May 2007 Newsletter
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SPONSOR

MOUNT GARAGE DOORS

Residential & Commercial

Sales & Service

(410) 549-2668

www.mountgaragedoors.com

SPONSOR

SHERMAN EMERSON INSURANCE

Auto • Home • Business • Life

Dennis Emerson

(301) 831-5885

www.shermanagency.com

MAY MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Our monthly membership meeting will be held on Thursday May 3rd at 8am at the Mt Airy Fire Hall (corner of Watersville Rd and Main St, park at the rear/lower level and enter through the back doors).

We will have our usual hour of introductions, committee reports, and discussions of new and old business.

Remember that minutes of all our monthly meetings can be found on the Chamber website at www.mtairybusiness.com

Every month members also get to see all the advertising, newspaper coverage and correspondence for the past month.

Please also see the item below about changes to our by-laws.

BUSINESS CARD EXCHANGE I

A Business Card Exchange will be held Tuesday May 8th , 7am to 9am at Costco Wholesale, 10 E. Walser Drive, Frederick.

This event is being produced in partnership with the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce so we are expecting a very good turnout and lots of great networking opportunities.

BUSINESS CARD EXCHANGE II

A Business Card Exchange will be held Tuesday May 22nd, 5pm to 7pm at Mt. Airy Sports Supply, 1603 Ridgeside Drive.

Please note the later starting time – this is to allow more parking as neighboring offices close at 5pm.

Mt Airy Sports Supply is located behind Ellis Cleaners, next door to Domino’s Pizza.

COMMUNITY EXPO REPORT

The 2007 Mt. Airy Chamber Community Expo was held on April 21st at the Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Co.'s Activities Grounds.

The event was extremely well organized by Filomena Thompson and her committee and there was good attendance on a beautiful spring day.

A collection of photographs from the event can be seen on the Expo page of the website at www.mtairybusiness.com

MEMBERSHIP REPORT

The following seven new businesses joined in April:
Total Terrain

Von Eiff Oil

Hearty Party

Gators Home Improvement

Kolb Electric

First Horizon Home Loans

Wren House

We have 343 members signed up for 2007.

[Membership Committee Chair Dennis Emerson, Sherman Emerson Insurance.]

PHONE BOOK UPDATE

The 2007 Mount Airy Phone Book (and the new Business Edition) are in the final stages of production and printing is expected to begin by the end of the first week in May.

Delivery will follow immediately – with books reaching local residents most likely in the week of the 14th, if not before. A more detailed report will be sent to the e-mail list once the presses are actually rolling!

With 81 pages of advertising, the main edition is 148 pages and the Business Edition is 92 pages.

CARD EXCHANGES REPORT

Thank you to everyone involved in producing our two networking events in April.

Thanks to Amy Green-Phillips, The Acupuncture Center of Mt Airy and her co-sponsors Mt. Airy Liquors, Big Perms and Hair Flair Salon who held an event on April 17th.

Thanks also to Ileana Sutter, The Healing Temple, and her co-sponsor Thomas Watkins, Watkins Limousines, who held their event on April 30th.

BY-LAWS REVIEW

The By-Laws committee has rewritten the by-laws, as discussed and announced at the last membership meeting.

The Executive Committee has considered the amended By-Laws, and recommends that the membership adopt the By-Laws, as amended. The amended By-Laws will be presented and proposed for adoption at the membership meeting on Thursday, May 3.

The By-Laws, with amendments highlighted, may be viewed at www.mtairybusiness.com/amended_bylaws1.pdf. You will need Acrobat Reader, available for free at www.www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

Please review the amended By-Laws before the meeting. If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them first to me (tbarkley@finlegal.com) or to Aaron Kahn (akahn@eclipsesecurityinc.com), since we might be able to answer your question directly and save meeting time. Regardless of our response to your question or concern, you are always free to voice it at the membership meeting.

The Chamber By-Laws are the foundation of our function as the voice of business for the Greater Mt. Airy community. Please make sure that they accurately embody and effectuate our mission.

[Tim Barkley, By-Laws Committee]

2007 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

On Tuesday, June 12, 6.30-9.30pm the topic will be Tips and Tricks of Quickbooks, at the Carroll Community College Business Training Center. This seminar is being sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Accounting Solutions, LLC.

The workshops are FREE to Chamber members and $10 to non-members.

To register, please call (410) 386-8012 or email mtitus@carrollcc.edu.

SEMINAR REPORT

The seminar held April 23, "Developing Advertising Materials for Your Small Business" was very well attended (more than 20 members and non-members). It was held at the Mount Airy Library, with instructor Sarge O’Donnell of the Carroll Community College.

The seminar was sponsored by Interstate Construction and Development, Mid Maryland Health Insurance Solutions and Plain English Writing & Design.

4 COUNTY LIONS GOLF TOURNEY

The 4 County Lions Club - Mt. Airy will hold their First Annual Golf Fundraiser on Tuesday May 22nd, 2007 at the Links at Challedon.

You can find more information and their PDF flier on the Chamber website at www.mtairybusiness.com – or contact Ray Miller, RE/MAX Realty Group, 301-831-5600 office, 301-370-3046 cell.

CATONSVILLE HOMES

Catonsville Homes has a new address and telephone number:

11175 Stratfield Court, Marriottsville, MD 21104.

Phone 410-442-2211. Fax 410-442-2215.

SECOND E-MAIL LIST

Don't forget that the Chamber e-mail group "mtairybusinessgeneral" is available for all members to use.

Unlike the main group, this new group is not moderated and members
are free to post anything related to their own business or to the
local business community in general.

To view messages posted to the group, or to join, please visit:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mtairybusinessgeneral/
An edited digest of postings is submitted to the main e-mail group once a week.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Keir Knight at (301) 829-1982 or klknight@pipeline.com

CHAMBER FOLDERS

The Greater Mt Airy Chamber of Commerce now has pocket folders available for all members to use. The glossy folders include four interior sheets: committee descriptions, Chamber events, leadership and an application form.

The folders are available at all Chamber events and meetings – or by contacting Ambassadors Committee Chair Ellie Bonde of the Blossom & Basket Boutique at (301) 831-0010.

They are perfect to use to introduce potential members to the Chamber.

INFO TO SHARE?

If you have information you would like to share with other Chamber members – either through the monthly newsletter, the Chamber website, or Yahoo e-mail lists – please contact Advertising & Marketing Committee Chair Keir Knight of Plain English Writing & Design at (301) 829-1982 or klknight@pipeline.com