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Installation & Awards Dinner 2025
Discover the outstanding businesses honored at the South County Chambers of Commerce Installation and Awards Dinner 2025. Meet our award winners—Hubbalicious Sweet Shoppe, Dana Reserve, and Fin’s Seafood Bar & Grill—and learn how they are making a difference in our community. Read more about their achievements!
Read MoreCelebrating Family-Friendly Workplaces: Building a Thriving SLO County Together
Discover how the SLO County Family-Friendly Workplaces program, supported by the South County Chambers of Commerce, helps businesses enhance employee retention, attract top talent, and foster a thriving, inclusive local economy.
Read MoreEmpowering South County: Key Insights from PG&E’s Safety and Innovation Luncheon
Explore PG&E’s cutting-edge initiatives designed to keep you connected, empowered, and ready for the future of energy.
Read MoreInsight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – LegalShield Business Solutions
Most of us have experienced a time in our lives when we feel we have endured a bit of injustice and RIGHTFULLY SO, considering the complex world that we live in today. It can sometimes feel that people look out for their own interests rather than displaying empathy for others. March of 2020 tested our social fears, anxieties and need for self-preservation when toilet paper all but disappeared off the shelves. Yes, human nature can be unpredictable at times. And that is why reputable services like LegalShield and IDShield and their local Independent Associate, Steve Remmel, exist. When we are faced with a legal dilemma or have a specific question regarding our privacy or our rights, we no longer need to feel alone or unsupported…it’s LegalShield and IDShield to the rescue!
Read MoreInsight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – PLUS Property Management
KINDNESS +PROFESSIONALISM = SUCCESS
Skillfully trained, compassionately driven and committed to excellence are just a few hallmark characteristics of any great company. When you include the attributes of KINDNESS and PROFESSIONALISM, you are now describing the SUCCESSFUL team spirit at PLUS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (PPM).
How did this local company become known for its high achieving accolades? To answer that question, I must introduce the Founder of Plus Property Management, Lawnae Hunter. In 1983 this highly ambitious woman embarked on a journey to serve her Central Coast Community in the field of property management.
Read MoreInsight Weekly – Kim Wybenga – Farm Supply Company
Back to News Insight Weekly – Kim Wybenga – Farm Supply Company HISTORICALLY CO- OPERATIVE! Since the beginning of time men and women have been surrounded by an atmosphere of agriculture and livestock. With that said, there has also been a continual need to care for the land and animals that we are responsible for…
Read MoreInsight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – Anita Shower
ALWAYS DRESSED FOR SUCCESS!
This week I was blessed to interview a woman that showered me with kindness and extended a warm smile from the moment I met her. As I walked into the room of a South County Chamber of Commerce mixer nearly a year ago, ANITA SHOWER, a renowned public figure here on our unique Central Coast, immediately recognized that I was, as she so eloquently put it “…the new kid in town: our newest transfer student!” 😊
Insight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – CultureStoke
ESSENTIAL KEY INGREDIENTS FOR LIFELONG SUCCESS!
When we think of some of our favorite recipes, they all seem to have a couple of things in common: They have KEY INGREDIENTS that are ESSENTIAL to the outcome of the recipe and are passed on from generation to generation. With my Italian roots, one of the cultural dishes I have always appreciated was a big plate of spaghetti topped with a tasty Italian style sauce, a sauce that could make my tastebuds feel like I died and went to heaven. 😊
Read MoreInsight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – Dana Adobe
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK…
Wouldn’t it be phenomenal if WALLS really COULD TALK? For if they could, oh what stories they would tell as we eagerly listen. Today I had the immense pleasure and privilege of experiencing, through the eyes of a well-versed docent named Colleen Beck, a place fondly known on our gorgeous Central Coast as the DANA ADOBE AT HISTORIC RANCHO NIPOMO.
Read MoreInsight Weekly- Kim Wybenga – California Welcome Center
WELCOME IN…ADVENTURE AWAITS YOU!
The notion of traveling to unknown places and experiencing new territory has been the cornerstone of any great ADVENTURE. As Heller Keller once quoted, “Life is either a daring ADVENTURE or nothing at all.”