The Parkland Chamber of Commerce held its first lunch series event of the year this afternoon, highlighted by a presentation by Jordan Pernarowski from MNP Dauphin. Pernarowski's presentation was about digital incentive programs and a subsidy for employers to help with the increases to minimum wage.
Chamber Executive Director Stephen Chychota says it's great to have the Lunch Series back for another year.
"Amazing to have a room full of people back together for an interesting topic and some networking, and a really great lunch. The first one is always fun, it's nice to get this thing rocking a rolling early out of the gate, kind of kicking off the new year."
Today's event also saw the return of remote locations for chamber events, with Community Futures in Grandview serving as a satellite location. Chychota says they know that people aren't always able to make it to events during the day, and they want to make it possible for everyone who wants to join, to be a part of the event.
"It's a little unrealistic to expect that everybody would come to Dauphin for a lunch presentation. They're small business owners, even the ones in Dauphin, it's tough to get away from the office, or your small business, you might be the only employee, and you can't really shut things down."
The Chamber also has an online option available for anyone that wants to see the presentation but isn't able to attend either location in person.
City of Dauphin Economic Development Manager Martijn van Luijn also gave a presentation at the event about the City's upcoming new tourism campaign, and we'll have more information about that campaign in a story on Friday.
