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Abdikadir Mohammed, who goes by the nickname “Nini,” is working on a degree in psychology at St. Catharine College, near Springfield, Ky. The Somali refugee could not speak English when he arrived here with his family in 2006, but was determined to learn so he could help others. See story, page 4.

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ith all the straw men being paraded in the gun debate, it was refreshing to read Carl Brown's column in the March Highlander, in which he clearly made the case that the Second Amendment protects all the others.

With an astute understanding of history and human nature, the founding fathers anticipated the danger, and indeed the likelihood, that their new government would evolve into tyranny. In their wisdom and foresight, for which all patriotic Americans are eternally grateful, they enacted the Second Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment does not grant but confirms the right of Americans to protect their persons, their property, and Secure the Blessings of Liberty. Americans must remain vigilant against the government's assault on our freedoms.

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pon being new to the Louisville community last summer and upon finding Carl Brown's columns in The Highlander, I often found it depressing to think of the world Mr. Brown lives in given his 'progressive' slant as expressed in his writings. However, his piece on the Second Amendment was spot on.

For far too long, the issue of private ownership of firearms has been a double standard for those who say they believe in "choice" and expressions of personal freedom. The skill of marksmanship is rewarding for the focus, discipline and practice it requires. And fun, too, let alone the need to protect oneself on, hopefully rare, occasion. The obtrusive aspects of government oversight of private firearms via various regulations or registrations, as Brown pointed out, are also a serious concern that bodes ill for our civil rights.

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During track practice, Nini runs next to Nicole Peterson, 28, a sports leadership major. The students from St. Catharine College train at Bardstown High School’s Garnis Martin Field, about 15 miles away, because the college does not have an on-site track.

The Many Lives of Nini

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bdikadir Mohammed, known as “Nini,” is a junior at St. Catharine College, a small Dominican Catholic school near Springfield, Ky. He is a psychology major with scholarships in soccer and track. After graduation, Nini plans to get a master’s degree in social work from the University of Louisville. His ultimate goal is to work for the United Nations.

When he is not attending classes, playing sports or plotting his future, Nini is working on his memoirs. This may sound presumptuous for a 21-year-old, but Nini’s goals are small compared to what he has already accomplished.

He was born in war-torn Somalia. When he was 8 months old, his family moved to the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, home to thousands of refugees from Sudan, Uganda and other African hot spots. Life at Kakuma was tough.

Malnutrition and communicable disease were rampant. Nini remembers many days when his family had only enough food for one meal.

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In 2006, Kentucky Refugee Ministries brought Nini and his family to Louisville. His still-untitled memoir tells about his journey from 15-year-old non-English speaking freshman to ambitious college student. “I started from nowhere,” he says. “My daddy never thought I was going to graduate. My mom don’t know anything about school and all of that. She didn’t really know what was going on. My dad knew about school, but when I was in Africa I never studied much because it was horrible there for me. When I came here is when I focused more. That’s when I got all my strength.”

In addition to the usual communication hurdles, Nini grew up speaking Maay Maay, an Afro-Asiatic language that has no writing system. “I would love for us to have a written language but we don’t have one,” Nini says. “I’ve never seen written Maay Maay. The only language they write is Somalian.

They say Maay Maay can go along with Somalian language, but I did not know “The Many Lives how to write it.

“Going to school was very difficult. of Nini” I was dressing up crazy, my writing wasn’t good, my English wasn’t good. is the second in our Nothing was good, except I could say, three-part series ‘Hey.’” Nini was a freshman at Shawnee “The United Nations High School when a teacher had trouble pronouncing his full given of Louisville .” name. When the teacher asked if there was something shorter to call him, he suggested “Nini,” which was the name of his soccer team in Kenya. It is a Swahili word that means “what.” The nickname remains with him to this day. If you were to visit St. Catharine and ask for Abdikadir Mohammed, no one would know who you were talking about.

Nini’s family was originally settled in the Americana Apartments in the Beechmont neighborhood, but the rent proved too expensive. Nini’s father relocated them to a housing project in the crime-ridden Park Hill neighborhood. They are Muslim, and in Africa Nini’s father had two wives. The United States does not recognize polygamous families, so the family entered the country as separate households. But Nini makes a point of explaining that he considers all of his father’s chilCONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE *

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Nini, center, greets his siblings and mother during a visit home from college. Family members are, from left: Halima, 13, Nuuriya, 1, Ibrahim, 18, Hawa, 3, Nini, 21, Shariff, 4, Farhiya, 6, and their mother, Madina Ibrahim Abdi Mohammed.

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Nini is his father’s oldest child. The urge to help his father deal with family business was the main motivator for Nini to succeed in school. “When I came to the United States, the one thing that made me mad, the thing that got me to really study, was when I see my dad,” he remembers. “They would send him mail paper and he’d go to someone else to read it for him.

It got me really angry about that. I say to myself, ‘You the oldest at your house, you can’t read paper. That’s embarrassing to your family.’ I start focusing. ‘Till I can read paper for my dad I’m not going to give up.”

Nini moved to Waggener High School for his sophomore year. By then, thanks to after-school tutoring and ESL (English as a Second Language) classes at the Americana Community Center, he had a rudimentary understanding of written and spoken English. For a short time, a tutor came to Nini’s house, but the workbooks, with their giant pictures of puppies and other child-related imagery, embarrassed him.

Eventually, he asked only to be tutored at school.

“Any Bantu kid or other ESL student would feel the same way if they had tutoring at their house,” he relates. “They would feel embarrassed that their family or friend might come home and see this little thing you are studying. They don’t feel comfortable. That’s why it was hard for me to have tutoring at home.”

In one of his classes at St. Catharine, Nini is working on

ideas for better ways of teaching English to ESL students.

One of his ideas is not letting students who speak the same language sit next to each other. Nini says he learned more when he was in classrooms where he was forced to work with refugee students from other parts of Africa or elsewhere in the world. In those situations, the children are forced to communicate with each other in English because it is the only common language.

During his sophomore and junior years in high school, Nini worked hard on his studies but had no idea where it was leading. But in the summer before his senior year, another Somali student told him about college. Nini asked: What is that? What do they do there? His friend told him that you study what you want and then get a job.

Nini did know about one college, the University of Kentucky, but up until then he thought it was just a basketball team. “My plan was UK, because UK was always showing up in my head,” he confesses. “People were always talking about UK, so I say I’m going to go to school there. I never thought about (University of Louisville) at all. It was UK, UK.” But Nini had a big problem. His ACT (American College Testing) score was not high enough for admission to UK. Mostly, it was the English part that was hampering him. The first time he took the test, he scored a 12. In all, he took it four times and his highest score was a 16. Frustrated, he considered giving up on college because he had to pay every time

The Challenges I Had In High School Excerpts from the writings of Abdikadir Mohammed, also known as “Nini”

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fter coming to Louisville, I waited almost a month to go to school. I couldn’t wait. I was really in a hurry to start school because I wanted to learn and speak English. While waiting, I was in ESL classes at Kentucky refugee ministries. They prepared me for school by teaching me a few things that I could use at school. For example: How to say my name. The first school I went to was Shawnee High School. The first day I attended school I was really scared because everybody was taller and bigger than me and I didn’t know anybody there. I wondered why I was in school with these big people who look liked my dad and had the same body weight as my dad. I thought they sent me to the wrong school.

When I got back from school, I told my dad that everybody in school was bigger than me. He told me the only important thing was for me to go to school and learn and not to worry who is in school with you. However, my dad never believed me I would learn anything at school. He thought I was going to be dumb and start to hangout with some students who skip school. I couldn’t read and write when I was a freshman in high school. Every time my dad tells me to read a paper

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for him I couldn’t read it. He had to call somebody else to read it for him. I was so frustrated when that happened and didn’t know what to do, but to step up for my family. After that I didn’t do anything else, not even soccer, for my first year in high school. Every day I came home from school and did my homework and read books. However, I went to ACC (Americana Community Center) to get help with reading and writing skills. I didn’t know anything about ACC. My friend Magan and his brother Noor were the people who introduced me to ACC. They went there before I came to America. And I started going there every day when I was freshman in high school. I was one of the best ESL (English as a Second Language) students they had at Americana Community Center. Some of the people there enjoyed helping me and I always behaved well. In two months I was better in my writing and reading skills. I was the number one student that had improved in two months that year. The ESL classes I had at school really helped me.

