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The 35th Annual Labor Day Celebration will take place in Carson Park in Paducah, September 4-6. Festivities will be on-going all three days from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. There will be lots of food prepared on site, free entertainment, Flea Market and Swap Meet, arts & crafts booths, Magic Valley, B & C Concession, and Dream Factory booth at Carson Park all three days.
Special Event Times
September 4th
- Confederate Railroad - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Craig Russell Band and Tony Logue Band performing before and after Confederate Railroad)
September 5th
- For Heaven's Sake - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Mitchell Jon - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
September 6th
- Labor Day Parade - 9:30 am (Beginning at 2nd & Broadway)
- Awards Ceremony - 12:00 Noon (Recognition of Grand Marshall)
- Political Speaking - 12:30 pm
- Craig Russell Band and Tony Logue Band Follows Speaking & Awards until 5:00 pm
Join Special Olympics On Lower Broadway during Downtown after Dinner. The Big Brown Truck Pull is a truly unique fund-raising event that gives companies and organizations from throughout the Paducah area the chance to put their weight behind Special Olympics.
The event includes a fun festive atmosphere with great prizes. The Big Brown Truck Pull works just like a Walk-a-Thon, but with one big twist. Participants still solicit donations to support their effort (a minimum of $50 to take part), but instead of walking, pull teams take their turn playing Tug-o-War with a huge UPS 18-wheeler.
For More Information
Website: http://events.soky.org/site/TR?fr_id=1270&pg=entry
Contact: Candace
Email: cthompson@soky.org
Phone: 800-633-7403 or 502-326-5002
Samantha Arnett is a sweet 4 year old who has a rare, fast-growing brain tumor that was diagnosed February 2009. This scrap-booking fundraiser at Lone Oak Elementary School on August 14th beginning at 8:00 am goes toward helping her Daddy take off work so the family can spend as much time together as possible.
The donation for the event is $20, but I'm sure anything above and beyond would be greatly appreciated.
Upon receiving the donation, your spot will be reserved. There are a limited number of spots available, so reserve yours now.
To donate, mail your name, email address, and phone number with $20 (or more) to:
Scrap For Samantha
2920 Lone Oak Road, Suite 4
Paducah, KY 42003
For more information, or to learn more about and follow Samantha's story, please visit www.caringbridge.org.
Come out to the Park Avenue Roof Brothers on July 23rd from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm for a free tasting of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel whiskey, hand-selected by Roof Brothers and carrying the Roof Brothers' logo.
Get your bottle of Jack Daniel's signed by Lynne Tolley, great-grandniece of (and next of kin to) Jack Daniel, proprietress of Miss Marry Bobo's in Lynchburg, TN and author of three cookbooks.
For more information visit www.roofbrothers.com.
Paducah Parks Services is bringing back the Movie in the Park events for 2010.
The fun kicks off this Thursday with the movie "Up", rated PG.
Bring your blankets and chairs and come hang out with us at the Noble Park Amphitheater. Approximate start time is at 8:15 pm.
It's absolutely free to watch and concessions will be available for purchase.
For more information please call 270-444-8508 or visit paducahky.gov.
On July 8, at 3:00 pm, the Carson Center will be hosting a FREE workshop especially designed for teachers. Tap into your own creativity and learn how to use theater games in your classroom in a fast paced, fun, FREE theater workshop.
This informative workshop is geared toward adult educators, childcare specialists and anyone who works with kids. Incorporating innovative exercises and theatre games, this hands-on, fun filled workshop is designed as a guide to tap the creativity and spontaneity of children of all ages.
Bring a notepad, a pencil, and your imagination. We will supply the fun, the learning, and the lemonade and cookies.
Note: This is a highly interactive workshop. Get ready to step outside of your shell and let loose.
This workship last approximately 1 hour, and space is limited.
For more information or to register, please call Mary Katz at 270-443-9932 or email mkatz@thecarsoncenter.org.
Bikes on Broadway will be held on July 11, from 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm.
Broadway will be closed to motor vehicles and open to bikes, runners, walkers, wheelchairs, skaters, big wheels and more. The event will take place from 21st St. to 4th St.
It is free to the public.
Rally at The Rivers will take place on June 25-27 at Heartland Worship Center on Alben Barkley Drive at Exit 7 off I-24 in Paducah. There will be live music, vendors, guided rides, incredible food, and a blessing of the bikes ceremony.
