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3. INVEST IN A BETTER SUNSCREEN This may sound contradictory to point number one about getting more sun but hear me out! There is a huge difference between going outside to soak up some rays versus being outside and in the sun to the point of sunburn. Overexposure can 2. GET TO YOUR LOCAL be extremely dangerous especially when FARMER’S MARKET repeated over and over. But do you know One of the many reasons I love summer is what’s in your sunscreen? Often what we because of the amazing farmers markets we turn to for sun protection is riddled with have. Not only is it a great way to support toxic, harmful chemicals that are just as your community and local economy, damaging as the sunburn it’s protecting us but it’s a great place to bring your family from. One common additive, oxybenzone, to learn a little more about where food has been labeled a hormone disruptor, comes from. The produce you will find affecting testosterone levels in young boys there will blow your typical grocery store and even being absorbed into women’s produce out of the water. Most local farms breastmilk. After all, our skin is our largest practice much more natural and organic organ. It’s so easy to forget that what we farming methods that are better on the soil apply to it can have a negative impact on and keep more nutrients in the produce our health. Instead, look for sunscreens with because they are grown free of pesticides a Made Safe Seal on them, which signifies and chemicals in soil that is healthy! they are made without harmful ingredients. fear mongered to believe that even an ounce of sunshine will ruin you with skin cancer, but, in reality, going outside and being in nature and sunlight is good for you! Not only is it linked to helping with anxiety and depression, but it keeps your skin and bones healthy as well.

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EMERGING FROM A LONELY YEAR for the inevitable loneliness that the elderly most certainly face. Even in normal times, many of them are unable to get out and about due to their physical or emotional limitations. How isolating that must be.

He thinks I’m joking, but he’ll know I’m serious when he sees me throw my arms around the UPS driver.

The thing I miss most is hugging. I get that not everybody is a touchy-feely kind of person. I, however, am sustained by the embrace, particularly during difficult times.

I remember several years ago after my mom died, I felt lost and broken. Craving comfort, I called a friend and simply asked, “Can you come over and give me a hug?”

On the radio recently, a deejay was saying, “When this pandemic is over, I’m going to party hard!” I think we will all partake in our own version of that party. For some, the festivities will involve singing, dancing and whooping it up. For others, it’ll be walking side-by-side with a friend, perhaps stopping for a bite to eat at a cafe. For Alex, it’ll be revisiting those nursing homes with his pooch by his side. As for me, I’ll be hugging the grocery store clerk.

Over the course of the last year, we have found ways to connect virtually, which is “Years ago I used to take my dog and visit better than nothing, but there’s something nursing homes once a week, but then life to be said for face-to-face interactions. got busy and the regular outing fell by the They’re just inherently more intimate, Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing wayside,” Alex told me.

“But I tell you what more meaningful. They are the ones we Photography Provided when this pandemic is over, I’m going to get remember. The ones we cherish. Several The pandemic has caused a number of back to visiting the elderly.” years ago, my best friend called me in tears emotions, including confusion, concern, with news that her marriage was on the panic, pain, anxiety, anger - the list goes on. It makes sense that we’re feeling lonely, rocks. I dropped what I was doing, hopped One positive response to the pandemic, because the nature of many of our friendships in my car and drove 90 minutes to meet her however, has been the act of reflection, as has adjusted during the COVID crisis. so we could hug it out, talk it through, and it has been almost impossible not to spend Whether we know it or not, friendships are start the healing. I don’t think we could have time contemplating how life once was, how vital to our health and well-being. covered the same ground had we not been different it is now, and how it might look in in the same room. the future.

