First up this morning, the Chamber is fortunate to have a volunteer assisting us from now until the end of the year. Dawn McGrath will be assisting me with some of the Chamber's event planning, as well as updating our members' contact information, among other things. Please give Dawn a few minutes of your time when she phones to update your contact details. As a non-profit organization operating on a tight budget, we are really pleased to have a volunteer on board to help us be that much more effective for our members.
On another note, many of you will have already been contacted by Bev Lund from the South Cariboo Recreation Centre. Each Halloween, the South Cariboo Chamber partners with the Rec Centre to put on a community celebration and fireworks display. Please support our Halloween Town efforts this year, which will include a huge bonfire, free skate, candy and tattoos for the kids, prizes for best costumes, and of course the highly anticipated fireworks. For more information or to sponsor the event, feel free to contact me at 250-395-6124 or Bev at 250-395-1353.
Finally, please take note that our Chamber lunch this month will be held on a Tuesday and will be a little bit different from the usual. We will be having lunch at the Community Kitchen, in the Valley Room of the Lodge on Tuesday October 19. The $15 collected from each Chamber member in attendance will be donated back to the Community Kitchen program. The Community Kitchen is a program of the Cariboo Family Enrichment Centre, one of the Chamber's non-profit members, focused on teaching participants to cook, using local food and trying new healthy recipes. After lunch, Trish Chung, the organizer of the Community Kitchen will be giving an overview about what the program is all about. Howie MacMillan will also be joining us to speak to us about another food-related initiative underway, the South Cariboo Meat Co-op. Come and see what this fantastic program is doing for our community.
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Hey I heard Rita the other day on CBC's talkback about why are we sending our food to China when we can't even find it in our local grocery stores. Good on you Rita! The economic future of this area has a lot to do with local initiative and that being supported by the locals. I'm definitely going to this Chamber lunch at the Community Kitchen. I'm looking forward to getting an update on the Meat Co-op too. -- Maddi
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Maddi - looks like we are going to have a good turn-out next Tuesday. It should be very interesting, not to mention delicious!
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