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STRONGER THAN EVER: FORMER ACTOR & RADIO PERSONALITY RON CHILTON REFLECTS ON HIS CAREER, TALKS PARTICIPATING IN SENIOR OLYMPICS

Ron Chilton has led a life many of us would be envious of. He’s been a radio man, a singer, a musician, an actor and a several times over Senior Olympics gold medalist. He’s a pioneer of Louisville radio, appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, stood nose to nose with Elizabeth Taylor and learned first hand that Steven Seagal is not the most congenial of human beings.

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7 Martin Brothers: Jeffersontown’s Old, Reliable Barbershop

10 Stronger Than Ever: Former Actor & Radio Personality Ron Chilton Reflects on His Career, Talks Participating in Senior Olympics

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JEFFERSONTOWN’S OLD, RELIABLE BARBERSHOP Writer / Beth Wilder, Director Jeffersontown Historical Museum

William H. Martin was a prominent businessman in Jeffersontown. He originally operated a livery stable on the town square from 1907 – 1925, but he adapted with the changing times and switched to selling cars. In 1925, he opened his new business – Martin Motor Company – in a large brick and tile structure on Taylorsville Road, just behind where King Southern Bank now stands. Martin’s Garage took up the left side of the building, but the right side of the building served other purposes – the second floor was the residence of Martin and his wife, Fannie, while the first floor housed the barbershop, pool room and candy store of his sons, James Elliott and Charles “Bucky” Martin.

When the Martin Brothers Barbershop opened in 1925, James did the barbering.

His younger brother, Charles, who was only 15 at the time, helped operate the pool room and snack bar that were part of the business in its early years. Old photos show the candy cases that held confections on the left side of the store, pool tables in the back of the shop and, of course, barber chairs to the right of the entrance.

because “you had to be pretty good to make it out here.”

Around the age of 17, Charles attended the Tri-City Barber College in Louisville. After working for about a year in other shops, he eventually was allowed to share barbering duties with his brother, James, at their shop.

According to a 1977 Jeffersonian newspaper article, Charles had to get some experience under his belt before he was allowed to work with his brother in Jeffersontown

Like most barbershops in the early 1900s, Martin Brothers was a gathering spot. At the time, there were not a lot of venues for recreation and very few people owned cars. Taking the interurban electric car into Louisville was considered somewhat of a trip, so most people tried to find things to do closer to home. Martin Brothers offered them that outlet.

At the time, James and Charles were practically the only barbers in Jefferson County outside the city of Louisville. Most of their business came from locals and country folks who did not want to travel too far to get a haircut. On Saturdays, it was noted, “you couldn’t hardly get in that place.”

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Not only did the shop contain a pool room and confectionary, it was the first place in Jeffersontown to have air conditioners. In fact, they were among the first air conditioners shipped to the Louisville area.

The Martin brothers also had the first fluorescent lights in Jeffersontown and one of the earliest television sets (the very first in town belonged to local librarian Betty Elswick, who had most of the town at her house on Thanksgiving Day, 1948, to watch a football game). A November 26, 1948 Jeffersonian ad proclaims, “It’s Here!

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Come in and See it. R.C.A. Television Dealer, Martin Bros. Barbershop.”

By the 1950s, ads touted Martin Brothers as the “Old Reliable Barbershop” and it was. The brothers opened the shop at 8 a.m. and worked daily until 9 or 10 p.m. Charles Martin noted he had worked at the shop for 30 years without a single day off.

For 16 of those years, he charged 25 cents a haircut. Although during the Depression, he offered a weekday special of 15 cents for children. Quite often, he received farm goods in payment for his services, but that did not bother him. In fact, he greatly enjoyed the local produce.

The only time Charles Martin was ever away from the business was during World War II when he was stationed in Texas for his stint in the Army and was company barber for 300 men.

According to some locals, because of his service in the Army, a “burr” haircut was all he could give people.

