♪ >> As for the >> people from across Kentucky pay their respects to the late Governor.

John, why Brown junior?

Well, the White House doesn't implicate and services for filling the gap in the life.

>> How one organization is helping those in need die with dignity.

It's kind of a morale buster.

>> Honestly, because after year you hope people remember and you hope that they're still for help in areas.

>> And tornado survivors receive a special delivery of Christmas cheer.

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Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Tuesday, November 29th, I'm Renee Shaw.

>> Thank you for winding down your day with us.

Kentuckians were able to say goodbye to a former governor today.

>> A public visitation for former governor John, why Brown junior was held at the state Capitol building.

Our Casey Parker Bell was in Frankfort and spoke to some people who KET Brown.

Well.

>> Under the watchful eyes of a former President, Kentucky INS took a moment to say goodbye to a former government.

He was.

>> He was as talented and as good a person does anyone ever met?

>> That person was former Governor John, why Brown Jim host was a friend of us.

He says the former governor still cared about the issues of the day.

And I spent.

>> Many, many hours debating it.

UK athletics.

Well, it a state of the world, the state of the state.

And so >> the one term Kentucky governor was known for his business dealings before he held the commonwealth's highest office.

He bought Kentucky Fried Chicken.

And Colonel Harland Sanders and turned it into one of the world's largest fast-food chains.

Some describe the style shooting from the hip.

The former governor Mark Klein Collins says that style was what Kentucky needed.

>> Things Collins was Brown's Lieutenant Governor for taking over the government's much.

She believes, John, why Brown's legacy will live >> Brown served as governor from 1979 to 1983. and considered a run for U.S. Senate before bowing out due to health related issues.

He ran for governor again in 1987 but was defeated in the primary by Wallace.

Wilkinson.

But for many of today's visitation, he was more than a politician governor or businessman.

He was a friend.

>> I will miss him because we just shared a lot of the same thing for Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> There is a private memorial service for Governor John, why Brown tomorrow afternoon at 02:00PM Eastern Time.

It will air live right here on KET or you can stream the ceremony live at K E T Dot Org.

The state Board of elections certified election results this week.

One race that has not been certified.

The racing state House district 88 between Democrat Cherlynn Stevenson and Republican Jim Coleman.

That race is headed to a recanvass as Stevenson leads Coleman by a mere 35 votes.

That district includes parts of Fayette and Scott counties.

Former state House Majority Leader Jonathan Shell is looking to get back into politics.

He's officially filed to run for the Republican nomination for Kentucky.

Agriculture Commissioner Shell is up against State Representative Richard Heath of Mayfield.

They are currently the only Republicans running for AG commissioner and the 2023 primary.

A Democratic candidate has yet to enter that race.

We are one week away from a runoff election in Georgia to decide a U.S. Senate seat there.

Neither Senator Rafeal Warnock, the Democrat nor Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

One 50% of the vote on November 8 as required by Georgia law on the Senate floor yesterday.

U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky criticized Warnock and the Democrats for high inflation hurting the people of Georgia and the U.S.. >> On the Democrats watch rising housing costs in Georgia about those the already big job.

And nationwide average.

One relief agency says requests for emergency rent, utility and food assistance that jump.

40% this year.

2 years of one-party, democratic control in Washington.

Have been a disaster for working families in Georgia.

And their 2 senators haven't just failed to stop the damage.

>> They've helped cause it.

I'm sure that all.

>> The Georgia race will not decide who controls the U.S. Senate.

Democrats already have 50 seats even without Georgia.

That means Senator McConnell will remain as Senate minority leader.

Senator McConnell has not spoken out about former President Donald Trump's recent dinner with white-supremacist Nick Flint.

As at Mar-A-Lago, Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's first district discussed it Sunday on Meet the Press on NBC Comer said of the former president quote, he certainly needs better judgment and who he dines with.

Comber also said he would not take a meeting with that person, meaning fluent us.

Governor Andy Beshear is warning can talk ins about severe weather moving through the state starting tonight.

He says the storm system could main strong winds and possibly tornadoes.

>> Getting on where you are, the threat could could go all the way to 05:00AM.

we just want to make sure everybody is weather aware.

We've lost too many people.

>> To tornadoes, floods and other weather events over this last year.

And we don't want to lose one more.

We care about to make sure that you have read the checklist on how to be.

>> Weather aware and prepare for bad weather.

I want everybody to be safe.

So make your plan, make sure you're safe.

Take care of each other.

>> The governor says the biggest impact could be from I-65 to the interstate.

75 corridor.

Today the Biden administration declared the northern Long-eared bat endangered.

