Let's talk Pike County! A friendly place to discuss Pike County, KY. If you live in, have visited or if you are a former resident of Pike County....let's reminisce, discuss issues or whatever is on your mind.
I wish I could help you out there, but mine is....
by Gerri
"over the hill" as they say. I bought it with a computer in '97. So you can only imagine. Your best bet is to go buy a new one (whatever price range you can) and go from there. If you buy a computer or accessories that are used....most likely it will be worse than buying a used car that is 20 years old, according to what I have experienced and been told).
I know I am still using a computer that I bought in late '97....Windows '98, Office '97, but....it will run some of the old DOS programs I have. My computer with Windows ME (which is the same brand, but a piece of crap) won't do that.
We have been busy setting up a memorial section for the HHS Discussion Board at http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/245943. I need help! Please send me any information on HHS classmates who have died. Also, scan and email me their pictures if you have the yearbook, or tell me what year they graduated, or would have graduated, and any info you might have about their death. Thanks for any help.
EDITORAL. HE ALWAYS HAS AN OPINION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND PIKE COUNTY AND HIS POINT OF VIEWS ON JUST ABOUT ALL SUBJECTS, BUT HAS ANYONE NOTICED BUT ME HOW HE KEEPS AVOIDING THE SUBJECT OF LARRY WEBSTER AND A FEW MORE GOOD WRITERS THAT USE TO SUBMIT ARTICLES TO THE PAPER. NOW WONDER WHY?????????? IF EVERYONE WOULD BOYCOTT BUYING HIS (MAYBE) NEWSPAPER HE MIGHT TRY TO PROVIDE THE CITIZENS WITH THE TRUTH INSTEAD OF FALLING TO THE FEETS OF THE VERY PEOPLE HE USE TO WRITE ABOUT. STRANGE WHAT A LITTLE INFLUENCE WILL DO TO SOMEONE ISN'T IT?
I am interested in finding a listing of lawyers that served Pike County in the 1940's. Can anyone tell me where to look or how to go about finding this list?
Thanks Much
And no mosquitoes. This was captured tonight from the Pikeville webcam located on Duty's Knob. If Dickenson County (particularly the towns and Breaks Interstate Park) had webcams like this, I think it would increase interest in the area. Thanks to the forward-thinking person responsible for the Pikeville webcam. Credit to NoKlue for the screen capture.
Does anyone know if you add too much garlic to a stew...(pork) how do you neutralize the garlic? Is there something you can add to the dish to soften the garlic affect or taste?
CAN ANYONE IN THE PIKE COUNTY AREA TELL US ON THE BOARD WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY WEBSTER'S COLUMN IN THE LOCAL PIKE COUNTY NEWS. HE DOESN'T WRITE THERE. DOES ANYONE KNOW??????????????/
I am hoping to publish the last column he wrote that the paper refused to publish on my website, and any comments he has when I catch up with him.
I may have to drive over to his house.
It had to do with the naming of a bridge, a 'dark' tower and an "Honorary" Degree from Pikeville College.
Are you aware that Larry Webster and Sara George were the actual founders of what is now the ANE and that both have been ...released from the same. Did you also know that although the paper likes for you to think that is is a sort of Mom and Pop local operation, it is actually owned by a corporation out of Alabama that own at my last count, about 16 other newspapers including the Paintsville Herald.
M. Backus wrote a column not too long ago talking about the takeover of the Floyd Co.Times by a paper conglomerate. It read to my eyes as though he were denouncing this sort of thing and I had to laugh because I knew about the ANE and the Lancaster Corporation.
You and he were about the only 2 that wrote for the paper that would tell it like it was.....regardless of whose toes they stepped on.
I have to say that Larry and Sara did very well for the ANE and yes, I knew they are now a big corporation.
A girl I went to school with married MB's son, I guess. She talks on classmates.com (Class of 76) about being a millionaire, going where she wants, buying whatever she wants and being treated like a queen. She used to work there at the paper...and came a long way from a single wide trailer where she grew up.
