Thursday - April 29: The monthly Chamber-of-Commerce Luncheon was held at the Riverside Restaurant this past Thursday. Chamber President Randy Allmon presided. Invocation was offered by Paul Blevins. There was around 20 members in attendance.
Mrs. Diane Johnson, United Way of Southern Columbiana County Executive Director, was welcomed as the newest Chamber member.
Announcements made by Allmon was that Tracee Murphy will be assuming the duties of the Corresponding Secretary. Ms. Murphy is the Head Librarian at Wellsville's Carnegie Library. With Linda Surace's unfortunate broken arm the April newsletter will be tardy. Linda is recuperating nicely but decided to give up the secretary's job for the time being.
The Chamber's Board meetings will now be held the second Tuesday of the month in the Council Chambers at Wellsville Village Hall. Nothing was mentioned for the time of the meetings.
Center Pharmacy & CF Bank will co-host a Sunrise Chamber Breakfast sometime in June. More details will be announced at the May Luncheon.
Allmon announced they are thinking of returning to mailing the monthly newsletter instead of using e-mail. That move will have to be approved by the Chamber Board of Directors.
In the Mayor's Report, Joe Surace announced that the on-line internet radio type station, wkmxlive, is getting started back up. That is the station that brings the WHS Sports team broadcasting games live. Surace reported that they average 1,200 hits for the games. The station is owned and operated by Terry Brown.
Surace said they are planning regular programs such as a weekly Mayor's Corner with special guests each week. Anybody with ideas for other programs are invited to stop in and see Brown at the station located at 1245 Main St.
Surace also announced that LSW Sanitation has now opened a new office in town. That is the company that did the scoping of some of Wellsville's sewer lines recently. See our post dated 4/26/10 called "A Different View". LSW's office is located at 309 9th Street in the old McDonald School.
The new Riverside Roadhouse was named Business-of-the-Month. See our post below.
Looking like he's trying to remember what he planned to say next, Buckeye Water District Manager Al DeAngelis was this month's guest speaker. DeAngelis is pictured above and we had trouble getting a "professional" type picture.
DeAngelis gave a brief history on the water district and brought everyone up to date on the district's future plans. The district began in the 1980s when they took over the Wellsville water system. Currently they are in the process of completing Part B of the new Salineville waterline. That covers the final two miles needed to hook Salineville up to the EPA approved water district. DeAngelis remarked when that project is completed BWD will literally be supplying water from one side of the county to the other - from the Ohio River to Carroll County.
Upcoming for the district is the project to supply residents in the Frederick Heights area with a reliable source of water. Engineering for the project was given the green light at last month's BWD Board of Trustees meeting. After that they are looking at replacing Wellsville's main waterline from Hibbetts Mill on into the village. That project is "shelf ready".
In addition to Wellsville the district now serves customers in Lisbon, the Federal Prison in Elkton, the Career Center and soon will have Salineville on board. Approximately 100 new customers have signed on in the Frederick Heights area. More are expected once installation work begins. The Negley area trustees have expressed interest to be another future project. There's all that and the possibility to open all areas in between to new industry in Columbiana County. It's an exciting outlook and it all started in Wellsville.
Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 20, at DaLonzos on Main St. Special guests of honor will be the WHS Class of 2010 Top Ten Students..
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