It's a last ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by a fungal disease called white Nose syndrome.

We told you about this disease and the impact it's having on bats at Mammoth Cave National Park back in September.

And you can watch that episode of Kentucky.

Addition now online on demand at KET DOT Org.

Kentucky State police post across the state are collecting food for families in need during the holidays.

The annual cram the cruiser drive begins Friday, 2 pills.

But troopers will be at grocery stores accepting products like canned fruit and vegetables.

Macaroni and cheese.

Peanut butter cake mixes water and powdered milk.

The collected items will then be distributed to food banks, shelters, churches and other groups.

♪ A Franklin County pharmacy has become the first in the nation to provide screenings for one of the most common forms of cancer in the U.S. Capital pharmacy and medical equipment in Frankfort.

It's now offering colorectal cancer screenings using noninvasive invasive still based tests.

Pharmacists say increasing access can be a game changer in the fight against cancer that has a 90% survival rate if detected early.

More on the pharmacist lead screenings and today's health news.

>> Pharmacists are the health care provider that patients see most frequently we've actually been asked for years to talk to our patients about screening.

So being able to actually not only educating screen, the patients also provide them with the tests.

Now it's going to help son substantially.

So we'll go over all those options with the patient.

Make a mutual decision on what would be best for the patient to patient decides that they'd like to do the color guard test.

We have a portal set up with exact sciences, which is the makers of color guard.

We are able to and put the patients information.

Exact sciences will process the order and ship the kit directly to the patient's house.

So once the patient.

It produces a sample they well box back that kit in the box.

It came in and they can either take it to UPS, drop-off location or schedule UPS.

Pick up at their house does not come to the pharmacy at all.

It is built to the patient's insurance is and 95% of patients will be.

It will be covered completely across the patient and they're on the insurance.

It's been really awesome.

Seeing how not only like other pharmacies are excited about it now, but patients are also excited about it.

We've been getting and crazy about, you know, my pharmacy can offer this like what do need to do to see if I can get the service?

So the Kentucky Pharmacy Education and Research Foundation just received a grant from the Kentucky Association of Health Plans to $50,000 Grant that we are.

I'm going to use to help reimburse pharmacists for their services and we will be in 5 additional pharmacies to this one.

But for now, I'm there's really not any reimbursement that pharmacists can get for spending the time with these patients.

So that's what this grant is going to go towards.

This will be a huge life saver for a lot of people across across the state, especially in rural areas and also especially to patients that may not have an established primary care physician.

>> Doctor Wilkerson says the other pharmacy selected to receive the grant will be located in different regions of the state.

She says the pharmacies will be able to screen about 10 patients a month.

Kentucky's COVID positivity rate is now at 7%.

According to new numbers just released, as we told you yesterday, 3 counties are back in the high category for COVID levels and they're Floyd Johnson and or that's Floyd Johnson a gofund counties.

The rest of the state is either medium or low.

There are about 80 comfort care homes in the U.S. and only one in Kentucky.

Comfort care home provides end of life care to those who may not be able to find it elsewhere.

The Hildegard House is providing this much needed service in the city of Louisville and it recently received a grant which will help it touched the lives of those in need.

>> Well, the guard house is a comfort care home and we provide a home and compassionate care.

Through volunteers to individuals at the end of life so that they can die with dignity.

I was working in the hospital and I would see a lot of people that needed hospice care.

But they couldn't access hospice care because I didn't have a home.

One apartment or anywhere or hospice could come to them to provide care.

Or they didn't have a family that we could care for them.

24 7 or they didn't have resources to pay for care givers.

So in 2014, we began looking around for a place.

We accepted our first president in 2016.

Since 2016 weve cared for 152 residents are average length of stay is about 3 weeks we don't charge a fee to our residents.

Most of them don't have the resources to pay for caregivers or they can pay for nursing home.

And so they either die alone or in pain without access to hospitals.

So we always have a waiting list that, you know, people don't wait.

The heart of Hildegard houses are volunteers and the ones that provide personal care to our residents are called compassionate companions.

>> So we the need for 42 compassionate companions every week.

And those people are the ones who provide the care and companionship for our residents.

And they commit to 1, 5 hour shift a week.

And they always work with another volunteer.

There's a lot to it.

And I think there's a lot of volunteer satisfaction here because of that.

I think everybody feels like they're absolutely needed.

And when they leave after shift, I know I've done important work.

>> Well, the guard House doesn't duplicate any services were filling the gap in the end of life care, everyone gets to choose their own path, how they?

Choose to die.

And these.

Residents were just along with their journey.

So pain medicine, some time really?

We're there for them for that.

