Ace Magazine - Lexington, KY | July 2023

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Happy Fiscal New Year!

The UK Board of Trustees recently approved a $6.8 billion fiscal year 2023-24 budget for the institution that represents record-setting investments in students, health care, research and service. The budget — the largest in the institution’s history — is evidence that “UK is delivering on its promise to advance Kentucky,” according to UK President Eli Capilouto. Lexington’s Urban County Council unanimously approved a $507 million budget for Fiscal Year 2024 on June 15, 2023, along with an expansion to Lexington’s Urban Services Boundary. The new Fiscal Year begins on July 1, 2023.

Two years after the LFUCG approved a $39 million industrial revenue bond for the private project in the summer of 2021, The Manchester Hotel has opened in the Distillery District.

Ellie Mental Health celebrated their ribbon cutting in late June.

BUSINESS CALENDAR

JUL 27-JUL 28

The 21st Annual Lexington Bluegrass Area Minority Business Expo is July 27- 28, 2023 at the Central Bank Center in downtown Lexington, KY.

FRI AUG 18

Commerce Lexington’s Salute to Small Business Awards Luncheon is scheduled for Friday Aug 18 at noon at the Campbell House.

Leadership Visit to Grand Rapids

In early June, several Councilmembers and other Lexington public and private leaders participated in a three-day Leadership Visit to Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Past Leadership visits have inspired popular Lexington mainstays like Thursday Night Live and the annual EMERGE conference.

Grand Rapids, in addition to being the childhood hometown of former president Gerald Ford, is known as a hub for medical research and innovation along with a nationallyranked arts, entertainment, and food scene.

LexTran is requesting submissions for a mural to celebrate their 50th Anniversary this December. The submitted drawings will be combined to create a mural that represents the history of Lextran.

Michael J. Halligan, Chief Executive Officer of God’s Pantry Food Bank has been selected as Communicator of the Year by the local Thoroughbred Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

July 15, 2023 on the grounds of historic Keeneland Race Course

July 15, 2023 on the grounds of historic Keeneland Race Course

Proceeds from all events benefit UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital

Proceeds from all events benefit UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital

For information or tickets, visit www.KeenelandConcours.com or call (859) 806-3245

July 15, 2023 on the grounds of historic Keeneland Race Course

Proceeds from all events benefit UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital

For information or tickets, visit www.KeenelandConcours.com or call (859) 806-3245

For information or tickets, visit www.KeenelandConcours.com or call (859) 806-3245

American Style

Isaac Murphy Art Garden features new work from LaVon Williams

STORY & PHOTOS BY KEVIN NANCE

It’s been 21 years since Lexington Artist LaVon Van Williams Jr. first carved a series of wooden relief sculptures depicting the life of Isaac Murphy, the great black jockey from Lexington who won the Kentucky Derby three times in 1884, 1890 and 1891. Five years ago, as Williams was inducted into UK’s Hall of Fame in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Herald-Leader said of the artist, “the most interesting ex-UK basketball player is not in the NBA.”

Now that the work — three majestic double-sided panels with Williams’s signature sophisticated folk art designs cast in metal — was finally installed last month at the Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden at Third and Midland in Lexington’s East End, you’d hope that its creator would finally be able to take satisfaction in his long-delayed achievement.

But for Williams, at 65 one of the city’s most well-known artists, the moment is bittersweet.

“I’m not displeased with it, but I’m not happy with it,” he says, staring at one of the panels on a recent morning at the Art Garden. “It should look better than this.”

On the positive side, the artwork, as should be plain to almost anyone, is magnificent. “Isaac and Lucy,” which shows the jubilant jockey and his wife celebrating with kisses after one of his Derby wins, their lips and noses pressed together as if any ray of daylight between them is too much, is a freezeframe of love and triumph. “Race Man,” which collapses time and space by featuring Murphy racing three different Derby horses all at once, is a monument to African-American achievement at one of its earliest peaks.

“My father used to say that Isaac Murphy was probably the best athlete we ever had in Kentucky,” Williams, a former UK basketball forward and two-year starter for Coach Joe B. Hall, says with admiration. “Isaac Murphy is the GOAT [greatest of all time], not Muhammad Ali.”

