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The Voice of BusinessNovember 8, 2012
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 Featured diamond member OF THE WEEK
 
PumpkinRidge     
To see a complete list of our Diamond members visit our website.

 

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Creative Safety Supply
Edgewood Point Community

Guild Mortgage

Pahlisch Homes Inc.

Thai Bloom!

Home Depot

Tier Two Consulting

Hearthstone of Beaverton

White Lotus Marketing

 

 

 

 

new member profiles

 
Tier Two Consulting, LLC
Christina Brasel, Office Mgr.
11680 SW Bel Air Ln.
Beaverton, OR  97008
P: 503-865-0968

F: 503-520-2255

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Tier Two Consulting is a local, US Veteran-Owned IT Support and Service Provider for businesses in the Beaverton area. We offer outsourced and onsite IT support to buisness and small to medium sized office environments.  

Thank you
October  renewing members!

 

 

 

Adams, W. B., Company
Beaverton Police Activities League
Behind The Smile Dentistry for Children
Courtyard by Marriott
CruiseOne Beaverton
Ed Geist - The Hasson Company
Edge Coffee, LLC
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Farmers District 22
LegalShield - Linda Voldengen, Independent Associate
Menzel Design, Inc.
Morris Insurance Services, Inc.
New Seasons Market - Cedar Hills Blvd
Pacific Medical Group
Pegg, Paxson & Springer Funeral Chapel
Pit Stop Sports Bar & BBQ Grill, The
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club
Send Out Cards - Marcia Solberg
Sheridan Tax & Accounting
SMB Financial Services LLC
Springs at Tanasbourne
Take Shape For Life - Philip Mandel
Tree to Tree Adventure Park
Tualatin Hills Park Foundation
Valverde Y Family
West Coast Bank - Beaverton Branch
West Coast Bank - Raleigh Hills Branch
 

 

Greetings! 

 

The election season is behind us and I think we are all grateful - including all of the amazing candidates that sought election to make a difference for their neighbors, communities, states and our nation. Congratulations to those who won and to those who did not, I ask you please not to give up. Whether republican, democrat, or independent .....we need your passion and willingness to serve. We need more people to step forward with ideas and a heartfelt desire to make our communities stronger and better for all. 
 

It is my hope and prayer, with the challenges that we face today, we can collectively be respectful of each and every elected public servant and with that respect, see decisions that reflect compromise and progress towards common goals.
 

Our differences and the freedom we have to share them are what make this nation great.

 

 

Finish your week strong & productively!
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Sincerely,
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Lorraine Clarno, President/CEO, ACE
Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce
503.350.2006  

Strengthening the Local Economy... 


The Chamber advocated heavily for Beaverton's first Enterprise Zone - and our first success is in! Read more about Vernier Software's $2.8 million expansion.
 

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The City of Beaverton is sponsoring a series for minority entrepreneurs. Please read all about the fall series in our newsroom.

 

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Mobility & traffic flow is vital for a growing economy.Metro's South Corridior study underway.Please take the survey.  Nov. 13- Dec. 31st. 

 

 

Representing Business to Government...  

 

 

Our Business Advocacy Council focuses on issues that directly impact businesses that most owners/managers do not have time to stay on top of but count on the Chamber to do so and be their voice.

 

 

NEXT MEETING: **Wednesday, December 5, 2012

TOPIC - Final touches on our Legislative Agenda for 2013 session

 

 

We meet monthly on the first Thursday at 7:30am - 8:30am in our down stairs conference room. Feel free to contact Lorraine if you have any questions. We'd love to have you.  **Special date this month

 

 

 

 

All Business Advocacy Council Meetings are open to all members (appointed or not!). If you "get" the connection between monitoring regulations, ensuring business has input at the table on issues such as transportation, taxation and more...you should come and participate. All ideas and opinions are welcome. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Networking & Referrals...

Full Calendar of Events - What's happening this week? - Click
Weekly Networking Features:
Thursday's - Sales Tune Ups(7:30 - 8:30am, Chamber, Suite 140)
Friday's - Coffee Connections (7:45 - 9:00am, locations change weekly - CalendarThis week:  November 9th, Beaverton Arts Commission at Beaverton City Library,  12375 SW 5th Street, Beaverton.

 

The Chamber Store goes mobile!
Thanks to Jean Sneed & Sue Ragsdale the Chamber store items will be
available every Friday at the Coffee Connections. If you can't wait -
shop online! 
 
Monthly Features:
Business After Hours- November 15th, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00pm 
Thai Bloom!  3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd
Huge thanks to our Sponsor -
Dr. Roof 
$5 for members, $10 for guests. Great food, fun and sunshine!

 

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Maximize Your Membership - Find out how to get the most of your membership and meet new business contacts. November 28th,  12:00 - 1:00pm at the Chamber in Suite 140.

 

Visit Blog for all programming details
**Business Matters! - December 5th, 11:30am - 1:00pm, "The Values we Live by", Presented by Chuck Ferguson, GISI Marketing Group. Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy!
**#DRIVEN (Young Professionals Group) - 3rd Thursday's
November 15th- Breakfast with the Boss - Co-President of Voodoo Doughnut, Ken 'Cat Daddy' Pogson! Full Details and Registration HERE.

