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KENTUCKY LIVING / JULY 1998 1A

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2A KENTUCKY LIVING / JULY 1998

Thursday, July 16—Gala OpeningRiverStone Gallery, Downtown Somerset: 5-7 p.m., Free Admission

• Hayden Mattingly—Folk singer/songwriter from Columbia, MO; a potent voice in the environmental movement returning to hishometown to play for his people.

• Bob Cheevers—Americana. Popular singer/songwriter from Memphis; a veritable musical anthology of the South.• Jeff Chapman-Crane is the featured Kentucky artist whose exquisite visual art will grace the 1998 MMF.

Thursday, July 16—Classical ConcertFirst Baptist Church, Downtown Somerset: 8 p.m.

• Mark O’Connor and Rachel Barton, with Patrick Sinozich—Two exquisite violin super-powers playing together publically forthe first time, premiering portions of O’Connor’s new concerto written for two violins. The most exciting violin event of 1998.

Friday, July 17—Somersport Park, 4 p.m. to midnight• Josh Williams & High Gear—From Benton, KY, and a Grammy-nominated veteran at 17, Josh played to an SRO crowd in the halls

at the MMF’96 (remember the storm?); bluegrass-gospel.• Galen Abdur-Razzaq—One of the very best straight-ahead jazz flautists. From Longwood, FL; performs with 4-piece combo.• Barbara Lamb—Red-hot Seattle fiddler, playing in a multiplicity of styles encompassing swing, Celtic, and bluegrass.• Alpha Yaya Diallo & Bafing—From Guinea; stunning guitar work by lead singer Alpha Yaya; irresistibly upbeat funk, jazz, and Afro.• Psychograss—Internationally famous, Grammy-winning masters playing “jazzgrass” with humor and explosive skill: Darol Anger,

Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, David Grier, and Tony Trishka.

Saturday, July 18—Somersport Park, noon to midnight• The McQuearys & Friends—Somerset; astonishing vocal harmonies are the trademark of John and Donna’s original folk songs.• The McLain Brothers—Berea/Nashville; traditional bluegrass with a long family history of excellence in entertainment.• Earth Heart—(John Gage, Greg Acker, Phyllis Free, and Jon Kay) with the International Children’s Chorus, this world beat group

is exciting for children and adults; terrific Kentucky talent.• Northern Kentucky Brotherhood—An unforgettable sextet of male voices blending in rich a capella black-gospel harmonies.• The Kettleheads—Featuring Kentuckians Tom Minton, R.C. Emerson, Aaron Hamblin, and Bobby Hamblin; four-part harmonies

and awesome progressive bluegrass instrumentals.• Paddy O’Brien & Chulrua—Originating from Ireland, this exciting Celtic group features renowned accordionist/folklorist Paddy

O’Brien, Pat Egan on guitar and vocals, and Tim Britton on Uillean pipes, whistle, and flute. Bring your step-dancing shoes!• Pat Kirtley—Irish guitar; National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion from Bardstown; one of the world’s finest.• Nashville Bluegrass Band—Winning Grammys for their latest releases, these bluegrass veterans have a worldwide fan base and

play to SRO crowds from Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry. Called “Heaven’s Choir” for their harmonies.• The Burns Sisters—Ithaca, NY; six-member Americana group headed by three sisters whose beauty and spine-tingling sibling

harmony vocals are surpassed only by the strength and sensitivity of their all-original songs.• The Nils Lofgren Band—As star of the famous rock band GREN, and as guitarist for Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Ringo Starr,

Nils Lofgren’s guitar and vocal work are legendary. Exhilarating classic rock.

Adults: $15/Gate, $12.50/Advance, per day • Children: $5 Thursday; Free, Friday & Saturday3-day Family Pass: $50, 3-day Single Pass: $30 (available by Festival Phone only)

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O N T H E C O V E R

Lake PatrolLt. Barry L. Shoemakersupervises 15 KentuckyDepartment of Fish andWildlife Resources offic-ers assigned to a 52-county area that includesLake Cumberland. Andit’s quite a job to patrolthat much water duringa busy summer season.

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F E AT U R E

Prawns andPaddlefishIt’s not your typical kind offarm. There are no corn ortobacco crops grown onBill and Carol Severns’Russell County operation— just prawns and paddle-fish in a Kentucky StateUniversity-sponsoredshrimp-farming project.

