Towne Lake
Business Association
Member Spotlight
William Schenck
Personal Training Club

From the

Towne Lake Business Association

Spring is in the air! As we prepare for the coming great weather, I reflect back on the what our local businesses bring to our community. The value our customers can experience through small businesses like those who comprise the Towne Lake Business Association (TLBA) continues to amaze me. What I mean by this is that most local businesses don't have to respond to pressures imposed by public boards of directors and shareholders. Therefore, we can price our products and services at fair and reasonable prices for our customers, while recirculating the economic benefits locally. While we may not be able to influence you through expensive national media, you can be assured that we will make every effort to compete and exceed our customers expectations. Please help me support our local business - the value, quality and service are there. March is "Catch Someone Doing Something Right Month." Drop me a note at www.tlba.org to let me know about a business you've "caught" doing something right. After all, a little positive can surely go a long way.

I am proud to announce that the TLBA, through the support of our wonderful members and the Towne Lake area community, will once again award two $1,000 Entrepreneurial Scholarships to a graduating college or technical school-bound high school senior, one each at Etowah and Woodstock High Schools. We are currently finalizing this year's criteria for these scholarships, with input from our members and the faculty at each of these schools. Our goal is to identify those students who have demonstrated not only academic achievement, but entrepreneurial enthusiasm and spirit as well. We look forward to assisting two deserving future leaders as they pursue their higher education. I will keep you updated in future columns.

The topic of our February workshop was "Living Your Potential to Achieve More in 2004." We want to thank Martha Lanier of Ignite Your Potential, Inc. for leading the workshop.

As always, we thank you for supporting our local businesses, and thus our Towne Lake area community, and for "Keeping Towne Lake Dollars in Cherokee."

Wayne Kosbe, President

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:
  Claude Beaudry - Action International
Dr. Patti Cohen - A Wellness Center
Ian Kirkpatrick - Signs of All Kinds, Inc.
Matthew Golgan - Matthew's Tree Service

Join us for our next

Lunch 'N' Workshop
Tuesday, March 16, at 12:30 p.m.
Featherstone's at Towne Lake Hills.
Please call (770) 517-8210, ext. 550 to
RSVP today.

Visit us at www.tlba.org.

William Schenck

William Schenck, the founder of the Personal Training Club (PTC) on Towne Lake Parkway, has spent most of his adult life helping people get and stay fit. Soon after William completed his Masters degree in Exercise Physiology from Georgia State University, he was hired by Piedmont Hospital to help establish and run their new employee fitness program. Over the ten years that he was with Piedmont Hospital, he played an instrumental part in helping this health program grow from 15 members into Piedmont Hospital's Health and Fitness Club with more than 3,000 members.

William and his wife Rebecca are both native to Atlanta. They chose Cherokee County to live and to raise their three children. William started the Personal Training Club in 1988. From the beginning, he wanted his club to remain small and personal. He had found over many years of experience, that one constant in the ever changing health and fitness field is that everyone's quality of life can improve through improved fitness. He also realized that the big health clubs are not for everyone. William has found that some people feel lost in the bigger clubs and wind up quitting without getting any benefit out of their memberships.

William started the Personal Training Club to fill this niche for his neighbors. "I started the Personal Training Club to help fill the health and fitness needs for people who prefer to be in a small personal club," stated William. The PTC's motto, "Small Health Club BIG RESULTS" says it all. He likes to remind all his new members that the PTC is not about long term contracts, but that the PTC's mission is to," help you create some good health and fitness habits that will be yours to keep for life."

PTC is currently located at 2370 Towne Lake Parkway, but will be moving to 8594 Main Street in downtown Woodstock is early April. For more information on PTC, please call (770) 592-2237.