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CHAMBER NEWS - August 2013
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Your Chamber Marketing Committee is hard at work on our 2013-2014 Membership Directory and Buy Local Resource Guide. This valuable member, free, benefit will hit the streets via distribution through the Daily Hampshire Gazette and The Summit, plus the Directory will be found on-line at www.gazettenet.com in mid-November.
We want to get it right! However, we can only be as right as the information we receive from you, our valued members. In just a short while, you will receive a very important document through the mail. It's your Directory Listing Confirmation. This sheet asks you to confirm your enterprise's contact information, business category listing(s), and website, among other valuable information to allow the consumer to reach your business. Your free listings include one category listing, an alpha listing of your business and a quick reference telephone listing. Please note that this information will also be used to update your listing in our website member Directory.
Our 2013-2014 Membership Directory and Buy Local Resource Guide also provides you the opportunity to place a display advertisement which will greatly enhance your visability in the 18,000 Directories which will be sent out. Available in a variety of affordable sizes, your ad can also be highlighted by adding color for a very nominal fee. You will also be receiving a mailing from our partners at the Daily Hampshire Gazette who will be handling the advertising. You can submit your prepared ad to them or they also will be happy to assist you in the design and layout..
Be on the look out for your Directory Listing Confirmation form and for the information on the opportunity to advertise in the new Directory. The 2013-2014 Membership Directory and Buy Local Resource Guide is the go-to source for business to business and consumer to business throughout the Greater Easthampton area! Make sure that you are included!
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Member Spotlight: Finck and Perras Insurance Agency
 Finck and Perras Insurance Agency, Inc. has been part of the local community for almost 80 years. It provides insurance services from two locations, downtown Easthampton and Florence. It is a customer-focused agency offering the full range of insurance services and products, from home and auto to commercial and marine, as well as financial services. Finck and Perras's goal is to provide high quality insurance products and services at reasonable rates. The agency is proud to have been chosen by the readers of the Valley Advocate for its "Best of the Valley" award for the past three consecutive years . Finck and Perras is also deeply involved in service to the local community through its long-standing, active membership on many local committees and nonprofit boards, including the Easthampton Learning Foundation. View this video to meet President Richard Perras and see the Finck and Perras staff in action. Finck and Perras is located at 6 Campus Lane in Easthampton (527-3000), and 63 Main St. in Florence (584-1970). More information can be found at its websit e, www.insuringyourway.com and on its Facebook page.
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We would like to help you get followers, likes or subscribers. The Chamber website allows for links to your YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages. Give the office a call or shoot us an email and we can add the links to your Directory page.
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Member News: Grand Opening of Second "Art in the Orchard"
 Art in the Orchard, an installation of unique sculptures on a beautiful hillside farm, will be on display at Park Hill Orchard, 82 Park Hill Road, Easthampton, from August 10-October 31. Come to the grand opening celebration Saturday, August 10, from 2-5 p.m., before Easthampton's Art Walk.
Admission to the event and sculpture exhibit is free. The show will remain open every day until Halloween, with special events held most weekends.
Art In The Orchard features juried sculptures and installations by 20 local and regional artists. Ten are returning artists fro
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m the first Art in the Orchard in 2011, showing new creations, and ten new artists will make their Park Hill debut. In addition to the sculpture park, events and performances will be scheduled most weekends at the orchard. Two nationally acclaimed guest artists, Michael Melle and Robert Cole, will display their sculptures as well.
Art in the Orchard is the brainchild of Park Hill Orchard owners Alane Hartley and Russell Braen, and Easthampton gallery owner Jean-Pierre Pasche. Pasche dreamed of recreating an outdoor sculpture exhibit like the one set in alpine meadows near his hometown of Bex, Switzerland. Hartley and Braen wanted to have their farm play an active part in the local cultural economy, to "connect culture with agriculture,"as they say. "We've always pictured our working fruit farm as a 'fruit park,'where people in the community hold and participate in all kinds of events like birding walks, apple picking, and sculpture exhibitions."
The 2011 Art in the Orchard was recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which awarded Art in the Orchard one of its three annual Gold Star Awards, out of more than 5,000 projects funded annually by local cultural councils statewide.
For more information, call 413-527-6186 or visit www.ParkHillOrchard.com. Videos and news about Art in the Orchard can also be found on their Facebook page.
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Making Moves: Web-tactics, inc. Moves to Historic Shop Row The Chamber congratulates Web-tactics, inc., a web design company, which will be completing its move from 251 Northampton Street to 83 Main Street in Easthampton, on August 1.
 Web-tactics' new office location, to the right of Taylor Real Estate, is in Easthampton's historic Shop Row. The building dates back to the mid-1800s and is the oldest office building in Easthampton. The new office space boasts historic features, such as exposed brick walls, tin ceilings and original maple wood floors. Owner Janel Jorda began looking for new office space when her business started doubling in size, and she is very excited about her new location. "The new space will better serve my clients, and the Easthampton downtown area will provide greater visibility for our growing company," she said. "While I was searching for space, I had been driving by the few empty storefronts on Main Street and thinking that Easthampton has such a beautiful downtown. I'm glad that Web-tactics will now add to the variety of business on that block-restaurants, optician, florist, real estate, and now web design-and help to support the vitality of that area." Chamber member Mantis Graphics produced new signage for both the inside and outside of the new space. Janel plans to hold a future Chamber networking event in her new office, as well as an open house later in August. In business since 2004, Web-tactics emphasizes simple, effective and affordable web design. Find them at www.web-tactics.com or contact Janel at jpjorda@web-tactics.com or 413-341-3355.
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