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MARCH EVENT UPDATES

Lexington’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival is canceled for 2021.

Lexington Comic & Toy Convention, scheduled for March 25-28, 2021 at Central Bank Center, is postponed until September 9-12, 2021.

EAT Cherry Pie Food Drive, benefiting God’s Pantry. Drop 1 BIZ Local Lex Market opens in the former Crank Works 2 CITY “Mornings with Planning: Planning for Basic Human 3 DRINK Bourbon Barons Tours, Stone Fences 4 EVENT Jake Gibbs Memorial Plaque 5 RUN Shamrock Shuffle Packet 6 your donation at Richmond building on Southland Needs During a Pandemic,” Tours, 8 am Dedication, Pam Miller Pickup #1, Winchester Road Place on Rio Dosa and Drive Zoom, 9 am to 5 pm Downtown Arts Center, Habitat ReStore, 10 am they’ll send you home with cherry pie, 3pm. EAT Red State BBQ’s Crawfish Boil, 11 am BIZ Commerce Lex Spotlight Series: How BOOKS Don Bentley in conversation with Mark 10 am ART Robert C. May RUN 4th Annual Lucky Leprechaun Half Marathon, EVENT Young Adult Meet and Greet at Immanuel Baptist. (following all CDC Businesses Can Become Champions for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Zoom, 10 am Greaney to discuss The Outside Man, Zoom, 7 pm Photography Lecture Series: Elinor Carucci, Zoom, 4 pm COMEDY DC Young Fly, 10 Miler & 5K, Versailles, 8:30 am guidelines for safety), 7 pm, Comedy Off Broadway, 2261 Armstrong Mill Rd 7:30 pm 7 EAT Kentucky Duchess presents: Snack Queens Unite, 8 HG Green Force Crash Course with Bluegrass 9 10 11 12 13 Honeywood, 5:30 Greensource pm on the topic of Waste Management, Zoom, 5:30 pm 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

EVENT

DRINK BIZ RUN RUN/WALK Alltech 2021 James Women Shamrock Lexington Vocal B. Beam Leading Shuffle Habitat’s Scholarship Industry Kentucky’s Packet Shamrock Competition, Alltech Virtual Conference, Power Pickup #2, Shuffle InEvent Platform, 2 pm virtual via Beam Institute Hour Leadership Series, Winchester Road Habitat Person Race at Fasig-Tipton, SHOP Warehouse 746 Sale (thru March 12), 8 am Zoom, 3 pm ReStore, 10 am (Virtual Race thru March 31) Event, 12 pm COMEDY Dusty Slay, HORSE Snowbird Dressage, Comedy Off Broadway, Kentucky Horse Park 7:15 pm EAT Farmer Joe’s Duck Dinner, Kentucky Castle, 7 pm

COMEDY

EVENT EAT RUN/ Rocky Norton Easter WALK Dale Center cookie Virtual Davis, for the class, Reforest Comedy Arts hosts CULTURE Wildside Winery, 5k (thru Off Broadway, 7 pm + Bourbon w/ Joyce 5:30 pm BASEBALL March 28) BALL March Madness starts with Selection Sunday on March 14, 2021 at 6 pm Nethery (Master Distiller for Jeptha Creed Distillery), Zoom, 7:30 pm HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY COMEDY Mark Normand, Comedy Off Broadway, 7:15 pm UK baseball vs Missouri, Kentucky Proud Park (thru March MUSIC The Highlanders, Goodwood Lexington, 1 pm MUSIC Acoustic Concert Visit acemagazinelex.com 2) Limited to 20% Show #2, Rupp Arena, 7:30 DAYLIGHT SAVING for a comprehensive list of stadium capacity pm TIME BEGINS AT St. Patrick’s Day holiday with distanced 2 AM programming. seating guidelines.

Scholarship 7 Queens Unite, 8 Bluegrass 9 Industry 10 Kentucky’s 11 Packet 12 Shamrock 13 Competition, Alltech Virtual Honeywood, 5:30 Greensource Conference, Power Pickup #2, Shuffle InEvent Platform, 2 pm pm on the topic of Waste virtual via Beam Institute Hour Leadership Series, Winchester Road Habitat Person Race at Fasig-Tipton, SHOP Warehouse 746 Sale Event, 12 pm Management, Zoom, 5:30 pm (thru March 12), 8 am Zoom, 3 pm ReStore, 10 am COMEDY Dusty Slay, (Virtual Race thru March 31) HORSE Snowbird Dressage, Comedy Off Broadway, Kentucky Horse Park 7:15 pm EAT Farmer Joe’s Duck Dinner, Kentucky Castle, 7 pm 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

COMEDY

EVENT EAT RUN/ Rocky Norton Easter WALK Dale Center cookie Virtual Davis, for the class, Reforest Comedy Arts hosts CULTURE Wildside Winery, 5k (thru Off Broadway, 7 pm + Bourbon w/ Joyce 5:30 pm BASEBALL March 28) BALL March Madness starts with Selection Sunday on March 14, 2021 at 6 pm Nethery (Master Distiller for Jeptha Creed Distillery), Zoom, 7:30 pm HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY COMEDY Mark Normand, Comedy Off Broadway, 7:15 pm UK baseball vs Missouri, Kentucky Proud Park (thru March MUSIC The Highlanders, Goodwood Lexington, 1 pm MUSIC Acoustic Concert Visit acemagazinelex.com 2) Limited to 20% Show #2, Rupp Arena, 7:30 DAYLIGHT SAVING for a comprehensive list of stadium capacity pm TIME BEGINS AT St. Patrick’s Day holiday with distanced 2 AM programming. seating guidelines.