Special Events -
SAVE THE DATE! Annual Meeting & Holiday Auctions are upon us...

 

Wonderful volunteers on our Auction Taskforce (Sue Pike, Tracey Ullom, Stacia Boston, Jean Sneed, Erin Moran, Susan Gould, Cyndi  Johnston, Mike Eichenberg, Teresa Bitner, Jafar Chhaya) are working hard in making these auctions the best ever.
 

You can help by donating, helping us seek donations, sponsoring, promoting or volunteering for auction tasks

 

Online Auction 

Online Auction

Check out our Chamber Online Auction opening Nov 26th!

The bidding starts November 26th and ends Dec 10th . 

The highest bidder for online auction items will receive the item.  They will not go on to the live auction.

Win a $50 restaurant card for the most referrals, it's easy using the referral button

There is still time to donate or sponsor our Online Auction before is opens on Nov 26th.

A great big Thank You! to our sponsors

 

Providence Health ServicesBest of OregonTualatinHillsNEW

 

Holiday Auction

The big event will be at the Embassy Suites Dec 13th 4-7pm. 
Make it an extra special night and take the elevator home. Embassy Suites is offering 10% off!

 

Our first fun Super Raffle Item at the auction is the long awaited Mini IPad!!!

 

Charitable giving - Homeplate

This year we will be collecting donations for Homeless Youth Services.

Some of the items listed here will be at the Live Auction for bid or purchase

or you can donate directly to Homeplate on their website.

THE LIST:

Child & Baby Items Ages 0-5

baby toys, warm-clothes, light-up books, action figures, plush/stuffed-toys, games/interactive toys

Older child to young teen Ages 6-12

'bigger kid toys' like action-figures, books, puzzles, games, craft-kits, gift-cards to the movies or store

Teens to young adult  Ages 13 to 24

Tri-met passes or tickets, movie-passes, clothing-store gift cards, i-tunes or music cards, small eletronics (ipod shuffles), pre-paid phone cards/cell minutes, photo-albums or books, etc.

Adult gifts Ages 25+

Pictures frames/books, candles, home-wears like plates or special mugs, jewelry, craft-kits, etc.

 

 

Email or Call Evelyn at 503-350-2004.

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Membership Corner
 

Sharing the love...Member Kudos!  

 

Kudos to Big Frog Custom T-Shirts...

 

My daughter needed T-shirts for the seniors in the Hilhi Band for their football game. Ryan helped design the shirts and gave them a super deal. The shirts turned out great and the kids LOVED them!

 

Regards,
Liz Fischer
Hospice and Palliative Care of Washington County

 

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Sue Ragsdale

503-350-2005 Office

503-481-0826 Mobile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Uberthons announces the Oregon Turkeython to be held on Thanksgiving Morning at Beaverton Town Square. The family running event includes 5k, 10k, 1k, and � k races. The races are professionally timed by Uberthons using overhead RFID antennas that read chips attached to racing bibs. Race results are posted on the Internet as the runners and walkers cross the finish line. Famous Footwear is the title sponsor of the event. Other sponsors include Sports Authority, Oregon Health Clubs, The Fitness Studio, Acceleration Sports Medicine, Oroweat, Courtyard Marriott, Dickie Jo's, Mucho Gusto, and Yo My My Frozen Yogurt. The Turkeython comes to Beaverton for this 2nd annual event.   All course roads will be closed and well marked. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be present - and members of the Portland's Singing Christmas Tree will introduce the holiday season to Beaverton as they perform before the start of the race. A special recognition will be made to our Veterans.

 

The event benefits non-profit organizations including Westside Police Activities League, Portland Rescue Mission, Portland's Singing Christmas Tree, SHOC Foundation, Camp to Belong NW, Camp Rosenbaum, Tigard Community Back Pack Program, Bradley Angle, and Project Linus.

 

All Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce members are invited to participate in the event by providing discount coupons, publicizing the event, volunteering as event directors, or participating as a company team in the running events.

 

While the Oregon Turkeython does not yet rival the Dallas, Texas or Sacramento, CA Thanksgiving runs, which each have over 26,000 participants, the Turkeython will surely grow and be a popular holiday event in downtown Beaverton for years to come.

 

  

If you are interested in promoting your business, or in helping with the event, review the webpage athttp://www.uberthons.com/turkeython-sponsors and email [email protected], or call 503-516-6998. The event website is www.turkeython.com, and the event facebook page iswww.facebook.com/oregonturkeython.

 

 

 

 

 

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November 27th, 7-8pm at Aloha High School...

How does school funding work?

 

 

 

Please join Senator Mark Hass & Representative Tobias Read for this informational session. Details in our newsroom.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Business News & Resources...

 

Great sites to puruse for small business news and ideas:

www.inc.com

www.mashable.com

Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce - www.beaverton.org- [email protected] - 503.644.0123