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THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY | WWW.MAYSVILLE-ONLINE.COM FRIDAY, 04.27.2012 FOR FINAL STAGE CAPPING today's Maxrecipesey Flats to go! gets more than life+food $35 million WENDY MITCHELL [email protected] today's FRANKFORT | More than $35 million is includedscores in the $19 .2 billion state budget Kentucky lawmakers passed into law last week,to for go! a permanent cap and continued monitoring of the Maxey Flats Disposal Site in Fleming County, officials said on Thursday. sports Of the more than $35.1 million proposed by Gov. Steve Beshear and approved by state lawmakers, $17 million After nearly 26 willtoday's come from bond years of being fundsnews while the re- on the National maining $18.1 million Priorities List for willto be dr go!awn from trust funds from vari- clean up as a Su- ous parties, said State perfund site, this Rep. Mike Denham. funding will allow entertainment “After nearly 26 us to cap the site years of being on and move for- the National Priori- ties List for clean up ward. This would as a Superfund site, not have been this funding will al- today's possible without low us to cap the site the work of Gov. and move forward,” saidnews Denham. “This Beshear, Sen. wouldto not go! have been (Walter) Blevins, possible without the Secretary (Len) work of Gov. Beshear, Peters, Mr. + Sen. (Walter) Blevins, (Scott) Wilburn, region state Secretary (Len) Peters, Mr. (Scott) Wilburn, the Concerned the Concerned Citi- Citizens com- zens committee, and mittee, and all all those involved in Maxey Flats over the those involved in decadestoday's.” Maxey Flats over The 49-year-old the decades.” Maxviewsey Flats Dispo sal TERRY PRATHER, THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT Site is a low-level MIKE DENHAM, Maysville Police Officer Justin Merrill holds a two-year-old child as he waits for a representative from social services to arrive Thursday on radiotoacti go!ve waste dis- STATE REP. Vine Street. posal site where corporate and govern- ment waste was dumped between 1963 and opinion 1977. It is now managed by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. MOTHER CHARGED See FLATS, A2 AFTER TODDLER FOUND UNSUPERVISED MARLA TONCRAY lived, but was unable custody of police; Rose told police she LEWIS COUNTY [email protected] to make contact with was asleep when the toddler left the the parent(s). apartment, which is not where Rose The mother of a 2-year-old child Horch said the lives. was arrested Thursday after the tod- child was placed in Rose met with Sgt. Jared Muse at Woman guides dler was found unsupervised near a protective custody the Social Services office for an inter- busy street. with Children’s Social view and she was charged with first- According to Lt. Justin Horch with Services office and as degree wanton endangerment. She the Maysville Police Department, a officers were about was taken to Mason County Detention people in need MELISSA resident in the area of Main and Vine to canvas the area in Center. streets notified police of the toddler an attempt to locate ROSE Horch said the female toddler and KAREN STEIN girl wandering around near the side- family, the toddler’s three other children not involved in [email protected] walk and street unattended around mother, Melissa Rose, 25, of Maysville the incident have been placed with 11:30 a.m. Horch said Officer Justin contacted the police department. Social Services. VANCEBURG | Despite opening its doors Merrill was dispatched to the area and According to Horch, a neighbor more than a year ago, most people in Lewis after making sure the child was safe, informed Rose of the child’s where- County are unaware there is a center to attempted to locate where the child abouts and was told she was in the See NEGLECT, A2 guide them in finding the support and ser- vices they may need. Community Access to Resources, Edu- tuesday, 04.27,2010 | the ledger independent www.maysville-online.com/news cation and Support has been a one-woman operation, but Anita Gilbert is always today's looking for volunteers to help, the CARES director said. Supreme Court reitnewserates Whether people are suffering from a to go! serious illness or tragedy, Gilbert said she redistricting decision will find whatever services or items they + regionneed. state ROGER ALFORD With the support of the American Can- Associated Press cer Society, CARES