NEWSLETTER ISSUE 8 August 2016 Thank you to all the members and residents that attended our many ribbon cuttings held in the past few months. Your support shows our new businesses we care. Remember, Support our local businesses; they support our community. Don’t miss this year’s Annual Bi Chamber Clambake, Wednesday, August 17th. Again we would like to invite you to participate in a silent auction. We are asking chamber members to contribute a gift in the name of their company that will benefit their respective chamber. Call today to make arrangement for someone to pick up your donation. See attached flyer. Thank you to the following sponsors for their continued support of the Scholarship Golf Classic. Without all of you this event would not be possible. We are proud to be able to award four students from the four schools scholarship and honor them with a banquet every year. A.A. LAPP & ASSOCIATES, MERCHANTS BANK, ESSROC, EMBASSY BANK, MORAVIAN HALL SQUARE, STATE FARM LUCY FLINN, SAM’S CLUB. The Morning Call, Pocono Medical Center, Serv Pro, Colonial Life, The Albert’s, Mt Bethel Abstract, Realty Executives, Frederick Curcio, Ginder Greenhouse & Garden Center, Thrivent Financial, Jet Pay, Ott Consulting, Frontier Communications, Diversified Insurance, nationwide Insurance, Hoch Accounting, Lehigh Valley Steelhawks, Maintain Your Independence, Glenn Geissinger, State Rep. Marcia Hahn.

Join us on September 11th for our 18th Annual Basket/Purse Bingo. This year we mixed it up a bit; we will have Longaberger, Vera Bradley, Coach and Michael Kors. Tickets are $20. Sponsors are needed! Your donation will determine the size of your basket/purse. You will also receive a free ticket to attend or give to an employee or that special person, your company information will be on the tables and you will be in the program and announced throughout the event as a sponsor. This is an opportunity to reach out to many men and women and tell them about your company, product or event. Our Santa’s Elves are working on this year’s Holiday Christmas Party for the less fortunate children of the Slate Belt. Show your support and stop by the Dime Toss Booth at the Blue Valley Farm Show this August 23-27th. This is our only fundraiser for our party and your support is appreciated. Any donations of clean glasses, coffee mugs, wine glasses ect….are welcomed and appreciated. You can either drop them off at the office Monday-Thursdays, 9-2 pm or on the 22nd, 6 pm at our stand on the farm show grounds. We are now taking table reservations for this year’s Slate Belt Business Expo, September 29th at The Washington. Don’t miss your opportunity to let the Slate Belt residents know what your business is all about. See flyer for details.

SBCC Upcoming Events 8/17: Annual Bi Chamber Clam Bake @ Bady’s Grove, Wind Gap

8/31: Iron Pigs Game, Sold Out 9/11: Specialty Bingo, Longaberger, Vera Bradley, Michael Kors, Coach and more.

9/29: Slate Belt Business Expo @ The Washington 4-8 pm 10/18: SBCC Business Luncheon @ Kirkridge

11/17: Taste of Sam’s & Holiday Preview Mixer, 5-7 pm 11/30: Bus trip to the Pennsylvania Christmas & Gift Show, $45 pp.

More to come…..

New Members for July Rockin’ Photobooth

Kevin Remaley 44 West 1st Street

Wind Gap PA 18091 610-393-3339

E-Mail: kevin@rockinphotobooth.com Web Site: ww.rockinphotobooth.com

Primecom Technologies, Inc.

David Eygoren 274 E. Center St.

Wind Gap, PA 18091 610-905-2510

E-Mail: deygoren@gmail.com Web Site: www.primecomtech.com

Telecom Electronic Equipment Sales & Repairs

Grand Central Sanitary Landfill Scott Perin

Adrienne Fors 910 W. Pennsylvania Ave.

Pen Argyl, PA 18072 610-863-2413

E-Mail: sperin@wm.com Afors1@wm.com

Web Site: www.wm.com

Press Releases Ginder Greenhouse & Garden Center new Summer Hours: Thursday = Saturday; 9-5 pm, Sundays 9-3 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday & Wednesdays. The Slate Belt YMCA will hold a Delaware Dash 4 Mile Trail Run, Saturday August 6th. Jerry Brunetti Environmental & welcome center, 7701 Martins Creek-Belvidere Hwy, Bangor. Check in 8 am near the Welcome Center; start time 9 am near the Baseball Field. Registration at www.greatervalleyymca.org Sponsorship Opportunities are available for the Holiday Concert. This year the concert will be held on 11/19/16 featuring the Rock Band Twelve Twenty Four. The proceeds will be divided between the following non-profit organizations; Boomers Angels, Slate Belt Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund, Slate Belt YMCA, Bangor High School Music department & Tott’s Gap Art Institute. Flyer attached with sponsorship opportunities. Bangor Borough Park Board Summer Events: August 13th, End of Summer Bash, August 20th, Pooch Plunge. For information call Deb Smith at 610-751-7692 or bangorparkboard@gmail.com.

The Slate Belt Heritage Center will hold their monthly historic presentation on Thursday, August 11, At 7:00 PM. Speaker for the evening will be historian John O’Brien who will be giving a talk on gravestone and monument preservation and repair. Topics being covered are cleaning, the reading of gravestones and using mirrors. He will also discuss the different types of repairs he has undertaken. Mr. O’Brien is an amateur conservator who repairs gravestones and monuments as a hobby. He has repaired several hundred monuments/gravestones and mainly works in in the Warren and Hunterdon county New Jersey area. The presentation will include pictures from the cemeteries in Lebanon , Stewartsville and Seller cemeteries. John is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies and the New Jersey Chapter Chairperson. He is a life member and past President of the Warren County Historical Society. He is also on the Board of Trustees for the Greenwich Presbyterian Cemetery, the Swackhammer Cemetery, team member of the Friends of the Weller Cemetery and an active member of the Hunterdon County Cemetery Committee. The event is free and open to the public (donations kindly accepted). The Heritage Center is located at 30 North 1st Street (Route 191), Bangor, Pa. For additional information contact: Karen Brewer @ 484-894-5661. SBCC Officers & Directors Mary Marshall, President, Jeff Ott, 1st Vice President, Joann Ginder 2nd Vice President, Steve Hurni, Chairman One Year Directors Rosemary Albert, Mary Marshall, Jewel Williamson-Burns, Nadine Moyer, Joann Ginder, Chuck Niclaus, Jeff Ott, Adolph Marth Two Year Directors Paul Donovan, Jr., Lucy Flinn, Fred Curcio, Kim Armitage, Steve Hurni, Bryan Gault, Victor Rodite

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Gift Certificates are available at the SBCC office year round for many of our area businesses!

SBCC Mission Statement: To promote and enhance positive business activity and growth in the Slate Belt region with special emphasis on community involvement. SBCC, 187 Blue Valley Dr., Bangor, PA 18013 610.588.1000 info@slatebeltchamber.org www.slatebeltchamber.org

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY

Jewel Williamson-Burns, CLU, FIC Financial Associate Jewel.williamson-burns@thrivent.com 610-746-0344

Lucy W. Flinn