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The Weekly Newsletter of The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
Friday, December 6, 2019
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This Week's Featured Video
Here's a Chamber Member Who Loves His Career
See why John Cucarese of
John Cucarese Financial Services
is well-known within the local community and the Chamber as someone who goes above and beyond his 9 to 5 job. As he explains in this video, John is fully invested in helping people discover how they can live a better, more fulfilling life. Check out his video by clicking "Play" and visit his website
here.
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Chamber Launches Online Holiday Store
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The Chamber is excited to announce the opening of it's online holiday store featuring t-shirts and our (almost famous) Christmas ornaments.
Two t-shirt designs are available, each with a "Buy Local" theme that will show your support of the local business community- perfect for employees, family and friends. The ornament designs, created by the Chamber and manufactured by
Nelson's Fine Arts
, display all of Jefferson County's cities and villages on one and the townships on the other. These also make great gifts and we'll even include a personal message with any that you ship.
The proceeds from the store will help support Chamber membership programming, projects and events. Click below to visit the online store or stop by the Chamber during our regular business hours to make a purchase.
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"Shift Your Shopping" Receipt Contest
We're Giving Away $500 On December 26th!
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The receipts are rolling in! Don't forget to enter the Chamber's annual "Shift Your Shopping" receipt drawing for a chance to win $500 cash the day after Christmas. Here's how it works.
Gather all of your receipts from local spending that you do from November 1st through Christmas Day. Complete the
online form
on the Chamber's website,
www.jeffersoncountychamber.com
and remember to upload pictures of your receipts before submitting. You may also enter by sending or dropping off your receipt copies along with name, address and phone number to the Chamber offices at 630 Market Street, Steubenville, OH 43952. They must be received
by
Christmas Day.
For every $50 spent locally, one entry in your name will be entered in the drawing. Purchases may be combined to reach this amount - they need not be a single purchase totaling $50 or more. For example, if you spent $10 in gas, $15 at a restaurant and $75 at a local store, this would earn you two entries. There is no limit to how many entries you may earn and qualifying purchases include
any
business in Jefferson County in addition to
chamber member
businesses located outside the county (Weirton, Wheeling, etc.) Check the membership directory on the Chamber's website to see a complete list of members.
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The Chamber Challenge - Are you up for it?
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Join the Chamber in supporting this year's, "Shift Your Shopping" campaign and take the Chamber Challenge.
- 1. Commit to purchase at least 25% of your Christmas gifts in and around Jefferson County.
- 2. Visit a local business that you've never been to.
- 3. When heading out of town, gas up and eat before you go at local business.
By making just small, everyday changes, you can help grow and strengthen the local business community this holiday season.
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5th Annual Hank Kuzma Community Day Set
It's an annual event that has become a chamber member favorite. On Saturday, January 25th, from 1:30 to 8 p.m. be our guests at the Franciscan University ladies and mens' basketball games at the 5th Annual Hank Kuzma Community Day.
Franciscan University of Steubenville and The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce are once again partnering for a day of competition and community to remember the late Hank Kuzma. Mr. Kuzma was an important and exceptional part of both the University and Chamber of Commerce families for many years. This event brings together his family, University students and staff, local businesses, their employees and their families to honor him.
Enjoy the games from the beautiful Baron Room, overlooking the basketball courts in the Finnegan Field House or get up close and personal and watch court side. Tickets are on the house compliments of Franciscan University's athletic department. The hospitality room will have refreshments throughout the day and admission is free. Bring the family or your employees for a fun afternoon supporting our local University's sports program. Stop by for a quick bite or stay all day. RSVP by clicking here or call the Chamber offices at 740.282.6226. A limited number of sponsorships are still available. Contact the Chamber offices for details.
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Modern Marketing 101:
20 Predictions for Social Media Marketing in 2020
What awaits social media marketing in 2020? Nothing is set in stone yet, as we've seen with the unpredictability of social media in 2019, but
Social Media Today
offers up some speculation...20 speculations, in fact.
