A send-off party for Hopkinsville Mayor Carter Hendricks and his executive secretary, Idalia Luna, is planned from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, the Planters Bank-Jennie Stuart Health Sportsplex.
Hendricks is leaving office at the end of the month to become the executive director of the South Western Kentucky Economic Development Council.
Luna is leaving her job in the mayor’s office to take another position in city government. She will be the executive director of the Human Rights Commission, replacing Bernard Standard, who is retiring at the end of the month.
Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP by calling city staffer Nikki Durham at 270-890-0215 or emailing her at ndurham@hopkinsvilleky.us.
The sportsplex is at 115 Tilley Way, off Lovers Lane.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
