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The volunteers would help staff the information center at the chamber, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Duties would include clerical, computer, cleaning, event planning, working events, answering phones, and making phone calls to members and community.
For more information contact chamber Executive Director Lori Peters, 707-994-3600.
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To commemorate this special occasion, Harley hippie's has created a label for both its coffee and espresso.
In addition, t-shirts have been made upon the request of many customers.
All of these will be available for sale on the Oct. 9 anniversary.
Shop owner Jeanne Bower thanked her very loyal customers for helping the shop along and giving her so much encouragement and support.
“You have no idea how much all of you mean to me,” Bower said.
Harley hippie's Coffee Shop & Internet Café is located at 6260 E. Highway 20, Lucerne, telephone 707-274-0400.
Visit the shop's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001306818288 .
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This contract, developed in conjunction with the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GoED), will provide resources to target technology-based women-owned businesses, socially and economically disadvantaged businesses and small firms that have historically not participated in the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.
This effort will help develop the connection between the State's Small Business Development Centers (SBDC's) and California's Innovation Hubs (iHubs) designed to strengthen the collaboration and support networks of the State's entrepreneurs.
The federal funding made available by the FAST program will be used to build capacity within the iHubs and the SBDC offices by providing training in the areas of technology assistance and commercialization, supporting outreach initiatives and workshops for targeted technology firms and subsidizing the technology assistance and mentoring programs available through the iHubs.
Dan Ripke, director of the Center for Economic Development and the Northeastern California Small Business Development Center stated, "We are extremely pleased to be able to link California's SBDC program to the Governor's Office of Economic Development and its statewide innovation hub network to promote these kinds of grass roots technology-based job creation efforts."
Launched in March, Gov. Schwarzenegger's Innovation Hub Initiative provides a platform for research clusters, startup companies, government entities, business groups and venture capitalists by leveraging assets such as research parks, technology incubators, universities and federal laboratories to foster innovation and job creation statewide.
Over the past six months, the group has grown to 12 including the North State iHub in Chico, the North Bay iHub in Rohnert Park, the Sacramento iHub, the Greater Mission Bay Area iHub in San Francisco, the i-GATE iHub in Livermore, the Green Corridor iHub in the East Bay, the Central San Joaquin Valley iHub in Fresno/Merced, the CleanTech Los Angeles iHub, the Coachella Valley iHub in Palm Springs, OCTANe iHub in Orange County and iHub San Diego.
"The twelve innovation hubs operating within various regions throughout the state will benefit from the additional funding," said Governor's Office of Economic Development Director Joel Ayala. "The partnership with CSU Chico and the California SBDC network gives us an opportunity to assist small businesses, commercialize new technologies, secure other funding and create jobs for Californians."
Please visit www.cedcal.com or call 530-898-4598 for additional information.
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Senate Bill 806, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2011, allows for the return of wine taken out-of-state where the wine was purchased from a holder of a beer and wine wholesaler's license or an off-sale retail license that only sells wine.
According to Wiggins, SB 806 is “a consumer bill which will allow consumers to return wine to any winemaker without regard to the winemaker's license.”
Existing law only allows consumers to return wine to winegrowers with an ABC Type 02 (winegrower) license. Over the past several years, hundreds of virtual wineries holding a combined Type 17 and Type 20 license sell wine to customers for use out of state.
Wiggins added that “a license category should have no bearing on consumer's ability to return wine. Updating the law to clarify that consumers can return wine to holders of beer and wine wholesaler and off-sale beer and wine licenses will clarify the law and simplify the process for consumers wishing to return wine.”
Schwarzenegger also signed Wiggins’ SB 1096, which likewise goes into effect next January.
SB 1096 makes various technical and code maintenance changes to several provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to keep up with modern technology, including existing direct inquiry provisions to include any electronic inquiries from consumers.
Existing law, known as the "tied-house" law, separates the alcoholic beverage industry into three component parts, or tiers, of manufacturer (including breweries, wineries and distilleries), wholesaler, and retailer (both on-sale and off-sale).
According to Wiggins, the complex restrictions of the ABC Act's tied-house laws make it difficult for wine and brandy manufacturers to utilize simple, modern ways of responding to consumer inquiries. She notes that current law “references electronic internet inquiries which could be narrowly construed to prohibit other types of electronic communications - such as texting.”
Under existing law, a response to a direct inquiry from a consumer received by telephone, by mail, by electronic Internet inquiry or in person does not constitute a thing of value or prohibited inducement to the listed on-sale or off-sale retailer. Therefore, SB 1096 is simply intended to modify the current restrictions to include, "electronic inquiry," instead of just "electronic Internet inquiry."