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Time is Running Out for Discounted Ad Space in the 2012 Visitors Guide/ Business Directory
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Save 10% before August 31!
The Sumter County Chamber's 2012 Visitors Guide and Business Directory reaches thousands of residents and visitors to our area. Your business can reach potential new customers through distribution to new and current residents and vacationers seeking local information, as well as to local businesses. Read More Here>> |
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Florida to get millions to aid small businesses
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A federal small-business program will provide nearly $100 million in financing for Florida business expansion, Treasury Department officials announced last week. That investment under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 is expected to spur private companies to lend businesses in the state 10 times that amount, or $1 billion. Read More Here>>
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Tourism Report
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Tourism surged throughout the state and in Southwest Florida this spring, the result of pent-up demand, a slightly improved economy and cycling over a period a year ago when oil was still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Statewide, the number of visitors rose 7 percent from April through June from a year ago, according to preliminary estimates from Visit Florida, the state's tourism agency. Read More Here>> |
Ribbon Cuttings
Monday, August 29, 11am
The Mattress Station
2588 W CR 48, Bushnell (next to Beef O'Brady's)
Please come welcome owner Rudolph Gage to the Chamber and business community.
Tues., September 27, 10am
Country Pride Restaurant
556 E SR 44, Wildwood (attached to the TA Travel Center right next to I-75)
Come to the grand reopening after their total store remodel and see their new 57-seat meeting space! Stick around for your chance to dip a store manager in the dunk tank!
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Sumter County Chamber E-News
Monday, August 22, 2011
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Chili Cookoff highlights September's First Thursday networking event
 Do your friends and family rave about your chili? Make a batch and enter it in the second annual Sumter County Chamber of Commerce Chili Cook-Off on Thursday, September 1, 5:30-7pm, at Thomas E. Langley Medical Center for a chance to win a fabulous prize!
 Thomas E. Langley Medical Center is located at 1425 S. US Hwy 301 in Sumterville. No RSVP is required and admission is free to chamber members.
For information about submitting your chili, call the chamber at 352-793-3099, or e-mail us at sumter-coc@sumterchamber.org. |
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"A Taste of Simply Sumter" to showcase distinctive restaurants and shops; raise funds for scholarships
"A Taste of Simply Sumter," Thursday, October 6, 5:30-8pm at Continental Country Club, 50 Continental Blvd. in Wildwood, is an evening of food, music and boutique shopping that celebrates the businesses that make Sumter County a wonderful place to live work and play.
Sample the variety of unique restaurants and retail shops in our county, and help raise funds for education.
Restaurants from across Sumter County will serve samples of their signature dishes, and distinctive shops and boutiques will display their products. There will also be live entertainment, and silent auctions with valuable prizes.
Funds raised from ticket sales and the silent auction will go for 2012 scholarships to seniors at South Sumter High School, Wildwood Middle-High School and The Villages Charter High School.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Read More Here>>
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Contact the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce at 352-793-3099 or e-mail us at info@sumterchamber.org for more information. |
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Member News
Events and information from your fellow chamber members.
Sparr Building & Farm Supply in Wildwood will have its Annual Truckload Sale during the month of October, with a month-long sale on selected Purina animal feeds. These feeds are bagged in pink bags with proceeds of each sale going to breast cancer research. The owners of Sparr Building and Farm Supply are going one step further and donating $0.25 from the sale of each bag to a local charity supporting breast cancer research.
Kids Central, Inc. presents the 5th annual "One Childhood, One Chance" Kinship Care Conference on September 30. Read more here>>
United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties will hold an e-Recycle fundraising event on Saturday November 5, 8am-1pm at the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, 1010 N. Main St., Bushnell, FL. Read More Here>>
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is seeking potential mentors for a new program at the Federal Correctional Center at Coleman. They are looking for people and or organizations that would be willing to donate one to two hours every other week, or as much as possible, towards this goal. Mentors should be a positive influence, give good sound advice, and help counsel individuals in their re-entry efforts. Read More Here>>
LSCC Foundation, Inc. provided 239 Scholarships totaling $211,396 for the Fall Semester. The Lake-Sumter Community College Foundation, Inc. Scholarship Committee received over 450 applications, and provided 239 scholarships totaling $211,396 to students attending LSCC for the Fall semester. Read more here>>
Emergency Rescued Pets Ready for Adoption at HS/SPCA of Sumter. The Humane Society/SPCA of Sumter County had conducted a large emergency rescue in July of many large breed dogs, puppies, cats & kittens pulled from horrid living conditions. Special adoption rates will apply through August. Read more here>>
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Sumter Cookbook "Recipes and Reminiscences" Now Available
 Recipes and Reminiscences is the first Sumter County cookbook produced by the Sumter Chamber. The beautifully bound hardback cookbook includes recipes from local restaurants like Cotillion Southern Café, Senator Alan Hays, longtime South Sumter High School principal C.L. Brooks and many more. In the south you can never have a good meal without a good story and Recipes and Reminiscences gives you both. Read rumors about what started the fire in the original county courthouse, find out about a famous Baseball Hall of Famer who called Sumter County home, and many more from the residents who lived it. Letters, photos, and infamous headlines decorate the pages of what is sure to become a favorite in your home. The first run of Recipes and Reminiscences sold out in two months, but IT'S BACK. Contact the chamber office at 352-793-3099 to reserve your copy for only $13.00 (including sales tax) today. |
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Remember, our chamber of commerce is here to serve you and your business. If you have a suggestion for how we can help, please call us at 352-793-3099 or e-mail us at sumter-coc@sumterchamber.org.
Sincerely,
Andrew Cripps, Executive Director
Sumter County Chamber of Commerce
 
Visit our website at
www.sumterchamber.org
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