Helms icon at April's Net Breakfast

Longtime Arcadia attorney James R. “Jim” Helms will be honored as an Arcadia Business Icon at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Networking Breakfast on April 16, sponsored by Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary. The monthly tribute is a joint presentation between the Chamber and the Arcadia Historical Society. The guest speaker will be announced shortly.…

History: The Chamber was there

Chambers of Commerce have been around for more than 400 years and pre-date the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War in the United States. Arcadia Chamber of Commerce CEO Scott Hettrick’s “The Chamber was There” presentation at the Arcadia Chamber’s annual Planning Conference Thursday (Jan. 22, 2015) noted that Chambers have been responsible for or played…