Crab Fest 2022 Vendor Registration is Open!

Want to be a Crab Fest vendor? Get registered today! Here are the easy step how:

1. Complete Your Registration
2. Pay a $100 registration fee that will be applied to your booth cost
3. Download & Review the Vendor Handbook
4. Return permits, certification, and documents by email, dropping them off, or mail them to the Chamber no later than April 27th, 2022

A Chamber representative will call to confirm your booth details and billing information. All booths must be paid in full by May 3, 2022. If there are any questions during the process please call (907) 486-5557 or email jena@kodiakchamber.org

Updating Your Information through our Membership Portal!

We want our members to get the most out of our online directory and resources by updating their membership listing with the most current contact information for the Kodiak Chamber's website and to be published within our 2022 Relocation Guide.

Login to your member portal or call Trinity Higinbotham, Community Relation Director, at (907) 486-5557 or email trinity@kodiakchamber.org

Do You Want to Host a Business After Hours in 2022?

Feature your business at one of our monthly Business After Hours events! These events target the entire community as well as other Chamber Members. It gives them the opportunity to visit your business and learn the story behind why and how you do what you do.

If you are interested, contact us now as spots are limited!

Get Your News Out to the Community!

News & Views is a weekly, two-minute, pre-recorded radio segment that airs on KVOK and HOT 101.1

Each segment spotlights one of our local Chamber Members and is recorded at the KVOK studio with Community Relations Director, Trinity Higinbotham.

What is Discussed? We will help guide your message, but anything business-related is fair game!

Who Can Take Advantage? Any Chamber Member is able to take advantage of this unique promotional opportunity. Anyone from the organization can be interviewed. You choose the direction and goal you'd like to accomplish and we will work with you to achieve it! This is a completely FREE service we provide for our Chamber Members.

I'm Ready, What Now? Simply contact Trinity via email, stop by the office, or call (907) 486-5557 to schedule.

Join the Small Business Collaboration Group

Our mission is to support an environment of success for small business through collaboration, communication, and education.

The group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 10 AM. All are welcome! This months meeting is Tuesday, March 8th.

Email jena@kodiakchamber.org to be added to the distribution list to get the monthly agenda.

Sales Tax-Free Day!

March 5 | All Day

It's time to start thinking about promoting your business during the Sales Tax-Free Day! The City of Kodiak accepted a resolution in 2009, requested by the Chamber, to hold a tax-free day on the first Saturday of March each year. This year's tax-free day will be held on March 5th!

We want to get the word out and help promote any extra specials you'll be having! Please send us a flyer, image, or description of the special you'll be having, and we'll share it via mass email and Facebook! Please send your specials to trinity@kodiakchamber.org no later than March 1st.

Special thanks to the City of Kodiak for their continued support.

Disney's The Little Mermaid

March 5 & 6 and March 11, 12 & 13

A family favorite brought to life on the Kodiak stage! Ariel, King Triton's youngest daughter, wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above, bargaining with the evil sea witch, Ursula, to trade her tail for legs. But the bargain is not what it seems, and Ariel needs the help of her colorful friends, Flounder the fish, Scuttle the seagull and Sebastian the crab to restore order under the sea.

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Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl" and "Part of Your World."

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The Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative’s Annual Meeting

Kodiak Furniture After Hours

March 30 | 5 PM

Please join us on March 30th from 5-7 PM.

Kodiak Furniture is hosting an evening of networking and fun! Come and enjoy Kodiak’s Island’s largest selection of furniture and décor while networking! Take advantage of giveaways, while you enjoy food and drinks and split the pot! Come out, have fun, and do some good by supporting one of our locally owned businesses!

The Small Glories

March 31 | 7 PM

Roots powerhouse duo The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a musical tour-de-force partnership planted on the Canadian Prairies. 

With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band — writing the songs, living the songs, performing the songs. It’s not uncommon for listeners to find themselves laughing, dancing, crying, or caught up in a good ol’ fashioned sing-along. 

The material of a Small Glories concert is welcoming in terms of subject, folk-pop melody and instrumentation — songs of love, loss, and environment, delivered with soaring, interwoven vocals on various combinations of stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica.

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Kodiak Island Borough

COMMERCIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE

Disposal Event

May 5 & 6 | By Appointment Only

Make an appointment by emailing Morgan.Kuhnke@usecology.com or calling Morgan at (907) 646-5070 by Wednesday, April 22 by 5 PM Alaska Time. Be sure to identify yourself as a Kodiak Island business/government agency.

The disposal event will take place at the Kodiak Island Borough Landfill.

