November 2016
Meet the New HACC Employees
Inside this Issue
e are excited to welcome two new employees to the HACC staff! Change always brings about opportunities and while we were sad to see Jess Woolley leave us, it gave us a chance to look at our positions and titles and make some adjustments.
p. 2..................November Chamber Luncheon Details p. 2.................... Springtime on the Dutch Waterways p. 3.............. Spotlight on Business: Dot’s Tots Foundation p. 3............... Connections & Coffee p. 4 ...................... Announcement: In Your Shoes p. 4...................... Why Should You Volunteer at Hollyfest? p. 5...............Member Anniversaries p. 5.........................New Members p. 5.................. Our Members Want You to Know p. 6................. #HilliardsHappening p. 6.......................... Our Members Want You to Know p. 7...........Advertising Opportunities
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Myrriah Clarke joins us as our full time Events Coordinator, she will be working daily manning the front desk, being a resource for our members and community as well as assisting with all of the events the HACC manages. Myrriah was already involved with the chamber as a member representing NovaCare Rehabilitation and served as a very active Chamber Ambassador.
Julie Biddle is working part time in our new role of Communications Coordinator. She comes to us with a wealth of experience in B2B and B2C marketing and communications. She has a passion for small business, loves connecting people and is energized about being more directly involved in her community. Julie will be focused on promoting HACC events, writing a variety of our communications and helping determine the best ways for the HACC to connect to all of its different audiences. Please welcome Myrriah and Julie as they are here to serve you and the chamber.
p. 7...................Chamber Luncheon Sign-Up p. 8................... Calendar of Events
Myrriah Clarke
Julie Biddle
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November Chamber Luncheon GO Bucks Luncheon!
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he BIG game is coming up with that Team Up North which means that our November 17 luncheon will feature Obie Stillwell, a former Ohio State Football player as our speaker.
Obie grew up in Mansfield, Ohio and attended The Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor’s in Criminology and he was a walk on the Buckeye’s football team. Because of his hard work and dedication as a student athlete, he earned a scholarship under Coach John Cooper. He is currently a realtor with Coldwell Banker. You will also see him on OSU football days with the Football Fever on Channel 6 with Clay Hall.
Please note that this luncheon is on a THURSDAY this month. We will be meeting at Heritage Golf Club, 3525 Heritage Club Drive, at 11:30 am and Obie Stillwell reservations are required by Tuesday, November 15. You may make them by going to our website, www.hilliardchamber.org or calling the office at 614.876.7666 Make sure to wear your team colors, whatever they may be!
Cost: $18.00 for members and $21.00 for prospective members and guests. Payment is required at the time the reservation is made.
SPRINGTIME ON THE DUTCH WATERWAYS from March 30-April 7, 2017!
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his tour will feature excursions in Amsterdam, Ghent, Antwerp and a tour of Keukenhof Gardens. Gather your friends and consider going on this trip! Reservations are open to everyone in the US and you do not need to be a chamber member to attend. The LAST date to make a reservation is DECEMBER 30, 2016
The price of the trip is from $4,099 - Air transportation from Columbus, OH & Cruise onboard the luxurious 5 Star “MV Amadeus Elegant” from March 30-April 7, 2017. Do not delay as space is limited and at this price the trip will sell out quickly! You can see how wonderful this trip will be by viewing the brochure on our website! This trip is open to everyone in the US and you do not need to be a chamber member to attend. At this time, buy a Category A and gain a free upgrade to a suite. A value of $500 per person! While the offer lasts! 2
Spotlight on Business...
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Dot’s Tots Foundation
or the better part of a decade, Hilliard resident, Ashley Warnock, has served the needs of local youth. She worked as a Children’s Services caseworker and for a firm contracted to run group homes for underprivileged teens. Now a homemaker, Ashley wanted to continue helping children. In 2012, she and her husband, Andy, founded Dot’s Tots Foundation. The name of the Foundation is in honor of Andy’s late grandmother, DorthA, a lifelong educator and constant provider of guidance, support, and love.
and/or life-threatening illness. Finally, Dot’s will provide annual scholarships to graduating high school seniors to help offset the rising costs of college tuition. As identified in the Articles of Incorporation, the purpose of Dot’s is to provide support to: • families providing foster care; • children with debilitating disease, injury, and/or illness; • and teenagers in their higher educational pursuits Foundation leadership looks at the charity as a three legged stool. While broad, the three pillars of Dot’s are linked together in empowering families, offering hope, and providing love and support.
