What an OH-vent

See what I did there? I replaced the E in event with an OH for Oak Harbor? Yeah, the Chamber can really humor itself, we are sort of like a dog just discovering it's tail.

But who doesn't love a dog that can do tricks? Because the Chamber may have finally found one that can satisfy a lot of people. We brought in this fantastic Comedian this weekend (see: Keith Barany) and had a great crowd over at the Elks Lodge, now it was about 100 people, but that is 100 people in Oak Harbor who can't complain about "Nothing ever to do" when speaking of the city. Plus, we are fairly certain that those 100 people had an awesome time and will go home and tell their friends and family what a great night out they had!

This brings me to my next point, the Chamber loves putting on events and various other things and "doings" in and for the city of Oak Harbor. A bit of positive attitude goes a long way towards making some fun events happen. Because of the success of this weekends event we are now looking forward (and upward) to doing more events like this. If you ever have a suggestion on an act we might be able to bring in to satisfy the following we'd appreciate the suggestions: a) getting the people of Oak Harbor involved, b) get the Navy families involved, and c) get our fair citizens to stop using the phrase "There's never anything to do in Oak Harbor."

Right now we are looking at an awesome band by the name of Perry Acker, they a band out of Western Washington. It's one of those "I heard from a friend who heard from a friend" and introduced the Chamber to their sound. Now we are seeing what we can do about bringing them up to do a show. These are the type of introductions and ideas we'd love to hear, from us and from you!

Maybe our ideas will create the next South by Southwest (SXSW) concert, or the next Cannes. Maybe it won't do either of those, but will create an event that the whole city, Island, and region will love. The fact remains we don't know until we try. If it fails, then at least we tried to do something different and fun.

I, for one, will never stop trying to get more people involved, and to get more people to have a good time in this city, for one it is my job, but on the other hand, people are just more enjoyable to live with when they are satisfied with everything in their life, and if creating new events is what we have to do, then gall darn it, we're going to.