HHoldingolding ooutut hhopeope DDerbyerby aatt tthehe DDeneene IINSIDENSIDE I AA22 PPHOTOSHOTOS I AA1212 IN THE NEWS A brief look at what’s happen- TThehe LebanonLebanon EnterpriseEnterprise ing in Marion County this week. Read this and more, including breaking news, on the web! WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 75 CENTS VOL. 126, NO. 8 www.lebanone MMARIONARION CCOUNTY,OUNTY, KKYY e--newsnews www.lebanonenterprise.com ■ BUSINESS MCHS students safe after being ejected from vehicle during wreck Several Marion County High Pass a School students are safe and sound after they were involved in a collision Friday evening in Lebanon. drug test, The wreck occurred at 5:20 p.m., on Sportsman Lake Road two miles south of Lebanon, according to a media release from Kentucky State Police. and get a John Southall, 17, of Lebanon was driving a 2002 Lexus east on Sportsman Lake Road when the ■ CRIME vehicleve dropped off the eastbound real sidesid of the road. In an attempt job to regain control of the vehicle, SouthallSo oversteered and crossed overov the other side of the road, Local industries struggling to find traveledtra down an embankment people who can pass a drug test andan overturned in a creek. CORNBREAD Christian Carmona, 18, Carlos By Stephen Lega LiLitsey,t Jr., 17, and Boui Sammad, [email protected] 1616, all of Lebanon, were pas- sesengers in the vehicle. Carmona Marion County industries are lookingng anaand Litsey were both wearing for employees, but they’re having troublele sseatbelts,e according to state police, anaand were not injured. Sammad filling positions because applicants arere CRAZE aand Southall were not belted failing drug tests, according to discus-s- aand were both ejected from the sions at last week’s industrial foundationon vvehicle. They were both treated board meeting. A truck packed with copies of Cornbread aand released from Spring View Marion County Economic Development HHospital. Director Tom Lund said TG Kentucky is Mafia in the process of hiring 100 employees, was stolen near Chicago last week TTwo teens killed in but it is struggling to fill those positions. TTaylor County collision Karen King, resource specialist for the By Stevie Lowery [email protected] Justin Atwood, 19, and economic development office, added that JJade M. Sullivan, 17, both of they are looking for enough people who truck, loaded with books CCampbellsville, were killed can pass a drug test. SSaturday, May 5, during a head-on And the problem isn’t exclusive to TG about a criminal syndi- ccollision. Kentucky. King said a different company cate, is stolen... it seems The accident occurred at reported that almost poetic, doesn’t it? aapproximately 7:08 p.m., on US 68, only two of Need a job? one-mile east of Campbellsville, 10 applicants A “The irony ththat a book that according to Kentucky State Police. Or, a darn good publicity stunt, per- were able to According to Marion spends two chapters County Economic haps? Atwood was driving westbound pass a drug talking about truck in a 2009 Nissan, with Sullivan as test. Development’s website, No matter how farfetched it might www.marioncountyky. hijackings in the 1960s a passenger, when he attempted Larry Tatum com, the following sound, it’s exactly what happened would then be hijacked to pass a vehicle and pulled into said that the path of an eastbound 2006 industries have immedi- Saturday, April 28, at a truck yard in on a truck... that irony John Turner ate job openings avail- Jeep, striking it head-on. Both (of Angell able: Elgin, Ill. Higdon was not lost on me.” vehicles overturned and came to Demmel) has - American Wood Fiber A trailer, carrying 1,672 copies rest on the south side of the road. told him that - Angell Demmel were packed in a trailer with other Lauren Dyer, 21, of Burkesville was of Cornbread Mafia written by Jim driving the Jeep. Dyer, the lone he was losing - Canton Cooperage goods. The trailer was going to be personnel as a - Curtis Maruyasu Higdon III, was stolen. occupant, was wearing her seat- belt and was transported to Taylor result of ran- - Joy Mining Machinery picked up Sunday morning and head - Kentucky Cooperage “The irony that a book that spends County Regional Hospital and later dom drug test- south, he said. When drivers arrived transported by ambulance to UK ing of current - Marion Adjustment two chapters talking about truck Center to pick up the trailer Sunday morning, Hospital in Lexington where she is employees, hijackings in the 1960s would then being treated for non-life threat- and Denise - Montebello Packaging it was gone. - R.L. Schreiber, Inc. be hijacked on a truck... that irony ening injuries. Both Atwood and Thomas added - TG Kentucky was not lost on me,” Higdon