YOUR BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATE

1155 W. Flaming Gorge Way Green River, WY 82935

307-875-5711 FL-GORGE

www.grchamber.com

Volume 26 | Issue 8 | August 2017

Chamber Mission Statement: The Chamber enhances the community through advocacy and partnerships.

Jessica is a dedicated, self-motivated proven leader, who works well as a team member, with over 18 years of combined experience in sales, con-sulting, gen-

eral management, telecommunications and in-surance. She has built a reputation of a strong outgoing work ethic and uncompromising devo-tion to service. Aside from gaining knowledge through her experience she is constantly pursu-ing higher education courses to improve and enhance her skills, because in this constant evolv-ing industry, continuing education is the key. She has attended the following courses from The Institutes and received her Accredited Advisor of Insurance (AAI) designation in December of 2015, as well as her completion certificate for the Com-mercial Lines New Producer Program. Which was a rigorous 18 month program jammed into 30 weeks all the while maintaining her career, hus-band, 3 kids and home responsibilities.

*Insurance Principles *Commercial Property *Commercial Liability *Other Commercial Insurance *Specialized Insurance and Bonds *Personal Lines *Principles of Agency Management *Insurance Production Environ-

ment *Agency Management Tools and

Processes * Ethics

Jessica’s commitment to the AAI program shows her desire to succeed in a very competitive indus-try and her ability to multitask. AAI gives Jessica the knowledge and background that many other

agents don’t achieve over a life time of working in this industry. She has a zest for learning and feels that by improving herself she can improve others. Jessica is now focusing her education on obtaining her Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC) designation where she has completed the follow-ing courses from the National Alliance for Insur-ance Education and will continue to attend cours-es through out the next couple of years to obtain her CIC. *Commercial Property Institutes Jessica understands the need for clear, concise commu-nication with clients and possess the diligence to get the job done. She has proven her drive to succeed through her work and undeniable com-mitment to her goals as she is willing to challenge herself to go above and beyond to exceed the goals and expectations of the client and to utilize her resources to provide the best representation possible.

Jessica White, AAI Wyoming Financial Insurance, Inc. 1455 Dewar Drive, Ste 37 P.O. Box 2067 Rock Springs, WY 82901 jwhite@wercs.com 307-362-3743 (phone) 435-820-4071 (Cell) 307-362-4730 (fax) Visit us online at www.wf-ins.com

Jessica White, AAI

Please join us in the celebration of the opening of Mission at The Villa Assisted Living!

More details to be announced soon!

1445 Uinta Drive

Information Distributed STARTED

June 2017 Year to Date

Relocation Packets 14 33 Vacation Packets 3 27 Convention Packets 115 1,190 City of Green River Pins 5 40 Gift Certificates 78 2,006 Dollar Amount $1,920.00 $113,109. Brochure Racks 1,202 7,534 Chamber Kiosk 2,709 5,959 Walk Ins 2,922 7,124 Web Site Hits 17,491 60,941 Web Site Sessions 392 8,473 E-Mails 1,291 5,860 New Facebook Likes 28 2,125 Sales Tax Disbursements–May 2017 County $1,830,719 Green River $839,026 Rock Springs $1,580,091 Lodging Tax Sweetwater County –May 2017 County $2,690 Green River $7,541 Rock Springs $49,601 Labor Force Employment Sweetwater County

May 2017 21,009 April 2017 21,325 May 2016 20,797 Unemployment Sweetwater County May 2017 950 April 2017 990 May 2016 1,447 Statewide Employment May 2017 284,372 April 2017 284,652 May 2016 285,285 Statewide Unemployment May 2017 12,257 April 2017 14,747 May 2016 17,102

Highlights * 2 Days aboard Rocky Mountaineer Train * 3 Nights in Banff * 3 Nights in Vancouver * Victoria City Tour * Butchart Gardens * Banff Area Tour * Lake Louise * Valley of the Ten Peaks * Icefields Parkway * Athabasca Glacier Snowcoach Ride * Peyto Lake * Vancouver City Tour * Stanley Park

Inclusions * Roundtrip Airfare - Salt Lake City (SLC)

* 2 Days aboard Rocky Mountaineer Train Banff to Vancouver - GoldLeaf or SilverLeaf

Service * 12 Meals: 7-Breakfasts, 2-Lunches & 3-

Dinners * Daily Sightseeing

* Professional Tour Director * Deluxe Motorcoach

* Baggage Handling * Hotel Transfers

*BOOKING DISCOUNT Make your Final Payment by check prior to the Final Payment Due Date & receive $200 per couple/$100 per person Booking Discount! *Initial Deposit can be made by check or credit card to be eligible. *Payments after Initial Deposit are considered part of Final Payment & must be made by check.

