Sylvester – Worth County Chamber of Commerce
“Ask not what your Community can do for you, but WHAT can you do for your Community”
Upcoming Events:
• July 7th - 1st Thursday's Downtown Sylvester hosted by the Downtown Enhancement Program. Director Brittany Evans, invites you to please come out and visit our participating downtown merchants!
• July 12th - Housing Task Force will present the second of two sessions on homeless shelters. The meeting will start a 10:00AM at 30 West Broad Street, Camilla, Georgia 31730. For more information please contact Ms. Anna Lee at (229) 522-3552.
• July 16th – Best Friends Humane Society 1st Annual Golf Tournament to be held at the Pine Knoll Country Club in Sylvester, Georgia. 3 person team Scramble- $200 per team sign-in from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. There will be a continental breakfast. Shotgun start at 9:00 AM. Team sign-in no later than July 14th. For more information, please contact Jackie Lackey (229) 776-2139/ (229) 881-9669 or Max Huston or Hank Houston at Pine Knoll Country Club (229) 776-3455. (flyers are available upon request or visit our Facebook page at: Sylvester-Worth Chamber of Commerce)
• Best Friend Humane Society has new hours of operation. They will be open Tuesday through Friday noon until 4:00PM. Please contact them for weekend appointments at (229) 777-7774.
• July 16th – Male Beauty Revue hosted by the Sumner Egg Festival will be held at the Sumner Auditorium starting at 6:00PM. For more information please contact Ms. Charlotte Jolley at (229) 776-3728 or (229) 776-7384.
• July 18th - Phoebe Worth Medical Center - invites you to a "Pictorial Celebration of Worth County." Scenic images from all around Worth County will be on display throughout the hospital on Monday, July 18th from 5:30PM to 7:30PM at 807 South Isabella Street. Refreshments will be served.
• July 22nd: BLOOD DRIVE, the Margret Jones Library will be hosting a blood drive from 2:00PM to 7:00PM in the Sumner Room. Your donation is greatly needed.
• August 5th: Sylvester/Worth Night Out Against Crime in Jeffords Park. Please contact Captain White with the Sylvester Police Department at (229) 776-8501 or the Chamber of Commerce (229) 776-7718 to find out how you can be a part of this event.
• Please complete the attached Chamber Survey and return to the Chamber before July 31st.
• The 2011 Forestry Queens are available to make appearances to help promote Sylvester/ Worth County. If you have an upcoming event and would like them to make an appearance please contact Ms. Kelly Eadie-Leverette at (229) 344-4029 or (229) 639-6138.
• Now! – Calhoun Produce, Inc. invites you to visit one of their 3 locations: Hwy 82 W Sylvester, Hawpond Road-Ashburn, or Cordele Farmers Market for all of your blackberries, corn, squash, tomatoes, peaches, sweet onions, etc. needs. For more information please call (229) 777-0824.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia offers Chamber
A Lower Cost Alternative
Are you or do you know of a small business employer in the United States that does not offer their employee’s health insurance due to price? No matter what your health insurance needs, you can always count on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGa) for a wide range of options and outstanding value. BCBSGa has a low cost alternative to standard health care plans called, Blue Essentials that may fit your needs.
Georgia’s Blue Essential Products are budget-friendly plans that cover your essential health care needs and give you the options you want. Employees would receive $20 office visit co-pays and 80% coinsurance reimbursement for their in-network covered items. Employees would also have plans with deductibles of $1,000 or higher. Additionally, they would receive the protection and personal security of having Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia as their insurer.
These BCBSGa plans are available at reduced premium rates to eligible business members of our Chamber of Commerce! Through the group “buying power” of MemberCare Alliance of Worth CountySM, we are part of a statewide network of over 130 Chambers of Commerce offering these insurance products to Chamber member businesses. The MemberCare Alliance of Worth County program includes a variety of discounted insurance products, such as: group term, voluntary and dependent life insurance, group dental insurance, group long term and short term disability, accidental death and dismemberment and long term care insurance. All these products are, or course, available through participating Chamber-member insurance agents.
For more information on these insurance offerings, please call the Chamber, one of your participating Chamber-member insurance agents, or Purchasing Alliance Solutions, Inc., (the company that developed MemberCare Alliance of Worth County program) at 770-579-1214 or 1-800-782-8254 ext. 3014.
*An independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
STOP AND SHOP SYLVESTER-WORTH COUNTY. Our local retailers want you to stop in and give them an opportunity to meet your needs throughout the Year 2011. Please contact the Chamber if you need help finding a business that can help you keep our tax dollars local!
A Big WELCOME to our Newest Members:
Katherine Williams
Worth County Forestry Queens
Denise Binns
SunTrust Bank
1 of a Kind Thrift Store
Mary Alice Shipp Community Development Center
Worth County Health Department
100 Mile Peanut Pickin Yard Sale
Powell’s Contract Services, LLC
Specialty Sales
Sylvester Elementary School
James and Karen McDonald
Worth County High School Band Booster Club
JumpStart Automotive
Worth County Middle School
Gibbs Pecans & Shelling Company
M & R Ag
Labor Finders
Elite Images and Printing
Gillespie Printing
Goody’s
Ford Insurance Agency, Inc
Michelle Hutchinson
Worth County Primary School
Mack Sutton
O’Reilly Auto Parts
• Thank you for renewing your membership for the year 2011:
AFS, Inc
AGGeorgia Farm Credit
Agri-AFC, LLC Sylvester
AIC- Wireless
Annette Cochran
Ashley’s Business Solutions, Inc
Astro Exterminating Services
AT& T
B & C Sporting Goods
Banks Funeral Home
Barnyard Creations
Becky Geer
Bella 101
Best Friends Humane Society in Worth Co.
