Membership

Upcoming Chamber Meetings:

General Membership Meetings - Held at 12:00 noon. Earl and Shirley's Riverview Restaurant, always the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Chamber Board Meetings-

Always the 2nd Tuesday of the month, at 1:15 p.m. in the Visitors Center.

Who's on the Board of Directors? Click here!

West Side Committee Meetings-

Members from Grays River to Naselle meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6 pm at the Naselle Timberlands Library.  Everyone Welcome!  Call 795-9996 for more information or to get on the Agenda.

Benefits of Chamber Membership

We’d like you to join The Chamber of Wahkiakum County!

My name is Tanja Winebrenner and I am the new Executive Director/ Marketing Director for The Chamber.  I’d like to talk to you about membership and your commitment to help improve the economic, civic, and cultural climate of this wonderful area.

My duty is to help facilitate the growth of the organization through the retention and promotion of our members, increase tourism and create and market events for the area. We hope you’ll join us and help in this mission. Our goal is to maintain the rare quality of life in the area, while stimulating economic growth.

Some of the benefits you will receive as a member of The Chamber of Wahkiakum County include:

·         Ribbon Cutting hosted by The Chamber

·         Company listing in the Community Profile and Membership Guide

·         Monthly e-mail updating you on pertinent business information, event calendars and meetings

·         Your company listing and capability of linking your website in a searchable directory on www.wahkiakumchamber.com

·         The opportunity to list your events on our chamber calendar

·         Access to databases and business mailing labels

·         Business-to-business networking opportunities

·         Opportunity to leave brochures and/or business cards in the information center, and have your brochures sent in visitor or relocation packets to those that request them

·         Inclusion in appropriate brochures the chamber creates for the area, including the first county-wide tourism brochure

As a Chamber member, you will have an opportunity to promote your business at the numerous events The Chamber organizes. Sponsorships are available for many events such as Bald Eagle Days, The Chamber’s Crab Feed, The Annual Chili Cook-Off, Chamber Mixers and more! 

If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact me at 360-795-9996 or stop by the new visitor’s center in the Scarborough building on Main Street in Cathlamet. You can also e-mail me at wchamber@cni.net.

Sincerely,

Tanja Winebrenner

Executive Director

Wahkiakum County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau   

Wahkiakum Chamber and VC

2008 Priorities

In an effort to help business succeed and increase tourism in our area, The Chamber is committed to the following priorities during 2008:

Strengthen The Chamber

• Work with our governmental agency partners to develop processes of cooperation between agencies and the business community that foster a positive and responsible climate for economic development.
• Grow the membership. A strong chamber has more influence, and can represent business on a regional and state-wide scale with more affective results.
• Enhance membership and involvement with the West side of Wahkiakum County including Naselle.
• Increase retention statistics.
• Visit existing members on a regular basis.
• Start holding monthly meetings for West side businesses, form a West Side chamber committee.
• Train the membership on topics chosen by the membership.

Promoting the Community

• Promote The Lower Columbia region emphasizing its unique history, rare beauty and recreational activities.
• Provide web site links from The Chamber to other organizations.
• Promote the Lower Columbia as a biking, kayaking, boating and retreat destination.
• Promote and design the new Visitor Center, and increase traffic flow to the center.
• Implement plans to increase traffic flow into towns from SR4 and the river, including Columbia cruise ships.
• Continue to create relationships with regional & national publications and media.
• Increase the regional prominence on outside tourism websites including Oregon and Washington State Tourism sites.
• Create a new chamber website listing all members and activities in the area.
• Attend state and regional tourism, economic and business development conferences representing Wahkiakum’s interests.

Providing Networking Opportunities

• Develop a tactical plan for new networking opportunities.
• Hold a quarterly business issues meeting for education with topics including “marketing your business”, “hospitality” and “legislation and the chamber influence”.
• Create regular events calendars to e-mail post.
• Explore new networking venues like “greeters” or “breakfast roundtables”.