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Ribbon Cutting at Justine Macfee Interior Design
Please join us for a Ribbon Cutting at Justine Macfee Interior Design, 3534 Golden Gate Way, Lafayette!
Friday, September 12, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
We will cut the ribbon at 4:15pm SHARP.
Register below for a reminder!
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Help us spread the word about the 2025 Lafayette Art & Wine Festival: Sept. 20 & 21 in downtown Lafayette, CA!
The 2025 Lafayette Art & Wine Festival will be held Saturday, September 20, 10:00am-7:00pm and Sunday, September 21, 10:00am-6:00pm in Downtown Lafayette, CA.
Featuring 4 stages with 20+ bands, 250 artist / craft booths, 4 kid zones, wide selection of California varietals and craft beers, local dining + shopping! Free Admission. Take BART to the Festival!
Beautiful downtown Lafayette is a short walk from BART (Lafayette Station), just off the Central Lafayette exit of Highway 24, and convenient to local bike trails. Insider tip: park at any BART station and take BART to the Lafayette Station! Free Festival parking is available in the BART Lafayette Station parking lots with an easy walk or free shuttle ride to the Festival. Complimentary bike valet is located at 81 Lafayette Circle.
View music schedule and learn more at https://lafayettefestival.com
Produced by the Lafayette Chamber. Presenting sponsors include BMW, City of Lafayette, Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa, Mechanics Bank, and Pacific Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital.
Sign up for updates on the official site: https://lafayettefestival.com and follow us on social media at @lafayettefestival #lafayettefestival
Press Release, Calendar Entry, Media Assets, Social Media links - CLICK HERE.
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“From acorn to oak tree, Lafayette is age friendly.”
Our community prioritizes creating indoor and outdoor spaces that respect and embrace residents of all ages and abilities, providing accessible, affordable, and fun activities for all generations to feel valued. This year's t-shirt was designed by Eden Hall and inspired by the City of Lafayette’s commitment to be age friendly.
T-Shirt Designer Spotlight:
Eden Hall is a sophomore at Princeton University and Vice President of All Ages Recreation Downtown (AARD), a nonprofit bringing free recreation to Downtown Lafayette while raising money for two new parks. She loved attending Lafayette schools and graduated Acalanes in 2024. Her childhood downtown was the driving force behind her decision to study Architecture and Urban Studies with the goal to create walkable, vibrant, accessible, and age-friendly cities. In her free time, she is an Army ROTC cadet and on Princeton's Belly Dancing Company.
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Lafayette Res Run for Education Healthy Lifestyles Fair
Spaces are filling up quickly to participate as a vendor or nonprofit in the Lafayette Res Run for Education Healthy Lifestyles Fair!
The Healthy Lifestyles Fair takes place on race day, October 19, 7:30 am to 10:30 am, on Lafayette Circle next to the Start/Finish line. Cost is $150 for vendors and $75 for nonprofits to reserve a 10x10 space to set up and promote your business and healthy opportunities for racers, their families, and friends.
Current vendors participating in the Healthy Lifestyles Fair:
You can find more information regarding the registration as a vendor in the Healthy Lifestyles Fair on our Chamber website here.
Questions about the Healthy Lifestyles Fair? Please contact Director of Membership Engagement, Kate Mason, via email: kate@lafayettechamber.org.
| | Learn more about Sponsorship and Vendor Opportunities HERE. | | WELCOME OUR NEW CHAMBER MEMBERS | | |
The following businesses/organizations recently joined the Lafayette Chamber! We encourage you to visit their website to learn more.
MW Design Strategy
Mary Wilder
Lafayette, CA
I help organizations build better customer experiences through design thinking.
Categories: Business & Professional Services
Pet Food Express
3610 Mount Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA
Based in the Bay Area, Pet Food Express offers healthy foods, treats, toys, and supplies for pet parents across California. With a variety of well-known favorites, under-the radar finds, and quality brands, we’ve curated everything you need to help your pets live healthy and happy lives. At the heart of it, our company wants to keep pets in loving homes and help adoptable animals. Throughout the year, our annual fundraisers raise over $1 million that goes to supporting animals in need. This means we’re able to help feed over 51,000 homeless animals a year!
