Join us for our 4th Annual Wii Bowling Tournament! Create your own teams of 4 or register as an individual! The cost is $5 per person. DaVinci’s will be providing appetizers and there will be a cash bar. 

Agren Appliance will award the top bowler with a 32″ TV! Community Credit Union has donated a $25 Visa Gift Card to every member of the winning team!

Sponsored by: DaVinci’s and Agren Appliance.

To register, click here!

The Vault
84 Lisbon Street, Lewiston
Thursday, January 26
5-8pm

No registration required, just come and join us anytime between 5-8pm!

Pre-Valentine’s Celebration
Half dozen wines ranging from light and bubbly to sweet desert wines
Photography on display from Daniel Marquis
Unique woodwork for the kitchen by Eric Flanagan

The cost will be $89 per person.
To register click here!

The sessions being presented will be as follows:
January 5 – Introduction to CDI and Getting Things Done
Explore the breadth of career development and how do you make it happen.  In “Getting Things Done” you’ll learn how to get focused and move your career to the next level. We’ll explore the fundamentals of time management and focus on your workday and your workweek. (Please bring your work calendar with you to this session).Whether your issues concern Time, Teams, or Treasure, working with a mentor can be the very thing that gets you moving.

January 19 – Providing Feedback & Asking For What You Want
Providing Feedback:  Feedback can be helpful or unhelpful. By using a few simple rules and a couple of communication scripts, you can provide effective feedback to anyone in your organization.

Asking for What You Want: Have you ever asked for something to be done and gotten either a poor performance or something different from what you intended? Making a clear request is easy when everyone is on the same page but a true challenge when things are moving rapidly, when there is stress in the environment or when there are employees with different goals. Learn how to make a request for action that is unmistakable. Learn how to ask for a correction of poor performance. Learn how to get what you want with straight forward language and integrity.

February 2 – Keeping a Difficult Conversation on Track
This session was developed by Kurk in 1999 for use in work settings where “getting the run around” was to be expected. Refined for the last ten years this communications model will give you a huge edge when dealing with difficult people.

February 16 – Preparing for and Presenting to a Small Group
This session has been applauded as one of the most exciting adult teaching/training skills ever delivered. First you will learn how to use a “cognitive map” to organize a 3-minute up to a 60-minute chunk of material into it’s logical sequence. Next learn how to deliver the “item map” detailing and specific term, definition or concept. Your next presentation could be 100% stronger using these skills.

March 1 – Asking and Answering Questions
This skill can make you stand out. Ever hear a politician respond to a question? Sometimes they are evasive and sometimes they are simply incoherent. Learn how to listen carefully to a question to distill its essence. Then learn to answer, clearly and succinctly. We will also focus on asking powerful questions; questions that will get you the information you need and get you noticed as thoughtful, engaged and assertive.

March 15 – No Excuses Management
The final session of this year’s career development institute will center on you as a manager. We will combine the learning from the first five sessions, add a bit of no-nonsense scripting that focuses on accountability and you will be a better manager the next day at work. Worth the wait, session six will teach you how to avoid the excuses that often get in the way of effective operations and get people refocused and back on track!

Thursday, November 3
5:30-7pm

Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center

Parking available on Bardwell Street, off Russell

December 3, 9am-2pm

We are looking for volunteers to help at the festival and to bake cakes for the cake walk!

Friday, December 2nd, from 2:30pm to 3:30pm, two volunteers are needed to help the Kiwanis pick up, deliver and set up heavy wooden tables.

Saturday, December 3rd, volunteers are needed to do a variety of tasks:

• such as to “man” the bounce house
• sell tickets
• help with crafts
• sell popcorn or cotton candy
• help the Mason’s with their Child ID Program
• help with lunch
• Clean up

The hours are flexible, just specify the hours you can help, and they will assign a task that fits that timeframe
or choose a task you prefer to do, and they will suggest the hours that would be most helpful!

Email Jenny@androscoggincounty.com if you’d like to volunteer!

 The festival runs from 9 to 2:00, with clean-up lasting until about 3:30.

Would you consider baking or donating small cakes for the festivalCAKE WALK?
Bake two cakes from one cake mix, decorate it and bring them in on a disposable plate…
OR ~ for the non-bakers amongst us! ~ stop by your favorite bakery and pick up some 6” or 8” cakes!
The more cakes they have, the more winners there are in this musical chairs-type event.
Ask your family and friends to help us out.
The CAKE WALK is an important part of the festival, and all assistance is greatly appreciated.
If you are willing and able to bake and/or purchase cakes, please email me at:
jenny@androscoggincounty.com
so we can keep track of how many cakes we will be donating.

Click here to download the CAKE WALK poster

Wednesday, November 16
5-6pm Social, 6-6:25pm Presentation
Marche, 40 Lisbon Street, Lewiston

The presentation will highlight all that Lewiston/Auburn has to offer young professionals.
Appetizers & a cash bar will be available

Please let us know you’ll be attending, email Jenny@androscoggincounty.com.

Mary LaFontaine – Mentor Award
Mike Dostie – Community Involvement Award
Gritty McDuff’S Brewing Company  – Business Champion Award
Julia Sleeper, Tree Street Youth – Entrepreneur Award
Dustin Carrier, Carrier Lawn and Landscape – Business Person of the Year Award

Interested in coming to the Annual Meeting to help us celebrate? Click here!

“How important is your city to you?”
Would you like to learn more about the issues affecting local government in Lewiston & Auburn or have your opinions heard?  This informal event is designed by YPLAA and the Chamber to allow all ages to “get involved” in creating a city we want to live, work and play in.  This is your chance to learn what future City Council and Mayoral candidates plan to do to help your city! 

All candidates will have an opportunity to introduce themselves to the group before being asked to answer some very important questions about their goals for the future of Lewiston and Auburn.

Wednesday, October 12
Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch
5-7:30pm

Light refreshments and cash bar available!

Download the poster by clicking here!

Friday, October 28, 2011
6:00 social - 6:45 dinner – 7:30 awards – 8:00 comedy
The Carriage House, 1119 Lisbon Street, Lewiston

Comedians: Tom Hayes, Rob Steen, and Steve Guillmette

$35/person, to purchase click here!
Or contact Jenny at Jenny@androscoggincounty.com or at The Chamber 783-2249

Congratulations to this year’s YPLAA Award Recipients!
Mary LaFontaine – Mentor Award
Mike Dostie – Community Involvement Award
Gritty McDuff’S Brewing Company  – Business Champion Award
Julia Sleeper, Tree Street Youth – Entrepreneur Award
Dustin Carrier, Carrier Lawn and Landscape – Business Person of the Year Award

Questions? Call Jenny at the Chamber at 783-2249

To download the poster click here!

Sponsored by:

For more information on the awards and to nominate someone, click here!

Discover LA’s Downtown by participating in an interactive SCAVENGER HUNT!

Saturday, September 10, 2011
Registration & Lunch at 11am at the Chamber
Hunt from 12-3:30
Prizes & Networking from 3:30-5pm at Pedro O’Hara’s

Get your friends & co-workers together to experience & discover LA’s downtown!

You MUST register to attend by clicking here!

Download and share the poster by clicking here!

Prize Sponsor: