Ace Magazine - Lexington, KY | April 2024

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Two Years After the Fire

Now, exactly two years after the fire, the downtown garden is taking shape as a remnant of Sims’ and Poole’s original vision of a place of serenity and healing.

Photos and story by Kevin Nance.

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Lissa Sims

Cecil Dunn

William “Buddy” Wheeler

Harold Wayne Critchfield

Cecil Dunn, Harold Wayne Critchfield, and William “Buddy” Wheeler

…And the Award Goes to…

Downtown Lexington Partnership hosted their Annual Meeting & Awards of Excellence presented by Republic Bank celebration, with more than 200 great guests, including Mayor Linda Gorton.

At the luncheon, winners received awards including:

• Urban Innovation Award: The Manchester Landscape and Streetscape Award: Transylvania University Leadership Achievement

• Rose Lucas Perfect Partnership Award: Ryan Foster (Harper Hall)

• Outstanding Individual Award: Dougie Allen (Creaux)

The Bluegrass Business Hall of Fame event pays tribute to selected business leaders for achievement in their careers, service to the community, and being role models for our youth. This year’s Award Winners — RJ Corman (posthumously); Jean Hale; and Glenn Leveridge — will be honored in a ceremony on Thursday May 23, 2024

Transylvania University’s Office of Marketing and Communications was recently recognized for excellence for work produced in 2023 as part of the 39th annual Educational Advertising Awards.

Leadership Lexington

Applications for the 2024-25 Leadership Lexington program are available on April 15th at www.leadershiplexington.com. This leadership development program is sponsored by Commerce Lexington and directed toward individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities. Completed applications are due by Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Residents and individuals who work in the Lexington area are eligible to apply. Applicants must be employed by firms that are active members of Commerce Lexington.

Lex Grow (More) Trees

Lex Grow Trees is now accepting applications for grant funding. If you are a local business or organization with a passion for improving Lexington’s tree canopy and the capacity for large-scale planting or other tree projects, visit lexgrowtrees.com/apply-forfunds to apply today. The granting cycle closes on April 26, 2024.

MEMORIALS

Small Business and civic service are two of the hallmarks of Lexington leadership, and Lexington has lost three lions in recent months.

Harold Wayne Critchfield

Harold Wayne Critchfield, 75, died in March 2024 at the Lexington VA Medical Center, surrounded by his family. The Lexington native attended Henry Clay High School, and briefly UK before choosing to serve his country by enlisting in the Navy. He later completed his education at EKU, and returned to Lexington to help run the family business, Critchfield Meats, along with his siblings, before retiring in 2007.

One loyal customer wrote, “Harold, along with his brothers, made Critchfields the successful business it is today and always has been.”

Fayette County Bar Association, 1997, The Lexington Optimist Community Service Award, 1997, Kentucky Housing Corporation Excellence in Housing Award, 1996 and had an AV Pre-Eminent Rating by Martindale- Hubbell.

“(The Hope Center) was the best thing that I have ever been associated with.”

“Harold often emptied the freezer to give food to others.”

He took up piano playing in his 50s, and had recently been teaching himself to play “I Will Always Love You,” for his beloved wife, Martha.

Friends and family say he was known for his generosity, “often emptying the freezer to give food to others.”

Cecil Dunn

As shared by their family, Cecil and Judy Dunn were married on July 10th, 1965, and raised their sons together in Lexington, where the front door to their home on Kingsway Drive was always open, the house was often full of friends and family, and Cecil could be found holding court in his den.

Dunn enjoyed a distinguished six decades of legal experience. He served as the General Counsel of the Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC), as a Criminal Trial Commissioner and Assistant County Attorney for Fayette County, and was appointed as the Special Prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire investigation in 1978 and 1979. He was a proud member of the Kentucky Bar Association (KBA). He received the Henry Duncan Award,

He had a passion for his community, church, UK Basketball and family. He served as a Board Member and Chairman of the Lexington Civic Center (Rupp Arena). He was the Executive Director of the Hope Center for twenty-four years, before retiring in 2019. He said of the Hope Center: “It was the best thing that I have ever been associated with. “Second chances are born and nurtured here.” Both Cecil and his dear friend, the late Don Ball, dedicated the second halves of their careers to the mission and vision of the Hope Center, bettering thousands of lives in the process. He was a lifelong Presbyterian and devout member of First Presbyterian Church in Lexington.

