All individuals and community organizations are invited to share their experiences and viewpoints and to speak candidly at this and future meetings to make Lafayette an even better place to live and work. If you have additional question or wish to express your interest in participating, contact Jennifer Wakeman via email or call (925) 299-3213.

Special promotions throughout Lafayette. Both on the sidewalk and in-store. Even online! Click here for participating businesses.

To get the party started, the Chamber will host a WELCOME BACK LAFAYETTE coffee and breakfast “party” in Lafayette’s Plaza Park Plaza 10:00am – 11:00am. Coffee generously donated by Peet’s Coffee Lafayette and bagels + lox from Wise Sons and breakfast burritos from Bacon Bacon donated by Local Kitchens. Plus, refill your water bottles and chat with new member Sunwise Clinical Research.

Make a day of it and enjoy breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner in one of our stellar restaurants!

➡ Learn more about Lafayette’s Citywide Sidewalk Sale in the July 21, 2021 issue of Lamorinda Weekly.

😷 If you have not been fully vaccinated or can not be vaccinated you must wear a mask indoors at all times and keep social distancing; you must also wear a mask outdoors when you are closer than 6’ feet from others, except when immediately eating or drinking.

Anyone interested in participating should email holly@lafayettechamber.org as we will be listing and promoting all participating Lafayette businesses on the website and social media!

During the Citywide Sidewalk Sale on Saturday, July 31, Your CBD Store will not only be offering a great ~Friends & Family Sale~ but we invite all Lafayette Chamber members, their guests and the community to join us for a Ribbon Cutting!

Welcome Chad Paydo and his team. They will be offering 🛍 50% OFF 250mg Tincture; Buy One, Get One; and 30% OFF the entire store! Sale is all day, 10:30am-3:00pm, ribbon cutting at 11:15am.

Your CBD Store is your source for CBD. They specialize in quality, transparency, organic products made in U.S.A. They've been awarded best in 2019 & 2020 by USA CBD Convention. They offer consultation and FREE Samples. Dog Friendly.

Our 25^th Art & Wine Festival is on for this September 18-19, 2021

We have many options with onsite presence and visibility throughout the weekend: commercial vendor booths, family and kid zones opportunities, nonprofit and local artist booths. Maybe even host a beer or wine booth? Hurry, space is limited! 

We are also seeking dedicated, hardworking volunteers! Come join the fun! Email sara@lafayettechamber.org for details.

Don’t miss your chance to promote your business at Lafayette’s End of Summer Party! Advertise in The Grapevine® The Official Coupon Book of The Lafayette Art & Wine Festival. The Grapevine® has over 39 years experience in direct mail advertising in Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga, Walnut Creek, Danville, Blackhawk, Alamo, San Ramon, Pleasant Hill, Martinez, Concord & Clayton. We are ready to assist you with your promotion! Call 925-284-2651 or text 925-212-0660 or visit TheGrapevineCouponBook.com for more information.

Thank you for joining us at First Mile Cycle Works last Thursday!

View video here. | View photos here.

Stop by this weekend during the Sidewalk Sale!

📍 3566 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette

We thank City of Lafayette Mayor Susan Candell for her time to discuss important City issues with us on Friday morning! Missed it? No worries, view recording here.

895 Moraga Rd. Suite 212, Lafayette, CA

Linnette Edwards and Cameron Platt, 925-595-1438

Real estate sales and purchase.

Category: Real Estate Services

Renewing Premier Member

➡ Contra Costa, Santa Clara County and San Francisco Public Health Officials Urge Employers to Consider Requiring Employee Vaccination to Promote COVID-Safe Workplaces

➡ Masking Indoors for Everyone is Recommended as a Precaution Against Increased Circulation of COVID-19

➡ Masking and Social Distancing Changes: Masks Required in Court Facilities Effective July 20

➡ COVID Status of Contra Costa County: Cases per day per 100,000 for unvaccinated is approximately 32 per 100,000

➡ COVID hospitalizations have more than doubled since the June 15 reopening when only 25 COVID patients were hospitalized.

