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February 2016

PLATTEVILLE REGIONAL CHAMBER

The Moving Platteville Outdoors Trail Project portion in Katie’s Garden is complete!

February Calendar

Annual Celebration InvitationRibbon Cuttings

Business After HoursGood Morning PlattevilleSanta Bucks AuctionMember Updates


Platteville RegionalChamber

275 W Bus Hwy 151PO Box 724

Platteville WI, 53818 (608) 348-8888

[email protected]

2016 Executive Board

Jason Thompson, President American Bank & Trust

Deb Jenny, President Elect Platteville Realty

Rob Cramer, Vice PresidentUW-Platteville

Dan Dreessens, Vice President Delta 3 Engineer, LLC

Mike Olds, Past PresidentKopp, McKichan, LLP

Deb McWilliams, Treasurer Clare Bank

Kathy Kopp, Secretary and Executive Director

Board of Directors

Lori Bahr, Mound City BankRon Holl, Super 8

Dan Jones, Rosemeyer Jones Chiropractic

Chad Lueder, Hypro, Inc.Doug Martin, Livingston State

BankMike Moran, Fidelity Bank &

TrustAnn Rupp, Platteville JournalKip Schreck, Applied Micro

Matt Streeter, Southwest Health

Hello Members!

Like Us At:www.facebook.com/plattevilleregionalchamber

Happy 53rd Anniversary to the Platteville Regional Chamber!

Our Ambassador Committee and Chamber staff has been very busy readying everything for our Annual Celebration and Arthur J. Virtue Awards Night which is being held on Friday, February 19th. This is truly one of the most important events that we host each year, a time when Chamber members come together to celebrate the accomplishments of our organization and look toward the future. We are celebrating our 53rd anniversary as an organization, and we should all be very proud of the incredible amount of positive things that have taken place within our City. Our theme is “Celebrating UW-Platteville’s Sesquicentennial” and I think you will be very pleased to see what the University has planned for a review of the past 150 years! The deadline to RSVP is Friday, February 12th.

Along with celebrating with our members, we will be presenting the annual Arthur J. Virtue Awards – Business Persons of the Year; Community Spirit Award; Community Service Award; Outstanding Award in the Field of Agriculture; Youth Spirit Award, President’s Award for Outstanding Chamber Service and Lifetime Service Award. Please plan to attend and support the recipients of these exceptional recognitions.

We are also recruiting new members with the goal of increasing our membership significantly by the end of 2016! As chamber members, we would like to ask that you help us reach that goal by encouraging businesses who are not currently chamber members to become members. The more members we have, the more promotion and programming we will be able to do which will all benefit each and every one of you. As you are doing your daily business, ask businesses if they are a chamber member. If they are not, ask them to consider joining and then let me know and I will be more than happy to follow up with them. The member-to-member connection is a strong one! Like our logo says “better together”!

A new event, the “Southwest Music Festival” is aggressively being planned for July 30th as the grand finale of our Hometown Festival Week. Due to the fact that it is new, will become an annual event and has the capability of bringing hundreds, not thousands of visitors to our community, we are hosting a community information meeting on Tuesday, March 1st at 6:00PM at the Mound City Bank community room. We want everyone to hear about this exciting new event and help us make it a success for everyone. Please mark your calendars to attend.

2016 is off to a great start and we are looking to another positive year for the Platteville community. I am confident that by staying on track with our goals, the Chamber will help drive business to each and every member!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday1

Ambassadors Committee, Noon - A&W

2Southwest Music Festival Committe, 10am -Red N Deb’s

Rotary, Noon - Benventuto’s

Kiwanis, Noon - A&W Restaurant

Police & Fire Commission - 5pm

Historic Preservation Commission - 5:30pm

Library Board - 6pm

3PAIDC, 7am - PBII

City Tourism Committee, 4pm - City Hall

4CLA, 8:30am - Chamber

Education Committee, Noon - A&W

5Optimists, 7am - Country Kitchen

Ribbon Cutting at A&W, 10am

Gordon Goodwin, Jazz Performance, 7pm - CFA, UW-Platteville

6Classic Toy Train Exhibit at the Mining & Rollo Jamison Muesums


8

Water & Sewer Commission - 4pm

Airport Commission - 6pm

9Kiwanis, Noon - A&W Restaurant

Ag Tourism Meeting, 3pm - Chamber

Common Council - 7pm

Survivors of Suicide Support Group, 7pm, Mound City Bank Motor Branch

10Chamber Executive Board, 7:30am - Chamber

Business After Hours, 5-6:30pm - Sherwin Williams

11

Business Promotions, 8:15am - Chamber


Family Fun Night at the Chocolate Fest, 5:30pm-8pm - Family Connections


PHS Scholarship Dinner & Auction, 4:30pm - Velzy Commons, UW-Platteville


15Community Safe Routes Committee - 6pm

Board of Appeals - 7pm


Rotary, Noon - Benventuto’s

Historic Preservation Commission - 5:30pm

17Chamber Board of Directors, 7:30am - Pioneer Ford

UNITE Steering Committee, 9am - Southwest Health

18Grant County Tourism Council, 10am - Boscobel


Commission on Aging - 9am

53rd Annual Celebration and Arthur J. Virtue Awards Presentation, 5pm - Velzy Commons, UW-Platteville

