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CELEBRATING THE ENERGY
OF YOUR COMMUNITY
The
Voice
Wildcats
of the
FLIP THE SWITCH
for electric reliability
BLUEGRASS MUSIC HALL OF
FAME & MUSEUM OPENS
AWARD WINNERS
Beautify the Bluegrass
OCTOBER 2018 • KE N TU CKY LI V I N G.COM
Dancing
frequently
K E N T U C K Y
C O U N C I L
www.artscouncil.ky.gov
OCTOBER 2018 VOL 72 • NO 10
2018 ENERGY
ISSUE
16 30
16 The Voice of the Wildcats DEPARTMENTS KENTUCKY CULTURE
4 KENTUCKYLIVING.COM 38 WORTH THE TRIP
COVER STORY Tom Leach may have predicted his Bluegrass revival
own future, but hard work and preparation played a bigger 6 YOUR COOPERATIVE
COMMUNITY 43 UNIQUELY KENTUCKY
role in his success. Make our communities shine Fine funeral boxes
7 COMMONWEALTHS 44 EVENTS
24 Beautifying Kentucky A bench for David, pumpkins Fleming County Court Days,
for everyone, the complex life Carter Caves Haunted Trail, a
Our state is more beautiful because of 23 teams of Irvin S. Cobb and more barn affair in Campbellsville,
Taste of Monroe and more
that put time and effort into their communities. Kentucky ON THE GRID
Living and Gov. Matt Bevin’s office are recognizing the top 46 SMART HEALTH
10 FUTURE OF All about Alzheimer’s
projects and cooperative participants. ELECTRICITY
47 GARDEN GURU
Sun-Light Solar powers up
Healthy houseplants
30 The Flip of a Switch 12 CO-OPS CARE
48 CHEF’S CHOICE
Giving back—hook, line and
High-tech chocolate pie
Every day your lights come on, your cellphone sinker
charges and your air (or heat) has the power to run— 49 GREAT OUTDOORS
13 GADGETS & GIZMOS
Standing on the edge of beauty
reliable electricity doesn’t “just happen.” Learn about the Pet project
50 KENTUCKY
planning and precautions behind the scenes. 14 CUTTING COSTS MARKETPLACE
Toasty tips to stay warm
52 SNAP SHOT
15 ENERGY 101
Celebrating the cooperative 53 KENTUCKY KIDS
advantage
54 BYRON CRAWFORD’S
28A LOCAL ELECTRIC KENTUCKY
ON THE COVER “Touchdown, Kentucky!” Tom Leach has given life COOPERATIVE NEWS Cracker Barrel napkins
to those words at Kroger Field in Lexington many times since
becoming the Voice of the Wildcats in 1997. Photo: Tim Webb
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Reliable energy
October is Kentucky Living’s annual Energy
Issue and also when all co-ops celebrate
National Cooperative Month.
“The Flip of a Switch” feature on page Archives and much more content on our website!
30 reminds us that we often take energy
reliability for granted, but all the people PLAY CATCH-UP
at your local electric co-op work 24/7 to
ensure your energy continues to flow. AND THE WINNERS ARE...
As we move into winter, it’s always wise to Watch the Best in
be prepared for outages. There are extreme Kentucky show online
weather events beyond our control—recall
There was a wonderful turnout and an
the January 2009 ice storm—which could even better show in late August at the
result in extended power outages. Kentucky State Fair as the Kentucky
However, excluding these rare events, Living 2018 Best in Kentucky awards
BRIAN BOHANNON
electric reliability improves year after year. were announced live. See all the
The average American was without power winners and presenters on the video
on our website.
for 127 minutes in 2016, down from 144
minutes 10 years earlier. The number of
outages per consumer was 1.3 a year in 2016, STARTING OUT
and the average length of each of those
outages was 99 minutes.
FIRST TIME’S A CHARM
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Hear Tom Leach in the beginning
KATY HURT
thanking the
Even the greats have to start somewhere, and that includes Tom Leach. Leach’s first
employees
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at your local
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YOUR COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY
BUY FACTORY DIRECT
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Working together to make our
communities shine
Co-op employees provide valuable volunteer service
H
ave you heard the saying, “If you
want to get something done, ask
a busy person”?
(859) 744-0022 Kentucky’s electric coopera-
M id w e s t e rn B u i l d i n g s . c o m tives bring that maxim to life in this
issue of Kentucky Living.
In our monthly Co-ops Care
column, page 12, we feature co-op
employees who contribute to their
communities in a wonderful variety
of ways. Among the activities of Salt
River Electric’s Dooley Mattingly are 25
years as a volunteer firefighter. Licking
Valley RECC’s Ward Dickey coaches
high schoolers in sport fishing.
Toll Free 800. 558. 7800 Beginning on page 24, you’ll see KAEC staff plant shrubs and flowers to beautify
waltersbuildings.com how co-ops responded to Governor the entrance to historic Berrytown in eastern
Quality Buildings Since 1958
Jefferson County with the help of Shelly Nold of
Matt Bevin’s call to Beautify the
The Plant Kingdom, above, and bricklayer Brian
Suburban . Commercial . Agricultural . Horse Barns & Arenas Bluegrass with improvement projects Whitcomb. Photo: Thom Whittinghill
across the commonwealth.
