Beech Tree News Network

The Good News Community Center is praising God for the wonderful people of Butler County who supported us this week for our annual fund raising effort.  Our goal has been met and we are making plans to complete our walking path.  We hope to have the concrete down on the path before winter.  If you'd like to help with the concrete, please give us a call at 526-0992.  Thank you to all the committee members for the wonderful work you did to make this event a success and to everyone who came out in support this endeavor.  We have been truly blessed by each and every one of you.

Do you want to make a positive difference in Butler County?  Community Action of Southern Kentucky needs an individual who will be the voice of the low-income populations in Butler County as a volunteer member of the Agency’s Board of Directors. 

GED testing centers in Kentucky encourage adults to finish and pass before test deadlines!

On Monday September 24th, the Ladies Auxiliary of VFW Post 5837 gave a presentation to second thru fifth graders at Morgantown Elementary School regarding the Buddy Poppy Program. The first VFW poppy distribution in the United States was shortly before Memorial Day in 1922, making the VFW the first veterans organization to arrange a nationwide distribution. Soon after this the poppy was adopted as the flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). It wasn't until 1924 that the VFW registered the name "Buddy Poppy".

The Butler County Knitters and Crocheters meets each Monday from 11:00 to 12:30 in the meeting room of the library.  There are usually 15 ladies there and they many different types of crocheting or knitting.

If you were at the Morgantown First United Methodist Church this Sunday morning, you got to see Case Hooten and Nathan Jones throw a pie in Pastor Darrin’s face!  Next Sunday, Pastor Darrin will be preaching with wild or multi-colored hair, Bethanne Jones and Kelsey Hughson have some ideas, and it will be good!  Then the next Sunday, all his hair will be gone!

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the new "Reeds Ferry" will be held on Tuesday, September 25 at 10 am. The event will be held on site at the ferry located on KY 269 in northwestern Butler County. The community will be celebrating the 'Bridget Renea" the new Green River ferry barge.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5837 Ladies Auxiliary with the assistance of Ms Linda Tyree and Ms JoLynn Reed will hold a program on the Buddy Poppy on Monday September 24 in the cafeteria for the 2-3 graders at 9:00-9:30 and the 4-5 graders at, 10:00-10:30. This year it was decided to add the 2-3 grades to the Buddy Poppy program and Art for Heroes, in promoting of the awareness of the Buddy Poppy and what it stands for.

BCHS Class of 1967 mark your calendars now.  Our 45th class reunion is planned for the evening of October 27, 2012 at Gone Fishin' Restaurant located on Hwy 231 South.  Invitations have been mailed to graduating class members but other classmates are encouraged  to attend.  Contact Patricia Wilson Forbes at 999-0534 or Bonnie Austin Howard at 999-6691 for more information.

Saturday, September 15th at the Hartford United Methodist Church, members of the area chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), SAR and C.A.R. held a joint meeting of the three groups. Melanie Hunt, Regent of the Green River Chapter and Pam Bradley, Regent of the Ft. Hartford Chapter coordinated the event that included members from 10 chapters of the Kentucky Society, as well as Charles Duncan Sons of the American Revolution and the Green River Children of the American Revolution.