The numbers are starting to come in from the BIG Hat Days weekend and they are jaw dropping. After record setting food sales in 2014, this year is starting out even bigger. After having two beer gardens in 2014, this year’s is even bigger with just one. After having a huge number of applications in […]

By Mark Blackney President/CEO Like the experiences of most business people, work at the Chamber is a seemingly never ending dance of having specific tasks to complete while taking care of our treasured customers and putting out fires.  Sometimes at the end of the day, you wonder if it’s all worth it. What impact did […]

At the second annual Young Entrepreneurs Academy, YEA!, Investor Panel, 13 talented, hard working high school students faced  five  CEO’s in search of investment funds and winning a trip to Arizona.  The air in the City Council Chambers was thick with anticipation as the owners of the first business, CEAL Clothing, stepped up to the […]