
August 22, 2024
In This Week's Issue Welcome New Chamber Members July/August BAH Hosted by Bank of Hillsboro Lunch & Learn with Ryan Newton of New Tie Marketing Street Art Event Schedule Street Art Fest 2024 Sponsors! Street Art Shirts Artist Swag Bag - Street Art Fest Christmas Parade Theme is "Christmas Around the World" Discover Downstate Illinois Wants Your EVENTS!!!! Highland Parks & Rec Happenings! Farmer's Market Illinois DCEO Press Release Louis Latzer Memorial Library Event Schedule Bank of Hillsboro is HIRING! Chamber Member Job Listings Highland Health Care Fundraiser at Imo's Pizza Kirchenfest Schedule Tullaghan's Pub Live Music ALL WEEK!! Highland Civic Woman's Club Mixer! Highland Community Chorus Auditions & Schedule Cedarhurst Hosts School Supply Drive Cookie Doode POP UP! Three Brothers Masonic Golf Scramble Myrtle & Grace Featured in Buzz Magazine Homestead Harvest Days - Highland Historical Society EVUCC GriefShare Program Highland Health Care Chili Sale at TruBuy Relevant Pregnancy Options Annual Golf Scramble Highland Rotary Club Raffle! 24 Hour Laps for Leaps Event Flyers EVUCC Golf Scramble Benefit Greg Holthaus - Homer's for the Heart HHH Bowling Fundraiser Highland VFW Hosts Line Dancing! Highland Speedway Race Schedule Highland Knights of Columbus 2024 Sunday Dance Schedule Heart and Soul Yoga Schedule August The Greenhouse Upcoming Wine Night Line-up Highland Music School Now Offering Art Classes Building for SALE or LEASE! 501 Blues Club Happenings! Highland Welcome Club with Janet Nicolaides Stewards of Hope Needs Your Help! Read the Pioneer! Chamber Office Hours Welcome New Chamber Members July/August Join us in welcoming and supporting our NEW Chamber Members. Jamie Horstmann, REALTOR® with Re/Max Alliance Website Modern Health & Wellness Website Plaza Self Storage Website The Sweet Spot Website Straight Edge Barber Lounge Website Nailhead Roofing PLLC Website Myrtle & Grace Gift Shop Website Wolfe Concrete Construction Facebook New Tie Marketing Website Schwarz Barn LLC Website Highland Civic Woman's Club Facebook BAH Hosted by Bank of Hillsboro Bank of Hillsboro Add to your calendar HERE!!! Lunch & Learn with Ryan Newton of New Tie Marketing ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR HERE Street Art Event Schedule Street Art Sponsors & Artists still needed! Help support this amazing community event! Sponsor form can be downloaded HERE! Artist App can be downloaded HERE! Street Art Fest 2024 Sponsors! Our Street Art Fest Sponsor list is off to a great start!! Art Square Sponsors Michelangelo Sponsor ($1,000 level) Highland Arts Council Meridith Funeral Home The Korte Company DaVinci Sponsor($500 level) DigitalArtz HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Rotary Club of Highland Scheffel Boyle Terra Properties Voegele Photography Studio Ziegler Jacob Insurance Agency Monet Sponsor ($250 level) Becker Jewelers Bradford National Bank CC Food Mart Compustitch Edward Jones - Kevin Dewaele Highland Health Care Highland Jaycees Highland Lions Club It's Party Time Kloss Furniture Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Lee's Fine Jewelry Mazzio's Italian Eatery Michael's Coffee Shop Plocher Construction Powers Advisory Group Spengel Boulanger Funeral Home The Smile Shoppe Woodmen of the World Kids Korner Sponsor Highland Optimists Thank you Sponsors!!!! Street Art Shirts 2024 Street Art Shirts! Available for purchase through Compustitch Screen Printing & Embroidery! ORDER YOUR SHIRT HERE! Artist Swag Bag - Street Art Fest We need to fill our artist bags for Street Art Fest! Contact us if your business would like to provide promo items to our artists! Christmas Parade Theme is "Christmas Around the World" Our 2024 Christmas Parade Theme is "Christmas Around the World" Get your floats ready and stay tuned for the entry form! Discover Downstate Illinois Wants Your EVENTS!!!! Discover Downstate Illinois covers more ground than any other Convention and Visitor's Bureau in the State of Illinois. Representing 21 counties stretching from the Mississippi River east of St. Louis, MO to the Wabash River west of Vincennes, IN. Both rural and urban, allowing guests to enjoy big city life and simple, country treasures all at once! Discover Downstat Illinois is looking for to help promote your event! If you have an event that you would like posted, following their link HERE! Highland Parks & Rec Happenings! Click the images below for more details! Thursday Night Live Concert Series! PLAY HIGHLAND!!! Farmer's Market Illinois DCEO Press