As local businesses are forced to be closed or limit their services until April 30th through Governor Reynolds’ proclamation, the Stuart Chamber of Commerce is doing all they can to help businesses seek available resources and encourage the community to support local.

The Chamber held their recent monthly meeting on the Zoom video conferencing application, and welcomed Small Business Development Center Regional Director Ethan Pitt as a guest speaker to explain current funding assistance options on the state and federal level. Chamber President Ryan Morrison shares some organizational tactics the Chamber has taken, “Well, we’ve been working together to ensure that our business community makes it through this. I know how much my business is struggling during this, so we tried to provide as much resources as possible for us, the business community. We did that by compiling them into a Google Drive, we shared that among our businesses to kind of help them through this.”

The Chamber has also created a “Stuart Area Take Out & Delivery” Facebook group that’s open to the public to join and for restaurants and businesses to share their offerings during this pandemic. As the public is urged to stay at home whenever possible and keep six feet of distance from others, Morrison encourages residents to contact any business they wish to support before stopping in.