According to Lydia Denworth, author of the book “Friendship,” loneliness is as deadly There is a difference between being alone At the start of the shutdowns in the spring as cigarette smoking or obesity. “Friendship and feeling lonely. Alone is a state that we of 2020, a certain portion of the population is a matter of life and death,” she writes in may enjoy and even seek out. Loneliness, on felt a collective sigh of relief, as we were the book. “It is carried in our DNA, in how the other hand, leaves us feeling distressed, forced to take a break from our normal we’re wired. Social bonds have the power to disheartened and depressed. According to routines. We embraced the chance to take shape the trajectories of our lives, and that “Psychology Today,” research has shown a breather and were thankful to suddenly means friendship is not a choice or a luxury that loneliness poses serious threats to wellhave something that, for many, was a foreign - it’s a necessity that is critical in our ability being and long-term physical health. This is concept - alone time. to succeed and thrive.” because humans crave connection.

Without having to run to appointments, meetings, classes, events, rehearsals and other extracurricular activities, we found ourselves taking a personal inventory of what we should change. Some vowed to get moving as they biked or walked off built-up stress. Others took up baking, sewing or some other project that always seemed to get pushed to the back-burner, like assembling that 1,000-piece puzzle of the ocean. No matter who you are or what your situation was, we all, at one point or another, experienced this one universal feeling - loneliness.

I was recently talking to a friend, Alex, who shared how he had a newfound appreciation

During the pandemic, however, doctors have repeatedly told us the importance of keeping our distance from others, and no matter how you do the math, you can’t hug someone while standing 6’ apart. I told my husband, “After I’m inoculated, I’m getting a T-shirt made that says, ‘I’ve been vaccinated. Hug me!’”

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When many out-of-staters think of Kentucky, three things likely come to mind - fried chicken, the Derby, and bourbon.

Bourbon stands out most to James and Brittany Penny, two Kentucky natives who met at ages 17 and 12 respectively, through a program called NSBE Jr. (National Society of Black Engineers).

12-year-old Brittany, in bottle-cap glasses, told 17-year-old James that they were going to get married. He laughed it off as cute, but nothing to put stock in. As fate would have it they reconnected years later, and after 10 years of friendship they were wed.

Together they formed 2 Cents Inc. - a clever play on their last name. The company puts out their signature drink, The IX Bourbon Whiskey. When asked why they decided to create a new bourbon, the answer is simple and direct: “We love bourbon.”

The idea came while being new parents.

Their baby, who was 3 months old at the time, was keeping them up at all hours of the night. They got to talking one night, and after a few more conversations the idea was born. They were throwing parties anyway, and they took pride in their signature cocktails, so they figured they should take it a step further. They love bourbon so much,

they purchased nine barrels. With care and precision, they blended the barrels together to make their own unique spirit.

This was a more sound and economical decision than distilling their own bourbon, which would have been a huge capital expenditure.

“There’s a potential problem if you don’t get a master distiller right out of the gate, and you don’t have a lot of capital, and you end up with a particularly younger tasting spirit,” James says. “Both of us being from Kentucky, bourbon is something you really can’t get wrong on your first attempt, so we wanted to put out a product that we knew was going to be good. We sourced some bourbon, blended it together, and came up with this very, very smooth and unique flavor profile, and we’re running with that.”

It turns out that a lot of people in the bourbon industry do exactly what the Pennys are doing - sourcing great and unused bourbon from another company and going from there.

But why The IX Bourbon? What sets them apart from their competitors?

Firstly, the main reason for the name is that they conceived the idea on the ninth year of their marriage, when their first daughter was born. She also happened to be born in 2020, 10 / JUNE 2021

the year the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

“Everything was just chaotic - you can’t see people, you can’t visit your loved ones, you lost a loved one, or if someone you knew was sick, you can’t physically go and visit with them in the hospital,” James says. “It was really a dark time. Part of the inception of this brand is that we wanted to do something that brings people together, and so when everybody starts to come together in 2021, they can come together around a unique spirit. Our mission at 2 Cents is, we want to create spirits that celebrate everybody, because while not all spirits are created equal, all people are. We wanted to have something that people could commemorate around, because everybody loves a good bourbon.”

As far as distinguishing themselves from competitors, James takes great pride in the fact that his wife is the CEO and president of the company.

