Vol 15/Issue 8
greater owensboro chamber of commerce
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CHAMBER MATTERS 2017
Popular outing returns for another year
Chamber Golf Classic
The Chamber Golf Classic, presented by Owensbor o Health is on Friday, August 25 at the Owensboro Countr y Club. All golfing spots are full, excluding two teams available for premium sponsorships. Only four hole sponsorship opportunities are still available. Hurr y and save your spot now to join us for one of the best outings of the season. Thank you to all our sponsors who make this exceptional event possible. See you on August 25!
Chamber Business of the Year Spotlight The Chamber 2017 Emerging Business of the Year
Dalishas Desser ts is a baker y and lunch cafe, specializing in high quality, souther n-accented, creative options. Our desser ts are always made from scratch, including bakery & cafe cakes, pies, cookies, and more. Our lunch options are made from the finest ingredients and include sandwiches, wraps, soup, salad, and quiche. We gather regularly for lunch, and where businesses enjoy being the place where brides-to-be order and party hosts have their where friends and family their dream wedding cake, events catered.
Alisha Hardison, owner of Dalishas Desserts, receives award from Chamber President and CEO, Candance Brake and Christy Taylor Chaney of Studio Slant.
Daniel A. Wolf to speak at Rooster Booster In 1989 Daniel A. Wolf founded Cape Air with one route between Boston to the Massachusetts State Senate representing Cape Cod and the Islands. and Provincetown, eight employees and a first-year total of just 8,000 Dan serves on a number of boards including the Regional Airline Assopassengers. Today, Cape Air, along with sister airline Nantucket ciation, the Cape Cod Business Round Table, the Association for the Airlines, is the largest commuter airline in the United States. Cape Preser vation of Cape Cod, the Housing Assistance Corporation of Air/Nantucket Airlines’ fleet of Cessna 402s, Cessna Caravan Cape Cod and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. Under Dan’s leadAmphibians, Britten-Norman Islanders and ATR-42s fly to some of ership Cape Air has received recognition for being one of the most the most beautiful destinations in the world. Cape Air/Nantucket philanthropic companies in southeastern Massachusetts. In June Airlines is partly an employee-owned company with a workforce of of 2010 Dan received an honorar y doctorate degree from Daniel approximately 1,200 serving more than 686,000 passengers a year. Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire. Dan’s secondary education was at Germantown Friends School Dan received the “Good Guy” award from the Massachusetts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by a bachelor’s degree Women’s Political Caucus for his outstanding suppor t of in Political Philosophy from Wesleyan University in Middlewomen in the workforce. The Commuter/Regional Airline town, Connecticut. At the Quaker School of Aeronautics News named Dan Turboprop Executive of the Year and he received a degree in Air frame and Power Plant he was awarded the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Maintenance. Dan continues to stay current with his the Year for New England in 2008. Dan resides with Air Transport Pilot license and flies as a pilot for Cape his wife in Harwich, Massachusetts where he enjoys Air on weekends during the busy summer season. a morning bike ride daily and traveling to visit his In November 2010, 2012 and 2014, Dan was elected three grown daughters.