APRIL 2014 Letter to the Membership NEW MEMBER PROFILES 2014 Michael R. May, Chair, Board of Directors OFFICERS & RIBBON CUTTINGS The Chamber Welcomes Ports of New York Michal May, Ports of New Yo rk is a unique winery Esq., Chair and tasting room in Ithaca that marries Levene, Gouldin & old and new worlds. Visit their website Thompson, LLP and you learn that it is “a scion of La Anthony Hopson, Maison Bouché founded in 1919, France.” Chair Elect Visit their location at 815 Taber Street, APRIL 2014 Ithaca, on the Cayuga Lake Inlet in David Hall, Have you noticed how often the Ithaca Ithaca’s west end, and you see a pair of Past Chair area ends up on a Top 10 list? The 2013 turn-of-the-century shotgun homes that National Book Auctions Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce have been creatively remodeled to involve wine lovers in the history of winemaking and the tastes of the region. Mary Beth Bunge, annual report provides a sampling. Vice Chair, No. 1 Smartest City in America (Venture First opened in May, 2011, Ports of New Yo rk has been undergoing Membership beat On-line), No. 1 Best College Town expansion and remodeling ever since. Owner and winemaker Frédéric Alternatives Federal in America (Business Insider’s Top 10 Bouché has done most of the work himself using salvaged architectural Credit Union Best College Towns in America and elements. A lifelong artist and winemaker, Bouché is a third generation Homeinsurance.com), No. 4 Ten Most David Makar, descendant of French wine makers. His family ran La Maison Bouché Livable Cities (MSN Real Estate News), and Vice Chair, in Bordeaux and Normandy, France between 1919 and the 1980s. No. 8 in Ten Great Places To Live (Kiplinger’s Business Development Ports of New Yo rk is the maker of both red and white fortified wines Referral Institute Ithaca Personal Finance Magazine). (A.K.A. “port” wines) that Bouché calls Meleau Specialty Wines, The report sets forth many other similar sourced locally from Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars grapes and Kara Taylor, rankings. There is a pretty good chance that Vice Chair brandy from Finger Lakes Distilling or Myer Farm Distillers. In keeping our area is in the Top 10 of being named to with the local theme, Bouché and wine consultant Harvey Reissig Community Relations Top 10 lists. M&T Bank produce New Yo rk Wine Samplers, sets of small bottles of the best Why is that? wines of each year from across the region. Grace Chiang, Could it be the natural beauty in and Treasurer around Ithaca? Take a look at the newly Ports of New Yo rk Frédéric Bouché Chiang | O’Brien released travel guide for Ithaca and Tompkins 815 Taber St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Architects County. This year’s revamped guide centers (607) 220-6317 | www.portsofnewyork.com Dan Governanti, on our beloved waterfalls. Thumbing through Tel: (607) 275-5710 | envisagesystems.com Assistant Treasurer the guide you get the feeling that we live in a Kendal at Ithaca paradise of sorts. Maybe it is the restaurants in our area. Mitsuba Hibachi Sushi Restaurant Joins Their variety and quality are impressive. the Chamber STAFF We should make the Top 10 List of “Dining out experiences where you are pleasantly Mitsuba has already built its reputation in New Jean McPheeters, surprised by the delicious taste of ingredients Yo rk on serving quality hibachi and sushi at an President that you have never before heard of, much affordable price. The restaurant is a Utica-based, less trusted.” family-owned chain opened by Eric Jiang, with Marilyn Mazza, How about all the other attractions? The other locations in New Hartford, Rome, and a Offi ce Manager Cayuga Waterfront Trail (spearheaded by the fourth planned in Fairmount, NY. Anissa Sanford, Chamber), our civic minded businesses (most The Ithaca location is next to Applebee’s in the Business Manager of which are Chamber members and many Tops Plaza on North Triphammer Road. An “unforgettable dining Kevin Morrin, of which provide unique retail experiences), experience” at Mitsuba is characterized by communal tables and knife- Director of Membership and our institutions of higher education all wielding, joke-telling chefs at teppanyaki griddles, a style popularized by and Public Relations help to boost our ranking. the Benihana restaurants in New Yo rk City in the 1960s. Then again, it could be the people. Their Ryan McCune, The restaurant offers an extensive lunch and dinner menu that includes variety, intelligence, and caring nature are Membership Account sushi bar items, hand rolled maki, temaki, teriyaki, udon, tempura, soba, truly unique. One size does not fi t all in Executive pad thai, hibachi entrees or side orders, plus many signature dishes, Tompkins County. There should be a Top 10 Patti Witten combination entrees, a kid’s menu and a generous salad bar. Lunch is List for that. Our area would surely make the Administrative Assistant served Monday-Friday 11:30-3:30pm; and Saturday 12:00pm-3:30pm. Top 3. Dinner hours are Monday-Thursday 3:30-10:00pm; Friday-Saturday Awhile back, I was at a Chamber of 3:30-11:00pm; and Sunday 12:00pm-9:30pm. Commerce Board Meeting when a report The Tompkins County Mitsuba Hibachi Sushi Restaurant Chamber of Commerce was given detailing many of the wonderful will not be responsible for tourist attractions in our county and all that Eric Jiang errors or omissions. The the Convention and Visitors Bureau was 2300 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 Chamber welcomes letters doing to attract visitors. I leaned over to the (607) 319-0760 | mitsubasushi.com and guest opinions. person next to me and whispered, “I wish I Send letters to Tompkins didn’t live here so I could visit sometime.” County Chamber of Let’s