Vol 13/Issue 6
greater owensboro chamber of commerce
JUNE
CHAMBER MATTERS 2014
The Lunch Bunch – Build Your Referral Network! A
ny sales book you read, or sales trainer you listen to, will remind you to cultivate your referral network. One key to building that network is to know as much as possible about your “bragging buddies” -- also known as your referral network. A “bragging buddy” helps prospects like and trust you as well as want to do business with you. At the chamber, want to help you develop your “bragging buddy” group. A new opportunity to do that is with our Lunch
Rooster Booster Breakfast June 5, 2014
Owensboro Convention Center, 7:30 a.m. Speaker: J.D. Chaney, Chief Governmental Affairs Officer for the Kentucky League of Cities Register online at www.Owensboro.com/chamber or call (270) 926-1860
Bunch event, which is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the fourth Friday of each month. Bring your lunch, bring a business partner or connection, bring your business cards and meet many other chamber members! At each event, we pledge to have fun, make meaningful connections and grow your “bragging buddy” network. Each time, we will help you learn new networking tricks from each other and how to work a room. We will celebrate business connections made
and invite you to bring others into the fold. If you’ve ever struggled at figuring out how to work a room, meet new people or tell people about your business, this is the place for you on the fourth Friday of each month. Each session, we’ll help you with some great sample questions to try out so that you can make the next member-to-member business connection. Join us at the Lunch Bunch! This month, the Lunch Bunch will meet at Haley-McGinnis & Owensboro Funeral Home.
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June
calendar Amy Jackson, President & CEO ajackson@owensboro.com
Jim DeMaio, Vice President – Membership Development jdemaio@owensboro.com
Susan High, Accounting Manager shigh@owensboro.com
Jessica kirk, Executive Assistant & Events coordinator jkirk@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 • www.owensboro.com/chamber Follow us on Twitter @GOchamber Darrell Higginbotham, Board Chair
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Ribbon Cutting – Giving Back Magazine Chamber Office 12:15 p.m.
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June Rooster Booster Owensboro Convention Center 7:30 a.m.
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Ribbon Cutting – Green River Appliance 1130 J.R. Miller Blvd. 12:15 p.m.
10 CYLO Tuesday Taste Mirko Pasta 5:30 p.m. 12 CYLO Round Table Discussion Commerce Center Conference Room 12 p.m. 12 Ribbon Cutting – Mattingly Ford Title & Closing, LLC 1548 Frederica St. 12:15 p.m. 13 New Member Lunch Chamber Office 11:30 a.m. 27 The Lunch Bunch Haley-McGinnis & Owensboro Funeral Home 11:30 a.m.
WKU-O to sponsor June Rooster Booster breakfast The WKU-O campus began with 82 students that met in only faceto-face classes. Today, WKU-O has more than 600 undergraduate and graduate students. Classes meet face-to-face as well as via interactive television, Internet and web-based, correspondence, and independent studies. WKU-O currently offers 24 bachelor’s degrees. Only offering upper-division courses, WKU-O typically only services transfer students who have met lower-level, general education requirements. For this reason, Joint Admissions agreements have been established with area Kentucky Community & Technical College systems, allowing for a seamless transition to a bachelor’s degree. WKU-O is dedicated to helping members of this community extend their associate degree and pursue a four-year
degree. Higher education is very affordable when students complete their associate degree at an area community college and their bachelor’s degree at WKU-O. But more than just providing students with a degree, WKU-O strives to provide students with the skills and training that will ensure they become contributing citizens of the community.
