US: Joyce Donaldson took over this month as president and CEO of the Carpentaria Valley Chamber of Commerce, and already is feeling at home. “Everybody I’ve spoken to is so welcome,” she says. “Everybody has been very wonderful.”
Joyce Donaldson never visited Carpentaria before applying for a key post within the tranquil beach town. Now that she has the job as president and CEO of the Carpentaria Valley Chamber of Commerce she’s already found lots to love about the place. I just thought it would be nice to live in a beach town,” she told Noozhawk on a recent morning at her 1056 Eugenia Place office, the one she took over June 1 for retiring longtime chamber leader Lynda Lang.
Everybody I’ve spoken to is so welcoming. Everybody has been very wonderful Donaldson probably won’t have any trouble promoting the small town and its businesses. First on the agenda is making the Carpentaria Valley Chamber of Commerce more visible herself included.
Donaldson plans to tackle the Carpentaria post as she has the past 11 years in similar roles. She served five years as president and CEO of the Indio Chamber of Commerce in the Coachella Valley and spent seven years before that as executive director of the Romeo-Washington Chamber of Commerce in Romeo, Mich., a stone’s throw from the small suburb north of Detroit where she grew up. She’s fiscally minded and aims to accredit the Carpentaria chamber, which is a years-long process of information gathering and developing better practices in all areas of operation.