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D E P A R T M E N T S

5a Money Talk

6a The Energy Classroom

11a Healthy Advice

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About the cover:Just one of several thousand shrimp

harvested from Bill and Carol Severns’shrimp and paddlefish farm. Photo courtesyof Bill and Carol Severns.


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Investment professionals who haveexperienced the highs and lows ofinvesting — most notably, thespeculative frenzy of the late 1960sand early 1970s and the stock

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Learn as much as you can about in-vesting. A smart investor is an informedinvestor. And these days,raising your investmentacumen is easy. So muchinformation is available viatelevision, publications,and on-line computer ser-vices.

Don’t allow emotionsto cloud your decisions.When you do, you aremore prone to buy whenthe market is soaring andsell when it is falling.

Stay diversified at alltimes. When your assetsare spread among different securities orasset classes, you usually minimize risk.That’s because the negative performanceof one investment may be offset by thepositive results of another.

Make sure your investments keeppace with inflation. When your moneyis not earning enough each year to out-pace inflation (the increase in the cost ofliving), the value of your money erodes.And when that occurs over time, yourdollars buy fewer and fewer goods andservices — eating away at your purchas-ing power.

Don’t always put a lot of faith instrong earnings. Companies can reportwhat appear to be impressive earnings,but if those numbers are below expecta-tions, their stock may actually decline invalue.

Know when to take profits. There’s

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Make international securities a partof your portfolio. Since all the world’smarkets do not move in tandem with oneanother, investing in non-U.S. securitiesenables you to participate in markets that

have performed independently of theU.S. and each other, thereby helping toreduce portfolio volatility.

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Using TheEnergy Guide

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Using TheEnergy Guide

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When you buy an appli-ance, you pay morethan just the salesprice — you commityourself to paying the

energy cost of that appliance for as longas you own it.

For example, over its average oper-ating life of 15 to 20 years, a refrigeratorcan cost you two to three times as muchin energy use as it did to purchase it.

The sum of the purchase price andthe energy cost of running an applianceover its lifetime is called its life-cycle cost.The life-cycle costs of energy-efficientappliances are lower thanthose of average models,even though the average-efficiency models maycost less to buy.

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Prawns andPaddlefish

Right about nowBill and Carol Severns are gearing upto put this year’s shrimp, or prawn, cropin the water. They’ll soon be releasingabout 40,000 Malaysian prawns intotwo ponds on their southern RussellCounty farm. In October, they expectto harvest at least 2,000 pounds ofjumbo-sized shrimp from the one-acrepools.

Two months ago, they dumpedthousands of tiny paddlefish — onlyabout one-half inch in length — into

Story by Judy McClure HacheyPhotos courtesy Bill and Nancy Severns

Seth Severns holds up a paddlefish fromlast year’s harvest.

Malaysian prawns (shrimp) from the Severns’ pond.



two other farm ponds. By this fall, thesefish, prized for their eggs and bonelesswhite meat, will have reached 12 to 14inches, large enough to sell as stock fishto growers in other states.

The couple, who live and work inLouisville, are among a small but grow-ing number of people in Kentucky whoare turning to aquaculture, defined as thecultivation of produce that grows natu-rally in water.

In addition to the Severns, nineother Kentucky farmers are participat-ing with Kentucky State University(KSU) in Frankfort in a shrimp-farm-ing project that applies laboratoryresearch results to real world situations.

“The farmers are our cooperators,”said Dr. James H. Tidwell, head of re-search for the KSU prawn study. “Theyprovide the ponds, and we provide theshrimp, as long as they conduct the con-ditions the way we ask them to.”

Of course, the ultimate goal of theseven-year shrimp research is to developan alternative crop for Kentucky farm-ers by giving them the knowledge theyneed to grow a profitable product.

Researchers at the University ofKentucky (UK) in Lexington have alsobeen involved with the project, lookingat such issues as the marketing andstorability of the shrimp.

While freshwater prawns have beencommercially grown in the SouthernUnited States since the early 1970s, thecrustacean has not been raised in Ken-tucky because it was generally believedthe growing season was too short andthe water temperatures too cool.

Researchers, however, have discov-ered otherwise. Not only is the growingseason adequate, but the cooler watertemperatures cause changes in the man-

ner in which the shrimp mature. This ul-timately leads to bigger yields and largershrimp. Studies indicate that Kentucky-grown shrimp are 10-20 percent largerthan those grown in states farther south.

