Next Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, more than 5,000 families needing support and assistance through this government shutdown will descend upon Oak Grove and Clarksville, and for a critical reason.
In an urgent all-call to south western Kentucky and north western Tennessee businesses, non-profits and other related institutions, Christian County Military Affairs Committee Director Shannon Lane said that when it comes to helping furloughed federal employees — nothing is “too great, or too small” for the upcoming emergency resource fairs.
Lane noted these resource fairs are interchangeable, as communities from both sides are expected to cross into the other to offer, and receive, solutions.
Some resources will only be state or city specific, but Lane added that time is of the essence. While contractors and soldiers, Lane said, are getting some pay, civilian and military federal employees have gone at least a month without earned appropriations.
And it is possible the shutdown lasts longer.
Specifically, Lane said there are furloughed employees who have chosen to live in Trigg County near Land Between the Lakes — who drive all the way through Cadiz, get on to I-24 and roll down to Fort Campbell, and are losing cash every trip.
Federal employees, Lane emphasized, means more than just the military.
It’s everyone working in Land Between the Lakes, maybe someone who works for a local post office, perhaps an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration, a staffer for U.S. Customs in Clarksville or Louisville or Nashville.
From 10 AM until 6 PM November 4-5 at Oak Grove’s Valor Hall, and from 10 AM until 6 PM November 7 and from noon until 6 PM November 8 in the Montgomery County Public Library, Lane said anything and everything brought forth to help will be welcomed.
Full fair details, with contact information, can be found here:
Details Emerge For Next Week’s Emergency Resource Fairs | WKDZ