“Not only is it black owned, but it’s female owned,” he says.

The biggest factor that sets them apart from competitors, James says, is that they’re operating under the branding pitch of rising above being first.

“We feel like in the world today in 2021, we keep seeing all these articles about the first

Owners James and Brittany Penny black student-body president at Harvard in 2021, or the first black female pro baseball coach in 2021,” he says. “We think it’s laughable in a society where everybody is supposed to be equal that black folks, or LGBTQ folks, or hispanic folks, or women, are still celebrating firsts. Our monicker is to rise above being first. We need to really be a society that’s trenched in equality, to where people can move in these spaces equally where everybody has the same amount of equity and opportunity. We’re coming out of the gate with a product that celebrates and talks about us coming together as a people.”

James says that in the bourbon industry, though everybody supposedly shares the sentiment of equality, it’s not always practiced.

“There’s not a lot of equity in the bourbon industry,” he says.

People have been responding favorably to the couple’s product and their mission,

“ We’re coming out of the gate with a product that celebrates and talks about us coming together as a people.”

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particularly those in marginalized communities.

That’s what the branding of our bourbon is about, and also the branding of our company. We want to push the conversation James explains that he has a background in and commiserate around something project engineering, a profession that is 95% everybody loves about Kentucky, which is male.

Kentucky bourbon.”

“For years you have a man doing a job, and a woman gets the same job and she’s the first woman to ever be in this role,” he says. “We say in our mission that we want to celebrate everybody, because we’re all created equal.

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marketing team, and it’s just the two of them for now.

“We’re relying on our networks to get the word out,” she says.

When asked how people are responding to the drink itself, Brittany responds enthusiastically.

“So far, people love it,” she says.

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The couple was on a podcast recently with a group of bourbon connoisseurs based in Texas, and they raved over it.

Despite tons of great bourbon flowing throughout Kentucky, James has preferred Old Forester for a long time.

“Because of some of the harshness of some bourbons, I sometimes mix with ginger ale,” he says.

The IX Bourbon, he proclaims, is one of those few bourbons for which “you don’t need sodas, and you don’t even need ice.

You can just drink it right out of the glass.

It’s super smooth. It doesn’t have that harsh bite at the end. It just gives you that little bit of warmth so that you know it’s there.”

“I’m very upset that we have to sell it, because I would just keep it and drink it myself for the rest of my life - it’s that good,” he adds.

James is so passionate about bourbon in general that he believes it’s not a competition between one brand or another.

He’s not in it to outsell another brand.

Instead, his belief is that there’s enough good bourbon in the Bluegrass state for everybody to drink it all up.

The pandemic kept many people apart through last year, and when we were together, James says, there was much unrest.

He and Brittany want The IX Bourbon to be a talking piece.

“We want everybody to take a break and relax,” he says. “Enjoy where you’re at in your space, because The IX Bourbon is about you not having to wait your turn to be recognized. Just be good to each other and enjoy the spirit.”

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“These people were well-known in the community,” Lee says.

The Crusade was a major televised event, in part because there were only three local television stations.

Operators from Southern Bell answered telephones in the basement beneath the stage, watching dust fall from the rafters when tap dancers performed above their heads. Many of these operators, even after their retirement, continued to volunteer for the Crusade in later years.

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“There’s a lot of history and tradition that goes along with the WHAS Crusade for Children,” says Dawn Lee, president and CEO of the nonprofit organization.

local parents of children with cerebral palsy decided to organize a United Cerebral Palsy Parade of Stars Telethon. At that time, television was the latest technology.

Barry Bingham, who was the owner of the Courier-Journal and WHAS radio and television stations, and Vic Sholis, the television station’s general manager, supported the telethon, but Lee says they were disappointed that the money generated didn’t stay in the community.

The 1954 Crusade raised $157,000, which was below the $200,000 telethon goal.

Crusade leadership decided then that it would no longer have a stated goal for the telethon.