Actually, Charles did do more than “burr” haircuts. By the 1970s, he was having to “style” the longer hair that was in fashion for men, and he gave as many shaves as he did haircuts. Times changed a lot over the years for the men who began barbering “when electric clippers were just coming in,” but the Martin Brothers remain a beloved memory to many a man in Jeffersontown.

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STRONGER THAN EVER Former Actor & Radio Personality Ron Chilton Reflects on His Career, Talks Par ticipating in Senior Olympics Writer / Tyrel Kessinger

Ron Chilton has led a life many of us would be envious of. He’s been a radio man, a singer, a musician, an actor and a several times over Senior Olympics gold medalist.

He’s a pioneer of Louisville radio, appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, stood nose to nose with Elizabeth Taylor and learned first hand that Steven Seagal is not the most congenial of human beings.

From the army to his days as a legendary DJ to an actor, it all began in Danville, Ky, Chilton says, the place he considers his hometown. But after high school, when most of his friends began attending Centre College, Chilton felt the pull of the larger world beckoning.

“Right away I had been drawn to the theater,” he says.

To pursue this calling Chilton first enrolled

at Transylvania, later transferring to the University of Miami before finished his bachelor’s at the University of Kentucky where he starred in several plays and operas.

“But my acting career actually took off at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville,” Chilton says. “Along the way, I was in a play with some up and comers of the time. I was in a play with Lee Majors called Seven Husbands. Soon thereafter he was the Six-Million Dollar Man. I was in another play there with a young actor named John Travolta. Obviously, he became a major star.”

Indeed, Chilton continued to chase his dream doggedly.

“I always wanted to be an actor and I remember telling my parents that I wanted to be a movie star,” he says. “My dad said, ‘Listen, Ron, you don’t want to say that because that sounds pretentious, tell them DECEMBER 2018

you want to be an actor.’”

Chilton laughs heartily at the memory. In one story he recalls his first Hollywood role, in 1956, in the MGM produced film “Raintree County” starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, which was filmed in Danville.

“I was selected to be Montgomery Clift’s stand-in and I got to meet Elizabeth Taylor,” he says. “They put an X on your toes as a stand-in showing you exactly where to stand and her double was up against me. They tapped her on the shoulder and she moved out and then Elizabeth Taylor moved in and I was standing nose-to-nose with her, the most gorgeous creature I’d ever seen in my life. That was the most exciting time that I ever had.”

His mainstream movie appearances didn’t end there. Over the years, Chilton has landed small roles in 13 major motion

pictures filmed in various regions of Kentucky. Armed with an agent he’d secured from his time in radio and television, Chilton has appeared in the films 8 Men Out, Fire Down Below, Stripes, Seabiscuit and Elizabethtown, to name a few. But, just in case you don’t believe him, Chilton has proof.

“I always try and get my picture with the stars of the movie so I can prove I met them,” he says. “My parts didn’t always allow me to be up front. I remember asking Bill Murray if he’d take a picture with me and he said ‘sure, c’mon.’ We kind of put our arms around each other and right before the picture was taken he put me in a headlock and gave me a noogie and said ‘there’s your picture!’ The toughest was Steven Seagal. They said, ‘don’t mess with that guy, don’t even make eye contact.’ But I caught him off guard. I sidled up to him and had a friend take a picture real quick.”

But acting has always been only one of the many hats Chilton has worn. It’s always been his voice, he says, that got him to where he wanted to go. Radio was one of the first places his voice found a home. He started his radio career in Danville, fresh from his stint in the military, in 1960. He’d spend the next four decades involved in radio to one degree or another, moving from Danville to Lexington to Louisville’s WAKY station by the early 70s. One of the major highlights of Chilton’s time in the radio industry was his time at the University of Louisville’s WUOL station, created in1976.

“And you know, there were 350 people trying out for that one job and I got it,” he says. “As an announcer and first manager of WUOL. And I still can’t believe that it happened to me. I look back and I think, ‘how in the hell did I just fall into that?’ I stayed there from 1976 to 1978 but left to get back into commercial radio where I spent the last 20 years of my career.”

