 As a Chamber Member, you have significant buying power with access to some of the best pricing available on products and services you use every day. There are NO extra fees, and NO obligations to buy. Tap into the savings today!
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If you live or do
business in Appomattox County, you can sign up for Amber Alerts and severe weather notifications.
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Good afternoon everyone. This NewsBlast is chock full of Chamber News, Member Promotions, Legislative News and Business Resource articles. It is the Chamber's goal to provide our members with information to help them with their businesses so I hope you find the articles included herein to be just that -- helpful. Remember that the Chamber is here to serve YOU! So, please remember to take advantage of the promotional opportunities to promote your events.
Feel free to forward this NewsBlast to others in your business or organization so that they, too, can benefit from the information. Let us know how we are doing...the feedback is always welcome.
Remember to "BUY LOCAL" -- your local small businesses depend on you to keep them in the local community.
Quote of the Week:
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00am-2:00pm
Whitney Napier: Office Manager
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Several new initiatives from the Chamber are kicking off with the new year. You can help the effort by getting involved and our entire community will benefit.
A 5K Fun Run is being planned for the spring. Whitney Napier will chair the effort for the Chamber.
The Miss Appomattox Pageant is tentatively scheduled for June 17. Shirley Wheeler will chair the effort. Participants, sponsors and helpers will be needed.
Gerri Granato proprietor of Country Charm, will organize a Shop Local Campaign. Several ideas are being considered and may involve a raffle of items donated by local merchants with entry tickets earned by purchasing from participating merchants.
Appomattox Cheerz will likely undergo some changes for 2017. Our committee will be meeting in early 2017 to plan this year. We have some new volunteers but there is still room to join the effort. Contact John Redding to get involved.
The possibility of joining efforts to place a highway sign advertising downtown commerce will be investigated. John Redding will research the costs and seek participating businesses.
John Redding
Chamber President
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Appomattox Cheerz Committee Needs Volunteers
Please email the chamber
or sign up at this Fridays Cheerz
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Our sponsored awards for the ACHS football players versus Goochland High School.
Offensive - Xzavier Morgan/Drake Cocks
Defensive - Javon Scruggs
Special Teams - Gerran Hinds/Timotheous Slaughter
Lineman - Daniel Baldwin/Austin Pannell
Our Leo (high school level Lions Club) Club is beginning to organize. If you know of youth that would like to serve, use the contact information below to get them involved.
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Come visit the Babcock House for a true experience in Southern Hospitality. Simple, refined food at reasonable prices.
Lunch served Tuesday thru Friday from 11am to 1:30pm;
Brunch served Sunday from 11am to 2pm; and
Dinner served Tuesday thru Saturday from 5pm to 8pm.
RESERVATIONS NO LONGER REQUIRED!
Feel free to stop in on a whim!
250 Oakleigh Avenue, Appomattox.
434-352-7532
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Now Offers Mobile Banking
Click on the link below for more details
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Patsy's Catering
Patsy's Catering Plan now for your Holiday Parties/Dinners by calling Patsy at The Olde Frozen Food Locker today! On-site at the Locker or off-site at your venue. 434-660-2728
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LIFE * AUTO * HOME * BUSINESS
Download and read the Fourth Quarter 2016 Insurance Update
4th Qtr Newsletter provided by Auto-Owners Insurance. Auto-Owners along with Scott and Wilson Insurance can meet
your needs in any of the following: Life, Home, Auto and Business!
This issue's topics include: Estimating Ice Damage, Children's Life Insurance - Investing in Their Future, Business Insurance - How to prevent unnecessary accidents at work,
and Personal Auto Insurance Plus Packages that Auto-Owners offers their customers.
As your Local Independent agency in your community, we're your neighbor, someone you can TRUST and who will be here for you! Call or visit us today!
434-352-7550 Phone
569C Court Street, Appomattox, VA
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Congressman Robert Hurt's Weekly Round Up: -
Click the link below to read the full press release.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia) released the following statement after voting in favor of a resolution to disapprove and nullify the rule submitted by the Department of Labor (DOL) to amend the definition of the term "fiduciary." This vote builds off of a bill passed by the House of Representatives in October, the Retail Investor Protection Act, which would require the DOL to defer to the expertise of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rather than apply its own proposed fiduciary rule:
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Best of Above the Fold December 7th- This edition contains articles on the following:
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Best of Free Enterprise - December 7th - This edition contains articles on the following:
- THIS CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE STARTUP IS BRINGING HOUSE CALLS BACK
- ONE MAN'S JOURNEY FROM INMATE TO ENTREPRENEUR (VIDEO)
- 20 AMERICAN TECH HUBS NIPPING AT SILICON VALLEY'S HEELS
- AFTER CYBER MONDAY, THERE'S #GIVINGTUESDAY
- www.freeenterprise.com
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Chamber's Online Calendar of Events
The Chamber wants to remind everyone who is planning an "open to the public" event for next year to provide the event information to this office so it can get uploaded to the Chamber's website calendar. This online calendar will help the community (and visitors) to see a full list of events as they plan their activities. The goal of the online calendar is to prevent competing events so that every event is a success. So please submit your event information to the Chamber at least 2 weeks in advance of the event so it can be uploaded to the calendar. Make sure your email includes "Calendar Event Information" in the Subject Line. Please note that ALL event submissions for the NewsBlast are automatically added to the online calendar.
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Member Weekly NewsBlast Submission Guidelines:
All
current Chamber members are eligible to advertise in the Member Promotions section. Please send your PDF file to the
Chamber as outlined below:
- All submissions MUST indicate "Member Weekly NewsBlast" or "NewsBlast" in the Subject line of email.
- All submissions MUST be in Microsoft Word or PDF file format (file size limit is 2.0 MB).
- All submissions MUST include your business name & phone number.
- All submissions MUST indicate the time period for running the ad -- please include the beginning date & ending date. NOTE: ads that do not include this information will run for one week only!
- All submissions are subject to editing and/or rejection if not appropriate for the NewsBlast.
- Deadline for submissions is 10:00am on Wednesday. Any late submissions will be held until the following week's edition.
- NewsBlast will be scheduled to publish after 2pm on Wednesday.
- All submissions will be listed alphabetically by member business.
- Submissions not in compliance with these guidelines will be rejected.
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