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Hilda Legg tells Adair leaders, dream bigger, ask for more Hilda Gay Legg wants her Adair County office to become one of her busiest. She said in a speech to the Columbia/Adair Chamber of Commerce, "I challenge the leaders of Adair County to think bigger, ask for more. What kind of needs does the community have? What other business or entrepreneurial facilities are you thinking about? The first grant I've gotten to sign for Adair County since getting this position, was for the Sheriffs Department, $35,000 for a vehicle. I hope to have the opportunity to see more 'asks' from my home county." " Click on headline for complete story and photo By Linda Waggener Hilda Legg, native of Knifley, KY in northern Adair County, is the State Director of Rural Development which has one of its five regional offices here in Columbia. She challenged local leaders at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet May 29, 2018 to make this office a much busier place. She called on fellow Adair Countians to think outside the box, dream bigger, put together ideas and ask her local office to help. Her dynamic, motivational speech was so strong that afterward, Ace Assistant to the Executive Director JD Zornes said, "If Hilda had spoken for another fifteen minutes, I'd have been ready to change my registration." The local Rural Development Office provides loans and grants for businesses, single and multi-family homes, utilities, libraries, fire houses and the broadband internet development which is a current thrust of her agency. She has to report weekly on three areas, IPI, Infrastructure, Partnerships and Innovation, and she challenged Adair County leaders to examine progress in these same areas. She explained: I - Infrastructure: what have we done to help rural infrastructure in Adair County - buildings, roads and power supplies?She said that the Internet is the highway of the future and if you don't have big band width you won't be able to Carry the kind of information that you must to be able to in order to compete in the future. The information highway is what will make the difference in your business. "I can't guarantee anything," she laughed, "I'm not going to jail, but I can assure you your idea will get my full attention and that of my staff because it's your tax dollars that should have first chance to come back home." She complimented Adair County's work-ready status, new development and the Homeplace on Green River. She complimented the Trail Town designation and learned about the popular fall "Squarecrows" tradition. She said that with all the good development going on, she is not seeing support for local entrepreneurial development. The Director referred to her belief that the fundamental values we learn from our roots in a rural area is what this whole country needs more of today - civic engagement, helping our neighbors, giving back. She's experienced in rural development, but said, "What I didn't expect, and has become one of the top priorities, is to be working with rural counties in crisis due to opioid problems." She spoke of a study done of rural counties across all states, out of that vast study, 52 of 250 counties are Kentucky counties - 52 of this state's counties - in crisis. Adair County, she said, is not as bad as some but still greatly impacted. You can't fill jobs if there's not a healthy workforce so healing this must be part of the thinking on how to make our's a better place. "For the first time in history," she said, "$50 billion has been asked for by President Trump just for rural infrastructure. So my question is - if that is passed - what kind of plans do you have, Adair County, to take advantage of that money? This story was posted on 2018-06-01 14:06:52
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