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Third Thursday in Downtown Elizabethtown celebrates Earth Day

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The Historic Downtown Elizabethtown Business Association invites all to attend their monthly Third Thursday event, which for this month takes place April 18.

The association says that as with any Third Thursday, downtown shops will extend their business hours to 8 p.m. and will offer specials and discounts, but Association President Dana Garrett says the fun doesn’t stop there.

“Each month on the third Thursday of the month we like to have a theme to kind of celebrate downtown and encourage people to come downtown, and our April theme is Earth Day,” Garrett said. “We thought it was fitting since Earth Day falls in April.”

The Earth Day theme means a chance to celebrate green thumbs and green living.

“We have a mini farmers market we’re going to have set up on Walker Square with some local farmer vendors,” Garrett said. “We also have some representatives from our local conservation district and the Hardin County stormwater agency that’ll have some giveaways for kids.”

Dr. Paul Gerard will be showing off his reptiles from 6 to 7 p.m., and interactive displays will be set up.

Garrett says if you’re looking for plans for this Thursday night, look no further.

“The weather looks to be phenomenal, so it’ll be a great night to come out and shop at our local stores, have some dinner with your friends and family, and then of course for the kids there’s lots of cool activities for them to see too.”

Visit the Historic Downtown Elizabethtown Facebook page for more information.

ECTC Toy Box Theatre invites all to show Thursday

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Elizabethtown Community and Technical College’s Toy Box Theatre will present Silly Tales From the Toy Box, a story of silly people and animals, this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at ECTC’s Science Auditorium.

“This one’s called Silly Tales From the Toy Box, and I always adapt and write most of the plays, and so this one is one I did too,” said ECTC Communications and Theatre Professor Katrina Eicher, who founded Toy Box Theatre in 1998. “I adapted it from several different sources, and we usually run about 45 minutes so that young children’s attention spans aren’t, you know, taxed too much, and it’s very silly and it’s very funny.”

The cast is entirely composed of college students, many of whom are earning credits for ECTC classes.

“It’s a theater that uses common household props and very slight sets in order to encourage children to use their imagination, and we do a show every spring at ECTC and then we bring schools in from all around that we invite,” Eicher said.

Toy Box Theatre has performed for more than 11,000 people, and you can catch their 24th production this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $2 at the door and free for children 3 and under.

“This is a bargain,” Eicher said. “It is so much fun. This is, as I say, only 45 minutes long. Children love it. Adults will love it in the ways that maybe the children won’t, and you can’t really go see a show for $2 or less.”

Tickets for this family-friendly show are cash only.

Radcliff council approves recovery residences ordinance

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The Radcliff City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.

The council approved the ordinance establishing certification requirements for recovery residences on its second reading. The ordinance mirrors similar guidelines established by the Elizabethtown City Council and the Hardin County Fiscal Court. The council also held the first reading of a zoning map amendment that converts about 8.5 acres on the west side of the intersection of Bullion Boulevard and North Logsdon Parkway from Commercial to R-4.

Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall said a software issue was the reason why three of the city’s emergency sirens did not go off during recent severe weather.

 “Long story short, the company did come down, they did set them off, they did fix the issue,” Duvall said. “One of them had an issue up in the mechanical top of the rotation device that turns the siren around, so the sirens are all functional. They’re all working. They’re all back to where they’re supposed to be.”

The Radcliff City Council will next meet for a work session on May 13.