A Chamber & Community Publication
Digital Bi-Weekly Newsbrief (Dec 20-31- 2019)
Nevada Women's State Chamber Celebrates 18th Anniversary May 8, 2020 with all Nevada Women along with the state of Nevada's 155 Year History
June L Beland, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Inside this issue
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel MentorWomen in Film-Founder
Barbara Wood, First Board Member of WCCNV
Cover: 18th Anniversary Celebration during May 15, 2020 Anniversary Luncheon & Member Awards Articles: 18th Annual Legislative Luncheon, Chamber History, Executive Board, 2020 National Winter Cover of the Women in Power Business Magazine with 10 Influential Women in Nevada.
UPCOMING
EVENTS
1/31/20
18th Annual Legislative Luncheon
Opening Speaker: Anita Laruy, President of the Government Affairs Moderator - John Huck, Emmy Award Winner, News Anchor, FOX5.
Lawry's The Prime Rib, The Great Room
3/27/20
15th Annual Nevada Women's Hall of Fame
Pioneer Award Recipient - Punam Mathur and 9 New Inductees.
The Orleans Hotel & Casino, French Quarters
4/17/20
7th Annual ATHENA Women's Leadership Day Luncheon
Mistress of Ceremonies, Tricia Kean, Emmy Award Winner, News Anchor, ABC Ch 13 - Women Meet & Mentor, Special this year Professional Women's Expo, Women Speakers, book authors and more.
The Orleans Hotel & Casino, Esplanade Room
5/15/20
18th Annual Women's Chamber Anniversary
with John Huck, Emmy Award Winner, News Anchor, FOX5 News---Celebrating our own members and their accomplishments.
Lawry's The Prime Rib, The Great Room
9/IS/20
17th Annual ATHENA International GALA
Leadership, Young Professional Leadership & Nonprofit Leadership and Minority Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Orleans Hotel & Casino, French Quarters
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PRESIDENT'S 2020 OUTLOOK for 18th Chamber Anniversary
As we head into 2020 and celebrating our 18th Chamber Anniversary with specials all year long. We have a lot to celebrate with all our accomplishments and making history not for just women but for everyone in Nevada. This would not be possible without everyone’s help such as our sponsors, members, community partners, board members, advertisers, and all our wonderful volunteers for making the Nevada Women’s Chamber of Commerce what it is today. Let's not forget all the city and state officials who helped put the only state Women’s Chamber of Commerce on the map for not just Nevada but the USA and around the world. There is a lot that goes into running a State Chamber of Commerce especially a Women’s State Chamber. We are the 3rd stand alone State Women’s Chamber in the USA. As a state chamber we have developed our own special Signature Luncheon Programs and Award Programs that continue to be amazingly successful every year. I would like to thank my amazing WCCNV Legacy Foundation Board Members: Norman Beland, Berenice Church, Cassondra Cotton, Anita Laruy, Patricia Lee, Dolores Campuzano Pignatello, Rita Vaswani, and Summer Webb. A big thank you to all the A-TEAM Ambassadors (all 13 of them) and Laura & Kevin Fairchild our Ambassador Directors and will also become our Event Directors in 2020. The Ambassador Volunteer Team is: Carla Aseltine, Amanda Bolton, Brenda Gayle Bryant, Barbara Henry, Dawn Kyles, Yuan-Fen Lai, Stephanie Ortiz, Becky Palmer, and Ryan Stout. Heading into 2020 we have a lot of changes happening! First and foremost, please welcome the INFINITY Media Group, who will redesign our website, handle all our social media, podcasts, blogs, design our publications and so much more. In 2020 we will also be turning our 17th Annual ATHENA International Awards into a Gala on September 18, 2020 at The Orleans in the NEW French Quarter from 5:30pm to 9pm, a major fundraiser for our Legacy Foundation Scholarship Fund “Achieving Your Dreams through education.” Our goal for 2020 is to raise student scholarships from 5 to 10 students. In order to accomplish this we will be reaching out to our business community for sponsorships or donations to make this a reality for these “At Risk” high school students. With the help of these student scholarships, it is our hope it will continue to move our state upward from the bottom 49th position in the USA on education for Nevada. Lastly, I want to thank our designers and proofreader of all our publications, Dawn and Tony Ferriera and Marie Scrofani, who continually work to keep us on the cutting edge each and every year. There are so many details that go into everything a State Minority chamber stands for and maintaining that experience and sense of community is very important. Thank you for all you do! Dec 2019