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Going For The Gold When Chilton retired 20 years ago he, as so many retirees do, found himself with an abundance of free time. Seeing as how he was not one to “sit idly on the front porch and rust out,” Chilton needed something slightly more challenging than your average post-retirement gigs. Never an orthodox man to begin with, he found his answer in an unorthodox place — the Senior Olympics.

“I’d heard about the Senior Olympics and that’s when I started participating in them, in 1998,” Chilton says. “I do the 50, the 100, the 200, the 400, all sprints. In the field, I do the discus, shot put, javelin, hammer throw, long jump, triple jump. I do 10 events in my category of 80-84. I compete against those who are my age.”

The events take place yearly in Kentucky and bi-annually on the national level.

Chilton, whose won countless gold medals in his categories, works hard to stay competitive. At 82, he’s more active now than many people a fourth his age.

“I run a mile every morning,” he adds. “I go to the gym and workout with weights every morning. I have a trainer. Some people look at me and when I tell them I’m 82-years-old they say, ‘no way, you can’t be!’ And I say ‘yeah!’ As long as I have good health, I feel good, my joints are in good shape, I’m going to continue as long as I can. I know there might be a time when I won’t be able, but hell, I’ve seen some people in their 90s approaching 100 that are still out there. I say, keep going till you can’t.”

Indeed, Chilton is constantly approached by others who wonder what his secret is.

“I was talking to a guy the other day and he said, ‘how the hell do you do it? I’m 61 and I can hardly do anything,’” Chilton says. “And I said, ‘well, there’s two things. Make sure

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that you have a proper diet — I’m the same weight I was in high school — and that you exercise.’ That is the elixir of life, exercise.

Also, have good genes.”

Behind his larger-than-life persona, Chilton is not much different than the rest of the general population. He lives simply and has resided in the same Jeffersontown area house for the past 40 years. He’s been married to his wife, Mary Lee, for 50 years.

There’s the two grown children — a son and daughter — and the two teenage grandchildren. To top it off, he still works part-time at the Amazon Fulfillment Center.

Chilton hasn’t quite given up the acting bug either. He recently starred in a film from this year’s 48-Hour Film Festival called “The Will,” which won the award for “audience choice” after its screening at the Village 8 Theaters where the competition is held every year.

“I was very pleased with that,” he says, grinning, obviously proud that he can still

bring his acting skills to the table when needed.

Chilton says there are things about his life, in retrospect, that he found the most extraordinary. Even from a very young age, he knew exactly what he was going to do with this life and what he was going to use to get there. But to live the kind of life Chilton has you almost have to realize what metal you’re working with early on so that you can have the proper amount of time to temper it into the shape you want.

“I was 12 when I realized my voice had changed,” he says. “It was getting lower and lower. I knew right away that my voice was going to be my career. I just knew it. Whether I was going to be an actor, radio announcer, on television or a commentator, I knew it. You know, it’s strange when you look back, as a 12-yearold boy that I knew exactly what was going to be my livelihood. Some guys want to be a doctor, a firefighter, a lawyer, whatever but I knew I was going to be in radio or an actor. By golly, I went out, I had that confidence, and I knew.”

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You’ve probably heard it said, “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

While Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t speaking about himself when he said this, the sentiment is the epitome of the life of Marcos Lorenzo, owner of Louisville’s Havana Rumba.

When Lorenzo came to the United States from his homeland of Cuba, the restaurant industry was one of the few doors that opened up for him. Starting from scratch with no credit history and speaking limited English, his background in civil engineering didn’t translate to America.

With a family to support, going back to school was not an option, either. The restaurant industry was a way to support his family, and what started as a foot in the door quickly became his passion.

the first month of the business that one year later we opened a place next door,” Lorenzo says. “This time, it was a full-sized restaurant with a bar, waiting area and much more seating.”

“It’s taken dedication,” Lorenzo says. “But it’s interesting and fun. The intense hours and commitment help you see results. It’s a blessing, and I’m proud. It takes a lot of people, but every day is a new challenge that keeps you busy.”

