Michael Collins 1st Installation Dinner Remarks
Good evening,
As I look out among our guests tonight, I see many familiar faces; those of friends, of family, Distinguished Guests and Business Associates.
I would like to thank each of you for your support of the 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce and for your attendance this evening.
As the new President of our Chamber of Commerce, I promise to continue the strengthening process that we started last year under the leadership of our outgoing President, Greg Mendoza.
We have an incredibly talented and strong Board of Directors this year. I want to personally thank each of you for your support and dedication. I realize that all our positions are solely voluntary. It takes an incredibly special person, to see the need in our business community for our organization and step up to the plate, to volunteer, to spend countless hours over a 3-year period, and to be criticized and ridiculed by those that don’t share our vision.
The 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce will maintain the important balance between the Community and Business organizations and to express the point of view of our local businessmen and women.
We will be an interpreter of government to business and conversely of business to government…
We will assume growing responsibilities and achieve increasing usefulness.
Just as Chambers of Commerce through the centuries have changed and adapted to meet the needs of the time, so will the 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce continue to be constantly alerted to the changes taking place in 29 Palms and the Morongo Basin.
These are historic times of 29 Palms and of the Morongo Basin in the making.
Local Organizations throughout the Basin are banding together for a common cause. Coalitions, Partnerships and Councils are being formed.
I see a strengthening relationship between our City Government and the 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce.
Between the Action Council of 29 Palms and our Chamber and between the Inn Keepers and our Chamber.
Watch us all grow and prosper in commerce, as
· The Basin Chambers form the new Morongo Basin Chambers Partnership
· The Inn Keepers of the Basin unite to form the new Morongo Basin Innkeepers Association
· And as the Art Community form a broad-based coalition of artists through the Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council.
In closing and in the words of one of our newest members, Jeffery Jones, owner of the Harmony Motel.
Ask not what your Chamber can do for you,
But what you can do for your Chamber.
Thank you.
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