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On a cold, rainy February day, Derek Schneider sat in front of what appeared to be a sleeping still as he waved VENT in for a tour of the revitalized Charles Medley Distillers Kentucky, for the rebirth of bourbon in Owensboro . The Charles Medley Distillery, in operation since 1940, shut its doors in 1992 and has been virtually vacant until 2007 when the facility was purchased by Angostura Limited, a Trinidad and Tobago company famous for the production of Angostura Bitters. “Let’s walk and talk,” suggested Schneider as he grabbed his raincoat and keys. Appearances can be deceiving; inside the sleepy facility was a hub of activity. “You’ll have to excuse the mess,” Schneider said. “We’re pre-paring for the Bourbon Heritage Celebration on Valentine’s Day.” The event was a gathering for Kentucky distillers to bring their products to Owensboro for Rotary Club members and guests to taste. All proceeds went to the Rotary Club Foundation. “We will have a rum product for the guests to sample, which has a taste similar to bourbon,” Schneider said about the Bourbon Heritage Celebration. Building A was the first spot on the impromptu tour. It is one of six buildings that will be used to store bourbon. Building A consists of 80-year-old pine and oak racks that can house 20,000 barrels that hold 53 gallons each. Kentucky , geographically, is ideal for bourbon production with cold winters, hot summers, corn and underground well water. Only bourbon distilled and aged in Kentucky can bear the label “Kentucky Straight Bourbon,” a natural product made from all natural ingredients including the water drawn from the wells on the property. The once bottling plant will serve as the new visitors’ center. CMDK employees hurriedly prepared the space for the event. The visitors’ center will house a gift shop featuring three steps of the bourbon process. Pipes from the distillery’s older years of production were scrubbed and polished to create racks in one room, while old barrels for aging will be cut to house bourbon-related products for sale in the next room. The third room will have the finished product bottled to show the final stage. Schneider has worked to forge the old with the new for a rustic and modern look. A perfect example is the two light fixtures in the women’s room cut from used bourbon barrels dated 1942 and 1945. The old print shop, where the original distillery created and printed their own labels is connected to the visitors’ center. The entire printing process took place in the building that will be restored and showcased as the CMDK museum. Labels from past production are on display, as well as a still-working camera with attached developing room, roughly the size of a small cargo truck. The museum also contains several of the original printing presses. On the tour, VENT was privy to the rich history embedded throughout the property — from an original grinding stone used in the distillery in 1818, to the pre-prohibition bottles scattered in one of the upstairs lofts. CMDK’s task ahead of them is difficult and divided into

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several phases. The first phase is to repair the roofs of all the aging ware-houses. The distillery suffered heavy damage from Hurricane Ike winds, which of course, was not originally in the phase plan. Schneider said they dealt with setbacks before they were able to get started. “The key is that the machinery is still intact,” he said. “We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t.” The control systems also need an upgrade from analogue to digital, which is a much more efficient system. Once the renovations are complete, Schneider can get down to the business of production. For good bourbon, the pro-cess takes about four years until the final product is ready for sale. “Technically, it’s bourbon after two years, but not a qual-ity product,” he said. And just like a young bottle of bourbon, the distillery is in its first stage. Owensboro can look for CMDK to feature bourbon with a style profile personal to the area in about four years. Schneider said that developing a profile comes from the taste, color, and region of the product. CMDK will make bourbon exclusively in Owensboro and ship from this location. So, in time, Owensboro will be part of the world-renowned bourbon production exclusive to Kentucky .

