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This broadcast, hosted by Global Now and featuring high school correspondent Marcus Mahan, covered a variety of community initiatives in Louisville, Kentucky. The program included an interview segment promoting a charitable fundraiser for the restaurant industry and a large block of content sponsored by Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) showcasing district programs, school events, and student achievements. The meeting itself was a televised informational session without any formal legislative business or public comments.
That were out, and you weren't just giving one or two grants. You were giving 10, 20, 30, 40 grants at one place. So it could have wiped us out. And fortunate through our sponsors through the restaurant industry, we were able to continue to grow. So this event um is so important for so many reasons, John. Um, October 11th at Olmstead, 5 30, but it's a tribute to our dear friend Ellen Gill McCartney, who also benefited from apron through the years while she was um ongoing treatment and was suffering through cancer. Yeah, Chef Ellen, right? This is the theme. Yes. Tell me a little bit more about Ellen, because this is interesting. You're gonna make me cry now. Um she was a breath of fresh hair. She was a talented chef and something that's really important. Dean Corbett wrote the first check, and they were like the best of friends. So I know they're watching over us right now. She's got her Tito's and tonic with her lemon, and he's got his Bud Light, and they're watching over us, and they're so proud of how much this has grown. But the event will be a tribute to her from certain songs to her favorite bartender, uh Michael Beckman, who you can see at Osteria, to um Tom Wilburn, who's from Watch Hill, but a big advocate for Apron to all the chefs are gonna be preparing something out of the cookbook um or like their take on it. So it's just so important that everyone come out. They can still get tickets, they're 165, it will sell out. You do have to be 21. You can get them at apronink.org. But in order to find out all those chefs, they have to show up and see exactly what Brandy's gonna be cooking, support Ellen, her family's gonna be there, her best friends are gonna be there. I'm so excited um just to be supporting her and her vision and a tribute to her. I I love your heart, Kimberly. You you are very philanthropic, and I can tell, you know, you know what, but the best connections and sometimes the best causes come from a personal experience. So thank you for what you're doing. Oh, yes. She's look, she's lovely. She was always so kind to me. And she loved this industry. She loved it. It was it's a labor of love. You know that. It's you've got to love this. And these chefs are giving their time because they believe in it. And um, I don't know where we would be without apron. It supports so many people. So we encourage everyone to come out. And if they want, they can also get a cookbook at Osteria. We were doing a happy hour there next Wednesday on the 30th. Apron does so many different events. So if you can't come to 10 taste experience, then come to um, you know, a happy hour. Come to the Taste of Independence in July. Come to or order a chef in the box from your favorite restaurant. There's so many different things.