DEC 2012 – Chamber of host Annual Installation Dinner and Civics Award Ceremony in January

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The Redlands Chamber of Commerce will present new directors and welcome new officers to the organization Thursday, January 17, 2013  6 PM at the Casa Loma Room, University of Redlands.

After the installation of directors and officers, attendees will be treated to the announcement of the prestigious Man and Woman of the Year and Police and Firefighter of the Year Awards. While selections are made earlier, all four awards are held in secret until the announcement that evening creating an air or excitement and surprise until the very last revelation.

Tickets are limited; reservations are necessary, $50 per person. For information about the dinner and to make your reservations call the Chamber office at 793-2546

DEC 2012 – Chamber Encourages Shopping in Redlands during holiday season

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Keeping tax dollars in town is an important part of the equation when talking about the city’s financial well-being, but more importantly shopping locally supports the local businesses, helps retain jobs, and circulates dollars in the community.

Small businesses employ local people local people. They support local charities and offer personal services. Local businesses patronizes local businesses, they join local service clubs and support local athletic programs.

You really can find almost anything you need here in Redlands.

We have:

  • Retail and wholesale
  • Restaurants and caterers
  • Printers, writers and designers
  • Gift shops, ice cream and toy stores
  • Bike shops and car dealers
  • Home improvement stores and maintenance servers
  • Photographers, artisans and musicians
  • Pet stores and services
  • Gourmet food and wine
  • Personal and professional services

So before you make a purchase ask yourself if you can Shop Redlands first.

 

NOV 2012 – PRESIDENT’S ARTICLE

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Holiday Shopping is starting this month and your Chamber is planning a “Double Down Holiday” Shop Redlands First campaign.  The Shop Redlands First $100 dollar prize will be doubled in the months of  November and December, with two winners each month, so bring in your receipts of $25 or more (remember chamber member receipts count for two tickets). I hope chamber members will help make this the best season ever.

The local city council election will be decided before this article comes out. I would like to think that whoever wins will be business friendly. Your Chamber of Commerce will always promote our business and be your number one advocate.

If you are not a member of the Redlands Chamber of Commerce please join and add your voice to the other 600 hundred members that our business is good for our community and the economy.

Remember Shop Redlands First ……..and Happy Thanksgiving.

 

NOV 2012 – Shop Redlands First….It Pays!!!

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In an effort to encourage customers to Shop Redlands First through the year the Chamber has successfully administered a campaign that has been both fun and fruitful for all the businesses in Redlands especially Chamber members.

Each month the Chamber has offered a prize valued at $100 or more. Shoppers have been encouraged to bring original receipts from Redlands businesses showing purchases of $25 or more to the Chamber office, the date on the receipt reflecting the date of the month of the drawing. The receipts are signed by the Chamber staff and exchanged for a ticket… the customer fills out address and phone number and the ticket is placed in a basket to be a part of the month end drawing. If the receipt is from a Chamber member the customer gets two tickets (Chamber members can be found on the Chamber’s website).

At the end of each month a drawing takes place for the $100 prize and the winner is announced on the Chamber’s website, in an email blast and in the Redlands Quarterly Magazine Chamber page as well as the local press. Shoppers have flocked to the Chamber office each month with receipts vying for gift cards, cash cards, gas cards and more.

President of the Chamber Paul Barich, Barich & Associates Insurance, who originally brought the idea to the organization, said, “It’s a great program that hopefully makes people stop and think about shopping locally first. It’s important to keep the dollars local, to support our local businesses and to champion the small business owners of Redlands.”

Why shop local?

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity

Redlands is unlike any other city in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Redlands’ diversity and distinctive flavor.

2. Community Well-Being

Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.

3. Local Decision Making

Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy

Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.

5. Job and Wages

Locally owned businesses create jobs.

6. Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7. Public Benefits and Costs

Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services.8. Environmental Sustainability

Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, and air pollution.

9. Competition

A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

10. Product Diversity

A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

 

NOV 2012 – City News by Council Member Jon Harrison

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Improving Redlands streets residents’ highest priority

By Council Member Jon Harrison

Among the most crucial factors to Redlands’ economic vitality and quality of life is the condition of the City’s infrastructure and especially its streets. In a survey conducted in 2010, Redlands residents by a wide margin identified improving the condition of the City’s streets as their highest priority.

