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We had a great holiday season
and close to 2015, and its all
thanks to you, our members
and community. Thank you to
everyone who participated in
our late night openings, kept
stores open, shopped here first,
and worked to make our holiday
a little brighter.
Winter doesnt mean that we
slow down at all! The Chamber
and Merchants committee are
already planning for 2016. We
are finalizing plans and goals
for the upcoming year, and
cant wait to share them with
you!
One of our most visible current
projects is our chamber website
re-vamp, check out a preview in
this newsletter!
HAPPY WINTER!
In This Edition
Board of Director
President:
Travis Rhoads
Vice President:Marty Lundstrom
Jessie Pankratz
Troy Perry
Carly Prestwich
Ann Sautter
Katie Smith
Eric Wilke
Sharon Young
Chamber Secretary
Dina Meneely
Holiday in Review
Business After Hours at
Promises
Store Decorating Contest
Person of Influence
2015 Accomplishments
Shop Local Year Long Cam-
paign
Website Preview
Triangle Connected Com-
munity Challenge Grant
Community Calendar and
Online Courses
Check Us Out!www.maltachamber.com
406-654-1776
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2015 was
overall a great
year and holi-
day season for
our business-
es. The Merchants committee
worked hard from July in planning
and organizing events throughout
the season. Thank you to Jacy
Stolem, Merchants president and
Avery Sorenson, VP for all their extra
effort!
During our Monday Late Night Open-
ings, we had everything from Key
Club wrapping gifts, to churches and
clubs donating snacks, to Santa, sto-
ries, carolers, and bell choirs. All of
these fun activities, to support and
encourage shoppers to first think of
our local businesses for their holiday
needs.
The Scrip program this year was up10% over last year! Many folks took
advantage of this program, and kept
their money local!
We were thrilled to see that over
$12,000 in Dino Dollars went out to
the community, in the month of De-
cember alone! That is a huge boostto our local economy.
Congratulations to our Chamber But-
ton Drawing winners, Sharon Young,
David Rummel and Jan Kirkwood.
Each received a $300 prize pack of
Dino Dollars and Gift Certificates to
our local shops.
HOLIDAYS IN REVIEW
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Business After Hours closed out2015 at Promises. Danni Hill and herstaff went all out this year, with deco-rations inside and out, hot chocolate,
spa wraps, and specials to set themood for their night at the Spa! Itwas a great night to get away fromthe hustle and bustle of the holidays,pamper yourself a bit and check outsome of the more unique gifts availa-ble in town!
Promises also won the Chambersstore decorating contest! Their storewas incredibly festive and reallybrightened your mood, when you ar-rived!
Danni said, We typically start deco-rating for Holidays on or before La-bor Day.
Last year we started on Aug 23rd.
EVERY single display in our 3,600square feet of floor space is mer-chandised with lights, material, tissueor Christmas floral. In 2015 we had
5 themed trees in the store, plus
adouble layer of lights around the en-tire store inside. Outside consistedof 2 lighted wreathes on the porchposts, a lighted angel, lamp post,cross and door wreathe as well asice cycle lights around the store. WeLOVE sharing His light with thecommunity we live in. Thanks so
much for your vote of confidence aswe continue to build the retail com-munity in Phillips County.
Second place in our decorating con-test went to Family Matters, and thirdto The Closet. Each won a portionoff their 2016 Chamber Dues.
Check out more pictures on the nextpage.
AFTER HOURS AND DECORATIONS
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Congratulationsto our first Per-son of Influence
Awardee,LauraPankratz!
Laura was nomi-nated by com-munity membersand voted on byChamber mem-bers to receivethis award, rec-ognizing heramazing contri-butions to in-creasing thehealth, recrea-
tion and wellness of our area.
Laura leads Malta Trails, one of the mostactive groups around! Some of their pro-
jects include; building walking trails, or-ganizing hikes, bike safety programs, kay-ak adventures and snowshoe trips.
In just a few years, Laura and Malta Trails
has made Malta one of the premier placeson the hi-line for an active lifestyle com-munity. Winter is no exception! Have youtried ice skating on the pond behind 7thavenue East? Go snowshoeing? Gosledding? Or just build a snowman? If
you need more ideas, ask a Trails mem-ber!
More projects are coming up soon forTrails and Laura, so if you have an inter-est in supporting active outdoor programs,
join Malta Trails today!
