Chevy Chaser Magazine, August 2025

THE REAL ESTATE ISSUE YEAR-TO-YEAR NEIGHBORHOOD SALES STATS & PVA REPORT

TELLING THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF BLACK HOMEOWNERSHIP IN LEXINGTON QUICK SIX WITH LEXINGTON-BORN COMPOSER SHAWN OKPEBHOLO THE SIERRA CLUB'S ZERO WASTE TEAM

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Contents

The State of Local Real Estate

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An essay from Fayette County PVA David O’Neill and a look at year-to-year real estate stats for five Lexington neighborhoods

Jenkins & Morrow

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Stories of Resilience

War on Waste

A new documentary from producers Black Yarn tells the untold stories of Black homeownership in Lexington

The Sierra Club’s Zero Waste program has made a mission out of increasing awareness and reducing environmental waste

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A state-of-the-art facility focusing on compassionate patient care.

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A proper coming home for celebrated Lexington-born composer Shawn Okpebholo

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Contributors Michelle Aiello is a Chicago-born writer, editor and indie publisher. Her interests include living room karaoke, snail mail and all things vintage. She contributes to our monthly “tadoo list” (our calendar of cultural happenings, page 42).

Smiley Pete contributor Shannon Clinton (“Craveworthy,” page 7) is an Elizabethtown native who now lives in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. A graduate of Western Kentucky University’s journalism program, she has been a full-time freelance writer for 21 years for publications across the Southeast.

With a passion for live music and Appalachia, Madylin Goins (photography for “Stories of Resilience” and “War on Waste”) is a Lexington-based journalist and photographer committed to promoting artists and the stories that keep the hills alive.

Celeste Lewis (“Quick Six: Shawn Okpebholo,” page 33) is a visual artist and freelance writer and director for the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. She contributes profiles to Smiley Pete that highlight a variety of interesting folks from the Lexington area, including artists, writers, small-business owners and various creative types.

Case Mahan (photography for “Drink of the Month”) is a Lexington photographer who works in the documentary tradition. He has made long-term personal projects about the triumphs and shortcomings of Kentucky’s middle class and contributed as an assignment photographer for magazines and newspapers. Past exhibits include “In The Round” (2024) at Institute 193 and “Inner States” (2023) at The University of Kentucky Medical Center.

Tanzi Merritt (“Stories of Resilience,“ page 23; “War on Waste,” page 29) is a writer and marketing and communications professional born and raised in Lexington. Passionate about her cats and plants, she can often be found stirring up dust in her 120-year-old downtown home, deeply absorbed in a documentary, or with her nose stuck in a murder mystery.

David O’Neill has served as Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator since 2009. He contributes to our annual “State of Local Real Estate” package (page 9).

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NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

Located on Turner Commons Way off W. Main Street, near the former site of Lorillard Lofts, the mixed-use development The Commons is in its third and final phase of development, and officials here recently offered an update on its progress, particularly when it comes to foodie things to come.

In addition to a large common area green plaza, performance venue, luxury short-term rentals, industry space and retail shops, RD1 Distillery, walking trails and pond, the 42-acre development will offer a cafe opening later this summer called Water Tower Café, Block & Lot Real Estate LLC Partner Amy Mellinger said.

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An ice cream concept is under construction, she said, and she’s working with several food concepts now that the final phase of “The Entertainment District” is well underway.

CHAR – Craft Coffee Kitchen & Cocktails recently had its soft opening at 316 S. Ashland Ave. It operates as a coffee bar from 6 a.m.-4 p.m. every day, featuring coffee by Funky Rooster, before transitioning into an Italian-inspired cafè for dinner, featuring salads, 12-inch personal pizzas, and a handful of pastas and other entrees. Craft cocktails and pastries from Cakes by Julie are also on the menu of this dog-friendly space which features an outdoor patio.

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Jasmine Rice has a new location for DoorDash and pickup orders at 680 Lima Dr., #110, with a soft opening date for indoor dining set for Aug. 4, according to its Facebook post.

Old North Bar has announced the debut of a new food partner, Son of a Burger, which launched in mid July with a variety of smash burgers, fries and appetizers like loaded fries and onion rings.

Speed round! Honey J’s Southern Eatery has opened at 3449 Buckhorn Dr. Ste. 100 in the former Josanne’s Homestyle Kitchen location; Great Bagel has reopened its Woodland Avenue location following post-fire renovations; a second Java Jukebox Cafe & Eatery is open on 731 Lane Allen Rd.; and Wild Eggs has been hiring for its new location at 4227 Saron Dr. A few closures to report, including nonprofit Spark Community Café in Versailles, which opened downtown in 2019 as a pay what you can farm-to-table restaurant that served more than 90,000 meals, according to its farewell Facebook post. Café officials will regroup and promise to continue their mission, perhaps in another space. More details may be announced in September.