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During the We the People – America Speaks 21st Century Town Meeting on Nov. 10, 2007, more than 600 Owensboro and Daviess County residents spent the entire Saturday discussing their concerns and hopes for the community. The discussion was guided by trained moderators and recorded with state-of-the-art technology to track participants’ responses and demographics to more accurately focus the community’s goals as guide-posts for the future development of the city and county. At the meeting, participants closely representing the area’s demographics voted on their top concerns and suggestions for the com-munity out of five categories: education, economy, environment, health care and government. According to the executive summary from the town meeting, participants’ top recommendations that received more than 50 percent of votes included: •“expand recycling (75%) •establish practices that ensure openness and transparency in government (63%) •transform downtown and insist on well-planned suburban expansion (61%) •continue to attract, grow and retain businesses (60%) •increase parent and community involvement in schools (54%) • be a leader in conservation and develop renewable energy alternatives (53%)

•Reduce air pollution from coal-fired power plants (51%).” More than a year has passed since the town meeting and sev-eral groups have worked and are still working with We the People and the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro, the initiating sponsor of the town meeting. Five working groups have evolved out of the town meeting: Healthy and Caring Community, Region of Opportunity Team (ROOT), Environmental Impact Council, Citizens for Good Government and Community Education and Learning. The most significant advancement since the meeting was with the ROOT initiative: the tax increase to fund the transformation of down-town. “Who would have ever guessed that a year later that we would have a master plan, a funding stream, and we were off and rolling,” Rodney Berry, president of the Public Life Foundation, said. “But there were passionate advocates for all the different topic areas,” Berry said. “And they’re all trying to move forward and in some instances trying to juggle existing organizations.” While the town meeting revealed the community’s primary concerns, many of those concerns were already being addressed, such as education reform.“There are so many groups that are already in place to address education issues and to deal with educational concerns in our community,” Execu-tive Director of We the People Initiative, Shelly Nichols said. “So we already have a lot of assets in education in Owensboro.” The challenge

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w w w . v e n t m a g o w b . c o m w w w . v e n t m a g o w b . c o mhas been organizing them toward a common focus, she said. The Environmental Impact Council, which represents three of the top seven initiatives developed from the town meeting, has spent the last year organizing the committee and examining curbside recycling. The council welcomed guest speakers on behalf of curbside recycling and studied recycling efforts in other Kentucky communities. The EIC “did a presentation to fiscal court on curbside recy-cling,” Nichols said. “They did their pitch to fiscal court and they were tasked to go out and get more momentum. That’s a huge success.” During an interview with Vent Magazine in January, Mayor Ron Payne said he supported curbside recycling. “What I’d like to see done is to find out how the community feels about (curbside recycling) and the feasibility of doing it if we make it optional,” Payne said. Under Payne’s plan, if enough households expressed interest to support the service, residents would have the option to pay a fee for curbside recycling. The next step for the EIC is to promote the initiative in the community. “We are getting ready to kick off an educational campaign on Earth Day, April 22, to educate the community on recycling,” Nichols said. The educational campaign will last 13 weeks, featuring various luncheons and speakers with a kick off ceremony yet to be announced. The Citizens for Good Government moved forward with the initiative to implement openness and transparency in government. But the first step was educating the community to empower them. With a forum called Basic Government 101 and a forum about inequities in taxes, residents were able to ask city and county representa-tives questions about government. “They were able to see how the city and county could work together,” Nichols said. And in the inequities in taxes forum, “we found out a lot of the community doesn’t understand who they are paying taxes

to and why,” she said. The Healthy and Caring Community is devoting much of its time to the KCHIP program. KCHIP is free or low cost health insur-ance for children under age 19 in families earning income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. For instance, a family of four could earn up to $42,400 a year and qualify, according to the KCHIP Web site, kidshealth.ky.gov. Members of The Healthy and Caring Community are volun-teering at 10 locations in Owensboro, including Sts. Joe and Paul Catho-lic Church and the Cliff Hagan Boys and Girls Club, to assist families in filling out the applications for KCHIP. “We want to take out all the barriers so there’s nothing in the way for (families) to go ahead and get a child health insurance,” Nichols said. For more information or to volunteer for one of the initiatives, visit www.wethepeopletownmeeting.org or email [email protected]. A schedule of the working groups monthly meetings, which are open to the public, is available on the Web site as well.