Two years after the expansion in 2007, Lorenzo and his team opened Mojito Tapas restaurant in Holiday Manor Shopping Center. While it had a much different concept and cuisine than Havana Rumba, its wild success led to the next expansion. In 2010 Havana Rumba opened its Middletown location. Most recently, in 2013, the Bardstown Road location of Havana Rumba opened.

After Lorenzo arrived in the United States in 2000, he spent four years as a server, working his way up at different restaurants in Louisville. After four years, he opened his own restaurant, Havana Rumba, in 2004 in St. Matthews. The small restaurant boasted 16 tables and could seat 64 people. There was no bar or waiting area.

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“Opening a restaurant takes a lot of energy and time,” Lorenzo says. “We have found ourselves ready to open something else about every three years. It’s kind of like when you forget the difficult newborn stages of a baby and are ready for another child.”

Thankful for the opportunity to open restaurants at such a quick pace, Lorenzo credits his success to his heritage.

“I believe what is making us successful is trying to bring Cuban feelings to the restaurant,” Lorenzo says. “From the colors, decorations, and presentation of the plates to the food itself. It is completely different from what others offer. It’s a lively place. We train our servers to be different and have great customer service. We aren’t just selling Cuban food, we’re selling the Cuban experience.”

According to Lorenzo, when they open a restaurant his attention is needed six days per week from open to close to make sure it’s smooth. Each location offers different difficulties and adaptations. After about six months he can leave it to his team. Someone from the crew with passion and talent receives the opportunity to invest in the business and is trained very well to handle the location. Oftentimes a former chef or front manager will supervise the restaurant as an operative partner. From there, Lorenzo can supervise and advise.

“Anytime there is a problem, they give me a call and I’m there,” Lorenzo says. “We have a great team, and I don’t have to be there all the time because of our good training.”

Because Havana Rumba is inspired by authentic Cuban cuisine, they don’t serve complicated food. They cook classics with big portions and variety.

“That’s how we eat in Cuba,” Lorenzo says.

“It’s a very simple, home-cooking cuisine.

I have too many favorites: the roasted chicken, empanadas, chicken croquettes and garlic shrimp. The flan is addictive. We have a new dish on the menu that is really good called pollo con queso.”

While all of the locations in Louisville require attention from Lorenzo, he feels a special connection with the Middletown location.

“I feel more attached and familiar at Middletown because I don’t have an operative partner there right now,” Lorenzo says. “It’s our biggest location, and with no current partner, it’s my most challenging location. I’m grateful for our great team there because the atmosphere is unmatched.”

It’s hard for Lorenzo to put a finger on what he loves most about owning and operating Havana Rumba in Louisville.

“When I go outside and everyone wants to meet me and say thank you for being in Louisville, anytime customers want to say hi, shake my hand and give me support, it inspires me to wake up every day and do my best,” Lorenzo says. “It’s very inspiring and rewarding that people are asking, ‘Who is the owner?’, and want to tell you that they love it.

I love our clientele, and I love Louisville.”

For Lorenzo, food isn’t just a passion. It’s a lifestyle.

“I’m off on Mondays and dedicate time to family, but I love cooking,” Lorenzo says. “Every Monday I cook at home. I always explore new cuisines and read new cookbooks. I subscribe to food websites, and I love learning new food and getting creative.”

Lorenzo says one of the reasons he loves Louisville is because he emigrated straight from Havana, Cuba, to Louisville.

“It’s a quiet city with a good pace for a family,” Lorenzo says. “It’s a healthy city.

We’ve had big success here in Louisville, and it’s my home right now. We’re proud to be a part of the community.”

Lorenzo sees the company continuing to expand at its established pace.

“We want to keep growing the company at a slow pace,” Lorenzo says. “We’re looking into expanding opportunities and keeping our eyes open for more locations. We’re ready to open a new one, and we’re looking around at the market for the right moment and right location. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Louisville, but we plan to continue at this pace of roughly three years between each new venture.”

