Awards & dinner

At the Feb. 7 Annual Dinner, we were happy announce our annual awards:

•VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR-- Bob Lauman

•ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR-- Corbett Medical Foundation

•EMERGING BUSINESS OF THE YEAR-- Sweet Marie's Mercantile

•NEW BUSINESS OF THE YEAR-- North Fork Engineering

•BUSINESS OF THE YEAR-- Hi-Tech Auto

We have THE BEST MEMBERS!

Did you know that the Chamber hosted 32 events last year?

Our member's online Business Directory Listings were viewed 19,934 times last year--that's a 97 percent increase from just two years ago!

People clicked through to our member's websites 2,249 times last year (from the business listing).

The Saratoga Lake Ice Fishing Derby event page had 3,059 views and Togie Days had 4,896 views! Annual Dinner had 2,535 and Steinley Cup had 1,641. But 13,500 people used our online event calendar to search for local events!

Our banner ads were displayed 58,223 times and had almost 275 click-thrus to the member listing!

Since 2003 (when I started at the chamber) we have had 115 new members!

We try to log join dates, but didn't have a lot of historic info to go on. But three businesses (that we know of) have been members for 45 years! The Hotel Wolf, Saulcy Land Co and Shively Hardware joined the year the chamber was chartered. Cary Financial Services and Saratoga Auto Parts were not too many years after (43 and 41 respectively).

(If your business joined pre-2003 and you know your join date--please call us!)

Approximately half of our members have been chamber members for at least 10 years!

Just thought you would like to know–and we appreciate everything you do to make the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce a success!

Working for you,

Stacy and Sierra