First, you and your family can celebrate the autumn season at the second annual Scarecrow Festival presented by the Shawnee Downtown Partnership Saturday, October 7th at City Hall from 9:00 am to Noon.

Jim Martin, Executive Director of the Shawnee Economic Development Council, was quoted recently in BusinessWeek magazine promoting Shawnee's bioscience development efforts. The article, "What's Propping Up the Economy", highlights the impact of the health care and bioscience industries on the national economy.

This month's luncheon on October 11th is the Gubernatorial Candidate Forum featuring Senator Jim Barnett, Republican Candidate for Governor and Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic Candidate for Governor.

Your Shawnee Convention & Visitor's Bureau (CVB) is a committee is composed of 17 city, business, and tourism representatives. Together we work to market Shawnee as a tourism destination -- its attractions, events, hotels, shops and restaurants.

"Mission - Possible" is the theme for the 2007 Total Resource Campaign (TRC) for the Shawnee Chamber of Commerce. The TRC is chaired by Dale Warman and Kathleen Whalen, The Whale Spout Car Wash. Their special agents, Dawn Kuhn, Bank Midwest; Pam Cooper, The UPS Stores; Lori Hoelting, LA Graphics and Shelly Fabac, Sign-A-Rama , are working hard to make this another successful campaign.

The 2006 Shawnee Business Expo, Celebrating 150 years of Commerce, was held on Thursday, September 21st at the Shawnee Civic Centre. Over 68 member businesses participated in the event.