RIBBON CUTTING at David Gates Law Inc. P.S.! Welcome to Belfair and to the Chamber. We celebrated in style last week - ribbon and giant scissors included! From left, Ellen Gates, Michelle Royne, David Gates, Barbara Esselstrom, Patricia White, David Hastings, Chamber Trustee Leanne Sanchez, Sandra LaCelle, Mary Carter and Donielle Grewell. Thank you for your warm hospitality.
CONGRATULATIONS, Peninsula Credit Union and Modern Shed. Modern Shed General Manager Tim Vack and Peninsula Credit Union President & CEO Jim Morrell hosted a reception to kick off their new partnership featuring special financing offering for those purchasing Modern Sheds. Check it out!
BREAKFAST, anyone? Chamber President & CEO Stephanie Rowland shares the latest tips on how to maximize your Chamber membership at this month's breakfast. From now on, we are meeting at the Union River Grille - great job, thank you! See you Wednesday, September 2 (no breakfast or Chamber luncheon in August).
CHARMED, I'M SURE! Thank you, Tyson Kruger, Little Creek Casino Resort Marketing Director (third from left) for sponsoring - and hosting - our July "Charm Farm Guest Services Training." A great turnout, lots of terrific questions, and now ... look out visitors, we are CHARMING! Would you like to host a Charm Farm at your business or organization? Class is one hour, and FREE. Our presenter is Stephanie Rowland. Next up ... Hood Canal Communications will host a class. Date tba.
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? Please check out the www.explorehoodcanal.com website, Facebook page, and Instagram, and post away. Our tourism effort is interactive - get in the swim of it! Sign up to receive the tourism newsletter on the site, and enter the monthly sweepstakes.
DID YOU KNOW ... Belfair Licensing AND our Visitor Information Center are open on Saturdays, 9am-1pm. NEW... you can purchase fish and wildlife licenses in our Visitor Center (credit cards now accepted). At 1pm sharp, we roll out our NEW outdoor kiosk - just outside the Visitor Center. Please let everyone know they can pick up brochures and/or our awesome Visitor Guide all weekend. We roll it back in Monday mornings. Thank you!
Chamber Members and friends, please join us at the beautiful Harmony Hill Retreat Center in Union for our July 9 After Hours! 5-7pm
7362 E State Route 106, Union, WA 98592 360.898.2363
Upcoming Community Events
Tuesdays, July 7 - August 25
6:30 a.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Olympic College Presents Matthew Blegen's Summer Choir Tune Up
Instructor Matthew Blegen believes in the benefits of community singing as a form of grass roots arts participation. He was the Founder and Artistic Director of the Anna's Bay Chorale and Center for Music. Currently he serves as Artistic Director of Red Thread Ensemble, a project-based teaching choir comprised of professional singers while also serving as Managing Director of Seattle-based Choral Arts, awarded the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence in 2010; and the American Prize for Choral Performance (community division) in 2010 and 2013.
Cost: $105
Contact: Allison Smith (360) 432-5413 asmith@olympic.edu or register online
Saturday, July 11
SHELLFEST 2015 Twanoh State Park
Beach walks with Washington Sea Grant specialists, exhibits, children's activities, and featuring Native American cultural presentations by the Skokomish Tribe. Lunch will be provided by Taylor Shellfish. Free event (suggested donation of $5/person or $15/family to benefit the Washington State Parks Foundation).
This 15th annual community event, hosted by the Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, offers the community a chance to check out local services, retailers, and restaurants in a fun, casual atmosphere. More than 70 vendors entertain and interact by hosting games, offering giveaways and drawing free raffles throughout the day and restaurants prepare delectable bites of food for a great value.
Allyn Days/Salmon Bake & Geoduck Festival
Saturday, July 18 - 9 p.m. Sunday, July 19 - 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The Allyn Community Association pulls out all the stops for this action-packed weekend of fun on Case Inlet in Allyn. Seafood fans gather to enjoy the legendary alder-smoked salmon dinner (starts at noon on Saturday), a wine and beer garden, live music and dancing, shellfish delicacies galore and, the star - geoduck. www.allynwa.org
Saturday, August 1
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
GRAPEVIEW FIRE STATION
THE BIG DAY & THE FIREHOUSE 5K
Open House, Yard Sale, Music, Inflated Fire Truck, Firehouse 5K, and Pig Roast
During the month of August the North Mason Timberland Library will conduct a community scavenger hunt as part of its summer reading program. Children and youth will search for 20 clues to fill in a puzzle. When they bring in the finished puzzle they receive a prize. Needed: businesses who would be willing to display a clue in an outward facing window during August. Business owners who have done this in the past have enjoyed seeing all the kids come along looking at the window!
If you are willing to help them with this fun family activity, please email Jenny Grenfell, Library Manager (360) 275-3232 or email jgrenfell@trl.org
Miss something? Click here to see Mason County related articles that have appeared in Mason County Life --http://www.kitsapsun.com/mason
All of our media members are welcome to post their stories here. Send your PDFs files to Stephanie Rowland. Stop by our Chamber office for a free copy of the Mason County Journal (Thursdays), Mason County Life (Fridays), and the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, first week of the month. Supply is limited.
Tempt Yourself with Tuscany
We are partnering with Hood Canal Travel and CI Destinations to bring you this seven-night "Tuscany/One Hotel Holiday" -- departs October 27. Call Leanne Sanchez to book -- 360-275-2831
Stephanie Rowland, President and CEO
North Mason Chamber of Commerce
North Mason Chamber of Commerce | 30 NE Romance Hill Rd. | Belfair, WA 98528 OPEN: Monday through Friday, 9 - 5; Saturdays 9-1
CHARMED, I'M SURE! Thank you, Tyson Kruger, Little Creek Casino Resort Marketing Director (third from left) for sponsoring - and hosting - our July "Charm Farm Guest Services Training." A great turnout, lots of terrific questions, and now ... look out visitors, we are CHARMING! Would you like to host a Charm Farm at your business or organization? Class is one hour, and FREE. Our presenter is Stephanie Rowland. Next up ... Hood Canal Communications will host a class. Date tba. 
