While the 2022 Trigg County Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner was packed with pomp and circumstance, plenty of business had to be conducted.
Thursday night at the Lake Barkley State Resort Park, outgoing President Ashley Johnson announced that longtime board member Amy Slone was retiring. Dustin Gilbert, a recent graduate of the Cadiz-Trigg County Leadership Class, was unanimously approved for the slot.
Beth Sumner, in her second year as the chamber’s director of membership, assured the organization stayed busy this past year with its two community shopping promotions — Mingle & Jingle, and Check Out Cadiz — while welcoming 15 new chamber members and conducting nine ribbon cuttings for new businesses in the area.
Sumner also recognized a handful of local businesses as long-time members of the Trigg Chamber. Goodwin Funeral Home just reached its 75th year. Bank of Cadiz just crested its 51st year. Kentucky Machine & Engineering passed 50 years, as well, while Hancock’s More For Less Grocery just eclipsed 30 years.
This Chamber Leadership Class, responsible for the “Raise the Roof” project, saw Gilbert, Mackenzie Stone, Adrienne Fuller, Eunice Stone, Amy Kuberski and Holly Greene graduate from its ranks, only to welcome a new 2022-23 class that includes a large lineup:
■ Kara Allen of Shady Lawn, Kerry Allen of Cadiz-Trigg Tourism, Teresa Dunn of Bank of Cadiz, Chastity Gapp of Christian County Health Department, Kathy Harper of Bank of Cadiz, Haley Hendon of Lake Barkley Liquors, Victoria Keedy of Caretenders Home Health, Scott and Lynley Sanders of Trigg County Liquors, Karen Solise of the Trigg County Board of Education, Hayla Swaw of the PADD office, Claudine Thomas of the University of Southern Indiana, Elissa Tucker of Pennyrile Hospice, and Todd Wallace of ATPCO Airline Publishing Company.
And after two years at the helm as president, Johnson happily passed the gavel to Stone, president-elect.
Stone said she was looking forward to the new challenge.
Easily more than $500 was raised through silent auction, which Sumner said would go toward the organization’s annual graduate scholarship, which this year went to Tyler Ahart.
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