West Columbia Gorge Chamber of Commerce

Chamber Chat will be at the Black Rock Café for this event on March 13th
2024-03-13 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Black Rock Coffee Bar, 24699 SE Stark St,, Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
Chamber Chat will be an open networking forum and we will have a round robin discussing on business best practices Bring your cards and your ideas so we can really dig into what makes a business successful. These discussions we are having during our Chamber Chats are very interactive and enjoyable. Invite a friend and/or a another business for this Chamber meeting. See you there!

The March Learn over Lunch will be hosted by Erin Beggs of Social by design a Tany's Cafe in Wood Village!
2024-03-06 12:30 - 14:00 | TAny’s Cafe, 24173 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, Oregon, 97060
Join us for an insightful session on “Simplifying Social Media: Easy Strategies for Consistency Across Platforms.” Led by Erin Beggs, Owner, Social by Design, this presentation offers practical tips to enhance your social media presence. From setting clear goals to crafting engaging content and leveraging platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn, discover how to reach your target audience effectively. Learn about the unique demographics of each platform and how to tailor your content accordingly. Whether you’re a novice or intermediate user, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to simplify your approach and achieve greater consistency in your social media efforts.

This month's BASH will be hosted by Mayor Keith Kudrna of the City of Fairview at "The Fork"
2024-03-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Fairview Food Plaza, 22320 NE Halsey St, Fairview, OR, 97024
The new mayor of Fairview will be our host for this after hours event. Keith will be giving the City of Fairview updates with the recent changes. There is a new city manager and so much more. The Fairview Food Plaza, also known as “The Fork” is the location. Great food and beverages and a great way to end a Wednesday. Invite a friend or fellow business to hear what Keith has to say. See you there!

Monthly BASH at The "Fork" Fairview Food Plaza
2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Tany’s Coffee Shop and Bakery, 24173 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, OR, 97060
This coming week’s Chamber Chat will be held at “The Fork” Fairview Food Plaza! A great way to celebrate Leap Year,sort of! A day off but who’s counting, The fun starts at 5pm and runs to about 7 or so. The Beer garden is under new management and would appreciate our support. Put this on your calendar and invite a fellow business or friend to enjoy this 2nd BASH of the year.. See you there!

Monthly Chamber Board meeting at Bateman Carroll Funeral home 6pm
2024-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Bateman Carroll Funeral Home, 520 W Powell Blvd, Gresham, OR, 97030
Monthly Board meeting at Bateman Carrol Funeral home

February 21st, Chamber Chat will be at IHOP in Wood Village with Laura Graves of Country Financial!
2024-02-21 08:30 - 21:30 | IHOP, 22583 NE Glisan S, Wod Vilage, OR, 97060, United States
Come meet Laura Graves, Country Financial for this Chamber Chat. Laura is a board member and owns and operates her insurance office in Stevenson Washington, across the Bridge of the Gods. See what Country Financial can do for you. IHOP offers great breakfast so have breakfast and learn about one of members. Invite a friend and join us!

Chamber Chat on Valentines Day at Starbucks in the Gorge Outlets!
2024-02-14 09:00 - 18:00 | Starbucks, 450 NW 257th Way, Trputdale, OR, 97060
So let’s get together for a sweet deal at the Starbucks in the Gorge Outlets. So many great beverages to enjoy and do some fun networking. Time to have a chamber chat and hit the mid month with a good time. If you haven’t been to this Starbucks, come join us. Lots of space to enjoy this networking event. See you there.,

This month's Learn over Lunch will be hosted by the Chamber for a Chamber 101 at the Fairview Fork!
2024-02-07 12:30 - 14:00 | Fairview Food Plaza, 22320 NE Halsey St, Fairview, OR, 97024
This month’s Learn over lunch will be at the Fairview Food Plaza and Ed Chin our Chamber President will be teaching all about the WCGCC benefits and upcoming schedule for rtje the next couple of months. Come join us and have a lunch from one of the Carts, beverage if you can from the Beer Garden or some other delectible snack from on of the many food carts locate at the Fork

