Chevy Chaser and Southsider Magazines combined June 2020 issue

CHEVY CHASER MAGAZINE & SOUTHSIDER MAGAZINE JUNE 2020 COMBINED EDITION

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The vice president of MARKETING FOR VISITLEX on the future of Lexington’s hospitality industry

customer care small-business owners serving the community amid uncertainty

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Customer Care

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How several small-business owners have risen to the challenge of serving the community amid uncertainty

Crisis Control

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Executive coach author Vitale Buford discusses ways to embrace and navigate change during times of uncertainty

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Local Luminaries: Gathan Borden

Q&A with Father Jim Sichko

VisitLex’s vice president of marketing talks about the challenges and future of Lexington’s hospitality industry

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Contributors Vitale Buford (“Crisis Control,” page 9) is an iPEC-certified executive coach, speaker and author of the new book, “Addicted to Perfect,” which details her 10-year struggle with Adderall and perfectionism.

Celeste Lewis is a visual artist and freelance writer and director for the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. She contributes a series for Smiley Pete Publishing (“Local Luminaries: Gathan Borden,” page 25) that profiles a variety of interesting folks from the Lexington area, from artists and writers to small business owners and other city leaders.

Tanzi Merritt (“A Moment in Time,” page 35) is a Lexington native with a background in history, marketing and libraries and archives. She is the interactive media specialist at God’s Pantry Food Bank and an avid supporter of the arts and social justice in the local community.

Kenn Minter (“The 5 Stages of Quarantine” comic, page 13) is an artist, writer, and publisher of comic books and graphic novels. He lives in Lexington with his wife, three greyhounds, three cats, and one ghost.

Kathie Stamps is a self-employed writer and voice-over artist in Lexington. She contributed the small-business spotlights on pages 21 and 23 to this month’s issue. She enjoys blogging on her website, stampscommunications.com.

Bill Straus (photography for “Small-Business Salutes”) began his photography career shooting football games for the Lexington Herald-Leader in in the 1970s. He has been freelancing in the diverse areas of sports, equine, commercial and advertising since then.

Theresa Stanley (recipe and photography for “Drink of the Month,” page 41) has a passion for telling the stories of makers and foodways, and serves as Smiley Pete Publishing’s director of events and promotions.

Matt Wickstrom (“A Tweet From the King,” page 15) is a professional writer and founder of Big Blue Tunes. Born in Lexington and raised in Columbus, Ohio, he moved back to Kentucky in 2011 and graduated from the University of Kentucky’s journalism program in 2017. n

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NEWS& NOTES How to Vote In the June 23 Primary Election In an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Kentucky State Board of Elections has expanded mail-in voting options to all Kentuckians for the June 23 primary election.

While registered voters are highly encouraged to vote by absentee ballot, limited in-person voting options will also be available.

These are the four ways to vote in the upcoming primary, as outlined on the Kentucky State Board of Elections website: • Absentee by mail • Hand-delivery of absentee ballot • Vote early in-person (appointment with county clerk recommended) • Vote on election day inperson (appointment with county clerk recommended) Each registered voter will receive a postcard in the mail with this information.

Contact the Fayette County Clerk for more information on in-person voting options.

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Voters are encouraged to visit the State Board of Elections’ website — elect.ky.gov — to verify that their voter registration information is correct (name, address, party, etc.) before requesting a ballot.

New Lexington Election Resource Website To Launch On June 1 Representatives from a handful of local organizations (including Smiley Pete Publishing, this magazine’s parent company) are collaborating in support of a new Lexington-based voting resource spearheaded by CivicLex and Fayette Alliance. Set to launch June 1, LexVote (www.lex. vote) will be a central online hub housing information about local candidates, as well as voter resources for local elections.

In order to vote by absentee ballot, registered voters must request that an absentee ballot be sent to them. June 15 is the deadline to make that request through the State Board of Elections’ secure online portal (elect. ky.gov); after that window, registered voters can request an absentee ballot from their local county clerk office until June 23. All ballots must be postmarked by June 23, or returned by hand to a registered polling location by 6 p.m. that day.

At its launch, the website will focus on the June 23 primary election, providing resources for how to vote in this election, which will look very different from past elections due to the expansion of absentee, mail-in voting options, and limited in-person voting options.

The LexVote website will also feature questionnaires with candidates for Lexington’s 3rd District and 9th District Council races, which are the two Lexington races featured in the upcoming primary election. The questionnaires cover a variety of topics, including affordable housing, growth and development, economic recovery, public safety and more.

County clerks will match the signature on an absentee ballot envelope to the voter’s signature of record, and voters whose signatures do not match will be provided an opportunity to correct the mismatch. In order to more expeditiously clean up its voter rolls, the state will

Council Districts 5, 6 and 8 will feature candidates in the general election on Nov. 3, but not the primary, since there are only two candidates running for each of those seats. The top two vote-getters for Districts 3 and 9 on June 23 will progress to the general election. n

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Small changes, such as sticking to a morning routine and avoiding fear-based “what-if” questions, can help reframe times of uncertainty into moments of possibility, said executive coach and author Vitale Buford.