For instance, our staff at the Cooperatives (KAEC) beautified the
Check out our new 3D
designer on our website! Kentucky Association of Electric entrance to the historic Berrytown
neighborhood in eastern Jefferson
County. Special thanks to Shelly Nold
protect what matters of The Plant Kingdom (our Garden
mother
looks like Guru columnist) and bricklayer Brian
Whitcomb for stepping up to help.
nature We needed to get something done,
so we asked the
busiest people.
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6 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018
COMMONWEALTHS
The complexities of Irvin S. Cobb
Oh the times, they are a Cobb was born in 1876 to journalist, then as a humor-
changin’. One only has to Joshua and Manie Saunders ist writing short stories for
look back upon the enter- Cobb and raised in Paducah. leading magazines, and later
tainment Manhood began early as his a script writer and actor in
AUTHOR industry of father’s alcoholism forced silent movies.
days gone by him to quit school at age 16 Cobb’s brand of humor
to see this ever so clearly, to provide for his mother and would be found racist,
as many of the charac- three siblings. Cobb’s father demeaning, and far from
terizations and situations can be credited, however, acceptable today, but was
portrayed then are now with securing him a job at well-received in the 1920s.
politically incorrect. Such the Paducah Evening News, His stories were a reflection of contribution to journalism.
is the case with humorist a position that kicked off a his Southern upbringing and “His record as a journal-
Irvin Cobb, whose lifetime career of a commentary of the times. ist of the early 20th century,
life and career writing success. By A former editor of Cobb’s, particularly his cover-
is chronicled by 19, Cobb was editor Charles Chapin, once said, age of the early months of
William E. Ellis, of that paper, and “My only quarrel with Cobb World War I, exemplified the
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
Foundation pro- by 21, he was cov- was that he insisted on posing era of the ‘great reporter.’
fessor emeritus at ering a local crime as a humorist. His idea was Cobb’s record as a multital-
Eastern Kentucky story for the Chicago to turn even the most serious ented writer and performer
University, in Tribune. Seven years and tragic happening into a is unmatched in his time.”
Irvin S. Cobb: later, the call of big laugh.” Cobb’s views on race Cobb authored 69 books
The Rise and Fall city news found would later contribute to the and was inducted into the
of an American Humorist, Cobb in New York City where demise of his career. Kentucky Writers Hall of
(University Press of his story-telling gift gained Aside from this charac- Fame in 2017.
Kentucky, $45). him fame and fortune as a ter flaw, Ellis lauds Cobb’s —Penny Woods
energy
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“My old nemesis...We meet again!”
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COMMONWEALTHS
A BENCH FOR DAVID
Take a stroll in downtown Lexington and Spradlin.
points elsewhere and you’ll find an invit- “Reading the
ing spot: 37 benches fan out like the open book feels like
pages of a book. Each a visit with a
TIM WEBB
LITERACY is hand-painted by local couple in love
artists and themed with each
around works by Kentucky authors. other and Kentucky.”
Book Benches, a public art exhibit, The 2001 nonfiction book
promotes Kentucky’s literary heritage takes readers on a journey to
and encourages reading while also Kentucky’s major rivers and
showcasing the arts. the people who inhabit their
Bourbon County artist Sarah Spradlin shores—tugboat pilots, artists, Lalie Dick with her and David’s book bench, Rivers of
created the Rivers of Kentucky bench, tool sharpeners, musicians, Kentucky, which debuted June 1 in Lexington. Visit the
sponsored by friends and family of printers, fox hunters and bench at the corner of Broadway and Vine, in front of Big
Blue Martini, across from Rupp Arena and Triangle Park.
authors David and Lalie Dick. David also chairmakers.
Photo: Tom Eblen
wrote Kentucky Living’s “The View From On public display through
Plum Lick” back-page column, which ran October, the benches will delight all Proceeds from the event go toward
from 1986 until his passing in 2010. ages, especially young readers. Use your Arts Connect, LexArts and the Carnegie
Spradlin chose this book to illustrate phone to scan the QR code on the bench Center for Literacy and Learning.
because she kayaks and supports the to learn more about the book, author For more information, go to www.
stewardship of our state’s waters. “I paint and artist. bookbencheslex.org, where you can
Kentucky landscapes and believe in using On November 17, the benches will view all the benches and download a
my artwork to increase the awareness be auctioned at a gala to be held at The map to their locations.
of the natural beauty of Kentucky,” says Livery, 238 East Main Street, Lexington. —Anita Travis Richter
Pumpkin fairytale E on
A sight to behold: 5,000 lighted, The soft, woodland path has several OT
V ber 6,
Novem
carved pumpkins, with 100 works steep slopes so wear comfortable shoes;
2018
of art. The 2018 Jack-O-Lantern wheelchair users may have difficulty
Spectacular’s theme is “A under rain-soaked conditions. Be sure
ART Night at the Library.” to bring a charged phone or camera for
It’s held in Louisville’s lots of photos; no flash, please.