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Chef Marcelo Agudo was nine years old when he had his first cu-linary experience, standing next to his mother, helping her make zeppole, fried dough coated with sugar.

He was so excited about cooking, he recalls, that he splattered oil when he dropped the dough and burned his mother. Saddened, but not discouraged, Agudo unlocked a desire for the culinary arts. From 1986 to 1993, Agudo worked as sous chef for Shanghai Reds in Weehawhen , NJ , and worked his way up to executive chef, earning $15 million in sales. With the restaurant, he catered banquets and weddings, serving seafood and steak menus. “We catered four weddings at one time, serving 200 to 800 people per gathering,” he said. Since then, Marcelo catered for the US-Open Tennis Champi-onships, 3000 people daily, totaling up to $32 million in sales for two weeks. He also catered for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the 70th Anniversary of New York City’s Housing Authority at the Brooklyn Museum , and for former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Marcelo has catered for celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Denzel Washington and for movie sets including Signs, War of the Worlds, and The Sopranos. He was also featured on the morning show Good Day New York. From 2000 to 2005, he owned Café Health Exchange on the corner of Maiden Ln. and Broadway, only half a block away from the World Trade Center . Sept. 11, 2001 was like any other day. Agudo exited the under-ground train at the bottom of the WTC on his way to open his café. “Suddenly I felt an explosion,” he said. “I rushed out as quickly

as I could. As I got outside I saw a huge cloud of smoke and debris falling from the sky. It was raining paper.” Not sure of what was going on, he proceeded to his restaurant and started prepping 300 sandwiches for an order, until people started gathering in front of his shop. He learned that a plane had hit one of the towers. “I was startled,” he said. “I let people use my phone, any kind that I had. Workers were calling co-workers and loved ones to see if everyone would be able to escape. “Unfortunately, a majority of the individuals working in the building couldn’t get out. People were passing out trying to grasp for air. I tried to help by placing cases of bottled water on the sidewalk so they would have something to help clean out the debris that was inhaled into their body. “People were running away while we were running towards the WTC. I was standing in front of the building and the second plane hit. The explosion was so loud that it caused my ears to ring two weeks after the incident. “Everyone had to evacuate. We ran and took shelter.” Once both buildings fell, Agudo returned to his café, witnessing horrible sights. “Everything was grey and black,” he said. “Ashes were every-where from business cards and paperwork that came from the buildings. Luckily the shop was still in tact.” Agudo gathered up the 300 sandwiches he made and water and passed them out to firefighters, police officers and volunteers retrieving bodies. “I remember that day and talking about it still brings tears to my

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eyes,” he said. After 2005, Agudo decided to move and open America on Rye in Gillette , NJ . But during a trip to Owensboro , Ky. , visiting his nephew Leo, Marcelo saw potential in this slightly quieter community. On Feb. 2, Agudo and his nephew opened City Subs and Salads, 3600 Frederica St . “Business is great,” Agudo said. “I see a lot of repetitive cus-tomers as well as new faces.” The food is great and the service is wonderful. From personal experience, I enjoyed dining at the restaurant. It has warm and invit-ing atmosphere and it makes me feel welcomed. I am thankful and it was a pleasure to have met such a wonderful person to showcase as VENT’s Top Chef.

From Left to Right: Ashlee Nicholson,Samantha Ellison, Marcelo Agudo and Ashley Hohiemer

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Tap Water Saves the Environment and the Pocket Book

