Blair Chamber to meet

The Blair County Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Club will meet at 7:45 a.m. Jan. 15 at the Blair County Convention Center.

The event will be a panel discussion on Blair County’s economic trends, development projects, workforce conditions and public policy priorities.

The panel will feature Stephen McKnight, president and CEO, Altoona Blair County Development Corp.; Bradley Burger, executive director, Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies-PA Career Link of Blair County; Commissioner Dave Kessling, president, Blair County Commissioners; and Alex Halpern, senior vice president of government affairs, PA State Chamber of Commerce. The event will be moderated by Matt Fox, Altoona Blair County Development Corp.

The cost to attend is $25 for Chamber Members and $35 for non-members and includes a full breakfast buffet. For more information or to make reservations, visit the Chamber online at www.blairchamber.com or call 814-943-8151.

Peoples rate increasing

Customers of Peoples Natural Gas will be paying more for their gas.

Effective Thursday, Jan.1, the quarterly adjusted gas cost commodity rate will increase from $5.28 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) to $5.74 per mcf.

With the increase, a residential customer who uses 80,000 cubic feet per year, or 6.7 mcf per month, will see a monthly bill increase of about $4, said Carol Scanlon, Peoples manager of rates.

The commodity gas cost is a straight dollar-for-dollar pass through from Peoples to the customers, thus Peoples does not profit from the gas cost commodity rate, Scanlon said.

Peoples serves about 31,200 customers in Blair County.