Thursday, January 15, 2009

LIVE BLOG: This and that before the big awards

-- 42 new members have been welcomed into the Chamber this year, according to Mitch West. Members have hosted 12 business after hours, and the monthly luncheons continue to grow.
-- Also, West talked a little about the Athens Leadership Institiute -- 21 members of the community who participate in various functions to learn more about Athens throughout the year.
-- Outgoing board members were honored. They are: Past Chairman Kevin Lilly, Charla Till, Dick Grymonprez, Joe Warren, David Stewart.
-- The new chairman, Clint Davis, was then introduced. Davis, chamber chair for 2009 and Henderson County's county attorney, said this by far is a "significant increase" in what we've had at past years at chamber banquets. He talked about the chamber's goal to not only promote business, but to promote the quality of life in the community.
"Obviously if you enhance the quality of life in your community," he said, " ... you enhance the quality of your business in the community."

-- Jayson Larson, editor

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