In the next few weeks I will be sending out surveys to our membership.  The surveys will ask questions about your business that I will then use to highlight a business every other month in our newsletter.  Please fill them out when you see them!

Thank you,
Cinnamon

We are happy to announce that SFHS graduating senior Tyler Hensley has been awarded the Syd Lehman Memorial Scholarship for 2014.  He will be attending Pittsburg University in Pennsylvania next fall with a study focus on foreign journalism.  We are so proud of him and we know he will represent Southern Humboldt well wherever life takes him!
This scholarship is made possible by the Garberville Redway Area Chamber of Commerce and the Lehman Family Trust.  Applications are offered each year to local graduating seniors.  The scholarship awarded is $1000.

We are looking for a few volunteers that can help with traffic control for the 4th of July FIreworks show.  We need help setting up cones and traffic diversion, as well as people stationed at various places in Benbow.  Please conatact CInnamon if you are able to help or would like to recommend someone.

As you may already know, the Chamber has started a petition to get more law enforcement in Southern Humboldt.  It reads as follows:

To: 
Estelle Fennell, Humboldt County Board of Supervisors 
Mike Downey, Humboldt County Sheriff 
Provide 24/7 law enforcement coverage in Southern Humboldt. We want our community to be the safe, rural, place that we all love. In order to once again have this status, we need your help! Please get more officers in Southern Humboldt County! 
For the past several months there has been no law enforcement coverage in Southern Humboldt County outside of normal business hours. Even during normal business hours there are a minimal number of officers in the area, usually one or two deputies, to cover our vast rural area. This creates an unsafe atmosphere for the public and those officers on duty. Recently there has been an escalating string of events that went without law enforcement response causing hardship on our community members and businesses. 

We demand that this be taken care of. We want officers in our area 24/7 who are able to respond when needed. We are asking for this, as tax paying citizens who have the right to feel safe in our towns, on our streets, in our businesses, and especially in our homes. We will not sit back and let our community be degraded any longer by bad behavior and unsafe conditions.
Sincerely, 
 
Garberville Redway Area Chamber of Commerce

You can sign online at change.org  It is our hope that our collective voice is heard and we are better staffed and serviced in our community.  There have been far too many crimes that have gone unresponded to and it it escalating.  Please share this link https://www.change.org/petitions/estelle-fennell-provide-24-7-law-enforcement-coverage-in-southern-humboldt  on your social media or email it to your friends and family asking them to also sign.

 

 

Thank you to everyone who came, contributed, or donated to our Annual Dinner on May 22.  The evening was a huge success.  We are so proud to have had the opportunity to honor so many great businesses, people, and organizations in our community!  The tremendous support for our raffle and silent auction which benfits the 4th of July Fireworks show is so greatly appreciated!  I hope you all had a good time, we will do it again next year!

Thank you to the following for donating raffle and silent auction prizes:
Korbly Wood Products, Blue Star Gas, Bootleg, Southern Humboldt Fitness, Miranda Gardens Resort, Wyckoff’s, Humboldt Performance Cycle, Trim Scene Solution, Humboldt County’s Smoking Caterpillar, SHC Industries, Benbow Inn, Pacific Lotus, Roberto’s T’s, Redway True Value, Cecil’s New Orleans Bistro, Grennwired, Southern Humboldt Kids, Signature Coffee, Chataqua, Café Minou, Karen Miclette, Garberville Dairy, Southern Humboldt Builders, Blue Moon Gifts, Redway Feed and Pet, Sylvandale Gardens, Community Credit Union of Southern Humboldt, Marilyn Yelle, McBride Automotive, Pigmint Press, Emerald Technology, The Stonery, Sweet Grass, Tranquility Lane, Cadillac Wok, Dazey’s Motorsports, Garden of Beadin’, House of Burgess, Chimney Tree Grill, The Cuttings, Southern Humboldt Fitness, and Humboldt Hunnies.

Thank you Briceland VIneyards, Garberville Dairy, Humboldt Distillery,  Redway Liquors, Shop Smart, and The Chimney Tree for contributing to the dinner and bar!  And thank you Moses Danzer of Barbeque To You for making such a wonderful meal!  And thank you to the Mateel Community Center for their support, the use of their space, and their wonderful volunteers!

Recently one of our members asked if I knew how they could get their business listed on the freeway signs.  After making several inquiries, I was able to make contact with the person in charge of the CalTrans Logo Program.  I thought I would pass the information along to any other members who might be interested in doing this!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Typical process to apply and obtain a LOGO signage on the highway:
· 1.       Contact
            Amber McCall
            District 1
            South Region District Permit Engineer
            LOGO Coordinator
 
            
            1656 Union Street, Eureka, CA 95501
            p: 707.445.6389 c: 707.498.4287 f: 707.445.6317
 with what type of signage (i.e. Food, Lodging, Fuel) and location of your business.
· 2.      Fill out MSISP Application Part 1
· 3.      Submit a deposit
· 4.      Submit LOGO design for approval
· 5.      Once design is approved, have signs manufactured and delivered to appropriate maintenance facility
·6.       Wait for signs to be installed


More informatin can be found online at www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/engineering/logo/
 

Redwood Run 2014
06/13/2014- 06/15/2014

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