We're a Hundred

It’s Port Alberni’s centennial year! Yeah, we’re a hundred! Do you feel that old? We are working with the Centennial Committee to promote the special events planned for the year. Watch your emails for a poster you can display and the first draft of an events calendar. Local clubs and organizations should be planning special centennial events (tournaments, annual general meetings, picnics etc.) and working with the Centennial Committee to coordinate the year’s events and promote them. If you would like to volunteer with the Centennial Committee, contact Gareth Flostrand (724 5918 or [email protected]).
The Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all the participating businesses that took part in the Shop Alberni campaign during December. Just less than forty merchants took part, offering 10% & 15% discounts for shopping locally. We think this is a good result for the first such campaign and we sincerely hope that the exercise was successful in slowing the money drain over the hump and improving our local economy. Our Business Committee will soon meet to review this initial campaign, to discuss ways and means of keeping the spirit of Shop Alberni front and centre and to plan for a second campaign later in the year. Thanks also to our media partners the A.V. News, A.V. Times and 93.3 The Peak. We will draw for the grand prize, a brand new Blu Ray player, generously donated by Alberni Technology Solutions, on Roger, as soon as we get to each business and collect the entries.
With all the talk about an industrial road and its importance to any attempts to revitalize our community, it’s timely that our next Networking Luncheon will feature representatives from two of the players in the industrial road project, Catalyst Paper (Tom Paisley) and Western Forest Products (Harold Frechette). You are invited to come, have lunch and listen to what’s working and what’s not, on the local forestry front. The luncheon is at noon Wednesday the 11th at the Barclay and it is open to the public, but you must reserve by calling 724 6535.
Thought for the Week:
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.” Jilly Cooper
FROM THE MANAGER’S DESK
SUBMITTED BY MIKE CARTER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
ALBERNI VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE