September Chamber Connection

chamber connection BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

September 2022

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Friday, Sept. 23 | 7 - 8:30 AM Knicely Conference Center

Letter from the Chairman It’s hard to believe that school is back in session! This means fall is just around the corner, and more fun Chamber events are headed your way.

In August, the Chamber held its annual Welcome Back WKU event. Thousands of college students stopped by to grab some swag while learning about local businesses in the area.

This month, the Chamber is hosting the firstannual Pearls of Wisdom ladies’ luncheon on Sept. 21 from 11 AM- 1:30 PM at One Roof Event Space. Grab your tickets today!

October is our opportunity to celebrate local targeted businesses at the Targeted Business Awards banquet. This year’s event will be held on October 12 at SKyPAC. Registration is open, so register today.

Looking forward to a great rest of the year,

John Dix 2022 Chairman

Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 Knicely Conference Center

7 AM Breakfast 7:30 AM Program

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Over the last year, Warren County Public Library has seen explosive growth in events and program

attendance and well…meeting places and spaces. This incredible progress can be directly attributed to amazing community partners. We live and work in a city and county that embodies the words of Helen Keller. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

WCPL operates downtown in two locations: Main Library and The Capitol; north in Smiths Grove; east at the Bob Kirby Branch, and south at Warren County Tennis and Multipurpose Center in Michael Buchanon Park. (The Buchanon location will be fully operational in late September and host weekly children’s programming, monthly specials, and a full collection of adult, teen, and children’s books and DVDs.) In addition to these larger facilities, WCPL hosts satellite library collections and story time programming in The Boys and Girls Club, The Foundry, Parker Bennett Curry Community Center, and a forthcoming location in the new HOTEL INC. building. The first three satellites focus on early childhood, elementary, and teen needs; the latter provides a collection, computer lab, and adult activities to those near the Boatlanding Road location.

Two special outreach programs exist through partnerships with The Housing Authority and Warren County Schools. WCPL’s Read and Feed mobile library offers books, media, Chromebook checkouts, etc. at all Megan’s Mobile Grocery stops. The Leap Bus, a mobile classroom (on a retrofitted school bus), serves apartment complexes with GED and ESL help, as well as early childhood education preparation and schoolreadiness skills for students and families.

Warren County Parks and Recreation and Bowling Green Parks and Recreation have worked in lock-step with the library to create affordable events, camps, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and and activities for the community. During June and National Ambassador for Young People’s July, WCPL and Warren County Parks and Recreation Literature, Jason Reynolds operate the Thrive program and a free nightly summer camp. Thrive delivers media, movement, and mentors to the doorsteps of our city and county neighborhoods. A small team of students and teachers lead storytimes in the park, play with kids in their apartment complexes, and create special programs for community summer camps such as Bowling Green Parks and Recreation, city and county summer school, summer literacy academy, migrant program, Community Education, the Housing Authority, Refuge BG, and many more. Camps in 2022 included NASA, Harry Potter, Star Wars, STEM, Heroes, Pirate, and Olympicthemed experiences.

WCPL is more than a space or place, more than an entity or location, more than rooms of books. Your library is committed to being YOUR accessible resource for life-giving information, enrichment, and entertainment. That mission carries the library out of our spaces and onto the road. In the words of Director, Lisa Rice, “If you can have pizza delivered, why not a book or DVD?” Four in-house programs— Door-to-Door, Home Delivery, Educational Delivery, and Your Next Read— service individuals, nursing homes, homebound seniors, schools, preschools, and daycares with selection, check out, delivery, and pickup services. We accept patrons county-wide. Visit warrenpl.org to sign up. WCPL loves our partners and we would love to be your new partner for library services.

September Coffee Hour

A B O UT T H E S PE A K E R SILAS HOUSE Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of the novels-Clay’s Quilt, 2001; A Parchment of Leaves, 2003; The Coal Tattoo, 2005; Eli the Good, 2009; and Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) 2012, and Southernmost (June 2018)-as well as a book of creative nonfiction--Something’s Rising, co-authored with Jason Howard, 2009; and three plays. His new novel, Lark Ascending, will be published on September 27, 2022.

