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Today is the final day of the Elizabethtown High School Beta Club’s Socks for the Sole event. Beta parent sponsor Shawn Sizemore says the club is asking for donations of socks, which will be donated to Room in the Inn.
Sizemore says the goal of the drive is to receive 2,020 pairs of socks.
A traffic stop in West Point resulted in the seizure of several firearms and drug paraphernalia. On Monday night, West Point Police initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Tony Burgin Jr., after officers saw Burgin fail to signal, in addition to having a broken mirror. When asked if there were weapons in the vehicle, Burgin said there was one. Police were allowed to search the vehicle, which resulted in the seizure of suspected methamphetamine, a glass pipe, digital scales containing suspected meth residue, as well as two loaded handguns. Burgin was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia, as well as failure to register a vehicle. He was lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center.
In the face of COVID-19, representatives for local non-profit organizations stress the importance of giving today, known as Giving Tuesday. United Way of Central Kentucky spokesperson Hunter Roberts says that this year in particular has seen United Way and other organizations being contacted for help, making Giving Tuesday that much more important for continued services.
Locally, United Way is just one of many organizations participating in Giving Tuesday. The event, which began back in 2012, is celebrated the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Three local school districts have teamed up to create public service announcements aimed at getting students back in the classroom. After Hardin county reached the red zone in terms of COVID-19 cases, Hardin County Schools, Elizabethtown Independent, and St. James Catholic schools decided to work together on video PSA’s urging the public to follow health and safety guidelines to get students back in the classroom.
The videos can be seen on the district’s Facebook pages, as well as HCEC-TV.
Residents looking for daily local updates on COVID-19 will no longer be able to use the health department’s website. Lincoln Trail District health officials announced yesterday that they would no longer be updating their COVID-19 dashboard. Instead, officials are directing residents to the state’s dashboard, which they say is similar in nature to theirs.
Public Information Officer Terrie Burgan says the process of updating is very labor intensive, and that a strain on the health department’s resources is one of the reasons for the discontinuation.