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time to dream. Turn difficult decisions into opportunities. Turn hard times into your training ground. How can you deliver new and better services to your clients? How can you add value to your workforce? How can you connect better with your loved ones?

How are you going to reframe this as a time of possibility?

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imes of uncertainty can create heightened anxiety, fear and chaos. However, it’s the individuals and organizations that use this time to turn inward and embrace change that will come out ahead. Instead of looking at uncertainty as a time to shrink and be fearful, you can look at uncertainty as a time to expand and be open to possibility. It’s time to step into your power. It’s a time to embrace and navigate change.

Reframe your thinking It’s all about perception. As Wayne Dyer says, “if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” It’s important to reframe the way you look at this time of uncertainty — reframe “uncertainty” as a time of “possibility.” When we look at this as a time of possibility, we open ourselves up to creativity and innovation. Some of our mostused companies today were born during the financial crisis of 2008 — Airbnb, WhatsApp, Uber, Slack and Venmo, to name a few. They seized a time of mass chaos and uncertainty and turned it into a time of possibility.

Now is not a time to be constricted — it’s a

During this “collective pause,” it has become more apparent than ever that the only thing within our control is ourselves. And that means we are responsible for our own thoughts, words and actions. This also means we have the power of choice. And it’s our responsibility to choose better thoughts, words and actions.

One of the ways you can choose better is to flip “what if” to “even if.” “What if” is fear-based. It comes from our human need to control. Again, the only thing within our control is our thoughts, words and actions, so we need to shift our perception from fear-based thinking to a position of trust and faith.

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Instead of “what if my children can’t go to camp this summer?” or “what if I don’t know what my business/career will look like in the fall?” flip to “even if my children cant go to camp, it’s going to be okay” or “even if I don’t know what my business/career will look like in the fall, it will be okay; in fact, the unknown creates space for possibility.” See how much better “even if” feels? It melts away anxiety almost instantly. There is so much power in your thoughts — and you have the power to choose your thoughts.

Create a morning routine It’s easy to lack motivation and feel directionless when things are uncertain. During a time with less structure, it’s important to create structure — and you can do this by creating a daily morning routine. Committing to a morning routine will change the way you respond to the difficulties of your day, and it allows you to run your day instead of your day running you.

Morning routines allow you to start your day off with a win — they allow you to begin your day with action and confidence.

You don’t need three hours of meditation time every single day for your morning routine. Too many people think they need some complex routine in order to make progress, but that’s not true. A simple 5- to 10-minute daily check-in is sufficient and a great place to start.

One of the most impactful activities I do during my morning routine is writing out a daily gratitude list. Instead of starting my day thinking about how tired I am or how annoyed I already am with the day, I start by focusing on what it is that I’m grateful for. My son, my health, my home, my dog, my business, the beautiful weather, hot coffee … and the list goes on and on because there’s always something more to be thankful for.

Done is better than perfect During times of uncertainty, your fears and anxiety can lead you to feeling stuck. To get unstuck, you need to get into action.

One of my favorite mantras for taking action is “done is better than perfect.” As a recovering perfectionist, I can easily let perfection get in the way of progress. Not with this mantra.

“Done is better than perfect” reminds me to start now instead of waiting for the “perfect moment.” It reminds me to take massive, imperfect action. Every time you take action, you gain confidence, which leads to more action and more confidence.

And we can use all the action and all the confidence we can get right now. What can you take action on today? n Vitale Buford (vitalebuford. com) is an iPEC-certified executive coach, speaker and author who helps organizations, groups and individuals release fear and perfectionism. Featured in The New York Times, she is the author of a new book, “Addicted to Perfect,” which details her 10-year struggle with Adderall and perfectionism.

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ollowing a lengthy NBA career and subsequent fall from grace, former Kentucky basketball star (1986-’88) Rex Chapman is back to being “King Rex” again. Prior to holding a number of different front office positions in the league, Chapman suffered through an injury that plagued the final three years of his playing career.

He underwent seven surgeries during the stretch that ultimately left him fighting a powerful painkiller addiction and spiraling as a result. In 2014, he found his life crashing down around him in an undeniable way when, while confined to living in his car for a few days, he was arrested for theft in Scottsdale, Arizona, a charge to which he ultimately plead guilty.

Now back living in Lexington, the native Kentuckian has undergone another transformation in recent years, following his opioid-rattled days — this time for the better. Following his arrest, Chapman entered into a rehab program, and has been clean from drugs for five years. He has returned to the world of basketball, where he now serves as an analyst for UK, as well as for NBA TV. And, in what was perhaps an unexpected career turn, he is also now the host of the Adult Swim show “Block or Charge,” a weekly mash-up of videos that sits at the crossroads of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Jackass.” Chapman hosts the show with fellow Lexingtonian David Helmers, who is one of the catalysts behind Lexington’s Railbird Festival and a lifelong friend of Chapman’s since his days growing up in Owensboro. Airing at 10 p.m. on Thursday nights, the show, which debuted in October 2019 and which its hosts have described as “the highest of the lowbrow,” brings basketball’s “block or charge” debate to everyday, real life blooper-type scenarios.