Shawnee High had students from many different countries but we didn’t speak the same languages, therefore, it was difficult for us to talk to each other and work together. However, we had to speak English to work together.

I had teachers who really helped me during my first year of school. That year of school was wonderful. I loved the subjects we had. The teachers were organized and taught us many things. I liked my teachers and I will never forget them. The teachers respected me for who I was and I respected them. I also respected my classmates.

At the end of the school year, I thought I was going to stay in the same school but they told me I had to attend another school because that was just to prepare me for a higher level. A week later they told me I would go to Waggener High School.

I didn’t really know where Waggener was, but I was happy to go there. R

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he took the ACT. But then another refugee student told him about St. Catharine, which allows international students to submit the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) as a compliment to other tests. Nini scored well enough to be accepted to the school. In September 2012, he was the school’s Student of the Month.

“It is just a small school,” Nini says. “The people are different from Louisville. They don’t interact with you the way people interact with you in Louisville. Everybody knows everybody. You can’t hide.”

When he is back in Louisville during the summer, Nini helps refugee students with their English. He has also formed a Bantu soccer team with other Somalian refugees. They play against another Bantu team as well as a local team made up of Mexican immigrants.

Nini always tells the people he meets about St. Catharine.

“They see me wearing a St. Catharine shirt Photos: brianbohannon.com and they ask, ‘What is that?’” Nini explains. “I Nini says goodbye to his family before heading back to school, shaking hands with his tell them about the school. I think when they brother, Ibrahim, who plays soccer for the Bantu United Team, which Nini started. see you going to school, they get the impression ‘If that guy can do that, I can do that.’ I want them to think that way about college. That is also why I write my story.

Hopefully, it will inspire other refugees to do what I do.” R Contact the writer at Blueshound2000@gmail.com.

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Louisville’s African-American History Steps Out of the Shadows

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r. Beatrice Brown is one of those rare individuals able to shape good ideas and good intentions into problem-solving organizations. Combined with a servant’s heart, she has been, to borrow a phrase from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “a drum major” for helping the disadvantaged.

Brown credits her parents for giving her a legacy of community service while growing up in the Parkland neighborhood. A child prodigy on the piano, by the age of 9 she was playing organ in Sunday services at Elim Baptist Church. Brown majored in music and education at the University of Louisville and before she left had organized the Black Diamond Choir.

Career goals took her to New York City, where her warmth toward others met the harsh realities of urban life. For the next 25 years Brown would combine teaching psychology at City College with consulting, counseling and mentoring through three organizations she had established.

“Everything I have done has been about filling in gaps where I saw an unmet need,” says Brown.

After returning home in 2002, Brown started a mission group focused on children. She then saw the need to document the under-appreciated history of Louisville’s AfricanAmerican community, and told the story through photographs and notations in her book “Louisville’s Historic Black Neighborhoods.”

The book reads like a family photo album of times and places remembered and forgotten. City neighborhoods covered in the book include Smoketown, Old Louisville and California; county neighborhoods include Berrytown, Griffytown and Newburg. The chapters pass from place to place and illustrate how, despite the long decades of discrimination and exclusion, the African-American community built churches, schools, libraries, hospitals and businesses, all in the spirit of self-reliance.

By 1900, the strength of Louisville’s black community could be seen in a higher percentage of home ownership than any other city in the nation. With its diverse population and a bustling commercial district, the Russell neighborhood, just west of downtown, was like a “little New York” in the decades before midcentury.

Leaders such as Thomas F. Blue, the foremost African-American librarian in the South, and architect Samuel Plato, who constructed Camp Taylor and designed some 40 federal post offices, get their due alongside photos of blacks from all walks of life. A separate chapter chronicles famous black jockeys, who dominated racing at Churchill Downs until the beginning of the last century.

Dr. Brown compiled the book “as a legacy for our children,” and, indeed, the photos of the children are especially moving. Children in libraries and schools look out at us with a calm dignity and a strength of character that is at once trusting and eager for the future.

But it is the elderly who have been especially grateful for the book, which for the first time explains the roots and tells the story of the neighborhoods they remember from their youth. “I have been hugged and cried over at many book signings,” Brown says. Surely, for a person who continues to fill unmet needs in both consulting work and missionary projects, there are few compliments more gratifying. R Eric George operates the Tiny Bookshop in YesterNook, at 1041 Goss Ave. His writing has appeared in over 20 Louisville-based publications since 1967.

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Who Write offer women writers the opportunity to meet, read and critique, share ideas and create new work. More info at (502) 541-4670. (Highlands)

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Award-winning artist Teri Dryden traveled to Paris with her husband last April. While driving through the cities and suburbs of France and Italy, she found herself attracted to the worn FRIDAY, APRIL 5 THURSDAY, APRIL 4 layers of circus, propaganda and music posters CIRCLE OF HEALING RETREAT adorning the piazzas, street lamps and small FREE HIV TESTING FOR WOMEN billboards. With her husband as guard, she Fairness Campaign, 2263 Frank- Ursuline Motherhouse, 3115 fort Ave., 4 p.m.-6 p.m., Free.

Lexington Road, 7 p.m., $175. If tore, cut and peeled posters from the surfaces and stuffed them in a backpack. The colors, Free HIV testing every Thursday you have experienced violence throughout April. For more infor- in your life, you know that it can typography and texture of the paper inspired mation, call (502) 893-0788 or rob you of your innocence, trust, Dryden’s new series of collages, “Street to visit fairness.org. (Clifton) dreams, and sense of self, just Studio,” making its debut at the Swanson to name a few. Grieving these WOMEN WHO WRITE and other losses is a vital aspect Contemporary, 638 E. Market St., from Friday, Courtesy, Teri Dryden April 5 to Saturday, May 4. Dryden will host Highlands/Shelby Park Branch of healing and rebirth. Join “ED” by Teri Dryden Library, 1250 Bardstown Road, the Circle of Healing, a circle a preview reception on Thursday, April 4 from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Free. The of women who are seeking 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, call (502) 589-5466 or visit www.teridryden.com. monthly meetings of Women healing and wholeness. The (Downtown/Nulu)

SPOTLIGHT: PLACES & FACES OF FLOYDS FORK The new 3,700-acre Parklands of Floyds Fork project in Eastern Louisville inspired Locust Grove, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, to host a discussion about John Floyd on Wednesday, April 3. Floyd was an early settler of St. Matthews and a surveyor who helped lay out Louisville. He served as a colonel of the Courtesy, locust grove Kentucky Militia and participated Bob Hill in raids with George Rogers Clark.

He later became one of the first judges of Kentucky. Retired Courier-Journal columnist and Parklands historian Bob Hill will give a PowerPoint presentation about the Floyds Fork project and the history of the area. Dessert and coffee will be served at 1 p.m. with the lecture immediately following.

Admission is $5, $3 for Friends of Historic Locust Grove. Reservations are not required. For more information, call (502) 897-9845 or visit www.locustgrove.org. (Blankenbaker)

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retreat takes place Friday, April 5 to Sunday, April 7. Input, sharing stories, prayer, quiet reflection and spiritual direction are components of the weekend, with attention given to making the experience safe, confidential and sacred for all. For more info, call (502) 896-3945 or amc@ ursulineslou.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 ARCHERY AT JEFFERSON MEMORIAL FOREST Jefferson Memorial Forest, 11311 Mitchell Hill Road, 9 a.m.-Noon, $6 per person.

