St. Joe Opens New Burn Clinic

Yesterday St. Joseph Hospital officially opened its new regional burn center and outpatient burn and wound clinic. Festivities for the evening included an open house for the general public.

Guests toured the new 18,000-square-foot area, visiting the inpatient burn center and outpatient burn and wound clinic and speaking with team members. Patients will be cared for in these areas beginning the week of September 1.

The St. Joseph Regional Wound Care Center began treating patients in 1990 and may be best known for housing Indiana’s largest multi-person hyperbaric oxygen chamber (HBO), which remains on the sixth floor.

A Few Good Volunteers...

We are looking for a few good volunteers for our golf outing at Coyote Creek Golf Course on Thursday, September 4. Would you please consider helping us out?

Contact Andi Jo Shroyer at (260) 424-1435, ext. 225 or ashroyer@fwchamber.org.

Thank you for your support and thank you to our sponsors of this special event:

Sponsors
Silver Level - WestPoint Financial
Snack Shack/Beverage Cart - PHP
Award Sponsor - Parkview Heath
Mulligan Sponsor - Officeone Solutions
Media Sponsor - Neoti Broadcast Network
Breakfast Sponsor - LH Industries
Water Sponsor - Indiana Stamp
Driving Range Sponsor - Johnson Controls, Inc.
Goody Bag Sponsor - Guardian Relocation
Coffee Sponsor - Starbucks
Lunch Sponsor - Summit Club
Refreshment Sponsor - Precision Wire
Putting Green Sponsor - Business People


Tee Sponsors
Goff
WestPoint Financial
Gallagher Uniform
DWD
David Wade CPA
Easter Seals
YLNI
Cintas
AAA Insurance
Indiana Tech
David Wade CPA
Don R. Fruchey
Salin Bank
O'Daniel Auto
Glenbrook
Time Services
Infusion

Silent Auction Donors
Hyatt Place
Hampton Inn SW
Katali's
Cap-n-Cork
Crazy Pinz
Putt-Putt Golf & Games
Lowe's
Hilton @ GWC
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo
Higher Grounds
Organized Living Solutions
IPFW Athletics
Organized Living Solutions
PHP
Metro YMCA
SafeGuard
Star 88.3
Christian Souers
Parkview

Hunger Action Month

The Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana will kick off September as national HUNGER ACTION MONTH with a proclamation from Mayor Tom Henry on Wednesday, September 3 at 10 a.m. at the Community Harvest Food Bank.

Throughout the day tours will be available to the public to help give awareness about the growing need to curb hunger in the community.

For more information click here or call (260) 447-3696.

Defense Education Conference

Do you want your business to get into federal contracting, but don't know how? Doing business with the Federal Government can be confusing if you don't understand the procurement and bidding processes, or if you don't know how to navigate the complex communications and information systems.

The help you need to get your first federal contract or to improve your chances of more contracts is here-The Defense Education Conference hosted by Conexus Indiana and presented by the Indiana Office of Energy & Defense Development.

The conference takes place September 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Indiana Department of Administration Conference Center in Indianapolis. The cost is $50 to attend.

To register or for more information please contact Michelle Ball at (317) 275-2089 or mball@techpoint.org.

Mind Capture Your Customers!

Capture the mind of your customers and discover ways to grow sales in a challenging economy when best-selling author Tony Rubleski comes to the Chamber on September 24. Tony's latest book recently went #1 with Amazon.com!

Sponsored by the Chamber and 1st Source Bank, Tony Rubleski will appear at the Chamber to talk about how businesses can stand out! Other key topics include:

How to generate more referrals

Secrets to capturing the attention of the 21st century customer

Proven ways to grow your business even during a slow economy

The concept of “MIND CAPTURE” and how top marketers use it to get the edge

The power of content and ways to improve your online marketing

This event takes place Wednesday, September 24 from 8 - 10 a.m. at the Chamber. To register for this amazing event, click here. For more information on Tony visit http://www.mindcapturegroup.com/.

Mayor to Honor Lloy Ball Today; Public Invited

WHEN: Thursday, August 28 at noon

WHERE: South plaza, City-County Building

WHO: Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, Allen County Commissioners Linda Bloom and Bill Brown, IPFW representatives, USA Men’s Volleyball team member and gold-medal winner Lloy Ball and members of his family.

WHAT: To honor Lloy Ball’s gold medal achievement at the Beijing Olympic games as a member of the USA Men’s Volleyball team. Members of the public are invited to attend and bring signs of support and congratulations to welcome Ball home.

For more information on Ball click here.

Coliseum Gets New Scoreboard

It is “out with the old and in with the new” inside the Memorial Coliseum arena, as workers are currently installing a new, state-of-the-art video scoreboard.

