Remarkably, our telephones seem to ring non-stop. We answer dozens of questions daily regarding everything you can imagine: Where’s the DMV? Do we have a hospital? Where’s the court house? Do we have a radio station? Is there a book binder in town? How do they get in touch with the brothels? We are asked for hotel names and numbers; do we have zoning? Can we recommend a realtor? and so on. We give out innumerable phone numbers daily.

We also mail out relocation and visitor packages to people all over the United States. We work closely with the Nevada Commission on Tourism and we handle mailing out of Nevada Silver Trails publications. We reply to information request cards from various magazines and Nevada’s toll free number. It is almost a full-time job just keeping an inventory of publications for distribution. It was interesting for us to learn just recently, that Pahrump gains the second largest leads from Nevada Magazine. Virginia City generates the most leads, just about 40 more than Pahrump!

Our office strives to reach out to our membership and community-at-large in every aspect of a community’s makeup. We work with the education community, the public sector, state and federal legislators, the health community and more. We partner with Nye County School District; the Pahrump school system; Nevada Outreach Training, Great Basin College, and the Career Connection Center.

Our Executive Director serves in two advisory capacities: as a member of the Pahrump Tourism Advisory Board, and as a member of the County’s Brownfields Grant Advisory Committee. The Chamber works with a consortium of chambers of commerce specifically on government affairs. Lastly, the Chamber is affiliated with the Last Chance Park Project in support of this addition to Pahrump.

The Chamber offers insurance programs and identity theft programs exclusive for chamber members. We publish a monthly newsletter, the Vision, a monthly Chamber News page in the Pahrump Valley Times, and we promote Pahrump in Nevada Magazine and other state and national publications. We prepare Welcome Bags for different occasions.

We act as a referral service and sometimes even as a Better Business Bureau helping people resolve issues with local businesses. We assist with the groundbreaking of new businesses and Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies.

We maintain the Tourist Information Kiosk located at the corner of Basin Avenue and Highway 160. We provide publications to the hotels and RV Parks, as well as, businesses for informational purposes. We also administer inventory and stocking of a Pahrump brochure distributed in over 20 locations on Interstate 15 in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California.

For our members, we hold monthly luncheons featuring informative guest speakers, as well as, After-Hours social mixers. Both monthly events afford our membership the opportunity to network with the rural Southern Nevada business community and local/county/state government representatives. The Chamber sponsors and hosts several community-wide events throughout the year.

We recently re-launched our website. We expanded our information to include many more local, county, and state resources. We keep a monthly community events calendar (available on our website, as well); we are connected to other chambers of commerce and convention and visitors authorities throughout the U.S. The work on our website is far from complete; we continue to make improvements and make updates daily.

We are an organization that provides many services to our community-at-large, actually for free. We are able to do this through our membership and income derived from our magazine and events.

Talking about our magazine, the Pahrump Valley Magazine is an annual publication providing a number of resources to its readers. Of course, it highlights the town of Pahrump and our chamber membership. It satisfies those seeking information on relocation, tourism, and community businesses.

We thank our membership and the community for their support that helps make Pahrump a great place to live and work.