Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Now & Then Ribbon Cutting Set
Tell City - The Perry County Chamber of Commerce will conduct a ribbon cutting for Now & Then, LLC on Saturday, February 20th at 9:30 am to celebrate their new ownership. The open house will take place from 10-12:00 pm.
Patty James now owns Now & Then, LLC located at 615 Main Street, Suite C in Tell City. The shop has consignments, florals, jewelry and purses.
Store hours are Monday through Wednesday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Thursday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, Friday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, and Saturday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Thursday's will be "Mix it up day" with a different promotion each week.
Please come and celebrate this transition of ownership with Patty. The public is invited to this event.
Now & Then is also the local donation site for the American Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund. For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 547-2385 or the Patty James at 547-3008.
Patty James now owns Now & Then, LLC located at 615 Main Street, Suite C in Tell City. The shop has consignments, florals, jewelry and purses.
Store hours are Monday through Wednesday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Thursday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, Friday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, and Saturday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Thursday's will be "Mix it up day" with a different promotion each week.
Please come and celebrate this transition of ownership with Patty. The public is invited to this event.
Now & Then is also the local donation site for the American Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund. For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 547-2385 or the Patty James at 547-3008.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Springs Ribbon Cutting Set
Tell City - The Perry County Chamber of Commerce will conduct a ribbon cutting for “The Springs” on Friday, December 4th at 5:00 pm to celebrate the opening of their new building. The open house will take place from 5-7:30 pm.
The Springs is located at 72 Park Avenue, Tell City, Indiana. Sam Bick is the President of Grandview Care, Inc. which provides housing, senior housing and healthcare in multiple locations, including “The Springs”, throughout Indiana and Kentucky.
Business office hours are Monday through Friday 8-5:00 pm.
The public is invited to this event. For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 547-2385 or the Tori Rich-Business Manager at 548-4990.
The Springs is located at 72 Park Avenue, Tell City, Indiana. Sam Bick is the President of Grandview Care, Inc. which provides housing, senior housing and healthcare in multiple locations, including “The Springs”, throughout Indiana and Kentucky.
Business office hours are Monday through Friday 8-5:00 pm.
The public is invited to this event. For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 547-2385 or the Tori Rich-Business Manager at 548-4990.
Perry County History Book on Sale For Christmas!
Perry County – The Perry County Chamber of Commerce is happy to announce a sale on the Perry County: Then and Now book by Michael Rutherford. The book will be on sale through the end of the year for $50 – tax included! This book will make a great Christmas present for those hard-to-buy-for on your list!
The Perry County History Book is a standard library-size hardbound, 288 page book with a beautiful full color cover. Mr. Rutherford outlines history of many Perry County families in this book. The book was re-printed last year by request, so pick-up your copy today by calling the Chamber office or by visiting area retailers.
For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 812-547-2385.
The Perry County History Book is a standard library-size hardbound, 288 page book with a beautiful full color cover. Mr. Rutherford outlines history of many Perry County families in this book. The book was re-printed last year by request, so pick-up your copy today by calling the Chamber office or by visiting area retailers.
For more information contact the Perry County Chamber of Commerce at 812-547-2385.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Ferdinand's Hometown Competitiveness Success May Be Guide for Perry County
By VINCE LUECKE, Editor
TELL CITY - One nearby town's success could provide a recipe for improving the quality of life for Perry County's residents and helping the community compete for residents and community development.
The board of directors for the Perry County Chamber of Commerce is exploring the opportunities available through an Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program and held an informational meeting last Thursday at the Schergens Center.
Marc Steczyk, town manager for Ferdinand, was the guest speaker. He shared his community's participation in the state program, which has at its foundation four pillars - entrepreneurship, wealth transfer, youth and leadership. He said Ferdinand's success in shaping its vision of itself, charting future growth and involving its young people could work in Perry County.
"The state provides the framework but communities shape how the program will work for them," said Steczyk.
Steczyk said Ferdinand has used the program to assess where it stands as a community in several areas, among them how to begin growing its population, attracting visitors and involving its youth in everyday life. As it developed its strategy, Steczyk said local leaders developed projects such as a Profiles in Success lecture series in which former grads meet with students and adults in the community. Also developed was a Forest Park High School Alumni Association and a new townwide recreation program that attracted more than 400 kids for activities this summer. A community movie night also drew hundreds of people.
Other programs are catered to entrepreneurs and developers who might be interested in the community.
