Beach Mysteries, Advocates In Washington, And More
50 years ago: the nation should be proud of the farmer’s efficiency
Quote: US Dept. of Agriculture
Draw a winning energy-saving picture
Favorite Beef Appetizer Contest
A good beach mystery novel is just the thing to pass the summer hours seaside or poolside. Louisville author Bill Noel provides two with his latest installments of the Folly Beach series.
Once again, amateur detectives Chris Landrum and Charles Fowler find themselves �helping� local authorities solve a murder, or two or three. In The Edge (iUniverse Star, $16.95), readers will meet some new characters along the way such as has-been rhinestone cowboy Country Cal, Cal�s fellow Country Jamboree performers, and a new acting police chief whose bite might be as bad as his bark.
Noel grips the reader�s attention from the very beginning as Landrum endures his first hurricane only to find a murdered neighbor in the street immediately after the storm. The authorities can�t seem to find the killer, and with Landrum�s friends in danger of becoming the next victims, the C&C Detective Agency is on the case. Chris and Charles soon find the storm has only just begun.
When readers next visit Chris Landrum and his buddies eight months later in The Marsh (iUniverse, $17.95), more mayhem awaits. Landrum says, �Attending a friend�s funeral, learning about a body in the marsh adjacent to my island, watching another friend in deep conversation with the police, and being summoned to a lawyer�s office�what a way to begin June.�
A major life change is also looming on the horizon as Landrum is forced to make hard decisions about his post-retirement career. Best buddy Charles is dreaming of his own real detective agency and, with his tenacity and quirkiness, may just find a way to make it happen. The duo always seems to find themselves on the wrong side of a weapon, though. With hints of Mafia involvement in the latest crime, have Landrum and Fowler met their match? Take a literary visit to Folly Beach to find out!
�Penny Woods
If your home has a window air conditioner make sure that your window unit is properly weatherstripped. And clean the filter monthly. Keep �fresh air� vents on window A/C units closed.
Some of the more than 70 Kentucky electric co-op leaders visiting Washington, D.C., paused in the Capitol visitor center during their meetings with elected officials in May. They warned the Kentucky members of the House and Senate about a set of Environmental Protection Agency proposals that would result in huge rate increases for members of electric co-ops in the state. Read more about the electric co-op efforts to hold down electric cost increases in the From the Editor column in last month�s magazine, or find it on KentuckyLiving.com by typing �personal political report� in the Article Search box.
Men and materials traveled from Kentucky to Alabama in late April to help restore power in the days after more than 60 tornadoes hammered the state.
For a two-week period, line crews from 10 of Kentucky�s 26 electric co-ops went to the hardest-hit areas in Alabama to help co-ops in Alabama. More than 130 Kentuckians helped in the restoration efforts.
Also providing substantial emergency assistance was a multi-state material supply cooperative based in Louisville. United Utility Supply sent more than 2,000 transformers and two large truckloads of electric line construction material to Tennessee and northern Alabama in late April and early May.
50 years ago: the nation should be proud of the farmer’s efficiency
by Orville Freeman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
We intend to tell the agriculture story to the country�fully, clearly, and even dramatically�too few of those who live in the cities and towns know the contribution agriculture has made to their welfare and their standard of living. Too few know the problems our farm people face�The USDA is going to tell the agriculture story as it needs and deserves to be told.
We will tell the story of the farm as the real backbone of this nation�It is largely from the fruits of the soil produced by the patient efforts of the men and women who cultivated it that we have risen to become the strongest, wealthiest, most productive, and most democratic nation on earth.
We need to tell the story of the fabulous efficiency of our agriculture�an efficiency per man-hour of work that has grown in recent decades at a rate three or four times as fast as that of nonagricultural industry�
Our farm people have given to the rest of this nation more food and fiber per dollar of real income than has ever prevailed at any other time or place in the history of mankind.
Quote: US Dept. of Agriculture
“One of the challenges to expanding renewable generation in rural areas is that many of the areas with rich resources do not have the transmission capacity needed to get the additional power to demand centers.”
�Renewable Power Opportunities for Rural Communities, by the United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses
Draw a winning energy-saving picture
For kids through age 11, send in a drawing showing a way to save energy and you could win one of three new Hallmark products aimed at encouraging confidence in children as they head back to school.
