Mon Yough Chamber hosts golf event

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce were together Monday for a game of golf.

MYAC, a business membership organization representing more than 30 communities along the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, the Route 51 corridor and throughout the Turtle Creek Valley, held its annual fundraiser golf outing at Butler’s Golf Course in Elizabeth Township. 

The event had to be nixed last year as a result of concerns related to the pandemic.

Chamber Director Maury Burgwin said having events like golf outings not only raises money for the chamber and its foundation, but provides Valley business owners with a chance to network and share ideas and strategies.

He said it was good for everyone to be together Monday to enjoy a spirited 18 holes and a nice steak dinner. 

“This is the first time we’ve had a get together for golf in two years,” Burgwin said. “And actually, this is only our second live event in the past year and a half.”

Bob Baum, owner of Howard Hanna Wilson Baum Real Estate and Wilson Baum Insurance Agency in McKeesport, is a chamber board member and served on the committee for the outing. 

He was pleased with the turnout at Monday’s event, which attracted nearly 70 golfers.

“The weather was great, but the turnout was phenomenal,” Baum said, adding that he was pleased to see business owners and employees from a variety of industries taking to the links and getting to know one another.

“Well represented by many retail merchants and industrial types of services,” he said, adding that it’s the goal of the chamber to be diverse in its membership.

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