Chamber Chatter

Volume 11, Issue 4 April 2013

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Board of Directors

2012-2013 Officers

Debie Neely- President

Kiva Insurance and Financial Services

TJ Shope-Vice President

Shope’s IGA

Shelley Brown-Secretary/Treasurer

Brown’s Coolers, Appliances & Furniture

Board Members

Jim Garrett

Garrett Motors

Kelli Kent

Coolidge Examiner

Leon Stock

APS

Levon Herston

Heritage Coolidge Funeral Home

Pam Leal

D&J Trends

Taylor Hansen

Hansen Land Surveying

Contact Information

Coolidge Chamber

320 W. Central Ave.

Coolidge, AZ 85128

(520) 723-3009

(520) 723-9410 fax

Email: info@coolidgechamber.org

Website: www.coolidgechamber.org

FaceBook: http//.facebook.com/coolidgechamber

April Membership Luncheon

Guest Speaker: Lando Voyles

Pinal County Attorney

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Location: Coolidge Council Chambers

Address: 911 S. Arizona Blvd-Coolidge

Time: 12pm—1:00pm

Cost: $10 with RSVP/$12 with late RSVP

RSVP by Monday, April 15 , 2013

(RSVP required for lunch)

Catered by Knights of Columbus

Gold Sponsors

Arizona Public Service

Crop Production Services

Golden Eagle Distributors

Silver Sponsor

Curis Resources-Florence Copper

Bronze Sponsors

Arizona Water Company Hansen Engineering & Surveying

BBVA Compass Kiva Insurance & Financial Services

Casa Grande Regional Medical Center KRDE, The Ride 94.1FM

Coolidge Engine & Pump Linda Morris Realtor of Weichert Realtors/Lake Realty

Felix Construction Shope's IGA

Garrett Motors The Tire Factory

Great Western Bank

T-Shirt Sponsors

American Family Insurance Golden Eagle Distributors

Arizona Public Service Hansen Engineering & Surveying

Arizona Water Company Heritage Coolidge Funeral Home

Barnett's Better Buys Jack Harrison General Contractor

Brown's Coolers, Furniture & Appliances Long Star Auto Glass

CAC SBDC Pinal County FCU

Casa Grande Regional Medical Center Shope's IGA

Coolidge Chevron State Farm Insurance-Yolanda Manzanedo

Coolidge Engine & Pump, LLC Sun Life Family Health Center

Coolidge Glass & Mirror Supply 29

Crop Production Services Tags Café

Garrett Motors The Tire Factory

Coolidge Cotton Days Sponsors The Coolidge Chamber of Commerce would like to Thank our sponsors for support-ing our event, you are the people who make this happen.

Parade Standings

Marching Float Chamber Member:

1st Place: Impact Cheer 1st Place: Kids Klub, Inc

2nd Place: HoHoKam Mobile Village 2nd Place: Curis Resources-Florence Copper

3rd Place: Cool-Image Dance, Gymnastics & Karate

Motorized Equestrian

1st Place: CUSD Governing Board Arizona Wagon Rides-Grand Marshall

2nd Place: American Truck Historical Society CAC Rodeo Team & Royalty

3rd Place: Ride to the Ruins Wells Fargo Stage Coach

Float

1st Place: Coolidge Bears Youth Cheer

2nd Place: Girl Scout Troop #1825

3rd Place: San Tan Heights Cheerleading Squad & Basketball Team

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Cotton Days 2013

Cotton Days 2013 went off without a hitch. This year was very well attended by many

Coolidge residents as well as residents from outside areas, the weather was beautiful for

the whole event. The events as in the past have started out on Friday night with the One

on One Breaking Battle and 1 on 1 open Style Battle. The park was packed with both old

and young to see the battles, we had local talent as well as outside talent. Adam Cordova

organized and headed up the Event. He did an incredible job, each year the talents get

better and better. The Carnival was going full tilt as were the Food and Craft vendors. Friday night was the start

to a good weekend.

We started off Saturday with the Boy Scouts Pancake Breakfast, which was attended very

well. The parade got underway with the 7th Annual Ride to the Ruins Bike Rally leading.

