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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STARTS FOR ELGIN & DISTRICT. Dec. 5/85 Rideau District High School A cross section of business people and local residents attended a meeting with the "Committee to establish and Elgin Chamber of Commerce" This meeting was a culmination of two or three previous meetings and the gathering of information by Dick Miller and Mary Klynkramer. After welcoming the group, Constable Maureen Maveety, the O.P.P. Community Service Officer, gave an excellent presentation on business security. Const. Maveety covered various aspects of building security as well as in-store methods of preventing shop-lifting. A videoâ€"tape presentation showing a bank hold-up gave all the experience of testing their powers of observation, the best weapon of all against crime, according to Const. Maveety. Following this presentation, Mary introduced George Winters, of the Bank of Montreal, who explained some of the work done by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and indicated the type of activities a Chamber could embark upon in our area. Mary explained some of the benefits available to Chamber members. i.e. group health insurance, group advertising, co-ordinated sales events, etc. as well as organizing community events to benefit all residents of the area. A coffee and donut break, kindly provided by Cameron's Store, Elgin, permitted those in attendance to discuss various points of interest. Before closing the meeting, it was decided to formally establish a Chamber with charter memberships being offered at $10.00 per member. The following Elgin businesses and individuals were registered as Charter members: Bank of Montreal Cameron's General Store Mert Campbell Duncan's T.V. Elgin Pharmacy Elgin Tavern Gordanier Grocery Gordanier Hardware Home Video Thomas Ingram Bill Mather Miller Photo-Framing Jane Monaghan â€" Lawyer North Leeds Lantern Rideau Lakes Union Library Scotland Funeral Home Art Southin - Shellcraft The Village Shop - A HUI'OPRO - - MUFFLERS BRAKES SHOCKS 0 Autopro National Guarantee Honored by over 350 Autopro dealers coast to coast 0 Top quality replacement parts Respected national brands Abex OWagner OGabnel OVerdlc NORTH LEEDS LANTERN The next meeting of the Chamber will be held: January 9th, 1986 at Rideau District High School at which time an executive will be elected by and from the Charter membership. A closing date of January 8/86 has been set for other businesses and individuals who wish to participate as voting members at the meeting on January 9/86. Meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. The current fee of $10.00 will remain until that date. For information on this newly formed Chamber, and/or for membership, please contact either Dick Miller at The Village Shop or Mary Klynkramer at the Elgin Pharmacy. PL 47% AEROBETIX INC, GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK! GET FIT!!! HAVE FUN!!! join AEROBIC EXERCISE or DANCE CLASSES at Rideau District High School Elgin 7:00 p.m. St 7:45 p.m. MONDAYS & THURSDAYS 10 Week Session Starting JANUARY 13, 1986 ***ALL NEW MUSIC*** ****ALL NEW R0UT'INES**** Phone 359-5713 ********8t*tttt************ we» Suzette’s CHRISTMAS HOURS Regular Hours until: December 23 Open Qa.m. - 2p.m. 214 Qa.m. â€"2p.m. CLOSED Dec. 25. 26. 27 December 28 Open Qa.m. - lZnoon CLOSED DEC. 30 December 31 Open 9a.m. -2p.m. CLOSED January I B 2 Reâ€"opening Regular Hours January 3. 1986 HAIR STYLING FOR THE HIKILE FANILY Tues. 10:00 am. - 8: 00 p. Ned. 9: 00 a... - 5: 00 p.l. Thurs. 10:00 a.-. - 8:00 p.I. Fri. 9:00 a.l. - 5:00 p... Sat. 9: 00 a... - 12 noon Located in the “Home-Video" Building Main St. . Elgin Tel. 359-5782. 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She explained the operation of both the toy lending library and the Day Care Registry, services for parents of young children. The report on the Toy Barn Toy Party told that as a result of sales, we were able to acquire $40. worth of new toys and games. We also did exceptionally well at the Rideau Crafts market. The large life-sized doll that Teri Loucks, pres., made and donated was won by none other than our teacher Mrs. Brown. We now have tickets ready for our major raffle of the year, the prize being a four day, three night cruise on the Canadian Empress. Members are asked to get their tickets so they can start selling them. We welcomed three new members to our Junior Class - Kristy, Carolyn and Breen.As there is no meeting in Dec., our next meeting will be Mon., Jan. 27. 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