Springhill ~ North Webster Chamber of Commerce
Cotton Valley ~ Cullen ~Sarepta ~ Shongaloo ~ Springhill
Chamber News
Kim Gillespie, Manager
Kim Gillespie, Manager
February 2012
Featured Business of the Month
Gilliland Imaging Studio
Gilliland’s Imaging Studio was named Springhill~North Webster Chamber of Commerce
Featured Business of the Month! A Sunday afternoon drive for pizza brought Shannon Gilliland and her family to Springhill last summer. They fell in love with Springhill and bought
a downtown building and a home!
Shannon wasted no time renovating
the building into her dream photography studio. The business is located
at 107 South Main Street in
Springhill.
Shannon was the force behind the 35
foot Christmas tree being donated and
erected in the Clock Triangle this holiday season. She spent many hours
decorating it and planning the tree
lighting ceremony after the Christmas
Parade. Gilliland Imaging and the
local 4-H Club partnered to decorate a float for the Chamber Christmas Parade winning 3rd
place. We can also thank her for the Trick or Treating on Main event held at the Lumberjack Park at Church and Main this past Halloween.
Check out her website, www.gisfoto.com, to see samples of her work. She has a very creative flair! To make an appointment for your photography session call, (318) 539-4144.
Congratulations to Gilliland Imaging Studio for being named February’s Featured
Business of the Month!
It’s a Girl!
2011-2012 Chamber
Board Members
Todd Eppler, President
SMC (318) 539-1001
David Scruggs, Vice-President
Kenyan Ent. (318) 539-9116
Debbie Stubblefield, Secretary
CFCU (318) 539-4655, ext 1113
Don Teague, Treasurer
Don Teague, CPA (318) 5395211
Board Members
Tommy Boggs, Past President
Citizens Bank, (318) 539-5656
David Anderson
Citizens Bank, (318) 539-5656
Dianne Blake
Inspirations, (318) 539-1025
Tiny Miss Haidyn Raye Woolf
was born on her mother’s birthday,
December 29, 2011. Her parents
are Dylan Woolf and Paige
McLain. She weighed 6 pounds
and 3 ounces and was 19 3/4inches
long.
Eloise Boucher
Boucher Int, (318) 539-3565
Among the many welcoming Haidyn into the world were her proud
grandmothers, Kelly McLain of the
Springhill Press and the Chamber’s Kim Gillespie.
House of Diamonds, (318) 539-5175
To see more pictures you may come
by the Chamber or Springhill
Press!
Robert Gann
Wal-Mart, (318) 539-5660
James O’Glee
Mall Pharmacy, (318) 539-3622
Jacque Rhea
Denise Shaw
Regions Bank, (318) 539-1410
Robert Smith
Smiths So-Central, (318) 539-2594
Springhill Main Street Mardi Gras Parade
The Springhill Main Street Mardi Gras Parade was held
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:00pm. Threats of rainy weather
lifted and the sun shone down on the largest Mardi Gras parade
Springhill Main Street has hosted yet! This year the parade was
led by Co-Grand Marshals, Virginia Blanton and
Roxanne Colvin. They were driven by twins, Doyle
and Hoyle Chanler from Webster Parish, in twin red
1966 Chrysler 300s.
Out of town judges were invited to view all the parade entries. Hannah Jeter won first place and Madison Price won second in the Individual Competition.
In the School Competition Browning Elementary took first place
and the Lady Knights took second.
Piggly Wiggly took first
place in the Commercial Competition with Louisiana Home Care
taking second and Dazzlin Diva’s Cheer & Twirl taking third. In
the Non-Profit Competition the first place winner was Carter
Federal Credit Union, second place was Barksdale Federal Credit
Union and the Artemis Signature Float took third. This year
Best All Around went to the Artemis Royalty Float. Congratulations to all!
Mardi Gras Block Party
The First Annual Mardi Gras Block Party was held immediately following the Mardi
Gras Parade
on Bice St.
Springhill
Main Street
Program partnered
with
the Krewe of
Artemis,
Carter Federal Credit Union and Springhill Medical Center to host this fun
after party.
Bice Street was blocked off to allow this very well attended event
to set up. The Krewe of Artemis served the king cakes that were
provided by Springhill Main Street. Soft drinks were provided by
Minden Coca Cola Bottling Company.
Springhill~North Webster
Chamber of Commerce
New Members
The Attic
Eason’s EZ Cash
Cody Hughes and Crossfire kept the crowd entertained with live
music.
