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 Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce’s weekly Member Lunch Meetings (12pm at the Elks Club) are excellent opportunities to learn what is happening in our community, and network with fellow members of the business community.

Here are our scheduled speakers for August, 2010.

August 2: Kris Nelson, Chamber President, and Jennifer Wells MacGillonie, Executive Director – Chamber update

August 9: Jamie Maciejewski, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County

August 16: Bill LeMaster – Port Townsend School District update

August 23: Kathleen Purdy, Center Director, Peninsula Regional Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

August 30: David Timmons, Port Townsend City Manager