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  • 11/12/2012 10:52 AM | Deleted user

    Information About Understanding, Managing and Reducing Energy Use Will Be Available During Workshop
     
    PLACER COUNTY, Calif. – Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will provide small and medium business customers with an afternoon workshop scheduled Friday, Nov. 16.

    The event will be held Friday, Nov. 16 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Colfax Area Heritage Museum, 99 Railroad Ave., Colfax. This events will focus on understanding, managing and reducing energy use and lowering the utility bill for small and medium businesses, and electric rate change information. Any PG&E customer who owns or rents a commercial facility is invited to attend this workshops.

    By attending the workshop customers will receive guidance on how to better understand their energy use, develop an energy reduction action plan, connect with PG&E staff that specialize in energy efficiency, and learn about PG&E's energy efficiency programs.

    For more information about the workshops, call Shane Lopez at (530) 217-7918 or email shane.lopez@pge.com.

    Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/.

  • 11/05/2012 9:55 AM | Deleted user

    Learn how to better understand, manage & reduce energy use and lower the utility bill for your business. Plus receive a $25 gift certificate for a local restaurant!

    Who should attend?
    PG&E customers who own or rent a retail or other commercial facility

    When and Where:

    November 7th - Columbia College, Columbia, CA
    November 13th - Sierra Commons, downtown Nevada City, CA
     
    For each date and location, 90-minute workshops will be occurring throughout the day, starting at 8:30 am, 10:15 am, 12:00 pm, 1:45 pm, and 3:30 pm. Session times are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
     
    What will be covered?

    • How to use PG&E's MyEnergy to help you understand your energy use
    • A Time Varying Pricing overview by PG&E
    • Developing an energy reduction action plan  with PG&E's new "Business Energy Checkup" tool
    • Available rebates, financial incentives and technical assistance
    • SBC/PG&E's Sierra Nevada Energy Watch program, including what's up-and-coming for 2013 and beyond

    All attendees will also receive a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant.

    For more info:
    Sign up by clicking here or calling 530-582-4800.

    Or contact Emma Ingebretsen at SBC - <eingebretsen@sbcouncil.org> or 530-582-4800 for more information.
  • 10/15/2012 9:08 PM | Deleted user

    Things are getting fun & spicy in Downieville! Two Rivers Café is putting on a fun Indian night with Indian food that will ignite your taste buds, music and friends! The buffet style Indian dinner is $30 per person, and tickets are sold at Two Rivers Cafe in the heart of Downieville.

    It's all taking place Saturday October 20, 2012 at 6-8 pm

  • 09/18/2012 11:32 AM | Deleted user

    There are still tickets available for the Rita Hosking concert this coming Saturday Sept. 22nd in Alleghany.

    Go to www.hiddenchurch.info/events.html for more information.

    This is a benefit for the historical church building in Alleghany.

    Please pass this along!

  • 09/10/2012 12:21 PM | Deleted user

    A producer for the show "American Pickers" on the History Channel has reached out to our chamber for assistance. Their team is headed to California soon and they're looking for leads throughout the state, specifically interesting characters with interesting items and lots of them!

    If interested, please email us at info@sierracountychamber.com and we will forward you the brief of the show, a press release, as well as a list of items that they're looking for (although they're open to other items too).

    They are also looking for any oddball or interesting historical items, in addition to CA-specific memorabilia.

    Please note that Mike and Frank only pick private collections so no stores, malls, flea markets, museums, auctions, businesses or anything open to the public.

    Please let us know if interested and we'll put you in touch with the appropriate people!

  • 09/07/2012 5:01 PM | Deleted user

    We all know Tom Dines is a true hometown hero, but now the world gets to know him asone as well.

    Watch the KCRA feature on Tom as a Hometown Hero Finalist

    Here is a great summary of what's going on.

    Watch the sky today (Friday) as Tom Dines will be zippin' by over the Sierra Buttes in a practice run.

    Well I know who I am rooting for -- Go Tom!

  • 08/30/2012 1:27 PM | Deleted user

    National Geographic Travel books is looking for insider tips to go along with their upcoming 2013 guidebook to California. Insider Tips are short (25-35 words), quick and informal--a not-to-miss experience, a great view, a restaurant tip, local food, transportation, music, etc.