Iroquois Park at night with pumpkins For more information, go to www.
lining a 1/3-mile illuminated walking jack-o-lanternlouisville.com.
trail. With pumpkins hanging in trees
and themed displays, most everyone
finds the show magical.
LOUISVILLE JACK-O-LANTERN SPECTACULAR
Visit October 9–November 4, daily
from dusk (around 7:15) to 11 p.m.
Sunday-Thursday and until midnight
Friday–Saturday. Tickets are $10-$17
and available online; food and drinks
can be purchased inside the gates. Go
early, late or on weekdays to avoid
long lines. Proceeds benefit the non-
profit Louisville Parks Foundation.
8 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018
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ON THE GRID
Sun-Light Solar powers up
Morgan County solar farm shows co-ops continue to be renewable leaders
KEVIN OSBOURN
O
n a hillside next to Licking with modern technology, eastern
Valley RECC’s warehouse in THE FUTURE OF Kentucky has unlimited potential.
Malone, Kentucky’s newest ELECTRICITY “I want kids thinking we are
solar farm towers row upon not behind,” says Booth, a native
row above Steele Road. work together,” says Kerry Howard, of Campton who attended Eastern
Malone Sun-Light Solar Farm is Licking Valley RECC general manager Kentucky University and rose to
the vision of Wolfe County native and CEO. “It’s going to be a great become a vice president of Research
Gary Booth and Licking Valley RECC, project for students to learn about and Development at P&G before his
working in collaboration with Eastern renewable power.”
Kentucky University and Danville- Booth, who retired from a suc- Licking Valley RECC President and CEO
Kerry Howard, left, flips the switch with
based Wilderness Trace Solar. cessful career at Proctor & Gamble
Wolfe County native Gary Booth at the
“The project shows that great (P&G), invested in Malone Sun- Malone Sun-Light Solar dedication.
things can be achieved when people Light Solar to show students that Photo: Kevin Osbournretirement. “I want students believ-
ing that we can do anything.”
The 932 solar panels at Malone Sun-
Light Solar Farm, which was dedicated
at Licking Valley RECC’s annual meet-
ing on June 20, provide enough elec-
tricity to power about 40 homes.
Booth says students from local
schools and EKU will monitor data
during different times of the day and
seasons of the year.
“Students will mine the data to
learn about production of power, and
they will learn how to extract learn-
ing from a large database,” he says.
John May, manager of
Administrative Services at Licking
The Malone solar farm in Morgan County
Valley RECC, says the co-op installed
produces about 20,000 kilowatt-hours a month
transformers and provided the land. since it went online in June. Photo: John May
Licking Valley’s 17,000 members
in Breathitt, Elliott, Lee, Magoffin,
Menifee, Morgan, Rowan and Wolfe “All we had to do was read,” says to poor communities—to install solar
counties will benefit by getting renew- Booth, who turns 78 this December. panels in Guatemala, Haiti and Africa.
able power at a competitive price. “I read a lot of science-oriented In September 2017, he and SonLight
Last year Licking Valley and books. By age 10, I knew I would be Power placed 80 solar panels on the
Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy a scientist. Not having TV was a rich roof of Campton Baptist Church.
Co-ops dedicated Cooperative Solar blessing.” He also was instrumental in the
Farm One in Winchester. “The new He attended Campton Elementary solar array on the new science build-
farm in Malone demonstrates that we and Wolfe County High School, then ing at EKU, where students will moni-
continue to be leaders in renewable went to Eastern Kentucky University tor power production and learn how to
power,” says May. in Richmond to major in chemistry manage the data.
Booth, a lifelong scientist who and math. While at EKU he met and Booth’s latest solar project was
led the development of Bounty married his wife, Jane, and the two scheduled to go online by late summer
paper towels, Charmin toilet paper, have been together for 56 years. when 81 panels begin producing
Folgers coffee and other products Booth completed a doctorate power at Campton Elementary.
at P&G, says he embraces the phi- in organic chemistry at Ohio State “It’s been an absolute delight
losophy of U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers that University, and then embarked on a working with Licking Valley and the
technology can level the mountains long career in research and develop- co-ops,” Booth says. “Every way
to create new opportunities for ment with P&G. they could help, they did it.” KL
eastern Kentucky. The Malone solar project is the
“I put all my energy into that latest in a long series of solar proj- KEVIN OSBOURN is manager of
premise,” he says. “I did the solar ects he developed. For 20 years, he Communications at East Kentucky Power
farm as a demonstration that people has worked with SonLight Power—a Cooperative, which generates power for Licking
in the mountains have access to the Christian organization bringing power Valley RECC and 15 other electric cooperatives.
same technology as anyone else.”
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solar projects and lifetime durability.
One of the greatest blessings in Gary Aluminum construction and advanced
Booth’s life was that television signals polymer coatings mean substantial energy
could not reach his parents’ home in savings with Energy Star Certification.
Campton when he was a boy.
