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Upcoming
Events
July 2008
July 4, 2008
FBCC will be closed for Independence
Day
Ribbon Cutting @ Surrey House Floral
Designs
12:00 pm @ 2755 Valley View Lane, Suite
100
July 16, 2008
Baby Shower for Director Lara
Orlic
Hosted by: Beverly Wagner, Sonja Dodds, Sandee Treptow,
Calla Davis, Ruth Ann Parish, and Anne Acuna
Open House from
11 am - 3:00 pm @ FBCC Office
RSVP to Anne at 972.243.8966.
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New Members
Ebby Halliday Realtor-Melinda
Wasmund
Melinda Wasmund
3639 Pine Valley Drive
Farmers Branch, TX 75234
972.689.1295
214.572.0641 fax
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Membership Renewals
Babe's Chicken Dinner House
Banners & Signs, Etc.
Chase Printing & Graphics
Coca-Cola Enterprises
Crest Limousine
Dobson Floors
F.C. Ziegler
Goodspeed Insurance Agency
Groves Electrical Service
Hunt Construction Group
Koch, David
Metrocrest Social Services
Nathan Maier Consulting Engineers
New York Life Insurance Company-Richard Brown
Petra Lending Group
Robco Landscaping
Senior Moving Company
Southwest Gallery
State Farm Insurance Company - Mike Loustaunau
UnifiedTek Corporation
Valwood Animal
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Chamber News!
You can now register for events
online!
Check out our new Calendar of Events
page on our website! This new format will allow you to
setup meeting reminders and make your reservation
online.
For more information, contact the Chamber
staff at 972.243.8966.
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SCORE
News
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) "Counselors
to America's Small Business" is a national non-profit
organization of volunteer retired and semi-retired business
executives. The association fills a need in communities by
providing no-fee business counseling and mentoring to
entrepreneurs. This service is provided at no charge by a team
of over 10,500 volunteers and 389 chapters nationwide. SCORE
is a resource partner with the Small Business Administration
(SBA).
Our SCORE counselors meet on Wednesday mornings by
appointment only at the Farmers Branch Chamber office. To
schedule an appointment, please contact Lara at
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In order for your Chamber's
Member Listing to be an effective tool, accuracy is very
important. If you have had any personnel changes, address,
phone or email changes, etc., please contact the Chamber staff
at 972.243.8966 with your new
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Chairman's
Message 
Richard Brown, Chairman
of the Board
As we begin
July, activities slow down just a little for your
Chamber. Mark your calendars for Monday, July 7th for a
ribbon cutting for one of our newest members, The Surrey
House Floral Designs, a local florist located on Valley View Lane. It
will be held at noon and refreshments will be
provided.
Branch Out will not meet
during July and then in August we will spotlight our
members as we present Branch Out on the Road. Each
Wednesday in August we will meet at a different
location. Check the website for the locations as we
visit our members during August. A Special thank you to
all the companies that have spotlighted their company at
Branch Out in 2008. Also, to Brother Eddy Ketchersid for
his outstanding Networking lessons each
week.
A special welcome to Wal-Mart, our
newest Platinum member. Dee Dee Gonzales has already
jumped on board as a member of the Member Relations
Committee. Through Wal-Mart grant programs she presented
two grants to the Chamber. One for the Golf Tournament
and the other for our educational programs, Way to go
Dee Dee.
Our 19th Annual Farmers Branch
Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament will be held Monday,
August 25th at Brookhaven Country Club. Check our
website for full details and to sign up. You will soon
receive a letter listing all the ways you can support
your golf tournament from sponsorship levels, being a
volunteer or as a player. Remember to donate golf balls
and door prizes too.
Also, mark your
calendars now for October 10th for our Branch Business
Exposition. A new way to promote your company and do
business in the Farmers Branch area. More to
come.
Sincerely,
Richard
Brown
Chairman
of the
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Event Photos
Ruth Ann Parish, Ambassador, & Kathy Long, C-FB
ISD Awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship Award by the C-FB
Rotary Club
Bringing Conflict Into the Open Seminar
June Membership
Luncheon
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Education Committee Update
by Joel Lebsack, C-FB ISD
On Thursday, May 22nd, the Farmers Branch Chamber
of Commerce presented $1000 scholarships to six R. L.
Turner High School students at the school's Senior Walk
awards ceremony. The names of the six scholarship
recipients and the colleges they intend to attend in the
fall are:
Carlos Aranda, University of Texas at Arlington
or University of North Texas
Jonathan Martinez,
Brookhaven College
Jenny Taylor, University of
Arkansas
Hannah Smith, Brookhaven
College
Andrea Gonzales, Brookhaven College
Joyce
Yee, University of Texas at Austin
The scholarship recipients were among a group of
students chosen from a pool of applicants. Those
students chosen from the applicant pool were then
interviewed by several members of the Farmers Branch
Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.
Congratulations to the recipients, and the best of
luck in your future endeavors. Also, the
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD would like to extend a
special thank you to the Farmers Branch Chamber of
Commerce Education Foundation for their annual
scholarship program, and for everything the Chamber does
for the school district's students throughout the school
year.
To donate to the scholarship fund, please contact
Lara Orlic at 972.243.8966 or make checks payable to the
Farmers Branch Education Foundation and mail to, 12875
Josey Lane, Suite 150, Farmers Branch, TX 75234. The
Education is a 501 (c) 3
organization.
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