Unfortunately, for the past several decades, the funding available for maintenance of the City’s streets has not kept up with the needs. A comprehensive engineering analysis performed this year to assess the overall condition of the City’s streets determined Redlands streets are among the worst in Southern California.  On a standard infrastructure rating scale known as Pavement Condition Index (PCI), that ranks the condition of pavement from 1 (failed) to 100 (excellent),Redlands streets averaged a “poor” ranking of 53. This ranks the City’s streets below those of the State ofCaliforniaaverage of 68 and the San Bernardino County average of 70.

Relying on limited Measure I half-cent sales tax funds from the county of approximately $800,000 a year and other miscellaneous sources, the City has been unable to perform even the basic infrastructure maintenance to keep up with the rate of degradation. And every year that the City’s streets fall into further disrepair, the cost simply to maintain the good streets we have increases exponentially.

Aside from the irritation toRedlands residents, bad roads are bad for business. Attracting quality businesses, retaining existing businesses and bringing new customers to Redlands’ retail and commercial areas depends in large part on quality roads.

Last month, the City Council approved an ambitious plan to repair two-thirds of Redlands streets, including those serving its shopping and commercial areas, within five years. The Pavement Accelerated Repair Implementation Strategy (PARIS), relies on scientific data and engineering and a matrix of various criteria to prioritize street repairs. Many of those criteria directly address the City’s business community. Some of those include:

  • Average Daily Traffic, which accounts for 15 percent of the matrix. Streets along the City’s business centers, retail and commercial areas, typically have a high ADT count;
  • Population centers, which account for 14 percent of the matrix;
  • Commercial/Business/Retail areas – 10 percent;
  • Bus routes and rail stops – 8 percent;

In addition, arterials and collector streets and those roads in poorer shape are also placed higher in the matrix.

All of these factors add up to put many of Redlands business areas high on the priority list for pavement rehabilitation and maintenance.

The money to fund these improvements will come from leveraging payments to the pavement program from utilities, including the City’s own Solid Waste fund, to offset the specific share of damage caused to the City’s streets. By issuing $21.5 million in debt and frontloading the repairs over five years, the streets will pay less for the pavement treatment, halt the continued degradation and reduce the overall cost of repairing the City’s streets by millions of dollars. The debt would be paid off within 10 years and the continuing resources would allow the City to maintain the streets and provide additional repairs into the foreseeable future.

The City Council will consider the first reading of a resolution to implement the PARIS plan at the Nov. 20 meeting.

For more information on the PARISprogram, please visit the City’s website at http://ci.redlands.ca.us/clerk/2012staffreports/120918L2.pdf.

NOV 2012 – CHAMBER MEMBERS RENEWING OCTOBER 2012

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ALBREKTSON LAW OFFICES
Kathleeen Albektson
1801 Orange Tree Lane, Suite 230
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  335-9658

 

AMERICAN PAYROLL COMPANY
Ericka Gray
127 E. State Street
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  335-5457

 

ANYTIME FITNESS
Andrew Arturi
500 No. Orange
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  798-5000

 

C-21 LOIS LAUER REALTY
Vaughn Bryan
1998 Orange Tree Lane
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  748-7000

 

CITROGRAPH PRINTING
Al Hernandez
113 E. State Street
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  792-3901

 

COLDWELL BANKER REALTY
Marsha Gebara
501 W. Redlands Blvd, Suite A
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  748-5105

 

COMFORT SUITES
Gayatree Patel
1230 W. Colton Avenue
Redlands CA  92373
Phone:  335-9988

 

EDWARDS MANSION
Chris Wilcott
2064 Orange Tree Lane
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  793-2031

 

FIVE TEN
Wally Barker
1419 W. State Street
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  798-4222

 

HATFIELD BUICK
Bill Hatfield
301 E. Redlands Blvd.
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  793-3238

 

INLAND CENTER MALL
Terri Reif
500 Inland Center Mall
San Bernardino, CA  92408
Phone:  884-7268

 

LEDESMA OPTOMETRY
Sylvia Ledesma
490 Alabama Street, Suite 107
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  793-5565

 

REDLANDS ANTIQUE AUCTION
Roy Jameson/Ron Curran
1547 Park Avenue
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  798-1177

 

REDLANDS AYSO
Ron Drake
P. O. Box 8487
Redlands, CA  92375
Phone:  792-3402

 

REDLANDSMILL
John Mills
301 9th Street #100
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  792-9453

 

SANBORN’S WESTCOAST MECHANICAL, INC.
Missy Sanborn
415 E. High Street
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  798-7183

 

THE MITTEN BUILDING
Margie Armantrout/Jami Spencer
345 North 5th Street
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  793-1294

 

TOYOTA OF REDLANDS – SCION OF REDLANDS
Paul Smith
921 New York Street
Redlands, CA  92374
Phone:  793-0300

