Chamber Members, It is with great pleasure and gratitude that you have re-elected me to the Chamber Board of Directors and given me the opportunity to serve you for another three year term and as President in the upcoming year.  I would first of all like to express my deep appreciation for our past President David Hruza and all of his efforts in the past year in making the Chamber of Commerce a viable part of all of our businesses and community.  I would also like to give my appreciation to our other Directors who have served and put countless…

Dear Chamber of Commerce Members, Final Article by David Hruza, I am ending my articles as the Chamber President with an article written by Stephen King.  Our perspective changes when we are lying in a ditch. Article Written by Stephen King A couple of years ago I found out what “you can’t take it with you” means. I found out while I was lying in a ditch at the side of a country road, covered with mud and blood and with the tibia of my right leg poking out the side of my jeans like a branch of a tree…

Dear Chamber of Commerce Members, No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens We are surrounded by the quick fix, the get it now, the hurry-up-and-do-it marketing and the pressured pace of modern life.  We don’t really want to wait for anything, do we?  Or do we?  There is a certain grace, even virtue, in waiting for something you want.  Our grandparents knew this.  In a time when things were “less convenient”, we waited.  We wrote letters, sent them, and waited for a response.  We saved our money or used…