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Free! Free! Free! Member Bring a Member
Because we want to keep this Chamber a-growing, we're extending you the opportunity to bring a business friend to one of our Business After Hours events at no cost to your guest. (You still have to pay your own way.)
Obviously, this guest should be a genuine prospect interested in Chamber membership, and not just out for a free fun evening (even though it is). And this is a one-time offer for your guest -- next time they have to pay like everybody else.
One last bit of fine print. (Don't you hate that stuff?) This offer does not apply to the Nov. 21 Double-Chamber Expo. OK, with that done, the lawyers are now excused.
Please do call us ahead of time and let us know who you're bringing, just so we can add you and your guest to our head count.
Business After Hours Sets New Standard
Arianna Hudson and her staff at Fairfield County Bank put on a first-rate Business After Hours Sept. 13 at their Post Road branch.
The event drew a crowd of about 80, and people were lingering long past 7:30 to chat and enjoy the food and drink, a sure sign of a successful event.
The catering by Along Came Carol was stunning, with a vast spread of hors d'oeuvres and a carving station churning out fresh sandwiches. Carol came along with a full wait staff, a bartender and her husband, who was busy making the sandwiches. Awesome job.
Adding another touch of class were goodie bags that were goodies in and of themselves. Who said banks were boring?
Intrepid photographer Greg Beno captured it all in another of his epic slideshows -- so check it out.
Your Input Needed for Business Survey
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association is conducting a follow-up survey to last year's online business outlook survey. The survey was developed to gauge the business climate of Fairfield and Westchester counties, and your opinions will help identify the most critical issues that area executives face on a daily basis.
So please take a few minutes of your time to answer this online survey:
Responses need to be in no later than Friday, Oct. 6.
The survey is sponsored by Blum Shapiro, People's Bank, Pullman & Comley, LLC and the Fairfield County Business Journal.
Shays, Farrell to Debate at Fairfield University
Fairfield University's Quick Center will be the venue for a debate between Democratic candidate Diane Farrell and U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, Oct. 16 at 8 pm. It's one of a series of 11 debates they have scheduled for October.
Chamber is the Source for Electric Line Info
The Middletown-Norwalk Transmission Project has begun work in Fairfield, which will ultimately bury high-capacity electric lines under 3.6 miles of Fairfield's streets, mostly along the Post Road. It's part of a major collaborative effort between CL&P and United Illuminating to upgrade Connecticut's electric capacity, particularly in Fairfield County. And the Chamber web site will bring you updates on what's being done where, and for how long.
The good news is that the majority of the construction work will be done overnight, between 6 pm and 6 am, to avoid rush hour and workday traffic. The bad news is that we'll be living with it for the next three years, give or take a few months. That's why we're keeping in close contact with project management firm Burns & McDonnell to bring you the latest news.
Our M/N Project page has background information about the work that will be done, including the locations of the "splice vaults" that much of the activity centers around.
Massive construction equipment, big holes in the ground, trench warfare ... it has all the makings of a thriller if anyone here knew how to write one. We'll settle for bringing you the What, the When, the Where, the Why and the How.
The Who shall remain nameless unless they try to cut us off in traffic.
Fairfield T-shirts Spotted in Pittsburgh
The Rev. Robert M. Kinnally of Saint Pius X Church emailed us this photo of youth group members attending mission camp in Pittsburgh, PA this summer. The group wore navy blue Fairfield T-shirts donated by the Modugno Family.
"We wore them on the mission trip to Pittsburgh to help identify our group in the midst of the more than 350 youth attending the mission camp," he writes. "We loved the shirts, and our mission trip was a huge success. Thanks very much."