SilverLeaf Train Service Tour Rates Booking Discount*: $5045 pp double Regular Rate: $5145 pp double Single Supplement: +$1450

GoldLeaf Train Service Tour Rates

Booking Discount*: $5845 pp double Regular Rate: $5945 pp double Single Supplement: +$1550

Tour Activity Level Easy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Active

Green River Chamber of Commerce 1155 Flaming Gorge Way * Green River, WY 82935

307.875.5711 Booking #113135

Wyoming’s Big Show August 1 - 6

Sweetwater Downs Horse Racing

August 19, 20, 26, 27 12:30 PM

Stock Car Races August 18 & 19 7 PM - 10 PM

AUG 3 | 7 PM AUG 8 | 7:30 AM

Hole in the Wall Gang

Meeting

Chamber Board Meeting

Green River Chamber

AUG 16 | 12 PM AUG 18 & 19

Lunch and Learn

Green River Hampton

River Festival

Green River Island

AUG 26 | 11 AM AUG 26 | 1 PM

Ribbon Cutting

Mission at The Villa

Ribbon Cutting

Flaming Gorge Modern Mak-

AUG 31 | 5:30 PM AUG 18 & 19

Ribbon Cutting

Fremont Therapy Group

River Festival

Green River Island

Www.grchamber.com | 307-875-5711

*2D & 3D Competition begins | 11 AM

*Silent Auction begins | 1 PM

Micro Brew Gardens | 3 PM Sign-ups, packet pick-up & orientation | 4 PM

*Battle on the Green | 4 PM - 7PM

*Kid’s Creation Corner | 5 PM - 7 PM

Cajun Shrimp Boil | Serving @ 5 PM & 6:30 PM $25 Boat | $15 Canoe

Spaghetti Dinner | Serving from 5 PM - 7 PM $10 Adult | $5 Children/Senior

“B #’s” Local band live | 5:30 PM - 10:30 PM Fireworks | At dark

Run with the Horses Marathon, 1/2 Marathon & 10K | 6:30 AM

(Start/End at the Island to Pilot Butte Wild Horse Loop)

*Silent Auction resumes | 9 AM

River Walk | 9 AM - 12 PM (Trout Unlimited) Pet Games | 9 AM - 1 PM (RDHS)

*Competition ends | 11 AM

*Kid’s Creation Corner | 11 AM - 1 PM

Dog Fetching Competition | 11 AM (RDHS) Great Duck Race | 12 PM (Chamber Fundraiser)

Micro Brew Garden | 11 AM - 4 PM Car & Bike Show | 11 AM - 4 PM (at Evers Park)

“WY5” Local band live | 11:30 AM - 4 PM *Judging & Banquet set up | 4 PM

*No Host Cocktail Hour | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM

*Silent Auction ends | 6:30 PM

*Dinner & Awards Ceremony | 6:30 PM

*Art on the Green events

Tickets available at GR Chamber

& AFLAC Office of Tiffany Phillips

“The Great Duck Race” August 19th 12 pm

Expedition Island, Green River, WY

O’Reilly Auto Parts Wind River Hotel & Casino

The Hitching Post Restaurant & Saloon

Western Wyoming Community College Castle Rock Realty

Fremont Therapy Group UPS Store

Hampton Inn & Suites Longhorn Construction

Rocky Mountain Power Tata Chemicals

Solvay Chemicals Inc. ExxonMobil Weatherford

Trona Valley FCU Guild Mortgage Company

Castle Rock Hospital District Seedskadee

Dominion Energy WY

Ciner Wyoming LLC

Farmers Insurance Inberg-Miller Engineers

Union Wireless Green River Cable TV

McDonalds Oak Tree Inn

Aflac

Vaughn’s Heating & Plumbing

Arctic Circle Donna Little-Kaumo

Mission at Castle Rock

Other prizes for additional places

The B#'s (The B Sharps) are a little acoustic,

unplugged act featuring music from many different facets, with a spice of good hearted comedy....Composed of 4 members, Kent Felderman, Monty Boyce, Guy Morton & Mitch

Bullock, the B#’s have an established reputation in our community and are billed as “Sweetwater County’s Good Time Party Band”.

