This week in BiS magazine:
• Katherine Weeks and Nancy Beskar, the owners of ‘Budget Blinds,’ offer custom window coverings and measure their success by “happy clients who are delighted with their new window coverings and the customized service we provide.”
• Christina Blair and Shanna Sweet call their business ‘Food`Etat.’ They cook for people who are too busy to cook, shop for people too busy to do that and try to source everything locally.
• Economist Kenneth Zapp asks what we can conclude about President Obama’s health reform law after almost one year of its implementation but says it’s tough to find an objective analysis of its effects.
• Jennifer Hinkle, at Hancock Askew, notes that in response to the economic need of businesses, individuals and state governments to recover from the recent recession and stabilize, many states – including Georgia – have passed legislation to promote economic recovery and growth.
• In what he calls the strongest complete report in six years, Armstrong State University economist Mike Toma says the Savannah-area economy continued to grow at a rapid rate in the first quarter of 2014.
Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society announces Camp Buddy
The Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society will host their annual Camp Buddy educational and therapeutic summer camp at Marshpoint Elementary School on July 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, and 25.
Special education, occupational, physical and speech therapists have designed a customized curriculum to help children retain information they learned during the previous school year.
Camp Buddy is for children with Down syndrome, ages 3-13. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for ages 3-5 and 10-13. For children ages 6-9, it runs from 1 to 4 p.m.
Camp Buddy is $30 per child. This cost includes therapy sessions, entertainment and food.
For more information, contact Molly Marchese at 912-213-9127 or Pam Hussey at 912-220-6429.
Hilton Head chamber wins award
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce has received a national Award of Communications Excellence from the American Chamber of Commerce Executives.
The chamber won the award for its 2014 electronic category entry “Come Grow With Us iPad Membership Brochure.”
The iPad membership brochure provides instant, one-click access to membership benefits and targeted information in a user-friendly format and membership applications that can be completed electronically.
The ACE awards recognize outstanding communications efforts by chambers of commerce, and the 30th annual awards program attracted 163 entries from chambers of all size.