2014 ChamberCommunity Council• Angie Crawford (State Farm Insurance)• Beth McCrary• Brad Folsom (Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers, P.C.)• Chris Lilly (Lowe’s Dist. Center)• Clint Wills (South Georgia Pecan Co.)• Curt Fowler (Fowler & Company)• Dan Hoffman (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence, LLP)• David Waller (Associate Member)• Heather Ferguson (Stifel)• Hugh Chancy (Chancy Drugs)• Jerry Jennett (Georgia Gulf Sulfur Corp.)• Lacie Guy (Valdosta Chiropractic & Rehab)• Louis Levy (Associate Member)• Molly Deese (Wild Adventures Theme Park)• Ron Zaccari (Guardian Bank)• Ryan Williams (Nexxtep Technology Services, Inc.)• Scott James (Talk 92.1)• Sean Panizzi (Teamtemps Personnel Staffing, Inc.)• Stacy Bush (Bush Wealth Management)• William Grow (South Health District)

Chamber BoardHeadlineS

Volume II, Issue 8August 2014

2014 ChamberBoard of DirectorsCarlton Holley, Chairman of the Board (Fowler, Holley, Rambo & Stalvey)

Bruce Allred (Smith Drug Company)Baha Zeidan (Azalea Health)James McGahee (Associate Member)Jan Brice (Langdale Place)Jay Prince (Prince Automotive Group)Brad Folsom (Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers, P. C.)Lee McArthur (ING)Marty LeFiles (LeFiles Valenti Financial Advisors, LLC)Michael Lee (Ameris Bank)Mike Hill (Mike Hill Real Estate)Myrna Ballard (Chamber of Commerce)Ron Borders (Real Living Realty Advisors)Sue Cox (Covington’s and 306 North)Tom Carroll (Sunset Farm Foods, Inc.)

General Counsel -Tom Gooding (Elliott,

“Operation Moody Transition”

When the Chamber and the Valdosta

Career Center learned that up to 300 military members at Moody AFB would be separating or retiring from the Air Force in the next few months due to down-sizing, the “opportunity flags” starting waving! With the ongoing discus-sions about workforce

quality in our community, it was a no-brainer: We should work togeth-er as a community to encourage these well trained service members to stay in South Georgia. Who wouldn’t want an employee that is well trained, has great work ethics, and can pass a drug test and a criminal background check?

Together with VSU, WGTC, SBDC, SEEDS Business Resource Center, Valdosta Veterans First, and private sector employment services, we created Operation Moody Transition. Going directly into the local job market, upgrading skills and obtaining needed credentials, or starting your own business – these are the basic options for newly separated military members. This summer, OMT coordinated employer work-shops, resume and inter-viewing workshops, and the Moody TransitionExpo to bring all theplayers together. We will let you know how our community fared in this effort to recruit some of our country’s best and brightest!

416 North Ashley Street • Valdosta, GA 31601Phone: 229-247-8100 / Fax: 229-245-0071www.ValdostaChamber.com / fb.vlcchamber

You are invited to the Chamber’s Largest

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