Pallbearers at his service included Senator Mike Moloney, Luther Deaton, Jim Exline, Walter May, Ray Edelman, and Leonard Hamilton. Honorary Pallbearers were George Begley, Joe Terry, Jim Hatfield, Harold Mullis, the late Don Ball, the late Joe Smith and the late Tommy Chandler.

William “Buddy” Wheeler

Wheeler Pharmacy is a family-run pharmacy and soda fountain located in the heart of the Romany neighborhood in Chevy Chase.

“I grew up going to Wheeler Pharmacy and still enjoy spending time there with my family. May Buddy rest in peace.”

—Andy Barr

William “Buddy” Wheeler died in February at the age of 89. He opened Wheeler Pharmacy in 1958, just 2 years after graduating from the UK College of Pharmacy, and recently described it as his greatest accomplishment in life. Despite selling Wheeler’s to his daughter in 2020, Buddy was involved in behind the scenes operations up until his death. Buddy’s presence will be greatly missed.

Commerce Lexington said of his passing, “Over the years, Wheeler Pharmacy has become a Lexington tradition, and today Buddy’s entrepreneurial spirit lives on through his children and other family members. We salute Buddy for his positive impact on the Lexington business community, and we send our deepest condolences to his family and all who loved him.”

—Cecil Dunn

Congressman Andy Barr said, “I grew up going to Wheeler Pharmacy and still enjoy spending time there with my family. May Buddy rest in peace.”

Mayor Linda Gorton wrote,”William ‘Buddy’ Wheeler founded a business, Wheeler Pharmacy, that has become a landmark in the Chevy Chase and Romany Road area. Since 1958, people have relied on the business for drugstore needs, but also as a place to gather at the soda fountain for food and conversation. Buddy will be remembered for his kindness to all those he encountered.”

Upon learning of his passing, one customer wrote, “My heart just burst into a million pieces! He always made it a point to ask how I was doing, ask about the family, congratulate or offer condolences for whatever I was going through — and he almost always knew before I told him. Buddy always had the tea. He will be missed.”

Another wrote, “This man, his family, and the employees are part of the backbone of our community. Kind. Friendly. Caring. A great legacy.”

Customers can still order a “Buddy Burger” at the soda fountain.

OASIS

Garden emerges from the downtown ashes

BY KEVIN NANCE

When their historic building in downtown Lexington’s Gratz Park neighborhood was destroyed by a fire next door in late March of 2022, Lissa Sims and Stephanie Poole spent several days in shock and grief for a vision that had suddenly gone up in smoke. They had purchased the 1812 building only three months earlier and had already undertaken extensive renovation and structural repairs. Sims’ yoga studio, Shala, had been set to open in the building within a few days. She remembers standing on the corner of Second and Upper streets watching it burn all night long: “I couldn’t believe this was happening.”

Sims and Poole, longtime friends and business partners, spent much of the following year pondering their next move.

PHOTOS

“Their days are numbered,” award-winning designer Jon Carloftis says of the site’s pre-existing Bradford Pears.

They considered starting over, building a new yoga studio with offices on the site, but that proved prohibitively expensive.

(Shala recently reopened in a new rented space at 333 E. Short, another historic building that once served as a peanut and coffee roasting factory.)

With the help of award-winning Lexington garden designer and longtime friend Jon Carloftis, they investigated building a hybrid, greenhouse-like space, but the financial impact of heating and cooling it for humans and plants is unsustainable, for now.

And so the lot, with a big hole in the middle gathering water, sat forlorn and empty for months.

“Stephanie said it looked terrible, and we both felt terrible about it,” Sims recalls in a recent interview at the site, which she and Poole still own.

“Finally we said let’s call Jon and have him make a garden or some kind of park, so people can at least see it, walk through, have a picnic, whatever.”

Now, exactly two years after the fire, that garden is taking shape as a remnant of Sims’

and Poole’s original vision of a place of serenity and healing. Although it remains very much a work in progress — an expanse of young Kentucky ryegrass surrounded by a perimeter of saplings — the garden has the outlines of a small urban oasis in the making.

Concentrating on Kentucky native plants, Carloftis has planted tall oak, hornbeam and tulip poplar trees around the edges of the site, along with shorter dogwoods, redbuds and Sweetbay magnolias. (The two pre-existing mature Bradford pear trees on the property, while beautiful in full flower, are widely considered a botanical nightmare. “Their days are numbered,” Carloftis acknowledges.) Near the sidewalks are a series of Otto Lukyen cherry laurels, which are far hardier than the boxwood hedges often used to define garden boundaries, and Huskers Red Penstemon, which has beautiful white blooms.