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Side bar updated the following WCCNV Board of Directors June L. Beland, Founder, President and CEO Norman Beland, Treasurer Marie R. Scrofani, Secretary
Executive Board Members Berenice Church - Cassandra Cotton Dolores Campuzano Pignatello Anita Laruy - Patricia Lee Summer Clark Webb - Rita Vaswani Publisher - June L. Beland Editor - Marie R. Scrofani
January 1, 2020 The Chambers New Web Design Group
INFINITY Media Group They handle the Website, publications, social media and Podcast
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“Staking A Claim in Nevada’s Future for Women”©
INSIDE 3 Message from the President 5 18th Annual Legislative Luncheon 6 Power Breakfast Briefings for 2020 6 WaFed Bank Ribbon Cutting 6 Chamber Executive Board Members 7 The Stirling Club Announces New Team Member 9 Chamber VP of Administration, Marie R Scrofani 9 New Events Directors Laura & Kevin Fairchild 10 The Stirling Club New Years Eve Party 11 What does the Real Estate look like in Nevada for 2020? 13 15th Annual Nevada Women’s Hall of Fame 14 Toy Drive Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation 15 Hutchison & Steffen Eight Lawyers Honored 17 Legacy Entertainment & Media 18 Women in Power Business Magazine Winter 2020 Issue 19 Member Registry & Business Listing & Relocation Guide 20-22 Member Listing by business category 23 17th Annual ATHENA International Leadership Awards Gala
ADVERTISERS Upcoming Events 2020 - pg 2 Quarterly Member Connection - pg 6 The Stirling Club - pg 8 Signature Real Estate - pg 11 ELITE Photography Group - pg 12 INFINITY Media Group - pg 12 WCCNV adv - pg14 StorageWest Valley all location - pg 15 MGM – Back Cover
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JOIN OUR MEMBER
Power Breakfast dates 2020 Held: Bi-Monthly (2nd Wednesday of the month)
Women's Chamber Events Directors
Location: TBD - Time: 9am-10:30am Co-Host: Laura & Kevin Fairchild Outline & Speakers to follow
Laura & Kevin Fairchild will join Ryan Stout and staff for Ribbon Cutting
Save The Date February 12, 2020 April 8, 2020 June 10, 2020 August 12, 2020 October 14, 2020 December 9, 2020
January 10th from 3-5pm. Nevada Corporate Office 10100 W Charleston Blvd Ste 110 Las Vegas, NV 89135
Board of Directors June L. Beland
Berenice Church
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Dolores Campuzono
Marie R Scrofani Secratary
Norman H. Beland Treasurer
Chairman of the Board
Cassandra Cotton
Anita Laruy
Patricia Lee
Summer Webb
Rita Vaswani
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New Hire for the Stirling Club Angie Enk, Corporate Special Events Team angie@stirlingclubevents.com 702-292-1564
We are excited to announce and introduce Angie Enk of The Stirling Club Corporate Special Events Team with more than two decades of corporate, non-profit and social event planning experience, Angie is sure to exceed your expectations. Congratulations Angie, and welcome to the team! Angie Enk joins The Stirling Club Events team with an impressive career spanning nearly two decades of high profile event planning. She has been a leader in the event planning industry, spearheading food & beverage concepts that have been icons in the Las Vegas landscape. Angie's only weakness is that she cannot say "no" to tacos or cake! Please join us in a warm welcome for our newest superstar team member. Contact Angie for your Corporate Convention or Incentive Market event planning needs. After nearly a decade, and an eight million dollar renovation, we are excited to reintroduce you to Las Vegas' most desirable event and entertainment venue: The Stirling Club. The Stirling Club Events Team is delighted to be at your service and are currently offering appointment based venue tours for meeting planning professionals, and professional event and wedding planners. We provide individually tailored event experiences in an iconic Las Vegas setting. The Stirling Club is an upscale private city club offering 73,000 square feet of luxury event space in the heart of Las Vegas, located directly across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center and just a few minutes from the famed Las Vegas Strip. This perfectly private setting spans indoor and outdoor event, wedding and entertainment venue space, on multiple levels, offering traditional to trendsetting design elements. Distinctive rooms and layouts allow for creating intimate gatherings of small groups of 25 or more, to opulent gatherings of up to 3000 or more guests.
