The Marathon City Council convened on Tuesday, May 11, with a relatively light agenda, although several inspiring moments â not uncommon in small city council meetings â highlighted the evening.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay set the tone early by recognizing and introducing a âspecial guest,â Canine Coral, one of the departmentâs drug-sniffing dogs, who entertained those on hand with some brief scurrying and sniffing throughout the audience.
Later, Mayor Luis Gonzalez introduced 6-year-old Landry Sayer, a Stanley Switlick kindergartner whoâd asked to address the city council with a short video, because âshe was trying to make a difference,â as Gonzalez explained. What followed was a short, well-produced video on how this little âtrash activist,â who walked her dog every night while also picking up trash, wanted to help clean up Marathon. After the video, Gonzalez pledged to arrange a city-wide cleanup event in the fall, based on
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In a brick-lined corner nook of a third-story attic in a grand old home on North Main Street dark except for a floor lamp and an overhead string of Edison bulbs Brent Bridges settles into a chair across a round dining table from his guest and slips on a pair of headphones.
Bridges has poured a bit of Kentucky Peerless bourbon over ice for he and his guest to lubricate the conversation a little. He presses buttons on his RODECaster Pro soundboard to start the recording. Then they start talking.
When Rebecca Hopper and Jennifer Liles were medical students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine several years ago, they would volunteer to work Monday evenings at UK’s free Salvation Army Clinic in Downtown Lexington, conducting examinations and dispensing medicine.
After several years in practice in Henderson, Drs. Hopper and Liles have seen that there’s an alarming proportion of people living here who have no health insurance or are underinsured, meaning they can’t afford their co-pays or deductibles.
For many of them, that means they don’t receive regular medical care that could catch illnesses or conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure before significant damage is done.