Chamber of Commerce rings out successful 2025, preparing for 2026
ELLY GRIMM
• Leader & Times
There was a lot of work done in Liberal throughout 2025, and the Liberal Chamber of Commerce has been part of that work.
As Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rozelle Webb tells it, 2025 was very busy for the Chamber.
“We started off 2025 with a job fair, a lot of businesses were looking for a lot of employees, and we helped them out there. The Chamber Bash was also really good, we had a great crowd there. We had a lot of good legislative forums with our state legislators, Senator [Ron] Ryckman and Representative [Shannon] Francis, they always do such a good job letting people know what's going on,” Webb said. “We had the candidate forums and kept pretty steadily busy throughout the year. We also did the Friendliest Employee recognitions, which is always a real fun thing to do, because they get nominated for being friendly, and since it comes natural to them, they're surprised when they get the award. And we gave the Educator of the Month Award each month at the school board meetings, and it's always nice to recognize the teachers that are doing a really good job. We also had a really successful Duck Race Festival in 2025. We also had 17 ribbon-cuttings and we had 17 businesses join the chamber, so we're really happy with that. We lost a few businesses along the way because of the economy, but which is sad, but we try to help our businesses as best we can.”
