In The Know
The Weekly Newsletter of
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
Friday, November 5th, 2021
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This Week's Featured Video
The Unconventional Franchise Model Behind Chick-fil-A’s Success
From the Wall Street Journal: Chick-fil-A has built its rapid growth on the popularity of its chicken sandwich. But its unconventional approach to business has helped make it the third biggest fast-food chain in the U.S. WSJ gets an inside look at the strategies driving the Atlanta-based company’s success. Watch the video by clicking "Play".
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Remember Veterans Day Next Week - Thursday, November 11th
Here's how you can honor and celebrate this important holiday.
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The origin of Veteran’s Day dates back to November 11, 1918 when the Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement ending World War I. On the first anniversary, the United States celebrated Armistice Day. It became a national holiday in 1938 and, in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name to Veterans Day.
According to the U.S. Small Business Association, approximately 9 percent of all business owners are veterans with nearly one in 10 small businesses nationwide being veteran-owned. Collectively, these 2.4 million small businesses employ almost 6 million Americans and generate more than $1 trillion in receipts.
In an article in Entrepreneur Magazine, Carol Tice highlights six ways that businesses and families can celebrate, to honor the men and women that bravely served.
Patronize veteran-owned businesses. Forbes Magazine has a great listing of the top 25 below.
If you have employees, give them the day off, if possible, or at least time off to attend a ceremony or program honoring veterans.
Offer veterans a discount. Promote it early and often on your social media platforms and with signage at your business.
Help a veteran start or grow a business. There are great organizations such as The Veterans Corporation that exist just to help vets become entrepreneurs. And many franchisors also offer special programs to assist veterans in becoming franchisees. The U.S. Small Business Association has programs specifically designed to assist aspiring veteran entrepreneurs. See below for information.
Tell a veteran you appreciate their service.
Talk to your kids about the holiday. It’s important that the next generation understands all that’s
been sacrificed for their benefit.
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Announcing The Jefferson County Chamber Virtual Membership Directory
& Community Guide!
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Please take a moment to check out the Chamber's beautiful, new online publication. Click the button below to view and remember that all ads link directly to the business or organization's website.
A great big thank you goes out to all of the advertisers who participated and made this new publication possible. It's a great marketing and PR tool that will be featured on the Chamber website and used in multiple ways to promote local businesses and the entire Jefferson County and Ohio Valley area in the coming year. In addition, the hard copy version will soon be available at the Chamber offices and will be an important part of relocation and visitors packets.
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A Look Back At The 113th Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner
On Wednesday, October 20th, over 200 members and their families and employees gathered to celebrate the successes of the past year. It was a great evening of catching up, hearing from interesting and inspiring speakers. Click below to view our Gold Sponsor opening video, a photo slide show or the complete presentations from our speakers.
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It's Time For Coffee & Connections!
Come enjoy the Chamber's most popular networking event.
Join fellow members on November 10, 2021, for a morning of networking and promoting at a new Coffee & Connections host location, Schuetz Funeral Home Event Center in Mingo Junction.
Coffee & Connections is casual, fun, and the perfect way to share news about all that your business or organization has to offer. After a delicious hot breakfast, each attendee gets the opportunity to give a brief commercial about their business or organization and distribute business cards, brochures, coupons or other promotions.
What: November "Coffee & Connections"
When: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. (Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.)
Where: Schuetz Funeral Home Event Center, 235 Clifton Avenue, Mingo Junction
How Much?: $15 Per Person. $20 for walk-ins.
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Night of Restoration and Hope
You can be a part of changing a life!
Don't miss Refuge for Women's "Night of Restoration & Hope" event. This will be an inspiring evening that you won't want to miss! Join us from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at First Presbyterian Church, 6th Ave in Pittsburgh, to hear the powerful testimony of Dr. Ron Archer. Listen to his amazing journey, how he discovered Jesus Christ, and went from "trick baby" to celebrated speaker, Pittsburgh Steelers Chaplain, and best-selling author.
Unable to attend? You can still give hope by becoming a sponsor. Your sponsorship will help sex trafficking survivors by providing safe housing, crisis intervention, and support services. Refuge for Women Emergency House is the first residential emergency home for trafficking survivors in the tri-state area. All proceeds from the event go to opening the new home. The cost is $50 per ticket.
Contact Theresa Golden
or call 740-792-4374.
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United Way of Jefferson County Cookie Tray Sale
'Tis the Season for Cookies!
Please call 740-284-9000 to reserve your tray today while supplies last!
Cookie tray pickup is Thursday, November 18th, from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. at the United Way of Jefferson County offices, located at 511 North Fourth Street in downtown Steubenville.
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Take Control of Your Health
Trinity Health System now offers a Comprehensive Blood Draw Analysis Program. This program gives you the opportunity to have a group of blood tests performed for $40.
Programs of this type are responsible for detecting early signs of health problems and monitoring treatment of known problems. Additional tests are also available for an additional charge. Community blood draws are offered at the following locations during the month:
Twin City Medical Center
1st Wednesday of the month
819 N. First Street, Dennison, OH
7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Prime Time
2nd Wednesday of the month
300 Lovers Lane, Steubenville, OH
6 a.m. – 12 p.m.
ExpressClinic
3rd Wednesday of the month
82424 Cadiz-Jewett Road, Cadiz, OH
7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Medical Plaza
4th Wednesday of the month
106 Plaza Drive | St. Clairsville, OH
7 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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Member Morsels are free and an easy, fast way to reach hundreds each week. It reaches the entire Chamber database each Friday - that's over 850 local business owners, managers, and employees.
