Business networking event returns for the first time since COVID

The SHARE Foundation hosted the first Business After Hours event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday at its partner agency, HealthWorks Fitness Center.

When the event was held prior to the start of the pandemic, it served largely as a networking event and opportunity to expose community members to the services of the hosting site according to Kaitlyn Rigdon, communications and finance coordinator of the El Dorado-Union County Chamber of Commerce.

“We’ve been talking about bringing it back for a while now,” Rigdon said. “We started planning it a month ago and we’ve been lining up the rest of the Business After hours events for the remainder of 2021.”

The networking event is held monthly on the third Tuesday and will always be hosted by a Chamber of Commerce member.

The theme of the first Business After Hours in over a year was “Christmas in July.”

“They decorated the whole HealthWorks facility with Christmas…

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