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Three members of a LaRue County family involved in a Monday afternoon plane crash remain hospitalized in Louisville.

Pilot Joshua Marksbury, 31, his wife, Jamie, 32, and their son, Jacob, 4, were injured when the single-engine plane crashed shortly after take-off next to  Abraham Lincoln Elementary School on U.S. 31E.

Jimmy Shaw, brother of Jamie Marksbury, said Thursday afternoon all three family members remain in Louisville hospitals. He said he preferred not to discuss specific injuries.

When Faith Apostolic Church purchased its church at 208 Nicholas St. in Elizabethtown for $10,000 in 1976, it was a small, white wooden building surrounded by a trailer and two houses — a red one and a white one.

“Then people started coming in, and we got overpopulated in the building,” the Rev. David Aldridge said. “Finally, one of them told us, ‘If you don’t start building, you’re going to start losing people.”

It wasn’t a normal evening at Warm Blessings, but then again, no evening is “normal.”

A tire blowout on the organization’s van — its only source of transportation — created problems carrying patrons to and from the facility.

But patrons, the same people who were coming to Warm Blessings for help, helped each other. Those who had cars pitched in and gave others a ride home and one man stayed and helped with the tire problem, He offered his assistance the next day as well.

Radcliff City Council reiterated its desire to establish a recycling trailer in the city and voiced concerns about perceived inequalities of service.

Magistrate Doug Goodman, who represents the Radcliff area on Hardin Fiscal Court, told the council Tuesday that he personally would act as a liaison between the city and waste haulers to acquire a recycling trailer in Radcliff. Goodman said he believes he could land a trailer within weeks with the council’s help.