{"id":754,"date":"2019-08-09T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:52:10","slug":"chamber-newsletter-august-2019-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Chamber Newsletter August 2019 #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nfrom LBW Community College:&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Please join us one night next week as we welcome Peter Bielagus to LBWCC!&nbsp;He is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Financial Educator\u201d and will be speaking on the importance of financial literacyand preparing for college expenses. Please share with friends and family who have children, especially in high school, to join us as well. It is never too early to start planning for our children\u2019s college education.&nbsp;To learn more about Peter, you can visit his website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/peterbielagus.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/peterbielagus.com<\/a><br>See attached flyer detailing the nights Mr. Bielagus will be speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; *******************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Congratulations to South Ridge Wines<\/strong> Pippin Family Vineyards and Winery were recently honored at the Fifth Annual Alabama Commercial\u00a0Wines Competition in Huntsville.\u00a0 South Ridge&#8217;s 2018 Black Spanish and Gold varieties both received gold awards and the 2018 Blanc DeBois wines garnered silver.\u00a0 All this in the first year of production.\u00a0 What a great achievement !!\u00a0\u00a0<br>The winery is currently open from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0 Their shop offers goat&#8217;s milk soap and lotions, jewelry and other gift items and you can learn more about the wine making process.\u00a0 Visit this unique local business soon!\u00a0 Visit their website at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southridgewine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.southridgewine.comhttp:\/\/www.southridgewine.com<\/a>\u00a0to learn more.<br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0***********************\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Lillian Wilson, Style Dots Partner:&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;See attached flyer!!&nbsp; Tomorrow, August 10th<\/strong><br>Hi Everyone!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would love for anyone that loves&nbsp;&#xfe0f; bling to come to Chicken Shack on<strong>&nbsp;Saturday, August 10th from 2-4&nbsp;<\/strong>for some friendly games of BLINGO BINGO!! Prizes will be won!!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to see you there!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Lillian K. Wilson<br>Independent Senior Boutique Partner<br>Style Dots<br>334-399-2673<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:lk1962wilson@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">lk1962wilson@gmail.com<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/lkwilson.styledotshome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lkwilson.styledotshome.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><br>\u00a0************************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, August 5th, the Chamber hosted the Fall Coaches Breakfast, honoring the coaches for football, volleyball, cheerleading and the band directors for all four Crenshaw County Schools.&nbsp; The breakfast was held this time at the Nutrition Center in Luverne and breakfast was prepared by Chamber Board members.&nbsp; Each coach was asked to review his\/her summer program and predict the fall sports\/music season and everyone enjoyed listening to them.&nbsp; Former Citizens of the Year Coach Glenn Daniel and Ray Hilburn, and Cuz Johnson from the Luverne City Council, came to enjoy the breakfast also.&nbsp; This is one of our favorite events and we thank the Coaches for attending&#8230;&#8230;our Spring Breakfast honors the coaches for baseball, softball, basketball, track and tennis and is held usually in March.&nbsp;<br>The Chamber will be working on plans for our&nbsp;Golf Tournament&nbsp;which supports our scholarship program for Belles and Beaus, helping with the BiCentennial display as needed and finalizing plans for the&nbsp;Tree Lighting and Christmas Parade, which this year will be a night event on the first Saturday in December.&nbsp; More information on these events will be forthcoming in future newsletters.<br>The Chamber asks that you send us your special sale information, promotions or special event information so we can keep the Chamber membership informed.&nbsp; As always,<strong>&nbsp;SHOP LOCAL<\/strong>&nbsp;is our motto and we encourage all members to patronize your local stores and services as much as possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LBW Community College:&nbsp;&nbsp;Please join us one night next week as we welcome Peter Bielagus to LBWCC!&nbsp;He is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Financial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crenshawcochamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}