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Giving back—hook, line and sinker
DEBRA GIBSON ISAACS
A tradition of volunteering for 25 years. He is president
BARDSTOWN of the Tri-County United
“It got in my blood,” Dooley Way and chairman of the
Mattingly says about volunteering. Tri-County 5K Trifecta. He
“I come from a family of 14,” he has been president of the
explains. “If someone had a need, New Haven Optimist Club
we would help in any way we could. and the Central Kentucky
Dad was one of three men who Chapter of the Wild Turkey
started the New Hope Volunteer Fire Federation, as well as a
Department and was a firefighter for former board member of
26 years.” Rolling Fork Iron Horse
The Salt River Electric employee Festival. In addition,
and U.S. Army veteran carries on the Mattingly serves as a ref-
tradition of volunteering and followed eree for high school bas-
in his dad’s footsteps as a firefighter ketball and track.
“I am always proud to
give back. It is special to
help people out in time of
Ward Dickey, left, Tommy Oliver, center, and Hunter
need,” Mattingly says. Oliver compete in the Kentucky Bass Nation Tournament
held at Laurel Lake. Photo: Kentucky Bass Nation
Go fish
WEST LIBERTY Hunter, 16, recently won Angler of the
When Ward Dickey is not on the Year with classmate Nathan Landsaw.
job at Licking Valley Rural Electric The duo also placed fourth in the
Cooperative Corporation, he is likely 2018 Kentucky High School Athletic
to be on the lake with a group of Association Region 4 Bass Fishing
fishermen. State Championship regionals.
Dickey is not fishing, though: He It’s time-consuming but worth-
is helping a new generation learn the while, according to Dickey, who
sport through the Wolfe County High says the competitions are not like
School Bass Club. The club enables leisurely fishing.
students to participate in fishing “The kids fish when it is hot
tournaments and compete for col- and when it is cold,” he says. “We
lege scholarships within the safety backed into the water one day last
Salt River Electric’s Dooley Mattingly, staking tech- of adult supervision from volunteers year when the water was 12 degrees.
nician, decides where poles and lines will be placed like Dickey. And the lakes are spread out all over
for new construction locations. He is also a volunteer
firefighter of 25 years and donates his time to “The club really opens doors the state. There is a lot of travel
numerous organizations. Photo: Jill Mattingly for kids,” says Dickey, whose son, involved.”KL
12 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018GADGETS
&GIZMOS
JAYNE CANNON
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A fireplace can be a major source of it as needed. If you heat your home cracks around windows and doors,
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14 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018ENERGY
101
Celebrating the cooperative advantage
What is a cooperative and what benefits do they provide?
October’s National Cooperative Month is a needs of their local communities. In fact, Even though cooperatives are locally
great time to learn about the cooperative many of the leaders and employees of owned and operated, they collaborate with
business model. Of the over 29,000 co-ops each of the 26 electric cooperatives in other electric co-ops across the country
in the U.S., 900- Kentucky live in the communities they to develop new technologies, invest in
ENERGY plus are electric serve and are consumer-members of a equipment and infrastructure that benefit
BASICS co-ops.
Electric co-ops
co-op—just like you!
Because they answer to local
multiple co-ops in a region, and assist with
major outages. This teamwork enables
are community-focused organizations members (that’s you!) rather than far- co-ops to address complex challenges
that deliver safe, reliable and affordable away shareholders, co-ops are more while remaining true to their local roots.
energy to their consumer-members. nimble and able to respond quickly Electric cooperatives were built by the
They are unique because they belong to the changing needs of their com- community, belong to the community and
to the communities they serve. Co-ops munities. They even share any excess continue to be led by the community—that’s
are led by their members, which gives revenue with their members because the cooperative difference!
them a unique understanding of the they are not-for-profit. —NRECA
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16 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018The
Voice
Wildcats
of the
How Tom Leach used “the monotony of greatness” to achieve his youthful dream
BY LIZ PRATHERT
he year 1997 was a transi- The phrase resonated with
tional time for UK football Leach. Broadcasting, like football
fans, and not only because or anything else that requires
of a coaching change. practice, is about repetition—
Under coach Bill Curry, the going through the motions over
Wildcats hadn’t seen a winning and over, so when it’s time
record—and had attended only one to go on air, the delivery is
bowl game—in seven straight seasons. smooth, the facts are accurate
In December 1996, UK hired a new and the broadcast is profes-
coach, Hal Mumme, to turn around sional. Since he was 16 years
the team. About the same time, Ralph old, Leach had been toiling in
Hacker, the play-by-play voice of the obscurity, paying his dues and
Wildcats, announced he was stepping dealing with a lot of monot-
down after five seasons. That’s when ony; now he was ready for a
UK Radio Network’s Jim Host named chance at greatness.
a new sportscaster, 36-year-old Tom
Leach, to replace Hacker. Beginnings
During that first season, Leach Leach’s story starts in the
often dropped in to watch Mumme small tobacco farming com-
and the team. During one of their munity of Center Hill
practices, Mumme said something in Bourbon County. He
Leach has never forgotten. learned the value of hard
“He told them that the Eagles work from his father
play Hotel California thousands of and mother, who raised
times, just so it will sound good the tobacco and sold vege-
one time you’ve paid your money to tables at the local farm-
come and hear it. That’s the monot- ers market to make
ony of greatness.” ends meet.
n Above, as a senior, Tom Leach had an
idea of how his career might go. Photo: Tom
Leach Productions. Below, Leach has a
view of the whole stadium to call play-by-
play for the UK Wildcats. Photo: Tim Webb
18 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018n Preparation is key for Leach. If he overprepares, he
says he can relax and enjoy the game.
n Leach talks with UK head coach Mark Stoops
before the Cats’ win over Central Michigan in the
season opener September 1. Photos: Tim Webb
“When you grow up on a
tobacco farm, you work on
Thanksgiving Day, you work on
Christmas Day,” he says. From
Alvin, his father, Leach also learned
a love of sports.
