Happy Wednesday Everyone,

On behalf of the Batesville Area Chamber Board and office Team, we would like to wish all of you a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving!

Remember to support your local businesses on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday this weekend!

You still have time to pick up a Chamber Holiday Passport and show your support for our local businesses. Just pick up a passport at the Chamber office at 301 Shopping Village or at the participating businesses now through December 15th. Then for every $10 you spend you will receive a stamp. After you fill up a card with 10 stamps, just drop it off at the Chamber office. We will draw a winner for $300, $150, and $50 in Chamber Checks on Friday, December 17th.

The Community Tree Lighting and Chamber Parade will be held on Friday, Dec. 3rd. Festivities will begin at 4 pm. Community Tree Lighting will immediately follow the parade with a special guest appearance from Santa.

This year we are helping Families Helping Families. For over 25 years, Families Helping Families has brought together a community of local churches and organizations at Christmas time, united in one simple mission, to help our friends and neighbors. We have set up a Christmas Tree of Giving. Please stop by and pick up a tag, that has local business gift card names listed. You can always buy Chamber Checks to give also.

Please visit the Chamber Community Calendar for the most updated events at https://batesvillein.com/events/. Remember to post your events so we have all the most updated information to share with our community.

If you would like to know more about how the Batesville Area Chamber can help your business, please give us a call or stop by the Chamber office.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving day!

Melissa Tucker

Executive Director

Check out our Chamber Facebook group "Together We Thrive" daily as we highlight all of our great member businesses throughout the year. Remember our members can also post your upcoming events and specials too!

Be sure to check out all of our great members by going to our DIRECTORY. For more information on all the benefits the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce has to offer, please give us a call at 812-934-3101 or email us at chamber@batesvillein.com.

We have already had over $16,000 in Passports turned in since Nov. 12th.

The Batesville Area Chamber gift certificates are good at over 175 businesses. These are great gifts for the holidays, just to say thank you, or any reason at all! They come in $5, $10 & $25 increments so call ahead and we can have them ready for you at 812-934-3101. It is part of our membership benefit, so ONLY Chamber member businesses can accept them. All you do is deposit them right into your checking account. Plus you are supporting local too!

Remember that you can post all of your events on our website by clicking on this link: Post Your Events Here.

PLEASE stop by the Chamber office and pick a tag off our Giving Tree to support Families Helping Families. We have many gift certificates tags to help our friends and neighbors in need.

We are excited about the development of our new smartphone app! Be one of the first to download the new app and receive $5 off your very next order. Use code: NEWAPP

Community Scholarship Finalists:

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Vaccine Eligibility in Indiana Link

You can schedule your vaccine by calling 211 or visiting ourshot.in.gov! We have appointments available as early as today! RCHD does currently have Pfizer, Moderna, & J&J vaccines available.

For more information, please visit: www.ripleyhealth.com or www.franklincounty.in.gov/countyoffices/health-department.

Inpatient Care: We currently have 24 patients on our Med Surg floor, with 2 of those patients in our Special Care Unit. 6 of our patients are Covid+ (positive).  Our overall percentage of admitted patients since August 1, 2021 who were unvaccinated increased slightly to 86% (see chart for more details).

Testing:  Our COVID-19 testing volumes remained consistent from the previous week, however our positivity rate decreased slightly to 22.5% with 47 patients testing positive. See chart.

Vaccination: Children ages 5 and older are now able to get an age-appropriate dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine appointments can be scheduled Monday - Friday at the MMH Occupational Health and Wellness Center in Batesville at 812.932.5105.  Vaccine appointments can also be made Monday – Friday at the Margaret Mary Health Center in Brookville at 765.647.5126. Walk-ins are also welcome in Brookville.

COVID-19 is on the rise, both nationally and in our community. Listen to Interim CEO Liz Leising as she shares what’s happening inside the walls of MMH, as well as how effective the vaccine has been in fighting the new virus strain locally.

THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS!

Batesville Tool & Die, Hillenbrand & Batesville, Hillrom

Margaret Mary Health and Mercy Health

City of Batesville and Media Muse Studios

Batesville Online, Daily News, Duke Energy, FCN Bank, First Financial Bank,

Great Plains Communications, Health Markets Insurance Agency, Izzy's at Hillcrest,

LaRosa's Family Pizzeria, Pro-Prints Sign Imaging, Pulskamps Flooring Plus,

Rowland Graphics, Sharp Painting LLC, Skyline Chili,

St. Andrews Health Campus, Tudor Square Realty, WRBI Country 103.9