Author: staff

7:00 am. Agriculture committee meeting to finalize details and volunteers for the upcoming Rural Appreciation Picnic on July 23. Stop to welcome a new business to town, arrive at the Chamber office to address emails, which sometime require some investigation to have an accurate answer....

“Beginning June 4, Weekly Coffees Planned” This was the headline in the June 4, 2003, newspaper and referred to the weekly coffees first organized by the “Membership Services, Hospitality and Legislative Committee” of the Chamber. Back in 2003 the coffees were held on Wednesday mornings...

      This is the earliest McPherson Chamber of Commerce Logo that we are aware of. It was the letterhead of early board minutes in the 1950’s. Maybe commercial logos were not as common in 1921 when the McPherson Chamber was chartered? ____________________________________________________________________           The second logo was a significant...

Files of monthly Chamber publications dating back to 1989 provide a thorough picture of the Chamber programs and initiatives for the last 32+ years. These monthly publications were distributed to Chamber members by direct mail until 2005. The publications were known by various names including...

Nestled in the expansive campus of The Cedars among the apartments and duplexes is the Cedars Café, and just outside the café’s window is a beautiful garden with a small waterfall area for residents to enjoy. This garden is known as Carma’s Garden and has...

Leadership McPherson has been a professional development program of the McPherson Chamber since 1981 and is actually one of the oldest leadership programs in the state of Kansas. The first class graduated in 1982 having completed “4 one-day seminars studying area history, local and state government,...