LET US TAKE YOU THERE IN STYLE,
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Chaney to speak at June Rooster Booster J.D. Chaney is a graduate of the University of Montana, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics. Upon graduation, J.D. returned home to Kentucky and received his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law and Masters of Business Administration degree from Eastern Kentucky University. J.D. began his work with the Kentucky League of Cities as a law clerk before serving as KLC’s Counsel for Member Legal Services and, later, as Director of Governmental Affairs. Currently, J.D. serves as Chief Governmental Affairs Officer for KLC. In this capacity, he is a member of the
organization’s executive management team and is primarily responsible for advocating for Kentucky’s city governments with the General Assembly in Frankfort. In addition, he also oversees the organization’s municipal law services, research and training functions. During his career, J.D. has authored numerous articles and publications on municipal law, participated in several legal cases impacting cities, and drafted and successfully lobbied legislation to help city governments in Kentucky. J.D. is a member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Madison County Bar Association and the Municipal Attorneys Association
new Members Bill’s Restaurant (270) 852-8120 420 Frederica St. Owensboro, KY 42301 Century 21 Partners, Bettie Kincaid 3317 Frederica St. (270) 929-2878 Gorman Auto Sales (270) 685-5680 901 East Ninth St. Owensboro, KY 42303 Malone Solutions (270) 215-1100 3333 Frederica St., Suite 7 Owensboro, KY 42301
Leslie King (270) 485-1354 Nona’s Downtown Market (270) 926-8183 126 West Second St. Owensboro, KY 42303 RampStop Hardware and Supply (270) 685-4030 1739 Scherm Road Owensboro, KY 42301 The Ozone Lazer Tag (270) 926-8993 533 Triplett St. Owensboro, KY 42303
of Kentucky, and he is a past chairman of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Local Government Law Section. He serves on the Kentucky Local Insurance Premium Tax Advisory Council and Commerce Lexington’s Public Policy Council, as well as on the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky. He is also a 2011 graduate of Leadership Kentucky and a former adjunct professor of municipal law for Eastern Kentucky University’s Masters of Public Administration program. He served several years as vice-chair of the City of Richmond’s Planning Commission. J.D. resides in Richmond with his wife, Colleen, and daughter, Adaleen.
J.D. Chaney
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Ambassador of the Month – Susann Bartlett Neely Insurance Agency LLC Susann is a life-long resident of Owensboro/Daviess County and is an independent agent with Neely Insurance Agency LLC, offering Commercial Property & Casualty, Personal Auto, Home, Life, Farm, and a variety of specialty products. In addition to currently serving as an Ambassador to the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, she is a former Board Director and Leadership Owensboro graduate.
Susann is also a hospitality Ambassador for the OwensboroDaviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, a presenter for JA in the Classroom and a parent volunteer for Special Olympics as well as a participant in the Habitat for Humanity Women’s Build. She serves as a Care Team Member for Owensboro Christian Church and is a board member for Chicks Like Us (CLU), a ministry that encourages women to choose faith over fear.
Member
Renewals
All Care Equipment & Rentals Allshops Hardware, Inc. Allstate Insurance B & J Sanitation Budweiser of Owensboro Carpets Unlimited Flooring Center CASA of Ohio Valley, Inc. Century 21 Partners, Wade Baker Century Aluminum of Kentucky Comfort Design Heating & A/C, Inc. Cornerstone Information Systems, Inc. Custom Audio-Video, Inc. Dalishas Desserts Daviess County Detention Center Daviess County Public Schools de AM-RON Building Systems Dr. Carol J. Braun, DDS Dynamic Directions Elizabeth’s Weddings & Formal Wear Evergreen Lawn Care Inc./Weedman Excursions, Inc Farm Credit Mid-America, ACA Four Seasons Heating & Cooling Gipe Automotive, Inc. Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Pennyroyal PLC Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp. Green River Area Down Syndrome Association -- GRADSA Haley-McGinnis & Owensboro Funeral Home Hannan Supply Company Impact Marketing Consultants In Touch Communications/AT&T J.D. Byrider of Owensboro Jagoe Homes, Inc. Judge Jeff S. Taylor Junior League of Owensboro Kimberly-Clark Corp. L. Steve Castlen Realtors, Ondra Edds L. Steve Castlen Realtors, Scott Lyons Land Shark Shredding, LLC
Marks Company, Inc. Massie-Clarke Development Co. May Electric Co., Inc. McCarty’s Auto & Truck Repair McEwen Engineering & Mining Consultant, Inc. MentorKids Kentucky Murphy Excavating, LLC National Steel Erection, Inc. Nation’s Medicines Owensboro Center Owensboro Family YMCA Owensboro Municipal Utilities Pepsi Beverages Company Petter Business Systems Real Living Home Realty Ritatsu Manufacturing Riverfront Appraisals Robert F. Kuphal, CPA Ross, Sinclaire & Associates LLC Rushing Wind Church of God SERVPRO of Daviess County Shaw’s Prosthetics Plus, Inc. Shogun Sparks Brothers Farms State Farm Insurance, Branden Haines State Farm Insurance, Kathy Hudson Stonebridge Insurance Services, Inc. Swat Pest Management and Healthy Space Swedish Match North America Inc. TalentForce Thacker, Bickel, Hodskins & Thacker, L.L.P. The Bakers Rack, Inc. The Crème Coffee House The Green River Area Community Foundation Tom Blue Furniture Upper Room Music, LLC Velotta Design Waters Agricultural Laboratories, Inc. Wax Works, Inc. Wells Fargo Advisors Wireless Paradise/Sprint