“We’re all just doing the best we can under some strange and difficult circumstances.

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After a successful basketball career — and subsequent fall from grace — former University of Kentucky and NBA star Rex Chapman has found joy in giving back in unexpected ways.

According to Chapman, the idea for the show first surfaced months earlier, after he encountered a random video clip on the internet last January.

“I saw a video of a paddle boarder who was in the surf,” Chapman explained. “A pod of dolphins was approaching and one leapt from the water and knocked him off his board. My immediate reaction was ‘That’s a charge!’ I posted the video with the question ‘Block or charge?!’ to Twitter, and it took off from there.”

The clip quickly became a viral sensation, swelling Chapman’s (@RexChapman) followers on the social media platform from 50,000 to over 700,000, while also helping him reconnect with old fans and make new ones — i.e., those too young to remember him from his days on the court.

“Young folks are sometimes surprised to learn that I had an NBA career,” said Chapman. “They think I’m just a random guy posting videos on Twitter.”

Since the onset of COVID-19, Chapman’s Twitter feed has transitioned even further in recent months, from focusing on almost exclusively cringeworthy content to including more heartwarming and wholesome entertainment. The shift has provided a much-needed distraction and helped unite his followers and others while they can’t

physically be together. Whether it’s a baby gleefully making a homemade quarantine pizza (viewed 3 million times); actor and comedian Jack Black dancing shirtless in his backyard (viewed 7 million times); two dogs cuddling after one of them just got through surgery (viewed 6 million times); or a kid getting trampled by a dog during an Easter egg hunt (viewed 4.2 million times), this is the content that Chapman, and his followers, are here for.

“We’re all just doing the best we can under some strange and difficult circumstances,” said Chapman. “I see things that make me feel good and pass them on, in hopes that it makes other folks feel the same.

“I’m no different than anyone else trying to cope with social distancing and quarantines – I miss my routine and seeing my friends,” he added. “If a humorous video can bring a smile or a little laughter, then I’ve done my job.”

Observing a need to help those impacted

by COVID-19, in recent months Chapman launched the Rex Chapman COVID-19 Relief Fund, a branch of the Rex Chapman Foundation. The fund, which has raised close to $200,000, has helped provide personal protective equipment for first responders, as well as food for people in need throughout Kentucky and in other areas impacted by the virus.

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Chapman currently serves as an analyst for UK and NBA TV, and is the founder and co-host of the Adult Swim show “Block or Charge.”

In late March, the foundation announced its first wave of Kentucky-focused grants to Harrison Memorial Hospital in Harrison County, where the state’s first reported case of COVID-19 occurred; it has also provided grants to the local nonprofit commercial kitchen FoodChain, to God’s Pantry Food Bank and to the community radio station Radio Lex. The foundation was able to provide a second wave of grants, totaling $50,000, to the greater New York City area, the epicenter of the virus’s outbreak in the United States.

Chapman is also pursuing other ways to help and to connect with fans and local businesses. Through “Block or Charge,” he has established a strong relationship with the Lexington-based clothing brand Kentucky for Kentucky, which has designed T-shirts for the TV show and internet phenomenon. In early April, the two partnered to donate 100 percent of profits generated from sales of the shirt to the Rex Chapman Foundation and COVID-19 Relief Fund, netting more than $27,000 in 10 days. Chapman said that a new shirt design, made specifically to benefit the foundation, is in the works, and will be released soon.

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Chapman and the foundation have also partnered with Nicholasville-based CBD company Dwell CBD on a CBD sports cream (free of THC, the psychoactive ingredient found in some cannabis products), with a portion of early proceeds going to the COVID-19 Relief Fund.

After a life dealing with anxiety and depression, Chapman says that, like most everyone else, he is not immune to disruptions to his routine due to COVID-19.

“I’m a swimmer,” said Chapman.

“My routine typically involves swimming 100 or more laps every day. It’s good exercise and it’s also good for me mentally and is a chance for me to reduce stress and anxiety and reset. Right now, with all the pools closed, I haven’t been able to swim so I’ve started walking every day instead, but it isn’t the same. I’m just needing to find other ways to cope just like everybody else. It’s a difficult time for everyone.” n

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chevy chase hardware 833 E. Hight St. www.chevychasehardware.com John and Lisa Justice purchased Chevy Chase Hardware from its previous owners, Bill and Carol Edwards, in December. The Justices have lived in Chevy Chase for the past decade and, with their two daughters attending the University of Kentucky, had recently moved into a condominium in Chevy Chase Plaza. “We love the neighborhood and we love this store, and we didn’t want to see anything happen to it. So, we made the decision to purchase it, with plans for expanding,” John Justice said.

