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All flowers have a meaning. The Victorians used flowers as a symbol to express their feelings. The meaning of forsythia in flower language?

Anticipation.

Clark Regional Medical Center Named a Best Place to Work in Kentucky Winchester, KY – Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has been named one of the 2016 Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management. The competition is a multi-year initiative designed to motivate companies in the Commonwealth to focus, measure and move their workplace environments toward excellence. Achieving this designation confirms that CRMC is an employer of choice in Kentucky. The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management (KYSHRM) announced the companies that made the 12th Annual Best Places to Work in Kentucky list, presented by Kentucky Career Center and the State Information Data Exchange System (UI SIDES). The winner rankings will be announced at an awards dinner Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Heritage Hall in the Lexington Convention Center. According to the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, winners from across the state have been selected in three categories: small companies of 15-149 employees, medium companies of 150499 employees and large companies consisting of more than 500 employees (categories based on number of U.S. employees, only Kentucky employees surveyed). A total of 34 companies, including Clark Regional Medical Center, were selected as winners in the medium-sized category. The selection process, managed by Best Companies Group, is based on an assessment of the company’s employee policies and procedures and the results of an internal employee survey. With an annual payroll of $28.7 million and an average of 447 employees, Clark Regional Medical Center is one of the largest

employers in Clark County. “At Clark Regional Medical Center, our goal is to deliver the best healthcare available to the residents of Clark and surrounding counties, as we seek to make our community healthier,” said Cherie Sibley, Chief Executive Officer at Clark Regional Medical Center, “This goal can only be achieved with the help of our dedicated physicians, employees, volunteers and board members.” Vice President of Human Resources, Deidre Bradley, states, “We are honored to have made the ‘Best Places to Work in Kentucky’ list. I feel this recognition is an acknowledgment of our commitment to be a place where employees want to work and where physicians want to practice.” Clark Regional Medical Center was one of two hospital companies included on the medium companies list and one of only six hospitals which made the list state wide. To view the entire list visit www.bestplacestoworkky.com.

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Spring Has Arrived ..... Don’t you just love Spring? It’s an awakening of a new season. Each walk around the yard produces more flowers peaking up through the dirt, just waiting to show their beautiful blooms. I really do love my flower gardens. Of course, I’m pretty good at ignoring them too. I start out in the spring with so many plans, and many fall by the wayside. Life gets hectic, priorities take precedent over gardening from time to time.

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Our Cover

Our April front cover was taken by Dave Severson at the front of the Alpaca Berry Farm. This forsythia bush was given to us by Beth Abshear when we moved to the farm and it is now over our heads.

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Pictures and keepsakes mean a lot more to a

2016

Volume Ten Number Nine

All flowers have a meaning. The Victorians used flowers as a symbol to express their feelings. The meaning of forsythia in flower language?

Now, I’m not trying to make you mad. Just make a point. We used to not go to the grocery for every last item. We used to make most of our meals ourselves, not out of a box or can. Yes, it takes more time to make a homemade pizza than a store-bought one, but it’s also so much better for you. Do a little research ... you’ll find that sugar feeds cancer, coffee ruins your liver, need I go on?? I guess it’s time we all started taking more responsibility for our own food supply instead of hoping these big corporations are really watching out for us when they process our food.

Last month, I received the most precious gift in the mail from my Aunt Bev in the Seattle area. It seems as though my late Uncle Virgil, the only uncle I had on my mom’s side, kept everything! Aunt Bev sent me a box of his keep-sakes and I couldn’t have been more thrilled. I was amazed at the things he kept. That box held a lifetime of memories for me to look back on. Since I’m the oldest of the ‘cousins’ and my uncle had no children, it’s my responsibility to keep and care for his keepsakes.What an honor. I’m going to make a shadow-box containing some of the items and the rest I shall put in photo albums. I’m also going to scan in all the pictures for the rest of my cousins and sister.

April

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Not this year though! With all the foods on the market that will literally kill us, I can’t possibly go another year without planting things to can away for next winter. I get disgusted when I research our food supply and find that most of it is slowly poisoning us. It’s because, as a society, we are lazy.

April is kind of a sad month for me. My late Aunt Carole celebrated her birthday in April and I think it gets harder each year instead of easier.We were about as close as two could be for many, many years. She taught me so much and it seems like in April I just remember it all more.

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I haven’t shared a picture of the grand-kidlet lately, so thought it was about time. This is Jocelyn getting ready to perform at a talent contest at her school. She loves to sing. And we love her to the moon and back.

person once they’ve lived through a house fire. I have very few items from my early childhood, so these items of my uncles will hold a special place in my heart and in my home. •••••• It’s Mushroom Festival time. Of course, we’ll be there all weekend, although we aren’t having a booth this year. But, you’ll find us in a variety of places throughout the weekend. We hope to see you there. It’s always fun to catch up with people, some of whom you only see each year at the festival. Have a great April everyone! Blessings to you --

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For.syth.i.a .....

On the Road Again ....

Forsythia (fôrsĬth´ēə), common name for any member of the small genus Forsythia of the family Oleaceae (olive family), European and Asian shrubs with abundant bell-shaped yellow flowers that appear before the leaves. They are easily cultivated and are used in hedges and borders. In some species the branches droop and in others they grow erect. Forsythia branches are often cut in early spring and forced into bloom indoors. Forsythia are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Scrophulariales, family Oleaceae. [“forsythia.” The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2016 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-forsythi.html]

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April ....

The fourth month of the year is an outstanding one

According to early Roman calendar, April was the second month but became fourth when they started to use January as the first month. The name originally came from Aprilis, meaning ‘to open’. In April, small animals that were hibernating usually come out and the birds fly back northward to settle, bees and butterflies begin to gather nectar. In some parts of the world, April is planting time but in other parts, it’s the harvest season. Because of the nice warm weather of April, amateur athletes begin to go outside while the professional baseball begins. People usually do huge spring cleaning and mowing. The first day of April begins with April Fool’s Day.

