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November 2003 Local News: What’s Happening at BIBA? BIBA Launches Executive Director Search After a year of successful reorganization, BIBA is ready to launch its search for a part-time permanent professional Executive Director. BIBA's Interim Director, Eileen Joseph, will be returning to her business, Full Circle Impact, full-time. For more details, including a job description, go to /Events&News/index.php. Pass it on! Fall/Winter 2003-04 BIBA Guide to Independents The next BIBA Guide is scheduled for release December 1st. Help support the production of this important collaborative marketing tool through the affordable purchase of advertising space in the Guide's new advertising section. The Guide's print and new online versions reach approximately 30,000 Boulder County residents a year. Look for more information online at /MemberBenefits/programs.php. Are You Getting the Most Out of Your BIBA Membership? In addition to supporting an important community value, your membership with BIBA saves you money! Founding Member The Boulder Weekly (303-494-5511) offers discounted advertising space to BIBA members. The Colorado Daily (303-443-6272) also offers discounts in its weekly "Independent Business" centerfold. Are you using your complementary BIBA Community Benefit Card? Do you know about the discounts you can receive from other local businesses? Discounts like internet service and web design, office supplies, printing and copying and dining - that can save your company money? Email Eileen at [email protected] for an updated list of discounts. Are you a BIBA Member? Invest in Boulder's future! Log on to /MemberBenefits/joinnow.php to join BIBA today!

Local Happenings Will Boulder's New City Council be Good for Business?http://coloradodaily.com/articles/2003/11/05/news/news01.txt Call city council members and let them know the important role local businesses play in Boulder's economic sustainabily. City Year-to-Date Sales Tax Collections Still Lag http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/local_business/article/0,1713,BDC_2461_2418412,00.html Will Home Depot Make it to Boulder? Thousands of local residents are engaged in the Orange Wars--an effort to save their home towns from Home Depot. Find out why at http://www.sprawl-busters.com/hometown.html> Local Announcements Aria, a BIBA member who went out of business this Spring, would like to offer the following items to BIBA members: 5'(wide) X 8'(high) X 15"(deep) Oak shelving units with 5 glass shelves. 1 - 1'(deep) X 8'(long) X 40"(tall) Oak storage unit with 4 doors (no back) 2 - 4'(wide) X 24"(deep) X 40"(tall) Oak step showcase units 1 - "antique" showcase approx. 8' long, glass enclosed, no back Price is very negotiable (maybe free!). Call Travis Railey at 303-440-4890 for information. Founding member Mountain Sun Pub celebrates ten years in business with The Pearl Street All-Stars featuring members of The Funky Meters and String Cheese Incident! "A Decade of Funky Good Times" Anniversary bash to benefit KGNU 88.5, Friday, November 21st @ 8:30 pm at the Boulder Theater. Word is Out has moved to a new location! Drop by 2015 10th Street, on the West End of Pearl Street, for books and gifts by, for, and about women. Submit your business news to [email protected].