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Area locals among governor’s board and commission appointments

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Several area residents are among the most recent appointments made by Governor Andy Beshear to multiple Kentucky boards and commissions.

Central Kentucky Community Foundation President and CEO Davette Swiney was reappointed to the Endow Kentucky Commission, which according to statute is “responsible for the planning, implementation, and direction of a strategic and collaborative philanthropic partnership to focus on building endowment funds that will address community needs through community foundations.”

Sierra Enlow of Hodgenville was appointed as a citizen-at-large to serve on the Kentucky Tobacco Research Board. Bill McCloskey of Bardstown was also appointed to that board to represent research and development.

Carl Kaelin of Leitchfield was appointed to the Veterans’ Program Trust Fund Board of Directors. Kaelin will represent the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the board.

Elizabethtown City Council Member Julia Springsteen was reappointed to the Animal Control Advisory Board. Springsteen represents the Kentucky League of Cities on the board.

Empowered Life hosting gift wrapping fundraiser this Saturday

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If you are in need of assistance with wrapping up your last-minute Christmas gifts, help is available this weekend with Empowered Life.

“We are doing a gift wrap fundraiser,” said Empowered Life President Christi Schovel. “We’re asking anyone who needs gifts wrapped to come to 225 College Street. We’re just right down the road from the police station in the Project Learn building, and we will wrap their gifts for them for a donation.”

All proceeds from the gift wrapping will go towards the cost of activities and expenses for the organization.

“We provide enrichment and social and life skills to individuals with intellectual disabilities, high school-age and older,” Shovel said

The gift wrapping fundraiser runs from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, December 21. Contact Schovel for more information on the organization.

October double homicide suspect indicted

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The suspect in an October double homicide has been formally indicted on the charges he faces.

Dustin M. Caudill waived his case to the Hardin County Grand Jury during a court appearance November 6.

The grand jury this week indicted Caudill on two counts of Murder and one count of First Degree Arson.

The Elizabethtown Police Department said Caudill confessed to shooting 41-year-old Blake France of Greenville and 43-year-old Anthony Garrett of Elizabethtown and then setting fire to the Henon Lane residence they were in on October 30. The EPD says the personal belongings of the victims were found during a search of the hotel room Caudill was staying in.

Caudill is next scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment hearing on January 7. He is currently incarcerated in the Hardin County Detention Center, where he is being held on a bond of $1 million.