Kansas City, Missouri, is known for its barbecue, jazz heritage, fountains, and as the birthplace of Tammy Simmons. Tammy is, of course, the marketing guru who has taken Paddy’s to another level in terms of our visibility and our position in the wider community. She came on board in June 2021 and turned what was at first a job into a passion, becoming a vital cog in the machinery that drives our business. Tammy is a multi-faceted human with an almost tangible creative drive. That drive has led to the creation of organizations like Sun and Moon Arts, Top Hat & Tails Animal Adoption, and Mobile Low-Cost Spay and Neuter Drives. For many years, she worked with and tended to big cats at The Carnivore Preservation Trust, bringing awareness to their plight. In fact, ever since I’ve known her (almost 35 years), she has had some kind of wild animal living with her. There was the monkey who lived in her garage, and the 18-foot Burmese python she kept in a closet, not to mention the Siberian Lynx that slept in bed with her. And who could forget the wide and varied assortment of lizards, snakes, cats, dogs, birds, squirrels, horses, chickens, opossums, and African bullfrogs.