The garden also includes medicinal plants such as witch hazel and mountain mist. “Stephanie and I have always envisioned this as a healing space,” Sims explains. “We spent a lot of time talking about how we thought this could work, and that it still needs to be a healing space in some way. So let’s plant medicinals, which Jon was so good about figuring out how to do.”

Even if the owners decide to build a structure on the site at some point (they haven’t ruled out the greenhouse idea in some form), the garden will stay as is. “Whatever happens, whatever they build here — if they build it — you have to have green space on either side,” Carloftis says. “No one’s going backwards.”

In the meantime, Sims and Poole hope visitors take advantage of the garden as a neighborhood amenity. “We will have a yoga class when it gets warm enough, but the idea is mainly to make it a place where people can hang out. I hope people who are working downtown or whatever will come and just walk through, or sit for a moment. Maybe we’ll get some little plaques [identifying the plants].”

The space is there to be enjoyed by the community.

Garden Spot

The garden at Second and Upper is just the latest (and one of the smallest) projects for designer Jon Carloftis, whose awardwinning work is extensively documented in a recently published coffee-table book, Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens, featuring photography by Abby Laub.

At a hefty 316 pages, the hardcover book features 24 private and public gardens by Carloftis, beginning with his childhood home at what is now the River House at Rockcastle River Trading Company and ending with his current home, historic Botherum in Woodward Heights..

In between, featured gardens include those at Dudley’s restaurant; Castle & Key Distillery; the Maker’s Mark Distillery; the Apiary; and several horse farms, including Cathy and Bob Roberts’ Golden Oak Farm; and Linda and Jerry Bruckheimer’s Walnut Grove Farm.

Each project portfolio includes “before” photos followed by images of the transformed spaces, each of which Carloftis says he approached without preconceived notions or anything resembling a design signature. “Some people use the same stamp over and over again,” he says. “I come into each project knowing nothing. I look at the land, I listen to the people, find out what they want, and they all want something different. Linda [Bruckheimer], for example, wanted it to look like Kentucky. She lives in Hollywood, so she doesn’t need flower-flower-flowerflower, like it’s Beverly Hills.”

Laub, of Lexington, said the photography was done over two years of trips to the gardens with Carloftis and his dogs in tow. She was struck by his creativity — “he would find some random old antique and turn it into a container,” she says — and the sense of mystery in the gardens, almost all of which contain a path, walkway or tunnel through trees or shrubs. “It’s always intriguing,” she says. “You can get lost in there.”

“ I look at the land, I listen to the people, find out what they want, and they all want something different.”

— Jon Carloftis

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NO FOOLIN!

EAT The Sunday Farmers’ Market opens for the Spring on Southland Drive

KIDS Fayette County Schools Spring Break, April 1 - April 5, 2024.

CONCERT Pat Metheny, Lexington Opera House

KIDS Spring Break Program: Explore McConnell Springs 10 am to 11 am

BALL UK Wildcats Baseball vs U of L baseball 7 pm Kentucky Proud Ballpark

SHOP John’s Run/Walk Shop Ladies Night 7 pm

GIGS First Friday with the Yonders, 6 pm Fishtank

1 2 3 4 5 6

TNL Thursday Night Live returns, Hole Shot 5 pm Pavilion

STAGE Rocky Horror Picture Show 48th anniversary tour with Barry Bostwick 8 pm EKU

HORSE 2024 Keeneland Spring Race Meet opens Friday, April 5, and continues through Friday, April 26. No racing on Mon/Tues.

ART Pop Up Art Market, 11 am to 4 pm Another Man’s Treasure (507 E. Third St)

SPEAK Equine Ed: Kim Wickens discusses her book Lexington, 12:30, Horse Park

MOVIES Cult Classics, Night of the Hunter, 2 pm downtown Library

COMEDY Ryan Hamilton, Lexington Opera House

CENTRAL KY HOME+GARDEN SHOW APRIL 5–7

READ

Matthew Strandmark discusses Gatewood 6 pm, downtown Library

LIT Open Mic night featuring LeTonia Jones 5 pm, downtown Library GREEN Sustainability Summit, UK Gatton Center

READ Book Launch, John Yau 5:30 pm UK Art Museum

ART Curator Tour 6 pm, UK Art Museum

TNL Thursday Night Live returns, Paint Creek, 5 pm Pavilion

JAZZ Jazz at the Library 7 pm, downtown Library

COMEDY

Michael Yo, Comedy Off Broadway

ART Radiance opens (Arturo Sandoval, Guy Kemper, Stephen Powell, Daria De Koning, Travis Adams), Headley Whitney

ART Brian Connors Manke ‘For Crayon Out Loud,’ opens 5 pm to 8 pm Loudon House

HOME Free Trash Disposal Day 6 am, Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station

GREEN Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Reforest the Bluegrass 9 am to 1 pm, Coldstream Park.