Through Ashley’s work in the foster care arena, she realized the scarce resources foster parents are provided to care for their growing families.
By year end, Dot’s Tots should eclipse $125,000 in total revenue. Those monies have covered lost wages for families caring for pediatric cancer patients, shopping sprees for new foster parents, a toy drive for Nationwide Children’s Hospital, lawn-care services for a family enduring their three year old’s kidney transplant, luggage for foster children, a service dog to aid autistic twins, and more!
Foster parents sacrifice their own wants to provide for less fortunate children. Dot’s Tots is equipped to raise up these families. In addition, Dot’s will provide support for families whose children are recovering from - or battling - serious disease, traumatic injury,
To learn about Dot’s Tots Foundation or to support their efforts, please visit: www.DotsTots.org
D Dot’s Tots Foundation Executive Director, Ashley Warnock, and her husband, Andy (Chairman of the Board) present Carrie Beebe and her family with $8,162.00 during the first leg of the 1st Annual Old Hilliard Harbinger of Hope pub crawl. The monies raised will cover costs for a trained autism support dog for Carrie’s twin boys.
Connections and Coffee
on’t forget Connections and Coffee will meet on Friday, November 11th from 8:00AM to 9:00AM at Scrambler Marie’s, 3939 Britton Parkway in Hilliard. The group meets for coffee, networking and information sharing. Come with lots of business cards! 3
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Announcement: In Your Shoes e are thrilled to announce a new way that we are connecting to our members! Starting in November, Libby will be going to local member businesses to walk “in your shoes.” We are excited to get to know our members more intimately and to also highlight this in your shoes time on our social media channels. It’s important to continue to provide fresh and unique content for your followers on social media. This opportunity will allow YOUR business and ours the opportunity to promote our member businesses in an interesting behind the scenes look. When Libby walks in your shoes, she will commit to doing a Facebook Live post and other posts throughout the time that she is on site at your business. More than anything else, we are excited for the opportunity to get to know our members more and to help you connect to the Hilliard community in creative ways! If you are interested in having Libby walk in your shoes – give her a call today or send her an email so we can get you on the schedule.
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Why Should You Volunteer at the Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show This Year? 3. “Meet people on a more personal level and make lifelong friends.” When you are volunteering with others and you are all doing something new together it breaks down barriers and allows you to get to know each other on a different level rather than just business. Being a volunteer at the Hollyfest has some Taste of Hilliard is not only early morning or late fun, but delicious! evening opportunities to volunteer and it is always in those times with smaller groups of individuals working together that we are able to have fun, share stories and make memories that have developed into great friendships.
t would be easy for us to tell you why you should volunteer to help us at Hollyfest this year. Instead, we wanted to let Bobby Wright, the winner of our 2015 Volunteer of the Year award, take a minute to give you some reasons why he volunteers and why he thinks you should too.
1. “When the Chamber does well, local businesses are doing well.” Hollyfest and Taste of Hilliard are successful HACC events that are targeting the Hilliard Community. When the community has fun and enjoys these events they can see what an amazing chamber Hilliard has. As members, it is our responsibility to help ensure that the HACC events are successful. In the end, HACC celebrates its members in everything they do and these community events are no different. 2. “Come to everything with a giving spirit.” If you come into every circumstance with this type of an attitude you will be surprised in Bobby was a parking genius the ways it changes when helping crafters unload you, personally and their products at the Hollyfest. professionally.
It is easy to take a look at all the different areas where you could volunteer to help. We have opportunities on Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3 – take a look at our Signup Genius form to find out where you can help and sign up to volunteer today! www.SignUpGenius.com/ go/4090845AFA823AAFA7-volunteers 4
New Members El Sabor de Mi Tierra Resturant
Member Anniversaries
Mercedes Silie 4212 Westview Plz. Columbus, OH 43228 614-636-7493 Dominican food is so delicious, yet so hard to find. Our goad is to bring a piece of our island to the community.