Best of all is the panel called “American Style,” which fractures and recombines the images of Murphy and his races in a complex form of Afrocubism. On one side of the panel, the thoroughbred is suggested by little more than a haunch and an eye. On the other side, a disembodied equine face is stylized in a way

that recalls the screeching animal in Guernica, Picasso’s great war painting from 1937 — Williams’s nod, perhaps, both to Cubism and to the violence and spectacle of horse racing. Roses float in the air. At the bottom of the panel under Murphy’s feet, water — a river? an ocean? — washes back and forth. “It represents the people going from Africa to America, from the south to the north in the Great Migration,” Williams says. In one corner, small and fluttering, there’s a butterfly, “which represents rebirth, a renewal of the people.”

When he was a child, Williams says, he’d never heard of Afrocubism, but he noticed the complexity of his grandmother’s quilts. “Her quilts were broken up like cubist art, and that’s what this art here is: a big wooden quilt — a big metal quilt — with the images broken up into different parts.”

It’s that metal part that’s the primary source of Williams’s dissatisfaction. LexArts, which secured a $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to complete the project’s roughly $100,000 funding package last year and shepherded it to completion last month, chose

UK professor and sculptor Garry R. Bibbs to do the casting of the metal piece for the Art Garden. Bibbs and Nathan Zammaron, LexArts’ vice president of Community Arts, decided that the work should be cast in iron, the material most in use for public sculpture in Murphy’s own time.

That means that the panels, exposed to the elements, have already begun to show signs of rust, which infuriates Williams. “It’s already turning orange,” he says with anger. “It shouldn’t be rusting. It should have been painted.”

Historian Yvonne Giles, who has been involved with the Art Garden through most of its history, agrees. “I’ve always been impressed with LaVon’s work, so I was glad to see that his designs came to fruition,” she says. “But the reproduction of his original work has problems, no doubt about it. I had anticipated that the panels would carry his signature paint. Everyone knows that LaVon’s work is always painted very vibrantly. But that didn’t happen here.”

In an interview, Zammaron says it would be “LaVon’s prerogative” to add paint to the panels in the future, but that would require “additional dollars to finance.” In the meantime, he says,

“I’ve had multiple sculptors say how much they love the piece. Yes, it will continue to evolve with the elements. But LaVon is a treasure of our city, and for him to have a piece like this, in a material that won’t degrade, is a great thing for us and for him. I think what’s happening is that seeing your work in a new medium — it takes some getting used to.”

Bibbs, who created the 2009 sculpture ‘Lyrical Movement’ for the nearby EastEnd smART art stop bus shelter, agrees. “He’s stuck on the rust thing,” he says of Williams. “Some people can’t wrap their minds around the aesthetic quality of rust, but the piece is absolutely gorgeous, and it’s going to stay that way. People are going to come and take pictures with it for generations to come. It’s going to be historic.”

Williams concedes that part of his issues with the work have to do with the nature of collaboration, which he isn’t keen on.

“Most artists are perfectionists, and when you put out a piece of work, it’s your work — it’s perfect, it’s how you wanted it to look,” he says. “But when somebody else has a hand in your work, it becomes not yours. You’re no longer in control of it. I don’t like bosses, I don’t like coaches — including basketball coaches — because they want to control you. And I like being in control.”

LexArts secured a $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to complete the project’s roughly $100,000 funding package last year and shepherded it to completion in June.

AUG 12 Mary Chapin Carpenter

AUG 12 Midsummer Night’s Run

AUG 19 Woodland Art Fair

AUG 27 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

FEST Red White and Blues (music, food, and fun), 5:30, Moondance Amphitheater

CONCERT The Doobie Brothers, 8 pm, Louisville Palace

KIDS Seussical Lexington

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MOVIES Summer Classics, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), 1:30 pm and 7:15 pm, Kentucky Theatre

TNL Lauren Mink Band, Pavilion

STAGE Appalachian Shakespeare Center presents Julius Caesar, 7:30 pm Woodland Park

SOUTHLAND

JAMBOREE Gibson

Davis & Copper Valley, Moondance

SHOP Pivot Night Market, 5:30 pm, Pivot Brewing

SUMMER NIGHTS The Minks, 7 pm, Moondance

ART Berea Craft Festival

Children’s Theatre Preview, 11 am, Joseph-Beth

SHOP Peach Party & Vendor Fair, 10 am, Eckert’s Orchard

BALL Bluegrass Barons

host Hall of Fame 1869

Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1 pm, Waveland

COMEDY Christopher

Titus, 7 pm, Comedy Off Broadway

HORSE Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show, Rolex Stadium

GOLF Revive Pro-Am Tournament, Champion Trace Golf Club

READ Kim Wickens signs Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse 7 pm Joseph Beth

BIG BAND JAZZ

DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra, 7 pm Ecton Park

MOVIES

Summer Classics, Jaws, 1:30 pm and 7:15 pm, Kentucky Theatre

FEST Kentucky Riverfest, Proud Mary BBQ

FILM Harry Dean Stanton Fest wraps up today.

