Helping Businesses Prosper and Grow for More than 60 Years
Tooele County Chamber of Commerce
Tooele Business News Volume 6, Number 7
Calendar of Events For a complete list of upcoming Chamber and community events, please check out our website www.tooelechamber.com
Chamber office will be closed Friday, July 3rd in observance of Independence Day and Friday, July 24th in observance of Pioneer Day
Chamber 4th of July Breakfast Saturday, July 4th Veterans Memorial Park Corner of Main and Vine Street 7am to 8:30am $5 Adults $3 children
Chamber Luncheon Wednesday, July 8th at Noon Sponsor: Deseret Peak Complex Deseret Peak Firefighters Museum 2930 W. Highway 112, Tooele Please RSVP by Monday July 6 by 5 pm 435-882-0690
Ribbon Cutting Thursday, July 9th at Noon Wasatch Blinds and Flooring 36 N. Main Ste # 5, Tooele
Ribbon Cutting Wednesday, July 15th at 11:00 am Track’s Restaurant 1641 N. Main St., Tooele
Business After Hours and Ribbon Cutting Thursday, July 30th 5:30-7:00 p.m. Zions Bank No charge for this event Great Networking Opportunity
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Chamber golf tournament huge success Oquirrh Hills Golf Course in Tooele City was the site for the 2009 Tooele County Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament. This years Platinum Sponsor was Energy Solutions. Gold Sponsors were Tooele County Corporation, Mountain West Medical Center and Tooele City Corp. Mountain America Credit Union was this years Silver Sponsor and Bronze sponsors included the Tooele Applied Technology College and Transcript Bulletin Publishing. Hole sponsors were Insurance Network LLC and HeritageWest Credit Union who sponsored a $10,000 Hole in One. Other hole sponsors included Tate Mortuary, ATI Rowley Operations, Best Western Inn Tooele, Clean Harbors, Colorado Casualty, Common Cents Casino Parties, Community Nursing Services, EG&G, Elizabeth’s Custom Catering, Factory Flooring Direct, Fassio Egg Farm, Liddiards Home Furnishings, Macey’s, Miller Motorsports Park, Oxygen For You, Steadmans Recreation, Tooele Orthopedics Sports Medicine, Tooele Valley Rotary Club, Unigard Insurance Company, Wal-Mart DC 7026, Workers Compensation Fund and Zion’s Bank. Prudential Utah Real Estate-Tooele (Vicki Griffith, Broker) and Tooele County Business Resource Center were the Luncheon Sponsors this year and Mountain West Medical Center sponsored the delicious breakfast. The luncheon was prepared by the Oquirrh Hills Café and was enjoyed by all. Always Perfect Photography was the Official Photographer and Roni’s Signs was the Official Sign Sponsor. The event would not have been the great success it was without the help of our wonderful volunteers. Thanks to all the volunteers who served on the Golf Committee and who helped on the day of the event. We couldn’t have done it without you! Oquirrh Hills Golf Pro, Christian Scott, and his staff; were so fantastic to work with. They went the “extra mile” to help make this event enjoyable and successful to all of the players, sponsors and the
Is free consulting worth anything? You’re a business person who’s weathering today’s economy and you’ve been in business for awhile. Why would you be interested in working with a Small Business Development Center (“SBDC”) counselor from Tooele’s Business Resource Center (“BRC”)? After all, nothing is really free, is it? Maybe not. The Chamber of Commerce helps its members in various ways – from networking to specialized training and public relations. The SBDC and the BRC work
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closely with the Chamber and its members to bring an added dimension to the Chamber’s offering. The Chamber knows that there are many business needs in the community and can request specific programs from the BRC to provide value to its members and would-be members. Tooele’s Division of Economic Development has assembled grants and other resources to fund the SBCD and the BRC. The Economic Development organization also works closely with the Chamber – and
First Place Team (net) Holiday Inn Express and Community Nursing Services Jim Wilson, Gregory Gilbert, Grant Jackson, Michelle Dunn
First Place Team (Gross) Wal-Mart DC 7026. Jeff Loafman, Raul Triana, Joe Kyle and Brent Freeman Photos courtesy of Always Perfect Photography
Chamber. Thank you to all of the local businesses who donated prizes for the tournament.
Thanks to all the players who participated and we look forward to next year’s tournament!
many of their economic development materials are another FREE resource for you to provide your clients and prospective customers. Classes are taught and counseling is provided for every aspect of your business from long-standing U.S.-funded programs to help small and medium-sized businesses, not just startups. Job creation and business expansion for you, the American bread-and-butter business owner, is at the heart of the programs being offered. Here are some areas of interest: Evolving your business plan—planning strategies and evaluating a SWOT mentality: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
and Threats to your business can help you look ahead, grow and avoid business pitfalls. Operations efficiencies—often are overlooked as a source of business improvement: “This is the way we’ve always done it…” A view of operations from a different set of eyes may hold some opportunities to improve productivity and yields, reduce shrinkage, or increase job satisfaction for you and your employees. Accounting—are you still using a manual bookkeeping system? Is there an accounting system that might fit your budsee SBDC page 8 ➤