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Tooele County Chamber of Commerce
Tooele Business News Volume 6, Number 4
Calendar of Events All upcoming events are listed on the Chamber Website: www.tooelechamber.com
Chamber Luncheon Wednesday, April 8 • Noon Tooele County Health Dept. USU-Extension Auditorium 151 North Main St., Tooele Sponsor: Deseret Industries Please RSVP by Monday, April 6 by 5 pm 435-882-0690
Chamber Easter Egg Hunt Saturday April 11 • 11 am Place: Deseret Peak Complex 2930 HWY 112, Tooele See Transcript Bulletin for more details
Business After Hours Thursday, April 23 • 5:30 – 7 pm Where: The Home Touch 10 N. Main, Tooele No charge for this event! Great Networking Opportunity
Miller Motorsports Park 2nd Annual Business Breakfast Tuesday, April 14 • 8:30 am Miller MotorSports Park Clubhouse 2901 N. Sheep Lane, Tooele Please RSVP by April 9 435-277-8013
SLCC Basic Welding Course Wednesdays & Thursdays Beginning April 15 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Grantsville High School Contact Joan Hill 801-859-5819 for more info
Chamber Annual Golf Tournament Friday, June 12 • 8 am Oquirrh Hills Golf Course Don’t wait! Register your team today! Call 435-882-0690 for more info www.tooelechamber.com
DON’T FORGET!
Easter Egg Hunt Saturday April 11 • 11 am Deseret Peak Complex
See Transcript Bulletin for more details
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April 2009
Tooele Deseret Industries to present at Chamber Luncheon The April Chamber of Commerce luncheon will be held on Wednesday, April 8th at 12:00 noon at the Tooele County Health Dept. / Utah State University Extension Auditorium (located at 151 North Main, Tooele). The presenter and sponsor of the luncheon will be the Tooele Deseret Industries. In the economy’s present plight, the adage “a penny saved is a penny earned” has never rung truer. As such, Deseret Industries, with its wide swath of incredible deals and big bargains, can on any given day be a preferred destination for shoppers of all ages. But the magic happening at Deseret Industries won’t be found hanging on the racks or sitting on the showroom floor. It’s wearing a maroon vest and working for a better quality of life. It might be driving a forklift, sorting sundry shoes or putting price tags on clothing donations. Perhaps it’s a single mother entering the workforce for the first time, a displaced worker or a
Somalia refugee. Because miracles are happening at Deseret Industries — one person at a time — as employees build better lives for themselves via job training and selfreliance plans. With 43 retail locations in the western United States and a manufacturing hub in Salt Lake City, Deseret Industries is a multimillion-dollar not-for-profit agency. However, its foremost objective can be distilled down to something as simple as
giving its employees the skills they need to get a better job than they’ve ever had before.(Church News,1-31-09) We are excited to be a part of the Tooele Business community. Deseret Industries is a division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Welfare Department. We are a donation center, a retail thrift store, a humanitarian center, and a development center to the 50+ current associates who work here. Our goal is to provide training that leads to a higher paying job with stability. We provide a safe place to work and offer skills training opportunities to our associates. We also have a budget of up to $3,000.00 per associate in skills training money to improve their long term job opportunities. This is done through offering certificate programs and educational opportunities such as bookkeeping, phlebotomy, welding, or truck driving. We appreciate the community for the outpouring of donations which makes see Luncheon page 6 ➤
Chamber planning annual charity golf tournament The time has arrived to mark your calendars for the 2009 Annual Tooele County Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament. Each year we strive to outdo ourselves and this year will be no exception. Oquirrh Hills Golf Course in Tooele will be the site for this year’s tournament, to be held on Friday June 12, 2009; beginning at 8:00 am. Our platinum sponsor is Energy Solutions. Current Gold Sponsors include Tooele City Corp. and Mountain West Medical Center. The 4 person scramble format will begin with a continental breakfast (sponsored by Mountain West Medical Center), lunch (sponsorship still available), an embroidered hat, 2 drinks, a goody bag and many fun prizes! Mulligans will be sold for $5 each with a limit of 8 per team at registration or pre-paid. As you are all aware, this tournament cannot be successful without the support of our chamber members and friends. We are asking for your help in ensuring the continued success of this tournament by helping us out in a variety of ways. The ways you can help us be successful include: • Becoming a tournament or hole
sponsor • Sponsoring a Team • Donating prizes for our “hard working” golfers • Donate gift items with your logo for the goody bags to be given to each golfer
The following sponsorships are still available: Gold Sponsor . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 Silver Sponsor. . . . . . . . . . $1,000 Bronze Sponsor . . . . . . . . . . $750 Luncheon Sponsor. . . . . . . . $750 “Exclusive” Hole Sponsor . . . . $ 400 (2) Hole Sponsor. . . . . . . . . $300 Hole Sponsor. . . . . . . . . . . $ 200 Drink Cart Sponsor. . . . . . . . $200 All sponsorship donations have been reduced from last year. Sponsor donations of $1000 or more will be have their logos included on a large banner to be displayed at the golf course the day of the event. Sponsorship details are on the chamber
website; www.tooelechamber.com Thanks for all your support in the past and we look forward to working with you this year. For more information call the Chamber office at (435)882-0690. Registration forms and additional information is included on the chamber website at www. tooelechamber.com