said, “Someone came in with another cab Sullivan, who were not wearing that Spring - US Chita and hooked it up and took off with seatbelts, were pronounced dead View Hospital - Wilbert Plastics with a laugh. at the scene. was having However, Bill Flavin, vice presi- it,” he said. The collision is still under inves- trouble find- Flavin said he doesn’t know what tigation by KSP Trooper Logan ing individu- dent of operations of Lake Book Richardson. He was assisted at als to fill housekeeping positions. Manufacturing, the company that else was in the trailer besides the the scene by the Taylor County Lebanon Mayor Gary Crenshaw added printed the book, doesn’t find the books. Sheriff’s Office and Taylor County that the city had to let two people go for “They combine our freight with Fire, EMS and Rescue. failed drug tests a few years ago. incident as amusing. “It’s terrible and we’re not alone. It’s “It might make for a good story, but other freights. I don’t know what else statewide,” King said. was on that truck with my books,” he George Spragens asked if the problem it still sucks,” Flavin said via tele- was prescription drugs. said, “It could have been anything.” OBITUARIES phone Friday. Inside, page A4 “It’s everything,” King said. According to Flavin, the incident According to Flavin, these types Thomas added that some companies Nora Lea Hundley Benedict, 82 occurred sometime Saturday evening, of thefts have become an epidemic have started using more strict tests, which recently. Oliver S. Buckner, Sr., 84 pick up more types of drugs, and others April 28. The shipment of books, Barbara Jean Donahue, 62 See Jobs page A16 which had left his facility Friday, CORNBREAD I A16 Carol Sue Fowler, 68 James “Buddy” Lanham, 67 Mary Catherine Pierce, 90 ■ COUNTY GOVERNMENT Dilys “Dee” Shelley, 67 Beam’s barrels a bonus for school system INDEX Calendar . A4 Fiscal Court and Beam County school system. “It certainly has opened the eyes of folks to what advan- Opinion . A6 “We’ve come to a resolution that tages there are in this community and that it is worthwhile Social . A8 Global reach agreement does a couple things. No. 1., it’s fair to invest more if you can locate here as opposed to some- Education . A9 to both parties,” Magistrate John Public Record . A10 Arthur Elder III said. “No. 2, it place else.” Faith . A11 By Stevie Lowery gives us area for the future if those Farm . A13 [email protected] Joe Mattingly questions are raised again in regards Marion County Attorney Sports. .B1 to abatement.” Classifieds. .B5 In a 3-1 decision, the Marion In March, the fiscal court dis- bond issue from the county of up with another proposal for those five County Fiscal Court approved cussed Beam Global’s plans, which to $180 million. Beam will deter- warehouses, according to the agree- an agreement with Beam Global at the time, were to build up to 11 mine within the next few years ment. Thursday, which will grant the new warehouses for Maker’s Mark what its future warehousing needs Once the six warehouses are con- company 30 years of tax abatement Distillery by 2017. Since then, the will be. If Makers’ Mark decides structed and filled, which is expect- but will also require it to invest company has decided to build six to build the other five warehouses, more than $1 million in the Marion warehouses, instead of 11, with a Beam will approach the fiscal court See Beam, page A16 Shop Your Local... RadioShack Dealer Give Mom the Best Brands: 108 Cemetery Road, Lebanon, KY Kindle Fire, Nook, Nikon, Cannon, Sony, IPod.... (270) 692-9814 A2 NEWS • the lebanon enterprise • wednesday, may 9, 2012 ■ DEATH ‘‘AA GGentleentle GGentleman’entleman’ DDr.r. JJoeoe GGreenreen wwasas a ggenerousenerous bbusinessman,usinessman, vvolunteerolunteer aandnd mmanan ooff ffaithaith By Stevie Lowery “He was proba- not only by the “He was just a gentle gen- the preschool and kindergar- call ‘the good steward,’ mean- [email protected] bly the most giv- water company but tleman,” she said. “We appre- ten classes at St. Augustine ing he shared his life and his ing person that the entire commu- ciated his friendship, and we School, as well. Because gift and his talents with the entle. Giving. A nity,” Thomas said. appreciated his professional- of his volunteer work, he church community as well as good steward. I’ve ever known. The Loretto ism. He was very interested received several awards, the greater community.” Dr. Joe Green He was always Community will in the Sisters of Loretto, in the including the Outstanding But, above all else, Green Gwas all of the thinking of oth- also miss Green and history and in what they’re Citizen Award from the was a good father. above and more, according to ers instead of his friendship.