Frozen in Time ice cream shop in Nicholasville announced its final day would come in late July, citing “rising costs and other financial challenges.” And China Hut at 850 Lane Allen Rd., Lexington, is listed on its website as “closed for vacation until further notice.”

Ice cream lovers can be gladdened by Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream’s announcement of summer pop-ups for scoops and pints on the go, with a new ice cream trailer posted at Patchen Square, 2860 Richmond Rd. n

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THE STATE OF LOCAL REAL ESTATE

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Making Sense of Recent Property Tax Issues IT’S BEEN ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER WITH PROPERTY TAXES RECENTLY — FAYETTE COUNTY PVA DAVID O’NEILL IS HERE TO HELP MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

BY DAVID O’NEILL FAYETTE COUNTY PROPERTY VALUE ADMINISTRATOR ver the last five years, home prices have risen sharply due to an unprecedented national housing shortage, triggering increases in property taxes and insurance premiums.

Tax rate increases were levied by Fayette County Public Schools in 2018 and 2022, followed by an increase from LFUCG in 2023. Homeowners received unexpected second or supplemental property tax bills — one in September, followed by another in January — two years in a row, triggering huge swings in mortgage payments and escrow balances, and this year’s bill will include the new parks tax. It’s been one thing after another, and with the school

district’s recent kerfuffle over a proposed bump in the occupational tax, the community’s collective patience seems to be thinning. And to be honest, the public deserves an explanation for some of these changes.

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Kentucky’s property tax system is complicated, and in my experience, you don’t have to wade very far into the weeds before eyes start to glaze over. But with so much happening and so much at stake, it’s a good time for a refresher on what homeowners should know and what to be watching.

Let’s start with a little political theater focusing on how our property tax process came to be and why it’s often referred to as “House Bill 44.”

Prior to a 1992 constitutional amendment, Kentucky’s lieutenant governor was elected independently of the governor. The two could be from different political parties, and the lieutenant governor had more substantial constitutional duties including the power to act as governor anytime the elected governor was out of state. Can you imagine the possible shenanigans if this were still the case?

In December 1978, Gov. Julian Carroll, who had been traveling extensively as chairman of the National Governors Association, was presiding over a training session for new governors in Georgia.

While he was gone, Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall — a political firebrand with her own ambitious plans to run for governor the following year — seized the moment, called the Kentucky General Assembly into a surprise special session, and passed a series of tax-cutting measures, the most significant being a limit on how much property tax revenues can increase in any single year. The mechanism for managing that cap guides how public schools and other taxing districts set their tax rates to this day. In case you’re wondering, Gov. Carroll was supposedly blindsided and furious, but I’m mildly skeptical. Either way, House Bill 44 was born.

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What Does HB44 Actually Do? In short, HB44 limits how much tax revenue from existing property can increase from one year to the next — specifically, no more than 4% — without giving voters a say. It’s worth emphasizing this is not a 4% limit on your individual tax bill increase.

Unfortunately, there is no cap on how much your own bill can go up. The 4% rule applies to the overall revenue increase a taxing district (like the school board, or LFUCG) can take in from existing property — new construction and major improvements are excluded from the limit.

The 4% increase in revenues may result from an increase in property values through the PVA’s reassessment process, an increase in the tax rate, or a combination of the two. In very simple terms, if property values shoot up as they have done recently and have done in the past during unusual economic conditions, the tax rate adjusts downward to help prevent large windfalls in revenue at the taxpayer’s expense.

The accompanying chart isolates and compares the tax rates set by FCPS, the state, and LFUCG’s urban and general services. It is worth noting that half of LFUCG’s general services rate is merely a passthrough to the Lexington Public Library. Very little of LFUCG’s general fund is serviced by property taxes compared to the school district’s budget. The state’s and city’s rates are more representative of a “compensating tax rate.” Notice they have either decreased or remained flat, whereas the school’s rate has increased 24% over the last 12 years.

But remember, property values have also increased substantially over that same period — by more than 65%, resulting in a doubling (100% increase) in the schools’ revenue from property taxes since 2012.

That’s an average annual rate increase of about 6%. This is possible because rate increases are not just one-time hits; they have a compounding effect by becoming the base upon which subsequent years’ 4% increases will be expected and taken.

The constraints of HB44 have played out in a few notable scenarios recently. In 2018, the Fayette County School Board voted for an additional “nickel tax” for security, on top of the regular property tax rate, which resulted in an increase in revenues above 4%. A group of citizens organized and circulated a petition, coming close to but falling short of the required number of signatures to get the rate hike on the ballot. A petition was also circulated in 2022 when the schools again raised rates above the 4% threshold, but it failed too.

