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Vol. 19, No. 20
February 1, 2023
Ronan Council pg. 5
Sports pg. 14
PORTER COUNTS / VALLEY JOURNAL
Polson Chamber recognizes citizen, business leaders By Taylor Davison / Valley Journal
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POLSON — The Polson Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards banquet on Jan. 28 at the KwaTaqNuk Resort to celebrate local businesses and members of the community. This year’s event, “Moonlight Over Polson, a Roaring Good Time,” encouraged attendees to dress up and enjoy a 1920s themed evening. According to Chamber President Louis Cross, the annual banquets have been
going on since before he joined the board in early 2010 and have always had a theme to help add extra entertainment to the evening. “The Chamber Banquet is a time that we can recognize our members through a dinner, we can all network and get together and see each other,” Cross commented. “Everybody is running and working all the time, (so) this is a chance where we can all be together as a community. It’s also a chance for the chamber itself to recognize businesses and people for different things throughout
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the community.” Those who receive awards at the banquet are all nominated by the public rather than the Chamber board, ensuring people are recognized by their peers for their involvement in the community. The nomination process begins about a month prior to the banquet with emails sent out by the Chamber to ask for nominees, a process they keep up for the month to ensure as many nominations are received as possible before taking them in
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