Jeff Allen, the world's funniest, most inspiring comedian will be present to entertain your funny bone, as well as BBQ champion Jeff Beal to fill you up with fastest way to a man's heart.
- Tickets thru May 25th are $20 (Includes an all access pass, a rally patch, and a ticket to Jeff Allen).
- Tickets after May 25th and at the gate are $25 (Includes an all access pass and a ticket to see Jeff Allen).
You can purchase tickets through Heartland Worship Center and online at www.rallyattherivers.com.
Check out comedian Jeff Allen at www.jeffallencomedy.com!
For more information, please call 270-534-1400, ext: 207
In a society where everyone is going green, many people (now more than ever) are turning to geothermal heat pumps like the ones offered at Ingram's Water and Air in Paducah, KY.
Coming from the Greek words geo (earth) and therme (heat), Geothermal heat pumps like the McQuay Enfinity Water Source Heat Pumps receive their energy from the earth to heat and cool the home with natural warmth. Using the environmentally safe R-410A refrigerant, it cools your home without depleting the ozone layer, making the choice for a new heat pump that much easier.
Jason Ingram (owner of Ingram's Water and Air) Says
"Installing a geothermal system is equivalent to planting 750 trees or taking two cars off the road."
While helping the environment and reducing energy costs, the McQuay heat pump has a patented sound barrier that makes the unit extremely quiet and produces a higher level of energy efficiency than any other geothermal units on the market. Federal incentives alone can cover 30% of the total cost, including equipment and installation.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Reports
"Homeowners typically experience an annual savings of 30 to 70% when compared to ordinary systems, and geothermal units will pay for themselves within 4-5 years."
If you're looking to go green, need a replacement heat pump, or just want to save your hard earned money, a geothermal unit with the McQuay heat pump is the way to go. You're gaining impressive savings while helping the environment, and with a geothermal unit there are no worries to have about flames, fumes, odors, or carbon monoxide.
Federal Tax Incentive
Geothermal heat pumps qualify for the government tax credit, which gives you a 30% tax credit for all out of pocket expenses involved in purchasing and installing your new geothermal system.
That's a huge savings offer, especially in our nation's current economical status.
State Rebate Program
Each state is also offering a rebate for qualified geothermal purchases. It seems they have around $2.5 million dollars or more allocated to the rebate incentive.
For Kentucky residents a $400 rebate is offered.
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Federal Renewable Energy Grant
Besides the tax credit and state rebates, it seems Geothermal Heat Pump Systems are also eligible for 2 different grants to assist consumers in purchasing the new energy saving geothermal systems.
One of the grants offers 30% for property that is part of a qualified facility, qualified fuel cell property, solar property, or qualified small wind property or 10% for all other properties (which includes residential homeowners).
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The second grant offers 25% of total project cost, which includes any out of pocket expenses involved in purchasing and installing your geothermal heating and air system.
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With all grants, tax credits, and rebates, Western KY residents would essentially only end up paying only $1,743.35 for a geothermal system that would originally cost $6,123.00 (which includes everything you need to install and run the system).
The grants do have specific qualifications you must meet in order to receive them, so make sure to read the qualifications to make sure you are eligible.
For more information contact Ingram's Water and Air at 1-800-360-1569 and let them assist you in finding the perfect unit to fit your needs.
Or you can visit their website at www.ingramswaterandair.com
Use coupon code helloky to get $50.00 off, or mention HelloKY.com!
Get your car washed to help support charity at the Finish Line Car Wash on Clarks River Road in Paducah Ky on May 1st from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Finish Line Car Wash will donate 10 percent of every car washed to help save babies! Get a beautifully clean car and help support the March of Dimes in its mission to ensure that all babies are born healthy!
For more information please call Tom Dolan at 270-443-8603 or email tdolan@marchofdimes.com
Leadership Paducah Class #23 is hosting a charity 5K run/walk on May 1st, 2010 to benefit the Family Service Society’s dental program. Whether you are a runner or not, this cause is more than worthy of your support.
The run starts in Stuart Nelson Park, moves to the Greenway Trail and to Noble Park then returns to Stuart Nelson. This should be a fast, flat course.
Registration is at 7:00 am and the run starts promptly at 8:00 am. Cost to participate in the run is $25 per person.