So How Do Rates Actually Get Set? Every year between late April and early May, PVAs publish the updated assessment rolls and send notices to property owners. If property owners disagree with the new value, that’s the time to protest with appeals and board hearings concluding in late June. In July, the State Department of Revenue certifies the PVA’s tax roll and sends it to the Department of Local Government and the Department of Education. Those agencies then provide a menu of tax rate options for each taxing district, typically including:

By 2022, we were deep into a hot real estate market that had seemingly sprung up during the pandemic without warning.

Median home sale prices in Lexington had jumped from an annual growth rate of around 5% to a shocking 10-12%, producing large enough increases in property values to easily provide the school district its 4% increase in revenues over 2021 levels. In fact, the 8% growth in the county tax roll in 2022 would not only have guaranteed the schools their 4%, but would have resulted in an overall tax rate lower than the previous year’s — notice in the chart, the other district rates declined by 3% in 2022.

• The compensating rate (keeps total revenue flat year-over-year) • The 4% rate (the maximum increase allowed without a referendum)

Since properties are reassessed once every four years and only one-fourth are reassessed in any given year, 75% of property owners would have received a tax cut in 2022. The timing of the school’s 3% rate hike, combined with an 8% spike in the tax roll, resulted in an 11.3% increase in the school’s property tax revenue — nearly triple the intent of HB44.

When property values are rising as quickly as they have in recent years, tax rates are generally expected to go down. But if a taxing entity chooses to increase the rate, it must allow time for public notice and discussion. And if they set a rate that generates more than a 4% increase, then a petition can be circulated to place the question on the ballot at the next election.

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0.74

0.75

0.75

0.81

0.81

0.81

0.808

0.833 0.81

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0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.122

0.119

0.115

0.109

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0.08

0.08

0.08

0.08

0.08

0.08

0.08

0.08

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0.114

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The Second Tax Bill and Its Unintended Consequences The far more significant fallout from that rate increase by the schools — and, coincidentally, LFUCG’s 2023 increase for urban services — wouldn’t be felt until more than a year later.

It was decided by the various agencies involved to mail the first bill at the regular time in late September, but only include the portion of the property taxes not subject to a petition, leaving the portion subject to recall to be collected through a second bill to be sent months later. In fairness, nobody could reasonably have been expected to foresee the problems a second bill would cause.

Most homeowners don’t pay property tax bills directly; their mortgage companies pay them out of escrow. And a surprising number of mortgage companies — with all kinds of automations in place — either had no idea what to do with these second tax bills, or their systems simply mishandled them. Thousands of bills became delinquent and reverted to the county clerk’s office to be sold as liens to third-party investors, as hundreds are each year. However, the confusion surrounding these bills, most of which were for less than $50 in face value before interest and fees, was so significant that the bills were withdrawn from the lien sale until additional efforts could be made to collect from the property owners and mortgage companies.

But it gets worse. Of the secondary tax bills that were paid on time by mortgage companies, untold hundreds, or perhaps thousands, were misinterpreted, resulting in wild and poorly explained fluctuations in mortgage payments. The most common scenario goes something like this: the second, much smaller tax bills were misinterpreted as the properties’ new annual tax assessments. Excess escrow balances were refunded to homeowners, and monthly mortgage payments were recalculated to reflect much smaller expected tax bills, sometimes just $30 or $40.

Then, almost a year later, the real tax bills arrived, only to find escrow accounts thousands of dollars short. Monthly mortgage payments were once again recalculated, sometimes doubled, to quickly replenish the funds in escrow.

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Most of us would be profoundly impacted by a sudden doubling of our mortgage payment. The only consolation is that monthly payments will likely be recalculated back to a more normal level with the next cycle of tax bills. I continue to hear from property owners who either have no idea what caused the disruption, or worse, are given the wrong explanation that it was due to increased assessments or insurance premiums. But the bottom line is this: an unintended and unforeseen side effect of these additional bills caused real pain for taxpayers, some of whom were, and some still are, at serious risk of defaulting on their mortgages.

Looking Ahead Regardless of where we stand on future tax rate hikes, let’s at least agree to stay far enough ahead of these proposals to preserve every option for getting the entire tax liability included on the first — and only — tax bill. What little revenue it extracts is simply not worth the havoc it can wreak. So please have your antenna up in August — property tax rate setting season. Ask the usual questions like is the increase necessary? But also ask, will this increase result in a second bill, and is THAT necessary? ■

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CHEROKEE PARK/ GLENDOVER/SHADELAND

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CUMBERLAND HILLS/WOODFIELD

NEIGHBORHOOD STATS Total Residences (Single-Family, Duplex, Townhouse, Condo):

999 Median Square Footage (Excludes Basement):

2,177 Median Age of Home (in Years):

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1,987 Median Age of Home (in Years):

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Ask the Home Services Expert with Jamie Clark This month’s question is about the HVAC tax credit going away and cooling tips.

