Communicating, Collaborating & Community Sustainability Through COVID-19 Page 14 Emergency Loan Support Member Assistance Restaurants Page 18 Page 22 Cultivating growth and prosperity Cultivating growth and prosperity MARY BETH SEWALD PRESIDENT & CEO e hope this issue of the Business • Updates on social media about members that are Voice finds you and your loved ones open for business, especially restaurants that are W healthy and safe. While Nevada, along doing curbside pickup and delivery with the rest of the world, is taking extraordinary precautions to curtail the escalation of Coronavirus cases, the impact of Our website, VegasChamber.com, is updated daily self distancing and mandated business closures are with the latest business information. 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Together, we will get through this tough, but • Teleconferences with experts sharing the latest temporary time, and work to bring back our thriving information on Small Business Administration economy. Emergency Disaster Loans, assistance offered Please reach out to the Vegas Chamber if there is through the federal stimulus package, and options anything we can do for you. available through local banks • Information on how to comply with special regulations put in place by the federal government for Coronavirus including employee sick leave, Family Medical Leave Act, and payroll protection. 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Table of Contents APRIL 2020 079 From The Darkness We Will Rise 7 Welcome New Members 8 Member News 9 Leading by example: Las Vegas resorts show outpouring of community support 10 13 14 Vegas Chamber's Executive Women's Council marks one-year anniversary 13 Communicating, Collaborating & Community Sustainability Through COVID-19 14 Coronavirus Emergency Loans 18 Member Restaurants 25 Open For You 22 Chamber News 25 Local Government Response to COVID-19 Relating to Businesses 26 What's Virtually Happening 27 Leadership Las Vegas 18 29 Applications Open – Deadline Extended to May 28 Ribbon Cuttings 29 Vegas Chamber: Meet Your Future 30 Board of Trustee Spotlights 31 Avoiding Emotional Investing 32 30 32 VEGAS CHAMBER APRIL 2020 BUSINESS VOICE 5 A Positive Outlook To Appreciate Las Vegas’ Sports Future, Look to the Past Southern Nevada is in the midst of a major sports revolution. Golden Knights, the national champion UNLV Runnin’ Rebels With the Las Vegas Raiders moving into Allegiant Stadium and the National Finals Rodeo. later this year, 2020 will mark a milestone in the regional sports landscape that began its transformation with the While the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame celebrates arrival of the Vegas Golden Knights just three years ago. the past, it also has an eye toward the future. The organization Those headliners of professional sports are joined by the awards six $2,500 scholarships to graduating high school Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association, seniors each year, and it regularly supports initiatives that the Lights of the United Soccer League and the National enhance youth sports throughout Southern Nevada. The Basketball Association’s Summer League, along with many Hall of Fame’s tagline is “Where would you be without sports high-profile collegiate and high school events spanning a in your life?” For those of us who grew up swinging a bat or number of sports. shooting a ball, the effect of sports is indelible, as it helped teach us the values of life through the spirit of competition, This rapid evolution of Southern Nevada’s sports scene did and the Hall of Fame is committed to that proposition for the not happen in a vacuum. While the region has not had a generations of today and tomorrow. major league franchise until recently, longtime residents will recall a rich history of sports at all levels: a history that was Southern Nevada wouldn’t be what it is today without sports. shaped by the local kids who made it big, the leaders who That history helped lay the foundation for developments in cultivated leagues and led teams, the benefactors whose the past few years that have elevated the region’s sporting support helped dreams become reality and the athletes and events who became synonymous with Las Vegas.