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May Power in Partnership Breakfast to Feature Candidates for 1st District Congress
by Sandra Wilson
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| Sandra Wilson |
The May Power in Partnership monthly breakfast of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce will feature a forum with the candidates for 1st District Congress. The breakfast is being held on May 12 at 7:30 a.m. at the Julian Carroll Convention Center. Swift & Staley is the sponsor.
Each candidate will have a five minute segment to present their information about themselves and their platform. Audience attendees will be asked to follow these guidelines:
- No campaign banners, brochures, buttons, pens or other campaign materials or promotion activities will be permitted by attendees.
- Supporters must be respectful and courteous. No unruly behavior will be allowed. Those who do not follow these rules will be asked to leave.
- Recorded images may not be utilized for advertising or marketing purposes by the candidates or their campaigns.
- The audience will be asked to remain silent during the Forum and to refrain from responding to any candidate’s comments.
The candidates include:
Democrat:
Sam Gaskins is a Marine Corps and Army veteran with combat experience in Iraq. He was medically retired due to his service in Iraq. During the 2006-2008 deployment to Iraq, he worked as a liaison to the 2nd Iraqi Army Division. He lives in Herndon, with his wife Debbie, her son Gabe, and their son Sammy.
Republicans:
Jason Batts is from Hickman County where he started and grew his own small business and serves as the County Attorney. Batts is a Captain in the Army Reserve, where he spent over three-and-a-half years as an Army prosecutor before being appointed Chief of Military Justice in December with a unit of soldiers in Fort Campbell. Jason and his wife Tonia live in Clinton.
Miles Caughey is a 42-year US Army veteran with 35 years in combat units. He served 14 years as an Airborne Ranger Infantryman and a Special Forces A Team Member and flew 29 years as a Master Army Aviator. He has been raising cattle for 21 years in Pee Dee (KY).
James Comer is owner of Comer Family Farms, a cattle, timber, hay, and grain farming operation. From Monroe County, he was a Kentucky State Representative for eleven years. Comer served as Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture. He and his wife TJ are the parents of three children.
Mike Pape has served as the District Director for Congressman Ed Whitfield for 21 years. A resident of Hopkinsville, he and his wife have three children with a daughter at Murray State and son starting college next year. Read more: Paducah Chamber
#ChamberHeart --- Oswego Chamber Awards One Thousand dollars in College Scholarships
On Monday, May 9th the Oswego Chamber of Commerce awarded Hanna Andrews and Deana Pieters each a $500 check to use for future schooling. Both girls will be graduating from Oswego East High School in a few weeks and continuing onto college in the fall. Presenting this year’s scholarship is Oswego Chamber of Commerce board member Carrie Niesman from Old Second Bank.
Our Views: Studer's business challenge bolsters hopes for revitalization of downtown Janesville -
On Saturday mornings, May through October, area residents flock to the downtown Janesville Farmers Market to probe offerings of fresh produce, meats, cheeses and baked goods.
They're willing to pay a little extra compared to grocery store prices knowing that what they tote home will be fresh and locally produced.
During Main Street reconstruction last summer, the market shifted across the river. It reopens May 7 and returns to North Main Street.
Through the years, some adjacent businesses haven't been open Saturdays and thus failed to tap this ready-made supply of potential new customers.
Maybe that will change with what Quint Studer, his wife, Rishy, and daughter Bekki Kennedy envision.
The Studers live in Pensacola, Florida, but Quint once worked for the Janesville School District and later Janesville's Mercy Hospital. He left Mercy to start a consulting company that worked to make health care companies better. He parlayed that venture into a fortune and sold it in 2014 for $325 million.
Late last year, the Studers announced they bought and plan an elaborate revitalization of three storefronts in the 100 block of North Main. When done, the buildings will feature southern-style balconies and catwalks overlooking the river. Known historically as Block 42, these are the oldest storefronts downtown. In last Wednesday's Gazette, Neil Johnson reported details of another intriguing aspect of the plan—the Block 42 Business Challenge.
Rishy Studer plans to open shops in two of the storefronts. Bodacious Brew will offer specialty coffees and a tearoom during days and wine and cheeses in evenings. Bodacious Olives will sell olive oils, artisan breads and pastas and other groceries.
The Studers and their daughter will tap Forward Janesville and UW-Whitewater to help run the business challenge, which starts with June seminars. The winner will get guidance, $12,000 worth of free rent to open in the third storefront, plus $25,000 in startup capital. Quint Studer hopes the shop complements Rishy's and that it can open by the holidays. The mentoring won't end after one year but could extend for three years. After all, the Studers want the business to succeed, and they have the capital to assist.