Birdsong Peanuts
Boy Scout Troup 100
Brown Milling & Peanut Co.
Brownlee-Bozeman Agency
Bryan and Jordan Body Shop
Bryce Johnson
Calhoun Produce
Camille Taylor, Century 21 Smith, Branch, & Pope, LLC
Carroll’s Sausage & Meats
Charlotte Jolley
City of Poulan
City of Warwick
Coastal Plain CASA
Colony Bank of Worth
Colquitt Regional Home Care
ConAgra Foods
Conger Gas LP
Coopercraft Communications, Inc.
Countryside Animal Clinic
Creek Bottom Trail Rides, LLC ( ATV Park)
D & B A/C and Mechanical Services
Dairy Queen of Sylvester, Inc.
Days Inn
De Lage Landen
Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Donna King
Dorothy McKellar
Dr. Henry Gordon Davis
Dr. Larry Daugherty
Elite Images
EMC-Engineering Services
Emerald Garden Center
Event Technical Services, Inc
Factory Connections, Inc
Farm Commodities, Inc
Farmers Home Furniture
Fat Boys Backyard BBQ and More
Fletcher-Yearta Jewelers, Inc
Ford Insurance Agency
Fred Dent
Futrill Auto Parts, Inc.
Gardner & Hydrick Vet P.C
Georgia Binns
Georgia Power Company
Gillespie Printing
Globe Financial Services
Goody’s
H & R Block
Handy Andy Store
Hal Carter Construction
HeritageBank of the South
Herring Business Products, OCE Imagistics, Inc
Herring CPA Group
HOOK FM 105.7
Housing Authority of City of Sylvester
Hudson and NeSmith CPA
Jean Brooks
Jefford Farms
J.H. Harvey’s Co, LLC
Jim Hinton Oil Company
Jimmy Sanders, Inc
John and Shelly McPhaul
Johnson Electronic System, LLC
Kiwanis Club of Sylvester
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Langdale Chevrolet
Mack Sutton
Margaret Jones Library / Vickie Young
Medders Associates Survey, Inc.
Medders Enterprises, Inc
Medders Irrigation, LLC
Michelle Hutchinson
Miss Georgee’s Play-Kare
Mitchell EMC
Mobley Gin Company
Montgomery Printing
Moultrie Technical College
NAPA
Nell Ford
Nethers’s Old Fashioned Pork Skins, Inc
Norman Crowe, Jr.
Norman Park Gin
Ochlocknee Plantation, Ltd.
O’Reilly Auto Parts
Paragon Foods, Inc. – 3 Squares Diner
Phoebe Worth Family Medicine
Phoebe Worth Medical Center
Piggly Wiggly
Pine Shadows
Pinson Memorial United Methodist
Plantation Publishing Company
Pour Me Some Coffee
Purchasing Alliance Solutions, Inc
Representative Ed Rynders
Ridley Monk
Ruth’s Cottage
Sarah McCrary
Shipp Funeral Home
Shipp Shape Lawn Service
Short and Paulk Supply
Southern Express Lube, Inc
Southern Heritage Woodworks
Southern Woods Plantation
Southland Technologies, Inc
Southwest Georgia Bank/Sylvester Banking Company
Stuart Pate-State Farm Insurance
Sumner Egg Festival
Sumner Peanut Company, Co
Sunbelt Ford-Mercury, Inc
Sunshine Party Rentals
Sylvester Animal Hospital
Sylvester Family Practice/ HealthPlus
Sylvester Health Care, Inc
Sylvester Plaza, LTD Partnership
Sylvester Women’s Club
The Car Wash
The Harvest Group, Harvest School of Music and Hook FM 105.7
The Melanie Hurst Corporation DBA Jessie & Salon
The Sumner Egg Festival
The Sylvester Local News
Town of Sumner
Tyson Steel Building Products, Inc.
Universal Blanchers
Virginia Andrews
Walgreens of Sylvester
Warwick Blackshear Business Organizations
Warwick Drugs, Inc
Warwick Health Care
Warwick Septic Tank, Inc
Williams Insurance Company, Inc.
Woodmen of the World
Worth County Extension Office
Worth County Farm Bureau, Inc.
Worth County High School
Worth County Primary School
Worth Finance Corporation
Worth Gin Company, Inc
Worth Air Heating and Cooling
Worth Insurance Agency
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Thanks to all our members!! We could not do it without you, especially in this economic climate. You have all shown an extraordinary commitment to your community. Community Support is the mainstay of any Chamber of Commerce and you are all NUMBER ONE in our book.
FUTURE EVENTS COMING TO OUR AREA:
If you have upcoming events that you would like to share, please contact the Chamber and let us help to spread the word.
* Worth County is a Work Ready Community! Ask your Chamber of Commerce how you can become Work Ready, too!
A strong Chamber is the sign of a strong community. Ask how you can help increase membership to the Chamber!!
We are dedicated to keeping you updated on events in our Community and hope that we will see you there supporting your Community!
Karen M. Rackley
President/Executive Director
karenrackley@msn.com
229-349-7703 (Cell)
Rene` Whidby
Administrative Assistant
worthchamber@bellsouth.net
Sylvester-Worth County Chamber of Commerce
229-776-7718 (phone)
229-776-7719 (fax)
229-776-6657 (GA Peanut Festival)
www.sylvesterworthcochamber.com
