Pennyrile Area Development District based in Hopkinsville recently received a 2019 Impact Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for the Fort Campbell Strong Initiative.
According to officials, the Fort Campbell Strong initiative is a collaborative effort that began in 2015 to define a path for economic diversification and growth in the six county region surrounding the Fort Campbell Army Base including Christian, Todd, and Trigg counties in Kentucky along with Montgomery, Stewart, and Robertson counties in Tennessee.
The Impact Award presented to PADD is in honor of the late Aliceann Wohlbruck who was the organization’s first executive director and served 24 years. Officials say Wohlbruck championed regional approaches to economic development in rural communities.
Award-winning projects were honored during the recent NADO’s 2019 Annual Training Conference held in Reno, Nevada. The 2019 class of award recipients consisted of 100 projects from 66 organizations spanning 24 states.
