Last Tuesday, 29 members of the Chamber's Women Influencing Business group chartered a coach and spent the afternoon networking with fellow women executives and touring three local women-owned businesses. The tour began at Los Vaqueros Restaurant and visited Renfro Foods, Williams RDM and Harris Packaging.

 

 

Box up this gift: For this giveaway, Mr. B was doing research at Lingerie & Love, a Wiki of sorts for inquiring minds, trying to get the answer all children ask, "Should you buy lingerie for Mom? Or is that a little too weird?" Thankfully, Marcelle LeBlanc at The Velvet Box has the answer. You won't have to buy for mom if you win one of these two $50 gift cards to any of her three The Velvet Box stores. You'll get it for free. With velvety grace, Marcelle's stores feature lingerie and toys, books and lotions, and (continuing?) education classes monthly. It's never too late to go back to school ... and in style.      

 

 

Congratulations to April 22 Prize Winners:

Brick 'tiles': Acme Brick celebrated 124 years in biz this month with a brick "topple" at the Water Gardens. You're probably more familiar with a dominoes topple, as is master toppler Domino Dan Beckerleg. He came on down from Poughkeepsie, N.Y for two days to put together a 4,300-Acme brick design. It toppled in about four minutes.

Lifetime achievement award: Donnie Sherwood of Integra Realty Resources tonight will receive the National Eagle Scout Association's Outstanding Eagle Scout Award, the highest recognition granted by a local council. NESA says honorees have "devoted a lifetime to their profession, avocation, community and beliefs, at great sacrifice to themselves and their families."

Kudos 2: Sanford, Baumeister & Frazier is one of the Top 100 2015 Best Companies to Work for in Texas, according to Texas Monthly, the Texas Association of Business and Texas Society of Human Resource Managers. The process for recognition consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, systems, philosophies, practices and demographics, and an employee survey to measure the employee experience.

Once upon a wish: Chamber Am-Bass-Adorables received directions to a ribbon cutting next Wednesday and it read, "If you get to Whataburger, you've gone too far." What!!!! If you're a Texan, seems as if you've gone just perfect. "I'll have the chop house cheddar burger with extra grilled onions." Oh, sorry. Back to the script. The Adorables will be bringing big wishes to a Wish With Wings in its new building at 3751 West Freeway. The day before at 3:45, they get a first-class edukation at Fort Worth Montessori School, 6901 Granbury Road. Photos from many Chamber events can be seen here.