Scott County says a final goodbye to a deputy killed serving his community.

We are here to announce the arrival of Kentucky's breakthrough opportunity.

It could be a new powerful weapon in the fight against opioids.

Instead of borrowing books, you can become a member and borrow things.

If you have some house work to do but can't afford the tools.

Check out the tool library.

Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions, the Leonard Press, Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition on this Thursday, June 1st.

I'm Renee Shaw.

We're celebrating Kentucky Edition's first birthday today, and we're so glad to have you along.

But first, let's get to the news.

America is a step closer to solving its debt ceiling crisis.

Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a spending plan that would raise the debt ceiling before America runs out of money around June 5th.

The vote in the House was 314, yes to 117 no votes.

All six members of Kentucky's House delegation voted for the debt ceiling bill.

The five Republicans and the only Democrat, Morgan McGarvie.

The bill now moves on to the U.S. Senate.

People from across Kentucky and beyond were in Scott County today.

Friends and family said goodbye to Deputy Caleb Connelly during his funeral service at Scott County High School.

From the funeral, his body was taken to Battle Grove Cemetery and Cynthia Hannah for burial.

Connelly was just 35 years old.

He was married with two young children.

Stephen Xiang Xiang is accused of shooting Connelly at a traffic stop along I-75 last week.

Connelly is the first Kentucky peace officer killed on the job this year after the deaths of 12 horses and a month at Churchill Downs in Louisville.

The track is adding some safety measures.

The track will start restricting horses to four starts during an eight week period.

Horses beaten by more than 12 lengths and five consecutive starts won't be allowed to race at Churchill without the approval of the equine medical director.

And past payouts will be limited to the top five finishers.

These new rules will go into effect immediately.

Yesterday, the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission announced that it would begin research on using ibogaine, a psychoactive drug in west of West African origin to treat opioid use disorder as Ibogaine is currently a Schedule one drug in the U.S.. Those who have been treated with it have had to travel out of the country.

We are here to announce the arrival of Kentucky's breakthrough opportunity.

Anecdotal evidence that is a mountain high and decades wide suggests that ibogaine within 48 to 72 hours of administration in safe, clinically controlled conditions resolves opioid withdrawal syndrome.

Ibogaine is not a magic bullet.

It did have four intrinsically unique effects on me, which make it particularly powerful.

Specifically, with respect to opiate addiction treatment.

Number one, it substantially minimized the physiological feeling of opiate withdrawal.

Number two, it removed the mental compulsion to use opiates.

Number three, it induced a spiritual experience which reinstated compassion and love for myself.

And number four, it is not a habit forming medicine, and it only needs to be used once.

So far as we have announced our effort to explore what ibogaine is and whether this state, Matt, would have an opportunity to foster its development.

Our next step will be to, with the consent of Commission members, move forward with the scheduling of at least one and perhaps two public hearings where we will bring in through our convening authority subject matter experts who can testify as to the science of ibogaine, as well as other individuals who are able to attest to its curative effects for them as they struggle to overcome opioid use disorder for once in our history.

We have an opportunity to perhaps lead the entire country toward broad based culture change and healing for our entire society.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky both support the use of ibogaine.

Here is a statement from Ben Chandler, president and CEO of the Foundation for Healthy Kentucky.

Quote, We support innovative and data driven methods to solve health problems.

This move to explore new treatments to reverse the chemical effects of opioid addiction, including opioid withdrawal, could be the key to unlock successful recovery and better long term health for many Kentuckians, end quote.

In other news out of Frankfort, Kentucky, Secretary of State Michael Adams is looking at the state withdrawing from the Electronic registration information center, also known as Eric.

That's according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Now, Eric is a nonprofit organization that helps states remove dead voters from voting rolls, correct addresses, and reach out to potential voters who aren't registered.

But many conservatives dislike the organization, saying it helps Democrats.

Five states have left the ERIC program, all of them states that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

The Herald-Leader says Adams is looking at other options.

So naturally, when you hear the word library, you likely think of books, right?

But what about a power drill or a hammer?

The Lexington Tool Library's inventory is vast, and it's hoping to better serve the community's ever changing needs.

I moved to Lexington and I was renting a place and it needed some work.

