By Kelly Wells
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
The Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce is about people with vision working together to accomplish more than individually possible. The Chamber, and our community, succeeds when you succeed.
Congratulations and kudos to all who worked together on the downtown tree-lighting project. Who knew that lighting trees in April would be such a challenge! Apparently tree lights are not easily found after the holiday season.
But thanks to the persistence of John Weiss of Coast Electronics, lights were found, thanks to Woody Wordsworth, electric boxes were repaired, and a team including members of Rotary, Eco-Rotary, the Guerrilla Gardeners, and Morro Bay in Bloom installed and re-hung lights on the trees in the Downtown area.
The Morro Bay Chamber would especially like to recognize and thank our local Rotary Clubs and the following businesses who each contributed at least $35 towards the purchase of lights:
Main Street: The Bike Shop, Grandma’s Yogurt, Legends/Fuel Dock, Ruby Dragon, Summer Cottage, Top Dog Coffee, and Coalesce Book Store.
Morro Bay Boulevard: Mike’s Barber Shop, Founders Community Bank, Ciano Realty, Castaways and Castaway’s 2, Aloha Shirt Shop, Mikkleson’s Antiques, John Ramos Gallery, Beads by the Bay, Queen’s Closet, Bayrock Property Management, Christine Johnson, and Don Maruska.
Well done and much appreciation to all who contributed their time and their money for the betterment of our community!
We have a trio of new members — House of JuJu, 945 Embarcadero, Harborview RV Park, 1078 Monterey Ave., and Atascadero North Morro Church, 330 Panay St.
And several businesses have renewed their memberships — DiStasio’s, The Historical Society of Morro Bay, Pleasant Inn, Cookie Crock, Patterson Realty, Pacific Heating & Sheet Metal, Rock Solid Plumbing, HB Design, Back Bay Inn, French Hospital Lab Draw Station, Dean and Carol McGougan, Central Coast Optometric Center, CCAD, Art Center of Morro Bay and the Embarcadero Inn.
Please take the time to visit and support these businesses. Our community thrives when you shop locally and make Morro Bay a better place, inside and out!
Kelly Wells is the executive director of the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber office is at 695 Harbor St., (805) 772-4467, see: www.morrobay.org for more on the Chamber.
Editor’s Note: This column was submitted a couple of weeks ago and was inadvertently not placed in the April 16 newspaper. It was also submitted before Kelly Wells left the chamber’s employ, which was announced Tuesday with the following:
“The Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce is seeking a new Director to be in charge of the Chamber administration and membership, upon the departure of Kelly Wells, who served in the position since 2014. For information about the job requirements and applications, please call the Chamber office at 772-4467 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.