Whats going on in our area.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Art

The Capitol Arts Center will have an opening reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday. Exhibits will include The Family Business, featuring works

Campus

The Kentucky Museum galleries and The Museum Store are now open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. For more information, contact Earlene Chelf at 745-5263 or by sending an e-mail to earlene.chelf@wku.edu or go to www.wku.edu/Library/kylm.

Exhibits at the Kentucky Building include: William H. Natcher: The Gentleman from Kentucky; P.S. I Love You: The Hilltoppers; Bill Whitey Sanders: Comic Opera; From Our Toy Box; The Wright Approach: Wilbur and Orville and Their Flying Machine; Ivan Wilson; Favorite Storybook Characters; and In Stitches: Quilts and Needlework from the Kentucky Museum. For more information, call 745-2592.

Clubs

Jerrys Lounge will have karaoke each Tuesday and Thursday. There is no cover charge.

The Deuce, 302 Morgantown Road, has country music from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. every Friday and Saturday.

The Brewing Company, 423 Park Row, has live music from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday.

Good Tymes 2, 1607 31-W By-Pass, has top 40 hits from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. every Wednesday through Saturday.

Odds, Ends

The Warren County In-Line Hockey League Board of Directors will have a meeting at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Basil Griffin Parks educational building.

Relay for Life fund-raiser car wash will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday at McDonalds on Scottsville Road. For more information, contact Rachel Carson at 202-4497.

The first meeting of the MOMS Club, an international, nonprofit support group for stay-at-home mothers, will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday. Regular meetings, which will include park playdays, special outings, babysitting co-ops and service projects, will be on the second Monday of each month at 10 a.m. For more information about where the club will meet, contact Lisa at 303-9271 or e-mail her at momsclubofbg@bellsouth.net.

Chaneys Dairy Barn is hosting Kentucky Proud Festival, in conjunction with the Woodburn Strawberry Festival, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Kentucky producers and artists will display their products. For more information, call 843-5567 or e-mail chaneyinfo@yahoo.com.

A meeting about all-star cheerleading tryouts is set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Brownsville Community Center. Tumblers, flyers, dancers and bases, boys and girls in kindergarten through 12th grade, are wanted. For more information, contact Stephanie Hillberry at (270) 735-9381 or 735-2423.

Bowling Green High School wrought iron projects fabricated by welding students at Bowling Green High School will be sold from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday and May 14 . The creations will be at the entrance of the school and in the lobby area. This is the last year for welding at BGHS.

The National Corvette Museum will mark the 15th anniversary of the first ZR-1 and the 10th anniversary of the last ZR-1 May 12-14. This years ZR-1/C4 gathering will feature the last ZR-1 with a display of LT-5 engines. Seminars, road tours, drag racing and autocross, a barbecue dinner, banquet and auction and more are planned. A Celebrity Choice car show, museum tours and more informative seminars will be part of Fridays activities, along with a scenic road tour through the country side. Autocross at Beech Bend Raceway is planned. For more information, contact Bobbie Jo Lee at 781-7973 or at bobbiejo@corvettemuseum.com.

The third annual Hot Rod Reunion will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Warren East High School. There will be five classes: stock, street modified, custom, import and motorcycle. The entry fee is $10. Trophies will be awarded to first, second and third place in each class. Door prizes will be given away all day. There will also be live entertainment. For more information, call Kenneth Brewer at 563-9500 or Lonnie Lindsey at 781-2268. All proceeds go to the Warren East Band Program.

The American Red Cross has a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday at the centers office at 430 Center St. Drives are also scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Warren County Extension Agency, 3132 Nashville Road, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at The Medical Center; from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Cumberland Trace Elementary School and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Greenview Regional Hospital.

Plans are under way for the 16th annual Logan County Bluegrass Jam that will be May 13 and 14 at McCutchen Coke Park. For more information, call Otis Bilbrey at (270) 542-7357 or Auburn City Hall at (270) 542-4149.

Munfordville Tourism Commission will host a city-wide yard sale on Saturday, rain or shine. More than 200 groups and individuals will have yard sales. A map of locations will be available beginning Friday at Munfordville restaurants and service stations. For more information, contact the commission at (270) 524-4752. Also that day, Sonic in Munfordville will have a cruise-in for antique cars and trucks from 4 p.m. until closing. For more information, call Peggy Richards at (270) 524-7070.

Allen County Beekeepers will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the community room of the City-County Building in Scottsville. President Martin Hickey will present a program about integrated beehive pest management. Anyone with honeybee swarms can call any Allen County Beekeepers member for more information, or call (270) 622-3615, 622-8313 or 622-5286.

Help is available for those planning to participate in the 400-mile sale along U.S. 68-Ky. 80 from June 2-5. Many events will be community-wide. Information on Antiques, Collectibles and Stuff is featured in a color brochure available for those who want to drive the trail. It can be obtained by call 781-6858 or e-mailing sale@10000trails.com. There also is information available online at the Web site www.10000trails.com.

Bowling Green Parks and Recreation is taking applications for summer aquatics programs, including swim lessons, swim team and water aerobics. For more information, call parks and rec at 393-3249.

Staff and volunteers from Westerns Public Broadcasting and Harned, Bachert and Denton will be on hand from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday in the community room at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Campbell Lane to help fill out, sign and notarize living wills. Copies will be provided for the individual, a doctor and a family member or health care surrogate. Those who wish to complete a living will must be at least 18 and bring a Kentucky drivers license and the names of two health care surrogates if they choose to name surrogates in the document. A health care surrogate makes health care decisions should a person become unable to do so themselves.

The Bowling Green Rose Society will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Greenwood High Schools library. For more information, call Kathy Dodson at 842-3475.

Bowling Green Parks and Recreation is accepting registration for the fall preschool program for 3- and 4-year-olds. For class times and fees, call 393-3249.

The Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs will have a representative in Warren County the second Tuesday of each month. Information about benefits will be available. For more information, call 885-9622 or (800) 928-9622.  Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700