By Matt Weafer

Millions of Americans crack the tops to bottles of water at least once a day (if not more often) while they exercise, during a com-mute to work, a lunch break, a business meeting or at the movies as a healthy alternative to sugary sodas, sports drinks and tap water. But there’s another element to the story — the environment.Producing and packaging bottled water requires three to five times more water than will fit in the bottle, according to Calif.-based Pacific Institute. And while recycling water bottles helps reduce the impact, only 12 percent of bottles were recycled in 2003, according to a 2007 MSNBC article. That number has likely risen in the past six years, but recycling plastic also requires a significant amount of energy and non-renewable resources. According to a report on the Pacific Institute’s Web site, “More energy is needed to fill the bottles with water at the factory, move it by truck, train, ship, or air freight to the user, cool it in grocery stores or home refrigerators, and recover, recycle, or throw away the empty bottles. The Pacific Institute estimates that the total amount of energy embedded in our use of bottled water can be as high as the equivalent of filling a plastic bottle one quarter full with oil.” Americans purchased 31.2 billion liters of bottled water in 2006. The Pacific Institute estimated that the energy required to pro-duce those bottles equals approximately 17 million barrels of oil. On top of the energy required to create, fill, package, ship and recycle the bottles, and the tons of non-recycled plastic bottles sitting in landfills, waiting 1,000 years before they start to decompose, the chemi-cals in the plastic bottles are potentially harmful to consumers as well. Though the Food and Drug Administration regulates water before it enters bottles and once a year as it sits in the bottle, certain harmful contaminants such as phthalates or Bisphenol A can leach into the water as the bottles age, especially if the bottle is reused by the consumer. Debating the health benefits of bottled water compared to tap water is difficult considering the number of water sources, state regula-tions, types of bottles and the amount of time a bottle of water sits on a shelf.

Bottled water is monitored by the Food and Drug Adminis-tration and tap water is monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency. Both organizations apply stringent standards to water quality prior to marketing. However, municipalities, such as Owensboro Municipal Utilities, monitor water quality daily, typically the same day a resident consumes the water. And while bottled water companies use buzzwords like pure and natural, accompanied by images of free-flowing streams and pictur-esque mountains, many bottles of water are filled from the municipal water providers in the manufacturer’s city. The water is then, though not always, filtered. Owensboro’s water source is an underground aquifer. The water filters naturally through the earth and is then pumped out, moni-tored and sent to homes in the city.With some high-end bottled waters costing close to $10 per gallon, a mark-up of nearly 10,000 times, tap water is a more environmentally- and economically-friendly option. According to OMU’s Water Quality Report for 2007, there was only one violation of water quality during the year. The presence of coliform bacteria, a natural contaminant, rose to 5.88 percent. The standard is no more than 5 percent. And once, noticed, the system was flushed, refilled and retested, showing no signs of the contaminant. The International Bottled Water Association touts bottled water as “one of the safest and most regulated food products on Earth.” This statement does not mean that bottled water is of bet-ter quality or safer than tap water. With the emergence of inexpensive home water purifiers hitting the market, tap water is a better environ-mental and economical option than bottled water. And with a sturdy thermos, it’s just as convenient.

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The FDA reported that bottled water sitting in the sunlight does not leach chemicals linked to breast cancer into the water, unlike recent articles and viral emails have reported.



In honor of Wax Works 60th anniversary, which is now the oldest family owned entertainment company in the United States, I sat down with Terry Woodward, owner of Owensboro’s family based and most dynamic business to ask him about the history of Wax Works and how

it has changed and survived to be a thriving business in today’s economy.

LeRoy Woodward, Terry’s father, started wax Works in 1949. Earlier, LeRoy was the voice of Owensboro. He became a radio pio-neer, signing on with WOMI to host his own late-night radio show in

1938, which he called ‘Woodward’s Wax Works.” On Thanksgiving Day 1947, LeRoy also signed on radio station WVJS and hosted a Sun-day afternoon show called Teletune that featured the hits of the day.

After a variety of sales jobs, Bob Kaplan at Interstate Inven-tory hired him, which was located on St. Ann Street. Interstate Inven-tory sold appliances, but appliances were difficult to come by after World War II, so there weren’t many to sell. Records at that time were dis-tributed through hard goods and LeRoy wanted to have something to


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w w w . v e n t m a g o w b . c o msell. Record sales were a success and with this he wanted to open a record store, and told Kaplan his plan. Kaplan gave LeRoy a raise if he would stay. This happened two more times, and on the third time he went through with his plan and bought the record inventory of the store.