For more information please call 270-444-8508 or email Laurie Blount at lblount@ci.paducah.ky.us
Click here to download the registration form
They are finally here! Our brand new HelloKY.com t-shirts. Please help to show your pride and let others know about our resource for everything western KY.
These shirts add a bit of humor for those of us who have experienced mosquitos equivalent to those on the new Land of the Lost movie. It's only a matter of time before the Mosquito really is the State Bird of Kentucky.
Here's a picture of the shirts. If you'd like one, they are $10 a piece and you can order by selecting your size and clicking the "Add to Cart" button below.
Orders are processed through PayPal, but you don't have to have a PayPal account to buy them. Simply select the pay buy credit/debit card option once you are finished adding the items you want to your cart.
If you want to order different sizes in one order, choose your first size, click "Add to Cart", then click continue shopping when you see your shopping cart. Then simply select another size and click "Add to Cart" again. When you have selected all the sizes you want, click "Proceed to Checkout" on the shopping cart screen.
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The next Paducah quilt show will be held April 21 – 24, 2010, from 7:00 am - 5:00 pm, at the Paducah Expo Center, Julian Carroll Convention Center, and the new AQS Pavilion that will be located in the parking lot at the convention center. The AQS "Hurt Book Sale" and more vendors will be at the AQS Vendors on Kentucky in the Finkel Building in downtown Paducah. Special Events will be held at the Carson Four Rivers Center (across the street from the Finkel Building).
Note: The show will not be using the Executive Inn for this show. The Executive Inn, the hotel attached to the convention center, has been closed since last year’s show and will not be open during the 2010 AQS Quilt Show.
The Paducah Convention & Visitors Bureau will begin taking applications for the AQS Home Bed & Breakfast program beginning February 1, 2010.
The 2010 AQS Quilt Contest will award $125,000 in cash awards to quilters.
There will be a lot to see and do:
- 400 beautiful quilts in the AQS Quilt Contest from across the U.S. and around the world
- 400 vendor booths
- 100+ classes, lectures, and special events
- Special quilt exhibits including:
- Winning Quilts from the 2010 AQS Quilt Show & Contest – Lancaster
- Quilts by Kaffe Fassett
- 2011 Pilgrim/Roy Challenge
- Winners from the 2009 AQS/Hobbs Bonded Fibers Fashion Show
- 2010 AQS Landscape Quilt Contest
Special Events
- Tuesday – All-Star Review, Awards Presentation & Sneak Preview
- Wednesday – Kaffe Fassett
- Thursday – National Quilt Museum’s Quilt Auction & Eleanor Burns – Live on Stage
- Friday – AQS/Hobbs Bonded Fibers Fashion Show & An Evening with Ricky Tims
- Saturday – All-Star Review
Tour groups can contact Laura Davis or Marcelle Cashon at 270-898-7903 for more information about the show, or for assistance with admission or ticket sales. Advance purchase of admission is recommended for large groups to avoid standing in line at the show.
For more information please call 270-444-8649 or visit www.paducah.travel
Retreat at Family of God at Reidland, a church of Christ, on March 26-27, 2010. All girls 12-19 from anywhere in the area are invited.
The Power of Purity is a seminar for teenage girls to show them the power and beauty of sexual purity. We want to help the girls understand the price of sexual activity outside of marriage -- physical, emotional, and spiritual -- and to show them their pricelessness in Christ. We want to enable them to look critically at their culture to discern the underlying messages and values. We want to raise awareness in the parents of the sexualized culture the girls live in and the pressures they face, and show them the importance of giving attention and affection to their children, monitoring their children's activities, and being spiritual leaders for their children so they are not so vulnerable. We want to work together to create a culture where sexual purity is expected, desired, and supported.
We hold weekend retreats to educate girls about sexual purity and to equip them to remain sexually pure or to reclaim their sexual purity. These retreats run from Friday evening to Saturday late afternoon.
The girls scrapbook the throughout the retreat. They come to the retreat with their own photographs gathered during a photo scavenger hunt that we send them on, and we give them a scrapbook to use upon their arrrival at the retreat. After each lesson or discussion by various speakers, the girls participate in scrapbooking sessions. By Saturday night, each girl will take home a keepsake scrapbook with pictures she took, letters she wrote, scriptures she chose, and designs she created.
