Member Marketplace - Highlighting Chamber of Commerce Businesses

Thank you for supporting the

Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce!

This WEEKLY email highlights our member businesses!

To make a submission for Member Marketplace,

please email tom@gpchamber.com.

If you missed our Tuesday CHAMBER NEWS, you can see it here.

Connecting Business. Creating Opportunity.

Ballad still has a few seats available for our Free Supply Chain Management Training Program starting April 6 and continuing through August 20th. This includes 12 weeks of classroom training followed by an 8 week work experience placement.

For more information and to apply, please go to balladgroup.ca

Alternatively, you can contact Lori Wolsey, Program Coordinator at lwolsey@balladgroup.ca

Grande Prairie Region Destination Properties

Spring Promotion

Check out our hotels for a chance to win!

Encore Inn & Suites, Sandman Hotel, Service Plus Inn

Grand Prize is $5,000 2nd Prize is $3,000 and 3rd Prize is $2,000

Contest closes April 30, 2021

Upcoming Webinar

Basics & beyond ~ Personal income tax deductions & credits

Thursday, April 1, 2021 | 11 AM | WEBINAR

In this 60 minute webinar, Vartika will share insight and considerations for individuals, sole proprietors and business owners when filing 2020 personal taxes including:

Information about income that needs to be reported; deductions and credits available to be claimed on 2020 income tax and benefit return.
Changes from the COVID-19 pandemic (for 2020 only) and the tax implications on different forms of support received from the government.
Personal tax deadlines, penalties and interest charged on failure to report income as well various ways to make payments to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
A look at personal tax rates for various income levels.
CRA scams, how to spot them and understand what the CRA will and will not do.

Speaker: Vartika Satija, CPA, CA

We're here to help.

Chat with our small business experts and get some valuable advice along the way.

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK CELEBRATION

APRIL 18 TO 24, 2021

National Volunteer Week is celebrated every year to recognize and thank volunteers for the time and energy they contribute to causes that benefit our community. National Volunteer Week is also an opportunity to promote the benefits of volunteering to individuals and society.

The Grande Prairie Volunteer Services Bureau (GPVSB) is partnering with the City of Grande Prairie to celebrate National Volunteer Week. This year’s theme is “The Value of One. The Power of Many.” We invite individuals, groups, organizations, not-for-profits and charities to join us virtually throughout the week on social media to celebrate the vibrancy and impact of volunteerism in our community and across the region.

This year’s celebration will feature various online activities that include ‘Volunteer Shout Outs’ from the community, volunteer interviews, a special GPVSB National Volunteer Week Newsletter covering the week, a scavenger hunt in collaboration with Grande Prairie Regional Tourism and much more.

We encourage everyone who would like to participate in honouring our volunteer community to send us a volunteer shout out video or message. These “shout outs” (video and/or written) need to be into Brian Carter (communications@volunteerrgp.com) by 9:00 am, Monday, April 5, 2021. The video “Shout Outs” would be no more than 30 seconds in duration. The written “Shout Outs” should be brief but we haven’t identified an actual word limit so there is some flexibility. For information on making your submission visit https://www.volunteergp.com/events/national-volunteer-week.

The National Volunteer Week scavenger hunt will start on April 18 and end at midnight on April 24, with great prizes to be won. More details on the scavenger hunt will be available closer to National Volunteer Week at https://www.cityofgp.com/events.