Construction had begun to expand Chevy Chase Hardware into the storefronts of recently shuttered High Street Fly and Le Matin Cellar when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The Justices charged ahead with the project, quickly adjusting store inventory to include a steady supply of disinfectants and personal protective equipment, including spray bleach, gloves, face masks, and hand sanitizer made by Bluegrass Distillers.

“It was a bit scary at first — you know, when you just buy a store and then everything happened — but my wife and I sat down and we put together a strategy so we can make sure the store continues to exist,” Justice said.

“It’s been challenging to find everything, but we’ve been fortunate to get it done.”

Green light bulbs have also been in high demand, as customers light their homes green in a show of unity and compassion for families who have lost loved ones to COVID-19.

The shop also partnered with the Fayette County Sheriff’s office to supply green light bulbs for a giveaway program. The program started with 1,000 light bulbs, and the sheriff’s office recently purchased an additional 2,600 bulbs, Justice said. “We’ve cleaned out pretty much the entire east coast of green light bulbs,” he said. “The last shipment came from Denver, and I drove up to Columbus to pick up light bulbs there to support the sheriff’s initiative.”

The Justices have also contracted with wholesaler True Value hardware to greatly increase the store’s inventory. When the expansion project is finished in late May, the store will include a full paint department, as well as hot-water heaters, wheelbarrows, a large array of electrical equipment and other items. “Every section has been expanded,” Justice said. “We’ll have a re-grand opening and make it fun, but we may delay that a little bit just to make sure we keep everyone safe.”

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Chevy Chase Hardware owners Lisa and John Justice purchased the store from its previous owners in December.

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The store also recently began servicing and repairing lawn mowers, and the Justices plan on adding handyman services to Chevy Chase Hardware’s offerings later this year. “That’s been a big request,” Justice said. He tells a story about a recent customer who wanted to install a dusk-to-dawn security light at her home. “We tried a couple of things and, when those didn’t work, we went as far as to purchase a light fixture that we didn’t carry at the time somewhere else and went to her house and replaced it for her,” he said.

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Chevy Chase Hardware has been a steady source for cleaning products, personal protective equipment, green light bulbs and other supplies throughout the pandemic.

It’s just one example of the store’s serviceoriented approach.

“A hardware store has to be a store that supports the community and makes sure that people have everything they need,” Justice said. “And, in order to compete against the big-box stores, we have to go the extra mile to make sure that we’re taking care of our customers.”

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Peggy’s gifts & acccessories 112 Clay Ave. • www.peggysgifts.com Peggy Queen opened her first shop, Peggy’s Gifts & Accessories, in 1990 by renting half of the downstairs of a house on Clay Avenue. Today she owns the two-story building, which houses her eponymous boutique and a shop she opened last year, Little Classics on Clay. “If you had told me even three months ago that face masks would become our best-selling item, I would have thought you were crazy, but here we are,” Queen said.

Puzzles have also been popular, as are self-care items such as moisturizing masks and pedicure sets. “This is my 30th year in business and the coronavirus has been the biggest challenge I have faced, by far,” Queen said. “The way I dealt with it was to work harder than ever and try my best to keep things going for everybody concerned and to distract myself, too. Giving up or sitting back just was not an option.”

Peggy’s Gifts & Accessories is a lifestyle boutique with clothing, personal accessories, home accessories and gifts for all occasions. Little Classics on Clay is a children’s clothing boutique and the first signature store for Lexingtonbased Beaufort Bonnet Company.

Queen has kept her five full-time employPHOTO BY FURNISHED ees on the payroll and Peggy Queen opened Peggy’s Gifts & seven part-timers are Accessories on Clay Avenue in 1990, and Little Classics on Clay last year. coming in to work as needed. Curbside pickup and in-town delivery, as well as shipping, have become business standards.

“My marketing manager is working overtime trying to add content to all social media outlets, sending biweekly emails and continuing our print advertising,” Queen said. “We had reworked the back end of our website before the Christmas season, but had never taken the time to add products because we had been so busy. When the coronavirus hit, that was the first thing I did.”

She plans to keep the website updated and continue posting video updates to social media, even though it means stepping out of her own comfort zone as she showcases new merchandise arriving at the store.

“I think many people will come out of this with improved technology skills, a renewed appreciation of human interaction, friends and family, and hopefully a sense of accomplishment for persevering and navigating an unimaginably difficult period in time,” she said.

Queen is appreciative of her customers and Lexingtonians in general who have made the conscious effort to support locally owned businesses. “Lexington is so supportive of small business,” she said. “We are so thankful, and I know the restaurants doing carryout and other businesses are, too.”

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centered 309 N. Ashland Ave. www.centeredlex.org In the Warehouse Block business district of Lexington on North Ashland Avenue, Centered represents three different industries under one roof: A small café, massage therapy and counseling, and a yoga and movement studio that also includes a boutique offering yoga and wellness supplies. Owner and director Lauren Higdon opened the holistic community center in 2013 as “a physical space to bring community together.”