NRC Alaska will take appointments on a first come first serve basis - so Don’t Delay! Qualified small businesses and government agencies will be charged for transportation and disposal of their hazardous waste based on the type and amount of their waste. Payment arrangements must be made in advance by the issuance of a Purchase Order, Credit Card, or Business Check. NO Cash or Personal Checks will be accepted.

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Alaska Small Business Development Center Workshops & On-Demand Classes

LIVE Events

• Introduction to QuickBooks Online

New On-Demand Workshops

• ADA Law: What a Business Should Know
• Anchorage Health Department Cottage Food Permit Process
• Engaging Social Media

Museum to Offer Youth Activities During Spring Break

DATE: March 1, 2022

CONTACT: Leda Ferranti, Education Manager

leda@alutiiqmuseum.org

With a $5,000 grant from the City of Kodiak and support provided by the Kodiak Area Native Association, the Alutiiq Museum will host cultural activities for youth during the Kodiak Island Borough School District’s 2022 spring break. Crafts, dancing and hands-on artifact exploration will take place in the museum’s gallery on March 15th through 17th. On March 18th, museum archaeologists will lead an archaeology walk on Near Island. The events will take place between 1:00 and 3:00 pm. They are free to families and no registration is required. Families may participate in one event or all four. Parents are asked to attend with their children. 

Alutiiq Museum Executive Director April Laktonen Counceller said, “Parents often contact the museum...Read More

Walmart Plus Membership!

Are you curious about Walmart+?

Unsure what the benefits are?

How does it make your life better?

Find out more about a FREE trial!

Stop into your Walmart of Kodiak and visit with Jeff, Jesusa, and Rowena and let them explain this great program!

Emily's Alterations & Design

Located at 326 Center Ave, Suite 101

Emily will be retiring in September 2022 and is selling her alterations business.

The business includes machines, threads, and zippers. You can even stay in the same location.

Willing to train if desired.

Call Emily for Details (907) 486-5699

Three Seats Up for Election Kodiak Electric Association, Inc. Board of Directors 

DATE: January 19, 2022

CONTACT: Nancy B. Sweeney

nbsweeney@kodiak.coop

Deadline for filing petitions is March 16, 2022.

Three seats on the Board of Directors are up for election this year in Kodiak Electric Association, Inc.’s membership election. 

The Board of Directors consists of nine elected voting Directors and one United States Coast Guard appointed non-voting liaison. This year, the seats currently held by Directors Linda Freed, Jay Johnston, and Matt Moir are up for election. All three seats are for three-year terms. KEA members locally elect KEA’s directors. 

Candidate petition packets are available by contacting the KEA office. To be an eligible candidate, you must be a member of KEA. 

Completed candidate petition packets must be received by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at the KEA office at 1614 Mill Bay Road. 

The Notice of Annual Membership Meeting, Annual Report, and ballots will be mailed to members of KEA on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Completed ballots must be returned by mail in the envelope that is provided with the notice of the meeting, and must be received by Friday, April 22, 2022. All voting will be done by mail.  

Ballot results will be announced at KEA’s Annual Membership Meeting on Monday, April 25, 2022. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m.  

During 2021, regular meetings of the Board were held on the fourth Thursday of each month, beginning at noon. An average of 30 hours is required for 12 regular meetings during the year. The Board also meets as a whole for the Annual Membership Meeting and on the next day to organize the slate of officers. Meetings may be held virtually.  

KEA’s Bylaws state that each member is entitled to one vote. Joint members are jointly entitled to one vote. A ballot is voided if a person not listed on the account signs the return envelope. KEA members uncertain about the name(s) listed on their accounts are encouraged to call KEA to find out how to update their accounts. The deadline for any changes to be in effect for this year’s election process is March 2, 2022. Business Accounts (corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietorships) should annually update their list of officers/owners authorized to vote on behalf of the account. 

For further information or to request a candidate petition packet, contact Nancy B. Sweeney, Communication/Human Resource Specialist, at (907) 486-7700. 

Are You Hiring?

Email us your job listing and we can share them on our online Job Board, post them on our social media, and include them in our monthly e-newsletter.

Contact us for more details!

COVID Relief Resources from SWAMC

SWAMC is actively engaged in conversations with other ARDORs, the Alaska Small Business Development Center, Alaska Municipal League, and other State and Federal agency representatives to sift through and understand the many resources available for businesses, municipalities, tribes, and individuals who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.



Additional resource links for COVID:

• ARPA Program Guidence
• Alaska Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
• Alaska Dept. of Health & Social Services (DHSS)
• Alaska Municipal League (AML)
• Governor Dunleavy’s COVID-19 Economic Stabilization Plan