The Hopkinsville Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs came together for a joint meeting on Halloween to highlight the United Way of the Pennyrile’s mission and their campaign progress while also hearing from Trace Industries, one of the United Way’s partner agencies.
United Way Co-Chairs, Chris Jung and Cody Noffsinger kicked off their 2023 campaign in September with the goal of raising $700,000 for 18 regional organizations. Before sharing their progress, Jung highlighted the roots of the United Way saying the organization’s work in the region traces back to 1946.
After the pair spoke about their fundraising mission, in the spirit of Halloween, they hosted a pumpkin painting contest between members of Kiwanis and Rotary. As the contest was underway, Elizabeth Knight from Trace Industries, one of the 18 organizations to benefit from the United Way campaign, spoke about what their organization does.
Trace Industries is a day training program that provides job and life skill training to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and operates in Hopkinsville, Cadiz, Madisonville and Princeton.
Knight says the United Way has been a big supporter by helping them with providing cooking activities for their members, teaching personal finance skills and much more.
To conclude the meeting Noffsinger announced the amount they have raised since the start of the start of the campaign. In September they already started with approximately $216,000 and now around a month later they have raised $294,560.
Noffsinger says they are approaching the halfway point, but have a long way to go. The United Way campaign will continue until February and more information about it can be found at United Way of the Pennyrile on Facebook and at pennyrileunitedway.org.