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Honey is not just a word for affection, it has amazing healing powers and benefits for our body. This is why we need to take care of the Honey bees, they are rapidly dieing from all the chemicals we are using on plants. With all the GMO’s (“GMO” stands for “genetically modified organism”). It has a natural sweetness that is capability of preventing a number of hazardous pathogens by mixing it with Cinnamon. When honey is mixed with Cinnamon the two together can cure many ailments in our bodies. Chinese experts believe that cinnamon is HOT and produces heat in the body called “Yang” Yang heals. Honey is Cold which produces coldness in body the “Yin”. Yang and Yin are balance, honey “Yin” and Cinnamon “Yang” are the same.

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Upset Stomach: Honey being a pre-digested nectar (being antibacterial) and cinnamon also being antibacterial substance helps in curing issues like constipation, ulcers, and nausea. Honey is easily broken down in the stomach while cinnamon kills all unwanted bacteria in the digestive walls. Indigestion: Cinnamon powder sprinkled on 2 tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

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Winchester, KY – Clark Regional Medical Center is pleased to welcome Twana Hatton, D.O., to the Kentucky Hospitalist Group at Clark Regional Medical Center. Dr. Hatton, a former Chemistry Teacher, decided to pursue her dream of becoming a Physician in 2003. She received her medical degree from Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville, Kentucky in 2007 and is board certified by the American Osteopathic Association. As a physician she combined her love of teaching and medicine by serving as the Program Director and Director of Medical Education for the St. Claire Family Medicine Osteopathic Residency program. Additionally, in 2012 she was awarded the Most Inspirational Physician Teaching Award by the University of Pikeville. “Clark Regional Medical Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Hatton to our team of hospitalists. She is a highly skilled physician and is a great addition to our team,” said Cherie Sibley, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Clark Regional, “We are proud to have a team of highlyqualified, experienced hospitalists whom ensure high quality care for our patients throughout their hospital stays.” A hospitalist is a fully-certified, trained physician who works fulltime at the hospital and expertly coordinates the details of a patient’s hospital care with his or her primary care doctor. While primary care and other referring physicians must travel between the hospital and their primary practice, hospitalists remain on campus to provide comprehensive and immediate care to inpatients. They maintain close communication with each patient’s primary care physician to make sure patients get the most effective treatment when they need it. The hospitalist team at Clark Regional Medical Center consists of three physicians, Dr. Twana Hatton, Dr. Shawn Rice, Dr. Enio Kuvliev, and two Physician Assistants, Ginger McDaniel and Farrah Jane Conn. Led by Dr. Enio Kuvliev, the Kentucky Hospitalist Group, has been the primary provider of inpatient hospitalist care at Clark Regional Medical Center since 2005. For more information about the Hospitalist at Clark Regional Medical Center, visit www.clarkregional.org.

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2016 Mountain Mushroom Festival Schedule Tuesday, April 19, 2016

- Agate Hunt, 9 a.m. (check-in), Estill Co. Schools Central Office gym, 253 Main St., Irvine

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

- Agate Hunt, 9 a.m. (check-in), Estill Co. Schools Central Office gym, 253 Main St., Irvine

Thursday, April 21, 2016

- Agate Hunt, 9 a.m. (check-in), Estill County Schools Central Office gym, 253 Main St., Irvine - Hillbilly Flywheelers Antique Gas Engine & Tractor Show, County Fairgrounds, 38 South Irvine Road

Friday, April 22, 2016

- Hillbilly Flywheelers Antique Gas Engine & Tractor Show, County Fairgrounds, 38 South Irvine Road - Agate, Rock, Gem & Mineral Show, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., . Central Office Gym, 253 Main St., Irvine - Cake Decorating Contest entry, 3 - 5 p.m., Thyme on Broadway, 142 Broadway, Irvine - Booth Check-in and Set-up, 5 - 8 p.m., Broadway and Court Street, Irvine

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Festival Hours of Operation (9 a.m. – 7 p.m. booths, 9:30 p.m. grandstand) - Pancake Breakfast, 7 – 11 a.m., Masonic Lodge, 221Broadway, Irvine - Fungus 5K/2K Run/Walk – registration: 7:30-8:45 a.m., 2K: 8:30 a.m., 5K: 9 a.m., awards: 10 a.m., Broadway and Estill Ave., Irvine - Twin City Kruzers Car Show, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. registration; awards 3 p.m., Main St. and Mack St., Irvine - Agate, Rock, Gem, & Mineral Show, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Central Office Gym, 253 Main St., Irvine - Hillbilly Flywheelers Antique Gas Engine & Tractor Show, County Fairgrounds, 38 South Irvine Road - Mushroom Tent/Market, Court Street and Broadway, 9 a.m. Mushroom Market opens - 9 a.m.-5 p.m.....Cake Decorating Contest display - 10:00 a.m.........Morel Cooking Demonstration - 11:30 a.m.........Morel Cooking Demonstration - 12:30-1 p.m......Mushroom Cook-Off Entry Time - 1:00 p.m...........Mushroom Cook-Off Judging - 1:30 p.m...........Morel Cooking Demonstration - 3:00 p.m...........Mushroom Hunter Interviews - 4:00 p.m...........Mushroom Hunting Contest Winner Announcement - 4:30 p.m...........Mushroom Cooking Demonstration - 7:00 p.m...........Mushroom Market closes - Grand Ole’ Parade, 1 p.m., Court St. and Broadway, Irvine - Arts & Crafts, Community, and Educational Booths, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Broadway and Court St., Irvine - Food Court, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Broadway, Irvine - Festival Information/t-shirts/souvenirs, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Gazebo, 142 Broadway, Irvine - Rock Climbing Wall, and Inflatables, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., lot behind BB&T, Broadway and Court St., Irvine - Oleika Shriners Engineer Train, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., 108 S. Court St., Irvine