ART Barrel head crafting class, Chenault Vineyards, 2 pm BIZ EAT Cake Kentucky and Cookie Job Club Decorating presents Class, Pivot “Thinking Brewing, of a Career in Nonprofit?”, 5 pm Zoom, 9 am BALL Boys’ Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament 2021, Rupp Arena (thru April 3) COMEDY Todd McComas, Comedy Off Broadway, 7 pm RUN/WALK 4th annual Hucks for Pups 5K, POSTPONED Lexington Coldstream Comic Con, scheduled for Research Park, 9 am March 25-28, 2021 at Central Bank Center, is postponed KIDS Lexington Parks and until September 9-12, 2021. Rec’s Spring Break Family Camp, virtual (thru April 4) ART Barrel Head Painting, Kentucky Castle

HOLIDAY

KIDS Eckert’s Fayette Annual County Egg Hunt, Public Eckert’s Schools Orchard, 10 am Spring Break begins March 29 through April 2

AROUND THE CORNER

April 2 Keeneland’s Spring Meet April 4 Easter Sunday April 9 Central Kentucky Home & Garden Show April 10 Free Trash Disposal Day April 13 Bluegrass Creative Spring Market April 17 Free Mulch Giveaway

NEWS

UK participates in second vaccine trial

The University of Kentucky is participating in a second COVID-19 vaccine trial that tests whether two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are more effective than one. UK is one of 20 sites in the country participating in the second arm of the study. Anyone over the age of 40 can sign up for UK’s two-dose study.

RUNS

The 4th Annual Lucky Leprechaun Half Marathon, 10 Miler & 5K is on Saturday, March 6 at 8:30 am in historic Versailles, Kentucky.

Lexington Clinic’s 2021 board of directors

Lexington Clinic announced its 2021 board of directors at the annual meeting. The following officers were elected to serve for the year: Michael T. Cecil, M.D. as President; Kyle J. Childers, M.D. as Vice-President; Shailendra Chopra, M.D. as Secretary; Robert A. Davenport, M.D. as Treasurer. Other members of the board include Haider Abbas, M.D., David Alexander, M.D., An-Yu Chen, M.D., Jamil Farooqui, M.D., Tharun Karthikeyan, M.D., Jordan Prendergast, M.D., Mr. Nick Rowe, and Mr. Alan Stein.

The rescheduled 6th Annual Dirty Dog Trail 4 Miler is on Saturday, March 13 at 9 am at Veterans Park.

The 15th annual Shamrock Shuffle 3K benefiting Habitat for Humanity is happening in March as a hybrid event with two race options. Run a virtual race anywhere between March 13-31, or run in-person on Saturday, March 13 near Fasig-Tipton.

Lifetime achievement award

Dr. Robert Baumann is receiving the Brumback Lifetime Achievement Award from the Child Neurology Society (CNS) after nearly a half-century of work at the University of Kentucky.

Saint Joseph among Best Hospitals

Saint Joseph Hospital achieved the Healthgrades 2021 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ for the third consecutive year.

UK HealthCare one of America’s Best Large Employers

Employers. It ranks seventh out of the 25 employers in the Healthcare & Social industry and is the leading health care employer in Kentucky.

Business Benefits of increased testing

The US Drug Test Centers released a February report on the “Impact of Employer COVID-19 Testing on Jobs by State,” after analyzing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on job losses from December 2019 to December 2020 and the percentage of jobs in each state that can’t be done remotely.

The study reported these key findings: * In Kentucky, 50,801 jobs were lost in 2020, down 5.2% and government jobs are projected to see the biggest comeback in 2021 with 10-15% of jobs returning. * In 48 of 50 states, at least 50% of all jobs cannot be done remotely. * The leisure and hospitality industry would benefit the most from increased at-work testing since 87% of those jobs cannot be done remotely.

John’s Run/Walk Shop and Lexington’s Division of Environmental Services present the second annual Virtual Reforest 5k between March 20-28. Participants can pick their own starting line, finish line, and course, and can run or walk at any time. Proceeds from the race will help raise money to purchase trees for this year’s Reforest the Bluegrass event in April.

The 4th Annual Hucks For Pups 5K is on Saturday, March 27 at 9 am at Coldstream Park, and benefits the animals at Lexington Humane Society.

The Eleventh Anniversary edition of the Original America’s Prettiest Half Marathon developed by Run the Bluegrass is scheduled for Saturday, March 27 at Keeneland with in-person or virtual race options.