Our Town

Thank you for Supporting Mt. Angel's Flower Basket Project:

Abiqua Hop Farms
Pepsi Northwest
Benedictine Sisters
Edelweiss Condominium
Association
Mt. Angel Chiropractic Clinic
4B Farms
Butsch Insurance
GEM Equipment
Unger Funeral Chapel
Silver Spur RV Park in Silverton
Highland Labs
Virgil Peters Family
Gert Borschowa
Maureen Ernst
Jerry and Connie Lauzon
Dave and Mary Kohler
Pete Wall
Michael Dewey
Bochslers Hardware
A+ Computer Works
Randall Adams
Mt Angel Phone Co.
Grant Company
Plush Brush
Eder's Tender Care
Mt. Angel Community Center
Happy Garden
Mt. Angel Drug
Mt. Angel Auto Parts
Mt. Angel Family Medicine
Wells Fargo Bank

Dear Chamber Members, Businesses, Friends and Neighbors,
Once again it is time to imagine spring and summer and the beautiful flower baskets and boxes that line the streets of Mt. Angel.

Your support for this project is vital and we thank our valued sponsors who have supported this city beautification project in the past. To our new supporters, “Welcome Aboard!”  With your contributions, we will once again be lining the streets and decorating the buildings with our colorful flowering beauties. This year should be more spectacular than ever.

Please send the enclosed form with your check to the Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce by May 1st . Baskets and boxes will be hung and filled on June 3rd.

Thank you in advance for being a proud sponsor of  the Flower Basket Program.

Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce
Flower Basket Committee Members

Mary Kohler and Kathy Wall
Mount Angel in Bloom 2011

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Dear Friends of Oktoberfest,
Today begins the first full week of voting for BEST OF THE MID-VALLEY.

Mount Angel Oktoberfest has been nominated in 11 categories. We all know how great Oktoberfest is; help us get the word out to our neighbors in the Mid-Valley.

It is easy to vote. Click on the BEST OF THE MID-VALLEY logo. It takes you to http://community.statesmanjournal.com/bestof2012.

You will find Oktoberfest under the Entertainment Category:
Best Place to Dance - Oktoberfest
Best Live Music – Mount Angel Oktoberfest
Best Family Attraction - Oktoberfest
Best Free Activity - Oktoberfest
Best Place to taste wine - Oktoberfest
Best Annual Event - Oktoberfest
Best Place to take out of town guests - Oktoberfest
Best Wedding venue - Mount Angel Festhalle
Best Use of Social Media – Mount Angel Oktoberfest

And, under the Recreation Category:
Best Place to Volunteer – Mount Angel Oktoberfest
Best Running event – Oktoberfest 5K

Vote every day, once a day from now until April 8, 2012.

Dear Chamber Members - The Virtue First Conference is outstanding for your business. If you would like more information, contact Coach Traeger directly.
Your Mt. Angel Chamber board of directors

As we are getting closer to the Virtue First Conference coming up June 16th , I am writing to ask if you could get ten of your closest friends, family, or relatives to attend the conference. The format and line-up of presenters this year is the best ever and with the shortened format they will only have to give up a half of a precious Saturday. Heck, they might be so inspired by the conference that they get three times as many things done on what remains of their day! But seriously, they will thank you over and over for turning them onto the conference.

Thanks so much!
Coach Traeger The Virtue First Foundation
(503)910-2072 210 Zollner Ln./Mt. Angel, OR 97362
http://www.virtuefirst.org/

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MOUNT ANGEL OKTOBERFEST VOTED BEST ANNUAL EVENT

Mount Angel. More than six hundred thousand votes were cast in the Statesman Journal’s 2012 search for the Best of the Mid Valley. Oktoberfest in Mount Angel earned seven Gold Medals – Best Annual Event, Best Family Attraction, Best Free Activity, Best Place to Dance, Best Live Music, Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests and Best Use of Social Media.

The festival was also awarded 3 Silver Medal in the categories Best Place to Volunteer, Best Running Event (Oktoberfest Fun Run) and Best Wedding Venue for the new Festhalle.

The wines of Oktoberfest garnered a Bronze Medal for Best Place to Taste Wine in the Mid-Valley.

This was a sweep of all eleven categories for which the festival was nominated. Chris Bischoff, Oktoberfest President said, “No other organization, business or event received as much recognition as did Oktoberfest in Mount Angel. We thank our many friends and fans for their support of our festival.”

GRAND OPENING
Saturday, April 28 10 AM ‘til 3 PM

The Elaine M. Annen Doll Museum, located in the Mount Angel Festhalle (OktoberfestBiergarten) will open to the general public on the first and third Fridays and the second and fourth Saturdaysof the month, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The first open day is this Saturday, April 28.

If you have not had the opportunity to see this small exquisite doll museum, here is your opportunity. Take your children, grandchildren or the neighbor’s kids, and all the adults in your clan - they will love it.

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We are at it again, playing a 100 hole Golf Marathon to benefit the youth at Fr. Bernard Youth Center. This is a very critical component in our annual budget and has allowed us to continue expanding our outreach to teens to more than 3000 visitors in 2012. We can not do it without YOU! Your support has changed young lives and given a renewed perspective to many seeking the right path for their life. Properly grounded teens will be solid decision makers in our society in just a few short years.

It is remarkable how much can be accomplished with young people in even just a weekend without cell phones, laptops, game systems, music devices and all of the other technologies that take their attention away from God.

Help us please!
Will you sponsor me $5, $4, $3, $2 or $1 per hole for this 100 hole event?

I have sponsored myself $2 per hole this year. Will you please join me at an amount you can afford, and if possible, like mine, even if it makes you a little uncomfortable.

Our slight feeling of discomfort is soon replaced by a feeling that comes from helping others who need it. Young people in this day need us as much as at any time in history. Please help us at any amount you can give. Do it today by hitting reply to this message and give me your full name, mailing address, telephone number, pledge amount and email address.

We will not share your information with anyone. We will reply to you with an email to confirm your pledge.

Pledges made may be paid now, especially if you want to cap it at 100 holes. Otherwise, anytime between now and the week after our June 18, 2012 day of golf.

Beloved Bishop Steiner played 141 holes two years ago and 108 holes last year at age 74. I probably could play more than 100, but as an organizer, I tend to stop right at 100 holes and head in to setup for the next segment for our generous golfer fundraisers, each doing as I am, asking for help from colleagues, friends and family to support our great cause!

Would you like to be one of our Golfer Fundraisers or a NON GOLFING FUNDRAISER? Ask me how. It is easy to raise at least $2500 per fundraiser simply by doing as I have done here, asking 50 friends to support my efforts to play 100 holes in a single day. Gifts are 100% eligible for tax deduction.

Don Robison
Executive Director
Fr. Bernard Youth Center
PO Box 790
980 S. Main Street
Mt. Angel, OR 97362
(503) 845-4098
don@fbyc.info
www.fbyc.info

Providing young people a sacred, safe place for prayer and personal growth!
2011 Governor's Volunteer Award for Outstanding Youth Volunteer Program
2010 and 2011 Recipient of the Spirit of Unity Award by the Wholistic Peace Institute

Please consider Fr. Bernard Youth Center in your Will or Estate Plan!Fr. Bernard Youth Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit.