|
|
|
Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce
Weekly Newletter
March 19, 2010 |
|
|
Chairman's Corner
Well, spring is finally here! I hope everyone is enjoying the changing of the season. I'd first like to thank everyone who made Great Texas Scholars a successful event. Special thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors and Chamber Staff who once again put on a first class event.
As the Chairman, I take great pride knowing that our Chamber is providing a means to "help promote, strengthen and expand the business community." There are many ways for you and your business to take the extra step and we hope that you lean on the Chamber as a resource to help get you there. We want to help!
I also encourage you to take advantage of the events we have coming up in the next few months. We are busy planning for two of my personal favorite events of the year, the Chamber's annual golf classic, which is May 7th, and the GAMES of Grand Prairie, which will be held this year again at Loyd Park on May 22nd. Both events are great opportunities for advertising your business, networking within the business community and having a great time with other chamber and community members. If you'd like more details on these events, please don't hesitate to ask!
And as always, keep up to date with what's going on in the Chamber and Community by visiting our website www.grandprairiechamber.org or call the chamber at 972-264-1558.
Clayton Fisher
Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Board | |
|
| Upcoming Events..... |
|
|
Legislative Affairs
4:00 p.m.
Chamber
The Chamber is the voice of business to the local, state and federal government.
This committee meets to discuss and legislation that will affect business. We share this information with our membership and ask for feedback so we can appropriately represent our community businesses.
We also provide a Voter's Guide each year to share information about candidates for local City Council and School Board elections.
Mary Jean Maloney
817-303-2911
Thursday, March 25th
Branding Iron's Breakfast
Rodriguez Bakery
105 Clarice St.
7:45 am - 9 am
Business After Hours
Ripley Entertainment Inc.
601 E. Palace Pkwy
5:30-7:00 p.m.
|
Welcome our Newest Members!
|
|
|
Domino's Pizza Supply Chain Center
900 S. Hwy 161
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
(972) 642-2244
Fast Armadillo
1600 Lone Star Pkwy, Ste 1
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
877 9Burrow (877-928-7769)
Lady Primrose Products
3329 Roy Orr Blvd, Ste 200
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
(214) 747-7673
Mark Bumgarner Photography
2241 Vega
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
(214) 629-4374
|
|
Chamber Member DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL OFFER
Each Chamber member in good standing is eligible to buy a
CareFlite Ambulance Membership at a cost of $10 per employee. |
|
|
Per Jim Swartz, President and CEO of CareFlite, this is quite an offer:
"A one year family membership (usually) costs $49. The lowest public price which you can see on our website is $149 for 5 years or $30 per year. But the real value is if someone is transported. A typical ground transport is $1500 and a typical air transport is $15,000. In our experience, insurance companies on average pay about 50% leaving the balance to patient responsibility. Over the past 30 years we have transported over 500,000 patients. This year we will transport about 40,000. This is a bargain at $10 and yours would be about the 10th Chamber to offer it to their members as a special benefit. While our service covers all of North Texas, if someone is getting a helicopter transport in Grand Prairie, it is 99.5% likely to be CareFlite."
Contact the Chamber Office and we will gladly send you the Caring-Heart Membership Application so that you can offer this great benefit to your employees. |
|
Welcome Family Health Care Center
of Grand Prairie |
|
|
On March 15th the Chamber, along with the Branding Irons welcomed one of our newest members, Family Health Care Center of Grand Prairie, located at 2950 W. Camp Wisdom, #100. They opened on their doors on the first of February and they welcome new patients. For more information about Family Health Care Center of Grand Prairie please visit them at www.grandprairiefhc.com
Dr. Robert Abbate cuts the ceremonial ribbon!
| |
Messages from our members
Chocolate & Chic: Vegas Nights
Saturday, March 27th,
Manhattan Construction is currently soliciting bids for the Construction of the new $63M University of North Texas football stadium. Click here for more info.
Prairie Ride, benefiting Rotary Service Projects and Children's Charities, Saturday, April 24th, for more info click here. |
| CHAMBER LINKS |
|
Click on any of the Chamber links below.
|
Renewing Members Click on the underlined word to visit their website
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|

|
|
|
Paid Advertisement
|
|

|
|
|
Paid Advertisement
| |
|