September 2015

BUSINESS INDEX GRAND BLANC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

www.grandblancchamber.com

The Grand Blanc Chamber

“Operation Golf War” golf

outing was graced with

beautiful weather in the mid

70’s at the Jewel of Grand

Blanc August 7th. 78 golfers

came to eat, golf and have

fun.

First place was won by the

Financial Plus and Grand

Blanc NissanTeam. Last

place was strategically

captured by the Advance

Physical Therapy Team

winning them free bowling

passes and a trophy.

Thank you to our Title

Sponsor, Advance Physical

Therapy, the committee, all

the sponsors, and golfers who

made this a fun day and a way

to look after our soldiers.

See some of the pictures on

page 5.

Come see the Chef Demonstrations by The Oaks at Woodfield, sponsored by Genisys Credit Union

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Friday, September 4th

Breakfast Meeting

Brick Street of Grand Blanc

7:00 am Networking

7:30 am Meeting

$5.00 per Person

Speaker: Craig Williams,

Airport Director, Bishop In-

ternational Airport

Sponsors: NYNY Pizza

Monday, September 7th

Labor Day

Office Closed

Thursday, September 10th

Taste of Grand Blanc

The Captain’s Club at Woodfield

5:00 to 8:00 pm

Tickets on Sale Now

$15.00 in Advance

$20.00 at the Door

Todd Jones holds a Master’s

Degree in Education and has

taught for many years in the

Flint Community School

District. Todd served in the

Marine Corp. and is a current

member of the Patriot Guard.

He is an avid motorcycle

enthusiast and enjoys riding

Allstate Grand Blanc Agency Welcomes

Todd Jones To Their Staff

all over Michigan. He

currently lives in Flushing and

has a great deal of knowledge

regarding motorcycles and

loves talking to new people

about their insurance. Give

Todd a call at (810) 603-0400

for a no obligation insurance

quote.

Thursday, September 17th

Ribbon Cutting

NYNY Pizza

11:30 am

363 E Grand Blanc Rd

Grand Blanc

Refreshments Served

Wednesday, September 30th

Tri-Chamber Workshop

“Creating Record

Results” with Michael

Wickett

Fenton Winery & Brewery

1370 N Long Lake Rd

Fenton

$25.00 per Person

Award-winning NWA, Inc. is

celebrating its Silver

Anniversary. They continue

to stand out for their customer

base that has grown with them

over the past 25 years.

Founded in 1990 by Norm

Williams, NWA is a full-

service advertising agency

offering web, print, and

marketing services.

“Putting together a creative

team of people who have their

NWA, Inc : 25 Years

own expertise has always

been a significant part of

NWA’s business model, said

Williams. “And NWA has a

great team right now.”

Based in Grand Blanc, NWA

prides itself on personal

service, long-term client

relations, and community

involvement. For a

personalized marketing

consultation: (810) 695-4761

or visit them on the web at

www.nwa-inc.com

View Newspaper Group

proudly announces the start of

The Flushing View

Newspaper set to debut on

Thursday, Sept. 10.

The Flushing View is the

latest in a line-up of free

direct-mailed community

newspapers locally-owned

and operated by View

Newspaper Group. The paper

will contain local news,

features, sports and more

along with providing a local

marketing source for

businesses in and surrounding

the Flushing area. The

Flushing View will be direct-

mailed to more than 10,700

Flushing-area homes each

Thursday.

View Newspaper Group Announces Start

of Flushing View Newspaper

The Flushing View joins a

number of other View

newspapers in the Genesee

County area including The

Burton View, The Grand

Blanc View, The Swartz

Creek View, The Flint

Township View and The

Davison Index, which is more

than 125 years old. When the

paper launches, View

Newspaper Group will reach

more than 81,000 homes

weekly in Genesee County.

View Newspapers Founder and Owner,

Rick Burroughs and Publisher Wes Smith

CONTACT THE

GRAND BLANC CHAMBER

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810-695-4222

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CENTURY 21 Prestige

announced that The Grand

Blanc View recently

recognized their office for

Best of the Best for the 5th

year in a row, Wendy Sabo as

Best Real Estate Agent and

Best Builder/Developer,

Justine High as favorite Agent

and Tracy Lanphear as Best

Real Estate Assistant.

“Justine and Tracy approach

everything they do with

passion, and professionalism

View Newspapers Awards CENTURY 21

Prestige Best of the Best

and are truly becoming a

fixture within the Grand

Blanc and local real estate

community that we serve”,

said Wendy Sabo, Broker/

Owner of CENTURY 21

Prestige. “We could not be

more proud of all of our hard

working – award winning

associates.”

CENTURY 21 Prestige is a

full-service real estate

brokerage located at 8311

Office Park Dr, Grand Blanc,

Call them at (810) 695-3200.

The Flint Firebirds are

pleased to announce that all

seats for the club's inaugural

opening night on Sept. 26 vs.

the Saginaw Spirit are sold

out and that standing room

only tickets are now available.

