In The Know
The Weekly Newsletter of
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
Friday, October 8th, 2021
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This Week's Featured Video
Flu Season and Covid: How to Navigate a Potential ‘Twindemic’
From Wall Street Journal: Flu season is approaching and health experts expect it to be worse than last year. WSJ’s Felicia Schwartz explains why this could be an earlier and more severe season and what precautions people can take during the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch the video by clicking "play".
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It's Time For Coffee & Connections!
Come enjoy the Chamber's most popular networking event.
Join us next week on Wednesday, October 13th, at a brand new Coffee & Connections location. We will be gathering at the JeffCo Event Center to network and mingle with fellow Chamber member businesses and organizations.
Coffee & Connections is casual, fun, and the perfect way to share news about all that your business or organization has to offer. Bring business cards, marketing pieces, coupons, and/or giveaway items. We'll have you in and out in no time.
What: "Coffee & Connections"
When: Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 - 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. (Registration begins at 7:30 a.m.)
Where: JeffCo Event Center
256 John Scott Highway, Steubenville. (across from the EGCC Main Campus)
How Much?: $15 per person for advance reservations. $20 for walk-ins.
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113th Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner Set For October 20th
Impressive Duo Of Speakers to Address Guests
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Don't miss the Chamber's long-time tradition - the 113th Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner. This year's theme is "The Long Road Back: Business In A New World" with an impressiveve duo of presenters lined up from two of the hardest hit industries during COVID-19: food-service and travel.
Hear from Cameron Mitchell of the Columbus, Ohio-based Cameron Mitchell Restaurants and Paul Hoback Jr., Chief Development Officer for the Allegheny County Airport Authority, that operates both the Pittsburgh International Airport and the Allegheny County Airport. These dynamic and interesting business leaders will discuss how they navigated through the past 18 months and what the future looks like in a post-COVID world.
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Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: St. Florian Event Center, Wintersville
Cost: $65 per person
Tables of 8 available for $500.
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The Chamber would like to thank the 2021 Gold Sponsors of this important Chamber event that include: |
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Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors:
Voto Manufacturers Sales Co., First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union, Barium & Chemicals, Inc., Capital Healthcare Network - Carriage In of Steubenville, Exquisite Creations by Joel, Valley Wine Cellar, Inc., Main Street Bank, Encino Energy, and M & M True Value Hardware.
A limited number of sponsorships are still available for Chamber member businesses. Please call the Chamber offices for details at 740-282-6226 or click the button below.
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Ohio EPA To Host Series of
Informative, Online Webinars
The Ohio EPA is hosting a series of informative, online webinars beginning next week. Please click below for more information, printable fliers, or to register online. There is no charge for these programs and some CEUs are available.
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Nuisance Waste Sites, Illegal Dumping, & Scrap Tires In Your Community.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
2:00 p.m.
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Spill Prevention, Control, And Countermeasure - Oh My!
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
2:00 p.m.
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NPDES Permitting
New & Proposed Rules & Policies
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
10:00 a.m.
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Fair Housing For People With Disabilities
Informational Workshop
On Tuesday, October 26th, the Steubenville Fair Housing Practices Commission, Ohio Valley Fair Housing Center, and the Fair Housing Programs of Toronto & Jefferson County are partnering to host an important, informational workshop covering state and local laws pertaining to this topic. There is no charge for this event. Topics will include the history of fair housing law, the current Fair Housing Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and more.
The workshop will be held at the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce offices located at 630 Market Street in downtown Steubenville beginning at 10 a.m. (Parking and entrance in rear of building). For more information, please contact Chris Petrossi, Director of Urban Projects, Planning & Zoning for the City of Steubenville, at cpetrossi@cityofsteubenville.us.
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Stay up-to-date with the Chamber's Updated 2021 Event & Promotional Calendar!
Don't miss any of the events or programs coming up for the remainder of the year! Click below for a printable event and promotional calendar so that you may take advantage of all the Chamber is offering. It includes dates & times for Coffee & Connections, provides information on Eblast packages, In The Know blurbs, has the latest Chamber social media info, and important holiday shopping, buy-local, and promotional programs that are just around the corner!
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Get Your Winter Tires Now!
Don't Wait Until The Snow Flies
You know it's coming...those icy, snowy mornings when you have to head out to work, your kids' school events, or a family gathering. Make this the year that you prepare in advance for those challenging winter driving conditions.
Contact one of our local, member tire stores today and get on the schedule. It's the perfect way to buy locally while taking an important task off your "to do" list.
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German Dance Performance
at Sycamore
The Wheeling German Dance Group from Wheeling has a highly entertaining show put together that they will perform at the Sycamore Youth Center on Thursday, October 14th, at 7 p.m.! There will be free root beer, soft pretzels, and other snacks for those in attendance.