BIG BAND JAZZ Walnut Street Ramblers, 7 pm Ecton Park

CONCERT Melissa Etheridge, 8 pm, Lexington Opera House

MUSIC Logan Leet, 2 pm, Equus Run Vineyards

MOVIES

Heathers returns to theaters for its 30th anniversary, Movie Tavern (Brannon)

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TNL The BANDj

Experience, Pavilion

GALA Keeneland’s Concours D’Elegance celebrates their Emerald Anniversary, 6:30 pm, The Club at Spindletop Hall (proceeds benefit UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital

KIDS Family Friendly Train Show 10 am Oleika Shriners

STAGE The Sound of Music, performed by Lexington Theatre Company, Opera House , 9 am

Osland Little Big Band with Vince DiMartino, 7 pm Ecton Park

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MUSIC Mat Kearney: The Acoustic Trio Tour, 8 pm, Lexington Opera House

MOVIES Summer Classics,The Maltese Falcon (1941), 1:30 pm and 7:15 pm, Kentucky Theatre

EAT Lexington Restaurant Week kicks off today and continues through July 30

TNL Kimberly Carter & Carryin’ On, Pavilion

SOUTHLAND JAMBOREE

Dove Creek, Moondance

SUMMER NIGHTS

Born CrossEyed, 7 pm, Moondance

MOVIES Friday Cult Series, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 10 pm, Kentucky Theatre

COMEDY Tony Baker, Comedy Off Broadway

COMEDY Trae Crowder, 8 pm, Lexington Opera House FEST Chevy Chase Street Fair, 4 pm

CONCERT 38 Special, Belterra Casino

WEEK (JULY

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MOVIES

Pinocchio and 7:15 pm, Kentucky Theatre

PETS Yappy Hour 6 pm Masterson Station

Nightflyer (Eagles Tribute), Pavilion

SOUTHLAND JAMBOREE

Kentucky JustUs, Moondance

CONCERT Bret Michaels, 7:30, Corbin Arena

NORTHSIDE

1Sound Band, 7 pm, Castlewood Park

The Doctors are in Taking Rehabilitative Care to the Next Level

UK HealthCare Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) physicians specialize in helping patients suffering from a wide range of medical issues. They are also known as Physiatrists (pronounced fih-zee-AT-

rists). Our Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation musculoskeletal physicians, pictured here, specialize in the treatment of cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral spinal conditions; sports-related injuries; joint pain or injuries;

peripheral nerve entrapment; repetitive use or overuse disorders; sprains, strains, tendonitis and other soft-tissue injuries.

Our musculoskeletal specialists work closely with you and your family to provide a full array of holistic care to help you manage injuries or conditions related to bone, joint and muscle pain that do not require surgery.

We can help at the onset of an injury or condition by facilitating initial workup and overseeing and managing appropriate treatment. This treatment may include non-opioid medication management and referral to physical and occupational therapists specially trained to understand your musculoskeletal needs.

If surgery is required, either now or in the future, we work closely with orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons and interventional pain colleagues to ensure high-quality, cohesive care.

Pictured left to right; Michael Parrott, DO, Celysse van Zy., DO, Dwan Perry, DO, Nathaniel Thomas, DO, Robert Nickerson, MD, Derek Dixon, DO, Samuel Byron, DO. Not pictured: Cecil Hollen, DO.

