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September Chamber Luncheon
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When: Wednesday September 16, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT

Where: Lincoln Museum Community Room
60 Lincoln Square
PO Box 176
Hodgenville, KY 42748

Speaker: Davette Swiney with Central Kentucky Community Foundation

LUNCHEON SPONSOR: LaRue Insurance

NON-PROFIT SPONSOR: Lincoln Days

CATERED BY: Paula’s Hot Biscuit

Lunch is $8 in advance with reservation or $10 at door. RSVP by noon on September 15th via email or call Chamber at 270-358-3411.

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It has been busy times here at the Chamber as we have transitioned from the candy of Halloween to the trees of Christmas!

If you missed all the Trick or Treat excitement on the Square…WOW!  What a record crowd!  We had over 70 costumed kids and adults participate in our Costume Contest.  Special thanks to our judges this year Ricky Whitlock, Gordon Thomas, and Kyle Williamson.  They definitely had their work cut out for them this year.  Thanks to Marsha Duncan, our wonderful MC, and her volunteer high schools students who assisted us for the costume contest.  Thank you to the Awards Center in Elizabethtown for sponsoring the awards this year.  The additions of inflatables by First Baptist Church and food vendors, Makin Memories and Adams Family Foods, added more fun to the festivities.  A big thank you to all the businesses and organizations that participated and gave candy to our massive crowd; we could not have done it without you.  Thanks to the Lincoln Museum, Vanity Hair, LaRue County Herald News, the Law Office of Kyle W. Williamson, LaRue Insurance, Almost Home, James Whitlow Law Office, First Baptist Church, Sallee Taekwondo, Lincoln National Bank, Phelps Heating & Cooling, Magnolia Bank, Innerspirit Church, Hodgenville Clinic, LaRue County Health Department, Ron Mather Law Office,  South Fork Baptist Church, Tino’s Barber Shop, Lincoln’s Loft, LaRue County Protection & Permanency, Nationwide Uniform, Citizens Union Bank, Oak Hill Baptist Church, Fort Knox Federal Credit Union, Create It, Sweet Shoppe, Blazin Xpressions, LaRue County Sheriff’s office, Steadfast Baptist Church, Campbellsville University, LaRue County Band of Hawks, Ruthie’s Lincoln Freeze, City of Hodgenville, Family Worship Center, E-town Swim and Fitness, and Garrett’s Jewelry.

The Festival of Trees was another fun and successful event.  The LaRue County Chamber of Commerce, The Lincoln Museum, and the Hodgenville Woman’s Club thanks everyone who participated in the 8^th Annual Festival of Trees.

Christmas at Creekfront will be lighting up soon!  Hope you can join the festivity as Light Up Hodgenville is this Saturday, December 7^th.

The LaRue County Chamber of Commerce is in the business of promoting and supporting the commercial, industrial and civic interests of LaRue County. If you have questions about the Chamber or any of our programs, visit our website at www.laruecountychamber.org or call me at 270-358-3411.

Special thanks to our October and November renewals for their continued Chamber support: First Baptist Church, LaRue County Pork Producers, Wrights 210, Harned Auctioneers, Garrett’s Furniture, Damon Talley PSC, Windstream, Garrett’s Jewelry, State Farm Insurance, McDonald’s of Hodgenville, Hosparus, Vision First, Canvas 31, and Sunrise Manor.

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It’s time for the Chamber’s Annual Trick-or-Treat on Lincoln Square and Halloween Costume Contest.

Trick-or-Treat on Lincoln Square provides the community with a safe place to bring children on Halloween.  The City of Hodgenville will be blocking off streets around the square to give the children safe and easy access to all stops.  Volunteers from LaRue County High School are on hand to help escort our children around.  Trick-or-Treat time is set for 6:00pm-8:00pm on Thursday, October 31st.  Set up for tour stops will be 5:00pm-6:00pm.

Do you have kids?  Bring them to our Costume Contest starting promptly at 5:30pm!  Registration starts at 5:00pm.  This year we have added a Family/Themed Group Category!  See the attached application for categories, pre-registration and late application fee deadlines.  Applications with payment can be dropped off at the Chamber office and the LaRue County Herald News.  Special thanks to The Awards Center in Elizabethtown for sponsoring our awards for our winners.

What’s new this year?  First Baptist Church will be adding an inflatable bounce house, inflatable obstacle course for kids, cornhole and several carnival style games.

FOOD!!!  Adams Family Foods and Makin Memories will be joining us this year as food vendors.

2013 Halloween Costume Contest Application

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Leadership LaRue County Class of 2013-2014

Established in 2005, Leadership LaRue County provides educational experiences for present and future leaders to develop knowledge and foster appreciation of our community and to encourage civic involvement.  

The program begins in September and is followed by monthly day sessions through April.  Topics include: local history, tourism, education, economic development, health and human services, state and local government, agriculture, entrepreneurship and so much more!

See the attached Leadership Application for more details.  

Leadership Application

Leadership Applications should be returned to the office by August 5th.
For more details, feel free to contact me at info@laruecountychamber.org or 270-358-3411.

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Dinner was catered by Paula’s Hot Biscuit and it was just as good as ever! During dinner, everyone had the opportunity to have their picture taken by Melanie Wells Photography. To view these pictures, visit www.melaniewellsphotography.com.

