Each year the central Kentucky chapter celebrates their hard work with a holiday party. Members came through out the evening to share stories, eat and be merry.

We also created a newsletter with chapter highlights from 2010 which you can check out here.

Now it's time to get back to work and we have several events scheduled as well as many opportunities to get involved:

Tuesday January 4th 10am-2pm join us in Frankfort for a tour of the capitol and a brief orientation of our lobby work. We will be carpooling from Lexington at 9:30am from the Versailles Rd. Save-A-Lot.

Tuesday January 11th 7pm - Our local economic justice work team is putting together a plan to go door to door and survey several Lexington neighborhoods about what kind of changes they'd like to see in town and how the economic recession has affected them. We will be meeting at Brittany Hunsaker's house at 186 Richmond Ave. 

Wednesday January 19th at 7:00pm is the UK KFTC student group's first meeting of the new year. All UK students are welcome to attend. They meet in room 111 in the basement of the student center, across from the center for student involvement (CSI). The will be meeting to discuss attending the upcoming lobby training and planning a events on campus related to KFTC's work.

Thursday January 20th 7pm-9pm we will have our first chapter meeting of the year where we'll update folks on different committee work and our lobbying goals during the general assembly. We meet at the Episcopal Mission house on the corner of 4th St. and Martin Luther King Ave.

Saturday January 22nd from 11am - 3pm we will be having our third annual lobby training for folks interested in learning more about how the Kentucky general assembly works and how we can influence change. We will discuss topics such as how a bill becomes a law, what is citizen lobbying and what kind of issues do we talk to legislators about. There will also be an opportunity for folks to get a more in depth analysis of a few of our campaigns. Location is still TBA but as soon as we've narrowed one down we will update the KFTC calendar (www.kftc.org/calendar).

Monday January 31st from 10am - 5pm the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance is hosting a conference in Lexington on clean energy in Kentucky. Early bird registration (before Jan. 14th) is $10 afterward is $15. KFTC can sponsor up to 20 folks who are interested in attending. For more information about the conference you can go here: http://www.kysea.org/2011-conference

As with anything, if you have any questions about any of these events or about ways to get involved with our work in the Lexington area, feel free to contact the central Kentucky organizer at ondine@kftc.org or (859) 368-4438.