➡ TRUTH Act Virtual Community Forum on July 27

➡ City Wide Sidewalk Sale

➡ I-680 Contra Costa Express Lanes Begin Tolling on August 20th

➡ Students Can Receive Two Months of Free Rides On County Connection

➡ Public Safety Power Shutoffs

➡ Contra Costa County Library Increases Hours at 17 Libraries

➡ BART Continues Limited Late Night Service for Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

➡ Wildfire Risk to Communities Website

➡ Measure X Community Advisory Board Seeks Public Input

➡ Moraga Road and Reliez Valley Road Repaving Project Starts July 26

➡ Face Coverings Now Required for Guests Inside City Facilities

➡ Need to speak with a planner? Let me count the ways 1..2..3..4..

➡ City Appeals Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA)

➡ Welcoming Students Back on Campus

➡ Wildfire Season is Here. Are You Prepared for Possible Power Shutoffs?

➡ Contra Costa Health Officials Urge Employers to Consider Requiring Employee Vaccination to Promote COVID-Safe Workplaces

➡ Job Opening at City Offices

➡ MCE Cares Credit for Businesses and Residents Financially Impacted by COVID

➡ Expansion of California FAIR Plan to Offer Broader Insurance Coverage Options to Consumers

The Lafayette City Council announced one vacancy on the City Council and laid out the process for filling the vacancy at their July 12, 2021 meeting.

Councilmember Cameron Burks announced his resignation from the Council for family reasons at the prior City Council meeting on June 28, 2021. The City Council is obligated to fill the vacancy within 60 days and the appointed person will serve on the City Council until the next regularly scheduled municipal election, which will be in November 2022.

The City will advertise the vacancy widely and accept applications until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Applicants will be interviewed on August 19th and August 24^th. The City Council must make the appointment by August 30, 2021. Applicants must be a resident of the City of Lafayette and registered to vote.

The application form is available on the City’s website. Applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Completed applications can be submitted to the City Clerk via email, mail or in-person.

For more information, visit www.lovelafayette.org/city-hall/city-council/council-vacancy.

MCE, the local non-profit provider of renewable electricity content for Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and Solano Counties never goes door-to-door to contact customers and PG&E never goes door-to-door to solicit customers. Here are some common energy scams to watch out for: How to protect yourself from Energy Scams.

MVPC is running a drive to collect twin sized sheet sets for our partner the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond.

They would prefer new sheet sets- these sheets will get washed many times while in use so need to be in good condition.

Bay Area Crisis Nursery's 40th Birthday will feature live music, small bites, drinks (including beer from Headlands Brewing Company), a photo booth, a raffle, Nursery tours, and 80s fun in honor of the first baby to stay at the Nursery in 1981!

Registration is free but donations are encouraged as we come together to raise $40k for BACN's 40th! You can register online here. 

Walnut Creek Chamber's Back to Business: Retail in the Post-Pandemic Era

A conversation with Brian Hirahara.

Walnut Creek Chamber's Back to Business webinar series continues August 10, with Brian Hirahara, one of downtown Walnut Creek’s preeminent developers, whose passion for the city and its future is reflected in his past projects, which include Sasa, Tiffany & Co, Va de Vi, and 1500 Mt Diablo home to Rooftop, Slice House, and Telefèric Barcelona. As the California economy reopens what does it mean for retail? Hirahara will weigh in and discuss his plans for The Foundry, a future food hall on Locust Street. To register, click here.

During the month of July, Pillar Cowork & Pillar Kids is offering special pricing for our Chamber members and Refresh & Connect Mixer attendees: 20% off membership or 1-time $50/day office rental. To take advantage of this offer you can sign up through the registration link here (use coupon code CHAMBER20 applied at checkout), or email info@pillarcowork.com to reserve office space.

