The deGraffenried Chorale will present a spring concert next Saturday, April 25, at First Baptist Church, Sixth and Main in Russellville at 7 p.m.  David Paul Gibson is the conducctor, Martha Foster the accompanist, and Freddie Borders the Chorale president.
The music will be from Phantom of the Opera.
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The most recent chapter of Algie Ray Smith’s next book, Four Hole Buick, can now be read by clicking the AR Smith on the side menu of  www.loganandbeyond.com. 
One of Algie Ray’s books has a chapter on an industrial arts class taught by Chuck Lynch at Russellville High School in the fifties. Seems like Ray did some extra writing for an English class that one guy found difficult. In return the friend made Ray’s shop project much better than it would have been had the wordsmith done it himself. Chuck figured out what had happened.
I can identify with that. What started out for me as an end table in an eighth grade shop class turned into a foot stool before Mr. Lynch approved my work. It’s a good thing. The table was too crooked to stand straight.
Last week Helen Loftis died. Her son Larry was in my class all the way through school.
Mrs. Loftis’ niece is Hilda Lynch, who was very good about taking her places. Hilda and “Aunt Helen” were frequent visitors to the farmers’ market.
Mrs. Lynch, who started teaching second grade in Russellville the year I was in the second grade (that’s been 20 years or so, I guess), is dealing with changes in her life. Not only will she be without her aunt, but Chuck is now confined to a nursing home. They have been one of those inseparable couples all these years.
We wish them well.
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Elizabeth Sells , a senior at Russellville High School, has been selected as the 2009 Upward Bound Kentucky Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (KAEOPP) scholarship winner.
Sells was in competition for this statewide scholarship with other nominated Kentucky Upward Bound students. She has been a member of the  WKU Upward Bound program since her freshman year in high school and will begin college this summer. She has been accepted to WKU, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, Bellarmine University, Kentucky State and Georgetown College. She will major in elementary education and hopes to impact young lives through teaching.
KAEOPP awards a scholarship to one Upward Bound student in Kentucky every year. Scholarships are awarded to outstanding seniors who best represent the  TRiO programs and demonstrate the qualities needed to be an achiever.
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Two Logan Countians were scheduled to be honored Sunday afternoon by the Potter College of Arts and Letters at WKU. Laura Beth Galipeau, who attended Auburn Middle School before graduating from Logan County High School, is receiving the Mitzi Groom Scholarship, named in honor of the current head of the Department of Music. Nelson Logan of Lewisburg is receiving theAthena Cage Scholarship, named for the Russellville High School graduate who is well-known in the music industry.
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Some Logan Countians are very active in a very active organization at WKU. Amanda Belcher and Caleb Johnson are some of the top members of the International Association of Business Communicators. They both graduated from Auburn and LCHS. The leader is Lewisburg High School graduate  Donna Schiess Renaud. Recently they toured Dollar General Headquarters in Nashville and attended a panel discussion concerning the employment outlook for business communicators, which united several area university students.
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A non-profit organization led by a native Logan Countian is trying to capitalize on the excitement generated from the professional baseball team playing in a sparking new stadium in downtown Bowling Green.
Jennifer Harlan Capps  is executive director of the South Central Kentucky Chapter of the American Red Cross. She is sending out emails suggesting that people who are attending Hot Rods games and need a place to park use the Red Cross parking lot at 430 Center Street. The fee is $5, and Red Cross has 70 spaces.
At Friday’s opening night, almost 7,000 fans packed the park. Some people paid $10 to park. One man told the Daily News that he had to go five blocks away before he could find free parking.
So the Red Cross offer is a good deal and benefits a good cause.
Among those pictured at the game were four-year-old John David Abbott and his dad David. John David was among those throwing out first pitches.
Also pictured in the Daily News last week was YouTube superstar Kige Ramsey of Russellville, who was attending the Tennessee Titans caravan stop in BG. It wasn’t clear whether Kige was getting Titans safety Michael Griffin’s autograph or whether number 33 wanted Kige’s signature for himself. Maybe both.
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A couple of additions to previous stories in the Logan Independent Journal about Logan connections:
We wrote about University of Louisville basketball player Keshia Hines being in Russellville the weekend she was playing in the NCAA Final Four and the national championship game. She was here for the funeral of her grandmother, Logan native Claudette Hines, who had raised her.
We talked about Keshia’s kinship to the Hampton family.
Meca Duffey Quarles  tells us Hines has connections on the other side. “Keshia is a cousin of the Duffey and Quarles Family. Her grandfather, Double Hines, is my great uncle on my mother’s side. The entire Hines, Duffey and Quarles Family is so proud of her.”
Then Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr let us know of an addition to our story about the late UK basketball star having played softball in Lewisburg. She says, “His only wife and the mother of his daughter, Joy Casey, is the daughter of Daddy’s first cousin. They were divorced”
“Daddy’ is the late Lawrence Forgy of Lewisburg. That would make Joy the cousin of Alice Lynn and her brother, Larry Forgy.
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We recently heard from our old friend Larry Cook, who was on his annual pilgrimage to Florida for spring training. The Russellville and Franklin, Tenn. attorney was in Tampa at Steinbrenner Field.
I won’t be surprised at all to hear from him in New York before the season is over, watching his beloved Yankees in their new home across the road from the House that Ruth Built.