August 2022 Scotts Valley Chamber Newsletter

Scotts Valley Art Wine & Beer Festival Returns to Skypark

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he Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the return of our signature summer event the Scotts Valley Art, Wine and Beer Festival. It will take place in the beautiful park setting of Skypark in Scotts Valley.

The premier summer festival in the Santa Cruz Mountains that has something fun for everyone!

The festival is a two-day event and is always held on the third weekend in August; Saturday, August 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, August 21 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Festival goers can purchase their tasting kits early to receive a significant savings offered online only. The pre-sale tickets will end the day before the festival on Friday, August, 19th at 5 p.m.

To take advantage of the discounts and to buy tickets and avoid the lines at the festival, visit the festival website at svartfestival.com. Pre-sale tasting kits can be picked up at the will-call window.

There will be over 100 fabulous artists. You can view the growing list on the festival website at svartfestival.com

The area’s most prestigious wineries that include: 37th Parallel Wines, Aptos Vineyard, Armitage Wines, Bargetto Winery, Hallcrest Vineyards, Integrity Wines, Inversion Wines, Kissed By An Angel Wines, Ser Winery, Sones Cellars, Valley Vista Vineyards, Wargin Wines and Wrights Station Vineyard & Winery.

The awardw i n n i n g micro-breweries include: Highway 1 Brewing Company, Humble Sea Brewing Co., New Bohemia Brewing Co., Steel Bonnet Brewing Company, Unreal Brewing Company and more who will be pouring their best.

There will be culinary Santa Cruz Waves’ Wine Booth • 2018 Art Wine & Beer Festival creations from Aroma Conces2:30 – 4:00 p.m.: The Shady Rest sions, Aunt LaLi’s Treats, Big tricks, costume and look-a-like Band Bite, California Corn, Chicken contests.

••• 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.: Lyin’ I’s and the Farm, Epoch Eats, Indohis year’s live music enterSunday, August 21 nesian Satay, PANA, Steve’s tainment schedule is as 10:00am – Noon: Scotts Valley Shave Ice, Taquizas Gabriel and follows: Schools Talent show more to be announced!

Saturday, August 20 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.: Bobbie Wards The festival also includes a 11:00 am – Noon: International Performance Vocal car show, the Cops ‘N Rodders Academy of Dance Compe1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: The Joint on Saturday that benefits the tition and Performance Teams Chiefs Scotts Valley Police Department 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.: Paperback 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.: The Lost Boys and the popular Bring Your Ryders featuring James Durbin Dog Day Sunday with pet

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Calendar of Upcoming Community Events Saturday August 20 Sunday August 21

22nd Annual Scotts Valley Art Wine & Beer Festival Sky Park 361 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley

Thursday September 22

5:30-7 pm – Networking Mixer & Movie

Cinelux Theatres Scotts Valley 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley

Thursday September 29 5:30-7 pm – Grand Opening Red Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Sol Hot Yoga 224 Mt. Hermon Rd. Suite C, Scotts Valley

Thursday October 20 5:30-7 pm – Joint Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

MADabolic & Faultline Brewing Company The Hangar 262 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley

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Welcome New Chamber Member — The Bounce Bash!

T he Bounce Bash LLC is a modern, luxury white bounce house + event rental company servicing all of Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties. They provide gorgeous, white inflatable bounce houses, custom balloon garlands, light-up marquee letters, and backdrops to make your special event memorable and different.

The Bounce Bash was founded in 2021

by Sydney Ferris, she saw these white bounce houses with balloons and instantly fell in love. She has worked in the hospitality industry for 10+ years and thought this would be a great idea to bring to Santa Cruz. Sydney & her team will design your beautiful event for children’s birthday parties, weddings, baby showers, and other special events.

The commercial-grade, customdesigned bounce houses are guaranteed to be a hit at any party! Gone are the days of primary-colored bouncers. With their all-

white custom-designed bounce houses, it makes for the perfect canvas to customize your event, making your day different, easy, and fun!

The Bounce Bash uses high-quality, 100% biodegradable, natural latex balloons to construct beautiful, custom garlands to fit any of your party needs!

The 40-inch Marquee Light Letters are something totally different and unique to bring to your event and light things up!

The Bounce Bash can customize any word or letters you would like.

The Bounce Bash makes parties beautiful and unique, and are looking forward to servicing your next special event!!

You can visit their business booth at The SVAWB Festival on Aug 20 + 21st! n ••• You can also check them out on Instagram @thebouncebash_ and at www.thebouncebash. com

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Think Local First:

Promoting Local Businesses & Increasing Awareness for Over 15 Years

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n the spring of 2007, a handful of Santa Cruz business owners rallied around a common concern: the threat to local businesses posed by proliferating chain stores and easy online shopping.

Together these business owners founded Think Local First — Santa Cruz County.

Think Local First formed around its mission to promote and sustain economic vitality while preserving the unique character of Santa Cruz County. Its founding

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members believed that if the community rallied around locally owned businesses and made a conscious effort to shop at local stores then everyone would benefit.

Locally owned business would prosper and more of the residents hardearned money would continue to circulate within the community — a huge benefit to the local infrastructure and community health.

A lot has changed since Think Local First was first founded, but its objective of

promoting local businesses and increasing awareness of the importance of shopping locally is more important than ever.

With that in mind, Think Local First has made it simple for locally owned, independent businesses to be part of the local movement by introducing free & low-cost online listings for qualifying businesses.

Think Local First’s “Local Business Directory” exclusively lists independent and locally owned businesses in Santa Cruz and neighboring counties — making

Member Spotlight: Flex Kids Culture

lex Kids Culture is a non-profit 501c3 that seeks to explore and enhance connections between communities in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and China through the development of cultural and academic programs and events. Flex Kids Culture celebrates and promotes academics and heritage by connecting communities in ways that are preserved throughout genera-

tions. Our non-profit organizes the cultural exchanges of students coming from Asia to the U.S. in an effort to improve their educational experience and give them a broader Rui Li world view.

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Our nonprofit explores the ways in which we can help our local community as well as our national community. We have donated money to the Dallas Research Center for Pediatric Cancer, and during the midst of Covid we held reading classes for students to keep up with their education during the summer months.

Flex Kids Culture wants to strengthen

it easy for locals and visitors alike to find and frequent the businesses that are the backbone of our local economy.

Think Local First encourages locals and visitors alike to think FIRST about supporting local businesses when going shopping, looking for services, dining out, selecting your bank or investment provider and everywhere hard-earned dollars are spent.

Go to ThinkLocalSantaCruz.org to join the movement!

the connections of our local community by creating a Chinese Heritage Festival and building a more vibrant Chinatown.

Flex Kids Culture is interested in helping the local and international community in hopes of making a more dynamic and unified future.

For more information, go to www.flex educationinc.com or call 831-316-7627.