Mary Davis Honored At Annual Chamber Dinner

Last Night The Windsor-Bertie Chamber of Commerce held its annual member dinner. The highlight of this dinner is always the special award for Citizen of the Year. Dignataries on the dais (shown above) included Emily Ballance, speaker for the evening, Phil Patrick, Board President, Sharon Davis, Chamber Director, Steve Wishall, Special Events chairman, and Bob Spivey, Mayor of Windsor. As at most dinners there were the usual starting ceremonies before the award.




Phil Patrick, President of the Chamber Board (shown above) opened the ceremonies with a Welcome.




Windsor Mayor Bob Spivey (shown above) also welcomed everyone, and gave the invocation for the evening.




The Director of the Chamber, Sharon Davis introduced Mike Dacuk, Vice President of Bertie Memorial Hospital to Make the Presentation for this years Award to Mary Davis, Citizen of the Year (shown below).




There was a very good attendence this year.




Speaker for the evening was Emily Ballance, a motivational speaker (shown below) who gave an excellent presentation on "Attitude in the Workplace". It was a fun speech and included the audience in some exercises that had us drawing "smiley faces" on each others hands! Sounds corny but it was fun.




On two occassions the evening's sponsors were identified and thanked. Sponsors included: Chowan University, Embarq, Hazelgrove-Cooper Realty, Partnership for the Sounds, Southern Bank-Windsor, Camden St. Designs, Powell & Stokes, and Signs by Richard.