Ron Peltier, fifty-year Islander and local business owner, Environmental Bainbridge founder, and active with Islanders for Responsible Development, will be our special guest this Friday, sharing his business wisdom and insights on local economic sustainability and environmentally creative business practice.
Environmental Bainbridge serves as an umbrella for environmental groups striving to promote sustainability and stewardship. We believe saving the planet starts at home and effective activism does not trivialize environmental principles (environmentalbainbridge.org). Islanders for Responsible Development is working to promote smart development on Bainbridge Island (facebook.com/EnvironmentalBainbridge).
Be there, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all business wise!
So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!
BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is., Upstairs At the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Guest Speaker Ron Peltier
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting
Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Really Exciting Upcoming News & Events!
27 August, Chamber After Hours, 5:30-7:00: Sweetlife Farm is hosting this month for networking, appetizers, wine, beer. Discover the crafts and products that Bob & Nancy Fortner (of Fortner Books fame) produce from ingredients grown on the farm. Check out their new option for overnight stays – “glamping” in a tepee! Free event, public is welcome. At 9631 Summerhilll Lane. Info at bainbridgechamber.com.
NOTE — The handout with lots of great links from last week’s exciting business emergency preparedness presentation by Colleen Kragen is available here: Business Disaster Recovery Plan
BBC Regular Terry & Joanna Arndt (formerly owners of Paper Products) have opened their new Bainbridge School Supply and Create Bainbridge! Both are located in the Safeway Shopping Center on High School Road. So go visit and check them out. Very exciting!
NOTICE: Sonia Lien, Founding BBC Regular (and coauthor with Dave Kragen, From Alone To Aloha), has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. Updates on CaringBridge. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. For now, Sonia is able to live at home, Hostmark Apts. (Contact Dave for address & more info [email protected].)
OfficeXpats is the 2014 Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year! “It was an honor just to be nominated, and it is kinda crazy that we actually won. We are very excited. This award is based on contribution to the Chamber’s mission, and to the Bainbridge community at large.”
BBC on Facebook: Alice David kindly set up a BBC Facebook destination: friend, post, share, bake, blog, barbecue. We remember you Alice! (officexpats.com/thank-you-alice-a-true-ambassador-for-community/).
REMINDER – For BBC Regular Members: We’re building our Open/Public BBC Regulars Business Info & Contact List for a single page referral sheet and BBC website Members List. As BBC Regular Members, make your business/contact info available for the BBC community and website. Follow link (form courtesy of Annette Walker) and fill out BBC Regulars Member List contact info: http://bit.ly/1mZGKfR.
Special thanks to our friends at Toastmasters Bainbridge. There are 2 clubs on the Island: The Noon Edition toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/00002183-bainbridge-island-club and The Evening Edition toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/00002238-u-speak-easy-club.