Today's News

To the editor:

April has again been recognized as Donate Life Month nationally and here in Kentucky. I feel that this is a good time to thank the many Harrison Countians who have supported organ and tissue donation at our drivers license counter by donating $1 in support of our Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks Trust For Life and by placing their name on the new Kentucky Organ Donor Registry.

Fifty Northside Elementary fifth-graders brought history to life Friday afternoon.

“In the year 1842, I married a temperamental lady named Mary Todd,” a student portraying Abraham Lincoln told an audience seated in the school’s cafeteria.

Part of Tonya Northcutt’s social studies curriculum, Northside fifth-graders were asked to pick a Civil War character they would become.

“It makes the content fun,” said Northcutt, who has been teaching at Northside for two years. “I just try to keep things interesting for them.”

GOAP Workshop, Harrison County. The Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy (GOAP) will hold a Regional Workshop on Monday, April 27 at the Harrison County Extension Office in Cynthiana at 9 a.m. and is one of 11 workshops that GOAP will hold to discuss new policy and program changes of the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund. If planning to attend RSVP by April 24 by contacting Kylee Smith or Jennifer Daniels at (502) 564-4627. Visit agpolicy.ky.gov for a copy of the agenda and a list of additional locations and dates.

I can honestly say it was the best gefilte fish I ever ate, mainly because I’d never eaten any before.

“Gefilte” sounds tastier than “ground up raw fish mixed with eggs, onions and matzoh meal then stuffed into the skin of a de-boned fish and poached.”

I ate it as part of a Passover Seder as a guest of Congregation Beth Sholom Jewish Synagogue in Beverly Hills, Fla.