EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s business meetings

  • Monday, June 2, 2014 12:01am
  • News

■   Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly ­luncheon meetings are held on the first and third Mondays at noon in the second-floor meeting room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St.

This Monday’s meeting will focus on Port Angeles tourism marketing with Victoria — and the Black Ball Ferry Line’s MV Coho, which serves both cities.

Scheduled speakers include Russ Veenema, Chamber of Commerce executive director; Ryan Malane, vice president of marketing for Black Ball Ferry Line; Barbara Desjardins, Esquimalt, B.C., mayor; Murray Boyce, organizer of the Esquimalt Ribfest; and John Espley, marketing and communications director for Victoria-based Accent Inns.

Also, announcement of the June Business of the Month and Beautification Award will be made.

Tickets for the luncheon are $15 and can be purchased from the meeting room cashier. For those not having lunch, there is a $3 participation fee that includes a beverage.

■   Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce — Weekly ­luncheon meetings are held Mondays at noon at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St.

This Monday’s featured speaker will be W. Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, whose topic will be “An Eagle-Eye View of James­town’s Operations.”

The sponsor of Monday’s meeting is Glow Natural Skin Care of Port Townsend.

Lunch at $8 will be served by Subway.

■   Forks Chamber of Commerce — Luncheon meetings are Wednesdays at noon at JT’s Sweet Stuffs, 80 N. Forks Ave.

This Wednesday’s meeting will be devoted to a discussion of local business issues.

Lunch costs $8; a bowl of soup, $4.75; and a cup of soup, $4. The entree is chicken alfredo.

■   Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings are Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 ­DelGuzzi Drive, Port Angeles.

This Tuesday’s scheduled speaker is U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, whose 6th Congressional District includes the North Olympic Peninsula.

There is a $3 minimum charge by Joshua’s for those who do not order breakfast.

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All the above meetings are open to the public.

Peninsula Daily News

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