December 2023 Albany Area Chamber Network

Albany Area Chamber

Network MOCK INTERVIEW

DECEMBER 2023 VOLUME 55, ISSUE #12

VOLUNTEERS

RESOURCE FAIR

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Tues. Dec. 12th | 10am-1pm Linn-Benton Community College More Details on Page 3

Holiday Guide Here!

WINE, WOMEN & CHOCOLATE Wednesday, December 6th | 4:30pm-6pm | Comfort Suites Guest Speaker

ANNEKE MARCHESE

Owner/Travel Designer, AM|FM Luxury & Adventure Travel ed nsor Spo by

"A South African Adventure to Remember" Last Day to Register is TODAY, Dec. 1st!

Happy Holidays From The

Holiday Guide Here!

Albany’s Holiday Events Check out these fun upcoming Holiday Events around town!

Carousel Festival of Wreaths: Nov. 27th-Dec. 3rd 1st Friday in Historic Downtown Albany: Dec. 1st Town & Country Christmas Bazaar: Dec. 1st-3rd YMCA Holiday Fair & Market: Dec. 2nd 10am-3pm The Downtown Twice Around Christmas Parade & Community Tree Lighting Ceremony: Dec. 3rd at 5 pm Christmas Storybook Land: Dec. 2-16 Christmas Parlour Tour: Dec.10th, 2-7 pm

Elf On the Shelf Contest

Breakfast with Santa at the Carousel : Dec. 9th Yokai Wonderland Market: Dec. 16th 36th Annual Nighttime Magic Holiday Light Contest: Dec. 4- Jan 1

Learn More Here!

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Dec. 12th, 2023 10am-1pm | LBCC BE A MOCK INTERVIEWER The Youth Job Fair helps our students gain valuable job interviewing skills and immediate feedback from professionals. Help build an outstanding work force for the future!

Be one of 300 volunteers offering Mock Job Interviews for nearly 1,000 highschoolers at the Youth Job Fair.

Register Here to Volunteer

HAVE A BOOTH AT THE RESOURCE FAIR

EVERYONE WELCOME! - Chamber Members and Non-Members Early Bird Pricing: $75 each table We are looking for a wide variety of post-high school options for all kinds of students.

Careers– Manufacturing, construction, service industries, healthcare, tech, retail, government, and much more!

College– We want students to know what’s available right here in Oregon. That they don’t need to travel great distances to achieve a higher education. We try to get as many colleges as possible to attend this event.

Apprenticeships– Students need to know the available options for and benefits of becoming an electrician, plumber, carpenter, or other apprenticeship type work.

Military– Many students are interested in learning more about joining a branch of the military. We encourage recruiters from the Oregon Army National Guard, OSU/WOU Army ROTC, Navy, Air Force, Army, Air National Guard, Coast Guard, and the Marines to attend.

Register Here for a Booth

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GOLDEN TICKET WINNER:

DAN FARRINGTON BBSI

Professional Background: BS Education- OSU ’85, worked at the Toledo Paper Mill to pay for my college education.

Dutch Girl Ice Cream, Eugene, OR- ’85-’93, sales rep for Southern Oregon Rock N Rogers Restaurant, Salem, OR-’93-’97, built up one restaurant and opened two more restaurants during the 4 years I was with the company. I had 53 employees, I was the General Manager Medical Ops Management, BBV, ’97-2002, helped them grow the IME business, independent medical exams, throughout Oregon, Hawaii, Montana, and Utah. Sales Rep and General Manager. Sunrise Medical, IME company in Oregon and Washington, open my own business from scratch in June of 2002, started with one employee and closed the doors on January 6, 2023, due to COVID with 18 employees. I did all operations and marketing for the company. Also was the IMEA president for 17 years, a board of all my competitors in Oregon. BBSIBusiness Development Manager in the Willamette Valley, started in March 2023, working with business to help them grow and provide BBSI services. Payroll, HR, Workers Comp, Medical Benefits, 401K, and Staffing. I have been a high school and youth coach for 42 years at multiple levels.

BBSI is a National Company, with local presence, and strive to help businesses grow in our business development plans, provide great payroll and HR services that we are available 24/7. We have a competitive Self-Insured Workers Compensation plan and pricing. BBSI also provides medical benefits, 401K, and Staffing for our community partners. All our team members, which we have two in the Albany area include, a payroll, HR, and Risk manager specialists that are connected by a cell phone number, not a 1-800 number. Each team, which we have two, in the Salem-Albany- Corvallis area that know our clients personally and meet with them quarterly to stay engaged in their businesses.

