EVENTS:
Valentine’s Day Dance; All-Star Auction & Dance; HallowFest Costume Party; joint Tualatin-Tigard Trade Show; 3rd annual Banquet.
IMPORTANT ISSUES:
Terri Fichtner
hired in August as first paid Executive Director; Barbara Dippel joins the chamber as a part-time office assistant; joint lunch with Wilsonville Chamber to discuss the Norwood (Western) Bypass.
MISCELLANEOUS:
• Chamber begins issuing Certificates of Origin to local manufacturers who ship products overseas.
• 50 new members in 1987, no record of how many dropped.
• Morning Coffee networking still held once per month; luncheons still twice per month with one topic educational and one topic political.
• Chamber looking for a donated typewriter as theirs doesn’t type capitol F’s, M’s or G’s.
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Executive Director Terri Fichtner (right) works the info booth at the
Crawfish Festival with volunteers Marc Dodson and Christie Faunce |
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1988 president
Clarke Miller,
Miller Insurance |
GOALS:
increase membership to 300; have the city look at the Chamber as the representative of the business community; publish the 1988 and 1989 directories; revise dues schedule; develop a formal policy to welcome and assimilate new members; average 40 at lunch forums.
IMPORTANT ISSUES:
Parks Department needs their building back so the search is on for a new chamber home. Thanks to Mark Gensman of Metro West Realty, the chamber finds the old Western Electric building between Key Bank and the old Post Office. (after we left it became the police department). Now, it is a parking lot.
Chamber location, now is a parking lot
in
front of our current location
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MISCELLANEOUS:
• Tualatin Historical Society plans a Diamond Jubilee to celebrate the city’s 75th birthday.
• Holiday Tree Lighting planned for downtown Tualatin
• Newsletter mailed to all Tualatin businesses monthly.
• Roberta L’Esperance hired as part-time assistant.
• Byrom Elementary receives honors as one of the outstanding elementary schools in America.
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Tualatin Chamber of Commerce