October 2010
6 No classes for students; records day (flex)
7 No classes for students
8 No classes for students
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Fayette County Public School Closings for October
CEREMONY HELD FOR OPENING OF NEW LEXINGTON ROAD
Gov. Steve Beshear joined Congressman Ben Chandler and Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry Wednesday morning in officially opening Oliver Lewis Way, the first constructed phase of the long-awaited Newtown Pike Extension.
The new street, named for the African-American jockey who rode Aristides to victory in the first Kentucky Derby, runs between Newtown Pike’s intersections with Main Street and Versailles Road at the edge of downtown Lexington. More.
Legacy Trail Just Days Away from Opening
The Legacy Trail, a 12-mile bicycle and pedestrian path that connects downtown Lexington to the Kentucky Horse Park will open Sunday. The trail, which was chosen by the community as a legacy project of the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games, travels through the Kentucky countryside with the Horse Park at one end and a new East End park — the Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden — at the other. However, by Sunday’s opening, 8.5 miles of the $10 million trail will be completed. The portion runs from the Horse Park to the North Side YMCA. Read More.
All about the 2010 World Equestrian Games
Horse fans from around the globe will be heading to Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park this fall for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
The international competition, held every four years since 1990, will feature the best riders and drivers in eight disciplines — dressage, show jumping, eventing, vaulting, reining, combined driving, endurance, and paraequestrian, which involves disabled riders — over 16 days.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/08/1426351/all-about-the-2010-world-equestrian.html#ixzz0z2nU4bqX
Isaac Murphy’s story is a critical piece of Bluegrass history
If the African-American presence at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games and the Kentucky Horse Park is low, it’s not Isaac Murphy’s fault.
The 19th-century superstar who is buried at the entrance of the horse park won 44 percent of all his races and was the first jockey to win three Kentucky Derbies, including a victory in 1891 aboard Kingman, the only horse owned by an African-American to win the Derby.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/08/1426424/isaac-murphys-story-is-a-critical.html#ixzz0z2nN2bJI
Calipari uses social networks to promote WEG
University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will use his huge social network to recruit more people to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
With 190,000 Facebook friends and more than 1 million followers on Twitter, Calipari can preach the gospel of the Games, and hopefully sell more tickets, said Pearse Lyons, president and chief executive officer of Alltech.
“It took him 5 to 10 seconds to say consider it done,” Lyons said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/07/1423928/calipari-uses-social-networks.html#ixzz0ysFPhFom
Kroger Stores Offer Ticket Promotion for Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
LEXINGTON, KY—23 Days to Go—Shoppers at 166 Kroger stores in four states will be able to purchase Flex Grounds Pass tickets to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games along with their grocery items from September 1 through September 24.
Kroger stores in Central Tennessee, Southern Illinois, Southern Indiana, and Kentucky spanning locations from Owensboro and Louisville to London and Corbin will offer the Flex Grounds Pass ticket at a promotional rate of $25, instead of the standard $30 price.
The Flex Grounds Pass can be used for entry on any one day of choice, without selecting a specific date of attendance at the time of purchase. Children 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by a paying adult, except on September 26, October 2, and October 9.
Kroger stores selling Flex Grounds Pass tickets will feature Games logo signs around entries. Cashiers in each location can process the purchase at all check-out terminals and will print the ticket at the register. More.
A village about all things Alltech
As heat rose in waves from the Kentucky Horse Park asphalt last week, Deirdre Lyons was engrossed in the details for the vast Alltech Experience pavilion.
“It’s exciting and it’s nerve-racking and it’s tense,” Lyons said of preparing the exhibits that will promote the image of the title sponsor for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games that begin Sept. 25.
Only the day before, Lyons, Alltech’s director of corporate design and project management and wife of Alltech president Pearse Lyons, had been given the keys to the array of 21 tentlike domes, still without air conditioning, that will make up The Alltech Experience.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/05/1421064/a-village-about-all-things-alltech.html#ixzz0yrCHchPj
The Brains behind the Pretty Drains
On a hot August day earlier this year, Blake Eames was relaxing on a porch at the intersection of Maxwell and Rose Streets, taking a break from painting a design on one of the corner’s storm drains. As she sat, partially concealed by a thick line of tall shrubs, she saw a pedestrian, deep in thought, approaching the drain. When the man, whose face had been motionless, reached the colorfully decorated drain, he stopped. Crouching closer, he examined the artwork. His face began to soften, and he smiled. He got up, continuing on his way, glancing back at the drain until it was out of sight. More.
Kentucky’s contradictions to be highlighted at Games
As a state, Kentucky embodies multiple personalities — a place that’s Southern, Midwestern and Appalachian; where wealth and poverty co-exist; well-known for its coal, its race horses and its bourbon; a land of deep caves, green mountains and plenty of blue grass.
All of this makes it an interesting place to live, and, tourism officials hope, a great place to visit. So when the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games start at the Kentucky Horse Park on Sept. 25, representations of those cultures, cuisines and contradictions will be gathered under several large tents.
The Kentucky Experience — 25,000 square feet of pavilions set up in the Horse Park parking lot — will show visitors exactly what’s out there and Kentuckians what they might have been missing. It’s also one of the activities at the Games that’s free with a general admission ticket.
