Weekly Chamber Chatter 10/23/2023

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On: 10/23/2023 13:38:25
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
5:30pm
Barre Elks Lodge

Dinner, Music, Awards Ceremony & Guest Speaker

2023
ATHENA Leadership Award Finalists:
Katie Frederick, President/CEO,
Applied Solutions Consulting
Dr. Elizabeth Gurian, Associate Professor,
Norwich University
Tawnya Kristen, Executive Director,
Green Mountain United Way

ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award Finalists:
Sarah Audet, Founder/Owner,
Hedgehog and Fox Collaborative
Holly Fosher, Career Readiness Coordinator,
Universitty of Vermont
Sarah Gallant, Assistant Professor,
Norwich University

Guest Speaker:
Betsy Bishop, President,
Vermont Chamber of Commerce &
2022 ATHENA Leadership Award Recipient

A formal evening honoring Vermont's women leaders with special recognition for this year's finalists.
Come enjoy an evening of dinner, music, a guest speaker and awards ceremony where this year's Vermont ATHENA recipients will be announced and presented their trophies. Come congratulate them in person!

Registration is $65 per person
Register Here-
centralvt.com/athenaleadershipawards
or email ATHENA@centralvt.com
By November 24, 2023

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BEGAP Portal Closing

A reminder that the Business Emergency Gap Assistance Program (BEGAP) application portal is closing at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 23rd. All applications must be completed and submitted by then, including those that are currently considered incomplete.

Please check the portal. If your application is visible that means it is incomplete. Please open it and take the necessary steps to complete it.

If it is not visible, that means your application has been properly submitted and is under review, in the queue to be reviewed, or has been approved. You will receive a status update once that review is complete.

SBA/FEMA Deadlines Looming

The deadline to apply for FEMA assistance and SBA disaster loans for physical damage from flooding that occurred July 7 through July 21 is October 31, 2023.

To be eligible for FEMA grants you need to live in Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington, Windham, or Windsor County.

For SBA loans, you must be in Addison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor Counties. (The deadline for organizations in Addison County is November 13, 2023.)

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Custom Signs and Graphic Design in Vermont

At Always On Time Signs & Design, regardless of your need, you will find the product for your residential or commercial application. With our comprehensive logo and graphic design services, we can create safety signs, banners, vehicle graphics, window and floor graphics, removable wall graphics, safety and highway signs, commercial signs, and more.

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Solar for Businesses Grant Webinar on Tuesday, 10/24
Learn how to get up to 85% of your business's solar project costs covered.

We've put together a webinar for you and a handful of other farms and businesses that are eligible for REAP solar grants. When combined with tax credits and other incentives, this grant can help your business get 85% of its solar project cost covered.

We want to make this as easy as we can for you because we are working with a deadline: the upcoming December 31st round of grants could be the last that covers 50% of project costs.

We are hosting the webinar twice on Tuesday, October 24th, at 10AM and 12:30PM. Register ahead of time to receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the webinar.

Register Here

Celebrate Halloween the Montpelier Way!
Montpelier's celebrates Halloween with something for everyone, from Trick or Treating to Karaoke. Check out the list of events this year!

Begin your Halloween with the youngest crowd with downtown Trick or Treating from 4:00 - 5:00 pm, followed by a Halloween Parade and Jamboree with music and a special guest! Parade meets up at 5:00 pm, at the corner of State and Elm, (Filibuster Cafe corner) and goes around the block (ending on Langdon Street Bridge with a carved pumpkin display and Woodbelly Pizza slices for sale). After the Parade, Zombies take over Langdon street, starting at 5:30, with the annual Thriller dance, including Halloween-themed dance parties between shows. Thriller dance numbers start at 5:30 and run until 7:00 pm.

The Montpelier Food Pantry, Just Basics hosts its 1st Annual Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat from 5:00 - 8:00 pm at 89 Main Street (entrance on East State Street). Stop by for trick or treating, cider, and a photo booth. Bring a donation to the pantry and you'll receive a raffle ticket for prizes from local businesses.

You'll find Halloween happenings for all ages throughout downtown starting October 27th - a pumpkin carving contest at Bent Nails Bistro, spooky tales with Tim Jennings at Kellogg Hubbard Library (ages 12 and up), horror night at Bear Pond Books (ages 14 and up), a Halloween Party with the Nailers at Bent Nails Bistro, and Halloween Karaoke at Charlio's World Famous. Get details on all downtown Halloween events from October 27th through the 31st at https://montpelieralive.com/halloween

To support businesses recovering from the flood, consider making a candy donation to disburse to downtown recovering businesses to provide enough treats for all. Bring a bag(s) to the City Clerk's Office in City Hall by Friday October 28th at 4pm.

For more information, visit https://montpelieralive.com/halloween

Montpelier Alive works to create a more livable and vibrant Montpelier by celebrating our community's heart and soul: its downtown. We bring community together through our diverse events, make downtown more beautiful through public art and streetscape improvements, support our local businesses, and share Montpelier's story with visitors from near and far.

This issue of Chamber Chatter is sponsored by:

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Attention Chamber Members!

Was your business impacted by the recent floods? Are you able to reopen quickly, or need to stay closed temporarily to clean-up, repair and restock product? Have your hours temporarily changed?

?Let us know so we can let your customers know! Send us updates to info@centralvt.com on what is going on with your business currently and we will include it in the next edition of Chamber Chatter.

Presents
Sam & Jim in HELL
7:30pm Thursdays–Saturdays; 2:00pm Sundays Now through October 22, 2023. + Digital Viewing!

Sam & Jim in Hell sees Samuel Beckett and James Joyce unexpectedly together in, what they eventually agree is,
some kind of afterlife! They confront, cajole and criticize each other – and have to deal with the women they've wronged.
Venture with us into realms unknown with this serio-comic new play that has audiences laughing as well as contemplating what's really important in life – just as the protagonists in the play do!
Click Here for tickets and more information!

We hope you will join us for
The Annual
Human Resource Law
Primmer Primer
presented by the
Employment Law Team at
Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer
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OCTOBER 27, 2023
10am - Noon
offered in person and virtually

In Person Location: Primmer Burlington Offices
30 Main Street, 4th Floor
Burlington, VT 05401

This seminar is free of charge.
PRIMMER PRIMER SEMINAR AGENDA:
Hiring & Recruitment
Discipline & Discharge
Remote Employees
Workplace Privacy
Exit Interviews
Legal Updates & New Developments (VT & NH)

PLEASE RSVP BY THE LINK BELOW AND INDICATE WHETHER YOU PLAN TO ATTEND IN PERSON (IN OUR BURLINGTON OFFICES),
OR IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY

RSVP HERE

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Get Your News Out There!

If you have an upcoming event, product promotion, or congratulations you would like to share, please send your press releases to The Chamber at info@centralvt.com so we can update others on news and happenings with your business.

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Got job openings?

Members, please send us the link to employment opportunities at your business and we will post it to our growing online list!

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Central VT Chamber

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Two conference rooms separated by a fold away wall can host meetings and events from just a few people to over 40. Centrally located in a prime space just off exit 7 from I-89, with free parking, coffee/tea, LCD projector, speakerphone and more, what more could you ask for in a conference room space?!

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