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Lance Gutersohn
President 887-0890 Rusty Thompson Vice President 726-8865 Jim Myers Secretary/Treasurer 726-9377 Jeff Davidson 726-5409 Joe Gould 887-0104 Tim Hartmann 726-5701 Wendy Sawyer 726-4444 Tom Carey 726-1588 Jason Thornton 722-0600 
Catherine Ross
Executive Director Joyce Burford Director of Marketing Danielle Longano Business Manager Maria Chavez Membership Services Director Tamara Davis Special Events Operations Manager Gina Hallisey Special Events Project Manager 
Marketing Council
Diane Ehlert, Chairperson 726-5701 Membership Committee Jeff Davidson, Chairperson 726-5409 Sales Council Kristy Meyer, Chairperson 726-8813 Special Events Committee Tom Carey, Chairperson 726-1588 Winter Park Music Inc. Robin Wirsing, Chairperson 726-5701 
Visitor Center:
726-4118 Business Office: 726-4221 Fax: 726-9449 E-mail Us Visit Us Online Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3236 Winter Park, Co 80482 |
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"I Spy 1973"
"I Spy 1973" is a guessing game of "Who's Who" in 1973. All pictures are of long-time locals currently living in the Fraser Valley who are, or have been, active in our Chamber and community. The first person to guess at least 9 out of 12 pictures correctly in the 2008 newsletters, will win $35.00 at the end of the year.
Who is August 1973? Click Here to submit your guess.
Go to www.playwinterpark.com/about-the-chamber to preview past "I Spy 1973" in archived chamber newsletters.
Time to Break Out the 70's Attire & Practice Shake'n Your Groove Thang!
Save the Date:
Chamber Annual (Disco) Dinner
Friday, November 14
(Wanna be a sponsor for the 2008 Annual Dinner?
Email mchavez@playwinterpark.com for details).
September- Planning and BudgetsThis is the time of year the Chamber staff is very busy evaluating the accomplishments of 2008 and planning for 2009. We have several retreats planned with committees and boards. The groups include Marketing Council, Special Events Committee, Winter Park Music Inc., Sales Council and Membership Committee. The Chamber Board has met to give the committees general direction for 2009. An annual report will be produced for distribution at the end of the year. In order to serve the community well we are requesting your input before work plans are set for 2009. We need to know what helps your business and what you feel is not productive. Please contact a board or staff member listed in this newsletter and help us serve you better. My contact information is: cross@playwinterpark.com or 726-4221 ext. 201.
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MEMBERS! Have Fall Specials?
Let us know your fall hours! Have fall specials? Let visitor center staff Kristyna & Sara know (shown in picture).
Derailer and Sunspot lunch service will be closed, Sunspot open for restrooms only. Docs, Starbucks and the shops are all open.
If you have brochures that were included in the POH goodie bags. We have them left over, please come pick them up.
Also, special thank you to our terrific summer visitor center staff, Kristen Van Horn, Marianne Coulthurst, Daniel Rondeau, Beverly Adrus. We greatly appreciated their help and couldn't get by without them.
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Winter Park Resort Summer Season Open Till September 21
Click Here for details on each event.
Regular hours, slide, bike park, all three chairlifts, mini golf, bungee, maze, climbing wall, gyro, etc.
Junior Downhill Gravity Camp
September 13-14, 2008
Winter Park Ride School presents a downhill mountain bike experience exclusively for junior riders.
Trestle Downhill Festival
September 13-14, 2008
The Resort doesn't want summer to end so we're putting together a great weekend full of live music, a super downhill race, and huge end- of-season discounts.
24th Annual Winter Park Resort Annual Ski Swap
October 9-10
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National Public Lands Day
Saturday, September 27
National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. In 2007, 110,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants. Join us for the 15th Annual National Public Lands Day.
Want to participate? Click here for details or contact Gary McGraw at 970.887.4147 or gmcgraw@fs.fed.us.
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Back to School Special for Chamber Members and Their Families at Arapaho Chiropractic
First treatment at no charge. This is a savings of up to $70!
We will do our usual, thorough examination, develop a treatment plan to meet your goals, and provide your first chiropractic, acupuncture, or rehabilitation treatment at no charge. Let us help you recover from summer, get through back to school, and be ready for winter! * Standard evaluation fees apply. Call 726-8150 now for more details.
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Grand Futures Prevention Coalition Ebay Fundraiser
Grand Futures Prevention Coalition, a tri-county non-profit substance abuse prevention organization serving Grand, Routt and Moffat Counties is seeking donations to sell on their EBay non-profit site. All monies will go to support various programs Grand Futures provides in Grand County, such as: family strengthening classes, TIPS alcohol server trainings, Adults Who Host, Lose the Most media campaigns, youth leadership training and tobacco prevention activities.
We will be accepting donations of clean, shippable items worth approximately $50 or more. If you have items you’d like to donate, please stop by the Grand Futures’ office located at 195 3rd Street in Granby – behind the community center. Call first – as the office may be closed if staff is at meetings 970.887.9655. You may also call to try and arrange a pick-up of your donated item. Donations of weekly vacation rental property also accepted. We cannot accept clothes or large items that cannot be shipped, such as large pieces of furniture. Your donation is tax-deductible.
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Tis' The Season! Crush Those Grapes, Lucy!