- Estill County Historical Society Museum, displays/memorabilia, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., 133/135 Broadway, Irvine - Irvine-Ravenna Woman’s Club Student Art Show, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Horizon Adult Daycare, 178 Broadway, Irvine - Photography Contest display – Horizon Adult Daycare - Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital health screenings, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Main St./Broadway, Irvine - Estill County Lions Club vision screenings, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Main St./Broadway, Irvine

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Festival Hours of Operation (10 a.m. – 5 p.m.) - Agate, Rock, Gem, & Mineral Show 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Central Office Gym, 253 Main St., Irvine

- Mushroom Market/Tent, Court Street/Broadway, Irvine 11 a.m........ Market opens Noon......... Shiitake Cooking Demonstration 1:00 p.m.... Mushroom Log Inoculation Demonstration 2:30 p.m.... Morel Cooking Demonstration 5 p.m......... Market closes - Speedy Spore River Run, (KY River canoe/kayak paddle) under Irvine bridge - Arts & Crafts, Community, and Educational Booths, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Broadway and Court St., Irvine - Food Court, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Broadway, Irvine - Festival Information/t-shirts/souvenirs, Gazebo, 142 Broadway, Irvine - Rock Climbing Wall and Inflatables, 9 a.m. – 5p.m., lot behind BB&T, Broadway and Court St., Irvine - Oleika Shriners Engine Train, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., 108 S. Court St., Irvine - Estill County Historical Society Museum, displays/memorabilia, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., 133/135 Broadway, Irvine - Irvine-Ravenna Woman’s Club Student Art Show, Horizon Adult Daycare, 178 Broadway, Irvine - Photography Contest display – Horizon Adult Daycare - Festival Closes 5 p.m. Have a safe trip home!!

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Admission to the festival is free and all events are open to the public.

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SPRING PHOTO Mountain Mushroom Festival Parade CONTEST In Conjunction with the 26th Annual Mountain Mushroom Festival

Winning Photo to be featured on the front cover of All Things Country Magazine.

Central Kentucky Show Stopping Images The 2016 Festival Theme is ....

“Mountain Mushroom Festival: Pride in Community” We’re looking for magnificent imagery, beautiful images showing ‘that second’ in time - a time that cannot be captured again. Skies, natural occurrences that happen that make everyone wish they were there to capture it! Extra consideration to photos taken in Estill County. Contest Rules: 1] Photos submitted via mail must be at least 8x10’s. Photos submitted electronically through email must be at least 600 DPI and in jpg or tif format. 2] Only two entries per person accepted. 3] All entries, either through the mail or email, must include your name, address, telephone number and where you took the picture. 4] Photos must have been taken in 2016. 5] Helpful hint .... our cover is vertical, so the winning photo must be oriented vertically to be used on the cover. Cover size is 9.25 inches wide by 11.75 inches deep. All entries must be received by April 15, 2016. Email to pam@atcky.com or send to “Photo Contest” 60 Thornburg Bend, Irvine, KY 40336. You may also drop photos off at Irvine City Hall.

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One of the Mountain Mushroom Festival crowd’s favorite event is the parade. The theme for 2016 is “Mountain Mushroom Festival: Pride in Community”. It will be Sat., April 23, beginning at 1 p.m. with the line-up at 11:45 a.m. behind Estill Springs School, 314 Main St., Irvine. Judging will begin promptly at noon. The parade will proceed up Court Street onto Broadway and end in Ravenna. The Estill County High School Band, 2015 state band AA winners, will be the grand marshalls. Civic organizations, churches, fire departments, and school clubs are invited to participate in the parade by entering antique vehicles, bands, marching units, and floats. All-terrain vehicles are prohibited from the parade, except for those used as part of a float. For safety reasons, no animals, bicycles or unlicensed motorized vehicles will be entered. The entry fee for a float is $10 April 15 or before and $20 from April 16-23. Floats will be judged on creativity, originality, and beauty. Also 10 extra points will be given if mushrooms are used on the float. Cash prizes will be given for the top three winners of the floats. The prizes in the float category are $175 for first prize, $125 for second prize, and $100 for third prize. Parade participants will not be allowed to toss candy or other objects to the crowd in the interest of safety of the community. Candy can be handed out. Parade applications and guidelines are available in Irvine City Hall or on the festival website: www.mountainmushroomfestival. org.

Grandstand Entertainment at the Mushroom Festival

Come out and enjoy the free live entertainment at the Grandstand during the festival. The festival is proud to present some of the best talent in the area including the local youth of which we are so proud. Besides great talent the festival provides a professional stage and a professional sound system by Darrell Horn Sound. Bring your own lawn chair or for your convenience the festival will have seating available, bleachers and a tent with folding chairs. Saturday, April 23 10:30 – 11 a.m............Twin City Infinity Cloggers 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.......Fun Guy Winners 11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m....Estill Elite Jump Rope Team 12 – 1 p.m...................Kirby Knob Boys 1 p.m...........................Break for Parade 1:45 – 2:45 p.m...........Kirby Knob Boys 2:45 – 3:15 p.m...........Cheer Cats (gymnastics) 3:15 - 4:00 p.m............Moron Brothers 4:00 – 5:00 p.m...........Sunshine Cloggers 5:00 – 5:45 p.m...........Moron Brothers 5:45 – 7:15 p.m...........Jenkins Twins 7:30 – 9:30 p.m...........Round Baby & Co. Sunday, April 24 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.........The Lear Family (Southern Gospel) 1:00 – 2 p.m................Estill County High School Jazz Band 2 – 4 p.m.....................Appalachian Troubadours 4 – 5 p.m.....................Richard McHargue Cloggers

Mountain Mushroom Festival Twin City Kruzers Car Show The Twin City Kruzers Car Club will host a Car Show at the Mountain Mushroom Festival Saturday, April 23 in downtown Irvine at Mack Street and Main Street. The car show registration will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a registration fee of $15. Dash plaques will be given to the first 100 entries. Trophies will be awarded in two categories by years 1985 to 2016 and 1984 and before: Trophy for Best Ford, Trophy for Best Mopar, Trophy for Best GM, Trophy for Best Import, Trophy for Best Truck, and Trophy for Best of Show. Trophies will be awarded at 3 p.m. Judging will be done by out of town judges. Also there will be a 50/50 pot, raffle for a $50 gas card, four $25 cash prizes, door prizes, and a food vendor on site. DJ services will be provided by Wes Thomas. In case of rain on Saturday the show will be delayed until Sunday, April 24. If the show is delayed until Sunday it will be a rain or shine event. For more information about the Car Show call Melvin Williams, club president, at (606) 723-5447 or Tobo Bryant at (859)582-9422.

