Your June 2020 Chamber News

TO OUR CHAMBER MEMBERS – We have made it another month with our new normal. Businesses are starting to open up in phases. We are amazed at the community sticking together to continue to support and shop local. As your business starts to open to full capacity, please email the Chamber with your updates. We will gladly blast out your information.

As always, we are here to support and promote you.

Thank you for all that you do for our community.

Your Executive Director,
Mandi Tanner
Chamber News
Virtual First Friday Breakfast...
Our quarterly First Friday Breakfast will be virtual. Please join us on Zoom with guest speaker, Katie Comer. She is Facebook's Regional Community Development Manager that is specifically working with Jasper County. She will provide updates for us.

Following Katie's update, we will hear from business updates. Grab your coffee and join us virtually this Friday, June 5th at 9am.

Hometown Hero Update
Thank you to everyone that helped make our Hometown Hero Campaign possible. We used local restaurants to cook the lunches then delivered to over 18 groups of heroes. The Board of Directors enjoyed delivering lunches and seeing the smiles on our heroes face!

Due to the current social distancing guidelines and COVID-19 the 2020 Chamber Golf Tournament has been postponed until Wednesday, October 7th. Please mark your calendars.
Market on the Square
The 2020 Market on the Square kicked off May 23rd. This will run every Saturday through September.

The last two weeks have been a great turnout. Social Distancing Guidelines are posted and encouraged. Everyone has enjoyed the great weather and seeing familiar faces.

A food truck vendor is set up every Saturday. Horse and carriage rides will be offered the last Saturday of the month. Be sure to follow our Monticello Market on the Square FB Page for weekly updates.

This year the market opens at 8am and closes at 2pm. Vendors do have the option to leave at 12pm. Get up to the square early to shop.
Member Events in June
The Monticello First United Methodist Church will host a much needed Blood Drive on June 8th from 3pm-7pm in the Fellowship Hall. You can register here Blood Drive
Jasper County Schools New Teacher Orientation (NTO) for the 2020-2021 school year is scheduled for July 27, 2020. We will be hosting 30 new teachers at this event and hope you will be a part of it!

This year poses some new challenges; however, we want to make sure that each new teacher to this district and/or community knows about all that Jasper County has to offer. We would love to offer an opportunity for each of you to promote your business. We are in need of items or coupons for the goodie bags and anything else that you would like to send to promote your business. We also are in need of funds that will allow us to provide breakfast and lunch or purchase classroom supplies. Any donation that your company can provide would be most appreciated. Each donor will receive a listing on our  Digital Backpack  community resource web page.

Please send your donation or items on or before July 13 so that we may follow state guidelines for COVID-19. You may bring your items to the Board of Education office or schedule a pick up at your location. We will be glad to come to you! Please contact us at the numbers below for any additional information. We look forward to hearing from each of you! 

Cara and Carmen

Cara Bockholt
Instructional Technology Specialist
706-468-6350 x122

Carmen O. Garland, M.Ed., NBPTS
Instructional Support Services
MTSS, Gifted, STEAM
706-468-6350 x118

Jasper County Food Bank
The Jasper County Food Bank will be open on Thursday's from 9am-1pm.

There will be a Special Distribution every 3 rd Thursday until year end… This will be like one that brought out 450 cars the last two months.

The next Special Distribution is June 18, 2020 from 1pm-4:30pm.

The Food Bank is accepting donations. Monetary donations can be mailed to
PO Box 254 or dropped by Ameris Bank in Monticello.


Please continue to support all of our local businesses to the best of your ability. They need us now more than ever.
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