This month's BASH will be held at the Rock Wood Fired Pizza in Wood Village!
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | The Rock Wood Fired Pizza, 22401 NE Glisan St,, Wood Vilage, OR, 97060
Come join us for this month’s BASH, Business and Social Hour event at The Rock Wood Fired Pizza in Wood Village! Time to hold the first after hours event of the year and what better place than the “Rock” Great food and beverages to enjoy. Time to relax and mingle with fellow chamber members and their guests. The fun begins at 5pm with Happy Hour in full swing. We will meet in the main bar and enjoy the fellowship of other members. Be sure to invite guests to see what we are all about. See you there!!

January Board Meeting January 17th
2024-01-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Bateman and Carroll Funeral Home
Monthly board meeting will be held at Bateman Carroll Funeral Home in Gresham. This meeting is open to the public.
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Geoff Kenway is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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This week's Chamber Chat will be at the Starbucks in the Troutdale Outlets!
2024-01-06 09:00 - 18:00 | Starbucks, 450 NW 257th Way, Trputdale, OR, 97060
This week’s Chamber chat will be at the newest Starbucks in the Troutdale Outlet Center. This has been a favorite place for us to hold our Chamber Chat so we are doing it again. This place is huge and great place to meet friends or have meetings. We are getting out in the community and discovering new places for our members to network or socialize. We are the Chamber that promotes business and through this effort, grow our membership and enhance the opportunities in our respective communities. Bring a friend or fellow business person and see this wonderful addition to the outlet Mall. If we all invited just one person, we would have more productive network opportunities. Who will you bring??

Kick off the New Year with an open Learn over Lunch at the Fairview Food Plaza "FORK"
2024-01-03 12:30 - 14:00 | Fairview Food Plaza, 22320 NE Halsey St, Fairview, OR, 97024
Kick off the new year with a open forum learn over lunch. Bring your latest tips and business strategies and share with members your ideas and goals for the new year. What are you goals? Plans? What do you foresee your 2024 looking like? Come have lunch from one of the many venders here and celebrate the new year. Invite a friend and see you there!

Monthly BASH will not be held this month due to the proximity to the Christmas/New Year holidays!
2023-12-29 09:00 - 18:00 | OR
No BASH this month

Chamber chat will be at the IHOP in Wood Village!
2023-12-20 08:30 - 10:00 | IHOP, 22583 NE Glisan S, Wod Vilage, OR, 97060, United States
This weeks Chamber Chat will be at the IHOP in Wood Village where we can network and have breakfast/coffee with your fellow chamber members. So much going on with Christmas fast approaching. and it is time to swing into the holidays. Bring your cards and flyers to share what is happening in your business. Invite a friend or fellow business to enjoy this location to have breakfast and make a difference in your community and business. See you there

Chamber Chat on December 13th will be at the Black Rock Coffee Bar in Troutdale, hosted by Kiwanis.
2023-12-13 08:30 - 09:30 | Black Rock Coffee Bar, 24699 SE Stark St,, Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
Wednesday the 15th we will be having the Chamber chat at the Black Rock Coffee Bar in Troutdale. We will have a guest speaker from Kiwanis of Troutdale. Andela Frymire, President-elect will be telling us all about Kiwanis so be sure to come. We are also getting ready for the Holidays, The Chamber will be discussing Holiday happening and looking for volunteers for Tree lightings and other special events that the Cities of the Gorge will be sponsoring.
Come have a great beverage and mingle with fellow Chamber members. Located at: 24699 SE Stark St, Troutdale, OR 97060
See you there!