Common conditions treated:

• ACL injury and rehabilitation

• Adhesive capsulitis

• Ankle sprain

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Cervical radiculopathy

• Cervical stenosis

• Cervical whiplash

• Core strengthening

• de Quervain Tenosynovitis

• Downed runner

• Elbow pain in Little League pitchers

• Epicondylosis with and without nerve entrapment

• Iliotibial band syndrome

• Impingement syndromes of the shoulder

• Inflammatory arthritides

• Knee osteoarthritis

• Lumbar disk disorders

• Lumbar radiculopathy

• Lumbar spondylolisthesis

• Lumbar stenosis

• Medial and lateral collateral ligament injuries

• Osteoporosis in rehabilitation

• Patellofemoral syndrome

• Plantar fasciitis

• Pregnant athlete

• Proximal and mid-hamstring strain/tendon tear

• Pulmonary issues in the athlete/exercise-induced

asthma

• Shoulder tendon and muscle injuries

• Sports concussion

• Tendinopathy

• Vertebral compression fractures

Available assessments and procedures:

• Diagnostic ultrasound

• Electrodiagnostic studies

• Osteopathic manipulation of extremities and spine using direct and indirect techniques

• Peripheral nerve blocks and hydrodissection (using a directed jet of water to surgically separate tissues, which generally causes less trauma than dissection using a cutting instrument)

• Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation

• Regenerative medicine (PRP)

• Rehabilitation therapies

• Ultrasound-guided peripheral joint injections, soft tissue injections (ligaments, tendons, muscle, fascia, bursa)

Our clinic is conveniently located in the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital which allows us to provide care and oversight of rehabilitation both for inpatients and outpatients. There is also a brand-new UK HealthCare state-of-the-art Physical therapy clinic at Cardinal Hill Hospital, making it convenient for patients to come to clinic appointments and therapy in the same location.

Location:

UK HealthCare Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital 2050 Versailles Rd Entrance D Lexington KY 40504

To make an appointment, please call: 859-257-3573

ACE EATS OUT

July brings with it corn daze (“knee high by the fourth of July”), tomato sandwiches, pie contests, ice cream eating competitions, and the perfect time to celebrate independent restaurants.

BIRTHS

Arkansas-based Slim Chickens opened in June on Waller in the St. Joe’s corridor. A second Lexington location will open on Richmond Road. Taco John’s has opened in Brannon, slowing traffic to a halt for entire swaths of Jessamine County. Additional Lexington locations are expected soon.

Visit Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate

Ashland was Henry Clay’s cherished home for nearly half a century. His historic estate has been preserved for your discovery today. Learn more and schedule tours at HenryClay.org.

Ramsey’s closed its Tates Creek location on June 23rd.

The line for the new Taco John’s in Brannon Crossing on opening day was nacho average wait.

120 Sycamore Road Lexington HenryClay.org

Ginkgo Tree Café by Selma’s Now Open

OBITS

Ramsey’s on Tates Creek has closed. Staff are being re-allocated to other Ramsey’s locations. An additional Ramsey’s is coming to Masterson Station.

TRANSITIONS

ArchaNine is not moving — just adding a second location, in the South Elkhorn center. The Todds Road location remains open.

The Breeze Wine Bar in Greyline is under new ownership and has been renamed, Darling Wine Bar.

Merrick Inn is now serving brunch on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Old North Bar’s kitchen is now open. Another eatery has exited Julietta Market. The Salad Bar closed their Greyline Station location in June, and are relocating to Idle Hour shopping center, citing the improved visibility and accessibility of the new location as reasons that factored into the move.

Sahara is closed June 16 through September 1, 2023 for summer vacation.

Tacos El Potro has opened a second location on New Circle.

COMING SOON

Beau’s Cafe is coming to Beaumont for breakfast, lunch, and brunch service.

ACE EATS OUT CALENDAR

THU JUL 6

Holly Hill Cooking Studio will host a ribbon cutting in downtown Versailles on July 6.

THU JUL 13

West Sixth Beer Garden Pop Up, 4 pm, Woodland Park.

SAT JUL 15

Liquor Barn will host a Craft Beer and Beer Cheese Festival at 3pm. Stop by for unique beers from some of Kentucky’s finest brewers, great food from local food trucks, and some of the best beer cheese in KY. Craft brews…in the heart of Beaumont Center.

WED JUL 19

Keeneland hosts The Exhibit Dinner: A Keeneland Crafted Event — enjoy a six-course tasting menu experience inspired by historic race track menus from the Library archives while browsing the Heart of the Turf exhibit. Cocktails begin at 6:30pm.

JUL 20

Lexington Restaurant Week kicks off July 20, 2023, celebrating Lexington’s local restaurant scene, with prix fixe menus created especially for the occasion.

THU JUL 20

Join the Marriott at Griffin Gate for Sippin’ With Griffin featuring Bluegrass Distillers on Thursday, July 20th from 6-8PM in the Tasting Loft. Tickets are available for purchase online.

ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Visionary author Peter McWilliams wrote, “One of the most enjoyable aspects of solitude is doing what you want when you want to do it, with the absolute freedom to change what you’re doing at will. Solitude removes all the ‘negotiating’ we need to do when we’re with others.” I’ll add a caveat: Some of us have more to learn about enjoying solitude. We may experience it as a loss or deprivation. But here’s the good news, Aries: In the coming weeks, you will be extra inspired to cultivate the benefits that come from being alone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The 18th-century French engineer Étienne Bottineau invented nauscopy, the art of detecting sailing ships at a great distance, well beyond the horizon. This was before the invention of radar. Bottineau said his skill was not rooted in sorcery or luck, but from his careful study of changes in the atmosphere, wind, and sea. Did you guess that Bottineau was a Taurus? Your tribe has a special capacity for arriving at seemingly magical understandings by harnessing your sensitivity to natural signals. Your intuition thrives as you closely observe the practical details of how the world works. This superpower will be at a peak in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

According to a Welsh proverb, “Three fears weaken the heart: fear of the truth; fear of the devil; fear of poverty.” I suspect the first of those three is most likely to worm its way into your awareness during the coming weeks. So let’s see what we can do to diminish its power over you. Here’s one possibility: Believe me when I tell you that even if the truth’s arrival is initially disturbing or disruptive, it will ultimately be healing and liberating. It should be welcomed, not feared.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hexes nullified! Jinxes abolished! Demons banished! Adversaries outwitted! Liabilities diminished! Bad habits replaced with good habits! These are some of the glorious developments possible for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little. But if so, not much. In my vision of your future, you will be the embodiment of a lucky charm and a repository of blessed mojo. You are embarking on a phase when it will make logical sense to be an optimist. Can you sweep all the dross and mess out of your sphere? No, but I bet you can do at least 80 percent.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the book Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Frank Cowan tells a perhaps legendary story about how mayors were selected in the medieval Swedish town of Hurdenburg. The candidates would set their chins on

a table with their long beards spread out in front of them. A louse, a tiny parasitic insect, would be put in the middle of the table. Whichever beard the creature crawled to and chose as its new landing spot would reveal the man who would become the town’s new leader. I beg you not to do anything like this, Leo. The decisions you and your allies make should be grounded in good evidence and sound reason, not blind chance. And please avoid parasitical influences completely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I rebel against the gurus and teachers who tell us our stories are delusional indulgences that interfere with our enlightenment. I reject their insistence that our personal tales are distractions from our spiritual work. Virgo author A. S. Byatt speaks for me: “Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.” I love and honor the stories of my own destiny, and I encourage you to love and honor yours. Having said that, I will let you know that now is an excellent time to jettison the stories that feel demoralizing and draining—even as you celebrate the stories that embody your genuine beauty. For extra credit: Tell the soulful stories of your life to anyone who is receptive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the Mayan calendar, each of the 20 day names is associated with a natural phenomenon. The day called Kawak is paired with rainstorms. “Ik” is connected with wind and breath. Kab’an is earth, Manik is deer, and Chikchan is the snake. Now would be a great time for you to engage in an imaginative exercise inspired by the Mayans. Why? Because this is an ideal phase of your cycle to break up your routine, to reinvent the regular rhythm, to introduce innovations in how you experience the flow of the time. Just for fun, why not give each of the next 14 days a playful nickname or descriptor? This Friday could be Crescent Moon, for example. Saturday might be Wonderment, Sunday can be Dazzle Sweet, and Monday Good Darkness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From 998 till 1030, Scorpio-born leader Mahmud Ghaznavi ruled the vast Ghaznavid empire, which stretched from current-day Iran to central Asia and northwestern India. Like so many of history’s strong men, he was obsessed with military conquest. Unlike many others, though, he treasured culture and learning. You’ve heard of poet laureates? He had 400 of them. According to some tales, he rewarded one wordsmith with a mouthful of pearls. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be more like the Mahmud who loved beauty and art and less like the Mahmud who enjoyed fighting. The coming weeks