The weekend sessions include these topics:
- You Are Priceless
- A Great Mate
- Your Moral Compass
- Creative Dating
- Tithing Your LIfe
- Cleaning Out Our Lives and Our Closets
- The Cult of Culture
- Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Consequences Of Sexual Involvement
For more information please call 270-898-2152 or 270-575-1875 or send an email to powerofpurityretreat@gmail.com
We have seen big boys toys shows, boat shows, sports car shows, it’s about time someone had a show all about women. This is it! And it is coming back to Paducah.
On March 20, 2010 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, in the old Goodies building across from Kentucky Oaks Mall, you’ll find everything you can imagine and things you never have.
The Real Woman's Expo will have demonstrations, food samples, a chocolate fountain, cooking demonstrations, door prizes, hands on demonstrations and nearly 60 exhibitors set up just waiting to offer something special to each of the ladies participating that day.
Over ten thousand dollars in door prizes will be given away throughout the day, including several exquisite pieces of gold and diamond jewelry.
Advance tickets are available at all Regions Bank locations for $3 or you may purchase tickets at the door for only $5.
For more information please call 270-554-TALK email info@realwomansexpo.com or visit www.realwomansexpo.com
The purpose of the Summer Festival is to hold a celebration that will involve the community, provide wholesome entertainment and inspire pride in Paducah and the Western Kentucky area. Popular events are repeated every year as well as some new dimensions added. Some activities included are free nightly concerts, Kidz Day in the Park, lawnmower races, hot air balloons, Marine Industry Days and various competitions.
Make plans to join us at the Paducah Summer Festival starting each night at 4 pm...you'll be glad you did!
For more information or to see a schedule of events visit: www.paducahsummerfestival.com
Sign up your kids, ages 6-10, for this art and bike camp with Ruth Baggett at Gallery 1025.
We'll start at 8 a.m. with helmets and bikes for a ride around the LowerTown Arts District and then stop by Etcetera Coffeehouse for refreshments. By 9 a.m., we'll return to the gallery to create art.
- Monday - Drawing
- Tuesday - Tiedye T-Shirts
- Wednesday - Collage
- Thursday - Painting
- Friday - Noble Park ride and boat making
Cost is $300; limited class size.
For more info, contact Ruth Baggett at 270-210-1924.
The National Quilt Museum
215 Jefferson St.
10:30 am
Special guided tours of the museum’s exhibits, including the newest exhibit: Fraser Smith’s carved textiles. Tours start at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Call 270- 42-8856 for more information.
If you’re tired of sitting at home doing nothing on the weekends then please join us for Downtown after Dinner in Paducah’s Historic downtown.
Invite friends and family to dinner at one of Paducah's favorite downtown restaurants. Then grab homemade ice cream on Broadway and stick around for six blocks of live outdoor entertainment!
Entertainment Lineup
- Adam & the H-Bombs—a Jazzy, Soul Trio Performing at the Gazebo
- Artist, Sam Ball Creates Marbles to Music
- Enjoy Dancing with the Cross Road Dancers & Chill Factor
- Charlie Norman Sings the Classics
- Susu the Mime Clown
- Guitar of Andy Gibson
- Fairy Princess Bella Face Painting
Also
- Purchase fresh cut flowers for your Sweetheart after dinner. Can you think of a better way to end a romantic evening?
- Purchase fresh produce from your local Farmer's Market and from the local shops which stay open late!
- Artists' Demonstrations at the Gazebo including glass blowing!
- Antique Tractors
- Antique Cars
- Motorcycles
- Be an Artist for a night! Create your own masterpiece on the streets with chalk!
Upcoming Performances
Ed & Elaine Jones will come back to this year’s Downtown after Dinner starting in July.
The Night Moves Dance Group will also begin performing at the event on the Second Saturday of the month. Dates are still TBD.
Important Reminders
- For everyone's protection, ALL dogs must wear an open muzzle when attending the event.
- Open muzzles can be purchased at Market @ 315, Wildhair Studios & Gallery 5 in the LowerTown Arts District.
- No Parking on Broadway from River Street to 5th Street after 6 p.m.
The Paducah Summer Games are here and include a broad variety of athletic events at various locations throughout Paducah.
Participants must be 8 years of age or older and pay a $10 registration fee.
For more information call 270-444-8508 or visit www.paducahky.gov and search for the Summer Games link.
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