Chamber Chat: Jan. 11, 2012

• New Members — The Corning Chamber of Commerce welcomes these new members: Checkridge Farm, 824-0996, and Massage & Spa Therapy, 145 Solano Street in Corning, 586-1383.

• Office Hours — Please take note — the Chamber office will be open Monday through Friday from 12 to 4 p.m. until Jan. 20.

• Installation Dinner - Have you made your reservations for the Chamber's Annual Installation Dinner this Saturday? If you didn't get your reservation in you can still get it in today. Tickets are $25 per person and $40 per couple. There will be lots of fun with live hoedown music provided by the Clampers Boogie Band with dancing and good food catered by Clampers Boogie Band. The awards for Business and Volunteer of the Year will be awarded and the new officers on the Chamber Board of Directors will be installed. Please join us.

• Today at 10 a.m., interested persons are to meet in front of Daisy's Ice Cream to start the next work project to help clean up Corning. Volunteers will be prepping the building for painting and painting trim on various other buildings. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves, scrapers, and their own paint brush if they have it.

At 10 a.m. on Saturday interested persons will meet in front of Daisy's Ice Cream to begin painting. Please bring gloves, scrapers, paint roller and/or paint brush and trays.

Due to generous donations from anonymous donors, Ace Hardware and the Exchange Club, the group can provide disposable paint tray liners and the roller brushes. Thank you!!

Next organizing meeting will be January 31, at 1 p.m. at The Coffee Club. All are welcome! Please call Lisa Rodriguez, Edward Jones, for more information at 824-4290.

• Business & Entrepreneurship Center, Shasta College presents Growing Your Business, Technology Made Simple, February 9, at the Redding CEWD Training Center, 2990 Innsbruck Drive Redding, CA 96003.

Registration cost is $40. Classes fill up quickly so register online today at www.cedcal.com/events.

The Technology Made Simple Program provides attendees with a learning experience on how to transform your business through the use of best practices in Web site creation. Email marketing, and effective social networking. Experts in each area will present inside knowledge in an easy-to-understand ap-proach that will help your business grow. Schedule: 8:30-9 a.m. check-in/breakfast, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. utilizing web based technology tools and email marketing, 12-12:30 p.m. complimentary lunch with raffle prizes, 12:30-3 p.m., web site creation and using social networking for your small business, 3-3:30 pm, closing ceremony with raffle prizes. Door prizes include Window 7, Jimdo hosting package, Constant Contact email marketing book.