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February 20 - 26, 2013
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Directory
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Shop Local - Shop Chamber
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Premier Chair Circle
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Executive Chair Circle
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New Members
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Welcome to this new member in January - please show your support!
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A member says...
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 "The opportunity to meet the heating and air conditioning needs in our community would never have been possible without the North Clackamas County Chamber of Commerce."
David Golobay, Sun Glow, Inc. Heating and Air Conditioning
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| North Clackamas County
Chamber of Commerce
7740 SE Harmony Rd
Milwaukie, Oregon 97222
503-654-7777
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Registration closes February 21!
Join us at the February 27th Digital Media & Marketing Forum Luncheon from 11:30am to 1:15pm at the Abernethy Center. John Carcutt, Director of SEO & Social Media with Advance Digital, the parent company of OregonLive.com will present the basics of Digital & Mobile Advertising, Social Media, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing to give you tools for creating a digital strategy to attract more customers and grow your business. John is a top national speaker in this arena and is a pioneer in modern search engine optimization. He'll share best practices, fresh ideas and concepts and audience questions will be welcome.
Thank you to Presenting Sponsor Clackamas Review and Event Sponsors OregonLive, Amicus Data, and Matrix Video Production, Inc.
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Network at after hours event tonight! 
Join us at a Business After Hours on Wednesday, February 20, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Ainsworth House & Gardens. It will be co-hosted by Ainsworth House & Gardens and Two Chicks and a Rooster Catering and BBQ. Enjoy a relaxed evening at this beautiful loca tion and learn more about what services these two members provide! Light hors d' ouevres and beverages will be served. Cost is $5.00 to attend. If you are a Chamber member and bring an adult guest, you are both FREE!!! Ainsworth House & Gardens is located at 19130 Lot Whitcomb Drive in Oregon City.
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Recognition of members
Your Chamber would like to recognize these members who reinvested in Your Chamber last week:
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 Women in Leadership will hold their first meeting
Join us for the first Women in Leadership brown bag lunch on Friday, February 22, from 11:30am - 1:00pm at Oregonians Credit Union, 6915 SE Lake Road, Milwaukie. A panel of 3 woman leaders will be interviewed about career choices. The Career Choices panel will include a leader from a non-profit (Janelle Meredith with Oregon Impact), a proprietor ( Shawnda Horn with Double J Construction, Inc.), and an executive from a large corporation (Kristin Yates with Comcast Communications). If you have any questions about this event, please contact Char Shinn by email or at 503.833.5177 .
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Share chamber benefits with a friend
Recruit a friend to become a new Chamber member between now and March 20 and you will earn $20 in Chamber bucks and become eligible to win $500. Every member who recruits a new Chamber member during this membership recruiting contest will be allotted one raffle ticket per recruit. At the end of the contest, a drawing will be held for the $500 grand prize.
Membership forms are available on the chamber website. Print some out and start talking to your business associates about the benefits you have derived from your chamber membership. Your recruits will be winners, too! Together Everyone Achieves More!
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Learn what 30 successful CEO's know that you should know
The topic for the Tuesday, March 26, Grow Your Business workshop is "Lessons Learned from the Top."
If you had 30 minutes and only one shot to share your very best and/or toughest lessons in business and life with 10-20 other business owners or business students, what would you tell them? Participants will learn the five most common "Best Life Lessons" of 30 Successful CEO's, be introduced to a robust template for developing their own "Best Life Lessons", and will create a first draft personal "Best Life Lessons" Document.
Presenter will be Merrill Watts with the Clackamas Small Business
Development Center. This workshop is FREE for Chamber Members and $25 for non-members, but all are being asked to register prior to the seminar.
Sponsored by Portland General Electric (PGE) and the Clackamas Community College - Customized Training Center, it will be held in the Oregon Institute of Technology B uilding, from 11:45am - 1:15pm. Bring your lunch - beverages will be available.
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Save money - build your business
 Joining your Chamber is one way to help your business succeed. Another way is to use email marketing solutions from Constant Contact - emails, surveys and event marketing. Sign up for Constant Contact through your Chamber and you can receive up to a 25% discount even if you're already a Constant Contact customer.
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All employees are Chamber members!
Please forward this weekly newsletter to anyone in your company. Your Chamber membership includes ALL employees! To have others receive these newsletters automatically, send an email to diane@yourchamber.com. This is a great way to share important information and to take full advantage of your membership!
