MY STORY
There’s no place quite like Western Kentucky.
It’s home to ports, factories, and artist communities. It’s where visitors come to celebrate quilts and BBQ. It’s where hardworking people like you raise families.
Western Kentucky has so much potential. Help make this area the best it can be by supporting a man who loves it as much as you—a man who knows how to create opportunities.
Randy Bridges was born and raised in Western Kentucky. His father was a plumbing contractor in Paducah who taught Randy the value of hard work and instilled in him a deep conviction to love his neighbor as himself. Now, Randy has raised his own family in the region. He and his wife, Carla (a local teacher), have been married for 40 years. They have two children and four grandchildren.
For nearly four decades, Randy has supported his growing family by building businesses from the ground up.
After several years of experience as a manager in the grocery business, Randy started Breely’s Convenience Stores with a friend in 1986. They began the business with nothing but good sense, talent, and vision. Randy later sold the stores to his partner and searched for new ventures. Since then, he has established RB Property MGT, a company that builds investment properties and homes, and he has become a partner with RE/MAX Realty Group.
For nearly four decades, Randy has built his businesses and clientele based on the simple belief that we should be good stewards of our money and treat people with honor and respect. Mentors and employers have helped along the way, guiding him toward success.
Now, Randy wants to pay those kindnesses forward to Western Kentucky.
He wants to help the community just like his mentors helped him–because his greatest reward is to empower others to do and be their best. Randy currently serves as President-elect of the Rotary Club of Paducah and has served two years as president of the Paducah Board of Realtors. But, he knows he can do more.
He wants to spur the area toward its greatest potential—just like you do.
I owe a lot to him. When I first started renting from him, I traveled for my job at the time. He didn’t know me from Adam, but he knew I traveled and I didn’t have any family around here. So, he said, ‘Hey, why don’t you come to my house for Christmas and Thanksgiving so you’ll have somewhere to go and be around some people.’
A lot of people just don’t do that.
[My mother] got sick around the time I lost my job, and he was really understanding about helping me out as far as my living situation… I’d do anything for him.
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ANTHONY MORRIS
A friend and tenant