NOV 2012 – NEW MEMBERS OCTOBER 2012

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Welcome to our newest Chamber Members:

 

BANK OF AMERICA
Bryan Fletcher
305 E. State Street
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  335-6350
Web Site: www.bankofamerica.com

 

JMH INSURANCE SOLUTIONS INC.
John Heaton
101 E. Redlands Blvd, Suite 244
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  283-6040
Web Site:  www.jmhinsurancesolutions.com

 

PRIORITY ONE HOME HEALTH SERVICES
AND HOSPICE, INC.
Leah Danisiewski
4959 Palo Verde Street, Suite 108C
Montclair, CA  91763
Phone:  625-6377

 

SERVPRO OF SO. REDLANDS – YUCAIPA
Steve Sclimenti
P. O. Box 2327
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  389-6310

 

SPORTBALL
Lori Digulla
Redlands, CA  92373
Phone:  794-1761
Web Site:  www.sportball.us

 

TEAM REFERRAL NETWORK – REDLANDS
Millie Weaver
5901 Old Wheeler Road
La Verne, CA  91750
Phone:  392-7770
Web Site:  www.teamreferralnetwork.com

 

UNITED HEALTH CARE MEDICARE PLANS
Barbara Smith
Yucaipa, CA  92399
Phone:  797-5860
Web Site:  www.longtermcareinsuranceinlandempire.com

 

 

 

NOV 2012 – Five Chamber businesses honored by Assemblyman Morrell

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Five Redlands Chamber businesses were honored at the annual 63rd Assembly Top Chamber Business Luncheon Award held October 11th atOrtonCenter,University ofRedlands. This was the second year Assemblyman Mike Morrell has presented the awards. He explained to the full room that the premise of the luncheon was conceived during a meeting held with the Chamber executives throughout the district that felt it was time to celebrate businesses that had endured the recession, had suffered through difficult economic down turns and had survived, thrived and even contributed back to their communities.

Each chamber was asked to submit five businesses to be honored that they felt best represented the criteria. Of those five one was then selected that stood out and was given top honors.

The Redlands Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that this year the Top Five Chamber Business Awards went to; Barich & Associates, for his unending contribution to the community through the Community Music Association, the Redlands Optimists, the Redlands Art Association,  the Boys & Girls Club, Redlands High School Booster and of Course the Redlands Chamber of Commerce

TBM Services was honored for years of involvement in noon Kiwanis, taking a leadership role in the extraordinarily successful Run Through Redlands, the Redlands Chamber, and the 4th of July Committee.

Jean Showalter, State Farm Insurance has demonstrated leadership in the community through her commitment to noon Kiwanis, Redlands Bike Classic, the Key Club and Pancake Breakfast. She has been a long time supporter of the Terrier Football team and an active participant in Redlands COMACT program a high school mentoring program as well as an active member of the Chamber for more than 25 years.

Redlands Print Shop and Copy Center have support countless non-profit community organizations including Redlands Historical Society, Redlands Conservancy, the YMCA of the Eat Valley the Heart Association of Loma Linda just to name a few, including the Redlands Chamber.

Alta Vista Credit Union has been a significant contributor to the community for more than 20 years, supporting the arts, offering community “shred days” and e-waste days. They have lent their support to local school sports programs, Building a Generation, the Boys & Girls Club of Redlands and theUnited Wayof theEastValleyand Redlands Family Services

“While hundreds of businesses are as generous with their time and talent as these awarded, we are extremely proud to acknowledge these five.” said Daney Bachiu, Chamber President Elect. “Small businesses are the backbone of the community and are often called upon for a variety of reasons so it is heartwarming to have them recognized for all they do. Our congratulations to all our businesses for a job well done.

Paul Barich, Barich and Associates was acknowledged as the Top Redlands Business Award recipient.

NOV 2012 – YPN launches new lunch time program

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The Chamber’s Young Professional Network launched a lunch time networking program in October that brings young business professionals together at local restaurants to meet, mingle and showcase their businesses. The first no host lunch, took place at Las Fuentes Restaurant where a dozen young business men and women met to discuss business issues, network and learn about one another’s business.

Thomas Jackson, Redlands Pool & Spa was the showcase speaker and he shared his recent success with You Tube and Craig’s List advertising, moving the store into a new marketing arena. He reported that using simple I-phone tools he was able to produce a video that has generated more than 4,000 You Tube hits and has proven to be a product mover.