The Severns are no strangers tofarming. Though they have lived most

of their married life in urban areas, bothgrew up on small farms in Missouri nearKansas City.

Like many people with rural back-grounds, the Severns have long dreamedof a day when they would return to coun-try living. “We definitely prefer asmall-town farm atmosphere,” said CarolSeverns, spokesperson for the couple’soperation. Severns also works as a sitedirector and learning coordinator at a se-

nior citizens center inLouisville.

Severns said her hus-band, Bill, who is asupervisor at Ford MotorTruck Company, has alwaysplanned to retire early. “Ofcourse, he doesn’t want to sitidle,” she said. “He wants tofarm.”

The Severns became in-terested in aquaculture about15 years ago during a trip toDisney’s Epcot Center inFlorida. “They have this ex-hibit called ‘The Land’,” saidSeverns. “We rode in a boat,and they showed us all these

interesting ways that we would growcrops in the future.”

During the ride, they viewed a fresh-water shrimp exhibit. “That alwaysinterested Bill. He thought that wouldbe so cool to raise shrimp. And so that’swhere he got the idea, and then he

started collecting literature about it.”The Severns’ 108-acre farm is lo-

cated about a mile downstream fromWolf Creek Dam. To reach it from thedam, though, you have to travel fourmiles off U.S. Highway 127 along nar-row, winding Route 1730. Characterizedby hairpin curves, steep drop-offs, rockbluffs, and overhanging trees, Route1730 offers a scenic drive into this pic-turesque community known as SwanPond Bottom.

At 16 miles, the farm is quite a haulfrom Jamestown, let along Louisville. Sohow did the Severns find their way tothis remote area of Russell County?

“I really feel like God arranged it,”said Severns. The couple discovered thefish farm for sale when they saw an ad inThe Courier Journal. “We got a reallygood deal on it,” said Severns. “It’s abeautiful farm, but it has eight pondscovering 27 acres. Most people wouldn’twant that, but that’s just what we werelooking for.”

The Severns purchased the propertyfrom Brown-Forman Corporation, aLouisville distiller that was experiment-ing with fish ponds to see how it could

Any shrimp that escape the seine must be picked up by hand. It’s a dirty job, but …

Bill Severns



use the byproducts of alcohol produc-tion to make fish food. The companyabandoned the project because it wasn’tcost-effective.

With the help of KSU and UK re-searchers, the Severns produced theirfirst crops of shrimp and paddlefish last

year.They prepared the ponds by apply-

ing pesticides, filling them with filteredwater from the Cumberland River, andadding a chemical to control algae. Af-ter a short waiting period, they packedthe ponds with tiny shrimp and paddle-fish.

During the growing season, fromJuly through October, Severns said thecrops must be monitored carefully. Dailyfeedings and aeration, which oxygenatesthe water, must be taken seriously if thesecreatures are to survive and grow intomarketable farm products.

Since they only work the farm onweekends, the Severns have enlisted thehelp of their neighbor, Willis McClure.McClure feeds the shrimp and fish, aer-ates the water and, in general, handlesthe day-to-day operations. Severns saidit wouldn’t be possible for them to raisethe crops without McClure’s help, andthat he has saved the day on more thanone occasion.

The Severns have three grown chil-dren who also assist their parents on thefarm. Seth and Susanne live in Tennes-see, while Sterling attends college inRichmond, Virginia.

Last October about 10 people par-ticipated in the shrimp harvest, whichbasically is a one-day event.

Harvest is accomplished in the fol-lowing manner. Pond water levels arefirst lowered. Then several people getinto the water and hold a seine on thebottom of the pond. Tractors placed oneach side of the pond bring in the seineand its contents. Any shrimp that escape

are literally picked up by hand. It’s a dif-ficult and dirty job.

“My feet got all infected,” saidSeverns. “The shrimp have long spikeson their heads. My feet got puncturewounds on them, and with all that dirtywater, I got really sick. I had to go to thedoctor. It was a muddy mess.”

However, the Severns were pleasedwith the overall result of the harvest. “Wegot about 2,000 pounds of shrimp fromthe two ponds,” she said. “The best youcan hope for is about 1,000 pounds perone-acre pond, and we did that well.”

