Bring on the beauty!  Grey  clouds, blue skies and hopefully lots of GREEN ($) for our Members!  Enjoy this month, enjoy your visitiors.  The # 1 comment from our visitors at the Chamber is how friendly the community is.  Please continue to share that hospitality, making Red Lodge THE DESTINATION!

Sincerely, RLA Chamber of Commerce/Visitors Center

• Saturday, June 9 will be THE DAY TO BE IN RED LODGE!  Enjoy the Founder's Day Celebration including Mason's Mountain Run, the REWIND E-Waste Recycling, the Music Festival, the Kayak Race, the All Nations Garden Club annual sale at H Bar S and the first annual Chamber Business Expo!  Buy your dinner tickets now at The Pollard or CCHS and Museum!  Passport program=Prizes!  Participating businesses are offering DEEP discounts and giveaways!  Special thanks to our participating businesses and the cross-promotional efforts of these groups working together!  Thank you to our sponsors!  Thank you for the additional efforts that allowed us to run 48 radio ads in one week leading up to the Expo!
• Saturday, 6/16 4-8 p.m. Celebrate Ruth Brown with Ruth Brown!  Flying in for her special day, hug her while you can at the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary.  446-1133
• Saturday, 6/16:  Scavenger Hunt in your businesses hosted by Member Boys and Girls Club of Carbon County with Member Beartooth Harley!  Please call 446-2582 for details!  2 straight weekends sending guests straight to your business!
• Monday, 6/18:  Beartooth Evening Adventures begins! 6 groups working together for you and our visitors! Free nightly programs Monday through Friday for the summer.  Call the Chamber for details!  Flyers will be abound soon!
• Thursday, 6/21 5:30 p.m.:  Chamber After Hours at The Red Lodge Adventure Center.  Get the grillin' on, Red Lodge summer-style!  Raffles, food and fun!
• Thank you, Covering Broadway and Rockin' J, for hosting the May After Hours!  We had so much fun eating until our hearts content with more than 10 different items served by Rockin' J.  Covering Broadway's business is "covered" with the most beautiful variety of not only flooring but design tile and so much more.  How creative was the coozie sale?  Thank you!  Don't forget to pick up your pizza at Rockin' J's deli on Friday night (or any night for that matter) it is open late now! (8)
• Saturday, 6/23:  44th Annual Beartooth Run.  Headwaters Studio will also be running throughout the week until then on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday:  Info
• Tuesday, 6/26 5-8 p.m.:Chamber Lawn cleanup! Spearheaded by Pro Cut Lawn Care, join us to clean up the gateway to Red Lodge. Several local Members and organizations are involved and we need you!  Did we mention free food for joining us?  Please call us now just to let us know that you can and will help us on this fun, necessary day!
• 2 new computers are now available at the Chamber for public internet access thanks to RLACF, Mountain Tech Advantage and First Interstate Bank!  Guests wondering where wifi is while at your business?  Send them to the Chamber, we have that, too!
• Red Lodge hosted two more "FAM" familiarization tours in May!  Thank you, Doug Bailey, Gary Robson and others for these enjoyable worldwide, whirlwind tours!  We are looking forward to September to host the MegaFam Trip, thanks to the State Tourism Office and Yellowstone Country, including more than 50 tourism professionals from around the world!
• Cowboys & Cowgirls!  The new Destination Red Lodge is hot and available online.  Share with your friends and family!  Great job, Member Creative Design Works:  DRL Online
• The Economic Impact Study is underway!  Thanks to Member, FBAAR, and the sponsors, again including Yellowstone Country and the MT Office of Tourism to name a few!  Look for the vests and the MSU-B van at Vista Point!
• A Los Angeles Movie Film Crew has been and will be in the Red Lodge area!  A 30 person film crew will be in the area for about 1 week in mid-August.  Thank you, Scott, and the CCHS and Museum, for helping to show them around and use local resources!  Falcon Song is on the way!
• Men's Journal announces Red Lodge as one of the Best Places to Eat, Stay and Play in a Mountain Town (Thanks, Member, Merv Coleman of Coleman Gallery, for sharing the link:  Red Lodge is the Best
• Red Lodge is featured in the "3 days in"...section in the current issue of the American Cowboy magazine!  Get your copy now at Red Lodge Books!
• Tourism Works:  Check state leaders getting a real appreciation for the tourism industry in Montana:  Kulr 8
• Tourism Lesson Taught in Big Fork:  Tourism Lesson
• Get greater exposure for the area, sign on and get your content loaded on www.yellowstonegeotourism.org.  Help and/or Content Manager: Add My Content
• Buy your Three Legged Red bottle (or case) of wine  through 6/30 at Chamber Member, Babcock & Miles, help homeless animals and fellow Chamber Member, Beartooth Humane Alliance at the same time.  $1/bottle to the cause-great partnership!
• Thanks, Tom Kuntz!  Do you dine at Chamber Member, RL Pizza Co, Bogart's or the Carbon County Steakhouse?  Of you you do!  Well, next time you visit,you will have the brilliant option of contributing to your favorite charity at the same time! Please eat, enjoy and donate!  The Chamber's VIP card number is 043. Go RLA Chamber!
• By the way, are you a part of the Mug Club?  Call Melodie and get your mug fully loaded at 446-3333!
• Rodeo Tickets on sale now at your Chamber!  Beat the crowds, secure your seat!
• The Chamber's website is ready to be unveiled to the world!  One more Board meeting and we will announce the website address.  We are very excited about how functional it is and how it better represents the community! Thanks for the logos!
• Did you know that the Carbon County Newspaper has endless ways to help promote your business in the region not just the city?  Please call Terri at 446-2222 to discover her creative ways to gain exposure for your business-ideas that one may not have thought of! 
• Thanks, Member Hungry Bear Cafe, for the wonderful raisin and banana cream pies you so graciously gave to the Chamber Staff and Volunteers.  Your timing was perfect!  Your new menu looks fulfilling and tempting.  We love the Monday through Friday dinner specials including Chicken Fried Steak, Ribeye, Flounder Filet and more!  Call 446-9177 to check out what's for dinner! (and breakfast and lunch, too)
• World Harmony Run is hosting a USA Drawing Contest:  Deadline is 8/30/12!  Did you know that they will be running in the Red Lodge 4th of July Parade?!  Contest Details
• Speaking of the 4th, we would kindly like to ask your support of theFireworks Display that Red Lodge hosts on the 4th of July. Please mail your donation to P.O. Box 988 or stop on in~we would love to see you!  Thank you, RL Merchants and Lodging Association for your tremendous annual contribution!
• FUN RUN-CHAMBER-FUN RUN-CHAMBER:  Please keep us in mind this year.  Even $10 makes a difference for us!  Seeing your name on our contributor's list really makes us smile.  We appreciate your support!

