Ames Smart Business Challenge Virtual Luncheon Is January 21

Press release from the City of Ames:

January 8, 2021

Ames Electric Services will host the fourth annual Smart Business Challenge Luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. Businesses are invited to join virtually for lunch, updates, and celebration at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83290564065

Robin Bostrom will present the keynote address, “Connecting, Preserving, Empowering and Uniting Iowa Communities.” Bostrom serves as a business specialist with the Iowa Economic Development Authority, working with the Downtown Resource Center and the Main Street Iowa team.

Ames Mayor John Haila will provide opening remarks, and McFarland Clinic and Morning Bell Coffee Roasters will both receive Smart Business Challenge Platinum Achievement recertifications for maintaining the highest level of participation in the sustainability program.

The Smart Business Challenge is sponsored by Ames Electric Services to promote not only reduced consumption of electricity, but also to encourage Ames businesses to look comprehensively at reducing their carbon footprint and opportunities to support the City’s sustainability vision. Challenge participants complete a checklist that encompasses environmental, economic, and social sustainability components such as community engagement and volunteerism.

The luncheon is open to any business interested in the challenge. Lunch will be delivered, with a maximum of five lunches/one delivery location per business.

There is no cost to participate, but an RSVP for lunch is required by Jan. 18, online at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSem6yP2GxApbKgW0gz9F3EGIv3gVUpvH1BiTeW8WLRp_lp5IA/viewform or by emailing jacque.higgins@cityofames.org

For more information about the Smart Business Challenge, visit www.CityOfAmes.org/SmartBusinessChallenge

This press release was produced by the City of Ames. The views expressed here are the author’s own.