
February 2015
Submit your event! Adding events to our calendar is really easy! Simply go to our Event Calendar under the "Events" tab at garberville.org. At the top of the page is a "Submit Your Event" button. Click on it and it will take you to a form where you can provide all of the details of your event! This is a great way to get information out about your business or organization! It is easy and free advertising! Chamber Mixer! Chamber Mixer 02/19/2015 Feather Rose Furnishings will be hosting our first Chamber Mixer of the year on February 19th from 5:30-7:30 PM. Feather Rose Furnigshings is located at 929 Redwood Drive in Garberville. If another chamber member would like to partner with Kathy to host the food and/or drinks part of this please let me know and I will connect you! Otherwise, don't forget your business cards to endter into our raffle drawing, a prize for the drawing if you would like, and there will be an opportunity to speak to the attendees about your business briefly if you would like. We will also have 50/50 raffle tickets for sale with the proceeds benefiting local Chamber projects. We hope to see you all there! It is a great way to get to know your neighbors and fellow community members! Upcoming Events! Community Clean Up before Superbowl! 02/01/2015 Community Clean Up Days 02/03/2015 Chamber Board Meeting 02/04/2015 Bob Marley's 70th - A Global Call to Love / Now More Than Ever 02/06/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 02/06/2015 Community Clean Up Days 02/10/2015 SHUSD Board Meeting 02/12/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 02/13/2015 Romance In The Redwoods Valentine's Weekend 2015 02/13/2015 A Valentine's Day Dinner and Bingo for the Whole Family! 02/14/2015 Romance In The Redwoods Valentine's Weekend 2015 02/14/2015 Community Clean Up Days 02/17/2015 Chamber Mixer 02/19/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 02/20/2015 Spring Planting Kickoff 02/21/2015 Community Clean Up Days 02/24/2015 Garberville Sanitary District Board Meeting 02/24/2015 Pot Luck Dinner & Card Games 02/27/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 02/27/2015 Chamber Board Meeting 03/04/2015 Ineffable Music Presents Iration in concert with Special Guests Stick Figure and Hours Eastly 03/04/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 03/06/2015 SHUSD Board Meeting 03/12/2015 Little Lights Playgroup 03/13/2015 Garberville Sanitary District Board Meeting 03/24/2015 Pot Luck Dinner & Card Games 03/27/2015 Gas Station For Sale I get a lot of questions and comments about the empty gas station at the south end of Garberville. So, I did some research, talked to the owner, and would like to pass along what I have learned. Many community members are frustrated with the state that it is in and the unbecoming image it sets for our community. The solution is for someone to buy it and make ita working business. The asking price is $322,000. It has brand new gas tanks that the current owner will work through the permitting process with for a qualified buyer. If someone buys it and decides to use it as another type of business then they would have to pay the cost of removing the tanks. Please contact Trueman Vroman if you or someone you know is interested at 707-443-8476. .	Town Hall Update What a month it has been! If you were not able to attend our Town Hall meeting on January 15th let me catch you up! We had Under Sheriff Honsal, DA Fleming, Supervisor Fennell, Commander Fabbri (CHP), Sgt Taylor (who has replaced Kenny, as he has promoted to a job up North), and Lt Young speak with us about current problems, possible solutions, and goals for the future. The overall goal for So Hum is to return the Garberville substation to a fully staffed station in the next couple of years with the help of funds from Measure Z. Currently, Sheriff Downey has been able to staff our local station with 2 deputies during the day and 1 at night using overtime and creative scheduling. Sgt Taylor started his new post in So Hum on January 18th. He seems to have energy, ideas, and a focus for law enforcement in our community. Over all, it was a good meeting and a great opportunity for the community to turn the conversation from complaints to solutions. If you would like to listen to the meeting, it is available on kmud.org . Various neighborhoods and parts of the community are starting Neighborhood Watches to deter crime. Some Alderpoint residents took it upon themselves to start cleaning a local dump site. Mike Miller, who has been hauling trash that the homeless community leaves at the trailheads to the dump