Excellent schools play an important role in the vitality of our community, help maintain high home values, and contribute to a healthy business environment.  Schools and local businesses are the backbone of a strong community.  We are currently signing up partners for our new program year beginning July 1.  Take a look at the various sponsorship levels and benefits in our brochure here.

For questions or to sign up, please contact:  Amy Parlett and Dave Lewis, LPIE Business Partner Co-Chairs at office@lpie.org.

We are seeking business mentors to meet virtually with student teams on a weekly basis. This is a great way for you to share your experience and knowledge to help our students learn valuable concepts and skills to prepare them for their future careers. As a mentor, you would work with a student team (or two!) over the course of the semester. Your role as a mentor would be to give feedback to your student team and keep them on track with their business plan and pitch. You and your team would select the best day/time to meet. As a mentor, your time commitment would be an hour (or more, if desired) weekly from mid-September to the end of November.

You can also watch this video from the competition in 2019 (our 2020 competition was virtual).

Don't have enough time to be a mentor? Here is another way you can participate in the pitch competition: Be a Judge! You could judge the student teams’ presentations on November 19 or December 3. Your time commitment would be three to four hours.

Please consider these great opportunities to help our DVC students! Please contact Mariam Worsham at MWorsham@dvc.edu or Lo Ann Winkler at LWinkler@dvc.edu if you (or someone you know!) are interested. Thank you in advance!

I am a solo attorney with one part-time staff and I am looking for office space to share in Lafayette. I live in Lafayette and would like space close to home. I want to share space with others (e.g.: CPA firm, attorneys, financial advisors). I need an office for me, limited space for one staff, and to have regular use and access to a conference room. If you have space available, please contact me at Stefanie@TrustStefanie.com / 510-684-8365. -- Stefanie West.

An American Cribbage Congress (ACC) member club is in need of a new place to play their weekly local tournaments. Do you have a small meeting room available for 6 – 8 (sometimes 10 and hoping to grow) people, with a long rectangular table(s) so that the players could sit across from each other as they play? They play on Wednesday evenings from 6-9 pm. The group does not have any budget to rent a room, so they’re relying on your good nature. Please contact Pat Welsh at patwelsh@astound.net or 925-788-2407 with questions or possibilities.

Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church 

Are you looking for qualified employees? Post to our job board! We also share on social! Questions? holly@lafayettechamber.org.

Are you looking for a job? See also our Instagram Highlight for Lafayette Chamber businesses that are hiring!

Kaiser Permanente and John Muir Health – announced a new partnership campaign to help our communities find answers to their concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines. The campaign includes social media outreach, physician outreach videos, and a new website – GetAnswersContraCosta.org. The website is the best way to learn more about the COVID-19 vaccines and get answers from medical experts.

NEW: In conversation with Meredith Hall

Count the Ways is a poignant story of holding on and learning to let go. It traces the lives of one family from the years before Roe v Wade and the Vietnam draft through to the computer age, the early awakenings of the #MeToo era, and beyond. A masterful storyteller, Maynard has created an achingly beautiful and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, hope and forgiveness that captures the blessings and bittersweet of life.

Thursday, July 29, 2021, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Don Tatzin Community Hall

The Lafayette Library Foundation is a Premier Partner dedicated to making the region's blood supply stronger. The Red Cross has received almost 150 donations at the Library and could not fulfill their life-saving mission without donors like you! Donating is a safe process and eligible individuals are strongly urged to give blood or platelets.

For a limited time, the American Red Cross will test all blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies as an additional health service to our donors.

To schedule an appointment go to: redcrossblood.org/give or call 1-800-733-2767 and use Sponsor Code: lafayettelibrary.

For more information visit www.LLLCF.org and follow LLLC on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Would you like to include a Lafayette Chamber membership emblem on your website or other marketing materials?

The Lafayette Chamber would be happy to provide you with the appropriate logos. Simply email your request to holly@lafayettechamber.org.