
November 26, 2019 Chamber Connection
Index Holiday Events Advocacy Chamber News Highland Music School The Heartland Community Chorus Bradford National Bank Highland Machine HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Calendar of Events Business After Hours Boy Scouts Food Drive IFBW of Highland Calendar Submissions Job Listings Office News Calendar of Events NO SCHOOL - HUCSD#5 11/27/2019 NO SCHOOL - HUCSD#5 11/28/2019 Gobble Hobble Fun Run 11/28/2019 Pay It Forward Power Hour 11/28/2019 NO SCHOOL - HUCSD#5 11/29/2019 Lighted Christmas Parade 11/29/2019 Sample Platter Group Fitness Class 11/29/2019 Cookie Crumb Trail 11/30/2019 American Legion Post 439 Breakfast 12/01/2019 Breakfast with Santa 12/01/2019 Legislative Luncheon 12/02/2019 Queen of Hearts Drawing 12/05/2019 Driver Services Mobile Unit 12/06/2019 Half Day Dismissal - HCUSD#5 12/06/2019 Holiday Home Tour - (IFBW) 12/07/2019 Chamber Grinchmas Luncheon 12/11/2019 Queen of Hearts Drawing 12/12/2019 Diabetes Support Group - Highland 12/13/2019 7th Annual Christmas Concert 12/14/2019 Visit Santa @ Kloss Furniture 12/14/2019 7th Annual Christmas Concert 12/15/2019 Queen of Hearts Drawing 12/19/2019 Early Dismissal from Schools 12/20/2019 Queen of Hearts Drawing 12/26/2019 Business After Hours BAH December 6, 2019 4:00 - 7:00 pm Windows on Broadway 401 Broadway Highland, IL Boy Scouts Food Drive IFBW of Highland Calendar Submissions Get Your Submissions In As a Chamber member, we want to make sure we help you promote your events in our community calendar. In order to do this, however, we need to know all of the details for your event, especially the date. The calendar allows you to enter your information onto the website, and we are able to then activate your event. This feature is fairly new in it's ease of access, and is slowly being used as a tool in helping to plan events for Chamber members. If you are looking at dates for an upcoming event, please email penny@highlandillinois.com with the date(s) you are considering. We have the ability to check last year to see if there was an event in the past, and then get your event on the calendar. We have also added the Highland Weekender to our list of publications. This goes out to give people an idea of what events are taking place in the community each weekend, with a preview of the next weekend as well. Please help us give the community ALL the choices they have available from our members! Job Listings Please check the Chamber's website for the current job opportunities in and around Highland with our members. We have new listings posted each week. Office News Chamber Office Hours Monday - Friday: 9am - 3pm Due to budget cuts, there will only be 2 people in the office on M-W-F from 9am-1pm. If you need to see someone at the Chamber during other hours, please call to set up an appointment and/or make sure that we are in the office and not visiting other Chamber members. Thank you. DEADLINE for getting information in the Chamber Connection and Highland Weekender is Friday by 3:00pm. *** We will be adding events to the calendar on Mondays. If you miss the cut-off date, we keep your information for the next publication. Please submit your information to penny@highlandillinois.com. ***Note deadline for information has changed.	Holiday Events Highland is known for its strong sense of tradition and family all year long, but especially during the holiday season. Please be sure to check out the Chamber's calendar of events, local Chamber member's web and Facebook pages, etc. to make sure you know when all the holiday activities are taking place! Advocacy Legislative Luncheon The Highland Chamber of Commerce & the Olde Wicks Factory are hosting Congressman John Shimkus for an informative luncheon. You can register here. December 2, 2019 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Stained Glass Hall at The Olde Wicks Factory 1100 5th Street Highland, IL 62249 Chamber News Annual Lighted Christmas Parade November 29, 2019 6:30 PM Start If you are registered for the parade, we are still planing on on holding it as scheduled. We will be in touch with local law enforcement officials on Thanksgiving to assess the situation. Announcements will be sent out via text and/or emails. Please make sure that we have all your information on file. Parade Instructions can be found here: Parade Line Up & Parade End Annual Cookie Crumb Trail Join The Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, November 30 for the Cookie Crumb Trail. Each business on the trail will have a Cookie for participants to sample and recipe cards to take home. This fun event is free to the public. Please note that this SHOPPING event is primarily geared towards adults. Pick up your map at Kloss Furniture between 10am and Noon. The first 100 participants will receive a swag bag! Highland Music School New Class Offered The Heartland Community Chorus 7th Annual Christmas Concerts The Heartland Community Chorus announces its seventh annual Christmas concerts on: