Morning News – 01/22/04

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CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

Harrison County High School is gearing up for the creation and publication of the 2014-15 yearbook, and there are many opportunities for students and parents to be involved. HCHS has announced that the yearbook committee is accepting personal ads, photos, and special messages for submission. Additionally, opportunities for parents to be included in learning the compilation, editing and publication process will be available in the form of a training session on February 2. Yearbooks are currently available for order online, through May 20, or via paper order-form through February 20.

The student Yearbook committee/editors meet each Monday from 3:15-4:00 in the Youth Services Center office, located on the second floor of the high school next to the elevator.

For more information on how to be involved in the yearbook process, contact Paula Barnett at HCHS.

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HARRISON COUNTY SPORTS

InDoor Track:

• Saturday, 1-31-15 Harrison @ Wildcat H.S. Track Classic @ UK

Archery:

• Saturday, 1-31-15 Harrison Co. Inv. at HCMS

Breds Basketball:

• Wednesday, 1-28-15 HC vs Henry Clay at Henry Clay F/ JV/Varsity 5:15/6/7:30
• Friday, 1-30-15 Harrison vs Pendleton Co at Pendleton B/G Double Header 6/7:45
• Saturday, 1-31-15 Harrison vs Fleming at Fleming JV/Var. 6/7:30

Wrestling:

• Wednesday, 1-28-15 Harrison at Dunbar Duals- Lexington
• Saturday, 1-31-15 Harrison at Wolverine Invitation- Frankfort, Ky.

Fillies Basketball:

• Monday, 1-26-15 Harrison vs Campbell Co at Home JV/Var 6/7:30
• Wednesday, 1-28-15 Harrison vs Pendleton at Home JV Only
• Friday, 1-30-15 Harrison Vs Pendleton Co at Pendleton B/G DB

Bowling:

• Harrison at Regional Tournament at Souhtland Lanes Lexington

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KENTUCKY

A Kroger “unlike any other Kroger store in the nation” opens this morning at 8 a.m. at 704 Euclid Avenue in Lexington, with University of Kentucky head basketball coach John Calipari on call for the ribbon cutting. The new three level, 86,000-square-foot facility boasts an expanded variety of produce, meat, seafood and deli, as well as a walk-in beer cave, sushi bar, soup and salad bar, drive-through pharmacy, Starbucks Coffee Shop, and Murray’s Cheese Shop. In addition to parking spaces in a lot in front of the store, 125 parking spaces will be available on the roof. Multiple elevators and escalators will transport customers between the shopping level and the parking deck. The store will be open 24/7; pharmacy hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Read more here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150125033335/http://www.kentucky.com:80/2015/01/21/3653408_kroger-unlike-any-other-opens.html?rh=1

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• 1905 – Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
• 1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
• 1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
• 1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
• 1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1957 – The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than
  30 bombs.
• 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
• 1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
• 1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• 1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
• 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial.
• 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
• 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Three Scuds and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1992 – Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
• 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.