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Good News for Chamber Members

Access for members just got easier.  You can now sync your Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Linkedin accounts with your Member Information Center login.  Now you can access the member center by using the familiar login you use on a daily basis.  You'll now have one less password to remember.

To get started, at the login page, click on one of the four social media buttons underneath the login boxes and supply your social network login credentials.  Then enter the login name that you wish to synch.  You'll be logged in immediately. 

From then on, you only have to click the appropriate icon and enter your social network login to access your software.

If you need help with this, please call WKChamber at 574-267-6311. 

Small Business Connection

is a forum for small business owners coming together to share ideas, and learn from each other.  This networking group will meet on the first Tuesday of each month at the Chamber of Commerce 313 S. Buffalo Street, in Warsaw.

The first meeting will be held on February 5, 2013, from 7 to 8 p.m. 

The speaker for the February 5, meeting will be Brad Skiles, founder and owner of Center Street Partners. Brad will speak on: "From Boom to Bust, the Austrian Business Cycle Theory." Using the 2012 Stockton, California bankruptcy as an example, Skiles will discuss how the city council and small business owners misunderstood the housing boom. The Austrian Business Cycle presents the view that the government creates a boom by keeping interest rates artificially low. The unsustainable boom then leads to a bust. The primary economic damage occurs as business owners make investment decisions based on the false data they observe during the boom cycle. Learn how you can help your business avoid this mistake and strategies to help grow your business during a bust cycle.

 

Brad Skiles is a Registered Representative and Investment Advisor Representative with Securian Financial Services, Inc., a Securities Dealer and Registered Investment Advisor, Member FINRA/SIPC. Center Street Partners is independently owned and operated. CENTER STREET PARTNERS 1303 E. Center St., Warsaw, IN 46580.

 

Download the flyer HERE. 

By providing an exhibit of a career for a seventh grader on April 17th at Lakeview Middle School, you will be making an impact on students as they choose their career paths.

This is an all-day commitment that will impact the lives of 1,400 middle school students from all of the school systems in Kosciusko County.

We hope your company will represent a career at this very important event. 

is looking for a Choir Director with a background in music and a good ear for helping them attain that "Barbershop Ring" with acappella singing. 

The group is a not-for-profit organization, and rehearses on Tuesday evenings fro 2 hours.

For more information, contact Dr. David Haines at 574-268-0433.

WCDC and the Downtown Warsaw Merchants 

invite you to participate in the following First Fridays.

February 1 - Fire & Ice
Download the flyer HERE.
March 1 -- March of History
April 3 -- Spring Fever
May 3 -- Musical May
June 7 -- We Are Lake City
July 5 -- Great American Picnic
August 2 -- Health Wealth & Diversity
September 6 -- Fall into Fashion
October 4 -- Art ober
November 1 -- Hot Chili Nites
December 6 -- Hometown Holly Days

Sponsorship Opportunities are welcome.

For more information or to participate, visit warsawcdc.org, or call 574-376-0233. 

North Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO)

is planning an approximately 100 mile, 345kV electric transmission line in order to provide better access to new sources of electricity of Northern Indiana, while improving infrastructure and electrical reliability.  This project is in the initial planning stages and they will be holding a series of public open houses in February to introduce the project and the Study Area, and to solicit input from the public that they will use in their routing efforts.

You are invited to attend any of the open houses for more information. 

Open houses will not have a formal presentation, but will be a come-and-go forum where the public can visit different "stations" to learn more about the project from project team members.  The same information will be presented at each of the following locations:

February 4, from 3 to 7 p.m., Tiffany's Restaurant at 414 E. Lake Street, Topeka.

February 5, from 3 to 7 p.m., Nappanee Elementary School Cafeteria at 755 E. Van Buren Street, Nappanee.

February 6, 4 to 7 p.m., Plymouth High School Cafeteria at 810 Randollph Drive, Plymouth.

February 7, from 4 to 7 p.m., Best Western Brandywine Banquet Center at 304 6th Street, Monticello.

For additional information, please call the project hotline at 855-264-2219, or visit www.reynoldstopeka.com.

NIPSCO is working with Burns & McDonnell Engineering to route the line.  They will uses the public's input as well as the data gathered during the study period to determine a final route.  A network of potential routes will be presented during the second round of open houses in July 2013.

IPFW

is offering an intensive 3-day workshop to raise the bar on your personal best.

The Applied Leadership series is designed to develop the leadership skills of the manager who is energetic, visionary, and ready to move up to a new level of performance with a commitment to the future. 

The series will be held March 20-23 at the Keith E. Busse IPFW Alumni Center on the IPFW West Campus in Fort Wayne.

Register by February 28, 2013 by calling 260-481-6619.

For more information, go HERE.

Warsaw Community Library

is celebrating Library Lover's Month by having a Winter Reading program which ends February 16.  Win prizes by reading PAGES!  Contact the reference desk for more details.  There is also a Library Lover's Used Book Sale on Friday, February 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  You can purchase TWO bags of VHS tapes for only 25 cents!  And don't forget to check out the "Authors We Love" display on the lower level and see if your favorite author is there!

For more information, visit www.warsawlibrary.org.

PMG Agency Health Insurance Advisors

is hosting a seminar designed for employers with 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees.  Employers who are not offering health insurance due to cost or participation and employers who are offering a health insurance plan that is no longer affordable will be particularly interested in this informational meeting. 

You don't have to "Pay or Play"!

Join Michael Suhany and Scott Pearson from PMG Health Insurance Advisors for a breakfast meeting on at the Wyndham Garden, 2519 E. Center Street in Warsaw, on March 20th from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. 

There is no cost to attend, and breakfast is provided, although reservations are required.

To register to attend, call 574-306-2028, or email msuhany@pmgagency.com.

will be holding a CEO Forum entitled "How to Succeed in Tough Economic Times."  This VIP event will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

A full breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. A panel of CEOs will initiate discussion at 9 a.m., concluding with a keynote speaker.  Pat Miller, WOWO's expert political analyst, will be the moderator of the event.  The event will conclude at 11:30 a.m.

Invitations to this must-attend networking and informational event will be mailed in early March.

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