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Bob Garrett, President & CEO
Friday, February 16, 2024
Each year your Chamber of Commerce strives to put together an Innovation Summit built around a cutting-edge theme of interest to you and a broad swath of your fellow Chamber members. This past year our focus was on Artificial Intelligence, simply AI for short. As we pulled together the Summit’s format and panelists, a theme came into focus which was: “AI and You—Perfect Together!?” That funny punctuation at the end of the theme had a purpose. As you can imagine the topic of AI had plenty of interest, lots of fuzzy understanding or misunderstanding, along with a big dose of prickly intrigue... Read more
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Bob Garrett, President & CEO
Monday, January 8, 2024
For this morning’s show: Money Matters Monday-On The Mark, we will spend a few moments recapping the economic news of 2023 with a hyper-focus on the Greater Susquehanna Valley. Then in celebration of our nation’s largest and longest running indoor agricultural exhibition, the Pennsylvania Farm Show, we will spend our remaining time on the topic of food and our local ag economy. Read more
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Bob Garrett, President & CEO
Friday, January 5, 2024
A week into the New Year and oh how wonderful it would be to bring to mind, one more time, a few of the words penned by Scotland’s National Poet, Robert Burns, which we sing (probably mostly hum) along to in Auld Land Syne. Read more
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Zach Stotter, Director of Membership & Workforce
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
The Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce and its Communications & Technology Committee will hold their Annual Innovation Summit on Friday, December 15th. Read more
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Bob Garrett, President & CEO
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
The nominations process for the board members of your Chamber of Commerce are prescribed in the By-Laws, Article V, Sections 3-5. Read more
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Bob Garrett, President/CEO
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
For today’s show: Money Matters Monday-On The Mark, we will focus on a year-end wrap up. There won’t be a call-in guest for this show, so Chamber Board Chair, Aimee Buehner of the Bowen Agency and I will interact with the show’s host, Joe McGranaghan. Read more
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Bob Garrett, GSVCC President/CEO
Thursday, October 26, 2023
It’s Medicare Open Enrollment time. So, what does that mean for you and your employees? Read more
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Jacob Dgien, PT Rehabilitation, UPMC
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
September marks National Rehabilitation Awareness Week. Rehabilitation benefits patients and makes a huge impact on their everyday lives, no matter the reason they started with a rehabilitation program. Illness, serious injuries, and surgery are common reasons, and a rehabilitation program is designed to help you recover to your fullest potential. There are several types of rehabilitation that help fit the needs of any patient needing these services. The attached health column tells readers about outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation, physical medicine, and rehabilitation psychology. Read more
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Kashif Chaudhry, M.D. Heart and Vascular Institute, UPMC
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Our hearts are amazing organs, and we can often take them for granted. They steadily pump away, rhythmically beating life into our bodies. But what happens when your heartbeat becomes irregular, erratic, or even skips a beat? These incidents are called heart palpitations, and for most people, heart palpitations are a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence. However, some may have dozens of these heart flutters a day, sometimes so intense that they are mistaken for a heart attack. The attached health column tells readers about the diagnosis and treatment of irregular heartbeat and offers advice on living with the condition. Read more
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Robert Garrett, President/CEO
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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