Business Expo, Free Shredding & Glendale Tech Week

The Foothills Community Business Expo is just around the corner on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. At the Expo you find many businesses from La Crescenta, Montrose and La Cañada Flintridge sharing with you the services that they offer. This is a great networking opportunity for anyone who owns a business in the area to stop by and mingle with other business owners and talk with community members who have stopped in to see the Expo. We will also have free food from several local restaurants in the area for you to sample and enjoy while you walk around. Another highlight of the event is that there will be free shredding services available in the lower hospital lot. This service is being provided by Republic Services and SCORE of Greater Los Angeles to anyone who wants to come by. Don’t miss this free chance to get rid of all that stuff you keep accumulating in boxes in your office and get them shredded today. You don’t even have to get out of your car. You just get into the line and pull your car up to the truck and Glendale Police Dept. Explorers will take all the document boxes out of the car for you. The documents will be shredded while you wait! It doesn’t get any easier than that!

Glendale Tech Week begins Wednesday, Sept. 14 and continues through Saturday, Sept. 17 ending at the Glendale Open Arts and Music Festival. Tech Week is a four-day technology festival for entrepreneurs, tech visionaries and thought leaders to meet and enable the innovation ecosystem across the globe. The City of Glendale wanted to capitalize on the large number of technology-driven companies in the city. Tech Week draws attendees that are an attractive demographic ideal for recruiters and marketers alike. The focus is on graphic design, animation, media software development, illustration, web technology, intellectual discussion, web development, professional networking, entrepreneurship, visual effects, civic engagement, venture capital, technology startups, digital journalism and much more.

Throughout the four-day event there will be many programs and venues for you to attend: Building Mobile Apps and Web Experiences for Consumer Audiences hosted by YP, Innovations in Healthcare, Mobile First hosted by Legal Zoom, Innovations in Engineering and Education hosted by GCC, New Media Landscape hosted by MGN Five Star Cinema, Space Matters: How Design Fosters Community & Innovation hosted by Space 134, and Vincent Bradley: How to Leverage Crowdfunding for Your Fundraiser. You can find out all of the details at glendaletechweek.com.

Please join us for our Oktoberfest kick-off mixer at Citibank in Montrose from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 2350 Honolulu Ave. There will be bratwurst, sauerkraut and potato salad provide by Schreiner’s Fine Sausages and Samuel Adams Oktoberfest beer poured. This mixer is always a lot of fun and is one of the largest we have throughout the year. Then please join us on Oct. 1 for the 39th Annual Oktoberfest in Montrose from noon to 11 p.m. For all the details follow us on Facebook or log onto www.montroseoktoberfest.com.

Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce: Your source for all things local! Our mission is to actively support and enrich the community, vitality and pride of Montrose, to help preserve the historic district and small town atmosphere, to promote economic stability and positive, productive relationships within Montrose and the surrounding communities.

Upcoming Events
Foothills Community Business Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital council rooms, fourth floor, 1812 Verdugo Blvd. Glendale 91208.
Oktoberfest kick-off mixer on Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Citibank Montrose, 2350 Honolulu Ave. in Montrose.
Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 1 from noon to 11 p.m. in the 2200, 2300, 2400 blocks of Honolulu Avenue in Montrose.

  melinda clarke