Thursday, April 19, 2012

Annual Meeting/Elections Wed. April 25th & Business Expo May 17th

Aloha Members,

Please plan on attending the Chamber's annual meeting next Wednesday at Haleiwa Joes, 8am for the annual meeting and election of new Board members. Please RSVP by next Monday.

Secondly, please register for the Business Expo to be held at Turtle Bay Resort Thursday, May 17th from 1pm to 8:30pm. If you pay by Friday the 27th, you will get the Early Bird Registration!!

This year we've changed things up a bit with a theme of "Living Farm to Table." The event will be in the afternoon with a "Farm to Table" dinner.  You can sign up to just come to the afternoon sessions for $20 which includes the cocktail hour, or the expo, cocktail hour and dinner for only $70!  Get an exhibitor's table for only $150 which includes dinner for two, or round up your friends and get a corporate table for $500.  There will be a buffet and tasting stations featuring specialty dishes made by your favorite local chefs.

Thanks to Turtle Bay Resort and our farmers, the prices for the dinner and to attend are very affordable.  We will have some great break-out sessions including a panel discussion with our farmers and we are working on a great keynote speaker to address the future of agriculture.

The purpose of the event is to provide networking opportunities for all, but especially our farmers, restaurants, and distributors to meet and start doing business with each other.  Our hope is that there will be relationships built that will increase the use of locally grown, fresh products from the North Shore, which will increase agricultural production, which will ensure ag is viable on the North Shore into the future. 

Let's all work to make the North Shore the breadbasket of Oahu or aina mamona by buying local.  Sign up today for a great day of learning, networking, and eating great food!!

Mahalo,
Antya