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Celebrate Clintonville Awards Gala Was A Great Evening

Chamber and The Booster Honored Community Service

Melissa Goodrich of Colonial Candy Shoppe, Southwick, Good & Fortkamp Funeral Chapel, and community volunteer Susan Barrett of the Adena Brook Community were honored at the Chamber’s annual Celebrate Clintonville Awards Dinner.  Over 150 Chamber members, residents, and their guests attended.

The evening started with our Silent Auction. The highest bid item was Put-In_Bay Get-away Weekend include ferry passes, tickets to island attractions and rental of a house.  Mary Ann Meyers worked with Put-In-Bay vendors to secure the package.

    During the auction our honorees received special commendations from the United State Congress presented by Congresswoman Deborah Pryce, the Ohio Legislature, presented by Rep. Jim Hughes, and from Columbus City Council , presented by council members Andy Ginther and Maryellen O’Shaughnessy. 

   Following dinner our three honorees were presented awards.  Cliff Wiltshire of The Booster,  presented the “Community Volunteer of the Year” to Susan Michael Barrett for her work with the Adena Brook Community.  In her acceptance remarks, Barrett stressed the importance of volunteering and challenged the audience to give more back to the community in which the live and work. She termed Volunteerism as “dynamic and reciprocal.”

     Dinner Chair person Shari Carroll presented the 2007 “Business of the Year” award to Southwick, Good and Fortkamp.  Accepting on the behalf of the business and their employees were Bill and Becky Good and Barb Fortkamp.  Southwick, Good and Fortkamp has been part of Clintonville since 1924.   During that 83 years, the family has been part of countless Clintonville projects and organizations.  Barb Fortkamp is the fourth generation of the family to serve Clintonville.

    Lynn Genter presented Colonial Candy Shoppe Owner Melissa Goodrich with the Business Person of the Year award for her work with Shop Clintonville and the farmers market efforts.   Melissa and her family have owned the store since 1983.

Thank you to our Dinner Sponsors:

For more pictures from the Dinner go to:  Chamber Events

Student Citizen Breakfast Will Be April 24th

   The Chamber and its member businesses will honor 33 students from Clintonville area schools including, Dominion Middle School, Clintonville Academy, Calumet Christian School, Our Lady of Peace, and Immaculate Conception School on Tuesday April 24th at the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center on Sinclair Rd.  Breakfast Chair’s Sue Lusk Gleich and Joe Jackson of Keller Williams Capital Partners Realty have made a few changes for 2007.

    “In addition to our traditional certificates, we will also be giving each student  a medal to honor them for  their service to the community,” Gleich told the Chamber Notes. 

     Business sponsors will host the students and their parents at the breakfast.

     “This breakfast is an important Chamber tradition,” Jackson said. “We think it is very important to honor these students for their contributions to the community.  They are our future leaders.”

     A sponsorship reservation form is enclosed in this newsletter.  Deadline for Sponsorships is April 9, 2007.

To download Sponsor Registration Form Click HERE for pdf version

Welcome New Members

 “Your membership is enhanced by your involvement”

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Clintonville Outfitters

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All your outdoor adventure needs

Welcome to Our New Members

   The Chamber now has 365 members who are working together to promote business in Clintonville.

Have you recommended Chamber membership to a business associate?

For more new member information go to Chamber Members

McKnight Will Review New Plans for

Whetstone Rec Center at March 22 Lunch

  The newly appointed Director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, Alan McKnight will be the featured speaker at the Chamber’s March 22nd luncheon meeting at the Clintonville Woman’s Club.

    The City of Columbus with launch a nearly $5 million renovation and expansion of the 50 year old center in the next few weeks. 

    Joining Mcknight at the meeting will be Betsy Hubbard of the Whetstone Recreation Initiative committee.  The Committee is a group of local residents who have been working with the department on the plans for the new center. The WRI committee will also be launching a local fund raising effort to enhance the new rec center beyond what the City plans to spend.

    The luncheon is open to Chamber members and their guests.  Doors open at 11:15 am.  There will be a display table available for Chamber members to display information about their business and products.  Networking takes place from 11:15 until 12:00 noon and lunch is served at noon. 

     Cost of the lunch is $15 and reservations can be made by calling the Chamber office at 262-2790 or email

jnini@clintonvillechamber.com

Reservation deadline is Monday, March  19, 2007.  Make your reservation early!

Chamber Business Briefs...

   New employee, new client, expanding your business, we want to share your good news with other Chamber members.  Tell us what's happening.  Email your business brief to mailto:ernie@clintonvillechamber.com

Meeker Joins Martin Consultants   

Martin Consultants, specialists in retirement planning for small business and individuals recently announced that Ben Meeker has join the firm as a client consultant.  For more information visit their website at

www.martinconsultants.com

Columbus Locksmith Wins  “Super Service Award” for

9th Straight Year

    Frank “Keys” Reed owner of      Columbus Locksmith recently received the Angie’s List “Super Service Award” for the 9th consecutive year.  To be eligible for the award a company must maintain an “A” rating and meet other criteria.  Fewer than 5% of the companies on Angie’s List receive the award.  Congratulations Frank!

