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Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 44

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interest in film and the military into a successful career IL-rald and a copy editor and spurts writer fir die Herald Leader Swift holds a journalism degree from and a master's degree in public administrate) from Harvard University One of his goals Swift said is to get other state media including newspapers ocher TV stations and cable systems to contribute to the content of Tonight" Among the issues he hopes to address during the first month of are the current controversy over the status and future of Kentucky stale parks why women in Kentucky participate so little in politics and how high schools will be restructuring under the Kentucky Education Reform Act KET: News show to make debut on Monday From Paoc 3 ington comes to the job after serving fur three yean as public information director of the state's iVpartmmt of Education His background however is mostly in journalism He was editor of the Kentucky Kernel the student-produced daily at the University of Kentucky He has been a reporter and editor with The Associated IYess in Louisville and Charleston WVa He has also been city editor of the Fresno (Calif) Bee an assistant state editor of the Dallas Times Today EZ3 ON AIR: WKYTs Davis heads for larger market From Page 3 (Channel 27) repistcr is leaving Lexington the TOth-largcst TV market in the country fur a job in Minncapolis-St foul the I-lth-largesL Davis will be a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor at KSTP-TV is something 1 want to continue said DfivLs who was the anchor of WKYTs recently canceled Saturday noon newscast is still my first love but I think I have a real knack fur The cancellation of the Saturday news has nothing to do with her leaving Davis said The timing of that is coin-cidentaL The day I found out about the Saturday noon show is the day I got back from my interview in Davis who had not been on camera before coming to WKYT two yean ago says Lexington has been a great training ground came here with a lot of behind-the-scenes experience I had writing skills and I knew how things worked This was an opportunity for me to brush up on those on-air delivery Davis 26 says shell miss her co-workers at WKYT like a family There been anyone in this newsroom who been willing to help me when I needed From Lexington to One of the producers of The Total which airs on the Arts and Entertainment network Sunday is a Tates Creek High School graduate who has turned his weekend on WLKX-TV (Channel 18) The fund raiser which begins at 9 pm Saturday raises money fir pediatric programs at hospitals across the country All the money donated in Kentucky will go toward the development of the University of Kentucky HnspitaL Lexington actress Laura Bundy is scheduled to appear during two of the telethon's national entertainment segments at 11 pm Saturday and 4 pin Sunday Bundy and other cast mem bers of the National Touring Company of The Sound of Musk will perform with Mane Osmond who plays the role of Maria Osmond is a co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network and will be one of the telethon's celebrity hosts Local hosts will be Bonnie Krasik Tom Kenny and Stuart Shepard The national segments will also include several stand-alone programs dealing with child-related issues such as gangs and violence County music awards home-grown country music stars will be well represented on the TNN Music City News Awards at 8 pjn Monday Wynonna is nominated for female artist of the year Billy Kay Cyrus is nominated for male artist of the year John Michael Montgomery is nominated as a of In addition Love die Way You Love is nominated for single of die year The awards with hosts Billy Dean Waylon Jennings and Michelle Wright will be telecast live from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville Before brcomirg a TV die-umentary producer Robert Lihani 32 was a commander of a combat camera crew fur the US Air Force fur six years time the Air Force did anything there were Uhanl cameramen do cumenting those Li-hani said from his office in Burbank Calif was the invasion of Panama in December of 1989 and 1 was there fur Combat cameramen never know whether they will have to cross the line between being a recorder of the action and a participant Lihani said a question you ask yourself When do you put your camera down and pick up the rifle when do you stop being a spectator? Luckily I never had to give that serious Lihani a 1979 graduate of Tates Creek enteral the Air Force in 1984 after graduating from the film school at the University of Southern California He said The Total Story" features rarely seen footage from the World War II archives of Britain and Germany and interviews with British and German veterans wanted some fresh pictures A lot of people are going to be using the same images We wanted to show a little more of a cross section be more in depth than what you usually The Total is produced by Greystone Communications It airs at 8 pjn Sunday on Telethon on WLEX: The 1994 Miracle Network Telethon will take over 21 hours of programming this you to see through your healthy green sheen and discover otherwise invisible signs of plant damage NASA scientist Leonard A chlorophyll also has die potential to help formers detect crop damage sooner than ever rose-tinted goggles use an optical illusion similar to land 4 miles away The house is small with three compact bedrooms and no air conditioning But if graceful and with plentiful ceiling fans comfortable (except in the hottest months) Electricity is provided by solar panels and running water comes from a cistern though they cart in bottled water for drinking On top three stories up Buckheim built a tower A steep ladder readies to the aerie just big enough for two wooden rocking chairs a telescope a breeze The bird cries are bxider than the boat motors in the distance call it die martini Buckheim says surveying his domain with satisfaction From here they watch snorkelers diving coral heads (and die occasional boat running aground) and the herds of Key deer that wade through the shallow water Yet Buckheim and Bailey are thinking about selling this handcrafted hud-won paradise For years they have droit with hauling groceries laundry mail diapers trash equipment back and forth Now the logistics of ferrying their kids to school to day care to karate to tumbling class are starting to overwhelm diem They see it getting any easier as the kids get older There are optimum ages to live out here and this would not be a good place for Bailey said Some people just don't get die island concept Buckheim recently went on Joan home shopping TV show to hawk Hopkins Island (asking price million) Joan Rivers kept saying big is the house how big is die he said buying an environment buying privacy" FLORIDA: For millions you could own island From Pace 3 They will be very adventurous very secure and have many interests unlike 99 percent of the population They just have a spark You have to be very secure to spend that much time with Dick Buckheim has had his own island in the Lower Keys for eight years but not for solitude He and his wife Susan Bailey and children John 8 and Taylor share Hopkins Island If they get antsy for company they hop into their skiff and tide over to the Little Palm Island resort about one-fourth rtf a mile away Buckheim and Bailey moved to the Keys after he sold his Michigan advertising agency 10 years ago They now own two restaurants in Key West Bagatelle and Ballyhoo Their first Keys residence was a house on Island inhabited and owned by several families When Bailey was pregnant with John they deckled they needed a bigger house Hopkins Island was nearby and available Buckheim says living on an offshore island is like in the Keys before get a real sense of nature being out here that you don't get in Key West or anywhere else in die he said aware of the birds aware of die fish aware of the With an 8by-20-fbot barge Buckheim floated every board every beam every couch rug and bureau for his new home from Little Torch Key to Hopkins Is- New goggles help spot early plant damage that created by more sophisticated active heat-seeking infrared detection devices that highlight hot spots from aerial and satellite photographs Both infrared photography and die goggles work by highlighting reds the human eye aee well while filtering out the greens blues and much of die more visible light spectrum By Broderick Perkins KmghtRidoer News Service SAN JOSE Calif Looking at your garden through rose-colored glasses will reveal die opposite of what expect the real picture of your foiled cultivation efforts A military invention a pair of special rose-tinted goggles soon will permit.

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