Estill Lions Club Vision Screenings The Estill County Lions Club will be conducting free vision screenings during the Mountain Mushroom Festival on Saturday, April 23 (9 a.m. – 3 p.m.) in the Davis building at 103 Broadway by the festival grandstand. The screenings, free of charge, will be done by using the Welch Allyn Spot Cameras, borrowed from the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation (KLEF). The state-of-the-art cameras use low-level infrared light to take 23 photos in one second. The process is non-invasive, meaning no one has to be touched, no eye drops are used and the test normally takes only a few seconds to get accurate results. Nothing must be read or repeated. The test can be done on children as young as 6 months or even less. These cameras can detect:

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myopia (near-sightedness), far-sightedness (hyperopia), unequal refractive power (anisometropia), blurred vision, eye structure problems (astigmatism), pupil size deviations (anisocoria) and eye misalignment (strabismus).

The local Lions Club is on a fund-raising campaign to raise money to purchase their own spot camera. Thanks to great local support and a grant from Jackson Energy, they are nearly 2/3 of the way to their goal.

Masonic Lodge Pancake Breakfast

Start your day at the festival with a hearty breakfast! The Estill County Chapter of the Masonic Lodge will dish out an all you can eat pancake breakfast for a hungry festival crowd at their lodge located at 221 Broadway & Lilly Ave. on Saturday, April 23 from 7 a.m. - 11 a.m. Pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, juice, milk, and coffee will be served. The cost will be $7 for adults and $5 for children from 5 to 12 years old. Children 4 and under eat free. 5-K/2K participants cost will be $5. Carryout will be available by calling 723-2188. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Mountain Mushroom Festival T-Shirts The 2016 Mountain Mushroom Festival t-shirts will be for sale in Irvine City Hall, 101 Chestnut St., until Friday, April 22 at noon. The festival shirts range in size from youth to adult sizes with a mushroom design to celebrate the 26 years of the festival. The sand color t-shirts are short-sleeve. Prices are $10 for the youth xx-small to adult XL and adults XXL and XXXL are $12. During the festival the t-shirts will be for sale in the gazebo on Broadway.

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Irvine-Ravenna Woman’s Club Student Art Show You’re invited to see the talent that local students possess at the Middle School and High School Art Show during the Mountain Mushroom Festival. When: Saturday, April 23, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 24, 1 – 5 p.m. Where: Horizon Adult Daycare, 178 Broadway, Irvine. Categories: High school: ink, water color, mixed media, and digital art. Middle school: mixed media, drawing, and painting. Prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will receive ribbons and cash prizes from the sponsor, the Irvine-Ravenna Woman’s Club. A grand prize winner will also be recognized from each school with an extra cash prize and ribbon. Entries will be judged by Estill Arts Council members

The show will be open to the public and free of charge.

Oleika Shriners Engineer Train All Aboard!! You’re invited to ride on the Oleika Shriners Engineer train at the Mountain Mushroom Festival. The conductors will be boarding riders at the “train station” in front of Citizen Voice & Times at Court Street and River Drive. Their hours of operation will be Saturday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Hunting for agates in the creeks of Estill County is a long-standing tradition. Agate hunters, often called rockhounds, are a folk group who enjoy traveling into the hill country to be out in nature with the wildlife and escape from the world. They wade in the creeks in hopes of finding the rare and highly prized red and black agate, which is among the most beautiful found. Millions of years ago agates were formed by minerals filling a cavity in a host rock, creating the “gem of the hills.” The Kentucky agate is prized by collectors worldwide for its bright red bands and other spectacular colors. The rare agate has only been found in Estill and a few other surrounding counties. Agate became Kentucky’s official state rock in the year 2000. Agate hunts will be offered as a pre-festival activity. The agate hunts will be Tues., April 19 through Thurs., April 21. Departure will be from the Central Office of the Estill County Public Schools parking lot at 9 a.m. The cost will be $10 per person. Agate hunters from Estill County will be the tour guides. Registration is being accepted at Irvine City Hall. A wait list will be made available if needed. Those who register will need to wear appropriate clothing and wader boots and take bottled water, snacks, and a sack lunch.

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Fungus 5K and 2K Run/Walk

Fungus 5K and 2K Run/Walk will be held Saturday, April 23, 2016. The 2K will begin at 8:30am and the 5K will begin at 9am. Race Day Activities: Race Day Registration/Check-In: 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. at corner of Broadway & Estill Ave., Irvine. (GPS coordinates: 37.69915, -83.97064) Race starting time: 8:30 a.m. for 2K and 9 a.m. for 5K. Awards will be given following the race at the finish line. Snacks and drinks will be served at the finish line. Race Staff: The staff from John’s Run/Walk Shop in Lexington will be supervising the sanctioned race. Assisting Organization: The Kiwanis Club of Irvine-Ravenna will assist with the race. Entry Fee: Make check payable to Mountain Mushroom Festival and return to Irvine City Hall. 5K: $15 (April 15 or before) $18 (April 16 - 23) 2K: only for teams of 8 or more – $13/person (April 15 or before) $15/person (April 16 - 23) T-Shirt: Fee includes t-shirt with an original artist’s drawing of the Morel FunGuy. Shirt size availability depends on the number registered. Those who pre-register will have their t-shirt reserved and bagged at the pre-registration table at check-in if not picked up before the race event at city hall. Register early to guarantee getting your t-shirt size. Check your t-shirt size on the registration form.

