Monday, August 23, 2010

Woot! Mixer on Tuesday night @Bottles!


Beaumont Business Association


August Mixer


Tuesday - August 24, 2010


5:00 - 7:00 pm  







Beer Bar & Bottle Shop


5015 NE Fremont St


$5 members / $7 non-members
(with admission receive 1 beer/wine and appetizers) 
Greetings!   

We hope to see you this Tuesday for our BBA August Mixer.  This months mixer will be hosted by Bottles NW! I know this is going to be a fun evening to mix and mingle so come on out and taste some great beers and sample some savory treats from Bottles. 

This event is open to BBA Members and non-members so feel free to forward this on to those who might be interested in networking their business. Our desire is to build a strong alliance of business people reaching out to support one another, thereby making us all stronger. Bring your business cards, discount coupons or your latest marketing tools and meet up with us Tuesday! Admission is $5 for members and $7 for non-members. Receive a tasting of 8 beers on tap and appetizers with admission. Bottles has over 250 beers and 8 on tap. 

As a way of getting to know each other and to promote your business the BBA will be holding a Networking Mixer each month at BBA Member businesses. If you are interested in hosting a Mixer at your place of business please email us at beaumontbusinesses {at} gmail {dot} com.

Looking forward to seeing you Tuesday.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

What WHAT?? Supportland is in the house!

What? You haven't heard about Supportland?



Uh, hello? Support? Portland? Supportland? Genius.

For those who don't know, Supportland is a local business networking support site - creating local business support through a card carrying (free) membership!

And they're coming projectors on and packets a blazin' to our next business meeting.

Thursday, September 9, 2010
8:30 - 10 am
Beaumont Business Association
@ Soluna Grill
4440 NE Fremont

Awesome. Be there. Or get left out and be sad. 

Email emilyd13 (at) gmail (dot) com for more information & to be included on the rsvp list for this presentation!

Twitter & Facebook!

Did you know that the Beaumont Business Association has Twitter & Facebook accounts? And that business members in the BBA can send information to be included as announcements on those accounts?

Additionally, if you have a special event coming up, we want to hear about it! Make sure to send us an email with the information (we'll put it on the blog) & include us in your Twitter feed - we'll retweet items and send them to local outlets for publicity!



Blog, Twitter & Facebook... Social media that gets noticed, and another way that the BBA is at work for our neighborhood, letting friends, neighbors & fellow business owners know about the fabulous events going on in our neighborhood!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Fremont Fest Activities!!

$5 KidZone gets you a wrist band (good for the ENTIRE day) and a free tshirt (while supplies last)!  Wrist bands are good for the Bounce Houses, Face Painting & Petting Zoo.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm Festival is open (street is closed to vehicles)
  • Wine & beer tasting at Beaumont Market
  • Bounce Houses
  • Petting Zoo
  • Pie Eating Contest
  • Tent Sale at Amenity Shoes
  • Dog Days Sale and Artists Courtyard at The Arrangement
  • Huge sale at Shop Adorn
  • Deals at Found on Fremont

Some specific highlights:

Pub Crawl 
12:00 – 4:00
$10
5 tokens/Commemorative Mug/ Map
Sponsored by  Soluna, Pizzicato, Doc Georges, McPeets, Alameda Brew, Bottles, & Cha Cha Cha

Kids Zone
11:00 – 4:00
$5 for Wrist band to all kids events plus free T-shirt
Bounce Houses, Face Painting, Cake Walk
Sponsored by Blackbird Wineshop, JMA Properties, Bonnies & Paperjam Press

Petting Zoo
12:00 – 2:00
Sponsored by Able Body Massage

MAIN STAGE
Sponsored by Doc Georges Jazz Kitchen

11:00 – Bellamar Salon Hair Style Fashion Show
11:30 – Capoeira Demonstration
11:45 – Mitzi Zilka Trio
12:30 – Salsa Dancers & Salsa Lesson
1:45 -  Zumba Dance Exhibition
2:30 -  Salsa Challenge Awards Presentation
2:45 – Laura Cunard Trio w/Dick Berk
3:15 – Bellamar Salon Hair Style Fashion Show
4:00 – Andre St James
4:45 – The Big Easy Band

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Salsa Challenge
11:00 – 2:00
$2 taste all 14 salsas
Come taste your neighbors homemade salsa, then vote for your favorites
Sponsored by Soluna Grill


Cake Walk
12:30 & 1:30 & 2:30
Remember that good ole fashioned Cake Walk?
Sponsored by Bonnie’s & Paperjam Press & cakes donated by Soluna Grill
SECOND STAGE
Sponsored by Amalfi’s Italian Restaurant
11:30 -12:30 Mark Simon Trio
12:30 – 1:00 Pie Eating Contest
1:00 – 1:30 Gypsy Caravan Dancers
1:30 – 2:30 Eric Nelson

Food!
  • BBQ @ Beaumont Market
  • Polish & hot dogs @ Beaumont Hardware
  • Pizza @ Pizzicato
  • Fish tacos @ Soluna Grill
  • Elephant ears @ Bumblekiss

Food Carts!
  • SweetWheels PDX Mobile Cupcakery
  • Namu Foodcart
  • Caribbean Jerk Chicken
  • Pedal Kettle Kettle Corn
  • Blockhead Shave Ice
  • Wild West BBQ