Now don't get me wrong...I'm not knocking anyone that grew up or lives in a trailer. I lived in one with my first husband and then again later after my divorce. Some trailer are really nice.
you writing for the paper anymore is it the same old crap as before? I enjoyed your columns and now it looks like all we have left is Shawna's let's pray she will continue to write but then who knows how all this will come out in the end. After Gerri and I talked via email on some of the personal ends of the paper etc. I can see clearly what is going on. SO Sad
This is the first time I've made it to this site in a long time. Every now and then I think about giving up my column since it's more work than it is worth (financially anyway). And then I run into a stranger at a store somewhere who comes up to me and thanks me for something I've written. Red Dog's columns were a nice break from monotony. I enjoyed his satire even when it rang a little too true and close to home. My columns are intentionally middle of the road. You notice I avoid politics and religion. Of course, that didn't stop me from getting one cute little hate letter. :D I guess nobody is liked by everybody.
If you guys think you've got some stupid laws as of today the motorcycles in the state of Tn can run red lights yes thats right. The government voted to let them do so because they are heavy enough to trigger the red lights. HOW ABOUT THAT!!!!!!!!! some law now waht will they do when theres more accidents and deaths due to this stupid law. Its bad enough for states to have a law that you don't have to wear a helmet but to run red lights. WHERE ARE THE HEADS OF THESE SO CALLED OFFICIALS. I KNOW DO YOU?
Waver,
You posted a message back in November, 2002 regarding Hi Noon candy bar recipes. Would you please email me that recipe? My dad, who has passed away, used to bring us kids Hi Noon candy bars as a treat and I would dearly love to make a batch and surprise my siblings with this candy treat.
daughter #2 and I were amazed (and that is probably an understatement) at the discourteousness I am not sure that is a word even) we witnessed down there. We were driving along and this SUV (Dodge Durango to be specific) passes us and stays in the passing lane and since I was doing a good little 55 this SUV had to be going faster than that - when what does it do but GO up over the median strip and made a U-turn - never slowing down from whatever speed he passed us at and right back the other way he went. Then we are sitting at the light to make a left turn into the shopping center to go to Dawahare's and our light is red as is the other two lanes going out of town - the lanes of traffic that have the right-of-way are coming out of the shopping center - when this darn little old car comes barrelling up the lane beside us (mind you the light is STILL red or we would not have been sitting here) and with out a care one - the woman goes right on thru that light like it wasn't even there -matter of fact - I will almost swear to the fact that she did NOT know it was there..lol...as we were going to Pikeville we had passed a newly build dollar store sorta near Robinson Creek so we thought we would go in there on our way out of town - my first & last stop - as we were getting out of our car a couple were exiting their vehicle near us and kept looking at our tags and sorta snickering (y'all know I do not reside in the state of KY - although my mom is from Ashcamp) - so during the time we are in the store I don't think we saw them again until we got in the check out line and there was probably 10 people in line with only one check-out open UNTIL the girl came back from lunch and says she will "happily" get someone on register one & since I am the next one in line I push my buggy in that direction. Now mind you daughter is in front of the buggy and goes up to the register at which time snickering couple push between me and daughter and throw their stuff on the cash register. Daughter is looking at me and telling me to put my stuff on the counter - which was impossible since snickering couple's stuff is already there & she was like "Mom - these people are pushing me" and being the role model that I am (NOT) I told her in a rather loud voice to let the d@mn people go ahead cause I'd have to run them over to get in front of them. Needless to say that will be the first & last time I ever go there and daughter is still amazed that people would be that rude to her. We didn't get to eat at her choice restaurant (Applebee's) because the line was all the way out the door and there was over a 30 minute wait at that time. Well, all you all on this board have always been pretty darn nice but I want to ask two questions - is it legal to ride motorcycles in your state with no helmets AND twice in the last month that we have been there we saw vehicles with NO windshields - what gives there???? Now, before y'all tell me to stay in my state I do enjoy coming down there but today must have been like the trip to hell & back
From what I understand all those people up there in Pike County are not in their right minds(all the drugs) so maybe that answers some of your questions.
