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The Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association will host a horse show July 10 and 11 at the fairgrounds in Lawrenceburg, the association announced in a news release.

Friday night’s show will include conformation and under saddle classes and will be begin at 5 p.m. Saturday’s show will start at 1 p.m. and will include trail obstacle classes where horses and riders negotiate obstacles like gates, tarpaulins, mailboxes, cones and bridges. Saturday’s line up will also include more under saddle classes and at the end of the evening, the championship classes.

Lovers Leap Vineyards and Winery’s Peach Bellini took both the People’s Choice and Judges Best awards for best wine and best alcoholic drink in the wine category in the recent 2009 Taste of the Bluegrass, the winery announced in a news release.

For more on the winery's showing at Taste of the Bluegrass, see this week's Anderson News available on newsstands across the county.

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They were among Lawrenceburg’s poorest.

When they died, there was no money to bury them in a cemetery, leaving family members no option but to have them interred in a field that now borders the county’s solid waste facility and highway barns.

Although they can’t do anything about what happened to these people in the past, Cub Scouts with Pack 38, Den 9 can make the area around the graves more visually pleasing, and began that work last Saturday afternoon.

Casey Harlan was named Anderson County Junior Miss 2010.

For more about Casey and for a complete list of winners from this year's event, see this week's edition of The Anderson News available on newsstands across the county.

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The National Day of Prayer and a celebration service are scheduled for this Thursday.

The prayer will be conducted in front of the county courthouse from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

The celebration service is scheduled for 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence Catholic Church.

For more on the celebration, see this week's edition of The Anderson News available on newsstands across the county.

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This week, students at Emma B. Ward Elementary School are carving out their own little pieces of history.

Students in all grades are helping to carve a free-standing, 3-foot-tall limestone monument that will serve as a time capsule, said art teacher Tamara Williams.

“Each student will get to keep a chunk of stone that they carve from the monument, turning it into a keepsake necklace,” Williams said.

Columnist Janie Bowen shares a true tale of snail mail. It took seven years for Hulan Ashby, a subject of one of Sports Editor John Herndon's stories in 2002, to receive some photos Herndon mailed back to him the week after the story ran.

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Jim Sayre of Lawrenceburg won the Richard Burks Lincoln Heritage Award last Thursday in Hodgenville.

The award is given to an individual or organization in recognition of efforts to perpetuate the history of LaRue County and the ideals of Abraham Lincoln, according to Lincoln Days president Jeff Hughes.

Sayre has spent 30 years promoting LaRue County as if it were his “real” birthplace, Hughes said.

Parents can say a lot to their children by not saying anything at all — especially when it comes to sex.

That’s one of the messages Betsy Neale, Ph.D., hopes to convey to Anderson County parents during a workshop Feb. 5.

“By not saying anything, children can pick up the message that (sex) is embarrassing and that it’s something our culture doesn’t talk about,” Neale said.