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New CoRE Research Facility Opens

The University of Kentucky held a ribboncutting to commemorate the opening of The CoRE — a new research building and laboratory on the Coldstream Research Campus.The CoRE (Collaboration, Research and Entrepreneurship) is designed to provide Lexington a place where early-stage, high-tech companies can achieve their next growth phase, creating jobs and opportunities for businesses to establish themselves in the Commonwealth. The space offers laboratories, flex space, and office options.

The facility was developed with the Woodbury Corporation in a public-private partnership and was supported and expedited through partnerships with state, city and local officials. A product development initiative (PDI) grant created by the state and the Kentucky Association for Economic Development and supported by Commerce Lexington enabled the Coldstream Research Campus to receive a $500,000 matching grant to develop wet lab space in the new building.

Town Branch Commons Trail Opens

The Town Branch Commons Trail officially opened with a ribbon cutting at the MET (Midland at East Third) in October. Mayor Linda Gorton was joined by Governor Andy Beshear, Congressman Andy Barr, former Lexington Mayor and current Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray, and SCAPE landscape architect Kate Orff in celebrating the 10 years of work that has gone into the Town Branch Commons Trail process

Mayor Gorton described the 2.2 mile trail “as a path to economic vitality, healthy living, and to our beautiful Bluegrass countryside. It

features lush stormwater landscaping using native grasses, flowers and trees, with a modern interpretation of Lexington’s dry-stacked limestone fences.”

Town Branch Commons Project Manager Mike Sewell and the Gresham Smith Kentucky design team attended the ceremony. Sewell said, “It is an incredible feeling to see this project come to fruition.”

Sewell told Ace in the 2020 New Year’s issue, “Construction will kick-off for

UK President Eli Capilouto; Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton; Woodbury Corporation’s SVP Jeff Woodbury; Commerce Lexington’s Bob Quick; and Coldstream Executive Director George Ward

the Town Branch Commons project in January 2020.” He said at the time, “Our design team has tried to be as thoughtful as possible about how the construction project will roll-out to minimize negative impacts to daily commuters and businesses, but as with any project inside

the right-of-way, there will still be phases of construction that will no doubt be frustrating. These temporary frustrations during construction though will yield an amazing project that will help to transform Lexington.”

Remembering “Randall’s Rallies”

Walt Barbour, 73, died in October after battling cancer. He left a memorable legacy in Lexington’s grocery landscape. He was affectionately known in Chevy Chase as the Mayor of Romany, after running Randall’s on Romany for many years. When the store was purchased, his fans held Randall’s Rallies, and carried “Save Walt” signs outside the store. He went on to run a popular pantry market and deli on Liberty, known for its famous fried chicken, which reportedly lives on across town.

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21 Years Ago in Ace

As Keeneland winds down, and the Breeders Cup comes to town, Lexington is all about the horse. And no Fall Season would be complete in the bluegrass without the annual Blessing of the Hounds at a Hunt.

In Fall of 2001, The Office was premiering in Britain; 24 premiered on Fox in the U.S; Harry Potter hit the big screen for the first time; The Sopranos swept the Emmys; and Tiger Woods was the Athlete of the Year. Ed McClanahan had just turned 70. On Nov 10, 2001 Ken Kesey died at the age of 66; George Harrison died a few weeks later at the age of 58. The very first Xbox was released on November 15, and the first iPhone wouldn’t debut for another six years. The nation was still reeling from 9/11. Peace, solace, and tradition were hard to come by.

As we celebrate 33 years of Ace, we take the opportunity to reflect on the decades of memories we’ve gathered here —the photos, the stories, the videos, and the archives.

Twenty one years ago in Ace, in early November, Karen Workman attended the Hunt Breakfast and Blessing of the Hounds at the Iroquois Hunt Club and reported back on the history of the tradition (and a few secret grits recipes).

NOV 8, 2001

ACE ARCHIVE, an excerpt

The Blessing of the Hounds

BY KAREN WORKMAN

Awinding tree-lined country road led to an old Lexington tradition at an historic stone gristmill this past sunny and brisk Saturday morning.

This was The Blessing of the Hounds at the Iroquois Hunt Club on Grimes Mill Road. The scene was complete with men and women in traditional riding outfits, with classical music (heavy on the brass) lingering over the bottomlands, played from a stone terrace.

Enthralling as the setting is, it’s a site unfamiliar to many Lexingtonians.

It was originally built in 1807, and was bought by the Hunt Club in 1928.

One of the club’s founding members was on hand for this past weekend’s first Hunt of the season. Although she did not participate, she did briefly mount a guest’s horse — via a dining room chair — and then gamely toured the premises in a quick ceremonial trot.

