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Missing Persons Report
Have you seen this person?
She vanished Oct. 21, 2008 from the Wakeman Boys & Girls Club in Southport, CT.
Please call the Missing Persons division of the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce at 255-1011 if you have any information.
To quote JJ Cale, "She has gone out there somewhere, disappeared into thin air... I guess she is missing, it's true."
Blue is the New Green
Walk into any grocery store and you'll see them: reusable shopping bags.
Just as we know we should be driving hybrid cars and swapping our archaic incandescent light bulbs for energy-efficient fluorescents, we also know we should be tossing the "paper or plastic?" question into the nearest recycling bin. Environmentally conscious folks don't like bags that are designed to be used once and then thrown away. It's as simple as that.
Here at the Fairfield Chamber, we're always trying our best to do the green thing. We shut off the lights when we leave a room (usually followed by screams from the people still inside); we send paper, cardboard and board members out for recycling; we turn the thermostat up when it's hot, and down when it's @#$% cold outside; and we put our webmaster back in the closet when we don't need him.
It's all about getting those grubby carbon footprints out of the carpet (with non-toxic cleansers, of course), and bein' green.
So with these things in mind we proudly present our latest mad-scientist creation: the Fairfield Reusable Bag. It's more than just a shopping bag, it's an anything bag. Your kids can use these bags to lug books around, collect massive amounts of Halloween candy, catch stray marmosets — any time you need a bag, this is the bag you need. Sometimes you don't even know you need a bag, but it'll be there to remind you. "Bag bag bag!"
It's a green bag that happens to be blue, with the iconic four-square Fairfield design printed on both sides. Long, super-reinforced handles, gusseted sides and a strong bottom support tell you they're born to be bags, and meant to last.
Made of 100% non-woven polypropylene — the chemists in the audience can tell us what the heck that means — it's soft yet sturdy, fully recyclable (and made from recycled materials), and folds flat for storage. We know all about the storage part, because we've got 3,000 of these suckers piled up in every nook and cranny of our offices.
Lots of places will sell you a reusable bag, but our blue bags are special. You can shop Fairfield end to end with them and always feel right at home.
It's a statement of environmental consciousness that's uniquely Fairfield, and it's a symbol of our retail environment, too — not just a store here and a store there, but everyone who's open for business in our town. (Don't hesitate to parade our bags around in other towns just to show them who's boss. Ha!)
The bags are available now at the Chamber office, priced at $3 apiece.
And we invite retailers all over town to join us in a Greener Fairfield by offering these bags to your customers. Buy a bunch to sell or give 'em away, but more importantly, lead the way. And we'll make sure your store gets mentioned in all of our advertising.
When you're ready to go green, think blue — Fairfield blue.
We Bring Tuscany to You, for One Night Only
Our annual wine event continues to grow ever more ambitious in the search for new themes. On Feb. 26, 2009 we present its latest incarnation, "An Evening in Tuscany," a night of fine Italian food and wines.
Proving once again that our grasp of geography is on par with our knowledge of ancient Greek chiropractors, the event takes place at the Scandinavian Club here in Fairfield, because Sting's Tuscan Villa was already booked. (Perhaps next year's event will be "Swedish Meatballs and Beer Night.")
As this is one of the Chamber's biggest fundraisers of the year, we're looking for sponsors, and that means wracking our brains once again to come up with the perfect name for each level of sponsorship … and then settle for whatever pops into our heads.
Our webmaster could (and did) wax eloquent on the history of the famed Sangiovese grape, from which sprang Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, the wines that made Tuscany famous. But we concluded that these were too esoteric for anyone other than serious wine fanatics and people who spend too much time on Wikipedia.
So, we went back to the drawing board and came up with the following list of sponsorships, in no particular geographic order (or relevance, for that matter):
| White Truffles | $3,000 |
| Champagne | $2,500 |
| Kobe Beef | $2,000 |
| Bordeaux | $1,500 |
| Spaghetti & Meatballs | $1,000 |
| Wine in a Box | 0,$500 |
We're particularly fond of the last two, but let's face it — only white truffles, champagne and Japanese beef could make a nearly $200 hamburger possible. Don't be afraid to dream big.
Westy is the Besty
Looking at it, you wouldn't think Westy Self Storage had anything to do with storage at all. They have a shaggy-haired dog for a logo, and the building resembles a toy castle made out of huge building blocks. Upon entering you'll find yourself in what Patricia called "the lobby of all lobbies," whatever that means.
That lobby of all lobbies was the setting for our September Business After Hours. As you can see in Regina Madwed's slide show, it's plenty big enough to hold the 75 people who came there to do some networking — their first chance to do so since the Penfield Beach Bash in July.
(Personally, I would have packed everybody into one of the storage rooms to give them the full Westy experience, but maybe that's just me.)
It was a healthy start to the new networking season, which continues this month with a double-header of sorts. Coming up is the Double-Chamber Business Expo Oct. 21, followed on the 29th by a Business After Hours at Fairfield County Bank's Tunxis Hill branch. We'll see you there.