Race Course: 5K: The course starts at the Irvine School Apartments, 223 Broadway, (corner of Broadway and Lily Avenue). It continues on Broadway, through the festival area to Court Street, left on Court Street to River Drive, left on River Drive, left on 8th Street in Ravenna, and left on Broadway to the finish line at Estill Avenue. Runners start in front, followed by walkers. The race course is on the website. 2K: The course starts at the Irvine School Apartments, 223 Broadway, (corner of Broadway and Lily Avenue). Turn left on Lily Avenue. Turn left on River Drive. Turn left on Hood. Turn left on Broadway. Turn right on North Madison. Turn left on Armour St. (behind Irvine School Apartments). Turn left on North Lily. Turn right on Broadway to the finish line at Estill Avenue.

Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital Health Screenings

Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital (MWMH) will be conducting free health screenings during the Mountain Mushroom Festival on Sat., April 23 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.). Hospital staff will be in the Davis building at 103 Broadway by the festival grandstand. The following will be provided free of charge to all participants:

Age Groups: Males and Females: 5K: 13 and under, 14-16, 17-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 4044, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75+ 2K: Teams can be a mix of ages and males and females and must have a minimum of 10 walkers and runners.

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Medals/Prizes: 5K: Medals (gold-1st place, silver-2nd place, bronze-3rd place) will go to the first three female and male finishers in the 15 age divisions. The 1st place female and male runner will receive $50 and an overall winner medal. 2K: Largest team registered will receive $25 for the charity of their choice. The Relay for Life team member that reaches the finish line first will receive a plaque.

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Fungus 5K and 2K Sponsors Davis Law P.S.C.; Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital. Other sponsors will be announced later.

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The Hillbilly Flywheelers will have their 14th annual Antique Gas Engine & Tractor Show at the Estill County Fairgrounds, 38 South Irvine Road, Thursday, April 21 through Saturday, April 23. There will be demonstrations of old gasoline-powered engines and LP gas will be furnished for large engines. Exhibits will feature oil filled engines and yellow dogs. These were 2 sided pots that were used to burn crude oil for lights at nights

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Estill County Historical & Genealogical Society Museum The Estill County Historical and Genealogical Society has been collecting and preserving artifacts, documents and other memorabilia since they opened the museum to promote knowledge and appreciation for the area heritage. The building, at 133 Broadway, was erected in 1935 for the Park Brother Bus Line which was in business at this location until the mid-1940’s when the Black Brothers purchased the property and operated the bus service and restaurant called “Chat-NNibble.” Activities on Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24 will include displays, live music, and sale of their publications as they tell the story of Estill County. Visitors will views displays of railroad, military, country store, photographs, farm implements, school, store, and home items. Historic relics include a 1795 loom, boat steering wheel, old courthouse bell, quilts, and pictures. The Historical Society will have their books, publications, and cookbooks for sale. The society has over 1,000 books and family files about Estill County, from 1808 when the county was established to the present at their Museum and Research Library which is open every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

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Seen Any Good Movies Lately? I have. We recently went to see the new Jurassic World. What a hoot. …Well, com’on now, it is great entertainment; full of action, lots of big scary critters getting loose and wreaking havoc on the big money corporation scheme, … fantasy with enough reality mixed in that a “nature detective” like myself loves to watch for the details and tricks that Hollywood uses to create these moneymaking blockbusters. And besides, who isn’t somehow captivated by these big green monsters that run around devouring and crushing everything in sight? The problem is, way too many people, young and old alike, allow the media to shape their actual concepts of nature, the environment, and lifestyle. Reality TV is somehow looked at as really being real, and sanitized or highly-biased nature shows are widely accepted as the truth. Let’s take a ‘nature-detective” look at Jurassic World, and use our senses, and common senses, to separate the fun fantasy from reality. First-off, let’s just go back to the beginning, Jurassic Park, the movie that started it all. Remember the whole premise was that the genetic scientist was able to extract dino DNA from mosquitoes found in pieces of amber. This DNA was the crucial building-block used in reproducing the park’s dinosaur populations. Fast forward to the new movie, and you now have the addition of marine life to the park. I would wonder how they were able to get marine life blood from an underwater creature from a mosquito stomach. That is left unexplained. And, we’re not talking about Flipper jumping up and snatching a sardine from a trainer’s hand at Sea World, or the Killer Whale that is trained to splash the crowd with its tail. That’s the stuff of the 1970’s. We’re talking BIG bad boys now. Sized like real fantasy monsters, these digitally-made critters that seem to be half shark and half alligator will scare the begeebers out of you from the first second they burst on the scene out of the surface of the aquarium for a mid-morning snack. The reality is they seem to be patterned after the real Mosasaurs from fossil record. These were big lizards that it is presumed lived in shallow water and ate things like turtles, fish, and other smaller lizards. The largest fossilized remains are somewhere around 59 feet long. But the fantasy is they’ve been ramped up Hollywood style with a huge size (digitized in the movie to be 667 feet long), and a theatrical fright factor that has them rocketing out of the water like Great White Sharks after anything that happens to get near the water surface. Another big addition to the Jurassic theme is the main character bad boy hybrid dino, the Indominus Rex, a complete Hollywood creation. It embodies all the traits we want to see in a dinosaur- big, greenish-white, and mean; a bloodthirsty behavior, all claws and teeth, and smart ... real unpredictable and cunning ... the perfect prototype dinosaur. And it plays perfectly into the current trend of genetic modifications we are all dealing with in our corporate consumerism society. In the real world, corporate scientists are messing with plant and animal genetic DNA to produce “bigger”, “better looking”, “more perfect” food products. The park geneticist says in the movie he developed the hybrid because people wanted to see “bigger, better monsters” with “more teeth and bigger claws” …the “perfect” dinosaur. And we sure got it; the perfect dino, Hollywood style. But, all pure fantasy. Sounds are important too, and the character and voices of the various dinosaurs portrayed set the mood perfectly. You just know all those chitters and chatters were sinister conversations between raptors planning their next attack, and all those background sounds, everything from roars to growls, chirps to hisses, and squeaks to

