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Bluegrass Barkery Closing

The Harvey Family, owners of Bluegrass Barkery, announced to customers at the end of last year that they would be closing at the end of January, and sold the last of their inventory at the Old Todds Road location, where they’d been a neighborhood mainstay for many years.

Sign up now for St. Patrick’s

The Alltech Lexington St. Patrick’s Parade and Festival will return to downtown Lexington on Saturday, March 11. Applications for this year’s St. Patrick’s parade participants, concessions, and festival vendors can be found online at lexingtonstpatsparade.org. Vendor applications are due by February 17. Parade unit entry forms are due by March 1.

The parade celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019, the last time the full event was held in person. This year will be the 41st St. Patrick’s parade held in Lexington.

Sponsored by the Bluegrass Irish Society since 1980, the parade and festival are produced by the Lexington Division of Parks and Recreation with community support from local businesses and cultural organizations.

“We’re very much looking forward to bringing the parade and festival back to the streets of downtown this year,” said Megan Moloney, the society’s president and parade chair.

Be a Youth Job Site

Hire qualified youth for summer jobs, and the city picks up the tab. The city government pays all youth workers’ salaries in Lexington’s Summer Youth Job Training Program. The program provides workforce training opportunities for 300 Lexington high school students by teaming with Lexington’s business and community-based partners. Youth workers will work part-time, up to 20 hours per week, and earn $15 per hour. The worksite application period for the

2023 SYJTP is Jan. 17 – Feb. 17, 2023. Applications and agreements are due by Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. Email signed agreements to youthwork@lexingtonky.gov.

Founder of Humanity

In Deep Space, an initiative exploring the challenges and hard problems facing humans as we transition to deep space faring species.

Vision Awards Honorees

Bluegrass Tomorrow has announced that UK President Eli Capilouto, Kris Kimel founder of Space Tango and the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation, and Will Arvin, CEO and owner of Castle & Key Distillery are among the honorees at the 2023 Vision Awards Breakfast on Friday February 24 at at the Lexington Downtown Hilton. Registration is now open.

Kimel, Bluegrass Legacy Award honoree is most recently the

Capilouto who has been responsible for over $3 billion in construction and improvements to the campus and U.K. Health Care will receive the Vision Award for Education.

Will Arvin who has transformed the Castle & Key Distillery in Franklin County into a major tourism destination, will receive the Vision Award for Preservation and Adaptive Reuse.

Business Calendar

FRI FEB 24 Vision Awards Breakfast, 8 am Downtown Hilton

Bluegrass Tomorrow’s 2023 Vision Awards Breakfast is 8 am on Friday February 24 at the Lexington Downtown Hilton.

THU FEB 9 Networking Happy Hour, 5:30 pm, Void Sake Company

LYPA’s first networking event of 2023 will be hosted at Craft Sake maker, The Void Sake Company. Network, meet new people, share business cards, make new friends. 21 and over only please.

WED FEB 15 Women Leading Kentucky Luncheon, Noon, Signature Club Fayette County Attorney (and former Hamburg councilmember) Angela Evans is the speaker.

Current Council

Linda Gorton continues to serve as Lexington’s mayor after re-election in November. Lexington’s new council began its formalized meeting schedule in January.

• Dan Wu - vice mayor

• James Brown - council at-large

• Chuck Ellinger - council at-large

• Tayna Fogle - 1st district

• Shayla Lynch - 2nd district

• Hannah LeGris - 3rd district

• Brenda Monarrez - 4th district

• Liz Sheehan - 5th district

• Denise Gray - 6th district

• Preston Worley - 7th district

• Fred Brown - 8th district

• Whitney Baxter - 9th district

• Dave Sevigny - 10th district

• Jennifer Reynolds - 11th district

• Kathy Plomin - 12th district

Lamb to be new Fayette County Clerk

Fayette County Judge/Executive Mary Diane McCord Hanna has appointed Susan Lamb to Fayette LARGE

County Clerk. The former Fayette County 4th district council representative will replace retiring Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins, Jr.

Lamb previously spent 21 years in the Council Clerk’s Office, serving first as the Deputy Council Clerk, and then as the Council Clerk, a position under the purview of the Fayette County Clerk.

‘Lexus for the Little Ones’

Lexus for the Little Ones, organized by the MAP Foundation, is proud to announce its ninth annual raffle that raises funds for children’s charities throughout Kentucky, including the Woodhill Community Center in our neighborhood.

Rick Avare, dealer principal, Lexus of Lexington and co-founder of the MAP Foundation, says, “We