The Buzz

LeRoy Neiman couldn’t attend Tuesday’s unveiling of his official painting for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so he sent his “electrons,” as one speaker put it.
He sent a short video message that began: “I’m LeRoy Neiman and I’m a New York painter.”
That’s like saying “I’m Barack Obama and I’m an Illinois politician.”
At 87, Neiman [...]

“Iraq is open for business,” says Maurey Bond.
He should know. He’s been working in Baghdad since February.
The 31-year-old Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate is general manager of the Iraqi Airways International Business Center near the Baghdad International Airport.
The center is in an economic zone that also has a convention center, a 100-room hotel, [...]

Lexington’s Big Ass Fans and the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have teamed up to help a once-promising boxer pass along his talents to the next generation.
“Tim Hill was an aspiring boxer whose boxing dreams collapsed when he broke his back on a construction site,” Big Ass says. “But Hill found a way to [...]

The next time your alarm clock goes off and you feel like you can’t face another work day, think of Nancy Larkin.
The Glasgow resident is 83 years old and still working as a Holter heart monitor and pacemaker technician for Cardiology Associates of Southern Kentucky. She also runs a pacemaker clinic.
Larkin received her medical certification [...]

There’s just so much good stuff going on in some people’s lives that they can’t keep up with it all.
LoriAnn Lowery is one of those lucky folks.
Lowery was named president of Lloyd’s America in April after a 20-year career in insurance.
She told the company’s Kentucky agents last week at Keeneland that she is a sixth-generation [...]

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Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, known for singing “God Bless America” at Yankee Stadium, thrilled guests at Ashford Stud outside Versailles during a party Saturday.
The Ryder Cup-related visit of Irish tourism minister Martin Cullen prompted the festivities, reports Herald-Leader Editor Linda Austin.
More than 100 guests dined under the stars at the Coolmore-owned horse farm on Irish [...]

The Weaver family of New Castle in Henry County has owned eight Volvos since 1994.
Their vehicles have been in three mishaps over the years and the occupants have always walked away.
“The Weaver family should be on a survival TV show,” Volvo declares in a press release.
The son’s Volvo went off a road and down a [...]

Americans have freedom of speech — and William “Chip” Wood believes in using it.
Wood owns about 50 TireDiscounters stores in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
About twice a week, he sends faxes to his managers to tell them what messages to put on the double-sided signs in front of his stores, including two in Lexington.
New messages went [...]

Lowell and Betty Nigoff had thought about retiring, but their thinking turned serious when they were introduced to Lexington residents Rob and Suzanne Morris through a mutual friend.
“After getting to know this younger couple, we decided we would entrust Lowell’s to them,” the Nigoffs said in an email to their friends and customers.
They have sold [...]

Technology is great, right — as long as it does what we want it to do.
If not, there can be red faces all around, like those at the American Family Association and its Onenewsnow.com Web site.
Onenewsnow handles a lot of Associated Press copy and its small staff doesn’t always have time to read every item [...]