Greetings!
Welcome to the Eastern Madera County Area News brought to you by the
Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce. We are pleased to present news from our members and the communities of Eastern Madera County.
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The Chamber Has Lots Of Ways To Help Grow Your Business
 FREE Membership Benefit Class
The Chamber has over 50 pages in our benefit hand guide!
We will show you how to use the benefits that grow your business, save you money, save you time, provide advertising, and provide benefits to your employees.
Seating is Limited so please RSVP
Call our office at 683-7766
or email us at: chamber@oakhurstchamber.com
Pack a brown bag lunch, or join us after work
Tuesday, Sept. 28 from
12:00 to 1:00
Or 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Yosemite Gateway Restaurant
(next to Best Western on Highway 41.)
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Spend St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
 Want to learn more?
Join us for a FREE Orientation
Thursday Sept. 16 5:30pm
Yosemite Gateway Restaurant
40530 Hwy 41 (Next to Best Western)
Click Here to RSVP
Discover & Explore Scenic Ireland for only $1849 pp!
March 15 - 23, 2011
Perched on the northwest tip of Europe, this is the one place in the world
where even time getting lost will be worthwhile... With ancient myths and
legends to uncover, amazing landscapes to explore and locals who will be more
than happy to reveal our hidden gems, just go where the island of Ireland takes
you. Guaranteed, you'll return home with memories that will last a lifetime. Deadline
for deposits has been extended to
Sept. 20th.
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Chamber Mixer
 Chamber Mixers are FREE and open to the public
Upstairs Downtown Salon
49063 Rd 426 Ste A, Oakhurst CA
Wednesday, Sept 22
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Meet and Greet~ Catered Hors D'oeuvres ~Free Raffle ~ Live Music ~ Dancing ~ No Host Bar
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Women In Business Luncheon
 Thursday September 23, 2010
12pm - 1pm
Crab Cakes Restaurant
40278 Stagecoach Rd, Oakhurst
Speaker: Donna Dozier - Look Good, Feel Good Program by the American Cancer Society
Meal Choice: Atlantic Salmon Broiled or Garden Pasta, includes non-alcoholic drink, tax & tip
Make your reservation today, visit Women In Business online
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Oakhurst Chocolate & Wine Festival
 Imagine a beautiful fall day, warm sun, blue skies, green and gold vistas beyond the boundaries of a still lush green park. Now also imagine a picnic in that park, with your choice of California wines, appetizers from some of the most well known restaurants in the region, chocolate covered strawberries for dessert and unique artisans showcasing the best in holiday gift giving ideas. It is called the Oakhurst Chocolate and Wine Festival, and you are invited to attend. October 9 - 10, 201o from 10 am to 5 pm at the Oakhurst Community Park in the heart of downtown Oakhurst. This event is in its 19th year and has become one of the top showcase events for Eastern Madera County.
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Chamber Ambassadors - Welcoming New Businesses to Our Community
 | A Bit Of Everything Ribbon Cutting
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 | 47th Place Carpet One Ribbon Cutting for their new location
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Would you like to build your business contacts? Would you like to help welcome others? Become an Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador.
Come see what being an Ambassadors all about, join us at the next Ambassadors meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 13th 12pm at The Grind.
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Trunk -N-Treat Halloween Night
The Oakhurst Area Chamber and the Oakhurst Community College Center, are looking for "Trunkers" (volunteers to act as treat givers). "Trunkers" are asked to arrive by 5:30 p.m., provide and hand out treats to the children from 6:00-8:00 p.m. from the trunk of their cars. We hope you enjoy the camaraderie of the event in providing children with a safe, enjoyable and memorable celebration. "Trunkers" decorate yourselves and your cars (no masks or gore please). Be prepared for a couple of hundred "Treaters and a hauntingly good time!
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The List Keeps Growing Are you In It?
Final Week To Get Your Name On The List
 The Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that sales for its upcoming community map are now underway. The maps are on target to print next spring, and will be distributed in and around Madera County plus on line via Google, the Chamber website, and Village Profile.
All business advertisers will be linked via the map page on our website to their own ad and Google Map!
The full-color, glossy community map will feature a street-level community map showing local points of interest.
The following business have already bought their ads, call us today to join them. 683-7766
Best Western - Yosemite Gateway Inn
Book Barn
Boyer Personnel
Century 21 Ditton Realty
Century 21 Golden Chain Realty
Children's Museum of the Sierras
Coarsegold Historic Museum
Coarsegold Historic Village
Coldwell Banker - Dorothy Miller
Discover Yosemite
Eagle Quick Lube
Emerson Institute/Positive Living Center
Fresno Flats Historic Village & Park
Friends of the Oakhurst Branch Library (FOBL)
Jamison & Chappel, Attorney's At Law
Jerry's Lock & Key
Little Church on the Hill
Nature's Nutrients
North Fork Rancheria
Raymond Museum
Sierra DJ
Sierra Mono Indian Museum
Sugar Pine Christian Camps
The Cat's Meow
The Redwoods In Yosemite
Thornberry Museum
Underwood Insurance
Vision Academy of the Arts
Wild Wonderful King Vintage Museum
Yosemite Bank
Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
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Chamber Night At The Casino
Thursday, September 30th
$12 for members of Clovis, Coarsegold & Oakhurst Area Chambers of Commerce. $25 for non-members (to include bus transportation from Clovis add $5.00 for members)Includes: * Full buffet dinner at the California Market Buffet enjoyed in a private dining room * Networking with multiple chambers and $10 e-cashYOU MUST REGISTOR IN ADVANCEClick here for registration form
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Come Join The Parade!
