Project 330 celebrates huge donations from General Assembly & Laura Goad Turner Foundation
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. – A project that’s been in the works for a while now is able to celebrate a massive donation from two different groups.
“We had a $1 million match from the Laura Goad Turner Charitable Foundation if we could raise that money by December of 2025. And here it is, December of 2024, and we met that match. So we feel like that, you know, with the community we have and, you know, and not just community, we’re regional, you know, we have a lot of Warren County members. We have over 5,000 members at The Core, and so, we’re very, very fortunate that those people believe in our mission,” Ernie Stafford, executive director of The Core Scottsville says.
One of those people is state Sen. Max Wise, who helped get the general assembly to donate $250,000 from both the House and Senate to this project.
“The work that’s being done here by so many people, it’s affected so many families to be able to give them a resource center for them to go for so many things, not just physical fitness, but for programs for children, for recreational, for elderly. It’s just so many things that it provides, and so, when we were looking at return on investment with the state budget, this is one of those items that we knew not just benefits Allen County but the entire region surrounding Warren County, Allen County and the Barren River region as well,” he says.
As Stafford mentioned, they’re receiving a $1 million match from the Laura Goad Turner Foundation, who is super excited to help shape the future of Allen County.
“They have just started bursting at the seems over the years, and so this community center has been needed for a very long time, and I’m just pleased that our foundation can help get this project moving along and make it happen for the area,” Katherine Sikora, executive director of the Laura Goad Turner Foundation says.
While these huge donations are a massive help to the project, Stafford knows the work isn’t done just yet.
“This project would never got even thought about kicking off had it not been for these donations. So, you know, we’re still, like I said, we’re halfway there, but we’re breaking ground next year, and we thought it was going to be 2026. So we’re way ahead of schedule, but we’re still, you know, it’s kind of life that old saying where the rubber meets the road. We’re still out there with the shoes, you know, the rubber meets the road, and we’re making the ground going around and trying to raise money,” Stafford says.
