Annual Russell Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner - 2025

Our Annual Chamber Awards Banquet will be held on January 26th . The dinner will be hosted at the Elks Lodge  located at:

510 S Front St

Russell, KS 67665 

Happy Hour will be from 6pm to 7pm

Dinner starts at 7pm

Tickets are $30 per person

$50 per couple 

$210 per Table (8 persons per table)

Happy Hour begins at 6pm

Dinner begins at 7pm

Chamber Feud is coming! Help us with our Survey!

Please take a few minutes to view our Nominations and nominate a Business Of The Year, A Non-Profit Business Of The Year, A Customer Service Award and a Citizen Of The Year.

RACC members are asked to complete a nomination form for each category.

Non RACC members may nominate only for the Citizen Of The Year

Nomination can be submitted up until January 16th. We will then add a page with links for final voting.

Final voting will be open from Jan 17th until Jan21st. We look forward to hearing from you!

Here we take the time to recognize the award winners from the last 4 years. Congratulations to all of our past winners!

                          2021

Non-Profit of the Year      407 lunch ladies 

Community Service         Susan Shank   

Citizen of the Year           Paula Bitter

Business of the Year       Klemas

Growing Russell             Waudby's

                        2022

Non-Profit of the Year      Russell Library   

Community Service          Andrew Ochampaugh

Citizen of the Year            Andrea Garland

Business of the Year        Meridy's

                         2023

Non-Profit of the Year      VFW

Customer Service           Mary Hammerschmidt 

Citizen of the Year           Dylan Riedel

Business of the Year       Russell Specialty Books and Gifts

                        2024

Non-Profit of the Year      Dream Theatre   

Customer Service            Erik Stone

Citizen of the Year           Ashley Mai

Business Of the Year       The Closet Boutique

We are going to have a little fun at our annual banquet. Our own version of Chamber Feud!

We need your help!

We have compiled a list of 20 questions that we would love to hear your responses to our questions  Take a few minutes and visit our link and share with us your answers!

We appreciate your time and your input