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Multiple services and programs will be providing information on how they serve the community at the second annual Breckinridge County Resource Fair, to be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23 at the Breckinridge County Extension Office.

“A lot of the different vendors include housing resources, food pantries, mental health and healthcare services,” said Breckinridge County Health Department Harm Reduction Program Coordinator Kayela Bennett. “The schools will also be there to set up. Any financial services, recreational stuff. It is for the public. Anyone who wants to attend is more than welcome to. Just come out and enjoy the day and find out what Breckinridge County has to offer.”

The Breckinridge County Farmers’ Market will be open for visitors to enjoy, and the fair will include free refreshments while supplies last.

“The health department will also be having their annual drive-through flu clinic that day as well,” Bennett said. “They’ll be out there that morning from like 8 to 11 a.m. for the drive-through, and they’ll be set up at the resource fair from 1 to 5 p.m. at their table and you can come and get your flu shot.”

The extension office is located at 1377 South Highway 261 in Hardinsburg. Contact the health department for more information.

Breckinridge County was included in the latest round of funding from the Kentucky Product Development Initiative.

According to a release from the governor’s office, the KPDI “provides funding for local communities to boost investment in site and building upgrades to support future, well-paying jobs and economic growth across the commonwealth.” More than $700,000 in state funding was approved for the latest approved projects.

“This is how we improve in the next site for the next major business,” said Governor Andy Beshear during Thursday’s Team Kentucky Update. “It’s that idea that every time we announce a business, yeah, we’ve got those jobs coming, but that we’ve got to do extra work so we can get the next one and the next one and the one after that.”

The governor’s office says funding was approved for the Breckinridge County Fiscal Court, on behalf of Breckinridge County United Inc., “to extend a waterline 1,150 feet to the Irvington Industrial Park.”

“Our site development and speed to market initiatives are crucial to our long-term success,” Beshear said. “They are how we’re able to tell people that we will get them up and running months before any other state.”

KPDI project proposals are reviewed by a third party, independent site selection consultant, who provides recommendations to the Cabinet for Economic Development, with final recommendations for approval coming from the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority. Learn more about the program at kpdI.ky.gov.

One person is dead and one person is in custody following a collision on the Western Kentucky Parkway Thursday.

According to a release from the Kentucky State Police, at around 4:25 a.m. on September 4 troopers from KSP Post Four responded to a call from the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office to assist with the investigation of a head-on collision near the 117-mile marker of the Western Kentucky Parkway.

The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates a car operated by Francisco Tziquin of Houston was travelling west on the parkway when for unknown reasons the vehicle crossed the median, striking an eastbound car operated by Isaac Hearn of Leitchfield.

A female adult passenger in Tziquin’s vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene by the Grayson County Coroner’s Office. Two juvenile passengers in that vehicle were transported to Norton Children’s Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. Hearn was transported to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries.

Tziquin was arrested for Leaving the Scene of an Accident-Failure to Render Aid or Assistance and for No Operator’s-Moped License. He remains incarcerated in the Grayson County Detention Center. The KSP’s investigation is ongoing.