Clearview Chamber Of Commerce
220 Huron St, P.O. Box 1049
Stayner, Ontario L0M 1S0
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NEWSLETTER - MAY 2019
WELCOME
Welcome to new Chamber member Georgian Bay Yoga Studio! Check out the studio located at 7252 HWY 26 in Stayner.
AGM & BUSINESS RECOGNITION AWARDS
Saturday June 8th is coming up fast for the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting and Business Recognition Awards. The AGM will take place immediately before the Awards ceremony and we will be electing the following positions:
President
Vice-President
Director (3 year)
Buy your tickets for the Business Recognition Awards now! $35 for an evening of Awards, Dinner, Entertainment and Dancing from 6-10pm. Tickets are available for purchase at the following locations:
Torn Pages
EXIT Realty Welcome Home
Bardeau Insurance
Sutton on the Bay
Joy Boutique
NOMINEES
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
Rural Roots
A & D Birdseed
Bardeau Insurance
EXIT Realty Welcome Home
MMEA Catering
Joy Boutique
The DanceRoom
Perks on Main
Coffee Culture |
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
Paige Cleary
Kat Salvador
Frankie Pesce
Troy Disabato
Tamara Culham
Theo Schappe
Debbie Alan
David Lewis
Terry Duits |
NEW BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
Shawn's Cookery
Bardeau Insurance
Stainer Again Antique Furniture
Cafe Coco |
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR
Brenda Culham Cox
Cayliegh Jago |
COMMUNITY BUILDER AWARD
(Volunteer of the Year)
Charlene Lewis
Ashley Walker
Carol Kerfoot
Lisa Squire & Tamara Culham (for Witches Walk)
Troy Disabato & Terry Duits (for the Mothers Day Draw)
David Gee
Heather Trott
John Squire Sr. |
THOMAS STAYNER AWARD
(Citizen of the Year)
Eldon Cubitt
Shawn Davidson
Raymond Hardisty
Kat Salvador
Larry Culham
Connie Leishman
Marion Spellman
Heidi Sterrenburg |
YOUTH OF THE YEAR
Presley James
Maddy Lewis |
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DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION
On May 27th Lisa Squire and Tamara Culham will be presenting to Clearview Town Council a proposal of ideas relating to the Stayner Downtown Revitalization. Please support them and the Stayner Chamber by showing up to the meeting to be there in solidarity and hear what they have to say. They will be speaking about the Downtown Revitalization, the communication around the Revitalization as well as the Community Improvement Plan.
If you have any questions before the meeting, please contact either Lisa Squire at lisa.squire@homehardware.ca or Tamara Culham at tamaraculham@gmail.com.
DUCK RACE DAY
Congratulations to the Stayner Kinsman for putting on another fun Duck Race Day! Thank you to John Squire Sr. for hosting The Stayner Chamber booth and selling tons of popcorn to the attendees.
FLOWER PLANTERS
Stayner’s downtown flowers are now out in their newly painted planters! Thank you to Charley Lewis for organizing the painting and planting, and thank you to the volunteers who got their hands dirty to plant all the flowers.
CANADA DAY
The Canada Day festivities are ramping up. It’s going to be a great day with popcorn, snow cones, a DJ and photo booth, and performances by The DanceRoom. There may also be mini-putt! The event Chair could use some volunteers on event day so please contact Martina Ernst at mernst@starmetrolandmedia.com if you are available to help out!
MOTHER’S DAY DRAW
Congratulations to Alisha Fraser for winning the Mother’s Day Draw! We hope she thoroughly enjoys the goodies in her basked from our local businesses. Thank you to everyone who donated an item(s) this year. The Chamber made $590 from the basket. A huge thank you and congratulations to Troy Disabato and Terry Duits for Co-Chairing the draw again this year.
Troy is stepping down from this committee next year so if you are interested to Chair or Co-Chair the Mother’s Day Draw, please let the President know at staynerchamber@gmail.com.
WORKSHOP SERIES
The second workshop in the series, Ellen Oelbaum, was a success! Thank you to everyone who came out to learn how to use Facebook and Instagram to help their business.
Next up is Fraud Prevention and Round Robin Speed Networking on June 3rd. Part 1 - Ontario Provincial Police will inform you of the newest scams and how to prevent fraud and thieves in your stores, as well as how to watch out for counterfeit money, watch out for tricks, and much more.
Part 2 - Round Robin Speed networking with Kim Chomiak - Have fun while meeting new business owners, tell them where you are, what you offer, make new friends and clients.
