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Judy Vicars

Judy Vicars

Judy Vicars is a writer and longtime community volunteer who has worked with Hosparus, Maryhurst and the Neighborhood Visitor Program food pantry, as well as Habitat for Humanity. She’s known as “the great interlocutor” of several book groups she enjoys on personal and spiritual growth. A prolific writer of letters to the editor, she once had a legendary and quite hilarious give-and-take in the The Courier-Journal with its late, great columnist John Ed Pearce. She says she got the best of him. She lives in Louisville with her husband of 47 years.

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On his 99th birthday, Jimmy Carter is fondly remembered for hammering in the hills of Kentucky

By: - October 1, 2023

The lively young girl was excited about her brand-new home, as well she should be. It had been built in a miraculous five hot and sometimes rainy days, by a gang of friendly volunteers with Habitat for Humanity. She was showing me what would soon be her very own room. Telling me where she planned […]

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Hammering in the Kentucky hills with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

By: - March 13, 2023

The lively young girl was excited about her brand-new home, as well she should be. It had been built in a miraculous five hot and sometimes rainy days, by a gang of friendly volunteers with Habitat for Humanity. She was showing me what would soon be her very own room. Telling me where she planned […]