Growing up before 24-hour
sports networks and cable sports
shows, Leach devoured the sports
section of the newspaper and lis-
tened to as many games as he could
on the radio.
When Commonwealth Stadium
opened in 1973, Alvin bought season
tickets for the football Wildcats.
He and Leach travelled down Paris
Pike to Lexington, got a bite to eat
and sat in the stadium lot, listen-
ing on the car radio to an hour or so
of pregame shows. When the game
started, Leach would carry his tran-
sistor radio inside to listen to his
idols call the game.
“Around the eighth grade, I
remember getting the play-by-play
bug,” he says. “I was captivated by
Cawood (Ledford) and Ralph at UK.”
At 16, Leach started working at
WBGR, an AM station in Paris. “I
loved going to work,” he says of the
job he would have from his junior
year in high school until he gradu-
ated from college. “I was really
bad, but I was working for longtime
radio guys who didn’t let me cut
any corners.”
It was in these early days that
Leach learned broadcasting greatness
was made through preparation and
the behind-the-scenes monotony.
There was no such thing as digitally
editing out a mistake with the quick
swipe of a mouse. “In the ’70s, you
were recording on what essentially
looked like an eight-track tape,”n In addition to his UK sports radio work,
Leach is an award-winning broadcaster for
his work at the track. He is shown here at
Keeneland in Lexington. Photo: Tim Webb
Tips For Aspiring Young Broadcasters
Somewhere in the commonwealth, a ration, from going to practices to meeting about the teams and the sports, and read
young woman or man listens to the con- with coaches to creating his game day in general. To be a good broadcaster, you
tagious energy of Tom Leach as he yells, charts. In addition to name, jersey number, need to use the language well, and be able
“Touchdown, Kentucky!” and says, “That’s height, weight and hometown of each to paint pictures with words.
what I want to do.” player for both teams, Leach creates Put in the work. Preparation won’t
Leach has been named Kentucky game notes. “I have organized notes for guarantee you will achieve your goals, but
Sportscaster of the Year five times for each team which I may or may not use not preparing will most likely guarantee
his work courtside and in the press box. during the play-by-play,” he explains. “I you don’t get where you want to go. “Tom
He also broadcasts from the horse track overdo it on the prep, so I can come to the Hammond told me once that you prepare
and won prestigious Eclipse Awards in game relaxed and enjoy it.” For the aspir- everything you think you will need, under-
1993 and 1999 for his Thoroughbred horse ing sportscaster, Leach has a few more standing that maybe 50 percent of it is all
racing coverage. In addition to his broad- pointers for the journey. you’ll ever use,” Leach says.
casting, Leach hosts a daily radio show, Make sure you’re really passionate Learn from the greats, but be true
The Leach Report; and he’s an author, about the job. The hours are anything but to your own personality. Be natural and
having published Rich Tradition: How Rich normal, and the pay is usually not good, genuine in your delivery. If you’re not, the
Brooks Revived the Football Fortunes of especially when you’re starting out. A listener picks up on that. “If a big moment
the Kentucky Wildcats in 2009. passion for broadcasting and sports can happens, I tend to get a little more excited
But the job is not easy. “Play-by-play help you get through what can be some than Cawood did, but that’s just two differ-
is talking for two or three hours with no rough times and crazy hours. ent approaches,” Leach says. “Whatever
script,” says Leach. For a single football Read a lot. Not just to have a good works for you, whatever feels natural, is
game, he spends about 23 hours in prepa- vocabulary, which is part of it, but read the best way.”
20 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018he says. “If you made a mistake four Then, in 1997, 18 years after he’d As the Hal Mumme Air Raid
minutes and 55 seconds into a five- declared his dream, Leach made his offense began to impact SEC score-
minute newscast, you erased the break into the UK press box. boards, Leach started to feel com-
tape and started all over. That kind fortable in his new role. He went
of taught you to do it right the first Big changes to the practices, interviewed the
time.” Just as things were changing for coaching staff, studied game notes
When Leach graduated from Leach, they were also changing for and listened to old tapes of his pre-
Bourbon County High School in the Wildcats. In the first game of decessors. But there was something
1979, he planned to major in com- Leach’s UK broadcasting career, the missing. He needed a signature line.
munications at the University of Wildcats were pitted against cross-
Kentucky. In a senior profile in state rival Louisville. Leach was
the local newspaper, he told the nervous: “I had a one-year con-
reporter he wanted to be next tract, and I knew if I didn’t do well,
Cawood Ledford. He wanted to be I wouldn’t get my second contract. ONLINE
the Voice of the Kentucky Wildcats. And if I did really poorly, I might not
In 1983, Leach graduated from even make it to the second week.” Back to the beginning
UK and began working for WMST in Despite his nerves, he survived, Wonder what Tom Leach, the Voice
Mt. Sterling, announcing area high and having Leslie County native Tim of the Wildcats, sounded like during
school football games. In the fall of Couch throw four touchdowns for his first appearance on the air?
