Chamber News

By Jessica Malone

Happy New Year from the Powder River Chamber of Commerce! As we wrap up the Christmas season, we want to send a special thank you to TRECO and Tracy Thomas for ensuring the community snowflake decorations were up and to the Archer/ Billing families for setting up and decorating the Community Christmas Tree.

Congratulations to all of the Christmas decoration and lighting winners for 2022! Gardner & Billing CPAs won the Business Christmas Decorating contest and the residential lighting winners are as follows:

1st Place: Tavy Turnbough

2nd Place: Tim & Debbie Lanke

Honorable Mention for the "Most Lit Griswald Displays": Rich & Melinda Biesheuvel and Scott Cain & Mary Bordeaux

Honorable Mention for the "Traditional Christmas Spirit": Sharon Billing and Dennis & Bonnie Lyda

As we look forward to a new and brighter year, we want to acknowledge our amazing volunteers and board members for their work in 2022 - Melissa Billing, Megan Smith, Jessica Malone, Morgan Mobley, Marni Gaskill, Jessica Kuipers and Josh Boman!

We also want to express how much we truly appreciate our members as we couldn’t exist without your support.

Although we typically begin our membership drive in January, the board voted in the fall of 2022 to change to a fiscal year ending June 30th. This means that current Powder River Chamber members will have their membership extended a full six months until June 30, 2023 at no cost under the current packages. If you’ve delayed in joining or renewing your 2022 membership, we’re now offering a 50% discount on all membership levels through the end of the fiscal year. We hope you’ll consider supporting the Chamber and remember, it’s not just for retail and store-front businesses! We encourage home-based businesses, ranches, online merchants and small businesses of all types to increase your advertising potential and community involvement through Chamber membership. Download the membership application on our website (PRChamberofComm .com).