Walking past tweed jackets and crowds of smiling faces (because it is the first day of the hunt season), the dining room is a much lighter room filled with round, white clothed tables and riders everywhere. They were eating in the first seating so that they could change into their proper hunt apparel and hike out to their horses.

This was the Hunt Breakfast (catered by Jerry Hester of Something Special Catering and Flowers) – a lovely traditional buffet serving Eggs Internationale (which he describes as a

Julia Child recipe with eggs, mushrooms, and a cream sauce) – augmented by three-cheese grits with red bell pepper, sausage, stewed apples and cranberries in a brown sugar bourbon sauce, buttermilk biscuits, and assorted fall breads (such as pumpkin) and various pastries.

(Later Saturday evening was the Hunt Ball, for which, the entire room is lit by candlelight. Traditionally, the women wear either white or black, and the men wear tuxes or their earned riding colors.)

Late fall to spring are the hunting months, between field plantings. The hunt season began this year with The Blessing of the Hounds by The Right Reverend Robert Estill, Retired Bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky and the presentation of St. Hubert medals to each of the riders. The invocation of the blessing by the Bishop is not only for the hounds but the riders, horses, fox and coyote, as well.

St. Hubert is the patron saint of hunting. Legend has it, he was out hunting on Good Friday (a no-no) when he saw a stag with a crucifix hovering between the animal’s horns. God spoke to him and told him to devote himself to His work. Hubert obeyed and committed his life to God, becoming known as the apostle of Ardenne, and the one who raised the village of Liege to become a great town. He died in 727 and in 743 his remains were taken up, which led to his feast day, November 3.

The controversy of “to hunt or not to hunt” will never be settled; there will always be two sides to this coin. As Oscar Wilde called foxhunting, “…the indescribable in pursuit of the inedible,” so does St. Francis de Sales say, “The chase makes

men strong in resisting vices produced by idleness, and the hunters are agreeable to God.”

“The chase makes men strong in resisting vices produced by idleness, and the hunters are agreeable to God.”

—Saint Francis DeSales

Horse and Hound

Welcome to the (Iroquois Hunt) Club

BY KEVIN NANCE

Even if you’ve never been fox hunting, you probably have an idea — from artists’ depictions of the ancient sport, or from that time that Lady Mary and Lord Grantham joined a hunt on Downton Abbey — of what it looks like. After being served a cup of hot cider or port from a silver tray at stirrup level in the early morning, a group of aristocrats in beautifully tailored red overcoats sets off on horseback, following a pack of trained foxhounds catching a scent and chasing a fox through a series of stunning vistas in the English countryside.

Photo credit Kevin Nance

Dr. Jack van Nagell, one of the club’s Masters of the Hunt, joined by Lilla S. Mason and Aliina Keers

Photo credit Dave Traxler

Fox hunting is now banned in most of Great Britain, but it’s alive and well in much of the world, including Central Kentucky, where it’s practiced in much the same way as it has been for centuries, with elegantly clad riders following hounds hot on the trails of coyotes rather than foxes.

The Iroquois Hunt Club has been hunting on 50 square miles in rural Fayette and Clark counties since 1880. Except for a period from 1914 to the mid-1920s when the hunt was interrupted by World War I and its aftermath, the Iroquois club has been continuously hunting in the fall and winter months. Since 1928, the club has been based in rural southeastern Fayette County at the former Grimes Mill, which was built in 1803 and now serves the 140 members (mostly area landowners and riding enthusiasts) with tavern-like meeting rooms stuffed with fox-hunting art and memorabilia.

“It’s a fundamental equine sport in this country,” says Dr. Jack van Nagell, one of the club’s Masters of the Hunt, joined by Lilla S.Mason and Martha Venable Johnson, for an interview in the clubhouse’s handsomely decorated dining room. “It’s an amazing experience, fox hunting — or in this instance, coyote hunting. We talk about the Golden Thread, which is the magnificent relationship between a huntsman and his or her horse and hounds. It’s about observing the hunt out there in beautiful hunt country, riding on your favorite horse. It takes a lot of skill, and when it’s really well done, there’s nothing like it.”

Iroquois’s hunting season, technically under way since last month, has its ceremonial opening on November 5, with the annual Blessing of the Hounds, to be presided over by Mark Van Koevering, the Episcopal Bishop of Lexington. (The Episcopal connection to

fox hunting seems to have its roots in the era of King Henry VIII, an avid huntsman who founded the Church of England.) Weather permitting, the club hunts on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, with an average of about 30 riders joining the club’s 43 active foxhounds. (There are about 40 more hounds, either retired or puppies, back in the kennel.)

more common in recent years.) Calm and commanding in the saddle on her white gelding named Finish, Keers keeps close watch over the hounds as they sniff out their prey, using a series of verbal commands to maintain an almost military discipline: Hold hard!, meaning stop; Get behind!, meaning don’t walk in front of her; Kennel up!, meaning it’s time to go home.