1984, he got a job reporting news for a 38-24 win didn’t hurt. “Cawood Find out for yourself—listen to the
WVLK, and by 1989, Leach began had a line, ‘You sound better when 1977 clip from WBGR-AM in Paris at
working on the UK Radio Network they win,’ and I’ve come to appre- KentuckyLiving.com.
doing postgame scoreboard shows. ciate that,” Leach says.
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W W W. K E N T U C K Y L I V I N G . C O M • O C T O B E R 2 0 1 8 21Tom Leach’s Top Three On-Air Moments
If you’re a doctor or a teacher, you might you’re going to work many Final Fours n Leach has seen a number of exceptional
be doing what you love five or six days a in your career, and you may get to call a players over the years at UK, and one of his
favorite moments is calling the 2012 NCAA
week, but play-by-play announcers do the couple of championship games. Leach
Men’s Basketball National Championship.
work they love for about 13 football games has already realized that dream. “Cawood Photo: Tom Leach Productions
(depending on a bowl game invitation) or (Ledford) called a championship, Ralph
40-some basketball games (including a (Hacker) had a couple, so it was nice to get day for Kentucky football fans, and
few exhibition and championship games) in that club. Hopefully, there will be more, Leach’s second all-time favorite on-air
per season. “The hook for me was to do but you savor them because they’re hard moment of his career.
play-by-play for games, but that’s only 55 to achieve,” Leach says. UK BEATS LOUISVILLE FOR THE
or 56 days a year out of 365 where I get UK FOOTBALL BEATS LSU 43-37 IN GOVERNOR’S CUP, AUGUST 30, 1997
to do what I love to do,” says University of TRIPLE OVERTIME It was Leach’s first game on-air as the
Kentucky sportscaster Tom Leach. With On October 13, 2007, UK beat LSU, the Voice of the Wildcats. “It was the opening
so few games to call, Leach still has his No. 1 team in the country, in a triple game of the Hal Mumme era, and it was
favorites, or the most memorable on-air overtime stunner on a dramatic fourth- the year of the air raid,” he says. “There
moments. Here are his top three: down stop. “Coach Brooks had been were a lot of fun moments that football
KENTUCKY VS. KANSAS, 2012 NCAA turning the program back around. He season and it coincided with my first
MEN’S BASKETBALL NATIONAL had a really good team and that was season.” The Wildcats went on to beat the
CHAMPIONSHIP a magical night to watch the revival Cardinals 38-24 for the program’s 500th
When you work as the announcer for the of Kentucky football culminate in a victory, an auspicious day for a young
Kentucky basketball program, you figure moment like that.” It was a memorable sportscaster’s debut.
22 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018n Tom Leach is on the air every weekday
with The Leach Report, broadcast from
NewsRadio 630 WLAP. Photo: Tim Webb
ONLINE
The Leach Report
Tom Leach’s daily radio show, The Leach
Report, is carried on many affiliates
across the state. We’ve got a complete
list of those stations. The show is also
available as a podcast. Find more infor-
mation at KentuckyLiving.com.
“Jim suggested I try to come up
with something for a touchdown
call, and I thought about it. I just
kept thinking about it, but noth-
ing really sounded right. Everything
sounded like I was planting it or
scripting it,” he says.
Three weeks later, in a game against
Indiana, the sophomore quarterback
Couch threw seven touchdown passes
and tied an SEC single-game record.
Leach’s trademark, “Touchdown,
Kentucky!” was born.
“It started with just me saying
‘Touchdown, Kentucky!’ with a lot
of enthusiasm. It’s pretty simple, but
with Tim and Craig Yeast and those
guys, it caught on because they were
scoring a lot of them.”
In 2001, when Cawood Ledford,
who had announced UK basket-
ball for 39 years, retired, Leach
became the announcer for the bas-
ketball Wildcats, too. “It was such
an honor, knowing who had come
before me and the standard Claude
(Sullivan) and Ralph and Cawood
set,” he says. “It was, and still is,
such a great privilege.”
Now in his 21st season as UK foot-
ball’s play-by-play announcer and
his 16th season with UK basketball,
Leach’s smooth, yet vibrant voice is
synonymous with sports coverage
in the Bluegrass. “Sometimes when
the season’s not going well, someone
will say to me, ‘I’ll bet you’ll be glad
when this season is over.’ But I never
am. Because I get to do this. I get to
do what I love to do.” KLW
hen the 200,000 visitors converge on the annual
Mt. Sterling October Court Days (October 12-15),
they will see a major improvement to the city’s
downtown. A once-neglected park is now a social
hub for the revitalized community about 25 miles east of Lexington.
The 15-month project to rejuvenate Mt. Sterling is the winner of
the Governor’s Award in the second annual Beautify the Bluegrass
initiative, a partnership of Governor Matt Bevin and Kentucky Living to
encourage Kentuckians to work together to repair, enhance or beau-
tify an area in their community.