Thanks for the tip..I am not in my right mind either -
by ccg
but I don't think I can blame that on "drugs" - senility more than likely!! Honestly I love going to - well maybe more like - "thru" Pike County - it seems like a nice enuff place - but I will stay over here in VA.
not just Pike County. Visit some of the dr. offices and watch the people go in on these canes, come out, throw the cane in the back seat and fly to the drug store to get that $1.00 script filled (on the state, of course). Then they go down the road and sell half of them or better before they get home....go home with anywhere from $400.-1000. in their pocket.
Any event at any public place, you can hear all kinds of informative infomation.
since I know you and you know that I'm from the great Pike County.......I will attempt to answer your questions before I read the other reesponses.
Yes it IS legal for motorcycle riders to ride without helmets. I don't like it....it takes a fool to do that. 4-wheelers are also allowed on the street (although you didn't ask about that).
About the open windshield...they were just trying to catch flies while they were in the car instead of having to sit on the front porch with their mouth open. Or maybe some man looked a woman the night before and some jealous husband/boyfriend was trying to get evenwith the "looker". Gosh, that was mean......BUT...they do the same thing here in Dickenson County....just a different state name.
Hey, people are rude all over. You know that. There are also ignorant people all over. You should try going to Ashland....or better yet up in some of them hollers there in Paintsville. The "snickering" people may have been shut in for a while and hadn't seen VA license plates for a while (although when I lived at Robinson Creek, half the people there had VA plates because of cheaper taxes).
Hey girl.....just too bad you had your daughter with you.....right? BTW, I did read in the paper last week that 10 different vehicles had been stolen from the Super Wal-Mart parking lot this past month. Makes me almost scared to stop there.
After I talked to you M. wanted to go to Wal-mart &
by ccg
going into Pound I (so I only have myself to blame..lol) suggested going to Super WallyWorld...and I think there was more folks down there than I ever see at Exit 7 - hey, John Vanover was there & told me I won an award - plaque and certificate I think for the dam thing -but I had to work that day & did not get to go. They had been to Jenny Wiley for a reunion. BTW, the folks down Ashland way are some of the nicest I have ever met, really! The only thing missing outta my scenario there was four wheelers surrounding me on the highway - now I know where to send that ATV Club to for their "kicks"...and they won't have to worry about the Pine Mt. Trail - one trip to Pike County outta wean 'em, right??
I didn't get to go either. Had people here all day and actually forgot about it until around noon. He called me and told me about the plaque. Audrea and Frank saw Dennis and told him to have me come by the office. I haven't been yet.
Oh, Pike County is alright. If I had my choice of places to live, as of right now....I would like to try Lexington/Cincinnati area. Don't get me wrong...I love where I am at....just some of the people I could do without.
how about finding something to do besides talk about people and look down on a place because of just a few people, I live here and don't really like it that much but I have better things to do than sit and talk about what a bad place it is. ( GOSSIP, not such a good thing) P.S theres drugs everywhere its just worse in some places. also bad drivers... I don't mean to sound mean but its better to say nice things or sometimes nothing at all..
Have we decided to join the living for awhile. Where have you been for so long? Sorry I haven't gotten anything from in since a forward about a month ago. Try again
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"And so now, in Hyattsville, because some people cannot get beyond their fascination with guns and some people actually believe the words of their faith's commandments, Sunday is a day for staring across a deep divide."
Where in the Bible does it say that owning a gun is wrong?
Pitting Gospel Against 12-Gauge In Hyattsville
By Marc Fisher
Sunday, June 8, 2003; Page C01
The Mossberg Model 500 shotgun, which retails for north of $300, has proved to be quite a draw for the Catholic Sportsmen's Organization. Each year on the Saturday before Father's Day, members of St. Jerome's Catholic Church in Hyattsville join with others from around town for lunch, fellowship, shooting contests and a gun raffle.