Eager to inspire and help others with passions like his, Lorenzo says he believes passion must drive what you’re doing in any business.

“You have to love what you’re doing,” Lorenzo says. “You’ve got to feel it or it won’t suit you. If you want to run a restaurant, you have to be a chef, be passionate and put a good team together.

You don’t do it to make money. You have to feel it and engage with your employees and customers to make it succeed. Before you open one, you should work for one and get experience because it’s not easy.”

At Havana Rumba and Mojito Tapas, leaving customers with a lasting impression is what matters to Lorenzo and his team.

“We want to turn customers into repeat customers,” Lorenzo says. “We want to know their names. That’s our motto.

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Parkinson Support Center of Kentuckiana Cares For Those Living With Parkinson Disease Writer / Angela Partee

The Parkinson Support Center of Kentuckiana offers help and hope for persons living with Parkinson Disease.

The Center’s Resource Guide describes Parkinson Disease (PD) as a neurological disorder in which there is a gradual loss of brain cells that make and store dopamine.

The support center is an independent organization serving more than 8,000 people diagnosed with PD in Louisville and 14,000 in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The Center evolved from the original Parkinson Disease Support Group founded

by Jewish Hospital in the early 1990s.

The support group held a fundraiser — the Parkinson Derby Eve Gala — which funded research. The gala became an annual fundraising event. The Parkinson Support Center of Kentuckiana was established as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) in 1999 by the late

Judy Spencer and other support group members. During the first few years of fundraising, the organization donated money to the University of Louisville for research. Then the organization segued from a focus on research to a focus on resources.

“Somewhere along the way the mission shifted,” says Erika Branch, Executive Director of the Center. “The mission was no longer to fund research but to provide services for people here in the community.

Our slogan is living well with Parkinson Disease, and part of living well is what you do right now. Research is wonderful and it is definitely needed. But there were few resources that addressed how people lived right now with Parkinson. That is why our three key areas are education, exercise and support groups because those are all things you need as you are progressing through and adapting to a life with Parkinson.”

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The Center offers a variety of educational programs held on-site and in the community. Currently, activities are held three nights a week at the Center, including yoga, Fight Back with Fitness class and support groups. A free symposium – Living Well with Parkinson – is held each year. A complete list of events is listed on their website, parkinsoncenter.org.

Branch says this is an exciting time for Parkinson Disease because there are so many treatment options. She noted that when she began working with the Center five years ago there were only one or two treatment options for PD. She said it is a matter of identifying the need. For instance, she sees a need for services for persons diagnosed with young onset PD (affecting persons from mid-30 to 50 years of age).

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“Everything we do is free of charge to the community,” she says. “We have to work really hard to create partnerships. We serve a huge population in Kentucky and Indiana and hopefully, we can find creative ways to make partnerships. We don’t want to, and I don’t ever foresee us, getting into a model where we are charging for service. One of the goals for the board, and one of my personal goals, is to offer all of our services at no cost.”

The Center has a small staff so one of their greatest needs is for volunteers. They also welcome new board and committee members and program input from people with PD or caregivers of people with PD. Members of the current board — 90 percent of whom are persons who have Parkinson or have some connection to someone who has PD – are passionate

about the Center. Branch says they have Recently, a woman with PD and her sister great participation from the board members. experienced the genuine support of the She says good relationships are vital.

Center. The woman came in to pick up information and stayed for almost two hours talking with Branch. Taking the time “In order to continue to grow and sustain you have to have good relationships,” to listen to people is important to Branch.

Branch says. “If people know that what we “You look at people and you realize they are doing is genuine then they will support have no idea what is next,” she says. “Not in return. That support can be in-kind hours, donations, it can be connections with ‘what’s next, what is going to happen to me as far as Parkinson,’ but ‘what should I be businesses, but it all starts with someone doing?’ You go to your doctor. You get your knowing that you are truly here for the diagnosis. You have all of this information community.”

