The news is good. We keep hearing that the recession is finally turning around, so if things are still a bit slow with your business, keep the faith and think in terms of the Business and Career Showcase, a great idea from the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce with plenty of lead time for you to prepare.
The Business and Career Showcase is a promotional opportunity for your business to market itself to other businesses and will provide five full hours of networking, marketing and learning. It's your chance to put your business on display and meet other area business people who may become your clients.
Chamber members pay a fee of $125 for the showcase, which includes an 8-by-8-foot booth space, five admission tickets, one 6-foot table with linens and an 8-foot pipe and drape and two chairs. The nonmembers' fee is $250.
For the separate food showcase the cost is $50. That provides two servings and disposable tableware, electricity, one 6-foot table with linens, five admission tickets, a canopy and a listing in the program with map. Sounds like a great opportunity to pick up some business. More about this later.
The Showcase will be held at the RB Terrace, a new building at 11111 (yes, that's five ones) Rancho Bernardo Road, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 14.
NEW LOCATION: Yes, it's official. OASIS (the Older Adult Service & Information System), which has been in the Robinson-May building for many, many years, has moved its main office to the Joslyn Senior Center, 210 E. Park Ave. in Escondido. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, and a special guest from the national OASIS Institute in St. Louis will be on hand to join the celebration. If you go to this event, you'll get a chance to see where classes will be held and, don't forget, there are also classes in Rancho Bernardo at the Ed Brown Center at 18402 Community Park Road right in the Community Park.
HELP TO SEE AND HEAR: White Cane Days are coming up on Thursday, Oct. 1; Friday, Oct. 9; and Saturday, Oct. 17; which means the Lions will be out in force doing what they do best, raising funds by donations, with no administrative costs, as all proceeds go directly to the sight-impaired and the blind. If you see a Lions club member at Vons, Albertsons or Henry's in RB and at Ralph's in Carmel Mountain Ranch that should ring a little bell to remind you that all donations are greatly appreciated.
Currently, new members are being accepted into the Lions Club and meetings are at 11:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Bernardo Heights Country Club. The fee for lunch is $18. The meetings and service projects fit easily into the schedule of a retired person or a person still in the work force. Anyone interested or with questions can contact Barbara Doss at bardosss@gmail.com. It's a friendly group so join them for a lunchehon meeting when you can.
MY WORD: Colophon. The publishers' emblem or inscription usually found at the beginning of a book. Most books still have these, but nowadays they're not as elaborate as they used to be.
Margot Jackson is a freelance columnist for the North County Times. Contact her at margwrites@sbcglobal.net with your comments or column items.
