April 2015 Luncheon Speakers Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce luncheon meetings are held at the Port Townsend Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., at noon each Monday, federal holidays excluded. Everyone is welcome!
April 6 - Emily Ingram
The manager of the New American Funding office in Port Townsend will talk about the state of real estate and mortgage lending in Jefferson County. Sponsor YMCA
April 13 - Tim Lawson
Lawson will talk about the Jefferson County Collective Impact: Working together to make Jefferson County a thriving place for young families and young entrepreneurs. Sponsor Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
April 20 - Laura Lewis
The director of the WSU Extension office will give an update on WSU Extension/Jefferson County and an overview of US Department of Agriculture Rural Energy for America Program. Sponsor NW Maritime Center
Aprl. 27 - Frank DePalma
DePalma, of Totera Web Systems, talks about a new website tool that allows you to enter your events once and promote throughout the community. Sponsor Jefferson Healthcare
Supplement to the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader.
New space, new vision Chamber, EDC, visitor center, SBDC to share new offices Several local economic development groups – Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, EDC Team Jefferson, Washington Small Business Development Center (WSBDC) and the Port Townsend Visitor Information Center, are making plans and packing boxes in preparation for the transition into their new home. They are all moving from individual space into shared space at 2409 Jefferson Street, the building that formerly housed the Northwind Arts Center.
Visitor Center volunteers gather on the porch of the current center at the park and ride lot near Safeway. When construction is complete, the center will move to the old Northwind Art Center offices. The move represents the City of Port Townsend’s longterm commitment to furthering economic development. For the foreseeable future, this funding commitment will allow the support of economic development organizations to work together and thrive in Jefferson County. “Our Business Alliance will soon be conjoined with the Port
Townsend Visitor Information Center (VIC). We are doubling our work space to allow for more collaboration, easy access to welcomed visitors and increased visibility,” said Chamber Executive Director Teresa Verraes. “Our strategic partnerships and planning over the last four years has created a domino effect.
“Northwind Art Center moved to a larger and more visible space downtown, which in turn, created room for all our teams to share space and for the Jefferson Transit to take ownership of the building that is centered in the Park-n-Ride. “When I was first hired by the Chamber, I envisioned a Continued on Page 2
You are invited......to our 16th Annual Wine Tasting Scholarship Fund Raiser. There will be auction items, prizes, raffles and fun for everyone. May 2, 5:30 p.m.
Port Townsend Farmer’s Market to open April 4 New and early growth at the Port Townsend Farmers Market The Port Townsend Farmers Market begins its 23rd season on Saturday, April 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a goat parade, music and lots of new products and vendors. In fact it will be the market’s biggest opening day ever with more than 60 vendors! Spring came early this year, and our Jefferson County farms will have full stands of fresh products: multicolored tulips by the bucketload, greens of every shade and shape will fill baskets in all of our many farmer’s booths, and cartons of orange-yolked fresh spring eggs, both chicken and duck, by the dozens and dozens. Harmony’s Way Farm of Chimacum will bring some mamas and kids to walk through the market, the very same goats that make the milk for their award winning soaps. Kristin and Otto Smith and friends will follow with a mix of folk melodies on fiddle, accordion, guitar and banjo. The parade moves slowly but doesn’t last long, so come out right
at 9 a.m. if you want to join in. Early is always a good time to come to market, because on busy days lots of products sell out by closing time. And early morning shoppers will be treated with hot beverages from Gypsy Coffeehouse and PT Coffee, pastries from Pane D’Amore and Dalla Notte, and bagels, either cream cheesed or topped with eggs and pecan sausage, from Bob’s. Every year there are new things to eat at the market. This season we welcome authentic Spanish paella from recent Spanish transplant Alejando de Basilio. Local Megan Trenary is bringing her new food business, La Femme Boucherie to market. She’s making handmade sausages, house cured bacon and lots more. Adam and Rebecca of Woodland Treasures will be selling mushrooms and mushroom products that they either grow or forage or both. In addition to the return of longtime farmers Red Dog, Midori, Finnriver, Nash’s, Colinwood, Dharma Ridge, Spring Rain, Seren-
dipity, Willow Wind, Short’s Beef and more, this year we welcome back last year’s new farm, River Run, of Sequim, and the brand new Onatrue Farm off Jacob Miller Road in Port Townsend. Max Lindert and family have all sorts of things planted on their south facing sunny acreage, from greenhouse grown baby ginger to tea plants. He’ll be mainly bringing starts and greens to early markets though, including boxes of microgreeens and bags of cut your greens- a sort of never fresher regenerative salad. Free tastes and samples are always available at the market from our many local cideries and cheese makers. Free samples are less likely from our many arts and crafts vendors, though new leather shoemaker Mike Ferguson of Sole’s Journey will do a free fitting, and Tim Black offers free hand treatments for rough palms. The Port Townsend Farmers Market runs every Saturday through December, including , this year, during Rhody Fest. For more information visit www.jcfmarkets.org.
