Chamber News
Meet Your New Officers for 2012
Kathleen Dowling, Deputy Clerk-Treasurer, installed the Chamber’s Executive Officers at the January 2012 Membership Lunch Meeting.
The new 2012 Executive Officers
Pictured left to right: Secretary: Angie Gora, Highland Parks & Rec. Dept.; Director: Michelle Anderson, First Financial Bank; Treasurer: Monica Rubio, First Midwest Bank; President: John Freyek, Citizens Financial Bank FSB; Director: Terry Trusgnich, Aide Rentals & Sales II; and Past-President: Doug Lewis, Edward Jones Investments. (Vice President: Victor Garcia, March of Dimes not pictured.)
2012 Retiring Board Members
Tom Brown, Brown Insurance Group, Rosanne Loughmiller, Prompt Ambulance/Southlake Limousine, and Lance Ryskamp, LM Publications, LLC, are retiring from the board. Tom, Rosanne, and Lance were honored with THEO'S STEAK & SEAFOOD gift certificates for their time on the Board at the December 2011 Chamber Membership Lunch Meeting.
Left: Tom Brown, Brown Insurance Group and President John Freyek, Citizens Financial Bank, FSB; Middle: President John Freyek, Executive Drector Mary Luptak, and Lance Ryskamp, LM Publications, LLC; Right: Rosanne Loughmiller, Prompt Ambulance/Southlake Limousine and John Freyek.
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR 2011 At the January 2012 Membership Lunch Meeting, the Highland Chamber thanked Mercy Hill Church for being Volunteers of the Year for 2011. Mercy Hill Church sent over 20 volunteers total to help out at the Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, Pucker Face 5K Race, and the Christmas Treat Bags.
Mercy Hill Church Members Ruth Hamstra and Jane Hoogerwerf accept a volunteer plaque from Highland Chamber President John Freyek.
25 YEAR MEMBER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT At the December 2011 Membership Lunch Meeting, the Highland Chamber acknowledged Manpower for being a 25 year member. 
Manpower representative Antonise Thomas-Leroy accepted the 25 year Member Award from Highland Chamber President John Freyek, Citizens Financial Bank.