From last week:
Just when you thought you've mastered social media marketing, a statistic like this comes across your screen: Millennials are using social media with increasingly less frequency.
Maggie Novak of
The Libertarian Republic
examines this dynamic and how it should impact your marketing efforts.
If you missed or want to re-read any of our previous Modern Marketing 101 installments, click
here
. We encourage you to print, save, share, and add these articles and resources to your business or organization's social media marketing manual.
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December Coffee & Connections at
Don't miss a special holiday Coffee & Connections. Enjoy a hot breakfast followed by a fun, casual speed-networking session that lets you talk about your business, organization or upcoming event. Enter the annual Ugly Sweater contest and you could win a year of free Coffee & Connections!
Date:
Wednesday, December 11th
Time:
8 to 9 a.m.
Price:
$15 per person
RSVP:
Required. Call the Chamber offices at 740.282.6226 or watch your email for invitation and online registration information.
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Save The Date!
2020 Investor To Investor Trade Fair
Date:
Wednesday, February 5th, 2019
Time:
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location:
St. Florian Event Center, Wintersville
Watch your email and weekly
In The Know for details.
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You're invited!
2019 Holiday Open House
The Chamber is pleased to announce the date for its 2019 Holiday Open House, along with two new "Shift Your Shopping" sponsors. Join us to celebrate the season with fellow members and their employees on Wednesday, December 11th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
Apollo Professional Cleaning & Restoration
in Wintersville. Also on board as a major sponsor for this year's event and the complete slate of "Shift Your Shopping" holiday programs and events is
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Member Morsels
Remember to visit individual member websites by clicking on the business name or logo.
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Fresh, Clean & Natural For Christmas!
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FRESH, CLEAN & NATURAL FOR CHRISTMAS!
Shine With Jamie
has healthful alternatives to over the counter skin care and makeup at reasonable prices. Contact Jamie to see what's available for under the tree or in the stockings. Gifts for kids, spouses, teachers, hostess gifts, co-workers, friends, Secret Santa and more. Contact Jamie Copenhaver by phone, text or email.
740.317.3742.
ShinewithJamie@yahoo.com.
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MANFRED'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
You are cordially invited to the Manfred's Annual Christmas Party on Friday, December 20th from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Food, gifts, music and more. Stop by and celebrate the season with good friends and neighbors.
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Prodigal Daughter Trinkets & Treasures Hosts Mens' Shopping Night
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Don't miss a great evening of shopping and football as the Prodigal Daughter hosts a men's shopping event just in time for Christmas. On Thursday, December 12th from 5 to 9 p.m., enjoy refreshments and Thursday night football while you browse unique and personal gift ideas. Click
here for more details and a printable flier. The Prodigal Daughter is located at 164 North 4th Street in downtown Steubenville. Click
here to visit their Facebook page.
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Feature your business or organization's news or events in "Member Morsels" by completing a quick online form. Click below.
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Around the State. Around the Country.
Up-to-Date Information from the Ohio and United States Chamber of Commerce
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Ohio Fairness Act Takes Important
First Step in Ohio House Committee
This week, the Ohio House Civil Justice Committee heard testimony from the sponsors of HB 369. The legislation titled the Ohio Fairness Act is companion legislation to SB 11 and would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, and public accommodation.
The Ohio Chamber supports the bill because we view the added protections for LGBTQ employees as a workforce development tool to help employers attract and retain talented individuals from all walks of life. The legislation will also ease compliance burdens for Ohio employers by adopting one statewide standard banning discrimination in the workforce on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity since 26 different local ordinances currently prohibit this type of discrimination.
Also, the protections in HB 369 align with the Ohio Chamber’s mission of championing economic competitiveness for the benefit of all Ohioans by ensuring LGBTQ workers in the Buckeye State can benefit from Ohio’s growing workforce and by making our state a more desirable landing spot for businesses and special events that value diversity.