opened in January 2011, but no one knows about it, Gilbert FRANKFORT | A legislative redistricting plan for Ken- said.section b tuesday, 04.27,2010 | the ledger independent tuckywww.maysville-online.com/lifestyles is unconstitutional because it doesn’t adequately “CARES is a guide for finding the right address population shifts of the past decade, the Ken- resource. Call me and I will direct you or tucky Supreme Court reiterated in atoday's ruling Thursday. arrange to find what you need ... we take it Justices also echoed a February decisionrecipes that legisla- for granted everyone knows where to go for tive candidates will have to run this yetoar ingo! districts that help. We are always trying to find the best have been in place for the past 10 years. fit for each person’s needs,” Gilbert said. The 27-page ruling explains the legal rationale behind Her center began as a+ resource center for the previous ruling in which justices had originally de- lifecancer patients. travel clared the redistricting law unconstitutional. The CARES center has various literature Lexington attorney Scott White, representing Demo- for patients and their caregivers, she said. cratic state Sen. Kathy Stein who was shifted entirely out This is information they will probably not of her district, said Thursday the legal battle could have find at their doctor’s offices. A computer been avoided if lawmakers had done the right thing to is available in a quiet setting for additional begin with. ressectionearch, if needed, b tuesday,said Gilbert, 04.27,2010 who has | the ledger independent www.maysville-online.com/entertainment“The legislature’s choice to stick their heads in the been finding ways to help people most of sand on settled Kentucky law ended up causing the dis- her adult life. tricts to be out of whack for at least today'sanother year,” White “We are also here to fill the gaps; I am the said. “We certainly hope the legislaturrecipese will quit messing gap-filler for those in need. For example, around and do what’s right in the nextto legislati go! ve ses- one lady came to us before her cancer sion.” entertainmenttreatments to find a wig to match her hair. The Supreme Court held that the populations of all of And we have several, but not the right col- the state House and Senate districts shouldn’t deviate or. But I was able to contract the American more than 5 percent, and that theseventy-five plan should divide cents as Cancer Society in Ashland, and they sent TERRY PRATHER, THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT few counties as possible. just the right wig,” she said. IN TRAINING | Amanda Wallingford gets in some “seat time” Thursday in a school bus. Wallingford hopes to become a regular bus driver for the Mason County School See DECISION, A2 See GUIDE, A2 System. 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Louisville LexingtonW.VA. 67° | 44° 64° | 41° Paducah MO. 68° | 48° Bristol Partly cloudy Mostly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Mostly cloudy 74° | 51° H60s | L40s H60s | L40s H60s | L40s H70s | L50s H70s | L50s Nashville 73° | 57° Chattanooga Knoxville N.C. 82° | 58° 79° | 55° YESTERDAY YESTERDAY’S NORMAL ONE YEAR AGO RECORD HIGH NA Memphis S.C. Fronts Pressure High 84 | Low 64 High 74 | Low 60 High 71 | Low 50 RECORD LOW NA MISS.83° | 65° ALA. GA. © 2012 Wunderground.com Cold Warm Stationary Low High Cloudy Thunder- Flurries Ice storms Partly -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s100s 110s PRECIPITATION FOR MONTH . 2.69 NEW FIRST FULL LAST Cloudy Showers Rain Snow Weather Underground • AP NORMAL FOR MONTH TO DATE . .3.41 Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice More Wet Weather In West, Storms Spread Into Plains PRECIPITATION FOR YEAR . 13.17 Pacific disturbances will fuel more wet weather in the Northwest SUNRISE: 6:50AM RIVER LEVEL and parts of the Central Great Basin. Energy ejecting out of the West will kick up strong and possibly severe storms in parts of the NORMAL FOR YEAR TO DATE . 14.13 MAY 21 APRIL 29 MAY 6 MAY 12 SUNSET: 8:31PM 34.26 feet Midwest. Active weather will extend into the Mid-Atlantic. Weather Underground • AP Protection Agency report- FLATS ed in a five-year review report on the disposal site FROM A1 in 2007 that remedial con- struction cannot be com- “After nearly 50 years pleted until the permanent of concern about this site, cap is in place, officials with the permanent cap, said.