Chamber names man and woman of the year
In past years, the Lincolnton-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce has held a well-attended banquet to honor community members, businesses and industries with their “of the year” awards. This year, COVID prevented an in-person banquet. Instead, the awards were recorded and shown virtually Thursday evening.
Even with five years of organizing the chamber banquet under her belt, COVID presented several roadblocks to organizer Tracy Barger.
“We weren’t even sure we were going to be able to have it,” she said. “We tried to have it at a public venue, but obviously with the restrictions, we couldn’t. We decided to partner with Decovents and RYGID AV to do a virtual event.”
This year’s Woman of the Year is Erma Deen Hoyle.