From 23 submissions, the governor selected three winners from
finalists voted by Kentucky Living readers. Winners were announced
on August 23 at Kentucky Living’s Best in Kentucky awards at the
Kentucky State Fair.
“I’m really excited to see how this project has begun to grow in
popularity and participation,” Bevin says. “I want to give a personal
thanks to the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives and their
publication, Kentucky Living magazine, that has adopted this.”
Mt. Sterling’s project wins them a barbecue for 200 with Governor
Bevin and Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton.
Mt. Sterling Governor’s Award
When Dr. Danielle King moved to Mt. Sterling in 2002 to join a pri-
vate medical practice, she loved the city’s historic buildings and
charm, and quickly began caring for the community and its people.
Yet, the physician also made an important diagnosis.
“Our downtown was sort of dried up,” she recalls.
In 2010, King purchased a charming old jewelry store that had
closed in 1997 and was dilapidated. With the help of her father and
friends, she renovated the building, and then partnered with a good
friend to open a bakery there one day a week on King’s day off from
the health clinic.
“We baked Wednesday night and opened Thursday mornings
and would sell out,” King says. It was enough to break even.
“I realized more that the downtown could only survive if we
tried to make it user-friendly and get more pedestrian traffic,”
King says. “A few businesses started popping up once we opened
the bakery.”
A downtown business group, dormant for 10 years, began to
meet again and King was elected to the city council.
In what King describes as a “total inclusive community effort,”
volunteers partnered with city government, city workers, the local
chamber of commerce and businesses to design and execute the
transformation of the downtown park.
Dedicated in April, the park is now a popular lunch hangout and
hosts concerts and other events.
“It’s helped the local economy and businesses because it’s given
people a place to be,” King says, “It’s made a tremendous difference.”
24 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018BEAUTIFYING KENTUCKY BY JOE ARNOLD n Mt. Sterling local artists designed a large mural, and a local store, A Plus Interior and Exterior Painting, donated time and materials to transform drab exteriors of neighboring buildings into an eye- popping and fun event space. Photo: Tracy Pearce
London
Commonwealth’s Award
At the end of a residential street near one of
London’s main cemeteries sits another small
graveyard. Until recently, the plots were
overgrown and some headstones overturned.
The African Americans buried there were
largely forgotten.
The London Downtown Board partnered
with City of London Tourism, Minks Outdoor
Professionals and volunteers to clear brush,
erect a sign, provide bench seating, reset
headstones, and plant trees and flowers.
Governor Bevin selected the project as
the recipient of the Beautify the Bluegrass
MINKS OUTDOOR PROFESSIONALS
Commonwealth’s Award.
“We enjoyed working together as a team
toward the common goal of cleaning the area,
learning about the soldiers buried there, and
honoring them for their service so long ago,”
says Brittany Riley, who chairs the design
committee of the London Downtown Board.
Fleming-Mason Energy
Cooperative Award
The director at Blue Licks Battlefield State
Resort Park near Mt. Olivet feared he would
have to close the park’s four playgrounds
because of a lack of mulch and the funds to
buy more. The Beautify the Bluegrass team
from Fleming-Mason Energy Cooperative
not only replenished the mulch, but also
repaired the playground equipment. With the
help of employees, co-op directors, families
and friends, the team revived the pollinator
garden with plantings and installed benches
for visitors to enjoy.
“One of the core cooperative principles is
commitment to community,” says Fleming-
Mason’s Lori Ulrich, director of Community &
Economic Development. “This project gave us
a chance to work together as a team to help
with a need in our community.”
LORI ULRICH
26 KENTUCKY LIVING • OCTOBER 2018Commitment
to Community
The mission of Beautify the Bluegrass resonates with Kentucky’s electric cooperatives, locally operated and
owned by the consumers they serve. Here are some of the co-op projects across Kentucky.
STEPHANIE MCCOMBS
Employees of Big Rivers Electric Corporation divided their time between two
MIKE OGLESBY
projects, picking up trash and clearing weeds at John James Audubon State Park
in Henderson, and spreading mulch and painting the ballfield facilities at Panther
Creek Park in Owensboro.
Visitors to Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park can thank a
broad coalition of volunteers coordinated by Pennyrile Electric
for a pleasant place to have a picnic. The project team leveled
out 10 areas, setting concrete pavers for picnic tables and
adding flowers in large pots for a splash of color.
CHRIS HAYES
CHANEY WILLETT
Shelby Energy Cooperative improved the appearance of the Shelby
County Courthouse Annex Building by removing old trees and shrubs,
Over a span of three days, the team from West Kentucky RECC,
trimming, weeding, mulching and planting flowers.
Mayfield, cleared overgrown landscaping around the entrance
sign to Kenlake State Resort Park. Co-op employees, managers
and board members set new poles and upgraded wiring for the
sign, enlarged the planting bed, laid new border stones and set a
carefully planned selection of new landscape plants.