“The horses also have to be very confident and used to the hounds being very close to them or under their feet,” Keers says. “They have to be brave jumpers, with the confidence and steadiness to tackle whatever’s in front of them” — which might include stone walls, streams or small triangular wooden structures called coops — “to be able to get to where the hounds are.”

Some of the hunts find participants in what’s known as the informal “ratcatcher” attire, consisting of tweed jackets, vests and tan pants. On more formal hunts, riders wear the traditional red or black jackets (with the Iroquois club’s robin’s-egg blue piping along the lapels), hard black hunt caps (which also serve as helmets), white pants and black boots with brown or patent leather knee coverings at the top. Their necklines are covered with white stock ties, actually long skeins of cloth that can double, in case of accidents, as bandages or tourniquets for people, hounds or horses.

Keers carries a hunting horn, used to signal hounds and huntsmen at different stages of a hunt, and a hunt whip, whose handle, made from a deer antler, is mostly used to open and close gates. Denoting her role as a professional huntsman, Keers’s stock tie is pinned vertically rather than horizontally; she also wears five shiny buttons on her jacket, rather than the four worn by others.

“The reason that’s important is that the hunt crosses lots of people’s property, many different farms,” Mason says. “If a farmer had an issue on his land and needed to find a professional from the hunt, he would know by different parts of their dress, including the buttons. He would also know from the blue piping who’s crossing his property.”

Although coyotes are rarely killed on the hunts — it happens in less than 10 percent of the outings, the club says, and sometimes not at all in an entire season — van Nagell says the practice is still an important service to cattle farmers such as himself, largely because it disrupts the tendency of coyotes to form packs that can menace young or sickly calves in winter. “A calf standing outside in 20 degrees in the middle of a blizzard, a pack of coyotes would be very interested in,” he says. “It’s very rare, but it does happen.”

The Iroquois hunts are led by the club’s kennel huntsman, Aliina Keers, a graduate of the Master of Foxhounds Association Professional Development Program now in her sixth season at Iroquois. (Women working as top professional huntsmen were once fairly rare in the sport but have become

Still, he says, “The emphasis is not on killing. It may happen, but it’s more about the chase, observing hounds hunting, trying to stay up with the hunt, and listening to the hounds as they speak to each other. That is what most people enjoy:

the music of the hunt.”

Aliina Keers

Photo credit Kevin Nance

Photo credit Dave Traxler

“We talk about the Golden Thread, which is the magnificent relationship between a huntsman and his or her horse and hounds…It takes a lot of skill, and when it’s really well done, there’s nothing like it.”

—Dr. Jack van Nagell, one of the Club’s Masters of the Hunt

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FEST Day of the Dead Festival, 5 pm, Living Arts & Science Center

EVENT Night of Faith, Hope, and Love featuring Oscar Tshiebwe, 5 pm, Keeneland

MOVIES

HORSE

2 3 4 5

3 Lexington Christmas Parade, Main Street

READ Les Johnson discusses and signs A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars, 7 pm, Joseph-Beth MOVIES Secretariat, The Kentucky Theatre

The Kentucky Theatre, in partnership with the Breeder’s Cup Festival, presents a week of films about horses, horse racing, and the equine industry, shot in and around the bluegrass, Oct 31 thru Nov 4.

MUSIC David Farris, 7 pm, UK Art Museum

ROAST Ernesto Scorsone Roast, 6 pm, Lyric Theatre

BALL UK Basketball vs. Kentucky State, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

EVENT Breeders’ Cup International Block Party, 5 pm, Greyline Station CONCERT Chris Tomlin, 7 pm, Rupp Arena MOVIES Jockey premieres at the Kentucky Theatre

Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Keeneland

READ Carnegie Classics, The Little Prince, 7 pm, Carnegie Center

HORSE Barn Night and Grand Prix at National Horse Show, 5 pm KY Horse Park

RIDE Lex Glow Ride, 6 pm, Shillito Park

HORSE National Horse Show wraps up today at the Kentucky Horse Park.

PETS Marriott is closing their outdoor pool for the season with a Doggie Plunge, benefiting Paws for the Cause, 4:30 pm, Marriott Griffin Gate.

BALL UK Basketball vs. Howard, 6:30, Rupp Arena

ELECTION DAY!

STAGE SCAPA Lexington presents Disney’s The Descendents, 7 pm, Opera House

READ U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon, 5:30, Transylvania University

SHOP Annual Holly Day Market (through Sunday), Central Bank Center

BALL UK Basketball vs. Duquesne, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

EAT Veterans’ Chili Cookoff, Noon, Man O’ War Harley Davidson

BALL UK Football vs Vanderbilt, Kroger Field CONCERT Five Finger Death Punch & Brantley Gilbert, 6:30, Rupp Arena

BIKE Cranksgiving Ride

(a food drive on bikes), Broomwagon, benefiting Greenhouse 17.

