We want to welcome and thank our newest Partner Sponsor Springville Rising and Sunpro.

 

We are excited to start having more advertising opportunities available. The sponsorships will give sponsors the opportunity to advertise at events and spotlight your business during events. Sponsorships help keep membership costs low and enable us to do more for our members. Contact us to learn more about how you can sponsor an event!

We want to thank all the participants of our Annual Scholarship & Charity Golf Tournament. We had a great turnout.

Don't forget to click over to our Axomo store for some member swag. Head over to the new chamber website or go directly to https://springville-mapleton.axomo.com/

There is a great opportunity to work with local school programs to help fill job openings. If you are interested in learning more on how to get new hires email for more information. 
Landmark High School is hosting a Job Fair in October, with limited spots available. If you are able to participate let us know. 

You're invited to join us at the South Valley Business Summit on October 21st from 8AM-3PM. There is a great lineup of speakers, including Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson and Utah House Representative Francis Gibson. 

The Business Summit is $50 for chamber members and $65 for non-chamber members. Come and take advantage of this great opportunity for networking, education and representing your business. Business men and women from the Springville-Mapleton Chamber, Spanish Fork-Salem and Payson-Santaquin area will be in attendance. There are still spots available to become a vendor at the summit. You can register at www.spanishfork-chamber.com/summit

Lifelong Springville resident Craig Conover believes in community service. He has spent thousands of hours working to improve Springville citizens’ quality of life. His service includes acting as chair of Art City Days multiple times, serving as 2021 chair of the Utah County Fair and helping develop the Spring Acres Arts Park.

His service as a former Springville City Council member includes working toward construction of the Clyde Recreation Center and the completion of multiple parks. He spearheaded efforts to get the city’s skate park installed. He is pro-business and helped attract several businesses to Springville, including Zions Bank and Cougar Motors.

A Springville-Mapleton Chamber of Commerce board member since 1985, he created the Safe Halloween trick-or-treat event and has organized the chamber’s scholarship golf tournament for 20 years. He began a small sound and lighting business at age 14 that continues to provide sound and lighting at many city events today.

He believes in open, transparent government and commits to having all council meetings shows on Facebook live feeds so all citizens can watch. A newspaper man by trade, he has good working relationships with other valley mayors, local state legislators and all three county commissioners.

Craig Conover
Daily Herald and Ogden Standard Examiner
801-344-2947
Cell 801-420-1289

Mike Snelson has been a part of the Springville business community for 45 years. He is the President  of Snelson PhotoColor Lab, a 47 year old Springville-born business. He has been a member of the  chamber board for over 10 years. Mike has enjoyed serving with some great people with talents for  making businesses grow. 

Mike's current assignment on the chamber's board of directors is to serve as the liaison from the  Springville City Council. He also works with the education chairman, Luis Muzquiz, to find valuable  speakers for the lunch and learn activities. 

Snelson PhotoColor Lab was created after a devastating fire in 1973 that took five businesses from  Main Street. Castleton's Photo was one of those businesses. Mike's father, Ralph was a math teacher at  the Jr.High and worked at Castleton's after school developing film and making prints. After the fire  Ralph and his wife Janet built Snelson PhotoColor Lab to serve the needs of professional portrait and  wedding photographers. After his mission in Finland for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, Mike went to work for his father and together with the company's employees, helped build the business into a 36 employee business that served professional photographers across the country. 

In 1991 Mike had a rude awakening. He was shown a massive computer that could manipulate digitized photos. He saw the writing on the wall. Embrace the new technology or die. Mike determined  then to embraced it and was an early adopter of digital in the photo lab industry. After years of background in digital techniques, when professional photographers began to embrace digital  photography Snelsons was prepared to serve and train. 

Digital photography made it easy for entry into the photo industry.  Many people who would have other wise stayed away, all of a sudden became “professional photographers”. This trend decimated true  professional photographers' businesses and small photo labs around the country began to close.  Snelsons decided to diversify and now has a product lineup from photo printing to fine art  reproductions, slide, negative and print digitization, video tape and movie transfers to digital, canvas  and metal prints, and even customized tee shirts and hats! 

Mike is an avid bicyclist riding on average 100 miles a week all year long,(a smart trainer helps). He is  also a competitive shooter in the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting, (yeah, look it up). He and his wife Jackie raised six children here in Springville and they have 20 grand kids.