By July 22, send an original drawing on an 81â„2 x 11 sheet of paper showing a favorite way of saving energy. We�ll print three of them in the September Kentucky Living, and the artists of those published drawings will receive one of the following:
1. Story Buddy, a raccoon that talks in response to passages read from the accompanying book;
2. A Curious George recordable storybook; or
3. Bug �Em, a small plush bug with a pouch for notes or treats�you can leave it for a family member with an encouraging message, and a suggestion to pass the encouragement on to another family member.
Send your drawing along with artist name, age, address, phone number, and the electric co-op that provides your electricity, to Energy Saving Picture, Kentucky Living, P.O. Box 32170, Louisville, KY 40232.
All-electric, low-speed vehicles (LSVs) could help fill the gap between bicycle patrols and full-size police cruisers. Kentucky sheriffs, constables, and other public safety officers gathered this spring to talk with EVA Safety and Security sales reps and test drive vehicles. With zero tailpipe emissions, budget-friendly price tags ($8,000 to $16,000), and low operating costs (no oil, no gas, just $10 a month for electricity), LSVs are a taxpayer�s dream come true. Compact, safe, easy to maneuver, powered by groups of car-style batteries rechargeable at ordinary outlets, regenerative brakes (some models), and a 30-50-mile range, LSVs are street legal day or night in 35 mph zones in urban areas, business enterprise zones, and college campuses.
Favorite Beef Appetizer Contest
Send us your favorite beef appetizer recipe, and you could win one of three prizes:
1st place: $150 Kroger gift card for beef, The Healthy Beef Cookbook, and an I Heart Beef Apron
2nd place: $50 Kroger gift card for beef, The Healthy Beef Cookbook, and an I Heart Beef Apron
3rd place: The Healthy Beef Cookbook and an I Heart Beef Apron
Winners will be published in November’s Kentucky Living‘s Chef’s Choice.
Criteria: Recipe must use at least 3 oz. of one of the 29 cuts of lean beef listed below.
Eye Round Roast & Steak
Sirloin Tip Side Steak
Top Round Roast & Steak
Bottom Round Roast & Steak
Top Sirloin Steak
Brisket, Flat Half
95% Lean Ground Beef
Round Tip Roast & Steak
Round Steak
Shank Cross Cuts
Chuck Shoulder Pot Roast
Sirloin Tip Center Roast & Steak
Chuck Shoulder Steak
Bottom Round
(Western Griller) Steak
Top Loin (Strip) Steak
Shoulder Petite Tender &
Medallions
Flank Steak
Shoulder Center (Ranch) Steak
Tri-Tip Roast & Steak
Tenderloin Roast & Steak
T-Bone Steak
Rules: By submitting your recipe, you warrant that it is original and that you have the right to agree that Kentucky Living may use it in any manner, and that we may use your name, city, and state of residence, and other biographical information you provide.
Here’s the fine print: Employees of Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives, Kentucky Living, and Kentucky’s electric cooperatives are ineligible. Also ineligible are professionals in food and/or nutrition, commercial dairy, or beef cattle producers, or the agents or employees of dairy or beef cattle industry associations, or anyone living in the same household of the above.
HOW TO ENTER: All entries must be received in our offices by July 15, 2011. To enter, e-mail us at e-mail@kentuckyliving.com, with subject line “Beef Recipe” and include your name, address, phone number, and name of your electric co-op. Or mail to Kentucky Living, Beef Recipe, P.O. Box 32170, Louisville, KY 40232
Hurry! Deadline for receipt of entries is July 15!
Looking for family fun, rip-roaring dance choreography, foot-stomping clogging with side-slapping fiddlin�? You�ll want to catch one of Barry and Randy Lanham�s high-energy performances. Each show has a different format containing bluegrass/country music, comedy, and audience participation skits. The brothers� summer lineup of two-hour stage shows is held at Diamond Lake Resort Theatre near Owensboro, April through September. Tickets for the Jamboree are $10 for adults/$5 for children 6�12/ages 5 and under are free. All tickets are general admission and can be purchased at the door. Groups of 15 or more call: (270) 314-4331 for special rates. More info online at www.lanhambrothers.net.
A Kentucky business is offering a little local help for folks with celiac disease, which affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. The digestive disorder causes intolerance to gluten, a common grain protein. Bloomfield Farms President Sue Sutherland explains, �We�ve opened a gluten-free plant in Kentucky, which is one of few in the country. We make sure our products are not contaminated with gluten-containing wheat, barley, rye, or oats.� Products can be purchased online or by phone: www.thebloomfieldfarms.com, (502) 348-1333.
