Tri-Lakes Business Alliance General Board Meeting Minutes 5-27-16

Rack Cards: They look great and are out for distribution! All of this year’s TLBA and NW Chamber events!

Pest Control: Eric Jackson and Dave Delaney gave a presentation on their company Maximum Pest Control. You can contact them at [email protected] or #518-350-7378 for all your pesty needs!

Car Hop: Car Hops are held the 1st Friday of the month at the Panther Mt. Inn and the 3rd Friday of the month at The Hub beginning around 5 PM. Trophy sponsors are still needed – $40 to have your business donate the trophies for each event.

Fork to Fork: Very successful with about 80 riders participating. Looking forward to this becoming a yearly event.

An Adirondack Woof Stock: Get out your tie-dye and lets go back to 1969 on June 18-19 in Chestertown,. Come see the Hudson Valley Dock Dogs and let your dog take a dive! Good at frisbee? Join the Beantown Disc Dog competitions or let your dog try the Doggie Fun Zone Lure Chasing Course. Adopt a pet from North Shore Animal League & Adirondack Save-A-Stray, watch the Police Canine demonstrations, attend the Blessing of the Animals or try out in the My Dog has Talent Show! Vendors, food and music all day both days! Saturday night visit Woof Stock Revisited on the Mill Pond in Brant Lake with live music, light show, vendors, food, and glow in the dark beach balls and Frisbees in the pond along with a Burn your Bra for Charity bonfire …..Great fun for the whole family and your canine companions! It’s all about the dogs!!!!! Read more →

Tri-Lakes Business Alliance General Board Meeting Minutes 4-29-16

Car Hops: May to September – 1st Friday of every month at the Panther Mt. Inn, 3rd Friday of every month at the Hub beginning at 5PM. Rain dates will be the following Friday. $40 Trophy sponsors are needed for each event… contact Donnie or Drew if you want to sponsor a Hop! Volunteers to sell 50/50 tickets are also needed each evening so if you can help let us know!

Brew Fest: Has been canceled and a proposed “Spirit Tasting” might be held in the future as a fund raiser.

VIP for the North Warren Chamber for 2016: May 12th – Reserve your ticket through the Chamber. Reservations should be made by May 5. Cost is $30 including tax and gratuity with check to be paid to North Warren Chamber of Commerce. No cash entries at door.

“Fork to Fork”: Week-end of May 21. Register at https://www.bikereg.com/F2F

Rack Cards: Coming soon!

Thank You Mixer: Held Sunday, April 24, 2-4 p.m. at The Bull House Restaurant as a Thank You to those who donated to the cost of the Electronic Bulletin Board had a very disappointing turn-out but thank you to all who helped make this addition to our town possible! Read more →

Rack Cards: Brandon and Patty Berg are working on the list and just have to get the information for the chamber’s side of the card finalized.

Thank You Mixer: to be held on Sunday, April 24, 2-4 p.m. at The Bullhouse Restaurant as a Thank You to those who donated to the cost of the Electronic Bulletin Board. Letters of invitation are being sent out. They are planning for about 100 to attend.

Electronic Bulletin Board – Fred Holman will be attending the meeting of the zoning board on April 26^th to get final approval. Brandon announced that the committee got together with the chamber staff to establish some guidelines for use of the sign.

CORRECTION TO LAST MINUTES ON Bed Tax: Town of Horicon has approved bed tax funds for Brant Lake Winter Carnival, $1,000 and we applied to the Town of Chester for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, $1200.

North Warren Central School – “The Lion King” production performed to a full house all three days. Thanks goes out to the two teachers who directed this production through hours of hard work for the enjoyment of the whole community.

Outdoors Alive Event – Fred Holman announced that they have sent for a Big Foot costume and that someone will be appearing in it at different locations around the area. Someone will be taking pictures of the “sightings”. There will be lots of different events this year. Friday night will start off with a talk about “Big Foot”;Saturday will include events on Archery, Air Rifle Shooting Range, Climbing Wall, Metal Detecting, Hunter and Pistol Safety Courses, Scouts will be working on Map and Compass and it will end on Sunday with a live wolf with the rescue group. The dates of the event will be September 23, 24 and 25.

Schroon Lake Chamber – Tammy, President of the Schroon Lake Chamber shared some of the work they are doing to get word out about what is happening in their area. They are working with Word of Life to get information packets out to the people who stay at Word of Life during the season about things to do in this area. She suggested we might want to get something about our events to them to go into the packets as well.

Carol Theater – Al Tolomeo shared information about events they are doing which will include all kinds of music like country, bluegrass, blues, Rock & Roll, Beatles tribute, Big Band Jazz, Charles Cornell Quartet tribute to Dave Brubeck, and even an old time radio show (The Lone Ranger). They are selling 10 verbal ads w/10 tickets on stage for $130. This performance will be in August. More info to come.

Next Meeting: Friday, April 15, 2016, 9:00 a.m. at Panther Mt. Inn