Letter to the Editor:

The time has come for my wife and I to move from Clinton County and I briefly wanted to send a note of thanks to the wonderful Clinton County community in which we have made our home for 10 ½ years.

I feel like we can say that Keystone Foods poultry facility and the community in which it resides has had one of the most incredible commensal relationships I have ever known. This community has supported our facility with many of the very best, loyal and skilled employees I’ve ever seen in the poultry business.

Our local, state and even federal politicians have come through many times for us and, as a result, for our community as well. Think about our critical water situation and the ability of our Mayor, Judge Executive and Governor to get our intakes moved to deep water and protect your jobs and our business while making our region an even better place.

Though troubled, think about our wellness center and all of our attempts to help this be a better place with things for our families to do (Take advantage of it!). There will be a pipeline conveying natural gas to the plant within days!

Without support from Judge Huff and Mayor Smith and this community we would not have gotten these done.

Think about all the fine businesses that your/our jobs help support. We are truly lucky to live in such a place.

I want to thank this community for making us “strangers” feel like we’ve been here all our life.

The wonderful folks at Lee’s Chapel Church gave us a Christian home with love, happiness and genuine care for their neighbors.

This whole community is filled with folks and churches who really care about their neighbors.

Look at all the benefits for persons in need, families in tragic circumstances and support for charitable causes.

I am so thankful to have been associated with such caring, giving people. I am also so thankful to be in a strongly Christian community where right and wrong are still an important teaching foundation for our kids.

Every day I look outside at the awesome beauty of our home here. The sheer beauty of nature and geography here would be hard to parallel anywhere.

Every fall is an incredible array of color and beauty with the fall foliage, the most incredible wildlife and the most refreshing clean air found this side of the Mississippi.

Every spring when the most wondrous, large Dogwoods anywhere in the world bloom along with the redbuds and all the wildflowers I have to pinch myself just to make sure I am not in heaven.

The beautiful lakes and farms around here will forever be in our memories. It’s true the cold weather is not our favorite, but without it we wouldn’t get the fall and wouldn’t be looking forward to spring!

Hopefully, we have honored this beauty by doing our best at Keystone to be good stewards of our little piece. Our employees have taken such pride that you would not know the facility is now 16 years old by looking at it. They care.

I guess in closing all I would want to say is be thankful and happy to have this beautiful slice of God’s kingdom as your home. Our hearts will always have a place here.

The people and the place are so very special and Chery and I are just grateful for all the friends we’ve made and all the warmth we have found.

We know many of you and those we don’t we wish we could know more about you.

Thank you South Central Kentucky and North Central Tennessee for all the fond memories you have given us.

God Bless you!

Robert and Chery Williams

December 10