DANCE Cinderella, Lexington Opera House

MOVIES Wildcat screening with Ethan Hawke and Steve Zahn, Kentucky Theatre

CONCERT

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, 8 pm Lexington Opera House

EAT Beginner Sushi class,

FILM The Kite Runner 1 pm, downtown Library

CONCERT The Cleaverlys | The Heart Collectors, Woodsongs, Lyric Theatre

Event, prepay your reservation, Collins Bowling

TRIVIA Taylor Swift Music Bingo, 8 pm, Tin Roof

KIDS

Dinosaur World Live, 6:30 pm EKU

TNL

Thursday Night Live returns, Matt Gerwin and Jump the Curb, 5 pm Pavilion

EAT Lexington Vegan Week (thru Apr 28)

STAGE Jesus Christ Superstar 50th anniversary tour 7:30 pm, EKU

ART

Arts Fair

10 am to 4 pm

Living Arts & Science Center

EVENT Celebrate Record Store Day, Pops on Leestown

MUSIC tween/teen Listening Party (Taylor’s Version) The Tortured Poets Department, 2 pm Beaumont Library

CONCERT Anne Wilson Lexington Opera House

HORSE The Kentucky Three-Day Event wraps up today at the Kentucky Horse Park.

CONCERT Black Jacket Symphony presents Prince’s Purple Rain, Lexington Opera House

VOTE The 2024 Primary Election is May 21, 2024. The registration deadline for the 2024 Primary Election is April 22, 2024, 4 pm local time.

KIDS Disney on Ice, Rupp Arena (thru the weekend)

KIDS SCAPA at Lafayette presents Disney’s Little Mermaid, Lexington Opera House

COMEDY Tom Green, Comedy Off Broadway

KIDS

MOVIES International Movie Club, Limbo, 1 pm Downtown Library

CONCERT Michelle Wright, Woodsongs, Lyric Theatre

READ Beaumont Book Club, Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, 11 am Beaumont Library

PETS Yappy Hour 6 pm Phoenix Park

READ Mia Cinelli Book Launch, 5:30 pm UK’s Guignol Theatre

TNL Thursday Night Live returns, The Swells,

AROUND THE CORNER

MAY 10 Nate Bargatze, Rupp Arena

MAY 11 MayFest, Gratz Park

MAY 23 Emmylou Harris, Kentucky Theatre Jason Isbell | Alejandro Escovedo,

CONCERT Billy Strings, Rupp Arena, two-night stand on Apr 26 & Apr 27

KIDS Bluegrass Youth Ballet presents Art Rhapsody, Lexington Opera House

COMEDY John Crist, two-night stand, 7 pm, UK Singletary Center

Kite Fest Noon to 4 pm, Masterson Station BOOKS Independent Bookstore Day. Find your favorite and celebrate!

HOME Paper Shred Event 9 am to 2 pm, Waste Management

HEALTH Diabetes Expo, 10 am to 2 pm, Fayette County Extension

COMEDY Pete Davidson, Lexington Opera House

HEALTH

Baptist Health opens Hamburg Campus

Baptist Health Hamburg ’s rolling open is underway at Polo Club Boulevard. The new 300,000+ sq ft campus is expected to be home to more than 300 employees, and the Nicholasville Rd Baptist Health location will remain open.

will begin and end at Kroger Field, and guide participants through various athletic facilities on south campus.

SAT APR 27

APR HEALTH CALENDAR

SAT APR 20

UK Athletics will host the UK5K the morning of Saturday, April 20. The race

Almost 14% of all Kentuckians have diabetes and 34% have prediabetes, making the state the 8th highest in the country for diabetes prevalence.

Learn how to prevent or manage diabetes. Join the Fayette County Diabetes Coalition for a FREE Diabetes Expo 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at 1140 Harry Sykes Way (the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension office).

