News from the Executive Director
The seasons are certainly passing very quickly and with all of us putting in so much effort dealing with COVID things can, and will pass us by.
So, now more than any other time of the year, we should ensure that we make room in our minds and our lives to slow down and enjoy the season and important holidays quickly approaching.
Refocus yourself, remember what is really important to you in your life and take hold with both hands and don’t let go. Soon enough all things are taken from us, so live your life, choose not to simply just exist.
November has brought a lot of new life into the Chamber as we have a full calendar once again. As is our custom, we zoomed and enjoyed our usual monthly Breakfast Club networking on the first Thursday of the month. It was an entertaining period of coffee and conversation – thank you to all who participated.
We hosted our first “Virtual Business Networking” event November 10th and it was filled with information about our local businesses. We are grateful for the support and sponsorship of our member, Bosscan, and their proprietors Ted and Patrick Dooling.
Next we are sharing a Multi-Chamber virtual session sponsored by MelroseWakefield Hospital on Thursday November 12 between 6:00 – 7:00 pm. Be sure to sign up and listen in to Dr. Steven P. Sbardella, Senior VP of Clinical Operations and Chief Medical Officer of Melrose Wakefield Hospital share with us how the hospital is addressing the current COVID environment in our local communities, Behavioral Health concerns, the need to continue getting our flu shots and much more. Be sure to register today!
We continue next on Monday November 16th at 9am with our very popular and successful “Marketing with Canva” training session. Rosanne Russell, owner of Move2Joy Yoga Studio leads this very fun and interesting session which is free for members – so be sure not to miss this and put it on your calendar now.
Thursday, November 18 we have a very exciting virtual Multi-Chamber networking event. This event is combined with area Chambers. The last event was over 50 participants who had the opportunity to be placed into three different groups of 6-8 people to make more personal connections. These Multi Chamber events are always interesting and informative so please be sure to jump on and sign up soon.
We are also working with our partners at SCORE to offer a virtual zoom session on how to educate yourself to help your business via “Crowd Funding”. This session will introduce what Crowd Funding could be and is it right for you? So be sure to keep an eye open for that announcement and come and learn what the Crowd Funding model is and how it works!
The Chamber continues with our sponsored town wide series of weekends of the “Saturday on the Sidewalk Sales” which kicked off our third scheduled Saturday of the series on Saturday October 24th. The Chamber incentive of rewarding every fifty dollars ($50) of purchases at a local Wakefield business with a $10 gift certificate to a participating Wakefield food establishment has been a welcome contributor to the success of these community Sidewalk sales. We are happy to announce the extension of the “Saturday on the Sidewalk” sale with the addition of Saturday November 28 (Small Business Saturday) and Saturday December 19. So start that Christmas shopping by supporting local small businesses and treat yourself with $10 gift certificates. End your shopping day by enjoying a meal at any one of 30 local participating restaurants.
We are grateful to all of you, our members for your on-going support and look forward to pursuing our mission of serving all of you with our programming and informational sessions.
On behalf of the Chamber Board of Directors, Marie and myself, have a happy, safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving.
John
