"Our Commonwealth and the people of Lewis County need a road system that is safe and promotes economic opportunity for the people of Kentucky," Stated Gov. Fletcher. "I am proud to announce this award as it will improve the roads the people of Lewis County travel on each day. All of the funding in this announcement will go toward improving public roads in Lewis County."

"Under the Governor's leadership, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is working to improve the infrastructure throughout the Commonwealth," said Transportation Secretary Maxwell Clay Bailey. "That includes the more than 59,000 miles of rural and secondary roads across Kentucky."

Employees from Citizens Deposit Bank & Trust and volunteers from the Glenmary Farm as well as other volunteers and family joined Ronda Wilson and People's Self-Help Housing employees in raising a new home for Ronda and her children on October 20 and 21 on Black John Hollow Road.

Starting with only the foundation, the home took shape by noon of the first day as the floor was installed and the walls were constructed and raised. By the end of the second day the roof had been completed, windows and doors installed, porches constructed and siding hung. Permanent financing for the new home is being made possible by a mortgage with Citizens Deposit Bank & Trust, a mortgage using HUD HOMEbuyer funding through the Kentucky Housing Corporation and deferred, forgivable funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati.

After the tools were put up on the second day everyone gathered to celebrate the completed work. During that time PSHH drew names for 21 carbon monoxide detectors given away as the culmination of PSHH's Carbon Monoxide Awareness campaign in memory of Herb Bloomfield, a lifelong Lewis County resident and victim of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Bivens said the deputies approached Jackie Flinders, 23, of Vanceburg, on Second Street about 5:00 p.m. Friday and told him he was under arrest.

Bivens said Flinders fled on foot east on Second Street, up Howe Street and onto Front Street. He said Flinders then flagged down a motorist and got into the vehicle.

Bivens said Flinders was arrested on the scene, charged with resisting arrest and was lodged in the Lewis County Detention Center.

Bivens said that on Saturday, he was dispatched to Ky. Rt. 1068 on a complaint of a vehicle being operated recklessly by a possibly intoxicated male.

Bivens said he was traveling west on the roadway when he saw the suspect sitting in the vehicle on the side of the road. Bivens said he started to turn his cruiser around and the suspect fled in his vehicle and turned onto Hamilton Branch Road. The suspect then turned onto a log road and traveled through a wooded area before abandoning his vehicle and feeling on foot, Bivens said. Bivens said he apprehended the suspect following a short foot chase.

Sheriff Bill Lewis said he received an anonymous telephone call last Tuesday informing him that the money raising campaign could be misleading and that the funds raised may be going to help pay legal fees resulting from felony charges against 19-year-old Michael Walters.

Lewis said the caller advised him that Walters is incarcerated at the Allen County Jail in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and went into detail on the fund raising campaign as well as the charges against Walters in Indiana.

Lewis said that based on the information, his office started an effort to collect the money receptacles that had been placed in area businesses and he also contacted officials in Fleming and Mason counties, and contacted media in the region to apprise them of the questionable campaign.

Lewis said his office had collected some 13 canisters by the weekend and noted that other canisters had also been collected by Walters' mother, Kay Walters, who had allegedly initiated the campaign.

He noted that the canisters collected by his office contained little money.

An anonymous call was received at the offices of the Lewis County Herald on Tuesday providing information similar to that as was given Sheriff Lewis.

Attorney Lloyd Spear, who said he is representing Kay Walters, said that there was no intent to deceive and no deception in the matter. "Mikey does have legal expenses and medical expenses," Spear said. "He is recently divorced and his recent legal problems may have helped lead to some of the medical problems he's having."

Spear said that any of the monies collected were earmarked for obtaining legal and medical services for Michael Walters. "Some apparently have speculated that the money would have been used for travel expenses for the family, or even personally," he added. "That's far from the truth."

Kay Walters initially brought several pages of information concerning the campaign to the Lewis County Herald and was advised that the information would have to be placed in a paid advertisement, and to trim her costs on placing an ad she could condense the information thus making the advertising space and, likewise, her expenses smaller.

The finalized plea appeared last week in The Herald at a cost of $10.