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Tips on how to have fun during winter months
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Tom Watson Tom Watson will officialy be the new mayor of Owensboro in January. Watson, who served a four-year term as mayor of Owensboro from 2005-08 and did not seek re-election, easily won another term as mayor on Nov. 8, 2016. He will succeed Mayor Ron Payne, who did not run for re-election. “I’m so excited for this group of people for what we achieved to be mayor again,” Watson told the MessengerInquirer after the election. “My wife and my sister-in-law and my grandkids walked precincts, plus other people. It was such a team approach. Being an old coach, it was great getting everyone lined up. It is so joyful.” 4
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ith the start of the new year, people across the country are making resolutions. Travel is something many people love but few have the time to do. While some people avoid travel because it can be costly, many more admit they would travel more if they simply had the time. So how can you make travel a bigger part of your life in the year ahead? Consider the following tips. • Use your vacation days. Many people don’t travel because they simply aren’t using their paid time off. A Harris Interactive survey conducted for the career website Glassdoor found that only 51 percent of American employees use all of their eligible paid time off and vacation time. Some of those workers may be hesitant to take days off for fear of upsetting their superiors, but another survey suggests that might be a mistake. A 2015 study from the staffing firm The Creative Group found that 40 percent of executives feel their employees would be more productive if they used their allotted vacation time. • Hit the road and work at the same time. If things at work are simply too hectic, consider hitting the road and working at the same time. While unencumbered travel tends to be the most relaxing, working vacations can allow you to let off some steam and get
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your work done outside the hustle and bustle of the office. Resolve to work only a few hours each day, tackling a few projects in the early morning before you call it quits and enjoy your destination. The ease of working remotely can make it easier than ever before to stay connected to the office while still getting time to travel. • Make better use of weekends. Travel need not be limited to vacations. If you truly love to get up and go, plan more weekend trips. Find places within a few hours of your home so you spend less time behind the wheel and more time enjoying your destination. Plan ahead for three-day weekends so you don’t have to scramble at the last minute to make arrangements. • Extend work trips. Another way to see new places is to extend work trips. If you have a business trip coming up, add an extra day at the end of the trip so you can explore a new locale without the burden of having to work. This can be a cost-effective way to travel, as your company will no doubt still pay to fly you home even if you stay an extra day to do some sightseeing. Finding time to travel is not as hard as many working professionals may think. Oftentimes all it takes is a little extra effort and the willingness to leave the office behind for a few days.
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enee Gard King, founder of iTumble and Bounce, keeps the words different, extreme and inclusive in mind during ever y step of her operation. “Some people see gymnastics as difficult and unattainable, but it’s something ever yone can do it they are determined to,” she said. After leading the gymnastics sector
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of Joy Johnson’s Dance Studio for years, King established iTumble and Bounce, a power tumbling and trampoline school, in 2011. “This has been my passion since I was 3 years old,” said King, who has more than 30 years of gymnastics experience. The iTumble and Bounce facility, at 909 Moseley St., currently ser ves about 150 people and offers lessons in
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co-ed recreational and cheerleader tumbling, trampoline and dance acrobatics for ages 18 months to adults. The gym also offers special needs classes, birthday parties and an occasional Parents Night Out on Fridays, during which parents are invited to jump around, eat and socialize. iTumble is a great place to be active during the winter months.
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The gym was also the training home of two former students who placed first in advanced tumbling and double mini-trampoline in the 2014 U.S. Tumbling & Trampoline Association national competition. Seth Lasher, the advanced tumbler, is now an instructor at iTumle. “I believe in my students, so I love to have them as assistant coaches when they’re ready,” said King, who also has assistant coaches and three high school students as junior instructors on staff. King is happy to see the growth of iTumble, and she’s planning to add to it, with aerial/circus arts classes to begin at the end of 2016 when her certification is completed. She also hopes to build up to becoming a competition space. With the skills tumbling can build, King encourages everyone to try it. “Even if you’re not looking for a career in gymnastics, this enhances the abilities you can have in other sports,” she said. “And it does so much for confidence and self-esteem for all ages. That’s part of why it’s so important to me.”
iTumble and Bounce owner Renee Gard King, left, works with student CeCe Hemingway, 11, at the power tumbling and gymnastics and trampoline school in Owensboro.
