NEWS...

April 2006
Traverse City Chamber of Commerce Newsletter

Small Business Celebration 2006

Your Chamber Would Like to Congratulate the

2006 Small Business Celebration Candidates!

Please congratulate them in person by patronizing their business.

Advanced Cleaning Experts / Flood Professionals, Inc.
Annie's of Traverse City
Baskets Full of Gifts
Bon Fitte Brassiere Boutique
Brayton & Sons Excavating, Inc.
Brown Lumber Company
Chateau Chantal
Chateau Grand Traverse, LTD.
Cherryland Electric Cooperative
Conservation Resource Alliance
Critter Control, Inc.
Electro-Optics Technology, Inc.
Fawcett/Dopke Agency, Inc.
Federico's Design Jewelers
Ford Insurance
Grand Traverse Trucking
Hallmark Construction
Harmony Home Construction
Imprés Salon Spa
Mariage Roofing Co., Inc.
McMillen's Instant Framer, Inc.
Money Mailer of Grand Traverse, Inc.
AmericInn Motel & Suites (Motel TC LLC d/b/a)
Music House Museum
Nealis Engineering, Inc.
Old Town Optical
Peterson McGregor & Associates
RJG, Inc.
Spectra Real Estate
Stone House Bread
Surfaces, Inc.
Teter Orthotics and Prosthetics
TranTek Automation Corp.
Traverse City State Bank
Tri Turf
Viktor Incentives

ADDITIONAL NEWS...

Salmon migrating south - as filets
Salmon Classic catch donated for relief effort

By PATRICK SULLIVAN Record-Eagle staff writer

TRAVERSE CITY - Hundreds of pounds of salmon filets direct from Grand Traverse Bay should be on its way to Texas for Hurricane Katrina refugees. "Talk about fresh...we'll have it on the road by Tuesday or Wednesday," Capt. Kevin Clark, director of the Grand Traverse Salmon Classic, said Saturday. The fish will be filleted, packaged, and loaded onto pallets at Traverse Cold Storage and then onto a refrigerator truck from Grand Traverse Trucking, a company that makes regular runs to Texas for Sara Lee. The Grand Traverse Salmon Classic is a three-day event that takes place as salmon are staging in the bays getting ready for their run upriver when the water temperature cools, Clark said. About 260 anglers took part in the tournament. Clark said he and two or three others filet all of those fish. Typically, the fishing tournament donates fish to the Father Fred Foundation or a church and keeps a couple hundred pounds for a salmon boil for the anglers. This year, Clark said he and other captains decided to get those filets to Houston, where the American Red Cross could distribute them, possibly to the thousands in the Astrodome. - In other area relief efforts, an area U-pick flower farm owner Carolyn Faught also is doing what she can to help. She runs Omena Cut Flowers, four miles north of Sutton Bay on M-22. In past years, she has donated free flowers to teachers and classrooms because post-Labor Day business is slow and she doesn't like to see her hundreds of flowers go to waste. This year she's offering flowers to anyone who wants to pick them if they will leave a check for the American Red Cross in her money box. Signs will indicate the cost. Most are 10 stems for $3.50. She also has potted up 2000 preennial divisions for a relief effort spearheaded by the Red Cross. Plant a Shasta daisy, white phlox or pink astilbe, at $3.50 each, in memory of all who lost their lives in the tragedy. Leave a check for the value made out to the American Red Cross.