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Finley's Fun Center, a roller rink billed as a place "for good, clean fun," is frequented almost weekly by many Danville families. From left, Josiah McGirr, 14, Sara Holt, 14, Dwayne Yocum, 14, and Cedric Thompson, 15, all of Danville, spend time at Finley's Fun Center in Danville on the night of Friday, October 19, 2007. Attendance has suffered at the Fun Center since August of 2006, when the Finley's Fun Center chain owner and General Manager were killed in a plane crash, according to new manager Brandi Johnson, but she's hoping to bring it up significantly. Johnson estimated the Friday night crowd at about 70, but she'd she'd like to see Friday night attendances of 300 and Saturday night attendances of 200 or more. She realizes a potential problem of such crowds, though - "once this place is packed there'll be fights." She says Finley's will hire a full-time deput

Rolling With Your Homies

story by Christian Roadman

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An inline skater rolls down the rink at Finley's Fun Center in Danville on the night of Saturday, October 20, 2007

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81-year-old retired farmer and Danville resident Jere Caldwell walks through a part of the house in which he was born in in 1926, the year the house was constructed. The farmland on which it stands was bought by his grandfather in 1890 and has been in his family ever since.

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Dennis May of Harrisburg takes a drag on his cigarette outside of the Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, Ky. early on the morning of Saturday, October 20, 2007. May was in the hospital for tests on his throat

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A long exposure and pan of the camera cause a streaked view of Danville's W. Main Street lights early in the morning of Saturday, October 20, 2007

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Night D.J. Brandon Joseph, 17, of Lancaster, Ky., works behind the roller skate counter at Finley's Fun Center on Saturday, October 20, 2007

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Brandi Johnson of Danville, right, helps Emrey Shepherd, 4, also of Danville, back onto the rink at Finley's Fun Center after the girl took a reprieve from her first skating lesson on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. Emrey's grandmother, Vicki Cummins, also of Danville, offers a steadying hand. Not long after, Emrey decided to leave the rink agtain. Johnson, a national roller-skate speed-skating champion when she was 17, is a new manager at Finley's.

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Birthday girl Kellen Hamilton blows out the candles of her 12th birthday party cake at Finley's Fun Center on Saturday, October 20, 2007, while party attendee Kaitlyn Bryant, 11, watches, and Emma Jackson, also 11, chows down

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Finley's Fun Center employee Dallas Chilton, 17, of Harrodsburg, looks on as Justin Faul, 16, of Danville, jam skates on Friday, October 19, 2007. Faul described jam skating as a combination of break dancing and skating. Chilton also participates in the activity

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A group of young skaters participates in one of several short racing events held on the night of Saturday, October 20, at Finley's Fun Center roller rink in Danville, Ky