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anytime soon, as more and more people are resolving to get healthier. No one signs up for a membership hoping for mediocre results. Therefore, here is how to get the most out of a gym membership and regular workouts. • Get inside the door. The first step to realizing results is to go to the gym. Statistics indicate that within a month or two of joining a gym, attendance numbers dwindle even though people continue to pay for memberships when they are not going to the gym. Schedule time at the gym as you would any other activity. If you need motivation to go,
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enlist a friend to join and get you to attend. • Do something you love. Gyms cater to so many different workout experiences these days that gym-goers need not worr y about getting bored with their fitness routines. Start out with an activity you enjoy doing, or experiment with different activities until you find one that you find enjoyable. You may be allowed to sample classes without paying for a different membership plan, or even just obser ve outside of the studio door to get a sense of what may interest you. • Work with a trainer. Gyms
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ince he was a kid, David Haynes has had an entrepreneurial spirit. Now as a young adult, he owns his own business. Escape Today opened in Owensboro in November, and Haynes said he could not be happier with how business is going. Escape Today is a part of the immersive entertainment trend. Players are locked in a room with only clues and their brainpower to help them escape. The participants have to solve the clues and escape the room in less than one hour to “win.” The Owensboro location began after Haynes visited other tri-state escape rooms, but left dissatisfied. “I wanted to bring something to Owensboro that ever yone could enjoy,” he said. “I wanted people to leave here thinking they had a quality experience.” Players have the option to choose from four themed rooms and can ask to be given clues throughout the game or opt out of receiving clues and hints all together. The first room opened on Halloween night. With a haunted/
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Top: David Haynes shows the “kidnapped scenario” room inside Escape Today at 527 Emory Drive, Suite 108 in Owensboro. Above: David Haynes shows a clue placed in a clock in the “cold war scenario” room inside Escape Today.
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horror theme, Haynes said that room is geared more toward a mature audience. “The storyline for the horror room is that you and your group of friends have been kidnapped and you don’t know how you got there,” Haynes said. “You are chained up together, and you have to work together to get out of the chains and get out of the room.” Two of the other rooms have themes such as The Cold War and Eygptian. Haynes said these rooms are more family-oriented. The last room is very different from rooms seen in other escape places. The Buried Alive Together room accommodates only two people who are in simulated coffins that are side by side. The timer for this room is only 30 minutes, compared to the hour timer for the other rooms. “The coffins contain clues to unlock the other person’s coffin,” Haynes explained. “You can technically get out of your coffin and leave your partner stuck in theirs.” Haynes said Escape Today is the only place that offers a shorter-timed room. Owensboro’s Escape Today is at 527
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Emory Drive, Suite 108 in the Emory Centre near Wesleyan Park Plaza. Haynes transformed the empty building in less than a month to have it ready for customers, but he said he didn’t do it alone. “Joe Ira, Max Garvin, Damon Wallace, my mom, my girlfriend and her father — there were a lot of people who helped make this possible,” he said. Haynes, Garvin and Wallace created the rooms and all the clues. “We got together and bounced ideas off each other and felt that was the best way to do it,” Haynes said. “We are three very different people with different backgrounds, so we think we’ve come up with something everyone will enjoy.” In the future, Haynes hopes to expand and add rooms. The cost is $25 per person for the hour rooms and $12.50 per person for the 30-minute room. Hours are noon - 8 p.m. Sunday Thursday, noon - 10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday. People can reserve a space to play online or over the phone. Haynes Escape Today also welcomes walk-ins.