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RDA - 5pm


Housing Authority - 3:30pm

Common Council - 7pm

242nd CLA Session at UW-Platteville

25“Good Morning Platteville” - 7:45am - Mound City Bank’s Community Room

St. Croix Hospice Ribbon Cutting at 4pm


27Society of Women Engineers “M” Powering Women Conference, UW-Platteville

28 29Memories Tour & Travel Ribbon Cutting at Noon

Danu, Celtic Performance, 7pm - CFA

Platteville Regional Chamber (PRC) Events

Friday, February 19, 2016Velzy Commons ~ Ullsvik Hall

University of Wisconsin-Platteville5:00pm Social Hour and Cash Bar

6:00pm Dinner Buffet6:30pm Program: Celebrating UW-Platteville’s Sesquicentennial

Anniversary and the Arthur J. Virtue Awards Presentation

Ticket Information: $25 per person for Program & DinnerAvailable at the Platteville Regional Chamber

RSVP to the Chamber by February 12, 2016

Call 608-348-8888 or email [email protected]

“Celebrating UW-Platteville’s Sesquicentennial”

Platteville Regional Chamber’s53rd Annual Celebration and

Arthur J. Virtue Awards Presentation

You Are Cordially Invited to Attend the

Ribbon Cuttings

Tour & Travel LLC

Memories

Your Gateway to Getaways

EST 2015M

A&W RestaurantFriday, February 5th at 10am111 Millennium Drive, Platteville


Memories Tour & TravelMonday, February 29th at Noon255 McGregor Plaza, Suite CPlatteville


Sponsorship is Available for Good Morning Platteville for 2016!For $100 your Company can sponsor this great networking and educational opportunity

(Platinum Membership Includes one Good Morning Platteville Sponsorship.)

Join us for Coffee, Donuts and Conversation At “Good Morning Platteville”

Thursday, February 25th at 7:45amMound City Bank’s Motor Branch Community Room

90 S. Second St., Platteville

Good Morning Platteville

Whitney Thompson, MPH, CHES Demential Care Specialist from ADRC of Southwest Wisconsin joined the January “Good Morning Platteville” to discuss how our community can become more dementia friendly. If your business is interested in learn-ing more about this, please contact Whitney at 608-328-9372 or email [email protected] to schedule a training session for your business. The flyer on the right explains more of the discussion.

Facts about Dementia:

70% of the 110,000 individuals living with

dementia in WI reside in their own homes

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5.3 million individuals are living with Alzheimer’s

disease in the U.S.

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1 in 9 individuals over the age of 65; 1 in 3 over the age of 85 are living with

Alzheimer’s

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If you are interested in becoming dementia

friendly or joining the dementia friendly

community initiative, contact the

Aging & Disability Resource Center’s

Dementia Care Specialist, Whitney

Thompson bycalling

608-426-4295.

Vision:A community driven effort to develop and sustain anincreased awareness and understanding of dementiawith decreased isolation and stigma so individualswith dementia are valued, included, and live well.

Why be a Dementia Friendly Business?Employees will learn how to:• Recognize customers that may be living with dementia• Effectively interact with those individuals• Be aware of the resources available• Exhibit GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE

About the dementia friendly training• 20-30 minute on-site training for all staff• FLEXIBLE to meet your busy schedule• Receive information tailored toward your business• Resources for employees who are unable to attend

Benefits for being a Dementia Friendly BusinessYour business is recognized for becoming dementia friendly: • Receive Purple Angel Decal for your store front and website • A picture of the employees with a banner that states “We are

dementia friendly” • Articles in the local newspaper, on social media, and in

newsletters

INVEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY


Business After Hours

January Business After Hours

2016 Business After Hours Schedule February 10 - Sherwin-Williams

March 9 - A&W Restaurant

April 13 - Available May 11 - Rosemeyer Jones Chiropractic

June 8 - Fink Fencing

July 27 - Benvenuto’s

August 10 - Anchor Bank

September 14 - Family Connections

October 12 - Home Health United

November 9 - Available December 14 - Available

Interesting in Hosting a Business After Hours? Is Your Business Celebrating an Anniversary, Remodel or do you just want to Showcase Your Business?Give Emmily a call at The Chamber, 348-8888 or send an email to [email protected] to reserve your date today!