Springhill Cleaners
Jan Corrales, Main Street Coordinator, awarded plaques to the
parade winners during the party.
Richey Jackson
February 2012
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LTPA Seminar
The Louisiana Travel Promotion Association Annual Conference was held in Shreveport January 24th through 26th.
Since the Chamber Manager is also a Tourist Information Professional it is a requirement to attend this conference.
It was a wonderful experience. The whole event was so well
produced. The first day each person had their choice of familiarization tours. The group that I was with toured the movie
and music studios located in Shreveport. The first stop was
Millennium Studios, a movie production studio complex in
downtown Shreveport that boasts two soundstages with two
floors of offices and a separate building with a special effects
mill, as well as a 10,000-square-foot facility housing Millennium's visual effects company, Worldwide FX. Seventeen movies
have been filmed there, including two that were in production
while we were there, “Iceman” and “Playing the Field”.
The next stop was William Joyce’s Studio, Moonbot. Mr. Joyce
was nominated that very morning for an Academy Award for
his short animated film titled “The Fantastic Flying Books of
Mr. Morris Lessmore”.
He is a Shreveport native and
Newsweek Magazine named him in the Top 100 people to watch
in this millennium.
Housed inside Moonbot is Blade Studios, a world-class sound
recording studio complex. Their services include complete music
production, sound studio rental, producing and engineering
services, mixing and mastering, and post production for film.
Owner/Producer Brady Blade, pictured here, is an American
rock, pop and country drummer, record producer and composer. Brady has played as part of Emmylou Harris’ band, Spyboy,
Steve Earle and the Dukes, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Bob Dylan,
Dave Matthews & Friends, and with Buddy & Julie Miller.
There was a class on social media. Businesses using Facebook need to make sure
that the profile picture
and the first five photos
really convey their message and show what is
being promoted.
The
Facebook ads are a great
inexpensive tool. Customers like contests and
are always interested in
deals. In general, make
things fun and keep the
page current.
The last day was a class
on rural tourism development. The talk was
about capitalizing on
what you have. An example was Ferriday, Louisiana, birthplace of Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. They created the tagline, “Where Music is Born” and
named the park, Rockabilly Park. They have Delta Music
Museum showcasing its famous residents and musical heritage. Ferriday is a small town with a population of just
over 4,000 that was able to capitalize on what it has. The
advice given was be creative and quirky!
Louisiana Purchase Cypress
Legacy Project
The Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy Project is a volunteer campaign to identify and landmark cypress trees (the
Louisiana
State
tree) that are at
least 200 years oldalive at the time of
the Louisiana Purc h a s e .
We all have marveled at the huge
old live oaks gracing many of Louisiana's parks, highways,
residences,
bayous, and byways. But did you know that the Louisiana State tree -the bald
cypress- is in many cases at least as aged as our oldest live oaks
and easily equals them for their grandeur and stateliness?
The conventional wisdom is that virtually all the old growth
cypress-tupelo has long been logged off. But in truth, while most
of it is gone, a surprising number of large old cypress still can be
found in all corners of our state, from Goat Island in the West
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Pearl River, to Lake Fausse Pointe and Bear Bayou in the
Atchafalaya Basin, to Saline Bayou in central Louisiana,
to Black Bayou swamp in Tangipahoa Parish, to Coochie
Brake southwest of Winnfield. In fact the largest bald cypress in the United States is located in Louisiana on Cat
Island (now part of the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge). It measures 53 feet in circumference at breast
height. The very durability and sturdiness that made cypress the wood of choice for the building of New Orleans
and towns all over Louisiana has helped the surviving old
giants
endure
through
the
centuries.
With the celebration of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial, we have an ideal opportunity to link the cultural and
historic heritage of our state with its ecological inheritance. The intent of the Louisiana Purchase Cypress Legacy is to commemorate the state's natural heritage by
identifying and land marking trees (with an emphasis on
the bald cypress and tupelo) that are at least 200 years
old, alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.
We would love to find some of these old cypress in Webster
Parish. Do you know of any? Please call the Chamber if
you do.
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Springhill ~ North Webster Chamber of Commerce
Cotton Valley ~ Cullen ~ Sarepta ~ Shongaloo ~ Springhill
400 North Giles Street
Springhill, Louisiana 71075
Phone: (318) 539-4717
Fax: (318) 539-2500
E-mail: [email protected]
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Calendar of Events
February
11
Black History Parade, Henrietta White Blvd, Cullen, 3:00
14
The Attic Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, 5:15pm
18
Black History Parade, Springhill Main St, 1:00
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