JAZZ Boney James, 8 pm, Lexington Opera House

HOLIDAY Luminate

Lexington Holiday Tree

Lighting Festival, 3 pm to 7 pm, Triangle Park

BALL UK Basketball vs. Bellarmine, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

READ Kevin Cook signs House of Champions, 6 pm, Joseph-Beth

READ Josh Wardrip signs Forum, 7 pm, Joseph-Beth

COMEDY Donnie Baker and the Pork Pistols, 7:15, Comedy off Broadway

BALL UK Basketball vs. South Carolina State, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

ART Gallery Hop, 5 pm, participating locations

CONCERT Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Lexington Opera House

BALL UK Football vs. Georgia, Kroger Field

CONCERT The Kid Laroi, 8:30, Rupp Arena

RECYCLE Did you deep fry for the holiday? Drop off oil at annual Gobble Grease Toss, 10 am to 2 pm, Redwood Cooperative School.

COMEDY Lee Cruse, 8 pm, Comedy off Broadway

BALL UK Football vs. Louisville, Kroger Field

Investing in the Outdoors

“This trail is a path to economic vitality, to healthy living, and to our beautiful Bluegrass countryside,” Mayor Linda Gorton said. “It’s the kind of quality of life investment that people in Lexington treasure and visitors travel here to enjoy.” Former Lexington Mayor Jim Gray won a federal TIGER grant in 2016 to provide most of the funding.

Gray, who is now Kentucky Transportation Secretary, said, “It’s a great example of the power of improved transportation to connect communities, boost the quality of life and offer a safe, multi-modal system that meets the needs of all its users.”

Trail construction cost $22 million with additional funding coming from local resources and state or federal grants. Governor Beshear said, “The completion of the Town Branch Commons corridor is a major milestone in the history of Lexington. Built along the path of the city’s foundational waterway, Town Branch Creek, this forward-looking trail succeeds on every level. It is a beautiful and multifunctional parkway, pathway and greenway that is encouraging both healthy activity and economic development all along the route.

“This trail is a path to economic vitality, to healthy living, and to our beautiful Bluegrass countryside,” Mayor Linda Gorton said.

Congratulations to the public servants and generous private donors who have made this ambitious project a reality.”

Congressman Barr said, “The Town Branch Commons project connects our parks, people,

and businesses in downtown Lexington in a way that will boost commerce and recreation. I was honored to support this initiative and deliver a federal grant that helped power its completion. I want to thank all of the local

officials and private citizens who came together to achieve this multi-year project for our community.”

The trail has already received national recognition. It was awarded the 2022 Environmental Excellence Award by the Federal Highway Administration.

The trail roughly follows the path of historic Town Branch, Lexington’s original water source, through downtown. It is 14 feet wide with a multi-use path along Midland Avenue. On Vine Street separate paths are provided for walkers and cyclists. The trail accommodates all users, while still retaining the same number of vehicular lanes on Vine Street and Midland Avenue. A ride or walk along the trail passes by or near Lexington businesses, entertainment venues, restaurants, art, and parks, including Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden, Charles Young Park, Northeastern Park, Thoroughbred Park, Phoenix Park, Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park, Triangle Park, and, coming soon, Town Branch Park. Town Branch Commons links Lexington’s two major trails, Town Branch Trail and the Legacy Trail, producing 22 miles of uninterrupted trail, the hub of a growing, citywide trail system.

Funding partners include the Federal Highway Administration, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the Kentucky Division of Water, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, and the Lexington Area MPO. Contractors and consultants included Pace Contracting, Gresham Smith, SCAPE and AECOM.

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Lifepath Behavioral Health Clinic opened its new Lexington facility on Centre Parkway.

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A Toast to Friendship

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If there’s two things I am not good at, it’s baking... and commitment. (There’s way more than that, I just said IF there were two...) So how on earth did I end up in possession of one of those pesky friendship bread starters? I am just the temporary custodian — or babysitter, actually — as it’s a gift for a family member that was dropped off on my porch last week for my Mom to pick up when she’s in town.

It’s been checked on repeatedly by the Gifter. Had I massaged the starter? Had I fed it?

No. I had not. I had put it out on the back deck when I ran out of fridge real estate.

I was sharply rebuked, because the instructions clearly say: do not refrigerate. (I just had not read them.)

The instructions also say: do not use any metal spoons or bowls; if air gets in the bag, let it out; it is normal for the batter to rise and ferment. And this is followed by a whole list of Day 1 thru Day 10. On Day 6 (which is apparently today): add to the bag 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 cup of cold milk. Then massage the bag. (What it got was flour, sugar, and half and half.)

On Day 10 — when my mother is supposed to pick this up for Christmas, here is the List:

• pour entire contents of bag into NON-metal bowl;

• add 1 and a half cups of flour, 1 and a half cups of sugar; and one and a half cups of

milk. (Alternately, you may add only one cup of each ingredient; and then you will only divide the starter into 3 one-gallon-size Ziploc bags.)

• Write the date on 4 one-gallon size Ziploc bags;

• measure out four separate batters (1 cup each) and put into the four one-gallon size Ziploc bags.

• Write Day One and the current date on each bag.

• Use the batter left in the starter bag to make the bread below (11 ingredients and six steps);

• Keep one of the bags for yourself as a starter, and give the other three bags to friends along with a copy of the recipe.

* Added by me: Enter the Friendship Bread Relocation Program.

• If you don’t pass the starter to your friends on the first day, be sure to tell them which day the bread is on with the reminder that Day 1 is the date written on the bag.

NOTE: if you keep a starter for yourself, you will be baking every 10 days. However, you can freeze a starter. The cycle begins when the starter is thawed.

And my response to all this (none of which I’ve made up) is:

1. are you [expletive deleted] kidding me? and 2. you do know there are bakeries that will do this kind of thing for you? (there are three within walking distance of my house)

Friendship bread?! It should come with its own nanny. It’s worse than a chain letter. This is not a present, so much as it is a pet, and I can bet you money right now, I will somehow manage to accidentally kill it before it gets to the intended recipient.

I will somehow manage to accidentally kill it before it gets to the intended recipient.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how the giver of this particular batch ever came to be in possession of this batter in the first place. She does not cook. She does not bake. Her fridge and oven are mere storage vessels for carry-out.

And I should also point out that when she first dropped off her child (my niece) to my house many years ago for her very first sleepover, that her toddler did not come with a List this long. In fact, I don’t think she came with a single instruction — just a few snacks and maybe the number of her pediatrician or something. All I remember is that I returned her in one piece, and she’s still alive after many years of regular sleepovers.

My point is, I generally managed to keep an entire child-size human being healthy, happy, entertained, and relatively uninjured whenever in my care.

But I guarantee I will kill this bread before it ever makes it to its appointed destination.

November is about so much more than turkey. It’s also about the dressing. Or the stuffing. Depending on where you’re from. And all the sides. Plus, pies. We can never forget pies. You can click on acemagazinelex.com to view a sampling of Lexington offerings.

BIRTHS

Lexington’s Peach Cobbler Factory is scheduled to open in November.

Sumo2 Hibachi and Sushi has opened on Nicholasville Road in the former Sakura 13 location.

If you love Lexington’s Miyako concepts, there’s more good news for Lexington’s Asian Cuisine Scene. Miyako owner Andy Chi has opened a ramen and donburi concept, Zundo Izakaya in the former Outback space on Tiverton, just off Nicholasville Road. (Outback left the space for a new home at Fayette Mall in 2019.)

One superfan reports that Zundo’s “sushi chef was an apprentice chef for two years at a two-star Michelin restaurant in NYC, and that explains so much.”

The menu includes ramen, Japanese BBQ skewers, sushi, and poke bowls.

TRANSITIONS

Gluten Free Miracles bakery announced via video on Instagram that they would be closing at the end of October, but planned to “provide an opportunity to place custom orders” after the October 29 closing. In her video, owner Denise Walsh said “We’re just still in a major crisis. We have an employment crisis…We have an inflation and supply chain crisis… and our rent was jacked up 162 percent.” She thanked customers and patrons and remained optimistic for new beginnings and re-inventions, saying, “Don’t give up on us.”

CALENDAR

NOV 4 Tour The Market Kitchen at Julietta Market and enjoy food, drinks, and prizes 5 pm to 9 pm. The Kitchen is available for use by vendors, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.

NOV 5 Pumpkin Cake Pop & Wine Class, 1:30 pm, Harkness Edwards Vineyards

NOV 12 Veterans’ Chili Cook-off, 12 noon, Man O’ War Harley Davidson

NOV 19 The Midway Museum will host the Midway Charity Chili Cook Off on Nov 19 from 11 am to 1 pm.

Sawyer’s is now open in their new home at City Center on Main Street, just down the street from their former longtime home at Main and Broadway.

OBITS

A For Rent sign now hangs in the former El Taquero location in Meadowthorpe.

NOV 25 Did you deep fry for the holiday? Lexington residents can recycle used cooking oil for free at the annual Gobble Grease Toss, Friday, Nov. 25, 10 am to 2 pm at the Redwood Cooperative School at 166 Crestwood Drive.

