At the 2014 Business Celebration, presented by Owensboro Health, the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce recognized six local businesses as the 2014 Businesses of the Year.

The winning businesses were among 65 nominees and 44 companies vying for the honors. Those earning the

honors, which were sponsored by US Bank Home Mort-gage, include:

Emerging Business of the Year – Owensboro Parent Magazine

Business of the Year 1-10 Employees – Bathrooms in 1 Week

Business of the Year 11-50 Employees – Unique Granite and Marble

Business of the Year 51+ Employees – First Security Bank, Inc.

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February 6, 2014Owensboro Convention Center 7:30 a.m.

Speaker: State of the Community – Mayor ron payne, Judge executive al Mattingly

Register online at www.Owensboro.com/chamber or calling (270) 926-1860. $12 to attend.

Rooster Booster Breakfast

unique Granite and Marble. Shown in picture, tammy Maglinger, chamber Vice chair of Member Services; Rick thomas, owner of unique Granite and Marble; and Bob Smiley, uS Bank Home Mortgage

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4 RibbonCutting– BeautifulYou 1724BSweeneyStreet 12:15pm

5 RibbonCutting- TD’sTuffDecisions 2201FredericaStreet 12:15pm

6 RoosterBoosterBreakfast OwensboroConventionCenter 7:30am

6 RibbonCutting– LivingWaters,LLC TheSprings,BuildingC 12:15pm

7 RibbonCutting– TalentForce 101East9thStreet 12:15pm

11 WestKentuckyThank YouNight FrankfortConventionCenter 5pmEST

14 NewMemberBreakfast ChamberOffice 7:30am

14 RibbonCutting– Maggie’sCakes&More 3115CommonwealthCourt 12:15pm

20 BusinessAfterHours Owensboro-DaviessCounty RegionalAirport 5pm

22 FarmCityBreakfast ApolloHighSchool 7:30am

26 AthenaAwards OwensboroConventionCenter 11:30am

Darrell Higginbotham, President of Independence Bank, is the 2014 board chair for the Greater Owens-boro Chamber of Commerce. He assumed the role from Gavin C. Rob-erts, 2013 chairman.

Higginbotham, in his role as board chairman, will work with the 18 member board of directors, nominat-ed and elected by the membership. Those serving as directors for the Chamber in 2014 include:

• Christy Taylor-Chaney,Glenn Funeral Home and Studio Slant

• Tom Mischel, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners• Dwayne Russell, KimberlyClark Corporation• Matt Hayden, Envision Contractors• Dean Dennis, Owensboro Convention Center• Greg Starheim, Kenergy Corp. • Mark Martin, Atmos Energy• Adam Hancock, Riney Hancock CPAs• T. Tommy Littlepage, Regional Land Title Company• JAT Mountjoy, Owensboro Health• Rick Kamuf, Kamuf Brothers Farm

• Tammy Maglinger, Custom Audio Video• Steve Castlen, L. Steve Castlen Realtors• Kathy Oliver, United Way• Gavin C. Roberts, Kentucky Farm Bureau• George Wathen, Daviess County Fiscal Court• Deborah Nunley, City of Owensboro

Higginbotham is Chamber Board Chair for 2014

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Annual Farm City Breakfast

scheduled for Feb. 22ndThe 35th annual Farm City Breakfast is set for Saturday,

February 22 at 7:30 a.m. at Apollo High School. The breakfast is hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and the

Daviess County Farm Bureau and sponsored by local farmers and businesses.

Tickets are $6 each and can be purchased at the Chamber or Farm Bureau offices.

new membersWoodward consulting, llc (502) 223-8967 6002 Fox creek ct louisville, ky 40222

l’s Personal concierge service 270-929-4629 6390 state rt 56 owensboro, ky 42301

tanner+West (270) 314-5240 Po box 23237 owensboro, ky 42304

edge body boot camp (270) 313-3205 3990 Frederica st owensboro, ky 42301

Peacocks and Pearls boutique (270) 926-7467 3811 hwy 54, suite 103 owensboro, ky 42303

carrico congleton Family Practice (270) 929-2259 2315 mayfair drive, suite 11 owensboro, ky 42301

brite-Way sign company, Inc. (270) 683-0914 1919 James david court owensboro, ky 42301

concept sound and light, Inc. (812) 868-1200 10401 Fellwock dr. evansville, In 47720

Atlantis health club and boot camp (270) 686-1972 4101 carter rd. owensboro, ky 42301

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Non-Profit of the Year – Wendell Foster’s Campus for Developmental Disabilities

Education and Workforce Devel-opment Program of the Year – West-ern Kentucky University-Owensboro

Other award winners of the night included:

2013 Chamber Director of the Year – Tammy Maglinger, Custom Audio Video

2013 Chamber Ambassador of the Year – Kevin Gibson, South Central Bank of Daviess County

2013 CYLO member of the Year – Luke Alexander, Pfizer Pharmaceu-ticals

The Business Celebration also included addresses from the present-ing sponsor, Owensboro Health’s CEO Philip Patterson, as well as the chamber’s outgoing Chairman Gavin C. Roberts and 2014 Chairman of the Board Darrell Higginbotham.