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Higdon is elevating Centered’s sanitation standards and safety practices because they represent another way of “meeting our clients with kindness and compassion and an understanding that we have all been deeply affected and traumatized by this worldwide pandemic,” she said. “Whether our small business is a healing center or a print company, it’s important to remember that we are all extra sensitive right now and will need be extra patient and present with each other.”

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Gathan Borden The vice president of marketing for visitLex talks about the joys of promoting the Bluegrass region – and the future of Lexington’s hospitality industry

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espite being a selfproclaimed introvert, Gathan Borden has been drawn to a career in marketing ever since college, when he found himself impressed by the challenges of working in communications before the dawn of social media.

“As the president of my fraternity, I taught myself how to code as I built our chapter a website on Geocities, if anyone remembers that,” he said with a chuckle, referring to the now-defunct Yahoo! web-hosting service. He also used to design and distribute fraternity event and party flyers, and was active on early social media platforms like Black Planet and College Club, “before anyone knew what Facebook was.”

and a prayer,” he said, despite his limited experience at the time. He stayed with that office for seven years before interviewing with newly minted VisitLex president Mary Quinn Ramer in 2015.

That long-running experience with social media has served Borden well – today, he has repeatedly been recognized on a national level for his social media presence, and has been invited to present on the topic of social media at a number of high profile conferences and events. In 2007, he applied for a marketing manager job at the Louisville Tourism office (formerly Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau) on a “whim

Ramer found Borden to be a born marketer – “creative at heart, with a seemingly endless supply of inspiration and content,” she said.

She hired him to join the VisitLex team as vice president of marketing, a position that Borden has held ever since. Ramer says Borden has largely been responsible for elevating VisitLex’s brand and expanding the organization’s footprint in the destination travel landscape over the past five years.

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Gathan Borden says that his work promoting Lexington on behalf of the city’s leading tourism organization, VisitLex, is a “dream job.”

Borden exudes a passion for the position, which he calls his dream job.

“We have one of the best products to promote,” Borden said of Lexington. While he was referring largely to the natural beauty of the region’s landscape, he’s quick to point out that the natural landscape isn’t the only thing that makes Lexington a standout destination.

“When you add up our unique draws, like Keeneland, the bourbon distilleries and other assets — like our vibrant creative community, great restaurants, the friendly people and, of course, basketball and our great sports — Lexington is a very special place,” he said.

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Borden is a sought-after speaker at tourism industry events, where he regularly presents on topics like social media and marketing.

The roots of VisitLex (formerly called the Convention and Visitors Bureau) can be traced back to 1974, when the organization was created to promote the Bluegrass region as a tourism destination. VisitLex had a great year in 2019, with the city having seen a significant boon in increased tourism and hotel room revenue — money that is then invested back into the community and that also funds VisitLex.. The organization’s social media presence exploded in recent years, with the popular #ShareTheLex hashtag, and the VisitLex office helped the city garner over a billion media impressions last year alone in media outlets that include USA Today, the New York Times, Southern Living, Rolling Stone magazine and NBC’s The Today Show.

But then, as we are all too aware, a pandemic happened. Even with all the confidence that Borden has in the organization’s ability to sell a place like Lexington, no one could have predicted the game changer that we would come to know as COVID-19.

None of the volatility or changes in our economy from recent decades compares to the havoc the virus has wreaked worldwide over the past two months, and tourism has arguably been one of the sectors hit the hardest. Food and hospitality industries, as well as the airlines and other transportation carriers, have been devastated. With travel at a standstill, and shops, venues and restaurants shuttered, tourism – typically one of Lexington’s strongest economic drivers – was more or less instantly paralyzed when the pandemic hit the city in mid-March.

“This virus has created a situation where we all have to rethink the way we do pretty much everything going forward,” Borden said. “Some of that creativity and innovative change is coming easy, and we are adapting, but some things will take a long time to retool and we are working to develop new strategies.”

Despite unprecedented challenges, Borden emphasizes the importance of thinking positive, and working together to get through this next step.

“Two of the top three reasons people travel are to visit family and friends, so locals will be instrumental in our recovery and a crucial part of us welcoming visitors back to Lexington,” he said. “It’s a really scary time, but we have to figure out safe ways to restart and turn this around in a meaningful way.”

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Chevy Chaser writer Celeste Lewis had an opportunity to chat with Gathan Borden (via email and telephone) recently about the future of Lexington’s tourism industry.

Tell me about the impact of the coronavirus on Lexington business and tourism from your perspective. Coronavirus is decimating the tourism industry – not just here in Lexington, but across the entire country. I think the impact of this pandemic is long-ranging, as it will fundamentally change how we do simple things like go out to eat and visit places for entertainment. It will change the core functions of how businesses operate and how people will travel in the future. In the short-term, we are seeing the negative effects it has on small-business owners [who are unable] to maintain operations or keep staff employed. It is keeping us from gathering in large numbers for meetings and events and is making it difficult to enjoy the company of our friends and family.

