August 2020 Chamber Matters by Messenger-Inquirer

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Vol 18/Issue 8

CHAMBER MATTERS 2020

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Independence Bank encouraged shopping local Shop Owensboro [Summer Edition] powered in partnership with our friends at Independence Bank was held on Saturday, July 25! Businesses welcomed shoppers online, curbside or in person for a day of community support for local retailers and restaurants in Owensboro. Shoppers were entered into drawings along the way, creating an exciting atmosphere of community collaboration and fun! It’s not just important that we show up for these businesses on one day – but every day! Keep your money where your heart is and keep shopping Owensboro! Visit chamber.owensboro.com for a complete list of Chamber Members!

Remote Rooster Booster to be held this Thursday s! u in

There is no cost to attend the remote August 6 Rooster Booster, which will be streamed on Facebook Live and Zoom.

Join us via Facebook Live @gochamber To join via Zoom, visit chamber.owensboro.com to complete a registration form. Registrants will be emailed an access link and instructions.

The Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce will host Rooster Booster remotely this Thursday, August 6 at 7:30 a.m. CST. Sponsored by the Greater Owensboro Realtor Association, the morning’s featured speaker will be Rex Chapman, former UK and NBA basketball player who now focuses his time as a basketball analyst and social media influencer.

Rex Chapman to virtually address Rooster Booster viewers Rex Chapman is a former UK and NBA basketball player who now focuses his time as a basketball analyst and social media influencer. Chapman began his basketball career as a standout athlete at Apollo High School. He took his talents to the University of Kentucky in 1986, scoring over 1,000 points in his Rex Chapman two seasons as a Wildcat. He began his NBA career with the Charlotte Hornets in 1988, going on to also play for the Washington Bullets, Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns. After retirement in 2000, Chapman held a variety of positions across the NBA and broadcasting organizations. He hosts a pre-game show prior to Wildcat basketball games on the UK Radio Network and keeps his Twitter followers engaged with a growing social media presence.

GORA: More than homes Since March REALTORS® brought over 700 families home in a time where home means more than ever before. Homes have become workstations, classrooms, and staycation destinations for all of us in the days of COVID-19. REALTORS® know how important home is. Trying to sell your house “For Sale by Owners” presents new liability and new challenges in the days of COVID-19. Our members have risen to the challenges and continue to set records for local homes sold. With the latest in technology, marketing, and negotiation power, REALTORS® are successfully navigating uncharted territory for our clients. But we are about more than homes. We volunteer behind the scenes at area non-profits to help build a better community. We advocate for policies that alleviate barriers to home ownership. We Above Photo Credit: Apollo High School Apogee 1986

cooperate with a network of experts to encourage professionalism and service from preapproval to the closing table. We have all been asked, “Is now the time to sell or buy?” With record sales in June 2020, our answer is an emphatic, “Yes!” The next question we get is, “Where do I start?” That is why we created OwensboroMLS.com. At OwensboroMLS.com, you can browse over 200 local REALTORS® and almost 100 affiliates alongside all the properties available in our MLS. It is a one-stop-shop for real estate in our five-county area. Most of all, we would say again, “Don’t try to do it alone.” Your home is the largest financial investment you will make in your lifetime. Trust the experts. Whether in paradise or pandemic, let us bring you home. #GetREALTOR

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

CHAMBER MATTERS

August Calendar 6 Remote Rooster

Booster, Sponsored by the Greater Owensboro Realtor Association Guest Speaker: Rex Chapman 7:30 a.m.

13 CYP Virtual

Lunch Meeting Guest Speaker: Carlos Phillips, Greenville Chamber 11:30 a.m.

