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Board Retreat
The Chamber board will hold their annual Retreat on Friday, February 19, 2010.
8am - Noon.
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Super Supporters
$3,000-5,000 Donations
Alaska Cruise Association
Sponsoring the Season's End Celebration
ACS
Sponsoring the Sitka Golf Tournament
Primary Benefactors
$1,000 Memberships
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Chamber Board
Cory Baggen, President, Samson Tug & Barge
Vacant, V-P,
Gerry Hope Secretary /Treas., Sitka Tribe of Alaska
Caprice Pratt, Member-at-Large, First National Bank Alaska
Keith Perkins - USDA Rural Development
Lowell Frank - Spenard Builders Supply
Larry Crews - Aurora Business Supplies
Seth Bone - KingFisher Charters
Craig Shoemaker - Seafood Producers Coop
Olga Borland - Russian American Co.
Allen Turner - Wells Fargo
Linda Mudry - White's
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From the DirectorThank's for reading our weekly newsletter. Please call or email with questions or comments.
Sheila Finkenbinder
Executive Director
907-747-8604
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WEEKLY LUNCHEONS
Thank you to the Sitka Conservation Council for donating last week's door prize, won by Charlotte Swanberg.
February 3, 2010 - Jan & Terry Lovett, Sitka Jazz Festival directors. The Sitka Jazz Festival is this week, February 4-6.
The Jazz Festival will be donating the door prize this week.
February 10, 2010 - Jeremy Mathis, UAF School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences Assistant Professor, will discuss the effects of ocean acidification on our fisheries.
February 17, 2010 - Governor Sean Parnell, the 10th governor of the State of Alaska.
February 24, 2010 - Sitka's Tree & Landscape Committee
Please call or email Sheila for the opportunity to promote your business at a Chamber lunch, by being the door prize donor.
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SITKA LULLABYComposer, David Ackerman, has written a beautiful Sitka Lullaby to remember his first visit to this beautiful place we call home. He has gifted the song to us, and you can hear it on our website by clicking on the link just below the picture of Alexander Baranov. Mr. Ackerman was the Associate Conductor of the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra in Denver, Colorado for the past 19 years. He is now working on a Sitka Suite, which should be complete this spring. He and his wife are looking forward to visiting Sitka again this June. We hope to have him as a guest presenter at one of our luncheons.
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CHOCOLATE SATURDAY IN SITKA!
Chocolate treats of all kinds will be offered, along with special mid-winter sales, on
Saturday, February 13, 2010.
Watch for special promotions and posters in store windows of participating merchants.
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ANNUAL BANQUET SPONSORS NEEDED
 Highlight your business by being one of the sponsors of our Annual Banquet, and help us make this year's banquet another outstanding event. We are seeking cash sponsors and/or in-kind donations for the raffle and the silent auction. Invitations and sponsor requests will be mailed out soon - but you could help get things going by calling or emailing us right away with your donations. Don't forget to help us select the 2009 Business of the Year and the winner of the Cossack Cap. Nomination forms are available at the Chamber office, at weekly luncheons and on our website. Please send us your nominations by February 12!The Chamber of Commerce will announce the award winners at the Annual Banquet on Saturday, March 13.
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LINCOLN DAY DINNER
 The 2010 Lincoln Day Dinner will be on Wednesday, February 17, at the Channel Club, beginning at 6pm.  Governor Sean Parnell will be the guest speaker. The dinner, of prime rib or seafood, will follow a cocktail hour and silent auction. Tickets, at $40, are on sale now. Reservations may be made by calling Lureen Stedman at 747-8905. |
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WELCOME TO SITKA DAY!
Wednesday, May 5, is the date for this year's Welcome To Sitka Day!
We will be welcoming the passengers and crew of Celebrity's Millennium, which will be making its only stop in Sitka for the season. The ship will be here from 11am until 7pm.
If you have ideas or would like to help plan activities that will help make it a special day for our guests, please email or call the Chamber at 747-8604.
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