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The Experience, Emeryville: Emeryville Commerce Connection Plea

The Experience:

Former Emeryville Coffeehouse owner seeks your help!

Latest Update.

Chris Hillyard and wife Amy were fervent coffeehouse owners on 65th in Emeryville and wonderful community members until 2016. We still remember them for their great community spirit and support.

And now we want to return the support. His wife Amy has been missing since March 25, 2026.

Amy was last seen on Wednesday, March 25, sometime after 2pm in the vicinity of the 500 block of Radnor Road in Oakland. Amy is 5’4”, approximately 120 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, light-colored jeans, and white sneakers with black stripes. She is considered at risk due to a medical condition. OPD found a video about a week later showing that on the day of her disappearance she was at Oakland’s Diamond Park. No further information.

Chris and his two girls are desperate for information that will lead to her return. If you can help, please visit their website for more information. Thank you from the SF on the Bay team and our Emeryville business community.

More info about ECC:

https://emeryvillecommerceconection.com

By |2026-04-28T14:20:39-07:00April 22nd, 2026|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Experience, Emeryville: Emeryville Connexions

The Experience:

Let’s network + have some fun on Wed! Don’t miss out!

Gather around the fire pit with us at Hyatt House. It will be an amazing night out on the patio  on Wed Apr 29, 5:30 – 7:30pm.

Come for the vibe. Stay for the connexions. Mingle with city officials innovators, entrepreneurs and the great hospitality industry that propels Emeryville.

Sneak preview in photos provided by Hyatt House Join the fun! They can’t wait to see you!  Register.

Hyatt House Emeryville/SF Bay Area is located at 5800 Shellmound across from Public Market.

PS Thank you Edson Palacios & Flores Cocina & Bar for our wonderful 2nd yr anniversary on your patio! We launched ECC there in March 2024 and it has been such good karma that we returned there in 2025 and 2026 to celebrate our anniversary. Entrance to event featured here.

More info about ECC:

https://emeryvillecommerceconection.com

By |2026-04-23T16:12:59-07:00April 22nd, 2026|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Experience, Emeryville: Emeryville Commerce Connection Turns Two!

The Experience:

Connexions networking event returns to Flores Cocina & Bar!

It will be an amazing night out on the patio at Flores where Emeryville Commerce Connection (ECC) launched in 2024. Come raise a glass and help them celebrate this important milestone on Wed Mar 25, 5:30 – 7:30pm.

It’s Women’s History Month and ECC is also celebrating women-owned businesses!

Dive into amazing Mexican Appetizers, Totopos & Guacamole, plus Margaritas! Wine and Beer on Tap and More. Meet some new biz friends and visit with City officials, startups, business owners, innovators, creatives, plus their new 2026 ECC Board of Directors.

Join the fun! They can’t wait to see you!  Register.

Flores Cocina & Bar is located @ 5614 Bay St Emeryville #244.

More info about ECC:

https://emeryvillecommerceconection.com

By |2026-03-19T11:31:56-07:00March 19th, 2026|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Experience, Emeryville: Emeryville Commerce Connection’s Member Event

The Experience:

Celebrate Afro-Indigenous History Month tonight!

Thursdays in February – 5, 12,19 and 26, 6-8pm 

 Cookies & Connextions is happening at ECC member’s new Coco Mama Boutique House, formerly Coco Mama Café. Join them for. their Afro-Indigenous History Month Celebration and receive a special Coco Mama Cookie Bar of your choice – vegan, gluten-free and grain-free options. RSVP required for address: 

Cookies & Connextion: An Afro-Indigenous History Month Celebration Tickets

More info about ECC:

https://emeryvillecommerceconection.com

By |2026-02-12T15:09:16-08:00February 12th, 2026|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Experience, Emeryville: Emeryville Citizens Assistance Program

The Experience:

Prepare & deliver holiday meals with ECAP!

ECAP volunteers will be preparing 1500 Turkey dinners at ECCL (Emeryville High School) then delivering them to the housing insecure throughout the East Bay – homeless and senior encampments and transitional housing in the Emeryville, Oakland and Berkeley areas,.

Here is the sign-up link to volunteer for ECAP’s Annual Holiday Meal Event on Saturday, December 27.  ECAP, the Emeryville Citizens Assistance Program, is Emeryville’s Food Bank.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4AADA62BABF85-60852782-ecap

This year ECAP is teaming with the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California and the Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland.   Volunteers will make meals at the High School and deliver them to ICCNC and MZMB where they will host sit-down dinner events for 900.

So if you are the kind of person who likes to do community service as part of your holiday activity, Please join ECAP! Contact Vickie Jo Sowell 510-459-9026

Emeryville Community Assistance Program

ECAP is a completely volunteer-run organization.  They need your support to continue their mission.  Please consider volunteering 2 hours or more with them weekly, monthly or on an ad-hoc basis. Volunteering provides valuable service to our community.  They need help passing out food, unloading deliveries, sorting food, set-up and clean-up.  For more information on registering send email to: volunteers@ecapprogram.org

ECAP is a member of ECC.

https://emeryvillecommerceconection.com

By |2025-12-11T11:15:30-08:00December 11th, 2025|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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