Mantua – The Mantua-Shalersville Area Chamber of Commerce met on February 16, 2011. The featured business was GoRilla Productions of Mantua. Owner Brent Simon offers custom web design, web maintenance, website tune-ups, and multimedia production. He offers quality services at prices that are affordable.
Crestwood School District is happy to announce that this year the 8th graders will be taking the first trip to Washington D.C. The Scholarship Committee is planning to give out two $1,000 scholarships and is asking for businesses to sponsor holes at the golf outing to help cover the scholarships. Scholarship applications are due by April 19. Applications can be found online at the Mantua-Shalersville Chamber website with complete rules and mailing information.
The Portage County Soap Box Derby has cars and needs drivers. Businesses are also welcome to sponsor a car. For more information on drivers and sponsors, please call Dean at (330) 351-3035, Kelly at (330) 541-1075 or Barb at (330) 931-0537.
Eddie Brunner announced that the Downtown Revitalization now has its 501-c3 status. She reported that they are working on getting money from the County Commissioners and trying to obtain grants.
The majority of the meeting was given to the discussion of the ordinance that the Mayor would like to have put on the ballot limiting truck access on certain common routes into Mantua. The Mayor claims that trucks are causing major damage to certain roads. There are many trucking companies located in Mantua that employ local residents. Also many businesses in Mantua depend on the trucks to get supplies or they can count on supplying trucking companies and drivers with fuel, food, parts and service. The Mayor was invited to attend the Chamber meeting but was unable to attend. It was decided that the Chamber Officers would try to meet with the Mayor before the next meeting.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 16th at 7:30am.
