Jan. 16, 2025
Mike Sledge
Our Club is host this week to Mike Sledge, former President of the Central Baldwin Sunset Rotary Club, which was founded in June, 2013. Sledge got started in the hardware and industrial supply business as a teenager when he started as a stock boy for a small mom and pop hardware store in the late 80’s. He went on to work for a Fortune 500 industrial distribution company managing locations across the Southeastern US until, at the age of 39, he decided to strike out on his own with his wife Suzy and open Coastal Industrial Supply in 2010. His company supplies materials to companies and jobsites all over the United States.
He has been a Baldwin County resident since 2003 and has three children Jake, Maggie (who both help run their company) and Marley who is a senior in high school. He and Suzy also have a big dopey golden retriever named Woody. Sledge joined Rotary in 2017 and has been an active member serving as club president and currently serving as Assistant Governor. His other passions include finding and restoring old cars ‐ especially old Volkswagens as well as traveling in search of adventure. A little-known fun fact about Mike – he has two cocktails named after him. If you’re at C’est Le Vin in Foley, order a “Sledgehammer.” If you’re at The Gemstone in Amory, Mississippi, order a “Mike Sledge.” They are two distinctly different cocktails that you are sure to enjoy. Let’s make a fellow Rotarian welcome.
Sledge gave a wonderful presentation on the Ride for Rotary fundraiser where he rode a motorcycle for 10 days through the majestic Himalayas!
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