Chamber Breakfast Speaker to Update I-69 Progress

An update on the progress of Interstate 69 will be the program for the April Power in Partnership monthly breakfast of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce. 

The breakfast is Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 am at the Julian Carroll Convention Center, and Assistant State Highway Engineer and State I-69 Coordinator Paul Looney, P.E. will be the featured speaker.

Looney currently serves as the Assistant State Highway Engineer for Project Development and is the Project Manager for the I-69 corridor.  He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in Civil Engineering.

The breakfast will also include the recognition of the 26 local high school students who recently completed the Youth L.E.A.D. program.  

Members of Youth L.E.A.D. Class #5 include: 

Community Christian Academy – Maddy Brown

McCracken County High School – Zachary Althouse, Barton Christmas, Bailey Cissell, Brycen Flynn, Joshua Grogan, Robert Hicks, Hallie Poat, Henny Ransdell, Dylan Richards, Sarah Shaikh, Vincent Shiben, Olivia Sin, Will Sivills, Hannah White, Peighton Wix 

St. Mary High School – Olivia Griffin, Karina Romero

Paducah Tilghman High School – Will Denton, Jose Roberto dos Remedios, Hunter Grubbs, John Holtgrewe, Claire Kelly, Bryson Wells, Maddie Ybarzabal

PATCH Home School – Layton Estes

The Youth L.E.A.D. participants are juniors from four local high schools and a home school. The program is designed to develop and prepare students for future community support and leadership roles in Paducah-McCracken County. Class members take part in a six-month educational course beginning with an orientation retreat and concluding with their graduation. The students learn about human needs and service learning, communication and career development, business and economy, law and government, and healthcare in Paducah and McCracken County. The Leadership Paducah Foundation coordinates the program.