We are having such a beautiful summer here in the Caribou area! Sunny and warm, this is the kind of weather that makes everything seem brighter and happier. It certainly did not hurt the outpouring of people to our most recent Thursdays on Sweden event on July 17. Check out the pictures on our Facebook page (over 5,000 people already have!). The street was packed!
Thursdays on Sweden, as an event, is a symbol to me of a new can-do feeling around here. We can work together. We can try new things and if everyone works together, our area can do anything.
Sign-ups for the August 8 Caribou Cares About Kids Parade have been brisk. It looks like we are going to have a nice parade with the theme: “The Past, The Present and The Future”. How fitting. All three are worth celebrating.
The more the merrier, as the saying goes, so if your organization or business would like to join the parade, please fill out a registration form found on our website or come see us in the office. As always, the Chamber will pick out two winners for best entry as we judge from the sidelines.
Also, look for a new poster and brochure in the next coming days for all the events occurring during this year’s Caribou Cares About Kids weekend. If you would like to run an event in association with the weekend, let me know as soon as possible and for a $25 fee, your event will be included in our promotional works.
Did you know?
I am starting a new feature here with this column to toot our horn a little bit. It occurs to us that not everyone may know the scope of activities of the Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce. Each week for the next several weeks, I will share a facet of our operation that you may never have thought about.
Let’s start with our foremost mission, which is to serve, promote and encourage our member organizations, institutions and businesses. While on the surface that mission may seem like a specialized market or a special interest, if you will. But did you know that our members employ as many as 2,150 area people? That’s right. When we support one of our members, we also support those who work for those members.
If we do our job well of promoting our members, then a benefit is not only obtained by those members but also by all the people that are employed by member agencies.
As the weeks go by, I hope you will see that this is just one way the Caribou Area Chamber of Commerce supports its favorite and very special interest group — the people of the Caribou area.
To do an even better job of doing so, Patricia Turner has joined us as a volunteer and will be in the office in the afternoons three days a week. This will allow me more time to get out amongst the membership and support them (and you) to the best of my ability. She has been terrific and a blessing thus far. Thank you!
Executive Director William Tasker may be reached in the CACC office at 498-6156 or email him at cacc@cariboumaine.net.
