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Your Community Recorder newspaper serving Burlington and Hebron E-mail: kynews@communitypress.com T h u r s d a y, M a y 1 3 , 2 0 1 0

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Flick’s closing Hebron store Ben Wordeman

Volume 7 Number 15 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com

Flick’s Foods, a Boone County business for more than 50 years, is closing its only remaining store at 1954 Petersburg Road in Hebron. Co-owner Dave Flick cited a decline in sales as the reason for the closing that will happen in the next week or two. The store has been in business since 1956. “It’s difficult,” he said about the store closing. Elmer and Marie Flick, Dave’s

parents, started the company in 1945. Elmer bought a grocery store in Bellevue. The store moved to Covington. Then in 1956, Elmer Flick purchased the former Dennison grocery in Hebron where the current store is located. Flick’s Foods once had a location on Burlington Pike in Burlington. The company sold the property to Boone County Public Library so it could build its new Main Library. The Hebron grocery market has changed in recent years. Flick’s Foods and Remke Markets

both opened stores near each other on North Bend Road north of Interstate 275 in June 2005. Flick’s closed the North Bend Road store in winter 2008. A Kroger Marketplace opened in December 2008 further south at 3105 North Bend Road across from the Hebron Fire Protection District’s headquarters. The Flick’s Foods Petersburg Road store has about 20 employees. They have been told the news. Boone County Commissioner Cathy Flaig, a Flick’s customer

and Hebron resident, said Flick’s may not be a landmark in Boone County but it certainly is one in Hebron. She said she remembers running into Flick’s on Christmas Eve to buy wrapping paper because she needed it in a hurry. She said it was a one-stop shop. “I’m saddened but I know that the economy has been bad for several years for them and I guess they decided that it was time that they quit,” she said. “And ... my heart breaks for the Flick family. I wish them nothing but the best.”

Observing National Day of Prayer

The Rev. David Shockey, pastor of Hebron Lutheran Church, prays during the HebronBurlington Ministerial Association’s community observance of the National Day of Prayer on May 6 at the gazebo next to the Boone County Administration Building in Burlington.

PAUL MCKIBBEN/STAFF

Boone primary turnout might be strong By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com

Turnout could be higher in the May 18 primary election in Boone County than other primaries with several competitive races lining the ballot for Republicans and Democrats choosing a nominee for U.S. Senate. Rick Riddell, Boone County’s director of voter registration, predicted possibly 25 to 30 percent turnout. Turnout for two previous primaries for county offices was 10.5 percent four years ago and 10.6 percent in 2002. Turnout for the 2008 presidential primary was 23.3 percent. Regarding the 25 to 30 percent overall turnout, Riddell said “the Democrats have something to vote for this time,” noting a U.S. Senate race and a race for Boone/Gallatin District Court judge. Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo of Hazard and Attorney General Jack Conway of Louisville are the leading candidates for Democrats. Riddell said the primary ballot for Republicans is very big and a number of races are going to be decided. The Boone County GOP has contested races for judge-executive, all three commissioner seats, clerk, sheriff, property valuation administrator and two constable posts (districts one and three). Of those races only clerk, commis-

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June Kocsis of Florence, a Boone County precinct judge, votes absentee in the Boone County voter registration office. sioner District 3 and constable District 1 have a Democrat waiting to face the Republican winner in the Nov. 2 general election. Republican voters are also choosing a U.S. Senate candidate for the fall and get to vote in the judicial race too (independents also can vote for district court judge). The top U.S. Senate Republican candidates are Secretary of State Trey Grayson of Richwood and ophthalmologist Rand Paul of Bowling Green. In addition to the Senate races, the other marquee contest is Boone County Commissioner Cathy Flaig trying to unseat

incumbent Judge-executive Gary Moore. “We’ll do what we always do,” Moore said about his campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort. “We go out and touch the people that we know are in our camp. ... We’re in the process right now recruiting volunteers because there are a lot of the folks that we’ve identified that are in our camp and that’s a good thing. We just want to make sure we get them to the polls.” Flaig said she is “going to do the same as I’ve always have, a lot of door-to-door at the 11th hour.” Flaig or Moore could face for-

mer Democratic Judge-executive Terry Roberts in the Nov. 2 general election. Roberts has filed initial paperwork to run as an independent. No Democrat is running for the office. When voters get to the polls they will discover the county has a new way for them to vote. Voters will be handed a paper ballot and use a black or blue pen to fill in a square next to each candidate’s name. They will then take the completed ballot and place it into a scanner machine. The county used a federal grant to purchase the machines. Riddell said the new machines will make counting results on election night faster, forecasting the county could have final numbers by 8 p.m. The new technology allows more voters to be at one location. Without it, Riddell said the county would have split three precincts for this election. Two precincts have new polling locations. Devon 2 was moved from Mosby’s Point mobile home park in Florence to Markesbery Moving & Storage, 7370 Industrial Road, Florence. Florence 2 used to be at Florence Baptist Life Center and is now at Florence fire station No. 1, 269 Main St., Florence. Polls are open to from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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