Newsletter of the
San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce
April 1999
Chamber Member Meeting
When: Tuesday, April 13, 1999
- 5:30 p.m.
Where: Steakhouse, 680 Spring
St. -The Inns Suites
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Chamber Contact - Phone 378-5240
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President's Message Brenda J. Larson
April's Chamber meeting will be held at The Steak House! Thank
you to Don Shepherd and Stuart Andrews! Remember the General Meeting
starts at 5:30 p.m.
I have been working on a Calendar of Events, which we will use
in mailings and in the brochure rack for this coming season. If
you have any event that you think I dont know about, e-mail me
at salmonut@rockisland.com. Come to the next meeting and
see a sample mock-up of the Calendar. We will be working out the
details in the next few months on the up and coming San Juan Island
Chamber of Commerce Guide to the San Juans. It will be just a
few pages our first year (to be printed in the fall of 1999 for
the year 2000 summer season) and we hope to add pages each year.
I hope this will take the place of our huge mailing packages,
saving on postage as well as doing a better job promoting our
members. This new "Guide" committee will meet toward
the end of April. I am happy to announce John Dunning, co-owner
of Windermere will be working with me to head up this project.
I will have a signup sheet at the next meeting for those of you
wishing to get involved in this Committee.
Spring is trying to peak at us through those dreadful clouds!
Have you noticed that now when the forecast is for a nice weekend
the tourists run to the ferryboats to get here and enjoy a sunny
weekend in the San Juans? I actually saw the overload lane full
recently. Yahoo! The Season is drawing near! Hope to see you all
at the next meeting.
Best regards,
Brenda J. Larson, President
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As residents of the San Juan Islands, we live in the absolutely
best boating area in the entire country. And, therefore, we should
have the absolutely best Opening Day in the entire country! This
year's Opening Day ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, May 2nd.
After the dinghy race, at 12:15, the USCG will do a demonstration
of a helicopter in-water rescue, subject to their not being called
out for a real Search and Rescue!
At 1:00 p.m. the traditional boat parade will begin, with boats
entered in categories of "Traditional", "Classic"
or "Theme". The Classic category is for wooden boats,
while boats in the Theme category will be decorated in the style
of "San Juan Island Calypso Tropicale". Theme boats
are encouraged to sponsor community service organizations to assist
in the decorating and crewing of the theme boats. These service
organizations will be vying for prize money donated by individuals
and businesses in the community. Judging will take place at the
Spring Street Landing.
After the parade, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., there will be a party
for parade participants and spectators at the Spring Street Landing,
with music, food, the award ceremony, and activities for kids
and adults, including toy sail boat races, radio controlled boat
races, and more! For information on the boat parade or the party
at Spring Street Landing, please call Mike Close at 378-5699.
All of these events are open to the public, and everyone is invited
to enter the dinghy races, enter the toy boat race, put a boat
in the boat parade, host a community service organization on your
boat, get your organization to help decorate a boat, or just show
up to watch the parade and listen to some great music! Help make
this Opening Day as great as our boating area.
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23RD ANNUAL
ROUND THE ISLAND RACE!!!
Sponsor: San Juan Island Yacht Club
Date: May 15-16, 1999
PHRF and crusing divisions
Entry date: 4/1/99 through the day of the race
Entry forms: call Libby Thompson, race chairperson at 378-0885
(h) or 378-8262 (w)
About the race: we start the race Sat. morning in Friday Harbor
& finish the 1st leg at Snug Harbor. There is a bbq for $8.00
and complimentary moorage at Snug Harbor. The next day we finish
the second leg of the race back in Friday Harbor for awards and
snacks in the Yacht Club. COME JOIN THE FUN!!!!!
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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to an Open House celebrating the opening of the new office in Friday Harbor of D.A. DAVIDSON & CO., a full service investment firm, on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., 650 Mullis Street, Suite 201 (upstairs at the Technology Center) Stop by and visit with our Chairman, Ian B. Davidson. Refreshments will be served! 378-8262. Hosted by Libby Thompson, V.P. and William Greenfield, V.P.
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May 1, 1999 marks the 33rd annual opening day for the San Juan
Historical Museum, showing residents and visitors THE WAY WE WERE!
No longer a dilapidated farmhouse with a few artifacts, the Museum
has grown to an Historical Village with seven buildings and 700
stories to tell! We'd like you, as well as your family and friends
to know what we have to offer: Please join us at one of our Spring
Open Houses: Thursday, April 8th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday,
April 14th from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m. or Saturday, April 17th from
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. We'll give you a cup of coffee, a tour of our
grounds, a taste of Living History... so you can see THE WAY WE
WERE!
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Tying into the Festival - RETURN OF THE ORCAS . When the wind stops and the rain ceases, the visitors WILL RETURN! Until then, we all need to stay positive and focus on our upcoming season. With that in mind, an updated schedule of events for the Return of the Orcas Festival for 1999 is available. So far, many additional room nights have been sold by tying into this shoulder season event. Again, we encourage you to do the same! Build a package, create a special sale, whatever helps you get a jump-start on the season. There are over a dozen sponsors so far, the festival has been placed in over 200,000 state publications and will have a write up in Sunset Magazine. In addition, Kenmore Air plans to bring Evening Magazine up prior to the event. If you can be a sponsor at any level, it would help to build shoulder season business, assist The Whale Museum fund The Sound Watch program and have a fun upbeat early season event. If you have any questions, call Colleen or Bill at San Juan Safaris winter office 378-6545 and remember the Marine Activity Center opens May 1 through October 3, at 387-2155 ext. 505, to service your visiting guests. Brochures, souvenir programs, posters available soon.
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NEW FACES IN 1999..........
Stone Art - Gary and Laurie Traini
Salish Sea Charters - Tom McMillen
Downriggers - Debbie Rishel and Hogan
Panda Moving & Storage - Merna Guard
Windermere San Juan - John & Charlene Dunning
Windermere San Juan - Karen Weeks
Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands - Nancy Young
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