The Chamber would like to recognize our members who have continually supported the purpose of the chamber and its activities. The following members have invested in the chamber for ten or more years as of November, 2016:
No. 1 Gyro Shoppe
Ferdinand Cela & Fation Cela 4567 Cemetery Road Hilliard, OH 43026 614-219-7600 Mediterranean restaurant considered healthiest food in the world. Try our lamb chops, kebobs, salads, falafel, hummus, spinach pie. All are made daily! Drive thru is open to close.
27 years Hayden Run Animal Lodge – Janice Landshof Jack’s Appliance Inc. – Dave Mitchell
KeyBank – Cemetery Road – Rick Brady PNC Bank – Cemetery Road – Tia Allen
Our Members Want You to Know
21 years Flyers Pizza & Subs – Steve Ulrey
Free Live Webinar: Backup and Disaster Recovery – Are you ready? Thursday, November 17, 2016 @ 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST.
19 years RICH Products – Kevin Cromwell
Winter is coming fast and with it bad weather. Every business needs a well thought out back up and disaster recovery plan. This is critical to keep business running when the weather is bad. From hardware failures, to storms, to power outages, making sure the information your business has is always available is critical.
17 years Civista Bank – Jeff Kopco 15 years Better Backs Chiropractic – Brian Murray, D.C. Donatos Pizza – Lianne McGlade Edward Jones – Annette Reed
Join Bobby Kneisel, CEO of KTech Solutions, to learn what makes a good back up system, disaster recovery plan, and how to test it. After the presentation make sure to stay for a Q & A session to answer any of the question you have about the cloud. Some of the things you’ll learn are:
Mill Run Vision Center – Michael Schecter, OD 14 years Crossroads Counseling Group – Greg Schad
Notary One Mobile Signature Services – Roger Rill
• 3-2-1 rule for data backup
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• What should be in a disaster recovery plan
Chick-fil-A at the Market of Hilliard – Errin Thompson
• How to decide what your business needs for a back up plan • And much more
Register today and have a chance to win a FREE ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION to OFFICE 365 5
#HilliardsHappening and complete their “challenges”, to be entered in to win a Grand Prize! The best part is, the event is completely free! Come check out all the great local businesses right here in Hilliard. • Are you having back pain, headaches, knee pain, or shoulder pain? Ask the experts at Active Physical Therapy and learn about some of their cutting edge treatments like dry needling. • Get creative and let the artists at Aprons N Easels help you create a holiday mason jar masterpiece to show off during the holiday season. • Are you ready for Tax season? A & E Accounting will provide you with advice to help with your personal taxes, and they are offering a discounted rate for new business clients.
The official opening of Coffee Connections, 4004 Main Street, was held recently. Stop by for delicious coffee and confections at this locally owned coffee shop.
• Diagnostic Imaging, injections, topical pain creams, surgeries and more! Hilliard Family Podiatry does it all, and has all the services you need for complete foot and ankle care. Bring used shoes to be donated to Haiti.
Meet and connect with others on November 10th—5 Business Open House
• Do you have a positive personality? Looking for a fast-paced, customer service based job? Check out Speedway, LLC and learn about how you can be a part of the Speedway team. Bring your Resume and allow the Speedway team to help improve your Resume and give you interview tips so you can knockout your next job interview!
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ome check out the great businesses in the Hilliard Rome Office Park “Decathlon”! Several businesses will be hosting an open house with free refreshments and prizes available to participants from 5-7 pm on Thursday, November 10!
You may RSVP on the Chamber website or please just come and bring your friends and associates to this connection event!
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The businesses that are sponsoring this event are:
Don’t let politics drive your investments.
Active Physical Therapy: 5551 Hilliard Rome Office Park
Aprons-N-Easels: 5512 Hilliard Rome Office Park A & E Accounting Services: 5512 Hilliard Rome Office Park
Annette M Reed, AAMS® Financial Advisor .