W W W. K E N T U C K Y L I V I N G . C O M • O C T O B E R 2 0 1 8 27TIM WEBB
Working on the weekends, staff and families from both Clark Energy and
TIM COYLE
East Kentucky Power Cooperative pulled weeds, spread mulch and planted
begonias and coleus flowers at the Welcome to Winchester sign on State
Route 627. Representing Clark Energy, from left: Patty Young, Lois Hatton
and Charlie Pasley; Winchester Mayor Ed Burtner and City Commissioner Jackson Energy partnered with the Four Seasons Garden Club
Kitty Strode; and East Kentucky Power’s Kevin Osbourn and Joe Settles. of Irvine to rejuvenate their Monarch Waystation at the West
Irvine Intermediate School. Crews completed the stone barrier,
weeded, mulched and planted flowers to provide a valuable but-
terfly food source. Watch drone video of the transformation on
KentuckyLiving.com.
NATHAN FRISBY
DONNIE GLOVER
Big Sandy RECC employees landscaped the entrance to Jenny Wiley
State Resort Park, saying “we chose this project in hopes of catching
the eye of folks who would otherwise pass by this gem we have hidden in
the hills of eastern Kentucky.”
South Kentucky RECC, in April, employees participated in the PRIDE
cleanup of Hwy. 27 and Pulaski County. In all, 45 SKRECC employ-
ees picked up trash on Parkers Mill Road, Electric Avenue, Weddle
Lane, Regency Road, and Enterprise Drive. Above, Jerry Whitaker,
Jack Willis, Mike Ramsey and Tyler Criswell pick up trash along
Parkers Mill Road.
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WITH REMOTE CONTROL Customer Rating INVERTER GENERATOR WORKING PLATFORM BATTERY FLOAT
AND AUTOMATIC BRAKE Customer Rating CHARGER
• Weighs 83.65 lbs. • 350 lb. NOW
• 21" L x 10-1/8" H • 4.7 hours run-time capacity
NOW $499
NOW 9
$299 99 $4499 NOW
$1 99 9 $ 999
ITEM 64046/64045/63770 shown ITEM 62515/66911 shown Customer Rating
$ 39999
COMPARE TO $
WARN
69999
MODEL: 96820
SAVE
$400
COMPARE TO $
HONDA
999 SAVE
$549
MODEL: EU2000i
$ 49999
ITEM 62523
COMPARE TO
GPL
$ 5145
MODEL: H-21
SAVE
61% $2999
SAVE
50% ITEM 64284/69955
69594/42292 shown
LIMIT 4 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 5 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 6 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 8 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19*
SUPER SUPER COUPON SUPER COUPON
SUPER COUPON COUPON
• 1000 lb. capacity 18" x 12" 10 FT. x 17 FT.
40 VOLT LITHIUM CORDLESS MOVER'S DOLLY 8", 5 SPEED Customer Rating
BENCHTOP
PORTABLE GARAGE
BRUSHLESS BLOWER DRILL PRESS
Customer Rating
Customer Rating
NOW
NOW
Customer Rating
$499 9 SAVE 9
NOW $60 $1 699
ITEM 64716 $ 14999 NOW99 COMPARE TO
$ 1099 $799 $ 6499 ITEM 62520
19999
BUFFALO
64481/63284 shown SAVE
TOOLS 60238 shown COMPARE TO $
COMPARE TO $
199 SAVE $124 $59%
1765 SAVE COMPARE TO $ 11095
SHELTER LOGIC
SAVE
DEWALT 74$ 54% ITEM 61899/63095/63096
BUFFALO BLACK
$ 270 $100 ITEM 62859
MODEL: DCBL790B MODEL: HDFDOLLY 63098/63097/93888 shown MODEL: DP5UL MODEL: 76377
63055/62860 shown
LIMIT 5 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 5 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 3 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 4 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19*
1000 LB. CAPACITY
SUPER
COUPON SUPER COUPON SUPER
COUPON
SUPER COUPON
Customer Rating 3 PIECE DECORATIVE 1 TON CAPACITY Customer Rating 40 PIECE, 3/8" DRIVE
MOTORCYCLE LIFT SOLAR LED LIGHTS FOLDABLE SHOP CRANE SAE AND METRIC
• Diamond plate steel • Boom extends from SOCKET SET
platform and ramp NOW 36-1/4" to 50-1/4"
• Lift range: 99 Customer Rating
• Crane height adjusts
7" to 29-1/2" $7 from 82" to 94"
NOW NOW NOW
9
$2999 $39999 Customer Rating
9
$ 99
$9 9 99
$399
COMPARE TO $ 1785 SAVE COMPARE TO $
19999 SAVE COMPARE TO $ 97 19 SAVE
COMPARE TO $
DIRECT-LIFT
79999
MODEL: 873100
SAVE
$500 ITEM 69904
68892 shown
YARDS & BEYOND MODEL: APA001234V1AAA4
ITEM 60561/69462 shown
55% IRONTON $100
MODEL: 46218
ITEM 69512/61858/69445 shown
$ 179 99 KOBALT MODEL: 89809
ITEM 63015/61328/47902/62843 shown
80% $ 994
LIMIT 5 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 8 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 5 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19* LIMIT 7 - Coupon valid through 2/1/19*
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