Long-term, I worry about the mental effects this will have on people who have lost a loved one to this disease, or those who have had to close their businesses, or those who have had to go on unemployment, or those who lost their job and received no unemployment and could be in a dire financial situation.

There are so many negative trickle-down effects from this, that it will take years for us to recover.

What are some of the best ways people can support Lexington’s tourism industry in this uncertain time? The best way that people can support right now is to dedicate time each week to support our local small businesses to get them back up and running, and then however you decide to support them, share those new experiences with your family, friends and social networks so that we can increase consumer confidence.

Shameless plug here, but we actually have a resource page with this type of information (www.visitlex.com/coronavirus2020/teamkentucky).

What do you think is a strength or quality in our community that will be an asset in our local recovery? I think the strength of Lexington’s community is that it is small and tight-knit, and in recent years there has been a spurt of creativity happening in Lexington where members of the community are not afraid to put their creativity and compassion on display. An example that comes to mind is the creation of Nourish Lexington in the midst of this pandemic. Several community partners and community leaders quickly pivoted and created an organization to utilize unemployed hospitality workers and provide meals to families and children in Lexington.

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Borden (far left) has a built-in passion for one of the Bluegrass region’s leading products: bourbon. Here he is pictured with other board members of the Kentucky Black Bourbon Guild, an organization of which he is a founding member.

Essentially, creating a nonprofit, which is what Nourish Lexington is, takes years, but these members of the Lexington community were able to figure it out in a matter of weeks – that is the spirit of Lexington.

What are some of the changes you think may be permanent nationally as well as locally? If this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that now is a good time to reevaluate how we all do business. You are already starting to see changes. I think you’ll see housekeeping in hotels move from a dayto-day function to a stay-to-stay function, where they will only enter rooms between

guests’ stays. In the airline world, I think you’ll finally see a boarding and deplaning process that actually makes logical sense and keeps people from standing on top of each other at the gate or in the aisle. For bars, restaurants, attractions and other entertainment venues, I think it will be hard to maintain these capacity changes in the long run, but I think you’ll see more thought given around how they can creatively keep the inflow and outflow of guests safe and enjoyable. And, as for other professional businesses, I think you’ll see more of them adopt work-from-home policies and other types of flexible scheduling for staff.

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What have you missed the most personally during the pandemic? I’m an introvert, so I have actually enjoyed this quarantine time, but I have missed my co-workers at VisitLex, the spring meet at Keeneland, Oaks Day at Churchill Downs and grabbing a bourbon at Zim’s or Whiskey Bear. And I’m going stir-crazy not having any live sports on TV. How has your family handled self-isolation? We have a daughter, age 12, and a son, age 8. They’re doing a good job remembering hand washing and they are keeping up with their school assignments. They’re doing a great job of keeping in touch with grandparents through phone calls. They understand how important all this is. My wife has had some Zoom meet-ups with friends and they even did a wine tasting online together. We are trying to maintain our normal dinner schedule and routine.

I’ve never played video games that much [before], but now I have played A LOT of NBA 2K! If you had to describe Lexington in three words to someone who had never been here, what words would you use? Horses.

Bourbon. Tranquil.

What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice I’ve received is one of the quotes that I live by, and that is, “Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity.”

When we are not in the middle of a pandemic, where do you go locally to unwind or recharge? Our office is on Main Street in the renovated Courthouse Square, so to unwind I like to take walks, and there are two routes that I use: one through Gratz Park and the other down to Thoroughbred Park. I put in my AirPods, open up Apple Music and escape the realities of work for a bit. Fitness allows me to unwind and recharge too, so I will be anxious to get back in the gym.

What is a dream project you hope to see happen in Lexington? Lexington has a lot of great assets that already make it a great city, but one project I’d love to see happen is an interactive University of Kentucky sports museum, telling the storied history of UK athletics across all sports. With our need for downtown attractions coupled with the expansion and renovation of Central Bank Center and the overall growth of downtown, this would be an amazing, family-friendly attraction that visitors and locals alike would enjoy. n

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Father Jim Sichko The Kentucky-based priest on random acts of kindness, neighbor helping neighbor and giving thanks to frontline heroes by tom wilmes

In 2016, Pope Francis called 1,000 Catholic priests from around the world to gather in Rome, commissioning them as Papal Missionaries of Mercy. He charged them to go out into the world and find ways to demonstrate merciful acts. Father Jim Sichko, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington, is one of 100 such priests in the United States.

An author and speaker, Sichko is known for out-of-the-box, impactful actions such as locating a large supply of personal protective equipment and donating it to the state and a pay-it-forward food donation campaign this past St. Patrick’s Day. “I do these random acts of kindness and various things like that … as a sign that God’s mercy is ever present to us,” Sichko said.

Sichko is also the founder of Miss Marie’s Spaghetti Sauce, named after his late mother.