LeRoy and Doug Webster opened the first Wax Works store at 309 Frederica Street. He borrowed $2,000 from Owensboro National Bank and gave as collateral his word. Terry began working with his father when he was a sophomore in high school in 1952. His main job was to deliver records.

Over time, format of the record has changed from the 78-rpm, the 45-rpm, and the 33-1/3 rpm formats to the induction of eight-track tape in 1969. Terry believed that with eight-tracks it made music portable and attractive. This along with the retail market changed from a mom and pop operation to mass merchants. Because of mass merchants there are very few specialty retail stores. Record stores were also a service industry because they had to sell needles with the records. These stores had per-sonality and passion for music. New artists had a place to launch their mu-sic. Now there are few venues for artists to break into the music industry.

Before selling his franchise of 113 Disc Jockey stores in Sep-tember 2000 to Trans World Entertainment, for 18 years Terry hosted an entertainment convention that was a week long for his retail-

ers and store managers of Disc Jockey and it was held at the Execu-tive Inn. Stars from Garth Brooks, Cheryl Crow, Shelby Lynn and Tanya Tucker made appearances at these conventions, with some launching their career right here in Owensboro. Disc Jockey opened in Town Square Mall in March 1978 and had over 50 stores in over 20 states. Wax Works has survived the changes in music business and has stayed relevant in business by expanding into videos and finding niche markets. The video business was 100 percent rental in the mid 1980’s. Studios would notify a company when the video would be released and Wax Works would receive an order and ship it out the same day. When DVDs came on the market, because you can re-price them and sell them cheaply, this opened up another market for mass merchants. Wax Works found the niche of Internet Fulfillment. For example, if your college would like to sell videos of it’s football bowl, they would send the raw footage to Wax Works and Wax Works will edit the footage, make the menu on the DVD, the bonus features, cover art and will sell it. Wax Works does the Final Four for CBS Sports, the NFL, NBA, NHL and ESPN. It has also produced a five-disc 50-year history of NASCAR.

To check out Wax Works, go to their website www.waxworksonline.com

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The statue is owned by Terry Woodward. It is 11 ft high and has com-panion stones. This is part of the article from September 19, 2006 from the Messenger-Inquirer. The sculpture called “Love Song” was constructed by American Indian artist Denny Haskew of Loveland, Colo. Haskew, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The sculpture reflects American Indian heritage and explores such themes as love, forgiveness, healing relationship and endurance. The sculp-ture is of an American Indian man playing a flute. In the American Indian culture, when a man wants to propose marriage to a woman he makes up a song and performs it.



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How many of you motorists have passed a group of young people on bicycles or skateboards? I’m sure many of you have, and I want you to start noticing the growing population

of BMXers and skaters around Owensboro. The action sports community in Owensboro is growing at a rapid pace, and so is the need for a skate park in the Owensboro area. Owensboro used to be home of Ozone Skate Park , which was located in Chautauqua Park , but because of the deterioration of the wooden ramps it was unfortunately demolished in 2006. Ozone was a smaller park with little to offer to action sports participators. The need for a new, updated, concrete design is crucial for the action sports community to continue to grow and to offer a safe environment for skaters and riders. For the past several years, riders and skaters have hit the streets on their bikes, boards and blades to find a rideable ledge, bank or gap. In return, store owners, motorists and security guards are not too happy with the skaters and riders in the area, but with no park, they have nowhere else to go. On Feb. 17, I, along with approximately thirty other skaters and riders, attended a City Council meeting to address the need for a new skate park. Mike Kenney, owner of Meanwhile Skate Products, art teacher at Daviess County Middle School and skateboarder, has attended sev-eral City Council meetings over the past two-and-a-half years. Kenney has been the driving force behind the Owensboro skate project.

