| Oct 2 Business at Breakfast 10/02/14 |
Featuring Southern Virginia's First Youth Expo
Employers have agreed to engage nearly 5,000 seventh graders and high school students, primarily in the ninth grade, to hands-on, fun activities.
Hear from these participating employers on why they thought it was worth their time and energy to ignite these students imaginations to the region's career opportunities. |
| Date: |
October 2, 2014 |
| Time: |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM |
| Location: |
Olde Dominion Agricultural Complex
19783 US Highway 29 South, Chatham |
| Contact: |
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce: 434-836-6990 |
| EMail: |
chamber@dpchamber.org |
| Date/Time Details: |
Thursday, October 2, 2014
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
| Fees/Admission: |
There is no cost to attend, but reservations are requested. |
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| Oct 7 Woods Rogers Labor & Employment Seminar 2014 |
Achieving Balance In HR - 33rd Annual L&E Seminar (Danville)
Woods Rogers is pleased to present the topics for this year’s labor and employment seminars. We have case updates, tips and strategies for managing the toughest labor and employment issues you’ll face this year and into 2015.
Join our team of labor and employment attorneys this October for seminars presented around the state-from Roanoke to Danville, to Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Richmond. You’re sure to find a date and location that fits your schedule.
Achieve balance in all aspects of human resources and see how your solutions start with Woods Rogers.
THIS YEAR’S TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Legal Update: Recent Case Decisions and Your HR Practices
- Your Balance Sheet and Wage & Hour Issues
- ACA is HERE! Take Care of Your Employees and Your Business
- At Face Value: Verifying Employment Eligibility with the I-9 and More
- Employee Theft and Fraud: It Impacts Your Business
- Office Romance Ahead: Walking the Tightrope
- Dealing with the Government is a High Wire Act. Do you Know if You’re Considered a Federal Contractor?
- Managing an Electronic Workplace: Business Interests vs. Employee Privacy
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| Date: |
October 7, 2014 |
| Time: |
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Website: |
http://www.woodsrogers.com/33rd-annual-le-seminar-danville/ |
| Location: |
Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
150 Slayton Avenue, Danville |
| Contact: |
Woods Rogers |
| Date/Time Details: |
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
8:00 am - 12:30 pm |
| Fees/Admission: |
Single Admission - $130/person
Group Admission (3 or more) - $90/person
Click here to register |
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| Oct 8 Southside Show-Biz Trade Show VIP Reception 2014 |
Southside Show-Biz Trade Show VIP Reception & Tasting Event
"By Invitation Only"
VIP reception for exhibitors and Chamber members
'Tasting' Sponsors:
 
VIP Reception Sponsor:
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| Date: |
October 8, 2014 |
| Time: |
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
| Website: |
http://www.dpchamber.org |
| Location: |
Averett University's North Campus
707 Mount Cross Road, Danville |
| Contact: |
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce; 434-836-6990 |
| EMail: |
chamber@dpchamber.org |
| Date/Time Details: |
Wednesday, October 8
5:30 - 7:30 pm
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| Fees/Admission: |
Free to chamber members |
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| Oct 9 Southside Show-Biz Trade Show (Open to the Public) |
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| Date: |
October 9, 2014 |
| Location: |
Averett University's North Campus
707 Mount Cross Road, Danville |
| Contact: |
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce: 434-836-6990 |
| EMail: |
chamber@dpchamber.org |
| Date/Time Details: |
Thursday, October 8
3:00 - 7:00 p.m. |
| Fees/Admission: |
Open to the Public
No cost to attend |
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| Oct 21 DRF Speaker Series presents Sarah Lewis |
 Sarah Lewis is a cultural historian and a Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. She is the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, a layered, story-driven investigation of how innovation, discovery, and the creative progress are all spurred on by advantages gleaned from the improbable, the unlikely, even failure.
She has served on President Obama's Arts Policy Committee and as a Trustee of Creative Time, The CUNY Graduate Center, the Brearley School, and the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts. She has also held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London.
She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, an M. Phil from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from Yale University (expected Fall 2014). She lives in New York and Cambridge, MA.
She will be speaking on her book, The Rise:
Where do new innovations ? new ideas ? spring from? It's an enduring enigma, but, in this exquisite talk, Sarah Lewis offers a new understanding of what enables creative endeavors. What really drives iconic, transformational change on both a personal and an organizational level? From Nobel Prize?winning discoveries to new inventions to works of art, many of our creative triumphs are not achievements, but are conversions, corrections after failed attempts. Drawing on figures such as Frederick Douglass, Angela Duckworth, J. K. Rowling, and others, Lewis reveals the importance of play, grit, surrender, often ignored ideas, and the necessary experiments and follow-up attempts that lead to true breakthroughs. Smart, uplifting, and counterintuitive, this keynote will help change the way you think about creativity, innovation, and mastery: the path to success, Lewis notes, is often more surprising than we expect.
Here is a recent TED Talk that Sarah gave in Vancouver regarding how to ?Embrace the Near Win.?
http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_lewis_embrace_the_near_win |
| Date: |
October 21, 2014 |
| Time: |
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
| Website: |
http://www.dpchamber.org |
| Location: |
Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
150 Slayton Avenue, Danville |
| Contact: |
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce; 434-836-6990 |
| EMail: |
chamber@dpchamber.org |
| Date/Time Details: |
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
7:30 a.m. |
| Fees/Admission: |
There is no cost to attend but reservations are required and will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. |
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| Oct 30 Tourism Planning Session 10/30/14 |
Tourism Planning Session
for Danville and Pittsylvania County
Join in a discussion about our tourism assets, our opportunities, and potential strategies.
Register to attend one or both days. We respectfully request that you attend only if your schedule permits your participation for the entire day. Lunch will be provided.
Facilitated by
Sandra Tanner of the Virginia Tourism Corporation
Sponsored by
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| Date: |
October 30, 2014 |
| Time: |
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Location: |
Pepsi Building
661 Craghead Street, Danville |
| Contact: |
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce: 434-836-6990 |
| EMail: |
chamber@dpchamber.org |
| Date/Time Details: |
Thursday, October 30
9:30 am - 5:00 pm |
| Fees/Admission: |
No cost to attend but reservations are requested |
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