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Warm Blessings Community Kitchen is gearing up for their new event: Crafting for a Cause.

“The Crafting for a Cause is on September 23, and it’s at Bluegrass Middle School,” said Warm Blessings Board Member Neil Gibbs. “The address is 170 W A Jenkins Road in Elizabethtown, and it’s from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.”

The event will feature vendors, handmade items, raffle prizes, food trucks, and more. All are welcome to attend, with the cost of admission being a non-perishable food item.

The event supports Warm Blessings’s mission of supporting those in need, a mission Gibbs says is growing.

“What we have done recently is expanded our program,” Gibbs said. “We’ve got senior meals expansion in Radcliff. We created a mobile meals program, which currently delivers over 90 meals weekly in Radcliff, and a Blessing Bag program.”

The need for support has grown too, as Gibbs says the number of meals served by Warm Blessings has grown from about 14,000 in 2021 to about 60,000 in 2023. The organization is primarily supported by donations, and the door is open to anybody in need.

“We don’t turn anybody away,” Gibbs said. “We don’t ask a whole lot of information, so if you need anything just come down and we’ll take care of you.”

To learn more about Warm Blessings, Crafting for a Cause, or how to become a vendor at the event, call 270-735-7643 or find Warm Blessings Community Kitchen on Facebook.

The deadline to respond to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s recent survey regarding additional roadway options to accommodate the increased traffic expected in Glendale is Friday, September 8.

More options were put up for review based on new information the KYTC received as they continue to prepare for development stemming from the opening of the Blue Oval SK plant.

“One is the Northwest Bypass portion that was previously labeled as unfeasible is now on the table as a possibility and a path that could be used for a bypass around Glendale,” said KYTC District Four Public Information Officer Chris Jessie. “We also have an A plus B kind of scenario where it combines the Northwest and Northeast bypass options into one continuous bypass around Glendale on the north side of KY-222.”

Jessie said the KYTC cannot predict the future of just how much development Blue Oval SK will spark, but information collected during the survey will help with planning.

“There are so many moving parts to that whole scenario,” Jessie said. “It is difficult to forecast, but that’s what the study is about. It’s about doing the best homework we can, getting the best data we can.”

Jessie also stressed that the results of the survey are not a final decision.

“The study is ultimately not a decision of what’s going to happen,” Jessie said. “It’s prioritizing and showing what the public has given us feedback about. It’s a study, it’s just what it says, and those study results will give us recommendations for how to move forward.”

All are welcome to complete the survey, which is open until September 8, and can be found at www.glendalestudy.com.

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources opens a new public area in Breckinridge County Friday.

The Belvedere Tract will add 790 acres to the Yellowbank Wildlife Management Area, located about 20 miles north of Hardinsburg and about 20 miles west of Brandenburg.

Lee McClellan with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says the property is an impressive one.

“It’s 1.7 miles of Ohio River border,” McClellan said. “There’s a lot of bottom land in there. It was a working cattle farm until recently. There’s a lot of upland areas that have a mixture of mature woods and grasslands. It’s just extraordinarily beautiful.”

The addition of the Belvedere Tract brings the total size of Yellowbank to more than 7,500 acres, with 30 acres of the addition being devoted to wetland enhancement. McClellan says the land is a valuable resource.

“This preserves a very unique and rare habitat type, and Yellowbank is one of our best wildlife management areas,” McClellan said. “It’s phenomenal.”

Access to Yellowbank is available off of KY-259 in Breckinridge County near Stephensport. A map of the property is available at www.fw.ky.gov.