The event will feature more than 25 vendors with cooking demonstrations, Primary Care and Education services, vision screenings, Q&A with experts, free vaccines and much more!

Pre-register 859-257-5582.

It’s been a busy Spring in restaurant news. The Warehouse Block is heating up with new and relocated entries, North Lime is adding a distillery anchor to the corridor, and a couple of longtime proprietors are selling out of the restaurant business and moving on to new adventures.

BIRTHS

Congratulations to Bespoken Spirits on the launch of their new distillery and tasting room at Greyline Station in late March.

OBITS

Kung Fun Tea & TKK Fried Chicken, located inside the Hub, closed in March.

Rise Up Pizza announced, via social, their recent closure, having lost their lease inside Horse & Jockey (in the former Cheapside Bar location). Rise Up was formerly located in Greyline Station, and shifted to Detroit-style pizza with the move downtown.

TRANSITIONS

Blue Door Smokehouse will soon be opening their new and expanded location at the other end of National. (It joins Void Sake and Wild Lab Bakery in their new locations nearby.)

Kukie is selling Jasmine Rice Thai and Vietnamese Cuisine on Winchester Road. Her goal is to sell to a former employee with a restaurant background, with the transition expected to happen later this fall.

The legendary Joe Bologna himself has announced his pending retirement at the end of July. He hopes to sell the business to a new owner who will keep up the tradition of casual Italian fare, with breadsticks.

Tolly Ho is on the move. In May of 2011, Lexington’s legendary Tolly Ho moved to its new location on S. Broadway in the former Hart’s Dry Cleaning building, located diagonally across from The Lex, where it’s enjoyed a happy home ever since. In February 2024, UK voted to buy the Broadway property, and Tolly Ho will relocate to the nearby former Bad Wolf Burgers location (Bad Wolf recently returned to its original home in Meadowthorpe). The current menu is expected to remain intact at the new location, which will be renovated (the Ho burger and 24/7 omelettes are in no danger.)

Tune into CBS Saturday Morning on Saturday April 13, 2024. The team visited Holly Hill & Co’s Versailles cooking studio for a sit down with author Crystal Wilkinson, discussing her new book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts.

the Henry Clay Estate

Lexington Locals, remember your school trip to this historic gem? It’s time to return and uncover new experiences!

Explore the mansion of Henry Clay himself. Immerse in rich history and interactive exhibits. Discover the intriguing stories of those who lived and worked there. Don’t let memories fade –create new ones. Book your visit now! Rediscover Ashland,

HenryClay.org

ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Eric G. Wilson claims, “Darker emotional states—doubt, confusion, alienation, despair— inspire a deeper and more durable experience of the sacred than contentment does.” I disagree. I know for a fact that an exquisite embrace of life’s holiness is equally possible through luminous joy and boisterous triumph and exultant breakthroughs. Propagandists of the supposed potency of misery like Wilson are stuck in a habit of mind that’s endemic to the part of civilization that’s rotting and dying. In any case, Aries, I’m pleased to tell you that in the coming weeks, you will have abundant opportunities to glide into sacred awareness on the strength of your lust for life and joie de vivre.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Will China and Russia remain stifling authoritarian states for many more decades? Will our grandchildren fear tyrannical leaders who want to impose their brutal anti-democratic ideas on everyone alive? In a related matter, do you wonder if humans will succeed in halting the destruction of the environment? Or will our descendants struggle to survive on a hot, polluted, damaged planet? Sorry I’m asking you to think about such sad realities. But now is a time when it’s personally important for you to ponder the future of the earth—and resolve to do something, in your own small ways, in loving service to that future. Meditate on the riddle from Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking Glass: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The genius polymath Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) contributed much treasure to science and engineering. One encyclopedia sums up his legacy: “the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science.” Unfortunately, many of Galileo’s ideas conflicted with the teachings of Catholicism. The church fathers hounded him for years, even arresting him and putting him on trial. The Vatican eventually apologized—but not until 1992, 350 years after Galileo died. I expect that you, too, will generate many new approaches and possibilities in the coming months, Gemini—not Galileo level, of course, but still: sufficiently unprecedented to rouse the resistance of conventional wisdom. I don’t believe you will have to wait long to be vindicated, though.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now would be a perfect time to prove your love. How? You might begin by being nice, considerate, sensitive, sweet, and tender. Then I hope you will add sublime, scintillating touches. Maybe you will tell your beloved allies beautiful truths about themselves— revelations that make them feel