Question: Question: I heard the new tax bill takes away home HVAC tax credits. Is that true?

Tyler – Lexington Answer: Sadly, it is true and not just HVAC but all home energy tax credits will expire at the end of this year. To put it into perspective this is the first time since 2008 that we have not had some home energy tax credits so it’s kind of a big deal to our industry. The best advice I can give is if you have a HVAC you’ve been hanging on to now is the time to get a new one and save up to $2650 in tax credits before the end of the year.

I’m going to summarize a ton of questions we’ve gotten on “why is my AC not keeping up this summer” with a couple tips on what you can do to help it out. #1. It should go without saying but it’s still our most common service call, CHANGE YOUR FILTER AND IF IT’S ONLY 1 INCH THICK USE SEE THROUGH FILTERS! #2. Your indoor unit and outdoor unit both have coils that absorb heat from the inside of the house and discharge it into the outside air. If one or both coils are dirty it can destroy your systems coiling ability. The dirt acts like a insulator not allow for the proper transfer of heat and will completely stop your systems ability to remove humidity from the home. Think of a can koozie on a coke can in the summer, the insulation keeps the can from sweating.

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doing it’s job leaving you home humid. Professional cleaning will keep your AC at 100% and make your more comfortable and use less energy. Again, regular maintenance should be common sense, but this is one of our most common service calls. Also, all maintenance is not the same, it’s very common to come behind other companies and find dirty coils so even when you think you are getting maintenance you may not be getting what you think you are. #3. Your outdoor unit needs about 18 inches of clearance from leafy plants because it draws air from its sides to pull across the coils and exhaust hot air out of the top. If the sides are restricted it will severely lower the units ability to cool the house. So good landscaping practices will help your system perform at it’s best. #4. Believe it or not your attic impacts your home’s cooling more than just about any part of the home. The insulation in your attic keeps heat in the home in the winter and out of the home in the summer. The problem with the traditional attic is it can get to 150 degrees in the summer basically creating a oven above your living space with all that heat pushing its way into your cool environment. Today’s best practice for attic insulation is 20 inches deep of fiberglass or cellulose. The code minimum is 15 inches deep. Most houses in Chevy Chase have 6- or 8-inch joists in the attic, if your insulation isn’t CONSISTENTLY double the height of the joists you are under insulated and causing your home to take on too much heat and struggle to cool. Insulation is one of the least expensive home improvements with the fastest return on investment. Plus it’s very surgical and can usually be in and out in 1-2 days.

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NEIGHBORHOOD STATS Total Single Residences Family Residences (Houses): (Single-Family, Duplex, Townhouse, Condo):

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Black Yarn organizers Kristen LaRue Bond and Regina Lewis (L-R) have been building a multifaceted organization that shines a light on often unspoken historic racial injustices and a path toward resilience.

PHOTO BY MADYLIN GOINS

Stories of Resilience A NEW DOCUMENTARY FROM PRODUCERS BLACK YARN TELLS THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BLACK HOMEOWNERSHIP IN LEXINGTON STORY BY TANZI MERRITT PHOTOS BY MADYLIN GOINS

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risten LaRue Bond hadn’t planned to found a nonprofit — or co-produce a documentary — when she walked into a Bluegrass Realtors Board of Directors meeting in August 2023.

But what she heard that day struck a deeply personal chord.

Led by community organizers Rona Roberts and Barbara Sutherland, the presentation “Lexington, Kentucky: Segregated by Design” explored the history of housing segregation in Lexington, through data, maps and personal stories.

For Bond, a Lexington native and realtor, the presentation wasn’t just historical. It was family history.

“They talked about St. Martin’s Village, where my grandparents bought their first home,” she said, referring to the West End Lexington neighborhood that’s known as the first Lexington subdivision dedicated for Black families in the 1950s.

Many of the stats featured in the presentation were staggering.

“The number of loans [available for Black homeowners in that time] was so small compared to the number available for white homeowners, which was close to 14,000 or 15,000,” LaRue said.

“For Black homeowners there were only around 200.”

That disparity wasn’t abstract. It was her grandparents’ reality and one she had grown up hearing about.

“They were telling the story of my family, their friends, the people I knew,” she said. “It hit home.”

“They were telling the story of my family, their friends, the people I knew.

It hit home.”

KRISTEN LARUE BOND, BLACK YARN PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER

That moment sparked a much larger vision. Bond encouraged the presenters to begin recording those stories of the generation who had carved out paths to homeownership despite systemic barriers, to accompany the data in their presentation. From that idea grew Black Yarn, a nonprofit dedicated to collaborative storytelling and research around systemic harm in Lexington — and eventually, a feature-length documentary: “Lexington: Resilience in the Redline,” which will debut this month.

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A Story of Harm and Resilience Set to premiere on Aug. 23 at the Lyric Theatre, “Resilience in the Redline” focuses on the history of residential segregation and its impact on Black land ownership and wealth in our community, as well as potential paths to a more equitable and just future. The film explores what the organization calls “The Three R’s”: racially-restrictive covenants, realtor steering, and redlining, which is a discriminatory housing practice that began in the 1930s that denied loans or insurance to people living in certain neighborhoods — usually those with large Black or immigrant populations.

The film is deeply rooted in Lexington’s history, but also in lived experience.

“It’s about the Black community in Lexington, specifically speaking to the hardships of homeownership trying to get homes and encountering policies that made it pretty difficult. But it’s also about the resilience that they show overcoming those barriers and obstacles,” said Regina Lewis, Black Yarn’s Data Research Scientist. “We see how these communities came together.”

The premiere event includes more than just a screening. Guests are invited to “Research on the Rocks,” an immersive pre-show experience with drinks, food, interactive art stations, and a walkthrough of Lewis’s research on how federal housing policies have contributed to the racial wealth gap both nationally and in Kentucky. A panel discussion will precede the documentary debut.

Mapping the Restrictions The documentary may be Black Yarn’s largest project to date, but it’s far from the only one. The team is currently working on a massive research initiative to examine Lexington’s property deeds for racially restrictive covenants — clauses that prohibited selling or renting homes to people of color.

What is Redlining?

While these covenants were certainly a national issue, Lewis’s research has found that they were particularly widespread here, she said. “After examining about 60 subdivisions — roughly 25% of the total — we found racially restrictive covenants in every one of them.”

Redlining is a discriminatory housing practice that began in the 1930s, when the federal government and banks literally drew red lines on their maps around the neighborhoods they considered “risky” for investment — often because they were home to Black residents or immigrants.

Shockingly, many of those covenants still appear in modern deeds. Even though the Supreme Court voted to make them unenforceable in 1948, the language wasn’t stricken out of many deeds. “We’ve even found this language in deeds of homes built in the 1950s. People were still trying to include restrictive covenants even after they became unenforceable.”

The team’s goal is to create an interactive online map where residents can search for their home or neighborhood to see whether redlining, deed restrictions, or other forms of systemic discrimination were present.

If your neighborhood was redlined, it meant you were unlikely to qualify for home loans, insurance, or mortgages backed by the government, even if you had good credit. These policies made it nearly impossible for many Black families to buy homes or build generational wealth.

Though officially outlawed in 1968 by the Fair Housing Act, redlining’s effects are still visible today. Many formerly redlined neighborhoods continue to face disinvestment, lower property values, and higher barriers to ownership.

Federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps, such as the one above of Lexington from 1938, were distributed in cities all over the country to denote which neighborhoods were deemed “best” for investing (green), “still desirable” (blue), “definitely declining” (yellow), and “hazardous for investing” (red).

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Beyond Housing

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Though housing is at the forefront of Black Yarn’s current work, the team sees it as just one thread in a larger tapestry.

“Relaxing the body. Quieting the mind.

Opening the heart.”

“It’s not just about housing,” Bond said. “We are really looking at systemic harm. So, it is housing, but it’s also education. It’s also healthcare. It’s also transportation. It’s all the systems that interplay in all of our lives, [and] how they were designed and structured to often disenfranchise people of color.”

For Bond, that work is about more than policy. It’s about people.

“One piece of our mission and philosophy is humanizing Black people and people of color. A lot [of harm] happens because we ‘other’ each other , whether it’s Black people ‘othering’ each other, white people ‘othering’ Black people, people ‘othering’ immigrants, whatever the case is,” she said. “And that’s because we see each other through a lens that’s provided to us, instead of really getting to know one another. Collaboration is one of our pillars, and collaboration is just relationship building.”

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s the environmental impacts of plastic waste have become better known in recent years, finding ways to mitigate that waste has increasingly been a topic of conversation and concern. Microplastics — small plastic fragments that result from the manufacturing process or the breakdown of larger plastic items like bags and bottles — have more recently been discovered to be present in nearly every ecosystem, harming wildlife and disturbing the food chain. Studies of microplastics in the human body increasingly demonstrate negative effects on the respiratory, cardiovascular and reproductive systems.

To that end, environmental organizations like the Sierra Club have taken up the cause of increasing awareness and reducing the use of plastics, particularly single-use plastics.

