Status of this year’s Small Business Week Gala still uncertain

The status of this year’s Tofield and District Chamber of Commerce gala is still uncertain, although it’s now too late to hold it during Small Business Week.

At the Chamber’s Oct. 7 monthly meeting, chair Calvin Andringa announced

that “the gala has been postponed indefinitely,” explaining there were not enough people to run the event’s organizing committee and prepare for the original date set for the event of Oct. 16.

This would have put the gala in place during Small Business Week. The event has picked up in popularity over the past couple of years with dinner and entertainment at the Community Hall.

But Tamara Gacek said she and two other members were willing to do the organizing, even if the event is held at some later date.

Gacek said she “wanted to clarify there are volunteers willing to do that,” but … for more see the Oct. 13/15 Mercury