And honestly, just like hanging pictures and other things, and we just didn't have what we needed.

And so I ended up borrowing a lot of tools from people.

And one day I was at a picnic with some friends and somebody said that they had a shed full of tools that they didn't really know how to use or have anywhere to store, and they didn't really want to just take them all to the dump.

And so they brought up the idea of having a tool library to libraries are just like a regular library that we're all familiar with.

But instead of borrowing books, you can become a member and borrow things.

So we think of tools really broadly.

So that includes power tools, hand tools, things like saws, but also cleaning tools like shop bags, carpet cleaners, power washers, and also things that are more fun, like kitchen tools that, you know, maybe not everyone needs to own a deep fryer, but it's fun to have once in a while for a party.

So right now, the two libraries open one day a week on Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m. and members can come in or people who are not members can come and become members, borrow a tool and return it.

Seven days from then, people can also reserve tools ahead of time.

If you know you really need to mow your grass, you can reserve the electric lawnmower and come in, pick it up on Thursday, and then return it next Thursday.

The two library is pay what you can so anybody can join, no matter their ability to pay, to join.

We have a suggested donation amount of $10 a month to be a member, which we think is very accessible.

But if you can't afford it, if you can, if you can't pay anything, that's an option.

If you can pay a dollar a month.

That's great, too.

So the Lexington Tool Library is ultimately about people helping people.

So this isn't charity.

You know, we're not collecting big philanthropy dollars to help other people that are different than us.

This is a library for people who are members and who want to help other people who need tools.

We've gotten a lot of help from people, a lot of volunteer time and a lot of donations of tools.

All the tools that we have have been donated.

Anything that sits in your closet, sits in an attic, takes up space, and you take it out once every six months at best is a great candidate for giving to the tool library and letting people use it when they need it.

What a great idea.

The library's founding members say they gained inspiration from tool libraries in cities like Louisville, Chicago and Philadelphia.

So it's our birthday today.

One year ago today, Kentucky edition, Kate's Nightly News program, committed to inform, Connect and Inspire, made its debut.

Now, a lot has happened across our state since the launch of Kentucky Edition.

So here's a look back.

This is bad.

It's really bad.

Everything we've got destroyed.

Everybody's lost.

Everything.

I've been running the tent in downtown Hammond since the flood as people were coming out of their homes, crawling out of debris.

They started walking towards us.

They the sort of damage is heartbreaking.

I driving my We're here today to fight for.

I did.

This is not a don't say on this.

It's a parent's heart.

They say feel.

I think that this bill is one of the very first steps to end the stigma, not just regarding periods, but regarding women in general.

Facing is out of control throughout this country.

Any time you can have somebody named come and give you a little cushion to especially after pandemic and not really knowing how we're going to make it day to day here is it takes a lot of patience to be a bus driver.

You could drink any you could drink a cocktail.

You know, you bought it.

You can drink it.

However you like it.

Our goal is to grow the food in the community.

For the community by the community here is beautiful and it is an essential part of who we are.

I think that if we stand up for truth and we stand up for American principles, in the end we will win.

I believe if you're not proud of yourself, you can't be proud of anything around you.

There's something for everyone in the service.

There's something really fascinating about the anatomy of the horse.

I is like, really intelligent, really cool, and it's only going to get better and better, just like Kentucky Edition.

Now, when I've been away, you've seen Kacey Parker, Belle or Laura Rogers standing in this spot, But more frequently you've seen their compelling storytelling that breaks down important issues and events with unmatched dedication to their craft, always with the goal of connecting you to what matters.

During a stint in a halfway house Kildare, I went back to school.

He earned a degree and decided to put himself to work building a business with each step.

There is one goal in mind.

I lost my mother when I was 17 years old.

To repeat drunk driver put the brakes on drunk driving under the watchful eyes of a former president.

Kentuckians took a moment to say goodbye to a former governor.

He was he was as talented and as good a person as anyone I ever met.

This facility is needed given how many veterans are going to need this care.

And it's needed so that people can stay closer to home in western Kentucky.

So our goal was, is to train athletes to start CPR, to know what it looks like and know exactly where to go to get one to bring it back.

So that's the bigger key.

It's not just the coaches.

It's an involvement of the entire team.

