Annual Chamber Steak and Chicken Roast July 22 at Jilbert's Winery. Friends and neighbors welcome. Details here.

Frog Jump Festival is August 10.

Valley City Street Fair begins August 22.

Business Awards
Criteria and nomination form on line for the Fifth Annual Medina County Business Awards. Deadline is August 15! Do you know a business worthy of nominating?

And, speaking of Business Awards, Chamber Member F.I.T. International just received one more. Congratulations!

Engagement. Seems that Chamber Member and Valley City Postmaster Morena Davis just got engaged in late May! Congratulations to Morena and the lucky guy.

And do you know that the Buckeye Softball field is now named Mack-Kemp Field? Mack in this case is Mack Industries, a longtime Chamber member and community supporter. Barb Mack is the current voting member. And Kemp is Ray Kemp, also long time Chamber Member. Read this article in the Gazette.

Buckeye Top Scholar Program & Valley City Citizenship Award Read about the program and this years Citizenship Award winner.

Bauer Funeral Home celebrates 65 years in business. In 1943, Clyde Bauer, opened the funeral home right next to the family home, in what is still a rural country setting in Liverpool Township , away from the main activities of Valley City. For 35 years, he also operated an ambulance service until Liverpool Township’s service came into being in 1978, and his wife Mary attended to the record keeping and telephone tasks associated with the business. Bauer was a man of his time, with two female assistants working in the funeral home 24 years ago—his daughter Mary Ann and daughter-in-law, Madlyn.

The three worked together until 1989, when a stroke forced him to step down and let his children to take over.

Mary Ann and her brother Dan began working in the funeral home in their mid-teens, she playing the organ for funerals and he making ambulance runs. In 1988, with her Father’s encouragement, she became the first female licensed funeral director in Medina County.
She graduated from Cuyahoga Community college then served a two-year apprenticeship under her dad, who was very proud that both his children planned to stay on the homestead and carry on the family businesses.
Congratulations to the Bauer family for 65 years of successful business.

Congratulations to Medina County Board of Realtors:
2008 REALTOR® OF THE YEAR
Cindy Kintop, Forestwood Realty, Valley City, OH
President, Valley City Chamber of Commerce

The Purpose: Honoring of an MCBOR member who has provided outstanding service to his/her profession and his/her community.
The Criteria:
• Current MCBOR REALTOR® member
• Demonstrated a high degree of competence in a leadership role with the Medina County Board of REALTORS®
• Has served in various capacities and on various committees in the Association
• Displayed outstanding effort and/or initiative

FARMERS MARKET
Valley City's Farmers' Market will open for the season on Saturday, June 14th, and run every Saturday through October 25th, from 9:00am - 1:00pm. The market will again be at the Depot on State Route 303, at the east end of town. Vendors will offer fresh produce and berries when in season, including sweet corn. There will also be eggs, honey, maple syrup and baked goods, as well as handmade quilted table runners and quilts.
For more information or to rent a space please call Tom Neff at 330-483-3736.

BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
Read about some of the ongoing activities

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