The bulk of the crop — 1,600pounds — was sold live to a Canadianfirm who trucked them to Toronto. Theremaining 400 pounds had to be decapi-tated at the pond. “The heads must beremoved quickly,” said Severns, “becausethey contain an enzyme that will soonmake the whole body of the shrimpmushy.”

The Severns continue to seek newmarkets for their delicious, fresh shrimpthat has been described as having a lob-ster-like texture. In addition to sellingto Canadian firms, they are interested indelivering live shrimp to restaurants, aswell as selling to individuals who cometo the farm on harvest day.

The Severns are not food processors;therefore, they are permitted only to sellthe shrimp live. However, they can sellthem right out of the water if customersremove the heads themselves.

Last year, the paddlefish harvest alsotook place in October. As with theshrimp, a seine was used to remove thefish from the water. The fish were care-fully weighed, then placed live inspecially equipped trucks that carriedthem to a fish farm in Florida.

As with the start-up of any newbusiness, the Severns have faced numer-

The paddlefish harvest is done in much the same way as the shrimp harvest. Lastyear, the paddlefish were placed live in specially equipped trucks and taken to a fishfarm in Florida.

Shrimp caught in the seine were sold to Big Land Farm in Toronto, Canada.



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ous problems, including predators, suchas birds and turtles, algae, river fluctua-tions, leaking ponds, evaporation, aeratorproblems due to power outages, and lackof three-phase electricity because of thefarm’s remote location. The markets forfreshwater shrimp and paddlefish, too,are undeveloped, so selling the productsalso presents a challenge.

Still, the Severns are optimisticabout the business and excited at theprospect of shrimp and fish farming inyears to come. They’re already planningto retire and move to the farm withinthe next three years.

They believe it’s just a matter of timebefore the public catches on to thesefreshwater food sensations. Alreadypeople are interested in knowing aboutthis fresh healthy food that’s grown lo-cally, said Severns. A lot of peopleshowed up in Swan Pond Bottom lastyear on harvest day just to watch.

You’ve got to admit shrimp farmingin Kentucky is rather curious. You mighteven have to see it to believe it.

Anyone interested in purchasingshrimp this fall is encouraged to contactthe Severns at (502) 339-9372 in Lou-isville, or call them on weekends inRussell County between 9 and 11 p.m.at (502) 343-6455.


Avoiding Tick BitesThis SummerAvoiding Tick BitesThis SummerProvided by the Lake Cumberland District Health Department

The summer months canmean dangers for manypeople. But many of thesethreats can be avoided, in-cluding tick bites.

Ticks transmit Rocky Mountainspotted fever, a poten-tially fatal illness, andLyme disease, whichcan leave recurringsymptoms or perma-nent damage. Since1990 in Kentucky, anaverage of 26 Lymedisease and 15 RockyMountain spotted fe-ver cases have been reported yearly.

The Lake Cumberland DistrictHealth Department and its 10 countyhealth centers are urging residents to takeproper precautions to avoid tick bites.Persons should:

• Avoid tick-infested areas such astall grass, bushes, and woods.

• Wear light-colored clothing soticks can be spotted easily.

• Tuck pant legs into socks and shirtinto pants, preferably a long-sleevedshirt.

• Spray insect repellent listing“permethrin” as the active ingredient onpants, socks, and shoes, but not on skin.Repellents listing “DEET” as the activeingredient may be sprayed on the skin,but not on the face.

• Keep pets away from infested ar-eas, check for any ticks, and remove themcarefully.

• Ideally, rubber gloves should beused for tick removal. If they are notavailable, use tweezers or tissue coveringthe fingers.

After being outdoors:• Promptly remove and wash cloth-

ing.• Inspect your body carefully and re-

move ticks with tweezers, grasping asclose to the head as possible, gently tug-ging the tick free without crushing thebody.

• Wash hands and area of the bite

immediately with soap and water, andkeep the bite area clean.

• Do not try to crush the tick. In-stead, flush it down the toilet or save itin a tightly closed vial for later inspec-tion.

• People also needto be aware of the im-portance of tellingtheir physician aboutrecent tick bites sincesymptoms of Lymedisease and RockyMountain spotted fe-ver resemble otherproblems.

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PATROLEarly Spring.

The treacherous tranquility of adebris-strewn Lake Cumberland isdisturbed by the wake from a high-performance speedboat streaking acrossits surface. At the throttle, veteran lawenforcement officer Lt. Barry L.Shoemaker guides his 1988 Cobiathrough a series ofmaneuvers designed totest its readiness forsummer action.

