How to resolve AdBlock issue? 
Business News
- Details
- Written by: 1Team 1Dream
There is still time to apply by the deadline.
Local small businesses and entrepreneurs are encouraged to apply, including prior year applicants.
Only past winners (finalists) of the small business competition are excluded from the 2022 competition.
In its third year, the competition will award $85,000 including a new category for the best start up business.
The process involves an initial application screening to select 12 businesses and two alternates that will proceed to the second phase of the competition.
In the second phase applicants will learn and apply the basic tenets of building a sustainable business plan in a one-day business training workshop.
The workshop is followed by a mini competition where six small businesses and one alternate will be selected by a panel of local business leaders to proceed to the final competition.
In the final stage of the competition, awards will be decided by a select panel of judges composed of leaders in the business industry.
All competitors will receive an award, ranging from $25,000 for first prize to $5,000 for fifth prize. One additional award of $10,000 will be issued to a new small business startup.
The final competition is on Nov. 5.
For more information about the process and to apply online, go to the website at www.1team1dream.
Apply now – late applications will not be accepted.
Contact Olga Martin Steele at 916-849-8170 if you have any questions.
- Details
- Written by: North Coast Opportunities
NCO seeks qualified companies and individuals to provide historical, cultural, and biological resource services as described in NCO’s subject matter experts request for proposals.
More information and a detailed scope of work is available at www.ncoinc.org.
NCO is currently working with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, or Cal OES, to pilot the Lake County Home Hardening Initiative, which will be funded in part by a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant.
The Home Hardening Initiative aims to perform defensible space and retrofit measures on existing residential homesites to mitigate against wildfire loss. The program will target one area within Lake County, the Kelseyville Riviera Community Association.
The infusion of federal funds into the program requires compliance with federal and state environmental regulations, including NEPA, CEQA and Section 106.
As such, NCO seeks the professional services of qualified Subject Matter Experts to inform the possible environmental impacts of this program in the proposed project areas including biological, archaeological, architectural and historical research services.
Interested and qualified agencies and individuals are invited to submit proposals through July 15, 2022 at 5 p.m. Electronic submissions may be delivered to
NCO is the Community Action Agency that serves Lake and Mendocino Counties, as well as parts of Humboldt, Sonoma, Del Norte, and Solano Counties. NCO reacts and adjusts to community needs, including disaster response and recovery.
For more information visit www.ncoinc.org or call 707-467-3200.
- Details
- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
“I am really pleased that so many of our Senate colleagues recognized the importance of this common sense bill that benefits our environment and consumers,” Sen. Dodd said. “With SB 1013 we can increase the recycling rates of millions of bottles that would otherwise wind up in our landfills or be illegally discarded. I look forward to seeing this bill with all its benefits for California pass the Assembly and be signed by Gov. Newsom.”
“SB 1013 is historic change that is 40 years in the making,” Pro Tem Atkins said. “I want to commend the wine industry, distilled spirits industry, environmental advocates, and other groups who have come together to support this landmark proposal. We will continue working with stakeholders as the bill moves through the Assembly to make sure remaining concerns are addressed, and then, hopefully, 2022 will be the year we can pop a cork and celebrate this overdue improvement to California’s recycling law.”
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, established in 1986, encourages consumers to recycle beverage containers by requiring them to pay a deposit for eligible bottles.
According to a 2019 report, curbside programs received approximately $172 million from the so-called Bottle Bill in 2017, including $15 million that is annually provided from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund.
Although the program includes beer, it does not include wine or spirits. It is estimated that California generates more than 500 million wine and spirits bottles each year, with less than 30% being recycled and over 300 million wine and spirits bottles going into landfills.
Under Senate Bill 1013, wine and spirits bottles would be added to the program, leading to more recycling, increased business for recycling centers and reduced processing costs.
The expansion would also cut greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide while reducing litter of wine and spirits containers, a visible and dangerous component of urban litter pollution.
SB1013 is supported by a number of groups including Californians Against Waste, Heal the Bay, California Association of Local Conservation Corps, Monterey Regional Waste Management District, National Stewardship Action Council, Northern California Recycling Association, California Teamsters Public Affairs Council, The 5 Gyres Institute, the Plastic Pollution Coalition and Zero Waste USA. It has no formal opposition.
It passed the Senate with unanimous, bipartisan support. It heads next to the Assembly.
Dodd represents the Third Senate District, which includes all or portions of Napa, Solano, Yolo, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.
- Details
- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
In addition, the store has created new jobs in the community and will be providing big savings on name brand, high quality merchandise for its local consumers.
The store’s grand opening and ribbon cutting will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 26.
Grocery Outlet stores are independently operated by local families who are committed to supporting their communities.
“We are overjoyed to be a part of the Hidden Valley Lake community and provide big savings on quality groceries,” said Mitch and Carol Beare. “This partnership with Grocery Outlet gives us the ability to grow our business, create new jobs and more importantly, give back to our local community.”
The Beares presented a donation of $500 to the Middletown Senior Center, whose mission is to link older individuals and their caregivers to appropriate community resources available to meet their needs.
An additional $500 donation will be made to Middletown Community United Methodist Church Food Bank, whose mission is to feed neighbors in need and lead the community to end hunger.
In celebration of the opening, through Thursday, June 23, customers may enter for a chance to win $1,000 in groceries.
To enter, customers may access the online contest. Entry must include a valid, working email address where the entrant can be notified. Winner need not be present to win but must claim the prize within three days of notification or another winner will be chosen. No cash value and no substitutions, prize distributed over 20 $50 rewards certificates. Valid only at Hidden Valley Lake Grocery Outlet.
The first 100 customers attending the ribbon-cutting celebration also receive Grocery Outlet Bliss Bucks gift cards in mystery amounts ranging from $5 to $500. (Must be 18 years of age or older.)
In addition, all shoppers will receive a free reusable bag with purchase, while supplies last. Limit 1.