Paducah City Commission Approves Funding for a Second Annual Quilt Show

WKMS | By Allison Crawford,

Becca Schimmel

Published December 9, 2015 at 9:20 AM CST

The Paducah City Commission has approved a resolution to provide funding support for a second annual quilt show.

Paducah already gives the American Quilter’s Society $25,000 a year to market its spring quilt show, which attracts more than 30,000 visitors annually. The resolution approves an additional $25,000 for each fall quilt show.

“This additional show would lead to a greater return on the investment the city has and will continue to have on convention space” City Manager Jeff Pederson said.

AQS will run the second show from 2017 through at least 2019. The money is provided to AQS through a contract with the Paducah-McCracken County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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Government & Politics City of Paducah Quilt Week American Quilters Society

Allison Crawford

A proud native of Murray, Kentucky, Allison grew up roaming the forests of western Kentucky and visiting national parks across the country. She graduated in 2014 from Murray State University where she studied Environmental Sustainability, Television Production, and Spanish. She loves meeting new people, questioning everything, and dancing through the sun and the rain. She hopes to make a positive impact in this world several endeavors at a time.

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Becca Schimmel

Becca Schimmel is a Becca Schimmel is a multimedia journalist with the Ohio Valley ReSource a collaborative of public radio stations in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio. She's based out of the WKU Public Radio newsroom in Bowling Green.

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