Learn to shoot with a bow in minutes. This program is for all physical ability levels; equipment is provided. Children age 8 and older are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. More info at (502) 368-5404 or www.

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(Fairdale) PLANT FOR THE PLANET! Douglass Community Center, 2305 Douglass Blvd., 9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m., Free. To celebrate Kentucky Arbor Day, The Joint Highlands Arbor Day Committee will be handing out free native trees in partnership with global Plant for the Planet! Visitors must sign the United Nations Environmental Programme’s pledge to plant and care for the seedlings. The Central District Chief Forester and the Jefferson County Master Gardeners will have information on the general dos and don’ts of tree planting, and info on specific trees. Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, contact Stephen R. Spanyer at (502) 459-1405. (Highlands)

DAY AT THE RACES Amvets Post 9, 1567 S. Shelby St., Noon, $20 to sponsor a horse. The Sons of Amvets are hosting a fundraiser for veterans featuring 12 thrilling, prerecorded races. The festivities include a raffle, food and a bake sale from the Amvets Ladies’ Auxiliary.

National recording artist Jeni Carr will be the musical guest.

For more info, contact Dan McMahon at (502) 637-1900, between 4 p.m.-10 p.m. (Germantown/Schnitzelburg) SUNDAY, APRIL 7 ITALIAN GARDEN DESIGN IN AMERICA Whitehall, 3110 Lexington Road, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., $30.

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Gardener Association will feature art historian Dr. Cristina Carbone lecturing on how the “Grand Tour of Europe” and travel writings of Edith Wharton influenced garden design in America. Carbone will lead a tour of Whitehall’s Italian garden following her presentation.

Tea and refreshments reminiscent of the era will be served.

Reservations are required.

Contact Rosetta Fackler at (502) 439-2962 or jcmgaevents@ gmail.com, or visit jcmgaky.org.

(St. Matthews) BONNYCASTLE HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION SOUP & SALAD 1724 Spring Drive, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., $10. Join the Bonnycastle Homestead Association for soup, salad and conversation.

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Winfrey Blackburn, co-author of “Kentucky Houses of Stratton Hammon,” will discuss his recently published book, “Country Houses of Louisville, 18991939.” The book documents 32 estates in the Louisville area built at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Books will be available for sale. Reservations are required.

Contact Claudia Runge at (502) 749-5675 or c.runge@insightbb. com. (Bonnycastle) THURSDAY, APRIL 11 YOUNG HEARTS THEATRE Ursuline Arts Center, 3105 Lexington Road, 2 p.m., Free.

Young Hearts Theatre presents the musical comedy “The Church at Hidden Creek,” a story about church members who try to hold services while searching for that “perfect” preacher. Songs include “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “Dear Hearts and Gentle People,” “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, “Sing You Sinners,” and others.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Performances will take place April 11, 13 and 14 at 2 p.m. and April 12 at 7 p.m.

The theater entrance/exit has convenient handicapped access and drop-off points for those requiring assistance, along with ample nearby parking. For more information, visit www. youngheartstheatre.info.

SPOTLIGHT: ANESSA AREHART

Sunergos Coffee hosts an exhibition of new work by Louisville artist Anessa Arehart in April and May. Arehart’s ever-evolving series of “Beauty Paintings” are equal parts pop art JULEPS: MINT & MORE and gender commentary. She focuses Locust Grove, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, 5:30 p.m.-7 pm., $30/$20 on women in vintage clothes and retro hairdos as they go through the for members. Just in time for Derby entertaining, award-win- beauty rituals that once defined what ning mixologist Joy Perrine it meant to be a woman in our culture.

(Equus, Jack’s Lounge) will Arehart’s exhibition will be at the demonstrate how to make perfect juleps and will share her Sunergos’ Germantown location, 2122 recipe for the best simple syrup. S. Preston St., throughout April. In May, In addition to the classic mint the paintings move to the business’ julep, Perrine will be making South End location, 306 W. Woodlawn. strawberry, peach, and even For more information, visit www.facechocolate juleps. Guests may Courtesy, Anessa Arehart sample all four drinks. Woodford book.com/anessapaints or call (502) “Rollerhead Gene” by Anessa Arehart 634-1243. (Various) Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris will also be on hand to talk about the mint juleps served on Derby Day, from the ones served in the souvenir glasses to the special Woodford Reserve $1,000 Julep. Space is limited. For more information, call (502) 897-9845.

(Blankenbaker) LOUISVILLE WONDERLAND The Vernon Club, 1575 Story Ave., 8 p.m.-11 p.m., Free with a two-drink minimum required.

Wonderland is inspired by

an experience created in Las Vegas by Jeff McBride. Each month, Wonderland brings the arts community together for an extraordinary experience in co-mingled art and playtime for the senses. The evening begins with a stage show featuring magicians, comedians and other variety acts. Afterward, smaller groups can experience sleightof-hand magic in an intimate setting. Live music is provided.

More info at www.Louisville-

Wonderland.com. (Butchertown) FRIDAY, APRIL 12 GRAND OPENING OF BLOCK PARTY HANDMADE BOUTIQUE Block Party Handmade Boutique, 560 S. Fourth St., Free.

Block Party Handmade Boutique is a unique retail store located in downtown Louisville. It’s a co-op boutique that features 30-50 artists working in a variety of mediums including edibles, jewelry, children’s items, clothing, fine art, ceramics, glass, accessories and more! Stop by for the store’s grand opening and celebrate having more local businesses downtown. For more information, contact Mary Levinsky at blockpartyhandmade@ gmail.com or visit www. blockpartyhandmade.blogspot. com. (Downtown) RIVERSIDE ANNUAL PLANT & HERB SALE Farnsley-Moremen Landing, 7410 Moorman Road, 4 p.m.-7 p.m., Free. The Riverside Annual Plant & Herb Sale takes place from Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 14. The sale continues at 8 a.m. on Saturday and closes at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables and great gardening advice will be featured throughout the weekend. Proceeds support the efforts of the Riverside Garden Club, a group of volunteers who maintain Riverside’s gardens.

The club exists to promote educational gardening programs in support of Riverside’s mission, and to beautify the property for public enjoyment. For more information, call (502) 935-6809 or visit riverside-landing.org.

(Riverside) RELAY FOR LIFE OF BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY Bellarmine University Quad, 2001 Newburg Road, 6 p.m., Free. Join walkers nationwide in taking steps in the fight against

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cancer during the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Bellarmine University. This overnight event celebrates cancer survivors, remembers those who have lost their lives and provides the community with an opportunity to unite and fight back against cancer. Funds raised through Relay for Life support the American Cancer Society. For more information visit www.realyforlife.org/ bellarmine, or contact Elizabeth Raggio at (502) 560-6000 or Elizabeth.Raggio@cancer.org.

(Highlands) MERCY BANQUET FEATURING AUTHOR RON HALL

Louisville Marriott East, 1903 Embassy Square Blvd., 6 p.m., $50 ($500 table of 10). Ron Hall, author of the New York Times Bestseller “Same Kind of Different as Me,” is coming to Louisville as part of an event to benefit the city’s homeless. Hall will be the keynote speaker for Jefferson Street Baptist Center’s annual Mercy Banquet. The theme of this year’s banquet is “Relationships Change Lives.”

This theme is perfectly illustrated by Hall’s relationship with a homeless drifter named Denver Moore. With over 1 million copies sold, “Same Kind of Different as Me” tells the real life story of Hall and Moore, who was raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s and spent his adult years wandering the streets of Texas homeless for nearly two decades. The Mercy Banquet will also feature live storytelling from people who have battled addiction, mental illness and homelessness. There will also be a silent auction, live music, presentations from local business people about their partnership with JSBC, and a meal. The silent auction will feature vacation packages, sporting event packages and a variety of special experience packages. For more information, call (502) 584-6543 or visit www.jeffersonstreet.org/banquet. (Downtown) SATURDAY, APRIL 13 BRIGHTSIDE COMMUNITY-

SPOTLIGHT: RICHARD THOMPSON The Clifton Center, 2117 Payne St., presents a concert by legendary British guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson.

