Area Leaders Tour Elizabethtown Industries

Representatives from across the county recently toured several industries in an effort to bring awareness of the importance of industry to Elizabethtown, as well as to showcase the clean environment that exists for careers in industry. The group toured Akebono, Mouser Custom Cabinetry, Metalsa and Dow Corning on April 14.

Tour group preparing to enter Metalsa, under the guidance of Joe Garrett, far left, Metalsa’s director of Continuous Improvement.

The group started with a welcome at ECTC followed by a school bus ride, compliments of Elizabethtown Independent Schools, to the four industries. The all-day tour brought attention to the importance of the industrial base of our area and helped educators and others know the skills needed by students to gain employment in these state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities.

Participants included Elizabethtown Mayor Tim Walker; Marty Fulkerson and Edna Burger, Elizabethtown City Council; Lisa Williams, Dwight Morgan, Bill Wiseman and E.G. Thompson, Hardin County Magistrates; Nanette Johnson , Hardin County Schools; Sherry Murphy, Elizabethtown Tourism; Steve Smallwood, B.J. Henry, Bonnie Young, Melissa Butler, Gary French, Kelly Graham and Beth Mather, Elizabethtown Independent Schools; Jim Skees, Mike Burress, Leslie Norris, Tabitha French, and Jerisia Lamons, Lincoln Trail Area Development District Career Centers; Dr. Tom Davenport, Alfreda Weedman, Patti Sanders, Samantha Manire, Whitney Taylor, Judy Akers, Sue French, Chuck Spataro, Felicia Toliver, Tim Cordova, Marty Sutherland, Grant Logsdon, Arthur Hendricks, Sandra Cameron and Jeff Rivera, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

The tour was sponsored by the Elizabethtown Industrial Foundation Training Consortium.