Biggest Issue Facing Albany: There is a shortage for staffing of quality and hardworking employees. Everyone is looking for staff, leads to the question of how we can educate our youth to be ready for the workforce.

Cost of living is high; it affects anyone daily. Price of goods continues to go up. We need a better strategy.

Tax Structure for small businesses hurts their bottom line.

Homelessness, finding places for them that will help get them clean, then transition into facilities that make them accountable, Counseling, and preparing them to go into the workforce.

Business Marketing Niche: BBSI has been around for 50 plus years in the Willamette Valley, it started out as a Staffing agency, but now has the full PEO services, Payroll, HR, Workers Comp, Medical Benefits, 401 Plan, and Staffing. We are National company with Local presence. We have a team of specialists in Albany/ Corvallis that everyone has access to 24/7. Our client retention rate is 95% and we strive for great customer service.

Community Involvement: We belong to the Albany Chamber of Commerce, and I help facilitate at greeters once a month. I personally involved in mentoring at the Union Gospel Mission, and being involved in organizations that help children in our community.

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Albany Area Chamber of Commerce

2024 DSA BANQUET Nomination Deadline: January 17th, 2024

Distinguished Service Awards

Nomination Form Go to Digital Nomination & Submission Form

Honor Your Fellow Albany Citizens!

The Albany Area Chamber encourages you to nominate a business, organization or individual that has shown dedication, exemplary service, and leadership to our community.

When turning in your nomination form, please make sure that it is filled out completely, and provide a minimum of two letters of recommendation in addition to the nomination form.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS Distinguished Service

Jim Linhart First Citizen

Outstanding career of community service. Candidates must be over 55 years of age.

Junior First Citizen

Outstanding service during the last Outstanding service during the last three years. Candidates must be three years. Candidates must be between 40 and 55 years of age. under 40 years of age.

Finalists and recipients will be honored based on the following criteria: Individuals participate actively on service projects and programs leading to civic improvement, human welfare, and/or environmental enhancement. The nominee must also have a positive impact on the social or economic climate of the community, and influence the community through their leadership.

BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARDS Albany Area Chamber Member Businesses, Organizations, and Non-Profits are included in this category and may nominate themselves.

Large Business of the Year

Small Business of the Year

A Chamber member business, organization or non-profit with over 25 employees.

A Chamber member business, organization or non-profit with 25 employees or less.

Finalists and recipients will be honored based on the following criteria: Businesses have made a substantial contribution to the community for the last five years or longer. Business Excellence Achieved successful business practices, e.g. marketing, promotional activities, strong ethics. Promotes employee selfgrowth and development. Has demonstrated a high level of customer satisfaction, confidence, and service. Community Service - Has proven their interest in the welfare of the community through financial contributions, personal service or civic leadership.

Awards to be presented: March 9th, 2024

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Samaritan Names Chief Operating Officer, New Hospital CEO for Lebanon (Lebanon, Ore. – Nov. 20, 2023) Marty Cahill, MBA, FACHE, CEO of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, has been named to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer – Hospitals. In this role, Cahill will drive systemwide integration and alignment of operations across the five hospitals within the Samaritan Health Services system.

“Marty’s experience leading two different Samaritan hospitals, his 15-year history within the organization and his vision for the future of Samaritan hospitals was compelling,” said Doug Boysen, CEO of Samaritan Health Services. “I’m looking forward to working with Marty in this new way as we continue to chart our course forward.”

At Samaritan, Cahill has served as CEO of Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, and shepherded the development of the Administrative Fellowship program and the Samaritan Health Sciences campus. During Cahill’s health care career, he has twice served as Regent for

Featuring: Wendie Wunderwald and Marty Cahill

the American College of Healthcare Executives, received the ACHE Distinguished Service Award and been recognized as Business Leader of the Year by the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce.

“It is an honor to be selected for this work — to help streamline our operations across the system and leverage the best practices of our individual hospitals — to make our system even stronger in support of our mission,” said Cahill who began his new role on Nov. 20. “In this role, I’ll be working with our hospital leadership to drive high reliability and quality care.”

Wendie Wunderwald, RN, has been appointed as CEO for Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. Wunderwald has more than 39 years of service at Samaritan Health Services, most recently as vice president of Patient Care Services at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. Under her leadership, the Lebanon hospital became the first critical access hospital in the U.S. to win the Beacon award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. The hospital was also recognized by the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce as the Large Business of the Year in 2022.

“We have an incredible team of dedicated clinicians, caregivers and support staff here at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital,” said Wunderwald. “It is an honor to be able to transition to this new role in Samaritan.”