Chrisman Mill Winery hosted their final events in October, after sunsetting the business. The owners announced they would be closing after 25 years of winemaking, adding, “We have decided to slow down a bit and move back to Texas, and although we have tried for the past year to find new owners to take our little experiment forward, we just have not been successful at doing so.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I encourage you to work as hard as you have ever worked. Work smart, too. Work with flair and aplomb and relish. You now have a surprisingly fertile opportunity to reinvent how you do your work and how you feel about your work. To take maximum advantage of this potential breakthrough, you should inspire yourself to give more of your heart and soul to your work than you have previously imagined possible. (PS: By “work,” I mean your job and any crucial activity that is both challenging and rewarding.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s my weird suggestion, Taurus. Just for now, only for a week or two, experiment with dreaming about what you want but can’t have. And just for now, only for a week or two, go in pursuit of what you want but can’t have. I predict that these exercises in quixotic futility will generate an unexpected benefit. They will motivate you to dream true and strong and deep about what you do want and can have. They will intensify and focus you to pursue what you do want and can have.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your most successful times in life usually come when all your various selves are involved. During these interludes, none of them is neglected or shunted to the outskirts. In my astrological opinion, you will be wise to ensure this scenario is in full play during the coming weeks. In fact, I recommend you throw a big Unity Party and invite all your various sub-personalities to come as they are. Have outrageous fun acting out the festivities. Set out a placemat and nametag on a table for each participant. Move around from seat to seat and speak from the heart on behalf of each one. Later, discuss a project you could all participate in creating.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A Cancerian reader named Joost Joring explained to me how he cultivates the art of being the best Cancerian he can be. He said, “I shape my psyche into a fortress, and I make people feel privileged when they are allowed inside. If I must sometimes instruct my allies to stay outside for a while, to camp out by the drawbridge as I work out my problems, I make sure they know they can still love me—and that I still love them.” I appreciate Joost’s perspective. As a Cancerian myself, I can attest to its value. But I will also note that in the coming weeks, you will reap some nice benefits from having less of a fortress mentality. In my astrological opinion, it’s PARTY TIME!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Antonio Machado wrote, “I thought my fire was out, and I stirred the

ashes. I burnt my fingers.” I’m telling you this so you won’t make the same mistake, Leo. Your energy may be a bit less radiant and fervent than usual right now, but that’s only because you’re in a recharging phase. Your deep reserves of fertility and power are regenerating. That’s a good thing! Don’t make the error of thinking it’s a sign of reduced vitality. Don’t overreact with a flurry of worry.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Siegfried Sassoon became renowned for the poetry he wrote about being a soldier in World War I. Having witnessed carnage firsthand, he became adept at focusing on what was truly important. “As long as I can go on living a rich inner life,” he wrote, “I have no cause for complaint, and I welcome anything which helps me to simplify my life, which seems to be more and more a process of eliminating inessentials!” I suggest we make Sassoon your inspirational role model for the next three weeks. What inessentials can you eliminate? What could you do to enhance your appreciation for all the everyday miracles that life offers you?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You Libras have a talent that I consider a superpower: You can remove yourself from the heart of the chaos and deliver astute insights about how to tame the chaos. I like that about you. I have personally benefited from it on numerous occasions. But for the next few weeks, I will ask you to try something different. I’ll encourage you to put an emphasis on practical action, however imperfect it might be, more than on in-depth analysis. This moment in the history of your universe requires a commitment to getting things done, even if they’re untidy and incomplete. Here’s your motto: “I improvise compromises in the midst of the interesting mess.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured,” said author Martha Beck. “Without it, we wouldn’t even know what it means to be brave.” I love that quote— and I especially love it as a guiding meditation for you Scorpios right now. We usually think of fear as an unambiguously bad thing, a drain of our precious life force. But I suspect that for you, it will turn out to be useful in the coming days. You’re going to find a way to transmute fear into boldness, bravery, and even badassery.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For decades, the Canadian city of Sudbury hosted a robust mining industry. Deposits of nickel sulphide ore spawned a booming business. But these riches also brought terrible pollution. Sudbury’s native

