News & Notes
 
Thursday June 28: MULTI-CHAMBER REGIONAL MIXER, make new contacts with Chamber members from the Delaware County, Great Valley, West Chester, Main Line, New Castle County, Phoenixville and Cecil County Maryland Chambers. 5:30 to 8:30PM at Springfield Country Club, 400 West Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064. No RSVP required. Sponsored by Comcast, CM-IT Solutions and EBS Staffing

Keep us up to date: Please let us know if contact names, email or regular mail addresses change. Keeping our records current helps us serve you best. The allied Chambers have also significantly upgraded our communications capacity making email addresses all that more important. Just give us a call or visit www.schulkillalliance.org to update your records online. Each Wednesday afternoon you should receive Chambers News & Notes in your email. If you are not receiving it please update our records in the update section of this website.

Introducing SAREC: Schuylkill Alliance Regional Emergency Communications network: In its prototype stage SAREC is a new way for the Chamber to serve you. It is designed to keep you up to date on regional emergencies during the workday. We have been in contact with all of the municipalities served by The Schuylkill Alliance and have field tested it to a small degree. In a regional emergency SAREC would broadcast email to our registered members. Examples might be a chemical spill that forces an evacuation. SAREC is designed to let you know where evacuees from schools or elder care facilities might be taken or alternative travel routes if roads are closed. SAREC has four redundant locations, three in Montgomery County and one in central Chester County. To date it has a high threshold of determination. It is not used for elementary road closures, construction or weather conditions except as the may pertain to interruptions of SEPTA service on specific routes with high levels of civilian employees. It will be used in any declared state of emergency. You can help us develop the system. We’re soliciting trivia questions related to your business with a prize. We use it to test the timing, accuracy and response to the system. So far the response has been very strong. If you’d like to help call Al Paschall at 610.277.9500 or 610.265.1776

MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON: hosted by the Pathway School with the president and general manager of the Philadelphia '76ers Billy King. Members: $12 per person; Non-members: $15 per person; For reservations contact the Pathway School 610.277.0660. Pathway is located at 162 Egypt Road, Norristown, PA 19403

ZOOPENDOUS/A BUSINESS EXPO: September 18 (rain date September 25) at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown. A business expo like no other at one of Montgomery County's crown jewels

NETWORKING NIGHT/BUSINESS CARD EXCHANGE: September 27 at Forbes Office Furniture in King Of Prussia. Details soon

October 3: Fall Golf Outing

November 15: Outstanding Citizens Awards Banquet

December 11: Chamber Open House, The historic King Of Prussia Inn

To find out more about any of these events please contact The Chamber at 610.277.9500 or 610.265.1776 or info@schuylkillalliance.org