Food services are among the industries that have historically heavily relied on single-use plastics (i.e., plastic items that are meant to be discarded after one use). From plastic straws to take-out containers, restaurants make use of this waste at a high rate. The Bluegrass chapter of the Sierra Club’s Zero Waste Team has made a mission out of educating and assisting area residents in implementing “zero waste” practices, and has especially engaged with local restaurants to urge them to discontinue the use of single-use plastics.

“When we first got started [with this work], we were all worried about environmental pollution and the harm to oceans and wildlife,” said Judith Humble, who heads up Lexington’s Zero Waste Team. “As time has passed, more research is coming out and now we are aware of the harm microplastics are causing to human health — they are now penetrating just about all of the organs and systems in our bodies, including the brain.

Zero Waste Team leader Judith Humble (above) displays some of her favorite to-go vessels, which she brings to restaurants and coffee shops to help avoid excess waste.

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The Zero Waste Group has now enacted two different restaurant campaigns, the first in 2019 and the most recent in 2023.

“We survey restaurants about their use of single-use plastics and provide information on ways to reduce their reliance on these products; we also ask about barriers to eliminating these products,” Humble explained.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the organization has found the main barrier is cost, with the cost differential often coming to two or three times more for environmentally friendly products like paper straws or compostable take-out containers.

But increased costs haven’t stopped some local restaurants from changing their practices. While some have made smaller changes, like only providing plastic straws or utensils with carry-out order by request, others have made a substantial commitment to sustainability.

Humble points to Kentucky Native Café, the restaurant and beer garden attached to Michler’s Florist, Greenhouses and Garden Design, as an example of a business that has gone above and beyond, also attempting to eliminate waste from suppliers.

Robin Michler, owner of Kentucky Native Café, pointed to beer service as one easy way that they have eliminated waste. The café serves beer only from refillable kegs, eliminating glass and aluminum waste.

Wine service, however, remains an issue, as winemakers have not been incentivized to create a sustainable packaging loop in the same way.

“Our recycling is full of wine bottles every week,” Michler admitted.

Minglewood, located downtown on North Limestone, eliminated plastic straws nearly a decade ago. After working its way through a large batch of paper straws provided by a local bourbon distillery as a promotional item, the restaurant invested in reusable plastic straws – provided only by request, and washed and reused after each use. Minglewood also uses biodegradable take-out containers, paper bags, and new staff are educated early in their on-boarding on the business’s recycling practices and “by request only” policies.

Lockbox, a part of downtown’s 21C Museum Hotel, stopped using plastic straws in 2017. Brian Walters, director of the restaurant’s food and beverage service, said that after using paper straws for a while, the restaurant has since transitioned to agave straws.

“We find that the additional cost is nominal when computing overhead, and we consider it worthwhile to give the restaurant a greener profile,” Walters said.

Another common way that local restaurants eliminate waste from disposable products is to utilize ceramic plates and glassware. While this is common and

not a new practice, a shift from washable products to disposable products in cafés, fast casual, and casual dining establishments took place in the late 20th century as a way to lower staffing and equipment costs, particularly for small establishments, and create a more relaxed atmosphere.

Kenwick Table, a coffee shop and wine bar on Owsley Avenue in the Kenwick neighborhood, is one of the small casual restaurants that went against this trend and opted for reusable, washable serve ware. Owner Rett McGoodwin noted that operating a dishwasher comes with its own set of challenges, acknowledging that staff are needed to operate the dishwasher, and that measures must be taken to address the increased moisture and humidity associated with the equipment.

It’s something he decided was worth it, though, for both environmental impact as well as a desire to provide customers with a quality dining experience.

Humble said that while up-front costs for purchasing a dishwasher and reusable serve ware are higher, those investments become more cost-effective over the lifespan of a restaurant than continual purchase of disposable items.

When the Zero Waste Team first approached local restaurants about these practices, she said, they sent a packet with a letter explaining the campaign and offering resources. One of those resources was from a group called Beyond Plastics,

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an international organization that has done a great deal of research.

“They give examples of restaurants who made the switch and actually found that it was profitable over the long-term,” Humble said. “Plus, consumers are becoming more concerned with environmental impact, and there are many people who are more likely to visit a restaurant with a green profile.”

As to what individuals can do to help, Humble said, the organization tries to teach people that recycling alone is not the answer.

Investing in compostable carryout containers and washable silverware are among the ways that some local restaurants are working to reduce waste.

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“Generally, only about 12% of plastic gets recycled into another useful product; most of the rest of it ends up in landfills or litter,” she said. “As this plastic degrades, microplastics enter the ecosystem and eventually end up in our bodies. Definitely keep recycling, but trying to eliminate use is the most impactful action we can take.”

