VEBA General Meeting - Wed Feb 4 - Protecting Your Business

VEBA General Meeting
Date: Wednesday February 4, 7:00 pm
Location: Edward Jones Investment office at 158 Oriole Rd.
Guest: Sgt.Carlson of the RCMP to take questions on what can be done to protect your business.

We have had a number of instances in Valleyview lately and feel this is a timely meeting with the RCMP.

All businesses in the Valleyview and Kamloops East area are welcome to attend. If you have not already paid your 2004 membership fee, just bring your cheque for $50.00 along on Weds, payable to the "Valleyview and East Business Association" and we will issue you a receipt.

General meetings are the 1st Weds of each month at the Edward Jones Investment office. We are hoping to have some people from the City of Kamloops at the March 3 meeting to discuss, City Hall working together with Valleyview & East Business Association.

Thanks and see you there.

For further information, please contact Deryl or Lynne at 377-3885.

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Cooper's Heart Fund Day - Sat Feb 14

Help Coopers celebrate Heart Month on Valentine's Day - Saturday February 14th.

For 27 years Coopers has been donating 50 cents for every bag of groceries purchased at all theree Coopers locations in Kamloops.

For further information, please contact Coopers at 374-4343.

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Chamber Social - Tue Feb 24 - City Hall

Don't miss the first Chamber Social of the year to be held at City Hall. Mark Tuesday, February 24th on your calendar and join us for some appies, prizes and as always, a great networking opportunity! We look forward to seeing you there!

Anyone interested in donating a door prize for this or any other Social can do so by contacting Scott at the Chamber Office.

For further information, please contact Scott DeCap at 372-7722.

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Spring Thing - Sat May 8

We are co-ordinating with the Valleyview Community Assocation's garage sale in doing something special on Saturday, May 8.

The idea is to have special sales and events that day throughout the business area of Valleyview.

We are interested in your suggestons and what you would want to do. Please contact Deryl Priebe with your ideas and if you want to get involved.

To be discussed at our March 3 General Meeting.

For further information, please contact Deryl or Lynne at 377-3885.

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New signs will mark gateways to City

Three new highway billboards will be erected at the entrances to Karnloops some time this fall. That is, provided sales go according to plan, said Brent Gropp of the R&C Media Team.

R&C is a company that sells sponsorship and sign space at Sport Mart Place, as well as the Vernon Multiplex and B.C. Place Stadium.

They also brokered a deal to change the name of Riverside Coliseum to Sport Mart Place. Gropp and the team have now has been contracted by the City of Kamloops to sell space on these new revolving tri-vision signs.

Two thirds of the space will be dedicated to the rotating promotion signs, with the other third dedicated to the Kamloops City logo and a tag line "Come stay and play with us."

Any advertisers interested in committing to a minimum one-year contract must promote the area and a lifestyle rather than a product, Gropp said. That was a stipulation mandated by the city.

Space will not be available to retailers but rather to golf courses, hotels, employers, housing developers, event organizers and tourist attractions, Gropp said.

"It's designed as a unique opportunity to remind visitors to , the area of the things that the City of Kamloops has to offer," he said.

These signs, Gropp noted, are expected to become additional revenue generators for the city. One sign will be located on Trans-Canada Highway east of. town near Dallas, another on the Yellowhead Highway north of town near Rayleigh and another on the Trans-Canada Highway west of town at Sugarloaf Road.

Creation of the signs is expected to cost about $75,000 to $100,000. Gropp said the rental fee is still being worked out, but he hopes a rate card will be available by spring, with the signs operational by fall.

Kamloops Daily News - Mon Feb 2 2004

For further information, please contact Roxanne Hooper at 371-6149.

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