Categories: Pets & Veterinary, Shopping & Specialty Retail
Floor Coverings International
1341 Galaxy Way, Unit E, Concord, CA 94520
Asit Modha
Categories: Construction & Contractors
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THANK YOU to our
RENEWING CHAMBER MEMBERS
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The following members renewed their Lafayette Chamber membership 9/2-7/2025.
Bay Area Festivals, member since 2015
Dream Big Construction, member since 2018
Monument Crisis Center, member since 2010
Wells Fargo Bank, member since 1965 **60 YEARS!**
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Celebrating 5 Years with the Lafayette Chamber!
Emerson Grace Design provides full-service interior design and has been based in Lafayette for over 10 years. Their firm supports Lafayette businesses and sees their membership in the Lafayette Chamber as essential both to the health of their business but also to our local community.
📷: Stefanie Cannizzo (Owner), second from left, and the Emerson Grace Design Team
📞: (925) 954-7331
📍: 3620 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549
🌐: www.emersongracedesign.com
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Ribbon Cutting at Justine Macfee Interior Design
Friday, September 12, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lafayette Chamber Nonprofit Network at Creekside Commons
Thursday, October 2, 8:30am - 11:00am
Lafayette Business Women at Collab Fertility
Wednesday, October 8, 8:45am - 10:00am
Ribbon Cutting at Lamorinda Gynecology and Surgery
Wednesday, October 8, 5:30pm
Lafayette Chamber Connectors at Creekside Commons
Wednesday, October 15, 8:15am-9:30am
Ribbon Cutting at CrossWaterCreek Outfitters
Wednesday, October 15, 4:00pm
Lafayette Chamber Young Professionals at Abio Properties
Thursday, October 16, 5:30pm-7:00pm
"Coffee" with City of Lafayette Mayor Susan Candell
Friday, October 24, 8am
➡ Lafayette Chamber Events Calendar ⬅
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Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
28th Annual Lafayette Art & Wine Festival, the 3rd weekend in September, September 20 & 21, 2025!
Thank you to our recently paid vendors:
Macrame Atelier - Local Artist
Our Home Green Home - Local Artist
Pet Food Express - Commercial Vendor
Wolf Renovations - Commercial Vendor
📌 Lafayette Art & Wine Festival needs volunteers! It's takes hundreds of volunteers to put on the Lafayette Art & Wine Festival! Details to volunteer here.
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A Big Thank You to Our Volunteers and Community Partners!!
We kicked off festival season with an incredible weekend of prep — and it wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing volunteers. From assembling and staging A-frames for detours, transporting water jugs, taking inventory, laminating, setting up event-only parking, hand-delivering letters to our downtown businesses with parking and load-in instructions (and more!) … your teamwork set the stage for success. We are truly grateful for your time, energy, and commitment to making Lafayette shine.
A huge shout-out to Alissa, Ally, Bill, Brody, Dan, Griselda, Jay, Matt, Mike, Mo, Reid, Scott, Terry, Todd, Tom, Travis, Wendy, Will, and Yolanda — plus our Chamber staff and ambassadors who joined in — for an incredible festival kickoff weekend! 🙌
Special thanks to Diablo Foods, Safeway, and JV Lucas Paving for supplies, to Mike for the delicious BBQ, and to Wendy for the homemade cookies that kept everyone fueled. 💪✨
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Lafayette’s Trick or Treat Street
Lafayette’s Trick or Treat Street – Registration is now open to downtown Lafayette Chamber member businesses for Trick or Treat Street 2025!
Event date: Friday, October 24, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm.
For a fun, safe Halloween event, children and their parents are invited to Trick-or-Treat on Mt. Diablo Blvd. from Lafayette Plaza to Dewing Ave, Lafayette Circle and in La Fiesta Square from 4:00pm - 6:00pm on Friday, October 24, 2025. Start and finish anywhere on the map! This event is free for everyone and recommended for children 9 and under. Come in costume! Don’t forget to bring your Trick-or-Treat bag.
Stay in town for dinner!
Find fun family-friendly events in the Plaza, too!
All participating businesses will display a “Trick-or-Treat Poster.”