The Studers have invested nearly $100 million into redeveloping parts of downtown Pensacola. Rishy's two Janesville shops and the business challenge will mirror her successful stores and a contest that drew 50 entrepreneurs in Florida. Some of those who didn't win developed plans and opened successful businesses nearby.
- See more at: Gazette ExtraCrossroads and Lakeshore Chambers Kickstart: Entrepreneurs can get help, advice
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| Sue Reed |
Area chambers of commerce across the Region work together to help entrepreneurs, said Dave Ryan, executive director of the Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce based in Hammond.
The two largest chambers of commerce in Lake County — Lakeshore and Crossroads Regional — represent more than 1,200 businesses. Last year, the two chambers announced a new economic development alliance called the Lake County Economic Alliance to assist the communities of East Chicago, Hammond, Crown Point and Merrillville in business retention, attraction and expansion efforts.
The LCEA is a nonprofit organization that focuses on new business attraction, as well as business retention and expansion, and marketing efforts, Ryan said.
Located in Merrillville, the Crossroads Regional Chamber of Commerce resulted from a merger in 2010 of the Merrillville Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Crown Point Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to offering networking opportunities for entrepreneurs, the chambers host seminars to help business owners. In January, the Crossroads Chamber of Commerce hosted Launch NWI, a seminar that brought together experts about earning contracts with local, state and federal governments. Read more: NWI TIMES
The Aspiring Entrepreneurs program along with Oxford Bank is hosting a job fair geared specifically for high school students seeking summer employment or internship opportunities. The job fair will be held at Crates Coffee House on Wednesday, May 18th, at 4 pm.
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Rapid City Area Chamber of Commerce 2016 Community Guide & Membership Directory
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Chamber interest: Craft beer fest gets Hopewell hoppin'
HOPEWELL — You might not think of craft beer-making as a manufacturing industry, but when city and community leaders were looking for ways to celebrate Hopewell's 100th anniversary, a craft beer festival seemed like a great fit for their long-industrialized city.
Residents apparently agreed, as they flocked in large numbers on Saturday to the first Wonder City Craft Beer Festival in Festival Park downtown.
Assistant City Manager Charles Dane said organizers were already assured of a successful event even before the festival started at noon, based on the number of advance tickets sold. Helping pack in the visitors, he noted, were 16 craft brewers from around Virginia as well as seven food vendors and about 15 other vendors.
The craft brewers, each of which dispensed two of its frothy brews, were Ardent (Richmond); Bold Rock (Nellysford); Center of the Universe (Ashland); Devils Backbone (Lexington); Extra Billy's (Midlothian); Hardywood (Richmond); Isley (Richmond); Legend (Richmond); Lickinghole Creek (Goochland); Midnight (Rockville); O'Connor (Norfolk); Rusty Beaver (Ruther Glen); Steam Bell (Midlothian); Strangeways (Richmond); Starr Hill (Crozet); and Sunken City (Hardy).
Craft brewers generally don't have major advertising firepower backing their brands, so they saw the festival as a good way to reach out to potential consumers.
“Hopefully, some of the people from Hopewell, when they go to a restaurant now where they have our beer on tap, they will order it,” said Trae Cairns, owner of Midnight Brewery.
Most of the breweries sell their wares from their own brewpubs as well as other drinking and dining establishments, and many have a presence in grocery and convenience stores and specialty “bottle shops.”
But festivals like the one in Hopewell are a good way to grow, said Ashley Simard, director of sales for O'Connor Brewing Co. “Our beers are available across the state of Virginia,” she said. “We have a great presence in Richmond. And we're looking now to go outside Virginia. Hopefully, beer festivals bring people in and let them see us and start to look for us in stores and restaurants.”
The Wonder City fest wasn't all beer, of course. In addition to a sit-down chicken dinner for purchasers of VIP tickets, the full range of festival food from corn dogs, Italian sausages and cheesesteaks to kettle corn and funnel cakes was available, along with barbecue, gyros and chicken wings. Live music was provided by singers Michael Huntley and JoJo Bayliss.
Becky McDonough, CEO of the Hopewell-Prince George Chamber of Commerce, said the festival was a natural for Hopewell. “We're celebrating our 100th anniversary, craft brewing is the fastest-growing manufacturing industry in Virginia, and we're noted for our manufacturing,” she said. “What better way to celebrate?”
It seemed to work for festival-goers. Read more: Progress-Index
HOPEWELL — You might not think of craft beer-making as a manufacturing industry, but when city and community leaders were looking for ways to celebrate Hopewell's 100th anniversary, a craft beer festival seemed like a great fit for their long-industrialized city.
Residents apparently agreed, as they flocked in large numbers on Saturday to the first Wonder City Craft Beer Festival in Festival Park downtown.