Leadership Albany Class of 2024 "All Dressed Up" and preparing to tour National Frozen Foods!

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Thank You to Our

Milestone Members

Thank You to Our Reinvesting Members Albany Area Habitat for Humanity

55 Years Garland Nursery

Albany Civic Theater Artisan Custom Countertops Avamere Assisted Living of Albany

Oregon Freeze Dry

Birchfield Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. City of Millersburg Dave Pautsch - RE/MAX Integrity

10 Years

5 Years

First American Title

Deluxe Brewing & Sinister Distilling

Dick Perdue

Five Star Security, LLC.

Independent Merchant Brokers, LLC

Garland Nursery Kopczynski, Ray Linn Veterinary Hospital NW Natural Gas Company Onyx Luxury Aesthetics Oregon Cascades West COG PEAK Internet Realty One Group - MacHugh SMI Property Management W.R. Grace & Co. Weatherford Thompson, P.C.

Keep an eye out on the Albany Area Chamber's Facebook and Instagram pages from December 1st through 24th for Chamber elves Nick and Holly hiding out at Chamber Member businesses.

All those who guess the location correctly will be entered into a drawing for $50 in Chamber Dollars! The more times you guess correctly, the more times your

Elf on the Shelf Contest!

name will be entered into the drawing.

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2023-2024 Officers and Directors

December 2023

Board Officers Chair: Jennifer Stanaway (Samaritan Health Services) Immediate Past Chair: Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn (Central Willamette Credit Union) Chair-Elect: Brent Stutzman (Stutzman Services) Sr. Vice Chair: Grant Cyrus (Target Distribution) Vice Chairs: Kristal Dufour (AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home), Jon Kloor (Consumers Power Inc.) Treasurer: Selina Marshall (Citizens Bank)

Board Members Abel Condrea (Edward Jones), Alex Patterson (Rhodes Warden Insurance), Andy Villeneuve (ATI), Brian Dietrich (Parr Lumber), Brian Oare (Oare & Associates Realty), Joel Kinman (Bravo Group), John Andersen (Boys & Girls Club of Albany), John Pascone (LEDG), Mike Sykes (Mike’s Heating & A/C), Roger Nyquist (Lake Shore Lanes), Sarah Steen (Amerititle), Keith Kessler (Direct Flooring Center)

Wed. Dec. 6th Wine, Women & Chocolate 4:30-6pm, Comfort Suites Guest Speaker: Anneke Marchese, Owner/Travel Designer, AM|FM Luxury & Adventure Travel Topic: "A South African Adventure to Remember" $25/Person, Registration Deadline is Friday, Dec. 1st!

Tues. Dec. 12th YOUTH JOB FAIR 10am-1pm, LBCC MOCK INTERVIEW VOLUNTEERS & RESOURCE BOOTHS NEEDED! Sign up online or email Jorden at jparrish@albanychamber.com Dec. 22nd-27th Chamber Office Closed for Christmas Wed. Jan. 31st January Membership Forum 11:30am-1pm @ Linn Co. Expo Guest Speaker: Kieran Ramsey, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Portland Field Office Nominate Now for the Distinguished Service Awards!

Nomination submissions along with at least TWO letters of recommendation are due January 17th.

DSA Banquet: Sat. March 9th, 2024

Committee Chairs Ambassadors: Janet Steele (President) Golf Tournament: Dick Perdue (Retired)

December Greeters

Emerging Leaders: Jorden Parrish (Program and Event Manager) Governmental Affairs Chair: Jon Kloor (Consumers Power) Greeters Facilitators: Greg Bolton (Landmark Professional), Peggy Burris (Albany Public Schools Foundation), Abel Condrea (Edward Jones), Dan Farrington (BBSI), Mr. G Nassar (G & Jenny Insurance), Leslee Mayers (CASA Linn County), Don McBride (SMI Property Management) Women In Business: Janet Steele (President) Youth Job Fair: Jorden Parrish (Program and Event Manager)

Every Thursday, 8:15am Dec. 7th

Turn Pro Citizens Bank (by the mall) 2315 14th Ave SE Albany 97322

Dec. 14th Christmas Storybook Land Linn County Fairgrounds - Cascade Livestock Building 3700 Knox Butte Rd. Albany 97322 Dec. 21st No Greeters Dec. 28th No Greeters Jan. 4th & Open Host Dates 18th

Chamber Staff Janet Steele - President Jorden Parrish - Program and Event Manager Jim Snyder - Membership Development Manager Jadyn Baskin - Office Manager

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