While display numbers down, attendance was good at 14th Community Expo

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

The num­ber of busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion tables at last Thurs­day evening’s Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce 14th Annual Cham­ber Com­mu­nity Expo was down over pre­vi­ous years; 85 tables were set up, but in some past years the high school gym­na­si­ums were filled to capac­ity with 110 tables.

Dur­ing the evening, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions pro­vided infor­ma­tion aimed at increas­ing com­mu­nity aware­ness of the many pro­grams, ser­vices, prod­ucts and resources avail­able in the Big Wal­nut com­mu­nity; and those in atten­dance received infor­ma­tion about a vari­ety of issues relat­ing to health, fit­ness, nutri­tion, safety and wellness.

Dur­ing this year’s Com­mu­nity Expo, Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School band and choral stu­dents per­formed in the aux­il­iary gym­na­sium under the direc­tion of mid­dle school music teach­ers Chris Law­less and Amy Read.

Cham­ber Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Cindy Hall said even though the num­ber of tables was down, atten­dance at the annual cham­ber event was excellent.

For infor­ma­tion about join­ing the Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce con­tact Cindy Hall at the cham­ber of com­merce office at 740–965-2860.

For infor­ma­tion about upcom­ing cham­ber events log on to the cham­ber web­site at < sunburybigwalnutchamber.com >.

Com­mu­nity busi­nesses and orga­ni­za­tions that stepped for­ward to spon­sor the 2012 Cham­ber Com­mu­nity Expo were Anthem Blue Cross Cham­ber Plan; Accel­er­ated Phys­i­cal Ther­apy; Cel­lar Lum­ber & Roof­ing Sup­ply; Cen­tu­ryLink; Coun­try View of Sun­bury; Con­sol­i­dated Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive; Delaware County Bank; Delaware County Fair; Delaware-Morrow Men­tal Health & Recov­ery Ser­vices Board; Eagle Small Busi­ness Solu­tions; For­man Real­tors, Inc. & For­man Mini-Storage; Genoa Chris­t­ian Acad­emy; Hyper­Sounds Enter­tain­ment; Mount Carmel St. Ann’s; Mount Carmel Clin­i­cal Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Spe­cial­ists; Secure Mini Stor­age; Sun­bury Urgent Care; Tup­per­ware, Becky Fichtel­man; and Grady Hospital/OhioHealth.

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