All the groups that made the new signs that adorn the entrances to the City of Leitchfield were represented at the official unveiling on January 21. Rodney Matthew and David Rose were present from the American Legion, Steven Elder represented the Rotary Club and Ryan Bratcher and Dr Brett Abney represented the Lions Club. Ilsa Johnson represented the Tourism and the Chamber of Commerce with Derrick and Erin Embry representing the City.
Lavern Bratcher, Joyce Bell, Sarah McClellan, Irene Butler, Marge Woodard and Dot McCall were present from the Leitchfield Woman’s Club and Darlene Downs represented Spring View Health and Rehab.
When the Leitchfield Woman’s Club was reimbursed the money they had pledged to the now defunct Healthplex they wanted to do something for the City of Leitchfield.
“We were going to do something to decorate the Square but the Master Gardeners did that,” said Leitchfield Woman’s Clubs Second Vice President Dot McCall. “So we decided to replace the signs on every main artery.”
Although replacing the old purple signs with larger more attractive signs is a community project initiated and led by the Woman’s Club, some funding for the signs is coming from the city of Leitchfield and other service organizations of the community.
After the committee spent many other hours working on the project a bid was obtained from Allan Peerce of Peerce signs for $6,000.
The finished project is to include landscaping around each of the six signs and will cost an additional $1,800, which will be completed in the spring of 2010.
The city of Leitchfield as well as several local organizations helped with the cost of the new signs.
The new white signs all display logos from the Rotary Club, Lions Club, American Legion, Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.
“The Community Improvement Project Committee along with the other club members would like to thank the City of Leitchfield as well as the other organizations that helped to make this project a reality,” said President Joyce Bell.
The Woman’s Club is thought to be the oldest service organization in Leitchfield. It was organized in 1928 by 70 charter woman of the community. The object of the club was to secure closer contact among the woman of the community for the purpose of broadening their interests and improving the community.
With that in mind, the club has been involved in many projects over the years. They were very instrumental in the purchase and the maintenance of the Historical Jack Thomas House, home of the club meeting.
In addition to the sign project there are many other ongoing projects and interests including the Georgia Sisks Nursing Scholarship, Poinsettia sales for the purpose of providing shoes to the needy children of Grayson County schools, providing periodic gifts to residents of the counties two nursing homes, contributing to the Domestic Violence Program, Halloween Safe Spot, Operation Prom, support to the Grayson County Public Library, staffing the Arts Building/Arts Display at the Grayson County Fair.
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