02 Broadcaster Press April 24, 2012 www.broadcasteronline.com CHAMBER CHAT Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce & Development Company 116 Market Street, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 605-624-5571 vcdc@vermillionchamber.com www.vermillionchamber.com Chamber Business: Business After Hours cohosted by Davis Design and Bank of the West, 15 E. Main St., is Wednesday, April 25, from 5:30-7 p.m. Please join us to make new contacts, socialize and find out what Davis Design and Bank of the West have to offer! Appetizers and refreshments will be served. The Vermillion Area Chamber and Development Company (VCDC) Annual Golf Social is Tuesday, June 26! The 4-Person Best Ball Scramble Golf Tournament will begin with team sign-in at The Bluffs Golf Course at 11:45 a.m., followed by team pictures. The open format shotgun start will begin at 1 p.m. The buffet dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the golf awards and door prizes. Please call the VCDC office at 624-5571 or e-mail annb@vermillionchamber.co m to register your team, be a hole sponsor or donate a pin or door prize. Please register soon! Business After Hours: Are you looking for an ANN BREITAG opportunity to showcase your business and network with your peers? Sign up to host a Business After Hours event! These events generally run from 5-7 p.m. on a weeknight and the hosting business provides hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. If interested, contact Ann at: annb@vermillionchamber.co m or at 624-5571. Announcements: • USD Libraries are displaying a series of artistic exhibitions exploring skateboard designs, graphic novels and tapestries now through May 4. Corroborations 2012, which pairs visual arts students with poetry majors, is in the I.D. Weeks Library secondfloor exhibition cases; tapestry weavings by awardwinning South Dakota tapestry artist Grete Bodogaard are in the USD Libraries Gallery in the Academic Commons; Getting Graphic by USD Education Librarian Abby Moore is an exhibit of graphic novels on the west side of the second floor of the University Libraries Gallery; SkateCreate is an exhibition of skateboard designs created by students in the first-year seminar class. It’s featured in the student gallery on the west side of the second floor. • Show your team spirit! The Vermillion Baseball Association is looking for local sponsors to help defray the cost of the game for young players and families. Your business will be top of mind on the field when you choose one of the following sponsorship levels: Web sponsor: $75 – Your business logo/link on website (vermillionbaseball.org); Team sponsor: $150 – Your business logo on team uniforms; Field sponsor: $225 - 2’x5’ Your business logo on a double sided banner on Barstow Field; League sponsor: $300 – All of the above. Contact Bill Saunders at willygsaunders@gmail.com for more information. Community Calendar: TUESDAY, APRIL 24 • Vermillion Rotary Club Meeting from 12-1 City approves Shakespeare Festival requests By Travis Gulbrandson travis.gulbrandson@plaintalk.net The Vermillion City Council approved two motions in preparation for the first annual South Dakota Shakespeare Festival at its regular meeting Monday night. The first of these was a permit to exceed permissible sound levels by no more than 50 percent in the band shell area of Prentis Park June 5-10. “The actual festival is on June 8-11, but they’ll be doing some rehearsals (starting) on the fifth with the testing of the sound equipment and such,” explained finance officer Mike Carlson. The increased sound level permit will cover 6 to 10 p.m. on all of the affected days. The council also approved a motion to close east Main Street from Plum Street to Sycamore Street the night of the performances, so the sound of passing vehicles will not interfere with the production. The streets will be closed Jensen Construction • All Concrete Work • Foundation Repair • Stucco Repair • Demolition & Dirt Work from 7 to 9:30 p.m. – the approximate length of the show – each production night. According to Assistant City Manager Andy Colvin, a request also was submitted to remove parking on east Main Street along Prentis Park from 5 to 9:30 p.m., as well. 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Community Showcase from 4-6:30 p.m. Receive information on preschool services and information for preschool age children. • Book Club discussion on “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese will be held from 6-8 p.m. in the Community Room of the Vermillion Public Library. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk. Norma Wilson, USD professor emeritus, and Harry Freeman, USD professor, will be facilitating this discussion. • The Clay County Historical Society will host a potluck at 6:05 at the Austin-Whittemore House. At 7 p.m. Joe Hoffman’s “Antique Appraiser Show” will be presented followed by the annual meeting. • Evening Open Dress Rehearsal: The USD Honors Gamelan Class joins USD’s Tatag Gamelan Ensemble for the dress rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. at the National Music Museum, corner of Clark and Yale streets on USD campus. Open to the public at no charge. 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