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Economic Briefing - 11/1 @ 8:15 a.m. Guest Speaker: Seth Ingram, RomeInternational Film Festival Ribbon Cutting at Winthrop Memory Care Community - 11/1 @ 10:00 a.m. Ribbon Cutting at Sweet P's at the Palladium - 11/1 @ 11:30 a.m. Ribbon Cutting at NWGA Housing Authority EnVision Center - 11/4 @ noonBusiness After Hours at Business EXPO - 11/7 @ 5:30 p.m.Business EXPO - 11/8 @ The Forum River Center Small Business Action Council - 11/12 @ 8:30 a.m. Guest Speakers: Mark Busbyand Felicia Adams, Coosa Valley Financial GroupY oung Professionals... Let's Do Lunch - 11/20 @ noon Guest Speakers: FloydCounty Commissioners Non-Profit RoundTable - 11/21 @ 4:00 p.m. at the Rome Floyd Chamber Business After Hours at Rome Axe Throwing - 11/21 @ 5:30 p.m. Technology SquareTable - 11/22 @ noon

Member of the WeekR.H. Ledbetter Properties, LLC

R.H. Ledbetter Properties, LLC, now in its thirdgeneration, is a family-owned real estatedevelopment and management firmheadquartered in Rome, Georgia.R.H. Ledbetter Properties, LLC, concentrates oncommercial investment real estate, specializing inretail, medical service and medical office developments.

https://ledbetterproperties.com/

Nonprofit of the WeekYMCA

The Y is a leading nonprofit committed to strengtheningcommunities through youth development, healthy livingand social responsibility.

https://www.ymcarome.org/

Small Business of the WeekTondee's Furniture & Co.

Tondee's offer free design assistance from ourprofessional staff. Thye also have many catalogs and fabric samples, so customorders are our specialty. Visit them for a wide selection of bedrooms, diningrooms, living rooms, accessories & more. Financing available.

https://tondeesfurniture.com/

Chamber Advantage Deal

Ford, Gittings & Kane Jewelers - Free jewelry inspection and cleaning.

Would you like to offer a discount? Email Jeanne Krueger, Director of Membership, at jkrueger@romega.com fordetails. For a full list of Chamber Advantage discounts, click here.

Business EXPO

If you are interested in learning more, contact Taylor Ritchie.

Leadership Rome XXXVII - Education &Workforce Development Session

Thank you, Berry College's HackBerry Lab, Floyd County Schools, Rome CitySchools, and Georgia Northwestern Technical College for allowing the participants of Leadership Rome to tour the schools and learn about educationin Rome and Floyd County.

Dr. John Grout, Professor at Berry College, shows Leadership Rome aroundHackBerry Lab.

Jan Lanier, Dean of Student Success at Georgia Northwestern TechnicalCollege, tours Leadership Rome around the Georgia Northwestern TechnicalCollege campus.

Dr. Eric Holland, Principal of Rome High School, and the Rome High StudentAmbassadors, talk to Leadership Rome about Rome High School.

Floyd County College and Career Academy students welcome LeadershipRome.

Technology SquareTable

Thank you, Ken Carlton and EJ Hunt, Parker FiberNet, for speaking to theTechnology SquareTable group.

Exceptional 7 - Young Professionals of theYear

The Rome Floyd Chamber is pleased to announce the first Exceptional 7 -Young Professionals of the Year. This award recognizes the achievements ofseven young professionals (who work for a Rome Floyd Chamber Member andwho are under the age of 35). We are thrilled to be able to recognize and honorfuture leaders in our community. The Exceptional 7 will be honored at the109th Annual Meeting in January 2020. Please download the form below tonominate someone you know or yourself for the Exceptional 7. Applications aredue by Friday, November 1, 2019. Please send completed applications toAmber West, awest@romega.com.

Download Application Here

Noteworthy:

Rome Middle School announces the schoolsystem's first ever REACH scholars

Press Release: On Friday, Oct. 11, Rome Middle School announced the schoolsystem's first ever REACH scholars. REACH Georgia is the State of Georgia'sfirst needs-based mentorship and college scholarship program. According totheir website, the mission is to ensure that Georgia's academically promisingstudents have the academic, social and financial support needed to graduatefrom high school, access college and achieve postsecondary success.This year is the inaugural year for REACH Georgia at Rome MiddleSchool. After submitting applications, five students from RMS were chosen asREACH scholars. They are Ashley Aguilar, Nadja Brown, Chloe North, Ja'LeahOwens and LakiaPeugh.During the REACH ceremony, the scholars and their parents/guardiansparticipated in a signing of a contract that bound the scholars to committing tomaintain a 2.5 GPA, remain crime, drug and behavior-issues free, as well aspromise to meet with a volunteer mentor and academic coach until theygraduate from high school."This is a historic day for our school system, our students and their families,and we look forward to watching these students reach all of their goals,"said Parke Wilkinson, RMS principal

Volunteers pack 64,000-plus meals

Rome News-Tribune: More than 300 community volunteers packed into theauxiliary gym at Rome High Saturday to help prepare more than 60,000nutritious, pre-packaged meals for distribution to the needy across thecommunity.

The second Floyd Fights Hunger event easily topped the inaugural event, bothin terms of the number of meals packed, 64,364, and the number of volunteerswho showed up to help.

"We're very pleased with the turnout," said Assistant City Manager PatrickEidson, treasurer for the United Way, which organizes the annual event. "Thecommunity showed up in a big way."

Jahnaria Brown of Cochran, a member of the Georgia Highlands Collegewomen's basketball team, said, "It's very important because we like helpingpeople and working together as a team."

Both the GHC men's and women's teams turned out to help put together mealsthat featured a macaroni and cheese-base or a tomato basil pasta-base.Tony Cooper, with the Journey Community Food Bank, had a team of his ownvolunteers out helping put together the meals.

"We wanted to do our part to stop hunger in Floyd County," Cooper said. Hisfood bank will distribute approximately 15,000 of the meals that wereprocessed Saturday.

Action Ministries and the Salvation Army will also serve as points fordistribution of the food that was packaged Saturday. All an end-user has to dois add a little water to the package and warm it up in an oven or microwave.Rows of tables filled the auxiliary gym and groups lined them for two hoursrunning assembly lines that poured the dry goods into a bag, then vitamins andminerals to help balance the meal from a nutrition standpoint.

The sound of tape being cut to wrap up boxes and teams shouting "woo-hoo" asthey filled up boxes of meals rang from the gym throughout the morning.

Allie Mitchell, the executive director the Rome Floyd United Way, said it costapproximately $12,000 to acquire the meals from the Florida-based Meals ofHope group. The head of that agency donated another 10,000 packages afterwatching a YouTube speech about the event delivered by fourth-graderAudrey Mitchell at Johnson Elementary School.

The United Way was still about $4,000 short of paying for the meals in spite ofhelp from groups like Rome Rotary, Hardy Realty, Rome Braves, KellerWilliams Real Estate, Profile Extrusion, the MSP law group, Floyd Medical andRedemption Church.

Rome Police Chief Denise Downer McKinney was busy putting together boxesto store the meals in.

"It takes a group effort from our community to come together and providemeals for those who have not," Downer-McKinney said. "This is a great time offellowship, work and support."

Frankie Ford, manager of Maurice's women's clothing in the mall, broughtseveral members of her staff to the event.

"At Maurice's this year we're going to be doing a lot of giving back to thecommunity," Ford said.

Thank You Downtown DevelopmentAuthority for supporting us on Support YourLocal Chamber Day!

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