Good morning Chamber world! Today is going to be a GREAT day!
Valparaiso Chamber and Duneland Chamber present --- The Disney Institute
The Disney Institute -
Registration Ends Soon!
September 15
Where: Harre Union - VU
Date: 9/15/15
Time: 8am -
4pm
RSVP Barry DuVal: Keeping Virginia competitive starts with reliable energy
Virginia’s fall to 12th on CNBC’s latest list of “Top States for Business” should be a wake-up call for the commonwealth. After years of being among the elite in job creation, Virginia has lost ground.
Why the precipitous decline after being named No. 1 as recently as 2011? Virginia has experienced a troubling pattern of slowing economic activity. Forty-seven states and Washington, D.C., outpaced Virginia in economic growth last year. In 2014, the state’s economy expanded by a paltry 0.02 percent.
To reverse this trend and improve the state’s climate for economic development, the commonwealth must take action. As Virginia’s business leaders recommended in Blueprint Virginia: A Business Plan for the Commonwealth, the state should address workforce challenges, attract growth industries, help existing businesses expand, strengthen its transportation assets and, equally important, develop a balanced energy strategy aimed at meeting the needs of Virginia’s growing population and businesses. Read more: Richmond Times Dispatch
Chamber Best Practices: Welcome to the Bay Area (Michigan) Chamber Website
Live & Work
Bay County is located 100 miles north of Detroit, at the south end of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron and is an integral part of the Mid-Michigan area of the lower peninsula of Michigan close to the city, the country, the woods and the lakes. Two hours north are world-class skiing and resort spots while two hours south you can see "The Birdcage" at the Fisher Theater or yell for the Detroit Pistons who inhabit the Palace. An excellent choice either direction.
From raising children to running your business, to retirement, Bay County beckons with a relaxed, water-oriented lifestyle where a little business travelin’ music goes a long, long way.
Let’s move north where the great eastern broadleaf forests of Michigan seem only minutes away, especially when the autumn leaves are dancing with color. Bay County boasts 3,200 acres of natural terrain, including Tobico Marsh refuge on the Great Midwestern Migratory Flyway. Tobico is the largest natural wetlands on the western shore of the Saginaw Bay and annually attracts thousands of visitors to walk the nature trails and visit the Marsh Museum.
Looking for action? Cross-country ski wooded trails, cut your own Christmas tree, canoe, fish, camp, hike, hunt, bird watch, star gaze ... you get the idea. But how about this: cast for walleye or rainbow trout as a great Blue Heron flaps by. See more: Bay Area Chamber
Chamber event: Inspiring Women of Oswego Annual Awards Dinner
The Inspiring Women of Oswego will be hosting their Annual Awards Dinner at Whitetail Ridge Golf Course on Thursday, November 12th. At this annual event we award distinctions for Most Inspiring Man, Most Inspiring Woman, Give Back Award, Heart of Gold Award and Most Inspiring Youth. This year we will also be giving special awards to two individuals from Oswego who performed CPR at separate events which resulting in both of the people surviving.
We are excited to announce that John Coyle will be our speaker for this evening. John is a charismatic Olympic silver medalist, Kellogg MBA, Stanford d.school grad, SVP and Professor of Innovation and analyst for NBC. Audiences love John’s thought-provoking and meaningful keynotes, workshops and summits, which he delivers in a humorous and humble manner. His talent is weaving facts, examples and intellectual principles into engaging stories which bring his topics to life and really make you think. They are both inspiring and practical.
John delivers keynote speeches, workshops, conferences, convocations, commencements and corporate meetings on topics including designing a life for strengths, developing greater resiliency, and the brain twisting "CounterClockWise" - Unwinding Cognitive Time in order to "Really Live" almost forever. http://www.johnkcoyle.com/
Tickets will be available soon for $45 for Oswego Chamber members and $55 for non-Oswego Chamber members. For more information contact Angie at angie@oswegochamber.org or 630-554-3505
Jessamine County Chamber interest: Vacant lot to become ‘Main Street Performance Area’ in Nicholasville, KY
Will complement city’s ‘Streetscape’ improvements
NICHOLASVILLE, Kentucky (Aug. 18, 2015) – A vacant lot in downtown Nicholasville will be transformed into an aesthetically appealing, multi-use public park, under a plan between the city and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The proposed Main Street Performance Area will be an inviting space with benches, lighting and a fountain, among other features. It also will have an emphasis on the arts for citizens of Nicholasville.
Representative Russ Meyer, of Nicholasville, announced the plan at a meeting of the Nicholasville City Commission.
