August 2012

Alice Chamber of Commerce/CVB

Executive Committee
  Michael Garcia
  President
Garcia & Carvajal-Garcia, LLP
Ike Ornelas
President Elect, VP EDC
Trejo Construction, Inc
Servando Garza Jr.
Immediate Past-President
Coym, Rehmet & Associates
Jyoti Kapoor
V.P. CVB
Holiday Inn Express
R. David Guerrero (Life Member)
V.P. Civic
Jim Wells County
Nena Castillo-Pitts
V.P. Membership
CHRISTUS Spohn Alice
Lane Bowen
Treasurer
Seidel, Whittington & Co. P.C.
Juan A. Navejar Jr.
Executive Director

Board Members
Ted Bearden
Carlisle Insurance & Realty
Dr. Salvador Cavazos
Alice ISD
Mark Dominguez
AFLAC
Dr. Ramiro Garcia
Alice Dental Associates
Ofelia Hunter
Alice Echo-News Journal
Tony Morris
Alice24-7.com
Mary Macareno
Macareno Signs & Graphics of Alice
Rene Yzaguirre
International Bank of Commerce (IBC)

Ray De Los Santo Jr.
Ex-Officio
City of Alice
Hector Hinojosa
Ex-Officio
City of Alice
Staff
Veronica Castillo
Administrative Coordinator/Accounts Payable

Dee Dee Arismendez, President
Maricela Perez, Vice President
Nancy Ramirez, Secretary
Margaret Smith (Life Member), Treasurer
Sadie Gonzalez
Bruce Menking
Tem Miller
Nicole Perez-Morris
Nena Pitts (Life Members)
Elizabeth Ramirez
Javier Ramos
Mark Salinas
Yolanda Samayoa
David Silva
Jack Walker
Clare Wonders

Juan A. Navejar Jr.

The Summer Lunch Series program sponsored by the Alice Chamber of Commerce is wrapping up its five-week stint.

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Half of the year has gone by and it’s time to start thinking about the Board leadership for the Chamber. Ike Ornelas is the Board President –Elect and in accordance with the Chamber By-Laws, a nominations committee was established to replace five out-going board members. The committee consists of myself, Ike Ornelas, Lane Bowen, Mark Dominguez and Executive Director Juan Navejar. Our role will be to find individuals who will continue guiding the Chamber. We have a great staff and with a strong board the sky is the limit.

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It’s that time of year as kids head back to school. I am blessed that my son’s school offers pre-orders of school supplies. This keeps us from having to go into the store and actually look for items that are on the school supplies lists.

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Dee Dee Arismendez

Summer is just about over and before you know it, kids will be back in school. Don’t forget the Tax Free weekend coming up this month. Shop Alice for your back to school needs. We know a lot of our merchants have uniforms, supplies etc. to get you student off to school.

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Paul Rycroft

It was just four years ago when investors faced their most dramatic challenge of recent times. In September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and other financial giants were teetering on the edge of a similar fate. The government stepped in with the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and the bailout helped avoid a deeper crisis. Yet investors paid a price. A severe bear market would see stocks (valued by broad measures like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500) lose more than half of their value in a period of 18 months.

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Larry Ellis

An employee handbook (or employee manual) details guidelines, expectations and procedures of a business or company to its employees.
Employee handbooks are given to employees on one of the first days of his/her job, in order to acquaint them with their new company and its policies.

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Connie Laughlin

If it wasn’t happening in your business it might actually be funny . . . things your employees say to clients, the demand for payment for services never received, forgotten meetings with important clients, all of these things can get you so wound up you forget where you parked your car or your wife’s name!

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BBB tips for selecting a child care center

As the school year approaches and summer camps wrap up, many parents will start looking for other child care arrangements. Selecting the right daycare can be one of the more stressful decisions a parent will make. To help calm their nerves, Better Business Bureau encourages parents to do the necessary research when looking for the right daycare.

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Holiday Inn Express in Alice held a "Celebrate Service Week" celebration during the last week of June. Te week is celebrated globally while appreciating all employees for their dedication and hardwork.Celebrate Service returns for its third year as a way to recognize the hard work and dedication of the more than 345,000 IHG corporate and franchise employees around the globe. In the first two years, we had outstanding participation, more than 3,000 hotels globally in 2011.This year, we hope even more hotels will join in the celebration.

Saldivar Adult Daycare held a Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Open House on Wednesday, July 18th. The new adult daycare is located at 63 N. Reynolds and is owned by Ofelia and Robert Saldivar.

Tourism and health has taken on two new meanings. Health tourism can be broken down into two components, people who travel to a particular spot for medical reasons, such as cancer centers or for specific operations such a coronary bypass, and people who travel to a location for medicinal reasons such as rest and relaxation.  Medicinal tourism caters not to the sick but to those who seek new levels of wellness.  Examples of medicinal tourism are spa or centers that cater to non-essential cosmetic re-makes such a weight loss.  Medical tourism of the hospital variety differs from medicinal tourism (the spa variety) in that it aims to serve those who are accompanying an ill person and often does not seek repeat business.  Medicinal tourism on the other hand seeks repeat business and hopes that its clients will return on a regular basis.

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The Alice Chamber of Commerce/CVB along with Real Hometown Media hosted the Texas Regional Tourism Council meeting in Alice in July. Alice City Manager Ray De Los Santos was the guest speaker at the meeting. De Los Santos gave an overview of the Multi-Use Complex.

Congressman Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX-15) announced a grant for $13,573 was awarded to the Alice Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice through the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG).

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