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(Seguin) -- The Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce is reaching out to young business leaders in an attempt to get them more involved in the community. The chamber's new Young Professionals group has been meeting for a couple months now. Chelsea Roberts is one of the local young professionals that helped to organize the group. She says, so far, they have gotten off to a great start. "Our vision is to connect and engage career oriented individuals through professional development (and) to help Seguin grow and prosper. We just thought that there was a need in Seguin for young professionals to get together to network and to grow professionally," said Roberts. Chamber
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Events Manager Georgia Hester also has been a big part of starting the group. Hester says the group is growing and they hope that more young professionals will step forward and be part of this new organization. "The Young Professionals group has really just kicked off. We are moving forward every time we meet. We meet monthly -- every third Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the chamber office. If you're interested and even if you're not a member with the chamber, come out and check out Young Professionals. It's just a great way to get involved and figure out what the chamber does. I think that's part of the point -- to get this next generation involved in not just the community, but also with the chamber and let them know what we do in the community," said Hester. Hester says Young Professionals has a dynamic group of young people who eager to become a bigger part of this community.
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"We kick off with an educational and a professional development piece for the first ten to 15 minutes. They want to do a lot of give back to the community, so we have several things planned. One of those is that we will be wrapping presents for Blue Santa in December, and we want to help with the (KWED) Food & Toy Drive. We are really excited about collecting things, and just really give back to the community, and (also) getting some neat events going on," said Hester. These young professionals are growing and meeting new challenges in their chosen profession. Hester says her generation really wants to feel like the work that they do matters. She says that's one of the reasons why this group is so important. "It's really neat to see, because as we've been meeting, I noticed that, that is their main topic of conversation. 'What can we do
to give back' and 'what can we do to help.' It's fun to be a part of, and I think it's going to be beneficial to the young professionals here in our community, said Hester. Joining the chamber's Young Professionals is easy. Hester says you don't need a full chamber membership to join. "If you are part of a company that's already a member with the chamber, you can participate. There's no additional fee or anything like that. But what's kind of cool about this group is that we've also opened it up to those who might not already be involved with the chamber. If you are looking to get involved, you can still be involved in Young Professionals. A $50 annual fee is how we are doing it right now. It gives you an opportunity to still get the networking and connect to young professionals here in Seguin," said Hester. See CHAMBER, page 2
NEF helping students in Navarro ISD By Darren Dunn and Cindy Aguirre (Geronimo) -- The Navarro Education Foundation (NEF) is giving students and teachers in the Navarro ISD 57,000 reasons to smile this week. The foundation on Friday handed out its grants to assist and support education programs in the Navarro ISD. This year, the NEF provided just over $57,000 in grants. Since its inception, it has now provided more than $550,000 in grants to NISD classrooms. NEF Vice President Holly Hagan they were thrilled to be able to provide the grants. She says in years past they've received lots of requests for technology, but she says this year was different. She says the teachers really focused on different ways to use the money. "We were very excited about some of the uniqueness of the grants that came before us. It was a lot of different things that they were asking for. In years past, there had been a lot of technology -- iPads, Chromebooks and things like that. This year, there wasn't a whole lot of technology asking, but a lot more field trips, or bringing in guest speakers -- kind of, more hands on learning," said Hagan. See NEF, page 3
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