Community Calendar

McCracken County Library is now offering the services of a Community Support Advocate;

What A Community Support Advocate does:

• Provide resource navigation: Help connect you with community services such as food assistance, housing programs, healthcare, or transportation resources.
• Assist with forms and applications: Help fill out applications for benefits, job programs, or other social services.
• Connect to mental health supports: Offer information on local counseling, crisis lines, and mental health programs

Benefits: 

• Easy access to free, confidential help in a welcoming setting
• Personalized guidance based on your specific needs
• Help navigating housing, healthcare, and benefit systems
• Support with forms, applications, and documentation
• Empowerment to build confidence and self-advocacy skills
• Ongoing follow-up to ensure continued progress

Storytime is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesdays at Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library, 1101 Bethel St.

Storytime is in our Children’s Area upstairs. Elevator access is available.

Join us as we share a few stories, sing, dance and play! For preschool-age children.

Lunch buffet + bingo happening every Wednesday from 11-3!

Buffet starts at 11
Bingo at 12:30 (lasts about an hour)
Free lunch certificate raffles just for playing
No need to play to enjoy the buffet…
but it definitely makes it more fun

The Department of Art & Design and the University Galleries invites everyone to an opening reception for Delita Martin: "Sometimes My Blues Change Colors." The reception will follow Martin's Artist Lecture that will start at 5:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Delita Martin is a master printer and draftswoman whose work explores the beauty and complexity found in the spiritual identities of African American Women. Through her mixed-media printmaking practice, which includes the layering of various printmaking processes, drawing, painting, collaging, and hand-stitching, Martin celebrates her sitters’ strength and resilience in a world that often overlooks or devalues them. Through her use of pattern, texture, and color, she creates immersive veilscapes that are deeply personal yet accessible to viewers. Her distinctive style combines elements of realism, abstractions, and symbolism, creating bold portraits of Black women. Martin received a BFA in drawing from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas and MFA in printmaking from Purdue University, Indiana. Formerly a member of the fine arts faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Martin is currently working as a full-time artist in her studio in Huffman, Texas.

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The Kentucky Agricultural Training School, a program of the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, will host a hands-on Pest Management Workshop on Aug. 27 at the UK Research and Education Center at Princeton.

Designed for grain producers, crop advisers and industry representatives, the interactive workshop will focus on sprayer calibration, herbicide mode of action identification, corn disease assessment and late-season insect scouting.

Because most of the workshop will be held outdoors in research plots, participants should dress for the weather and field conditions.

Continuing education credits are available for Certified Crop Advisers and pesticide applicators: CCA - 4 CEUs; Pesticide Applicator - 5 CEUs in Cat. 1A, 1 CEU Cat. 10.

Interested participants may register at https://katspestmanagement2026.eventbrite.com.

For more information, contact Lori Rogers at Lori.Rogers@uky.edu or 270-365-7541, ext. 21317.

McCracken County Library is now offering the services of a Community Support Advocate;

What A Community Support Advocate does:

• Provide resource navigation: Help connect you with community services such as food assistance, housing programs, healthcare, or transportation resources.
• Assist with forms and applications: Help fill out applications for benefits, job programs, or other social services.
• Connect to mental health supports: Offer information on local counseling, crisis lines, and mental health programs

Benefits: 

• Easy access to free, confidential help in a welcoming setting
• Personalized guidance based on your specific needs
• Help navigating housing, healthcare, and benefit systems
• Support with forms, applications, and documentation
• Empowerment to build confidence and self-advocacy skills
• Ongoing follow-up to ensure continued progress

Head to Cutchin Field and cheer on the Murray State Women’s Soccer Team as they face off against UT Martin!

Lucy Foley, internationally best selling author of contemporary crime and thriller fiction, will chat about her newest release “Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel” and answer questions from the audience.

Join us for a watch party 1-2 p.m. Aug. 27 at The Book and Bottle Shop, 123 E. Ninth St., or stream from any of your devices.

Watch party attendees will be entered into a drawing for a Lucy Foley-themed gift basket!

You’ve got projects you want to work on, and we’ve got the space for you to use!
-Tables to spread out as needed
-Climate controlled environment
-Can be quiet or chatty! Bring headphones to catch up on your favorite shows or listen to an audiobook.
-Most importantly — we have snacks. We’ve got all kinds of K-cups and cookies for an evening pick-me-up.
-Plus! Shehan and Mari-Alice are on hand to help as needed. Between the two of them, they have a reasonable amount of experience with crocheting, knitting, cross stitch, sewing, and a teeny tiny little bit of embroidery.
Yarn and Yap meets at 5 p.m. Thursdays at Hopkinsville-Christian Co. Public Library. They meet upstairs. Elevator access is available.

“Four Exhibitions Open the Fall Season at PSAD”
at the Bill Ford Gallery & PJC Gallery, Gallery Q/Hallway Gallery
Paducah School of Art and Design
Paducah, KY, August 14 – Four exhibitions running concurrently will open at the Bill Ford Gallery, PJC Gallery, Gallery Q and the Hallway Gallery at the Paducah School of Art and Design, 9th and Harrison Street in Paducah’s historic Downtown. Theses exhibits will be on display August 27-October 2, 2026, gallery hours Monday through Thursday, 10-4 with an opening reception on Thursday, August 27, from 5-6:30 pm. All events are free and open to the public.