not forget what visitors to our area Chemung Canal Trust Company Opens on Commerce, 904 East already know. Tompkins County’s natural The Commons Shore Drive, Ithaca, NY beauty, restaurants, other attractions, and 14850 or email them to people cause it to rank highly on virtually Chemung Canal Trust patti@tompkinschamber. every Top 10 list out there. As winter gives Company held a ribbon org. Submissions way to spring, get out and rediscover for cutting on Feb. 19, 2014, must be received by to celebrate the opening the 20th of the month yourself why we are in the Top 10. of a branch on The Ithaca prior to publication. The Tompkins County New Members Commons in the former Chamber of Commerce Bank of America location. Glenn Shepard Specialty Trophy and Pictured from left to right reserves the right to edit Seminars, Inc. Awards submissions. Cindy Shepard Vicki Best are: Margo Stone, Client PO Box 210559, 62 W. Main St., Service Representative; Nashville, TN 37221 Dryden, NY 13053 Kevin Morrin, Chamber of Commerce Director of Membership The ChamberGram is an (615) 353-7125 | (607) 844-8810 | Services and Public Relations; Svante Myrick, Mayor, City of advertising supplement www.GlennShepard.com drydenspecialtytrophy.com Ithaca; Mark Kenjerska, Vice President/Branch Manager; Lou Education and Training to . Trophies & Plaques DiFabio, Executive Vice President Retail banking; Joseph Kane, Advertising in the Renaissance OB/GYN Client Service Representative; Zoran Smiljanic, Assistant Vice Mary Tracy ChamberGram is sold President/Branch Manager; Tavis McKeon, Vice President, by The Ithaca Journal. 103 N. 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On-the-Job Training Grants Available Jean McPheeters Retirement Reception, The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce has been awarded the second-year renewal May 8 at The Hangar contract from the New Yo rk State Department of Labor to continue offering On-the-Job Training (OJT) grants to businesses and organizations in our community. OJT grants of After 14 years of service as president of the about $3,200 will be available to businesses that are either hiring a new employee or promoting Chamber, Jean McPheeters is retiring, and the a current employee to a new position. The grant will be used to provide the employee with the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Board additional training needed in order to fulfill the increased job responsibilities. Information of Directors and Staff will honor her at a reception and Forms are available online. See the “Resources” section of www.tompkinschamber.org, or on May 8, 2014, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, at contact Kathy May at [email protected], (607) 351-5293. The in Ithaca. Catering will be provided by The Heights Café. Bottled water and UVANY Entrepreneurship Event, beer and wine cash bar provided by The Hangar Theater. The cost to attend is $25 per person, with April 8, 2014 a portion of the proceeds going to the United Way Upstate Venture Association of New Yo rk (UVANY) will host an entrepreneurship event and The Cayuga Waterfront Trail Foundation. on April 8, 2014, 3:45pm, ending at 8:00pm at Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd., Ithaca, Register Online at www.tompkinschamber.org, or with speaker Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani, and student entrepreneur teams from call the Chamber at 607-273-7080, by May 1, 2014. Central New Yo rk colleges and universities. The event is expected to draw approximately 400 students, entrepreneurs, established businesses, investors and service providers from all Community Coalition over New Yo rk State. Register online at http://conta.cc/1foqbGy. For more information, contact Upstate Venture Association of New Yo rk, Inc., 518-320-2746, [email protected]. for Healthy Youth Partners with Cornell Entrepreneurship Celebration Law Enforcement, Youth, and Businesses Conference, April 10-11, 2014 Community Coalition for Healthy Yo uth (CCHY), based at Tompkins Join more than 1,000 alumni, students, faculty, and staff for two days of on-campus events County Yo uth Services, has been awarded a federal Sobering Truth on including symposia on a wide range of topics: eLab Demo Day, BIG Idea Competition and Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act Grant to aid in continuing Cornell Venture Challenge fi nals, Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, Student Business of efforts tove gi Tompkins County youth a safe and healthy path towards the Year, Networking opportunities, and much more. Entrepreneurship@Cornell (E@C) adulthood. Since businesses can play a pivotal role in preventing underage is a university-wide program office that works directly with Cornell schools, colleges, alcohol use, CCHY is looking to partner with businesses in Tompkins and organizations to help create and promote entrepreneurial culture and community at County. Please contact Meghan Lyons ([email protected] or . Visit the Entrepreneurship@Cornell web site to learn more. For more 607-274-5310) at Tompkins County Yo uth Services if your business is information, email [email protected], or call 607-255-1576. interested in receiving free training and support. Members News The Tompkins County Chamber

