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EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL WELCOMES CONNER KINMON AS BAND DIRECTOR taken over the baton.

Kinmon is a native of Kentucky, hailing from the city of Williamstown in the northern part of the state. He attended Williamstown Independent Schools, which encompasses the elementary, middle and high school on one campus.

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This talented director began his musical career while in the sixth grade. His instrument: the trumpet.

The Eastern High School band has held a lofty position in the arena of marching organizations for many years, winning a multitude of awards and grand championships within the county, the commonwealth and even in neighboring states. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to take a peek inside the band class area, the room is teeming with trophies that showcase the band’s years of success and accomplishments.

“My dad was very insistent that I did band,” he says.

The pandemic, along with other circumstances, brought the marching band’s rehearsals and performances to a silencing halt. The band director who had been with the school for more than 20 years parted ways, but an interim director stepped in to keep the program afloat. Now, it’s the dawning of a new day for this well-respected group of young performers as a new director, 27-year-old Conner Kinmon, has

Both of his parents played instruments in school - his dad played trombone and his mom clarinet - but neither of them ever took it to a professional level to teach music.

“At Williamstown, the band was pretty much the only thing that was any good,” Kinmon says. “They had just won two state championships in marching band. The athletics weren’t very much. Everyone who was in band was super proud to be a part of the program. I figured it was a good place to be.”

Kinmon admits that after he began with the program, he wasn’t too sure if it was quite right for him. As a seventh grader, he was playing and marching with older students,

many in the 12th grade. He wanted to drop out immediately.

“I begged my father to let me quit after my first day,” he says. “I was definitely in over my head. Everyone else seemed to know more of what they were doing than I did, and seventh graders don’t always fit in with seniors. I grew up really quickly to make sure I wasn’t that annoying little seventh grader. My dad encouraged me to stick with it, and I guess the rest is history, as they say.”

Kinmon did continue with the program through his senior year, and he had the distinct pleasure of being taught by Robert Gregg, a well-known band director in the state of Kentucky.

Kinmon confesses that the trumpet wasn’t his first instrument of choice.

“I originally wanted to play the mellophone,” he says. “When I asked about it, the band director said it wasn’t an instrument you can start out on, so he said, ‘What about the trumpet?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ ” Kinmon explains that he decided to stay with the trumpet because there is a history of great trumpet players at Williamstown.

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older students,” he says.

After graduation, Kinmon went on to the University of Kentucky (UK) to continue his music education, stating that he was afforded many opportunities there that he may not have had elsewhere. He also formed a very tight network of friends and colleagues.

“I was able to play in a variety of really highperforming ensembles, I got to study with great teachers, and being in Lexington, I got plugged into the band director scene there,” he says.

Also while in college, Kinmon began working as a trumpet teacher at Lafayette High School, and he also taught private music lessons.

In college Kinmon was involved with the symphony orchestra, jazz ensembles, chamber groups and others.

“You name it, and I was a part of it,” he says.

“I probably overcommitted. There was one particular semester I was in nine different groups, and sometimes I’d be playing from the morning to late at night.”

After Kinmon graduated from UK with a bachelor’s degree in music and music education, he began his career in teaching as a substitute instructor in Lexington.

“I had the opportunity to be in so many different classrooms, and in front of bands and general population classes,” he says. “I feel that extra time really prepared me for my first year of teaching.”

When the next school year was about to begin, Kinmon went on the job hunt applying for music director positions.

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“Henderson has been a lot of fun and I’m fortunate that I came in at a really good time,” he explains. “We’ve had a lot of success. We improved a lot, going from 15th place in marching band to achieving eighth place in 2019. The wind ensemble was selected to perform at the Kentucky Music Educators Association conference in 2021, which was a great honor for the band program.”

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Although Kinmon was quite happy at Henderson, he had heard through the band director grapevine that a position had opened up at Eastern for director of bands.

His wife is a graduate of Eastern High, and she actually played flute in the band. He began doing his research, and eventually threw his hat into the ring. He was hired by the school this past spring.

“Eastern is probably one of the most admirable positions and programs in the state,” he says. “This was an opportunity to be part of something with a great history. This opportunity was too great to pass up. I’m excited about Eastern, and the opportunity to collaborate with the symphony orchestra and working with the choir. All of the fine arts programs at Eastern are so strong.”