Tulips will be among the offerings when the Port Townsend Farmer’s Market opens in April.
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Continued from Page 1 space that would allow this kind of accessibility and resource sharing, so I began the hunt. Four years later, 2409 Jefferson Street, will be the manifestation of the Chamber’s commitment to build trust and create strategic partnerships geared toward better business in Jefferson County.” Peter Quinn, EDC Team Jefferson’s Executive Director said: “Just knowing we are all going to be co-located has created a higher level of co-managing businesses. This has been particularly true with the SBDC and the newly invigorated North Olympic Development Council. Both have recently become more integrated with EDC and the Chamber than in the past year. Together we are creating Team Jefferson.” Kevin Hoult, WSBDC
Regional Director concurs. “It’s great that we’ll all be able to interact so easily. I’ll be in the Port Townsend office a couple of days a week meeting with local small business owners who can now easily be directed to Peter and Teresa about any needs they’re better able to address.” The Jefferson County Chamber and EDC Team Jefferson are both using the opportunity to take advantage of the new location to rebrand their organizations with emphasis on how much easier it will be for them to assist county businesses. The move would not be possible without the assistance of many. Special thanks go to Bill White, City of Port Townsend, Cate Comerford, Hathon Inc., Northwind Art Center, Jefferson Transit and directors of EDC Team Jefferson and the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.
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Parnassus Analytics helps businesses solve problems Steve Humphrey founded Parnassus Analytics in May of 2012, shortly before moving to Sequim. Previously, he had been a consultant for eleven years with a California-based firm helping Fortune 500 companies solve key business problems using analysis and technology. Steve designed Parnassus to focus on the human aspects of successful business analysis and problem solving. Parnassus Analytics helps clients solve business problems by tapping into the power of their collective knowledge and creativity. The client is the expert in its respective business, but not necessarily in identifying problems and designing solutions. Moreover, solutions are more effective when aligned with the organization’s core values and strategic objectives.
Steve works with businesses and organizations to articulate those values, build consensus, and identify strategies and tactics to achieve the desired goals. He does this primarily by designing tightly aligned processes, often facilitating highly structured group planning sessions that are people driven and business facing. If technology is part of a solution, he can help with the integration. Parnassus Analytics can also assist with project management. Steve brings a diverse background to his practice. After starting out in music (he earned a Bachelor’s degree in piano and a Master’s degree in opera production), he participated in a management fellowship at the National Endowment for the Arts and then went on to manage several performing arts organizations. He shifted to the
private sector in 1990, working in a variety of industries including irrigation, entertainment, and healthcare before becoming a business consultant. This diversity gives him unique perspectives for addressing problems within organizations of any size. People often ask about the firm’s name. At first, Steve was stuck for a name. He wanted something that was personal and yet would reflect the spirit of the North Olympic Peninsula. The name that he and his wife – both musicians – had given their home, Euterpe Lodge (after the muse of music), suggested the answer. Why not name the business after the mountain in Greece that was sacred to the nine muses? Parnassus Analytics: inspired business analysis! Steve and his firm continue to work with
Steve Humphrey earned a bachelor’s degree in piano and a master’s in opera production, and went on to manage several performing arts organizations before shifting his focus to the private sector. our region. sion in Sequim. remote clients as well Steve can be conSteve wants to see organizations here on the tacted at (360) 406-4684 Peninsula. He is teaching Parnassus Analytics or by email at Steve@ a class in business analy- become a partner in ParnassusAnalytics. economic development sis for the University of com. You may also visit Washington Professional across the North Olympic Peninsula. He joined the company web site at and Continuing Educawww.ParnassusAnalytthe Jefferson County tion division. ics.com. While there, He also volunteers in Chamber of Commerce check out his manageto help cross-pollinate the community and is business cooperation and ment blog “Parnassus Vice Chair of the City development throughout Musings.” Arts Advisory Commis-
Breathe, relax, allow and receive - and feel the difference stressed and maybe even By Nina Dortch our bodies start to try to I was recently asked tell us something. Manito write an article on festing as illness. Headan acronym I spoke of. This acronym is BRAR, aches, ulcers, respiratory meaning Breathe, Relax, issues, body pain. Like, hey, have you forgotten Allow and Receive. that the universe is here In our crazy world to support you and give in paradise we get you what you need? Did wrapped up in “Stuff”. you forget that life is not The “Stuff” seems to build and build and then a journey that you make on your own but in fact suddenly things start to you have a whole team go haywire. This may of support just waiting manifest in machines in the wings to come to breaking down, printers your side and help you? not working. Physically We all hold on to we start to feel tense, 4 April 2015 Jefferson County Chamber Newsletter
this stuff in a way that is a detriment to us. Sometimes it brings up energies that we have suppressed or have shoved so far down into us that at some point we feel like exploding. These energies could be fear, sadness, guilt or shame. It is amazing how what we thought we got rid of could actually still be with us. It is when we begin to get overwhelmed and stressed that these energies raise their unattractive little
heads. We need to realize that these energies not being so attractive or nice can be our biggest motivators in moving forward on this journey. If we can see them in a different light knowing that we can recognize them give them the attention they are requiring and then let them move through us like a gentle breeze. If we realize where they are actually coming from, we can stop holding on and let
them go. BRAR is doing this for us. When we become still for a single moment and think to breathe -and I mean breathe that deep belly breath that fills us to the brim -- we relax and let the breath move through our bodies filling each and every cell with the breath of Love and Light. When we allow the support of the universal energy to wash through us clearing the unattractive “Stuff” from us. When we truly
receive the support from our team. This is what BRAR is. All of this can actually happen within seconds and simply with a breath. I wish all of you the embrace of BRAR. An actually big hug helps as well. Let’s all learn to live fearlessly. Let’s all learn to be our most wicked, awesome selves. Nina Dortch is a Reiki practitioner and a Port Townsend Visitor Center volunteer.
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Olympic Trading Post Filling Station celebrated its opening with Chamber members. From left to right are: Julie Hatch (Sound Community Bank), Courtland Goetz (Co-Owner OTP Filling Station), Laura Brackenridge (JCCC), Debi Goetz (Co-Owner OPT Filling Station), Bob Gray (guest), Pam Lampman (Ambassador), Lorna Mann (VIC), and Diane Kenyon (Peninsula Credit Union). Photo by Deja View Photography
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Retailers feeling the heat of competition sometimes respond by lowering prices. Does anyone ever win at this game? Here are some interesting accounting insights. First, the good news – if a business has a 30 percent gross profit margin and raises prices 10 percent, that business can lose 25 percent of sales and take the same amount of money home. Hard to believe but true. Sadly, the reverse is also true - if that same business lowers prices 10 percent, it will be necessary to increase sales 25 percent to get back to the same net profit. Anyone increased sales 25 percent lately? Exactly - you can’t win and you won’t break even if you pay the price cut game. Would you like to know more? Call Kevin, your free and confidential certified business adviser with your North Peninsula SBDC. Dial (360) 865-4938 or email kevin.hoult@wsbdc.org to discuss pricing strategies.
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Resort at Port Ludlow has full calendar, special deals By Lorna Mann The Resort at Port Ludlow offers luxury to all who stay there, with rooms designed to create a sense of peace and comfort. All rooms have beautiful bathrooms with impressive tubs to soothe your aches and pains. The majority of the ensuite bathrooms are cleverly designed with internal windows through to the rest of the room giving you the chance to spend time soaking in the room’s large tub while enjoying the gorgeous views across the bay. It also has the added benefit of letting you carry on a conversation with your partner without having them perched on the bathroom sink! Attention to detail leaves you feeling truly pampered. All rooms include a work-
ing fireplace, Keurig coffee maker, Jacuzzi tub, bathrobes and lots of luxurious toiletries from a local company on Bainbridge Island. Pets are also welcome, with a number of pet friendly rooms available. Guests can even purchase pet supplies like collapsible water bowls from the front desk to ensure that their furry friends feel just as taken care of as the humans. For those with allergies, don’t worry, there are rooms that are always kept pet free to ensure everyone’s comfort. The Port Townsend Visitor Center volunteers were lucky enough to be given a guided tour of the rooms and meeting and event spaces by two members of the resort’s very knowl-
Chef Dan Ratigan, works closely with five local farms to ensure the resort consistently offers an ever-changing, in season menu spotlighting the very best of the region’s produce. The resort is a popular venue for weddings, corporate retreats and special interest conferences. Once a year the resort is taken over by knitters and weddings of up to 50 people are a regular occurrence in the summer. The sales team works closely with clients to provide the best possible experience and ensure the right fit of rooms Volunteers take a tour of the Inn at Port Ludlow and admire the view from the and services for each namesake balcony of the Queen Balcony Suite. individual event. An exciting couple tomato sauce, a forged allowing for networkedgeable sales team: of months lie ahead for mushroom and blue Sarah Hanke and Linda ing and conversations the resort: over a delicious spread cheese strudel, cheese Fyfe. Volunteers from • Celebrate Easof jumbo white prawns flight and chef ’s choice other area organizabruschetta. with a horseradish Continued on Page 8 tions were also invited
Chamber contacts CHAMBER STAFF Executive Director Teresa Verraes director@jeffcountychamber.org Event Coordinator Laura Brackenridge admin@jeffcountychamber.org 385-7869 VIC Manager Lorna Mann info@jeffcountychamber.org (360) 385-2722 EXECUTIVE BOARD President Amanda Funaro NW Maritime Center
President Elect Jordan Eades Hope Roofing Past President Dominic Svornich Kitsap Bank Vice President Outreach Heather Bailey Jefferson Healthcare Vice President Membership Karen Ridings Gold Star Marine Vice President Records Austin Henry Altas Technologies
Vice President Finance Will O’Donnell Jefferson County Farmer’s Markets DIRECTORS
Rob Story Chimacum Corner Farmstand
Karen Best Coldwell Banker Best Homes
