EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

■ Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce — Monthly luncheon meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at 11:15 a.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N. Lincoln St.

Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Bill Greenwood will discuss the recent history of the EDC, what the EDC is doing for the business community today and what he sees for the future of the EDC and the local economy. Afterward will be a question-and-answer session.

Tickets for the luncheon are $18 if preregistered at www.portangeles.org; at the door, they are $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers and can be purchased from the meeting room cashier.

■ Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly breakfast meetings are held at 11:45 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at SunLand Golf & Country Club, 109 Hilltop Drive, Sequim.

This Tuesday’s meeting will feature Powell Jones, director of the Dungeness River Audubon Center, on “The Railroad Bridge: Its Link to the Community and Beyond.”

Reservations for luncheon at $15 or beverage at $3 are required by noon Monday. Phone 360-683-6197 or email info@sequimchamber.com to RSVP and for further information.

■ Forks Chamber of Commerce — Luncheon meetings are Wednesdays at noon at Blakeslee’s Bar & Grill, 1222 S. Forks Ave.

This Wednesday’s gathering will feature the Quileute tribe’s Move to Higher Ground Project Committee.

Lunch of $9.75 will include an entree (chicken stir-fry) and sides. The soup of the day will be clam chowder.

■ 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 program will feature Samantha Hale, marketing and communications manager of the Pacific Northwest Trail Association, on the 1,200-mile-long Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail.

The luncheon’s sponsor will be Puget Sound Express.

Lunch by Subway costs $8.

■ Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 ­DelGuzzi Drive (off U.S. Highway 101) in east Port Angeles.

Michael Deighton, general manager of Lake Crescent Lodge, will speak on the lodge’s history and its role in the North Olympic Peninsula’s tourist season.

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

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All of the above meetings are open to the ­public.

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