• Awards & Achievements

Retailer Of The Year

Smith Bates Printing & Design

For their outstanding business excellence through dependability, success, marketing, quality of high standards in customer relations, Smith Bates Printing & Design, owned by Dan and Ann Cavanaugh was awarded the Chamber's Retailer of the Year. Smith Bates was recognized for their ingenuity of continuously reinventing, adapting and preserving and understanding the needs of their clients and the community.

They were recognized for stepping up in several different capacities during the Centennial year:

• For contributing to Klamath County time and time again supporting Soroptomist International, the Ross Ragland Theatre, Reames Golf and Country Club, MWMC Capital Campaign, United Way, Klamath Ice Sports Ice Rink and DECA.
• For their heavy involvement with Chamber serving on several action teams including the Business Retention and Marketing Team.
• For their support of the DA's Methamphetamine Task Force and have sent participants through the Chamber's Leadership Klamath course in 1989, 2003 and 2005.
• And for having sent numerous employees through the Chamber's Leadership Klamath course in 1989, 2003 and 2005.

They were also commended for having played a key role in the Chambers marketing efforts by producing the Klamath County Magazine, Visitors Map and Historic Downtown Walking Tour.

Finally, they were commended on their newest employee Reilly who serves as the company's spokes dog and the new Smith Bates marketing campaign.