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CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

Community mourns drowning deaths

 

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

 

 

 

Bodyfound
in childhood
creek 'brings

it home'

By Sean Rose
news@kykernel.com

 

The creek behind John Jessup‘s house was calm yes-
terday. flowing as smoothly as it did when he played in it
as a child.

But two days ago. it was running rough and high from
the nearly seven inches of water that fell during the week-
end storms. His childhood play ground was at least four
feet deeper Saturday moming when the body of UK phar—
macy student Lauren Brooke Fannin. 25. was found float-
ing near the bank. The body of Lindsey Marie Harp. a 25-
year—old UK nursing school graduate. passed through the
area earlier in the morning and was found about half a
mile funher down creek.

“I felt just an overwhelming grief for the girls." Jessup
said. “Just to think that a life. had been snuffed out. It s
just a horrible feeling to see something like that.

“it brings it home when something like that happens

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Fannin said.

“I know she wouldn‘t want us
to be sad and depressed."
“We love and miss
her. This is going to be really hard

Elizabeth

mals instead of people.

Ricky. always knew Harp would
end up in the medical field but
thought she would attend to uni

"Lindsey was a very bright stu—
dent who was \ery articulate and
compassionate about her nursing.”
Cowley said. “i feel like it‘s a great

right in your backyard

Around 2 .15 Saturday moming. Fannin. of Toma-
hawk. Ky.. and Harp. of Frankfort. Ky.. got out of cab on
Nicholasville Road near Alumni Drive. said Maj. Joe
Monroe of the UK police department. The cab was
stopped by an officer who was directing traffic away from
where high water washed over the road.

The two women were less than 100 yards from Fan-
nin’s apartment when they tried to navigate the knee-high
water. Both girls slipped and were swept through an un-
derground drainage system

Harp had just started working at a hospital in Kansas
City. Mo.. in June and was visiting Fannin. Fannin's
younger sister. Elizabeth. said the two went out with
friends that evening.

as she remembered her daughter.
Lindsey.

“She was wonderful." she said.
“She was my first baby. She was
beautiful. the prettiest girl in the
world."

Harp was visiting her close
friend Lauren Fannin when both
women drowned early Saturday
morning after slipping and falling
into a swollen drainage ditch.

Elizabeth Fannin said that her
family will miss her older sister.
but knew Lauren would want them
to pick themselves up and move on
with their lives.

to get over for us. but we‘ll get to
see her again."

Fannin. 25. of Inez. was a
third-year pharmacy student at UK
and eamed her bachelor's degree
from Georgetown College.

Harp. 25. of Frankfort. gradu-
ated from UK's College of Nursing
in May and earned her bachelor's
degree at Georgetown College.
where she had been a member of
the golf team.

Harp‘s mother said her daugh-
ter had just taken a job as a nurse
in Kansas City in June. Cheryl
Harp said she and her husband.

"From the time that she was
very young. we could see that she
was wonderful with animals."
Cheryl Harp said “We thought
she'd be a veterinarian. but she
ended up being a nurse."

Cheryl Harp said her three
daughters. including 24-year~old
Jennifer and l(w«year-old Jamie.
were very close.

"(Lindsey) loved her sisters."
Cheryl Harp said.

Jennifer Cowley. an instructor
in the College of Nursing who
taught Harp. could tell she was
very passionate about nursing.

loss. She had a bright future ahead
of her.”

Harp's mother said Fannin 'w as
"one of (Lindsey Harp's) best
friends."

Both attended Georgetown and
roomed together during their first
year at UK until Fannin had an au-
tomobile accident and had to leave
school for a year.

Fannin‘s younger sister. Eli/a‘
beth. 17. said i-annin was an
"amazing” person.

"Lauren was really fun and ex-

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Basement flooding
causes dorm outage

Staff Report

Flooding from heavy rain early Saturday moming left resi-
dents in Keencland Hall without electricity. said Jay Blanton. di—
rector of public relations at UK.

“Water filled up the mechanical room in the basement."
causing an electrical shortage. Blanton said.

“That was early this (Saturday) morning." Blanton said.
“The power was back on by l I am."

Blanton said other sporadic outages were possible later on.

“(But) right now. this is the only one we‘re aware of." Blan-
ton said Saturday aftemoon.

Willie Miller a computer science junior and RA at
Keeneland said he was in his room about to go to sleep when
the electricity went off.

“It was really early in the morning." Miller said.

Miller described the outage as “strange."

“The power didn't really go out it was more like half— out. ‘
he said. “It was enough to knock some of the appliances out.
And the lights didn' t go completely out but they were extreme-
ly dim .They got it taken care of pretty quickly.

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Profs tackle Ky. poverty problem on KET

By Ellie Fairbanks

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in a state with over 19 percent of its
residents living at or below the poverty
line. Kentucky is frequently ranked as
one of the poorest states in the country.

in Appalachia alone. nearly 30 per-
cent of residents live below the poverty
line. according to the Appalachia Re-
gional Commission.

Two UK professors are appearing on
this week's edition of “Kentucky
Tonightu to show Kentuckians how seri-
ous this problem is and to offer sugges—
tions for remedying it. The show airs
tonight at 8 pm.

Joanna Badagliacco. a sociology
professor. and James Ziliak. an econom-
ics professor and the director of UK‘s
Center for Poverty Research. will discuss
recent poverty trends. homelessness and
public policy with other guests and

“Kentucky Tonight" host Bill Goodman.

Ziliak thinks that having a fo-
rum to discuss poverty is important be-
cause this concerns so many people
across thc country.

“Poverty directly affects about
37 million Americans." Ziliak said.
“Families. as well as individuals. are af»
fected by this."

Badagliacco thinks Americans
need to realize how serious the poverty
problem is throughout Kentucky and the
US.

“When you look at the census
data. the gap between the rich and the
poor is getting wider and wider.“
Badagliacco said.

Poverty especially affects Ken-
tuckians. and Kentucky has a history of
high poverty rates. As Kentuckians. we
have to understand what we can do to
end this problem. Ziliak said.

“Poverty is more acute in Ken—

tucky that the nation as a whole." Ziliak
said. “Understanding how poverty mani-
fests itself in the Commonwealth 111 rela~
tion to the US. is important."

Kentucky has a very defined and
unique region of poverty that is not ncc-~
essarily seen in the rest of the country

“Appalachia has a big impact (in
the US.) in terms of coal research. but it
is continually defined by high poverty
rates." Ziliak said.

Badagliacco agrees that the
poverty in Appalachia is not something
that can be overlooked any longer.

“I encourage people to find out
how people live in the poorest counties
of Kentucky." Badagliacco said. "Most
people at UK don‘t know how bad the
situation in Appalachia really is. In order
to get a decent job. you have to leave the
area There are simply not enough jobs

See Poverty on page A3

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