Want to Win $25,000?

Are you an outstanding up-and-coming Licking County company? Do you meet the following criteria:

• Organization or company must be operating for the purpose of the commercial production of a product or service.
• The organization must be headquartered in the state of Ohio.
• The organization must have a new or re-designed product or service recently launched into the marketplace or ready to be launched in 2011.
• The innovation should be unique or fill a needed void in the market or industry in which it serves.

If your company does meet the above criteria, let me know. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Ohio Chamber Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award ($25,000) and only accepts one nomination from each Chamber in Ohio.

Deadline to submit our nomination is March 1, 2011.

Licking County Chamber Ranked 4th

In the latest issue of Business First, the Licking County Chamber of Commerce is ranked 4th in The List for Chambers of Commerce. We are behind ColumbusChamber, Dublin Chamber and Worthington Area Chamber. The ranking is based on number of members.

This is certainly worth celebrating. Thank you to all of our valued members for making this possible.

The Groundhog Committee

The food has been tested. The award has been chosen and the award winner selected. The keynote speaker is confirmed and the celebrity groundhog is . . . still a secret. Even from me.

These are just a few of the details that the Groundhog Committee does year-round to prepare for the Annual Groundhog Breakfast. And it is just a round the corner - February 4, 2011. Over 300 people have signed up already.

Tonight we celebrated and did our annual ornament gift exchange at the Granville Inn.

A big thank you to all the committee members who help up through the year with this community tradition!

Technology Survey

The Ohio Chamber is now working with Technology for Ohio's Tomorrow to collect data about your technology uses and needs.

Please take a moment and fill out this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JR6QY9Y.

Thank you.

Firewomen

Well, we may not be Firewomen exactly, but we did learn how to put out a fire with a fire extinguisher today.

P - Pull the pin

A - Aim at the base of the fire

S - Squeeze the top handle all the way

S - Sweep from side to side

Thank you to C-TEC and Lt. Ashcraft for providing us with this training today.

Where's The Tree?

My office has been taken over by boxes (Thanks PCA)! Wonder what will be in these boxes when I am finished?? A very cool gift!

Can you even see my Christmas Tree??

Ohio Needs Your Help

Governor-Elect John Kasich has a website called Fix Ohio Now.

This site features a short video from John and asks for your help and ideas on a number of items including:

• Ideas on how to fix Ohio
• Report corruption
• Report government waste
• Report over regulation

You can even send them your resume.

So let your voice and ideas be heard.