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Chamber Calendar
Chamber Calendar Monday, March
15 Thursday, March 18 Friday, March 19 MARK YOUR CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 22
WHAT
IS YOUR CHAMBER · Leadership
Shoals traveled to Montgomery to meet with Local Delegates, Dr.
David Bronner, · Legislative
Affairs Committee preparing for Senator Shelby,
Congressman Griffith, and holding Weekly Breakfasts for
Shoals Legislative delegation.
· ANNUAL MEETING!! DID YOU KNOW???? The
Chamber has a Job Board that is Shoals Chamber has signed up for Twitter! Auto Owners Insurance is discounted if you are a Chamber member. UPCOMING
CHAMBER EVENTS...
Monday, March 22, Senator
Richard Shelby—7:30 a.m. Breakfast, Marriott Shoals Conference
Center, Tuesday, April 6, 2010, Congressman
Parker Griffith will
be in the Shoals, and the Chamber will host a Chamber Breakfast.
Watch your e-mail for a stand alone invitation or go HERE
for Flyer. Wednesday, April 7, Family Security Credit Union, 530 W. Avalon Avenue, MSC will have their GRAND OPENING from 10:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. We will have a ribbon cutting at 11:00 a.m.
Upcoming
Member Events.......... Saturday March 13, Shoals Christian School is having an ULTIMATE TAILGATING Fundraiser, Featuring Jeremiah Castile, University of Alabama , Tampa Bay Bucs, and Denver Broncos / & Joe Cribbs, Auburn University, Buffalo Bills, and San Francisco 49ers. Click HERE for Details and Sponsorships. April 22nd and 23rd—The Lauderdale County Children’s Policy Council is hosting a circus for our spring fundraiser. The circus is the famous Carson and Barnes Circus—with real elephants, clowns, motorcycle tricks, and trapeze artists. This will be our second time to host the circus. It is a great family event. Tickets can be purchased by any member of the Lauderdale County Children’s Policy Council or by calling 256-246-1473 or 256-760-5849 MEMBER NEWS You Can Use....& Congratulations Billy
Reid
has been named the winner of GQ and CFDA’s Best New American
Menswear Designer Award for 2010. With this win comes the
opportunity to craft a limited edition Levi’s collection for
Bloomingdale’s. Congratulations Billy!!! Mary Kay / Joan Ragas invites
you to recognize the people who make you look good!
Mary Kay offers a special for Administrative Professionals
Day, April 21.
Joan has generously agreed to donate 5% of your retail
purchase to the Shoals Area Chamber Foundation. See Flyer HERE.
Shoals
Career Days – Focus on Your Future! EMPLOYERS / HR FOLKS - MARK YOUR
CALENDAR and plan to participate!! YOUR
FUTURE WORKFORCE NEEDS TO TALK
TO YOU!! They need to know what you expect of
them as employees and what education and training is needed to
work for you & your organization. Friday,
March 19 –
Shoals Area High School (11th graders) Career Fair
& Job Skills Seminars – at ·
These students will be YOUR
EMPLOYEES in a year or two… or a few! ·
Please participate in this event and help them
better understand what will be expected of them and what continued
education and training they need for their future careers and to
make them more employable. ·
There is no cost to have a booth - just come talk to
the kids!! The High
School Career Fair & Job Skills Seminars is for all
Shoals area 11th graders (~1,100 invited).
Exhibitor
REGISTRATION NOW
OPEN: [Or paste this link into your web browser:
http://www.shoalschambersurvey.com/survey/q.asp?sid=21&k=yumujgtnhc]
THANK YOU to our
sponsors and partners: Presenting – Northwest-Shoals
Community College; Transportation – State Rep.s Tammy Irons
& Mike Curtis; Silver – Listerhill Credit Union; Food –
Bigbee Steel Buildings The High
School Career Fair & Job Skills Seminar is for all
Shoals area 11th graders (~1,100 invited). This
event includes all types of Employer booths to discuss career
options & educational pathways with students. The
students also attend a Job Skills Seminar, led by business
volunteers, to discuss job search, resume writing, interview
skills, appropriate / professional dress, work ethic, etc. The Middle
School Career Fair & Reality Check is for all Shoals
area 8th graders (~1,800 invited). This event
also includes all types of Employer booths to discuss career
options & educational pathways with students, as
well as the extremely eye-opening Reality Check program,
which is a personal budgeting exercise. Reality Check is a
simulated society in which the students must spend their income
for a month on the products and services we all need in life.
R.C. shows the connection between their efforts in school, the
type of job they could get according to those efforts, the est.
income from that job, family situation (married / single, kids /
no kids / several kids), and what quality of life / lifestyle they
can expect from that income & family situation. They
must go to each booth [i.e. housing, transportation, utilities,
groceries / supplies, childcare, insurance, bank, entertainment,
“deck of chance” (a.k.a. life happens & may costs more
money), second job (which they have to get more childcare for),
back to school (which they must pay for), etc.]. At each
booth they are given choices on which they may spend their money,
such as, at that Transportation booth – a used compact car, an
SUV, a sports car, a Hummer. Middle School Career Fair is also scheduled
… Friday, April 30 – Shoals Middle School (8th
graders) Career Fair & Reality Check Program – at
FYI … A separate exhibitor registration
will be sent later for the Middle School Career Fair. CHOICES® CHOICES® is available to all Colbert &
Lauderdale public schools’ and Chamber-member private schools’
8th graders and is presented from Jan. – March
annually by trained business & community volunteers.
(Training takes place each fall.) CHOICES® focuses on using SELF-DISCIPLINE to
make good decisions in education, character, time & money
management … life, so the students will see that they will have
MORE choices in their future, because they have not limited
themselves by making bad decisions. Find out more about
CHOICES® at www.choices.org.
THANK YOU to our CHOICES® sponsors and partners: Presenting – NW-SCC; Gold – Wachovia Foundation & Sara Lee Foods; Silver – Marriott-Shoals Hotel & Spa; Patron – Sylvan Learning Center & Buffaloe Billing & Medical Solutions; and Partner - Shoals Chapter SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management).
FREE –
Monthly – U. S. Chamber - Workforce Conference Call MARK YOUR CALENDAR… Second Wednesday of Each Month, 12 noon – 1
p.m.
U. S. Chamber / ICW Free Monthly
Conference Call
Dial-in # (866) 238-1665
Dec.
‘09 Unemployment Data ·
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CLICK
HERE to view the Please continue to keep the Teacher Supply
Depot in mind, as you upgrade and clean out
throughout the year, for any TAX-DEDUCTIBLE
donations of used or new office & school supplies, equipment,
desk accessories, office furniture or storage, or cash to purchase
new schools supplies. We collect donations YEAR-ROUND
and open twice a year, in late August and early January. With proration at 17+%, classroom supply
funds were cut out of most school systems’ budgets. Our
educators can really use your help! THANK YOU to our sponsors &
partners: Presenting - Wachovia Foundation, Gold –
Wachovia Foundation, Sheffield City Schools & Printers &
Stationers (PSI); Silver - ICS, Wachovia Foundation, Wal-Mart –
Muscle Shoals, Lauderdale County Schools; Partner – Listerhill
Credit Union.
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