Vol 21/Issue 1
greater owensboro chamber of commerce
JAN.
CHAMBER MATTERS 2023
Rooster Booster to feature City/County Addresses The Chamber will host its Rooster Booster breakfast this Thursday, January 5 at 7:30 a.m. at the Owensboro Convention Center (501 West Second Street). The program is co-sponsored by City of Owensboro and Daviess County Fiscal Court and will feature the City/County Addresses. Special Guests Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio and Ashli Watts from the Kentucky Chamber will be on hand to present a tornado relief fund check to Volunteers of America.
Reserve your spot now at www.chamber.owensboro.com or by calling the Chamber office at (270) 926-1860 by noon on Wednesday, January 4. COST IN ADVANCE: $15 for Chamber Members and $25 for non-members. COST AT THE DOOR: $20 for Chamber Members and $25 for non-members.
Tom Watson is the former boro Public School Hall of president and co-owner, with Achievement Award and was his wife, Barbara, of Tom Wathonored by the American son’s Prosthetic and Orthotics Orthotic and Prosthetic Assn. Labs, Inc. He recently retired as a recipient of the Lifetime after fifty years in the prosthetAchievement Award for Tom ics industry. Tom studied at the excellence in prosthetic care Watson Northwestern University Medfor people with limb loss. He Mayor of Owensbo ical School at the Rehabilitation currently serves on the FounInstitute of Chicago. He entered the dation Board for the Owensboro field of prosthetics and orthotics in Community and Technical College, 1972 after a construction accident left the You Decide, Kentucky! (YDK!) him in need of a prosthesis but with- Board, as well as the Kentucky out resources to procure one. League of Cities, Inc. Board of DirecTom has served on many local, tors and previously served on the state and national boards and has transition team for Attorney General spent many years as a paraprofesDaniel Cameron. sional football and baseball coach at Watson first served as Mayor of the high school and collegiate Owensboro from 2005-2008. He level. He was a founding was re-elected for a second member of the KFL term in 2016 and is now youth football league, serving his third term. for which he was honTom and his wife Barored with a Lifetime bara have two sons, Achievement Award David and Jeff Phelps, for his work with youth two daughter-in-laws, sports. Watson was a Trisha and Krystal, and recipient of the Owensseven grandchildren.
Charlie Castlen is embarking upon his first term as Daviess County County Judge/Executive. He served for the past twelve-years (three terms) as the Central Division County Charlie Commissioner and prior to Castlen that, served ten-years (five Daviess County Judge-Executive terms) over a 12 year period as an Owensboro City Commissioner, four of which were as Mayor Pro Tem. He is a graduate of Brescia University and was a self-employed CPA with more than 38 years of experience in banking, public accounting, and government. Charlie has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 37 years and together they have three children, Sarah, Theresa, and Daniel and enjoy their 2 grandchildren - Maddie and Griffin. As a social and fiscal conservative, Charlie is a committed friend of the taxpayer and humbled to be your County Judge/Executive.