LOCAL EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY

Business bootcamp

CANTON: Canton native Nicole Thew Samolis, founder and president of three successful Syracuse companies, will share her entrepreneurial journey at the Women’s Business Bootcamp Luncheon, hosted by the SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center; will present “From Accidental Entrepreneur to Serial Entrepreneur: A Woman’s Journey” detailing her business development from leaving a career with a weekly paycheck to becoming a solopreneur and then finally becoming the serial entrepreneur she is today; sponsored by NBT Bank, the Women’s Business Bootcamp will be held from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the BOCES Education Services Center, 40 W. Main St.; $35 per person and pre-registration is required; register, SUNY Canton SBDC, 315-386-7312 or sbdc@canton.edu.

County chamber dinner

POTSDAM: St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation, 5:30-9 p.m., the Stables at Windy Point; happy hour at 5:30 p.m., musical entertainment, auctions, award presentations for Business of the Year, Customer Service Excellence, and Local Producer of the Year; ‘State of the Chamber’ speech; buffet dinner provided by Bacon Brothers Barbeque will feature smoked turkey and beef brisket, vegetarian ziti, tossed salad, roasted root vegetables with a ginger garlic maple syrup sauce, dessert and coffee; reservations: SLCchamber.org, Facebook.com/SLCchamberNY, by calling 315-386-4000 or by email to Jo Ann Roberts at jo@slcchamber.org; $50 per person or $480 for a corporate table of 10 people.

Nature print notecards

MASSENA: Make nature print notecards with nature center staff; Wed. Oct. 16, 10-11 a.m.; free event; Nicandri Nature Center, 19 Robinson Bay Rd.

Trivia Night

POTSDAM: Trivia Night Fundraiser, 7 p.m., hosted by Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Geeks Who Drink, to benefit Potsdam Snack Pack Program, at Cantina & Cactus Grill, 11 Raymond St.; $5 donation per person, prize for the winning team.

Flu clinic

POTSDAM: Flu clinic hosted by Kinney Drugs, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Lawrence Avenue apartments community room; bring Medicare card or insurance card; immunizations are also given everyday at any Kinney Drugs store without an appointment.

Environmental council

CANTON: St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council meets, 6 p.m., second-floor conference room, Public Safety Complex, 49½ Court St., across Court Street from the Courthouse; speaker will be Dr. Greg Boyer, Professor of Chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and acting director for the Great Lakes Research Consortium, will discuss harmful algal blooms (HABs) and cyanotoxins; open to the public.