Co-hosted by Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce member’s Stephen Sedlak (Schmale Insurance Agency, Inc.) and Erik Huber (BOS Metro East Banking Center) to help highlight, promote and enlighten people, businesses, and community events in the Greater Belleville Area. Ep 21, 39 minutes: In this episode we sit down with Scott Schmelzel and Sean Martin of Big Daddy’s 618 and discuss: – How Big Daddy’s 618 helped start the transformation of restaurants and bars to downtown Belleville– How the Belleville Main Street Committee is working to continue the success of all the business on main street– How all the bars, restaurants and retail establishments downtown Belleville work together to promote each other– How downtown Belleville has become a hot spot for class reunions including to 20 year class reunion of the 2002 Althoff class this weekend…
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Co-hosted by Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce member’s Stephen Sedlak (Schmale Insurance Agency, Inc.) and Erik Huber (BOS Metro East Banking Center) to help highlight, promote and enlighten people, businesses, and community events in the Greater Belleville Area. Ep 20, 25 minutes: In this episode we discuss the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) with Cheryl Brunsmann of St. Clair County Health Dept. and discuss: How her retirement lasted just a little longer than Tom Brady’s, what the Medical Reserve Corps is how to get involved with the MRC, the importance that the MRC plays in the community, how the MRC was deployed during COVID and much more YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/HsLSHjKBd-I ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 SPOTIFY: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/belleville-chamber GOOGLE: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82NjJhYmRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
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Co-hosted by Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce member’s Stephen Sedlak (Schmale Insurance Agency, Inc.) and Erik Huber (BOS Metro East Banking Center) to help highlight, promote and enlighten people, businesses, and community events in the Greater Belleville Area. Ep 19, 25 minutes: The Positive Effects of Teen Court. In this episode we sit down Rolanda Finch and how she started having birthday parties for kids in shelters, how that transpired into starting the organization, the joy people get from the parties, where the currently host the parties, the corporate partners they have, how people can get involved and more. WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/UM5rWLRZKqA ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 SPOTIFY: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/belleville-chamber GOOGLE: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82NjJhYmRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
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Co-hosted by Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce member’s Stephen Sedlak (Schmale Insurance Agency, Inc.) and Erik Huber (BOS Metro East Banking Center) to help highlight, promote and enlighten people, businesses, and community events in the Greater Belleville Area. Ep 18, 29 minutes: The Positive Effects of Teen Court. In this episode we sit down the Honorable Judge Annette Eckert and discuss the positive effects that the Teen Court has provided including the concept and development of it, the incredible % of people who don’t have a second offense, the impact it is having on the volunteers, the impact and outreach it is having on the student peer jury and more. WATCH ON YOUTUBE: ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7oGyG3SX8Lz3BZTPDsZprr ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/belleville-chamber GOOGLE: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82NjJhYmRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Episodes will be released on the first and third Wednesday of every month. You can find these…
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Co-hosted by Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce member’s Stephen Sedlak (Schmale Insurance Agency, Inc.) and Erik Huber (BOS Metro East Banking Center) to help highlight, promote and enlighten people, businesses, and community events in the Greater Belleville Area. Ep 17, 32 minutes: Going all in on Downtown Belleville with Andria Powell. In this episode we discuss: Andria’s boutique shop Circa, her newest venture in downtown Belleville: Belle city Fitness Collaboration, why she believes in Belleville, and what makes downtown so special compared to other towns. WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/g2I61UNlMtU ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 SPOTIFY: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/growing-belleville-thru-community-chats/id1579571466 ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/belleville-chamber GOOGLE: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82NjJhYmRhYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Episodes will be released on the first and third Tuesday of every month. You can find these on the Chamber’s website under Publications.
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