The theme Saturday was “The Art of Community” at the 96th Annual Meeting & Banquet for the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce & Economic Development. That theme was repeated throughout the evening, as when Taylor Calcara noted that proactive communities, like works of art, don’t just happen by accident.“The people make all the difference and you people have made this community absolutely phenomenal,” said Calcara, the 2018 chairman of the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Awards were presented to the 2017 Business of the Year, Great Bend Children’s Clinic, and to the NextGen Leader of the Year, Jason Mayers.Later in the evening, Mark Mingenback would take the stage to accept the 2017 Citizen of the Year award.