This year's Grand Marshall was in memory of Dave Wicker, long time Coolidge Resident and

Transit Driver for the City of Coolidge, his daughter Starla and his grandchildren repre-

sented him in the parade. The parade was very well attended. Along with Saturday's events, we had the Cotton

Bale Rolling Contests, this year was a little different as we asked the Schools to participate and

any groups who wanted to compete against the other groups. The turnout was great and the competition was fierce.

Also going on in the park was this year's 1st Cheer Competition which also had great participation, we hope to do both

events again next year. This year's lineup included the 1st Officers Bike Rodeo, for Entertain-

ment we had the Positive Attitude Band, A3 Variety Show, Bonnie Lee, Greywolf Band and

Ballet Folklorico. We also had for the first year the Art Walk which proved to be very enter-

taining and well received. The Copper Corridor Mobile Visitor Center was also a hit, the town

of Superior provided it for our Event, we were also able to put in information about Coolidge

and Florence which would continue to travel with the mobile unit.

Every year we have so many volunteers to Thank and without our Sponsors and Supporters,

Cotton Days would not be as successful as it is, The Coolidge Chamber and its Board Mem-

bers would like to Thank Tom Madden & Ed Curan for showing The Copper Corridor

Mobile Visitor Center, Our Parade volunteers: Judy Preston, Ray Murrieta, Doug Mason,

Barbara Hite, Lisa Irwin, Craig Backstrom, Tony Roth and Mayor Tom Shope. Cotton Day

Events and Ride to the Ruins Volunteers: Rex Carolin, Barb & Louise Snowden, Amber

Snowden, KJ and Sara Wheat, Amy and Gwen Norwalk, Pam Norwalk, Randy Parsons,

Inter Tribal Buffalo Council, Coolidge Police Department, Gila River Police Department, Pinal County Sheriff's De-

partment, Florence Police Department, William Felix, Corianna Lee, Adam Cordova, Mr. & Mrs. Leon Stock, Levon

Herston, Shellie Brown, Debie Neely, Taylor Hansen and Pam and Gene Leal.

Cotton Bale Standings

1st Place Women's Team 2nd Place Women's Team Diann Prechel Diane Thompson Barbie Marley Jeanne Hamilton Shethier Riva Jaclyn Busby 1st Place Men's Team 2nd Place Men's Team Colt Marley Taylor Randall Dylan Marley Cameron Bechtel

Coolidge Baseball Team Standings 1st Place Team 2nd PlaceTeam

Jason Bowles Trent Davis Drake Gall Chris Rico

Coolidge Football Team Standings: 1st Place Team 2nd Place Team 3rd Place Team 4th Place Team JT Gray Darion Hunt Rolando Reyes Gabriel Caro Eric Clayton Aaron Guzman Pablo Reyes Jael Alvarez

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This month’s business spotlights are Scrubs & More and Holiday Inn Express & Suites. The Coolidge Chamber would like to

Thank these businesses for their continued support to Coolidge, and we urge you to keep our small businesses in business by

shopping local every time you can.

Scrubs & More

Sandy Short owner of Scrubs & More started out with as-

sisted living company. The company grew to a large com-

pany. She then sold the company but wasn't ready to re-

tire so she began looking into other things. She had 12

years in the medical profession with assisted living and so

the Scrubs and More was born. She added some medical

supplies, other uniforms and all kinds of trinkets. You can

get your uniform from head to toe.

She understands the tough demand of these professionals, so that

is where the Boutique came in. You can get really unique items for

yourself or a gift for that special person. The other service they offer

is promotional items, small jobs to the big ones. If you have a spe-

cial event or a special meeting and just need one or two coffee mugs

or shirts they can help you.

Scrubs & More has been around for 3 years and have just moved there location to 20892 E Ocotillo Rd., Queen Creek.

Sandy loves working with the people in Coolidge and hopes to open another location here soon. If you would like more

information on what they can do for you give Sandy a call at 520.487.9474 or visit her website www.scrubsnmoreofaz.com

Holiday Inn Express & Suites

Holiday Inn Express & Suites is owned by a native Arizonian from

Globe he loves the rural Arizona and when the opportunity came

available for Florence it was the right fit back in February 2011.

Damon Anderson is the manager and loves the people and the area.

One of the things he see's often but still enjoys is when people walk

into the hotel and they are so surprised at the oasis in the desert. They

take pride in their facilities and it shows. They have a friendly staff and all 18 are local.

