Author: Pete Koutoulas
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GoodGiving Challenge 2023 begins Tuesday
Dozens of Clark County charities and nonprofits will join hundreds of others around the Bluegrass region in the 13th annual GoodGiving Challenge. The event runs four days, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 28, and ending on Friday.
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Calling Black elders in Clark County: your help is needed
Students at George Rogers Clark High School will soon have a unique opportunity to hear first-hand what it was like for African Americans living in Clark County during the time of segregation. But for that to happen, their teacher needs help from the Black community. Eloise Lynch is an English teacher at GRC. One of…
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Attention Clark Co. nonprofits participating in the GoodGiving Challenge
WinCity Voices would like to offer your nonprofit organization some space in our publication to seek contributions to your GoodGiving Challenge campaign. We plan to publish a guide to Clark County organizations participating in the challenge.
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Just Rambling: Humanist group forming in Winchester
A couple of months ago, I happened to be discussing this with a friend who shares my Humanist life stance. Together, we decided to test the waters to see if there were others in Clark County who would be interested in starting a Facebook group for local Humanists. Within 24 hours, we had 24 members.…
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Library book sale returns!
After a long hiatus, an annual library tradition is being revived — the Friends of the Library book sale. This much-anticipated public event was abandoned during the COVID pandemic and has lain dormant since. The Friends group is currently reorganizing, and the first order of business is bringing back the annual book sale. The sale…
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Ghosts and other scary things
Halloween is upon us! It's the time of year when thoughts turn to things that go bump in the night -- all manner of scary stuff, mostly paranormal things like ghosts, goblins, and the like. I admit I love this stuff. I like scary movies -- not the gore-filled slasher movies, but the truly terror-inducing…
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Just Rambling: Voices of Winchester
The Voices of Winchester: A Night of Storytelling was a great success by our measure. While attendance was not quite what I had hoped for, we did have a decent crowd. We may try to avoid scheduling against home Cardinal football games going forward! The folks in attendance seemed quite happy with the evening's entertainment.…
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Just Rambling: Richard Jett
Before I retired from my previous career in IT, I started writing an occasional column here called “Five Things . . .” in which I wrote five brief notes about various observations and goings-on around town. I vowed to try to make it a weekly thing once I retired and “had more time on my…
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A first for Winchester: Pride and Inclusion Fest!
Andi Stephenson and Tiff Hays have made a fundamental decision about Winchester, the town they both grew up in. While it’s a great community and a wonderful place in which to grow up and live, it could be more supportive and affirming of its marginalized communities. I first heard about these two young ladies from…
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Another merger worth considering
Last Tuesday, the Winchester City Commission voted 3-2 on a measure that would lift the current ban on sales of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. The ordinance still must pass a second reading, and there is no guarantee the outcome will be the same. Although Commissioners Kitty Strode, Hannah Toole, and Kenny Book voted in favor,…