Marshall Area Chamber Weekly Events Newsletter
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ONE
top Banner Ad spot
is available each week in the
E-Connection newsletter. These are first come, first serve
Zoom Meeting Sponsorship is available for $100.
This will include your logo and introduction at the beginning
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Marshall Quick Guide - COVID-19 Business Resources
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Earth Day Challenge
J
oin us in a
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Earth Day Challenge! This week we challenge you to join us in celebrating Earth Day by picking up trash, planting a tree, biking instead of driving or anything else earth friendly!
Make sure to take a picture and post it to our Facebook page with the hashtag
#earthdaychallenge
Please remember to practice proper personal safety including wearing gloves, washing your hands thoroughly, and maintaining proper social distance.
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Spring Fling Online Shopping Event
Join us for a fun online shopping event! Great gift ideas for Mother’s Day or simply spoil yourself! We will be offering a selection of clothing, self-care products, jewelry, books, food, health & nutrition and more! Don’t miss out on the chance to play games and win prizes, as well as take advantage of exclusive discounts! Get comfy, grab a favorite beverage & do some shopping!
Event starts Sunday April 26 – Wednesday April 29.
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Marshall Area YMCA Virtual Live Class Schedule
We can’t be together in the same room right now, but we can all be together as a community. The Marshall Area YMCA is offering FREE online live classes with local certified instructors. See some familiar faces and get motivated to stay active while you are at home. Even apart, we’re together. For a better us.
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Denim Day
Denim Day is
Wednesday, April 29
th
, a day where we wear jeans with a purpose – to support survivors and educate ourselves and others about all forms of sexual violence.
For more information, visit:
New Horizons would appreciate your support this year by taking a photo of you and/or your staff in your denim to help raise awareness in our local communities.
If you are willing to participate, please send your photos to:
crisis@newulmtel.net
, so we can share them on our Facebook page! We encourage you to share your Denim Day photos on your Facebook pages too, with the hashtags #DenimDay, #SAAM, and #NHCC.
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Marshall Blood Drive
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
9:00 AM -3:00 PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
9:00 AM- 3:00 PM
1113 E College Dr, Suite 3
Enter MarshallMN to schedule!
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Western Mental Health Center
We are open and providing services via phone or computer
24 hours a day/7 days a week
1-800-658-2429 to make your appointment.
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4-21-2020
The Minnesota Chamber made available a list of “best practices” for businesses throughout the state to safely return to work
Minnesota businesses are eager to get back to work. We are ready to work with the Walz Administration and the Legislature to get our state back to full productivity and full employment as soon as reasonably possible. Business operations can and should return to a sustainable level without jeopardizing employees’ or customer safety.
This summary
was developed with that in mind and is applicable to most workplaces.
The Chamber’s goal throughout this health crisis has been to strike a balance between safeguarding health and protecting the economy. These best practices underscore that commitment. The recommendations are gleaned from the detailed strategies of Minnesota companies still operating as deemed ‘essential’ under Governor Walz’s executive order.
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4-22-2020
MDH Printable Materials and Resources on COVID-19
Here is the MDH website for printable materials (factsheets, posters, videos) for COVID-19:
Cover your Cough printable posters:
Be a Germ Buster…How to Wash Your Hands poster:
Video resources:
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Returning Minnesotans to Work
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Throughout this entire COVID-19 crisis, the MN Chamber has focused on balancing the need to protect health with the need to keep our economy moving. More than anything else, we have heard from our members what steps that they can take to safely return to work.
This features experts to help businesses gain the knowledge to plan for an eventual return to work. Teresa Thompson of Fredrikson & Byron is an employment lawyer who offered insights about employer responsibilities during this time. Dr. Jakub Tolar, Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, is leading the University's new testing push and spoke to the importance of testing in getting Minnesotans back to work.
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Learn more about the EDA COVID-19 Emergency Loan Program
HERE.
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Every T-Shirt sold is $10 to the business of your choice.
#HereForGoodMN
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4-23-2020
Governor Walz released Executive Order 20-40, which includes step one in a planned approach to re-open parts of Minnesota's economy. According to the Governor, beginning April 27 there will be a limited and safe return to work about 80,000-100,000 Minnesota employees that work in industrial, manufacturing, and office settings.
Currently listed non-essential businesses including retailers, bars, restaurants, and other places of public accommodation remain closed for the time being. For more information on what business qualify to re-open gradually
click here.
Summary of today's Executive Order and briefing:
- The existing stay-at-home order remains until May 4 with April 27 changes for industrial, manufacturing, and office settings.
- Schools remain on distance learning through the end of the academic school year.
- Minnesotans should continue to practice social distance.
- All COVID-19 symptomatic people should be tested given new testing capacity.
- Confirmed COVID-19 cases and those in close contact should be isolated.
- Those who can work remotely should continue to do so.
Businesses opening on April 27 must:
- Develop detailed plans on gradually re-opening including social distancing practices, employee hygiene, and cleaning protocols.
- Engage employees in daily health screenings including a suggestion to take temperatures, and allow employees to stay home when sick.
- Continue work from home options whenever possible.
DEED is hosting a webinar on Executive Order 20-40 that will discuss the process of returning employees back to work
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Sign up here.
(Friday, April 24) from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Governor Walz highlighted items that will and should continue for the foreseeable future:
- Teleworking when possible.
- Wearing face masks in public.
- Screening for symptoms.
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Downtown Kiosk Advertisements
are available!
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The Marshall EDA have 3
open spots
to fill.
The kiosk advertisements run from June 1, 2020 through May 31, 2021 and the cost is still only $250.00 for the entire year.