They have so much to offer in their area and Damon is very proud to be a part of a great

region that is on the cusps of even greater things. They

have people come from all over, as far as Germany to

their locals just as a get away with a pool. They have

Special rates for locals and their families, so if you have

family coming to town and don't have enough room call

for their special rates or if you need meeting space they

have a great conference room to meet your needs.

Your family is "our" family. Come let "us" make your bed. They are ready to partner and work together to make our re-

gion a destination. They are located 240 W. Highway 287, Florence AZ website is holidayinnexpressflorence.com, phone

(520) 868-9900.

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2013 Coolidge Rotary Live and Silent Auction

Coolidge Rotary celebrated 76 plus years of service at its Annual Dinner Auction Saturday, March 16th 2013 at the Coolidge/Florence Elks Lodge. This year’s President Bonnie Palmer along with Rotary members are out gathering donations and raffle items from the community as well as selling tickets for the din-ner . The Coolidge/Florence Elks Lodge has been a longtime partner and provided a great meal as usual.

Over 120+ people packed the Elks lodge last year in support of the event. District Governor Randy Brooks, Deb and friend will be entertaining us with county music. We will have the Silent Auc-tion first, and then moved straight into the Live Auction. With the help from the many community sponsors we successfully raised over $16,000 dollars last year! Monies generated will be used to

fund the 20-$500 scholarships that will be awarded to Coolidge High School Seniors along with Imagine Seniors and other projects, i.e. dictionaries for 3rd graders, shoe box project to Mexico and Mi-cro-Credit program. Members believe that over $320,000 have been given in scholarships. Rotary is a service organization made up of Community Members

who give effortlessly of their time each week. The monies raised for this event go towards High School vocational Scholarship funds.

Membership Luncheon

March Membership Luncheon was held at the Coolidge Unified

School District Board Room on Wednesday, March 20th. Guest

Speaker was Rachel Duran, HR Analyst from the City of Coo-

lidge. Rachel spoke to the membership regarding Human Re-

sources broken up into the different categories, which included,

Customer Service, Laws and Regulations, Recordkeeping and

Documentation, Recruiting and Hiring, Employee Relations, Compensation and Benefits,

Safety and Wellness, Training and Career Development, Organ-

izational Development and Labor Relations. She gave the mem-

bers a good break down of each category. As an HR Analyst

these rules and regulations must be understood and practiced,

so Organize, Prioritize, Document, be consistent and maintain

“Confidentiality”

The Coolidge Chamber would like to thank Rachel for being our Guest Speaker and to

Coolidge Unified School District for the use of their Board room. Thank you to the fol-

lowing businesses for the door prizes: Liberty Tax, Tom Madden for

the Boyce Thompson Arboretum tickets, Morgan's Mobile Auto Re-

pair, Florence Holiday Inn Express and Suites. And to Carolyn Richel

for her assistance during the luncheon.

The next membership luncheon will be held at the Coolidge Council Chambers, April 17, 2013.

Check out our website for additional information.

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Re-investments for March Elks Lodge #2350

Brown’s Evans Distributing Walgreens

Barnett’s Better Buys Wal-Mart Supercenter

Glenn Jones Auto Center St. Michaels Episcopal Church

Coolidge Lions Club Knight’s of Columbus

Community Presbyterian Church J Warren Funeral Services Cole & Maud

New Members for March

The Winner’s Circle dba Carlton’s Quilters Corner Award Realty Commercial Kustom Kuts by Celeste

United States Postal Service Cool-Image Dance, Gymnastics & Karate

Rain Tunnel Car Wash

NEW BUSINESS

LICENSES

FOR FEBRUARY

Barracuda Bead Blasting

Becon Construction CO, Inc

JGM Cleaning

City of Coolidge Building Permits

Feb-2013 Coolidge/Pinal

New Residential Buildings

# of

Permits Valuation

Structures other than Buildings (swimming pools, fences, billboards, signs, awnings, etc. 3 $20,605

