February 2019 Newsletter

February 2019

Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter

The Blackfalds & District Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its AGM on Thursday, February 7th at 7pm at the Wadey Centre. All are welcome.

Blackfalds & District Chamber of Commerce Meet & Greet

Join us for the 2019 Chamber Meet & Greet networking event.

Location: Multiplex Banquet Room

When: March 7, 2019, 7-9pm

Doors open @ 6:30

Cash bar, Appetizers, door prizes

Chamber members and guests welcome, for more information call

he Chamber at 403-506-6735.

Please RSVP click here

Reminder to all Blackfalds businesses - if your business has an alarm system, you require a permit. Permits can be obtained at the town office or online. For more information click here.

Brandon University's Rural Development Institute Seeking Feedback from Alberta Employers

Brandon University's Rural Development Institute is looking for testimonies from Small and Medium Enterprise owners or representatives about their hiring motivations.

The goal of this survey is to inform policy-making to foster the recruitment of newcomers and facilitate their integration in Canada.

If your business has less than 500 employees and has hired newcomers within the last five years, you are encouraged to fill out the survey.

Contact information and additional project details can be found at the link below.

Take the Survey

The Passport to Christmas event this year sold over 1,958 passports in Blackfalds for a total of $469,920 in local retail sales!

The Blackfalds Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all those businesses that participated in this year's event. The Chamber will be conducting Passport to Christmas again next year to encourage local retail sales.

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WOW! Luncheon in Blackfalds

J oin us for a spectacular lunch and Meeting of some amazing Business women & Leaders :)

Please arrive for 11:30 with your business cards, door prizes and any marketing materials you wish to share on the marketing table. We will have a HOT spot speaker! We will end promptly at 1pm so you may go back to your work, appointments etc. If you would like to linger and network longer, please go out into the restaurant area. Our luncheon meeting will be in the meeting room in the back of After the Grind.

See you there :)

Click Here To Attend The Blackfalds Luncheon

The 2019 Alberta Retail Crime Prevention Summit is fast approaching.

Go to the website with this link https://arcps.ca/ where you can register for the summit, taking place on April 24, 2019 in Red Deer, Alberta at the Sheraton hotel. The fee is $60 per attendee which can be submitted via the website. Details for the venue and presenters are also on the website. We would also ask that you register with a company email address – we want to limit attendees to be representing an agency of some sort and this is difficult to do with personal email addresses such as gmail, Hotmail, etc.

Please visit the site regularly as updates regarding the summit will be posted – the agenda with be posted in the coming months. Let me know if there are any questions or concerns .

Cst Ray Wilson, Edmonton Police Service

Phone: (780) 421-3487 Email: ray.wilson@edmontonpolice.ca www.retailcop.ca

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As of December 1st, Destination Development Association membership will be FREE through all of 2019.

Sign-ups will be available December 1st through all of 2019. The free memberships will expire December 31, 2019. At that point, members will be notified they can purchase a membership to continue using the DDA resources.

Steps to sign up starting December 1st

Go to destinationdevelopment.org/join
Select the free plan
Fill out the registration form
A welcome email will be sent with steps to complete their login

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