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www.valleycitychamber.com November 2014 701-845-1891

Budget Home Furnishings has beautiful and elegant holiday dining displays.

Valley City Barnes County Public Library “The Public Library, not just books anymore.” Join Library

Director Steve Hammel for a demonstration of all the new and exciting free resources available at the Library from 11 am & 12:30 pm. Curves Fitness will be hosting a holiday vendor open house from 1—3 pm. Vendors will include: Norwex, It

Works, Pampered Chef, Mary Kay, Watkins, Young Living Essential Oils, and more! Bong’s Bootery will have new arrivals for this season’s footwear.

Simple Nutrition is hosting a meal replacement shake party from 10 am—1 pm.

Dakota Rose Floral will have their Fall open house 9 am—12 pm.

NuCara Pharmacy will have great holiday gifts and decorations.

Leah Helene’s Massage Therapy will be offering 10 minute massages for $5, also get a great discount when

booking a future appointment. Red Door Guest Inn enjoy holiday goodies while admiring their newly remodeled Inn.

Eagles Nest will have new “Grab ’n Go” gifts with a variety of food samples available.

Urban Couture will be offering 25% off the entire store and 50% of entire Glitz & Glam Package purchase.

Town & Country Club will be hosting Bunco at 7:30 pm.

Central Avenue Health Mart Pharmacy will have an open house featuring It Works and Desana Essential

Oils from 9 am—1 pm. Riverside Gardens will have Christmas Fairies and other garden items on display from 9 am—12 pm.

Wellness at Revelations of Beauty will have facial demonstrations and will be offering a great discount when

booking future services. Roxy’s Frozen Yogurt will be serving soup and hosting two sessions of BINGO at 2 & 4 pm. Winners will

receive a gift certificate. Prairie Frame Shop has great new gift lines and other wonderful holiday items.

Saturday, November 8 Ladies Holiday Glitz & Glam Day

Glitz & Glam Package Deal Get a curling style for $10 or an up-do for $30 at Dancing Wildflower Salon Add a trendy new fall look to your wardrobe at Urban Couture and get 50% off your entire purchase. Then head over to get your glamour shot taken at Dutton’s Valley Gallery!

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August 2014: $211,780

August 2013: $228,230

July 2014: $173,676

July 2013: $165,698

Remember to

SHOP LOCAL!

Greetings From Your President By Dawn Riley, NDWS 2014-2015

Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dawn Riley, President North Dakota Winter Show

Jon Aus, Treasurer Sheyenne Care Center

Greg Vanney Valley City State University

Tyler Marthaler Dacotah Bank

Michael Strom KLJ

Reed Anderson Valley City Times Record

Lori Froemke

AFLAC Independent Agent

Paul Behle KSJB

Nathan Hillmer First Community Credit Union

James Jensen Lawn Realty

Dr. Margaret Dahlberg, Ex Officio

VCSU

Bob Werkhoven, Ex Officio

Mayor

STAFF

Kay Vinje Executive Vice President

chamber@valleycitychamber.com

Shanel Finke Event Coordinator

ofcmgr@valleycitychamber.com

Linda Fenwick Office Assistant/Motor Vehicle Administrator

mvoffice@valleycitychamber.com

Greetings!

What a beautiful fall we have had.

I will start with a big Thank you to

those members that were able to attend our

Annual Meeting we certainly hope it was as

beneficial to you as it was to us. It was long

overdue and we greatly appreciate your comments

and suggestions.

I would like to congratulate our button contest

winner Chloe Hatten from Washington

Elementary School. Congrats Chloe! Buttons will

go on sale November 8. Stay tuned for locations

for button sales.

As I walked thru the office today I noticed several

snowmen getting ready for delivery. It is hard to

believe that it is that time again. This is such a

fun time of year. I hope you can make it around

town to see all of the great snowmen and snow

women, the competition is fierce but friendly…

Good luck everyone. We are rapidly approaching

“Holiday Glitz and Glam” (formerly Women’s

Weekend) on November 8 and I would like to say

“Thank You” to all of our sponsors that make this

event possible, the committee, and the Chamber

staff that does such a great job putting it all

together.

