CHEERS! to Founder Gretchen Schodde and everyone at Harmony Hill for hosting our July After Hours event. As promised, they served up wine, food, and cool breezes from spectacular Hood Canal. Congratulations, Rebecca Lane, Interim Development Director, on a job well done. Thank you!
CONGRATULATIONS, Chamber Membership Services Manager Adena Clark on receiving her official certification as a Certified Vehicle Field System Operator, which involves passing a test and a whopping 1,800 hours on the job! Way to go, Adena! She joins Sue Perkins and Kristin Warner as a certified operator. Pictured here - Sue Perkins, Licensing Manager; Kim Fitzhugh, Visitor Information Center, Adena Clark and Kristin Warner.
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? YES!! Contact Adena Clark to sign up to grill oysters at The Taste of Hood Canal on Saturday, August 8!
Please check out the www.explorehoodcanal.com website, Facebook page, and Instagram, and post your summer fun photos.
Thank you!
Upcoming Chamber Events
Chamber Members and friends, please join us for a very special monthy membership luncheon featuring author and speaker Lori Tugawa Whaley, "The Courage of a Samurai."
Wednesday, July 22; 11:30 lunch; program 12-1pm
Theler Community Center, Belfair
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
Bite of Mason County
Thursday, July 16
Shelton High School
3737 N Shelton Springs Rd, Shelton, WA 98584
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
Tuesday, July 21
5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Bremerton GreenDrinks
It's Summer and that means another July on the rooftop deck of the Kitsap Credit Union. The event will be catered by CJ's Evergreen General Store and Catering and Silver City Brewery has joined to donate summer brews. This is a 21+ event cost is $10.00 at the door. Please bring your own glass.
Call Adena Clark to sign up to grill Harry Martin's World Famous Oysters! Why wouldn't you?
Member Announcements
CONGRATULATIONS, Mosquito Fleet Winery - Honored by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate,' the world's most highly acclaimed professional wine reviewing publication. Also, Mosquito Fleet was just recognized by Wine Press Northwest for producing one of the best Carbernet Franc's in the state.
North Mason Regional Fire Authority is now accepting applications for AmeriCorps Volunteers. NEWS RELEASE
On Monday, July 27, 2015 North Mason Community Voice is hosting a public meeting for The Future of Bill Hunter Park in Belfair PRESS RELEASE
Note from Jenny Grenfell - Library Manager
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
