Plans are well underway at the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce for the 31st annual Oil Heritage Festival. A festival of this size requires year around planning. A few changes are in store for this year. Community volunteers are at the heart of the festival and this year they will be adding new events and Read More…
New Chamber Email Look
Keeping consistent with the new look and feel of the Chamber Website, we recently introduced a new format for emails that go out to our membership. We continue to try to limit email notices to only include time sensitive notices about Venango Chamber events and deadlines. The new format includes links to the most popular Read More…
Women of the Year
The Venango Area Chamber of Commerce has named Cynthia Urban, President/Owner of Klapec Trucking Co., as the 2009 Woman in Business Award Recipient. Each year, the Venango Chamber bestows the honor upon a woman who has achieved success in the Venango Area business community. Klapec Trucking Co. has been and still proves to be an Read More…
Twittering Not for You?
It’s been no secret that I’ve been a great proponent of twittering. But I have heard plenty of resistance in just about any gathering I’ve been in recently. The responses are very predictable. “I don’t have time”, “I don’t care what other people are doing”, “Why would anyone care what I’m doing?” These are all Read More…
Flights of Fancy & Trails
This morning I stopped in the coffee shop, Spilling the Beans, for a morning brew. It’s always a great place to see the locals but today the morning men’s coffee clutch was busting at the seams. It always makes me smile to see these men who have worked so hard all their lives, in business, Read More…