vegetation was devastated. The land was stained with foul air produced by the smelting process. An effort to re-green the area began in the 1970s. Today, the air is among the cleanest in the province of Ontario. In the spirit of this transformation, I invite you to embark on a personal reclamation project. Now is a favorable time to detoxify and purify any parts of your life that have been spoiled or sullied.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The literal meaning of the ancient Greek word aigílips is “devoid of goats.” It refers to a place on the earth that is so high and steep that not even surefooted goats can climb it. There aren’t many of those places. Similarly, there are very few metaphorical peaks that a determined Capricorn can’t reach. One of your specialties is the power to master seemingly improbable and impassable heights. But here’s an unexpected twist in your destiny: In the coming months, your forte will be a talent for going very far down and in. Your agility at ascending, for a change, will be useful in descending—for exploring the depths. Now is a good time to get started!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Evolved Aquarians are often blessed with unprecedented friendships and free-spirited intimacy and innovative alliances. People who align themselves with you may enjoy experimental collaborations they never imagined before engaging with you. They might be surprised at the creative potentials unleashed in them because of their synergy with you. In the coming weeks and months, you will have even more power than usual to generate such liaisons and connections. You might want to make a copy of this horoscope and use it as your calling card or business card.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I surveyed the history of literature to identify authors I consider highly intuitive. Piscean-born Anais Nin was my top choice. She used language with fluidity and lyricism. She lived a colorful, unpredictable life. No one better deserves the title of Intuition Champion. And yet she also had a discerning view of this faculty. She wrote, “I began to understand that there were times when I must question my intuition and separate it from my anxieties or fears. I must think, observe, question, seek facts and not trust blindly to my intuition.” I admire her caution. And I suspect it was one reason her intuition was so potent. Your assignment, Pisces, is to apply her approach to your relationship with your intuition. The coming months will be a time when you can supercharge this key aspect of your intelligence and make it work for you better than it ever has before.

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Bag It!

Lexington residents with city waste collection can dispose of yard waste using the gray “Lenny” yard waste carts. (Call 311 if you’d like to request one.) The city provides coupons for yard waste bags that can be redeemed at Chevy Chase Hardware, Home Depot, Kroger, Lowe’s, Meijer, and WalMart. Contact 311 for more info.

Leaf Collection 2022

The Urban County Council voted in October to change vacuum leaf disposal and recommend optional services this year because of a shortage of staff and equipment.

“While the vacuum program will be missed by some, other approaches provide more consistent service throughout the entire fall season,” said Rob Allen, Directors of Streets and Roads.

For those who dispose of their leaves in bags or yard carts, residents with city waste service will have weekly pick-up of yard waste on regular service days. Waste Management employees will collect gray yard carts each week, except the week of Thanksgiving. Yard waste bags will be collected each week. Though carts will not be collected Thanksgiving week, yard waste bags will be picked up. All Fayette

County residents and businesses can dispose of unlimited yard waste for no fee at the Haley Pike composting facility during November and

December. The facility is located at 4216 Hedger Lane. Residents can take two pickup loads per month at no charge the rest of the year.

Please, do not dispose of leaves or other yard waste by putting it in the street. It can clog storm drains, leading to flooding issues. It also overwhelms local creeks and causes water quality issues.

Holiday Trash Collections Schedule

‘Tis the Season for all kinds of changes in your waste collection schedule. Residences and businesses with curbside city waste collection will be impacted by all the holidays listed below.

Take your carts to the curb after 4 pm the day before your makeup day.

NOVEMBER HOLIDAYS

Veterans Day means No Service on Fri Nov 11. Your makeup date is Wed Nov 9 2022.

No service on Thanksgiving Day, Thu Nov 24. Your makeup day is the DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING, Wed Nov 23.

No service on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Fri Nov 25. Again, the makeup day is the DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING, Wed Nov 23.

How to Recycle Campaign Signs

For most of this year, Lexington yards have been “blooming” with candidates’ campaign signs. And now it’s time for responsible recycling. Yard signs and stakes are not recyclable. Residents should not put them in blue recycling carts, as they can damage recycling equipment.

Lexington’s Division of Environmental Services is collecting unwanted yard signs and stakes for reuse. Campaign sign collection is scheduled for November 9 thru Nov 20, 2022. Signs are reused for craft projects. Metal stakes that are unable to be used may be recycled as scrap metal.

For participating drop-off locations, visit lexingtonky.gov/LiveGreen.

How to Recycle Holiday Lights

String light/small electronics collection is scheduled for November 23, 2022 through January 15 2023. Residents can drop off string lights, rope lights, and electric candles. You can also drop off extension cords, timers, light sensors, power strips, and other small electronics. Electronics can be taken to the Electronics Recycling Center year-round.

40502

208 CLINTON RD $1,549,000 1233 PROVIDENCE LN $1,055,000 764 GARDEN GROVE WALK $1,000,000 907 EDGEWATER DR $850,000 2177 LAKESIDE DR $672,500 2105 HUNTERS WOOD LN $667,500 3116 OLD CROW CT $500,000 129 CLAY AVE

$490,000 3541 COLTNECK CT

3354 MONTAVESTA RD $250,000 169 ST PHILLIP DR $249,000 500 LAKETOWER DR UNIT 40

$242,000 1167 TURKEY FOOT RD UNIT 24

$205,000 858 MALABU DR UNIT 5000 $147,000

40503

649 SHERIDAN DR $195,000 667 LONGVIEW DR $192,500 2121 NICHOLASVILLE RD UNIT 7 $128,000

40504

$384,000

$473,000 101 S HANOVER AVE UNIT 9B $450,000 370 PRESTON AVE $440,000 356 COCHRAN RD $440,000 1133 CHINOE RD $430,000 148 SHERMAN AVE $416,350 213 ROMANY RD $415,000 825 MELROSE AVE

