
Our Mission: To market and strengthen our business, while enhancing quality of life in our community.
What is the chamber?
The Chamber is member-driven and professionally staffed. Our role in the community is to support businesses and their employees. The Chamber is made up of businesses from many industries and many sizes, as well as associations, non-profits and individuals. Our strength lies in our diversity and our commitment to each other. Our members work collectively to accomplish what no one business or individual could accomplish. The Chamber advocates on behalf of business-to-business and person-to-person networking, collective marketing and social opportunities between members. The Chamber offers training, seminars and consulting for growth-oriented businesses. We answer questions and provide information to and about the community and the success of members.
For the resident, the Chamber is a reliable source of community information and a dependable resource of business referrals. For detailed information about Ontario, visit us on the Internet at www.ontariochamber.com. General information and business referrals are also available by telephone (541) 889-8012 or toll free (866) 989-8012 during office hours Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce is located at 876 SW 4th Avenue, and it is stocked with a wide variety of brochures, maps and information about our city. We welcome visits from business people, residents and tourists alike. Our Chamber Ambassadors help with grand openings and ribbon cuttings for new businesses.
The Chamber holds a weekly Chamber Forum Luncheon, so our members are up-to-date on what is happening in our community.
What does the chamber do?
• Advocacy for Individual Businesses
• Advocacy for Area Businesses
• Business-to-Business Networking Opportunities
• Economic Development
• Events
• Individual Networking Opportunities
• Point of Contact for Business Development
• Recognition
• Training/Seminars
Ontario Gold Sustaining Members
• Holy Rosary Medical Center
Ontario Sustaining Members
• Albertson’s Food Center
• Argus Observer
• Idaho Power
• Intermountain Community Bank
• Jiffy Lube Lifeways
• Lifeways
• Names & Numbers
• Red Apple Marketplace
• Treasure Valley Community College
• TQ Properties
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CARTER, BETTY – BOARD CHAIR
Snake River Correctional Facility
HALL, JOHN – BOARD CHAIR ELECT
Northwest Farm Credit Services
HEMENWAY, SandY – TREASURER
Intermountain Community Bank
QUINN, BOB
Holiday Inn
BLACKABY, DEBBIE
Blackaby Insurance
BREWER, TIM
Ontario First Church of Nazarene
BUCHANAN, MARY
Holy Rosary Medical Center
JEFFRIES, DALE
KSRV
LAWSON, PETER
Southeast Oregon Reg. Food Bank
McCLEAN, GREG
MENDIOLA, STEVE
Farmers Supply Co-op
SHIMOJIMA, andY
Argus Observer
SMITH, ROGER
Cairo Self Storage
CHAMBER STAFF
BREIDENBACH, JOHN – PRESIDENT, CEO
Crystal Bartoschek-Receptionist/Secretary
Kathy Hoch-Secretary Dawn Talbott-Office Coordinator