House is a former commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered”. His writing has appeared recently in Time, The Atlantic, Ecotone, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and Oxford American. House serves on the fiction faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing and as the NEH Chair at Berea College.

He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the recipient of three honorary doctorates, and is the winner of the Nautilus Award, an EB White Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, the Lee Smith Award, and many other honors, including an invitation to read at the Library of Congress. Southernmost was a longest finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and appeared on several Best of 2018 lists including The Advocate, Booklist, Paste, Southern Living, Garden and Gun, and others. The book was given the Weatherford Award as well as the Judy Gaines Young Award.

House was an executive producer and one of the subjects of the documentary Hillbilly, which is now available on Hulu.

The film won the Audience Award from the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Media Award from the Foreign Press Association. As a music journalist House has worked with artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, Senora May, Leann Womack, Charley Crockett, John R. Miller, and many others. House is also the host of the popular podcast “On the Porch”. In 2021 he was the recipient of the Governor’s Award from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for his service to the arts in his home state.

SLIM CHICKENS

AUG 2ND | GRAND OPENING

RAMEN BAR

FAST FREDDY’S CAR WASH

MOSAIC CHURCH

AUG 17TH | ANNIVERSARY

TRISTAR GREENVIEW REGIONAL HOSPITAL

THE EMERSON

OF CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION SUITE

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G DOGS

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ZENSATIONS SELF CARE CENTER

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SWAN FINANCIAL HOME LOANS

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PRESS RELEASES

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ENVISION AESC BREAKS GROUND IN KENTUCKY TRANSPARK INVESTING $2 BILLION AND CREATING 2,000 FULL-TIME JOBS

Bowling Green, Ky. (August 30, 2022) – Envision AESC, a world-leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, along with Gov. Andy Beshear, broke ground today on its state-of-the-art gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. The 30 GWh plant will create 2,000 new, skilled jobs for the region, producing battery cells and modules to power the next-generation EVs produced for multiple global automotive manufacturers.

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BUSINESS SERVICES S O U T H C E N T R A L W O R K F O R C E . C O M The South Central Workforce Development Board's mission is to lead the development and implementation of a highly effective workforce development system in the ten counties of south central Kentucky in collaboration with business, economic development, education and community organizations in the labor market area.

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Welcome NEW PARTNERS!

Any Lab Test Now Healthcare Services

Kaitlyn Humphrey Individuals

BG Skate Recreation

InQlusion Mortgage Capital Financial & Investment Services

Janette Boehman Individuals

JT Cleaning, LLC Cleaning Services

Cliffs of Moher Irish Pub Night Clubs/Bars

Jules With the Flowers Florists

Comparion Insurance Agency Darrell Echols Insurance

Mercadito Hispano, LLC Grocery Stores

Consignment Corner Home Decor

Merry Maids of Bowling Green Cleaning Services

Dave’s Transportation Service Transportation

New Path Recovery Home for Women Nonprofit Organizations

D-BAT Bowling Green Recreation

Nu Lox Salon Salons/Barbershops

EXP Commercial Realty Real Estate-Commercial/Industrial

Ramen Bar Restaurants

G Dogs Restaurants

Slim Chickens Restaurants

Hartland Family Dental Care Dentists & Orthodontists

Taylor, Polson & Co CPAs PSC Accounting/Bookkeeping/Tax Services

Holloman and Carta Homes and Consulting Contractor-General

Top Notch Heating & Air Conditioning HVAC Equipment Sales/Services

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President’s Club partners invest in and support South Central Kentucky’s economic development strategy. These financial resources are used to directly impact the growth of the economy.

Thank you for Renewing American Engineers, Inc. CROWN Cork and Seal Denham-Blythe Company, Inc. Holiday Inn Express Holland, Inc.