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you can pull from the website. You can go online. You can Google Parkinson all day long but who is there to sit down with you and talk with you and say okay, this is your situation. This is what we suggest that you do. For that particular lady, it was just listening to what she was saying.”

Branch suggested an upcoming writing workshop to the woman whose handwriting had begun to be impacted by Parkinson.

She said the writing workshop is for people who are not as comfortable writing anymore or not as comfortable telling their stories because they don’t know if they will forget something and they don’t want to be embarrassed.

“I can’t express those feelings on the website in the description of the class. It takes sitting down and talking to people,” Branch says.

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Branch recently listened to a woman express concern about her brother’s challenges with young onset PD. She then invited the woman and her brother to lunch to meet a man who also had youngonset PD. She points out that it’s those kinds of personal interactions that can’t be put on a website. She says that you just have to be a part of those situations.

The Center’s local accessibility makes it easier to be a part of the lives of those seeking to live well with Parkinson.

“There’s a big local movement going on where people reference local bourbon, local foods and local businesses,” Branch says. “We are within that local movement.

There are a lot of great opportunities for our community, but we are that grassroots organization that is independent. We are the local, homegrown Parkinson Center that has been around for almost 19 years now. We’re here to serve the community and that is our focus. We want people to feel like we’re the home for them. My call to action is if you

have someone who has been impacted by Parkinson, if you have been impacted by Parkinson, you need to consider becoming engaged with us.”

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It could have been a swing and a miss.

Instead, it was a home run that ultimately benefited everyone in Kentucky.

In the early 1990s, Ben Chandler was Kentucky’s attorney general. He had already enjoyed robust law and public service careers, bolstered by a family legacy of public service, that included his legendary grandfather, Albert Benjamin (A.B.) “Happy” Chandler, who served two terms as Kentucky governor and parts of two terms as a U.S. Senator. The elder Chandler also was famously the second commissioner of baseball, from 1945-1951, helping Jackie Robinson break the baseball color barrier in 1947.

A.B. “Ben” Chandler III, who also shares his grandfather’s passion for baseball, took on America’s other favorite pastime, politics, with relish.

During the 1990s, insurance giants Anthem and Blue Cross/Blue Shield merged.

Anthem, a for-profit company, took over all the resources of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, which was a non-profit insurer. In the conversion, Anthem did not account

for the value of charitable assets, and Chandler, as Kentucky’s attorney general, sued. The complicated case progressed, and eventually, it was settled for $45M, which a judge ordered be placed into a foundation.

With that, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky was born in 2001, with a goal of improving the health of people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Fast forward to 2018, and Ben Chandler, as president and CEO, now leads the organization, which is nestled in the corner of an office complex off Hurstbourne Lane.

“I never dreamed that would happen,” Chandler says. “After the lawsuit, I ran for governor, and then served nine years in Congress.

Three years after that, in 2016, I was approached to take this job and come full circle. I’m thrilled to do that.”

During Chandler’s time in Congress, he focused on legislation addressing child and elder abuse prevention, air travel safety, veterans’ healthcare and more. He also played a central role in passing a tobacco

buyout. Now, as head of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, he feels at home.

“The whole notion that I could come and help shepherd an entity that had been a legacy for me was very exciting,” he says.

“I can contribute on a day-to-day basis in a meaningful way for my fellow citizens.”

It’s no secret that Kentuckians face numerous health challenges.

“The Foundation is trying to make an impact,” he says. “It’s a great job because day in and day out we try to improve the health of our fellow Kentuckians. There’s nothing more important than our health.”

Rather than focusing primarily on giving grants out as a central effort, the Foundation, under Chandler’s leadership, believes advocacy and policy work will ultimately reap the best rewards for Kentucky.

“We believe we can accomplish a great deal more by addressing health challenges through good public health policy,” Chandler adds.

