Living at Mile Marker 803.9 of the Ohio River in Downtown Henderson KY
The Henderson Gleaner reported this afternoon that the Water St Power Plant is going to close December 31, 2008. This is great news when you live less than one block from these terrible soot producing smoke stacks.
Almost every day I have to wipe down my veranda table and handrails of all the soot this power plant produces.So no soot next summer! Hurray!
For more about Henderson Municipal Power and where they will produce electricity for Henderson in future go to http://www.hmpl.com/
Well I think that I am rested after a wonderful weekend celebrating my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Saturday night was a dinner party at the Water Street house for 30 of my parents friends. Everything went off with out a hitch. The alfresco dining could have been a few degrees cooler but we made it fine. You can view the photo album of this dinner party HERE.
Sunday afternoon the reception was at the First Baptist Church (my growing up church and my parents present church). We had over 200 people sign the guest register. It was a great ocassion. Pictures will be up soon from the reception. Be sure to come back and visit.
It has been a lot of fun looking at all of there old pictures to make a video of the 50 years of marriage.
Since my father, Norris, has always been involved in magic and is an accomplished magician himself the weekend is being called “50 Magical Years of Marriage”.
One interesting tidbit that I think is that my parents were married at First Baptist-Henderson and continually have been active members of that church their entire married life. What an accomplishment. We only know of one other couple that can say they have too. Are there others?
This afternoon Bubby and I took the afternoon off to go to our local Horse Racing Track in Henderson County Ellis Park. We had a great time. We did some betting on the ponies and we won several races. We ate good ole junk food and just enjoyed ourselves on a very hot Kentucky day. Racing really works your math skills. I was amazed how quickly my 11 year old nephew could calculate the odd/winnings. He will be a Holy Name 6th grader this year.
It did seem like the attendance was a little low. Several of the races many horses were scratched. I hope Ellis can make it in Henderson County. It has been around for many years.
As as child we never went to the races. If you were baptist back in the 70’s 80’s gambling was not a good thing and you would never take your *kids* there. I remember our neighbor Maxine (my housekeeper now days) worked the track. I remember on summer our church did some mission work on the backside of the track.
My favorite recollection of the track is to be in the presence of Mrs. Ruth Adkins the former manager of the track. What a lady. When I did computer accounting consulting some Mrs. Adkins was a client of mine. She was a delightful lady and shared many stories about her and Judy’s work at the track. She was a strong business woman back in the 70’s with a very caring heart. I compare her many times to Dolly Parton. Ruth wears a wig too 🙂
Check out Ellis Park this summer. The meet runs till Labor Day.