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Next Board Meeting
Tuesday, April 6, 4pm.
Chamber Conference Room
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NEW SECTION
Local Business News
To have news from your business included in this newsletter, email Sheila.
Deadline Friday afternoon.
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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
Craig Shoemaker - V-P, Seafood Producers Coop
Gerry Hope, Sec/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
Olga Borland - Russian American Co.
Allen Turner - Wells Fargo
Linda Mudry - White's
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WEEKLY LUNCHEONS
March 31, 2010 - Dave Reid, Sitka Job Center, will inform attendees on the range of employment and training services offered by the local office of the State DOLWD that can help workers and employers.
April 7, 2010 - Fred Reeder, Alaska ACT & Cruiseline Agencies of Alaska, will discuss the upcoming cruise season and current efforts to increase cruise ship travel to Alaska.
April 14, 2010 - Bill Walker, candidate for governor, will discuss his ideas on Alaska Gas for Alaskans.
Please call or email Sheila for the opportunity to promote your business at a Chamber lunch, by being the door prize donor. |
YOU COUNT IN SITKA ~ 2010 CENSUS
Thursday, April 1 is Census Day. Sitka's mail-in participation rate is 24%as of this morning. To watch our rate climb, visit the Chamber's homepage daily. Since some residents haven't yet received their survey, we're not doing too badly, but we want to see our rate rise significantly in the next few days. Please be sure to take the ten minutes to complete your survey and drop it in the mail, and then remind those around you to do the same.
Its EASY, IMPORTANT, and SAFE, and everyone's
participation is vital. We move forward when you send it back. To learn more, visit the 2010 Census.
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NEW SILVER SAVER CARDS OUT SOON
There's still time to have your business listed on the 2010-2011 Silver Saver card. Email Sheila or call 747-8604 to get your business' name on the card that shoppers refer to all year for local purchases.
The new cards will be for sale this week.
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Sitka Office ServicesServing Sitka and Southeast Alaska as a
one-stop virtual office, providing a large array of office services including
affordable web design, e-marketing, bookkeeping and payroll services, desktop
publishing, word processing, computer tech and general office
support. Ann Wilkinson, owner, 747-2707 |
THANK YOU RENEWING MEMBERS
Artist Cove GalleryA locally own gallery filled with authentic basketry, sculpture, dolls and jewelry from Inupiat Eskimos, Northwest Coast Natives, and local Alaskan artists working in a variety of mediums. Linda Forbes, Owner, 747-6990 Robertson's Gallery & Custom Framing
Featuring Ernest Robertson and other Alaskan artists
and offering custom framing for all your artwork
(10% off with a Silver Saver card)
747-6825, Owner, Martha Robertson |
HERITAGE & CULTURAL TOURISM CONFERENCE
This week - March 30 - April 1Take a look at the Conference website for detailed information. Featured sessions include topics like: "Increase the Results Produced by your Website" - Tuesday, March 31 at 3:30pm and Wednesday, March 31 at 1:15pm. "Small Business Development" - Wednesday, March 31 at 9:45am
"Small Business Funding Resources" - Thursday, April 1 at 10:45am. "AlaskaHost & Cultural Host Certification" - Wednesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 1. |
CRUISE NEWS LOOKING UP
Things are beginning to look a little more positive for small businesses catering to the cruise industry in Alaska, thanks to Governor Sean Parnell and the grassroots Alaska ACT organization. Read about how, "Lines will drop lawsuit if Alaska tax-cut proposal passes", in a Special Edition newsletter from the Alaska Cruise Association. |
KCAW COMMUNITY CALENDAR
KCAW Raven Radio has recently activated a Community Calendar that is becoming a great resource for all of us. Not only can you find out what's going on, when and where - it's also really helpful when planning your own events. I encourage everyone to list your events on the calendar, as far in advance as possible, to help make it even more useful to all of us. Raven Radio is a Chamber member, and has long been a great partner in helping us spread the word about Chamber events. We appreciate that they saw the need for a community calendar and responded. |
 On Wednesday, April 28, at 1pm, SEDA will present the annual State of Sitka's Economy. This years' presenter will be Dan Robinson, former economist with the State of Alaska. |
FROM THE DIRECTORThank's for reading our weekly newsletter. Please call or email with questions or comments, or to suggest additions to this newsletter.
Sheila Finkenbinder
Executive Director
907-747-8604
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