All Chamber events are open to the community

Fighting Hunger . . .

Feeding Hope

Dinner and Auction

Thirteenth Annual

Fayetteville Manlius Minoa

Inspired by the Past . . . Building for the Future Volume 23, Issue 3 March 2014

President’s Message Page 2

New Website Opportunity for Members Page 2

Upcoming Chamber Events Page 3

Internship Program Page 4

Upcoming Community Events Pages 10

Calendar 1

Did You Know? Pages 10

What’s Inside:

CHAMBER HAPPENINGS

Building Community Together . . . . Fayetteville Manlius Minoa

All Chamber events are open to the community


425 E. Genesee Street F Fayetteville, NY 13066 F Phone: 315-637-4760 F Fax: 315-637-4762

$30 per person Please RSVP to the Chamber Office at 637-4760 no later than Thursday, January 9

to benefit F-M Community Food Pantry in Manlius

Heaven’s Pantry in Minoa and the Greater Manlius Chamber of Commerce

Thursday, April 10, 2014

5:00 pm - Cash Bar and Silent Auction 6:30 pm - Dinner Stations 7:45 pm - Live Auction

Traditions at the Links at Erie Village 5900 N. Burdick Street East Syracuse, New York

The Greater Manlius Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the

If you are interested in attending or donating an item for the auction please contact the Chamber Office at 637-4760.

NEW THIS YEAR ~ Bring a can of non-perishable food to the Spring Dinner and receive a ticket to be entered into a drawing for a gift basket.

2014 GREATER MANLIUS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

TAILGATING PARTY & SYRACUSE CRUNCH GAME

Saturday, March 8

5:30 pm - Tailgating Party at UNO's Fayetteville Towne Center

7:00 pm

Syracuse Crunch

vs

Rochester Americans

Game tickets - $14 each

Contact [email protected]

or 315-637-4760 for your game day ticket or

to find out how Chamber members can brand

their business at the Crunch game

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PRESIDENT’S NOTE . . .


Please join me as I hope and pray that Old Man Winter is packing up his things and taking a long trip away from Central New York!!! I always get my spring optimism around the first of March thinking (and hoping) the cold and snow are mostly behind us with warm temperatures looming ahead. Regardless of the weather, we at the Chamber hope that your 2014 is off to a strong start. Please refer to the Calen-dar of Events for this month and the future. BIG POST IT NOTE: SPRING AUCTION IS ON APRIL 10th! Mark the date and look for the reminders to make your reserva-tions. We continue to refine your Chamber to stay with current trends and ways of doing business. We are ALWAYS looking for suggestions and ideas of what we can do for YOU. Please feel free to email the Chamber with your comments. Each of us is an ambassador for the Chamber. Be sure to share the message with your fellow business owners and to be sure they are taking full advantage of their member-ship. Remember to patronize your local business-es. Sometimes that can mean paying a little more but that money stays locally and you get that back several times over when others do the same for you. BUY LOCAL-LY!!!

We are always looking for volunteers to help on commit-tees and at events. We may not see you to ask you. We have had many ask "What can I do to help?" We love those people!! Give Teresa a call if you have an interest to being more involved and we will be sure to find a place for you. Thank you to all our current volunteers, including your Board. An advance Thank You to those who want to help and will be contacting us!!! Mike Skeele Michael J. Skeele, CIC, CPIA Skeele Insurance

NEW WEBSITE OPPORTUNITY FOR CHAMBER MEMBERS

We are offering a new FREE option to our Chamber members! You will be able to add more information to your individual page on the Chamber website at no charge. In addition to the information already on your company’s page such as business name, email, website, address, etc., you may also add up to 7 links to your page including links to your website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or samples of your work or products. Your member page can also have two images (at no charge) up to 500 pixels wide. The size should be 100 kb or less so the member’s page will load quickly (1MB would be too large). Examples of member pages with images and/or links are: M&S Desktop Publishing http://manliuschamber.com/company.php?m=195 Custom WebHelp http://manliuschamber.com/company.php?m=6 In order to add this information to your web page, email the links to the Chamber Office. The Administrator will add them to your page. Please call the Chamber office with any questions.

A feature/benefit offered to our members in the monthly Newsletter is the “Chamber Support Column”

As a member benefit, the Chamber is offering space in the monthly newsletter for you to post job openings with your business and/or space to rent in your office. This is free of charge. Just call the Chamber Office by the 20th of the month before publication at 637-4760 or email at [email protected]

RESCHEDULED

Due to a dangerous combination of snow

and illness, last month's Business Before Hours at the Manlius Library

was cancelled.

UPCOMING GREATER MANLIUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EVENTS


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Saturday

March 8

Saturday

March 8

TAILGATING PARTY & SYRACUSE CRUNCH GAME Saturday, March 8

5:30 pm - Tailgating Party at UNO's, Fayetteville Towne Center

7:00 pm - Syracuse Crunch vs Rochester Hockey Game Game tickets - $14 each

Contact [email protected] or 315-637-4760 Chamber members - contact the Chamber Office to find out

how you can brand your business at the Crunch game.

Tuesday

August 12

The Cavalry Club Troop K Road Manlius, NY

Now is the time to be informed. Meet some of the

2014 - 2015 candidates and hear what they have to say!!

POLITICAL BREAKFAST

Tuesday, August 12 8:00 am

Thursday

April 10

Business Before Hours RESCHEDULED

TUESDAY APRIL 1 , 2014 at the Manlius Library

1 Arkie Albanese Way, Manlius, NY 7:30 am Gathering Time/Networking

8:00 - 9:00 am "Inspired @ the Library" Please join us for networking, refreshments, and a discussion with Manlius Library Director Matt

DeLaney about future plans for the library and partnership opportunities with the business community.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Fighting Hunger . . .

Feeding Hope

Greater Manlius Chamber of Commerce

Dinner and Auction

Thirteenth Annual It’s not too early to drop off

auction donations at Chamber Office Monday - Friday

1 to 5 pm

ADDITIONAL DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR: Thursday, May 1 - Small Business Show - SOHO Monday, May 26 - Memorial Day Parade June - Mini Golf Tournament Friday, July 4th - 4th of July Parade August 12 - Political Breakfast Saturday, September 20 - Fayetteville Festival September or October - Healthy Life Style Fair October - "Buy Local"

March 12 Greater Manlius Chamber of Commerce Spring Internship Program Kickoff

Wednesday

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The Greater Manlius Chamber of Commerce SPRING INTERNSHIP PRO-GRAM will be kicking off on March 12. The program will run for 8 weeks during which the intern will meet with the business twice a week, two hours a day. Students will work with the business on a project to improve an element of their business process, technology, or help create a new part of the business. The project should allow the student to become exposed to all aspects of the business they are aligned with, as well as accomplish some type of hands –on business improvement to be identified and approved when they begin the program. At the end of the program, one intern will be selected to receive a $500 scholarship from the Chamber. The participants are all F-M High School students. There are no costs to spon-soring businesses. If you are interested in participating in this program, please provide the following information to the Chamber Of-fice immediately: Business Name Brief Description of the project to be work on (should be manageable in an 8-wk. period) Contact Name Contact Number & Email

RESCHEDULED Business Before Hours

TUESDAY APRIL 1, 2014

at the Manlius Library 1 Arkie Albanese Way,

Manlius, NY

7:30 am Gathering Time/

Networking

8:00 - 9:00 am "Inspired @ the Library"

Please join us for networking, refreshments, and a discussion with Manlius Library Director Matt DeLaney about future

plans for the library and partnership opportunities with

the business community.

Please RSVP to the Chamber at 637-4760 or by email at

[email protected]


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And be featured in the Hats Off Column

Tell us what good things you have been

up to so that it may be featured in the “Hats Off”

section of the Chamber Newsletter.

Simply email your information

to the Chamber Office

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www.Skeele.com 226 Fayette Street

Manlius, New York 13104 (315) 682-5141

Michael J. Skeele, CIC, CPIA Shayna L. Gersch, CISR

INSURANCE SERVICES

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The Fayetteville Senior Center 584 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville Sunday, March 2 Mayor’s Turkey Dinner Fundraiser 11:45 am - Individual Seating - $10/person 2:45 pm - Business/Corporate Table - $200/table of 8 Menu: Appetizers, Turkey and all the trimming, including pie! RSVP by February 26, 637-9025, [email protected]

Village of Manlius Manlius Parks & Recreation Dept. One Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius Fridays: 3/21, 4/11, 5/16 & 6/20 “Parents Night Out” Activities include dinner, games, crafts and a short movie. For children ages 5+. Pre-registration is required. Visit www.manliusvillage.org/forms.aspx to register. Fayetteville Free Library 300 Orchard St., Fayetteville AARP Tax Preparation Assistance Every Monday & Thursday from 9 am – 1:30 pm, begin-ning Feb. 3rd through April 14th. Call the FFL at 637-6374 to make an appt. Saturday, March 29 FFL Kidsignment Sale 10:00 am – 5:00 pm At Shoppingtown Mall Shop thousands of gently used items at great prices! Or reg-ister to consign your children’s outgrown clothing, toys and gear, and make some money. All purchases support the FFL. Sign up to volunteer or sell your items at http://fflib.org/support/kidsignment