“They said, ‘This is a community charity Even though Lee has been in her role for - the community is going to do whatever more than a decade, she says she still often they can. There’s no reason for them to feel feels like the new girl because so many disappointed,’” Lee says.

Crusade staff members and volunteers have been there so much longer. When she first began, she asked local fire departments what “Part of the money went to cover overhead, the most important thing was that she could part of the money went to a national office do to support them in their Crusade efforts. in New York, and the remainder then helped children here in our community,” she says.

“They said, ‘To stay out of the way,” she says with a laugh.

Bingham and Sholis decided to start the Lee has tried to abide by those instructions, serving as a cheerleader for fire departments and trying to find new ways to appeal to a community that is very different from what it was in 1954, when the WHAS Crusade for Children officially began.

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The mergers of fire departments in Louisville have not yet impacted the Crusade, but that is always a concern for the charity. Even when departments have combined, there is still a regional feel and connection for people in the community, and they support their closest fire departments. Jeffersontown and McMahan have cumulatively collected more than $4 million. St. Matthews and Lyndon’s

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In years past, firefighters from surrounding areas would bring their donations to Louisville so they could be on the telethon, but that meant tying up staff and equipment for hours and hours. Now, with remote locations, departments in communities

including Bardstown, Elizabethtown, Ballardsville and Leitchfield, as well as Corydon, Indiana, can participate without an extensive time commitment.

CHANGES THROUGH TIME In some ways, the WHAS Crusade is anachronistic - it is built on a model of telethons that doesn’t exist anymore.

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While some children who benefit from the Crusade may have physical needs that require wheelchairs and other equipment as well as medical care, many children have emotional or cognitive needs that require different kinds of care.

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While the Crusade staff is a lean outfit of seven individuals, it is hard to put a number on the amount of people who make the Crusade happen. More than 200 fire departments in Kentucky and southern “These ministers have no vested interest for Children grant, they proceed with their Indiana volunteer and collect for the besides helping children in our community,” project, and submit receipts, invoices and Crusade. On Crusade Sunday, more than Lee says. contracts to the Crusade for reimbursement. 3,000 people drop by or work at the station.

Agencies, schools and hospitals submit grants to the Crusade each year.

“The ministers review all those grants, and we will schedule hearings where each grant applicant comes in and defends their grant request,” Lee says.

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Gratitude is defined as the quality of being thankful, or readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Do you rise out of bed each morning filled with gratitude, and then immediately grab a pen and paper and jot down your expressions of gratitude? Chances are you don’t have that kind of morning routine, but local author Chris Palmore does, and this sort of exercise was instrumental on the journey to getting his first book published, “Dear Gratitude: An Anthology.”

When talking with Palmore, it is undeniable how much passion and appreciation he has for his past, present and future, and all of the pieces that come together that help serve as a path for his life. Regarding the path for writing his book, it began with saying thank you to his beloved mother via Facebook in celebration of his 35th birthday.

“I am fully aware that I wasn’t always the easiest person to love, but she always made me feel loved,” he says. “I just wanted to tell her all this on my birthday.”

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birthday, Palmore woke on his birthday morning, turned the table a bit, and gave a gift to his mother. Luckily for Palmore he always had a strong relationship with his mother, and father too, but there was something about the magic of this message to his mother that would lead to a pivotal change in his life. He had moved his mother with a few simple words on the computer screen. Unfortunately, his mother died a few months later, but his gift to her would change his destination.

who offer their thoughts and expertise in gratitude, including author and mentor Thomas Koulopoulos, president and founder of the Boston-based think tank Delphi Group.

These words of deep appreciation and gratitude, rooted in love, would form the foundation of Palmore’s new cause - to share the virtues of the expression of gratitude.

That’s all well and good in theory, but where does one begin, especially when one isn’t really a writer? Lucky for Palmore, he has a wealth of knowledgeable authors at his fingertips.