I COLOR

40% off Paints &

Stains 30% off Supplies

Free Brush & Bucket

8AM to

6PM

Room Makeover Giveaway

Over 1500

Colors!

Grand Opening Saturday February 13th

Join Sherwin Williams for Business After Hours

February 10th 5:00p-6:30p

1741 Progressive Pkwy

Check out our New Store

Sign up to Win a FREE Room Makeover Includes: 90 minute color consult

Up to 2 gallons of paint Painted by a Local Professional Painter

Celebrating 150 Years!

18th Annual Santa Bucks Promotion


THANK YOU!Families, Participating

Businesses and Volunteers for makingthe 18th Annual Santa Bucks Auction a huge

success this year!


Member Updates

SAVE THE DATELiberal Education and America’s PromiseStudent-Centered Learning:A Forward LEAP to Awareness of Learning Outcomes for Business and Community Partnerships

Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 | Sessions run 1–4:30 p.m.Velzy Commons, Ullsvik Hall, UW-Platteville

www.uwplatt.edu/oiea/leap-conference

Sponsored by Southwest HealthTo request disability accommodations, contact the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment at 608.342.1358.

Family Fun nightat the Chocolate Fest

Friday,February 12, 2016

110 W Adams, Platteville608-348-2846

Raffle Items Updated Weekly: www.familyconnectionsswwi.org

BucketRaffles

Children’s

Movie

Activity & Demonstrationby Mining Museum

Parent/ChildGames

Discovery

Center

Open

5:30-8:00pmone ticket $5 / two tickets $8 / family ticket $20

Advance Tickets by 2/10/16:

one ticket $6 / two tickets $10 / family ticket $25At the Door:

Member Updates

united we standlecture series

CURT PATROUILLEthis event is co-sponsored by the wright center and department of residence life.

to request disability accommodations, please contact robin gore, residence life, 128 royce hall, 608.342.1845.

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sunday, FEB. 21, 2016Come hear Curt Patrouille, an UW-Platteville alumnus, share his story of how to keep a positive outlook on life despite the obstacles that are thrown in your path. He will touch on his personal experiences of surviving being badly burned, 27 plus years of military service, losing his mother at the age of 20, and multiple deployments while being married and having young children. He will share with you his story of resilience and bouncing back from adversity.

7 p.m. | velzy commons, ullsvik hall, uw-Platteville campus

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Community Collections: Toy Soldiers Exhibit at the Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums February 20 – March 31, 2016

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are pleased to announce a series of special exhibits highlighting the collections of local community members. Our first special exhibit in this series will be “Toy Soldiers” from February 20 through March 31, 2016.

The objects in this exhibit come from the private collection of local community member Eric Fatzinger and will focus on the Napoleonic Wars, the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland in 1745-46, the American Civil War, The Battle of the Little Big Horn 1876, World War II, and the Cold War. A hands-on area will be available for younger children with plastic “Little Green Army Men.”

For more information about this exhibit, or about the planned series please contact the Museums at (608) 348-3301 or [email protected]. Recommendations for future community based collections exhibits are welcomed and encouraged.


Member Updates

DriftlessGardeners’Gathering

April 2, 20168:00AM to 2:30PM

1st

presented by

Master Gardeners of Grant County & the Horticulture Club at the University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville | Markee Pioneer Student Center

Variety of Gardening Workshops & Techniques

Authors with book signing available

UWP-Pioneer Greenhouse Tour

$25.00 Adults ~ $15.00 Students

Register by or before March 1

Contact Terry Wood [email protected] with questions

Visit [email protected] for registration form

CLA: Cultivating the Growth of Community-Minded Leaders in Southwest Wisconsin

CLA is a leadership development program designed to help expand the amount of volunteers serving on and leading committees, boards, planning teams and work groups in Grant, Lafayette, and Iowa counties. CLA teaches community members to find their voice. As one 2015 alumni stated “CLA has changed my life! During the 6 months of attending the classes, I have grown both professionally and personally. It has given me the opportunity to understand not only myself on a deeper level, but others as well. I have become more insightful, purposeful and grateful as a leader which has already resulted in many successes.”

Thank you to our 2016 sponsors!

Clare Bank UW Platteville

Southwest Tech

Southwest Health Alliant Energy

Lancaster Community Fund

Biddick Foundation Livingston State Bank Darlington Reboot

Upland Hills Health Mound City Bank

CLA Alumni

Platteville Business Incubator, Inc

Platteville Regional Chamber

Consider investing in leadership development in your community! Donations to our program through sponsorships and scholarships or a contribution to our endowment fund are always welcome. Tuition covers 50% of our budget. We rely on the kindness of alumni, associations, businesses and grants to raise the other half of our program’s needs. To find out more, please contact Kristin at 608-778-1807, [email protected], or through our website at http://fyi.uwex.edu/leadership/.

