Cute, Cute, Cute, No DOUBT About It

UPDATE: Bill Fox's Chamber photos are online! You all — Nikki and I are all a-flutter over receiving this very lovely award at the Paducah Chamber's Annual Meeting last night. It's the Innovator Award — a first for the Chamber, and definitely a first for us. The fabulously beautiful Robyn Shapiro presented it. Please indulge/forgive me, but I'd like to share what Robyn said here so that Nikki and I can read it from time to time, whenever we need an extra boost (or if we're ever in need of a good tearjerker): Good Evening. It is my distinct honor to present our next award. The Innovator Award. New to the Chamber’s roster of accolades, this honor acknowledges innovative business practices, creativity and overall business success. Innovative, the word itself brings several others to mind.... unusual contemporary novel fresh avant-garde All these words and many more can be used when describing tonight’s recipient. Their impact on our community has been phenomenal. They exploded onto your computer screen 3 short years ago and their tremendous enthusiasm has taken Paducah by storm. They are cute, cute, cute, no doubt about it...help me welcome to the stage, Mary Thorsby and Nikki May of iListPaducah.com. Is that just the sweetest thing? And I wanted to share it for another reason: Not only has Robyn become an incredibly wonderful personal friend to both Nikki and me, she has also very graciously served as a very astute business adviser to us. And I'm incredibly grateful to her. I'm grateful, too, to Elaine Spalding and the Chamber. Elaine was one of the very first people I ran the iList Paducah idea by, and she's been nothing but supportive from the get go. And, of course, to Debbie Wattier, the Godmother of iList Paducah, for inspiring the idea in the first place. The only other thing I think Nikki and I'd say is simply this: We love Paducah. And as we noted last night: There's never been a better time to start a business in Paducah than now. If you have an idea, get a great business partner, get your support system in place and tap into the services of Terry Reeves at EntrePaducah. And get my husband, Bruce Brockenborough. Because he just rocks. Photos courtesy of Eddie Grant and our friends at iSurfPaducah. Thank you!

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