3545 RABBITS FOOT TRL $795,000 3515 RABBITS FOOT TRL $700,000 217 JESSELIN DR $525,000 310 JESSELIN DR

$520,000 3582 RABBITS FOOT TRL

$500,000 171 EDGEMOOR DR $480,000 780 LONGWOOD RD $450,000 509 SOUTHBEND DR $315,000 150 JESSELIN DR $307,500 214 FLORAL PARK $275,000 332 STONEGATE WAY $252,000 543 ROSEMONT GARDEN ..................................... $247,500 1998 HEATHER WAY

$235,000 565 SHERIDAN DR $225,000

2078 OLD NASSAU RD $460,600 1924 WILLIAMSBURG RD $424,000 139 WESTGATE DR $371,000 1808 TRAVELLER RD $314,000 857 LAUREL HILL RD $300,000 2100 Violet Rd $230,250 944 LILY DR ............................................................. $215,000 781 CHERYL LN ....................................................... $203,000 1911 WESTMINSTER DR $170,000 207 LINWOOD DR $142,000 723 DELLA DR $120,000 245 SAVOY RD $110,000

40505

1860 GOODPASTER WAY ....................................... $730,000 13 TANGLEWOOD DR ............................................ $410,000 667 DARTMOOR DR $297,500 1114 N BROADWAY $264,900 2168 CURTISWOOD DR $250,000

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

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1946 WICKLAND DR $249,000 1507 CLARKSDALE CT $215,000 560 NORTHSIDE DR $210,000 539 WANSTEAD WAY ............................................. $200,000 1983 BRYNELL DR

$179,900 1054 CARNEAL RD $160,000 652-654 ANNISTON DR $140,000 821 DARLEY DR $125,000 2374 ALLEN DR $85,000

40507

777 BENNETT AVE $76,000 423 ASH ST $73,000 419 OAK ST $70,000 199 PRALL ST .............................................................$65,000 GLEN ARVIN AVE ........................................................$64,450 232 E SEVENTH ST $20,000

40509

350 E SHORT ST UNIT 317

$290,000 499 E HIGH ST STE 203........................................... $270,000 350 E SHORT ST UNIT 406 $222,000

40508

516 MARYLAND AVE UNIT 117 $439,900 512 MARYLAND AVE UNIT 111 $419,000 658 N BROADWAY $300,000 540 N UPPER ST

$195,000 423 HAWKINS AVE

$110,000 113 RAND AVE $105,119 417 OAK ST $105,000 423 HAWKINS AVE $90,000

96 CODELL DR $750,000 100 CODELL DR $750,000 601 OLD TODDS RD $750,000 2500 PASCOLI PL .................................................... $699,900 509 SUNDROP PATH .............................................. $679,000 683 GINGERMILL LN $585,000 3660 COMBS FERRY RD $530,500 2417 PATCHEN WILKES DR $510,000 760 LOCHMERE PL $495,000 2444 FRANKS WAY $484,000 3257 BLACKFORD PKWY $480,000 1132 GRIMBALL TRCE............................................. $460,000 4420 NATAL PL ........................................................ $385,000 LIVANIA LN $380,000 4513 WILLMAN WAY $379,000 4737 WILLMAN WAY $375,000

3037 OLD HOUSE RD $344,900 4604 LARKHILL LN $312,500 3647 WINCHESTER RD $305,000 1209 MORNING SIDE DR....................................... $305,000 418 LANARKSHIRE PL............................................. $303,200 418 LANARKSHIRE PL $303,200 2111 STONEWOOD LN $287,000 948 RIDGEBROOK RD $279,500 1452 PLEASANT RIDGE DR $275,000 2004 STONEWOOD LN $268,500 2568 CHECKERBERRY DR $260,000 2457 OGDEN WAY .................................................. $250,000 2403 LADY BEDFORD PL ........................................ $249,000 1112 CANYON CT.................................................... $240,000 1129 MORNING SIDE DR $238,000 3016 BLACKMOOR PARK CIR $200,000 428 CHELSEA WOODS DR $189,900 3409 BRIERCROFT WAY $175,000 301 BAINBRIDGE DR UNIT D $185,000 390 WOODSTON CT $179,000 465 DABNEY DR ...................................................... $177,500 2466 PLUMTREE CT ................................................ $176,000 413 BRIERCROFT WAY $175,000 3321 SANTA FE CT $161,000

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