Capital Chevrolet Commercial Sales helps businesses of all sizes find the right vehicle solutions to operate more efficiently and grow with confidence. From work trucks and cargo vans to large fleet acquisitions, our team provides specialized commercial financing, leasing programs, and access to exclusive business rebates and incentives. By taking a consultative approach, we help companies optimize their vehicle investments while delivering the personalized service and long-term partnership they deserve. We encourage Chamber members to reach out for a one-on-one consultation to learn how Capital Chevrolet Commercial Sales can become a valuable partner in helping their business reduce costs, improve productivity, and prepare for future growth.

Dawson’s Electric & Air is proud to partner with Lennox for the Feel the Love® campaign, a national program dedicated to helping families in need by providing free HVAC installations. This year, Dawson’s will select one deserving homeowner in our community to receive a brand-new HVAC system, with our team providing the complete installation at no cost.

We’re inviting community members to nominate someone who deserves a little extra support and comfort. Nominees may include veterans, first responders, educators, individuals or families facing medical or financial hardships, or someone who consistently goes above and beyond to make a positive impact in their community.

When submitting a nomination at www.feelthelove.com, be sure to mention Dawson’s Electric & Air as the participating dealer. Nominations are open through August 31, and we encourage everyone to help us recognize a deserving neighbor and give them the gift of a safer, more comfortable home.

Together, we can help someone in our community feel the comfort, safety, and peace of mind they deserve.

Local Time Brewing is proud to once again partner with IBM in support of Children’s Flight of Hope through the annual Hops for Hope campaign.

This marks our fourth consecutive year participating in this incredible community fundraiser, which helps provide free air transportation for children who need access to specialized medical care that isn’t available close to home. Children’s Flight of Hope removes one of the biggest barriers families face—getting to life-saving and life-changing treatment.

Between now and the Hops for Hope festival on Saturday, September 19, we’re raising funds while also seeking raffle prizes, gift cards, themed baskets, and local businesses willing to host fundraising events.

We invite fellow Chamber members to join us in making a difference. Every donation, raffle item, event partnership, and shared post helps bring hope to families when they need it most.

Project Overview

Get ready for a whole new vibe in Downtown Holly Springs! The Town is moving forward with plans to transform Avent Ferry Road between W. Ballentine and Center streets into a pedestrian-friendly festival street. By introducing new paving materials and enhanced landscaping, plans call for this stretch of road to become a flexible, dynamic hub that can be completely closed to vehicles during special events, turning it into an open-air plaza perfect for festivals, markets, and community celebrations.

Learn more and share your thoughts to help shape this project.

• Stakeholder/Property Owner Meetings
• • Project Kickoff – June
  • Project Check-ins – September, October, and January 2027
• Community Meetings
• • July 15 – Community Open House
  • August 21 – Festival Street Design Lab 
  • October 14 – Community Open House

Check out project information boards, interactive stations, and opportunities to engage directly with the project team. 
Attendees are encouraged to share ideas for the future streetscape, complete the community survey, and learn about upcoming engagement opportunities, including a hands-on prototyping event planned for August. Drop by anytime between 6-8 p.m. to explore, ask questions, and add feedback for this exciting initiative.

The festival street was one of five key community priorities identified during the development of the Downtown Area Plan, which describes the community’s vision for downtown. The plan aspires to create a downtown where people can live, work, and be entertained.

Location

Avent Ferry Road between W Ballentine Street and East Center Street

Status

Living Your Corporate Values: The Secret to Long-Term Business Growth in Holly Springs

Company values are the true foundation of a successful organization. They do far more than sit on a plaque in the lobby; they actively shape your workplace culture, define your brand identity in the local marketplace, influence daily decision-making, and establish clear expectations for employees and leadership alike. When an organization’s values are consistently reflected in everyday actions, they create a thriving business environment built on trust, accountability, and a shared sense of purpose.

However, simply displaying a list of principles on your website or office walls isn’t enough to move the needle. The most successful businesses in southwest Wake County actively integrate their core beliefs into every single layer of their operations. Aligning your daily practices with your organizational philosophy is one of the most effective ways to strengthen your team culture and support sustainable, long-term business success.

It All Starts with a Clear and Collaborative Definition

Before an organization can rally around its core principles, those guiding beliefs must be clearly and authentically defined. It requires asking foundational questions: What does our business truly stand for? What specific principles should guide our toughest decisions? How do we want local customers and our team members to experience our brand? Your final values should directly reflect your mission, your ethics, and your long-term vision for the future. Keeping them concise and meaningful ensures they are easy for everyone to understand, remember, and put into practice.

