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In The Know ____________
The weekly newsletter of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce April 28, 2017
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Do you want to be a millionaire? Do you crave success? According to Dr. Randall Bell, it all begins with making your bed, waving to your neighbors, and ignoring the guy (or gal) who cut you off in traffic.
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Quarterly Workshop Series Presents
An Update On The Oil & Gas Industry
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On Wednesday, May 31st, the Chamber will host a panel discussion and luncheon focusing on the oil and gas industry in Jefferson County. In conjunction with The Jefferson County Port Authority and sponsored by Ascent Resources, the presentation will
cover many topics including the state of the industry in and around Jefferson County, permits, production, pipelines, infrastructure investment and more. Speakers will include representatives from
the Ohio Oil & Gas Association, the Ohio Gas Association, Ascent Resources and other industry experts. The program and catered lunch will be followed by a question and answer segment.
The workshop will be held at Hellenic Hall in Steubenville from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The cost is $15 per person for Chamber members and their employees and $20 per person for non-members. For more information or to register for this quarterly workshop, please click here or contact the Chamber offices.
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On Wednesday, April 19, the Chamber hosted its monthly Safety Council Meeting. The featured speakers were Scott A. St.Clair, business consultant for Southeastern Ohio with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC), and Mike Mathers and Aric Bizzarri, special agents with the BWC.
Mr. Mathers is a member of the BWC's Injured Worker Team, and Mr. Bizzarri works with the Health Care Provider Team. Both men gave a fascinating overview of the many cases they've investigated over the years and also cleared up some common misconceptions the public may have about their work, including the difference between fraud, which is punishable by law, and abuse, which is not punishable under the law. Fraud is a hidden cost of workers' compensation insurance that impacts claimants, employers and the general public. Claimants, employers and health-care providers can commit fraud, which is defined as an intentional act or series of acts resulting in payments or benefits to a person or entity not entitled to receive those payments or benefits.
Worker fraud includes working while receiving benefits, forged and/or altered documents, false claims, and drug deception. Healthcare fraud includes medical professionals who engage in upcoding, unbundling, double billing, running pill mills or injury mills or charging for services not rendered. For more information or to report suspicious activity, email Mr. Mathers at [email protected] or Mr. Bizzarri at [email protected]. To become a member of the Jefferson County Safety Council, visit www.jeffersoncountychamber.com or contact Casey Peters at 740.282.6226.
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Member Morsels
Remember to click through to our members' websites by clicking on the business name or logo.
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* The Ohio Valley Music Guild will be hosting the OV Music Guild Dinner Concert, "Spring - A Potpourri of Sounds," in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Academy for the Performing Arts and Slippery Rock University on Friday, April 28, 2017, at 5:15 p.m. at the Hellenic Hall (Greek Church), which is located at 300 S.Fourth St. in Steubenville. The cost is $40 for adults and $25 for students. For more info, please contact Kathy Antinone by email or at 740.317.3826.
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* Forever Media Inc. announces the new Willie 103.5 in Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley. Willie 103.5 will be playing country hits from the 80s and 90s, featuring superstars like Alan Jackson and legendary artists like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. According to Program Director Dave Anthony, “Willie 103.5 was launched because we know there is a loyal, passionate, and underserved audience for the music that made the genre what it is today.”
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Friday, May 5th
4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
4170 Sunset Blvd. Steubenville
For more information, please click
here
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No RSVP necessary.
2017 Chamber Golf Classic presented by
Tuesday, May 9th
For more information on registration, please click here.
Coffee & Connections
Wednesday, May 10th
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
1401 University Blvd., Steubenville
$10 per person
To RSVP or get more information for any Chamber event, please visit the Chamber website by clicking
here
and then click on the event you wish to view on the scrolling event calendar.
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Small Business Start-Up Class
Wednesday, May 10th
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
630 Market Street, Steubenville
$30 Chamber Members
$
40 Non-Chamber Members
Please use rear entrance;
RSVP by clicking
here
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Jefferson County Safety Council
"Lunch 'N Learn"
Wednesday, May 17th
Registration/Lunch: 11:30 a.m.; Presentation: 12 p.m.
The 2017 Ohio Safety Congress Awards
$15 per person;
RSVP by clicking here.
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Thursday, May 25th
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
630 Market Street, Steubenville
$5 per person; no RSVP required.
Quarterly Workshop Series - Oil & Gas Update
Wednesday, May 31st
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
$15 per person; RSVP by clicking here.
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Download the complete May 2017 Chamber Calendar by clicking the button below:
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Around the State. Around the Country.
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p-to-Date Information from the Ohio and United States Chambers of Commerce
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Ohio EPA Seeks to Rewrite
Discharge Limit Process
Buried in the thousands of pages that make up this year’s budget proposal is an attempt to overhaul how the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) develops pollution limits for Ohio’s waterways, known as total maximum daily loads (TMDLs). TMDLs can significantly impact business operations as they are used when issuing discharge permits, making it vital to ensure the process for setting TMDLs is fair, transparent and based on respect for due process. In the budget, Ohio EPA is attempting to address the uncertainty surrounding existing TMDLs in the aftermath of a court case, while also creating a public input process for future TMDLs.
Prior to the Supreme Court of Ohio’s ruling in Fairfield County v. Nally in 2015, Ohio EPA set TMDLs outside of Ohio’s normal rulemaking process. The Ohio Chamber filed a friend of the court brief in that case urging the Supreme Court to recognize that TMDLs, under existing law, are rules that must conform to the rulemaking process before they can be used for as a basis for granting discharge permits.
To read the article in its entirety, click here.
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Senate Will Make Federal Regulations Smarter and More Effective
Americans complain about over-regulation and as rule after rule has piled up over the decades, they have good reason to complain.
But here’s an interesting observation: Regulations written by the Obama administration operated under something like a power law. The biggest regulatory costs came from a few regulations...
“The regulatory world is top-heavy, where a majority of costs and benefits are concentrated in three or four measures,” explained AAF’s Sam Bakins.
Regulations with massive burdens include the FCC’s Open Internet Order that converted the internet into a publicly utility, the (stayed) Waters of the United States rule that would give EPA authority over how land is used over large portions of the country, and the (also stayed) Clean Power Plan that would wipe out affordable coal-fueled power plants.
Businesses—especially small businesses-- have had to cope with these costly rules and know full well they hold back investment, job creation, and economic growth. To read the article in its entirety, click here.
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Pan Am's Boeing 314 Clipper, its "one-class" luxury aircraft, among the largest built up to that point, completes the first commercial flight across the Pacific Ocean, landing in Hong Kong. Although it looked like a flying boat, the Clipper raised the bar for comfortable air travel, the quality of which has rarely been matched. For more info on the history of the Boeing 314 Clipper, check out
this blog post
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27,397,260
The number of business cards that are printed every day.
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Contact Us
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
630 Market Street
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone: 740.282.6226
Fax: 740.282.6285
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