The group has 16 dancers who will be decked out in German costumes and they have spent nearly a year learning the dances. Of local interest, Zac Gordon and Jariel Henthorn of the Valley’s Got Talent, are a part of the group. Admission is free. All ages are welcome.
For more information, please contact Bobbyjon Bauman via email here or 740-409-2986. Sycamore Youth Center is located at 301 North 4th Street in Steubenville.
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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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Financial Literacy Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate agreed to the changes that the Ohio House made to Senate Bill 1; legislation that would require financial literacy to be taught for every student graduating from Ohio high schools. Making this a graduation requirement has been a priority for the Ohio Chamber for many years.
Last week, the Ohio House passed Senate Bill 1 by a vote of 91-1. SB 1 would require students to take a one-half unit course in financial literacy, which schools can choose where best to incorporate this. This bill would also require teachers to obtain a license validation for them to be able teach financial literacy. These two requirements will provide a strong uniformity to Ohio’s educational standards as it relates to the application of teaching financial literacy.
Read the article in its entirety
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The Biden Administrations’ Plan to Raise our Global Minimum Tax and Apply Another Makes No Sense
The Biden administration is so eager to raise taxes on businesses that it is trying raise our existing global minimum tax while simultaneously imposing another, redundant global minimum tax.
Both policies are misguided.
Raising taxes on U.S. multinational businesses will hurt American workers through fewer jobs and lower wages.
And it makes no sense to make our existing minimum tax worse before potentially levying another minimum tax.
That there are two minimum taxes under debate in two different places is confusing.
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:
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster:
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis.
Click here to borrow a copy of this book.
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Questions about Oil & Gas?
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Today in History
- October 8, 1956 -
New York Yankees' Don Larsen pitches only World Series perfect game
From History: On Oct. 8, 1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history. "I was so happy. I felt like crying," he tells reporters after New York's 2-0 win in Game 5 over the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Yankees go on to win the World Series in seven games.
By 1956, Larsen had pitched for three teams in four seasons, the low point being his 3-21 won-loss record with the lowly Baltimore Orioles in 1954. Although he settled down in New York—he was a combined 20-7 in 1955 and 1956—Larsen did not pitch well in Game 2 of the 1956 Series. In the second inning at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers knocked Larsen from the game in their 13-8 win.
Larsen didn't know he would start Game 5 three days later until he found a fresh baseball in one of his cleats in the locker room—that was Yankees manager Casey Stengel's way of telling a pitcher that it was his day to pitch.
Not all his teammates were confident.
"I went up to (third base coach) Frankie (Crosetti), and I said, 'Who's pitching today?'" Yankees' right fielder Hank Bauer recalled in the 2003 documentary, 100 Years of the World Series. "He said 'Larsen.' I said 'Oh, God. Larsen.'"
Over two hours, six minutes and 97 pitches, Larsen retired all 27 batters.
On a 1-2 pitch, he struck out Dale Mitchell to end the game and catcher Yogi Berra raced toward Larsen, jumping into his arms. The scene was captured in an iconic image.
Larsen's perfect game was the only postseason no-hitter until 2010, when Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies no-hit the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the National League Division Series.
Larsen pitched 14 seasons in the big leagues, finishing his career in 1967 with an 81-91 record. He died at age 90 on Jan. 1, 2020.
To read this entire article, please click here.
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There's autumn in the air, and
changes are afoot.
Did You Know?
During the gray squirrel’s fall caching season, when the critters bury nuts and seeds in hundreds of scattered caches to serve as emergency winter larders, a typical squirrel shows a 15 percent increase in the size of its hippocampus—the memory and emotion center of the brain—compared to the rest of the year.
- Autumn is good for the economy
“Leaf peeping,” the slang term for fall leaf tourism, is reportedly a $3 billion dollar business in New England, where millions of out-of-state visitors flock to take in the changing colors.
- Lower levels of vitamin D can mess with our weight
Researchers think that lower levels of vitamin D (due to shorter days and less contact with sunshine) is in part responsible for autumn and winter weight gain. A lack of vitamin D is thought to reduce fat breakdown and trigger fat storage, leading to an average weight gain of two to four pounds each year in autumn and winter.
- Daylight saving time in the fall is good for us
Our bodies love to “fall back.” On November 6th, daylight savings time ends, giving us an extra hour of sleep. According to a New England Journal of Medicine report, Americans’ rate of heart attacks has been known to fall on the Monday following the end of daylight savings time in November, while the rate of both heart attacks and car accidents tends to rise on the Monday following the start of DST in Spring.
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Fall in Ohio:
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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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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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