Although they weren’t able to perform in person, they did send in a recording of their performance to the conference. Kinmon is also proud of the fact that the number of students participating in the program grew from 68 students to 105 under his tutelage.

“The kids in the band really advocate for themselves,” he says. “We all try to promote a positive atmosphere.”

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Although the band’s summer season started out slowly, Kinmon did have small gatherings and meet-and-greets with the students and their families, at school and at

Wetherby Park. On one Saturday, when they had an abbreviated band camp, Kinmon revealed their show for the fall season.

“We have our fingers crossed that the fall show will be in full place,” he states.

One of the most anticipated programs produced by the Eastern Band is their Eagle Classic competition. The contest is usually held in September, but this year it will take place on October 9. Their annual fall fundraiser, the Holiday Boutique, will also be back, happening on November 13 in the school’s gymnasium.

“We’re so excited to get started and to be a part of the Middletown community,” Kinmon says. “From an outsider’s perspective, the community really heavily supports the band program. Middletown is a very unique place. It’s pretty awesome what the community does to support all of Eastern High School.”

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The past year, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, has been difficult for many businesses. A number of places had to shut down due to lack of customer patronage.

Entertainment venues shuttered their doors, which meant the cancellation of concerts, plays and most anything else that involved large crowds. Singers, dancers, actors, musicians and their support crews became unemployed.

Bringing it home, how were people involved in the Louisville entertainment community affected, and what did they do to weather the storm, especially those associated with the Louisville Orchestra?

According to Michelle Winters, the orchestra’s marketing director, everything was sailing along smoothly during the beginning of 2020, without an inkling as to how things were going to change, quite drastically, within a few weeks’ time.

“We had performances on February 22 and 23,” she says. “We performed at the Kentucky Center to a packed house and then we went the next day to St. Stephen Church to perform ‘Gospel in Symphony’ with the church choir.

A couple of weeks later on March 14 we were scheduled to perform a world premier by local composer Jacob Duncan with Norah Jones.

It was scheduled to be another full, packed house. We were incredibly excited.”

News about the coronavirus soon became more prevalent.

“Word started circulating of the Speed Ball held on March 8, which was kind of a superspreader of the virus, and one person [from the orchestra] had been at that event and had been exposed,” Winters explains.

Winters says it was very concerning at the time. That Wednesday, March 11, orchestra leaders made the decision to shut down a concert three days away.

“There wasn’t even a minute to think or grieve, or figure what was going to happen or to plan,” she says. “We instantly had to communicate with people. Of course at the time we were getting, ‘You idiots, you’re all just scared of something that doesn’t really exist,’ or, ‘Thank God. We weren’t going to come anyway but we’re so glad you’re doing the right thing.’ ” Winters says their next task was to notify everyone who had tickets, try to get the story out to the media fast enough, and get the public’s attention.

knew the balance of the season had to be canceled,” Winters says.

The orchestra leaders had to cancel 10 public concerts, plus they had to cancel their education concerts, for which school children would come listen to a performance. These education concerts had been in existence since 1941. It was Music Director Teddy Abrams’ goal, and the orchestra’s goal, to keep things on track as much as possible and provide music for Louisville.

“Everybody had to go through a moment of personal reflection, and also organizational reflection if you represented a group,” Abrams says. “In particular, the performing arts recognized this was going to be a major moment of change. Across the board, people throughout the world were wondering if we were going to be experiencing a short-term, a long-term or a life-changing kind of event.”

Abrams says the orchestra members were very realistic when considering what they would need to do to adapt.

The staff notified patrons by email and on the phone. Twenty percent of the March 14 “We had made one really early smart decision,” audience asked for a refund, and the rest said Abrams says. “We didn’t hope for the best. We they’d like to hold that money in their account. used the opportunity of having a momentous kind of tectonic shift in the way people think “That was just one concert,” Winters says. and work, to actually move forward with some of our biggest visions and longest-range The staff returned to work the following concepts for what an orchestra can do for its Monday and began trying to determine what community.” would happen with the next concerts.

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“On the other hand, if that is a path towards thinking bigger and being more effective, and doing what you’re capable of doing even better, then that can turn a very negative and very tragic situation into something that ultimately breeds new life and allows you to flourish,” Abrams says.

ramification, but we have Breonna Taylor, and we have the changes in downtown and the way people perceive Louisville,” he says.

