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The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce turns 100 Friday and will celebrate the anniversary at Oakland’s Claremont Resort and Spa, at 41 Tunnel Road. 

Dennis Kuby will be masters of ceremonies at the event, which begins at 6 p.m. and costs $100 per person.  

Kuby says the chamber, whose earliest members dealt in fertilizer and dry ice, has gone through some rough times over its first 100 years, particularly when the City Council was dominated by those with “Marxist leanings.” 

Although the chamber was once entirely “Anglo Saxon” and male dominated, it now is comprised of a healthy mix of men, women and people of various ethnicities, he said. 

Pete Escovedo’s band tops the bill for the evening.  

Tickets are available until 5 p.m. today. Call 510-549-7003.