The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 12

i 12A Friday, June 3, 2005 The Paducah Sun Fulton County says can't prevent hog operations r- i i I i. ,7,. Continued from 1A western Kentucky for the Sierra Club, said the club will participate in actions regarding "any civil or criminal violations" of the Clean Water Act. Fulton President Barry Sharp distributed a 17-page letter from the Kentucky Resources Council, a Frankfort-based environmental organization that opposes the hog operations for health and safety reasons. The letter was to the fiscal courts in Fulton and Hickman counties, which are reviewing permit application's from various farmers to raise pigs in large barns with concrete waste pits beneath the floors and systems to inject waste into the ground as fertilizer.

Thursday's hearing was in regard to an application by Ralph Wayne Adams to build a contract hog operation on his Fulton County farm in the Cayce area, east of Hickman. He and three others seeking permits would be subcontractors for Jimmy Tosh of Tosh Farms in Henry County, Tenn. Although. Adams didn't speak, applicant Jim Moss of Hickman denied others claims that the hog technology is not new and threatens the environment, notably the groundwater. He said farmers must run larger hog operations under contract to be able to make a living.

"This is a business opportunity for me and my two sons to continue in agriculture," he said. Fulton County Fiscal Court passed an ordinance in 1997 allowing the farms only with a permit issued by the court, but until this to f'. BARKLEY THIEIEMANThe Sun Can't stop them: County Attorney Rick Major discusses restrictions on regulating hog farms. spring when Tosh approached growers, no one was interested in applying, Judge-Executive Harold Garrison said in an interview. He did not attend the hearing.

Permit applications for the Mosses and two other farmers will be heard at 1 p.m. June 9. Garrison said he sought the ordinance after visiting North Carolina hog operations that had leaching lagoons arid manure spread on the ground. He, said the permit process is intended to protect residents because the county is not zoned. The six-page application through Garrison's office requires a site inspection from his assistant, Tom Hodges, and Disaster and Emergency Services Director Bob Naylor, who are conducting the hearings.

Farmers, must also receive approval from state and federal regulatory agencies. Among other things, the Defends the farms: Jim Moss, who plans a hog operation in Fulton County, defends the environmental aspects of farms and says it is an opportunity for his family. permits require that hog barns be contamination, property values, at least 1,500 feet from the prop Religious grounds: Virginia Varden, 2, watches as her father, John, criticizes hog farming on religious grounds. He said he is a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina who owns property in Fulton County. industrial recruiter for the county desperate" and a target for con-for many years, said he is not con- tract farm operations, vinced the, hog operations are "This is a classic 'nimby' environmentally safe.

He said issue," he said. "Not in my back Fulton County is "economically yard." smell and other problems. One man said farmers should be made to post a $1 million bond in case of damages. Roger Kephart of Fulton, who described himself as a volunteer erty line, and ban open -lagoons and spreading manure on the ground. But the many neighbors who spoke against the operations say they worry about groundwater uipi "TO i.niYl, Drought eased in Southwest Associated Press PHOENIX An unusually wet winter has led to the easing of the drought across much of the Southwest, officials said Thursday.

With runoff from heavy snow feeding reservoirs, conditions in most of the region have been upgraded from drought to abnormally dry, officials said. "We had this great winter, with lots of snow and rain," said Michael Hayes, climate impacts specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center. "All of the Southwest has recovered significantly from the drought conditions. Parts of the Southwest have recovered completely," "I'm dancing and jumping and everything," Carruthers said of her excitement. In contrast, Linda Keeling, 43, of Paducah, is a veteran parent.

She and her husband, Tony, have a birth daughter, Mandy, 23, and five adopted children: twins James and Jacob, Quinton, Kaylin, and Raphael, 1. Keeling was in foster care as a child and, once Mandy moved out, said she got the urge to become a foster parent. "I had the empty nest syndrome and got to thinking if someone hadn't been there for me, where would I be?" she said. Now, she said, she spends time baking cookies and playing on a back yard trampoline and swing set with the children. "To me," she said, "it's the most rewarding thing I've ever done." Continued from 1A big party for them," she said.

Promoting adoption and foster care and allowing the children to' socialize with other adoptive children were two of the day's goals. Sanderson received the Alben Barkley Distinguished Citizen Award and was named a Duchess of Paducah during a ceremony as part of the festivities. Cal Ross, director of the Pad-' ucah Housing Authority, also talked briefly about being an adoptive parent. i can tell you, folks, it's about the love," he said. That's something Elva Carru-thers, 65, of Paducah, already knew, although she had been an adoptive mother for only a few hours.

Carruthers' adoptions of Lavonda, 4, and Joyce, 12, were two of seven completed by Sanderson on Thursday morning. LANCE Sun Paint job: Health and Human Services employee Tena Phillips paints the face of Thomas Mcintosh, 5. Kuttawa native toured with Ray Charles, to be honored here stayed," he said. "I stayed at funeral, homes, high school gymnasiums, anyplace that had a room to put us up." In 1964, Wade stopped touring with Charles and started working as an agent for a New York City talent agency that booked and' blues acts. He now owns his own agency, Duke Wade Theatrical Enterprises, which he operates out of his home.

Wade said the movie made about Charles' life last year was not entirely accurate, although he thought the acting was good. He said Charles was a nice man who treated him well. "Some people Jackson was built in 1909 and was the only hotel in the area in which blacks were allowed to stay during segregation. The hotel is being renovated a cultural museum, avbed-and-breakfast and a gift shop. "In the '50s or '60s, if you played here that's where you said he was hard, but he taught me this business." Wade attended Charles' funeral last year.

"Dick Gregory and I sat together," he said. "I sat in the front with B.8. King, Willie Nelson and Jesse Jackson. I would like to get B.B. to come down (to the Heritage Festival) next year." took me all over the world to 22 countries," Wade said.

"I saw queens, kings, princesses, shahs, presidents and governors. We stayed close friends for a very longtime." During his touring days, Wade remembers staying at the Hotel Metropolitan. The hotel, at 724 Continued from 1A said. "We would work seven days a week, four shows a day. That's how I met Ray Charles." In 1958, when Brown took a six-week sick leave, Charles asked Wade to be his road manager after meeting him only once.

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