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FICTION

Alex Berenson — “The Secret Soldier.”

Liza Markland — “Red Wolf.”

Fern Michaels — “Home Free.”

Michael Palmer — “A Heartbeat Away.”

NONFICTION

Kate Betts — “Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style.”

Sylvia Browne — “Afterlives of the Rich and Famous.”

Rodney Crowell — “Chinaberry Sidewalks.”

Through Feb. 26: The Headley-Whitney Museum announces a “Drive-Thru Art Show.”  Lexington residents and visitors will have an opportunity to view banners, displayed on light poles in downtown Lexington, created by and for the community.  These colorful and collaborative banners create our Drive-Thru Art Show which consists of 8 double-sided banners with 16 phrases about art.  You don’t want to miss this opportunity to see what your neighbors chose.

“Its doors have always been open to all, in Christian love and acceptance, but its soul and mind have never ceased to be Black.”

The above is an excerpt from a 25th anniversary publication for St. Monica Catholic Church. But 1981 was the anniversary only of the St. Monica facilities on South Third Street. The church’s roots actually go back almost to the Civil War.

40 years ago

February

1971

Flyers are Little League champs

In an exciting down to the wire battle Saturday, coach Cliff Goodlett’s Flyers sneaked past Joe Dodson’s Stars 34-31 to capture the championship of the Optimist League Basketball League.

The Flyers, led by tournament most valuable player Warren Downs, 15 points, got the clenching basket with only seconds remaining. Daryle Bivens had 17 points for the Stars.

For most of the surgery on Mona Crouch’s abdomen, her surgeons turned their faces away.

Indeed, Dr. Mickey Anderson and Dr. Betty Lew Arnold looked away from each other during the cutting. To guide their gloved hands, they studied two television screens.

There, in living color, they could watch their long steel tools prod Crouch’s pulsing organs.

For the last seven weeks, Anderson and Arnold have performed the first endoscopic cholestectomies at Flaget Memorial Hospital.

Although Flaget Memorial Hospital here was not scheduled to open officially until Jan. 8, five babies were born at the hospital the night of January 7—twin boys and three girls.

The first baby born in the new hospital was named Mary Flaget Cecil. The mother, Mrs. Betrand Cecil, New Haven, Route 1, was admitted to the hospital at 6:30 p.m. Sunday and the baby was delivered at 8:52 p.m. by Dr. Keith Crume.

At the suggestion of Sister Bridgid, superintendent of the hospital, Mother Bertand of Nazareth is giving to the first patient, Cecil, free hospital care.

(MS) — Take a drive through the average suburban neighborhood and you’re bound to see a good percentage of homes under construction. Whether it’s homeowners building from scratch or simply adding on, the home improvement boom has taken root in suburbs throughout the country.

When Amelia and Daniel Early of Bardstown walked into Tatu in Louisville’s Jefferson Mall, their two-month-old daughter Austin Early in their arms, they were somewhere between a miracle and a tragedy, and in the mind to memorialize both. The couple wanted to get a tattoo to commemorate their son, Aaron Early, who died when Amelia was six months pregnant a year ago in October.

Bob Deegan/Night Skies