If interested or want more information,
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4-20-2020
COVID-19 Business Plan Template provided for small businesses to help adjust to your needs.
As Governor Walz has said, Minnesotans are buying the state valuable preparation time for COVID-19 by staying at home. The Governor's Executive Order 20-33 has asked Minnesotans not working in Critical Sectors to continue to Stay at Home through May 4th to slow the spread of COVID-19.
During this time, we are looking at how non-critical sector employees can get back to work safely, when teleworking is not an option. One important component of allowing non-critical industries to return to work will be ensuring that these businesses have a plan for how to follow
CDC guidance
at their workplace. To make the development of such a plan easier on employers, we've built a template plan that any employer could feel free to use, if helpful.
We’d like to get public feedback on that template, which is why we’re opening it up for public comment on the
DLI website
– please take a look and send feedback to
DLICovidPlan@state.mn.us
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We aren't asking businesses to proactively submit such plans for workforce safety to state government for review. But employers tell us that having a plan matters, which is why we've created a template plan and are seeking your feedback on it. We'll review that feedback and provide guidance to businesses soon.
Any plan that an employer creates should take into consideration these guidelines from MDH, which are based on CDC guidance:
If workers can work from home, they should be allowed to work from home.
Make sure sick employees stay home.
- Establish health screening protocols for employees at start of shift, e.g. temperature taking, health screening survey.
- Identify and isolate employees with COVID-19 symptoms; and those that have been exposed.
- Establish communication protocols when employees have been potentially exposed.
- Establish worker sickness reporting protocols.
- Evaluate and adjust sick leave policies to reflect need for isolation and incentivize workers who are sick to stay home.
- Clearly communicate sick leave polices to all employees.
Increase social distancing: Employees should be 6 feet away from each other.
- Stagger shifts and breaks; create additional shifts.
- Evaluate traffic patterns to reduce crowding at entrances, in hallways.
- Limit gatherings of employees.
- Ensure physical distance in workplaces including work stations, productions lines etc.
- Maximize the use of telecommuting.
- Limit non-essential employee interaction across floors, buildings, campuses, work sites.
- Increase physical space between employees and customers, e.g., drive through, partitions.
Employee hygiene and source control.
- Ensure employees regularly wash hands. Ensure hand washing and/or hand sanitizer facilities readily available and stocked.
- Provide necessary protective equipment, e.g. masks, gloves, disinfectant, shields, etc.
- Post hand washing and cover your cough signs.
- Encourage use of source control masks.
- Prohibit on site food preparation and sharing.
Cleaning and disinfection protocols.
- Clean and disinfect all areas such as offices, bathrooms, common areas, shared electronic equipment, machinery, tools, controls routinely.
- Minimal daily cleaning of all door knobs, surfaces and other areas touched by hands.
- Ensure availability of hand sanitizer and approved cleaning products.
- Decontaminate workplace if worker becomes ill with COVID-19.
Management and employees should be trained in these protocols.
Please take a look at the
plan template
and offer your comments. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Chamber Member Job Postings
This is
FREE
for Chamber Members!
Log in to your ChamberMaster account and post now! Not sure how to log in?
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- Avera Marshall
- C.N.A. - Sign on bonus & We could pay 100% of your college tuition!
- Registered Nurse - Med/Surg As needed!
- Registered Nurse - Long Term Care - Benefit Eligible!
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
- Registered Nurse - Dialysis
- Cook
- Home Care/Hospice Care Assistant - Benefit Eligible!
- Optometrist
- RN or LPN - Long Term Care - Benefit Eligible!
- Registered Nurse - Med/Surg & CCU
- BH Electronics
- Electronic Assembler
- Marshall Public Schools
- School Crossing Guard Substitute
- Substitute Custodian
- Boulder Creek Assisted Living
- Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Charge Nurse (LPN, RN)
- Schwan's Company
- 1st shift Maintenance Technician $21-26/hr, depending on experience
- Machine Operator I / 2nd shift Beverage Plant / $15
- Machine Operator II 6am-6pm $17+/hr
- Material Handler I / (DC) 6:45am - 3:15pm / $13.20
- Part Time Merchandiser 5-8hrs/weekend
- Sanitation Associate I / SFP, Beverage / $15.50
- Shipping Receiving Inventory Control PT / 4pm - 8pm / $13
- Schwan's Home Delivery
- Assistant Manager of Route Sales
- Route Sales Representative
- Seasonal Material Handler
- Supervisor of Consumer Product Quality
- Lyon County
- County Seasonal Positions
- Engineering Intern
- Hope Harbor
- Marketing Communications Manager
- Boerboom Ag Resources
- Human Resources Manager
- Aspect Ag
- Head Bookkeeper
Any Chamber member may submit job postings! Ask about your login by emailing
chamber@marshallmn.org
or call the Chamber at 532-4484.
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Chamber E-Connection Guidelines and Policies
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Newsletter Goals and Audience
The purpose of the Chamber E-Connection newsletter is to share our members' events with other business and community members. It is an informational newsletter and helps to promote our member businesses and their events. Each Friday, our newsletter is sent to over 1,800 individuals. Our separate emails are sent to the same list, but are held especially for our Chamber events and Business After Hours.
Newsletter Policy
E-Connection events are included based on requests from the member business. The following criteria are requested by the Marshall Area Chamber for event submissions:
- Events flyers or submissions must be an actual event. We do not include sales or promotions.
- Events can be included in the E-Connection for one week free of charge,
- and you have the option of adding one additional week for $20.
- Submissions must be sent the Wednesday prior to that Friday's
- E-Connection to be included to chamber@marshallmn.org
- All event flyers are for Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce members only.
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