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The Lebanon Main Street Program will be presenting the 2013 Dickens Christmas Parade on Dec. 6 beginning at 7 p.m. The children will be able to visit and have their picture taken with Santa after the parade at the Marion County Heritage Center.   Anyone wishing to be a part of the parade is asked to contact Mary Lou Brock at 270-692-6002 for more information.

The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting nominations until Nov. 1, 2013, for the 2014 Governor’s Awards in the Arts.
The Governor’s Awards are the Commonwealth’s highest honor in the arts. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made extraordinary and significant contributions to the arts in Kentucky. The nomination process is coordinated by the arts council.

Loretto Child Care Center announces participation in the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program administered by the Kentucky Department of Education.

There will be a dedication for a member of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, which served the Union army during the Civil War, on Oct. 20 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Springfield.
The ceremony for Sgt. William Frank Hall will begin at 2 p.m. and all descendants are encouraged to attend.
The event will start with the master of ceremonies, John Kalbfleisch, Com. E.P. Marrs Camp 5, followed by the invocation from Robert Orbach, chaplain, E.P. Marrs Camp 5.

Anyone visiting or driving by St. Charles Catholic Church may notice a bright, white statue depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. The statue was first built in 1946 in memory of a former student at St. Mary’s College, and it was recently restored.

“It is my hope that future generations of the community will visit it as a reminder of what it represents,” said John Browning, a member of the St. Charles cemetery committee.

Friends and Family Day
First Baptist Church on N. Depot St. will be having a Friends and Family Day at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29.

I’ve been thinking about Ham Days, and there are so many fond memories from days gone by. The first year that my husband, Steve Lowery, worked at The Lebanon Enterprise, 1979, I couldn’t go to the parade or anything else during Ham Days. Our twins, Rachel and Stevie, had only just come home from the hospital after their premature birth, and I was, to put it mildly, busy.

Now that fall is officially here it’s time to start planting fall flowers such as pansies, mums, and ornamental cabbage and kale. My favorite fall flower is pansy mainly because it is one of those tough little plants that will actually give you flowers periodically in winter as well as next spring. Pansies are not perennials as they hate hot weather but do reliably overwinter in Kentucky to give us two seasons of bloom, or three if you count the few flowers that pop up in winter.