Are you a business owner in Sierra County? Or do you have a business outside of the county that does business in it? Or an individual who want to support our efforts? Or a business in one of our neighboring counties who want to get exposure to Sierra County residents (and visitors)?

If so, please come join the chamber! Become a member! You can join or renew online, and pay with a credit card, or fill out the form and mail us a check. Either way, don't delay! We'll start working on the visitors guide soon, and if you haven't joined or renewed before we do, you might miss out on being included in it.

The Sierra County Chamber of Commerce is an all volunteer organization hard at work every day: we're working on promoting and providing information about the county and all that it has to offer to visitors and residents, in order to make people's stays or residence here more pleasant, fun and filled with memories. We're showcasing local businesses to visitors and residents alike, provide a website with information about things to do, places to go and a directory full of resources. We travel around the state and participate in travel events as well as the California State Fair. We also produce the Visitors Guide each year, a publication that is a great resource for anyone spending any time in our fair county. We are also participating in some membership organizations such as the Gold Country Visitors Association as well as Dogtrekker.com, working to leverage resources and get better reach.

Join the chamber to get exposure to residents and visitors, to support our efforts, to get access to information and resources available only for members-- and, because its the right thing to do!!! Fill out a Membership Application Form or sign up online now!

Please be on the outlook for an email that looks or reads something similar to the below. Do NOT click on any links, this is a way to get a virus on to your computer.  This is a scam, not a real notice.

Please be careful out there!

What:    A participatory event to discuss & to hear challenges & needs of farmers and ranchers
When: Monday, December 10, 2012
Time: 8:30 am to 1:00 pm:  No Cost Breakfast & Lunch Provided

Where: Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Everett Freeman Way, Corning, CA 96021
Info: Courtney Farrell, 3CORE  530-893-8732 ext. 211

Come Prepared To:
Provide input, identify concerns, set goals for building & sustaining profitability in your agricultural enterprise.

North State Farmers and Ranchers event.pdf

Information About Understanding, Managing and Reducing Energy Use Will Be Available During Workshop
 
PLACER COUNTY, Calif. – Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will provide small and medium business customers with an afternoon workshop scheduled Friday, Nov. 16.

The event will be held Friday, Nov. 16 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Colfax Area Heritage Museum, 99 Railroad Ave., Colfax. This events will focus on understanding, managing and reducing energy use and lowering the utility bill for small and medium businesses, and electric rate change information. Any PG&E customer who owns or rents a commercial facility is invited to attend this workshops.

By attending the workshop customers will receive guidance on how to better understand their energy use, develop an energy reduction action plan, connect with PG&E staff that specialize in energy efficiency, and learn about PG&E's energy efficiency programs.

For more information about the workshops, call Shane Lopez at (530) 217-7918 or email shane.lopez@pge.com.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/.

Learn how to better understand, manage & reduce energy use and lower the utility bill for your business. Plus receive a $25 gift certificate for a local restaurant!

Who should attend?
PG&E customers who own or rent a retail or other commercial facility

When and Where:
November 7th - Columbia College, Columbia, CA
November 13th - Sierra Commons, downtown Nevada City, CA
 
For each date and location, 90-minute workshops will be occurring throughout the day, starting at 8:30 am, 10:15 am, 12:00 pm, 1:45 pm, and 3:30 pm. Session times are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
 
What will be covered?

• How to use PG&E's MyEnergy to help you understand your energy use
• A Time Varying Pricing overview by PG&E
• Developing an energy reduction action plan  with PG&E's new "Business Energy Checkup" tool
• Available rebates, financial incentives and technical assistance
• SBC/PG&E's Sierra Nevada Energy Watch program, including what's up-and-coming for 2013 and beyond

All attendees will also receive a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant.

For more info:
Sign up by clicking here or calling 530-582-4800.

Or contact Emma Ingebretsen at SBC - <eingebretsen@sbcouncil.org> or 530-582-4800 for more information.

Things are getting fun & spicy in Downieville! Two Rivers Café is putting on a fun Indian night with Indian food that will ignite your taste buds, music and friends! The buffet style Indian dinner is $30 per person, and tickets are sold at Two Rivers Cafe in the heart of Downieville.

It's all taking place Saturday October 20, 2012 at 6-8 pm

There are still tickets available for the Rita Hosking concert this coming Saturday Sept. 22nd in Alleghany.

Go to www.hiddenchurch.info/events.html for more information.

This is a benefit for the historical church building in Alleghany.

Please pass this along!

A producer for the show "American Pickers" on the History Channel has reached out to our chamber for assistance. Their team is headed to California soon and they're looking for leads throughout the state, specifically interesting characters with interesting items and lots of them!

If interested, please email us at info@sierracountychamber.com and we will forward you the brief of the show, a press release, as well as a list of items that they're looking for (although they're open to other items too).

They are also looking for any oddball or interesting historical items, in addition to CA-specific memorabilia.

Please note that Mike and Frank only pick private collections so no stores, malls, flea markets, museums, auctions, businesses or anything open to the public.

Please let us know if interested and we'll put you in touch with the appropriate people!

We all know Tom Dines is a true hometown hero, but now the world gets to know him asone as well.

Watch the KCRA feature on Tom as a Hometown Hero Finalist

Here is a great summary of what's going on.

Watch the sky today (Friday) as Tom Dines will be zippin' by over the Sierra Buttes in a practice run.

Well I know who I am rooting for -- Go Tom!

National Geographic Travel books is looking for insider tips to go along with their upcoming 2013 guidebook to California. Insider Tips are short (25-35 words), quick and informal--a not-to-miss experience, a great view, a restaurant tip, local food, transportation, music, etc.

They appear big in a page, like a pull-quote, with the contributor's name, title/qualifications, and organization/media outlet below them.  Do you have any interesting facts to share?   

Examples tips for the Brazil guidebook:
    "Don't pass up an opportunity for a night drive in the Pantanal. That's your best chance of seeing a jaguar as well as some other great wildlife." --Rhett Butler, Mongabay.com founder

    "If you want to try Hang Gliding tandem flight, São Conrado is the right place. Go early in the morning as in the afternoon the traffic jam to get out of it is awful." --Luiz Renato Malcher, Rio de Janeiro Urban Adventures manager

We'd love any tips like this-- for Downieville, Sierra County, and/or Gold Country!

Please email your tip(s) along with the information noted above (name, title, organization)to admin@sierracountychamber.com