United Way of the Pennyrile kicked off its annual fundraising campaign Thursday morning with a breakfast with fall-like weather under the Tie Breaker Park pavilion.
Reports were given by each division, including commercial, which has already raised $51,200 thanks in large part to $31,000 from Planters Bank. Another highlight of the pace-setter campaigns is Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority, which has already given $33,000 to United Way and the industrial division has raised $29,262 with most of those campaigns just getting started.
Brooke Jung and former Hopkinsville mayor Dan Kemp are co-chairing the campaign with a theme of ‘Baking a Difference and a goal of $750,000.
Small businesses are their own division this year and DeeAnna Sova says there’s a year-round focus during this campaign instead of a day or week.
Kemp announced they’ve already raised about a fifth of their goal at $148,000.
All money raised will go to support the 19 United Way partner agencies that serve Christian, Todd, Trigg and Caldwell counties.