Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center

06/12/2026

🎉 TOMORROW! 🎉

Join us as we celebrate the Grand Opening of Salon C with an official Chamber Mixer & Ribbon Cutting!

📅 Saturday, June 13
⏰ 1:00 PM
📍 Salon C

Come help us welcome one of Southern Humboldt's newest businesses and celebrate this exciting milestone with an afternoon of fun, community, and connection!

✨ Enjoy:
🎁 Raffle Prizes
🏰 Bounce House
🎉 Grand Opening Celebrations
🤝 Networking & Community Connections

This is a great opportunity to meet fellow community members, support local business, and help give Salon C a warm Southern Humboldt welcome.

Let's come together and show our support for local entrepreneurship and the businesses that help our community thrive!

We look forward to celebrating with you tomorrow!

Hosted by Salon C in partnership with the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center.

06/08/2026

The Best Fireworks Show In All Of Humboldt County Is Back!

Get ready for an unforgettable 4th of July celebration in beautiful Benbow Valley!

Celebrate Independence Day in the scenic Benbow Valley with a full day of outdoor fun, BBQs with friends and family, and time spent enjoying everything that makes summer in Southern Humboldt special. Whether you're tossing a frisbee, playing volleyball, cooling off by the river, or simply relaxing in the sunshine, Benbow Valley is the perfect place to celebrate.

As the day winds down, settle in for the main event—Humboldt County's largest and most spectacular fireworks display!

✨ 2026 is a year unlike any other! ✨

We are celebrating TWO historic milestones:

🏨 The Benbow Inn's 100th Birthday
Join us in celebrating a century of hospitality, history, and memories in the heart of Southern Humboldt.

🗽 America's 250th Birthday
Participate in a once-in-a-generation celebration honoring 250 years of freedom, resilience, and the American spirit.

🎇 Fireworks Begin at Dusk
📅 Date: Saturday, July 4, 2026
📍 Location: Benbow Valley
🚗 Parking: Benbow Valley State Park – $20 per vehicle
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Friendly Event

Join hundreds of friends, neighbors, and visitors for a day filled with community spirit, patriotic pride, and unforgettable memories.

This isn't just another fireworks show—

💥 Humboldt County's premier Independence Day tradition
💥 The biggest and most spectacular fireworks display in the county
💥 A celebration 100 years in the making
💥 America's 250th Birthday celebration
💥 One incredible night bringing our community together

🌟 One Community. Two Historic Milestones. One Epic Night. 🌟

Please help us keep this event safe and beautiful:

✔️ No personal fireworks permitted
✔️ Pack it in, pack it out
✔️ Help us keep Benbow Valley beautiful
✔️ Leave pets at home if they are sensitive to fireworks

Mark your calendars, invite your family and friends, and join us in Benbow Valley on July 4th!

06/02/2026

69th Annual Garberville Rodeo Parade
Celebrating America’s 250th in True Southern Humboldt Style!

Get ready for one of Southern Humboldt’s most beloved traditions as the Garberville Rodeo Parade returns to Downtown Garberville on Saturday, June 27!

Join us as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday with horses, classic cars, community groups, local businesses, fire departments, and hometown pride filling the streets. Whether you're riding, marching, rolling, or waving from the sidelines, this is your chance to be part of the celebration.

Parade Details
📅 Saturday, June 27
⏰ Lineup: 10:00 AM
🎉 Parade Begins: 11:00 AM
📍 Downtown Garberville

No Entry Fee for Fire Departments

Award Categories Include:
• Best Youth Group
• Best Horse
• Best Organization
• Best Business
• Best At Large
• Best Classic Car

We're calling on our amazing community to show up big and help make this year's parade one to remember. Gather your friends, family, business, club, team, or organization and join the fun!

Entry forms are available at the Chamber office or online at www.garberville.org.

For more information:
📞 (707) 923-2613
📧 [email protected]

We're calling on our amazing community to show up in a big way and help make this year's parade one to remember. Gather your friends, family, business, club, team, or organization and join the fun!

05/29/2026

Summer Strawberry Soirée
Chamber Mixer & Ribbon Cutting

Join us for an evening of community, connection, and celebration at My Humboldt Abode as we officially welcome and celebrate this beautiful Southern Humboldt business.

Enjoy:
🍓 Fresh summer strawberries
🍷 Redway Cellars wine
🎶 Live music
🥖 Catering by Il Forno Bakery
🏏 Croquet on the lawn
✂️ Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: My Humboldt Abode
33 Beach Road, Redway, CA 95560

Come meet fellow business owners, community members, and friends while enjoying a relaxing summer evening in one of Southern Humboldt's most beautiful settings.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

05/27/2026

Join the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center as we celebrate the Grand Opening of Salon C with a Chamber Mixer & Ribbon Cutting.

