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The past few weeks in the Chamber for me have been kind of up and down. After three weeks of fun, the tone for one day turned a little darker. Wrapping up the day on May 31, with Varian Brown, Director of Economic Development, I was here when he received a phone call that his grandmother had passed away. Personally, ...

By: Gisele Greaux Panic. Pure panic. That’s how I felt last week when I realized that I would soon be in a foreign country where I won’t know anyone, I can’t speak the language, and I don’t exactly have the funds to do all the things that I want to do. I also realized I haven’t done much research like ...

There’s few things in the world that compare to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the annual twice-around-the-clock endurance test in France, that is celebrating its 90th running this year. It has survived two World Wars, several strikes, idiotic rule changes, and the worst accident in the history of sports, and it still thrives to this day. This weekend, about ...

When I first received the Media Intern position at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce, I was excited to be constantly surrounded by business professionals and an environment that only breeds success. Until I started… As a classically trained journalist, I found out the media interns do a substantial amount of public relations work. No two letters in the English ...

Hello readers! So much has happened since my last posting! Today I’m in my hometown of Macon, Ga. for the South Georgia Annual Conference. An “annual conference” is a yearly meeting of a Methodist Church district. Each church sends a clergy (an official or “ordained” pastor) and a lay (non-pastor) delegate from their home church or Methodist organization, and they ...