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Advancing the Prosperity of our Member Businesses and the Vitality of the Area.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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August Member Press Releases
- Bremer Bank annouces Mark Mohlke as the new Market President for Owatonna. - Riverland Community College has committed to Center of Agriculture and Food Science Technology (CAFST) and the Farm Business Management (FBM) program.
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Friday After Hours!
The drawing is at $400 in chamber dollars! Bring a door prize to promote your business! No registration is needed.
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Chamber Updates- Interested in having your business represented at the SCFF, but don’t have time to be there all week? Take a shift in the Chamber Booth! Wear your company logo shirt and represent the Chamber and We All Play! It’s a great opportunity to participate in one of the biggest events of the year.
Check out the time slots here. Call the office at 451-7970 with questions. - Steele County Highway Department announced that 26th Street and Cedar Avenue is open to traffic as of July 31st.
- Owatonna Public Utilities has been notified of a phone scam in town where businesses are receiving phone calls requiring them to pay by credit card over the phone immediatley or be disconnected. If you receive a call like this hang up right away and contact OPU directly at 451-2480 to check on your account.
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New OCLA Class Announced!
The 2019/2020 OCLA class gathered for the 20th Annual kick-off picnic at Broken Tee Bar & Grille at Brooktree last evening. Congratulations to class members: Jessica Abrahams, City of Owatonna; Sharon Bexell, KODA Living Community (Park Place); Travis Daniels, Pearson; Sheena Gasner, Fernbrook Family Center; Annie Grimmius, Federated Insurance, Anna Heisler, Einhaus, Mattison, Carver & Haberman, PA; Tess Heyer, Amesbury Truth; Kerri Lynch, Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest/Owatonna Business Women; Eric Miller, U.S. Bank; Bruce Moore, HomeTown Credit Union; Charissa Oeltjenbruns, Mayo Clinic Health System-Owatonna; Wende Oyloe, Apex Painting; Janita Paulson, RE/MAX Venture; Robin Spande, City of Owatonna; Aaron Thompson, Viracon; Kate Verlautz, Trinity Lutheran Church and Emily Volker, OACCT.
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Benefits of Being a Chamber Member!
- Credibility: Businesses that belong to a Chamber of Commerce are more successful. Your business is more desirable to customers when you are a Chamber member. Consumers are more likely to purchase goods or services from businesses that are Chamber members.
- Networking: Networking is a powerful tool! It’s not just who you know but who knows you! When you join a Chamber you can network with other Chamber member businesses. It’s a great way to get to know others in the community, develop partnerships and support other businesses.
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2019 Around the World Chamber Golf a Success!
A beautiful day for such a great event! The sponsorships and golfers had a full day of fun, networking and socializing along with a little bit of golf.
Thank you to all of our sponsors and golfers who made this day a success!
Special thank you to our Title Sponsor, Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric.
Congratulations to the 1st place winning team: Dale Buytaert, Jason Eyberg, Luke Schmidt and Jeff Hanson!
And Congratulations to Jaguar Communications on winning the 2nd Annual Hole Sponsor of the Year!
Deck & Lunch Sponsor: Riverland Community College
Golf Cart Sponsors: Driessen Water Inc./Culligan & Wells Fargo Home Mortgage-Kara Martin
Beverage Station Sponsor: Ecumen Brooks & Countryside
Putting Green Sponsor: Community Bank Owatonna
19th Hole Sponsor: Profinium, Inc.
Hole In One Sponsor: Thrivent Financial- Nick Lewis
Dinner Sponsor: Struss CPAs, P.C & Werner Electric Supply
Dessert Sponsor: West Bank Owatonna, Ludewig Financial Group, TPS Insurance Agency, and Black Forest LTD
Refreshment Sponsors: Cybex, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Advantage Real Estate, Cash Wise Foods, Spherion Staffing Services, Noble RV, Inc., Reagan Outdoor Advertising of Rochester, and National Mutual Benefit Life
Team Ruler Sponsor: Alexander Lumber
Hole 1 & 10 Sponsors: Hyvee Food Stores and KOWZ & KRUE Radio
Par 3 Hole Sponsors: U.S. Bank, State Farm Insurance-Plemel Agency, KODA Living Community, Bremer Bank, Jaguar Communications, and Minnesota Secured Title
Hole Sponsors: United Prairie Bank, SERVPRO of Mankato/Owatonna, Federated Insurance, Junior Achievement of Upper Midwest, HomeTown Credit Union, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), South Central Minnesota SHRM, Fareway Meat & Grocery, and Wenger Corporation.