Saturday, June 13th
Ribbon Cutting & Mixer: 1:00 PM

Come help us welcome this exciting new business to Southern Humboldt and enjoy an afternoon of community celebration featuring:

• Raffle prizes
• Bounce house
• Grand opening festivities
• Networking & community connection

Let’s show our support for local businesses and celebrate this exciting new chapter for Salon C. We look forward to seeing you there.

Hosted by Salon C in partnership with the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center

05/20/2026

Today, we’re excited to kick off the Garberville Roundabout Beautification Project — a collaborative community effort between the Southern Humboldt Garden Club and the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center.

This project will bring a new drip irrigation system and drought-tolerant landscaping to the Garberville Roundabout, helping create a more beautiful, sustainable, and welcoming gateway for our community and visitors alike.

A huge thank you goes out to Chautauqua Kitchen & Market for generously donating lunch for our volunteers today. The turkey sandwiches, bananas, and juice are so deeply appreciated and help keep our crew fueled while they work hard to improve our community.

Thank you as well to CalTrans for providing cones and helping keep our volunteers safe while working around the roundabout today. We truly appreciate the support and partnership.

We also want to thank all of the volunteers, community members, and partners helping make this project possible. Community beautification projects like this happen because people care enough to show up and work together.

Special thanks as well to Bill for volunteering his time and expertise to lead the irrigation installation and donate additional materials to support the project.

Southern Humboldt continues to thrive because of collaboration, volunteerism, and community pride — and today is a beautiful example of that in action.

05/19/2026

THANK YOU, SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT

The Inaugural Southern Humboldt Heroes & Leaders Ball
Annual Fireman’s Ball & Chamber Business Awards was officially SOLD OUT — and what an unforgettable evening it was.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered, donated, sponsored, contributed auction items, purchased tickets, and helped make this event such an incredible success for our community.

A truly extraordinary thank-you goes to Greg & Tanya Musgrave, Julia Morgan Redwood Grove, whose generosity helped take this event to an entirely new level. Their commitment to matching funds dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 inspired our community to rally together in an incredible way and dramatically increased the impact of this event.

Because of this amazing community effort, we are proud to announce that we reached the FULL $10,000 matching contribution from Greg & Tanya Musgrave, Julia Morgan Redwood Grove.

We were sitting at approximately $7,800 raised when the Benbow Historic Inn stepped forward and contributed an additional $2,200, bringing us to the full $10,000 match.

That created an incredible $20,000 winning pot for one lucky Volunteer Fire Department.

Congratulations to Salmon Creek Volunteer Fire Department, whose name was drawn as the grand prize winner.

2026 HEROES & LEADERS BALL AWARD WINNERS

✨ Excellence In Community Service
Garberville Rotary

✨ Business Of The Year
Benbow Historic Inn

✨ Person Of The Year
Jim & Marie Johnson

✨ New Business Of The Year
Quint Tax Services Humboldt

✨ Volunteer Of The Year
Jeff Sterling

✨ Non-Profit Organization Of The Year
Healy Senior Center

Each category winner was presented with three awards in recognition of their contributions to the Southern Humboldt community:

• A Certificate of Recognition from the County of Humboldt, presented by Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, 2nd District Humboldt County
• A Certificate of Recognition from the Office of Assemblymember Chris Rogers, presented by Heidi McHugh
• A 2026 Business Award presented by the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce

A special thank you to Supervisor Michelle Bushnell and Heidi McHugh for helping us recognize and celebrate the incredible individuals, businesses, and organizations that help make Southern Humboldt such a special place.

This night would also not have been possible without the extraordinary generosity of our Silent Auction contributors:

• Benbow Historic Inn
• Brass Rail Bar & Grill
• Briceland Vineyards Winery
• Community Cornerstone INC
• Dazey's Building Center Garberville
• Dirtybird Campout x Northern Nights Music Festival
• Fallon Development Inc. | Maple Hills Estate on the Avenue of the Giants
• Farmers Market Gift Basket
• Flurina Niggli, Shiatsu – Bodywork – Mindfulness
• French Ranch Farms
• Gallery and Frames
• Gradin Land Management
• Humboldt Area Foundation
• Felicia Costa, Humboldt Premier Properties, DRE # 02176670
• Lost Coast Bread Company
• Mary Neufeld Designs
• My Humboldt Abode
• NorCal Mechanical
• Redwood Cleaning Services, LLC
• Reggae on the River
• Salon C
• SoftWash 707
• Summer Arts & Music Festival
• Bootleg

📸 A special thank you as well to Jenny Early for beautifully capturing the evening and helping preserve these memories for our community.