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Chamber Member Spotlight

Kitchen With An Attitude

923 7th Ave NW

Valley City, ND 58072

(701)845-1224 or (701)490-1224

Offers a variety of catering options.

Hello Chamber members,

As we see the gorgeous leaves falling outside, the Chamber of Commerce Committee

thinks of one thing-Christmas in the Valley! On November 8th the festivities begin in

a big way with “Ladies Holiday Glitz & Glam Day.” This is the combination of the

former “Women’s Weekend” and the “Holiday Preview Open House.” This day will be

filled with the glitz of Christmas throughout Valley City businesses. It will be a great

way to get a jump on your Christmas list with so many unique shopping experiences,

and to enjoy seeing, tasting, and experiencing an awesome holiday outing in Valley City. Please see the

front cover of this newsletter and our website (valleycitychamber.com) for more details. The Christmas in the

Valley buttons also go on sale November 8th. Be Sure to get your button early as we begin giving great

daily prizes away on November 14th through December 13th and be watching for the well dressed 25

snowmen throughout town! Thank you to our members who have renewed their membership this month, and

welcome to our new members: Leah Helene’s Massage Therapy, Simple Nutrition, Kitchen With An Attitude,

and Smith Lumber Company. We look forward to working with you throughout this new Chamber year!

Leah Helene’s Massage Therapy

134 3rd St NE Suite #2

Valley City, ND 58072

(701)840-2990

You can enjoy therapeutic, sports, or

deep tissue massages. Cranio sacral

therapy is also offered. Appointments

available Monday through Friday.

Sanford Clinic

AmericInn Hotel

Ag Country Farm Credit Services

KOVC

Leevers Foods

Barnes County Extension Office

Bong’s Bootery

Hi-Line Technology

PetroServe USA

Open Door Center

Valley Plains Equipment

Pine Country Nursery

Catholic Health Initiatives

Smith Lumber Company

309 4th St NE (current location)

1525 Main St E (new location Dec. 2014)

Valley City, ND 58072

(701)845-2135

Their new location will feature a full line

hardware store along with all your

building supplies, and custom cabinets.

Simple Nutrition

341 Central Ave Suite 5

Valley City, ND 58072

(701)318-2622

Simple Nutrition is a place to come for a

healthy meal replacement shake to help

you feel better about yourself, and so

much more!

Bank Forward

Moritz Excavating

Alliance Pipeline

Job Service ND

U.S. Corp. of Engineers

CSI Cable Services

Looysen I Care

Grotberg Electric

Valley Realty Inc.

Dacotah Bank

Northwestern Industries

Ludvigson, Braun & Co.

Henry Bruns

Tri W-G

Lawn Realty

Heritage Insurance Services

Sheyenne Care Center

Dakota Plains Cooperative

Bob’s Excavating

Arc Thrift-E-Shop

KLJ

Times Record

Cass County Electric Cooperative

Thrifty White Pharmacy

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Christmas in the Valley 2014 Button Winner: Chloe Hatten

Button winner, Chloe Hatten with Chamber President

Dawn Riley and mother Charlin Hatten. Chloe is a 5th grader in Mrs. Lentz class at

Washington School.

Congratulations to Taylor Storhoff for being one of the

Agricultural scholarship recipients for 2014. Taylor is now

studying at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. She

plans to major in Animal Science with an emphasis in

Pre-veterinary Medicine, Taylor is also pursuing an Equine

Science minor.

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As Valley Flooring has new owners and anniversary of Mohawk products, the business owners; Scott and Carmen Waldie welcomed the community and celebrated with a ribbon cutting, open house, special sales, prizes, and business after hours. Besides endless flooring options such as; carpet, tiles, and wood flooring, Valley Flooring also offers cabinets including James Creek Cabinetry, a variety of countertops, tiles, and even blinds. They will come to your home for a consultation and walk you through your entire remodel from start to finish, taking care of the details. This can be your one stop shop.

Pictured L-R: Chamber

Board member, Jon Aus,

Ambassador, Dave

Weshnevski, Chamber

EVP, Kay Vinje,

employees; Jenn

McLachlan and Lori

Trucke, owners; Scott and

Carmen Waldie,

Ambassador, Deb Kohler,

employee Jill Heck,

Ambassadors Nathan

Hillmer and Deb Leitner.