Proceeds from the company are split between the Southeast Texas Hospice and helping to feed impoverished families in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky through the Diocese of Lexington. His most recent campaign involves placing billboards and print advertisements around the country to thank first responders and healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The first billboard went up on Euclid Avenue in Chevy Chase, with others planned for Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and New York City. “They all have the same image and include the ‘#TeamKentucky’ hashtag,” Sichko said. “It’s my version of saying that the people of Kentucky are appreciative of all that is being done.”

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What can you tell us about the billboard and media campaign? I felt that it was very important, not only as a Missionary of Mercy but as a human being, to offer thanks to the first responders and the medical staff on the front lines of this COVID crisis. I came up with the idea of billboards and ads and placing them, as much as I can, all around the United States and to begin here in Lexington.

I tried to find major areas like Chevy Chase or Interstate 10 in Texas, which is a major thoroughfare, where people would be able to see these signs.

I especially wanted to thank the medical workers, because in one aspect they’re doing my job right now. They’re really doing the work of the priest or the minister, because many times we’re not allowed to be in the hospital with the dying patient, as we usually are. They are the link to the family as well, because the family also can’t be there.

What is your hope when people see these messages? It is my hope that, when people see the sign with the healthcare first responders in the background and the words ‘Thank you to our heroes,’ that they may take a moment and say a private thanks, or it may inspire them … to jot a note or to pass on the message. We’re so used to jotting out emails and things like that, but I think it’s also important for us to get back to writing those little notes of thanks, which can be mailed and people can keep and be reminded of them and post them, especially on hard work days. Even as difficult as it can be, there is always someone who has it worse.

Lexington priest Father Jim Sichko is know for his outside-the-box approaches to spreading faith, such as a recent billboard campaign thanking first responders during the pandemic.

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Some people say, ‘you should be doing these acts in secret,’ but, if we look at Jesus’ life, he never did anything in secret. He never healed anyone in secret. The reason why he shared these things so publicly was to use them as a lesson and to spread the word, and that is exactly why I do what I do. To give people encouragement that they can do this, too.

What reactions do you hear from people?

One of the things that I’m hearing over and over is that actions such as these provide hope. The world has changed, that’s a given, but change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Even though our world is changing, how can we grow from this? How can we find consistent ways of finding good through all of this?

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Any thoughts on navigating change? I think one of the things — and I’ve heard it from my friends in Italy and I’ve heard it from friends all over the world — is that the next course to all of this is going to be how to handle when we get back to that which we will consider normal. There are going to be a lot of people who struggle, especially with depression and confusion and other difficulties. How are we going to address this as a nation and as a people? We’re so focused right now on the cure and a vaccine, but we have people who have lost jobs; who have built family businesses that are now no more; people who are not able to properly grieve the death of their loved ones. There’s a mental component and a spiritual component that’s going to have to be addressed. And that’s where our faith leaders and our psychologists and our counselors and all of those people are going to have to come together.

What makes a random act of kindness particularly effective? I think having it be clear, concise and direct. The other thing is not being afraid to do something just a little differently.

For instance, when we did the St. Patrick’s Day Food giveaway [a partnership with Zim’s Cafe], whatever you ordered you got another meal free to give to someone in need. You didn’t have to pay for it, but you were asked to actually find someone and make a connection. It’s the same with the PPE masks. Everyone was saying ‘these can’t be found,’ but they can be found if you’re able to keep at it and check different resources and reach out to people. I called up someone I’d met through my travels who is connected to a medical supplier, and he said, ‘we’re overwhelmed, but I just got a shipment in and I’ll send you 7,000.’ If I would have just sat home and said ‘this is impossible,’ it never would have gotten anywhere.

It’s like my mother years ago. Whenever there was a crisis, the three things she would do are she would pray, she would clean and then she would cook enormous amounts of food. Not for us, but to give to neighbors and friends. And that’s what I’m finding. People have been dropping little jars of soup at the door and bread. Someone this morning just dropped by three homemade masks. We’re getting back to the basics of what the generations before us did and how they survived. n

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ithout question, we’re living through something unprecedented. It’s been a century since the world experienced a pandemic.

While much has changed in the past 100 years, we know that much of what we feel mirrors how people felt during the 1918 influenza pandemic – and we know that because of the words left behind by those who wrote letters, kept diaries and otherwise documented their own daily lives. Knowing that firsthand accounts will be important to future researchers, organizers from both the both the Lexington History Museum and the Kentucky Folklife Program have started oral history collection projects that are designed to allow others to understand our inthe-moment thoughts and feelings, long after the end of the current event is behind us.

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The Lexington History Museum: Lexington Pandemic History Project The Lexington History Museum was incorporated in 1999 when Mayor Pam Miller asked a group of local history-lovers to create a museum dedicated to telling the city’s story.

In 2003, the museum found a home in the former Fayette County Courthouse, where it remained until 2012 when the building was closed for restoration.

Without a physical public home, the museum’s board saw an opportunity to branch out with some innovative ways of showing off their collections and delivering programming.

