“I was shocked. I didn’t have a clue.”
Trudy Denham, clerk of Pulaski County, was reacting to being named 2006 Business Woman of the Year. The award presentation Tuesday was a highlight leading to National Business Women’s Week, observed October 15-21.
“I wasn’t expecting it,” said Denham. “When they read all of that stuff, I didn’t dream they were talking about me.” She was referring to introductory remarks by Judith Smith, National Business Week chairperson for the Somerset BPW Club.
“When they said the birthday (of the honoree) was in August and that she graduated from Nancy High School I looked toward the podium and my knees got weak,” Denham said.
Denham, the first woman elected to a major Pulaski County governmental office, emotionally walked to the front of the convention hall at The Center and accepted the BPW award. The ceremony was during the October meeting of the Somerset-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce.
“(She has) executed the duties of her office with integrity, honesty, and fairness,” Smith extolled. “She always has a willingness to serve the needs of each person who enters her office, never favoring a person by their dress, be it a pair of bib overall, a dress made from a feed sack, or a three-piece suit. Each person is treated with the same service.”
Denham said she is honored that the BPW club selected her as business woman of the year. “I had the greatest day!” she exclaimed.
She remembers when she started working in the county clerk’s office in 1973 “I have grown up in this office; this has been my life. I feel I have been blessed to have been in the clerk’s office for 33 years.
Denham was elected four years ago as county clerk, succeeding Willard Hansford. She did not file for re-election and will retire at the end of her first term the last of December.
A member of the advisory board for Cumberland Valley National Bank, Denham is married to Bernie Denham, owner of a lawn-care service. She says she has no specific plans for her retirement years.
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Trudy Denham was named 2006 Business Woman of the Year by the Somerset Business and Profess-ional Women’sClub.
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Pulaski County is not at war. The booming you may hear at dusk is mock cannon fire to scare away birds.
Stuart Spillman, environmental director for the Lake Cumberland Health Department, said at least three cannons are on loan from the department to residents who want to scare away swarms of starlings and blackbirds settling in to roost.
He said a cannon is being used by a resident on Laura Lane off Ky. 39; another is in the Oak Hill Road area and a third is on Ashurst Street in the eastern part of Somerset.
Spillman said a timer on each cannon allows it to “fire” at whatever frequency is desired. The cannons must be used as the birds circle before going to roost. “After they settle in, nothing will chase them out,” Spillman said.
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Boil water advisory is lifted countywide
The water controversy that Pulaski County has been boiling over — so to speak — for the last week is finally over.
At 10 minutes after noon Wednesday, the “boil water” advisory for the Western Pulaski Water District was lifted — almost a full week after the problems began around 1 p.m. last Thursday.
Prior to that, the Somerset Water Service — along with the other water providers in its system, including Science Hill Water, Southeastern Water, and Eubank Water — lifted their advisories, with Somerset on Saturday afternoon and the last, Southeastern, by Monday morning. Western Pulaski was the last in the system to complete sample testing for potential contaminants, due to not being able to access its Pikeville-based testing lab until Monday.
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler thanked the public for its patience and understanding during the duration of the boil water advisory — put in place to keep citizens from drinking water that could have been contaminated after an accident last Thursday at the water plant site — and also thanked all the city employees for their hard work during this time.
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