This is Boyce Tate. Today: Showers and 75.
A prestigious award now belongs to a Madisonville city employee. City Clerk Kim Blue is the Kentucky Municipal Clerks Association Clerk of the Year. Mayor Kevin Cotton says Kim is an ideal team member who goes above and beyond in her duties. He says she understands the intricacies of working as a team. As a Certified Kentucky Municipal Clerk, Blue has volunteered on numerous committees, including the Election Committee and the Scholarship Committee.
The Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development Corporation is hoping for a successful job expo. The event is tomorrow at the Ballard Convention Center from 9:30 until 2:30.
Compliments for the Kentucky Sports Factory continue to be heard. Madisonville’s Deputy City Administrator was at a sports event in Evansville when he met a family from Illinois. (Clip in audio below) That was Brad Long.
Kentucky Emergency Management is out with a timely announcement for those impacted by this month’s storms and flooding. A major disaster declaration has been requested. FEMA assistance is not authorized for households in Hopkins and Webster counties until the President issues the declaration. If you live in a county impacted by the February flooding, you can apply for assistance because the President has already issued a declaration. The website you want to monitor is: disaster-assistance dot G-O-V.
The Madisonville City Council meets this afternoon at 4:30. New business includes a resolution authorizing the filing of an infrastructure grant with the Delta Regional Authority. The meeting will be at City Hall.
The Webster County School District is glad to report that they will be ordering 8 Automated External Defibrillators. These are portable, user-friendly devices that analyze a person’s heart rhythm and, if necessary, delivers an electric shock to restore a normal heart beat during sudden cardiac arrest. The eight new ones will supplement the more than 20 already placed in the district. The General Assembly allocated funding to purchase A-E-D’s, in order to increases the number of functional devices across the Commonwealth in case of cardiac arrest emergencies on school property.
The bottom line is looking better for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. More than 11-hundred donors in 91 counties contributed more than 350-thousand dollars during Wednesday’s 24-hour K-C-T-C-S Giving Day. KCTCS President Ryan Quarles described the gifts as launchpads for students striving toward brighter futures.
Over the years, Madisonville Miner players have lived in most every state, and even abroad. Spokesperson Trish Noel says the emphasis now is rounding up host families for one or two players during the June and July season. (Clip in audio below) Noel says many wonderful relationships begin and some last for a number of years.
From the C-Plant Federal Credit Union Newsroom, I’m Boyce Tate.
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