All workshops are $5 at the door and will take place at:
217 Gideon Street, Stayner
Council Chambers
7-9 pm
1. April 1st – Facebook/Instagram 101
2. April 30th – Ellen Oelbaum - Stylist
3. June 3rd – Fraud Prevention and Round Robin Speed Networking (with Kim Chomiak STS coaching)
4. October 2nd – Goal Setting, How to Manifest, Turning Dreams into Reality (With Charley Lewis Century 21 Millennium)
5. Bookkeeping and Accounting 101 (With Colleen Bannerman, Wasaga Tax and Accounting)
SOUTH GEORGIAN BAY TOURISM
Melissa Twist, Regional Tourism Manager for South Georgian Bay Tourism and Amanda Murray, Community Culture and Tourism Coordinator for Clearview Township made a presentation to the Chamber about South Georgian Bay Tourism. The presentation was informative with information on destination content, membership, advertising, event specific websites, website templates for members and high number of social media followers. They also provided the Chamber with their South Georgian Bay 4 Seasons Map and 4 Seasons Guide.
For more information, please contact Melissa Twit at Melissa@southgeorgianbay.ca or 705-445.7772
DISCOVER CLEARVIEW
Amanda Murray, Community Culture and Tourism Coordinator for Clearview Township provided the Chamber with information cards on the upcoming Stayner Music, Market & Park It with the band line-up, as well as some rack cards of upcoming Clearview Signature Events, and an information pamphlet on the Clearview EcoPark loop & Meadows Sidetrail, which is currently being underutilized. Don’t forget that discoverclearview.ca has all the information you need on Clearview events, community events, parks & trails, recreation and accommodation.
For more information, please contact Amanda Murray at amurray@clearview.ca
CLEARVIEW DAYS
Happy Birthday Clearview! Come out and celebrate at Clearview Days – Clearview’s 25TH Anniversary Celebration from Friday, May 31, 2019 from 5:00 pm to Dark and Saturday, June 1, 2019 from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm, at the GNE Fairgrounds. The FREE community-wide event celebrates families, businesses and the culture of Clearview Township. Clearview Days will give residents the opportunity to discover new and interesting facts about Clearview and taste and sample local products made in Clearview in their own backyard. Celebrating what makes us such a special place to live, work and explore.
For more information, visit the website at https://www.discoverclearview.ca/community-events/signature-events/clearview-days
SUMMER STUDENT
The Stayner Chamber’s summer student was supposed to starting on June 3rd. Unfortunately, the student hired has since declined the position. A summer student job posting is now up on our Facebook page. Please share with anyone you believe would be interested.
If you are chairing an event and have need of an extra pair of hands, please contact the Chamber President at staynerchamber@gmail.com so you can be assisted by the summer student...once they are hired.
ONTARIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONVENTION AND AGM
Interim Vice-President Charley Lewis attended the OCC Convention and AGM a few weeks ago. She reported that it was a great but exhausting experience of note taking. She reported that the two most positive things she came back from the conference with was:
- Network connections – We now have connections to other nearby Chambers to share ideas with and to gain knowledge from.
- Resolutions – The focus of a Resolution is to come up with an idea for change that we wish to implement on a provincial level. More specifically, what we could do as a Chamber to make more of an impact for our businesses or in our community that would need to be changed provincially? A Chamber’s resolution is presented at the OCC AGM and voted upon. If the resolution gets a majority vote, it moves forward to be presented to the Government.
WITCHES WALK
The Witches Walk organizers Tamara Culham and Lisa Squire are already working on this year’s event. They are requesting an increased budget of $1,000 this year (up from $600 last year) for the Stayner Chamber’s commitment. The additional funds will be put towards increasing the reach of attendees from outside the community and to sell more passports. For reference, last year’s Witches Walk had 250 passports purchased, 92 prizes donated and 12,600 points of contact for our downtown businesses.
The $1,000 budget request will be voted upon at the next Chamber meeting on June 18th. If you have an opinion about the increased budget of this event, please come to the next meeting to vote on the movement!
BUSINESS OF THE MONTH
Want to be the next Facebook Business of the Month? It’s FREE! As long as you haven’t been business of the month yet, you are eligible. Please contact Kat Salvador at ksalvador75@gmail.com to relay your interest.
NEXT MEETING
The next Chamber meeting will be the last one until September. Please join us on Wednesday June 19th at 6:30 pm in Council Chambers at 217 Gideon Street for the final meeting before the summer!
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