The Richard Thompson Electric Trio will perform on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 and are available online at www.cliftoncenter.org or at Carmichael’s Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave. For more information, call (502) 896-6950 or visit www.cliftoncenter.org. (Clifton)

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Richard Thompson

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SPOTLIGHT: JULIE YODER’S “AMERICA!” Artist Julie Yoder likes reading presidential biographies. Her studies are the basis for “America!” an exhibition of new work on display at Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor, 2801 S. Third St., through April 27. An artist’s reception will take place Saturday, April 13 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

For more information, call (502) 637-4777 or visit libertytattooandart. com. (Belknap)

the class date. For details, call (502) 368-5404 or visit www. louisvilleky.gov/metroparks/ parks/jeffersonmemorialforest.

(Fairdale) SUNDAY, APRIL 14 ROMANTIC CHAMBER MUSIC Locust Grove, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, 5:30 p.m., Free. The Kentucky Center Chamber Players perform music from Cantaloube, Prokofiev and Brahms in the Audubon Room of the Visitors Center. For more information, call (502) 897-9845.

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for tracks, build forts, catch pond critters, get muddy, play in leaves and take a break from technology. Bring water bottles, a snack, and dress for the weather. Meet at the Horine Environmental Education Center.

Preregistration is required. Call (502) 368-5404 or visit www. louisvilleky.gov/metroparks/ parks/jeffersonmemorialforest.

(Fairdale) REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT – “18TH CENTURY THUNDER”

Locust Grove, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $6 adults, $3 children 6-12, Free for children age 5 and younger.

Companies representing General George Rogers Clark’s troops from the Northwest Campaign will re-enact life in a military camp, including, cooking, drilling and other demonstrations, as well as a memorial service to their leader. You’ll hear the thunder of muskets and the melodies of the fife and drum.

Men, women and children in period costume will transport

your family to another time. The event continues on Sunday, April 21. For more information, call (502) 897-9845. (Blankenbaker) SUNDAY, APRIL 21 FOOD TRUCK SUNDAY St. Joseph Children’s Home, 2823 Frankfort Ave., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Frankfort Avenue will host Food Truck Sunday, with food trucks available on the lawn of St. Joe’s from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and sidewalk sales from CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE *

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WIDE CLEANUP Brightside will kick off the Mayor’s “Give A Day” Week of Service on Saturday, April 13 with a Community-Wide Cleanup. Volunteers can help keep Louisville clean and green by taking the time to remove litter. The 2012 effort removed 11 tons of trash from our streets, sidewalks and green spaces. Brightside is looking for families, friends, work groups, church groups and anyone else who wants to help beat that number. Groups may select their own cleanup site or Brightside can connect them with an existing group.

Brightside will coordinate the trash pickup. Volunteers receive free bags and gloves, with T-shirts available to the first 5,000 volunteers registered. The Mayor’s Week of Service continues to Thursday, April 21. More info at (502) 574-2613 or www. mygiveaday.com. (Various) 2013 ART AUCTION AND BY-BUY-BYE ART SALE Public, 131 W. Main St., 10 a.m.-9 p.m., $65 members/$75 non-members for Art Auction.

The Louisville Visual Arts Association is hosting two events, the BY-BUY-BYE Art Sale and the Art Auction. BY-BUY-BYE Art Sale, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., includes 200 8x8-inch artworks by local artists for $100 each. The sale is free and open to the public. The Art Auction takes place 7 p.m.-9 p.m. and requires a ticket. For more information, call (502) 896-2146 or visit www.louisvillevisualart.org. (Downtown) | CONSTITUTIONAL SYMPOSIUM Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Free. The Alexander Hamilton Historical Society will host its 2013 Constitutional Symposium at the University of Louisville.

The symposium chair and moderator is U of L’s Dr. Charles Ziegler, professor of political science, University scholar and Grawemeyer awards director.

The symposium presentations include “The Founders and Federalism,” by Dr. Aaron Hoffman, assistant professor of political science, Bellarmine University; “The Constitution and Federalism,” by attorney Mark Webster; and “The Supreme Court and Federalism,” by attorney Jane Lollis. A question-and-answer session follows the presentations. Free parking is available on campus; paid parking is available in the Speed Art Museum parking garage.

For more information, call (502) 709-5070. (Old Louisville) 6TH ANNUAL MIGHTY KINDNESS EARTH DAY HOOT Brown-Forman Amphitheater (Waterfront Park), 1217 River Road, Noon-6 p.m., Free. The 6th Annual Mighty Kindness Hoot features performances by several local groups. People are also encouraged to bring their own instruments to make music or bring an umbrella and join in the Mighty Kind Second Line Parade. There will also be dozens of free workshops, delicious local food, and a massage-a-thon benefitting the Billy Goat Hill Community Garden. More info at www.mightykindness.org.

(Downtown) RIVER CANOEING CLASS Jefferson Memorial Forest, 11311 Mitchell Hill Road, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., $15 per person. This four-hour class in river canoeing will cover the basics of boat control, paddle strokes for moving water, and preparation for a safe day on the river. Participants must be age 12 or older, able to swim confidently, and comfortably sit in and paddle a canoe in slow-moving water. A parent or legal guardian must accompany any participant under age 18.

Equipment is provided. Dress to get wet and wear shoes that will stay on your feet (no flip flops). All participants must preregister and prepay before

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FRIDAY, APRIL 19 FESTIVAL OF THE DOGWOOD 1046 Hess Lane, after dark, Free.

Audubon Park, one of Louisville’s oldest and most beautiful neighborhoods will celebrate the Festival of the Dogwood from Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21. Visitors are invited to walk, bike or drive through the park and enjoy the beauty of the dogwood varieties. After dark, the blooming trees will be lit up. On Sunday at 3 p.m., a free community concert featuring the River City Concert Band will take place at Audubon Baptist Church, 1046 Hess Lane. For more information, contact Gene at (502) 634-4921 or Diane at (502) 635-6710. (Audubon Park) HOWL AT THE MOON Jefferson Memorial Forest, 11311 Mitchell Hill Road, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m., $6 per person.

Jefferson Memorial Forest invites owners and their pooches on a guided hike through the woods. Non-retractable leashes and good behavior are required.

Meet in the Horine Reservation.

Preregistration required. Call (502) 368-5404 or visit www. louisvilleky.gov/metroparks/ parks/jeffersonmemorialforest.

(Fairdale) SATURDAY, APRIL 20 THUNDER OVER LOUISVILLE Waterfront Park, 3 p.m., Free.

See one of the largest annual fireworks shows in North America: Thunder Vision 2013, a sparkling display set to the symphonic sounds of TV through the years. For more information, visit thunderoverlouisville.org.

(Downtown) FAMILIES OUTSIDE X-PLORING Jefferson Memorial Forest, 11311 Mitchell Hill Road, 9 a.m.-Noon, $8 per person. Get your family outside “X-ploring” a different Metro park each season. Throughout the year, a naturalist will guide families on an exploration in forests, fields, and along the Ohio River, lakes and ponds. Hike, search

Taizé Prayer

April 8 & May 13 • 7 PM • Cost: Free-will offering Nurturing our life with song, silence and prayer.

Sabbath Moments

April 13 & May 11 • 10 AM-12 PM • Cost: $10 Reconnecting through prayer, ritual and reflection.

Circle of Healing Retreat

April 5 (at 7 PM) until April 7 (at 2 PM) • Cost: $175 A retreat for women survivors of violence.

Good Grief

April 16, 23 & 30 • 7 PM – 8:30 PM • Cost: $45 for all 3 sessions A three-part series on making meaning out of a loss.