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Member Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Leadership Owensboro Application Deadline Visit chamber.owensboro. com/leaders-owensboro to learn more. CANDANCE CASTLEN BRAKE PRESIDENT & CEO cbrake@owensboro.com

28 Chamber Golf Classic,

Sponsored by Owensboro Health Owensboro Country Club

JACLYN GRAVES MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING MANAGER jaclyn@owensboro.com SUSAN HIGH BUSINESS MANAGER susan@owensboro.com

Thank you

JESSICA KIRK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP OWENSBORO TALENT PROGRAMS MANAGER jkirk@owensboro.com HANNAH THURMAN EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR hthurman@owensboro.com

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LYDIE BOONE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT lboone@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

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Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP Mark McAnulty Kentuckiana Animal Clinic Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Bill Hodskins King’s Great Buys Plus LLD Investments, Inc. dba McAlister’s Deli Madison Square Boutique and Bridal of Owensboro Marshall Ventures Mayfield Hodges Automotive Services Midwest Communications, Inc WSTO Morton Holbrook Murphy Appliance Co., Inc. Nation’s Medicines - Highway 54 NiteLiters Inc. Oberst Printing Company OMUfibernet Owensboro Daviess County Regional Airport Owensboro Insulators, LLC Owensboro Regional Suicide Prevention Coalition, Inc. Owensboro Sister Cities Pat Hayden Moving Peak Elevator Petter Business Systems Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union 633 Preservation Station Market and Event Center Raben Tire and Auto Service Republic Services, Inc. River City Insurance Agency River Metals Recycling, LLC RiverCities Asset Management, LLC Rowland Family Dentistry Ruoff Mortgage Sign Crafters, Inc Simply Chic Home Accents St. Benedict’s Homeless Shelter St. Joseph Peace Mission for Children Summit Obstetrics & Gynecology, PSC Sunrise Children’s Services Swan Cleaners & Shirt Laundry Tanner Publishing Co. The Malcolm Bryant Corporation The Women’s Pavilion, PSC US Bank WinSupply of Owensboro

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270 Power Yoga 54 Pizza Express - East 93.9 WKTG Radio Alexander Thompson Arnold, PLLC Alorica Alpha Laser & Imaging, LLC Angela Clark, Tony Clark Realtors Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Battery Headquarters Inc. Be Real Sports Cycling & Fitness Beltline Electric Co., Inc. Bob Glenn Century 21 Partners, John Burns Chandler Park Apartment Homes Cheetah Clean Carwash Cintas Corporation Crandall’s Home Furnishings Crazy Me Gifts & Apparel Daviess County Fiscal Court Daviess County Public Library Delta Dental of Kentucky Diggers, Inc. DMC Graphics Elder Advantage Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Owensboro, KY Fifth Third Bank Flat Lick Farms Foreman Watson Land Title, LLC Foundation for Daviess County Public Schools Four Seasons Heating & Cooling Freddy’s Frozen Custard Friends of Sinners Gerling Law Offices Gipe Auto Color Inc. Girls Incorporated of Owensboro-Daviess Co. Glenn Ashby, Remax Professional Realty Group Green River Area Development District Green River Area Down Syndrome Association - GRADSA Hayden and Co. PSC, CPAs Hayden Construction Hayden Electric Inc. Hill View Farms Meats, LLC Home Inspired, Inc. Home Realty, Inc., Jason Bellamy Horn & France Insurance Husk Signs International Bar-B-Q Festival Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

CHAMBER MATTERS

RICK KAMUF AGRI-BUSINESS OF THE YEAR

FARM CREDIT MID-AMERICA

Farm Credit Mid-America’s purpose is to secure the future of rural communities and agriculture. An agricultural lending cooperative owned and controlled by their customers, they are one of the largest associations within the Farm Credit System serving customers throughout Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The Farm Credit System provides more than $191 billion in credit and related services to farmers, agribusinesses and rural homeowners as well as agricultural and rural utility cooperatives. The Farm Credit Mid-America team accepted the 2020 Rick Kamuf Agri-Business of the Year Award from last year’s recipient, Hayden Farms, at the 2020 Chamber Celebration.