Additions and Alterations

Residential buildings 9 $41,295

Commercial buildings 2 $23,000

Total 5 $84,900

Housing Unit Demolitions 3 $15,000

Coolidge Sales Tax 2012/2013

INDUSTRY GROUP FEBRUARY FY TOTAL

Mining N/A $0

Communication & Utilities $70,078 $586,260

Transporting & Warehouse N/A $0

Construction $20,135 $185,261

Manufacturing $334 $35,160

Wholesale Trade $1,483 $27,250

Retail Trade $196,460 $1,808,747

Finance & Insurance $670 $3,970

Real Estate , Rental & Leasing $18,634 $156,193

Restaurant & Bar $17,274 $158,820

Accomodation N/A $0

Public Administration N/A $0

Services $3,428 $32,251

Arts & Entertainment N/A $0

Other $6,727 $45,205

Total $335,223 $3,039,117

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Cool-Image Dance, Gymnastics & Karate

670 W. Pima Ave

Coolidge, AZ 85128

Owner: Tiffany Price 480-241-2631

Tiffany and her staff are accepting applications for students wish-

ing to learn Dance, Gymnastics or Karate. She is conveniently

located by Coolidge Schools and has several classes to fit your

childs likes.

Its never too early to start your kids off with youth rec-

reation.

United States Postal Service 229 W. Central Ave

Coolidge, AZ 85128

Postmaster: Sandra Saucedo-Haley 520-723-5032

Sandra has joined the Chamber in hopes that she can meet our

Business members and to participate in community events. She

supports the local Chambers 100%.

Drop into the Post Office and meet Sandra, she will do her best to

serve our community.

Kustom Kuts by Celeste 428 W. Central Ave #B

Coolidge, AZ 85128

Owner: Celeste Adele Carter

623-221-2680

Celeste will have a full service shop with ladies who know the

latest in hair styling and color; they also specialize in barber-

ing.

Come by and see Celeste and her staff, Opening Day

is Monday, April 1st, 2013

Rain Tunnel Car Wash 1086 N. Arizona Blvd

Coolidge, AZ 85128

Owner: William Revis

520-723-2014

3 Self Serve Wash Bays RV Detailing

1 Touch-Free Automatic Specials

Vacuums Online Store

Self Serve Triple Foam Guns in Bays

MegaVendor Vending Machine

Award Realty Commercial

Florence, AZ 85132

Realtor: Judy Hughes

520-858-5414

Judy specializes in Certified Land Sales, Certified Com-

mercial Sales and Certified Commercial

Leasing.

She also serves Pinal County, call Judy to-

day for your Commercial Real Estate needs.

The Winners Circle Group, Inc dba Carlton’s Quilters Corner

406 N. Florence St

Casa Grande, AZ 85122

Owner: Barbara Kunz

520-421-9484 or 520-421-2641

The Winners Circle carries trophies, awards, name tags,

quilting, fabric, supplies and much much more.

Stop in and give Barb your order and she will

take care of you!

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Coolidge Avenue Reconstruction

The Coolidge Avenue Project meeting was very informative. Kimley-Horn and Associates were on hand with

a presentation of the project. The overall project costs are: Design $425,000 Construction $1,725,000, Con-

struction Administrations $260,000, Contingencies $86,000 Total Project costs are: $2,481,000. The City staff

was on hand with maps to review with business owners on Coolidge Avenue. They worked with them on keep-

ing flows to their businesses during the construction. This will be a painful process, but is a much needed up-

grade to thedowntown area and will help local businesses shine. The city is committed to doing anything

within their power to make it as smooth as possible for the businesses. If you have any comments, ideas or

would like more information please contact the Public Works Department (520)723-4882.

Projected Schedule

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Coolidge Chamber Website

April 2013

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 April Fools Day

2 3 Rotary/Ribbon Cutting Kustom Kuts by Celeste

4 General Plan Meeting//Windmill Winery Cookin N’ Corks/CAC Job Fair

5 YMCA Annual

Golf Classic/Windmill Happy Hour

6 Elks 5th Annual

Golf Tournament

7 8 City Council

9 10 Rotary 11 Windmill Win-

ery Cookin N’ Corks

12 Windmill

Happy Hour 13 HOHP Event

for Veterans/Sabercat Football Golf Tournament

14 15 Income Taxes Due

16 17 Rotary/Membership Luncheon

18 Windmill Win-

ery Cookin N’ Corks

19 Windmill

Happy Hour 20 Coolidge

Football Golf Tournament/A Night of Com-edy

21 22 Earth Day/City Council

23 24 Rotary/Administrative Professionals Day

25 Windmill Win-

ery Cookin N’ Corks

26 Windmill

Happy Hour 27

28 29 PAC Movie-The Avengers

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