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Hardin County Fiscal Court reviews budget, road design ordinances

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The Hardin County Fiscal Court met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday.

The court approved the first readings of two ordinances. The first is an amendment to the county budget to take care of about $6 million in unfunded receipts. Judge/Executive Keith Taul said most of those funds are library bonds for the expansion of the Hardin County Public Library.

“There’s money that’s being pulled in, bonds that were sold, and that money is coming into Hardin County government, into our treasurer’s department, and then being dispersed back as needed as they build and as they move forward with that,” Taul said.

The second ordinance relates to the creation of a guide for the design and construction of county roadways. During public comments, Settler’s Crest resident Dave Foreman said he hopes the new ordinance will make up for a lack of design that has been seen in previous road planning, which he says results in unsafe conditions for county residents.

“We need to make sure that what we do today is going to have a positive, lasting impact over the next 25 or 50 years, because on the rear end like where we currently live there was no planning, no ordinances or a lack of, and you end up with a very, very serious situation,” Foreman said.

The court also approved a resolution concerning a bid for the purchase of three new Type 1 ambulances.

During department reports, Hardin County Sheriff John Ward said from April through July the sheriff’s office made 409 arrests, issued 606 citations, and responded to 2,246 complaint calls. Ward said the office has responded to more than 12,000 calls so far this year, which puts them on pace to pass last year’s total of about 17,000 calls.

Hardin County Clerk Brian D. Smith said his office has seen about 100 new voter registrations each month. Smith said the county will be adding two new voting locations, the clerk’s office and the Colvin Community Center, and will replace the Pritchard Community Center as a voting location with Elizabethtown High School. The deadline to register to vote is October 10.

The Hardin County Fiscal Court will next meet September 12.

Helping Hand of Hope returning to pre-pandemic proof of income requirements

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Helping Hand of Hope has announced that beginning September 1 proof of income will be required for all services including food boxes, personal hygiene bags, and the pet food pantry. 

Helping Hand of Hope Executive Director Hope Burke says the policy is not a new one, but rather a return to pre-pandemic standards.

“When COVID started, we know that there were so many people losing jobs, and there were so many people going on unemployment and different things like that, and food stamp offices were getting backed up, so we had lowered our guidelines to where people didn’t have to bring anything when it came to our food boxes,” Burke said.

Burke says the policy change is necessary in order to serve as many people as possible in good faith, as demand at the organization has boomed. 

“We’re starting to see such a huge increase of food, pet, hygiene, all of these things that where we were used to doing 400 to 500 food boxes a month we’re hitting almost 1,000,” Burke said.

As demand increases, anybody wanting to support Helping Hand of Hope’s mission is welcome to reach out.

“They can go to our website, www.helpinghandofhope.org, or they can always call us at 270-769-3092 and ask to speak to me,” Burke said. “I am always willing to show someone around, show them the moving parts of what we do, how it looks, how our numbers are increasing, and what all of that looks like.”

The policy change does not apply to USDA food bags, which are available regardless of income level.

Deadline to register for Radcliff Days Parade is Friday

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Friday, September 1 is the deadline to register for the Radcliff Days Parade, which will be held beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 9.

Radcliff Parks and Recreation Director Tim Jeffries says all are welcome to register for the parade, for which the theme this year is “Golden Days.”

“They came up with that as a combination between Gabby Barrett, the attraction for Boundary Oak’s Bourbon and Blades, and bringing back the old-time stuff from the Golden Armor Festival, trying to tie all that together,” Jeffries said.

Jeffries says the theme is a reflection of good times that were had as well as good times that are on the horizon.

“We’re getting a lot of growth with the Ford plant in Glendale,” Jeffries said. “A lot of that is kind of trickling up towards our area and we’re just to see it, and we want to celebrate it.”

There are no entry fees for the parade, but entry forms should be turned in by Friday.

“All they’ve got to do is just fill out the parade entry form that they can find on our Facebook page,” Jeffries said. “Just fill it out, then bring it over to Colvin Community Center and we’ll get you lined up in the parade.”

For more information, visit www.radcliff.org, or call the Colvin Community Center 270-351-4079.

Elizabethtown woman sentenced for CARES Act fraud

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A woman from Elizabethtown was sentenced this week to a term in federal prison.

The Department of Justice says Kelly Woods will serve two years and nine months for charges related to her submission of three fraudulent CARES Act applications.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky says that court documents show Woods filed three fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program loans between May of 2020 and December of 2021, which resulted in the theft of more than $1.3 million. 

An investigation by the FDIC’s Office of the Inspector General and the FBI showed that Woods organized LB Acquisitions LLC after the onset of the pandemic, and exaggerated the number of employees and payroll expenses of that entity and Philips Healthcare LLC.

Following her release from prison, Woods will serve three years on supervised release. She was also ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution and a $15,000 fine.

Brown-Pusey House Roaring 20s Bash ticket deadline is this Friday

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The deadline to purchase tickets is this Friday for the Brown-Pusey House’s Roaring 20s Bash, to be held September 9.

“We’re going to have a jazz band, we’re going to do Charleston lessons, and we’re going to have a 20s costume contest, so everyone can dress up or you don’t have to, whichever you prefer,” says Brown-Pusey House board member Carolyn Ritchie. “We’re going to have a silent auction, a photo booth, and a table decorating contest if people want to do that, and just all kinds of fun going back into the 20s.”

In addition to being a fundraiser, the event is part of a larger celebration for the historic property.

“It’s one of our centennial events,” says Ritchie. “This is our 100th year since we were turned over to the community in 1923, so this is one of our events for the 1920s.”

The house itself will celebrate its 200th birthday in 2025, and Ritchie says as the Brown-Pusey House looks ahead towards its third century it maintains a busy social calendar.

“We have things going on here at the house all of the time,” says Ritchie. “We’re a wedding venue, there are opportunities here for anyone that wants to get married in our beautiful garden and make use of the house. We have a museum, and we are also a great genealogy library here at the house if anyone wants to look up genealogy from Hardin County or the state.”

Tickets to the September 9 event are $50 each. They can be purchased in person at the Brown-Pusey House, online at www.brownpuseyhouse.org, or by calling 270-765-2515.