Category Archives: Events

6 steps from Old to New: sewnow! turns Flippers Burgers’ Benches into Chic Party Room Style

              Get Shareaholic Flippers Burgers might be gone, but its brown booth seating has only moved around the corner, and is now reborn as the focal point of a fashionable and useful meeting space in sewnow!’s new location, at 3534 Golden Gate Way, Lafayette, CA. Remember Max from Flippers?…

Lafayette Chamber Members Showcase Expertise at LamorindaWeb Home Expo ’12

              Get Shareaholic Today’s first-ever LamorindaWeb Home Expo drew a steady crowd of homeowners with questions for exhibitors that included architects, designers, builders and remodelers, home decor retailers, home organizers and more. In addition, there were workshops that covered topics from home safety to green building. If you missed…

Work While You Wait: 3 Things You Can Do on Foot While Your Child is in Class at The Art Room

              Get Shareaholic It’s the first week of the Winter Session of classes at The Art Room, and while many locals take the classes, a new session also brings new kids to town, and the parents who drop them off and then stay to wait to pick them up….

Lafayette Chamber’s Popular Social Media Workshop Series offers New 2012 Workshops

              Get Shareaholic Thanks again to the  Lafayette Library and Learning Center for their continued co-sponsorship with the Lafayette Chamber of the Social Media Strategies Workshop Series, offered monthly since 2010 at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. The Winter 2012 Social Media Strategies Series Schedule is out! To…

Holiday Music in Lafayette Plaza, 1970′s & Now: Recognize Anyone?

              Get Shareaholic The only thing I recognize in this late 1970s picture taken in Lafayette Plaza is Handlebar Toys, the sign for which still exists on the building even though the toy store relocated to a storefront between Trader Joe’s and Diablo Foods. The people? That’s hard to…

In Lafayette, Santa Claus Sports a Red and White Nash

              Get Shareaholic On Sunday, Santa came to town in style. Forget Rudolph and sleigh. The Lafayette Chamber of Commerce’s Santa toured downtown Lafayette with Master Elf Jay Lifson at the wheel of Mo Levich’s Candy Red and White Nash, spreading holiday cheer and thanking everyone for shopping Lafayette…

The Real Ghosts of Lafayette’s Christmas Past

              Get Shareaholic If Town Hall Theatre ever re-imagines it’s annual Scrooge! production as set in Lafayette, I would love to see the Ghost of Christmas Past take Scrooge back to Christmas 1886, to the Lafayette community party held at the old school house, when everything appeared to go…

Home Expo ’12 Sponsors – Sign up by 11/30/11 for Chamber Discount

              Get Shareaholic Lamorinda Web has reported that the title sponsor for Home Expo ’12 will be Lamorinda Construction!  They have several other sponsors and exhibitors for the event, and are trying very hard to reach our goal of least 75% of participating businesses being local, Lamorinda-based businesses. Home…

Expo 2011 Video is Here…

              Get Shareaholic Lots of energy at this year’s Business Expo, held earlier this month in Concord. And there’s proof – check out the video! What was your favorite moment at the Expo this year? Read related articlesStories Highlight New Member Orientation – Share Yours! Celebration Dinner 1/20/12 –…

Chamber Members & the Lafayette Art & Wine Festival

              Get Shareaholic Thanks to all the Chamber members participating in the 2011 Lafayette Art & Wine Festival. Whether you’re jumping in as a volunteer or committed to a larger role of “sponsor” or vendor — it all matters! You really help make this event, now in its 16th…