Time to Pull Together

By its very definition, a chamber of commerce is a group of people working together.

We form committees to do just that. The committees are made up of chamber members, and representatives from the community. Our committees perform many tasks and tackle many challenges, from organizing programs like Mini Business World and Career Opportunities Expo to developing relocation materials for area companies to use when they recruit workers or Shop Local efforts to encourage area residents to support local businesses.

We actively seek partnerships with other organizations. We work closely with UW-Marinette, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Marinette County, and many other organizations. Recently, we've begun to build stronger partnerships with the M&M Area Community Foundation.

In other words, we collaborate. We pull together to harness the power of people working together.

Our community has just experienced a tragedy in one of its schools. It is time to pull together in a bigger way so that the healing can begin and we can prevent such tragedies in years to come.

It is too early to predict how we will work together in the future. Community needs gave birth to the Healthy Youth Coalition a decade ago and the DAR Boys Club (now the Boys and Girls Club) nearly a century ago. But we will work together and we will pull our community through the heartbreak of a young life lost and other lives endangered.

If you are called to serve in any way, please do so. What side of the river you live on is not important. The future of our community - and our young people - belongs to all of us.