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ackie Smith started making jewelr y seven years ago after looking around her mom’s boutique and seeing all the things she bought from market to sell. Smith said, “I could make that,” and her hobby was formed. Fast for ward to present day, and now her hobby is helping fund something that will change her life forever. Smith is making beads for baby. The profits from her jewelr y-making are helping cover the expenses of her fertility treatments — to grow her family. The jewelr y became more than pretty beads and stones in 2014 after Smith and her husband, Zach, were married. “We immediately started talking about having a family — but it wasn’t easy for us,” she said. “It’s actually turned out to be quite the challenge and quite the financial challenge.” “We found out I have premature ovarian failure,” Smith said. That is the loss of normal ovarian function before the age of 40. Smith was 28 when she received the diagnosis. “They think it occurred when I was around 16 or so,” Smith said. “But since I wasn’t tr ying to start a family at that age it was something that was kind of masked — that was a shock.” Smith said having premature ovarian failure is a lot like being post-menopausal. “I have a lot of the symptoms similar to women who are in their 50s or 60s,” she said. “There are also medical issues that go along with it — I’m at risk for osteoporosis, heart disease, I don’t have any estrogen in my body.” This left the Smiths with few options. “I’m blessed that it’s not life-threatening, but to me, this is life-altering,” Smith said. “It’s altering me from having a family the way I want to — keeping me from having it easily.” While the Smiths both agree adoption is a great option, they were interested in an egg donor for the fact that Zach could pass on his genes, and Jackie would still be able to carr y the child. Jackie Smith of Jackie Blue Handmade jewelry holds some of her necklaces. Photos by Alan Warren, Messenger-Inquirer
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“We thought that was a really interesting opportunity,” she said. Once Smith and her husband made the decision to pursue an egg donor, the next step was to figure out how to find one. “It’s over whelming,” Smith said. “At first, we were looking at egg donor sites. If you can imagine a dating site, that’s kind of what it looks like. It’s women’s profiles, what they like to do, age, why they want to do this, education level. Basically you’re tr ying to replace yourself. We looked through profiles and never landed on one that we felt at peace with.” After having no luck with the egg donor sites, they thought about finding a friend or family member to be an egg donor. After asking a cousin, the Smiths thought their luck was changing for the better. But after some routine blood work and doctor visits, things fell through, and Jackie and Zach were back to square one. Being back in the routine of normal life, Smith said she was scrolling through Facebook one night before bed and found a young woman on her friends list who had similar features to herself. That lit the spark. “She had this girl-next-door look — dark hair, light eyes, fair skin — similar features,” Smith said. “I was like ‘where is she on these donor sites?’ I would have already picked her.” Smith admitted she was the type of person who “puts things out to the universe.” “I’m like ‘the worst thing that can happen is people will think I’m crazy,’ ” Smith said. So she messaged the woman on Facebook and gave her a brief update on what was going on and hoped for the best. The woman replied and said she was on egg donor sites. “That’s all she said,” Smith said. “It was like fate. I had to ask her if she was kidding.” From then on, the woman promised to work solely with the Smiths. Zach and Jackie met up with her for lunch and said they had an immediate bond. Since then, the egg donor has had two egg retrievals, both of which Jackie attended. “I’ve been there for her ever y step of the way,” she said. “We’ve had two
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transfers, and, unfortunately, both failed.” So the journey continues. “The jewelr y has been a blessing in disguise,” she said. “This little hobby has blossomed into hopefully helping us reach our dream.” There is not insurance coverage for fertility treatments in all 50 states — currently only 15 states have laws requiring insurance coverage for fertility treatments and Kentucky is not one of them. The Smiths dream has already cost roughly $30,000 in two years — but the Smith’s are hopeful they will have a family one day. “There are so many men and women who deal with this who feel alone, like there is no one else going through this, or that they are embarrassed or think its a taboo subject,” she said. “It’s my life — I am living this ever y day. It’s the journey I’ve been put on.” In Owensboro, Jackie Blue Handmade jewelr y can be found at Bella Regazza, Shelly and Friends, Embellish, The Crowne, Br yon and Barclay, The Red Door, Pure Barre and The Yoga Loft. Her jewelr y can
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also be found in Terre Haute and Indianapolis, Ind., Nashville and other boutiques across the countr y. Smith said people can also order from her Facebook and Instagram pages or by searching for the hashtag, #beadsforbaby.