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ribbon cuttings
Carrico Congleton Family Practice 2315 Mayfair Drive, Suite 11 (270) 929-2259
Express Employment Professionals
Home Instead Senior Care
Idle Minds Workshop
1724 Triplett St.
4026 Frederica St.
102 West 25th St.
(270) 240-5511
(270) 689-2300
(270) 993-5255
Intrepid USA Health Care Services
MyHome Sales and Leasing
Nona’s Downtown Market
920 Frederica St., Suite 1009
710 Salem Drive
126 West Second St.
(270) 827-4842
(270) 926-0900
(270) 926-8183
Owensboro Concept Designs (270) 903-8352
Pure Barre Owensboro 2680 Frederica St. (270) 313-5636
Zija International - Steph Boling (270) 903-3388
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2014 Emerge Owensboro graduates 26 Twenty-six business leaders graduated on Thursday, May 8 from the Emerge Owensboro leadership development program. The event, sponsored by Western Kentucky University-Owensboro and the WKU Professional Masters in Business Administration program, included a reception for all Emerge and Leadership Owensboro alumni. The Emerge Owensboro Program is a joint program of the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce and Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corporation focused on educating and engaging individuals to reach their potential and maximize their impact in the community. “The goal of Emerge Owensboro is to engage community leaders and empower them with knowledge to affect change, and this class definitely stepped up to that challenge,” said Amy Jackson, Chamber President and CEO. Each class is required to present in group projects a solution to a community challenge identified throughout the course. The class then votes for the top project to be championed forward by the class. This year’s project, regarding a Women’s Recovery Center, was presented by Kelsey Mann, Susan Free, Rob Leesman, Dr. Marty Traylor and Tim Kline. “The winning project has already been taken to the Daviess County Homeless Council for presentation and will continue to move forward as a potential solution to a current challenge for our community,” Jackson said.
Graduates of the 2013-14 class include: Victor Cernius, Regional Water Resource Agency; Tim Clothier, Owensboro Police Department; Susan Free, Western Kentucky University – Owensboro; Kennan Fritz, Independence Bank; Blake Hayden, Remax Professional Realty Group; Terri Higdon, Brescia University; Jeff Johnson, Van Meter Insurance; Tim Kline, Stoll, Keenon, Ogden PLLC; Bryan Kuegel, Flat Lick Farms; Rob Leesman, Owensboro Municipal Utilities; Audrey Lillpop, First Security Bank; Kelsey Mann, Old National Bank; Dr. Elizabeth Mauzy-Martin, RiverPark EyeCare; Matt Mason, Daviess County High School; Heather Montgomery, US Bank Home Mortgage; Brian Newman, BB&T; Krista Niehaus, Fifth Third Bank; Lane Orton, Domtar Paper Company; Paula Roberts, Owensboro Public Schools; Shannon Sandefur, Daviess County Public Library; Matthew Schell, Century 21 Partners; Susan Silva, Children’s Advocacy Center of Green River District; Jeff Sorce, Owensboro Catholic Schools; Dr. Marty Traylor, Owensboro Family Eye Care; Malissa Troutman, American Red Cross; and Katie Vincent, Owensboro Community and Technical College. The next class of Emerge Owensboro will be open for application from July 1 through July 31. For more information on the Emerge Owensboro program, the Leadership Owensboro alumni group, or the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, please call 270-926-1860.
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CHAMBER MATTERS 2014 Chamber Golf Classic Owensboro Country Club Friday, August 22, 2014 One wave - only 144 golfing spots available! Registration and Breakfast: 7:30 am Shotgun Start: 9 am
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