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UPCOMING EVENTS
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MARCH 11
St. Patty's Day Reverse Raffle
Holiday Inn 5:30pm
MARCH 19
Business After Hours
Kabuki's/Glendale Hts 5:30-7:30pm
MARCH 26
Multi-Chamber Spring Luncheon at Bobak's in Woodridge
Expo & Luncheon 10:30-2
APRIL 2
Ribbon Cutting
Countryside Animal Clinic,
Carol Stream
10:30am
APRIL 7
Networking in the Morning
Belmont Village, CS
7:30am-9am
APRIL 8
Monthly Luncheon/Annual Meeting and Award Recognition
Holiday Inn & Suites
11:30-1
APRIL 16
Business After Hours
RoccoVino's/Carol Stream
with BL Chamber
5:30-7:30pm
APRIL 22
Brown Bag Lunch 'N Learn
Pat Bayers
Getting the job done
COD/CS
Noon - 1:30
APRIL 29
WIB Tables of Interest
Glendale Lakes Golf
11:30-1
Multi-chamber
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LUNCH N' LEARN
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 Sign up for the April 22nd Brown Bag Lunch N' Learn at College of DuPage, Carol Stream at 500 N. Kuhn Road. We are lucky to have Big Ten Official Pat Bayers present "Get Pumped With the Ump" from Noon to 1:30pm. Pat will tell us how to get the job done. Join us! Click here to sign up... |
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RIBBON CUTTING APRIL 2ND
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 We invite you to a Ribbon Cutting of a new business in Carol Stream, Countryside Animal Clinic. They are located at the northeast corner of St. Charles Road and Schmale in Carol Stream. On April 2nd, their Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will commence at 10:30am. Sign up to help them celebrate by clicking here. This event is open to the chamber and the public. |
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| Dear Chamber Members, |
This monthly eNewsletter supplements our quarterly printed edition and is designed to keep you current with chamber events and opportunities.
Touch your iPhones, fire up your tablets, or take out your day planner and enter these events. If you know someone who would benefit from our organization, feel free to forward this to them.
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"AND THE WINNER IS(N'T)....."
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What IS a Reverse Raffle? It is :
...where the Grand Prize is $5,000
...when the 1st number called loses
...a chamber fundraiser
...where 1 of the ticket holders in attendance goes home with a 48" Sony Smart TV
...a lot of fun
...where you can split a $100 or buy the whole ticket yourself.
...where 100 losers still go to the prize table
...where $10 gets you in the door and a visit to the buffet of Irish-type food
...Wednesday, March 11th!
Hope you'll join us! Sign up here...
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A MONTH OF TWO LUNCHEONS
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We moved our regular luncheon early this month to March 4th. The "Accelerated Networking" program included members of the Wheaton Chamber and 60 attended. It was fast and furious but attendees received great visibility.
Later this month will be the annual Multi-Chamber Spring Luncheon held at Bobak's in Woodridge. On March 26th, 18 chambers will converge upon Bobak's Signature Events for a pre-luncheon expo followed by lunch. Our speaker is entrepreneur Dave Alwan of Echo Valley Farms who also took a trip into ABC-TV's Shark Tank. He will share his work ethic and experience with us. Reservations are limited as there will be 500-600 attendees so please sign up immediately if you'd like to attend. Click here... 
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| WOMEN IN BUSINESS NEWS |  The Women In Business event this month is a fun and relationship-building luncheon that we call "Tables of Interest." April 29th will be a Progressive luncheon, meaning you will move from table to table -- 3 in all. The difference here is that you CHOOSE the table by the table theme and your personal interests. When you take your seat at the table, you immediately have something in common with the other 7 seated there; you've bonded!
We will have members from 6 other chambers joining us and we have mixed up the themes from other years. Not to worry -- there will still be a table with Jason from Ivy talking about WINE. Join us at Glendale Lakes Golf Club!
Sign up by clicking here... |
| IIT IS SCHOLARSHIP TIME! |  Each year the Carol Stream Chamber Scholarship committee interviews 30 college-bound students who are Carol Stream residents. This year, you have a chance to participate in their success by donating to the new Carol Stream Chamber Foundation. For information and forms for the scholarship, click here....or to make a donation to this 501(C)(3), click here. |
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| 5 STAR EXPO A SUCCESS; PLANNING FOR 2016 |
 The 19th Annual Five Star Expo on February 6, 2015 was well-attended and a happy place to be. 80 exhibitors including 14 food sponsors were doing an outstanding job of "meeting and greeting" the business and consumer attendees. Medi  nah Shrine Center in Addison transformed from an empty room with tables to a teeming marketplace. For photos of the event, visit the Five Star Expo Facebook page by clicking here.
We have found the date for next year's expo which will be the 20th annual event. It will be held at the same venue on Friday, February 5, 2016. I guess you could call this a "Save The Date" notice, even though it's ultra-early.
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THANK YOU!!!
| We thank all our RENEWING MEMBERS for their faith, support, and renewal in the Carol Stream Cham ber of Commerce. Membership renewal date is either April or October. We appreciate all our members and strive to bring you quality events that are valuable to you and your business, as well as educational and....enjoyable! Thanks for your vote of confidence as you continue your membership!
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AFTER HOURS AT KABUKI MARCH 19th
|  The next Chamber After Hours will be moved to Kabuki, 19 E. North Avenue, Glendale Heights, on March 19th from 5:30-7:30pm. It was previously announced it would be held at Hand and Stone but they had to postpone theirs, so we'll be at Kabuki in March. Sign up here...
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Thank you for taking the time to read these updates from the chamber. Be sure to forward this to a business associate who could benefit from chamber membership.
Sincerely, |
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Luanne Newman, ACE Executive Director
Carol Stream Chamber of Commerce
o: 630.665.3325
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