March Dakota Street, P.O. Box 114, Prior Lake, MN Phone: Fax:

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1 March Dakota Street, P.O. Box 114, Phone: Fax: Membership Meeting Progressive Luncheon Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Check-in begins at 11:30, Lunch begins at Noon Mystic Lake Casino Hotel 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd NW, Prior Lake Please RSVP before March 14 Cost of lunch is $16, payable online, send a check or use your pre-paid lunch ticket. This lunch needs to be pre-paid due to the full capacity of this networking luncheon. Use hotel valet or park and walk into the entrance of the hotel Bring 40+ business cards Networking and check-in begins at 11:30 am. Upon check-in, you will receive a nametag that has three different symbols on it, the symbols tell you where you will be during the salad, entrée & dessert courses. There is time to pass cards around and there is a topic at each table. *Please leave extra business cards with Chamber and we will display your cards at the office. This is one of your benefits of your Chamber membership! We will do its best to assign you three different tables with 21 unique people and businesses. Due to cancellations, or last minute changes, we do apologize if you sit with someone twice. March 11 - Ambassador Pop In 12 - Board Meeting 13 - Ambassador Pop In 13 - Wedding Central 19 - Progressive Luncheon Membership Meeting at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel 27 - Young Professionals at T.J. Hooligans April 1 - Ambassador Pop In 2 - Board Meeting 3 - Ambassador Pop In 10 - Ladies Night Out at Sailer s Greenhouse 16 - Membership Meeting 24 - Young Professionals at Artisan Bistro 30 - New Member Orientation

2 Executive Board 2014 PRESIDENT Gary Meyer, Prior Lake State Bank Term: 1/09-12/15 VICE PRESIDENT Ed Speiker, Prior Lake VFW Term: 1/12-12/16 TREASURER Darcy Scholl Term: 1/13-12/14 SECRETARY Kami Thompson, New Horizon Academy Term: 1/11-12/14 PAST PRESIDENT Chad LeMair, Above All Hardwood Floors & Carpet/Performance Construction Term: 1/11-12/14 Board of Directors Andrew Anthony, Andrew Anthony Agency Term: 1/13-12/15 Debbie McGahey, Edina Realty & S & M Development Term: 1/12-12/14 Cheryl Wilfond, Flowers Naturally Term: 1/10-12/14 Barb Kappers, Integra Telecom Term: 1/12-12/16 Dawn Schulberg Premiere Dance Academy Term: 1/13-12/14 Pat Vickerman Prior Lake American Term: 1/14-12/15 City Liaison School Liaison Kelly Meyer (1/05) Kristi Mussman (1/07) Mayor Ken Hedberg (1/14) Chamber Staff Sandi Fleck, Executive Director (5/02) cell Brandy Blanch (10/13)

3 Greetings from your Chamber President, Gary Meyer, Prior Lake State Bank A quick recap of February starts with our Ice Golf. WOW! What a wonderful event again this year. Over 180 golfers and 19 hole sponsors!!! The weather was perfect and we had 2 1/2 hours of fun with a lot of snow and great sponsors that did a wonderful job of decorating their golf hole and making it fun for the golfers! Congratulations to ProService Automotive for 2nd year in a row for Best Decorated Hole! Visit our website and click ICE GOLF (Under EVENTS) or become a FAN on Facebook to check out the pictures of the event. Please consider being a hole sponsor for this event next year! A special thank you to Captain Jacks for providing a wonderful atmosphere and accommodations. We had a fantastic speaker at our luncheon, Cara Bader-Johnson, from New Horizon Academy, she went into details about Bridging the Generational Gap between co-workers, new employees, and customers!! What a fantastic meeting!! Next on the agenda was our event on February 20 Wedding Central. Another one of those snowy, blizzard days and it was cancelled, due to the safety concerns with our vendors and attendees and rescheduled for Thursday, March 13, from 5-8 pm at America s Best Value Inn. Thank you all for being so flexible in moving the date!! Our Young Professionals is back meeting on a monthly basis, this time at The Pointe on February 27 with XX people attending. Next month it is being planned for March 28 at TJ Hooligans, stop by for networking with everyone, it is a great time and appreciated by all! Our March membership meeting is one of the favorites Progressive Luncheon at Mystic Lake. We will meet on March 19, check in begins at 11:30 am with the first course starting at noon. This event is a RSVP MUST, sorry nowalk ins. You will need to bring 40 business cards to exchange with, just having lunch you will meet 21 people!! We will also be printing the Annual Directory in March. In closing, I will ask each of you are you getting the most out of the Prior Lake Chamber? If not, are you putting the most into it? Become active as a SPONSOR at one of our numerous events and get your business name recognized. If not a sponsor, become a VOLUNTEER and make yourself present at one or more of the events. You will meet people, talk to them, let them get to know you and eventually they could become one of your clients! Have a wonderful month and I look forward to seeing you at many upcoming Chamber sponsored events! Lakefront Days We are beginning to update Lakefront Days 2014, for its 31st year! Save the dates: August 7, 8, & 9, 2014

4 $5 Tan Angela Freeman 5769 Egan Drive Savage, MN Argos Risk Lori Frank 4646 Dakota Street SE Cara Citrowske, Independent Brand Partner Nerium International 4641 Parkwood Drive SE Copper Creek, LLC Vince Birdsley Commerce Ave NE, Suite Delie Realty Kim Delie Ridgemont Ave SE Discover Chiropractic Christine Rankin 1601 Highway 13 SE, Suite #103 Burnsville, MN Edward Jones Paul Young 205 Lewis St Shakopee, MN index.html&cirn= It Works! - Kristy Meier Hanley Falls, MN Mainstream Boutique Dyana Cottingham Highway 13 South Savage, MN Origami Owl Michelle Johnson Savage, MN Pampered Chef Molly Lujan Paragon Odyssey 15 IMAX Renae Van Hooser Burnhaven Drive Burnsville, MN Pets Loyal 2 Vets Jeff LeBaron Natchez Ave Robb Manary Photography University Ave NW Andover, MN

5 WOW! What a great opportunity for our preschoolers! These kids are so smart! Thank you El Bosque Encantado and Katie Moras for allowing me to spend a Day in YOUR Shoes!!

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7 We would like to personally invite you to the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce New Member Orientation 101 on Wednesday, April 30th from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Prior Lake City Hall Parkview Room (4646 Dakota Street SE). Beginning at 8 am, we will be networking over coffee and rolls and meeting other new members, board members, and ambassadors. We will begin a presentation at 8:30 a.m. with introductions, learning how the Chamber can help your business grow in and around Prior Lake. We hope you can make this event. Please RSVP to let us know you will be there. Hope to see you there! RSVP Sandi@priorlakechamber.com Brandy@priorlakechamber.com WANTED: Prior Lake Area Young Professionals (and Young-At-Heart!) WHAT: Come join the Young Professionals for a night of networking and fun! WHO: Prior Lake Chamber members and their employees WHEN: Thursday, March 27, 4:30-6:30 WHERE: T.J. Hooligans (16731 Highway 13 S, Prior Lake) Don t forget to bring business cards to pass out! Register online at: Under Events Prior Lake Young Professionals

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10 Sandi will be working at Accelerated Automotive for A Day In YOUR Shoes on March 31st We are asking Chamber members to vote on which job you would love to see Sandi do! #1 - Oil change on a vehicle #2 - Change 4 tires on a vehicle #3 - Grease a bus During her shift at Accelerated Automotive, they will be giving away 4 free oil changes to Chamber members! These are first come, first served and they only ask for a donation. Please send in your votes to: Brandy@PriorLakeChamber.com Thank you!

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