Again, congratulations Laura, a well de-served award!
Do you know someone who goes out oftheir way to make our community a betterplace? Nominations for the March Personof Influence Awards are being acceptednow. Go to htp://goo.gl/forms/5QbP0AaCrqto submit your nomination. We will voteon an awardee at the February 16 Mem-bers Meeting.
PERSON OF INFLUENCE
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WHAT DID WE DO IN 2015?
Still wondering
what you get
out of your
Chamber of
Commerce
member-ship?
Wellhere
are just a
few of the
programs
and bene-
fits our
members saw
in 2015!
2015 Malta Chamber
(button number here)
Christmas Button
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2016THE YEAR TO SHOP LOCAL!
At the January Merchants Meeting, we approved a program to dedicate 2016 to a
year-long Shop Local Campaign!
You hear quite a bit from us about Shopping Local, particularly around the holidays,
but without the effort of everyone in our community to make the choice to shop here
first all year long, we do not have the vibrant community that we all love.
Throughout the year, we plan to provide a multi-media campaign showing the bene-
fits and results of keeping your dollars here at home! We want to show you how
your money, spent locally, impacts our whole community and how integral it is to the
success of our whole area.
We know that each time someone makes a purchase, they have the choice the
spend outside of our area. We want to persuade them, to stop, and try our local
businesses first, to
meet their needs!
If you would like to
participate on the
committee for this
program, please
contact the Cham-
ber office!
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THE NEW MALTACHAMBER.COM
ItsComin
gAlong!We
shouldha
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newweb
siteout
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sneakpe
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CONNECTED COMMUNITY GRANT!
Triangle Communications is pleased to announce the following communities as recipients ofthe 2015-2016 Smart Rural Connected Community Challenge: Sweet Grass County, theTown of Big Sandy and the City of Malta/Malta Chamber of Commerce.
The selected communities and their Stakeholder Committees will work closely with AnneBoothe, Triangles Economic Development Specialist, to discuss technology assets in their
community and how they relate to various sectors of the local economy. The overall goal ofthe Challenge is to develop a simple, written Broadband Action Plan that includes prioritiesand strategies to enable economic development in their community through broadbandtechnologies. A $2500 incentive grant award will be made to all selected applicants to im-plement one or more of the items identified in their completed plan.
Broadband connectivity and being able to conduct business, agriculture, or run our homesefficiently and securely go hand in hand. We are fortunate in Malta and Phillips County tohave the high-speed connections in place to positively impact the way we run our business-es and lives, and use technology to its fullest. We are thrilled to be awarded this grant fromTriangle and to use it toward telling our areas story, says Dina Meneely, Malta Area Cham-ber of Commerce Secretary.
The first meeting of the Malta Stakeholder Committee has been set for Monday, January25that 6:30 PM in the Phillips County Library meeting room. Interested persons wishing tobe added to the Committee are asked to contact the Malta Chamber of Commerce. Pleasecall 654-1776 or email [email protected] advance so resource materials can be pro-vided to all members before the meeting.
How excing!
What an Opportunity!
Join us for a Kicko
Meeng on Jan 25!
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Have you seen our new Community Calendar? If not, head over to maltachamber.comand take a look around. This new updated calendar allows for more details about each
event and links to event pages. If you have an event you would like to see added,
please contact the chamber office!
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Our world is fast-paced and evert chang-
ing. Our lives are busy with work, family,
community and more! We need to keep
learning and expanding our skills if we
want to continue to be successful.
Sometimes its hard to find time in your
day to attend a training class, or find one
that meets your schedule. The Chamber
is helping you to solve that problem with
the launch of our Online Learning Catalog!
We looked through several vendors of
online courses and selected 20 courses
by four vendors that are focused on busi-ness topics. All of the courses are free.
The delivery of these courses varies, be-
cause each of us likes to learn in a differ-
ent way. You have the choice to listen to
a pod cast, watch a video or fully interact
with an online course.
From each vendor, you can explore their
other course offerings. We recommended
only a few, but you can feel free to take
any that you find. Let us know if you find
one that you think we should add to ourcatalog. If you have other you would like
to see included, please let us know.
This is a program for members only. You
should have received a link through email
to the course catalog. If not, please email
us at [email protected].
ONLINE LEARNING COURSE CATALOG
Have you tried an online
course yet?
Startthe
newyea
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tand
makeac
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learning!