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<div>HELLO, EVERYONE! I will be sending out the weekly emails. If you have an event coming up, be sure to send the info to me by Thursday of the week you'd like it included.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Here's a look at the week ahead:<div><br></div><div>TODAY:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Jefferson County Fair 8am-10pm</b></div><div><br></div><div>SATURDAY:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Jefferson County Fair 8am-10pm</b></div><div><br></div><div>SUNDAY:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Jefferson County Fair 8am-6pm</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ALSO, <b>ALL WEEKEND</b>: </div><div><b>NW Cruisers Weekend. More than 500 boats are expected to descend upon our marinas this weekend for the 8th annual Latitudes & Attitudes Cruisers Party. These are folks with plenty of money to spend. Business owners: please consider staying open later than usual to accommodate the anticipated 1,500-2,000 shoppers.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>MONDAY</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><b>Chamber meeting at Fort Worden Commons 12pm-1pm</b></div><div>Our speaker will be Chrissy McLean of PT Marine Science Center, who will be speaking on a new joint-agency educational program to eradicate plastic products from entering State waters. Come and find out how this impacts you as a small business owner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Many thanks to our meeting sponsor for August: Peninsula Daily News.</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>WEDNESDAY</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><b>CHAMBER MIXER! </b> Join us in helping <b>KITSAP BANK</b> celebrate its centennial of service to the community. Stop by their Mount Baker branch at <b>215 Taylor</b> Street between <b>5:30pm</b> and 7pm and enjoy refreshments, raffle prizes, and networking with your Chamber board and fellow Chamber members. Come and help us extend our heartiest congratulations on Kitsap Bank reach 100!</div><div><br></div><div><b>THURSDAY</b>:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><b>Chamber board meeting at Fort Worden in the Blue Room of the Administration Building.</b></div><div>Exec board meets 11:00am to 11:30am</div><div>General board meets 11:30am to 1:00pm</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Concerts on the Dock</b>. This week's band is THE DELTA RAYS; a jumpin' band of Cajun rock & roll music. Thanks go out to Stage Sponsor: NW Maritime Center/Wooden Boat Foundation. Many thanks also to the major sponsors who make this series of great music possible: Puget Sound Energy, First Federal, Peninsula Daily News, Water Street Brewing, Ancestral Spirits Gallery, and PT Chamber. Bring a chair and your dinner or enjoy Water Street Brewing's beer garden. The micro-brewery is donatie a portion of the evening's proceeds to cover Concert on the Docks expenses. If it rains, the concert will be moved inside the the pub. Come. Listen. Dance. Enjoy.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great weekend. See you at the fair!</div><div><br></div><div>Susan</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Susan J. Grantham</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Visitor Center/Business Office Administrator</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">2437 E. Sims Way</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Port Townsend, WA 98368</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(360) 385-2722</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">www.ptchamber.org</font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>