Vacation with God: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

June 5, 12, 19 & 26 • 7 PM – 9 PM • Cost: $50 for all 4 sessions Learn to recognize God in ordinary, wondrous and horrific life experiences.

More details and registration available at www.amcspirituality.org.

All programs offered on the Ursuline Campus on Lexington Road.

Questions? Please contact (502) 896-3945 or email amc@ursulineslou.org.

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SPOTLIGHT: CHEROKEE TRIANGLE ART FAIR The 42nd Annual Cherokee Triangle Art Fair takes place the weekend before the Kentucky Derby, Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, both days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The juried art fair, hosting more than 200 artists’ booths, takes place on Cherokee Parkway between Willow Avenue and Cherokee Road in the historic Cherokee Triangle neighborhood. Fairgoers may enjoy original art, food, drinks, entertainment and music. The fair kicks off Saturday morning at 10 a.m. with a children’s parade, which assembles at Cherokee Road and Longest Avenue. On Saturday evening, music and food service will continue until 8 p.m. Free valet bike parking will be provided by Bicycling Photo: courtesy, CTA for Louisville, a nonprofit Offered again at the fair is free valet bike parking, this year advocacy group. For more with an expanded area to keep bikes safe; the service proinfo, visit www.cherokeet- vides an opportunity to save gas and reduce traffic congestion, and eliminates the need for parking. riangle.org. (Highlands)

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retailers and neighborhood residents. For more information, visit www.frankfortave.com or call Andrei at (502) 802-4259.

(Crescent Hill) TUESDAY, APRIL 23 OPEN HANDS WELLNESS CLINIC Grace Immanuel United Church of Christ, 1612 Story Ave., 10 a.m.-Noon, Free. Empty Vessels Healing Ministries presents the Open Hands Wellness Clinic, open every day for the next year. Services include acupuncture, massage therapy and zero balancing. Cranial sacral therapy is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Care is provided by licensed and certified therapists.

For more information, contact Rev. Karen Barth at (502) 6416169 or emptyvessels1@gmail. com. (Butchertown) THURSDAY, APRIL 25 THE ISLAND PRESIDENT Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. Sixth St., 6 p.m., Free. The Muhammad Ali Center’s Metamorphosis Film Series brings ground-breaking independent films to Louisville on the final Thursday of each

month. April’s offering is “The Island President” by Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen and Richard Berge.

After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea. For more info at www.alicenter.org. (Downtown)

The Schnitzelburg Spring Beer Walker is a collection of large block parties with live music put on by neighboring bars, from which patrons may walk back and forth. More info at (502) 637-9515 or checkscafe.com.

(Germantown/Schnitzelburg)

COMMUNITY BUILDING DINNER AND MOVIE Fairness Campaign, 2263 Frankfort Ave., 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Free. A free movie and dinner are open to everyone. For more information, call (502) 893-0788 or visit fairness.org. (Clifton)

GARDENAGANZA Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Ave., 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Free. The Jefferson County Master Gardener Association and the Louisville Nature Center are teaming up to present an annual garden fair and plant sale. The event features native plants from Dropseed Nursery, herbs from Thieneman’s Herbs & Perennials, vegetables, perennials, shrubs, trees and more.

Gardening demonstrations, a silent auction, garden treasures, and orders for custom-made cedar raised beds and rain barrels will also be featured. For more information, visit jcmgaky. org. (Audubon Park)

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 “JUNQUE N’ JEWELS” YARD AND BAKE SALE Highland United Methodist Church, 1140 Cherokee Road, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Highland United Methodist Church will have it’s annual yard and bake sale.

Lunch will be available. For more information, call Cynthia Wedding at (502) 228-2811 or email cyntthiaw@bellsouth.net.

SCHNITZELBURG SPRING WALK Check’s Cafe, 1101 E. Burnett Ave., 5 p.m.-Midnight, Free.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 28

THE MAYOR’S DERBY BRUNCH ON THE RIVER Farnsley-Moremen Landing, 7410 Moorman Road, 11 a.m.1:30 p.m., $65 ($500 a table).

Mayor Greg Fischer is hosting “The Mayor’s Derby Brunch on the River” at Farnsley-Moremen Landing. Dawne Gee of WHAS will be the mistress of ceremonies and a Kentucky breakfast will be served by Masterson’s.

The event will also feature music by the JazzCatz, a live auction, a silent auction, trolley rides to the newly renovated historic chapel and tours of the Farnsley-Moremen House. Derby hats by Helen Draper will also be for sale. RSVP by April 23.

To reserve your spot, call (502) 935-6809. (Riverside)

SEARCH HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS Learn to search the Louisville Free Public Library’s historical newspaper databases: Courier-Journal (1830-1922); Nashville Tennessean (1812-1922); Cincinnati Enquirer (1841-1922); and New York Times (1851-2008). The class takes place Wednesday, April 3, 11 a.m., at the Main Library, 301 York St. (Downtown) 3D MODELING AND PRINTING The Highlands/Shelby Park Branch Library, 1250 Bardstown Road, is offering the public a chance to see a 3D printer in action and learn the basics of 3D art using free programs found online. The class takes place Saturday, April 6 at 1:30 p.m. (Highlands) BLAINE HARDEN Award-winning journalist Blaine Harden’s newest book, “Escape from Camp 14,” tells the story of Shin Dong-Hyuk, a North Korean born and raised in a prison camp, and one of the few prisoners to have escaped captivity.

Through the remarkable story of Shin Dong-Hyuk, Harden examines one of the world’s most secretive and repressive totalitarian states. Harden will be at the Main Library, 301 York St., on Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m. This is a free event, but tickets are required. (Downtown) QUIET, PLEASE! The Crescent Hill Branch Library, 2762 Frankfort Ave., will host an event on Saturday, April 13, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., for those quiet-seekers living in a noisy world. This is for introverts, homebodies and bookworms whose love of solitude, reading and reflection can occasionally lead to feelings of disengagement or isolation. This event will create a space for listening and for talking about how to thrive in a world that is often too loud, too fast, too bright and too busy. The atmosphere will be very informal and unstructured – no one will even have to introduce themselves if they’d rather not. Learn great responses to “Why are you so quiet?” or “You’re too sensitive!” For more information, contact booklovinglady@yahoo.com. (Crescent Hill) DAVID ROHDE In his latest book, “Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East,” author David Rohde examines the cardinal failing of Washington’s war on terror. A distillation of eleven years of reporting for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly, the book examines the evolving nature of war and exposes how mismanagement has failed to resolve conflict in the Middle East. The World Affairs Council and the Louisville Free Public Library are joining forces to bring Rohde to the Main Library, 301 York St., on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m. This is a free event, but tickets are required.

(Downtown) For information on these events, or any others at the Louisville Free Public Library’s 18 branches, visit www.lfpl.org or call (502) 574-1611.

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’ll admit up front that I’m an adventurous omnivore and have sampled seal, moose, whale, rattlesnake, lion and bear. I was raised to try everything – “Children are starving in India, clean your plate!”

When I was growing up in southern Mississippi, vegetarians were as rare as wildebeest. Back then, the only people who didn’t eat meat were lost in a swamp and too weak to kill something.

Thus it’s no surprise that I eat hamburger, which, contrary to its name, contains neither ham nor German city-dweller. But if a smirking dinner companion informed me that I had just eaten a burger that contained horse meat, I wouldn’t stagger to the restroom and call my lawyer in mid-barf, though he’d deserve it. Instead, I’d probably arch my eyebrows and say, “Interesting. I didn’t notice a difference.” My companion would crinkle his nose and say, “Really?” and I would say, “Na-a-a-a-a-y,” because my profession requires it.

Some would argue that it’s analogous to finding that your hot dog contains poodle.

Au contraire. As usual, people are going crazy over perception, not facts. “OMG! I just ate part of a domesticated animal 10 times my size that blinks and feels pain and has hooves and suckles its young and eats grass in the same pasture it poops in!!” Unlike slow, edible cows, of course.

