Local News
‘PeaceWork’ Music, poetry event set Friday
Poetry and music will highlight an interactive event at 7 p.m. Friday at the Berea Arts Council.
Poet George Ella Lyon and cellist Roberta Guthrie will present “PeaceWork: Patterns for Hearts at Peace.”
Lyon makes her living as a freelance writer and teacher in Lexington and has published 36 books for children and adults.
Guthrie played the cello with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra for 30 years before leaving in 2005 to pursue performing in smaller venues, such as small restaurants and fundraisers and presenting poetry and cello collaborations with Lyon.
The title of the program echoes the quilting bee as a community event where wo-men gather to stitch fragments of their lives together in beautiful patterns and piece-by-piece the quilt emerges.
Audience members will listen to the poetry and music and write “peace word” responses on Post-It notes that, at the close of the program, will be placed on a large quilt-bordered poster to create a community piece.
The program is sponsored by Community Acupuncture Berea (CAB).
“Peace, like healing, starts from within,” said Maureen Flannery of CAB. “That’s why I am proud that Community Acupuncture Berea is sponsoring a program in which two gifted performers collaborate in a presentation that will encourage participants to access their own creativity and to articulate their hopes and dreams for the future of our community and the world.”
Serving as background for the program will be “Quilts with a Kick,” an exhibit of about 50 contemporary art quilts created by members of the Kentucky Art Quilters.
The exhibit runs through Aug. 29 with a reception for the show scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. will Aug. 2 during the weekend of Berea’s Quilt Extravaganza.
“It’s not your ordinary quilt exhibit,” said Gwen Childs, executive director of the Berea Arts Council. “They are all art quilts, not traditional, bed-size quilts. There’s a (15-piece) collection called “Challenge Quilts” where the quilt society gives all the quilters a piece of the same fabric and challenges them to create a quilt using that fabric, along with other fabric. It’s pretty interesting to see how different they all are.”
The “PeaceWork” program is free and no advance tickets are required.
Contributions are welcome to benefit PeaceCraft, the not-for-profit shop located on Chestnut Street which has promoted peace through economic justice in Berea since 1988.
The idea behind the store is to market products made by people in low-income areas of the world in order to build economic relationships that are based on living wages and local control of their workplaces and community resources, according to the shop’s Web site, www.peacecraftinberea.org.
For details about “PeaceWork,” call the Berea Arts Council at 985-9317 or visit www.bereaartscouncil.org.
Bryan Marshall can be reached at bmarshall@richmondregister.com or 624-6691.
- Local News
-
-
Police arrest Richmond man for burglary
An Evansdale Avenue resident has been accused of stealing about $2,662 worth of items from a woman’s apartment, said Larry Brock, Richmond police chief.
The woman told police someone had entered her apartment during the overnight hours of Saturday. Entry was gained through an unlocked window, Brock said. -
Battlefield Park getting pistol belonging to Gen. Nelson’s killer
A pistol that belonged to the Union general who shot and killed Gen. William “Bull” Nelson, Union commander at the Battle of Richmond, is coming to Battlefield Park’s visitors center.
The pistol, a Colt .44, was carried later in the Civil War by Gen. Jefferson C. Davis of Indiana, who killed Nelson during an altercation in the lobby of the Galt House in Louisville after the August 1862 Battle of Richmond. -
BREAKING NEWS: Man sitting on tracks hit, killed by train
An unidentified white man was struck and killed by a train at about 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday.
The man’s body was discovered about a-half mile north of the CSX-owned tracks intersection with Four Mile Road said Larry Brock, Richmond police chief. The man appeared to have been sitting on the tracks in the area of Four Mile Road, Brock said.
-
Man who fired ‘warning shots’ pleads guilty
A man accused of shooting at his ex-girlfriend after a physical fight between the two pleaded guilty to lesser charges Wednesday in Madison District Court.
Kevin Carter, 24, of Berea Road, had been charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, but as part of a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor.
Had Carter been convicted of the original charge, he could have faced up to five years in prison. -
Republican party hosting open house
The Madison County Republican Party will be hosting an open house today from 5 to 7 p.m. at its new headquarters at 128 Big Hill Avenue (Wallingford Broadcasting building). Many of the local candidates will be available to meet the public and campaign items will be available.
-
Increasing access
A rural health clinic soon will be able to serve more people, offer more services and operate longer hours because of grant funding received from Catholic Health Initiatives.
The $398,610 grant will be administered over a three-year period. The cost of the grant is mostly for salaries, according to Katie Heckman, community relations manager for St. Joseph — Berea. -
Emergency sirens to sound Saturday
The bi-monthly test of the Madison County siren, tone alert radio and local emergency notification system will be conducted Saturday, Sept. 4 at 12:20 p.m.
In the event of threatening weather, the test will be canceled.
The system is tested the first Saturday and the third Wednesday of each month.
Local Emergency Alert System radio stations include: WEKY, 1340 AM; WCBR, 1110 AM; WCYO, 100.7 FM; WEKU, 88.9 FM; WKXO, 1500 AM; WLFX, 106.7 FM; and WIRV, 1550 AM. -
Foothills, White House provide school supplies
Kentucky River Foothills and White House Clinic have teamed up to help provide free school supplies to children in Madison and Estill counties.
This is the first year for the program, which was created to help students in need be able to focus more on learning. -
Local SBA disaster loan centers to close
BEREA — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will close its temporary Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Madison County on Thursday. Another center in Carter County also will close Thursday.
-
Some not happy with cemetery conditions
Richmond Cemetery trustee chair Donald Roberts and his predecessor Tom Smith both acknowledged in a Richmond Register interview published that not everyone was happy with cemetery upkeep, but that much progress had been achieved in the nearly 11 years both had been on the board.
- More Local News Headlines
-
Police arrest Richmond man for burglary
