The Green Edition of Happenings Around the State Toot Their Horn!!!

Main Street Monday! April 13,

2015

NEW GRANT OPPORTUNITIES:

http://

smallbiztrends.com/2015/04/

much-cost-iKentucky: LLC fil-

ing fees: $55; LLC Annual Re-

port: $15; Incorporation filing

fees: $55; Corporation Annual

Report: $15 ncorporate-state.html

It is great to see so many participants in the Main Street Clean Sweep! KYMS partnered with Bluegrass Green-space on this project last year and I am thrilled to see so many Main Streets participating. This is great PR for your organizations and at very little if any cost to you!

April is National Volunteer month! It’s a great time

to recognize all the wonderful volunteers that work

with your Main Street program!

Want to learn more about giving your volunteers a great experience with Main Street? Join the NMSC for a webinar on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM Central on volunteer manage-ment, presented by NMSC staff Kathy LaPlante and Jodie Hiveley. In addition to discussing volun-teer trends and tips, we will unveil new tools to help you manage your wonderful volunteers, in-cluding a new customizable volunteer handbook! (this alone is a great reason to tune in!)

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY:

The American Association for State and Local History

(AASLH) is meeting in Louisville from September 16-

19, 2015. This is an excellent professional development

opportunity for staff, volunteers, and board members of

museums and local history organizations.

Conference organizers, including the Kentucky

Historical Society, are looking for volunteers to

help make this great event possible! If you can

donate your time and talents, it will be greatly

appreciated. Please see the following link for

more information about how to volunteer for

the AASLH conference!

http://history.ky.gov/portfolio/aaslh-2015-

annual-meeting-volunteer-opportunities/

If you have questions or need more informa-

tion, please contact:

Phyllis Gilman, CVA Volunteer and Intern Program Administrator Kentucky Historical Society 502-564-1792 X4422 phyllis.gilman@ky.gov www.history.ky.gov/volunteer

Here is a great blog to check out about better cities and priorities. http://bettercities.net/news-opinion/blogs/scott-doyon/21544/better-streets-whats-priority

Exciting news for Pineville! Adam Levine comes to intern at KHC!

Seriously, here he is. Adam is a senior at Georgetown College and is completing a project under the direction of Roger Stapleton. The other cool thing he will be doing is after graduation he will be riding his bike across country with his friend to raise money for Parkinson’s disease. Check out their website to see their route and to make a contribution if you like. What a great adventure for a great cause. Look them up at http://pedalingforparkinsonse2w.weebly.com/our-story.html feel free to share with others.

Georgetown International Kite Festival, held at Cardome Center, US 25 north April 25-26, www.kitefest.com/ gates open at noon!

Oh no! I forgot again!! There is no “Director Spotlight” this week. I have used all 20 that have been submitted so ……..I have attached the questions this week once again so the other 25 of you can submit yours.

Congratulations to Paris Main Street! They were featured on Saturday's CBS This Morning in a segment by Peter Greenburg! You can tell Derby is just around the corner as all the net-works head into our state and feature some of our wonderful Main Street communities!

Kentucky Main Street was featured this past week-

end on KET. I’m sorry I did not know in time to alert every-one to tune in. I thought they were going to contact me prior to the air date. You can go to KET and click on Ken-tucky Life and then this link. Kentucky Mainstreet; Our Town-Booneville; Conrad-Caldwell House Mu-

seum; Historical Marker; Maysville's Gateway Museum Center

Middlesboro was the only local Main Street program to have a booth

at the Expo Hall. Here is Mike Lydon, author of Tactical Urbanism,

speaking with Kentucky Main Street Director

Some of our attendees had a photo op with Jon Shallert

LtoR Samantha Brady-Bardstown, Melinda Winchester-

Paducah , Jon Shallert, Darlene Mazzone-Paducah Board

Member, and Megan Funk-Georgetown.

On Friday we had a nice visit with DDM director, Isaac Kremer,

Sending

Happy

Birthday wishes

to Scottsville

director Jamie

Boler, Saturday

April 19th!

It was quite the Easter Egg Hunt in downtown Carrollton!

Another Big THANK YOU to Katie Meyer and Isaac Kremer for their wonderful presentations in Atlanta at the National Main Street Confer-

ence! Lots of positive comments were made about the great work happening in KY. Kentucky Main Street Directors Rock! Thanks to each of you for all you do!!!