Ferdinand's Hometown Competitiveness efforts also identified areas of future residential growth, a program whose success challenged conventional wisdom that the town was landlocked and had few if any areas for constructing new homes.
By meeting with landowners whose properties abutted town limits and finding which of those owners would be interesting in discussing a possible sale of some land for new subdivisions, the town can now showcase areas of future growth with developers.
Cheri Taylor, the county chamber of commerce's executive director who updated county officials on the opportunity to apply for the program, said she and other chamber leaders will use positive input from Steczyk and others to consider an application to the state, likely in the spring.
Chamber leaders see the program as a way to promote community development. Private donations would cover the approximately $7,500 in costs.
"The Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program was developed to help communities such as ours reverse the population decline and 'brain drain' that has been experienced," said Missy Noble, chamber president, in an Aug. 20 letter to members and elected officials. "The state believes that Indiana rural communities can use this program to accomplish their economic- and community-development goals."
If the chamber moves forward, an application would likely be made in the spring, with a steering committee working to develop a plan. Steczyk said Ferdinand has communicated with residents through a town Web site and columns in the Ferdinand News.
Comments about the county's participation in the program can be e-mailed to perrychamber@psci.net.
TELL CITY - One nearby town's success could provide a recipe for improving the quality of life for Perry County's residents and helping the community compete for residents and community development.
The board of directors for the Perry County Chamber of Commerce is exploring the opportunities available through an Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program and held an informational meeting last Thursday at the Schergens Center.
Marc Steczyk, town manager for Ferdinand, was the guest speaker. He shared his community's participation in the state program, which has at its foundation four pillars - entrepreneurship, wealth transfer, youth and leadership. He said Ferdinand's success in shaping its vision of itself, charting future growth and involving its young people could work in Perry County.
"The state provides the framework but communities shape how the program will work for them," said Steczyk.
Steczyk said Ferdinand has used the program to assess where it stands as a community in several areas, among them how to begin growing its population, attracting visitors and involving its youth in everyday life. As it developed its strategy, Steczyk said local leaders developed projects such as a Profiles in Success lecture series in which former grads meet with students and adults in the community. Also developed was a Forest Park High School Alumni Association and a new townwide recreation program that attracted more than 400 kids for activities this summer. A community movie night also drew hundreds of people.
Other programs are catered to entrepreneurs and developers who might be interested in the community.
Ferdinand's Hometown Competitiveness efforts also identified areas of future residential growth, a program whose success challenged conventional wisdom that the town was landlocked and had few if any areas for constructing new homes.
By meeting with landowners whose properties abutted town limits and finding which of those owners would be interesting in discussing a possible sale of some land for new subdivisions, the town can now showcase areas of future growth with developers.
Cheri Taylor, the county chamber of commerce's executive director who updated county officials on the opportunity to apply for the program, said she and other chamber leaders will use positive input from Steczyk and others to consider an application to the state, likely in the spring.
Chamber leaders see the program as a way to promote community development. Private donations would cover the approximately $7,500 in costs.
"The Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program was developed to help communities such as ours reverse the population decline and 'brain drain' that has been experienced," said Missy Noble, chamber president, in an Aug. 20 letter to members and elected officials. "The state believes that Indiana rural communities can use this program to accomplish their economic- and community-development goals."
If the chamber moves forward, an application would likely be made in the spring, with a steering committee working to develop a plan. Steczyk said Ferdinand has communicated with residents through a town Web site and columns in the Ferdinand News.
Comments about the county's participation in the program can be e-mailed to perrychamber@psci.net.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Chamber Eyes Ingredients for Thriving Community
By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor
TELL CITY - The board of directors for the Perry County Chamber of Commerce is exploring the opportunities available through an Indiana Home Town Competitiveness Program, chamber Executive Director Cheri Taylor said Aug. 20.
Addressing county-council members as they heard representatives of various county offices explain budget needs for next year, Taylor said the program, which is administered by the state's Office of Community and Rural Affairs, will be explained at a meeting scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 3 at the Schergens Center in Tell City.
The program "looks at four ... pillars - entrepreneurship, wealth transfer, youth and leadership - and it helps you build on those four," Taylor said. Pilot studies have shown that if those pillars are strong in a community, she added, "then you have a thriving community."
"The Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program was developed to help communities such as ours reverse the population decline and 'brain drain' that has been experienced," said Missy Noble, chamber president, in an Aug. 20 letter to members and elected officials. "The state believes that Indiana rural communities can use this program to accomplish their economic- and community-development goals."