The idea is to raise money for kids in Hyattsville who need good sports activities to keep them off the streets and out of gangs.
The raffle has drawn bigger crowds and collected more money -- $30,000 in three years -- than your average church fundraiser.
But some Catholics in Hyattsville believe that guns and God do not belong in the same building, nor in the same collection basket.
That's why the people of St. Jerome's parish have been divided for four years. It's why Peggy and Pat Alexander and several others have left the church. It's why the Alexanders are not on speaking terms with their neighbor across the street, John Aquilino, who came up with the gun raffle. And it's why even the cardinal has sought to draw lines between the need for money and the demands of faith.
"It's pretty painful," says Peggy Alexander, who now worships over at the Episcopal church. "To be 52 and a lifelong Catholic and to feel so betrayed by the church that you've grown up in -- it's hard."
Aquilino sees no spiritual issue here. He knows that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, favors gun control, but Aquilino sees that as the position of a member of the church hierarchy, not of the faith itself.
Aquilino set out to do something about the tattered uniforms of Catholic Youth Organization sports teams. An ordinary raffle might raise $100. But Hyattsville is not far from the Prince George's County Trap and Skeet Center, where gun enthusiasts practice and take lessons. A fundraiser there, with a gun giveaway, might get the kids the support they need.
Aquilino is also a gun activist, prominent in groups that campaign for gun rights. But he says he sought only to help the neighborhood children.
"We just want to raise money and have fun," he says. "My 77-year-old mother shot a shotgun at our event last year for the first time in her life, and she loved it. This is for people who enjoy firearms. I get a kick out of them. They're very calming."
Aquilino knew that some parishioners were appalled by the use of guns to raise money for church activities. In 2001, 14 members of St. Jerome's asked the cardinal to intercede because the church accepted money raised at the skeet shoot, which their pastor, the Rev. James Stack, had said "was neither illegal nor immoral."
Stack had told Aquilino's group that it couldn't use St. Jerome's name in connection with the gun raffle. So Aquilino and friends created the independent Catholic Sportsmen's Organization, which donated money from the gun event to parish activities.
"In this urban area, it is not appropriate for church-sponsored groups to be giving away guns," the letter to the cardinal said.
The cardinal decided that the sportsmen's group could raise money for St. Jerome's only if the events are not "related in any way to the use or sale of guns."
But that didn't settle the issue. Even if formal ties between the sportsmen's group and St. Jerome's were cut, gun opponents say the link remains strong. Sportsmen's group members wear T-shirts with gun images to church events. And St. Jerome's activities still accept money from the sportsmen, who say they only give the church funds raised from non-gun events.
How the church separates itself from the gun group hardly matters. What divides St. Jerome's is the larger issue -- whether those who believe in the church's rejection of the gun culture can coexist with those who say they can be good Catholics and still enjoy guns.
"We're not looking for a fight with the church," Aquilino says. "But this smacks of the same sort of intolerance and prejudice that racism is built from."
No, says Alexander, "it's a moral issue. It's about putting more guns out on the street. It's against the life-affirming doctrine that the Catholic Church preaches."
And so now, in Hyattsville, because some people cannot get beyond their fascination with guns and some people actually believe the words of their faith's commandments, Sunday is a day for staring across a deep divide.
"Police said they do not know why the pair was sitting in the bus area of the station at a time when no Metro trains or buses were running."
It seems funny to me that the police were so concerned why the man and woman were sitting in the bus area of the station instead of why the other man was trying to rob them.
'Metro Police Chief Polly Hanson said passengers should not be worried about crime at Metro stations. "This shows great police work by Metro Transit Police," she said. "We've closed every case. We've locked up anybody who's come on our property."'
If this was such "...great police work...", why could the police not have prevented the shootings altogether. Now that would have been great police work.