And also just to be so that they're not alone.

Nobody does alone until the cartels.

>> Such an important service held the guard House has already purchased another property next door to its current building and plans to use the money from the grant to begin renovations.

This new space will allow the organization to double its current capacity and help more people in the community.

♪ >> On this giving Tuesday, you've likely heard a lot from nonprofits doing great things across our state.

The mission of the family scholar House is to improve lives through education, and that means helping single moms or dads who want to end the cycle of poverty.

Kentucky additions.

Kelsey Starks explains how it's happening in Louisville and now all over the country too.

>> Well, a few people are making a bigger difference in the community than those who give back to other people who need it most.

And the family scholar House.

It is a great example of that here in Louisville.

And Kathy Dykstra is here to tell us a little bit more about your mission and what you do.

Tell us about what does the family scholar House doing?

Who does it help?

So family scholar House provides housing and education port for single parent college students and their children and also for young adults who come out of foster care.

The whole focus is on getting the education you need to enter the career.

If your choice and become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community, in addition to that, we're working with the children along the way to make sure that they're on the right path towards their educational success and out of those success stories.

I mean, they are so many and they're so wonderful to hear.

And so you can read about the now on in the book you can.

We've had 709 college degrees earned by our adults.

Not we don't count our children in that.

And we have 2 books first and the second book of graduates success stories that are available on our website for download free, completely free.

Just go to our website and it's under the about section.

And most recently we launched the 3rd book and I'm so not that I'm not excited about these, but I'm particularly excited about the 3rd book.

The 3rd book Volume 3.

Written by Reverend Julie Richardson is the stories of children that grew up in our program and are now old enough to reflect back on how that changed their lives and to a one, you read these and you think about what could have happened instead of what did it and the amazing young people they become and how they're investing back into the community.

Yeah, it's every little story makes such a difference.

If you want to be inspired these books are the way to do Now.

This one is not on the website yet but will be soon.

But contact us through the website and we will get your coffee.

Yes, because it will inspire you to want to do and do more and understand more about what you all do and organization is unique in so many different ways.

But one of them is that you birth to.

>> A parent company we did is playing with that is so the usual for nonprofits.

So most people think of us as a Louisville organization, we actually serve in 34 states out of Louisville.

So over 65,000 households across 34 states wow.

And what happened is we had all these programs and entities that were coming up through family scholar, House.

Much like when you were a kid, you planted little seeds in a Dixie Cup and they got to be about 2 inches tall.

And somebody said if you don't transplant them into their own little cups, they'll all die.

Well, we were at a point where our entity's our programs we're over shadowing each other.

And so by separating them out and giving them a parent's instead of family scholar House, that's now family.

So we have birth.

Our parent company, family and that allows us to have family scholar, House Inc Fs H works an entity specifically for our resources like my K why DOT info.

A lot of other things that we do across.

So it's 34 states that are now in their own little little Dixie Cups.

Yeah.

And so many lives changed because of it.

And it's fun.

It's fun to be able to do that.

You know, we were inspired when we saw Google birth alphabet.

We thought, well, wait a minute.

If they're thinking that way, you know, a lot of people think there's nonprofits and businesses.

Nonprofits are businesses.

So how do we think like other corporations say Inc and do some things that would benefit our organizational structure and a great model to for other nonprofits to to follow.

We think so.

got a lot of calls when the story first broke and saying, you know, how did you think this through what you know, what?

What are the advantages?

What what might be the disadvantages?

So we see some other nonprofits in our area and in our region.

We're looking at the similar opportunities too evolve right in a very positive way.

Yes, so important real quick tell us about >> The AmeriCorps grants.

another thing, you know, we're people think of us as being Louisville, but we have the 3rd largest public health America rate in the nation.

>> The largest AmeriCorps grant in Kentucky.

Wow.

And that is all focused on helping people enter health care, particularly 17, 18 young adults who want to experiment with that, that career option but get credentials while they're doing so and get a living stipend as well.

It's part time so you can do that and still go to school and have other but if the focus is on, how do we bolster the health Whole pipeline at a time when there's such a shortage.

Thank you, Kelsey for that.

In July, the family scholar House launched a Web app and kiosks across the state to help you find free resources and services wherever you live.

>> And you can find that at my K why DOT info.

Zach Miners fell in love with filmmaking at a young age.

Today.

He is the owner of Chronicle Cinema Video production company based in Louisville, his newest project, a film titled Con version tells 5 different stories about the practice of conversion therapy.

>> I left a transgender lifestyle them a former homosexual farmer.

Homosexuals from the last game followed by sexual and I have changed.