No, the reason we recoil at the idea of eating horse meat is that we typically don’t name cattle, but could name horses until the cows come home – Secretariat, Mr. Ed, Fury, Flicka, Trigger, Seabiscuit. No masked man ever rode out of town in a cloud of dust yelling, “Hi-yo-o-o Bessie! Awa-a-a-a-ay!” Ergo, we’ll stop eating cows only when they start getting TV and movie credits.

Some will say the very idea of eating certain things nauseates them, then they will dive into their scrambled eggs and chicken livers, unfazed that what they are eating came from butts and guts. Sushi fans will happily scarf down eel, sea urchin and octopus, but that’s not gross because an octopus never won the Derby.

It’s all perception. One of the main things going against horse meat is that it’s called horse meat, whereas politically correct meat doesn’t have the critter’s name anywhere near it, e.g., pork, beef, Whopper, hot links, McRibs, etc., which sound more like substances than animals who nuzzle their children. We call chicken and turkey by their names because they don’t have lips or fur and we can’t milk or pet them so they were obviously born for the deli section. Ostrich?

They’re aliens – make mine medium rare.

There’s a delicious fish whose actual name is dolphin, but it didn’t sell well until purveyors started calling it mahi-mahi so people wouldn’t think it was a Sea World performer who couldn’t get the hang of a back flip. Which is why we’ll eat veal and calamari, but would never order the Cow Toddler Special or Squid Loops. Lamb is an oddity because it actually designates the creature as a baby. Still, how many people would order a rack of Sheep Infant? Not many mothers, for sure.

Giving something a French name automatically bestows gourmet status, of course.

Witness chateaubriand, filet mignon, lapin, and cheval au vin. That last one, FYI, is My Little Pony in a wine sauce. R Mack Dryden is a comedian who makes a delectable Highlands free-range squirrel gumbo. Contact him at mack@mackdryden.com and watch him in action at www.mackdryden.com.

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Going Hog Wild Over Louisville Charities Local residents can now enjoy coupon savings while giving to their favorite Louisville charitable organization.

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MyPinkPig.com, 15 percent of the total sale goes to a Louisville charitable organization of the buyer’s choice.

The concept was born when owner and founder Hedggie Kyle decided he wanted to support local businesses and charities without sending the proceeds outside the city like other coupon sites do.

Twice a week, coupon deals are posted on www.MyPinkPig.com. Described as a “win-win-win” concept, hometown consumers, businesses and charities can all benefit. My Pink Pig is accredited by the Better Business Bureau.

Atherton Hall of Fame Seeks Nominations The Atherton High School Alumni Association will hold its 12th Annual Hall of Fame Banquet on September 19, 2013.

The Hall of Fame honors individuals who have demonstrated the highest levels of integrity, character, scholarship, service and self-respect.

Nominations are being accepted until April 30, 2013. Nomination forms can be found at www.athertonalumni. com by clicking the 2013 Hall of Fame Nominations link. Forms can be filled out and submitted from the website or a printable version may be downloaded and mailed to Atherton Alumni Association,

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Collegiate Student Scores Perfect ACT Louisville Collegiate School student Calley Thompson has achieved a perfect score of 36 on the American College Testing assessment. Thompson is a senior and participates in Science Olympiad, Quick Recall and Mu Alpha Theta at Collegiate. She is also a goalie on the field hockey team.

The ACT test consists of English, math, reading and science and an optional writing test. On average, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of test takers score a perfect 36.

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Louisville Zoo Announces New Assistant Director and Facilities Supervisor The Louisville Zoo welcomes to its staff Assistant Director Tom Kaferle and Facilities Supervisor Rich Williams.

Kaferle has over 20 years of zoological and theme park management experience, and was recently an international consultant in Turkey and Italy, involved in the development of customer service programs, Assistant Director Tom Kaferle feasibility studies and planning.

Prior to that, he was general manager of Landora Theme Park where he managed all aspects of Facilities Supervisor the opening Rich Willams of the park, the first of its kind in Turkey. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Arlington, was a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for 10 years and also sat on the AZA business operations committee.

Williams was a construction project manager at Louisville Metro Parks, where he planned and coordinated capital construction projects for the city of Louisville.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Louisville. Williams’ role at the Louisville Zoo will be to supervise multiple facilities, work crews and construction projects.

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Public-Private Partnership to Bring Colon Cancer Screenings to Low-Income Uninsured Mayor Greg Fischer and health officials have announced a public-private partnership that will provide colon cancer screenings for approximately 1,200 low-income uninsured individuals over the next 16 months. “Creating a healthier and more compassionate city are top priorities of my

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The Colon Cancer Screening Program consists of a partnership between the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, the Kentucky Cancer Program, the Park DuValle Community Health Center, Family Health Centers and the Colon Cancer Prevention Project.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of America Names Kentucky Youth of the Year

groups have included serving meals to the homeless, organizing a food drive for tornado victims, lexcia Simmons has been named beautifying the Kentucky Youth of the Year by area parks, Boys & Girls Clubs of America for her tutoring, and sound character, leadership skills and spending willingness to give back to the comtime with munity. Being named Youth of the Year senior citis the highest honor a BGCA member izens at a can receive. Simmons will also receive a local nursing $1,000 scholarship from the recognition home. After Alexcia Simmons program’s sponsor, Tupperware Brands graduating Corporation, and a $1,000 college schol- from high school, Simmons plans to arship from the Kentucky Area Council of attend Vanderbilt University to major in pre-med and become an obstetrician/ Boys & Girls Clubs. gynecologist.

The recognition program encourages This summer, Simmons will compete club members to reach their full potential by achieving academic success, lead- against other BGCA members within ing healthy lifestyles and contributing the Midwest region for an additional $10,000 college scholarship from to their family, school, community and Boys & Girls Club, as well as overcoming Tupperware Brands. In September 2013, five regional winners will advance to personal challenges and obstacles.

Washington, D.C., to compete for the Simmons, age 16, is a sophomore at Jeffersonville High School, where she title of BGCA’s National Youth of the is on the honor roll and is a member Year, which carries with it an additional of the school choir. She is president of scholarship of up to $50,000 from the the Jeffersonville Boys & Girls Club’s Rick and Susan Goings Foundation along Keystone Club, a teen group dedicated with an opportunity to meet with the to leadership and community service. Her president of the United States in the volunteer activities with this and other White House.

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Louisville’s Premier Surgery Center will donate the use of its facility on weekends for screenings. Louisville area hospitals are also considering making their facilities available for the project. Polymedco Inc. is donating 1,500 Fecal Immunochemical Test kits and Braintree Laboratories is donating 500 colonoscopy prep kits.

The Park DuValle Community Health Center and Family Health Centers, both in Portland, will serve as medical homes for patients in the program, providing a patient navigator to coordinate and schedule screenings and assist patients through the process. The Colon Cancer Prevention Project will also assist. The Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness will oversee the initiative and act as the fiscal agent. Kentucky Cancer Program will provide community outreach to promote the program.

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Annie Tran grew up in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), watching her mother run her own restaurant; as an adult, she followed suit – albeit in an altogether different land.

“I came here November 26, 1990,” Annie says, the date marking the demarcation line between “before” and “after.”

“Before,” she says, “some friends came to my mom’s house and said, ‘Mom’s food is good, so why not open a restaurant?’” Annie watched closely and, with modifications and a geographic change, adapted that path as her own.

“I came to Louisville and went to ESL (English as a Second Language) school, and then after that I went to JCTCS (Jefferson Community & Technical College) to get my degree in business,” she says. “A lot of people said I couldn’t, but I did it.” Today, her eponymous restaurant, Annie’s Cafe, is a solid staple of the South End’s Southeast Asian culinary community.

