Greetings Chamber Members and Friends!
I hope you and your family are staying safe and healthy. As we continue to adapt to the new "temporary normal" you'll see some familiar inserts in this month's newsletter as well as a few new items.
Although the Lake Area Chamber Office Building & Willmore Lodge Visitors Center is closed during this time, I can assure you the Chamber Team is still working hard behind the scenes (at home) to assist our members. Just like many of our business and community members, we've had to alter the way we operate. Over the last few weeks our team has put our events and many of our normal operations to the side (they've been postponed until later in the year, more on that further in the newsletter) and have been working hard to develop and implement several new items to assist our members and their immediate needs. I'd like to take a moment to share them with you:
You can find our Lake Area Chamber COVID-19 Business Resource Kit on the homepage of our webisite LakeAreaChamber.com We've provided links to many resources we have found helpful to our members based on their identified needs from participation of our member survey and Member Connect Zoom meetings.
To continue supporting our Food & Beverage Service Members we launched a #TakeOutTuesday campaign highlighting our members and their current services and adjusted operating hours. We've since changed it to #TakeOutAnyDay. You can view and download the most up-to-date campaign on our homepage at LakeAreaChamber.com.
Member Connect Series
The first part of this week our team launched the
NEW
Member Connect series hosting a total of 9 individual meetings with our membership. These virtual zoom meetings helped us identify current industry and business challenges in response to COVID-19 so we could continue to provide support to our members. Aside from identifying and discussing challenges, there were many great new connections made between our members. We’ll be continuing this series on a weekly basis so we hope you’ll plan to join us on
Wednesdays at 9 am
. Now is a great time to collaborate as a community and support each other in navigating our current time and our future.
In closing, please remember, we are here to help and support you in every way possible so don’t hesitate to reach out should we be of assistance.
We are in this together.
Stay Safe & Stay Strong!
Sincerely,
K.C. Cloke
Executive Director - Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