The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky recently set about forming a coalition

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of more than 160 entities to work on reducing tobacco use and exposure to tobacco emissions throughout the Commonwealth. Members of the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow include the State Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Medical Association, the Kentucky Nurses Association, Greater Louisville Inc., the Kentucky Council of Churches, several schools, public health departments and more. This powerful coalition took on two immediate tasks: getting a cigarette tax passed in Kentucky, followed by current efforts to pass more smoke-free laws across the state.

Chandler is buoyed by the mix of minds in the coalition.

our citizens.”

Whether it’s in the Foundation’s work with the coalition, with legislators or on the ground with Kentuckians, the Foundation remains completely nonpartisan.

“We don’t care whether you’re a democrat, republican or independent,” Chandler says.

“We just care whether people are interested in improving the health of our citizens. If they can agree with us on issues, then we will work with them any way we can.”

Following an intense, six-month coalition campaign to pass a $1 tax increase on cigarettes, the Kentucky General Assembly eventually passed a 50-cent increase in 2018. The difference was not the outcome the Foundation wanted, but Chandler still sees it as a win.

“All these groups agree on our essential agenda of improving the health of Kentuckians,” he says. “There may be “From our perspective, we got the largest discussions on compromises in the cigarette tax increase in the history of legislature, but in general, that keeps the conversation going and, ultimately, supports Kentucky,” Chandler says. “We wanted

more because we thought a $1 or more would encourage many people to either quit smoking or not start in the first place.

But, to still come away with the largest tax increase in Kentucky ever for cigarettes is an accomplishment. That doesn’t happen every day, particularly in a tobacco state.”

The Foundation has now turned its sights towards enacting more smoke-free laws across the state.

“We’re going community by community,” Chandler says. “I’ve been to 113 of 120 counties this year already, talking about the importance of smoke-free laws. We currently are working with multiple communities and have helped spur laws in nearly half a dozen, but this doesn’t happen overnight, especially in an election year.

Next year, we will get into the meat of it.

“We’re also working on how the Medicaid waiver moves along in Kentucky,” Chandler adds.

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Gov. Steve Beshear expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to include 450,000 Kentuckians who didn’t previously have healthcare coverage. Recently, Gov. Matt Bevin added work and premium paying requirements to the program.

“Our goal is to keep as many of those 450,000 people covered as possible,” Chandler says.

For the lifelong democrat, being the nonpartisan head of the Foundation can have its challenges.

“When I was in Congress, I was a dying breed — a moderate,” he says. “I believe compromise is a good thing and it comes naturally for me to look for areas to find common ground. Disagreements shouldn’t hamper you from working together to accomplish things. If you keep your eye on that ball, you’ve got to conclude that cooperating with people to get good policy passed trumps everything.”

Whether that’s related to health care policy, tobacco cessation programs or other issues, Chandler always comes back to the health of Kentuckians. He points out that health is different from health care.

“I’ve never met a person who wants health care if they have good health,” he says.

“Our country has created a rescue system,” he adds. “As a nation, we’ve spent a lot of money to rescue people from bad health and provide health care, but as a nation, we spend twice as much per capita in the U.S. on health care than in any other country, and we rank 37th in outcomes. That’s something we must address. We need to invest more in good health prevention on the front end of the equation.”

Is that attainable?

“We believe it’s the right way to go,” Chandler says. “If we invest more of the health care dollars to prevention, we’d have a higher quality life. We need to build our

economy on wellness, instead of sickness.”

And, for Chandler, that begins at home in Kentucky. Service to his state and country is in Chandler’s blood.

“I have truly been blessed,” he says. “I grew up to believe that public service was a noble thing, and I was lucky enough to be entrusted by the people of this state to be the state auditor, attorney general and a congressman. It was a tremendous opportunity. Now, I’m incredibly fortunate to add the Foundation my resume.”

On many days, Chandler sees his career as a grand slam.

“If I’m able to make a difference, I will look back on my career as a legacy,” he says. “To create this Foundation with others, and to have an impact and to be shepherding it on to do good work for others is what we do.

I don’t know what else I could accomplish in public service that would mean more than that.”

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