President's Message

Celebrating our Heritage and Building for the Future

 

This year the Chamber of Commerce celebrates its 30^th birthday. Any birthday celebration gives us time to reflect on past successes and our future needs.

 

Your Board of Directors just recently finished a retreat to look at what works and where we need to improve. We will be focusing our efforts on the Chamber’s general health, membership retention, political action, and networking opportunities for businesses.

 

These four areas sound very simple and not very exciting. However, they are the life’s blood of any chamber organization. It is only through expanding business contacts, opportunities, and raising the awareness of elected officials to issues that affect the performance of business that we truly can be effective to you, our members.

 

More than ever, you need to take an active part in your Chamber of Commerce. With all of the downturns in the economy and the vision that people have of business as being less than professional, your Chamber needs your help in ensuring that the community understands that, without business, there is no growth, there is no stability, and there is no future.

 

Your Board of Directors is committed to making sure that the Chamber is the place to do business and that business is heard. I look forward to serving you this year and hope to hear from you with your issues and needs for service from the Chamber.

 

We have a great heritage in celebrating our 30 years. We cannot sit back on our accomplishments but need to expand our horizons, so that we will continue to serve you for another 30 years.