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KFW offering free hunter education classes ahead of start of August hunting seasons

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Kentucky Fish and Wildlife is ready to help you prepare for the field with their Hunter Education Day classes.

KFW will host a special statewide Hunter Education Day on Saturday, August 1, with more than 30 in-person hunter education classes and live-fire range days at locations across the commonwealth.

KFW says the annual education effort is held in conjunction with National Shooting Sports Month, during which additional attention is brought to shooting sports to help grow the pastime. The start of August is also a convenient time for a refresher as hunting seasons in the state begin in mid-August.

The class covers topics such as hunter ethics, wildlife conservation and identification, field care of game, first aid, firearm safety, archery, and muzzleloading. In-person and online education opportunities are available.

The courses and range days are open to participants nine years of age and older and are offered for free, but registration is required. Visit the Hunter Education webpage at fw.ky.gov to register.

Local students among Kentucky Farm Bureau scholarship recipients

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More than 600 Kentucky high school seniors received more than $980,000 in scholarships from Kentucky Farm Bureau, the highest amount of post-secondary education scholarships the organization has ever awarded.

KFB says Farm Bureau scholarships are awarded on the state and county level. Statewide scholarships support students attending a Kentucky college, university, community college, or proprietary school and are pursuing a four-year degree in agriculture or a related field. 113 county Farm Bureaus awarded scholarships to local students.

On the statewide level, Joslyn Hinton from LaRue County received the Beautification League of Louisville Scholarship, and Nate Crumbley of Nelson County and Avery Dowell of Breckinridge County received the KFB Young Farmer Scholarship. 

Visit www.kyfb.com for a complete list of scholarship winners and for more information on the Kentucky Farm Bureau Scholarship Program.

Tornadoes confirmed from Tuesday severe weather

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The National Weather Service in Louisville has confirmed at least eight tornadoes touched down as part of the severe weather across the area Tuesday.

NWS Louisville Meteorologist John Bumgardner says one of the first touch downs was in Fort Knox.

“Looks like that one touched down around 4:03 p.m. and spun up pretty fast,” Bumgardner said. “It was kind of embedded in a line. We actually saw that one on radar, so we were able to call it a radar-confirmed tornado. We saw debris getting lofted.”

That tornado was classified as an EF1 with top speeds of 95 miles per hour.

A long-trek tornado made its way from Grayson County to Hart County, traveling more than 21 miles over 41 minutes. That tornado was classified as an EF2 and produced winds as high as 115 miles per hour.

If you have any storm damage, contact your county’s emergency management office.

Kentucky soldier killed in action in WWII returning home for burial

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A Kentucky soldier killed in action during World War II will be laid to rest in radcliff.

U.S. Army Private Mike R. McDowell enlisted in the Army from Kentucky, and served in Company B, 1st Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), known as “Merrill’s Marauders”, in the China-Burma-India Theater. McDowell was declared killed in action during the Battle of Myitkyina in Burma in July of 1944. The U.S. Army Human Resources Command says limited records survived the battle and the details surrounding his loss are unknown, and he was declared non-recoverable in April 1952.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for McDowell on January 29. He is survived by his third cousin, Judy Clark, and her husband Richard.

Visitation for Private McDowell will be Wednesday, July 29 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Chism Family Funeral Home in Vine Grove. He will then be laid to rest with full military honors at 10:30 a.m. in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central. The public is invited to attend.