WY5 is a newly formed band in Sweetwater County. Their current band members include:

Jessica Yerkovich, Cliff Wittstruck, Joe Barbuto, Michael Weiss and Dave Jensen. WY5 plays a wide variety of music from Dolly Parton to Hank Williams, Lady Gaga to Norah

Jones, from the Blues Brothers to the Beatles, from Doobie Brothers to Bon Jovi! Their au-dience always picks up on the vibe WY5 creates and fun is what they bring!

Serving times: 5 PM & 6:30 PM

Tickets Prices:

$25 Boat | $15 Canoe

$45 couple boat (save $5)

Jumbo shrimp, Cajun sausage, potatoes and corn on the cob in spicy creole seasonings!

*Our boat is approximately 1 lb our canoe is approximately a 1/2 lb.

Bring us your coupons,

event flyers, business cards

or menus to display at the

chamber. This makes for

even easier referrals!

We distribute over 1,500

convention bags to guests in

our county each year. As a

member, you are invited to

provide your business cards,

coupons or other freebies for

Our monthly networking

event, Lunch & Learn is a

great opportunity to update

other members about what

your business is up to! Bring

your flyers to distribute to

Green River was one of three communities selected by Wyoming Main Street to receive the services of an expert in all things Main Street to assist us in developing comprehensive, execution driven, Transformation Strategies. Josh Bloom of the Community Land Use and Economics Group will provide market analysis assistance and help to guide us toward a focused economic development strategy. This will result in the following deliverables:

District Transformation Strategies. A written summary of catalyst business development strategies with business and customer group opportunities identified.

Economic Vitality Work Plan (EV). A written work plan of comprehensive recommendations for action including, but not limited to partnership opportunities, niche pro-motion and marketing activities, key design enhance-ments and projects, private or public, commercial or resi-dential, which could potentially catalyze other economic development investment. The EV would help guide the organization through an activity framework with future budgeting, capacity needs, resource needs, and timelines.

Metric Development. As a follow-up to the EV, each activity or group of activities should have either a qualitative and/or quantitative metric along with a baseline to bet-ter understand if work efforts are truly making a differ-ence on the selected Transformation Strategies.

Final Executive Report. Following the presentation, the National Main Street Center will incorporate feedback into an executive report.

The first step in this process is to conduct a survey in order to hear what the community envisions for downtown. Visit the Green River URA/ Main Street Facebook page to find the survey: www.facebook.com/greenrivermainstreet Next, we will hold a community conversation Thursday, August 17th at 5:30pm in the auditorium at Western Wyoming Communi-ty College, Green River Center, to reveal the results of the survey and receive additional community input. We invite anyone to participate in the survey and join us for the community meeting. We are very excited about this opportunity and are looking forward to working with Mr. Bloom to develop our plan.

Transformation Strategy Development

Chamber Board of

Directors and Staff

Board of Directors: Angela Shutran

US Bank ~ President

Linda Martin SWC School District #2 ~ Vice-

President

Amber Zmolek Summit Title Services ~ 1st Vice-

President

Jeremy Gibson Trona Valley FCU ~ Treasurer

Laura Meeks

White Mountain Lumber ~ Secretary

Jason Bartlett Solvay

Kelli Lennon

Hitching Post Restaurant & Saloon

Allan Wilson City Council Liaison

Kristi Kauppi

WWCC

Spencer Allred Bureau of Land Management

Tammy Vaught

The Radio Network

Nate King Volunteer Fire Dept.

Justin Tynsky

Stulken and Tynsky Law Firm

Mike Shutran 2017 Hole in the Wall Gang President

Staff:

Lisa Herrera

Interim Executive Director

Kyla Magrath Public Relations and Marketing

Specialist

River Festival | Cajun Shrimp Boil

Friday | August 18, 2017 | 5:00 PM & 6:30 PM

Green River Island

$15 Canoe | $25 Boat | $45 Couple Boat

38 Special concert

Friday | September 8, 2017 | 7 PM

Dancing with the Local Stars

Friday | September 15, 2017 | 6:30 PM