Rob Birman Centrum
Advertising Catherine Brewer cbrewer@ptleader.com Jen Clark jclark@ptleader.com Jeff Noedel jnoedel@ptleader.com The Leader 360-385-2900
Katherine Baril Small Business Consultant
Rebecca Benjamin North Olympic Salmon Coalition
Kris Nelson Sirens, Alchemy
Adam Burns Ferino’s Pizzeria
Susan Windle Resort at Port Ludlow
Casey Gribble The Local 101
Jennefer Wood Maestrale
Karen Ridings Gold Star Marine
Le Hornbeck AA Tax Service
David Faber Faber Feinson, PLLC
Shelli Cates Edward Jones
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Biz Buzz 11 to 18 are invited to take part in the Jefferson County Library’s Teen Tech Tuesdays at Jef- pare your computer or Writers’ Club, providing device to enable downferson County Library an opportunity for young loading the titles you starts with a tech discussion from 3 to 4 p.m. and wish to read, and how to writers to join together to finishes with drop-in as- check out and return the share, support, and grow as writers. Jolie Stekly, sistance from 4 to 6 p.m. books you borrow. author and teacher, leads • April 14, 3-4 p.m.: Bring your device or Don’t know what to read the group, providing writuse laptops provided by next? Try Novelist, a li- ing exercises as well as the library and get your brary database that holds moderating critique and questions answered. discussion. information on authors, All events are free April 21, 3-4 p.m. series, read-a-likes and and are held at the more. Want to find other Intermediate Facebook: library, located at 620 This session is designed book lovers who love Cedar Avenue, Port for current Facebook to talk about them? Try Hadlock, unless noted users. We will begin this otherwise. For more info Good Reads, a website class with the undersee the library website at dedicated to books and standing that you are aljclibrary.info or call 360 those who read them! ready signed up and are Need some authoritative 385-6544. using Facebook. We will The following are the advice on what’s good review security settings, scheduled events coming and what’s not? Check show you how to make out Book Lust, a book at the library: a page attached to your written by former Seattle • April 7, 3-4 p.m.: personal Facebook site, librarian Nancy Pearl. Discover the various • April 16, 3:15 to 4:15 review “tagging,” and titles of eBooks and show you how to refine p.m.: Writers from ages eAudio books avail-
your Facebook settings to limit who can see your posts. • April 23, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.: Teen Leadership. Anyone between ages 11-18 are invited to join library staff for activities designed to develop leadership skills while helping plan library programs, create displays, and more.
ceremony. To find out more about these events and events that will be added check in with the resort’s website or by signing up for their newsletter. If all these exciting events have whetted your appetite then you may want to take advantage of the Relax and Linger packages that are currently on offer. The Relax package is available till the end of May and offers a one night stay in any room and a $50 dinning credit for
to impress someone special ask for the Queen Balcony Suite. Watching the eagles soar over the bay from the room’s wrap around balcony will make you want to stay another night. The Resort at Port Ludlow is located at One Heron Road, Port Ludlow. Reserve your stay be calling 877-805-0868 For all your event planning needs call the sales staff on 888-5107201. Keep up to date with events on their website portludlowresort.com.
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only $159. The Linger package offers even more savings and is ideal for those who need a bit more time to unwind. The package is available till mid-May and offers an amazing deal of a twonight stay, $50 dining credit and a 10 percent discount on spa services and retail items from the Marina or resort. All of this can be yours for $249.00. Both the Linger and Relax packages include any room at the resort so if you really want
Briefly The following Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce events are scheduled in the month ahead: • April 7, 5:30 to 7 p.m. - Ambassador Meeting at the Valley Tavern, 21Chimacum Road, Port Hadlock. • April 14 5:30 to 7 p.m. - After Hours Mixer at the Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St. Port Townsend.
• April 21, 4:30 to 6 p.m. – Board of Directors meeting at The CoLab, 237 Taylor St. 2nd fl., Port Townsend. April 30, 5:30 to 7 p.m. – Young Professionals Network Test Lab at The CoLab, 237 Taylor St. 2nd fl., Port Townsend.