january - february newsletter 2016

7/25/2019 January - February Newsletter 2016

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We had a great holiday season

and close to 2015, and its all

thanks to you, our members

and community. Thank you to

everyone who participated in

our late night openings, kept

stores open, shopped here first,

and worked to make our holiday

a little brighter.

Winter doesnt mean that we

slow down at all! The Chamber

and Merchants committee are

already planning for 2016. We

are finalizing plans and goals

for the upcoming year, and

cant wait to share them with

you!

One of our most visible current

projects is our chamber website

re-vamp, check out a preview in

this newsletter!

HAPPY WINTER!

In This Edition

Board of Director

President:

Travis Rhoads

Vice President:Marty Lundstrom

Jessie Pankratz

Troy Perry

Carly Prestwich

Ann Sautter

Katie Smith

Eric Wilke

Sharon Young

Chamber Secretary

Dina Meneely

Holiday in Review

Business After Hours at

Promises

Store Decorating Contest

Person of Influence

2015 Accomplishments

Shop Local Year Long Cam-

paign

Website Preview

Triangle Connected Com-

munity Challenge Grant

Community Calendar and

Online Courses

Check Us Out!www.maltachamber.com

[email protected]

406-654-1776


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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016

Malta Area Chamber of Commerce Newsleer

2015 was

overall a great

year and holi-

day season for

our business-

es. The Merchants committee

worked hard from July in planning

and organizing events throughout

the season. Thank you to Jacy

Stolem, Merchants president and

Avery Sorenson, VP for all their extra

effort!

During our Monday Late Night Open-

ings, we had everything from Key

Club wrapping gifts, to churches and

clubs donating snacks, to Santa, sto-

ries, carolers, and bell choirs. All of

these fun activities, to support and

encourage shoppers to first think of

our local businesses for their holiday

needs.

The Scrip program this year was up10% over last year! Many folks took

advantage of this program, and kept

their money local!

We were thrilled to see that over

$12,000 in Dino Dollars went out to

the community, in the month of De-

cember alone! That is a huge boostto our local economy.

Congratulations to our Chamber But-

ton Drawing winners, Sharon Young,

David Rummel and Jan Kirkwood.

Each received a $300 prize pack of

Dino Dollars and Gift Certificates to

our local shops.

HOLIDAYS IN REVIEW


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Business After Hours closed out2015 at Promises. Danni Hill and herstaff went all out this year, with deco-rations inside and out, hot chocolate,

spa wraps, and specials to set themood for their night at the Spa! Itwas a great night to get away fromthe hustle and bustle of the holidays,pamper yourself a bit and check outsome of the more unique gifts availa-ble in town!

Promises also won the Chambersstore decorating contest! Their storewas incredibly festive and reallybrightened your mood, when you ar-rived!

Danni said, We typically start deco-rating for Holidays on or before La-bor Day.

Last year we started on Aug 23rd.

EVERY single display in our 3,600square feet of floor space is mer-chandised with lights, material, tissueor Christmas floral. In 2015 we had

5 themed trees in the store, plus

adouble layer of lights around the en-tire store inside. Outside consistedof 2 lighted wreathes on the porchposts, a lighted angel, lamp post,cross and door wreathe as well asice cycle lights around the store. WeLOVE sharing His light with thecommunity we live in. Thanks so

much for your vote of confidence aswe continue to build the retail com-munity in Phillips County.

Second place in our decorating con-test went to Family Matters, and thirdto The Closet. Each won a portionoff their 2016 Chamber Dues.

Check out more pictures on the nextpage.

AFTER HOURS AND DECORATIONS




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AFTER HOURS AND DECORATIONS




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Congratulationsto our first Per-son of Influence

Awardee,LauraPankratz!

Laura was nomi-nated by com-munity membersand voted on byChamber mem-bers to receivethis award, rec-ognizing heramazing contri-butions to in-creasing thehealth, recrea-

tion and wellness of our area.

Laura leads Malta Trails, one of the mostactive groups around! Some of their pro-

jects include; building walking trails, or-ganizing hikes, bike safety programs, kay-ak adventures and snowshoe trips.

In just a few years, Laura and Malta Trails

has made Malta one of the premier placeson the hi-line for an active lifestyle com-munity. Winter is no exception! Have youtried ice skating on the pond behind 7thavenue East? Go snowshoeing? Gosledding? Or just build a snowman? If

you need more ideas, ask a Trails mem-ber!