The new, four-sided scoreboard will include hi-resolution LED video and 360-degree, circular LED ribbon displays at the top and bottom of the structure. Other components to the project include a video control room for the new scoreboard and wiring to connect the scoreboard to the control room, press box and camera positions. Cameras located directly above hockey goals and the center circle will also be added. The system’s capabilities will include replay, slow motion and enhanced graphics.

Click here to see photos of the installation project. Photos are being added daily as the project continues.

It is expected that the first time the new scoreboard will be used is September 8 for WWE's Monday Night RAW wrestling event, to be televised worldwide on the USA cable network.

For more information visit www.memorialcoliseum.com.

Foellinger Foundation Marks 50 Years

Chamber member, Foellinger Foundation Inc. will hold a press conference this morning to announce upcoming gifts to the Fort Wayne community. Today's date marks the official date of the organization's 50th anniversary.

For more information about the Foellinger Foundation click here.

Free Hands-Only CPR Training This Fall

Mayor Henry's "Don't Miss a Beat" campaign kicks off to train as many as 3,000 people how to save a life through hands-only CPR training.

The hour-and-15-minute class, offered on Saturday, October 25, will train community members ages 16 and older how to give effective chest compressions – using manikins – to adults who have suffered a heart attack.

“Having a diverse and large number of people to know how to perform hands-only CPR can save the lives of Fort Wayne residents,” said Mayor Henry. “You never know who you’ll be able to help. It could be your spouse, parent, neighbor or even a complete stranger who will forever be grateful you spent a small amount of time this October learning compression CPR.”

Compression or hands-only CPR focuses on chest compressions only, no breaths, to keep blood moving in a victim whose heart has stopped beating. It has become increasingly popular in recent years as research has shown it to be effective in helping to save lives.

To register online for the training, visit http://www.3rcpr.org/ or click here. Registration forms are available at the front desk of the City-County Building, the Chamber of Commerce and will be sent to City Utilities customers in their bills next month. Registration forms are also available at Fort Wayne Kroger and Scott’s grocery stores. You can also register the day of the event.

For more information, call (260) 427-1120 or e-mail 3rcpr@cityoffortwayne.org.

CoolScience Mondays

Join Science Central and Indiana’s News Center for CoolScience Monday!

The segment will air every Monday between 6 a.m. and 6:30 am. Martin Fisher, Science Central Executive Director, will showcase a different experiment each week and talk about the science behind the fun!

“We learn by doing and there’s no better way for kids to learn about the fascinating world of science than to see it with their own eyes,” explains Fisher, “These experiments are designed to inform and entertain kids and parents alike.”

Click here to check out past CoolScience shows.

And, to learn more about science after the program, visit Science Central! Science Central is open Wednesday (Tuesdays in the Summer) through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday noon to 5 pm. Admission is just $7 for adults and students, children under 3 are free.

Feet on the Street

By Teresa Royer
Member Relations Specialist

I met the President & CEO of the Fort Wayne Urban League, Mr. Jonathan Ray. The Urban League offers many, many services that benefit the community as a whole—everything from homework help to financial literacy classes and everything in-between. A common phrase Jonathan used throughout our conversation was “empowering communities, changing lives." It didn’t take long to see that Jonathan has a true spirit and belief in what this awesome organization is doing.

What struck me the most was when I learned that it was the FW Urban League that orchestrated the peace walk shortly after we read the tragic headlines last spring of the 8 homicides within a few days of each other. The Urban League felt the need to DO something and not look the other way. They got people talking—they met with various groups of people such as youth, incarcerated youth, community leaders, religious leaders, the general public and more. After much discussion and asking questions, they came up with an action plan. Jonathan tells me that people are coming forward as a result of the action plan and want to get involved such as community officials, attorneys and more.

You can read the Action Plan and learn more about the FW Urban league at www.fwurbanleague.com.

Umbrella Series Goes Global

Earlier this year LaBov & Beyond held the Umbrella Series at the Chamber. These parables, performed and acted out by Taylor University students, were geared at helping businesses energize and engage their workforce. Now the Umbrella Series is going global, and its first international stop will be South Korea.

Seoul-based Kyujang Publishing Company approached LaBov & Beyond in late 2007 with a serious interest in translating the Umbrella Series into the Korean language and then publishing it for the domestic market there. An agreement was quickly reached, and the books were printed and put into distribution in early March by Happinion, an imprint of Kyujang Publishing Company. Printing and distribution is expected to continue through the end of 2008.

LaBov & Beyond president and CEO Barry LaBov authored the Umbrella Series books, along with the subsequent Umbrella Collection of business stories, as a way to bring to full color the common internal issues and challenges many of his agency's clients face on a daily basis.

To learn more about the stories that make up the Umbrella Series, visit www.umbrellaseries.com.