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Nov. 29: The Rev. Daniel Corrie Shull, pastor of Burnett Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville and former pastor of First Baptist Church in Campbellsville, will speak at Campbellsville University’s FIRST CLASS chapel service each Monday through November.

He will speak at 10 a.m.  Nov. 29 in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville.

The FIRST CLASS program at CU provides weekly worship services and small- group mentoring groups for freshman students with focus on facilitating character development, servant leadership and stewardship.

Do you have a special Christmas tradition that takes place at your house each year?

Or maybe you make a special dish that makes your holiday dinners complete?

Whatever makes your Christmas unlike any others, we want to know. In December, The Kentucky Standard will print a Christmas special section and we want to include our readers in it.

Send us your favorite Christmas recipes and traditions and we’ll share them with our readers.

Flora Jean Hall, Bloomfield was crowned the first Nelson County High School Homecoming queen by “Mr. Pep,” Dickie Cambron, Student Council reporter, during halftime of the Nelson County/Meade County football game Friday night Oct. 30. The queen and her escort, Harold Coulter, reigned during the remaining evenings festivities. Miss Hall, a senior is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Hall. Other candidates for queen were Nancy Adam, Lois Newton, Gayle Pardue, Donna Reynolds, Betty Rogers, Susan Muir, Sharon Allgeier and Wanda O’Bryan.

Halloween vandals struck the RJ Corman Railroad Corp. Wednesday night, damaging equipment.

A piece of track machinery was damaged at some time during the night, chief mechanical officer Ray Kolasa said.

Three windows were broken out and obscenities were spray painted on the side. The car was parked at Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont when the incident occurred.

“It appears to be the work of children, Lt. Melvin Davis of the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Department said.

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If you watch “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” the first week of February on ABC, keep an eye out for some familiar faces. Keith Metcalfe of New Haven and his company, K&S Construction Inc., poured the footer for the house, and Keith Stenger of Bloomfield volunteered his time as a “gofer.”

It’s possible to sit underneath the streets of Bardstown.

Outfitted with borrowed caving gear, my shoes and clothes soaked through, I spent a good portion of Friday night wedged between, quite literally, a rock and hard place. Well, hundreds of thousands of tons of rock, to be exact.

I had gone on an expedition to explore the far reaches of a cave near St. Joseph School in Bardstown. After crawling for 20 minutes, I surmised that I had made it somewhere underneath the intersection of Jones Avenue and Broadway Avenue.

One recent morning well before dawn, while rolling out the dough to make that day’s baked goods, Greg Hadorn took a short break to do some number crunching.

He had never really sat down and figured out the amount of ingredients Hadorn’s Bakery goes through in a year, and the results were eye-opening.

More than 4,000 pounds of cake batter; 24,500 pounds of powdered sugar.

“Unreal,” Hadorn said. “Unbelievable — I’m surprised myself.”

Living in a crumbling, stripped-down Soviet-era apartment complex. Working in a country that speaks a language you can’t understand. Leaving a regular, full-time job to live as a volunteer.

For many people, this would be a set of unappealing choices, but for former Bardstown resident Ken Mattingly, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.

A ribbon cutting for the Boston School nature trail is apparently a big enough event to entice even Smokey the Bear to attend.

Smokey, as his friends call him, is on the guest list for the 10:30 a.m. ribbon cutting Thursday for the trail behind Boston School that has been under development for nearly a year.

The star-studded guest list also includes a long list of donors for the project billed as a living lab for the approximately 300 students in the rural K-8 school on U.S. 62 on the western fringe of Nelson County.