Release PRESS RELEASE State Releases 5 Year Economic Development Plan Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) released Illinois’ 2024 Economic Growth Plan, a five-year plan to guide Illinois’ economic development priorities and programming. Building upon Illinois’ success, this plan outlines a roadmap to attract record-level investments, create jobs and support communities over the next five years while laying the foundation for economic growth for generations to come. Illinois’ 2024 Economic Growth Plan is guided by four overarching economic development goals: Focus on high growth sectors and continue overall business climate improvements Advance comprehensive economic development efforts for business growth and attraction Promote equitable growth by empowering workers, entrepreneurs, and communities Build out the new clean energy economy Illinois is laying the foundation for long-term growth by focusing on key growth industries: Life sciences Quantum computing, AI, and microelectronics Clean energy production and manufacturing Advanced manufacturing Next generation agriculture, agriculture tech and food processing Transportation, distribution, and logistics This plan is the result of an extensive research, planning, and stakeholder engagement process, involving hundreds of stakeholders from every corner of the economic development ecosystem, including local communities, and experts from a range of industries. The full plan can be viewed on DCEO’s website. To submit questions or comments about the plan, email CEO.EconomicPlan2024@Illinois.gov VIEW ENTIRE PLAN DOCUMENT Louis Latzer Memorial Library Event Schedule Events for Kids at Latzer Library Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Telephone Tuesday Celebrating Emma M. Nutt at 6:00 p.m. We will be making string telephones for this event and experimenting with them. Legos resume on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Dungeons and Dragons at 6:00 p.m. (This is open to grades 3 and up, but children 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult.) Friday, September 6, 2024 Read a Book Day! Plan to visit the library to check out a new book to read! Saturday, September 7, 2024 Crafty Saturday! There will be a Grandparent's Day craft and a Fall craft. This event will occur between 10 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. This is "while supplies last". Join us and stay as little or as long as you can. Please remember to check out our new books while you are visiting! Bank of Hillsboro is HIRING! Full-time Teller Position Opening 40 Apex Dr. Highland Bank of Hillsboro is looking for a team oriented individual to join their staff! If YOU or someone you know is looking for a career that fits the below criteria, contact Heather Jenny at hjenny@bankhillsboro.com Details: Tellers are the faces of our company to many of our customers and non-customers. Tellers help customers meet their financial goals by handling routine financial transactions and giving a warm welcome to everyone who comes into the branch. Tellers inform customers of other products and services that meet their banking needs. Additional job duties include and are not limited to: Welcome customers and provide accurate and timely services Maintain customer confidentiality Balancing and maintaining accurate transaction records Process monetary transactions for customers, which can include cashing checks, accepting deposits, handling loan payments. Issuing of cashier checks, money orders, currency orders, and selling license stickers Answer questions regarding checking, savings, and other bank related services Qualifications: Cash handling and effective customer service experience, preferred Strong oral and written communication skills Must be accurate and detail-oriented Ability to work varied hours/days as needed Chamber Member Job Listings Submit Your Own Job Listing - If you would like your company's open positions listed on the Chamber website, you can do so by entering them from your member home page. 1) Sign in with the log in and password you set up when you joined the Chamber or when we transitioned to the new website. If you need the info resent or have questions, just let us know, we are HAPPY to help! 2) Click on Resources 3) Choose Submit Job Board - enter your job information When you complete your entry, it will be pending until approved by the Admin(Hillarie). These are checked weekly for approval. Click HERE for a full listing of job postings from our website! Highland Health Care Fundraiser