Some of you are probably just caught up in their games.

They're political pawns in a war to erase our community.

Oh, it's completely different from when I was growing up, when I was here, when I was younger, it was just a grassy area, small playground.

There was a boat ramp at the end of Fredricka.

But now, as you can see, they breed completely redone everything.

This is a transparent effort to disrupt our process and to undermine confidence in democracy.

I'm going to put up with it.

This is bright red, common sense, God fearing, freedom loving patriots.

It's saving, saving some beauty and being able to share that.

It's not a view every college student gets to see.

A critical campus is beautiful.

Everything was gone and to be able to actually have something, have a roof over our head, you know, and have something to cook on, have a place like my head and sleep at night, it's a blessing.

It really is.

There's little nooks and crannies of land out these old little farm roads where nobody ever developed.

And now people are buying that land and there's no water.

The couple, soon to be a family of three, had to figure out another way.

We haul our water in, transfer it from the total in the trailer to the totes in the pump house.

Then we get a pump deposit to the house.

The city of Owensboro, known for barbecue, bourbon and bluegrass, now paying tribute to one of its natives, a figure credited with some of the most influential photographs of the civil rights movement.

Very important man.

Very important to Owensboro.

And I believe everyone should know about I mean, should be taught in schools.

I can't believe that people care about old ladies dancing.

Dora Paton friends are still adjusting to their newfound celebrity status after this.

Tik Tok video has racked up tens of millions of views.

But I don't know what they want me to do.

Whatever them or give them my signature or what.

There's nothing greater than being at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday of May.

The Edge family from Owensboro.

Long time Derby fans.

I've been coming to the Derby since I was 12 years old, but this is their first time having some skin in the game with the number four confidence scheme.

Being here is literally a dream come true with the Derby horse that he's not my horse, he's my brother's horse.

But I keep calling in my nephew, my four legged nephew, and an old tobacco barn in Logan County, Ohio, a place where their creative collaboration began.

Men who are about to get married in the same barn just a little bit below.

Under the watchful eye of some loyal companions, the best part is unloading the kiln and seeing the beautiful pieces that you've created.

Every one of those farm families is important to to their community and to the region, to the country.

He is helping other people, which are tremendously enjoy.

But I get to farm again, you know, for Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Great work.

You may not see their faces, but you have seen their stories.

Their Kentucky editions team of talented multimedia journalists, producer crews and videographers.

Here's a look at some of the stories they've covered around the state over the past year.

When I was a little girl, my dad always said, you can do anything that you want to do and you can be anything that you want to be.

And I've always believed that.

I knew about the exoskeleton, but I never thought never dreamed that I would be a candidate for one.

That's what's so beautiful about Title nine and why it even worked.

And why it was worthy of implementing to begin with was because that's what everyone needed, was just that opportunity to show what they can do.

That's the difference between our sport to a lot of other sports is there's that real element of serious injury and death, and that's why it is probably more important for us in our sport compared to other sports to really be at the forefront of it.

And yet we're one of the ones lagging behind.

You're having those tangibles that employers are looking for, your communication, your accountability, showing up.

There's still marketable aspects from being on any sports team.

Every ridge fly over every hill.

You'd come around kind of every bend you take.

There was more flooding and more flooding and more flooding.

All their belongings, their homes, everything they owned got washed away in these floods.

People had nothing.

It was a tragic situation for hundreds of families in eastern Kentucky.

My intention then when I get up, I'm going to go to work in the morning is not to like, hey, I think how many kids can I arrest today?

That's that's never, never a thought process for us.

It really is like, how can I be a positive role model?

You know, how can I engage with students in a meaningful way and make it so?

But it is more than that.

It is more than just education.

It's creating an environment that they feel that they are loved and appreciated and that makes them feel that they are worth a lot.

We're all playing games, especially tabletop role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons can be a really powerful way of achieving both the academic and also that social emotional component.

They are not who the society thinks they are, and when they walk through these doors, they get to shed all of that and just be young women who want to make a change in the community.

Got to help them.

How they bring me out of my shell, Huge.

I mean, that's the number one thing when I get out of it is, you know, brushing the animals, talking to other vets, why we're doing it.

It's like as you see the fur fall on the ground, it's kind of like our feelings.

