Chamber of commerce

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Chamber of Commerce at work.

You guys are the Chamber of Commerce.

Well, listen, thanks for being on.

And tell our listeners one more time where they can purchase this or go online.

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So I'm also in the Chamber of Commerce, and one of our members on the Chamber of Commerce was part of this 1940s-style big band in Fredericksburg.

Oh, my gosh.

And she found out that I played trumpet.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Duluth looked at Ely and Grand Marais and in July alone estimated an economic loss of $9 million.

Joining me now to see how recovery is going is Linda Jurek, executive director at Visit Cook County in the Cook County Chamber of Commerce.

That's where Grandma Ray is located along the North Shore there.

Thanks so much for joining the program again, Linda.

And Linda, there was sort of a time at the height of the wildfires where you wanted folks to know that the area that, you know, Cook County area, the Gramery area, there were areas that people could still visit amid the wildfires that were not impacted.

But it was sort of, you know, as the news was growing about the area, did you feel like people heeded your call to keep showing up? And how has the recovery process been?

You know, wearing both hats as the Director of Tourism and then also the Chamber of Commerce, we immediately, two days after we had our major ash storm, which was July 14th, we immediately turned around and got a study out to our businesses.

Within three days, we had 140 of our local businesses respond on what the financial impact was going to feel like.

We tried to vet two people.

I was going to have my friend from the Chamber of Commerce be it, but my bride said that, well, you like him and he's trustworthy, but how do you know that he's not some dark criminal element? So we now have a A second banker, Theresa Hines from Capital Bank, is the gatekeeper watching Jerry Otteson's branch.

And we vetted Theresa with the Dane County Sheriff.

I talked to Theresa about with my priest at St. John the Baptist in Waunakee.

The mayor vetted Theresa.

And the Chamber of Commerce vetted Teresa, all with high marks.

So she is the gatekeeper.

There are only two people with keys to that safety deposit box.

Thanks for the time.

In the studio now with an update from the Park City Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau CEO, Jennifer Wesselhoff.

Good morning.

Good morning, Leslie.

Thanks, Leslie.

Okay, see you next month.

That's Jennifer Wesselhoff, CEO of the Park City Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau.

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Excellent question, Simon.

I'm going to repeat something that I said at the public forum that the Chamber of Commerce held.

If you want to see a transcript video of that, you can go to the Chamber's website.

What I said was, if you don't vote for me, that's okay.

to be supported to be traders as well.

And the diplomatic advisory hub that we set up, we're working with the Chamber of Commerce, was about supporting British businesses to have understanding about how to export abroad, and that is expanding British brands and growing businesses.

So there's a lot of infrastructure, those points of infrastructure.

What about what you wouldn't like to see?

I want to be welcomed.

I want to be feted by the Chamber of Commerce later on, boys and girls.

No, obviously I'm going to tell you my analysis and you can agree or disagree, but disagree the part.

It's the things we do for love or talk radio.

We cannot be trusted.

And our city council has been compromised by the Chamber of Commerce, has been compromised by this billionaire Elon Musk.

They don't do what's in the best interest of the people.

And I think what we're going to see next year is a flipping of the city council.