It is midday on a recent Sunday and Beth and I are sitting in a booth at a Vietnamese restaurant south of Louisville, Kentucky. The restaurant is in a well-worn strip mall near the airport and shares space with a nail salon a wall separates the two. There is a Marathon quick mart and gas station at one end of the building and at the other, a burger joint with a sign that proclaims, “Here everyday is a weekend.”
Lowndes County is like any other employer, Board of Supervisors President Trip Hairston told the Rotary Club of Columbus on Tuesday afternoon. It’s struggling to find people to fill vacant positions and feeling the bite of higher prices for just about everything.
Some people know what they want from an early age. Some people figure it out as they go, bits and pieces of their lives bouncing off each other until they stick together and make something new.