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By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com
Visitors came to see the Moving Wall – a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. – for different reasons. Some looked for names of loved ones, others came to learn about our history. LIFE, B1
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Trick-or-treating in unincorporated Boone County, Florence, Union and Walton is 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31.
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Who’s on the ballot in Boone County? Story, A5. Voters will find contested races for Florence City Council, Union City Commission, Walton City Council, Boone County judgeexecutive, Kentucky House District 60 and Boone County Board of Education. Voters are also choosing a new U.S. senator for Kentucky in a
race that has received national attention. Democrat Jack Conway and Republican Rand Paul are vying to replace Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Southgate, who didn’t seek a third term. Two Boone County residents are running for U.S. House in the Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, Republican incumbent Geoff Davis of Hebron and Democrat John Waltz of Florence. Among those casting absentee ballots recently at the Boone County Administration Building were Denise and J. Ford Johnston of Florence. J. Ford Johnston said the Senate and U.S. House races brought him to the polls.
By Paul McKibben pmckibben@nky.com
Angela Mangine will be taking a trip that she’ll remember for the rest of her life. Mangine, 13, Union, will be competing in the World Saddle Seat Equitation Invitational. The competition is in South Africa. “I think it’s really cool and I’m excited,” she said. The trip will be Mangine’s first outside the western hemisphere. She’s previously been to Canada and Jamaica. She’ll leave the day after Thanksgiving and be gone for 10 days. Angela will be using horses at the competition provided by the South African team as her horses are staying home. Angela is on the three-gaited team. Mangine, an eighth-grade student at St. Paul Catholic School in
Florence, been riding horses for nine years. She takes riding lessons at Little Britain Stables in Burlington. She said riding horses is fun and “it’s just cool that you can have the thousand-pound animal (and) be able to control it and you’re only like a hundred pounds or something.” The competition is for ages 14 to 21. Mangine will turn 14 on Dec. 1 while in South Africa. Mangine was chosen for the team. “I think it’s exciting. Both my husband (Bob Mangine) and I are physical therapists and athletic trainers so we’re in the sports industry,” said Marsha Mangine, Angela’s mother. Marsha Mangine said her older children played on state championship football teams (Beechwood and Covington Catholic high schools). She said she and her
“We do not in any way, shape or form want to see Rand Paul in office,” he said. “And regarding the other one, Geoff Davis hasn’t done us any favors.” Denise Johnston said she’s never not voted. “So I would have been here even if we were voting for just the dog catcher and nothing else,” she said. This will be the second election the county is using eScan voting machines where voters complete a paper ballot with a pen. Voters will find standing voting booths at polling locations that allow for more privacy while filling out their paper ballots. The booths were purchased after the primary. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Angela Mangine, 13, of Union, will be competing for the U.S.A. team in the 2010 Saddle Seat Equitation Invitational Dec. 2-5 in South Africa in the three-gaited competition. Mangine has been riding horses since she was 4 years old and will be celebrating her 14th birthday in South Africa on Dec. 1, just in time to make the 14 year age minimum for the competition. She and her mother, Marsha, will be leaving the day after Thanksgiving and will return Dec. 5. Pictured is Mangine during a riding lesson at Little Britain Stables in Burlington. husband “know the value and the growth and development of young people through athletics and ... we support her a hundred percent.”
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Turnout for the Nov. 2 general election in Boone County should be on par with the number of voters who participated in 2006, the last time county offices were contested. Rick Riddell, the county’s director of voter registration, predicted turnout of 35 percent to 45 percent. Turnout in the 2006 general election, the most recent midterm contest, was 41.1 percent in the county. He said absentee voting in the voter registration office has been “medium heavy.” “What I consider heavy is a presidential (election) when you don’t have time to breathe,” he said. “Here, you got time to breathe but then you turn around and you have to start again.” As of the morning of Oct. 19, 459 people had voted on the absentee machine. Riddell said that is little bit higher than normal county elections. Many of the county government races were decided in the May 18 Republican primary as only three Democrats are on the ballot this fall – Rena Ping, Dave Welte and William Cassidy. Ping, the incumbent clerk, faces a challenge from former Boone County GOP chairman Kenny Brown. Welte, a Boone County employee and former Republican state Rep. Charlie Walton are seeking to replace Republican county Commissioner Terri Moore, who lost in the primary. Cassidy’s name is still on the ballot for District 1 constable even though he told the Recorder earlier this campaign season that he was no longer running. Cassidy hasn’t officially withdrawn from the race either. He faces Republican incumbent David Flaig.
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