CHAMBER CHATTER
ISSUE 5
May 2008
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Chamber Membership
Welcome to our newest Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Members.
Remax North Country
405 State Hwy. 371 S.
P.O. Box 218
Hackensack, MN. 56452
218-675-6555
realestate@cabinsnmore.com
Fritz Templin
Hackensacklakes.com
Specializing in Northern Minnesota Real Estate. Professional, fulltime agents who are experts on our local communities throughout the lakes area.
Walker Hackensack Akeley Schools
301 4th St.
P.O. Box 4000
Walker, MN. 56484
218-547-4216- Linda Arts, Community Education
larts@wha.k12.mn.us
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley public schools serves families in our area. approximately 950 students attend K-12.
Lake Country Air Service, LLC
2792 Chimney PT. Dr. NW
Hackensack, MN. 56452
218-682-2818
John Justad
jjustad@tds.net
"Awesome"! Sightseeing Tours, Good for Community Events, Privite Bookings, Resort Visits, Holds up to seven passengers.
www.lakecountryairservice.com
We welcome our new members and thank them for supporting the Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.
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BUSINESS AFTER HOURS
Thank you to Landecker and Associates, Inc. & Cass County Museum, Pioneer School, Research Center.
A special thanks to Sue Eikenberry for dressing the part and playing the pump organ to really give all of us the way back when feeling. The evening was fun and interesting. Thanks to Otto Ringle the Museum gained a few new members.
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MAY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS
Thursday May 15, 2008
5-7 PM
Trapper's Landing Lodge on Leech
BeachFire Bar and Grille
Come and take a tour of there new accomidations.
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Web-Site Committee
In about 30 days we will be checking out the new template of the Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Web-site. We are still in need of photos, please send them to the chamber e-mail.
walker@eot.com
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Leech Lake Area Champions Dinner
We all learned alot about the 2008 Community Champions.
A Big thanks to Barb Sherman for chairing the event for the chamber again this year.
Thanks to Jeff Holly for doing a great job as Master of Ceremonies.
Did you know Joe Sherman has a TWIN.
The Roasts & Toasts were some of the best we had in many years.
We have many talented people in our area. Thanks again for those who supported the Champions Dinner event this year.
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Explore MN. and Heartland Tourism Association
In 2007 Explore MN. launched a new tourism website that offers many exciting new elements. One of these is the top 10 favorite's webisodes that are submitted by the public.
You can create a video of your favorite places to visit, eat, run, bike, fish.... whatever you do and have a number of places you travel to do it! For example, there are the top 10 hamburgers in MN, 10 favorite campsites and 10 favorite bait shops. Our area could create one that features the top 10 reasons to visit Leech Lake or the top 10 reasons to shop Walker. It would be a fun project and rewarding to see it posted on the Explore MN. website.
As Explore MN continues to look at ways to improve the website, another area that came up was the state map needs improvement. To begin that process the tourism regions needed to be changed and reduced in number. There had been 30 different regions to go to and the committee has worked to get that number reduced. At the April tourism meeting, it was presented that there would be 5 regions and then each of those regions would have 3-4 sub-regions, each of these sub-regions will appear on a drop down nenu when you click on the region you are interested in visiting. These changes will be seen in the next few months as Explore MN continues to make upgrades to the website.
If you are interested in creating a video, please call the chamber office for more information..
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WEB-SITE HIT STATISTICS
Month of April 2008
Number of requests-246,376
Number of Page requests-4962
Chamber Master Report
Home Page Views
3365
Vacancy Calendar Views
1710
Links to External Web-site
1410
Moondance Jammin Country Fest
572
"Sizzlin 17" Moondance Jam
410
The two different reports are taken from Yahoo & Chamber Master Programs
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Cass County History
Images of America Cass County
New Book filled with historical photos. Covers the first fifty years of the county's growth and development.
The books are available at the Leech Lake Chamber of Commerce, local bookstores, several Walker area retailers and the Cass County Historical Society and Museum in Walker for $20.00.
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Walker Bay Days Committee
Announces that it will be returning for the third year. The Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce will be running the event this year. The event will be two days Friday August 1st and Saturday August 2nd. This event is a family focused celebration of all that Walker has to offer. The 2008 committee chairs are Andrew Arnold & Brian Hein. If you would like to be a volunteer please contact the Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce at 218-547-1313.
It's takes a large volunteer force to pull off a fantastic event. So come join us and have some fun.
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May 2008 Meetings
Tues 5/6/ Fall Has it All - Chamber Commerce-3:30 pm
Wed 5/7/ Ethnic Fest- Chamber Commerce-5:15 pm
Thurs 5/8/ Walker Bay Days-Chamber Commerce-8:00 am
Tues 5/13/ Retail Service-Village Square Cafe-8:00 am
Thurs 5/15/ Chamber Board Meeting- Chamber Commerce-8:00am
Mon 5/19/ Trails Committee Meeting- Chamber Commerce-5:00 pm
Tues 5/20/ Ambassador Meeting- Chamber Commerce-8:00am
Thurs 5/22/ Walker Bay Days-Chamber Commerce-8:00 am
Tues 5/27/ Web-Site Committee-Walker Bay Coffee-8:00 am
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Member Special Events
Thurs 5/8/ Sons of Norway Meatball Dinner & Bake Sale 5-7pm Hope Lutheran Church
Fri 5/9/ Boy Scout Smelt & Fish Fry All you can Eat-5-7pm Walker American Legion
Sat 5/10/ MarineMax- Women on Water Celebration-Call Krista Schroeder @ 218-547-1727
Wed 5/14 Walker Lions Club 5pm Bensons Walker
Thur 5/15 Spring Musical-Immanuel Lutheran Church School
Sat 5/17 Plant Sale-Community Church of Walker
Sat 5/17 5th Annual Wine & Culinary Experience-Walker Rotary Club
Wed 5/21 Chippewa National Forest Open House- 10:00am-4:00pm Walker Ranger District Office
Mon 5/26 Leech Lake Arts League display starts at First National Bank of Walker
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