Letter from the Chairman

In thinking about my upcoming year as your Board Chairman, I want to convey what I believe to be important for our organization to accomplish. Our mission statement talks about enhancing business, tourism, and civic interests. All those are important and will be on our plan of work during 2007. What I want to concentrate on is building relationships.

We are a small town and we all have our favorite places to meet and people to see, and activities both at work and at play. Most of what we like to do is being with friends and associates that we enjoy. I want the Chamber of Commerce to help build the same personal contacts. Two key events this year I want to promote are a membership appreciation gathering in May to have fun and to get to know each other better. The other is our second-ever Trade Expo in August to show each other what we have to offer.

You might ask, how building relations improves business. Being one of several local companies that sell furniture, I am convinced that relationships have a great deal to with being successful. People come to our store because they know and trust individuals who are part of the store and want to trade with them. The same should happen to all our Chamber members.

I hope to make 2007 a year that our members will remember because we had fun, we got to know each other better, and our businesses did better through mutual support. Let me know what you want from the Chamber in 2007 then help me and the Board. I can be reached at (936) 327-8515 and email at jasonpedigo@pedigofurniture.com.

Sincerely,

Jason Pedigo
Chairman