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KCTCS leaders meet Bravo's "Top Chef" finalist Sara Bradley

Paducah, KY (03/07/2019) — Dr. Kristin Williams, chancellor of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), and Dr. Anton Reece, president of West Kentucky Community and Technical College recently met with hometown chef, Top of FormSara Bradley. Sara is one of five finalists in the 16th season of Bravo's "Top Chef" cooking competition show.Bottom of Form

Dr. Williams was in Paducah March 6 as the featured speaker for the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce's Power in Partnership breakfast at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. Dr. Reece, his wife, Cornelia Reece, and Sandra Wilson, chamber president, joined Dr. Williams at The Freight House, a restaurant owned by Bradley.

Bradley, Paducah's very own farm-to-table chef, represents Kentucky as one of five finalists in the 16th season of Bravo's "Top Chef" cooking competition show. Bradley hopes to make it to the next round, and final four, of the show's Fan Favorite competition, but needs votes, and lots of them. Anyone can support Bradley's effort to win by texting SARA to 27286 or going to bravotv.com.

When the current "Top Chef" season first premiered on Dec. 6, 2018, Bradley was up against 14 other chefs.

The Freight House opened in September 2015 at 330 S. Third St. in downtown Paducah, where Bradley is head chef and proprietor. A unique, Southern-inspired restaurant and bourbon bar, the restaurant specializes in bringing fresh, local ingredients from farmers' fields to the kitchen.

The finale episode of "Top Chef" airs on Thursday, March 14 at 8:30 p.m. Central time. Bradley said she hopes everyone will tune in to watch. She encourages individuals through out Kentucky to vote for her for fan favorite each week.

West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College four times by the Aspen Institute and has twice been named a Finalist With Distinction for providing students with strong job training and continuing higher education opportunity, for achieving high completion and transfer rates, and for providing strong employment results for its graduates. For more information visit, westkentucky.kctcs.edu

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Dr. Anton Reece, president of West Kentucky Community and Technical College (right) recently poised with hometown culinary celebrity Sara Bradley (left) at Bradley's Freight House in Paducah.

(From left to right) Sandra Wilson, president of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Kristin William, chancellor of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), veteran educator Cornelia Reece, wife of WKCTC President Anton Reece, and Bravo’s “Top Chef” contestant Sara Bradley at Bradley's Freight House in Paducah March 6, 2019.

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