The Platteville Public Library is hosting its seventh annual all-ages Peeps Diorama Contest from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday, February 27. Participants will have two hours to recreate a scene from a book. The library will provide marshmallow Peeps and supplies. Dioramas will be displayed at the library. Peep-le’s Choice winners, as chosen by library visitors, will receive fame, glory, and “peeps-tastic” prizes.Participants may sign up as individuals or in teams of up to four people. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a team member 13 or older. To register, call the Platteville Public Library at 348-7441 ext 4, or visit the library at 65 S Elm St. For more information, visit http://plattevillepubliclibrary.org/services/adults/peeps.

The Platteville Public Library is offering free computer classes. All classes are held at the library and are taught by library staff. Each class is offered from 5:30 – 7:30 pm on Wednesdays and from 10 am to noon on Thursdays. Registration is required and opens four weeks prior to each class. To register, or for more information, call the library at 608-348-7441 ext 4.Upcoming classes are “Microsoft Excel I: the basics,” February 24 and 25; “Microsoft Excel II: formulas and sorting,” March 2 and 3; and “Microsoft Excel III: graphs and more,” March 9 and 10.


Member Updates

On January 1, 2016, Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C. (HK), a Top 100 CPA and business consulting firm in the U.S., acquired Doyle & Keenan, P.C. (D&K), located at 908 W. 35th Street in Davenport, Iowa.

Greg Burbach, managing partner for HK, states, “We are very excited about the recent acquisition of Doyle & Keenan. Their firm has a fabulous reputation in the Quad City market and has a close cultural fit with HK. We both believe in serving clients with the personal touch while helping them be more profitable. It’s a great addition to HK’s presence and continued investment in the Quad City community.”

For more information about this acquisition, please contact Greg Burbach at 563.556.0123 or [email protected].

Grants Available from the Platteville Community FundThe Platteville Community Fund invites applications for its spring 2016 grant cycle. The application deadline is Friday, April 15, 2016. Charitable non-profit organizations and/or local government entities serving the people of the Platteville area are eligible to apply for grants; requests from individuals are not eligible.

Applications must be completed online and submitted online no later than 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 15, 2016. Mailed, emailed or faxed copies of applications and/or incomplete or late applications will not be considered. To access the application, go to www.cfsw.org, choose open grant applications from the grants dropdown menu and scroll to Platteville Community Fund. Questions? Both CFSW donor services rep Barb Daus ([email protected]) and CFSW grants and scholarships manager Jackie Ommodt ([email protected]) are available to assist. The Platteville Community Fund is a component of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, a tax-exempt public charity.

Kiwanis is putting on a 5K in April to benefit the WI Badger Camp and we are hoping to get the event on the community calendar (and the “news in a nutshell” you mentioned).

The name of the event is; Kiwanis Badger Crawl-5k Run/Walk to benefit Wisconsin Badger Camp

Location: Moundview Park, Platteville, WI

Date/Time: Saturday April 30, 2016 at 8:30am

Registration is $25 in advance (on Active.com) and $30 day of

Participants will receive a T-shirt and goody bag, and support a great cause.

Questions? Contact Jamie Klein (715) 252-7059

Member Updates


Classic Toy Train Exhibit at the

Rollo Jamison Museum 405 E. Main St., Platteville (608) 348-3301

www.mining.jamison.museum

Free Admission Sat. Feb. 6 10-4 Sun. Feb. 7 10-4 Sat. Feb. 13 10-4 Sun. Feb. 14 10-4

Two operating 8’x 28’ layouts with Standard and O gauge trains, engines, cars, and buildings and reproduction

classic tin-type engines, cars, and accessories Floor trains play area

Bring your O gauge engine and run on our layout

Questions? Call Alzheimer’s & Dementia Alliance of WI, 608.723.4288 or toll-free 888.308.6251

alzwisc.org

WHAT

Annual workshop for professionals and caregivers aimed towards increasing knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and memory loss

WHEN

Thursday, March 10, 20168:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

WHERE

Southwest Wisconsin Technical CollegeFred Lenz Conference Center1800 Bronson Blvd.Fennimore, WI

PRESENTED BY:

Grant County Dementia Care Network

SAVETHE

DATE

Annual Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia & Memory Loss Workshop

Featuring Teepa Snow

2016 Corporate Sponsors To Date

Bronze

Silver

Platinum

Gold


Thank you to the Following Beverage Sponsors:

February:


Platteville Regional Chamber & Travel Wisconsin Welcome Center hours

Nov. 1st-April 30th May 1st - Oct. 31st Mon.-Fri. 8 am-5 pm Mon - Fri: 8 am - 6 pm Saturday/Sunday Closed Sat: 10 am - 4 pm Sun: 10 am - 2 pm

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