The Mission of the Kent County Chamber of Commerce is to serve, represent and be the leading advocate for the business interests of its membership in ways that enhance the environment of the business community and quality of life and well being of residents and visitors.

8/4/11

Chamber Board Meeting 

EXECUTIVE BOARD 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

LORETTA LODGE

PRESIDENT

DOUG CAMP 

The Investor's Friend

TREASURER

DIANE BRANDT 

CNB Bank

PAST PRESIDENT

KEN COLLINS 

WCTR Broadcasting, LLC  

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

REBECCA BLIZZARD 

Eastern Shore Tents & Events

DAVID BOWMAN 

PNC Bank

BOB GREENWALD 

East Coast Storage

JON HANLEY 

Hanleyman Services, LLC

JIM RICH 

Inn at Huntingfield Creek

JIM ROSS 

Chester River Health System

BILL RUCKELSHAUS 

Coldwell Banker Chesapeake Real Estate

JAY SILCOX 

David A. Bramble, Inc.

KATIE WARRINGTON 

Horizon Organic Dairy

DAVID WHEELAN 

The Chestertown Spy

LANSING WILLIAMS 

Washington College

 SHOP KENT COUNTY FIRST!

It is important to do business with your fellow Chamber Members. Say you need some office supplies; well we have Chamber members that sell office supplies. What about new furniture, home or office?  We have Chamber members that sell that also.

When you do business with fellow Chamber members, you are supporting businesses that are supporting this community and region by supporting the Kent County Chamber of Commerce. Need an Attorney, CPA, Realtor, Dentist, Physician, Veterinarian; all of these are also our members.

You can find these businesses listed in the Chamber Business Directory and on our website at www.kentchamber.org.  Do you need a little therapy, either physical or mental?  Well, we also have members in these fields.

I hope you see the message we are trying to send. When you do business with your fellow Chamber members, the ripple effect helps our members and our community. You can also check the list of participating members in the Member-to-Member Benefit Program at the end of this Newsletter.  These members offer discounts to all fellow Chamber members. 

Thanks for being a member of the Kent County Chamber of Commerce, we appreciate your support!

Loretta

Loretta

Loretta M. Lodge

Executive Director

Welcome New Members 

The following businesses have recently made an important investment in their future and a significant commitment to the community by joining the

Kent County Chamber of Commerce.

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Insphere

Phillip Shank 

234 Concord Road 

Chestertown, MD  21620

443.252.1184

pshank@insphereis.com 

www.insphereis.com 

Specializing in individual Life, Health, Long Term Care & Retirement Insurance.

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J. Michael Kelly

Chesapeake Investment Advisors 

106 Spring Avenue 

Chestertown, MD  21620

410.810.0735 Phone

410.810.3422 Fax 

mkelly@chesadvisors.com 

www.chesadvisors.com 

Offering financial and investment management across the entire financial spectrum, including financial planning,retirement planning, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds and annuities. 

Please join us in welcoming our newest

Chamber members!

Chamber Member News & Events  

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An Invitation from Pride & Joy

Please stop by  Pride and Joy this Friday 5 til 8pm and help us celebrate our 25th anniversary. We'll have cake and champagne and sipups for the kids. Tell everyone and thanks for supporting us to get this far!

Thank you,

Ellen Walmsley

Kent Chamber Member Featured in Baltimore Style Magazine 

Wendy Costa's Sassafras Sailing Excursions & Lessons, is featured in Baltimore Style Magazine in the August 2011 issue.  Take a moment and pick it up!

"BULLYING - KNOWLEDGE MEANS STRENGTH"

East West Martial Arts is sponsoring a community-wide Poster Making Event for Chestertown and its surrounding areas in an effort to educate our children on the subject of Bullying. Our goal is to help educate as many children as possible in our martial arts school as well as in the community, by giving them the tools they need to stand up for themselves, and others.  One of the ways children can express their feeling is through the arts. 

A few weeks ago East West Martial Arts asked all their students to make a poster on the subject of Bullying.  Many of our students joined in the fun and the ones we have so far are really great.   

This has opened the door to a flood of questions - and answers!  It has lead to role-playing exercises, identifying what bullying is, how can we determine if we are bullying (i.e.: through manipulation) as well as ways to diffuse a bullying situation.

Our students' responses have shown us this is a way to help all children learn how to handle bullying situations.  Therefore, East West Martial Arts is sharing with the community our Poster Making Event in order to help not only our students, but all children in the Chestertown and surrounding areas.

