The Owensboro Times
Updated April 8, 2021 | 11:00 pm
Blake Edge and Elizabeth Griffith
Owensboro’s Blake Edge and Elizabeth Griffith have been selected as two of the 26 young professionals from across the state to participate in Leadership Kentucky’s Elevate Kentucky Class of 2021.
Elevate Kentucky began in 2017 and has since provided young professionals with an in-depth personal and professional development program while fostering a better understanding of challenges facing our Commonwealth.
Edge is the Director of Community and Economic Development for the Green River Area Development District.
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He said he applied for Elevate Kentucky in the fall of 2019 and was notified in February 2020 that he was accepted, but COVID-19 postponed the 2020 class. He was able to accept an invitation to this year’s class.
Ohio County Senior Services has found a way to get around COVID-19 and continue offering an event for its seniors â parking lot bingo â which the Senior Center has been hosting since October.
Judele Stone, assistant director of the Ohio County Senior Center, said seniors have been isolated since COVID-19 hit the region in March and parking lot bingo has been a way to get seniors out of their homes while maintaining social distance and safety.
âAll of our seniors were really missing each other and the activities and stuff so we thought on the pretty days, we would try and let them come out and sit six feet apart or in their cars,â she said. âThey can see each other from a distance and talk and just fellowship a little bit, but at a distance.â