at Imo's Pizza Fundraiser for Highland Health Care's Resident Entertainment Fund Kirchenfest Schedule CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW Tullaghan's Pub Live Music ALL WEEK!! Highland Civic Woman's Club Mixer! Highland Community Chorus Auditions & Schedule Cedarhurst Hosts School Supply Drive Cookie Doode POP UP! Three Brothers Masonic Golf Scramble Three Brothers Masonic Golf Scramble is just around the corner (Aug 31st) and the group is looking for both players and sponsors for the event! The event brought in $7,000 last year and was donated to Shriner's. See below for the sponsor and player form! SPONSOR FORM PLAYER FORM Get your tickets HERE! Myrtle & Grace Featured in Buzz Magazine New member Myrtle & Grace was recently featured in The Buzz Magazine! Click HERE to view the article! Homestead Harvest Days - Highland Historical Society *September 6-8* A celebration of rural farming in America and its history! Come spend the weekend with the Highland Historical Society and step back in time to learn about the history of the Highland Community, the impact of Pet Milk in developing Highland during its infancy through Louis Latzer, and the impact of the dairy industry for our nation. Family friendly, the Homestead Harvest Days has many activities for all ages, from Living History demonstrations to eating good food! Come spend time with us at the homestead! All profits raised go towards the upkeep of the homestead. (click images to view full size brochure) Pet Milk Bake Off Please join us for our 2nd Annual Harvest Days Pet Milk Bake Off 2024! It will take place on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 10 a.m. Please drop off your entry no later than 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. Please present the form with a recipe card of your bake when dropping off your entry. Entries will be judged on taste and appeal, creativity, and presentation. PET Milk should be used in the bake. If PET Milk is unavailable, an equivalent is encouraged. Click HERE to register! For more information: Send an email to Jacob Rose at highlandilhistoricalsociety@gmail.com, call or text at (618) 604-5099, or reach out on our Facebook Page! EVUCC GriefShare Program PRESS RELEASE GriefShare Program - A Path to Healing Offered at Evangelical United Church of Christ We extend a warm invitation to community members who have experienced the loss of a loved one to join our GriefShare program at the Evangelical United Church of Christ. This ecumenical program offers a Christ-centered, biblically grounded approach to navigating the complex journey of grief. Our seminars feature insights from nationally recognized grief experts and testimonials from individuals who have walked this path, followed by intimate group discussions. It’s often the case that the true work of healing begins when our loved ones return to their daily routines. Our past participants have found great value in the information shared and the discussions that follow. Whether your loss is recent or occurred some time ago, you will find solace, support, and practical help in grieving the death of a spouse, child, parent, sibling, other family member, or friend. Regardless of the circumstances of your loved one’s passing, this program offers a safe space to connect with others who truly understand your feelings. You will learn to identify signs of unresolved grief and discover that you need not be held captive by certain emotions. You will gain valuable insights on adjusting to your new reality and restoring hope for the future. We also provide grief-related books and materials for participants. GriefShare Fall Session Commences September 9th We are pleased to announce that the GriefShare program will resume at EvUCC starting Monday, September 9, from 6-8pm. The group will convene weekly at the Parsonage located at 2520 Poplar Street. This 13-week session includes an additional meeting in November titled “Surviving the Holidays”. To register, please contact the church office at 654-7459.. We kindly request a $10 registration fee, if possible, to offset the cost of workbooks. We look forward to welcoming you. Highland Health Care Chili Sale at TruBuy Relevant Pregnancy Options Annual Golf Scramble Highland Rotary Club Raffle! The Rotary cash raffle has begun. The grand prize drawing will be on 9/21/24 @ Highland Street Art Fest. If you would like to purchase one of the 500 tickets available, please let a Rotarian know and we will be in touch! Your Rotary Club Serving Our Community and Beyond! SPONSOR