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Auction fetches $28K for first batch of new bourbon

LOUISVILLE, Ky.

One of Kentucky’s newest whiskey makers is making a big splash, fetching more than $28,000 for its first bottle of bourbon.

The bottle appeared to rank among the most-expensive bottles of bourbon ever sold.

Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, said he doesn’t know of any other bottle that sold for that amount or higher.

All of the money will go to a local charity.

Boundary Oak Distillery says the winning bidder is from Hardin County, Ky., but asked to remain anonymous. Whoever it is will have to be patient.

Boundary Oak plans to fill its first bourbon barrel in December, and the whiskey will age for two years before bottling.

In Seattle, tofu turkeys get Thanksgiving pardons

SEATTLE

As Thanksgiving approaches, Tofurkys in Seattle can breathe easy, even if real turkeys can’t.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pardoned a soybean-based roast Friday, The Seattle Times reported.

Spokesman Jason Kelly says Murray posed with the tofu turkey at city hall to draw attention to hunger in the community. It will be donated to Rainier Valley Food Bank.

Kelly acknowledged that Seattle’s reputation in the rest of the country is “a little bit ‘granola’” and that Murray was poking fun at himself.

Communications director Jeff Reading said Tuesday that the mayor has no plan to pardon any of Seattle’s urban turkeys “either the literal or figurative variety.”

The maker of Tofurky, Turtle Island Foods, is based in Hood River, Ore., and produces several tofu or tempeh-based products.

Los Angeles freeway sign unveiled with typo

LOS ANGELES

No one noticed the mistake until the morning after the sign was installed above Interstate 710 in Southern California.

A subcontractor had misspelled Olympic Boulevard with an “I” in place of the “Y.”

The large, green exit sign was covered with a tarp and eventually removed but not before drivers snapped and tweeted photographs of the mega-typo earlier this month.

Caltrans spokeswoman Kelly Markham tells the Los Angeles Times that the subcontractor will pay for a new sign.

The sign was one of many improvements underway on the freeway as part of a pavement rehabilitation project.

Associated Press