InTouch with Southern Kentucky June 2020 | Page 29

SUBMITTED
SPEDA President
and CEO Chris
Girdler, left, hands
over a donation of
masks to Janice
Clark from PJ’s
Primary Care. The
economic development
group
offered donations
of personal protective
equipment
to state-sponsored
childcare
businesses, such
as PJ’s.
SPEDA not slowing down
through shutdown
BY CARLA SLAVEY
COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL
Hope for the best, but plan for the
worst.
It’s what many should be doing,
and it’s what the Somerset-Pulaski
Economic Development Authority
(SPEDA) has tried to do, according
to President and CEO Chris Girdler.
“SPEDA is focused on building
a full, well, rounded economy,”
Girdler said – not just building
and developing the economy in
preparation for the “sunny days”
but for the gloomy ones as well.
It’s possible to see the current
gloominess – the COVID-19 crisis
and the nosedive of the country’s
economy – as a true test for the
brand-new economic development
entity.
SPEDA only celebrated its oneyear
anniversary in February.
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