Hopkinsville and Elkton are featured in a national television commercial for the YMCA.
The premise of the ad is how much of a difference a single digit in one’s zip code can make in the opportunities they have to succeed.
Elkton is featured in six scenes and Hopkinsville is near the end where a woman is guiding a toddler toward a YMCA employee.
Elkton’s 42220 zip code is one digit away from Louisville’s 40220 and Louisville is one away from Compton, California’s 90220. Much of the commercial contrasts the rural life of Todd County to the urban life in those other cities.
Hopkinsville, of course, is one digit away from Elkton at 42240.
The ad concludes with the YMCA’s mission—to make a different zip code not mean so much regarding opportunity for a bright future.