This Week

Mon / 21

• The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 23rd annual Chamber Golf Classic from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Ridglea Country Club, 3700 Bernie Anderson Drive. To register or for more information, contact Jennifer at jvuduris@fortworthchamber.com. 

Tue / 22

• The TCC Small Business Development Center will offer a free workshop entitled “How to Write an Employee Handbook” from 10 a.m. to noon at the James E. Guinn Complex, 1150 South Freeway. Register in advance by calling Kathryn Hudson at 817-871-6028.

• The North Texas Commission will host its 38th annual Membership Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will provide the keynote address with a special update from Roger Staubach and Bill Lively with the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee and Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway. For more information, go to http://www.ntc-dfw.org/ or contact the North Texas Commission at 972-621-0400.

• TCU is hosting “Smart Women: Discussions on Women’s Cancer Prevention” at 6 p.m. in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center. For more information and to RSVP, e-mail s.j.barr@tcu.edu or call 817-257-6731.

Wed / 23

• The Society of Commercial Realtors is hosting its September Breakfast with Ben Loughry, managing partner of Integra Realty Resources DFW LLP, from 7:30-9 a.m. at Colonial Country Club. To register, contact Rebekah LaMontagne at 817-336-5165 ext. 112 or at rebekah@gfwar.org.

• The University of Texas at Arlington is offering an interactive pollution-prevention (P2) planning workshop Sept. 23-24 at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. South in Fort Worth. Contact Tamara Kowalski at admin@zerowastenetwork.org or 512-904-2281 for more information.

Thu / 24

• The Society of Commercial Realtors is hosting its 2009 Commercial Real Estate Summit from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. at the GFWAR Auditorium, 2650 Parkview Drive. All registrations must be made online via the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M at www.recenter.tamu.edu/register.

• The TCC International Small Business Development Center  will host “International Trade Finance” as part of its International Business Seminar Series from 9 a.m. to noon at the James E. Guinn Complex, 1150 South Freeway. Cost is $33. Register in advance by calling Nodgar Piranian at 817-392-2675.

• The TCC Small Business Development Center will hold the “How to Start A Business Mini-Course” from 2-4 p.m. at the James E. Guinn Complex, 1150 South Freeway. The class is $26 and participants should register in advance by calling Kathryn Hudson at  817-871-6028.

• TCU alumni and friends in the Fort Worth area are invited to gather at Colonial Country Club for an event hosted by O. Homer Erekson, John V Roach Dean of the Neeley School of Business at TCU, featuring Bill Moncrief, senior associate dean recently voted the TCU MBA and BBA Alumni Professor of the Year, from 6-8 p.m. Cost is $20 per person, which includes hors d’oeuvres. Cash bar will be available. To attend, please register at www.froglinks.com/networkwithmoncrief.

Fri / 25

• Experts from leading social media organizations will come together on the TCU campus to discuss Business Online Networking: Putting Social Media to Work from 7:30-11:30 a.m. at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & visitors Center on the TCU campus. The presentation is part of the Neeley Speaker Series. Cost is $35 per person, which includes continental breakfast. For more information and to register, go to http://www.neeley.tcu.edu./

• The Society of Commercial Realtors is hosting its 2009 Commercial Real Estate Summit from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at the GFWAR Auditorium, 2650 Parkview Drive. All registrations must be made online via the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M at www.recenter.tamu.edu/register.

• The Amon Carter Museum is hosting a New Parents Tour from 10:30-11:30 a.m. starting outside the Museum Store. For reservations, call 817-989-5030.

*Domain XCIV is hosting a Temptation Party to celebrate the grand re-opening of the store from 4-8 p.m. at 3100 W. Seventh St. suite 112.

Sat / 26

• The town of Westlake invites the community to celebrate the 10th annual Arbor Day Celebration from 4 p.m. to sunset at Glenwyck Farms Park, 1601 Fair Oaks Drive. For information, contact Troy Meyer at 817-490-5735 or tmeyer@westlake-tx.org.

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