The announcement came 44

days prior to the initial puck

drop thanks to Firebirds

Sponsor, Dort Federal Credit

Union who purchased the last

Firebirds Sell All Inaugural Opening Night

Seats 44 Days In Advance

handful of single seats

remaining. Puck drop for the

historic event is at 7:30

p.m. on the last Saturday in

September and will be the

first of four home contests

against the in-state rival this

season.

Standing Room tickets to the

home opener are available by

visiting the Box Office,

Ticketmaster.com or by

calling (810) 744-0580.

At Grand

Blanc

Gymnastics

they are

committed in

their support to finding the

cure for Breast Cancer. In

recent years they have put

teams in Breast Cancer walks.

They also designed, created,

and donated bras to be

auctioned at Pink Night for

the past 4 years as well as

Grand Blanc Gymnastics Company-

Flipping For a Cure

donated items to their silent

auction. Every October Grand

Blanc Gymnastics holds a

"Not So Haunted House" for

children 10 and under and

donate a portion of the

proceeds to Breast Cancer

research. This disease has

affected many of our loved

ones and they will continue to

support this noble cause and

urge fellow community

businesses to do the same.

Speech therapy is a diverse

field. A Bachelor's Degree

in Speech Language and

Hearing Sciences and a

Master's Degree in Speech

Language Pathology are

needed to become a speech

language pathologist. There

are many things speech

language pathologists help to

improve; patients of all ages

are seen by speech language

pathologists.

Reasons to see a speech

language pathologist include:

not speaking at all by age 1,

not putting two words

together at age 2, repeating

word for word from TV or

something they hear you say

Maxwell Is Now Offering Speech Therapy

(echolalia), or not being able

to understand what your child

is saying, or stuttering.

Medical diagnoses and

concerns that SLPs also help

with are: stroke, Autism,

traumatic brain injury, cleft

palate/cleft lip, developmental

delay, hearing loss, dementia,

and Parkinson's Disease, and

accent reduction. This is not

an exhaustive list. Patient's of

all ages and diagnoses are

seen at Maxwell Therapy.

Saturday appointments are

available. Max Well Therapy

has a Clinic at 414 Perry Rd.

Grand Blanc, MI 48439. Give

them a call at (810) 579-7184.

Security Credit Union Donates to Food Bank of

Eastern Michigan

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Construction on the estimated

$2 million dollar Hurley

Children’s Center, located on

the second floor of the Flint

Farmers’ Market, has been

completed.

The new center combines a

fun, colorful, kid-friendly

design with state-of-the-art

care and technology. It totals

10,300 square feet and

encompasses 12 pediatric

specialty clinics, 24 exam

rooms, a lab, an innovative

teaching area and much more.

Future plans also include

Hurley Children’s Center Opens at Flint

Farmer’s Market

having prescriptions delivered

to the center from the H-Care

pharmacy located at Hurley

Medical Center.

The project is a collaborative

effort of Hurley Children’s

Hospital and the Uptown

Reinvestment Corporation

(URC), which operates the

Flint Farmers’ Market. The

Charles Stewart Mott

Foundation has provided

$1 million in funding for the

project through grants to the

Foundation for the URC.

Are New Hires Costing You Money?

right processes in place. It

seemed that everyone had

their own way of training

people and it usually wasn’t

the correct way. Now there is

only one way and everyone

gets trained the same way

each and every time. This

alone cut their turn over

expense in half and when

finished they all were on the

same page. Since then

everyone understood their

jobs better, productivity

increased, and less employees

left the company because of

it. They are now working with

MCA in other areas of their

business to see what can be

improved there as well. You

can contact MCA, Inc at

810-232-9797.

Their

employee

turn-around

rate had

gotten out of

hand. Each

new hire cost the company on

average $4,000-$6,000, just to

get them up to par. It seemed

though, as soon as they got

one trained, another would

leave. Something had to be

done about the revolving door

installed in their HR

department; their start-up

costs were killing them.

The business needed help and

that’s when they called MCA

of Grand Blanc. In a short

period of time MCA was able

to find the issues and help

solve them by putting the

Genisys Credit Union which

provides services to anyone

who lives or works in the

Lower Peninsula of

Michigan, recently made a

difference for the Food Bank

of Eastern Michigan’s

“Hunger Doesn’t Take a

Vacation” Campaign.

Genisys Makes A Difference For The Food

Bank of Eastern Michigan

Thanks to the members in

Clio, Fenton, Flint, Grand

Blanc, Marysville, and Vassar

for their commitment to raise

the necessary dollars to help

local area neighbors. The

contributions raised included

$9,064.80, plus 35 pounds of

canned food. This equates to

81,618 pounds of food, which

will provide 54,412 meals for

neighbors in the communities

who are served by the Food

Bank of Eastern Michigan

through local community

food centers, and food

pantries.