Two Men Shot in Metro Station Robbery Attempt
By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 11, 2003; Page B02
An Upper Marlboro man was in custody at Prince George's Hospital Center yesterday after he robbed a woman at gunpoint but then was shot by her companion in a scuffle outside the New Carrollton Metro station about 2:30 a.m., transit police said.
Police said Ahmand Robinson, 20, approached a man and a woman sitting on a bench outside the Metro station in the bus area near Ellin Road. Robinson displayed a handgun and demanded the woman's purse, Officer Linda Foxwell of Metro Transit Police said. Police would not identify the other man and the woman, who live in New Carrollton, saying they are witnesses to the crime.
The woman handed over the purse but a struggle ensued between Robinson and the other man, Foxwell said. Robinson was shot in the chest several times and the other man was shot in the hand, she said.
Robinson dropped the purse and fled the station but later called another person to pick him up and take him to the hospital, Foxwell said. The man who was shot in the hand also called someone for help and was taken to Washington Hospital Center, she said. Police recovered a handgun and the purse at the scene, Foxwell said.
Robinson was in critical but stable condition and under police guard at the hospital, Foxwell said. He was not conscious, she said.
The man with the wounded hand was treated at the hospital and released; the woman was not hurt, Foxwell said. Police said they do not know why the pair was sitting in the bus area of the station at a time when no Metro trains or buses were running. New Carrollton is the last stop on the Maryland leg of the Orange Line. It hosts a MARC station, which also serves Amtrak, but both of those rail lines had stopped local service for the night.
While Transit Police patrol Metro stations round-the-clock, there were no officers at the New Carrollton station at the time of the shooting, Foxwell said.
In 2002, there were two armed robberies at New Carrollton. Yesterday's incident was the second armed robbery this year at the station, Transit Police said.
The shootings were the latest in a recent string of violent episodes at Metro stations.
In April, a woman was shot and wounded on a Green Line train by an acquaintance who police said was showing off a gun. Last month, two passengers emerged from a Green Line train at College Park and walked outside, where one fatally stabbed the other, police said. Arrests were made in both cases.
Metro Police Chief Polly Hanson said passengers should not be worried about crime at Metro stations. "This shows great police work by Metro Transit Police," she said. "We've closed every case. We've locked up anybody who's come on our property."
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LOL..that didn't sound right, did it? "MamaRanger" called me last evening - we played phone tag for two weeks! I think I will make banana split dessert - what are you making???
give it the benefit of a response cause anything I would have said I prolly would have regretted. I figure when Nem checks the board he will delete it. I wouldn't even have any idea who would post that but I bet he might (Nem)...lol. Is the cherry cake something like those bundt thingies you made before & I pigged out on????
and I always pig out. No....I wouldn't even respond either and neither would ANY responsible parent.........of fishing aged kids or not!! I hope he does delete it.
The fact that before she was a "merchandising maven" she
by ccg
was a practicing member of the New York Stock exchange leads me to believe she knew exactly what she did. Didn't care for her over-priced crap before (nor K-Mart for that matter) and care less about it now. I will stick to my tried/true Wal-Mart!!
Sure, She knew the ins and outs of the corporate world which is why I believe She would never get involved in insider trading. Overpriced, Yea, but I like those soft sheets.
Fall From Grace
Speaking of this you guys should go to the library and check this book out Fall From Grace. It's a wonderful tell all book about all the Presidents. VERY INTERESTING.
My Mom got me a set for Christmas one year and I have been buying several pieces since. I love it....ALL BUT....I have to hand wash and dry it to keep from ruining it in the dishwasher. Or is it alumnium you can't do repeat washings in the dishwasher?
Who cares what she does with the millions she's made? I wouldn't even care if she threw a mil or 2 my way! LOL
Seriously, I'd sell too if someone told me I stood to lose millions the next day if I didn't sell right away. Who wouldn't? Now, I understand NOTHING about stock trading, buying and selling.....so I can't really say she did anything wrong. And I wasn't there either.
