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Cary Gaddis, right, takes a phone call as his brother Billy Joe Gaddis runs a track hoe Tuesday to demolish the former Weirs Drug store building at Hill Avenue and Frederica Street. The Gaddis brothers work for Gaddis Excavating which is a part of Yeager Materials, Cary Gaddis said.
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John Dunham, Messenger-Inquirer/jdunham@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Dedrick Jackson encourages Paris, a Labrador retriever, to jump from the diving board Sunday during the Owensboro Parks and Recreation Department's sixth annual "Gone to the Dogs" event at Combest Pool. This was their second year for the event. There were more than 60 dogs swimming at the pool.
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Jenny Sevcik, Messenger-Inquirer/jsevcik@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Lydia Mills, right, a sixth-grader at Owensboro Catholic School?s 4-6 Campus, shows her classmate Natalie Jones a box of aluminum foil Mills brought to the first day of class along with other classroom supplies on Wednesday at the East 23rd Street school. While unpacking supplies at the beginning of the school day, students covered their text books in colorful and stretchable book covers to help protect the books from wear and tear. Also pictured are sixth graders Bridget Stallings, far left, Cameron O'Nan, second from left, and Mikala Riney, back right.
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Jenny Sevcik, Messenger-Inquirer/jsevcik@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Ed Krampe uses a hammer and chisel to ready the brick wall for repair work at Mayfair Square near Owensboro Medical Health System's HealthPark on Tuesday. Krampe was helping his friend Tony Hayden with the job. Hayden, a contractor, said he is suppose to be retired, "but they keep calling." The repair work will take a week. Hayden said the wall was built in the 1950s and he feels the spots that are in need of repair is due to the age of the structure.
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Jenny Sevcik, Messenger-Inquirer/jsevcik@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Beaver Dam Elementary school sixth-grade teacher Beth Wilson, center, goes over the student code of conduct book with her students Tuesday, the first day back in the classroom for Ohio county public school students this fall. The school building is new this year after the old school was closed, it's contents sold and public auction, and the structure torn down.
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Gary Emord-Netzley, Messenger-Inquirer gemord-netzley@messenger-inquirer.com 691-7318 Justin Crandall, chef and owner of Pangea Cafe and Catering Co. next to the former Wetzel's location in the Village West shopping center off Carter Road, prepares a meal for a lunch patron as line cook Antonio Solomon watches at right Thursday in the Pangea Cafe kitchen. Business is picking up and Crandall will expand into part of the Wetzel's building in the next couple of months.
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Photo illustration by John Dunham, Messenger-Inquirer/jdunham@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123
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John Dunham, Messenger-Inquirer/jdunham@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Project superintendent Dennis Hardesty of Rockville holds the original sandy soil of the banks of the Ohio River on Thursday at the foot of Frederica Street as the riverfront development project continues. Hardesty works for Hall Contracting of Kentucky. Owensboro was known as the Big Yellow Banks in the late 1700s.
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Gary Emord-Netzley, Messenger-Inquirer gemord-netzley@messenger-inquirer.com 691-7318 One-year-old Chaz Frizzell charts his course through the fountains on a very muggy Monday afternoon in the SprayPark in Legion Park. Donna and Kevin Frizzell brought Chaz and his 3-year-old sister, Chloe to the park from their home in Island.
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Gary Emord-Netzley, Messenger-Inquirer gemord-netzley@messenger-inquirer.com 691-7318 Orson Ossman's character Trotter, right, laughs hysterically before shooting Molly played by Amy Walker on Wednesday during dress rehearsal of the Agatha Christie's radio play, Three Blind Mice, in the Jody Berry Cabaret Theatre in the RiverPark Center. The RiverPark Center is hosting the American premieres of the Christie mysteries. ?Butter in a Lordly Dish? and ?Three Blind Mice? opened Wednesday night, and ?Personal Call? and ?The Yellow Iris? premiere tonight.
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Gary Emord-Netzley, Messenger-Inquirer gemord-netzley@messenger-inquirer.com 691-7318 "It's big dog day," said groomer Jennifer Medina of Hartford, right, as she blow dries the coat of 2-year-old golden retriever, Brinkley, as his litter mate, Murphy, left, plays while groomer Tabatha Hall of Philpot and Brackin's Grooming owner Gayle Leibfried struggle to give him a haircut Thursday morning in the shop at 515 Salem Drive. Both pooches got a haircut, shampoo and a blow dry.
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Gary Emord-Netzley, Messenger-Inquirer gemord-netzley@messenger-inquirer.com 691-7318 Tommy Brown looks for wet spots on his 1917 Ford Roadster hotrod after washing the antique car Friday morning inside Cars Plus Auto Sales at Texas Avenue and West Second Street. "These thingsa are bad about water spots," Brown said. Brown and his stepfather, Tom Kase, were preparing the car for today's Promiseland Car Show on the riverfront in Livermore. Brown said the car has a 327hp Chevy engine but doesn't know what kind of mileage he gets."I don't know, it doesn't have a gas guage," he said.
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John Dunham, Messenger-Inquirer/jdunham@messenger-inquirer.com, 926-0123 Crossing guard Lavada Heath gives a hug to Sutton Elementary School student Marifrances Rice, 6, as Emily Williams, 9, waits for her mother Friday afternoon after school. This is Heath's 50th year as a crossing guard. "I've been hit only one time two years ago," she said.
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