Awards to be Presented at Chamber Banquet

Awards, entertainment and food will be featured at the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce annual meet set for Jan. 14 at the Winner Bowling Center.
The event will start at 5:30 p.m. with the social.  The banquet will feature wine, wings, ribs and salads.  The awards and recognition will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The entertainment will start at 7:30 p.m. featuring Dueling Duo. This group features dueling pianos and a fiddle player.

The awards to be presented will be: employer of the year, volunteer of the year, Farm/ranch family of the year, business of the year and the achievement award.

Businesses and organizations will be honored for the number of years they have been in business. A business and a church will be honored for being part of the Winner community for 105 years. The Winner Advocate newspaper and the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church were both established in 1910.

The chamber will be electing three directors. The nominations for directors are: Brent Ring of Cone Ag; Ryan Penning of Mason Funeral Home and Wendy Mortenson of American Family Insurance.  Going off the board will be Casey Berndt, Linda Nelson and Erin Petersek.  The new chamber president will be Lisa Hauf.

The South Central Development Corporation will meet at 4 p.m. for their meeting.  Beginning a five year team on the SCDC board will be Tom Kauer, Don Covey, Bill Ferguson and James Mathis.