3535 Fishinger Blvd Suite 230 Hilliard, OH 43026 614-777-5873 www.edwardjones.com
Hilliard Family Podiatry, LLC: 5539 Hilliard Rome Office Park
Speedway, LLC: 5583 Hilliard Rome Office Park To complete the Decathlon, visit all the businesses
Member SIPC
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Chamber Luncheon
Advertising Opportunities
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
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he Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce is Heritage Golf Club providing opportunities for our members to advertise within our membership and to those outside as 3525 Heritage Club Drive well. Please contact the chamber for more information 11:30 AM-1:00 PM about the following (all are on a space available basis):
Program: Obie Stillwell, Former OSU Football Player
Inserts in the newsletter: Limited to no more than 3 each issue; member provides a PDF of the insert; emailed to 450 people, cost is $50. Business card size ad in newsletter: $150 for 3 months; $250 for 6 months; $400 for 12 months
Cost: $18.00 for members and $21.00 for prospective members and guests. Payment is required at the time the reservation is made. You may use this form or go to www.hilliardchamber.org to register.
Labels: Mailing labels of members provided by zip or organization sort: cost is $100 Flyers in relocation packets: Member provides the flyers to be inserted in relocation packets requested by companies and potential residents; cost is $100 for one year
Name(s)__________________________________ Company_________________________________ Number of Reservations: __________ Amount Enclosed ____________ Charge my: Visa ___ MasterCard ____ American Express ___
4094 Main Street, Hilliard, OH 43026 P: (614) 876-7044. T: (800) 860-7044, F: (614) 876-0409 www.riderfinancial.com or www.rrfgbenefits.com
Card Number ________________________________
Financial & Retirement Planning Life, Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance Group Health Insurance – including the ChamberPLAN
3 digit V Code______
SCOTT P. RIDER, CLU CFBS AEP CHRIS REINKE, Financial Planner MARTIN L. BRETZ, CLU ChFC CASL CLTC J.D. ARCHER, CFP CLU ChFC MBA
Expiration Date __________ Card Holder Name____________________________ Billing Zip Code ____________
Social Media Works!!
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he Hilliard Chamber is active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and we love talking about our members and sharing news about Hilliard with all of our friends! CONNECT with us to see what is happening in Hilliard and ENGAGE with us by sharing, liking and commenting on our posts. With 3000+ fans, we want you to grow with us!
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Mail to: Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce, 4081 Main Street, Hilliard, OH 43026 or call the Chamber office by Tuesday, November 15th, at 876-7666, FAX 876-3113, or E-mail to
[email protected].
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Board of Directors:
CHAMBER CONNECTIONS
Jeremy Felix, US Bank Jill Gerschutz, Credit Union of Ohio Keith Lewis, JC & Co. Curt Niekamp, OhioHealth Bonnie Nyikes, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Calhoon Company Melissa McKenzie, OhioHealth Stacie Raterman, Hilliard City Schools Bobby Sneed, Heritage Golf Club Bobby Wright, N2 Publishing
Central Ohio Business Resources Small Business Administration www.sba.gov Ohio Chamber of Commerce www.ohiochamber.com Small Business Development Centers of Ohio www.odod.state.oh.us Small Business Development Center http://www.entrepreneurohio.org Service Corp of Retired Executives www.scorecolumbus.org The Women’s Business Development Center (614) 222-6700
[email protected] Conway Family Business Center of Central Ohio www.familybusinesscenter.com Central Ohio Better Business Bureau www.centralohio.cbbb.com
Staff:
Libby Gierach, President/CEO Myrriah Clarke, Events Coordinator Julie Biddle, Communications Coordinator Email:
[email protected]
Check out our Website: www.hilliardchamber.org
Put Your Events on the Community Calendar
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ou have the opportunity to let everyone know of seminars, luncheons, open houses, fundraisers, non-profit activities, etc. that your business is doing by putting it on the Hilliard Chamber’s website! It is very simple—on the website, go to the Events tab and the first drop down is Community Events Calendar. Just complete the form and once it is approved, your event will be up for all to see!
Calendar of Events Thursday, November 10 Business After Hours Multiple Businesses in Hilliard Rome Office Park 5:00 – 7:00 pm Saturday, December 3 Hollyfest Arts & Crafts Show Hilliard Davidson High School 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Quickly add your events to the HACC event calendar online by selecting the n event calendar in the events drop-dow t! menu and click on Submit New Even 8
