June 7, 2012 at Water’s Edge Golf Course in Worth. More information to come…
Chamber’s Annual Scholarship Golf Outing
February 13, 2012 By
Chamber Scholarship Opportunity
February 7, 2012 By
FOR GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS….
Must have been a Palos Heights or Palos Park resident or have a Palos Heights or Palos Park mailing address for at least one year prior to seeking this scholarship OR be an employee or employee’s immediate family member of a current Palos Area Chamber of Commerce member company in good standing. An employee is defined as anyone who has worked in the City of Palos Heights or Village of Palos Park for the member company for two years at the time of application for the scholarship. An immediate family member is defined as son, daughter, mother, father or spouse.
One scholarship each year may be given to a Chamber member’s employee or employee’s immediate family member that does not live in the Palos Heights city or Palos Park village limits.
Will be enrolled full-time (12 or more credit hours) for period covered by proposed scholarship.
CLICK HERE to retrieve the entire application….
Palos Area Chamber Expo and Health Fair
February 2, 2012 By
May 5, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Moraine Valley Church
6300 West 127th Street, Palos Heights
Open to the Public
Health screenings, Chiropractors, Home Health Care, and Mental Health Care
The Expo is the location for First Midwest Bank Southwest Half Marathon runners — packet pick up
To become an exhibitor at the expo, please contact the chamber at 708-480-3025 or email info@palosareachamber.org
Exhibitor Fee: $150 for chamber member and $300 for non-chamber member
For information on the First Midwest Southwest Half Marathon click here…
March Madness Membership Drive
January 30, 2012 By
Network with fellow businesses and professionals on March 8 at Trio Sports Bar and Grill. Located at 11845 Southwest Highway in Palos Heights. The cost to current members is $10.00 – FREE for brand new members. Come join us from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. For further information, and a $20 discount, click here.
Social Media Summit
January 17, 2012 By
Hosted by Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau
Thursday, February 23, 2012
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-Alsip
For further details and registration, please visit www.visitchicagosouthland.com or call 708-895-8200.
To register online: http://conta.cc/SocialMediaSummit2012
A Message from the Chamber President
January 31, 2011 By
February, 2012
Hello Chamber Members,
I am honored to be the new Palos Area Chamber of Commerce President. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Amy Richards and I am the publisher of your local newspaper The Regional News. My family and I have quite a long history with the chamber and the City of Palos Heights. My grandfather, Carl Richards, helped found the chamber in 1949. He was responsible for starting the Regional as you know it today in this same spot at 123rd and Harlem in 1947. Carl was president of the chamber in 1953. Later my father, Charles Richards, would take over the business and he too was chamber president in 1978. I believe I am the first third generation chamber president here in Palos Heights – and I am so excited to begin working on behalf of local businesses. I grew up in Palos Heights, and attended Palos East, Palos South and A.A Stagg High School. I also attended the University of Illinois at Champaign. I moved to Chicago after graduation and still live on the north side with my husband Derek. After a short stint working at Kraft, I have been back at The Regional and active in the chamber for 10 years. I find my work both at the paper and with the chamber to be extremely rewarding.
I have been an active member of 6 chambers over the past several years and I hope to bring the knowledge I have gained from all of them to my term as president. As time goes on I am constantly reminded of the benefits of participating in the local chamber of commerce. I have seen so many business relationships develop out of networking at various chamber events. It sounds cliché but “what you put into it is what you get out of it” is very true when it comes to chamber membership. I urge all of our members to try in 2012 to attend a luncheon, business after hours or one of our other chamber events. If you begin to attend these events on a regular basis you should see an impact on your business’s bottom line.
A great place to start would be to attend our February 14 luncheon at Moraine Valley Community College at 11:45. Mayor Bob Straz will be giving his annual State of the City address. Make sure you RSVP as this is always one of our most popular luncheons. Thank you, I look forward to seeing many of you there.
Amy Richards
President, Palos Area Chamber of Commerce 2012
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