screams, all held the imminent potential for large monsters bursting from the rain forest at any second. The reality is the movie sound team spent over a year and a half visiting zoos, nature preserves, and rehab centers recording various bird and animal sounds for the movie. They matched sounds to scenes that seemed to “fit”. Here’s an example. The scene where Claire and Owen find the wounded Apatosaurus, and pause to comfort it in its dying moments…those sad death moans are in reality the cries of a Harris’s Hawk. Just before the raptors came on scene in the beginning of the movie, they were preceded by sounds in the bush, probably bringing up a few goose bumps on your arms. Those sounds were made by the Kookaburra, a type of Kingfisher native to Australia. And, remember when Claire went to Owen’s trailer to ask for help. The noises in the distance…that you knew were bringing more monsters on the scene at any moment were in reality the calls of the Willow Ptarmigan, a bird found in the Arctic, not the tropics.

Gordon, Continued from Page 24 actually a variety of Toucan calls, and the chittery sounds they often made are the sounds of Penguins. And don’t forget that just before the raptors came on the scene in the beginning of the movie, the calls were made by the Australian Kookaburra. Cool. Enjoy the show, again, now that you know. See you in the woods, sometime soon.

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Remember the scene where the helicopter crashes into the Aviary and lets all the Pteranodons out, and they head straight for the main park access and begin snapping up all the people? Well, the reality is they are patterned after fossil-record Pteranodons, not dinosaurs at all but flying reptiles with bat-like wings, a beak like a heron, and a very fragile body and bone structure. The fossilized beak structure suggests they couldn’t rip and tear prey like say, a hawk would do, but would capture bugs and fish and swallow them whole like a present-day heron would do. The fossil examples are also much smaller, so they couldn’t fly around picking up large prey like people. And, really cool things were used to make the Pteranodon sounds. Their raucous, and somewhat creepy sounds were a combination of voice sounds from baby Brown Pelicans, Otters playing at a zoo, Conures (small perky parrots commonly kept as house pets), and Ospreys. I’m not kidding, they really did. Osprey screams were added to ramp up the fear factor. While on a bird sound recording trip to Florida, Al Nelson, one of the sound design team, happened to see a female Osprey fighting off another Osprey that was attacking her nest. “I just happened to be at the right place at the right time”, said Nelson. “I actually just recorded it on my iPhone and it ended up in the movie.” Now, what about the Velociraptors, those quick, intelligent, pack-hunting monsters that everyone has feared but anticipated in each movie since the beginning? They certainly are the real stars of this one, and we need to look at how they were made to really appreciate the cinema technology today. The movie creations resemble the real things; there are Velociraptor skeletons in many museum collections. But of course in the movie they are much larger, and depicted as these highly skilled hunters that are about half-trained to be military weapons. Makes for a great story line, and one that leans in on some reality. Much like falconers today, Owen the raptor’s trainer knows the Velociraptors are good at learning skills, have been trained to follow commands, but will never be “domesticated”. They are unpredictable, wild at heart, and we expect them to eat people at every turn. So Hollywood steps in, creates the scene, adds the digitized Velociraptor pack, some background scenery, and we sit on the edge of our seats as Owen confronts his “students” for the first time inside their cage. Scary!! And what about the noises these critters make? The raptor voices are a mix of several birds that helped to add emotion and mood to the raptor characters. A lot of the Velociraptor communication is Continued on Page 25 April 2016 -- www.atcky.com

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Clark Regional Medical Center Awarded Highest Honor from LifePoint Health

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DIRECTORY Wisemantown United Methodist Church Greg McClellan, Pastor Sunday Service - 11am Winchester, Ky. – LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®, recently awarded Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) with the 2015 company-wide High Five Award for demonstrating excellence in healthcare delivery. This is the highest honor a LifePoint hospital can receive.

has received this honor and that we continue to surpass all measures of our High Five Guiding Principles,” said Cherie Sibley, Chief Executive Officer of CRMC. “This award could not have been achieved without the hard work, dedication and devotion of our staff, board, physicians and volunteers who are committed to advancing healthcare delivery in our community.”

The High Five Award is given annually to three finalists and one company-wide winner within LifePoint’s network of more than 70 hospitals. The award recognizes extraordinary achievement in fulfilling the company’s High Five Guiding Principles: • Delivering high quality patient care; • Supporting physicians; • Creating excellent workplaces for our employees; • Taking a leadership role in our communities; and • Ensuring fiscal responsibility.

In 2015, CRMC experienced a banner year – exceeding state and national standards in a number of core measures, including significant declines in hospital acquired conditions and readmissions. In July 2015, CRMC became the first LifePoint hospital to achieve Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate designation, after implementing a culture of safety and achieving high standards of quality care, performance improvement and patient engagement. CRMC was also named a Top Performer in Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission.

These five core guiding principles have influenced the Company’s actions and decision making and defined what communities can expect from LifePoint facilities as healthcare partners since its founding in 1999. This is the third year in a row that CRMC has received a High Five Award and the second time it has received the company-wide award.

As part of the award, the hospital received $250,000 from LifePoint, which will be used to invest in facility improvements and technology that will support the hospital’s ongoing growth and continuous enhancement of services to the community.

