KAHT Artisans' Crafters' & Heritage News

Boyle Arts Organizations Get
Kentucky Arts Council Grants
From The Danville Advocate Messenger
www.amnews.com

FRANKFORT, KY — Arts in Boyle County have been enriched by the Kentucky Arts Council which has delivered grant money to two local agencies.

The Community Arts Center in Danville received a ceremonial check for $9,583 and the Arts Commission of Danville/Boyle County was awarded $1,000. Both were Kentucky Arts Partnership competitive grants awarded by the state arts council in July. The checks were presented by Sen. Tom Buford and Rep. Mike Harmon at a ceremony in Frankfort.

“Danville’s Community Arts Center is a historically important building that has become a space used and appreciated by local people and visitors alike,” Buford said. “Institutions like the center are very important for economic development and a strong community.”

Mary Beth Touchstone, executive director, accepted the check on behalf of the Community Arts Center. A previous article announced plans to make these grants. This article in the Danville Advocate Messenger confirms and details receit of this money. Both are considered important by KAHT in light of budget cuts which impact The Arts in greater proportion.

To read more of this story, click here:http://www.amnews.com/stories/2010/02/22/fea.853564.sto

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Small Brushes Cover Big Walls
From The Lexington Herald-Leader
www.kentucky.com

LEXINGTON, KY -- Alfredo Escobar, artist in residence at Berea College, has been helping fourth- and fifth-grade classes at Russell Cave Elementary School in Lexington paint a mural for the cafeteria.

The students are painting on individual pieces of plywood, which will be attached to the wall. That way the mural can be taken down if the school ever needs to do work on the cafeteria.

The students started working Feb. 8, and the mural is expected to be finished Tuesday.Escobar is doing similar projects at other schools.

To read this article online, click here: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/02/23/1152652/small-brushes-cover-big-walls.html

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Kentucky Slowing
Elk Population
By Steven Woodward
From The Middlesboro Daily News
http://middlesborodailynews.com
MIDDLESBORO, KY -- Kentucky wildlife officials are making some headway in slowing the growing elk population in the eastern part of the state, reports The Middlesboro Daily News.

Trappers have caught 13 of the animals, with hopes of snagging more in the coming weeks, according to Karen Waldrop, wildlife division director in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.

The Daily News reports Kentucky wildlife managers began reintroducing elk to the region in 1997. The animals, which can grow to 800 pounds at maturity, had been driven to extinction in the state by over-hunting more than a century ago. But locals have complained that the elk population has gotten out of control, with the animals overtaking some populated areas and main roads.

The issue came to a head last month, when state officials traveled to eastern Kentucky to meet with local residents about how the elk population could be managed.

Waldrop and big game program coordinator Tina Brunjes took six biologists to residences in the Straight Creek area on Highway 221, which is considered a hot spot for an overabundant elk population."We're trying to identify specific spots working with locals," said Waldrop. Waldrop also said they had also flown over the area to count elk.

To read more of this story, click here: http://middlesborodailynews.com/view/full_story/6396122/article-State-making-headway-on-elk-problem?instance=news_special_coverage_right_column

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Holy Delicious
Excerpted from
an Article In The Manchester Guardian
United Kingdom
www.guardian.co.uk
Father Leo, Brother Sebastian and Father Alban sample the latest brew at Buckfast Abbey.
GETHSEMANI, KY -- Religious communities are often blessed with fantastic artisanal produce. Many have always been farmers, brewers, cheesemakers or beekeepers, selling what was not consumed within the cloisters to passing pilgrims and, later, to more worldly customers.

At Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, the monks' fudge is flavored with the local bourbon, and the Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of St Hildegard in Germany tend their own Riesling vines and train in vinification. They have also long been experts in that most fashionable of grains, spelt: Hildegard apparently declared herself a fan 900 years ago.

To read more of this story, click here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/feb/17/monk-nun-religious-community-produce

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