November 24th—Small Business Saturday Small Business Saturday, first observed in 2010, was created as a complement to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which target big box stores. Encouraging holiday shoppers to #ShopLocal and patronize their local brick and mortar stores, Small Business Saturday has become a fixed part of the holiday shopping weekend. As a Read More…
November 2018 Young Professional Profiles: Hannah Allman Kennedy & Saxon Daugherty
Hannah Allman Kennedy is a freelance writer who works with small businesses and other writers in our area. She was born in Pittsburgh, but was raised in Oil City when her family moved here in 1994. Hannah attended Clarion University for a year, then transferred to Geneva College where she received her bachelor’s degree in Read More…
Northern PA Regional College Kicks off Fall Term
Fall 2018 has been an exciting term for Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC). Classes began on August 22 at 14 site locations over nine counties. This term also marked the start of two new Associate of Arts Degrees – Criminal Justice and Early Childhood Education/Early Intervention. Shortly after the term began, NPRC celebrated yet another Read More…
Chamber Member Expansions
In addition to celebrating our new members, we have some longstanding ones whose success is demanding them to expand their businesses. Bert Klapec, Inc. (BKI), located on North Seneca Street in Oil City, is building an 80×80 foot steel repair garage for trucks and machines (pictured top right). The original garage was only 65-feet long Read More…
FLEX Looks Forward to Another Year of Helping Young Professionals Thrive
Written by: Hannah Kennedy The FLEX Annual Meeting was held at Karma Coffee Company on Friday, October 26. The night provided FLEX members and guests, with a total of about 40 attendees for the event, opportunities to network and stay up to date on the various FLEX events throughout the past year. An array of Read More…