Greetings Chamber Members — I am a little behind in getting my article to Donna this month, but that turns out to be a good thing. April has been a busy month for the chamber. Yesterday was our Leadership Breakfast with guest speaker Terry Corbell. Terry is better known as “The Biz Coach” and is featured on KOMO radio. He brought us a message on The Seven Steps to Higher Sales and was very interactive with the audience. Some of the leaders in attendance were State Rep. Liz Loomis, County Council Prez Dave Somers, County Councilman John Koster, School Superintendent Dave Burgess, School Board Member David Iseminger, City Council Member John Spencer, and Fire Chief Gary Faucett. I would like to thank these leaders for their support of our chamber.

Earlier this month was our 3rd annual Showcase Lake Stevens. This year was bigger and better then ever with close to 500 people in attendance. I always look forward to this and I hope that those businesses that participated found it of value.

On Monday the board met for our regular monthly meeting. There are some major projects we are working on this year and I wanted to just highlight them. First of all we are working to keep the Ironman Triathlon here in Lake Stevens this July. This is a great event for our community with roughly 1,800 athletes from around the world coming to our town. We are also working our current website and marketing to make it a better resource for our community and those coming to visit.

And finally we are beginning to investigate the possibility of a visitor’s information center. If any of these projects are of interest to you please don’t hesitate to call me.

I look forward to seeing you at our next monthly luncheon on May 19th.

Sincerely,
Doug Warren