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October Customer Service Award: Alise Koller

“Alise is always very pleasant, treats customers with respect and

knows where items are to assist customers, she greets you by name

and makes you feel special. Good old home town service. She is

very deserving of this award.”

Congratulations

to Alise Koller of the Arc

Thrift-E-Shop on being

selected as the October

Customer Service Award

Winner! Alise was

nominated by a customer

who has had many

wonderful and positive

interactions with her.

The Ambassadors are always looking for businesses to visit! Have a new employee?

Moved or remodeled? Have something you’d like to share? Why not invite the

Ambassadors for a visit? Contact the Chamber at 845-1891 for more information!

Pictured L-R: Jackie Brown, Arc Thrift-E-Shop Board member,

Audrey Poukka, manager, Ambassadors; Dave Weshnevski, Mark McDonald,

Lori Jury, Jonelle Langemo, Alise Koller, Tyler VanBruggen, Sandy Knudsen,

Deb Kohler, Deb Koepplin, Ken Merkes, Tami Kratz.

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Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce October Ambassador Visits

Valley City State University Community School of the

Arts New curriculum programs

O’Reilly Auto Parts

New Business/Ribbon Cutting

1411 W. Main St.

701-490-3045

The music programs offered at the Valley

City State University Community School of

the Arts are: Chamber Music Festival,

Valley Voices Women's Choir, Civic

Orchestra, and Valley Youth Choir. In

addition to those many options private

music lessons are also offered for nearly

any instrument you want to learn.

Outside the music programs there is also

a Half-Notes early childhood program

which is a kindergarten readiness program

with a musically based curriculum. The

Community School of the Arts also offers

visual art classes including a seven week

ceramics class each semester as well as

youth workshops in painting, film, and

ceramics. Further, the school plans to add

more art classes in other disciplines this

spring. The VCSU Community School of

the Arts is proud to say it has made the

arts more visible and integral part of the

Valley City landscape.

O'Reilly's offers FREE wiper installation, alternator, starter, and battery testing. If you are looking for a place to bring your used oil,

O'Reilly's collects used oil! Also earn O'Rewards, for every $150 spent you earn $5 coupon.

Pictured L-R: Youth choir director, Courtney Pederson, youth ceramics student teacher, Hayden Swanson, program Director, Connie Reiten, Half-Notes program student assistant, Samantha Hintz pictured with

Ambassadors Deb Koepplin, Tami Kratz, Sue Kapaun, Tyler VanBruggen, Sandy Knudsen, Scott Wilmes, Kay Vinje, Mark

McDonald, and Dave Weshnevski.

Pictured L-R: Lori Jury, Kay Vinje, Dave Weshnevski, Scott Wilmes, Ross Nelson, Michelle Wobbema, Deb Kohler, Josh

Liebersbach, Sandy Knudsen, Jeff Kipp, Dave Broadwell (District Manager), John Rowh, Mark Oberlander, Jonelle

Langemo, Dawn Riley, and Tyler Jacobson

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Chamber Committee Meeting Dates (dates subject to change)

Tuesday, November 4 - 11 am

CVB Meeting

Thursday, November 13 - 7:30 am

Ag Committee Meeting

Wednesday, November 12 - 10:00 am

Ambassador Committee Visit

Thursday, November 20 - 7:00 am

Commerce Committee Meeting

Friday, November 21 - 7:00 am

Chamber Board Meeting

If you are

interested in

serving on a

Chamber

committee, please

contact the

Chamber at

845-1891.

We appreciate your

ideas and efforts!

Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce

250 West Main St PO Box 724

Valley City, ND 58072

(701) 845-1891

www.valleycitychamber.com

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Valley City, ND 58072

Be sure to stop into our DMV for all

your registration renewals and title

transfer needs!

Located at 250 Main St. W. (across from City Park)

Thank you to Drug Plastics & Glass Co. for sponsoring the

Ambassador meeting luncheon on October 8, 2014.

We appreciate your generous support.