Jeffersonville Local Briefs

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September 17, 2009

Anonymous The News and Tribune Thu Sep 17, 2009, 09:33 PM EDT

• Clark County

GCCS special meeting coming Tuesday

The Greater Clark County Schools Board of Trustees will hold a work session and special meeting, beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Administration Building, 2112 Utica-Sellersburg Road, Jeffersonville.

The meeting is open to the public.

Among the agenda items are: personnel matters; a bid for fuel storage tanks at the Greater Clark service center; a contract extension for The Leadership and Learning Center for Balanced Mathematics Training; and change orders for high school projects.

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• Souther Indiana

Group to walk for health care

A van full of doctors from Oregon will be joined by local residents Tuesday night to advance the cause of Medicare for all ages.

The public is invited to the Indiana side of the Clark Memorial Bridge to participate in the Medicare-For-All Bridge walk. The Oregon group, calling themselves the Mad as Hell Doctors, left Portland earlier this month on a 27-city tour that will end in Washington, D.C.

The walk will begin with a kickoff welcome by Jeffersonville Mayor Tom Galligan. The doctors also will speak briefly before candles are lit and the walk begins across the bridge to Main Street in Louisville, a press release says.

The event is also meant to memorialize “the thousands of people who die each year for lack of health care access.”

The group of doctors support a single-payer health care plan.

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Horse rescue group needs hay

The nonprofit Equine Rescue League of Southern Indiana is asking for hay donations to feed its more than 30 horses during the upcoming winter. The group also is accepting monetary donations to purchase hay.

It is located at 5318 Blueridge Road in Charlestown, 47111. The nonprofit also has sweatshirts and T-shirts for sale to raise money.

Also, donation jars are set up at The Feed Store, Hamm Brothers and Movies to Go.

For more information, visit www.erlsi.com or call Colleen Hester at 812-293-4077 or 502-287-8272 or LaDonna Jeffries at 812-628-0005.

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• Charlestown

Travel back to the ’80s Saturday

DJ Alex Streets will host a night of dancing in Greenway Park, presented by the Charlestown Parks and Recreation Department, on Saturday night.

Streets will be playing the best of the 1980s starting at 7, and the park’s concession stand will open at 6:30 p.m. to serve sandwiches, chili dogs, popcorn, nachos and snacks. The event will conclude at 9:30 p.m.

Break out the denim and neon, tease up your hair, wear your jelly shoes and come out for a great night of music.

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• Louisville

Work, lane reductions coming to I-65

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced the beginning of a major construction project to repair the pavement on Interstate 65 in Jefferson County.

The $28.7 million project — “Revive 65” — involves the replacement of concrete pavement with asphalt on the 3-mile section of interstate between Fern Valley Road and Interstate 264, also called the Watterson Expressway. It is among a dozen road and bridge projects, totaling more than $195 million, under way or planned for the Louisville area.

To complete Revive 65 as quickly as possible, contractors will work 24 hours a day for 16 days in each direction. Work is scheduled to begin Monday on the northbound lanes, with lane closures starting at 8 p.m.

The section of I-65 that normally is five lanes wide on each side will be reduced to three lanes in each direction during construction. In the northern section of the project near the Watterson, where each side of I-65 normally is three lanes wide, traffic will be reduced to two lanes in each direction during construction. The interstate will not be closed, but Kentucky Transportation Secretary Joe Prather said in a news release that motorists are advised to avoid the construction area.

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