Read the article in it
s entirety by clicking
here
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How Better Global Insurance Standards Can Lower Cost, Improve Product Availability, and Drive Investment
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about insurance, but it’s fundamental to the smooth working of society. At its most fundamental, insurers provide consumers and businesses the ability to pool and share risk. This helps reduce the cost of many mundane, but vital, activities like driving a car, buying a house, or planning for retirement. With the right oversight, policyholders get the protection they want, insurance companies turn a profit, and society benefits by having more people own cars, buy homes, and enjoy their retirement. Additionally, the insurance industry invests about $6 trillion into the U.S. economy, vital for financing growth, according to a recent report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
After the financial crisis, regulators intensified their scrutiny of capital requirements for financial institutions, including insurance companies.
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) began taking a closer look at the funds insurers need to have on hand to ensure that they can keep paying premiums and avoid default in the face of market stress or unpredicted disasters.
Read the article in its entirety by clicking
here
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The Library Link
Great Books About Business With Just A Click
Your link to success begins at the library. Each week in "In The Know,"
you to a business book or magazine that will inspire, teach, inform, or elevate you, professionally and personally. This week:
Unstoppable Teams:
The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
by Alden Mills
Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective--by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities. SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes down to the same thing: service to others, trust, empathy, and a caring environment. Alden Mills has experience working in both the military and the private sector, as a SEAL platoon commander and as a startup founder of Perfect Fitness. He's seen firsthand what it takes to lead an unstoppable team of individuals. Teams are nothing more than a series of interconnected relationships with a collective, single-minded focus. Success almost never depends on individual talent and valor; instead, Alden Mills shows, it depends, first, on creating a strong foundation for yourself and, second, using that foundation to help others go beyond their individual pursuits and talents to create something bigger and better--an unstoppable team.
View this book by clicking
here
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Today in History
- December 6, 1969 -
From History.com:
Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit.
Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning by a team of well-funded organizers, Altamont was a largely improvised affair that did not even have a definite venue arranged just days before the event.
It was only on Thursday, December 4, 1969, that organizers settled on the Altamont Speedway location for a free concert that was by then scheduled to include Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and the Grateful Dead, all in support of the headlining Stones.
The event would also include, infamously, several dozen members the Hells Angels motorcycle gang acting as informal security staff in exchange for $500 worth of beer as a “gratuity.”
It was dark by the time the concert’s next-to-last act, the Grateful Dead, was scheduled to appear. But the Dead had left the venue entirely out of concern for their safety when they learned that Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin had been knocked unconscious by one of the Hells Angels in a melee during his band’s performance.
It was during the Rolling Stones’ set, however, that a 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro stabbed a gun-wielding 18-year-old named Meredith Hunter to death just 20 feet in front of the stage where Mick Jagger was performing “Under My Thumb.” Unaware of what had just occurred, the Rolling Stones completed their set without further incident, bringing an end to a tumultuous day that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births.
The killing of Meredith Hunter at Altamont was captured on film in Gimme Shelter, the documentary of the Stones’ 1969 tour by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, which opens with Jagger viewing the footage in an editing room several months later. In the years since, Jagger has not spoken publicly about the killing, for which Passaro was tried but acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
For more events that took place on
December 6th, please click
here
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- 325,000 -
The number of men and women who work
in nearly 13,000 surface and underground mines across the United States. Today is National Miners Day. The Chamber honors those who work in this vital industry.
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Questions about Oil & Gas?
These non-profit organizations are here to help you stay up-to-date on the oil and gas industry
in Jefferson County:
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Get The Information You Need - The Chamber Staff Is Here To Help
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Janet McLaughlin
Investor Relations Coordinator
Janet will assist you with utilizing your membership benefits, answering questions about member programming or how to promote your business through the Chamber.
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Tricia Maple-Damewood
President
Contact Tricia with suggestions, input or feedback on member programming, how to get involved on a committee or special project or with questions or information about anything related to the Chamber.
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Cassie Balvin
Administrative & Accounting Assistant
Cassie will assist you with event registrations, updating your membership information, questions about your dues or event invoices and any other Chamber programming questions you may have.
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Contact Us
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
630 Market Street
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone: 740.282.6226
Fax: 740.282.6285
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