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People and Places

  • Business is sweet

    Larry Marks knows bees. Been working with them since he was a 12-year old, helping out his father and grandfather, also beekeepers, the way his grandfather helped out his grandfather before him.

    “It’s just one of those things I just enjoy,” said Marks, 70, of Bloomfield, whose three boys also help him in carrying on the family tradition.

    At his peak, Marks maintained 175 hives in locations in Nelson and Taylor counties, but that’s down to 165 these days. He started with two.

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  • People and Places: Relay for Life 2013
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  • Dogwood days of spring

     Sister Teresa Kotturan was enjoying her evening walk at the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, especially the fragrance of the flowering trees along her path.

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  • Wild about food

    The first time Bryan Vincent put on his chef jacket — at least metaphorically — he was a 7-year-old farm boy under the instruction of his mom and grandmother.

    Laying the foundation for a career in the food industry, the female duo set their young prodigy up for success from the very first cooking lesson.

    Fried chicken and bacon are what they tasked him with making.

    “They said, ‘If you can cook these two things, you’ll be a good cook,’ ” Vincent recalled.

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  • Mission to Djibouti

    Letting soldiers know they aren’t alone and there are other people who can help them acclimate to civilian life after deployment was the goal of last week’s American Legion deployment in Djibouti, according to Pete Trzop, commander of American Legion Post 121.

    Trzop was part of a group of American Legion members who traveled to Djibouti last week to visit the 2/138th Field Artillery Battalion, Charlie Battery unit of the Kentucky National Guard.

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  • Fascinating Fashions

    The Kentucky Derby is one of the most recognized events in the world and not just for the Run for the Roses.

    Since its beginning in 1875, the Kentucky Derby has been one of the main hat fashion events of the season.

    The over-the-top styles will get you noticed and are the ideal piece to accentuate your Derby day attire.

    Whether you attend The Oaks, Churchill Downs or just a gathering with friends you can still make a statement with a classic and exclusive hat design you can call your own.

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  • History in the remaking

    RANDY PATRICK

    rpatrick@kystandard.com

    Lee Evans and her husband, Richard, have been renovating their 19th Century Georgian home since they moved into it in 1994.

    The imposing white house on West Stephen Foster Avenue was built by merchant Joseph Queen in 1836 and purchased by Evans’ grandfather in 1922.

    The house has emotional significance for Evans because her mother grew up there. She later bought it from her siblings, wanting to keep it in the family.

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  • Building blocks

    Designing and constructing cars and buildings has become something Cal Tipton and Hayden Bond can not “Lego” of.

    The St. Joseph School students use Legos as their method to construct and then de-construct items.

    “When I was about 5, my parents got me my first Lego set,” said Tipton, a third-grader.

    What began as a hobby has transformed into a passion for the budding engineers. 

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  • People and Places: The Road to Citizenship

    After being married for 17 years, Ernest and Estelle Schulze, who were living in South Africa, decided to make a change in their lives. They didn’t know it would be another 17 years for that change to become a reality.

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  • Miss World 2010 settles in Bardstown

    Before Shepherdsville native Alexandria Mills won her first pageant as Miss World 2010, she began modeling in Kentucky at the age of 12.

    Shannon Schuman, who discovered Mills, told her that she was a natural born talent.

    After working in the modeling world of Kentucky for a while, Mills traveled to New York City to meet modeling agents and Paolo Buonfante, director of Elite Model Management of Miami.

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