InTouch with Southern Kentucky June 2020 | Page 38

CONGRATULATIONS!
To all the 2020 Graduates
“Remember now thy Creator in the
days of thy youth...”
- ecclesiastes 12:1
it later in the year, likely around Labor Day. The
plan is a two-day festival that’s hoping to draw
around 13,000 attendees.
“Mayor Lawson, my tourism board, and I
agree that our community needs a party of this
magnitude and we are going to everything we can
to make it come to fruition when the time is right,”
said Crabtree, urging people to visit facebook.
com/visitburnside to keep up with the event
reschedulings.
However tourism in Pulaski County looks in 2020,
local leaders have done the best job they can do
protecting the area’s interest and keeping hope
alive for another strong summer on the beautiful
waters of Lake Cumberland, thanks in part to the
strong reputation it’s developed over decades of
serving “the Ohio Navy” and other visitors so well.
“I am proud of Burnside, Somerset, and Pulaski
County’s leadership team. Mayor (Robert) Lawson
(of Burnside), Mayor (Alan) Keck (of Somerset),
Judge (Executive Steve) Kelley, and all aspects of
our local government are in the trenches fighting
for our recovery,” said Crabtree.
Added Ikerd, “We have a very loyal tourism
base in Pulaski County. I hear over and over that
Somerset is one of the friendliest places they’ve
ever visited, and that’s why they will continue to
come back.”
LARRY SEARS NICHOLS
is a lifelong conservative
Republican and is running for
the State Senate June 23rd
Pray each one of you
graduates receive
2020 vision
“Without a vision the people will perish”
- Proverbs 28:18
Paid for by Larry Sears Nichols
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