The Park City Daily News from Bowling Green, Kentucky • A1

Newsstand Daily Home Delivery AILY Year 154 No. 107, 24 Pages, 4 Sections www.bgdailynews.com Bowling Green, Kentucky EWS Details, Page 2A Tomorrow Scattered showers. Park City Park City RIDAY A PRIL 17, 2009 Dodge Jeep Chrysler www.MartinDodgeJeepChrysler.com 2209 Scottsville Rd Bowling Green HURRY IN! ENDS APRIL 30 HURRY IN! ENDS APRIL 30 TH TH EMPLOYEE PRICING PLUS LOW APR FINANCING PLUS REBATES select models. On approved credit. Expires Classifieds 5C, 1D Comics 7C Crossword 7C Deaths 5A Faith 1B Sports 1C Sudoku 3D 6C Index Special Olympics 2009 Area 5 event set for Saturday at Bowling Green High School.

Page 3A Green River Ferry Expanding the hours of operation seems to be the best short-term answer. Page 4A Faith Values Bowling Green real estate salesman puts his faith on his sign and in his work. Page 1B Photos by Hunter Wilson News Above Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry (left, background) and former MiG pilot Nguyen Hong My stand Thursday during the singing of the national anthem at the Aviation Heritage Park dedication ceremony.

Cherry shot down Hong MiG-21 during the Vietnam War and was reunited with the pilot last year. Top NHong My addresses the crowd. By NATALIE JORDAN The Daily News Bowling Green resident Sarah Hightower said she was proud to have been at Basil Griffin Park on Thursday morning is a historic and patriotic she said. is great Bowling Green has this park, and the people here should be About 100 spectators and guests converged inside Basil Griffin Park as members of the community and Aviation Heritage Park board gathered to dedicate the site on Three Springs Road. exceeded all of my expectations in every single way.

The turnout was remarkable, and it does reflect the level of patriotism in our said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry, president of the board of directors. think everyone had a good time and was in a good mood.

We had a lot of veterans there, and all of us on the board are proud of the outcome of the But before several red, white and blue, star- shaped balloons were released, and a blue tarp was lifted to show the stone centerpiece of the park reading Green Kentucky, Avi- ation Heritage Park, Airborne since the crowd heard from many community and state leaders who shared their excitement about the park. here to celebrate a universal story of ordinary men and women who do extraordinary Mayor Elaine Walker said. celebrate the spirit of Aviation Heritage Park grew from a group of community members who felt the stories of aviators with ties to both southcentral Kentucky and Western Kentucky University needed to be By JUSTIN STORY The Daily News Taste buds were wowed and appetites sated Thursday night at Taste of Bowling Green, where thousands of dollars were raised for The Dream Factory. Forty restaurants, food and beverage vendors and specialty stores ringed a ballroom in the Sloan Convention Center for the annual fundraiser, which was attended by nearly 1,000 people. Eating, drinking and chatting, patrons made their way around the ballroom several times, scooping up free samples along the way.

The event is presented by the South Central Chapter of the Kentucky Restaurant Association and helps raise funds for The Dream Factory, an organization founded in Hopkinsville in 1980 and with a branch in Bowling Green purpose is to make the wishes of chronically and critically ill children come true. Vicki Weaver, president of The Dream Factory of Bowling Green, said more than Retail development will be next to facility By JENNA MINK The Daily News Adevelopment that will include a new hotel received approval Thursday from the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County. Paras BG, LLC plans to build a four-story, square-foot Comfort Suites hotel at 3245 Ken Bale Boulevard near its intersection with Scottsville Road. Developers plan to open the hotel by next summer, said Mac Paragh, managing partner with Paras BG. The company also plans to construct a retail building or restaurant next to the hotel that would measure about 6,000 square feet.

Developers do not yet know what businesses would locate in the building; however, they are not planning to construct an Olive Garden restaurant, contrary to many rumors that the location would be the site for the eatery, Paragh said. Commissioners approved the hotel development plan last year, but developers changed plans, moving the hotel from the south side of the property to the north side, prompting another review of the plan. Commissioners also approved a zone change from agriculture and highway business to highway business on Mel Browning Street. David Browning plans to construct a shopping center Parent company files for protection By JENNA MINK The Daily News General Growth Properties the parent company of Greenwood Mall in Bowling Green, has filed for bankruptcy protection, but the local mall is not part of the filing. The Chicago-based company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday, and about 158 of the shopping centers also filed for bankruptcy protection.

Those shopping malls do not include Greenwood Mall, although the Bowling Green mall could file for bankruptcy protection in the future. always that said Heidi Olson, general manager of Greenwood Mall. at this time not (filing For now, Greenwood Mall is continuing to operate normally. the most part here business as Olson said, things are going The company filed for bankruptcy after trying to GRAND OPENING COMING UP HOT RODS Miranda Pederson News Mark Clauson (right) of Alvaton and Pam Shaw of Scottsville help themselves to food Thursday from Hilton Garden Inn at Sloan Convention Center during ATaste of Bowling Green, which benefits the Dream Factory. Nail salons striving to make manicures and pedicures safe for clients.

See Wellness. Safety clip Bowling Green Hot Rods ready for long-anticipated home debut. Page 1C Play ball! Planners OKnew BG hotel See PLANNERS, 6A Greenwood Mall unaffected by bankruptcy See COMPANY, 6A Former enemies on hand for dedication See ELECTED OFFICIALS, 6A Taste of BG once again a big hit See EVENT, 6A.