Carson City Chamber of Commerce

Here is the PDF version of the official 2016 Nevada Day Parade Program. It contains a list of all the events, parade entries and other features.

The free program is available at the Nevada Day Store, 108 W Telegraph St., Carson City Visitors Bureau, Carson City Chamber of Commerce and other locations, and will be handed out on Saturday, parade day.

See the program below, or download it from this link.

AAA Carson City is hosting an open house Tuesday, Nov. 1 in conjunction with the Carson City Chamber of Commerce breakfast mixer.

The chamber mixer begins at 8 a.m. with breakfast and coffee at the AAA office, 2901 S. Carson Street. The fall festival continues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. AAA will provide product discounts, games with prizes, and refreshments.

Please watch the video as you read my comments. I did not transcribe the Chamber's 5-6 questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlj0K2-ZWo

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Candidate Forum at the Gold Dust West today beginning at noon. This forum, presented live in the attached video below, gives the community another chance to hear and meet the candidates for mayor and supervisor prior to the start of early voting.

Will the Marijuana initiative pass? Your guess is as good as ours, but in case it does, all employers need to have a drug policy in place to deal with drugs in the workplace – updated to include marijuana.

On, Thursday, Sept. 8, the Board of Directors of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce voted to advise their members to vote against Question 2 – The Marijuana Initiative.

Medical cannabis will soon be available to qualified patients in Carson City and surrounding rural counties who cannot make the trips to Reno or Las Vegas for their medicinal needs.

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce honors those businesses who understand attracting customers begins on the outside. Too many businesses allow weeds to infiltrate, giving the appearance of neglect. As our city takes on a new persona, it is important businesses showcase their property in a positive way.

Downtown Carson City is for sale — parts of it that is — and if you’ve got a spare few million dollars, you could be the proud owner of a historic building or two. After all, not everyone can own a piece of history while becoming a partner in the new downtown.

Pizza was king Wednesday night as dozens attended the grand opening celebration of the new Papa John’s Pizza franchise located at 1425 E. William Street.

Congressman Mark Amodei, now on congressional break, will be addressing members of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce and interested community members at a special coffee session scheduled at 8 a.m. Wednesday, August 24 at the Silver Oak Golf Executive Conference Center.

The Carson City Sheriff's Office is warning recipients of a recent electronic refrigerator direct mailer for Carson City Proud that the communication may be a scam, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said Friday.

Children splashed through streaming fountains of water Saturday morning to break in the newly completed Bob McFadden Plaza, located on the old Third Street section between Carson and Curry streets.

Carson City celebrates the opening of Bob McFadden Plaza, located on Third Street between Carson and Curry Streets this Saturday, July 30 with a full schedule of events. Proceeds from the celebration will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Nevada and Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Back by popular demand, the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West will be bringing their full concert band to the Bob Boldrick Theater at the Carson City Community Center on August 16 for a 7 p.m. show.

This year, the performance will coincide with and be a part of the annual Carson City Jazz & Beyond Carson City Music Festival that begins on August 5.

Back to back weekends filled with events at Mills Park in Carson City culminates this weekend with the annual RSVP 4th of July Carnival and Celebration, which launches Friday.

This will be the 24th year that RSVP has sponsored the holiday weekend carnival, complete with fireworks on Monday, July 4, plus plenty of rides, music, food booths, arts and crafts vendors and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

The William N. Pennington Teen Center at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada campus is now officially opened thanks to a Carson City Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening festivities Thursday.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada will celebrate the ribbon cutting and grand opening of its William N. Pennington Teen Center Thursday at 10 a.m. The community is invited.

Funded by a $1.2 million naming gift from the William N. Pennington Foundation of Reno and donations from the Carson City community, the club broke ground on the Teen Center in October 2015.

With her son graduating from high school, Sue Jones began to rethink her own career as a math teacher at Carson High School. More and more, she was drawn back to retail, where she had gotten her start at the Ace Hardware her father owned in Incline Village.

Then it came to her — in a dream — the store that would help people connect with one another through meaningful gifts.

“I really just woke up with this idea of having a very heartfelt store,” she said.

Indian arts, crafts, food and dance take the stage June 17-19 at the 2016 Stewart Father’s Day Powwow in Carson City.

Hosted in partnership with the Nevada Indian Commission and the Stewart Indian School Alumni, the annual powwow includes quality Native American fun and is also a time for alumni, former employees, families and friends to gather at the former campus.

YouTube is one of the most powerful media tools on the planet today. Yet, many businesses do not use social media of any kind to their marketing advantage.

Candidates for Carson City Mayor and State Assembly District 40 addressed a nearly full house of voters at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall Wednesday night during a candidate forum sponsored by the Carson City Chamber of Commerce.

The candidates participated in a structured debate moderated by Nevada Appeal Editor Adam Trumble.

As a group, they were asked questions on specific topics and each given two minutes to provide a response.

Choosing the candidates who will advance to the general election is extremely important. And, the only way to be able to choose wisely is to see the primary candidates in action as they answer questions posed by board members of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce on May 24 beginning at 6 p.m. at the BAC Performance Hall.

Putting Carson City on the map in more ways than one is the goal of Dr. Lindsay Chichester, UNR Extension Educator, who has partnered with the Carson City Chamber to make marketing business on the web less intimidating.

“Every American city, whether it prides itself on its public sculptures or deep-dish pizza, on hot-air balloons or woolen jackets, on abundant trout streams or Greek architecture, needs to develop that identity, or if it has been allowed to escape, remember what it once was.”

That single sentence written by Robert E. Price, author of “The Bakersfield Sound” and award-winning Executive Editor of the newspaper Bakersfield Californian, struck a chord with me, for as we go forth with our “reimagining,” we still don’t have a clear vision/identity of who we were or who we are today.

Almost 84 million Millennials are now at the age where their spending can make a huge difference to the economy. Those born between 1980 and 2000 outnumber the big-spending Baby Boomers by over 9 million.

The older Millennials are now purchasing homes, furniture, cars and more tangible goods that will keep cash registers and online services tingling.

Nevada is looking at a new tourist attraction in one of the oldest prisons in the country. Saturday was the first time the Nevada State Prison opened to the public, since it closed in 2012.

Those who travel east on Highway 50 will see a new sign proclaiming all who see it to be #CarsonProud thanks to Rogers Media of Davis, Calif.

Matt Rogers, Rogers Media owner, offered the Carson City Chamber of Commerce the use of the sign to present whatever message it wished.

Savvy business owners understand to be listed on the Google search engine is one of the first steps needed to assure being seen by potential customers.

Yet, many businesses don’t know how easy it is to get their business listed or update their partial listing. This knowledge void could cause a lack of sales in an era where the internet is used by 4 out of 5 people who use search engines to find anything and everything.

Carson City is changing daily as work progresses to create a more walkable and bike friendly downtown. Changing the face of the downtown is the core of the many projects the city has undertaken to provide a better quality of life for the city’s citizens.