Time Warner Seeks Nominations for Teacher Awards

Deadline is  April 13

    Time Warner Cable is seeking entries for its 2007 National Teacher Awards, and the Mid-Ohio Division is distributing entry forms to encourage teachers to participate.  The long-standing program, now in its 18^th year, recognizes classroom projects that use the resources that Time Warner Cable provides to schools at no charge as a way to enhance the classroom learning experience for students and teachers.

     Eligible classroom projects will have taken place between September 1, 2006 and April 13, 2007.  For more information or to receive an entry form, visit http://www.timewarnercable.com/midohio/education/awards.html.  All entry forms are due no later than April 13, 2007.

R.J. Landis Launches New Web Site

    After more than a year of design and development, R. J. Landis Design & Construction, Inc. launched

rjlandis.com in February, 2007. The firm’s website is the most innovative and useful of all of the design/build remodeling companies in Central Ohio. The website has a vast amount of information displayed from 24 years of experience and has many features helpful to homeowners.

New Date & Venue for Annual Golf Outing

   The Chamber’s annual Golf Outing will be held on Monday, June 11, 2007.    Golf Outing Chairmen Tim Novak and Joe Weithman have secured a new and exciting venue for the event.  This year’s outing will be held at the beautiful Worthington Hills Country Club, just of S.R. 315.

    Watch for details and registration form coming in your April 2007 Newsletter next month.

New Northstar Café Treats Chamber Members

   The owners of the new Northstar Café at 4241 N. High St, Katy, Kevin, and Darren Malhame, treated Chamber members and their guests to lunch on February 26th at their beautiful new restaurant.  The event was Northstar’s “shake down cruise” for their new employees.

    At left,, Board members Linda Wiget and Jacquelyn Murphy had a tough time making a selection from the great Northstar menu. Northstar is now open with limited hours.

It's Good Business to do Business with Chamber Members Click HERE to download our February Advertising and Coupon Page!

When Processing Credit Cards Keep Your Customers Information Secure

Submitted by: Cinda Manchester, Heartland Payment Systems.,

Visa & MasterCard Cardholder Security Requirements

     When customers use their bank cards at a point of sale such as a retail location or restaurant, over the internet, on the phone, or through the mail, they want assurance that their account information is safe. The safeguarding of the card holder data is required of all merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit cardholder data including e-commerce, mail order and brick and mortar merchants.

     In 2004, Visa established their CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program) which outlined security requirements to protect cardholder data-wherever it resides-the merchant, service provider, or POS system. In September of 2006, Visa and MasterCard together incorporated an industry standard for security known as PCI (Payment Card Industry) DSS (Data Security Standard) referred to as PCI DSS standard. This standard offers a single approach to safeguarding sensitive data for all card brands. (Such as American Express and Discover who have also endorsed the standards.)

    With the establishment of the PCI Standards - What does it all mean? In too many cases many business owners are unaware of the data security requirements and as a result have security issues at the bottom of their priority list as they believe their card processor or POS system has them covered regarding any compliance issues. This is simply an assumption that can cost them their business. Further, many owners feel they are not a big company that process through the internet, or they use a terminal, so the PCI standards don't apply to them. The PCI Standard is a set of rules that requires the merchant to have a secure network to process card holder data, protect stored data, restrict access to any stored data when using systems, maintain and update anti-virus software and have firewalls and constantly monitor their data protection. In may cases a merchant who uses a terminal as opposed to a POS system may feel they don't need to apply certain measures as they are not processing through the internet nor does the terminal store data as they batch or settle all their transactions every day. However, all systems produce a printed receipt for the customer and the merchant. Would id sound familiar to say the receipts you have are stored in an unlocked file cabinet? The receipts have card holder data and the storage of them must comply with PCI standards, protect the data and restricting access to the data.

     Now that we have established what the PCI compliance means, what do you the merchant do next? First of all, this does not mean you will need to completely change everything you are doing now, but you simply must become aware of security. The following steps are a good way to start.

1. If you are using a POS System, contact your supplier and ask them if they are PCI compliant and if you have the latest updates or revisions that will keep you compliant with the PCI Standards.

2. Contact the company who processes your card transactions about PCI compliance, card data transmissions and storage. Ask them if they are compliant and how it affects you. Once again, your processor can be a valuable source of information.

3. Look at your physical store environment to see how any card holder data is stored and protected. Who has access to the data? Is it on a system or paper or a combination of both? Those little printed receipts may not be stored on a system but they also need to be protected from unauthorized personnel.

4. Go to Visa's web-site www.visa.com/cisp <http://www.visa.com/cisp>  and look at the great amount of information they have posted. You can also contact Visa via email using the following address to ask questions, askvisausa@visa.com <mailto:askvisausa@visa.com> . MasterCard's website is www.mastercard.com <http://www.mastercard.com/> .

Start to today inquiring about PCI compliance, card data transmission and storage. You are responsible for security and compliance and not knowing can be costly.

     This article is not meant to be technical nor be the definitive source of the compliance requirements, but simply help you become aware of the need for addressing the security of the transmission and storage of card holder data in your day to day business. You do not need to be fearful of the issue but simply start now to make security a priority in your business.

For more information contact Cinda Manchester, Heartland Payment Systems.

email: Cinda.Manchester@e-hps.com

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