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Milestone Partners 5 YEARS

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Chamber

Bowling Green Warehousing Greenline Express, Inc. Storage Sense The Firemen Moving Company

15 YEARS Westen Dental Group

AUGUST BUSINESS AFTER HOURS

25 YEARS All Creatures Animal Hospital FirstBank

30 YEARS Enmet, LLC J-Mar Properties Paul B. Cook Springhill Pharmacy St. Joseph Interparochial School

LEADERSHIP BG 2023 CLASS KICKOFF

35 YEARS Meyer & Associates

55 YEARS Ford’s Furniture Company YP 101

Thank you for Renewing!

Affordable Property Services Art’s Used Parts Barren River District Health Department Best Business Systems Bojangles’ Bowling Green Noon Rotary Club Broadway United Methodist Church Byers Insurance Group Commonwealth Engineers Community Education Bowling Green & Warren County Creative Interiors Crown Lift Trucks Crown Staffing Debra L. Broz, Attorneys at Law Encore Energy Express Laundry FHG Clothiers First Southern National Bank Five Star Food Service Foundation Solutions Group Graham Packaging Greenwood Estates Mobile Home Park Harris Visual Media Henkel Corporation Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical I-65 Liquors of Bowling Green Indiana Tech J & K Used Cars JB Electric Joe D. Hunt K & M Services dba AHEAD Staffing Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Kentucky Procurement Technical Assistance Center Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products

KY Mirror & Plate Glass Company Kysen Trucking Lockshield Partners Los Mariachis Mexican Restaurant Meade Equipment Medley Contracting & Maintenance Modern Supply Company Morris Promotional Specialties Mount Zion Baptist Church NASCO New Beginnings Therapeutic Riding Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Path Forward of Kentucky Reynolds Johnston Hinton, LLP RJ Corman Railroad Company Southeastern Marketing & Distribution Southern Kentucky Building & Remodeling Southern Kentucky Oral Surgery Associates Span Tech Staci Simpson, Kentucky Farm Bureau Stuff The Bus of SOKY Foundation T & E Investments The Pawn Company The Purple Door Boutique Three Springs Animal Hospital Three Springs Hospitality Management Tile Trends Timesavers KY Vette City Real Estate & Auction Company Warren County Public Library WPTQ 105.3 The Point/100.7 SAM-FM/WOVO 106.3 XFD Real Estate Zaxby’s Restaurant

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INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOUR PARTNERSHIP BENEFITS? Contact your Chamber partnership team today at partnership@bgchamber.com.

A WORD FROM THE CITY OF BG

Food Truck FAQs A Downtown Square Area permit is required for any food truck or pushcart operating in the Downtown Square Area on City property.

Downtown Square Area Permit = $300/calendar year or $150 if applying after July 1 To operate using City streets on Downtown Square Area: DO: - use on-street parallel parking - sell toward the sidewalk DON’T: - fill > 2 parking spaces - park > 4 hours - park < 10 feet from a structure

HOURS OF OPERATION: Food Trucks = 6am-5pm: on-street parallel parking 5pm-2:30am: in designated loading zones Pushcarts = 6am-12am: City sidewalks

Downtown Square Area = Fountain Square and adjacent streets bounded by 8th & 10th, College & State

Food Truck = a mobile, self-propelled food establishment on wheels/food trailers pulled by vehicles

Pushcart = a nonself-propelled mobile food unit that’s moved by one person

No seating or tables. No drive-thru service.

To operate on City property: DO: - use your own electricity - bring your own waste containers DON’T: - use lights creating public safety or driving hazards - dump grease or similar liquids

@downtownbgky

City Special Event permits may allow exceptions.

Health, fire, and police inspections may occur anytime.

