HAMILTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL DINNER
The 2024 Hamilton County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner took place on January 27th, 2024. Right around 100 people RSVP'd for the event. It was a rainy night, but it was great time. Thank you for everyone who came out.
Thank you to the sponsors of our Annual Dinner and Awards Banquet:
- The Heritage Place - Cindy Horacek Venue Sponsor
- Irvin’s Jewelry - Hidden Gems Sponsor
- Ferrell Hospital McLeansboro Family Medicine - Registration Sponsor
- The Liquor Hut - Social Hour Sponsor
- Esther Bloom Photography - Photo Booth Sponsor
- Lasting Impression/Cindy Horacek - Decorations
- Terry Wells - Event Music.
Thank you Chamber members for another great year for the Hamilton County Chamber of Commerce!
- Congratulations to this year’s Business of the Year recipient- Tequila Mexican Restaurant!
- Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Ted Satterfield Award- Mike Harre!
Congratulations to this year’s Civic Community Service Award recipient- Women’s Leadership Council of Hamilton County!
We also want to thank retiring Chamber Board member Mindi Kolts for her years of service to Hamilton County Chamber Board! We wish you luck in all your future endeavors! Your leadership will be missed on the board.
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Thank you to our sponsors: DANA Communications, Trackers Lodge, Peoples National Bank, Hamilton Memorial Hospital, Sea Service Family Consulting, Banterra Bank, The Liquor Hut, Fred Vallowe - McLeansboro City Clerk and CounterTop Creations. Your kind sponsorships made this awesome event happen! Thank you again to all who attended and took the time to learn about all the good food and brews in our area! The competition was fierce in both the Food and Brew categories. We saw some returning restaurants, as well as some new faces. And the offerings were diverse—everything from BBQ (Lil Buddies BBQ) to traditional American (Foxy, Gottzz's, and Huck's), Tex-Mex (Guero's), Upscale offerings (Rend Lake College Culinary Arts), Pasture-Raised Meats (Gage Agricultural Designs), with Appetizers and sweet Desserts (Alicia's Sweets, Dairy Queen, and Carbon Forge Design) to cap it all off. The Brews were also outstanding, with something for everyone (but minors of course). From lighter Ales to Stouts, from Hefeweizens to IPAs--and some Ciders to sweeten things a bit. And although the vote count was very tight in both categories, here is how the voting shook out: FOOD Category: 1st Place: Foxy (McLeansboro) 2nd Place: Guero's Mexican Restaurant (Mt. Vernon) 3rd Place: Gage Agricultural Designs (Dahlgren) BREW Category: 1st Place: Lois Van Winkle 2nd Place: Kevin Braden & Brad Grubb 3rd Place: Danny Hopfinger Below are our winners, as well as, pictures of SOME of our vendors and door prize winners.
The Chamber continued their tradition of a social hour that included hor d'oeuvres, beer and wine. Thank you to our Social Hour Sponsor - The Liquor Hut. Back again by popular demand was our Hidden Gems jewelry event, sponsored by Irvin's Jewelry. Thank you to our Silent Auction donors for all the special items. And a special thanks to the Special Events committee for all your hard work and planning to provide such a nice evening. Entertainment this evening was provided by Chris Egleston.