deeply understood and appreciated. Maybe you will give them gifts or blessings they have wanted for a long time but never managed to get for themselves. Maybe you will serenade them with their favorite songs, or write a poem or story about them, or buy them a symbol that inspires their spiritual quest. And perhaps you will describe the ways they have changed your life for the better.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo naturalist and ornithologist William Henry Hudson (1841–1922) said, “I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-welltended lawn.” I encourage you to adopt his attitude toward everything in your life for the next few weeks. Always opt for unruly beauty over tidy regimentation. Choose lush vitality over pruned efficiency. Blend your fate with influences that exult in creative expressiveness, genial fertility, and deep feelings. (PS: Michael Pollan says, “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I praise and celebrate you for your skills at helping other people access their resources and activate their potentials. I hope you are rewarded well for your gorgeous service. If you are not, please figure out how to correct the problem in the coming months. I will add two more assignments: 1. Upgrade your skills at helping yourself access your own resources and activate your potential. 2. Be forthright and straightforward in asking the people you help to help you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I don’t regard a solar eclipse as a bad omen. On the contrary, I believe it may purge and cleanse stale old karma. On some occasions, I have seen it flush away emotional debts and debris that have been accumulating for years. So how shall we interpret the total solar eclipse that will electrify your astrological house of intimate togetherness in the coming days? I think it’s a favorable time to be brave and daring as you upgrade your best relationships. What habits and patterns are you ready to reinvent and reconfigure? What new approaches are you willing to experiment with?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): At your best, you Scorpios are not invasive manipulators. Rather, you are catalysts. You are instigators of transformation, resurrectors of dead energy, awakeners of numb minds. The people you influence may not be aware that they long for and draw on your influence. They may think you are somehow imposing it on them, when, in fact, you are simply being your genuine, intense self and

they are reaching out to absorb your unruly healing. In the coming weeks, please keep in mind what I’ve said here.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my astrological opinion, it’s prime time for you to shower big wild favors on your beautiful self. Get the fun underway with a period of rigorous self-care: a physical check-up, perhaps, and visits with the dentist, therapist, hairstylist, and acupuncturist. Try new healing agents. Then move on to luxurious indulgences like a massage, a psychic reading, gourmet meals, an emotionally potent movie, exciting new music, and long, slow lovemaking. Anything else, Sagittarius? Make a list and carry out these tasks with the same verve and determination you would give to any important task.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming days will be a favorable time for you to wrestle with an angel or play chess with a devil. You will have extraordinary power in any showdown or collaboration with spiritual forces. Your practical intelligence will serve you well in encounters with enigmas. Here’s a hot tip: Never assume that any being, human or divine, is holier or wiser than you. You will have a special knack for finding compassionate solutions to address even the knottiest dilemmas.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your featured organ of the month is your nose. This may sound beyond the scope of predictable possibilities, but I’m serious: You will make robust decisions and discriminating choices if you get your sniffer fully involved. So I advise you to favor and explore whatever smells good. Cultivate a nuanced appreciation for what aromas can reveal. If there’s a hint of a stink or an odd tang, go elsewhere. The saying “follow your nose” is especially applicable. PS: I recommend you take steps to expose yourself to a wide array of scents that energize you and boost your mood.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When is the best time to ask for a raise or an increase in benefits? Can astrology reveal favorable periods for being aggressive about getting more of what we want? In the system I use, the time that’s 30 to 60 days after your birthday is most likely to generate good results. Another phase is 210 to 240 days after your birthday. Keep in mind these estimates may be partly fanciful and playful and mythical. But then in my system, fanciful and playful and mythical actions have an honored place. Selffulfilling prophecies are more likely to be fulfilled if you regard them as fun experiments rather than serious, literal rules.

Thermal Equipment Sales, Inc. is seeking a FT, perm. Mechanical Engineer-Support in Lexington, KY. Duties include: Perform support role for all Sales Reps; Interpret tech bid documents & blueprints in order to estimate final bid pricing; Prepare tech equip selections for customers to use in design & quote process; Review engineering docs & designs for proper application & specs of HVAC equip prior to bid; Prep budgets in planning stage of projects; Understanding of project terms & cond w/ regard to impact on pricing; Apply HVAC components in accordance w/ mfr’s recommendations & industry stds; Develop scope of work using appl info from bid docs & component selections to be consistent with current guidelines; Update & maintain booking proj report & shipping proj database to ensure accuracy; Keep indiv quote files current to a min of 30 days via follow up calls & reporting; Manage & prioritize workload due to daily requests & adjustment of customer deadlines; Place orders for all project equip & accessories sales; Communicate ship dates & coord logistics with install contractors. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Mech Engineering. Only persons with U.S. work auth need to apply. EEO. Submit resume to Thermal Equipment Sales, Inc., Attn: Molly Gladdis, 680 Bizzell Drive, Lexington, KY 40510.