Fifteen-year-old Lee Tran, too, dreamed of opening his own restaurant – but this was in Louisville, not Vietnam, and his biggest critic (and, ultimately, his biggest fan) was his mother: Annie. Now 21, Lee owns Banh Mi Hero on Bardstown Road in the Highlands. The Sullivan University student majored in marketing, but in his mind there was no question what he wanted. “I was 10, 11,” he recalls of his childhood at his mother’s restaurant. “Originally, she had me washing the cups and stuff, and then I started playing with her oven and wok and she started making me cook, and I thought, ‘I really like cooking.’ I liked to see how high I could turn up the fire without burning myself,” he laughs. “Maybe I still do.”

While his mother sticks with traditional sit-down fare such as pho (the celebrated Vietnamese noodle dish), cooking the broth for “at least” five hours, Lee goes a bit more for the street food angle. The “banh mi” of the restaurant’s name refers to a traditional Vietnamese sandwich with a heavy French influence. For the top-selling Saigon Hero, Lee starts with a baguette from Sullivan’s kitchen, then adds cilantro, cucumbers, homemade pate and

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Annie Tran, owner of Annie’s Cafe in the Beechmont neighborhood, has passed along her cooking skills to son Lee Tran, who recently opened Banh Mi Hero in the Highlands. Mother and son are shown here at Annie’s, where Lee can often be found when not tending his own restaurant.

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Lee Tran prepares his most popular menu item, the Saigon Hero. Once constructed, the sandwich is popped into a toaster oven then served with a topping of Sriracha sauce and Lee’s own secret sauce. Banh Mi Hero offers what Lee describes as “Vietnamese fusion.”

Vietnamese pork sausage, garnishing it with onion, pickled carrots, daikon (radish) and special sauces. “That’s your most basic one,” Lee says. Diners who prefer to break away from the pack can sample a rice cup – a coffee mug-sized serving of rice topped with meat and vegetables – or a Vietnamese coconut soda, or something a little more familiar to North American eyes, if not taste buds, such as Lee’s banh mi po’ boy or taco shell versions of the sandwiches. “It’s Vietnamese fusion,” he says.

Even with two busy restaurants, the Trans remain close and see each other several times a week. Not that Lee always listens to his mother. “Of course I have pride in him,” Annie says. “But I wanted him to wait until he was 21.” (Lee opened Banh Mi Hero three months short of his 21st birthday; the space was available and, he says, “I felt like I was ready.”) “But he’s good enough to do it, so I said okay.” She also concedes that her son makes better banh mi than she does. “I’ve had my restaurant for 11 years, but I’m still learning. I try to cook better and better.” Sounds like she’ll have some healthy competition for the journey.

Annie’s Cafe is located at 308 W. Woodlawn Ave.; for information and hours, call (502) 363-4847 or visit www. anniecafe.com. Banh Mi Hero is located at 2245 Bardstown Road; for information and hours, call (502) 456-2022 or visit www.banhmihero.com. R DOWN TO BUSINESS, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE *

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If you can stop, get some coffee! Kaelin’s Coffeehouse opened in late February at 1801 Newburg Road next to Mulligan’s Pub (the old Kaelin’s Restaurant). • Yet another Heine Brothers’ Coffee location has sprouted!

Heine Brothers Northfield (formerly Vint), 4901 Brownsboro Road, near I-264, opened in mid-February. • Earth Friends Cafe, 829 E. Market St., also opened in mid-February. The vegetarian- and vegan-friendly restaurant also has a location in New Albany at 180 W. Spring St. • The Gardiner Lane Borders site finally has a tenant: Party Mart added its fourth location at 3050 Bardstown Road in mid-February.

• Open since September 2012 is clothing shop Tribe, at 2003 Bonnycastle Ave. selling its own branded line of apparel, prints and hard goods. • Next door, at 2005 Bonnycastle Ave., The Hanger, a custom dressmaking shop, also opened in September.

COMING SOON: That big construction pile that was once Ray’s Monkey House eventually will be a Big Burger restaurant. The location, at 1578 Bardstown Road, was home to Twice Told Books before Ray’s. The completion date is unknown. • Havana Rumba Express & Tapas Bar is moving into the Douglass Loop space at 2210 Bardstown Road formerly occupied by Desserts by Helen and Fat Jimmy’s Pizza. The concept, based on the flagship Havana Rumba at 4115 Oechsli Ave., is a combination Cuban cuisine-Spanish tapas restaurant; completion date, unknown.

NEW LOOKS, MOVES AND MORE: After a two-month-long renovation, the Graeter’s at Douglass Loop reopened in mid-February at 2204 Bardstown Road with a sleek new look and layout, including a wall featuring work from local artists. • The Highlands North End Cafe, at 2116 Bardstown Road, has a 20-seat patio under construction, with a view to a spring opening. • Highland Morning, 1416 Bardstown Road, will expand its seating and kitchen into the next-door space come late spring. The current tenant at 1414, Ultra Pop!, will move to 960 Barret Avenue. • Homebrewers’ heaven My Old Kentucky Homebrew moved from Butchertown to bigger digs at 361 Baxter Ave. in January. • Urban Attic, 1608 Bardstown Road, now offers alterations (for an additional charge) by seamstress Kate Larive on any garment purchased at the shop or elsewhere.

CLOSING TIME: Landmark music store Guitar Emporium, 1610 Bardstown Road, was scheduled to close March 9, but the owners have stated they are trying to sell the business. • Pinotti’s Flower Market, 2120 Bardstown Road, closed in late February. • Coco’s Chocolate Cafe, 1759 Bardstown Road, closed in late December. • City Cafe closed its Mid City Mall location, 1250 Bardstown Road, at the end of November.

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And sleeping in. And getting your car’s oil changed.

Or not. A Highlands-based car enthusiast just found an easy way to make your weekends a lot less work: He brings his service shop to you.

“Everybody’s got a car, and everybody hates servicing it,” says Kevin Hanson, owner of Car TLC. “I like to say it’s like Jiffy Lube coming to your door.”

In addition to oil changes, Hanson and fellow mechanic Aaron Mussler strive to provide comprehensive preventative vehicle maintenance, including installation of new wiper blades, light bulbs, batteries, serpentine belts – even brake jobs, detailing and tire rotation. Says Hanson: “If it’s got oil and a filter, we’ll service it.”

A love of service and a love of things that go fast are ingrained in Hanson, who moved to Louisville from Chicago two years ago after a career as a police detective and safety educator. A lifetime motorcycle enthusiast, Hanson raced bikes and traversed the country promoting helmet and bicycle safety in schools, ultimately reaching 25,000 kids over six years. When the recession hit and corporate sponsorship for Hanson’s motorcycle team dried up, he redoubled his vehicle repair efforts.

Hanson learned the craft from his father, who instilled in him and his two older brothers the importance of learning by doing, whether when fixing a broken-down tractor or making an old El Camino hum. “We’d talk cars all the time,” he says. “I’m sure we bored our mom to death.”

His passion for cars and motorcycles led to a dealership job during his undergraduate years at Western Illinois University, and even after he became a cop he continued working on wheels. “You have people who can just change

oil, and then you have people who have mechanical experience,” he says. “It’s been ingrained in me.

Aaron’s dad raced cars on the weekends ... We’re not your typical car care guys.”

Car TLC isn’t your typical shop, either. In fact, its location is strictly wherever customers are – at homes, businesses, parking lots or parking garages. Car TLC’s fleet service includes after-hours maintenance, minimizing valuable downtime for backhoes, lawn mowers, tractors and semis. For regular consumers, however, Hanson and Mussler tend to keep more civilized hours, but the benefits are essentially the same. “We come while they’re at work or at home,” Hanson says. “It’s really about time and convenience.”

Streamlining service means offering convenient scheduling, which customers can coordinate through Car TLC’s website. The parts are built to last, too: “I use the same shops the dealers use,” Hanson says. “I’m not going to put on cheap stuff that’s going to break again. My goal is to keep you on the road at a reasonable price.”