Navigating therain-swollen waterwayproves difficult. Logs,tree branches, garbageillegally tossed alongupstream tributaries,and most anything elsethat floats lie in wait forunwary boaters. Withmost ramps closed becauseof the high water and debris,there hasn’t been enough traffic towash the flotsam to shore.

But Shoemaker — who supervises15 officers assigned to a 52-countywater patrol region that includes LakeCumberland — knows it is only a matterof time before the water recedes, the skyclears, and the temperature rises.

Thousands of visitors will inhabit themini-metropolis to party or relax uponthe blue-green water comprising one ofthe largest man-made lakes in theworld.

“The lake is kind of like working acity or county (beat). It’s like a separatecommunity in the summertime, exceptthe transportation is a boat rather than a

car and the housesfloat,” said Shoemaker.“You have the sametype of stuff that goeson out there — recklessdriving, driving tooclose; you have thedomestic disputes, andyou have the alcoholand the drugs.” With 1,255 miles ofjagged shoreline cutting

into four south-centralKentucky counties, Lake

Cumberland is a tourism meccathat offers a mixture of recreational

opportunities. The great number ofcoves and inlets makes patrolingdifficult.

“There’s just not enough of us forthe amount of area we have to cover. Wehave to focus on more populated,popular areas. On a weekend, this place

Story and photos by Dale G. Morton

“The lake is kind of

like working a city

or county (beat). It’s

like a separate

community in

the summertime,

except the

transportation is

a boat rather than

a car and the

houses float.”

“The lake is kind of

like working a city

or county (beat). It’s

like a separate

community in

the summertime,

except the

transportation is

a boat rather than

a car and the

houses float.”


With 1,255 miles of jagged shoreline cutting into four south-central Kentucky counties, Lake Cumberland is a tourismmecca that offers a mixture of recreational opportunities. Butthe sheer size of the lake, plus the great number of coves andinlets, make patroling difficult for Kentucky Department ofFish and Wildlife Resources officers.



is wild. Fortunately, mostpeople don’t get real farfrom a marina,” Shoemakersaid, adding two locationshave developed reputationsfor unruly behavior — 76Falls in Clinton Countyand the “Party Cove” southof Burnside Island.

“Most people are outthere to have a good time,but they may get a littlemore carried away thanthey normally would,”Shoemaker continued.“You probably don’t haveas much violent type crime,but anytime you havepeople drinking and party-ing there is a potential forit.

“There’s a lot morepeople drinking in theirboats than there would bein their cars. We just haveto try to get the bad ones,the ones who are reallyintoxicated,” he said. “We use a lot ofdiscretion and issue a lot of warnings;tell people what they’re doing wrong.It’s community-oriented policing.”

In an effort to stop problems beforethey occur, Shoemaker recently filmed acable television program highlightingboating safety and detailing sweepingregulatory changes mandated by the1998 Kentucky General Assembly.

On March 3, Governor Paul Pattonsigned into law House Bill One,

considered to be the most significantpiece of boating safety legislation ever inKentucky (see sidebar below). Itoutlines operation and equipmentrequirements for personal watercraftand sets minimum-age requirements foroperation. It also sets blood alcohollimits on boat operators and requiresboating safety certification for operatorsages 12-17.

Implementation of these new lawscoincides with the first real noticeable

changes from a four-year-old realign-ment of wildlife and water patrol lawenforcement powers within the Ken-tucky Department of Fish and WildlifeResources. Former “water patrol” and“game warden” classifications have beenchanged to “wildlife and boatingofficer.”

Wildlife and boating officers aresworn law enforcement officers with fullpolice powers throughout Kentucky.They are also considered special

Specifically, the Kentucky Safe BoatingAct:

1. Requires that a person be atleast 12 years old to operate anymotorboat or personal watercraft (JetSkis, Sea Doos, Wave Runners, etc.)greater than 10 horsepower.

2. Requires that beginning Janu-ary 1, 1999, persons ages 12 to 17 musthave a safe-boating certificate in orderto operate any motorboat or personalwatercraft greater than 10 horse-power, unless the operator is accom-panied on board by an adult or aperson with a safe-boating certificate.Certification is available from theKentucky Department of Fish and

Wildlife Resources, U.S. Coast Guard orCoast Guard Auxiliary, or the UnitedStates Power Squadron.