APRIL HG CALENDAR

SUN APR 7

The Central Kentucky Home + Garden Show returns to Central Bank Center, in Lexington, Kentucky, from April 5-7, 2024. Enjoy three days of home improvement inspiration.

SAT APR 13

The City of Lexington, along with the Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station, is offering Fayette County residents a free trash disposal day for non-hazardous household waste — up to one pickup truck load of non-hazardous household waste. Residents can also bring items in a car or SUV. 6 AM to 1 pm at 1505 Old Frankfort Pike.

SAT APR 27

Lexington hosts free paper shred events twice a year, once in the spring and again in the fall. Fayette County residents may bring up to five boxes or bags of material to be shredded at no cost. This event allows Lexington residents to safely dispose of their sensitive materials in an environmentallyfriendly way. Shred-it, a division of Stericycle, securely destroys documents on-site with their fleet of mobile shredding trucks. Saturday, April 27, 2024, 9 am to 2 pm, 1631 Old Frankfort Pike. Participants should enter via Jimmie Campbell Dr.

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251 STONE AVE $5,150,000*

817 PRESS AVE $755,000*

955 TARR TRCE UNIT 1103 $505,000

132 RAND AVE $265,000

585 S UPPER ST UNIT 114 ..................................... $255,000

145 VIRGINIA AVE UNIT 213 ....................................$99,500

254 E FIFTH ST ...........................................................$70,000

40509

501 HANNON WAY $405,000

4517 WILLMAN WAY $355,000

3661 BEATEN PATH $310,000

2617 CALGARY ....................................................... $273,000

645 HUGGING BEAR DR ........................................ $271,000

2524 LINDENHURST LOOP .................................... $270,000

2526 LINDENHURST LOOP $270,000

2549 LINDENHURST LOOP $270,000

749 RAMBLING CREEK DR $255,250

2500 CASHEL CT $230,000

2533 CASHEL CT $215,000

HARTLAND PARKSIDE DR $400,000

3997 BRANHAM PARK $355,000

104 HIDDEN WOODS CT ....................................... $280,000 946 FAIRHAVEN DR ...............................................

40516

180 STRAWBERRY FIELDS RD

40517

3625 GRACE DR

400 REDDING RD UNIT 25 $998,000

3625 GRACE DR $395,000

406 WHISPERING HILLS DR $339,000

408 WHISPERING HILLS DR $339,000

250 TANGLEY WAY .................................................. $282,500

764 JAEDUKE DR ................................................... $280,000

2713 STETSON LN .................................................. $265,000

260 KENLOCK DR $265,000

1324 CANONERO DR $255,000

1137 GAINESWAY DR $242,000

441 PLAINVIEW RD $238,000

3441 LAREDO DR UNIT 60 $232,915

3922 LAUREN WAY $200,700

3495 SUTHERLAND DR ......................................... $199,000

356 E TIVERTON WAY ............................................. $190,000

3556 OLYMPIA RD $181,000

3600 RIVER PARK DR $140,000

3437 LAREDO DR $135,000

3396 GATEWOOD CT $120,000

421 REDDING RD UNIT 80 $72,000

AND THE AWARDS WENT TO

Bluegrass Realtors ® presented its highest awards for 2023 at the recent Installation Luncheon and Member Recognition Meeting. Rusty Underwood, CEO/owner of Christie’s International Real Estate Bluegrass, was named the 2023 Realtor ® of the Year, the highest recognition the Association can bestow on a Realtor ® member based on their association activity, community activity, and business activity. The Good Neighbor Award was presented to John Groft , an agent with RE/MAX Creative Realty. The President’s Award, an honor bestowed by the Association’s president, was given to Paula Elder (The Brokerage) and Shelly Saffran (Coldwell Banker McMahan) for their dedicated service over the past year.

Melia Hord recently received NAWBO’s Women Business Owner of the Year award.

Property sales info source: Fayette County Property Valuation office (www.fayettepva.com)