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Poet Leigh Anne Hornfeldt was one of 17 writers to read their work during Hazard Community and Technical College's Evening with Poets on Thursday. The reading coincided with the release of the college's literary magazine, Kudzu. (photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald)
College hosts Evening with Poets
Hazard Community and Technical College hosted its annual Evening with Poets Thursday in the Stephens Library. Seventeen writers, including former Poet Laureate Gurney Norman, Leigh Anne Hornfeldt, and Jim Webb, read their work in front of an audience of approximately 150 people. The reading was held Thursday to coincide with the release of the college’s literary journal, Kudzu , which is now currently available. The college will also hold it...
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<p>Photos by Amelia Holliday</p><p>Commodities were distributed in Perry County at the New Hope church on Tuesday. Those wishing to receive commodities first had to wait to register to see if they fell into the income bracket.</p>
New Hope serves community in need of food
HAZARD — Volunteers at the emergency food pantry at the New Hope church in Hazard have been more than busy since last fall when the church offered its services to distribute commodities to Perry Countians every month. The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a federally funded program that works to improve the health of low-income individuals and families by offering free, nutritious food for those people. Michael Barnett, pastor...
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<p>photos by Amelia Holliday | Hazard Herald</p><p>Students at HCTC decotrated tennis shoes and hung them outside by the First Federal Center thie week to commemorate Child Abuse Awareness month.</p>
Community Collaboration for Children held annual conference
HAZARD — The members of the Community Collaboration for Children (CCC) Regional Network held its annual conference on Tuesday at Hazard Community and Technical College. The goal of this training was to provide education and community awareness of child abuse. This year there were 160 individuals present from across the region for this training. During the conference, the CCC Network presented its Child Abuse Awareness awards, Child Abuse Po...
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<p>Elaine Chao, former U.S. labor secretary, will be the guest speaker at the 2013 Civic Night, scheduled for May 2.</p>
Annual Civic Night set for May 2
HAZARD – Elaine Chao, the former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, will be this year’s featured speaker at the annual Civic Night in Hazard. Chao, a graduate of Harvard Business School and the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, served on former President Bush’s cabinet from 2001 to 2009, and was the first resident of Kentucky to receive such an appointment since 1945. Her résumé also includes stints as dir...
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<p>photos by Amelia Holliday | Hazard Herald</p><p>Jenny Williams, co-host of the live radio cooking show &#8220;What&#8217;s Cookin&#8217; Now!&#8221;, puts the finishing touches on her grapefruit salad with crystallized ginger simple syrup during this month&#8217;s episode about brunch.</p>
Local radio show gets cookin’ on air
What’s the difference between a “Simpson’s” quote from 1990, the break room at the Appalshop in Whitesburg, and brunch? Here’s a hint: only one of them comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end. “What’s Cookin’ Now!” is a live radio cooking show on WMMT in Whitesburg hosted by Jenny Williams and Jonathan Piercy. The show airs the first Wednesday of every month in the “opulent kitchens of the Appalshop (that is, their break room)” and is t...
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