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She is also active as the secretary of the Southern Kentucky Hospitality Association and is a founding member and past president of the American Marketing Association of Bowling Green. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In December 2021, Butler stepped into the position of downtown development coordinator for Bowling Green. The position did not exist before 2021, and Butler would be the first person to hold such. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her role would be to create a superior downtown experience for locals and visitors. She would organize events, share news on digital platforms, and use tourism, hospitality, and marketing skills to invest in improvements. She would also aid tourism and economic development efforts to help expand a prosperous downtown area in Bowling Green. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was hired because of my tourism background to promote and better build downtown into a destination and preserve Bowling Green\u2019s identity in the process,\u201d explained Butler. \u201cI get to return to my journalism roots and run our downtown social media and part of our city\u2019s social media in telling stories about Bowling Green characters, events, landmarks, and history. I also have the blessing of having relationships with our Bowling Green media. Because I had those relationships 10 years ago, when I built them working at the visitor\u2019s bureau doing PR for Bowling Green Tourism, I get to go on television or radio or talk to the paper and brag about my hometown and its greatness. The idea is to build the downtown Bowling Green brand and identity, keep it alive, and inspire the rest of Bowling Green and the counties that touch us to embrace that as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Butler said that since taking the position, it is still somewhat surreal, but she sees it as an opportunity to honor and preserve a town she loves so much while helping promote all the great things in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe role and the concept did not exist,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s all happening, but we are moving forward beautifully. The community has also stepped up, took the ball, and ran with it. We are all just in awe of how well received this was and if this indicates how downtown\u2019s brand and the downtown feeling and energy is making its way through the rest of the community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As she continues navigating and growing through her position, Butler said she hopes to show others Bowling Green\u2019s past, present, and future through her eyes. Those same eyes witnessed the good of what her parents, grandparents, and ancestors did and the same good she hopes to leave for those to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI grew up in a family of people who loved what they did because it was close to their hearts,\u201d she said. \u201cMy aunt always told me to find a job where I could be a tourist and tell stories. I found this opportunity by accident and fell into it. My family taught whole generations of kids in our community growing up, and I\u2019m just sharing that same value and importance of the community in a different capacity. I want to leave this community in a better place than I found it \u2014 precisely what my parents, grandparents, and men before them have done. If I can leave the entire community better than the way it was in 1990 when I was born into it, then I\u2019ll be happy, and my job is done.\u201d GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THERE\u2019S SOMETHING special about people who love their hometown. They are deeply connected to where they grew up, with memories of childhood friends, local landmarks, and cherished traditions. Home is more than just a physical location for these individuals \u2014 it\u2019s a source of pride and identity. They\u2019re passionate about preserving the local culture, supporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/bowling-green\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/1-1-1024x683.png\")