 Show off your business, kid, dog, horse or car
Mountain Heritage Days Parade
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Parade will begin at 10 am , starting at Yosemite High School it
will proceed down Rd 427 to Rd 426 and end at Golden Oak Drive
Put the kids in the parade on bikes or back of the pickup or get fancy
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SBA's Patriot Express Loan Initiative Nears $500 Million Mark
 In just three years' time, the U.S. Small Business Administration's Patriot Express Pilot Loan Initiative has supported nearly $500 million in Patriot Express loans to small businesses owned and operated by veterans, reservists and their spouses.
Patriot Express Loans, which can be used to start or expand a small business, increased over the past two years due in part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Romantic Vacation For Two
 Package includes:
Two night stay inthe Bear Cottage or Enchanted Cottage at Paradise Springs with breakfast basket.
www.ParadiseSpringsMountain.com
Seven Day Pass to Yosemite National Park.
Wine Tasting at the award winning Westbrook Wine Farm
www.WestbrookWineFarm.com
& Idle Hour Winery
www.IdleHourWinery.com
Ride The Logger - Historic Steam Train Ride for Two
www.YosemiteSteamTrains.com
$455 per couple
Based on advance reservations and availability
Extra nights available upon request
Price includes tax - valid thru October 31, 2010
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Are You Financially Exposed?
By Marilyn Rigg, State Farm Insurance, Oakhurst.
Many people realize the need for life insurance but keep putting it off until it is too late. You may think that life insurance is confusing, expensive and complicated. You may think you don't know enough to make the right decisions for you and your loved ones. Postponing this decision leaves you and your family exposed financially.
Assumption #1: I'll always be able to buy life insurance.
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Free Seasonal Flu Shots
 Drive Thru Clinics on Thurs. Sept 30
9:30am - 11:00am
at the following locations:
Oakhurst - Mountain Christian Center
Coarsegold - Community Bible Church
North Fork - Post Office Parking Lot on the corner of Rd 200 & Rd 222
Public Health staff welcome community volunteers
to work side by side with them in these seasonal flu vaccine clinics.
To volunteer, please call 675-7893 or 1-800-427-6897.
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Photo Safari Fall Excursions
 Please note that Photo Safari is offering Fall excursions and hoping to take out Fall Yosemite Visitors to capture the colors in the Park! The photos represented in the attached Post Card were made last year in October and November. The Half Day and Full Day packages are the same as posted on www.photosafariyosemite.com but subject to road closures due to weather. We can still go into the park with snow conditions and save clients the cost of buying and putting on snow chains. Looking forward to the coming weather changes! If you know of someone wanting to go into the Park soon to take advantage of the Falll Colors, please forward this promotion!
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| | Business of the Week |
Crabcakes Restaurant
40278 Stagecoach #7
Oakhurst, CA 93644
559-641-7667
crabcakes@sti.net
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| | New Members
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Please join us in welcoming the following businesses to the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce
- Century 21-Ditton - Kandi Papike
- Ilion Two Inc.
- Jitterbug Project
- Kitahara GMC Buick, Inc.
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| Renewing Members
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Congratulations to the following businesses. They benefit from
all of the many services the
Oakhurst Area Chamber
provides.
Big Oak Septic Butterfly Creek Winery Christ Church - Anglican Days Inn Discover Yosemite Erna's Elderberry House Farmers Insurance - Rich Regert Jack's Butane Service Inc. Madera Vintners Association Mountain Bear Fan Club Nelson Press Oakhurst Rocks One Stop Office Products Paradise Springs Sierra Oak Auto Body Sign Authority W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp. Work Force Development Office Yosemite Gazette Hoof n' Paw Veterinary Hospital Quady Winery Real Estate Center Yosemite West Cottages
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August Stats
| The Oakhurst Area Chamber is one of the most frequently dialed number in the area. Our website generates well over three million hits per year!
We provide a FREE place for our members to display their business cards and brochures in our busy lobby.
View stats to see just how busy we were in August:
Home Page Hits: 370,992
Business Member Referrals from Website: 19,912
# Emails Answered: 781
# Relocation Requests: 10
# Phone Calls Rcv'd: 852
# Visitors: 295
# Pieces of Mail Sent: 261
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| Customer Appreciation | |  Thank you to:
Coarsegold Historic Village for putting together the Antique and Collectibles Peddlers Fair during Labor Day Weekend. It was a great event and we appreciate all of the time and hard work you give to promoting our community.
Our Mission:
"Promote and support the economic vitality of our
local businesses, while honoring and preserving the unique lifestyles of our Mountain Communities." |
| Get Involved
Serve as a voice of the Chamber
Ambassadors
Welcome new businesses to our community.
Meetings are: 2nd Tuesday of the month, - 12pm
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Economic Development
Improving the economic conditions for business in our communities.
Meeting are: 3rd Friday of the month - 2pm
Strategic Planning
Planning for the financial heath and well being of the Chamber.
Meeting are: 3rd Wednesday of the month, Central Valley Community Bank - 3pm
Emergency Preparedness
Planning for our safety should dangerous conditions occur.
Meeting are: 2nd Thursday of the month, Sierra Ambulance - 7:30am
For more information Contact the Chamber office
559-683-7766
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| Did You Know?
| Membership Benefit Handguide
The member benefit handguide outlines many of the benefits businesses receive when they belong to the Chamber. From basic small business services to advertising. Plus discounts for your business and employees, advocacy, networking, affiliate programs, education, free web pages, and more. If you have not yet received your hand guide contact the Chamber office today pick up your copy.
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Proud Sponsors of the Oakhurst Area Chamber
Gold Sponsors:  Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino
Silver Sponsors:
P.G.& E.
Donaghy Sales
Corporate Sponsors:
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