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Wednesday's Woman

  • West lives childhood dream as State Theater director

    As a little girl, Emily West often rode past the Historic State Theater with her family. From the back seat of the car, she told her parents she wanted the former theater to reopen so she could work there someday.

    That wish is now a reality. In 2011, West became executive director of the State Theater, a movie house that closed the year she was born, 1982, and reopened in 2009.

    A Hardin County native, West takes pride in the theater and experiences from her youth shaped her business style.

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  • Life or Something Like It: Saving summer get-aways

    In my mind, there are two ways of thinking about summer vacation.

    One is to schedule it as soon as possible after school’s out or when the calendar turns to the “J” months — taking that cruise or trip to the beach at the beginning of June. After a long, cold winter and interminable spring, some take off at their first opportunity.

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  • Diverse opportunities a blessing for Jarboe

    When Lori Jarboe was in kindergarten she received the Spirit Award for her school.

    That award seemed to recognize the spirit Jarboe would carry with her throughout life, whether performing a gymnastics/dance routine down the streets of London, dining with the likes of the Dalai Lama and Maya Angelou or caring for physical therapy patients.

    “I think some of us are predisposed to a certain personality, and I’m very outgoing,” the Rineyville resident said.

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  • Got to be Real: We're both right

    Sometimes, two people look at the same thing at the same time and come up with two totally different opinions about what they see. How is that possible? It is possible because we all have a different perception of things.

    Once we find out our sighting is different from others, that normally is where the trouble begins. By trouble, I mean we forget to agree to disagree.

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  • Giving fitness to firefighters

    Members of the Radcliff Fire Department have a name for personal trainer Mishell Nibert.

    “We call her the ‘devil woman,’” Lt. Jared Boddy of the Radcliff Fire Department joked.

    Boddy said the firefighters tease her a lot about the intense workout she puts them through.

    “But really she’s absolutely amazing,” he said.

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  • Speakers with Spark: Documented wishes help mourning families

    By Susan Rider

    This month’s article is something a lot of people don’t like to talk about but is inevitable.

    No matter what religion you are, no matter what you believe in or don’t believe in, all of us are going to die. I’m OK with it because I believe there is a delicious place with only joy in the next life and our loved ones are waiting for us.

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  • Scheduling workout no barrier for athletic trainer

    As a certified athletic trainer for high school sports, mother of twin boys, wife of a certified athletic trainer for a baseball team and coordinator of sports medicine at an Elizabethtown facility, Carol George gives her scheduling abilities a workout.

    “I don’t fly by the seat of my pants, usually,” George said.

    In fact, she said, if there’s one thing she’s learned about raising twins, it’s that keeping a strict schedule is crucial. Her sons are 2.

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  • Time After Time: Paint store offered more than color

    Storybooks waited in the corner for curious little feet to walk their way and magazines about homes and gardens and art waited for customers to walk to the basket nearby, but the real stories — the best stories — were the ones found within the color swatches that waited for all those who walked through the doors of Jenkins-Essex Supply, which sold Porter Paints, to ask Rita Jenkins or Jay or Neff for help with their next project.

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  • Patty Rouse, running the race

    From running track to a career in officiating, teacher Patty Rouse’s life is a race she likes running.

    She started in track and field as a fifth-grader in Fleming County. Before her family moved to Kentucky, she was raised on chicken farms in Arkansas. In Arkansas she participated in barrel racing and horseback riding.

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  • Motherhood and More: Screen time piles on guilt

    I feel like a failure as a mother.

    I mean, that’s really nothing new at this point. But specifically, now, I feel like a failure as a mother because I allow my son to spend entirely too much time parked in front of a screen.

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