New Meadow Vista Merchants 2014 Officers

At our final meeting of the year - a new board was elected!

We are proudly serving you!

2014 Officers:

President: Ashlei Jackson 878-8778

Vice President: Mike Walker 878-8959

Secretary: Katherine Katches 878-5100

Treasurer: Toni Ryan 878-7616

2014 Committees:

View Magazine Chair: Toni Ryan 878-7616

View Editor: Ashlei Jackson 878-8778

Website Contact: Greg Luther 878-1236

Membership: Skye Toro 878-8830

The Meadow Vista Merchants Association holds  meetings quarterly. Please check out our calendar or our Facebook page for information about our meeting schedule.

A Gift of Thanks...

As the year comes to a close, we tend to anticipate the newness and change waiting around the corner. A new year filled with new adventures! The Meadow Vista Merchants Association is embracing 2013 with hopes of change sprinkled with a dash of tradition. We look forward to a new Board and a new format to our meetings. If you are a local business - we invite you to join us! Shopping and supporting small business is increasingly vital to our local economy and we encourage everyone to continue this tradition. We need YOU!

 As an association built upon volunteerism, we are enormously proud to bring you this publication. Blood, sweat and tears go into our little magazine. The struggling economy has made it rough but we have consistently been able to deliver over 3000 magazines to Meadow Vista and Applegate residents every other month - fully funded by our local advertisers. To our members and our community, thank you for supporting the View Magazine! We could not do it without you and we hope to continue the tradition for years to come!

 We hope you have a joyous holiday season and a hopeful new year. May you enjoy the gifts of living in our beautiful community all year long!

The Meadow Vista Merchant's Association

 

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Press Release: Quarterly Meetings

Fellow Merchants,

A big thank you to all of you for re-joining our Merchant Association for another year.  You will continue to have your name and company listed on our website and through our Facebook page, which reaches viewers GLOBALLY.  You also continue to have the opportunity to advertise and share your knowledge in our bi-monthly VIEW magazine.  Our organization would be nothing without YOU and we value you as a member.

MEETINGS ARE NOW QUARTERLY! 
After discussing the pros and cons of monthly meetings, our budget, and recently low attendance record, your newly elected board would like to announce a change for 2012.  Although monthly meetings have been great for networking, building relationships, laughing over a slice of pizza, and keeping up on MV activities, we will now only meet quarterly, on the second Thursday of February, May, August, and November.  These quarterly meetings will be more in the style of  "board meetings" but all members are welcome to attend.  In place of the monthly meetings you will receive important merchant information, board decisions, and other opportunities via email.  Likewise, if you have any issues, suggestions, or concerns regarding the Merchants Association or this meeting format change please email or call your board members.   It is extremely important to keep your emails up to date with the MVMA secretary: Traci Eichenhofer or myself.  Secondly, read your emails from the merchants and reply!.  There may just be a great business building tip,  speaker, or need that will boom your profits.   Long story short, there is no meeting in March or April.  The next "meeting" is May 10th.     

THE MERCHANTS HAVE ADOPTED A PARK! 
Many of you were instrumental in helping the MV Pool Project and have great memories of spending time as a family at the park behind the pool.  ARD has opened up their parks for "adoption" by organizations, and we have adopted Placer Hills Park, by the pool.  Right now we have a tentative date of March 24th from 8-12 set for us members to come to the park, "learn" how to maintain it from ARD representatives and get busy sprucing it up.  Monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly future sprucing dates will be emailed to you.  A plaque with our name will be erected at the park, showing our organization as the sponsors.  This is a great way for us to give back to our community!

ADA WORKSHOP 
Senator Ted Gaines emailed me wanting to let all of our members know about an ADA Compliance Workshop that he and his wife will be putting on in Rocklin on March 26th from 6-8 pm at the Rocklin Event Center (Main Hall.)  The purpose of this workshop is to educate businesses about state and federal ADA laws and present guidelines to avoid lawsuits for non-compliance.  For more information call 916-783-8232.

Thank you for reading this whole email and being a part of our organization!

Christine Schlittenhart, President
Meadow Vista Merchant Association