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The Hardin County Animal Shelter will be hosting the largest rabies clinic of the year this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hardin County Fairgrounds main pavilion.

“We’ve got the free distemper shots for the dogs and the cats going on,” said Hardin County Animal Care and Control Director Mike McNutt during the most recent episode of Furrever Friends. “Of course you know you need to get your rabies, It’s the law, and it’s healthier for the people and healthier for the animal, so please come out and see us. We’re hoping to have a big turnout, and hoping to be able to accommodate everybody.”

You can find more information on the clinic on the Hardin County animal Shelter – Elizabethtown, Kentucky Facebook page. You can also pick up your paperwork ahead of time by stopping by the shelter, located 220 Peterson Drive in Elizabethtown.

The event is cash or check only. Cards will not be accepted. All animals must be at least 12 weeks old and must be on a leash or in a carrier.The distemper vaccines are free of charge thanks to a donation from PetCo Love. To learn more about how you can donate to the shelter, visit www.hcky.org.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams this week said the number of participants in the commonwealth’s Safe at Home Program has doubled since the law creating the program went into effect in June.

“This is a program designed to protect survivors of domestic violence,” said Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith. “It’s built on prior legislation, but it basically makes it easy for somebody who is a survivor of domestic violence to shield from public view their address which would normally be on public documents. Unfortunately there have been abusers in the past who have used government transparency as a weapon against their victims.”

The Secretary of State’s office says a criminal justice domestic violence publication found that more than 38,000 reports of suspected domestic violence were filed in Kentucky in 2022, with the Kentucky State Police serving more than 16,000 emergency protective orders last year.

Learn more about how to enroll in the Safe at Home Program by visiting www.sos.ky.gov/safe-at-home.

Writer and director Scott Fivelson says his film Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story tells a story about an era of Hollywood gone by in an engaging way that plays upon several film classics.

“The movie is sort of a cross between, or invokes thoughts of This Is Spinal Tap, Sunset Boulevard, and That’s Entertainment! because it sort of retells the history of Hollywood in a way that’s never been told before featuring a director you’ve never heard of before: Oskar Knight,” Fivelson said.

Fivelson says the film features performances by late actor Lenny Von Dohlen, Academy Award winner Margaret O’Brien, Lassie actor Jon Provost, and others, shot in a way that tells a story that spans decades of movie history with special attention to detail.

“There’s sort of a Ken Burns-ish kind of detail that we ultimately brought to this, so it feels very real but at the same time – it’s not,” Fivelson said. “But it’s very funny, and very nostalgic, and in a way a kind of a call to a return to moviemaking that evokes when movies were movies.”

Fivelson is excited to present an opportunity for area movie lovers to see Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story, as the film will screen once a day at the Crowne Pointe Theatre beginning Friday. The writer and director says the film has been screened across the globe at theaters in New Mexico, New York, and Germany, and he says he is grateful to get to show his first directing effort to an expanded audience.

“I hope Elizabethtown comes out,” Fivelson said. “Comes out for fun, comes out to pay tribute to Oskar Knight, to see Lenny Von Dohlen in one of his greatest ever performances, and to support the theater. Rick Roman with the theater is a prince. He’s really a great guy.”

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story will play at Crowne Pointe Theatre at 6:45 p.m. daily from October 6 to October 13. Tickets are available at www.crownepointetheatre.com.

(Poster image provided by Scott Fivelson.)