Hanson and Mussler aren’t easily intimidated by what they see on the job – not even the mercurial Kentuckiana weather or antique sports car. “I’ve been around cars and motorcycles my entire life,” says Hanson, who lives in the Douglass Loop area with his wife, Christa. “It’s got a drain plug, it’s got an oil filter. It’s really not rocket science.”

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Revolving Doors: Opportunity Knocks, Economy Locks

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immy Brown answered his cell phone at 10 a.m. “Hello?” came the friendly drawl.

Oops. I wasn’t sure if he’d had a gig the night before and slept in. No, he was there, at Guitar Emporium, opening a new week – and one of the last, at least for him.

“I’ve been answering the phone at this place for 38 years,” he said. “Every Monday morning, gig or not.” We both laughed. No one wants to wake a musician too early in the morning.

Brown’s retirement is a sound decision that has struck a chord far beyond the Highlands – among collectors, instructors and a constellation of rock stars worldwide. March became a reverberating echo of opinions, ideas and advice, all of which Brown patiently addressed. “This was a choice,” he emphasized. “We’ve had one of our best years ever, so it’s not the economy.”

Jimmy Brown will do what he did when he opened Guitar Emporium. He trusted his gut then and he’s doing the same now.

Personal time with his wife, family and friends, plus travel and other projects are part of this new chapter.

Per the cliche, “For every door that shuts, another opens,” let’s keep an eye on this one.

Almost in one fell swoop we lost Coco’s Chocolate Cafe, Burger’s Market, Joe Davola’s, City Cafe at Mid City Mall, John E’s restaurant and Lynn’s Paradise Cafe.

It’s sad, and we’re all curious, in our Louisville way. Maybe the advice, “It’s none of your business,” could apply, but when the establishment is also your neighbor and a community touchstone, PHOTO: BRIANBOHANNON.COM there is a sense of ownership.

After 25 years, ear X-tacy plunged through rough seas, its captain going down with the ship after an aggressive personal campaign. But no white flag hangs above owner John Timmons’ door, which is now at WFPK. You can take the boy out of the music store but ... you know.

“I didn’t expect the WFPK thing to happen,“ he said of his career morph from music store owner to radio deejay. “There are going to be a few more doors to open in the near future,” he hinted, “but right now I’m having a blast on the radio.”

Despite avid fans, budgeting and a compassionate landlord, Coco’s Chocolate Cafe quietly closed in December. “I love the Highlands and will miss interacting with people,“ said chocolatier Fred Moore. “So I will continue to have a presence in the city – farm markets, festivals and events.”

With the explosion of new, independent business, Louisville has been in the regional and national spotlight with great food and good press.

And it’s a map still in motion. Louisville is a fiercely collaborative village. It’s almost as if we are cross-trained to lend a hand, build community and push the best ideas forward.

Silver Dollar proprietor Shawn Cantley will open a southern California-style eatery in the structure abandoned by Avalon. Not bad for a river town.

And as Desserts By Helen thrives in Crescent Hill, Havana Rumba is making plans to open on the former’s Douglass Loop corner.

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smoke pot. In fact, I am quite stoned as I write this. Colorado medical marijuana is good; does the trick. But frankly, as a connoisseur, what I call “Kentucky Bluegrass” (grown outdoors) is as good as it gets.

It is time to say “The King has no clothes.”

You heard it here first, in Louisville’s own “Highlander”: The King has no clothes.

Most everybody I know smokes pot, and I know a lot of people.

Now, the majority of my pot-smoking friends say they partake for recreation, but in reality, these potheads take medicine from the Earth – God’s medicine – that helps them sleep, helps them get through the day, crushes anxiety and boosts cupcake sales at latenight convenience stores.

Now, let’s take a look at the marijuana PLANT and its history. We will start with the creation of the Earth, how ‘bout that?

According to Judeo-Christian belief, some of the very first words of God in the very first Book of Genesis, Verse 29, instructs: “And God said, see, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food.”

Wow! Marijuana is a plant. It bears seeds.

The Big Guy says it’s OK to consume it ...

So brownies are a cakewalk and why not consume by smoking? Some wry hippie once said to me, “God made pot, man made beer, whom do you trust?”

Speed forward some 1900-plus years.

American synthetic fiber corporations decided to drive the hemp clothing, rope, etc., industry (a rapidly growing one) out of business, thus cornering the market to make more money (imagine that).

The late great Gatewood Galbraith displayed for me the ancient corporate record books that set out the synthetic fiber companies’ “Final Solution to the Marijuana Problem.” I can almost hear the greedy Wall street Fat Cats ask one another, “How shall we kill the competition?”

They led with the bankrolling, producing, mass marketing and coldly calculated popular viewings of anti-marijuana movies such as “Reefer Madness.” (Rent it from Wild and Woolly Video – shop local and KEEP Louisville Weird.)

For the unacquainted, the smash hit depicts a marijuana-addled smoker maniacally playing a piano with Jack Nicholson eyes.

Marijuana was portrayed as but one short step from heroin and the American Public came to view reefer as a threat, especially to whites (only).

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These were the days of southern segregation and nationwide overt racism. This was before Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and (my favorite, of course) Malcolm X. This was the 20s and 30s. Part of marijuana demonization was linking the pot dealing to jazz musicians, heroin pushers and “colored men” from across the tracks. Crime stats reinforced the negative societal image since blacks were, then surely more than now, arrested in disproportionate numbers to whites. Catch 22.

Sure enough, blacks were arrested back then for sport.

Let us flash forward to preparation for what the military knew in the 30s was coming: War. Despite the despicable and damnable demonizing of marijuana, Congress passed what is known as the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. Thus “hemp farming” was legalized for a spell before and during WWII. To illustrate, President George Bush the Elder plunged safely into the ocean during the Pacific Campaign in a parachute made of hemp fibers. When his feet hit the surface of the boat that saved him, the troops were clad in boots made of hemp.

Naturally, all of this was driven by market forces – capitalism in the raw. The military industrial complex just didn’t pop up last year. As you see, it is eternal, inherent and quite flexible. After WWII ended, market forces went into play once more, did a back flip, and draconian laws were resurrected to criminalize marijuana possession and sale. It became a felony under federal law to possess a joint.

Then came the latter part of the 20th century.

More and more state legislatures started passing medicinal marijuana legislation. In other states, measures were voted on directly by citizens. Then, lo and behold, it now becomes legal for recreational use in Colorado and Washington State (Excuse me, readers ...

“Angela, did you have a chance to book that flight to Denver? I’ll have something for you to type soon ... it’s on marijuana ... ”) Sorry readers, office business.

Here’s the punch line: WHY DOESN’T KENTUCKY MANUFACTURE THE HELL OUT OF ALL KINDS OF MARIJUANA FOR HEMP, MEDICINE AND RECREATION, EXPORT IT TO OTHER STATES AND TAX IT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY? With a stroke of good sense, we could eliminate the state income tax, state sales tax, state inheritance tax and maybe even have change to spare to build a bridge or two across the Ohio River.

Here’s a quiz. What are the top three pot-producing states in America?

Did you guess right?

Kentucky, California and Hawaii. We have the right climate and soil in the Bluegrass State to make Kentucky Bluegrass a worldwide export. Imagine: we could no doubt underbid the California and Hawaii prices and do an astounding business with the states right now that allow marijuana for medicinal and recreational use.

And the worldwide export market currently is amazing, expanding and insatiable.

So my question is this: Why is our great Commonwealth saddled with such second-rate leadership that we seem cursed to be last or near last at everything except obesity, lung cancer and incest?

Why just plod along and have our legislature study industrial hemp?

Why not put it on the ballot rather than voting on whether or not the dueling reference should be part of the oath of office?

Let us be allowed to vote. Vote to legalize marijuana – ALL AT ONCE – for hemp, for medicine and, damn it, just for a good time.

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