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Without a chamber to support it, that’s in jeopardy, too. Once the sponsor of car shows, an annual steak fry fundraiser, the Riverside Person of the Year dinner, a newer event called RiverFest and the beloved Holiday Stroll, the only event that appears to have survived the pandemic is the Holiday Stroll. “There’s an apathy about getting involved,” said Lukes, who is also president of the West Suburban Symphony board of directors. While the pandemic didn’t help, said Lukes, it’s not the reason the chamber has been struggling. Just a couple of months after the change in leadership, the COVID pandemic swept through. “That’s kind of been the story for the past couple of years.” “I was kind of guilted into it because of the lack of participation,” Lukes said. Now the chamber’s treasurer, Lukes was “not super active” as a member prior to 2019, although he’s paid dues for two-plus decades. New officers included Jason Hinsley, a real estate professional, and Rich Lukes, who owns Comic Collector on Harlem Avenue. He could not be reached for this story.įoley, a chamber member through the library since 2000, remained as first vice president.

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Greg Gorski, who runs a web consulting business and was a longtime member of the Riverside TV Commission, volunteered to take over as president. Though there were members who stepped up, they did so reluctantly. When Moravecek finally stepped back at the end of 2019, it was the same story. “I was at the meeting when they said they were closing up the Riverside Chamber of Commerce,” he said. “I had taken over the business just a couple years earlier.”īut Moravecek was also the chamber’s vice president and he had been expected to step into the top role. “I was overwhelmed at the time,” said Moravecek.

Longtime leaders were aging out and new leaders, business owners who had plenty on their plates, were not exactly rushing to replace them. When he agreed to be the president of the chamber, the organization was in a similar predicament.

He had retained that title – largely because no one would claim it from him – for 15 years until announcing at the end of 2019 that it was time for a change.