MIDDLEBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
We will hold our monthly Retail and Tourism meeting tomorrow morning at 7:30am (Thursday August 19) at the Essenhaus!
Will you be there? If you plan on attending please quickly respond back to this email.
Come listen to some Fun information about 3rd Fridays in August, the Theme will be Bike Night and BBQ, Next Month’s Fall Festival, October’s pumkin-fest, November’s Hometown Holiday shopping night and what we happening in the months come! Share what’s new with your business, There are ots of fun events coming up and we always have room for new ideas & voices around our table! You can find last month’s minutes attached to this email for your review.
The Official 3rd Fridays meeting will be Next Thursday evening, call the chamber office if you need more information 825-4300.
THE CIRCUS IS COMING!!!! The Middlebury Men’s Club welcomes back the Kelly Miller Circus, August 28th with performances at 2pm and 5:30pm Tickets are available around town and at the door! Be sure to stop by one of the participating area businesses for presale tickets which are discounted over day of show. The show will be held at Coachmen Industries, 423 N. Main. Street.
The Elkhart Chamber OSHA Council has scheduled the following Safety Workshops for area businesses. Any business holding a membership in one of our local Chambers of Commerce (NOT the State Chamber), qualifies for the significant Chamber discount:
Safety Conscious Supervision – September 23rd
OSHA 10 Hour Voluntary Compliance – October 12 & 13th
OSHA 10 Hour Voluntary Compliance – February 8 & 9th, 2011
OSHA 20 Hour Voluntary Compliance – March 8, 9 & 10th, 2011
Contact Jim Walsh, Chamber Liaison to OSHA and Technology Councils
Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce
418 S. Main St., Elkhart, IN 46516
Phone: (574) 293-1531 ext. 121, Fax: (574) 294-1859
www.elkhart.org
SBDC Presents: Increasing Sales & Profits as a Destination Business
August 24, 2010, Das Dutchman Essenhaus
Registration, 8:00am-8:30am
Seminar 8:30am-11:45am
Lunch, Roundtable, 1:00pm-2:30pm
$59 This reduced price is made possible through Bank of America’s support of local entrepreneurs!
Reservations Required! Call to reserve your space TODAY!
Would your sales and profits grow if you could bring more customers “in the door?” Your answer is probably yes! Whether you are a retailer, service provider, manufacturer, or e-commerce business, you can learn how to “think outside the geographic box” when it comes to reaching out to customers by attending “Increasing Sales & Profits as a Destination Business,” presented by internationally known expert Jon Schallert.
To register call 574.282.4350 ext. 0 or 866.508.7232
MIDWEST TANDEM RALLY- Coming to Shipshewana (and Middlebury):
Time is nearing for the Midwest Tandem Rally September 3-6, 2010 and their registration is continuing to receive more and more teams ready to visit and share in the experience. As of today’s date there are an estimated 500 teams which gives us over 1000 people. If you are not familiar with tandem bikes, they can ride two people and a few that are designed to ride up to 4 people on a bike. The CVB along with the MTR committee will be putting together Welcome Packets and we want to invite you to include any information, brochure, coupon, promotional item, etc in these packets. If you are interested in having something placed in the packets we would need 500 – packets will be put together August 20th; so please have your items to the CVB office no later than August 18th.
I have listed their website for you to visit –http://www.mtr2010.org they are in need of some volunteers to help at various places…..those are listed below. If you are interested in helping please contact JoDee at 768-4008 or email at jodee@lagrangecountycvb.org Volunteers will receive a FREE T-Shirt & lunch., Volunteers are needed In Shipshewana (Rally Weekend):
Sag Stops – help with food & drink stations, Transportation (Pick-up and Deliver Food to Sags and Lunch Stops) and the ever popular and exciting, TASK TO BE DETERMINED!
They have rides scheduled for Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday – these rides are all mapped out and can be viewed at the CVB office or on the website above. On the Self-Supported rides (Friday & Monday) they will dine on their own and on Saturday evening dining will be on their own. The schedule below is mainly more for the MTR participants but should give you an idea on when they have things available to them – there will be down time for the participants to give them an opportunity to shop and wander the area. Each participant will be wearing a lanyard to identify them to the merchants……The rides have 3 levels – Short Route/Medium Route/Long Route…participants have the option of choosing which route they want to take; so those taking the short route & medium route will have more down time than those on the long route.
They have two routes to choose from for Friday & Monday which takes them into Howe or Middlebury and back to Shipshewana
On Saturday their route starts them off with the Mass Start at the Auction Barn, riding through LaGrange, Mongo, Wolcottville, Topeka, Emma, and back to Shipshewana
On Sunday their route starts them off with the Mass Start at the Auction Barn, riding through Middlebury, Mottville, Bonneyville Park and back to Shipshewana
The Mass Starts will begin at 9:00 am at the Auction Barn on SR 5 between the Auction Restaurant & Yoder’s Meat….this is an exciting site to see. The MTR committee and Tom Fitch have been working together to ensure the safety of the riders and local tourist. Tom will have some of his cruisers available to help with the traffic until they can get on their way…..We want to make sure that everyone is aware of the Mass Start times and also to be especially alert of the riders on the roadways.
