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Leadership Lamar County ponders project
By Krista Goerte
Published September 13, 2009
The 2009-2010 Leadership Lamar County class kicked off Thursday with a meeting at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Paris.
The meeting served as a meet and greet session for the class and introduced the top three candidates for the class project, said Keith Compton, Leadership Lamar County board president.
In past years, Leadership Lamar County has undertaken successful projects such as the Trail de Paris, Leon Williams Park and establishing the Children’s Advocacy Center.
This year for a class project, the group is choosing between a veterans’ memorial at Love Civic Center, restoring the peristyle at Bywater’s Park or creating a recreational park on a plot of donated land in west Paris.
Discussion on the projects began Thursday, and the class will most likely pick a project at the next meeting, Compton said.
A class president also will be chosen at the next meeting.
The Leadership Lamar County class will meet every month through May 2010, and the class will have meetings focusing on the community through different angles, such as community awareness, county and city government, health care, industry and law enforcement.
“Class is set aside to have different speakers come in and communicate how the community operates, as a whole, as individuals, as the government,” Compton said. “Each speaker is from that area.”
In addition, outside the meetings, the class will work on their chosen project.
The 27 members of the 2009-2010 Leadership Lamar County class include: Ray Annoor, Campbell Soup; Beatrice Ardila, Denney Architects; Shannon Barrentine, Chamber of Commerce; Shannon Biard, Campbell Soup; Jason Boyd, Lone Star Ag Credit; Holly Brewer, Guaranty Bond Bank; Jill Conway, Texas AgriLife Extension Services; Charlotte Coyle, First Christian Church; Jerry Coyle, Coyle Law Firm; Kevin Dixon, Sara Lee; Felipa Duncan, retired U.S. Navy; Bill Harris, Lamar County district attorney; Chance Holt, Liberty National Bank; Erika Graham, homemaker; Patrick Graham, The Paris News; Louisa Kessel, Paris Junior College; Linsay McCarter, Paris ISD; Jeff Nutt, Guaranty Bond Bank; Kay O’Dell, Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas; Shiela Parker, Paris ISD; Tammy Pepper, Kimberly Clark; Jason Rogers, Saint Paul Baptist Church; John Mark Spencer, Servpro; Eric Teague, McClanahan and Holmes, LLP; Tray Turner, TxDOT; Paula White, Peoples National Bank; and Sally Wright, City of Paris.
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