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Fill your days with fun and activities this winter
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ith winter quickly approaching, kids are longing for snow days while parents are retreating indoors. Snow days may be coveted by kids (and teachers), but they may not be as beloved by parents who are unaccustomed to having kids home during the week. Working parents
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whose businesses are open do not have the same luxur y as their children to roll over in bed and avoid trekking through the white stuff. Even with unexpected snow days, parents can plan ahead to maximize fun. • Establish a snow day plan. Parents who cannot take days off from
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work will need a contingency plan for snow days. Organize a snow day club, wherein school parents rotate taking children for the day. Working parents can reciprocate by taking the school kids on a weekend and letting the other parents have a “date night.” • Create a snow day entertainment bin. Rather than having kids spend
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the day watching television or playing on their tablets, parents can establish a snow day entertainment bin to encourage their kids to make the most of the day off. The bin can include board games, books, building block sets, paints and other crafts. • Plan for an indoor picnic. Kids will probably want to spend a portion of the day playing out in the snow. After all of that physical activity, they’re bound to be famished. Spread a blanket out on the living room floor and enjoy a picnic of sandwiches, snacks and hot chocolate. Kids will enjoy the novelty of eating this way. • Get cooking. Another way to fill the day is to have children participate in making meals. A snowy day is a great time to prepare meals for the rest of the week, as well as tinker with hearty, belly-filling recipes. Older children can help with cutting vegetables and meats, while younger kids can add seasonings to pots and mix ingredients. Involve the kids in choosing which meals to cook. Baking bread is another fun activity and enables kids to sculpt dough and then eat the fruits of their labors. • Go ice skating. The Edge Ice Center is open year-round and is fun
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for the whole family. • Go the movies. As long as there isn’t ice and snow on the roads, consider a trip to the movie theater, where you can enjoy a matinee. Bring a few friends along and make it a fun-filled outing. • Create snow art. Fill squeeze or squirt bottles with some water and food coloring. Allow kids to go out in the yard and create some pictures with the snow as their canvas. • Catch up on cleaning. Cleaning may not be the most exciting snow day activity, but it might be the most productive. Children can spend time sorting through toys and belongings in their rooms. • Take a nature walk. With almost 15 miles of pavement, the David C. Adkisson Greenbelt provides the perfect space for walking around the city. If the parks are open, visit any of Daviess County’s 21 parks for fun on the trails and fields. Grab those boots and insulated pants and head outdoors. A walk in the brisk, cold air can boost spirits and introduce kids to the beauty of winter landscapes. Take the camera along and encourage kids to snap pictures of their favorite vistas.
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ith baking season here, it’s time to turn on the oven, bring out the recipes and enjoy the spicy aromas wafting from the kitchen — a promise of delicious treats ahead. Bars, whether they are cookie, cake or even pie, are the easiest to make and ser ve, especially when there’s a crowd clamoring for dessert. You might have a pumpkin or sweet potato bar in your repertoire, but Aunt Nellie’s suggests Carrot Crumble Bars for a change of pace. 1ST QUARTER 2017
Grab a jar of glazed, sliced carrots, slightly sweet and spicy and ready to enjoy in numerous ways. They are also a great time-saving step for this delicious dessert. They’re cooked and ready to eat, so just puree the entire jar of carrots and add the remaining four ingredients. That’s it for the tasty filling, which is nestled between a crunchy oat crust and topping. Start to finish in under an hour, most of the ingredients are probably already in your kitchen. Plus, they can be made a couple of days in advance and refrigerated until ser ving time. The family can enjoy them for a yummy weeknight dessert or make them company-perfect topped with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream, sprinkled lightly with pumpkin pie spice. Find this and other recipes from Aunt Nellie’s jarred vegetables at AuntNellies.com.
Carrot Crumble Bars Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Servings: 16
Crust/Topping: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup old-fashioned oats 1⁄2 cup packed light brown sugar 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted Filling: 1 jar (15.5 ounces) Aunt Nellie’s Glazed Small Sliced Carrots 1 egg, beaten 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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hristopher Wurth has seen his work on television screens and in stores across America. From Strawberr y Shortcake to Frozen, he has designed it all. A Paw Patrol rug he designed was even in an Owensboro Meijer ad during Black Friday. Wurth is a drawer, illustrator and designer. He hails from Owensboro and recently moved back to enjoy a more slow-paced lifestyle. But for many years he lived in New York and worked for American Greetings, the world’s largest greeting card company. But let’s go back a few years. “In kindergarten a drawing I made of Strawberr y Shortcake & Friends was in an art show at Brescia, and I never stopped after that,” he said. “DuckTales and The Little Mermaid in the late 1980s helped steer me toward animation as the natural outlet for my interests.” Wurth said hand-drawn animation was booming in the 1990s, and he sought out the Disney list of suggested art schools to attend after high school. From there, Wurth found the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fla. He said he didn’t want to jeopardize his class rank