3. Prohibits the operation of avessel while intoxicated, and sets theblood alcohol level at .10, the same as amotor vehicle. Previously, operatorswere charged with alcohol intoxica-tion. A first violation is punishable witha $100 to $250 fine; second violation a$250 to $500 fine; and third violation a$500 to $1,000 fine plus not less than30 days in jail. Refusal to take a bloodalcohol test is now a separate viola-tion.

4. Establishes that a personalwatercraft may be used to tow skiers if

it has adequate seating capacity and ifthere is an observer on board or thevessel is equipped with an appropriaterear-view mirror.

5. Prohibits personal watercraftfrom being driven between sunsetand sunrise or within 50 feet of acommercial vessel without its captain’sconsent.

6. Requires all personal watercraftwithout self-circling capability to havean engine kill switch attached to theoperator by lanyard.

7. Requires all persons on board apersonal watercraft to wear a U.S.Coast Guard-approved personal flota-tion device, or life jacket.

THE KENTUCKY SAFE BOATING ACT

Lt. Barry L. Shoemaker, Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources. His hand isalways on the throttle.


deputies under federal fish and wildlifelaws. The job has traditionally beenmale-dominated, but three women havejoined their ranks in the latest recruitclass.

The Department of Fish andWildlife Resources is completely fundedthrough the sale of hunting and fishinglicenses and boating registrations. Thewater patrol division also receives fundsfrom the U.S. Coast Guard.

Boating officers tend to be moreproactive than reactive in their lawenforcement duties compared to theirwildlife officer counterparts, Shoemakersaid. “Visibility means a lot. We’ve gotto be seen. We don’t get a whole lot ofcalls that are dispatched to us. Usuallywe observe problems or other boaterswill tell us about a problem.”

In case trouble does surface,Shoemaker is in direct radio communi-cation with the Pulaski County 911Dispatch Center and with the Fish andWildlife Resource office in Frankfort.He monitors police agencies servingcommunities bordering the lake, andhas cellular telephone and a marineradio available.

• • •Shoemaker, a native of Hazard, was

an unlikely candidate for a lawenforcement career.

A self-professed rebel who was nostranger to the wrong side of the legalsystem, Shoemaker dropped out ofHazard High School and went to workin the underground mines. Afterlearning to work on mining equipmentat Hazard Vocational School, he movedto Somerset in 1978 and walked on as ascab during the strike at the BlueDiamond Coal Company in McCrearyCounty. One morning he arrived atwork after police had left and his car wasshot while crossing the picket line atStearns.

Shoemaker had earned a GEDwhile working in the mines, but was stillhaving brushes with the law. During onecourt appearance, Judge WalterMcGuire — now a close personal friend— “set me straight and suggested I jointhe Army.”

In order to take advantage of asubstantial signing bonus, Shoemakerneeded a regular high school diploma.So, at age 25, he enrolled at PulaskiCounty High School and completed hisformal education. He spent four years asan Army paratrooper, but was medicallydischarged after being seriously hurt

during a jump.He enrolled

at Eastern Ken-tucky University,where he earned amaster’s degree incriminal justiceadministration, abachelor of sci-ence degree in se-curity and lossprevention, andminors in policeadminis t rat ionand fire scienceengineering.

S h o e m a k e rsaid his experiencewith both sides ofthe criminal jus-tice system is an asset when dealing withpeople on the lake. He also shares hisknowledge as a substitute teacher in theSomerset Independent School System.

Shoemaker said boating officerswill be watching personal watercraftcloser this summer to make sure they arein compliance with the new regulations.

They have many other responsibili-ties as well.

A primary duty for boating officersis to check for required safety equip-ment. Shoemaker said every boat isrequired to have one life jacket perperson, a fire extinguisher, properregistration, current decal, and theidentification number properly dis-played. In addition, boats 16 feet andlarger must have a throwable device anda horn or whistle. “I could write a ticket

Don Lewis interviews Shoemaker during filming of asafe-boating program for Falcon Cable TV. The

cameraman is Justin Hogue.

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“Most of the Kentucky boaters wholive here locally are pretty understand-ing” about why they have been stopped.“The same with fishermen; they may beviolating some law, but they won’t giveyou any trouble,” Shoemaker said.

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