Member Spotlight

Library services have changed and grown exponentially in recent years, and the McPherson Public Library is keeping pace. Marketing and adult programming coordinator Lindsay Helms shared with over 40 people gathered for the April 11th Chamber Connection about some of the library’s current initiatives. Sure, you...

Partners in Family Care welcomed guests into its sunny waiting room as it hosted the April 4th Chamber Connection. The practice partners with McPherson College to serve the students, who can walk in to have their acute needs addressed without needing to leave campus. They have...

Community members gathered shoulder-to-shoulder March 28th to celebrate Noffy’s Sandwich Shop & Pub’s new location with a Chamber Ribbon Cutting. It marked the long-anticipated move down the block to a slightly larger venue at 122 N. Main and unveiled the beautifully renovated space for the...

The Citizens State Bank/Home State Bank hosted the March 21st Chamber Connection in the same building it has called home since 1930 at 223 N. Main St. The inside was beautifully remodeled in 2020, and according to market president Georgia Ballard, plans are in the...

Whether corporate teams are flying in/out, medical transports are providing life-saving flights, student pilots are logging hours, or recreational pilots are soaring the skies, the McPherson Airport sees its share of traffic. Chamber members crowded the office March 14th as the airport hosted the weekly Chamber...

Initially Katie Murray’s business model was to open an Herbalife cafe location, make it successful, sell it, and move on to open a new location. First, she did it right out of college in Wichita, then in Newton. “That was the plan – to just keep...

When Ken Sjögren started carving and painting Dala horse signs in his garage over 40 years ago, he couldn’t have foreseen that Hemslöjd, the gift shop he would start with neighbor Ken Swisher in 1984 would sell tens of thousands of Dala horses. In fact,...

Dr. Phil Walters and his staff welcomed a crowd to their optometry office at 915 N. Main as they hosted the February 22nd Chamber Connection. Walters started seeing patients at the office in 2010 and bought the practice in 2011. Since then, the business has only grown. “I...

Paint and new flooring give 400 N. Maple Street a fresh look, but what really catches the eye upon walking in is the expanse of new exercise equipment lining the walls. A crowd gathered to welcome Empower Fitness to McPherson’s business community with a Chamber...

Brian Bloom of CherryRoad Media wants people to know that The McPherson Sentinel of today and tomorrow is not your grandfather’s newspaper. Readership has never been higher thanks to digital availability, he told those gathered at the Sentinel office for the February 8th Chamber Connection. Some...