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ribbon cuttings

J’s bluegrass motors 1011 e. 4th street

(270) 683-2100

Fetta specialty Pizza & spirits118 st. Ann street

(270) 926-0005

On Thursday, February 20 from 5 to 7 pm, Cape Air will host the first Business After Hours event of 2014 at the Owensboro-Daviess County

Regional Airport, 2200 Airport Road. Food and beverages will be provided, as will the opportunity to win two free round-trip airfare tickets.

First Business After Hours of 2014

hosted by Cape Air on February 20

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After 37 years, more than 440 speakers, and too many rings from the Good News Phone to count, Kirk Kirkpatrick will take the stage for the last time as the emcee of the Cham-ber’s Rooster Booster program. Don’t miss Kirk’s final Top Five presentation!

It will also be the first Rooster Booster to be held at the Owensboro Convention Center. With the change in program and food, cost to attend the event will now be $12. Call in your RSVP early or sign-up online to attend!

If you can’t be there

at the event, don’t forget to tune into 1490 WOMI to hear the event live on the

radio, or you can watch the replay

of the event throughout

February on OCTV 71.

Daviess County Judge Executive Al Mattingly and City of Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne will make their “State of the Com-munity” addresses at the February 6 Rooster Booster breakfast. A large crowd is expected for this annual event. Daviess County Fiscal Court and the City of Owensboro are the co-sponsors of the event, which starts at 7:30 am at the Owensboro Con-vention Center.

Mattingly was sworn into office as the Daviess County Judge Executive on January 3, 2011. In 2003 and 2007, Judge Mattingly was elected and served as an Owensboro City Commissioner, serving as Mayor Pro Tem in 2007. He is active in the community and his church, Our Lady of Lourdes. He is a mem-ber of various civic and professional organiza-tions. He is President of a family-owned plumbing, heating and cooling busi-ness, Acme Plumbing and Heating. A graduate of Owensboro Catholic High School, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Brescia University in 1969. Mattingly served in the United States Army from 1969 until 1972.

Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne retired as an Assis-tant Professor of Accounting at Brescia University in May 2008. Pre-viously, he served as an Owensboro City Commission-er from 2005 until 2007. He has also maintained posi-tions of City Man-ager, the City’s Chief Adminis-trative Officer, from 1997 until his retirement in 2003, and Direc-tor of Finance and Administration from 1993 until 1997. Previously, Payne served 14 years with the City of Tulsa, Okla-homa as a Control-ler, a Deputy City Auditor and even-tually as Director of Finance. He was Owensboro’s City Auditor from 1975 to 1979.

Payne is a Certi-fied Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Brescia University and a Mas-ter’s of Science in accounting from the University of Tulsa. He is a veteran of the US Navy and served in Vietnam.

Mattingly, Payne to give ‘State of the Community’ addresses

at Feb. 6 Rooster Booster

Kirk Kirkpatrick to emcee final Rooster Booster on Feb. 6, as

event moves to Convention Center!

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member renewalsAlliance real estate, Auction &

estate servicesAmerican red crossAmerican service group, IncAudubon Area community

services, Inc.ballard construction custom

homes Inc.bathrooms in 1 Weekbeckman tire & Auto center

Inc. boulware mission, Inc.bruce Whitmer Insurancecape Aircentury 21 Partners, deborah

nunleychick-fil-Acolby’s Fine Food and spiritscompany namedahl & groezingerdomtar Paper co., llce.m. Ford & company and

money conceptsebelhar Whitehead Pllcelliott Farmsembellish ltd co llcerb equipment companyFairview executive suitesglenn Funeral home and

crematory, Inc.harry roberts Plumbing &

heatinghealth resources, Inc.Impact 100 owensboro Inc.Intrepid usA health care

serviceskeith riney Farmskentucky building systems

kentucky Farm bureau Insurance - doc harris

kenway distributors Incorporated

kindred transitional care & rehab hillcrest

lanham electric, Inc.ohio Valley sprinklers of

henderson llcowensboro Area building &

construction tradesowensboro Federal credit

unionowensboro medical Practiceowensboro metropolitan

Planning commissionPediatric dentistry of

owensboror.l. Wilson masonry , Inc.real living home realty,

Joanne tilfordremAx Professional realty

group gary maglingerrisner & Associates, JoAnn

risnersignProssmart choicesouthern tank & manufacturing

co., Inc.sullivan, mountjoy, stainback &

miller P.s.c.the lang companythe summittwin rivers nursing and rehabupright communicationsWal-mart - Frederica streetWelborn Floral companyWright Implement yeiser excavating Inc.

The 2014 Athena Awards, spon-sored by Girls Incorporated and the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce will be held on Wednes-day, February 26 at the Owensboro Convention Center. The event, at 11:30 am, will feature Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear as the presenting speaker. Tickets for the event are $45 each in celebration of the 45th Anni-versary of the Athena Awards.

Sponsorships are available at the following levels:

• $1,000 Bold Sponsors (program listing and four seats)

• $500 Strong (program listing and two seats)

• $250 Smart (program listing and one seat)

• Anything up to $250 is a Girl Friends/Guy Friends of Girls Inc.

If you are interested in purchas-

ing tickets and/or becoming a sponsor of the event, please con-tact Girls Incorporated at 270-684-7833.

The 2014 Athena Awards set for February 26 at the Convention Center

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