More projects are coming up soon forTrails and Laura, so if you have an inter-est in supporting active outdoor programs,

join Malta Trails today!

Again, congratulations Laura, a well de-served award!

Do you know someone who goes out oftheir way to make our community a betterplace? Nominations for the March Personof Influence Awards are being acceptednow. Go to htp://goo.gl/forms/5QbP0AaCrqto submit your nomination. We will voteon an awardee at the February 16 Mem-bers Meeting.

PERSON OF INFLUENCE
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WHAT DID WE DO IN 2015?

Still wondering

what you get

out of your

Chamber of

Commerce

member-ship?

Wellhere

are just a

few of the

programs

and bene-

fits our

members saw

in 2015!

2015 Malta Chamber

(button number here)

Christmas Button


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2016THE YEAR TO SHOP LOCAL!

At the January Merchants Meeting, we approved a program to dedicate 2016 to a

year-long Shop Local Campaign!

You hear quite a bit from us about Shopping Local, particularly around the holidays,

but without the effort of everyone in our community to make the choice to shop here

first all year long, we do not have the vibrant community that we all love.

Throughout the year, we plan to provide a multi-media campaign showing the bene-

fits and results of keeping your dollars here at home! We want to show you how

your money, spent locally, impacts our whole community and how integral it is to the

success of our whole area.

We know that each time someone makes a purchase, they have the choice the

spend outside of our area. We want to persuade them, to stop, and try our local

businesses first, to

meet their needs!

If you would like to

participate on the

committee for this

program, please

contact the Cham-

ber office!


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THE NEW MALTACHAMBER.COM

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CONNECTED COMMUNITY GRANT!

Triangle Communications is pleased to announce the following communities as recipients ofthe 2015-2016 Smart Rural Connected Community Challenge: Sweet Grass County, theTown of Big Sandy and the City of Malta/Malta Chamber of Commerce.

The selected communities and their Stakeholder Committees will work closely with AnneBoothe, Triangles Economic Development Specialist, to discuss technology assets in their

community and how they relate to various sectors of the local economy. The overall goal ofthe Challenge is to develop a simple, written Broadband Action Plan that includes prioritiesand strategies to enable economic development in their community through broadbandtechnologies. A $2500 incentive grant award will be made to all selected applicants to im-plement one or more of the items identified in their completed plan.

Broadband connectivity and being able to conduct business, agriculture, or run our homesefficiently and securely go hand in hand. We are fortunate in Malta and Phillips County tohave the high-speed connections in place to positively impact the way we run our business-es and lives, and use technology to its fullest. We are thrilled to be awarded this grant fromTriangle and to use it toward telling our areas story, says Dina Meneely, Malta Area Cham-ber of Commerce Secretary.

The first meeting of the Malta Stakeholder Committee has been set for Monday, January25that 6:30 PM in the Phillips County Library meeting room. Interested persons wishing tobe added to the Committee are asked to contact the Malta Chamber of Commerce. Pleasecall 654-1776 or email [email protected] advance so resource materials can be pro-vided to all members before the meeting.

How excing!

What an Opportunity!

Join us for a Kicko

Meeng on Jan 25!
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Have you seen our new Community Calendar? If not, head over to maltachamber.comand take a look around. This new updated calendar allows for more details about each

event and links to event pages. If you have an event you would like to see added,

please contact the chamber office!


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Our world is fast-paced and evert chang-

ing. Our lives are busy with work, family,

community and more! We need to keep

learning and expanding our skills if we

want to continue to be successful.

Sometimes its hard to find time in your

day to attend a training class, or find one

that meets your schedule. The Chamber

is helping you to solve that problem with

the launch of our Online Learning Catalog!

We looked through several vendors of

online courses and selected 20 courses

by four vendors that are focused on busi-ness topics. All of the courses are free.

The delivery of these courses varies, be-

cause each of us likes to learn in a differ-

ent way. You have the choice to listen to

a pod cast, watch a video or fully interact

with an online course.

From each vendor, you can explore their

other course offerings. We recommended

only a few, but you can feel free to take

any that you find. Let us know if you find

one that you think we should add to ourcatalog. If you have other you would like

to see included, please let us know.

This is a program for members only. You

should have received a link through email

to the course catalog. If not, please email

us at [email protected].

ONLINE LEARNING COURSE CATALOG

Have you tried an online

course yet?

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