Today was the first breakfast meeting of the "Mayors of the Area" under the auspices of the Round Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. While the Mayors meet pretty regularly to discuss issues and concerns, this was a first since it was sponsored by the Chamber. While I am a supporter of the Chamber I have felt over the last few years that chamber has steadily declined in membership and focus. I pretty much stopped attending because I got zero value from it.However recently the chamber board has gotten on the remodeling wagon and quite frankly so far I like what I am seeing. They have a new Executive Director in Jan Bauer and are trying to refocus the mission of the chamber with outreach to Hispanic businesses, and establishing a dialogue with elected officials amongst many other things. So this breakfast meeting was a good idea! There was a quite frank discussion of what the chamber should and should not be. I have high hopes!
Later in the day I went to the Park District pool and did 45 minutes of water aerobics with the Tuesday night class, working on flexibility for my upcoming assault in two weeks on the USATF Illinois Open/Master Outdoor State Championships in Sterling Illinois. I am going to focus on speed events entering the long jump, 100, 200, and 400 meters. The 10 ladies in the class abused me quite roughly since I had no idea what each exercise entailed since it occurred underwater and I am as blind as a bat without my glasses on.
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