News from the Greater Chapin Chamber of Commerce……November 12, 2009
The Awards Gala is next Friday night!!! Make your reservations today!
Dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions, and libations with your friends from throughout the Chapin area….It’s going to be fun!
Some items to be auctioned in the live auction are:
A weekend on Hilton Head Island
Grill
Monthly delivery of Flowers for a year
Flat screen TV
New Year’s Eve Party Package at the Hilton Garden Inn
Signed Clemson and USC footballs
Friday, November 20th, 6:30 p.m.
Columbia Conference Center
169 Laurelhurst Avenue
(Off Fernandina Road)
$35 per person
THANK YOU TO OUR GROWING LIST OF SPONSORS…
AT&T
Caughman-Harman Funeral Homes
Russell & Jeffcoat Realtors
Ellett Brothers
Lexington Medical Center
Stokes-Trainor Chevrolet-Pontiac-Cadillac-Buick-GMC
General Information Services
Southeastern Insurance Consultants
Carolina First Bank
Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative
MW Group Insurance
Hybrid Engineering
First Community Bank
In this newsletter……
* Reserve the Chamber for your holiday party.
* New Member Spotlight: Tec Support Group
* Come to ‘Potters of Chapin’ Sale November 27-29
* Lexington County's Green Business Certification Program
* Reserve Your Smoked Ham or Turkey for the Holidays. See attachment.
Need a place for your Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Eve parties? Contact the Greater Chapin Chamber at 345-1100.
NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: TEC SUPPORT GROUP comes to your business providing Reliable, Convenient Computer & Networking Service and Repair. Whether you need us to handle all of your IT services or just help with a special project or emergency repair, we’re here for you! Whether your company is large or small, we help you reduce your IT costs while improving the performance of your technology. We can move and set up networks during relocation. We have an excellent reputation with over 14 years of serving small business and the medical community.
NEWS: We’ve partnered with the UPS Store to provide a convenient computer and laptop drop-off site. We guarantee a 72 hour turn-around and offer a free diagnostics where we will check the health of your computer without any obligation to you. Once we determine the problem with your computer we will contact you with a quote. Our prices are extremely competitive and we offer onsite service options. Please feel free to contact us locally at 803-454-2467 or schedule onsite service at 866-742-8500.
THE POTTERS OF CHAPIN© will hold their 10th annual Christmas Pottery Sale on November 27 through November 29 at the Chapin Chamber of Commerce Building next to Chapin High School. The sale will feature a range of ceramic arts from functional food-safe, microwave-safe, dishwasher-safe dinnerware to imaginative artistic show pieces. Each of the five Potters of Chapin—Judy Cox, Katy Brown, Adrienne Chapelle, Suzanne Sievers, and Penny Burke—specialize in different aspects of the ceramic arts, and this leads to a wide variety of pieces available for the annual sale.
For the last nine years, the annual Christmas Potter Sale has been held at Crooked Creek Park pottery studio. But the growth of the sale, both in terms of the variety of pottery being displayed and the number of visitors attending, has outstripped the capacity of Crooked Creek Park. For that reason, this year’s sale will be held at the larger Chapin Chamber of Commerce building.
Judy Cox is a nationally-known potter who enjoys creating functional cups, bowls, and vases decorated with devotional passages taken from the Bible. Judy also sculpts detailed porcelain figurines such as angels that are particularly popular. Recently, Judy has moved into making wire wall hangings depicting trees and other plants decorated with raku-fired leaves—a technique that produces shimmering and particularly colorful glazes.
Katy Brown is well-known for working with a special kind of clay known as “model magic”. Model magic clay is exceptionally lightweight and is especially well-suited for making Christmas ornaments. Before she began making ceramic pottery, Katy was a water-color painter. Many of her figurines and ornaments are delicately painted and very realistic. Katy and her seven siblings all attended the University of South Carolina, and some of her most popular pieces are Christmas ornaments decorated with a variety of Gamecock motifs.
Suzanne Sievers specializes in making trays and platters decorated with plant, animal, and fish motifs. Her fishplates and fishbowls are perfect for party appetizers such as shrimp, chips, crackers, and dips. More recently, Suzanne has begun making platters decorated with a variety of dragons—some cute and cuddly, and others fierce and fiery. Like all the Potters of Chapin, Suzanne will make functional pottery such as matched mixing bowls to the specifications of individual cooks, which is a great way to personalize any kitchen.
While functional pottery that can be used daily in the home is important, the clay arts are also a medium for personal artistic expression. When Penny Burke begins to make a piece such as a hand-built platter she says “I simply begin by visualizing a desired shape, folding and pressing in ways suggested by the feel of the clay. The marks and fingerprints, which remain on the piece, tell a story of that day’s practice. The clay is what tells me when the piece is ready.” Penny’s particular interest is in making functional pieces with an outdoorsy, natural feel.
Adrienne Chapelle, who is also an accomplished cook, makes casserole dishes and pie pans designed to produce pre-selected food portions. She says “as my kids have grown up and headed off to college—especially the boys—my casseroles, quiches, and pie pans don’t need to be as large as they used to be. If you’re a potter, that’s no problem. You just make the size you need.” One of Adrienne’s favorite things to do is create matched sets dinnerware—plates, coffee-tea cups, salad bowls, and soup bowls—to the specifications of individual clients.
The art of ceramic pottery has always served the dual human need for functionality and beauty. People need cups and bowls and plates for everyday use, and these can easily be bought at any department store. But there is something special about these every-day articles when they have been formed, decorated and fired by local skilled artisans. This is what will be on display during the Potter’s of Chapin Annual Christmas sale.
GROOVY BEANS has extended their hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday until 6:00pm to accommodate customers for after school!
Come in and try our new Fall Flavors and Study, Play Games, or just Relax!
LEXINGTON COUNTY'S GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Free Seminar on November 20, 2009, from 10 am - 12:30 pm, at Lexington Medical Center Auditorium, Medical Park 1, in West Columbia (RSVP required by November 13). The program recognizes green business steps in four environmental areas: waste reduction/recycling, energy efficiency, water quality, and air quality. For more information or to RSVP, please call Synithia Williams (Environmental Coordinator, Public Works Stormwater Division) at 803-785-8634 or email swilliams@lex-co.com.
REMINDERS
CHAPIN WOMAN'S CLUB PECAN SALE $8.00
Halves (1 pound) Pieces (1 pound)
The CWC supports Meals on Wheels, The HUB, We Care and many other charities, scholarships to CHS graduates!
Kaye Gerrald 803-920-8534 kgerrald@sc.rr.com
ROTARY CLUB, NEWBERRY HOSTING COACH BOONE FROM “REMEMBER THE TITANS”
Coach Boone of the movie "Remember the Titans" who was played by Denzel Washington as our Guest speaker along with Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass for our 30th annual Rotary Club of Newberry Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday, November 17 at 7 am. For further details, call 803-276-8888. Place: The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 1515 Boundary Street, Newberry. $7 per person.
NOVEMBER 17 LAKE MURRAY ASSOCIATION MEETING
The Lake Murray Association quarterly public meeting will be held at Macedonia Lutheran Church, Prosperity. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.
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