PADUCAH — Sarah Frey, author and owner of Frey Farms, will be the guest speaker at the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Business Celebration on Jan. 28, the chamber recently announced.
Frey founded a multi-million dollar business, Frey Farms, which is a certified woman-owned business headquartered just outside of Mount Vernon, Illinois. Her bestselling book, “The Growing Season: How I Built a Life and Saved an American Farm,” was published by Penguin Random House in 2020. The chamber says Fray is also co-executive producer of a television adaptation of her book. , which is currently in development with ABC. In 2016, the New York Times described Frey as “the undisputed pumpkin queen of America”, indicating that her company produces more carving pumpkins than anyone else in the country. Frey Farms also plants thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables in seven states.
During the business reunion and celebration, the chamber will celebrate member successes in 2021, honor award winners, and celebrate businesses in the Paducah area. This year’s theme is “Celebrating a Legacy of Leadership”. The chamber says it will share information about plans for the leadership center it is launching and recognize past board chairs.
The chamber says 2021 board chairman Anton Reece, who is the president of West Kentucky Community & Technical College, will be recognized and ceremonially passing the gavel to 2022 board chairman Cory Hicks, principal commercial services of Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership. The 2021 and 2022 officers and board members will also be recognized.
This year’s meeting and business celebration will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday, January 28 at the Julian Carroll Convention Center in Paducah.
“We are delighted that our annual meeting and corporate celebration will return to our traditional date of the last Friday evening in January,” House Speaker Sandra Wilson said in a statement. “This is a quick turnaround from our 2021 Annual Meeting held in September, which was postponed due to the pandemic, but we are pleased to be back on track in 2022.”
Friday, January 21 is the cut-off date for individual ticket sales for this event. Call the room at 270-443-1746 or visit paducahchamber.org for more details.
