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chamberBOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE connectionWINTER 2020 PARTNER SPOTLIGHT “Service is what we do for you!” LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN PARTNERSHIP PARTNER SPOTLIGHT I am humbled and excited to serve as your 2020 Chairman of the Board. It’s an incredible honor to work alongside my fellow Board members, our volunteers, Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Cooperation Chamber Ambassadors and most importantly, our over 1,300 Chamber partners. Warren Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation We kicked off the year recognizing four individuals for their outstanding (Warren RECC) was formed in 1938 to bring volunteer service in the community this past year during the 2019 Chamber electricity to rural areas of South Central Volunteer Awards News Conference on January 14th. These volunteers went Kentucky. We began with 325 members in above and beyond to support the Chamber and give back to the community and Warren, Edmonson and Simpson Counties. our Chamber partners: Ambassador of the Year Alan Palmer, Chamber Volunteer Today, we serve over 68,000 members across of the Year Robin Amonett, Young Professional of the Year Ian Loos and Board Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Volunteer of the Year Bruce Wilkerson. Simpson and Warren Counties, making us the 10th largest local power company in the We celebrated the many successes of 2019 at the Chamber’s 85th Annual Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region. We are Dinner at Sloan Convention Center sponsored by Graves-Gilbert Clinic. 645 local also the largest TVA provider in Kentucky. As a business leaders, regional partners and special guests gathered for a reception, Chairman cooperative, it is our mission not only to provide dinner and program. South Warren High School Senior and Student Ambassador electricity but also to help grow our communities Braedon Price did a phenomenal job serving as the event’s emcee sharing his Spotlight and improve the quality of life in those journey and experience with SCK LAUNCH and announced he will be attending Eric Walker is Vice President and communities. Warren RECC staff work closely Harvard University this Fall! Commercial Team Manager for U.S. with economic development leaders in each of Bank’s South Central Kentucky Region. our communities to ensure we have the best opportunity to grow and prosper. Ron Bunch and Steve Davis presented the Herb Smith Lifetime Achievement Eric leads a team of community bankers with expertise in commercial real estate, Award during the Annual Dinner. The Chamber established the award in 2011 to construction, government, healthcare, Throughout our South Central Kentucky territory, Warren RECC strives to be the trusted energy advisor for all of recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to South Central higher education, manufacturing, our commercial and industrial members. We work in partnership with TVA to offer financial and rate incentives Kentucky’s economy and who exemplify the Chamber’s core values of not-for-profit and other industries to qualified industrial and commercial customers to assist with infrastructure costs and lower overall operating inclusiveness, integrity, leadership and service. Co-owner and CEO of the Murphy throughout the region including Bowling costs. We have an engineering team dedicated to working directly with companies and economic development Construction Group Mike Murphy was awarded the distinct honor. Green, Hopkinsville, Madisonville and officials to help make sure our communities have healthy, thriving economies. This team provides energy audits, Owensboro. He is a five-time winner billing review and technical services, including power quality analysis and predictive maintenance to our of U.S. Bank’s Pinnacle Award which is We have a full agenda in 2020 with lofty goals, and it’s going to take commercial members, so company officials know they’re receiving the best service and making the most efficient given to the company’s top one percent use of their electricity dollar. Warren RECC strives to ensure our members have a unique and positive experience collaboration from all of us to achieve those goals. However, I’ve been around performers. this group long enough to know that together we can do it. There is power in from their very first contact with us. partnership, and that’s why it’s called a Chamber “partnership” and not a Eric has been very active in the Bowling “membership.” The Chamber is focused on developing these strategic Green community. He currently serves In Warren County, Warren RECC provides electricity to both the South Central Kentucky Industrial Park and the partnerships to address current and future needs for your business and the as chairman of the board of directors Kentucky Transpark, supporting over 100 companies with over 140 MVA of total capacity dedicated to those two areas. In 2013, we located a new 40 MVA substation at the Kentucky Transpark to support the growing needs of community as a whole so that Bowling Green, Warren County and South Central for the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, incoming chairman for our member companies. Kentucky continues to prove why it’s the best place to live, learn, work and play the Economic Development Authority, in Kentucky! secretary for the Intermodal Transportation In addition to working with economic development officials, we also strive to improve our communities in other Authority and is a deacon and past ways. In Warren and Simpson Counties, Warren RECC recently launched two pilots to provide high-speed internet chairman of the finance team at First to our members who are under-served in those counties. If those pilots are successful, we look forward to Baptist Church. expanding that service to additional areas. Eric is a graduate of the Leadership Kentucky class of 2017 and a 1995 Warren RECC was created locally by people who wanted to make a difference in their community. Eighty-two Eric Walker graduate of Leadership Bowling Green. Eric years later, we’re still run locally, and we still have a heart for the communities we serve. We are your neighbors 2020 Chairman and his wife, Drue, have three daughters: and your friends. While we have grown tremendously and look forward to continued growth, you can count on Lauren, Hannah and Catherine. the same personal and professional service you have come to expect from Warren RECC. 2 | WINTER 2020 WINTER 2020 | 3 NEW PARTNERS PARTNERSHIP PARTNERSHIP PARTNER RENEWALS ABR Systems Group, LLC Embellish Home Medicine Arts Pharmacy Biggs Financial Services Juicy Seafood Active Adult Alliance dba Live Active 50 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Meyer & Associates Accounting / Bookkeeping / Tax Services juicyseafoodky.com Plus Fitness Equipment Specialist, Inc. Mission Catering Company, LLC Restaurants ALG Contracting Family Enrichment Center Montana Grille CMW Plumbing, LLC Amy Milliken, Warren County Attorney Farm Credit Mid-America NewCon Cleaning Plumbers Sam R. 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