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As a fan of Koulopoulos, Palmore took a chance and connected with him via Twitter, and got a response. He began a friendship, and a suggestion from Koulopoulos that Palmore write a book prompted him to do just that.

“Thomas suggested that I write 500 words a day for six months,” Palmore says. “Before I knew it the six months flew by, and at the end I found myself with a document having over 100,000 words.”

Not wanting to write a book about gratitude in the same style as others before him, Palmore set out to find an editor who shared his vision of what the end product would look and feel like. Through a series of connections, such as friend and author Bobby Kuntz, and a little luck, within another

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six months Palmore found Noosha Ravaghi.

Upon reading through Palmore’s rough drafts and notes, Ravaghi knew how the book should be developed and designed.

“She did take the time to read what I had written, and she felt that the book should

be around 100 pages long, shareable and digestible,” Palmore says. “Readers like having something that they don’t have to commit to in one sitting. She further suggested that perhaps I have other people contribute their own stories and essays for

the book, highlighting their own take on gratitude.”

“Through contacts and outreach, such as asks of popular social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn, we were able to find 50 people who were willing and excited

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to share what they were grateful for and their interpretations of gratitude,” Palmore continues. “Gratitude is different for each person, very personal, and we felt that having a wide variety of people’s own accounts and stories would have a wider reach to the audience, assuring that there would be something contained within that would just click and allow the reader to be even more fully engaged in the purpose and character of the book.”

Palmore describes the speed at which the book came together as remarkable.

“From finding my editor to the publishing of the book was a mere four months,” he says. “I believe part of this quick turnaround is because the sharing of gratitude is a quantifiable act. Some expressions are habitual or reflexive, such as opening the door for a person or saying thank you, but it is within the intentional gratitudes, such as the essays found within ‘Dear Gratitude,’ that one can get a feel or insight to the

writer’s emotions and feelings.”

What of the success of Palmore’s book?

“We have extended our family of gratitude writers from areas around the world,” he says.

When asked how this was done, Palmore says word of mouth was crucial.

“The book is a way of planting gratitude seeds that will blossom, grow and flourish,” he says. “I consider myself a gratitude catalyst, and I do this by listening to and talking with people. While sometimes we are able to have face-to-face conversations, the anthology is yet another medium for these stories of gratitude and for some it may be a source of healing.”

Palmore says his book provides a resource of encouragement to readers.

“As part of my podcasts I have shared with my audience some best practices as it

pertains to the gratitude attitude,” he says.

“I believe that this book does something similar, but in a written format.”

What does the author and podcaster do when he is not writing or interviewing a cavalcade of people through a worldwide outreach?

“Well, I am recently married,” he says with a large grin. “Shortly after my mother’s passing in 2016 I took a trip to Mexico to clear my head and figure out what was next.

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reached out to see if I was still in Mexico and if I’d be interested in seeing her again. I was still there and very much wanted to see her again.”

“When we both went our separate ways again, we stayed in contact and would alternate the locales that we would rendezvous at, such as Columbia and the states,” Palmore continues. “When we decided to get married it was a long, arduous process, but luckily our respective governments finally gave the green light and we were married in November 2020.”

A piece of 2020 to be grateful for, to be sure.

We asked Palmore what was next for him, and he bounced with news that the next piece of his anthology, “Dear 2020: Letters to a Year That Changed Everything,” is available for purchase on Amazon now.

Written in a format similar to his first book, Palmore has around 40 stories and

submissions from people who share their perspective and take on the events and culture from the year 2020, and how the year has affected their embrace of gratitude.

Like before, there was a worldwide and social media-wide ask for stories to be submitted.

“We had so many great stories to read, it was hard to pare it down to the 40 that we do have,” Palmore says.

While some of the contributors also submitted their work in the first book, many of the stories are from new sources, one of them being Rosio.

“As I am excited for this new book, I am always looking for new and exciting ways to create the gratitude space that I enjoy creating,” he says. “Perhaps I’ll have gratitude pop-up booths at weddings, farmers markets or with corporations where I just set up and invite people to share what they are grateful for while I record

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their stories. These can then be shared with those they love, or given back to them as a reminder to be grateful when we sometimes forget to be. I am always thinking of something and am always eternally grateful.”