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Until 2014, Kentucky farmers hadn’t grown industrial hemp in more than 50 years. Since then, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment researchers have taken on many projects with the crop. With research for pharmaceutical use of hemp components coming into focus, farmers are realizing a real challenge—harvesting the giant plants. “The part of the plant the pharmaceutical industry believes has the most potential is the flower at the top,” said Tim Stombaugh, UK extension agricultural engineer. “That flower is the part where they can extract the most cannabinoids. If the crop were shorter, we could use traditional hay harvesting equipment, but most varieties are currently just way too tall for that at 10 to 12 feet.” Most recently the process for growing and harvesting hemp for cannabinoid extraction has been through intensive management of individual plants in a greenhouse environment. The scientist grows the plant, harvests the parts they want, hangs it upside to dry and then individually processes each plant. Stombaugh said they thought about trying to harvest the flowers by hand, but with 30 acres, it just wasn’t feasible. In the summer of 2015, a participant in the Kentucky hemp pilot program approached the UK Department of Biosystems and

Agricultural Engineering and offered to fund a project to design a harvester. “They contacted us last July and asked if we could have a prototype by Sept. 1,” Stombaugh said. “It was a tight deadline, but our engineers got busy, and we had it ready to use.” UKAg engineers borrowed from current technology. They used the grain head from a combine and selected several useable parts. The new harvester can connect to any tractor with a front-end loader with a standardized connection. They used electricity to power the harvester. “Most implements use hydraulic power, but that would have made it harder to move from tractor to tractor,” Stombaugh said. “We put a generator on the back of the tractor to create power for the harvester. All of the equipment can fit on the back of a gooseneck trailer, so it’s very easy to move from one machine to another.” While farmers are still in the investigative stages of hemp production, the harvester shows potential to help cut down on labor and reduce time in the field. “If hemp is going to be a potential crop for Kentucky, and we can do some things to help farmers harvest it, it’s going to be valuable for everyone down the road,” Stombaugh said. “There’s still so much we are learning about hemp, but we did the best we could, and it worked. Helping farmers do their jobs in a way that saves them money, labor and time is always something we are interested in doing.” The hemp harvester spent the winter on the UK campus but will likely be out in the field later in 2016.

Buttercups in Pasture

One of the signs that spring has arrived is when yellow buttercups (the weed, not daffodils) begin to appear, but it’s during the winter months that the vegetative growth of buttercup actually takes place. As a cool-season weed, this plant often flourishes in over-grazed pasture with poor stands of desirable forages. In fact, many fields that have dense buttercup populations are fields heavily

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grazed by animals during the fall through the early spring months. Buttercups are sometimes classified as short-lived perennials, but often grow as winter annuals. Plants typically produce five, shiny yellow petals in the early spring. There are four different species of buttercups that may be found in Kentucky: bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus), creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens), tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris) and small flower buttercup (Ranunculus arbortivus). Although each of these plants may have somewhat similar flower heads, each of these buttercup species differs somewhat in their vegetative leaf characteristics. New seeds are produced during the time petals are showy. If you wait until after flowers appear, it can be too late to implement control tactics. This is one reason buttercups can survive year to year and new plants emerge each year. Most buttercup plants emerge from seed during the fall or late winter months. Therefore, pasture management practices that improve and promote growth of desirable plants during these months are the best methods to help compete against the emergence and growth of this plant. Whereas, livestock overgrazing fields during the fall and winter months is one of the main factors that contribute to buttercup problems. You can mow fields or clip plants close to the ground in the early spring before buttercup plants can produce flowers and that may help reduce the amount of new seed produced, but mowing alone will not totally eliminate seed production. For chemical control, herbicides registered for use on grass pastures that contain 2,4-D will effectively control buttercup. Depending on other weeds present products that contain dicamba and 2,4-D (eg. Weedmaster), aminopyralid (eg. ForeFront, Milestone), triclopyr (eg. PastureGard, Crossbow) or metsulfuron (eg. Cimarron) can also be used. However, legumes such as clovers interseeded with grass pastures can be severely injured or killed by these herbicide products. For optimum results apply a herbicide in the early spring (February - March) before flowers are observed, when buttercup plants are still small and actively growing. For best herbicide activity, wait until daytime air temperatures are greater than 50 degrees for two to three consecutive days. Consult the herbicide label for further information on grazing restrictions, precautions or other possible limitations. For fields heavily infested with buttercup, you may need a variety of control tactics. Apply a herbicide to help reduce the population of buttercup plants in the spring, plus use good pasture management techniques throughout the year to help improve and thicken the stand of desirable forages. For more information, contact the Estill County Cooperative Extension Service at 723-4557. Educational programs of the Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, sex, religion, disability or national origin.

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Forest Service plans controlled burns WINCHESTER, Ky. – Over the next couple of months, residents who live near the Daniel Boone National Forest may see smoke. Fire management officials plan to conduct several controlled burns to manage vegetation on national forest lands. These “prescribed fires” are used to improve wildlife habitat, promote plant and animal diversity, and reduce woodland ground fuels. “People have used fire for centuries as an efficient way to manage vegetation,” said Natural Resource Staff Officer Paul Finke. “The benefits of fire are no different today, when used correctly. “Foresters use fire to achieve specific management goals, primarily to develop and maintain healthy forest conditions. “A healthy forest can be defined in many ways, but it is typically considered to be biologically diverse, vigorous enough to withstand insects and disease, and capable of sustaining various native wildlife populations.” Unlike wildfires, controlled burns are set under specific weather conditions and within established fire boundaries. Roads and

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Clark Regional Medical Center’s Barbara Kinder Named CNO of the Year Kinder earns top honor from LifePoint Health Winchester, Ky. – Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Barbara Kinder has been named “CNO of the Year” by LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®. The award is given annually to one CNO within LifePoint’s network of more than 70 hospitals who best exemplifies the company’s core values of honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, compassion, and ethical and legal compliance, and who is committed to advancing quality patient care. “The most effective CNOs are those who are always searching for better ways to support and guide the nursing staff, while improving the patient experience and quality of care,” said Michelle Watson, CNO of LifePoint’s Central Group. “During her tenure with LifePoint, Barbara has embodied these important characteristics and has paved the way for advancing quality care and patient safety at Clark Regional Medical Center.” LifePoint established the CNO of the Year award to honor the crucial role CNOs play in delivering high quality healthcare to their communities. CNOs must excel every day in enhancing clinical care and advancing the safety and wellbeing of patients, while also understanding the financial and operational aspects of the hospital. “Barbara has been instrumental in creating a culture that fosters team work, transparency and improvements in quality and service,” Watson added. “She approaches every decision with a singular focus on what is best for the patient, especially when it comes to safety. She goes above and beyond to fulfill her responsibilities as CNO and sets a wonderful example as a progressive leader who leads from her heart.” Since assuming the role of CNO at CRMC in 2012, Kinder has implemented a number of initiatives to engage employees and medical staff. Most notably, she helped lead CRMC to become the first hospital to achieve designation as a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate. As part of this journey, she helped transform the culture of the hospital from a place where employees did not feel comfortable speaking up to a culture where it is now encouraged and expected. About Clark Regional Medical Center Clark Regional Medical Center is a 79 bed, community hospital which has served the residents of east central Kentucky since 1917. The Medical Center has more than 100 affiliated physicians, over 400 employees, and 100 volunteers on its staff. The hospital was acquired by LifePoint Hospitals in May, 2010 and completed its relocation to a new, $60 million, state of the art medical campus in March, 2012. April 2016 -- www.atcky.com