Click here to fill out the form: https://lafayettechamber.org/trick-or-treat
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Trinity Center is Hiring Their Next Executive Director
Lead. Inspire. Expand Opportunity.
For more than a decade, Trinity Center has been a beacon of dignity, stability, and hope for adults experiencing homelessness and poverty in Contra Costa County. As they look to the future, they are seeking an experienced, courageous, compassionate, and visionary leader to serve as their next Executive Director (ED).
This is a full-time, salaried position with a range of $125,000–$150,000, depending on experience. Trinity Center offers employer-subsidized health benefits, dental, vision, and life insurance. The role requires regular in-person presence at our Walnut Creek center (minimum 3 days/week), with occasional evening or weekend events.
To apply, please send a single PDF that includes your resume and cover letter to: EDJob@TrinityCenterWC.org. Read the full description here.
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Transition to By-Trustee Area Election System
The Acalanes Union High School District will host an informational meeting for questions and answers on September 10 from 5:30 - 6:15 p.m. at the Del Valle Education Center, Rm. 401, located at 1963 Tice Valley Blvd, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. The meeting will be a hybrid Zoom meeting, allowing for community members to view and ask questions remotely. Meeting Zoom link. Learn more, view draft map and ways to comment or provide feedback on this page.
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City of Lafayette: The Weekly Roundup
This week’s updates from City Manager, Niroop Srivatsa highlight:
- We Need Your Expertise! Join a City Advisory Body
- Donate to the Food Bank as part of our #BeKind21 Challenge
- Last Chance: Call for Artists – Deadline for Fall Exhibits is September 15
- Does Your Household Have a Plan If You Have to Leave Quickly Due to a Wildfire?
- We Are Hiring
- Police Department Statistics for August
- City Council Meeting Monday Night
- Coffee with the Cops Next Saturday
- Roadwork Advisories
➡ Sign up to receive City notifications: Sign up for meeting agendas and Lafayette’s publications at bit.ly/LafayetteNotifications. Also, find out how to follow the City of Lafayette on social media at https://www.lovelafayette.org/connect.
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Supervisor Candace Andersen Weekly Update
September 5, 2025, Weekly Update
➡️ Contra Costa County Community Impact Fund Town Hall Meetings - Where Should $1 Million be Spent in Our District?
➡️ The East Bay is Going Global
➡️ Mental Health Services Act Three Year Plan Update
➡️ Lafayette Art & Wine Festival
➡️ FREE Prostate Cancer Screening Event
➡️ The Library Foundation's Free Repair Cafe Event
➡️ Contra Costa Health Launches Mobile Clinics at Local Colleges
➡️ Volunteer Opportunities
Sign up for Weekly Updates here.
Contra Costa County Community Impact Fund Town Hall Meetings - Where should $1 Million be spent in District 2?
You're invited to join Supervisor Andersen for a series of town hall meetings to learn more about Contra Costa County’s Community Impact Fund and to provide your input about where $1 Million should be spent in the Lamorinda, San Ramon Valley and Walnut Creek communities in District 2.
Come share your feedback and ask questions.
Wednesday, September 10 – Walnut Creek, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Parkmead Elementary School
Monday, September 15 – San Ramon Valley, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Danville Community Center
Wednesday, September 24 – Lamorinda, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lafayette Veterans Hall
Additional information and how to RSVP to a session coming soon.
Measure X Community Advisory Board - Alternate Seat
Supervisor Andersen is looking for an individual from the Lamorinda Area who represents broad and diverse voices and perspectives to fill the District 2 Alternate Seat. To be considered for this seat, candidates must either live or work in District 2. The Measure X Community Advisory Board currently meets quarterly.
Measure X is a countywide 20-year, ½ cent sales tax approved by Contra Costa County voters on November 3, 2020. Collection of the tax began on April 1, 2021. The ballot measure language stated that the intent of Measure X is “to keep Contra Costa’s regional hospital open and staffed; fund community health centers, emergency response; support crucial safety-net services; invest in early childhood services; protect vulnerable populations; and for other essential county services.”
To learn more about the Measure X Advisory Body visit click here.
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Highlight Your Chamber Membership!
Showcase your Lafayette Chamber membership on your website or marketing materials with the official Chamber logo! Simply email your request to info@lafayettechamber.org.
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