COVINGTON - The Second Sunday Antiques Marketplace will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundayin Covington's MainStrasse Village. Parking and admission are free.

        Vendors offer a selection of antiques and collectibles along the MainStrasse neighborhood's tree-lined Sixth Street promenade.

        A discounted set-up fee is offered to first-time vendors.

        For information, call (859) 491-0458 or (859) 341-3390.

"Treasures' sale to benefit Baker-Hunt

        COVINGTON - The Friends of Baker-Hunt are having an “Old Treasures and Stuff Sale” to raise money for the preservation of Victorian artifacts at the Baker-Hunt Foundation.

        The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16 and 17 at the vacant Mertack's furniture store at the northeast corner of Fifth Street and Scott Boulevard.

        The Mertack's building will be open to accept donations from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Mondays and Saturdays until the sale or by appointment by calling event chairwoman Jane Purdon at (859) 291-7967 to arrange for pickup of goods. The organization is accepting furniture, glassware, household items, art, hardback books, linens, cameras, computer equipment and other items, but no clothing.

        The mission of the Friends of Baker-Hunt is to preserve and enhance the organization as a center for spiritual, cultural, educational and artistic activities for Tristate residents.

"No Call' law lands two more in court

        FRANKFORT - Kentucky Attorney General Ben Chandler sued two more telemarketing companies Monday for violations of Kentucky's new “No Call” law.

        The suits, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, are against Minnesota-based Alpine Glass Inc., an auto glass replacement company, and Consolidated Credit Services Inc., a New York-based debt consolidation company.

        A telemarketer for Consolidated Credit Services named Ken Richards also is named in the suit. Each company and Mr. Richards have been assessed a $50,000 civil penalty.

        These lawsuits follow two filed last week against a Florida debt consolidation company and a California-based telemarketing company, bringing the total to four lawsuits that have been filed since Kentucky's new “No Call” law took effect on July 15.

        Alpine Glass has entered into an agreement with the Attorney General's Office to follow all provisions of the “No Call” law while the lawsuit is pending. Mr. Chandler's office is seeking a temporary injunction to compel Consolidated Credit to comply with the “No Call” law.

        “Kentuckians on the "No Call' list are reporting far fewer unwanted telemarketing calls since the law took effect,” Mr. Chandler said. “We now have over 700 companies who have obtained the "No Call' list and have indicated they won't be calling Kentucky homes.”

Ex-mayor's court date with Churchill set

        LOUISVILLE - A Jefferson County judge has set a trial date for former Jeffersontown Mayor Daniel Ruckriegel's slip-and-fall lawsuit against Churchill Downs Inc.

        Mr. Ruckriegel filed the suit last October, claiming that the corporation's negligence caused him to hurt his back and his poor health forced him to leave office after two decades as mayor.

        Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald Burkman set the trial for Feb. 18.

        Mr. Ruckriegel's attorney, Fred Fischer, said that on Oct. 21, 2000, Mr. Ruckriegel slipped on some liquid and fell during a visit to Sports Spectrum, Churchill Downs' off-track betting parlor.

        Mr. Ruckriegel stepped down as mayor on Jan. 2, 2001, halfway into his latest term. Clay Foreman, then a city councilman, was appointed to succeed him.

        When he resigned, Mr. Ruckriegel declined to elaborate about his health. But in 1998 he publicly acknowledged that he suffered a heart attack.

Sinkholes delay cemetery project

        HOPKINSVILLE - The discovery of several sinkholes in property dedicated to the construction of the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West has delayed the project for about four months and prompted officials to relocate the seven buildings planned for the site.

        “We had to change the plan, readjust just about everything,” said Tim Meives, manager of the cemetery. “Basically, some structures had to be shifted 300 to 500 feet from where we originally planned.”

        Other buildings remained close to the original location, Mr. Meives said.

        The cemetery is on 73 acres off Fort Campbell Boulevard, just south of the new Murray State University facility.

        The land was part of the property the university acquired to build its new facility until local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1913 gave $180,000 to buy the acreage for the cemetery, one of four planned for the state.

        With construction of the seven buildings, including a mausoleum, a chapel and various maintenance facilities, the cemetery is expected to cost about $6.3 million.

        Mr. Meives said the construction schedule is now “back on track” to be complete sometime in the fall of 2003.

Ky. to get $130M in tobacco funds

        FRANKFORT - Kentucky is to get $130 million this year from a national fund for tobacco growers, an agency said Monday.

        The money, to be distributed in December, would be the largest amount available since the National Tobacco Growers Settlement Trust Fund was created in 1999.

        Applications are being mailed this week to 118,000 Kentuckians, a statement from the Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust Corp. said.

        Tobacco-state governors and the four largest cigarette manufacturers established the fund to compensate tobacco producers for loss of income as demand for domestic tobacco decreases.

        Payments are reserved for tobacco quota owners, growers and tenants who share in the risk of tobacco production.

        The agency's statement said 155,000 Kentuckians have been paid $328 million in the first three years of the trust.

Survey teams to visit Owensboro airport

        OWENSBORO - Site survey teams will visit the Owensboro Daviess County Airport this week to conduct initial studies on passenger security screenings before federal employees take over the checkpoint positions.

        The Transportation Security Administration also will send the survey teams to 15 other airports.

        The site survey is the first in a three-step process that includes reconfiguring checkpoint and baggage screening and dispatching the federal employees.

        The TSA has responsibility for civil aviation security. It plans to deploy federal passenger screeners to every commercial airport by Nov. 19.

        Federal employees began taking over security at Louisville International Airport in June.

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