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.
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3 Rooster Booster Breakfast Owensboro Convention Center 7:30 a.m.
9 Ribbon Cutting - Movement Mortgage LLC
AUGUST
1915 Parrish Avenue 12:15 p.m.
10 CYP Lunch Meeting Commerce Center (3rd Floor) 11:30 a.m.
11 Ribbon Cutting - 270 Power Yoga
24 Ribbon Cutting – Wheatgrass Juice Bar
3333 Frederica St., Suite 8 12:15 p.m.
3500 Villa Point, Suite 10 12:15 p.m.
18 Ribbon Cutting - Farm Credit
10 CYP Open House
3216 Buckland Square 12:15 p.m.
Wendell Foster 5:30 p.m.
25 Chamber Golf Classic Owensboro Country Club
23 Ribbon Cutting - Brandon Scott Mullins Memorial Foundation
11 New Member Breakfast Commerce Center (3rd Floor) 8:30 a.m.
400 East Byers Avenue 7:30 a.m.
War Memorial at the Sportscenter 12:15 p.m.
member renewals
AGN, Inc.
Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance -
AK Industries Inc dba Lee Door Products
Bill Hodskins
Alpha Laser & Imaging, LLC
King’s Great Buys Plus
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
KORT - Physical Therapy
Beltline Electric Co., Inc.
L. Ruth Interior Design
Best One Tire & Service
Lil Bit Sassy
Bridge Pointe Church
Lincoln Products
Champion Ford Lincoln Mazda
Matthew 25 AIDS Services
Cintas Corporation
McCarty’s Auto & Truck Repair
Comfort Design Heating & A/C, Inc.
Musick Studios
Commonwealth Bank & Trust
NiteLiters Inc.
Courtyard by Marriott Owensboro
Ohio Valley Roofing
Daviess County Fiscal Court
Owensboro Daviess County Regional
Don Moore Toyota-Mitsubishi-Nissan-
Airport
Honda
Owensboro Regional Suicide Prevention
Dr. Bradley Stearsman
Coalition, Inc.
Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union
Owensboro Symphony Orchestra
Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott
Packages Plus
Owensboro, KY
Petter Business Systems
First Security Bank, Inc
CANDANCE CASTLEN BRAKE PRESIDENT & CEO cbrake@owensboro.com SUSAN HIGH BUSINESS MANAGER shigh@owensboro.com JESSICA KIRK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP OWENSBORO/ PROGRAMS & EVENTS MANAGER jkirk@owensboro.com JACLYN GRAVES MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT MANAGER jaclyn@owensboro.com
Preservation Station Market
Fraternal Order of Police,
and Event Center
Owensboro Lodge #16
Public Life Foundation
Gipe Auto Color Inc.
River City Insurance Agency
Girls Incorporated of
Rolling Pin Pastry Shop, Inc.
Owensboro-Daviess Co.
Roto-Rooter
Green River Appliance Co, Inc.
Sherwin-Williams
Green River Area Down Syndrome
State Farm Insurance, Allen Wade
Association - GRADSA
State Farm Insurance, Daniel Dick
H & R Block
Sterett Crane and Rigging
H.L. Neblett Community Center
Tanner Publishing Co.
Hayden Construction
The Children’s Advocacy Center
InfoServ, Inc.
of Green River
Integranetics
The Malcolm Bryant Corporation
Irving Materials, Inc.
US Bank
Keller Williams Elite Realty
Wells Fargo Advisors
Kentuckiana Animal Clinic
Winner Furniture
LAUREN NUNEZ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT lnunez@owensboro.com Chamber Matters is published monthly in the Messenger-Inquirer for the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 825, Owensboro, KY 42302-0825 • (270) 926-1860 • chamber.owensboro.com Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram @GOCHAMBER
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GO EDC to sponsor August Rooster Booster The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corporation is a publicprivate partnership formed to attract and grow primary employers. At GO EDC, we help people start businesses, grow businesses, and relocate businesses. We also help build the highly skilled and globally competitive workforce that makes all of these things possible! This past year saw the recruitment of a company which plans to add over 800 jobs to our community, a renewed
emphasis on the people and organiimportance of existzations across the ing businesses, the community. Thank statewide success you for your support of a group of teenand your willingness aged entrepreneurs, to participate with us and the awarding of in building a strong, degrees to the first diversified and suscohort of GO FAME tainable economy for students. Each of our region. these successes was achieved through If you want to grow the skills of your partnerships of the GO EDC team with employees in manufacturing, give us a
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Ambassador of the Month new members Kevin Dorth of WKU — Owensboro Kevin is the Campus Evening Manager and History Instructor at WKU Owensboro. He teaches American history for KCTCS. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky, and Master’s degrees from WKU. He enjoys working with students and helping them achieve their academic and career goals. He serves on the Board of
Directors for the Owensboro Area World Affairs Council, Right to Life of Owensboro, and the Friends of the Daviess County Library. Kevin attends Blessed Mother Catholic Church and enjoys UK Basketball, music and movies
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