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Pines, Spruce, Firs & Cedars—Landscaping With Conifers Bt Max Phelps Almost anywhere in America one can look out a window or

along the highways and see pine trees. Spruce, fir, hemlock, and cedars may also be in the picture. Junipers, arborvitae, taxus, and certain other trees are nice large evergreens, but are not cone bearing. And, technically, ginkgo is considered a conifer, though you wonder if the botanist who decided that was having a bad day. Stately evergreen conifers add much beauty and usefulness to our yards, our forests and the whole earth, and this is never more evident than during the winter when deciduous trees are barren. Pines give us lumber, pulpwood for paper (for the office, the classroom, and when you gotta’ go), turpentine and other distillates for varnishes, antiseptic and cleaning uses. The pine cones and boughs are used for decorations. And the seeds are preferred by many birds and wild animals. Pine “nuts” are a delicacy; seeds of certain varieties of pine trees, such as pinyon pine, Swiss stone pine and Korean stone pine, are enjoyed by humans, too. The shade in summer, the protection from wind in winter (especially useful to birds that do not migrate southward when it gets cold), and the musical sounds of the breeze coming through the pine trees are all benefits we enjoy from pines. The world’s oldest known trees are Bristlecone pines. Ancient trees can tell us a lot about our world from the past, like the climate, years of calamities, and the like. A lot of people are yapping endlessly about global warming (I really think it’s more about global control and ways to collect more taxes), but Eric the Red and his son Leif settled on Greenland before 1000 A.D. and started a colony as farmers for a few years. Leif Erickson (Eric’s son) discovered Vinland or Newfoundland. If it wasn’t warmer then in that part of the North Atlantic Ocean than it is today, farming on Greenland would not have been possible. Trees found in swamps or the bottoms of cold lakes in the north—lost by accidents probably by loggers of the time—have preserved many old growth trees which we can still do research on today. The white pine is over-used by homeowners who want a fast growing evergreen. After 40 years when it is eighty feet tall and a threat to fall on the house, it doesn’t seem to have been such a great idea. But, I’ve seen a grove of white pines, with all the lower limbs cut off, allow wind to blow under them and really cool off a seating area in summertime. They have their place in a modern landscape. Just use discretion. Austrian pine, Japanese black pine, Ponderosa pine, limber pine and Scots pine are other pines one may encounter in people’s yards. As mentioned earlier, the stone pines are dwarfish, and even provide tasty seeds if you beat the birds and squirrels to them. And many a yard has a dwarf mugho pine. Hemlock (tsuga canadensis), is a very lovely tree that works well in many yards. It’s not so fast to become too large, and it can even grow successfully in shade of other large trees. With hemlock, too much heat (don’t plant it on the south side of a house with a brick wall for instance) can keep hemlock from doing well, as can soil that has too much alkalinity, such as limestone soils of the bluegrass. There is also the wooly adelgid insect to be concerned about. Spruce trees (picea), especially Norway spruce, white spruce and blue spruce are very useful landscape plants. They are more tolerant of sweet limestone soils than most pine or hemlock. They also hold up well in windstorms, their pyramidal frames seeming to deflect winds. They make a super place for birds to hide in winter storms. Fir trees (abies) are better for areas where summers are cool and damp, or at least nights aren’t so muggy. Most firs can take really cold temperatures, but there are also some that can’t and which thrive only in very specific climes. Among those for Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, are white fir or concolor fir, Canaan fir, and the Turkish fir. Some of the most beautiful cones are born on fir trees. Cedars (cedrus) are either Atlantic cedar, Cedar of Lebanon,

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or Deodar cedar. These are the true cedars, and make giant stately trees....although they can look rather skinny in their youth. Junipers, which produce seeds and not cones, are often called cedars, including the “red cedar” of the eastern states. Cedar lumber is usually from juniper trees in the United States. Atlantic cedars are blue, and are the hardiest. Cedar of Lebanon will survive 20 below, and Deodar cedars will do well to 5 or 10 below zero Fahrenheit. The monkey puzzle tree is a conifer. And also has tasty nuts. This tree is for places that stay above zero in winter. It’s a very spiney tree, with large cones and edible seeds. As I mentioned, ginkgo is considered a conifer. And there are other cone bearing trees, but these are primarily what one will find for consideration in the landscape. Those who want natives, the Virginia pine, the hemlock and red pines may be collected from the wild and moved to your yard. But, hemlocks are for sale at nurseries for reasonable prices, and the local pines are not the best to place in the front yard. For the collector, the experimenter, or the person who has to have something different, there are garden centers who cater to a high-end clientele that will carry a number of exotic evergreen trees. (Slow growing trees always have a higher price because of so many years somebody has invested in growing it to a good size for sale. Rare ones will also command a premium price.) Landscaping that showcases large evergreen trees, especially the conifers, seems not to need a recommendation as it speaks well of itself. Everyone loves a stately evergreen tree in the right place. Consider one or several of these lovely trees next time you are planning some landscaping; the kids, the birds and squirrels and other wildlife will all be happy you did. The author is a landscaper. Pondbuilder@hushmail.com or www.rockcastles.net April 2016 -- www.atcky.com

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