First Friday  - May 5^th

First Friday is coming up on Friday, May 5^th.  I encourage you to join your family, friends and neighbors in historic downtown Chelan to celebrate Mom at FIRST FRIDAY from 6 PM to 9 PM.  Flower seed packets will be given away to the first 12 moms to come into each First Friday merchant as a special recognition.  The Chelan Valley Independent School (CVIS) will be featured at this First Friday with singers from the musical “A Cricket in Times Square” performing downtown.   Students from CVIS who are also violin students of Kerry Travers will be playing throughout the participating businesses.  Karl Olsen, Whidbey Island musician, will be featured at the Vogue…A Liquid Lounge starting at 8 p.m. with all proceeds donated to the Chelan Valley Independent School.

Riverwalk Books/Open Book Espresso will host Lars Clausen, Chelan author and father of students at the Independent School, who will be reading from his book “One Wheel, Many Spokes”.  We may talk him into demonstrating his unicycle talent as well.  Deb Lund, Whidbey Island children’s books author, will be reading from her books, “All Aboard the Dino Train” and “Dino Sailors”.

Main St Gallery will feature Anne Clausen, Chelan watercolor artist and mother of CVIS students, who will be painting at the gallery.  She enjoys painting local scenes and has several paintings from their two years at Holden Village.  Campbell's House Cafe will feature a free appetizer with the purchase of two dinner entrees.

For more information please contact the Chamber office at 682-3503.

Chamber Lunch – Monday, May 8^th

The Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce will hold their May Chamber Lunch meeting on Monday, May 8th from 12pm – 1pm at Campbell’s Resort.  City of Chelan Mayor, Jay Witherbee will be our guest speaker, giving us an update on “State of the City”.  This will be an opportunity for Chamber members to get an update on growth & development in the City and the how the City is working to promote commercial and economic development.  The Manson Apple Blossom Royalty will be introduced and have a short presentation to share with us.  Chamber members are encouraged to call the Chamber office on 682-3503 to reserve a place.

Customer Service Seminar – May 15th

Brad Worthley an internationally acclaimed leadership and customer service expert will be here on Monday, May 15^th doing two seminars, one in the morning from 8 am to 11 am be for business owners and managers and will focus on “How to Create a Sales and Service Culture” and another in evening from 7 pm to 8:30 pm is targeted at front line customer service employees and will focus on “Exceeding Customer Expectations”.  The evening session will be a great thing for students interested in summer jobs to attend.  The cost for evening session is $10 and everyone will come away with some things the can do to delight customers and their boss.  These seminars are open to anyone and very affordable.  If listeners are interested they should call the Chamber office at 682-3503.

 May Member Feedback meetings –May 11^th

Professional service members of the Chamber are invited to a meeting on May 11^th at Noon at the Lake Chelan City Council Chambers to discuss; What’s working well and What can the Chamber do differently to better serve our Members?  We encourage all our Professional Service members to attend, your feedback is important to us.  This will be a brown bag lunch and will be done by 1:30 PM.  At 1:30 PM we will be doing a follow up meeting with our Lodging members.  We will be discussing what the Chamber is doing with the feedback we got in February.  Please call the Chamber office at 682-3503 to let us know if you will be attending either of these meetings.