“Clearly music, as a healing part of society, as a mechanism for bringing people together and giving each other pride in their city - clearly that’s going to be needed to a heightened and more critical state. That was what we set out to do.”

That’s what the orchestra members wanted to do - find a way to work through the roadblocks Abrams explains how all of this led the presented by the pandemic. orchestra down what he refers to as a “triple path.” These paths center upon needing to “I think we were very realistic with the affect the positive health of our community, challenges, and the difficulties and the create opportunities for equal access to their tragedy,” Abrams says. “There was never music, and do something that changes the way anything other than clarity about that. What we really did was step back and ask, ‘What can people perceive Louisville and the way we we do for our community that needs us more perceive ourselves. than ever?’”

“We need to give people pride about being from Louisville, and we need to give the Abrams points out that Louisville was going outside world a glimpse of what Louisville can through many difficult situations during the do at its very best,” he says. past year.

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programming for the COVID year and beyond, based upon those principles.

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the Kentucky Center’s properties,” Abrams says. “We had designed it specifically with technology in mind, even though we weren’t planning for a pandemic. It turned out that all the investment that was made to allow the orchestra to play at Paristown Hall was perfect for us to move in, and it was very easy to make a strictly social-distanced, safe environment for our musicians and staff, because that was the priority.”

During their rehearsals they had a very comprehensive safety guideline and policy set that they enforced, because if there was any spread they would have had to shut down.

Twice per week the staff, musicians, any extra musicians and guest artists had to get tested for COVID-19.

On stage everyone had different entrances, everybody had a mask, and mesh masks were placed over the bells of instruments. There was plexiglas between performers, and they had special fans installed by air-flow experts.

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“That was the biggest trip of all,” Abrams explains. “It would be like a football team with the defense playing offense and vice versa.

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Everybody knew how lucky we were to be playing music. Everybody was thrilled. We made do.”

Another positive aspect rising from the darkness of the pandemic was a project Abrams was asked to work on, which came forth from Mayor Greg Fischer, called Lift Up Lou. “That was really designed to provide the city with opportunities to be creative, to

experience art and artists while they were isolated, and to eliminate some of the isolation to make them feel more connected to each other,” Abrams says. “It was a cultural initiative.”

Abrams says two major accomplishments came from this initiative. A massive group song called “Lift Up Lou” was created, co-composed by 27 Louisville musicians including Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Will Oldham, who is known as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ben Sollee, and a whole host of talented artists.

“The other big thing is that we created the Louisville Arts Network,” Abrams says. “We ended up with nearly 200 pieces of art in all genres, from music to weaving to visual art.”

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experienced similar effects on their careers because certain opportunities were not provided to them.

“There’s a deep, deep relationship between black and Jewish artists,” Abrams says. “If you think about spirituals that are all Old Testament, they’re inspired by the Exodus story,” he says. “You think about Gershwin writing jazz and having an all-black cast in “The first set of music that people will hear ‘Porgy and Bess’ when it was premiered. You is all by Louisville composers,” Abrams think about all of the great jazz artists who continues. “We have seven different were black, who were singing songs by Jewish Louisville musicians to create a new piece composers like the Gershwins or Irving Berlin of music that’s a reflection on what they’ve experienced. We felt that having a tie to locals and so on.” is important. Also, providing opportunities Other concerts during the orchestra’s season for local musicians to share our space is will explore Latin American music, and one important for us.” of Abram’s friends, pianist Yuja Wang, will perform a piano concerto composed by The orchestra will also begin a four-year Abrams. exploration, which delves deeply into the relationship between Jewish artists who had “She is one of the most sought-after pianists their careers either altered or ended during alive,” Abrams says. “She is a huge, huge, huge the Holocaust, and black artists in America star. She played with the Louisville Orchestra black composers and black musicians - who

years ago, and she is as big as they get in the classical music world.”

When asked what final thoughts he would like to convey to Louisville, Abrams responded as follows.

“The overall message from us is that we’ve been working for the city this whole time to give them the kind of musical institution that they deserve, and I want to make sure that everybody understands that we didn’t take this year off,” he says. “We didn’t make it easy on ourselves and take the easy way out. We did what we felt was right for our town, to have a great orchestra that serves the community first and foremost. We don’t start by asking how the community can help us. We ask, ‘How do we serve the community?’”

