Chamber celebrates past & future with awards dinner

Alyssa Spangler, left, and Emilee Wood, of Klotz Floral, dressed up as flappers in keeping with the "Roaring' 20's" theme for the Bowling Green Chamber ofCommerce's Annual Dinner and Awards. Klotz provided the center pieces for the event which Spangler and Wood helped to make.

With the theme 2020 theme “The Roaring 20’s,”  Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce signaled that it was ready to roar in the new decade as it held its Annual Meeting Dinner and Awards on Saturday in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom in Bowen-Thompson Student Union on the Bowling Green State University campus.

Several hundred civic and business personalities gathered as the annual awards were given out, and the Chamber recalled some of its highlights from 2019.

Tari Christoff, 2019 Athena Award winner, Mary Hinkelman, director of the BG Chamber of Commerce, and BG Superintendent of School Francis Scruci, 2019 Zeus Award winner, consult before the event begins.
Clint Corpe, left, talks with Gordon Wenig and Joan Newlove.
From left, Judge Matt Reger, Judy Ennis, Colleen Smith, and Heidi Reger chat before dinner. Matt Reger received the 2020 Zeus Award.
David Tyson and Scouts from Troop 422 prepare to present the colors.
Bowling Green State University President Rodney Rogers with U.S. Rep. Bob Latta
Jerry Anderson and Clint Corpe served as masters of ceremony for the awards dinner.