Preppin' for Chamber Business Expo

Businesses planning participate in the Saline County Business Expo 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday are preparing their wares and their displays for the show at the Southeastern Illinois College Foundation Center.

Baseball teams, insurance firms, outdoors stores, flooring dealers, restaurants, banks and utilities are only a few of the more than 70 registered exhibitors this year.

Sponsored by the Saline County Chamber of Commerce, the chamber extends an invitation to the public to attend and learn about local and regional businesses. Keeping the economy of Southeastern Illinois strong is the goal and the more the public patronizes local and regional businesses the better. Why go out of state when you can secure quality services and goods close to home?

Chamber Executive Director Lori Cox said she is very pleased with the Platunum Sponsors for the event this year. Those are Bulldog Systems, Inc., Frontier Communications, Harrisburg Medical Center and Legence Bank.

For more information contact Lori Cox, Executive Director of the chamber at loricox@sic.edu or Kim Keating at kim.keating@sic.edu or (618) 252-4192.