Townsend Area Chamber Update
Author: Townsend Area Chamber Of Commerce
Townsend Area Chamber Update Townsend Area Chamber Of Commerce The Townsend Area Chamber of Commerce (TACC) is trying very hard to provide opportunities for more customers to enter our businesses, and to recruit new businesses that we need/want in our county. We do this by promoting our businesses on Facebook and our Website and by creating “events/activities”. A handful of people can have an effect, but the businesses in mass and other community members can have a Grand Success when focused, purposeful and involved. We would appreciate your help and support.
Our next planned annual events are the ATV Poker Ride 1st Responders, on June 10 and the TACC Walleye Festival and Sunrise Tournament, on June 23, 24, and 25.
The ATV Poker Ride is a very enjoyable and successful event. This year, the Ride will traverse the roads available in the Elkhorn Mountains. We are seeking a Leader and Committee Members to organize and coordinate this event. Board Member Bob Saxby has done this for 12 years. He is no longer able to do this but will help the committee, thus we need a new leader. A course of 75-100 miles has not been identified, yet. The Ride event starts at the Fair Grounds – 4H Building with Registration. Goals of the ATV Committee are to identify the route path; seek sponsors, donations/ contributions; marketing/promotion; seek volunteers to staff the sign-in, trail checkpoints, and poker drawing. We are also seeking easy food (simple breakfast, BBQ/afternoon food) and beverage station to be at the 4H building. This is an opportunity for a club or organization to fundraise!
The Annual TACC Walleye Festival and Sunrise Tournament is a two-prong event – the actual fishing tournament at the Silos Eagle Loop campground pavilion/boat ramp on Canyon Ferry Lake. The primary activities for the Tournament are at the Pavilion of the Golden Eagle Loop, on the south side of the ramp bay. A committee is already organizing and seeking sponsors, etc. The Committee is needing to address marketing/promotion, volunteers to help with the tournament activities (size/weighing judges, boat monitors and runners); and, vendors are needed at the Pavilion to provide food and beverages. Again, an opportunity for fundraising for a club/organization.
The second prong of the TACC Walleye Festival is the FESTIVAL! Twenty-three years ago, the original Festival/Tournament event activities were in Townsend. Over time and circumstances, the festival part of the event has diminished to nothing in town. The tournament contestants tend to stay in the Silos area. This year we would like to bring the festivities back into town for tournament family members and interested recreationists, tourists, and other potential customers. We are seeking a Committee Leader to organize the Festival to make this fun event happen! The location has yet to be determined. Potential locations could be the empty lot at the 4-way Stop signs or the pull-off parks like Wi-Fi Park. Other committee needs are to seek sponsors, donations, and booth vendors of all types (TACC will seek outdoor recreation manufacturers – boats, ATVs/Side-by-side, etc.).
We ask that all interested in helping to make these events the best the Townsend Area can be, please get in touch with the TACC Office at 406-266-4101, townsend43chamber@gmail.com or, TACC Cheerman Tim Pool at 406-431-9487, timpool03@yahoo.com.
MORE - Another opportunity is to be active on the TACC Board. The current Board is a hand full of current and past business operators. A small handful of volunteers are trying to do it all. It's clear the effects of the “pandemic” have forced businesses to adjust their engagements, promotions and selling tactics. So must the Chamber. We are seeking those who can assist with Webpage “management”; Facebook promotions; communication with members and the public; marketing; Grant Writing/Donations; volunteer coordination and more. What makes the TACC effective is the identification of our future goals and efforts. New blood/ideas are always necessary to garner new ideas and approaches. You do not need to be a business operator to help. One of the operating forces of TACC is to GUIDE our future, rather than to let things happen. Help GUIDE US to help GUIDE OUR FUTURES in business and the growth of our county.
Can you, WILL YOU, help your community/county, progress through the 21st Century so we may achieve our efforts and goals?
WE NEED YOUR HELP! THANK YOU!