Sponsorship Opportunities

for the Taste of Grand Blanc Still Available:

Title Sponsor: $2000 Pub Sponsor: $750

Parking Lot Sponsor $750 Dining Out Sponsor: $650

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“ Operation

Golf War”

August 7th, 2015

Thank you Golfers,

Sponsors, and Volunteers Farm Bureau Insurance– Tim Wilson Team

The State Bank Team

Jon & Paula Loughridge, Mark Kilmer, Debra Meek

Flint Firebirds and Lady Firebirds

1st Place Winners– Financial Plus and Grand Blanc Nissan

Advanced Physical Therapy and Merrill Lynch Team Ken & Don Thomas, Jet Kilmer, and Chief Stamm

Next Advisory Group Team

VFW 822 Team

Birthday Team had a lot of fun

Studio 10 Team

The State Bank Exclusive Hole

Kirk & Marie Heath with the Up North Team Lori Etue-Carl and Tim Sneller & Jacob

Shawn Kruttlin has been hired

as a Project Manager. Shawn

has a Bachelors of Science in

architecture from Lawrence

Technological University.

He is a Computer Rendering

Specialist and has been

awarded a certificate in

building information

modeling and computer

visualization.

BDE also announces a new

project they have begun work

on. Mount Hope Church in

Grand Blanc is expanding

Bud Design & Engineering Introduces

New Employee

their facility. The initial

phase of the project consists

of an 11,000 square foot

addition for a new children’s

ministry. BDE will be

responsible for all

architectural and engineering

services for this project.

To find out how Bud Design’s

diversified knowledge and

skills can assist you, give

them a call at (810) 695-0793

or visit their website:

www.buddesign.com.

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Alan Himelhoch, attorney and

manager of the Grand Blanc

law firm Winegarden, Haley,

Lindholm & Robertson,

P.L.C. has successfully

mediated the settlement of a

complex lawsuit in the

Oakland County Business

Court. The lawsuit involved

owners, lenders, general

contractors and subcontractors

who flipped dozens of

properties. Problems at the

tail end of these projects

resulted in litigation

Complex Mediation Settled

involving hundreds of

thousands of dollars, an

injunction, and many

construction liens.

Himelhoch was appointed

mediator by the 12 attorneys

and 13 parties and worked for

two months to successfully

resolve the entire litigation.

He has worked as a mediator

and arbitrator for over a

decade as part of his 27 year

Business Law and Litigation

practice. Call Alan at (810)

767-3600.

Kristy Cantleberry Team Takes On Two

Grand Blanc Interns

The Kristy Cantleberry Team

added two Grand Blanc

Interns this summer.

JeMiah Gibbs, a Wayne State

University student studying to

be a pediatrician and

Genevieve Daily, a Grand

Valley State student enrolled

in the journalism program.

Both interns worked on

special projects including

marketing and organizational

projects for the team. They

were hired through the Flint

Genesee Teen Quest Program.

“I was honored to be part of

this Teen Quest program.

Both of these interns were

phenomenal. I was impressed

with their skills, work ethic

and reliability,” said Kristy

Cantleberry. “I would hire

them again, and plan to

participate in the Teen Quest

hiring fair again.”

Want to know the value of

your home or property. The

Cantleberry Team can help.

Call today at (810) 691- 5914

or visit www.GetKristy.com

Lynette Bradley, Intern JeMiah Gibbs, Intern Genevieve

Daily, Kristy Cantleberry and Melissa Macko

Milnes Ford is Lapeer

Counties fastest growing Ford

store and they’re expanding to

Grand Blanc. Whether you

are looking for a Ford, Chevy,

Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep or

Ram, Milnes Auto Group has

you covered. Milnes is your

one stop shop, offering

exceptional service and

discounted prices. Milnes will

even deliver the vehicle to

your house at no extra cost.

They will save you time and

money. Milnes offers lower

prices than the big stores

because they have lower

expenses. They understand

how important your time is

and treat customer’s right

with over 400 positive real

reviews online to prove it.

They believe in always

getting three quotes for any

big purchase and think you

should do the same. The

Milnes Group has many local

residents in the Grand Blanc

area. Milnes offers free pick

up/drop off services and will

go the extra mile to make sure

you’re taken care of. Even if

you just want to make sure

you are getting a good deal at

another dealership, give them

a call. At Milnes they make

buying a car or truck fun

again. Visit Milnes.com today

with 900 vehicles to choose

from.

Milnes Ford Joins Grand Blanc Chamber

Convergent Technology

Partners will be relocating to

the Chase Bank complex by

September 1st, 2015.

Convergent continues to

proudly support the Genesee

County revitalization and

looks forward to continue

Convergent Technology Partners

serving the community with

their technology support and

services. The newly renovated

space will be located at: 111

E. Court Street - Suite 202,

Flint, MI 48503. Please feel

free to stop in.

512 E Grand Blanc Rd

Grand Blanc MI 48439

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