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have to be fancy, but it can be. The biggest factors to consider are restrooms and overall space. This year especially, make sure that whatever venue you choose has enough room for your guests to spread out a little.

If the party won’t be at your own home, check to make sure the venue owners allow decorations, because that’s up next…

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This might be the year to indulge in creative invites. With fewer social opportunities to see friends and family in person, an actual mailed invite to your guests would be appreciated. Depending on the guest list, create your own or order pre-made invitations and add your own little touch.

Throw in something spooky like a slimy crawler or tiny spiders so that when your guests open it, they’ll really be wowed!

LOCATION

Will the gathering be outside or inside? At your house or another location? It doesn’t

First, you might want to decide whether your party will be full-on scary, or just a little spooky yet family friendly. Regardless, a party is always more fun when the location is decorated so don’t skimp. You can keep it simple with spiderwebs, pumpkins and bats, or go a little crazier by adding mischievous skeletons to every room. Maybe include a skeleton that guests can pose with for a photo. Add some haunted decorations outside to welcome your guests in. Don’t be afraid to do something unconventional. If there is ever a time to try something crazy, it’s during Halloween.

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Encourage your guests to dress up, and make sure this is included on the invite so there’s no confusion. Maybe even note that there will be a costume contest, with a few different categories and a prize. You can even make your own trophy to give out at the end of the night. Once people know there is a prize involved, they’ll really up their costume game.

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

Make sure there’s something available to entertain your guests as well. If you are partying outside, indulge in yard games like spooky cornhole with ghosts added to the boards. Pumpkin ring toss is a great game that’s super easy too. Use glow necklaces or bracelets as rings to play after dark. Consider a craft station where kids can make their own trick-or-treat bags to take home.

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This is where it can get really fun. Try a hand

ice cube floating in your punch bowl, witches’ fingers or band-aid biscuits, to name just a few. Research websites like Pinterest, and you’ll find loads of horrific and blood-curdling treat ideas.

MUSIC

This is key for any party. Curate your own playlist to ensure continued spooky sounds for the entire night. Make sure you include classics like “Monster Mash” and “Thriller” on there. Once you’ve completed it, make sure to put it on repeat so you don’t run out of mood music throughout the evening. Your guests will love the theme music and it will keep everyone feeling good.

With these tips, you should be well on your way to throwing a memorable party that will be the talk of October.

Remember, this is a time to be silly and creative, so don’t hold back. As always, stay safe and have fun!

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The arts have the power to bring hope, healing and connection to a community. Andre Kimo Stone Guess knows this power, and that is why he was recently named the president and CEO for the Fund for the Arts (FFTA) here in Louisville. The incumbent, Christen Boone, stepped down this past May after serving for seven years. The pandemic and social injustice have brought Guess back to his hometown to start advocating for change.

As a native Louisvillian, Guess grew up in Smoketown. His family holds roots in the area that date back to the early 1900s. Growing up in the same house his father grew up in, he had aspirations to become a physician, with a love for jazz music. His passion for jazz exists today. It all stems from time spent at Lloyd’s Barbershop, where barbers and patrons taught him about the instruments, blues, and the innovative modes of jazz music. They had a significant influence on his being, and jazz remains a large part of his life today.

After graduating from high school, Guess moved to Boston for medical school.

However, he soon found out that being a physician was not in his heart. He came

home to finish college at the University of Louisville, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in actuarial math. This career change led him to his first job at Capital Holdings in town. After a few years, Guess wanted to leave the corporate world for the nonprofit sector. He graduated with his Ph.D., and served as vice president and producer of Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) in New York City. Following his tenure in New York, he became president and CEO of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center located in Pittsburgh.

In addition, Guess has owned and operated his management consulting firm, GuessWorks, Inc., successfully for more than 14 years. He has managed many awardwinning artists at the firm, leading him to travel the world and visit some impressive art centers.

One of his most significant accomplishments manifested in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Guess narrowly escaped the city right before Katrina hit amid mandatory evacuations. However, when he returned to New York City, he saw the devastating damage on the news. As a result, he and his two friends, one being the artistic director of the Lincoln Center and the other a music producer, planned and executed the Higher 18 / OCTOBER 2021

Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert at the Lincoln Center. In 10 days they put together a star-studded, five-hour concert event televised nationwide. The occasion raised an estimated $3 million for Hurricane Katrina relief.