Learn over Lunch on December 6th with Bateman Carroll Funeral Home held at the Fairview Food Plaza
2023-12-05 20:30 - 22:00 | Fairview Food Plaza, 22320 NE Halsey St, Fairview, OR, 97024
If your family experienced a loss today, would they know who to call? Would they know what to do? Bateman Carroll Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial provider, presents the Your Life, Your Legacy seminar. This 20 minute information session helps families in our community to get started with planning ahead in 4 very simple steps. With the help of a licensed Pre-Planning Advisor, families choose to plan ahead for funeral and cemetery services for many reasons. Halting the rising cost of inflation with guaranteed pricing, and ensuring that children or friends don’t have to worry about the planning process are 2 of the top reasons families state for taking this step. Learn how to obtain your Personal Planning Guide, free of charge. When completed, the guide answers about 95% of the questions that need answers at the time of someone’s passing. Additional benefits we will discuss include National transferability, Family First Cost Protection, and Away from home protection, to name a few. It may be a tough conversation to start, but in our professional experience, it is so much tougher when we don’t have it in advance. Join us for the easier conversation, bring your questions, and Learn over Lunch! We will be at the Fairview Food Plaza at 22320 NE Halsey St Fairview, OR 97024

Holiday Tree Lighting: City of Wood Village will be Saturday Dec 2nd
2023-12-02 09:00 - 10:00 | City of Wood Village City Hall, 24200 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, OR, 97060, United States
The annual Tree Lighting event kicks off the holiday season in Wood Village with live music, free treats and refreshments, and a visit from Santa and the Grrinch as well, all leading up to the tree lighting countdown. This event will be held at Wood Village City Hall.

November Monthly BASH Business and Social Hour Nov 29th at Buffalo Wild Wings Wood Village!
2023-11-29 02:00 - 04:00 | Buffalo Wild Wings, 22849 NE Glisan St, Wood Village, OR, 97060
This month’s BASH has been moved to November 29th from 5 to 79pm at Buffalo Wild Wings in Wood Village.
The place for fun in the immediate area, is Buffalo Wild Wings where good food, drink and networking go together.
Come and join us and invite another business or friend to grow their business. Come and join us.

Fill the Cruiser Toy Drive, Saturday November 25th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
2023-11-24 19:00 - 2023-11-25 00:00 | OR
Wood Village is sponsoring this event and it will be held in 3 locations as follows
Locations: Fred Meyer 22855 NE Park Ln
Kohls 22557 NE Park Ln Wood Village
Walmart 23500 NE Sandy Blvd Wood Village
Come bring a toy and help make someone’s Christmas a little brighter and better.

Monthly BASH moved to Nov 29th instead of the usual 4th Wednesday
2023-11-22 02:00 - 04:00 | OR
BASH moved to Nov 29th

Turkey Drive
2023-11-17 22:00 - 2023-11-18 00:00 | Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church
The cities of Wood Village and Fairview have partnered with the East County Food Pantry at Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church (2420 NE Fairview Ave, Fairview, OR 97024) to offer Thanksgiving Food Boxes to Wood Village and Fairview community members, plus those who already regularly receive food from the food pantry.
Due to the limited number of turkeys and pies that the pantry is able to provide, they ask that you please indicate your interest by signing up online. The turkeys, pies, and other fixin’s will be available to pick up at the church parking lot on Saturday, November 18th from 2pm to 4pm.
If transportation is a challenge for you, the food pantry asks that you arrange for a friend, family member, or neighbor to pick it up on your behalf. Please indicate that person’s name in the comment section of the application.

November Board meeting
2023-11-15 03:00 - 04:30 | Bateman and Carroll Funeral Home
We will holding our annual board meeting on November 15th at Bateman Carroll Funeral Home in Gresham.
Location: 520 W Powell Blvd, Gresham, OR 97030307
Time 6pm to 7;30pm

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Chamber Chat will be at the Black Rock Coffee Bar in Troutdale on November 15th.
2023-11-14 16:30 - 2023-11-15 05:30 | Black Rock Coffee Bar, 24699 SE Stark St,, Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States

Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District bond will be the host of our Chamber chat Nov 8th
2023-11-07 16:30 - 2023-11-08 05:30 | Starbucks, 450 NW 257th Way, Trputdale, OR, 97060
Jake Wegler is reaching out on behalf of the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District to offer the West Columbia Gorge Chamber of Commerce a briefing on the District’s plans to refer a bond next year for needed improvements to the flood control systems along the Columbia River.