Crucially, these defining elements shouldn’t be handed down solely from a closed-door executive session. Employees bring invaluable, ground-level perspectives because they live and breathe your workplace culture every single day. Gathering direct feedback through informal team meetings, workshops, or internal surveys does more than just generate great ideas—including your workforce in refining these principles naturally drives engagement and inspires a deeper, personal commitment to living those values across the entire company.

Embedding Principles into Onboarding and Daily Operations

For values to truly take root, consistency is everything. Your core beliefs should be highly visible and felt across every operational touchpoint, from initial candidate recruiting and customer service standards to internal communications, strategic planning, and vendor relationships. When a team sees these principles actively guiding high-level business strategies, the words shift from being simple text in an employee handbook to becoming the actual heartbeat of the organization.

This alignment is particularly vital during the hiring and onboarding phases. Bringing on team members whose personal ethics naturally complement your corporate culture is the most effective way to build strong, deeply engaged teams. By explicitly weaving your organizational philosophy into local job descriptions, interview questions, candidate evaluations, and new hire orientation, you set clear expectations from day one. This proactive approach helps new employees integrate smoothly and become productive, connected team members much faster.

Leading by Example and Championing Your Team

Leadership has the single greatest impact on whether company values become a living reality or remain just talk. Executives, managers, and supervisors must consistently model the exact behaviors they expect to see from their staff. Employees are far more likely to embrace a corporate mission when they watch their leaders making ethical choices, treating others with respect, communicating transparently, and taking ownership of mistakes. Authentic leadership builds the psychological safety and trust that underpins organizational credibility.

Beyond modeling the right behavior, leadership must also actively champion it. Consistent recognition reinforces positive actions and keeps your company’s mission top of mind. Celebrating employees who exemplify your core beliefs can happen seamlessly through peer-nominated awards, public appreciation during team meetings, or formal recognition programs. This praise doesn’t always have to be monetary; frequently highlighting real success stories and customer testimonials demonstrates to the entire team that their formatting of these values truly matters, fostering a deep-seated culture of appreciation.

Connecting Culture to Measurable Growth

Ultimately, a strong workplace culture must support measurable business objectives. Whether your current organizational goals involve boosting local customer satisfaction, driving service innovation, breaking down communication silos, or significantly enhancing employee retention, your core values should serve as the roadmap to get you there. When your workforce clearly understands how their individual, daily efforts support both the company’s internal principles and its overarching commercial success, they become inherently more motivated and committed to achieving those milestones.

Because businesses naturally grow and the southwest Wake County economic landscape continues to evolve, your organizational framework should be revisited over time. Regularly evaluating your cultural alignment through annual engagement surveys, performance reviews, and client feedback ensures your guiding principles remain modern, relevant, and fully aligned with customer expectations without ever compromising your core identity.

Aligning corporate action with organizational belief is an ongoing journey rather than a one-time HR initiative. Businesses that successfully bridge this gap build resilient workplace cultures, cultivate deeper customer trust, and position themselves for lasting, sustainable growth in our community.

Community Friends,

As a follow-up to the support that many of our staff provided to the St. Charles School when they traveled to Tanzania last summer, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy is serving as host site for a shipping container as part of the Crutches for Africa initiative.  With the support of community contacts like you, the goal is to fill the container with donated mobility equipment. Even if you do not have any crutches to donate, please consider sharing this email and the attached flyer with individuals and organizations who you think may have items to donate. Once filled, the container will be shipped to a community in Africa that is in need of such supplies. 

At this time the only donations being accepted are unwanted crutches. Here is how you can donate a pair (or many pairs) of crutches that you no longer wish to have in your home or business.

Items wanted: Crutches (Wooden, metal, doesn’t matter)

How and when to donate: Donations will be accepted Monday – Friday after 4:00pm; any time on Saturday and Sunday.  Simply place crutches that you wish to donate next to the shipping container, which can be found in the field behind the PSPA Middle School located at 1729 N. Main St.  They will be put inside the container later that day. 

Our goal is to fill the remaining space with crutches and then have the container shipped to a location in Africa later this Spring.

Thank you for your consideration.

Bruce Friend
Superintendent
Pine Springs Preparatory Academy