>> Conversion therapy is really any attempt to change one's gender sexual identity through spiritual or psychological intervention.

From my experience, I was outed when I was 14.

And so they never tell you like you're going to conversion therapy.

Now you're just told you're going to therapy.

And I wanted to be accepted and to be loved.

And I thought the only way for me to experience that would be to go to this therapy for me going through the therapy.

It changed so many parts of who I am.

It's made me ashamed of who I was at 70 deep into depression, you know, experiencing PTSD symptoms.

Probably it's a very close to, you know, suicide.

It left me in a very low place.

And then my kids, you know, that nearly destroyed me.

I consider myself insanely lucky because not only have a survived that, but I've been given the opportunity to tell my story to be seen in to help other people.

You know, a lot of people don't get that chance.

I started making this film and 2018 when I discovered that my former conversion therapist was still practicing.

So I wanted to use the skills I had as a filmmaker.

And someone who on a video production company to make like a five-minute PSA was my initial vision for it.

And then from there, they gradually grew into this larger piece that it is today.

The 4 other people who are in the film are each a very different stories.

But each of those people are very special.

It's really amazing to be able to meet other people who went through the same thing because when I was a kid going through, I feel like I was the only person.

And so not only meet these amazing individuals, but also getting to meet people from all around the world who are saying, yes, I also went through It's a very validating and stuff and the community.

A lot of people say, you know, I don't want to watch the film because it to sound so heavy in the sun so dark and it is.

But we really work hard to make it something that at the end leaves people and a positive place where they feel like there is something that they can do and the somehow spoke and speaks to so many different types of people.

But the person that I'm most interested in seeing with some as the 14 year-old kid like me somewhere in, you know, the U.S. of the world that feels like they have no other option to go through this.

And I hope that they see this and that they know that they're not alone and that they're loved and that they are special and unique, not in spite of them being a queer person, but also because of it.

>> Conversion recently premiered in New York City and will be made available for streaming within the next year.

2 bills that would ban so-called conversion therapy in Kentucky.

We're introducing the 2022 General Assembly.

Neither Bill made it out of committee.

♪ We'll soon mark the first anniversary of the deadly tornadoes that swept across western Kentucky.

The natural disaster hit 2 weeks before Christmas.

A group called Operation Christmas Ornaments recently delivered some home handmade holiday cheer to tornado survivors.

The Warren County Elementary School.

>> We went downstairs and a small place under the stairs and we ended up just sleeping there and then and about 01:00AM when the tornado hit, we heard glass.

But then we just tried to go back to sleep.

And then whenever we woke up, everything was just going.

>> We have 50 plus families here.

They were displaced alone.

And, you know, year after they're still dealing with a lot trauma, Warren.

But aside from trauma they're dealing with trying to find places to live.

>> These ornaments came from 32 different states and Japan.

People made them and sent them to the tornado survivors.

They wanted to show some love and bring some Christmas light to people who had lost so much weight.

>> I was very sentimental.

You know, that the kids are in here and then we have many more kids that talk about the Christmas tree being blown out in the yard.

We're having to pick up their Christmas trees after the tornadoes.

I still remember going out and looking at Christmas presents lying on the ground.

>> This is from people that got the ornaments.

Most people don't think about the sentimental value of their Christmas ornaments until their last.

Each ornament usually has a story or is made by special child.

So this is one thing that we can do is we can start their collection fresh with love that sent from all the way across the United States.

>> Special for me too.

Help others who don't have anything and to share my love with them.

>> Ornaments are super nice.

But it's that the meaning behind them.

I think that just saying that somebody is still out there are thinking about and care about.

People were crying.

>> They gave me hugs.

They said things like now.

I have a reason to get a tree or it's nice that we haven't been forgotten as we come up on the anniversary, it's been a little You know, saddened brings back memories as it starts to get colder.

But for kids, it's even it's even harder for them.

Each of these ordinance was made with love by children and adults and groups.

It means something special because people are coming together from all over the world to help celebrate and they Christmas good in it.

>> Operation Christmas ornaments is for survivors of natural disasters.

600 handmade ornaments were handed out at Jennings Creek Elementary School.

They also made deliveries at Pier all State park.

And in Mayfield, good job.

Senator Mitch McConnell has now spoken out about former President Trump's dinner with a white-supremacist.

More on that tomorrow.

And we continue our coverage of the passing of Governor John, why Brown junior Governor Brown's funeral is tomorrow at 02:00PM Eastern Time.

We'll air it live here on KET.

>> And have a recap tomorrow night on Kentucky edition, which we hope to see you for at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire.

Thank you so very much for watching.

Have a great night now.

See tomorrow.

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