It’s hard to believe it, but it’s time again for the reunion for West Side School, and this will be the third year for the festivities where all former ‘westsiders’—and those who wish they were—are invited to attend.
It was a full house of westsiders on WHOP Thursday morning, as Judge John Atkins, former Christian County Judge-Executive Steve Tribble and former Road Department Superintendent Chuck Chambers all appeared on air to invite the community to the event. Atkins shared the details, saying the party takes place August 2 at Casey Jones Distillery from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. and there will be live music, more than enough to eat and especially fun and fellowship.
They say you don’t have to have attended West Side School to come and have fun, though they understand the wish to have been a westsider. All three reflected on growing up on the westside of Hopkinsville, but say they all had plenty of friends from all over the city and county.
Tribble and Chambers say it was a great place, and time, to grow up in, and this reunion helps celebrate those memories.
Atkins says parts of West Side Elementary School are still around near Second Baptist Church—it served elementary school students in Hopkinsville from 1905 until 1972.
Second Baptist Church purchased the property not long after it closed, and turned the auditorium into their Activities Building, meaning that youth and families are still flourishing and learning inside the walls of the one-time school.
