Grapevine Chamber of Commerce Newsletter
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Mission: The mission of the Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is to promote business that adds value to our community.
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Vision: The vision of the Grapevine Chamber is a progressive business organization that brings relevant and essential opportunities for our investors and community to grow and prosper.
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Values: Excellence Innovation Integrity & Community
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Former Navy Seal, Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, August 18, at The Laurel The Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is proud to have Ryan “Birdman” Parrott, Former Navy Seal and Founder, President & CEO of Sons of the Flag, speak at the next Membership Luncheon, August 18, at The Laurel in Grapevine, sponsored by Wells Fargo – Grapevine Main and catered by Baker’s Ribs. Ryan served eight years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, attached to Team SEVEN, completing three combat tours to Iraq. In 2005, Ryan was riding atop a Humvee manning the turret gun in enemy territory, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), causing a flash
fire and throwing him from the vehicle. Ryan regained composure with his face and arms on fire, and witnessed his fellow team members suffer devastating burn and blast injuries. After completing his service, Ryan moved to Dallas. Meeting other Veterans in the area, some of whom suffered serious burn injuries, Ryan became discouraged that Veteran Burn Survivors were not benefitting from advancements in the area of burns in the same way that amputees benefit from incredible advancements in prosthetics. Searching for better answers, Ryan realized that traumatic
burns significantly impact not only the military community, but firefighters, first responders and civilians as well. Feeling called to help, Ryan established Sons of the Flag. Sons of the Flag, a nonprofit organization, founded in 2012, is vigilantly committed to supporting military, first responders, and civilian burn survivors by providing funding for innovative research, fellowships for doctors to further their training in treating burn survivors, educational opportunities, and support for those impacted by a traumatic burn. To that end, Sons of the Continued on page 2
Chamber Awards & Back to School Having a 5-Star Accredited Chamber of Commerce in our community is truly a unique and wonderful benefit. Serving as further validation of this designation; the 2016 Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives Media Awards were recently presented, and I am proud to report our Grapevine Chamber cleaned up!
The Grapevine Chamber won the following awards in the large Chamber category in the State of Texas: Brochures - 1st place, Directories/Community Profiles - 1st place, Newsletters/ Newspapers - 1st Place, Social Media Marketing - 1st place and a 2nd place in Websites. In addition, the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives bestowed an Award of Excellence for the Grapevine
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Chamber’s website. What a tremendous accomplishment by our Chamber of Commerce leadership and staff. On another note, it is hard to believe that the Back to School time of year is right around the corner. As such, the State of Texas’s tax free weekend is August 5-7. During this period, a wide variety of goods are sales tax exempt. This includes most Continued on page 2
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