“I am proud to announce that, with the support of Governor Steve Beshear and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, we will transform an abandoned space into a vital and visually appealing space that will benefit our residents, attract visitors, improve pedestrian access and further beautify downtown Nicholasville,” Representative Meyer said.
The new park will complement Nicholasville’s Main Street “streetscape” project, which Representative Meyer championed in his former role as mayor of Nicholasville.
Senator Tom Buford, of Nicholasville, helped secure the original funding of the streetscape project and said he was “pleased to see this project take place and to have an emphasis on performance arts in Nicholasville.” The park area is bounded by South Main, East Maple and South York streets.
In fact, the streetscape project figures prominently in the plan to turn the Main Street Performance Area concept into reality. Much of the cost of the new park will be borne from funds remaining from the streetscape project. More information: Chuck Wolfe - Chuck.Wolfe@ky.gov ; Office of Public Affairs - 502.782.4829
Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce report: Metro Milwaukee economic indicators improved in June
Sixteen of 23 metro area business activity indicators improved in June, down from 17 in May, according to the latest monthly economic trends report from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
“Local economic indicators continued on a steady upward path in June,” said Bret Mayborne, the MMAC’s economic research director. "Of particular note is the stronger pace of employment growth recorded in June, the strength of which has mostly eluded the metro area economy through 2015's first half."
Highlights of the June report include:
- Nonfarm job levels were 863,700 in June, the highest job total posted in the metro area in seven years. Employment grew at a 1.5 percent pace in June compared to year-ago levels, up from the revised 0.8 percent gain in May. Education and health services, up 3.9 percent; financial activities, up 3.5 percent; professional and business services, up 3.4 percent; and leisure and hospitality, up 3.2 percent, posted the biggest year-over-year employment gains in June. The trade, transportation and utilities sector posted the largest job decline in June, down 1.5 percent. The metro area’s manufacturing sector posted a 0.3 percent employment decline in June.
- The number of unemployed in the metro area fell 14.6 percent in June to 44,900. New unemployment compensation claims fell 1.4 percent to 5,993. Read more: BizTimes.com
Chamber Best Practices: Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber: Visit Brookhaven-About Brookhaven
How we got where we are today
Note: This history of Brookhaven and Lincoln County was researched and written for The Daily Leader in 1992 by Henry Ware Hobbs, who took a special interest in our rich heritage. A lifelong resident of the area and a noted civic leader, Hobbs died the following year.
Brookhaven is a survivor with charisma. Historically beset with vicissitudes similar to those which resulted in the diminishment or disappearance of formerly flourishing Lincoln County villages and towns such as Beauregard, Bogue Chitto, Cold Springs, Hartman, Nola, Norfield, Sogaard and Wellman, for more than a century Brookhaven has achieved a fairly steady, gentle prosperity for reasons other than its designation as the seat of Lincoln County government.
It occupies a spot in North America between the 31st and 32nd parallels and the 90th and 91st meridians. A part of West Florida governed by England from 1763 to 1779 and then by Spain until ceded to the United States by the Pinckney Treaty of 1795, it was included in the Territory or Mississippi when created in 1798 by the U. S. Congress, which accorded statehood to the area presently named “Mississippi” in 1817.
Situated amid the steep hills and dales covered with dense forests of towering virgin longleaf yellow pines, interspersed occasionally with boggy swamps and stretches of rich bottom land and grassy prairie, political dominion meant next to nothing to the relatively thin population of Choctaw Indians or their use of the land as hunting grounds and for food crop patches until 1805 when, under the Treaty of Mount Dexter, the Choctaw Nation forever yielded their Indians’ federally recognized possessory right to the soil and its usufruct to the federal government.
There then began a gradual settlement for agrarian purposes of the area embraced since 1870 by Lincoln County, but then comprising parts of Lawrence and others of the original 14 Mississippi counties.
Transportation
Lacking a commercially navigable river nearer than the Pearl, transportation was afforded on the narrow natural waterways by raft and light, shallow draught vessels and on land by pioneer feet and what a pack animal could carry or pull. Trails blazed along naturally drained ridges and through hollows impassable in bad weather became dirt roads. At some of the junctions and intersections a trading post or water mill or meeting house appeared and served as the focal point of a pioneer settlement.
One such was the Old Brook trading post at the intersection of an old Indian blazed trace evolved into a wagon trail and the east prong of the Bogue Chitto River about a mile and a half southeast of present day Brookhaven, the name accorded the site around 1818, as legend has it, to honor the former home of Long Island, New York, of its pioneer owner, the town’s reputed founder. Nearby other enterprising pioneers established a water mill and a small tannery.
In metropolitan aspect there was nothing to distinguish the Ole Brook settlement from the average country crossroads community centers which now enhance the countryside. Read more: Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce
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