Message From the President

"The growth of any organization is nurtured one member at a time." After nine years as the President/CEO of your Chamber this has really become our day-to-day mission. With each member we become a stronger advocate and more effective in delivering your benefits and the return on your investment you have made in the Chamber. As we look back at some of the successes we had in 2004, we launched a Kids Voting Program with the Superior School District where over 2500 students voted in the Presidential election, we worked with our partners at the BID and Development Association to stop a fire inspection fee, we continued to build on the success of our networking events and made some of them even bigger and stronger, the Youth Leadership Program continues to grow and develop our future community leaders. The list can go on and on. Overall we accomplished many things this year. As we look ahead to this coming year and the opportunities that lie ahead I would challenge us to be more like Geese than Buffalo. “Buffalo travel as a herd. But when the lead buffalo is eliminated, the rest of the pack has no idea what to do, since they simply follow the lead buffalo everywhere and do what he does. A flock of geese however, drafts off of each other, takes turns leading, and honks encouragement from behind. If one can't make it, another stays behind until they can both travel onward”. So let’s travel, GROW, One member at a time, and if you need help just honk.