The latest news for you

May/June 2022

The Sebastopol Area Chamber of Commerce is a membership organization that supports community and economic vitality through opportunities to connect, learn and engage. We take a serious role in networking, economic vitality, local promotion and advocacy. We proudly serve as the hub of the Sebastopol business community. Learn more at www.sebastopol.org

Seminar June 14th at 10 am viz zoom. Free to all members.

Exciting News

The Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce will be expanding our hours beginning June 15, 2022 through September 15, 2022. Our new hours will be 10am to 3:30pm. We have hired a temporary part time employee to cover our Visitor Center and our front desk.

Each month we will be highlighting some of our Businesses

Apple Blossom Festival & Parade was a great weekend for all who attended.

Thank you to our Sponsor's:

Pacific Market

Week Drilling & Pump

The Livery-Banner Sponsor

Schoenberg Family Law Group

The Feed Store

The City of Sebastopol

The Toywork's

Sebastopol Hardware

Cottingham Mortgage Inc.-

The Sebastopol Gravenstein Lions Club

Exchange Bank

Redwood Credit Union

Sebastopol Dental Care

Recology Sonoma Marin

Fidelity national Title

Ace Cider

U.S. Pure Water Seismic Brewing

Eagle Distributing

Congratulations to all our parade winners, and People's Music who took home the Sweepstakes Trophy.

We had a fun filled weekend with great weather. Our two music stages were packed with an enthusiastic audience. Our children's area was expanded this year with the Punch & Judy Puppet show, super hero's, The Toywork's, Mitcho and his wonderful animals and much more.

Thank you to West County High School for our beautiful poster, which you can purchase at our office.

Our attendance was approximately 6000 people with Saturday being very busy. Yes the lines were long and we had minimal food vendors... Next year we hope that our food vendors will be able to find employees so we can add to what we had. We are hoping to do online ticket sales to minimize the entrance lines. The other obstacle was the lack of volunteers, which caused us to close Jewel Street entrance gate. For those of you that did volunteer we THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. We were able to make a few donations to our local community with some of our proceeds from this beautiful weekend.

April 29, & 30th 2023

will be the date for next years Parade and Festival. We are reaching out to citizens for theme ideas. Please email to linda@sebastopol.org with your ideas

www.appleblossomfest.org

I wanted to personally thank The Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center Board of Directors who gave effortlessly to volunteer at our 2022 Apple Blossom Festival and Parade. Without their dedication it would not have been possible to put on the 76th Apple Blossom Festival. As some of you know there are many moving parts to have a successful event of this size. I am so blessed to work with a great group of leaders. Thank you all

Linda Collins

Executive Director

The Sebastopol Kiwanis Club will be hosting the Annual 3rd of July Fireworks at Analy High School beginning at 5:30pm. We are looking for 8 people to sell raffle tickets during the event beginning at 5:30 pm until 9:30pm. We will have 2 shifts: 5:30 to 7:30 and 7:30 to 9:30. If you are interested in volunteering please contact me at linda@sebastopol.org or call me at (707) 823 3032. Let's show our community how we step up when called upon.

Thank you

SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES

Business After 5 is back and has been updated on the Sebastopol Chamber website. We are taking requests for 2022. As you know the months are taking quickly so let me know if you are interested in hosting a Business After 5. For more information, click here

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 14th Revenue Jump Seminar

via Zoom (see information above)

June 14th Sebastopol Needs Summit

Analy High School Cafeteria

4:30 pm to 7:30 pm

June 18th Sebastopol's 120th Anniversary Party sponsored by The City of Sebastopol and ReLaunch Sebastopol at Ives Park

4pm to 7pm

June 30, 2022

Business After 5 & Ribbon Cutting

The Livery 6940 Burnett St.

5:30-7:30

With our summer weather here make sure and stay hydrated. We have our water bottles on sale in our Visitor Center for $18.00. They are stainless steel and will keep your drinks cold. Stop by and purchase yours today. We have them in 3 different colors.