“The beauty that was in the building that day to deal with the tragedy of Mother Nature’s wayward daughter Katrina - to be able to be in the position to do something, and be able to see how it affects and healed the people mourning the loss of loved ones while seeing the therapy happen in real time, was amazing,” Guess says.

In the midst of all this, he and his wife wanted to give their two daughters a more stable home, so they moved back to Louisville to settle down. Even though he still traveled quite a bit for most of the year, his family finally found their forever home and currently lives in St. James Court. His youngest daughter just graduated from high school this past May. As an empty nester, Guess wanted to find ways to get involved in the community by using his connections to help benefit this town. He let go of his artist management business and went back to working on consulting projects, many outside of the city.

Once settled, his life changed when a friend sent him the posting for the CEO and president position at the FFTA, via LinkedIn. “I saw the job description, and there was language in there about the transformative power of the arts to heal, and I saw there was a significant push that started in 2017 about equity, diversity and inclusion,” he says. “I saw how serious the fund and the board were for the cultural plan to try to overcome the tragedy, COVID, isolation and destruction of the community. I knew right at that moment that I was meant to do this job.”

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Those relationships and his experiences also enable him to serve as a mentor to others. He continues to work with mentees in his field.

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ensure a safe journey.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have had, as a black man, five meaningful mentors, and I would not be where I am today without their help,” he says.

His cherished mentors have taught him much about fundraising, performing arts

and working in the nonprofit realm. One of these mentors is named Aaron Walton, who served as chairman of the board at August Wilson. When the organization’s search for a CEO began, both Walton and Guess were contenders for the role. When his friend and mentor learned that Guess was a contender, Walton went to the board’s current chairman and said, “I’m withdrawing my

Guess wants to bring the wisdom from his mentors and lessons learned from his career to Louisville to improve citizens’ lives, while meeting community needs.

Guess reflects on the current FFTA mission and his outlook for the future.

“My goal is to make sure that ‘every’ means every person across race, culture and sexual orientation where we don’t see representation across those lines,” Guess says.

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He is also intentionally going out into the community to set up town halls for the public, in churches, art facilities and community centers.

On the personal side, Guess is an artist himself. He holds a passion for writing in his minimal spare time, and has been writing for 30 years.

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“We started selling [vinyl plank flooring] just for basements, but it’s become a red-hot product due to its waterproof nature, and now we’re doing the whole first floor of houses,” Brumley says. “It’s amazing how every year products are looking better and better.”

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Once he started selling cars, it was clear that he had a knack for it. He realized how much “My sons, grandson, granddaughter and he loved it, and it was all due to the people nephew all work here,” Craig says. “It’s he got to help each and every day. definitely a family-owned and -run business.

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“I like people,” Craig says. “I like building relationships with my customers and vendors. A lot of customers even end up becoming friends.”

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Everyone here has got skin in the game.”

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board of directors. Founded in 1923, Kosair Charities is a nearly 100-year-old charitable foundation that partners with pediatric organizations across Kentucky and southern Indiana, with the goal of enhancing the health and well-being of children with medical conditions.

Craig’s care for the community extends to his customers, who are his number-one priority.

“We are customer-first people - we always try to do what’s right,” says Craig, who is the only used car dealer ever to be on the board of directors for the Better Business Bureau.

He has also served as president of the Kentucky Automobile Dealers Association, the Greater Louisville Automobile Dealers Association, and the Kentucky Motor Vehicle Commission.

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“It’s easy and transparent, with no surprises,” it once was. By doing online research, Craig says. “It’s really a very simple process.” prospective buyers can find a car at a good price, search to find out the car’s history, According to Craig, that process is easier figure out what a monthly payment should now than it has ever been, due to increased be, and get an idea of what their trade-in is consumer knowledge about the automobile worth. industry. That’s all due to technology, and the fact that information is now just a click Craig and Landreth’s inventory is away. Armed with a wealth of knowledge, automatically updated on their website on car buying can be much less stressful than a daily basis, so consumers can be sure that

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“We had a guy in here recently who said he found a car on the internet in Nashville that was $1,000 cheaper than ours,” Craig says.

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“Our car was $1,000 more, but he was getting what he paid for,” Craig says. “The other one was not a good deal.”