will be a favorable time to fill your world with grace and elegance and magnificence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): About 1,740 years ago, before she became a Catholic saint, Margaret of Antioch got swallowed whole by Satan, who was disguised as a dragon. Or so the old story goes. But Margaret was undaunted. There in the beast’s innards, Margaret calmly made the sign of the cross over and over with her right hand. Meanwhile, the wooden cross in her left hand magically swelled to an enormous size that ruptured the beast, enabling her to escape. After that, because of her triumph, expectant mothers and women in labor regarded Margaret as their patron saint. Your upcoming test won’t be anywhere near as demanding as hers, Sagittarius, but I bet you will ace it—and ultimately garner sweet rewards.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn-born Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was an astronomer and mathematician who was an instrumental innovator in the Scientific Revolution. Among his many breakthrough accomplishments were his insights about the laws of planetary motion. Books he wrote were crucial forerunners of Isaac Newton’s theories about gravitation. But here’s an unexpected twist: Kepler was also a practicing astrologer who interpreted the charts of many people, including three emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. In the spirit of Kepler’s ability to bridge seemingly opposing perspectives, Capricorn, I invite you to be a paragon of mediation and conciliation in the coming weeks. Always be looking for ways to heal splits and forge connections. Assume you have an extraordinary power to blend elements that no one can else can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Dear Restless Runaway: During the next 10 months, life will offer you these invitations: 1. Identify the land that excites you and stabilizes you. 2. Spend lots of relaxing time on that land. 3. Define the exact nature of the niche or situation where your talents and desires will be most gracefully expressed. 4. Take steps to create or gather the family you want. 5. Take steps to create or gather the community you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’d love you to be a deep-feeling, free-thinker in the coming weeks. I will cheer you on if you nurture your emotional intelligence as you liberate yourself from outmoded beliefs and opinions. Celebrate your precious sensitivity, dear Pisces, even as you use your fine mind to reevaluate your vision of what the future holds. It’s a perfect time to glory in rich sentiments and exult in creative ideas.

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HOME AND GARDEN

This year a total of more than six tons (12,338 lbs.) was collected. Of that total 1,750 was non-perishable food.

“One of the guiding principles of our sustainability efforts is to become a zero waste campus and this initiative is a great example of engaging our students in that work,” said Shane Tedder, UK’s sustainability officer.

HG CALENDAR

SAT JUL 1

The Bluegrass Hemerocallis Society presents their lovely flowers judged and staged in all of their beauty, 1 pm, Twin Pines Christian Church.

Give and Go

They gave and they went. This past May, during Spring Move-Out, UK’s Recycling Program offered a Give and Go Donation Station Program to all resident students on campus. Students were encouraged to donate usable items, such as clothes, shoes, bedding, unused toiletries, school supplies, decor and nonperishable food.

THU JUL 6

Join Forage inside Greyline Station for a Plant 101 Class — an interactive introduction into houseplant basics. This course covers everything you need to know about picking the best plant for your space, basic plant needs, repotting, and solving common plant issues. Plan to roll up your sleeves and get dirty in a hands-on session.

SAT JUL 15

The City of Lexington offers Fayette County residents a free trash disposal day for non-hazardous household waste. The event will be held from 6 a. m. to 1 p.m. at the Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station, 1505 Old Frankfort Pike.

Fayette County residents may dispose of up to one pickup truck load of household waste. Bulky items, such as mattresses, furniture, and up to four tires off the rim, will be accepted at this event.

The guidelines for the free disposal day are:

• Participants must present a valid Fayette County drivers’ license

• All loads must be fit in a standard truck bed

• All loads must be covered by a tarp

• Only household waste will be accepted

• No more than four tires will be accepted, and tires must be off the rim

• No tire rims will be accepted

• No commercial vehicles allowed

• No hazardous materials, free-flowing liquids or yard waste material will be accepted

SAT JUL 29

The Bluegrass Iris Society follows up their Spring Show with an Annual Sale highlighting the best of this year’s offerings. A must-see for any gardener. Lexington Green.

(Pro Tip: they sell out early.)

JUL 22 & JUL 23; JUL 29 & JUL 30

The Grand Tour of Homes extends across the last two weekends in July, and is an annual scattered site showcase of new homes. This event provides an opportunity for home lovers to view the latest trends in new home construction and to speak directly with builders, designers, and professionals about their dream homes.

Tour Dates and times are:

Saturday, July 22: noon- 5pm

Sunday, July 23: noon - 5pm

Saturday, July 29: noon - 5pm

Sunday, July 30: noon - 5pm

Sold In Lexington

Property sales info source: Fayette County Property

Property sales info source: Fayette County Property