The Scarborough Community Chamber advocates for, promotes and develops local business and our community. We lead by education, networking, marketing and generating opportunities for active business members to succeed.

UPCOMING MARCH 2010 SCARBOROUGH COMMUNITY CHAMBER EVENTS

On Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @5:00pm, the SCC Board of Directors’ Municipal Officials Dinner will be held at Camp Ketcha

On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @12:00pm, a SCC Lunch ‘n Learn will be held at the Scarborough Public Library.  The speaker is Malcolm Poole and the topic is “Remove Obstacles from Achieving Your Business Objectives.  A Business Coach can bring Focus, Clarity and Discipline to your Plan.  Learn about how Coaching can work for you.”

On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @4:00pm, the SCC Concert committee will meet at Romeo’s

On Monday, March 15, 2010 @12:00pm, a SCC Board of Directors meeting will be held at Cabela’s

Thursday, March 18, 2010 is Chamber Membership Appreciation Day

On Thursday, March 25, 2010 @5:00pm, a SCC Business After Five will be held at 360 US Route One (the Allied Home Mortgage building).

PAST EVENTS

On Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @12:00pm, a SCC Board meeting was held at Cabela’s

On Thursday, February 18, 2010 @7:30am, a SCC Membership meeting was held at Maine Indoor Karting

On Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @12:00pm, a SCC Lunch ‘n Learn was held at the Scarborough Public Library

MEMBER NOTICES

The SCC and SEDCO have been working on a long-term economic development Vision & Plan for Scarborough for the past year.  The final Vision document is now complete (visit www.ScarboroughEconomicDevelopment.com/Vision.aspx to view it) and the implementation portion of the process began in January 2010.  If you would like to be a part of the implementation process, please contact VisionComments@maine.rr.com.  The group meets the first Thursday of each month at 8:30am at Town Hall.  Thank you for being a part of this important community process.

MEMBER BENEFITS

Scarborough Community Chamber members should have received the 5^th issue of the Scarborough-specific e-newsletter on December 11, 2009.  This was the holiday promotion-centric issue.  If you do not receive it, but would like to receive it in the future, please send an e-mail to: ScarboroughChamber@maine.rr.com.

As a reminder, any Chamber member is welcome and encouraged to include something along the lines of “Proud Member of the Scarborough Community Chamber” or “Proud Member of the Portland Regional Chamber” plus the respective logo on their letterhead or communications, if they would like to do so.  If you need a file of the Chamber logo for your letterhead, just contact Laura LeBrun by e-mail at llebrun@portlandregion.com and she will process your request.

The Scarborough Community Chamber has begun keeping track of how long Scarborough Chamber businesses have been in existence, so that we may help you commemorate your significant anniversaries, etc.  Please take a moment to e-mail your business’ year of creation to Julie Bassett (jbassett@maine.rr.com) so that it may be added to our records.

Scarborough Community Chamber is now on Facebook and LinkedIn.  Just search for “Scarborough Community Chamber” under “Groups,” submit a request to join and you will be approved.  These groups are open for any member of a Scarborough Community Chamber business.  Start a discussion with your peers on one of these sites today!

WINTER 2010 SCC NOTICES

Are you an enthusiastic person, full of good ideas? Then you're just the person we're looking for. The marketing committee of the Scarborough Community Chamber currently has an opening. Light time commitment. The committee works to increase communication among the chamber's members, to increase the benefits of membership, and to promote the chamber within Scarborough's business community. If you are interested, contact Julie Bassett (jbassett@maine.rr.com) and/or Andrea Killiard (killiardandrea@pipershores.org).

If you have member news/information that you would like to see in future editions of this newsletter, or if you are celebrating an anniversary/open house/grand opening, etc. please contact Julie Bassett (jbassett@maine.rr.com) with the information.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

If you would like to be involved with the 2010 Scarborough Farmers’ Market, either as a vendor or as a volunteer, please send an e-mail to: ScarbFarmersMarket@maine.rr.com  The planning group meets monthy.

NEW MEMBERS

CertaPro Painters, Discover Me Discover You, The Landing at Pine Point, Meech Property Management, and Pre-Paid Legal Services are our newest members- please support them today!

  For more information about the SCC, please visit: http://www.scarboroughmaine.com/chamber/

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