Election season continues, and as always, the Chamber encourages you to be informed about the issues and positions that impact your business and your community.

At our October 4, 2010 Member Lunch Meeting, we will host a Candidates Forum for the County Prosecutor position. Scott Rosecrans and Paul Richmond are both running for the seat currently held by Juelie Dalzell.

Held at the Elks Club outside of Port Townsend, our Member Lunch Meetings are great opportunities to network with other business-minded folk in Jefferson County; food and beverages are available.

Keep an eye on your mailbox for the upcoming October 2010 Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Newsletter.

As always, we’ve packed the newsletter with information you need to know to help build business and community. Our front page story is on the upcoming North Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit, which we strongly encourage you to attend.

Want to promote your business or inform the community about developments in your business? Let us know. The newsletter is a great way to let the community know what your business is doing. Send us press releases, photographs, and news. We’ll do our best to tell your story in the journal.

Download the newsletter right now, or take a look at past issues of the newsletter over on our newsletter page.

The Peninsula Daily News has a recap of Port Townsend City Manager David Timmons’ presentation at yesterday’s Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Member Lunch Meeting.

A reminder that next Monday we will not be having our Member Lunch Meeting due to the Labor Day holiday.

We hope you can join us for this week’s (Monday, August 30) Member Lunch Meeting. Port Townsend’s City Manager David Timmons will speak about the City’s proposed capital investment strategy.

Held at the Elks Club outside of Port Townsend, our lunch meetings are great opportunities to network with other business-minded folk in Jefferson County; food and beverages are available.

At the end of the meeting, we’ll hold a new member orientation. Lasting 30 minutes, these orientations help new (and existing!) members get more out of their Chamber membership.

The Port Townsend School District has a new interim superintendent. His name is Gene Laes and he will be our featured speaker at the August 16 Member Lunch Meeting held at 12pm at the Elks Club outside of Port Townsend.

Our lunch meetings are great opportunities to network with other business-minded folk in Jefferson County; food and beverages are available.

Want to know more about Mr. Laes? The Port Townsend Jefferson County Leader has a nice profile of the incoming superintendent.

If you missed yesterday’s Member Lunch Meeting presentation by Jamie Maciejewski, the Executive Director of East Jefferson County Habitat for Humanity, you’ll definitely want to check out Charlie Bermant’s article in the Peninsula Daily News.

One of the more interesting takeaways from Jamie’s presentation was Habitat’s ability to utilize donor Certificates of Deposit as funding sources for home revitalization.

“While we’ve build homes in Port Townsend and Port Hadlock, we want to get out into other parts of the county where there is a tremendous need,” Maciejewski said.

She is also attempting to raise money for a matching funds grant, needing about $60,000 to make the match. She is soliciting donations but has also come up with a different twist.

Those people who have a few thousand dollars in low-yield CDs can lend this money to Habitat and get a guaranteed 1 to 3 percent interest in a two-to four year-commitment, Maciejewski said.

“We can get people a better rate than they get at the bank, but it will be harder to get the money out,” she said.

“But we can offer this as a secured loan.”

Read the whole article on PDN’s website.