11/24/2009 CHAMBER FESTIVAL 2009
The Chamber of Commerce and participating members have invited the public to join them for the Chamber Festival – a week long celebration that will be sure to put everyone in the holiday mood.
The Chamber of Commerce kicked off their week of activities and promotions on Sunday, November 22nd with a Holiday Craft Market from 1 – 6 p.m. at No. 6 Shed featuring: plants, holiday crafts, jams, mini donuts, gourmet food items, art, cigars and jewelry. There will be a kiddie area outside complete with face painting, a large slide and Fun-castle. Dangelini’s served coffee, tea and baked goodies and both Gosling’s and Barritt’s provided samples of their products.
Retail, restaurant and hotel employees, together with members of the Chamber’s Executive Board and BEPRO were pitted against each other in wacky relay races down Front Street, with the entertaining Bruce Barritt acting as the afternoon’s “Wacky MC.” The Mayor of Hamilton, President and Executive Vice President of the Chamber and heads of both the Retail and Restaurant Division were on hand to welcome those in attendance.
At the end of the evening and during the week until Nov. 26th the public are being encouraged to dine out at our participating member restaurants around the island offering tantalizing price fixed 3 course dinner menus; $29 for casual dining: $49 for fine dining. Participating restaurants include Bacci, Barracuda Grill, Beau Rivage, Bouchee, Flanagan’s, Fourway’s Inn, Freeport Seafood, Frog & Onion, Heritage Court, Hog Penny, La Trattoria, Latin, Pickled Onion, Veranda Bar and Waterlot Inn. For a list of the menus on offer refer to the attached.
To close out the week from Nov. 27th – 28th, there will be a Chamber Shopping Festival during which time retailers in Hamilton will be offering in store activities and promotions to include discounts, wine & rum cake tastings, book signings, demonstrations, caricature artists, mystery gifts and cookies for the kids. Examples of some of those retailers offering their customers a little extra this year include the Bermuda Bookstore, Carole Holding Studios, Frameworks Gallery, Foreign Cargo, Gibbons, AS Coopers, Brown & Co., Pulp & Circumstance, Daisy n Mac, Irish Linen Shop, Gosling’s and M3Wireless. Stores will be open until 9 p.m. for Friday Late Night Shopping which traditionally coincides with the Corporation of Hamilton’s Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and Santa’s arrival down Reid Street on the fire truck, as he makes way to the Phoenix for “photos with Santa.”
To provide customers with even more incentive to shop in stores during this time, 14 of our restaurants members have partnered with our retail members to offer $10 dining vouchers for every $100 spent at participating merchants. Consumers will have until Dec. 3rd to redeem them.
Participating restaurants include Bacci, Barracuda Grill, Bouchee, Flanagan’s, Fourway’s Inn, Freeport Seafood, Frog & Onion, Heritage Court, Hog Penny, La Trattoria, Latin, Pickled Onion, Waterlot Inn.
Participating Retailers include: A.S. Cooper Main Store, All Wrapped Up, Annex Toystore, Bermuda Bookstore, Brown & Company, Carole Holding Studio, Daisy & Mac, This week is the Chamber’s way of saying thank you, we hear you, we are working together for you and want to help put the HO HO HO back into your Christmas shopping. All we ask is that you support your community and shop locally!
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