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A-TEAM Ambassador Directors & NEW 2020
Marie R Scrofani Chamber V. P of Administration
Marie comes to us with 36 years administrative background in the following areas: insurance, legal, construction, education, retail, notary and real estate. Marie holds a Real Estate license in the state of Nevada, previously worked as a Substitute Teacher (K-5) and also as a Special Education Support Staff in Primary Autism for Clark County School District.
Chamber Events & Fundraising Directors
Laura Fairchild Kevin Fairchild
Building more marketing opportunities for our members
New Advertising Opportunities Website Home Page
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Real Estate in 2020 Tamra L Coulter Signature Real Estate Group License #s.0175665 702.460.8835
So, I am often asked “What is the market like”, “Will my home value go up because of the stadium” and “When is the recession coming”. These are all valid questions and have many variables in answering them. First the market, what is it like? Well I always have to say “Depends”. Depends on both the national and local economy and which market you are referring too. The investor market is different than the market in N. Las Vegas vs Henderson vs Summerlin vs the growing Southwest. I can tell you the market is remaining strong in all arenas. Currently there are 4,492 Las Vegas Single Family Homes on the market and 1,053 in Henderson. The most expensive home on the market if you can believe is $20 million dollars with the least being $65 thousand dollars. The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors shared that recently a group of prominent real estate industry economists released a consensus economic and real estate forecast that projects continued but slowing growth in 2020. The economists said they expect the U.S. economy to continue expanding next year and real estate prices to keep rising. “Real estate is on firm ground with little chance of price declines,” says NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “However, in order for the market to be healthier, more supply is needed to assure home prices as well as rents do not consistently outgrow income gains.”
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Many economists agree that a recession remains unlikely but not out of the question in 2020. The economists predicted a 29% probability of a recession with forecasted gross domestic product growth of 2.0% in 2020 and 1.9% in 2021. So, what does this mean locally and has the Raiders Stadium had any impact in the housing market? I believe most of the impact from the Raiders coming to the Valley is in the commercial sector. You will notice a spike in commercial construction from motel/hotels to apartment buildings. As for the effect in residential, there will be a slight increases from work force transplants in both the purchase and rental side of real estate, along with investors purchasing homes/ condominiums for short term rental use. Dana Gentry recently reported that Trulia, a residential listing service, looked in 2016 at five new stadiums and reported that so far there were no noticeable impacts in raising home values in its immediate vicinity (a two-mile radius). After reviewing data from Salestraq.com it concurs with this data with the exception of one zip code, 89119. There was a 29.8% increase while the rest of the valley stayed under double digit appreciation in 2018. If you have any insight or questions, please feel free to reach out to me. I enjoy these conversations and hearing what others have seen or heard in regard to our great city.
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A BIG THANK YOU To all our members who helped me with our 17th Annual Toy Drive for our Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation for children in the hospital (ages 5 to 13) and CCSD Underprivileged school children that would not have presents under their tree. I am on medical leave this year and could not have our event, Again thank you Dolores and Joe.
A very very very Special Thank you goes out to one of our board members and her husband - Dolores Campuzano-Pignatello & Joe who had a holiday party and chose the chamber's charity for their toy drive for kids (Each guest brought one unwrapped toy), we had bags and bags of toys to give to the Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation----THANK YOU!
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Legacy Entertainment & Media Awards November 2020 Lucy Awards June 2020 in Beverly Hills, CA
Stay Tuned for 2020 Date in Beverly Hills, CA
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Coming Summer 2020
Women's Chamber Membership Registry & Business Resource/ Relocation Guide Special PRIME Sections (3) For advertising rates & details or FREE member listing Email us at publishing@womenschamberofnevada.org
or call the chamber 702.733.3955 Advertising for Members only
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Women's Chamber Monthly Business Journal
(A members publication)
will now have a "Member Business Directory" by Business Category in every issue starting January 20, 2020 (Send the following information - via email) publishing@womenschamberofnevada.org Type of Business, your company name, your name and title, your company phone number/or cell phone and email (nothing else)
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