Calendar:
Weekly Meeting:
Our regularly scheduled weekly meeting will be held Wednesday morning at the Weathervane Restaurant in
University Mall from 8:00 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Meeting Dues are $5.00 per week. Place your business
card and $1.00 in the Optional Drawing. One card will be selected and that person will receive the week's kitty.
For Express Check-In, please arrive with a $5.00, a $1.00, and a business card and we will check you in. We greatly
appreciate your bringing correct change. We cannot change large denomination bills ($10, $20, $50, etc.) and cannot accept
checks.
This Week's Speaker:
Anita Lynch is a cruise travel agent and the owner of SeaMaster Cruises in Durham. She has cruised for
twenty-five years, traveled for over forty years, and been on five continents. Her dearest hope is to
visit every country in the world before she dies. Her second dearest hope is to book as many clients as
possible to come along.
Did You Know:
Chamber Office Closed, Monday, January 21, 2008
The Chamber office will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will reopen at 9 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Mansion 462 Ribbon Cutting - 7:30 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2008
Please join Chamber Staff, Board, Ambassadors and community leaders for a ribbon cutting for
Mansion 462. The
ribbon cutting will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24.
Mansion 462, a spacious and versatile new event
space and live music venue, is located at 462 W. Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.
2008 Annual Meeting - 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce 2008 Annual Meeting will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Jan. 29 at the Carolina Club. The Annual Meeting includes, lunch, networking, a community celebration
and announcement of the 2007 Business of the Year Awards. Register today at
www.carolinachamber.org/annualmeeting.
Tickets are available for $45/ticket (or $550 to reserve a table for ten) through Wednesday, Jan. 16. After Jan. 16,
ticket prices increase to $50/ticket (or $600 to reserve a table for ten).
Business of the Year Awards will be given to the outstanding Chamber member organizations in each of following
categories: small, mid-size and large businesses of the year; and business newcomer of the year. The Duke Energy
Citizenship and Service Award will also be given. Finalists for the Business of the Year Awards are listed below.
Small Business of the Year Finalists:
A Better Image Printing
Market Street Books and Maps
Great Earth Vitamins at Meadowmont
Mid-Size Business of the Year Finalists:
S.H. Basnight and Sons
The Home Team
Weaver Street Realty and Auction Company
Large Business of the Year Finalists:
The Siena Hotel
Harrington Bank
Chapel Hill Tire Car Care Center
Newcomer Business of the Year Finalists:
The Franklin Hotel
Kidzu Children's Museum
Town Planner
Regional Business After Hours - 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Join Chamber members, Staff and Board at the fifth annual Regional Business After Hours at 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, January 30. The event, presented by the
RBC Center and the
Carolina Hurricanes, will be
held at the
RBC Center in Raleigh and gives you the opportunity to network with 1,000 members of Triangle
area chambers of commerce. Regional Business After Hours includes hors d'oeuvres and beverages and is
free for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce members. RSVP to Meg Branson at
mbranson@carolinachamber.org.
Networking In Your Neighborhood
Apex Leads Group
The Apex Leads Group (
www.networkinginapex.com) meets every Tuesday at Pheasant Creek Coffee in the Peakway Market Square Shopping Center, 800 West Williams Street, Suite 140, Apex 27502. Christine Rhyne Johnson
of Mary Kay (919-386-0567) is the facilitator. They meet from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Cary Leads Group
The Cary Leads Group meets every Thursday at JavaBlu Espresso
(
www.javablu.com) in the Hemlock Plaza Shopping
Center, 2974 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary, NC 27511. John Majernik of MannaTech (919-612-4170) is the facilitator. They meet from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Clayton Leads Group
The Clayton Leads Group meets every Thursday at The Coffee Mill, 105 South Lombard Street, Clayton, NC. Bobby
Whitley (
bwhitley@jhnetwork,com) (919-719-3804) is the facilitator.
They meet from 10:30 a.m.
Hillsborough Leads Group
The Hillsborough Leads Group meets the second and fourth Thursday morning of each month. Ned Parson of American
Speedy Printing (493-0985) is the facilitator. They meet at the Occoneechee Steak House from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Holly Springs Leads Group
Holly Springs Leads Group meets every Wednesday at Java Divine (
www.javadivine.com) in the Bass Lake Shopping Center,
128 Bass Lake Road, Holly Springs, NC. Barb Petty of Melaleuca (919-662-5418) and Debbie Walter (919-303-1829) are the facilitators. They meet from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
North Raleigh Leads Group
The North Raleigh Leads Group (
www.northraleighleads.com) meets every Monday morning at the Percolator
Coffee, 5039 Falls of the Neuse Road, Raleigh 27609. David Stoner of EnviroFix (919-847-5355) and Charlie Edinger of Second Chance Solutions (919-219-5264) are the facilitators. They meet from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Pittsboro Business Women's Group [PBWG]
The Pittsboro Business Women's Group meets the first and third Tuesday morning of each month at the Chatham
Mortgage, 76 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, NC 27312. Janet Wyatt (542-4222 or
pittsborobwg@hotmail.com) is the facilitator. They
meet from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
