It is almost finally Friday, and yes, like everyone else, I'm ready for it. However, I have to say as busy as this week was for your staff at the O'Fallon Chamber, we've had a great week.

I'll start with Saturday night and the 15th Annual Art, Wine & Brew gala. We hosted close to 300 people to taste some of the best food in O'Fallon served by 11 of our member restaurants- YUM! 10 wonderfully talented artists had booths. We also welcomed six wineries to offer samples to our guests, O'Fallon Brewery, Major Brands, and last but certainly not least, Krey Distributing, who offered samples of four great AB products. I would like to make a special thank you to Krey Distributing and Kelly Nation. For several years Krey has been generous enough to be our main sponsor of this great event. Without thier support, this would be a very different event than what our guests were treated to on Saturday.

CoverTrax kept the dancefloor the place to be from 9:00-Midnight, when we had to turn on the lights- officer's orders :). Everyone that I've talked to had a great time. I thank all of you for coming out for this great event!

That was just one day of the week! On Tuesday, the Chamber hosted our monthly membership meeting and began the meeting with Member Shout-Outs. I wasn't quite anticipating half of the room standing up when I made the agenda that day, but it was absolutely awesome to hear from that many members doing business with each other and getting such great results. These folks have built the relationships that we are always preaching about and it is paying off big time! We'll defnately continue our Member Shout-Outs each month at our membership meetings... next time I'll allow for more time.

Yesterday Fox's Pizza Den, on Technology Drive, held a ribbon cutting and treated all of those in attendance to pizza, hot wings, and toasted ravioli. Niel, one of the owners, assures me that they have one of the best taco pizza's around (my personal favorite). I'll be headed there for lunch soon to try it out!

Tomorrow we're hosting a website training for this new site. I'm excited that so many of our members are taking the time to learn about this new benefit of the O'Fallon Chamber.

So, yes, TGIF, and I'll hope that next week is just as awesome as this one has been.


Have a great day!
Erin