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Fancy Farm Picnic 2019 almost here!

7/30/19 UPDATED: Senator McConnell has confirmed he will speak (then leave).

Senator Paul would rather go to a 3rd world country than come to Fancy Farm this year.

Party loyalists are already booking hotel rooms and setting up super secret squirrel meetings for the first week of August in the Purchase. Lots of partisan events to attend that week - plus the Lakes and the Discovery Park of America and the American Quilt Museum in Paducah and...and...and...BARBECUE!!

The course correction is producing benefits and attention from state and federal politicians and policy makers. Inviting company down to Columbus Belmont State Park on Thursday, July 18, 2019 was a day for WAVE to show off...

What stood out in the speeches was the newest crop being hailed as the saving grace for farmers beset by too much rain, too many tariffs and too full grain bins. Keynote speaker Matt Lohr, USDA Chief of Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS) hailed the West Kentucky farmers and their "spirit of innovation". He said that Kentucky is the epicenter of hemp production.

Two women not generally known to be community activists have worked for over a year to bring a dream of a large mural from imagination to completion.