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On this week’s Community Forum, its Week 3 in our series on Community and the Police. For our final week, Elizabethtown Police officers John Thomas and Chris Denham sit down with Zach Epperson to talk about one of the department’s most important roles: community outreach.
“Anytime that we have the opportunity to interact with an individual that we’ve never had the opportunity to contact, we do that,” officer Chris Denham said. “If we’re invited to a group of five people, we jump on it. If it’s a gathering of 500 people, we’re obviously going to attend that too. It’s all worth our while.”
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CASA of the Heartland, a non-profit child advocacy organization, have chosen a new Executive Director. After an extensive search process, Norma Hatfield will be taking on the role this august.
“As I learn more and more about what is happening to the kids of Kentucky, you find that the more you know, the more you want to try to help,” Hatfield explained. “So that’s what inspired me to apply for the position.”
Hatfield says that recruiting more volunteers to assist the organization will be a priority going forward. Hatfield will officially take the role on August 3rd.
As COVID-19 restrictions continue to be lifted, the city of Elizabethtown is following suit, reopening parks and recreation areas for residents that had been previously closed off. Baseball, softball, and soccer fields are now the latest to be opened by the city.
City spokesperson Amy Inman says that Funtopia, the playground within American Legion Park, will not open until July, when groups of 50 are able to congregate again. The city has previously stated that other recreation spots, such as the city pool, will not open for the summer due to several factors, including cost and lifeguard training.