The S.W. Anderson Company closed its downtown store and Towne Square Mall location in 1990. Many people who lost their jobs had been with the department store for years and their co-workers were also their friends. So after the closing they decided to continue a tradition that had started a few years earlier, having breakfast together once a year at the Executive Inn. There is a tree in Milltown, Ind., that has hundreds of shoes hanging from it. Years ago, the reason long forgotten, kids started throwing their old shoes up in the tree.
All presidents receive gifts during their administrations.
They probably don't even see all of them or know how the presents got to the White House. Twenty-five years ago Girl Scout Troop 196 buried a time capsule on the front lawn of Owensboro City Hall. Most of them went to college, seven went to graduate school and three have post-graduate degrees. Medley is a graduate of Owensboro High School and Transylvania University and has a master's in business administration from the University of Colorado.