The chamber will look into using the program in what Taylor called an effort very similar "to the visioning process we did back in (20)04 and finished up in '05." New faces in the community and the chamber office "have popped up, so we really need to put some initiatives in front of people to start working on that (help prepare Perry County) for the next century. So we're going to at least look at this, to see what interest is out there."
"This isn't going to cost the chamber or the council any money," Taylor continued, "it's all going to be done through private donations." Those will total a required $7,500, she added, "and then the state does the rest." Taylor told the council members she just wanted to make them aware the chamber is looking into the opportunity.
In addition to the state's rural-affairs office, other organizations contributing to the program include Ball State and Purdue universities, the University of Southern Indiana, Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, Indiana Rural Development Council and United States Department of Agriculture.
"All of these partners have seen the proven record of this program helping smaller and more-rural communities build significantly stronger and more sustainable development," Noble said in the letter. "Each partner has committed various resources to help communities initiate, implement and sustain the activities associated with the four-pillar process."
TELL CITY - The board of directors for the Perry County Chamber of Commerce is exploring the opportunities available through an Indiana Home Town Competitiveness Program, chamber Executive Director Cheri Taylor said Aug. 20.
Addressing county-council members as they heard representatives of various county offices explain budget needs for next year, Taylor said the program, which is administered by the state's Office of Community and Rural Affairs, will be explained at a meeting scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 3 at the Schergens Center in Tell City.
The program "looks at four ... pillars - entrepreneurship, wealth transfer, youth and leadership - and it helps you build on those four," Taylor said. Pilot studies have shown that if those pillars are strong in a community, she added, "then you have a thriving community."
"The Indiana Hometown Competitiveness Program was developed to help communities such as ours reverse the population decline and 'brain drain' that has been experienced," said Missy Noble, chamber president, in an Aug. 20 letter to members and elected officials. "The state believes that Indiana rural communities can use this program to accomplish their economic- and community-development goals."
The chamber will look into using the program in what Taylor called an effort very similar "to the visioning process we did back in (20)04 and finished up in '05." New faces in the community and the chamber office "have popped up, so we really need to put some initiatives in front of people to start working on that (help prepare Perry County) for the next century. So we're going to at least look at this, to see what interest is out there."
"This isn't going to cost the chamber or the council any money," Taylor continued, "it's all going to be done through private donations." Those will total a required $7,500, she added, "and then the state does the rest." Taylor told the council members she just wanted to make them aware the chamber is looking into the opportunity.
In addition to the state's rural-affairs office, other organizations contributing to the program include Ball State and Purdue universities, the University of Southern Indiana, Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, Indiana Rural Development Council and United States Department of Agriculture.
"All of these partners have seen the proven record of this program helping smaller and more-rural communities build significantly stronger and more sustainable development," Noble said in the letter. "Each partner has committed various resources to help communities initiate, implement and sustain the activities associated with the four-pillar process."
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
CHAMBER ANNUAL PICNIC AUGUST 27
The Perry County Chamber of Commerce's Annual Membership Picnic, the best-attended business networking event of the year, has been scheduled for Thursday, August 27 at Mulzer Camp west of Troy. The event is held annually to elect new board members for the upcoming year.
The slate of officers for the Annual Meeting are: Missy Noble, David Lynch, Jennifer Tuggle all for reappointment and Donna Harpenau to replace outgoing Board member Michael Elaman.
The picnic will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour and dress is casual. The traditional menu cooked by Mulzer Crushed Stone will consist of grilled rib eye steaks, creek fries, fried corn, salad, bread and cold refreshments which are included in the price of the meal. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. The cost of attending is $20 per person. Reservations may be made by calling the Chamber at (812) 547-2385 or on-line at perrychamber@psci.net prior to Tuesday, August 25th.
The slate of officers for the Annual Meeting are: Missy Noble, David Lynch, Jennifer Tuggle all for reappointment and Donna Harpenau to replace outgoing Board member Michael Elaman.
The picnic will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour and dress is casual. The traditional menu cooked by Mulzer Crushed Stone will consist of grilled rib eye steaks, creek fries, fried corn, salad, bread and cold refreshments which are included in the price of the meal. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. The cost of attending is $20 per person. Reservations may be made by calling the Chamber at (812) 547-2385 or on-line at perrychamber@psci.net prior to Tuesday, August 25th.
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