Remember to visit individual member websites by clicking on the business name or logo. Submit your Member Morsel by clicking the button below.
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AROUND THE STATE. AROUND THE COUNTRY. |
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Business Fairness Act Receives Further Consideration
Earlier this week, House Bill 215 received its second hearing in the Ohio Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee.
This bill – referred to as the Business Fairness Act – would put forth a framework for businesses to remain open moving forward in any future pandemics.
The Ohio Chamber lent their support to the measure as they did previously in the 133rd General Assembly when this bill was introduced by Representatives Shane Wilkin and Jon Cross as House Bill 621.
The bill, in its current form, is very simple. HB 215 will allow any business – to remain open or reopen – that can demonstrate compliance with any safety precautions a government order or regulation requires of businesses permitted to continue operations.
Read the article in its entirety
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How Small Business Owners Feel Right Now About Finding Workers, Vaccine Requirements
Our nation’s economy relies on the over 32 million small businesses that create jobs and provide essential services to communities across the country. This year, small business owners have faced challenges not only navigating the pandemic, but also finding the workers they need, making sure the workers they do have stay safe and healthy, and protecting the health of customers too.
The U.S. Chamber and MetLife developed the State of the Workforce report to poll small business owners on how they are feeling right now about these challenges. The latest poll, taken September 30 – October 7, 2021, revealed that small business owners are finding it more challenging than earlier in 2021 to find workers to fill open positions, and a majority support vaccination requirements for their staff.
Read the article in its entirety
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Great Books About Business With Just A Click
Your link to success begins at the library. With each week of "In The Know,"
you to a business book or magazine that will inspire, teach, inform, or elevate you, professionally and personally. This week:
by Angel N. Livas
Throughout Side Hustle to Main Hustle, author and award-winning host of The Woman Behind the Business Talk Show, Angel N. Livas shows women how a "B.E.A.S.T. Mentality" can aid them on their journey to full-time entrepreneurship. Within Side Hustle to Main Hustle, women learn how to: Transition their side hustle into a full-time business; build a sustainable business that's structurally sound; develop strategies to address their business objectives; identify and attract their target audience to increase clientele; and establish a brand that's trustworthy and authentic.
Click here to borrow a copy of this book.
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Questions about Oil & Gas?
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Today in History
- November 5th, 1605 -
King James learns of Gunpowder Plot
From History: Early in the morning, King James I of England learns that a plot to explode the Parliament building has been foiled, hours before he was scheduled to sit with the rest of the British government in a general parliamentary session.
At about midnight on the night of November 4-5, Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Guy Fawkes lurking in a cellar under the Parliament building and ordered the premises searched. Some 20 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was taken into custody. During a torture session on the rack, Fawkes revealed that he was a participant in an English Catholic conspiracy to annihilate England’s Protestant government and replace it with Catholic leadership.
What became known as the Gunpowder Plot was organized by Robert Catesby, an English Catholic whose father had been persecuted by Queen Elizabeth I for refusing to conform to the Church of England. Guy Fawkes had converted to Catholicism, and his religious zeal led him to fight in the Spanish army in the Netherlands. Catesby and the handful of other plotters rented a cellar that extended under Parliament, and Fawkes planted the gunpowder there, hiding the barrels under coal and wood.
As the November 5 meeting of Parliament approached, Catesby enlisted more English Catholics into the conspiracy, and one of these, Francis Tresham, warned his Catholic brother-in-law Lord Monteagle not to attend Parliament that day. Monteagle alerted the government, and hours before the attack was to have taken place Fawkes and the explosives were found. By torturing Fawkes, King James’ government learned of the identities of his co-conspirators. During the next few weeks, English authorities killed or captured all the plotters and put the survivors on trial, along with a few innocent English Catholics.
Guy Fawkes himself was sentenced, along with the other surviving chief conspirators, to be hanged, drawn, and quartered in London. Moments before the start of his gruesome execution, on January 31, 1606, he jumped from a ladder while climbing to the hanging platform, breaking his neck and dying instantly.
To read this entire article, please click here.
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Sunday is Daylight Saving Time.
Did You Know?
- Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to “save” daylight. It was whimsical in tone, advocating laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight.
- The first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time was an Englishman named William Willet. A London builder, he conceived the idea while riding his horse early one morning in 1907. He noticed that the shutters of houses were tightly closed even though the Sun had risen.
- Willet spent a small fortune lobbying businessmen, members of Parliament, and the U.S. Congress to put clocks ahead 20 minutes on each of the four Sundays in April, and reverse the process on consecutive Sundays in September.
- Willet's proposal was met mostly with ridicule. One community opposed it on moral grounds, calling the practice the sin of “lying” about true time.
- Attitudes changed after World War I broke out. The government and citizenry recognized the need to conserve coal used for heating homes.
- The Germans were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915, as a fuel-saving measure during World War I. This led to the introduction in 1916 of British Summer Time: From May 21 to October 1, clocks in Britain were put an hour ahead.
- The United States followed in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established the time zones.
- However, this was amidst great public opposition.
- A U.S. government Congressional Committee was formed to investigate the benefits of Daylight Saving Time.
- Many Americans viewed the practice as an absurd attempt to make late sleepers get up early.
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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 related to Chamber membership.
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Hannah Ward
Administrative & Membership Coordinator
Contact Hannah with changes to your membership information, questions regarding events or programs, or assistance with scheduling an Eblast or Member Morsel.
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Craig Cribbs, Reso, Inc.
Billing Support
740-275-4940
Contact Craig with invoice or billing questions and to make a dues, event or sponsorship payment.
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The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
630 Market Street
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone: 740.282.6226
Fax: 740.282.6285
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