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Food Bank. Donations will be accepted at the door.

Food at the mixer will be catered by The Patio Restaurant, and beverages will be available. The event will also feature door prizes, a 50/50 drawing, music and friendly faces.

For more information about this event, call the chamber office at 928-7822567.

Chamber to host presentation on effects of minimum wage on Wednesday

The effects of the increasing minimum wage on small businesses will be the topic of the next Yuma County Chamber of Commerce Lunch and Learn. It is slated for 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the Arizona Western College Schoening Conference Center, 2020 S Avenue 8 E.

Business owners and managers who employ entry level or minimum wage personnel are invited to attend the presentation titled “An Increased Arizona Minimum Wage: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly for Yuma Businesses” by Dr. Michelle Sims, AWC professor of economics.

During the spring of 2018, Sims conducted a qualitative multi-case study to explore how a 20% minimum wage increase affected rural small businesses that operate in highly competitive markets, with extreme resource constraints. Sims will discuss her findings and implications of the minimum wage research, as well as her recent findings from her continued study.

Sims is in her 11th year at AWC, teaching economics, marketing and management. Her real-world experiences from production management at FritoLay to her service as a U.S. Army intelligence officer help her students connect to real-world decision-making.

Tickets are $20 per person. For more information about this event, call the chamber office at 928-7822567.