for a few years now, has gotten some much needed support to expand that project. A video was shown on Lost Coast Outpost of John Casali’s pictures that got the attention of some neighbors to the North and Eel River Clean Up Party was started (see their facebook page here). They have cleaned up camps and roadside dumps with the help of several community members and organizations. They meet each Tuesday and Friday at about 10 or 11 in front of Tiger Lily Books. They have used up all the county funding for cleaning up trash in So Hum and are gratefully accepting donations to help pay future dump fees here. Another way we can bring awareness to problem areas is to report issues of trash, road conditions, etc. on a website called SeeClickFix.com. Communities all over the country have used this as a resource for reporting problems to various aganecies. i have talked with other Humboldt communities that are trying to get people to start using this as well. Eureka has its own reporting system that is proving to be successful. And Humboldt County has an online crime reporting system as well. The added value of SeeClickFix.com is that it maps the reporting in a public format. This is all just information for our members to use. The Chamber has not made a committment to any of these organizations. Much of these community efforts are a direct result of us hosting Town Hall meetings and giving the community a place to speak honestly and begin working together for real change. Many other conversations are being had about the future of So Hum and how to turn negatives into positives for the greater good of the community. 39th Annual Summer Arts And Music Festival 2015 - Vendor Information 39th Annual Summer Arts And Music Festival 2015 - Vendor Information Festival Location: Benbow Lake State Park (2 miles south of Garberville) Festival Dates: Saturday, May 30th & Sunday, May 31st, 2015 Set up: Friday, May 29th 12pm-9pm Festival Hours: Saturday 10am-10pm and Sunday 10am-9:30pm Application Deadline: Friday, March 13th, 2015 Last Date to Receive a Refund: Friday, May 1st, 2015 Please Note: All items must be hand crafted by the vendor, absolutely NO IMPORTS OR RESALE ITEMS. We appreciate all the interested crafters. Any feed back or comments are greatly appreciated. For more information contact our vending coordinator at: 707-923-3368 Ext. 34 or email vendorinfo@mateel.org Office hours are Wed-Thurs 10:30-5:00 ~ We look forward to seeing you there, >>> Download 2015 Vendor Application at mateel.org ============================================== If you would like to sponsor the event and/or advertise in the program guide please call Cathy Miller at 707-923-3368 Ext. 27 or email her atcathy@mateel.org NORTH COAST OPEN STUDIOS 2015 NORTH COAST OPEN STUDIOS APPLICATION IS HERE! Monica Topping \| www.northcoastopenstudios.com The 17th annual North Coast Open Studios is coming up quick (June 6-7 and June 13-14, 2014) and the application is due Wednesday, March 25th. This year, we’re opening registration up to local artisan manufacturers through a partnership with Humboldt Made, which is very exciting! Artists and artisans can download the application packet here or apply online (directions for online apphere)! Garbage in Garberville A big thank you to our local Rotary for providing public garbage cans in Garberville and working to get some in Redway. And a big thank you to Recology for regularly emptying those cans. What a great community servoce these two organizations are providing! We truly appreciate your hard work! Woodrose Cafe has new hours! The Woodrose Cafe is extending their hours Monday, Tuesday, and Friday to 4:30 PM! Holiday Lights 2015 We would like to have great Holiday Lights in town next year. In order to do that, we will need a bit of help. We are forming a Holiday Lights committee. We would like to get each tree wrapped with a basic design and then host a contest for businesses who decorate the tree at their storefront and/or their strorefront. We drew a map this year of all the outlets in town that are used for lights and we will be contacting property owners who have faulty outlets with a request to fix them. We are also talking to the Town Square about the possibility of a lighted tree there with a lighting ceremony for the end of November. Please contact Cinnamon if you would like to be part of this committee. 923-2613 or chamber@garberville.org. We will meet in June or July to make our plans and then again breifly in September to be sure we are on track. Our hands on work will begin in November!
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