Cornell University President David J. Skorton has been named the next Advantage Program secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research A free member benefit brought to complex. A seasoned administrator, board-certified cardiologist, biomedical you by CFCU Community Credit researcher, musician and advocate for the arts and humanities, Skorton became Union. Create a special deal or offer Cornell’s president July 1, 2006. He holds faculty appointments as professor in for your business, and accept CFCU the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College Chamber Advantage Certificates in New Yo rk City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering from consumers. Sign up at www. on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. Before coming to Cornell, he was president of the cfcuchamberadvantage.com. For University of Iowa for three years and a faculty member at Iowa for 26 years. more information call the Chamber at 607-273-7080. Skorton will continue the duties and activities of his office at Cornell through June 30, 2015, and then relocate to Washington, D.C. www.cornell.edu Chamber Travel: Incredible India The Finger Lakes Land Trust announced in March that it had achieved its goal of raising $5 million to support the protection and stewardship of some of The Chamber’s next travel destination is Incredible India, September the Finger Lakes region’s most significant landscapes. Funds were contributed 15 - 23, 2014, a 9-day tour of Dehli, Jaipur, and Agra with deluxe hotel through the Shoreline to Summit capital campaign; a pledge of a $100,000 accommodations, exciting attractions and a great price: $2470 ($2270 for challenge grant by an anonymous family in October hastened the completion. Chamber members/retirees and their immediate family). This includes Campaign fundraising was driven by a volunteer committee chaired by Ithaca round trip airfare, round trip airport shuttle Ithaca/JFK; deluxe hotel philanthropist Percy Browning. www.fllt.org accommodations; attractions entrance fees and much more. The deadline With grants received from Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) and Friends to register is June 6, 2014. Download/view the registration form and of the Library, the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County 4-H Yo uth itinerary at www.tompkinschamber.org , or call the Chamber at (607) 273- Development Program offers a volunteer mentor opportunity that will change 7080. your life and make a positive impact in a young person’s life. It’s an enriching experience for both the adult mentor and the student. Mentorship requires 3 Finger Lakes Pay It Forward: The Frame hours per week. Be a 1-on-1 mentor with a student who may need additional support in school, or, consider serving on the Advisory Board — meet once a Shop and CAP Workshop Grants month, with email and phone work between meetings. Some experience with youth is helpful. In-depth training and on-going support are provided; training Each year, the Community Arts starts in late August, 2014. Contact Susie Kossack, Program Coordinator, at 607- Partnership (CAP) offers a series of 277-1236, or 607-275-6250, email [email protected]. ccetompkins.org workshops on topics geared to help artists in our community to be more successful. Paul J. Tatar, Owner of Loon-A-Sea Charter Service, has been recognized for The Frame Shop in Ithaca will offer 10 excellence in sports fi shing tourism by World Wide Branding’s Who’s Who in scholarships in 2014 which will cover America. Mr. Tatar has 18 years of experience in tourism, including 14 years the cost of a CAP workshop for an artist as the owner of Loon-A-Sea Charter Service. He is a member of the NYS who feels that the workshop fee is cost Governor’s Committee for Sportsfishing Tourism. Loon-A-Sea Charter Service prohibitive. For 58 years, The Frame Shop offers information about activities such as fi shing and winery tours in the Finger has been providing personalized, quality Lakes region. Contact Loon-A-Sea Charter Service, telephone 607-387-5474. framing. They are located at 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca (www.theframeshopithaca.com). To learn more about CAP Ithaca is Gorges and More workshops, visit www.artspartner.org. Finger Lakes Pay It Forward is a feature of the Chamber Gram that The full economic impact of New Yo rk grapes, grape juice, and wine in 2012 was $4.8 profiles a business orga or nization that donates its “time, talent and billion for New Yo rk State, according to a new study conducted by Stonebridge Research treasure” to their clients and to the community. To submit your business or Group of Napa Valley for the New Yo rk Wine & Grape Foundation. The study updates organization for consideration, please email [email protected]. two previous ones based on 2008 data and 2005 data and refl ects the strong, accelerating growth of the New Yo rk grape and wine industry. The $4.8 billion fi gure represents a 27% increase over the $3.76 billion in 2008 and 53% spike over the $3.14 billion in 2005. www. Save the Dates newyorkwines.org USA Today’s Feb. 2 online photo tour of ‘The Most Beautiful Places in America’ had 40 Details and more at tompkinschamber.org photos of New Yo rk, including one of Cornell University, one of Taughannock Falls State Wed April 9 April 2014 Business After Hours with Fingerlakes Park and one of Cayuga Lake. www.usatoday.com Ithaca Farm to Fork: The mission of IthacaFork.com is to promote culinary and agri- Technology Group, 5-7pm tourism. The site features listing of local farms, restaurants that source locally, and lodging Thu April 17 April 2014 Networking@Noon at Buffalo Wild packages that allow visitors to get up close and personal to a local culinary experience. Wings (Chamber members only), 12 noon The IthacaFork.com website will have an active marketing campaign from March-April 2014. Google Display Network banners will be used, and a contest for an overnight stay Thu May 8 Jean McPheeters Retirement Reception at The plus dinner for two will be offered. Markets include Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Hangar Theatre, 5:30pm Rochester. To participate, email [email protected].

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