April 2016 Chamber Matters

Vol 14/Issue 4

greater owensboro chamber of commerce

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CHAMBER MATTERS 2016

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CHAMBER MATTERS

No fooling; April Rooster Booster set for March 31

CANDANCE BRAKE PRESIDENT & CEO cbrake@owensboro.com DANIEL DENO MEMBERSHIP SERVICES SPECIALIST ddeno@owensboro.com SUSAN HIGH BUSINESS MANAGER shigh@owensboro.com JESSICA KIRK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP OWENSBORO/ PROGRAMS & EVENTS MANAGER jkirk@owensboro.com SHELLY NICHOLS MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

The latest rumor about Owensboro is believable, but not true. The city is NOT considering changing its name to WOWensboro, even though this year will be the busiest in growth and entertainment and events in our history.

There is so much going on this spring and summer that this month’s “early” Rooster Booster program (March 31) will celebrate all of the fun and events coming to our region this season. We’ll be throwing a fun party at Rooster Booster just before spring break. Thursday’s break-

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the fun in summer invite you to this special Rooster Booster. We’ll include all of this summer’s fun events including the BBQ Festival, ROMP, the City’s Air Show, the Daviess County Lions Club Fair and a special behind the scenes tour of Friday After 5’s 20th anniversary.

Your invitation to the big party is waiting for you.

Register for Thursday’s breakfast online or call 270-926-1860. Owensboro’s own Kirk Kirkpatrick will be the guest speaker of this fun filled breakfast on March 31.

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Land Shark Shredding to host April’s Rooster Booster Land Shark Shredding is Owensboro’s, the Ohio Valley’s and the upper mid-South’s premier professional information destruction security company.

Their motto – “Our business is to keep yours…Confidential” - is exactly what we have done for the people of Owensboro over the last nine years.

Started in Bowling Green by Don Gerard, Jr., CPA, CSDS, a 100% disabled Air Force veteran & C-130 pilot, and former executive with Bank of America, Land Shark has never striven to be the cheapest, but to be the best. We have grown from a company with no clients in May 2007 to one with over 500 today, not only in

Kentucky, but in 14 other states from coast-to-coast, serving federal, state & local governments, as well as just about every industry, including financial, healthcare, legal, retail, wholesale, education, utilities, manufacturing, hospitality,

law enforcement, insurance, logistics, not-for-profit, religious, distribution, oil & gas, automotive, technology, communications etc., just to mention a few.

Land Shark keeps their clients’ most important information out of

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the hands of identity & corporate espionage thieves by securely destroying it on-site at their clients’ facility within our state-of-the-art, secure destruction trucks. All of our employees handling this information are highly trained professionals who are criminally background checked, drug tested, job/residency verified, etc. prior to hire and periodically thereafter.

We have always looked to Owensboro as our “Home away from Home”. And although other companies in our industry service chamber members here, Land Shark is proudly the only business who is an Owensboro Chamber member since our inception in 2007.

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Member

Congratulations to the Ambassador of the Month, Kevin Dorth of Western Kentucky University – Owensboro

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Renewals

AT&T Autry’s Septic Tank Service, Inc. Big O’ Movers Bimbo Bakeries USA Boardwalk Pipeline Partners Bridgewater Medical Center Brilliant Signs, Copies & Printing, LLC Century Mortgage Company Cheer Zone Daviess County Attorney, Claude Porter Daviess County Property Valuation Administrator’s Office DaVita Home Dialysis Digital Doc Domtar Converting & Distribution Glenmore Distillery Go Mini’s Great Harvest Bread Co. Greater Owensboro Realtor Association Greater Owensboro Realtor Association Green River District Health Department Hannan Supply Company HawesWay, Inc. Health Resources, Inc. Hobgood Landscaping LLC Independence Bank J. McCrystal Design, LLC J.D. Byrider of Owensboro Jim Weafer CFP - Financial Freedom Partners Johnny Warren Farms Johnson Family Dentistry Kamuf Brothers Farms

L. Steve Castlen Realtors, Cheryl Contratto Lowe’s of Owensboro, Inc. Mellow Mushroom Owensboro MyHome Sales and Leasing Nomad Technology Group Owensboro Career Development Assoc., Inc. Owensboro Convention Center Raben Tire and Auto Service RiverValley Behavioral Health Road Sprinkler Fitters Local Union 669 Robert F. Kuphal, CPA Ross Medical Education Center Springs Urgent Care Standard Sales of Owensboro State Farm Insurance, J. Todd Inman Storm Insurance LLC - Melanie Hardesty Swan Cleaners & Shirt Laundry Tapscotts The Hines Center The Salvation Army Time Warner Cable Business Class Timmons Electric Co., Inc. (TECI) Unique Granite & Marble United Way of the Ohio Valley Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Velotta Design Wax Works, Inc. Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center William G Barron Enterprises Inc. Woody Woodward - Help Office of Owensboro

LET US TAKE YOU THERE IN STYLE,

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ribbon cuttings Kroger Wine & Spirits 1650 Starlite Drive (270) 926-1607

Goldbach’s Watch and Jewelry Repair 115 East 18th Street (270) 302-2137

Henry’s Boogalou BBQ 1401 Carter Road (270) 689-2271

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Ale-8-One Bottling Company 25 Carol Road Winchester, KY 40391 (859) 744-3484

Big O Bike Shop, LLC 4399 Springhill Drive Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 925-2965

Arby’s 3401 Villa Point Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 926-4223

Bushay’s 4431 Springhill Drive, Suite C Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 302-9111

Arby’s 4614 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 684-9999

Cardinal Selling Services, LLC 305 East 4th Street Jasper, IN 47546 (812) 998-2090

BCS 316 Walnut Street, Suite B Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 663-4224

Community Dental Clinic 2315 Mayfair Drive, Suite 32 Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 691-6205

Drew Insurance Agency, Inc 227 Saint Ann Street, Suite 102 Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 240-2208

Nomad Technology Group 2113 Maxwell Avenue Evansville, IN 47630 (812) 618-4032

Fastek Services, LLC PO Box 1852 Owensboro, KY 42302 (270) 929-6793

Rose Realty, LLC 2315 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 926-4203

Fetta, Highway 54 4431 Springhill Drive, Suite E Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 478-4410 Friends of Sinners 320 Clay Street Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 689-9174 McKay Farms 405 Hwy1554 Owensboro, KY 42301

Rose Realty LLC, Selena Pearl 2315 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 313-1182 Sam Estes Painting, Inc. PO Box 130 Maceo, KY 42355 (270) 264-1074 Transamerica 123 West 4th Street, Suite 202 Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 478-5178

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