Chamber members receive 50% off sponsorships and individual tickets! Click here to purchase now. This is a great opportunity for the business community to meet the Governor’s top cabinet leader over all business and consumer affairs. Secretary Caballero is among the top 10 most influential women in the State. This...
By Justin Sullivan (GETTY). RICHMOND, CA – OCTOBER 24: National Park Service ranger Betty Reid Soskin poses for a portrait at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park on October 24, 2013 in Richmond, California. At the age of 92, Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest...
Article by Kelsey Libert and Kristin Tynski, Harvard Business Review Blog Network, October 24, 2013. We’re all well aware of the fact that marketing is shifting from a landscape where marketers can utilize mass media to speak at consumers, to one where marketers are simply part of the crowd themselves....
A message from Zoe Smith, Zoe’s Cookies and Other Delights. Dear Friends, Relatives, Loyal Customers, and Business Associates: Zoe’s Cookies has applied for a grant from www.MissionMainStreetGrants.com sponsored by Chase and Google. Twelve small businesses will be the recipients of $250,000 each to use for business growth. There are some...
Posted by Chris Treadway, October 20, 2013. November 2 – 3 Playland: The Golden Years Book Launch & Signing Event On Saturday meet James R. Smith, the author of “Playland at the Beach: The Early Years.” Jim’s latest book, a sequent titled “Playland at the Beach: The Golden Years,” covering...
By Robert Rogers, Contra Costa Times. Posted on 10/14/2013. Read the original story here. RICHMOND — Tarnel Abbott sat on a hunk of knotty driftwood Monday morning and listened to the water gently lap at the shore. It was the first time in more than a decade the Richmond resident...
Report by Don Knapp, CBS SF Bay Area. View the original report here. The same ‘can-do’ spirit celebrated at Richmond’s Homefront Festival helped keep the annual event going on Saturday, even though a government shutdown looked like it might send Rosie the Riveter back home. Don Knapp reports:
AC Transit will be hosting several community meetings next week about Proposed Fare Restructuring. A series of community meetings on the proposal will be held and the public is invited to attend and comment. The proposal includes these elements: • Introducing a local Day Pass & eliminating transfers • Adjusting...
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. is aware that there have been a number of odor complaints reported this afternoon. We wanted to let you know that our fenceline monitors as well as current wind direction do not indicate that there are emission sources coming from the Richmond Refinery that would result in...
By Mark Andrew Boyer, posted October 3, 2013, richmondconfidential.org. Read the full story here. Richmond City Council member Tom Butt reflected as he applied butter to his dinner roll from a small white ramekin. It had been exactly 40 years since he moved to Richmond, and in that time he’d...