Saturday, December 14th, 7:30 pm at St. Dominic Catholic Church, Breese and Sunday, December 15th, 3:00 pm, St. Paul Catholic Church, Highland The Birth of Hope features traditional and contemporary Christmas music, accompanied by brass choir. Admission is $15. Children 16 and under are free. Tickets are available at FCB Bank, Highland, St. Paul Catholic Church, Highland, from Chorus members and at the door. Bradford National Bank Doug Stroud to Retire From Bradford National Bank (Greenville) Bradford National Bank President Mike Ennen has announced that Doug Stroud will retire from the bank effective December 31, 2019. A retirement reception for Stroud will be held on Thursday, December 5^th from 5-7pm at Bradford National Bank, in conjunction with the annual Greenville Chamber Business After Hours. A short program will be held at 6pm. Friends and business associates, as well as all Chamber members are invited to attend the event, which will include a “roast and reception.” President Ennen said, “We will miss the day-to-day leadership, judgement, and integrity that Doug brought to the bank each and every day. He has been...continue here Holiday Shopping Tips By Randy Alderman The upcoming holiday shopping season is sure to be busy. Unfortunately, the vast majority of consumer financial fraud occurs around November and December, according to Randy Alderman, security officer at Bradford National Bank. In an effort to better assist shoppers, Bradford National Bank has compiled a list of holiday shopping tips to help keep consumers safe from possible fraud. “Obviously, we encourage everyone to shop local whenever possible,” Alderman said. “However, we understand that we live in a digital age...full article Highland Machine Celebrating 75 Years of High-Quality Metal Fabrication and More We're excited to share that Highland Machine is turning 75! Since 1944, we've been committed to producing high-quality sheet metal fabrication while providing top-notch customer service. Though our capabilities have expanded to include powder coating, assembly, engineering, and inventory management over the years, our commitment to taking care of our customers has remained a constant. Here's to another 75 years of success. HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital HSHS Home Care and Hospice Southern Illinois celebrates National Home Care and Hospice Month HSHS Home Care and Hospice Southern Illinois is celebrating November 2019 as National Home Care and Hospice Month. During the month of November, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) celebrates National Home Care Month, National Hospice Month and Home Care Aide Week. During this month, HSHS Home Care and Hospice Southern Illinois is celebrating the home care and hospice community, and honoring the millions of nurses, home care aides, therapists and social workers who make a remarkable difference for the patients and families they serve. These heroic caregivers play a central role in the health care system and in homes across the nation. Shawna O’Dell, RN, director of HSHS Home Care and Hospice Southern Illinois, shared “Home care provides high quality, compassionate and skilled health care services to... continue reading HSHS Southern Illinois Hospitals to Host Giving Tree Breakfast Events HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese, HSHS Holy Family Hospital in Greenville and HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Highland are each hosting a Giving Tree Breakfast. The events will feature a free breakfast buffet open to colleagues and community members. At each event, there will be a Giving Tree full of tags with items needed to fill local food pantries for the holidays. Participation in the Giving Tree is optional and not required to enjoy breakfast. St. Joseph’s Hospital Giving Tree Breakfast will be held December 4 from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the hospital’s Friends Cafe. The items collected from St. Joseph’s Highland will be donated to the Highland Area Christian Services Ministry (HACSM). Purchased items can be dropped off at the hospital or brought directly to HACSM. HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Highland Diabetes Education Program Merits ADA Recognition (HIGHLAND, IL) – The diabetes self-management education program at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Highland has been awarded Recognition from the American Diabetes Association (ADA). This newly offered program provides high-quality educational services to the patients it serves. The ADA Education Recognition effort is a voluntary process which assures that approved education programs have met the National Standards of Diabetes Self-Management Education Programs. Programs that achieved Recognition status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who can provide state-of-the-art information about diabetes management for participants. “Diabetes is very common, but it can...continue reading
Chamber Connection - November 26, 2019