Students and their parents who have an interest in being part of the first Career Wise apprenticeship class are urged to make time to visit with participating employers between the hours of 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM on February 16th at the Mesa County Workforce Center, 512 29 1/2 Road. CareerWise will give students accepted…
We know it is only February but time moves quickly and summer will be here in the blink of an eye. Time spent learning translates into a better prepared workforce and the Mesa County Business Education Foundation (MCBEF) is committed to helping identify and support community initiatives that offer opportunities for learning outside the classroom…
The Chamber’s 2017 Business Plan is ambitious and we can simply cannot achieve all of our goals without the assistance of our members. Shown below are the 2017 Committees along with a short description of what they do and when they meet. All committee meetings take place in the Chamber conference rooms. If you are…
Citizens Income Tax, Michael W Johnson, CPA, LLC 917 Main St, Grand Junction, CO 81501-3538 Michael W. Johnson – (970) 243-3449 www.mwjtax.com Accountants: Certified Public CoorsTek, Inc. 2449 Riverside Pkwy Grand Junction, CO 81505-1322 Andrew N. Golike – (970) 245-4000 www.coorstek.com Manufacturing/Processing Crested Butte Mountain Resort PO Box 5700, Crested…
The Chamber Board of Directors adopted the 2017 Business Plan at their December meeting and the need for this organization to be proactive in helping job creators succeed and strengthen the economy continues to be the major theme of the Chamber workplan for the next 12 months. Shown below are goals and some of…
It’s an honor to serve as your Chamber’s 2017 Chairman of the Board. I’m grateful to last year’s chair, Matthew Breman, for his talented and resourceful leadership of the Chamber. I feel a debt of gratitude to leaders like Matthew—and the many men and women who served before him as chair—for being great stewards of…
The Chamber is “charting a course” for fun, excitement, mystery and (maybe) romance on Friday, January 27th at Two Rivers Convention Center. Who else will be “on deck”? What will be some of those onboard items that just have to be bought before someone else snatches them up at the silent and live auction? Which…
The Colorado General Assembly convenes on January 11th and the Chamber’s Governmental Affairs convenes their video conference series beginning January 17th. The venue has moved to the Chamber’s lower level conference room and all members in addition to our Governmental Affairs Committee are welcome to attend. Our thanks to the following sponsors of these sessions:…
At the December Quarterly Membership Meeting, five companies were recognized for creating 16 new jobs and investing over $1,100,000 into the local economy. There were several other companies that had expansions but chose to wait until March, 2017 to be recognized. Altogether in 2016 the Chamber recognized 24 companies for creating 574 jobs and investing…
In an effort to assist our members in accessing more timely and relevant information the Chamber is introducing a new small business education series and offering a Health Care Summit for business owners in early 2017. Sunrise Seminars, sponsored by Home Loan Insurance will feature ten 60-90-minute education sessions throughout the year on timely topics…