Gateway to Greene!

Gateway to Greene!

A Complete Community and Business Resource, 2018-2019

Gateway to Greene!

A complete Business and Community Resource

Mission Statement Greene County Chamber of Commerce The Greene County Chamber Board Members ? Come Join Us!

of Commerce is dedicated to advancing the economic vitality and quality of life in the Greene

Julia Roberts, President Fulton Morgage Company 285 Hydraulic Road, Suite 3 Charlottesville, VA 22901 Phone: 434-249-5542

Veronica Dumas Holiday Inn Express & Suites 5920 Seminole Trail Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-985-1855

County area so that the entire community shall prosper.

Contents

Membership Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Greene County Facts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 County Wide Main Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Leisure Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Matt Dillon, Vice-President Capitol Sheds, Inc. 49 Lake Saponi Dr. Barboursville, VA 22923 Phone: 434-964-1901

Chad Denby, Secretary Web Weaving & Consulting Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-990-1800

Victor Schaff Greene Pizza Company, LLC dba Papa John's 8786 Seminole Trail Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-990-0029

Julie Winslow The Barn at Edgewood 777 Beazley Road Stanardsville, VA 22973 Phone: 434-566-5031

Community Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chamber Members Alphabetically. . . . . . . . . 14 Chamber Members by Industry. . . . . . . . . . . 19 Health Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Child/Teen Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Disability Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Dental Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Legal Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Community Organizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Alan Yost, Treasurer Greene Economic Development 8315 Seminole Trail, Suite 2 Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-985-6663

Matthew Woodson, Past President Roy Wheeler Realty, Co. 67 Deane Road Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-985-2348

Shari Bedker Executive Director Greene Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 643 Ruckersville, VA 22968 Phone: 434-906-4859

Religious Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Emergency Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Photo Cover Acknowledgments: Billy Arbour, BA Photographic Design

Editing Acknowledgements: Brandi Gehman, Heidi Stafford

Colleen Crill United Bank 96 Main Street Stanardsville, VA 22973 Phone: 434-985-6406

Layout and Design: Milburn & Associates



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Membership Benefits

Why should your business be a member of the Chamber of Commerce? Our answer is straightforward:

To help build your business:

Chamber membership gives a business, your business, the opportunity to make money ? both directly and indirectly. Each of our Chamber member enterprises receives the broadest, most diverse business opportunity network available in our region ? each day, every day.

Our Chamber website ? ? attracts many visitors on a monthly basis. Many of those continue through to specific Chamber member listings, accessing their business websites directly. In this manner, the Chamber offers the best-targeted business opportunity as part of your membership. Our Chamber makes business referrals often ? from restaurant, lodging and tourism to banking, real estate and professional services. Our office is staffed and ready to direct business in your direction too.

Our Chamber monthly network events draw even more people to talking and doing business with each other; good old-fashioned commerce. We encourage direct communication amongst our members by providing opportunities at these events for business members to address those present.

Our Chamber promotes and entertains development meetings that will give your business the opportunity to increase business and workforce skills by developing better business strategies.

Our Chamber in association with Optima Health provides your business and employees the opportunity to have "Valued Added Benefits with their health insurance plans. For more information please see our attached insert.

Our Chamber Board of Directors and our various committees actively engage in local public policy matters and decision-making with our Chamber member interests in mind. Chamber advocacy offers public decision-makers and citizens at large focused insight into the business and economic vitality aspects of public policy.

Our Chamber is constantly looking for new ways to promote our Chamber business members. We provide our local newspaper with monthly Chamber Corner articles, promote Chamber business through local printed and online calendars, and communicate to both business and community members through our Facebook business page. What's next? We don't know but we are always open to finding new ways to direct more interest to our local business members.

To help build your community:

Our Chamber and our members continue to lead successful community associations within Greene County. Through constructive and proactive Chamber leadership, the true spirit of "asking what you can do for your county" has been a standard business practice. Building our community helps sustain and strengthen overall economic vitality. Vibrant enterprise adds investment and jobs, while adding even more to the civic and charitable engines of our community.

The real power of the Chamber organization building our community, of course, is the people who volunteer. They are readily distinguished as key business and civic leaders in building and sustaining the economic vitality and quality of life in Greene County.

Our strength is and always has been our Chamber membership. Chamber members are involved at every level in assessing risks and implementing new business enterprises within our community. As our area's economy continues to evolve toward a market led by education, highly-skilled technology-based jobs, retail, agri-business and tourism, the Chamber remains pivotal in keeping our members in direct contact with other businesses, markets, workforce, education and governmental agencies.

Since our founding, the Greene County Chamber of Commerce (GCOC) has been dedicated to advancing the economic vitality and quality of life in the Greene County area so that the entire community can prosper. We are a dynamic, strong, innovative business alliance for all local business and community members.

The Chamber is the key to building a business and building a community ? two reasons for any local organization to be a Greene County Chamber of Commerce member.

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Membership affiliation benefits:

The Chamber Affiliate Membership Program began in the Fall of 2012. "Small businesses, non-profit and civic organizations are at the heart of our national, state, and regional economies ? and our chambers of commerce," said Patricia L. Cluff, Associate Vice President at the University of Virginia Health System and past Chair of the Chamber Board of Directors. "The regional chamber affiliations offer distinct opportunities for our Chamber members, and our neighboring Chamber members, to network and market their products and services to a broader regional marketplace."

Eligible Chamber member firms and organizations ? 10 or fewer employees, based in the neighboring counties of Greene, Orange, Louisa, and Fluvanna and members of those County Chambers ? will become affiliated members of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce (CRCC), at no additional charge. Reciprocally, Charlottesville Regional Chamber member firms with 10 or fewer employees will become affiliated members of the neighboring county Chambers, at no additional charge.

Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce will continue to maintain our long-standing policy of providing all new members a free hotlink (website linked through our directory) for the first year of affiliate membership. After the first year, hotlinks for affiliates, just like Charlottesville Chamber members, will be $40. This is an optional benefit. Your business will receive an invoice directly from the CRCC after your first year listed as an affiliate member.

You are encouraged to view the CRCC website, cvillechamber. com, and subscribe to its weekly on-line newsletter and calendar for networking opportunities and chamber events in the region hosted by the Charlottesville Chamber.

Leverage your GCOC membership and business exposure with this great regional affiliate opportunity!!

It's as simple as that. There is no better organization, no better business group, no better civic group to help build your business and this community we call home. Existing members may request a free printed decal to display in their store-front by emailing us. They may also download and display the current membership emblem on their website by clicking on one of the links below.

Businesses with 10 employees or fewer who are members of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce can join at no cost, the Small Business Alliance of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Value-Added Benefits:

Discounted Membership with Sams Club:

Members of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce can now enjoy a discounted membership for Sam's Club. Simply print the application below, fill it out, and bring it to Sam's Club along with some proof of your business (such as a business card). Participants will also receive a free $10 ? $25 gift card depending on your level of membership.

BOST Workplace Benefits:

BOST provides all of your family member's access 24/7 to doctors, who will assess the situation and prescribe medications. BOST also Advocates assisting in reducing uncovered expenses of $400 or more (medical or dental). Visit our website at overview, BOST Benefits, click here for application, click the "select" button to enroll in the plan you wish to choose. Chamber Membership is not required.



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