Local businesses offer weight-loss programs
Some Lexington-based employers are offering weight-loss programs.
At Kentucky Utilities, spokesman Cliff Feltham said the utility has the "WellFit" program, which emphasizes awareness and education for health and disease prevention.
"Our philosophy is that we feel like we would better have our employees being proactive in taking care of their health," he said.
In addition to screenings and education programs, the utility offers an incentive program for employees who join an approved fitness center or accredited weight-loss program. Employees and their spouses are reimbursed as much as 50 percent of the monthly fee. He said there currently are no companywide health-related contests, but individual departments often run programs.
It gets employees thinking about their health, Feltham said. It's a pretty dry subject if incentives aren't attached to the program, he said.
The University of Kentucky has a contest called "Get Moving." To enter, employees team up by department and track their nutrition and exercise. Prizes are awarded to those who total at least 1,500 minutes of activity by Dec. 13, according to the UK Web site. In addition to competing against other departments, the teams are competing against the University of Louisville. A similar contest was held in the summer, and UK won.
When Keeneland's July sale was king
LEXINGTON, Ky. − In late June 1943, a group of yearling consignors convened at the Lafayette Hotel in Lexington, Ky. They were in a hurry. The Fasig-Tipton summer yearling sale, held for years in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was coming to Kentucky in just six weeks, thanks to the wartime cancellation of Saratoga’s race meet, railroad restrictions, and gasoline rationing.
Fasig-Tipton would handle the gavel, but Kentucky consignors had to work out logistics. When the consignors met at the Lafayette Hotel, Leslie Combs 2nd and Thomas Piatt reported they had arranged for taxis to bring buyers from downtown hotels to Keeneland, and the consignors agreed to contribute $10 for each yearling sold to pay for catering to feed buyers and sales staff at Keeneland. The question was, would it all work? In Saratoga, moguls and movie stars had only to cross Union Avenue from Saratoga’s racetrack to get to Fasig-Tipton’s sales grounds. But would yearlings alone, with no races and no high-flying social scene, be enough to draw buyers to the Bluegrass? Even the Blood-Horse called the suggestion “wishful thinking.
“He's Canadian-bound,” Caldwell observed as he dropped the hammer, and Canadian Bound became the colt's name. Seller Nelson Bunker Hunt called the world-record price “a great thrill” and added, “It's a lot harder work selling horses than buying them,
The Cup could not have run without the honchos, the AFL development staffers who were there in great numbers, doing much of the hard organisational yakka, even with their not exactly accurate 'Volunteer' T-shirts. One was the recipient of the Urban
A group of retirees milling around in “Inside Job” t-shirts laughed smugly. “All these banker clowns were selling puts on American Airlines before the attacks,” said one in a sweat suit. “Yeah, they didn't even protect the Pentagon,” said another.