As a full-service dealership with an inventory of more than 500 vehicles, Craig and Landreth Cars specializes in pre-owned vehicles that are in great shape.

“We do a 110-point inspection on every certified vehicle that we sell,” Craig says.

“We check to make sure they don’t have any issues before leaving the lot.”

Because the company has a full-service shop, the staff does not have to send anything to a third party for repair, which saves both time and money - savings that ultimately get passed down to the consumer.

“We can work on our cars here, so you’ve got somebody to go back to if you have a problem,” Craig says. “That makes the shopping process a whole lot easier.”

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If the game of pickleball were a contagious disease, Louisville would be in the midst of an epidemic.

All across the city, people are finding new places to play the country’s fastest-growing sport, and flocking to them.

In July, 16 new public courts replaced tennis courts at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park in eastern Jefferson County, attracting dozens of players at all daylight hours. At peak times, the facility is packed with players, four to a court, with more people waiting their turn.

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The steady growth of pickleball at Metro Parks will culminate next spring with the addition of at least 20 new courts, including a dozen at Charlie Vettiner Park in Jeffersontown. With additional courts coming to Petersburg, Highview and McNeely Lake parks, Metro Parks will have doubled its outdoor courts to nearly 40 in a single year.

So what’s driving this amazing level of activity? A study by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association revealed that the game’s participation grew by 7% in the five years leading up to 2019, while the overall activity level was flat. It prompted The Economist to call it “the fastest-growing sport in America.”

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The game is simple to learn. Anyone who’s ever tried ping-pong or tennis can catch on within a few minutes on the court. While it’s athletic, it doesn’t require the foot speed or athletic ability required for tennis or racquetball. While you’ll see players in all age groups, it’s a game a lot of older individuals have adopted.

The 16 courts at Sawyer Park are expected to be an economic boom for the city, and this is likely part of the reason state government leaders, led by Adams, appropriated about $100,000 to build them.

“There are studies on the economic impact of 16 courts,” says Hocker, adding that Sawyer will likely host up to five major tournaments per year. “Tournaments can have a major impact for the area. It all adds up. The national average spent by players at

just step into games with people you don’t know, and you make friends.”

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advertising leagues, tournaments and new locations at churches and community centers around the city have popped up at every local court.

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THE RUSTY SATELLITE SHOW RICK REDDING’S PODCAST REACHES THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THE ’VILLE “One thing I’m good at is consistency,” Redding says. He sits at a table in the Biscuit Belly in the heart of Nulu, nursing a hot drink as a remedy from the first snow about to fall later that day. “This stuff today, it’s all self-imposed,” he says.

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When a friend asked Rick Redding to run a podcast, Redding replied by asking what a podcast was. Don’t worry, Rick wasn’t out of touch. This conversation took place long before the word “podcast” was a household name.

And that’s how Rick Redding, local blogger, got into the podcasting game and launched “The Rusty Satellite Show.” He did so under the condition that he would get a sponsor within a couple of months. After all, he wasn’t interested in having yet another hobby. Dan, the friend who’d recruited Redding to run the podcast, had headed a fundraiser campaign to raise the money for a studio and equipment. Passport swooped in as a sponsor, and Rick the former blogger was in business. Other sponsors stepped in and he kept going.

Although an appointment for an interview for his podcast has fallen through, Redding shrugs it off, saying that anything could happen in this business. Despite the unexpected gap in his schedule, he isn’t worried. That’s because he wasn’t going to have someone breathing down his neck asking why he doesn’t have a show up and running this week. “But I feel a responsibility to the sponsors, to myself, to put out a show every week,” he says. Luckily, he already had a meeting set up with mayoral hopeful David James, and Redding is looking forward to asking what makes him tick, and the big question, that is, why on earth would you want to be a mayor in today’s aggressive political climate?

a week, none of it came without putting in the work. He kept track of who had the most front-page stories, and constantly stayed on top of the news. And that was his start in journalism.

When he was covering technology for “Business First” in 1999, the internet was a new thing that many hadn’t caught on to yet.

“I remember going to my editor at ‘Business First’ saying, ‘There’s this thing on the internet called email, and we’ve got to have it.’ ” They resisted.

