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The Chamber is pleased to announce the nominees, as selected by the Chamber’s Board of Directors, for the 2023 Awards of Excellence. Voting for the nominees is now open through Thursday, Nov. 30. Chamber members and their employees are eligible to vote. The awards categories and nominees are as follows: COMMUNITY CHAMPION AWARD This award honors a Chamber member individual, business or organization that has made a significant impact in Sheridan County. Understanding that a community thrives when those in it invest and contribute to its success, the nominees demonstrate vision, ambition and drive to address needs in the community and strive for the betterment of the local area. NOMINEES: Rosie Berger Sheridan Rotary Club Cody Sinclair Gail Symons The Salvation Army STRENGTH OF SHERIDAN This award honors a Chamber member business or organization that has a distinguished tenure of 20 or more years in the community. This business or organization demonstrates consistent service, continually invests in the community, meets challenges with innovative solutions and demonstrates sustained quality performance. NOMINEES: Big Horn Equestrian Center First Federal Bank & Trust Kilpatrick Creations, Inc. Peter D’s RV Park Sheridan County Fair Association BUSINESS OF THE YEAR This award honors a Chamber member business that positively impacts the economic health of the Sheridan area through exceptional business practices, customer service and innovation. This business shows steady growth and consistent strong performance, excels in community relations, practices exemplary business conduct, responds positively to adversity and shows proven business achievement. NOMINEES: AlphaGraphics Cross E Dairy & Freedom Foods Market Imperial Powder Coating Sheridan Honda & Sheridan Powersports WYO Candle Co. BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR This award honors a Chamber member business person who shows outstanding business acumen and strong leadership in business and community efforts. This person is a champion for economic development, strives to exceed customer expectations, delivers industry leading standards of service and quality and exhibits innovation in business development. NOMINEES: Mike Ash (Powder River Party Rentals) Doug Carlton (Carlton Construction) Megan Cook (Java Moon) Darin & Marisa Olson (On the Rocks Jewelry, Inc.) Patrick Suchor (Harker Mellinger CPAs, LLC)

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The 25th Annual Awards of Excellence will be held the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Each nominee will be highlighted and the recipients in each category will be announced. We hope that you will mark your calendar and plan to attend.

The winning design for the 28th Annual Sheridan Christmas Stroll Button Design Contest was unveiled Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, during a special presentation by Sheridan Mayor Rich Bridger, Sheridan Christmas Stroll Committee Chair Robby Smith and Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce CEO Dixie Johnson at City Hall.

Jordan Romero, currently a fifth-grade student at Coffeen Elementary and daughter of Moses and Lasmi Romero, created the winning design. Sheridan County students in Grades 1 through 6 were invited in the spring to submit designs to the Sheridan County Chamber’s Christmas Stroll Committee for the Stroll Button Design Contest. The committee selected the winning design based upon how well it reflects this year’s theme, “Candy Cane Christmas Stroll.”

Jordan received a framed copy of her button design, the first button and $100 in Chamber Bucks. Her framed design will be on display at Main Frame, 17 E. Grinnell Plaza, for the next few weeks.

Stroll buttons each have a unique number and are purchased by the public, who begin wearing them at the Christmas Stroll. While shopping locally during Christmas Stroll and through Christmas Eve, button wearers look in participating businesses for the number that matches their Stroll Button. Those with matching numbers win a prize from the business valued at $50 or more.

Stroll button purchasers are encouraged to continue wearing their Stroll buttons on Stroll Day and throughout the holiday shopping season for the Chamber’s “Get Caught Shopping” campaign. If caught shopping locally in participating businesses by Chamber elves while wearing their Stroll button, they can win Chamber Bucks in amounts from $25 to $200.

Stroll buttons will be available for purchase by the public starting Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, at Stroll participating businesses and Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, at the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce, 54 S. Main St. Cost remains $5 each.

This year’s Christmas Stroll will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Stroll button holders can begin checking for matching button numbers that morning. Main Street and Grinnell Plaza will be closed from 4 to 8 p.m. for hay wagon rides, marshmallow roasting, free food and beverages and more. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be visiting with children and available for photos at the WYO Theater from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information on the 28th Annual Christmas Stroll and a list of participating businesses, visit www.sheridanwyomingchamber.org or the Sheridan Christmas Stroll page on Facebook.

The Chamber celebrated the graduation of its 2023 Leadership Sheridan County Class during the Chamber Lunch program on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023.

Leadership Sheridan County is a program designed to inspire citizens to assume leadership roles in the community. The program’s goals are to identify future leaders, enhance community and leadership knowledge, establish valuable connections and promote civic and community involvement. The program consists of a retreat, seven full-day modules and an overnight trip to Cheyenne spanning a 10-month time period.

Anyone over the age of 18 can participate in Leadership Sheridan County. Participants are chosen by application by the Leadership Sheridan County Steering Committee. Applications are currently being accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, for the 2024 class.

The Leadership Sheridan County program will celebrate 30 years next year. This year’s class brings the total program alumni to 413.

For more information about Leadership Sheridan County, call the Chamber at 672-2485 or visit www.sheridanwyomingchamber.org.

Zane Garstad, executive director of the Sheridan WYO Rodeo and real estate agent for Century 21 BHJ Realty, shared his “Cowboy Lessons in Leadership” at the Chamber Lunch Program and Leadership Sheridan County Graduation today at the Historic Sheridan Inn.

Today’s 22 Leadership Sheridan County graduates bring the total program alumni to 413. Leadership Sheridan County will celebrate it’s 30th year in 2024.