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Recently, evidence of one of nature’s most industrious mammals has been seen along Floyds Fork and its tributaries. This mammal, the largest rodent in North America, is an herbivore and is known for its engineering skills. Yup, you guessed it, the beaver! Tree stumps displaying textbook beaver chewing skills have been found near Creekside Center in Beckley Creek Park (near PNC Achievement Center), off Boone Bottoms Trail in Turkey Run Park, and off Riparian Ramble Trail in Broad Run Park.

Beaver are called nature’s engineers—and for good reason! The American Beaver, or castor Canadensis, is one of the only creatures besides humans that alter their physical landscape. While humans build roads, bridges, and buildings, beaver build dams on creeks using cut logs, branches and mud that impede streamflow to flood the surrounding landscape. The beaver are literally creating habitat for themselves. Beaver are clumsy critters on land but are graceful swimmers. By damming a stream and flooding a riparian forest forming a pond, beaver are able to move better to gather food and are more able to escape predators like coyotes and fox.

These rodents are fantastically adapted for engineering and swimming.

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trademark front teeth glow a pumpkin orange and, no, it is not because they don’t brush them! The orange on their front teeth is iron that has replaced calcium making their teeth strong and capable of felling trees of 6”-36” in diameter.

Cutting down trees and floating them downstream enables beavers to construct dams and the lodges in which they live.

Lodges often house multiple families of monogamous beaver and their kits.

Lodges are only accessible through underwater entrances giving them another layer of defense against predators. They also use their flat tail to slap the surface of the water making a loud clapping noise warning other beaver of potential danger in the area. Thick, oily fur allows beaver to stay warm and dry even in the winter months. Webbed back feet help beavers swim at a clip of almost five miles per hour, and clear, membrane eyelids function as goggles. Since beavers are mammals, they breathe oxygen from the air but can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes. Small skin flaps in their nose close when the beaver dives keeping water out and oxygen in.

To date, we have not found any beaver dams in The Parklands, most likely due to the flood regime of Floyds Fork. Flooding occurs too often and is too violent for damns to survive on the fork. Most likely, the beaver have been harvesting trees for food. Along with leaves and aquatic vegetation, beaver eat the cambium layer of trees. The cambium layer is the thin, living layer of trees just beneath the bark that transports water and nutrients. Beaver prefer softwood species like cottonwood and willow but cut down many different species.

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For the past seven decades, Commonwealth Credit Union has faithfully served its members and the community as a whole.

To celebrate this exciting 70-year milestone, they have chosen to engage in 70 acts of service. For example, during the month of April, they held a toy drive that benefitted the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In May, they offered a Shred Day at their Frankfort branch so community members could safely dispose of sensitive documents for free.

They’ve also collected nonperishable foods to donate to local charities. This month they are partnering with the American Red Cross for a blood drive.

“As a financial institution, we are highly concerned with money, obviously,” says Bethany Yates, branch manager. “It’s what we do, but it’s not what we are about.”

That’s why during the height of the COVID-19 crisis, Commonwealth Credit Union served meals to area first responders and law enforcement.

Bethany Yates, Branch Manager

With a strong commitment to financial empowerment, the team at Commonwealth Credit Union has partnered with Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center in conjunction with the Louisville Urban League to build customized financial education curriculums for the staff and participants on-site. They will not only provide regular financial success classes, but also a broad range of financial empowerment class topics. These include budgeting and savings, being a homeowner, and everything in between.

“We’re really committed to helping educate and empower people in their community,” Yates says.