Winter Park Winery Annual Crush
End of September(ish)
Be a part of the 2008 Winter Park Winery (in Fraser) Annual Crush. Grapes will be arriving toward the end of September, first of October. Help is needed in creating Grand County's finest wine(s). Call wine maker Jon Brickner for details at 726-4514.
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Mark Your Calendars!
The Winter Park-Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce and Businesses Without Borders 4th Annual Business Expo at Winter Park Station, Thursday, October 23. Over 75 Exibitors.
Interested in being an exhibitor? CLICK HERE to download an exhibitor form. Booths are available on a first-come first-serve basis. 
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by Joyce Burford
2009 Visitor Guide Update
We are heading into production of our 2009 Visitor Guide and we need your help to make this guide as successful as ever! If you'd like to increase your exposure and buy an ad in the guide, the deadline has passed, but there is still space! CLICK HERE to open our reservation and spec form.
As a member, you still receive a free listing in the business directory of the visitor guide, but we are making some modifications for 2009. Due to the increasing numbers of new members, the rising cost of paper, and keeping the size of the guide down to an economical size, we will be eliminating the description fields. Your listing will still list your business name, phone number(s), email and web site. And, we will be creating more descriptive categories in lieu of eliminating your descriptions.
The 2009 Business Listing sheets were mailed out on Monday, September 8, so please look for them. They are due back on September 22, so please help us to make your information accurate. You can also download a listing sheet by CLICKING HERE.
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Update From Sales
Cindy Harder & Sara Sable
Sales council hosted 30 college Lifestylz group representatives in preparation for their January visit. Lifestylz will be bringing over 800 college students to Winter Park & The Fraser Valley January 5-10, ’09. We look forward to working with Winter Park Resort to co-host this group.
The Winter Park-Fraser Valley area was chosen as the host site for the 10th Annual National Ski Council Federation Recreational Ski Councils Meeting on August 21-24. Sales council was pleased to be able to co-host the group with Winter Park Resort. Twenty-six councils representing 330,000 recreational skiers and racers throughout the U.S. were present at the meeting. Nineteen ski industry representatives from resorts, travel agencies and news media also attended. Winter Park Resort was a major host for the event, providing accommodations and happy hours. Sales council was on-hand with a ‘mini-chamber’ daily to answer questions for the group, and hosting the final dinner at Sunspot. Cooper Creek Square hosted a Welcome Reception the first night, bringing attention to a major retail center of the community.
We have received a multitude of thank-you letters from council members expressing that Winter Park’s hospitality was “by far the best we’ve experienced in the 10 years (they’ve) been involved with the NSCF."
Thank you to the community for your support and participation in FAMs. It helps to grow future business for us all.
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Summer Season Wrap-Up 
by Special Events Operations Manager, T Davis
To summarize the summer events will be impossible. The festivals were such a big success I don’t know where to start! We ran out of 500 bib numbers for our Run for Independence due to the overwhelming participants which was followed by thousands of guests for our Lance Gutersohn 4th of July Celebration! Awesome fireworks! Did you run/walk in the Habitat Hobble this year? If you missed out on all the music in the park in Fraser you would have missed Frank Expressions "Picnic with Pizzaz" prize and free massages by Arapaho Chiropractic, not to mention great music!
The circus came to town and sold out every performance at Winter Park Resort for the new Italian Festival. We also found out just how many people we can fit at Hideaway Park with the many, many, many ticket sales for the Winter Park Jazz Festival. And with the great and talented musical artists for High-Note Thursdays we kept that park full and alive!
Did you get to see one of the homes during the ever popular Parade of Homes? How about the live raptors or hear the Native American stories for Fraser River Days? The skate park events were always packed with 75-100 kids and young adults showing off and competing in three events this summer. The high school students also proved they could sing, and very well I might add, during the last event for the High Altitude Battle of the Bands & Boards. Great art came out of the Winter Park-Fraser Valley Arts Week and the Alpine ArtAffair.
We had a little of everything this summer. We were honored to have the Salute to American Veterans Rally come back to town with the traveling Vietnam Wall in Fraser. Too bad it snowed that weekend which forced the Hawg Festival to be cancelled, but a beautiful baby girl was born in McDonalds.
A BIG THANK YOU once again to all the summer event, volunteers and local support including the special events team and special events committee. We look forward to working with everyone again and be sure to watch for 2009 Special Event info coming this fall. Plan now to participate in 2009!
Thank You Sponsors! Click Here to view all the sponsors who helped make it a entertaining summer.
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2008 Parade of Homes Results
Thank you all for participating in the 2008 Parade of Homes. Also, thank you to the Grand County Blues Society for stepping up to the plate and organizing the huge amount of volunteers to man the homes.
The ballots are in and the votes are tallied. The People’s Choice for Single Family Home goes to home #11, Terra Firma Custom Homes and The People’s Choice for Multi-Family goes to home #5, Chillcoots Construction. Click Here for the awards list.
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Events & Meetings in September
CLICK HERE for a the complete calendar and details of community events.
Is your event not listed on the web site and you would like it to be? If so, please email Kristyna Nedele at chamber@playwinterpark.com with your event(s).
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Chamber LuncheonThursday, September 18 @ Noon
Sharky's Eatery In Fraser
Keynote Speaker: Becky McBride with BEDA (Grand County Business & Economic Development Association).
- Learn about education & support for existing & new businesses
- Business improvement projects with low interest loans
- Enjoy delicious foods from Fraser's best, Sharky's Eatery
Cost: $12
Please RSVP mchavez@playwinterpark.com
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