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work in Los Angeles. The company and GPA in high school with was open to working with me low-weighted art classes, so after graduating from Owensboro Catholic remotely, so for several years I’ve been illustrating and designing High School in 1997, he spent a licensed rugs for kids that feature year at Brescia University taking art a variety of characters from Ninja courses. He then attended Ringling Turtles, Spiderman and My Little School or Art & Design, majoring in Pony to Disney and Pixar properties Illustration to develop the drawing (Cars, Frozen).  base needed as a hand-drawn In Owensboro those designs are animator. sold at Target, Walmart, K-mart, “During my Ringling years I Meijer and Kohl’s. interned at American Greetings After that, he decided to freelance in Cleveland, Ohio,â€? Wurth said. full-time, as it would allow him “American Greetings’ toy and flexibility and the opportunity to licensing design division was work anywhere.  preparing to reintroduce their In 2015, he chose to return to characters from the 80s, so it was Owensboro to be near family.  a joy to contribute drawings and “As for hand-drawn animation, I concepts for Strawberr y Shortcake, still love it,â€? he said. Care Bears and other “The mainstream properties.â€?  “As for hand-drawn After graduation, animation, I still love it. industr y is primarily producing wildly Wurth was offered a The mainstream successful CG films staff artist position at industry is primarily which have sidelined American Greetings.  producing wildly hand-drawn animation “I still wanted to on that scale. I’d prefer be in animation, but successful CG films a scenario in which the industr y was which have sidelined CG, hand-drawn and shifting to CG (C for hand-drawn animation stop-motion all thrive.â€?  graphics) which did on that scale. I’d prefer Wurth said not interest me at the time, so I moved to a scenario in which CG, fortunately with Cleveland,â€? he said. hand-drawn and stop- technology, producing animation independently “There I illustrated motion all thrive.â€?  is easier than ever.  cards and designed “Expensive analog licensed products — Christopher Wurth equipment I dreamt such as SpongeBob about as a teenager valentines and reading Animation magazine is now Christmas ornaments. I enjoyed available in a home computer,â€? he working at American Greetings and loved Cleveland in the winter, but had said. “I can draw on my Cintiq or visited my older sister in NYC several on paper, and using the program TVPaint I can create my own movies times during college and ver y much that retain the hand-drawn aesthetic wanted to move to a bigger city.â€? I love.â€? So, he packed up his things and Wurth is currently working on a headed for The Big Apple. winter-set animated short. Once he landed in New York, he “If a child loves drawing I suggest first worked for an apparel company drawing ever y day and drawing designing graphic tees for national from life,â€? he said. “Don’t abandon chains. Later, he took a job at a greeting card/paper company where drawing familiar characters as it is a he created Christmas cards and other fun and valuable way to understand paper holiday products for Target and design, but to be able to create your own you must understand structure, Wal-Mart. space and how things move. Carr y “During this period I was also a sketchbook with you at all times establishing my freelance base and draw the people, objects and illustrating for children’s magazines environments around you. Don’t such as Highlights, Girls’ Life, worr y about making drawings you Humpty Dumpty and more,â€? he said. can show off, use your drawings as “ A former co-worker recommended opportunities to learn.â€? me for some children’s rug design
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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December 23 - January 1 — Christmas at Panther Creek Park, 6 -9 p.m. December 24-31 — Artful Expeditions, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
December 31 — Glow in the Dark Skate Party, 10 p.m. - 1 a.m., Edge Ice Center
December 31 — 4th Annual Goldie’s New Year’s Eve Show, 8 p.m., Cannon Hall - RiverPark Center
January 16 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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January 21 — Missoula’s Peter and Wendy, 2 p.m., RiverPark Center
January 5 — Downtown After Dark, 7 p.m., RiverPark Center
January 22 — Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, 7 p.m., RiverPark Center
December 25 — Christmas Day January 5-7 — ACO Cornhole Tournament, all day December 30-31 — Arctic Adventure Kids Fun Festival, Owensboro Convention Center
January 14-15 — River City PowerSports Motorcycle Show, all day, Owensboro Convention Center
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February 25 — Drumline, 7 January 29 — Your Perfect Day Wedding Show, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., p.m., Cannon Hall - RiverPark Owensboro Convention Center Center
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March 3-5 — 2017 Owensboro Home and Garden Show, all day, Owensboro Convention Center March 11 — Saturday Night Fever, 7 p.m., RiverPark Center March 18 — In Concert The Jungle Book presented by Owensboro Dance Theatre, 7 p.m., RiverPark Center
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