• Congratulations to Chamber Member McGregor Designs for their recent "Concrete Ideas" display at JENS Gallery and Design in Billings.  Have you seen their work?  It is BEAUTIFUL!  Please check out their website at www.jmcgregordesigns.com
• Congratulations, Member Red Lodge Inn on your new website, designed by fellow Chamber Member, Alien Design Services.  Way to use the network!  Please view this very clear, user-friendly site at www.theredlodgeinn.com.
• Hooray for Member, Robert Stone of Red Lodge for being honored by the Outdoor Writers Association of California for Excellence in Craft in Guidebooks/Travel Books for his "Day Hikes Around Ventura County".  We appreciate your Day Hike books, Robert...and your Membership!  Your book is the reason we needed a kid's corner in the Chamber~parents needed to study where to hike!

Do you have a congrats to share?  Please email redlodgechamber@qwestoffice.net so we can include in our Member correspondence!

Thanks for becoming a part of your local Chamber/Visitors Center!

• Welcome to the Chamber, Lynnrich Seamless Siding, Windows and Gutters!  Check them out at the Business Expo and their website at www.lynnrich.com!
• Welcome to the Chamber, Montana Realty Company of Red Lodge!  They are a full service real estate and property management firm, servicing sales, services, vacation rentals and long term rentals.  Thank you as well for donating your new Member discount to Chamber improvements!  We appreciate your Membership, Myrna Rue and crew!  Please visit their website at www.redlodgerealestate.com or call at 446-4744!
• Howdy, Yellowstone National Park Lodges-Xanterra!  Rick Hoeninghausen quickly pushed through his paperwork to the Chamber upon receiving a phone call from Angela encouraging him to become a Member.  Without a doubt, we work very closely with these Lodges and reservations for the thousands of mutual travelers in our region.  Thank you for recognizing the importance of this partnership, Xanterra! Please visit their website at www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com
• Celebrate Warene Wall on behalf of the Red Lodge, Carbon and Stillwater Yellow Ribbon Communities!  Warene has worked closely with the Chamber since the beginning with Yellow Riboon communtiy last February 2011.  Kicking off the new organization by serving a variety of situations for Service Members and being awarded the Sea of Goodwill Award for a Small Community, Warene and the YRC hit the ground running and they haven'ts stopped since!  Thanks for your efforts and strengthening the network for Service Members in our area!  Please contact Warene at 425-4021 or wwallassociates@aol.com.

• Annual Report RLACF:  Report
• Business BEWARE:  Aggressive marketing companies are impersonating the Dept. of Labor and Industry:  Alert
• Business BEWARE: Warning of fly-by-night contractors by the Dept of Labor and Industry:  Alert 
• Business Matters Program through SBDC:  Program Outline
• CIEE Summer J-1 Work Updates:  Chamber Member: CIEE Update
• Energy Update/The Bakken:  Details
• Energy Tour:  Flockin' to the Bakken in June and July:  Tour Info
• Health Benefits Compliance Seminar Free:  Registration
• IHS Regional Tourism Marketing Update:  Regional Efforts
• Linx Transit Area Updates:  Linx Website
• Montana Superhost Customer Service Training, "Are You Worth A Penny" is available online:  Website
• Montana State Chamber Newsletter:  MT News
• National Parks Promotion Council/Tourism is a National Priority:  Tourism=Jobs
• Outside Bozeman Ad Opportunity:  Reach the 15000+ MSU-B market with this!  Deadline~07/06:  Ad Flyer
• Voices of MT Tourism and MT Lodging and Hospitality Association Membership Partnership:  Details
• Yellowstone Business Partnership is awarded$25,000 Business Development Geotourism grant!
• Yellowstone Country Board Meeting Minutes:  Minutes
• Wednesday, 6/6 and 6/13:  Registration Info:  Building Your Nonprofit Budgeting Skills.
• MT Nonprofit Newsletter featuring Member of the Month, Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary:  News
• SafetyFestMT in Great Falls:  SafetyFestMT
• October 15:  Yellowstone National Park invites Bids!  Deadline is 10/15/12:  Bid Details