I wasn't sure how people would feel about it if it would just be an eyesore or if it would be something that people loved.

And then when it was clear that people liked it and that they they wanted it to be a part of the neighborhood, at the least and if not more, the community.

You're right, it grew.

People are really riding what's on their hearts that they are really afraid or they're feeling really alone.

And this is a place where they can be seen.

These young people are coming right out of foster care and they don't have experience with jobs there.

They don't have experience balancing a job and school.

And so they can't pay for their bills at home and they can't pay for college at the same time.

So it's just really difficult to cross that financial barrier.

When I was on the voices of the Commonwealth as a co-chair, my chairperson and I work together to expand.

They foster an adopted tuition waiver for young people who come out of foster care or have been adopted in Kentucky.

We're building 125,000 square foot resource center that we call an opportunity center.

Opportunity means conditions are right for your success.

And we see a lot of people who've never had conditions that were right for their success.

And once they get the idea, once they understand that this is something they can actually do, there's no holding them back.

And we see people accomplish amazing things.

But we're going to be great this year.

Autism is not a disability and a lot of people think of it as such.

It's just a different ability.

If we have people who are nonverbal autistic, we have people who are in wheelchairs.

We have people who have cerebral palsy.

And so we just call our workers here via APIs.

They're via APIs.

Having only the stereotype of the profession that you get from entertainment could actually cause problems.

I think a lot of the local students and staff have been amazed at how much work goes into a larger production.

This is a ten person, smaller, independent film.

This is, you know, it's Hollywood coming to Elmore.

Great, rolling, rolling, rolling on that stage was one of the most important parts of the program has always been empowering.

The young artist of Kentucky to realize just that, that they are indeed artists and go use this geranium like pigment.

And so many of his paintings, so so many of his paintings do not look like he had originally intended.

And so what we did is we shot the X-ray fluorescence analyzer at 387 white flowers in the painting.

And so as it turns out, 38% of the flowers in the painting had bromine, which meant that they were originally pink.

So traditional playgrounds are environments where children play upon things.

We want clay ecosystems to be a place where children come and play with things.

There's no instant gratification in guitar making.

For instance, you you have to work at it day after day, week after week, until you get this piece just right.

Crayon colors are very vibrant.

These are kind of my interpretation of to make it a little bit more fun and livelier.

But I think it's just really valuable to share my story of being somebody who's from eastern Kentucky, who grew up with a bunch of beautiful traditions.

We just want to come and enjoy the horse races for the day and have a good time.

Represent Kentucky.

It's a beautiful day.

Every single student in here was engaged and, you know, secretly I'm teaching them how to like, you know, add personal touches to to their writing.

You have like a whole back story here in your story.

That's pretty sweet.

So you're going to have a slot jaw that moves up and down, oftentimes eyes that move left and right.

Some of the pieces here are even more complicated, where they have eyebrows that move or ears that wiggle.

Yeah, and boil it, boil it oil and boil it.

When it's at 66 and a half percent sugar, you have Kentucky maple sirup.

They come here looking for opportunity and looking for access to this field.

What's it about?

Sits in your hand about the perfect size where your fingers can touch you.

Grab it with a rubber band twice and then we put in a tray.

Currently, Camp Nelson has approximately 21,000 veterans and spouses interred.

There's really only one item that we make that we expect perfection in where as close to as possible order of so many great stories that make you smile, make you think and make you feel.

And you've heard the saying, it takes a village.

Well, Kentucky Edition is no exception.

There are several people working behind the scenes who make our nightly news program possible.

Here's a salute to them that's gonna make me cry up a little bit.

Thanks to the Kentucky Edition family for being the best and giving it your best every single day.

Now for tomorrow's program, we've talked about this many times, Kentucky's nursing shortage, how it's affecting patients and what can be done to fix the problem.

We'll take a closer look at the nursing shortage tomorrow, Friday on Kentucky edition, which we hope you'll join us for at 630 Eastern, 530 Central, where, of course, we inform, Connect and Inspire.

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Thank you so much for watching us today on our first birthday.

Many more good years, we hope to offer.

I'm Rene Shaw.

And on behalf of all of us here at KCET, have a great night and I'll see you tomorrow.