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Former Chamber President/CEO received lifetime achievement recognition
 Wilda Parks, former President/CEO of the North Clackamas County Chamber received lifetime achievement recognition from the Western Association of Chamber Executives at their annual conference in San Francisco last week. Dave Kilby, President/CEO of WACE and Ken Moore, Edmonds, OK Chamber President and Chair of WACE, presented her with a plaque that noted her "outstanding leadership and unselfish service to the profession in her twenty-nine year history as a chamber professional". Her recognition also includes lifetime membership in the Association.
Parks served fourteen years with the local chamber, and also served two chambers in California before moving to Oregon. Currently she serves as the county citizen representative to Metro's Policy Advisory Committee, on the board of Clackamas County Business Alliance, the Governor's Grow Oregon Council, state SBDC Advisory Board, Milwaukie Planning Commission, chamber Public Policy Team and several other local public policy and economic development organizations and advisory groups.
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 Clackamas Federal Credit Union to host free PERS Seminar
Clackamas Federal Credit Union will be hosting a free PERS Seminar on March 13th from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. Learn the ins and outs of PERS. Discover how your retirement plan works and understand some of the options you may wish to consider when making retirement choices. It will cover Tier I and Tier II PERS and will be held at the Oregon City Branch, 270 Warner Milne Road in Oregon City. Call 503.722.5470 to register (registration is FREE.) Flyer
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 Local authors to appear for book signing
Local historical authors including P-51 Mustang Ace Dr. Clayton Kelly Groce will be on hand February 23rd at the Wings of Freedom Museum for an Open House from 10:00am - 2:00pm. You are invited to meet and greet authors, visit the museum's extensive Aviation Research Library, explore the PX or enjoy the expanding exhibit "The Power of the B-17". Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free, but donations to the non-profit "Wings of Freedom Project" will be gratefully accepted. The museum is located at 13515 SE McLoughlin Blvd in Milwaukie.
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 Boring Fire District to host blood drive
Looking for a way to get warm during these chilly months? Giving blood is truly a heart-warming experience and having blood available, when someone needs it, can help save a life. What warmer feeling is there? Your blood donation will help ensure that blood is available when someone might need it.
Every day the American Red Cross must meet the needs of accident victims, premature babies, people undergoing treatment for cancer, and other patients in local hospitals. The blood must be there before it's needed in order to save lives.
Take time this month to give a heart-warming gift. Contact 1-800-RED CROSS or go online using sponsor code: DamascusBoring to schedule a blood donation appointment at the Damascus and Boring Community blood drive at the Boring Fire Department, 28655 SE Hwy 212, on Wednesday, February 27, from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. Together, we can save a life.
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Free Better Lighting, Lower Costs Workshop offered
Identify how to increase your bottom line with energy-saving options
On March 13 Portland General Electric (PGE) will be offering a free workshop that will get you started with the basics and quickly move on to practical lighting upgrade solutions you should consider. You will leave feeling prepared to improve your lighting for your employees and customers and enjoy long-term energy cost savings.Cost is free to PGE commercial and industrial customers. For a fee others may attend if space allows.
Flyer Complete schedule of PGE classes
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 Milwaukie events calendarClick here for the upcoming events and meetings for the City of Milwaukie. Click here for Milwaukie area information.
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 Happy Valley events calendarClick here for the upcoming events and meetings for the City of Happy Valley.
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 Damascus meeting and events schedule
Click here for the upcoming public meetings and events for the City of Damascus covering the timeframe of February 17 - 28.
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 Clackamas County to fill two open seats on planning commission; applications due March 25
Clackamas County is looking for people interested in serving on the county planning commission. Two vacancies need to be filled in the spring. The nine-member commission made up of volunteer citizens reviews and advises the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) on quasi-judicial and legislative land use issues. Planning commission members are appointed to four-year terms by the BCC. They are chosen on the basis of their expertise, experience and/or education related to land use issues and to represent different geographic locations around the county.
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 The State of TriMet - Agency lays out FY14 budget outlook
TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane laid out a preview of the Fiscal Year 14 budget in his State of TriMet presentation to the Board of Directors. The preview provides the framework for the upcoming budget that will be released in mid-March. McFarlane said the contract with the union needs reform to fund service, or riders face a future of continual service cuts.
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