LETTER CASH RAFFLE FLYER ORDER FORM 24 Hour Laps for Leaps Event Flyers Click image previews to view flyers: EVUCC Golf Scramble Benefit CLICK HERE FOR SIGN-UP FORM Greg Holthaus - Homer's for the Heart Heart of Highland Promotional Basket The Greg Holthaus Memorial Fund is busy gathering raffle baskets for our annual Wiffle Ball Tournament on October 12, 2024. We are especially excited about our Heart of Highland Promotional Basket. This is an easy and inexpensive way to promote your business. How does it work??? We would like to gather some of your cool promotional items or small gift cards. The idea is to get your name out there and to get people into your business. A $5-10 gift card will get someone in your door. A coffee mug, note pad or calendar will be a daily reminder of the great businesses that make Highland a special place. Raffle items are due by September 22 Contact Gail Holthaus for pick up (618)301-7455 gmholthaus@charter.net Thank you ❤️ HHH Bowling Fundraiser Highland VFW Hosts Line Dancing! Highland Speedway Race Schedule Highland Knights of Columbus 2024 Sunday Dance Schedule Heart and Soul Yoga Schedule August Heart and Soul Yoga with Sharon September & October yoga class schedule is up and ready to book! Please notice the AUTUMNAL EQUINOX RETREAT, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22 from 1:00-4:00 pm at Silver Lake large pavilion! This will be a nice afternoon with snacks, live music, gentle yoga, meditation, breathing techniques, art expression and journaling! A great way to reset and begin the new season with a new mindset! Book your spot today! SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE OCTOBER SCHEDULE BOOK A CLASS HERE As always...Thank you for supporting my small business and thank yourself for finding the time for YOU! Subscribe to my YouTube Channel HERE to find videos to use at a time that is convenient for you. If you use the video for in-home practice and wish to pay, you may do so through Venmo or sending a check to the studio. Pay what you desire or are able to! For more details about classes, check out my website HERE OR my Facebook page For BARRE Above Classes - please access the site HERE The Greenhouse Upcoming Wine Night Line-up Highland Music School Now Offering Art Classes Building for SALE or LEASE! Click HERE for more photos! *BUILDING AVAILABLE FOR SALE OR LEASE!** Perfect 2350 sq ft commercial location on the Historic Highland Square!! Adjacent to the new Plaza Park and next to Schlafly brewery and restaurant. Building has two offices, large Showroom and stock/ Backroom. ADA accessible. Building was built in 1995. Energy efficient with new HVAC in 2019. Lease price based on length of contract. Contact A.G. Becker at 618-792-9644 for more information! 501 Blues Club Happenings! Click the image below to see what 501 Blues Club has going on!* Highland Welcome Club with Janet Nicolaides For Information about Welcome Club, Click on the image below!!! Stewards of Hope Needs Your Help! Stewards of Hope International of Highland needs your help in finding a new home! The group is needing to move out of their current location and is looking for something in the Highland area that would fit their needs for storing, packaging and shipping items donated to them. The ideal location would have the following: Minimum of 600ft Exterior door at least 6ft wide Overhead door with an 8ft clearance Temperature controlled for food storage 24/7 Access Capability to back up a truck to the access door to load and unload the boxes we send. Optimally, the space would have access to a platform for loading pallets onto a commercial truck for shipment to FL (helpful but not a deal breaker) If you or someone you know may be able to accommodate the Stewards of Hope of Highland, please contact Michele Korte Capelle at mcapelle@stewardsofhope.org or 618-304-9940 For more information on Stewards of Hope, visit their website HERE! Read the Pioneer! Catch up on all the latest news and read The Pioneer Newspaper Chamber Office Hours Chamber Office Hours Monday - Thursday: 9am - 3pm If you would like to meet with us and want to insure that we are in the office, feel free to call ahead of time as we may be out and about visiting with Chamber members. Thank you! DEADLINE for getting information in the Chamber weekly newsletter is Thursday by 9:00am. If you miss the cut-off date, we keep your information for the next publication. Please submit your information to hillarie@highlandillinois.com
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