Foster Ockerman, Jr., an attorney and current president and chief historian of the museum, explains: “When we had to move out of the space but didn’t have a new permanent home, we started setting up ‘pocket museums’ – small exhibits in borrowed locations around Lexington.”

Two oral history projects are collecting stories and photographs to preserve the experience of the pandemic. Pictured here, the Lexington Public Library, which temporarily shut its doors to protect staff and guests during the pandemic, lit up its windows green in solidarity with families and loved ones of Kentukcians who have lost their lives to the coronavirus.

PHOTO BY DREW PURCELL

These pocket museums are located in traditional spaces, such as the gallery at the Lexington Public Library’s Central Branch, as well as in public areas like the lobbies of Fifth Third Bank and the Government Center.

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Ockerman and the board also transitioned the museum into the digital age, creating an online hub for Lexington history called WikiLex, as well as virtual exhibits that “let the viewer explore the exhibit from anywhere, as if in the physical space,” says Ockerman.

Local artist collective Square Pegs Studio completed a mural on the exterior wall of downtown coffee shop A Cup of Common Wealth, to spread a message of positvity during the pandemic.

While a virtual reality headset offers the most immersive experience, the exhibits can also be enjoyed using a computer, smartphone or tablet. With most of us staying home, the exhibits are an interesting and timely way to learn more about a variety of topics, including the centennial of women’s suffrage in Kentucky, horse racing in Lexington, and the 20th anniversary of the Lexington Fairness Ordinance.

Ockerman would normally be working on plans for new pocket museum exhibitions; filming episodes of the museum’s new KET3 show, “Chronicles: Kentucky History Magazine”; and recording an audio history of the state in partnership with Radio Eye, a broadcast network that provides news and information for the visually impaired.

While the pandemic has placed those projects on indefinite hold, Ockerman also recognized an opportunity for an oral history project to collect stories and thoughts from Lexingtonians, in their own words, and create a record of this time for future researchers.

“History is mostly filtered through the views and perspectives of the historian,” says Ockerman. “With oral history, future researchers have access to the words of those living through this pandemic, and those thoughts – and feelings – won’t be filtered through the perspective of anyone else. It’s unfiltered, 180-proof history.”

Ockerman added that contributions to the Lexington Pandemic History Project, which are collected by email, can be of any length and submitted with or without photos.

“Whatever you feel like saying is important to the historical record of this event,” he says.

Stories have come in from individuals from all walks of life and addressing a wide variety of topics, from the thoughts of a frontline medical professional to opinions on social distancing and wearing masks in public. Ockerman says he’d eventually like to build an exhibit based on the project, at a time when we are far removed from the pandemic and ready to look back on it.

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Kentucky Folklife Program: Connecting Across the Commonwealth in the Time of Coronavirus The Kentucky Folklife Program began in 1989 as an interagency partnership between the Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky Arts Council. The program was relocated to its current home at Western Kentucky University in 2012, where it’s overseen by the Department of Folk Life and Anthropology. The mission of the program – documenting, celebrating, and presenting traditional cultures and folklife groups of Kentucky – compelled Joel Chapman, a folklife specialist, to find a way to collect stories from Kentuckians throughout the state about their lives during the pandemic.

Chapman also brought in Mark Brown, the folk and traditional arts director at the Kentucky Arts Council, and worked in partnership with the Kentucky Oral History Commission to launch the project, called “Connecting Across the Commonwealth in the Time of Coronavirus.”

Using the video conference software Zoom as a platform, groups of four to 10 individuals come together and participate in a story circle.

“Story circles were developed by Roadside Theater, a part of [eastern Kentucky media organization] Appalshop, as a way to bring individual stories into theatrical performances,” Brown said. “The practice was so successful that it’s now used widely as a focused practice for collecting stories from groups of people.”

Brown describes a story circle as “a safe

place for people to share something about themselves, with a guarantee that they will be heard. Just as important as sharing a story in a story circle is listening to everyone else’s stories. There’s a strong emphasis on … listening to others’ stories, and being open to the story that just comes to you when it’s your turn.”

The story circle format involves a facilitator who presents the group with a prompt.

Each group member is given the same amount of time to speak in response to the prompt, and the session ends with a time for reflection.

“While we want to document this time, we also want to create a cathartic space for people if they need it,” Chapman said of why organizers chose the story circle format for the project. “Because we have a small staff, we [also] thought about how this project could take on a life of its own. We thought this model could expand like a spiderweb.”

One of the first story circles was conducted by members of The Community Scholars Program, run by Brown as part of his work at the Kentucky Arts Council. The group, which is already trained to collect oral histories, became a springboard for the program.

Each story circle has since resulted in participants organizing their own story circles, Brown said, and the collecting has woven its way organically throughout the state.

The collection will become a part of the Folklife Archive at the Kentucky Museum, and project organizers hope to create a virtual exhibit in the future so the stories can be shared. They are also considering follow-up interviews with participants after the pandemic, which would also be included in the archive.

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