Southern Humboldt showed up in a huge way. Thank you for helping us celebrate and support the people, businesses, organizations, and our volunteer fire departments who make this region such a special place.

05/14/2026

SOLD OUT

The Southern Humboldt Heroes & Leaders Ball
Annual Fireman’s Ball & Chamber Business Awards is officially SOLD OUT.

Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets. We are looking forward to seeing you this Saturday, May 16, at the Benbow Historic Inn.

DAY-OF INFORMATION

Doors Open: 5:30 PM
Complimentary Wine Tasting with Briceland Vineyards: 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Dinner by Chef Cecil: 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM
Chamber Business Awards & Fire Department Games Awards: 7:15 PM
Silent Auction Ends: 8:15 PM
Grand Prize Drawing: 8:30 PM
Live Music with The Breakers throughout the evening

Please plan to arrive on time so you can enjoy the wine tasting, dinner, silent auction, awards, and celebration.

✨ Evening Highlights
• Chamber Business Awards Ceremony
• The 5th Annual Fireman’s Ball
• Elegant buffet dinner by Chef Cecil
• Complimentary wine tasting featuring Briceland Vineyards Winery
• Live music by The Breakers
• Silent auction and exclusive items
• Community celebration in support of local volunteer fire departments
• $15 from every ticket goes into the winning pot—and with Greg & Tanya Musgrave and Julia Morgan Redwood Grove’s dollar-for-dollar match, that becomes $30 supporting one Volunteer Fire Department or Technical Rescue team

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT

Greg & Tanya Musgrave and Julia Morgan Redwood Grove will match funds dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 for the winning Volunteer Fire Department or Technical Rescue Team.

A huge thank you to our Silent Auction contributors:

• Benbow Historic Inn
• Brass Rail Bar & Grill
• Briceland Vineyards
• Community Cornerstone
• Dazey’s Building Center
• Dirtybird Campout x Northern Nights Music Festival
• Fallon Development Inc. | Maple Hills Estate on the Avenue of the Giants
• Farmers Market Gift Basket Contributors
• Flurina Niggli, Shiatsu – Bodywork – Mindfulness
• French Ranch Farms
• Gallery and Frames
• Gradin Land Management
• Humboldt Area Foundation
• Humboldt Premier Properties
• Lost Coast Bread Company
• Mary Neufeld Designs
• My Humboldt Abode
• NorCal Mechanical
• Redwood Cleaning Services
• Reggae on the River
• Salon C
• SoftWash 707
• Summer Arts & Music Festival
• The Bootleg

05/13/2026

✔️A reminder for this Thursday at the Mateel.

“We appreciate the community’s patience as we move through this process. This is new territory for Southern Humboldt, and as a Steering Committee, we are committed to learning the process and…

05/09/2026

LOW TICKET ALERT

Tickets are going fast for the Southern Humboldt Heroes & Leaders Ball
Annual Fireman’s Ball & Chamber Business Awards

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the volunteers, businesses, and community leaders who help make Southern Humboldt strong — all while supporting our local volunteer fire departments and technical rescue teams.

Saturday, May 16
Benbow Historic Inn

Doors Open: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM
Wine Tasting with Briceland Vineyards: 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Chamber Business Awards & Fire Department Games Awards: 7:15 PM
Silent Auction Ends: 8:15 PM
Grand Prize Drawing: 8:30 PM
Music with The Breakers Throughout the Evening

✨ Evening Highlights
• Chamber Business Awards Ceremony
• The 5th Annual Fireman’s Ball
• Elegant buffet dinner by Chef Cecil
• Complimentary wine tasting featuring Briceland Vineyards Winery
• Live music by The Breakers
• Silent auction and exclusive items
• Community celebration in support of local volunteer fire departments
• $15 from every ticket goes into the winning pot—and with Greg & Tanya Musgrave and Julia Morgan Redwood Grove’s dollar-for-dollar match, that becomes $30 supporting one Volunteer Fire Department or Technical Rescue team

🎟️ Tickets On Sale Now
Available at the Chamber office, Blue Moon Gifts in Garberville, or online:
https://tinyurl.com/2uer9jy6

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT

Greg & Tanya Musgrave and Julia Morgan Redwood Grove will match donations dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 to benefit the winning Volunteer Fire Department or Technical Rescue Team.

Can’t make it to the show? You can still support the cause.

Donate directly to the winning pot here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6bhfcp

Seating is limited, and tickets are nearly gone. Don’t miss one of Southern Humboldt’s biggest nights of community celebration and support.