Field Game Sponsors: Carroll Seating Company, Rich’s Window Cleaning (x2), MMP-Modern Medal Products( x2), and Fischer Sports & Specialty Apparel.
Many thanks to the 2019 Golf Committee: Laura Brady, Spherion Staffing; Jason Eyberg, West Bank; Nick Lewis, Thrivent Financial; Kara Martin, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage; Katie Nelson, digiGLOW. Marketing; Wayne Starman, Cash Wise Foods; Lori Barwick, Carroll Seating Company; Stephanie Olson, Mayo Health Clinic Health System-Owatonna; Josh Meillier, Alexander Lumber; and Crystal Kittridge, Minnesota Secured Title.
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Thank You!2019 saw three great summer evenings of music, food, shopping and art and FUN at Downtown Thursdays. Thank you to the community for stopping Downtown after work. A Huge THANK YOU to Jaguar Communications for being our Market Sponsor, believing in Downtown Thursday and wanting to give back to the community. They made 3 Downtown summer events possible by providing funds to pay the bands so the community could have free concerts in two locations each evening.
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Please support Jaguar and our Supporting Sponsors of Downtown Thursday. Tell them THANK YOU when you see them. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Did you see the MainStreet Krew of volunteers in those neon t-shirts? They are members of the MainStreet steering committee, who love Owatonna and volunteer their time to create vibrancy in our historic city center. Thanks to you and your businesses for sharing your time:
Wende Oyloe of Apex Painting, Kevin Oyloe of Apex Painting, Patty Jessop of Federated Insurance, Diana Schmidt of Design L Studios, Carla Brady of US Bank, Sylvan Durban of the Owatonna Art Center, Nancy Vallencourt with the Blooming Prairie Public Library, Matt Gillard of RE/MAX Venture.
What’s coming Downtown in 2020? Mark your calendars for the first Thursday of the summer months as Downtown Thursdays will be back!
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Regional Approach to Tourism!On August 30, the Minne Road-Trip Coop (Owatonna, Faribault & Northfield) spoke on a panelist at the Southern MN League of Municipalities meeting in Red Wing, MN with eight other cities. The discussion was about the need for a regional approach to tourism in SE MN. The audience consisted of city mayors, councilmembers, clerks, administrators, managers, Public Works Directors, city economic development staff and regional economic development groups.
Eight presenters including Minne Road Trip, Rochester, Winona, Austin and a few other southern tourism counties in the SE MN shared ideas that will help our region move forward with tourism.
Collectively we discussed how we envision a more regional approach to tourism for SE MN. The basic discussion points were:
What do we see as the goals for a regional tourism effort? & What ways do we think we could work toward that as a region?
Great ideas were shared on how to grow tourism in southern Minnesota.
The U of MN Extension is gathering input on this, and has put together a group to collect ideas, look for good examples to model, and try to move this forward for SE MN and even broader area.
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Feature a special offer, an upcoming event or company information--but it must be 50 words. The cost to participate is $50.
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Foremost Brewing Cooperative Investment & Tour Opportunity!
Foremost Brewing Cooperative will be Minnesota’s FIRST cooperatively owned Brewpub. We are almost ready to begin construction, but we still need YOU! Our investment portal is open only until August 15. Visit www.foremost.coop to learn more, or tour our building this Thursday, August 8th from 5:30-7:00 at 131 West Broadway St, Owatonna.
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Anniversary Celebration and Grand Opening of South Branch
Hometown Credit Union would like to invite any OACCT members that wish to attend our ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony on Wednesday August 7th. The Ribbon-Cutting for the new South Branch starts are 10:00 am with a the 45th Anniversary celbration running from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm.
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