Lextran Renovation Moving Forward

North of CeNter Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Free TaKe HoMe AND READ NOCLEXInGTON.CoM VoluMe III, Issue 9 May Day sprout Josephine Rose Mayer born 5:35 AM NoC News saturday morning, a Monday, May 2 rare sunny day in a sea- Central Baptist Hospital son of downpours, to come upon the world The news coming down the line says three weeks early. over that your world’s on fire, and I’m a period of hours, as trying Mom calmly finished to get a message through to you. painting the baby’s —D. Rawlings bookshelf and dad frantically rushed to With her right arm raised and her plant the beans, install tiny fist pushed tight between her tem- the baby seat and ple and mom’s canal walls, Josephine transplant the toma- ER rose Mayer was born on May 1, 2011 toes, Josie’s demands AY m Y at 5:35 a.M., after 28 hours of labor. became more insistent, NN she came out crying and with a head pressing, sharp. DA of black hair, in search of warmth and Things ultimately a pair of arms to hold her close, things crested, crowned actu- Josie Rose Mayer raises her hand hand in solidarity with workers across the world. her mother, strong and beautiful, hap- ally, 64 minutes before pily provided. the sun’s rise on May 1, International at the Philadelphia scott Paper plant her arms raised up, loud, and ready to Though Josie was unavailable Worker’s day and pagan spring holiday in the 1940s and still alive at 95, and go. for comment, inside sources say that for the northern hemisphere; a sunday. rosalind “Papa rose” decker, a south the allure of being a May day baby, all in all, it’s a real fine day to Georgia florist into the 1990s, must Both mom and baby are doing well. The coupled with Mom’s Friday night din- scratch your first mark and pitch your surely be proud of their May day dogs are a bit mystified. Most of the tomatoes ner of white bean agnoletti, led to the first good holler. Great-grandmothers hybrid born of two non-native trans- survived the frost. Weather is warming. And ambitious sprout’s decision early on Josephine “Josie” lazare, a line worker plants, this child arriving early with dad’s tickled pink at the whole turn of events. Between God LexTran renovation The length of and Superman the Kentucky Eli at the UK helm moving forward Life by rheotaxis, part 3 By Danny Mayer By Wesley Houp NoC News so I would like to see the old Kitchen “We want somebody between God Planning Center restored. Plus, it Collinsia verna. Blue-eyed Mary and superman.” on april 25, lexTran officials, is more environmentally friendly was the first species of spring wild- —James Stuckert, Vice-Chair, including General Manager rocky to restore an existing building than flowers to seduce my imagination as a UK Board of Trustees, January 2010, Burke, met with community mem- to demolish it and rebuild,” said young man of 23 living on the river speaking on the UK CEO search bers at luigart studio to discuss the Tara rodriguez, of the Castlewood at High Bridge. at a time when most future of the Kitchen Planning Center neighborhood association. of my friends from high school and I should be honest here and say building at 101 W. loudon avenue. Marty Clifford, of the north college were discovering the music- that not once throughout the entire occupying much of the northwest cor- limestone neighborhood association, scene (albeit anemic) in lexington and uK hiring process, from lee Todd’s ner of the intersection of n. limestone also saw possibility in the project. louisville and immersing themselves stepping down as CEO last Fall on up and loudon, lexTran owns the build- “We are hoping the building itself be liver-first in the sporadic but engulfing through the May day announcement ings on the corner and currently has its a monument and part of the commu- barscape of the city, I was cultivating last week of university of alabama at administrative headquarters at 109 W. nity—something the community will a healthy respect for the instant isola- Birmingham Provost eli Capilouto’s loudon. lexTran is considering plans directly benefit from and be proud of.” tion the lock 7 pool offers to anyone coronation as the next CEO/President for the vacant Kitchen edifice as well some also suggested that lexTran with a boat and time. In april the lush of the university of Kentucky, did as the long warehouse behind it that showcase an artstop bus shelter at the banks of Cedar run glowed in the half I ever think the school would hire a runs along n. limestone. intersection, much like has been done blue, half white brilliance cast by a mil- president I might imagine as anywhere on Third and elm Tree near the lyric lion Blue-eyed Mary’s. Cedar run was approaching “good.” When the same An Earlier Meeting Theatre. one of the few places to boast such a corporate hiring firm that chose the For more than a year, community other residents made clear that generous stand. To see it full bloom is last president is granted the same hir- members have been talking to lexTran they see the lexTran project as impor- a prize enjoyed by scant few. ing powers, this time on steroids—a about how it will utilize the Kitchen tant to the rehabilitation of the Cedar run is one of those creeks search conducted entirely out of the building. In January 2010, Burke and intersection. that boaters (paddlers and otherwise) view of the public with a $700,000 sal- his staff met with several northside “The lexTran proposed devel- pass by without as much as a sec- ary allowed to float around publicly as neighborhood associations at al’s Bar opment on the corner of limestone ond glance. For those who launch at possible compensation—it’s difficult to to discuss the building’s potential. at and loudon provides a great oppor- Frankie’s ramp just above lock 7, the hold out much hope for things going that meeting, residents shared memo- tunity for lexington and specifically spectacle of High Bridge pulls all atten- well. ries of the building’s past lives, while the north side of town. Identified by tion skyward, and most are headed for My disposition might be seen in others expressed concern that any his- the Central sector small area Plan the cold, clear lake-bottom waters of contrast to Britt Brockman, chair toric value be preserved. as a focus area and potential node of the dix river and the lure of current- of the Board of Trustees and public “The old buildings impart a dumb, farm-trout in the tail waters face of the uK search committee. In charm to this area and make it unique, continued on page 3 anyway. The small, shallow mouth of March while still interviewing candi- Cedar run is no more than an after- dates out of the public eye, Brockman thought with outboards full-bore. described the candidate pool as “just Harrodsburg’s municipal “straw” slurp- phenomenal.” Its “depth and breadth ing at the downstream side also casts a of quality” he found “overwhelmingly quasi-industrial pallor, complimenting surprising.” unlike Board Vice-Chair the massive limestone pier supporting James stuckert, who famously said that the southern leg of High Bridge—the uK wanted someone between “God two man-made structures obscuring and superman” as uK’s next CEO/ the magnificently severe gorge. President, Brockman was bullish on Just inside the mouth, though, several candidates, noting on March moss-covered stone piers mark the 24 that he had “already met three to spot where the old stage road bridged five people that I would be comfort- the creek, and immediately up to able having as the next president.” the right, the road to shaker landing This news was not to be taken snakes around the cliff. Covering the lightly. several months earlier in banks on either side, the Blue-eyed January, the Florida corporate search Mary harmonizes with the blues of firm Greenwood/asher, who was paid dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne), to vet and in some instances actively Virginia Bluebell (Mertensia virginicus), recruit (as they did with new uK CEO J.C. Commonokers Greek Valerian (Polemonium reptans), eli Capilouto) the candidates it put Purple Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida), The LexTran/Kitchen Planning Center building on the corner of North Limestone and continued on page 7 Loudon Avenue. continued on page 6 Contents In forthcoming issues 2 — Neighborhood 4 — Music 5 — Film & Media 7 — Opinion 8 — Comics High Security Prisons Save your house Music calendar DVD illusions Letters Fierce Company Hacking: good Extraordinary Axes! Mead! Gods! General Dallas Review of Mondragon Announcements percussion Local happenings Delmar Von Lexington River Rats comics 2 North of CeNter MAY 11, 2011 The Neighborhood Alternatives to foreclosure Info for the diligent By Natalie Rae Lile while they are negotiating with the Foreclosures are bad for everyone lender for a loan modification. 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