Chamber Needs Volunteers to Staff New Visitors Center

The Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce is looking for volunteers to staff its Visitors Center after the . 

Friendly, courteous people who are familiar with the Lexington area are ideal. 

The Visitors Center will begin Saturday hours, tentatively from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in early 2013. Saturday hours may start earlier if there is a good response.

The center will be inside the new 7,000 square-foot chamber building, which is expected to open before the end of the year. It will include a gift shop with Lexington memorabilia, such as post cards and t-shirts, for sale. 

The chamber will also need volunteers during the week. The chamber's weekday hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, contact Aïda Rogers at 359-6113 or aida@lexingtonsc.org. 

Construction of the new building is on schedule, according to a post on the chamber's blog. Contractors have started to lay brick, and work on the landscaping will start soon.