Manlius Library One Arkie Albanese Ave., Manlius AARP Free Tax Preparation for 2013 Tax Season Trained volunteers will assist anyone with federal and NYS tax returns at the Manlius Library on Mondays and Wednesday beginning February 3 thru April 14. Ap-pointemnt times are 10:00 am, 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Reg-istrations is required, call 682-6400. Tuesday, March 4 7:00 pm “Noam Chomsky and the Dissident Intellectual” Presented by Cazenovia College Professor Andrew O’Baoill Thursday, March 20 6:00 pm Tech Tutorial: Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks Christ Church 407 E. Seneca St., Manlius Sunday, March 30 2:00 - 4:00 pm White Ribbon Ladies’ Tea

UPCOMING MEMBER /COMMUNITY EVENTS

Many of us do not have to worry about our mode of transporta on to work, school or the grocery store. We climb in our car and off we go. It's simple. Yet, in the 1800s, individuals had to give a lot more thought to travel ‐ just how would they get to their sister's house for Easter dinner. There were a few modes of transpor‐ta on at this me. The Erie Canal provided a link with villages and the growing city of Syracuse. Small passen‐ger boats ran back and forth in 1825. In 1870, the rail‐road carried passengers from Syracuse to Faye eville, Manlius and other nearby areas. In 1898, as transporta‐on evolved throughout the area, the electric trolley

was extended from Syracuse through Faye eville and on to Manlius. It was adver sed as the opportunity to let passengers "live in the country and work in the city." Much, much later this idea of living in the country and working in the city evolved into what we know as the suburbs. We may grumble as we have to dig our car out, defrost our windows and drive slowly to work on snow‐covered roads, but it has to be a lot warmer than a boat on the Erie Canal. Laura Pierie Manlius Historical Society Director

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Fayetteville Senior Center

Mayor’s Turkey Dinner 11:45 & 2:45 Seating

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Manlius Library 7:00 pm

“Noam Chomsky and the Dissident

Intellectual”

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Tailgating Party At Uno’s 5:30 pm

Syracuse Crunch vs.

Rochester Americans Hockey Game

7:00 pm

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Spring Internship Program Kickoff

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Manlius Library 6:00 pm

Tech Tutorial: Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks

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Village of Manlius Parents Night Out

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Fayetteville Free Library

Kidsignment Sale Shoppingtown Mall 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Christ Church 2:00 - 4:00 pm White Ribbon

Ladies’ Tea

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March 2014 Community Calendar

425 E . G ENESEE S TREET FAYETTEVILLE, NY 13066

PHONE: 315-637-4760 FAX: 315-637 -4762

EMAIL: GREATERMANLIUS@ WINDSTREAM. NET

W EBSITE: M ANLIUSCHAMBER. COM TERESA H UDSON

OFFICE A DMINISTRATOR

MISSION Our goal is to serve the local community by promoting and encouraging business growth and developments within the Town of Manlius, while at the same time supporting those civic and cultural programs which enhance our lives.

We hope to increase public awareness of the many fine products and services and promote the advantages of living and shopping in Man-lius.

Our members are an integral part of this com-munity, and we share your desire to preserve and enhance the image and integrity of the Greater Manlius area. We invite businesses and individuals to join with us to accomplish these goals.

OFFICE HOURS MONDAY - FRIDAY 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Fayetteville Manlius Minoa

Inspired by the Past . . . Building for the Future

2014 Directors

Diane Coville Peter Dimon

John P. Goodman Cheryl Schotz

2015 Directors Chris Cheney Nancy Durkin

Marcia Philipp Mark Tetley

2016 Directors Marie Dawson Matt Delaney

Donna Goyette Janelle Wilbur

Past President

Kim Kutzer

President Mike Skeele

436-1458

1st Vice President Judy Dardzinski

682-8747

Vice Presidents John Goodfellow

637-9023

Mary Wykstra 200-1510

Secretary

Jeannine Masucci 682-3124

Treasurer

Mario Bottoni 415-9296

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The deadline for the April newsletter is March 20th, 2014

Please have your information submitted by that date in order to be included.

All Chamber events are open to the community

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