The Zero Waste Team welcomes volunteers to join their team and help provide information to various businesses about things they can do to reduce plastic pollution in their practices.

“We lived for many years without these products,” Humble pointed out. “With a bit of effort, we can make changes that have an impact.” n More the Sierra Club’s Zero Waste initiative can be found at www.sierraclub.org/ kentucky/bluegrass/zero-waste-initiative

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ver the course of his 20-plus year career, celebrated Lexington-born composer Shawn Okpebholo has been on the receiving end of a number of national accolades and recognitions.

He received the prestigious Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the Academy of Arts & Letters this year and was named “Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music” by the Chicago Tribune in 2024. His music — which the Washington Post has called “devastatingly beautiful” — has been performed by an impressive list of performers that includes the Nashville Opera and noted vocalist Rhiannon Giddens, and he has been commissioned to create musical compositions for arts organizations such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the United States Air Force Strings.

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Next month, Okpebholo will have the unique opportunity to give back to his hometown, when Lexington hosts the world premiere of “A Mighty Long Way,” an orchestrated suite he wrote specifically for the city in which he was born and raised. The work, which was commissioned by the city in conjunction with 250Lex, Lexington’s year-long 250th anniversary celebration, will be performed by the Lexington Philharmonic at the Singletary Center during an event dubbed 250Lex: A Concert For Lexington on Sept. 7.

The free event will also feature pre-show activities including live music, family activities and a conversation between Okpebholo and LexPhil music director Mèlisse Brunet on the lawn of the Singletary Center, followed by opening sets inside the Singletary Center Concert Hall from Ben Sollee and Joslyn and the Sweet Compression. The Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra will also perform their own newly commissioned work, “Anthem for Lexington,” prior to the premiere of Okpebholo’s work.

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Okpebholo has often been highlighted as an artist with particularly impressive variety and range, with complex and emotional compositions that evoke many colors, layers and textures — almost like paintings set to music. His works tend to focus on stories: “Two Black Churches,” another work he premiered in Lexington recently, tells the story of two church bombings decades apart in the South, and another recent work, “Songs In Flight,” explores the untold stories of runaway enslaved individuals.

“I tried to really capture the essence of what Lexington is all about ... but I wanted to go beyond the city as well.”

“A Mighty Long Way” consists of four movements that highlight different aspects of Lexington, from horses, bourbon and bluegrass, to the city’s difficult history as the former site of one of the region’s largest slave auctions.

Ultimately, the work covers a range of emotions, from serious and contemplative to celebratory and playful. It even feels a little bit drunken at times, Okpebholo said with a laugh — “but not in a bad way.”

“I couldn’t write a piece that doesn’t address the complex and hard history of Lexington, too,” Okpebholo said.

“Obviously Cheapside was one of the largest slave auction blocks of the south. Even though they changed the name, it’s still there.”

“I tried to really capture the essence of what Lexington is all about. This is a city I was born in, I was raised in, my family is all still there,” he said. “It’s a piece that reflects the city of Lexington, but a piece that I wanted to go beyond the city as well.”

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A Concert for Lexington: World Premiere of “A Mighty Long Way” Sept. 7 Pre-show activities at 1 p.m., Show at 3 p.m.

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Shawn Okpebholo was composer-in-residence for Lexington Philharmonic’s 2023-’24 season where he debuted his acclaimed LexPhil-commissioned orchestral work, “Two Black Churches.”

Shawn Okpebholo recently took the time to answer a few questions for Smiley Pete reporter Celeste Lewis.

What was it like growing up in Lexington? Truly wonderful. Looking back, even though I didn’t come from a place of privilege, I’m so grateful for the community that surrounded me.

Anchored by my mother and supported by our church, Salvation Church, and the public school system, I was surrounded by people who poured into me with encouragement, opportunity, education and a whole lot of love.

How did you discover music in your life and realize you wanted to compose music as a career? Once I was exposed to music — first through church and then through school — I knew almost immediately that it had to be a central part of my life. It’s funny, even as a kid I had this strong instinct that I’d rather create music than perform it. That instinct never left, and it eventually grew into a full career in composition.

Tell me about some of the places music has taken you. Wow! Honestly, it’s humbling. Music has quite literally taken me all over the world, from Carnegie Hall and other iconic venues to most states across the United States, and to Europe, Africa and Asia.

I don’t take any of it for granted.

Tell me about being commissioned to do this piece to celebrate Lexington’s 250th and your work to bring the finished composition to be performed in Lexington. This commission means so much to me.

