Business Connection Kelso Longview Chamber of Commerce
sQuatch Fest sets attendance record with new two-day format
k February 2020
Volume 12 • Issue 2 Business Connection is published monthly by the Kelso Longview Chamber of Commerce 105 N. Minor Road • Kelso, WA 98626
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Bill Marcum, CEO Amy Hallock, Project Manager Pam Fierst, Office Manager Joelle Wilson, Social Media Service
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he numbers for this year’s sQuatch Fest at the Cowlitz County Event Center January 24 and 25 are big. Bigger than any over the past three years.
• 2 days • 3,200 attendees, nearly 1,000 more than last year. • 11 speakers • 40 craft vendors • 10 nonprofit organizations • 15 breweries • 204 cornhole players (the largest in the state) For more sQuatch Fest, see page 2
Building Bridges moving to fall date
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The Chamber is moving the Building Bridges Business and Tourism Expo from March to October 7 at the Cowlitz County Event Center. “There are just so many events at the conference center in March and April that it was nearly impossible to find a day that did not have other events on both sides of the event on the weekends,” said Chamber CEO Bill Marcum.
Currently, Marcum said, there is nothing scheduled in Longview or Kelso that entire week in October, giving the Chamber a better opportunity to not have to fight for time, space or attendees. Marcum will be reaching out to the membership in July and August for registration. “Hopefully it will be just as successful in the last quarter of the year as it has been in the first quarter of the year,” Marcum said.