The Tony Hawk Foundation has generously donated $10,000 to the City of Owensboro toward the construction of the new skate park but it has to be accepted by March 19. In the past, the City Commission has promised Owensboro $90,000 toward the construction of a new and improved skate park. The new park is estimated to cost $325,000 but many com-panies, such as concrete distributors and fabricators, have agreed to donate services to minimize cost and ensure that Owensboro ’s park will be constructed. Owensboro ’s skate park issue has been addressed many times in the past three years. And now more skaters and riders have attended meetings and pushed for this park. The community of Owensboro needs an attraction such as the skate park to boost the youth’s morale, keep them off the streets and away from negative influences. Several surrounding cities such as Bowling Green , Paducah , Louisville , Lexington , Florence , Henderson , Leitchfield, Evansville and Nashville , have similar facilities. And many of these cities are homes to more than one skate facility, and all have been successful with youth, tourism and funding. A skate park will attract new life to Owensboro , encourage our city to grow economically with funding brought in by visiting skat-ers, riders and their families. There are many more meetings to attend before Owensboro reaches a decision. I know that I will be attending all of them along


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with various other skaters, riders and other

supporters of the skate park project.

If you are interested in participat-

ing in any of these meetings, go to www.

owensboro.org or Myspace.com/Owens-

boroskatepark for meeting dates and times.

We need all the help we can get to

ensure our Owensboro Skate Park project

will see development.

You can also attend one of many

fund raisers, including barbeques, car washes,

professional athlete demonstrations and

numerous other events, throughout 2009 to

benefit the skate park, many of which will

be hosted by Quality Bike Shop in conjunc-

tion with Mike Kenney, VENT Magazine and

Murder Squad BMX.

Keep your eyes open for a list of all

events on the aforementioned Web sites.

I would personally like to thank, along with

VENT Magazine Mike Kenney, and Quality

Bike Shop, the Owensboro City Commission

and Mayor Ron Payne for their time and ef-

fort to see the skate park project through.



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The skate park rendering was designed by SKATE CONCEPTS. www.skateconcept.com

Approximate size of the concrete park will be 12,000 square feet.

Idon’tknowwhenthisarticlewillbeincirculation,butpleasedrivehomethefactthatthecommissionershavetokeeptheirpromiseof$90,000ifwearetoreceivethe$10,000checkfromtheTHF(TonyHawkFoundation)beforethedead-lineofMarch19thexpires. - Mike Kenney

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A fter the success of his 2007 RIAA gold debut, The Real Testament, the Ft. Myers, Florida native returned a mere 10 months later with his sophomore release, The Definition of Real. Thanks to the success of his Ne-Yo-assisted #1 single, “Bust It Baby Part 2,” Plies once again struck RIAA gold, selling over 500,000 copies of The Definition of Real. Now, just six short months after his last album, Plies

returns with his third disc, Da REAList. “I’ve been blessed to be able to come back with three albums in 16 months,” says Plies. “I feel like it’s something that hadn’t been done in the new era.”

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Nappy Roots is an American alternative Southern rap quintet that originated in Kentucky in 1995 and is best known for its hit 2002 single “Awnaw (feat. Jazze Pha).” The group consists of Milledgeville, Georgia native Fish Scales and Kentucky natives Skinny DeVille, B. Stille, Ron Clutch, and Big V. Oakland, California native R. Prophet has recently left the group to pursue a solo career. Nappy

Roots debut independent album Country Fried Cess was released in 1999, which led to the group being signed by Atlantic Records. Their first album on Atlantic was 2002’s biggest selling hip-hop album, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz. The multi-platinum album featured the hit-singles “Headz up,” “Awnaw” and “Po’ Folks”. The “Awnaw (Remix)” ft Marcos of P.O.D. appeared on Madden 2003.

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