The District was established by the Legislature in 2019 to modernize the flood management system in Multnomah County along the Columbia River. It intends to put a proposal before voters in 2024 to provide a sustainable revenue base for operations and capital construction to ensure we maintain levee certification by the Army Corps of Engineers. Praxis is helping engage the business community and keep stakeholders updated on the District’s plans.

Come hear Jake explain this proposal at this Chamber chat which will be held at the Starbucks Troutdale Gorge Outlet Mall.

See you there,

Upcoming Learn over Lunch with Mt Hood Hospice at the Fairview Food Plaza Nov 1st!
2023-10-31 21:30 - 23:00 | Fairview Food Plaza, 22320 NE Halsey St, Fairview, OR, 97024
Our Learn over Lunch for the month of November will be Mt Hood Hospice so save the date of November 1st from 11:30 to 1pm. It will be held at the Fairview Food Plaza in Fairview, home of the world’s tallest Fork! It will be entered into the Guinness’s Book of World Records soon.
One of the most misunderstood benefits is Hospice. Come hear from Jolie Phanton outreach director of Mt Hood Hospice. Mt Hood Hospice is the only 5 star program in the Portland area. So much to learn, so bring your lunch or order from the many food carts at the plaza. Sure to have something you can enjoy and partake in while attending this event. Let us know if you can make it or just show up. We will be near one of the overhead heaters as the weather starts to cool down this Fall season.
Invite a fellow business or friend for this informative Learn over Lunch activity. See you there1

Pumpkin Fest: Saturday, October 28, 2023 City of Wood Village
2023-10-28 03:00 - 07:00 | City of Wood Village City Hall, 24200 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, OR, 97060, United States
A family-friendly event held each year on the last Saturday before Halloween. This free event has pumpkin carving, face painting, games and activities, food, and more.

BASH, Business and Social Hour at Groges Beer Co in Cascade Locks!
2023-10-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Gorges Beer Company – Cascade Locks, 390 Wa Na Pa Street, Cascade Locks, OR, 97014, United States
This month’s BASH, Business and Social Hour, will be held at Gorges Beer Co in Cascade Locks. Showing some love to our eastern end of our community. Cascade Locks is home to the Bridge of the Gods connecting to Stevenson Washington. Such a beautiful area. Gorges Beer Company will be our host for this BASH and what a great place to meet and do some evening casual networking. Come join us and bring a friend or fellow business owner to see what is going on in Cascade Locks. We support our communities and members so tap into this event and simply enjoy!

See you there!

*Networking is free but food and drink will be available but not supplied by the Chamber of Commerce.

Friday Family Fun Night: Friday, August 4, 2023 in Wood Village
2023-08-04 10:00 - 14:00 | City of Wood Village City Hall, 24200 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, OR, 97060, United States
In partnership with PlayEast! Recreation and Friends of Baseball, the Friday Family Fun Night is a family-friendly evening of games, free food, and an outdoor movie.

Wood Village City Nite Out: Friday, July 21, 2023
2023-07-21 10:00 - 14:00 | City of Wood Village City Hall, 24200 NE Halsey St, Wood Village, OR, 97060, United States
The largest event of the year! The City invites out Wood Village and its neighbors for a family-friendly evening with a parade, music, games and activities, free food, and more. Local businesses and community organizations are on-site to provide activities, demonstrations, and free resources.

This week's Chamber Chat will be hosted by Ray Young from the City of Troutdale!
2023-06-14 00:30 - 01:30 | City of Troutdale
Come hear Ray Young, City Manager for the City of Troutdale, give a State of the City talk. If you have never heard Ray give a talk on the City of Troutdale, you are in for a special time. He is so informative and there is always so much going on in the City of Troutdale. We will be holding this Chamber chat:
Troutdale Cafe + Roastery

7a-2p m-f / 8a-3p sat & sun
Take out / indoor & patio seating
336 E. Historic Columbia River Hwy.
Troutdale, OR 97060

This will be a great place to network and have a good cup of coffee to start off you day! See you there.