The Lexington Philharmonic was the first orchestra I ever experienced as a young elementary school kid, so to now be writing a piece for them feels poetic. And because I was born and raised in Lexington, with deep cultural roots here, writing a piece about my hometown is deeply personal and meaningful. The music seeks to reflect the richness and complexity of our city from our equestrian heritage to the painful legacy of Cheapside, to the joy of bourbon culture, and of course, to our historic connection to Bluegrass.

What is a practice you use to tap into your creative energy? Prayer.

And I intentionally engage with other art forms — visual art, theater, literature. I also try to stay rooted in our shared stories and histories. That connection keeps the creative energy flowing.

Pre-show activities on the lawn of the Singletary Center will begin at 1 p.m.. Attendees can enjoy entertainment from M’Power Rhythm, a conversation between Lexington Philharmonic’s Music Director Mèlisse Brunet and Shawn Okpebholo, family activities with the Carnegie Center and the Living Arts & Science Center, and refreshments.

In addition to Okpebholo’s commissioned work, the Concert for Lexington, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Singletary Center Concert Hall, will feature performances by Ben Sollee, Joslyn and the Sweet Compression, and the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, which will perform a newly commissioned “Anthem for Lexington.”

Additionally, the Lexington Philharmonic will perform “Short Piece for Orchestra” by African American composer and Lexington native Julia Perry.

NOTE: While tickets to the event are free, registration is required and Concert Hall registration quickly reached capacity.

However, to meet the excitement and demand of our community, organizers have created a Concert Hall waitlist and have opened up the Recital Hall for general admission, where the performance will be simulcast.

Tickets will be scanned for entry into both halls. The show will also be live streamed so that people can watch from home. Admission to the pre-show lawn activities is open to everyone, regardless of ticket status. n

What advice would you give to young musicians and composers? I have two: Be kind. And cultivate meaningful friendships. Those relationships will carry you far, both personally and professionally.

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These are quick, cheesy, and impossibly good with a glass of chilled white wine.

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Ingredients: • 3 medium vine-ripened tomatoes, halved • ¼ cup mayonnaise (the correct answer is always Duke’s!)

• ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese • ¼ cup minced scallions • 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley • Salt and pepper • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil Method: Set your broiler to high and position the oven rack about 4 inches from the heat.

In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, Parmesan, scallions and parsley. Season to preference.

Place tomato halves cut side up on a rimmed baking sheet and lightly brush with olive oil. Broil for 3 minutes.

Remove sheet from the oven and evenly spoon the cheese mixture over the tops of the tomatoes. Return to the broiler and cook for another 2-3 minutes, until golden and bubbling.

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Garnish with parsley and serve warm.

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Double Vision: Lawrence Tarpey and John Wilde. On display through Aug. 29. This exhibition brings together the richly detailed, dreamlike paintings of Lexington artist Lawrence Tarpey with works

by John Wilde, a key figure in Wisconsin surrealism known for his meticulously rendered, fantastical scenes. Together, their pieces create a dialogue between contemporary and mid-century surrealist visions, revealing layered worlds of imagination and symbolism.

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Patrons begin at one of 40-plus locations and visit as many or as few participating venues as they would like. Official HOP hours are 5-8 p.m., with many venues keeping additional hours. A full guide is available each month at the LexArts HOP website. lexarts.org/discover/ lexarts-hop Aquaventure 2025. On display March 3-May 2. This exhibit will display diverse works from an array of top artists from the Kentucky Watercolor Society. An opening reception will take place in conjunction with the LexArts Hop on March 21 (5-8 p.m.). Gallery hours: Fri-Sat., 12-4 p.m. and by appointment. Artist’s Attic, 401 W. Main St., Suite 401. www.theartistsattic.org LuigART Women 2025. On display March 1-31. Hosted by the

LuigART Women’s Collective, this second annual exhibit is designed to celebrate women in the visual arts. Female artists from Fayette and adjacent Kentucky counties were invited to participate. Curated by retired gallerist and artist Mary Rezny, the exhibit features 52 artworks in diverse genres across all mediums. Gallery hours: Fri.Sun., noon-4 p.m. Special events include an artist reception and awards March 8 (5:30-8 p.m.) and LexArts Hop reception March 21 (5-8 p.m.) Luigart Event Gallery, 110 Luigart Ct. Artist Showcase. On display through April 5. This exhibition highlights the work of Lexington artists Kiji Bae, Gayle Cerlan, Dalphna Donnelly, Marta E. Dorton, Chad Eames, Jack Girard, Sarah Heller, Georgia Henkel, Jennifer Dunham, Karen Spears Springate and Brady Saylor. Featuring a diverse range of media, including painting, photography, and sculpture, the showcase celebrates the city’s vibrant creative community. Gallery hours: Tues.–Thurs., 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; Fri., noon–8 p.m.; Sat., noon–5 p.m.

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