There are always opportunities to ser ve and connect with your community – even now! We courage community members to visit chamber.owensboro.com/engage-owensboro to access Engage Owensboro, an interactive database designed to more fully engage citizens in Greater Owensboro. Members of the community can choose to create an account and indicate interest in community organizations and opportunities. Engage Or ganizations will be notified directly when a community member expresses interested in their organization and can future facilitate communication to inform you of ways to help now. The Engage Owensboro database design was made possible by a generous donation from the Marilyn and William Young Charitable Foundation.

Leadership Owensboro, a program of the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, has a tradition of excellence in building and encouraging Owensboro leaders since 1982. The program, boasting an alumni base of more than one thousand, is the premier local professional development and community engagement opportunity. “It is always exciting to anticipate the next class,” said Jessica Kirk, Executive Director of Leadership Owensboro. “We continue to work with dedicated faculty each year to enrich the experience for participants. The strength of having many people involved ultimately adding to the tradition of the program makes us proud.” “Leadership Owensboro is an integral component of our community’s succession plan. Talent drives economic growth,” said Candance Castlen Brake, Chamber President and CEO. Classes consist of full-day sessions that will include topics such as education, human needs and services, local government, our justice system, tourism, healthcare and more. In addition to the once monthly classes from September through April, the class members will be required to participate in local civic leadership meetings and will work as a class to present and implement a solution to an identified community challenge. The 2020-2021 class schedule is set to begin in September and conclude with a graduation celebration the following May. The program will operate within the parameters of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Healthy at Work Guidelines and recommendations of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) relating to COVID-19. To learn more about Leadership Owensboro and download an application visit chamber. owensboro.com/leadership-owensboro. Applications for the 2021 Class of Leadership Owensboro are due on Friday, August 14.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

CHAMBER MATTERS

Cost-saving opportunities available through the Chamber While you are aware of the advocacy work our Chamber does for this community and the ways we promote and encourage the growth of our Greater Owensboro businesses, I want to make sure you know of the cost-saving opportunities we are able to offer our Members as well. We know insurance costs can be a difference maker for businesses and we are proud to have the ability to provide our Chamber Members with several great options when it comes to health care plans and workers compensation insurance.

LIFESTYLE HEALTH PLANS

This program is designed to give members a comprehensive and affordable health care solution that meets all the compliance requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). By offering affordable coverage along with proactive cost containment and employee wellness features, member companies can strategically manage health care costs while still maximizing benefits for their employees.

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Ohio Valley Insurance Old National Bank Owensboro Riverport Authority Riney Hancock CPAs PSC Ruoff Mortgage Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Southwire Company Sun Windows Team Owensboro U.S. Bank U.S. Lawns of Owensboro Wonder Boy Media

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Bob Glenn for City Commission Chicken Salad Chick Disaster Team, Inc. Drake's

Health First Community Health Center Hobgood Wealth Advisors of Baird Ole South Barbeque OMUfibernet

CHAMBER ADVANTAGE

A new health care solution offered in partnership with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield to serve groups with 2-50 employees.

CLEARPATH MUTUAL

It’s not too late to complete the 2020 Census!

A costsaving program to help companies save 10% on workers’ compensation insurance. Every little bit helps. If you are interested in learning more about these cost-saving options, please reach out. It’s important to evaluate where we are as organizations, and this is a great time to consider all of your available options to save. As always, the Chamber is proud to work for you, the growth of this community and for your business. We will get through this together.

The current response rate sits at 75.2% and Census employees will begin going door to door at nonresponse households in mid-August. If you are one of the 24.8% who have not completed the 2020 Census, go online today!

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— Jaclyn Graves, Membership Development and Marketing Manager

THE BEST EMPLOYEE HEALTH STARTS HERE! Our Occupational Medicine team can help you build and sustain a healthier workforce, which can translate into a healthier bottom line. From our onsite health assessments to our occupational medicine clinics, you can count on our knowledgeable team to help guide your company through it all. For more information about our services and how we can help take your company to the next level, call 270-688-4162.

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