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Laura Nicholson, Executive Director / CEO
Laura Nicholson
has been the Executive Director/CEO at the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce
since July 2003. She serves on the board
of the Yuba-Sutter Economic Development Corporation and the Yuba City Rotary
Club. She is a member of the Yuba-Sutter Business Consortium and assists
business-related groups in the community such as the Yuba-Sutter Employer
Advisory Council. She has been a member of the Yuba City Rotary Club since 1999,
serving as President in 2006-2007. She is also the immediate-past President of
the Covillaud Elementary School Site Council, and continues to serves as a
Community Representative. She has worked with the Beale Joint Land Use Study,
Operation Save Beale and Help Ellis Lake Prosper. She comes to the Chamber from the Appeal-Democrat, where she worked for 11 years, including four years as Editor.
Shaylene Minard Lewelling, Membership Director
Shaylene Minard Lewelling is the Membership Director of the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce. She previously worked for four years in Senior Business Development at the Roseville Chamber of Commerce. Shaylene has the unique set of skills this job demands: she is very outgoing and she enjoys working with people, she understands the purpose and how a Chamber of Commerce works and is familiar with the needs of a membership-based group. And, she is from the area and knows the community very well. Shaylene is the newest member of the Chamber's staff, beginning work here in September of 2009.
Evelyn Cosner, Office Coordinator
Evelyn moved to Yuba City in
1977 for a position teaching vocal and classroom music for Yuba City Unified
School District. She then worked for several years for Pratt
& Lambert/Universe Paint in Marysville and then in the job placement department
at Yuba College where she performed local labor
market analyses for CalWORKs. She has
been at the Chamber since 2000. Her
husband is a small business owner. She conducted
the very first choir at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, served on the board of
the Acting Company, started a for-profit children’s music theater with Pedro Award winner
Pat Hill and Andrea Berkstresser, and now serves on the board of Hands of Hope: Resources for Homeless
Families. She has played piano for many
local musicals over the years.
Caprice A. Jones, Office Assistant
Caprice came to the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce as a
temporary employee through The Plus Group (formerly known as Archer Personnel)
in March 2002. Prior to that, she lived
and worked in Winnemucca, for two and a half years working in a property management
office. She was hired at the Chamber permanently three months later and has
been the Office Assistant since then.
Caprice is a continuing student at Yuba College,
through the aid of the Chamber’s Workforce Development Award, and will graduate
in 2010 with two AS Degrees in Administrative Assistant and Word Processing. Among her many duties, Caprice maintains the information on
the Chamber’s newest community and visitor resource, www.visityubasutter.com.
The Chamber of Commerce is also blessed with the energies and enthusiasm of a part-time office volunteer, Anne Wentland. Her dedicated assistance makes much of our personal contact with members possible.
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