    They appear big in a page, like a pull-quote, with the contributor's name, title/qualifications, and organization/media outlet below them.  Do you have any interesting facts to share?   

    Examples tips for the Brazil guidebook:
        "Don't pass up an opportunity for a night drive in the Pantanal. That's your best chance of seeing a jaguar as well as some other great wildlife." --Rhett Butler, Mongabay.com founder

        "If you want to try Hang Gliding tandem flight, São Conrado is the right place. Go early in the morning as in the afternoon the traffic jam to get out of it is awful." --Luiz Renato Malcher, Rio de Janeiro Urban Adventures manager

    We'd love any tips like this-- for Downieville, Sierra County, and/or Gold Country!

    Please email your tip(s) along with the information noted above (name, title, organization)to admin@sierracountychamber.com

  • 08/20/2012 12:16 PM | Deleted user

    Everything that you always wanted to know about photography but were afraid to ask! The photographers from the Gallery in Sierra City will be available on Saturday August 25th from 2 pm on, to answer any photography questions that you might want to throw at them!

    Want to move your camera off of "automatic" and learn how to use its more creative capabilities? Bring your camera and manual! Have Photoshop questions? You'll get answers. Interested in taking better travel photos? Wildlife photos? Questions about lighting? Composition? Consult an expert!

    Photographers Darby Hayes, Dee Wallace and Kathy Chow will be on hand for one-on-one consultations. Darby Hayes is well-known for his wildlife and landscape images, and his photos are found in the collections of numerous national parks, state museums and other venues. He also teaches wildlife photography at the SF State Field Campus. Dee Wallace’s long career in photography encompasses any years of teaching as well as commercial practice, and his stunning new metal print images of our are evoke the history and beauty of Sierra County. Kathy Chow’s nature-based abstracts have earned national critical attention, and he has had many years of experience in working with photography students. She is also known for her work in alternative processes and travel photography.

     

    Just want to look around at the new gallery with its collection of photos, jewelry, ceramic, fabric, wood and fiber art? The public is invited to the artists’ reception the same day, August 25, from 4-7 pm. Many of the gallery’s artists will be present, and refreshments will be served.

    The Gallery in Sierra City is located in the historic red brick Wells Fargo Building, 231 Main Street, Sierra City 530-862-1188. Summer hours are Fri-Sun 12-5 pm and Mondays 10 am-2 pm.

  • 08/15/2012 1:09 PM | Deleted user

    Once again the Sierra County Tobacco Use Reduction Program and Sierra County Friday Night Live conducted an annual Youth Tobacco Purchase Survey (YTPS) of all retailers in Sierra County selling tobacco products.  This year 4 of the 7 stores surveyed sold tobacco products to minors.  

    YTPS is used as a means of assisting tobacco retailers by informing them whether or not employees are following proper procedure and guidelines for requesting identification of underage tobacco purchasers. A sales clerk who correctly follows the proper procedures and guidelines for requesting identification during the purchase of tobacco products are assets to our communities. They help in reducing illegal tobacco sales to minors and help in protecting our youth from the dangers of tobacco use.

    Sheriff John Evans and Laurie Marsh, Health Educator, visited all of the retailers indicating whether or not a sale was made to a minor. During the visit they let the store owner or manager know that the Tobacco Use Reduction Program offers free Tobacco Retailer Training to merchants and their employees. The visits were made at the suggestion of the Sierra County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board/Tobacco Coalition.

    Friday Night Live and the Sierra County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board/Tobacco Coalition are looking to find practical solutions to the problem of illegal tobacco sales to minors in our communities because the sales rate to minors has increased over the last three years.  If you would like to participate in this process, please call 993-6745 or email prevention@sierracounty.ws.

  • 08/10/2012 12:15 PM | Deleted user

    The Auburn Journal just published a great piece featuring our beautiful area, highlighting  Herrington's Resort and Sierra City. The lead in reads (copied verbatim from Auburn Journal):

    "Sierra City--The area around Downieville is a great place to get away, to really get away, to literally get away.

    If you have a vacation in mind that really isn’t a vacation at all undefined you know, cell phone in hand, texting and talking away, keeping updated with the office on the laptop undefined then Sierra City isn’t for you because cell phone service and Internet connections are as rare as people and traffic in these parts."

    Check it out!

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