Goode is Speaker at McKenzie Rotary

McKENZIE — Melinda Goode, executive director of the Northwest Tennessee Human Resources Agency, was the featured speaker at the September 5 meeting of the Rotary Club of McKenzie.

Goode, a resident of Dresden, told how the agency works in the nine-county district of northwest Tennessee. It provides low-cost transportation through a network of vans, provides Meals on Wheels, some homemake and personal care, works with the governments to help with securing grants and low-cost loans for infrastructure needs and provides planning services for the municipalities and counties.

In Carroll County, the Development District provided 332 meals per week, 1,328 per month for 27 clients in the McKenzie area, provided transportation for McKenzie residents totaling 254 trips in August using 10 vehicles and six full-time and two part-time drivers.

It helped Atwood with a grant to upgrade its sewer system, Hollow Rock with a park, Huntingdon with a grant for transportation planning, McKenzie with grants for sewer and McKenzie Industrial Board with an industrial site development grant, Webb School with its successful application to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and worked with Carroll County Office on Aging for service projects including 14 homemakers, six for personal care, and 89 home-delivered meals recently. The agency also provides planning services for Huntingdon, McKenzie, and the Carroll County Lake planning area.