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SIP-tember: A Celebration of the Cocktail returns to Pasadena in August, at restaurants and lounges throughout the greater Pasadena area.Once again, cocktails will be matched in a bracket challenge pitting drink against drink. Voting in the first rounds of the SIP-tember Cocktail bracket Challenge is online. The four finalist cocktails square off in a head-to-head competition at the Taste of Pasadena at the Rose Bowl on September 21, 2016.

Fire It Up Barbeque Supports Local Firefighters

Join us Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 11:45am for our Monthly Networking Luncheon Alliance at Brookside Golf Club in the Mediterranean Room at 1133 N. Rosemont Avenue (near the Rose Bowl) in Pasadena.

The San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership is co-hosting a business tax credits workshop with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GoBiz) on Tuesday, July 26^th. The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce is one of the sponsors of the event that will be held at 2 pm in Rosemead at the Rosemead Community Center at 3939 N. Muscatel Ave.

Pasadena's Local Minimum Wage increase Begins Tomorrow - July 1, 2016

New wage applies to businesses with 20 or more employees

The Pasadena Chamber vigorously opposed the local ordinance, and argues that the City should default to the newly imposed State of California minimum wage, but the Pasadena City Council chose to maintain the local ordinance which goes into effect July 1. 2016

Mayor Terry Tornek announced that the City Council has appointed Mr. Steve Mermell as Pasadena’s new City Manager, effective immediately.  Mr. Mermell had been serving as the Interim City Manager since February 15, 2016.