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Chamber Staff Shane Etzwiler, President/CEO setzwiler@greatfallschamber.org Lorene Jaynes, Director of Operations ljaynes@greatfallschamber.org Scott Wolff, Workforce Education Coalition & Development Director swolff@greatfallschamber.org Denise Ostberg, Executive Administrator dostberg@greatfallschamber.org Officers Holly Kopeikin – Chair Omni Marketing & Design Scott Anderson – 1st Vice Chair Opportunity Bank Lynda Morin – 2nd Vice Chair D A Davidson Co. Wade DeBoo – Treasurer TD&H Engineering Scott Reasoner – Past Chair Great Falls Voyagers Board of Directors Chelle Fried – Easterseals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain Erik Sletten – Sletten Construction Jason Madill – Madill Enterprises Marcus Collins – A.T. Worship Temple Mark Cappis – Cappis Consulting & Tax Mark Doll – Napa Auto Parts of Great Falls Max Grebe – LPW Architecture Melissa Dascoulias – Dascoulias Realty Group Rachel Taylor – Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams, P.C. Wayne Gillis – Great Falls Clinic Ex-Officio Colonel Anita Feugate Opperman – Malmstrom Air Force Base Joe Briggs – Cascade County Commissioner John Faulkner – Great Falls International Airport Authority Karen Venetz – Great Falls Lodging Association Joe McKenney – City of Great Falls Commissioner Dr. Stephanie Erdmann – Great Falls College MSU Tom Moore – Great Falls Public Schools Jolene Schalper – Great Falls Development Authority Greetings from the Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce! 3 Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce www.greatfallschamber.org We are pleased and proud to present our 2022 Community Guide highlighting why Great Falls is a GREAT place to live, work, raise a family and enjoy all Great Falls and Montana have to offer! We live in a remarkable state with two National Parks, numerous National and State Forest areas, and bountiful opportunities to enjoy and recreate in the wonderful outdoors without being crowded, fighting traffic and congestion, or having people crawling all over each other while trying to enjoy the outdoors! We also live in a wonderful (and the best) city in Montana with a community of people who genuinely care for and help each other. We are in the heart of Montana centrally located to experience all Montana has to offer. We also live in a city that isn't subject to the big up and down swings of economic challenges and difficulties. We have both Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Montana Air National Guard along with our regional medical facilities – Benefis Health System and Great Falls Clinic bringing in people from all around Great Falls and beyond. We have agriculture as our state's top industry and we are right in the middle of the best crop and livestock land the state has to offer. Our 2022 Community Guide is the premier publication for Great Falls and the surrounding area. We begin each section with an info-graphic page highlighting some key statistics and facts highlighting that particular section. We are always proud each year to feature a number of businesses making a difference in Great Falls and sharing with you why they chose to begin or have a business in Great Falls and what their plans are for the future. We also have a section for those new to Great Falls, what information they need to help them get established and settled here, as well as information for people who have lived here for a while to get re-acquainted with our wonderful city. Last year we made our publication fully digital with clickable links to websites so you can get more information on the subject you are researching. We will do that again this year and can be found on our website at greatfallschamber.org. We hope you enjoy this year's 2022 Community Guide as much as we enjoyed putting it all together for you! And if you enjoyed it, tell a friend, neighbor or even an out-of-state person who is looking to move to a better state so they too can enjoy life to the fullest! Sincerely, Shane Etzwiler, President/CEO