Opinion

Speeding down the water slide at Paradise Pool with a Beach Boys medley playing in the background.

Dancing like two idiots to Achy Breaky Heart or any other random country song playing on the radio.

Striking out a batter and hearing him yell, “Alright!” from inside the dugout.

These are some of my fondest memories with my father as a child.

Growing up, I was a daddy’s girl, for sure.

We spent weekends together, mostly at the pool if it was summertime.

Tourism is broken in Anderson County and now it’s up to the fiscal court to fix it.

Oh, there’s blame-a-plenty to go around for the way the county-created tourism commission has been operating for the past several years.

First and foremost the blame falls to the fiscal court and judge-executive, each of which has turned a remarkably blind eye to an agency spending your tax dollars that willfully and admittedly has operated well outside the boundaries of the law.

Friends fanatic. Friends-aholic. Friends freak. Label me whatever you want — my favorite TV show is one that has been off the air for gasp! six years.

And that’s no secret. I’ve written about it before. In fact, a love of the show Friends was the first of many things I found I had in common with middle school teacher and dance coach Lisa Winfrey. And we found that out because of a previous column.

Friends is my go-to show. My picker-upper whenever I need a pick-me-up. It’s the only way I survived a temporary breakup in 2007.

Passing dog ordinance would have made us ‘forward-thinking’ community

To the editor:

Readers of The Anderson News may be well served by a reasonable response to last week’s editorial, “Latest pet ordinance deserved euthanasia.”

Summer is pretty much synonymous with higher temperatures and smaller clothes, but all that doesn’t have to add up to low self-esteem.

I know, I know — it’s far easier to preach it than practice it. But here is where my train of thought has been traveling recently, so follow it for just a minute.

There is absolutely no reason not to enjoy the summer and everything it offers, so here’s some advice to not only make it through to fall, but to actually relish in the heat wave.

Pet owners were thisclose to having to deal with what would have been an onerous law that missed being approved by a whisker.

The fiscal court last Tuesday morning voted 3-3, which means failure, on a “companion animal” ordinance that, to put it kindly, was ill-conceived at best.

In what appeared to be an instance of good intentions run amok, the ordinance failed and did so miserably on many counts. Topping that list were the dictates regarding the size and amount of time dogs could be kept in a shelter.

As someone who has less than a year of living in Anderson County under her belt, I’m proud to know I live in an area with heroes at every turn.

Look no further than this week’s front page to see several examples of proof to back up that statement.

Or ask any member of the Farley family ­— I’m sure they’ll tell you Anderson County is full of heroic men and women.

While boating on the Kentucky River on Thursday, the Farleys got stuck on top of the dam at Lock 5.

Crazy. That’s what most people thought I was when I accepted this job four years ago last month.

“You’re going to leave beach life in North Carolina to move to Kentucky?” they asked. “You’re an idiot.”

Perhaps, but having led a fairly nomadic life while plying my craft, I was confident that I’d enjoy Lawrenceburg as much as any of my stops along the road.

I’ve reheated this particular skillet of hash to let you know that not only don’t I regret moving here, I’m mighty glad I did.

Much of the process of selecting a new superintendent for Anderson County Schools is done behind closed doors.

The process is entirely legal because elected bodies are allowed to discuss personnel issues, among a limited list of other things, during an executive session as long as no official action is taken.

Still, it’s no reason for those elected to their positions to take the task lightly.

This is not to say that they do or that they will, but instead to serve as a reminder of the importance of the task at hand.