THE NEWS from EventWorks, Inc.

Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing You that the New Year be a Messenger of Happiness, Joy, Peace and Prosperity, Fun, Love and Luck. May this New Year bring you Wealth, Longevity and Good Fortune! While rats may not have the most outstanding reputation as animals in the West, the characteristics associated with the Chinese Zodiac sign are very positive. So should this be your Chinese zodiac sign, take heart. You are in good company.  Mozart, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rosa Park, Milton Friedman and Mark Zuckerberg were all born in the Year of the Rat. In Chinese culture, rats are used to symbolize wealth and surplus. Traditionally married couples would pray to these rodents hoping some of their reproductive success would rub off on them. Rats are found all over the world and regarded in the Chinese zodiac as being smart and nimble with plenty of vitality and enterprising spirit. Personality People born in Rat years are said to share some of these characteristics.

2019 President Brian Griffith with 2020 President Alisa Walsh On December 9th the SITE SoCal tribe gathered in Palm Springs to install the 2020 SITE Southern California Chapter President, EW's very own Director of Business Development, Alisa Walsh. Alisa Walsh: "In front of 700 of my closest industry colleagues, I had the honor of stepping into Brian Griffith's shoes as the SITE Southern California 2020 Chapter President! It was such an incredible evening raising money for our charities, and I can't wait to get this next decade of incentive travel professionals going! I am very grateful to my personal family and my EW family who all came out to support me! We are very proud of Alisa's hard volunteer work for and dedication to SITE and we are looking forward to her year as Chapter President. Alisa is a consummate event professional and brings her knowledge, skills and enthusiasm to every event assignment. We asked Alisa to tell us more about her 2020 profe