His writing took him on a pinball ride through different jobs. He had done a story on a company called Iron Max. They needed somebody to do the kind of stuff he did, so they hired him. The company was locked inside the internet bubble, so he got to use email after all. Although it lasted only a year because the company dissolved, but he took another job at a place called NetWorld because he had done a story on them. He worked there for almost four years. “I’ve A Louisville native, Redding was 36 years always had work, but I’ve never had a fourold when he started his first job as a reporter year anniversary at a job,” Redding says. in 1996. He’d done freelance writing, like a lot of stuff having to do with sports. But at After NetWorld, he tried entrepreneurship 36, he decided he wanted to make his mark by becoming a freelance writer. The turning writing for the media. He landed a job with point came in late 2006. Someone he knew “Business First” as a reporter, and it turned was working on a campaign for Bruce Lunsford who was running for governor. out, “I was pretty good at it,” he says. He Redding jumped on the campaign, thinking wrote intriguing stories and won awards, and even though he only wrote three stories they were going to win. Lunsford led most

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He used his connections from his previous employments, and since no one else was really into blogging yet, he received a lot of attention. “I would go out to a press conference at 3 and I would have it up on my blog at 4,” Redding says. “The new stations ignored their own websites,” he says. “They held it until 5 or 6.” People When he started blogging for ‘The Ville who had access to the internet at work Voice,’ it was the first online news blog in were reading the news on Redding’s the city. “I put something out every day,” Redding says. Back then, everybody wanted blog, which is no longer available. “I was the predecessor,” he says. “I heard all to have a bog, but they didn’t want to put these stories from people at the ‘Courier in the work to keep it up, but that’s exactly (-Journal)’ who said my site was on their what Redding did, going so far as to make monitors 24/7. ‘The Real Voice’ was the first it a business. He did five or six posts a day, place you looked. I just fell into it.” The blog and in those days, that stood out above the rest. It was all he poured his time and energy ended in 2009. into daily.

What was the next obvious step from blogging once that platform had run its What did he blog about, exactly? What course? Podcasting, of course. His friend was his niche? He blogged about the news, Dan had been impressed with Redding’s mostly. He kept that up through most blog and came to him asking if he’d like of 2007. He wrote about anything and to do this new thing called podcasting. everything in the city that interested him.

Redding’s idea was to interview the most of the time up until May when the primaries were held, but Steve Beshear gained unexpected momentum and passed him up.

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interesting people from the ‘Ville, keep it general, and make it all about the guests who come onto the show. From the start, the guest list has consisted of politicians, entrepreneurs, artists, folks from the nonprofit world — just about anyone who grabs Redding’s attention. Either way, he tries to keep the pot diverse. If he’s had on three chefs in a row, he’ll reach out to an athlete or someone from a different industry to keep things fresh.

What makes him tick? “Even going back to the days of being a reporter, I like interviewing people, I like asking people what makes them tick,” he says.

When Dan moved on about a year ago, Redding bought the business from him. Up until the second week of the COVID-19 pandemic — sometime in March of last year — Redding had put out a podcast every week (approximately 300 consecutive weeks).

Redding says he likes to draw people out and make them say things that the audience would want to hear. “I do it because I like to do interviews, I do it because I like for people to know that that’s what I do,” he says. “That they think of me as the guy who created ‘The Rusty Satellite Show’ out of nothing.”

He says he feels a sense of accomplishment when he hears people like the mayor refer to “The Rusty Satellite Show.” “It’s kind of weird, but unique and interesting,” Redding says. “In my imagination, I think of a typical listener thinking, ‘I wonder who Rick’s

But when the world stopped, the podcast did likewise. “The pandemic affected everyone in different ways,” Redding says. He recalls how no one wanted to go anywhere or see anyone. “The world

going to have on the show this week?’ And if there’s people who think that, then that’s a reward too.”

The name Rusty Satellite, by the way, came about by his oldest son who, in middle school, created a comic strip character named Rusty Satellite. Redding liked the name so much he told his son that he’d like to use it someday for something. That something turned out to be for Louisville’s longest-running podcast.

And what are Redding’s aspirations going forward? He would like to host a localized version of “The Daily.” But of course, that’s a high hope. But having run a successful blog and a podcast, all centered around this little ol’ ’Ville, that’s not a bad thing to have on your resume. So, if you get a call from Redding and he wants to talk to you, just know that you’ve done something great to catch his eye, and many more will be exposed to you and your work as well.

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