Download permit application & learn more: bgky.org/downtown

8th Ave to Circus Square

Spring Alley Capitol Alley

to BG Ballpark, SKyPAC, Historic RailPark Beech Bend, and National Corvette Museum

Food Truck Info A Downtown Square Area permit is required for any food truck or pushcart operating in the Downtown Square Area on City property, bounded by 8th & 10th, College & State.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE

• Downtown Square Area Permit = $300/calendar year or $150 if applying after July 1 • Food Truck = a mobile, self-propelled food establishment on wheels/ includes trailers pulled by vehicles • Pushcart = a non-self-propelled mobile food unit that’s moved by one person

State St

College St

Main Ave

Park Row Morris Alley

LEGEND Sidewalks Loading/Unloading Areas Food Trucks must use on-street parallel parking, 6am-5pm Food Trucks must use designated loading zones, 5pm-2:30am

to WKU & Lost River Cave

Pushcarts must use City sidewalks, 6am-12am On-Street Parallel Parking

10th Ave

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Download permit application & learn more: bgky.org/downtown

Upcoming Monthly Networking Events SEPTEMBER 8 | 12-1 PM Rafferty’s Restaurant & Bar 1939 Scottsville Road Sponsored by: Graves Gilbert Clinic

This event is sold out!

SEPTEMBER 23 | 7-8:30 AM Knicely Conference Center 2355 Nashville Road Sponsored by: Warren County Public Library

SEPTEMBER 27 | 4:30 - 6:30 PM 950 Village Way Sponsored by: The Club at Olde Stone

SEPTEMBER 30 | 11:30 AM - 1 PM BG Area Chamber of Commerce 710 College Street Sponsored by: WKU Gordon Ford College of Business

OCTOBER 19 | 4:30 - 6:00 PM Ramen Bar 927 College Street

View all events here

A BIG thank you to all the local businesses that participated in this year’s Welcome Back WKU event. WKU is a significant contributor to our successful business climate. This event allows local businesses the first chance to tap into the student market.

WANT TO SEE MORE PICTURES OF THIS EVENT? CLICK HERE!

Volunteer Appreciation Luau The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce had the honor of hosting and providing lunch at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. Without the support and efforts of our volunteers our Chamber and Community would not be what it is. THANK YOU, ALL! CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PICTURES OF THIS EVENT!

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The Chamber is excited to announce the Leadership Bowling Green Class of 2023!

CLASS OF 2023

Thanks to the support of M&L Electrical, Med Center Health, Abound Credit Union, and Constellium, 38 educators from Bowling Green Independent Schools, Edmonson County Schools, and Warren County Public Schools attended Educator Externship events in Summer 2022.

Educators toured the companies and spent time learning about a “day in the life” from people with various careers. Educators listened in on a safety call, heard about processes involved in day-to-day banking, learned about various opportunities in healthcare, and viewed the many facets of manufacturing. Educators walked away with a better understanding of each company and new information to take back to their classrooms.

M&L Electrical, Inc.

Med Center Health

Abound Credit Union

Constellium

*DATES/TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

PREVENTING WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS Tuesday, September 13, 2022

In this session, you will learn how to look for unsafe work locations and practices, understand how to implement corrective activities, and identify how to properly train employees.

EXCEL CERTIFICATE PROGRAM Thursday, October 6

The Excel Certificate Program, provides a practical, hands-on approach to learning how to use a powerful productivity tool that is generally already available to employees.

WHAT GREAT LEADERS HAVE IN COMMON Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Program is designed for all who are motivated to better be able to lead self, a team, or an organization. The workshop is grounded in decades of research of the world’s most admired leaders.

ADAPTING TO WORKPLACE CHANGE Tuesday, September 27, 2022

In this course you will, understand the basics of change, explore methods of handling change in the workplace, and how to help other team members handle change in an effective manner.

BASIC EXCEL Thursday, October 6

This course provides the straightforward foundation you need to utilize a spreadsheet for business applications. Design concepts, databases, charts, and macros will be examined thoroughly along with the major built-in functions.

INTERMEDIATE EXCEL Thursday, October 13, 2022

Our Intermediate Excel course which will introduce you to charting features and database management in Microsoft Excel.

You will design worksheets that meet Excel criteria for database functions such as sorting and filtering.

CLICK HERE FOR CLASS DETAILS & REGISTRATION