Home and Garden Show Food Drive - The Home and Garden Show is waving the Admission Fee this year and instead we ask you to bring a non perishable food donation to help us restock local food banks! Manna house, local churches, the women's rescue shelters, and many other organizations that feed those in need; need our help. Food banks receive extra attention around the holidays, but they need our support all year round.

The Oakhurst Area Chamber has decided to waive the admission into the show this year and instead, hold a Food Drive to show our support. Free parking, Free admission and all for very worthy causes.

The Oakhurst Honorary Mayoral Race deadline to enter the event is Monday, April 6, 2011.

You can become the next Honorary Mayor of Oakhurst. To win the race, simply raise money for your favorite not for profit charity.  

We are now accepting nomination for Oakhurst Honorary Mayor Candidates. For more information stop in to the Chamber office, call 683-7766, or visit us online at: www.oakhurstchamber.com.

The race is kicking off Wednesday April 20th at Yosemite Bank, Oakhurst, from 5:30 - 7:00pm and the winner and new Honorary Mayor will be announced at an event on Wednesday June 29^th.

The Oakhurst Honorary Mayoral Race deadline to enter the event is Monday, April 6, 2011.

Raise Awareness and Money for your Favorite Charity!

Participating in our home and Garden  Silent Auction is an excellent advertising opportunity.

The Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the 2011 Oakhurst Home & Garden Show. This event showcases local businesses and increases public awareness to the residents of our mountain community.  Attendees have the opportunity to see local businesses demonstrate their products & services and meet local business owners.

Donations can be brought to the Chamber office or one of our staff can come by your business to pickup.

559-683-7766 or chamber@oakhurstchamber.com 

Above the Fog Marketing

 

Started in 2008 Above the Fog Marketing is the answer to your marketing and advertising frustrations. Having owned numerous small businesses in the Oakhurst area we know how frustrating it is to spend thousands of dollars wondering if you're getting a good return on investment.

Our solution is to provide a number of marketing and advertising vehicles that are affordable, effective and will get your message in front of an engaged audience. With more than 100,000 people per year going to our local movie theatre, why be lost in 20 pages of newsprint when you could be on screen at The MET Cinema? Why spend hundreds of dollars each month on the yellow pages when focused online marketing reaches your target market at a fraction of the cost?

Saturday March 26 at 8:00pm

From a Southern California stage at the age of three, with a loosely strung ukulele, to one of the many great concert halls in the world today, armed with his two sided Langejans "Super Dualette"guitar (he refers to it as "My Band"), Thom Bresh, the 2001 inductee into the "Thumbpickers Hall of Fame" and his six string friends have been entertaining people for a lifetime. Whether he is leaning against a wall telling you how his day went or shaking the walls of a concert hall with that famous hard driving thumb, first and foremost, you will be entertained. He is equally at home on stage in a stadium or on a couch in someone's living room. Add to this scenario a deep, witty and gritty singing voice set in the middle of that relentless, powerful groove and you have a genuine force to deal with.

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Simply put...contributing to a Roth Individual Retirement Account (IRA) may be a smart money move. The question then is...are you taking full advantage? The benefit of contributing to the Roth IRA is the money you put into one of these accounts grows tax free and distributions may be made tax free.¹

If you haven't opened a Roth IRA, do it now. You have until your tax deadline (typically April 15) to set up an account and make contributions for the previous year. Annual contributions are limited; currently the maximum amount is $5,000.²  That means you can invest $5,000 for 2010, giving you a solid start to your savings.

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We are excited to announce that Ron Morton has joined forces with Oakhurst Office Equipment.  Ron is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and will oversee our computer sales and repair services.  We look forward to being of service whenever you are experiencing computer issues.

40155 Enterprise Drive, Oakhurst CA 93644

559-683-2229

oakhurstofficeequip@sti.net

www.oakhurstofficeequipment.com 

Tax Payers need to provide:

• Valid Photo ID, Social Security Card or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number for all family members
• All W-2's, 1098's, and 1099's (if any)
• Copy of the Prior-Year's Tax Return
• Bank Account and Routing Number for Direct
• Deposit of your refund or Direct Debit of your balance due
• Other income/expense information
• Total Tuition Fees & Expenses
• Total Expenses Paid for Child/Day Care
• Day Care Providers Identifying Number
• Landlord's name, address and phone
• number for the CA Renter's Credit

Appointment Required.
Please call Kevin Tsao at the State Controller's Office to make your appointment by calling (213) 833-6005

Thursday March 17, 2011
11:00am to 2:00pm
Oakhurst Community Center
39800 Rd 425B, OakhurstDelicious homeade soups

Traditional salad bar w/toppings

Rolls

Beverage

Dessert

Take out available

Cost: $10/person

Raffle and door prizes

Tickets available at Oakhurst Giftworks, Central Valley Community Bank, Yosemite Brokerage, and at the door.

Come celebrate St. Patty's Day with us!!!!  

Once upon a time, in the early 1980's, a small group of Oakhurst residents banded together to recreate a local park similar to those each fondly remembered from youth. It would be a place with swings and slides; a place with picnic tables and grills for hot dogs and hamburgers; a place with green grass that stretched far enough to run to catch a ball, turn cartwheels and somersaults until we collapsed, and send our dogs joyfully after a far-flung Frisbee.  

It would be a place to spread a blanket, lie on our backs to search for the earthly things formed by passing clouds in the sky, play in the sunshine and laugh with family and friends. It would be all that.

Many towns have such a place. Usually they come by such a place because it's a function of city taxes or recreational districts. We didn't have either of those resources- never have and still don't. If Oakhurst were to have a park, we would have to build it ourselves. And, so, we have. This is the park that Oakhurst built. This is the park that we've all created.

Business of the Week

Welcome New Members

Coarsegold Private Security & Investigation

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First Tee of Fresno

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Yosemite New Life Church of the Nazarene

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Renewing Members 

February  Stats

# Emails Answered:        1128   

# Phone Calls Rcv'd:         606

# Visitors:                             132

# Pieces of Mail:               1172

You can access your member directory listing page on the Chamber website.

A great new benefit from the Chamber to our members. Members can now log on to the Chamber website and update their business listing as well as add content (now including pictures!).

What a great way to keep your information updated!

List your hours, sales, store hours, new locations, etc!

Click here to view an example of what our members are adding to their pages. 

Calendar of Events

There is always so much to do in the Mountains. Be sure to visit the links below for events happening this week.

Soup & Salad Luncheon  

Rummage Sale 

Grand Night of the Arts 

Laugh Out Loud 

Gold Sponsors:


Chukchansi Gold Resort
& Casino

Sierra Tel Family of Companies

Silver Sponsors:

P.G.& E.  

Budweiser

Destiny Partners 

Corporate Sponsors:  

Yosemite Bank    

 Score Calendar  

There is always so much to learn about small business with SCORE.