Event

Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce 105th Annual Meeting

On Thursday, February 18th, the Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry will hold it's 105th Annual Meeting at Venus de Milo at 5:30 pm. The keynote address will be made by WGBH Radio host & Newspaper columnist, Margery Eagan. Ms. Eagan will address the membership about her road to success that began in Fall River.

A proud Durfee High School Grad, Margery Eagan is co-host if the very popular Boston Public Radio show on FM 89.7 WGBH. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013. Margery Eagan also writes the Catholic spirituality column for the Boston Globe's new website, Cruxnow. She has written for her hometown paper, The Fall River Herald News, as well as the Standard Times of New Bedford, Boston Globe, Burlington Vermont Free Press, Boston Magazine, and the Boston Herald, where she wrote a column for 27 years. Margery Eagan grew up in Fall River and attended Durfee High School.

In addition to an address by Margery Eagan, the meeting will include the announcement Business of the Year, the
Young Entrepreneur of the Year, President's Award and the Chamber Ambassador of the Year as well as reports from 2015 Chairman, Craig Jesiolowski, who served as the Chamber Chairman in 2014 and 2015, and from Carl Garcia, who is serving as the Chamber Board Chairman for the next two year's.

Registration will begin at 5:30pm and dinner will begin at 6:00pm.