The lunches will be held the third Tuesday of each month at various Chamber member restaurants. To be a part of the Lunch Bunch or to have the YPN meet at your restaurant email the Chamber office at info@redlandschamber.org or call 793-2546.

NOV 2012 – East Valley Pet Hospital

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East Valley Pet Hospital offers both traditional and holistic care for your pet

 East Valley Pet Hospital is a full service veterinary medical facility, located at 1748 E. Lugonia Ave.in Redlands. The professional and courteous staff atEastValleyPetHospitaloffers the best possible medical, surgical, holistic and dental care for their highly-valued cat and dog patients.

They are committed to promoting responsible pet ownership, preventative health care and health-related educational opportunities for their clients.East Valley Pet Hospital strives to offer excellence in veterinary care to Redlands and the surrounding East Valley Pet Hospital, stress the importance of an annual or bi-annual physical examination. As your pet matures, thorough check-ups and preventive care can help alleviate serious health problems and help increase their lifespan.They offer a wide range of veterinary services, both traditional and holistic, to help enable your pet to retain optimum health.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services

The hospital is equipped to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to care for your pet’s complete health care needs. The in-house laboratory facilities provide for serum chemistry, hematology, serology, urinalysis and parasite testing. With a severely ill pet these tests are a vital tool to be used in adjusting immediate and proper treatment.

Low Cost Clinic Services

Eas tValley Pet Hospital offers LOW COST VACCINE CLINIC on Wednesday, from 3 to 5:45pm, on a walk-in basis. On Monday and Friday, a LOW COST SPAY/NEUTER is available by appointment only.

Surgical Services

The state-of-the-art surgical equipment provides for the performance of a wide variety of surgical procedures. Pre-anesthetic medications are given to reduce anxiety and pain while waiting for the surgery. The pre-anesthetic medications will also reduce the amount of anesthesia needed. We utilize the safest available anesthetics to provide an extra margin of safety, especially for our older or high-risk patients. Using proper updated equipment, the patient’s vital signs are monitored during and after all anesthetic procedures.

Radiology Services

The on-site, modern digital X-ray equipment provides high-quality radiographs to aid in the quick diagnosis of many disorders.

Laser Therapy

Improve the quality of your older pet’s life with Laser Therapy to help with pain management, wound healing, inflammatory diseases, trauma, and more. LASER THERAPY is the painless application of healing light – fast and effective!.

Dentistry

Dental health is very important to the overall well-being of your pet, as they can develop periodontal disease, infected teeth, and oral tumors. The dental services include teeth cleaning and polishing, tooth extractions and minor oral surgery.

Pharmacy and Over the Counter

They maintain a complete inventory of pharmaceuticals, flea and tick control products, and heartworm preventatives to meet the needs of your cat or dog.

Dietary and Behavioral Counseling

The team will provide guidance regarding your pet’s nutritional needs for each life stage, including dietary requirements for growth, weight maintenance, and health conditions. They can also offer advice regarding the correction of common behavioral problems.

Holistic Care

East Valley Pe tHospital is able to offer Acupuncture, Chiropractic, and Homeopathic Services for those interested in combining both a traditional and natural approach to arrive at the best outcome possible for your beloved pet companions

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific points on the body which have the ability to alter various bio-checmical and physiological conditions as a means of helping the body to heal itself. In additional to relieving pain, acupuncture relieves muscle spasms, stimulates nerves and the body’s immune system, and treats individual organ systems disorders. Acupuncture, judiciously used in conjunction with drugs and surgery can improve the outcomes. Acupuncture is widely used post surgically to hasten recovery.

Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation (Chiropractic)

The goal of VOM is to treat Vertebral Sub-luxation Complex which is a functional defeat of a joint resulting in neurological signs or pain. The effects of VSC can include mobility problems, muscle spasm, neurological defeats and inflammation. Disease related to the spinal cord is traditionally treated with a combination of surgery and medication. Through the use of ‘VOM’, we now have another treatment modality to treat the spinal cord, thus helping all the organs in the body. In VOM, nerve dysfunction is counteracted by ‘re-setting’ the joint with a gentle and painless force. The nerves in the area can begin acting normally again, which increases blood flow to internal organs, correcting many diseases.

Homeopathic & Herbal Medicine

The homeopathic mode utilizes homeopathic and herbal medicines, called remedies, which are derived from natural sources. There are over 3,000 homeopathic remedies. To arrive at a remedy that is the most appropriate for the animal requires careful evaluation by the veterinary of all symptoms

To learn more about the services offered at EastValleyPetHospitalcall them at 794-1888 or log on to www.eastvalleypethosptial.com