The best posters will be on public display details to follow.  Five posters will be chosen (from a group of non-partial judges) as the winners and the winners will each receive a trophy.  We will take the top 5 and make banners out of them to be used in our bullying seminars.  We sincerely hope you will join in "the fun" of helping our children handle bullying.  Please call East West Martial Arts at (410) 810-8808 for more information.  

Themes:

• What a bully looks like,
• What a victim looks like,
• What we can do to help,
• Types of bullying, etc.  

Medium:

Your choice paint, charcoal, marker, pencil, pictures, photographs etc.

Submit your posters on 28x22 colored or white poster board

Name address and phone must be on back of your poster.

The deadline to drop posters off at East West Martial Arts is August 17^th, 2011.

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East Coast Shredding & East Coast Storage 

to Sponsor

Relay for Life Fund Raiser

Live/Silent Auction

Please donate goods or services to help.

This year  East Coast Shredding and  East Coast Storage are teaming up to raise funds for Relay for Life in support of Kent County's American Cancer Society.  We are planning an open-house on September 16th. We will be holding a live / silent auction during this event to raise funds for this great cause. We are asking for any items as donations that will go toward the auction. Please offer services or money to help. We are in need of some great items to auction like: baskets, night out on the town, professional paintings, or any other items.

Your donation and all proceeds go to benefit Relay for Life and Kent County's American Cancer Society. These contributions will go a long way to help cancer patients in these areas:

• On-call dietitian
• Hope Lodge
• I can Cope
• Lood good... Feel better
• Man to Man
• Patient Advocates
• Reach to Recovery
• TLC Catalog
• Wigs

Thank you for your support of this wonderful charity and in helping us to reach our first years fund raising goal. If you would like to donate please call Kathy at 410-810-2533.

If you have newsworthy information about your business, please let us know and we will publish it!  

Send information to kentchamber@verizon.net

AROUND THE STATE 

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Marylanders Encouraged to Attend Statewide

'Cycle Maryland' Events

Then Submit Photos to Enter Contest

Governor Martin O'Malley recently unveiled the 'Cycle Maryland' initiative as a way to showcase the many benefits of recreational cycling in Maryland. O'Malley encouraged Marylanders to attend 'Cycle Maryland' events now through October 9, 2011.

"The selected events for 'Cycle Maryland' showcase Maryland's cycling diversity from family-friendly recreational rides on newly opened rail trails to highly competitive long-distance road races, these routes take visitors on an up-close and personal journey through some of the most scenic landscapes in Maryland."

In addition to the June 18th kick-off on the Cross Island Trail in Queen Anne's County, four 'Cycle Maryland' events are still in the offing. 

·    August 13, 2011 - Ride to See: A Bicycle Tour of Kent County begins at 6am and offers four routes ranging between 15 and 100 miles in length. Riders will pass through historic villages and picturesque countryside along the Chesapeake Country National Scenic Byway. Registration fees benefit the Galena Lions Charities.   

·    September 17, 2011 - Saint Mary's Century, previously known as the Southern Maryland Amish 100, offers a traditional 100 mile, 65 mile or 35 mile course over a flat to rolling hills terrain. Rest stops incorporate historic attractions such as Historic St. Mary's City, Maryland's first settlement, and St. George's Island, a tiny sliver of land that the British used as a base during the War of 1812 from which to raid local shipyards and river plantations.  

·     October 1, 2011 - Anacostia Trail Opening, this Bladensburg event opens the two-mile missing trail link from Bladensburg's Waterfront Park to the Maryland /District of Columbia line thus joining the park to the trail network along the Anacostia River Tributary System. This Chesapeake Bay Gateways  Network site was once a thriving Colonial port and later played a pivotal role in the War of 1812.  

·    October 9, 2011 - Tour du Port, a fully-supported tour ranging from 12 miles to a metric century (63 miles) in length, begins at Baltimore's Canton Waterfront Park and winds through twelve of Baltimore's historic neighborhoods, waterfront areas and beautiful city parks. Riders will traverse streets where, 150 years ago, Civil War soldiers marched.

Additional information on the 'Cycle Maryland' initiative may be accessed at www.cycle.maryland.gov 

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Update From the Maryland Chamber of Commerce   

To see who among our congressional delegation voted for/against the debt ceiling bill, click here:

Chamber Action Network (CAN) Blog - MD Delegation Split on Debt Compromise 

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