An active and integral member of the Chamber of Commerce, the team at In addition, Commonwealth Credit Commonwealth Credit Union continues to Union has partnered with the University partner with the Chamber for large virtual of Louisville to break the cycle of hunger events when in-person options are not viable. via the Cardinal Cupboard, a student-run food pantry located on the University of “Before the pandemic, we thrived being Louisville’s campus that benefits students, around one another in this community, faculty, staff and community members who making time for events before and after need toiletries and/or food. Though it was the 9-to-5 work week,” Yates says. “While created well before COVID-19 existed, we couldn’t do that during COVID-19, we increasing numbers of people are taking wanted to be sure we were still supportive so advantage of the service given the tricklewe focused on other community initiatives down effects of a global pandemic. and partnerships.”

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“Your part-time workers are probably the first ones to be cut when it comes to job loss as a result of COVID-19,” says Glenn Griffin, regional manager. “Commonwealth Credit Union has gifted $1,000,000 so these students can continue to have the space to operate this cupboard.”

Located on Frankfort Avenue, the lobby of Commonwealth Credit Union has been open to the public since May of 2020.

Though they are eager to serve customers in person with safety protocols in place, including masks and social distancing maps on the floor, the staff members understand why some prefer to still go the virtual route for the time being. That’s why they’re proud to offer Live Video Tellers at nearly all of their branches, so you can speak directly to a Commonwealth Credit Union teller without ever leaving your vehicle.

“We are eager to serve the St. Matthews members and grow those relationships in the community,” says Yates, noting that Commonwealth Credit Union has both a robust commercial lending department as well as strong relationships with local businesses - especially small boutiques and shops. “We invite people to give us an opportunity to serve them and make a difference in their lives.”

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HITTING IT OUT OF THE PARK FOR KENTUCKIANS AT THE FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY KENTUCKY

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It could have been a swing and a miss.

Instead, it was a homerun that ultimately benefited everyone in Kentucky.

In the early 1990s, Ben Chandler was Kentucky’s attorney general. He had already enjoyed robust law and public service careers, bolstered by a family legacy of public service, that included his legendary grandfather, Albert Benjamin (A.B) “Happy” Chandler, who served two terms as Kentucky governor and parts of two terms as a U.S. Senator. The elder Chandler also was famously the second commissioner of baseball, from 1945-1951, helping Jackie Robinson break the baseball color barrier in 1947.

for the value of charitable assets, and Chandler, as Kentucky’s attorney general, sued. The complicated case progressed, and eventually, it was settled for $45 million, which a judge ordered be placed into a foundation.

for a Healthy Kentucky, he feels at home.

“The whole notion that I could come and help shepherd an entity that had been a legacy for me was very exciting,” he said.

“I can contribute on a day-to-day basis in a meaningful way for my fellow citizens.”

With that, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky was born in 2001, with a goal to advocate for public policies and programs to help improve the health of people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

It’s no secret that Kentuckians face numerous health challenges. “The Foundation is trying to make an impact,” he said. “It’s a great job, because day in and day out we try to improve the health of our fellow Kentuckians. There’s nothing more important than our health.”

A.B. “Ben” Chandler III, who also shares his grandfather’s passion for baseball, took on America’s other favorite pastime, politics, with relish.

Fast forward to 2021, and Ben Chandler, as president and CEO, now leads the organization, which is nestled in a corner of an office complex off Hurstbourne Lane.

“I never dreamed that would happen,” Chandler said. “After the lawsuit, I ran for governor, and then served nine years in Congress. Three years after that, in 2016, I was approached to take this job and come full circle. I’m thrilled I did that.”

During the 1990s, insurance giants Anthem and Blue Cross/Blue Shield merged.

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Rather than giving grants out as a central effort, the Foundation believes advocacy and policy work will ultimately reap the most rewards for Kentucky. “We believe we can accomplish a great deal more by addressing health challenges through good public health policy,” Chandler said.

In 2017, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky set about forming a coalition of more than 225 entities to work on tobaccorelated policy change and health education throughout the Commonwealth. Members include the State Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Medical Association, the Kentucky Nurses Association, Greater

Louisville Inc., the Kentucky Council of Churches, several schools, public health departments and more. Over the next three years, this powerful coalition has led advocacy efforts to increase the state cigarette tax, add an excise tax on e-cigarettes, raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21, and establish a tobacco-free standard for K-12 school campuses.