Assistant City Manager Charles Dane said organizers were already assured of a successful event even before the festival started at noon, based on the number of advance tickets sold. Helping pack in the visitors, he noted, were 16 craft brewers from around Virginia as well as seven food vendors and about 15 other vendors.
The craft brewers, each of which dispensed two of its frothy brews, were Ardent (Richmond); Bold Rock (Nellysford); Center of the Universe (Ashland); Devils Backbone (Lexington); Extra Billy's (Midlothian); Hardywood (Richmond); Isley (Richmond); Legend (Richmond); Lickinghole Creek (Goochland); Midnight (Rockville); O'Connor (Norfolk); Rusty Beaver (Ruther Glen); Steam Bell (Midlothian); Strangeways (Richmond); Starr Hill (Crozet); and Sunken City (Hardy).
Craft brewers generally don't have major advertising firepower backing their brands, so they saw the festival as a good way to reach out to potential consumers.
“Hopefully, some of the people from Hopewell, when they go to a restaurant now where they have our beer on tap, they will order it,” said Trae Cairns, owner of Midnight Brewery.
Most of the breweries sell their wares from their own brewpubs as well as other drinking and dining establishments, and many have a presence in grocery and convenience stores and specialty “bottle shops.”
But festivals like the one in Hopewell are a good way to grow, said Ashley Simard, director of sales for O'Connor Brewing Co. “Our beers are available across the state of Virginia,” she said. “We have a great presence in Richmond. And we're looking now to go outside Virginia. Hopefully, beer festivals bring people in and let them see us and start to look for us in stores and restaurants.”
The Wonder City fest wasn't all beer, of course. In addition to a sit-down chicken dinner for purchasers of VIP tickets, the full range of festival food from corn dogs, Italian sausages and cheesesteaks to kettle corn and funnel cakes was available, along with barbecue, gyros and chicken wings. Live music was provided by singers Michael Huntley and JoJo Bayliss.
Becky McDonough, CEO of the Hopewell-Prince George Chamber of Commerce, said the festival was a natural for Hopewell. “We're celebrating our 100th anniversary, craft brewing is the fastest-growing manufacturing industry in Virginia, and we're noted for our manufacturing,” she said. “What better way to celebrate?”
It seemed to work for festival-goers. Read more: Progress-Index
Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership host: Event at Mississippi Farmers Market celebrates earth day
It's Earth Day! Billions of people across the world participate in this annual celebration of the planet.
E-Waste Day is an annual Earth Day event held Friday at the Mississippi Farmers Market in Jackson. It's hosted by the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership and Keep Jackson Beautiful. It offers people a convenient way to recycle their old documents and electronics at no charge.
Dozens of old computers, smart phones, tablets, TVs and other electronics were collected during the event.
Magnolia Data Solutions will recycle the items in an environmentally friendly way.
Iron Mountain also collected and shredded paper documents free to participants. Read more: WDAM TV
#BestChamber practices: Orion Area Chamber: Hiring Teenagers
The Aspiring Entrepreneurs program along with Oxford Bank is hosting a job fair geared specifically for high school students seeking summer employment or internship opportunities. The job fair will be held at Crates Coffee House on Wednesday, May 18th, at 4 pm.
According to a 2014 article found here, some reasons your business should hire Generation Z, the internet generation, are the fresh perspective they bring and your ability to make an impression on today's youth. Another article on the benefits of hiring teens can be found here.
If your business is seeking summer employees, or year-round part-time employees, this event is for you. You will be meeting with students who are eager to get jobs. If you are interested in attending this event as an employer, please reserve your space by registering below.
Town Square Publications Chamber of Commerce Membership Directories, Community Profiles and Custom Maps
Town Square Publications, a division of the Daily Herald Media Group, is a national chamber custom publishing group that specializes in developing partnerships by producing high-quality print and digitally integrated publications along with other added value programs dedicated to creating relevancy for local chambers of commerce and other membership focused organizations interested in raising non-dues revenues.
Town Square Publications parent company, Paddock Publications, has over 100 years’ experience of print product development and dedicated customer service in communities throughout the Midwest. Our experience allows Town Square Publications to offer you attractive royalty and non-dues revenue share streams, provide direct distribution of your custom designed printed publications, including digital and mobile integration, and all with the quickest turn-around times available in the industry. Town Square also offers multi-media maps in both print and online formats, both with our No-Cost guarantee. More information: Town Square Publications
Chambers of Commerce and member focused organizations serve as a valuable resource in the local marketplace. The networking opportunities and representation with a wide variety of diverse businesses in your community is the catalyst of a successful organization. For further information about Town Square's publishing partnership with chambers of commerce and our No-Cost guarantee and Earned Revenue Share Program, To request your publication proposal, Click here
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