During our annual meeting, we had the privilege to hear from State Representative Michael Meredith, Judge Executive Tommy Turner and Mayor Terry Cruse.  Hearing these elected officials speak about LaRue County was a very important time as we learned a great amount of information on what is going on in Hodgenville and LaRue County. Kim Huston, author of Small Town Sexy was our guest speaker for the evening. She spoke on why being from a small community is so wonderful and the things that we need in place to continue to be a great place to live. We really enjoyed hearing her speak. If you would like to buy a copy of her book, we have a few copies in the Chamber office at a discount price of $15.00.

A part of our annual meeting is Leadership LaRue County graduation. The 2011-2012 class was the largest class we have had to graduate since the program started. This year’s graduates were Deidre Brooks, Lincoln National Bank; Patti Donahue, Elizabethtown Community & Technical College; Marsha Duncan, LaRue County Schools; Adam Gordon, Magnolia Bank; Jeremy Hinton, Kentucky Farm Bureau; Nedra Jurcak, Community Member; Diana Leathers, LaRue County Health Department; Faith Miller, LaRue County Community Action; Allison Shepherd, LaRue County Herald News; Beth Turner, Dow Corning and Clint Williams, LG &E. This class chose to make a promotional video about LaRue County. If you would like to view a copy of the video, please stop by the Chamber office.

The night concluded with our 2012 Annual Awards. We were happy to award the Outstanding Citizen Award to Joanna Hinton, the Outstanding Business/Professional Person Award to Dr. Glenn Catlett, the Spirit Award to LaRue County Emergency Services and the President’s Award was given in honor of the late Roger Truitt. These award recipients have made and continue to make a true difference in our community and it was great to recognize them.

We would like to thank everyone that had a part in making the 2012 Annual Meeting such a success. Claude and Deb Ramey and everyone that helped from First Baptist Church, Melanie Wells Photography for donating her time and work on the pictures, Paula Varney and her staff for doing such an excellent job with the catering, all of the annual meeting committee members and chamber board members that helped, Joey Gearon for helping clean up after the dinner, everyone that donated and bid on items for the silent auction and everyone that attended and made the evening so wonderful!

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We would like to thank all of the 2012 golf scramble sponsors. Our Scoreboard Sponsor was Magnolia Bank. The scoreboard sponsorship was a new sponsorship that was offered this year to help increase the promotion opportunities for our members and to help the Chamber raise additional funds. We sincerely appreciate Magnolia Bank taking advantage of this opportunity and helping the Chamber. Papa John’s of Hodgenville was very generous and donated pizza for all of our golfers and volunteers! We would like to thank them for being our Lunch Sponsor. Also, we would like to thank the following businesses for their food/beverage donations: Pamida for donating water, Save-a-Lot for donating soft drinks, IGA for donating chips, Subway for donating cookies and The Sweet Shoppe for donating dessert. These businesses continue to donate each and every year and we appreciate their continuous support!

This year the golf scramble committee decided to allow hole sponsors to sit up a table and chairs on the hole that they sponsored. This seemed to be a big hit with both the golfers and the businesses that set up. Thank you to all of the businesses that set up. We hope you will do this again next year! Also, we would like to thank all of our HOLE SPONSORS for their sponsorship Thanks to following businesses and individuals for also helping make the scramble a success by being HOLE SPONSORS: Elizabethtown Community & Technical College, Fort Knox Federal Credit Union, LaRue Insurance, Lincoln National Bank, Magnolia Bank, A Bug’s Ear, Bank of Buffalo, Bault Oil Company, Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home, Campbellsville University, Commonwealth Broadcasting (ESPN 1430AM), Citizens Union Bank, Curneal & Hignite Insurance, Hardee’s, Howardstown Liquor, Kentucky Farm Bureau, Kentucky Utilities, LaRue County Schools, McDonald’s, Nationwide Uniforms, SNAP Fitness, Sunrise Manor, Terry’s 2, The Sweet Shoppe and Regina Byrd at US Bancorp.

Our PRIZE SPONSORS are another big part of our scramble. Thank you to all of our 2012 prize sponsors: Aiyanna’s Mexican Restaurant, Best Western-Atrium Gardens, Citizens Union Bank, Duke’s Sporting Goods, Fort Knox Federal Credit Union, Hardee’s, Hardin Memorial Hospital, Hinton’s Orchard & Farm, Hodgenville Paint and Decorating, Hometown Pizza, LaRue County Herald News, LaRue County Schools, Lee’s Famous Recipe, Lincoln National Bank, Lincoln Parkway Pharmacy, Long Lasting Detail, Magnolia Bank, MAM Candy, McDonald’s, Nolin RECC, Pizza Hut, Rock & Rogers, State Farm Insurance, Swope Toyota, The Lincoln Museum, The Sweet Shoppe, Regina Byrd at US Bancorp, Wright’s 210 Auto City and Wrolen Pin Café.

And of course, no golf scramble could be successful without the hard work of volunteers. Thanks to golf committee and other volunteers for all of their hard work on the scramble. We would also like to thank the LaRue County Golf Course for their assistance in making our scramble such a success!

On behalf of the Chamber Board, I would like to thank everyone for their participation! It was great to see those businesses that we able to form teams get out of the office and enjoy a beautiful day on the golf course. The LaRue County Chamber of Commerce is in the business of promoting and supporting the commercial, industrial and civic interests of LaRue County and your continued support of our biggest fundraiser helps us continue this mission!

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Contact Jessica at the Chamber office (270) 358-3411 for more information or you can email her at jessica@laruecountychamber.org.

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