Whether it’s in the Foundation’s work through these coalitions, with legislators, or on the ground with Kentuckians, the Foundation remains completely nonpartisan.

“We don’t care whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent,” said Chandler.

“We just care whether people are interested in improving the health of our citizens. If they can agree with us on issues, then we will work with them any way we can.”

a win. “From our perspective, we got the largest cigarette tax increase in the history of Kentucky,” said Chandler. “We wanted more, because we thought a $1 or more would encourage many people to either quit smoking, or not start in the first place.

But, to still come away with the largest tax increase in Kentucky ever for cigarettes is an accomplishment. That doesn’t happen every day, particularly in a tobacco state.”

Chandler is buoyed by the mix of minds in the coalition. “All of these groups agree on our essential agenda of improving the health of Kentuckians. There may be discussions on compromises in the legislature, but in general, that keeps the conversation going and ultimately, supports our citizens,” he said. The Foundation is using the same model in launching the Kentucky Coalition for Healthy Children to advocate for policies and programs that improve children’s health in the school setting.

The Foundation also advocates for smokefree indoor air laws in communities across “I CAN CONTRIBUTE ON A DAY-TO- the state. “We’re going community by DAY BASIS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY community,” he said. “I’ve spoken and met with leaders in every one of the 120 FOR MY FELLOW CITIZENS.” counties in this state about the importance of smoke-free laws. Currently, 36.6 percent of the population is protected by these law.

Following extensive work to pass a $1 tax on This doesn’t happen overnight, but these cigarettes, the Kentucky General Assembly laws are important so we will keep working.” eventually passed a fifty-cent tax in 2018.

The difference was not the outcome the For the lifelong Democrat, being the Foundation wanted, but it was still seen as nonpartisan head of the Foundation

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can have its challenges. “When I was in Congress, I was a dying breed – a moderate.

I believe compromise is a good thing and it comes naturally for me to look for areas to find common ground. Disagreements shouldn’t hamper you from working together to accomplish things. If you keep your eye on that ball, you’ve got to conclude that cooperating with people to get good policy passed trumps everything.”

Whether that’s related to healthcare policy, tobacco cessation programs or other issues, Chandler always comes back to the health of Kentuckians. He points out that health is different from healthcare. “I’ve never met a person who wants healthcare if they have good health,” he said.

“Our country has created a rescue system,” he added. “As a nation, we’ve spent a lot of money to rescue people from bad health and provide healthcare, but as a nation, we spend twice as much per capita in the U.S.

“I HAVE TRULY BEEN BLESSED. I GREW UP TO BELIEVE THAT PUBLIC SERVICE WAS A NOBLE THING, AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ENTRUSTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE TO BE THE STATE AUDITOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND A CONGRESSMAN.

on healthcare than in any other country, and with poorer outcomes. That’s something we must address. We need to invest more in good health prevention on the front end of the equation.”

Is that attainable? “We believe it’s the right way to go,” said Chandler. “If we invest more of the healthcare dollars in prevention, we’d have higher quality life. We need to build our economy on wellness, instead of on sickness.” And, for Chandler, that begins at home in Kentucky.

was a noble thing, and I was lucky enough to be entrusted by the people of this state to be the state auditor, attorney general and a congressman. It was a tremendous opportunity. Now, I’m incredibly fortunate to add the Foundation my resume,” he said.

On many days, Chandler sees his career as a grand slam. “If I’m able to make a difference, I will look back on my career as a legacy,” he said. “To create this Foundation with others, and to have an impact, and to be shepherding it on to do good work for others is what we do. I don’t know what else I could accomplish in public service that Service to his state and country is in Chandler’s blood. “I have truly been blessed. would mean more than that.”

I grew up to believe that public service

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