsettias, the most popular and spectacular holiday flowers, can combine both these colors.