The Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors met April 1st, 2010 at 7:30 at the VFW Building.
Membership Dues: Dues are now $40.00 and may be paid at the Chamber Office or mailed to the Chamber of Commerce @ PO Box 303.
Website: We are in the process of changing the website if you need something listed please give Elbert a call and we will get it listed for you.
Flag Promotion: Kip is in the process of selling more Flags for the downtown area, if you are interested in this promotion for your business gives him a call.
Annual Chamber Banquet: Our banquet was held at the end of March. We had a great meal served by Julie Carr and the FCCLA group at the Adrian School. They did a great job. Mr. Mike Haughton with SCORE did an excellent job speaking to the crowd about marketing. Our 2010 Person of the Year was Don Arndt. Congratulations Don on a very deserving award, you manage to do a lot for the chamber and this was our way of saying that we appreciate all of the hard work and dedication that you contribute to the chamber of commerce. Way to go!! One more thank you needs to go to the Adrian Optimist Club for the use of their beautiful facility, we are very lucky to have such a nice place to hold our events at in such a great town that we have.
Farmer’s Market: Plans are underway for the upcoming season for the Farmer’s Market. The market will run May thru November. Since we had to change our location we are going to try and start running some ads in April to help promote the market and the Adrian Journal said they would run an article on the Farmer’s Market in the newspaper also.
Business Expo: We are in the process of planning for our 1st Annual Business Expo if you have any ideas please feel free to contact Phil Oats.
BATS: June 11, 2010 – Adrian Community Library
Planters: It is that time of year again when the Chamber will be coming by your business and asking for a small donation to help in the expenses of the plants used in the planters in front of your business on Main Street. All that we ask is that you or someone close please remember to water the plants this summer.
Welcome Bags: Here we go again asking for donations, but as you might know we hand out welcome bags to new residents when they move to town. The chamber has done this for some time now but we are getting low on supplies to stuff in our welcome bags, so if your business can spare something a pen, notepad or magnet. We would greatly appreciate anything that you have that we could use in our welcome bags. If you have something you can either drop the donation off at the chamber office or at the new location of the Library (Old Napa Building), or at the Adrian Bank.
Once again Congratulations Don on your award and Good job Curtis on an excellent Banquet, I only hope I can do as good as job as the two of you have done in the past. Remember to support your local businesses and support your Chamber.
Lori Haskins, President