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The Brasil Guitar Duo will bring their heralded sounds to the Oregon Coast when they play a Nov. 6 concert for the Neskowin Chamber Music series Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet tickets now available for purchase
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$750 and $1,000. To purchase your tickets, call 503-201-7464 or send an email to pcnvchamber@gmail.com or dougolsonoregon@outlook.com. The event will feature awards for Volunteer of the Year, Business of the Year and Citizen of the Year, as well as a presentation by special guest speaker Bill Oram, sports columnist for the Oregonian and a graduage of both Nestucca High
School and the University of Oregon. Oram returned to the Northwest earlier this year to fill the shoes left by longtime Oregonian columnist John Canzano. The Awards Banquet will also feature a buffet dinner catered by the Grateful Bread Restaurant and Bakery. For more details on the Chamber’s year-end celebration, watch for the Sun’s expanded coverage in the Nov. 18 edition.
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Tickets are now available for the Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Awards Banquet, which is set for Tuesday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m., at Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Dr., Pacific City. Tickets are $55 each or two for $100. Businesses can also purchase a table of eight for $500. Additional sponsorship levels offering increased recognition are
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ompanies doing business in unincorporated Tillamook County may soon have to write one more check each year. Tillamook County has drafted an ordinance that, if passed by county commissioners, will ask businesses operating in areas outside the incorporated cities to pony up an annual business license fee. The fee would apply to all businesses except nonprofits. The proposed cost is $75 for businesses with 1 to 10 employees, $150 for businesses with 1130 employees, and $300 for businesses with 31 or more employees. If approved by Tillamook County Commissioners, it is slated to go into effect on Jan. 1. Explaining the proposed ordinance to business owners in Pacific City on Nov. 1 was Tillamook County Economic Development Council Director Terre Cooper. Funds for the proposed program will go entirely towards supporting EDC. “The money is going to go to the EDC budget,” Cooper told a packed house at the Pacific City-Nestucca Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Nov. 1 meeting at the Faye Jensen Hall at Kiawanda Community Center. “We run programs all the time that benefit businesses in the county.” She said that amongst those benefits are workshop for businesses. She also noted that during COVID, the EDC was the one that administered $1.6 million in grants from the State of Oregon, and other sources to Tillamook County businesses. MOST BUSINESSES INCLUDED Cooper explained that the fee would apply to most businesses, but those short-term rentals that are already licensed will be excluded from the requirement. Also, those operating only by their own personal name and not a corporation or assumed business name, would not be considered a business. Examples include an Avon-selling enterprise or those selling items at a craft bazaar. “If you are required to be registered with the Secretary of State as a business, then you’re required to get a business license,” Cooper explained. Other enterprises, including contractors and fishing charters coming from areas outside of the county will have to register and pay the fee. And that had some wondering if businesses based in the area would be the only ones paying, despite the ordinance’s requirements. see BUSINESS LICENSE, page 4